Tuesday, 29 November 2011

The 70th anniversary of Hitler meeting the Mufti (Elder of Ziyon)

"The Mufti isn't a Palestinian Arab hero despite his Jew-hatred.  He is a hero because of it."

"It seems that my meeting with Eichmann undermined efforts deployed at the time with the Führer to stop the genocide of the Jews." [1]

Today is the 70th anniversary of Hitler meeting the Mufti (Elder of Ziyon, 28/11/2011)

Germany stands for an uncompromising struggle against the Jews. It is self-evident that the struggle against the Jewish national homeland in Palestine forms part of this struggle, since such a national homeland would be nothing other than a political base for the destructive influence of Jewish interests. Germany also knows that the claim that Jewry plays the role of an economic pioneer in Palestine is a lie. Only the Arabs work there, not the Jews. Germany is determined to call on the European nations one by one to solve the Jewish problem and, at the proper moment, to address the same appeal to non-European peoples....At some not yet precisely known, but in any case not very distant point in time, the German armies will reach the southern edge of the Caucasus. As soon as this is the case, the Führer will himself give the Arab world his assurance that the hour of liberation has arrived. At this point, the sole German aim will be the destruction of the Jews living in the Arab space under the protection of British power. (Adolf Hitler to Haj Amin Al-Husseini, mufti of Jerusalem, November 28, 1941)

The Mufti of Jerusalem was the undisputed leader of Palestinian Arab nationalism from the 1920s through the 1940s, and his hatred of Jews pervaded all he did.

It will be recalled that the Mufti was given his position by the British because he was regarded as a "moderate." This is what gave him the platform to start his career of inciting against and murdering Jews in earnest.

He was responsible for the anti-Jewish pogroms in Palestine in 1920, 1921 and 1929; he initiated the deadly riots from 1936-1939, and he initiated contact with the Nazis as soon as they came to power in order to come up with ways to work together with them to get rid of the Jews.

Not only that, but towards the end of the war, he pulled out all the stops to murder Jewish children rather than have them rescued - even when the desperate Nazis were considering swapping them for money or for German prisoners. Meaning that his desire to murder Jews exceeded even that of Hitler himself.

The Mufti was an unrepentant anti-semite and desired nothing less than the complete genocide of the entire Jewish people, every man, woman and child.


Today, November 28th, is the anniversary of the Mufti's seminal meeting with Hitler where the Fuehrer explained his genocidal plans in detail to his kindred anti-semite.
Today, the Mufti of Jerusalem is considered a hero among Palestinian Arab leadership.

One year ago, Mahmoud Abbas said in a speech,
We must also recall the outstanding [early] leader of the Palestinian people, the Grand Mufti of Palestine -- Haj Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, who sponsored the struggle from the beginning, and sponsored the struggle and was displaced for the cause and died away from his home."

Monday, 28 November 2011

70th anniversary of Hitler and Mufti of Jerusalem meeting at the Reich Chancellery in Berlin

On  28 November 1941, the Mufti of JerusalemHaj Amine El-Husseini, Yasser Arafat's uncle, was invited to meet Adolf Hitler at the Reich Chancellery in Berlin where he was living at the time.  Two other high-ranking Nazi criminals Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Affairs minister, and Fritz GrobbaBerlin's envoy to the Middle East and former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Irak, also attended the meeting.  After the war, the Mufti boasted to Edward Saab, Le Monde's correspondent in Lebanon, of the role he had played in the Holocaust (6 million European Jews - including one and a half million children - were exterminated by the Nazis and their accomplices):

"It seems that my interview with Eichmann undermined efforts deployed at the time with the Führer to stop the genocide of the Jews." [1]
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"After seeing the evidence, the International Court reported the following:

"It has been proved to us that the Mufti aimed at the implementation of the Final Solution, viz., the extermination of European Jewry, and there is no doubt that, had Hitler succeeded in conquering Palestine, the Jewish population of there as well would have been subject to total extermination, with the support of the Mufti.""

Eichman's deputy, Dieter Wisliceny, went on to speak at the Tribunal of the Mufti and his entourage:

"The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and advisor of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan... He was one of Eichmann's best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chambers of Auschwitz." [2]


See: The Hezbollah Nazi legacy, by Joël Rubinfeld
Nazi salute adopted by Palestinian terrorist groups and Lebanese Hezbollah.
Click for an enlarged version

Sunday, 27 November 2011

Belgian Jewish teen threatened with more violence changes school (update)

Update: Océane, the 13-year-old victim, received numerous threats this week - text messages, facebook and emails.  Her father is outraged and indicated that she will change schools.   Typically, the victim has to leave.  She and her sister were the only Jewish pupils in the school.  Her sister who is 16 and can defend herself better will remain in the school.

