Belgium: Anti-Israel newly appointed minister is the son of Dieudonné's lawyer

Following the Publifin political scandal which led the Flemish daily De Morgen to qualify the Walloon politicians involved as pure 'Walloon mafia', the Socialist Walloon Minister for Local Authorities, Paul Furlan, had to resign.  He was replaced by a pro-BDS politician, Pierre-Yves Dermagne.

In 2016 a Belgian economic delegation was slated to visit Israel.  Together with a few other Brussels and Walloon MPs, Pierre-Yves Dermagne asked for the visit to be cancelled.  Le Vif reported that a collaborator (himself very anti-Israel) of the Socialist party president Elio Di Rupo had complained that Dermagne could have expressed his opposition privately and not embarrass the party by going public about it.



Pierre-Yves Dermagne is the son Jean-Marie Dermagne, a rabid anti-Israel lawyer and 'human rights activist' who peddles on his FB account conspirationist theories.  He was Dieudonné's lawyer and accuses Israel of being "the master of the world".   Jean-Marie Dermagne re-posted this conspirationist and anti-semitic meme (see explanation here).

“There are only 9 countries in the world without a Rothschild Central Bank: Russia, China, Iceland, Cuba, Syria, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Hungary. Isn’t it funny that we are always at war with these countries?”

Another example of Dermagne's hatred of Israel as reported on this blog:

A Belgian delegation headed by a socialist MP Gwenaelle Grovonius was barred from entering Gaza.  Obviously it's big news on Belgian media.
This caused an indignant Jean-Marie Dermagne to post the following message on Facebook: "Yet another affront.  This justifies the breaking of relations (between Belgium and Israel).  Israel is the master of the world". 

 

Jean-Marie Dermargne is a lawyer, a former president of the Bar of Dinant, a member of the Human Rights League, a vice president of the Union of lawyers for democracy (Syndicat des avocats pour la démocratie), director of Sirde /UCL/ LLN (Catholic University of Louvain).  

During a  debate on Belgian State TV he was presented as Dieudonné's lawyer - at the end of the show, Dieudonné and his wife sent a note refuting the claim and demanding that Dermargne stop saying that he is their lawyer - they named their two official Belgian lawyers. It seems that Dermagne used to be their lawyer but no longer, but he didn't see fit to say so...  

In 2009, Jean-Marie Dermagne wrote a pro-Dieudonné article entitled Does Dieudonné fornicate with the devil?  By the way, neither he nor his son the minister is on record condemning Belgian government high level official visits to countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Iran...

Unsurprisingly 74% of the Belgian population feel that their elites have let them down.

Dutch rapper: ‘Jews like money’ song is a compliment

Antisemitism is perfectly acceptable among the 'anti-racism' crowd.  

Via Times of Israel:

A Dutch rapper who sang that he “sits on money like a Jew” and “deports” greedy women defended the text as a “compliment,” devoid of any anti-Semitic undertones.

Ali Bouali, a best-selling performer of Moroccan descent, who is also known in the Netherlands as an activist against discrimination, defended these lines from his new single “That Is Money,” in an interview published Tuesday in the Het Parool daily.

Bouali, who is better known as Ali B., was responding to criticism over his single that appeared in an op-ed earlier that day in Jonet, the Dutch Jewish news website.

“Instead of speaking out against the virulent anti-Semitism of Islamist youths, this pet Moroccan clearly chooses to spread a classic anti-Semitic preconception about Jews,” the Jonet op-ed read.

“I’m just calling them good businesspeople,” Ali B. told Het Parool. As for the use of the word “deportation,” he said it is just “wordplay” meant that he “sends gold diggers packing.”

“They want to take every word that a Moroccan ever says and turn it into something anti-Semitic,” he added, citing negative feedback he received on Twitter and on his website.

Since its December 23 release on YouTube, the video clip of “That is Money” has been viewed more than 1 million times.

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Fake EU organization supporting ethnic minorities targets Jewish charities for “harassing” antisemites

Via CAA:

An investigation by Campaign Against Antisemitism into the activities of the “European Forum for Ethnic Minority Individuals, Communities and Organizations” (EFEMICO) has revealed that it is in fact a front organisation run by an antisemite.

EFEMICO is in fact a one man band run by Schumann. Draped in the flag and colours of the EU, its official-sounding website, efemico.eu, claims to represent all minority “migrant settlers to the EU” but explicitly excludes Jews.

