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Vandals defaced Quebec province’s oldest synagogue building with Nazi swastikas in March 2023 (B'nai Brith Canada via JTA)
Vandals defaced Quebec province’s oldest synagogue building with Nazi swastikas in March 2023 (B'nai Brith Canada via JTA)


MONTREAL (JTA) — Vandals defaced Quebec province’s oldest synagogue building with Nazi swastikas over the weekend, prompting a Canadian Jewish watchdog to call on Montreal mayor Valérie Plante to do more to fight antisemitism.

Leaders of the Bagg Street Synagogue — located just off of Saint Laurent Boulevard in the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough, at the former heart of Montreal’s Jewish community — reportedly met Wednesday with Montreal police’s hate crimes unit. Photos taken by B’nai Brith Canada show swastikas spray painted on the synagogue’s front doors.

The Bagg Street synagogue, or Congregation Temple Solomon, traces its history back to 1906. But it moved into its current location in 1921, where it has remained and become the oldest synagogue building in continual use in Quebec. It inherited furnishings from the historic Shaar Hashomayim synagogue when that congregation moved to a new location in 1922, according to archivist Hannah Srour-Zackon.



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Montreal’s oldest synagogue building vandalized with swastikas

Canadian Jewish watchdog to call on city mayor Valérie Plante to do more to fight antisemitism
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A group of pro-Israel lawmakers gathered in the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday to speak out against the oldest hatred and the increasingly contemporary convergence of anti-Zionism and antisemitism.

The parliamentary event came two days after news emerged that an international terrorist cell that planned a major attack against Jewish institutions in Greece had been arrested.

Titled “The Multiple Faces of Antisemitism in Europe,” the conference was led by members of the European Parliament and of national parliaments throughout Europe, and various pro-Israel organizations.

“Antisemitism is a threat not just for the Jewish people, but it is a poison for our society, our values and our democracy,” European Parliament member Niclas Herbst of Germany told the audience in the jam-packed parliamentary conference hall at the opening of the event. “It is a topic that does not need any introduction.”

“Many Europeans live with distorted views of Jews and the Holocaust,” said MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen of the Netherlands, citing multiple surveys showing a lack of knowledge of the Holocaust among young people eight decades after the murder of 6 million Jews.


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Lawmakers at European Parliament speak out against antisemitism – JNS.org

European Parliament member Niclas Herbst of Germany said the rising scourge is “a threat not just for the Jewish people, but a poison for our society, our values and our democracy.”
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From Jewish Voice for Peace's Facebook page:


Nationalism is chametz, during Passover and always!
Freedom only for some is never enough. This Passover, at a time when violence against Palestinians by the Israeli state, military and settlers continues to escalate, we gather to demand and dream liberation for everyone.
For anti-Zionist Jews, this holiday can be a challenging time. For some, it can feel impossible to separate our holiday traditions from Zionist propaganda advocating ethnic cleansing and land theft. Many of us feel reluctant to even celebrate the holiday as Zionist terror escalates in Palestine. And many of us may be facing yet another holiday where our beliefs and politics are not welcome.
This year, bring your whole anti-Zionist self to our virtual seder! Our beloved community is coming together to set the Pesach table for you. Our seder will feature joy and rage and hope from our Havurah, BIJOCSM and student networks, our campaigns, our rabbis, and from JVP members from near and far—all gathered for collective liberation for us all.
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They never seem to have a problem with Palestinian nationalism. I wonder why.

Their latest "Haggadah" is just as twisted in its interpretations of what Passover is about. I looked at a previous version in 2012, which was 28 pages long and included an essay on "pinkwashing."

Apparently that was way too much for the current TikTok generation that JVP wants to attract, so this new one is a mere 14 pages long, deleting nearly all of Maggid, Hallel and Nirtzah. it doesn't even describe the overstuffed seder plate of the previous editions that included an olive (for Palestinians) and an orange (for feminists and LGBTQ+.).

This one still includes the third cup of wine celebrating BDS, though.




