Stop Antisemitism

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7 Things pro-Palestinians Forgot to Tell You (...this war is not about land...)​

 

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SARAH VINE: My message to those who plan to desecrate Poppy Day

SARAH VINE: There is a level of wilful ignorance among these protesters -many of whom belong to the same generation as my children - that simply beggars belief.

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Arab media publishes lots of their classic antisemitic fairy tales​

Today I am seeing the most prevalent daily antisemitism I've ever seen in Arab media.

Examples from the past 24 hours:

Asil TV (Shiite): "The Zionist Temple does not exist in the Jewish holy books"

Masr Times (Egypt "Details of Israel's plan to control the Middle East"

Arabic Post: a romanticizing of the deadly 1929 pogroms (the closest analogy to October 7) as the "Buraq Revolution," claiming Jews planned to destroy the Kotel and Temple Mount

Al Shorouk (Algeria): The bogus "Franklin Prophecy" where Benjamin Franklin is claimed to wan to rid America of Jews
Al Masdar Online (Yemen): All Biden's advisers are either Jewish or Zionist.


El Aosboa (Egypt) quotes academic fraud Shlomo Sandthat the concept of the "Jewish people" was invented in the late 19th century. (For fun, I did a search for the term; here it is in a book from 1650. Also there were Psalms-based church songs using the term from at least 1677.)

There were at least two more articles about how Israelis are supposedly planting gharqad trees to protect themselves from Muslims, since those trees will not join the othe rtrees and stones directing Muslims to where Jews are hiding so they can be slaughtered.

One Palestinian site has an article calling for a "Palestinian Holocaust Museum" - meaning, a museum about how Jews are Nazis. Enough said.

Arab media publishes lots of their classic antisemitic fairy tales

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As Amanda Silberstein testified to the US House of Representatives on Wednesday about how a student at her university had threatened to kill and rape Jewish students, she was interrupted.

“Free Palestine,” a protester shouted from the audience during Silberstein’s testimony at a hearing on free speech and antisemitism on college campuses. “Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism.”

Silberstein is an undergraduate at Cornell University, where a student was recently arrested for making antisemitic death threats.

Silberstein, a member of the student board at Cornell’s Chabad-Lubavitch movement chapter, had just described how “professors and student organizations have been fueling Jew-hatred and spreading it across campus with disregard or potentially even with deliberate intent to incite.”

It was one of several times when pro-Palestinian protesters interrupted witnesses at the House Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Free Speech on College Campuses.”

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But the dissonance of the moment — Silberstein, unlike Blinken, was not using her testimony to advocate for Israel — exemplified the tense atmosphere, as Republicans and Democrats alike openly pondered the question of whether, and how, speech about Israel and Jews should be policed on campus and in the House.

“I happen to believe in the eradication of Hamas. The same freedom of speech that protects my right to advocate that position is at stake here, is it not?” California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock said at one point to Kenneth Marcus, a witness who served in the Trump administration’s Education Department and chairs the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a pro-Israel group that has repeatedly brought legal challenges against universities it says fail to properly discipline anti-Zionist speech.

The hearing was originally intended to focus on the issue of conservative college students allegedly being silenced. But in light of Hamas’s October 7 massacres in Israel, it largely centered on antisemitism on campus and beyond as student and faculty rhetoric around Israel has reached a fever pitch.

Silberstein had been invited to testify in part because Cornell recently canceled classes for a day because of the threats against its Jewish students. That incident followed a professor at the Ivy League university publicly praising the Hamas attacks, turning the school into a flashpoint for the rising temperature around antisemitic and anti-Zionist speech on campuses.


(full article online)

At US House antisemitism hearing, anti-Israel protester interrupts Jewish student

Cornell student Amanda Silberstein was disrupted in Congress as she testified how professors, student groups have fueled Jew-hatred on campus following the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre

www.timesofisrael.com

 

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Growing up as a Bukharian Jew in China, Uriah was always told by his parents to hide his Jewishness in public and to try to assimilate into the greater Chinese population.

Uriah — who asked to be identified only by his Hebrew name to ensure the safety of his family — said that when he began publicly talking about his Jewish identity, people told him that he would “never be one of us [Han Chinese].”

But Uriah had never felt physically or personally threatened until the aftermath of Oct. 7, when some 3,000 terrorists burst across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip killing some 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and seizing some 240 hostages, including babies, children and the elderly.

Online, he saw people taunting the parents of Noa Argamani, the half-Chinese Israeli-born captive who was seen being kidnapped by Hamas in a viral video. People cursed her Chinese-born mother for asking China for help.

