Tel-Chai Nation

Reading this item by Melanie Phillips, you have to wonder if they're not all that different from US Jews:

The European Parliament elections last week have provided further graphic evidence that Britain and Europe are in the throes of a profound political and cultural upheaval.

In Britain, Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party pulverized both Labour and the Conservatives by winning many more seats than either to become the largest single party in the European Parliament – within just five weeks of being created.

[...] Among other EU countries, which are similarly witnessing a revolt by the people against the erosion of their democratic independence and social cohesion, these elections produced a parallel collapse of mainstream parties and a rise of “populist” nationalists.

Many Jews have greeted these developments with unbridled horror. In Europe, they see the “populist” tide as threatening the resurgence of fascism and anti-Semitism. In Britain, Jewish community leaders try to paint Nigel Farage as an ally of the far Right and as an anti-Semite.

These reactions range from the grossly oversimplified, blinkered and ignorant to the grotesque.

Farage is no anti-Semite. He has repeatedly attacked the anti-Jewish policies of countries that ban Israeli Jews from entering. Remarks he has made about “globalists” and the “new world order” have been wrenched out of context to suggest falsely that he was talking about Jews rather than the EU. Other remarks about the Israel lobby in America have been similarly cherry-picked and distorted.

Farage, a friend of U.S. President Donald Trump, is himself a somewhat Trumpian figure – a loudmouth who is careless about both his language and the company he keeps, rough-hewn around the edges.

Boy, they really must want there to be no difference between right and left. To make things more absurd, they remain almost solidly in countries they presumably don't feel welcome in. And that's regrettable. But as I've been aware, the Jewish leaderships themselves are practically to blame for failing to take any solid positions, and show courage for the same. No wonder Europe won't be able to combat Islamofascism effectively, so long as any phonies are in charge of "representing" communities.

Better leaderships are going to be needed for Jewish communities in Europe, and they're going to have to cut out all this stupidity when it comes to rightists.

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