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| June 22, 2013
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2 men from Gaza executed by Hamas for spying for Israel

 

2 Palestinian men reportedly hanged to death by Hamas after military court convicts them of spying for Israel.

16 hangings in Gaza reported since Hamas took control of the Strip.

By Elior Levy

Hamas leaders said they have hanged two Palestinians found guilty of spying for Israel for over a decade, making them the first to be executed since the end of a month-long amnesty for informants in April.

Execution in Iran. - Photo AFP

Execution in Iran. – Photo: AFP

Both men, in their late 40s, were charged with passing Israel information regarding the location of military outposts, governmental offices as well as weapon workshops which were later attacked by the IDF . Continue Reading »

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| June 20, 2013
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Israel urges Arab League to admit Jewish ethnic cleansing

 

MK Shimon Ohayon says Arab leaders must own up to their countries role in its ethnic cleansing of their Jewish population from Middle East and North African countries.

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On the United Nations World Refugee Day, MK Shimon Ohayon (Likud Beytenu) called on the Arab League to “own up to its role in the ethnic cleansing of the Jewish population from most of the Middle East and North Africa.”

Jewish refugees from Yemen cross desert

Jewish refugees from Yemen cross desert – Photo: Courtesy Israeli National Photo Archive

“The Jews of Arab countries, starting in 1947, were used as weapons by the Arab League against the establishment of the Jewish State,” MK Ohayon said in a statement, adding a targeted accusation at the Arab League who “drafted laws for its member states to withdraw civil and human rights from its Jewish inhabitants.”

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| June 19, 2013
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Michelle Obama & girls visits Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial

The first lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters spent half-an-hour at the memorial site.

By JTA

 

BERLIN – First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha visited the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, amid tight security.

First lady Michelle Obama and her daughters Sasha (right) and Malia visit the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany, on June 19, 2013. - Photo Bernd Von Jutrczenka-EPA

First lady Michelle Obama and her daughters Sasha (right) and Malia visit the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany, on June 19, 2013. – Photo Bernd Von Jutrczenka-EPA

According to Uwe Neumaerker, director of the memorial, Michelle Obama and her daughters spent about half-an-hour Wednesday morning visiting the sea of 2711 steles that make up the memorial, which was designed by American-Jewish architect Peter Eisenman and opened to the public in May 2005, on the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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| June 19, 2013
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Want to know how Ashkenazi you are? It’s easy to find out.

A growing number of non-Jews are seeking to discover if their ancestors were Jewish.  Jews for Jesus & other gentiles who observe some Jewish practices are eager to uncover Ashkenazi DNA in their chromosomes. For some it gives them credibility in their proselytizing efforts.

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Catherine Afarian calls herself a “love child of the ‘70s.” Her mother discovered that she was pregnant after she had broken off a relationship of less than a year. Afarian has never met her biological father, but her mother always said he came from a big Italian family, and Afarian got a kick out of Italian colleagues telling her she looked just like a “Roman girl.” Continue Reading »

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| June 17, 2013
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Italian activist killed for saving Jews is candidate for sainthood

 

The Roman Catholic church beatifies Odoardo Focherini, declared a Righteous Gentile by Israel in 1969, saved about 100 Jews during the Holocaust.

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An Italian Catholic activist and journalist who was declared a Righteous Gentile for saving Jewish lives during World War II has formally been put on the road to sainthood by the Roman Catholic church.

The Cathedral of Carpi, Duomo, located in the hometown of Ordoardo Focherini.

The Cathedral of Carpi, Duomo, located in the hometown of Odoardo Focherini. Photo by Wikpedia Commons

 

Odoardo Focherini was beatified – the step before sainthood – at a ceremony Saturday in his hometown of Carpi, near Modena in northern Italy. Continue Reading »

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| June 13, 2013
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Florida Atlantic University Continues To Allow Campus Antisemitism

Another year elapses and the university administration refuses to publicly speak out and set a moral example by denouncing anti-Semitic and other hate speech that’s commonplace on the campus.

