Belgium: "Nude Belgian Model in Israel” story worse than you think

Background:
Belgian model chooses only to offend Jews, not Muslims, at nude photo shoot facing Western Wall

Via Israelly Cool:

You probably already read about Marisa Papen, the Belgian model who posed naked for a photograph overlooking the Western Wall. Tellingly, the photo does not include the Dome of the Rock and the Temple Mount – although she claims it has nothing to do with being worried about the potential repercussions.(…)  

In any event, it turns out this enterprise is even more offensive than first thought. Israellycool reader David contacted Frank Rose, the agent behind the photo shoot, who sent him the portfolio of Papen’s photos from Israel, including some descriptions. For a start, the Western Wall photo is not the only photo mocking Judaism. There is also this one: (…)  

Again, not a chance these “trailblazers” would dare take a photo of a naked man reading from the Quran.

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Oxfam Belgium also uses sexual imagery to bash Israel

Belgium: Model chooses only to offend Jews, not Muslims, at nude photo shoot facing Western Wall

Via Elder of Ziyon:

Marisa Papen is an artist whose entire idea of art is to take off her clothes and get photographed around the world. When she visited Israel, however, she decided to push the envelope - and to pose nude in front of the Western Wall. She pre-emptively insulted anyone who would dare to be upset:

The Wall of Shame 

First of all, ‘don’t judge a book by its title’…  

This purely implies the shame you, dear reader, (perhaps) will project on me because I have done something so disrespectful, I should burn in hell. I know my mailbox is about to fill up with threats and angriness again - to all the people typing down their furiosity right now, save your energy. I don’t even open them. After my escapades in Egypt, I knew that I wanted to push the bounderies of regilion and politics even further. Breaking down the walls that have been build to keep all our wandering souls on this planet somehow under control.  

With other words, showing my personal religion in a world where freedom is becoming a very luxurious thing.

(…) Notice, however, that the photo was carefully composed so as to only show the Western Wall, not the Dome of the Rock (which would be to the left) or the Al Aqsa Mosque (cropped out of the right.) Papen and her photographer [Mathias Lambrecht] are careful to only insult Jews. Because they know that if the photo would be a little more expansive and include Muslim holy places, then she wouldn't only get angry emails that she can casually dismiss, but actual death threats.

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Via Times of Israel:  The picture, along with others from the visit to Israel, are on display in the Frank Rose Gallery in Knokke, Belgium, in an exhibit titled “Road to Liberation.”

Germany/UK: Munich mayor accuses Rogers Waters of antisemitism

Via The Jerusalem Post (Benjamin Weinthal):

Mayor Dieter Reiter

Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter slammed Roger Waters, co-founder of the British band Pink Floyd, for his stoking of antisemitism against Israel, triggering an angry reaction from the singer on Friday.

Waters’s attorney demanded that Reiter delete his press statement accusing Waters of antisemitism. Reiter said Waters is responsible for “growing, intolerable antisemitic statements.”  

Reiters office said a city attorney will review Water's request.

Waters performed a concert on Wednesday in Munich’s Olympic Hall. Reiter said it was not possible to prevent the hall from being rented to Waters. However, Reiter said the Olympic Hall will not be rented to Waters in the future, due to his advocacy of the boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) campaign against the Jewish state.

Reiter said it “is important for me to make it unmistakably clear ahead of the concert that antisemitic propaganda of Roger Waters is neither welcome in Munich nor will it remain unanswered.”

The Munich city council passed a resolution that the mayor supported last year barring space in public facilities and finances for pro-BDS activity. Munich was the first German city to pass anti-BDS legislation.

Waters’s lawyer said Reiter’s allegations resemble a call to boycott him.

Waters himself has previously said he was the victim of the “Jewish lobby” that was “extraordinarily powerful.”

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UK: Rapper Lowkey 'uses Jewish slur' in performance on BBC

Via The Jewish Chronicle:

The BBC are facing a fresh Jew-hatred controversy after a rap artist performed a track on a popular Radio 1 show which appeared to contain the lyric: "Power to victims of this globalised kosher nostra". 

