Excerpt From Blog Post:With thanks: Eliyahu
As we approach the 9 November anniversary of the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom which 'softened up' German Jewry for mass slaughter, the academic and antisemtism expert Robert Wistrich compares present-day resurgent Islamic antisemitism with Nazi Jew-hatred at its worst. The Middle East has taken on a particularly dangerous, toxic and potentially genocidal aura of hatred, he argues in his Haaretz piece of 3 November.
"Only a fortnight after "Crystal Night," the SS journal, Das Schwarze Korps, chillingly prophesied the final end of German Jewry through "fire and sword" and its imminent complete annihilation.
"Today, shocking to relate, the specter of such apocalyptic anti-Semitism has returned to haunt Europe and other continents, while often assuming radically new forms.
"In the Middle East, it has taken on a particularly dangerous, toxic and potentially genocidal aura of hatred, closely linked to the "mission" of...