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The leading candidate to become the new president of the National Union of Students has been forced to apologise for a tweet in which she posted the words of an infamous Islamic chant threatening “Jews” with an attack by “the army of Muhammed.”

Shaima Dallali is the overwhelming favourite to replace current NUS president Larrisa Kennedy later this year, and has been endorsed by the current leader.

But Jewish News can reveal that Dallali posted an inflammotory tweet stating:”“Khaybar Khaybar, ya yahud, Jaish Muhammad, sa yahud.”

In Islamic tradition, the chant – which means, “Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of Muhammad is returning” – is used as a battle cry when attacking Jews or Israelis.

It refers to the Muslim massacre of the Jews of the town of Khaybar in north western Arabia in 628 CE.


It was chanted on the streets of London and elsewhere last May at protests by Palestinian campaigners during the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The Community Security Trust has said the chant is “effectively a call for Jews to be killed.”

Dallali, a president at City University students union, admitted posting the remark in November 2012.

After being challenged about the content on Wednesday she issued a statement which read:”Earlier today I was made aware of a tweet I posted 10 years ago.
“During Israel’s assault on Gaza I referenced the battle of Khaybar in which Jewish and Muslim armies fought. I was wrong to see the Palestine conflict as one between Muslims and Jews.

“The reference made as a teenager was unacceptable and I sincerely and unreservedly apologise.”

The revelations about Dallali emerge only days after the outcry over the decision by NUS to invite the rapper and conspiracy theorist Lowkey to a centenary event later this month, an invitation they later withdrew.

Jewish News has also detailed how the currently NUS leadership is facing claims it has quietly dropped a commitment to the IHRA antisemitism definition.

Boris Johnson told MPs on Wednesday of his concern that UK universities have been “tolerant of antisemitism for too long.”

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NUS presidential candidate 'apologises unreservedly' for vile 'Jews' tweet - Jewish News

Shaima Dallali - favourite to become new NUS president - apologises after tweeting the Islamic 'Khaybar' chant which threatens "Jews" with an attack by "the army of Muhammed."

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How Your Tax Dollars Help Fund Anti-Israel Groups: A Fireside Chat With Prof. Gerald Steinberg, Founder & President of NGO Monitor

In a number of Western democratic countries, taxpayers are helping to fund NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) which are demonizing Israel

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The Canadian Criminal Code lists the willful promotion of hatred against an identifiable group as a crime, punishable by up to two years in prison. While reasonable people may disagree on the merits of this particular legislation, its existence recognizes the unavoidable fact that while hate speech may begin as a matter of free expression, history has taught it can have very dangerous real-world implications.

For example, in the years preceding the Holocaust, the Nazi regime widely disseminated antisemitic propaganda to its general population, claiming widespread Jewish conspiracies and other common tropes. This Nazi propaganda had a very specific purpose: to facilitate the regime’s genocide against Europe’s Jews by popularizing antisemitic beliefs among the general public.

Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, understood this concept, and said in a 1933 speech: “Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.”

More recently, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, where nearly one million ethnic Tutsis and their allies were murdered at the hands of the rival Hutu tribe, was preceded by dehumanizing language and propaganda against the intended target, Tutsis.

While antisemitism may seem like a relic of a bygone history, for Canada’s 400,000 Jews, it has far from vanished. In fact, according to Statistics Canada, Jews represent the single largest target of religiously motivated hate crimes.

So how should Canada react to the propagation of hate speech, whether online or in traditional media?

First, it’s critical to understand the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does recognize freedom of expression as a cherished right to Canadians. Limiting this right should not be taken lightly, or without serious consideration. Unpopular views, no matter how unsavoury or noxious, are not in and of themselves, hate speech just by virtue of their unpleasantness. However, hate speech legislation exists for a reason, and that is to help limit the propagation of hatred and the demonization of identifiable groups in Canada, which can have catastrophic consequences.

One can find jokes about Jews, or even the Holocaust, to be distasteful and thoroughly unfunny, but that does not make them necessarily helping to promote hate, but blurring the line, as Sohier-Chaput has seemingly done in his defense, by claiming that all language is free expression, is similarly unnuanced and overly simplistic.

Sohier-Chaput may be portraying himself as a warrior for free expression, but by peddling antisemitic propaganda on one of the world’s most prominent neo-Nazi websites, he has shown otherwise.

