ERETZ AND GALUT: Anti/Philo-Semitism

'Mossad plotted to harm Egyptian fertility' | Ynetnews

Israeli citizen Ofir Harrari, recently accused by Egypt of spying for Israel, was allegedly involved in a complicated scheme intended to harm Egyptian reproduction abilities, Egypt's official state paper Al-Ahram has claimed.

Harrari, accused by Egypt of being an agent of the Mossad, is set be tried in absentia on charges of 'spying for a foreign country with the purpose of harming Egyptian national interest,' news agency MENA reported on Sunday.
Jordanian Ibrahim abu-Zaid, a telecoms engineer reportedly involved in the affair as well, was arrested in Egypt. Read more »

The Protocols are back | Ynetnews

Revival of infamous anti-Semitic book fuelled both by Muslim leaders, Christian clergy

by Giulio Meotti

The “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a short book concocted by the czarist police and presented as minutes of a secret meeting where Jews plotted world domination, is the biggest falsehood that refuses to die. It’s the only book that has ever had the perverse distinction of being both globally influential and, at the same time, a forgery.

The “Protocols” are now prominently displayed not only in the Middle East, but also on the Western and Christian bookshelf. Books based on the “Protocols” are now available even in countries with hardly any Jews such as Japan. A Chinese bestseller entitled “The Currency War” and based on the “Protocols,” describes how Jews are planning to control the world by manipulating the financial system. The book is reportedly read in the highest government circles.

Recently, an Iranian stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair presented a copy of the “Protocols” published in English by the Islamic Republic of Iran in plain view. Thousands of Jews have been killed in Europe because of this infamous document. Hitler used it as a manual in his war to exterminate the Jews and Palestinian suicide bombers have been found with the “Protocols” in their pockets. Read more »

Tutu's war on Israel, Jews | Ynetnews

Archbishop Tutu leads vile, racist campaign against Israel and Jewish people

by Giulio Meotti

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whose role in the fight against South African apartheid in the 1980s gained him the Nobel Peace Prize and global fame, is among the world’s most respected figures.

Barack Obama awarded him the US highest honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Tutu has been called “an inspiration' and was compared to Albert Schweitzer and Gandhi. The Wall Street Journal labeled him “the best known priest in the world.” Tutu was even asked to donate his genome to scientists to discover the African roots of mankind.

With Nelson Mandela in jail, it fell to Tutu to steer the struggle against institutionalized racial oppression in a nonviolent direction. From his church in segregated Soweto, Tutu urged the imposition of economic sanctions against the white government. Since then, Tutu’s face has become the symbol of tolerance and goodness. Read more »

U.S. Democratic Senator spreading blood libel

Senator Leahy with his friend

Senator Leahy thinks that IDF (or at least part of it) operates under a different moral code than the rest of the armies including NATO and the US; that accomplishing military objective with the least lost of life possible is not what it is after - there is something else - the blood, spilled beyond necessary. He is not advocating cutting funds to US army, no ending support or cooperation with armies of NATO or any other country. It's just the Jewish Army.
The whole idea of cutting aid to certain units specifically (as if US directly funds every IDF unit) cater to antisemitic favorite: US aid to Israel. The rest of US foreign assistance, which makes the bulk of it usually not mentioned as often and not specified(though Egypt gets almost as much funds as Israel). But the key here is not money. The goal is to mention IDF in this context. And this is blood libel pure and simple.

My opinion, based on what is available in the press (and we know quite a bit about violations of human rights by other armies including the US) IDF should be used as an example of moral conduct under circumstances where the goal of the enemy is not to win, but to depict IDF in terms of human rights violations. Almost 40 years now (since 1973) Israel is fighting with militarily inferior enemies. They know they can't win a battle. Their objective is different: to give a chance to people like senator Leahy to exercise their anti-semitism.

U.S. Senator seeks to cut aid to elite IDF units operating in West Bank and Gaza - Haaretz

Senator Patrick Leahy claims Shayetet 13 unit, undercover Duvdevan unit, and the Israel Air Force Shaldag unit involved in human rights violations in occupied territories.

