What's Behind the Rise in Global Anti Semitism?

By: Mr. Curmudgeon
mrcurmudgeon@inthepublicsquare.com

While working-out at the gym, Rowan Laxton, a British diplomat, became unhinged while viewing televised reports showing war scenes from Gaza. “#$@...ing Israelis,” he shouted “#$@...ing Jews.” Of the Israeli soldiers fighting to defend their innocent citizens against genocidal attacks by Hamas’ terrorists, Laxton said they should be “wiped of the face of the Earth.” Hamas and its terror-state sponsor Iran couldn’t agree more.

Across the channel in France, the anti semitic book “The World According to K” accuses Bernard Kouchner, Frances Foreign Minister (who is a Jew), of “hatred for the values of the French Revolution, of the wartime Resistance, of a national independence that is detested in the name of an Anglo-Saxon cosmopolitanism.”

Written by the Left-Wing French journalist Pierre Péan, “The World According to K” dredges up the tattered charge of “Anglo-Saxon cosmopolitanism” used against Captain Alfred Dreyfus a century ago in what today is called “The Dreyfus Affair.” Blind anti semitism unjustly sent Dreyfus to Devil’s Island for two horrible years, until public opinion forced the French government to investigate and finally discredit the falsified evidence used to convict the French patriot of treason. The charge of “Anglo-Saxon cosmopolitanism” reemerged in pamphlets distributed by French fascists against Jews before the Third Reich occupied France in 1940. French fascists formed the backbone of the collaborationist Vichy government in the rounding up, torture and murder of scores of French Jews.

France, which has the largest Jewish population (600,000) outside of the United States, is seeing a rise in anti semitic terror unleashed by Muslim mobs since the onset of the war in Gaza. Synagogues and schools are set to the torch and spray-painted Swastikas deface headstones in Jewish cemeteries.

Here in America, Utopian Leftist professors help instill Vichy’s anti semitism in their students. A group of university professors (mostly from California) is urging their colleagues across America to pressure their universities to aid Palestinians in the destruction of Israel.

“As educators of conscience, we have been unable to stand by and watch in silence Israel’s indiscriminate assault on the Gaza Strip and its educational institutions,” said David Lloyd, a professor of English at the University of Southern California. The group seeks to impose “non-violent punitive measures” against Israel. Why should these professors leave their cloistered comforts and get their hands bloody when Hamas is willing to do all the heavy lifting?

Recently, a group calling itself the “Students for Justice in Palestine,” convinced the faint-hearted board of trustees at Hampshire College in Massachusetts to break financial ties with companies doing business with Israel. Some of the companies in question are Caterpillar, Motorola, General Electric and the ITT Corporation.

In a statement published in the Boston Globe, the chairman of Hampshire College’s board of trustees, Sigmund Roos, said the board’s decision “expressly did not pertain to a political movement or single out businesses active in a specific region or country.” A rather wordy and academically sterile version of “I was just following orders.”

That the spirit of Vichy lives on in the Utopianism of the Left should come as no surprise. Stalin, least we forget, borrowed from the French by condemning Jews for their “rootless cosmopolitanism.”

With a world well aware of the horrors unleashed by Hitler’s Holocaust, what keeps anti semitism a virulent virus that will not die? I have a theory.

The Utopian anti semite views the Bible’s stories as being specific to the Jew and rejects the universality of the lessons the Bible so clearly illustrates – man’s fallen nature and God’s transformative power over the hearts of men.

In the Book of Exodus, the words uttered by the children of Israel as Pharos’s army approached, “better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness,” could easily have come from the mouths of Parisians in 1940 as they watched the Nazis parade down the Chance Elise.

Millions of people across America shouted, “Give us Barabbas” in 1995, jubilant over the not-guilty verdict in the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

Utopians, past and present, despise the Bible’s oracle to man’s imperfectability because implicit in the pages that tell her people’s story is the rejection of Utopianism’s central fallacy – that through the efforts of some men, all men can be perfected. The Bible is a potent stimulant that counters the opiate-induced haze Utopianism instills; and the death and misery heaped upon mankind in the 20th Century only adds to this time-tested truth.

“Make us victorious over the community of infidels,” prayed Sheik Ahmad Bahar, Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council. “... Allah, take the Jews and their allies…Allah, annihilate them completely and do not leave anyone of them.”

In the eyes of a morally bankrupt international community, Jew-hating, genocidal maniacs like Bahar must be saved. By aiding in the destruction of the Bible’s oracle messengers, Utopians can continue their march to self-annihilation unencumbered by the meddlesome reminder to their folly provided by the Jew’s continued existence.