Attacks On Jews Around the World

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It’s just kind of shocking when any kind of anti-Semitic or hate rhetoric happens in our community,” she told Fox29. “It’s especially shocking when it happens in your driveway.”

The anti-Semitic hate group staged a protest outside a local church on the weekend. The next morning, hundreds of residents woke up to the group’s flyers in front of their homes.

On Tuesday, residents reported hearing the group yelling anti-Jewish slurs across the street from the Jewish Community Center.

JCC president Saul Levenshus added that while the city has seen occasional anti-Semitic incidents in the last few years, they have been relatively rare until now.

Both leaders said that the timing of the protest was not coincidental as it fell on the day that a Holocaust memorial event was taking place.

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Anti-Semitic hate group targets San Antonio, Texas

Group stages protest across from Jewish Community Center and distributes anti-Semitic flyers to San Antonio houses.

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From the Left, Boston University’s Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies is hosting the Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture Wednesday night – welcoming an activist who praises Palestinians’ “long history of nonviolence” while accusing Israel of “targeting” Palestinian children “simply because they want freedom.”

Debating whether the Holocaust happened is like debating whether the sun shines. And associating Wiesel’s name with a lying anti-Zionist is like giving Donald Trump a Martin Luther King bridge-building award.

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BU's Elie Wiesel Center mocks the Holocaust - opinion

Associating Wiesel’s name with a lying anti-Zionist is like giving Donald Trump a Martin Luther King bridge-building award.

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Anti-Semitic abuse captured on camera in Brooklyn as man berates woman

An unidentified man in Flatbush, Brooklyn was captured on camera going on an aggressive anti-Semitic rant as a woman walked down the street: 'You f**king Jewish b***h. I wish Hitler was still here,'

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Several other European countries have imposed legal restrictions on ritual slaughter. The practice is banned entirely in Slovenia while pre-stunning is required in Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.

Commenting on the Greek court’s decision, Rabbi Menachem Margolin, chairman of the European Jewish Association (EJA) observed that the “downstream consequences” of the ECJ’s ruling last December were already manifesting.

“Jewish Freedom of Religion is under direct attack,” Margolin said in a statement. “It started in Belgium, moved to Poland and Cyprus and now it is Greece’s turn.”

Margolin pointed out that “attack” on kosher slaughter was being directed from “the very institutions that have vowed to protect our communities.”

“What use is it to protect Jews while legislating fundamental pillars of our religion out of existence?” he asked.

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Religious Liberties of European Jews Under ‘Direct Attack’ as Greece Becomes Latest Country to Outlaw Kosher Slaughter - Algemeiner.com

The highest court in Greece on Tuesday issued a ban on the slaughter of animals in accordance with the religious rites of both Jews and Muslims, leading one Jewish leader to warn that the community's freedom to observe its religious laws "is under direct attack across Europe." In its ruling, the...

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The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law is calling for the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Boston to investigate their Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter over the harassment of a pro-Israel reporter a few months earlier.

On June 24, Dexter Van Zile, a research fellow for CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis), was covering a UMass SJP rally in front of the Anti-Defamation League’s regional office in Boston. One of the speakers at the rally pointed out that Van Zile was in the crowd taking notes and accused him of attempting “to smear and muckrake our righteous movement.” The speaker then urged the crowd to start chanting “Zionist Go Home!” at Van Zile, and they did. Video footage of the incident shows several people surrounding Van Zile, calling him a “Nazi” and a “pig.” He was also shoved and spat on; a handful of people urged the crowd to stop and not give him “ammunition.”



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Brandeis Center Calls on UMass Boston to Investigate SJP Over Harassment of Pro-Israel Reporter

Video footage of the incident shows several people surrounding Van Zile, calling him a “Nazi” and a “pig.” He was also shoved and spat on.

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Incompatible values?

BDS says that somebody connected to his Jewish community cannot be a judge because the values of his community are incompatible with the values of his country.

If a Jewish person cannot be a judge, can they be a doctor or a teacher? Can they be a writer or a social worker? Can they even be tolerated as a fellow citizen?

You might think that an organisation which teaches South Africans to regard most Jews and their communal organisations as racist and therefore evil, might be shy to enter a discussion about antisemitism.

Jews have been targeted before by movements which said that Jewish values were incompatible with the values of the wider community around them. This is not the first time that people campaigned against Jews being judges. This is not the first time that people looked at Jewish judges and saw only representatives of "the Jews" wearing the robes, rather than judges who happened to be Jewish. This is not the first time that Jews have been subject to boycott campaigns.

Having defined our Zionism, the BDS campaign proceeds to attempt also to define the antisemitism that we experience.

