Flick 🇬🇧 on Nostr: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/europes-blind-spot-over-anti-semitism/ Yes, ...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/europes-blind-spot-over-anti-semitism/
Yes, it’s sort of anti-Semitism – but it’s of a nicer kind than that instigated by that psychotic little Austrian with the performative moustache. A little more excusable. The politicians say ‘It must never happen again’, and then it happens again the following week
That may be the answer as to why we don’t do anything about it, apart from spout platitudinous drivel, when Jews are attacked on our streets. Drivel about how awful it all is and how we must stand together – but never telling the whole truth, and never making sure it will not happen again even if the politicians always say: ‘It must never happen again.’ It happens again the following week, somewhere in Europe. And it is not a different brand of anti-Semitism, either. It is the tried and trusted old brand, based on lies, stupidity, doublethink and racial hatred. Exactly the same kind that Goebbels et al subscribed to, using exactly the same tropes, the same false allegations, the same inchoate loathing.
If only our TV news programmes and politicians could bring themselves to call it all ‘Far-Right Terrorism’, then something might get done – because we all know that Far-Right Terrorism is the biggest threat to our democracy. But they don’t. Even though it is, of course, far-right terrorism, lower case – the real far-right terrorism which our politicians do not want to think about and indeed lock people up when they complain a little vociferously about it.
https://archive.ph/aZaIi
Yes, it’s sort of anti-Semitism – but it’s of a nicer kind than that instigated by that psychotic little Austrian with the performative moustache. A little more excusable. The politicians say ‘It must never happen again’, and then it happens again the following week
That may be the answer as to why we don’t do anything about it, apart from spout platitudinous drivel, when Jews are attacked on our streets. Drivel about how awful it all is and how we must stand together – but never telling the whole truth, and never making sure it will not happen again even if the politicians always say: ‘It must never happen again.’ It happens again the following week, somewhere in Europe. And it is not a different brand of anti-Semitism, either. It is the tried and trusted old brand, based on lies, stupidity, doublethink and racial hatred. Exactly the same kind that Goebbels et al subscribed to, using exactly the same tropes, the same false allegations, the same inchoate loathing.
If only our TV news programmes and politicians could bring themselves to call it all ‘Far-Right Terrorism’, then something might get done – because we all know that Far-Right Terrorism is the biggest threat to our democracy. But they don’t. Even though it is, of course, far-right terrorism, lower case – the real far-right terrorism which our politicians do not want to think about and indeed lock people up when they complain a little vociferously about it.
https://archive.ph/aZaIi