As I write this, Jews across Europe are being intimidated, abused, violated, and even murdered. The Holocaust Library in London has been vandalised as Jewish buildings across Europe are targeted. The number of antisemitic incidents is increasing on a day-to-day basis and it is terrifying to watch. It is as if I am living in a dark European period that serves as a prelude to when Europe has been gripped with a massive antisemitic hysteria that ended up with more than six million Jews murdered.
Luckily enough, the Jews today have a state of their own – a safe place to live from where they can defend themselves. However, this does not mean that just because Jews can escape a potential holocaust by fleeing to Israel, we can safely ignore the issue of antisemitism in Europe, and in fact, I hope not. I hope that Europe will be able to welcome Jews and live safely and peacefully with us as it does with any other people in the world, but the ugly reality is that as of lately, being a Jew in Europe is becoming ever more dangerous.
How did we reach a point in history where Jews are once again, no longer safe in Europe? I find the situation too terrifying and too dramatic to have the capability of articulating it well given I know very well how history has unfolded from a similar situation. Jews were blamed for many ills in Europe in the 1930s and not just in Germany. In Russia, Jews were blamed for many problems both by rich and poor alike before the Bolshevik Revolution took place in 1917. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Jews were then blamed for Russian communism and its massacres and Nazi Germany promoted the scapegoat of “Judeo-Bolshevism” Throughout literature and history the Jews have been Europe’s and Russia’s favourite scapegoat. The scenes in Russia of the Dagestani mobs looking for Jews at the airport, the increasing antisemitic attacks in Europe, and the hundreds of thousands of people, many of them Muslims in Arabs, in Europe protesting against Israel and chanting genocidal slogans, clearly and surely have nothing to do with the plight of Arabs and Palestinians or the saving of Palestinians from terror and war. There is something seriously wrong here and we can see it because we have seen this already and many times before in history.
Antisemitism and hatred for the Jews is the strongest binding and common ideology between the left and Europe’s current disaffected lumpenproletariat that is mostly composed of immigrants many of them from Arabs or Muslim countries. The European left and the European immigrant lumpenproletariat have very little in common and you can already see conflicts between pro-Palestinian protestors and Muslims in London over LGBT issues. What they have most in common between them is antisemitism, hatred for the Jews, and their acceptance of authoritarianism. Hatred for Jews and Israel has brought the European left and the lumpenproletariat to the European streets together for the first time in many years. This is how fascism can rear its ugly head under the guise of “saving Palestinian lives”, yet in reality, if the left that is demonstrating takes power with the backing of Europe’s Muslim lumpenproletariat, Palestinian lives wouldn’t be saved – instead there would be another attempted holocaust against the Jews in Israel – at least, that’s what they are proposing.
Let’s go to the very beginning. No, not the 1948 history, there is no need to in the context of this article. Apparently, everyone has become a historian and an expert on Near Eastern history solely and exclusively to justify and rationalise the terroristic attacks of Hamas on October 7th. Hannah Arendt’s words come to my mind in these situations “The Essence of an intellectual is to invent ideas about everything.” What is the idea behind the justification of Hamas’ terroristic attack which has been celebrated by the left in Europe, and rationalised by many university academics? The fundamental idea is antisemitism.
Hamas is not a freedom fighting movement and its ideology and beliefs are similar to ISIS but it is given a pass by the left and even in the Arabic world, hosted and funded none other by Qatar itself. Hamas is an Islamo-fascist death cult that is using the Palestinians in Gaza hostage to its genocidal ideology, yet, Hamas is given a pass, given support, and allowed to operate in the Arab world simply because their enemy is the Jews. Incredibly, not only are Hamas supported by the left and considered as freedom fighters, but the European Union and its institutions have no problem at all with the Qatari royal family owning one of Europe’s biggest banks (Deutsche Bank) as they fund and support Hamas’ activities.
It’s incredible that after the Holocaust took place in Europe, apparently there still exists massive support for organisations whose main aim is the eradication of Israel and the Jews and these organizations work with incredible impunity across the Arab world, apart from having allies such as Russia and Iran.
How is this normalised? Because clearly, the deaths of Palestinian civilians are not normalised and the United Nations General Assembly has an outstanding majority of member states that consistently support and advocate for Palestinians in terms of voting. Israel is held to high standards and scrutiny and is condemned repeatedly and consistently for its cruel and barbaric acts against Palestinian civilians. Yet, when it comes to the massacre of Jews and Israelis, there is not just indifferent silence by the left, there is even jubilation, celebration and calls for more Jewish deaths with calls of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Free from the Jews that is, and they sincerely believe in this and they think it’s a good thing.
