{"id":50423,"date":"2017-02-24T17:05:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T15:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=50423"},"modified":"2017-02-17T17:45:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:45:04","slug":"24-05-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=50423","title":{"rendered":"European socialist hate mongers on Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>European socialist hate mongers on Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The list is long and a paean to intellectual dishonesty, but the worst part is that some of these haters are Jews.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For decades extreme anti-Israel hatemongering has come out of many mainstream European social democratic parties. Finally, starting over a year ago, the Israeli Foreign Office is no longer willing to receive the Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom.[1] This Social Democrat had called for an investigation into what she called Israeli \u201cextrajudicial killings\u201d of terrorists during their attacks. The Simon Wiesenthal Center put her on the 2016 list of the world\u2019s main promoters of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel incidents, as she had not shown any interest in investigating the Palestinian terrorism.[2]<\/span><\/p>\n

This extreme anti-Israel incitement by European Socialist leaders goes back many years. Three of them have compared Israel\u2019s actions to those of the Nazis – Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme,[3] French President Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand,[4] and Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou.[5]<\/span><\/p>\n

In a 2004 lecture in Alexandria, former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard, called the Balfour Declaration a \u201chistoric mistake.\u201d[6] Beno\u00eet Hamon, the Socialist candidate in the upcoming French presidential elections has initiated the recognition of the non-existent state of Palestine in the French parliament. He has justified this by saying that it is good way to recuperate French Muslim voters for the Socialist Party, which had been lost during the Hollande presidency.[7]<\/span><\/p>\n

There has been an outburst of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hatred in the British Labour Party since Jeremy Corbyn became its leader in 2015. The Home Select Affairs Committee of the House of Commons was highly critical of this rise in Labour anti-Semitism and said that Corbyn had not done enough to combat it.[8]<\/span><\/p>\n

During Israel\u2019s 2014 Protective Edge campaign a former British deputy prime minister from the Labour Party, John Prescott, wrote a column condemning Israel. In his words, \u201cCompare that to the toll in Gaza. Of the 1,000-plus to die, more than 80 per cent were \u00adcivilians, mostly women and children. But who is to say some of the other 20 per cent weren\u2019t \u00adinnocent too? Israel brands them terrorists but it is acting as judge, jury and \u00adexecutioner in the concentration camp that is Gaza.\u201d He added, \u201cWhat happened to the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis is appalling. But you would think those atrocities would give Israelis a unique sense of perspective and empathy with the victims of a ghetto.\u201d[9]<\/span><\/p>\n

After the next Norwegian elections in September of this year, Labor Party leader Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re may become prime minister of Norway. Two Norwegian Hamas supporters, Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse, wrote a book in which they developed a modern version of the blood libel, claiming that during a military campaign, Israel entered Gaza to kill women and children. St\u00f8re wrote a back cover comment for this book praising the authors for their work during their stay in the Gaza strip.[10]<\/span><\/p>\n

For many years, Socialist Erkki Tuomioja, was Foreign Minister of Finland. At the beginning of this century, he compared Israel\u2019s defensive measures to the Nazi persecution of European Jewry.[11] In 2002, Greek Socialist parliamentary speaker, Apostolos Kaklamanis referred to the Israeli \u201cgenocide\u201d of the Palestinians, after which government spokesman Christos Protopapas said he had expressed the sentiments of the parliament and the Greek people.[12]<\/span>
\n In 2001, Israel Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze\u2019evi was assassinated by Palestinian terrorists. Danish Foreign Minister Mogens Lykketoft, who later would become the leader of the Danish Socialist Party, said on television that there was no difference between this assassination and Israel\u2019s targeted killing of terrorists.[13]<\/span><\/p>\n

The Dutch Labour Party succeeded in 2016 in passing a parliamentary motion to impose sanctions on Israel if it does not enter into serious peace negotiations with the Palestinians.[14] Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders claims that his government is against BDS. In truth the Dutch government subsidizes NGOs which promote BDS.[15] Belgian Socialist Euro-parliamentarian Veronique de Keyser has said that she would want to \u201cstrangle\u201d Israel’s ambassador if he would come to speak about Israel\u2019s security.[16] After Protective Edge, the socialist former secretary-general of NATO Willy Claes attacked Israel. He said, \u201cIsrael has to realize that the enormous historical credit that Judaism has built up after the Second World War has now been exhausted.\u201d[17]<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2002 Franco Cavalli, then parliamentary leader of the Swiss Social Democrats, said that Israel \u201cvery purposefully massacres an entire people\u201d and undertakes \u201cthe systematic extermination of the Palestinians.\u201d[18]<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the most extreme anti-Israel social democrats are Jews. The main inciter against Israel in the Dutch Labour Party is parliamentarian Michiel Servaes. The late Austrian Socialist Prime Minister Bruno Kreisky said about the Jews, \u201cIf they are a people, they are an ugly people.\u201d[19] This self-hater was a pioneer in the slandering of Israel as a \u201csemifascist\u201d and \u201capartheid\u201d state. He also called Israel \u201cundemocratic,\u201d \u201cclerical,\u201d and \u201cmilitarist.\u201d[20]<\/span><\/p>\n

