Posted on 11/05/2007 4:51:19 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
In August 2006, as the war in Lebanon raged, a gang of teenage girls confronted 12-year-old Jasmine Kranat and a friend on a London bus. Are you Jewish? they demanded. They didnt hurt the friend, who was wearing a crucifix. But they subjected Jasmine, a Jew, to a brutal beatingstomping on her head and chest, fracturing her eye socket, and knocking her unconscious.
According to the Community Security Trust, the defense organization of Britains 300,000-strong Jewish community, last year saw nearly 600 anti-Semitic assaults, incidents of vandalism, cases of abuse, and threats against Jewish individuals and institutionsdouble the 2001 number. According to the police, Jews are four times more likely to be attacked because of their religion than are Muslims. Every synagogue service and Jewish communal event now requires guards on the lookout for violence from both neo-Nazis and Muslim extremists. Orthodox Jews have become particular targets; some have begun wearing baseball caps instead of skullcaps and concealing their Star of David jewelry.
Anti-Semitism is rife within Britains Muslim community. Islamic bookshops sell copies of Hitlers Mein Kampf and the notorious czarist forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion; as an undercover TV documentary revealed in January, imams routinely preach anti-Jewish sermons. Opinion polls show that nearly two-fifths of Britains Muslims believe that the Jewish community in Britain is a legitimate target as part of the ongoing struggle for justice in the Middle East; that more than half believe that British Jews have too much influence over the direction of UK foreign policy; and that no fewer than 46 percent think that the Jewish community is in league with Freemasons to control the media and politics.
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The fact the US rejected the immigration to America of scores of Jews fleeing oppression in Europe in the late 1930s and early 1940s is a shame we, as a nation, will have to live with.
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