Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Antisemitismo "retroattivo"

http://www.nysun.com/article/16192
The New War Against The Jews
BY HILLEL HALKIN
A man wakes up one morning and thinks he's back in the Middle Ages.
Russian State Prosecutor Vladimir Ustinov, the front page of the
Russian newspaper Izvestia reports, has decided to launch an official
investigation of the Shulhan Arukh, the definitive compendium of Jewish
law written in the 16th century by Rabbi Joseph Caro and used to this
day - generally in an abbreviated version - as a standard reference
book by Orthodox Jews.
Prosecutor Ustinov has already summoned Moscow rabbi Zinovy Kogan,
chairman of the Congress of Jewish Organizations, for questioning in
order to determine whether the Shulhan Arukh should be banned for
"racist incitement." He took this action after receiving a letter last
January, signed by 500 patriotic Russians, calling the Jewish religion
"anti-Christian and inhumane" and demanding that the Shulhan Arukh be
banned.
You read and rub your eyes and read again. And still it's hard to
believe.
When did something like this happen before? Well, the first time was in
1240, when Pope Gregory IX, after receiving a formal denunciation of
the Talmud as "blasphemous" and "pernicious" from a French Jewish
apostate, ordered all copies of it seized and an investigation of it
undertaken. At a public inquiry held in Paris in the presence of King
Louis IX, the Talmud was found guilty. On June 17, 1242, all
confiscated copies of it were burned, as part of 24 cartloads of Jewish
books, in a large bonfire.
State Prosecutor Ustinov - indeed, the government of Russia that has
not immediately acted to remove him from office - can be proud to
belong to a time-honored tradition. Perhaps we can look forward to
bonfires in Moscow sometime soon. You rub your eyes and read again.
Not, of course, that the Talmud - or the Shulhan Arukh, for that matter
- is entirely free of anti-Gentile remarks. Given the world's treatment
of the Jews over the past 1,500 years, it's surprising that there
aren't more of these. Yet if we're going to start eliminating religious
books for their hateful passages, why start with the minor case of
Jewish ones? Let's first burn the New Testament and the Koran for
viciously consigning all nonbelievers, Jews included, to the eternal
torments of hell. (Which is a punishment, incidentally, that Jewish
tradition never invoked on Christians and Muslims.)
But, of course, even to make this kind of argument is to stoop to
taking the intellects of State Prosecutor Ustinov and the 500 letter
writers - among which were Russian authors, mathematicians, and former
international chess champion Boris Spassky - too seriously. One doesn't
argue logically with rabid idiots. One fights them as dangerous enemies
must be fought, with no holds barred.
The scary thing is that once again, 50 years after the Holocaust, the
Jews have so many enemies. And make no mistake about it: They are
dangerous.
Nor are all of them primitives out of the Middle Ages. Some are very
suave, very cultivated gentlemen. They wear three-piece suits and they
speak with Oxonian accents and they say things like "bloody nuisance"
and "spot on." Some are even leaders of the Anglican Church.
You may have noticed it. The international advisory body of that church
voted last Friday in London to urge its congregations, which have 75
million members worldwide, to disinvest in Israel because of its
"oppression" of the Palestinians.
These are not benighted Slavophiles. They are sophisticated High
Churchmen. With them one can argue. One can say: "Of all the world's
'oppressing' countries - China, which oppresses Tibet; India, which
oppresses Kashmir; Russia, which oppresses Chechnya, et cetera, et
cetera - the one you've decided to boycott as good Christians is the
country of the Jewish people? The country of the same Jews whom you
Christians have hounded throughout your history and whom you Anglicans
and Englishmen watched as they were slaughtered by the millions in
Europe while you did nothing to rescue them and barred the gates of
Palestine and England to those of them who might have fled? Have you no
shame? No honor? No awareness of your own appalling hypocrisy?"
No, they have no shame, no honor, no awareness of their own appalling
hypocrisy. And they are anti-Semites no less than State Prosecutor
Ustinov and his 500 imbeciles. In fact, they are State Prosecutor
Ustinov's allies.
This cannot be said too often. In an age in which a Jewish state's
right to exist is still not recognized by much of the world - in which
tens of millions of Arabs and hundreds of millions of Muslims regularly
clamor for its destruction - in which a Muslim country now in the
process of arming itself with nuclear weapons openly refers to it as an
outlaw creation that must be wiped from the face of the earth - anyone
deliberately undermining this state's legitimacy, even if he wears a
respectable English clergyman's collar, is contributing to another
possible genocide of the Jews.
Criticism of Israel? By all means. This is perfectly legitimate. So is
concern for the Palestinians. But disinvestment is not criticism. It is
an attempt to turn Israel into a pariah state. And Jews, having been
treated as pariahs by Christian civilization since the age of
Constantine, know exactly what this means.
Half a century after the Holocaust, a new war against the Jews has been
declared. We are only now - innocents that we have been, lulled by the
world and our own wishful thinking into believing that widespread
Jew-hatred is a thing of the past - waking up to its true dimensions.
It is not a war that we Jews will necessarily win, although it is not
one that we can afford to lose. But we, too, have our allies and we are
fortunate that they are more intelligent than our enemies. We have to
impress on them that the fight is not only for us but for a sane world
that has not completely lost its moral and intellectual bearings.

 
http://www.nysun.com/article/16192
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http://www.christusrex.org/www1/news/haaretz-1-25-05a.html
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=Blood+libel+makes+comeback+in+Russia&itemNo=593430
Russia ends probe into claims of incitement in Jewish text 
 
By Amiram Barkat and Itim	
Last Update: 05/07/2005 11:37	
Russia's state prosecutor announced Tuesday afternoon that he is
canceling an investigation into claims that a 19th century abridged code
of Jewish law (halakha) contains incitement against non-Jews.
 
The preliminary investigation of the Jewish umbrella organization for
distributing a Russian translation of the text has also been dropped.
The lawyer for Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar was informed of the
decision. 
"There's no reason to persecute a whole sector of society because of
religious texts held sacred to them. The decision to launch an
investigation was a mistake," said a source at the attorney general's
office. 
The report of the investigations, first revealed Monday in Haaretz,
sparked widespread expressions of concern from Israel as well as Jewish
and human rights groups worldwide. 
The decision to cancel the probe came following a meeting Tuesday
morning between Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Russian Prime
Minister Mikhail Fradkov.
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Quindi caro Namib arrivi tardi come al solito, oltre al solito titolo
del ca**o, visto che l'antisemitismo che ha portato a questo e' tutto
tranne che "retroattivo".
-Stefano