Stop Antisemitism

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It takes understanding the history of the Jews as a Peopleto dismantle the false narrative of anti-Zionism. We were always “Zionists” longing in our hearts to go back to Zion before the modern day term/movement was created. It’s no surprise the reggae tune “By the Rivers of Babylon ”gave me chills the first time I heard it.

The fact that Jews from every part of the globe, from Ethiopia to Iraq to Poland, are an indigenous People to the land of Israel, and managed to return after an exile of 2,000 years and more only makes sense when you know the history.

A lovely woman I chatted with about clothes and our puppies when I shopped at her store turned out to have strong assumptions about Zionism.

I was shopping for a trip to Israel. “You’re not going with a Zionist group are you?” Ok, so I explained; “Zionism means Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish country.” Her projectile yell, “No! It has to be worse than that!” was shocking.

Anti-Zionism is being normalized. Michelle would never imagine her anti-Zionism is antisemitism stemming from popular misinformation and a deep unexamined ambivalence towards Jews being a free People/Israel.

When Jews in progressive circles have to disavow Israel to fit in there is nothing “progressive” about the space. It doesn’t matter whether it’s on a college campus, jobsite or a social occasion. It’s just not progressive to single out the one progressive country in the MENA as evil.

Antisemitism is never a “limited” hate. When Jews are targeted it doesn’t matter if they are Zionists connected to Jews as a People, if they have brown, black or white skin, if they are Torah Jews or atheists, rich or poor.

Questioning the Jew’s right to exist is not new. Progressives embracing the “new” antisemitism as anti-Zionism have been infected with a very old sickness.

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Progressively Sliding into Antisemitism

From the blog of Rachel Wahba at The Times of Israel

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Antisemitic incidents in Minnesota rose 226% last year compared to 2020, according to new data from the Anti-Defamation League.

The ADL's annual audit recorded 2,223 antisemitic incidents nationwide, marking the highest number of incidents ever recorded in the organization's history.

In Minnesota, 68 incidents of harassment and seven incidents of vandalism were recorded in 2021, representing a 226% increase compared to the 23 total incidents in 2020, and more than double the 37 total incidents in 2019.

Nationwide, acts of harassment targeting Jewish people with antisemitic conspiracy theories, slurs or stereotypes were up 43%, according to ADL. Antisemitic assaults increased 167%, and vandalism – which most commonly involved swastika graffiti – rose 14%.

The report also found antisemitic incidents surged in May during the military conflict between Israel and Hamas. Many of the incidents were tied to known extremist groups.

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Audit: Antisemitic incidents rose 226% in Minnesota last year - Bring Me The News

The Anti-Defamation League's data shows staggering increases nationwide.

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A manager at the Stonegate pub chain is no longer employed by the group, after Campaign Against Antisemitism assisted a colleague of his who had made allegations of antisemitic abuse.

The Jewish victim, who wishes to remain anonymous, appealed to us after her line manager at the pub where she worked allegedly engaged in antisemitic abuse and, on at least one occasion, made unwanted physical contact by trying to place his legs on her lap and tried to spit beer over her.

The alleged antisemitic remarks included stating that Hitler was not a fascist and pointing at the victim and saying “a Jew!”.

The pub group, which is one of the largest in the UK, initially declined to take action.

There were numerous allegations of abuse, both before and after the colleague became the victim’s line manager. The incidents were made even more challenging for the victim, as this was her first job. Ultimately the victim decided to leave her position, but bravely insisted on working with us to continue to seek justice.

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Pub manager is out after CAA helps victim of alleged antisemitic abuse and harassment attain justice

A manager at the Stonegate pub chain is no longer employed by the group, after Campaign Against Antisemitism assisted a colleague of his who had made allegations of antisemitic abuse. The Jewish victim, who wishes to remain anonymous, appealed to us after her line manager at the pub where she...

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Fiyaz Mughal OBE, the founder of Muslims Against Antisemitism (MAAS), a charity comprising British Muslims whose mission is to tackle antisemitism, appeared on the most recent episode of Podcast Against Antisemitism where he discussed the growing danger of Islamist antisemitism.

Referring to antisemites within pockets of the Muslim community, Mr Mughal said that “We need to tackle them, we need to call them out. We need to inform, we need to educate. But we can’t hide this poison anymore under the carpet.”

