Opinion: The Pittsburgh synagogue attack is a wakeup call for Europe

[nitpicker]

https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-the-pittsburgh-synagogue-attack-is-a-wakeup-call-for-europe/a-46063199

Opinion: The Pittsburgh synagogue attack is a wakeup call for Europe

Date 28.10.2018
Author Martin Gak

The deadliest anti-Semitic attack in the history of the United States has shocked the world. In a social media post a few hours before the killing began, the shooter laid out his plan for all to see: “HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people... I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.”

HIAS stands for the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society, a group founded in the late 19th century in New York to help Jews escape pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe. More recently, the group has focused its efforts on organizing members of the Jewish community to help protect undocumented immigrants.

To the man who apparently went in looking to "kill all Jews", HIAS appears to have represented the old conspiracy of the "treacherous" international Jew. It is the perfidious Jew who plans world domination through control of international finance, promotes speculation, controls the media and actively works to undermine the religious identity of Christian nations.

The power of these anti-Semitic tropes, which have helped to justify the eradication of Jews through pogroms, concentration camps and mass killings, has not waned. The old Rothschild financier has been replaced by the billionaire George Soros. The rootless internationalism that Adolf Hitler denounced and associated with Jews is now the globalism that Steve Bannon and his alt-right contemporaries condemn.

A chorus of extreme American voices that has moved from the fringes to the mainstream has presented liberal Jews in the media, finance and government as powerful and dangerous. This strategy of demonization has now borne its poisonous fruit and those who are intellectually responsible for this heinous attack are easy to identify.

Europeans need to recognize similar anti-Semitic signs at home. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has pursued a plainly anti-Semitic electoral campaign that used Soros as the symbol of an anti-Hungarian globalist conspiracy. The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany, Alexander Gauland, has vomited invective against the "globalized class" that supposedly occupies positions in academia, media, finances and NGOs. The British Eurosceptic politician Nigel Farage, echoing Henry Ford's warning against the international Jew, recently told Fox News that George Soros was the "biggest danger to the entire western world."
(snip)

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[duforsure]

2. Its a wake up call here too

All religions and groups they hate, because if allowed to prosper , which he will let happen, the violence will continue , and get worse. Just look at the history of white nationalists and neo nazi's past. He may denounce it , but in reality he's embolden them even more by his hate driven rhetoric , and his propaganda of hate. Vote this hate group , the white nationalist and neo nazi's out of Congress now, or trump will be allowed to continue doing this. trump says one thing, he knows is a lie, but does something different all the time, and its called bait and switch , like he's doing with this when he's partly caused it with hate filled propaganda he repeats often.

[appalachiablue]

3. K & R. Europe will take note. There's been a rise in hate crimes

against Jews esp. in France for some years, and likely elsewhere sorry to say.