Israel Matzav: Jews who won't fight for themselves

Jews who won't fight for themselves

Pamela Geller is upset about Jews who refused to participate in a demonstration against the Islamization of Europe.

Why don't Jews support those who support them? Last week, on December 13, Stop the Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) held a protest rally in what can be described only as an Islamic fortress in the heart of Harrow, England. I strongly urged Jews to attend. Islamic anti-Semitism is more poisonous and more dangerous than even Nazism was to the Jews. The promise of Jewish genocide is made "sacred" by Islamic texts such as the one in which Muhammad says that the end times will not come until the Muslims kill the Jews -- and the Jews hide behind trees, which then cry out, "O Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him."

The SIOE demonstration was against the building of a mosque there, as well as the larger issues of the advance of Sharia and Islamization in the United Kingdom. SIOE pointed out the words of the Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan: "The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and Muslims our soldiers ..."

Political parties, racist chanting, banners and placards, and totalitarian symbols such as Nazi swastikas, communist hammer and sickles, and the Islamic star and crescent were banned. The initial announcement of the demonstration asked those attending to bring one thousand Israeli flags, and said: "SIOE supports Israel's right to defend itself against Islamist attempts to annihilate Jews." SIOE called on Jews living in London or within traveling distance of London to attend the demonstration, saying that "vile anti-Semitism is being preached in mosques across the world and almost certainly the one in your neighbourhood. ... Non-Jews are demonstrating on 13th December against thhttp://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=20498788e anti-Semitism being taught in mosques which goes unchallenged by politicians, the media and so-called 'moderate' Muslims. Jews cannot, in all conscience, leave it to non-Jews to protest on the behalf of Jews who are once again the world's whipping boy."

But they did.

I have two words: Peter Bergson (pictured at the top). Jewish history is replete with personalities in leadership positions who were unwilling to admit that Jews were in danger.

Bergson fought the methods of those who who said they were working quietly (and mostly ineffectively) to save Jews during World War II. He fought openly and sometimes bombastically to bring the issue of trapped European Jews to the forefront. Unfortunately, most of the Jewish world wouldn't listen to him either.

I know little of the SIOE - the group whom Pamela is defending. In fact, I never heard of them until I saw them on Pamela's blog last week. I know enough about the BNP to know that I staunchly oppose them. But the agenda of building a mosque in the middle of a Jewish neighborhood is very clear to me. And the SIOE and the BNP are apparently not one and the same.

Read the whole thing.

I especially invite my readers in England to comment.

Israel Matzav: Jews who won't fight for themselves