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A member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars and an advisor at the Saudi Royal Court, Sheikh Dr. Saad bin Nasser Al-Shathri, called on the Saudis to be kind to Jews who visit the Kingdom.

During a fatwa program on "Alif Alif" radio, a listener asked how a Muslim should treat a Jew who visits the kingson.

Al-Shathri responded that “not every Jew is an Israeli, and a Muslim must approach God by kindness in dealing with all people,” warning against “being deceived by malicious propaganda and rumours.”

The cleric pointed out that Mohammed had good relations with some Jews.

“A person must draw closer to Allah by showing kindness to all people, of whatever religion they are,” he added.

"People must abide by these instructions and these etiquettes that were brought by Islamic Sharia, with regard to good logic and beautiful speech.. A kind word is charity, as the Holy Prophet said.”

He added the need to "provide assistance to others, whatever their religion, so that the Muslim can be a good model, and provide correct propaganda to introduce Islam."

Although it appears that some Jews have managed to visit Saudi Arabia for business over the years, they have kept a low profile. Lately that has been changing, as Israelis have been allowed into the Kingdom as well under special circumstances.

Even though the answer seems to say at the end that it is allowed to treat Jews well in order to ultimately attract them to Islam, the answer itself is pretty good.

Saudi cleric causes controversy by ruling one should be nice to Jews

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Spanish band writes 'Free Palestine,' vandalizes Israeli flag

Spanish band Tribade defaced an Israeli flag at the Sziget Festival in Hungary last night writing "Free Palestine," and "Israel doesn't exist" on it.

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The image featuring Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his wife posted by Far-right Dutch politician Thierry Baudet. Photo: Screenshot
The leader of a far-right, pro-Russian political party that currently holds five seats in the Dutch parliament was in open conflict with the main Jewish advocacy organization in the Netherlands on Monday, after he posted a tweet with a mocking reference to the Rothschilds, the Jewish banking dynasty that has long provided the raw material for antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Thierry Baudet — leader of the Forum for Democracy (PvD) and the head of its parliamentary group — tweeted a photo of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma with speech bubbles for each. Asma al-Assad asks her husband, “Why does the West want to invade Syria?”, to which he responds, “To rob our oil, put in a puppet government and install a Rothschild bank.”


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Pro-Russian Dutch Politician Under Fire for ‘Antisemitic Dog Whistle’ Post About Rothschilds

The image featuring Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his wife posted by Far-right Dutch politician Thierry Baudet. Photo: Screenshot The …

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Palestinian site Amad discusses a new song by anti-Israel folksinger David Rovics, celebrating British antisemites who broke into Elbit Systems and destroyed equipment.

I hadn't heard that name in years.

Back in 2010, I saw that Rovics had a series of really bad, barely sung songs that were rabidly anti-Israel and aligned with other "social justice" issues.

While Rovics has a song to praise the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, he seems to lose interest in Jews fighting when they actually win. Similarly, he has a song about how terrible it was for Jews and Muslims to be expelled from Christian Europe - but he says that Jews are European and Israelis are Nazis.

And while I am sure he would insist he is not in any way antisemitic, one of his more recent songs ironically titled "God Bless the USA" lists the things he hates about America - which includes "Jewish bankers."

Here are the lyrics from the beginning so no one can accuse me of taking it out of context.

God bless all the Indians living in their reservations
God bless all the strippers and their bodily gyrations
God bless Trump Towers reaching up so high
God bless the Blue Angels screaming through the sky
God bless Appalachia, mountains and moonshine
God bless the creeks, bulldozers and strip mines
God bless the megachurches and all of those who speak in tongues
God bless the corporate ladder, every single rung
God bless the homeless families living under bridges
God bless the golden valleys and the mountain ridges
God bless the beaches and the swamps and the alligators
God bless the NFL and the Oakland Raiders
God bless the USA

God bless the conspiracy theorists and the Jewish bankers
God bless ExxonMobil and all their oil tankers
God bless Clearchannel, Toby Keith and Taylor Swift
God bless anorexia, lyposuction and facelifts
God bless the mighty rivers and the nuclear reactors
God bless Fox, Rupert Murdoch and X Factor
God bless the USA

Yeah, this sounds antisemitic to me. (He could have said "their Jewish bankers" if he meant that they were part of the conspiracy theory.)

At the time, I wrote my own song, with an accurate history of the Palestinian people, called "Pawns of the Middle East." I didn't bother working too hard on rhyming and meter, because Rovics sure doesn't.