Then friends and acquaintances started taunting Uriah and his family members, sending them antisemitic social media posts and messages saying Argamani was rightfully captured by Hamas fighters, he said.

(full article online)

Since Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, antisemitism has exploded online in China

Viral video taunts parents of half-Chinese Israeli-born Noa Argamani, held hostage by Hamas; other posts criticize actions against Palestinians, compare Israel to Nazi Germany

www.timesofisrael.com

 

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Jews lived all over the Arab world for thousands of years... This ugly nightmare is based in Jewish Nationalism.. Zionism. That came from Eastern Europe not Palestine.

 

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As Amanda Silberstein testified to the US House of Representatives on Wednesday about how a student at her university had threatened to kill and rape Jewish students, she was interrupted.

“Free Palestine,” a protester shouted from the audience during Silberstein’s testimony at a hearing on free speech and antisemitism on college campuses. “Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism.”

Silberstein is an undergraduate at Cornell University, where a student was recently arrested for making antisemitic death threats.

Silberstein, a member of the student board at Cornell’s Chabad-Lubavitch movement chapter, had just described how “professors and student organizations have been fueling Jew-hatred and spreading it across campus with disregard or potentially even with deliberate intent to incite.”

It was one of several times when pro-Palestinian protesters interrupted witnesses at the House Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Free Speech on College Campuses.”

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But the dissonance of the moment — Silberstein, unlike Blinken, was not using her testimony to advocate for Israel — exemplified the tense atmosphere, as Republicans and Democrats alike openly pondered the question of whether, and how, speech about Israel and Jews should be policed on campus and in the House.

“I happen to believe in the eradication of Hamas. The same freedom of speech that protects my right to advocate that position is at stake here, is it not?” California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock said at one point to Kenneth Marcus, a witness who served in the Trump administration’s Education Department and chairs the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a pro-Israel group that has repeatedly brought legal challenges against universities it says fail to properly discipline anti-Zionist speech.

The hearing was originally intended to focus on the issue of conservative college students allegedly being silenced. But in light of Hamas’s October 7 massacres in Israel, it largely centered on antisemitism on campus and beyond as student and faculty rhetoric around Israel has reached a fever pitch.

Silberstein had been invited to testify in part because Cornell recently canceled classes for a day because of
the threats against its Jewish students. That incident followed a professor at the Ivy League university publicly praising the Hamas attacks, turning the school into a flashpoint for the rising temperature around antisemitic and anti-Zionist speech on campuses.


(full article online)

At US House antisemitism hearing, anti-Israel protester interrupts Jewish student

Cornell student Amanda Silberstein was disrupted in Congress as she testified how professors, student groups have fueled Jew-hatred on campus following the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre

www.timesofisrael.com

There's no excuse for these vicious threats.. none. But, they don't justify what Israel has done.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Jews lived all over the Arab world for thousands of years... This ugly nightmare is based in Jewish Nationalism.. Zionism. That came from Eastern Europe not Palestine.

Keep following the Christian cult you were born to and the Islamic cult you grew up with.

Nothing else will come out of you but what they put into your brain.

 

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There's no excuse for these vicious threats.. none. But, they don't justify what Israel has done.

Israel is surrounded by Islamic extremists intent on destroying it. It does what it can to protect the Nation and its population, all of it, from those barbarians.

And you keep lying about what Israel "has done" because all you read is those lying Arab sources of yours which you did lie about saying you did not read Arab sources.

STOP antisemitism. Because all you do is incite it.

 

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With antisemitism surging, Diaspora synagogues are ‘afraid’ to mark Kristallnacht

As Holocaust survivors reflect on Oct. 7 and the 'global pogrom' during Israel's war with Hamas, some Jewish communities avoid commemorating 85 years to the Night of Broken Glass

www.timesofisrael.com

 

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Report: Concealed Foreign Funding of US Colleges Linked to Antisemitism | United with Israel

“Qatar—one of the most vocal pro-Hamas, antisemitic countries in the world—has given over $1 billion to U.S. universities from 2011 to 2016,” said Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.).

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At a time when Jewish students on university campuses across the Western world are being targeted, isolated, and harassed by anti-Israel activists and with British Columbia’s human rights commissioner calling for action to counter rising antisemitism, Associate Professor Hicham Safieddine of the University of British Columbia (UBC) called for students to stop seeking recourse against those who are making their lives miserable.

