A quick look at news sites shows an Athens holocaust memorial has been defaced, eight French synagogues attacked, shops have been burnt in a section of Paris with a large Jewish community, cars have been attacked. In Netherlands, there was an ISIS March, including chants of death to the Jews. In Germany, someone has been allegedly arrested for incitement, for yelling 'Heil Hitler'. A Dutch Jew had his house firebombed. In January, people were giving the Nazi salute en masse. A Belgian shop banned Jews from entering. French Jews are fleeing while they feel they still can. A Hungarian ambassador has publicly says Jews enslave mankind, and called them servants of Satan. Berlin has people chanting 'Jews, Jews, cowardly pigs!' and people have been heard, at pro Palestine demonstrations, chanting 'Jews to the gas chambers'.
How are people ignoring this?
AIBU?
To be angry there is so little response to anti semitism and the rise of extremism in Europe?
VampireSquid · 31/07/2014 13:11
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The holocaust is the elephant in the room, but it is the reason Israel was born. I'm not afraid to mention it. I don't think I am alone in thinking the Jews after the war moving to Palestine did what was best for them. I think they needed a homeland after their experiences at the hands of the Nazis. They did however invade the land of another people. Even this I don't think was that terrible, it is a big land mass and there is room for both communities. They could have lived harmoniously side by side and the Jews could have brought wealth and stability to an otherwise backwards region.
Where it all went wrong is the war in 1947 when the Israelis grabbed the vast majority of the land and effectively created ghettos of the West Bank and Gaza. These are tiny areas in comparison to the rest of Israel and created resentment and radicalisation of the Palestinian citizens. This resentment has resulted in terrorist attacks provoking wars where they consistently come off worse. This cycle led to the election of Hamas, an organisation as lacking in humanity as the Israeli government. Hamas shows little care for its people. It does launch rockets from civilian areas and I think it is revelling in the world attention and regards casualties as collateral damage. BUT Hamas is a manifestation of the years of oppression.
Hitler rose to power because of harsh treatment of Germany after the First World War by the rest of the world. Oppressive treatment breeds extremism and this is Hamas. The Palestinians had a great leader who formed a truce with the Israeli leader. Both were assassinated. All this bloodshed and oppression left the way open to extremism.
To say the Palestinians should move out if the way as their homes are bombed 
where to? The Red Sea? I don't think it's going to be parting anytime soon to provide a safe haven. And to suggest parents allow their children to be murdered for the sake of honour or Hamas? Give me a break!
To reiterate what spring has said. No one condones AS or violence against anyone. We are just trying to point out there is a logical reason for it arising now in the current climate. It needs to be stamped out where it occurs. I personally have never seen any and apart from Hasidic Jews I wouldn't even know someone was Jewish. I've worked a great doctor for years and only learned he was Jewish when he said he was celebrating Hanukkah. I have a friend in tel aviv. I wonder how common this AS really is to the majority of Jews in the UK?
I know Jews have lived in the Middle East for thousands of years. They have lived in Europe from the time movement of people's into other countries began. They have lived everywhere in the world almost.
The problem began in 1947 with the vast influx following the Second World War. It was wanting to establish a country of their own (entirely understandable) which started the whole mess. Before then they had lived side by side with the Arabs. So yes, in terms of relativity (almost 70 years) it is a new thing.
Onestep. Thanks 
Ok 1948 but the massive migration to Israel started in 1947 not just from Europe but from Arab States. Of course Jews lived in Palestine before then and throughout Europe and were subjected to anti semetism throughout history, but most communities lived peacefully.
AS is just a manifestation of the human condition. Different communities have always fought or resented each other. Always been divided on racial, religious or ethnic grounds. Catholic/Protestants. Muslim/Christian. Sunni/Shia. And so on right back to Homo sapiens and Neanderthals! Civilisation tempers these instincts but can't entirely suppress them, we just have to learn to live with one another.
What triggers these conflicts is the oppression of one community by another. Think Protestant and catholic and the rise of the IRA.
I think this is the root of the current wave of AS and as I've said before it's not fair on anyone, it's just a fact of life, but one that only the Israelis can reverse by giving the Palestinians a state and returning a reasonable proportion of land to them.
Of course that won't happen. 
Can I just point out that there was a 36 percent rise in anti semitism in the UK in the first half of this year. Before the current conflict started.
There you go then, perhaps about economic issues, which I said upthread. All sorts of prejudices increase during difficult economic times.
Perhaps what the current conflict has increased is reporting and threads about anti-semitic attacks to deflect from Israeli actions. 
36% is an apparently huge rise in illegal and outrageous attacks on Jewish people and property.
BUT this figure is 304 in the first 6 months of this year compared to about 120 in the same time last year.
In a population of 63 million......well my meagre maths skills can't work out how infinitesimally small that is.
I and everybody on this thread has said even one AS attack is wrong and should be punished, but you have to accept that this country is amazingly open and welcome to all people and these incidents are rare.
It just goes to show how statistics can be manipulated to suit an argument though
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