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Related: About this forum(Jewish Group) Antisemitism Is Alive and Well in Europe -- If It Ever Left
(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)Saying that antisemitism is integral to European culture does not make one popular in Europe. This does not change if one notes that articulating this fact is radically different from saying that most Europeans are antisemites.
Still, that claim about European culture is not difficult to prove. In fact, it developed in a dominating Christian environment over more than a millennium. Major incitement against Jews initially stemmed from the Catholic Church. Later, several Protestant churches, including the Lutherans, promoted Jew-hatred. The Holocaust was executed by Germans, with the help of many European Nazi allies and it was facilitated by the Christian infrastructure of antisemitic feelings in Europe that had accumulated over centuries.
During the Enlightenment and thereafter, leading European thinkers expressed hate against Jews. Voltaire, several German philosophers, early French socialists, Karl Marx, and many others took part in what can only be described as an antisemitic hate fest.
After World War II, many people thought that the Holocaust had taught Europeans a hard lesson. Antisemitism seemed to fade away, especially after some highly-acclaimed movies and other forms of mass media that reached a huge audience.
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Never left the US either; instead, it is making a roaring comeback, and, as we all know, "anti-Semitism isn't just for Nazis anymore."
TEB
(12,863 posts)Soph0571
(9,685 posts)and the antisemitism row last summer to know we have a problem.
nycbos
(6,034 posts)If I was a citizen of the UK I would no longer have a political home.
I don't have a political home any longer
nycbos
(6,034 posts)I would have felt right at home in the Labour Party pre Corbyn.
With Rashida "One State" Tlaib, Linda Sarsour, Hank "termites" Johnson, Ilhan "Allah awaken them to evil Jews" Omar, we soon won't have a home in the USA.
mountain grammy
(26,632 posts)nycbos
(6,034 posts)This has to be repeated. Some on the left are only paying attention because of Trump. But the far-left as long had a problem with antisemitism.
It it a cause that unifies the far left and the far right.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)But fascism exists outside of the political spectrum.
It can be quasi-socialist, like the Nazis; it can be communist, like Stalin; it can be pseudo-religous monarchy like Japan; it can be a populist oligarchy like Italy.
All that is required is centralization of power in a few at the top of a government. It doesn't matter the system.
This is why I've always been a small government liberal. Decentralize, spread power out.
nycbos
(6,034 posts)But unfortunately in America the decentralization and "state rights" are often the tools used to justify racism like slavery, Jim Crow and opposition to civil rights since the founding of the republic.
It's not an accident that people like Hamilton and Adams who wanted a stronger federal government were the abolitionists.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)It is a matter of the least-bad-choice.
The key is freedom of movement from a crappy state. Crappy, unfair, state? Move.