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Anti-Semitism on the rise worldwide
Aviel Magnezi
Published: 11.04.10, 13:01
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31. Antisemitsm
HASAK ,   ISRAEL   (04.11.10)
AM ISRAEL HAY! IT WILL CONTINUE SO AS LONG AS WE WILL FIGHT FOR. AS LONG AS WE WILL START AGAIN TO MAKE ONE THING CLEAR TO OUR ENEMIES: ANTISEMITSM AND KILLING JEWS HAS A HIGH PRICE . HASAK
32. last opportunity for peace
Handala ,   Jerusalem, Palestine   (04.11.10)
israel should understand that the next 2 years is the last opportunity for peace, if peace wont get Palestinians what we want, we will get by power same game that Israel plays, and it is known that Palestinians will last not Israelis, so take it this way by making peace now you will save your country tomorrow,because after that we will have the upper hands, and i know we wont act towards you in the way you act toward us Palestinians, you will have the right to live freely. after 20 years the world wont be the same and the weak arab and muslim states that you know now wont be so friendly after all, and a 10 million people state then wont take minutes with 1.5 billion people nation. think wisely instead of electing liberman, netanyaho or anti peace leaders. seek peace people of all around the world, because people of Palestine are seeking peace.
33. #10 Sorry but there's a price to pay
(04.11.10)
for the settlement enterprise.
34. #30 Even that one will end in failure.
(04.11.10)
35. to #25 you right half of what they call palis
ghostq   (04.11.10)
area r actually chritian, only chritian like Beith lechem, they occupy it, and it's about time the chritian world will claim that city of the christ once more.
36. #27 Michael Post FACTS, Not Propaganda!
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (04.11.10)
Council on American-Islamic Relations: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." - Omar Ahmad (CAIR co-founder). Addressing a youth session at the 1999 Islamic Association for Palestine's annual convention in Chicago, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) founder Omar Ahmad praised suicide bombers who "kill themselves for Islam," http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52184 Jihad advances greatly because of pro-Islam Western leaders. U.S. Airport Security is Deliberately and Shockingly Destroyed for Islam: www.worldnetdaily.com Controversial Muslim group gets VIP airport security tour Feds show CAIR latest screening steps, sensitive counterterrorism procedures August 18, 2006 The Department of Homeland Security took a Muslim group with known past ties to terror organizations on a VIP tour of security operations at the nation's busiest airport at the same time British authorities were working to break up a plot to blow up U.S. airlines. On June 21, a senior DHS official from Washington personally guided Muslim officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations on a behind-the-scenes tour of Customs screening operations at O'Hare International Airport in response to CAIR complaints that Muslim travelers were being unfairly delayed as they entered the U.S. from abroad. CAIR is a spin-off of the Islamic Association for Palestine, identified by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a "front group" for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges. During the airport tour, CAIR was taken on a walk through the point-of-entry, Customs stations, secondary screening and interview rooms. In addition, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were asked to describe for CAIR representatives various features of the high-risk passenger lookout system. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51573
37. #27 Michael, CELEBRATING 9/11 at the FBI
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (04.11.10)
FrontPageMagazine.com February 11, 2004 When linguist Sibel Dinez Edmonds showed up for her first day of work at the FBI, a week after the 9-11 attacks, she expected to find a somber atmosphere. Instead, she was offered cookies filled with dates from party bowls set out in the room where other Middle Eastern linguists with top-secret security clearance translate terror-related communications. She knew the dessert is customarily served in the Middle East at weddings, births and other celebrations, and asked what the happy occasion was. To her shock, she was told the Arab linguists were celebrating the terrorist attacks on America, as if they were some joyous event. Right in front of her supervisor, one translator cheered: "It's about time they got a taste of what they've been giving the Middle East." She found out later that it was her supervisor's wife who helped organize the office party. At the time, the supervisor, Mike Feghali, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Beirut, was in charge of the FBI's Turkish and Farsi desks. But he's been promoted since then. "We were told to take long breaks, to slow down translations, and to simply say 'no' to those field agents calling us to beg for speedy translations so that they could go on with their investigations and interrogations of those they had detained," said Edmonds, who was fired without specified cause by the FBI after she reported breaches in security, mistranslations and potential espionage by Middle Eastern colleagues. She claims Feghali actually tampered with her work to slow her down. "My supervisor went as far as getting into my work computer and deleting almost completed work so that I had to go back and start all over again," she said. Edmonds, a Turkish-American who is not a practicing Muslim, made the allegations last month in a 9-page letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. She also claims that Feghali threatened to sue the bureau for racial discrimination, but dropped the suit once the bureau promoted him, says Edmonds and other sources. The FBI instated a bureau-wide Muslim-sensitivity training program after 9-11. http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=14210
