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Category Archives: anti semitism
Knockout “Game”…
Being anti-Israel does not have to mean one is antisemetic. It just always does.
I hear quite often from critics that
“…and if you say anything bad about Israel they call you an antisemite making it impossible to criticize the state!”
…and dozens of variations on that theme.
This article from the J-post points out how one British member of Parliament in a secretly filmed meeting, shows how the two ideas are typically conflated. But before anyone points out that this is an ‘isolated incident’ it may be worth trying this more practical experiment yourself.
Find someone at a BDS event or even someone you know that claims to be critical of Israel and not the people and ask a few simple questions such as:
1: You believe that Israel is deserving of special sanctions and punitive measures because of human rights violations X, Y, and Z. Do you also advocate the same measures be imposed on countries A, B, C, D, and E that not only are guilty of the same things but are indisputably so whereas the charges against Israel are vague and abstract and leveled by those sworn to her destruction, but say they were true. Why have I not heard you demand the same measures on anywhere else guilty of the same offense?
2. If Israel has no right to exist based on your line of thinking, then why do you not also demand that Pakistan be returned to Indian sovereignty? (Pretty much every reason given for the destruction of the state of Israel applies equally or even to a greater degree to the state of Pakistan. Every reason but one that is)
3. If you object to the security fence Israel built which has dramatically reduced terrorist attacks on its civilian population, have you also been strident and visible when it comes to:
3a. The new Saudi fence?
3b. The US – Mexico border fence?
3c. The fence between Gaza and Egypt?
3d. The Great Wall of China built to keep out the Mongols? Don’t the Mongols have every right to invade China?
It doesn’t take long to see there is usually only one reason left why it is Israel which is singled out for this special hatred, criticism, street theater, and demonization that doesn’t apply better to many other states, and that is granting that the accusations are true, which is very seldom the case. (See the Al Dura affair)
And I wonder, what might that one difference be?
More antisemitism. This time from Hungary
Video of rally held May 4 2013
Article from the Telegraph:
As the World Jewish Congress opens in Budapest amid a rise in anti-Semitism in Hungary, Colin Freeman visits the town of Tiszavasvári, twinned with Iran and the stronghold of the far-Right Jobbik party.
An induction ceremony of the far-right Jobbik party for members of the Magyar Garda Photo: AFP
By Colin Freeman, Tiszavasvári
7:00PM BST 04 May 2013
As the self-declared “capital” of the ultra-nationalist Jobbik Party, the town of Tiszavasvári prides itself on being a showcase for how the whole of Hungary might one day look.
Since winning control of Tiszavasvári’s local council three years ago on a pledge to fight “Gipsy crime”, the party has been on a vigorous clean-up campaign, banning prostitution, tidying the streets, and keeping a watchful eye on the shabby Roma districts at the edge of town. It even swore in its own Jobbik “security force” to work alongside the police, only for the uniformed militia, which drew comparisons with Hitler’s brown-shirts, to be banned by Hungary’s national government.
Two documentaries on contemporary antisemitism aired this week.
H/T Shabnam for this one. The Canadian one seems not to be able to be seen outside Canada right now. But as it airs over the week I suspect it will become more widely available. The trailer is below in another post but I am told it cannot be viewed outside a certain area. Im sure someone is working on that now.
Harsh documentary on contemporary antisemitism airs, starting tonight, in Ontario
Here is the trailer for it. It would appear that there will be one segment aired each week.
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DUTCH TURK WHO ADMONISHED MUSLIM YOUTHS FOR ANTISEMITISM STILL VICTIM OF HARASSMENT AND INTIMIDATION
This is not going way anytime soon.
This is what Dutch politicians have bequeathed upon their society, only 60 some years after helping the Nazis murder their Jews, they’re up the eyeballs with more antisemites who would like nothing better than to do the same.
No, it’s not us who warn about Islam on a daily basis who are responsible for the mess Europe is in, it’s the near sighted, ignoramus politicians who willingly prepared the present age for this moment in time.
NOTE: For you see folks, being masterminds and geniuses, the utopians really believed that they could manage things, like a bunch of Svengalis behind the scenes moving this and that lever. Now it’s exploded in their faces with real lives on the line, now what are they going to do?
