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Europe's new face of anti-Semitism

5 countries now ban production of kosher meat as synagogues burn, boycott of
Israel continues

Posted: December 3, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29841

One of the first steps in Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic drive in the creation
of his Third Reich was instituting a ban on the kosher slaughter of animals.

Today, as a new wave of ugly, and sometimes violent, anti-Semitism sweeps
through the European continent, at least five countries have banned kosher
food production, and one of them is considering halting all import of kosher
meat.

The latest nation to join the movement is Holland, where the move was guised
in concern for cruelty to animals.

"They simply don't want foreigners and they don't want Jews," said Rabbi
Michael Melchior, former chief rabbi of Norway, another European nation that
bans kosher meat production. "I won't say this is the only motivation, but
it's certainly no coincidence that one of the first things Nazi Germany
forbade was kosher slaughter. I also know that during the original debate on
this issue in Norway, where shechitah has been banned since 1930, one of the
parliamentarians said straight out, 'If they don't like it, let them go live
somewhere else.'"

While animal-rights activists have indeed been at the forefront of the
recent efforts to ban kosher slaughter, there is growing concern on the part
of people like Melchior, now an Israeli official, that initiatives spreading
through Europe are gaining popularity because of deep-seated anti-Semitism
manifesting itself in many other ways, from Belgium to Germany to France and
Switzerland.

On Saturday, unknown assailants hurled a Molotov cocktail at a synagogue
in the Belgian port city of Antwerp, where riots by Arab immigrants began a
week ago following the shooting of a 27-year-old Moroccan immigrant. About
30,000 people of Arab origin live in Antwerp. It is also home to a
long-established Orthodox Jewish community of about 20,000.

Several weeks ago, Germany announced a decision to stop all arms sales to
Israel. This comes at a time when attacks on memorials to Nazi-era victims
are on the rise. In at least seven attacks this year, extremists destroyed a
memorial plaque at Raben-Steinfeld, vandalized a memorial in Woebbelin and a
memorial column in Lutterow, and drew a swastika on the grounds of the
Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the Nov. 9 anniversary of Krystalnacht,
or the Night of Broken Glass, when Nazis targeted Jewish businesses and
synagogues in 1938.

German police are investigating an incident last month where anti-Semitic
disruptions occurred at a Berlin ceremony to restore a street name referring
to Jews that was erased by Nazi officials in 1938. Hecklers at the event
booed, whistled and shouted slogans including "Jews out" and "The Jews
crucified Jesus," according to Germany's Central Council of Jews. Paul
Spiegel, the group's head, said he was horrified and that the incident
"reminds us painfully of the late 1920s," when the Nazis began their rise to
power in Germany. The event re-established Juedenstrasse an old German
word for Jews' Street in the western district of Spandau after years of
deliberations by local officials. The name, dating back to the 16th century,
recalls Spandau's former Jewish community. Under Nazi rule, the street was
renamed for Gottfried Kinkel, a 19th-century poet and art historian who was
once imprisoned in Spandau.

Fiona Macaulay, public affairs director of the Board of Deputies of
British Jews, says incidents of anti-Semitism have increased 400 percent in
Britain since the start of the intifada in the fall of 2000.

A one-day international conference on sanctions and divestment in London
last week called for a boycott of Israel "not dissimilar to the campaign
which contributed to the end of apartheid in South Africa."

Of course, it's not just Europe that is experiencing a wave of new
anti-Semitism.

Avi Beker, the secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress, says in the
past two years Jews around the world have experienced the worst
anti-Semitism since World War II, primarily because of the effects of the
Middle East conflict. In Canada, the U.S. and Europe, there have been
attacks on synagogues and other Jewish centers as well as individual Jews,
he says.

"Anti-Semitism, showing itself to be the most enduring and the hardiest
manifestation of the racism virus, has reared its ugly head once again,"
says Keith Landy, the Canadian Jewish Congress president. Landy said across
the world Jewish people continue to face discrimination, harassment and
violence because of their faith. It is a sad day for any religion when a
security guard must be posted at the door of a place of worship so people
may pray in safety a common occurrence at many Jewish synagogues, he
stated. "Instead of declaring 'never again,' we find ourselves painfully
asking, 'will it ever end?'"

Since October 2000, there have been 300 anti-Semitic occurrences in Canada,
he said. Also, he argued, the current international attack on Israel is
clear anti-Semitism.