38. Hamas /PA Target Jewish INNOCENTS. Israel Targets Terrorists
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (04.11.10)
Turkey's Prime Minister, Erdogan, publicly read an Islamic poem: “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and Muslims our soldiers…” Col. Richard Kemp, a British commander in Bosnia and Afghanistan stated: "The Israel Defense Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare. " (Guardian-UK) Goldstone Gaza Report: Col. Richard Kemp Testifies at U.N. Emergency Session http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX6vyT8RzMo&feature=player_embedded Severely traumatized Israelis suffered through years of thousands of rocket attacks from Gaza. Every day filled with fear. In a military response several years overdue, Israel warned Gaza civilians via loudspeakers, thousands of leaflets and 200,000 telephone calls urging evacuation of battle areas. The IDF aborted missile strikes to prevent civilian casualties, opened a field clinic for Muslims on Gaza's border, and constantly gave humanitarian aid whilst Hamas waged WAR against innocent Israeli civilians. The Islamics commit war crimes: they use human shields; hide behind women and children; wage war from densely populated areas, store and fire rockets from residential buildings, schools, hospitals & mosques to deliberately MAXIMIZE Arab injuries and deaths so that when Israel fires back in self defense and accidentally kills civilians, the Islamics scream to the world, but the blood of the Arabs is on the heads of the Islamics. Hamas Charter of RELIGIOUS HATE and RELIGIOUS MURDER: 'Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish population, defies Islam and the Muslims. Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.' It's not about land. It's about intense religious hate that demands the mass murder of non-Muslim innocents. Jews are targeted first. An Israeli hospital treated a Muslim woman-she returned strapped with a bomb belt to blow up amongst the kind Jewish doctors and nurses who helped her. Hezbollah leader Nasarallah: If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide. (Daily Star, Oct. 23, 2002)
39. NEWS FLASH, anti-Semitism always has been on the rise.
Nick Sporek ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (04.11.10)
40. Paqid, no peace activist is antisemitic in these talkbacks..
Michael Hess ,   Charlotte, NC   (04.11.10)
...and neither are any Muslims, to the extent that anyone actually declares their religion. In fact, I never saw such antisemitism until I started reading Israeli talkbacks years ago, and it is almost entirely Jew against Jew antisemitism. You suffer from a very common problem. You seem to believe that criticizing Israel for its numerous human rights abuses, war crimes, and possible crimes against humanity has something to do with Jews in general. Nope. Americans do not care what religion Israelis are. And to the extent that they do, they the "Christian Zionists" one day hope to see all Jews convert to Christianity or spend eternity in hellfire. And yet Israelis take their money. Go figure. It's the illegal occupations and the constant wars stupid. And now Israel's actions are endangering US troops. The colonialism has now come to an end.
41. shay, listen to yourself!
Michael Hess ,   Charlotte, NC   (04.11.10)
Read what you wrote! Do you not realize that you are doing the very thing you falsely accuse others of doing to the Jews? What you wrote about Islam, in a gross generalization is exactly as bad as the most heinous of antisemitic writing. You do Israel no favors with such hate speech.
42. :: No surprise here
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (04.11.10)
If ‘Anti-Semitism’ is on the rise worldwide it is because of the actions and deeds of the Israel Gov, the IDF and the illegal, violent religious settlers in the Palestinian WB. It can be summed up in a very simplistic phase: “It’s the occupation stupid”. If ye want to help stop ‘Anti-Semitism’ then you can make a start by: 1) acting like civilized people 2) stop brutalizing the Palestinian people 3) stop supporting violent religious extremists 4) remove the violent religious extremists settlers from the WB 5) take responsibility for your actions instead of blaming everyone else
43. #34 really
(04.11.10)
How do you explain the Arab genocidal wars against the Jews in the 1920s, 1948, 1956 and 1967? How do you explain the establishment of PLO in 1964? How do you explain the increase of antisemitism and hatred of Israel since Oslo and since the ethnic cleansing of Gaza when "settlement" actually decreases? How do you explain Fatah and Hamas charter calling for genocide of Jews? How do you explain Saudi "peace plan" calling for extermination of Israel in any border?
