Stop Antisemitism




If the Star of David on Israel's flag upsets you but the crescent, crosses and other religious symbols on more than 60 other flags doesn't bother you...you just might be an antisemite.

If you think that 21 Arab states isn't enough, and 1 Jewish state is too many, you just might be an antisemite.

If you show more sympathy towards the person who stabbed the Jew than for the Jew he stabbed, you just might be an antisemite.

If you have to jump through hoops to pretend to find apartheid in the Jewish state while ignoring everywhere it really is, you just might be an antisemite.

If every terrible event in world history prompts you to compare it with Israeli actions, you just might be an antisemite.

If you believe that the Palestinian Arabs, who never thought of themselves as a people until the mid-20th century, have more of a claim to nationhood than Jews who have been a nation for 3000 years, you just might be an antisemite.

If you think that Zionism is racist, but Palestinian Arab nationalism is justice, you just might be an antisemite.

If you claim that Zionism is incompatible with feminism, but have nothing bad to say about Islamism, you just might be an antisemite.

If Saudi ties to Israel upset you more than Saudi ties to Osama bin Laden did in 2001, you just might be an antisemite.

If the only democracy you want to see in the Middle East is one rigged for Jews to be in the minority, you just might be an antisemite.

If the only refugees from the 1940s that you insist "return" to where they lived previously are Palestinian Arabs, you just might be an antisemite.

If you believe that the only "settlers" in the world who must move out of their homes are all Jews, you just might be an antisemite.

If you think that the the very concept of a Jewish state is racist, but you are okay with an Arab or Muslim state, you just might be an antisemite.

If there are any parts of the world that you believe Jews should not be allowed to live, you just might be an antisemite.

If there are any historic Jewish holy places where you believe Jews have no right to pray, you just might be an antisemite.

If you call Jews who insist on praying in their holiest spot "extremists," you just might be an antisemite.

If you get a thrill comparing Israelis to Nazis, you just might be an antisemite.

If you are compelled to respond to any mention of the Holocaust with "nakba," you just might be an antisemite.

If you aren't Muslim but refer to Jewish shrines like the Temple Mount, Rachel's Tomb and the Cave of the Patriarchs by their Muslim names that came centuries later, you just might be an antisemite.

If you believe that it is a moral duty to boycott Israeli Jews but not Israeli Arabs, you just might be an antisemite.

If you need to believe that Ashkenazic Jews are descended from Khazars and have no Middle East ancestry, you just might be an antisemite.

If you claim that there is no archaeological proof for Jewish history in Jerusalem, you just might be an antisemite.

If you claim to be pro-Palestinian but ignore how Palestinians have been and continue to be mistreated by their fellow Arabs, you just might be an antisemite.

If you believe that "occupation" is one of the worst crimes but never said a word about any occupation that cannot be linked to Israel, you just might be an antisemite.

If you claim that the only reason Israel does anything progressive or moral is to cover up for its crimes, you just might be an antisemite.

If Jews must pass a test of being anti-Israel for you to allow them to speak publicly or join movements, you just might be an antisemite.

If you consider the word "Zionist" an insult, you just might be an antisemite.

If you are offended by the lyrics of Hatikva but have no problem with the Palestinian national anthem that extols violence and vengeance, you just might be an antisemite.

If you regard terrorists Leila Khaled, Rasmea Odeh and Dalal Mughrabi as feminist role models, you just might be an antisemite.

If your response to every terrorist attack that kills Jewish civilians is that they deserve it, you just might be an antisemite.

If you defend or excuse Arab antisemitism, you just might be an antisemite.

If you feel a burning desire to equate the Taliban with Orthodox Jews, you just might be an antisemite.

If you think putting on a hijab makes you a person of color but putting on a yarmulka makes you white, you just might be an antisemite.

If you are upset by scenes of Jews dancing in Jerusalem, you just might be an antisemite.

If you bitterly complain about how Israel's separation barrier inconveniences Palestinians, but don't mention how it has saved hundreds of Jewish lives, you just might be an antisemite.

If you go to a religious Jewish neighborhood to harass random Jews with "pro-Palestinian" slogans, you just may be an antisemite.




 
Specifically, on Thursday, April 6, Yale sponsored a talk by Houria Bouteldja on “France and Whiteness.” This is the same Bouteldja who in March 2012, just after radical Islamist Mohammed Merah massacred a Rabbi and three children in Toulouse, France, publicly declared that “Mohammed Merah is me.”

Bouteldja also wrote the 2016 book Whites, Jews, and Us, which, as one reviewer put it, “presents the dismantling of Israel as a priority, praises [ex-Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for declaring that there are no homosexuals in Iran, and expresses unambiguous antisemitism.” The book assails “the Jew” for “willingness to meld into whiteness, to support his oppressor.” This may explain Bouteldja’s morbidly flippant claim that “killing an Israeli is killing two birds with one stone, eliminating in one go oppressor and oppressed.”