He added: “It’s very much linked to Islamism, and the rise of Islamist extremism, and it’s not clearly linked to being a Muslim or Islam but Islamists, the political idealogy of taking the religion and fusing it with political ideology, and that political ideology, we know, has been influenced by groups like the Muslim Brotherhood…by groups like Hamas. And these groups actively use antisemitism to draw people into their web, into their activism, to draw money from them, to use them as cannon fodder in conflicts.

“And so it is clear that antisemitism is part of a campaign by Islamist groups as a means of mobilising more people against Jews. So, we need to tackle it. It can’t just be swept under the carpet, This is dangerous, dangerous stuff.”

Mr Mughal added that whilst it is clear that polling has shown that the majority of Muslims do not harbour such views, Islamist ideas were “quite entrenched” within a “vocal minority” of the community, making the issue, as he sees it, “a long-term problem”.

“We know that British Muslims just want to get on with their lives. They want to have, like Jewish communities, the opportunity to be Muslims, be British, and to just get a job, get on with their lives,” the MAAS founder said. “But correspondingly, that small but vocal minority within British Muslim communities, has become much more entrenched, much more vocal, much more aggressive, and willing to turn out and intimidate Jewish institutions, Jewish communities, and those where there are larger concentrations of Jews.

“Take for example, who would have thought in London, a convoy of people from Bradford would turn up in Golders Green to talk about raping Jewish women? That is a prime example of the violence, of the state of open violence, in that small but vocal section of Muslim communities.”

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“We can’t hide this poison anymore”: Fiyaz Mughal OBE on the growing danger of Islamist antisemitism

Fiyaz Mughal OBE, the founder of Muslims Against Antisemitism (MAAS), a charity comprising British Muslims whose mission is to tackle antisemitism, appeared on the most recent episode of Podcast Against Antisemitism where he discussed the growing danger of Islamist antisemitism. Referring to...

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In a statement the Metropolitan Police said: “We can confirm that a 39-year-old man was arrested on Friday, 29 April on suspicion of a Section 19 offence under the Public Order Act 1986.

“He was taken to a north London police station and was subsequently released on bail to return on a date in mid-June. Enquiries are ongoing.

“The arrest relates to two incidents where offensive materials were distributed in the South Hampstead area.”

Mike Katz Jewish Labour Movement national chair said: “Izzy had to contend with some horrendous antisemitism during her campaign in South Hampstead from anonymous cowards.

“She showed real courage in standing up to these bullies. I’m so pleased she won resoundingly, and that residents rejected these vile attempts to bully and silence a young Jewish woman.

“It proves local people want their councillors to focus on council issues, not foreign affairs.”

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Man arrested after newly-elected councillor targeted in antisemitic campaign

lzzy Lenga, who won overnight in South Hampstead, reveals she faced "levels of antisemitism I've never had before" in the run-up to Thursday's vote.

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Yuri Foreman talking to CUFI Weekly. Photo: Screenshot.

Israel’s first world champion boxer Yuri Foreman invited victims of an antisemitic assault in New York last year to take boxing lessons from him to better defend themselves against future attacks, the athlete told the Christians United For Israel organization in a video released on Thursday.

Foreman, who was born in Belarus but moved to Israel at the age of 10, said he heard on social media about the two Jewish men who in December were assaulted in Brooklyn and called “dirty Jews” because one of them wore a sweatshirt featuring the Israel Defense Forces emblem. The boxer, who now lives in New York and is also an ordained rabbi, said he contacted the two victims and brought them to his gym in Brooklyn, where he offered them “a couple of [boxing] lessons.”

Foreman also commented on the recent spate of attacks against Jews, telling CUFI that antisemitism has “always been [and] it’s always will be, as long as Jews [are] alive. There’s even countries where there’s hardly any Jews living, but yet there are antisemites.”

“Don’t learn something from a [social media] reel, cartoon or comic,” he said, discussing those who express hatred of Israel. “That’s bad. I know a lot of people who learn their news from tweets, or from the cartoons, because that’s where our patience is. They show evil rockets with the Star of David on it and there are little babies there, and it’s emotion[al].”

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Israeli Former World Boxing Champion Offered Lessons to Jewish Victims of Brooklyn Antisemitic Attack

Yuri Foreman talking to CUFI Weekly. Photo: Screenshot. Israel’s first world champion boxer Yuri Foreman invited victims of an antisemitic …

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Robert Underhill (second right) is seen with three fellow mountaineers at Mt. Whitney in California in 1931.
Photo: Glen Dawson Collection / Creative Commons


One of America’s leading mountaineering associations is to rename its prestigious annual award after discovering that one of the individuals in whose honor it was created had expressed crudely antisemitic views.

