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The Church of Scotland's Scandal
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May 14, 2013, 11:01:09 AM »
The Church of Scotland's Scandal
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Earlier this month, the Church of Scotland issued a report titled "The Inheritance of Abraham? A Report on the 'Promised Land.'"
The essence of the report is that according to the Bible, Jews have no more attachment to the land of Israel than anyone else. Hence "promised land" is in quotation marks in the report's title -- because there is no promised land.
In the report's words: "The New Testament contains a radical re-interpretation of the concepts of 'Israel,' 'temple,' 'Jerusalem' and 'land.' When the Bible mentions 'Israel,' it does not mean Israel; when it says 'temple,' the Bible does not mean the Jewish temple; 'Jerusalem' does not mean the city of Jerusalem; and 'land' does not mean land.
"Promises about the land of Israel," the report continues, "were never intended to be taken literally, or as applying to a defined geographical territory."
Even during the worst excesses of Christian anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages, it is doubtful that any normative Christian body declared that "Israel," "the temple," "Jerusalem" and "the land" no longer meant or were ever intended to mean what those words represent.
This claim is not only profoundly anti-Semitic. It is an act of theological forgery; it makes a mockery of the Bible as a coherent document and it renders Christianity inherently anti-Semitic.
It would be as if a major post-Christian religious body had announced that "Jesus," "Christ," "crucifixion" and "resurrection" had never meant what Christians and the New Testament had always understood them to mean. Imagine if a major Muslim body declared that Jesus means Muhammad; Christ means Quran; crucifixion means Islamophobia; and resurrection means the Hajj.
I have never equated criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. But the Church of Scotland report is not about criticism of Israel; it is about invalidating the Jewish people and invalidating the Jews' historically incontestable claims to the land upon which the only independent states that ever existed were Jewish.
--The Church of Scotland report asserts that the Bible does not support the existence of a Jewish state: "There has been a widespread assumption by many Christians as well as many Jewish people that the Bible supports an essentially Jewish state of Israel. This raises an increasing number of difficulties. ... "
--It asserts that justice and the existence of a Jewish state are mutually exclusive: "There is a direct conflict of interest between wanting human rights and justice for all and retaining the right to the land."
--It asserts that the Jews' return to Israel has no biblical basis.
--It asserts that the notion that the Jews have or ever had a special relationship with God -- one of the most oft repeated ideas in the Hebrew Bible -- is negated in that very same Bible: "That exclusivist tradition implied Jews had a special, privileged position in relation to God. But the prophetic tradition stood against this." The Chosen People is not chosen, in other words.
--It asserts that God's promise of the land to Abraham has nothing to do with the Jews; it is only about Jesus: "The promise to Abraham about land is fulfilled through the impact of Jesus, not by restoration of land to the Jewish people."
--It asserts that even Jesus -- that proud, religious Jew -- did not believe in any special relationship between God and the Jews: "Jesus offered a radical critique of Jewish specialness ... "
At the same time, this truly immoral document does not devote a word to why there were Palestinian refugees: While the Jews accepted the 1947-48 partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, all the neighboring Arab states rejected the partition and invaded the Jews in order to annihilate Israel at birth.
Nor does the report devote a single sentence to how Israel's occupation of the West Bank came about: In 1967, Israel's neighbors sought to exterminate Israel just as Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and most Palestinians and other Muslims in the Middle East today wish to now. And that only because of that war, won by Israel, did Israel come to occupy the West Bank of Jordan.
Nor is a word devoted to Palestinian national honoring of their numerous terrorists, or to the exterminationist and anti-Semitic propaganda that saturates Middle East media or to the widespread Palestinian support for terrorism (according to the just-released Pew Forum poll of Muslims, 40 percent of Palestinians support suicide terror).
And the Church of Scotland did not think it important to even hint at what happened in Gaza after the Israelis gave the whole of Gaza to the Palestinians: The Palestinians converted it into a terror-state that regularly launches rockets into Israel to kill as many Israelis as possible.
And, most vile of all, the Church of Scotland never once notes, let alone condemns, the Muslim countries and organizations that seek to annihilate Israel, an existential threat that no other country or people in the world face.
The Church of Scotland has given voice to the ugliest depiction of Jews since medieval times. The official reaction of the Scottish Jewish community is that Christian-Jewish post-Holocaust dialogue seems to have been a moral and intellectual waste of time. I do not agree. But if other Christian churches do not condemn the Church of Scotland -- despite its promise to revise its report to include a statement that Israel has a right to exist (!) -- even pro-Christian Jews will wonder whether the Scottish Jewish community's reaction is valid.
And how did this happen? The report is a combination of medieval Christian anti-Judaism and contemporary leftist anti-Zionism. For Jews and Israel, that's a lethal combination.
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Jewish Exodus from Arab lands
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Re: Anti-semitism & Jews
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June 10, 2013, 08:36:34 AM »
Few days after Rush Limbaugh's rant about there being no formal connection to Hitler and the final solution this pops up out of no where. Was never available to historians but for the One - no problem. OK so we'll see if a single witness came forward:
Exclusive: U.S. finds long-lost diary of top Nazi leader, Hitler aide
ReutersBy John Shiffman | Reuters 1 hr 15 mins ago..
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Related Content.
.Alfred Rosenberg, the Chief Nazi Party Ideologist, is seen in a portrait taken between 1933 and 1945 and released to Reuters by the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington June 7, 2013. REUTERS/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of William Gallagher/HANDOUTView Photo.
Alfred Rosenberg, the Chief Nazi
By John Shiffman
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government has recovered 400 pages from the long-lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a confidant of Adolf Hitler who played a central role in the extermination of millions of Jews and others during World War Two.
A preliminary U.S. government assessment reviewed by Reuters asserts the diary could offer new insight into meetings Rosenberg had with Hitler and other top Nazi leaders, including Heinrich Himmler and Herman Goering. It also includes details about the German occupation of the Soviet Union, including plans for mass killings of Jews and other Eastern Europeans.
"The documentation is of considerable importance for the study of the Nazi era, including the history of the Holocaust," according to the assessment, prepared by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. "A cursory content analysis indicates that the material sheds new light on a number of important issues relating to the Third Reich's policy. The diary will be an important source of information to historians that compliments, and in part contradicts, already known documentation."
How the writings of Rosenberg, a Nazi Reich minister who was convicted at Nuremberg and hanged in 1946, might contradict what historians believe to be true is unclear. Further details about the diary's contents could not be learned, and a U.S. government official stressed that the museum's analysis remains preliminary.
But the diary does include details about tensions within the German high-command - in particular, the crisis caused by the flight of Rudolf Hess to Britain in 1941, and the looting of art throughout Europe, according to the preliminary analysis.
The recovery is expected to be announced this week at a news conference in Delaware held jointly by officials from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Justice and Holocaust museum.
The diary offers a loose collection of Rosenberg's recollections from spring 1936 to winter 1944, according to the museum's analysis. Most entries are written in Rosenberg's looping cursive, some on paper torn from a ledger book and others on the back of official Nazi stationary, the analysis said.
Rosenberg was an early and powerful Nazi ideologue, particularly on racial issues. He directed the Nazi party's foreign affairs department and edited the Nazi newspaper. Several of his memos to Hitler were cited as evidence during the post-war Nuremberg trials.
Rosenberg also directed the systematic Nazi looting of Jewish art, cultural and religious property throughout Europe. The Nazi unit created to seize such artifacts was called Task Force Reichsleiter Rosenberg.
He was convicted of crimes against humanity and was one of a dozen senior Nazi officials executed in October 1946. His diary, once held by Nuremberg prosecutors as evidence, vanished after the trial.
A Nuremberg prosecutor, Robert Kempner, was long suspected by U.S. officials of smuggling the diary back to the United States.
Born in Germany, Kempner had fled to America in the 1930s to escape the Nazis, only to return for post-war trials. He is credited with helping reveal the existence of the Wannsee Protocol, the 1942 conference during which Nazi officials met to coordinate the genocide against the Jews, which they termed "The Final Solution."
Kempner cited a few Rosenberg diary excerpts in his memoir, and in 1956 a German historian published entries from 1939 and 1940. But the bulk of the diary never surfaced.
When Kempner died in 1993 at age 93, legal disputes about his papers raged for nearly a decade between his children, his former secretary, a local debris removal contractor and the Holocaust museum. The children agreed to give their father's papers to the Holocaust museum, but when officials arrived to retrieve them from his home in 1999, they discovered that many thousands of pages were missing.
After the 1999 incident, the FBI opened a criminal investigation into the missing documents. No charges were filed in the case.
But the Holocaust museum has gone on to recover more than 150,000 documents, including a trove held by Kempner's former secretary, who by then had moved into the New York state home of an academic named Herbert Richardson.
The Rosenberg diary, however, remained missing.
Early this year, the Holocaust museum and an agent from Homeland Security Investigation tried to locate the missing diary pages. They tracked the diary to Richardson, who was living near Buffalo.
Richardson declined to comment. A government official said more details will be announced at the news conference.
