Belgium: "I asked my children not to wear a Magen David"

‘’We are in a state of war. The terrorist is still at large. When you see the video images of the shooter, it’s really frightening because he might act again’’ says Brigitte Weberman, a consultant who has a weekly column in the local Jewish radio.  

‘’I am worried for my children who go to Jewish school and youth movements. When I bring them to school, I am scared. When my daughter tells me that she goes out with friends, I am scared. I asked my children not to wear a Magen David…’’

More: European Jewish Press

Czech Republic: "Jews to the gas" on cemetery wall

Via CFCA:

In Liberec (northern Czech Republich), the Jewish cemetery was desecrated with swastika graffiti and slogan "Jews to the gas".

Israel: Arson, graffiti attacks against synagogues

photo here

Two synagogues were attacked by arson attacks this past Saturday (the Jewish Sabbath).  In a synaoguge in Petah-Tikva (next to Tel Aviv), the ark holding the Torah scrolls was set aflame, but nothing was damaged.

At a rest-stop on Highway 6, not far from the Arab town of Baqa al-Gharbiyye, a small synagogue was completely burnt down, including all the holy books inside (see picture above).

Meanwhile, next to Hebron, an ancient synagogue was desecrated with swastika graffiti.

UK: Jews are indigenous "to Eastern Europe"

If she were talking about British Jews, this would be antisemitic.  Since she's talking about Jews in general and Israeli Jews in particular, it's just anti-Zionist.  

British columnist Lauren Booth, the sister-in-law of Tony Blair, former UK Prime Minister and current Quartet Representative to Jerusalem, writes for The Mail on Sunday and works for Iran’s pro-regime satellite news channel, Press TV. 

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On Thursday, Honest Reporting flagged her Twitter exchange with Canadian Ryan Bellerose, an advocate for the rights of indigenous peoples, including Jews, he pointed out. 

Bellerose wrote: “I believe in civil and human rights for all people, but I advocate for indigenous rights, the Jews are an indigenous people.” 

Booth responded, and included Honest Reporting’s handle in her tweet: “you’re right they are indigenous to Eastern Europe.”

More: Algemeiner

France: Muslim Jihadist arrested for Brussels Museum attack

A Frenchman has been arrested in Marseille over a shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels that left four people dead, reports say. 

Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, is being held on suspicion of murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, sources told AFP. 

He was reportedly carrying a Kalashnikov rifle and a handgun similar to the ones used in the May 24 attack. 

Security was tightened at Jewish sites across Belgium following the killings. 

Mr Nemmouche, who is believed to be from the northern French town of Roubaix, is also suspected of having links to Islamists militants fighting in Syria.

More: BBC

Netherlands: Dutch city calls Jerusalem, Nazareth ‘cities in Palestine’

A Dutch municipality is facing criticism for describing Jerusalem, Nazareth and Tiberias as “cities in Palestine.” 

Likkud Netherlands, a local association, published on its website Friday an article which carried a screen capture photo from Google Street View of the street sign of Tiberias Path in the city of Eindhoven with the description, in which Likkud Nederland accused the municipality of “wiping Israel off the map.”

The problem is not so much Eindhoven, but the fact that the Palestinians have taken over the Roman historic name for the Land of Israel.  In the picture above (via Google Earth), we can easily see Zion Street - mountain in Palestine  (today Israel), but also Nebo Street - mountain in Palestine (today Jordan).  Obviously Eindhoven is not wiping Jordan off the map.

Nazareth is in Palestine (ie, the Land of Israel), just like Hebron, Shechem and other cities and sites in this neighborhood.

Shabbat Shalom!

Shabbat Shalom to all my readers!

 In honor of Jerusalem Day, a clip prepared by Keren Hayesod UIA: My Jerusalem.

Czech president: "I know about an anti-civilization movement that calls for the massive murdering of Jews"

Islamic ideology rather than individual groups of religious fundamentalists is behind violent actions similar to the gun attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels that killed four people, Czech President Miloš Zeman said Monday at the Israeli Embassy in Prague. 

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Zeman said he would also sharply criticize fanatics who planned to kill the Arabs.
"However, I have heard of no movement calling for the massive murder of Arabs, but I know about an anti-civilization movement that calls for the massive murdering of Jews," he said.

