Germany: NGO rescinds award to U.S. Women's March due to antisemitism

Via Jerusalem Post:

The think tank for the German social democratic party withdrew its Human Rights Award to the Women’s March USA in Washington, DC, on Thursday because doctoral students associated with the foundation accused the organizers of the march of hardcore antisemitism and support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign targeting the Jewish state.

“We believe that the Women’s March USA does not meet the criteria of this award, as its organizers have repeatedly attracted attention through antisemitic statements, the trivialization of antisemitism and the exclusion of Zionists and Jews since Women’s March USA’s establishment in 2017. Women’s March USA does not constitute an inclusive alliance,” wrote members of the scholarship working group, called Critique of Anti-Semitism and Jewish Studies, from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in a public letter.

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Americans more likely than Europeans to stand up to anti-Semitism, experts say

Via Times of Israel:

It’s better in America: That was the message of a panel of experts considering the rise of the extreme right and of anti-Semitism in the United States and Europe.

That was the good news at the forum Monday sponsored by Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization. No one, however, could quite pin down why Americans were more resistant to anti-Semitism than Europeans.

“It’s far from perfect,” said Ira Forman, until January the international anti-Semitism monitor for the State Department. “We do it now better than we did 50 years ago, there’s no guarantee we will continue to do it, and frankly, we do it better with anti-Semitism than with anti-Muslim rhetoric and with racism.”

Forman cited American communities that spontaneously rallied to counter anti-Semitism in their midst, notably the citizens of Whitefish, Montana, who a year ago demonstrated ahead of a planned neo-Nazi march targeting the town’s tiny Jewish community, and Oklahoma civic leaders in 2013 who called on a state lawmaker to apologize for using the phrase “jew down.”
People gather in Chicago, Illinois on August 13, 2017 to protest the alt-right movement and to mourn the victims of Charlottesville, Virginia. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

In both cases and in many others, he said, the drive to counter anti-Jewish rhetoric came in communities with few Jews and seemed driven more by non-Jews who were repelled by the rhetoric.

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Russia: American neo-Nazis are flocking to Russian social media

Via VICE (h/t glykosymoritis):

In the uproar following the violence in Charlottesville earlier this month, one of America’s leading neo-Nazi websites, The Daily Stormer, was all but chased off the internet, thwarted even by Russian authorities within hours of its attempt to register a new .ru domain.

But Moscow’s swift move came with a striking irony: American and European right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis have in recent years flocked to Russia’s biggest social network site, VK.

VK, Russia’s most-trafficked website, has emerged as a social media hub for high-profile American far-right groups like the National Socialist Movement — which the Southern Poverty Law Center has called “notable for its violent anti-Jewish rhetoric” — despite the fact that pro-Nazi propaganda is illegal in Russia.

“VK is like Facebook with never having to say you’re sorry,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which combats anti-Semitism. “It’s the kind of place where extremists, backers of terrorism, haters, and bigots migrate when they find that their messages can no longer be easily placed on Facebook and other social sites.”

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ISIS-linked jihadis call for attacks on Jewish targets in the West, singling out U.K.

Via Foreign Desk News:

An ISIS-linked Telegram channel is urging supporters in the West to carry out attacks on Jewish communities, encouraging them to disguise themselves as Jews and strike Jewish targets, particularly in the U.K.

“IF YOU'RE STILL IN THE WEST! Dress up like a Jew! Go to your nearest Jewish area! Make sure you have plenty of weapons under you coat! Then unleash the pain of the Muslims upon these A.P.E.S!!!,” the post says.

Entitled “LM” or Lone Mujahid, the chat room aims to be a resource for terrorist-wanabees who are looking to carry out so-called ‘lone-wolf’ jihad.

The channel routinely posts large dumps of files including PDFs and video tutorials on carrying out successful ‘lone wolf’ operations. Resources include videos, guides and tutorials, ranging from knife attack infographics to bomb assembly and oddly enough, full-length tutorials on Krav Maga, an Israeli-themed martial arts and self-defense technique.

