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| January 10, 2014
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After New Year’s eve vandalism, Germany commits to protect Berlin Holocaust memorial

 

YouTube Video clearly shows man urinating & others launching fireworks from middle of Berlin Holocaust memorial.

By REUTERS

 

BERLIN – Germany has promised to strengthen security at the Holocaust Memorial in the heart of Berlin after a video published on the Internet showed a man urinating and people launching fireworks from its grey concrete structure on New Year’s Eve.

Berlin Holocaust Memorial

Berlin Holocaust Memorial

“The incidents are outrageous and to be deplored,” German Culture Minister Monika Gruetters was quoted as saying by Bild newspaper on Thursday.

A foundation that supervises the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, which was opened in 2005, will talk to police and arrange tighter security, Gruetters said. Continue Reading »

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| January 8, 2014
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Judgment: Jewish girl’s hair set alight after saying ‘let’s burn the Jew’ was not racist

Canadian Judge’s verdict:  High school student who lit Jewish girl’s hair on fire saying WW II theme, ‘let’s burn the Jew’, did not commit hate crime.

By Dalit Halevi, Ari Yashar

 

In Canada, a Winnipeg provincial court judge recently ruled that a 2011 altercation at a local high school, in which a student lit a 15-year-old Jewish student’s hair on fire with a lighter while saying “let’s burn the Jew,” was not a hate crime.

‘Let’s Burn the Jew’ Not Racist – Photo: Thinkstock

The judge claimed despite the facts of the case that the offender, who pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon, did not mean to burn the girl’s hair or target her because she was Jewish. Continue Reading »

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| December 30, 2013
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Brits Suckered by Anti-Israel Antics at St. James’s Church

Having successfully tormented & then hounded most of Bethlehem’s Christians into leaving – the Palestinian Muslims’ propaganda campaign is succeeding at blaming Israel abroad.

By Gil Ronen

 

Palestinian Authority Muslims, who have been fully in charge of life in Bethlehem since the 1993 Oslo Accords were implemented, have successfully hounded most of the city’s Christians into leaving the city – but a London exhibition shows that their overseas propaganda in the West still manages to blame Israel for the Christians’ alleged suffering from Jewish “occupation.”

Replica Palestine Separation Wall Built in Central London - YouTube screenshot

Replica Palestine Separation Wall Built in Central London – YouTube screenshot

 

The “Bethlehem Unwrapped” festival opened Dec. Continue Reading »

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| December 17, 2013
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Many American scholars regret ‘misguided’ ASA boycott of Israeli academia

ASA scholars stand behind the symbolic decision to boycott, but many of their colleagues worry that Israel-bashing has become too trendy in U.S. academia.

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As the American Studies Association endorsed a boycott of Israeli universities and academic institutions Monday, colleagues at the Association for Jewish Studies gathered in Boston for their annual conference where several called the boycott “misguided” and even “offensive”.

Boycott Israel illustration.

Boycott Israel illustration. – Photo: Dreamstime

The ASA boycott, which is effectively more a symbolic than practical blow to Israel, was waged in protest of what the organization termed Israel’s human rights violations against Palestinians and its occupation of Palestinian lands. Continue Reading »

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| December 17, 2013
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Louis Farrakhan defends Kanye West against ADL objection to anti-Semitic generalization

Nation of Islam leader urges rapper Kanye West not to ‘bow to pressure’ by ADL suggestion to recant, says the performer was right and has no reasons to apologize.

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Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan defended Kanye West’s remarks on Jewish “connections” in a video released over the weekend and carried by the Hip-Hop DX website.

Louis Farrakhan

Minister Louis Farrakhan displays the book, “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews,” during a speech on March 25, 2011.-  Photo: AP

In the video, Farrakjan urges the rapper not to “bow to pressure” by the Anti-Defamation League, which deemed the comments anti-Semitic and called on West to “take responsibility… and apologize” for his words. Continue Reading »

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| December 11, 2013
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Romanian TV broadcasts Christmas carol about burning Kikes

Celebrating Christmas in song:

The kikes, damn kikes, Holy God would not leave the kike alive, neither in heaven nor on earth, only in the chimney as smoke, this is what the kike is good for, to make kike smoke through the chimney on the street.

By JTA

 

 

A Romanian public broadcaster distanced itself from a Christmas carol celebrating the Holocaust that aired on the new channel.

TV3 Screenshot

TV3 Screenshot

TVR3 Verde, a television channel for rural communities, presented the carol on Dec. 5 during its maiden transmission.

Sung by the Dor Transilvan ensemble, it featured the lyrics: “The kikes, damn kikes, Holy God would not leave the kike alive, neither in heaven nor on earth, only in the chimney as smoke, this is what the kike is good for, to make kike smoke through the chimney on the street.”

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| December 11, 2013
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Police Minister Promises Crackdown on Attacks by Arabs in Jerusalem

 

Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich promises,’it will stop’ as he admits increase in anti-Semitic attacks in Israel’s capital is a problem.

By Ari Soffer and Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich (Likud-Beytenu) has promised to put an end to the harassment of Jews in Jerusalem.

Aharonovich was responding to a question by MK Orit Struk (Jewish Home), in which he was challenged over a sharp increase in anti-Semitic attacks by Arab extremists in the capital.

“Half a year ago you sat with me a special panel targeting nationalistic crimes, which did not focus solely on the so-called ‘Price Tag movement’ [i.e. Continue Reading »

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| December 9, 2013
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2nd time Turkish students detained at Auschwitz for Nazi salute

 

The two Turkish students could face 2 years each in prison for public promotion of Nazi symbols.

