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"We want to warn Antwerp's Jewish community in its entirety to be on its guard. The community's support for Israel is no secret," Ahmed Azzuz, head of the AEL in Belgium told the Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique. "The AEL calls on the Jewish community in Antwerp to cease its support of, and distance itself from, the state of Israel. If not, attacks in Antwerp are almost unpreventable," Azzuz had earlier told the Belgian Flemish magazine Knack, adding, "Every year, 200 Belgian-Israeli reservists leave for Israel to kill innocent civilians." According to an Israel Channel 1 television report, the Jewish...

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A fire destroyed library books and damaged a library computer system at the St. Laurent branch of United Talmud Torahs (UTT) elementary school on the eve of the Passover holiday (April 5), and police found anti-Semitic notes, written in French taped to the school's walls. Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin confirmed that the school, which was closed at the time of the blaze Monday, was firebombed. In a statement, Martin said, "the assault was not directed against the Jewish community of Montreal. It is an act of violence directed at all Canadians and one to which we must collectively respond."...

EU 'covered up' attacks on Jews by young Muslims By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels (Filed: 01/04/2004) Jewish leaders accused the European Union yesterday of covering up the true scale of anti-Semitic violence carried out by Muslim youths, reigniting a controversy over Europe's failure to confront Islamic extremism at home. A study released by the EU's racism and xenophobia monitoring centre astounded experts by concluding that the wave of anti-Jewish persecution over the last two years stemmed from neo-Nazi or other racist groups. "The largest group of the perpetrators of anti-Semitic activities appears to be young, disaffected white Europeans," said a...

Internet users who post messages on a CBC Web site have launched complaints that the Crown corporation routinely removes the words "Jew," "Jewish" and "Israel" from network chat rooms devoted to online discussion of news events. Meanwhile, vulgar expletives frequently appear on the same CBC discussion Web site. So do the words "Nazi" and "rabid Zionist." Even the incendiary phrase "red-neck greedy selfish Alberto-centric money grubbing pig" passes muster with CBC censors, who use special software to seek and destroy postings containing words they have deemed "inappropriate." People wishing to discuss Israel and issues that relate to the Jewish culture...

A recent Jewish Chronicle survey revealed a troubling rise in anti-Jewish prejudice in Britain. Nearly one in five people polled believed the Holocaust was "exaggerated." A similar number believed Jews have too much influence and do not want a Jewish prime minister. The Community Security Trust (CST) has also just released its own figures on anti-Semitic incidents in 2003, which are equally disturbing. They show a rise of 15% in assaults and an increase of 31% in damage to Jewish property since the previous year. The total number of anti-Jewish acts (375) was the second highest since record keeping began...

Swastika Artwork Removed From Exhibit Fri Feb 20, 5:05 PM ET OSLO, Norway - A painting that featured the words Israel and the United States — and replaced each S with a Nazi swastika — was removed from an art exhibit Friday after it infuriated a Holocaust survivor and other Jews. Andreas Engelstad, owner of the Galleri A Minor in Oslo, said the Israeli Embassy demanded that the painting be removed, but that it was the reaction of other Jews that prompted his decision to withdraw it. "I took it down not because of the embassy, but out of respect...

THE HAGUE - The mayor of The Hague, W.J. (Wim) Deetman, believes Israel's embassy here is trying to undermine arrangements that have been instituted to maintain public order, in anticipation of Monday's International Court of Justice discussion about the West Bank separation fence. The embassy, Deetman claims, has jeopardized these arrangements by relaying pictures of 927 terror victims to the "Christians for Israel" organization. The mayor has tried to stop the Christian group from holding a quiet march in The Hague on Monday. The organization plans to have vigil participants hold the portraits of the terror victims provided by the...

Prominent Jews in Britain are being targeted in a wave of anti-Semitic harassment by far-right and Islamic fundamentalist organizations. The home of Lord Triesman, the former general secretary of the Labor Party, has been attacked by Combat 18, the neo-Nazi group. Uri Geller, the Israeli television personality, and Barbara Roche, the former Labor minister, have been the victims of graffiti and hate mail. The incidents have emerged as police prepare to release figures this week showing that Britain saw a significant rise in anti-Semitic incidents in 2003. Mike Whine, the security spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews,...