(Reporting by John Shiffmann in Washington and Kristina R. Cooke in San Francisco; Editing by Blake Morrison and Leslie Gevirtz)
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Tolkien vs. the Nazis
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July 01, 2013, 08:23:11 AM »
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Re: Anti-semitism & Jews
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July 19, 2013, 12:39:56 PM »
Iran Condemns Filmmaker as "Traitor" for Israel Visit
by IPT News Jul 19, 2013 at 9:48 am
The Islamic Republic of Iran's vehemently anti-Semitic and anti-Israel sentiment has never been limited to international politics. Such bigoted attitudes continue to spill over into the arts, which are supposed to transcend political differences. Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf continues to experience a severe backlash for his recent decision to attend the Jerusalem International Film Festival, causing immense criticism from many within Iran and the Diaspora.
The head of the Cinema Organization at the Ministry of Islamic Guidance ordered the Film Museum's director to remove all of Makhmalbaf's exhibits, including dozens of international awards.
Makhmalbaf left Iran in 2005. While visiting Israel for his film screening, Makhmalbaf, advocated for strengthened ties between the Iranian and Israeli people. Elements within Iran's conservative media accused the film director of treason and collaboration with the "Zionists" against the Islamic Republic. Makhmalbaf's film, "The Gardener," relates to the Baha'i community; a religious minority which suffers systematic and institutionalized discrimination in Iran. Much of the film was made in Israel, and the trailer emphasized violence committed in the name of religion
The backlash further emphasizes the Islamic Republic's fear of the "soft war" allegedly waged by Israel and the West in an attempt to discredit the regime in the eyes of the Iranian population. International efforts to alleviate persecution of minorities and dissidents are perceived as a major threat to the stability of the regime.
Even the so called "pragmatic conservative" camp and reformist affiliated outlets criticized Makhmalbaf's visit to Israel. By simply visiting the Jewish state, Makhmalbaf's image has been transformed from revolutionary cultural icon to a traitorous enemy of the Iranian people.
Roughly 150 intellectuals, academics, authors, artists, journalists, and human rights advocates released a public letter condemning Makhmalbaf, claiming a violation of the cultural and academic boycott of anything Israeli. On the other hand, 80 activists and academics of Iranian descent signed a letter to the Times of Israel praising Makhmalbaf's visit. The signatories commended Makhmalbaf's call for Israel to support democratic elements in Iran over conducting a military strike on its nuclear sites.
In an interview with the UK's Guardian, Makhmalbaf described his time in Israel as "amazing" noting packed houses who attended three different screenings. As an artist, he said he tries to build friendship among people of different faiths and ethnicities.
That's not something the Iranian regime wants people to see.
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The Jewish conspiracy reaches into British royal family
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August 12, 2013, 02:39:32 PM »
Read this first, then watch the video below.
It is interesting to note the following in the family tree of Kate Middleton
wife of Prince William:
Kate's mother is Carol Middleton, daughter of Ronald Goldsmith and Dorothy Harrison (both Jews)
The parents of Dorothy Harrison are Robert Harrison and Elizabeth Temple
(both Jews), the latter a descendant of the Myers family, English Jews in
the 19th century.
Bottom line: Princess Kate is a Jew on her matriarchal side, and as a
consequence, the future king of England will be a Jew according to Jewish
Law and tradition.
Fancy that!
Now click here:
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Not a Jewish Princess
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August 13, 2013, 08:24:22 AM »
The article has parts that are more rude than funny.
Its nonsense, said Doreen Berger, the chairman of the Jewish Genealogy Society (JGS). I have been researching Kate Middletons ancestry since it looked like she was getting engaged to Prince William.
Ive looked back as far as its possible to look back and she doesnt have a Jewish link at all its just not true. Im 100 per cent sure.
She added that Mr Cole was confused. The names Myers and Goldsmiths are shared by non-Jews as well as Jews. Carole Middletons ancestors were a coal miner and a carpenter and they were not from Jewish areas.
The Jewish surnames were also used by non-Jews, and there is no evidence of synagogue marriages or Jewish burials, Harris noted. On the contrary, there are solid records of church weddings among Caroles ancestors going back at least five generations.
The office of the British Chief Rabbi, which keeps records of marriages in the Orthodox United Synagogue, says that previous publications debunking the Middletons Jewish heritage make the issue completely clear.
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Re: Anti-semitism & Jews
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August 13, 2013, 09:51:24 AM »
Thanks for the catch Rachel. I should have known better.
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Jewish autonomy region
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August 17, 2013, 10:18:51 AM »
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Re: Anti-semitism & Jews
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August 26, 2013, 04:49:30 PM »
Outrage: U.S. Returning Artifacts Looted from Iraqi Jews to Iraq, Instead of Lawful
By Harold Rhode
The National Archives is readying an exhibit of Iraqi Jewish artifacts due to open
on October 11. Appallingly, the U.S. government has agreed to then return the Iraqi
Jewish archives including holy books to Iraq, which systematically expelled its
Jewish community, by June of 2014. This is like returning artifacts to Germany, had
they never renounced Nazism.
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Re: Anti-semitism & Jews
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August 26, 2013, 05:16:24 PM »
Quote from: Crafty_Dog on August 26, 2013, 04:49:30 PM
Outrage: U.S. Returning Artifacts Looted from Iraqi Jews to Iraq, Instead of Lawful
By Harold Rhode
The National Archives is readying an exhibit of Iraqi Jewish artifacts due to open
on October 11. Appallingly, the U.S. government has agreed to then return the Iraqi
Jewish archives including holy books to Iraq, which systematically expelled its
Jewish community, by June of 2014. This is like returning artifacts to Germany, had
they never renounced Nazism.
Strange that a government run by Rev. Wright's most famous church attendee would do this.
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Anti-semitism re-awkens in Hungary
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November 06, 2013, 10:33:31 AM »
Op-Ed Contributor
In Hungary, Anti-Semitism Rises Again
By MARIANNE SZEGEDY-MASZAK
Published: October 29, 2013
ARLINGTON, Virginia My father, Aladar Szegedy-Maszak, a Hungarian diplomat, dined with Adolf Hitler three times, And then he went to the concentration camp at Dachau.
As secretary to the Hungarian ambassador to Germany from 1932 to 1937, my father watched the rise of the Führer. He encountered him socially at a reception and two dinners the first time on Feb. 10, 1933, at Hitlers first speech as chancellor. He remembered how sweat poured from Hitlers face, soaking his uniform. The speech left my father cold, but also deeply unsettled by the rhapsodic reactions of the audience. This was my first personal experience that we were dealing with a quasi-religious mass movement, he wrote, or perhaps more accurately, a mass psychosis.
My father knew how devastating Nazi rule would be for the Jews. Hungarian Jews came to his office in droves, imploring him for advice as to how they could help themselves as property was seized and small businesses destroyed.
He met movie directors and actresses; small-business owners; a landlord who owned a block of houses in a workingmens neighborhood of Berlin who was told that if he didnt leave, he would be charged with molesting women. There was nothing he could do.
The hardy perennial of anti-Semitism has made a dramatic comeback in Central Europe. Germany has recently reiterated its friendship with Israel, in response to recent anti-Jewish activity. Far-right political parties in France and Austria have gained force. In Hungary, a virulently anti-Semitic party, Jobbik, is now the third-largest in Parliament. One party official has called for a list of all Jewish legislators, to assess their loyalty a move that even the right-wing government condemned. (Earlier this month, the government pledged, in the face of global criticism, to crack down on anti-Semitism.)
This all would have been troubling yet familiar to my father and other relatives of his generation. They came of age in a country that was a stew of anti-Semitism. After World War I, Communists ruled for more than four months, and since most of those in power were Jews, the link between Communism and Judaism was forged in many minds. For many Hungarians, to be anti-Communist meant being anti-Semitic.
My father was not a convinced anti-Semite, but as a Hungarian Christian from a strong family tradition of support for the monarchy, he flirted with anti-Semitism as a young man a fact he was ashamed of his entire life. The experiences in Berlin, he wrote, extinguished the last, minimal remnants of anti-Semitism that I had had as a teenager during the counterrevolution. His years in Berlin, and his two other encounters with Hitler, were antidotes to any vestiges of anti-Semitism he had once harbored.
At a diplomatic reception in September 1934 before the Nuremberg rally that Leni Riefenstahl famously memorialized in Triumph of the Will, my father could not reconcile the old-fashioned, modest, almost shy Hitler with the raving lunatic he had seen at rallies.
The final time he met Hitler was June 7, 1942. The prime minister of Hungary was invited on an official visit to the Führers wartime headquarters in East Prussia and asked my father now deputy head of the political division in the Foreign Ministry to go with him. They ate in Hitlers dining car and my father saw what he later referred to as the Satanic nature of his character.
Hungary was an ally of Germany, but an extremely unreliable one. Its officials refused to deport Jews to concentration camps. My father, known for his opposition to Nazism, had attempted to organize an effort to negotiate a separate peace with the Allies, an effort that failed and led to his arrest after the Germans invaded Hungary, on March 19, 1944.
