Anti-Semitism has never died. It should have died with Hitler in 1945, but it didn't. Across the globe it rears its grotesque face from South America to South Africa. It is a miserable thought that mankind still has not grasped the meaning of the word ‘'tolerance''.

The Nazi uprising as we all know sparked a growing fascination with the Semitic race. But are we seeing the beginnings of a hatred that could mark the new Holocaust? Fresh attacks on the Jews as a nation and as a people show themselves in literature, marches and film. A recent book written by a Greek author Costas Plevris, "The Jews: The whole truth", encourages neo-Nazism (which I might add attacks other ethnic groups as well). He also claimed that the Holocaust never happened. So some of us go through life with blinkers on their eyes, but what now? According to a report on History News Network 4 December 2007[1], the book caused a marked rise in attacks on Jewish sites within Greece. Plevris was charged for his racially inflammatory remarks made in his book and also for inciting hatred.

While the Middle East naturally has its own form of anti-Semitism, this disease has spread to Europe rapidly. In Italy journalist Oriana Fallaci lashed out at anti-Semitism in her country:

"I find it shameful  that  in  Italy there should  be a procession  of  individuals dressed as suicide bombers who spew  vile abuse  at Israel, hold up photographs of  Israeli  leaders on  whose foreheads they  have  drawn  the swazitka, incite  people to hate the Jews. And  who,  in  order  to  see  Jews  once  again  in  the  extermination  camps,  in  the gas chambers,  in  the  ovens  of Dachau and Mauthausen and Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen et cetera, would sell their own mother to a harem." -  Oriana Fallaci 12 March 2002[2]

Fallaci goes on to describe anti-Semitism in France, Italy, the Middle East and other parts of Europe. But what is wrong with us? Logically (for those to whom logic exists), a person can no more help the way they were born than they can help whether it rains or snows...

Why do we waste our breath hating? Why is it so much easier to hate than to love? Because you have a warped idea that Jews have rituals like blood libel that will make them suck the life out of you? I believe this to be a spiritual problem, as all hate is. The advent of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, caused far more damage in Europe than anyone could realize, but now we reap the grim rewards.

Through it all, the one question everyone would be loathe to answer is, why, exactly is it so easy to hate?

[1] Historians in the News, 4 December 2007 - HNN. (http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/45265.html)

[2] Anti Semitism Today, 12 March 2002 - Oriana Fallaci(http://www.internationalwallofprayer.org/A-008-Oriana-Fallaci-AntiSemitism.html)

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