A subsequent entry contains a list of Jewish communities in the U.K. above a photo of Paris Kosher Supermarket terrorist Amedy Coulibaly with a caption, “Take the brother's (rh) example and terrorize the Yahood” (Jew).

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Belgium: Anti-racism activist incites for more terrorist attacks against Israeli soldiers in 'occupied Jerusalem'

We have written extensively about Dyab Abou Jahjah on this blog. A Hezbollah fighter who emigrated to Belgium, founded the antisemitic European Arab League, and led riots against Belgian Jews. A decade ago he returned to Lebanon to pick up a gun and fight once more against Israel.

When he returned to Belgium, he was received with open arms and offered a weekly column in the prestigious De Standaard. Because Belgians are interested in what he has to say.

He's now considered an anti-racism activist and has spoken at various such events organized by municipalities and human rights groups.  Anybody who complains is told that they're mixing up 'anti-Zionism' and antisemitism.

Following yesterday's truck ramming attack in Jerusalem against Israeli soldiers on a trip, Abou Jahjah expressed his support (h/t R)

"By any means necessary! #FreePalestine" source

An attack on occupation SOLDIERS in occupied territory is not terrorism! It is an act of Resistance. It is a recognised right under intetnational law. #FreePalestine (source)

Among the people who 'liked' this was Kris Merckx, a local politician for the far-left PVDA (screenshot here).

Abou Jahjah also wrote an article to help his supporters explain why it's okay to commit terror attacks in Jerusalem.   There he writes: "There is no argument whatsoever, ethically nor legally, to claim that it is illegitimate."

He then goes on to compare Israeli soldiers to Nazis, and the Palestinians to the brave uprisers of the Warsaw Ghetto.

"I personally never rejoice the death of a human being, even if it is an occupation soldier or a murderer. I wouldn’t even rejoice the deaths of Nazi soldiers if I was living in the 1940’s. However if people living in the Warsaw ghetto rejoiced the death of Nazi soldiers back then, who am I to judge?"

Abou Jahjah is probably not aware, but the attack took place on the Tenth of Tevet, a Jewish day of fasting to commemorate the conquest of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple, and in more recent times - to serve as a religious day of commemoration for the victims of the Holocaust.

This is a day when Jews commemorate both their eternal bond to Jerusalem and their most recent victims of hatred.

But Abou Jahjah does not have any compassion for the Jews.  He does not think Jews have every right to resist the occupation of their land.  

John Kerry, US Secretary of State, recently explained that the US "could not, in good conscience, stand in the way" of the UN vote declaring Jews a colonial and foreign power in Jerusalem.

The United states and European countries are shocked at this terror attack, but in fact, by declaring Jews a foreign power in Jerusalem, they incited it.

European nationalists to join American Nazi harassment of Montana Jews

Via Jerusalem Post:

A neo-Nazi website said it has filed the paperwork for an armed neo-Nazi march designed to harass the Montana Jewish community of Whitefish.

The march was moved to Jan. 16, a Monday and the national holiday day set aside to observe Martin Luther King Day this year. The march had originally been set for the day before.

Andrew Anglin, who runs the Daily Stormer website, posted a photo of the filed application on Thursday. The Whitefish City Clerk’s Office told the Forward that it had not received an application, and that what was on the website appeared not to be complete.

Anglin wrote in a post published Thursday that nationalist groups from the United Kingdom, Sweden, France and Greece will attend the march. He also confirmed that “a representative of Hamas will be in attendance, and will give a speech about the international threat of the Jews.”

He said that participants will march through the center of Whitefish, and end at Memorial Park, where several people will speak.

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Denmark: At UN forum on anti-Semitism, General Assembly president explains what isn't antisemitism

The Palestinians say that all of Israel is occupied Palestinian land and that all Jewish towns in Israel are illegal settlements.  Palestinian children are taught from a very early age that all Jews are invaders and do not have any right to live in the Jewish homeland.

Is it okay to point out that this is antisemitism?

