Saturday, August 01, 2009
Edward McMillan-Scott: Why we must stop rise of a new face of fascism
Kaminski was nominated by the new Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR) created by David Cameron for the post of Vice-President of the European Parliament. Thankfully Kaminski seems to have lost.
Gazeta Wyborcza said "Kaminski isn't officially and completely anti-Semitic or homophobic, but at some point he recognised that these things could help him politically." The rough survey given here shows that Kaminski seems too close to antisemitism not to be hallmarked with its worst aspects.
IMO: Of course there have been a lot of very bad Jews, Bob Maxwell and (some say) Edward Teller for example. These people may certainly well be best avoided or made subject to very serious measures indeed. However that does not excuse general and broad antisemitism. The generation of Jews who arrived in England with the tradtional 'horses and herrings' are now long gone. So basically it is now difficult to credibly support anti-semites, hence some would say that nobody should vote Tory. A fair line seems to be "I wasn't a Jew, so I still voted Tory...and then, I wasn't a Muslim, so I still voted Tory...I wasn't a 'gay bishop' so I still voted Tory ... continues along Pastor Niemoller lines".
Gazeta Wyborcza said "Kaminski isn't officially and completely anti-Semitic or homophobic, but at some point he recognised that these things could help him politically." The rough survey given here shows that Kaminski seems too close to antisemitism not to be hallmarked with its worst aspects.
IMO: Of course there have been a lot of very bad Jews, Bob Maxwell and (some say) Edward Teller for example. These people may certainly well be best avoided or made subject to very serious measures indeed. However that does not excuse general and broad antisemitism. The generation of Jews who arrived in England with the tradtional 'horses and herrings' are now long gone. So basically it is now difficult to credibly support anti-semites, hence some would say that nobody should vote Tory. A fair line seems to be "I wasn't a Jew, so I still voted Tory...and then, I wasn't a Muslim, so I still voted Tory...I wasn't a 'gay bishop' so I still voted Tory ... continues along Pastor Niemoller lines".
# posted by uv : 7:47 PM
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