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"Jewish Voice for Peace" says to symbolically burn US and Israeli flags on Passover eve

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It was while she was at school that Maaroufi started to encounter the steady drumbeat of Islamist antisemitism, along with its anti-Zionist echo, that built to a crescendo with the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, DC, at the turn of the millennium. At school, she remembered a history teacher who implored her classmates to “look at what the Jews are doing to your Palestinian brothers” during a lesson on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“I didn’t feel a connection, and I didn’t understand why we should consider them as ‘brothers,'” Maaroufi said. She described the ordeal faced by her one Jewish classmate — a boy named David from a Moroccan Jewish family — who ended up leaving the school because of the intensity of the antisemitic harassment he faced. In later years, she continued, she often thought of David’s plight when hearing the words “dirty Jew” from the young Muslims she spent more than a decade liaising with as a social worker.

“The police would say, ‘it’s not antisemitic, it’s just an expression,'” she remembered. “It’s the banalization of antisemitism.”

“SO YOU’RE A DIRTY JEW, THEN?”

Determined to obtain a close-up view of how Islamist ideology was impacting Muslim neighborhoods in Brussels, Maaroufi retrained as a social worker and inserted herself into a group of women in the Belgian capital who were affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist organization that claims the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas among its acolytes.

“There were many educated young women who started to change their behavior slowly,” she recalled. “They embraced a discourse targeting Jews, western culture and the LGBTQ community.” During the 1990s, the Islamist hold was bolstered by the arrival from Algeria of supporters of the banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) seeking political asylum. “They were training and influencing young people in Brussels,” Maaroufi said. “There were also people who went to Afghanistan and Pakistan with Al-Qaeda.”

One incident from 2004 sticks in her mind. The occasion was a lunchtime during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when the faithful fast between dawn and dusk. Maaroufi, at the time working at a community center in Brussels, was eating a sandwich at her desk when three boys aged between eight and ten walked in.

“They immediately asked me why I wasn’t observing Ramadan when I am a Moroccan,” Maaroufi said. “I told them that I was Belgian, not Moroccan, to which they replied, ‘but your name is Fadila Maaroufi!’ I answered, ‘and your names are Mohamed, Rédouane and Karim, and you are Belgian like me.'”

One of the boys asked her, “So you’re a dirty Jew, then?” Maaroufi asked if any of them had ever met a Jew — they hadn’t.

Pushed out of social work because of her stances, Maaroufi embarked on the next stage of her career, studying for a PhD in anthropology and launching an observatory to monitor religious extremism.

In tandem with her development as a professional activist, Maaroufi decided to take a public stand against antisemitism — a dangerous move for a Muslim woman living openly with no security. Predictably, her social media feed began to fill up with insults and threats of injury or death, while her mother, with whom she’d had scant contact, got back in touch to exhort her daughter against the path she had taken, texting her links to online videos that warned of the hell awaiting her.

“ANTISEMITISM IS A TABOO SUBJECT”

In May 2021, as Israel confronted Hamas in an 11-day conflict that sparked antisemitic demonstrations across Europe and around the world, Maaroufi attended a solidarity rally with Israel outside the Jewish state’s embassy in Brussels. “When I arrived, many people recognized me, and I was handed an Israeli flag,” she recalled. As far as the Islamists are concerned, she added, “when a Muslim touches an Israeli flag and doesn’t spit on it, that person may as well go straight to hell.”

Maaroufi’s appearance in public brandishing the enemy’s national symbol generated a firestorm of anger on social media. Her Facebook feed alone hosted more than 2,700 incendiary responses.

Two years on, Maaroufi feels no impulse to pull back on her activities. As well as her observatory, she runs a civic institution called Café Laïque — the French word for “secular” — where feminist activists and others can gather to debate and strategize over coffee. “Ever since I started publicly defending Jews and Israel, it’s been hard for me to get a job,” Maaroufi disclosed. “People are scared to hire me.”

Moreover, “antisemitism has become a taboo subject in Belgium, and Café Laïque is the only space where it is possible to talk about Muslim antisemitism,” she emphasized.

Maaroufi is now working on a book about her experiences, directed in large part at a political left that has, in her view, abdicated its historic commitment to secularism, “sweeping away what challenges their vision of the world, these models of all colors,” and which is willing to label as “racist” any criticism of extremist trends among Belgian Muslims, even when they come from individuals like her.

“To silence us, nothing is easier than to try to intimidate us by calling us ‘fascist,'” she observed. “Or to make us feel guilty by accusing us of ‘playing the game of the extreme right.’ It is always in the name of a noble cause that lies are justified, terror is perpetuated and life is sacrificed.”


