Wednesday, August 02, 2006
ATTACKS CONTINUE
Another anti-Jewish attack in Sydney:
A Jewish youth centre in Sydney has been targeted in an attack community leaders say is clearly linked to the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
It is the second anti-Semitic attack in Sydney in four days.
Curious first paragraph, there. Ordinarily, theories on motive or provocation might not run so prominently.
Investigations had shown the assailants intended to cause much greater damage, dousing wooden blocks inside the building with gasoline and trying to set them alight.
More weirdness: since when do Australian pyromaniac anti-Semites use gasoline?
(Via Roxy H.)
UPDATE. Mark Steyn:
One of the curious side-effects of the jihad is that it’s liberated among non-Muslims in the west an amazing resurgence in old-school Jew-hatred. I don’t just mean the coded stuff – “Oh, those Jews are so clever” – or the casual prejudices of the schoolyard – “He Jewed me out of two shillings for a Mars Bar” – but just plain naked virulent hatred.
Hit the link for an example.
UPDATE II. Ted Lapkin on anti-Zionism in Australian academia.
UPDATE III. “Anti-semitism is on the rise,” writes Miranda Devine, “but Mel Gibson is the least of it.”