Posted on 11/21/2014 12:07:24 AM PST by Olog-hai
German anti-Semitism and resentment towards Israel have risen sharply in recent months, a new survey has found.
More than one in four respondents in the new poll equated the Jewish state’s treatment of Palestinian Arabs to Nazi persecution of Jews during World War Two, Reuters reported on Thursday.
The bi-annual survey on xenophobia in Germany by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation showed broad measures of anti-Semitism on the decline over the past decade.
However, it also showed a spike in negative views towards Israel and Jews in general between June and September, coinciding with the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
When asked in September, for example, whether they believed Jews, because of their actions, were partly responsible for their own persecution, 18 percent of respondents agreed, up from less than 8 percent in June. …
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I was in Germany from 80 to 84. I was of the opinion that anti-Semitism was always there, it was just below the surface. Now it's kind of coming out in the open.
Where would you put those non-Muslim anti-Semites on the political spectrum? Left or right?
Would those non-Muslim anti-Semites reside in the former GDR (East Germany).
I got nothing against you but tonight I don’t care.
So what...Germans are not all sweet for Israelis... I’m shocked I tell u....no one in Europe sees the Israeli Pali crap like we do...none...maybe the Poles
The more fun poll would be what do modern lefty Germans think about liberal American Jews
I can feel the love already..
Both groups ultralib and both groups basically secular and atheist or agnostic these days
Funny isn’t it....American Jews and Germans more alike than ever....
Anyhow....were losing our birthright here with nary a shot fired
This whole Jewish thing is hard to sort out. On the one hand, the Israelis stand out as a heroic people with heroic leaders and, but for their socialistic tendencies, a beacon in a sea of Muslim slime.
On the other hand, American Jews fulfill some of the stereotypes that Germans propagated in the lead up to WWII.
For my part, I am done defending them. Let them wallow in their liberalism. If Stormfront or equivalent becomes legitimized in the US, as these anti-Semitic organizations have in Europe, they can get Al Sharpton to advocate for them.
Would those non-Muslim anti-Semites reside in the former GDR (East Germany).
That was the first question that came to me when I first read this. In the DDR, the Hitler era was the "good old days."
Otherwise, I would assume that anti-Semites would be Germans with names like Mehmet Ertegun or Ahmed Eroğlu.
a spike in negative views towards Israel and Jews in general between June and SeptemberAt Berlin’s Brandenburg gate on September 14, Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, gave one of the most intensely personal speeches of her political career. The occasion was a rally of political, religious and civic leaders against anti-Semitism.
... Ms Merkel is not alone in expressing concern about an apparent rise in anti-Semitic crime across Europe.
Really? Which ones?
aka Holocaust Denial
Do you share the same disdain for Irish Catholics in urban areas that vote the same as Jewish people in urban areas (escept Jews are trending Republican, slowly but surely)?
Or do you just single out me and my family for special disdain, lumping us all together regardless of individual characteristics?
Oh, is there a conservative Jew out there? Great! Thanks for checking in. Glad to have you aboard. Spread the word.
I stand corrected. But, every Jew I know thinks one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, supports planned parenthood, voted for Obama, and is hoping the Innocence Project will free more killers. I’ll try not to stereotype you with the majority.
Stationed in Germany 1981-83. Some of the worst Holocaust jokes came from German wives of American G.I.s. Take them to task & the reply was the same, “Look what happened to our cities!!”
I worked in a large company owned and operated by Orthodox Jews. The vast majority voted Repub, as far as I could tell from conversations. Politics was freely and openly discussed.
Left. Just like national socialism is also on the left, in spite of its shallow attempts to pander to certain organized religions during its rise.
I remember hearing in the 90s about all the neo-Nazi trouble going on in the former DDR, so that is a good question.
However, Konrad Adenauer did put a lot of “former” Nazis to work in the BRD’s government and industries (one and the same to a great degree what with the immediate establishment of the “social market economy” after the war) and the incomprehensible move after a scant two years by the USA (in 1947) to hand over de-Nazification to Adenauer too (which he declared “over” three years after that). And of course there were people like Willy Brandt who were a bit too close to the eastern bloc for even the Bonn government’s comfort.
How many American Jews believe that the Israeli government is engaging in a “war of extermination” against the so-called “Palestinians”?
How many American Jews are at the vanguard of destroying America with progressivism
I mean since you’re into Q&A
How many American Jews support a president whose view towards Israel mimics that of those reliably nasty Teutons
Funny....that inadvertantly answers your question ...75% more or less
Like I said my priority is America
European anti Israel crap has been steady since Balfour
If you think it’s because of their Jewishness, think again—they abandoned that. Can’t pin it on their ethnic Jewishness either.
Just like liberal nominal Christians have abandoned their Christianity, and like so many of them did just that during WWII.
So pin it on liberalism and call them liberals, rather their nominal religious identity.
First the Saturday People, then the Sunday People.
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