Thursday, March 7, 2019
Anti-Semitic Belgian Carnival Float Creators and Viewers Double Down on Anti-Semitism
The creators of the anti-Semitic Belgian carnival float double down on their anti-Semitism. As do those who loved the float, in their Facebook posts. See here.
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This statement from the article is telling:
ReplyDelete'As for Soleme, he has “absolutely no regrets” about participating in the display. “I think the people who are offended are living in the past, of the Holocaust, but this was about the present,” he said. “There was never any intention to insult anyone. It was a celebration of humor.”'
Yeah right. And when Poles are insulted with impunity, Polish protests usually meet with the same kind of cavalier dismissal ("Oh, they're just nationalists").
So now the shoe is on the other foot. Perhaps karmic justice exists after all.
Anyone who cares about stereotypes of Poles needs to be paying attention to the row over Ilhan Omar's comments. And read the chapter of Bieganski about Jewish-Black relations.
ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteAntisemitism is rising in the Western Europe. In 2018 there were 541 acts of violence in France and 1646 in Germany. Not always commited by muslims, but also by natives.
Accusation of antisemitism becomes ineffective after a certain point. In fact when used too often it makes people become insensitive to such charges.
Because when everyone is antisemitic then nobody is.
Meanwhile in Poland the Jews are safe. Link below.
https://www.rp.pl/Spoleczenstwo/302179949-Antysemityzm-w-Europie-W-Polsce-Zydzi-bez-leku.html
Dear Danusha,
ReplyDeleteI just came across your blog. Are you by any chance in the Bay Area? I am going to be a grad student at UC Berkeley. Would love to connect.
That may be a bit out of context, but an American friend recently called Johann Seb Bach's (the greatest composer in the history of music) "Passions" (based on the Gospels by St John and St Mathew) anti-Semitic. it is interesting (and scary) how freely and easily this word is used nowadays by the younger generation.