UK: MP declares Bradford an "Israel-free zone"

Two complaints were lodged against controversial British politician George Galloway, after he called for Bradford to be declared an “Israel-free zone,” the BBC reported Thursday. Galloway’s calls were being investigated by in order to determine whether they qualified as hate speech. 

Speaking during a meeting with activists on Saturday, the Respect MP urged the public to boycott Israel in response to its ongoing military campaign in the Gaza Strip. 

“We don’t want any Israeli goods; we don’t want any Israeli services; we don’t want any Israeli academics coming to the university or the college,” Galloway said. 

“We don’t even want any Israeli tourists to come to Bradford even if any of them had thought of doing so. We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel – and you have to do the same,” he told the audience.

More: Times of Israel

Netherlands: Hotelier cancels reservation of Israeli family over Gaza war (and then apologizes)

A Dutch hotelier apologized for canceling the reservation of an Israeli family over Israel’s actions in Gaza. 

Mart Muis, who last week canceled the reservation of the Natzitz family from Kiryat Ono, Israel, at his bed & breakfast in Waterland, near Amsterdam, said he had “a moment of insanity” when he sent the email canceling the reservation, the Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad weekly reported. 

Muis wrote he canceled the reservation, which was booked through the Israeli tour operator Sababa, “primarily because every day I get angrier and angrier when I see and read how much suffering and death and loss Israel is causing in Gaza. As long as this disproportionate violence of Israel continues, I will not accept guests from Israel.”

More: Times of Israel

Denmark: Jewish school forbids religious symbols, for security concerns

A Jewish school in Denmark informed parents that its pupils are no longer allowed to wear religious symbols near school grounds.

The private Caroline School in Copenhagen informed parents of the policy in a recent letter, the Jyllands-Posten daily reported Friday.  The letter said it was not permissible for students of the 7th, 8th and 9th grades to leave school premises if they are wearing visible Jewish symbols. 

“If a boy wears a kippah, we will ask him to put in a cap so it is no longer visible,” principal Jan Hansen said. 

Hansen said the measures were part of his schools “level of security, which is higher than in normal schools.”  

He added: “Unfortunately, it is the consequence of being a Jewish institution, but it something that we and the students are used to.” 

More: JTA

Netherlands: Holocaust monument defaced, 'Free Gaza' graffiti

A memorial to the Jews of Gorinchem who were murdered in the Holocaust was defaced and a "Free Gaza" graffiti sprayed next to it.

More: DeStadGorinchem.nl

Germany: Window of Jewish woman smashed

A beer bottle was thrown through the window of a Jewish woman in Frankfurt. When she stepped outside, she was called a "Jewish pig" and other insults.

The woman is an activist against antisemitism.

More: CFCA, Frankfurter Rundschau

UK: Tricycle Theatre refuses to host Jewish Film Festival over Israeli sponsorship

A major London theatre has refused to host the UK Jewish Film Festival because it is sponsored by the Israeli embassy. 

The Tricycle Theatre was scheduled to be the main venue for the UKJFF in November, with 26 films due to be screened there as well as six gala events. 

But in a statement issued on Tuesday, UKJFF executive director Judy Ironside said: “The Tricycle told us that they cannot be associated with a festival which in turn is associated with the UK’s Israel embassy”.

More: Jewish Chronicle

Sweden: Suitcase ripped up because of Israeli flag

Annika Hernroth-Rothstein – Swedish writer, political commentator, and activist in support of Israel – decided to put an Israeli flag on her suitcase as she made her way to Israel Wednesday. When she got off the flight from Stockholm's Arlanda Airport for a stopover in Schiphol, Amsterdam, she was shocked to find that the bag had been vandalized. 

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“I opened my bag and someone has poured soda on my things, the bag is obviously cut with some kind of sharp instrument, and the flag once stitched to it is now half-gone. Worst of all, to me, is that my siddur is wet and damaged. I have kept that from when I first started going to shul, it is a fond memory of my journey back to observant life. When I found it I cried like a baby.

