Dec. 13, 2018 - Brother Nathanael
04:20
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| Jews are being murdered in Paris again. | |
| That's a recent New York Times headline in its widely read op-ed section. | |
| Yet, in spite of the article's title, no other recent killings of Jews in Paris are cited that would indicate an epidemic of anti-Semitic killings. | |
| Toss out the inflated Holocaust rant, then the crime downsizes to an ordinary robbery-murder by a pair of thugs. | |
| The victim, a woman, wasn't killed because she was a Jew, but because she was known as a neighbor by one of the killers and thought to have money. | |
| Also, contrary to the headline, the victim was not, strictly speaking, a Holocaust survivor. | |
| She was never in one of the work camps. | |
| But instead, the designation applies to her husband, a survivor of Auschwitz. | |
| That's a new kind of selective service that expands the ever-snowbowing survivors list because, quite frankly, they're losing survivors. | |
| But the Shoah business must go on. | |
| Then, casting the robbery-turned-homicide as motivated by the same hatred that drove Hitler, one is hard-pressed to find a Hitler-on-demand angle. | |
| For as it surfaced later, one of the slayers told the other, she's a Jew, she must have money. | |
| Thus, all of the known circumstances point to a crime of opportunity and not an anti-Jewish hate crime. | |
| Adding insult to injury to our rational faculties, it's Bibsey's turn to cry. | |
| Prime Minister Netanyahu, thank you for sitting down with us. | |
| Anti-Semitism in Europe is nothing new, but the results of our survey are still quite striking. | |
| More than a quarter of Europeans believe that Jews have too much influence in politics and finance. | |
| 20% believe that anti-Semitism is a response to the everyday actions of Jews. | |
| You travel to Europe often, you meet the leaders there. | |
| Are you surprised? Well, let's distinguish between two things. | |
| First, the sources of anti-Semitism. | |
| There's old anti-Semitism in Europe that came from the extreme right, and that's still around. | |
| But there's also new anti-Semitism that comes from the extreme left. | |
| Bibsy serves up a combo platter. | |
| And lo and behold, mortal enemies, opposite fringes on the right and left, agree on one thing, hatred of Jews. | |
| Bravo, Bibsy! | |
| Only you could have pulled that one off. | |
| It's easy to sit here and make statements and say never again every Holocaust Memorial Day, but that's not going to end this. | |
| Do you see the concrete actions that need to happen here on the part of European countries? | |
| The real issue is can we tolerate the idea that people say that Israel doesn't have a right to exist, which I think is the ultimate anti-Semitic statement, you know? | |
| The majority of the Jewish people are very soon going to be living in Israel. | |
| There are over six million Jews now living in Israel. | |
| So the new anti-Semite say this, well, we're not against Jews, we're just against the state of Israel. | |
| That's like, I would say, well, I'm not against French people, I just don't think there should be France. | |
| Wrong number. | |
| Very few say they're against Israel because it's made up of Jews, as Bibsey equates with saying you're against France because it's made up of Frenchmen. | |
| It's a false equivalency. | |
| The consensual critique of Israel is instead condemning its conduct toward Palestinians. | |
| Namely, stealing their homes, shooting peaceful protesters, murdering civilians under military occupation, and lobbing phosphorus bombs on Gazan neighborhoods. | |
| Where's the hate? | |
| In gay Paris or in cheerless Palestine? | |
| Yet the murder of a Holocaust survivor was worked up into a shrill, and Treblinka New York Times op-ed aimed at all those anti-Semites on the right, the left, the center, I mean everywhere, ready to bounce at a moment's notice. | |
| It seems, pardon my French, that Holocaust fatigue is on the upswing. |
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