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| May 17, 2012
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Anti-Semitic Remarks on Facebook Prompt Police Arrests

Police in Glasgow, Scotland arrested six people over anti-Semitic remarks on Facebook that mocked the Jewish community of Giffnock.

Police in Glasgow, Scotland arrested six people over anti-Semitic remarks on Facebook that mocked the Jewish community of Giffnock, the BBC reported Wednesday.

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The page, titled “Welcome to Israel, only kidding you’re in Giffnock,” included a number of offensive posts against the Jewish community and received nearly 1,000 “likes” until it was shut down.

Fans of the page posted comments ranging from “Jewish scum” to “F*** the Jewish Zionist” while another person wrote: “Hebrew is not needed in the train station [because] all the Jews are f***ing rich c**** they have gold plated Bentleys,” the Jewish Chronicle reported. Continue Reading »

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| May 8, 2012
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Australia’s top Catholic Archbishop says Jews are ‘intellectually and morally inferior’.

Australia’s most senior-ranked Catholic official has risked an international backlash by claiming that Jews are ‘intellectually and morally inferior’.

Cardinal George Pell said ‘the little Jewish people’ were shepherds who lacked intellectual development during a debate with atheist Richard Dawkins.
He went on to claim that Germans had suffered more than the Jews during  the horrors of the holocaust in the Second World War.
Cardinal George Pell, Australia's most senior-ranked Catholic

Cardinal George Pell, Australia's most senior-ranked Catholic

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The remarks came during a televised debate with Dawkins on Australian TV in which the pair became locked in a heated discussion on religion and evolution.

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| May 4, 2012
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Anti-Semitism in Belgium: Jews Told ‘Get Off at Buchenwald’

Reports of an anti-Semitic “prank” on Belgium train.

Passengers on a train in Belgium got a shock this week as the following announcement came over the speaker, “Welcome to the train to Auschwitz. The Jews are asked to get off at Buchenwald.”

Trains in Belgium

Trains in Belgium - Photo by Reuters

More than 55,000 were murdered at the Buchenwald concentration camp during the Holocaust.

A railroad employee who heard the announcement ran to the room with the microphone, but found it empty. A short time later a second employee took to the sound system to apologize for the “unsuccessful joke.”

The Belgian national railroad, SNCB, denounced the incident, which took place on the Brussels-Namur line. Continue Reading »

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| April 29, 2012
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Egyptian Protesters Call Saudis ‘Israeli’

Mob that stormed Saudi embassy in Cairo drew Star of David, wrote “Israel” on walls.

Screenshot from YouTube protest

Screenshot from YouTube protest

Video of the Egyptian mob that stormed the Saudi embassy in Cairo in the last few days shows that the way the crowd expressed its disgust with Saudi Arabia was to call it “Israel.”

The video shows the demonstrators scrawling “Israel” and spray-painting Stars of David on the walls of the compound.

Blogger Elder of Zion commented: “They didn’t call them kufrs, or women, or infidels. No, they used the worst insult imaginable. They called them Israelis.”

Saudi Arabia closed its Cairo embassy following the huge protests that followed the arrest of an Egyptian civil rights lawyer who allegedly insulted King Abdullah. Continue Reading »

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| April 28, 2012
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American Jew hater running for U.S. Senate.

It’s hard to swallow so much Islamic revisionism and deep prejudice from Lee Whitnum, Democratic nominee for Connecticut’s US Senate, without getting choked up (see http://www.jewishledger.com/) That she can still be considered an American boggles the mind. She is an Islamist who repeats the rhetoric of hate and the Palestinian victimhood narrative with particular ease — the ease of taqiyyah.
Lee Whitnum, candidate for U.S. Senate.

Lee Whitnum, candidate for U.S. Senate.

• Whitnum: “In every culture in the world except Israel, if you take something that doesn’t belong to you it’s stealing. In every culture in the world except Israel if you kill someone it’s murder.” Continue Reading »

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| April 27, 2012
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Holocaust Memorial, Synagogue Defaced in Geneva

Members of the Jewish community in Geneva find anti-Semitic symbols on a Holocaust monument and local synagogue.

Members of the Jewish community in Geneva, Switzerland, woke up on Friday morning and discovered that anti-Semitic symbols had been sprayed overnight on a monument to Holocaust victims who had lived in the city, according to a Channel 2 News report.

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Anti-Semitism (illustration) - archive photo

The report said that symbols had also been sprayed on the outer wall of a local synagogue.

Dr. Yitzhak Dayan, the Chief Rabbi of Geneva, told Channel 2 News that he believed the timing of the incident was not accidental. Continue Reading »

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| April 27, 2012
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New York Times Ad Slams BDS

An ad placed in the New York Times on Wednesday accused BDS supporters of contributing to anti-Semitism worldwide.

American conservative writer and advocate, David Horowitz, placed an advertisement in the New York Times on Wednesday, accusing supporters of the Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement of contributing to anti-Semitism worldwide.

“The Holocaust began with boycotts of Jewish stores and ended with death camps,” the ad begins. “The calls for a new Holocaust can be heard throughout the Middle East and Europe as well.”

