September 04, 2006
But did anyone realize that there was an increase in anti-Semitic incidents in Great Britain over the last few weeks, as Israel fought to defend its existance?
The number of anti-Semitic incidents in Great Britain has risen sharply since the start of the Lebanon war, according to an organization dedicated to the safety of Britain's Jewish community.According to Mark Gardner, spokesman of the Community Security Trust, there were over 90 incidents of anti-Semitism in Britain during July, including attacks on Jewish-owned stores, hate mail sent to representatives of the Jewish community and verbal and physical attacks on Jews in public. Over the past few years, the monthly average has been 10 to 30 such attacks.
The British report is merely the latest in a series of reports documenting an increase in anti-Semitic incidents throughout Europe in the past two months.
On Thursday, an all-party parliamentary inquiry into anti-Semitism in Britain will publish a report that is expected to declare anti-Semitism a serious problem and call on the government to fight it. Committee Chair Denis MacShane MP said in yesterday's London Times that the CST's figures "confirm the evidence given to us that anti-Semitic attacks are a very real problem."
Gardner told The Times that the July incidents "were more dispersed than usual," noting that "it is usually a small number [of people] responsible for a large number of attacks, but these were very widespread across the country and included graffiti attacks on synagogues in Edinburgh and Glasgow."
Hate mail sent to senior Jewish figures blamed them for the deaths of Lebanese children in Beirut, Gardner told The Times.
I wonder -- would the same be found here in the United States? And if so, why haven't such attacks been highlighted? After all, such incidents against muslims are freely reported and loudly decried in the media -- why not some equal treatment?
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if British Jews had made known their opposition to Tony Blair's poodle act, joining in Bush's crusade to protect Israel by invading Iraq, they could have reached rapprochment with UK's Muslim population.
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23083
Posted by: Ken Hoop at Sat Sep 9 05:44:45 2006 (Cs2j3)
Presumably, then, you would similarly support attacks on Muslims in America for their failure to speak forcefully against terrorism and root out the jihadis in their midst.
Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Sat Sep 9 16:11:58 2006 (gNMpq)
If Blair and the UK should not have helped US anti-Islamic foreign policy, then the US should not have the policy in the first place. When the US forces Israel to the West Bank, as UN resolutions and justice demand, and cuts aid to Israel, I'll lecture the Moslem community here as to why it should appreciate our newly found fairness. When the US gets out of Iraq, and quits interfering with Iran's right to develop energy, ditto.
When the US arranges a deal to make the Mideast nuclear-free by dismantling Israel's undeclared weaponry, I'll demand Moslems here show their
appreciation by turning in all suspicious
cranks.
Fair enough?
Posted by: Ken Hoop at Sun Sep 10 12:43:20 2006 (Cs2j3)
But I will support getting rid of Israel's nukes.
I think dropping them on Iran and Syria sound like excellent options.
And as far as doing to Israel what was done to Czechoslovakia in 1938 is concerned, not a chance. We do not destroy our friends to appease our enemies.
Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Sun Sep 10 12:52:57 2006 (BoAeo)
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