Israel’s powerful Knesset, the legislative branch of the government that passes all laws and supervises the work of the government, announced an “intensive examination” would be conducted into the jailing and death of the Melbourne-born man.

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Wednesday, 13 February 2013, 8:33 am
Press Release: Embassy of Israel in Wellington

12 February 2013

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Israeli Ambassador To New Zealand Responds MP Prosser’s Comments

In reference to today’s interview with MP Richard Prosser on newstalkzb, Israeli Ambassador to New zealand Shemi Tzur states the following:

“Claims by MP Prosser that Israeli airline El Al bans passengers on the basis of their ethnicity or religion are not only false but also vicious in character. All travelers are equally important on El Al and in Israel”.

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Ha’aretz is a major source of critical and anti-Israel stories for the international media. In the latest example, Ha’aretz’s radical left-wing commentator Gideon Levy has deliberately fed the international media a skewed and biased reading of a poll that claims “Most Israeli Jews would support apartheid regime in Israel“.

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New Zealand is promoting its decision to support the United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood – alone amongst its oldest friends – and its anti-nuclear credentials as evidence that it would have an independent and strong voice on the UN Security Council.

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An Australian-Israeli citizen was found hanged in an Israeli prison cell in late 2010 after being secretly held for several months and was suspected of links to Israel’s Mossad espionage agency, the Australian Government and the ABC said.

The ABC report sought to lift the veil of secrecy from a case that Israel has long kept under wraps.

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I was asked to Brussels to address the matter of what the European Union might do to tackle anti-Semitism. The answer is easy: “Stop funding anti-Semites.”

And so it was that I found myself once again in a meeting in the twilight world of Brussels — an ugly city filled with ugly buildings, ugly overpriced food and overpaid officials. The objective of any visit must always be a hit-an-run: to get in and get out as swiftly as possible, The only reason to go is to try and inject some sense into a city so starved of it. When, therefore, asked to address the matter of what the European Union might do to tackle anti-Semitism, the answer is easy: “Stop funding anti-Semites.” What is hard is that this is Brussels, where words are meaningless and nothing makes any sense. Here is just one example:

The Palestinian Ma’an News Agency is one of the most supremely anti-Semitic organs in the Middle East. Which I hope readers realize is putting it in the premier league of anti-Semitic slander.

Here is an excerpt from a recent article on the Ma’an website by one Saswan Najib Abd Al-Halim:

Jews think that their fortresses will protect them from death, but any breach of these fortresses or protective walls instills panic and fear in their hearts, and they are seized by fear and trembling. If a missile falls beyond their protective walls or if even a bullet passes over them, you can see how their hearts fill with horror — and this is because Allah has stricken fear in their hearts and decreed humiliation and degradation upon them until Judgment Day…

Historically, it is known that the lives of Jews have always been war and fighting. The only reason for this is that they have been outcasts in every corner of the earth, and not one nation in the world respects them, for they cause strife, and scheme everywhere they settle. We know that they have been defeated in every war they have fought throughout history, and they have been dispersed in every direction, but Allah’s curse upon them and his fury at them cause them to continue with their transgression and tyranny.

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When Yael Matzpon heard the door open at 3:30 AM,  she thought it was her husband returning from his job in the IDF. But when the door flung open and the light flicked on, she found herself face to face with a knife-wielding Palestinian terrorist from Gaza. Lying next to her in bed were her four and half year-old daughter and two year-old son.  In a room close by, her  eight and nine year-old daughters lay sleeping.

“‘What do you want, I asked him.  Money, food?’

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Ed Koch, the brash former three-term mayor of New York City who made no secret of his love for Israel and his Jewish faith, has died. He was 88.

Koch passed away at 2 a.m., spokesman George Arzt said. The funeral will be held Monday at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan.

Koch was never shy about discussing his Jewish faith, making no secret of his close connection to the religion and culture. He was beloved by New York’s Jewish community for his outspokenness on the matter and for his willingness to be a public advocate for Jewish causes.

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Jews who can do so, leave Europe. Those who do not have the means to leave know they must be extremely careful: it is dangerous again to be a Jew in Europe. It is even more dangerous to be a Jew who supports Israel.

In 2012, the number of anti-Semitic crimes in France sharply increased. The six-month period that followed the March killings in a Jewish school in Toulouse were particularly harsh. The killer , Mohammed Merah, became a hero in many suburbs, his name on many graffiti. For some people, apparently, shooting children in the head just because they are Jewish is inspiring.

Although acts such as as the killing in Toulouse had no equivalent elsewhere, France is not an exception: statistics show that insults, assaults, and cries of hatred against Jews multiply throughout Europe…

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The infamous historian and Holocaust denier David Irving has a new sideline as a guide at Nazi extermination sites. Will Storr signed up for a tour.

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