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CNN’s Dana Bash has what she calls “a very, very Jewish response” to the question of why she’s hosting a special for her network on antisemitism in America.


“The bad news is there is antisemitism in America,” Bash told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “The good news is I work in a place that wants to shine a spotlight on it, and allow for an investigation into what is happening, why it’s happening and what are the solutions.”


Bash, a member of Temple Micah in Washington, DC, is the great-granddaughter of Hungarian Jews who were murdered at Auschwitz. She told JTA that having the opportunity to report a special on modern antisemitism was “one of the most important things I’ve ever done.”

The hour-long special, “Rising Hate: Antisemitism In America,” will air on CNN Sunday at 9 p.m. EST. It’s a broad overview of the last few years of antisemitism in America, with a particular focus on how it has evolved in the digital age. Other topics include the Coleyville, Texas, synagogue hostage crisis that unfolded earlier this year; the role former President Donald Trump’s campaign played in fomenting antisemitic rhetoric; Jewish college students who have reported discrimination on campuses; and the operations of the Secure Community Network, a nonprofit that tracks and responds to antisemitic threats from an undisclosed bunker in the Chicago area.

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Bash told JTA that having the opportunity to report a special on modern antisemitism was “one of the most important things I’ve ever done.”

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Emile Zola was compelled to speak out in 1898 because of the Dreyfus case, in which French-Jewish artillery officer Alfred Dreyfus was falsely accused of treason, publicly stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island. He was innocent and had been framed by anti-Semites.

Nirenstein was driven to “cry out” over the extraordinary global cognitive war against Israel and the way in which the “good people,” especially the human rights activists and organizations, have all signed onto modern blood libels in the name of “human rights.” Nirenstein is passionate, angry and exceptionally eloquent. She writes:

“The criminalization of Israel has by now been disseminated worldwide. It is a mindset based on lies that have become part and parcel of the media’s daily fare since the Durban Conference in 2001 … The diabolical confusion between blaming Jews and exalting human rights has created a serious short circuit. The notion of an intersectionality that must identify oppressed and oppressors — espoused today from institutions such as the United Nations or the European Union to movements such as Black Lives Matter and those of the LGBTQ community — has proved to be a breeding ground for anti-Jewish hatred, to the point of spawning absurdities that range from imagining Israel as an apartheid state to asserting that Jews are ‘white supremacists.”

In an interview, Fiamma told me her book was driven by the “incredible shame that I feel in seeing a big wave of anti-Semitism rise again after, and so soon after, the Second World War. It is a moral and intellectual scandal that becomes more and more aggressive under the lead of extreme Islam, pretending that they fight for the poor and those oppressed by imperialism and colonialism—and of the ‘liberal,’ ‘intersectional’ movements pretending that their fight is for human rights. The amount of verbal and physical aggression is rising continuously. The ancient right-wing version of anti-Semitic hate is still there, but the tragic surprise has been the left and the liberals.”

Both Fiamma and I have endured the loss of our allegedly progressive and feminist friends when they betrayed the truth and the Jews. We both stood our ground. But, like Fiamma, I was also reeling, heartbroken, disgusted, by how many presumably “good” people, including intellectuals and the most politically correct denominations of Judaism, refused to understand that anti-Zionism is what is “new” about anti-Semitism. Anti-racist and human rights activists viewed Israel as the absolutely worst country in the world—as a “Nazi, colonialist, occupying” power, which orders the Israel Defense Forces to purposely slaughter women and children.

Nirenstein is both “angry and filled with grief” about “the lie that Israel is an apartheid country. This is not merely a criticism; it is a death sentence [for the country]. And somehow, it is being used as a weapon by the very institutions created to serve the cause of ‘never again’—the U.N. and the European Union. For more than seven decades, these institutions have been perpetuating the dangerous lie that Israel has no right to exist.”

Nirenstein provides a succinct and accurate history of the harm perpetuated by the United Nations since the 1970s. As I say: The U.N. has never stopped a single genocide. It has only managed to legalize Jew-hatred.

“How can it be,” she asks, “that in the 15 years of its existence the U.N. Human Rights Council has condemned a democracy like Israel 95 times and Iran 10 times?”

In the book, Nirenstein shares her own experiences in Israel, war after war dating back to 1967.



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‘Jewish Lives Matter’: Human Rights and Anti-Semitism by Fiamma Nirenstein

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The federal government has withdrawn a six-figure grant for an organization that employs an individual who has been accused of making multiple violent, antisemitic remarks online.