Adrian Grima has not replied to my email asking him questions about his antisemitic statements following the attacks of Hamas on October 7th. It is understandable that he doesn’t want to explain himself. After the attack, Adrian Grima posted a diatribe against Israel saying there should be a single and only Palestinian state. These are the thoughts and beliefs of someone who has hiring and firing power at Malta’s national university. And he adheres to these principles strongly in practice and in theory. As a founder of a literary festival subsidised by public and EU funds, Adrian Grima has always enforced a BDS policy meaning that Israeli authors are never invited to a “Mediterranean Festival”. Adrian Grima’s BDS policy was accepted as normal by authors and publishers in Malta for many years. He kept being accepted for public and EU funds despite everyone being aware of his antisemitic ideologies, and eventually, he was promoted to Head of Department of the Maltese Language at the University of Malta. Sicne he was known as an author, Adrian Grima’s antisemitic ideologies have been his hallmark in literature in politics having been mostly silent and absent in every major local political crisis. For so many years, I have seen how antisemitism on the left and in academic circles is not an exception, but a normalised rule.
Indeed, Palestine has served many academics well in building bridges in the Arab world and as a cause for virtuous cultural funding. An Arts Council travel to Palestine for “cultural dialogue” or a literary festival for “multicultural cooperation” can be good excuses for funding if you supposedly want to liberate Palestinians from the evils of Zionism. The whole Israeli-Palestinian conflict is reduced to a ridiculous banality of a poetic exercise for the sake of cheap entertainment and academic titles. No wonder that antisemitism is the easiest option for grifters, academics, and the left who seem to have a narcissistic disposition to act as liberators.
But supporting and justifying Hamas and enticing a Jewish genocide by calling for a single Palestinian state is not going to be of any help to Palestinians, and the academics who propagate this idea know this very well – this is not in the Palestinians’ interest. Peace will be brought by a two-state solution and not a permanent war against Israel. Hamas has pushed Palestinians to a permanent state of war, and this is not the first time that Palestinians have been betrayed and usurped by their own leaders who have left them stateless for many years despite repeated peace attempts by Israel. This is another hallmark of the European left: supporting Arabic dictators and corrupt leaders because they are “anti-Zionists” or “anti-imperialists”.
After all, why isn’t Hamas being told to surrender? Why isn’t there the same anger for Hamas as there is for Israel? It is of course antisemitism that allows the left to conjure up rational justifications for Hamas’ attacks while accusing Israel of war crimes. The reality is that both sides are guilty of war crimes, but Israel has the upper moral ground because it is a legitimate state fighting a genocidal, Islamo-fascist, and terroristic death cult. There can hardly be any obfuscation over this unless, of course, you are antisemitic.
Hamas is not just given a pass by the left for its antisemitism, it is also given a pass like any Arabic leader. And this is also why you didn’t see the same revulsion and anger by the left for the barbarism of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah and Russia in Syria, the overturning of democracy in Tunisia, the massive arrests and murders that were made by the Egyptian following the revolution and many other grave causes of injustices and massacres in the Near East (Middle East). The Arabs and Muslims are allowed to slaughter themselves, but lo and behold if they are slaughtered by the Jews.
These are terrifying times because the antisemitism that is being unraveled in Europe today is not just about Israel and Palestine, it’s also about the way forward for European democracies. The toxic ideological and political elements that are being shared by the European left, academics, and large sectors of the Arab and Muslim communities are perfect recipes for the rise of fascism. Those who don’t see this are in grave and serious denial. Nazism is being unwittingly rehabilitated by the left-wing liberators that pretend they are against it.
To conclude I will say this. Those who genuinely help and support Palestinians are not gifting for charity or indulging in public displays of genocidal calls for a single Palestinian state. Those who are advocating for Palestinians want Palestinians to get rid of Hamas, first and foremost. Secondly, Palestinians need jobs, resources, skills, university degrees, and political support to build their own state. The Palestinian state will not rise from the murders perpetrated by an Islamo-fascist death cult; it will rise with secular people who have acquired the material resources, skills, and education needed for state and nation building. Helping Palestinians has nothing to do with genocidal calls of “From the river to the sea.”
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