The tomb of Joseph van Raalte in Vlissingen was vandalized, along with another grave.
Police suspect the grave was targeted. Van Raalte, who passed away in 1926, was the first manager of the Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding company.
Friday, December 26, 2014
Netherlands: Grave of Jew targeted for vandalism
The tomb of Joseph van Raalte in Vlissingen was vandalized, along with another grave.
Police suspect the grave was targeted. Van Raalte, who passed away in 1926, was the first manager of the Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding company.
France: Gas balloon placed next to Jewish cemetery
A 15kg gas balloon was found next to the entrance of the Jewish cemetery in Cagnes-sur-Mer (next to Nice). The balloon turned out to be empty.
More: CFCA
France: Jews warned they might be target of next 'isolated non-terrorist incident'
Twice this past week Muslims in France drove cars into crowds. Authorities said both events were isolated incidents and not terror attacks, committed by crazy people and not by people holding an extremist Muslim ideology.
But, it now turns out that authorities also turned to Jewish institutions and warned them that Jewish worshipers leaving synagogues or community events might be the target of the next 'isolated incident', even if they're committed by nuts and not by Muslim terrorists.
The Jewish community is expected to shoulder the cost for the extra security measures.
More: Maariv
Day 32: Counting the Days till EU Condemns PA Incitement to Kill Jews
Following the murders in Jerusalem enabled by the constant Palestinian incitement to kill Jews, this blog will wait until one European country will step forward and condemn the PA for its incitement.
It is not enough to ask the PA to stop inciting.
It is not enough to condemn the terror attacks caused by such incitement.
European leaders must make it clear to the PA that incitement to kill Jews is unacceptable. That such incitement will mean no support for Palestinian aspirations for statehood.
Until then, European leaders are encouraging Palestinians to kill Jews.
Thursday, December 25, 2014
France: Assailants open fire at Jewish restaurant in Paris days after synagogue attack
The Algemeiner
Unknown assailants opened fire at a Kosher restaurant in Paris’ 19th Arrondissement Wednesday night, apparently using an air gun as in a similar attack on a synagogue in the neighborhood earlier in the week, the French website JSS News reported.
The owner of the Al Haeche restaurant arrived at 7 am, and discovered a small impact crater on the front window.
There were no injuries or other damage in the attack.
The damage, possibly caused by a pellet gun, resembled that of a shooting Monday night at a window of the David Ben Ichay Synagogue, about a kilometer away.
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| Impact seen from the outside |
Norway: Mads Gilbert accuses Israel of beheading Gazan children
When I saw this, I seriously assumed this was old news. I mean, Mads Gilbert is so well-known for 'speaking the truth' from Gaza. Surely he would have spoken about this to every available outlet if it was true.
But, no. It seems that only now he found the strength within himself to come out with a new blood libel against the Jews. h/t Norway, Israel and the Jews
Mads Gilbert, antisemitic Norwegian doctor, and the guy that Norwegians recently voted 'person of the year'. was interviewed by al-Jazeera about his experiences in Gaza:
Well, Norwegian newspaper Dagen checked with Gilbert, what did he mean by 'beheaded'?
Gilbert tries to differentiate between 'beheading' and 'decapitation'. As if the first is not-intentional and the second is. But English begs to differ.
This is Wikiepdia's explanation:
So let's take him in context, shall we? Gilbert says: "Now everybody is talking about Boko Haram and ISIL beheading people." Does anybody know if Boko Haram and Islamic State, two vicious terror groups, actively behead people with their own hands?
Gilbert seems to imply that he isn't sure about that.
Also, Gilbert says Israel should 'stop the bombing'. He truly lives in an alternate reality.
But, no. It seems that only now he found the strength within himself to come out with a new blood libel against the Jews. h/t Norway, Israel and the Jews
Mads Gilbert, antisemitic Norwegian doctor, and the guy that Norwegians recently voted 'person of the year'. was interviewed by al-Jazeera about his experiences in Gaza:
MG: I have children myself, I have grandchildren, and you don’t want to see this in the world today. Now everybody is talking about Boko Haram and ISIL beheading people. I saw beheaded children in Gaza, I have pictures.
I don’t show them because they are simply too inhumane, but nobody is accusing Israel of a massacre of children. It is always directed to somebody else who is called under the general term of terrorists.Nobody else saw it, nobody else recorded it, nobody else reported it, only Mads Gilbert, famous doctor and speaker of truth to power. And he can't show us the pictures, because they're too inhumane.
