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Jew-haters welcome in EU
Manfred Gerstenfeld
Published: 15.11.11, 19:29
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31. To: No. 28
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (11.16.11)
Why? What have the goyim ever done for the Jews? Besides slaughter them, that is. Does Israel owe them greater consideration? Go ahead; write your article. How long must Jews endure until enough becomes too much? Please address that in your article. Don't forget to include the Fogel family, five of whose throats were slit while they slept, including three children -- one of them a three month old infant. Can't WAIT to read your "article." Also looking forward to reading your take on "anti-goy" attitude. Especially your explanation as to just why it is happening ....
32. I have to say ....
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (11.16.11)
.... what a great thing it is that Israel is a nuclear power. Does Europe think we haven't forgotten the millenia of persecution? Oh, no, no, no. We haven't forgotten. Europe is a target; a richly deserving one. The Europeans would do well to keep that in mind as they bend and spread for the Moslem and Arab interlopers. We have NOT forgotten. We never will.
33. To: No. 10
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (11.16.11)
Well, my IQ is a little over 190. That puts me (forgive my hubris) in the super-genius range. You were saying? What was your point, anyway? Do you dare to suggest that I do not recognize a threat to civilization when I see one? Do you think that Arabs and Moslems present anything less .... along with their European collaborators?
34. Arab Haters Welcome in Israel
Trevor ,   Ottawa, Canada   (11.16.11)
Anybody see what I'm getting at here?
35. To: No. 34
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (11.16.11)
No. You're a little light on substance. Care to provide some?
36. to #14 chess in the park? sheesh old man
ghostq   (11.16.11)
37. to #28 paulln, anti forign on the rise every where
ghostq   (11.16.11)
now days, what happened in Israel exist in other countries, in Hungary is most obvious, but other countries around the world now days become more self conscious.
38. Antisemitism 2.
Istvan ,   BUDAPEST HUNGARY   (11.16.11)
Antisemitism is a world wiew : 1. For all problems of the world the jews are responsible, they cause everything from economic crisis to the spreading of AIDS.2. Therefore if all jews will be exterminated, the world will flourish without them. The main problems is that the antisemites have an effective mean to spread these false and crazy wiews : the internet.If the nazi websites are eliminated, antisemites would be unable to poison and brainwash normal peoples
39. Just like the ignition-flame in a gas water-heater,
tom ,   tel aviv   (11.16.11)
the flame of antisemitism is always on in the oh-so-cultured and not so cultured Europe. Like alcoholism, it can be kept in check, but never really cured......
40. MR. M. GERSTENFELD
sjoerd ruurd vdv ,   multiverse   (11.16.11)
MR. M. GERSTENFELD COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER SOMETHING WRITTEN ABOUT A CERTAIN SITUATION IN ''ISRAEL'' ITSSELF IN THAT CASE.
41. #1 ,...
split ,   US   (11.16.11)
Got your daily dosage of some anti, feel better ? ,...
42. the U.S. is far worse than Europe
former expat ,   Israel   (11.16.11)
hate is rampant Stateside. there may be civil discourse but there are no laws, as there are in Europe, to stymie hate speech and calls to action against the foreign Jewish element.
43. horrible
emptyfull ,   usa   (11.17.11)
It's even worse than you might think. Go read the article about the new Greek transportation minister at nakedcapitalism. com. Pictures of him carrying an axe around his law-school included! I'm often a critic of Israeli's borderline paranoia about anti-semitism (no, criticizing Israeli government actions does not equal anti-semitism). But this guy should send chills down everyone's back. He's the real-thing.
44. leave europe now
Ari Ben Canaan   (11.17.11)
If the State of Israel didn't exist today, there would be another Auschwitz brewing in Europe right now, no doubt. Calling all European Jews: either emigrate to America or return to the homeland. If there is one thing centuries of pogroms, inquisitions and holocausts have taught us, it is that we have never, and will never be welcome in that slime called Europe. We have different faith and different blood. Any Jew who thinks he is truly "German" or "French" or "Polish" knows nothing of his suffrage and is only fooling himself. Leave now. Come home to your people.
45. Not "Jew haters" but haters of zionism..
Avi ,   London, England   (11.17.11)
I've encountered many of these so called "jew haters" and when I ask them about it they say they dont hate jews but hate zionism. I have even encountered Jews against Zionism ....
46. Sarah B
jonathan ,   MN/US   (11.17.11)
190 IQ huh? coulda fooled me. cause 90% of your comments sound like the guy in the song we burn by sabaton
47. to #45 so according to them jews shouldn't have
ghostq   (11.17.11)
their own country, pffff that is y they still live in the UK, they r highly influhenced from the UK media, when you r going to ask them what is zionism, they will not give you any answer cause they got no idea, you see Avi after 2 rasict British bishops who denayed the Holocaust it is kinda obvious that the Brits themselves will be "not nice" to jews in the UK, after all the UK is the first nation who had race laws.
48. Oh, my goodness ...
berlonski ,   berlin   (11.17.11)
... if all you talkbackers are really convinced that Europe is an Arab dominated hell for Jews, being in total decline - then stop just spreading hate and disgust. Get real and push your government to downgrade the ties with European countries and add us on the list of your enemies. Makes things clear. If you really want that - do it, don't just scream and complain all the time. But let me assure you: I am convinced that the majority of Europeans are happy with the close ties with Israel. I am also happy with it, I love your country, where I met great people, I lived there. But if you are attacked again and again for the big problem of anti-semitism in your countries while in reality here the people who actually get killed by rightist nut-heads are mainly Muslims, you start thinking: Oh come on, please leave me alone, mind your own business. And please leave the Jews in Europe alone who can decide by themselves where they prefer to live.
