[From the Donga Ilbo]
For those of you who don't read Korean, it says, "JEW" and "Jew Power" in the stars and stripes field. Lovely. (HT to the Marmot's Hole)
Here's one from the Nazi era. Love to see Korea keeping it old school, along with the tradition of Hitler bars, overt anti-Semitic ranting, and completely fallacious historical constructions that have their origins in the general Western European anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust, and whose Prussian offshoots were passed onto the Japanese, who then influenced Korean intellectuals in the late 1890's and early 1900's. Jew-hating isn't new in East Asia, it only seems silly (since there are hardly any Jews here), but it's serious business – as the Aum Shinryaku showed when they gassed the Tokyo subways as a way to rid Japanese society of the (symbolic) Jews. [link here]
[Source -- "He is guilty for the war (WWI)!" -- translation mine.]
It doesn't matter if there are no Jews in Korea -- anti-Semitism has been and is alive and well, and is always a dangerous pattern of thought. Not just to Jews, but for all of the intellectual lightweights and demagogues who are not intelligent nor well-educated enough to present their ideas in a way that doesn't completely duplicate the racist anti-Semitism that eventually resulted in the Nazi's final solution.
Note: Anti-Semitic comment rants will be summarily deleted and the user banned. So don't waste both your and my time even making a Typepad ID to do it, please.