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HRC In The Suburban: 'How Should Canada React To The Propagation Of Hate Speech?'

The ongoing court case in Montreal against Gabriel Sohier-Chaput, who contributed antisemitic articles to The Daily Stormer, a large neo-Nazi website, raises the question about how Canada should react to the propagation of hate speech and highlights the dangers of online antisemitic hate...

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El-Kurd also describes Zionists (those supporting the existence of the State of Israel) as “Fascists. Terrorists. Colonizers.” On top of that, he describes Zionism as a “death cult”, “murderous”, “genocidal” and “sadistic”.

If a campus speaker spoke about any other group of people this way it would be seen as hate speech. So how do colleges rationalize bringing such a speaker on to campus?

At the University of Minnesota, the campus paper published an editorial defending El-Kurd’s visit to campus by arguing: “that not all Jews are zionists, nor are all zionists Jewish.”

That is a literally true statement but it turns a blind eye to the close connection between virulent anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. In demonizing Zionists, El-Kurd takes pains to compare them to Nazis. For example, he calls Zionist settlers “sadistic barbaric neo-nazi pigs”. He has also written that they have “completely internalized the ways of the nazis”.

This comparison of Zionists to Nazis is commonplace. It is obviously a reference to the suffering of Jews. No one compares Zionist’s treatment of Palestinians to, say, China’s treatment of the Uighurs. The Nazi’s killed 6 million Jews. The constant invocation of the Nazi’s is intended a cruel irony-the Jews are supposedly imitating the very people who tried to wipe them from the face of the earth.

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How Universities Continue To Turn A Blind Eye Toward Campus Anti-Semitism

When prominent universities invite hateful speakers who demonize Israel, does this promote anti-Semitism?

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The group also took umbrage at several parliament members who criticized the IHRA definition for its potential to impact Palestinian advocacy, like a Green Party parliamentarian who said it “is liable to suppress legitimate criticism of human rights abuses against Palestinians by defaming critics of Israel as antisemitic.”

While the IHRA definition includes examples of contemporary antisemitism that target Israel as a Jewish collective, it also notes that “criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.”

The AIJAC expressed regret “that there are still those, even in Parliament, who believe they know better than the group of scholars and academics from around the world who dedicated years to developing a consensus working definition of antisemitism.”

A study released earlier this month found that more than 800 organizations have adopted the IHRA definition of antisemitism, including 19 US states, 204 local governing bodies in the United Kingdom, and 314 educational institutions, 236 of which are in the UK. In 2021, it was endorsed by at least 200 governmental and non governmental institutions.

The study found that the definition has attained “mainstream consensus” and is likeliest to be embraced by local organizations when national governments take the lead.

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Australian Jews Applaud NSW Parliament for Adopting IHRA Definition of Antisemitism - Algemeiner.com

The New South Wales (NSW) Parliament's Legislative Council adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism on Wednesday night, drawing applause from Jewish groups. The motion was brought to the floor by Christian Democratic Party member Fred Nile, several...

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The British MP called on Johnson to do “everything in his power to ensure campuses were a safe place for Jewish students,” according to Jewish News. He also noted the rise of antisemitism on college campuses and cited examples of Jewish students facing antisemitic attacks, and being “marked down by their own professors.”

Johnson said it was important that the United Kingdom have an antisemitism task force “devoted to rooting out” the problem “in education at all levels.” He also said it was “very important [that] we now have—and I hope everyone understands—the need for change, for rapid and irreversible change.”

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Johnson Criticizes UK Universities for ‘Being Tolerant of Antisemitism’ - Algemeiner.com

JNS.org - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said universities in the United Kingdom have for “far too long been tolerant of casual or indeed systematic antisemitism.” The prime minister made the remark on Wednesday in response to a question by Parliament member Andrew Percy during the “Prime...

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Security forces arrested an Arab man in his 20s, from the village of Bidiya in the Shomron on Thursday night. The man had previously filmed himself ripping down a Mezuzah from a building’s doorpost, destroying the case with a hammer, and then prepares to burn the parchment that was inside.

He posted the video of his hate crime on TikTok.

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Police Arrest Arab Who Destroyed Mezuzah on TikTok

The man posted the video of his hate crime on TikTok.