49. Get over it !
Gregg ,   Haifa, IL   (11.17.11)
50. The TWISTED Christians who Hate Jews
Linda Rivera ,   New York, USA   (11.17.11)
In hating Jews, they hate Jesus because Jesus was a JEW. Jesus kept Saturday Sabbath, Passover, and all of the holy days. Jesus taught from the Jewish Scriptures (Old Testament) in synagogues and in the Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. When the Jew haters got control of the church, they got rid of all of the JEWISH things that Jesus the Jew did. If Jesus had been born in our time period, from the time his mother carried Jesus in her womb, Jesus, his mother and family would be targeted for MURDER by the Islamics for being JEWS living in their JEWISH homeland. In the filthy Islamic invasion of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, Judea, Israel, Muslims TORE UP BIBLES FOR TOILET PAPER. Where are the protests from these so-called Christians? Disgusting hypocrites.
51. These are mutually supporting
John ,   Alaska   (11.17.11)
Anti-Semitism has led to Europe bearing the curse that is the guaranteed result thereof. Curses such as a poor economy has led Europe not to repent but to further demonize the Jews. Things will get worse until the curses take on more obviously Biblical proportions. If you are European, please know that God does not want you to keep cursing yourself by cursing the Jews. His plan is always to give you the choice between life and death, blessing and cursing, and to tell you to choose life, for your sake and for your kids. If you bless the Jews, God Himself will bless you. It's a lot better than what you've brought on yourselves up to now.
52. To #28 Paul in Jaffa
John ,   Alaska   (11.17.11)
Is it possible that you have met one or more people with whom you have had conflict, but that this is not normative for Israel? Before you paint people with a broad brush, research the issue. Look for Jewish people or groups in Israel who foster positive relations between themselves and their Gentile guests. You may be pleasantly surprised. :)
53. To #50 Linda
John ,   Alaska   (11.17.11)
I don't hate Jews. Quite the opposite, in fact Had I been following the Christian faith in 2002, I would have spoken against the atrocity in the city of David, which is called Bethlehem. Had it happened 7 years earlier than it did, I would have preached against it. So perhaps you can say you know one Christian is not twisted and awful. And I'm a pretty sucky Christian - there's lots more faithful ones than I am who do more helpful things for Jews than just bother folks online. :p I hope this is helpful. There's so much pain and awfulness and I have no idea how to fix it. I just know it needs to be fixed. Perhaps the solution is as easy as a new name. That at least says we are not them. The other solution is just go away, but I know that is just my not-balanced chemicals putting in their .02 In any event there is a solution, I just have not yet discovered it.
54. Are all Israelis so paronoid?
Rob ,   Dublin Ireland   (11.17.11)
I've read some of the replies here and I can't believe how misinformed you guys are about what Europeans think. Let me outline some truths: 1. We in Europe have more things to worry about than what goes on in Israel. I think you guys are over-estimating the impact you have on our everyday living and mindset. 2. To equate the 'so-called' demise of Europe to increasing Anti-Israeli sentiment is madness. Israel is 'to put it bluntly' insignificant. We have the bankers to blame for our demise. The last is just a question. If someone is against Israeli policy does that make them automatically Anti-Jewish. My own opinion is that you guys are so insular that you have no clue what's going on in Europe. The hysteria with which you take criticism is quite frankly frightening. I suggest you travel to Europe and then you will realise that people have bigger things to worry about.
55. Joe from Canada
AK   (11.17.11)
Muslim antisemitism does not originate from Israeli/Palestinian conflict, but the other way around. Muslim antisemitism has its origin in Muslim religion and its teachings, just like Europen antisemitism comes from Christian teachings, both Roman and Greek Church. Mohamad's murder and destruction of the Jewish tribes of Medina is memorized in Koran and has been the model for the Muslim/Jewish relations. The 'golden age' in Spain was brief, years of mistreatment, humiliation, murder and subjugations lasted hundreds of years.
56. Rob, if Israel is insignificant, why are you guys obsessing
AK   (11.18.11)
about it? BTW, we know exactly what is going on in Europe; has it not occurred to you that many of us have European roots? We had lived next door to ytou guys in various countries, we speak your languages, we read your newspapers and we remeber you well. Besides, the article relates studies that relate what you think of us, not what we think of you. If 60% of Poles states that dislike Jews, how do you explain it? BTW, what was the %% of Irish disliking Jews? Here in the US the % of Irish expressing bigoted views has been always higher than average.
57. #54: Ireland the most "antisemitic" country in Europe
Sami ,   New York, USA   (11.18.11)
#54: Ireland the most "antisemitic" country in Europe. Worry more about your bankrupt country than about Jews.
58. @57: Did you read my post?
Rob ,   Dublin   (11.18.11)
My point exactly. We have worries far beyond what Israel thinks about us. Thanks for confirming my thoughts. BTW America isn't too far behind us in the bankrupt stakes so I wouldn't be tooting my horn on that one. If it wasn't for China proping up your country you'd be in the same boat as us. I wish we could just print money like you guys did to get us out of this mess.
59. to no. 42 you got that right
kitty   (11.23.11)
the native americans died to the tune of some 20-40 million from 1700-1850 at the hands of the newcomers for their land and booty. and for country ranches western expansion for which we were never sorry for nor made any reparations for either, and tomorrow is supposed to be thanksgiving day i for one boycott this day.
60. LAOS Party
Chris Kontos ,   Melbourne   (11.25.11)
These guys are fascists, and ideologically mixed up. They use the name "orthodox" in their title, but have no religious support. Most Greeks think they are lost cause. These guys have commented that Greeks descented from UFOs!!!! Crazy.
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