Well, Norwegian newspaper Dagen checked with Gilbert, what did he mean by 'beheaded'?
Gilbert (translation mine): 'By the verb 'beheaded' I meant I saw dead Palestinian children wholly or partially without heads, after Israeli attacks on Gaza this summer. I specifically didn't use the verb 'decapitated' [talks about Norwegian translation]. I obviously never meant or claimed that Israeli soldiers physically and directly beheaded children with their own hands."
Gilbert tries to differentiate between 'beheading' and 'decapitation'. As if the first is not-intentional and the second is. But English begs to differ.
This is Wikiepdia's explanation:
Beheading typically refers to the act of intentional decapitation, either as a means of murder or execution; it may be accomplished, for example, with an axe, sword, knife, wire, or by other more sophisticated means such as a guillotine.Maybe he simply doesn't speak English well? We can't fault him for that.
So let's take him in context, shall we? Gilbert says: "Now everybody is talking about Boko Haram and ISIL beheading people." Does anybody know if Boko Haram and Islamic State, two vicious terror groups, actively behead people with their own hands?
Gilbert seems to imply that he isn't sure about that.
Also, Gilbert says Israel should 'stop the bombing'. He truly lives in an alternate reality.
France: The number of French Jews making aliyah could top 7,000 this year
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| Alyah from France |
Based on the current pace, the number of French Jews making aliyah could top 7,000 this year. 6,655 Jews arrived from France to Israel in the first 11 months of 2014, an all-time record, compared with only 3,225 from North America (US and Canada). The previous record from France was set in 2013, with 3,293 French newcomers. Immigration in the first 11 months of 2014 from France, which has a Jewish community of 500,000-600,000 was more than double the 3,191 people who came to Israel during the whole of 2013 from North America, where over 6 million Jews live. The figure from North America for this year so far is 3,225. Immigration from France also surpassed by a large margin the 5,105 migrants who came to Israel from Ukraine, a country with an ailing economy due to ongoing and deadly fighting between government troops and pro-Russian rebels.
Immigration to Israel from France is driven by growing anti-Semitism in the country and economic considerations, but also by French Jewry’s deep attachment to Israel, Zionism and Judaism. Increase in Aliyah also was observed in Britain, where the first 11 months of 2014 yielded 573 immigrants compared to 523 during the whole of 2013. Immigration from Italy, which totaled 151 last year, doubled this year. Aliyah from South Africa and Australia, which this year totaled 158 and 171 respectively, dropped by 23% and 36% from the 2013 totals.
Greece: Jewish cemetery of Larissa vandalized
On December 23rd, 2014, the Jewish Cemetery of Larissa was vandalized with antisemitic graffitis signed by “Larissa Skins”: Swastikas, 'Juden', 'six milliion more'
h/t Against Antisemitism, Glykosymoritis
A third of European Jews contemplate emigration
Even before the latest explosion of anti-Jewish violence and hatred, Jews all over Europe were neither comfortable nor secure.
A poll taken in 2013 showed that “Fear of rising anti-Semitism in Europe has prompted nearly a third of European Jews to consider emigration because they do not feel safe in their home country.” To avoid distorting the data, the poll “focused on eight countries that account for more than 90 percent of Europe’s Jewish population.” The reasons for these sentiments were amply on display when a series of anti-Israel demonstrations across Europe promptly degenerated into open anti-Semitism.
More: European Jewish Press
A poll taken in 2013 showed that “Fear of rising anti-Semitism in Europe has prompted nearly a third of European Jews to consider emigration because they do not feel safe in their home country.” To avoid distorting the data, the poll “focused on eight countries that account for more than 90 percent of Europe’s Jewish population.” The reasons for these sentiments were amply on display when a series of anti-Israel demonstrations across Europe promptly degenerated into open anti-Semitism.
More: European Jewish Press
Belgium: Hamas are terrorists? Look what Israel did in Gaza
This is how Flemish TV VRT decided to introduce viewers to the story that Hamas has been removed from the EU's terrorist list. With a picture of a destroyed Gaza.
The announcer spent less than 30 seconds talking about Hamas being removed from the terror list. And I'm really being generous. Three more minutes were dedicated to a discussion of Gaza's terrible situation following the war with Israel.
Zero time was spent on discussing Hamas terror. Zero time spent on discussing Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli civilians. Zero time spent on discussing Hamas dictatorship in Gaza.