Australia's Jewish community is also experiencing the highest level of
anti-Semitism since statistics were first collected 57 years ago, figures
released recently by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry showed.

Council President Jeremy Jones told United Press International there were
593 reports of anti-Semitism in the year to Sept. 30, with incidents ranging
from physical and verbal assaults to firebombs thrown at synagogues and
community centers, telephone threats, hate mail and e-mail.

He said there are dozens of groups perpetrating hate crimes. The main ones
are the Australian League of Rights, the Adelaide Institute, neo-Nazi fringe
groups and the Citizens Electoral Councils, which are followers of
U.S.-based Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr.

The man with the highest profile is historian Frederick Toben of the
Adelaide Institute, who, like British historian David Irving, denies the
existence of the Holocaust.

Jones also lamented what he calls horrific material from Muslims in
Australia and singles out Sheik Taj al Din al Hilaly, spiritual leader of
Australia's Muslims and one of the country's most contentious religious
figures. After he arrived from Egypt in 1982, the government tried to expel
him for making statements condemned as incitement to racial hatred. A Sydney
Morning Herald journalist, Alan Ramsey, wrote that these included comments
that Jews are the underlying cause of all wars, use sex and abominable acts
of sodomy to control the world, and that Jews had a malicious disposition
toward all mankind.

But it is in Europe where anti-Semitism is getting the most attention
perhaps because the Holocaust occurred just a generation earlier in the
continent.

When there was an effort by Jews in Switzerland to lift the century-old ban
on the production of kosher meat, an anti-Semitic backlash erupted earlier
this year.

"This is a trend that is very much worrying us," said Beker. He points out
that a movement in Sweden, another European nation that bans kosher
slaughter, attempted to ban ritual circumcision the quintessential rite of
passage for Jewish males. "We regard this as interference in Jewish
religious practices."

Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said
bans on kosher slaughter are the result of activism between animal-rights
extremists "aided and abetted" by anti-Semitic politicians.

"Sometimes anti-Semites will use this as a vehicle to try to isolate the
Jewish community by reaching out to those who are so preoccupied with animal
rights," he told Jewish Week. "The key is whether or not there is a history
in that country. ... What other issues of animal rights have they engaged in
to prohibit cruelty? When they begin and end with kosher slaughter, that's
when I become suspect."

While the Holland ban offers some loopholes to the Jewish community in the
country, the Swiss ban on shechitah may go even further. The government
earlier this year considered a ban on the import of kosher meat, and the
Swiss Animal Association is calling for a national referendum on barring the
import of such products. A poll shows 76 percent of the population would
support such a move.

"It's ominous," said Rabbi Menachem Genack, the kashrut administrator for
the Orthodox Union, the largest kosher-certifying organization in the world.
"This kind of legislation in Europe has to be understood in the context of
European history. A person would have to be extremely naive not to think
that this is linked to anti-Semitism."

Melchior makes the case that kosher slaughter is actually more humane than
the practices in slaughterhouses.

"The Torah forbids cruelty to animals, and the shechitah process ensures
that the animal loses consciousness immediately," he explains. "We have been
dealing with this issue for many years, and there are many scientific
studies that back us up."

-----

The Jews crucified Jesus. -- Hecklers at a recent Berlin ceremony to
restore a street name referring to Jews that was erased by Nazis

Anti-Semitism, showing itself to be the most enduring and the hardiest
manifestation of the racism virus, has reared its ugly head once again. --
Keith Landy, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress

Sometimes anti-Semites will use [the banning of kosher slaughter] as a
vehicle to try to isolate the Jewish community by reaching out to those who
are so preoccupied with animal rights. -- Abraham Foxman, national director
of the Anti-Defamation League

Some of the asscoiations in here are really kinda propagandish.
First holland has the
Troppen museum, the only anti-facist museum I know of. second they hate the
germans still. One for the slaughter in Dam Square where after the german
offically had surrender after the fall of Berlin and all, those who were still
there as occupation forces open fired with machine guns during the celebration.
This after the war was over. hundreds died. Then there is also the question of
Rotterdam, it is still a sore subject. Let us not also forget the Anne Frank
House in amsterdam.
That the german decided not to sell them weapons i am sure will not effect
there alreadly huge arsenal.
The other points though are well taken but to always say if you do this it mean
this.
If you want to meet fanatics, the animal rights people are near the top.
I am not familiar with Kosher Slaughter but the controversy it seems what
parallel what John fowarded about the case in Australia.
whose law is supreme? and why?

