Stop Antisemitism

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In other words, suspect Dion Marsh told detectives he was specifically attacking Jews. And he attacked four, not three - and three of them remain hospitalized, two in critical condition.

Marsh's Facebook page shows nothing antisemitic, although one disturbing video on the site includes brief scenes of him holding an automatic weapon and of him flipping off the camera.


Black antisemitism is the third rail for the media and politicians. No one wants to talk about it even as we see multiple attacks a week by Black people against Orthodox Jews in New York and elsewhere This is not the first such attack in Lakewood. It's been happening in Chicago as well.

Black attackers of Jews are not white supremacists. They are usually not Muslims. They don't pretend to be mere anti-Zionists. It is an entirely different category of attacker, The motives are different. The solutions would be different.

But from reading the articles about attacks, the media is reluctant to identify anything about the perpetrator unless he (or she) is a white supremacist. Journalists and politicians are afraid that pointing out the motivation will be flipped around and they will be labeled racist or Islamophobic.

What exactly did Marsh tell the detectives about Jews? Shouldn't this be publicized as a first step in determining how to fight this flavor of antisemitism?

Unless it is defined, no one can do anything to combat it. We have some ideas of why Black antisemitism existed in the past, but how do we know this is the same thing? Is it influence from Nation of Islam along with their lies that Jews controlled the slave trade? Is it an outgrowth of the idea that Blacks are the real Jews and Jews are imposters, as Nick Cannon and his guests have claimed?

Sweeping this under the rug does no one any favors, including the Black people that the largely white media are trying to mollify.
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Let's hear exactly what Dion Marsh believes. I bet it is not unique to him, and if 20% of Black people believe the same thing, it needs to be exposed and debunked - forthrightly and honestly.

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Lakewood and Brooklyn attacks show, again, that we need to directly confront Black antisemitism

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A court in Vienna has jailed two Austrian neo-Nazi brothers over a vehemently antisemitic website that was described by one prosecuting lawyer as “incitement to murder.”

One brother, named in the local press as “Benjamin H.”, was sentenced to a four-year jail term last Tuesday by the Vienna Regional Criminal Court under Austrian laws prohibiting the revival of national socialism. His website, titled “Judas Watch,” listed the names of 1,787 individuals and organizations, with Jewish individuals marked with a “Judenstern” — the “Jews’ Star” which the Nazi regime forced Jews to wear upon their outer clothing.

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Austrian Court Sentences Neo-Nazi Brothers Behind Infamous ‘Judas Watch’ Website to Lengthy Jail Terms - Algemeiner.com

A court in Vienna has jailed two Austrian neo-Nazi brothers over a vehemently antisemitic website that was described by one prosecuting lawyer as "incitement to murder." One brother, named in the local press as "Benjamin H.", was sentenced to a four-year jail term last Tuesday by the Vienna...

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Officials in Nassau County in New York State have expressed disgust over a speech by a local resident heard at a recent town meeting that they allege was littered with antisemitic tropes.

The resident, named Michelle Zangari, delivered an extraordinary speech to the Board of Trustees of the Village of Rockville Centre on Apr. 4 lambasting Orthodox Jewish residents in the area. Under the guise of urging trustees to prevent the construction of “new houses of worship in existing residential areas,” Zangari related a nightmarish tale of local Christian residents being driven out of their neighborhoods by Orthodox Jewish newcomers, resulting in declining standards in schools, soaring real estate prices and pressure upon local businesses to close down

Zangari complained that a menorah “almost 8 feet high” had been erected outside a home in her neighborhood. While her neighbors believed the menorah was a leftover decoration from last Hanukkah, “I know all too well that this is not the case,” Zangari claimed — asserting that the house was now being turned into an informal synagogue so that its owners could avoid paying property taxes.

She then related her experience of growing up in the Five Towns on the south shore of Long Island as evidence for her view, asserting that during the 1980s, Orthodox Jews had moved into the area, causing a flight of long-established residents, “many of whom live in Rockville Centre now.”

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The sole evidence of alleged Jewish pressure on non-Jewish businesses to close during the Sabbath cited by Zangari was a bagel shop where she had worked, whose owner had been approached on several occasions, she said.

Zangari ended her speech with an appeal for action to prevent new synagogues from opening. “This may sound extreme, many people have said to me, ‘you sound crazy,’ I get it,” she said. “You may think it could never happen here, but trust me, none of us living in the Five Towns thought it would happen there either.”

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Calling her comments “offensive and un-American,” Bruce Blakeman — Nassau County’s chief executive — stressed in a tweet that it was the “duty of responsive public officials to condemn the type of antisemitic hate speech that was in evidence at the Rockville Centre Village Board Meeting. I am hopeful that the Members of the Board will also respond forcefully in this matter.”

