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Post by Daniel on Feb 25, 2017 10:10:25 GMT -5
69 bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers since January 1. Jewish cemeteries vandalized. Anti-Semitic attacks spiking. President and top leaders speak out, call for action to protect Jewish people.
By Joel C. Rosenberg
February 21, 2017
A vicious wave of anti-Semitism is hitting the United States
-Just since the first of the year, nearly 70 Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) have received bomb threats.
-Jewish cemeteries have been vandalized around the country — in St. Louis alone in recent days, more than 100 headstones in a Jewish cemetery were destroyed.
-Anti-Semitic attacks on American college campuses have nearly doubled, according to ADL.
Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders are speaking out, as they should. So are the President, senior administration officials and Members of Congress, denouncing these attacks and calling for action to protect the Jewish people.
Over the weekend, in a show of solidarity with the suffering of the Jewish people, Vice President Mike Pence — a devout Evangelical Christian — took his family and advisors to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
“Today, 11 Jewish community centers received phoned-in bomb threats,” reported the JCC Association of North America.
“This comes in the aftermath of three waves of bomb threats in January (Jan. 9, Jan. 18, and Jan. 31), resulting in, through today, 69 incidents at 54 JCCs in 27 states and one Canadian province in total,” the JCCANA reported.
“All bomb threats in both January and today have proven to be hoaxes, and all JCCs impacted have returned to regular operations.” Thank God.
President Trump — whose son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is Jewish, and whose daughter, Ivanka, converted to Judaism to marry him — has been criticized for not speaking out faster or more forcefully.
But today he responded strongly, calling anti-Semitism is “horrible” and “painful” and said “we have to fight bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all its very ugly forms.”
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Post by Daniel on Mar 2, 2017 9:23:08 GMT -5
Antisemitism in America: The Not-So-Dormant Volcano!
By Olivier Melnick
March 1, 2017
For as long as I have studied and taught against antisemitism, the United-States were never immune from the virus of Jew hatred, but they were not in the forefront either. Antisemitism has been expected from countries in the Middle East that are mostly Muslim countries. It has also been on the rise in most of Europe in the last two decades, with a recent surge in the last three years coming from all sides of the political, religious, ideological and cultural spectrums.
Things seem to be changing in America! Over 100 Jewish Community Centers (JCC) have received bomb threats in the last two months all across our nation. Several of these threats touched some of my personal friends, as well as one JCC in my own neighborhood. Fortunately, none of them was real. But how many more phone calls before one threat turns into a real explosion and innocent lives are lost? The President covered the issue in his address to Congress when he said “Recent threats targeting Jewish community centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week’s shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms.”
One definition for “terrorism” reads “the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.” When I look at the recent bombs threats against multiple Jewish communities, and how they disrupted the peace of regular civilians, I cannot help but think that they were acts of terrorism.
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www.newantisemitism.com/antisemitism/antisemitism-in-america-the-not-so-dormant-volcano
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Post by Daniel on Mar 2, 2017 10:07:58 GMT -5
Agudath Israel endorses Trump condemnation of anti-Semitism
Arutz Sheva Staff, 02/03/17
In the wake of recent anti-Semitic attacks in the US and attempts to connect them with the election of Donald Trump as American president, theAmerican Agudath Israel has released a statement hailing Trump for condemning anti-Semitic acts. The statement endorses Trump's efforts on behalf of American Jews as well as efforts of law enforcement authorities to combat the anti-Semitic outbreak.
The Agudath Israel statement said that "It isn’t necessary to state our concern and revulsion at recent vandalism and threats against Jewish sites. They are reminders of the age-old and persistent hatred for Klal Yisroel that festers in the darker corners of even American society.
""Jewish institutions, of course, need to be particularly vigilant these days, to help ensure that the odious cowards who have expressed themselves by making bomb threats and toppling headstones aren’t able to take their animosity any further, chalilah [heaven forfend].
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www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/225992
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Post by Daniel on Mar 2, 2017 10:11:47 GMT -5
Homeland Security Secretary: Protect US Jewish centers
Yoel Domb, 02/03/17
The Department for Homeland Security in the US has offered assistance Wednesday to US Jewish communities after a wave of fake bomb threats targeted them.
Department Secretary John Kelly said that due to the types of threats on Jewish Community Centers he has ordered his men to increase assistance and support to Jewish communities nationwide.
