UK/Spain: Penguin rebuts charge of antisemitism against author Pedro Baños

Via Guardian:

Penguin has undertaken a “thorough” review of one of its books, Spanish colonel Pedro Baños’s How They Rule the World, after allegations of antisemitism were made against its author. The publisher concluded that while Baños’s views are “robust”, they are not antisemitic.

How They Rule the World, which promises to reveal “the 22 secret strategies of global power”, was published by Penguin Random House imprint Ebury Press in April. Author Jeremy Duns began drawing attention to the book after he spotted links between the title and the cover, which bears an image of octopus tentacles. The octopus has long been associated with antisemitism; Hitler refers in Mein Kampf to the octopus of the supposed Jewish conspiracy for world conquest, and it was a frequently used symbol in Nazi-era propaganda.

Comparing the Spanish language edition of How They Rule the World with the English text, Duns found a section about the Rothschild family, a banking dynasty subject to many antisemitic conspiracy theories, which does not appear in the English translation. The Spanish edition contains three references to the Rothschilds, none of which appear in the English, including a section that compares their wealth with other rich families, and concludes: “It is clear that [the Rothschilds’] economic power is gigantic. As is their ability to influence in all senses, an aspect that, when considering their traditional distance from the media spotlight, has led to multiple speculations about their capacity to intervene in key global decisions.”

Baños is described by Ebury Press as “one of Europe’s top specialists in geopolitics, terrorism and intelligence”. A colonel in the Spanish army, he was previously the chief of counter-intelligence and security for the European Army Corps. In interviews with Spanish media, Baños has called the Rothschilds dominant and likened them to the Illuminati. On Spanish TV, he also once accused Israel of being behind the assassination of John F Kennedy.

Duns accused Penguin of having knowingly published “a Spanish antisemitic conspiracy theorist … because to cover it up they’ve removed passages about the Rothschilds. I think you’ll agree this is a pretty serious problem we’re facing. As usual, it’s about fact-checking, research, due diligence, and not doing them.”

Penguin said it was aware of the “serious concerns” raised about How They Rule the World, telling the Guardian that they had prompted it to take a close look at both the book and the author.

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Netherlands: Textbook omits Jewish connection to Jerusalem

Via Times of Israel:

A Dutch publisher that previously created school textbooks accusing Israelis of ethnic cleansing has released a new volume omitting Jerusalem’s significance to Jews.

The omission occurred in a textbook about social issues titled “Plein M” by Nordhoff Publishers for preparatory middle-level applied education level schools, including public schools. It states Jerusalem is holy to Muslims and Christians, but does not mention its holiness to Jews.

It also states that Jews and Christians were “mostly treated well” by Arabs throughout history. It does not mention capital taxes and many pogroms perpetrated against Jews in Arab countries before and during the flight of at least 800,000 Jews from those countries in the 20th century. Today, there are fewer than 7,000 Jews living in Arab countries.

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Likoed Nederland, a pro-Israel group, called the book a form of “historical falsification” in a statement Sunday, adding it “reads like Palestinian propaganda.”

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Germany: Jewish leader slams “Antisemitic stereotypes” in school textbooks

Via Legal Insurrection:

The head of Germany’s leading Jewish organisation criticized the use of “antisemitic stereotypes” in the school textbooks.

Josef Schuster, president of The Central Council of Jews in Germany, slammed the Germany’s schools and textbook publishers for doing too little to root out the problem. Many textbook illustrations in German textbooks resemble the anti-Semitic depictions from the Nazi-era newspaper “Der Stürmer,” while at the same time failing to provide the appropriate historical context to the imagery, Schuster said.

Criticism aired by Schuster is based on a detailed study published by Germany’s Georg Eckert Institute. The study evaluated history textbooks being used in schools across the country. German weekly Der Spiegel reported the details:

“There are too many illustrations [in the textbooks] which have been shaped by antisemitic stereotypes and thus reminiscent of Der Stürmer, [and] don’t offer an objective representation,” Schuster said. Der Stürmer was an antisemitic Nazi propaganda newspaper.

“We have too many textbook that treat Judaism in a very rudimentary way,” criticized Schuster. “Judaism was not restricted to the period between 1933 an 1945. “There was Jewish life in Germany many centuries before that and fortunately we have it today. One, however, don’t see that in the textbooks.”

