The New Antisemite

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

France: CEO says EU regulations singling out Israeli settlement products ‘detrimentally affect’ European businesses

EU regulations singling out Israeli products made in the West Bank “detrimentally affect” European businesses, the head of a French food company said this week.

Addressing lawmakers at a European Parliament hearing on Thursday, Sydney Knafou — the CEO of Casimex — stated, “I am here before you today, as a European businessman and a supporter of European integration, to alert you to the fact that these regulations may have serious consequences with regard to my ability to compete globally, my existing contracts in the European Union, and, ultimately, the jobs I created for my European employees.”

“For several years now, but, crucially, in the last few months, my business has been disrupted by unhelpful statements made at the EU level which are politically motivated and unrelated to any legitimate European business concern,” Knafou went on to say. “With the adoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 in December 2016, this trend is increasing.”

Sweden: Disney severs ties with YouTube's most-watched star PewDiePie after he posted anti-Semitic videos where men called for 'death to all Jews'

Via The Daily Mail:

The world's most watched video blogger has been dropped by Disney after two videos emerged of him making anti-Semitic comments.

The video uploaded January 11 on PewDiePie's channel shows two men laughing as they hold a sign that reads 'Death to all Jews.'

PewDiePie, a 27-year-old Swede named Felix Kjellberg who has amassed over 53million viewers, making him the channel's biggest star.

PewDiePie apparently paid two young Indian men to hold up the offensive sign

The video shows two young men unfurling a sign as PewDiePie says, 'I paid for this?' The sign reads 'Death to all Jews.' PewDiePie covers his mouth and widens his eyes in surprise.

'I'm sorry, I didn't think they would actually do it,' he tells the audience. 'I feel partially responsible. It might just be my crude sense of humor, but I think there's something funny about that.'

He is said to have paid the two Indian men from a freelance company called on Fiverr to hold up the sign.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the blogger has posted nine videos since August that include anti-Semitic jokes or Nazi imagery.

The blogger has received multimillion-dollar deals from YouTube, which is owned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, and Walt Disney, which owns Maker Studios, which runs Kjellberg’s business, according to MarketWatch.

Via CAA:

John Clarke, a Labour Councillor and Chairman of Black Notley Parish Council in Essex, who was a parliamentary candidate for Labour in 2015, has been found to have posted a comment on Facebook berating Holocaust victims for ‘not fighting back’. Despite being an unarmed civilian population facing the might of Nazi Germany’s genocidal forces, Jews famously did mount fierce rebellions and missions to sabotage or resist the Nazis.

We exposed Councillor Clarke on Tuesday after he tweeted an image from a neo-Nazi website claiming that the Rothschild family, a Jewish family of bankers and philanthropists, has “used usury alongside modern Israel as an imperial instrument to take over the world and all of its resources, including you and I”.

Now, Campaign Against Antisemitism has been contacted by a former pupil of Clarke’s over a Facebook rant in 2012 in which Clarke wrote: “As for WW2, I am unaware of any significant military action taken by Jews against Nazi Germany; ask older Jews why they didn’t actually FIGHT the nazis. In addition, insulting the memory of the allied forces, which included many of my relatives, who actually freed Jews from concentration camps you are the ‘deniers’ here. You may also like to know that many British ex-soldiers now in their eighties remember what the Jews did to members of the British forces sent to keep the peace in Israel, before it was declared a sovereign state in the late 1940s. I’ll bet you have an excuse for THAT disgusting bit of Jewish history”.

However as we learned when we first exposed him, Clarke believes that those who call him an antisemite are simply part of a conspiracy, tweeting: “Antisemite smear in constant overuse as those who use it expand their power base”. It is not hard to imagine who he is referring to.

Councillor Clarke is listed as a “Senior Lecturer” at the University of East London* and serves as a governor of school. We have made disciplinary complaints to the District Council, the university and the school.

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

Via JTA:

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

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

Jewish groups and leaders condemned Milonov’s statement.

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

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

Belgium: Israel scolds Belgian envoy over his PM’s meeting with left-wing groups

One can imagine the furore if P.M. Netanyahu met, on a visit to Belgium, with far left wing groups or if the Israeli government financed NGOs engaged in anti-Belgian propaganda...

The Times of Israel:

Belgium’s Ambassador to Israel Olivier Belle was summoned for a dressing down in the Foreign Ministry on Thursday over a visit by his country’s prime minister, Charles Michel, with representatives of two prominent left-wing Israeli rights organizations.

On Wednesday, during his three-day visit to Israel, Michel met with the heads of Breaking the Silence and B’Tselem, despite a direct appeal by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Belgium to end its support to groups he considers damaging to the country.

