Posted on 03/03/2020 11:52:00 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
All of a sudden nostalgia for 1930s Germany resurges across Europe, where some dismiss it as “just fun.”
Carnival marchers in the Belgian town of Aalst last week were dressed up as Jewish caricatures, as if lifted from the pages of the crude Nazi-era weekly Der Sturmer. They had long, crooked noses, Hasidic hats, rat tails — the works. Men clad in SS uniforms marched alongside, drinking beer and joking with the cheering crowds.
The grotesque display, which appeared in Aalst’s annual three-day carnival last year for the first time and repeated again last week, was described to the BBC by the town mayor’s spokesman as “our humor, just fun.”
Men in Nazi uniforms and women in concentration camp pajamas also marched last week in another European town, Campo de Criptana in Central Spain. Oh, and music bands performed in full Nazi regalia in Croatia, Ukraine and elsewhere.
Meanwhile, a study conducted among 14,000 people in 16 European Union countries found that a quarter of all responders oppose having “too many Jews” in their country. The study, presented Monday to the European Jewish Association’s annual conference in Paris, also found 21 percent believe Jews “talk too much about the Holocaust” and exploit it for their own purposes.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Security Council didn’t discuss European anti-Semitism during the month of February, when Belgium served as its rotating president. The topic is not on the council’s agenda. Israel is, on the other hand, and in the monthly session dedicated to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, European members denounced its policies in highly moralistic tones.
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Reminds me of a line from the Hitler TV miniseries. Right-wing Jewish satirist/journalist comes to hear Hitler speaking in a tavern. Hitler spews usual hateful venom. Right-wing Jewish guy: “You’d think I’d be used to it after a few centuries, but no.” He then leaves.
“Ikey, Mikey, Jake and Sam,
We’re the boys who eat no ham,
We play football, we play soccer—
And we keep matzohs in our locker!”
Hear/read a lot of them - some actually quite funny in a dark sort of way; anyway it rolls off me.
France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Scotland, heck, horse isn't illegal anywhere in the EU. Not to mention the far east, China, Indonesia, Japan. And in much of Europe, it's a non identified ingredient in lots of meat snacks. IT's fun to eat, I guess.
It’s from Portnoy’s Complaint. An old book of some notoriety.
Heard of the book - haven’t read it though.
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