In an opinion article for the Ubyssey entitled: “Decolonize Palestine at UBC,” Safieddine falsely claimed that those criticizing Israel or voicing support for Palestinians are being suppressed and punished, and that allegations of antisemitism are merely “false” and an “instrumentalization” meant to silence “non-violent activists.”

He wrote that “calling for an end to racial discrimination based on legalized ethno-religious supremacy and advocating for a single state for all its citizens is hate speech” in the eyes of his critics.

What Safieddine did not share is that “a single state for all its citizens” is a coded term for the elimination of Israel as a Jewish State.

Safieddine is bothered by the fact that UBC formally condemned the barbaric Hamas massacre of more than 1,400 Israeli women, children, babies, and senior citizens—which he refers to simply as an “operation”—and that they did not similarly condemn the civilian casualties in Gaza due to Israel’s defensive military response. This is not only an egregious and shameful moral equivalency, but it downplays the uniquely evil nature of the October 7thattacks—which included some of the most gruesome atrocities ever caught on camera, and represented the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

Reading his piece in a vacuum, however, one would be left with the false impression that Israel and Hamas are just two equal parties who both kill people. In reality, of course, Hamas targets civilians, kidnaps, beheads, and burns babies in their cribs, uses its own population as human shields for its weapons, fires rockets at populated cities, shoots refugees, and calls openly for the genocide of Jewish people all over the world. Meanwhile, Israel goes out of its way to protect Palestinians in Gaza, sending leaflets, opening humanitarian corridors, and so on.

Over the past month, antisemitic incidents have skyrocketed to historic new highs in much of the world, egged on by hateful Hamas supporters. Yet, once again, if one reads Safieddine’s piece as their only source of information, one could be led to believe that these “activists” have done nothing wrong and are being unfairly silenced for simply voicing their opinions.

Notably, Safieddine does not provide a single specific example of any individuals who he thinks have been unfairly targeted for sympathizing with innocent Palestinians. But a cursory investigation demonstrates that it is Jewish students whose free expression is under attack.

At Cornell University, Jewish institutions were put on lockdown after student chat forums were inundated with messages promising to bring weapons to campus and “slit [the] throat” of Jewish “pig,” as well as to “rape” and “throw [Jewish students] off a cliff.” The student behind these threats was arrested. Is this who Safieddine thinks is being unfairly “silence[d] and demonize[d]”?

Elsewhere, faculty members called Hamas’ mass murders “awesome” and “exhilarating,” while at Stanford a professor separated his Jewish students from the rest of the class to humiliate them and lecture them about how the Holocaust wasn’t that big a deal. Several of these professors have been suspended from their teaching posts. Does Safieddine feel that they should still be lecturing, poisoning minds with hateful drivel and making Jewish students feel unsafe?

At Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), law students signed a letter explicitly justifying Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack, demonstrating their heinous lack of moral compass. Do private businesses not have the right to hire whomever they choose, and to determine who they feel fits their company values and who does not?

If these are the forms of legitimate “activism” Safieddine is defending, and if those responses are what he considers unfair “silencing,” then perhaps he is not someone whose opinions on antisemitism deserve to be taken seriously.

https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/ubc-professor-falsely-claims-antisemitism-being-used-to-silence-anti-israel-critics/?utm_source=Honest+Reporting+Canada&utm_campaign=10491bf841-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_01_01_06_22_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c2395b4f14-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

 

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[ P is for Palestine, when the Arab alphabet does not have the letter P, never did ]

A New York City pre-school teacher is instructing parents how to inculcate their young children with hatred of Israel and support Palestinian terrorism, The New York Post reported Saturday.

Siriana Abboud, who teaches in PS59 in midtown Manhattan, is also the founder of the online Allusio Academy, where she provides curricula, workshops and consultations on how to indoctrinate four-year-olds with the Palestinian canard that Israelis are outsiders who have stolen the Arabs’ land and are engaging in genocide.

“These teach-ins are a safe space for you and your child to learn about the Palestinian struggle for freedom,” she writes on her sign-up sheet.

Canary Mission, a group that combats antisemitism by documenting those who promote hatred of Israel and Jews, has publicized many of Abboud’s extreme statements that she would like youngsters to believe. In May 2021, for example, the teacher accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians” since its founding, adding, “(yes, it’s that simple).”

Abboud made the comments during Israel’s defensive Operation Guardian of the Walls, when Hamas launched over 4,000 rockets at the Jewish state and the IDF counterattacked its military infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.

