The Jews’ situation in France is indicative of the condition of French society. Substantial anti-Semitic violence in recent years underscores several of the country’s major problems. Under the Jospin socialist-led government (in power until 2002), the Jews became the country’s … [Read More]
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Four factors play a role in the increasingly anti-Israeli sentiment in Europe: the attempt to assuage guilt over Europe’s murderous past, rivalry with the United States, anti-Semitism, and the rejection of European concepts of society by the majority of Israelis. … [Read More]
The main goal of modern Jihadism – a cataclysmic apocalyptic movement – is Islam’s dominance over the world. It makes millennial claims, promising that once Islam rules everywhere, there will be world peace. Jihad, as the millennial war, operates in … [Read More]
Watershed events such as the Palestinian uprising in 2000 created major new challenges to the American Jewish leadership. Other mega-events such as September 11, 2001, and the war in Iraq also heavily influenced their environment. A key element of American … [Read More]
Retired Israeli diplomat Avi Pazner says that the best way to gain clear insight into European-Israeli relations is by looking at watershed events over the past six decades. Pazner, a former ambassador in Rome and Paris, now chairs the United … [Read More]
by Manfred Gerstenfeld. From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. Dr. Johannes Gerster is the representative of the Adenauer Foundation in Israel and, as such, a privileged observer of Middle Eastern developments. He believes that Europeans and Israelis increasingly misunderstand each other: … [Read More]
“There is a radical difference in basic culture between the European Union and Israel. The EU is a new, unprecedented type of entity unless one goes back to the Roman or Holy Roman Empire. It eludes the ideas of nationalism, … [Read More]
Anti-Zionism has become a civil religion in Belgium. Its credo is that the Palestinians are always right and the Israelis are always wrong. Classic anti-Semitism in Belgium is manifest, but probably in decline. Yet an unprecedented outburst of anti-Semitic acts … [Read More]
The resurgence of European anti-Semitism after the Holocaust suggests that it has deep roots in society. It has been fostered in a great variety of ways by so many, for such a long time, in all European countries that one … [Read More]
More than twenty years ago, a case of mass hysteria broke out on the West Bank. In March 1983, a number of girls at a middle school in the village of Arrabeh in the northern West Bank fell sick. Their … [Read More]