By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik..
An op-ed in the official PA daily published on May 15, the anniversary of the founding of the modern state of Israel, reiterated the Palestinian Authority’s consistent denial of Israel’s right to exist and its hope and expectation for Israel’s destruction. (more…)
Interviews with widows of Jews executed in Arab countries, illustrating Jewish life there in the 1960s. Simha Horesh and Odile Dallal became young widows when their husbands were summarily executed in January and August 1969 respectively by the Ba’ath regime. Charles Horesh was one of nine Jews hanged in Baghdad’s main square after a show trial indicted them for spying for Israel. Odile’s husband never underwent a trial. Neither body was returned to their families. Odile talks of the relief of escaping to Israel. Her children could play in the street without fear, “just as Arab children did.” (more…)
By Israel Today Magazine. The brutal and merciless slaughter of a Jewish man and three Jewish children in southern France last week shone a spotlight back onto a problem many had been doing their best to downplay – the escalating anti-Semitism in Europe. The the Toulouse shooting itself was an anti-Semitic act driven by the killer Mohammed Merah’s irrational hatred of Jews is without question. And yet, there are many coming to his posthumous defense.
By Robert S. Wistrich.. The Holocaust has become a weapon of choice for many of Israel’s worst enemies, for a resurgent anti-Semitism.
In recent years, the Holocaust has been subject to an increasingly sickening blend of ruthless politicization, deliberate distortion, crass commercialization and an often abject sentimentalism. (more…)
On January 20th, 1942, fifteen Nazi leaders came together in Wannsee, outside Berlin, to coordinate the so-called ”final solution”. This was the attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11 million people. Seventy years on, Christians from Germany, Europe and other parts of the world, met in Berlin to decide how together they can step up the fight against Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism in our time. (more…)
Simon Deng, a former South Sudanese slave taken by a neighbor as a young boy to Islamist Northern Sudan, gave this impassioned speech at the Durban Watch Conference in New York, Sept 22, 2011. (more…)
Manfred Gerstenfeld… Out of the total Dutch population of 16 million, Jews represent about two in every thousand. Jews often play a symbolic role in Dutch society which exceeds their actual importance. One facet of this is their image as absolute victims. Second, the Jewish community has on various occasions been used by Dutch authorities as instruments in achieving political goals. (more…)
’The foundation stone of our European civilization is Jewish.’ ’Without the Jewish component in European history our continent could just as well be called ’East Asia.’’ ’What made Europe a distinct culture is the Judeo-Christian heritage.’ These facts have been repeated many times by well-known historians. (more…)
By Anil Machado…Hatred can be explained in many ways, but I often come across some people who hate Jews. Whenever I go on explaining them about Judaism, Israel and Zion, it just ends in an unconvincing rational argument. (more…)
Based on Tatiana de Rosnay’s bestselling novel, the story follows an American woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) living in Paris investigating the arrest of Jewish families that was known as the Vél’ d’hiv’ Round-up in 1942 in Paris. The arrest of Jewish families was carried out by the French, not the Germans. (more…)
