Anti-Semitism on the Rise in Europe. Scary!

Why is anti-Semitism rising in Europe? Why does hatred toward the Jews exist?

Mein Kempf is a best-seller in Turkey today. Many in Europe still believe the lies perpetrated in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

And as the BBC reported last week, the Swedish newspaper, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, found the state of anti-Semitism rising...

"'Anti-Semitism is alive and well in Europe. Including in Sweden, which likes to see itself as unusually wise and unprejudiced'...The paper is most concerned that 15% of respondents wholly or partially agreed that 'Jews have too much influence in the world today. It is certainly alarming that the old myths of Jewish conspiracies and power over the economy, media and politics live on.'"

Last week a controversy arose over whether former German Chancellor Kohl had made anti-Semitic remarks, agreeing with Iran's President in denying the holocaust. He responded by confirming the story was bogus.

On the other hand, despite demonstrators in Paris protesting anti-Semitism over the killing of a 23-year-old French Jew by a Muslim youth gang last month, Legislator, Dominique Strauss-Kahn said, "Anti-Semitism is rising in our country."

Just this week the Boston Globe reported that in Bagneux, France little sympathy was shown regarding the death of Ilan Halimi, another young Jew, who was held captive, tortured and dumped in a vacant lot to die.

"It's too bad this happened, because we immigrants are always blamed. But Jews have all the money and power. Everyone knows this and resents them. That's why they have these problems," said Ibrahim Ag Ahmalou, a local resident.

This latest incident follows three other attacks on Jews by Arab and African immigrants in a suburb of Paris, and French Jews are concerned that anti-Semitism will increase there.

Why has there been such hatred toward the Jews? Because people believe lies. I even get mail from Americans who believe the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are true, even though there is much documentation to its false claims and source, which we have pointed to many times.

Why does man 'tolerate' anti-Semitism? For the same reason man tolerated slavery here in America, or tolerates slave-labor in China today...prejudice, pride, and a lack of understanding and valuing the inherit worth of all human beings. Whether it stems from 'religious belief' or the evil heart of man, it's wrong. Period.

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