Boudeldja quoted with approval another writer to offer “a decolonial reading of the Nazi genocide,” in which she shockingly blamed the Jews for their near-extermination at the hands of the Nazis. With stunning historical illiteracy, she wrote: “They tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them. ... They absolved it, shut their eyes to it, [and] legitimized it, because until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples. ... They have cultivated that Nazism ... [and hence] are responsible for it.”

Bouteldja’s book also makes clear her hatred toward white people, declaring, “I hate the white good conscience. I curse it.” She defines the white person as: “I am the one who subjugates, pillages, steals, rapes, commits genocide," adding, “Every white person ... must take and steal ... like a gangster, a brute, or a thug.”


She cruelly dismisses the victims of 9/11, the July 7 London subway bombings, and the Charlie Hebdo murders as just dispensable whites: “Bombs explode in the subway. Towers ... collapse like a house of cards. The journalists of a famous magazine are decimated. ... [But] they are all white.”

This is not to argue that Yale should have canceled Bouteldja’s speech, notwithstanding her litany of hatred. She has a right to speak, and Yale has a right to host her. But this is a call to expose Yale’s corrosive double standards and to confront Yale with some important questions.

For example, how can you justify hosting such a hatemonger after having permitted the torrent of public abuse and institutional shaming of Nicholas and Erika Christakis over their innocuous statements?

And why did Yale schedule this antisemitic speaker to appear on the day of the second Passover Seder, which precluded most Jews’ ability to attend and challenge her?


(full article online)


 
Former Guantánamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg is director of outreach for UK-based campaign group CAGE and a public-speaker. He is also promoted as a human rights campaigner and as an advocate for justice and dialogue. This seems odd; a review of Begg’s social media output reveals apparent anti-Jewish narratives, extreme antisemitic content, and a seemingly obsessive hate for the state of Israel:
– In January 2015 Begg made this antisemitic Holocaust analogy:
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– In MAY 2021 Begg shared a video from 2018 featuring white supremacist neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier Patrick Little. In that video, Little is seen stomping and spitting on an Israeli flag while saying that the California Republican Party is “nothing but Zionist stooges.” He also pushed several other antisemitic allegations in that video, including:
  • We know there are Israeli fingerprints all over the 9/11 attacks.
  • United States servicemen dying in wars to expand Israel.”
Here is a segment from the video in which Little made the antisemitic dual loyalty accusation.

(vide video online)

Commenting on the video, Begg said, “what he’s saying seems unprecedented and pretty powerful” and “it’s clear that the tide and narrative against Israel is beginning to turn”, appearing to cheer for and agree with Little’s bigoted antisemitic tropes. We find it odd that a “human rights advocate” would agree with a Neo-Nazi on any level.


(full article online)


 
This weekend once again the supporters of the Islamic Regime in Tehran marched through the streets of Londonbut it was a different march than in years gone by.

Once upon a time these supporters of Hezbollah were parading their ideological beliefs through the waving of Hezbollah flags and banners and even wearing Hezbollah merch in the form of T-shirts and caps. No longer.

Whereas once the supporters of the Ayatollahs in Iran would be carrying their placards with Nasrallah’s face on and other assorted pro Hezbollah symbols now the organisers have banned them.

Thanks to you and people like you overt support for Hezbollah in London has become a thing of the past. Furthermore at Quds Day this past Sunday the officers and stewards of the IHRC were seen telling people to lay down their antisemitic signs equating Israelis with Nazis.

The organisers of Quds Day lack the courage of their convictions, they won’t wave the Hezbollah flag and force the police to arrest them. This begs the question what ele can we force them to stop doing?

Harry’s Place first demonstrated against Quds Day 15 years ago and our, your, tenacity has finally borne fruit.


 
The FBI is currently investigating as a hate crime an incident where a large swastika was cut into an autistic boy’s back in a Nevada public school, Ynet reported Tuesday.

The mother of the 17-year-old, who does not speak and attends the Clark High School in Las Vegas with both a service dog and a shadow, said that her son came home on March 9 with the marking. She also found that the dog’s equipment bag had been torn and resewn.

“My son is the only student I know of who wears a kippah at the school,” said the mother, making him visibly Jewish. Her immediate email to the school regarding the incident generated no investigation, with both the administration and her son’s assistant saying that “nothing happened at school,” said the mother to Orthodox Jewish news site COLlive.

The family filed a police complaint four days later, and then pulled the boy out of the school, she told the news site, “because it’s an unsafe environment.”


(full article online)


 

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