Lowkey - who is a patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign - also ranted against "zombies and Zionists" during his live appearance on the station's Charlie Sloth show on Saturday night. 

After performing his "freestyle" 15-minute rap on the show, Mr Sloth hailed the content of the song, saying: "I feel like I've just been to university for five years". 

"Kosher nostra" has typically been used as an antisemitic term to describe an alleged Jewish ruling elite.

However a Radio 1 spokesperson told the JC that Lowkey insisted he had used the term ‘cosa nostra’ which he said "is commonly meant as a general reference to ‘the Mafia’." 

Lowkey's reference to "zombies and Zionists" also came during his appearance on Saturday's show in lyrics which attacked an alleged powerful elite of "neo-cons". 

The rapper declined to comment on his use of the word 'Zionists' in the rap.  

Footage of the performance has been shared on YouTube with the lyrics being praised by pro-Jeremy Corbyn website The Skwawkbox.

Lowkey, whose real name is Kareem Dennis, has previously made his anti-Zionist stance public on tracks such as Long Live Palestine, in which he sings: "You say you know about the Zionist lobby. But you put money in their pocket when you're buying their coffee. Talking about revolution, sitting in Starbucks." 

In 2009 Lowkey, whose mother is Iraqi and father English. was questioned at Tel Aviv airport as he entered Israel.  He said at the time he had received a "miniscule fraction of the degradation Palestinian people are subjected to on a daily basis”.

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Update here.

UK: Nick Cave's ire at Roger Waters re BDS

Via Spiked (Brendan O'Neill):

Not content with being the coolest man in rock, now Nick Cave wants to be the most principled, too. The Aussie rocker, of Bad Seeds legend, has said he is performing in Israel this week not only in spite of the BDS movement, but because of it. Yes, it is precisely because self-righteous Israel-bashers in the worlds of art and entertainment are forever imploring the likes of Cave not to set foot in the apparently uniquely wicked nation of Israel that he is determined to do just that. As one headline put it: ‘Nick Cave: BDS is the reason for my trip to Israel.’ Now that’s what I call rock’n’roll spirit. (...)

At a press conference bigging up the rock god’s arrival in the Holy Land, he said: ‘I like Israel and Israelis.’ That’s a borderline revolutionary statement these days, when hating Israel stands alongside crying over Brexit and fearing the Daily Mail as a baseline requirement for entry into the closed, strange world of the chattering class.
Yet while Cave might like Israelis, he doesn’t like censorious campaigns telling musicians which nations — and more importantly which peoples — they may perform for. He describes the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) pressure on singers and bands to dodge the Jewish State as an attempt to ‘shut down musicians, to bully musicians, to censor musicians, and to silence musicians’. And so he decided to take ‘a principled stand’. ‘You could say, in a way, that BDS made me play Israel’, he brilliantly quipped. This might be the first time Israelis should be grateful to BDS: it has brought them Mr Cave and his Bad Seeds.

Cave saved much of his ire for Roger Waters, prog-rock dullard turned fumer against Israel. It was Waters and his Artists for Palestine who wrote an open letter to Cave last month imploring him to call off his Tel Aviv dates. Hilariously, the letter — also signed by Ken Loach, John Pilger, Mike Leigh, Judith Butler and other luminaries of the Israel-fearing dinner-party set — threw Chomsky in Cave’s face: ‘Noam Chomsky has recently said he’s opposed to any appearance in Israel that is used to cover up the denial of Palestinian human rights. We hope you will agree with him.’ Cave doesn’t agree with him! Blasphemy, I know. ‘Stand for freedom’, the letter contradictorily implored — it’s a funny freedom that wants to deprive one nation and one nation only of the right to enjoy the art and ideas of outsiders — and Cave has stood for freedom. He has stood for his freedom to perform in Israel and the freedom of Israelis to hear him. Cave said musicians shouldn’t have to suffer this ‘public humiliation from Roger Waters and Co’ every time they flirt with the idea of performing in Israel.

