Posted on 01/23/2018 6:37:42 PM PST by Olog-hai
It’s better here: That was the message of a panel of experts considering the rise of the extreme right and of anti-Semitism in the United States and Europe.
That was the good news at the forum Monday sponsored by Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization. No one, however, could quite pin down why Americans were more resistant to anti-Semitism than Europeans.
“It’s far from perfect,” said Ira Forman, until January the international anti-Semitism monitor for the State Department. “We do it now better than we did 50 years ago, there’s no guarantee we will continue to do it, and frankly, we do it better with anti-Semitism than with anti-Muslim rhetoric and with racism.” […]
On Friday, the World Zionist Organization released a survey comparing perceptions of anti-Semitism in the United States and Europe showing that 51 percent of respondents in Europe said that wearing Jewish symbols in public made them feel unsafe. In North America, the figure was 22 percent. …
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“Experts,”—smug in their knowledge of knowing what they presume to be true to the “experts.”
Conservative Americans, definitely.
We saw that back in 1933-1945, and European socialists have not changed much since then. Sadly, American socialists have become even more like Europe’s socialists of that era.
More Europeans have abandoned (or adopted an anti-Christ, fake version of) Christian faith, than Americans.
But... there are millions and millions of pagan Americans, too, nowadays. Just look at many of the voters for Obama/HilLIARy!) Its so very very VERY sad. (sickening, too) How many people have all the advantages of modern and generally fairly prosperous life, and are heading themselves straight to permanent Hellfire. Sooooooo SAD!
Hitler was NOT a conservative. NAZI stands for “National Socialist Worker’s Party.” Hitler’s Germany was a socialist state, with most of the same trimmings as Stalin’s Russia.
And it is the leftists in America who hate the Jews, hate Israel, and love Muslims.
Obama hated Israel and did everything he could to support the Muslim terrorists. Are they saying that Obama is a conservative?
Christians tend to support Jews. RE: the Bible.
I was gonna say our side definitely stands up against it. I can’t honestly say the same for people on the left.
The universities in the U.S. are working hard to churn out Jew-haters. The anti-Israel venom has really escalated over the past couple of decades.
The Jew is perpetually created by civil society from its own entrails.Both internationalist and nationalist socialists believe this, and it is the source of their hatred of Jews.
What, in itself, was the basis of the Jewish religion? Practical need; egoism.
The monotheism of the Jew, therefore, is in reality the polytheism of the many needs, a polytheism which makes even the lavatory an object of divine law. Practical need, egoism, is the principle of civil society, and as such appears in pure form as soon as civil society has fully given birth to the political state.
The god of practical need and self-interest is money.
Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist.
Money degrades all the gods of man and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world — both the world of men and nature — of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man’s work and man’s existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it.
The god of the Jews has become secularized, and has become the god of the world. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. …
— Karl Marx, On “The Jewish Question”, 1844
You are exactly correct. WWII was a huge contest between National Socialism and International Socialism.
International Socialism won, and then labeled National Socialism to be “right wing”.
It was done to give us a false choice between the two socialisms, instead of between socialism and limited, Constitutional government.
As someone who has lived 35+ years in Europe, that is my judgement.
Europeans, in general, lack civil courage.
Regards,
I have to concur. Even when I was a kid in Ireland, the attitude was “you can’t do anything about it” when civil wrongs were committed on the people by the government.
We have only been doing so since before WW II. The only reason Europe fights antisemitism at all is we bombed the hell out of them for four years.
Next they will tell us that the sun makes daytime happen.
Take it from this longtime Jew, this meeting was a leftist/liberal/wackjob “cluster fu*k”.
Forman - A leftist Democrat liberal. Not red, but semi-blind to the communist Left in America including the Charlottesville “anti-fascist” mob.
Whine - Don’t know him. Besides, he’s oh so British.
Beirich of the SPLC is insane. Just read her remarks (sarcing here: “Hitler is alive and well in America. The Nazis are marching in the streets. Jews flee for their lives”.
Oh, sorry, that was in the 1930’s with the German-American Bund and 1930’s Germany. She’s an SPLC hysterical harridan.
Saperstein - good old Rabbi David “The Sap”. Never met a leftist cause he didn’t like or participate in. He is the
“come-to liberal Jew” in DC. The Washington Post should make him an honorary staff member because they have been quoting for decades.
He came out of the Breira/New Jewish Agenda circle, and like the leftist jerk that he is, stayed there. If any Jewish leftist group was against American foreign policy, he supported them. If there was any wacko leftist cause (feminism, homophobia, anti-Moslemism, be kind to animals, etc). he usually was there.
The guy literally invented the concept of “the selfie”.
One day there will be a list of the communist fronts and causes he joined in. It might even appear here at FR.
Then there will be no question that Sap is a far-left Mesugganah (crazy kind of guy) who gets dizzy when he walks because he always walks to the Left and goes around in circles.
By the way, he is a disgrace to our religion. Just thought you ought to know. ‘
If this were WW2, he’d be called a KAPO, just like George Soros is.
Euroweenies won’t stand up for anything. The whine, cry and hide.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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That's a surprise
As two Americans showed not too long ago on a train in Europe, American are more likely to stand up and fight back. Testicular fortitude is a way of life.
deTocqueville explains it as the difference between centralized administration and centralized power. America has tended towards the latter; the central government directing the states to observe federal law but leaving the state and local government latitude in deciding how they should carry out this broad directive, thereby making the states and local officials partners in the federal government, involved and with a personal stake. Europe has tended towards the former, micro-managing every aspect of implementing central directives, leaving the locals no role other than servile obedience. As a result, they passively wait for those in charge to help them. DeTocqueville was writing in th 1830s. America has since gone over to centralized administration in many aspects, but the culture remains one that encourages individual initiative, even as the central government until this past year did all it could to discourage it.
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