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On 01.07.2013 20:12, Louis Proyect wrote:
Anti-Semitism poses absolutely no danger anywhere in the world to Jews.
I'm sorry to contradict you, Louis. the reports coming out of Hungary are quite worrying. People are being beaten up in the streets for participating in protests against desecrations of Jewish graves. While it's true that in most of Western and Central Europe anti-Muslim politics and activities are a greater threat the traditional fascist anti-Semitism is still a living force. And even though most attacks by Golden Dawn in Greece are directed against Muslim refugees and immigrants they also indulge in old-fashioned anti-semitism too. I wouldn't be so sure that traditional anti-Semitism is a spent force.
Here in Germany the desecration of Jewish cemeteries and buildings is at least as common as desecrations aimed at Muslim institutions and buildings. Here in Chemnitz, where I live, a popular Jewsih restaurant was forced to close because it became increasingly difficult to get insurance coverage because it was damaged so regularly by drunken (and not so drunken) Nazis. An Arab restaurant in the same street had far fewer problems.
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