The above is only a small selection of the anti-Israel hate mongering occurring in eleven Western European socialist parties. In several countries, this trend of attacking Israel is a tool for socialists to try to attract Muslim voters without giving them anything tangible. Furthermore, socialists pretend to be in favor of the underdog, which many of them consider includes terrorists. This position can only be maintained through extreme intellectual dishonesty: by knowingly looking away from incitement to genocide of Jews by the largest Palestinian Arab party, Hamas, and the glorification of violence by the only other significant one, Fatah.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1] www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-1.758613<\/em><\/span>
\n [2] www.wiesenthal.com\/atf\/cf\/%7B54d385e6-f1b9-4e9f-8e94-890c3e6dd277%7D\/TT_2016REPORT.PDF<\/em><\/span>
\n [3] Per Ahlmark, \u201cPalme\u2019s Legacy 15 Years On,\u201d Project Syndicate, February 2001.<\/em><\/span>
\n [4] www.nytimes.com\/1982\/08\/11\/world\/begin-hints-that-mitterrand-remark-paved-way-for-terrorists-attack.html<\/em><\/span>
\n [5] Moses Altsech (Daniel Perdurant, pseud.), \u201cAnti-Semitism in Contemporary Greek Society,\u201d Analysis of Current Trends in Anti-Semitism, 7 (Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1995), 10.<\/em><\/span>
\n Footnotes:<\/em><\/span>
\n [6] www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/64343<\/em><\/span>
\n [7] www.lemondejuif.info\/2016\/05\/lantisioniste-benoit-hamon-attaque-israel-valls-cede-face-a-gouvernement-israelien-conservateur\/<\/em><\/span>
\n [8] www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201617\/cmselect\/cmhaff\/136\/136.pdf<\/em><\/span>
\n [9] John Prescott, \u201cIsrael\u2019s bombardment of Gaza is a war crime \u2013 and it must end,\u201d The Mirror, 26 July 2014.<\/em><\/span>
\n [10] http:\/\/sicsa.huji.ac.il\/pdf\/ACTA37.pdf<\/em><\/span>
\n [11] Efraim Karsh, \u201cEuropean Misreading of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Finnish Foreign Minister Tuomioja \u2013 A Case Study,\u201d Jerusalem Issue Brief, 27, 12 July 2005.<\/em><\/span>
\n [12] \u201cAntisemitism Worldwide, 2002-3,\u201d Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University, 2004.<\/em><\/span>
\n [13] Herb Keinon, \u201cDanish FM: Ze\u2019evi Murder Same as Targeted Killings,\u201d Jerusalem Post, 19 October 2001.<\/em><\/span>
\n [14]file:\/\/\/D:\/Users\/user\/Downloads\/Motie_van_het_lid_Servaes_c.s._over_constructieve_deelname_aan_vredesbesprekingen%20(2).pdf<\/em><\/span>
\n [15] \/Articles\/Article.aspx\/19105<\/em><\/span>
\n [16] \/News\/News.aspx\/122304<\/em><\/span>
\n [17] Walter Pauli, \u201cIsra\u00ebl moet beseffen dat reusachtige historische WOII-krediet stilaan is uitgeput,\u201d Knack, 6 August 2014. (Dutch)<\/em><\/span>
\n [18] \u201cIsrael-Kritik oder Antisemitismus?\u201d Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung, 26 April 2002. (German)<\/em><\/span>
\n [19] Robert S. Wistrich, From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012), 496.<\/em><\/span>
\n [20] Ibid. 480<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld<\/em><\/span><\/strong>
\n The writer has been a long-term adviser on strategy issues to the boards of several major multinational corporations in Europe and North America.He is board member and former chairman of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and recipient of the LIfetime Achievement Award (2012) of the Journal for the Study of Anti-Semitism.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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