Laith Marouf, a Palestinian-Syrian activist who resides in Beirut, is a senior consultant with the Montreal-based Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), which received $133,822 as part of Canadian Heritage’s Anti-Racism Program.

The program is intended to promote a “range of activities designed to help address barriers preventing full and equitable access/participation among racialized communities, religious minorities and Indigenous peoples to employment, justice and social participation.”

According to his LinkedIn profile, Marouf has worked as a senior consultant with CMAC since September 2015, where he has provided “advocacy and assistance to Indigenous communities and community organizations that wish to explore licensing, funding, and launching their own nonprofit community media organizations.”

There are three consultants listed on CMAC’s website. It’s unclear how the government funds CMAC received were dispersed.

In posts on his Twitter account—which were subsequently locked from public view—as well as a previous account that was apparently suspended for violating Twitter guidelines, Marouf has advocated for violence against what he calls “Jewish White Supremacists.”

“You know all those loud mouthed bags of human feces, aka the Jewish White Supremacists; when we liberate Palestine and they have to go back to where they came from, they will return to being low voiced bitches of thier [sic] Christian/Secular White Supremacist Masters,” he tweeted on Aug. 10.


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Ottawa cancels funding for anti-racism group over consultant Laith Marouf’s violent and antisemitic online statements

The federal government has withdrawn a six-figure grant for an organization that employs an individual who has been accused of making multiple violent,

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How does one stop Antisemitism? Which is another word for Jew hatred .
First it was Judeophobia, and then a German Jew-hater changed the expression to Antisemitism in the 19th century. Nothing changes, It is all the same.

Many groups like to say that Jews are against Israel or against Judaism.

This one seems to be one of them. And there probably are many others, which I will post in the future.

Jew hatred may morph, but the intent is always the same.

Let us try to stop it.

There is no reason to hate someone because of what name they call God. People who live their lives by the tenants of Judaism, are not villains, nor are they the enemy. Anti- Semitiism is wrong in all its forms.

 

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The Guardian Australia has “no plans” to work with an anti-Semitic freelance journalist after horrific social media posts came to light.
Palestinian freelance journalist and “fixer” Fady Hanona was let go from his job with the New York Times after a series of anti-Semitic posts re-emerged on social media.

In one of the posts, Hanona expressed his support for killing jews and said: “The Jews are sons of the dogs … I am in favor of killing them and burning them like Hitler did. I will be so happy”.

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ABC and The Guardian cut ties with anti-Semitic journalist

The Guardian Australia has “no plans” to work with an anti-Semitic freelance journalist after horrific social media posts came to light.

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One-Third of British Population Believe in Antisemitic Conspiracies, New Survey Says

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US Jewish lawmaker targeted by antisemitic posts on far-right platform Gab

Pennsylvania's Dan Frankel, whose district covers Tree of Life synagogue attacked by Gab user, subjected to online abuse after criticizing opponent's links to social media site

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Antisemitism, The Philadelphia Inquirer warned in 2018, is “rising.” But the newspaper is doing its best to hide what it once acknowledged was a growing problem. Indeed, the Inquirer has launched nothing short of an advocacy campaign on behalf of a woman who once said that “Israel doesn’t have a right to exist.”

On August 23, 2022, the Inquirer filed a dispatch entitled, “She was fired for being publicly pro-Palestine. One year later, no one is hiring her.” However, in more than 1,600 words, reporter Massarah Makati failed to inform readers that Natalie Abulhawa, a one-time private school teacher, was fired for not only saying that Israel doesn’t have a right to exist, but for attending rallies where signs read “Jews control the U.S. Senate.” That seems like an important detail.

Abulhawa’s own words deny Israel’s right to exist, and seem to condone violence against Israelis. Canary Mission, a website that catalogues antisemitic statements and organizations, has a publicly available list of the one-time teacher’s troubling comments.

For example, on August 5, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted: “Fk each and every single Zionist on this planet. I hope they rot in f*king hell. Fking cts.”

Zionism, which the Inquirer misleadingly describes as simply “the national ideology of Israel,” is actually the belief in Jewish self-determination in the Jewish people’s ancestral homeland. It is a view held by an overwhelming majority of American Jews — some of whom could find themselves as students in a classroom led by a teacher who hopes they “rot in hell.” Framed this way, it’s not hard to see why a private educational school was reluctant to freely employ a teacher who so openly expresses hatred for a belief held by most American Jews and many others. Or, for that matter, a teacher so willing to use profanity in public forums.

