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Victor Davis Hanson points out a newly-virulent strain of a very old disease: anti-Semitism. This is sickness is spreading rapidly.

Who recently said: "These Jews started 19 Crusades. The 19th was World War (1). Why? Only to build Israel."

Some holdover Nazi?

Hardly. It was former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan of Turkey, a NATO ally. He went on to claim that the Jews — whom he refers to as "bacteria" — controlled China, India and Japan, and ran the United States.

Who alleged: "The Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs."

A conspiracy nut?

Actually, it was former Democratic U.S. Sen. James Abourezk of South Dakota. He denounced Israel on a Hezbollah-owned television station, adding: "I marveled at the Hezbollah resistance to Israel. . . . It was a marvel of organization, of courage and bravery."

And finally, who claimed at a United Nations-sponsored conference that democratic Israel was "much worse" than the former apartheid South Africa, and that it "undermines the international community's reaction to global warming"? A radical environmentalist wacko?

Again, no. It was Clare Short, a member of the British parliament. She was a secretary for international development under Prime Minister Tony Blair.

A new virulent strain of the old anti-Semitism is spreading worldwide. This hate — of a magnitude not seen in over 70 years — is not just espoused by Iran's loony president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or radical jihadists.

Of course, the practitioners of this try to nuance it. They aren't really against the Jews, they say, only against Zionism. But they turn a blind eye to the depraved behavior of thuggish regimes and focus all their hatred on Israel, the only real democracy in their part of the world.

Yet when the United States bombed European and Christian Serbia to help Balkan Muslims, few critics alleged that American Muslims had unduly swayed President Clinton. And such charges of improper ethnic influence are rarely leveled to explain the billions in American aid given to non-democratic Egypt, Jordan or the Palestinians — or the Saudi oil money that pours into American universities.

The world likewise displays such a double standard. It seems to care little about the principle of so-called occupied land — whether in Cyprus or Tibet — unless Israel is the accused. Mass murdering in Cambodia, the Congo, Rwanda and Darfur has earned far fewer United Nations' resolutions of condemnation than supposed atrocities committed by Israel. A number of British academics are sponsoring a boycott of Israeli scholars but leave alone those from autocratic Iran, China and Cuba.

There are various explanations for the new anti-Semitism. For many abroad, attacking Jews and Israel is an indirect way of damning its main ally, the United States — by implying that Americans are not entirely evil, just hoodwinked by those sneaky and far more evil Jews.

The world tried to put anti-Semitism behind it following the Second World War when the United Nations created Israel in the first place. But some lessons appear to be forgotten all too quickly. And a vicious, old evil raises again.

Civilization, World news | Gaius Thursday, 13 September , 2007

By syn, Thursday, 13 September , 2007 @ 8:27 am

I will begin by saying that while I do believe in God I am having a hard time determining which church teaches the true word of God especially in light of Jimmy Carter who is a Socialist, a Baptist and a former sunday school teacher. Maybe it’s that I live in NYC where pretty much every church is a multi-cultural ‘Jesus loves everyone as long as you are poor, female, minority or gay’ Leftist environment that has me tainted, I don’t know since I still am trying to understand how it was possible that a Christian nation Germany was capable of allowing Socialist Nazis to do what they did.

Sometimes I think that the religious institution ie the church be it Catholic, Baptist, Protestant, Methodist, Jewsih etc are corrupting the word of God with perhaps unknowingly or possibly knowingly socialist ideals all in the name of ‘helping the poor.’

Between Baptist Jimmy Carter’s virulent anti-semitism or the Methodist church in Chicago harboring an illegal immigrate who had already been deported once before, I cannot tell which religious institution is preaching God’s words or are simply activists for Marxism.
By feeblemind, Thursday, 13 September , 2007 @ 10:57 am

Some time back, I can’t remember where I saw it on the web, an astute writer observed that whenever Evil rises in the world, the Jews are the canary in the coal mine. They are always the first to catch it in the neck.
By FedUp, Thursday, 13 September , 2007 @ 12:04 pm

Syn… Perversion is alive and well. I too believe in God and the finished work of Jesus Christ. Fortunately for me, I have found a Bible teaching church! It’s back to the Bible to sort out who is teaching the Word! I’ve found that the major churches are more interested in making money, making political statements and establishing kingdoms on earth than following the teachings of Jesus!

Sad, but that’s what is causing our Christian nations to slide down into oblivion.
By terrence, Thursday, 13 September , 2007 @ 2:11 pm

Syn, Christianity is NOT â€œchurchiantyâ€, regardless of what the churches say. Most churches are left-wing political organizations. But, as Fedup says, you can find bible-based churches; it may take some searching, but there are some.