UK: Labour deputy flags tweets by party members accusing Jews of murdering kids

Via Times of Israel:

Lawmakers in Britain’s Labour opposition party have reportedly flagged social media posts from members accusing Jews of murdering children and questioning whether Jewish parliamentarians have “human blood.”

MP Tom Watson, the deputy chief of Labour, said he received 50 complaints of anti-Semitism last week from Labour colleagues, and called on leader Jeremy Corbyn to personally take them before the party’s top governing body.

According to a Sunday report in the Guardian, the complaints received by Watson included a number of anti-Semitic posts on Twitter by Labour members, such as one alleging “Jews murder people and children.”

“Wonder why Jewish people are hated wherever they’ve settled over last 2000 years. Their double dealing, back stabbing, cheating chilling coldness has always only one outcome. I wonder what the average period of time is before people fed up with the anti-social Jews kick em out,” read one of the tweets, according to the report.

Another tweet said Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was an “illegitimate Rothschild,” the Jewish banking family at the center of numerous anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, while another questioned whether Jewish officials in Labour have “human blood.”

“Their hearts and brains totally devoid of humanity,” the Twitter post reportedly said.

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Greece: Anarchists raid Ministry in protest against Israel "genocide" of Palestinians

Via Greek City Times (H/T Watch Anti-Semitism in Europe):

Two anarchists of the anti-establishment group Rouvikonas stormed into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in downtown Athens on Tuesday early morning after scaling the buildings gates.

The anarchists left a bag containing a Palestinian flag as well as photographs depicting Palestinians killed during recent clashes with Israel’s armed forces.

The group was protesting Greece’s cooperation with Israel and a video of the raid was posted on the anti-authoritarian website.

The footage shows two members of Rouvikonas climbing the ministry’s metal gate and entering its courtyard unimpeded. “This time, we decided to take a symbolic action, depositing a bag that contained a Palestinian flag and a few pictures, in the courtyard of the foreign ministry. They were photographs of the dead from the last ‘episode’ in the genocide of a people, triggered by the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, by a diachronically of the Greek state, the US”, Rouvikonas highlighted in a post on the anti-authority website.

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Ukraine: Like the Dreyfus Affair: An innocent Jew released from prison

Via Jerusalem Post:

A tragic story has come to a happy conclusion. Israel Repkin, a Jewish Ukrainian who had been imprisoned for years on false charges of attacking an elderly woman, was released from confinement recently. He won his release because the central witness in his case admitted to lying and framing Repkin after having been badly mistreated by the government.

"The man, whose name is Sartzinsky, was himself a suspect and framed Repkin. Afterwards, he admitted that he lied, but the prosecutors did not pay attention," said the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Moshe Azman, who was involved in Repkin's release. "Regarding the woman who was attacked, who said she saw Repkin in her house in 2006, there is proof that he was out of the country at the time."


The head of the parliamentary friendship with Israel committee, Georg Logvinskyi, a Jewish Ukrainian, was also a critical figure in Repkin's release. "They caught a Jew from a small city, brought him to a police station and beat him so that he would admit to the crime. For four and a half years there was no judgement. The accused approached me asking for help, because they were holding him in a temporary prison in very harsh conditions. I traveled to the prison and found his health in a critical situation. I was in contact with the prison and posted bail for him, but the judge rejected the request. The chief rabbi of Ukraine also became involved, and the Jewish community rallied to his cause."

"They accused him because he was a Jew," Logvinskyi said. "He didn't do anything wrong."

"In 2012, Israel Repkin was accused of stealing a telephone from a nearly-90-year-old woman," explained Shimon Briman, a journalist and historian who is an expert in Israel-Ukraine relations. "Despite the evidence that he was not in the country at the time, Repkin was sentenced to 14 years in prison. In the Kiev Jewish community I heard the same voices over and over again: 'Such a cruel judgement could only have been given for antisemitic reasons.'"

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British Aid Worker: Grenfell Tower Victims ‘Burnt in Jewish Sacrifice’

See also UK: Revealed: Charity leader Nazim Ali who blamed fire tragedy on "Zionists"

Via Tablet Magazine:

Tahra Ahmed, a volunteer aid worker running a prominent aid network that helps survivors of this summer’s Grenfell Tower fire, has said that the 71 people who perished in the tragedy were “burnt alive in a Jewish sacrifice.”

