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Europe’s Jewish Problem

In Spain, unfavorable views of Jews climbed from 21 percent in 2005 to nearly one in two this year.

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  • Posted By: afaf9 @ 10/23/2009 11:16:17 PM

    "wake up jesus was a jew looked what he did for society"

    In his lifetime he was hated by Jews, and it was a Jewish court (Sanhedrin) which gave him his sentence of execution.

    What's your point?

  • Posted By: afaf9 @ 10/23/2009 11:14:16 PM

    Ameriki1 - Your hatred is however disgusting and blind, and your "Holocaust" references make it no less so.

  • Posted By: afaf9 @ 10/23/2009 11:12:10 PM

    Ameriki1 - the so-called "Holocaust" did not happen.

    In spite of your deep hatred of the Europeans, it was France which (scandalously) gave Israel its nuclear techonlogy.

    Your hateful attitude does not speak much of Jewish tolerance.

  • Posted By: Rihan53 @ 08/30/2009 8:16:13 PM

    Both the Jews and Palestinians are semites aka arabs and they are both problems. from talking to Brits they hate the moslems just as much if not more.

  • Posted By: ameriki1 @ 04/10/2009 11:17:49 PM

    No need to worry Israel has a very large nuclear arsenal and the meas to deliver it. It is not to late to pay the people of Europe back for the Holocaust. This time their hatred will cause their extermination not that of the Jews.

  • Posted By: Ryszard1 @ 03/11/2009 5:56:05 PM

    Also the most meaningful words loose their meaning when used improper or beyond measure. This is why Denis MacShane???s article ???Europe???s Jewish Problem??? (Dec. 15) contributes to the erosion of the word ???anti-Semitism???. The author fails to recognize the true reasons of anti-Jewish feelings in Europe. Those reasons have nothing to do with anti-Semitism. To the contrary: It is the same lesson that Europe has learned from its anti-Semitic past, which now demands that we condemn the state of Israel and the Jewish lobbies in other countries. Seeing the damage and loss of lives caused by Israeli bombings of Gaza or Lebanon, comparing them to the 100 times smaller damage caused by the primitive weapons of Hamas or Hezbollah, we Europeans cannot remain silent. It is too much for our stomachs to take! Our sympathy for the Palestinian struggle for freedom comes, in fact, from the same part of our hearts as the shame that we did so little to support the Jewish uprising of 1943 in the Warsaw Ghetto. That event was in many respects comparable to what we now see happening in Gaza.
    I was born in Warsaw. In his book ???The Bravest Battle???, Dan Kurzman quotes the following words of Mordechai Anielewicz, the Jewish uprising leader: ???We will give our death a historic meaning and full significance for future generations???. Today I see much of the same spirit in the desperate struggle of Palestinian fighters. I also see the impotence of European governments ??? cautious not to harm their relations with the US ??? to take the right stand. I see the hypocrisy of the whole Western world in refusing to recognize the Hamas government ??? the first and so far the only Arab government that has emerged in ???our???, democratic way. If my shame for that all and my sympathy for the Palestinian struggle has to be called anti-Semitism today, then yes Mr. MacShane ??? I am an anti-Semit.

    Richard A. Daniel
    Gouda, The Netherlands

  • Posted By: Mark_xyz @ 01/01/2009 7:15:04 AM

    "followers of the Child Toucher" - this is obviously a reference to the prophet Mohammed's marriage to an 9-year old girl (recently the subject of a controversial book). Regarding the BNP - a lot has changed in the 12 years since Mr Griffin penned his article about Jews. The make-up of the BNP is very different now in that most of its members have joined over the last 8 or 9 years and are mostly refugees from the ruling parties (particularly the Tories). It is a different kettle of fish to the old National Front and Mr Griffin has changed his views from 12 years ago (surely even Mr McShane must be able to acknowledge that people's opinions can change over time). The main problem for Jews now is the rapid increase in the number of muslims in Europe who see Jews as a Religious and political enemy. They regard Christians in the same way but there are still too many of us here to oppress. If you want to see what happens when active muslim believers take over the running of a country then look at the treatment of Christians in Iraq. Free to be Christian under the non-religious dictatorship of Sadaam Hussein but now 80% of them have been driven out of Iraq by the actively muslim rulers. A sign of the future that will probably be ignored by our leaders. Check out the treatment of Christians in Pakistan and southern Sudan as well.

