http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/jews/ en-us Sun, 12 May 2013 03:41:24 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018364/posts “Whoa: Did the IRS also target Jewish groups for ‘extra-special attention’?,” Twitchy asks: The IRS admits to targeting conservative groups for additional review and laughably claims the witch hunt wasn’t “motivated by political bias.” What will its math-challenged spokeswoman Lois Lerner say about allegations that the IRS gave “extra-special attention to the tax-exempt status of some Jewish groups for political reason”? * * * * * The pro-Israel group Z STREET filed a lawsuit against the IRS in 2010, claiming an IRS agent said the organization would come under extra scrutiny because it’s “connected to Israel.” In addition, the IRS... PJ Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018364/posts#comment Sun, 12 May 2013 03:41:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018337/posts HAIFA, Israel: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has laid a wreath at the memorial of Indian soldiers here, appreciating the decision of the local municipality to include stories of these soldiers in its history textbooks. Paying tribute to the soldiers, Gehlot said that he wanted to visit the memorial during his trip to Israel to pay his respects to the fallen soldiers on behalf of the people of his state. A large number of Indian soldiers sacrificed their lives in this region during the World War I and nearly 900 are cremated or buried in cemeteries across Israel. The Indian Army... Zee News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018337/posts#comment Sun, 12 May 2013 01:09:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017301/posts The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez and published in a Spanish newspaper on Jan. 15 2011. It doesn't take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe - and possibly to the rest of the world. THIS WAS IN A SPANISH NEWSPAPER: "EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ" By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez "I walked down the street in Barcelona and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz ... We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture,... email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017301/posts#comment Thu, 9 May 2013 04:54:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017122/posts Are you aware that you could be violently attacked in Denmark, if you are suspected of being Jewish? According to Ynet News: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4319563,00.html [Israeli and Jewish officials in Denmark on Wednesday warned Jews to avoid openly wearing religious symbols and dress when moving about Copenhagen amid rising anti-Israeli sentiment. "We advise Israelis who come to Denmark and want to go to the synagogue to wait to don their skullcaps until they enter the building and not to wear them in the street, irrespective of whether the areas they are visiting are seen as being safe," Israel's ambassador to Denmark, Arthur... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017122/posts#comment Wed, 8 May 2013 17:43:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3014509/posts love it when posts write themselves: An Iranian regime official and a website close to the regime have recently accused the Jews of engaging in sorcery and of employing it against Iran. Mehdi Taeb, Official Close to Khamenei: ‘So Far, [The Jews] Have Not Used The Full [Scope Of] Their Sorcery Against Us’ Speaking on April 20, 2013 to students at a religious seminary in Ahwaz, Mehdi Taeb noted: “The Jews are currently subjecting us to an unprecedented trial. As you read in the Koran, [King] Solomon ruled the world… and God ordered a group of sorcerers to come out... networked blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3014509/posts#comment Wed, 1 May 2013 16:17:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3014355/posts Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas again insisted at a two-day “Freedom and Dignity” conference in Ramallah last week that Palestinians who murder Israeli Jews cannot be punished. The conference was to mark the 11th anniversary of Israel’s arrest of Marwan Barghouti, who, according to Israel Today, is a senior member of Abbas‘ Fatah party who was convicted of directing “numerous terrorist attacks against Israelis.” Israel Today reports that polls show the majority of Palestinians want Mr. Barghouti for president if he is ever released. Mr. Abbas declared that many of the Palestinians who were jailed after killing Jewish men, women and... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3014355/posts#comment Wed, 1 May 2013 05:18:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3012641/posts Carl Bernstein claimed that because he's Jewish, he could accuse "Jewish" neo-cons of talking George W. Bush into starting an "insane" war against Iraq. Joe Scarborough wasn't so sure. Jewish neo-cons? The single most salient statement from the pre-war period was that by CIA Director George Tenet, who personally told President Bush that Saddam Hussein's possession of WMDs was a "slam dunk." So which temple does Tenet attend? What? He's Greek Orthodox? Never mind. Joe Scarborough offered a strong rebuttal to Bernstein's allegations. View the video here. