Not (Only) in Kansas Anymore: Anti-Semitic Violence Is Up Across America

[LeftishBrit]

10. While I think a lot of antisemitism and other racism is the result of the economic crisis...

)people tend to look for scapegoats, and the Jooos and the Evil Immigrants are usually high up on the list), there is no doubt that internet hate-sites fuel the problem. It is easier to click on a hate-site, probably one that shrieks that it's telling you the TRUTH, than to purchase and read a propaganda book, or to attend a demagogue's speech.

Rense, WhatReallyNeverHappened, WakeUpFromYourSlumber, whale.to, and many other hate-sites fuel the scapegoating of Jews and other minorities.

But mainstream right-wing sources are dangers too; e.g. the British tabloids. On the whole, they go after immigrants and benefit recipients rather than Jews at the moment. But I have no doubt that if there were ever again a significant amount of Jewish immigration to the UK, there would be a resurgence of anti-Semitism in the tabloids. There is certainly some rather thinly veiled anti-Semitism in some of the attacks on Ed Miliband and his family; and we should not forget that in the 1930s, the Daily Mail supported the Nazis and Blackshirts until the eve of the war.