"I Europa är antisemitism häftigt...."

 

 

 

 

Det är uppenbarligen inte bara jihadister som tycker så:

Bland vissa trendiga ungdomsgrupper inom extremvänstern

tycker man att antisemitism (ibland nödtorftigt maskerat

som "antisionism" eller BDS) är väldigt häftigt....

 

Det konstaterar krönikören Abigail Esman, som

bevakar Europa åt IPT News.

Hon börjar med aktuella exempel från Frankrike och Sverige,

men visar sedan hur det tycks vara en internationell trend.

 

Läs hela krönikan

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 More disturbing than the alleged arson at a suburban Paris kosher

supermarket on Tuesday – the third anniversary of the terror attack

at the kosher Hyper-Cacher market, also outside Paris – is this:

no one was terribly surprised.

Shocked, yes; of course people were shocked

– but not entirely surprised.

 

How could they be, after a rash of anti-Semitic attacks and

regular calls for "death to Jews" that have plagued Europe in

recent  months?

At this point, in Europe, Jew hate has practically become the norm.

 

The fire, which destroyed the shop, broke out in the early morning

hours in the southern suburb of Creteil, where about a quarter of

the population is Jewish. But the shop owner, who is Muslim, also

found swastikas painted on the door a week ago, as did the owner

of a neighboring market, which was also slightly damaged in the fire.

Such events are hardly new in France. In addition to the Hyper

Cacher attack, in which Muslim terrorist Amedy Coulibaly gunned

down four people after a standoff lasting several hours, in 2017,

a Jewish woman was killed by a Muslim neighbor who pushed her

out a window, and a Jewish family was robbed and held hostage,

also in a Paris suburb. "You're Jews, so where is the money," the

assailants allegedly said. Yet these are only the latest in a heinous

string of attacks on French Jews, mostly, but not exclusively, by
Muslims, including the 2012 massacre at a Jewish school in
Toulouse.

Three children and a teacher were killed in that attack.

In 2006, as many as 20 people participated in the kidnapping,

torture and murder of 23-year-old Ilan Halimi. "We have a Jew,"

one said in a ransom call.

 

But France is not alone. Sweden, too, whose national Jewish population

(18,000) is smaller than that of Creteil alone (23,000), has seen a

disproportionate amount of anti-Semitic activity in the past few months.

 In December, Muslims hurled Molotov cocktails at Jewish teens at a

synagogue party in Gothenburg and firebombs were planted at a Jewish

cemetery in Malmo. At a Stockholm protest against President Trump's

call to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the New York Times reports,

"a speaker called Jews 'apes and pigs,'" a common anti-Jewish epithet

among Muslim anti-Semites. And in Malmo, according to the Times,

"Children at the Jewish kindergarten...play behind bulletproof glass."

 

This is not just because of Muslims, however. Even Sweden's mainstream

media has attacked the Jews. A 2009 article in the respected Aftonbladet

claimed that Israel regularly kidnapped and killed young Palestinians

for their organs.

In the Netherlands, where anti-Jewish chants filled the hot afternoons

during pro-Gaza protests in 2014, it is not always the Muslims who are

to blame. Indeed, as Muslim youth waved the ISIS flag and called for

death to Jews in The Hague, the city's mayor, Jozias van Aartsen,

refused to denounce them, insisting "no boundaries had been crossed."

 

But there have been plenty of Muslim-related incidents as well.

In December, for instance, a man wielding a Palestinian flag smashed

the windows of a kosher restaurant in Amsterdam. And on New Year's

Eve, a yet-unidentified man threw a rock at the window of the Amsterdam

Chabad center. According to reports, security camera images confirm

that the perpetrator was not the same person who attacked the restaurant

last month.

 

There's more. In Vienna, for instance, in 2015, a Jewish man living in

a largely Jewish neighborhood was threatened with eviction if he did

not remove the Israeli flag from his window. "It offends one of the

neighbors," his landlord said.

Apparently, this is a common complaint in the Austrian capital.

Officials fined three pro-Israel activists last month for waving an Israeli flag

near a pro-Palestinian demonstration: the charges state that the

activists "produced considerable offense and provocation among

the Palestinian protesters."

 

 

 

The pro-Palestinian group, however, was not cited for any offense they

might have caused Vienna's Jews – even as Palestinian-flag waving

protesters shouted out in Arabic, "Khaybar, Khaybar ya yahud" – a

battle cry that recalls the 7^th century victory of Muslims over the Jews

of Khaybar, and which in modern terms essentially means

"Death to Jews."

 

But pro-Palestinian, and therefore usually anti-Israel and anti-Jewish,

sentiment is rising also in far left groups, Huetlin says – youth who

listen to rap, most of all. Many of these rappers come from the

Muslim community and champion Palestine's "underdog," status she

reports – so much so that Germany's one Jewish rap star, Ben Salomo,

told her that "solidarity for Palestine ... is fashion."

 

The message is clear, and not just in Germany. Increasingly, it seems, in Europe – and especially for Europe's youth – Jew-hate is the new cool.