THE 1930s RETURN

The 1930s have truly returned in today’s world. Antisemitism is now institutionalised and entrenched in governments, the media, universities and non-government organisations. In the last few days vandalism of Jewish cemeteries and attacks on synagogues, some with fatalities, continued. In Poland people, including children, beat up an effigy of a Jew at a “festival”. Floats with Nazi era style figures of Jews formed part of a festival in Belgium. In Bristol University the Black and Ethnic Minorities Officer officially wants Jews to “cease to exist”. The German government continues to help Iran with its goal of genocide of Israelis and continues to fund the creation and printing of antisemitic textbooks in the Middle East. Antisemitic politicians spew their hatred in various European parliaments and in the US Congress. Now the New York Times has printed an antisemitic cartoon reminiscent of one from Germany in the 1930s. In the 1930s this would describe Germany. Once the slaughter of Jews began, the West refused to help them, even closing their borders to those feeling the Holocaust. Belatedly, after six million Jews were slaughtered, the world took action. This time it will be worse, because the entire Western world has become like 1930s Germany. There will be no-one to intervene. Israel will be the only refuge, and the world, through its policies, wants to see it destroyed too. And nobody (apart from Jews) is doing anything about it. [Photograph: Left: Germany 1940: the Jew leads Winston Churchill, Right: New York Times 2019: the Jew leads Donald Trump]