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Underhill, who died in 1983, was a professor of philosophy at Harvard University who became a mountaineering legend as a result of his exploits in the Sierra Nevada range in California during the 1930s. According to Rassler, in “letters written to friends at the Sierra Club and the AAC in 1939 and 1946, respectively, he referred to Jews as ‘k*kes,’ ‘mutts,’ and ‘lowgrade.’ He implied that Jewish people didn’t belong on rock faces at all and said they lacked the character and physical traits to be successful in challenging mountain environments.” His wife Miriam, for whom the award is also named, is not known to have made similar remarks.

Past recipients of the award who spoke to Rassler expressed support for removing Underhill’s name. “I had no idea he had that past,” Lynn Hill, who won in 1984, said. “I believe that climbing is a sport that is inclusive and welcomes all races, all genders, and people who love climbing and love the earth and love nature and love humanity. And that is not humanity.”

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Discovery of Climbing Legend’s Antisemitic Views Prompts US Mountaineering Association to Change Award Name

Robert Underhill (second right) is seen with three fellow mountaineers at Mt. Whitney in California in 1931. Photo: Glen Dawson …

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[ Can England apologize for giving 78% of the Jewish Homeland to foreigners during the Mandate for Palestine? It should be the next step. ]

The Church of England has apologized for the anti-Jewish laws that the Catholic Church in England passed 800 years ago.


The event marks the anniversary of the 1222 Synod of Oxford, which culminated in the expulsion of England’s Jews 68 years later, followed by similar repercussions across Europe.


The event was attended by civic dignitaries and faith leaders, including Chief Britain’s Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and representatives of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.


In promulgating the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) the Synod added a range of further anti-Jewish measures for the medieval church in England. The resulting canons forbade social interactions between Jews and Christians, established specific church tithes on Jews and imposed the need for English Jews to wear an identifying badge. These prejudicial laws were followed by further anti-Jewish statutes and the mass expulsion of the Jewish community.

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Church of England apologizes for 800-year-old antisemitic laws

Antisemitic laws issued by the Synod of Oxford eventually led to the expulsion of Jews from England in 1290.

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Father of Canadian ‘hate-monger’ fined for obstructing police

Father of Alberta man being investigated for publishing extreme antisemitic material refuses to let police access son's computers.

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A cult of real people​

And before anyone deflects, most of these are not ‘trolls’ or bots, they are real people. Nor do they all live in Jordan or Algeria. Some are living with us in the west. Like this guy from Chicago, USA:



Mouhanad Rahami was educated in Chicago, attending school, college, and university in the city. Yet he actually celebrates brutal axe-murders. From the emojis he uses we know that he sees it as a sign of the movement’s ‘strength’. In the image below (on right) we can see him helping to lead an anti-Israel protest in Chicago:



He is a real, living, human being. The world’s leading NGOs will even look at the image above and tell you he is a ‘human rights activist’.

Clare Spaulding at the Chicago Tribune disgracefully called the Chicago event ‘a call for the end of bloodshed’. Miles Kampf-Lassin posted a tweet about the event which went viral. He called it a ‘march for justice in Palestine’. This is how anti-Israel demonstrations are always described.

They are nothing of the sort. They are not a call to end bloodshed, nor a march for justice. These marches are the embodiment of a movement that seeks to disempower Jews and leave them vulnerable within an environment that is both violent and hostile towards them.

People who celebrate the death of innocent civilians are not human rights activists. They are part of a death cult.

Cartoons and memes celebrating the violence quickly go viral:



There are trolls too of course. But behind them are just people who prefer to laugh at dead Jews through a cloak of anonymity. We see examples such as this twisted Twitter account, which depicts an axe doing battle with ‘3 Zionists’:

It is not an insignificant minority​

The naive do-gooders will claim these extremists are just a tiny minority. But the truth is that there are far more people who want to kill Jews, or support those that do – than there are actual Jews.

Many of those waving the Palestinian flag will claim they only want peace. But for all their words, there is not a single current anti-Israel activist who feels that this obsession with Israeli blood, this murderous intent, is enough for them to stop their support. If they say they oppose extremism whilst waving the Palestinian flag – they still support the violent cause it represents.

