The arrivals of large numbers of migrants with pre-existing prejudices against Jews has been credited with the rise in anti-Semitism in countries like Germany, but in their report on the phenomenon USA Today was careful to point the finger at “Right-wing nationalist movements”
Often when news emerges about Islamic supremacist abuses — particularly when associated with Muslim migration — it is diminished and even trivialized in the media by means of “Islamophobia” propaganda or largely trumped-up concerns about “right-wing nationalism.”
Meanwhile, the Jerusalem Post reported that Jews in the German city of Bochum “announced that they will no longer wear kippot because of attacks on them by Muslim youths.” The Sunday Times also wrote that Muslim migrants were behind the rise in anti-Semitism all across Europe. Surprisingly, the Huffington Post also reported that Muslim migrants “streaming into Europe from the Middle East are bringing with them virulent anti-Semitism which is erupting from Scandinavia to France to Germany.”
Jew-hatred is ingrained in Islamic ideology, reflected in the fact that the state of Israel is routinely delegitimized and targeted for obliteration by its Muslim neighbors, so it should come as no surprise that an influx of Muslims — of the magnitude that Germany has seen — would coincide with a rise in anti-Semitism. This reality is being minimized by USA Today.
“USA Today Blames ‘Right Wing Nationalist Movements’ for Growing Anti-Semitism Driven by Migrant Crisis”, by Jack Montgomery and Oliver Lane, Breitbart, December 22, 2017:
The arrivals of large numbers of migrants with pre-existing prejudices against Jews has been credited with the rise in anti-Semitism in countries like Germany, but in their report on the phenomenon USA Today was careful to point the finger at “Right-wing nationalist movements”.
USA Today discovered that Germany’s Jewish community faces a “disturbing” level of discrimination — a phenomenon the Breitbart News Network has covered at length in recent years.
“I never thought that could happen in the middle of Berlin,” said Mikhail Tanaev, a Jewish telecommunications manager, after witnessing thousands of mostly Muslim protestors burning Israeli flags on the streets of Berlin following U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.
“That’s something you see in other parts of the world. It’s really disturbing,” added the 32-year-old, who immigrated to Germany from Russia as a teenager.
“It feels like we’re being threatened because you never know how people will react further when something like this occurs.”
The USA Today report, however, was keen to claim “a resurgent right-wing nationalist movement spawned by the arrival of so many immigrants” was a key part of this rise.
The rise in anti-Semitic incidents — which stood at 1,468 in 2016 — has been attributed to Muslim migrant communities harbouring anti-Semitic sentiments.
USA Today cites a Bielefeld University survey which found 62 per cent of Jewish respondents said they experience anti-Semitism in their everyday lives, while another 28 per cent said they were victims of verbal attacks or harassment in the past year.
“There’s a lot of evidence from our studies that the Internet and young Muslim men in public are threatening [Jews],” commented Andreas Zick, who led the Bielefeld study.
“Refugees coming in don’t perceive that there’s a strong norm against anti-Semitism.”
The increasing prevalence of anti-Semitism in Germany will come as no surprise to Breitbart readers, who will have read reports that the expression “You Jew!” has lately become a common insult in Berlin schools….
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Lydia Church says
Ditto that!!!
And of course, they have to pass the blame to someone other than the true culprits! The usual target is those pesky ‘right wingers’!
gravenimage says
Hear, hear! Especially given her unjust firing–glad she is still contributing here at Jihad Watch.
John Hawk says
Ridiculous. The rise in anti-Semitism has nothing to do with right wing groups, and certainly nothing to do with the peaceful religion that shalt not be blamed for anything, no matter how much bomb-blast debris or how many body parts are strewn about. It’s actually aliens. Venusians, I’d guess. They are the worst.
infidel numero uno says
USA TODAY has its collective head rammed up its collective derriere!!! The antisemitism throughout Europe and in Germany, in particular, is 99% due to the influx of the 7th century death cult miscreants, adherents to izlaam with its backward uncivilized shariah, who have invaded all of Europe.
MFritz says
There certainly was antisemitism in Germany (left) over the decades! On the right it was mostly the remainder of nazi propaganda still infecting the brains of the older generations and their ilk. But don’t forget that there simply weren’t many jews left in Germany after WW2 to play a more important role here. So most of the “classic” antisemitism remained on the (right) fringe of society and politics.
The “other” – political – type of antisemitism has to do with Israel. Here the German left took the infamous stand of attacking the country for its politics (and politicians) while keeping a blind eye towards the other side and their behaviour and politics. But the left never were THAT important here except for a short time in the 1970s. And now they’re mostly marginalised and fractured (leftist party) – or the useful idiots (Antifa) of media manipulation and globalists like Soros.
In short, the extreme right here were (mostly) a bunch of radicalised morons and the lefties a bunch of cowards.