But the man behind the website, Jason Schumann is an antisemite who recently told a Jewish Facebook user: “It is Jews who are the real nazis. [sic] No group of people more insidious, more evil, or more pernicious. An eternal curse upon them.” His personal Twitter account has been suspended.

EFEMICO came to our attention when it targeted three organisations, Campaign Against Antisemitism, the Community Security Trust and Jewish Human Rights Watch, accusing them all of harassing innocent individuals and menacing them with a Charity Commission investigation, repeatedly tweeting: “Whilst antisemitism is wrong, anyone harassed by @CST_UK, @antisemitism or @jhrwatch, please contact us to take further. @ChtyCommission”

    . Whilst anti-Semitism is wrong, anyone harassed by @CST_UK, @antisemitism or @jhrwatch, please contact us to take further.@ChtyCommission

    — efemico.eu (@efemico_online) November 23, 2016

Additionally, EFEMICO believes in the existence of a nefarious “Jewish lobby”. According to the International Definition of Antisemitism, “Making mendacious, dehumanising, demonising, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective” is antisemitic.

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Through EFEMICO, Schumann has tried to intimidate organisations which fight antisemitism by falsely suggesting that they engage in harassment of innocent individuals. This incident shows the sophisticated techniques now being used against Jews, even to intimidate them from taking action against antisemitism.

Now that they are aware of the situation, EURid, which granted Schumann his official-looking online presence, should cease to play a part in the EFEMICO charade. You may wish to contact EURid about this matter through their website.

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France: Anti-racism activist praises Tel Aviv murderers

Via Watch: Antisemitism in Europe:

While ‪Israel‬ mourns the 4 innocents murdered in Tel Aviv, Aya Ramadan, member of the Parti des Indigènes de la République, praised yesterday on Twitter the murdering terrorists calling their act a “resistance operation”. Meanwhile, her message has been deleted. The Parti des Indigènes de la République opposes “race-mixing” and attacks the “philo-Semitism” of the French State. Its spokesperson, Houria Bouteldja has posed for a photo with the slogan, “Zionists to the Gulag”.

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Belgium:Anti-racism activist blames Israel for Muslim hatred of Jews, compares Zionism to ISIS ideology

Dyab Abou Jahjah is an extremist antisemite.  He's also a minority-rights activist, a distinguished columnist in one of Belgium's top papers, and a respected partner for Belgium's anti-racism organizations.  The ones tasked with fighting antisemitism.

Belgians find it perplexing when Jews say he's antisemitic, because he only wants to kill all Jews in Israel (a sentiment he's shared quite a few times).   A decade ago he also organized pogroms in Jewish neighborhoods in Belgium, but apparently that doesn't make him an antisemite either.

Yesterday, Abou Jahjah posted a post in English on his Facebook in which he blamed Israel for Muslim and Arab antisemitism.  He then went on to compare Israel to Islamic State (also a recurring sentiment by him).  Except Israel is much worse, because most Jews support Israel, while only a fraction of Muslims support ISIS.
 

When young Arabs and Muslims express hatred towards Jews it is 99% of the time an echo of Israel portraying itself as the Jewish state and them believing it. This is very regrettable but it is not antisemitism. It is a lack of politisation and can only be remedied by explaining Zionism to them as a political racist movement that hijacks the identity of the Jews just like "Daesh" hijacks that of the Muslims.

With the clear difference that support for Israel and Zionism is unfortunately mainstream among jews. While support for Daesh is marginal among muslims. Not only that, Arabs and muslims are waging war against Daesh. But either way, yes young people say stupid uninformed things often out of emotionality.

I wrote about this Belgian hypocrisy in the past, but it's worth repeating. 

It is not surprising that a Hezbollah activist in Belgium hates Jews.  It's not surprising that he led riots in Jewish neighborhoods in which protesters burned Jews in effigy, or that he posted Holocaust cartoons accusing Jews of making it all up, or that he supports Holocaust deniers, or that he supports the genocide of Jews in Israel.

I really don't expect much from people like Abou Jahjah.

What is surprising is that the Belgian establishment supports him, including those people whose job it is to protect Jews from antisemites.   The city of Ghent invited him to speak about racism, as did Amnesty International and the Belgian Human Rights League.   He also has a weekly column in De Standaard.

