Gaza war legitimized equating Zionists to Nazis
Summit on Holocaust: Gaza war legitimized equating Jews with Nazis
Source: Haaretz, 27-01-2009
The operation in Gaza put an end to the European taboo on equating Jews to Nazis. That message was one of the conclusions of the first international panel discussion on anti-Semitism following the Gaza invasion, which was held in 'Jerusalem' (al-Quds) Monday on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Speaking at the panel, which was part of the World Zionist Congress conference, Professor Dina Porat said, "the comparison has now become self-understood." She added this applied not only to Muslims in Europe, but among "leftist circles."
Porat, an international authority on anti-Semitism and head of Tel Aviv University's research body on this phenomenon, added (believed) that Operation Cast Lead has "left no doubt" that Muslims in Europe had, "prepared in advance a public campaign against Jews and ‘Israel', which they see as one and the same."
"[Muslims] were waiting for a signal or a pretext to launch this campaign and the Nazism comparison," she claimed.
This tactic, she elaborated, proved most effective when Europeans from the left wing "worked in unison" with Muslims.
WJC Treasurer Cobi Benatoff of Italy, who attended the panel, urged Jewish communities to "complain less and do more."
Also speaking at the event was Lina Filiba of the Jewish Confederation of Turkey.
"The first rally came on the day of the first attack in Gaza" she said. She added the operation brought calls from Turkey's highest levels of government, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for "Israel's" exclusion from the United Nations.
Anne Sender, head of the Jewish community of Oslo, spoke of an "explosion of violence" in anti-'Jewish' (Zionist) protests, which, according to her, the likes of which had never occurred in the past. She also mentioned the case of a Norwegian diplomat who, as reported by Haaretz, last week sent an e-mail saying that Jews, "learned from the Nazis."
Preliminary analyses by Jewish organizations estimate that during the Gaza operation, the volume of anti-"Israeli" attacks in Europe multiplied more than four-fold compared to the correlating time last year.
Source: Haaretz, 27-01-2009
The operation in Gaza put an end to the European taboo on equating Jews to Nazis. That message was one of the conclusions of the first international panel discussion on anti-Semitism following the Gaza invasion, which was held in 'Jerusalem' (al-Quds) Monday on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Speaking at the panel, which was part of the World Zionist Congress conference, Professor Dina Porat said, "the comparison has now become self-understood." She added this applied not only to Muslims in Europe, but among "leftist circles."
Porat, an international authority on anti-Semitism and head of Tel Aviv University's research body on this phenomenon, added (believed) that Operation Cast Lead has "left no doubt" that Muslims in Europe had, "prepared in advance a public campaign against Jews and ‘Israel', which they see as one and the same."
"[Muslims] were waiting for a signal or a pretext to launch this campaign and the Nazism comparison," she claimed.
This tactic, she elaborated, proved most effective when Europeans from the left wing "worked in unison" with Muslims.
WJC Treasurer Cobi Benatoff of Italy, who attended the panel, urged Jewish communities to "complain less and do more."
Also speaking at the event was Lina Filiba of the Jewish Confederation of Turkey.
"The first rally came on the day of the first attack in Gaza" she said. She added the operation brought calls from Turkey's highest levels of government, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for "Israel's" exclusion from the United Nations.
Anne Sender, head of the Jewish community of Oslo, spoke of an "explosion of violence" in anti-'Jewish' (Zionist) protests, which, according to her, the likes of which had never occurred in the past. She also mentioned the case of a Norwegian diplomat who, as reported by Haaretz, last week sent an e-mail saying that Jews, "learned from the Nazis."
Preliminary analyses by Jewish organizations estimate that during the Gaza operation, the volume of anti-"Israeli" attacks in Europe multiplied more than four-fold compared to the correlating time last year.
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