After a regime of Hungarian Nazis took over in October 1944, voices of moderation were jailed or killed. Some 440,000 Jews were deported. Members of the gendarmerie were enthusiastic participants in the process. Ultimately some 600,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered.
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If anti-Communism represented one side of hatred for Jews, anticapitalism represented another. My mothers family, the highly assimilated children and grandchildren of the Hungarian Jewish industrialist Manfred Weiss, fell into the latter category.
My maternal grandfather was transported to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria after the invasion of Hungary, but he was lucky. He and his family were granted safe passage to Portugal after making, in effect, a deal with Heinrich Himmler for freedom in exchange for their property.
Before this deal was made, my maternal grandmother had disguised herself as a Hungarian peasant during the Nazi occupation. She met the wife of the anti-Semitic former prime minister (and Nazi collaborator) Bela Imredy, with whom my mothers family had once socialized (albeit not with great closeness). My grandmother asked if there was anything Mrs. Imredy could do to save my grandfather. Mrs. Imredy replied that she couldnt. And as they parted she turned and said, ominously and elliptically, Now its our turn.
My parents married at the end of 1945, after my father was liberated at the wars end. He later became the Hungarian ambassador to the United States. He resigned in 1947, after the Communist takeover. He and my mother managed to remain in America. My father died in 1988, my mother in 2002.
I wonder what they would make of Hungary today. The same stereotypes of the past the association of Jews with Communism and capitalism fuel the support for Jobbik today.
Into this caldron has stepped the great conductor Ivan Fischer, himself a Hungarian Jew. He recently composed and performed an opera entitled Red Heifer that chronicles the story of a small group of Jews in the 19th century who were wrongly accused of the murder of a Hungarian girl from the countryside. It is a true story, one that uses the distant past to illuminate a dark time in the present.
Of course it is unlikely to change any minds. But the simple fact of it is an affirmation of the power of art to accomplish what decent politicians cannot. It is also an example the terrible persistence of a state of mind, a kind of psychopathy that did not begin with Hitler and, tragically, did not end with him.
Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, a journalist, is the author of I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary.
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Giving thanks for the miracle of survival
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Re: Giving thanks for the miracle of survival
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Quote from: Crafty_Dog on November 28, 2013, 04:06:27 PM
I have seen a lot of bad things and it comes with a price, things like this are good to read.
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Re: Anti-semitism & Jews
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Neo-Nazi Salute
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Hungarian anti-semite discovers he is a Jew
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Re: Hungarian anti-semite discovers he is a Jew
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Quote from: Crafty_Dog on January 01, 2014, 10:40:04 PM
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A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation
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January 03, 2014, 09:14:59 PM »
Book Review: 'The Crooked Mirror,' by Louise Steinman
The Polish-Jewish past remains clouded by Soviet lies and by shame, guilt and a residual refusal by some to admit any responsibility.
By Diane Cole
Jan. 2, 2014 7:05 p.m. ET
When Louise Steinman was invited in 1999 to participate in a retreat at Auschwitz aimed at fostering Polish-Jewish reconciliation, she responded viscerally. She had grown up with the knowledge that many of her relatives on her mother's side had perished in the Holocaust, and she had no interest in what she viewed as "a communal identity based on a legacy of victimhood" or in "meditating on the train tracks" outside the death-camp complex. What could she possibly say to the current inhabitants of Poland, or they to her, that would yield anything beyond outrage on her part and defensiveness or denial on theirs?
Yet the author's nagging curiosity about her family's history prodded her to take that initial trip to Poland from Los Angeles, and there she discovered the lively curiosity among many younger Poles about their country's Jewish past and the fate of the more than three million Jews who had lived there before World War IIa subject deemed taboo under Communist repression. Much to her astonishment, she also witnessed the beginnings of a small Jewish revival, with growing numbers of Poles identifying themselves as Jews.
Ms. Steinman is no stranger to the struggle to reach back into history's abyss. Her 2001 memoir, "The Souvenir," recounted her discovery of a frayed Japanese flag that her father had claimed from a Pacific battlefield on which he had foughtand her subsequent journey ostensibly to return it to Japan, really to understand her father and the impact of war trauma.
The Crooked Mirror
By Louise Steinman
(Beacon, 224 pages, $26.95)
"The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation" is Ms. Steinman's provocative account of her first encounter with the traumatic Polish-Jewish past and of her later trips to Poland, Germany and Ukraine. More than just a tour of death sites, the book is a chronicle of her discovery of, and engagement with, the growing effort to bring Jews and Poles together to find what one Israeli she meets describes as "a new language to talk to each other."
To Ms. Steinman, it appears as if Jews and Poles today view each other through a crooked mirror, with both struggling to make sense of what they see. She travels to Wannseethe Berlin suburb made infamous by the 1942 conference whose agenda was the "final solution to the Jewish question"to attend the biannual conference of One by One. The organization facilitates "dialogue groups," bringing together "survivors, perpetrators, bystanders and resisters" and their descendants. Among the attendees in her group are a white-haired former member of the Wehrmacht, a woman whose father died at Auschwitz and Cheryl, another American Jew of Polish heritage, who pointedly asks: "Do the Poles want us back?"
Cheryl joins Ms. Steinman on trips that take them to the small towns where their ancestors had lived before the Holocaust. In Sejny, Poland, they watch volunteers renovate the ruined Jewish cemetery. The two also visit Krakow's Center for Jewish Culture. Since it opened in 1993, it has become a place where Jews who had previously hidden or not known about their Jewish background meet one another, as well as non-Jews. In Radomskothe town in central Poland where Ms. Steinman's family had lived before the Holocaustthe citizens raise funds to install a commemorative marker, in Hebrew and Polish, on the site where the synagogue once stood before the war.
Ms. Steinman also tours Kazimierz, the old Krakow Jewish quarter now revived as a cultural district; there she attends a klezmer concert in the restored synagogue's packed sanctuary. Among the performers that night are "Polish actors dressed like Hasids in black silk jackets." The audience is enthusiastic. Ms. Steinman's affable guide and translator, Tomek, who isn't Jewish but is a serious student of Jewish history, is enchanted. But sensibilities diverge as Ms. Steinman inwardly fumes: "Was this some kind of minstrel show?"
The trips ultimately leave Cheryl cold, plaguing her with images of "my grandfather burned alive in the synagogue, my female relatives marched out of town, shot and buried in a mass grave." The extent to which reconciliation is a work in progress is driven home for Ms. Steinman when she learns that the last known home of some murdered relatives is occupied by a "xenophobic pensioner who listened to anti-Semitic broadcasts." On the same street, however, she also meets an "urbane law professor who spoke proudly of his grandfather rescuing a Jewish child."
How to explain such contradictory encounters? Ms. Steinman frames her experiences by tracing how the Polish past was systematically obfuscated by Soviet lies and further clouded by shame, guilt and a residual refusal by some to admit any responsibility. She refers throughout to works that document the participation of Poles in anti-Semitic violence during and after World War II, such as historian Timothy Snyder's "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin " and Jan T. Gross's "Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland"a book that remains controversial in Poland.
The mirror, then, remains askew. But readers can be grateful to Ms. Steinman for bearing witness to those seeds of understanding being planted in lands where so much blood flowed.
Ms. Cole, author of the memoir "After Great Pain: A New Life Emerges," is a faculty member of the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El in New York and a contributing editor of the Psychotherapy Networker
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Krauthammer: How to fight Academic Bigotry
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January 10, 2014, 12:28:20 PM »
How to fight academic bigotry
For decades, the American Studies Association labored in well-deserved obscurity. No longer. It has now made a name for itself by voting to boycott Israeli universities, accusing them of denying academic and human rights to Palestinians.
Given that Israel has a profoundly democratic political system, the freest press in the Middle East, a fiercely independent judiciary and astonishing religious and racial diversity within its universities, including affirmative action for Arab students, the charge is rather strange. Made more so when you consider the state of human rights in Israels neighborhood. As we speak, Syrias government is dropping barrel bombs filled with nails, shrapnel and other instruments of terror on its own cities. Where is the ASA boycott of Syria?
And of Iran, which hangs political, religious and even sexual dissidents and has no academic freedom at all? Or Egypt, where Christians are being openly persecuted? Or Turkey, Saudi Arabia or, for that matter, massively repressive China and Russia?
Which makes obvious that the ASA boycott has nothing to do with human rights. Its an exercise in radical chic, giving marginalized academics a frisson of pretend anti-colonialism, seasoned with a dose of edgy anti-Semitism.
And dont tell me this is merely about Zionism. The ruse is transparent. Israel is the worlds only Jewish state. To apply to the state of the Jews a double standard that you apply to none other, to judge one people in a way you judge no other, to single out that one people for condemnation and isolation is to engage in a gross act of discrimination.
And discrimination against Jews has a name. Its called anti-Semitism.
Former Harvard president Larry Summers called the ASA actions anti-Semitic in their effect if not necessarily in their intent. I choose to be less polite. The intent is clear: to incite hatred for the largest and only sovereign Jewish community on Earth.
