A Turkish pundit writing for Yeni Akit, a major publication aligned with President Erdogan, called for the country’s Jews to be taxed to pay for reconstructing buildings damaged in Gaza during Israel’s recent Operation Protective Edge.
Faruk Köse said that the “Gaza Fund Contribution Tax” should apply to Turkish Jews as well as foreign Jews doing business in Turkey and any Turkish nationals with commercial ties to the Jewish state.More: Algemeiner
Remarks by a leading city official in Cardiff, Wales, dismissing Hamas attacks as “toy rockets” have spurred calls for his resignation or dismissal.
The Israeli honorary consul for Wales and the opposition leader of the Cardiff City Council have demanded that Ali Ahmed, the deputy lord mayor of the Wales capital and a councilman, step down over remarks he made at an Aug. 30 “No NATO” rally held in Newport, Wales, according to a report by WalesOnline.
In his remarks, which were posted online, Ahmed declared, “The Palestinians — they complain they’re throwing rockets. They’re toy rockets!”More: JTA
The president of the association for victims of Madrid's 2004 terrorist bombings has racially attacked US President Barack Obama and his wife on Twitter over their handling of the Gaza conflict, saying it could lead to future terrorist attacks.
Pilar Manjón, head of Spain’s 11-M Foundation (which takes its name from the 11th March 2004 Madrid train bombings), has directed all her ire and frustration over Gaza’s bloody conflict at Barack and Michelle Obama.
In a shocking, racist tweet sent out on Thurday, Manjón writes: “I hate the black man in the White House. I love Gaza’s murdered children. His b**** wife should take the video of (Nigeria’s) kidnapped girls”
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“If one day Spain or any other European country suffers a terrorist attack like 11-M, we’ll have to look back to what’s happening now to understand it."
Copenhagen - The Carolineskolen in Copenhagen was vandalized during the night of Thursday to Friday. Danish media report that windows were smashed and anti-Semitic graffiti written on the school walls.
A GAA star is facing a criminal investigation after sending a Tweet urging people to "punch a Jew".
Former Tyrone player Tommy McGuigan has apologised for the Tweet, but the PSNI has confirmed it is investigating the comment as a potential hate crime.
The All-Ireland winner had tweeted: "If you are lucky enough to know or work with a Jew, punch him right on the nose tomorrow."
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"I apologise for any offence caused," said the 29-year-old. He said he had been watching news coverage of the death and destruction in Gaza when he sent the Tweet.
A Swiss watchdog group said the weekend protests in front of the Beth Yaakov, or Grande, Synagogue were the first public displays of hostility in Switzerland toward Israel since the conflict with Gaza began in early July.
A veiled woman carried a sign reading “Every synagogue is an Israeli embassy” and waved a Palestinian flag on Saturday morning, according to the Intercommunity Coordination Against Anti-Semitism and Defamation watchdog organization, or CICAD. The same protester returned that night accompanied by three men, the group said.
A second woman wearing a Palestinian flag around her neck tried unsuccessfully to enter the synagogue, according to the watchdog. The protesters told police that they have a right to protest and threatened to return the following Saturday.More: Times of Israel
Death threats, daily anti-Semitic attacks, and harassment are causing many young Swedish Jews of the shrinking 20,000-member community to say “enough,” and seek to establish their futures elsewhere, according to a report by Zvika Klein of Israel’s NRG News.
“I and my friends decided to leave,” 22-year-old Victor Borsolov, told NRG, after getting his 11th death threat after posting pro-Israeli views on his Facebook page.
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“We have always known that there are those who hate us in Sweden, but this time it was expressed more powerfully, because there were so many anti-Semitic remarks and attacks by anti-Semites that it was impossible to follow. Even among celebrities, politicians and journalists – it was not a criticism of the operation in Gaza, but really hate against Jews,” he said.
“It used to be unacceptable to talk about it so openly,” he said, but added that “today, talk of anti-Semitism has become commonplace.”
Frankfurt's Jewish community has quit a state interfaith council over allegedly antisemitic and anti-Israel statements by local Muslim leaders, some of whom are members of the inter-religious panel.
Among other offending statements, a press release from the Islamic Religious Association of Hessen accused the Central Council of Jews in Germany of using the issue of antisemitism in Europe "to divert attention from the war crimes of the Israeli government".More: Jewish Chronicle
Jonathan decided to go out on a new scooter that he'd received for his Bar Mitzvah, and he goes around the roads around here. And all of a sudden, a few minutes after he left the house, I heard screaming and a lot of noise, and it sounded really, really bad. And I went to the door, I opened the door, and I saw hundreds and hundreds of protesters coming down my road. There were helicopters overhead, and it was quite crazy.
All of a sudden, I think one of them spotted the mezuzah on my door, and with that they started to scream "She's one of them! She's one of them! You and your entire family, your children, you should all die and burn in hell along with the rest of Israel".
And I had at this point my three other children, the twins are eight and Zack is ten, they were standing in the doorway. The young ones, they got upset by it, and they started to get quite tearful and cry and they were saying "they're going to kill Jonathan", my eldest son, because he was out in the street. And so with that I realized it was getting really nasty, it was awful, and I ran in and I shut the door."
The hatred that came across was horrendous, it was awful.
A top Norwegian politician from the FrP (Progressive Party) and his family, have received death threats and messages of hate because of his support for Israel, it was announced on Wednesday.
Foreign affairs spokesman Kristian Norheim is open in his support of israel and recently attended a pro-Israel rally in Oslo at the weekend, organized by "Med Israel for Fred" (MIFF). The MP revealed he and his family received targeted threats and that he passed these threats on to PST (the Norwegian police security service).
“The threats are about someone who will come to get me and that I will go through the same as the civilians in Gaza,” Norheim said to the newspaper “Varden”.
The politician also told the media he personally got in touch with one person threatening him and his family. It was discovered the threats were not genuine
Budapest – UNICEF campaign poster vandalized with antsiemitic graffiti.
UNICEF placard reads: "Children never start a war". Someone add: "But fucking Jews do".