But, don't worry. Removing from Hamas from the EU terror list was just a technical issue. The EU certainly think Hamas are terrorists. Why is Israel even whining about it?
It's so obvious that it doesn't even warrant talking about it.
Day 31: Counting the Days till EU Condemns PA Incitement to Kill Jews
Following the murders in Jerusalem enabled by the constant Palestinian incitement to kill Jews, this blog will wait until one European country will step forward and condemn the PA for its incitement.
It is not enough to ask the PA to stop inciting.
It is not enough to condemn the terror attacks caused by such incitement.
European leaders must make it clear to the PA that incitement to kill Jews is unacceptable. That such incitement will mean no support for Palestinian aspirations for statehood.
Until then, European leaders are encouraging Palestinians to kill Jews.
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
UK: "If Mary and Joseph Tried to Reach Bethlehem Today..."
More: Washington Post
Mehdi Hasan, political director of the Huffington Post, UK, has a post up entitled, “If Mary and Joseph Tried to Reach Bethlehem Today, They Would Get Stuck at an Israeli Checkpoint.”
(...)
Seriously, this sort of historical revisionism, treating ancient Jewish Judeans as if they were Palestinian Arabs, and then analogizing modern Israel to the oppressors of Jesus and his family, a common trope in the UK, would be laughable if it were not so pernicious. Pernicious not simply because it’s a ridiculous distortion of history, and not simply because it’s often accompanied by a large dose of anti-Semitism, with Palestinians playing the role of Jesus and the Israelis being the foreign oppressors crucifying him. But pernicious because it goes to the true heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict–the failure of the Arab side to recognize that the “Zionists” are not the “European settler-colonialists” of Third Worldist imagination, but a people with a three thousand year plus tie to the Land of Israel, whose religion was born there, who ruled two separate kingdoms there, who have prayed toward Jerusalem for two thousand years in their ancient Hebrew language, and so on.
NGOs Use Christian Anti-Semitism to Urge Israel Boycott
The "Christmas spirit" seems to be in the air among all the anti-Israel NGOs - and a new annual report by NGO Monitor released Tuesday reveals how that has found expression in a whole array of religiously motivated slanders of the Jewish state with a distinct undertone of anti-Semitism.
In the report, NGO Monitor analyzed Christmas cards, nativity scenes, and holiday messages released by well-known NGOs, charities and church groups. What it found was groups such as Pax Christi, Sabeel, and a slew of others used religious motifs to attack Israel and advance BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) campaigns.
"The recurring exploitation of religious holidays and theological language to advance discriminatory anti-Israel campaigns shows that nothing is holy for the BDS movement," said Naftali Balanson, managing editor of NGO Monitor. "The church groups that support these NGOs, as well as the governments that fund them, must immediately repudiate the disturbing antisemitism emanating from NGOs that purport to promote human rights."
More: Arutz 7
Op-Ed: Time to Rethink Holocaust Remembrance Day? (My answer: Definitely!)
Via the Algemeiner and JNS.org, Ben Cohen suggests scrapping non-Jewish Holocaust commemorations.
So if commemorating the Holocaust in the public sphere requires Jews to play down their affiliation with Israel, and to elide the intimate connection between what the Holocaust represents and the significance of a Jewish state in our own time, then I’d say we are better off without Holocaust Remembrance Day.
I think he's being too kind. The Holocaust is now used as a weapon against Jews. Jewish organizations are already backing out of "Holocaust commemorations", because they serve as a platform to bash Israel and the Jews. Europe loves to remember its dead Jews, and then turns on the ones still living and accuses them of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Who needs it? If that's the lesson Europeans draw from the Holocaust, then I, as a Jew, beg you to stop. Stop teaching about the Holocaust, stop commemorating it, stop putting up those stepping stones that keep on getting vandalized. All this while Jews need armed guards in front of their synagogues and schools. When people can shout "Jews to the gas" and "Death, Death, Israel" in the streets, and the prosecution isn't sure whether it's illegal or whether it's a political protest against another country (in Mainz they decided it's the latter).
Besides which, the anniversary of Kristallnacht and International Holocaust Memorial Day have become special days when Jews are targeted even more than usual.
If there's a good side to it all, I'm really not seeing it.
France: Judge orders communist council to remove plaque honoring Palestinian terrorist
There is a passion among the French elites for Palestinians and even for Palestinian terrorists. This is not an isolated case. Arafat is cult figure in France.
