Poll reveals widespread alarm over global rise of anti-Semitism
By
Bob Unruh, WND, March 20, 2014
Do
you think a second Holocaust against Jews is coming?
If
you say that just won't happen, you are in the sparse company of
about 16 percent of Americans.
That’s
because 80.2 percent of the respondents of a new poll said they do
fear a rise of anti-Semitism around the world that would turn violent
and lead to deliberate attempts to wipe out Jews.
The
results are from polling on behalf of author
Joel C. Rosenberg.
“To
me, this is a stunning number. It indicates that Americans do not see
the history of the Nazi Holocaust as some kind of ancient history,”
Rosenberg said. “Across the board, Americans of all ages, income
groups, ethnic groups, religions, political ideologies and regions of
the country are deeply concerned that a ‘Second Holocaust’ may be
coming if world leaders do not take decisive action to stop Iran
before it is too late.”
The
question was posed by McLaughlin & Associates, a nationally
respected polling firm, to 1,000 likely U.S. voters.
They
were asked: “Do you agree or disagree with the following statement:
‘If the world does not take decisive action, and the Iranian regime
is permitted to build nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver
them, the Iranian regime will one day attempt to annihilate the state
of Israel and bring about a second Holocaust’?”
Only
3.7 percent said they didn’t know, while 80.2 percent said they
agree, and 16.1 percent said they disagreed.
The
Obama administration largely has addressed Iran’s stated intent to
develop nuclear power with sanctions. Last year, the U.S. agreed to
relieve most of the sanctions in exchange for delays in Iran’s
program development.
Israel
contends the rogue nation’s nuclear program has one ultimate goal:
nuclear weapons. It’s former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
repeatedly said he wanted to wipe Israel from the map.
Rosenberg
previously addressed Middle East issues in his “Epicenter:
A Video Documentary,” which
features military, government, business and Christian ministry
leaders throughout the Middle East along with skeptics and critics of
evangelical Christian views of the “last days.”
He
focuses on the question, “Are we living in the last days?”
Financial
turmoil, political instability, plunging morality and natural
disasters add up to the threat that “history’s greatest
democracy” will either “stage a miraculous comeback” or not, he
writes.
Rosenberg,
a New York Times bestselling author of “The Last Jihad,” is a
communications strategist based in Washington. Once a political
columnist for World magazine, a front-page Sunday New York Times
profile called him a “force in the capital.”
It
was the second poll commissioned by Rosenberg. His first found that
72 percent of Americans now view Vladimir Putin and the Russian
government as a “clear and present danger to the U.S. and Israel.”
WND
has reported in recent weeks on anti-Semitism surging around the
world,
with a three-part series that looked at what is going on
in Europe and
the United
States.
The
report found that the problem is global in scope.
It
was in April when researchers with the European Jewish Congress and
Tel Aviv University released a report that documented a massive 30
percent increase in serious anti-Semitic incidents around the world
last year.
Linking
the ongoing economic turmoil to the sudden rise in anti-Jewish
hatred, the report documented 686 incidents in 34 countries. It found
everything from violent attacks on Jews to vandalism of Jewish
cemeteries and places of worship. Some 40 percent of the incidents
included physical violence.
By
comparison, 526 incidents were documented in 2011.
The
reports found nowhere is the rise of anti-Semitism more extreme than
in the Islamic world.
According
to a 2011 Pew Research poll, part of the Global Attitudes Project,
Muslim-majority nations harbored overwhelmingly negative attitudes
toward Jews.
In
Egypt and Jordan, for example, just 2 percent of respondents had a
favorable view of Jews.
The
Islamic country with the most favorable views toward Jews is
Indonesia. But even there, less than 10 percent of the population has
a positive attitude.
“In
the Middle East it’s definitely getting worse – it’s at crazy
proportions,” said Martin Himel, a Canadian film director who
recently produced a ground-breaking documentary examining
anti-Semitism around the globe.
In
Islamic Pakistan, there are virtually no Jewish citizens. The
overwhelming majority of Pakistanis have never even met a Jew.
When
Himel traveled to the Muslim nation to document anti-Semitism for his
film, “Jew Bashing: The New Anti-Semitism,” what he found was
profoundly disturbing.
More
than a few people, for example, expressed the view that “Jews have
taken over America” and “engineered the 9/11 attacks” for the
purpose of conquering Afghanistan and Iraq as a prelude to taking
over Pakistan, Himel told WND.
“You
talk to the average, non-informed Pakistani on the street and ask him
what has to be done, and they say, ‘Well, thank God we have nuclear
weapons, we’re gonna’ nuke the Jews’; and they’ve never even
seen a Jew in their lives,” he said.
The
report found the Shiite Iranian regime, despite fundamental
disagreements with Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi rulers over Islamic
doctrine, is widely considered one of the most dangerous anti-Semitic
forces on the planet.
While
a small Jewish remnant remains in Iran, top leaders in Tehran
regularly demonize Jews, Judaism, Zionism and especially Israel,
which Iranian leaders openly say they hope to annihilate.
“It
has now been some 400 years that a horrendous Zionist clan has been
ruling the major world affairs,” declared Ahmadinejad in a speech
last year. “And behind the scenes of the major power circles, in
political, media, monetary, and banking organizations in the world,
they have been the decision-makers.”
Iranian
leaders, going all the way to the top, also continue to boast
publicly about their aim to destroy the Jewish state.
Last
year, for example, Maj. Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi, chief of staff of
the Iran’s Armed Forces, declared again that “the Iranian nation
is standing for its cause that is the full annihilation of Israel,”
echoing past statements by other top officials.
According
to the U.S. State Department’s Commission on International
Religious Freedom, the tiny Jewish minority in Iran, along with other
beleaguered religious minorities, is coming under increasing pressure
from authorities.
“Heightened
anti-Semitism and repeated Holocaust denials by senior government
officials and clerics continue to foster a climate of fear among
Iran’s Jewish community,” the U.S. commission said in its latest
report. “Physical attacks, harassment, detention, arrests and
imprisonment intensified.”
Instead
of working to assure Israel that its longtime ally, the United
States, will stand by its side, President
Obama’s administration has
held meetings with a senior politician in Jerusalem in which the U.S.
delegates brought up the possibility of replacing Benjamin Netanyahu
as prime minister, according to an informed Jerusalem diplomatic
source.
The
meetings were held with Israel’s popular finance minister, Yair
Lapid, founder and leader of the Yesh Atid Party, which became the
second-largest party in the Knesset winning 19 seats in the last
election.
The
diplomatic source said the Obama administration identified Lapid as a
moderate who could be helpful in pushing the Israeli government into
accepting the framework to create a future Palestinian state.
According
to the source, the talks included the possibility of Lapid bolting
Netanyahu’s government if the prime minister rejects the
U.S.-brokered regional talks.
My
comments: The ongoing hatred of Israel stems from the fact that
God Almighty has made her a PROMISE, that she will remain FOREVER.
The hatred is Satanically inspired. The hatred of Christians will be
EVER INCREASING because they too represent a PROMISE from God
Almighty. Satan is conditioning the godless world to receive his son
as their “savior;” the Beast of Revelation, the Antichrist.
Obama and Kerry are currently trying to subvert Israel, through their so called, "peace agreement," which would render her DEFENSELESS. This CURSING of Israel will bring a CURSE on the US.
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