July 10, 2017

Islamist preacher who compared Jews to 'fleas' to speak at Palestine Expo event in Gov't building

The Palestine Expo has been organised by the Friends of Al-Aqsa, whose chairman, Ismail Patel, once publicly denied that Hamas was a terrorist organisation.

Recordings of Mr Bham’s sermons can be found on the website of South Africa’s Council of Muslim Theologians, of which he is secretary general.

In one he says: “Goebbel [sic] was a very famous minister of the Nazis, and he tried to justify the killing of the Jews. Now as far as we are concerned, we do not need to feel apologetic because it was not done by Muslims.

Quoting Goebbels, he adds: “One day he said that ‘People tell me that Jews are human beings. Yes, I know they are human beings. Just as fleas are also animals. Just as fleas are also animals, they are also part of human beings like that.’

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/07/exclusiveislamist-preacher-compared-jews-fleas-speak-palestine/

This "event is taking place the Queen Elizabeth II Center in Westminster, London.

July 6, 2017

Anti-Semitism is the new social justice

Hating Israel is the thing to do today on university campuses. It makes you seem “progressive.” It means you’re “woke” and socially aware. It means you’re fighting against a tyrannical regime. It is supporting the struggle of an oppressed people at the hands of White colonialist supremacy. Zionism is racism. Israel is evil, end of story.

Except that’s complete nonsense.

Zionism is the support for and affirmation of the Jewish right to self-determination in their indigenous homeland of Israel. It’s the Jewish Civil Rights Movement. It is the struggle of a native people who have been oppressed for thousands of years, expelled from their land, killed and persecuted wherever in the world they went. It is the celebration of victory, of the return home after millennia of diaspora, of surviving and flourishing against all odds.

That sounds like something the Left would wholeheartedly support, right? Not anymore. The dominant narrative on campuses is that Israel is Nazi Germany 2.0, that Israelis are White Europeans who colonized the land of Palestine after WWII. The screams of “apartheid” and “genocide” go unquestioned. Israel is evil, end of story.

Nobody talks about the 850,000+ Jewish refugees expelled from Arab lands. Nobody mentions that the majority of Israelis are these refugees or descended from these refugees, not from Europe (not that European Jews are White). Nobody clarifies that Israeli Arabs have all the same rights as Jews in Israel, or that Arabs hold seats in Israeli Parliament, serve in the military, and are doctors and celebrities and shopkeepers and lawyers and teachers. Nobody mentions the thousands of Palestinians treated at Israeli hospitals and employed at Israeli businesses. Israel is evil, end of story.

Anti-Semitism is the acceptable form of bigotry on the Left

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/anti-semitism-is-the-new-social-justice/

July 6, 2017

In Tel Aviv, jubilant Indian Israelis go gaga for Modi

On Wednesday, thousands of Indian Israelis gathered in the city to greet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a glitzy, wild welcome for the first premier from their home country to visit the Jewish state.

Brightly colored Indian saris mingled with jeans and t-shirts — and not a few kippot and religious headscarves — at Wednesday’s event, which began with several Bollywood dance acts and a concert.

In the corner of the room, two 10-foot cardboard cutouts of Modi were thronged by teenagers and adults clamoring for selfies. Indian and Israeli flags were waved furiously by participants, and each act drew thunderous applause when the two countries’ banners were paraded on stage together.

Headlining the performances before the two leaders arrived was Sukhwinder Singh, the Bollywood singer of the Academy Award-winning “Jai Ho” theme song of the 2008 film “Slumdog Millionaire.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-tel-aviv-jubilant-indian-israelis-go-gaga-for-modi/

July 5, 2017

Violence sweeps Bengal's Basirhat district after Facebook post 'disrespects the Prophet Mohammad'

Communal tensions have flared-up once again in the Basirhat district in Bengal after a supposedly disrespectful Facebook post concerning the Prophet Mohammad began circulating online.

What began as a protest soon escalated into a violent roving mob ransacking houses of the majority Hindu community in the district.
It is believed that dozens of businesses, houses, and at least six police vehicles, were torched by a mob in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district.

The incident began after a class 11 student posted a 'blasphemous' message on Facebook.