More: Arutz 7

Germany: Israeli karate trainer told he's from a 'nation of murderers'

It's not antisemitism, it's just 'criticizing Israel'.

Israeli karate trainer Shai Hai was attacked by a group of Iranians and Germans in Frankfurt, Germany, at an international karate seminar last week. 

Hai was the headline speaker at the seminar, which was attended by about 90 people and supposedly dedicated to advancing world peace and unity. He was the only Israeli at the international event.  

When he got up to speak, members of the Iranian delegation and about 15 Germans began shouting at him, he told IDF Radio Monday. “They called me a murderer, said I had blood on my hands, that I came from a nation of murderers, that I had gained his position in the karate world by stepping on the bodies of Palestinians, that it is unthinkable to learn martial arts from a person who hails from a nation of murderers, ugly things like that,” he recalled. 

A female attacker tried unsuccessfully to spill red paint on his clothes, Hai added. Another man tried to approach him physically. He responded with the self defense techniques he is trained in: “In a matter of seconds, he had flown halfway across the auditorium,” he said.

More: Arutz 7

Netherlands: Chief rabbi says he'd leave if not for job

After the latest attack, Jacobs shocked many Dutchmen when he told local media that if not for his obligations to the communities he serves, he would leave, in part because of the anti-Semitism problem. His statement grabbed headlines and generated a passionate response from other religious leaders. 

“No one will tell us when to leave Holland,” Jacobs said. “I’m staying here because it’s my shlichut, or mission. But would we stay here if we were private people? I don’t think so.”

More: Times of Israel

Germany: "There is a startling indifference in the German public to the current display of anti-Semitism"

Prominent newspapers, politicians and popular stars in Austria and Germany have responded to the anti-Jewish outburst with a campaign called “Raise Your Voice,” in support of their countries’ Jewish communities. But Samuel Salzborn, a professor of political science at Göttingen University, does not believe that the effort has shifted public opinion. 

“The official line of the German government is happily, clearly against anti-Semitism, but that is resulting in far too little,” Mr. Salzborn said. “There is a startling indifference in the German public to the current display of anti-Semitism.” 

To many of the more than 100,000 Jews in Germany, the outburst of anti-Semitism since the conflict flared in Gaza has a troubling undertone and has stirred especially painful memories. The Central Council of Jews in Germany has received hundreds of calls from members asking whether they should pack their suitcases and leave the country. 

“I have not heard that for many years,” said Dieter Graumann, the council president. “When calls for Jews to be gassed, burned and murdered are bawled on the streets of Germany, that no longer has anything to do with Israel’s politics and Gaza. It is the most abhorrent form of anti-Semitism.”

More: New York Times

Poland: Israeli team attacked by skinheads

The skinheads are simply racist sports fans.  What the Europeans call 'hooligans'.

Two days following an attack on Macabbi Haifa soccer players by pro-Palestinian rioters during a friendly match in Lille, France, a second anti-Semitic has taken place in Poland. On Friday, the F.C. Ashdod soccer team, which has been training in a town near Warsaw, Poland, was attacked by at least 30 skinheads during a local practice game. 

According to reports, the skinheads sat in the stands and started chanting anti-Semitic epithets at the Israeli players. They tried to rush the field, but were stopped by security. The skinheads then returned with reinforcements, and succeeded in bursting onto the playing field, pepper-spraying team owner Jacky Ben-Zaken, coach Nir Klinger, and several other staff members.

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Team management said that some of the attackers had been armed with knives, and that it was quite fortuitous that the situation did not have graver results. 

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Sweden: Politician says Palestinians are being 'slaughtered by the Jewish pigs'

Apparently, he forgot to say "Zionists", the proper Swedish term for Jewish pigs.  That will teach him.  Notice how his local party spokeswoman puts it: He meant to judge Israel "as a state".

He also supports Hamas, a terror group intent on killing Jews.

Omar Omeirat, Social Democrat candidate for the town council of Filipstad, central Sweden, gave a speech in the town on Friday evening advocating diversity and openness.  