  • Posted By: freecitizen @ 01/01/2009 4:14:40 AM

    I'm curious about the phrase "followers of the Child Toucher" Surely you MUST talking about Catholics. Aren't they are trying to make child touching a sacrament?

  • Posted By: freecitizen @ 01/01/2009 4:07:42 AM

    As long as many of the Jews of this world insist on conflating the ruthless, barbaric state of Israel with their ancient honorable faith, they will have a difficult public relations problem to deal with.

  • Posted By: duby77 @ 12/19/2008 2:02:55 PM

    The posts below or above are complete examples of ignorance and jealousy...until europeans realize that the real enemy are the followers of the child toucher (islamic extremists) they will be doomed .....europeans are know for being a bunch of wimps and which is why its easy to blame peacefull jews when the real enemy are the animals that blow themselves up...there is evidence and witnesses to the holocaust and its disgusting when people deny it as most of my family was killed by hairy armpitted germans...wake up jesus was a jew looked what he did for society......you guys are jealous and denying factuall history....shame on you and i hope it doesnt take islamic calphate to wake your minds up!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: taliban69 @ 12/19/2008 1:59:00 PM

    i cant wait till the followers of the child toucher take over europe and you will all be wishing the jews could help your ignorant minds out...the comments below are such a laugh that its unbelievable that they dont see that jealousy is the key to the hatred...jews just pride themselves on education and do only good for society...to deny the holocaust just shows ignorance as their were witnesses including the nazis themselves who backed it up.....remember jesus was a jew so all of you just show that ignorance is what drives anti semitism....jews have no reason to destroy the economy....gentiles stop drinking so much and take responsiblities for your own retardation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: taliban69 @ 12/19/2008 1:57:58 PM

    i cant wait till the followers of the child toucher take over europe and you will all be wishing the jews could help your ignorant minds out...the comments below are such a laugh that its unbelievable that they dont see that jealousy is the key to the hatred...jews just pride themselves on education and do only good for society...to deny the holocaust just shows ignorance as their were witnesses including the nazis themselves who backed it up.....remember jesus was a jew so all of you just show that ignorance is what drives anti semitism....jews have no reason to destroy the economy....gentiles stop drinking so much and take responsiblities for your own retardation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: FriedrichPaulBerg @ 12/14/2008 1:52:29 PM

    The simplest reason for rejecting the Holocaust story in general is that the vast majority of European Jews were still alive at the end of World War 2. Professor ARTHUR BUTZ, the author of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, made this claim nearly thirty years ago???and he was absolutely correct as the following quote from a credible, recent Jewish source shows.

    The Jewish Week 11-28-2003
    Two new studies to determine the location of Jewish Holocaust survivors, for use in making future allocations to the most needy, differ widely on the number of survivors worldwide, The Jewish Week has learned. Sergio DellaPergola, a demographer for the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, found 1,092,000 survivors worldwide. Jacob Ukeles, a policy researcher in Manhattan, found 688,000. The Ukeles survey, an update of one he prepared in 2000 for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, found only minor differences from his previous effort. Lawrence Eagleburger, chairman of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, commissioned both surveys. Eagleburger had hoped to use the figures in determining how to distribute $13.2 million annually in humanitarian funds for needy survivors worldwide.

