Stop Antisemitism

Throughout 2022, Australian Neo-Nazi organizations and individuals posted many stickers on public property. A number of these groups were highly active, totalling 135 instances of stickers posted and documented online throughout the course of the year. This report has adopted a chronological approach to categorizing and analysing self-reported instances of stickers posted in Australia from January 1, 2022, to December 1, 2022.

This report has identified a significant increase in stickering activity in Australia in mid-to-late 2022, with highs of 22 instances in May and 21 instances in September. This report suggests that there may be two main driving factors that may explain this increase.

First, an Australian Neo-Nazi began in May 2022 to produce, print, market, sell, and distribute a wide variety of stickers including Neo-Nazi, white supremacist, racist, antisemitic, Islamophobic, and anti-LGBTIQA+ designs. This individuals' stickers were identified in instances of stickers posted and documented online by other actors, in addition to himself.

Second, several new Neo-Nazi organizations and groups appeared as the year progressed – resulting in more entities aspiring to gain visibility or recruit members, with some adopting the tactics of established neo-Nazi organizations as a means of doing so. Australian Neo-Nazis predominately posted their stickering activities to their Telegram channels, from when they were shared widely online.

This report reviews instances of Australian Neo-Nazi organizations, groups, and individuals posting stickers in each month from January 1, 2022, to December 1, 2022.


(full article online)



 
A Hertfordshire-based under-fourteens football team has received a nine-month ban following an inflammatory social media post from one of its players.

Following the Potters Bar United under-fourteen’s win over the Jewish children’s football team Maccabi London FC on 19th September, one of the Potters Bar players uploaded a Snapchat post which said: “4-3 win over some random Jews. Hitler would be proud.”

Accompanied was a petrol tank emoji, seemingly a reference to gas chambers in Nazi Germany.

The team has now been banned from playing games for nine months, two of which are suspended for one year. Additionally, two players have been suspended from playing, must attend an FA online education programme and the club must pay a fine.

The family of the boy responsible for the post has agreed to undertake a course on Holocaust education and Judaism with a rabbi.

A spokesperson for Hertfordshire Police said: “An investigation was launched in September 2022 after police were made aware of a post on social media containing antisemitic language. The post was made in relation to a football match involving two youth teams based in Hertfordshire.

“Enquiries were carried out and a teenage boy was interviewed under caution. He fully admitted the offence and was dealt with by of community resolution.

“Hate crimes can have a severe impact on victims and on the wider community as a whole. Incidents of this nature will absolutely not be tolerated in Hertfordshire and any reports made to police will be taken seriously and dealt with sensitively.”

(full article online)



 
[ When do any of these Muslims/Arabs EVER go to Arabia to visit their indigenous land? EVER ???? Right, there is no Palestinian tourism to their homeland, Arabia. Got it ! ]


 
Then in March of this year, Kiswani led protesters in chants calling to “Globalize the Intifada,” in front of the New York office of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. Despite her incitement to kill Jews wherever they may be found, Kiswani was chosenby her peers to speak at CUNY Law school’s commencement address two months later. She used this opportunity to promote the antisemitic BDS movement.

Yet, somehow, the Wall Street Journal’s Douglas Belkin decided that Kiswani was an appropriate spokesperson about college antisemitism. (“Antisemitism Is Rising at Colleges, and Jewish Students Are Facing Growing Hostility,” December 14, 2022.)

Nerdeen Kiswani, who graduated from the City University of New York Law School this year and has been advocating for Palestinians since she was an undergraduate at several CUNY schools, said antisemitism is harmful not only to Jews but to the Palestinian cause because it detracts from grievances about Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.
“There’s nothing that undermines the Palestinians’ struggle more than antisemitism,” she said.
In many respects, Belkin’s article was extremely informative. Casting Kiswani as an opponent of antisemitism, however, is simply perverse. There’s no indication that Belkin asked her about any of her alleged actions – including threatening to set another person on fire. Nor are any of those actions mentioned in his article.

Moreover, the article appears to adopt the position of Palestine Legal on antisemitism. Belkin writes,

Anti-Zionism is a political position distinct from antisemitism, which is a prejudice, said Dylan Saba, an attorney with New York-based Palestine Legal, which works to support the civil and constitutional rights of people in the U.S. who advocate for Palestinians. The two are conflated by supporters of Israel to discredit critics, he said.
Condemning Israel may make some Jewish students feel uncomfortable, but that doesn’t mean it is antisemitic, he said. “All we are asking for is equal rights,” he said.
Belkin does attribute the claim to Dylan Saba, and he does provide the US State Department definition as well. But the manner in which the passage is written – with the definition first and the attribution afterwards – sounds as if the Journal is endorsing this “expert” definition.

And of course, Saba’s claim that, “all we are asking for is equal rights,” is disingenuous. Belkin fails to point out that Palestinians have rejected one opportunity for independence after another.

Palestine Legal has defended speaking events featuring Roger Waters, Linda Sarsour, Marc Lamont Hill, Angela Davis, as well as defending Kiswani.

Of course, it’s unimaginable that in, for example, an article about racism, any reporter would seek the opinion of the John Birch Society. Antisemitism is the only form of bigotry that requires reporting of both sides.

Last week’s article comes on the heels of another Wall Street Journal article that downplayed Palestinian rejectionism, and that included a headline that inverted cause and effect, making it sound like the collapse of the Israeli left is the reason for the collapse of the possibility of the two-state solution, rather than the reverse. (“As Israel’s Left Suffers Defeat, So Does Two-State Solution,” December 6, by Dov Lieber.) Is this going to become a pattern at the Journal?

(full article online)


 
Jewish Texans have experienced an over 400 percent increase in antisemitic incidents since 2020, according to a recently released state report, the first of its kind in Texas’ history.

The report, authored by local faith and civic leaders in the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission, found 60 antisemitic incidents in Texas so far in 2022. In 2020, there were 14.


(full article online)

 
El Bashayer reports:
On Friday, a demonstration took place in the Sitra area of Bahrain, rejecting the holding of Hanukkah activities in the country, and all forms of normalization with the Israeli entity, and in support of the Palestinian cause.
"Chanukah is a Zionist project and normalization program"

Palestine Today reports that the demonstration was repeated today, and managed to cancel a Chanukah event tonight.


Sunday evening, a massive demonstration took place in Bahrain to condemn the normalization of Manama with the Israeli occupation.

Activists circulated on social media, video clips, the moment a mass demonstration began near Bab Al Bahrain, denouncing normalization and holding Hanukkah events in the country.

The participants raised banners denouncing the condemnation and slogans of "Death to Israel".

The demonstration led to the cancellation of the first Hanukkah activities scheduled to start this evening at Bab Al Bahrain.

Here's video with plenty of chants of "Death to Israel."



 

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