An article on the universalisation of Anne Frank as an example to us all of the dread of racism, not of what she actually represents which is the versatility of anti-semitism which can bring together so many diverse groups. This is the final para and the final sentences sum up all too accurately what has come before:
The most questionable connection of all, I find, is made between Anne Frank’s fate as a Jew and the need to tolerate each other in a diverse society. Sadly, modern anti-Semitism is not a negation of multi-culturalism, but in some respects a result of it. Perhaps the only occasion when the extreme right and extreme left sit down together in harmony is when they combine to descry the power of international Jewry (sometimes thinly disguised as ‘Zionism’). Here, diversity is not the solution, but part of the problem, because an extreme desire to respect it often means tolerating extreme intolerance. The exhibition could easily have ended with a poster containing portraits of the white extreme right-wing politician Jean Marie le Pen, the black comedian Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala, an Iranian Mullahs, and assorted other extremists, with the question: “Which one of these is an anti-Semite?” Answer: “All of them.”
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