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Long trail of anti-Semitism in Europe, ministers say
Ronny Sofer
Published: 03.06.07, 11:39
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31. Brits are experts back stabbers,
Mikle White ,   Canada   (06.03.07)
who soak antisemitism from their first glass of milk. They will fail as Israel don't count on they support but brits will have to answer to the Americans and that will bring them in line sooner or later. What was hidden below the surface for a long time, comes out it the open.
32. Our good friends the EU
Gideon Reader ,   USA   (06.03.07)
WHAT? Are you serious? Are you telling me;....you want me to believe that Europe is "full of anti-Semitism? Well I for one find that hard to believe. Please donate: I need to have my sarcasm generator repaired. It is stuck on full speed.
33. To # 25 Chris
charles ,   petach tikva , Israe   (06.03.07)
What have separation of church and state to do with this problem ? Can you explain ?
34. M. Hartley , you # 26
charles ,   petach tikva   (06.03.07)
You are generally very funny , this time you are also GREAT !
35. To: The Doc #19. Your misinformed
Brian ,   Britain   (06.03.07)
You are very mistaken. If you lived in Britain you would observe that the British media is deeply anti-Islamic. Jews are not the only victims in Britain, Mosques too are burned and vandalised in the UK. The Muslim minority is no threat to British values. There is no Islamic invasion and there being one is impossible, the idea ludicris and paranoid. We have no Far-Left institutions, Thatcher destoryed them all, and Blair maintains her work. My country has only lost its respect through towing the line of the US government and the only threat to British values are the right wing values that are promoted by the BBC (which is getting more right wing everyday). If you want to make a difference demand more from your media, I'm doing exactly the same here. Please try to realise your governments agenda and how it will influence your media. I know my government and the media is rotten to the core. Please evaluate yours as you have clearly been misinformed and mislead. See the propaganda in this article. Notice that it has not mentioned the reasons why the UCU boycotted Israel, it has just cried anti-semitism. Look for the real answers yourself. Think freely.
36. EU is already filled!, No space there for a tiny ME state?
observer   (06.03.07)
37. #35 u r amazing. I tottaly agree with u!!!
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38. As long as the Brit Acads. are doing their boycotting...
look in the mirror ,   USA   (06.03.07)
they should take a stance against their own gov't's agenda in Iraq and boycott themselves.
39. SAVE THE EARTH! BOYCOTT BRITISH "CUISINE" AND UGLY HATS
(06.03.07)
40. Greece should boycott Britain until it returns the Parthenon
British Thieves ,   USA   (06.03.07)
and all the other national treasures it stole and looted during the British Imperial reign of Queen Victoria.
41. British anti-semitism limited to academic circles
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42. To Brian: I've worked in UK long enough, thank you!
The Doc ,   Haifa, Israel   (06.03.07)
LOL on the twisted logic you're posting here... give us more credit Brian. BBC "promoting Right"; c'mon, we are a bit smarter than THAT! How do you expect anybody here to take seriously antyhing you say from now on? As for the UCU's - and MANY OTHER UK "unions" - reasons for the call to bycott we know all too well. We read OTHER newspapers too you know. Besides, The Independent and The Guardian (which supposedly are Far Right newspapers too, eh?) explained quite amply what the Socialists and far-Leftists think about anything Israel does - short of total capitualtion to Islam, British-style. So Brian, don't regale us with the theories why things happen in UK the way the are. Facts tell a different - sad - story: UK has lost to its Leftist Fifth Column which has always been there from teh days of the Soviets, and the Left has been selling it to the Muslims, without a shot being fired. What a pityful demise of a great empire. But of course, nobody hates the British people per se - only the UK Unions and what they've been doing. Sounds familiar?