Via UN Watch:

When Israel, the U.S. and Canada hosted a forum on anti-Semitism at the U.N, the General Assembly president, former Danish foreign minister Mogens Lykketoft, spoke of Israeli “oppression” of the Palestinians:

    “We the United Nations gave an enormous responsibility to go up against all expressions of prejudice and incitement… But we have also to be extremely careful and precise in what is and what is not antisemitism. It’s not anti-Semitic to call for an end of the occupation and oppression of the people of Palestine, and to demand an end to illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land.”

If this were a forum on discrimination against blacks, women, or gays, do you think the top U.N. official would lecture delegates on what statements are not discriminatory?

Do you think there would be any “But”?

Russia: RT's readers cheer at Tel Aviv building collapse

A multi-story parking building under construction collapsed yesterday in Tel Aviv.

Commentators on RT's site responded with joy to the news.  Some examples:

"Surely the crane is anti-semitic"

"SQUASHED kosha spaghetti and pasta"

"the headline should read 6 trillion feared dead"

""Will be blamed on the Palestinians....watch this space..............."

"With all the bad news in the world everyday, it's nice to see something different, for a change."

"NO Sympathy for israelis....... not a jot"

"Lols, another Jewish builder trying to save a shekel or two on the materials."

"Yay K!kes are DEAD !!! lol ZioTechnology just collapses ha ha ha"

And so forth.  The comments are still online.

Antisemitism Expert: Nazi Relics Sold at German Auction Highlight Growing Far-Right Obsession With Holocaust Revival

Via Algemeiner:

The popularity of a recent controversial auction in Germany, which sold relics belonging to high-level Nazi officials, highlights a growing obsession on the part of the far-Right to revive its connection with the perpetrators of the Holocaust, a leading antisemitism expert told The Algemeiner on Monday.

Kenneth Marcus — president and general counsel of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and author of The Definition of Anti-Semitism — was speaking in response to reports by German media that a mysterious Argentinian bidder spent approximately 600,000 euros ($679,000) on Friday to purchase Nazi memorabilia at a Munich auction titled: “Hitler and the Nazi grandees — a look into the abyss of evil.”

According to a report Monday in Germany’s The Local citing Bild daily, the buyer — dressed in dark clothing and a baseball hat — spent 275,000 euros ($311,000) alone on a uniform jacket belonging to Adolf Hitler. Silk underwear belonging to Gestapo founder and Nazi Air Force Commander-in-Chief Hermann Goering fetched 3,000 euros ($3,395). He also purchased the brass container that contained hydrogen cyanide, which Goering used to commit suicide hours before his scheduled execution in 1946 in Nuremberg.

In total, the mystery buyer — who refused to give his name to the Bild, but said he was “from Argentina” and bought the items “for a museum” — purchased more than 50 Nazi relics. Other attendees included “young couples, elderly men and muscular guys with shaved heads and tribal tattoos.”

What is even more intriguing about the mysterious buyer — and what Marcus said is “unlikely coincidental” — is that he identified himself at auction using the number “888,” which has ties to the neo-Nazi code “88.” According to the report, “88” marks the letter “H” in the alphabet and stands for the Nazi “Heil Hitler” salute.

“We are seeing an increasing fascination towards the Nazis in Europe at the same time that antisemitism is flaring up. Nazi memorabilia is increasingly fetishized and prized within the fetid corners of the world in which far-Right bigotry is reviving,” Marcus said. The auction itself, he contended, “is symptomatic of the broader resurgence of antisemitism and neo-Nazi ideology in Europe.”

“This is not just ‘neo’ Nazism. It is Nazism, pure and simple. In a sense, Nazism never entirely disappeared,” he told The Algemeiner. “Within much of the Western world, it simply went underground after World War II. Increasingly, however, it is resurfacing today as memories of the Second World War recede.” 

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UK: Anti-Semitic abuse of Labour activist

Via STV (h/t CFCA):

A Labour activist standing for the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) has faced "vile" anti-Semitic abuse, a trade union has said.

GMB Scotland condemned the online attacks on Rhea Wolfson, a Jewish Scottish Labour activist and the trade union's Glasgow branch secretary.

Ms Wolfson recently announced her candidacy to replace Ken Livingstone on Labour's NEC, the party's chief administrative body, and has been backed by the influential pro-Jeremy Corbyn group Momentum.

