Talk:Antisemitism by country
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Moved from Anti-Semitism, as it was too big. However now that you can read it, it needs help.Greroja 21:51, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Antisemitism in Spain
Minor correction (I don't know where to put this):(Granada was under Moorish, not Christian, control from 711 to 1492. It was the last Iberian region to be "reconquered", by the so-called Catholic monarchs, in 1492.
Unsourced on antiSemitism in Africa
Very informative to include in the article (encyclopediac, but wasn't able to find sources immediately, I would love others to help me out). But, this is well circulated in the world press on the huge problem of antisemitism is widespread in Africa. Here are the removed posts below and bear with me this isn't what I believe, nor want to promote. Antisemitism in Subsaharan Africa has gone on for over 40 years, partially from or under authoritanian dictators like Idi Amin of Uganda. According to some biographers, Idi Amin was viciously antisemitic. "Everytime someone mentions Jews around Amin, he turns angry and foams in the mouth, and rant about the Jews manipulated his people". I want to point out some Rastafarian groups and some Black Muslim activists are notably antisemitic, and we've heard of their speeches associated both Jews and whites as "blue eyed devils", that black Africans are "the true Hebrews" or the Egyptians are Africans/Nubians, not Caucasians, can't be taken seriously by academia and are politically motivated claims. + 63.3.14.2 04:02, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Africa
Jews are sparse in number in sub-saharan Africa, except for enclaves of historical Jewish sects in Ethiopia, the Falashas, who traced their roots to the peoples of Canaan for 3,000 years and most of the Falasha applied for migration permits into Israel since the 1970's. Once there are communities home to thousands and/or tens of thousands of Jews each in Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Zaire (the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe had a thriving Jewish community of Ashkenazi origin. By 1980, nearly all of Africa's Jewish population outside of South Africa have left the continent, while European and Sephardic (Middle Eastern) Jews left for Israel, while a few others went to Europe or North America. The continent's massive poverty rates and political turmoil in the late 20th century led to some African national leaders began to blame Jews and used antisemitism to justify the problems of their countries, they believed, "are operated by a conspiracy against the African race". Antisemitism in Africa includes false rumors and allegations that the AIDS pandemic, which severely affects subsaharan Africa than anywhere on earth (despite the disease affects every continent and every race), was bioengineered by either the US, the United Nations or "the Jews" in a plot to exterminate millions of black Africans and the disease is seriously damaging the countries, is a part of the "Jewish" or "white Europeans' maneuvers against Africa" or a continuous practice of "racial genocide". African nations are prone to accept unreliable antisemitic reports and revisionist history on slavery of black Africans to the new world was in due part of "Jewish merchants working for European colonial masters", also inflames the unsupported antisemitic rhetoric. According to social scientists, theories like antisemitism are appealing to some impoverished and downtrodden people without enough education to know the "Jewish conspiracy" myth is false and unprovable. [citation needed]
South Africa
Farther south are substantially large communities of Jews in South Africa, either of Sephardic and Ashkenazic origins, the majority of them live in urban areas like Cape Town and Johannesburg, where up to 70,000 South African Jews live in socioeconomically mobile and fairly non-oppressed lives. The state of Israel had great diplomatic relations with South Africa and the two were in an alliance against Soviet communism, even in the time (1950's and 1960's) when Apartheid, the official race segregation system, was enforced as the law in that country. However, both far-right white Apartheid supporters and far-left black African nationalists accused South African Jews for their misfortunes (it's been claimed on some post-1945 Apartheid legislation is closely similar to the 1930's Nuremberg race laws, due to the "semi-fascist" affiliation of the Nationalist Party ruled South Africa in most of the 20th century), and Jews received inconclusive blame for grave economic damage of the nations of the African continent. These opposition political groups used or propagated classic antisemitic stereotypes of Jews as "liberals" or "seditious" to the South African government, who are accused to thwarted the end of Apartheid in the early 1990's. There was a wave of white South African emigres, including most of the Jewish minority once ranged over 150,000 in the 1980's, to Europe or North America, and many other South African Jews found new homes in Israel. South African Jews were widely concerned on political crises and economic insecurity in the country in the past two decades, a byproduct brought on by huge racial disparities and inequalities of Apartheid. [citation needed] >>