The student in question, according to Indian news sources - a Hindu, was arrested on Sunday night and prohibitory orders were enforced.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-4665772/Communal-violence-reported-Bengal-s-Basirhat-district.html

July 5, 2017

Vandals hang anti-Jewish banner at Holocaust memorial in New Jersey

Vandals posted a banner containing an anti-Jewish slur on a Holocaust memorial in front of a New Jersey shore town synagogue where several residents were recently accused of misrepresenting their incomes to improperly obtain public welfare benefits.

Photos posted online Sunday by the state chapter of the Anti-Defamation League show the covering on the memorial in Lakewood. A message on the covering included an ethnic slur for Jewish people and stated they "will not divide us," along with the name of a group supposedly responsible for the covering.

State authorities announced Sunday they were offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to conviction of those responsible.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-jewish-banner-holocaust-memorial-new-jersey-lakewood-synagogue/

July 2, 2017

My anger over the antisemitic hijacking of Franco fighters commemoration (Martin Sugarman)

Every year I attend the commemoration of the huge number of Jews who fought against Fascist Spain in the Spanish Civil War and especially those who went from UK and Israel (measured as per head of population, the Israeli group was the biggest of any of the 53 nations who sent volunteers).

I lay a beautiful Star of David poppy wreath and always get a huge warm welcome and round of applause. Many of the organisers are known to me and very friendly. Many guest speakers over the years are no friends of Israel but conventionally they never bring other political issues into the speeches, so as not to deviate from the meeting's aim, to only remember those who died in the Spanish Civil War, fighting fascism and some who today may be suffering in other anti-fascist struggles round the world; but that is as far as it goes.

This year for the first time since I have attended over the past 25 or so years, an ignorant and arrogant man called Tosh McDonald of the Aslef union gave a speech before the wreath laying - and he began by making comparisons of the Spanish Civil War with other struggles - usually not done - such as apartheid in South Africa, and ended with what he said was the essential one today, against the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, etc. He went into the usual rant demonising Israel. Some applauded, a lot did not - a sign of displeasure.

I immediately stood up after he finished, with no microphone, in front of about 300 guests in the open air and stated loudly and clearly that I was leaving in protest and would not be laying my wreath for the Jewish veterans from the Jewish community, which I held up so all could see, as he had inappropriately politicised the event with other issues which many people have different views on. He had also inappropriately praised Jeremy Corbyn a propos nothing - again usually no politics are mentioned on these occasions. Some applauded me and some jeered, and I made a dramatic exit.

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/my-anger-over-the-antisemitic-hijacking-of-franco-fighters-commemoration-1.440837

July 2, 2017

My Aunt Had a Dinner Party, and Then She Took Her Guests to Kill 180 Jews (Margit Batthyany-Thyssen)

One morning in April 2007 journalist Sacha Batthyany was approached by an elderly colleague at the Swiss daily where they both worked at the time. The colleague waved a newspaper clipping in front of him. It was an investigative report entitled, “The Hostess from Hell,” published by a German daily.

Glancing at the headline, Batthyany didn’t understand why he was being shown this article, but then he looked at the picture of the hostess and recognized it immediately. It was Margit, his father’s aunt —someone to whom the family demonstrated the utmost respect and also around whom they tended to tread carefully.

So he started to read the piece. In March 1945, it said, just before the end of World War II, Margit held a large party in the town of Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border to fete her Nazi friends. She, the daughter and heiress of European baron and tycoon Heinrich Thyssen, and her friends drank and danced the night away.

At the height of the evening, just for fun, 12 of the guests boarded trucks or walked to a nearby field, where 180 Jewish slave laborers who had been building fortifications were assembled. They had already been forced to dig a large pit, strip, and get down on their knees. The guests took turns shooting them to death before returning to the party. The organizer of this operation was Margit’s lover Hans Joachim Oldenberg. Margit’s husband, Count Ivan Batthyany, Sacha’s grandfather’s brother, was also at the party.

http://www.haaretz.com/life/.premium-1.798168

More on this (dated 2009) can be found here:

The Batthyany Conspiracy: All Innocent On The Eastern Front

http://www.davidrllitchfield.com/2009/12/the-batthyany-conspiracy-all-innocent-on-the-eastern-front/

July 1, 2017

Teen Magazine Promotes Conspiracy Theory from Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Affinity Magazine is a publication written by and for teenagers. Its Editor-in-Chief, Evelyn Woodsen, is nineteen, and its Senior Editor Alex Brown is in high school.

