Anti-Semitism: On the rise again, but it’s Israel’s fault

A Jewish dance group was announced at a street festival in Germany, and promptly greeted with rocks and the old Nazi call of “Jews out!” by a number of “youths” of Muslim origin.

A Jewish dance group was attacked with stones by a group of children and teenagers during a performance at a street festival in the Germany city of Hannover, police said Thursday. One dancer suffered a leg injury and the group then canceled their performance.

The name of the dance group is “Chaverim,” which means “friends” in Hebrew. Here’s what their peaceful little Muslim friends did:

Youths in the northern city of Hanover threw rocks Saturday at the dancers from the group Chaverim (“Friends” in Hebrew) and shouted “Juden Raus!” (Jews Out), police said. Many of the assailants were reportedly of Arab origin.

But don’t worry, it’s not anti-Semitism. It’s anti-Israelism. For instance:

In mid-May, vandals mounted an arson attack against a synagogue in Worms, western Germany but the fire brigade was able to extinguish the blaze so the building was not damaged.

A letter in broken German claiming responsibility stated: “Until you leave the Palestinians alone, we won’t leave you alone.”

See? It’s all Israel’s fault that a Jewish dance group named “Friends” can’t participate in a German street festival without being stoned by Muslims and other anti-Semites.

Then again, it’s not like anti-Semitism is rare in Europe these days. Attacks on Jews doubled worldwide in 2009. It’s up in France, up sharply in Canada (from 13 to 138, a tenfold increase), and, well, let’s take a look:

‘Happy Holocaust’ was sprayed on Jewish school in Kiev.

Bikers shouted ‘Heil Hitler’ during a Shoah memorial in Holland.

Dutch police are going undercover as religious Jews to catch anti-Semitic attackers in Amsterdam.

Hugo Chavez’ attacks on Israel (and his state attacks on Jews under the flimsiest of excuses) are sparking Venezuelan attacks on Jews.

Jews are leaving Antwerp due to the anti-Semitic attacks.

And right here in America, high school students invented a cheerful little game called “Beat the Jew,” involving students playing Nazis kidnapping students playing Jews.

But just ask the experts, and they’ll tell you that if only Israel would stop oppressing the Palestinians, Jews around the world wouldn’t be attacked. It’s just like how every time Egypt’s Muslims attack the Christian Coptic population, Muslims around the world are attacked, stoned, beaten, and harassed by Christians. Oh, wait. My bad. That never happens. Only Jews get collective punishment across the globe.

But we already knew that.