Cave’s defiance of the increasingly nasty cultural pressure to avoid Israel — and Israelis — should be cheered. For however much the BDS lot try to present their erection of a censorious moral force field between Israel and the rest of the world as a progressive campaign, on a par with artists’ refusal to play in South Africa during Apartheid (the impact of which has always been vastly overstated by self-loving cultural types in the West), in truth BDS is a species of bigotry.

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Germany: Karl Lagerfeld says Germany 'cannot kill millions of Jews so you can bring millions of their worst enemies in their place"

Via The Daily Mail:

Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has sparked outrage by evoking the Holocaust as he attacked German Chancellor Angela Merkel for opening the country's borders to migrants.

The 84-year-old German said his country 'cannot - even if there are decades between them - kill millions of Jews so you can bring millions of their worst enemies in their place'. He added while speaking on a French television show: 'I know someone in Germany who took a young Syrian and after four days said, "The greatest thing Germany invented was the Holocaust"'.

Several hundred people lodged official complaints about Lagerfeld's comments, the French media regulator said Monday after he appeared on the 'Salut les terriens!' (Hello Earthlings!) talkshow on the C8 channel on Saturday.

The veteran Chanel designer, who was born in Hamburg just as Adolf Hitler came to power, had earlier lambasted Merkel for taking more than one million asylum seekers since the migrant crisis of 2015.  

'Merkel had already millions and millions (of immigrants) who are well integrated and who work and all is well... she had no need to take another million to improve her image as the wicked stepmother after the Greek crisis,' said Lagerfeld.

'Suddenly we see the pastor's daughter,' he said in reference to Merkel's father, who was a Protestant minister in the former East Germany.

Lagerfeld, who is rarely afraid of controversy, said he was going to 'say something horrific' before criticising the chancellor for the 'huge error' of accepting so many refugees from war-torn Syria and elsewhere.

'Look at France, the land of human rights, which has taken, I don't know, 10,000 or 20,000,' he added.

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Romania: Actress Xonia blasted for raunchy photoshoot at Holocaust memorial

The now common trivialization of the Holocaust.

Via The Sun (H/T Watch AntiSemitism in Europe):

A pop star and former Neighbours actress has provoked outrage by posing for a raunchy photoshoot in front of a memorial to the holocaust. Xonia, 28, posed suggestively in hot pants, a low-cut top and thigh-high boots at the Bucharest Holocaust Memorial in the Romanian capital. 

The stunning blonde, whose real name is Loredana Sachelaru, was widely criticised after sharing the provocative photographs with her army of followers on social media. 

And many fans questioned her choice of venue for the photoshoot, wondering whether she understood that it was a memorial to Jews killed in Nazi death camps. 

Xonia was born in Australia but her parents are Romanian and she has dual citizenship. 

Many also questioned why the security guards who protect the memorial around the clock allowed her to pose for the raunchy photographs there. 

Netizen said: "Those people were gassed and you chose the monument that commemorates them to show your a** there?! Very ugly!" 

Xonia did not reply to her critics but she has left the photographs on her social media page and is also reportedly planning to use one of them on the cover of her new album.

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UK: Is New York about to boycott Roger Waters?

It's a warning to many European BDS proponents...  

Via The Jewish Chronicle:

Roger Waters

Roger Waters could be prevented from playing concerts in New York State after a local Jewish lawmaker confirmed the former Pink Floyd frontman’s support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement was in violation of local law. 

Howard Kopel, who serves as a legislator for Nassau County in Long Island, pointed out that “Local Law 3-2016 bars companies from doing business with Nassau County if they participate in economic warfare against Israel. 

“The Nassau County Attorney confirms… Roger Waters' proposed upcoming tour dates at the Nassau Coliseum are indeed in violation of Local Law 3-2016”, he wrote in a social media post. 

“Allowing Waters - who actively promotes and encourages others to withdraw from commercial relations with Israel and other ‘BDS’ activities as defined by the law - to perform at a county-owned facility …  not only violates the law, and the Coliseum Lease, but offends the sense of decency of our residents.” 

Last week the city of Miami Beach, Florida, cancelled a planned performance of local children with Mr Waters after the Greater Miami Jewish Federation accused Mr Waters of spreading “vile messages of antisemitism, anti-Zionism and hatred [which] are not welcome in our community”. 

