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International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Summit on Holocaust: Gaza war legitimized equating Jews with Nazis
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel News 

The operation in Gaza put an end to the European taboo on equating Jews to Nazis. That message was one of the conclusions of the first international panel discussion on anti-Semitism following the Gaza invasion, which was held in Jerusalem Monday on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Speaking at the panel, which was part of the World Jewish Congress plenary assembly, Professor Dina Porat said, "the comparison has now become self-understood." She added this applied not only to Muslims in Europe, but among "leftist circles."

Porat, an international authority on anti-Semitism and head of Tel Aviv University's research body on this phenomenon, added that Operation Cast Lead has "left no doubt" that Muslims in Europe had, "prepared in advance a public campaign against Jews and Israel, which they see as one and the same."
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"[Muslims] were waiting for a signal or a pretext to launch this campaign and the Nazism comparison," she said.

This tactic, she elaborated, proved most effective when Europeans from the left wing "worked in unison" with Muslims.

"Europeans are burdened by the Holocaust, and accusing the victims of being like the Nazis helps distribute some of the burden and guilt," Porat told the 500 people who came to the event, at the Inbal Hotel.

WJC Treasurer Cobi Benatoff of Italy, who attended the panel, urged Jewish communities to "complain less and do more."

He hinted criticism of European coreligionists in comparing the level of involvement in the Middle East by Muslims in Europe to that of the continent's Jews. "I don't remember demonstrations by Jewish Europeans when the Negev came under Palestinian fire every day," he said.

Also speaking at the event was Lina Filiba of the Jewish Confederation of Turkey.

"There was much preparation in the reaction of Muslims," she said. "The first rally came on the day of the first attack in Gaza." She added the operation exposed anti-Semitism in Turkey's highest levels of government, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who called for Israel's exclusion from the United Nations.

She showed a picture of a group of people holding a dog outside a shop near Istanbul with a poster hanging over it reading, "Jews and Armenians are not allowed, but dogs are allowed". Despite Jewish protests, she said, the poster was not removed until 15 days later, following intervention from liberal groups.

Anne Sender, head of the Jewish community of Oslo, spoke of an "explosion of violence" in anti-Jewish protests, which, according to her, the likes of which had never occurred in the past. She also mentioned the case of a Norwegian diplomat who, as reported by Haaretz, last week sent an e-mail saying that Jews, "learned from the Nazis."

Preliminary analyses by Jewish organizations estimate that during the Gaza operation, the volume of anti-Semitic attacks in Europe multiplied more than four-fold compared to the correlating time last year.

