The current dimention of Anti-Semitism.

 

FRANCE

Anti-Semitism in France is strongly on the rise, according to the 2009 annual report released late last week by the Jewish Community Protection Service (SPCJ). The organization reported that 832 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded in France in 2009, as compared with 474 such incidents in 2008 - a 75% increase.

The statistics were gleaned from records in the organization's Aid to Victims Department, which cross-checked the figures with data published by the French Ministry of Home Affairs. Included were "statistics, comments, analyses and extracts from sentences handed out by courts in cases involving anti-Semitism," according to the Council Representing Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF).

At least part of the reason for the hatred may have been due to the corresponding rise in the country's Islamic population.

As of 2003, there were an estimated five to six million Muslims living in France, according to a report issued by the country's Interior Ministry. However, by 2007, that number had climbed to an estimated eight million, according to Odile Jacob's Intégrer l'Islam.

 

 

CANADA

According to the report, 1,264 anti-Semitic incidents took place in Canada in 2009. These included 32 violent attacks, 348 cases of vandalism and 884 reports of harassment. The majority of the incidents took place in the province of Ontario.

In the greater Toronto area, incidents dropped by 11 percent, but rose elsewhere in the province by nearly 50 percent. In the French-speaking Quebec province, there was a 52.5 percent rise over the 2008 data, and in the city of Montreal, where a large Jewish population resides, there was a 58.7 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents.

The figures are higher than those reported for 2008, but it is the distribution that has changed, rather than the numbers themselves. A total of 1,135 incidents were reported in that year.

The organization noted there has been a five-fold increase in anti-Semitic incidents in Canada over the past decade. As happened in France, the highest number of attacks to take place in one month, 209, occurred last January, during Israel's counter-terrorism operation in Gaza.

According to the Toronto Muslims website, Muslims living in Canada today number more than 750,000, with some 61 percent of those residing in Ontario, where the majority of the anti-Semitic incidents occurred. "Since the September 11 terrorist attacks many Muslims have begun to look to Canada as an alternative to the United States... This is especially true with international students who have come to Canada in much larger numbers since 9/11," the site noted.

 

GERMANY

And its not like Germany is chock full of Jews these days - only about 118,000 out of a population of nearly 82 million. It takes a bit of effort for someone to find a Jew to oppress in Germany, but still, there is anti-Semitism, particularly within their growing Muslim population.  Germany's Jewish community on Monday April 4, 2010 warned of an "alarming" rise in anti-Semitic violence by Arab and Turkish immigrants after Berlin police reported two unrelated attacks against Jews at the weekend.

 

SWEDEN

January 27, 2010 Yes, Sweden is finished. When Jews flee, the patient is dead. And not because the Jews are so gosh darn special. But they are, sadly enough, the best indicator of the health and freedom of any society. Look at any country in history.

Swedish Mayor: Ilmar Reepalu: 'Arab self determination is fine',  'it's Jewish self determination that I object to'.  Reepalu goes further to elucidate his true views on Israel, which basically follows the thinking in the Islamic world, that Jews are not allowed a national movement of their own.

 

NORWAY

April 17, 2010 Hostility to Jews in Scandinavia is becoming ever more menacing with the swelling of the Muslim population there (PI reported). Only around 1,300 Norwegians are of Jewish faith (in contrast to 150,000 Muslims), however they are seen as the root of all evil, and therefore they are mortally threatened, as even the report on Deutschlandfunk now reveals. Above all, Jewish schoolchildren are becoming victims of discrimination, racism, threats, harassments and mobbing.

Here is what Jewish parents report about their daily routine - not far away or somewhere in the Middle East, but right in the middle of the streets of Oslo:

"My son was on the way to the school to meet a friend there. A few Muslims stopped him and asked, are you Jewish, which he confirmed. With that the seized him and wanted to hang him. Somehow though, he was able to tear himself away from them - to this day he doesn't know how - he then ran home and cried out of panic. That was the starting point of the nightmare.".

"My child received death threats; his schoolmates say that he is a Jewish pig and should be shot down.

"There is a notorious denunciation of Jews - from jokes all the way to public death threats." .

"Many immigrants bring antisemitism with them from their homelands. The embarrassing thing is that there is nobody here who will stand against them."

The open hostility against Jews in Norway can now no longer be covered with the fig leaf of "Israel criticism." The discrimination against Jews just because they are Jews is too visible. Nobody is really resisting it as well. Politicians don't want to know anything about antisemitism in Norwegian society and disavow themselves of any common blame.

That fact that Norwegian politicians have belonged precisely to the sharpest international critics of Israeli policy pertaining to the Palestinians has nothing to do with the intimidation of Norwegian Jews. Such connections are repudiated by (Education Minister) Kristin Halvorsen who occupies the direction of the Socialist People's Party while at the same time is considered as one of the central stakeholders in the Norwegian government, and in the past had already called for a boycott of Israeli goods.

Finally, the Muslims are a blessing, and Battle against Israel is Battle against the Right™, and therefore hostility against Jews is apparently OK in the reckoning of the Education Minister, even if she wouldn't openly admit to this.