Background: Belgian Jews in shock over beating of 13-year-old girl (23/11/2011)

Some details have emerged since the incident was revealed.  Her father is Jewish and her mother is not.  But to all intents and purposes she is considered by her aggressors as being a "dirty Jew".  Oceane told a Flemish TV channel that for youngsters the word Jew has become an insult.  While she was being beatean only her friend tried to help, other teenagers who were at the scene just looked on.  She has been called several times "Dirty Jew", but it's the first time she was beaten.  Julien Klener warned that violence against Jews has become common in Brussels and that victims don't bother to report. Brussels Jewish parliamentarian, and author of the only book about contemporary antisemitism in Belgium, Viviane Teitelbaum indicated that she had received lots of emails from parents telling that their children are harrassed. Some have had to change school. Ms. Teitelbaum stated that time has come to ring alarm bells and make sure that antisemites cannot behave in the knowledge that their behaviour will go unpunished.  

Things are indeed unsettling to say the least.  A Belgian highschool teacher Pierre Piccinin complained on Facebook that he was being persecuted by the Jewish mafia and that soon fear will switch sides - meaning that soon it will be the Jews who will be afraid.  He has made several anti-Jewish remarks.  There were no reactions at all and he has now created an organisation to protect freedom of speech which he assumes the Jewish mafia is trying to take away from him and other like-minded people.

Arutz Sheva 7: Five Muslim Moroccan girls in Belgium beat a 13-year-old classmate, called her a "dirty Jew” and told her to "return your country.”

The girl, Oceane Sluijzer, has filed a complaint with police after the anti-Semitic attack at a sports training center. The attackers were identified and questioned by police.

Jewish legislator Viviane Teitelbaum of Brussels denounced the "silence" of political leaders and most of media after this attack.

Friday, 25 November 2011

Photo of Swiss teacher with nasi goreng pack in front of the Auschwitz gate

On a visit organised by a Jewish association to the Auschwitz extermination camp, Bernard Junod, a Swiss teacher had his photo taken holding a pack of nasi goreng and posted it on Internet.  And what a happy and smiling face he has.

On his Smartvote profile he indicated that his favourite book is «Mein Kampf» and that his favourite composer is Richard Wagner, much loved by the Nazis and Adolf himself. As to «Mein Kampf», Bernard Junod confirmed that he likes the book because the author came from nowhere and climbed to the top.

It is not uncommon in Europe for people to make fun of the Jews and of the Holocaust.

Source: 20 minutes. The title of the article is pretty unfortunate, it reads that a teacher "shocks the Jews". One would have thought that he has shocked more people than just the Jews...

Thursday, 24 November 2011

Israeli law-makers verbally assaulted in Brussels

Mks Castigated in Brussels Restaurant

Some MKs participating in the Conference of the European Parliament in Brussels were verbally abused by a group of anti-Israel activists. MKs Anastasia Michaeli [photo], Yaakov Edri, Daniel Ben Simon, and Nachman Shai reported the assault at the entrance to a restaurant, but stressed that it was non-physical. (Maariv)

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Belgian Jews in shock over beating of 13-year-old girl

Some details have emerged since the incident was revealed.  Her father is Jewish and her mother is not.  But to all intents and purposes she is considered by her aggressors as being a "dirty Jew".  Oceane told a Flemish TV channel that for youngsters the word Jew has become an insult.  While she was being beatean only her friend tried to help, other teenagers who were at the scene just looked on.  She has been called several times "Dirty Jew", but it's the first time she was beaten.  Julien Klener warned that violence against Jews has become common in Brussels and that victims don't bother to report. Brussels Jewish parliamentarian, and author of the only book about contemporary antisemitism in Belgium, Viviane Teitelbaum indicated that she had received lots of emails from parents telling that their children are harrassed. Some have had to change school. Ms. Teitelbaum stated that time has come to ring alarm bells and make sure that antisemites cannot behave in the knowledge that their behaviour will go unpunished.  

Things are indeed unsettling to say the least.  A Belgian highschool teacher Pierre Piccinin complained on Facebook that he was being persecuted by the Jewish mafia and that soon fear will switch sides - meaning that soon it will be the Jews who will be afraid.  He has made several anti-Jewish remarks.  There were no reactions at all and he has now created an organisation to protect freedom of speech which he assumes the Jewish mafia is trying to take away from him and other like-minded people.

Arutz Sheva 7: Five Muslim Moroccan girls in Belgium beat a 13-year-old classmate, called her a "dirty Jew” and told her to "return your country.”

The girl, Oceane Sluijzer, has filed a complaint with police after the anti-Semitic attack at a sports training center. The attackers were identified and questioned by police.

Jewish legislator Viviane Teitelbaum of Brussels denounced the "silence" of political leaders and most of media after this attack.

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Anti-Semitism: Norwegian rap band with modern version of the blood libel

"I guess some Americans just don't remember...
There’s a slave graveyard under the World Trade Center!"

