Turkey: "Zionist takeover" plot on TV

Kind of ironic that a man whose stated goal is to make Turkey into an empire accuses "the Jews" of trying to do the same.

the "Red Apple" series, which has become a tremendous success among millions of viewers in Turkey and around the world, devoutly presents the ruler's worldview.

In the episode aired over the weekend, the Israelis – led by a female Mossad agent, a blond one of course – are trying to thwart Turkey's ambitions to become an empire. The agent gets an order not to hesitate to murder "the enemies," and a young man wearing a skullcap, who is presented as "Aharon Feller, a member of a Golan Heights kibbutz and an offspring of the Maccabees," lights a Hanukkah menorah before going out to fulfill her orders.

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But the Israelis in the series have plans of their own: To establish the "Sons of Zion Kingdom" in Turkey in collaboration with the Kurd separatist movement and members of the Armenian minority, and to extend it from the Egyptian Nile to the Euphrates River in Iraq.

More: Ynet

Austria: Holocaust memorial stones desecrated

Via CFCA:

Stumbling stones in Salzburg, in memory of Jewish Holocaust victims, were vandalized.  The stones were painted over with black paint.

Hungary: 20% of votes to antisemitic Jobbik party

Sweeping gains by Hungary’s neo-Nazi Jobbik party provoked concern across Europe after the anti-Semitic organisation won one in five votes in a general election which returned the maverick right-wing Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, to power. 

Results showed that far-right Jobbik, which wants detention camps for Roma “deviants” and has argued that Jews are a “national security risk”, had upped its share of support by five per cent and had secured 20.86 per cent of the vote in Sunday’s election. 

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However, its success at the polls caused alarm in much of Europe. Moshe Kantor, the president of the European Jewish Congress, described Jobbik as an “unashamedly neo-Nazi party” and said its electoral success should serve as a “wake up call”. “This is a party that feeds on hate,” he said.

More: The Indepedent

Poland: "F**k the Jews" graffiti in Auschwitz

Via CFCA:

Graffiti "F**k the Jews" in Oświęcim (Auschwitz)

UK: "Israeli tail is being allowed to wag the US dog"

Via CiF Watch:

The blurring of ‘professional’ journalism with political advocacy was on full display recently in a “serious” journal known as the Financial Times - the British equivalent of the U.S.-based Wall Street Journal, which largely focuses on international business and economic news.  The April 3 report by David Gardner descends to hyperbole in the very strap line of the story by employing a trope – suggesting that Israel controls the United States

More: CiF Watch

Norway: Jewish leader says circumcision ban will wipe out Jewish community

The Norwegian Liberal Party's national congress rejected a proposal to support a minimum age of 15 for male circumcision.  A large minority supported the measure.

Prior to the vote, Ervin Kohn, head of Oslo's Jewish community, told the delegates that passing such a measure will wipe out the Jewish community.  That is to say, Jews won't get on the first plane out, but it will be impossible to bring in rabbis, and many young Jewish Norwegians will consider moving.

More: Dagbladet, Aftenposten

Update: A third of the delegates supported the measure.

Poland: Pawnshop hangs Jews poster

It should be noted that the local attitudes stereotyping Jews as money-makers is a well known issue in Poland.

Via CFCA:

A pawnshop in Slubice (Western Poland) hung a poster of a Jew holding money.  The shop's owner claims this is not antisemitism, but rather complimenting the Jewish tradition of trade.

Denmark: MP compares Israel to South African Apartheid regime

Jakob Engel-Schmidt, MP for the Danish Liberal Party, wrote an op-ed in Danish newspaper Berlingske, in which he compared Israel's policies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to South Africa's Apartheid regime.  Engel-Schmidt also said that Israel's security concerns cannot excuse the lack of fundamental rights for Palestinians.

The article led to much criticism among Danish politicians.  Today he says he stands by the essence of his article, though he maybe should have reworded it so as to focus on the issue.

More: JydskeVestkysten

Poland: Party in Majdanek extermination camp

Three polish men in their 30s had a party in the Majdanek extermination camp.  The three entered the former prisoner barracks and photographed themselves smoking, drinking and eating.

They uploaded the photos to Facebook.  After the issue was reported to the police, the men claimed they were not neo-Nazi or antisemitic and did not realize the severity of their deeds.

More: Ynet

France: "The Jews are rich and they buy properties to throw people out of their homes"

 Ido Daniel, on the visit of Israeli students in French universities (in translation):

In the university of Lyon, I met Nicolas.  When he saw Israelis on campus, he came up to me and politely asked about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the peace process.  When we finished, he paused for a moment, and said he had a simpler solution to the Middle East conflict.  "You just need to wipe out Israel," he said with a smile.  I smiled back at his cynical joke.  "Why?" I asked.  "You understand," he said, "what's happening in the Middle East is exactly what's happening here in France.  The Jews are rich and they buy properties to throw people out of their homes.  How do you have so much money?"

Nicolas continued smiling, but the smile was wiped off my face.  He wasn't cynical, he wasn't joking. He meant everything he said.

See more reports on the trip here and here.

France: Anelka says Jewish wife controls French PM

Soccer star Nicolas Anelka said the Jewish wife of French Prime Minister Manuel Valls influenced the politician to oppose the quenelle salute. 

Anelka, who was fired last week from his British soccer team for performing the gesture in December, made the charges in an interview published  Friday by the French edition of the Metronews daily. 

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“He’s not so bad,” Anelka told Metronews of Valls. “I think he was under the influence of his wife on this quenelle issue.”

More: JTA

Shabbat Shalom!

Shabbat Shalom to all my readers!

Matti Caspi singing about getting ready for Shabbat ("Shir Am Naki"):

 

Hungary: Jews are 'tumor' in Hungarian body

The Hungarian Dawn candidate in Vas (Western Hungary), Radányi-Kovács Tamással, did not hide his anti-Roma and anti-Jewish views in a recent interview.  He said the 'racist Zionist Jews' have no place in Hungary and that like the Gypsy criminals, they are a tumor in the Hungarian body.

More: TEV

Poland: Jewish gravestones used in home construction

Seven Jewish gravestones were discovered to have been used in the construction of a home in Poland. 

The gravestones were used to build the ceiling of the basement of a home in Golina, TV Konin reported. 

It is believed that the headstones came from the destroyed Jewish cemetery in the town. No gravestones remain in the cemetery, according to the report.

 
 More: JTA

France: Man claims synagogue, Hitler quenelles are 'anti-Zionism', not anti-semitism

The correctional tribunal of Bordeaux on Wednesday convicted the defendant, a 28-year-old Moroccan native, of incitement to racial hatred for performing the quenelle in front of a synagogue, and fined him the equivalent of $4,130.

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The defendant, who was arrested, interrogated and then released pending trial on January 17, said he is not an anti-Semite. “On my Facebook account I try not to confuse anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism,” he reportedly said during his trial.

His Facebook account also features a photo of a man performing a quenelle in front of a portrait of Adolf Hitler, with the caption: “I committed suicide but nowadays I’d get the Nobel Peace Prize.”

More: Times of Israel