"During the past year and a half a troubling epidemic of anti-Jewish hatred, not isolated to any one country or community, has produced a climate of intimidation and fear in the Jewish communities of Europe. Never, as a Holocaust survivor, did I believe we would witness another eruption of anti-Semitism of such magnitude, in Europe of all places. But the resiliency of anti-Semitism is unparalleled. It rears its ugly head in far-flung places, like Malaysia and Japan, where there are no Jews."
You don't say! Foxman doesn't even bother to ask himself why, all of a sudden out of the blue since sometime late in the year 2000, there has been this supposed outburst of what he sees as a dramatic rise in anti-Semitism. Could it by any chance have anything to do with the vicious policies of Ariel Sharon - beginning with his armed intrusion in September of 2000 to lay symbolic claim to the "Temple Mount" area upon which the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock have been built for centuries? Of course some Palestinians as well as Muslims in other regions would perceive Sharon's intentional provocation as equivalent to an act of war against Islam.
Foxman also dares not look too closely at the fact that Malaysians and Japanese would indeed have no reason to have a negative opinion of Jews whatsoever unless they were witnessing the misbehavior of "The Jews" in Israel and in the Occupied Territories toward the Palestinians. What is on the rise is a clear worldwide condemnation of Israeli war crimes and Sharon's diabolical plans for ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.
You don't say! Foxman doesn't even bother to ask himself why, all of a sudden out of the blue since sometime late in the year 2000, there has been this supposed outburst of what he sees as a dramatic rise in anti-Semitism. Could it by any chance have anything to do with the vicious policies of Ariel Sharon - beginning with his armed intrusion in September of 2000 to lay symbolic claim to the "Temple Mount" area upon which the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock have been built for centuries? Of course some Palestinians as well as Muslims in other regions would perceive Sharon's intentional provocation as equivalent to an act of war against Islam.
Foxman also dares not look too closely at the fact that Malaysians and Japanese would indeed have no reason to have a negative opinion of Jews whatsoever unless they were witnessing the misbehavior of "The Jews" in Israel and in the Occupied Territories toward the Palestinians. What is on the rise is a clear worldwide condemnation of Israeli war crimes and Sharon's diabolical plans for ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.