re: #3 sliv_the_eli

Yes, but much of the stuff in Europe seems to be a different strain of hate. While it includes the European version of antisemitism, it also appears to be mixed with a more general anti-immigrant or anti-“other” strain. It’s like a synthesis of evil.

An article from yesterday, added emphasis mine:

Greek Bailout Fuels Rise Of Extreme Politics

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And it’s not just the left that’s gaining popularity; so are two new far-right movements.

One is the ultranationalist and neo-fascist Golden Dawn, which preaches the superiority of the white race. It is polling above the 3 percent necessary to enter Parliament.

In a bookshop filled with tracts on Nazism and Hitler T-shirts, a large crowd listens to a Golden Dawn member who identifies herself only as Georgia.

“We reject the idea that all races and nations are created equal,” she says. “We have become economic slaves of the Zionist economy and usurers.”

At the other end of the political spectrum, one of the parties doing well in the polls is the far-left SYRIZA that wants to renegotiate the terms of the bailout. Member of Parliament Dimitris Papadimoulos says austerity has sharply widened the gap between rich and poor.

Papadimoulos calls for a wide governing coalition because Greece, he says, faces the same dilemma the West faced after the crash of 1929 — a progressive or an authoritarian outcome.

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