Attacks On Jews Around the World

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World Jewish groups decried antisemitic and white supremacist symbols found daubed on the historic Central Synagogue in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, the largest synagogue on the Balkan peninsula.

On Sunday, Bulgaria’s Central Israelite Religious Council publicized photographs of the graffiti, which included a swastika and the number “1488,” a neo-Nazi shorthand.

“We strongly condemn this action and call on the authorities to find the perpetrators as soon as possible and to impose the most severe sanctions,” the Council said in a Facebook post.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, the symbol 1488 — sometimes written as 14/88 or 8814 — refers to a 14-word racist maxim and “Heil Hitler,” H being the 8th letter of the alphabet. It can be seen in email addresses, screen names, and even the pricing of racist merchandise, the ADL says.

(full article online)

Antisemitic Vandalism of Sofia, Bulgaria Synagogue Condemned as ‘Shameful Desecration’ - Algemeiner.com

World Jewish groups decried antisemitic and white supremacist symbols found daubed on the historic Central Synagogue in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, the largest synagogue on the Balkan peninsula. On Sunday, Bulgaria's Central Israelite Religious Council publicized photographs of the graffiti...

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Gabe Lackmann
No
Christians had a reformation many centuries ago
It’s a good driver of humanity

 

[Quasar44]

Sixties Fan
No
Christianity had its reformation many many centuries ago
Islam never had one and it’s still in the dark ages

Christian beliefs only better mankind and humanity

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Gabe Lackmann
No
Christians had a reformation many centuries ago
It’s a good driver of humanity

He is a radical religious nutjob...you're wasting your time.

 

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Hackers posting death threats, including “I’ll enter synagogues and kill everyone,” broke into the online mourning ceremony for a former Jewish school principal in Rio de Janeiro.

“Death to Jews,” “I’ll explode,” “Sieg Heil” and “dirty Jews” were also part of the attack during the shiva session Sunday on Google Meet in honor of Dora Fraifeld, a beloved figure at the pluralistic Eliezer Max School for nearly 40 years. Fraifeld died last week.

The hackers also used scenes of Adolf Hitler along with Nazi symbols and slogans, as well as pornography and loud music, in threatening Jewish community members and institutions.

(full article online)

Hackers threaten online shiva for Brazilian Jewish educator

“Death to Jews,” and “Sieg Heil” were part of the attack during the shiva session Sunday on Google Meet in honor of Dora Fraifeld, a beloved figure at the pluralistic Eliezer Max School.

www.jpost.com

 

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An 82-year-old prominent Russian scientist was assaulted on a bus in Moscow by a much younger assailant who shouted that “Hitler should have finished the job, so I’ll do it for him.”

The assailant began hitting Vladimir Tselin, a researcher of radiation who has worked on the Russian space program, soon after Tselin boarded a bus on his way to work last Friday, the news site MK reported Sunday.

Shouting about Jews and Hitler, the man followed Tselin out of the bus after Tselin got off to escape the assault.

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Russian scientist, 82, beaten on Moscow bus in antisemitic attack

Assailant shouts 'Hitler should have finished the job, so I’ll do it for him' as he hits and chases prominent space program researcher Vladimir Tselin

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The US Attorney’s Office, District of Connecticut, announced Wednesday that a New York man had been sentenced to three years in prison for making a series of violent antisemitic threats against a Jewish woman.

A Department of Justice statement said that Christopher Rascoll, 39, began his campaign of harassment in Nov. 2019, repeatedly threatening the Stratford, Connecticut resident via antisemitic text messages, voicemails and Facebook posts.

Among the messages was one sent on Hanukkah that said, “Suns about to go down. It would be a shame if your house were used to light the menorah. Or turned in a gas chamber.”

Another came on the first day of Passover, telling the woman not to be home on Easter because “I’m going to stick you in an oven. Or I’m going to shoot you. … I should send you to a concentration camp.”

“The police are not going to help you. The courts are not going to help you. … I will kill you,” he wrote on the day of his arrest.

Rascoll was tracked down and arrested by the FBI on June 26, 2020. Following the arrest, he was found to have threatened several other people in a similar manner.

Rascoll pled guilty in April to the hate crime of interference with the right to fair housing, as well as to sending threatening communications.

Leonard C. Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, commented, “For seven months, this defendant’s hate-fueled threats made the victim in fear for her life, and she continues to suffer lingering effects of his vicious behavior.”

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New York Man Sentenced to Three Years for ‘Hate-Fueled’ Death Threats Against Jewish Woman - Algemeiner.com

The US Attorney’s Office, District of Connecticut, announced Wednesday that a New York man had been sentenced to three years in prison for making a series of violent antisemitic threats against a Jewish woman. A Department of Justice statement said that Christopher Rascoll, 39, began his...

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[Quasar44]

Sixties Fan
Look at the Human filth brought into America

 

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However, their quiet living took a dark turn last week. An early morning walk last Thursday gave them quite the surprise. “I let the dog out every morning and then I went out the door,” said Tom Bigham. “I went straight out and there was a burned cross in the yard.”

