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Mainstreaming Of Global Anti-Semitism, South Korea Edition

Honestly - dozens upon dozens of eminent sophisticates and scholars devote their time to excusing the most vicious anti-Semitism as "justified criticism of Israel" or "anti-Zionism". What did you expect to happen?

The Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced on Thursday the broad use of ‘classic anti-Semitism’ by leading Korean authors Professor Lee Won-bok in a book from his series Monnara Iunnara (Distant Countries and Neighboring Countries). The series studies countries in a comic book format and for the last 20 years have sold over 10 million copies to young Koreans. "The images in question in Monnara Iunnara echo classic Nazi canards like those found in Der Sturmer and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion by recycling various Jewish conspiracies like Jewish control of the media and money, Jews profiting from war, and even the reason for the 9/11 attacks was that, ‘Jews use money and the media as weapons in America to do as they want’," charged Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center. "The author also even alleges that the ‘final obstacle to success’ in the US for Korean-Americans is a so-called ‘wall of the Jews’,"" the rabbi added.

The explicit characterization of Jews as the root cause of social ills - or as the single barrier blocking utopian ambitions - is particularly scary. That's always the element that really gives ummpf to genuinely genocidal projects. But even that has been reintroduced only because of the pervasiveness of fashionable, intellectual anti-Zionism. You're used to hearing it as the claim that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will solve all of the problems in the Middle East. But it's essentially the same claim - but for the Jews, most of the problems in the world would go away.

References:
* Wiesenthal Center denounces ‘Nazi-like depiction of Jews’ in book [MR]

Previously:
* Walt and Mearsheimer Week 3 - Enough With the "Oh But They're So Qualified" Thing
* Arab and Muslim Conspiracy Theories - Iranian Holocaust Denial Edition
* Jew Banned From Wearing Star Of David Because It Pisses Off His Muslim Students

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