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A Dutch Jew regularly subjected to antisemitic harassment in the town where he lives has spoken about his experience publicly to raise awareness of how Jew-hatred impacts its victims.

Kevin Ritstier, 34, a Jewish resident of the town of Wijchen in the eastern part of the Netherlands, this week highlighted his situation in interviews with local media as well as a lecture at a local museum.

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From that point on, Ritstier has been continually targeted at his home in the center of Wijchen, where he lives with his wife and their one-year-old son.

“They shout all kinds of slogans,” Ritstier said. “‘Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas,’ ‘cancer Jew.'” The gang also follows Ritstier when he walks down the street, taunting him with antisemitic invective and sometimes attempting to kick him.

On one occasion, Ritstier was beaten up outside his front door. “My leg was cut open and I had a burst lip and bruises,” he said. Following that attack, local police placed him on a rapid response list in case of future outrages.

However, none of the gang members have been arrested for their harassment of Ritstier. He said that a fine had been handed to one of his tormentors, while police officers have held conversations with the gang members, but the harassment has continued.

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‘Don’t Look Away’: Dutch Jew Reveals Personal Ordeal With Antisemitic Gang - Algemeiner.com

A Dutch Jew regularly subjected to antisemitic harassment in the town where he lives has spoken about his experience publicly to raise awareness of how Jew-hatred impacts its victims. Kevin Ritstier, 34, a Jewish resident of the town of Wijchen in the eastern part of the Netherlands, this week...

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Kinda odd that the left calls Trump, Hilter, and all Trump supporters, Nazis. Yet the left is the main ones being antisemitic…

 

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Kinda odd that the left calls Trump, Hilter, and all Trump supporters, Nazis. Yet the left is the main ones being antisemitic…

Kinda odd that you do not see the extent of antisemitism on the Republican side.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/05/199-house-republicans-have-embraced-anti-semitism-violence/

 

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Why does America tolerate the GOP’s blatant antisemitism?

I again asked this question after listening to former President Trump’s unabashed antisemitism on fully display during an interview with Israeli journalist Barak Ravid. Here, Trump invoked the hateful “dual loyalty” trope, saying, “I’ll tell you, the Evangelical Christians love Israel more than the Jews in this country,” and complaining that The New York Times hates Israel in the same breath that he said the newspaper is run by Jews. He capped things off by reminiscing about when “Israel had absolute power over Congress.”

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Despite all this evidence of blatant antisemitism, Republicans nonetheless have been able to avoid being labeled antisemitic despite bathing in it nearly every day though a simple five-step plan: 1) Deny, 2) Project, 3) Deflect — those first three steps, by the way, are straight out of Roger Stone’s “rules” to “Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack” — 4) Praise Israel, and 5) Attack Ilhan Omar.

Trump’s GOP Has Five Simple Tricks for Promoting Antisemitism

1) Deny, 2) Project, 3) Deflect, 4) Praise Israel, and 5) Attack Ilhan Omar.

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Kinda odd that you do not see the extent of antisemitism on the Republican side.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/05/199-house-republicans-have-embraced-anti-semitism-violence/

Ummm, Trump was anti-Semitic? He did the most for Israel in recent history. He has a Jewish daughter and son in law. What did he ever do against Israel?

Well I guess that’s why no one gets anywhere. We all want good results but can only throw the blame on the other side. We are all guilty of it.

 

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Ummm, Trump was anti-Semitic? He did the most for Israel in recent history. He has a Jewish daughter and son in law. What did he ever do against Israel?

Well I guess that’s why no one gets anywhere. We all want good results but can only throw the blame on the other side. We are all guilty of it.

Trump's main interest in Israel were the Jewish votes. Especially Jewish American votes.

His father was antisemitic, he is antisemitic.

Read the books written by Mary Trump, Michael Cohen and Barbara Est. They all worked and dealt for hime and with him, amongst many other people .

Ivanka's choice was Ivanka's choice. Nothing to do with her grandfather or father's antisemitism.

Don't give us the "lets blame the other side" nonsense.

There is proof of both sides having members who are antisemitic.

Educate yourself.

 

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Trump's main interest in Israel were the Jewish votes. Especially Jewish American votes.

His father was antisemitic, he is antisemitic.

