Attacks On Jews Around the World

[Viktor]

Attacks on the Jewish Community is nothing new. On individuals or their businesses, Synagogues and Schools is also nothing new.

From time to time there is a rise in Judeophobic, Antisemitic, Jew hatred acts, and we seem to be living in one of them.

It clearly started around five years ago. The rise in White Supremacy, Nazi, Christian and Muslim attacks on Jews in too many cities all over the world, simply because of being Jewish.

There are many excuses used to attack any Jew who comes their way.

Free Palestine
Dirty Jew
Israel does not have the right to exist,
Israel is guilty of Apartheid
Israel is committing ethnic cleansing
We don't hate Jews, only Zionists
etc, etc, etc

Be the attacks on the streets, on Campuses, on the subways or anywhere else, they are clearly uncalled for and come from what each of those individuals who decide to attack one individual Jew - who has not done anything to them, or all Jews due to what they have wrongly learned about Israel, Judaism, Jewish history etc

I will be posting each individual case I do find in the news. There have been too many, which is why I decided to start this thread to deal with this more than common phenomenon, which did not look as bad as this since the Nazis took over Germany.

American Jews have an advantage called the 2nd amendment. They can own guns.

 

[Sixties Fan]

American Jews have an advantage called the 2nd amendment. They can own guns.

The point is to stop attacks on Jews for perceived "crimes or otherwise" committed by Jews, or Israel.

Owning a gun to defend oneself does not lead to stopping the ignorance which any of these attacks come from.

Education, not guns, are needed.

 

[Viktor]

The point is to stop attacks on Jews for perceived "crimes or otherwise" committed by Jews, or Israel.

Owning a gun to defend oneself does not lead to stopping the ignorance which any of these attacks come from.

Education, not guns, are needed.

Wrong. There are some bigots who are immune to education. For them, we need guns.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Wrong. There are some bigots who are immune to education. For them, we need guns.

Don't worry, whenever there is danger, one gets security. I am not for turning the US into the Wild West.
It gets too ugly and it does not right the wrongs of those who want to do wrong.

 

[Viktor]

Don't worry, whenever there is danger, one gets security. I am not for turning the US into the Wild West.
It gets too ugly and it does not right the wrongs of those who want to do wrong.

You can do what you want. I will protect myself.

 

[Sixties Fan]

The first details have emerged of the terrifying ordeal of a 70-year-old Jewish man in Paris who was beaten, robbed and tied to a chair in his own apartment by antisemitic intruders last week who remain at large.

Two hooded assailants armed with a handgun carried out the attack on Dec. 1, according to a statement on Tuesday from the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Antisemitism (BNVCA), a Paris-based organization that represents victims of antisemitic violence in France.

According to the victim’s account, one of the two assailants was of Arab origin, while the second was of African origin. After banging on the door of the victim’s apartment with their fists before they forced their way in. The assailants rained blows on their victim and then pointed the gun at his temple.

One of the assailants then asked the victim whether he was a “jeweler and a Jew.” The victim replied that while he was not a jeweler, he was indeed a Jew. The assailants then pushed the victim into a chair, asking him repeatedly where the “gold” was kept and warning that if he attempted to raise himself from the chair, “I’ll put a bullet in your head.”

(full article online)

‘Are You a Jeweler and a Jew?’: Elderly French Jewish Man Attacked and Robbed in His Paris Apartment by Antisemitic Assailants - Algemeiner.com

The first details have emerged of the terrifying ordeal of a 70-year-old Jewish man in Paris who was beaten, robbed and tied to a chair in his own apartment by antisemitic intruders last week who remain at large. Two hooded assailants armed with a handgun carried out the attack on Dec. 1...

www.algemeiner.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

Police in Kansas City, Mo., continue to search for the vandal or vandals responsible for destroying a Chabad center in the city.

Chabad on the Plaza was vandalized last week with electrical wires damaged, water lines broken, and items torn and strewn everywhere. The ark was found open, though the Torah was still inside. The space was deemed completely unusable.

According to the Kansas City Police Department, on Nov. 30 at around 1:15 am, a caller reported a prowler around the building. The caller told police that he had seen an “unknown suspicious black SUV parked near the dispatched location and heard glass break in the immediate area.” The caller then saw the vehicle leave.

