the snowballIsrael suggests the EU should establish a council on anti-Semitism because "a controversial opinion poll carried out by the EU's executive, the European Commission, found that more Europeans see Israel as a threat to world peace than any other country." The Euros respond: However, some EU officials are concerned at what they see as a tendency to stigmatize legitimate criticism of Israel's policies toward the Palestinians as anti-Semitic.Do repeated attacks on synagogues and fire bombings of Jewish schools constitute legitimate criticism of Israeli policies? Of course not! So wouldn't an increase in these activities indicate a rise in anti-Semitism? Of course! And shouldn't these crimes be seriously addressed as the sort of hateful rhetoric which plunged Europe into war countless times, and not just some "humiliated" minority "venting steam"? What's the HTML representation of crickets chirping? MORE DATA: For those who believe that anti-Muslim hysteria has swepped the United States of America, recently released FBI statistics prove otherwise. According to the FBI hate crimes against Muslims represent only 11% of all hate crimes in this country, which is enough crime to fall into 2nd place. The most persecuted religion in this country? How about the Jews, with a whopping 65% of all hate crimes committed in this country being committed against them. |
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