Hungary: Jobbik, Socialists use Jews to get votes

Jobbik, a far-right party, recently held a pre-election rally in a former synagogue in Esztergom.  The building is today a community center.

Both Jobbik and the Socialist mayor of the city, had an interest in causing a provocation.

Euronews reports that Jobbik chose this location in order to cause a provocation:

However, Attila Magyar, euronews’ correspondent in Esztergom said the choice of location was intended to provoke:

“Last year the Jobbik party interrupted several parliamentary sessions. Now something similar has happened to its members. By choosing this location, the party has achieved its goal and received the attention it was seeking.”

The local rabbi, Rabbi Baruch Oberlander, says it was a socialist provocation:

The Rabbi explained that Jewish community leaders tried adamantly to stop the rally, to no avail. 

"We, on behalf of the hareidi communities of Budapest, turned to the mayor via a letter, asking that the rally be stopped from being held in the synagogue, and would even provide a replacement if need be - but she intentionally ignored it," he accused.

"Regrettably, it is obvious that the Socialist Left party has decided that it's worth it for them to cynically use Jews and the topic of anti-Semitism in the hopes that it will bring them victory in the upcoming elections. Unfortunately, many Jews and Jewish leaders participate in the elections, and the Socialists take advantage." 

Serbia: Cemetery vandalized

Several headstones were vandalized at the Jewish cemetery in Subotica on the night of February 10-11. 

According to Jewish Community Subotica, nine headstones have been damaged, including two of greater value belonging to prominent citizens.

More: InSerbia

France: Antisemitic graffiti throughout Toulouse

Graffiti at Toulouse University (UT1): swastika, "Death to CRIF" (Jewish umbrella organization).

PD (gays) = Jewish star

Swastikas and other hate graffiti were painted on buildings throughout the French city of Toulouse. 

Sunday night’s vandalism, which also included far-right symbols, struck an LBGT center, a university and cemetery, and the offices of left-wing candidates in elections next month, according to Radio France International. Police have not identified any suspects. 

The graffiti attacked Jewish groups and compared Jews to homosexuals, RFI reported.

More: JTA

Germany: Berlin Film Festival Award for Anti-Zionist British Director Ken Loach Angers Jewish Group

Deidre Berger, director of the American Jewish Committee’s Berlin office, said, “It is a disgrace that a prominent German film festival glorifies a director who has distinguished himself through bigotry and the denial of Israel’s right to exist.”

She also said that awarding Loach the “The Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement Award” was especially deserving of “shame,” as it was taking place in Berlin.

“Shame on the Berlinale for honoring an artist who calls for a cultural and economic boycott of Israel, and to do so in a city that once boycotted Jewish shops and property due to anti-Semitic policies of the German government,” Berger said.

More: Algemeiner

Netherlands: Cemetery vandalized

A Jewish cemetery in Doetinchem (eastern Netherlands), was desecrated.   Two gravestones were broken, the Jewish star on one of them was covered over.  In January one of the graves was smeared with shaving cream (this incident did not make the news).

More: CFCA, CIDI

France: What North African anti-Semites learned from the French

You might think that, given the gruesome racism of French Algeria, the Arab gangs of the banlieues (squalid housing estates encircling Paris and other cities) would despise no one more than the nominally Christian descendents of their colonial oppressors.

Wrong. It’s French Jews they really hate. Worse, Jew-hatred isn’t confined to gangs. Hussey spells this out in uncompromising language that you don’t expect from a contributor to the BBC and Guardian, which shy away from exposing non-white racism.

Anti-Semitism thrives in the banlieues, says Hussey: young people’s chatter is full of references to sale juif, sale yid, sale feuj (backslang), even youtre, an old slang word derived from the German Jude that carries overtones of the deportations of Vichy.

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I can derive only one comforting thought from Hussey’s brilliant book: Muslim Jew-hatred in France is so deeply rooted in that country’s native anti-Semitism that it’s unlikely to be replicated in Britain. Half a million French Jews, on the other hand, face an unnerving future.

More: The Telegraph, via Philosémitisme Blog

Soviet Intel Officer: "The Jews ... proved a convenient enemy for both leftist and rightist totalitarians"

You talk at length about the anti-Semitism that underpinned and animated much of the Leftist attack on the West, including in the media through plays such as “The Deputy.” Why is it that Leftism and Jew-hatred have gone hand in hand? 

Pacepa: Most leftists are totalitarians, and totalitarianism (what we now innocuously call the “nanny state”) always requires a tangible enemy. The Jews, who were not protected by the power of a state, proved a convenient enemy for both leftist and rightist totalitarians…

More: The Blaze

Norway: Labour Party youth support Palestinian terrorist

Members of AUF, the Labour Party's youth group, pose with a picture of Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti.