The Belgian Human Rights League got really upset at me for calling them out on their support of antisemites.  Because the people whose job it is to fight antisemitism in Belgium prefer to team up with a Hezbollah terrorist, rather than to listen to Jews who complain about it.

It really doesn't matter how many times Belgian politicians say that they are serious about fighting antisemitism.  As long as Belgian society and Belgian anti-racism organizations accept Abou Jahjah as one of their own and as an acceptable voice in society - they are sending a clear message to the  Jews in Belgium: You are on your own.

UK: Labour activist suspended after claiming Jews were reposnsible for African slave trade

She can't be antisemitic, because she's against racism. QED.

It must be a conspiracy, and there's nothing antisemitic about saying that, because she's against racism.


Via BBC:

A senior Labour activist has been suspended from the party over alleged anti-Semitic comments on Facebook.

Jackie Walker, a vice chair in the Momentum movement, wrote about "the African holocaust" and Jews as "chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade".

The Labour Party said: "Jacqueline Walker has been suspended by the Labour Party today pending an investigation."

Ms Walker said she was of Jewish descent and an active anti-racist.
'Defended minorities'

In a statement, she said: "I have been suspended from the Labour Party for alleged anti-Semitic comments. I have been an active anti-racist trainer and campaigner for years, often in all white communities and in the most vulnerable situations.

"I have been spat at and beaten by racists. I have marched against the fascists, defended minorities, am of Jewish decent as is my partner. If they can do this to me they can do it to anyone."

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Belgium: Antisemitic organizations participate in rally 'against hatred'

Thousands marched in Brussels on Sunday in a rally "against terrorism and hatred".  The rally attracted politicians from across the political spectrum.

However, Belgian antisemitism watchdog LBCA complained that while far-right organizations are naturally excluded from this event, the same cannot be said for antisemitic extremists. 

Some of the signatories on the list regularly incite to Jew hatred.  This includes organizations who shout "death to the Jews" and "Khaybar ya Yahud" on the streets of Brussels and Antwerp, who justify Islamist terrorism and who harass Jewish students on the ULB campus.

Belgium: Head of anti-racism group fights for right of BDS

Recently, French author Elisabeth Badinter called for a boycott of shops who sell Muslim fashion.

What a perfect time for an organization which supposedly fights antisemitism to talk about the right to boycott Israel.


Alexis Deswaef, head of Belgium's leading anti-racism group, the Human Rights League, tweetted the following:

"Such a boycott is allowed? But calling for a boycott of Israeli companies in the settlements is a crime?"

Deswaef is referring to the fact that BDS is illegal in France.

74% of Belgian Jews think BDS is antisemitic.  85% of French Jews think BDS is antisemitic.

Deswaef and the Human Rights League disagree. Because what do Jews know?

But, of course, what do we expect from Deswaef, who invites antisemites to his conferences and then attacks Jews who dare criticize him?  

France: Anti-racism movement spokesperson: “Zionists to the Gulag!”

Indigènes de la République is an anti-racist, anti-colonialist movement which also defines itself as "anti-Zionist".

Via Tendance Coatesy (h/t glykosymoritis):

The left-wing political scientist,  Thomas Guénolé,  recently (18th March) rowed with the spokesperson of the Parti des Indigènes de la République, Houria Bouteldja on the French television (France 2) programme, “Ce soir (ou jamais !)” sur France 2 (Atlantico).

He took out a photo of her posing with the slogan, Zionists to the Gulag (note, which adds, Peace, mais gulag quand même, but Gulag even so).

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Germany: Journalist compares Palestinian government to Nazi collaborators

Via Watch: Antisemitism in Europe:

Cologne‬’s top daily newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger published recently an interview with German journalist and humanitarian Rupert Neudeck. In it, Neudeck compares the Palestinian Government to the Quisling regime, the collaborationist government led by Vidkun Quisling in occupied Norway during the Second World War, implying that the Israelis today are like the Nazis. The journalist who questioned Neudeck didn't criticize this parallelism.

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Belgium: Following Brussels attacks, anti-racism activist compares Israel to Islamic State

Dyab Abou Jahjah is an 'opinion maker'.  He fights for the rights of Muslim immigrants in Belgium.  He's a coveted speaker for events organized by Amnesty International and the Belgian Human Rights League. 

He's also an antisemite, but why should that bother anybody?  He only incites to kill Jews.

