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School Board Member Calls Jews ‘Brutes’ And Blames Them For Anti-Semitic Shootings. Shockingly, She Receives Support From Some Quarters. | Forbes

Joan Terrell-Paige

As most people know, last week two heavily armed gunmen killed a police officer and two customers and an employee at a kosher market in Jersey City. The FBI has declared the attack a case of domestic terrorism. But, incredibly, an elected member of Jersey City’s school board has defended the attackers, calling Jews “brutes.”

School board member Joan Terrell-Paige wrote on her Facebook page: “Where was all this faith and hope when black homeowners were threatened, intimidated and harassed by I WANT TO BUY YOUR HOUSE brutes of the Jewish community? They brazenly came on the property of Ward F black homeowners and waved bags of money.”

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→ 19 December 2019
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Why you should know San Remo | IFF

League of Nations Delegates who attended the San Remo Conference, April 1920

Many people know the Balfour Declaration of Nov. 2, 1917 and the U.N. Vote on the Partition Plan on Nov. 29, 1947 as the two main international political events that led to Israel’s Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948.

On December 11, 1917, which was the eve of Hanukkah, General Allenby led the British troops into Jerusalem. Allenby was hailed as the savior of the Jews, especially in light of the fact that one month earlier Britain had issued the Balfour Declaration.

However, there is a misconception that the Balfour Declaration was just a letter of intent, and not a binding legal document. The reason for this misconception is that most people are not aware of the San Remo Conference which took place on April 19, 1920, lasted for seven days and published its resolutions on April 25, 1920. These seven days laid the political foundation for the creation of the 22 Arab League States and the one and only Jewish State of Israel.

The full text of the Balfour Declaration became an integral part of the San Remo resolution and the British Mandate for Palestine, thereby transforming it from a letter of intent into a legally-binding foundational document under international law.

Did the Arabs oppose the creation of a Jewish State at San Remo? The answer is a resounding NO!

Emir Feisal and Chaim Weizmann, 1918.
Dr Chaim Weizmann (left) and Emir Faisal of Iraq

At that time they were focused on the creation of independent Arab states and had no objection to the establishment of a tiny Jewish state in Palestine. This was formalized in the Weizmann-Feisal agreement which led to the League of Nations recognizing the Land of Israel (then Palestine) as the homeland of the Jewish people.

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→ 19 December 2019
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Windy Chanukah celebration in Wellington | J-Wire

It wasn’t an equal contest today on the stage at Wellington’s Botanic Garden Sound Shell – Wellington’s wind v. a large Hannukiah. The wind toppled the candelabra, split it in half, smashed the glass candle-holders, and scattered the candles.

But the show went on. Wellington Mayor Andy Foster, Israeli Ambassador Itzhak Gerberg, National MP Alfred Ngaro, former Attorney-General Chris Finlayson, Jewish community and interfaith leaders were staunch with lighting the eight candles – lined up on a table – in spite of the continuing wind gusts. The Hanukkah ceremony continued with singing, Klezmer music provided by The Kugels, and Israeli dancing.

Earlier, when the dignitaries gave short addresses, Mayor Andy Foster made a statement that gave comfort and pleasure to the Jews in the crowd.

He said that he personally supports the adoption by Wellington City Council of the widely-recognised definition of antisemitism written by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, and will recommend it to City Councillors as a way of supporting the Wellington Jewish community, which he said had contributed a lot to the city over the years.

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→ 18 December 2019
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The British working class saves Britain – and its Jews | Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips

The relief was overwhelming. When the exit poll on Thursday evening correctly predicted a large majority for Boris Johnson’s Conservative party, British Jews allowed themselves to breathe again. Overcome by the sense of deliverance from a great evil, some wept.

Immediately before the election, both Labour and Conservative party hierarchies had been seized by the belief that Britain was heading for a hung parliament and a coalition led by Labour’s hard-left leader Jeremy Corbyn. Many British Jews were gripped by a deep sense of dread and panic.

In the event, Labour was pulverised and the Conservatives won by a majority of 80 MPs, the biggest since Margaret Thatcher’s third victory in 1987. 