Of course they obsessed with Israel and America ("I guess some Americans just don't remember...
There’s a slave graveyard under the World Trade Center!" - "some Americans" but "all Jews" - when they refer to Israelis one assumes they mean Jews and not Israeli Arabs)

Source: Norway, Israel and the Jews (Rappers delight: Norwegian band Gatas Parlament with modern version of the blood libel)

Norwegian rap band with a lefty twist, Gatas Parlament, must have a most peculiar muse inspiring their poetic and peace loving music.  Here is a sample of their attitudes towards Jews (euphemistically called Israelis….)

All of us are antiracist, don’t accuse us for being antisemmetic, yeah
Grenade rain down over the roofs of Gaza.
Hits hospitals, hits kindergarden kids, hits everywhere.
Of course we’re talking about an apartheid state.
They build a wall between themselves and those who should’nt have citizenship.
For if you call it blood-palestine then no rules apply and believe that it gives
a new macabre meaning to the word blood orange
If it’s grown in stolen land and harvested from a dead body.
Not in my name, not for my money.
It’s not enough to stand around and cry anymore.
So we must attack fundamentalists and show Israel
Cause they don’t care about resolutions anyway.
Just a small piece of a much bigger picture.
Like when we boicotted when I was much younger.
The responsibility lies with us all so we want everyone
with us everyone with concience, Boycott Israel!

Lovely! I suppose we just have to take their word for their claim to be anti-racists?"

Monday, 21 November 2011

Brussels: a 13-year-old girl beaten because she is Jewish

After training at a sports center in a residential area in Brussels (Neder-Over-Hembeek), a Jewish girl aged 13 was getting ready to leave with a friend when a dispute broke out with five girls (from Morocco). The Jewish teen complained she was fed up with the girls making disparaging remarks about her and her family.

They told her to shut up and called her "a dirty Jew". One of the girls splapped her twice in the face. The little girl wanted to leave in order to avoid an escalation, but the same girl repeated "shut up you dirty Jew and go back to your country".  The five girls then grabbed her by the hair and punched her head on her knees. Blows fell from on all sides and was unable to defend herself against the five other girls.

The incident was reported to the police in Brussels. Her tormentors have been identified and the police will investigate the case.

Source: antisemitisme.be

Sunday, 20 November 2011

Ian Kershaw on the Last Days of the Third Reich: 'Hitler's Influence Was Fatal'

"SPIEGEL: You write that the German arms industry produced its largest volume of weapons in December 1944, despite the devastating bombing war.
Kershaw: Without Speer's ability to maintain arms production under the most adverse circumstances, the war would have ended much earlier. Until the Ardennes Offensive, he and his people performed veritable miracles when it came to producing ammunition. There is no other way of putting it."

In a SPIEGEL interview, the best-selling British historian Ian Kershaw talks about the last days of the Third Reich, why the Germans persevered when it was clear that all was lost and the devastating consequences of the failed July 20, 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler.

SPIEGEL: Professor Kershaw, you have spent the last three years studying the collapse of Nazi Germany. In the end, are we left to shake our heads in amazement at the absurdity of the final phase, or do you, as a historian, also feel something akin to admiration for the perseverance of the Germans?

Kershaw: The head-shaking predominates, at any rate. I'm convinced that we English would have given up much earlier. It's certainly unusual for a country to continue fighting to the point of complete self-destruction. It's the sort of thing we usually see in civil wars, but not in conflicts in which hostile nations are at war with one another.

SPIEGEL: The question of why the Germans persevered for so long is the starting point of your new book. What would have been the obvious thing to do?

Kershaw: In any armed conflict, there is eventually a point at which one side realizes that it's over. If the people in power don't give up but instead continue to plunge the country into ruin, there is either a revolution from below, as was the case in Germany and Russia near the end of World War I, or there is a coup by the elites, who attempt to save what can still be saved. An example of that is the overthrow of Benito Mussolini in Italy in July 1943.
Read the whole piece :
Part 1: 'Hitler's Influence Was Fatal'

Saturday, 19 November 2011

French Jewish policians evicted ahead of election

The negotiations between the French Socialist party and the Greens for the appointment of candidates in Paris  for the upcoming elections resulted in the booting out of several Jewish politicians Serge Blisko, Tony Dreyfus, Danièle Hoffman Rispal and Daniel Goldberg.

The CRIF (French Jewish umbrella organisation) also points out that Yves Contassot who will be put forward as a candidate is a well known Israel-basher.  The whole left Socialist party and the Greens are anti-Israel, but Contassot is know for among one of the most virulent.

Elisabeth Guigou, a former minister who will replace, Daniel Goldberg also has a history of Israel-bashing and supports Israel boycott campaign.

Friday, 18 November 2011

European Parliament urges US to recognize Palestinian State

European Parliament calls on EU and US to address the Palestinians’ ‘legitimate demand’ for UN statehood recognition.

STRASBOURG (EJP, by Yossi Lempkowicz)---Ahead of the EU-US summit in Washington later this month, the European Parliament has called on both sides to address "Palestinians' legitimate demand" at the United Nations.

