The Europeans have a history of ****ting on those who arent like them, this is really nothing new. Its pretty much a cycle, **** on Americans, then on Muslims, then Jews, then the Russians and back to Americans and so on.
Unlike American's who had slavery longer than Europeans, who had segregation up to the late 60s and had segregation laws on the books to the mid 1990s... who used eugenics in many aspects of life, including to bar Jews from America, who interned hundreds of thousands of Japanese "because they looked funny", while ignoring the millions of Italian and German Americans... Who arrested and deported thousands of Muslims after 9/11, who attacked and murdered people after 9/11 because they "looked like Muslims".... Yea, America is such an "angel" when it comes to minorities...
Listen, Europe is no angel when it comes to minorities, never claimed it was and never will.
But just because people are protesting Israel does not make them Anti-semetic...this idea in many American's minds and promoted by the State of Israel, that any protest against Israel is some sort of sin and anti-semitic attack has to stop. It basicly means that no one can question the actions of Israel without being labelled a Nazi.. and that frankly is pathetic way of having an adult mature disagreement with someone.
Yes we in Europe are protesting Israel just as there are protests against the Palestinians, and yes some portions of the 2 groups get violent, and if they dont, the police have a tendency to piss people off which gives the same result.
Are anti-semitic attacks up because of the conflict? Sure, the neo nazi jackasses would use the situation to promote their hatred, but they also did that after 9/11 along with other morons and so on. There are always idiots in society, in Europe, in the US, in random country around the world, and they do stupid things.
Do criminals exploit protests to do crime? You bet... you really think all those burnt cars in France were because of protests....
But this free pass Israel gets just because it is Israel, has to stop. It is time Israel gets treated like any other nation abusing people and breaking international laws and moral standards. That goes for the Palestinians too btw.