Vandals defiled a Jewish cemetery in St. Petersburg, painting swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti on about 50 graves, Jewish leaders said Monday. Mark Grubarg, head of the St. Petersburg Jewish Religious Community, said the vandalism occurred Saturday night at the cemetery, one of the largest Jewish burial places in Russia's former imperial capital. "We are in shock," he said. The cemetery had suffered some isolated cases of vandalism before, Grubarg said, but nothing approaching the scale of the latest incident. "Any nation is sensitive to acts of vandalism at cemeteries but Jews are particularly sensitive, especially when it concerns fascist signs,"...

Brussels – The U.S. envoy to the European Union said on Thursday that anti-Semitism in Europe was nearly as bad as it was in the 1930s, a decade which saw the rise of German Nazism and led to the extermination of six millions Jews. The remarks by Ambassador Rockwell Schnabel are likely to rekindle controversy over charges that anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe, which prompted the European Union's executive to schedule a major seminar on the issue next week. Speaking at a dinner given by the American Jewish Committee to launch a Transatlantic Institute in Brussels, Schnabel said...

Opportunity finally presented itself to read noted Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel's "Night," after hearing it mentioned by a well known Evangelical Pastor in a radio broadcast sermon. It is one of the more well known recorded accounts of that long nightmare, a short but graphic and powerful postmortem of one of the more infamous abominations to occur in the "enlightened," progressive twentieth century. I will leave the hideous details to the reader shrewd enough to take the time to read it, to go back these, what, sixty short years to that time? I was a little startled recently, while getting...

STRASBOURG, France, Jan 20 (AFP) - A minibus used to transport children to a Jewish school in the eastern French city of Strasbourg was set alight Sunday night, police said Tuesday. A few hours earlier assailants hurled stones at the door of a synagogue in the same city. "Several factors make me think these are anti-Semitic acts," said Pierre Levy, regional delegate of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF). "What is worrying is that the incidents tend to happen after demonstrations," he said. On Saturday around 20,000 Muslims demonstrated around France against a proposed ban on the...

<p>PARIS - From his synagogue in Ris-Orangis, a small town on the outskirts of Paris, Rabbi Michel Serfaty, a Moroccan-born father of five, has always advocated tolerance and worked with his Muslim and Christian neighbors to foster mutual respect.</p> <p>But last October, Serfaty came face to face with an ugly new reality: what some believe is part of a new wave of anti-Semitism on the streets of Europe.</p>

Dec. 10, 2003 Jewish cemetery at Auschwitz vandalized By JPOST.COM STAFF Vandals wrecked sixteen tombstones at the Jewish cemetery at Auschwitz, the local Jewish cultural center said on Wednesday. Days before, someone painted two large swastikas on the cemetery's wall, which municipal police quickly removed, the center told Reuters news agency. "It's difficult to say who did it. This cemetery is frequented usually once or twice a day. We noticed the desecration on Wednesday," said Artur Szyndler of the Jewish Centre in Oswiecim, known as Auschwitz in German. The cemetery was established more than two centuries ago by the then-vibrant...

LILLE, France, Dec 5 (AFP) - Two teenage schoolgirls in France are to be taken to court after a senior Jewish leader complained they had aimed racist insults at him in the street, court officials and the rabbi told AFP Friday. The girls, aged 14 and 15, allegedly said "die, dirty Jew" on Tuesday when they passed him, the rabbi, Elie Dahan, who is the Jewish religious leader for the northern city of Lille, said. Dahan lodged a police report and demanded the girls be taken to court. "They refused to apologise to me. Given the seriousness of what happened,...

<p>In the wake of September 11, people of good will were naturally concerned that innocent Muslims might be scapegoated.</p> <p>But in Europe, something else happened: anti-Semitism surged.</p> <p>For example, in recent days a Jewish school near Paris was firebombed and two synagogues in Istanbul were attacked by terrorist truck bombers. A member of the German Parliament suggested the Jews bear collective responsibility for atrocities committed by communists during the Russian Revolution of 1917. Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis said of Israel: "This small nation is the root of evil."</p>

A Jewish pupil attending a highly rated Paris secondary school was repeatedly beaten up by Muslim fellow pupils. The headmaster filed a lawsuit against the two aggressors. The 11-year old Jewish boy, whose name was not released, was repetitively verbally abused and beaten by two Muslim pupils of the same class. "We'll finish Hitler's job," they reportedly yelled at him. The headmaster moved the Jewish boy to another class within the 1,800 pupils secondary school. The victim is currently under tranquilizers, according to the French weekly "Le Journal du Dimanche". The Lyc e Montaigne is located in one of the...

