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| July 17, 2014
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France bans pro-Palestinian protest after violent antisemitic history

 

Paris bar pro-Palestine, anti-Gaza operation protests after previous demonstration grew violent, with attacks on Jews, their synagogues, and Jewish stores.

By The Associated Press

 

French authorities are forbidding pro-Palestinian protests in some cities after violence marred a recent march against the violence in Gaza, as Jewish-Muslim tensions in France have reached their highest level in years.

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A protester wearing a kaffiyeh and wrapped in a Palestinian flag raises his fist on July 13, 2014 in Paris, where anti-Israel protesters trap hundreds in Paris synagogue – Photo: AFP/ KENZO TRIBOUILLARD

Moderates on both sides called Wednesday for calm, and for a halt to fighting in the Mideast. Continue Reading »

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| July 14, 2014
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Israel’s Leviathan gas field reported 16% larger than previous estimate

Shares in Leviathan partner companies rallied Sunday in Tel Aviv trading upon release of report. Field worth $2.9 billion – $4.4 billion more.

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The size of natural gas reserves in Israel’s Leviathan offshore natural-gas field is 16.4% bigger than previously estimated, partners in the field said on Sunday.

Drilling platform of the Leviathan natural gas field.

Drilling platform of the Leviathan natural gas field. – Photo: Albatross

Based on an updated analysis by consultant Netherland Sewall & Associates, the reserves’ “best estimate” was increased to 21.93 trillion cubic feet (620 billion cubic meters) from 18.91 tcf. The high estimate was raised by 10% to 26.52 tcf, while the low estimate was increased by 11% to 16.58 tcf.

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| July 12, 2014
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Aussie Jew wearing IDF T-shirt mugged in Melbourne

Zachary Gomo says he was simply walking in a Jewish neighborhood in Melbourne, wearing his IDF T-shirt when he was attacked by 2 Arabic speaking men.

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A Melbourne man wearing an IDF T-shirt said two Arabic-speaking men assaulted him on the street.

Illustration: Melbourne’s Central Business District.

Melbourne’s Central Business District. (Illustrative): – Photo courtesy: Wikipedia Commons

Zachary Gomo told JTA he was walking to a shop around 10 P.M. in a Jewish neighborhood on Thursday night wearing a T-shirt from his service in the Israel Defense Forces when he was set upon by two young men.

“I noticed them when it was too late.

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| July 10, 2014
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Jew beaten & hospitalized by Palestinian extremists in Toronto

Brandishing ‘Never Again’ on his sleeve, Sun News reports how Jewish man was brutally attacked by pro-Palestine thugs

 

 

A Palestinian mob was taped beating Jews with both Palestine flags and Canadian flags:

 

Injured man taken to hospital by paramedics. – Screenshot

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| July 10, 2014
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Palestinian president convene leadership to sign request to join International Criminal Court

Palestinian president seeks to sign documents necessary for joining int’l organizations to ‘protect the people in Gaza’ by all diplomatic & legal means.

 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will convene the Palestinian leadership at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday at his bureau, during which he expected to sign the necessary documents for joining international organizations. Inter alia, he has requested to join the International Criminal Court in The Hague, a senior official told Haaretz.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 29, 2014.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 29, 2014. – Photo: AP

“What is happening in the Gaza Strip is a war crime, and it is the right of the Palestinian leadership to protect the Palestinian people in Gaza with every diplomatic means and its jurists,” the official said.

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| July 8, 2014
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Swedish man severely beaten with iron pipes for displaying Israeli flag by window

After thorough investigation, local Police suspect that the attack against the 38-year-old, in the Swedish city of Malmö, was a hate crime, reported The Local, Sweden’s English language website.

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A man was severely assaulted in the Swedish city of Malmö on Sunday night after hanging an Israeli flag out of his window, according to local media reports.

A screenshot of the flag hung in Malmo from The Local website.

Broken window & flag hung in Malmo – Screenshot from The Local website.

Police suspect that the attack against the 38-year-old was a hate crime, The Local website reported. “Our initial evaluation is that this is a hate crime,” policewoman Marie Keismar said.

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| July 7, 2014
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Tehran University professor/cleric: “Jews are sorcerers”

A Tehran University professor, on an Iranian state TV broadcast, discusses Judaism and the Jewish Sorcerers & Genies.

 

An Iranian cleric has accused Jews of being skilled sorcerers and said that Israel uses their power against Iran.

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YouTube Screenshot of Iranian cleric Valiollah Naghipourfar on state TV.

The Tehran University professor, who was recently interviewed on Iran’s state broadcaster, said that Jews use sorcery for espionage. Valiollah Naghipourfar talked about jinns, or genies, according to The Daily Beast.

“Can jinns be put to use in intelligence gathering?” the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting presenter asks the professor in the video, which was uploaded to YouTube on July 2.

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| July 6, 2014
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Czech Jewish Communities protest achievement award presented to Mel Gibson

Gibson to receive award even though he is denounced for his anti-Semitic outbursts made in 2006, and his hateful depiction of Jews in “The Passion of the Christ”.

 

Leaders of the Czech Jewish community have protested at the lifetime achievement award presented to actor Mel Gibson at the opening of the 2014 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Friday.

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World renowned anti-Semite Mel Gibson – Photo: Reuters

Czech Federation of Jewish Communities officials objected to the honor, claiming Gibson’s 2004 movie “The Passion of the Christ” portrayed Jews as “evil and blood-thirsty,” Bloomberg reported.