They called the Mountainair Police Department to make a report, and while there are no leads as to who is responsible, the Bighams have their suspicions. The Jewish couple believes they were targeted because of their faith and the police report suggests it’s being looked into as a hate crime. Tom says they’ve even gotten the FBI involved.

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Jewish couple believes they were targeted after burned cross found in yard

MOUNTAINAIR, N.M. (KRQE) – A New Mexico family believes they were targeted recently because of their Jewish faith. Last week, they found a burned cross in the yard of their Mountainair home. …

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Since the announcement of the mandate concerning state and county workers earlier this month, protesters have gathered outside Mr Green’s condominium building almost nightly, where the Lieutenant Governor lives with his wife and two children, aged 14 and 10.

Some protesters have been yelling into bullhorns and shining strobe lights into some of the condominium apartments. Others have been posting flyers that feature a photo of Mr Green and the words “fraud” and “Jew” around his neighbourhood. The Lieutenant Governor has been tearing them down himself and handing them to the state attorney general’s office.

“They should protest me at my place of work, where I’m the Lieutenant Governor,” Mr Green said. “But it’s different than flashing a strobe light into a 90-year-old woman’s apartment or a strobe light into a family’s apartment, where they have two kids under age four.”

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Jewish Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii harassed and targeted with antisemitic flyers by protesters

The State of Hawaii’s Lieutenant Governor, Josh Green, has reportedly been harassed and targeted with antisemitic flyers by demonstrators protesting COVID-19 restrictions. One of Hawaii’s recent changes that have come into effect is that state and county workers must show proof of vaccination or...

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(This may explain, to many, the why there are so many attacks on Jews all around the world to this day )

From Religion News Service:

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has written a letter to Pope Francis conveying its “distress” at comments he made suggesting Jewish law, as written in the Torah, is obsolete.

The letter, first reported on by Reuters, was sent by Rabbi Rasson Arousi, chair of the Commission of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel for Dialogue with the Holy See. Arousi was referring to a homily Francis made during a general audience on Aug. 11.

In that homily, or sermon, the pope reflected on the Apostle Paul’s views in the New Testament that the Torah does not give life.

Speaking of the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, the pope said: “It does not offer the fulfillment of the promise because it is not capable of being able to fulfill it … Those who seek life need to look to the promise and to its fulfillment in Christ.”

At first blush, Jews might think, "so what?" Jews don't have to believe Christian theology and every religion believes itself is the right one.
The article only gives a beginning of an answer as to why this is big deal.

That statement comes close to supersessionism, also called replacement theology— the belief that the Christian faith has replaced or supplanted Judaism, a view the Catholic Church repudiated. In a 1965 landmark Vatican declaration, Nostra Aetate, the church established a new rapport between Jews and Catholics.

“In his homily, the pope presents the Christian faith as not just superseding the Torah; but asserts that the latter no longer gives life, implying that Jewish religious practice in the present era is rendered obsolete,” Arousi wrote in the letter.

“This is in effect part and parcel of the ‘teaching of contempt’ towards Jews and Judaism that we had thought had been fully repudiated by the Church,” he wrote.

This is still a huge understatement.

Supersessionism has been the key driver for antisemitism for the past two thousand years.

As I pointed out in this 2017 article, Christian supersessionism prompted attacks on Jews. Churches throughout Europe can still be seen with carvings and stained glass images of Ecclesia, the triumphant symbol of victorious Christianity with crown and chalice, and Sinagoga, the defeated, humiliated and blindfolded Jew whose tablets of Law are slipping from her fingers.



Christian supersessionists aren't the only ones for whom Jewish existence is a source of shame. Islam also attempted to attract Jews - and responded violently when they refused to become Muslim. Muslim supersessionism is most obvious by how Muslims have consistently converted every Jewish holy place into a mosque. Muslims believe that the world is divided between "Dar al-Islam" and "Dar al-Harb" and the very existence of Israel in the heart of the Muslim world is a constant source of shame and defeat of that ideology.

Palestinian antisemitism combines the Christian and Muslim supersessionism as religious reasons to fight the Jews, minimizing the theological divide between the two to jointly attack any Jewish political power in the region.

It is also notable that Arab nations lobbied fiercely against the Vatican's 1965 Nostra Aetate that redefined the relationship between Catholicism and Judaism to be less adversarial. The Arab world supported Christian antisemitism, and the Catholic denominations in the Middle East rejected Vatican II.

(full article online)

Why the Pope's comments on the Torah are a very big deal

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

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(This may explain, to many, the why there are so many attacks on Jews all around the world to this day )

From Religion News Service:


At first blush, Jews might think, "so what?" Jews don't have to believe Christian theology and every religion believes itself is the right one.
The article only gives a beginning of an answer as to why this is big deal.


This is still a huge understatement.

Supersessionism has been the key driver for antisemitism for the past two thousand years.

