Benjamin Weinthal Germany Islamic anti-Semitism

NOT GOOD: STUDY SAYS 47% OF GERMANS THINK ISRAEL IS EXTERMINATING PALESTINIANS…….

The interesting observation here is that the method/concept behind the study is shown to be reluctant in addressing Islamic and Muslim anti-Semitism. Remember folks, this concept goes hand in hand with the Organization of the Islamic Conference’s ten year strategy. Islam, and only Islam shall be treated with kid gloves, which means that Islam can never be criticized for anything.

The OIC’s secretary-general, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, told the Tundra Tabloids face to face a few years ago in Helsinki that there’s no such thing as Islamic anti-Semitism. It looks like both this leftist think tank and university researcher are adhering to the OIC’s principles and concepts. Ihsanoglu couldn’t be more pleased. KGS

‘47% of Germans think Israel exterminating Palestinians’

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
03/16/2011 02:52

Study shows a strong presence of “anti-Semitism that is linked with Israel and is hidden behind criticism of Israel” in Europe.

BERLIN – A think-tank affiliated with Germany’s Social Democratic Party issued a new report last week that revealed high levels of anti-Semitism in Germany, Poland and Hungary, as well as varying manifestations of racism, homophobia and prejudice in eight European countries.

Dr. Beate Küpper, a researcher from the University of Bielefeld who co-authored the Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s study along with her colleagues Andreas Zick and Andreas Hoevermann, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that the study showed a strong presence of “anti-Semitism that is linked with Israel and is hidden behind criticism of Israel, and is not neutral.”

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Asked about the reasons for anti-Semitism – particularly in Germany, where there has been intensive Holocaust education – Küpper said the factors explaining anti-Semitism were not analyzed in the study.

However, some academics in Germany frequently invoke the notion of “secondary anti- Semitism” – that Germans are filled with pathological guilt about the Holocaust and shift the blame to Jews and Israel to assuage their complexes – to explain the disconnect between Holocaust remembrance events and the rising hatred of Jews and Israel in the Federal Republic. The theory’s proponents say it would account for the disproportionate criticism of Israel in the German media and German parliamentary legislative action targeting the Jewish state over seizing the Mavi Marmara.

A handful of German scholars, including Dr. Lars Rensmann, Dr. Matthias Küntzel and Dr. Clemens Heni, have investigated the phenomenon of secondary anti-Semitism in their writings.

Heni told the Post on Monday that “the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation study is based on the so-called ‘group-oriented enmity.’ This is a mainstream concept in Germany, introduced by Wilhelm Heitmeyer, among others, some 10 years ago, to downplay anti-Semitism and to equate genocidal anti-Semitism with enmity against jobless people, homosexuals, women and foreigners.”

He said it was “a ridiculous concept” because, for example, “equating anti-Semitism with enmity toward Islam is an obfuscation of Islamic and Muslim anti-Semitism. We have a steadily increasing number of Muslims in Europe, while Jews – like in the Netherlands – are thinking of leaving this continent due to anti- Semitic incidents and a political culture based on hatred of Jews.”

According to Heni, “the study seems to be reluctant to deal honestly with new anti- Semitism, which is a component of political Islam as well as left-wing and mainstream anti-Zionism in the West.”

He used the term “lethal obsession” from the Hebrew University’s Prof. Robert Wistrich, an international authority on anti-Semitism, to describe what differentiated anti-Semitism from xenophobia and other forms of hatred.

“The new anti-Semitism is spread not just by neo-Nazis,” Heni said, but also “by mainstream left-wing members of parliament, left-wing activists, extremist Muslims and the European elites likewise.”

Read Benjamin Weinthal’s entire article here.

3 Responses

  1. This is bad, really bad. But look how Europe is trying to downplay antisemitism by saying that it is Israel’s fault. Antisemitism is in Europe’s DNA. A lot of Europeans will always find an excuse for their own antisemitism. Let me tell you something: there is NO excuse! Stop targeting the Jews, take a look in the mirror.

    I’ve read some articles about the research today and it was what I’d expected: they also did research on Europeans’ view on Islam. No surprise: the outcome was negative. But what I’m trying to say is that Europe now tries to compare negative views towards Islam with antisemitism.

  2. I didn’t see your comment on this study, but we have the same thoughts on this one.

  3. The Friedrich-Ebert Foundation should call itself the Karl Marx Brigades instead. A despicable commie outfit. They should have been disbanded long ago.

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