Most people would think that if you want to understand antisemitism, you should start by asking the institutions of the Jewish community for help. But BDS says that Jewish communal institutions cannot be trusted, that they lie, even about antisemitism. BDS says that Jewish talk about antisemitism in this context should be understood as a cunning trick, an attempt to de-legitimise criticism of Israel by pretending that it is antisemitic.

The BDS campaign says that if you want to understand antisemitism, you should listen only to the small minority of Jews who agree with them that ordinary Jews are racists, loyal to apartheid Israel and alien to South African values. It turns out that there are some Jews who are willing to endorse the BDS campaign's attempt to define Jewish identity, Zionism and even antisemitism.

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OPINION | David Unterhalter and BDS: Not the first campaign against Jews being judges | News24

David Hirsh and Charisse Zeifert ask why would an association with the representative body of a person’s community disqualify them from sitting on the Constitutional Court following BDS's statement on David Unterhalter?

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The desecration of a Torah scroll at a George Washington University fraternity drew widespread condemnation by the campus community, local officials and national Jewish groups on Monday, as Washington, DC police continued an investigation.

“Tau Kappa Epsilon is disappointed, frustrated, and sickened by the crime and hate shown to our Alpha-Pi Chapter at George Washington University during a break-in over the weekend,” a statement from the fraternity said Monday. “This attack on Greek Life and display of antisemitism has no place in our society.”

The fraternity commented on the break-in Sunday night in an Instagram post, calling it a “blatant act of antisemitism and violence against our brothers.” Photographs of the damage published by The Hatchet student newspaper showed cabinets, doors and walls sprayed with hot sauce, and the Torah scroll ripped apart and soaked in a blue liquid, which the fraternity’s president said was laundry detergent.

Outcry Over Desecration of Torah Scroll in ‘Disturbing’ Vandalism at George Washington University Fraternity - Algemeiner.com

The desecration of a Torah scroll at a George Washington University fraternity drew widespread condemnation by the campus community, local officials and national Jewish groups on Monday, as Washington, DC police continued an investigation. "Tau Kappa Epsilon is disappointed, frustrated, and...

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London police on Saturday arrested a 16-year-old boy for spray painting swastikas on the side of a wall close to the Belsize Square Synagogue in Camden, The Evening Standard reported. The arrest was made after police had been alerted at 7:30 PM on Saturday by an individual who saw the graffiti.

At 8 PM, thirty minutes after being called, the police found the boy nearby and arrested him on suspicion of “religiously aggravated criminal damage.”

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Police Arrest Boy, 16, for Painting Swastikas Outside London’s Belsize Square Synagogue

the young suspect had been taken into custody and later released under investigation.

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The controversial sign hung outside Budget Automotive Repair in San Antonio. Photo: Google
Residents of south side of San Antonio, Texas, have expressed distress over a bizarre sign outside a local garage that includes the words “Heil Hitler” and the Nazi swastika.

The sign, in large red letters on a white banner, has been on display at the entrance to the Budget Automotive Repair shop on Quintana Road.

Annette Orta, a local resident who grew up in the neighborhood, told the local CBSstation that the banner had left her with a feeling of deep unease.

“It’s scary to know that we have some people that feel that way in the community,” she said. “That’s all it is, it’s discrimination and hating.”

The owner of the garage, Frank Pena, told the same station that it was his right to display the sign under the terms of the First Amendment.

Local media chose to obscure the sign’s wording — “Heil Hitler and Dr. Porshe (sic) How Many Poisoned Jews Does it Take to Make An Audi?” with the “e” in “Heil” rendered as a swastika — in their reports of the controversy.

The Algemeiner was unable to reach Pena on Tuesday for an explanation of the meaning of the sign, which references two world-famous German automobile manufacturers, Porsche and Audi, that are known for having retained ties to the Nazi regime during the World War II era.

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‘Heil Hitler’ Sign Outside San Antonio Automotive Repair Shop Causes Distress in Local Community - Algemeiner.com

Residents of south side of San Antonio, Texas, have expressed distress over a bizarre sign outside a local garage that includes the words "Heil Hitler" and the Nazi swastika. The sign, in large red letters on a white banner, has been on display at the entrance to the Budget Automotive Repair...

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The controversial sign hung outside Budget Automotive Repair in San Antonio. Photo: Google
Residents of south side of San Antonio, Texas, have expressed distress over a bizarre sign outside a local garage that includes the words “Heil Hitler” and the Nazi swastika.

The sign, in large red letters on a white banner, has been on display at the entrance to the Budget Automotive Repair shop on Quintana Road.

Annette Orta, a local resident who grew up in the neighborhood, told the local CBSstation that the banner had left her with a feeling of deep unease.

“It’s scary to know that we have some people that feel that way in the community,” she said. “That’s all it is, it’s discrimination and hating.”