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‘Un-American’: NY Officials Excoriate ‘Antisemitic’ Speech by Local Resident to Board Meeting in Nassau County - Algemeiner.com

Officials in Nassau County in New York State have expressed disgust over a speech by a local resident heard at a recent town meeting that they allege was littered with antisemitic tropes. The resident, named Michelle Zangari, delivered an extraordinary speech to the Board of Trustees of the...

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In a pre-recorded video address broadcast to attendees at the Jerusalem Post London Conference, Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, discussed a wide range of topics, including antisemitism, the war in Ukraine, the Iranian threat to Israel, and the importance of maintaining the unity of the Jewish people.


Lauder suggested that ‘Jew-Hatred’ is a more apt and accurate term than antisemitism. “Anti-Semitism” is a holdover from the 19th century,” said Lauder, and it has lost its meaning. No one cares when they hear Anti-Semitism. From now on, let’s all call it what it really is – the hatred-of-Jews, or Jew-Hatred.”

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‘Jew hatred!’ WJC head Ronald Lauder calls antisemitism what it really is

"No one cares when they hear antisemitism. From now on, let’s all call it what it really is – the hatred-of-Jews, or Jew-Hatred."

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Noa Tishby, Israel’s new envoy, says anti-Zionism is antisemitism “100%”

Noa Tishby touts her background in the world of entertainment and activism as a crucial set of tools to fight antisemitism.

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Antisemitism isn't treated as seriously as Islamophobia, homophobia or transphobia. Why? Asks Patrick Christys

I can’t help but feel that antisemitism is just accepted, it’s not seen as being as bad as Islamophobia or homophobia or transphobia. Why not?

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The sternly worded warning – signed also by columnist David Aaronovitch and former Labour MPs Phil Woolas and Stephen Twigg – states:”We are writing to you privately as former Presidents with serious concerns about antisemitism, the safety and treatment of Jewish students at NUS events and within your democracy, and the way in which the NUS is responding to these concerns.”

The letter refers to the decision to invite the conspiracy theorist and rapper Lowkey to give “a keynote at NUS conference”. It also notes how NUS representatives failed to attend a recent session of the Education Select Committee Westminster, to face questions over antisemitism on campus.

It calls on the President and the trustees “to act urgently” and issue “a full and unreserved apology” to Jewish students and the Union of Jewish Students.

It then demands an independent investigation is launched “into antisemitism within the organisation.”

The signatories suggest it is “crucial” the NUS “rebuild relationships and trust with Jewish students.”

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NUS row: 20 ex-presidents sign letter expressing safety fears for Jewish students

Unprecedented warning - sent to NUS trustees and current president Larissa Kennedy - is signed by ex-cabinet ministers, Wes Streeting , Trevor Phillips and David Aaronovitch

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Listeners who may have pondered quite how the Jewish holiday of Purim fits into the category of “thornier issues of the day” (along with the question of why presenter Roy Jenkins consistently mispronounced the name of that festival throughout the entire 28-minute programme) had only to wait until the section beginning 18:34 minutes in when Jenkins and one of his guests managed to shoehorn Palestinians into the discussion.

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Dan Cohn-Sherbok: “It’s not just the story of Purim. We’re talking about Purim but it’s connected to other aspects of Jewish life and Jewish festivals. The festival of Hannuka is the same; it’s a story about threats and survival. And that’s really at the heart of Jewish life. We are aware as a people that we have been around for literally thousands of years; nearly three thousand years. At the time of the exodus, thousands and thousands of years ago, we were threatened with extinction. And we have always been threatened by extinction and yet here we are. We have survived. It runs in our blood and if you ask about the contemporary significance, it underlies the creation of the State of Israel. The State of Israel is a response to antisemitism. Jews who were Zionists at the end of the nineteenth century feared that without a country of our own we would never survive and that the solution to the problem of antisemitism was to have a country where we could be secure and we could defend ourselves. And no matter how secure we feel in other countries – and this is true everywhere – we are conscious of this potential threat. People hate us. It is the longest hatred of humanity: hating the Jews. And it runs in our blood. We are frightened and we need to defend ourselves and this story crystalises the idea that we can survive and that God is on our side and that we will survive into the future.”

Roy Jenkins: “Some people of course would look at the present State of Israel and say well actually they’ve gone back to some of their less pleasant roots and they certainly aren’t treating people in the way they should.”