The pawns of the Middle East

In 1948 their leaders abandoned them
The rich Arabs packed up and went to Lebanon
Their confident leaders told them to get out of the way
So the Jews could be slaughtered and then they'll be back to stay

But that's not what happened. Their fighters didn't fight.
Wild rumors scared them, and most then joined the flight
They ended up in Egypt, Syria, Jordan
The Palestinian Arabs thought they'd start over again

They thought that they'd be welcomed by the Arabs who said that they loved them
But they were placed in giant camps, and had to stay in tents
They thought that they were all Arabs, but they were only that in name
The other Arabs didn't want them to remind them of their shame

Chorus:
Decade after decade, the Arabs let them down
They treated them like animals, and just used them as pawns
They thought that their problem was that they didn't have a state
But the real problem was that they were taught only to hate.

They wanted jobs, they wanted land, they wanted to fit in
Their hosts only wanted the millions given by the UN
They kept them stuck in camps, in disgusting misery
They did everything possible to ensure they'd never be free.

The Arab states passed laws to let them know where they stand
They couldn't work in certain jobs, couldn't own any land
They had no choice, no rights, no control over their fate
And they raised a generation who was taught nothing but hate.

Chorus

Jordan never gave them an inch of "historic Palestine"
The entire world had no problem. They thought that this was fine.
The only land that Arabs would allow them to receive
Was the land that would be left over when they forced the Jews to leave.

Their new leaders taught terror, for them not to be so meek
Jordan slaughtered thousands of them in a matter of just weeks
And so it went, year after year, kept in dire straits
400,000 of them got kicked out of Kuwait

Decade after decade, the Arabs let them down
They treated them like animals, and just used them as pawns
They thought that their problem was that they didn't have a state
But the real problem was that they were taught only to hate.

At the time, I found someone to actually sing this for me, but unfortunately my YouTube channel was taken down and I cannot find the original video anymore.

So if anyone wants to record this folksong, I'll make a new video.

Calling all folksingers! "Pawns of the Middle East" needs a singer (and guitarist.)

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An antisemitic caricature on display at the Documenta art festival in Germany. Exhibiton organizers covered the kippa worn by the figure on the left with a piece of black adhesive tape. Photo: Screenshot
Yet another antisemitic artwork has been identified at the Documenta festival of contemporary art in Germany, leading to renewed calls from Jewish activists for the festival’s organizers to face the consequences of their alleged neglect.

Since announcing in January that ruangrupa — an Indonesian artists collective — would be curating the 15th edition of the festival, held in the city of Kassel every five years, Documenta has been immersed in a series of scandals around antisemitism relating to ruangrupa’s endorsement of the anti-Zionist BDS campaign targeting Israel as well as the presence of antisemitic iconography in several works on display.

Outrage Among Jewish Activists as Yet Another Antisemitic Image Is Discovered at Leading German Art Festival

An antisemitic caricature on display at the Documenta art festival in Germany. Exhibiton organizers covered the kippa worn by the …

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Jordan Cope shakes hands with NM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. Standing (left to right) are community leaders Halley Faust and Dr. Todd Goldblum. Photo: StandWithUS.
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed today an executive order adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, prompting praise from US Jewish groups.

The order ensures that New Mexico’s Executive Department will base its assessments of antisemitism complaints on the definition.

New Mexico Governor Adopts IHRA Definition of Antisemitism by Executive Order

Jordan Cope shakes hands with NM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. Standing (left to right) are community leaders Halley Faust and …

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In an op-ed at Arabic21 TV, Ahmed Al-Hila writes:

[Israel] was founded on the concept of gentiles, the concept of human slavery to the Jews, the concept of humans in the service of Judaism, the concept of the ego god that resembles humans in their bodies, eyes, noses, hands and feet, but in fact they are a state of human nausea, a cloud of hatred and loathing, and a source of the racism that permeates the chest of humanity.

Many prestigious international institutions spoke about the racism of these people and their entity, and the level of sadism that they love to the point of death...

He must be an expert on Judaism!

Today's crazed Jew-hate from Arabic media

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LOL.....Ethiopian Jews might take issue with all that "whiteness" being bandied about..

They follow the religion of Judaism, but they are not racially Jews.

Jews are the Children of Jacob. These people CONVERTED

 

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They follow the religion of Judaism, but they are not racially Jews.

Jews are the Children of Jacob. These people CONVERTED

Jews are not a race. Europeans did not convert to Judaism en mass. These are people who left Israel for Europe and other places for the past 3000 years, and returned again and again, and then returned for good.

Thank you for your re-writing of Jewish history.

No Thanks.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Jews are not a race. Europeans did not convert to Judaism en mass. These are people who left Israel for Europe and other places for the past 3000 years, and returned again and again, and then returned for good.

Thank you for your re-writing of Jewish history.

No Thanks.

The term "Jew" comes from JUDAH, one of the sons of JACOB whose name God changed to ISRAEL.

The religion they commonly follow is called JUDAISM.

Yes, JEWS are a "race" first. Africans are not true JEWS. This group simply follows the RELIGION of JUDAISM

 

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They follow the religion of Judaism, but they are not racially Jews.

Jews are the Children of Jacob. These people CONVERTED

Really?