What we get now “thanks” to the migrants is islamic hate of jews. And its MUCH more volatile and dangerous than any other form. And worse is yet to come.
LeftisruiningCanada says
It surprises me that you believe the left is marginalized in Germany. It may be that the communist party isn’t that important, but leftist politics are completely in control of Germany and the EU (and the UK for the most part).
I don’t know….perhaps the perception of political spectrum is quite different in Europe: There’s center left, left, and lefter, so to vote ‘right wing’ in Germany means you actually still vote for leftist policies such as welfare statism etc, since it’s become impossible to think otherwise?
MFritz says
Your problem may be that you mistake “leftism” with everything that’s not on your political line. And not knowing a lot about Europe, its history and its politics.
And the German welfare state was “invented” by Bismarck btw. So you call him a leftist too?
Our common issue here is the danger of islam and the globalists using them for their ends.
Sure, if you don’t see the latter as a problem and blame everything on the leftists, feminazis and the Democratic party, it’s most certainly WAY easier.
eduardo odraude says
On these issues, the average person on the right is somewhat better than the average person on the left. But there are some people on the left who are better than some on the right.
A pity the left and right are so split nowadays, since that split smooths the way for creeping Islamization. Therefore, whenever possible, we should always work to find any possible points of agreement between right and left.
An example of a point that integrates concerns of left and right is this: Islam gradually destroys multiculturalism and substitutes a monoculture. This should be a talking point repeatedly stated and supported by the evidence that proves it, evidence from 1) human rights reports on Muslim-majority nations by comparison with other nations; 2) polls of Muslims, since such polls show substantial support for totalitarian aspects of Islamic law; and 3) the trilogy of core Islamic texts (Qur’an, Hadith, Sira), which clearly command a totalitarian project, even if the many Muslims unfamiliar with the trilogy are unaware of their totalitarian character.
James says
Compared with most of the UK parties, most of those in the US seem extremely right-wing. The difference between the 2 political cultures is very great. And the UK is far more secular than the US seems to be.
I doubt that it is really a fair or enlightening to compare two nation states of such dissimilar ages. The US is in many ways very modern; the UK by contrast has a history going back about 2,000 years. One is relatively young, but geographically very large; the other is much older, and also much smaller. That both – to a large extent – share the same language, and some of the same political culture, can mask the great differences between the two.
MFritz says
Then again, while most of the US’ political landscape seems to be more right-leaning – compared to Europe’s, they’re also FAR MORE democratic.
Which is one of the major issues here in Germany as “true” conservative and right wing parties are all very highly “nazi based” (either founded and/or run by former nazi opportunists and their ilk after 1945) and NOT very democratic in their core.
And while everyone LOVES to bash Austria for its FPOE, this is AT LEAST a populistic party which tries to KEEP what it promises to its audience. In essence, very much NOT like the German fake-party AfD.
LeftisruiningCanada says
I’d say that the UK, Europe in general, and yes, in Canada too, we have a very narrow spread of main political parties.
As i said above, it seems to come down to how red you want your socialism.
The difference between Democrat and Republican policy is much more pronounced. It may be that this more stark difference is something that has been lost in our nations, but preserved in the US.
LeftisruiningCanada says
“Which is one of the major issues here in Germany as “true” conservative and right wing parties are all very highly “nazi based” (either founded and/or run by former nazi opportunists and their ilk after 1945) and NOT very democratic in their core.”
it is quite interesting that ‘nazis’ are considered to be on the right wing of German politics, when of course National Socialists are anything but.
MFritz says
Sara Wagenknecht, who calls herself a “Stalinist” is actually very critical of social issues. Most certainly a smart lady. Alas, her party is on the VERY wrong way.
And Merkel’s CDU… let me put it THAT way: After Hitler most of the SERIOUS nazis (who weren’t executed or ended up in jail) went to the newly founded “liberal” FDP+. Most of the opportunists ended up in the CDU which calls itself “conservative”. But this was only a very shamelessly opportunistic party, never very democratic and only interested in political ideals when it cames to money or power. Yes, even WORSE than the Tories and the Democrats.
Adenauer, one of the founding members*, claimed the parties origins to be along the lines of the Centre Party (Zentrumspartei) from the Weimar Republic (and before).
Which is actually VERY ironic as the German emperor himself called these “conservatives” greedy and unreliable and that they would “sell his chair under his butt” (“einem den Stuhl unter dem Arsch wegverkaufen”) if they ever had the opportunity. That’s why he relied on the Social Democrats (SPD) who would at least follow the common interest – and would only sell away the chairs under the butts of their voters (another “famous” tradition of this party).
So that’s the “philosophical” base of the CDU – greedy, spineless and anti-democratic opportunists. And Merkel is their IDEAL candidate.
+ Only when Scheel – a true liberal democrat – arrived in the 1970s did this change for the better – for a couple of years. And, no, Genscher was never a true liberal, but another shameless opportunist who sold out.