Its website gets between 200,000 and 600,000 views per month, and it claims that it “serves a purpose of showcasing the voices of aspiring teen journalists.” The publication aims to “mix[] pop culture with social justice and politics….”

The young age of its writers and editors, however, does not excuse its promotion of an antisemitic conspiracy theory. In January, the magazine published an article titled, "Money and Israel Control the Media: Who Cares?" (January 8, 2017) Seventeen year-old author Zoya Wazir, relying on the antisemitic Rense website, wrote that:

Israel has political and economic ties to America of such necessity that they control the majority of the media. In fact, the big six corporations mentioned earlier all have Israeli ties and are headed by powerful Jewish families within the United States.

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=37&x_article=3667

I'm linking google's cache of this article. I don't want to give the site any extra traffic.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8T8q8djJsq0J:affinitymagazine.us/2017/01/08/money-and-israel-control-the-media-who-cares/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

June 28, 2017

The Mutating Virus: Understanding Antisemitism (compulsory listening)

Please take the time to either watch this video or read the full transcript.

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Full transcript here:

http://rabbisacks.org/mutating-virus-understanding-antisemitism/

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The new antisemitism has mutated so that any practitioner of it can deny that he or she is an antisemite. After all, they’ll say, I’m not a racist. I have no problem with Jews or Judaism. I only have a problem with the State of Israel. But in a world of 56 Muslim nations and 103 Christian ones, there is only one Jewish state, Israel, which constitutes one-quarter of one per cent of the land mass of the Middle East. Israel is the only one of the 193 member nations of the United Nations that has its right to exist regularly challenged, with one state, Iran, and many, many other groups, committed to its destruction.

Antisemitism means denying the right of Jews to exist as Jews with the same rights as everyone else. The form this takes today is anti-Zionism. Of course, there is a difference between Zionism and Judaism, and between Jews and Israelis, but this difference does not exist for the new antisemites themselves. It was Jews not Israelis who were murdered in terrorist attacks in Toulouse, Paris, Brussels and Copenhagen. Anti-Zionism is the antisemitism of our time.

In the Middle Ages Jews were accused of poisoning wells, spreading the plague, and killing Christian children to use their blood. In Nazi Germany they were accused of controlling both capitalist America and communist Russia. Today they are accused of running ISIS as well as America. All the old myths have been recycled, from the Blood Libel to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The cartoons that flood the Middle East are clones of those published in Der Sturmer one of the primary vehicles of Nazi propaganda between 1923 and 1945.

The ultimate weapon of the new antisemitism is dazzling in its simplicity. It goes like this. The Holocaust must never happen again. But Israelis are the new Nazis; the Palestinians are the new Jews; all Jews are Zionists. Therefore the real antisemites of our time are none other than the Jews themselves. And these are not marginal views. They are widespread throughout the Muslim world, including communities in Europe, and they are slowly infecting the far left, the far right, academic circles, unions, and even some churches. Having cured itself of the virus of antisemitism, Europe is being reinfected by parts of the world that never went through the self-reckoning that Europe undertook once the facts of the Holocaust became known.

June 26, 2017

Professor who said Otto Warmbier got what he deserved loses job

The University of Delaware has cut ties with an adjunct professor who suggested that Otto Warmbier, the American student whose death last week after being imprisoned in North Korea drew worldwide attention, was a ‘‘clueless white male’’ who ‘‘got exactly what he deserved.’’

Katherine Dettwyler, who taught in the anthropology department as recently as spring semester, ‘‘will not be rehired to teach at the University in the future,’’ the university said in a statement on Sunday. Her comments were posted at a time when she was not employed with the university and ‘‘in no way reflect the values or position of the University of Delaware,’’ the statement read.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2017/06/26/professor-who-said-otto-warmbier-got-what-deserved-loses-job/GfXg0gjprLVHMRwvH1089H/story.html