    SERGIO DELLAPERGOLA's amazing discovery of 1,092,000 Jewish holocaust survivors alive in 2003 is thoroughly discussed in his 2003 report. Clearly, the numbers of ???Jewish holocaust survivors??? alive more than fifty-five years after the war are so enormous that one should wonder if any Jews at all perished during World War 2. Any conservative and reasonable statistical analysis of population decline over the post-war years would surely conclude that there were more than five million Jewish ???holocaust survivors??? alive at the end of the war. No doubt, some innocent Jews were killed???but, there is no good reason to believe Jewish deaths were statistically unusual for a long, horrific war in which many tens of millions of innocent civilians were killed of all nationalities. On the basis of numbers alone???the generally accepted story is a monumental hoax. The continued worldwide acceptance of that hoax, even in Germany, is a tribute to the enormous power and influence of the supposed victms and the Jewish community in general. The uniqueness of the mass gassing claims has also appealed to the darker sides of human imagination and gullibility.

  • Posted By: Abe in CA @ 12/13/2008 3:39:53 PM

    Mwahaha!! Gripe all you want McShameless, But the world wide anti-usury movement will not be stopped, nor will it be limited to the Jews. All who live on the blood of working men, women, and even children the world over will be brought to justice eventually, whether it's considered PC or not.

  • Posted By: bennyazarcon @ 12/10/2008 11:04:40 PM

    Being a christian (Filipino), my sympathy is always with the Jews because without them this world may not have hope. Through Christ Jesus, who is a Jew, salvation came to mankind. In fact, as Christ Jesus said, we the Gentiles became partakers of the promises of God because of the failure of the Jews to recognize him as the promised Messiah. Thus, the human inhabitants of this earth really owe a lot to the Jews, plain and simple.

  • Posted By: nawawimohamad @ 12/10/2008 4:57:55 AM

    The Jews should not be disheartened by those figures because fifty percent of the world hate the lame duck Bush. Hundred percent of the people in the world hate terrorists. Most of the people hate war and agression. The whole population of Iraq and Afghanistan hate being invaded. The whole of Palestine hate Israel.What significance is six or twenty-five percent of people who are anti-semitic? The Muslims hate Zionism but not the Jews. Note that throughout history there are also Muslim Jews! Christians hate Jews because they are not Christians and the Jews are the chosen people envied by Christians. Christians do not hate Muslims as much because they are able to invade and control the Muslims. Muslims do not hate the Christians as much because they are pre-occupied with hating Israel and Bush.

    Come on, why should we talk about hatred? Why not live in peace and harmony?

  • Posted By: lovejusticepeace @ 12/08/2008 12:38:57 PM

    What we see is that most are only concerned about themselves and have scant regard for others.
    The Palestinians are also a people , then why not a sovereign independent Palestine nation ?
    The Tamils of Lanka are also a people , then why not a sovereign independent Eelam nation ?
    The Kurds are also a people , then why not a sovereign independent KURDISTAN nation?
    The Scots are also a people , then why not a sovereign independent SCOTLAND ?
    All these afore mentioned peoples have been brutalised , marginalised and unjustly deprived of their rightful place in the world community of nations.
    This is an undeniable fact. Many in the world abuse these Peoples including their supporters .Calling names/branding ,etc.
    But one day they will be free !!!

  • Posted By: L Grey @ 12/08/2008 11:21:50 AM

    I would caution against printing unchallenged the particular version of reality likely to be provided by a mainstream politician in this country, where such individuals are increasingly viewed with distruct & contempt. Especially a Labour one, whose commitment to the "truth" closely resembles that of their Old Comrades behind the now defunct Iron Curtain.

    What "lies at the heart" of British National Party ideology is its unique commitment to traditional British values : marriage & the family, Christianity, personal freedom and law & order, the preservation of our racial & cultural identity and political independence as a country; and the re-establishment of our once great industries, efficient Health Service and admired education system, as well as our tragically undermined Police & Armed Forces.
    It is these which the Labour Party has set out systematically (and with great success) to destroy, in terms of its hate-filled, marxist-liberal philosophy known in Britain by the name "political correctness". It is these which the other major parties, Conservative and Liberal Democrat, have also entirely failed to protect.