In a resolution passed in a show of hands Thursday in Strasbourg, France, where the assembly holds its monthly session, MEPs called on the EU and the US to support emerging democracies in North Africa, push for a resumption of direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and "address the legitimate demand of the Palestinians to be represented as a state at the United Nations as a result of negotiations within the UN framework".
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At the European parliament, it's neither Shimon Peres nor Netanyahu who get standing ovations.  It's Mahmoud Abbas who gets a standing ovation.  On 4 Feb 2009, PA President Mahmoud Abbas in an address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg"You must stop cooperating with Israel as it's placing itself above the law. Their actions have no legal basis and must be ended. Israeli leaders should also be charged with infringing international humanitarian law."   They love Mahmoud Abbas as they loved Arafat.

Thursday, 17 November 2011

Meet the Belgian 'Checkpoint Singers'

Here they are

If you happen to be in Brussels on November 25, dont miss the CheckPoint singers. They will be performing and telling their trip to the "occupied territories" and explain once again that Israelis are monsters.  They will speak of "checkpoints, the wall, the theft of land by the colonialists, the struggle for water and land, detention, infrastructure apartheid. We brought our songs to Palestine. Now we are bearing witness in front of you in the hope for increased solidarity towards the Palestinian people."

The event also includes a visit to the "Cast Lead" - more Israel-bashing - exhibition/project.

The whole thing is supported by the Belgian government and obviously paid by the unsuspecting and reluctant tax-payer.

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Is Belgium endorsing the 'Israel Apartheid State' concept?

"To attack Israel by using the word "apartheid" is therefore to deracialise a racist concept, and it runs the risk of inviting anyone who visits, or truly understands, Israel to say that if this is apartheid, apartheid must have been a perfectly reasonable system. Hendrik Verwoerd will laugh from the depths of hell. To be fair, some of the more cunning operators inside the Israeli-apartheid brigade are aware of this." (Robin Shepherd)

It looks as though Belgium endorsing the 'Israel Apartheid State' concept. A press conference is being held tomorrow to present the findings of the third session of Russell Tribunal for Palestine held in Cape Town.  See NGO Monitor report: HERE and more HERE. The findings: "The Tribunal finds that Israel subjects the Palestinian people to an institutionalised regime of domination amounting to apartheid as defined under international law. [...] the Tribunal concludes that Israel’s rule over the Palestinian people, wherever they reside, collectively amounts to a single integrated regime of apartheid."

The kangaroo court was created by a Belgian Pierre Galand.  The press conference will take place at the De Markten Theatre "the cultural centre in the heart of Brussels" - run by the Flemish authorities.  An anti-Israel and anti-US exhibition ("project") "Cast Lead #2" is alsoo being shown now at De Markten.

In a full two year period since this charade has been going on Jewish leaders have not raised a single protest and ignored it.  The South African Jewish community has to be commended for having ensured that the charade was a failure.  The cartoon below is by Carlos Latuff.
http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/images/uploads/israel_apartheid.jpg

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

More 'warnings' and criticism from France to Israel

This is a little known fact. France has a Consulate in Gaza, thus recognizing the legitimacy of  Hamas terrorist government in the Gaza Strip.  And the site HERE.  It is very cleverly done.  America has a virtual e-consulate in Gaza, France has a physical very real consulate.

Source: Aroutz Sheva 7

France warned Israel on Tuesday not to endanger civilians after one of its diplomats and his family was wounded in a retaliatory strike carried out by the IAF.

French foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said the French consul in Gaza, 'Franco-Palestinian' citizen Majdi Shakura, was injured in an airstrike on the Hamas-run enclave in the early hours of Monday morning.

According to Shakura, the blast blew out the windows of his house, resulting in the diplomat and his 13-year-old daughter being cut by flying glass and his 42-year-old wife to miscarry two months into her pregnancy.

The strike reportedly targeted the nearby home of a member of the Hamas terror organization, which controls Gaza. Local emergency services said a 20-year-old member of Hamas' 'naval security forces' was killed in the strike.

"France regrets this airstrike," Valero said. "While being committed to Israeli security, France notes the absolute necessity of avoiding all harm to civilians. The Israeli authorities have been reminded of this imperative."

Legal experts note – contrary to popular belief – there is no such requirement under international laws governing warfare.  Billeting combatants, storing munitions, and launching attacks from civilian areas as Hamas does is a violation of international law. Nor is Israel proscribed from launching counter-strikes on such areas if legitimate military targets are present.

Monday, 14 November 2011

Abravanel: Antisemitic ministers and Holocaust deniers enter the new Greek government

In other words a minister of the Greek government [Adonis Georgiadis] was called by a neonazi [Konstantin Plevris] to defend his book which advocated the extermination of the Greek Jewish Community.  (About Plevris see: - K. Plevris: "I am a Nazi and a fascist, I am racist, anti-democratic and I am an anti-Semite" and Kostas Plevris: Hitler could have rid Europe of the Jews but did not.)  And guess what?  Nicolas Sarkozy has sent his congratulations to the new Government. European politicians, the elites, the media and the European Commission have remained silent and focused their attention on Berlusconi's departure.  Thus avoiding unpleasant subjects.