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‘What Is Our Voice Worth to The Cowards and Cynics?’ Belgium’s Leading Muslim Feminist Speaks On Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism - Algemeiner.com

When Fadila Maaroufi was 17, her parents took her from her home in Belgium to Morocco, where they told her she would enjoy a well-deserved "rest." But once she arrived, she quickly found herself locked up in the home of a distant cousin with whom her father had set up an arranged marriage. Her...
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60 human and civil rights organizations on Tuesday released a joint open letterurging the United Nations not to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.

Signatories to Tuesday’s letter include the Palestinian NGOs al-Haq, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, and Defense for Children International – Palestine – groups that Israel banned in 2021 for their alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is a designated terrorist organization in the US, the EU and elsewhere.


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‘Political Warfare Against Israel’: 60 NGOs Sign Letter Opposing UN Adoption of IHRA Antisemitism Definition - Algemeiner.com

60 human and civil rights organizations on Tuesday released a joint open letter urging the United Nations not to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. Signatories to Tuesday’s letter include the Palestinian NGOs al-Haq, Addameer Prisoner...
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Police in Skaneateles, a town in western New York State, have arrested three teenagers who allegedly vandalized a school and graffitied antisemitic messages on other public property, a local outlet reported on Wednesday.

One of the young men, 18-year-old Benjamin Poole, is charged with fourth degree criminal mischief and other offenses. Skaneateles police have not disclosed the names of Poole’s alleged accomplices, two 17-year-olds, nor the charges they received. The incidents took place on March 18.


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Multiple Swastika Graffiti Incidents Occur in New York State - Algemeiner.com

Police in Skaneateles, a town in western New York State, have arrested three teenagers who allegedly vandalized a school and graffitied antisemitic messages on other public property, a local outlet reported on Wednesday. One of the young men, 18-year-old Benjamin Poole, is charged with fourth...
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Kuwaiti Fencer Pulls Out of World Fencing Championship After Being Matched Against Israeli Athlete - Algemeiner.com Kuwaiti Fencer Pulls Out of World Fencing Championship After Being Matched Against Israeli Athlete

A Kuwaiti athlete announced his withdrawal from the 2023 Junior and Cadet Fencing World Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, after being selected in a lottery to go head-to-head against a fencer from Israel. Ahmed Awad said Monday on Twitter that he made the decision after he was pitted against...
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The trial of a Canadian academic accused of involvement in the 1980 bombing of a synagogue in Paris that killed four people and injured more than 40 began in a French court on Monday.

The Lebanese-born academic, 69-year-old Hassan Diab, is being tried in absentia after French authorities declined to issue an international arrest warrant for him, leaving him free to decide whether to attend the proceedings.

Diab was first accused of involvement in the bombing by French intelligence agencies in 1999. Several years of legal wrangling resulted in Diab’s arrest in 2008 and his extradition from Canada to France in 2014. Four years later, Diab was released and returned to Canada after French prosecutors concluded there was not enough evidence against him for a trial. In 2021, the charges were reinstated following an appeal.


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Lebanese-Canadian Academic on Trial in France for 1980 Synagogue Bombing | United with Israel

69-year-old Hassan Diab, is being tried in absentia after French authorities declined to issue an international arrest warrant for him.
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A New York City community college cancelled a planned screening of an anti-Israel film following a public outcry, including a Call to Action by United with Israel.

In March, the Borough of Manhattan Community College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, ran a program titled the “Palestinian Solidarity Series.”

The program promoted anti-Israel tropes, including claims that Israel is an apartheid state, while offering support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.


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Following Outcry, New York College Cancels Screening of Anti-Israel Propaganda Film | United with Israel

CUNY-BMCC cancelled the screening of an anti-Israel film following a public outcry, including a Call to Action by United with Israel, but the issue of antisemitism on campus is far from resolved.
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In November 2022, stand-up comedian Dave Chappelle presented a controversial monologueduring a taping of Saturday Night Live (SNL) where he addressed contemporary issues, including Kanye West’s recent outbursts of antisemitism. During his routine, Chappelle said that it was “not a crazy thing to think” that Jews run the Hollywood film industry. He also said that “it’s a lot of Jews. Like a lot” in Hollywood.

