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The Connection between Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism

(Telegraph-UK) Zoe Strimpel - A friend of mine, a (non-Jewish) supporter of Israel, performed an experiment once. Cloaking herself in a giant Israeli flag, she set out from her home in Oxford to see how far she could get before trouble started. Within five minutes, a man of Middle Eastern appearance had started following her, shouting anti-Semitic abuse. Within six minutes, he was verbally threatening to kill her, and she'd started running. At the 10-minute mark, the police had to intervene. My brave friend repeated the experiment the next day, and the next, just to be sure. More or less the same thing happened. An in-depth survey of British attitudes towards Jews, published earlier this month by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, found that more than a quarter of British people hold at least one anti-Semitic view. We're talking ideas that come straight out of Goebbels's playbook, such as "Jews think they are better than other people," and "The interests of Jews in Britain are very different from the interests of the rest." More than 55% of Muslims surveyed admitted to holding "at least one anti-Semitic attitude." Dr. Jonathan Boyd, director of the JPR, noted that: "The higher the level of anti-Israel attitudes measured, the more likely they are to hold anti-Semitic views as well." Still, Britain still comes out as one of the least bad places for Jews on the planet. What this says about the rest of the world is truly chilling.
2017-09-20 00:00:00
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