Blog : Philosémitisme

En 1801, Charles-Joseph, Prince de Ligne, révolté par la façon dont les Juifs étaient traités en Europe, lançait cet appel: "Une colère de 1800 ans me paraît avoir duré longtemps assez". Hélas la situation n'a pas changé et Alan Dershowitz rappelle que cette haine dure maintenant depuis 2000 ans: "... the sordid history of Western Europe's treatment of the Jews". 

Alan Dershowitz @ NewsMax: Europe's Alarming Push to Isolate Israel (extraits).  Note: Alan Dershowitz est Démocrate (donc de gauche) et soutient le Président Barak Obama.  Dans l'article il met en cause le rôle de certains Juifs dans la propagation de la détestation d'Israël.  Comme l'a récemment dit l'historien Simon Epstein, l'antisémitisme va se maintenir et continuer de prospérer en Europe.  C'est dommage, car quelques personnes comme Dershowitz et Epstein pourraient changer les choses car rien, absolument rien, ne prédestine l'Europe à ne pas respecter les Juifs et Israël.

"Why are so many of the grandchildren of Nazis and Nazi collaborators who brought us the Holocaust once again declaring war on the Jews'  Why have we seen such an increase in anti-Semitism and irrationally virulent anti-Zionism in western Europe'

To answer these questions, a myth must first be exposed. That myth is the one perpetrated by the French, the Dutch, the Norwegians, the Swiss, the Belgians, the Austrians, and many other western Europeans: namely that the Holocaust was solely the work of German Nazis aided perhaps by some Polish, Ukrainian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian collaborators.  False.

The Holocaust was perpetrated by Europeans ? by Nazi sympathizers and collaborators among the French, Dutch, Norwegians, Swiss, Belgians, Austrians and other Europeans, both Western and Eastern.  If the French government had not deported to the death camps more Jews than their German occupiers asked for; if so many Dutch and Belgian citizens and government officials had not cooperated in the roundup of Jews; if so many Norwegians had not supported Quisling; if Swiss government officials and bankers had not exploited Jews; if Austria had not been more Nazi than the Nazis, the Holocaust would not have had so many Jewish victims.

In light of the widespread European complicity in the destruction of European Jewry, the pervasive anti-Semitism and irrationally hateful anti-Zionism that has recently surfaced throughout western Europe toward Israel should surprise no one.


"Oh no," we hear from European apologists. "This is different. We don't hate the Jews. We only hate their nation-state. Moreover, the Nazis were right-wing. We're left-wing, so we can't be anti-Semites. Nonsense."  [...]

"But Israel is doing bad things to the Palestinians," the European apologists insist, "and we are sensitive to the plight of the underdog."  No, you're not! Where are your demonstrations on behalf of the oppressed Tibetans, Georgians, Syrians, Armenians, Kurds, or even Ukrainians' Where are your BDS movements against the Chinese, the Russians, the Cubans, the Turks, or the Assad regime'


Only the Palestinians, only Israel' Why' Not because the Palestinians are more oppressed than these and other groups.  Only because their alleged oppressors are Jews and the nation-state of the Jews. Would there be demonstrations and BDS campaigns on behalf of the Palestinians if they were oppressed by Jordan or Egypt'

Oh, wait! The Palestinians were oppressed by Egypt and Jordan. Gaza was an open-air prison between 1948 and 1967, when Egypt was the occupying power. And remember Black September, when Jordan killed more Palestinians than Israel did in a century' I don't remember any demonstration or BDS campaigns -- because there weren't any.  When Arabs occupy or kill Arabs, Europeans go ho-hum. But when Israel opens a soda factory in Maale Adumim, which even the Palestinian leadership acknowledges will remain part of Israel in any peace deal, Oxfam parts ways with Scarlett Johansson for advertising a soda company that employs hundreds of Palestinians.

Keep in mind that Oxfam has provided "aid and material support" to two anti-Israel terrorist groups, according to the Tel Aviv-based Israeli Law Group.

The hypocrisy of so many hard-left western Europeans would be staggering if it were not so predictable based on the sordid history of Western Europe's treatment of the Jews. [...]

As author Amos Oz once aptly observed: the walls of his grandparents' Europe were covered with graffiti saying, "Jews, go to Palestine." Now they say, "Jews, get out of Palestine" ? by which is meant Israel.

Who do these western European bigots think they're fooling' Only fools who want to be fooled in the interest of denying that they are manifesting new variations on their grandparents' old biases.  Any objective person with an open mind, open eyes, and an open heart must see the double standard being applied to the nation-state of the Jewish people. Many doing so are the grandchildren of those who lethally applied a double standard to the Jews of Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.

Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is a graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School. His latest book is his autobiography, "Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law."
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