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3012641/posts#comment Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:09:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3011678/posts The Intergovernmental Cultural Climate Change Panel (ICCCP) declared its support for the recent UN announcement that all cultures are equally valid. Expanding on the resolution the group declared the rights of people are now culturally defined, rather than being based on any universal notion or concept. They suggest the term "human rights" is therefore both outmoded and racist as it would impose value for human life which some cultures don't accept. They recommended the term "multi-cultural peoples' rights" be used instead. "We take the announcement to mean our practices of torture, vendetta, and suppression of women and minorities dating back... The People's Cube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3011678/posts#comment Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:40:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3011094/posts Violence dominates the streets and a Jew in Sweden today feels like a Jew in Berlin in the '20s. In 2003, Azzam Tamimi, a Hamas member from Hevron, delivered a sermon at the Great Mosque in Stockholm, expressing support for suicide attacks against Israeli civilians. Outside the mosque, militants distributed leaflets containing calls to "liquidate the Jews in Palestine in the name of Allah". Why did the Swedish authorities allow this Arab anti-Semite to deliver a homicidal sermon in their capital's main mosque if not to help foment a new war against the Jewish people? Ten years later, and Sweden,... israelnationalnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3011094/posts#comment Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:20:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3009513/posts Jordanian Journalist: The Jews And The American Right Are Behind Boston Bombing, Just As They Were Behind 9/11 In an article titled "The Boston Explosions – Look For Jews" on the Jordanian website Ammon News, Palestinian-born Jordanian journalist As'ad Al-'Azouni, known for his antisemitic articles, wrote that the Jews and the "American right" were behind the recent Boston bombing, just as they had been behind the attacks of 9/11. He claimed that the bombing was meant to prevent U.S. President Barack Obama from discharging his second term in office in peace. Al-'Azouni, several of whose articles have been translated and... MEMRI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3009513/posts#comment Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:06:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3007319/posts Students in some Albany High School English classes were asked to participate in the unthinkable this week as part of a persuasive writing assignment. The objective? Prove why Jews are evil and convince the teacher of their loyalty to the Third Reich in five paragraphs or less. “You must argue that Jews are evil, and use solid rationale from government propaganda to convince me of your loyalty to the Third Reich!” read the description on the assignment, which the school superintendent said reflects the kind of sophisticated writing expected of students under the new Common Core standards and was meant... The Blaze http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3007319/posts#comment Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:50:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3007159/posts Albany Think like a Nazi, the assignment required students. Argue why Jews are evil. Students in some Albany High School English classes were asked this week as part of a persuasive writing assignment to make an abhorrent argument: "You must argue that Jews are evil, and use solid rationale from government propaganda to convince me of your loyalty to the Third Reich!" Students were asked to watch and read Nazi propaganda, then pretend their teacher was a Nazi government official who needed to be convinced of their loyalty. In five paragraphs, they were required to prove that Times Union http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3007159/posts#comment Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:53:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005954/posts Interview with Netanel S.: "When I came into class, some of the students made hissing noises, imitating the gas of the Nazi extermination camps." “My parents raised me as a Christian, yet already as a child I had developed an interest in Judaism. When I decided to convert later on, my mother surprisingly revealed to me that her mother told her that she had a Jewish background. There was no proof of this, however. “In 2005 while vacationing in Israel, I fell ill and was treated by a doctor in an Orthodox school – the Diaspora Yeshiva. Afterwards I decided... inn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005954/posts#comment Tue, 9 Apr 2013 21:21:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005865/posts One hundred Russian Jewish notables urged Benjamin Netanyahu to ignore recent pleas by American Jews calling on the Israeli prime minister to cede land for peace. In an open letter from Russia published Tuesday, the Russian Jews wrote that their message was a reaction to the April 3 letter initiated by the dovish Israel Policy Forum by 100 American Jews, including philanthropists Charles Bronfman, Danny Abraham, Lester Crown and Stanley Gold, and former U.S. Undersecretary of Defense Dov Zakheim. Among the signers of the Russian letter were the president of the Russian Jewish Congress, Yuri Kanner, and businessman Mikhail Fridman,... Baltimore Jewish Life http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005865/posts#comment Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:17:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005237/posts In May 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the White House. It was 17 months after Pearl Harbor and a little more than a year before D-Day. The two Allied leaders reviewed the war effort to date and exchanged thoughts on their plans for the postwar era. At one point in the discussion, FDR offered what he called "the best way to settle the Jewish question." Vice President Henry Wallace, who noted the conversation in his diary, said Roosevelt spoke approvingly of a plan (recommended by geographer and Johns Hopkins University President Isaiah Bowman)... L.A. Touches http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005237/posts#comment Mon, 8 Apr 2013 03:00:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3005216/posts Always supportive of Israel, Governor Palin posted a simple, yet important, message on Facebook today in recognition of Holocaust Remembrance Day: May we never forget. She then linked to an article at The Jerusalem Post: http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Israel-prepares-for-Holocaust-Remembrance-Day-308948 Pray for peace in the Holy Land Motivation Truth via Sarah's Facebook http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3005216/posts#comment Mon, 8 Apr 2013 