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| February 4, 2013
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Aylin Kocaman: ‘Islam Curses Anti-Semitism’

A Turkish peace activist, Aylin Kocaman, writes, “Islam curses anti-Semitism” in her blog post for a Jewish magazine, and also posted on her Facebook page.

By Hana Levi Julian

 

A Turkish peace activist says “Islam curses anti-Semitism” and that the “true home” of the Jewish People is in the Holy Land, in a blog post on the website of a Jewish magazine, and posted on the author’s Facebook page.

Aylin Kocaman, Muslim commentator

Aylin Kocaman, Muslim commentator
A9TV Building Bridges program

Aylin Kocaman, a host on  A9TV’s ‘Building Bridges’ satellite television show in Turkey, made the statement in an article she wrote on how Islam views genocide of the Jews during World War II. 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 3, 2013
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Gaza Nazi-Style Youth Movement Prepares Palestinians for Jihad

 

More disturbing is that only a few of the dozens of Western-funded human rights organizations that operate in the Gaza Strip have raised their voice against Hamas’s abuse of children. Even the United Nations Children’s Fund [UNICEF], which was created to work for children’s rights, their survival, development and protection, has yet to condemn Hamas for recruiting school children to its military apparatus.

by Khaled Abu Toameh

 

Thousands of Palestinian schoolchildren have been receiving military training in the Gaza Strip to prepare them for jihad against Israel.

Emulating the Nazis

According to Mohamed Siam, a senior official with the Hamas-run ministry, some 9,000 high school children have already joined 36 camps throughout the Gaza Strip and are being taught how to use various types of weapons and handle explosives. 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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| February 1, 2013
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Educating Muslims on the Qur’an

Turkish activist says hatred of Jews in Muslim world stems from misinterpretation of Qur’an

Sinem Tezyapar

 

Anti-Jewish slogans of an Egyptian Muslim cleric and past statements by President Morsi to “nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred” for Jews have come to the fore in the recent days. As it is well-known, anti-Jewish propaganda is not limited to Egypt. Millions of Muslims all over the Middle East have been conditioned to regard Jews not only as the enemies of them but also of all humanity, and hatred for Jews can be found even in textbooks of children going to kindergarten. Continue Reading »

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| January 29, 2013
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Anti-Semitic incidents in Australia rise by 5% for 2012

Jews were pelted with eggs and other objects while walking to synagogue.

Comments yelled at Jewish people in Australian streets such as “Hitler didn’t do his job properly,” and “It’s a pity that the Germans didn’t burn the lot of you.” were common.

By JTA

 

SYDNEY, Australia  – Anti-Semitic incidents in Australia rose by five percent over the previous 12-month period, according to a new report.

anti-Semitic bannerJeremy Jones, a former president of the Executive Council of Australia Jewry, released data this week showing that during the 12-month period from October 2011 until September 2012, there were 543 incidents of “racist violence” against Jewish Australians documented by Jewish organizations. Continue Reading »

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| January 29, 2013
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FBI: Jews are the Victims of Nearly 2/3 of all Religious Hate Crimes in U.S.

Jews & Jewish institutions continued to be principal targets, accounting for 63% of all religion-based hate crimes, attesting that anti-Semitism is still a serious & deeply entrenched problem in America.

By JNS.org

 

The release of the FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) report indicated a promising new trend in America, with overall hate crimes overall falling by 6 percent in 2011. However, despite the improvement, anti-Jewish hate crimes still remain disproportionately high, the report found.

According to the report, there were 6,222 hate crimes in the U.S. in 2011 with 1,480 religious hate crimes, down 3.4 percent from 2010. Continue Reading »

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| January 28, 2013
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European Jewish Congress: Sunday Times cartoon ‘sickening’

European Jewish Congress president calls for apology from British newspaper for a particularly offensive caricature drawn of Israel’s PM Netanyahu published on Int’l Holocaust Day

Ynetnews

 

European Jewish Congress President Dr. Moshe Kantor has called for an apology from the Sunday Times, which published a cartoon on International Holocaust Remembrance Day of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall on the bodies of Palestinians, depicting their blood as cement.

Cartoon shows Netanyahu building wall on bodies of Palestinians – Photo: Emil Salman

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

“This cartoon would be offensive at any time of the year, but to publish it on International Holocaust Remembrance Day is sickening and expresses a deeply troubling mindset,” Dr. Continue Reading »

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| January 27, 2013
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Report: Alarming Rise Worldwide in Anti-Semitic Incidents

A report on global anti-Semitic trends during 2012 indicates “an alarming rise in the number of attacks against Jewish targets”.