Algemeiner: A French judge has ordered the communist-dominated municipal authorities in the city of Bezons, to the north-west of Paris, to remove a plaque honoring the Palestinian terrorist who assassinated Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi in Jerusalem in October 2001.
Following a complaint filed by Sammy Ghozlan of the National Bureau for Vigilance against Anti-Semitism (BNCVA,) the judge informed the Bezons Council that its original decision to confer honorary citizenship on the terrorist, Ihrima Majdi Al Rimawi, was invalidated. The council now has to remove the plaque dedicated to Al Rimawi by January 19, one month from the date of the judgement.
Al Rimawi is associated with several terrorist attacks, including the assassination of Ze’evi, which was carried out in the name of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) – the same terrorist organization which claimed responsibility for last month’s atrocity at a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, in which four rabbis and a Druze police officer were brutally murdered. He is currently serving a sentence of life imprisonment plus eighty years in an Israeli jail. In February 2013, the communist-dominated Bezons Council voted to confer honorary citizenship on Al Rimawi a few days after holding a debate on what it described as “Palestinian political prisoners” serving jail time in Israel.
The plaque ceremony was attended by al Rimawi’s wife, Fathia Barghouti, a former mayor of Bani Zeid, a village in the West Bank north of Ramallah where al Rimawi lived until he was jailed. “For us, the family of the prisoner, this award is a great gesture from the French people and shows their support of the issue of Palestinian prisoners in general, and in particular the issue of prisoners sentenced to long prison terms,” Barghouti declared at the ceremony. Dominique Lesparre, the communist mayor of Bezons, accused Israel of waging a “genocide” against the Palestinians, and lauded Al Rimawi as “a participant in the intifada, the struggle for the right to self-defense…and to defend his country against the occupation. For his resistance, he has been in prison since 2002.” After the honor was bestowed on Al Rimawi, Dr. Moshe Kantor, of the European Jewish Congress stated that it was “inconceivable for an elected official to be so ignorant as to call a cold-blooded murderer a victim.” Kantor added that “this type of glorification of murder is sending a very ominous message to the next Merah” – a reference to Muhammed Merah, the French Islamist who carried out a bloody terrorist atrocity at the Ozar HaTorah school in Toulouse on March 19, 2012, during which a rabbi and three small children were murdered.
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| Dominique Leparre, communist mayor of Bezons |
Following a complaint filed by Sammy Ghozlan of the National Bureau for Vigilance against Anti-Semitism (BNCVA,) the judge informed the Bezons Council that its original decision to confer honorary citizenship on the terrorist, Ihrima Majdi Al Rimawi, was invalidated. The council now has to remove the plaque dedicated to Al Rimawi by January 19, one month from the date of the judgement.
Al Rimawi is associated with several terrorist attacks, including the assassination of Ze’evi, which was carried out in the name of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) – the same terrorist organization which claimed responsibility for last month’s atrocity at a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, in which four rabbis and a Druze police officer were brutally murdered. He is currently serving a sentence of life imprisonment plus eighty years in an Israeli jail. In February 2013, the communist-dominated Bezons Council voted to confer honorary citizenship on Al Rimawi a few days after holding a debate on what it described as “Palestinian political prisoners” serving jail time in Israel.
The plaque ceremony was attended by al Rimawi’s wife, Fathia Barghouti, a former mayor of Bani Zeid, a village in the West Bank north of Ramallah where al Rimawi lived until he was jailed. “For us, the family of the prisoner, this award is a great gesture from the French people and shows their support of the issue of Palestinian prisoners in general, and in particular the issue of prisoners sentenced to long prison terms,” Barghouti declared at the ceremony. Dominique Lesparre, the communist mayor of Bezons, accused Israel of waging a “genocide” against the Palestinians, and lauded Al Rimawi as “a participant in the intifada, the struggle for the right to self-defense…and to defend his country against the occupation. For his resistance, he has been in prison since 2002.” After the honor was bestowed on Al Rimawi, Dr. Moshe Kantor, of the European Jewish Congress stated that it was “inconceivable for an elected official to be so ignorant as to call a cold-blooded murderer a victim.” Kantor added that “this type of glorification of murder is sending a very ominous message to the next Merah” – a reference to Muhammed Merah, the French Islamist who carried out a bloody terrorist atrocity at the Ozar HaTorah school in Toulouse on March 19, 2012, during which a rabbi and three small children were murdered.
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