His most recent sentiments following the terror attack in Brussels:

Just in case you are wondering, I do not attend a solidarity meeting or gathering where the "Israeli" flag is hanging. That flag represents the same kind of evil that Daesh represents.

About Jahjah a decade ago, when he joined Hezbollah to kill Jews:

Belgium: Human-rights activist says Israel is the 'master of the world'

A Belgian delegation headed by a socialist MP Gwenaelle Grovonius was barred from entering Gaza.  Obviously it's big news on Belgian media.

This caused an indignant Jean-Marie Dermagne to post the following message on Facebook:

"Yet another affront which would justify the breaking of diplomatic relations [between Belgium and Israel].  Israel is the master of the world."

Jean-Marie Dermargne is a lawyer, a former president of the Bar of Dinant, a member of the Human Rights League, a vice president of the Union of lawyers for democracy (Syndicat des avocats pour la démocratie), director of Sirde /UCL/ LLN (Catholic University of Louvain). 

During a  debate on Belgian State TV he was presented as Dieudonné's lawyer - at the end of the show, Dieudonné and his wife sent a note refuting the claim and demanding that Dermargne stop saying that he is their lawyer - they named their two official Belgian lawyers. It seems that Dermagne used to be their lawyer but no longer, but he didn't see fit to say so...  

Interestingly and to add to the confusion, Jean-Marie Demargne is also listed as a supporter of RésistanceS, an outfit created by Manuel Abramowicz, a self-styled expert on the far right.

On his Facebook profile photo, Dermagne looks pensive and sports a bracelet with the Palestinian flag.

UK: NUS accused of hypocrisy after “pushing out” Jewish student from anti-racism campaign

Via TheJC:

The National Union of Students has voted to “push out” Jewish students from an anti-racism campaign, according to a leading Jewish member of the union.

The NUS’ National Executive Committee this week passed a motion ending the practice of giving an automatic leadership place on its Anti-racism Anti-Fascism (ARAF) campaign to a Jewish student.

Izzy Lenga,who sits on the NEC, opposed the motion.

Ms Lenga, who is currently a co-convenor of ARAF, said the motion was a “shameless attempt to push Jewish students out of it”.

Up until now, the ARAF campaign’s two co-convenor roles have traditionally gone to a black student and a Jewish student.

The NEC motion, which was passed at a meeting on Tuesday, called for one position to go automatically to a representative of African, Asian or Latin American descent, but to have the second post be elected by the NEC from any group considered to be an ethnic minority or a member of a marginalised group.

Ms Lenga, who has suffered antisemitic abuse on social media in the past, said ARAF was the only structure in the NUS that allowed Jewish students to talk about antisemitism on campus.

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Ireland: Top anti-racism activist does not recognize antisemitism

Ronit Lentin is Jewish, a former Israeli, and a top activist at Anti-Racism Network Ireland.


Ronit Lentin is also an anti-Zionist.  A longtime activist against Israel, she supports the antisemitic BDS movement and is a member of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC).

In an interview she said as follows:

The other challenge supporters of the BDS face is accusations of anti-semitism, or, in the case of Jewish supporters, accusations of being a ‘self hating Jew’. This too is problematic as some argue that it is Israeli policies which foster antisemitism. However let me say that the blanket support for Palestine by some people in the west, where some supporters never mobilize to any other local causes such as the rights of migrants and asylum seekers, raises suspicions that perhaps they might be motivated by antisemitism. The IPSC is very careful about any displays of antisemitism, and I feel totally comfortable working with the group in this regard.

To her credit, Lentin thinks anti-Zionism 'might' be a cover for antisemitism.  But that, of course, does not prevent her from blaming Israel for antisemitism.  Because blaming Jews for antisemitism is not antisemitic at all.

She also thinks that the IPSC is "very careful" about displays of antisemitism.

I don't know of any pro-Palestinian group that does not deny the right of Jews to self-determination and that does not fight Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state.  Both of those are considered antisemitism according to every official definition: according to the United States, according to the EU, according to every antisemitism watchdog, and according to a vast majority of Jews.

But I took Lentin at her word that the IPSC does not display any antisemitism, and I took a look at the IPSC site.  Earlier this month, they had two main events going.

One was a lecture on how Israel is responsible for all repression worldwide, using the Palestinians as 'test subjects' for their weapons industry.  That's right.  If you didn't know: Israel is not just conducting a war against Palestinians, or Arabs, or Muslims, or the entire Middle East.  Israel is conducting a war against 'the people'. 

