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Growing opposition to Israel in Germany
Deutsche Welle ^ | 22.07.2014 | Jeanette Seiffert

Posted on 07/22/2014 4:50:02 PM PDT by Olog-hai

“Berlin police cower before Jew-haters,” proclaimed a headline in the Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel—and this line has been posted numerous times on social networking sites. It was reported that a group of Arabs shouted “Jew, Jew, cowardly pig, come out and fight alone” at a recent demonstration and police officers did not interfere.

In many European cities, what began as peaceful protests turned into outpourings of anti-Jewish sentiments and violence against counter-demonstrators. […]

The Gaza conflict has stirred up public opinion in Europe, and it has brought Israel-hatred to Germany along with it, according to political scientist Stephan Grigat. […]

Grigat has also observed a growing anti-Israel stance in mainstream German society. And he finds that the term “Israel-criticism” alone reveals a lot about the negative sentiment. After all, he said, nobody speaks of “Japan-criticism” or “Sweden-criticism” when they do not approve of something the Japanese or Swedish government does. “This expression shows what all this is really about: not reasonable criticism of individual decisions made by the Israeli government, but plain resentment of the existence of the Jewish state,” said Grigat. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.de ...


TOPICS: Germany; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; antizionism; eussr; germany; israel; newscurrentevents; rop; waronterror
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To: Olog-hai

In the newspaper business that is called a “Standing Headline.”

Kind of like “corrupt politician” or “Kennedy drunk driving”.


21 posted on 07/22/2014 6:20:58 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Olog-hai

It’s not the Jews who are cowards - they’re not the ones hiding behind women and children.


22 posted on 07/22/2014 6:24:32 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Olog-hai

Are the Germans getting to be as clueless about history as Americans?


23 posted on 07/22/2014 6:45:09 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: P-Marlowe

Sadly, some of the U.S. voters in 2008 and 2012 remind me of the exact mindset that signed on to Hitler during his power years. We allow folks to vote too easily IMO.


24 posted on 07/22/2014 7:00:06 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Think how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that.)
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To: Viennacon

So they don’t get out of control again, maybe?


26 posted on 07/22/2014 7:15:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“Oh its already here and that is what is truly scary..Chicago, Boston..all had the same kind of sick Anti Jewish rants about gassing us and putting us in ovens..sometimes I think Im living in the 30s..that’s what the left wants..to finish the job Hitler started”

I retired from UIC (the Univ. of IL at Chicago). The campus is right near the downtown area, a little south and west of it. There are a large contingent of Muslim students at UIC. Many of them are Palestinian. They basically hate Americans. On any given day I could see them out of my office window marching around on the campus and protesting whatever the axe to grind du jour was. Palestinians are trouble no matter where they live.

I feel so sorry for Israel having to deal with this pond scum on a daily basis. None of the other Arab countries want anything to do with them either. I hope Israel flattens Gaza and makes a large parking lot out of it. They’d be doing the world a favor.


27 posted on 07/22/2014 7:37:12 PM PDT by flaglady47 (The useful idiots always go first)
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To: rbg81

Like the old saying goes, the Germans will never forgive the Jews for the Holocaust.


28 posted on 07/22/2014 8:49:59 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

I am by no means certain that this is the case. You may wish to read Tuvla Tenanbom’s book, *I Sleep in Hitler’s Room.”

http://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Hitlers-Room-American-Germany-ebook/dp/B005WZYWA2/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406087734&sr=1-1&keywords=i+sleep+in+hitler%27s+room


29 posted on 07/22/2014 8:59:45 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: P-Marlowe

I’m betting in World War III Germany sides with Iran... time will tell...


30 posted on 07/23/2014 6:01:49 AM PDT by GOPJ (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize-Voltaire)
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To: Olog-hai

“Growing?”


31 posted on 07/23/2014 6:08:28 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Viennacon

You said:

“...Yeah, those peaceful Brownshirts in Germany. We should totally back them up on everything just because.

Let the Eurotards fend for themselves. Why are we still defending these a$$holes?...”

This is complete BS. The current antisemitism in Europe has absolutely nothing to do with the old racial based antisemitism in Germany. It is quite funny that those who hate the jews today in Germany are as hamites (the brothers of the semites) no arians and therefore for Nazis (not for me!!!) not worth of living (”lebensunwert” in German). If Hitler would have had so much in Germany in 1939 as we have them today all those Mussies would have been gassed in Auschwitz for sure*.

Practically all ethnic Germans learned their lesson of WWII covering the holocaust. Never again! Therefore Israel is being criticised just like each friend sometimes need his dose of critisim.

Regards from Europe

Andreas

P.S. You guys not defending us anymore. Practically all American installations in Germany are hubs for your world-wide operations. Most German people would like to see them returned.

* Please do not bother me with the muslim SS, since it was no more than a propaganda trick.


32 posted on 07/24/2014 5:18:37 AM PDT by European Guest (De omnibus dubitandum)
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