“The government of Belgium needs to decide if it wants to change direction or continue with its anti-Israel path,” a statement from Netanyahu’s office warned in response to the meetings.

The statement said Jerusalem viewed Michel’s meetings “with utmost gravity,” and noted Belgium’s “unfriendly” initiatives to prosecute Israeli officials for alleged war crimes during the 2008 Gaza war.

France: 230,000 French Jews live in Israel

Via i24news:

An estimated 230,000 French Jews live in Israel, while around 200,00 more, (phrase uncomplete)

In 2012, the total French Jewish population in Israel was estimated at 200,000.

Connected:
- Europe: Jewish population figures are a shadow of what they used to be prior to the Holocaust
- Europe: Sharp decline of Jewish population in Europe
- Europe: 600,000 Jews have left Europe in last 25 years

Germany signs sports agreement with terror promoting PA official Rajoub

Via PMW (by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik):

- Rajoub on murderers of Israelis: “heroes... a crown on our heads”

- The Palestinian Football Association supervises yearly sporting event named after terrorist Abu Jihad

- Rajoub prohibits joint sports activities between Palestinians and Israelis and called a joint match between Israeli and Palestinian boys “a crime against humanity” - Germany will pay “all expenses and fees” for expert to join the Palestinian Football Association to help it “advance the football sector”

- German representative in Ramallah is “proud” of agreement

Last week, the head of the German representation in Ramallah, Peter Beerwerth, signed “the first bilateral cooperation agreement” in sports between the PA and Germany with Jibril Rajoub, the president of the Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs in the Palestinian Authority.

In its recent report The Rajoub File, Palestinian Media Watch documented that Jibril Rajoub is an outspoken supporter of Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis and prohibits peace building sports activities between Palestinians and Israelis. During the latest wave of Palestinian attacks against Israelis, Rajoub congratulated terrorist murderers, telling them that: “You are ‎heroes and we bless you... you are a ‎crown on our heads.” When a friendly football match took place between 11-year-old Israeli and Palestinian boys after the Gaza War in 2014, Rajoub called it a “crime against humanity.”

In addition, the Palestinian Football Association, which will be the beneficiary of a German football expert paid for by Germany, supervises an annual sporting event named after arch-terrorist Abu Jihad. According to the Palestinian Authority’s own documentation, terrorist Abu Jihad was responsible for the murder of 125 people.

The official PA daily reported that the new agreement between Germany and the PA is the result of “meetings between Rajoub and senior officials of the sports sector in Germany,” and that the German Olympic Committee and the German Football Association at these meetings had “demonstrated a willingness to contribute to the development of many sports branches in Palestine.” [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 1, 2017]

Germany’s association and signing of an agreement with terror promoting Rajoub is in stark contrast to German Parliament Members' condemnation of Germany’s possible funding of terror-supporting activities by the PA, specifically the PA’s honoring of terrorists by paying them salaries in prison as PMW has documented.

German MP Volker Beck asked German Foreign Minister in September 2016 how Germany ensures its funding to the PA is not paying for salaries to terrorists, and after seeing a presentation by PMW in 2015, German MP Albert Weiler stated that "it should not be possible for anti-democratic terror organizations to murder Jews or Christians in the name of their religion. We must fight this strongly. And the whole world should be doing it together."

France: Media assumes Jews have dual loyalty problem

According to the ADL Global 100 Survey, a third of the French think Jews are more loyal to Israel than to France.

Via Walla:

This past Thursday, Le Pen told France 2 TV that she will not allow French citizens to hold double citizenship.The interviewer then asked specifically about Jews and Israeli citizenship.

Avi Zana, director of AMI, an organization that assists French immigrants to Israel, says the question expressed how French media see French Jews. The journalist thought it was obvious that all French Jews hold Israeli citizenship, while the reality is that 99% of them don't.

"Le Pen's answer is important, but the journalist's question is more significant, because it shows the stigma that exists about Jews in France."

Avraham Azoulay, CEO of the Israeli French-language paper "Le Petit Hebdo" says that Jews in France are afraid. "There's fear in the streets, and there's fear to talk at work".

According to Azoulay, Le Pen is attacking Jews as part of her attack on Muslims, but that's not worse than the Left, which does not oppose Muslims and opens the door to immigration and terrorism. He sees no future for Jews in France, but says that it's already better to have Le Pen in charge, as it's better for the French.

Europe lambasting Israel yet again

Another example of European double-standards towards Israel are Spain's "walls of shame" at Melilla and Ceuta:

Like Melilla, Ceuta was founded in Morocco centuries ago. They are two European outposts in Africa, hangovers from the colonial era. And they are heavily fortified.

