As the Middle East once again erupts into violence, and more than two thousand Hamas rockets are fired at Israeli’s cities, we are also witnessing an alarming and terrifying rise in vicious, violent, undisguised Jew hate in the major cities of Europe. While we may be used to seeing mobs in Gaza, Cairo or Tehran screaming for Jewish blood and the utter annihilation of Israel, the spectacles of chaos and brutality now taking place in Berlin, Athens, London, Kiev and Paris are another matter entirely.

The readers of The Inquisitr, many of whom are friends of the Jewish state, want to know why this is happening and what the future may bring. To answer these questions, we have invited our friend and colleague, Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs to join us for an interview. As the author of many important books on Jew hate and the demonization of Israel, Dr. Gerstenfeld has always been one of the most outspoken and powerful voices for the continued existence and prosperity of the Jewish nation of Israel, with her undivided, eternal capital of Jerusalem.

While mobs of Muslims, Neo-Nazis, Leftists, Anarchists and useful idiots rampage through Jewish neighborhoods in the cities of Europe and dozens of Hamas terror tunnels are discovered under Israel’s soil, Dr. Gerstenfeld sat down with the Editor In Chief of The Inquisitr, Wolff Bachner, to shed some light on this truly disturbing state of affairs. Are we witnessing the beginnings of another Jewish Holocaust? Will this ugly manifestation of Islamic Jew hate only increase as the Muslim population in Europe continues to grow?

We will begin our journey with an essay by Wolff Bachner, and then we will be joined by Dr. Gerstenfeld for what we believe will be a truly remarkable interview.

Desecrated Headstones in a Jewish cemetery. The words read “Jews Out.” a common phrase used in Nazi Germany.

A Twisted Narrative Of Pathological Jew Hate

An introduction by Wolff Bachner

Editor In Chief of The Inquisitr

Scattered and dispersed after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 CE, a large portion of Israel’s Jewish population was forced into exile to wander stateless and unwanted among the nations of the earth.

Although the Jewish people did manage to maintain a continuous population in Israel to the present day, most of ancient Israel’s Jews and their descendants spent the next 19oo years in foreign lands with the words of Psalm 137 from the Old Testament ever on their lips:

If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not consider Jerusalem
my highest joy.

Jews were reviled as Christ killers by many Christians and as murderers of the Prophets by the Muslims. Accusations of poisoning wells, spreading the plague and murdering Christian and Muslim children to use their blood to make Passover Matzoh hung like a sword over the neck of every Jewish community. Thousands upon thousands of Jewish men, women and children were butchered over these repulsive blood libels.

And so it went in nation after nation over the centuries until we arrived at the gates of Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec. These were the extermination camps where Hitler and his minions planned to cleanse the earth of the Jewish people once and for all. Six million died before the world finally lost its taste for Jewish blood.

The victorious Allied Powers now had the tattered remnants of Europe’s Jews to feed, and they were becoming an expensive burden. Then, finally, almost 2000 years after the exile began, the world, acting more out of guilt than sympathy, decided the best way to get rid of those pesky Jews was to give back a piece of desert the size of New Jersey to re-establish the state of Israel.

Now, after 2000 years of ending every Passover Seder with the words, NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM, the Jewish people were going home. That dream lasted about five minutes before the Arab League informed the United Nations that the moment Israel became a nation, the armies of seven Arab nations, some trained and equipped by the British, would be quite happy to kill every single Jew in the fledgling nation of Israel.

Undaunted by threats, and with nowhere else to go, on May 15, 1948, David Ben-Gurion spoke the words that every Jewish soul had waited two thousand years to hear:

“We hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.”

Did the world rejoice at our miraculous return from near-annihilation to reclaim our nation and our ancestral homeland? Did our Arab Neighbors shed tears of joy that Abraham’s children were finally reunited?

No! Haj Amin al-Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem, who spent World War Two in Berlin as a guest of Hitler, bellowed his hate: “Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history and religion.”

Haj Amin al-Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem, meets with Hitler. The Mufti lived in Berlin as a guest of the Nazis during World War Two.

Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General of the Arab League, ever the politician, was utterly civil and charming as he proclaimed, “I personally wish that the Jews do not drive us to this war, as this will be a war of extermination and momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Tartar massacre or the Crusader wars.”

For the Israelis, losing the war was not an option and, against all odds, it was the Arabs who were defeated. 400,000 Arabs fled Israel to be refused citizenship by the 22 nations of the Arab league. They were herded into camps where they remain to this day, another self-inflicted wound that has been used as a perfidious weapon to batter the Jews in the court of public opinion.

Israel meanwhile absorbed a large portion of the 900,000 Jewish refugees booted out of every Arab nation in the aftermath of 1948 with a single suitcase, evicted from their homes in countries where Jews had lived centuries before the birth of Islam. 900,000 Jews of Middle Eastern ancestry whose offspring are now a significant portion of Israel’s Jewish population. Israel welcomed her children home, while the Arabs turned their refugees into perpetual victims of their rabid desire to destroy Israel, no matter the cost.

Mind you, no sane human being who supports Israel will claim that the Jewish state is perfect and does no wrong. But there is a big difference between disagreeing with the policies of a sovereign nation and calling for the destruction of that nation and the murder of every single Jew within her borders. This is the goal of Hamas, the PLO, and many of the supporters of the Palestinian cause. They don’t want to negotiate a peace treaty with Israel and work with the Jewish people to make the Middle East into a garden. They want Israel to cease to exist, with every Jew on earth a stateless refugee or dead.

