We have nothing to fear but…, part two
Forbes.com blogger Abigail Esman seizes on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s over-hyped list of 2010 anti-Semitic incidents to suggest that “anti-Jewish attitudes no longer represent a fringe mentality of extremists – nor can they be simply brushed off as the ravings of little old ladies going batty.”
MJ Rosenberg does a nice job of deflating her fear-mongering:
How many Jews do any of us know who are afraid of being attacked because they are Jews here in the United States?
If Jews experienced the weeks of undiluted hate that Muslims experienced during the phony “Ground Zero mosque” controversy, we would be packing for Israel, or to whatever refuge would have us.
Back to Esman: She takes a sharp Islamophobic turn when she writes:
And the problem is also not limited to a couple of outspoken characters here and there: Anti-Semitism has been rising [f]or several years across all of Europe, mostly among the Muslim population… and a recent report from the UK shows that it’s destined to get worse. “Muslim religious schools operating in Britain are using poisonously anti-Semitic textbooks from Saudi Arabia…”
Funny thing: On the Wiesenthal Center’s list of “2010 Top Ten Anti-Semitic Slurs,” there’s not a single Islamist, and only one Arab (and he’s the deputy information minister for the Palestinian Authority, which doesn’t exactly make him a threat to the Jews of Great Neck or Squirrel Hill).
So follow her logic: Anti-Semitic attitudes cannot “simply be brushed off as the ravings of little old ladies going batty,” although “the problem is also not limited to a couple of outspoken characters here and there” (inadvertently acknowledging what she really thinks of the SWC list). No, the real problem is Muslim religious schools.
In other words, the Wiesenthal Center’s list is scary, but in focusing on “a couple of outspoken characters here and there” it misses the point, because what we should be worrying about is Muslims.
Did I mention Muslims?
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December 23rd, 2010 at 1:20 am
Why don’t we continue to stick our heads in the sand? Didn’t we do that in Europe of the 30′s? Thank you Abigail Esman for saying the obvious. If someone doesn’t like the policies of Obama, they are called racists. If people do not like Muslim terrorist attacks they are called “Islamophobic.” How does that help Israel? With that attitude Israel has no enemies and does not need to arm herself.
December 23rd, 2010 at 10:07 am
Anti-Semitism persists because the Jewish people and the nation of Israel are the representation of the very existence of the TRUTH of the One True G_d.
As long as all the false religions, belief systems, and philosophies exist – they will be against G_d and HIS people because darkness cannot exist with light. The foundation of most western education (evolution) denies the very existence of G_d, and the environmentalist movement strives to elevate man above G_d as the controller of HIS creation.
In Zechariah 12 it is written – “A prophecy, the word of ADONAI concerning Isra’el – here is the message from ADONAI, who stretched out the heavens, laid the foundation of the earth and formed the spirit inside human beings: “I will make Yerushalayim a cup that will stagger the surrounding peoples. Even Y’hudah will be caught up in the siege against Yerushalayim. When that day comes, I will make Yerushalayim a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who try to lift it will hurt themselves, and all the earth’s nations will be massed against her.”
It is HE the G_d of Israel, who created the world, and it is HE who sets the plan of world affairs – The Day of the Lord is coming BUT as it is written in Isaiah 31:5 – “ADONAI-Tzva’ot will protect Yerushalayim. In protecting it, he will rescue it; in sparing it, he will save it.”
All who practice anti-Semitism are really fighting against G_d because the TRUTH is not in them.
December 23rd, 2010 at 9:44 pm
That was great and beautiful Son of Yapeth. So true!