The Anti-Defamation League said Tuesday that a survey it commissioned found nearly a third of Europeans polled blame Jews for the global economic meltdown and that a greater number think Jews have too much power in the business world.What has changed in the last years to bring about such a change of opinion? Up until 20 years ago, very few Europeans would even think such things, let alone speak them out loud. But 20 years ago European nations began to allow massive migration from Muslim nations, and all of a sudden public opinion changes. Jews are evil, Israel is the worse nation on the planet, etc... You get the idea.
The organization, which says its aim is "to stop the defamation of Jewish people and secure justice and fair treatment to all," says the seven-nation survey confirms that anti-Semitism remains strong.
The poll included interviews with 3,500 people - 500 each in Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Spain.
It says that in Spain, 74 percent of those asked say they feel it is "probably true" that Jews hold too much sway over the global financial markets. That is the highest percentage in the survey.
Nearly two-thirds of Spanish respondents said Jews were more loyal to Israel than they were to their home countries.
"This poll confirms that anti-Semitism remains alive and well in the minds of many Europeans," said Abraham H. Foxman, the ADL's national director in America. "Clearly, age old anti-Semitic stereotypes die hard."
Foxman said the study's findings were "particularly worrisome" in light of the anger spawned by the global economic meltdown, and following a number of violent acts against Jews or Jewish property after Israel's military action in the Gaza Strip.
Around Europe, several attacks have been reported against Jews and synagogues in France, Sweden and Britain since the Israeli offensive began in late December. Some Gaza protests in Europe have included the use of Nazi imagery, including signs and slogans comparing Israeli soldiers to German troops, the Gaza Strip to the Auschwitz death camp and the Jewish Star of David to the Nazi swastika.
Britain consistently registered the lowest levels of anti-Jewish sentiment, and numbers there have fallen from a similar survey conducted in 2007. Austria also registered a slight drop in the level of anti-Semitism, while in other countries anti-Semitic sentiment either remained the same or deepened, the survey indicated.
Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, who saw the survey before it was published, said he has not seen any rise in anti-Semitism in Poland since the global financial crisis has unfolded. He said an unacceptable level of anti-Jewish sentiment still exists in Poland, but that it is no worse than in other European countries.
The survey showed Polish responses registered a slight rise in all but one area. On the question whether it was "probably true" Jews have too much power in international financial markets, the level was unchanged from 2007.
The survey, conducted by First International Resources Dec. 1, 2008 through Jan. 13, 2009, included interviews with 3,500 people - 500 each in Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Spain. The margin of error for each country was plus or minus 4 percent.
In total, about 40 percent of those questioned said Jews have too much power in the business world, including more than half of Hungarian, Spanish and Polish respondents. And 44 percent said they believe it is "probably true" that Jews still talk too much about the Holocaust.
This has gotten to the point that in Sweden it is illegal to criticize a Muslim for anything. And over the weekend it seems the Religion of Peace fired rockets and pipebombs at an pro-Israel rally.
This time the police was in better shape to handle the arabic mob that once again attacked our peacful pro-israeli demonstration in Malmö.
The police had sealed off the entire square, Stortorget, which I found odd, see below for my comments on that.
We were about 400-500 persons that showed up to show our support to Israel and its struggle against terrorism and arabic hate.
The arabs, that numbered about 100, where shouting “allah ahkbar” as they normally do and showed their hate towards Israel and the Jews with different slogans. It didnt take long until they started attacking us, this time with homemade pipebombs and fireworks. The home made bombs were pretty powerful, as I stood not to far away when one of them exploded. According to what I heard, the police managed to arrest the ones that threw the bombs. However, they did not disperse the arab crowd which they should have done according to me. In total there were two pipebombs, two rockets and some glass bottles.
The bombs didnt reach into our crowd since the distance between us was larger than last time, but the rockets exploded over the heads of the peaceful pro-israel demonstration.
According to the commander of the police operation, the organizers of the manifestation wanted to seal the square off for security reasons. I, however, think that the point of the manifestation was lost whem no “outsiders” could see or hear what we had to say. When you show support for something in public, you do that for a reason - for others to see and hear. This was not possible due to that the area was completely sealed of and the only ones that could hear us were the police and the hateful arab mob. The point of a public manifestation was lost in my opinion.
In any case, the manifestation could be completed due to a large police force were there to deal with the violent arabs.
The largest newspaper in the south, Sydsvenskan, did what the usually do and distort and bend the truth. The article title was “Several arrested during Israel manifestation”. Thats pretty odd. The only ones arrested was the arabs, so the titel should have been “Counterdemonstrators arrested during Israel manifestation” or something like that. They continue and write that: The expected violence did not occur.
Was the reporters from Sydsvenskan not there when two rockets exploded and two bombs? If that’s not violence, what is?
The paper also first reported that the pro-israelis numbered at 200 and the arabs about 400, which is a lie. They than later changed those number to 400 pro-israelis and 200-300 pro-arabs.
Here is the video of the attack:
Notice it took the Swedish police quite a bit of time to stop the attacks. This was the 2nd time rockets and bombs were thrown at a pro-Israel rally and caught on tape.
These attacks will not stop until the government of Sweden cracks down on those who perpetrate the violence and not those who peacefully protest. But I don't see that happening any time soon.
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