In the past, Abboud has referred to Jews “terrorists” and “colonizers” of their own historic homeland, arguing that Israel’s security barrier is “an apartheid wall.” She openly supports the boycott, divest and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, and states that “There can be no peace so long as Zionism exists.”

One of the teaching materials Abboud has promoted is an antisemitic book called “P is for Palestine,” which has as the entry for the letter “I” that it stands “for Intifada, Arabic for rising up for what is right, if you are a kid or grownup!”

Last week, Abboud posted a picture of ruins in the Gaza Strip after the IDF struck Hamas targets during its war with the terrorist organization, writing that the “fascist ethnostate” of Israel had acted “with absolute zero impunity,” instead of “complete impunity.”


“Her account is full of hate,” one mother who recently transferred her child to the school commented in a parents’ group, The Post reported. “I am scared of sending my kid there.”

Abboud is considered a role model for early childhood education by New York’s Department of Education. She received the Big Apple Award for 2023-2024 as a “liberation-inspired educator” who advocates “global consciousness.” This gives her a place on the Chancellor’s Teacher Advisory Council so that she can share her teaching methods with her colleagues.

Preschool Indoctrination Scandal: NYC Teacher Fosters Hatred Towards Israel | United with Israel

Siriana Abboud is the founder of the Allusio Academy, promoting the narrative that Israelis are outsiders who have stolen Arab land and are committing genocide.

unitedwithisrael.org

 

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Jewish media around the world published an open letter Wednesday deploring the rise in antisemitism in the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks and Israel’s war on Gaza.

The joint statement was initiated by the Jewish News in London in partnership with The Jerusalem Post. Organizers said it would appear in 29 media outlets in seven countries including France, Mexico, Argentina, Australia and South Africa, with text in English, Spanish and French.

The letter argues that outside the Middle East, “a second, global front” is emerging, “targeting Jews on campus, at work, on the streets, and at home.” While acknowledging that critics will “dismiss every word in this piece,” including “Jews who tell you this article doesn’t speak for them,” the statement contends that the “level of fear among our readers is like nothing in memory.”

Publications printing the letter include Hadassah Magazine. “While any of us may have phrased pieces of it differently, this is a powerful statement and I support the idea of us all sending a joint message at this incredibly painful time that has shocked even the most seasoned among us,” Hadassah Magazine’s executive editor, Lisa Hostein, said in an email informing other Jewish media in the United States about the opportunity to publish the letter.

Jodi Rudoren, editor-in-chief of the Forward, declined to publish the letter because the Forward does not print house editorials or generally make ideological statements.


While recognizing “the innocents killed in Gaza as a result of this entirely unnecessary war launched by Hamas,” the letter says that the intensity of “raw hatred against Jews” since Oct. 7 “has been a devastating shock.” Examples in the statement include the mob hunting for Jews at the Dagestan airport, the Jewish woman stabbed in Lyon, France, and Stars of David spray painted on homes in Berlin.

“On campuses across the United States, ‘martyrs’ who butchered Jewish children in their beds on October 7 are being celebrated, while a student at Cornell University was arrested for posting death threats against Jews,” the letter adds. It also denounces world leaders who have been “cheerleaders” against Israel, like Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan saying Hamas “is not a terrorist organization.”


(full article online)

Jewish media publish open letter against rise in antisemitism since Oct. 7 attacks

Jewish news outlets around the world published an open letter to combat rising antisemitism in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.

forward.com

 

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“It is very worrying that Jews in the Netherlands are held responsible for conflicts taking place in the Middle East,” read the CIDI report released on Tuesday. “It seems as if Israel is being used to beat Jews.”

According to CIDI researcher and policy advisor Hans Wallage, it’s not only the numbers that have grown — the range of attacks on Jews has increased as well.


“I see way more variety of different incidents that I didn’t see before, and also more variety in the place where it happens,” Wallage told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “There are a lot of schools — elementary, high schools, universities — having way more incidents that I didn’t see before the 7th of October.”

In one school, a Jewish boy was threatened with a knife and hit on the head with a bottle while classmates called him “kankerjood,” a Dutch slur meaning “cancer Jew.” Another boy was told that his classmates would throw him off a bridge and drown him because he was Jewish. Recurring reports describe students being accosted for wearing Star of David necklaces, being shown the Hitler salute and being told that Hitler “didn’t finish his job.”

Wallage believes the rash of school incidents has to do with social media, which gives children unprecedentedly rapid and unchecked access to hate speech, conspiracy theories and incitement.