What is hard to explain, however, is why the Inquirer ran a story ostensibly about Abulhawa being fired, only to omit the details connected to her dismissal. In nearly 2,000 words, the newspaper, contravening standard journalistic practice, failed to report the facts. And this is the second report in less than six months that the Inquirer has filed on the exact same story.

As the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) has previously pointed out, the Philadelphia newspaper published a March 17, 2022, article entitled, “Former athletic trainer says Agnes Irwin school illegally fired her for social media posts critical of Israel.” That report, while noting that Abulhawa was fired “after parents complained about years-old social media posts criticizing Israel,” was also a whitewash of the wannabe educator’s hatred.

Abulhawa’s own statements show that she’s not merely “critical” of Israel. In fact, calling to end the Jewish state of Israel meets the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which has been widely adopted by numerous governments, as well as the US State Department. But this too is omitted by the Inquirer, which obfuscates some of Abulhawa’s other troubling statements and actions.

On August 4, 2016, Abulhawa said that “Israel doesn’t have a right to exist.” The wannabe educator has even made several tweets suggesting that she would physically assault Israelis. For example, on July 15, 2016, she tweeted: “Israeli soldiers are in my neighborhood yay lemme go stock up on some rocks.” A few weeks later, on August 10, she lamented: “bruh I didn’t get to throw any rocks this year” — calling it a “Palestinian problem.” These comments seem to call into question her judgement and her ability to teach and provide a safe learning environment. Yet, this aspect is glossed over by the Inquirer. Ditto for Abulhawa’s actions and associations.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer Hides Antisemitism — Again

A view of Jerusalem. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Antisemitism, The Philadelphia Inquirer warned in 2018, is “rising.” But the newspaper is …

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Jewish History Museum Inaugurated in Moroccan Port Town

The Moroccan port city of Tangier. Photo: Mike McBey/CC BY 2.0 A museum dedicated to Jewish history and culture was …

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One of the initiators of the project is Masao Adachi, a former member of the Japanese Red Army (JRA) terrorist organization. Founded in 1971, the JRA was known for its rigid Marxist ideology and the punishing, often violent, internal discipline meted out to its supporters. In May 1972, the group carried out one of the bloodiest terrorist attacks in Israel’s history, when three JRA terrorists launched a gun and grenade attack in the arrivals terminal at Lod Airport (now Ben Gurion Airport) near Tel Aviv. Twenty-six people were murdered and 80 injured during the attack, with a group of Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico and the renowned Israeli biophysicist Prof. Aharon Katzir among the dead.

Other false claims contained in the film according to Baier include the accusations that the IDF sabotages toys with explosives for the specific purpose of “murdering children,” and that the 1982 massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut, executed by Lebanese Christian Phalangist forces, was carried out by Israeli troops.


Baier asserted that the films gathered for the “Tokyo Reels” installation were “bursting with hatred for Israel.”

“They describe the establishment of the Jewish state as the result of a ‘Zionist conspiracy,’ claiming that Israeli soldiers desecrated corpses in a Christian cemetery and destroyed shrines in a church,” he wrote. The video’s claim was accompanied by a voiceover commentary that declared, “respect and reverence for the dead is taught by all religions, but even that meant nothing to the Zionists.”

Already beset by widespread criticism of the antisemitic artworks that were either removed or haphazardly covered over at this year’s festival — curated by ruangrupa, an Indonesian artists collective — Documenta’s management team finds itself in familiar territory. It has faced severe criticism of its approach to antisemitism since January, when revelations of ruangrupa’s support for the anti-Zionist BDS campaign targeting Israel first emerged.

Subsequently, the Documenta festival featured a mural containing classic antisemitic caricatures, a triptych featuring a man wearing a kipah proferring large bags of money, a brochure featuring antisemitic drawings of Israeli soldiers and a row over the statements of Hamja Ahsan, a British artist exhibiting at the festival, who praised the BDS movement and slammed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who canceled a visit to the festival in protest at the presence of antisemitic works, as a “fascist pig.”

In a commentary for the Spiegel news magazine on Wednesday, columnist Sascha Lobo called for the festival to be shut down forthwith.

“When the country that perpetrated the Holocaust promotes and spreads such blatant antisemitism … then you have to sound the alarm and let the consequences follow,” Lobo wrote.

‘Bursting With Hatred for Israel:’ Antisemitic Video Exhibited at Scandal-Plagued Documenta Art Festival

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The US Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has ruled that Kyrene School District in Arizona violated the civil rights of a Jewish student who was harassed by antisemitic bullies for months.