The fire, Ahmed told the Times of London, was a “holocaust,” unlike the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis, which she has often referred to as the “holohoax.” On her Facebook page, Ahmed wrote that “Hitler and the Germans were the victims of the Jewish conspiracy to destroy Germany.” She also argued that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were a Jewish conspiracy, and has claimed on her Facebook page that Grenfell Tower was owned by a Jewish property developer. In reality, it is owned by Kensington and Chelsea Council.

“Watch the live footage of people trapped in the inferno with flames behind them,” she wrote in a post that has stirred controversy in England. “They were burnt alive in a Jewish sacrifice. Grenfell is owned by a private Jewish property developer just like the Twin Towers. I wonder how much Goldman [Goldman Sachs] is standing to make in the world’s most expensive real estate location [Kensington].”

Ahmed’s comments, said Mark Gardner of the Community Security Trust, a non-profit that monitors anti-Jewish bigotry, reached “a new depth of grotesque antisemitic racism. Worse is that the traumatized survivors have to grapple with the reality that one of those who claims to stand up for them seems to be primarily motivated by a vile hatred of Jews.”

Responding to reporters’ queries, Ahmed said she did not care about other people’s opinions.

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Russia: Bishop caims that Jews killed Czar in ritual murder

Via Haaretz:

Russia’s largest Jewish organization protested a local bishop’s claim, repeated by a justice ministry official, that the country’s last czar was murdered by Jews for ritual purposes.

Marina Molodtsova, a senior investigator for a special ministerial committee on the 1917 killing of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, said on Monday during a conference in Moscow that her committee will conduct “a psycho-historical examination” to find out whether the execution of the royal family was a ritual murder, the state-run Ria Novosti news agency reported.

At the same event, Father Tikhon Shevkunov, a Russian Orthodox Church bishop, said that, according to “the most rigorous approach to the version of ritual murder, a significant part of the church commission [on Nicholas II’s killing during the Russian revolution of 1917] has no doubt that this murder was ritual.”

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Europe: Palestinian diplomat shocks European Parliament with outrageous Holocaust reference

Via European Jewish Press (Yossi Lempkowicz, Editor-in-Chief):

British MEP David Campbell-Bannerman hosted Wednesday an event in the European Parliament in Brussels marking the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, in cooperation with the AJC Transatlantic Institute and the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

Among the speakers were Israel’s EU ambassador Aharon Leshno-Yaar, Gillian Merron, Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Isaac Jacobson of the American Jewish Committee and Toby Greene of BICOM.

During the event, pro-Palestinian activists sitting in the room, expressed their displeasure of the conference by deploying a large banner bearing Palestinian flags, by shouting "Free Palestine" and by calling for Britain to apologize for the Declaration. This led other people in the audience to respond "long life Israel". Security agents brought the demonstrators out of the room.

But when a Palestinian representative in Brussels took the floor during the Q/A session to describe the Balfour Declaration as the "Holocaust of the Palestinians", this was too much…

To compare the Balfour Declaration which was issued in a time of growing anti-Semitism in Europe and in the context of the collapse of empires, to the systematic extermination of six million Jews, is simply outrageous and unacceptable as Daniel Schwammenthal, Director of the AJC Transatlantic Institute, rightly stated.

Yes, the European Parliament is the place for democratic debates about various world issues. But it can’t be used to make such statements which are tantamount to denying the  importance of the Shoah. Isn’t this pure anti-Semitism?

Some weeks ago, in the same European Parliament, former Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled used a platform to praise extremist violence and demonize Jews.  She glorified terrorism and trivialized the Holocaust.  "Don’t you see a similarity between Nazi actions and Zionist actions in Gaza?," she declared. "While the Nazis were tried in Nuremberg, no one has ever tried the Zionists," she said. How can this be allowed without sanctions?

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Daniel Schwammenthal, Director of the AJC Transatlantic Institute, responds to the outrageous Holocaust reference made by Adel Atieh, Deputy Chief of the Palestinian Mission to the EU. The incident occurred on 8 November 2017, the eve of Kristallnacht, at a Balfour Centenary symposium in the European Parliament in Brussels.

