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Romanian media are reporting that a team from Romania rescued a family from under the rubble in Turkey.

Chinese media are proud that a Chinese team rescued a pregnant woman.

The UK government issued a press release about the large team they sent to Turkey.

Algerian officials are proud of their rescue team.

So are Palestinians.

UAE media are similarly reporting on their own teams who have rescued people in Syria.

It is natural to be proud that your own people are helping others. Even local media in Los Angeles are showing pride that rescue dogs being sent by the US were trained in Ventura County.

Yet when Israel sends a massive number of experienced experts to set up a field hospital, and shows pride in helping save ten people so far, some people bristle.



Palestinian media have had multiple articles that say that Israel's rescue efforts are only for PR purposes, and they are not interested in saving any Muslim lives.

"Rabbi" David Mivasair calls it "cynical propaganda." Someone named Dan Easterman gleefully tweeted and defended, "Every time there is an earthquake or humanitarian disaster, Israel immediately tries to exploit the tragedy to gain political capital and improve it’s [sic] international image. The cynicism makes me sick."

This has been a theme for previous rescue missions, where "critics" even accused Israel of using the rescuers as coverfor doing crimes in the disaster zone.

It is yet another case where Israel acts like every other country on Earth - and people single it out as being immoral.

Yes, this is the definition of antisemitism.

Every country is proud to help earthquake victims. Only Israel is vilified.

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When one puerta closes, another puerta opens — or at least that’s how Tel Aviv may be feeling, after Madrid offered to replace Barcelona as its Spanish twin city.

Barcelona’s mayor, Ada Colau, cut ties with Tel Aviv on Wednesday, citing what she said was “apartheid” in Israel. On Thursday, Madrid’s mayor, José Luís Martínez-Almeida, offered to step up as a replacement.

In a letter to Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai and during a press conference on Thursday, Martínez-Almeida said the twinning is a “great opportunity to show Madrid’s commitment to strengthening relations with a democratic and a law-abiding state like Israel.”


Twin or sister cities typically collaborate on tourism and economic enterprises. Barcelona launched two initiatives last year to draw Jewish and Israeli tourists, and city officials visited Tel Aviv to learn about the tourism industry there. But data from the Madrid government shows that in 2021, Madrid was the Spanish region that attracted the most investment from Israel, receiving 60% of Israeli capital invested in Spain.

Martínez-Almeida criticized the Barcelona city council’s decision to sever ties with Tel Aviv after 25 years as twin cities. Barcelona paired with the Gaza Strip at the same time in 1998.

“We will not promote, encourage or allow behavior such as this, which has a clear antisemitic overtone and has no place,” he said.

The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, a member of the conservative People’s Party, will visit Israel next week with the goal of strengthening trade relations and demonstrating Madrid’s capacity to attract investors and boost projects, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported.

Madrid offers to partner with Tel Aviv after Barcelona severs ‘twin city’ ties

The offer comes after Barcelona’s mayor broke a 25-year partnership, citing Israeli “apartheid.”

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More reasons the "apartheid" libel is utterly false and antisemitic (infographic)

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An antisemite projected hateful messages on the façade of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, including the conspiracy theory that she did not pen her diary.

“Anne Frank is the inventor of the ballpoint pen,” one message read in Dutch. It followed long-circulated claims among Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis, which have now become an internet meme.

Video of the messages on the museum, one of the most visited sites in the Netherlands, was shared on a far-right Telegram channel called “The Laser Nazi Bunker.”


[full article online]

Antisemites Desecrate Anne Frank House with Hateful Messages | United with Israel

Femke Halsema, Amsterdam’s mayor, called the defacement a 'cowardly act' and 'pure antisemitism.'

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Scandal-Ridden NY College ‘Enables’ Jew-Hatred With New System, Says Watchdog | United with Israel

CUNY introduced a new online discrimination portal, which it claimed combats antisemitism. According to a campus watchdog, the system actually enables Jew-hatred.

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Jews in the South experience more antisemitism than other regions, survey finds

The poll also revealed new information about antisemitism on campus and attitudes toward the BDS movement aimed at Israel.

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Traditional antisemitic attitudes getting mainstreamed

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How Art Museums Distort Jewish Culture, and Downplay Anti-Semitism » Mosaic

Catholics fare little better.