44. To nr 18 and 19 - You are mixing cause and effect..
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (04.11.10)
..and you are mixing image with reality. It is not Israel's actions that lead to anti-Semitism- it is anti-Semitism - world wide Arab/Moslem hatred of Jews, that leads to Israel's actions. If no rockets were fired from Gaza, there would be no Israel response. But since you think that stealing our ancestral homeland of Israel and killing us is okay, you are certainly anti-Semitic. And anti-Semitism is not merely "criticism" of Jews. I can criticize your behavior or your poor dress code. I can criticize you for being arrogant or not having any table manners. I can criticize you for being ignorant or corrupt. And I can urge people to kill and hate you and take all your human rights, individual rights, citizenship rights and your national rights to whatever country you live in - a huge difference. Anti-Semitism is a RACIST, DISCRIMINATORY, DEMONIZING HATE OF JEWS, filled with double standards, delegitimization and false accusations directed against Jews. So it is this racism against Jews that make anti-Semites reduce Jews to subhumans with little or no rights. Which in turn leads to stealing the Jews' land, killing Jews and denying Jews to live and exist and defend themselves. What exactly do you want to criticize Israel for and what do you personally gain and achieve and how exactly are you involved in this conflict and why would a man from Montreal on the other side of the planet care about what is going on in the Middle East between Israelis and Arabs? Is it morality and truth that guide you? If yes, then why don't you speak the truth? Why don't you recognize that only the Jews are the historical and legitimate onwers of the land of Israel and why don't you face reality - that there are no "Palestinians" or "Palestine"? In what sense are Arabs owners of the land if they are de facto NOT the natives, original owners or original inhabitants of the land? They think the land is theirs? Ok, Hitler thought Europe was his. Thinking that something is yours doesn't make it yours. Are you sensitive to suffering? Then where is your criticism against Arab/Moslem Jew hatred, genocide on Jews and persecution of Jews for the past 1400 years? And where is your criticism against Arab/Moslem support for Hitler, Nazism and Nazi Germany during WW2, Arab/Moslem glorification/denial of the Holocaust, Arab wars of aggression in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, 1991, 2006 and 2009? Where is your criticism against thousands of Arab/Moslem acts of terrorism against Jews/Israel for decades? Where is your criticism against Moslems killing 10 million Moslems since 1945? Almost all Moslems killed are killed by Moslems. You want to criticize Israel for defending itself? You don't have to be an Einstein to understand that if you deny our right to our ancestral homeland and deny us the right to exist and defend ourselves, you are absolutely anti-Semitic. You are tired of being called anti-Semites? And I am tired of you anti-Semites being anti-Semites but denying to be anti-Semites, hiding behind "legitimate criticism of Israel". In fact there is no other country on earth that you criticize more than Israel. But if you are not hostile to us, then why are you verbally attacking us? And if you like facts and truth, then tell me: who is a "Palestinian" and what is "Palestine"? Why did Arabs not call themselves "Palestinians" until after 1967? And why do they use a Roman/Latin name - Palestine - Palaestina? Are they Romans? There is no letter "p" in Arabic. So how can they be "Palestinians"? What kings, dynasties, philosophers, intellectuals, scientists, language, alphabet, religion, philosophy, temples, palaces, currency, capital, cities, territory, borders, waters and neighbors did the "Palestinians" have? What exact sources mention the "Palestinians"? When and where exactly did this "Palestine" exist? And where and when exactly did this "Palestinian" kingdom, duchy, principality or republic exist?
