It has long been argued, by many commentators, bloggers and others, from political paths of both Right and Centre-Left, that there is a large proportion of the Left that has aligned itself explicitly and strongly with Islam. We have seen evidence of this in the United Kingdom where the Left defends Islam, even when it is apparent that what the Left ostensibly is favourable to, such as LGB and T rights, women’s rights and equality, is anathema to Islam and to many Muslims.
Briton’s have also seen how the Left, and in particular the Labour Party, have done untold favours to Muslims and to Islam. They have done this by methods as diverse as making attempts to criminalise criticism of Islam right through to local Labour councils turning a blind eye to Muslim rape gangs. This appeasement has often in my view been for electoral purposes, Muslims can and often do vote as a bloc, whipped towards one particular party by Imams and other communal leaders. Of course, Labour may deny that this sort of thing happens in the United Kingdom, and there are similar denials in the Netherlands, regarding the Dutch Labour Party. But there are strong suspicions that, the Dutch Labour Party, a party that relies heavily on the Muslim bloc vote has refused to back this motion as they have a big eye on the Muslim bloc vote. The fact that Left wing parties in the Netherlands have vetoed a motion that would upset Islamic anti-Semites is very telling indeed.
According to a report put out by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (h/t ROP), the Dutch Chief Rabbi, a man said to be not usually given to making political pronouncements, has criticised the Dutch Labour Party for rejecting a Parliamentary motion to define anti-Semitism. Rabbi Binyamin Jacobs said that the Dutch Labour Party rejected this motion on the grounds that approving of it would affect Labour’s Muslim vote share.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency said:
Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyamin Jacobs said he was “shocked” that the Labour Party rejected a motion calling for the adoption of a definition of anti-Semitism, saying its vote aimed to curry favor with some Muslim voters.
On Tuesday, a majority of lawmakers in the lower house of the Dutch parliament, the Tweede Kamer, passed a nonbinding motion calling on the government to adopt the definition of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. But Labour, along with all the other left-wing parties, voted against it.
The definition has been adopted as official policy by the United Kingdom, Germany and five others in the European Union, as well as the EU as a whole.
Some pro-Palestinian activists have opposed the definition because it says that some forms of vitriol against Israel are anti-Semitic.
Jacobs, a member of the Rabbinical Center of Europe, rarely comments on political votes. He made an exception here.
The lawmakers who voted against the motion, he said, “did so out of political considerations.” Asked whether he meant that Labour opposed the motion to woo some Muslim voters, he said “Yes.”
Labour leader Lodewijk Asscher declined to say why his party voted against the motion,
I must admit that I’m pleased to see someone in as high a position as the Dutch Chief Rabbi speaking up about this. Islamic Jew hatred and the willingness of the political left to cynically exploit that very widespread theological and cultural current, is a problem across the continent of Europe, but one that has not been called out enough.
Islamic Jew hatred has not been highlighted or condemned strongly enough by either moderate Leftists themselves (with a few notable exceptions such as the blog Harry’s Place) or by the Jewish religious communal establishment. In the United Kingdom for example, we have high level Jewish communal figures following a policy of ‘critical engagement’ with Labour in the hope of reforming this party from the inside, and doing away with the Jew hatred that seems to be tolerated in the party these days. Unfortunately it is a policy that is doomed to failure for the simple reason is that there are far more reliable votes to be had for Labour by pandering to Jew hating Muslims than there is in working with a Jewish community that is tiny when compared to the Muslim community.
Whether in the Netherlands or elsewhere in Europe we are seeing Left and centre-Left parties actively choosing to ignore the plight of Europe’s Jews, and it is indeed a plight with increasing Islamic violence being aimed at Jews, because it’s what the Muslims want. Dutch Labour, like the British Labour Party, have become, in all but name an Islamic party. Also, the Jews of the Netherlands are starting to find out, as have British Jews, that there is no future for them in a party that allows those who believe in ‘holy genocide’, as many Muslims do, to call the shots.
This is not just a Jewish issue, it’s an issue that concerns all the citizens of countries where their socialist parties behave like this, no matter what the citizen’s race or faith or political belief. The Jews are merely the first of the groups that the Left is willing to throw under the bus in order to keep in with the Muslims, tomorrow it could be whatever group you belong to. What starts with Jews never ever ends with Jews. We could well end up with Leftist parties being wholly and completely in hock to Islam and Islamic groups with policy being dictated to these groups by Islamic interests. This is not the future anybody, least of all decent traditional centre-Left types should wish to see happen and it is something that needs to be fought against.