“Let’s talk about the myth of Auschwitz and Dachau and talk about these ovens, to talk about these gas chambers, whether the gas chambers were insulated to hold gas inside or they were simple bricks” (George Karatzaferis)

A. What happened ?

Under international pressure over erroneous political decisions concerning the economic policy, the socialist government led by Yorgos Papandreou collapsed. A new government of national unity was formed led by former European Central Bank vice-president Lukas Papademos and supported by the majoritarian socialist party PASOK, the conservative Nea Dimokratia and the far-Right LàOS; the leftist SYRIZA and the Greek Communist Party have declined to participate. Although there is a long history of public antisemitism within all greek parties, it was usually kept under control by moderate leadership; these new developments mark the first time that the antisemitic far-Right gains institutional access and real power by entering in four ministries with one minister and three undersecretaries.

B. The recent history of the LàOS party

Until 2000 the greek Far-Right practically consisted of two major groups: the faction inside the greek conservative party of Nea Dimokratia and a small neonazi galaxy of groups in which the violent Chrisi Avgi, (Golden Dawn) was prominent. The domination of the two major parties, the conservative Nea Dimokratia and the socialist PASOK in which nationalistic and antisemitic sentiments were tolerated but also kept in check, gave grounds to the often cited but misleading assumption that a strong Far-Right does not exist in Greece.
All this changed when Yorgos Karatzaferis, a parliamentarian from Nea Dimokratia was expelled in 2000 when he accused the party leader of being surrounded by gays. Immediately after he created his new party called LàOS, (Popular Orthodox Rally), which managed 4 years later to enter the European Parliament and 3 years afterwards to enter the Greek Parliament.

Sunday, 13 November 2011

Greek member of Gov't: Jews crucified God the only time he came to earth

"On a televised debate with Israel's ambassador to Greece he said: "Lets talk about all these tales of Auschwitz and Dachau"; in 2002 during a parliament session he asked the then Greek prime minister: "Is it true that your daughter secretly married a Jew?"; and during Operation Cast Lead in 2008, Karatzaferis said that the IDF was acting "with savage brutality only seen in Hitler's time towards helpless people." (YNET news)

When it is convenient Karatzaferis is a Holocaust denier speaking of the Auschwitz and Dachau tales (myth), and when it is convenient he is not and compares Israel to Nazism and accuses "the main victims of Hitler's brutality turned into the same heinous murderers as their persecutor".

Below statements made by George Karatzaferis, member of the new Greek Government:

EJP (Sept. 2007)
In 2001, Karatzaferis stated that "the Jews have no right to provoke, because they have filled the world with crimes". "The Jews have no legitimacy to speak in Greece and provoke the political world. Their impudence is crass".

Abravanel - At the Greek Parliament on 17 June 2006)

"Let me close with this one. In the Protocols of the Elders of Zion who, of course, I don’t know who wrote them. The Zionists deny that they have written them. I don’t care who he is, whoever he may be, should be a Nobel graduate. A century ago this man had predicted – whoever he is, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, I don’t care, Russian or American – these things that happen today. Whatever is being described in the Protocols of Zion is becoming reality today. One Goverment, one currency for all of Europe. And this for me is the coming of the New Order of things."

Full speech in Greek HERE.  The Protocols are on sale HERE

JTA (Dec. 2008)
"Someone has to pull the ear of the darling child of the West, Israel. Its aggressiveness and malice against non-combatants, whose only precedent can be found during Hitler's time, cannot leave the international community indifferent."

Saturday, 12 November 2011

Young Jewish artists in Germany boldly define the 'New Jew'

Source: Spiegel on Line

Monsters occasionally assume a completely unexpected appearance. All of a sudden, Adolf Hitler is standing onstage wearing an Adidas tracksuit and flip-flops, and his name isn't Hitler; it's Oliver Polak. And the monster isn't really Adolf Hitler, either; it's the audience's laughter. It starts with a sputter, like something trying to break free from its restraints. But then it bursts out as if suddenly liberated. 

These are the moments in which Polak has gotten very close to the truth. It's a complicated truth because it has to do with something that became a given long ago: that Germans are supposed to be ashamed and sad about what they did to the Jews. And somehow that was also enough.

But what happens when someone stands onstage at a comedy club in Berlin making jokes about Jews and the Holocaust? When the mere mention of the railway system triggers a segue into the subject of deportations? When he slyly adds: "I'm allowed to do that. I'm a Jew." And when his audience primarily laughs because it isn't quite sure whether it's even OK to laugh?