Barghouti is in jail for murdering Jews.  The AUF were targeted by Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik.  But the AUF don't think there's a connection.  Killing Norwegians is bad, killing Jews is... freedom fighting.

Now, imagine the international outrage if youth from an Israeli political party would take a similar photo with Breivik.

More: MIFF

Germany: 788 antisemitic crimes in 2013, 96% by right-wingers

Police recorded 788 antisemitic crimes in 2013, including 32 cases of physical assault and violence.

The breakdown:
Right wing: 753 crimes, of which 29 violent crimes
Immigrants: 16 crimes, of which 3 violent crimes
Left wing: 1 crime
Unregistered: 18 crimes

The figures come from monthly inquiries by the Bundestag's Vice President Petra Pau (Left Party), and her faction.

The numbers are expected to rise, as many crimes are not reported immediately.

More: Tagesspiegel, Deutsche Welle

Norway: Blaming Israel for Oslo’s bomb

John Færseth, Norway's top-most expert on conspiracy theories, looks into the theories surrounding Anders Behring Breivik's terrorism.  Israel and the Jews were of course responsible for it all.  Read the whole thing.  Almost every Jew-hater out there has joined the party.

The killer himself strained credulity by claiming to be part of a neo-Knights Templar group of Christian crusaders. Yet within days of the attack some theorists claimed to detect a still larger conspiracy. It was lurking, they said, behind the terrorist’s support for the state of Israel in his manifesto “2083 – A European Declaration of Independence”. Their conspiracy claims, now publicized on a number of websites, come in what may be described as “soft” and “hard” versions. But the culprit is the same in both: Israel.

More: Hate Speech International

Russia: Pro-Kremlin lawmaker says Jews destroyed Russia

A local politician from the party of Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Jews of destroying Russia.

The accusation by Oleg Bolychev, a legislator from the ruling United Russia party at the regional parliament in Kaliningrad, was made in the parliament on Feb. 6, according to the Regnum news agency, which reported on it on Thursday.

During a debate, Bolychev called his detractors “Jews, mired in opposition,” adding: “You destroyed our country in 1917 and you destroyed our country in 1991.” 

More: JTA

Bulgaria: "What's wrong with that? Hitler is good"

Hitler and Nazi items are being sold in various tourist shops across Europe.

Nazi mugs on sale in Bulgarian store (Photo: Janna Kushnir)

On the final day of their five-day trip, the mother and son entered a gift shop in the town's main street and were surprised to find the mugs with swastikas and Hitler's picture offered for sale, stacked near cosmetic items and various trinkets.

Kushnir, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, asked the cashier if selling such items was not forbidden, to which she said the clerk had replied: "What's wrong with that? Hitler is good.

More: Ynet

Israeli journalist found the following Hitler poster hanging in a market in Budapest, Hungary.  The stand also had various Nazi emblems and insignia for sale. (news1)

Hitler poster in Budapest market, Yoav Limor

Tourists found the following in Tallinn, Estonia (Europe-Israel)

Nazi paraphernalia sold in tourist shop in Tallinn, Estonia

Hungary: Research institute director says genocide of Jews was 'action against aliens'

Sandor Szakaly, head of the Veritas institute, told MTI in an interview last week that the deportation of the first group – some 10,000 people – from Hungary during WWII qualified as an “alien citizens’ procedure” because the deportees were not Hungarian citizens.

Szakaly’s remarks created a stir in Hungary, with both DK and the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) demanding that the director should resign or his appointment should be withdrawn.

“As the deported Jews were massacred by SS members, it was clearly a genocide committed by the national socialist regime,” DK said on Monday.

More: Politics.hu

UK: Celebrity photographer slams ‘extremist’ Jewish lobby

Leading UK photographer Rankin had harsh words Thursday for both Scarlett Johansson and the “zealots” in the “US Jewish lobby,” who he said control the entertainment business.

In a lengthy, wide-ranging interview with London’s The Independent, John Rankin Waddell heavily criticized Johansson’s role as spokeswoman for Israeli company SodaStream, and implied she couldn’t leave the deal because of the powerful influence of extremist Jews in Hollywood.

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The “main thing in all this for me,” he said, is “that kind of extreme Judaism.” The “extreme belief” that Palestine is the Jewish homeland and “those people are worthless to them” is “very powerful in America,” he added.

“They will blacklist you… it’s worse than McCarthyism. You are pro-Palestinian? F**king forget it,” Rankin said.

More: Times of Israel

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