WSJ: "Germany Struggles With an Unfamiliar Form of Anti-Semitism"

For years and years, people cleaned their own houses, and mowed their own lawns.

Then they discovered they could import a huge number of people from third-world countries, not give them citizenship, and treat them as a serf class, who would clean their houses and mow their lawns for very little money.

Sure, most of the impetus behind this importation of third worlders is corporations who want to bring down the cost of labor. But we citizens of the United States also benefit because we have someone to do our dirty work for us.

And that is EXACTLY what's going on in Germany.

This is not an "unfamiliar form of anti-Semitism.

They merely imported a large contingent of third worlders to do their dirty work for them this time.

Sure, there are a lot of Germans who do not want these Muslims in their country. And sure, many Germans are not anti-Semitic Jew-killing bots.

But the collective unconscious of the German culture - as well as much of the rest of European culture - is rife with Jew-hatred.

From the Wall Street Journal:

“I fear that a new generation of anti-Semites is coming of age in Germany,” Josef Schuster, head of the country’s chief Jewish organization, told journalists on Wednesday. 

German police attribute more than 90% of cases nationwide to far-right offenders. But Jewish activists and victim representatives say the data is misleading because police automatically label any incident where the perpetrators aren’t known as coming from the far right. 

The problem goes beyond Germany. The murder of an elderly Holocaust survivor in Paris earlier this month in what prosecutors said was an anti-Semitic attack has fueled a perception that anti-Jewish acts—from casual insults to brutal violence—are on the rise across Europe and that governments appear unable to do much about it. 

Levi Salomon, head of the Jewish Forum for Democracy against Anti-Semitism, a Berlin-based organization that documents hate crimes against Jews, says most violent incidents these days come from Muslim perpetrators. 

“It is wrong to generalize or to stigmatize Muslim communities,” Mr. Salomon said. ”But to say there is no specific problem there is even worse. We need to devise urgent strategies to deal with this.”