Posted on 01/01/2006 7:50:15 AM PST by SJackson
'Anti-Semitic tsunami on the way'
In interview with BBC Radio, Britain's Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks says he is 'very scared' by rise in anti-Jewish feelings, which have led to Holocaust denial, attacks on synagogues, boycott of Jewish groups on university campuses Ynet
Britain's Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks fears that a "tsunami of anti-Semitism" is threatening to engulf Jews across the world.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Sunday program, parts of which have been published by the British Telegraph, Sacks said he was "very scared" by the rise in anti-Jewish feelings, which has led to Holocaust denial, attacks on synagogues and a boycott of Jewish groups on university campuses.
"I am very scared by (it) and I'm very scared that more protests have not been delivered against it, but this (anti-Semitism) is part of the vocabulary of politics in certain parts of the world," he said.
Figures produced by the London-based Community Security Trust show that anti-Semitism is on the rise in Britain. The trust recorded 532 anti-Semitic incidents in 2004, including 83 physical assaults.
In the meantime, some groups opposed to Israeli government policy have organized boycotts of Jewish academics and student groups.
Since 2002, Jewish student groups on 17 British campuses have faced the threat of expulsion from fellow students opposed to Israeli action.
'Rabbis assaulted throughout Europe'
According to Sacks, attempts to "silence and even ban" Jewish student groups are "quite extraordinary" because most of Britain's 350,000 Jews regard themselves primarily as "British citizens".
Sacks also blasted the world's interference in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, claiming that "if, God forbid, one could imagine a world in which the state of Israel did not exist… then not one of the world's conflicts would be changed by one millimeter - there would still be conflict in Chechnya, in Ossetia, in Indonesia, in the Philippines."
"So to make this (Israeli-Palestinian) conflict - where the two sides have worked now for 12 years in a process of peace - the epicenter of global politics is not merely wrong … but it is also quite troubling," he charged.
Sacks said he was also worried by the strength of anti-Jewish feeling in some European states, including France.
"A number of my rabbinical colleagues throughout Europe have been assaulted and attacked on the streets. We've had synagogues desecrated. We've had Jewish schools burnt to the ground - not here but in France… So it's the kind of feeling that you don't know what's going to happen next, and that is making some European Jewish communities feel uncomfortable," he said.
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Warning of 'anti-Semitic tsunami'
Anti-Semitism is spreading around the world in a kind of tsunami effect, says Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks. Globalisation had led some people to wrongly see Israel as the cause of all the world's conflicts, he told BBC Radio 4's Sunday Programme.
Holocaust denial and hatred of Jews were circulating widely in best-selling books and prime time TV, he warned.
Islamic militants have used Israel's treatment of Palestinians to rally support for their violent campaigns.
The chief rabbi however, pointed out that wars in Chechnya, the Philippines and Indonesia would be happening even if Israel did not exist.
He said conflicts around the globe had begun to have uncomfortable repercussions for some Jewish communities in Europe, the chief rabbi claimed.
"This is all a kind of tsunami of anti-Semitism which is taking place a long way from this country but (of) which Europe seems unaware," he said.
He said that while the Jewish experience of Britain was generally good, British Jews were experiencing a globalised anti-Semitism through satellite television, e-mails and the internet.
He claimed anti-Jewish feeling was on the rise in European countries such as France.
"A number of rabbinical colleagues throughout Europe have been assaulted and attacked on the streets.
"We've had synagogues desecrated. We've had Jewish schools burn to the ground - not here but in France."
'Reconciliation'
Figures from the UK-based Community Security Trust, which monitors anti-Semitic incidents and advises the Jewish community on such matters, said it had seen a huge rise in incidents last year.
Some 532 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded by the trust in 2004, 83 of which were physical assaults.
Sir Jonathan added that he was concerned that more was not being done to change attitudes.
However, in a letter from the Joint Council of Christian and Jews signed by Sir Jonathan, he acknowledges the role the Middle East conflict plays in boosting anti-Semitism.
The statement from January 2004 read: "Achieving peace, justice and reconciliation in the Holy Land would help to make it harder for anti-Semitism to flourish."