43. to #26: I salute your good ol' Southern Humor :-)
The Doc ,   Haifa, Israel   (06.03.07)
44. Britain has no choice in this anymore.
USA   (06.03.07)
Don' think of Britain as Great Britain that it used to be anymore. It's become "internationalized" meaning it's lost or losing it's national identity to influx of Arab and muslim peoples. If they don't placate to their Arab and Muslim populations which translated into extreme anti Zionism acts, their country would be severely desrupted to say the least and go up in flames to say the most at the hands of their own loyal muslim peoples.
45. to #41: British anti-semitism "limited"??? HA!
The Doc ,   Haifa, Israel   (06.03.07)
Let's see where the British anti-Semitism is limited at: - Academic circles - Journalists - Architects - Medical circles - Socialist unions and yes, some British politicians with links to the old Saddam regime and some still driking petro-dollars at Saudi and Iranian breasts. Have I forgotten anybody on the list? We have been so blinded by the anti-Semitism in France that we ignored the more rampant and virulent Muslim and Left-led anti-Semitism in Britain. Now it has raised its ugly head and everybody is shocked. With so many Muslims there, an impotent government and suicidally politically-correct electorate it was only a matter of time. Let's hope that British Museum will not become a big Museum of Islamic Achievements (full with pictures of and monuments for suicide murderers) and the Big Ben won't fly a green, half-moon flag of Islam as the British Muslims promised.
46. To #43
M. Hartley ,   Atlanta, US   (06.03.07)
Your comment may just have insulted everybody south of the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Pecos river. I am, actually, a Kraut "import," and that, in some people's eyes, of questionable heritage, to boot. But I start to laugh first thing in the morning, when I see myself in the mirror, and it, usually, goes downhill from there. :-)
47. #35, what crazy place do you get your "facts" from?
Danny   (06.03.07)
Firstly, UCU has NOT, repeat NOT, boycotted Israel. What happened is a miniscule minority - less that .1% of the membership - managed to tag on a resolution asking for the broader membership to be polled on their views on "taking in account" their Israeli counterparts views on the "occupation". The fact your newspapers are too lazy to do anything other than parrot the PR releases by the anti-Israeli lobby in the UK, doesn't make it a "boycott". Secondly, "No far left"? Respect ring a bell? RMT? You have Michael Meecher **MP** who thinks 9/11 is a conspiracy as a PM candidate. As for BBC being "far right", maybe I can see how you could consider George Galloway to NOT be far left... I would like to believe it was anti-semiticism which motivated these people to agitate against Israel. To quote the Big Lebowski dissing the Nihilists - "we believe in nothing" - "Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least they had an ethos". Same with these guys, they simply want to be accepted into their little circle, pretend they are "fighting the good fight" and it gives them an inflated sense of importance not related to their inferior intellects. I mean really who collaborates with Sue Blackwell - a woman so stupid, she STILL hasn't managed to get her Phd, despite STILL claiming on her website she plans to finish it in 2003(don't think she is going make it, do you?). Or John Rose who think assimilation is a solution for Jews - worked well in Germany, France, Austria, Iraq, Syria etc. Or Jacqueline Rose who quotes a speech made by Jabotinsky in 1947(sic, he died in 1940) in her book on Zionism? These are the people trying to boycott Israel, I think Israel will probably survive this cutting off of intellectual might but it would help if they forced all the papers which mindlessly printed the nonsense of the "boycott" to prominently withdraw the articles and make it clear they were false based on lying press releases.
48. jewish defense league
rj ,   england   (06.03.07)
perhaps its time for the JDL to become more pro-active again around the world to add some pressure on the anti-semetics...
49. To #20, Brian-You are right and wrong
Andi ,   Israel   (06.03.07)
The vote is not anti-semitic, and it annoys me that Israel's supporters keep claiming antisemitism as it is a lazy cop out without making the effort to analyse the problem, and gives the antizionists a reason to stop listening . The UCU voted for a boycott because they oppose the occupation. What they don't realise because the British press doesn't tell them this, or they are just blood minded antizionists, is that most Israelis and the present government also oppose the occupation. The issue is how to end it.