Cohn-Sherbok: “Yes, certainly there is criticism of Israel. I think that the State of Israel was founded on the assumption that Jews needed to protect themselves. But the historical circumstances were such that the Palestinians suffered. The residents of what was Palestine – now Israel – have really suffered and many Jews are very sympathetic. I’m very sympathetic about the plight of Palestinians. I’ve written books about this and I’ve written a book with a Palestinian and we debated the issues. So there is within the Jewish world sympathy for those who suffer. We don’t want others to suffer as we’ve suffered. But it’s so problematic – the creation of the State of Israel – because it’s in the place it is. So I…I…you mustn’t think that Jews are not sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians. Many of us are. Many of us want to see a two-state solution. I want to see a two-state solution. I think it’s the only way. But it is very fraught. There’s such hatred, such enmity, on both sides: on the Jewish side and the Arab Palestinian side. It’s a problem that hasn’t been resolved.”

While this section of the programme clearly contributed little to audience understanding of the festival of Purim and its meaning for the tiny Welsh Jewish community, the producers chose to include it anyway. What listeners heard were trite talking points promoting a dumbed-down, one-sided narrative on a complex topic unrelated to the programme’s declared subject matter along with an unexplained reference to Israeli Jews and “their less pleasant roots” which surely requires explanation from Jenkins.

CAMERA UK has written to BBC Radio Wales requesting clarification of the use of that phrase and the gratuitous insertion of Palestinians into a programme supposedly about a Jewish festival.

When BBC Radio Wales shoehorned Palestinians into Purim

BBC Radio Wales describes its weekly programme ‘All Things Considered” as a “[r]eligious affairs programme, tackling the thornier issues of the day in a t

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The man who stabbed and ran over four Jews in Lakewood, NJ on Friday told police detectives that “it had to be done.”

“It’s going to be a bloodbath,” Marsh allegedly told a family member before the attacks, according to documents NJ Advance Media.
Marsh also told detectives that “these are the real devils.” When asked to whom he was referring, he responded, “the Hasidic Jews.”

But this morning an even more frightening attack was caught on video in Elizabeth, NJ.

In a Jewish neighborhood, a driver went on a sidewalk and onto a lawn to deliberately run over what appears to be a fleeing, screaming religious Jewish woman. He ran over her multiple times. The incident occurred only a couple of blocks from a well-known Jewish girls' high school, and mezuzahs can be seen on many doors in the neighborhood.

The video is graphic and chilling:



The driver has been charged with attempted murder. There is nothing in the news yet about any bias motivation.

But given what's going on with Jews lately, it seems quite likely that she was targeted because she is an identifiable Jew.

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People trying to kill Jews in New Jersey - after Lakewood, horrific car ramming attack in Elizabeth (video) (update)

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The owner of a car repair shop in Belgium said he will not serve Jewish clients to protest Israel’s position over Russia’s war on Ukraine.


The Forum of Jewish Organizations, a group representing Flemish-speaking Belgian Jews, said it will take legal action against Ludo Eyckmans, the owner of the shop in Stabroek near Antwerp. Denying service to individuals based on their faith, race or sexual orientation is illegal in Belgium.


“As of today, our Jewish clients are no longer welcome for maintenance of their cars or solving electronic problems,” Eyckmans wrote in an email that he sent to Belgian media last week, according to the Jewish group. He cited Israel’s “failure to recognize war crimes” by Russia’s army in Ukraine.

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Belgian car shop owner won’t serve Jews, claims Israel supports Russia

Denying service to individuals based on their faith, race or sexual orientation is illegal in Belgium.

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Egyptian site Maspero, "Egynews", has a fairly bizarre conspiracy theory by columnist Nasser Farouk.


It starts off with:

The tongues of smoke and fire still fill the skies of Ukraine in a war that was created by an effective action and over the course of five years it was prepared for it, and recently the curtain was revealed about who is behind it.. It is the family that rules the world, the Rothschilds, the Jewish Zionists, and the real founder of Freemasonry, which was based in Russia under a contract for the Russian Central Bank since 1917 for a hundred years.

The Balfour Declaration was also written in 1917, and he says this is no coincidence!

The Jews (were behind) the formation of the first government after the coup against the Tsar. There were 23 Jewish members out of 25 of the government, headed by Lenin and Stalin.
[The Rothschilds] owns nearly 500 trillion dollars which is half of the world’s wealth and monopolizes the trade and gold mines in the world, as well as medicine and its industry, weapons, technology, media, satellites, Hollywood, petroleum and a third of the world’s fresh water, medicine, influence and world domination, and their scheme was a unified government for the world based in Washington.

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"The Rothschilds are behind the Ukraine war" and other amazing facts from an Egyptian newspaper

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She returned from a “sabbatical” in late February, just three months after giving a speech casting the vast majority of Jews as “enemies” because they support Israel.

