Some 1,000 students demonstrated outside the New York headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday, urging the humanitarian group to visit kidnapped IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Gilad Schalit. GUYS YOU ARE ALL ON A COMP AND FREE, he is HOPEFULLY ALIVE, with TERRORISTS! take a minute to help!!!
Is Peres finally getting it? Tired of being asked for concessions, Peres told (Gary Ackerman and American Delgation) that the side making concessions was Israel, which was not getting anything in return from the Palestinians other than the rockets and mortar shells being fired from Gaza. JPOST.
London - The amount of graves being discovered is leading historians to believe that the amount of Jews killed is substantially more than 6m.
Washington - After the 4 Terrorists were caught last week trying to blow up NYC Synogagues, the internet chat sites were abound with terrorists explaining how to get it right the next time...
York U. reprimands students for harassing Jews - great.
Seattle, WA - Muslims Upset with Police Training Program Because of Jewish Sponsor, this is absolutely insane, and would never have been an issue years back?!!? THIS IS NOT A MUSLIM COUNTRY, what is going on? What is the Muslim alternative? No Jews involved in security!?
France Opposes Jewish [Only] Jerusalem - No Kidding. Its almost like every country has a say in Jerusalem except Israel and Jews...
US man gets 65 years for funding Hamas
'Israel guilty for collapse of truce' - 2009 annual report, formally released on Thursday, Amnesty International places sole blame on Israel for the breakdown in the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that led to Operation Cast Lead.
Clinton: US opposes all W. Bank building - good to know finally that you are clearly an enemy.
Spain - Thousand Gather In Brooklyn Marriott To Decry Desecration Of Ancient Jewish Cemeteries In Spain
Being Muslim in America - pamphlet by State Dept legitamizing every terrorist organization in America. It seems they even ignore moderate Islamists cry for eradicating terrorists organization such as CAIR.
"When those in power openly state they want to see you, your race, and your culture exterminated - believe them." Response from former concentration camp survivor when asked "Whats the most important lesson you learned from Auschwitz?"
'40.5% of Israeli Arabs deny Holocaust'
As a practical matter, terrorists may lack much, but they've never lacked for grievances against the United States. Our belief in freedom of speech and religion, our belief in equal rights for women, our support for Israel, our cultural and political influence in the world, these are the true sources of resentment, all mixed in with the lies and conspiracy theories of radical clerics. Great speech by Dick Cheney defending our anti-terror policies: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/34677/Dick+Cheney+Fires+Back!.html
And here we go:
I'm hoping everyone is familiar with the NY Synagogue bomb plot which was diverted thanks ultimately to Gd, through His heroes at the NYPD and FBI: Thanks to Dina's advice, attached is the link to your local precinct if you would like to send a letter of gratitude or call in a thanks. http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/home/precincts.shtml
Poland - Kever of Gerrer Rebbes Defaced with Swastiskas
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - Police believe they have dismantled a major role in neonazistas groups in the state. police have seized more than 300 materials, homemade bombs, and books on Hitler
Israel Tourism poster in UK withdrawn because Syrian Embassy complained when they saw Golan and settlements part of Israel on the tourism "map". I dont think your realize the significance - ITS ISRAEL!!!
Scottish film festival rejects Israeli funding after pro-Palestinian pressure - this is like the Tribeca film Festival in Scottland
Ukraine - Holocaust Film and Jewish Organization banned from schools
Eight Police Officers To Stand Trial For January Attack On Venezuela Synagogue
Norway - Jewish Cemetery Desecrated in Oslo
Tzion of Nadvorna Rebbe ZATZAL Desecrated in Latest Attack
"What are they thinking? What are they thinking, that we are children? What are they thinking, that Israel woke up one morning and decided to shoot?" he asked, indignantly, noting that it made no mention of Kassam rockets fired into the Negev. A few minutes later, Peres - normally calm and soft-spoken in English - was shouting at a reporter from Al-Jazeera who had challenged him, asking how Israel could continue to claim it was right, when the UN report still said it was wrong. "Excuse me, you want an answer? I know as good as you know," Peres snapped. "How do we explain that we are 1,000 Israelis killed by Hamas! One thousand, two hundred Israelis, civilians, by Hamas, by their missiles! Why should they have been killed? Why should they fire? God... please, explain to me? You feel very strong, explain to me! Why did they fire? What for? Hamas! Oh, yeah, okay, you don't know." JPost. Im not very fond of Peres, but there are a few rare moments where I think he gets it.
Blackmailing Israel Before moving on to whats occurred this past week, I am extremely disturbed at our Administration. You should be too - it affects you as well. Obama has basically implied that Israel's existence in the face of a nuke will hinge on its peace with the PA. Israel is adamant that the Iranian issue should be dealt with before focusing on the PA. This is a problem. Iran is a major supporter of PA terrorism, and more importantly, the Arab world recognizes the Iranian threat as well, and are probably banking on Obama stopping Iran. This coupled with the fact that Obama's peace terms are being dictated by Jordan and Co. who are unfortunately also dictating their terms to an appeasing president is discerning. Israel is left out of the equation again, and all her concessions for peace in the past are forgotten - Israel, give up more and only THEN there will be peace. http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3590646/obama-prepares-to-throw-israel-under-the-bus.thtml
The significance of the following will probably not be appreciated by us, we are too far removed. But I can tell you that if this were to have happened in the not so distant past, a brawl would have broken out. I have no idea how this was tolerated! In Austria Neo-Nazis disrupted a ceremony marking the liberation of Mauthausen Concentration Camp, yelling "Heil Hitler!". History in the making...
Also in Austria, a Hotel Owner refuses to rent out his rooms to Jews. Bad experience.
