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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125584.html
Comparing Islamic anti-Semitism to Nazi Germany at its worst
By Robert S. Wistrich
Tags: Islamist anti-Semitism
On November 9, 1938, a massive nation-wide anti-Jewish pogrom took place 
during peacetime across the entire territory of the Third Reich.
The pretext for this orgy of violence against German Jews was the 
shooting in Paris two days earlier of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by 
Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish-Jewish refugee.
The state-organized pogrom, instigated by Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, 
resulted in the burning or damaging of more than a thousand synagogues; 
the ransacking of about 7,500 businesses, the murder of at least 91 
Jews, and the deportation of another 30,000 Jewish males to 
concentration camps in Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen.
This murderous onslaught against German Jewry, cynically described by 
the Nazis as the "Night of Broken Glass" (Kristallnacht), was a major 
turning point on the road to the Final Solution of the so-called Jewish 
Question.
It signified that the Nazi regime had crossed a Rubicon and would no 
longer be deterred by Western public opinion in its "war against the Jews."
The economic expropriation of German Jewry, its complete social 
ostracism and public humiliation swiftly followed. Jews were banned from 
public transport, from frequenting concerts, theaters, cinemas, 
commercial centers, beaches, or using public benches.
Only a fortnight after "Crystal Night," the SS journal, Das Schwarze 
Korps, chillingly prophesied the final end of German Jewry through "fire 
and sword" and its imminent complete annihilation.
Today, shocking to relate, the specter of such apocalyptic anti-Semitism 
has returned to haunt Europe and other continents, while often assuming 
radically new forms.
In the Middle East, it has taken on a particularly dangerous, toxic and 
potentially genocidal aura of hatred, closely linked to the "mission" of 
holy war or jihad against the West and the Jews.
Islamist anti-Semitism is thoroughly soaked in many of the most 
inflammatory themes that initially made possible the atrocities of 
Crystal Night and its horrific aftermath during the Holocaust.
For example, the pervasive use of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion 
with its perennial theme of the "Jewish conspiracy for world 
domination;" or the medieval blood-libel imported to the Muslim world 
from Christian Europe; or the vile stereotypical image of the Jews as a 
treacherous, rapacious, and bloodthirsty people engaged in a ceaseless 
plotting to undermine the world of Islam.
To these grotesque inventions one must add such more up-to-date libels 
like Holocaust denial which has become a state-sponsored project in 
Ahmadinejad's Iran and is increasingly pervasive in the Arab world.
Equally fashionable (and increasingly popular in Europe) is the 
slanderous identification of Israel with Nazism or the "ethnic 
cleansing" of the Palestinians. This modernized version of inverted 
anti-Semitism which sails under the mask of "anti-Zionism" and 
anti-Americanism, is today a global phenomenon, but it has special 
resonance in the Middle East as a result of the unresolved "Palestinian 
question."
The scale and extremism of the literature and commentary available in 
Arab or Muslim newspapers, journals, magazines, caricatures, on Islamist 
websites, on the Middle Eastern radio and TV news, in documentaries, 
films, and educational materials, is comparable only to that of Nazi 
Germany at its worst.
Yet the Western world largely turns a blind eye to the likely genocidal 
consequences of such a culture of hatred, much as it did 70 years ago. 
My own extensive research into this phenomenon has, unfortunately, 
convinced me that the Holocaust did not truly succeed in neutralizing 
the scourge of anti-Semitism.
In a sinister and sometimes devious manner, the widespread defamation 
and demonization of Israel has in effect revived fantasies of completing 
the murderous work of the Third Reich. This is especially palpable in 
the case of Iran. Hence, the anniversary of Crystal Night raises two 
fundamental moral questions for the future of human civilization. Are we 
at all capable of learning from history, and will the Jewish people once 
again have to stand alone in the face of concrete threats to annihilate 
it? On the answer to these questions much may depend.
Prof. Robert S. Wistrich is the director of The Vidal Sassoon 
International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Hebrew 
University of Jerusalem (
http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/
) and the author of A 
Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad 
(Random House, January 2010).

 anti-Americanism,
Adesso è antisemita pure prendersela con gli yankee....ROTFL. Quindi i
critici sionistissimi di Obama sono antisemiti, giusto?