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The biggest wave of antisemitism in the West since the Holocaust

As a history buff, I have always hoped that its dissemination would help prevent the darkest episodes of the past from being repeated. Unfortunately, today we have to talk about the Holocaust in the midst of the greatest wave of antisemitism in the West since that genocide, something that is happening in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023. To the shame of our generation, the greatest massacre suffered by the Jewish people since the Shoah is serving not to raise awareness against Judeophobia, but to fuel it.

A person who had traveled back in time from 1945 to the present day and saw this new wave of antisemitism would have reason to wonder: Have the Nazis reappeared? Beyond groups that are purely marginal, we can say that Nazism is dead, but not its works. The seeds of hatred that they sowed are now being watered by others, and they are not the ones that many media outlets say.

The Left trivializes nazism to demonize its rivals

Nowadays, the political and media left often use the term "Nazi" to refer to their rivals, to such an extent that it deserves to be described, with good reason, as a crude trivialization of nazism to demonize anyone who is not on the left: conservatives, classic liberals, Christian Democrats... In recent years we have even seen the height of meanness: describing as nazi the State of Israel, the only Jewish state in the world (and a democratic country), which was largely formed by Holocaust survivors and their descendants.

The growing antisemitism of the left and far left

The reality is that today, the State of Israel and the Jewish community are usually defended by liberals and conservatives, including those parties that some media describe as "extreme right" but which are in fact democratic parties that defend conservative theses. Those who demonize the State of Israel with a suspicious fanaticism are the left and the extreme left, who direct slanderous accusations against that country that they almost never direct against communist and Islamist dictatorships.

The Left has wrapped itself in the trappings of “tolerance” and “democracy” to whitewash its past, but the reality is that one of the great modern inspirers of antisemitism, before Hitler, was Karl Marx, who wrote an antisemitic essay in 1844 that explains much of the Left’s prejudice against Jews, especially envy of the economic status of many of them. That would explain the large numbers of communists who ended up in the Nazi Party in 1930s Germany and the 1939 pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, two totalitarian regimes united by their hatred of democracy.

Islamism, the world's greatest promoter of antisemitism

Moreover, by far the biggest promoter of antisemitism in the world today is Islamism. Islamic fundamentalism is the official ideology of antisemitic regimes such as the Islamic Republic of Iran. Moreover, many Muslim immigrants in the West have contributed to fuelling this new wave of antisemitism, under the hypocritical pretext of supporting Palestinians whom no Muslim country in the Middle East wants within its borders, after the problems caused by Palestinian terrorists in Jordan and Lebanon.

This Islamic fanaticism is not only driving antisemitism in the West, but also other forms of intolerance. For example, for years now, more and more homosexuals in France have been supporting Marine Le Pen's party, in greater numbers than the parties of the extreme left, because the pressure of Islamism and its hatred of homosexuals are pushing many of them into the conservative ranks. Something similar is happening with more and more Jews, who find in the right the support and understanding that the left and Islamism deny them.

The Spanish Left's failure on antisemitism

Two years ago, a report by the NGO European Coalition for Israel (ECI) warned of rising far-left antisemitism in Europe. Significantly, in that report the highest-rated Spanish party was Vox (right-wing), followed by the PP (centrist). At the European level, the parties highest-rated by the report were mostly conservative. In Spain, the entire left, from the centre-left to the far left, received a failing grade, with the lowest marks going to communist parties such as Podemos and Izquierda Unida. Of the 20 most anti-Israel parties in the study, 17 were far-left.

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Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Jews being deported by the nazis during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April 1943.