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      1.   The Decent People Can Be Turned Around .... 02:58  |  withIntelligentArgue 27/01/09
      2.   Jews and Armenians are not allowed, but dogs are allowed" 02:59  |  Arie 27/01/09
      3.   Israel=Nazi`s=Morons ,anti-semites or both 03:07  |  don the maccabee 27/01/09
      4.   Jews and Israel 03:13  |  Farzan 27/01/09
      5.   Its the Israelis fault...you taught the lessons well 03:29  |  Ben 27/01/09
      6.   Why Are You So Surprised? 03:34  |  Yosemite 27/01/09
      7.   Muslims & Leftist Circles 03:36  |  Ron 27/01/09
      8.   who cares? 03:47  |  judith 27/01/09
      9.   help please 03:55  |  help 27/01/09
      10.   Hamas well orchestrated and planned massacre of Gazans 04:24  |  Roger 27/01/09
      11.   The role of Israel in Anti-semitism 04:41  |  Melgund 27/01/09
      12.   Comparison to Nazis? 04:49  |  Panda Bear 27/01/09
      13.   Farzan, I agree with you wholeheartedly. 04:51  |  ManintheMiddle 27/01/09
      14.   Or, the comparison is completely valid... 05:01  |  BBSNews 27/01/09
      15.   Its orgnaized by Muslim Brotherhood using internet 05:03  |  GZLives 27/01/09
      16.   Farzan 05:07  |  Muslim loving Jew 27/01/09
      17.   Farzan when we see you saying the same about your own 05:11  |  GZLives 27/01/09
      18.   Farzan, we have some things in common, some not 05:13  |  judith 27/01/09
      19.   Happy to help you, `help` - critisizing and critisizin 05:18  |  17 27/01/09
      20.   No It did not 05:22  |  Mark Lincoln 27/01/09
      21.   help (#9) 05:22  |  jjvanka 27/01/09
      22.   Help, let me help... 05:24  |  BBSNews 27/01/09
      23.   To Farzan #4 05:34  |  Mike 27/01/09
      24.   Bunch of a paranoid. No it is F15 vs children Morons. 05:48  |  American 27/01/09
      25.   to: Muslim loving Jew 06:01  |  Farzan 27/01/09
      26.   BBSNews 06:12  |  17 27/01/09
      27.   to: GZLives 06:14  |  Farzan 27/01/09
      28.   Sham on you Mike 06:20  |  Farzan 27/01/09
      29.   American 07:20  |  Brad 27/01/09
      30.   "Europeans are burdened by the Holocaust" 07:23  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 27/01/09
      31.   A solution to disarm 07:27  |  Farzan 27/01/09
      32.   Farzan 07:28  |  Brad 27/01/09
      33.   To Farzan 07:31  |  Mike 27/01/09
      34.   Europeans are burdened by the Holocaust 07:31  |  Alex 27/01/09
      35.   help 07:54  |  Brad 27/01/09
      36.   truth 08:03  |  Rab Burns 27/01/09
      37.   Nothing new under the sun 08:19  |  Joseph 27/01/09
      38.   "AMERICAN" NO It was Qassams v`s Israeli kindergartens 09:01  |  PETER SM 27/01/09
      39.   "Leftist circles" 09:02  |  Polderjongen 27/01/09
      40.   stroke of genius 09:12  |  facts on ground 27/01/09
      41.   all past sufferings by Jews were justified by Israeli massacres 09:28  |  Tayfun_Turkey 27/01/09
      42.   Ridiculous misleading comparison... 09:45  |  Esther 27/01/09
      43.   The comparison is not valid 09:54  |  Pablo B 27/01/09
      44.   #40 Turks are the last to give lectures 10:08  |  Massouda 27/01/09
      45.   And Israeli`s still holiday in Turkey, are they nuts? 10:09  |  Harvey 27/01/09
      46.   Gaza War and Jewish/Nazi equation 11:39  |  Michael 27/01/09
      47.   "I don`t remember demonstrations... 11:47  |  Matty Groves 27/01/09
      48.   30 11:56  |  Konrad 27/01/09
      49.   Stupid Comparison 13:07  |  Davids 27/01/09
      50.   To Brad "your neighbour" 13:13  |  Open-minded Pal 27/01/09
      51.   #49 open minded Pal... why are you 14:02  |  Lynn 27/01/09
      52.   Europeans burdned by holocust 14:04  |  GalileeHero 27/01/09
      53.   to Farzan-I am a Zionist 14:11  |  nina 27/01/09
      54.   "disproportionate"-matty groves+others 14:16  |  nina 27/01/09
      55.   Let`s be honest, would we have this discussion today..... 14:21  |  Swiss (Dino) 27/01/09
      56.   to davids, STUPID COMPARISON 14:21  |  nina 27/01/09
      57.   Hard struggle in a Swedish paper liberal vs lefts 14:23  |  Goran Andersson 27/01/09
      58.   you reap as you sow... 18:44  |  ravi 27/01/09
      59.   Israel General who used the word re Gaza 22:34  |  Tony Price 27/01/09
      60.   Nina 22:44  |  Tony Price 27/01/09
      61.   Anti-semitism by Any Definition 23:13  |  Baruch Gold 27/01/09
      62.   semantics 01:49  |  Midcourse 28/01/09
      63.   Farzan # 25 02:49  |  Philippe 28/01/09
      64.   Mike #23 08:01  |  Damian Lataan 28/01/09
      65.   Hoe does the Norwegian community have any realtion to the IDF? 06:53  |  Alexander 17/04/09
      66.   #30 Europeans should not be burdened 07:27  |  Irishmen 17/04/09
      67.   #53 because the jews are not a single "ethnicity" 07:44  |  Silberstein 17/04/09
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