1930’S GERMANY REVISITED
By Bill Muehlenberg - Posted at Culture Watch:
Published May 10, 2024
The ugly anti-Semitism we are now witnessing is utterly appalling:Some of the most shocking and demonic anti-Semitism we have seen perhaps since nearly a century ago is now on full display throughout much of the world. Certainly our college campuses in the West have become hotbeds for Israel-hatred and pro-terrorism ideology. The protestors are screaming for intifada, for the elimination of Israel, for Jewish students to leave, and so on. Just a few days ago I wrote about this worrying development: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2024/05/04/critical-theory-and-collapsing-colleges/
Of course it is not just at Western universities we see this happening. It is everywhere – even at a song contest! Right now an Israeli singer is being booed on stage as she performs, and her hotel is surrounded by hateful mobs. And this is happening in Sweden. Just last night I saw a doco on Eurovision, Sweden and ABBA, and it was remarked how tolerant the Swedes are! Yeah, right. One news item says this:
Thousands of people have protested ahead of the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest in the Swedish city of Malmo. Despite attempts by organisers of this year’s contest to keep politics off the stage, Israel’s entrant was also booed. Protesters waving Palestinian flags packed the historic Stortorget square near Malmo’s 16th-century town hall before a planned march through the city. Police estimated that between 10,000 and 12,000 people took part. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was among them. https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/thousands-protest-eurovision-as-tensions-over-israel-escalate-20240506-p5fpeh.htmlMy picture above shows it all. One writer put it this way:
This is currently the situation outside of Eden Golan’s hotel room. Because of her nationality, hundreds of people who hate her are screaming outside of her room. What happens if she goes outside? You hurt her so she quits? You kill her so she can’t perform? If you are this angry about Eurovision having an Israeli perform then boycott the show. Gathering in the hundreds to scream at a singular woman whose main crime is her ethnicity is not acceptable.Jewish students being hounded off college campuses; Jewish singers and businesses being targeted; ugly anti-Jewish protests everywhere. We just need the yellow stars of David being forced on Jews, another Kristallnacht or two, and we are exactly where things were 90 years ago. These are diabolically dark days that we live in.
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