Reply #10: Dershowitz should look at the real reason for rising anti-Zionism [View All]

[dutchdemocrat]

Not a good article at all. The poll (that Dershowitz fails to link too) is likely the one from Sweden which 52 per cent said Israel was the biggest threat to world peace on a list of 12 countries.

Wolf Blitzer was on about the Swedish poll two days ago and then ripped into France alluding that the European intelligentsia are holding hands with Islamic terrorists.

Dershowitz gets kudos for being a brilliant lawyer and prof at Harvard, but I did not think the op-ed piece and its inflammatory header "Euro trash - Perversity & anti-Semitism led to "Europeans" aka the Swedes, to call Israel the greatest threat to peace". The article is weak and purely a knee-jerk reaction.

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I think Soros got it right. Instead of blaming the Europeans for a rise in Anti-Zionism, he blames the US and Israel.

Soros blames U.S., Israel
for anti-Semitism
Jewish billionaire says Mideast policies need to change

Posted: November 11, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Billionaire George Soros, who says his highest calling in life is to turn George Bush out of office, told a New York audience of wealthy Jews that that the policies of Israel and the U.S. are partly to blame for the rise of anti-Semitism around the world.

"There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe," Soros told the Jewish Funders Network, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that. It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well. I'm critical of those policies. If we change that direction, then anti-Semitism also will diminish," he said. "I can't see how one could confront it directly."


http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35535


A little about the country behind the Poll (note the link)

“Sweden is considered a pioneer in Holocaust education. In November 1997, the Swedish government introduced a large-scale educational program, called the Living History Project, to educate Swedes about anti-Semitism. For this project, a free book was distributed about the Holocaust to every household in Sweden and minority comminutes were given the book in their own language. A website devoted to the Holocaust was designed and Uppsala University opened an institute designated for the study of the Holocaust and other genocides. Uppsala University also hosted an international conference on Holocaust education, in 1998. In January 2000 Sweden hosted an international gathering to promote awareness of the Holocaust, which was attended by heads of state from numerous countries throughout the world.”

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/vjw/Sweden.html