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| February 24, 2014
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Iranian Foreign Minister condemned in Teheran for condemning Holocaust

 

Islamic hardliners summon Iranian FM Javad Zarif to Teheran to appear in closed session of parliament to discuss his calling Holocaust “horrifying tragedy.”

By REUTERS

 

 

Islamic hardliners in Iran’s parliament have summoned Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif over public comments condemning the Holocaust, the official news agency IRNA reported on Monday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in YouTube address, November 19, 2013. - Photo: YouTube Screenshot

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in YouTube address, November 19, 2013. – Photo: YouTube Screenshot

Zarif, who is also Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, caused an uproar among conservatives in Iran when he called the Holocaust a “horrifying tragedy” in an interview with a German television station late last month.

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| February 21, 2014
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The anti-Semitic face of Facebook

 

How can a Facebook page devoted to ‘Jewish ritual murder’ not be an overt and obvious violation of Facebook’s Terms of Service?

By Jeff Abramowitz

 

 

Facebook has a page (at least one) dedicated to the subject of Jewish ritual murder also known as “Blood libel.” Facebook also has much vaunted community standards which do “not permit individuals or groups to attack others based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability or medical condition.”

Refusing to hear us. Photo Courtesy

Refusing to hear us. Oct 14, 2013, Demonstration organized by Michael Mendelson – Photo: courtesy

This begs the question… how is a page devoted to the subject of Jewish ritual murder NOT a violation of Facebook’s community standards? Continue Reading »

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| February 21, 2014
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Hundreds of Diary of Anne Frank, Holocaust books vandalized in Tokyo libraries

 

Simon Wiesenthal Center calls on Japan to deal with “hate campaign” as pages were torn out of 250 copies of diary and other Holocaust era books.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has expressed its “shock and deep concern” over the vandalizing of hundreds of copies of the Diary of Anne Frank in libraries across Tokyo, Japan.
Anne Frank

Anne Frank – Photo: REUTERS/Handout Old

The council of public libraries in Tokyo said at least 250 copies of the diary or publications containing biographies on Anne Frank, Nazi persecution of Jews and related materials were torn, according to an AFP report.

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| February 20, 2014
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After Spanish law for exiled Jewish return, Muslims demand equal status

Spanish Muslims say: New law should include all those expelled, otherwise Spain’s decision is ‘selective, if not racist.’

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Spanish Muslims are urging their government to grant citizenship to descendants of Muslims who were expelled from Spain, following a bill granting that right to Jews whose ancestors were forced to leave during the Inquisition.

Spanish passport

The demand was made this week in a statement by the Association for Historical Legacy of Al-Andalus, the Spanish news agency EFE reported on February 17.

“The Spanish state should grant the same rights to all those who were expelled, otherwise their decision is selective, if not racist,” Bayi Loubaris, the association’s president, told EFE.

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| February 15, 2014
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French courts punish anti-Israel BDS activists in hate crime

 

About 20 anti-Israel BDS activists have been convicted under the Lellouche law, which has France spearheading the efforts to neutralize the movement through legal means.

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When Farida Trichine and 11 of her friends burst into a French supermarket in 2009 and began applying stickers with anti-Israel slogans to vegetables imported from the Jewish state, she expected to be escorted from the store by police.

Farida Trichine (third from right) and fellow BDS activists in Mulhouse, France, September 11, 2010.

Farida Trichine (third from right) and fellow BDS activists in Mulhouse, France, September 11, 2010. – Photo by Collectif Palestine 68, via JTA

What she didn’t expect was to be convicted of inciting racial hatred and slapped with a $650 fine.

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| February 14, 2014
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Hamas rejects UN textbooks promoting human rights in Gaza schools

The Hamas gov’t believes the UN curriculum does not represent the ‘ideology & philosophy’ of the Palestinian population, reports Hamas spokesman for the Education Ministry.

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Gaza‘s Hamas authorities have blocked a UN refugee agency from introducing  into local schools, saying it ignores Palestinian cultural and focuses too heavily on “peaceful” means of conflict resolution.

Students in classroom in Gaza school

Students in Gaza school.- Photo: Reuters

Motesem al-Minawi, spokesman for the Hamas-run Education Ministry, said Thursday that the government believes the curriculum does not match the “ideology and philosophy” of the local population.

He said the textbooks, used in grades 7 through 9, did not sufficiently address Palestinian suffering and did not acknowledge the right to battle Israel.

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| February 12, 2014
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Israelis stunned to find Nazi paraphernalia sold in Bulgarian tourist shops

 

An Israeli traveling in a Bulgarian town was shocked to find gift shop mugs with swastikas and Hitler’s picture.

By Michal Margalit

An Israeli traveling in Bulgaria was shocked to find mugs carrying the picture of Adolf Hitler and decorated with swastikas in a souvenir shop in a ski resort. She later realized the shop was not only one carrying the Nazi paraphernalia, and found similar trinkets in other shops on the same street.

Mugs on sale in Bulgarian store (Photo: Janna Kushnir)

Mugs on sale in Bulgarian store – Photo: Janna Kushnir

On the final day of their five-day trip, the mother and son entered a gift shop in the town’s main street and were surprised to find the mugs with swastikas and Hitler’s picture offered for sale, stacked near cosmetic items and various trinkets. Continue Reading »

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| January 30, 2014
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Israel’s Strategic Affairs and Intelligence Minister: Abbas ‘most anti-Semitic leader’ in world

Israeli Strategic Affairs & Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz reveals the obvious, that under PA leadership, ‘level of anti-Israel & anti-Semitic incitement in the PA has reached new heights.’

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Strategic Affairs and Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas the world’s most anti-Semitic leader, AFP reported on Thursday.

