tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845594.post-1119477961368554922005-06-22T22:59:00.000+01:002005-06-22T23:06:01.373+01:00Maybe it is just my imagination but it seems that anti-semitism is becoming the new fashion not just in Britain but throughout Europe. This was always the case on the extreme Right, but it also seems to be the new fad on the extreme Left too. The Iraq war and the latest Palistinian intifada seem to be manipulated by anti-semites to advance their poisonous agenda.<br /><br />I was at the University Bookshop yesterday in Belfast and I bought a mini-biography of Karl Lueger by Angela Clifford a socialist writer, with an introduction by Mark Langhammer, a Labour councillor. Lueger was the mayor of Vienna at the turn of the last century. He is really only famous for two things: anti-semitism and being one of Hitler's heroes.<br /><br />I was very surprised on reading the book to find that it was written as a defence of Lueger. Despite lengthy quotes from his speeches in which he accuses Jews of using Christian blood in their rituals in Tiszaeszler, his opinion that all business and capital is Jewish run etc. the author unbelievably suggests that he is not anti-semitic because his opposition to the Jews was due to their wealth rather than their race!!<br /><br />Interestingly, even though Lueger died in 1910 the author cannot restrain herself from denouncing Israel at various points in the book.<br /><br />I think the European love of the Palestinians may be an unfortunate symptom of our failure to adequately root out anti-semitism on this continent.Aldamirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14024514195332394106noreply@blogger.com