groundbreaking study indeed.

National Socialists to be precise.

on self-hating Jewish Israeli anti-Semites?

but they hate jews, anyone see the irony of the maximus stupiditus that delt here, I do.

The Leftists approve Jews when they are dead but not when they are alive. Using shoah as the hobby horse has been the favourite tactics of the Left to show the basic depravity of the Western culture, but at the same time the Leftists are quite eager to compare the actions of Israel to that of the Nazi Germany and overlook much worse atrocities and human rights violations in the Islamic countries.

The western ones aren't this damned stupid. I blame the soviet education system.

ones are equally bad...

If you read the current Ynet headlines in the opinion section you can get the impression that Israel's most dangerous enemies are in the West: European politics: Wilders, Israel and the Jews German politics: Passionate about Jew-hate Pollard protest: Don’t boycott America What's going on there?

The minority left party in Germany passes a pro-Israel resolution and a minority in this minority party has problems with it. The result is a headline on the Ynet front page that says: German politics: Passionate about Jew-hate Wow!

It's scary to see how such a skewed article can make its way into an Israeli newspaper and mislead the Israeli public to believe that anti-Semitism is widespread in the European left. I agree with Berlonski (post 11&12) that there’s a pattern in this, which makes it highly precarious. This isn’t the first article to try and portray the European left as anti-Semitic by consciously blurring the difference criticism of Israel with the hatred of Jews. Most of the article actually deals with activities by members of “Die Linke” that criticize Israel for its policies. Wolfgang Gehrcke’s participation in rallies condemning Israel’s massive bombardment of Lebanon and Gaza are maliciously called “demonstrations in support of the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah”. And since when is it anti-Semitism when somebody supports the right of the Palestinians to also use violent means to defend themselves, a right that Israeli politicians claim on a daily basis? The only claim in the article that deals with an allegedly anti-Jewish action of Erika Zemaitis by voting “against funds to build a new Synagogue in the city of Herford” completely distorted. Erika Zemaitis voted against an additional pledge of 40’000 Euro to cover for costs (due to a miscalculation by those responsible for the project) for the Synagogue for which the city had already spent 205’000 Euro. She justified her vote by saying that the city shouldn’t have to pay for the mistakes of others in a time of austerity where social spending cuts were imposed on the whole city. The only one rightly accused in the article for an anti-Semitic statement was a member of the governing center-right party CDU and he was rightfully dismissed by Chancellor Angela Merkel. That leaves us with zero evidence in the article that “Die Linke” has anything to do with anti-Semitism. What the article rather shows is that the majority of “Die Linke” bowed to the pressure of a massive smear-campaign directed at them from pro-Israeli groups and individuals by voting for that resolution. Rather than supporting anti-Semitism, the members who actually voted against the resolution protested against this relentless campaign (of which this article is part of) of equating criticism of Israel’s policies with anti-Semitism. And rightly so!