There is racism everywhere. Such is life.
Also these sites and these articles, really? Various sites and foundations that combat one specific problem. Iam not really convinced.
Once in a while you need to publish an article to get the money flowing again.
First of all "in Europe" doesnt exist. Europe is not some single country.
You have rising antisemitism in Hungary among its native population but thats it.
Everywhere else its almost exclusively a problem among muslims. The topic no one likes to speak about since we are so pro multicultural until it bites us in the butt.
But since you mentioned Germany lets have a look. The last time i was very uncomfortable was during the attack on Gaza some years back. The atmosphere was really grim but not because some Sieg Heiling germans were marching down the street. It was because muslims marched through the streets while chanting "Hamas" and all the fun stuff they like to scream.
Apart from that we had an incident in Berlin last year. A Rabbi and his daugther were attacked on the streets in the evening. Again not by germans but by arabs.
And thats it: People from the native society you tend to live in inside a european country usually dont give a **** about you being jewish. The problems usually arise when you meet muslims. Not all but far too many.
I live near Dortmund(pretty much the Neonazi capital of NRW) and i cant even remember when i last saw an obvious Neonazi. Now tell me when you saw your last "White Power" idiot?
But anti-Semitism is not being said to be on the rise in the US right now: it doesn't make a difference when I saw my last skinhead or klansman or whatnot, because that's not the issue here.
And forgive me, but what exactly is the point of noting that Europe isn't a country but made up of many countries (which, perhaps astoundingly, I actually knew)? Europe is a very small continent, wherein the majority of countries are apparently entered into some sort of union-- or so we hear, far off in this corner of the world. Does it really detract from the point that much that anti-Semitism is said to be on the rise in Norway, Sweden, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ukraine, and Russia, but so far we haven't necessarily heard bad stuff about Luxembourg or Andorra? Or is it simply that to you, the important thing is what's going on in Germany, and not elsewhere?
For the life of me, I cannot understand why this is a point of contention for you. You're going to dismiss articles from anti-hate organizations because you think they need to create hate hysteria for fundraising purposes?? You really don't think that there's any significant chance that they might just be doing their jobs by reporting what they see going on? And that is to say nothing of those articles that were not from such organizations-- was the problem with those articles that they quoted such organizations at all?
What I find maybe most distressing is that you shrug off such anti-Semitism as does exist merely by blaming it all on Arabs. Now, I have no doubt there is much truth that the influx of Arab immigrants to Europe in the past 20-30 years has certainly been responsible for some anti-Semitism-- likely no small amount of it. But even if you were correct that the majority of the anti-Semitism throughout Europe (or such countries in Europe that have any significant anti-Semitism problem) is being actively perpetrated primarily by Arabs, you are ignoring the fact that everyone else is tolerating it. In examining the stories and reports around these things, in speaking to my family in France, my friends in Britain and Holland, and whatever other sources of news I can find, I hear very little in the way of popular outcry against anti-Semitism, or even of government action to curb it-- a few formulaic condemnations in the wake of tragic incidents, but nothing concrete or decisive. In fact, often much the reverse.
But passive tolerance of hatred is simply passive hatred at best, complicity in whatever arises from the hate at worst. As Edmund Burke said (paraphrasing John Stuart Mill), All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Even if most of the voices raised in anti-Semitism in European countries are Arab voices-- a premise of which I am by no means convinced-- anti-Semitism is still on the rise in those European countries because there is no outcry of equal or greater volume by non-Arab Europeans countering the anti-Semitism.
And, lest you think I hold a double standard, I made the same argument when I helped organize events and rallies against anti-Semitism in Los Angeles, in the Bay Area (Northern California) in the 1990s, and why I would do so again if anti-Semitic incidents were (God forbid) to rise in the Chicago area where I currently reside. I expect a counter outcry to anti-Semitism in any community wherein it arises, and find fault whenever and wherever no such counter outcry emerges.
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