It's human nature to shift blame for our wrongs to another...better known as a scapegoat. But a perusal of world history, distant and current, reveals there has been one ultimate scapegoat that never seems to catch a break...

Anti-Semitism, better known as anti-Jewish sentiments, have been around since the times of King Ahasuerus (a.k.a. Xerxes) (Esther 3:8). Jews have been persecuted for thousands of years. Blamed for everything from the black plague to having created a blueprint to take over the world (from the Russian fabricated Protocols of the Elders of Zion), to the now absurd attempted genocide of a fictitious people group, ie 'palestinians'.

In the day and age of political correctness and the protection of every possible people group imaginable...you would logically assume that following the atrocities of the Holocaust, Jews would be eliminated from ridicule or blame...but it is simply not so...

Since Israel's recent defensive operation in Gaza, anti-Semitic violence has broken out throughout Europe:

France: 100 reports of anti-Semitic violence since the start of Israel’s military operation in Gaza on December 27, including: Arson attacks on synagogues and Jewish community centers, and physical assaults in Paris.

Britain: A sharp increase in anti-Semitic attacks in recent weeks, including: Arson attacks on synagogues, physical attacks on Jews in London, anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled in towns and cities across the country, British law enforcement also advised prominent British Jews to increase their security measures after some of their names appeared on a "Jewish hit list."

Denmark: Anti-Semitic attacks have risen, including: Two Israelis were shot and wounded in a shopping mall in Odense, a public school principal, in nearby Vollsmose, declared that Jewish students are not welcome at his school and advised Jewish parents to send their children elsewhere, the same principal is an active supporter of the Danish Boycott Israel campaign, which concentrates on organizing anti-Israel protest marches in Copenhagen and elsewhere.

Italy: A far-left union has already urged its members to blacklist Israeli products, and boycott Jewish-owned or Jewish-run stores.

Belgium: The number of anti-Semitic incidents has surged, including: Synagogues and Jewish schools have been attacked in Brussels and Charleroi, Jewish community leaders have received death threats, and the home of a Jewish family was the object of an arson attempt.

Greece: The daily newspaper, Avriani, ran a story on Israel’s Gaza operation explaining that a Jewish plutocracy, having made the “wealth of the century at the expense of the economies of the world,” is organizing “war machines” in various hot spots around the world with the purpose of controlling the price of oil, redistributing the world’s natural resources and starting a new round of weapons production.

Sweden: Incidents included: The Jewish center in Helsingborg being attacked by arsonists twice in one week, the Israeli embassy in Stockholm was plastered with graffiti, and Jews living in Sweden were urged to take additional precautions when out on the street.

Spain: A recent poll marks Spain as one of the most anti-Semitic countries in Europe with all major cities having been 'ornamented' with graffiti equating the Star of David with a swastika.

Is this how far we've come since the Fuehrer slithered on Europe's sod? It's like his 'eminence' never left.

How long will Europe harbor this irrational hatred for a people who have longed to simply abide? Why do Euros fail to see this character flaw? A people, who had to be saved from utter destruction twice in recent history, should have developed a conscience by now, ya think? But apparently not...

How long will the world hang their failures on the Magen David*? Interminably.

Shalom.

*Magen David: a hexagram used as a symbol of Judaism.