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Netherlands: Muslim council politician calls Israeli school children future child murderers

Via BNFTN and ad.nl:

Abdoe Khoulani, a Muslim member of the Hague Municipal Council, has called Israeli school children future child murderers. The Israeli children were visiting the Protestant SGP Party.  The youth section of the SGP has put forward a complaint to the police.   

In 2014 he supported ISIS and wrote on Facebook ‘long live ISIS and let’s go to Baghdad to attack the scum there.’   

After much criticism, he apologized.

More about Abdoe Khoulani: Defender of Israel harassed by Dutch-Muslim politician

Poland: Commemorating the blood libel of Poznań

Erik Ross writes how Poznań commemorates its blood libel:

The pious history tells how, in 1399, a group of Poznań Jews — wanting to see if the wafers were indeed, in the Church’s phrase, “the Body of Christ” — decided to bribe a poor Polish woman to steal three hosts from the Dominican church down the block. One version of the story says she smuggled the hosts out in her mouth.

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The blood libel is commemorated in churches and signs around the old 'Jew street'.


Ceiling paintings commemorating the blood libel at the Church of the Most Holy Blood of the Lord Jesus.  Built in the 18th century and recently renovated

 

Plaque inside The Church of the Most Holy Blood of the Lord Jesus

Jews supposedly trying to get rid of the stolen hosts in a swamp.  A church was built over the site.

A 15th century stone tablet tells the blood-libel.  It was recently re-gilded.

Russian lawmaker: Ancestors of Jewish politicians ‘boiled us in cauldrons’

Via JTA:

A Russian lawmaker in President Vladimir Putin’s party said the ancestors of two Jewish opposition politicians had killed Christians.

“Christians survived despite the fact that the ancestors of Boris Vishnevsky and Maksim Reznik boiled us in cauldrons and fed us to animals,” Vitaly Milonov said Sunday, according to Agence France-Presse.

Jewish groups and leaders condemned Milonov’s statement.

“For a State Duma deputy, it is unacceptable to make such irresponsible statements,” said Rabbi Boruch Gorin, the spokesman for the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, AFP reported.

The president of the Russian Jewish Congress told AFP that it was “clear to any normal person that these lawmakers are of Jewish descent and that he means Jews.”

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Italy: Israel/Jew-bashing Dario Fo, Nobel-winning playwright, died aged 90

Italian playwright and main ideologue of the Five Star Movement, the anti-establishment party led by Beppe Grillo, Dario Fo died on October 13.

Giulio Meotti wrote about Fo's anti-Israel/Jewish obsession @ Gatestone Institute (March 26, 2016):

Dario Fo

[...] An Italian writer, Dario Fo, a laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature, just gave an interview to the newspaper, La Repubblica. Fo, talking about the Jewish patriarch, Moses, said: "Moses was killing women and children because they worshiped idols." Mr. Fo went on blaming "the Jews' brutality against those who follow other religions, as it happens today." Excuse me? Is it the Jews who are burning people alive, drowning them in cages, slitting throats or crucifying anyone for following a different religion?

Mr. Fo's comparison is as wrong as it is ghastly. It is not the Jews who suicide-bomb Palestinian buses, cafes, wedding halls and discotheques. It is not the Jews who now try to mow down Palestinians with cars or stab them in the street. It is the reverse -- and has been for years.

The daily newspaper La Stampa charged Dario Fo with "recycling anti-Semitic stereotypes." Fo is not new at this. In the 1970s, in one of his theatrical operas, "Resistance: Italian and Palestinian people speak," the future Nobel Prize laureate compared Nazism to Zionism and the Palestinian fedayeen terrorists to the anti-Fascist partisans.

A few days after the 9/11 attacks, Fo also said that,

"the great speculators wallow in an economy that every year kills tens of millions of people with poverty -- so what is 20,000 dead in New York? Regardless of who carried out the massacre, this violence is the legitimate daughter of the culture of violence, hunger and inhumane exploitation."

Who gave this famous writer the right to defame, earlier, not only Israel's name but also 9/11's victims?

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UK: 'Israel was created by the Rothschilds, not God,' Labour member's post reads

Via Jerusalem Post:

A British Labour Party activist has posted an antisemitic meme on his Facebook page in the latest scandal to hit the party, which has been plagued by antisemitic incidents under the leader of Jeremy Corbyn.