(full article online)

Vandals Tear Through Chabad House in Kansas City, Mo. - Algemeiner.com

JNS.org - Police in Kansas City, Mo., continue to search for the vandal or vandals responsible for destroying a Chabad center in the city. Chabad on the Plaza was vandalized last week with electrical wires damaged, water lines broken, and items torn and strewn everywhere. The ark was found open...

www.algemeiner.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

If there were a survival handbook for Jewish students at the universities of Europe, it would probably begin with this:

1. Tell no one that you’re Jewish.
2. Condemn Israel as a terrorist, genocidal state.
3. Get used to it.

This, at least, has been the experience of students at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, according to recent reports and an eye-opening interview with a Jewish student leader there.

But students at universities in Belgium, France, and the UK have faced similar forms of antisemitism on campus. A press outlet in the UK declared last month that “antisemitic abuse on university campuses has reached record levels” — a full 59 percent higher than in 2020. One student at Glasgow University was encouraged to “go gas herself,” according to the Times; another was sent a photoshopped image of her head in a guillotine.

And it’s not just students. As one professor at the University of Maastricht told a Jewish colleague, “If you want to keep your job, don’t tell anyone that you’re Jewish and that you support Israel.”

Speaking to the Dutch online newspaper Israel Nieuws, Maastricht student Ethan Gabriel Bergman described dozens of incidents at the school, including the administration’s decision to ignore International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the school calendar, noting only “Chocolate Cake Day,” which falls on the same date. This past May, as anti-Israel demonstrations rocked Europe, protesters at the university carried banners claiming that “all [Israel] wants to see is blood. Arab blood, as much as possible — blood, the more the better — blood, the main thing is that Arab blood is spilled,” as others repeated anti-Israel chants in Arabic.

Yet when a Jewish student wrote despairingly of this in a student Facebook group, the replies that came in were anything but supportive. “Filthy cancer-Jew, I hope that they turn the gas chambers back on,” one person wrote, and another: “your stinking people will be destroyed.”

Seeking disciplinary action, the student, who remains anonymous, reported the incident to university administrators. The response: Don’t you think you deserved it for being so unfriendly?

(full article online)

Europe’s Jewish Students Face Antisemitic Onslaught - Algemeiner.com

If there were a survival handbook for Jewish students at the universities of Europe, it would probably begin with this: Tell no one that you're Jewish. Condemn Israel as a terrorist, genocidal state. Get used to it. This, at least, has been the experience of students at the University of...

www.algemeiner.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

Anti-Israel activity spiked in May 2021 during the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, during which time a “significant segment of campus anti-Israel groups engaged in what may have been an unprecedented amount of divisive and inflammatory messaging about Zionism and Zionists, as well as expressions of support for violence.”

The report said that “the cumulative effect of the month’s events was that many Jewish students were left with a heightened sense of being isolated or under attack in particular when Jewish institutions were vandalized, which occurred on at least three occasions.”

Also contributing was the sheer frequency and severity of rhetoric equating Zionists with nefarious groups such as Nazis; calling for the end of Israel’s existence; and intimations of support for violence, the report said.

“As we saw acutely during the May conflict with Hamas, the anti-Israel movement’s drumbeat of rhetorical attacks on Zionism and Zionists can truly hurt and offend many Jewish students, leaving them feeling ostracized and alienated,” said ADL CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt.

“Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to harass and intimidate. While all students have a right to express their views about Israel openly, expressions of antisemitism under the guise of Israel criticism are unacceptable. Administrators, students and faculty need to ensure a safe and inclusive environment for all students, regardless of religion, nationality or ethnicity.”

Anti-Israel campus activity vilifies Jewish students in US - ADL report

Severe anti-Zionist rhetoric on occasion descends into antisemitism and seeks to exclude Zionists from campus spaces.

www.jpost.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

Spanish town until recently called Fort Kill the Jews hit with antisemitic graffiti

Mayor of small town has made efforts in recent years to preserve town's original heritage as a place of refuge for Jews

www.timesofisrael.com

 

[rylah]

The point is to stop attacks on Jews for perceived "crimes or otherwise" committed by Jews, or Israel.

Owning a gun to defend oneself does not lead to stopping the ignorance which any of these attacks come from.

Education, not guns, are needed.

I see what You're saying,
it's a very Jewish answer.

And Victor has another point correct,
but it's not about either education or violence,
and it's not about self-defense when you're part of a targeted minority.

 

[rylah]

You can do what you want. I will protect myself.

What if the threat on You,
is a result of containing a chain of attacks,
on people associated with Your background?

 

[Sixties Fan]

I see what You're saying,
it's a very Jewish answer.

And Victor has another point correct,
but it's not about either education or violence,
and it's not about self-defense when you're part of a targeted minority.

