Jewish Travelers Separated, Removed from British-based EasyJet Airline in Barcelona

The Jewish Press ^ | May 8, 2016 | Hana Levi Julian

[firebrand]

Horrifying. Sounds like there is anti-Semitic poison at the airport, infecting others. I hope this gets more coverage and becomes an international shame to the people who did it.

[MeanWestTexan]

I’ll take my chances.

I used to be on the board of directors of a large company and the general counsel had me watch security video of this muzzle engineer walk past a Jewish engineer. A few seconds after they passed the muzzle threw himself into a wall and claimed he was attacked.

Started bc the Jewish engineer proved the muzzles engineers design would fail.

[MeanWestTexan]

I’ll take my chances.

I used to be on the board of directors of a large company and the general counsel had me watch security video of this muzzle engineer walk past a Jewish engineer. A few seconds after they passed the muzzle threw himself into a wall and claimed he was attacked.

Started bc the Jewish engineer proved the muzzles engineers design would fail.

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[dsc]

Wow. That’s really taking it to the limit.

Remember Jim Carrey kicking his own ass in “Liar Liar?”

[Titan Magroyne]

bmfl

[Zionist Conspirator]

First of all, yes; Franco did indeed save thousands of Jewish lives during WWII, and he tried to make up for the centuries of anti-Semitism in Spain. There were even rumors that he himself was Jewish ("Franco" being a stereotypically Jewish name in Spain). It is also true that he prevented Spain from becoming a Stalinist hell. For both of these accomplishments he deserves praise.

However, the man was no "saint." He was a dictator, even if not a totalitarian one (there was more freedom in Franco Spain than in any Communist country). And like American liberals he was a centralizer: all localism was suppressed in favor of a centralized national Spanish unity. This makes him a strange idol for "traditional Southerners" and neo-Confederates.

But the blackest mark against him was that, being a politician and anti-Semitism being the "in" political cause du'jour, Franco's rhetoric was highly anti-Jewish even as the saved Jewish lives. He referred to the Communist International Brigades as a "Jewish international" and even praised Hitler on the latter's death. Moreover he sent troops to fight against Israel in the 1948 war (the Lebanese Falangists, who invaded Israel along with all the moslems, were modeled on the Spanish Falange). His government was also very anti-Israel and pro-Arab.

Portugal's Antonio de Oliveira Salazar is in my opinion a much superior character and much more worthy of praise and emulation (though his regime also supported the Arabs against Israel). Under Salazar anti-Semitism never gained the slightest foothold in Portugal. Furthermore, although he naturally supported Franco against the Communist Loyalists, he was anti-Fascist and suppressed outright Fascist groups in Portugal (he regarded Fascism as pagan, and he was right).

Most people are neither shining saints nor blackened devils, and Franco was one of those complex figures of history.

[dfwgator]

Never said Franco was a saint, but he did save Spain from a much worse fate, and I’ll certainly take him as a leader over most of the dreck leaders Spain has had since.

[dfwgator]

Oh I think Franco threw an occasional bone to Hitler to keep him off his back. Note that he wanted no part in trying to retake Gibraltar from the Brits, which Hitler sure would have loved.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Never said Franco was a saint, but he did save Spain from a much worse fate, and I’ll certainly take him as a leader over most of the dreck leaders Spain has had since.

I hope that my original post made it clear that I agree with that assessment. Certainly for all his anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi rhetoric, Jews certainly lived unmolested in Spain during the Franco years--something that can't be said about the regime of the secular/futurist (though pragmatically "Catholic") regime of Mussolini.

American-style Fundamentalist Protestantism is a unique thing in chrstendom with no counterpart in chrstian history up to that point (with the possible exception of the original Jewish chrstians who shared with them the status of being stuck in a "no man's land" between "the two testaments." Philo-Semitism of the American Fundamentalist variety is distinguishing characteristic of the latter unknown to any form of European chrstianity (including European Protestantism). I'd say it ranks as a distinctive with teetotalism and the belief that the ingestion of "beverage alcohol" is inherently sinful.

Certainly European conservatives have been formed by, and seek to preserve, a tradition which is radically at odds with that of the Fundamentalist Protestantism known to Americans. They are two traditions that will never understand each other.

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