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“The Deadly Disease of Anti - Semitism Proliferates in Europe”
by Prophecy New Watch
August 22nd, 2014

A dangerous and deadly disease is resurfacing in Europe. Since its last and worst outbreak, in the 1940’s this malady has been somewhat contained, and loss of life associated with the disease has been very limited. Until now.

Anti-Semitism, the hatred of Jews because they are Jews, is the deadly and dangerous disease making a lethal comeback across Europe today. The disease smoldered under the surface for decades with occasional exacerbations, but nothing like the death toll the disease wrought in the 1940’s.

The current Palestinian- Israeli conflict is serving to rekindle anti-Semitism in countries like France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Chants like “Death to the Jews” and the horrendous “Gas the Jews” are being heard more frequently on the streets of these European countries! But this wave of anti-Semitism seems to be growing in response to more than just Israeli politics.

Reportedly, eight synagogues were torched in a one week period last month. One such synagogue was fire-bombed by a mob of 4oo. In addition to these crimes, kosher supermarkets and pharmacies have been smashed and looted by angry mobs, and stone throwing protesters have burned Israeli flags in French streets!

In Germany, destructive riots, reminiscent of Kristallnacht, the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938 throughout Germany have damaged synagogues, namely Berigische synagogue in Wuppertal previously destroyed on the “Night of Crystal”. Additionally, calls for a second holocaust against Jews are being chanted on the streets of German cities!

"These are the worst times since the Nazi era," states Dieter Graumann, president of Germany's Central Council of Jews. "On the streets, you hear things like 'the Jews should be gassed', 'the Jews should be burned' – we haven't had that in Germany for decades. Anyone saying those slogans isn't criticizing Israeli politics; it's just pure hatred against Jews: nothing else. And it's not just a German phenomenon. It's an outbreak of hatred against Jews so intense that it's very clear indeed."

The prime Ministers of both Germany and France have denounced the attacks as attacks on democracy and nationalism, and characterize the anti-Semitism as intolerable in a free society.

In the Netherlands more than 70 calls from alarmed Jewish citizens were received in one week last month; the average is normally three to five. A rabbi’s front door was stoned, and two Jewish women were attacked after hanging Israeli flags from their balconies. A shop in Belgium reportedly refused to sell to a Jewish woman stating: "We don't currently sell to Jews."

Jewish shops in Rome, Italy are finding swastikas and anti-Jewish slogans painted on shutters and windows. One slogan reading: "Jews, your end is near." In the town of San Donà di Piave, an imam called for the extermination of the Jews. He has since been deported.

Previously, Prophecy News Watch, reported on a recent Jewish Anti- Defamation League study which found that roughly 25% of Europeans admit to feelings of anti-Semitism. A 2012 survey by the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency revealed that 66% of Jewish respondents believed anti-Semitism in Europe was on the rise. In 2013, the same surveyed group, 50% expressed anxiety about possible verbal attacks or assaults being perpetrated against them.

Sadly, recent cases of anti-Semitism also include kidnappings and murders! "In May 2012, Mohamed Merah, shot dead seven people, including three children and a young Rabbi outside their Jewish school in Toulouse, France. And in May this year Mehdi Nemmouche, a Frenchman of Algerian descent, possibly a radical Islamists who had spent a year fighting in Syria, was charged with shooting four people at the Jewish museum in Brussels.

What is the motivation behind this reemerging disorder of anti-Semitism? According to the experts, there are many causes; the rise of radical Islam, ongoing hostilities between Palestinians and Israeli’s, alienation of young Muslims from society at large, and interestingly, the power of social media to inflame hatred through visual images!

A normalization of anti-Semitism, or a “simmering” hatred of all things Jewish is seen as an additional facet of the upsurge in violence against Jews. Jews are blamed for all the woes” of a lot of angry people,” according to the Guardian article.

Alarmingly, anti-Semitism is becoming acceptable among not just angry immigrant youths, but among the educated middle class as well. According to a 2013 study by the Technical University of Berlin, in 14,000 hate-mail letters sent over 10 years to the Israeli embassy in Berlin and the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Professor Monika Schwarz-Friesel found that 60% were written by educated, middle-class Germans, including professors, lawyers, priests and university and secondary school students

The result; a chilling effect on Jews in Europe and an uneasy awareness that the deadly disease of anti-Semitism, is spreading, once again across the European landscape.

Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2014/August22/225.html#A6IbGqe3L3Tq0Mpy.99

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