Mr Waters has attempted to persuade other performers not to play in Israel. In the past few weeks, he has been a leading voice in the unsuccessful effort to pressurise Radiohead into cancelling their concert in Israel. 

However, Israel continues to attract some of the biggest bands and performers in the world. Last Saturday night, Guns N’ Roses played the largest concert in Israel’s history in Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park, with an attendance of over 62,000.

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UK: Roger Waters’ Jewish problem catches eye of award-winning filmmaker

Jewish people is often on full display at his concerts, which feature
visuals such as a flying pig emblazoned with a Star of David and anti-Israel rants

Via The Observer (Paul Miller):

Pink Floyd founding member and former bassist Roger Waters has spent the last decade disparaging the Jewish state. Labeled an anti-Semite by the Anti-Defamation League, Waters compares Jews to Nazi collaborators and claims Israel is a “racist apartheid regime” that practices “ethnic cleansing.” 

As the de facto international spokesman for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, Waters’ contempt for Israel and the Jewish people is often on full display at his concerts, which feature visuals such as a flying pig emblazoned with a Star of David and anti-Israel rants. When big-name performers announce concerts in Israel, Waters publicly pleads with them to cancel and join the boycott. 

Waters has failed to garner support from the music industry. Nevertheless, pro-Israel advocates and anti-Semitism watchdog groups such as StandWithUs and Creative Community For Peace have never taken it lightly when the classic rock icon exhorts fans to boycott Israel. 

Waters himself is now the subject of a boycott campaign and a documentary film made by award-winning filmmaker and New York Times bestselling author Ian Halperin.Halperin’s work includes documentaries on Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga. For the past two years, the investigative journalist has been making Wish You Weren’t Here, a documentary examining contemporary anti-Semitism and Waters’ efforts to make Israel a global pariah. 

“I started traveling, meeting with different leaders throughout Europe. I didn’t know how bad the problem is with contemporary anti-Semitism there,” Halperin told the Observer. “There are less than 2 million Jews left in Europe, which is very alarming—a place where Jews have long been an integral part of society and whose valuable contributions to the culture are immeasurable.” 

“During my research,” Halperin continued, “I came upon Roger Waters, and I couldn’t believe he was singling out Israel when there are so many truly egregious violators of human rights in the world. Why is he going after Israel? So, I began asking people what this guy has against Israel. To me, an attack on Israel is an attack against the Jewish people.” 

Halperin met with psychologists who work with Holocaust survivors and their families. He described the effect of Waters’ floating pig bearing the Star of David as “unforgiveable” for survivors, comparing it to a scene in his film where a three-year-old Palestinian girl is “brainwashed” into believing Jews are pigs. 

In preparation for the documentary, Halperin interviewed leaders in the South African anti-apartheid struggle. They found Waters’ comparison to Israel offensive and demeaning to their people’s suffering. 

“I’ve met Mandela,” said Halperin. “I’ve met all the leaders who fought to liberate South Africa. Waters doesn’t know what he’s talking about. South Africans are insulted by his claims. You can argue with some of Israel’s policies, no problem. But to call for a universal boycott of Israel is deplorable, baseless and unfounded. It’s an anti-Semitic attack.” 

The son of a Holocaust survivor, Halperin was inspired to produce this film by his childhood friend, Dr. Charles Small. (...) 

Wish You Weren’t Here features interviews and remarks by intellectuals and entertainers such as Alan Dershowitz and Howard Stern and will be released late this summer.

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Connected:

Roger Waters flies a pig balloon with a Star of David in Belgium concert (video) (update) (Elder of Zion) 

Vatican op-ed slams anti-Semitism at pig-flying musician’s concert (Times of Israel)

Roger Waters Goes Full-on Gobbels -Anti-Semitic display at Roger Waters concert 

(Little Green Footballs)

Belgium: 'Intellectual elites' pen an anti-Israel petition (yet again)

Yet again, Belgians are busy defaming Israel, rather than dealing with the problems besetting their own country.  RTBF, the Belgian francophone public broadcaster posted a petition signed by 100  individuals titled: "Palestine, 50 years under occupation: in Belgium and in Europe, we have the means to act!". No such petitions are initiated by these citizens "committed to the values ​​of justice, peace and equality" against human rights abuses in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar etc. Only Israel. Obviously they dont care about the occupation of Cyprus by Turkey, the Western Sahara by Morocco, the Crimea by Russia and so on and so on.