U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy is promoting a bill to suspend U.S. assistance to three elite Israel Defense Forces units, alleging they are involved in human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Leahy, a Democrat and senior member of the U.S. Senate, wants assistance withheld from the Israel Navy's Shayetet 13 unit, the undercover Duvdevan unit and the Israel Air Force's Shaldag unit.
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Independent opinion on IDF moral conduct:

Col. Richard Kemp Testifies at U.N. Emergency Session

Canada Is the World’s Most Pro-Israel Country Tablet Magazine

Since the 2006 election of the conservative politician Stephen Harper as prime minister, Canada has become arguably the most pro-Israel country in the world

BY JORDAN MICHAEL SMITH

One night in August 2006, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer was speaking at a fundraiser for the United Jewish Appeal’s Israel Emergency Campaign in a Toronto hotel. Before an audience of 2,500, Krauthammer extolled the virtues of those leaders who were supporting Israel in the conflict then under way with Hezbollah in Lebanon. He singled out for praise Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who was showing great leadership in openly siding with Israel, he said. At the mere mention of Harper, who was not in attendance, Krauthammer’s audience suddenly burst into furious applause, as though its collective gratitude for the prime minister had finally been articulated for the first time.

As prime minister, Harper has transformed Canadian foreign policy toward Israel and the Middle East. Abandoning Canada’s longstanding posture of even-handedness in the Arab-Israeli conflict, the country has become arguably the most pro-Israel country in the world. From being the first world leader to cut off funds to the Palestinian Authority in 2006 when it was taken over by Hamas, to speaking out against growing global anti-Semitism, Harper has embraced Israel as has no Canadian leader before him. “It is hard to find a country friendlier to Israel than Canada these days,” gushed Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, in 2010. “No other country in the world has demonstrated such a full understanding of us.” Read more »

Islamic anti-Semitism: Past and Present | Harry's Place

It is a truism that anti-Semitism is an extremely prevalent phenomenon in the Muslim world today, but what precisely is the origin of this anti-Jewish prejudice? Is it simply a modern import from Europe, or a continuation from orthodox Islamic theology and Muslim history?

Undoubtedly, some anti-Jewish calumnies did have a European origin, transmitted by missionaries and local Christians to various Muslim populations. For example, Maronites (members of a Catholic church in Lebanon) played a key role in the dissemination of the blood libel motif- namely the charge that Jews use the blood of Christian children to make matzo for Passover- in the Levant during the 19th century.

Further, it is true that historically Jews survived Muslim rule better than other religious groups deemed members of the “people of the book,” even though all such non-Muslim minorities were in theory to receive the same discriminatory treatment according to the Pact of Umar (named after Umar ibn al-Khattab: the second caliph of Islam after Mohammed’s death).

Many of the conditions of the Pact of Umar are upheld as the ideal model for the treatment of non-Muslims among orthodox, classical Muslim theologians (e.g. the requirement to wear clothing to distinguish the unbelievers from Muslims). Read more »

175 dead in terror attacks. Israel approves 277 houses. Jews vs Muslims scorecard.

This is getting ridiculous. Building of 277 houses in a small town is in the news all over the world. Is that worse than a terror attack? Since the beginning of Ramadan: 63 terror attacks, 175 dead (http://thereligionofpeace.com). No one reported. At that rate by the middle of Ramadan we will have more dead bodies than the number of houses to be built in Ariel. Let's see if any will make it to the press. By the way the "settlement" in question is a suburb of Tel Aviv, about 40 minutes drive.

Israel approves new construction in West Bank settlement

JERUSALEM, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Despite recent international condemnation of ongoing settlement construction, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has given final permit for plans to build about 300 new housing units in Ariel, among the largest settlements in the West Bank, according to a Defense Ministry statement.
'The minister approved last week the marketing of 277 housing units in Ariel's Noiman neighborhood, of which 100 are intended for evacuees of Netzarim,' the statement said, referring to a former Jewish settlement evacuated during Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005. Read more »

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US calls new W. Bank settlement plans 'deeply troubling'

Middle Eastern Christians and anti-Semitism - JPost

Statements by Arab clerics reveal that blood libels are still very much alive

I was recently told by my aunt in Baghdad that there was a widespread belief among Iraqis that some external force was behind the protests and uprisings across the Middle East. What outside conspiracy, I wondered, could be responsible for the Arab Spring? Not to worry, however; George Saliba – the Syriac Orthodox Church’s bishop in Lebanon – offers us a simple answer. In an interview with Al-Dunya TV on July 24, Saliba declared that “the source... behind all these movements, all these civil wars, and all these evils” in the Arab world is nothing other than Zionism, “deeply rooted in Judaism.” The Jews, he says, are responsible for financing and inciting the turmoil in accordance with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Read more »

A message for Israel and Evangelicals: Genesis isn’t a policy guide - CSMonitor.com

The churches against Israel - Israel News, Ynetnews

Israel braking the blockade.

