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To: OldDeckHand

I’ve spent some time studying in Germany, and I can’t agree that in Germany at least, there is a common “raging antisemitism that boils just under the surface.” Every German I spoke with about WWII acknowledged and was ashamed of the Nazi era and the Holocaust—and bent over backwards not to be offensive to Jewish people.

I do believe there is raging anti-Semitism amidst certain left-leaning elites...the kind who work for Amnesty, but in Germany at least, I saw a very serious sense of national remorse for the sins of their fathers.


16 posted on 08/26/2010 2:37:16 PM PDT by AnalogReigns
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To: AnalogReigns
"I do believe there is raging anti-Semitism amidst certain left-leaning elites...the kind who work for Amnesty, but in Germany at least, I saw a very serious sense of national remorse for the sins of their fathers."

Germany might be the exception, although i would be curious if you ever engaged in conversations with Germans about contemporary Israeli policy.

I have lived in Italy (where I found almost none as well), the Netherlands, the UK and for a short time France. In the Netherlands and especially France, I found antisemitism quite pronounced.

17 posted on 08/26/2010 2:42:15 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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