Topic: Why does the left care more about Islamophobia than anti-Semitism? (Read 562 times)

It comes to the population size.... Especially in Europe, the Muslims are a rapidly growing constituency (in countries such as France, they constitute as much as 15% of the population). On the other hand, the Jewish population is steeply declining. So the left will ignore the Jews and prop-up the Muslims, as they need to win the Muslim votes.

Jews have been blamed for all the plagues that hit europe, way before the creation of the state of israel... But yes, it is a mystery why american jews support 0bama and the iran deal for example...

There are nearly 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, yet only 15 million Jews. Why should issues that only 15 million people face be as important as issues that 1.6 billion people face?

Well, maybe we should look at why we have Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. Most anti-Semitism seems to be the result of Israel defending themselves and general jealously (due to the Jewish people's economic prowess)  over the years. The ability for a group of people to blame the Jewish people for all their problems transcends generations and continues on to the current day.

On the other hand, Islamophobia is caused by planes that crash into tall buildings, suicide bombings, car and truck bombs, and the war on America and American values that many Muslims support. Radical Muslims are not as rare as you might think. How could anyone support a religion with such disgusting views and actions? The politically correct view is that almost everyone is a "good person", but how could someone be both a "good person" and support killing females for "dishonoring" their families, executing homosexuals for being homosexual, bombings of civilians, etc.? Heck, most Muslims have "mixed feelings" about Bin Laden - I mean, what the hell?!? "Mixed feelings"!?!?!??!!!

Jewish people tend to be too "politically-altruistic" for my taste. Always sympathizing with African-Americans, Muslims, Hispanics, etc. instead of worrying about themselves. I guess that plays a role in why the media views anti-Semitism as an afterthought - it simply doesn't sell papers they way racism towards blacks and Muslims can. It's too bad most Jews are so far left - the left is right about a lot of social issues, but the whole politically correct act of being pro-Muslim is contradicting itself when you have Muslims preventing women from driving a car or going to school. In many ways, Islamophobia is justified.

Interestingly, one of the only countries that makes a big deal out of anti-Semitism is Germany. Go figure.

Because they are afraid of revenge. What will the Jews do? Complain a bit in the media? Have a small rally?
People from the Islam faith have proven they can take revenge very strongly if they incline to do so.

Also nothing new about antisemitism - it's boring for the media.

"one cow in palestine is worth all the jews of europe"

the zionist elite doesn't care if a handful of their coreligionists get beaten up by the millions of muslims they imported into to europe with the goal of bankrupting europe and sparking civil strife. the "left" is a zionist movement to destroy christian european civilisation and antisemitism has always been useful to the  zionist cause. sympathy for the jews has made us turn a blind eye to their agenda of subversion and sabotage.

almost all the antisemitic violence in europe is being done by muslims, but from reading the papers one would think nationalist groups were to blame and while nothing is done to deal with the muslim problem, everything is done to restrict nationalists' ability to mobilise and speak their mind.

jews want mass immigration and race mixing for us (but not for themselves). martin luther king and nelson mandela were taught by jews. all the multiculturalist journalists and politicians for a borderless world are jews or inspired by jewish communist ideas. every day in the israeli press there's a new article telling europeans if we don't accept millions more islamic "refugees" we are guilty of another holocaust. of course an islamic europe would be as disastrous for jews as for the rest of us but it is not in the nature of the parasite to think ahead.

My guess, because the Jewish community knows that the Left doesn't discriminate against them. Anti-semetic groups exist but they're on the fringe of society, and broadly ostracized. The Islamic community maybe doesn't have that trust yet.

And if anti-Islam crimes are surging do you need more explanation?

Why do leftists care more about Muslims than they do about Jews? If that sounds confrontational, consider this: this week, the Met Police released the latest hate-crime figures for London. They show that offences against Jews have risen by 93% over the past year, while offences against Muslims have risen by 70%. And guess which story the BBC, Guardian and Independent, those voices of the British liberal conscience, have chosen to flag up? Yep, the 70% hike in Islamophobic attacks, not the nearly 100% hike in anti-Semitic offences.

The BBC’s headline is ‘Islamophobic crime in London “up by 70%”‘. The Guardian‘s is ‘Hate crimes against Muslims soar in London’. The Indie opts for ‘Hate crimes against Muslims in London “up by 70%”‘. What about the crimes against Jews? Sorry, no room for those. They aren’t mentioned. Whether as a result of how the cops chose to press-release their new figures or how editors chose to interpret them, or maybe a bit of both, someone down the line has taken the decision that a bashed-up or verbally abused Muslim is more newsworthy than a bashed-up or verbally abused Jew.

This is becoming increasingly common. For some reason, so-called progressives, especially those of a leftist bent, are made more upset by hatred of Muslims than they are by hatred of Jews. It’s why the very people – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Diane Abbott, every leftie on Twitter – who normally rail against racism, and against the people who rub shoulders with racists, could in essence say ‘What’s all the fuss?!’ when it was revealed Jeremy Corbyn had been hanging out with Holocaust deniers.

It’s why every bovine attack on a mosque is held up as hard evidence that Europe is descending into a cesspool of anti-Muslim hatred, whereas you have to scour the media to find mentions of attacks on synagogues. In recent days, a Manchester teen was beaten up in a suspected anti-Semitic assault; a Jewish Spanish teenager was physically attacked; and two Holocaust survivors in Amsterdam were assaulted and called ‘dirty Jews’. Yet these incidents aren’t frontpage news; certainly they aren’t cited as evidence that a new plague of prejudice is stalking Europe, as is done when Muslims are assaulted. The message of this double standard, however implicit it might be, is pretty clear: attacks on Jews are less important than attacks on Muslims.

The extent to which chattering-class concern for Muslims trumps concern for Jews reached its nadir when four Jews were murdered in a Parisian deli shortly after the massacre at Charlie Hebdo. Pretty much every liberal newspaper in Europe continued thundering on about the potential for an ‘Islamophobic backlash’ following the Charlie killings, even as Jews were being killed. On the morning the four dead Jews were being put on a flight for burial in Israel, George Clooney was telling fawning hacks how worried he was about ‘anti-Muslim fervour’ in Europe. It’s surreal. Some people seem more worried about possible attacks on Muslims than by actual attacks on Jews.

And now, a hike in anti-Muslim crimes in London is given greater media prominence than a larger hike in anti-Jewish attacks. This implicit demotion of Jewish problems, this judgement that crimes against Jews aren’t all that serious, needs some explanation. I think there are two reasons for it.

The first is that flagging up attacks on Muslims allows the left to indulge some prejudices of their own, especially about the dumb, tabloid-reading hordes, whom they view as being one iffy Richard Littlejohn column away from organising a demented anti-Muslim pogrom. The liberal elite’s myopic focus on Islamophobia is really an expression of distrust for the insufficiently multicultural, apparently Western-centric masses.

The second reason is that many on the left seem to think anti-Semitism is politically justified. From Karen Armstrong’s insistence that the deli attack in Paris ‘had nothing to do with anti-Semitism’ and rather was ‘about Palestine’ to various commentators’ claims that anti-Semitism in Europe is the inevitable byproduct of Israel’s antics in the Middle East, many very respectable people now view assaults on Jews almost as a form of protest, as political rather than hateful.

That’s the terrifying message of the media and leftists’ implicit downgrading of the seriousness of anti-Semitism. Whether they’re excusing these crimes or simply acquiescing to them, they’re giving a green light to anti-Semitism.


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