 

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The term "Jew" comes from JUDAH, one of the sons of JACOB whose name God changed to ISRAEL.

The religion they commonly follow is called JUDAISM.

Yes, JEWS are a "race" first. Africans are not true JEWS. This group simply follows the RELIGION of JUDAISM

Oh, you are talking about the Ethiopian Jews?

So what if they are converts to Judaism?

How many non Arabs converted to Islam?

How many non Europeans converted to Christianity or Islam?

Jews know who they are and where they are from, and they welcome all people as they always have especially to live in the Jewish Homeland, Israel.

 

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[ Not quite antisemitism, but........what next? ]

It was the latest in a string of book removals being implemented at schools at the behest of conservative activist parents and school board members who are challenging a slew of texts on grounds ranging from their LGBT-friendly content to their supposed connections to “critical race theory.” Some of these challenges have ensnared books with Jewish themes in the past.

“When we got ‘The Diary of Anne Frank,’ we thought, ‘This is a joke.’ But it wasn’t.”
Laney Hawes

Ban on Anne Frank's diary "disgusting, devastating"​

“It’s disgusting. It’s devastating. It’s legitimate book banning, there’s no way around it,” Laney Hawes, a parent of four children in the Keller district, told JTA about the order. “I feel bad for the teachers and the librarians.”

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Texas school district orders removal of Anne Frank’s diary from shelves

It was the latest in a string of book removals being implemented at schools at the behest of conservative activist parents and school board members

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Group that targets antisemitism and anti-Zionism publishes report documenting hundreds of examples of antisemitism in the past 18 months.​

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https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/08/17/report-highlights-glaring-anti-semitism-in-entertainment-sports-music/

 

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Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters describes himself as “pro dialogue, pro peace, [and] anti authoritarian.” Maybe he should listen to his own music more, because he clearly can’t tell heaven from hell. Far from standing “in defense of Mistress Liberty,” Waters has become an advocate for antisemitism, Vladimir Putin’s imperialism, and the Chinese Communist Party’s genocide.

For years, the British rocker has expressed violent, unjustified hatred for the state of Israel, referring to it as an “apartheid state” and the construction of a “settler-colonialist cabal.” He accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing and genocide and publicly supports the radical Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, known to harbor many antisemites. Meanwhile, he refuses to condemn Palestinian terrorist organizations like Hamas.

Waters may have escaped mainstream criticism, but the Anti-Defamation League makes clear Waters’ rhetoric and activism is antisemitic. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. When you tell interviewers that an “Israel lobby” is responsible for Jeremy Corbyn’s electoral loss in Britain, that there is a Zionist conspiracy to block criticism of Israel in America’s news and music industry, and that believing the Jews are God’s chosen people is the same as saying Arab lives “are worthless,” you can’t be surprised that people take you for an antisemite.

Sadly, left-wing celebrities tend to get a pass. However, Miami’s vibrant media landscape will have a chance to hold Waters accountable when he comes to FTX arena on August 23. Every reporter covering the concert should note, at a minimum, that Waters has a history of antisemitic comments.

If reporters want to dig deeper, Waters provides plenty of material for stories, much of it similarly unflattering. For example, in his new show he calls President Joe Biden a war criminal for “fueling the war in Ukraine.” Touting propaganda lines as if he were a Russian state media rag, Waters blames Putin’s invasion on the West, alleging it is NATO’s fault for “pushing right up to the Russian border.”

That’s not the only time Waters has sided with a murderous authoritarian. He called verified reports of Beijing’s enslavement of Uyghur Muslims and massacre of Tibetan Buddhists “absolute nonsense.” Waters freely excuses Beijing’s aggression toward Taiwan, too, because––as he claims every educated person should know––“Taiwan is part of China.”

Waters’ fans should be aware of his antisemitic and pro-authoritarian rhetoric. This is not to say Waters should be canceled. In this country, unlike in Waters’ beloved Russia or China, there’s such a thing as free speech. But free speech is not without consequences, and Waters’ history of gross and indefensible comments might just hit him where he feels it the most––the money that fuels the “new car, caviar, four-star, daydream.”

Will Miami Media Ignore Roger Waters’ Antisemitism?

<strong>By Senator Marco Rubio</strong> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters <a href="https://www.facebook.com/

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A German security guard has been arrested for making a Hitler salute in front of a group of Israeli athletes visiting a memorial to the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, police said on Wednesday.

The 16 athletes from the Israeli European Championships team were visiting the Olympic Park in Munich on Tuesday evening when the banned gesture was made, police said in a statement.

“One of the four security guards present was observed at around 7:20 pm making a National Socialist gesture [forbidden ‘Hitler salute’],” the statement said.

(full article online)

German guard detained for Hitler salute to Israeli athletes visiting Munich memorial

Security guard banned from all European Championships events; 16 Israeli competitors participating in games said to have not noticed forbidden Nazi gesture

www.timesofisrael.com