OPINION
As Hemingway’s character Mike Campbell observes, in The Sun Also Rises, he went bankrupt “Two ways… Gradually and then suddenly.” The world has slid into a poisonous eruption of naked anti-Semitism in similar fashion: gradually and then suddenly.
Anti-Semitism, fashionably disguised as “pro-Palestinian”, has been gradually metastasizing on university campuses and the political left for decades. In the Islamic world, it’s been a near-constant. But what was coyly cloaked as “anti-Zionism” is now out and loud and unabashed in its dribbling hatred for Jews.
As Yael Bar-tur, an Israeli-born former director of social media for the New York Police Department, has written, a great deal of so-called “human rights advocacy” is, in fact, thinly disguised anti-Semitism.
For instance:
If your response to a massacre is to call for a “ceasefire” instead of the immediate release of the hostages and dismantlement of the perpetrators – you may not be an antisemite, but you’re really dumb.
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Right on cue…
New Zealand is calling for a pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas to create safe areas for civilians and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.
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“Aid” which would immediately be co-opted by Hamas to further its terror efforts.
But while Hipkins and his odious Foreign Minister could at least plausibly plead being “really dumb” as an excuse, the thousands of New Zealand leftists who infested Auckland’s streets last weekend, shouting anti-Semitic slogans and disgusting anti-Jewish conspiracy theories have no such excuse.
New Zealand’s Jewish community is outraged and revolted after a prominent mosque leader blamed Mossad for being behind the Christchurch terror attack […]
Ahmed Bhamji, chairman of the Mt Roskill Masjid E Umar, gave a speech questioning where the gunman got his funding from. He said he suspected it came from “Mossad” and “Zionist business” […]
One person can be heard shouting in support: “It’s the truth. Israel is behind this. That’s right!”
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Tellingly, not one person in the crowd appeared to demur or raise their voice to repudiate this disgusting, naked Jew-hating.
On the contrary, the co-founder of the ludicrously misnamed Love Aotearoa Hate Racism far-left extremist group, Joe Carolan, not only refused to condemn the shameful libel on Israel but led a bellowing chorus calling for violent terrorism against Jews.
Joe Carolan, the same man who stood by as a man blamed Israel for the Chch terror attacks leads a chant for “intifada, intifada… globalise the intifada…”
“Intifada” is synonymous with terror – including suicide bombings.
When the chant was raised in Ontario, Canada, in 2019 their premier condemned the “vile hatred” and said he stands with the Jewish community.
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Just a reminder, Joe, from Yael Bar-tur:
If you advocate for an “Intifada”, which means a violent uprising against the Jews in their homeland – you’re an antisemite.
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But New Zealand is just one of a multitude of festering boils of growing — and increasingly violent — anti-Semitism around the world.
Hundreds of people stormed into the main airport in Russia’s Dagestan region and onto the landing field Sunday, chanting antisemitic slogans and seeking passengers arriving on a flight from Tel Aviv, Israel, Russian news agencies and social media reported.
Russian news reports said the crowd surrounded the airliner, which belonged to Russian carrier Red Wings.
Authorities closed the airport in Makhachkala, the capital of the predominantly Muslim region, and police converged on the facility. Dagestan’s Ministry of Health said more than 20 people were injured, with two in critical condition. It said the injured included police officers and civilians.
Video on social media showed some in the crowd waving Palestinian flags and others trying to overturn a police car. Antisemitic slogans can be heard being shouted and some in the crowd examined the passports of arriving passengers, apparently in an attempt to identify those who were Israeli.
At least, unlike New Zealand’s sorry lame-duck government, Dagestani leader Sergei Melikov didn’t hesitate to condemn an anti-Semitic mob.
Dagestan Gov. Sergei Melikov promised consequences for anyone who took part in the violence.
“The actions of those who gathered at the Makhachkala airport today are a gross violation of the law! … (W)hat happened at our airport is outrageous and should receive an appropriate assessment from law enforcement agencies! And this will definitely be done!” he wrote on Telegram.
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Hang your head, New Zealand: you’ve just been shown up by Dagestan.