KISSIMMEE -- Some anti-hate groups are outraged that a Saudi cleric who called on God to "terminate" the Jews and urged Muslims to shun peace with Israel is the invited keynote speaker at an Islamic conference scheduled this month in Osceola County. A newly formed group, the Universal Heritage Foundation, is sponsoring the conference and an appearance by Shaikh Abdur-Rahman Al-Sudais. Foundation leaders say the conference could bring thousands of people to 31 acres on U.S. Highway 192 near Florida's Turnpike, site of a former culinary school that most recently housed a homeless shelter.

<p>December 1, 2003 -- A wave of anti-Semitic bias incidents were reported in Brooklyn and Queens over the holiday weekend, just days after a series of tire slashings in predominantly Hasidic Borough Park. Police said they're investigating at least seven bias incidents, all of them apparently unrelated.</p>

A ceremony launching the Geneva Ininitiative in a Swiss convention center on Monday became a festival of anti-Israel bashing. Internaitonal, Palestinian, and Israeli speakers took turns criticizing Israeli settlements and the security fence, calling them the main obstacles to middle east peace. "The road map's first basic phase has been substantially rejected as the Israeli government has ignored mild American objection and continued to colonize Gaza and the far-reaches of the West Bank and to build an enormous barrier wall on Palestinian land," Former American President Jimmy Carter said. A letter from Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat endorsing the initiative...

After a European Union poll found that nearly 60% of Europeans consider Israel the greatest threat to world peace, the British Broadcasting Corp. on November 26, asked if anti-Semitism is really increasing. “There was outrage and shock over the recent EU poll,” observed Robert Wistrich, director of Jerusalem’s Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of anti-Semitism. Many Israelis consider mainstream labeling of “Israel as a Nazi state” a sort of anti-Semitism. But the BBC gave the final word to Vienna’s Edward Serotta. The increasingly “shrill” debate often “paints the entire European continent as a cesspool of hatred for Jews,”...

A cartoon that would have been right at home in Der Sturmer has just won first prize in the British Political Cartoon Society's annual competition. The cartoonist, Dave Brown, his newspaper, The Independent, and the Press Complaints Committee all deny that the cartoon is anti-Semitic. Yet it depicts a grotesque Ariel Sharon biting off the head of a baby with helicopters and tanks bombarding Palestinians in the background. What is going on here? How did this happen? The cartoon was published just before Israel's election earlier this year. As Brown explained his own thinking, "My first idea was of Sharon...

UK cartoon: Naked Sharon eats babiesWinner of top prize depicts prime minister devouring Palestinian Posted: November 27, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A cartoon that won first prize in Britain depicts Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon eating the head of a Palestinian baby with a burning city in the background. Ariel Sharon depicted devouring a Palestinian baby in British prize-winning cartoon Published in the Independent newspaper of London, the cartoon was one of 35 entries in the British Political Cartoon Society's annual competition, reported the Israeli daily Haaretz. The Cartoon of the Year competition is sponsored by the Independent. The prize-winner...

THE "Skill Share Discussion Workshop" was entitled "Deconstructing Zionist Responses On Your Campus." The topic? How to dismiss concern over suicide bombings while debating the Israel/Palestine issue. "Refuse to discuss it", said one student. “Don’t get defensive,” said one. "Blame it on Israel," said another. Still another advised protesters to ask, "Would it be better if it wasn't a suicide bomber? Is this tactic so beneath reproach?" Was this discussion of defending suicide bombers held in some clandestine basement setting? Actually, it was held publicly on the campus of Ohio State University, which hosted The Third Annual National Student Conference...

The European Union's racism watchdog has shelved a report on anti-semitism because the study concluded Muslims and pro-Palestinian groups were behind many of the incidents it examined. The Vienna-based European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) decided in February not to publish the 112-page study, a copy of which was obtained by the Financial Times, after clashing with its authors over their conclusions. The news comes amid growing fears that there is an upsurge of anti-semitism in European Union countries. Among many recent incidents, a Jewish school near Paris was firebombed last Saturday, the same day two Istanbul synagogues...

(IsraelNN.com) Vandals struck again at the Jewish cemetery in Marseilles, France today. The Marseilles police department reported that several gravestones were spray-painted with slogans such as “White Power” and the name of a neo-fascist organization called “New Order”, as well as Nazi swastikas. The city’s mayor condemned the anti-Semitic vandalism and called for capturing, trying and stiffly punishing those responsible. Synagogues, Jewish schools and the Jewish cemetery in Marseilles have been targeted repeatedly over recent years by anti-Semitic vandals and arsonists.