I did not say he was incorrect for himself. Most Jews are not carrying guns, many are taking self defense classes. Possibly neither one is helpful if one is being attacked, stabbed from the back and we have seen many of those.

 

[rylah]

I did not say he was incorrect for himself. Most Jews are not carrying guns, many are taking self defense classes. Possibly neither one is helpful if one is being attacked, stabbed from the back and we have seen many of those.

Of course, there's a possibility neither is helpful even for the most advanced fighter.
But then again, the point is - it's beyond the personal level, no matter how one is ready to comprehend.

So is the responsibility - can't rely simply on promoting education, or self-defense,
because one has to stand for values, and values are collective.

"Around the world" - suggest a shake off from our comfortable escapes,
and some of them may be as idealistic or realistically contained by the same relative extreme.

I.e. - Maccabees put up their life on education,
and took their Priestly idealism to the sword.

We've succeeded because Priests won the fight for education,
and also failed because Priests were too idealist for politics.

 

[Viktor]

What if the threat on You,
is a result of containing a chain of attacks,
on people associated with Your background?

My first concern is saving my own life. Are you willing to let someone kill you just because of some social policy?
I think you are not being honest.

 

[rylah]

My first concern is saving my own life. Are you willing to let someone kill you just because of some social policy?
I think you are not being honest.

Sure, that's instinct.
What I'm trying to say, is thinking You'll save Your life,
by focusing on saving YOUR life, while You're attacked as a minority,
is not much of a strategy - rather a last resort, and neither is the best scenario.

Members of a minority, especially, need to network locally beyond any current trends.

 

[Viktor]

Sure, that's instinct.
What I'm trying to say, is thinking You'll save Your life,
by focusing on saving YOUR life, while You're attacked as a minority,
is not much of a strategy - rather a last resort, and neither is the best scenario.

Members of a minority, especially, need to network locally beyond any current trends.

ROTFL! It is not my mission to reeducate people to remove their prejudice and that is also beyond my capabilities. I do what I can to debunk antisemitic lies but it seems to have very little effect. It is obvious that talking to you is a waste of time. IGNORE

 

[rylah]

ROTFL! It is not my mission to reeducate people to remove their prejudice and that is also beyond my capabilities. I do what I can to debunk antisemitic lies but it seems to have very little effect. It is obvious that talking to you is a waste of time. IGNORE

Ignore me all You want,
but You can't ignore the fact that
a significant part of Your concern for
self-defense, at least in the context of this
thread is because of being part of a community.

Ignore that, and they will attack solely focusing on that.
Community, the real individual potential to act for others.

 

[Sixties Fan]

An excerpt from an antisemitic leaflet circulated to homes in Melbourne, Australia. Photo: ADC


Dozens of handwritten antisemitic leaflets have been delivered to homes in a suburb of the Australian city of Melbourne promoting the classic conspiracy theory of Jewish control over world events.

Photocopies of the leaflet, neatly written out in upper case letters, were placed in residents’ mailboxes in the Melbourne suburb of Pakenham, the Australian Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) — a Jewish civil rights organization — reported on Friday.

The unnamed rabbi, who wears a kippah in public, told the Australian Jewish News that he had visited the Crown Casino and Entertainment complex on Nov. 30 to meet with a member of staff about holding a communal event there. While he waited in the lobby area checking his phone, a man approached him and accused the rabbi of “filming my family.” When the rabbi responded that he had no idea what the man was talking about, he was showered with what he termed “disgusting abuse.” As a parting shot, the man told him, “You’re one of those that Hitler didn’t finish.”

In September, the ADC’s Abramovich warned that Melbourne was facing “an epidemic of antisemitism,” much of it connected to COVID-19 conspiracy theories. The city has witnessed several antisemitic incidents during 2021, among them the ordeal of a Jewish woman who was spat at and verbally abusedwhile returning home from synagogue services in March, and a Jewish school that was vandalized with the slogan “Free Palestine” in June.

(full article online)

No Let-Up to ‘Epidemic’ of Antisemitism in Australian City of Melbourne - Algemeiner.com

Dozens of handwritten antisemitic leaflets have been delivered to homes in a suburb of the Australian city of Melbourne promoting the classic conspiracy theory of Jewish control over world events. Photocopies of the leaflet, neatly written out in upper case letters, were placed in residents'...

www.algemeiner.com

 

[rylah]

Antisemitic hate crimes in New York increased by nearly 50% since 2020

In both 2020 and 2021, Jews were the most common target for hate crimes. Of 494 total hate crimes, 179 were committed this year.

www.jpost.com