What to do? Facing a similar (British) academic boycott of Israelis seven years ago, Alan Dershowitz and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg wrote an open letter declaring that, for the purposes of any anti-Israel boycott, they are to be considered Israelis.
Meaning: You discriminate against Israelis? Fine. Include us out. We will have nothing to do with you.
Thousands of other academics added their signatures to the Dershowitz/Weinberg letter. It was the perfect in-kind response. Boycott the boycotters, with contempt.
But academia isnt the only home for such prejudice. Throughout the cultural world, the Israel boycott movement is growing. Its become fashionable for musicians, actors, writers and performers of all kinds to ostentatiously cleanse themselves of Israel and Israelis.
The example of the tuxedoed set has spread to the more coarse and unkempt anti-Semites, such as the thugs who a few years ago disrupted London performances of the Jerusalem Quartet and the Israeli Philharmonic.
Five years ago in Sweden, Israels Davis Cup team had to play its matches in an empty tennis stadium because the authorities could not guarantee the Israelis safety from the mob. The most brazen display of rising anti-Semitism today is the spread of the quenelle, a reverse Nazi salute, popularized by the openly anti-Semitic French entertainer, Dieudonné MBala MBala.
In this sea of easy and open bigotry, an unusual man has made an unusual statement. Russian by birth, European by residence, Evgeny Kissin is arguably the worlds greatest piano virtuoso. He is also a Jew of conviction. Deeply distressed by Israels treatment in the cultural world around him, Kissin went beyond the
Dershowitz/Weinberg stance of asking to be considered an Israeli. On Dec. 7, he became one, defiantly.
Upon taking the oath of citizenship in Jerusalem, he declared: I am a Jew, Israel is a Jewish state. . . . Israels case is my case, Israels enemies are my enemies, and I do not want to be spared the troubles which Israeli musicians encounter when they represent the Jewish state beyond its borders.
Full disclosure: I have a personal connection with Kissin. For the past two years Ive worked to bring him to Washington to perform for Pro Musica Hebraica, a nonprofit organization (founded by my wife and me) dedicated to reviving lost and forgotten Jewish classical music. We succeeded. On Feb. 24, Kissin will perform at the Kennedy Center Concert Hallmasterpieces of Eastern European Jewish music, his first U.S. appearance as an Israeli.
The persistence of anti-Semitism, that most ancient of poisons, is one of historys great mysteries. Even the shame of the Holocaust proved no antidote. It provided but a temporary respite. Anti-Semitism is back. Alas, a new generation must learn to confront it.
How? How to answer the thugs, physical and intellectual, who single out Jews for attack? The best way, the most dignified way, is to do like Dershowitz, Weinberg or Kissin.
Express your solidarity. Sign the open letter or write your own. Don the yellow star and wear it proudly.
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The Evolution of Anti-Semitism at Elite Universities
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The evolution of anti-Semitism at elite universities
Posted on February 27, 2012 by Rivka Teitz Blau/JNS.org and filed under Features, Opinion, U.S..
Click photo to download. Caption: Princeton University. Credit: PD.
Rabbi, did you ever think you would see this day?
It was 1971, and the university official who asked this question was inviting the rabbi to the dedication of the kosher dining room in Stevenson Hall on the campus of Princeton University.
In light of the anti-Semitism that had prevailed at elite schools until the 1950s, the official was right. But the rabbi he invited was Rav Mordechai Pinchas Teitz, ztl, who would indeed have imagined this moment could come.
Rabbi Teitz called America golus [exile], but the best golus the Jewish nation has experienced. He thought President Harry Truman, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean represented the best qualities of America: a commitment to fairness with a generosity of spirit.
True, these qualities had not always been evident in the Ivy League and Seven Sisters colleges.
Barnard College, for example, had been founded and supported by Annie Nathan Meyer, and later received large donations from Jacob Schiff, both of whom were Jewish. But when Virginia Gildersleeve became the head of Barnard in 1911, her spirit of anti-Semitism prevailed.
In 1916 Schiff gave half a million dollars for the construction of the main building, which was called Students Hall. In 1926, after Schiffs death, the building was named Barnard Hall rather than for the donor. Annie Nathan Meyer protested the blatant anti-Semitism and the pain caused to the Schiff family, but Gildersleevewho had the support of Columbias Nicholas Murray Butler in her approachdid not retreat.
The sole memorial of Schiffs generosity is a marble plaque set in the floor of the Barnard Hall lobby; when I was a student there we referred to meeting in the lobby as meeting on Jake, but we did not know the story behind this.
Gildersleeve and Butler were also perturbed by the number of Jews enrolling in their schools, particularly those whose families had come from Eastern Europe and had excelled in high school here.
Before World War I, forty percent of Columbias students were Jewish, and Barnard in the 1920s was heading toward the same percentage. They agreed to stop basing admission on academic achievement and to instead consider interviews, letters of recommendation, and geographic distribution as criteria. The last phrase is a code name for non-Jews since Montana, Idaho, and similar locales could be counted on for fewer Jews than the East Coast. Hewitt Hall, a dormitory at Barnard, was built to enable students from distant parts of the country to live on campus.
The irony is that a number of the professors who made these schools renowned were Jewish, at least one of them born in Lithuaniathe supposedly uncultured Eastern EuropeMeyer Schapiro, who made the department of art history a force in American culture.
Other Jewish notables in the ensuing decades included Isidor Rabi, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1944, Lionel Trilling in English literature, and Franz Boas at Barnard, who developed the fields of anthropology and linguistics.
Gildersleeve was so intent on favoring admission of women from rich Protestant families that she organized the Seven Sisters with Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley to promote her policy of excluding Jews. When she left the deanship in 1947, she lobbied against the establishment of a Jewish state in the British mandate of Palestine.
But change was coming. After World War II there was an increased sensitivity to the horrific consequences of anti-Semitism. Although other groups had not suddenly become philo-Semites, outright discrimination was becoming unacceptable. And the pioneers in Israel upended all the old stereotypes of Jews.
Day schools opened across the United States and Canada. In the middle of the nineteenth century Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch had initiated the model of a school with both Jewish and secular studies. Before World War II there were day schools in New York, Baltimore, Boston, Elizabeth, and a handful of other cities. In the postwar years tens of new schools were established. The law of unintended consequences operated; many of the teachers in these schools were European refugees who had managed to arrive in America after the war.
At the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 60s a few graduates of yeshiva high schools were admitted into the top colleges. College administrators were nonplussed by the requirements of observant Jewish undergraduates. No exams on the Sabbath? Who ever heard of a holiday in May called Shavuot? Kosher food?
I recall that when I asked to defer a final that was scheduled for Shavuot, the registrar at Barnard said, Miss Teitz, Ive heard of your New Year; Ive heard of your Day of Atonement; I think youre making this holiday up.
My sisters and I came to Barnard in the first place because of anti-Semitism. In a public high school in New Jersey, a teacher had said to a student, I graduated from Barnard, but you will never be accepted there. Youre a rabbis daughter; your letter of rejection is guaranteed. It was 1931, in an era when a Jewish student could not protest such a remark and such a policy. The rabbis daughter was my mother, who determined that if she had daughters they would attend Barnard.
This story first appeared in The Jewish Press and is re-distributed with the permission of that newspaper.
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An "Onslaught of White-on-Black Murder?"
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Al Sharpton vs. Reality...
An Onslaught of White-on-Black Murder?
Posted By Colin Flaherty On March 14, 2014 @ frontpagemag.com
Activists from around the country marched on Tallahassee Monday to protest what one writer for Salon is calling open season on black teenagers: The onslaught of white murder.
Speakers such as Al Sharpton reminded the crowd of the most famous example of this onslaught from two years ago, when George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin. A jury ruled it was self defense. The next example was last year, when Michael Dunn shot Jordan Davis after feeling threatened by Davis and his friends.
Earlier this month, a jury found Dunn guilty of three charges of second degree murder for firing several bullets into a car, but could not reach a verdict for the killing of Jordan Davis. This prompted howls of protest from black writers and activists who say these two killings form a trend.
Several national media outlets including Time and USA Today glommed on to the narrative: Black people are victims of white violence. Not the other way around, despite crime statistics that show white-on-black crime is a rarity compared to black-on-white crime and black mob violence.
Much of this violence is documented in White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore it.
If everything that speakers and reporters at the rally knew came from the daily newspapers, they could be forgiven for not being aware of the disproportionate nature of racial violence. So lets fill in a few blanks with recent examples:
In Annapolis, Maryland, two black men, Devery Kelley and Cornell Robinson were arrested earlier this month for robbing a pregnant woman while she was in labor on her way to the hospital delivery room.
In Madison, Wisconsin, about the same time as the protest, police arrested six black people for the home invasion and beating of a young couple. They were also charged with sexual assault on the woman, who was six months pregnant.
In Seattle last week, police found 100 black people fighting in the street. Some were shooting guns. Some wore black ski masks. No one was arrested.