The 'New Jew' Movement
Polak is a comedian. A few weeks after his show, the 35-year-old is sitting in a friend's apartment in Berlin's downtown Mitte district. Darkness is slowly descending on the street outside.

Friday, 11 November 2011

Holocaust denier and truther set for key role in Greek government?

"Lets talk about all these tales of Auschwitz and Dachau."

"A professed anti-Semitic politician cannot serve in a government with which the German government will need to negotiate billions in aid," Committee Chairman of the Central Committee of German Jews Dieter Graumann told Germany's Bild.

In 2009 he complained of "blood craving Jews".  Obviously he seems to be considered as a respectable man in present day Europe.

(YNet) Georgios Karatzaferis, right-wing leader who previously compared IDF to Hitler may have major role in new government

Jewish organizations in Germany have expressed their shock over plans in Greece to involve the extreme right wing party LAOS, led by Georgios Karatzaferis, in Greece's provisional government.  Greek media reported Thursday that Karatzaferis played a central role in the steps that led to the establishment of a government that would try to navigate Greece out of its debt crisis by implementing a European financial plan. The reports also said he was set to be part of the new government.

Reports claim that in the last few years, Karatzaferis made a long line of anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli statements. After the 9/11 attacks in New York, the politician posed the question "why were all the Jews warned not to come to work that day?" before the Greek parliament.

On a televised debate with Israel's ambassador to Greece he said: "Lets talk about all these tales of Auschwitz and Dachau"; in 2002 during a parliament session he asked the then Greek prime minister: "Is it true that your daughter secretly married a Jew?"; and during Operation Cast Lead in 2008, Karatzaferis said that the IDF was acting "with savage brutality only seen in Hitler's time towards helpless people." [...]


Thursday, 10 November 2011

French newspaper op-ed: analogy of occupation and rape of Palestine by Israel

Source: CRIF

Libération, a French newspaper with a large readership, published an op-ed by Rana Nashashibi, a Palestinian from Jerusalem, who is a teacher and a militant, entitled : "Peace process, an empty concept". She explains that Israel is not at war with the Palestinians because it is the occupying and colonial power.

Then she develops the idea of the Palestinian  people being raped by Israel.  This was developed at length in this essay 2004 at the German Goethe Institute: Violence against Women, The Analogy of Occupation and Rape; “The case of the Palestininan People”

She writes in Libération (translation): "We, Palestinians, we want a peace which gives us back justice and freedom. The international community wants Israelis and Palestinians to reach an agreement without interfering and without putting pressure on Israel. This situation can be compared to that of the police officer who flies to the rescue of a raped woman raped and then asks the couple to agree to inform him of the situation, so that he may bless it. Those who read this sentence, particularly the militants who fight against violence and rape, know that this demand and this situation are absurd! How can an agreement be forced upon an usurped Palestinian woman without stopping in the first place transgressions (violations) and rape?"

No wonder that only 32% of the Israeli public consider that France is friendly to Israel.  There is not a single French newspaper which has a neutral line on Israel.  They are either critical or ferociously critical.  And don't say it is anti-semitism - quite a few French journalists are Jewish ... and one of the main shareholders of Libération is Jewish: "In January 2005, Édouard de Rothschild invested 20 million euros for a 37% majority shareholding in the French newspaper Libération. The left-wing daily was founded by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and Maoist militant journalist Serge July in 1973 but in recent years has sustained substantial losses."

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Jews leaving Malmö in Sweden and the community Rabbi fears the hatred he meets in the city.

Source: Norway, Israel and the Jews (The way Sweden is going…)

With kind collaboration from a reader with contacts in Sweden. Lets just hope this scenario does not pan out in Norway…

Jews are leaving Malmö in Sweden and the community Rabbi fears the hatred he meets in the city.

In a unique interview in the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter the Rabbi of Malmö blames the political leaders for the hatred growing with young Muslims. In peaceful Sweden Jews are not safe and can not walk the streets without fear. It is almost unreal that this is Sweden in 2011, not 1941.

“I wasn’t prepared for the hatred I was to face”

In recent years the hatred of Jews has increased in Malmö. many translocate from there. Rabbi Shneur Kesselman has chosen to stay. But when he came to Malmö seven years ago, he was not prepared for the hatred he would face.
Seven years ago the Jewish Rabbi Shneur Kesselman and his wife  moved to Malmö. He grew up in the car city of Detroit in the northern United States.  "We had many Muslims neighbors and never experienced unpleasantness. But in Malmö … when the young guys shout “support Hitler” after me it has gone very far. I wasn’t prepared for the hatred I would meet here as a Jew."

The Jewish community in Malmö today has about 650 members, the number has steadily decreased in recent years. Young people choose to study in other locations, retirees follow their children. Anti-Semitism also make members  leave the city. The Kesselman couple have no plans to leave the city.
More HERE

Monday, 7 November 2011

Sarkozy tells Obama that Netanyahu is a liar

President Sarkozy told President Obama during the G20 summit that the Prime Minister of Israel is a liar.  Both leaders thought the microphones were off.

