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Addressing the issue of anti-Semitism By Howard Tevlowitz, Federation Executive Director
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he world is turning upside down. There is no way around it. There is no way around confronting this startling reality. We, as Jews, saw it happen in the late 1920s and early 1930s. And yes, it is happening again. In 2015, Jews in general and in Israel – the only Jewish state in the world – are being vilified at every turn and subjected to the “BIG LIE” strategy that helped launch Hitler’s genocidal war against the Jewish people. It starts with silence – silence from the west – and turns into acquiescence and then outright bigotry. Some say that today is different, that Western European governments are in the beginning stages of addressing the issue of anti-Semitism. Yes, this MAY be different. MAY is the operative word. But what’s not different is that Jews – and western culture – are facing an enemy – RADICAL ISLAM – which is as dangerous, fanatical and determined as the Nazis were as they ascended to power. In order to fight or address a problem, one must admit there is a problem. That problem is RADICAL ISLAM. No getting around it. And its focus on Jewhatred is picking up steam – from the European left and the European right. Can it happen in the United
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Hypocrisy after the Paris terror attacks
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some people refused to see that. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked a reporter on the scene whether there was “anything to indicate that this was an anti-Semitic act.” Then CNN’s Chris Cuomo and another reporter agreed that because Muslims shop at the store too, it wasn’t necessarily an anti-Semitic attack. It took the killer’s own proclamation that he had chosen the kosher market in order to kill Jews to stifle that line of reporting. Equally infuriating has been the attempt to separate the attacks from Islam. The day after the market massacre, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry suggested that the “anti-Semitism problem in France is not primarily a problem of anti-Semitism from French Muslims.” In no uncertain terms J.J. Goldberg, a guest on her show, disagreed. He recalled the
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