Ski masks seem to be a popular accessory this year: In Washington, D.C. over the weekend, black people wearing ski masks fired guns and threatened a homeowner who confronted a crowd of 100 black people fighting and stomping on the hood of her car. The Washington Post reported that someone wearing a ski mask used a racial slur, told her to shut up and threatened to kill her.
When she pointed the offenders out to police, they refused to question or even approach the suspects.
When the womans husband went to the police station the next day to complain about the lack of police action toward violence in her recently gentrified neighborhood, he was told that officers are instructed not to engage large crowds if it might put them in danger.
In Dayton, Ohio over the weekend, a large group of black people were fighting downtown. When police arrived to break it up, James White attacked the officers. They arrested him.
Over the weekend near Rochester, a large group of black people were fighting in a bowling alley when one man was hit in the head with a bowling ball. Four were arrested.
In Stamford, Conn. on Saturday, a store owner tried to stop a group of black people from stealing several bottles of liquor. The alleged thieves attacked the store owners and their family, breaking a bottle over the womans head. Police said one of the suspects kicked and spit on officers.
In Dallas less than a month ago, career criminal Deyfon Pipkins was shot and killed while breaking into the home of a senior citizen. This was just the latest of several burglaries at this house. The local Fox affiliate reports Pipkins had a criminal record that was 18 pages long.
Soon after the killing, several relatives complained about the homeowner, said the Fox affiliate. He could have used a warning, said Lakesha Thompson, Pipkins sister-in-law. He could have let him know that he did have a gun on his property and he would use it in self-defense.
In Mobile, Alabama, the relatives of Adric White did not like it any better when he was shot in November at a discount store he was robbing. If no one had a gun up to him, if no one pointed a gun at him what gives him the right to think that its okay to just shoot someone? a relative, who wished to remain anonymous, told FOX10. You should have just left the store and went wherever you had to go in your car or whatever.
In Milwaukee Friday afternoon, a large group of black people at a McDonalds restaurant were fighting and destroying property. Nine black people were arrested.
On Friday in Chicago Heights, 20 black students from Bloom Trail High School were fighting and attacking security guards in what local news is calling a massive brawl. Some of it was caught on video. Nine were arrested.
Near Minneapolis a week ago, a group of 15 black people were fighting at an LA Fitness. They were throwing free weights and barbells at gym patrons and staff. When police arrived, they fought them too. Some on video.
Last Thursday in Omaha, a black man shot Brandon Samuels dead. They were at a party following a Miley Cyruss Bangerz Tour concert when Samuels tried to stop the man who was attacking a woman. The man left and returned with two friends and a gun. They shot Samuels in the neck and seriously wounded another.
In St. Louis on Sunday, dozens of black people rioted in the middle of the afternoon, in the middle of a street, in the middle of a popular business district called the Delmar Loop, in the middle of a crowd of people with cell phone cameras, in the middle of an area known for frequent and regular black mob violence often caught on video. Then they looted a nearby Family Dollar store. Police took 20 into custody and released them to their parents without arresting anyone.
In Austin, Texas on Friday, the headline tells the story: Another brutal beating in Downtown Austin has been caught on camera this time the victims are two women. This time the crowd was about a dozen black people. The women were beaten unconscious.
On Friday in Flint, again the headline tells the story: Brawl involving several teens in Flint sends two girls to hospital, police say. More than a dozen black people were involved. And yes, it happens quite often there.
On Monday in the San Francisco Bay area, a black passenger on a BART train harassed and assaulted white passengers. On video.
On Monday in Atlanta, Kenneth Temple and Rendauldos Chisolm were charged with first degree murder for beating, robbing and killing the manager of a Taco Bell.
In Denver, police are looking for 5 black people responsible for a crime spree including 18 robberies over the last seven weeks that they know about. So far.
Over the weekend in Manhattan, Kyle Rogers was found unconscious and bloody on the street after being attacked Sunday morning. On video. The attack left Rogers with several broken bones in his face and jaw. Rogers is one of hundreds of victims of the spontaneous racial violence that some call the Knockout Game.
Police are looking for a black man in connection with the assault one of dozens of such assaults in New York over the last several months. Many are directed at Orthodox Jews. After one recent attack, city council member Laurie Cumbo explained it all: Black people dont like Jewish people that much. The accomplishments of the Jewish community triggers feelings of resentment, and a sense that Jewish success is not also their success.
Are we clear?
In Southern Maryland early Sunday morning, 50 to 100 black people were in a convenience store parking lot, fighting and cussing out police and refusing orders to stop. Four were arrested.
Last week in Pittsburgh, Penn., police charged a black man, Allen Darell Wade, in the shooting death of two white sisters who lived next door. Wade said he is being set up.
This is a long list: All part of a pattern if you just know how to look, said Mychal Denzel Smith in The Nation magazine. Theres nothing new under Americas racist sun, said Smith. The cynic in me starts to believe this is exactly what white people want. Its as though our cries of Murder! Lynching! only make it easier for white America to accept black death.
The local papers in Madison, Wisconsin are calling the sexual assault of a pregnant woman the worst crime in that town in years. Perhaps they can discuss it at the 15th Annual White Privilege Conference later this month. More than 2000 people are expected to attend.
In Madison.
"You have enemies? Good. That means that you have stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill.
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France: "Dirty Jew, Go Home to Israel"...
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France: Dirty Jew, Go home to Israel Muslim mother and daughter assault Jewish girl
Robert Spencer Mar 13, 2014 at 9:21am
Analysts routinely think that attacks like this one happen because of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, but in reality the enmity goes much deeper than that. Hatred of Jews is deeply ingrained in the Quran, which calls Jews the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers (5:82), and says that they have been put under humiliation wherever they are overtaken, except for a covenant from Allah and a rope from the Muslims. And they have drawn upon themselves anger from Allah and have been put under destitution. That is because they disbelieved in the verses of Allah and killed the prophets without right. That is because they disobeyed and transgressed. (3:110) It says that Allah transformed the disobedient Jews into apes and pigs (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166). It says that they say Ezra is Allahs son, and are consequently accursed (9:30). And there are many other passages heaping contempt and scorn upon them.
Dirty Jew, Go Home to Israel: Jewish Girl in France Attacked by Arab Mother and Daughter, by Gidon Ben-zvi for Algemeiner, March 12:
A young Jewish woman was recently assaulted at a laundromat in a suburb of Lyon, France by a mother and daughter of Arab descent, according to Israeli daily Maariv on Tuesday.
The victim, named only as Candace, told the Europe-Israel news site that the mother grabbed and held her down while the daughter hit her several times in the face.
Dirty Jew, go home to your country, Israel, the daughter shrieked at Candace while striking her, Maariv reported.
According to Candace, the assailant had noticed that she was wearing a Star of David around her neck.
One of Candaces eyes was badly injured in the unprovoked assault. She also said she lost some hearing in her left ear as a result of the beating.
The victim, an American expat who has been living in France for 12 years, added that none of the bystanders who witnessed the incident raised a finger to help. Following the attack Candace said she was disappointed once again by her adopted country when French police did little more than record her complaint.
Candace said she remains proud of her Jewish identity, despite the horrific thrashing. However, following the traumatic experience, the young woman said that she now finds it difficult to leave the safety of her home.
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Re: Anti-semitism & Jews
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One can add a prominent individual to the list of anti-Semites:
Barack Hussain Obama
If it isn't obvious by now.....
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Re: Anti-semitism & Jews
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Anti-semitism at U. Mich.
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Quote from: Crafty_Dog on March 26, 2014, 09:14:30 PM
I'm sure their official stance disavows antisemitism. It's a convenient fig leaf for the left.
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Russian State TV: Jews brought holocaust on themselves
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Click here to watch: Russian state TV says Jews brought Holocaust on themselves
A presenter on Russia's state TV, Evelyn Zakamskaya, said on air that the Jews helped bring the Holocaust on themselves, according to a blog post published on Sunday. Zakamskaya was responding to a guest on the show, who said it was "strange" that Jewish organizations support Maidan (the Ukrainian protest movement). "They do not realize that they are, with their own hands, closer to the Holocaust?" To that, Zakamskaya responded: "They also advanced the first [Holocaust.]" Blogger John Aravosis from AMERICAblog confirmed the transcript of the show with Buzzfeed's Miriam Elder, who said it was "accurate, if incomplete."
President Vladimir Putin had actually decried rising anti-Semitism in Ukraine, saying in a press conference earlier this month that Moscow's "biggest concern" was "the rampage of reactionary forces, nationalist and anti-Semitic forces going on in certain parts of Ukraine, including Kiev. However, Ira Forman, the Obama administrations special envoy on anti-Semitism, disputed those claims, saying Putins assertions were not credible. We have no indication that what President Putin has been saying about anti-Semitism has been a true reflection of whats happening on the ground, he said.
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Jews ordered to register in east Ukraine
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From the article:
Jews in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk where pro-Russian militants have taken over government buildings were told they have to "register" with the Ukrainians who are trying to make the city become part of Russia, according to Ukrainian and Israeli media.