Israel is accused of carrying out ethnic cleansing, of treating Israeli Arabs as second class citizens, o being guilty of war crimes, etc.

The signatories could use the term "implantations" for settlements, but prefer to use"colonies" and conclude:

"Concretely, we call on the Belgian, federal, community and regional governments, and in particular on Didier Reynders, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and on Kris Peeters, Minister of the Economy, to take action and sever all economic, political and scientific relations that Belgium maintains with the Israeli colonization. We therefore ask them to prohibit the import and marketing of products from the Israeli colonies on the Belgian market and to exclude the Israeli colonies from all bilateral and cooperation agreements with Israel.

We, therefore, as citizens from diverse backgrounds but all committed to the values ​​of justice, peace and equality, call for the end of Israel's occupation, colonization and impunity, which have That the Palestinian people can finally enjoy their most basic rights and live in dignity and freedom."

100 personalities against 50 ans of occupation

1. Angela Davis
, philosophe, militante des Droits de l’Homme, Etats Unis
2. Anke Hintjens, chanteuse belge
3. Anne-Marie Andrusyszyn, directrice du CEPAG
4. Alain Clauwaert, ancien président de la Centrale générale FGTB
5. Arnaud Zacharie
, secrétaire général CNCD 11.11.11
6. Axel farkas, membre de JAC
7. Bart Vonck
, poète belge
8. Bichara Khader
, professeur émérite UCL
9. Bogdan
 Vanden Berghe, Secrétaire général 11.11.11
10. Chantal De Smet
, directeur honoraire, KASK-Gent
11. Charles Ducal
, poète et écrivain belge
12. Charlie Lepaige
, Président Comac, jeunesse PTB/PVDA
13. Christian Kunsch, Président du Mouvement Ouvrier Chrétien                              
14. Christiane Schomblond, professeur émérite ULB

Sweden: Disney severs ties with YouTube's most-watched star PewDiePie after he posted anti-Semitic videos where men called for 'death to all Jews'

Via The Daily Mail:

The world's most watched video blogger has been dropped by Disney after two videos emerged of him making anti-Semitic comments.  

The video uploaded January 11 on PewDiePie's channel shows two men laughing as they hold a sign that reads 'Death to all Jews.'  

PewDiePie, a 27-year-old Swede named Felix Kjellberg who has amassed over 53million viewers, making him the channel's biggest star.

PewDiePie apparently paid two young Indian men to hold up the offensive sign

The video shows two young men unfurling a sign as PewDiePie says, 'I paid for this?' The sign reads 'Death to all Jews.' PewDiePie covers his mouth and widens his eyes in surprise.

'I'm sorry, I didn't think they would actually do it,' he tells the audience. 'I feel partially responsible. It might just be my crude sense of humor, but I think there's something funny about that.'  

He is said to have paid the two Indian men from a freelance company called on Fiverr to hold up the sign.  

According to the Wall Street Journal, the blogger has posted nine videos since August that include anti-Semitic jokes or Nazi imagery. 

The blogger has received multimillion-dollar deals from YouTube, which is owned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, and Walt Disney, which owns Maker Studios, which runs Kjellberg’s business, according to MarketWatch.

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Poland: Famous author blames Jews for anti-government protests

Via CFCA:

Warsaw - Marcin Wolski, well-known in Poland satirist, publicly accused Jews who, according to his words "are behind anti-government protests".

The Jewish community send complaint to National Council on TV and Radio program by Wolski: "Behind the Vision".

The Jewish community also send to Mr. Wolski an instruction what antisemitism is, and a box of matza, because satirist compared "holy wafer" with matza, telling that this year during Xmass the matza was eaten instead of holy wafer.

