Articles tagged with "anti semitism"

Movie details rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe

Submitted by: MarilynLeff, November 24th, 2009 Topic: Community Forums




Swastikas spray painted on Jewish graves from "The Monster Among Us," a documentary detailing the rise of anti-Semitism across Europe.

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A young man is walking to his synagogue in London when a group of boys approaches on bicycles. As they pass, one of them punches the young man in the face, unprovoked.



Israel's anti-Semitic friends

Submitted by: MarilynLeff, November 4th, 2009 Topic: Community Forums

There can be few supporters of the Palestinians, still less anti-Zionists, who haven't, at some time or another, been accused of "anti-Semitism." Accusations that anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism have become little more than a ritual exercise in defamation. The danger in making such accusations is, to quote the former Director of the Institute of Jewish Policy Research, Antony Lerman, that it "drains the word antisemitism of any useful meaning." Moreover, its purpose is to discourage criticism of Israel and support of the Palestinians or risk being labeled as anti-Semitic. As I wrote two years ago, "If you cry wolf long and loud enough, when anti-Semitism does raise its head no one will bat an eyelid."



Jacques Attali: 'There is no problem of anti-Semitism in France'

Submitted by: MarilynLeff, October 20th, 2009 Topic: Community Forums

TEL AVIV/PARIS (EJP)-Jacques Attali, a French Jewish intellectual and economist, believes that "there is no problem of anti-Semitism in France."



Far Flung

Submitted by: Messianicmiriam, October 14th, 2009 Topic: Community Forums

The title of Far From Zion: In Search of a Global Jewish Community, the well-meaning but problematic new book by Charles London, has a double edge. On one level, London, a young American Jew who lives in New York, has written an entertaining travelogue about his quest for far-flung and unlikely Jewish communities.



The succa and the swastika

Submitted by: MarilynLeff, October 11th, 2009 Topic: Education Forums

Succot, 1936. The newly appointed German consul-general to Jerusalem, Herr Walter Doehl, stood at his office window hung with an extravagantly tasseled swastika banner, and gazed with curiosity at the sight of clusters of bearded Jews, all draped in prayer shawls and resplendent in the styles and furs of late-medieval Poland, entering and exiting a ramshackle foliage-thatched booth on the other side of the Street of the Prophets where his legation was situated, each clutching what seemed to him to be a lemon and a palm frond. 



Clashes at mosque revered by both Jews and Muslims

Submitted by: Messianicmiriam, September 29th, 2009 Topic: Israel Forums

Michael Jansen was in the Old City of Jerusalem during clashes at a sacred site between Israeli activists and Palestinians Muslim worshippers



Anti-Semitism Strikes Again in Edison Township, New Jersey

Submitted by: Messianicmiriam, September 29th, 2009 Topic: Community Forums

(IsraelNN.com) A New Jersey township was hit this week with its second ant-Semitic attack in two weeks, just a few hours after the end of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year.



For too many, 5769 was the year of the scapegoat

Submitted by: Messianicmiriam, September 23rd, 2009 Topic: Community Forums

President Barack Obama’s Rosh Hashana message had a specific reference which resonated most clearly to those who have observed global events over the past year. 2 comments



Canadian Government’s Fig Leaf of Anti-Semitism

Submitted by: MarilynLeff, September 15th, 2009 Topic: Education Forums

Advancing a Right-wing Foreign-Policy Agenda

by Yves Engler / September 16th, 2009

Which Canadians suffer more discrimination: Those of African descent, Muslims, Latin Americans, South Asians, East Asians, Arabs, First Nations or Jews?



The Refusal to Recognize Anti Semitism

Submitted by: Honeyleft, September 2nd, 2009 Topic: Community Forums

Blood libels against Jews have been with us from time immemorial. Last week, one occurred in a Swedish tabloid, Aftonbladet, where it was falsely claimed that Israeli troops were murdering Palestinians and harvesting their organs. Rejecting Israeli calls for official condemnation, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt retorted that freedom of expression had to be protected and that he lacked time to edit "all strange debate contributions [emphasis added]." 



The Year of the Seed

Submitted by: MarilynLeff, August 26th, 2009 Topic: Education Forums

Rich Maisel was your typical Jewish teenager growing up on New York's Long Island in the early 1980s. He had a strong Jewish identity, was a supporter of Israel, and was active in many Jewish social causes. Torah observance, though, wasn't really part of the equation.



Germany names anti Semitism panel

Submitted by: MarilynLeff, August 13th, 2009 Topic: Community Forums

BERLIN (JTA)   Germany named a panel of 10 Jewish and non-Jewish experts to an anti-Semitism commission.



Franklin: Some FBI agents anti-Semitic

Submitted by: Honeyleft, August 13th, 2009 Topic: Education Forums

 WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The former Pentagon official at the center of the classified information case involving AIPAC staffers accused some FBI agents of displaying anti-Semitism.