Jews emerging from a synagogue say they were handed leaflets that ordered the city's Jews to provide a list of property they own and pay a registration fee "or else have their citizenship revoked, face deportation and see their assets confiscated," reported Ynet News, Israel's largest news website.
Or, perhaps not:
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Roger Waters of Pink Floyd
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OTOH, here's this:
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Re: Roger Waters: 'There's someone in my head but it's not me.'
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Quote from: Crafty_Dog on April 21, 2014, 08:06:08 AM
Too bad, I love their music. Water would argue he is not ant-Jew or anti-semitic, he is anti-the policies of Israel, and he is exercising his free expression and personal activism on his beliefs. He deserves the free expression back challenging the merits of his vacuous, reckless arguments.
It was a gaffe for Rand Paul to have recently quoted Roger Waters by name - even though he was right on the specific point, we did '"trade our heroes for ghosts".
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Waters seems Comfortably Numb to China's human rights violations
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Funny how Israel is always the target. Of course it has nothing to do with hating Jews.
Shanghai awaits Roger Waters' Pink Floyd classics
By Mu Qian (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-02-07 06:51
British rock legend and former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters will hold his concert at the Shanghai Grand Stage on February 12. This is the third concert by a famous Western rock band or musician in Shanghai in one year, after the Rolling Stones' last April and Eric Clapton's on January 20.
"Pink Floyd has many fans in China," said Shanghai-based music critic Sun Mengjin. "Let Chinese rock fans name the 10 most influential rock groups, and Pink Floyd will definitely be one of them."
Roger Waters will hold his concert at the Shanghai Grand Stage on February 12.
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At his concert in Shanghai, Waters will mainly perform classic Pink Floyd songs that he wrote or co-wrote, many from the albums Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall.
The Shanghai concert is the first one of Waters' Asia tour, to be followed by concerts in Hong Kong on February 15, in Mumbai, India on February 18, and in Dubai of the United Arab Emirates on February 21. The Asia tour is part of Waters' 2007 world tour, which started in Australia on January 25 and will end in Ireland on May 14.
The price of tickets to Waters' Shanghai concert ranges from 280 yuan ($36) to 1,680 yuan ($215), lower than the Rolling Stones' concert at the same venue in Shanghai, which ranged from 300 yuan ($38) to 3,000 yuan ($385).
Since Beijing's major stadiums are all under refurbishment for the 2008 Olympics, it is hard to find venues for large-scale concerts in Beijing now. This is the reason Shanghai has become the only stop in China for the Rolling Stones, Clapton and Waters.
According to the Beijing-based Star Daily, many rock musicians from Beijing, including Cui Jian and Second-hand Roses' lead singer Liang Long, have booked their tickets and will attend Waters' concert in Shanghai.
Waters was a primary creative force in Pink Floyd from 1965 to 1983, playing bass and singing. He wrote all the lyrics and some of the music of The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), a commercial breakthrough that became one of the most successful albums in rock history. He also wrote most songs in The Wall (1979).
Following the release of The Final Cut in 1983, Pink Floyd broke up and its members launched solo careers. In July 2005, Waters reunited with David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright for a one-off Pink Floyd performance at the Live 8 benefit concert in London's Hyde Park.
In October 2005, Waters released the CD of Ca Ira, an opera set during the French Revolution, on which he spent more than 10 years.
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Reza Aslan: Fraud...
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Reza Aslan: Idea of resurrection absolutely has no basis in 5,000 years of Jewish history, scripture or thought
Robert Spencer Apr 23, 2014
In todays politically correct culture, marching in the establishment lockstep, not ability, is what gets you ahead. The mainstream media lionizes people not because of their particular acumen, talents or intelligence, but because they parrot the establishment line that the media wants the public to adopt: contempt for America, hatred for Israel, disdain for Christianity and the Judeo-Christian tradition, and endless justification for Islamic supremacists and jihadists.
A prime example of this is our old friend Reza Aslan, the arrogant, foul-mouthed media darling who keeps revealing his abysmal ignorance in interview after interview, making howling errors of fact and then, when caught out, dismissing them as typos. The latest typo from Aslan is his statement, in yet another of an endless series of fawning interviews by besotted Leftists (this time in Salon), that the idea of resurrection simply doesnt exist in Judaism. The idea of an individual dying and rising from the dead absolutely has no basis in five thousand years of Jewish history, scripture or thought. So, thats the thing: No matter what you think about the resurrection, the thing thats kind of fascinating from an historical perspective is that there is simply no Jewish context for it.
Well, lets see. The first thing that sprang to mind when I read this was the famous Dry Bones passage in Ezekiel, which begins: The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley; it was full of bones. And he led me round among them; and behold, there were very many upon the valley; and lo, they were very dry. And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. Again he said to me, Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD. (Ezekiel 37:1-6) For individual resurrection, there is the passage that has always loomed large in Christian exegesis: For thou dost not give me up to Sheol, or let thy godly one see the Pit. (Psalm 16:10)
There are many other passages (here are two, courtesy of Jihad Watch reader Rod Serling): Thy dead shall live, their bodies shall rise. O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For thy dew is a dew of light, and on the land of the shades thou wilt let it fall. (Isaiah 26:19) And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. (Daniel 12:2)
This is by no means Aslans first typo. In another interview, he referred to the reincarnation, which Christianity talks about and later claimed that one was a typo. In yet another howler he later insisted was a typo, he claimed that the Biblical story of Noah was barely four verses long which he then corrected to forty, but that was wrong again, as it is 89 verses long. Interviewed at the BBC about Obamas meeting with Pope Francis, Aslan claimed that the founding philosophy of the Jesuits was the preferential option for the poor. In reality, the Jesuits were founded in 1534. According to the California Catholic Conference, the popular term preferential option for the poor is relatively new. Its first use in a Church document is in 1968 from a meeting of the Conference of Latin American Bishops held in Medellin, Columbia. So Aslan was only 434 years off recalling when he called Turkey the second most populous Muslim country, which was only about 100 million people off.
Reza Aslan is such an intellectually formidable scholar that he writes than for then; apparently thinks the Latin word et is an abbreviation; and writes clowns for clowns. Aslan is less a religious scholar than he is a marginally literate, unevenly educated charlatan with a talent for telling the mainstream media what it wants to hear. His big secret is that he is really not all that bright, and is in way over his head, asked to comment all the time on matters that are way beyond his competence and he knows it, which is why he lashes out so ferociously against anyone who dares to challenge him.
This matters because this clown is given such adoring treatment in the mainstream media as he propagates these falsehoods, and because his agenda his insidious: he is a Board member of a lobbying group for the bloodthirsty and genocidally antisemitic Iranian regime. Aslan tried to pass off Irans genocidally-minded former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a liberal reformer and has called on the U.S. Government to negotiate with Ahmadinejad himself, as well as with the jihad terror group Hamas. Aslan has even praised the jihad terror group Hizballah as the most dynamic political and social organization in Lebanon, and has also praised the anti-Semitic, misogynist, Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood, which is dedicated in its own words, according to a captured internal document, to eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within. Aslan wrote: The Muslim Brotherhood will have a significant role to play in post-Mubarak Egypt. And that is good thing. Millions of Egyptians obviously disagree. He has also applauded and called for the forcible shutdown of the free speech of those who hates a quintessentially fascist impulse.
You want people like that to hate you: Reza Aslan on Glenn Beck, that Fox News interview, and who gets to speak for Jesus, by Michael Schulson, Salon, April 20:
As you note in the book, much about this portrait is pretty typical: There were a lot of messianic preachers wandering around first-century Palestine, Jesus among them. You argue that its the story of resurrection that really set Jesus apart. What made resurrection such a novel idea?
Well, it simply doesnt exist in Judaism. The idea of an individual dying and rising from the dead absolutely has no basis in five thousand years of Jewish history, scripture or thought.
So, thats the thing: No matter what you think about the resurrection, the thing thats kind of fascinating from an historical perspective is that there is simply no Jewish context for it. The resurrection was one the earliest credo statements in this new movement. They wholeheartedly believed that Jesus rose from the dead very, very early on, and to be perfectly honest, historians who will admit as much dont know what to do with that statement.
We cant just ignore it. In other words, we cant just simply say, Oh, it was just some mass delusion, or It was all just some big scam. I dont think those answers are sufficient in explaining the experience [of believing in the resurrection] and how that experience transformed this, as I say, small ethno-nationalistic movement into the largest religion in the world .
I feel like youve given us a Jesus for the era of income inequality and Occupy Wall Street.
I think thats a good way of putting it.
So should Congress raise the minimum wage to celebrate Easter?
I think that would a perfect way of celebrating what Jesus actually stood for. This is a man who was not about income equality; this is a man who was about the reversal of the social order .
On your Twitter feed, the background picture is of Glenn Beck looking distressed. I have to ask: Do you enjoy being the bane of these right-wing media personalities?
Am I allowed to say yes? I mean, look, when someone like Glenn Beck puts you on his chalkboard of crazy, I think its a moment to be proud of. When designated hate-group leaders like Robert Spencer or Pamela Geller spend all of their days Googling you and writing articles about things youve said or written, I think you should be proud of that, because these guys are clowns. They are racist, bigoted individuals, and you want people like that to hate you.