"X. J. Scott" wrote:

> Europe's new face of anti-Semitism
>
> 5 countries now ban production of kosher meat as synagogues burn, boycott of
> Israel continues
>
> Posted: December 3, 2002
> 1:00 a.m. Eastern
>
> http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29841
>
> One of the first steps in Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic drive in the creation
> of his Third Reich was instituting a ban on the kosher slaughter of animals.
>
> Today, as a new wave of ugly, and sometimes violent, anti-Semitism sweeps
> through the European continent, at least five countries have banned kosher
> food production, and one of them is considering halting all import of kosher
> meat.
>
> The latest nation to join the movement is Holland, where the move was guised
> in concern for cruelty to animals.
>
> "They simply don't want foreigners and they don't want Jews," said Rabbi
> Michael Melchior, former chief rabbi of Norway, another European nation that
> bans kosher meat production. "I won't say this is the only motivation, but
> it's certainly no coincidence that one of the first things Nazi Germany
> forbade was kosher slaughter. I also know that during the original debate on
> this issue in Norway, where shechitah has been banned since 1930, one of the
> parliamentarians said straight out, 'If they don't like it, let them go live
> somewhere else.'"
>
> While animal-rights activists have indeed been at the forefront of the
> recent efforts to ban kosher slaughter, there is growing concern on the part
> of people like Melchior, now an Israeli official, that initiatives spreading
> through Europe are gaining popularity because of deep-seated anti-Semitism
> manifesting itself in many other ways, from Belgium to Germany to France and
> Switzerland.
>
> ï¿½ On Saturday, unknown assailants hurled a Molotov cocktail at a synagogue
> in the Belgian port city of Antwerp, where riots by Arab immigrants began a
> week ago following the shooting of a 27-year-old Moroccan immigrant. About
> 30,000 people of Arab origin live in Antwerp. It is also home to a
> long-established Orthodox Jewish community of about 20,000.
>
> ï¿½ Several weeks ago, Germany announced a decision to stop all arms sales to
> Israel. This comes at a time when attacks on memorials to Nazi-era victims
> are on the rise. In at least seven attacks this year, extremists destroyed a
> memorial plaque at Raben-Steinfeld, vandalized a memorial in Woebbelin and a
> memorial column in Lutterow, and drew a swastika on the grounds of the
> Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the Nov. 9 anniversary of Krystalnacht,
> or the Night of Broken Glass, when Nazis targeted Jewish businesses and
> synagogues in 1938.
>
> ï¿½ German police are investigating an incident last month where anti-Semitic
> disruptions occurred at a Berlin ceremony to restore a street name referring
> to Jews that was erased by Nazi officials in 1938. Hecklers at the event
> booed, whistled and shouted slogans including "Jews out" and "The Jews
> crucified Jesus," according to Germany's Central Council of Jews. Paul
> Spiegel, the group's head, said he was horrified and that the incident
> "reminds us painfully of the late 1920s," when the Nazis began their rise to
> power in Germany. The event re-established Juedenstrasse ? an old German
> word for Jews' Street ? in the western district of Spandau after years of
> deliberations by local officials. The name, dating back to the 16th century,
> recalls Spandau's former Jewish community. Under Nazi rule, the street was
> renamed for Gottfried Kinkel, a 19th-century poet and art historian who was
> once imprisoned in Spandau.
>
> ï¿½ Fiona Macaulay, public affairs director of the Board of Deputies of
> British Jews, says incidents of anti-Semitism have increased 400 percent in
> Britain since the start of the intifada in the fall of 2000.
>
> ï¿½ A one-day international conference on sanctions and divestment in London
> last week called for a boycott of Israel "not dissimilar to the campaign
> which contributed to the end of apartheid in South Africa."
>
> Of course, it's not just Europe that is experiencing a wave of new
> anti-Semitism.
>
> Avi Beker, the secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress, says in the
> past two years Jews around the world have experienced the worst
> anti-Semitism since World War II, primarily because of the effects of the
> Middle East conflict. In Canada, the U.S. and Europe, there have been
> attacks on synagogues and other Jewish centers as well as individual Jews,
> he says.
>
> "Anti-Semitism, showing itself to be the most enduring and the hardiest
> manifestation of the racism virus, has reared its ugly head once again,"
> says Keith Landy, the Canadian Jewish Congress president. Landy said across
> the world Jewish people continue to face discrimination, harassment and
> violence because of their faith. It is a sad day for any religion when a
> security guard must be posted at the door of a place of worship so people