Barack Obama criticized Sarkozy for not having warned him that France would be voting for the accession of Palestine to UNESCO, while he knew that the United States strongly opposed the move. The conversation then drifted to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister. They were convinced they were not being heard and Sarkozy declared: "I cannot stant him. He is a liar". "You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!" replied Obama. He then asked Sarkozy to try to convince the Palestinians to Palestinians to ease up on their membership application at the UN.

As usual the French say one thing and then do the opposite.  France had been telling the Israelis that they would not vote for Palestine becoming a full member of UNESCO and then did.  And then say that Israelis are liars and make the U.S. and their European partners look bad for siding with Israel!

Source: Arrêt sur Images

France: Holocaust cartoon in response to 'Charia Hebdo'

Following ‘Charlie Hebdo’ is petrol bombed (see Harry's Place for story)
By way of retaliation a Dieudonné fan produced the cartoon below poking fun at the Holocaust and Jewish greed.  A Jew says: "In exchange for the creation of Palestine, I'll accept a one million discount on the six million".  The six million is a reference to the extermination of six million European Jews - including one and a half million children - by the Nazis and their European friends.
H/T Joël Rubinfeld

Sunday, 6 November 2011

70 years ago the Mufti of Jerusalem arrived in Nazi Germany

"Germany stands for an uncompromising struggle against the Jews. It is self-evident that the struggle against the Jewish national homeland in Palestine forms part of this struggle, since such a national homeland would be nothing other than a political base for the destructive influence of Jewish interests. Germany also knows that the claim that Jewry plays the role of an economic pioneer in Palestine is a lie. Only the Arabs work there, not the Jews. Germany is determined to call on the European nations one by one to solve the Jewish problem and, at the proper moment, to address the same appeal to non-European peoples."—Adolf Hitler to Haj Amin Al-Husseini, mufti of Jerusalem, November 28, 1941

On 6 November 1941, the Führer of the Arabs arrived in Berlin and was welcomed by the Führer of the Germans.

Source: The Hoover Institute (The Mufti and the Holocaust - John Rosenthal on Der Mufti von Jerusalem und die Nationalsozialisten by Klaus Gensicke)

The persistence of widespread Judeophobia in the Muslim world is hardly a matter of dispute, even if many commentators are inclined to dismiss it as merely an “understandable” reaction to Israeli “oppression.” Among those who take the phenomenon seriously, however, a debate has been taking place of late about its origins. The debate has been spurred on, notably, by the publication in English translation of the German political scientist Matthias Küntzel’s book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11. The central thesis of Küntzel’s book is that anti-Semitism — or, more precisely, modern anti-Semitism as crystallized in the “Jewish world conspiracy” theory — was largely imported into the Muslim world from Nazi Germany.

Now, one might have expected that opponents of Islamism would welcome a book showing the direct influence of the Third Reich upon the development of the Islamist movement and, most notably, on the Muslim Brotherhood, the pivotal organization in its history. In normal political discourse, after all, pointing out the links of an organization or movement to National Socialism does not exactly constitute an endorsement. Ironically, however, Küntzel’s book has been most roundly criticized — indeed outright denounced — by precisely the most adamant foes of Islamic extremism. For the most part self-styled experts in Islam, the latter have insisted, as against Küntzel’s thesis, that Muslim anti-Semitism is, in effect, a strictly Muslim affair.

The Gensicke volume provides considerable support for the thesis that “native” Islamic sources of anti-Semitism are primordial in Muslim or Arab anti-Semitism.

Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem and the “father” of Palestinian radicalism, is obviously a key figure for such debates. As is well known, from 1941 to 1945 Husseini lived in Berlin as the honored guest of Nazi Germany. During this time, he notably collaborated with the Nazis in assembling the Muslim ss division “Handzar” in Bosnia, as well as in numerous propaganda activities aimed at Arab speakers. Whereas the facts of Husseini’s collaboration with the Nazis are widely known, what is less know, however, is the degree to which the mufti was influenced by or indeed himself influenced his hosts on an ideological and programmatic level. But a new book by German historian Klaus Gensicke titled Der Mufti von Jerusalem und die Nationalsozialisten — “The Mufti of Jerusalem and the National Socialists” — sheds light on precisely this question. Based largely on primary source materials from the German archives, Gensicke’s volume provides unparalleled insight into the details of the mufti’s relationship to his Nazi hosts: at least as seen from the German side.

More HERE

Tutu tells European kangaroo court: Israel has forgotten the scripture

Europe may be facing a terrible financial crisis, but Europeans will always find plenty of money to demonise Israel.  An association in Belgium - which was not criticized let alone condemned by any of the numerous Jewish associations - has created a kangaroo court, pompously named Russell Tribunal on Palestine.  Thank you Europe, thank you Belgium.