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Edy Cohen writes in Israel Today:

Tunisian Jews are again in the eye of the storm. The arrest of a local Jewish merchant has shaken the peace of the island community of Djerba that dates back to the times of King David.

Today there are only about a thousand Jews left in Djerba, a quiet Mediterranean island just off the coast of Tunisia. There is almost no crime or politics on this idyllic refuge, where most of the Jewish residents observe the Sabbath.

The event that shocked the Jewish community in Djerba took place on Tuesday of last week, when the police, accompanied by large forces of undercover officers, arrested a 60-year-old Jewish merchant named Mishleh Bitan. According to the authorities, he was accused of smuggling gold. The Jews of Djerba have been dealing in gold for generations and many of them own gold shops on the island.

Police planned to apprehend the wife and son of the Jewish merchant, but dozens of Jews showed up to protect the family and physically prevented the arrest.

In a conversation I had with a number of Jews in Djerba, it appears that every two or three weeks the police come to the neighborhood and try to harass them under the pretext of hunting smugglers. Sometimes they conduct searches and force the Jews to report their sales and tax statements. Other times the police show up for random inventory and often steal gold during the count. No one dares say a word because of the fear of further harassment.

Life has turned upside down in recent years for these Jews. Everyone I spoke with expressed deep concerns and even disbelief at the harassment that has suddenly descended upon this ancient Jewish community.

Police took Mishleh in a police car to the capital of Tunis, a journey of about seven hours. Then unexpectedly, and following pressure exerted by various parties both in Israel and in other countries, Mishleh was released after less than a day in detention.

Another Jewish source told me: “We didn’t stay. We first of all prevented the arrest of the family’s mother and son. They wanted to arrest them to put pressure on Mishleh to make a confession. But we prevented that. For the whole day after the arrest, we sat and waited and closed the shops. In protest we put up signs saying ‘We will not be silent any longer.’”

This is the only place I could find the story, although Cohen has been tweeting about it from the time of Mishleh's arrest.

Increased harassment of Jewish merchants in Djerba, Tunisia

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A Jewish soccer player in Miami was assaulted Wednesday on his home field by members of an opposing team from a Catholic high school, according to local media reports.

Footage of the incident shared on social media shows roughly five athletes from Archbishop Coleman Carroll High School — a high school in Miami — ambushing the student — who attends Scheck Hillel Community School. The group then knocks him to the turf and stomps him after he went down.

Witnesses said that during the assault the Carroll High students screamed “Hitler was right,” according to a local FOX affiliate.

(full article online)

Jewish Student-Athlete Assaulted on Own Home Field in Miami

Jewish soccer assaulted by Catholic players from opposing school. Photo: Screenshot. A Jewish soccer player in Miami was assaulted Wednesday …

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Leading French news outlet Le Monde has been accused of displaying “uninhibited antisemitism” by the Israeli Embassy in Paris after it published an opinion piece that referred to the “lack of manners” among Sephardic Jews in Israel.

The offending piece — published on Tuesday by Christophe Ayad and Louis Imbert, the paper’s Jerusalem correspondent — focused on Meyer Habib, a Jewish parliamentarian and vocal supporter of Israel whose election to the French National Assembly was annulled by the country’s constitutional court earlier this month, after it cited ballot “irregularities” and other violations of electoral conduct. Habib, a member of the center-right Les Republicains Party, had been the representative for French citizens living abroad in Greece, Turkey, Italy and Israel.
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However, the authors warned that Habib could make a bid for re-election in the coming months.

“He has a chance to win, as his lack of manners and his excesses seduce a French electorate in Israel which leans more and more to the right, and where the Sephardim have more and more weight,” they claimed.

In a statement responding to the article, Israeli Ambassador Yael German asserted that Le Monde was “no longer satisfied with its systemic bias against Israel.”

She charged that the paper was displaying “uninhibited antisemitism” by arguing that a “lack of manners” and “excesses” were specific characteristics of Sephardic Jews.

“Such declarations convey the most objectionable antisemitic stereotypes,” German added.

(full article online)

Israeli Ambassador to France Accuses Leading Newspaper of ‘Uninhibited Antisemitism’

Meyer Habib, the subject of an article in Le Monde denounced as antisemitic, addressing the French National Assembly. Photo: Reuters/Xose …

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Dr. Zahi Hawass, a former Egyptian Antiquities minister who styles himself as a real-life Indiana Jones, is about to embark on a 23-city lecture tour in the US, speaking at convention centers in all major US cities.

