Ever since the outburst of the intifada at the
end of September 2000, a sustained effort has been made by Arab and Muslim
networks worldwide to export it to the Western democracies in America,
Europe and Australia. Indeed, on campuses, in the streets of the major
western cities, in the media and in mass demonstrations, those groups of
Arabs/Muslims have been mounting violent attacks against the Jewish
communities in their localities and the policies of Israel towards the
Palestinians.
Since they have joined forces with local anti-Semites,
those violent groups have turned the campaign into a thoroughly
anti-Jewish – under the guise of anti-Zionism – onslaught on everything
Jewish, Israeli or Zionist. Synagogues were torched, cemeteries
desecrated, Jewish day schools damaged, Jewish worshippers and students
assaulted, and obscene threats were voiced either in demonstrations or in
posters, telephone calls and internet sites.
This upheaval, which is no doubt orchestrated from
the outside, has introduced an element of uncertainty and fear to the
lives of established Jewish communities throughout the western
democracies. Moreover, due to the increasing numbers of Arab/Muslim
immigrants, legal and illegal, into those countries who give them asylum,
and their tendency to concentrate in certain areas where they can impact
on patterns of voting, local politicians tend to behave permissively with
them and look the other way, while the influence of the Jewish communities
is being visibly diminished.
