Antisemitism, the tragedy that comes back

Everything comes back, in a way, he comes back with the same face or the same clothes. Or, as the writer Bertolt Brecht, wrote: "The uterus that gave birth to the impure beast is always fertile".

We write and talk about the growth of rights extremism all over Europe. Some groups that maintain these rigid positions already participate in power in Germany (AFP) and Austria. In Hungary, she is personified by Viktor Orbán, her autocratic leader. In East Germany, occupied by communists from the end of the second war until the fall of the wall, the dissidents parade under the Nazi salute.

Maybe it's a protest, maybe a nostalgia even if 80 years have pbaded. The East Germans, from the unification to the fall of the wall, have suffered mistreatment, worse wages, forgetfulness and some contempt on the part of the West. Unemployment is increasing in the east and there is no indication that the productive landscape is changing.

This is not the only process with these features. Many former communist mayors joined the ranks of Marine Le Pen, the French extremist leader. Communist ideology attracted more supporters and mayors wanted to retain and increase their power. A similar situation occurred with the leaders of communist communes in Italy, who suddenly turned to xenophobic and anti-European groups.

The claim of Nazism is visible even in the Baltic countries, where the far-right parties take relevant positions and deny the gains of the social democrats. who has ruled the last six decades. There are far-right groups with mobilization powers in Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands and Mediterranean Greece, where they have parliamentary representation.

But why now? Because the system has not been able to create contention networks. And also because people do not want to be informed about the great principles of democracy if money does not reach them, they do not find jobs, and the uprooting and mbadive presence of immigrants, with different customs that scare the weakest, spreads. Anti-Semitism is resurfacing in a Europe that resembles an anthill where despair reigns. The refuge of the anti-Semites is this extreme right, in every country, including the Andalusian Vox, where its rulers sense the medieval knights ready to kill the "infidels".

The 2007 financial crisis, whose effects still persist, has erased secular republican beliefs in societies. To all this was added the wave of refugees from the Middle East. Only Germany has opened the doors to a million people persecuted by wars. In France, they do not know what to do with them and allow them to camp on the banks of the Seine or in the port of Calais, while trying to find a location. But they do not define policies. It is that There is no common strategy on immigration and crossing the Mediterranean. Some pbad the ball to others and the flow of standards and frames is perpetuated.

Among intellectuals, there are no unanimous criteria. There are those who respect multiculturalism (for the very strong Muslim presence in France, for example) and those who reject it, with the same force as they invaded their private homes. There are repeated controversies on the subject in the newspapers of the Old Continent.

The ultra-nationalist criterion that there is a collective crisis against the European Union, a willingness to get rid of everything that has cost so much to train the leaders of the second post-war period to avoid new wars, absurd clashes.

It is not in vain that the Brexit appears, the detachment of Britain from the mainland at a colossal cost, in the first place, because it does not want to open the doors to any immigrant, neither African nor Middle East . And that the English are a plural society par excellence, where each group has kept its customs and religion. He can be seen walking in the streets of London.

Anti-Semitism originated in this swamp. And mix everything.

The anti-Semitic hate both the state of Israel and the Jew who has lived in their country for centuries. He does not know how to distinguish between the political ups and downs of Israel with his various more or less expansionary governments that have nothing to do with their Jewish neighbors with the children from whom their family participates in games.

It is precisely these days that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for an end to the "epidemic" of anti-Semitism in Europe. The fact is that Netanhayu is wrong. This is not an "epidemic" because it is the economic and political decline that brings back a prejudice similar to that of the thirties.. Someone must be guilty. And just like in the Middle Ages Jews were condemned under the false accusation that they poisoned wells or killed children on their religious holidays, pushed to such prejudices by a Catholic church then retrograde, they now become the only ones responsible. crisis.

The withdrawal of Angela Merkel and the encirclement of Emmanuel Macron by the yellow vests are signs of danger. They warn that the issue of anti-Semitism may take longer than today. With all the contradictions that this misfortune has. According to a German newspaper, there are not only 200,000 members of the Jewish community in Germany, but also more than 300 servicemen. The anti-Semitic does not measure the damage that it produces. Because he's not only dedicated to the profaner cemeteries, he also fills the city walls that he inhabits with swastikas. And this motorizes an unknown violence when it ends.

Although it is the subject of another note, Latin America also has a history of anti-Semitism. In the thirties of the last century, as 500,000 refugees in European ports sought a visa to flee Nazi persecution, all Latin American countries, including revolutionary Mexico, closed down. Bolivia was the only country to have offered refuge. Argentina, like Uruguay and Brazil, refused to grant security guarantees for the entry of Jews until the late 1940s.

In 1920, then in 1930 and 1940, anti-Semitism had an active presence in Argentina, notably at the Chancellery and in the armed forces, prepared by the German army. An important column of ultra-nationalist writers admired the fascism of Benito Mussolini and "order" imposed by Adolf Hitler, as well as his animosity against communism.

There are many criteria, but everyone can focus on the fact that in Argentina there is anti-Semitism that is not explicit. Anyone who bombed the Israeli embbady and the construction of the Argentinian Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) had help, labor and logistics in Argentina. During the military dictatorship, the Jews who fell into the hands of the armed forces suffered more torture and brutality than those who were not.

The European antisemitic explosion will not have a paradise end in the short term. Historic institutions will need to be renovated, to recreate better living conditions by overcoming the economic crisis, and leaders must coordinate joint action to address the problems that arise daily. Xenophobia does not disappear overnight.