LETTER: No threat for Jews in SA
The one negative factor driving antisemitism is the use of anti-Zionism as a cover and excuse, around the world as in SA
There were two shocking events last week that should give any respectable person pause for thought. One, the German authorities advised Jews not to wear a kippah (a religious head covering) for fear of physical attack, and the UK equality and human rights commission opened an official investigation into institutionalised antisemitism in the Labour Party.
Reported incidents of antisemitism in Europe have multiplied by thousands of percent for reasons that include Trump and his “fine people on both sides” comments, leaders such as Hungary’s Viktor Orban, right wing ascendency throughout Europe, imported ingrained antisemitism from North Africa and the Middle East, and the resurgence of leftist antisemitism in the UK, made acceptable by Jeremy Corbyn and his nasty cohorts. All of this only 70 years after the Holocaust...
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