The Labour Party member in question, Andy Slack, a councillor from Chesterfield, shared a graphic featuring a hook-nosed IDF soldier with a bloody mouth and reading "Israel was created by the Rothschilds, not God."

The UK political website Guido Fawkes brought Slack's September 30 post to light and it was subsequently deleted from his page.

"And what they are doing to the Palestinian people now is EXACTLY what they intend for the whole world," the post adds.

The post originally appeared on antisemitic website smoloko.com. It warns readers, "Today it is a Palestinian child, soon it will be your child."

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Belgium: Feroz Pindiana Gondal, Jew hater and Hitler admirer

Aussie Dave @ Israelly Cool has uncovered another Jew hater who lives in the province of Limburg Belgium, who has family in Pakistan and who is a friend of the SpA (Socialist Party):

Meet Fraz Pindiana Gondal, who lives in Belgium. [...]  he hates Jews with a passion, posting some of the vilest antisemitic garbage you’ll ever see.

Update: Since I published my post, this cowardly Jew hater has removed the offending tweets. I did not take screenshots, but have this one from another tweeter, which should give you an idea of the type of vile trash he has been disseminating.

Since his outing by Israelly Cool, we at New Antisemite did a bit of research about Feroz Pindiana Gondal.  One wonders why none of his Belgian contacts is shocked by a man who has no hesitation in quoting Hitler and praising the Holocaust.  Judge for yourself. On Pinterest:  Feroz is a Hitler admirer.
 

He is kind enough to give us a translation in English and certifies that it a proven "true speech" by Hitler:

"I could have annihilated all the Jews in the world, but I left some of them alive so you will know why I was killing them."   

Fraz retweeted: "9000 refugee children reported to have disappeared in Germany. Organ mafia? Israel?"

On Fraz's Facebook account:

Fraz Pindiana be careful ppl the Jews using social media to send fake message behalf of Muslims about western and behalf of western against Muslims so please be careful read and think properly all message concern to present event if it is true or it could possibly true then comment and share thank you for time 

The truth of Palestine according to Fraz:

Fraz is a scientist: "this is cocacola cow pee and i am sure it is not healthy"

Another tweet by Fraz:

German university cancels seminar that teaches Israel harvests Palestinian organs

The Jerusalem Post reports:

German commentators expressed concerns that HAWK will try to repackage an anti-Semitic seminar in a new anti-Israel format to circumvent criticism. 

The German university HAWK announced on Friday that it will stop teaching a seminar on Palestinian youths, in which Israel was accused of harvesting the organs of Palestinians and termed an apartheid state.

”After days of protests, the HAWK today canceled  from its curriculum its anti-Semitic seminar ,” said Volker Beck, a German Green Party MP, who voiced sharp criticism over the last week of the HAWK course.

HAWK—an acronym for the University of Applied Sciences and Arts—said in a statement on the seminar cancellation: “This decision by the faculty comes as a response to issues raised in the current debate and as a result of fact that a safe and trustful learning environment cannot be guaranteed under such circumstances.”

“There is no place for antisemitism at our university”, said HAWK president Christiane Dienel, adding “Everybody who knows the HAWK also knows that we work against discrimination on all hands.”

The Dean of Studies at HAWK Anna Friedrich referred to “threats from multiple sources” and said "I distance myself from thinking of the conflict in black and white.”

HAWK  claimed a moral pressure campaign from the Central Council of Jews in Germany, The Jerusalem Post and a German Jewish weekly sought to silence debate on different views about Israel.  [...]

Rebecca Seidler, the academic who blew the whistle on the anti-Israel seminar, said on Friday, “ I welcome this long overdue decision. After the first reactions from president Dienel, it did not look as if she knew about what she judged. Now, I assume that she has made this important and correct decision after a well-informed review of the seminar material.”

Seidler, who revealed the content of the anti-Israel curriculum in the media last month, said one can only come to a decision to pull the plug on the course based on the seminar content.

She added "I expect, in going forward, more transparency for the new seminar. This starts with the naming of the expert, who is also supposed to assist in the new course concept.  And the university has responsibility to examine internally how it could be that an anti-Israel and anti-Semitic seminar could be taught for over ten years.”

