The Israelization of anti-Semitism
Angela Merkel is the stand-up lady of Europe. The German chancellor is forthright in calling anti-Semites to account. She spoke this week to a rally of 6,000 Germans at the Brandenburg Gate, denouncing the documented increase of anti-Semitism in their country. The evils of the Nazi regime, which killed an estimated 6 million Jews in Europe 70 years ago, are marked everywhere, with bronze plaques on sidewalks where Jews were taken from their homes and dispatched to death camps, to the five acres dedicated to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews in the very center of Berlin.
Yet, as the chancellor observes, there’s currently a sharp increase in anti-Semitic attacks and incidents in Europe, so that “not a single Jewish institution in the country can go without police protection today.”… Seguir leyendo »