02:07:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005000/posts Many of the Nazi camps in Europe are falling apart, an expert has warned in advance of Holocaust Memorial Day. Florence Eizenberg, who is finishing a doctorate on the topic of Holocaust denial, said that the camps, which provide valuable testimony to Nazi war crimes, are in poor condition. Eizenberg visited camps across Europe as part of her research. … INN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005000/posts#comment Sun, 7 Apr 2013 08:38:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3004706/posts Franklin Roosevelt enjoyed the overwhelming support of American Jews during his presidency, and the reasons are clear. In his three-plus terms from 1933 to 1945, he led the war against Hitler, supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine... Starting in the 1960s, a flood of books appeared with self-evident titles like “No Haven for the Oppressed” and “While Six Million Died.” But the most influential account by far was David S. Wyman’s “Abandonment of the Jews,” published in 1984. Wyman considered numerous parties responsible for America’s tepid response to the Holocaust, including a badly divided Jewish community, a nest of virulent... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3004706/posts#comment Sat, 6 Apr 2013 01:46:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3004485/posts Historian Rafael Medoff says Franklin Delano Roosevelt failed to take relatively simple measures that would have saved significant numbers of Jews during the Holocaust, because his vision for America only encompassed having a small number of Jews. “In his private, unguarded moments, FDR repeatedly made unfriendly remarks about Jews, especially his belief that Jews were overrepresented in many professions and exercised too much influence and control on society,” Medoff told The Daily Caller in an email about his new book, “FDR and the Holocaust: A Breach of Faith.” “This prejudice helped shape his overall vision of what America should look... Daily Caller http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3004485/posts#comment Fri, 5 Apr 2013 15:23:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2996241/posts On April 12, 1945, my grandfather approached me as I played outside and asked where my mother was. He looked stricken, and so I quickly followed him inside and heard him say words that made my mother burst into tears: President Roosevelt had died. My mother’s grief and panic were so palpable — her brother was fighting in the Pacific, her brother-in-law was fighting in Europe — that it scared me. In our house, FDR was not merely the President. He was a god. He is a god no more. His New Deal is no longer solely credited with ending... NEW YORK DAILY NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2996241/posts#comment Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:37:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005025/posts Today it is more clear than ever why Niles doubted FDR genuinely supported Zionism. President Barack Obama has spoken of his deep admiration for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his desire to emulate FDR’s leadership style. But in the wake of the discovery of new documents detailing FDR’s behind-the-scenes coldness regarding the creation of a Jewish state, many Israelis will be hoping that sentiment does not extend to Roosevelt’s views on Zionism. Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005025/posts#comment Sun, 7 Apr 2013 12:27:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3003297/posts It is a given among liberal and progressive Jews that gun ownership among the general population is a bad thing. The ideal is near-universal disarmament with only a handful of individual exceptions and, of course, the police. The majority of Americans have the opposite view. They believe that gun ownership is a fundamental American right, and that the more law-abiding Americans who own guns, the safer the society. This view is so widely held — even among many Democrats — that few Democratic politicians take anti-gun positions. Like the great majority of American Jews I grew up in a home... jewishjournal.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3003297/posts#comment Tue, 2 Apr 2013 14:53:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3002278/posts Leftist Israeli filmmaker Yariv Horowitz was in Aubagne, France to pick up an award at a film festival. His movie is a cinematic attack on Israeli policies. He was beaten unconscious by a gang of Arab toughs. Commentary Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3002278/posts#comment Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:42:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3000902/posts This week, together with about 13 million Jews worldwide (yes, that's all there are), our family will celebrate the Feast of Passover -- perhaps the oldest continuously celebrated religious holiday in the world. Passover is primarily a holiday of the home, not the synagogue. The preparations take days. We sit down to a table adorned with familiar objects: a silver cup for the Prophet Elijah, candle sticks, a lamb shank representing the sacrifice in Temple days, bitter herbs, matzah, parsley, eggs and salt water. We do the traditional "seder" -- its choreographed rituals burnished by centuries of practice. Everything... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3000902/posts#comment Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:59:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2999527/posts Saliva samples taken from 39 relatives of the Nazi leader show he may have had biological links to the “subhuman” races that he tried to exterminate during the Holocaust. Jean-Paul Mulders, a Belgian journalist, and Marc Vermeeren, a historian, tracked down the Fuhrer’s relatives, including an Austrian farmer who was his cousin, earlier this year. A chromosome called Haplogroup E1b1b1 which showed up in their samples is rare in Western Europe and is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews. "One can from this postulate that Hitler was... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2999527/posts#comment Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:17:03 GMT