With Euro-weenies who have lost confidence in their civilization, who have harbored anti-semitism in their breast for decades (centuries?)...and are heartily sick of hiding it these years since the Nazi massacre of the Jews?
I have to ask - why does this roll off the tongue so easily? It seems that so often in these debates Europeans are causally painted as anti-semites. There definitely are European anti-semites, and there definitely are Europeans who criticise Israel, they are not necessarily one and the same.
First, like The Rabbi, I don't think criticism of Israel is necessarily antisemitism. Also, like The Rabbi, criticism of Israel does correlate.
Euro-weenies/Antisemitism
My term, "Euro-weenie" combines two concepts: european-ness and weenie-ness. There are europeans who are weenies and europeans who are not. Those who are not weenies can be counted on to fight for their civilization. Those who are weenies not only will not fight, they don't think much of their civilization and can be counted on to take the enemies of civilizations' part.
Why do I think that antisemitism is pretty thick in Europe? Well, I ask Europeans. It is amazing what folks will tell you if you only ask*. It helps to grease the skids with a comment like, "Hey, it is not necessarily antisemitism to criticize Israeli policy." Give it a straight, earnest delivery and no telling what might fall out of someone's mouth. That's one way I figured out so many (not all, just a majority) of my muslim colleagues at work & school** were antisemites.
Why is it so easy to bring out the jew-hater in folks (euros, especially?)? I am not certain, but I suspect it is just the same feelings that existed pre-WW2 finally bubbling into the open, again. After WW2, people in polite company had to keep a lid on it, for fear of looking like a Nazi ogre.
But, hey, that was 60 years ago!
I didn't send anybody to the gas chamber! Now, the Jews have their own country & have soundly whipped the Arabs. Repeatedly. Also, Jew-animosity can be cloaked in progressive secular (AKA, "Marxist") dogma: The Jews are the oppressor! They take land away form the poor and give it to other Jews! They are the worst sort of imperialists! They steal the labor of hte Palestinians and give nothing in return. Blah, blah, blah. [Insert marxist boilerplate repeatedly and liberally]
* A local newpaper guy got a local "moderate" muslim leader to admit he beats his wife on the record, with a defense that it is part of his culture. And helps keep their women in line. (You can't make this sh!t up)
** A mix of US citizens & foreigners