Friday, September 2, 2011

When Anti Zionism Becomes Anti-Semitism

Fitting that I haven't written on here in a while and that my first post back is about this topic, as my last post deals with similar content.

Here is a video of a demonstration that happened at Queen's Park (Provincial Government) in Toronto, ON on August 28, 2011:


I saw this video yesterday after returning from a day at Yad Vashem - the National Holocaust Memorial Museum in Israel. While I was there, my mind went to a bit of a dark place. Despite all of my logic and faith in Jewish survival, I found myself wondering "what's the point?" As in: the world is never going to accept us, why do we keep fighting to survive? By the time I left the museum I had pulled myself out of this dark place. However, while I was there I watched a film on the History of Anti-Semitism. The parallels between the statements in this video and the history of anti-semitism are undeniable. These are not the ramblings of people who simply beleive a state is being denied to a deserving people as a result of the Zionist movement. These are people who believe Zionists and thereby Jews are the cause of everything bad in the world and the only solution is the elimination of these people. They are not keeping their opinions to themselves, rather they are poisoning curious minds with lies and are working to instill hatred in ways reminiscent of the Nazis.

How can our communities combat this? I'm sure not just the Jewish community can see that this is threatening behaviour, how should the world respond?

Finally, can someone explain to me how the we will all be living as equal citizens under Islamic law???!!! Is that not one huge oxy-moron? Equal and Islamic Law - they don't really fit together well. Women are not treated as equals in countries governed by Islamic Law. Homosexuals are not treated as equals in countries governed by Islamic Law. I don't understand.

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