anti-Semitism MUSLIM SETTLERS

THE WORLD LOVES A JEWISH REFUGEE-HOLOCAUST VICTIM WHEN IT SUITS THEIR PURPOSE……

Pernicious…..

This reminds me of how the Left (and others) uses the annual memorials to Holocaust Victims in order to put a shine on their “humanitarian” credentials, while during the rest of the year they actively work against the largest Holocaust Memorial in existence, the Jewish State of Israel.

NOTE: I second what the CJHS says about Bigman’s opening statement in her TOI piece:

I part from the author, Petra Marquardt-Bigman, on one point: whatever “xenophobia, religious bigotry and hatred” for these “refugees” is deserved. They have provided and continue to provide us with so much evidence daily that only an irrational person could possibly think otherwise

H/T: Children Of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Lori Lowenthal Marcus 

Jewish refugees have never been as popular as now

NOVEMBER 20, 2015, 3:57 AM
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Of course, the comparison between the plight of Jewish refugees of the 1930s and 1940s and today’s refugees is not necessarily invalidated by the fact that it is embraced by some who hate nothing more than the Jewish state whose founders tried everything they could to save these Jews. But it is noteworthy that the Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor –whose articles on the subject helped to make the comparison go viral – has by now written yet another article on this comparison without getting around to noting the fact that the Jewish refugees who were turned away elsewhere might have found a safe haven if the British Mandate authorities had not buckled under Arab pressure and had taken the promise of the re-establishment of the Jewish homeland more serious.

Noting this fact would of course highlight some crucial differences between today’s Muslim refugees and the Jewish refugees of the past. For all the talk about anti-Muslim bigotry and “Islamophobia” in the West, today’s Muslim refugees obviously prefer fleeing to western countries. While the Jewish refugees of the 1930s and 1940s had no Jewish state to flee to, today’s Muslim refugees could arguably seek a safe haven also in many Muslim countries. Indeed, the Muslim countries that are members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) boast of having formed “the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations” with a “membership of 57 states spread over four continents.”  Supposedly, the OIC “is the collective voice of the Muslim world” and is dedicated to “ensuring to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony among various people of the world.”

There are of course many Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon, but they have been kept in conditions that reportedly cause many to consider returning to the war zones they have fled. But curiously, we don’t have a debate about why rich Arab Muslim countries can’t do more for Arab Muslim refugees.

Instead, we are endlessly debating western bigotry, and the Jewish refugees who couldn’t flee the Nazi genocide are held up as providing an all too convenient “lesson” of history. To be sure, Tharoor notes in one of his pieces that “there are huge historical and contextual differences between then and now,” but actually spelling out some of these “huge” differences would show that the focus on the alleged western bigotry against Muslims is somewhat problematic. It’s not that anti-Muslim bigotry doesn’t exist, but this is no reason to ignore the inconvenient fact that Europe’s Jews once again have to consider leaving their homes because a toxic fusion between age-old Christian and modern European antisemitism with Muslim Jew-hatred makes it too dangerous for them to stay. As Jeffrey Goldberg put it in an important Atlantic essay published earlier this year:

“what makes this new era of anti-Semitic violence in Europe different from previous ones is that traditional Western patterns of anti-Semitic thought have now merged with a potent strain of Muslim Judeophobia. Violence against Jews in Western Europe today, according to those who track it, appears to come mainly from Muslims, who in France, the epicenter of Europe’s Jewish crisis, outnumber Jews 10 to 1.”

More here.

 

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