The owner of the garage, Frank Pena, told the same station that it was his right to display the sign under the terms of the First Amendment.

Local media chose to obscure the sign’s wording — “Heil Hitler and Dr. Porshe (sic) How Many Poisoned Jews Does it Take to Make An Audi?” with the “e” in “Heil” rendered as a swastika — in their reports of the controversy.

The Algemeiner was unable to reach Pena on Tuesday for an explanation of the meaning of the sign, which references two world-famous German automobile manufacturers, Porsche and Audi, that are known for having retained ties to the Nazi regime during the World War II era.

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‘Heil Hitler’ Sign Outside San Antonio Automotive Repair Shop Causes Distress in Local Community - Algemeiner.com

Residents of south side of San Antonio, Texas, have expressed distress over a bizarre sign outside a local garage that includes the words "Heil Hitler" and the Nazi swastika. The sign, in large red letters on a white banner, has been on display at the entrance to the Budget Automotive Repair...

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The guy who runs the auto repair is likeTrump and thinks he can be as crude and outrageous as he likes..

 

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Heroism in NYC After Man Throws Molotov Cocktail into New York Deli

It could have been much worse had these heroes not stepped up and acted!

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The guy who runs the auto repair is likeTrump and thinks he can be as crude and outrageous as he likes..

The cars makers were Nazis, the Auto dealer loves Nazis and so does Trump.

It is not a matter of crudeness and being outrageous.

It is about being Nazis.

 

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Fire set outside Austin, Texas synagogue follows spate of antisemitic acts

After string of anti-Semitic incidents, fire sparked outside of Austin synagogue.

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An Arizona Jewish group called on a Phoenix-area school district to condemn a bizarre antisemitic rant delivered during a school board meeting last week, drawing a new response from local officials.

Queen Creek resident Melanie Rettle accused “the Jews” of plotting to deploy ineffective COVID-19 vaccines and causing inflation, according to a Jewish News of Greater Phoenix report, during an Oct. 27 Chandler Unified School District school board meeting.

“If you want to talk about racism, if you want to bring it in, then let’s bring it in. Let’s get to the bottom of it. We’re talking about white supremacy. OK, let’s get to the very bottom of it,” the woman said.

“Every one of these things, the deep state, the cabal, the swamp, the elite — you can’t mention it, but I will — there is one race that owns all the pharmaceutical companies and these vaccines aren’t safe, they aren’t effective and they aren’t free. You know that you’re paying for it through the increase in gas prices, the increase in food prices — you’re paying for this and it’s being taken from your money and being given to these pharmaceutical companies, and if you want to bring race into this: it’s the Jews.”

After Rettler surrendered the floor amid applause from several audience members, board president Bob Mozdzen said, “Comments really need to be related to what the school board can do something about, and this was not something we can do something about. So please have your comments with something that is within our jurisdiction.”

In an letter the following day, the Arizona chapter of the Anti-Defamation League said that the official’s rebuke of the woman failed to meet the severity of the remarks made.

“The lack of response from Board members to last night’s public speaker who used blatant antisemitic tropes and stereotypes to promote anti-vaccine and anti-CRT views is simply appalling and dangerous,” wrote Marc Krell, Associate Regional Director of ADL Arizona in an open letter.

“When we allow the use of antisemitic tropes to make false accusations and detract from the truth, we are no longer fostering a safe and inclusive climate for students, educators, and administrators.”

Chandler Unified School District spokesperson Terry Locke told Arizona Central on Monday that the board had no time to interrupt Rettler’s most offensive comments, which, he added, were a shocking conclusion to a 90-second rant.

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Arizona Jewish Community Rebukes ‘It’s the Jews’ Rant at Local School Board Meeting - Algemeiner.com

An Arizona Jewish group called on a Phoenix-area school district to condemn a bizarre antisemitic rant delivered during a school board meeting last week, drawing a new response from local officials. Queen Creek resident Melanie Rettle accused "the Jews" of plotting to deploy ineffective COVID-19...

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— A French court on Wednesday fined seven people for a torrent of antisemitic abuse on social media aimed at the runner-up of the latest Miss France contest.

April Benayoum, who competed for the Miss France title in December, became the subject of hate messages after saying at the event that her father is of Israeli origin.

The insults — such as “Hitler forgot about this one” and “Don’t vote for a Jew” — were posted mainly on Twitter and drew condemnation from politicians and associations.

During the trial, the suspects all admitted to publishing the messages, but denied they were antisemitic, with some arguing they were making a political statement defending the cause of the Palestinians.

But the court found that the posts expressed “a rejection of a person because of their origins” or “because of their presumed religion” and that they targeted Benayoum directly.

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French court fines 7 people for antisemitic abuse of Miss France runner-up

April Benayoum was targeted online after revealing her father is Israeli

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