Muslim leaders closed ranks around Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad Friday after his attack on Jews caused a firestorm of protest and overshadowed their troubled bid for unity on Iraq at a summit meeting here. Mahathir's provocative declaration that "Jews rule this world" and get others to fight and die for them drew violently contrasting reaction in the western world and at the meeting here of the 57-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Western nations condemned the speech as outrageous and offensive, while Israel's ambassador to Singapore Itzhak Shoham compared the remarks to those made by Hitler. But Muslim...

Prosecutors in the Portland terrorism case have filed a legal brief revealing some of the hundreds of recorded conversations between suspects and an undercover FBI informant. The conversations ranged from inquiries about bomb making, to talk of cutting the heads off nonbelievers, to a desire to have "real" Muslim wives who would be willing to carry AK-47 assault rifles and be "ready to run and blow something up." All six of the suspects in custody have pleaded guilty and are awaiting formal sentencing, which judge Robert E. Jones has said will not deviate from the number of years specified in...

Filing details 'Portland 7' plot One group member asked an informant about making a bomb days before his arrest, a new court document shows 11/20/03 MARK LARABEE Less than a month before he was arrested, "Portland Seven" defendant Jeffrey Leon Battle asked an undercover FBI informant if he knew how to make a bomb and said he wanted to arm himself for a possible confrontation with authorities. The September 2002 comments followed a series of secret "body wire" recordings in which Battle spoke of his consideration and ultimate rejection of committing a terrorist act in the United States, specifically to...

<p>TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A fire destroyed a museum founded by a Holocaust survivor early Tuesday and arson is suspected, a museum official said.</p> <p>The fire was reported at the CANDLES Museum (search) just after midnight and gutted the building, a former printing plant along U.S. 41 south of the city's downtown.</p>

Anti-Semitism used to be known as the socialism of fools. Today it might more appropriately be known as the liberalism of fools. Last weekend's suicide bombing of two synagogues in Istanbul killed 23 people and wounded some 300, but it might have been far worse. According to the authorities, the death toll might have been up to 800 if security had not been tightened. Yet this massacre prompted a curious article in yesterday's Guardian by Fiachra Gibbons, who is an expert on minorities in the Ottoman empire. Rather than concentrate on the Islamist extremists responsible, Gibbons depicted a Jewish minority...

Interior Minister Avraham Poraz has a novel suggestion for getting rid of the Jewish outposts in the Shomron. Speaking on Army Radio this morning, he proposed that after outposts are dismantled and evacuated, Israel cooperate with Arab forces from the Palestinian Authority to prevent Jews from rebuilding them. Poraz said that the forcibly evacuated outposts should be turned over to Arabs from the PA, and the Jews would then not dare to return and rebuild them, for fear of confronting the Arab militia. Just three days ago, similar anti-Jewish sentiments were expressed by some of the former Shabak (General Security...

EU Found No Room on Terror List for Turkish Synagogue Bomb Group Turkish IBDA-C terrorists - Islamic extremists and... Trotskyists ***************************************************************** European Commission President, Romano Prodi hurried Saturday November 11 to condemn the terrorist car bombings at two Istanbul synagogues, Neve Shalom and Beit Israel, even before the final tally of the dead. The Italian official made the gracious gesture of visiting the central Milan synagogue and bringing the condolences of "the entire European Union" to Milan Rabbi Giuseppe Laras. After the meeting, the Italian official said: "There is no Europe without tolerance and these episodes are incompatible with our...

Arsonists raze Jewish school Amelia Gentleman in Paris Monday November 17, 2003 The Guardian An emergency meeting of the French cabinet will be held today after a devastating arson attack on a Jewish school in Paris at the weekend. President Jacques Chirac and the prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, will meet leaders of the Jewish community to discuss a joint strategy of response. About 100 firefighters tackled the blaze at the Merkaz Hatorah private school, in the Saint-Denis suburb to the north of the capital, on Saturday. No one was injured, but 3,000 sq metres of the school were destroyed. At...

JERUSALEM - Where does legitimate criticism of Israeli government policy end and anti-Semitism begin? There's always been sharp disagreement in Israel over where to draw the line, but the debate assumed greater urgency in recent weeks. First, the Malaysian prime minister claimed Jews dominate the world, to the applause of Muslim heads of state (Well, not all - a_T). Next, a poll found 59 percent of Europeans consider Israel a threat to peace, ahead of rogue nations such as North Korea (news - web sites). And last week, Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, in condemning Israeli actions in the West Bank...