She warned her audience to “pay attention to the polite Zionists” who seek to work together on social justice and other issues. They are behind “a well-funded conspiracy” to push “Islamophobia … to marginalize us, to imprison us, to deport us, to silence us.”

Jews. A well-funded conspiracy. To imprison us.

That kind of rhetoric might sound at home among tiki-torch carrying mobs in Charlottesville, but not from the leader of a “civil rights” group’s San Francisco chapter.

Yet, CAIR never asked Billoo to apologize for her comments. Instead, CAIR arguedthat she was the victim of an “online smear campaign.”

It was no surprise, therefore, to hear Billoo repeat her blanket dismissal of pro-Israel Jews on Saturday, during a program that was advertised as focusing on “Islamophobia” in France and India.
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If “resistance against occupation” is justified, as CAIR officials have said, and they believe Tel Aviv is occupied, then it’s not a stretch to assume CAIR’s silence about the recent wave of terrorist attacks means that some could believe the killings somehow are justified.

Billoo has bigger fish to fry. She retweeted a picture of Muslims who are in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as they enjoyed a meal breaking their Ramadan fast.

Some might be surprised to see Muslims proudly serving in the IDF and pleased to see their religious traditions respected.

Not Zahra Billoo.

The picture she retweeted included a comment that the men were headed straight to “hellfire.”

Observant Muslims are no better than “polite Zionists” to Billoo, if they believe Israel should exist and be defended.

And CAIR calls us a hate group.

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Zahra Billoo’s Antisemitism Unleashed with CAIR’s Backing - Algemeiner.com

I've spent a lot of time in recent months chronicling the unabashed hatred spewed by Zahra Billoo, one of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)'s highest profile chapter directors. But when it comes to antisemitism, Billoo is the gift that keeps on giving. And it's abundantly clear...

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The Education Department began investigating NYU after a civil rights complaint alleged that the school had not responded appropriately to incidents of anti-Semitism, thus creating a hostile environment for Jewish students. The incidents included a student tweeting that he wanted "all Zionists to die" and another student assaulting attendees at a pro-Israel dance party.

The latest episode began on April 7 when Law Students for Israel circulated an email to the NYU Law student body. "The Middle East is big enough for all its indigenous peoples to enjoy self-determination, security, and prosperity," the group said. "Do not give credence to those, including in our Law School, who say otherwise."

Two hours later, Students for Justice in Palestine issued a 1,500-word response to the email, arguing that it flipped "the realities of aggressor and victim on its head."

"Framing is everything," Students for Justice in Palestine said. "It is imperative to emphasize that the loss of any lives is a direct result of the Israeli occupation, not the resistance of those who are occupied."

The statement went on to berate the "Islamaphobic, Zionist-funded U.S. and Western media" for presenting the violence as "a ‘conflict’ with two sides."

Over the next 24 hours, 11 student groups wrote to the law school’s all-student listserv to express their support for the statement: the Black Allied Law Students Association, the Middle Eastern Law Students Association, the Muslim Law Students Association, the South Asian Law Students Association, the Disability Allied Law Students Association, the National Lawyers Guild, the Women of Color Collective, the Coalition on Law & Representation, the NYU Review of Law and Social Change, and Ending the Prison Industrial Complex.

When Jewish students protested the pile-on, they encountered a torrent of vitriol. "Quiet, you baby," replied Michael Stamos, a first-year student at the law school. Helen Campbell, a third-year student, ridiculed the suggestion that Students for Justice in Palestine should condemn attacks on Israeli civilians. After all, she wrote, "you don’t condemn an earthquake or a lethal outbreak of flu."

New York University did not respond to a request for comment.

The diverse list of signatories reflects an ongoing shift in progressive attitudes toward Israel—one that has been accelerated by the transposition of American racial politics to conflicts in the Middle East.

"Embedded in the Zionist supremacy narrative," Students for Justice in Palestine wrote, " is the orientalist, Islamophobic idea that Azkenazi [sic] Jewish whiteness is fundamentally superior to Palestinian lives, culture, and identity." That jargon has its roots in black nationalists like Angela Davis, who argued in a 2015 book that Palestinians and black Americans are part of a global struggle against police violence.

The statement from Students for Justice in Palestine also likens Palestinian terrorists to Ukrainian soldiers. "The root of the violence we see today is the violent founding of the Israeli state," the statement reads. "Any Palestinian resistance should be understood with reference to this foundational violence—a concept American media seems to have no trouble applying to the Ukranian [sic] response to Russia."

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Under Federal Scrutiny, NYU Law School Faces Uproar Over Anti-Semitism

New York University School of Law may be legally obligated to punish some of its star students after nearly a dozen student groups signed a statement that defended terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians and bemoaned the "Zionist grip on the media."

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