The stakes in this election were enormous, not just for Britain but for the world. Labour is led by the most far-left leadership in its history, supporting terrorists abroad and incubating virulent antisemitism at home. If elected it would have wrecked Britain’s economy, attacked the State of Israel and posed a mortal threat to the security of Britain, its Jewish community and the west.

It was defeated by a seismic shift which may just have redrawn the British political landscape for ever.

What happened was something most people had believed was unthinkable. As I observed on my own blog in September, however, a tectonic shift was under way in the Labour heartlands.

The white working class, those blue-collar workers who had been tribal Labour supporters for generations, voted en masse for the Conservatives for the first time ever.

Boris Johnson effectively smashed the “red wall”, the swathes of hitherto rock-solid Labour-held seats in the north of England and the Midlands which all turned blue overnight.

Astoundingly, economically shattered communities with very high levels of poverty and unemployment, even former mining towns whose inhabitants had voted Labour virtually from the time the party was invented, all voted on Thursday for an Eton-educated, plummy-voiced toff in preference to the leader of the Labour party.

Why? Because the British working-class is deeply, passionately patriotic and attached to democracy. They are the very best of Britain. Time and again they have saved the country in its wars against tyranny by putting their lives on the line to defend what it stands for: their historic culture, institutions and values.

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→ 17 December 2019
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Boris Johnson to pass law banning anti-Israel boycott | The Independent

Boris Johnson, PM of the UK

Boris Johnson will attempt to pass a law banning local councils from joining the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, the UK’s special envoy for post-Holocaust issues has announced.

Eric Pickles said the movement was “antisemitic and should be treated as such” during a speech at the International Institute for Strategic Dialogue’s conference in Jerusalem on Sunday.

He said the new law would not allow public bodies to work with those who boycott, divest from or sanction Israel, the Jerusalem Post reported.

It comes after Donald Trump, the US president, signed an executive order effectively definition Judaism as a nationality, not just a religion – in a move which could suppress the BDS movement.

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→ 17 December 2019
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Corbynism Lost, But its Cultists Are Still Blaming the Jews [incl. Norman Finkelstein] | Middle East Forum

UK Labour (soon to be former) leader Jeremy Corbyn

The dogwhistle attacks on Jews for Labour’s historic defeat has already begun. They will only get louder

One thing I have learnt this election: British people are a lot more anti-Semitic than I thought.

It’s been a traumatic learning curve for someone who grew up here and for whom anti-Semitism had never intruded into daily life – or not outside the context of being a journalist reporting on Israel-Palestine. That milieu meant familiarity with the kind of far-left extremists who appropriated the Labour party in 2015, when Jeremy Corbyn became leader.

I knew them well from reporting on parliamentary meetings and the usual round of academic and activist lectures: box-ticking radicals for whom the Palestinian struggle was more an ideological cipher than a real and messy conflict.

The lunatics took over the asylum and unleashed an epidemic: on social media, at least, where most of this filth was spread and amplified.

There’s something peculiarly freeing about social media’s immediacy and anonymity. For ordinary, mild-mannered Brits, it offers the chance to give full rein to instincts and prejudices usually kept safely restrained and repressed. And the engine of accusations against “enemy centrists” and Jews was constantly fuelled by agitprop from a wild pro-Corbyn disinformation sphere.

If you don’t support Labour, you hate the NHS. If you oppose Corbyn, you hate disabled people. If you’re Jewish as well, then you’re part of an organised smear campaign to malign Corbyn, the world’s bravest campaigner for Palestinian rights. And probably rich and greedy, too.

All the greats were rolled out to show the Jews that other Jews were telling them they were wrong, they were victims of false consciousness, right-wing shills and undeclared agents of the Israeli state – Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein and Haaretz’s own Gideon Levy, who in his bitter dotage has squandered the legitimacy he once had.

The Jewish conspiracy was alive and well and living in the mind of otherwise woke and well-meaning progressives.