Every major post about the murder turned into a celebration. Uri Gobey’s post on Facebook became inundated with pictures of axes. Hananya Naftali received 179 ‘laughing’ emojis on his post. In under an hour, I counted tens of thousands of disgusting signatures – either through comments or emojis. And this is even before I looked to see what is taking place on Twitter. This vile tweet, posted within hours of the attack, received 1632 likes:

Endless hate​

None of this would exist without support from the west. UNWRA’s schools, Palestinian textbooks – all paid for with our tax money. Palestinian children are openly taught lies – a twisted version of history that strips from Jewish history any ethical justification. It renders Israelis as sub-human and worthy only of death. Last night I watched a Hamas propaganda film ’11 days in May’ at a picture house in London. The decontextualised narrative suggests Israelis are ‘homocidal maniacs‘. It is raw Gazan propaganda spreading freely on our streets. The movie – which does nothing but spread hate – has UNICEF’s stamp of approval on it.

While governments of third world countries cannot afford to dig wells or place solar panels – Hamas channels its money into rockets and tunnels. Why is a place that is not even a fraction as desperate as others – given so much funding – if all it does is use it to try to kill Jews? How is it possible that the money continues to flow towards them?

You’ll have to ask the myriad of NGOs who persistently set up campaigns to get people to divert their charity money towards Gaza. There are more NGOs helping Hamas build rockets than there are NGOs helping fund new wells in Niger (see Israel – Niger). And perversely, periods of Hamas-driven violence always sees more money flow into the Gaza strip. The leaders in Gaza see the material benefits of murdering Jews. This is the world that Jews have to live in.

The silent and willing allies​

And then there are the death cult’s allies. Organisations, movements, and individuals. From Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to the Teachers Union, Church groups and political figures.

You know the type – each and every one of them posts endless manufactured anti-Israel propaganda when Israel kicks squatters from a tent, but there is total silence when Jews are slaughtered in the streets.

• Rashida Tlaib – no tweets about Israel since the murderous violence started.
• Jeremy Corbyn – no tweets about Israel since the murderous violence started
• Chris Williamson – attacks Israel constantly – no mention of Palestinian violence
• Russell Brand – only mention of the conflict was to promote a Hamas inspired PR documentary
• Ilhan Omar – no tweets about Israel since the murderous violence started
• Amnesty International – only tweets about Israel have been to attack it – no mention of murderous violence
• Human Rights Watch – only tweets about Israel have been to attack it – no mention of murderous violence

It does not matter what the reasons for this are. The end message is the same – a drumbeat of dehumanised Israelis spreads deeper and deeper into the mainstream.

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The Palestinian death cult - worshipping the murder of Jews

At its core, the anti-Israel movement is a death cult, a movement that denies truth, craves bloodshed, glorifies violence, and worships death.

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The opening panel’s “art” consisted entirely of large words, which read—wait for it—“Zionism is Racism Settler Colonialism White Supremacy Apartheid.” (Even the U.N. gave up on “Zionism is Racism,” a moldy Soviet slogan that the USSR spent decades promoting to its client states in the developing world.) Another panel featured a faceless police officer bearing a truncheon over the bodies of dark-skinned people behind bars with bullet wounds on their chests, their blood dripping onto an overturned American flag. This subtle image was nearly identical to memes circulated by Iranian-backed groups online. (If you’re too thick to get it, American police brutality is the Jews’ fault.) Two more panels included anodyne images of doctors and a pill bottle, with vaguely worded references to “health.” Those digging online for what this could possibly have to do with “Zionism” will quickly encounter long-debunked lies about Israel withholding Covid vaccines and harvesting Palestinian organs—part of a centuries-old tradition in both the Christian and Islamic worlds of accusing Jews of spreading disease and killing children. Another panel went all-in on Holocaust imagery, featuring gray-clad prisoners with a Palestinian flag behind Auschwitz-style barbed wire fencing, along with a boxcar train headed for a bricked-up destination marked with an Israeli flag.

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At Harvard, Facts Are For Losers

It turns out that nobody’s SAT scores can provide immunity to propaganda.

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Below is an excerpt from her book:

Outside of rap music, which is singular in its provocative and often antagonistic lyrics directed toward a wide spectrum of groups, including women and gay people as well as Jews, I rarely witnessed an outward expression of classic antisemitism in my twenty-plus years working in the entertainment business.

When Mel Gibson was arrested for drunk driving in 2006 and, according to the police report, blurted out a barrage of antisemitic remarks about the “f*****g Jews,” saying, “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,” members of the entertainment industry, along with the rest of the country, were shocked by his comments. Anti-Zionism, on the other hand, has been slowly rising since the start of the cultural boycott campaign in 2005.