In 2006, Oscar winner Gibson was forced to apologize for anti-Semitic comments he made to a police officer who arrested him for drink driving in Malibu, California, The movie star and director accepted his remarks were “vitriolic and harmful.”

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| July 3, 2014
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WELCOME ‘HOME’: Jewish Syrian family secretly smuggled into Israel

 

9 members of a Jewish family were recently smuggled from Syria into Israel in a very secretive mission, to begin a better life.

By Roi Kais

 

A Syrian-Jewish family has been secretly smuggled into Israel and out of harms way in a dramatic rescue operation, it was cleared for publication Thursday.

Aleppo, Karm al Jabal neighborhood, in 2013 – Photo: Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Wikimedia Commons

This was the first time in over three years of the Syrian civil war that a Jewish family has left the war-torn country for Israel. They made the secretive journey in a number of tranches until they reunited before with the family just before Independence Day at the beginning of May this year. Continue Reading »

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| July 1, 2014
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Holocaust memorial in Athens desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti

The graffiti included threats that a synagogue in Athens would be destroyed.

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Anti-Semitic graffiti has been scrawled on the Holocaust memorial in Athens, including threats against the Jewish community.

Holocaust memorial in Athens, Greece.

Holocaust memorial in Athens, Greece. – Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Police have opened an investigation into Friday’s vandalism, according to Victor Eliezer, the secretary general of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece.

The graffiti included a purported quote from the Talmud saying that Jews who convert should be put to death, and threats that the synagogue in Athens would be destroyed.

“Regretfully, 70 years after the end of World War II, which left millions of victims of bigotry, racism, Nazism and anti-Semitism behind, there are people beyond redemption aiming at terrorizing us by molesting the memory of our brothers, victims of the Holocaust,” said a statement from the Jewish community, issued Monday.

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| June 29, 2014
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Jews thrown out of African Union summit

 

Arab League representatives at African Union Summit demanded the ‘Israelis’ leave, meaning the American Jews, before joining summit opening ceremony.

By Ofer Petersburg


The opening ceremony for the 23rd African Union Summit in Malabo was to begin Thursday with a declaration of support for the three kidnapped Israeli teens by a number of participants, until bad blood brought tensions to a boil.

Egyptian President al-Sisi (Photo: EPA)

Egyptian President al-Sisi – Photo: EPA

“I have never seen such racism, such anti-Semitism. We were humiliated,” said several of the Jews in attendance, who had left Equatorial Guinea in a fury after changing their flights.

“It all began when one of the Arab delegates, from Egypt, approached us at dinner the night before the opening and asked what we were doing here, pointing at the men wearing kippahs,” said Israeli businesswoman Yardena Ovadia, who had organized the invitation of the Jewish delegation to the summit. Continue Reading »

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| June 28, 2014
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Guitarist Ron Thal from Guns N’ Roses, plays ‘Hatikva’ for his friends

 

Wearing his hamsa amulet around his neck, lead guitarist Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal plays an impromptu acoustic version of ‘Hatikva’ (Hope), Israel’s national anthem backstage for a few fans.

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Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, the lead guitarist for memorable rock band Guns N’ Roses, was obviously touched during his visit to Israel two years ago, when the band played Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park to roughly 10,000 fans.

Ron Bumblefoot Thal of Guns N Roses plays Hatikva backstage in Vegas - YouTube screenshot

Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal of Guns N’ Roses plays ‘Hatikva’ backstage in Vegas – YouTube screenshot

As reported by blogger Darren Garnick, the guitarist now wears a hamsa amulet around his neck, which he said was a gift he received while in Israel. Continue Reading »

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| June 27, 2014
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Perfect example why Israel rejected American security guarantees during peace talks

If American trained forces crumbled so easily in Iraq after Washington spent over $25 billion training & equipping the Iraqi army, how can Israel possibly trust U.S. security guarantees?

By Israel Today Staff

 

 

While the Israeli government is officially keeping mum on the advance of radical Islamist forces in Iraq, local security officials are again voicing concern over America’s failures in Mesopotamia and what that means for the Jewish state.

ISIS, an al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria – Photo: AP

The armies of the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) look poised to seize control of most of Iraq, possibly including Baghdad. Continue Reading »

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| June 26, 2014
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Hebrew University historian concludes: Jews are not descendants of Khazars

New study by professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem finds no evidence that European Ashkenazi Jews are the descendants of Khazars, nor that Khazar subjects in the medieval kingdom converted to Judaism en masse. Past conclusions to the contrary, have no foundations in history.

 

The claim that today’s Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazars who converted in the Middle Ages is a myth, according to new research by a Hebrew University historian.

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The ruins of an 11th-12th century house in Itil, a Silk Road city that served as the Khazar capital, in July 2005.

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| June 26, 2014
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Israel’s President Peres at White House, talks Pollard & Iraq with Obama

 

Shimon Peres’ final foreign trip as President of Israel yields reported breakthrough in the efforts to release the American born spy, Jonathan Pollard.

By i24news

 

Israeli President Shimon Peres met with his American counterpart Barack Obama on Wednesday, to discuss the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank, the sectarian violence ripping through Iraq and the issue of Jonathan Pollard, a US-born Israeli spy who was arrested in Washington in 1985 and jailed for life.

Shimon Peres sits with Barack Obama in Washington 25 June 2014 – Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP

Washington was reportedly considering releasing Pollard early in exchange for Israeli concessions in the troubled peace process with the Palestinians brokered by the United States, which has since foundered. Continue Reading »

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