American neo-Nazis protested in favor of Dr. Michael Link, who used to teach in Arkansas Tech University for 50 years and told students that the Holocaust “didn’t happen.”
Arab-Israeli Conflict Islamic Jihad admits baby, pregnant woman killed by their own rockets | Jerusalem Post
The Islamic Jihad, one of the terror organisations responsible for the recent wave of attacks against Israel, admitted that the baby was killed in Gaza during the latest escalation died as a result of a misfired rocket, TPS reported on Monday.
“A leak from the heroes of the [Islamic Jihad’s] Sarayat al-Quds (Jerusalem Brigades) on the circumstances of the death of the baby Saba Abu ‘Arar indicates that a rocket of the resistance exploded inside the family’s home due to a technical failure, and prematurely exploded,” a news item by Hamas’ al-Risala News said.
Afghanistan’s one and only Jew | BBC
The BBC has interviewed the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan. It’s sad and poignant viewing.
Sixty-year-old Zablon Simintov was born and brought up in Afghanistan’s Jewish community, but now he is the only one remaining.
Despite pressure to convert to Islam, he says he’ll keep practicing his faith.
Click here to watch the video.
Israel steps up strikes as Gaza rocket attacks intensify | AP
JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza militants fired hundreds of rockets into southern Israel on Sunday, killing at least four Israelis and bringing life to a standstill across the region in the bloodiest fighting since a 2014 war. As Israel pounded Gaza with airstrikes, the Palestinian death toll rose to 23, including two pregnant women and two babies.
The bloodshed marked the first Israeli fatalities from rocket fire since the 2014 war. With Palestinian militants threatening to send rockets deeper into Israel and Israeli reinforcements massing near the Gaza frontier, the fighting showed no signs of slowing down.
250 rockets fired from Gaza at Israel | CNN
Jerusalem (CNN) Approximately 250 rockets have been fired by Gaza militants towards Israel, which has responded with airstrikes on more than one hundred targets across the coastal enclave, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
The UN says it is working with Egypt to try to restore a ceasefire and says both sides are putting at risk efforts to relieve the suffering of people in Gaza.
The escalation began Saturday morning with about 50 rockets fired towards Israel within the course of an hour and continued late into the evening.
The IDF said that its Iron Dome aerial defense system had intercepted dozens of the incoming rockets.
In response to the rockets, the IDF said it has carried out airstrikes on about 130 militant targets in Gaza, including a tunnel, rocket launcher sites and other military compounds used by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
How an anti-Semitic cartoon ended up in the New York Times | CNN
Reporters in the New York Times (NYT) newsroom could hear the protesters outside on Monday. “Shame on you!” they shouted. Some held signs that accused the newspaper of being anti-Semitic. Others waved American and Israeli flags.
the demonstrators packed Eighth Avenue in New York City in response to a recent cartoon that was baldly anti-Semitic. The image appeared in international editions of The Times last Thursday. It called to mind “a very dark time in Jewish history,” lawyer Alan Dershowitz said at the protest. “I ask myself, how could it happen?”
That’s what staffers at the Times wanted to know too.
How an anti-Semitic cartoon ended up in the New York Times | CNN
Reporters in the New York Times (NYT) newsroom could hear protesters outside on Monday. “Shame on you!” they shouted. Some held signs that accused the newspaper of being anti-Semitic. Others waved American and Israeli flags.
The demonstrators packed Eighth Avenue in New York City in response to a recent cartoon that was baldly anti-Semitic. The image appeared in international editions of the Times last Thursday. It called to mind “a very dark time in Jewish history,” lawyer Alan Dershowitz said at the protest. “I ask myself, how could it have happened?”
Gov’t report: Bot network operating Eurovision boycott campaign | Jerusalem Post
The Eurovision Song Contest Finals are set to begin on May 14. In NZ, it isn’t a big thing but it does garner a several hundred million TV audience. This year it is being held in Tel Aviv, Israel. Consequently, the BDS Movement has made great effort to have it boycotted. Manipulation of social media seems to be the tactique du jour and the BDS Movement have taken to it with alacrity.
“The anti-semitic BDS Activists are trying every deceptive way to attack Israel, even when dealing with Eurovision which aims to unite people and cultures,” Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan said Thursday. “We have now proven that the boycott organizations are not only antisemitic and support terror, but lie and fabricate support for their agenda.”
The ministry said it began investigating the issue in November 2018. Last month, it sent information on the 232 accounts in question to both Twitter and the European Broadcasting Union. As of Thursday, the Ministry said, 33 of the accounts had been closed.
NZ MP promoting BDS | J-Wire
A New Zealand Labour MP is actively promoting the discriminatory BDS campaign against Israel. Dr Duncan Webb has recently tweeted that “[BDS]… is a concrete way to express a political view…”
Children beat effigy of Judas in Poland, amid persistence of ‘medieval anti-Semitism’ | Washington Post
BERLIN — It’s difficult to see what’s not anti-Semitic about the tradition that was filmed in the Polish town of Pruchnik over Easter.
On the ground, residents had placed a straw-filled effigy, complete with some of the most prevalent stereotypes about Jews, including Orthodox Jewish sidelocks and a large nose.
Then, children and adults began to beat the effigy with sticks, before burning their “Judas.”
With anti-Semitic attacks on the rise across Europe, there was widespread condemnation this week over the “revival” of a tradition to which Jewish organizations reacted with “disgust and outrage.” The Polish Catholic Church soon joined the chorus of critics, alongside the Polish interior minister, who called the incident “idiotic.”