Dutch Turk Volunteer Harassed for Opposing Holocaust Supporters
Mehmet Sahin went into hiding for a month after criticizing youth who praised Hitler on TV, warned by court to refrain from “insults”.
By Arutz Sheva Staff
First Publish: 5/3/2013, 11:48 AM
Several major Dutch newspapershave published that Dutch-Turkish volunteer Mehmet Sahin, is being harassed and intimidated by other Turks – almost on a daily basis. He had comitted the “sin” of admonishing three youngsters from his community who praised the Holocaust, Hitler and the killing of Jewish babies in February on TV.
Sahin mentioned that reactions from other Turks included that he “is a Jewish agent,” “psychologically sick,” and “a collaborator.” Sahin had received death threats after his admonishment of the young Turkish anti-Semites.
The Mayor of Arnhem where he lives, rather than offering protection, then recommended that Sahin go into hiding with his family, which he did. Thereafter, Sahin remained at home for a month.
Sahin now told the press that when he went out on the streets afterwards, he was called names in Turkish including: “You are born out of the sperm of a Jew who raped a Turkish mother.” He said, “I replied ‘Dirty Fascists!’ He also said that Turks in his neighborhood isolate him and the same is the case with Turkish organizations and key figures in and outside Arnhem.
Teacher who assigned essay on why Jews were evil faces discipline
For some reason I get the sense that this teacher is more terminally stupid than antisemitic or vicious. But its a funny story in any case. Possibly a massive over-reaction. It is a good exercise to try and imagine yourself under the authority of a totalitarian regime to understand why it operates as it does. If nothing else its good practice for sharia.
H/T Bear
Yahoo News:
By Holly McKenna
ALBANY, New York (Reuters) – A New York state high school English teacher who asked students to imagine they were Nazis and give reasons why Jews were evil could be reprimanded or dismissed, a school district superintendent said on Friday.
City School District of Albany Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard apologized at a news conference and pledged officials would personally express regret to Albany High School students who were given the assignment and their families.
“This assignment for some of our students at Albany High School was completely unacceptable. It displayed a level of insensitivity that we will not tolerate in our school community,” Vanden Wyngaard said.
“I’m deeply apologetic to all of our students, to all of our families and the entire community,” she said, appearing with representatives of the Anti-Defamation League and the United Jewish Federation (UJF) of Northeastern New York at the UJF office in Albany.
Report: Anti-Semitic incidents surge in 2012
H/T Bear
Yahoo News:
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View PhotoAssociated Press/Bruno Martin, File – FILE – In this Monday, March 19, 2012 file photo, police officers gather at the site of a shooting where a gunman opened fire in front of a Jewish school in a city in Toulouse, …more
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli researchers and Jewish leaders on Sunday reported a 30 percent jump in anti-Semitic violence and vandalism last year, topped by a deadly school shooting in France, and expressed alarm about the rise of far-right parties in Hungary, Greece and other countries.
Following a two-year decline in the figures, the annual report on worldwide anti-Semitic incidents recorded 686 attacks in 34 countries, ranging from physical violence to vandalism of synagogues and cemeteries, compared to 526 in 2011. The report was issued at Tel Aviv University, in cooperation with the European Jewish Congress, an umbrella group representing Jewish communities across Europe.
The report linked the March 2012 shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse, where an extremist Muslim gunman killed four, to a series of copycat attacks, particularly in France, where physical assaults on Jews almost doubled.
Wiesenthal Centre Urges Investigation after Report Shows Anti-Semitic Hungarian Political Party Moves Closer to Iran
Algemeiner:
Jobbik graffiti.
After a three-day visit to the country by officials, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is urging the Hungarian government–as well as the European Parliament– to investigate reports of a growing relationship between Iran and the anti-Semitic Jobbik Hungarian political party.
“Hungarian leaders we met confirmed that the Jobbik party and the Iranian regime share a hatred for Jews, Israel, the European Union and the United States,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper associate Dean and Dr. Shimon Samuels Director of International Relations of the Centre reported, adding that “a Socialist Party MP told them that Jobbik’s increasingly anti-Semitic and anti-Israel attacks can be linked in part to the growing connection.”
