Richard Warman and Warren Kinsella seem to think Antisemitism, Judenhaas, is eight or nine white supremacists with grade school educations posting shit on the Internet. It's not.
Yesterday I went to the park with my son. He's Chinese. I'm not. Because of that I am mindful of how easy it is to criticize "the Chinese", or more specifically the government of mainland China, and how the word "Chinese" makes it hard to distinguish whether I am talking about a government or all Chinese people. As Kinsella knows it's awfully easy to be offensive when talking about the people, the government, or the food. So I am careful.
Anyway, back to the park. My son was playing on the playground while some older kids, teenagers, were hanging out near the swings. I was shocked to here the oldest of the group give the younger a primer on "the Jews", as he put it. He didn't like Jews because "they think they're better than us". So where does a kid get an idea like that? The answer is rather easy, actually, he gets it from the TV, from his parents, from teachers in school, he gets everywhere that people criticize Israel and make no effort to ensure that they distinguish between the state and the race. The real problem is that most of the criticism of Israel isn't meant to distinguish between them. I believe that the majority of that criticism IS meant to be criticism of Jews in general.
So how did it happen? Where did all the support for the plucky upstarts who held off the combined power of all the Arab nations go? It went away when the PLO and Arabs were able to get positive press coverage, when people began to see Palestinian Arabs as the underdogs. The Israelis had the bad luck to win too much, I guess. We can see it in the press coverage of the "freedom flotilla". Israeli soldiers boarded the ship armed with paintball guns and were met with knives, and metal poles. They were ambushed and they again had the misfortune to win. Their commander was stabbed, tossed over a railing, disemboweled, and then walked down a deck before his captors were shot. None of this has been reported widely. Instead we get useful idiots like Kevin Neish, who saw Israeli soldiers captured and taken below decks and still seems to think he was part of a non-violent protest. We get declarations about piracy and International law from people who don't know the law or are willfully lying, all unchallenged by our media.
I see it in our schools when teachers, mostly leftish leaning as they are, casually trash the US in front of students. Schools are terribly insular environments and it is easy for teachers to think their world view is acceptable because their peers don't challenge them. My brother had to take his teenage daughter aside after she spewed some incredibly anti-American crap and explain to her that her teachers were wrong and that her views were unacceptable.
And that brings me to the real problem with the jihad against neo-Nazis: It's a distraction form the real threat to Jews. No one will ever listen to the rantings of the skinheads but they will listen to the more subtle bigotries of their teacher, their parents, and the media. The left in this country and across the globe has bought into the working class under dog myths built about Palestinian Arabs. The left has become the real threat to Jews worldwide and I can only hope that the outing of people like Helen Thomas and Libby Davies will open some eyes to the damage closet-Judenhaas can do to our children. I only wish I had said something to that kid but I doubt it would have helped.
An update: The children of Germany are as bad. Just go home to Germany says Helen Thomas. Right.
