Newsweek: Jews encourage Right-Wing antisemites by criticizing European anti-semitism

An article in  Newsweek this week, written by Charles Hawley, looks at the European Right's admiration towards Israel.

The headline News week chose for this article is "Netanyahu's Unholy Alliance With Europe's 'Anti-Semitic' Far Right", together with a picture of Netanyahu celebrating his recent victory.

There is actually nothing in the article indicating any type of alliance between Likud and Europe's Far-Right.  Because there is no such alliance.

In fact, based on the URL, the original headline seems to have been something like "Why is the Anti-Semitic Right Hailing Netanyahu's Victory?", which seems to be more in tune with the contents of the article.

The article mainly looks at how the European Far-Right views Israel.  But it also has some criticism towards Netanyahu.  

While not explicitly embracing the Right, Netanyahu has been vociferous in his criticism of growing anti-Semitism in Europe, particularly in the wake of the January attacks in Paris and Copenhagen. He urged European Jews to emigrate to Israel and intimated he saw Europe as an unreliable trading partner: “Western Europe is undergoing a wave of Islamisation, anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. We would like to ensure the state of Israel will have varied markets around the world.”

Why is that bad?  Because, as Hawley explains "Such comments endear Netanyahu to the Right."

According to Newsweek, Jews should not complain about anti-Semitism, because it makes the European Right-Wing happy.

There seems to be a certain hidden assumption here that Netanyahu (and by extension, Israel) criticizes anti-Semitism as a way of achieving a non-related political agenda.  Netanyahu couldn't possibly care about European Jews.  He must be doing it as a way of implicitly embracing the Right.

And the Right-Wing is anti-Semitic!  So Israel is actually encouraging anti-Semitism in Europe!  

Note to Jews: Next time Islamic State terrorists kill you off in a European capital, please try to be less 'vociferous' in your criticism of the growing anti-Semitism around you.  If you can, please focus on the Far-Right antisemitism, and ignore everything else.  Otherwise you might offend Newsweek's sensibilities.  

There are Jews, both European and Israelis, who support European Far-Right parties.  This is due to the fact that Jews are finding themselves in an increasingly hostile environment.  So hostile that they feel the European Far-Right parties are the least antisemite of the bunch.  Maybe Newsweek should write an article about why that is.