The New (Anti-Semitic) World Order

Anti-Semitism is nothing new. It's been around since ancient times. Even within living memory of the deaths of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is back, with an increasing number of violent threats and attacks directed at Jewish targets.

By Melvin Rhodes

In the ancient world they were persecuted for refusing to worship pagan idols or the Roman emperor. Later they were blamed for the death of Jesus Christ. In the late Middle Ages they were accused of sacrificing Christian children at the annual Passover observance, an absurdly false accusation resurrected by the Nazis in the 1930s to suit their purposes.

Often resented because of their success and despis ed because of their religious differences, animosity toward Jews has been a consistent theme throughout their history.

What is so shocking today is how quickly anti-Semitism has revived after the slaughter of the Holocaust. Less than 60 years after the Allies liberated the emaciated survivors of the death camps, the descendants of the biblical tribe of Judah find themselves blamed for a whole array of ills including 9/11, the problems in the Middle East, international economic disorder and globalization.

"They're at it again: the Jewish conspiracy to take over the world is back in session. The former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed's recent claim that the modern-day Elders of Zion 'now rule the world by proxy' not only garnered loud applause at the summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), but most likely earned silent nods of approval worldwide.

"Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the oldest hatred has been making a global comeback, culminating in 2002 with the highest number of anti-Semitic attacks in 12 years," writes Mark Strauss in the British publication The Spectator ("Who Hates the Jews Now?," Nov. 22, 2003).

Why is this happening now, still within the living memory of Holocaust survivors?

International hostility toward Israel

One of the primary reasons behind the growing anti-Semitism is international hostility toward the nation of Israel, the tiny Middle Eastern state that became the first Jewish homeland in almost 2,000 years when it was established in 1948.

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