“We don’t have a filter as adults sometimes, but children completely don’t have a filter of what to share — they share everything,” he said. “What’s a lie? After a while, if you read it all the time and share videos all the time online, it’s going from the online world to the real-life world.”

Most of the conspiracy theories circulating through Dutch schools follow old antisemitic tropes, simply repackaged for a younger generation, said CIDI director Naomi Mestrum.


“It’s the same conspiracy theories,” Mestrum told JTA. “Jews control the world and the media, and this [Hamas attack] must be fake, they staged this because it fits their agenda.”

Outside of schools, CIDI has recorded mezuzahs torn off doors and swastikas sprayed on windows, along with frequent threats and verbal abuse. General antisemitic statements on social media are excluded from the figures, unless they were specifically sent to an individual through a direct message.

Shortly after Oct. 7, the only Jewish weekly magazine in the Netherlands — Nieuw Israelietisch Weekblad, known in English as the Dutch Jewish Weekly — switched from its clear plastic packaging to anonymous white envelopes, according to editor-in-chief Esther Voet. She said that her staff was flooded with calls from anxious subscribers who didn’t want their neighbors to know they were Jewish.

Although it is typical for antisemitism to flare in the Netherlands during conflicts in Israel and the Palestinian territories, CIDI researchers said they have never seen a surge of incidents like this before. And like other Jewish communities across Europe, many Dutch Jews feel they are in new territory.

“People feel that it’s different now, and it will be forever different from now on,” said Mestrum.

(full article online)

Antisemitic incidents up 800% in the Netherlands since Oct. 7, Dutch watchdog reports

“It is very worrying that Jews in the Netherlands are held responsible for conflicts taking place in the Middle East,” said a watchdog group.

forward.com

 

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A fence at the Epsom site has "free Gaza", "free Palestine" and "save the kids" written on it in black. What appears to be scorch marks are visible on the bottom of the fence.

The fence is on a property connected to the Beth Shalom Progressive Synagogue. The former sits on a residential street while the synagogue faces busy Manukau Rd.

ACT leader and Epsom MP David Seymour said targeting Jewish people because of something happening on the other side of the world was not "logical, acceptable or excusable".

"They (the graffiti and fire) both assume that a person here in New Zealand by virtue of being Jewish is guilty of the things happening in the Middle East. That is the definition of prejudice, treating a person in a particular way because of how they are born and who they are – that’s what we are supposed to be against."

The property is incorrectly listed on Google as the Israeli consulate.

Graffiti, arson attempt at property linked to Auckland synagogue

A fence had scorch marks and "free Gaza" and "free Palestine" written on it.

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[surada]

Israel is surrounded by Islamic extremists intent on destroying it. It does what it can to protect the Nation and its population, all of it, from those barbarians.

And you keep lying about what Israel "has done" because all you read is those lying Arab sources of yours which you did lie about saying you did not read Arab sources.

STOP antisemitism. Because all you do is incite it.

Actually I'm pretty old and I followed Israel's choices in real time as they were happening. You've made a mess of things. That's why we have this current disaster. I feel so sad about it and the current resurgence of antisemitism.

 

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Intelligent.com did a survey of 609 current college students across the US about the Gaza war.

Taken at the end of October, the survey found that 22% of students sympathize with Hamas.

Not Gazans, not Palestinian civilians - Hamas.

More than one in five college students sympathize with an explicitly genocidal terror group that openly slaughtered, raped, burned, kidnapped and injured thousands of Jews.

We have a big problem on American campuses. Supporting Hamas is as morally reprehensible as supporting Nazis. Both have openly genocidal agendas for all Jews. This is a massive failure of our educational system, of parents, and of the media.

Speaking of, a vast majority of these students - 86% - get their news about the conflict from social media, far more than from news articles (68%). While about 75% consider themselves as least somewhat knowledgeable about the conflict, only 6% have ever read a book about it.

This is part of the problem. They are learning about the conflict from TikTok..

The poll also indicated that a huge majority of Jewish college students feel less safe on campus since the October 7 massacre, while nearly all Muslim college students felt just as safe as beforehand. While the sample sizes were small, 14 out of 18 Jewish students surveyed felt less safe on campus, while only one out of 14 Muslim students felt that way.

Perhaps the Jews feel less safe because they know that in any random classroom of 30 students, an average of 6 of their classmates have sympathy for a group that wants to see every Jew worldwide murdered.

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The survey was conducted by Pollfish using an interesting methodology that should be very accurate for college students (I don't think it would be accurate for older people.)

New survey: 22% of college students sympathize with murderous, raping Hamas terrorists. We have a problem.

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