DOE’s ruling, announced on Tuesday, resolves a complaint filed on behalf of a female, Jewish eighth-grader who complained to a school principal that several students called her antisemitic slurs, including “dirty Jew,” “stinky Jew,” and “filthy Jew.”

In her presence, students also joked about the Holocaust, pretended to speak in German, and goose-stepped while pantomiming the Sieg Heil salute.

“Although the district confirmed that antisemitic harassment occurred on campus and in classrooms, including by finding that nine students had engaged in antisemitic harassment for several months, the district did not assess whether the verified, widespread harassment negatively impacted other students,” OCR said in a press release. “The harassment the student experienced and the district’s failure to provide the student with a safe school environment caused her to suffer significant and enduring academic and emotional harm.”

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Jewish Student’s Civil Rights Violated by Arizona School District, Feds Say

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A photo tweeted by Tlaib depicted the four “Squad” members together, along with some others. One of them was a woman dressed in an all-white jumpsuit; it was Rasha Mubarak. Her appearance in the photo is a testament to her high standing within the Tlaib campaign. Indeed, since Mubarak has been working alongside Tlaib, she has received from the campaign, through her consulting group Unbought Power, over $200,000.

Normally, it would be viewed as inappropriate to have someone like Mubarak involved in something as serious as this, as her unhinged obsession with Israel would be deemed potentially detrimental to most political campaigns. However, this is Rashida Tlaib’s campaign, so hatred of Israel comes standard, and in this part of the country with its heavy Middle Eastern population, it has been made known in a significant way that the voters approve.

On Primary election day, August 2nd, Mubarak tweeted a picture of herself with Tlaib – the two decked out in Tlaib campaign regalia – with the following message: “It’s official. We sending our sister Rashida Tlaib back to Congress! We won, again, y’all!” And while Mubarak took a few days to bask in the victory, it did not take her long to focus her attention (and animosity) back on the Jewish state.

On August 6th, Mubarak twice (and again the next day) retweeted anti-Israel messages written by Noura Erekat, a Palestinian activist who was condemned for her antisemitism, only this past April, by the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC). SWC stated, “Noura Erekat’s hatred of Jews is so pure it would have made Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels happy.” In December 2020, Mubarak featured Erekat as her guest, on her first Unbought Power podcast, to honor Erekat’s terrorist cousin, Ahmed, who had just been shot and killed after attempting to run over a female Israeli border officer, at a checkpoint east of Jerusalem.

Also on August 6th, Mubarak retweeted former PLO spokeswoman Diana Buttu’s post, “Palestinians have a right to defend themselves and their land. There is no right to defend a military occupation.” This idea of Israel having no right to self-defense is not new to Mubarak; she has been saying as such for years. In 2012, she tweeted, “#LiesImTiredOfHearing, Israel has the right to defend herself.” In 2013, she said, about Israel, US diplomats mouth the words “‘right to defend itself’… when they snore.” And in 2019, after Hamas fired hundreds of deadly rockets at Israeli civilians, she tweeted against anyone who dared defend Israeli retaliation.

Further on August 6th, Mubarak retweeted a post from a fan of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group named Yara, who wrote “Long live the Palestinian resistance.” Mubarak echoed these sentiments, this past September 11th, when she tweeted her adoration for Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)-linked prisoner escapees, writing “The Palestinian diaspora is grieving today as a total of 4 of the 6 Palestinian political prisoners from #thegreatescape were detained. Nonetheless, the hope these 6 Palestinian freedom fighters have offered us, will not be short lived – we will resist to exist.”

For Mubarak and her radical friends, including Congresswoman Tlaib, “resistance” means one thing, violence against Jews. The liberation of Israel they seek is one based on death and destruction carried out by masked terrorists, who launch rockets into civilian neighborhoods and blow themselves up in suicide attacks.

In fear of losing constituencies, like that of Tlaib, Democratic leadership has cowardly allowed this murderous bigotry to permeate their party, legitimizing the hate. Antisemitism is on the rise among Democrats, and the re-election of Tlaib is proof of this. Mubarak is being groomed for political office, as well. Democrats have failed to purge their ranks. If Democrats do not wake up, soon the party will be saturated with this type of bloodthirsty fanaticism, to the point that raving antisemites like Mubarak and Tlaib will cease being the exception but will be the norm.

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The Anti-Semitic ‘Right-Hand Woman’ in Rashida Tlaib’s Congressional Campaign | FrontpageMag

Joe Kaufman, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is Chairman of the Joe Kaufman Security Initiative and the 2014, 2016 and 2018

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