Peter Gabriel.
Roger Waters.
Can you be completely sure you didn't have something to do with the synagogue murders on Yom Kippur in Germany?
How about...a rabbit cold-cocked by a sudden punch on a Brooklyn street in America?
An old Jewish woman kicked by a chav in England?
Something triggers anti-Semitic attacks.
As should've been obvious from The Holocaust and Hitler, a big trigger is the need for a scapegoat.
Point the finger, say "THIS is the source of your groubles" and add: "GET 'EM!"
That's what Hitler did.
That's what people do all the time, and to this day. "The Gypsy King" Tyson Fury raged that THE JEWS were the enemy:
“Listen to the government, follow everybody like sheep, be brainwashed by all the Zionist, Jewish people who own all the banks, all the papers all the TV stations. Be brainwashed by them all.”
A quick check of who owns banks would reveal that the Chinese, Japanese, Swiss, Arabs and various others own the most successful banks these days.
Ilhan Omar, praised for being one of the first Muslims elected to office in America, instantly attacked the Jews and Israel:
"Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”
She doubled-down with her infamous "it's all about The Benjamins, baby."
Buzzfeednews.com pointed out, after quoting those lines from Omar:
"Unfortunately, history shows that you can’t undo the spreading of rhetoric that gets Jews killed. In 1969 in Iraq, nine Jewish citizens were actually hung for being “spies for Israel” in front of a 500,000-person audience who danced and rejoiced over their corpses. By the end of the year, 51 more Jewish Iraqis had been murdered by the regime..."
So, Patti Smith, Peter Gabriel and Roger Waters (among others), what do you think your scapegoating has done? Has it eased tension or provoked more?
Considering rock fans in general can be violent idiots, how responsible do you think your remarks are, when the hooligans need a target for their rage, and aren't content with rowdyism after one of your concerts?
These three have all declared BDS against ONE country and ONLY one country: The Jewish State.
That's scapegoating. If you say that there's injustice in Israel AND in Turkey, Syria, Nigeria, South Africa, North Korea and other parts of the world, you're addressing a problem. Singling out one country, and you are creating a problem. A lethal problem.
It seems doubtful that the bigoted murder rampages of various individuals who attacked a church, a synagogue, a disco or the streets of the Boston Marathon, ever had any bad experience with the minority group or the race they attacked. They were conveniently "brainwashed" or "radicalized" by rhetoric. By scapegoating. By listening to trusted people ranting and pointing to ONE group as the source of all the world's troubles.
You can bet that when the investigation ends in the murders of four members of the police in Paris last week, or the murders of two people in the German synagogue, there won't be any evidence that the killer was driven by a personal incident. There won't be "You see, these two Jews did this so he did that..." It'll be scapegoating.
It's dangerous to point the finger and declare that people of one country or one race are the ONLY people who are doing something wrong and the ONLY people who should pay the price. The price ends up being paid forward, and forward again, and it's as indiscriminate as a tossed grenade or the spray of machine gun bullets.
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