Anti-Semitism is our problem

[GabysPoppy]

Last week a unique and unusual conference took
place in Jerusalem. Representatives of Jewish
organizations from all over the world joined
Israeli officials and academics to formulate a
joint strategy for a war on anti-Semitism. No more
local reaction to one incident or another, but an
attempt at universal Jewish cooperation.

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The doubt which traditional anti-Semitism cast
on the right of the Jewish individual to exist
as an equal in general society, turned, in the
new anti-Semitism, into a dispute of the right
of the Jewish nation to exist on its land as
any other nation. Another feeling shared by the
delegates in the conference is that the new
trend caught us, both in Israel and in the
Diaspora, unprepared. It took us a long time to
understand that we are facing a new incarnation
of anti-Semitism and to respond accordingly.
Thus, for example, we did not prepare for the
Durban Conference that turned into an
anti-Semitic carnival; we didn't fight hard
enough against the UN resolutions against
Israel, which are becoming more hypocritical
and radical and we failed to warn of the
anti-Semitic cries and measures accompanying
the protest against the war in Iraq

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It took us all three years of vociferous
anti-Israel propaganda, comparing Israel to
Nazi Germany, banning Israel from the family of
nations and accusing it of crimes against
humanity, to understand that the attempts to
make such a separation are passe. Isolated and
ostracized, accused of every possible atrocity
and discriminated against in every
international forum, Israel had to ingest that
while it regards itself as a normal state, the
world is not necessarily willing to treat it as
such and that anti-Semitism is not about to
disappear.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=327265&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y