Nov. 15, 2003 Israel links attacks to anti-Semitism in Europe By JPOST.COM STAFF Photo: AP Nations and organizations around the world have reacted to the bombing of two synagogues in Istanbul on Saturday morning. Israel tied the deadly attacks to anti-Semitic incitement in the Arab world and the recent anti-Semitic and virulently anti-Israeli statements heard in Europe. France and Italy acknowledged the Jewish aspects of the attack, with Italy linking it to the killing of 19 Italians in Iraq on Wednesday. Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon expressed "shock and outrage" at the attacks and sent Israel's condolences to the Turkish...

DAMASCUS: Paying a significant visit to the volatile West Asian region, Prime Minster Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Saturday assured the Arab world that India fully supported the Palestinian cause and early restoration of sovereignty to the people of Iraq, which is next door to Syria facing American sanctions. Accused by Washington of being a "rogue nation" with ties to terrorist groups, the young Syrian President Bashar al Assad welcomed the stand of Vajpayee, who also told him that Israel should withdraw its forces from Palestinian cities as well as other occupied lands, including this country's Golan Heights. The 38-year old...

At least 20 people were killed and 260 wounded in near-simultaneous bombings of two Istanbul synagogues on Saturday morning. Two cars exploded at about 9:30am at Neve Shalom Synagogue, the city's largest, and at Beth Israel Synagogue in the affluent district of Shishli, about 5 kilometers (3 miles) away. A group called the 'Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front', a group linked to Iran, claimed responsibility for the attacks. But NTV television quoted police as saying that the attack was too sophisticated to be carried out by that group – a local and relatively small organization – and that recent intelligence...

Nations and organizations around the world have reacted to the bombing of two synagogues in Istanbul on Saturday morning. Israel tied the deadly attacks to anti-Semitic incitement in the Arab world and the recent anti-Semitic and virulently anti-Israeli statements heard in Europe. France and Italy acknowledged the Jewish aspects of the attack, with Italy linking it to the killing of 19 Italians in Iraq on Wednesday. Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon expressed "shock and outrage" at the attacks and sent Israel's condolences to the Turkish people, and said he had full confidence in the ability of the Turkish authorities to...

Nov. 15, 2003 Arsonists torch Jewish school near Paris By MICHEL ZLOTOWSKI Jewish school destroyed by a fire early Saturday in Gagny, north of Paris Photo: AP Fire gutted the Merkaz HaTorah Jewish secondary school in the Paris suburb of Gagny in the Seine-Saint-Denis region Saturday morning at 3am. There were no injuries. Fire started simultaneously in two separate places on the first floor of the school where works were under way. A primary school and a kindergarten for 200 children were to be inaugurated there in January 2004. The arsonist or arsonists broke into the building through a ground...

CNN Turk: Explosion rocks Neveh Shalom synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey; five reported dead (Reuters)

JEWS rule the world, getting others to fight and die for them, but will not be able to defeat the world's 1.3 billion Muslims, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has told a major Islamic summit. "The Europeans killed six million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them," Mahathir said, adding, "1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews." The veteran Malaysian premier, who has become notorious for his controversial speeches during his 22 years as leader of this moderate Muslim country,...

BERLIN, Oct 31 (AFP) - A German member of parliament faced charges of anti-Semitism Friday for a speech in which he played down the Holocaust and described Jews as a "race of perpetrators". Deputy Martin Hohmann of the conservative opposition Christian Democrats (CDU) said in a speech to constituents on the 13th anniversary of German reunification October 3 that primarily Jewish Bolsheviks were responsible for crimes against civilians during the Russian revolution. He went on to draw a comparison between what he claimed was bloodshed orchestrated by Jews during that period and the murder of Europe's Jews in the Holocaust....

Greek composer and cultural icon Mikis Theodorakis added his contribution to the anti-Semitic miasma rising in parts of the world by characterizing the Jews as the root of the world's evils. Theodorakis, a towering figure in Greek music best known outside his native land for scoring the music for the film Zorba the Greek, took his shot at the Jews at a press conference to launch a new book. "We, the Greeks, did not turn aggressive like them because we have more history," Theodorakis was quoted by Y-net as saying. "Today it is possible to say that this small nation...