Summary: Academic study entitled 'Anti-Semites as a Coalition Party' concludes that virulent anti-Zionism and antisemitism are spreading rapidly throughout the German Left Party. The Feankfurter Rundschau links to the study in their report, which broke the story last week. Widespread media discussion followed, prompting angry responses from Left Party leaders and accusations of seeking votes among antisemitic groups from government coalition partners. Until now it was common wisdom that antisemitism is the exclusive province of the Right, but now there's a German academic study on the subject which shows irrefutably otherwise, and ties left-wing Israel boycott efforts to the Jew-hatred of those dreadful neo-Nazi types.
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So? The KKK didn't have anything to do with the Right either - having been created by the Democratic party. Nevertheless in Academia, public schools, and the media - they are protrayed as right-wing.
Posted by: Ho Chi Glesing8262 ||
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Good catch, Ho Chi Glesing8262. :-)
Ibis, we know antisemitism is a free-floating problem, but the concept is new to the Germans, who seem to have forgotten that politics had both a left and a right long before communists and fascists were so much as a gleam in their respectful philosopher's eyes. It's quite exciting to watch them worry at the problem with their modern little teeth... as much fun as watching the Dutch figure out how to reconcile their disparate ideals with the unavoidable reality that Geert Wilders represents.
The Euro was a stupid socialist idea, as is the idea of turning over a country's sovreignty to an outside UNELECTED bureaucracy.
I'm just surprised it took this long fot them to notice.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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If the Greeks spent less time protesting and dodging the tax man, and more time working, Greece wouldn't have these problems. Which is why Greece has these problems.
My bride and I dine frequently at a neighborhood egg place run by a Greek family. Harder working bunch of people you'll never find.
Makes me wonder if all the hard workers in Greece decamped to America some time in the past.
Posted by: Steve White ||
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My protest.
End the Number one cause of plane crashes! Repeal the law of Gravity!
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Makes me wonder if all the hard workers in Greece decamped to America some time in the past. Freedom, resources and the rule of law are a winning combination.
Mama! the end of the world is nigh, Greeks may have to pay their taxes.
European leaders are negotiating a deal that would lead to unprecedented outside intervention in the Greek economy, including international involvement in tax collection and privatisation of state assets, in exchange for new bail-out loans for Athens.
People involved in the talks said the package would also include incentives for private holders of Greek debt voluntarily to extend Athens repayment schedule, as well as another round of austerity measures.
Officials hope that as much as half of the 60bn-70bn ($86bn-$100bn) in new financing needed by Athens until the end of 2013 could be accounted for without new loans. Under a plan advocated by some, much of that would be covered by the sale of state assets and the change in repayment terms for private debtholders.
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Don't bail any of them out. They're supposed to be adults - let 'em sink or swim on their own.
And no, we shouldn't have "bailed out" GM, the banks, etc., here, either. It's only made us measurably worse off. If you're "too big to fail," you won't fail. (Though size isn't really the issue, is it? It's lack of real leadership, union greediness, and pandering politicians.)
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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This is a terrible idea "including international involvement in tax collection and privatization of state assets" When Nationalism kicks in history will repeat itself. Especially if things get worse.The EU will with willful ignorance or even willful arrogance fan the flames of Nationalism. Why is it always more money that is the fix?. What next should this fail and it will. Nothing is being done to stop the bleeding. Transfusions at one end and blood loss at another. Modified Marshall plan based on capitalism of its people and industrial development not handouts not more socialism. Rather a nationalism of a people to work for their own betterment and to help others less able. The pass it on idea. Naive perhaps. Wishful thinking maybe. Better choice possibly. "Which shall it be" H. G. Wells.
BELGRADE, Serbia Protesters throwing stones and bottles clashed with baton-wielding riot police Sunday in Belgrade after several thousand Serbian nationalist supporters of jailed war-crimes suspect Ratko Mladic rallied outside the parliament building to demand his release.
By the time the crowds broke up by late evening, about 100 people were arrested and 16 minor injuries were reported. That amounted to a victory for the pro-Western government, which arrested Mladic on Thursday, risking the wrath of the nationalist old guard in a country with a history of much larger and more virulent protests.
Rioters overturned garbage containers, broke traffic lights and set off firecrackers as they rampaged through downtown. Cordons of riot police blocked their advances, and skirmishes took place in several locations in the center of the capital.
Doctors said six police officers were among the 16 people brought to a hospital with minor injuries. Police remained on the streets as the crowds broke up.
The clashes began after a rally that drew at least 7,000 demonstrators, many singing nationalist songs and carrying banners honoring Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander. Some chanted right-wing slogans and a few gave Nazi salutes.
Supporters of the extreme nationalist Serbian Radical Party were bused in to attend the rally. Right-wing extremists and hooligan groups also urged followers to appear in large numbers, creating the biggest test of Serbian sentiment and the governments resolve since Mladics arrest.
The demonstrators, who consider Mladic a hero, said Serbia should not hand him over to the U.N. war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands.
Cooperation with The Hague tribunal represents treason, Radical Party official Lidija Vukicevic told the crowd. This is a protest against the shameful arrest of the Serbian hero.
Demonstrators demanded the ouster of Serbian President Boris Tadic, who ordered Mladics arrest. A sign on the stage read, Tadic is not Serbia.
More than 3,000 riot police were deployed around government buildings and Western embassies, fearing that the demonstration could turn violent. Riot police tried to block small groups of extremists from reaching the rally.
Nationalists are furious that the Serbian government apprehended Mladic after nearly 16 years on the run. The 69-year-old former general was caught at a relatives home in a northern Serbian village.
The U.N. tribunal charged Mladic with genocide in 1995, accusing him of orchestrating the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica and other war crimes of Bosnias 1992-95 war. Mladics arrest is considered critical to Serbias efforts to join the European Union, and to reconciliation in the region after a series of ethnic wars of the 1990s.
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Summary: Academic study entitled 'Anti-Semites as a Coalition Party' concludes that virulent anti-Zionism and antisemitism are spreading rapidly throughout the German Left Party. The Feankfurter Rundschau links to the study in their report, which broke the story last week. Widespread media discussion followed, prompting angry responses from Left Party leaders and accusations of seeking votes among antisemitic groups from government coalition partners. Until now it was common wisdom that antisemitism is the exclusive province of the Right, but now there's a German academic study on the subject which shows irrefutably otherwise, and ties left-wing Israel boycott efforts to the Jew-hatred of those dreadful neo-Nazi types.