Livingstone was suspended from the Labour Party following controversial remarks regarding Hitler and Zionism.

After Ms Wolfson's candidacy was confirmed, she faced a spate of coordinated anti-Semitic abuse on social media which was also extended to members of her family.

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UK: Jewish Labour MP speaks out over online anti-semitic abuse

Via Daily Mail (h/t CFCA)

A leading Jewish Labour MP has showed the level of anti-semitism online by publishing abusive messages sent to her.

Shadow cabinet member Luciana Berger, 34, says she has been sent thousands of insults.

Some feature the yellow star Nazis used to label Jews, while others caricature her with a big nose or greedily rubbing her hands. Some even call her a pig or threaten to rape or kill her.

Miss Berger joined the attacks on suspended Ken Livingstone, saying on Thursday that his claims Hitler was a Zionist were ‘a disgrace and have no place in our party’.

She tweeted a selection of the sick material and stressed anti-semitism remained a danger.

A source close to the Liverpool MP said: ‘They could be from Labour, they could be from further afield. There’s no way of knowing. With tweets you don’t know whether they’re from the left or right, although a lot of the abuse in the past has been from far-right groups in America.’

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UK: Are her friend’s comments anti-Semitic?

A question sent to advice columnist Amy Dickinson:

I am very good friends with a woman who was born in England but who has lived here in the United States for over two decades. She’s well-educated, gentle, soft-spoken, kind, and fun to be with.

Here’s my problem — and I’d appreciate your input. Several times during the last few years, with no apparent blushing or hesitation, in a group of people we both know, she has described a movie, a TV show, etc., as being “too Jewish.”

Is this code in England for something else, like maybe “too New York-y,” or something?

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Netherlands: Holocaust denier David Irving to lecture in the Hague

 Via Times of Israel:

A Dutch watchdog group on anti-Semitism called on owners of event halls not to host Holocaust denier David Irving, who reportedly is planning a lecture in The Hague.

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Irving, who has been barred from several countries and was jailed in 2006 in Austria for denying or minimizing the Jewish genocide, is scheduled to speak somewhere in The Hague on Feb. 25, the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, or CIDI, wrote in a Feb. 20 statement.

It called on “all owners of event halls in The Hague to offer no platform to the convict” from Britain.

The topic of the lecture that Irving plans to deliver is “Hitler, Himmler, and the Homosexuals,” according to CIDI.

The intended date, Feb. 25, is the 75th anniversary of the February Strike — the day in 1941 when the Dutch resistance organized a series of protests over the anti-Semitic measures implemented by the German occupation and its collaborators.

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Czech Republic: Jews are blamed for both “Islamization” and “Islamophobia”

Via ISGAP:

Moreover, neo-Nazis have very ambivalent feelings about Islam. On the one hand, they do feel some admiration for the authenticity of the Muslim culture, its family values, opposition to Israel and to what they see as Western consumerism.[iii] On the other hand, the very same value of authenticity becomes a problem, once a non-Aryan Muslim crosses the European border. Vice chairman of the neo-Nazi Workers’ Party put it clearly that his movement “does reject the organized mass migration to Europe, not out of hatred against anything Islamic, but out of fears about the preservation of our own identity.”[iv] Another, non neo-Nazi yet antisemitic, voice was even more explicit: “Islam is not a problem on a territory connected with Islam, it is a problem only on our territory.”[v]

The antisemitic far-right explains the Muslim refugee influx as an “organized import” planned by the almighty New World Order, which can be further elaborated as either American conspiracy or Jewish conspiracy. The Jews are depicted as directly responsible for the migration wave either by causing the war in Syria and Iraq, by creating ISIS, or by organizing the import of migrants to Europe for purposes or motives on which the antisemitic scene has not yet managed to agree upon. Videos of brutal decapitations by ISIS are considered fakes filmed somewhere in the Californian desert.[vi] Immigration is described as a “strategic weapon“[vii] of the American Jewish NGOs and as for the ISIS itself, it is considered to be “a project of a secret group of Obama’s advisors”.[viii]