The content regarding the case in point deals with the persecution of the Jews during the Nazi era and the Holocaust. School textbooks often show antisemitic imagery, confirmed Dirk Sadowski, researcher at the Georg-Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research. (…)

Sadowski and his colleagues took three years to examining 84 history books of various grades and from several states and were surprised to find how simplistically the Jewish life has been depicted.  

Josef Schuster refers to this study when he complains that “many school textbooks take the perspective of the perpetrators, particularly when it comes to the topics of National Socialism and Shoah.” The antisemitic depictions of the Nazi-propaganda “are hardly put in the context. The antisemitic stereotype are thus reproduced, but not dealt with critique.” [Translated by the author: Vijeta Uniyal]

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Belgium: Antisemitic and jihad textbooks at the heart of imams training in Brussels

This has been known for many years, but somehow the numerous human rights NGOs operating in Belgium are not aware of this type of antisemitic activities going on quite openly - or maybe they are just not interested.

Via The European Jewish Press:

BRUSSELS - Antisemitic manuals advocating armed jihad are included in the curriculum of the training of future imams and teachers at the Grand Mosque in Brussels located a few hundred meters from the European Union headquarters, reveals a confidential report from OCAM, the governmental coordinating unit for threat analysis in Belgium.  

According to the report, revealed by Belgian daily La Libre and RTL TV channel, many of these manuals are freely available in Brussels and elsewhere.  

The OCAM document mentions the fact that "the teaching of the Muslim religion of the Arab section of the Islamic and Cultural Center of Belgium, the name of the Brussels Grand Mosque, "is in no way adapted to the Belgian or European reference framework. They contain Salafist ideas and doctrines that encourage the rejection of any different ideas and fundamental constitutional rights and freedoms".  

Moreover, the OCAM insists on the fact that "many mosques and Islamic centers in Belgium still have in their libraries and as part of their training activities textbooks and other documents presenting a problematic content in terms of radicalism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism."

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Poland: Officials prevent award to author accused of anti-Semitism

Via The Times of Israel:

Polish officials have intervened to prevent an author accused of anti-Semitism from receiving an award at a Polish diplomatic outpost in the United States.

A private US-based Polish organization had planned to give awards at the Polish consulate in New York next week to three people. One, Polish author Ewa Kurek, has claimed that Jews had fun in the ghettos during the German occupation of Poland during World War II. 

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Germany: Der Spiegel removes 'antisemitic' book from bestseller list

Via Guardian:

The influential German news magazine Der Spiegel has deleted from its bestseller list a book that one of its own editors had pushed up the rankings, after it was found to be “antisemitic and historically revisionist”.

Finis Germania, or The End of Germany, collects the thoughts of the late historian Rolf Peter Sieferle on the position of Germany, including how it deals with the Holocaust. The book is currently at the top of Amazon.de’s bestseller chart and this month it entered Der Spiegel’s bestseller list, which many bookshops use as a basis for promotional displays, in sixth place.

Finis Germania is missing from the list in this week’s issue of the magazine. Many bookshops have followed suit and are not displaying the title.

Susanne Beyer, Der Spiegel’s deputy editor, said Finis Germania had been omitted because the magazine considered the book – posthumously published by a small house, Antaios, known for its far-right leanings – to be “rightwing extremist, antisemitic and historically revisionist”.

Since Der Spiegel understood itself as “a medium of enlightenment even on historical subjects”, Beyer continued, the magazine had decided not to help advance the sales of such a book.

Beyer admitted that, in June, Finis Germania had made it on to a prestigious list of nonfiction books of the month, after her colleague Johannes Saltzwedel recommended the title.

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Germany: Amazon site promotes sale of anti-Semitic book

Via Arutz 7:

Shimon Samuels, the Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in France, sent an angry letter of protest to the founder of the 'Amazon' online marketplace, following the site's promotion of a German book which spreads anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

Samuels said that the book, titled Die Rothschilds: Eine Familie beherrscht die Welt (“The Rothschilds: A Family that Controls the World”), is unacceptable and "an outrage."

“This blood libel could have been drawn from the ravings of Hitler to the genocidal Charter of Hamas.” Samuels wrote.