More: Prague Post 

Belgium: Muslim shouts "Death to the Jews"

Via antisemitisme.be, h/t CFCA:

During an event at the CCLJ (Jewish Secular Community Center), a Muslim convert entered a neighboring building and shouted "Allah Akbar" and "Death to the Jews".  He was arrested by the police.

UK: Guardian op-ed claims Israel runs US foreign policy (and responsible for anti-western terrorists)

Via CiF Watch.

An op-ed in The Guardian by Carne Ross tries to answer the question why Obama is so stupid.  Answer?  It must be the Jews.  He can't possibly be acting in America's self-interests, so he must be acting in Israel's self-interests.

Ross says as follows:

As Egypt drifts into a persistent low-level civil war, and thousands of Muslim Brothers are imprisoned with barely the pretense of judicial process, the soil is being fertilized for yet another generation of anti-western terrorists.

There’s a legitimate suspicion that US foreign policy on this front is not being driven by America’s own needs. Even Obama said as much: 

In Egypt, we acknowledge that our relationship is anchored in security interests – from the peace treaty with Israel, to shared efforts against violent extremism. 

Indeed, Israel prefers "stability" in Egypt – just as it resists military intervention in Syria or significant game-changing arms supplies, like MANPADs, to the pro-democracy Syrian opposition.

France: 'Death' graffiti on Jewish school

Graffiti was discovered on a Jewish school in Aubervilliers (northern France). The graffiti says "to death".

More: Le Parisien

Greece:Jewish cemetery vandalized

Via CFCA:

Thessaloniki - Two people penetrated through the fence (photo) and desecrated some of the tombs, breaking stones and marbles and messed around by damaging the surroundings.

Norway: Anti-Israel question in education ministry's exam

Via MIFF:

In a Norwegian-language test administered to over 40,000 high-school students across Norway, one of the questions presented two items: A photo a graffiti drawing by British street artist Banksy and an SMS sent by Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert from Gaza during the war in 2009.  The students were asked to discuss the goal of the texts and the methods used.

For both items, the text is biased against Israel.  There is no explanation of why Israel felt it necessary to build a wall, or why it attacked Gaza.

The explanation of the graffiti states as follows: "This graffiti is painted on the wall that the Israeli authorities built in the West Bank. The wall is 8 meters high and surrounds the city of Bethlehem, among other things."

Gilbert's SMS says as follows: "They bombed the central vegetable market in Gaza city two hours ago. 80 injured, 20 killed. All came here to Shifa. Hades! We wade in death, blood and amputees. Many children. Pregnant woman. I have never experienced anything this horrible. Now we hear tanks. Tell it, pass it on, shout it. Anything. DO SOMETHING! DO MORE! We're living in the history books now, all of us!"

The explanation explained that Gilbert and fellow doctor Erik Fosse were in Gaza during the war and were among the only Western witnesses.

Anti-Zionists claim they're only 'criticizing Israel'.  So let me 'criticize Norway' for a second: Norwegians hate Jews Zionists and they teach their kids to hate Jews Zionists. They might have wiped the Jew hatred from their constitution, but it's still imprinted in their minds and in their genes.

Israel: Pope prays by his graffiti message comparing Israel to the Nazis

Via Tom Gross Mideast Media Analysis: On his visit to Bethlehem, the Pope posed to pray by the security barrier.  Which happens to have a "Bethlehem look like Warsaw Ghetto" graffiti.

The graffiti is not there 'from time immemorial'.  It's part of a message to the Pope.  The entire thing says "Pope we need some one to speak about justice, Bethlehem look like Warsaw Ghetto".

In case anybody thought this was an unplanned stop..

All the news stories I saw decided to cut the graffiti out.  The Arab press didn't.

Israel: Arab attacks Jews in 'knockout game'

A Facebook page for the “Al-Bustan Culture Center in Silwan” features a homemade video that appears to show an Arab man engaging in an east Jerusalem version of the anti-Semitic “knockout game.” 

The four-second clip shows three young men dressed in hareidi garb walking with their backs to the camera, and a large bodied man in shorts and a white undershirt approaching them from behind and hitting one of them in the back of the head. The video does not show what transpired afterward, and it is quite possible that the victim and his friends fought back. 

It was received with much hilarity by the Facebook page's fans, whose reactions usually begin or end with "hahahaha."

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