By Dr. Richard Swier

 

In response to a new online video documenting the anti-Semitic messaging and extreme anti-Israel activism of a campus hate group at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is again demanding that FAU publicly condemn anti-Semitic bigotry on campus and take other steps to remedy the hostile environment. The video can be seen at www.exposingfau.com.

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Less than a year ago, FAU was the site of a highly publicized incident, where the campus’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organization posted hundreds of anti-Semitic fake eviction notices on student dorms. Continue Reading »

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| June 12, 2013
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Auschwitz youth center to receive $1.3 million donation from Volkswagen

Volkswagen, which used concentration camp prisoners during the Holocaust, says work at site is an ‘important undertaking’ for staff & company.

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Volkswagen said Tuesday it was donating $1.3 million to the Auschwitz International Youth Meeting Center.

Volkswagen Type 82E

Volkswagen Type 82E Photo by Wikipedia Commons

The automaker made the announcement at a meeting at the company’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn said in a statement that the money will be used for educational work and modernization of the facility.

He said Volkswagen has been involved with the center, an educational site located next to the Nazi death camp in Poland, for more than 20 years. Continue Reading »

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| June 12, 2013
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Almost seven decades later, Holocaust memorials continue to proliferate.

Hardly an unusual sight in big American cities, but Holocaust museums & memorials are cropping up almost 70 years after WWII, in more out-of-the-way places like Terre Haute, Ind. or Alexandria, La.

 

 

NEW YORK (JTA) — No earth was moved last month at the groundbreaking of one of the nation’s newest Holocaust memorials.

The CANDLES Holocaust museum in Terre Haute, Ind.

The CANDLES Holocaust museum in Terre Haute, Ind.

Instead, the gatherers stood silently, symbolic shovels in hand, on the immaculate lawn where the privately funded $400,000 monument will soon rise. A succession of speakers delivered somber homilies remembering one of the darkest chapters in human history.

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| June 9, 2013
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Caught On Tape: British MP calling Israeli soldier a ‘bloody Jew’… ‘with a rifle up my nose’

MP Patrick Mercer made his antisemitic remark to a BBC reporter posing as a lobbyist, when referring to his recent trip in Israel.
Mercer is currently under investigation in a corruption scandal.

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A British member of parliament under fire in a corruption scandal was caught on camera describing an Israeli soldier as a “bloody Jew.”

British MP Patrick Mercer being taped by reporter

British MP Patrick Mercer being taped by reporter. – Photo by Screenshot

Patrick Mercer made the remark to a BBC reporter posing as a lobbyist in the investigation. The footage was broadcast Thursday.

Female IDF officer - Illustrative - with plaited hair and open-toe sandals

Female IDF officer – Illustrative – with plaited hair and open-toe sandals

Mercer told of entering an “intelligence establishment” during a recent Israel visit and facing a security guard. Continue Reading »

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| June 8, 2013
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Assad Aide: Israel’s Elite Units Aiding Rebels

Assad’s top aide claims IDF special unit involved in Quneitra battles.

 

In Hezbollah TV interview, she claims Israel working with rebels, which she called ‘armed gangs’.

By Roi Kais

In an interview to the Hezbollah affiliated Al Mayadeen network, Bouthaina Shaaban, the top political and media adviser to Syrian President Bashar Assad, claimed that the injured transferred to Israel during the fighting in Quneitra were Israeli soldiers and not rebels, which she called “armed gangs”.

