re: #5 HappyWarrior

I think this rabbi and indeed many in the Jewish community are well aware of the fact that the ideological ancestors of Wilders or in the case of Ms. LePen (literally since it’s her father) the most vile perpetrators of anti-semitism. I sincerely believe that they want to use Israel and the Jewish people as pawns only to dispose of them once they get rid of Muslims as a scapegoat.

You know, as heavy & ugly as the anti-Muslim Islamophobic stuff gets, the “Islam vs the West” animosity is still relatively recent (I’m thinking here of the Crusades) and it had to do with war & conquest. The anti-Semitic stuff is much older & deeper, and… I dunno, I can’t quite put my finger on it. I mean, it’s not as if the Jews gathered up a huge army and invaded Europe. Strange, that hatred. I can’t really wrap my head around the “why” of it.