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| February 15, 2015
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BREAKING NEWS with Copenhagen synagogue shooting – 2 cops shot, 3rd shot in head

One person shot in head and two police officers wounded in Copenhagen synagogue attack.
• Manhunt in progress as shooter flees on foot;  follows earlier shooting attack in Danish capital at debate attended by Mohammed cartoonist.

By Ynet & Reuters

 

COPENHAGEN – One person was shot in the head and two police were wounded when shots were fired at a synagogue in central Copenhagen a little after midnight Saturday, Danish police said, adding that it was too early to say whether the incident was connected to an earlier one at an arts cafe.

Copenhagen Synagogue – Photo courtesy Google maps

One policeman was shot in the arm and the other in the leg, local media reported. Continue Reading »

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| February 12, 2015
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Church of England Bars Pastor From Disseminating Anti-Israel Material

 

The Bishop of Guildford, admitted “…At the very least, he [Sizer] has demonstrated appallingly poor judgment in the material he has chosen to disseminate…some of which is clearly anti-Semitic.”

By Israel Today Staff

 

The Diocese of Guildford of the Church of England ruled this week that a controversial vicar, Dr. Stephen Sizer, had in his “undisciplined commitment to an anti-Zionist agenda” crossed the line into anti-Semitism by promoting conspiracy theories against the Jews.

Dr. Stephen Sizer – Israel Today

Late last month, just around the time of International Holocaust Memorial Day, Sizer posted to Facebook a link to an article titled “9/11 Israel did it.” Continue Reading »

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| February 11, 2015
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WATCH as State Dept. Backs POTUS: Paris Kosher Market Terror Attack Didn’t Target Jews

State Department spokesperson, Jen Psaki the latest supporting Obama’s unusual explanation as to why he described the Islamic terrorist attack on kosher store leaving four Jews murdered, as just ‘random’.

By Ari Soffer

 

It’s the controversy that just won’t go away – and it’s hard to understand why.

Not anti-Semitic – just random? – Photo: Reuters

Since US President Barack Obama’s controversial comments during a recent interview, in which he downplayed the anti-Semitic nature of the deadly shooting attack at a kosher supermarket in Paris last month, government spokespeople have been falling over themselves to explain what exactly he meant.

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| February 11, 2015
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Watch: Obama Calls Murder of 4 Jews in Paris Kosher Market by Muslim, ‘Random’ Attack

Obama claims media blowing terrorism out of proportion, using as an example, he claims the Muslim terrorist who took Jewish shoppers at kosher market hostage, then killing 4, was ‘random shooting’.

By Ari Yashar

 

Four Jews were murdered in a kosher supermarket in Paris last month, after an Islamist terrorist claiming loyalty to Islamic State (ISIS) took the Hyper Cacher store hostage before police raided it and shot him – but according to US President Barack Obama the attack was “random.”

Obama – YouTube screenshot

In calling the attack random during an interview with Vox on Monday, Obama in fact did not even identify the victims as Jews, instead terming them “a bunch of folks.”

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| February 10, 2015
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Brussels high school teacher: “We should put you all on freight wagons”

 

In an earlier incident the same teacher using a ‘German accent’, told a student he thought was Polish, to “go back to Poland.”

By JTA

 

A Brussels high school teacher was summoned to appear before a local school board for telling a Jewish student, “We should put you all on freight wagons.”

Religious Jews and an armed guard outside a Jewish school in Belgium. – Photo: Joods Actuelle

The incident occurred at the Belgian capital’s Emile Jacqmain school and involved a 16-year-old female student and her mathematics teacher, the La Derniere Heure magazine reported Friday.

The teacher, who was not identified, was summoned to appear before the board following a complaint filed against him for inciting racism and anti-Semitic hatred. Continue Reading »

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| February 10, 2015
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Man Arrested Before Burning Israeli Flag Outside Paris Kosher Supermarket

Paris police arrest man who tried to burn Israeli flag at the entrance to the Hyper Cacher kosher market, place where 4 Jews were murdered last month by Muslim terrorist.

By Haim Lev

 

Police in Paris on Monday arrested a 38-year-old man who tried to set fire to an Israeli flag that was placed at the entrance to the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket, where Islamist terrorist Amedy Coulibali murdered four Jews (pictured below) last month .

French police outside the Hyper Cacher kosher grocery store – Reuters

According to local police, the man was stopped and detained before he could carry out his plan to burn the flag.
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| February 10, 2015
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Pew Report: Jews Continue to Leave Europe

The report estimated that from 9.5 million European Jews in 1939, to 3.2 million Jews in 1960, falling to 2 million by 1991, and then to 1.4 million in recent years.
• Anti-Semitism appears to be on the rise on the continent, with some speaking of a new ‘exodus’.

By Ynetnews

 

The last several decades have seen a precipitous drop in the number of Jews living in Europe, according to a poll published Monday by the Pew Research Center.

Poster for the anti-Semitic rally

The report estimated that there were 3.2 million European Jews in 1960, which fell to 2 million by 1991, and to 1.4 million in recent years. Continue Reading »

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| February 9, 2015
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A self-declared Pakistani Jew crusades to save Karachi’s only Jewish cemetery

One single Pakistani Jew fights for the remembrance of the once thriving Jewish community in Karachi, that had been forsaken and is now under threat from an encroaching Muslim cemetery.

