Antisemitism Rising Again in Europe

[muman613]

Im sure most readers of JTF are already aware of this sad turn of events. After several decades of 'improved' relations with the nations it seems that antisemitism is once again on the rise in many European nations. We often talk about UK, Germany and Poland as some of the worst countries to be a Jew in.

I used to believe that Sweden and Norway were places where there were little or no antisemites.... But now I am aware it is much, much worse than I initially thought. It appears that Norway, which really has never been a place where Jews were welcome, is now openly a haven for anti-semitism and anti-zionism. And this antisemitic wave has also spread to Sweden...

This story in Arutz Sheva explains all I need to know:


http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10114

Why Does Scandinavia Hate Jews?
by Giulio Meotti

Once a haven for Jews, Sweden is a hotbed of anti-Semitism. Norway is just as bad. What does that say about Europe?


During the Second World War, the German universities banned many famous Jewish intellectuals such as T.W. Adorno and Albert Einstein. Now, three universities in Norway turned down the Jewish lawyer and author Alan Dershowitz, who had offered free lectures on Israel and international law.

Jews in Norway are just 0.003 percent of the total population, but Oslo is a bulwark of global anti-Semitism and Israel- slandering. What is the root of the Nordic hatred? Norway is the paradise of political correctness, multiculturalism and anti-war feelings. It's the country that, according to the Global Peace Index, for years has topped the list of the most “peaceful” places in the world. Oslo is, after all,  the capital of the "Israeli-Palestinian Peace Accord".

But last year, the Norwegian government divested from two Israeli economic giants who work in Judea and Samaria. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund (that administers the oil profits) divested from the Israeli company Elbit, because it has worked on the Israeli fence that blocked the suicide bombers.

The author of the global literary phenomenon “Sophie’s World”, the national hero Jostein Gaarder, wished for the disappearance of Israel.

For years, anti-Semitic cartoons featured in the largest Norwegian newspapers. In the daily Dagbladet, the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appeared as the leader of a Nazi death camp.

Socialist leader Kristin Halvorsen is leading the campaigns to boycott Israel.

The state owned TV NRK has announced that it will screen the movie “Tears over Gaza”. The film’s director, Vibeke Løkkeberg, said in an interview, “I cannot see any difference between the Israeli warfare in Gaza and the massacres Qaddafi is conducting against Libyan insurgents”.

The hatred against Israel is spreading also in Sweden, another Scandinavian utopia, the ultra-secularized, ultra-liberal and anti-nationalistic beacon (the Danes are detested there as “chauvinists”), proud of its “lack of prejudice”.

Sweden handled its Soviet neighbour with kid gloves, despite the lack of civil rights there. This is the country that the Guardian described as “the greatest success the world has known”. Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are the dark side of the “folkhemmet”, which in Swedish means “the house of all the people”. It’s the multicultural ideology on which Stockholm has built its model of integration.

Sweden is a country that liked to call herself a “moral superpower” and where the welfare state pays for equipment for women who decide to change gender.

Sweden not only ranked among the world’s handful of richest countries, but also provided the world’s most lavish welfare state. It married solidarity to prosperity. But in the suburbs of the largest cities there are now “intifada against the police”.

Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city, the capital of the prosperous province of Scania, has 270.000 inhabitants. But the city has a population that is almost 40 percent foreign and the Jews are leaving the city.

The Israeli national team of Taekwondo was forced to cancel its trip to Sweden due to “security reasons”.

If the burgeoning of anti-Semitism in Norway has a long tradition, in the twentieth century Sweden was one of the most welcoming lands to Jews. Many Jews took refuge in Sweden fleeing the Third Reich and almost all the Danish Jews found a safe haven in Sweden.

Now the slandering of the Jews and Israel is part of the national consensus. The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet has even suggested that  Israeli soldiers are transplanting organs from dead Palestinians.

In the Swedish streets we hear again “Jävla jude”, whch means “damn Jew”. Meanwhile, the most famous Swedish writer, Henning Mankell, who spends much of his time working to fight AIDS and illiteracy in Mozambique, sailed to Gaza aboard the ship of Turkish terrorists.

Have a look at Europe, many Europeans say: we have eradicated wars, dangerous nationalism and religion. We created a peaceful European Union. We do not wage war; we negotiate. We are the moral continent. We all want to make the world a better place. But anti-Semitism is spreading all over Europe again as a virus does.

Call it the “Scandinavization” of Europe. The old liberal utopia lies in a tragic, horrendous coma.

[briann]

You'll notice the common theme.... Socialist groups hate Jews.  Weather its National socialists, or European Socialists.

The logic has always been...... Jews are inherintly more likely to succeed in a free market economy because of their banking conpiracies, etc etc.... and Jews are secretly holding back the working class, etc etc.

This was what the Nazis ideology..... which is why Naziiism was a worker party.... that Jews arent part of a working class, that Jews are part of some sort of elitist global cabal keeping down the common working class man.

These is also what modern Black Nazis believe... which is why they are overwhelmingly marxist. 

[Rubystars]

There is a substantial amount of native European anti-Semitism and there always has been, but I think the biggest contributor to the "rise" in anti-Semitism from Europe is due to Muslim immigration.

[Secularbeliever]

There is a substantial amount of native European anti-Semitism and there always has been, but I think the biggest contributor to the "rise" in anti-Semitism from Europe is due to Muslim immigration.

All true but what has also happened was that after the Holocaust it was politically incorrect to be anti Semitic.  Now that the Arabs have succeeded in demonizing Israel, the elites in Europe can claim they are not anti Semitic just anti Israel.  They are lying but they think the negative image of Israel (which is based 99% on anti Semitism) gives them cover.

[Eden Ben Yitzchak]

As much as I love Europe, and European culture, music, literature and civilization - Europe was always a nest of vicious antisemitic hatred. And God punishes them by sending all the Muslim hordes there... You'll see, in a few decades, the Muslim vermin will destroy everything there....