45. To nr 18 and 19 - You are mixing cause and effect..
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (04.11.10)
..and you are mixing image with reality. It is not Israel's actions that lead to anti-Semitism- it is anti-Semitism - world wide Arab/Moslem hatred of Jews, that leads to Israel's actions. If no rockets were fired from Gaza, there would be no Israel response. But since you think that stealing our ancestral homeland of Israel and killing us is okay, you are certainly anti-Semitic. And anti-Semitism is not merely "criticism" of Jews. I can criticize your behavior or your poor dress code. I can criticize you for being arrogant or not having any table manners. I can criticize you for being ignorant or corrupt. And I can urge people to kill and hate you and take all your human rights, individual rights, citizenship rights and your national rights to whatever country you live in - a huge difference. Anti-Semitism is a RACIST, DISCRIMINATORY, DEMONIZING HATE OF JEWS, filled with double standards, delegitimization and false accusations directed against Jews. So it is this racism against Jews that make anti-Semites reduce Jews to subhumans with little or no rights. Which in turn leads to stealing the Jews' land, killing Jews and denying Jews to live and exist and defend themselves. What exactly do you want to criticize Israel for and what do you personally gain and achieve and how exactly are you involved in this conflict and why would a man from Montreal on the other side of the planet care about what is going on in the Middle East between Israelis and Arabs? Is it morality and truth that guide you? If yes, then why don't you speak the truth? Why don't you recognize that only the Jews are the historical and legitimate onwers of the land of Israel and why don't you face reality - that there are no "Palestinians" or "Palestine"? In what sense are Arabs owners of the land if they are de facto NOT the natives, original owners or original inhabitants of the land? They think the land is theirs? Ok, Hitler thought Europe was his. Thinking that something is yours doesn't make it yours. Are you sensitive to suffering? Then where is your criticism against Arab/Moslem Jew hatred, genocide on Jews and persecution of Jews for the past 1400 years? And where is your criticism against Arab/Moslem support for Hitler, Nazism and Nazi Germany during WW2, Arab/Moslem glorification/denial of the Holocaust, Arab wars of aggression in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, 1991, 2006 and 2009? Where is your criticism against thousands of Arab/Moslem acts of terrorism against Jews/Israel for decades? Where is your criticism against Moslems killing 10 million Moslems since 1945? Almost all Moslems killed are killed by Moslems. You want to criticize Israel for defending itself? You don't have to be an Einstein to understand that if you deny our right to our ancestral homeland and deny us the right to exist and defend ourselves, you are absolutely anti-Semitic. You are tired of being called anti-Semites? And I am tired of you anti-Semites being anti-Semites but denying to be anti-Semites, hiding behind "legitimate criticism of Israel". In fact there is no other country on earth that you criticize more than Israel. But if you are not hostile to us, then why are you verbally attacking us? And if you like facts and truth, then tell me: who is a "Palestinian" and what is "Palestine"? Why did Arabs not call themselves "Palestinians" until after 1967? And why do they use a Roman/Latin name - Palestine - Palaestina? Are they Romans? There is no letter "p" in Arabic. So how can they be "Palestinians"? What kings, dynasties, philosophers, intellectuals, scientists, language, alphabet, religion, philosophy, temples, palaces, currency, capital, cities, territory, borders, waters and neighbors did the "Palestinians" have? What exact sources mention the "Palestinians"? When and where exactly did this "Palestine" exist? And where and when exactly did this "Palestinian" kingdom, duchy, principality or republic exist?
46. Anti-Semitism
Ron B. ,   Lod   (04.11.10)
Anti-Semitism, the hate of Jews, is a phenomenon on which much has been said and written. Anti-Semitism doesn’t even need Jews in order to prosper (It existed in Japan although there were no Jews living in Japan). Anti-Semitism is one of the ugliest defect in human kind and it provokes the appearance of the most primitive and bestial instinct in human nature. Nowadays, it is carried, supported and promoted by Islam. If one wants to fight anti-Semitism one has to oppose the sermons and incitements preached in the Mosques against Jews. We have to fight anti-Semitism as explained at : http://xrl.us/kw6hh
47. #27 Obama is scared to death of...
Brother Joe ,   Bay Parkway   (04.11.10)
nuclear terrorism, hence his little conference this week. We'll see how loving you are to your Arab brothers after you see New York City (and maybe others) go up in an atomic fireball. I pray God I'll be in Connecticut that day.
48. The colonialism has now come to an end
Sivan ,   Jerusalem   (04.11.10)
As I write this from my work in E. Jerusalem and will pass by the Shepperd"s Hotel in Sheikh Jarrah on my way home, I realize how ridiculous you sound. Obama can run his mouth until 2012, and I'll continue coming to work per usual.