By in Karachi

 

There are few clues as to the identity of the last Pakistani Jew to be buried in Karachi. A heart-shaped piece of marble set into a slab of rough concrete in the city’s Jewish cemetery in February 1983 has none of the detail or Hebrew script of the more elaborate tombs built a century earlier, when Jews were a self-confident minority in a country where they are now often demonized. Continue Reading »

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| February 9, 2015
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Rabbi Claims Only Jewish Prayers Kept King David’s Tomb From Becoming Church

Rabbis urge for all Jews that visit & pray at the Western Wall to also visit the nearby Tomb of David, to keep it from falling into Vatican hands.

By Israel Today Staff

 

King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion was the focus of major controversy last summer when it was reported that, under pressure from the Vatican, Israel was preparing to hand over or sell control of the holy site to the Catholic Church.

The site is also holy to Christians, as the second floor of the compound is home to a more modern representation of the “Upper Room.”

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In March an Italian newspaper reported that the Israeli government had in fact reached an agreement whereby the Vatican would take control of the Upper Room, while the building itself, and therefore King David’s Tomb, would remain still be owned by the Jewish state. Continue Reading »

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| February 8, 2015
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Kuwait Airways Bars Wife From Accompanying Husband on Flight Because She’s Israeli

Iris Eliazarov, an Israeli citizen who lives in NYC says this discrimination is reminiscent of the old European ‘selection process.’
• Airline’s attorney claims policy is against citizenship, rather than religion.

By Ynet

 

Iris Eliazarov, an Israeli who lives in Queens, has filed a lawsuit against Kuwait Airways after she was barred from boarding its flight out of Kennedy Airport because she’s an Israeli citizen, the New York Daily News reported on Friday.

Iris Eliazarov and husband David Nektalov

Eliazarov and her husband David Nektalov bought tickets from a travel agent to fly from New York to London with the flagship Kuwaiti airline.

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| February 4, 2015
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German Judge Rules: ‘Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism’

German judge ruled against participants at pro-Gaza rally noting that saying ‘Zionist’ is the language of anti-Semites, as a code for ‘Jew.’

By Israel Today Staff

 

A German judge last week equated condemnation of Zionism with anti-Semitism, undercutting the arguments of many who claim that hostile criticism of Israel is not the same as hating the Jews.

PHOTO: Pro-Gaza rally in Essen, Germany last summer – Israel Today

In judging the case of 24-year-old Taylan Can, a German citizen of Turkish decent known for is anti-Israel activism, Judge Gauri Sastry refused to allow the defendant to hide behind the notion of legitimate criticism of the Jewish state. Continue Reading »

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| February 3, 2015
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$3 Billion NYC Trial Against PLO Role in Israel Attacks Has American Bombing Victims Testify

Manhattan courtroom hears testimony of Sokolow family from New York, as they recount horrifying moments of Palestinian terrorist bombing that targeted random civilians in Jerusalem.

By Reuters

 

Seconds after the blast hit downtown Jerusalem, Jamie Sokolow lay on the ground, her right eye damaged by shrapnel and her face feeling as though someone had set it aflame. “I thought, ‘I’m 12 years old, I’m from New York, and I’m going to die,'” she testified in Manhattan federal court on Monday, at times breaking down in tears.

Terror attack at Hebrew University’s Mt. Scopus campus in 2002 – Photo: AP

The Sokolow family is the lead plaintiff in a civil trial against the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority that will decide whether the groups should pay up to $3 billion for allegedly providing support for six attacks in the Jerusalem area between 2002 and 2004. Continue Reading »

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| February 2, 2015
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Inspired by Charlie Hebdo, Iran to host competition for best Holocaust denial cartoon

An Iranian cultural center will reward a $12,000 prize to the artist who creates best cartoon satirizing the genocide of Jews , in ghoulish contest inspired by Charlie Hebdo images.

By Ynet

 

An Iranian cultural center announced a plan to hold a competition for Holocaust denial cartoons, in response to the massacre targeting the Charlie Hebdo magazine after it published cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.

The winning cartoon from 2006

Iran’s House of Cartoon and the Sarcheshmeh Cultural Complex organized the competition, according to the Independent, and invited participants to submit satirical drawings on the subject of Holocaust denial by the beginning of April. Continue Reading »

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| January 30, 2015
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Following Spain’s moral conscience, Portugal grants citizenship to descendants of exiled Jews

 

Like Spain, Portugal says its sole reason for granting citizenship to descendants of its expelled Sephardi Jews, is to right a historic wrong.
• A local Jewish leader says, “We regard this as an act of justice.“

By Erez Linn, The Associated Press & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Five centuries after it burned thousands of Jews at the stake, forced thousands of others to convert to Christianity and expelled the rest, Portugal is granting citizenship rights to their descendants as part of an attempt to make amends.

A synagogue in Lisbon, Portugal [Illustration] – Photo: AP

The Portuguese cabinet on Thursday approved a law offering dual citizenship to the descendants of those Sephardi Jews, the term commonly used for those who once lived in the Iberian peninsula.

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| January 27, 2015
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Netanyahu: ‘Today Israel will do what needs to be done to protect the one & only Jewish State’

By i24news

 

As the world observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day in a series of events around the world, aging survivors, heads of state and other dignitaries gather Tuesday at Auschwitz to mark the 70th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation and to sound the alarm over a fresh wave of anti-Semitism.


PM Netanyahu’s speech – English after the Hebrew

The commemoration is likely to be the last big anniversary to be attended by any of the camp’s survivors, and world leaders are also expected to be present at what has become an enduring symbol of the horrors of Nazism and the Holocaust, which claimed the lives of six million European Jews.

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