Kelly's offer comes after 200 threatening telephone calls have been received in recent months by US Jewish community centers, organizations and schools. NY police reported that there has been a 55% rise in hate crimes in this year as opposed to the previous year. Police also stated that the hate crimes targeting Jews had increased by 94% during this period.
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www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/225981
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Post by Daniel on Apr 20, 2017 7:24:08 GMT -5
Antisemitism: Out of Hibernation and Traveling at Warp Speed
By Earl Cox April 20, 2017
After a hiatus of relative calm, antisemitism has been accelerating at an alarming pace across the globe. Its most ominous surge is in Europe, Australia and North America – those traditional bastions of equal rights. All is not quiet on the Western front. Global antisemitism rose 30% in 2013 and 40% in 2014; in Europe, it increased sevenfold from the 1990s to the 2000s.
“These are the worst times since the Nazi era,” German Jewish leader Dieter Graumann told The Guardian. “It’s pure hatred against Jews, nothing else.” Last year, antisemitism exploded exponentially, prompting US Jewish leader Malcolm Hoenlein to warn of a “pandemic in formation.”
Europe is the seedbed of global antisemitism. Its roots are so deeply embedded in European culture and institutions that any type of spark can trigger a fire. Sparks fly from rightwing and left-wing extremists, nationalist political parties, radical Muslim refugees and allies, the Israel-Arab conflict, society’s discontented fringe elements, social media use – all these play a role. But antisemitism boils down to hatred – irrational, double-minded and deluded. And in the hands of institutional power elites – governments, academia, media, corporations or misled religious institutions – it’s increasingly dangerous.
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www.breakingisraelnews.com/86774/antisemitism-hibernation-traveling-warp-speed-opinion/
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Post by Daniel on Feb 13, 2019 11:38:01 GMT -5
Chilling echoes of France’s Nazi past as ‘Juden’ graffiti is sprayed on Jewish bakery in Paris
The Sun U.K.
12 February 2019
ANTI-Semitic graffiti sprayed on a bagel shop in Paris has recalled the darkest days of the Holocaust.
The word “Juden” – German for Jew – was sprayed in yellow paint on the window of a bagel shop in the city’s 4th arrondissement on Saturday night.
This is the historic area of the capital city where thousands of men, women and children were rounded up by collaborating French police and German soldiers during the Second World War.
Many had to wear yellow stars identifying their religion, and their businesses were ‘tagged’ with the word Jew, before they were taken to their deaths in concentration camps.
“An anti-Semitic tag in the middle of Paris,” said France’s Interior Minister, Christophe Castaner, as he reacted to the latest outrage.
He added: “One too many. Juden in yellow letters, as if the most tragic lessons of history no longer enlighten [our] consciences.
“Our answer: to do everything to make sure the perpetrator of this outrage is prosecuted. Our pledge – don’t let anything pass.”
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Post by Daniel on Mar 2, 2019 11:41:42 GMT -5
The Palestinian Fan Club
By Mitchell Bard March 01, 2019
In movies involving fraternities, there is usually a hazing scene where pledges are repeatedly -- and willingly -- paddled from behind. Listening to people who routinely claim that Israel is solely responsible for the absence of peace and could solve the problem by being nice to the Palestinians reminds me of those pledges.
I am not referring in this article to blatant antisemites. I'm talking about the Tom Friedmans, Roger Cohens, and Peter Beinarts of the world, who proclaim their love for Israel while myopically casting blame for the conflict there solely on Israel. I am not sure if the blame-Israel-first crowd is terminally naïve, ignorant of history, oblivious -- or all three.
When people talk, for example, about how the Palestinians are so committed to the land they claim as their own, you never hear them mention the fact that most gave up their land rather than fight for it in 1948. Apologists speciously claim that the Jews drove the Palestinians out and turned them into refugees; however, the handful of Palestinians who were expelled pales in comparison to the tens of thousands who left on their own accord, many believing that they would return after the Jews were driven into the sea.
We hear ad nauseum how the Palestinians are suffering under Israeli "occupation," yet neither the Palestinians nor their supporters were concerned with the treatment of the Palestinians during the 19 years that Jordan occupied the West Bank and Egypt the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians did not fight for "their" land during those years; they also never demanded statehood. Instead, they engaged in terror in the hope of seizing the Jews' land.
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Post by Daniel on Mar 12, 2019 7:16:32 GMT -5
The “Greedy Jew” is Alive and Well!
