That strain does exist, yes, but there are also at least two other distinct strains that I've seen in the wild in the UK: one, the inherited-via-Muslim-immigrants strain that's relatively clean, straightforward, there-is-a-Jew-hiding-behind-me-come-and-kill-him strain; and two, the native European branch of anti-Semitism - by which I mean less the kind that neo-Nazi idiots espouse that's more akin to the former, but the more persistent kind that let the original Nazis get away with it.
Now spiced up with fresh new elements on the theme that a) people resent the Jews for not being good little victims, i.e., basically, Jews are OK when they're, say, Holocaust victims, but God forbid that they actually, y'know, fight back or become prosperous, and b) maybe if those damn Jews would stop annoying the Muslims, maybe they'd go away. There are nastier strains of b) around, but they're still fairly rare for now.
Still, were I a Jew in Europe, I'd be feeling pretty skittish right about now.
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Date: 2007-06-28 09:52 pm (UTC)Now spiced up with fresh new elements on the theme that a) people resent the Jews for not being good little victims, i.e., basically, Jews are OK when they're, say, Holocaust victims, but God forbid that they actually, y'know, fight back or become prosperous, and b) maybe if those damn Jews would stop annoying the Muslims, maybe they'd go away. There are nastier strains of b) around, but they're still fairly rare for now.
Still, were I a Jew in Europe, I'd be feeling pretty skittish right about now.