NGO Monitor deconstructs the 'court': http://www.russelltribunal.org/ and Facebook page: Russell the Kangaroo

Their third session is being held in Cape Town and the star guest is Archbishop Tutu (in spite all their efferts he is the only famous person who accepted to be drawn into the Russell circus) who was only too happy to demonize Israel.

Source: South Africa Times

The suffering inflicted by Israel on the Palestinian people shows that it has forgotten the Jewish scriptures, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said on Saturday.

"They have forgotten their own history. They have forgotten what their own prophets have said about our God," Tutu said in his opening address to the International Russell Tribunal on Palestine.

"We worship a God that is naturally biased in favour of the suffering, the underdog, those who are suffering underfoot... God is always on the side of the oppressed. In the Holy Land, the Palestinian people are the ones suffering."

Friday, 4 November 2011

Trade union leader in Belgium threatens Jewish schools because of Israel’s reaction to UNESCO vote

Deckers wrote to Joods Actueel to say that he was sorry for the offence he had caused, but did not offer a proper apology.  Neither did the Teachers' Union.  The Flemish have a joke that pretends that Jews have long toes, i.e. that they are always complaining - if your toes are too long they are likely to be trodden on and hurt more easily than someone whose toes are of a normal size, hence the funny and hysterical complaints by the Jews.  Implying that the Jews are sly and professional complainers.  On a more serious and sinister tone, if this reaction was made public by an union leader one wonders what is said and done in private about Jews and Israel among teachers, union leaders and members.  There are about 20,000 Jews in Flanders.

ANTWERP (EJP)---A trade union leader in Belgium has threatened to take action against Jewish schools in retaliation for the Israeli government policy towards the Palestinians, Jewish monthly Joods Actueel reported.
Following the vote on Monday to grant the Palestinians full UNESCO membership and the subsequent Israeli government decision to accelerate  settlement building and to freeze transfers of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority, Hugo Deckers [photo], secretary general of ACOD, the Socialist trade union for the education sector, sent an e-mail  to the chief editor of  the Jewish magazine  in which he welcomed the UNESCO vote and referred to the Israeli decision.
"If this is the (Israeli) reaction, I would be happy as union leader to bring the Jewish schools in Antwerp in the news. I fear you are going to scare," he wrote.
In his response, chief editor Michael Freilich said: "This is yet another proof of the new anti-Zionist anti-Semitism in which Jews over the world are threatened and accused of actions on which they have no control."
He continued: "We have said many times but will repeat it: Jews in our country are Belgians, Flemish. They have no influence on the situation in the Middle East.They do not go to the army, pay no taxes and cannot vote. Yes, they have an opinion about the conflict, and like everyone else they are free to express an opinion about anything and everything, whether the military action in Libya, the euro crisis or the situation in the Middle East. We live in a free country. To blackmail people because of their views or because of their religion is totally illegal."
"The reaction of Hugo Deckers is scandalous and reflects very little respect for our democratic values ​​and poor knowledge about the difference between a religion and a nationality," Freilich added. 
The Forum of Jewish organizations in Antwerp plans to lodge a complaint against the union leader.

Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Antisemitic posters in Paris

Source: Facebook: here and here.  These posters were spotted in several main areas of Paris.

"Dregs' dream" (déchets: garbage) Let's fulfil their hopes!"

The inscription on the little girl's body indicates that she will never grow up because she is considered as garbage by Israel.

"The dregs want us like this.  Let's slaughter the dregs."

Tuesday, 1 November 2011

The Irish eyes not smiling on Israel: those of old anti-American warhorse Michael D. Higgins

Michael D. Higgins, veteran Irish leftist politician and poet, who's now, unexpectedly, President of Eire, could never be mistaken for a warm supporter Israel. (Be sure to look here, which is where I obtained this photo.) Known for his vehement criticism of the United States as well as of Israel, he first visited Gaza in the 1980s, and in 2004 paid a fulsome tribute to Arafat following the latter's death, attending a candlelit vigil organised by the Ireland-Palestine Soldarity Campaign. He objects to the description of Hamas as a "terrorist" organisation, and in 2007 shared a platform with Hezbollah.

Although his office is largely a ceremonial one, lacking real powers, he's obviously well-positioned to influence public opinion - in a country whose Palestine Solidarity movement is widely considered to be the most virulently anti-Israel in the entire British Isles.

The following speech that he delivered in the Irish Parliament in June 2010, in which he condemns Operation Cast Lead, asserts that he's "sick and tired" of hearing that supplies are getting into Gaza, abhors the proscription of Hamas, and rails against Israel's attack on the Mavi Marmara, captures something of his attitude - albeit in a deceptively low-key way. He is good enough (unlike some of Israel's leftist detractors) to denounce rocket attacks on Sderot - but his voice becomes unmistakably ever more indignant against Israel as the speech proceeds. [There were not 20 people to listen to him....]

Source: Daphne Anson