It also references Mohammed Merah, the terrorist who killed 4 people at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France last month, claiming that “ancient blood libels” supported by the BDS movement contributed to the murders. Continue Reading »

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| April 17, 2012
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2011 Top Ten Anti-Israel/Anti-Semitic Slurs – according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center

 

Click here for the pdf from the Simon Wiesenthal Center

1. “I come before you today from the Holy Land, the land of Palestine, the land of divine messages, ascension of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and the birthplace of Jesus Christ peace be upon him, to speak on behalf of the Palestinian people…”

– Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his UN General Assembly address, September 23, 2011. Speaking to the world, Abbas omitted any reference to the Jewish people’s connection to the Holy Land. No reference to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, nor King David, King Solomon, or Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel. Continue Reading »

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| April 13, 2012
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Polish Football Club Brands Anti-Semitic T-Shirts

Anti-Semitic t-shirts are being sold outside the Polish football club, Widzew Lodz; “This is Widzew terrain, entry to Jews is forbidden”

 

Tee shirts with anti-Semitic slogans are being sold outside the Polish football club, Widzew Lodz, Polskie Radio reported on Thursday.

The items have been on sale in a pavilion next to the club’s official shop.

“This is Widzew terrain, entry to Jews is forbidden,” reads the slogan on one Tee shirt.

“Curl hunters,” referring to the side curls of Chassidic Jews, is written on the other, adopting the age-old anti-Semitic slur.

A woman working in the shop told Gazeta Wyborcza daily that such items sell well and make a decent profit, noted Polskie Radio. Continue Reading »

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| April 12, 2012
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Warner Bros. shelves Mel Gibson Maccabee movie

Jewish groups “pleased” at decision to freeze controversial movie project.

 

Warner Bros. has put on hold a controversial Mel Gibson movie project about the Jewish Maccabee revolt in the 2nd Century BC after reading the script by writer Joe Eszterhas, TheWrap has learned.”We are analyzing what to do with the project,” a spokesman for the studio told TheWrap.
Mel Gibson at Cinema For Peace Event
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Jewish groups were outraged after news broke in September that Gibson had reached a production deal with Warner’s to direct the story of Judah Maccabee, whose victory over Greek and Syrian armies is celebrated at Hanukka. One Jewish group called it a moral lapse in judgement.Rabbi
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| April 5, 2012
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New Film Exposes Northeastern’s Radical Holocaust Program

The “see no evil” response from Northeastern’s provost is part of the problem.

Americans for Peace and Tolerance has released a documentary on Northeastern’s Holocaust Awareness Week, and Charles Jacobs has published a column in the Jewish Advocate summarizing his criticisms of it. In response, Northeastern Provost Stephen Director has complained that Jacobs “cherry-picked his examples”:

The present-day facts are clear: Northeastern is a vibrant academic community where people of all backgrounds and faiths come together in pursuit of knowledge.

In dismissing a dozen examples of intellectual and moral abuse of the Holocaust program at Northeastern as “cherry-picked,” Director expresses either a lack of awareness or a dishonesty about the nature of the intellectual and moral stakes.

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| April 2, 2012
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Silence in face of hate

Op-ed: Swedish blogger says European society becoming blind to Jew hate, must wake up

It gets dark very early here in Stockholm in the winter. Some young men are crossing the square where some Jews are dancing, speaking in Arabic amongst themselves, perhaps with a Libyan accent. They already know what they plan to do.

I can hear them mentioning Israel. They are looking for trouble. Suddenly one of them approaches a stand with a couple of Israeli flags on it. One grabs a flag forcefully and the other Arab men are following him, running. People pretend like nothing really happened – but it did happen. Continue Reading »

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| March 31, 2012
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US woman told to remove mezuzah – or get fined

Jewish woman living in Connecticut instructed by condominium management to remove Jewish symbol from doorframe, or receive $50 fine per day. Woman: I feel bullied and saddened

 

A Jewish woman from Connecticut was told by her condominium complex’ management company that she must remove a mezuzah (a small parchment scroll rolled up in a case that is attached to Jewish homes’ doors) from her doorframe or face a $50 fine per day, a local newspaper reported on Friday.

Barbara Cadranel, 60, said she feels violated by incident. “I’m bullied and I’m saddened,” she told the Hartford Courant. “It’s changed my whole existence here.” Continue Reading »

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| March 30, 2012
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Tunisia’s Jews Sue Over Anti-Semitic Chants

Tunisia’s Jewish community is making an official complaint regarding anti-Semitic slogans that were chanted at a protest held, on Sunday.

 

Tunisia’s Jewish community said that it is making an official complaint regarding anti-Semitic slogans that were chanted at a protest held, on Sunday, by radical Islamist Salafists.

The demonstration called for the imposition of sharia, or Islamic law, as the main source of legislation in the constitution that is currently being drafted.

“The call to fight against the Jews is absurd,” said Tunisia’s Ministry of Religious Affairs in a statement issued Tuesday, according to the French news agency AFP. Continue Reading »

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| March 30, 2012
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Tunisia’s Jews Sue Over Anti-Semitic Chants

Tunisia’s Jewish community is making an official complaint regarding anti-Semitic slogans that were chanted at a protest held, on Sunday.

Tunisia’s Jewish community said that it is making an official complaint regarding anti-Semitic slogans that were chanted at a protest held, on Sunday, by radical Islamist Salafists.

The demonstration called for the imposition of sharia, or Islamic law, as the main source of legislation in the constitution that is currently being drafted.

“The call to fight against the Jews is absurd,” said Tunisia’s Ministry of Religious Affairs in a statement issued Tuesday, according to the French news agency AFP. “The ministry rejects this attack against all Tunisian citizens. Continue Reading »

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