Three rows of six-meter-high (about 20 feet) barbed-wire fencing protect these Spanish frontline cities. Infrared cameras monitor the fortifications and motion and noise detectors have been installed. Spain hopes to keep out African refugees with high-tech fences. Read more @ Spiegel.

Via The Jerusalem Post (by Michael Freund):

After Monday’s passage of the law aimed at regulating certain land issues in Judea and Samaria, Israel’s ostensible friends in Europe wasted little time before lambasting the Jewish state in remarkably harsh terms. Mustering all the vitriol at their disposal, which appears to be boundless when the subject is Israel, the leaders of the Continent went on a rhetorical rampage that was as obscene as it was offensive.

As usual, it was the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini, who scaled the heights of hyperbole when she called the law “new and dangerous,” as though resolving land disputes through compensation was an entirely unheard-of concept in modern law. But then Mogherini went further, declaring that “the Israeli parliament has legislated on the legal status of land within occupied territory which is an issue that remains beyond its jurisdiction.”

The irony of her own statement was apparently lost on her. After all, what “jurisdiction” does Mogherini have to interfere in Israel’s internal affairs, berate its democratically-elected parliament or interpret the legislation it chooses to pass? Other leaders, such as French President Francois Hollande, denounced the legislation, saying it would “open the way to the annexation of the occupied territories,” while the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolai Mladenov said that by legislating “in the occupied Palestinian lands,” Israel had crossed “a very thick red line.”

Well if European and international statesmen really want to have a debate about “occupied territories,” I say: bring it on.

A good place to start would be with some of Europe’s own colonial relics, which it greedily clings to, like a hung-over hobo grasping a bottle with a few remaining drops of vodka.

UK: Racist who plastered anti-Semitic stickers on Cambridge synagogue caught on CCTV

Via Cambridge News:

A man who plastered anti-Semitic stickers on a Cambridge synagogue has pleaded guilty to a racially and religiously aggravated public order offence.

Kristian Omilian, 30, of Perse Way, Cambridge, was caught on CCTV sticking anti-Semitic stickers on the front of the synagogue in Auckland Road, Cambridge, in November last year. His fingerprints were also found on the stickers.

Yesterday (February 9), he was given a 12-month community order at Cambridge Magistrates’ Court, for which he has to attend up to 15 days of rehabilitation activity and 120 hours’ unpaid work.

Le Pen: French Jews Will Have to Give Up Israeli Citizenship

Via Haaretz:

In a France ruled by the far-right Marine Le Pen, Jewish citizens will be forced to give up their Israeli citizenship, the Front National party leader said on Thursday.

Le Pen, a leading contender in the upcoming French presidential contest, told France 2 TV that if elected, she will not allow French citizens to hold on to any citizenship in a non-European country. When asked specifically about Israel and Jews, who form a large community in France, the Front National party leader responded: "Israel isn't a member of the European Union, and doesn't consider itself as such," and therefore a dual French-Israeli citizenship will not be allowed.

Le Pen said that the ban will also apply to citizens of the U.S. and North African countries, but that dual citizens of the EU and of Russia, which she said is part of she termed the "Europe of nations," will be exempted.

Denmark: Teen charged with plotting to bomb Jewish school

Via Times of Israel:

A Danish prosecutor said a 16-year-old girl has been formally charged with planning bomb attacks against two schools in Denmark.

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Prosecutor Lise-Lotte Nilas says the teenager is accused of “having made preparations to make bombs” using the explosive known as TATP. She said her targets were a school west of Copenhagen and a Jewish school in the capital.

Police thwarted the plans by arresting the girl on Jan. 13, 2016. A trial is set to start April 7, 2017 in Holbaek, northwest of the Danish capital.

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.

Netherlands: Jewish outrage at Anelka's Roda JC appointment

Via Goal:

Nicolas Anelka's appointment as a consultant to Roda JC has not been taken to kindly by the Jewish community, with a spokeperson branding the Frenchman's role a "disgrace".

The former striker was brought to the Eredivisie side at the behest of new co-owner Aleksei Korotaev, with the intention the 37-year-old would focus on the youth system and advise on signing players from France.

However, the move has not been popularly met by all given Anelka courted controversy when he performed a 'quenelle' celebration after he scored for West Brom in December 2013.

His actions then came in for strong criticism owing to the gesture's association with antisemitism, with some viewing it as an inverted Nazi salute.

Anelka West Brom quenelle

Anelka was fined and banned for five matches by an FA disciplinary committee but the links have remained with him, as members of the Dutch Jewish public voice their concern.

"It's a disgrace for Roda JC to bring in someone like him. There are limits, this is impossible," Herman Loonstein, the chairman of Federatief Joods Nederland, was quoted as saying by De Telegraaf.

Russia: American Chabad rabbi called security risk, ordered to leave