{"id":9343,"date":"2014-08-04T23:08:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T23:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=9343"},"modified":"2014-08-04T23:08:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T23:08:40","slug":"what-is-europes-anti-semitism-problem-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/what-is-europes-anti-semitism-problem-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Europe’s anti-Semitism problem about?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Slate<\/i>,\u00a0Europe Has a Serious Anti-Semitism Problem, and It\u2019s Not All About Israel<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A\u00a0recent Anti-Defamation League survey<\/a>\u00a0found that 24 percent of the French population and 21 percent of the German population harbor some anti-Semitic attitudes. A recent study of anti-Semitic letters received by Germany\u2019s main Jewish organization\u00a0found that<\/a>\u00a060 percent of the hate mail came from well-educated Germans. So this isn\u2019t just a problem with young, disaffected Muslim men.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After all, the two worst recent incidents of violence against Jews in Europe<\/strong>\u2014the killing of three children and a teacher in a\u00a02012 attack on a Jewish school<\/a>\u00a0in Toulouse and the\u00a0shooting of three people<\/a>\u00a0at a Jewish museum in Brussels in May\u2014took place during times when there wasn\u2019t much news coming out of Israel. Continentwide statistics on anti-Semitic incidents leading up to the most recent uptick\u00a0don\u2019t show much of an overall trend<\/a>\u2014in Britain<\/a>, anti-Semitic violence is becoming less common while online abuse is becoming more frequent\u2014or a correlation with events in Israel and Palestine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"antisemitism\"<\/a>The perpetrators of the two incidents in question? 29 year old Mehdi Nemmouche<\/a> and 24 year old Mohammed Merah<\/a>. That’s what I call chutzpah<\/i>. Or, the author of the piece is flying under the radar of the implicit red-lines of what is permissible in Slate<\/i> by inserting those links which actually support the idea that anti-Semitism is a problem of disaffected young Muslim men. Mind you, I grant that anti-Semitism has broad, but shallow, roots across much of Europe. The key is whether mild antipathy flips into politicized violence. Because of the Arab-Israeli conflict people of a Muslim background often have casually anti-Semitic views above and beyond what you might expect. Some individuals take the political dimensions very seriously, and the drum beat of vociferous coverage of the actions of the Israeli state bleeds into perceptions about Jews as a whole.*<\/p>\n

Though the American media seems to be taking an antiseptic attidue toward the demographic composition of anti-Israeli rallies which have become anti-Semitic in a cartoonish sense, they haven’t censored the photographs. It’s rather obvious that young men of Middle Eastern heritage are prominent at these rallies. They aren’t a representative slice of the populations of France and Germany, to name two countries.<\/p>\n

* To be even-handed, some Jews elide and erase the distinction between being Jewish and being Israeli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Slate,\u00a0Europe Has a Serious Anti-Semitism Problem, and It\u2019s Not All About Israel: A\u00a0recent Anti-Defamation League survey\u00a0found that 24 percent of the French population and 21 percent of the German population harbor some anti-Semitic attitudes. A recent study of anti-Semitic … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711],"tags":[220,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9344,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions\/9344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}