Samuels also pointed out that the author, Tilman Knechtel, used the same cover for another book he wrote, "The Rockefellers." The cover portrays a black-robed figure with bloodied hands raising a dagger to stab a globe.

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Germany: Prosecutors probe publisher planning to reprint Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’

Via Times of Israel:

German prosecutors said Thursday they were investigating whether to bring charges against a publisher who has promised to print a version of Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitic manifesto “Mein Kampf” without annotations.
Re-publishing the original tract is illegal under German sedition laws against inciting racial hatred, although a version for historians with thousands of critical commentaries was allowed to go on sale this year.

Prosecutors said “we are investigating whether to level charges” against publisher Der Schelm, based in Leipzig in Germany’s formerly communist east, national news agency DPA reported.

The publishing house is taking orders on its website for an “unaltered reprint” of the 1943 edition published by Hitler’s Nazi regime.

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Germany: Martin Luther's book against Jews republished in modern German

 Via HPD (h/t Honestly Concerned):

In honor of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, German publishers published Martin Luther's screed against Jews "On the Jews and Their Lies" in modern German.

The editors added a short preface, but left the text as-is.
 

Turkey: Mein Kampf now available in major supermarkets

Via Daily Sabah (h/t Honestly Concerned):

German dictator Adolf Hitler's infamous autobiography "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle) is back on bookshelves in Turkey while the country's Jewish community resents that supermarket chains also decided to sell the book.

Rights to the book, an anti-Semitic manifesto, was held by the German state of Bavaria until Jan. 1, 2016, and the state had since refused any publication of the book. Germany successfully stopped sales of the book in Turkey in 2007 after a two-year lawsuit culminated in the book's banning, which was published by 10 publishers in Turkey. 

As the book became public domain last month, Turkish publishers returned with new Turkish editions of the book to the dismay of the country's some 23,000-strong Jewish community. Karel Valansi, a columnist for Turkish Jewish newspaper Şalom, urged publishers to print "an annotated edition like in Germany" instead of a mere translation of the book. She was referring to the new edition, which runs to 2,000 pages, prepared by German researchers delving into the warped ideas of Hitler, which later became a reality, such as "Lebensraum" - annexation of Germany's neighboring countries - and his hatred of Jews, which led to the Holocaust.

In a tweet, Valansi questioned "what kind of mindset" certain supermarket chains were in to sell "Mein Kampf," and called out Migros and Real, two prominent chain stores. İshak İbrahimzadeh, the leader of the Turkish Jewish community, said in a tweet that selling "My Struggle" was "apparently fine" for supermarkets "as their struggle is to sell goods."

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Spain: Cartoon shows Israeli soldiers molesting Jesus, urinating on Palestinians

Is this surprising?   "According to a poll commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 58.4% of Spaniards believe that "the Jews are powerful because they control the economy and the mass media." This number reaches 62.2% among university students and 70.5% among those who are "interested in politics." More than 60% of Spanish university students say they do not want Jewish classmates. "These numbers are as surprising as they are worrying: the most anti-Semitic people are supposedly the most educated and well-informed," the report says. The poll also shows that more than one-third (34.6%) of Spanish people have an unfavorable or completely unfavorable opinion of Jewish people." (Gatestone Institute)

The Jerusalem Post reports:

The Spanish Jewish community is threatening legal action for a “Nazi” style cartoon published by a local satirical magazine which portrayed hook nosed Israeli soldiers urinating on Palestinians and physically abusing Jesus.

In the most recent issue of the popular left wing El Jueves, a publication similar in many respects to the irreverent French weekly Charlie Hebdo, illustrator Julio Serrano harshly criticized the Jewish state, including allegations that Jerusalem’s Israel Museum keeps a Torah scroll wrapped in “the skin of my holy testicles” and that any Jew who marries an Arab is stripped of his citizenship and expelled.

“This is absolutely outrageous and obviously we are going to be seeking legal remedies,” David Hatchwell, the president of the Jewish community of Madrid, told the Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

While magazines lambasting religion and politics in an irreverent style are fine, he contended, it is “absolutely unacceptable” to engage in “every single original anti-Semitic attack and slanders against the Jewish people.”