By Elad Benari

 

A report on anti-Semitic trends in 2012 that was prepared by the Ministry of Information and Diaspora indicates that in the past year there has been “an alarming rise in the number of terrorist attacks and attempted attacks against Jewish targets and an escalation in violent incidents against Jews throughout the world.”

 

The report will be presented by Information and Diaspora Minister Yuli Edelstein during Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting.

The report finds that in the past year there has been a rise in the number of terrorist acts and attempted attacks against Jewish targets, primarily by groups which identify with radical Islam and the extreme right. Continue Reading »

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| January 27, 2013
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A Turkish perspective on the Shoah

As Muslims, as Turks and as much as we want the welfare of humanity, we want the Jews to live in peace as well.

By SINEM TEZYAPAR

 

When people of reason and conscience look back on the subject of Shoah (otherwise known as the Holocaust) today, it is common to hear questions like: “How could a nation of philosophers, composers of classical music, technology, poets, in this seat of the Enlightenment itself, suddenly give place to savagery not seen since the Dark Ages? How could such dreadful, inhumane impulses seize every apparatus of a nation and cause it to commit such atrocities?” Continue Reading »

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| January 26, 2013
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British MP: Jews Hadn’t Learned the Lesson of the Holocaust

David Ward, a Liberal Democrat MP in Britain, faces expulsion for saying Jews hadn’t learned from the Holocaust and are “inflicting atrocities” on PA Arabs.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

A Liberal Democrat MP in Britain faces expulsion from the party for saying Jews had not learned from the murder of six million in the Holocaust in their treatment of Palestinian Authority Arabs, the Daily Mail reports.

David Ward, MP for Bradford East, wrote on his own website that he was “saddened” that Jews “could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians…on a daily basis.” Continue Reading »

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| January 25, 2013
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Jewish Group Points Out, Recent Islamist Attacks are Just the Beginning

Spokesman at Simon Wiesenthal Center raises alarms about recent threats made by Islamist terrorists that staged deadly hostage crisis at Algerian gas plant.

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has raised alarms regarding the threats made by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, spokesman of the Islamist terrorist group that staged a deadly hostage crisis at an Algerian gas plant last week.

Algerian security escorts a freed hostage

Algerian security escorts a freed hostage
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In an interview with the journal Paris Match, Belmokhtar claimed to be speaking on behalf of his leader, the Mauritanian Salafist, Hacen Ould Khalil, also known as Joulaybib, whom he quoted as “threatening to commit new attacks against France, in which the Crusaders and the Zionist Jews will pay for its aggressions in the north of Mali.” Continue Reading »

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| January 24, 2013
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Disrupting the ecosystem of extreme Racism

We can’t rest until the evil ideologies that fuel terror become nothing more than relics of the past.

By Ron Prosor

 

There is a specific kind of ecosystem that creates terrorism. Terrorism is rooted in hate, watered with instability and state support, and then planted in the next generation.

screenshotEvery roadside bombing, every suicide attack, and every act of terrorism begins with words and thoughts of hate. It begins with al-Qaida websites that turn suicide bombers into jihadi celebrities. It begins with Hezbollah summer camps that use arts and crafts to glorify martyrdom and teach bombmaking skills to children.

It begins with statements by Hamas leaders like Atallah Abu al-Subh, who recently said on public Palestinian television (and I quote) “The Jews are the most despicable and contemptible nation to crawl upon the face of the Earth.”

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| January 23, 2013
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GB Politician: Israel Has ‘Evolved into Racist Oppressor’

A British politician is exploiting the Holocaust Memorial Day to attack Israel by calling the Jewish state “a racist oppressor.”

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

A British politician has exploited the upcoming Holocaust Memorial Day to attack Israel, saying the Jewish state has “evolved into a racist oppressor.”

The statue of wartime British prime minister Winston ChurchillLee Jasper of the Respect Party posted the egregious comments to his Facebook Page, The Jewish Chronicle reported.

“We are asked to remember that which Israel has forgotten, that religious & racial hatred is a sin against God,” wrote Jasper on his page, as he incorrectly noted the date of Holocaust Memorial Day.

“Israel has failed to learn the lessons of its own tragic history having evolved into a racist oppressor,” he added, tagging the comment with the word “apartheid.” Continue Reading »

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