Saturday, February 16, 2019

Worrying rise in antisemitism

According to a report in yesterday's Guardian, antisemitism is rising sharply across Europe.

France reports a 74 per cent increase in the number of offences against Jews last year and Germany said the number of violent antisemitic attacks had surged by more than 60 per cent.

Hungary's Victor Orbán attacked philanthropist George Soros at an election rally last year, saying: “We are fighting an enemy that is different from us. Not open, but hiding; not straightforward but crafty; not honest but base; not national but international; does not believe in working but speculates with money; does not have its own homeland but feels it owns the whole world.”

Similar to the language used by Adolf Hitler when speaking about the Jews.

Shocking and worrying.

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