Both classic antisemitism and anti-Zionism in the entertainment industry, however, exploded in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and the summer of protests that divided our nation. There are two main reasons for this: first, Jew-hatred wanes during times of prosperity but inevitably flows during chaos and unrest; and second, fifteen years of the BDS movement describing the Jews of Israel as monsters had normalized and even legitimized this perversion.

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New Book Takes on the Cultural Boycott Against Israel

The cover of “Artists Under Fire.” Photo: provided. “Artists Under Fire: The BDS War against Celebrities, Jews, and Israel” by …

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In an April 20th Guardian article (“New NUS leader welcomes antisemitism inquiry, but fears for her safety”) Sally Weale, the outlet’s education correspondent, casts Shaima Dallali, the new president of the National Union of Students (NUS), as a victim while downplaying her record of antisemitism.

Readers are told that the current investigation into antisemitism within the NUS , prompted complaints from Jewish student organisations, including the Union of Jewish Students (UJS), and a letter signed by 21 former NUS presidents, has made Dallali feel “unsafe”. The article then quotes her saying she’s been “misrepresented since her election and denied that she was antisemitic”.

However, the only example of Dallali’s antisemtism by cited by the Guardian is a Twitter post from 10 years ago which read: “Khaybar Khaybar O Jews … Muhammad’s army will return Gaza”, referencing the Muslim massacre of the Jews of the town of that name in northwestern Arabia in 628 CE.

Weale then writes:

Dallali has apologised for the tweet, saying she is not the same person she was then and has since changed the language she uses to talk about the Israel-Palestine conflict.

However, the Guardian fails to cite widely reported evidence that she hasn’t in fact “changed the language she uses” to talk about the conflict. As the Jewish Chronicle reported, at the height of the war between Israel and Hamas last year, Dallali tweeted a justification for Hamas terror, writing: “Palestinians have a right to resist by all means possible — even with weapons — this right is acknowledged in international law — Hamas did not start the aggression, what would you like them to do for example?”

This post came just two days after three Israelis were killed when a barrage of rockets were fired from Gaza at Tel Aviv.

That Arabic language post, translated for the JC by CAMERA Arabic, continued: “Does this serve the Palestinian Cause? An important question. To my point of view the answer is according to your opinion regarding the solution of the cause — but armed resistance is a right and we should accept this.”

On May 29 last year, the Dallali tweeted: “From the river to the sea,” a chant understood as a call for Israel’s destruction. And, the same month, Dallali also wrote: “Good morning to everyone except Zionists, settler colonialist and apartheid sympathisers. Free Palestine.”

Further, in an 2018 article, she praised, as a “moral compass for the Muslim community at large”, Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who’s banned from entering the the US and UK due in part to his support for suicide bombings. Al-Qaradawi also prayed for “every last” Jew to be killed. Though the Guardian article, in the penultimate paragraph, alluded to her support for the hate preacher, it referred to him as “homophobic”, though not antisemitic.

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Guardian and Times whitewash NUS president's antisemitism

In an April 20th Guardian article ("New NUS leader welcomes antisemitism inquiry, but fears for her safety") Sally Weale, the outlet's education corresponden

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“I am saying to the Lebanese state: If you want to continue negotiating, go ahead, but not in Naqoura, and not with Hochstein, Frankenstein, or any other Stein coming to Lebanon,” the terror chief said in an address to the Lebanese government.

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‘No Steins’: Nasrallah rejects Israel-born US envoy to maritime talks with Jerusalem

Hezbollah terror chief says negotiations over offshore zones, thought to contain large natural gas deposits, cannot continue with 'Amos Hochstein, Frankenstein, or any other Stein'

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The Victorian government is set to become the first Australian state or territory to ban the public display of the Nazi swastika, Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes said in a Wednesday statement.


“We want to do all we can to stamp out hate and give it no room to grow,” Symes said, according to Melbourne 9news.


According to the report, Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich has said the move has been much-needed in Victoria.

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ZFA President Jeremy Leibler also thanked the Premier for his decision, and added, “Antisemitism is increasing everywhere. Premier Andrews has demonstrated that he stands with the Jewish community in the fight against bigotry, and the community thanks him for it."

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Victoria to be first Australian state to ban Nazi symbols

"I've said it again and again, we have a Nazi swastikas epidemic in this state," the Anti-Defamation Commission chairman said.

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