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 definetely exists and existed outside of Europe but it is predominantlz an European concept. Especiallz the genocidal antisemitism, brought to the extreme by nazi Germany with collaborateurs all over Europe, already has its root at least in the times of the crusades. Pogroms were coined as a term in Eastern Europe as they became more popular their. The whole “race theory” nonsense to somehow make racism “scientific” also included concepts of what would be physical traits of Jews and the British Lord Balfour supported Zionism to get rid of British Jews he deemed “not able to integrate”
The last point deserves special attention imo. as it shows how the way Jews were perceived in the 19th and 20th century are now transferred to how Muslims are perceived.
Well there is plenty who do not consider people living here as Europeans, even if their families are in Europe since 2, 3 or more generations. So tye ones who think in these terms are the “white” Europeans trying to shift the blame for their antisemitism away to immigrants.
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.
Agreed mostly, but I think you’re going much too far by saying anti-semetism is non-existent in non-european places.
There are countless historical examples proving otherwise, that don’t conflate anti-zionism and anti-semitism.
It definetely exists and existed outside of Europe but it is predominantlz an European concept. Especiallz the genocidal antisemitism, brought to the extreme by nazi Germany with collaborateurs all over Europe, already has its root at least in the times of the crusades. Pogroms were coined as a term in Eastern Europe as they became more popular their. The whole “race theory” nonsense to somehow make racism “scientific” also included concepts of what would be physical traits of Jews and the British Lord Balfour supported Zionism to get rid of British Jews he deemed “not able to integrate”
The last point deserves special attention imo. as it shows how the way Jews were perceived in the 19th and 20th century are now transferred to how Muslims are perceived.
Wtf is a white European?
Can we please leave the USA kind of racism inside of the USA.
Well there is plenty who do not consider people living here as Europeans, even if their families are in Europe since 2, 3 or more generations. So tye ones who think in these terms are the “white” Europeans trying to shift the blame for their antisemitism away to immigrants.