Following his monologue, both Chappelle and SNL were criticized by Jewish organizations, and were accused of helping to “normalize” and “popularize antisemitism” with his statement that the Hollywood film industry was run by Jews.

More recently, Canadian-born comedian Russell Peters added his views during an interview with Sandie Rinaldo on the CTV program W5, broadcast on March 25, 2023.

During his interview, Peters described Chappelle’s monologue as “fantastic,” saying that he “articulated exactly what people are afraid to say.”

Peters added that in his opinion, “to say the Jews run Hollywood isn’t a bad thing….I wouldn’t want anyone else to run it.”


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Comedian Russell Peters Tells CTV’s Sandie Rinaldo That “Jews Run Hollywood”

In November 2022, stand-up comedian Dave Chappelle presented a controversial monologue during a taping of Saturday Night Live (SNL) where
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Israel’s Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor slammed a rally of mainly five hundred German Muslims who on Saturday blasted calls for the obliteration of Israel and Jews in Berlin.


Prosor wrote on Twitter in German: “These idiots abuse Germany's freedoms and unreservedly call for the annihilation of Israel and the Jews. They flout democratic values in [Gemany], not only crossing every possible red line, but also ‘spitting in the brown [fascist] well from which they drink.’"

The reportedly antisemitic march unfolded in two Berlin neighborhoods with a large Muslim presence, Kreuzberg and Neukölln, and centered on the current controversy on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Palestinians barricaded themselves in al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in violation of the rules of the religious compound.


The Post viewed video footage of the Saturday march against Israel in which “Free Palestine” was chanted.


The organization democ posted a video of the antisemitic rally and wrote participants are chanting “death to Jews” and “death to Israel” and yelling “antisemitic slogans and glorifying terrorism.”



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Berlin protesters call for 'death to Israel' and 'death to Jews'

The reportedly antisemitic march unfolded in two Berlin neighborhoods with large Muslim presence, Kreuzberg and Neukölln, and centered on the current controversy on the Temple Mount.
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As my Twitter account gains followers (over 1500 in the past month), it is also attracting a new breed of antisemite - one that many other Zionist social media stars have seen for years.

It is not only that these people cannot stand any posts that are pro-Israel. But they also cannot stand posts that mourn dead Jews - they predictably respond with mentions of dead Arabs or other alleged Israeli atrocities, as a kind of justification for murdering Jews.

But there is another class of people who respond to pro-Israel posts. These are the ones who cite "experts."

They quote UN resolutions, or book authors, or articles that have footnotes, or NGOs, as proof positive that Israel is in the wrong, every time.

These are the people who say that international law allows Palestinians to murder Jews as "resistance."
They quote Shlomo Sand saying there is no such thing as a Jewish people. They quote Amnesty and Human Rights Watch saying Israel is guilty of "apartheid." They love Ilan Pappe's history of 1948. They claim that there was no Arab antisemitism before Zionism. They call Zionism "colonialism." They claim that Zionists tried to stop Jews from being saved in the Holocaust if they weren't going to Israel and they colluded with the Nazis. They toss off terms like "Jewish supremacy" the exact same way Germans used to but it is OK because "human rights" experts say it, too. They claim that Israel has scores of lawsthat discriminate against Arab citizens. They insist that Israel has "Jewish-only roads" in the territories.

All of these claims have one thing in common: they are easily debunked, as my links here show.

The mindset of the modern antisemite is that Israel and Zionist Jews are evil ab initio. But they don't want to be tarred as antisemites, because antisemitism is bad and something that only the far-Right is guilty of. Therefore, when they see articles that seem to have a sheen of validity that confirm their pre-existing hate, they are happy to accept them and spread them without any skepticism.

We have a small set of intellectual antisemites - many of them Jewish themselves - who craft opinions that carefully choose the facts that support their bigoted positions, and hide the much larger set of facts that shred their arguments. Then there is a much larger set of antisemites who enthusiastically accept this core of intellectual antisemitism as gospel, and shut their ears to any proof that they are fraudulent.

These new antisemites pretend that they are basing their hate on facts when the reality is that they choose their facts to justify their hate.

There is no greater proof than watching how they seethe so much at anyone condemning the murder of Jewish civilians in Israel that they feel they must bury any possible sympathy for the families of the victims with an avalanche of propaganda.



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An epidemic of pseudo-intellectual antisemitism

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