49. SUFFERING of Non-Muslim Innocents is Enormous
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (04.11.10)
EGYPT KIDNAPS CHRISTIANS The world is shamefully silent over the Egyptian government and Saudi Arabia involvement in the kidnapping of Christian Egyptian girls in Egypt. Kidnapped Christian female children are violently converted to Islam and forcibly married/raped to adult Muslim males. Does the uncaring, mainstream media not report this because telling the truth about Islam would make Islam look bad? Protecting Islam is considered more important by Western mainstream media and government leaders than protecting the lives of desperate, defenseless innocent children! ASSYRIAN INTERNATIONAL NEWS AGENCY 8-11-2009 Abduction and Forced Islamization of Christian Coptic Girls Continues in Egypt (AINA) — The systematic abduction and forced Islamization of Coptic minor girls in Egypt is a frequent, dangerous and a rapidly escalating phenomenon. Coptic Pope Shenouda III, December 17th, 197: “there is pressure being practiced to convert Coptic girls to embrace Islam and marry them under terror to Muslim husbands” and demanded that the abducted girls be brought back to their families. Abductions are done in cooperation between Saudi-funded associations and the Egyptian State Security. …in the majority of cases, the State Security is the one who masterminds the kidnapping plans.” http://www.aina.org/news/20090811125748.htm The U.S. gifts Egypt with 2.2 billion dollars every year. ‘He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.’ Bible, Exodus 21:16 Saudi authorities shred all Bibles found on anyone at the airport in Saudi Arabia. Bibles that contain the ETERNAL and unchangeable laws of G-D.
50. Rivera, you are more poisonous than Hamas et al...
Michael Hess ,   Charlotte, NC   (04.11.10)
...you even have Tokyo Sarah beat with your hatred. You are one of Israel's worst examples of a "supporter" - with your help, who needs Iran. You are doing a fine job of delegitimization of Israel all on your own.
51. The Saudi Plan has no "extermination" in it!
Michael Hess ,   Charlotte, NC   (04.11.10)
It simply follows the rule of law and is included in the Road Map, and in President Obama's plan for Israel. Israel will follow the rule of law or face a Chapter Seven resolution in the Security Council that we will vote in favor of. They just won't let me tell you that. But it's coming. Endangering American interests and troops simply will not be tolerated.
52. antisemetism
Mary   (04.11.10)
Has nothing to do with anything Israel does or does not do besides the fact that the anti semeites are happy to find excuses for their hatred. That is what it is all about. Something bad in Germany? Blame the Jews. Don't like Israel fighting back? Blame the Jews. Don't like it when the jews say antisemite? Blame the Jews. Bla bla bla. Nothing new under the sun. Same as always in history. Repeat repeat repeat.
53. "If anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide..." writes the
Jehudah Ben-Israel ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (04.11.10)
"lover of Zion" from Faiport, USA, "it is because of the actions and deeds of the Israeli Gov., IDF, etc..." Two points: 1. Anti-Semitism has been on the rise and then fall during various parts of history, or at least the symptoms of it. Yet, the Israel's government and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been around only since May 1948. Thus, perhaps there are deeper reasons for anti-Semitism in society...??!! 2. The argument advanced is akin to blaming the raped woman for being the victim of rape. "It is because she dressed too provocatively", some would say, or, "she shouldn't have gone with these guys, and since she did she deserve what was coming to her". Either way, this argument is an attempt by an anti-Semite to appear PC thus blaming his illness on others...!!
54. Sivan, maybe, but it will be Palestine...
Michael Hess ,   Charlotte, NC   (04.11.10)
...I'd imagine you will need a work card though...
55. That's what happens when Jews are weak and afraid
NB ,   Israel   (04.11.10)
We need to be who we are and were chosen to be! and not let the world threaten us!!!!!
56. Zionist Regime IS the danger
Gregg ,   Haifa, IL   (04.11.10)
Well, hello?? What do you expect when we pass our time killing people freely? The Zionist Regime is no exception. Like its brothers. And now we have to eat its propaganda that wants to scare us that the "outside world" is dangerous ? This country and this regime is already dangerous ! The machine runs... and it is hard to stop it...
57. to52
lili ,   amman   (04.11.10)
this article is a new .. to live the problem is worst than to hear about it .i think israil sis not live it yet
58. just another excuse
ecr   (04.11.10)
if it's not Cast Lead it would be something else, no real excuse necessary.
59. #54-I'll believe it when I see it, Mike.
Sivan ,   Jerusalem   (04.11.10)
Until then it's just your childish fantasies.
60. Let Jews learn self defense, buy firearms
jason white ,   afula,israel   (04.11.10)
and learn how to use them. Set up patrols of volunteers at all Jewish institutes. Sue radical moslim groups and urge politicians to ban them and deport their leaders.
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