Not antisemitic at all.



The other was an "Israeli blood diamonds" protest.  Try to follow, because the logic is convoluted: Beny Steinmetz is an Israeli Jew, currently living in Switzerland.  He is also a French citizen.  He owns a diamond company called Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR), which is registered in Switzerland.  BSGR is is currently under investigation for corruption in Guinea.

He also established the "Agnes and Beny Steinmetz Foundation" which mostly supports children and youth causes in Israel.  They also support a unit of the Givati Brigade.

According to anti-Zionists worldwide this makes BSGR (which is owned by the same Jew!) responsible for any 'war-crime' Givati commits.  And this is why all Israeli diamonds are tainted and should be considered blood diamonds. 

Not antisemitic at all.

Most antisemitism in Ireland is of the 'anti-Zionist' variety.  Politicians who support murdering Israeli Jews; politicians who think Israel is the source of all problems in the Middle East; politicians who call for a new Intifada in Israel; businesses who boycott Israel, but have no problem buying actual slave labor; people who get death threats for supporting Israel; a ban on mentioning Israel at Holocaust memorials.

Does Lentin think that this 'raises suspicions that perhaps they might be motivated by antisemitism'?

Maybe.


But don't count on it.  Because like most anti-racism activists today, Lentin does not recognize antisemitism when it's right in front of her.   In fact, she proudly supports it.

Germany: Left Party MP supports Palestinian Intifada

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine was established 47 years ago.  Among their greatest achievements was taking Israeli school-children hostage in the city of Ma'alot forty years ago and murdering 22 of them.

The German "Friends of the DFLP" group will be celebrating the DFLP's 47th birthday in Cologne under the banner "Solidarity with the Intifada in Palestine".

The Intifada in Palestine, it should be noted, means killing Jews in the street - men, women and children.

The guest list includes Annette Groth, an MP for the Left Party, as well as 'representatives from various parties'.

Annette Groth is the human rights policy officer for the Left Group, she is a member of the Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid, and she's an active member of the Free Gaza Movement.

In today's day and age, human rights activists can support terrorists who want to kill Jews, and that's no problem. 

The event is supported by the Palestinian Authority, and the Palestinian Ambassador to Germany is also an honored guest.

 h/t Honestly Concerned

Germany: Jewish volunteer at refugee center spat on and insulted

A few months ago I posted about a Jewish volunteer who said she does not reveal her Jewish identity to the Muslim refugees, but also to the left-wing German volunteers, who are just as antisemitc.

Via Reuters:

When Judith G. helped out at a refugee center near Frankfurt last October and identified herself as Jewish, she was spat on and insulted.
German Jews say the case of Judith G., a 33-year-old optician who asked not to be fully named, isn’t isolated and underlines concerns many have about the record arrivals of asylum seekers, largely from Muslim countries in the Middle East.

Official figures show German-born far-right supporters commit the vast majority of antisemitic crimes in the country, and Muslim leaders say nearly all asylum seekers – who can be targets of hate crime themselves – are trying to escape conflict, not stir it up.

Nevertheless, Jews across Germany are hiding their identity when volunteering at refugee shelters for fear of reprisals, adding another layer of complexity to a social, economic and logistical challenge that is stretching the fabric of German society.

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Some Jewish groups, such as the Berlin-based “Friends of the Fraenkleufer Synagogue”, have taken the cultural exchange issue into their own hands with around 40 volunteers helping out at a local refugee center.

“We want to send a message to all the Jews who sit at home and build big fences around their synagogues that it’s possible and necessary to approach one another, because if we don’t try, things can only turn for the worse,” said Nina Peretz, head of the initiative.

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Germany: "Too many racists and Zionists"

Via Everyday Antisemitism, RIAS:

The entrance to an apartment block in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin, Germany, has been repeatedly targeted with antisemitic stickers and graffiti .

A sticker in the entrance to the building, featuring the message, “There aren’t too many refugees, there are too many racists,” had the words “and Zionists” added by hand. This was followed by the appearance of a piece of graffiti, equating a hammer and sickle (a communist symbol), a Star of David and a swastika, together with the words, “Shalom! Best Wishes.”

