Tag Archive for anti-Semitic propaganda

| February 14, 2013
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How Easy it was for Brooklyn College to Legitimized BDS

Op-ed: Few institutions in the US are as anti-Israel as the average American campus

By KC Johnson  and Asaf Romirowsky

 

The controversy over a “panel discussion” at Brooklyn College has little to do with free speech, and everything to do with politicization of the academia — in this case, by disingenuous anti-Israel ideologues.

archivesBack in December, the political science department at Brooklyn College, a public institution partially supported by taxpayers’ dollars, formally voted to sign on to a talk that took place on February 7th. A student group had scheduled an address by University of California professor Judith Butler and graduate student Omar Barghouti to propagandize on behalf of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Continue Reading »

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| February 13, 2013
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Female Arab Muslim: Keep it real, Jews don’t rape us, Arab men do.

We are talking about the rape of Arab women in Egypt and other Arab states, and you still try to make a connection to Israel? Jewish men do not rape Arab women and girls!

By Israel Today Staff

 

An Arab Muslim mother from northern Israel who is aspiring to a life in politics called out fellow Arab women on Tuesday for failing to differentiate between the Jews and Arabs with whom they are in conflict.

traveling on the light railCommenting on a Facebook event page protesting the sexual harassment and torture of female activists in Egypt, Anet Haskia (who was interviewed in the latest issue of Israel Today) said Palestinian women should take a close look and realize how humane their Jewish “enemies” really are. Continue Reading »

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| February 8, 2013
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Far Beyond apologies: UK’s Blood libel cartoon

Which British politicians, NGOs, media, academics & trade unions have consistently helped strengthen the genocidal image that so many British hold regarding Israel?

By Manfred Gerstenfeld

 

Apologies offered by the British weekly The Sunday Times for an anti-Semitic cartoon published on International Holocaust Remembrance Day address only one, albeit major, aspect of this issue. The paper stated that publishing the drawing “was a mistake and crossed the line.” It admitted that Gerald Scarfe’s caricature had reflected “historical iconography that is persecutory or anti-Semitic.” The drawing showed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall using what appeared to be the blood of Palestinians as cement. Continue Reading »

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| February 3, 2013
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Sunday Times finally apologizes for anti-Netanyahu cartoon

UK’s weekly the last to issue apology after publishing cartoon showing PM building wall with Palestinians’ bodies on Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day. ‘It crossed a line, we would never set out to offend the Jewish people,’ paper wrote.

By Ynet

 

The Sunday Times issued an apology Sunday for a cartoon it published last week showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall with Palestinian blood and bodies.

הקריקטורה משבוע שעבר (איור: ג'ראלד סקארף, סאנדיי טיימס)

Gerald Scarfe’s cartoon

The apology noted that the cartoon, which many described as anti-Semitic, was a mistake and had “crossed a line.”

The cartoon, drawn by Gerald Scarfe, includes a caption stating: “Israeli elections – will cementing peace continue?” Continue Reading »

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| February 3, 2013
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Newest Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory Simply ‘Too Absurd’

“It would seem that no allegation made against Jews & Israel is too absurd,” says ADL of latest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory coming out of the Gulf States.

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

Amid the protests and violence that have roiled Egypt in the past few days, a bizarre new anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish conspiracy theory has emerged claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood is tainted by a secret allegiance to the Jews and the State of Israel.

anti-Israel and anti-American propaganda in Egypt“It would seem that no allegation made against Jews and Israel is too absurd when it is used to discredit others,” said the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of the latest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory to emerge from the Arab world. Continue Reading »

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| February 2, 2013
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Norwegian Muslim cleric: Jewish-run media ‘ruins’ Muslims’ reputation

“People are ignorant because they get their information from the media, and the media only write negatively about Islam,” said Ali Shah. “Judaism has a better grip on the media.”

By JTA

 

Two leading Norwegian Muslims blamed Jewish influence for Christian hostility to Muslims.

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The problem is not that Muslims hate Jews and pray for their annihilation, It’s that the ‘arrogant media’ have the audacity to translate their hateful chants into English. – MEMRI-TV screenshot

Nehmat Ali Shah, the imam at Norway’s largest mosque, and Ghulam Sarwar, the mosque’s chairman, told the daily Dagsavisen that the fear Jews instilled in others explained fraught Muslim-Jewish relations as well as the Holocaust. Continue Reading »

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| January 29, 2013
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Murdoch personally apologizes for offensive Sunday Times’ Netanyahu cartoon

Murdoch said ‘grotesque and offensive’ cartoon portraying Palestinians bricked alive into wall being built by Israeli PM did not reflect his paper’s editorial line

By the Associated Press

 

Media baron Rupert Murdoch has apologized for a Sunday Times cartoon depicting Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall using blood-red mortar, an image Jewish leaders said was reminiscent of anti-Semitic propaganda.

Rupert Murdoch Photo by GettyimagesThe political cartoon, which was published on Holocaust Memorial Day, shows Netanyahu wielding a long, sharp trowel and depicts agonized Palestinians bricked into the wall’s structure. It was meant as a comment on recent elections in which Netanyahu’s ticket narrowly won the most seats in the Israeli parliament. Continue Reading »

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