Jew-Hating comes back and back, like a cancer. Attention must be paid.

One of the most disturbing parts of that article is that kids are having to go through drills to be prepared for armed intruders in their schools. What has this world come to? Didn't we learn anything from the camps and ovens?

The assholes who perpetuate this hatred aren't even human.

Of course, there were those who didn't think it was anti-Semitism. Perhaps they will see the same here.

"Didn't we learn anything from the camps and ovens? "

Debatable. It is a no-no to do it on a massive scale; the world will shake its head and wag their fingers, but likely, little will be done in regards to the smaller versions.

is people who butt into the discussion to tell us that others have it a lot worse than Jews.

It is amazing how they rationalize the bigotry against Jews. Any wonder anti-Semitism is seeing a resurgence?

Extremists, that's who!

Typical dodge of "whataboutery."

or has there been a lot of trolling going on in threads about anti-Semitism?

Simply a reminder how we Jews have it so much better, and we are the real 'demons'.

which has nothing to do with the topic of this thread. How pathetically predictable.

Behind the Aegis

It is so horrible when people doesn't learn from the pasts horrible acts - when it came to killing people who had not doing any wrong - but who was killed, by the thousands - in fact millions of people was murdered - because they was who they was - not because they did something wrong - or was criminals - or other vice had doing something wrong...

It is a shame - a horrible shame when people is so ignorant of the past, that try to emulate it again.... hopefully enough people around Europe do have learned its lesson from last time around - and are not willing to accept anything like this again..

Anti-semetism - the hatred of jews are not new in Europe sadly - it is old as the sin and is a poison going from generation from generation - and is in many ways learned by parents - or other close family members - or friends you trust... And in many european nations - most notably in the east it was no real discussing about their own part of the killing of jews in world war two - even though many who was helping in the horrible act of war crimes - was punished, many by years in prison camps, labor camps and so one - some even got the death penalty - at large people was never educated about the horrible acts many was involved in - everything from arresting and sending people on their way - to germany or eastward - in most cases to their death in one of the worst camps imaginable...

But for some it is always a good reason to blame the jews - as it was in the past...


Diclotican

There is probably a lesson in there that hating one group of OTHERS often leads to hating OTHERS in general.

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Though some racists specialize, most seem to multi-task in their hatreds.

And there are a lot of factors influencing both: economic insecurity leading to scapegoating of Others; disillusionment with the democratic process due to various political scandals and betrayals, leading to a rise in support for far-RW parties such as UKIP (it's well known that UKIP is anti-immigrant and Islamophobic; less well known that it's also a magnet for anti-Semites; e.g. half of UKIP supporters would never for a Jewish political candidate); increasing ease of communicating hate on the Internet and social media. High-profile world events involving Israel (with regard to anti-Semitism) and Muslim organizations (with regard to Islamophobia) have undoubtedly contributed to spikes in these forms of bigotry, but I think are often excuses more than causes.

Their target du jour may change but the racism remains to fuel tomorrow's target.

Everyone knows why.

Do tell us your magic solution.

It looks like an attempt to hijack the thread, however.

If you are trying - which I hope you aren't - to imply that Pakistani immigrants are responsible for all the anti-Semitism in the UK, let us note that most Pakistani and other Asian immigration occurred in the 1960s and the 1970s, and that this increase in anti-Semitism occurred very recently.

Zoicks. What with this on the one hand, and 'But the British Jews really deserve anti-Semitism because of the deeds of Netanyahu' implied by a couple of people on the other hand, I sometimes wonder if I've wandered into Freeperland!

That does not sound like it is headed in a good direction but perhaps I misunderstand.