Bouthaina Shaaban, the top political and media adviser to Syrian President Bashar Assad

Bouthaina Shaaban, the top political and media adviser to Syrian President Bashar Assad – Photo AP

“When we hear that wounded from the armed gangs were transferred to Israel for medical treatment, I wonder whether these might be Mista’arvim” – the Border Guard’s elite counter-terrorism unit, comprised of officers disguised as Arabs. Continue Reading »

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| June 7, 2013
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Israeli director debunks Nazi Jewish soap myth

The claim, based of Polish antisemitic slogans, that soap was produced from Jewish bodies, simply plays into the hands of the deniers of the Holocaust, who can easily prove that nothing of the kind ever happened…even though the Nazis were more than capable of this atrocity.

 

 

An Israeli film maker who is admittedly “obsessed” with the Holocaust is finally putting to rest the myth that the  urban myth that the Nazis used the remains of Jewish bodies to create bars of soap.

Remembering the Holocaust

“Soaps,” a new film by director Eyal Ballas, 43, finds that the soap myth originated in World War I, when Germans were rumored to be turning bodies into the cleaning product.

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| June 6, 2013
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Iranians ‘embarrassed by ignorance’ after meeting Holocaust survivors

Young Iranians now living in UK listen to stories of Holocaust survivors, tell about their childhoods, being indoctrinated to hate Israel. ‘We have no real way to influence Iranian gov’t, but we can pass on these stories we heard here.’

By Ahiya Raved

Fifteen young men and women of Iranian descent who now live in Britain met on Tuesday in Haifa with Holocaust survivors and heard, for the first time in their lives, stories about life in the concentration camps and life in the ghettos.

סיפורי הניצולים ודמעות האיראנים (צילום: אבישג שאר-ישוב)

Emotional meeting – Photo: Avishag Shaar-Yashuv

The young members of the Church of Light were born mostly Muslims and converted after moving to England. Continue Reading »

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| June 5, 2013
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Greek FM to American Jews: Anti-Semitism in Greece will be ‘confronted’

“The social factors that have allowed this to happen, as in other European countries, must be successfully addressed,” Greek foreign minister told an American Jewish audience.

 

WASHINGTON — The Greek foreign minister told an American Jewish audience that his government would “never allow hate to grow and spread,” but did not address specific calls to marginalize the ultranationalist Golden Dawn party.

Golden Dawn members with party leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos (front left)

Golden Dawn members with party leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos (front left)

“Let me state from this forum, in the most determined and compelling manner, that Greece will never allow hate to grow and spread,” Dimitris Avramopoulos told the American Jewish Committee’s annual Global Forum in Washington on Monday.

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| June 4, 2013
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Southwest Airlines kicks 101 yeshiva students off NY- ATL flight

 

CNN reported U.S. airline saying group was “non-compliant.”

Chaperone of the Jewish students says allegations are false, & that Southwest flight crew behavior was “nasty.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

A group of 101 yeshiva students and their eight accompanying chaperones were asked to remove themselves from an airplane which was scheduled to fly from New York to Atlanta Monday morning, CNN reported.

Southwest Airllines

Southwest Airlines – Photo: REUTERS/Tom Gannam

Southwest Airlines reportedly said the group of “non-compliant passengers” would not remain seated or stop using their mobile devices. According to CNN, once the students failed to comply, they were asked to leave the aircraft. Continue Reading »

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| June 3, 2013
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Hamas Would-Be Kidnapping Terrorist Nabbed by Israel Security

A Hamas terrorist who was preparing to carry out terror attacks was arrested. Under questioning, it was learned that his handler was a terrorist released in the Gilad Shalit deal. That violation makes him a target now.

By David Lev

 

Israeli security personnel announced Monday that they had arrested Bachar Attalah Samiach Sa’ad, a Hamas terrorists who planned several terror attacks against Israelis. Sa’ad was arrested in a joint action by the Shabak, Israel Police and IDF.

Sa’ad, a resident of a village near Ramallah, planned to kidnap an IDF soldier, amid a shooting attack he planned. His handler was Hasham Abed Alkhader Ibrahim Hajaz, a Hamas terrorist who was deported from Israel after he was released from an Israeli prison in the deal to free kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. Continue Reading »

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