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Anti-Semitic hate crimes spike to record high in Britain
The surge in incidents came after violence erupted between Israel and Palestine in May 2021
10 Feb 2022
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The Community Security Trust’s (CST) Antisemitic Incidents Report for 2021 found that anti-Jewish hate crimes hit the highest annual total ever recorded, with a 34% spike in cases.
On Thursday, the antisemitism monitoring group reported 2,255 incidents, marking the first time it has recorded more than 2,000 cases in a single year. The UK has now seen record annual totals of antisemitic incidents in five of the past six years.
Some of the victims affected by anti-Semitism were targeted in online campaigns that saw “dozens of accounts sending hundreds or even thousands of tweets, images or posts” that were classed as abusive.
With Jewish individuals also being subjected to verbal abuse, hate mail or anti-Semitic graffiti, one report saw people driving through Jewish neighborhoods in vehicles draped with Palestinian flags and singling out Jewish pedestrians for harassment.
CST claimed that the record figure was “driven by the significant spike in anti-Jewish hate reported during and following the escalation in violence in Israel and Gaza” in May 2021. Together, incidents in May and June 2021, directly after the outbreak of conflict between the two regions, accounted for 39% of the annual total.
“When there is a trigger event, it consistently affects the levels of anti-Jewish hate directed at the diaspora Jewish community in the UK,” the charity warned. It cited how over a third of all anti-Semitic incidents in 2021 “alluded or were related to Israel and the Middle East” as evidence for this assertion.
Universities demand staff disclose ties to Jewish, Israeli groups
The demand follows a freedom of information request filed with a dozen of
Dutch universities by a group Jewish media called ‘anti-Israeli’
The administrations of about a dozen Dutch universities have reportedly demanded their staff hand over information on their relationships over the past 10 years with a long list of Jewish and Israeli institutions, following a request by a Netherlands-based NGO, the Rights Forum. The news was reported by the Dutch-Jewish media outlet NIW on Thursday.
The request obtained and cited by the paper asks the academic institutions whether they would share documents and information about their dealings with various Jewish entities, including Israeli universities, institutions, and companies, as well as contacts with “organizations promoting support for the State of Israel,” NIW reported.
The Rights Forum appeared to be particularly interested in student exchanges the Dutch universities had with Israeli educational institutions, but the list of Jewish organizations of concern did not stop at that. It also included the US-based Anti-Defamation League, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and even the Dutch government’s office of the National Coordinator for Fighting Antisemitism.
All the collected information, reportedly including email correspondence and contacts, should then be handed over to the Rights Forum, which NIW described as a “pro-Palestinian” and “anti-Israel” group that had been previously “accused of anti-Semitism.”
The outlet admits that it is unclear if the universities had complied with the request and whether they would do that “in full.” It did say, however, that the directors of “a number of universities” forwarded the request to their employees without prior review by the legal department, arguing that they were “obliged” to do so by the law. Some universities refused to discuss the matter with employees.
Under a 1991 Dutch law, anyone can submit a freedom of information request to make information on any “administrative matter” public. The law, which is designed to be a means of keeping government policies transparent, applies to the Dutch universities.
The request sparked an uproar from various Jewish associations in the Netherlands and beyond. “This reeks of antisemitism, but it comes as no surprise to me given this group’s reputation,” Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs said.
“What really concerns me is the number of universities that were so compliant with such a transparently antisemitic request. It reminds us that most mayors cooperated during the occupation to pass on the names of their Jewish citizens to the Germans,” he added.
The NIW, which broke the news, also called the development “frightening” as it pointed to the fact that organizations “fighting anti-Semitism” were described in the request as involved in the “systematic oppression, discrimination, dispossession and exclusion of Palestinians.”
There has been no mention of the request on the Rights Forum’s website, nor has the group commented on the reports. It was founded by the former Dutch prime minister, Dries van Agt, back in 2009, and describes itself as a “knowledge center on the Palestine/Israel issue,” which is “committed to a just and sustainable Dutch and European policy with regard to the Palestine/Israel issue.”
It also says that the international community has so far failed to create conditions for a “just peace” and adds that the group seeks to “change that.”
The Jerusalem Post described van Agt as a controversial figure, who compared Israel to Nazi Germany and argued that Jews should have been given a “piece of land” in Germany and not in Palestine.
Sure, and then the Netherlands would have been up in arms because Israel was on their border. They seem to be completely unaware of the Jewish presence in the Holy Land for thousands of years. And they seem to be unaware that any sign of Palestinian presence in the Holy Land can be traced to the late 19th century.
Germany: Arabic department of taxpayer-funded broadcaster
Deutsche Welle fired for antisemitism
FEB 11, 2022 11:00 AM
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
Ironically, although former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was an open-borders globalist, she admitted in 2018 that anti-Semitism was “coming to the country from ‘refugees or people of Arab origin.‘” The problem hasn’t subsided.
Germany has welcomed in massive numbers of Muslim migrants and faces the inevitable fallout, as Merkel recognized at least in part. The country also banned Hizballah activity in 2020, designated it a terror organization, and raided mosques. Then last year, Germany banned Hamas flags in response to a rise in antisemitic attacks.
Expect a steady rise of antisemitism in open-door countries, propagated also to the mainstream population by Islamic supremacists in the guise of a pro-Palestinian “resistance” against the state of Israel.
A similar pattern is seen in France, correlated to Muslim migration. In 2020, the World Zionist Organization (WZO) was reported to be “working on a plan to bring hundreds of thousands of French Jews to Israel.” The population of Jews in France is roughly 453,000. According to WZO Vice-Chair Yaakov Hagoel: “Anti-Semitism is increasing and France is surrendering to jihad.” Hagoel continued: “The worsening economic situation, and the growth of radical Islam are creating a one-time opportunity to break down bureaucratic barriers and bring the Jews of France to Israel.”
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“Workers in the Arabic department of the taxpayer-funded Deutsche Welle
have been fired, and there are 11 other individuals still under investigation,”
by John Cody,
ReMix News,
February 8, 2022:
A number of staffers in Deutsche Welle’s Arabic department have been terminated from Germany’s public broadcaster Deutsche Welle after the employees were accused of antisemitism.
Following allegations against its employees, Deutsche Welle (DW) has initiated termination proceedings in five cases, according to DW director Peter Limbourg during a press conference. The broadcaster gave no information about the employees involved. As a result of the allegations, the broadcaster wants to produce a company-wide definition of antisemitism that all employees must know and not violate. The definition would include the recognition of Israel’s right to exist and the rejection of denial and trivialization of the Holocaust, according to a report from Germany’s Tagesschau news outlet.
In the past few weeks, an external investigation initiated by the broadcaster has been underway against some employees of the Arabic editorial team and freelance Deutsche Welle employees abroad. The investigation began as a result of allegations of antisemitism that became public through a piece in the Süddeutsche Zeitung daily at the end of November. The employees were suspended during the audit.
Former Federal Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and the psychologist Ahmad Mansour presented the results of their external examination. They emphasized that it was a case of isolated misconduct, and that structural antisemitism in the Arabic editorial team was not uncovered.
I'm sure there is no possibility that Ahmad Mansour was the least bit biased!
Besides the five separation procedures, Deutsche Welle is investigating 11 other suspected cases, according to Limbourg.
“I and the management are sincerely sorry that we are in this situation. The mere suspicion that there is antisemitism in a German tax-financed institution must be unbearable for Jews in this country and worldwide,” Limbourg emphasized at the beginning of his speech……
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