The alleged conspirators are said to be led by two main goals: 1. To destroy European racial identity and, 2. To invoke more support for Israel. Leaders of the antisemitic movements talk about a systematic plan to “destroy White Europe”, allegedly hatched “a century ago”.[ix] The neo-Nazi website Svobodný odpor, wrote about the refugee wave: “It is nothing accidental. It is a long prepared operation with an aim to liquidate Christianity, to liquidate nation state, to liquidate nations and to create a single European nation. The Mordor was thinking for a long time, how to do it, to make the whites give up their states and nations and start considering themselves only Europeans.”[x] The Czech antisemites follow and translate foreign voices that speak in a similar fashion, including David Duke’s claims that the State of Israel wishes to dissolve European identity through forced migration.[xi] Among these popular foreign voices, one can find Russian neo-Nazi intellectual Valeriy Piyakin, who is not afraid to go back thousands of years in history to explain the sources of the alleged Jewish conspiracy to destroy Christianity through migration.[xii]

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In the end, the Jews are being blamed for both “Islamization” (by allegedly inciting the migration to Europe) and “Islamophobia” (by allegedly misusing the anti-Muslim rhetoric to invoke support for Israel). And again, it is not about the Jews themselves – it is about antisemitism as a tool of totalitarian political propaganda. One might look at the Refugee Crisis as just another human catastrophe for which the Jews are being blamed. Immigration is the pretext, Western democracies are the target, Jews are to become the scapegoats. We have spent a lot of time recently talking the “new antisemitism”, but let us not consider the “old” one to be dead. This “old” antisemitism of Protocols and Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theories lives on and begs our attention again.

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Study: Vast Majority of Antisemitic Material Remains on Social Media Even After User Complaints

Via Algemeiner:

Eighty percent of the content identified by a prominent study on antisemitism across major Internet platforms like Facebook and YouTube remains on the Web today, the Online Hate Prevention Institute reported this week.

This amounted to about 1,620 “unique items of social media content” reported by users as antisemitic, using a tool launched by the Australian government to measure the response to online antisemitism.

“This demonstrates a significant gap between what the community understand to be antisemitic, and expects to be a violation of community standards which prohibit hate speech, and what social media platforms are currently willing to remove,” said the study, which was authored by Australian-based Dr. Andre Oboler on behalf of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism.

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"Many Western journalists covering the Middle East do not feel the need to conceal their hatred for Israel and for Jews"

Khaled Abu Toameh @ Gatestone Institute:

But when it comes to covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ignorance apparently is bliss. Misconceptions about what goes on here plague the international media. The binary good guy/bad guy designation tops the list. Someone has to be the good guy (the Palestinians are assigned that job) and someone has to be the bad guy (the Israelis get that one). And everything gets refracted through that prism.

Yet the problem is deeper still. Many Western journalists covering the Middle East do not feel the need to conceal their hatred for Israel and for Jews. But when it comes to the Palestinians, these journalists see no evil. Foreign journalists based in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv have for years refused to report on the financial corruption and human rights violations that are rife under the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas regimes. They possibly fear being considered "Zionist agents" or "propagandists" for Israel.

Finally, there are the local journalists hired by Western reporters and media outlets to help the cover the conflict. These journalists may refuse to cooperate on any story that is deemed "anti-Palestinian." Palestinian "suffering" and the "evil" of the Israeli "occupation" are the only admissible topics. Western journalists, for their part, are keen not to anger their Palestinian colleagues: they do not wish to be denied access to Palestinian sources.

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France: American Human Rights group claims racism causes antisemitism

Human Rights First, a New-York based human rights group, put out a report about French antisemitism titled: Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Countering Antisemitism and Extremism in France

In this report they advocate dealing with racism as a way of combating antisemitism.

For example, while discussing the root-causes of antisemitism, they list 'exclusion' as their first point.

Factor 1: Marginalized Groups Excluded from French Identity and “Republican” Values

French Muslims, immigrants, and French citizens of Middle Eastern, North African, or Sub-Saharan African heritage, especially those living and attending school in marginalized areas, experience prejudice and suffer from hate crimes as well as official and private discrimination. Many do not experience themselves as “French,” and d not see how “Republican” values work for them, as hate crimes and discrimination go unaddressed. Many antiracism and human rights activists conclude that the government is not adequately confronting these problems.

