A history lesson, courtesy of David Pryce-Jones on Anti-Semitism & Europe on National Review Online:

That '30s Feeling

The Thirties are coming round again in Europe. Fascists are flourishing politically in France and Italy, and now comes the murder of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician who might have done well enough in the forthcoming Dutch elections to hold the balance of power in that country's parliament. But it is the widespread Jew-baiting that best reveals that Europeans are evidently incapable of learning from their history.

And on, tales of freedom of speech. What continues to evade so many people is the notion that with freedom comes responsibility.