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The Erich Schelling Architecture Foundation, located in Karlsruhe, Germany, announced on Monday that it has unanimously decided to rescind an award to British writer and artist James Bridle because of his support for boycotting Israeli cultural institutions.

The foundation hands out awards for architecture and architectural theory once every two years, and the awards have a total endowment of close to $32,000. An international jury of seven individuals picks the winner, and Bridle was set to receive the prize for architectural theory at this year’s award ceremony, set for Wednesday. The foundation praised Bridle, saying his “publications on the complex relationships between society, technology, and ecology have greatly enriched the current discourse.”

However, a day before the award ceremony, the foundation announced that it would not distribute a theory prize this year, which Bridle had won. The institution said it made its decision after discovering that Bridle co-signed an open letter in late October, in which thousands in the literary industry pledged to boycott Israeli cultural institutions in response to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.

The open letter was published by the online magazine The Literary Hub and falsely accused Israel of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid. It also claimed, without providing evidence, that Israeli cultural institutions have been “crucial in obfuscating, disguising, and artwashing the dispossession and oppression of millions of Palestinians for decades.”

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This is the dark irony of the pogrom belittling of the past fortnight: in the very act of sneering at the idea that what happened in Amsterdam was anti-Semitic, some of these people have given voice to their own latent anti-Semitism. Every Jew-fearing trope leaks from the post-Amsterdam commentary. Jews controlling the narrative of the global media. Jews exaggerating their victimhood in an effort to disguise the power they truly enjoy. Jews importing disruptive and malign forces – in this case ‘fascism’ and ‘genocidalism’ – into the heart of our societies. We’ve heard it all before. We’ve heard it for centuries.

It is so tiresome to have to say, once again, what happened in Amsterdam. Yes, some Maccabi fans behaved badly, as do fans of virtually every club in Europe. But this neither excuses nor even explains the ‘Jew hunt’ organised by gangs of mostly Arab men. To all who take morality seriously, there can be no causal link between idiot behaviour by a few Israeli fans and the pursuit of ‘Yehudi’ through the streets of a city for a videoed beating. This is my question for those describing the invective and violence visited on random Israelis as ‘street justice’ for what other Israelis did hours earlier – if some black football fans behaved badly would it be understandable if white-supremacist thugs then went on a ‘n***er hunt’? A simple yes or no will do.

The opinion-forming set’s pathological refusal to see Jews as victims confirms how lost they are to the lunacy of identitarianism. In their eyes, Jews are white, and thus incapable of experiencing racism or oppression. As for Israelis – they’re a morally fallen people in the grip of genocidal mania and thus deserve everything they get. The pogrom denialism of the past fortnight represents a brutal reassertion of ideology over truth, of elite narrative over Jewish experience. It is a restoration of the diktats of identity politics, of its hierarchies of racial sympathy, to counter the politically inconvenient fact that Jews were hunted on the streets of Europe in 2024. We are being reminded that when society takes flight from reason, Jews are often the first to suffer.

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Four University of Rochester students now face felony charges after “wanted” posters described by officials as antisemitic reportedly targeting Jewish faculty were discovered around River Campus, public safety leaders announced Tuesday.

According to Chief Quchee Collins with the Department of Public Safety, a fifth person is still under investigation for their possible involvement in this case.

While their identities haven’t been released, Collins said the students were charged with felony criminal mischief.

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Six months ago, someone painted a large Palestinian flag along with anti-Israel graffiti on the wall of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.

The message says "Stop the genocide. Stop "Israeli" terror. From the river to the sea Palestine will be free! BDS IPSC"

The local Jewish community is frightened and do not want to go to a hospital with such a message. It is clearly inflammatory and upsetting, not to mention illegal.

It is still there.

Why hasn't the hospital removed it?

That's what the Democratic Union Party's Diane Dodds asked Belfast Trust Chief Executive Maureen Edwards. "My understanding is that it has been there for almost six months. In the interests of a health service that's available and open and everyone is welcome to that health service, it is a bit appalling that we have waited six months to get rid of antisemitic graffiti," Dodds noted.

Edwards answered that they approached several contractors to sandblast off the graffiti - something that would take at most a couple of hours - but they all refused.

Not because they disagree that the graffiti is antisemitic.

Because they are fearful as to what the pro-Hamas BDS antisemites would do to them if they erased the message.

This is terrorism, pure and simple. And Ireland appears to be OK with it, as long as the only people hurt are Jews.




 
[ Kick them out. Have the guts to do so ]

 

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