So, listen, Im guilty of baiting these guys sometimes; its not a professional thing to do, Im not proud of it, to be honest with you. At the same time, there is something to be proud of when Glenn Beck and Pamela Gellar [sic] and Robert Spencer and magazines like First Things hate you.
Thanks for the shout-out, Reza. Good to know we are on your mind, and that despite your shilling for Islamic supremacism and the Iranian mullahs you have enough of a conscience left to know that accusing us of murder and sending me vile adolescent emails full of gay slurs is not a professional thing to do. But I am afraid you flatter yourself: I have never Googled your name even once. People send me your nonsense on a more or less regular basis; its low-hanging fruit.
Anyway, he says Pamela Geller and I are designated hate-group leaders, without mentioning that the designator is the far-Left cash machine known as the Southern Poverty Law Center, which smears numerous conservative groups with this label, and has never seen an Islamic supremacist group it didnt like. He adds that we are racist, bigoted individuals; what race is the jihad mass murder of innocent civilians again? I keep forgetting.
Meanwhile, so fawning is this interview that I am surprised that Michael Schulson didnt start kissing Aslans feet, or perhaps anointing them with oil and drying them with his hair, before it was over. He even likens Aslan to the four Gospel writers: Aslan may be the worlds most famous living biographer of Jesus (the most famous dead biographers, of course, go by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). The worlds most famous living biographer of Jesus is Reza Aslan? Yet another illustration of the utter intellectual poverty of our age.
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Are we here once again? I believe we are. Sadly, my many Jewish friends don't get it - most of them voted for Obama and are just now waking up...
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Sad and disgusting at the same time. Is there no end to liberal Jews' propensity for denial???
Critics blast 'Schindler's List' filmmaker for Obama award
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Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially.
The news that Barack Obama will accept an award Tuesday from filmmaker Steven Spielberg for his humanitarian work on behalf of the Jewish people is evoking a strong reaction from Israel supporters and critics of the president.
Spielbergs decision to honor Obama shows he is out of touch with the problems the Jewish people face, according to commentator and author Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs.
With all the work Steven Spielberg has done in increasing awareness of the Holocaust, and not just Schindlers List but his Shoah project as well, he just doesnt get it. Its astonishing, she told WND.
She contends Obama has allowed Iran, which has vowed to wipe out Israel, to continue to pursue its nuclear-weapon ambitions, paving the way for the next holocaust.
Her comments, and others joining her perspective, came after it was announced that Spielberg, through the USC Shoah Foundation, will honor Obama with its Ambassador to Humanity Award.
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The Hill reported the foundation was created by Spielberg after he finished Schindlers List. The organization collects and preserves the video testimonies of survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust.
Nearly 52,000 such testimonies already have been recorded.
Spielberg was one of the top donors to Obamas political advancement, with $1 million given in 2012.
President Obamas commitment to democracy and human rights has long been felt, he said. As a constitutional scholar and as president, his interest in expanding justice and opportunity and all is remarkably evidence.
Geller said the attitude is illustrative of the willful blindness of liberal Jews.
They have traded their religion for their politics. They have traded G-d (and their morality) for whomever is carrying the torch for human secularism. And now it is Obama, she said.
She warned that Obama, through his action, or inaction, regarding Iran, is single-handedly paving the way for the next holocaust.
Iran has vowed to wipe Israel off the map. When Iran goes nuclear, its not a question of whether there will be a war against Israel and the West, its only a question of when, she said.
And yet, she said, Obama has made it possible for Iran to openly pursue its nuclear objectives.
Obama got nothing from Iran at the Geneva summit, but Iran got everything. Netanyahu said of the agreement with Iran that it is a bad deal. Its a very bad deal. Iran is not required to take apart even one centrifuge. But the international community is relieving sanctions on Iran for the first time after many years. Iran gets everything that it wanted at this stage and it pays nothing, she said.
One Iranian nuke can take out 6 million Jews. And Speilberg thinks that Obama deserves an award for this? she said.
Geller cited libertarian thinker Ayn Rand said, who said evil is made possible by the sanction you give it. Withdraw your sanction.
This is good advice for Mr. Speilberg, she said. Withdraw your sanction.
Geller said for the Jewish people, its the late 30s all over again.
Then too, the record of the establishment American Jews was shameful, she said. Then, too, Jewish leadership in America went along with the delusion that keeping the Jews out of Israel was the best course because FDR said so. The American Jews went along then and they are going along with Obama now. Shame on Steve Speilberg for rendering never again an empty slogan, devoid of meaning.
Several Jewish organizations declined to respond to WNDs request for comment.
Joseph Farah, a former Middle East correspondent and now CEO of WND, WND Books and WND Films, wrote in a commentary, Not since Yasser Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize have I been so outraged about an award.
Farah said that in making the announcement, Spielberg seemed consciously to avoid making a connection between Obama and his work in fostering Holocaust remembrance or even a commitment to the Jewish people.
Its no wonder. Obama has no track record of accomplishment in those areas. In fact, I would argue he has not been a friend to Jews or the state of Israel, Farah wrote.
Its difficult to image a more inappropriate person than Barack Obama to receive an award associated Holocaust remembrance. The other names that come to mind for me would be John Kerry, Obamas secretary of state, who recently characterized Israel as an apartheid state, perhaps the mullahs in Iran who constantly call for Israels destruction, perhaps Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority or the leaders of terrorist organizations like Hezbollah or Hamas.
Farah said no U.S. president since Israel was reborn in 1948 has been less of a friend to Israel or the Jewish people than Barack Obama.
He seeks to redraw the nations borders in a way that would leave Israel unable to defend itself. He has sought to freeze building by Jews in and around Israels capital. He seeks a so-called peace agreement that would involve ethnic cleansing of Jews in a future Palestinian state. Obama is not operating in the spirit of Oscar Schindler. On the contrary, he is operating in the spirit of those who appeased Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. He is operating in the spirit of those who looked the other way as six million Jews were exterminated.
He pointed out that Obama has supported the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Syria, demanded Israel continue to divide the miniscule amount of land in holds among the vast stretches of the hostile Middle East, pushes Israel to make peace at any cost with neighbors who are sworn to the Jewish states destruction and he sat in the Rev. Jeremiah Wrights pews for 20 years and never noticed that he was a raving anti-Semite bigot.
Laurie Cardoza Moore of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations called the honor absolutely outrageous.
One need only look at Obama secretary of State John Kerrys pathetic leadership and comments since his appointment, she said.
Moore said Kerry has a record of inciting terrorist attacks against innocent Israelis and, just last week, suggested that in the absence of a two-state peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority, Israel would become an apartheid state.
The very notion that Israel should be forced by the Obama administration to negotiate with the PA after they signed a reconciliation agreement with Hamas, a terrorist organization, is ludicrous, she said. Obama never publicly condemned Kerrys comments.
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Moore said that only are Spielbergs comments an insult to Jews around the world, but they are also an affront to the thousands of Christians and Muslims in the Middle East who are being slaughtered as a result of Obamas failed foreign policy.
In giving this award to Obama, Spielberg and the Shoah Foundation have been shown to be both contemptible and irrelevant, she said.
Evangelist Ray Comfort, whose projects include 180 The Movie, said its a tragedy beyond words that a man who produced Schindlers List, a producer who said I was put on this earth to tell the story of the Holocaust, would now honor a president that has done more than any other president to further the American holocaust of the killing of babies in the womb.
Such misdirected esteem reminds me of the words of Scripture: For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God, he said. The butchery of millions of children in the womb is the result of mans greatest and yet the most obscure of sins: idolatry. It opened the door to the Nazi holocaust.
Comfort said Hitler created his own image of God and then killed in his gods name, and idolatry has opened the door to the taking of 60 million lives.
Related column:
Obamas list is not like Schindlers by Joseph Farah
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"You would thinkI would thinkthat 70 years after the Holocaust, with all the marvels of communication, of greater openness that it would be low," said Mr. Foxman, who has worked for the New York-based League since 1965 and headed the group since 1987. "So it's maybe not shocking, but it's sobering." - Abe Foxman.
Just how far up your butt IS your head, Mr. Foxman? You've been defending Muslims and the Ground Zero Mosque for years, btw.
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Do Jews Have a Future in Europe?
They are subject to daily attacks, verbal and physical, by the extreme right and left, and radicalized immigrants.
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen and
Daniel Schwammenthal
June 10, 2014 2:37 p.m. ET
Just ahead of last month's European Parliament elections, which saw the rise of far-right and anti-Semitic parties, four people were murdered in the Jewish Museum of Brussels. The shootings underscored that, in addition to political extremism, Europe's Jews also face the violent threat of jihadists.
Mehdi Nemmouche, a French Muslim, was arrested on suspicion of carrying out the attack. He appears to have been radicalized in prison, and is believed to have fought for Islamist rebels in Syria. Like Mohamed Merah, who murdered three soldiers, three Jewish children and a Rabbi two years ago in France, Mr. Nemmouche appears to have mixed gangsterism with radical Islam, anti-Semitism and hatred of the West.