"I think it ok to kill Jews and go on a killing spree" Found in Stephen P. Morgan's journal, the accused murderer of Justin-Jinich, Jewish NYU student.
Toronto - Bnai Brith leaders are trying to ensure that a city funded theater does not allow its venue to the anti-Semitic play "Seven Jewish Children," May 15-18.
Phoenix, AZ - Swastika Graffiti Painted on Future Chabad Center
East Windsor, NJ - 77 Swastikas Spray-Paint on Highway Overpass
Sprinfield, OR - A licensed plate owned by a neo Nazi with the words ZOA "Zionist Owned Government" was recalled by the state.
Australia - 3 Months Jail for Holocaust Denier. I dont know about you, but I'm always pulled between freedom of speech and freedom of hate. Always a fine line, but then you look at what this hate speech produces and you realize the danger.
London - Diplomat Charged for Race Crime Against Jews.
Ashdod, Israel - Gary Robinovitch, the Taxi driver from Ashdod was found brutally murdered in Gan Yavne, police have identified this as terrorist act. Unfortunately, when terrorists attack, or so called freedom fighters, the attack is always brutal, I would rather not go into specifics of how most bodies are found. Acco, Israel - Three Arabs guilty of Yeshiva arson.
Brussels - Jewish leaders boycotted a meeting of EU officials and religious leaders because of the inclusion of anti Semitic Muslim groups at the conference. Also, a Government Watchdog group says anti-Semitism is skyrocketing in Belgium. The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism last week said that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the first four months of 2009 has equaled the number of such incidents recorded in the whole of 2008.
Berlin - Former Cop Fined for Decapitating Hitler Wax Figure...Now lets see, how would a wax figure of Baruch Goldstein or Meir Kahane fare in Israel?
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"There's almost an eagerness to take on the Israeli government to make a point with the Arab world." May 4th, 2009. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on Obama's "decisive confrontation" policies in the Middle East.
(Chances of Your Grandchild being Jewish - Stats on bottom link)
This week Spanish Judge Fernando Andreu decided to probe the IDF's handling of the 2002 Gaza bombing, which killed a Hamas Terrorist leader Salah Shehadeh and 14 others. Take note - the collateral damage from Israel's self defense is whats being probed, not the intended damage of Hamas.
And I found this interesting, Iraq refused to compensate seized assets of Jews who were forced to emigrate to Israel. Although forced to leave by mandate, the official Iraqi policy states that the Jews' emigration was "made out of choice." Sounds like a similar argument from the PA.
In Lithuania a suspicious fire destroyed the Pakruojis Historic Synagogue.
London U.K. Denies Entry To Popular Radio Talk Show Host Michael Savage, yes he's Jewish, his real last name is Weiner, but though this may not be an "Anti-Semitic" act, it does reveal a scary trend of intolerance to only those who may offend Muslims, but not vice versa.
New York - Arab Cartoonists Use Swine Flu Theme to Mock Israeli Leaders, please see article attached to Group page.
In an obvious response, Israel blasted the one-sided UN report on Cast Lead.
Anti-Semitic slurs were directed at the Ambassador to Spain while he was walking. Apparently, the people were yelling for quite some time extremely loud in public. "...the depth of the hatred - these are things you read about and hear about in the media, but when you face it personally, it is different." Shotz
This is not news, but Facebook tolerates Holocaust Denial Groups.
Finally, the CT murder is feared to have been hate based.
On a side note, I posted this to the site recently.
Rabbis have recently stated that the major threat facing the Jewish community, even moreso than Anti-Semitism is Assimilation.
From a spiritual perspective, which is the right way to view things, Assimilation in essence breeds Anti-Semitism and they are closely related, perhaps even cause and effect. We need to take a stand NOW. Please be diligent in educating your family the importance of marrying Jewish.
There are two stories which occurred this past week, with which you may not be familiar, but are painful to watch and read about.
The first is the extremely disturbing murder and torture of a 23 year old French Jew named Ilan Halimi, HY"D (may Gd avenge is blood). In February 2006, Ilan was found naked and handcuffed in South France. He was tortured and burned for 3 weeks while his captors (27!) made crazy demands from his family, only to brutally murder him at the end. His captors ranged from muslim to Neo Nazis, from French to Portuguese. The leader of this barbaric gang, 28 year old muslim Youssouf Fofana, smiled in court this week, as France, at the protest of the Halimi family decided to make this a closed court proceeding. Fofana smiled and yelled Allah is great, and started threatening an intimidating the Halimi's in court with the approval of the Judge. According to Halimi's attorney, the Judge allowed Fofana free reign in court to scare the Halimi's and tell them they were being photographed and went on a tirade, while the Halimi's kept asking that the court shut him up so that the proceedings can continue. After numerous attempts, the Halimis - TODAY - left the court house in protest because of the way the Judge was handling the case. Unfortunately, true to their reputation, the hijacked French are having a difficult time coming to terms that this was an antisemitic attack!
To make matters worse, they are frustrating the lives of the family which lost their son by torture, through a sham legal system, by questioning symantics and treating this Jewish murder case as if it's a mock trial.
The second story is of Leon Klinghoffer. 1985, Leon, an American Jew who was wheelchair bound, was on board the Italian Cruise ship Achille Lauro. Palestinian Terrorists hijacked the ship and a Muslim named Al-Moqui shot Leon and threw his body in the ocean. After 24 years in an Italian prison, Al-Moqui has been released this week.
There are other updates including the CA Jewish professor who made his students "think" by sending out an email equating the Holocaust with Zionism, and the usual lies, slowly gaining acceptance through repetition. And the BMI airlines which didnt have Israel on their inflight map, due to error.