“This [cartoon] could be taken from the Nazis’ Der Sturmer and nobody would notice the difference,” he continued, referring, among other things, to the magazine’s portrayal of Jews as having long hooked noses and seeking to dominate their gentile neighbors.

In one panel an Israeli soldier, wearing what appears to be a German style helmet, can be seen holding his genitals in his hands as he urinates on a cowering Arab and cries that “you don’t understand, Palestinian, my grandparents were in a concentration camp”

“Ok, the Holocaust was horrible and resulted in the creation of the State of Israel so that the Jews could live in peace, but that doesn’t give you the right to hassle the non-Jewish people who live there,” he writes. “Israel is like the child who watched in horror as his father beat his mother and now, as an adult, he beats his wife. Under Israeli law, Jews have preferential treatment as regards education, health, homes and work, and if you are not Jewish in the State of Israel, you are f**ked.”

Regarding politics, Serrano wrote that “:the Jews have it all tied up” and that non-Zionist parties are banned “so let’s forget about the cannabis party.”

Another illustration showed a soldier kicking an Arab woman and a hasidic man. Explaining that Israel constitutes “apartheid 2.0,” the illustrator averred that “no Israeli can marry a Palestinian [and that] such a union take place, the Israeli loses his citizenship and is obliged to emigrate.”

“The Palestinians are made to use secondary roads, which are studded with checkpoints at which Israeli soldiers exercise an iron control over the movements of those who are not Jews,” he continued, using a picture a long nosed Jew pushing a beaten Jesus next to a checkpoint.

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Greece: Book bazaar in Athens sells the “Protocols”

Via Against Antisemitism:

Panayote Dimitras from the NGO Greek Helsinki Monitor has reported that the 20th Book Bazaar 2016 which is held at Kotzia Square (Athens) from January 16 until February 7 sells the antisemitic forgery “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” next to “The Communist Manifesto” and a book praising Adolf Hitler [see photo below].

The book bazaar operates under the support of the Municipality of Athens and is sponsored by the Athens 9.84 FM, Efimerida ton Syntakton newspaper and the state-owned public radio and television broadcaster ERT.

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Germany: ‘Mein Kampf’ sells out on first day

It's now possible to read Mein Kampf without facing any social sanction.  You can actually claim you're fighting antisemitism by reading how horrible Jews are!

Via Times of Israel:

Demand for a new edition of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” has far exceeded supply on its first day of release.

Publishers of the 2,000-page annotated edition of the Nazi leader’s book said at a press conference Friday, the day of the book’s release, that they have received orders for four times as many books as they had printed, Reuters reported.

The 70-year copyright in Germany of the anti-Semitic tract, whose title means “My Struggle,” expired on Jan. 1, allowing it to be published in the country for the first time since World War II. The publication has been controversial; while some Jewish groups have endorsed the annotated edition, others have opposed it.

The Munich Institute for Contemporary History has said it published the new edition to preempt uncritical and unannotated versions, and that it hopes the new edition will help destroy the book’s cult status. “Mein Kampf” can also be easily found on the Internet.

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Germany:Frankfurt Book Fair hosts publishers inciting hatred and violence against Israel.

 The Simon Wiesenthal Center has been monitoring antisemitic texts at the Frankfurt Book Fair for 12 years.  And the same happens every year.  Sadly, European Jewish organisations do not react!

The Algemeiner reports:

“The Palestinians and the Loss
of the Forbidden,” by Imad
Sayid Ahmad, was deemed an
antisemitic text by
the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Jewish human rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized the Frankfurt Book Fair on Thursday, urging organizers of the 2015 event to blacklist publishers inciting hatred and violence against Israel.

“These stands become focal points for imams visiting with their Koranic school classes,” the organization said in a released statement. “These hateful titles can serve as a low-tech instrument for recruitment of youth to jihad.”

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The Center gave authorities behind the Frankfurt Fair a list of 56 “merchants of hate” and which countries they are from. Twenty hailed from Egypt, 19 from Syria/Lebanon, nine from Jordan/Palestinian, five from Saudi Arabia, two from Kuwait, one from Morocco, and one Arab publisher was from the United Kingdom.  The numbers were based on 251 antisemitic titles that the SWC monitored at book fairs around the world – 80 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 67 in Abu Dhabi; 53 in Muscat, Oman; 35 in Doha, Qatar; and 16 in Casablanca, Morocco.

The Center said the “Worst Offender” award goes to a publisher Dar-al-Kitab al-Arabi of Egypt, which published 78 of the 251 books identified as antisemitic.

“These, tip of the iceberg findings, are a minimal indication of the problem, as their stands become focal points for local and foreign Imams who bring their Madrassa school classes with them. These hateful titles, can serve as a low-tech recruitment instrument for youth to Jihad,” said SWC Director for International Relations Dr. Shimon Samuels. “In Riyadh, some 420 titles were removed by the ‘Religious Police as contrary to Islam…’ yet the conspicuous number of volumes inciting to violence against Jews were left in place.”

“There is no doubt that many of them – and especially, Dar al-Kitab al-Arabi of Egypt – deny and trivialize the Holocaust, which is a crime under German law,” Samuels said. “This publisher has an obsession with Henry Ford’s International Jew The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Hitler’s Mein Kampf – none of which can be excused as ‘anti-Israeli rather than anti-Jewish.”

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has been monitoring antisemitic texts at the Frankfurt Book Fair for 12 years and last year ranked antisemitic literature that was on display at the event, listing Qatar as “Worst Offender 2014.”

The Center also monitored the 2015 book fairs in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi. In March they lamented U.S. support of the Muscat International Book Fair, which SWC described as a “hothouse of antisemitic hate,” and in April slammed Morocco’s culture minister for failing to stop the display of anti-Jewish texts at the 2015 Casablanca Book Fair.

Switzerland: UN to review antisemitic books at UNHRC bookstore

Via Arutz 7:

The United Nations (UN) will be "reviewing" the book selection at its official bookstore at the Palais des Nations, UN Watch noted Thursday, after protest was raised over several books unequivocally attacking Israel and Jews.

Notable titles on display included such seminal works as How I Stopped Being a Jew, Israel's War Against the Palestinians, and The Punishment of Gaza.

UNWatch's Hillel Neuer wrote to the UN over the issue, noting that no other books in the store targeted any other country for ridicule.   more

UK: Catholic bishop criticizes HarperCollins for omitting Israel in school atlas for schools in the Middle East

It is nice to see that Catholics do not condone this type of caving in to demands of the Arab world.

The map was produced specifically for distribution in the United Arab Emirates and neighboring countries  

The Daily Telegraph reports:

HarperCollins, one of the world's largest publishing houses, sells English-language atlases to schools in the Middle East that omit Israel. Collins Middle East Atlases show Jordan and Syria extending to the Mediterranean but do mark the position of the West Bank. “The publication of this atlas will confirm Israel’s belief that there exists a hostility towards their country from parts of the Arab world.  It will not help to build up a spirit of trust leading to peaceful co-existence,” said Bishop Declan Lang, the chairman of the Bishops' Conference Department of International Affairs, to The Tablet.

“Maps can be a very powerful tool in terms of de-legitimising 'the other' and can lead to confusion rather than clarity. We would be keen to see relevant bodies ensure that all atlases anywhere reflect the official United Nations position on nations, boundaries and all political features," added Dr Jane Clements, director of the Council of Christians and Jews.

However, Collins Bartholomew, the subsidiary of HarperCollins [based in Scotland] that specialises in maps, said that including Israel would have been “unacceptable” to their customers in the Gulf and the amendment incorporated “local preferences”.

The Tablet said it had discovered the customs officers in one unnamed Gulf country only permitting the import of school atlases once Israel had been deleted by hand.

UK: On the false parallel between Gaza and Northern Ireland

Eamonn MacDonagh brilliantly argues that the paralled between Gaza and Northern Ireland is false and that "Attempts to draw comparisons between the Troubles and the Arab-Israeli conflict only serve to excuse terrorism and obscure the real issues".

In recent years, debates over how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might be resolved have begun to make frequent reference to a fairy tale. This tale is based on the supposedly similar conflict in Northern Ireland between Great Britain and the Provisional IRA. That conflict was ultimately resolved with a peace treaty, and the suggestion is frequently made that if only Israel and Hamas could be persuaded to implement its lessons, then all would quickly be made well. The fairy tale goes something like this:

“Once upon a time, there was a bloody, decades-old sectarian conflict with roots going back centuries. Eventually, the British realized that violence was never going to defeat their bitter enemy, the Provisional IRA. They got over their foolish reluctance to negotiate with terrorists and entered into meaningful talks. In the end, painful concessions were made by both sides and nobody got exactly what they wanted. Nevertheless, a historic agreement was achieved that finally brought an end to the violence. Now if that was possible in Northern Ireland, surely it must be possible in the case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict too. If only the government of Israel would follow the noble example of its British counterpart and enter into meaningful negotiations with Hamas, then surely a fair solution to the conflict would soon be produced.” 

[...] More worrying is the recent appearance of an article and book on the subject by Jonathan Powell, who served as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Chief of Staff during his entire ten years in office. Powell lends significant prestige to the fairy tale due to his role as a key actor in the Northern Ireland peace negotiations. But Powell is more than that. He is the son of an Air Vice-Marshal and brother of Lord Powell of Bayswater—a key foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her successor John Major. Thus, Powell’s endorsement of the fairy tale indicates that its popularity is growing among government and policy elites who can have a real effect on the Middle East peace process itself. None of this would matter, of course, if the fairy tale were true. But like all fairy tales, it isn’t. In fact, drawing an analogy between the conflict in Northern Ireland and the Middle East is not simply unjustified; it is an error of the grossest kind. And it directly threatens Israel’s well-being by justifying demands for Israeli concessions to an enemy that is very different—and, yes, far worse—than the enemy Britain faced in Northern Ireland.

More: The Tower (via Simply Jews)

Austria: Saudi school 'teaching anti-Semitism'

Vienna’s Saudi School - a private school for Islamic immigrants from Saudi Arabia and the Middle East - is under review by the city council after allegations that it is teaching conspiracy theories and anti-Semitism.

A reporter from News magazine got hold of a copy of a school history textbook which is said to contain "a smorgasbord of conspiracy theories and incitement against Jews, Israelis and divergent trends in Islam".

News commissioned a translation of the book from Arabic - which has sentences like “the Freemasons were a secret, subversive Jewish organization, which aimed to secure Jewish control of the world". The school has now been asked to provide certified German translations of all its teaching materials by the end of the year.

The Saudi School is run by the Saudi government and is not a religious institution. All lessons are taught in Arabic and follow the Saudi curriculum. However, the school must still comply with statutes set by the Austrian Education Ministry, and anti-semitism and incitement is against Austrian law.

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Belgium: Educational website features drawing which wipes out Israel

The cover of an educational booklet entitled "Palestine in all its states" features on the Belgian francophone Department for Education website.  In this map, Israel is wiped out and covered with a Palestinian flag ( dob - La Palestine dans tous ses états - Couverture du dossier)
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The booklet was published in 2009 by the well known and powerful anti-Israel lobby Belgian-Palestinian Association Wallonie-Bruxelles, headed by Pierre Galand.  It is an anti-Israel propaganda educational tool meant to be widely used in schools and by NGOs, of which there are many in Belgium.  It whitewashes Hamas actions and puts the blame solely on Israel.  Most likely it was funded by the government.
- http://www.association-belgo-palestinienne.be/dossiers-thematiques/reperes-chronologiques/la-palestine-dans-tous-ses-etats/
- http://www.association-belgo-palestinienne.be/web/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/abp-fichesa3.pdf

France: Avowedly anti-Semitic writer Hervé Ryssen acquitted over dissemination of posters: “Jewish mafia – the big international predators"

The Correctional Tribunal of Paris court last week acquitted the avowedly anti-Semitic French writer Hervé Ryssen in a lawsuit that was filed against him over the dissemination of posters that carried his name and the words “Jewish mafia – the big international predators.”  More: JTA

Photo taken on Nov. 11, 2010 at 123, Bd Murat, 16th arrondissement, Paris

The poster (and book cover) reads: The Jewish mafia, the big international predators.
- Racketeering - Arms traficking - Contract killings - Drug traficking - Money laundering - Pimping - Casinos and nightclubs - Pornography - White slave trade - Diamond trafficking - Third world resources plundering - Trafficking in artworks - Swindling.  "The Jewish mafia is the most powerful in the world, and the most dangerous too."  "A mind-boggling book!"