On Saturday he sang a very different tune. 

"The entire Muslim world is sitting and watching while our brothers and sisters in Palestine are slaughtered by the Jewish pigs," Omeritat wrote on his Facebook page. 

"May Allah strengthen those who defend Palestine, and be merciful towards the dead Muslims. Amen."

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Omeirat quickly regretted the post, and updated his Facebook status to an apology. 

"He never meant to judge people who are Jews, Christians, or anything else," Feldt explained. "He just meant to judge Israel as a state." 

More: The Local

Belgium: Rabidly antisemitic poet laureate publishes rabidly antisemitic poem

Charles Ducat, Belgian's rabidly antisemitic poet laureate, published another anti-semitic poem "Ashes in their mouth".

The Jews think they're the 'Chosen People' which gives them a right to do whatever they want.  And they think they've earned the right to kill off the Palestinians because they've suffered in Dachau.

Via Joods Actueel, more at Elder of Ziyon.

You're now better. It's written
in The Book. It can be seen in your eye
when you see them approaching: in fanatical clothes,
dusty, their IDs ready in their hand

You look at them as a creator of water
in a world of sand. They live [here] by chance
without promise, can be swept away
like withered leaves. This is your land.

You have learned to keep the fear of persecution
alive without fear, arrogant as the man who chose his enemy for himself.
You knock him down. You are threatened, the outstanding debt gives every bulldozer,

every tank the right to safety
without borders. Your eyes saw the Temple
destroyed, the paving stones bleed under the hooves

of the Crusaders. You're two thousand years old
was there in Treblinka, Schirmeck and Dachau

Though you have stolen their water, shot their children, trapped
them behind barbed wire, you are simply God's people, chosen exactly on
[this ground/these grounds]. Those who still hear the old village screaming
under your woods, your roads, your cities , get ashes in their mouth.

UK: 80% of Jews feel blamed for Israeli actions

The ADL poll of global antisemitism showed that just 8% of Britons are openly antisemitic, making it one the least antisemitic country in the EU.  But the poll only checked for 'traditional' antisemitic attitudes, those usually held by racist right-wingers.  In fact, most Jews in the UK feel attacked and threatened.  And mostly by Muslims and leftists.

As reported by Ha’aretz, a new study analyzing anti-Semitism in England has revealed that approximately 80 percent of British Jews express the belief that non-Jews blame them for the actions taken by the Israeli government. 

According to the study, conducted by Dr. Laura Staetsky and Dr. Jonathan Boyd for the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, anti-Semitism is regularly connected to particular developments in Israel, as Jews feel they are held responsible for military and political decisions of the Israeli government. 

While they do not perceive basic criticism of Israel as a manifestation of anti-Semitism, Jews living in the United Kingdom say that hostile criticism of the Jewish state is experienced as anti-Semitism, especially when it involves calls for boycotts, divestment and sanctions, or accusations that Israel has committed ethnic cleansing.

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When asked who the perpetrators of anti-Semitic acts are, the two most common groups identified were individuals who have a Muslim extremist view and teenagers, the report discloses, noting that victims of anti-Semitism “more commonly identified their assailant as someone holding left-wing views than right-wing views.” 

More: JP Updates

Italy: Imam calls on Allah to kill all Jews

Via Memri (full clip here):

In a Friday sermon in northern Italy, Sheik Abd Al-Barr Al-Rawdhi prayed to Allah to "count [the Jews] one by one and kill them to the very last one." Al-Rawdhi, leading the prayers at Al-Rahma Mosque in San Donà di Piave, the Province of Venice, called upon Allah to "turn their food to poison and make the air they breathe blazing hot." The sermon was posted on the Internet on July 29, 2014.  

Oh Allah, bring upon them that which will make us happy. Oh Allah, count them one by one, and kill them to the very last one. Do not spare a single one of them. Turn their food to poison, make the air they breathe blazing hot, make their slumber full of grief, and make their days black. Oh Allah, plant fear in their hearts.