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by Denis MacEoin
• April 23, 2015 at 5:00 am
A
generation of students is growing up learning to tolerate -- and consider
normal -- bias, falsehood, prejudice, and the runaway politicization of
teachers and student thugs permitting only one-sided arguments.
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Britain's Southampton University this month
cancelled a conference dedicated to questioning the legitimacy of
Israel, which had attracted Jew-haters and anti-Zionists, and was
described by a prominent member of parliament as an "anti-Semitic
hate-fest".
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America's President Barack Obama has declared war on Israel. The
animosity between Obama and his administration toward Israel and its
newly re-elected leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been
growing for years; it reached crisis point after Netanyahu's address to
the U.S. Congress and news of his resounding victory in the March
elections.
This does not mean that the United States, as a whole, shares this
animosity or is bent on abandoning a vulnerable and beleaguered democracy
to its host of violent and uncompromising predators. Polls show it does
not.
by Burak Bekdil
• April 23, 2015 at 4:00 am
When
asked to name the world's most violent religion, 45% of Turks cited
Christianity and 41% cited Judaism, with only 2% saying it was Islam.
So
there is no racism in turkey. Nice. But Google will produce 12.2 million
results if one types in "Turkey" and "racism."
"Unfortunately,
Turkish Jews, who have been considered as having organic ties to Israel,
are labeled as foreigners. Thus, they are subject to hate speech and
threats almost on a daily basis whenever there is a crisis between Israel
and Palestine." — Selin Nasi, journalist, Salom.
"We
celebrate the 100th anniversary of our country being cleansed of
[Christian] Armenians." — Banners in several cities of Turkey
"celebrating" the Armenian genocide in Turkey, February 2015.
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Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc speaks at
the reopening of the Great Synagogue Edirne, where he declared,
"There is no anti-Semitism in Turkey."
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Ostensibly, it was a merry event. A week before Passover, hundreds
of Turkish Jews from Istanbul gathered in the western city of Edirne for
the reopening of the Great Synagogue, which had closed its doors in 1969
and had remained a ruin since then, until it was recently restored.
In the days after the high-profile ceremony, the Great Synagogue
would go back to its quieter days, as there are no longer Jews in Edirne,
and only 17,000 in the whole of Turkey.
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