A wave of Jew-bashing in Europe

The Boston Globe ^ | April 28, 2002 | Jeff Jacoby

[xsysmgr]

THE ROCKS have been lifted all over Europe, and the snakes of Jew-hatred are slithering free.

In Belgium, thugs beat up the chief rabbi, kicking him in the face and calling him ''a dirty Jew.'' Two synagogues in Brussels were firebombed; a third, in Charleroi, was sprayed with automatic weapons fire.

[brat]

Scary times. May God bless Israel.

[LarryLied]

Except for the Muslims, it is mostly liberals turning on liberals. Doesn't make any sense but there it is.

[knighthawk]

A tank emblazoned with a Jewish star points its gun at the baby Jesus, who pleads, ''Surely they don't want to kill me again?''

Wasn't it, like the Italian ancesters, the Romans, who killed Jezus, who was a Jew?

I do not understand why Europe lets the Jews again be 'nazified' by the Arabs. The Jews in Europe contribute so much to society. Unlike the North African Arabs, who only exel in crime and drawing welfare money.

In the Netherlands 60% of all Moroccans is unemployed, even though there is a shortage of workers. But still they manage to top all crime-statistics.

[happygrl]

Except for the Muslims, it is mostly liberals turning on liberals. Doesn't make any sense but there it is.

This is far deeper than political leanings. There are spiritual forces at work here, just as there were in the preamble to the nightmare that was WWII.

Once these forces are let loose, they can't be contained.

If I were a Jew, I would learn from history and emigrate.

[sleavelessinseattle]

I don't get this at all. How in THE HELL did Europe just gloss over that Seder Suicide attack??? How can the French call themselves a civilized country if they can't protect a schoolbus full of children? All I can say is Socialists are not capable of building a maintainable society. I hate to say just move to Israel to such a brave people, but what use is there in putting up with this Shite? I'm thinking we need to consider boycotting European products if it starts looking like law enforcement in Germany and the rest aren't making arrests of these attackers. I haven't had a drop of French champagne since Chirac touched off those nukes in open water. I don't think I'll be buying German cars in this life either.

EU!!!pop quiz...What part of "YOU'RE either WITH US or YOU'RE WITH THE TERRORISTS" did you nichst Verstehen????

[happygrl]

Yes, Europe has become a moral wasteland. I wouldn't trust my life to any of them. And as the columnist says, it won't stop with the Jews.

I believe we should convert all our immigration visas to religious refugee visas for Christians and Jews throughout the world. No one else need apply. We would get the best, and we wouldn't want the rest.

[sleavelessinseattle]

Every once in a while, I get that same statue of liberty feeling...Taiwan, Tibet, Jews, The Christians in the Sudan...And ship the Wahhabi's back to their holes if they don't renounce terrorism in their mosques...

Citizenship has to mean something. If someone embraces the killing of innocent people anywhere in the world on the basis of denying them practice of ANY of the freedoms guaranteed in the US constitution, I will joyfully help them GET THE HELL OUT of my country!!!

[LarryLied]

There are spiritual battles but politics is the weapon. Le Pen, for instance, claims Jews use communism and race to attack Christianity and Western civilization. They call him a fascist and antisemite. Identical conflict which we saw play out in first in the Soviet Union and then in Germany. Now we have Muslims thrown into the mix. Going to be an interesting election in France.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Emigrate, and arm yourself.

[MEGoody]

Seems that Hitler is alive and well and still living in Europe.

[VOA]

Jacoby bump

[VOA]

Anti-Semitism, wrote a columnist in The Spectator, ''has become respectable ... at London dinner tables.''

I wish I'd kept the citation, but I vaguely remember one old quote by a WWII-era
British officer, which roughly said:

"Anti-Semitism was rather fashionable (in England), until Hitler came along and
rather overdid it."