Posted on 12/17/2019 3:44:15 PM PST by Rummyfan
On Saturday night, British journalist Hannah Partos was on a bus in central London, returning to her home. “(A) group of men behind me just started shouting ‘Are there any Jews on the bus, Jews get off the bus, (expletive) Jews,’ ” Partos live-tweeted. “I was shocked, turned around, thought of saying ‘yes, me, please stop.’ Thought better of it. Never seen anything like it.”
Partos’ ordeal in the middle of the capital of the world’s great parliamentary democracy is sickening to consider, but unsurprising. The most civilized nations, no less than others, are gripped by a tsunami of anti-Semitism, and it grows uglier and uglier, with Jews trapped in a pincer movement from the hard left and the hard right. Any conceit that this cancer has not metastasized in America is fanciful. The Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents found that anti-Semitic assaults, harassment and vandalism have reached near-historic levels. Last Tuesday two anti-Semitic ideologues slaughtered innocents in a kosher market in Jersey City. On Saturday, around the same time thugs were threatening Jews on Partos’ London bus, a Beverly Hills synagogue was broken into, its prayer shawls and books purposefully desecrated. There is no sugar-coating it: This is the new normal.
In Boston last week, David Harris, the peripatetic head of the American Jewish Committee whose formidable diplomatic skills led the late Israeli President Shimon Peres to dub him “the foreign minister of the Jewish people,” identified “the three sources of the problem — extreme left, extreme right and jihadism,” and spoke about his organization’s focus on confronting it: mobilizing civic society and governments to fight back. There are, Harris observes, numerous factors in the virulence, the insidiousness and the spread of anti-Jewish hatred. “The Holocaust is a fading memory in an increasingly ahistorical world,” Harris says.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
I remember the 60s, and yes I was there.
“I guess you never saw the job applications, common the the South, which had a line for religion. Those who were not Christian were not in a good category.”
No, I’ve only been here 31 years. Before that there was the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
I don’t hate the Jews despite, Schiff, Nadler, Schumer, Ginsburg, and all the other Rat B@st@rd American-hating Jews on the national stage.
But how can President Trump be anti-Semitic? His daughter has converted to Judaism and of all the presidents, he's the one who moved the embassy to Jerusalem while the others only gave lip service to that.
Not all Jews are fans of Israel.
Which I do not understand....
You have to go back to pre-war Europe, where Jews were in one of two camps: Socialist Bundists and Zionists. The Bundists abhored the idea of a Jewish homeland, because they were about spreading Socialism worldwide, having all Jews in one State would not help to achieve that.
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