The American Anti-Defamation League has carried out one of its regular polls to discover anti-semitic attitudes in Europe. Hungary, Poland, Spain top most of their measures but sharp differences are blurred. There is no question on Palestinians (see discussion below). Plus Haaretz +972 on anti-semitism in 2012.

The antisemitism charge is the first refuge of rightwing Zionists today writes Jerry Haber of such Jews in the US (and UK, we add); criticisms of Israeli positions which are normal discourse in Israel are frivolously attacked as antisemitic elsewhere.

Far-right Republicans, joined by the “Emergency Committee for Israel”, are attempting to smear the Occupy Wall Street movement as antisemitic. Prof of Journalism Eric Alterman points out that “The question to ask about anti-Semitism is not whether it exists, but whether its existence has any significant political or cultural implications.” Not in OWS, with, as you would expect in New York, a significant Jewish presence in its ranks.
Plus a message of support from members of the British Jewish community for ‘Occupy London’…

Since 9/11, Christian bigots and their Jewish Zionist allies have shared a rhetoric of Islamist take-over of the West, aided by compliant government. The slaughter by Breivik, and his pro-Israel ‘manifesto’, has shocked them into forgetting their own role in creating Islamophobia writes Ali Abuminah