Michael Coren & John Robson – Anti-Semitism in the Canadian Union of Postal Workers
TURK OBSERVER: TALK OF ‘KILLING JEWS LIKE RATS’ COMMON OCCURRENCE IN TURKISH CONVERSATIONS
Nazi Germany 1930’s all over again.
In a piece by Lori Lowenthal Marcus, about Dutch Muslims praising Adolf Hitler and their Holocaust of the Jews, Turkish observer, Ege Berk Korkut, is quoted saying that the daily dialogue in Turkish society concerning Jews, takes on an antisemitic and genocidal form. Korkut notes that it’s common nowadays to talk of the killing of Jews as one would of rats or the eliminating of weeds.
This brings me back to, yes again, the highly outrageous claim by the Turkish leader of the world’s largest Muslim organization (the OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, who recently doubled down in Stockholm on his previous statement spoken in 2008 in Helsinki, that a Muslim couldn’t be antisemitic.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is an outrageous statement that can’t be any longer allowed to go unchallenged.
Turkish Youth in Holland: Hitler Should Have Killed All the Jews (video)
Korkut says that discussions of killing Jews is practically as common in Turkey as are discussions of killing rodents or invasive plants in other parts of the world.
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Ege Berk Korkut, a Turkish observer of the change in attitude by Turks towards Israel and the Jews, spoke with The Jewish Press about the escalating levels of anti-Semitism in Turkey today.
Korkut is from Izmir, the “most modern city in Turkey – extremely modern, women can walk on the streets safely at night, and very few of the people voted for Erdogan.” Korkut estimates that in Izmir, less than a majority of the people are anti-Semitic, but “in the rest of Turkey, the percentages are more like 80 percent.”
Korkut told The Jewish Press that he regularly hears people praise Hitler. “Do not worry, Israel will be destroyed one day, and the day is near that all Jews will pay,” is also something he hears often. He says that discussions of killing Jews is practically as common in Turkey as are discussions of killing rodents or invasive plants in other parts of the world.
Football fans’ racist taunts reflect resurgent anti-Semitism, anti-Roma feeling in Hungary
Irish Times:
DANIEL MCLAUGHLIN
BUDAPEST LETTER: Hungary will play probably its most important football match of 2013, an event that should have unified the nation instead highlighting its deep divisions, in a silent stadium of empty seats.
Fifa ruled this month that Hungary must play its crucial World Cup qualifier against fierce rivals Romania next month behind closed doors, as punishment for what football’s governing body called “abhorrent” anti-Semitic chanting by Hungary supporters during a friendly against Israel last August.
Hungary’s football association is to appeal against the decision, and the far-right political party Jobbik intends to hold a rally outside the stadium during the March 22nd fixture to show support for the national team and protest against the ban.
Jobbik’s rapid rise has alarmed many in Hungary and abroad, who see it as a symptom of resurgent anti-Semitism and anti-Roma feeling in the country. Its promise of simple, radical solutions for Hungary’s economic and social problems is proving popular, however; Jobbik is the third-largest group in parliament and is particularly strong in Hungary’s poor provinces and among young people disillusioned by the corruption and cronyism of the mainstream political elite.
Erdogan antisemitic and anti-american rants not seen before
But often quoted
Iran is a nuclear state but has no intention to launch attack on Israel – Ahmadinejad
Clearly the president of Iran is a student of Joseph Goebbels.
RT:
Published: 06 February, 2013, 21:54
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Al-Azhar headquarters in Cairo on February 5, 2013. (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that Tehran has no intention of attacking Israel and that the world needs to cooperate with Iran. The comments came as the leader marked a historical visit to Cairo for the 12th Islamic Summit Conference.
“[Israel] wants to attack Iran, but we’re not preparing any attack against them because the purpose of our program is defense,” Ahmadinejad told Al-Ahram newspaper in an interview before his trip to Egypt.
The leader also reiterated that Zionists were trying to take over global power and wealth throughout the world, and that the best solution was for the world to cooperate with Iran.