Incitement to Murder - How Israel should fight the Swedish blood libel.
Article by Yossi Klein-Halevi at ‘The New Republic’
… Aftonbladet’s editor, Jan Helin, wrote that he was not a Nazi or an anti-Semite. The first claim is no doubt true, the second debatable. Contrary to widespread assumptions among Europeans, one does not need to be a Nazi to be an anti-Semite. Contemporary European anti-Semitism has two spiritual roots: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The big lie of Zionism as Nazism and of the Jewish state as successor to Nazi Germany originated in Moscow, and became an essential part of Soviet ideology following the 1967 Six-Day War. Of the two versions of modern European anti-Semitism as they exist today, the far more pervasive—and dangerous—is the Soviet version. The rise of Western European anti-Zionism, then, is a posthumous victory for the Soviet Union. …