{"id":4602,"date":"2011-09-05T10:45:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T14:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=4602"},"modified":"2011-09-05T10:45:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T14:45:07","slug":"anti-semitism-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=4602","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Semitism In England"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Scott Johnson at Power Line<\/a>\u00a0posted a story about protests that took place in London last Thursday when the\u00a0Israeli Philharmonic, led by Zubin Mehta, participated in the annual\u00a0eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts known as the Proms. The concert by the Israeli Philharmonic was disrupted to the point that the BBC cut off its live broadcast.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0reported:<\/p>\n

…the repeated disruption of its (the Israeli Philharmonic) concert at Royal Albert Hall in London on Thursday night by pro-Palestinian<\/a> demonstrators, to the point that the BBC<\/a> cut off its live broadcast and played recordings of the evening\u2019s program instead.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephen Pollard in the UK Telegraph<\/a> had a slightly different take:<\/p>\n

But Thursday night\u2019s events can only be understood in the context of anti-Semitism. When have there been similar protests against \u201cviolations of international law and human rights\u201d, as was chanted on Thursday, by any other country? And this in the middle of the Arab Spring, when genuine protesters for human rights are daily risking their lives in Syria against a murderous dictatorship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If, indeed, this was a protest against the actions of the Israeli government, rather than against Jews, where have been the similar disruptions of performances by Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Iranian or any number of other nations\u2019 musicians? What about disruptions of British national companies, in protest at British human rights abuses? To pose the question is to answer it. There\u2019s little doubt in my mind that this was an action motivated specifically by the fact that the performers were playing in the national orchestra of the Jewish state.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the Jews are the canary in the coal mine, we need to pay attention–the gas is rising. As the day nears when Palestine will unilaterally declare itself a state–regardless of the fact that it has never adhered to the Oslo Accords, we can expect to see more accusations against Israel and more anti-Semitism under the guise of supporting human rights. This is the same kind of upside down logic that has been used in the past to persecute Jews. We need to our own research on what is happening rather than believing everything we see in the news.<\/p>\n

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