50. #3 Lilling Jews is OK / Antisemitic
semsem ,   New York, USA   (06.03.07)
#3 NZ: So mudering Jews is OK; I count you in the antisemite group as you request. Israel offered Peace and Arafat turned it down. Hamas does not recognise Israel, nor past signed Agreements.
51. Ex Israeli leading Architect Boycott
Laila ,   Montreal, Canada   (06.03.07)
An ex Israeli architect living in Britain is leading the Israeli boycott by the Architect Union. These traitors are worse than antisemites.
52. Brian #20 Blind
Liliane ,   Brighton, UK   (06.03.07)
#20 Brian: I am a British Jewess and I can assure you that generally the British are antisemitic. Just because we are not being gassed does not mean antisemitism does not exist. But like all antisemites they deny it. The Moslems have a tremendous influence in Britain especially in the Universities.
53. Swiss Synagogue Burning
Albert ,   Geneva, Switzerland   (06.03.07)
Our synagogue in Geneva was attacked last week. When it happens to you, directly you wake up and realise what is going on.
54. French are Angels compared to Britain
Fortunee ,   Boston, USA   (06.03.07)
The French compared to the British are "angels."
55. To $3 - LOL again, this time on me :-)
The Doc ,   Haifa, Israel   (06.03.07)
56. back in vogue
AY_Lamb ,   USA   (06.03.07)
In the states this "phenomenon" is reemerging as well. Pontius Petraeus, G_d Head Walker Bush and the rest of the Dominionist Evangelical elitist feign interest and empathy for the Yehudim and the Medinat Yisrael but, frankly they can't see beyond their own ambition and lust for power and they engender an absolute clarity and resolve in their doctrine of supremacy. To them non-believers have but one fate and they are all to eager to see others redeem that fate. In Primus Americanus the time for a new "moral imperative" is now and a shift or "retrograde" to the paradigm of inclusion, equality and magnanimity needs reinstated; the best chance for this to occur is to support the leading candidates of the Democratic Party in 08. Perhaps their success and the reigns of power returning to competent and caring authorities in the US will have beneficial effects around the world. A philosophy of perpetual war albeit alluring for the acquisition of short term prosperity is ultimately self defeating and the simple but, empirically evidenced axiom of "that which makes us similar exceeds that which makes us different will pervade the body politique. Shalom Shotei Hanevua
57. To: the Doc #42 your still misinformed
Brian ,   Britain   (06.03.07)
I'm sorry Doc but my logic isn't twisted, its based on independant observation and analysis. The BBC does promote the right, not blatently, but very subtely. It sure as hell doesn't promote the left anymore. If you payed arttention you'de see that. You mentioned the Independant and the Guardian which are left leaning, however you forgot to mention The Daily Mail, The Sun and The Mirror. These are the top 3 selling newspapers, and all are inarguably promoters of the right wing. The Daily mail supported the Nazis until the late 40s! If you looked at ALL the facts, not just the ones that promote your paraniod theories, you would see that Islam is no threat to the UK. The left wants peace and is selling nothing to the Muslims. The left is mearly trying its best to stop our corrupt government and their illegal wars and occupations. Sounds familiar? See more that the selected facts, see the bigger picture and scrutinise everything you hear.
58. We need to wake up the American Jews who are obviously
Frank ,   USA   (06.03.07)
sleeping. Britain must suffer consequences for its ugly anti-Semitic deeds.
59. #27 Great! Let us move forward on that.
stan ,   usa   (06.03.07)
That island that pretends to be just and moral but in fact, it is a refuge of hatred and immorality.
60. Brian # 57
charles ,   petach tikva   (06.03.07)
you wrote .....you would see that islam is no threat to the UK . Did the UK , because islam is no threat , do'nt take any safety measures after those bombings ? what did your future prime minister say ? he will adapt the legislation regarding terrorism in order to better fight this "no threat" as you say . So come on , do'nt tell stupidities . [Radical ] Islam is a threat , to every nation . Are those 57 [ or so ] murdered people not a proof ? or do you need thousands ?
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