'We are looking at the beginnings of a Holocaust'

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'We are looking at the beginnings of a Holocaust'
By SAM SOKOL
07/28/2014 16:07

The situation facing European Jewry is “simply intolerable, unacceptable and inexcusable,” Israeli Jewish Congress president Vladimir Sloutsker told MKs and foreign diplomats at a special session of the Knesset Immigration Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee on Monday.

Calling the rise in anti-Semitic incidents accompanying Israel’s invasion of Gaza an “SOS situation,” Sloutsker warned that if left unchecked, such behavior could lead to another European genocide.

“Never before since the Holocaust, have we seen such a situation as today,” he said, referring to the continent-wide demonstrations by pro-Palestinian activists, a number of which have degenerated into violence and many of which have featured racist rhetoric. “We are potentially looking at the beginning of another Holocaust now.

These events will only grow in scale across Europe.”

Addressing legislators and representatives from a number of European governments, including those of Denmark, Holland and France, the oligarch and former head of the Russian Jewish Congress called for Jewish communities across the continent to “unite and consolidate.”

Sloutsker also called on all European governments to impose what he called “strict regulations” on the format and content of demonstrations in order to prevent further violence against Jews.

Citing a recent proposal by Belgian Jewry to establish a position of Special European Commissioner to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism and Racism, Sloutsker said such measures would “help send a strong message that European leadership is united and committed to combating anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia.”

A number of Israeli legislators echoed Sloutsker’s call for a more proactive European approach to combating anti-Semitism.

“Fight together with us,” Yisrael Beytenu MK Shimon Ohayon urged the diplomats present, adding that he was opposed to “dangerous propaganda” that painted Israel as an aggressor.

Jews in Europe have been targeted not because of any territorial claim or conflict in the Middle East, the lawmaker asserted, but “because they are Jews,” citing attacks against Jews in France, including a recent riot in the Parisian suburb of Sarcelles in which the synagogue and Jewish stores were targeted.

“We ask you to stop this wheel” of “anti-Semitic hatred in Europe,” he added, calling anti-Zionism the “new anti-Semitism.”

Committee chairman Yoel Razbozov said the world “must understand” that Israel is fighting against terrorism, echoing the prevailing sentiment among the lawmakers present.

The state will not allow one Jew to remain undefended, Kadima MK Yisrael Hasson chimed in, asserting that the fates of European and Israeli Jews are intertwined.

Jews in Belgium are being asked “why are you killing children in Gaza,” Rafael Werner, a representative of that country’s Jewish community recounted, asserting that there is little distinction being made between Jews and Israelis.

“There is no hasbara in Europe,” he complained, using the Hebrew term for public diplomacy.

Twenty years from now people will stand around saying, "How could this happen?".

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[Novaheart]

I understand animosity towards Jews in a country. They are an identifiable subset of the population which engages in some of the most (for lack of a better word) contributory behaviors to violence in a culture. What I don't understand is why Europeans or European Americans would take the side of the Arabs against the Jews. It can't be religion, most of us don't give a rat's ass about religion. Is it simply a situation where any excuse will do?

It doesn't make sense. Of all the "not one of us" groups in the US, the Jews are the most assimilated. They speak perfect English when they want to. There are Jewish rock stars. There don't appear to be many people in Hollywood who aren't at least 1/4 Jewish, even Rosanne Barr. There are bad Jewish cops, and good Jewish plumbers. I don't get it.

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I understand animosity towards Jews in a country. They are an identifiable subset of the population which engages in some of the most (for lack of a better word) contributory behaviors to violence in a culture. What I don't understand is why Europeans or European Americans would take the side of the Arabs against the Jews. It can't be religion, most of us don't give a rat's ass about religion. Is it simply a situation where any excuse will do?

It doesn't make sense. Of all the "not one of us" groups in the US, the Jews are the most assimilated. They speak perfect English when they want to. There are Jewish rock stars. There don't appear to be many people in Hollywood who aren't at least 1/4 Jewish, even Rosanne Barr. There are bad Jewish cops, and good Jewish plumbers. I don't get it.

How do they contribute to violence in....say.....Germany or the U.K?

I'm not being sarcastic - I genuinely want to know.

[Novaheart]

How do they contribute to violence in....say.....Germany or the U.K?

I'm not being sarcastic - I genuinely want to know.

I meant that they attract violence, simply by maintaining an identity apart from the culture.

[scott]

I understand animosity towards Jews in a country. They are an identifiable subset of the population which engages in some of the most (for lack of a better word) contributory behaviors to violence in a culture. What I don't understand is why Europeans or European Americans would take the side of the Arabs against the Jews. It can't be religion, most of us don't give a rat's ass about religion. Is it simply a situation where any excuse will do?

It doesn't make sense. Of all the "not one of us" groups in the US, the Jews are the most assimilated. They speak perfect English when they want to. There are Jewish rock stars. There don't appear to be many people in Hollywood who aren't at least 1/4 Jewish, even Rosanne Barr. There are bad Jewish cops, and good Jewish plumbers. I don't get it.

You are absolutely correct. I've used American Jewish culture as an example of assimilation done well.

Jews are an easy target for leftists because demographically speaking Jewish Americans are successful and we know how the far left targets success.

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I meant that they attract violence, simply by maintaining an identity apart from the culture.

But Muslims, Hispanics, etc., all do that now and it doesn't seem to matter.

[JB]

Twenty years from now people will stand around saying, "How could this happen?".

When a person aligns himself with a terrorist government and holds up a sign that says "Hitler was right", he really needs to look in the mirror and see if his head is screwed all the way on.