France on Tuesday called for a collective response to "one of the worst explosions of anti-Semitism" in Europe's recent history, as EU ministers gathered to discuss the issue.
It is a convenient cover to deflect them blame of antisemitism, which is an European invention and concept for the most part, as well as it is alive and well in “white” Europeans.
By shifting the blame to Arab and other immigrants and anti-imperialist leftists this serves to further the rise of the far right, while downplaying their antisemitism.
A Jewish professor who opposes the recent “anti-antisemitism” resolution in Germany put it very well. He noted that the resolution does not refer to the most obvious antisemitic crime in Germany of the past years. An attempted massacre at a Synagogue in Halle by a Neo-Nazi. Instead it mentions the least clear “antisemitic” event, the description of Israel as an apartheid state, by the Israeli and Palestinian directors of the documentary “No Other Land” at the Berlinale 2023.
So literal Neo-Nazis trying to slaughter Jews seems to not be relevant to mention for the German lawmakers as antisemitism, while calling Israel an apartheid state apparently is an attack on all Jews for these lawmakers. Jews are once again used as a bargaining chip for nationalist politics.
It is a convenient cover to deflect them blame of antisemitism, which is an European invention and concept for the most part, as well as it is alive and well in “white” Europeans.
By shifting the blame to Arab and other immigrants and anti-imperialist leftists this serves to further the rise of the far right, while downplaying their antisemitism.
A Jewish professor who opposes the recent “anti-antisemitism” resolution in Germany put it very well. He noted that the resolution does not refer to the most obvious antisemitic crime in Germany of the past years. An attempted massacre at a Synagogue in Halle by a Neo-Nazi. Instead it mentions the least clear “antisemitic” event, the description of Israel as an apartheid state, by the Israeli and Palestinian directors of the documentary “No Other Land” at the Berlinale 2023.
So literal Neo-Nazis trying to slaughter Jews seems to not be relevant to mention for the German lawmakers as antisemitism, while calling Israel an apartheid state apparently is an attack on all Jews for these lawmakers. Jews are once again used as a bargaining chip for nationalist politics.