Oh it was all so much easier in Hitler’s day. A raving antisemite could get democratically elected and cart Jews off to their deaths in their millions.
Post-holocaust, antisemites have to tread so much more carefully: the mass-murder has been done before.

Exhibit A: Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone
It’s not important whether Livingstone is himself an antisemite or not, he’s entitled to his own private prejudices, but according to his latest brainfart, when he called a Jewish reporter a Nazi concentration camp commander, he says he wasn’t being antisemitic, he was criticising Israel even though Israel wasn’t once mentioned. Here’s a mayor who prides himself on building bridges between London’s diverse communities, as long as - I suppose - they fit in with his looney left politics. Many Jews have been wary of anything Euro-Leftist since the far left aligned itself with the antisemitic, sexist, homophobic, anti-west Arabists. Is this why Livingstone feels justified in spinning a dangerous precedence: equating an attack on someone for being Jewish as mere “criticism of Israel”?

Jewish power fantasy goes green
If you’re wondering why it’s always the Jews, well, Jews make for incredibly eco-friendly scapegoats in that they seem to be perpetually recyclable. If you’re extreme right, you blame Jews for communism; if you’re extreme left, you blame Jews for capitalism (what paradox?). And if you’re a religious fanatic, you can blame Jews for killing Jesus, Moses, the prophets and even tampering with the Bible to remove any mention of Mohammed. It’s party time if you’re a neo-nazi, extreme leftist or Jihadist. These leopards can now even exchange their spots without having to change their diet. (If you find it hard to see neo-nazis and Jihadists in bed together, try thinking in French and recall that some Islamic leaders felt quite at home with the Third Reich’s brand of Jew-hatred only sixty-three years ago pre-Israel and pre-occupation).

An enemy of my enemy is my friend: modern antisemitism
Although Jews are very small in number, some 0.003% of the world’s population, something about offsprings from their religion means that they’re an awfully versatile 0.003% when it comes to scapegoating. These offsprings love to rebel against their “parent”, blaming the parent for all their woes.

The problem is that overt antisemitism is still anathema in post-holocaust Europe so two things help to release the inclination. 1) smokescreens and silhouettes: antisemitism is a hatred that dare not speak its name; it’s all really just “criticism of Israel” even when the J-word is directly mentioned and Israel isn’t and 2) fanatical groups - particularly intolerant racist, sexist, homophobic Islamic groups - are the new public portal for Jew-hatred. Celebrate such groups but don’t fully join them, that way the antisemitic labels won’t stick. Isn’t this what Livingstone does?

Jew farming
After a major culling, though, the various offsprings should allow Jews at least two generations to repopulate before reuniting to delegitimise Jewish existence or directly threaten Jewish existence with nuclear extermination (see the Fourth Reich’s nuclear plans). If Jews are weak in number, finance, or military defence, you’ll look like a bully who can’t pick on someone your own size. However, if Jews are allowed their own country and 2% of the population of the world’s only super power then you can market your battle as a united response against that “Jewish power” myth that much of the world has fantasised about for centuries (see the Fourth Reich’s Hamas Covenant for just one of many modern examples).

The Israel gambit: Realpolitik
I’m not sure anyone seriously believes or says that Israel is beyond all criticism; it isn’t. Even those who spend a lot of time trying to rebalance the equation (see Melanie Phillips) say that Israel should be debated like any other nation, honestly and in perspective. It’s only when Israel is singled out for Sonderbehandlung (”special treatment”), as the Nazis would call it, that we need to look at the true motivations behind such obsession.

Why is it that Europe isn’t as critical of Arab states as it is of Israel? Is it because it’s easier and safer to criticise Israel? Is it a case of “pick on the little guy”? How much does fear of Islamic retaliation play? Isn’t it even more important to criticise countries that allow no internal self-criticism than to criticise one that is already pluralistic? When Arabs carry on like savages, it’s justified as “their culture” and we should “respect the other”. When Jews do wrong, they’re compared to their ultimate 20th century nemesis, the Nazis. Why the preferential treatment? (a possible answer coming soon.)

It’s a culture of blame, you know: J(ew)’accuse!
Back to Hitler for a moment. In the 1920s when Hitler’s national socialist workers party was dragging behind in the polls and seemed forever unelectable, Hitler revealed his love for Jew-hatred. Jews were blamed for Germany’s defeat in World War I, Jews were blamed for the Treaty of Versaille which crippled the German economy, and Jews were blamed for eveything nefarious under the sun from controlling world events (and perhaps nature itself) to killing Mozart, Goethe, and any other German cultural figure. Next thing we know - and with the help of the right economics for mayhem - Hitler’s party shot up in the polls and after some political maneuvring (violence and intimidation), he made Chancellor of Germany and the Third Reich was born. It’s funny how you can get elected and stay elected through populist rhetoric while taking advantage of people’s desperate economic situations.

Fast forward to a significant proportion of the Arab and wider Muslim world today where independent thought and self-criticism are brutally opressed and the void is filled with an Islamic brand of “Jew-criticism”. Jews are accused of controlling US foreign policy. Jews are accused of running the Black slave trade. Jews are accused of fabricating or exaggerating the holocaust as well as being behind 9/11 - and Israel is to the Arabs what the Treaty of Versaille was to Hitler. Coupled with their political muting, Arabs are also left in economic dire straits by their ruling class. Is the fact that they’re often reactionary really that surprising?

And why does a leftist like Livingstone stand shoulder to shoulder with such anti-Jewish vitriol when he stands - supposedly - for all communities in London?

Livingstone received Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi in London, the same al-Qaradawi who said: “O God, destroy the vile usurper Jews, the vile Crusaders, and infidels” and quoting religious texts: “There is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him.” Livingstone described this man as a Muslim Pope. Well, calling for a Jewish pogrom and a crusade might make al-Qaradawi a worthy candidate, but the point is that an all-inclusive mayor of a multi-cultural metropolis shouldn’t be seen or heard or even suspected of fueling the fires of religious or racial hatred. Could you imagine Livingstone inviting Eugene Terre Blanche to London and then using the N-word to label a Black reporter, or inviting Ariel Sharon to London and then using the T-word to a Muslim reporter?

Livingstone can hate who he likes in his own privacy, but as soon as he’s in the role of London Mayor his rights should be balanced against his mayoral responsibilities. And if all we have at the moment is an “unelected adjudication panel” to restrike that balance, then that’s better than nothing. It’s certainly better than a mayor who abuses his position to hide anti-Jewish sentiments through a myriad of anti-Israel smokescreens.

Other blogs chronicling the Rise of the Fourth Reich and its Chamberlain appeasers include:

• Victor Hanson
• The Jawa Report
• The Augean Stables
• LGF
• Michelle Malkin
• Gates of Vienna
• Hyscience
• Militant Islam Monitor

Update:
The Augean Stables has an excellent article on the role of guilt in Europe surrounding the Third Reich and Europe’s need to say “you see, the Jews are just as bad as us”. Could this be why Europe’s in such denial over the Fourth Reich, constantly reversing the role of fascism onto Jews instead of holding Arabs accountable for their publicly announced mass-murder intentions?

In Livingstone’s case, though, I believe it has more to do with his needing to side with a large radical minority when the shit hits the fan than anything to do with human rights. Honestly, if Ken Livingstone were really concerned about Palestinian rights, he’d foam at the mouth every time Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabi or even Kuwait are mentioned, countries in which Palestinians have often been treated like Jews in medieval Europe, i.e. expendable but not totally (see Jew farming above).

Civitas also has an article relating Livingstone’s lack of self-criticism to George Orwell’s paper Antisemitism in Britain.