Behind the Aegis (40,759 posts)behindthepages is concerned and rightly so. Anti-semitic crimes are horrible. But obama is gone so I believe they will decrease quite a bit DUmmie.
Holocaust Memorial Day: Rise In Hate Crime Parallels The Darkest Days Of The 1930s, Warns EJCs Mo
Holocaust Memorial Day: Rise In Hate Crime Parallels The ‘Darkest Days Of The 1930s’, Warns EJC’s Moshe Kantor
The recent rise in hate crime has “parallels with the darkest days of the 1930s”, the head of a body representing Europe’s Jews has warned.
Dr Moshe Kantor, head of the European Jewish Congress, said that the rise of Far Right and neo-Nazi parties is exceptionally worrying.
As commemorations take place around the world for Holocaust Memorial Day, he said that there were dangers “lurking in our own back yard” and called for improvements in security, education and legislation to deal with them.
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“Only a small minority supported Hitler’s plan to kill all European Jews through mass extermination, a plan that was widely circulated years before.
“But he was able to act because an undercurrent of hatred had seeped into everyday life.”
That undercurrent of hatred is still there today – and could have worrying consequences, he said.
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From the article, but bared repeating:
“But he was able to act because an undercurrent of hatred had seeped into everyday life.”
UNDERCURRENTS are just as dangerous as those we see in front of our faces. A threat to one group is a threat to us all!
From a survivor:
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
-- Elie Wiesel (source)
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
-- Elie Wiesel (source)
irisblue (6,857 posts)This one replies "Licking for truth." I clicked the link and read the article and I can't figure out what that means. WTF?
1. licking for truth
People were reporting FAKE hate crimes in the 30s?They sure were!
From the article, but bared repeating:
Yet no mention of the Muslims tearing across their borders and their recent crimes against jews
1. licking for truth