"Toetet die Juden" ("Kill the Jews")
Hat tip to Frontpage Magazine
- Frontpage Magazine has posted a German news video showing two anti-Israel demonstrations that took place in January 2009 during the fighting in Gaza. The commentary is in German, and the anti-Israel/Jewish chants are sub-titled. Among the chants are, "Jews out of Palestine", "Kill the Jews", and "Jews, Jews, cowardly pigs". Keep this video in mind the next time someone tells you there is no anti-Semitic element to the pro-Palestinian movement in Europe and the US.
The first protest shown (featuring the ugly chants) is in Berlin. In the second protest the same day in Duisburg, you can see police removing Israeli flags from apartment windows above the street where the protesters are marching. The female commentator ends her Berlin narrative with, "Berlin in the year 2009." She closes the report with, "Scenes in Germany." She is making an understated, yet powerful point.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/01/05/nazism-returns-to-germany/#idc-container
Yes, the protests occured three years ago, but they are still timely. What this shows is the cowardice of, not just Germans, but Europeans in general, in allowing this hatred against Jews to manifest itself so openly-but especially in Germany. Were this only coming from the mouths of Europeans (where free speech is more limited than in the US), they would have dealt with it. But when it is being stoked and led by Muslim immigrants, which can be plainly seen, they stand back. Indeed, they acted not against the protesters (Eleven people were, in fact, arrested), but against people who chose to hang Israeli flags from their windows.
Julius Streicher would have been proud. The only thing missing was the brown shirts.
There is an anti-Semitic ELEMENT in all kinds of things, just as their is an anti-black ELEMENT among the Tea Party.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it you protest so vociferously that the common bonds among Tea Party people is not racism, but eagerly play up (in the style of MSNBC) that there is an anti-Semitic ELEMENT in Anti-Israel protests?
What's bad for the gander is bad for the goose.
Siarlys,
ReplyDeleteBecause the tea partiers don't shout "death to blacks", "blacks out of the USA" or "blacks are cowardly pigs" as did those folks in Germany. How's that for an answer?
Ah, but the beer!!
ReplyDeleteOkay, one thing, but it's not like they invented it.
ReplyDeleteBut they make the best.
ReplyDeleteLet me say this seriously. I have a long association with Germany going back to the 1960s when I was stationed there in the US Army. I go back every couple of years. I believe Germany has changed greatly since the end of WW 2, and the country acknowledges its past just as we do with slavery and segregation. I myself have detected a change since the 1960s. Are there still neo-nazi skinhead types there? sure. That is not the majority. The problem in Germany is similar to the problem in other European countries. They are inundated with Middle Eastern (and Turkish) immigrants, many of whom are not adding anything positive to the adopted countries. They are manifesting their deep-seated hatred toward Israel and Jews in Europe and the European political leadership is afraid to stop them. In short, they are tolerating intolerance. In addition, the troublemakers have linked up with the European left-just as in the US and Canada
I just read an article about Belgium being the real power in beer these days. Obviously good beer doesn't make for good politics in any case.
ReplyDeleteGary: None of them? Never ever? We are talking about "elements" here, not statements from duly constituted leadership (which the Tea Party doesnt' have in the first place).
In Europe the first instances of anti-Semitism occurred during the Middle Ages. For centuries Jews were subjected to discriminatory laws and pogroms. It was Martin Luther who lead the anti-Semitism in Germany and it was only until the late 18th Century that the veneer of civilization cloaked the nation. But the old hatred lay under the veneer. How could it not be there? There was no adult German who did not know about the camps and what was happening there. They approved of it. It was the old hatred rising its head.
ReplyDeleteWhile you might once again believe that Germany has learned from the past, the opposite is true. The old hatred is rising its head again and once again the German people are rejoicing in it.
History repeats itself, especially with Germans.