German commentators expressed concerns that HAWK will try to repackage an anti-Semitic seminar in a new anti-Israel format to circumvent criticism. The controversial seminar is titled:  “On the Social Situation of Young People in Palestine”.

Seidler urged professor Christa  Paulini, who oversees the department in which the anti-Israel seminar was taught, to critically question and examine her decision to allow Ibtissam Köhler to teach the seminar.  Köhler, a German-Palestinian woman, was the instructor of the course and apparently selected the material designed to demonize the Jewish state, critics say.   [...]

Emmanuel Nahshon, the spokesman at Israel’s Foreign Ministry, told the Post last Thursday that the seminar “is an ugly and outrageous demonstration of Jew-hatred. This is not a university, it is a hatred factory. One would think that in Germany of all places people would understand the pernicious nature of hatred and racism under a pseudo academic guise.”

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German rector of Brazilian university apologises for course on "Zionism, Nazism and Apartheid- as Racist Ideologies"

In the light of what has been going on for ten years in a German university (German University's course claims Israel harvests Palestinian organs and that it commits genocide), it is worth pointing out that the rector of the ABC Federal University Klaus Capelle is German.

JTA reports:

The rector of a Brazilian federal university apologized to the Jewish community over a want ad seeking a “racial-ethnic relations” educator required to teach Zionism as a racist concept alongside Nazism and apartheid.

ABC Federal University rector Klaus Capelle delivered the apology to Brazilian Israelite Confederation President Fernando Lottenberg and Executive President Ricardo Berkiensztat at a meeting Friday and amended the July 14 notice.

“The modification corrects part of the notice, which, in an inappropriate way, treated in the same context political regimes and historical facts that are very different,” according to a statement issued by the university.

“The amending of the text does not eliminate the need to debate the complex and controversial political and historical subjects involved,” it continued. “ABC Federal University backs freedom of press, thought and expression, which must underpin this discussion.”

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Europe: Anything the PA does, no matter how murderous, never elicits anything but the mildest form of vague condemnation, if any, from the EU

European Parliament president Martin Schulz tweeted that Abbas's speech blaming Jewish rabbis for inciting the Israeli government to poison wells "was inspiring".

Judith Bergman @ Israel Hayom:

You can take the Europeans out of the former colonies, but you cannot take the colonialism out of the Europeans. That much is clear, at least as far as the European Union is concerned. In an interview with Israeli journalist and TV anchor Eylon Aslan-Levy, EU Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen was asked why the EU supports the French peace initiative when the Israeli prime minister has called for direct negotiations. "Why doesn't the European Union simply pressure Abbas to take up Prime Minister Netanyahu's invitation?" asked Aslan-Levy. 

Faaborg-Andersen replied, "Because I think experience has shown that the parties are not capable on their own to reach a stage where they are able to sit down and negotiate. There is a need for a third-party involvement and I think that the Paris conference was a recognition of that fact [sic] that there was need for international focus on this issue that has been somewhat dormant for some time, I mean the peace process, and I think this was the motivating factor behind the French initiative coupled with the fact that we are seeing a constant deterioration of the situation on the ground bringing us further away from a two-state solution rather than closer to [sic]."  [...]

For those still in doubt, Faaborg-Andersen's reply that "the parties are not capable on their own" is clear evidence of the racism and cultural condescension -- such characteristic parts of the colonialist project -- still being a very potent factor in European policies, despite all assurances to the contrary for the past half century. The "natives," i.e., the Jews and the Arabs, are incapable of solving anything on their own, which is why we ostensibly need the wisdom and superiority of the European Union to guide our ignorant and misguided steps in this world. Just who do the Europeans think that they are? 

Even though the European Union is the Palestinian Authority's best friend, and although the latter can do no wrong according to the former, let there be no doubt that the PA is merely a tool, a means to an end, in the hands of the European Union. 

Had the PA's enemy not been the Jews, but instead other Muslims, Christians or Yazidis, the European Union would have been out of there, taking its many billions of euros with it, faster than you can say "postcolonial guilt." If you doubt this contention, take a hard look at all the internecine Muslim strife and the ongoing genocides against non-Muslims in the Middle East and Africa. The European Union is nowhere to be seen, its billions of euros entirely absent and its need to impose solutions completely gone missing.  [...]

