The Norwegian obsession with Israel
Last year, a Syrian-born Norwegian politician accused the Norwegian Labor party of anti-Semitism. Last year Sara Azmeh Rasmussen, a Syrian-Norwegian writer and a secular humanist, accused Norwegian political parties of outright anti-Semitism. Rasmussen claimed that toleration for extremism that emanates from Islamic countries has influenced local attitudes toward the Jews.I'm kind of surprised Azmeh Rasmussen is still alive and still living in Norway. Two years ago, she publicly burned her hijab.
Rasmussen was a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), a party that in addition to being nationalist and a supporter of a Greater Syria, is also racist: "I had decided to deal with my past and it has even influenced my choice of studies, and I am ashamed of the fact that it has taken me this long."
According to Rasmussen the intolerance towards Jews and Israel emanates from the political left. She accused the Socialist Left (SV), led by the infamous Kristin Halvorsen (SV), for facilitating anti-Semitism. In the past, Halvorsen's party has been at the forefront of anti-Israel activities. She has called for a boycott of Israeli goods and academics. This, according to Rasmussen has helped to create an image of Jews as aggressive and militant people "who just want to crush their opponents."
Rasmussen argued that such demonization has made all the complicated nuances of the conflict irrelevant. She explicitly accused Halvorsen for the trivialization of anti-Semitism by providing a platform for extremist groups.
According to Manfred Gerstenfeld, "...part of the Norwegian elite, which falsely calls itself progressive, is obsessed with Israel. This includes the leftwing government, many media, NGOs and part of the academic world. There are at most 1 300 Jews in Norway, of which 700 are organized in two communities, Oslo and Trondheim. They also are subject to the obsessive attention of the Norwegian elite."
Labels: Norwegian anti-Semitism, Norwegian obsession with Israel, Sara Azmeh Rasmussen
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:24 AM
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Rasmussen claimed that toleration for extremism that emanates from Islamic countries has influenced local attitudes toward the Jews.
Did Rasmussen also make clear that this same anti-semitism was an import from Europe? As she is Syrian, did she mention how France influenced Syria?
As secularism was embraced in the Middle East so was the anti semitism. So to say it is from "Islamic countries" is a gross distortion and a fantastic lie. Up until the European colonisation of the Middle East, anti semitism didn't exist in Muslim culture. Even Islamophobes like Daniel Pipes will affirm that. The lying history revisers like Andrew Bostom and Bat Yeor who have written fabrications about the history of Islam, claim otherwise, but all their so called "real history of Islam books" are rejected by the academia as fabrications.
Bat Yeor is ironically under the spotlight now. Her lies up there for the world to see, thanks to the Norway Massacre.
Syria, Iraq, Lebanaon, and the secular states are far more anti semitic than the religous ones, as they have no qualms about disrespecting their religous teachings.
Islamic Antisemitism And Its Nazi RootsBy Matthias Küntzel
http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/islamic-antisemitism-and-its-nazi-roots?print=y
The Politics of Muslim Anti-Semitism
http://www.danielpipes.org/161/the-politics-of-muslim-anti-semitism
The Nazis also did much to familiarize Muslims with anti-Semitism. Exploiting Middle Eastern resentment against the Allied government in the 1930s and 1940s, they established close bonds with leading political elements in Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, and elsewhere. Nazi sponsorship of anti-Semitism made it a live ideology in the Arab world; ex-Nazis then held important positions in 'Abd an-Nasir's government during the 1950s.
To a large degree anti-Semitism followed political hostilities with Israel - it did not cause them. This is an important distinction: while it was anti-Zionism (that is to say, a horror of Jewish sovereignty over lands once belonging to Muslims) which impelled the Arab states to fight Israel originally, anti-Zionism alone cannot account for the extraordinary role played by Israel in Arab political life since then. Credit for that must go to anti-Semitism. The Arab obsession with Israel during the past thirty years depends for its sustenance on the fund of anti-Semitic ideas imported from Christian Europe. Without this ideology, the Arabs could not have sustained their opposition at such fever pitch.
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