By Gil Ronen.. Residents of Gush Etzion astounded to see Nazi flag flying near the mosque of Beit Omar. Hundreds of residents of Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, were astounded Monday morning to see an oversized Nazi flag flying next to a mosque in the Arab town of Beit Omar. The residents notified the IDF. (more…)
By Tsvi Sadan.. The Church of Scotland recently published a report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Christian perspective entitled “The Inheritance of Abraham – A Report on the Promised Land.” You won’t be able to find this report online, as it was quickly removed from the church’s website following sharp protest from Scotland’s Jewish community and Israeli officials. (more…)
By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik.. Two senior Palestinian Authority officials praised the use of violence against Israel last week. Senior PA official praises murderer and another official swears: “If we had a nuke, we’d have used it this very morning” Senior PA official Sultan Abu Al-Einein about murderer who stabbed Israeli to death last week: “We salute the heroic fighter…[who] went against the settler and killed him. Blessings to the breast that nursed [him]” Senior PA official Jibril Rajoub: “I swear that if we had a nuke, we’d have used it this very morning.” (more…)
By Matt Lebovitz.. On the anniversary of the country’s union with Hitler, a former child refugee preps for the premiere of her long-gestating film. As a little girl in 1940, Gita Kaufman escaped Vienna with her family at the last possible moment. Austria had been under German control for two years, following the bloodless “Anschluss,” or union, of March 12, 1938. The annexation was a boon to Nazi anti-Jewish policy, as the largely affluent Jewish community of Vienna fell into German hands. (more…)
By Zach Pontz.. An Egyptian newspaper featured two articles on Tuesday that promote the libel that Jews drink Christian – and Muslim – blood on Passover. Anonymous blogger Elder of Ziyon spotted the articles in Egypt’s Misrelgdida (“New Egypt”) newspaper. The first is an article by a Palestinian Arab, Mennat al-Sayed, in which he gives a “history” of Passover blood rituals that, he claims, continues, at least in some form, to this day against Arabs. (more…)
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius has strongly condemned recent acts of anti-Jewish vandalism in the capital Vilnius. Lithuanian police discovered Nazi slogans drawn on a former concentration camp after Adolf Hitler’s 124th birthday on 20 April. The slogans “Heil Hitler,” “Jews out” in German and a swastika were scrawled on the pavement near the HKP 562 labor camp in Vilnius. Linkevicius said in a statement: “It is especially horrific that these anti-Semitic slogans appeared near two historically sensitive sites for the Jewish nation.” (more…)
By JTA.. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has signed a declaration about combating anti-Semitism, saying the bigotry “pollutes our world right now.” In the presence of Jewish leaders in Sydney, Gillard signed the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism on Tuesday (April 23, 2013), a declaration first adopted in 2009 by 125 legislators from more than 40 countries. (more…)
By WJC.. Richard A. Falk, 82, a special adviser to the United Nations Human Rights Council, has blamed America’s relationship with Israel as one of the reasons that triggered the Boston bombings. In an article titled ‘A Commentary on the Marathon Murders’, Falk, who is emeritus professor of international law at Princeton University, wrote: “As long as Tel Aviv has the compliant ear of the American political establishment, those who wish for peace and justice in the world should not rest easy.” (more…)
By WJC.. A new report by the US State Department on the human rights situation world-wide found rising anti-Semitism in a number of countries, including Greece, Hungary, Ukraine and Venezuela. The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices were transmitted last week by US Secretary of State John Kerry to Congress. They deal with issues such as prison conditions, treatment of minorities, sexual equality and freedom on the internet and also include a section on anti-Semitism in each country covered. (more…)
