To: AJKauf
A big part of the problem is that Europe's press is about 5 times more leftwardly biased than our's, and portrays Israel's actions in about as negative a light as possible. The only media outlets with greater anti-Israel sentiments are the state organs in Iran and Syria. This goes a long way towards helping form European public opinion.
I'm still unsure exactly how and when liberalism became vaguely synoymous with anti-Semitism, but it does seem to have happened, moreso in Europe than in America.
5 posted on
01/17/2009 8:47:52 AM PST by
squidly
To: squidly
The international Left opposes any source of cultural or nationalistic identification which can compete with them for loyalty.. Jews have been successful in maintaining a separate identity which threatens the Left's intentions to exercise total control and extract total obedience. Therefore they must be at least neutralized and if necessary destroyed. Jews in the US have largely been neutralized, by way of their secularization and reflexive collectivism, but Israel, it must be destroyed.
To: squidly
“I’m still unsure exactly how and when liberalism became vaguely synoymous with anti-Semitism...”
There’s nothing vaguely synomous about it. The grandparents and great grandparents of these racists were spewing this same garbage in the 20’s and 30’s. The history is there, my friend.
23 posted on
01/17/2009 10:17:00 AM PST by
Owl558
("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson