German FM hosts Iranian official calling for Israel's destruction

Via The Jerusalem Post (Benjamin Weinthal):

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel welcomed Monday an Iranian religious leader who called for the elimination of Israel at last year’s al-Quds rally in Berlin. 

The appearance of Hamidreza Torabi, at a ministry event promoting religious peace, puts the spotlight back on Gabriel, who has been engulfed in a series of anti-Israel scandals over the years.

The Israeli Embassy in Germany told The Jerusalem Post on Friday: “Any person who incites for violence has no place in a dialogue that uses religions as a bedrock to bring peace, tolerance and understanding between people, nations and religions. Moreover, there is no doubt that a person who incites for violence against Israel and Jews in the name of God, in the city of Berlin, has no place in such a dialogue, certainly not one organized by the German government.

Dr. Efraim Zuroff, head of the Jerusalem office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told the Post: “It is incomprehensible that an event sponsored by the Foreign Ministry invites a person who called for the destruction of the State of Israel.” (...) 

According to Stop the Bomb, Gabriel invited Iran’s ambassador to Germany, Ali Majedi, and Seyed Abdolhassan Navab, president of the University of Religions and Denominations. “The university is an Islamist academy that adheres to totalitarian and antisemitic Iranian ideology,” the NGO said. 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined last month to meet with Gabriel if the foreign minister went ahead with his meeting with Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence. Gabriel met with the group, which uses anonymous sources to criticize Israel’s army, prompting the prime minister to pull the plug on his meeting with Germany’s top diplomat. 

Gabriel previously called Israel an “apartheid regime” and belittled the Holocaust in an April opinion piece in the Franfurter Rundschau. 

Gabriel is one of Europe’s leading advocates of boosting trade with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Days after world powers reached a nuclear accord with Iran’s regime in July 2015, he traveled with a delegation of leading German business leaders to Tehran.

In 2008, Gabriel’s Social Democratic Party colleague and current president of the Federal Republic, Frank-Walter Steinmeier (then-foreign minister), sponsored an event at the Foreign Ministry to address “common solutions” in the Middle East. Iran’s former deputy foreign minister, Muhammad Javad Ardashir Larijani, called at the event for the “Zionist project” to be “canceled” and said that Israel “has failed miserably and has only caused terrible damage to the region.” Larijani also engaged in a form of Holocaust denial at the parley.

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Belgium: Government-sponsored anti-Semitic campaign draws criticism

Note: The Association Belgo-Palestinienne Wallonie-Bruxelles (ABP) was set up 42 years ago - it is very likely the oldest running anti-Israel organisation in the world.  It has the backing of the Wallonie-Brussels establishment... and is headed by Pierre Galand, a socialist and the head of the European Humanist Association (you couldn't make it up, or could you?). More on Pierre Galand HERE.   

Via Regards:

History professor Joël Kotek reports that the Federation Wallonia-Brussels (the French-speaking Belgian Community which does not include Flanders) - ruled by a Socialist-Christian coalition - is proudly sponsoring a campaign that, to say the least, is nauseating. 

Joël Kotek contends that, if you take a close look at the campaign arguments, it advocates the obliteration of Israel, a sovereign State and a member of the Community of Nations since 1948.

Kotek argues conclusively that this is precisely the meaning of the slogan released by its promoters: Palestine, "50 years of occupation, 70 years of dispossession, 100 years of injustice".

Not content with delegitimizing the existence of Israel, the campaign also plays on the worst anti-Semitic clichés, as Father David Brombart pointed out in a letter to Cardinal Joseph De Kesel.

"The theme of the campaign is "Undo the Occupation, not the Palestinians"(...), and the poster portrays a Palestinian child writing on a blackboard covered by the shadow of an armed Israeli soldier who no doubt is ready to "erase" this girl as soon as he is given the order. This is the standard antisemitic cliché of the Jewish child-killer".

The Association Belgo-Palestinienne Wallonie-Bruxelles draws on the codes of traditional anti-Semitism, notwithstanding the fact that it is supported by Christians (MOC), Socialists (PAC and Socialist Solidarity) and a far-left Jewish fringe group (UPJB).

Benoît Bourgine, a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, sent a letter to the secretary general of the Christian Labor Movement (MOC) stating that 

"... under the pretext of defending the Palestinians, this image bears the hallmarks of an anti-Semitic-based manipulation ... since it reduces the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a face-to-face confrontation between a soldier and a little girl ... Do you still see no connection with the archetype of the killer-Jew that goes far back a long way in the collective memory? ".

Koted fully agrees.   He draws the attention to the strange similarity of this poster with numerous Nazi caricatures. In Germany in the 1930s, children were equally presented as the ultimate target of the Jews in a register that is found in this poster. 

Professor Kotek also writes about Luc Descheemaeker (aka O-Sekoer), an antisemitic cartoonist named 'cultural ambassador' for a Belgian town...

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/03/antisemitic-caroonist-named-cultural.html
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By the way, the Belgian people are not taken in by the heinous campaign. So far only 1140 people have signed the petition...

Belgium: Lawmaker says Israel is the country of Belgian Jewish community leader

It is common in Europe to view Jews as Israelis and as "eternal" foreigners and immigrants.  At the same time, many also believe that Jews have no rights to Israel.  

The late Ulrich Beck, professor of sociology at the University of Munich, wrote in 2003 an article about antisemitism arguing that the majority of the Germans and of the Europeans do not accept the distinction between Jews and Israelis, although such a distinction is essential for German-Jewish reconciliation.   He relates that in the course of an informal chat after a talk by the President of Israel, Ignaz Bubis, the chairman of the German Council of Jewish Association, was told as a compliment that the address by "his" President had been excellent.  Ignaz Bubis replied that talks by Roman Herzog, the then President of Germany, were always excellent.  His interlocutor replied: "No, no, I'm referring to Mr. Weizman, your President".

Christian Laporte of La Libre Belgique reports that during a debate on the limitations of ritual slaughter of animals, Véronique Waroux a lawmaker of the Walloon regional Parliament told Philippe Markiewicz, president of the Consistoire organization of Belgian Jewry, that she had just returned from "his" country, i.e. Israel.  Thus implying that Jews are not Belgian citizens and that they are citizens of the State of Israel.  Unsurprisingly Waroux is a Israel-basher.

Again unsurprisingly, there were no protests.   

Challenged by a reader of this blog, she adamantly refused to apologize or express regrets, instead she was furious at his daring to make such a request. 

Mr Philippe Markiewicz is a Brussels-based lawyer and his family has lived in Belgium for six generations.  

Another prominent Belgian Pierre Galand, a notorious Israel-basher, explained in 2002 that Joël Rubinfeld, a Jewish leader, had not been invited to attend a conference because "it was either me or him.  That man is not like me he is an Israeli propaganda agent.  I am a Belgian, yes I am".

UK: National Union of Students in new anti-Semitism row after series of offensive tweets

Via Independent:

The National Union of Students (NUS) is embroiled in a fresh anti-Semitism row after three candidates holding or running for positions on its executive committee were revealed to have made offensive comments.

In online posts seen by The Independent, one current member of the union’s National Executive Council shared a video mocking Jews as having big noses and being tight with money, while another publicly suggested Jewish people are tight-fisted and said he wanted to destroy Israel.

A third, who is seeking a position on the union’s executive in elections being held this week, wrote an offensive Twitter message referring to Jews and using the phrase “Heil Hitler”.

The Independent can also reveal that, during her time as a student at York University, Malia Bouattia, the current NUS president, was involved in hosting a play called “Seven Jewish Children” that has been widely criticised as anti-Semitic.

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UK: Candidate for Vice President of NUS apologises for ‘stingy Jew’ tweet

Via CAA:

Ali Milani, a candidate for Vice President of Union Development of the National Union of Students (NUS), has apologised for a series of antisemitic tweets from 2012 and 2013. In one of the many antisemitic tweets, he calls someone a “Jew” for being stingy, writing: “Nah u won’t mate. It’ll cost you a pound #jew.” The stereotype of the miserly and cheap Jew is extremely offensive.

In a tweet to Piers Morgan, Milani wrote: “u are a zionist and a corperate [sic] jackass.” In a string of tweets about Israeli-US relations and the Israel-Palestine conflict, he commented: “Israel has no right to exist.”

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Holland: Why is Holland unrolling the red carpet for a Hamas conference?

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

A peaceful march for Israel by a group of Christians in The Netherlands is prohibited by the authorities of the city of Rotterdam because they claim that the security could not be guaranteed…. This is particularly scandalous because this march was planned to protest a conference of Palestinians in the same city organized by a group – the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) - that advocates and promotes the ideas of Hamas and in fact is an essential part of the Islamist group network in Europe where it is on the list of terror groups… The conference, contrary to the march, was authorized not ony by the city mayor but also by the Dutch government.  Despite calls to cancel it from Jewish groups and several Dutch politicians....

The Palestinian Return Centre hosts Hamas senior officials at their international conferences. It has the same objectives as the rulers of the Gaza Strip: it rejects the right of Israel to exist and openly calls for its annihilation. The PRC has also become an essential and dominant arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe. It constantly challenges the Palestinian Authority in Europe.

At a time when Islamist terror attacks are regularly on the news in Europe, Rotterdam is contributing not to a peaceful solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but rather to encourage extremists to commit more suicide bombings, more car ramming attacks, more stabbings in Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Stockholm, London or Jerusalem... On Friday in Jerusalem, a 21-year-old British exchange student, Hannah Bladon, died after being stabbed by a Palestinian...

Mr Prime Minister of Holland, Dear Mark Rutte, how can two of your ministers affirm that "from our known information it cannot be concluded that the conference in Rotterdam is organized by Hamas…". The Dutch government, as well as other EU countries, have received a report from the German intelligence  showing clearly the contrary that PRC is a Hamas entity.

European funded folk dance competition calls to eliminate Israel

Europe claims they support the two state solution.  Well?

Via PMW:

The Yafa Cultural Center, which receives funding from the German development agency GIZ, Norway, and the European Union, recently posted to its website photos from the first Yafa Folk Dance Competition. The gold prize winner danced to the song Pull the Trigger. The following is a longer excerpt from the song's lyrics:

“The Zionists coveted [our] homeland,
compounding damage and enmity
But the popular revolution awaits [them]
The orchard called us to the struggle
We replaced bracelets with weapons
We attacked the despicable [Zionists]
We do not want [internal] strife or disputes
While this invading enemy is on the battlefield
This is the day that Jihad is needed
Pull the trigger.
We shall redeem Jerusalem, Nablus and the country.”

This song was previously broadcast on PA TV in 2010.

In keeping with the song’s theme of destroying Israel, the three top scoring dancers were awarded maps of “Palestine” replacing Israel. Palestinian Media Watch has documented that the PA and Fatah regularly disseminate maps that erase Israel from the map.

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"Why I Left Germany"

Julia Schmidt @ Aish:

“You know it is not always wise to tell people that you are Jewish,” my son’s Hebrew school teacher told me. We belonged to a synagogue in Bonn, Germany. “Sometimes it can be dangerous and it is better to keep quiet.”

I cringed when I heard him say this, something he repeated numerous times, but I slowly adopted his advice. There was an incongruity living as a Jew in Germany. On the one hand there was a trace of fear, but by and large we lived in a bubble and denied the lurking anti-Semitism. We missed the more glaring signs of trouble.

(...)

I taught many academics English for their jobs at a scientific organization that also funded projects in Israel. It was here that my sensitivity to anti-Semitism was raised. Every now and then, one of my students would make a comment that left me feeling horrible. It was often about Israelis greediness for money and their demands for more of it. The warning bells started to go off in my head. Jews and money is a very old trope and it was said in such a way that left me feeling dirty.

Then came the summer of 2014 and the Gaza war. I was forced out of my complacency. The main German newspapers started a journalistic war against Israel. Every day I read with trepidation all the hideous crimes that Israelis were committing and the terrible death toll of Palestinians.

(...)

I was in a class with my students and the news in Israel had been particularly bad that day. In desperation I looked at them and said, “Do you think Israel has a right to exist?” They looked straight at me, still not knowing I was Jewish, and sighed in unison. They just stared at me and didn’t say a word. But their thundering silence spoke volumes. One student finally broke the silence and said that what the Jews have done to Arabs in Israel is what the Americans did to the Native Americans. I gasped inside as I realized that we had reached a new level of hatred. It was as if a veil had fallen and I started seeing what was really happening.

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UK: Demonstrators call for destruction of Israel outside Downing Street

Via CAA:

Demonstrators protesting a visit by Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to Downing Street have been caught engaging in antisemitism.

One woman protested against Mr Netanyahu’s visit with a placard calling him a “Nazi yob murderer” and was ordered to take it down after she was pointed out to police by members of Sussex Friends of Israel attending a large rally held by the Zionist Federation of Great Britain at the entrance to Downing Street welcoming Mr Netanyahu. According to the International Definition of Antisemitism, “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” is antisemitic. When a reporter from Jewish News, Justin Cohen, asked her to comment and told her which publication he was from, she allegedly told him to “F*** off”.

The protesters could also be heard chanting “From the River [Jordan] to the [Mediterranean] Sea, Palestine will be free,” which only makes sense as a call for the destruction of the Jewish state and its replacement with a Palestinian state. Under the International Definition of Antisemitism, “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination” is antisemitic.

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UK: Professor accuses Jewish students of being part of an Israeli plot

Via CAA:

Professor Moshe Machover, who teaches philosophy at the University of London has been exposed voicing support for Hamas, a genocidal antisemitic terrorist organisation which is proscribed under the Terrorism Act. He also accused Jewish students of being under the control of the Israeli embassy.

During a panel event at Queen Mary University of London Friends of Palestine Society, he said: “I’m not opposing their [Hamas’] armed struggle — they have a perfect right to resist with arms. I don’t condemn them. Who is responsible for the rise of Hamas in the Gaza strip? Israel. The most successful struggle was low level violence, popular mobilisation and kids throwing stones. In occupied Lebanon, Hizballah was using armed struggle very successfully, but in the case of Hamas their tactics aren’t very useful.” Machover appears to be complaining that terrorism by Hamas is not as effective as terrorism by Hizballah.

When asked by an audience member if “Israel had a right to exist” he replied “certainly not”. When challenged by a Jewish student, he retorted: “These are the kind of questions that the Israeli propaganda machine actually briefs its representatives to ask?…I know what briefing you get. I have been in this game before you were born, and I know what briefing you get. You always use the same formulations because you are singing from the same sheet of briefing. Long experience, it is a long experience that leads me because I know what Shai Masot [an Israeli embassy official included in an Al Jazeera film we have reported to Ofcom] is up to.” Under the International Definition of Antisemitism recently adopted by the British government, denying Israel’s right to exist and accusing Jews of being part of a conspiracy is antisemitic.

Queen Mary University of London told Cub Magazine: “We have a clear Code of Practice on Freedom of Speech within the law, and all events that take place on our premises are subject to security checks. Once these conditions are met, we believe that our students are able to judge for themselves the merits or otherwise of opinions put forward and views debated.” The Friends of Palestine Society also issued an apology for the “resentful ideologies” that were expressed.

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UK: Labour reinstates Jew-bashing councillor

Via Guido Fawkes:

Labour has lifted the suspension of a councillor who Guido revealed had written a string of anti-Semitic social media posts. Ilyas Aziz was suspended in May after calling for Jews to “relocate” out of the Middle East, comparing Jews to Nazis, sharing multiple anti-Semitic Rothschilds memes and a “drinking blood” blood libel slur. Cllr Aziz now says:

“Can resume my Labour Party activities now that my suspension lifted. Thanks to all who stood by me in difficult times.”

This wasn’t a one-off retweet, Aziz is a serial offender and the sort of person Corbyn’s Labour evidently want in their party. Expect more anti-Semites to be welcomed back in… 

UPDATE: Stephen Silverman from the Campaign Against Antisemitism told Guido: 

“Away  from the glare of public scrutiny, Labour has quietly lifted the suspension of yet another virulent antisemite. Once again, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the openly-expressed hatred of the Jewish people merits no more than a slap on the wrist in a party that refuses to allow any transparency around its internal disciplinary processes. Under Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party is not fit for Jews or those opposed to racism.”

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European members of UN Security Council support resolution denying Jewish rights to Jerusalem

Via Reuters:

The Obama administration on Friday allowed the U.N. Security Council to adopt a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements, defying pressure from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as well as Israel and several U.S. senators who urged Washington to use its veto.

The resolution was put forward at the 15-member council for a vote on Friday by New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela and Senegal a day after Egypt withdrew it under pressure from Israel and the U.S. president-elect. Israel and Trump had called on the United States to veto the measure.

It was adopted with 14 votes in favor, to a round of applause. It is the first resolution the Security Council has adopted on Israel and the Palestinians in nearly eight years.

The European members of the UN Security Council are Spain and Ukraine, along with the permanent members - France, Russia and the UK.

The countries that voted for the resolution say that this has been their policy all along.  Indeed, this is not new.  Europe does not think Jews have any rights to Jerusalem or to Judaism's most holy sites.

Less than a month ago, all European members of the UN voted in favor of yet another resolution ignoring Jewish ties to Jerusalem.

Ireland: Academic conference advocating for Israel’s destruction

Via UK Media Watch:

It appears that a conference to be in Ireland, entitled “International Law & the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism” will, in all likelihood, advocate for the destruction of the Jewish State, as inferred by its title and description, which focuses on the wrongs of the establishment of Israel, rather than any purported “occupation” in the aftermath of the Six Day War.

To quote the ‘Organisers’ statement’:

“It is with excitement that we are announcing the launch of the conference “International Law & the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism” that will be held between the 31st of March and the 2nd of April 2017 at University College Cork, a constituent university of the National University of Ireland.

This conference will be the first of its kind and constitutes a ground-breaking historical event on the road towards justice and enduring peace in historic Palestine. It is unique because, while most attention today is directed at Israel’s actions in the 1967 Occupied Territories, the conference seeks to expand the debate surrounding the nature of the State of Israel and the legal and political reality within it.

The conference will raise questions that link the suffering in historic Palestine to the manner of Israel’s foundation and its nature. It aims to generate a debate on legitimacy, responsibility and exceptionalism under international law as provoked by the nature of the Israeli state. It will also examine how international law could be deployed, expanded, and even re-imagined, in order to achieve peace and reconciliation based on justice.”

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Germany: Pro-Iran group to urge Germans to vote Israel is illegal

From The Jerusalem Post (Benjamin Weinthal):

The radical Islamic pro-Iran regime NGO “The Feather” announced that it will urge Germans to reject Israel’s existence on Saturday at an information stand in the the northern German city of Delmenhorst in the state of Lower Saxony.

The Feather, which shows a photograph of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on its website,  announced the vote on its Facebook page. 

The Weser-Kurier paper reported that The Feder member Hassan Mohsen said “the citizens have the possibility to drop a chip in a box for or against “ the creation of Israel. “It is our conviction that Israel should have never been founded,” said Mohsen. Pedro Benjamin Becerra, the chairman of the Jewish community Delmenhorst, told the paper that The Feder's activity is “incitement to hate.“

The German-Israeli Friendship Society in Oldenburg plans to hold a counter-information stand across from The Feder’s booth in Delmenhorst—a  city of nearly  75,000. (...)

The governor of Lower Saxony Stephan Weil is an aggressive supporter of trade with the Islamic Republic of Iran. He traveled to Iran in April with a 30 member business delegation. The NWZ newspaper reported that Weil met with former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and both men engaged “in reciprocal praise of the good tradition of German-Iranian relations. 

Rafsanjani previously said: “Application of an atomic bomb would not leave anything in Israel, but the same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world.”

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UK: Anti-Semitic hate speaker gives talk at a top London university

Apparently, SOAS wants to main a 'neutral platform' for racist inciters.  Good news for all English fascists.

Via Daily Mail:

The Israeli Embassy has reacted with fury after a 'hate speaker' delivered an hour-long rant on Jews and Zionism to students at a top London university.

Thomas Suarez described the creation of Israel as a 'racist', 'fascist' endeavour, and linked the 'cult' of Zionism to the Nazis.

Yiftah Curiel, spokesman for Israel's diplomatic mission, accused SOAS of letting 'racist conspiracy theories' go unchallenged during the talk at the Palestine Society.

He told MailOnline: 'We are surprised and disappointed that SOAS would give a platform to a hate speaker.

'He equates Zionism - the Jewish people's right to national self determination - with Nazism and Fascism.

'It is regrettable that instead of promoting coexistence and dialogue, SOAS would hold an event at which outlandish, racist conspiracy theories regarding Zionism and the Jewish people, were presented as fact.'

The university responded by saying the event was organised independently by the Students' Union and it wanted to maintain a 'neutral platform' for different opinions

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UK: Just half of Briton think questioning Israel's right to exist is antisemitic

Questioning Israel's right to exist is antisemitism according to the official definition accepted by the UK.

Via Jewish Chronicle:    

Israel is still considered Britain's strongest Middle East ally - with more British people believing this to be the case than last year, a poll has revealed.

Fifty-seven per cent of British citizens saw Israel as a leading ally, up from 52 per cent last year.

The online survey, commissioned annually by Bicom - the Israel and Middle East think-tank - investigated the attitudes of more than 2,000 British adults.

It found that more than half (51 per cent) of people do not boycott Israeli goods, up eight per cent from last year's findings. Fifty-six per cent said a boycott hurts both Palestinians and Israelis.

Asked whether hating Israel and questioning its right to exist was antisemitic, 48 per cent believed it was, while 20 per cent believed it was not. But overall, 57 per cent of people said that simply criticising Israel was not antisemitic.
  
British warmth towards Israel, the survey said, "remains stable" at 19 per cent, while 24 per cent of people felt warmth towards Israelis; this was in comparison to 20 per cent feeling warmth towards Palestinians.

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UK: Corbyn op-ed from 2009 deplores Israel's establishment, accuses Israel of controlling US

Via Jewish Chronicle:

Jeremy Corbyn accepted an all-expenses paid trip to Syria where he thanked dictator Bashar Al-Assad for housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees.

According to the report in the Times, the 2009 trip was organised by the Palestinian Return Centre, an organisation which has hosted events in Parliament where antisemitic rhetoric has been used, most recently one hosted last week by Baroness Tonge.

Following that meeting Baroness Tonge was suspended by the Liberal Democrats and almost simultaneously resigned from the party.

She was also on the 2009 cross-party trip to Syria, which included Conservative peer Lord Sheikh and then-MSPs Jim Tolson and Jim Hume, both Liberal Democrats. The group met President Assad.

Mr Corbyn later wrote about his trip for the Morning Star newspaper. He described meeting a group of Palestinians on the anniversary of the date “when Arthur Balfour gave his infamous declaration of support for a Jewish state of Israel".

In the same article, Mr Corbyn wrote of an apparent decision by the then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to drop demands to halt new “settlements” in the West Bank, saying “once again, the Israeli tail wags the US dog".

A spokesperson for the Labour leader said: “Jeremy has consistently spoken out against all forms of antisemitism. 

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France, Sweden and Slovenia abstain on antisemitic UNESCO proposal

UNESCO's motto is "Building peace in the minds of men and women".  Apparently, that does not include Jews.

Today UNESCO passed a resolution which denies the Jewish ties to Judaism's most holiest sites.

The countries which voted against the resolution: US, UK, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Estonia, and Germany

France, Sweden and Slovenia were going to support the measure, but in the end were conviced to abstain.

France and Sweden repeatedly claim they care about Jews.   They have now proved once again that they couldn't care less. 

Via i24 News:

24 UNESCO member states voted in favor of the resolution, 26 abstained, and only six countries voted against.

The proposal, put forth by the Palestinians, along with Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar and Sudan, condemns Israel on several issues related to Jerusalem and its holy sites.

The draft resolution, a copy of which was obtained by Ha'aretz, acknowledges that the city of Jerusalem is holy to Judaism, Islam, and Christianity but says the Temple Mount holy site is sacred only to Muslims and fails to mention its significance to Jews.

In fact, Ha'aretz writes , an entire section of the proposal dedicated specifically to the Temple Mount complex refers only to the site's Muslim names (Al-Aqsa Mosque and Haram al-Sharif) and fails to mention its Hebrew or English names (Har HaBayit or Temple Mount).

The resolution refers also to the Western Wall plaza by its Muslim name (al-Buraq plaza) and only mentions its Hebrew-Jewish name (Hakotel Hama'aravi) later in quotation marks.

The flashpoint complex is considered Judaism's holiest site, once the site of the first and second Temples, and is the third holiest to the Muslim faith.

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Germany: Leading BDS activist welcomes idea to move Israel to Germany

Via Jerusalem Post:

It would not be absurd to relocate Israel to Baden-Württemberg, embattled German BDS activist Christoph Glanz wrote.

The news that Glanz welcomed the idea that the Jewish state should be eradicated surfaced on Thursday in a review of his YouTube comments endorsing a pro-BDS video in 2015.

Alper Çugun wrote in the comments section on YouTube in English: “I always wondered why they didn’t just carve out a piece of Germany and found the State of Israel in Baden-Württemberg” state in southwestern Germany.

Glanz responded in the same language, “an absurd idea? i don’t think so given that it was us germans who perpetrated the genocide of jews in europe. and an israeli artist came up with precisely that idea.”

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Switzerland: Arab-Israeli MK calls to "do away with Zionism and the Jewish state"

Hanin Zoabi's idea to destroy the Jewish state was presented at the Swiss Palestine Association in Bern and was received approvingly by the audience.

Via Hamodia (h/t Elder of Ziyon):

United Arab List MK Hanin Zoabi is a staunch believer in the two-state solution...with one state for Palestinians, and the other a “a secular democratic state of all its citizens,” with the concept of a Jewish state banned altogether.

If the two states decided to unite into one at some point, that would be fine, she added. “My vision is justice and liberation,” she said. “The exact formula – one state or two – is a technical question, as far as I am concerned. But neither of them can be a Jewish state. My party advocates a two-state solution – one a democratic state of all its citizens, with a Palestinian state next to it.” The “right of return” for the descendants of Arabs from within the Green Line would apply as well, she added.

“If these two states build relations and eventually decide to unite, that would be possible,” she said. “But we cannot have one state under the current circumstances with the settlers remaining in the West Bank. We must do away with Zionism and the Jewish state, and then we can decide how to set up the states – one or two of them, I personally don’t care.”

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