> may pray in safety ? a common occurrence at many Jewish synagogues, he
> stated. "Instead of declaring 'never again,' we find ourselves painfully
> asking, 'will it ever end?'"
>
> Since October 2000, there have been 300 anti-Semitic occurrences in Canada,
> he said. Also, he argued, the current international attack on Israel is
> clear anti-Semitism.
>
> Australia's Jewish community is also experiencing the highest level of
> anti-Semitism since statistics were first collected 57 years ago, figures
> released recently by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry showed.
>
> Council President Jeremy Jones told United Press International there were
> 593 reports of anti-Semitism in the year to Sept. 30, with incidents ranging
> from physical and verbal assaults to firebombs thrown at synagogues and
> community centers, telephone threats, hate mail and e-mail.
>
> He said there are dozens of groups perpetrating hate crimes. The main ones
> are the Australian League of Rights, the Adelaide Institute, neo-Nazi fringe
> groups and the Citizens Electoral Councils, which are followers of
> U.S.-based Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr.
>
> The man with the highest profile is historian Frederick Toben of the
> Adelaide Institute, who, like British historian David Irving, denies the
> existence of the Holocaust.
>
> Jones also lamented what he calls horrific material from Muslims in
> Australia and singles out Sheik Taj al Din al Hilaly, spiritual leader of
> Australia's Muslims and one of the country's most contentious religious
> figures. After he arrived from Egypt in 1982, the government tried to expel
> him for making statements condemned as incitement to racial hatred. A Sydney
> Morning Herald journalist, Alan Ramsey, wrote that these included comments
> that Jews are the underlying cause of all wars, use sex and abominable acts
> of sodomy to control the world, and that Jews had a malicious disposition
> toward all mankind.
>
> But it is in Europe where anti-Semitism is getting the most attention ?
> perhaps because the Holocaust occurred just a generation earlier in the
> continent.
>
> When there was an effort by Jews in Switzerland to lift the century-old ban
> on the production of kosher meat, an anti-Semitic backlash erupted earlier
> this year.
>
> "This is a trend that is very much worrying us," said Beker. He points out
> that a movement in Sweden, another European nation that bans kosher
> slaughter, attempted to ban ritual circumcision ? the quintessential rite of
> passage for Jewish males. "We regard this as interference in Jewish
> religious practices."
>
> Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said
> bans on kosher slaughter are the result of activism between animal-rights
> extremists "aided and abetted" by anti-Semitic politicians.
>
> "Sometimes anti-Semites will use this as a vehicle to try to isolate the
> Jewish community by reaching out to those who are so preoccupied with animal
> rights," he told Jewish Week. "The key is whether or not there is a history
> in that country. ... What other issues of animal rights have they engaged in
> to prohibit cruelty? When they begin and end with kosher slaughter, that's
> when I become suspect."
>
> While the Holland ban offers some loopholes to the Jewish community in the
> country, the Swiss ban on shechitah may go even further. The government
> earlier this year considered a ban on the import of kosher meat, and the
> Swiss Animal Association is calling for a national referendum on barring the
> import of such products. A poll shows 76 percent of the population would
> support such a move.
>
> "It's ominous," said Rabbi Menachem Genack, the kashrut administrator for
> the Orthodox Union, the largest kosher-certifying organization in the world.
> "This kind of legislation in Europe has to be understood in the context of
> European history. A person would have to be extremely naive not to think
> that this is linked to anti-Semitism."
>
> Melchior makes the case that kosher slaughter is actually more humane than
> the practices in slaughterhouses.
>
> "The Torah forbids cruelty to animals, and the shechitah process ensures
> that the animal loses consciousness immediately," he explains. "We have been
> dealing with this issue for many years, and there are many scientific
> studies that back us up."
>
> -----
>
> The Jews crucified Jesus. -- Hecklers at a recent Berlin ceremony to
> restore a street name referring to Jews that was erased by Nazis
>
> Anti-Semitism, showing itself to be the most enduring and the hardiest
> manifestation of the racism virus, has reared its ugly head once again. --
> Keith Landy, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress
>
> Sometimes anti-Semites will use [the banning of kosher slaughter] as a
> vehicle to try to isolate the Jewish community by reaching out to those who
> are so preoccupied with animal rights. -- Abraham Foxman, national director
> of the Anti-Defamation League
>
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