Anything that the PA does, no matter how murderous, vile and inhumane, never elicits anything but the mildest form of vague condemnation, if any, from the EU.

In the interview with Aslan-Levy, the EU ambassador could not bring himself to condemn the standing ovation that the European Parliament gave Abbas for his blood-libel speech two weeks ago in Brussels, instead outrageously stating that there were probably also European parliamentarians who did not appreciate what Israeli President Reuven Rivlin had to say in his speech to the same body.

The moral narcissism of the European Union is no better than the moral narcissism of its colonialist European predecessors. It's just a different century.

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Russia: Chabad leader slams state-funded TV for ‘blood libel’

Via Times of Israel:

A Chabad-Lubavitch leader condemned a state-funded channel’s airing of Palestinian allegations that an Israeli rabbi approved the poisoning of Palestinian wells.

Rabbi Alexander Boroda, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, said the RT network’s June 27 report on the issue repeated unfounded allegations reminiscent of the medieval “blood libel” against Jews.

The RT report referred to recent reports in Arab and Muslim media which claimed that a West Bank rabbi issued an “advisory opinion” allowing Jewish settlers to poison Palestinian water. A version of the story previously appeared in the state-run Turkish press agency Anadolu, credited to a Palestinian reporter in Ramallah. Neither the rabbi in the story nor the organization he is described as representing appears to exist.

The report came a week after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas repeated the unfounded allegations at the European Parliament. Abbas later acknowledged that the charges were “baseless.”

In medieval Europe, Jews were often accused of poisoning wells to spread disease among Christians. This recurrent theme led to several major pogroms against Jews.

“It is surprising that the modern Russian television channel produces similar plots,” Boroda was quoted as saying in a statement Friday on the news site Jewish.Ru. These blood libels, he added, “were the product of a sick imagination” and led to brutal violence.

“In this case we are talking a falsification which has already been refuted,” added Boroda, who also noted Abbas’ office had apologized for his remarks. The report on RT, Boroda said, “is not an unfortunate exception, but rather the rule.” The channel, he said, “regularly features stories about the alleged persecution of Arabs by Jews – attacks and house demolitions without reporting these are the houses of terrorists who kill civilians.”

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Europe: Abbas’ blood libel speech before a perfidious European Parliament (Wiesenthal Center)

The title of the article by Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Dr. Harold Brackman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center @ The Jerusalem Post is Brexit: So is it ‘good for the Jews? It begs another question: if most non-Jewish European citizens do not trust the EU, why should European Jews trust it? Especially when they see that Martin Schulz, the German President of the European Parliament, applauding Abbas, thanking him for his speech and tweeting afterwards that Abbas's blood libel and his calling Israel a fascist country "inspiring" and that he is a true partner for peace? 

As a shocked world reacted to England’s unexpected exit from the European Union, Palestinian President Abbas delivered a speech to the European Parliament.

Abbas, now in the 11th year of his four-year term, accused Israel of becoming a fascist country. Then he updated a vicious medieval anti-Semitic canard by charging that (non-existent) rabbis are urging Jews to poison the Palestinian water supply.

The response by representatives of the 28 European nations whose own histories are littered with the terrible consequences of such anti-Semitic blood libels? A thunderous 30-second standing ovation.

So forgive us if while everyone else analyzes the economic impact of the UK exit, and pundits parse the generational and social divide of British voters, we dare to ask a parochial question: is a weakened EU good or bad for the Jews? [...]

For Israel, the EU’s global dilemma is a mixed bag. On the one hand, it could, at least temporarily, derail the EU’s intense pressuring of Israel to accept – even sans direct negotiations with the Palestinians – a one-sided French peace initiative, imposing indefensible borders on the Jewish state.

But the scope of the current crisis is also very much the result of the internal moral and political failure of the EU’s own transnational elites and political leadership to confront its homegrown problems. These problems have also impacted on many of Europe’s 1.4 million Jews.

We began with President Abbas’ morning-after-Brexit blood libel speech before a perfidious European Parliament. His libel and the applause it received still reverberate despite Abbas’ subsequent retraction. 

For the episode highlights the lack of moral accountability infecting EU elites ensconced in the ivory towers of Brussels’ bureaucratic headquarters. We can only hope and pray that European captains of industry, politicians, media and NGOs take the UK vote as a wake-up call for them all. For if they fail to actually address the economic and social crises with real solutions, it won’t only be the Jews of Europe who will be searching for the nearest exit.