++ Who actually wrote a letter in 1938 to the NSDAP asking for membership. Which they denied because they didn’t trust him. Think for yourself.
LeftisruiningCanada says
No need to be snarky MFritz, i wasn’t insulting you.
“Your problem may be that you mistake “leftism” with everything that’s not on your political line. And not knowing a lot about Europe, its history and its politics.”
The second sentence may well be my problem, but not the first i think.
While we can talk about the relative positions of a countries political spectrum, which i mentioned, defining something as left or right or centrist, or whatever, doesn’t much depend on where one is standing. If a party, for example, favors state operated welfare systems and other wealth redistributions, that is by definition Left leaning policy.
My agreement or disagreement with something has nothing to do with where it features on a left/right spectrum.
“And the German welfare state was “invented” by Bismarck btw. So you call him a leftist too?”
And here, as you note, is where my problem is. I don’t know much about Bismark, other than there was a large war ship named after him.
However, depending on how he designed the german welfare state, it would likely be correct to consider that particular policy to be left wing. If he wanted to use central government to redistribute general taxation revenue to qualifying individuals or families, then yes, that was a leftist policy. I’m not sure what there is disagree about on that?
“Our common issue here is the danger of islam and the globalists using them for their ends.”
Yes, i agree. I was just pointing out that the constant pointing at ‘big business’ as the source of all ills is incorrect. If i’ve misread you on that, then i apologize.
“Sure, if you don’t see the latter as a problem and blame everything on the leftists, feminazis and the Democratic party, it’s most certainly WAY easier.”
I’m surely not going to say that ‘globalists” aren’t a problem, but it seems to me that the globalizing agenda is absolutely a phenomenon of the left. That someone who runs a F500 corporation may be in favor of it does nothing to change that.
StellaSaidSo says
The vast majority of attacks on Jews are perpetrated by Muslims, not by so-called ‘right wing nationalists’. It’s the toxic Muslims, who are a threat to everyone, that reasonable people want gone from their societies, not the Jews.
mike ryan says
I lived in Germany for one year back in the 1980s. I NEVER encountered bigotry from native Germans. It was only local Muslims who were a problem.
LeftisruiningCanada says
“Refugees coming in don’t perceive that there’s a strong norm against anti-Semitism”
Because nobody made it clear to them before opening the doors and saying “come on in”.
eduardo odraude says
Has USA Today recently changed? Seems they’ve moved left lately…
janwoG says
USa Today would be called in German “die Lüge Presse” ( the lying Press). All main Press are members of that club-
nicu says
Lügenpresse ! as Merkel wish it !
Matthieu Baudin says
The convenient thing now is that the new influx of anti Semites can’t be made to feel remorse about Germany’s final solution. And there’s no shame felt by those who wish to form political alliances with the recent migrants. Consequently there is now a special opportunity for Germans to morally regress and cast aside their national guilt, turn their back on Israel and relax in the 21st Century.
RichardL says
Thank you! Didn’t know of her. Lovely to watch.
BTW, the AfD is a hardcore pro-Jewish and Zionist party. It is the only thing about them that is not centrist.
Ein gesegnetes Weihnachtsfest allen JWs!
gravenimage says
Same to you, Richard!
nicu says
Germany will be blamed for everything what has to do with Jews – cos our traitor government wants to keep it up
nicu says
The Green Party is full of Muslims ! and other polticians have Muslim wives or husbands !
WorkingClassPost says
Even RT has an enormous blind spot with all things islamic. They covered this story as one of their main news items, but… you guessed it.
Nothing to do with islam.
KJW says
“Refugees coming in don’t perceive that there’s a strong norm against anti-Semitism.”
They are going into a country that is strict and guilty-feeling about anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial given Hitler and WW2. If migrants don’t perceive that there is a strong norm against anti-Semitism it would be because so many Muslims express it and are not admonished enough. Trying to put some blame on right-wing groups is ridiculous for that is ridiculous. The media’s focus on right-wing groups is dismissal of millions of people across the world who don’t want Muslim migrants, and they may think people will join them and the right-wing groups have the guts to go out into the street.
The media denial of “normal,” “average” citizens’ feelings are not stressed, naturally. IBT had an article titled that British Brexit voters were driven by “xenophobia” and “narcissism.” Yep, now narcissism. Forget the Britain has had foreigners for a long time, it’s about who the foreigners are and what they’re doing which is a very reasonable concern. By not pointing out all the things Muslim migrants are doing they are not showing why people would feel this way. When Muslims are walking on German streets with Sharia Police on their shirts and German police no longer feel safe going in twos into Muslim/migrant enclaves, when German’s crime rate has soared because of migrants…I don’t call that xenophobia or narcissism. The media is shameless.
gravenimage says
Many Muslims assume that Germans are proud of Hitler.