A Palestinian mob was taped beating Jews with both Palestine flags and Canadian flags:
Injured man taken to hospital by paramedics. – Screenshot
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The International Olympic Committee has issued a warning to the international baseball and softball federation after an Israeli delegate was barred from displaying his national flag at a recent meeting in Tunisia.
The IOC Executive in session. – Photo: International Olympic Committee
The IOC opened an investigation after the head of the Israeli baseball association, Peter Kurz, was told he could not display the Israeli flag or name plate at the World Baseball Softball Confederation congress in Hammamet, Tunisia, in May. Continue Reading »
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.
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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An Israeli-owned store in England that sold replacement parts for SodaStream closed after two years of weekly boycott protests.
Israel boycott activists outside the EcoStream shop in Brighton – Photo: Sandy Rashty
The EcoStream shop in the coastal town of Brighton shut down last week, the Jewish Chronicle reported.
The store sold the recyclable bottles for the SodaStream machines made in the factory in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim.
Since September 2012, pro-Palestinian activists from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign have demonstrated in front of the store every Saturday as part of the global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.
An Iranian cleric has accused Jews of being skilled sorcerers and said that Israel uses their power against Iran.
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.
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.
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.”
The campaign calling to boycott Israel in an effort to change its policies toward the Palestinians risks backfiring because of limited support, leading American academic and political activist Noam Chomsky has said.
Noam Chomsky – Photo: AP
In an article posted in The Nation on Wednesday, Chomsky targets the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. He says that while there is international support exists for two of the movement’s main goals – ending the occupation of territories captured in the 1967 war and granting equal rights to Arab citizens of Israel, there is no significant support for its third objective – allowing Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in Israel.
Portugal joined six other European countries on Wednesday in warning its citizens against doing business beyond the Green Line, with another 10 European countries expected to issue similar recommendations by the end of the week.
View of Lisbon’s port, one of the largest and most important ports in Europe – Photo: Wikimedia Commons
The advisory, which appeared on Portugal’s Foreign Ministry website, employed similar language used by Spain and Italy last week in warning their nationals against doing business and investing in the West bank, east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
Anti-Semitic graffiti has been scrawled on the Holocaust memorial in Athens, including threats against the Jewish community.
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.
US President Barack Obama – Photo: REUTERS
In a statement issued to the press, US President Barack Obama balanced a message of empathy as a father with a call for restraint from a leader familiar with spiraling conflicts in the Middle East.
By Dan Williams; editing by Ralph Boulton
(Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced support for Kurdish statehood on Sunday, taking a position that appeared to clash with the U.S. preference to keep sectarian war-torn Iraq united.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference January 21, 2014 – Photo: Menahem Kahana/AFP
Israel has maintained discreet military, intelligence and business ties with the Kurds since the 1960s, seeing in the minority ethnic group a buffer against shared Arab adversaries.
The Kurds have seized on recent sectarian chaos in Iraq to expand their autonomous northern territory to include Kirkuk, which sits on vast oil deposits that could make the independent state many dream of economically viable. Continue Reading »
WASHINGTON – The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved legislation designed to keep international financial institutions from conducting business with Hezbollah.
John Kerry Testifies at House Foreign Affairs Committee [archive] – Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Hezbollah already is subject to sanctions as a designated terrorist group.
Iranians interviewed by Israel’s Channel 2 at the soccer World Cup expressed opinions very different from their leadership regarding the Jewish state. Clearly intoxicated by the World Cup spirit, the reveling fans said “Israel is good,” and “we love Israel.”
“Israel is good,” and “we love Israel.” – Israel Channel 2 screenshot
Iran was defeated 1:0 by Argentina on Saturday.
The Iranians may face trouble at home, as Iranian authorities do not like it when citizens stray from the government’s official policies in public. Continue Reading »
A recent event organized by IAC in Los Angeles. An estimated 15,000 Israelis attended. – Source: Haaretz
Drawing on estimates of Israeli government ministries and the Agency, Sagi Balasha, CEO of the Los Angeles-based Israeli American Council which represents Israelis and promotes their interests, believes that there are between 500,000 and 800,000 Israelis living in the United States.
Australia’s foreign minister met Arab and Islamic ambassadors Thursday to try to soothe concerns over Canberra’s stance on eastern Jerusalem, insisting there was no policy change despite moves to stop referring to it as “occupied”.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard – Reuters
The meeting followed fury after Attorney-General George Brandis said the term would not be used as it carried pejorative implications and was neither appropriate nor useful.
The Palestinian Authority’s representative in Australia reacted furiously to the statement, and threatened to organize international trade sanctions over the move. Continue Reading »
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