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Huey Long is rarely quoted and rarely for good reasons but he did once comment on nazism remarking that every country that ever brought its heel down on its Jews paid a price for it.
In the last year, I've personally felt and experienced more anti-semitism than I ever before. I do have fear, and with Jews like Spielberg who seem to want to put a seal of approval on it, I do fear for my people...and myself.
I'd never heard that comment by Huey Long, but if it's true that he said it, he was right and there are Biblical reasons why.
BTW, great tagline! (When I first joined FR, I used a tagline that said MaryJo needed an "exit strategy" -- which several people liked)
European Jews should learn a lesson from the Muslims and start sawing off a few heads. This crap would stop immediately. Ivory-tower Eurofascists are natural cowards.
The progrom visited by Antiochus was precipitated by Meneleus.
As GOD said long ago to the jews : I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. Every person and people who have cursed the jews/Israel has been broken, from ancient times to the present : hitler, the USSR, now france/euro-fascists/islamo-fascists; and yet AMERICA has stood by Israel since its founding in 1948, and now we're the sole remaining superpower(economically as well as military)in the world. Those who don't learn from history are fated to repeat that same hard lesson : I will BLESS those who bless you and CURSE those who curse you....
Sir Jonathan added that he was concerned that more was not being done to change attitudes.
Maybe his attitude needs to change...
However, in a letter from the Joint Council of Christian and Jews signed by Sir Jonathan, he acknowledges the role the Middle East conflict plays in boosting anti-Semitism.No more Islam, no more conflict for Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Russians, Serbs, Americans, Britons, French, Australians, Indians, Filipinos, Balinese, etc., etc., (insert country, religion or ethnicity here)...
The statement from January 2004 read: "Achieving peace, justice and reconciliation in the Holy Land would help to make it harder for anti-Semitism to flourish."Nuke Mecca...
Sir Jonathan added that he was concerned that more was not being done to change attitudes.
Maybe his attitude needs to change...
However, in a letter from the Joint Council of Christian and Jews signed by Sir Jonathan, he acknowledges the role the Middle East conflict plays in boosting anti-Semitism.
No more Islam, no more conflict for Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Russians, Serbs, Americans, Britons, French, Australians, Indians, Filipinos, Balinese, etc., etc., (insert country, religion or ethnicity here)...
The statement from January 2004 read: "Achieving peace, justice and reconciliation in the Holy Land would help to make it harder for anti-Semitism to flourish."
Nuke Mecca...
Was it ever thus?
Say what??
Except for running into Jewhating nutters on the web, and the rantings of various other Jewhaters that I read about in the news, I don't experience anti-semitism. Certainly not in my personal life. Quite the opposite. In my personal and professional circle there is an appreciation for Judaism, and often among my Christian friends. My recollection is that Rabbi Sack is a liberal Jew, like Spielberg. (Check out THIS ARTICLE ) I do agree that these liberal Jews are a menace. One minute they are whining in fear like little girls, the next going all Tikkun Olam, trying to "understand" the Jewhaters and jihadis.
Strength is the only response to anti-semitism.
Sadly, true and frankly, mind-boggling. Ah, well, Jews living in such circumstances will pack up and head for a better country. The US will welcome them, I hope. After all, we stood by and did little while approximately 11 million illegals moved in.
If the Jewish charities gave every European rabbi a 9mm handgun, those attacks would stop very quickly. But they wont, and it goes to the heart of why there is so much brazen Jew-hating: because "Jews" are being "led" by weak leftist cowards, who really don't care about Israel at all, who are hostile to Israel-friendly parties such a Bush and Evangelicals, who embrace socialist and homosexual doctrine and ignore the Torah and the Talmud, and who refuse to call for retaliating against anyone who dares attack a Jew anywhere in the world. If I were "Rabbi" Sachs I would have only two things to say about this: 1) All Jews should arm themselves, and 2) Anyone assaulting a Jew or synogogue should be killed.
You expanded on my point.
Wouldn't that be called a tsunazi?
The price may be higher still when the reckoning is complete.
Sounds reasonable.
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