http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-bartov15mar15,1,4110686.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions"Europe's anti-Semitism did not vanish. It was banished to the fringes of society; it was buried in the recesses of people's consciousness; it was transformed into philo-Semitism and fads for things Jewish; it seeped back in as self-righteous indignation against Israel; and it was exported into the Muslim world. Now that it is back, we can see where it was hiding all these years.
The new anti-Semitism employs images strikingly similar to Hitler's. It condemns the Jews as controlling the world's only superpower and seeking to take over the rest of the world, as promoting a destructive policy of globalization, as supporting the allegedly criminal and illegitimate Nazi-like state of Israel. It is obsessed with fantasies of secret cabals, visions of bloody upheaval and apocalyptic devastation. Like its Nazi predecessor, it promises to do to the Jews what they are supposedly doing to the world. It is inherently, then, genocidal.
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We must not wash our hands of the scourge of genocidal anti-Semitism. For the power of the word resides both in rhetoric and in silence. Prophesies of destruction must be taken seriously, and silence facilitates their realization.
Even after the deed, silence ensures its recurrence, for it erases the memory of what has been destroyed and obscures the guilt of the murderers. It allows us to forget that when some people say they want to kill you, they mean what they say."
Since this subject comes up often, I though it would be worthwhile to share this perspective. I/P didn't seem the right place for the posting, but may turn out to be the right place for the thread. We'll see.
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