No one seems very concerned that he is a Jew-hater.

He has said that Jews immigrated to America, took over its entire economy, and now control the entire world.

Hawass wrote in 2009, "The concept of killing women, children, and elderly people.... seems to run in the blood of the Jews of Palestine" and that "the only thing that the Jews have learned from history is methods of tyranny and torment—so much so that they have become artists in this field."

"When I speak of the Jewish faith, I do not mean their [original] faith, but the faith that they forged and contaminated with their poison, which is aimed against all of mankind," he added.

This distinguished academic also claims that the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, have nothing to do with Judaism.

Hawass has repeatedly rejected the idea of a museum of Egyptian Jewish history, similar to a museum of Coptic history in Egypt, saying, "How can we have a Jewish museum for the occupiers of Palestine?"\

If an avowed racist was to lecture in the US on any topic, there would be an uproar. But a Jew-hater, who happily spreads the most vile conspiracy theories about Jews?

Not a word of protest.

What would it take to get Jews to protest this lecture series?

This has nothing to do with Zionism - his comments are antisemitic no matter what definition you choose to subscribe to.

But will liberal Jews write letters and picket his lectures? Will the media cover his history of antisemitism when they report on his lectures?

What will it take for people who claim to care about antisemitism to act like it?

A world-famous antisemite, @Dr_Hawass, is embarking on a US lecture tour

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An antisemitic incident occurred Saturday night at a girls high school basketball game between the Shalhevet Firehawks and the Buena Park Coyotes, according to several Shalhevet students who were in attendance.

“The scores were really neck and neck and it was just overall a very intense game,” a Shalhevet student, who preferred to remain anonymous, told the Journal. “My friend was standing across the gym by the other team when she texted me and told me they were chanting Kanye West at her the entire game. They were shouting at her and yelling that they were going to fight after the game.”

The student added, “There was one mom from the other side who was standing with a group of students screaming, ‘where is the security guard’? When she found him she went up to him and accused him of pushing her daughter.”

Another Shalhevet student, who also asked to remain anonymous, said that some Buena Park students pulled the Palestinian flag up on their cell phones and held it in the faces of Shalhevet students.

“I started to feel really unsafe,” the first student said. “The game got very hectic. When our girls were shooting foul shots, some Buena Park students held up pictures of Swastikas on their phones to distract them.”


(full article online)

Antisemitic Incident Reported at Shalhevet Girls Basketball Game

Although there were no physical altercations at the game or outside, one student said she felt threatened.

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[Rigby5]

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.

Wrong.

First of all, the word "Semitic" means of an Arab language group, so it is cultural appropriate to change the meaning to apply ONLY to Jews, when in reality it applies to ALL Arabs.
And the reason that is so offensive is that Jews are constantly trying to deny they are Arabs.
When they clearly are, and it can easily be proven by following the language origins.

Second is that Jews can easily be offensive, such as claiming to the the Chosen People and have unpaid for rights to the Chosen Land.
For example, Israel is almost all illegal Jewish immigrants from Europe, who never paid for anything, but stole the land instead.
In the 1920 census conducted by England, less than 5% of the population of then Palestine, were Jewish.

The way to stop Jewish hatred is for Jews to stop being so greedy and tribal.
The Old Testament is horrific, and the ancient food customs no longer make any sense.
A lot of Jews, like Netanyahu, admit to being atheists.
So then what is the point?
Joint the 21st century and forget about these ancient barbaric concepts.

 

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

Ethiopians are very badly treated in Israel.
That is because most Israelis are Ashkenazi, from Russia, and have almost never seen a Black person up close.

 

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Before 1942. This is 2022.

Earth to Surada

The Romans used it.
It does not belong to the Nazis.
It now means whatever we want it to mean now.

 

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This distinguished academic also claims that the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, have nothing to do with Judaism.

This is true.
There is no remnant of any Jewish building anywhere in the whole world.
The closest would be the palace of Herod, but Herod was a Roman who only pretended to convert, and his palace was built by the Romans.

That probably is because the Hebrew tribes were nomadic and not builders.