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→ 16 December 2019
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AUCKLAND: Pre-Chanukah Celebration: Dec 17: 3pm

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→ 12 December 2019
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Jersey City shootout: Mayor says deadly attack on kosher deli was a targeted hate crime ‘Targeted | Washington Post

The suspects began their killing spree at a Jersey City cemetery, fatally shooting a veteran police officer before driving a stolen U-Haul van to the front door of a family-owned kosher market and opening fire again — setting off a hours-long gun battle that would leave a total of six people dead and the Jewish community on both sides of the Hudson River in mourning.

As the investigation continued Tuesday, authorities directly involved in the case were hesitant to identify a motive for the two suspects, whose bodies were recovered among the hundreds of shell casings beside the store owner, a bystander and an employee. But Jewish leaders were quick to call the attack an act of hate, and both Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made public statements condemning anti-Semitism.

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→ 12 December 2019
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With election day looming, Jews in Britain are at a loss on how to vote amid rising anti-Semitism | Washington Post

Corbyn v Johnson

Britain’s Jewish community is on edge before a pivotal vote. Thursday’s general election is a bitter contest over two radically different visions of the country, but many say Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party has normalized anti-Semitism in public debate to an unprecedented degree.

For months, the campaign has featured a standoff between Corbyn and Prime Minister Boris Johnson, of the Conservative Party, over Brexit and the aftermath of austerity politics. But constant allegations of anti-Semitism have dogged the Labour Party, which in the past has found support from many in the tiny Jewish community, which accounts for no more than 0.5 percent of the total population but finds itself in the center of the public eye.

Forty-seven percent of British Jews say they will consider leaving the country if Corbyn is elected prime minister, according to a poll conducted by the Jewish Chronicle, Britain’s most influential Jewish newspaper. According to a separate poll, 86 percent of British Jews view Corbyn as anti-Semitic.

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→ 12 December 2019
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Judaeophobia in Transition | Gerloff

The Die Rechte Party uses the slogan “Israel is our misfortune!” as their slogan in a recent government election. This is a play on the old Nazi slogan “Jews are our misfortune!”

…you do not need intellectual sophistication in order to realize: The ancient ghost Judaeophobia is alive and well in Europe. Racist notes, insulting emails, anti-Semitic slogans at football matches or just remarks in passing, graffiti, and the desecration of memorials and cemeteries are obvious symptoms.

Germany today

Thus, on May 1, 2019, in Frankfurt am Main a Jewish businessman was called a “shitty Jew”. On May 6 in Hamm, the Left-Wing Youth of North Rhine-Westphalia demanded on Facebook the complete annihilation of the state of Israel. On May 10, an Israeli flag was burned in Berlin at the memorial site for victims of a terrorist attack. On May 18, the political party “The Right” played sound recordings of a multiple-convicted Holocaust denier in front of the synagogue in Pforzheim. On the same day, the house of a Jewish couple in Hemmingen, Lower Saxony was targeted with an arson attack.

On June 1, a young Jewess in Berlin-Charlottenburg was told: “Actually, Hitler should return and kill the rest as well.” On July 13, in Freiburg, a man harassed the chairwoman of the Jewish community: “I’m not surprised that Hitler gassed you, you idiots.” And: “Off with you! Otherwise I’ll kill you, you whore!” On August 10, a man with a Star of David chain was insulted by employees at Berlin’s Tegel Airport and thrown off a flight. Three days later, a Jew in Charlottenburg was knocked to the ground by two men. Eyewitnesses did not intervene, according to the victim.

In September, a young man talking in front of a discotheque in Hebrew is slapped in the face in Berlin. Despite a ban on performing for two anti-Semitic rappers, 500 people take part in an anti-Israel rally in the German capital in the same month. In a football match in Frankfurt am Main, the Israeli referee is called “Judensau”.

When a heavily armed man tried to intrude into a synagogue in Halle on the Saale on October 9, no Jewish person who knows Germany was truly surprised. The plan of the violent offender failed because the Jewish community had taken good security precautions. But two passers-by were murdered.

Anyone who wears a kippah or a Star of David in the German public of the 21st century, speaks Hebrew, shows an Israeli flag or otherwise shows his attachment to the Jewish people, must expect to be offended, insulted, threatened, stoned or beaten. In 2019, Jews in the Federal Republic of Germany were denied access to restaurants and they got to see the Hitler salute.

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