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Two Turkish tourists were detained by guards at the Auschwitz museum for appearing to make a Nazi salute.

The entrance to the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz

The entrance to the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. – Photo: Reuters

The tourists, a man and a woman, both 22, were taking pictures of each other in front of the gate to the former Nazi death camp under the iconic sign “Arbeit macht frei,” or “Work makes you free,” and allegedly raised their right hands in the gesture of a Nazi salute. Continue Reading »

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| November 30, 2013
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Swiss lawmaker excluded from political party for saying Israel is ‘on path of carbonization’

Geneva councilman calls for cancellation of Chanukah event in the city, saying it’s against Swiss law.

By JTA, JPOST.COM STAFF
 

 

Swiss lawmaker Denis Menoud was excluded from the populist Geneva Citizens’ Movement (MCG) on Friday after commenting that Israel was “on the path of carbonization” following the signing of the interim nuclear deal with Iran, AFP reported.

Delegations from Iran, other world powers during closed-door nuclear talks on October 15, 2013. - Photo: REUTERS

Delegations from Iran, other world powers during closed-door nuclear talks on October 15, 2013. – Photo: REUTERS

His comments, written on his Facebook page on Tuesday, caused an uproar in the party, leading party president Roger Colay to condemn his words and demanding him to resign. Continue Reading »

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| November 29, 2013
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Video of sucker-punch: New York Jews attacked in violent ‘knockout’ attacks

The latest violent attack on a random Jew came Monday, when a 72 yr-old Russian-speaking woman was punched in her Brooklyn neighborhood.

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NEW YORK — Chava, a student at a Chabad seminary, has lived in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn for six years, but it’s only in the past few days that she started carrying pepper spray in her handbag.

Her younger brother gave her the deterrent after news hit of a string of recent attacks against Orthodox Jews, seven of them in Crown Heights.

The assaults, believed to be part of a national wave of so-called “knockout game” attacks in which black teens punch random white strangers for sport, are unnerving Jews in the racially mixed neighborhood still haunted by the days of rioting there in 1991. Continue Reading »

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| November 28, 2013
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Fascist Nazi-Style Rallies at Arab University is Not New

Memri TV Video reveals that Nazi salutes at Islamic Jihad rally at university campus are part of a wider, historical trend of Nazi glorification.

By Ari Soffer

 

Just over a week since an American university severed ties with the Hamas-linked Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, after pictures emerged showing a Nazi-style on-campus rally by Islamic Jihad in November, further evidence of fascist-style events at the flagship Palestinian Arab institution has emerged.

Video footage, posted by MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute), shows clips from two separate rallies at Al-Quds University, in which Islamic Jihad members, cheered on by other students, take part in a live performance at which they brandish imitation assault rifles and black Islamist flags, and give Nazi salutes. Continue Reading »

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| November 27, 2013
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Palestinian Incitement: Al Aqsa Mosque Preacher Says ‘Put the Jews to the Sword’

 

Leading Palestinian cleric uses Temple Mount for incitement in his sermon for continuous war against, and the slaughter of the Jews.

By Israel Today Staff

 

 

Unbelievably, Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, is still used today, even under Israeli control, as a platform from which to incite jihad against the Jewish state.

Kill JewsLast Friday, Palestinian Authority (PA) religious leader Sheikh Omar Abu Sara’a delivered a sermon at the Al Aqsa Mosque in which he lambasted the PA for being so weak as to actually negotiate with the Jews.

Sara’a noted that Islam’s Prophet Mohammed urged his followers to “fight” the Jews, not treat with them. Continue Reading »

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| November 25, 2013
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Despite Nazi similarities, Bard College decides to stay with Al-Quds

Bard College in New York, says it will maintain affiliation with Al-Quds despite Nazi style rally held by Islamic Jihad.

By HENRY ROME

 

The US university with the closest ties to Al-Quds University, Bard College in New York, has announced it will continue its partnership, despite two other American colleges severing ties with the Palestinian school.

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Ward Manor Bard College – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

The decision by Bard – announced late on Friday in a statement to The Jerusalem Post – came only days after Brandeis University and Syracuse University formally ended their ties with Al- Quds, after a rally held by Islamic Jihad on the Al-Quds campus, which its president, Sari Nusseibeh, did not initially condemn. Continue Reading »

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| November 24, 2013
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Man charged in Brooklyn with assaulting Jew in local ‘Knockout Game’

 

Amrit Marajh, not charged with a hate crime, was released on just $750 bail.

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A man accused of participating in the “Knockout Game” was charged with assaulting an Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn.

NYPD police vans in New York City’s Times Square.

NYPD police vans in New York City’s Times Square. – Photo: AP

Amrit Marajh of Brooklyn was arraigned on Saturday and released on $750 bail. He is charged with misdemeanor assault and harassment. He was not charged with a hate crime, according to the New York Times.

The attack reportedly occurred early Friday morning, when the 24-year-old Orthodox man says he was boxed in by a group of men and punched out by one of them. Continue Reading »

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| November 24, 2013
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More European Jews Consider Emigrating Their Families to Israel

 

Each year, the surveys continue to show rising anti-Semitism in most of Europe, causing the local Jews to live in growing fear.

By Miriam Kuhlmann

 

Many European Jews no longer feel safe in their home countries. This is evident from a recent survey conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.

A Jewish gravestone is desecrated with Nazi symbols

A Jewish gravestone is desecrated with Nazi symbols at a cemetery in Dortmund, Germany, – Photo: AP

On average, 76 percent of Jews surveyed across the continent reported a rise in anti-Semitism in recent years, and 29 percent said they are considering emigrating to Israel as a result. Continue Reading »

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