    There are probably individuals in all political parties who, for different reasons and to different degrees, have opposed Jewish and specifically Israeli influence in The US and Europe; not least the Labour Party, whose strong marxist wing is bitterly opposed to both in terms of its hostility to capitalism, and its sympathy for Palestinian and other terrorism.
    In the case of the BNP, the small number of individuals who have ever had such antipathy have matured, and realised that the extensive contribution made to Western Civilisation by Jews, and the strong attachment most have to tradition and genuinely 'conservative' values makes them a natural ally for European nationalists; to say nothing of the fact that we face a common enemy in terms of a tidal wave of Third World immigrants, and an increasingly aggressive Islam.

    Although your report confirms that Britain has by far the lowest level of anti-semitism in Europe, it omits to point out that even the relatively small number of such incidents (including swastika-daubing) is often carried out by Muslims rather than native Britons; and that the British National Party, which it admits is "the fastest growing political party in Britain" plays an influential part in distancing Nationalism from anti-semitism.

  • Posted By: cobalt2001 @ 12/07/2008 10:38:10 AM

    Jewish collaboration with the Soviets provoked an outpouring of condemnation by the Polish people. They accused
    the Jews of conspiring with the Soviets to destroy Poland. When the newly-created Polish Army was relocated from
    Russia to the Middle East, thousands of Polish Jews, who had enlisted, deserted the army en masse. Though
    General Anders granted them all amnesty, it is not surprising that resentment within the army ranks grew - but
    not for reasons of anti-semetism. This desertion was a betrayal of Poland, on the very eve of battle. But with the
    establishment of the Jewish Ghettos, Polish opinion began to transform from one of hatred and anger to that of
    sympathy and deep compassion. Poles who had themselves been victims of German bestiality knew with what
    anguish the Jews suffered. They were witness to the horrors of the ghettos and the sentence imposed upon its'
    victims - slow starvation and the deportations to death camps. Many Poles felt compelled to act on the grounds of
    decency and humanitarianism, overlooking past resentments, betrayal, even anti-semetism, to come to the aid of
    the Jews. At great risk to their own lives, Polish men, women and children tossed bundles of food over the ghetto
    walls. Polish families opened their homes to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution. Many Poles even constructed secret
    bunkers beneath their basements, or erected fake wall partitions, for the purpose of hiding as many Jews as
    possible. Elaborate means were used to smuggle food, clothing and medical care to the Jews in hiding, so as not
    to arouse public suspicion.

    Poland was the only occupied country in which the Germans issued a decree warning that anyone helping the Jews
    would be executed. In house-to-house searches, the Nazis often found Jews hiding there, and shot them along
    with the Poles ( and their families ) who sheltered them. That the Germans even issued such a decree is
    indicative of the fact that Polish assistance to the Jews was widespread. Many Poles were so traumatized that
    they chose to remain neutral for fear of their lives. Our perception of them as passive or indifferent is unwarranted.
    Considering the circumstances theirs was not a decision influenced by anti-semetism. But even with the threat
    of discovery, and German reprisals, many Poles continued in their mission to shelter and hide Jews.

    • Posted By: nborka @ 12/08/2008 8:36:04 AM

      B.S
      From it's very first days, Poland's history is a history of Pogroms, killing or kidnapping of Jewish children , enforced Christian baptism and ..., Soviet collaboration???? "1347 the first blood libel accusation against Jews in Poland recorded, and in 1367 the first pogrom, in Pozna??.[17] Later the massacres occurred at Kalisz, Kraków, G??ogów, and other Polish cities along the German frontier, and it is estimated that 10,000 Jews were killed. " and it kept happening again and agian, long before 1917, in 1906 Bia??ystok pogrom, during 1881???1884 almost 50 Pogroms! for god's sake, why are you doing this. Don't desinform folk!

  • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 12/07/2008 3:09:53 AM

    the days of inquisition and torquemada should never be forgotten ,spain under isabella and ferdinand killed ,burnt and displaced over 12 million muslims and jews in just a decade .
    ignonimous and intolerably intolerant .
    best way to prepare is to remember history

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