Some experts believe that this experience can make young people from these marginalized groups more susceptible to adopting the antisemitic perception that Jews hold inordinate wealth and power, a message with which they may be bombarded. They are likely to be exposed to strong antisemitic views and stereotypes from a range of sources, including online social networks, Islamist extremist groups, Middle Eastern traditional and social media, and visits or other connections to their countries of origin. A lack of education, social and physical mobility, and exposure to diverse perspectives only exacerbate the situation. The impact of this antisemitic content is further intensified by certain media coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as well as fierce anti-establishment and far left-wing criticism of Israeli policies in France.

Other groups that hold antisemitic views, including the supporters of right-wing extremist ideologies, such as the National Front and “mouvements identitaires,” as well as online communities including followers of Dieudonné and Soral, also think that the “Republican” values of France do not work for them, although they experience themselves as the representatives of a traditional “French identity.” They are critical of the elites whom, in their worldview, profit from European integration and globalization—with Jews perceived as being among those on the “winning” side. Most of these groups are also critical of immigration and express anti-Muslim and anti-refugee sentiments.

In other words, Muslim youth may be growing up in a very antisemitic society and are 'bombarded' with antisemitic messages from their social circle, Left-wing politicians and the media, but the real problem is exclusion.

The same goes for far-right groups, who feel excluded and blame the Jews. 

I would think that's the very definition of antisemitism.


This repeats again when they blame the French government response for validating the antisemitic stereotype.

 Factor 4: Government Action to Confront Antisemitism Paradoxically Exacerbates It

Official action to confront antisemitism or express solidarity with Jews in France paradoxically validates the antisemitic narrative that Jews exercise inordinate influence and breeds further resentment, which sets up the potential for backlash including hate crimes and violent incidents. One of the most pervasive stereotypes of Jews in France is their perceived privileged association with the government and the political establishment. These entities are targets of anger and violence from some disaffected Muslim youth, National Front supporters, and followers of Dioudonné and Soral. Online conspiracy theories about the role of Jews in national and global politics contribute to resentment.

It is important to deal with racism, but this report makes me wonder if they even know what antisemitism is.  Antisemitic conspiracy theories are antisemitism, they don't 'contribute' to resentment. 

Human Rights First recommends dealing with the exclusion problem in order to deal with antisemitism, though they seem to apply that only to immigrants and Muslims and not to far-right groups who also feel excluded.

Russia: Journalist quits, accused of being Zionist stooge

Liz Wahl is an American journalist who used to work for Russian broadcaster RT.  After the Russian occupation of Crimea, she resigned, saying she felt she was part of a propaganda campaign.

In response, she became the target of an antisemitic harassment campaign.  Even though RT is an antisemitic broadcaster and dabbles regularly in antisemitic conspiracy theory, Wahl was shocked when that antisemitism was directed straight at her.  She suddenly 'discovered' the antisemitism that is anti-Zionism.

Via Jerusalem Post (h/t Documenting Anti-Semitism):

That decision put me at the center of a viral news story. I received a flood of messages, mostly on social media. Many were encouraging and inspiring but plenty were also bizarre and vile. Beyond the profanities and sexist remarks, I found the wave of anti-Semitic hate particularly shocking and confusing. I am not Jewish and I do not have any ties to Israel. But the accusations of being a “Zionist neocon” were unrelenting.

The assertion was that I was part of a Jewish, Zionist plot. Some radical anti-Israel activists wrote an article portraying my resignation as part of a conspiracy with war-hungry neocons pulling my strings to provide a pretext for another Cold War. I had become used to the knee-jerk reaction of a paranoid population attributing any atrocity to a nefarious conspiracy by power-hungry evildoers intent on controlling the world. But here they accused the Jews specifically of being behind it.

The Russian media often uses conspiracy theories to create division and paranoia.