By Olivier Melnick
March 11, 2019
Some of history’s oldest canards are against the Jews. One of these, that we can find towards the top of the list, is the myth of the “Greedy Jew.” During the Middle Ages, Christians were allowed to borrow money ONLY from Jews, who in turn would collect the money back with interest. Various European monarchs started taxing the Jewish moneylenders on their profit. Taxes kept increasing, so the Jewish moneylenders had to keep pace and increase their interest rates. The process went on for a while and gave birth to the myth of the “greedy Jew.” Some Jewish moneylenders did raise their rates too high trying to take advantage of needy Christians, but they were not in the majority and ended up with a poor reputation in both the Christian and Jewish communities. These few happened to be greedy first and Jewish second. By the end of the thirteenth century, Jews had been expelled from France, England, and most of Germany, mostly because of issues in money lending.
Amazingly and shamefully, the myth of the greedy Jew has survived into the modern age. It is pervasive across generations and cultures. The Jews are repeatedly accused of trying to take over the world, owning the banks and financing political moves to Israel’s advantage, as we have recently seen in the anti-Semitic diatribes dispensed by newly elected Democrat Congresswoman from Minnesota, Ilhan Omar.
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What troubles me even more, is the fact that in 2010, the Aalst Carnival became part of the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. UNESCO proudly claims that “constantly recreated by new generations, the ancient carnival’s collective laughter and slightly subversive atmosphere celebrate the unity of Aalst.” That they would consider this year’s float only “slightly subversive” says a lot. Does it also mean that Aalst unites in an anti-Semitic approach?
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Post by Daniel on Mar 15, 2019 9:44:04 GMT -5
Antisemitism on parade – Everything old is new again
By Joan Swirsky
March 14, 2019
"[T]he Democrats have become an anti-Israel party. They've become an anti-Jewish party." (President Donald J. Trump)
"[T]he chickens of the Democratic Party are coming home to roost.... [M]aybe then they will also realize that anti-Semitism, like most cancers, is fatal unless it's removed." (Michael Goodwin, NY Post)
Most people thought antisemitism had been relegated to the trash bin of history after Hitler and millions of his willing German-Polish-Austrian-French-Swiss-Belgium executioners, with savage premeditation, murdered six-million Jews in the 1930s and '40s, and the world, significantly after the fact, seemed to wake up to the psychotic, irrational, obsessed nature of Jew hatred.
But today, less than 75 years after the founding of Israel, Jew hatred has emerged from the cesspool in which it festers. The maniacal obsession with Jews is on the rise, not only throughout the Middle East and Europe – France, England, Germany, Ireland, Scandinavia, Belgium, et al. – but it is also contaminating America the Beautiful!
Why? One reason is that Jew hatred didn't really disappear after World War II. It simply went underground because people were chastened enough by the sight of crematoria-charred remains and cadaverous survivors to hold their tongues.
But Jew haters never rest. While they abstained from vicious stereotypes and outright physical attacks until they could make their dreamed-about comeback, they were driven stark raving mad when Israel was declared a state in 1948 and the straggling remnants of the Holocaust joined their brethren in the land God promised to the Jews in the Bible thousands of years ago.
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Post by Daniel on Mar 25, 2019 11:16:47 GMT -5
When They Come for the Jews, They Won't Ask Questions
By Caren Besner March 22, 2019
Albert Einstein observed, "If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew." His words are relevant today because anti-Semitism, briefly dormant, is alive again — in Europe and around the world. This "new form" of anti-Semitism claims to be different from the traditional racial and religious images. Its adherents say they are anti-Zionist, not anti-Semites. But their accusations mirror The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Only recently, a Belgian parade featured a float of grotesquely distorted Orthodox Jews in religious garb, perched on bags of money, à la the art of Nazi Julius Streicher. What makes this sickening display even more alarming is the official sanction given to it by the Mayor of Aalst, Christoph D'Haese, who stated, "It's not up to the mayor to forbid such displays" and that the carnival participants had "no sinister intentions." No sinister intentions? Adolf Eichmann also had no sinister intentions when he organized transportation to the death camps. After all, he himself had no part in the actual killing process; they just did their jobs.
We have our own anti-Semitic scandal with newly elected congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D), a Somalian hijab-wearing Muslim who tweets anti-Semitic tropes "without sinister intentions" or retractions. Democrat leadership won't condemn, censure, or remove her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, leftist Jews have defended her, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi excused her inadvertent offense. Yes, Congress passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism and anti–everything else, without singling out Omar and the Jews. Thus, the Democratic Party is falling farther left toward Islamic ideology.
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