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Europe: One thing that human-rights doctrine does not oppose is anti-Semitism, says Roger Scruton

English philosopher Roger Scruton writes @ Heritage via Mosaic Magazine:

In a wide-ranging essay on the decay of Europe and its lessons for America, Roger Scruton observes that the notion of human rights has filled the gap left by the decline of religion:

Europe is rapidly jettisoning its Christian heritage and has found nothing to put in the place of it save the religion of “human rights.” ... The notion of a human right purports to offer the ground for moral opinions, for legal precepts, for policies designed to establish order in places where people are in competition and conflict. However, it is itself without foundations. If you ask what religion commands or forbids, you usually get a clear answer in terms of God’s revealed law or the magisterium of the church. If you ask what rights are human or natural or fundamental, you get a different answer depending on whom you ask, and nobody seems to agree with anyone else regarding the procedure for resolving conflicts.

However, notes Scruton, there is one thing that human-rights doctrine does not oppose, namely, anti-Semitism:

Another interesting side-effect of Islamization has been the growth of anti-Semitism in Europe.  It was inconceivable in my youth that anyone should voice an anti-Semitic sentiment, still more inconceivable that he should exhibit violence, contemptuous language, or any kind of assault towards others on account of their Jewishness. This has changed, and changed almost overnight.

Of course, people say that it is all the result of the bad behavior of Israel, but what is now considered bad behavior is precisely what was cheered on and endorsed a decade ago. The real cause of the new wave of anti-Semitism is the growing self-confidence and numbers of the Muslim minority—a fact that you cannot publicly declare in Britain, still less in France or Belgium, for fear of provoking the charge of Islamophobia and even the threat of legal action.

So much for the rights culture, which displays its foundationless character precisely in this matter, for which it should put itself aggressively on display. It is precisely the advocates of human rights as a social panacea who are the most ardent in seeking excuses for anti-Semitism.

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Op-Ed: Whispering in the Lift: on the LSE and anti-Semitism

Saul Freeman @ Harry's Place:

A Jewish UK academic with a career long interest in anti-Semitism recently shared an anecdote with me. We were sat in a café discussing the tsunami of anti-Jewish feeling coming from the Corbynite Left when we both noticed how we had instinctively moderated the level of our voices.

The academic recounted how he had been in a lift at Haifa University and was carrying on a discussion with a colleague on some element of the history of Zionism when his fellow academic asked him why he was whispering. He laughed as he remembered the fact that 3 of the 5 people in the lift were Arab Israelis. But that wasn’t why he was whispering. He was whispering because that had become his instinctive behaviour, learned through years of working in a leading London University.

It’s a funny story, isn’t it?

This vignette of the “cloak of invisibility” that is required in order to try and survive, thrive and retain your sanity and dignity in UK Universities is instructive when faced with the latest triumph from the London School of Economics. The LSE Centre for Human Rights published an article last week that expounded a truly racist and stupid argument, using its own cloak – this one a “cloak of academic respectability”. The argument from Dr. Sandra Nasr was that stateless Palestinians suffer because Israel is inevitably bad, because Jews are intrinsically an evil, corrosive force due to the supremacist ideology contained in the Torah. Zionism as the ultimate expression of the inherent evil of Judaism.[1]

This academic blog piece predictably included a quotation and link to the notorious Journal of Historical Review – a publication that exists to propagate Holocaust denial.[2]

So this is where the LSE Centre for Human Rights finds itself in 2015 – open anti-Semitism and quotations from professional Holocaust deniers. If it weren’t so predictable and appalling it would be comical.

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Netherlands: Anti-racist party commemorates Kristallnacht by comparing Jews to Nazis

Via Times of Israel:

Denouncing Israel for “racist policies” against the Palestinians, firebrand MK Hanin Zoabi of the Joint (Arab) List party accused the Jewish state of crimes akin to those committed by the Nazis. She was speaking at an event marking the anniversary of Kristallnacht in the heart of Amsterdam’s decimated Jewish quarter on Sunday.

Organized by the city’s far-left Platform Stop Racism and Exclusion, the commemoration drew more than 200 attendees, with dozens of them wearing kippot or draped in Israeli flags.

Leading up to Zoabi’s speech, several organizers delivered remarks comparing the Holocaust to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. At least half a dozen pro-Israel protesters were escorted from the gathering by security personnel and uniformed Amsterdam city police, when at various points they yelled in protest of the speakers’ condemnations of Israel.  more