“Since Ahmadinejad left the political stage, Abu Mazen [Abbas] is the number one leader in injecting anti-Semitic and anti-Israel poison,” Yuval Steinitz said, at the Institute for National Security Studies conference at Tel Aviv University last Sunday.

“Under Abu Mazen, the level of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement in the [Palestinian] Authority has reached new heights, where the bottom line is the destruction of Israel. Continue Reading »

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| January 30, 2014
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Racist Belgian MP: Zionists responsible for Holocaust

Belgium’s Parliament president condemns their revisionist lawmaker who said Zionists bankrolled the Holocaust, and did quasi-Nazi salute in the parliament.

By JTA

 

The president of Belgium’s parliament condemned the actions of a lawmaker who said that Zionists were responsible for the Holocaust and performed a quasi-Nazi salute in parliament.

“I would like to reinforce my condemnation of these hateful acts,” Andre Flahaut said on Jan. 23 in reference to the actions of Laurent Louis, who on Jan. 16 said in parliament: “The Holocaust was set up and financed by the pioneers of Zionism.”

The Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism, a newly-established watchdog, pledged during its inaugural event to  focus much of its activities on Louis — an independent member of the lower house of Belgium’s Federal Parliament. Continue Reading »

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| January 27, 2014
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Arab MK Rejects Jews in Future State: ‘Palestine’ Jews ‘Won’t be Loyal Citizens’

Israel’s PM Netanyahu’s comment of allowing settlements to remain in future Palestine forced Arab leaders to show true racist character, as MK Zahalka explains why ‘Palestine’ cannot accept Jewish citizens.

By Gil Ronen

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s bluff regarding the idea of leaving the Jews of Judea and Samaria inside a future state of “Palestine” – assuming it was a bluff, as sources in Netanyahu’s bureau claim – appears to be working brilliantly in exposing Palestinian hypocrisy.

According to Dani Dayan, the chief foreign envoy for the Yesha Council – a Judea and Samaria leadership forum – MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad) spoke on Haifa Radio Monday morning and rejected Netanyahu’s suggested solution – explaining that Jewish setlers who live inside “Palestine” will not be loyal citizens in the new Arab state. Continue Reading »

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| January 26, 2014
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WZO Poll: 13% of Poles Believe Jews Guilty of ‘Using Christian Blood for Jewish Rituals’

‘Blood Libel’ against Jews alive and strong in Poland as 13% still actually believe Jews use Christian blood for their ritual purposes.

How does the Church allow this to propagate? Time for the Israeli gov’t to take EU representatives to task over rampant anti-Semitism there.

By Tova Dvorin

 

Little has changed in the way of anti-Semitism, a new poll reveals ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Mr. Yaakov Hagoel, head of the World Zionist Organization’s Department for Activities in Israel and Countering Antisemitism, revealed Sunday the staggering results of a new poll – which shows that anti-Semitism still remains strong in Poland. Continue Reading »

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| January 25, 2014
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Pigs’ Heads sent to Israeli Embassy, Synagogue & Jewish Museum of Rome

While responding to a bomb threat against Rome’s main synagogue, Italian police make a grisly discovery.

By Arutz Sheva Staff and AFP

 

Boxes containing pigs’ heads have been sent to the Israeli embassy in Rome and the city’s synagogue, Italian media reported Saturday.

The package mailed to the embassy in the wealthy Parioli area of the Italian capital was intercepted by police after other similar parcels were sent to the synagogue and the Jewish Museum of Rome.

Bomb disposal experts who rushed to the scene discovered the grisly head, which they believe came from a slaughterhouse.

A letter inside contained derogatory comments about the Holocaust and references to Theodor Herzl, considered to be the founder of modern political Zionism, the Repubblica daily said. Continue Reading »

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| January 21, 2014
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Auschwitz starts educational program in Farsi & Arabic

The new historical & cultural program targets countries in which Holocaust denial is prevalent, in an attempt to cultivate awareness & realization.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
 

 

The Auschwitz museum at the site of the former Nazi death camp in Poland launched an online Holocaust awareness program in Arabic and Farsi on Monday.

Traintracks to Auschwitz - Photo REUTERS

Train-tracks to Auschwitz – Photo: REUTERS

The expanded educational program designed as an attempt to target countries in which Holocaust denial is commonplace.

“We want to address groups of people who often have little knowledge of this subject or who even advocate revisionist views,” museum spokesman Pawel Sawicki was quoted as saying by AFP. Continue Reading »

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| January 17, 2014
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Catholic Church in Poland Unveils 18th Century Blood Libel Painting

On Thursday for the Catholic Church‘s Int’l Day of Judaism, a controversial picture was uncovered to expose realities of the church’s anti-Semitic past.

By Ari Yashar

 

The Catholic Church of Poland unveiled a painting on Thursday that had been kept hidden since 2006, after protests from both Catholics and Jews opposed the depiction of Jews murdering Christian children in the classic anti-Semitic blood libel trope.

The painting, an 18th century CE work by Italian painter Charles de Prevot called “Mord Rytualny (Ritual Murder),” has been mounted on a wall at the cathedral in Sandomierz but hidden behind a red curtain for the past 8 years due to its contents. Continue Reading »

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| January 10, 2014
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Meryl Streep: Walt Disney was an anti-Semite

In Meryl Streep’s speech at the National Board of Review Awards, she said Disney is nothing like he was portrayed in the movie, “Saving Mr. Banks.”

By LAUREN IZSO

 

 

During her speech at the National Board of Review Awards in New York on Tuesday, Streep ripped into Disney in a lengthy nine-minute rant saying the famous cartoonist “was supposedly a hideous anti-Semite” and a “gender bigot.”

Hollywood icon Meryl Streep says the legendary Walt Disney was anti-Semitic.- Photo Courtesy

“Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was perhaps, or had some … racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobby. Continue Reading »

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