This is nothing new. Conspiracy theories have been used to vilify Jews for centuries. Jews are accused of orchestrating economic ills or false-flag operations, and we are familiar with the more common stereotype of the war-hungry Zionist. Disagreements over Israeli policies and advocating for the Palestinian underdog often morph from anti-Israel sentiment into anti-Jewish bias. Indeed, the “counter-culture” environment at RT often fostered such an anti-Israel stance.

While the Middle East has long been a divisive topic, I find many young people attracted to this “anti-establishment” narrative of an all-powerful Israel victimizing the Palestinians. For one reason or another, it seems believing this narrative is the “cool” thing to do, whether or not you know or understand anything about the Middle East conflict.

However, when I felt this hate in my own life it was not only uncool, it was downright disturbing. I had never realized the extent of the anti-Semitism of the US leaders of the far Left, from Max Blumenthal to Glenn Greenwald – who have amassed a substantial online following.

Their followers hang on their every word under the guise of fighting US imperialism, Islamophobia and perceived injustices perpetrated by Western powers. I have painfully experienced how they cling to hateful rhetoric and aggressively spread and promote these anti-Semitic messages through nasty social media trolling.

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Germany: Columbia University Professor Popular in Germany for Hating Israel, Downplaying Holocaust

Via Algemeiner:

Columbia University Iranian studies scholar Hamid Dabashi has become the darling of German academia. It’s no coincidence that he exemplifies academic hatred for Israel and the trivialization of Germans crimes and the Holocaust.

Columbia’s Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Dabashi has experienced a flurry of speaking engagements at German universities and organizations. In May 2015, he was invited to speak at Freie Universität Berlin. On November 26, he spoke at the Institute for Foreign Affairs, which is financed by the German Foreign Ministry, the state of Baden-Württemberg, and the city of Stuttgart in the Southwest of Germany. The event was hosted by the Berlin Social Science Center. The day before, Dabashi spoke at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, associated with the Party of the Left, which is known for several antisemitic scandals in recent years. In May 2016, Dabashi will be one of the keynote speakers at the “Third Bremen Conference on Language and Literature in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts.”

Germany is a hotbed of academic antisemitism, particularly in the fields of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. Germans are particularly pleased with non-European scholars, such as Dabashi, who will defame Israel and downplay the crimes of the Holocaust. French philosopher Vladimir Jankélévitch analyzed this new antisemitism as early as 1971 in his piece, “Forgiving?” (“Pardonner?”), in which he noted Germans’ need to accuse Jews of being “like Nazis.” Turning their former victims, the Jews, into perpetrators diminishes the Germans’ unprecedented crimes. Scholarship labels this the “inversion of truth.” It can also be framed as “secondary anti-Semitism,” a form of post-Holocaust antisemitism. Denying Auschwitz is for beginners.

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The government-sponsored German Institute for Foreign Affairs and other leading universities would never host a known neo-Nazi who claims that Israel is an “apartheid state,” that Auschwitz was a mere “crime” on par with the 2014 Gaza war, and that the Iranian threat does not exist. However, a non-European like the Iranian-born Dabashi is not only welcomed, but embraced by German audiences for two reasons: hatred of Israel and the distortion of German crimes and the Holocaust.

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Europe: Funding NGO's "Excessive Force" Campaign

European governments talk about fighting antisemitism while at the same time funding groups that deny it. 

Via NGO Monitor:

Officials from the U.S. State Department, UN Secretary General’s office, and UNRWA have all made statements this week alleging that Israeli police and security personnel, in responding to stabbing and other terror attacks against civilians, have uncritically repeated NGO claims that Israel has used “excessive force” in stopping the attackers (See Appendix 1 for statements). Articles with similar content have appeared in the international media.

This theme is a central tactic of politicized NGOs (and the Palestinian Authority) that seek to criminalize Israeli self-defense, and it has appeared frequently in NGO statements since the terror campaign intensified on October 1. The NGO statements apply a unique, unrealistic and unreasonable standard to actions of Israeli security forces. They also erase efforts by emergency responders and doctors to save the lives of injured terrorists.   

In addition, despite video evidence and severely injured victims, a number of NGOs question or reject the reality of these terror attacks.  more