As I pointed out in this 2017 article, Christian supersessionism prompted attacks on Jews. Churches throughout Europe can still be seen with carvings and stained glass images of Ecclesia, the triumphant symbol of victorious Christianity with crown and chalice, and Sinagoga, the defeated, humiliated and blindfolded Jew whose tablets of Law are slipping from her fingers.



Christian supersessionists aren't the only ones for whom Jewish existence is a source of shame. Islam also attempted to attract Jews - and responded violently when they refused to become Muslim. Muslim supersessionism is most obvious by how Muslims have consistently converted every Jewish holy place into a mosque. Muslims believe that the world is divided between "Dar al-Islam" and "Dar al-Harb" and the very existence of Israel in the heart of the Muslim world is a constant source of shame and defeat of that ideology.

Palestinian antisemitism combines the Christian and Muslim supersessionism as religious reasons to fight the Jews, minimizing the theological divide between the two to jointly attack any Jewish political power in the region.

It is also notable that Arab nations lobbied fiercely against the Vatican's 1965 Nostra Aetate that redefined the relationship between Catholicism and Judaism to be less adversarial. The Arab world supported Christian antisemitism, and the Catholic denominations in the Middle East rejected Vatican II.

(full article online)

Why the Pope's comments on the Torah are a very big deal

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

elderofziyon.blogspot.com

I do not know about being adversarial, but was that 1965 Nostra Aetate Vatican 2?For if it was Catholicism was badly wounded. By the early 1970's Church Attendance dropped. Offerings were dropping. Catholic Schools were starting to close and today it is just a percentage compared to what it was a half century ago in the areas of heavy Catholic influence. Divorces expanded in huge numbers. Teenage girls were getting pregnant in numbers very noticeable. Alcohol may have been used by teenagers, but then drugs became big.

 

[surada]

Educate yourself. Seriously, educate yourself.

What are you trying to do here?

 

[surada]

I do not know about being adversarial, but was that 1965 Nostra Aetate Vatican 2?For if it was Catholicism was badly wounded. By the early 1970's Church Attendance dropped. Offerings were dropping. Catholic Schools were starting to close and today it is just a percentage compared to what it was a half century ago in the areas of heavy Catholic influence. Divorces expanded in huge numbers. Teenage girls were getting pregnant in numbers very noticeable. Alcohol may have been used by teenagers, but then drugs became big.

People all over the world are mugged and beaten up daily regardless of religion or no religion. Do you think Jews are unique victims?

 

[Quasar44]

I just don’t give a F
Sorry
They should move to Israel and they will be safe

Any Jew in Europe can die as they seem fit

 

[Quasar44]

Also SE Florida has 500,000 Jews and is very safe

NYC and LA is no longer safe

 

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• A new survey reveals over 40% of Jewish college students say they or someone they know has been physically threatened for being Jewish
• The students in the survey reported accounts of being spat on, told to pick up pennies and being 'beaten up' by frats
• The survey was conducted by anti-bigotry organization Alums for Campus Fairness (ACF)
• DailyMail.com exclusively obtained a copy of the shocking results from the poll of 506 students and alumni of American universities
• A staggering 95% percent of Jewish college students and recent graduates who answered the survey felt that anti-Semitism is a problem on their campuses
• Nearly 80% of Jewish students and recent grads said they were the target of offensive or threatening anti-Semitic comments

Nearly HALF of Jewish college students say they've been targeted

A a new survey reveals over 40% of Jewish college students say they or someone they know has been physically threatened for being Jewish.

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The head of Austria’s Jewish community has warned that antisemitism in the country is “skyrocketing,” citing the spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories and vaccine refusal demonstrations as the main cause.

“I have seen the raw data,” Oskar Deutsch — president of the IKG, the communal body serving Austrian Jews — told the news outlet Profil on Saturday.

Deutsch noted that in April 2021, more than 100 antisemitic incidents targeting Jews in Austria were recorded, double the monthly average of the previous year. The same trend continued in May, he added, a month that saw renewed hostilities between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza and a related upswing in antisemitic outrages in the US and elsewhere in Europe.

Approximately 15,000 Jews live in Austria currently. The community was decimated during the Holocaust, when over 65,000 Austrian Jews were deported by the Nazis.

“The number of antisemitic incidents has skyrocketed in the first half of 2021,” Deutsch said. “The coronavirus pandemic has fueled conspiracy theories and antisemitism.”

Deutsch also criticized the police for not taking a tougher stance towards antisemitic protestors, even when slogans from the country’s Nazi past have been revived at demonstrations.

“The limit is reached when there are shouts of ‘Sieg Heil,'” Deutsch stated. “In this case, it is the job of the police to take punitive action. This is not a trivial offense.”

COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Behind ‘Skyrocketing’ Antisemitism in Austria, Says Jewish Community Head - Algemeiner.com

The head of Austria's Jewish community has warned that antisemitism in the country is "skyrocketing," citing the spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories and vaccine refusal demonstrations as the main cause. "I have seen the raw data," Oskar Deutsch -- president of the IKG, the communal body...

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