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Lithuania: Actress on game show makes Hitler salute to describe Jewish composer

Via Times of Israel:

Lithuania’s public television apologized Wednesday for a live show in which a popular actress made gestures to represent Adolf Hitler’s moustache while raising her arm in a Nazi-style salute.

Virginija Buneviciute, a spokeswoman for Lithuanian National Radio and Television LRT, told The Associated Press the contract with the production company behind the popular “Guess the Melody” show was immediately terminated.

During Friday’s contest, which actress Asta Baukute was about to win, she jumped off her seat when recognizing a melody by a Lithuanian composer of Jewish heritage. She then made the gestures and yelled “Jew, Jew, Jew” in Lithuanian.

Hours after the show was aired, LRT’s deputy manager Rimvydas Paleckis said on the channel’s Facebook page he was shocked, adding “this is in no way compatible with our values.”

“The show is closed,” he added.

Buneviciute said in an email: “As a public broadcaster, we stick to the policy of non-censorship, yet I can hardly imagine a situation (in which) she would be invited to one of our programs now.”

Local media said Baukute, a former lawmaker with a populist party in Lithuania, later apologized and said she didn’t want to hurt anyone. She was not immediately available for comments.

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France: Fundraiser for pets ended up unleashing rabid anti-Semitism

From the JTA:

When he locked himself up for three days inside a cage at an animal shelter in France, standup comedian and video artist Rémi Gaillard sought to raise awareness and money for abandoned pets.

But Gaillard’s fundraiser last week took a nasty turn, unleashing a vulgar shaming campaign with anti-Semitic dog whistles against Elie Semoun — one of the country’s best-known comedians, whose only sin was declining to help Gaillard’s cause.

The tweet referred to Semoun as a “television whore” who refused to support Gaillard because “he has an image.” Gaillard noted his 72-hour stay in the cage led to donations of more than $200,000 despite Semoun’s alleged refusal to help. It was retweeted almost 6,000 times and received 5,300 “likes.”

Taking the high road, Semoun replied by tweeting a picture of his three cats, which he said he had rescued, adding they are sending kisses, “purrs and love.” Meanwhile, some members of France’s stand-up scene defended Semoun, saying Gaillard’s attack against him was uncalled for.

The exchange might have ended there had it not caught the attention of Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala — another comedian and a former friend and partner of Semoun before he became a “professional anti-Semite,” as French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called Dieudonne for his multiple convictions for incitement for hatred against Jews. (...) 

On Nov. 15, Dieudonne posted online a video entitled “Dieudonne supports Rémi Gaillard versus Elie Semoun.” In it, he applauded Gaillard for insulting Semoun and repeated the insult, calling his former partner a “whore.”

That video has been viewed nearly 100,000 times and touched off an avalanche of anti-Semitic comments on YouTube and other social media (one of them spoke of “Rothschild parasites”).

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UK: Christopher Biggins kicked off Celebrity Big Brother after making Holocaust joke

Via Telegraph:

Christopher Biggins has made a tearful apology after being removed from Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother house for making a "joke" about the Holocaust.

Channel 5 ruled the 67-year-old actor made remarks "capable of causing widespread offence" following a conversation on the show with former X Factor star Katie Waissel.

Biggins, who had made earlier controversial comments about Aids and bisexuals, told the 30-year-old, who is Jewish: "You better be careful or they'll be putting you in a shower and taking you to a room."

Yesterday, he told The Sun he begged Waissel for forgiveness.

He said: "I found Katie and said 'I am mortified. I would never do anything to upset you. I love you and I'm really sorry'.

"I am mortified by what's happened, really mortified. Most of my friends, in fact, are Jewish. I apologised to Big Brother and Katie."

He added: "I love Jewish people. Listen, my best friend is Lesley Joseph. You can't get much more Jewish than that.

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France: Ken Loach calls for the boycott of Israel at Arab Institute in Paris

British filmaker Ken Loach is known for his relentless Israel-bashing.

After receiving the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his film I, Daniel Blake, Loach attended the opening ceremony at the Arab World Institute in Paris of the Festival Ciné Palestine, where he lashed out against Israel.  As this video shows (in English and French) the audience went wild when he called for the boycott of Israel..

