The abomination of Jews continues to develop speed

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. | The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

In a remarkable email sent this past weekend to his subscribers, David Harris, Executive Officer of American Jewish Committee (AJC) a Jewish advocacy group established on November 11, 1906, and one of the oldest Jewish advocacy organizations, made an extraordinary claim. “The world’s oldest hatred is back with a vengeance.” He is, of course, referring to antisemitism. To refer to the fact that it is back, means that it went away for a while and has now returned, a suggestion I highly dispute.

I’m sure the respected Dutch group CASW (Combat Anti Semitism Worldwide) would share my opinion. CASW started in 2002 as a mailing list administrated by Magenta Foundation, with a purpose to monitor antisemitism and its effects globally and generically by sharing news and information, to share info on the effects of antisemitism in our communities and countries around the world. Since its inception, the list generated some 7000 postings and has now migrated to Facebook as a group. I recommend you give some consideration to joining this group.

Magenta is an independent organization that operates from Amsterdam and works towards an inclusive society in the Netherlands, Europe and globally. Shortly after being established, Magenta was the first organization in the world that dedicated itself to combat discrimination on the Internet. Magenta also hosts the secretariat of the International Network Against Cyber Hate (INACH). By now, organizations in 20 countries participate in this network, each in their own way denouncing cyber hate, protecting the rights of all Internet users and promoting respect between people.

Antisemitism, let’s be more direct and refer to the term as the intense abomination of Jews, has through the Internet, given the Jew-haters among us ample opportunity to show their true feelings. Egged on in recent years by the Trumptwits, the Gallowayites and the Corbynites, to name a few, there is much to be concerned about. We only have to look at what CASW has recently uncovered:

In the USA, Washington DC: “Officials are considering providing separate trains for white nationalists attending the Unite The Right rally in Washington D.C. on August 12 to avoid conflict with counter-protesters, according to reports. Metro’s largest union, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689, said at least three private trains are to be organized for a hate group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan to Foggy Bottom Metro Station before they are escorted by police to Lafayette Park for the rally.”

In the USA:  In an article by Hannah Rosenthal, “As a former Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism (SEAS) for the State Department, I remain concerned that for the past 18 months, this post has been vacant. The absence of a Special Envoy makes the media’s role in spotlighting outbreaks of hatred and antisemitism even more vital. This is why I was deeply alarmed to see the New York Times downplay and whitewash a neo-Nazi gang in a recent article about Ukraine.”

In Austria: “A group of Austrian middle-school students are under investigation for play-acting as Nazi SS members and Jews after watching a film in which an anti-fascist social experiment gets out of hand, a prosecution spokesman confirmed Thursday. The incidents occurred as the 13- and 14-year-olds were learning about World War II and National Socialism at their school in Zurndorf in eastern Austria, the children’s lawyer Andreas Schweitzer told dpa.”

In Germany: “A strange cult called the Reichsbürger, or ‘citizens of the Reich,’ is emerging in Germany, and it’s raising alarm bells with its far-right views and love of guns. Reports out of Germany suggest that the group has between 15,000 and 18,000 members, around 1,200 of whom are believed to have obtained firearms legally. German media reported that the group’s membership grew by around 56 per cent last year and that the organization is attempting to form an army.”

In the UK: “The Labour Party has been accused of ‘undermining’ the fight against antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, who criticised Labour’s decision to amend their official definitions and examples of antisemitism.”

In Romania: “Antisemitic Graffiti Causes Little Outrage in Romania. Antisemitic graffiti sprayed on Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel’s memorial house in northern Romania sparked international outrage, but caused little reaction from Romanian politicians.”

In France: “They Spit When I Walked in the Street: The ‘New Antisemitism’ in France.”

In Greece, referring to the recent fires caused by the high temperatures: “The Rothschilds burnt us with laser rays’ (blaming the Rothschilds for the recent fires).”

In Denmark: “Danish prosecutors charged an imam with calling for the killing of Jews in the first case of its kind in the Nordic nation.

In conclusion, perhaps the following quotation attributed to Louis Farrakhan, a man deemed antisemitic by the Anti-Defamation League says it all: “The Jews don’t like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that’s a good name. Hitler was a very great man.”