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The newest European media blood-libel against Jews: Israel cut off water to fasting Palestinians

European media are at it again.

The Palestinians claim that Israel is evil and cut off water in the heat of summer and Ramadan to thousands of helpless Palestinians, and the European media reports the claims verbatim, even though they're quite aware that antisemitic conspiracy theories are very common among Palestinians, and even though they're aware that Israel denies these claims outright.

Make no mistake: this is antisemitic incitement.

In the UK, The Independent reported this new antisemitic conspiracy story. 

Of course, there's a little note at the bottom that gives the Israeli explanation: it's a burst water pipe.  If you manage to read all the way to the bottom.   The media cover their antisemitism by putting the headline in quotes.

 The Independent is not claiming that Israel cut off water to the Palestinians.  It's claiming that Israel 'cuts off water supply to West Bank' during Muslim holy month.

See the difference?



In Belgium, De Morgen reported that "Israel left tens of thousands of Palestinians without water during Ramadan".  Notice the quotes on this headline.

The article appears under the rubric "Remembering Palestine".

Sweden: Green Party politician invites antisemitic Saudi cleric, says "everyone loves him"

Via The Local:

A Green Party politician in Malmö has taken a break from politics after it emerged that he had invited a notorious Islamist to speak in Malmö.

The junior coalition partners recent woes continued when newspaper Sydsvenskan revealed that Kamal al-Rifai had asked a well-known Saudi Salafist, Salman al-Ouda, to give a speech in Sweden’s third largest city.

Al-Rifai, an active party member in Burlöv and a Syrian Association board member, previously told Sydsvenskan he admired the 60-year-old al-Ouda, who has renounced his earlier support for violent jihadism. "Everyone loves him," said al-Rifai, who has invited al-Ouda to speak in Malmö's central Folkets Park this Saturday.

But al-Ouda remains faithful to views that are deeply patriarchal and conservative, and has expressed an array of anti-Semitic view, the newspaper reports. 

The ADL has more on some of al-Ouda's recent antisemitic views:

Holocaust denial, the blood libel and other vicious anti-Semitism marked last week’s episode of the weekly show Milad airing on multiple Arab satellite channels.

During the program, a weekly discussion with Dr. Salman al-Ouda, a prominent Saudi scholar and the Assistant Secretary General of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, al-Ouda promoted the Arabic language translation of the Babylonian Talmud to support his anti-Semitic diatribe.

In one segment of the episode, al-Ouda said: “The Jews believe that they have the right to kill anyone who doesn’t believe in their religion — it’s stated in the Talmud.” He then told a story about a doctor who was asked by Jews to provide them with human blood to make pies. That story was followed by another description of Jews abducting children in Damascus in order to use their blood during Easter.

Al-Ouda then showed a copy of the newly released Arabic translation of the Talmud published by the Middle East Studies Center (MESC), a Jordan-based think tank. “The people who translated this book must be thanked,” he said. “…they gave us a weapon to confront our enemies, to expose the mentality of the Jews, to learn how they think and expose their scandals. The Jews were very upset with this translation and fought against it.”

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UK: Concern over extermist speakers on campus

The Jewish Chronicle reports:

Ismail Patel

London universities hosted a series of controversial speakers in the first months of the current academic year, including one who had tweeted that “Jews are evil”, a counter-extremism group has revealed. [...]

In November, London South Bank University hosted an event featuring Abu Bakr Islam, the founder of the Roadside2Islam media channel.

Mr Islam had posted a tweet in 2011 in which he wrote “Jews are evil” before linking to an article about claims Israeli settlers had attacked Palestinians in the West Bank.

The following month, on December 17, UCL in London hosted Ismail Patel, the founder of the Leicester-based Friends of Al-Aqsa group.

Mr Patel was a leading supporter of blood libel cleric Sheikh Raed Salah who won an appeal against being deported from Britain in 2012.

Friends of Al-Aqsa has published work by Holocaust denier Paul Eisen and antisemite Gilad Atzmon. 

Mr Patel himself has previously said Hamas is not a terrorist organisation and said he “salutes” the group for “standing up to Israel”.

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