Muslim anti-Israeli views are not European anti-Semitism - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

5.9.14

Muslim anti-Israeli views are not European anti-Semitism - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East The Zionist movement and those Jews identified as its
supporters were always the punching bag of neo-Nazi movements on the
right and of anti-Zionist Marxists
on the left. Unfortunately, it does not appear that these despicable
phenomena will pass from the world in the foreseeable future. They are
deeply rooted in the European past and continue to serve extremists on
the left and right in their current attacks. “We are not living here as if we were at the end of the
1930s,” says Simone Susskind, a Jewish left-wing activist from
Belgium who supports a two-state solution, “but one cannot ignore the
rise in symptoms of anti-Semitism in Europe.”

Susskind, who was just elected to the Brussels district
parliament, explains in a conversation with Al-Monitor that Europeans
feel more comfortable voicing anti-Semitic discourse and justify it by
Israel’s attitude toward the Palestinians. “The growing expression of
negative sentiment toward Israeli government policy stems, in part, from
classic anti-Semitism, which did not disappear after the Holocaust but
was silenced.” According to her, Europeans, like many Muslims, do not
differentiate between “Jewish” and “Israeli” and claim that they have a
right to oppose Israeli policy in the territories without feeling like
anti-Semites.

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