US special envoy Carr warns about antisemitism

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I thought this comment by reader Evan Zuesse nailed it, “What joins the three different extremely authoritarian sources and explains their commonality, is that antisemitism is used by each group to delegitimize not just Jews but what they hate much more, namely the whole democratic center of society — they all claim that Western democracy is a sham, used by a secret cabal of unknown Jews to destroy humanity itself. Democracy itself is their real target, and they hate the prosperous society around them. So they use antisemitism to justify what amounts to their own war on humanity — projecting into “the Jews” the hatreds and goals they themselves have for anyone resisting their totalitarian ways

US special envoy Carr warns about anti-Semitism from three different directions

“Anti-Semitism isn’t only about the Jews,” said Elan Carr. “Anti-Semitism is history’s greatest barometer of human misery, and a society that has imbibed its poison is rotten to the core.”

(May 15, 2019 / JNS) U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan Carr warned on Tuesday about anti-Semitism from three different directions.

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“In Europe, we have a confluence of anti-Semitism, from ultra-right ethnic supremacist movements to the ultra-left anti-Israel, anti-Zionist movements, to radical Islam,” he said at the general convention for the Conference of European Rabbis in Antwerp, Belgium.

“These are movements that should hate each other far more than they hate anything else,” continued Carr. “And yet they are united in this age-old sickness of humanity, anti-Semitism—what [U.S] President [Donald] Trump calls the vile poison of antisemitism.”

“Anti-Semitism isn’t only about the Jews,” he added. “Anti-Semitism is history’s greatest barometer of human misery, and a society that has imbibed its poison is rotten to the core.”

Carr reiterated that the Trump administration is “committed in an unprecedented fashion to the Jewish people, to the fight against antisemitism in the world or to the state of Israel.”

He added that the kosher-slaughter bans in places, such as in Belgian regions Wallonia and Flanders, as “nothing other than a forced expulsion of the Jewish community from the countries that adopt this kind of legislation. It is intolerable.”

The Flanders ban took effect on Jan. 1, while the Wallonia one will take effect in September.

Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Slovenia all ban religious slaughter without pre-stunning.

Excluding poultry, Lichtenstein and Switzerland also require pre-stunning.

Carr told the audience, “You are the key to solving this problem [of anti-Semitism]. You the spiritual leaders who stand with congregations throughout Europe and throughout the world, who help Jews redefine Judaism, who make us rediscover our love and passion for the Jewish people. You hold your fingers on the pulse of exactly what we need today.”

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Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
4 years ago

He added that the kosher-slaughter bans in places, such as in Belgian regions Wallonia and Flanders, as “nothing other than a forced expulsion of the Jewish community from the countries that adopt this kind of legislation.

Does anyone know if those areas also ban halal slaughter?

I note that kosher slaughter was, for its day, considered a humane way to dispatch an animal. Halal seems to revel in their torture.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

But it’s not “radical islam” that’s antisemitic — it’s orthodox islum and there is no other kind of islum.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
4 years ago

Anti-Semitism is a poison everywhere. Most Jews today only want peace and a stable future for their families.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
4 years ago

Anti-Semitism is a poison everywhere. Most Jews today only want peace and a stable future for their families.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

I believe that President Trump has done more to combat anti semitism than any president of the United States. This may be his greatest legacy.

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