Read the books written by Mary Trump, Michael Cohen and Barbara Est. They all worked and dealt for hime and with him, amongst many other people .

Ivanka's choice was Ivanka's choice. Nothing to do with her grandfather or father's antisemitism.

Don't give us the "lets blame the other side" nonsense.

There is proof of both sides having members who are antisemitic.

Educate yourself.

The Middle East peace deals Trump facilitated tells me more about Trump’s feelings about Israel that Mary Trump might say. But say what you want about him. I don’t care.

I wasn’t saying we SHOULD blame the other side. I was saying we DO it and that’s why we never reach a positive outcome.

Yes agreed there are people on both sides of the aisle that are antisemitic. But no more use arguing about it. After this conversation, it’s not something I feel like I should sweat over.

 

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Major U.S. news outlets are, once again, giving antisemites the benefit of the doubt. Two recent reports offer more troubling evidence that many in the media treat antisemitism differently from other types of racial and ethnic hatred.

Take, for example, a March 17, 2022 article by the Philadelphia Inquirer, entitled “Former athletic trainer says Agnes Irwin School illegally fired her for social media posts critical of Israel.”

Reporter Maddie Hanna details allegations by Natalie Abulhawa, a twenty-four-year-old Palestinian-American, who claims that she was she was “unlawfully fired” from her position as an athletic trainer at Anges Irwin “after parents complained about years-old social media posts criticizing Israel.”

The Inquirer notes that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has filed charges on Abulhawa’s behalf, arguing that her dismissal from the private school violates the federal civil rights act of 1964, and the Pennsylvania Human Rights Act.

To its credit, the newspaper does briefly note some of Abulhawa’s disturbing tweets:

“’Israel doesn’t have the right to exist,’ one tweet reads — a 2016 post that still appears on Abulhawa’s Twitter account. Many of the other posts compiled by the site, all of which date to 2016 or earlier, appear to have been deleted; among them are posts referring to ‘stocking up on rocks’ while mentioning the presence of Israeli soldiers, and calling for Zionists to ‘rot in fking hell.’”

Later the Inquirer says that Abulhawa participated “in an anti-Israel protest with her mother, a Palestinian author.” Without additional details, this can sound rather innocuous. Indeed, the news report is set up in a manner to give Abulhawa the benefit of the doubt, assisting her claims that she’s not antisemitic.

But the Inquirer omits that that protest which Abulhawa and her mother attended featured signs asserting that “Jews control the U.S. Senate.” Similarly, the newspaper also fails to mention that calling to end the Jewish state of Israel meets the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which has been widely adopted by numerous governments, as well as the U.S. State Department. Further, the overwhelming majority of American Jews support Jewish self-determination, or Zionism, and it seems reasonable to think that someone calling for them to “rot in fking hell” should not be teaching children.

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The Press Covers Antisemites—But Omits the Antisemitism

Two recent reports by mainstream U.S. news outlets highlight the media's failure to treat antisemitism seriously. Both the Washington Post and the Philadelphia Inquirer

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In his March 13, 2022 column in the Qatari state daily Al-Watan, Palestinian journalist Samir Al-Barghouti wrote that the real reason for the Russian invasion of Ukraine is President Putin's desire to prevent the Jews from establishing a presence on Russia's border. The column states that Jews have begun migrating to Ukraine with the intention of turning it into a place sacred to them, and that Putin, who is aware of the "danger" represented by the Jewish nation, went to war in order to prevent the Jews from harming Russia. Rife with antisemitic allegations and historical errors, the column goes on to blame the Jews for a series of historic events, including the assassination of American presidents Lincoln and Kennedy and of Russian Czar Nicholas II, financing the Soviet leaders Stalin and Lenin, planning the attack on the World Trade Center, stealing the gold of Chinese emperors, toppling the Ottoman caliphate and "selling the Middle East to the West for the lowest possible price," among other things.

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Antisemitic Article In Qatari State Daily: Putin Invaded Ukraine To Stop The Corrupt Jews From Establishing A Presence There

In his March 13, 2022 column in the Qatari state daily Al-Watan, Palestinian journalist Samir Al-Barghouti wrote that the real reason for the Russian invasion of Ukraine is President Putin's desire to prevent the Jews from establishing a presence on Russia's border. The column states that Jews...

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