Toronto has a “Covington Jewish” school. Who knew!

And remember, while this was going on inside, what you see below was going on outside:

Antisemitism

1. Poland: Knife-wielding anti-Semites attack security guard escorting Israeli students.

 Two Poles, one of them armed with a knife, attacked a security guard who was escorting an Israeli student delegation in Poland.

The security guard neutralized the attackers.

There were no casualties.

According to Polish media, the anti-Semites were drunk.

2. Norway prosecutor: Rapper’s ‘F**king Jews’ slur could be criticism of Israel.

Top legal official Tor-Aksel Busch says Kaveh Kholardi, who cursed Jews on stage during Oslo pro-diversity event, won’t be charged with hate speech

JTA — A Norwegian rapper who cursed Jews while performing at an event in Oslo promoting multiculturalism will not be charged with hate speech because his words may have been criticism of Israel, prosecutors said.

Kaveh Kholardi said “f***ing Jews” on stage at an event last year for which he was hired by the city.

(Diversity: “They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they say it does”

-Paraphrase Inigo Montoya)

3. 2 seriously hurt in Ashdod building collapse

A building in Ashdod partially collapsed after several gas balloons exploded Thursday evening. Two people were seriously injured in the collapse.

 

Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah paramedics arrived on the scene to treat the injured.

United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Avi Amar said: “When I arrived at the scene together with an ambulance team from United Hatzalah we saw a massive amount of debris due to a partial building collapse. Firefighters pulled out two people from the wreckage whom we treated at the scene before they were transported to the hospital. They were in serious and moderate to serious condition.”

 

MDA emergency medic Eliyahu Edri added, “This is a very complex event, the one-story structure collapsed completely and there was a lot of destruction. Together with the firefighting forces, we worked quickly to rescue the two men who were trapped and suffered very serious injuries all over their bodies. We quickly took them to ambulances and they were evacuated while continuing life-saving medical treatment to Assuta Hospital in the city.”

The building which collapsed was a restaurant on Martin Buber Street.

(Funny how most news sources write this off as a “gas explosion”. When really it was a terrorist attack with gas filled balloons. Fascinating.)

4. WHY THE DEMOCRATS WON’T TAKE ON ANTI-SEMITISM

We don’t have national conversations about anti-Semitism because the problem can’t be narrowed down to an easily blamed demographic. The Democrats invariably try to blame anti-Semitism on the usual suspects, white male Republicans living more than two hundred miles from a Starbucks, but the largest toll of violent anti-Semitic attacks tend to fall on New York City’s black neighborhoods.

 

There is no single demographic for anti-Semitism. It’s a bigotry blasted out by Farrakhan supporters in Crown Heights, but it’s also harbored by white Elizabeth Warren supporters in Chelsea. Rep. Ilhan Omar is an immigrant from Somalia, a country with no Jews, but picked up the bigotry from Arab Muslims. And some of the worst anti-Semites aren’t black or white, Muslim or Christian, they’re Jewish in origin.

 

Even on the internet, some of the most militant anti-Semitic figures came from Jewish families.

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It is a weird weird day out there.

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Curious parade in Belgium

Here are a few links. I will leave it to to the reader to decide what the intention is. But to the best of my knowledge, previous ‘parades’ in Belgium has shown Jews in ovens, and similar iconography, yet never ever mocked Islam in any way, shape or form.

Belgium’s Anti-Jewish Parade Float

BELGIAN MAYOR DEFENDS CARNIVAL FLOAT FEATURING JEWS WITH MONEY AND A RAT

I spoke to the creators of Belgium’s anti-Semitic carnival float. They’re not sorry.

Belgian carnival float depicting Jewish stereotypes condemned as anti-Semitic

Belgium anti-Semitism row over stereotyped Jews in carnival float

Thank you @AmyMek for the links.

For those that do Twitter, please follow her. Twitter is trying to suppress her feed in that all to familiar way we hear about on Facebook and Youtube with a variety of names, like Shadow banning, or whatever the new name for Facebook’s control of the spread of ideas that threaten their views is called.

 

 

President Trump calls on Ilhan D Rep. to resign and at a minimum, not be on secure committees

2012 tweet from Ilhan Omar:

https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/269488770066313216

Thank you Malca

 

PayPal closes account of neo-Nazi group with ties to Assad, Hezbollah, and anti-Israel boycotts

Homeland Security Newswire:

PayPal, the U.S.-headquartered digital payments company, has shut the account of The Third Way, a German neo-Nazi party with links to Iranian-backed Hezbollah, the Syrian regime, and the anti-Israel boycott movement. The group’s PayPal page, where the account is listed, also encourages support for Holocaust deniers.

PayPal, the U.S.-headquartered digital payments company, has shut the account of The Third Way, a German neo-Nazi party with links to Iranian-backed Hezbollah, the Syrian regime, and the anti-Israel boycott movement, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Monday.

The donation section on The Third Way website states: “This recipient is currently unable to receive money.” The group’s PayPal page, where the account is listed, encourages support for a convicted Holocaust denier, saying, “Freedom for Horst Mahler: Political Prisoner of the Federal Republic of Germany.”

The intelligence agency in the German state of Baden Württemberg said in 2018 that propaganda campaigns from the Third Way calling to boycott Israeli products mirror “similar measures against German Jews by the National Socialists.”

[H/T ML]

 

 

Merkel’s instructions to Eastern European nations on Embassy move

MERKEL URGED EU COUNTRIES NOT TO MOVE EMBASSIES TO JERUSALEM

The founding director of the European Coalition for Israel in Brussels, Tomas Sandell, announced in a shocking video message on Thursday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel waged a campaign to prevent central and eastern European countries from moving their capitals to Jerusalem to preserve the Iran nuclear deal.

Sandell said a Jerusalem Post exclusive report in November that Merkel called Romanian president, Klaus Iohannis, to convince him to not relocate his country’s embassy to Jerusalem,  prompted Sandell to go public.

picture of the white supremacist who vandalized synagogue

Arrest made in vandalizing of synagogue ahead of Ilana Glazer event

BROOKLYN –

Police arrested a man who say scrawled hateful words inside a Prospect Heights synagogue Thursday night.

Police charged James Polite, 26, Friday night with criminal mischief and making graffiti. 

 

The suspect was admitted to a hospital as an emotionally disturbed person. 

 

Polite has also been charged in incidents that occurred Friday at three different locations in the 90th Precinct, one of which was a yeshiva. Polite was charged with numerous offenses, including multiple charges of arson as a hate crime, aggravated harassment and criminal mischief.

The vandal struck right before “Broad City” star Ilana Glazer was scheduled to host a political event at Union Temple on Thursday night. Police say the messages were found around 8 p.m. Thursday, but they believe they were written around 6 p.m. The event had to be canceled.

 

Police say the suspect wrote anti-Semitic statements with black marker throughout the building. Officials say the suspect wrote “die Jew rats we are here,” “Hitler,” and “Jews better be ready.” 

Julius Malema accusing Jews (semitic people) of training white right wingers to be snipers.

H/T EB.