Perhaps Dr. Gerstenfeld can shed some light on why the people of Europe have accepted the lies of the Palestinians and Hamas hook, line and sinker. Maybe they need Arab oil more than they need six million Jews; maybe they are afraid that the millions of Muslims now living in Europe will burn the place down if the Europeans support Israel, and maybe, just maybe, that old bogeyman of Jew hate was not gone after all.

The epidemic of hatred and violence being directed at the Jews of the world is a disgrace to all of humanity and a nightmare of epic proportions. Who could ever imagine that in the 21st century, we would see another mob running through the streets of Paris or Berlin screaming “Kill the Jews.”

While the enemies of civilization rampage through the streets, echoing the words of Hitler, Goebbels, and Haj Amin al-Husseini, one thing is clear. The nation of Israel and the Jewish people will survive and continue to “Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.”

Hamas supporters rioting in Paris.

Interview with Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld:

Wolff Bachner:Dr. Gerstenfeld, over the last few months, and especially since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge, we have witnessed a revival of open, undisguised, violent Jew hate at levels we have not seen since the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany. Jew hate has been part of European culture for hundreds of years, culminating in the death of Six Million Jews in the Holocaust at the hands of the Nazis. After World War Two, Jew hate was frowned upon, but now, we are witnessing a resurgence of anti-Jewish violence, often masquerading as criticism of Israel. Why is Jew hate once again rearing its ugly head in Europe, and what is the driving force behind the tidal wave of recent attacks on European Jews?

Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld: Hatred of Jews, or as we call it since the 19^th century, anti-Semitism, is an integral part of both the history and the culture of Europe. There are three major types of anti-Semitism: the first one concerns the Jewish religion. Many Christians saw all Jews as ‘absolute evil’ on the basis of the false claim that they had killed the alleged son of God. It was a huge lie, because only the Roman rulers of the land could execute anybody.

The second type of anti-Semitism targeted the Jews as a people. Nationalistic and ethnic anti-Semitism, in particular in Germany, saw the Jews as sub-human beings. This was the absolute evil in their ‘culture.’ The motif that the Jews are sub-human can also be found in the Koran, where they are described as apes and pigs. It is worrisome that many contemporary Muslims take the Koran literally.

After the Holocaust, anti-Semitism in Europe did not disappear, but became gradually latent. A few decades later, it mutated into anti-Israelism. This third type of anti-Semitism has, as its target, the Jewish State. Israel was increasingly falsely presented as a Nazi state, or alternatively, as a state which aims to exterminate the Palestinians. Various studies show that 40% or more of the Europeans share these views. Their mindset is more backward than that of their medieval ancestors. My 2013 book, Demonizing Israel and the Jews, details these studies and their findings.

In recent weeks anti-Israelism and its two classic anti-Semitic predecessors have become widespread in the European public domain. They have, however, been emerging gradually over the years. The arrival in Europe in the past decades of millions of Muslims, without any selectivity regarding who is let in or not, has greatly aggravated the situation, but is not the singular cause of anti-Israelism.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators parading through a Jewish neighborhood in Paris. The march soon erupted into an orgy of burning and the looting.

Wolff Bachner: What, if anything, can we learn from the epidemic of hatred being visited upon the Jews of Europe?

Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld: There is much to be learned. There have been so many developments that it is very difficult to identify the major characteristics and aspects of this epidemic. To briefly summarize, one could say that many aspects of Europe’s ugly face have come forcefully to the forefront. We are speaking of the EU – the European Union. In the future, and in particular, when the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is discussed, we should also speak about its alter ego, the UE – Ugly Europe.

A few months ago I lectured at a conference in Jerusalem on Israeli-European relations. The former director general of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shlomo Avineri, one of Israel’s leading political scientists, also spoke. He said; “Europe’s politics stink.” It sounded like a rather far-going statement for a former diplomat, but Avineri apparently felt that he could no longer remain silent.

Attitudes toward Jews, and nowadays toward Israel as well, are often prisms through which one can see the moral status of societies. Events that have occurred over the past few weeks have brought many negative facets of Europe to the public eye. One can add that once again, Jews and Israel have been the first targets. As far as Europe’s Islamo-Nazis are concerned, it is unlikely that the Jews and Israel will be their last targets as well.

As I said, it is difficult to identify and describe all the major characteristics and issues which have come to light. Currently, public expressions of extreme anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism in Europe are much more frequent than before. Many similar incidents have occurred previously, but never in such numbers.

Notorious French Jew hating racist Dieudonné M’bala M’bala does his modern version of a Nazi salute called the Quenelle.

Some parts of the anti-Semitic verbal abuse one hears in Europe are outright Nazi language, such as ‘Death to the Jews.’ Others are semantics close to it. There are also newer, extreme anti-Semitic expressions, which emerged after the Second World War. The perception of ‘absolute evil’ in the post-war Western world has mutated again: it is to be compared to the Nazis or being like Hitler. Turkish Prime Minister Recip Tayiip Erdogan has compared Israel to Hitler. He has been, for quite some time, on his way to becoming the leading contemporary anti-Semite. In the past few weeks, he has reached his goal. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has stated that Erdogan’s diatribe has been unmatched since Hitler and Goebbels.