By the way, the head of the Arab World Instiute is Jack Lang, a French politician whose his father was Jewish.  Several Jewish celebrities support the festival.

More @ Times of Israel (in French)

UK: BBC Radio 4 provides a stage for anti-Israel activist’s agitprop and defamation Ken Loach

BBC Watch reports:

When BBC Radio 4 producers invited long-time anti-Israel activist Ken Loach to appear on the February 25^th edition of ‘The World Tonight’ to talk about a campaign in which he is involved there can be little doubt that they knew in advance exactly what they were going to get. It was therefore to be expected that listeners to the item concerned (from 32:52 here) would hear the tirade of inaccurate statements, crude distortions and downright lies which included the following:

“Israel has been oppressing the Palestinians for 70 years. They steal their land. They destroy their houses. They kill them with impunity. They break international law. They disregard United Nations resolutions and they break the Geneva conventions. They’re constructing an apartheid state.”

“If you look in the West Bank, for example, you’ll see settlements that are only available to Israeli Jews. The Palestinians live in villages at the foot of those settlements. You’ll see roads that only Israelis can travel on. The Palestinians, in their own land, cannot travel on those roads. You’ll see checkpoints that only Palestinians are forced to go through. Israelis don’t have to go through checkpoints. […] it satisfies the United Nations definition of apartheid.”

“Will they go to Gaza and see the rubble? Will they see the schools that were bombed by Israel in 2014? Will they see the hospitals that were targeted by Israel? Will they see the places where families were herded together and then executed? Will they hear about the people who were asked if they spoke Hebrew and if they spoke Hebrew they were executed?”

And in addition to all that, listeners also heard promotion of the BDS campaign – once again without their being told what that campaign really seeks to bring about. 

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UK: David McIntosh Slammed For Comments Comparing Jewish Women To Witches

Via Huffington Post:

David McIntosh has come under fire for a controversial Facebook post, in which he likened Jewish women to witches.

Kelly Brook’s ex-fiancé sparked outrage among his Facebook followers, after posting a status commenting on the appearance of two orthodox Jewish women, after they removed the wigs they were wearing during a flight he was on.

The former ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ star, who now lives in Australia, compared the women to characters from Roald Dahl’s children’s book ‘The Witches’, claiming that they would “seriously scare kids or grown ups”.

“Just checking out these 2 orthodox Jewish woman on the plane both have just removed their wigs to reveal short hair as if butchered off with a rusty spade!” he wrote “Does anyone know what the point in this is?

"With those bald heads and the way they are dressed they look like a pair of witches from Roald Dahls 'Witches' gonna seriously scare kids or grown ups like me [sic]."

He continued: "In fact I've got it they don't want outsiders mixing with their woman! And the trick 110% works damn those guys are smart."

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Germany: Famous comedian complains about Jews and Israel

Via Watch: Antisemitism in Europe:

German comedian Dieter Hallervorden just turned 80. His style represents a lot of Germany, including antisemitic, anti-American and conspiracy thinking.

In a song called "Ihr macht mir Mut (in dieser Zeit)" ("You bolster me up (at a time like this)"), he indirectly compares Israel with the former GDR/East Germany and suggests that no one is allowed to critize Israel without being jugded an antisemite.

Read more (in German).

Russia: Beauty queen calls to burn Jews

White pride, Confederate flags, Nazi symbols, the works.

Via the Daily Mail:

A beauty queen has been stripped of her 'Miss Charming' title in Russia after images appeared online that led to allegations she was a neo-Nazi.

Olga Kuzkova, from Moscow, sparked controversy after pictures on her social media accounts were widely distributed on the internet.

One image tweeted by the 21-year-old shows a woman dressed in a maid's outfit posing in front of two flaming ovens, with a caption that calls for the burning of Jews and 'khachi', a derogatory term for natives of the Caucasus.

Another image shared on Russian social media site VKontakte showed her extending her right hand in a Nazi-style salute, while standing in front of racist graffiti.  more