With roughly 1,000 European fighters like Mr. Nemmouche estimated to be in Syria, European Union officials are working to devise better strategies for combating radicalization and detecting the movements of people to and from Syria.
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But Europe's Jews also face almost daily attacksboth verbal and physical. In France, home to Europe's largest Jewish community of about 650,000, the situation is particularly severe, with 170 anti-Semitic acts reported by the Paris-based Jewish Community Protection Service (SPCJ) and the French Ministry of the Interior in the first trimester of 2014 alone. According to the French League of Human Rights, nearly 50% of all racist acts in France are anti-Semitic, even though Jews represent only 1% of the population.
Such attacks take place in the context of an extremely charged public debate. French comedian Dieudonné has managed not only to popularize an openly anti-Semitic discourse, but to forge the most unlikely of alliances. Though his father is from Cameroon, Dieudonné has united behind him individuals from the extreme right such as Alain Soral, a self-described "national-socialiste intellectual," National Front founder Jean-Marie le Pen and Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson. Meanwhile, Dieudonné's fan base has deep roots in France's immigrant communities. Whatever else may divide the likes of Mr. le Pen and Dieudonné's legions of admirers, they are united by their animosity toward Jews and the Jewish state.
In nearby Belgium, Laurent Louisuntil last month a member of parliamentis trying to reproduce Dieudonné's mass appeal. In early May, Mr. Louis organized a conference to unite French and Belgian anti-Semites, which the Belgian authorities canceled at the last minute.
Government attempts to silence Dieudonné and his followers by prohibiting his shows have failed, largely thanks to the Internet. Dieudonné's anti-Jewish YouTube diatribes receive millions of viewers within hours of uploading. The authorities can ban events but not sentiments. Take one demonstration in January this year, of some 17,000 people in the streets of Paris. Officially meant as a general anti-government protest, hundreds of participants wound up chanting "Jews out of France" and "the gas chambers were fake."
This environment leaves many in the Jewish community, perhaps for the first time since they rebuilt their homes in Europe after the Holocaust, fearing once again for their security and future. Fortunately, some European leaders have begun to grasp the depth of the problem. As French philosopher Albert Camus said: "To give things their correct name is to put the world right a bit." In that sense, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has started to put France right.
"Today exists a new form of anti-Semitism that is born in our suburbs," he said in a radio interview in July 2012. He was referring to young Muslims, as apartment blocks outside French city centers typically house large immigrant communities. At the same time he warned "not to stigmatize fellow citizens notably of Muslim faith." Mr. Valls went further two years later, in March this year, at a rally against anti-Semitism in Paris. The old anti-Semitism of the French extreme right "is renewed," he said. "It feeds off hate for Israel. It feeds off anti-Zionism. Because anti-Zionism is an invitation to anti-Semitism."
Indeed, anti-Semitism in Europe has taken new forms and comes from different segments of society. There is the extreme right with their traditional focus on race and Holocaust denial; the radical left, who seek to demonize Israel; and, as Mr. Valls hinted, there is a problem among some Muslim immigrants. Their motivation is little studied and thus little understood.
The simplistic notion, though, that their anti-Jewish acts are triggered by the Arab-Israeli conflict is just thatsimplistic. It also risks rationalizing criminal behavior. The reality is that the problem of anti-Semitism has long become structural. After Merah's murders in 2012, for example, anti-Jewish attacks in France skyrocketed 58%, according to the SPCJ, independent of the relatively quiet situation between Israelis and Palestinians.
So what can governments and civil society in Europe do to combat anti-Semitism?
First, we need more leaders such as Mr. Valls speaking the truth and showing zero tolerance. When demonstrators at so-called "pro-Palestinian" rallies scream slogans like "Hamas, Hamas, Jews into the gas," as has frequently happened around Europe, political leaders and the media can not stay silent. Public hate speech must not be tolerated and anti-Semitic acts need to be systematically prosecuted and punished.
Second, not all expressions of anti-Semitism should be fought with the same weapons. Regarding the Muslim community, for example, improving social cohesion is key. Better integrating Muslim Europeans is not only a virtue and a necessity in itself, it can also help lower the susceptibility of these communities to anti-Semitism and radicalization.
It is equally important to empower moderate Muslims. People such as Latifa Ibn Ziaten, whose son Imad was one of the French soldiers murdered by Merah, and who now visits France's most difficult neighborhoods, speaking to youth groups and trying to steer them away from the influences of anti-Semites and extremists. There are many other such voicesMuslim entrepreneurs, writers, media personalities, students with the moral courage to confront the extremists within their communities. Let's support their work and help build their networks.
Third, more needs to be done early on in the process, before people develop anti-Semitic views. New educational programs ought to focus on this problem, assisting students to recognize prejudices. Youngsters need to learn about the culture, history and religion of other communities, by focusing on similarities and shared values.
Fourth, fighting anti-Semitism at home may also have a foreign-policy dimension. To this day, Saudi and Qatari money is pouring into European mosques, helping to spread an extremist form of Islam. In addition, we know that through satellite television and the Internet, Islamist and anti-Semitic content can easily be accessed in Europe. Much of it is unfortunately produced in the Arab world. The EU recently introduced the "more-for-more principle," offering stronger partnerships to neighboring countries that make more progress toward democratic reforms. Ending anti-Jewish, anti-Christian and anti-Western hate speech should become part of this bargain.
Much is at stake. Anti-Semitism is always symptomatic of a more profound problem in society, something that might start with Jews but will not stop there. So it is not just the well-being and future of the Jewish community in Europe that is at risk, but the very values Europe stands for.
Mrs. Rodan-Benzaquen is the director of the AJC Paris office and Mr. Schwammenthal is the director of the AJC Transatlantic Institute in Brussels.
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The Jew-Hating Obama Administration
Posted By Ben Shapiro On July 2, 2014 @ frontpagemag.com
On Monday, three Jewish boys were found dead, murdered by the terrorist group Hamas: Eyal Yifrach, 19; Gilad Shaar, 16; and Naftali Frenkel, 16. Frenkel was an American citizen. The three were kidnapped while hitchhiking some three weeks ago. In the interim, President Barack Obama said nothing about them publicly. His wife issued no hashtags. His State Department maintained that $400 million in American taxpayer cash would continue to the Palestinian unity government, which includes Hamas.
Presumably Frenkel did not look enough like Barack Obamas imaginary son for him to give a damn. Or perhaps Frenkel hadnt deserted his duty in the American military, and therefore his parents didnt deserve a White House press conference. Maybe Michelle Obama was too busy worrying about childrens fat thighs to spend a moment tweeting out a selfie to raise awareness.
Or maybe, just maybe, the Obama administration didnt care about Frenkel because he was a Jew.
Jewish blood is cheap to this administration. That seems to be true in every administration, given the American governments stated predilection for forcing Israel into concessions to an implacable and Jew-hating enemy. But its particularly true for an administration that has now cut a deal with Iran that legitimizes its government, weakens sanctions, and forestalls Israeli action against its nuclear program. Its especially true for an administration that forced the Israeli government to apologize to the Turkish government for stopping a terrorist flotilla aimed at supplying Hamas. And its undoubtedly true for an administration that has undercut Israeli security at every turn, deposing Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, fostering chaos in Syria and by extension destabilizing Jordan and Lebanon, and leaking Israeli national security information no less than four times.
Now the corpse of a 16-year-old Jewish American is found in Hebron.
The Obama administrations first response: to call on the Israeli government for restraint. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on June 2, Based on what we know now, we intend to work with this government. Now, just a month later, that government has murdered an American kid. And now she says that the Obama administration hopes that the Israelis and the Palestinians continue to work with one another on that, and we certainly would continue to urge that in spite of, obviously, the tragedy and the enormous pain on the ground.
To which the proper Israeli response should be: go perform anatomically impossible acts upon yourself.
The Obama administration had the opportunity to stand clearly against Jew-hating evil. Not only did it fail to do so but it funded that evil, encouraged that evil, militated against fighting that evil. But thats nothing new. Jew hatred is as old as the Jewish people. Its just found a new home in the White House.
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When Colt turned 2, I had four or five pictures with both of us in them — two of those were family portraits. My track record with the other two boys wasn't much better.
And I take at least 2,600 pictures a year judging by how many I have saved on my computer. Five pictures out of 5,200 because I don't like how I look. Because every picture seems unflattering. Because. Because. Because.
Then, a few weeks ago I pulled out my daddy's wallet. I take it out of the drawer every so often, especially on the days that I miss him the most, and I flip through the pictures he carried. Us girls. The grandkids. We're all in there. And then, tucked away in the back is a single faded picture of his mama.
Every time he switched wallets, he moved that picture, and he carried it with him until the day he died.
She was that important to him.
All of us camera-shy mamas? We're that important to our kids, too.
They love us with messy hair and no make-up. They love us in our raggedy around-the-house clothes. They love us and they want us in the picture.
Can you do that for them this month?
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