The main if not the only aim of "freedom flotilla" is highly symbolic - to demonstrate that the "whole world" is against Israel. The international character of it was to serve exactly that purpose. The fact that Greece stood on the side of Israel, not just created a hindrance in the execution of the action. It undermined the moral justification of it. If everyone against one, one can't be right. But if somebody else joins the one, the strength of universality of the moral judgment becomes just one of the possible opinions. Thus "freedom flotilla" "peace activists" were lowered in their status from being messengers of god to left wing nuts, freaks and trouble makers who they really are. Thank you Greece.

U.S. Senate passes resolution threatening to suspend aid to Palestinians - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Dutch deny support for Palestinian statehood - Hindustan Times

Hamas lashes out at Greece barring humanitarian boats for Gaza

Greece Jails Captain of U.S. Boat in Stalled Gaza Flotilla - NYTimes.com

U.S. recognizes Muslim Brotherhood - Tim Mak - POLITICO.com

Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Obama Administration Puts Israel On List Of Countries That “Promote, Produce, or Protect” Terrorists…

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Update from Congresswoman Michele Bachmann on Israel

Let's blame the Jews

Celebrity kickoff to Israeli Presidential Conference goes somewhat awry « Hot Air

Celebrity kickoff to Israeli Presidential Conference goes somewhat awry « Hot Air: "I’ve flown to Jerusalem to cover a three-day symposium on public policy in Israel started in 2009 by Israeli President Shimon Peres. This year’s version of the Israeli Presidential Conference is entitled “Facing Tomorrow,” but its first plenary session probably had some attendees wondering if tomorrow could come soon enough."

The Flotilla of Fools off to Gaza | FrontPage Magazine

The Flotilla of Fools off to Gaza | FrontPage Magazine: "The flotilla is coming, the flotilla is coming.
European and North American activists, journalists, and mercenaries have set sail—or are about to do so—on fifteen boats with passengers from twenty-two mainly Western countries to “break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.” Spurred on by the anti-Potemkin Village images of Palestinian Arabs living in wretched refugee hovels, fenced in by an allegedly “apartheid” Israeli wall, oppressed by “Nazi” Israeli soldiers for “racist” reasons (and not because the Palestinian leadership practices both Islamic gender and religious apartheid as well as terrorism)–the Good People are sailing to the rescue."

Anti-Semitism on the Rise in Germany :: Hudson New York

Anti-Semitism on the Rise in Germany :: Hudson New York: "A highly-anticipated new report, 'Anti-Semites as a Coalition Partner,' which examines the increasing anti-Israel activism of politicians belonging to the German Left Party (Die Linke), has sparked a debate over the rise of anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Zionism in post-modern Germany. The study has been welcomed for drawing attention to the re-emergence of anti-Semitism in public discourse in Germany, and has even triggered a debate about Israel bashing in the German parliament."

Rabbi Jason Miller: Delta Adopts Saudi Arabian Airlines No Jew Policy

Rabbi Jason Miller: Delta Adopts Saudi Arabian Airlines No Jew Policy: "For a long time in Michigan, Northwest Airlines had its hub at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. That meant an essential monopoly on domestic flights in and out of Detroit. A few years ago Delta Airlines took over Northwest Airlines and now the vast majority of domestic flights at Detroit Metro are operated by Delta. That fact makes it especially troubling to learn that Delta will add Saudi Arabian Airlines to its SkyTeam Alliance of partnering companies and would require Delta to ban Jews and holders of Israeli passports from boarding flights to Saudi Arabia. The partnership was originally announced by Delta Airlines in a press release on January 10, 2011."

Author Alice Walker to take part in Gaza flotilla, despite U.S. warning - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Author Alice Walker to take part in Gaza flotilla, despite U.S. warning - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News: "The celebrated poet and novelist wrote a special piece for CNN, outlining her intention to bring letters to the people of Gaza 'expressing solidarity and love.'"