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On January 29, Two Hate Crimes Occurred. The Media Only Covered The Fake One. Here's Why.

On January 29, 2019, Chicago Police opened a hate crime investigation into the alleged assault of Empire actor Jussie Smollett. Smollett, who is black and gay, alleged that two men approached him at 2 a.m.

“None of this has received media attention comparable to the Smollett situation. Why? Because, as the Times also admitted in October, “anti-Semitism bypasses consideration as a serious problem in New York…because it refuses to conform to an easy narrative with a single ideological enemy.” In other words, it doesn’t fit the narrative.”

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French artist restores portraits of Holocaust survivors vandalized with swastikas

Amid a surge of anti-Semitic incidents in France, a portrait of famed Holocaust survivor Simone Veil was covered with swastikas

Seriously; if you are Jewish, GET OUT of France.

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French Jewish Leaders Decry 'Wall of Indifference' Surrounding Antisemitism, as Recorded Attacks Leap by 74% | Jewish &a

One of the antisemitic slogans appearing with increasing frequency in pubic spaces in France. Photo: Screenshot. The representative body of …

It is amazing that people try to blame the rise in antisemitism on Trump when it has been on the rise since at least 2008 and comes from all sides (and in the case of the Democrats, from their own Congresspeople),

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Why Anti-Semitism Is The New Social Justice

All the cool kids are busy fighting against the movement for Jewish indigenous rights

“Zionism is the support for and affirmation of the Jewish right to self-determination in their indigenous homeland of Israel. It’s the Jewish Civil Rights Movement. It is the struggle of a native people who have been oppressed for thousands of years, expelled from their land, killed and persecuted wherever in the world they went. It is the celebration of victory, of the return home after millennia of diaspora, of surviving and flourishing against all odds.

That sounds like something the Left would wholeheartedly support, right? Not anymore.“

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The Pan Am flight attendant who saved travelers from Palestinian terror - Jerusalem Post

Bhanot's defining moment came on September 5, 1986, which consequently led to the end of her life, but not without recognition.

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Outrage ensues over sausage-museum, hotel and theater plans at site of Buchenwald

Rikola-Gunnar Luettgenau of the Buchenwald memorial foundation said this plan shows a “lack of sensitivity” and a “lack of historical awareness.”

A sausage factory? Things are truly reverting to the way they were before the Holocaust. The lessons of the Shoah aren’t quickly being forgotten because most people just don’t care. Antisemitism isn’t a problem to them. That is particularly true in Europe.

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Israel Joins US, Latin American Countries in Recognizing ‘New Leadership of Venezuela’

Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido arrives to attend a holy mass in Caracas, Venezuela, January 27, …

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Insisting it’s not anti-Semitic, NJ group launches anti-ultra-Orthodox campaign | The Times of Israel

Video that echoes holocaust poem urges residents of the towns surrounding Lakewood not to sell to haredi Jews, warning they are taking over the area and harming 'quality of life'

America is regressing. During my grandparents' time, there were entire neighborhoods where Jews weren't allowed to live. And the fact that they are drawing a comparison between Orthodox Jews and Nazis is appalling (but an increasingly common occurrence). It also demonstrates the absolute absurdity of claiming that Jewish people have "white privilege."

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BDS Unmasked: Anti-Semitism, Is That You?

A so-called ‘teach-in’ event made me realize something about the BDS movement.

''When we pretend that anti-Zionism has no connection to anti-Semitism, we allow and encourage anti-Semitism to grow. This is what’s most frightening about anti-Semitism today — not its existence, but the nature of its existence: the anti-Israel camouflaged cloak that conceals its bigoted core. When modern anti-Semitism is masked beneath humanitarian civil rights causes and criticism of Israel, we have a hard time recognizing the inherent bigotry."

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Antisemitism Is Alive and Well in Europe — If It Ever Left | Jewish & Israel News

European Union flags in front of the European Commission building in Brussels. Photo: Amio Cajander via Wikimedia Commons. Saying that …

Of course it never left. The Shoah (Holocaust) just made it more socially unacceptable. Now it is growing again because antisemites have given people a whole new set of excuses to hide behind.

"Once an attitude is an ingrained part of a culture, it takes a long time to “wash it out.” On the other hand, political correctness made it impossible in recent decades for respectable Europeans to self-define as antisemites. Thus, the hatred mutated in recent decades, and a third major generation of antisemitism developed: anti-Israelism, which targets the Jewish state.

The inroads that this hatred has made in Europe were shown in a 2011 study conducted by the University of Bielefeld in Germany, where it emerged that at least 150 million adult EU citizens agreed with the statement that Israel is conducting “a war of extermination against the Palestinians.”

If that were really the case, hardly any Palestinians would still be alive. Yet to the contrary, the number of Palestinians has increased over the past decades."

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The Nation of Islam Gets Taxpayer Funds to Incite Hatred of Jews

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan addressing the organization’s national convention in 2017. Photo: Reuters / Rebecca Cook. Ask average …

This is disgusting. The Nation of Islam is led by a man who called Jews “termites” and praised Hitler as a “great man.” This doesn’t seem like “draining the swamp” to me. Not a cent of taxpayer money should go to those dirtbags.

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The possibility of a new Holocaust with the reincarnation of antisemitism

The era of “never again” is ending in Western Europe, fading in North America and never penetrated the Middle East.

The era of “never again” is ending in Western Europe, fading in North America and never penetrated the Middle East.

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‘You Could See the Hatred’: Eyewitness Alleges Shocking Verbal Assault on Orthodox Jewish Family by Spirit Airlines Flight Attendant

An Orthodox Jew who traveled with his wife and small children on Tuesday on board a Spirit Airlines flight from Newark...

One, having flown Spirit Airlines, I totally believe that this is true. Two, this just proves again the lie that Jews are somehow “white” (a meaningless term) because Orthodox or not, the people that hate us always know whether we have light skin or not. I’ve experienced similar incidents many times. Antisemitism has never gone away. The difference is that now it is becoming increasingly socially acceptable. Again.

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ADL Condemns ‘Chilling’ Human Swastika Formed by California Middle Schoolers

Several middle school students in California were recently photographed while forming a human swastika, prompting a Jewish civil rights group...

Can it be that the continuing demonization of Israel, which has become a legitimized for of Jew hatred, is responsible for the re-emergence of increasingly acceptable antisemitism?

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KHACHATRIAN: The Intellectual Dishonesty of 'I’m Just Criticizing Israel'

Imagine there’s someone who really dislikes the Toyota Motor Corporation. But when castigating Toyota, they don’t actually criticize the automobile manufacturer’s products or practices.

This is a great piece explaining the blatant dishonesty and hypocrisy of bigots like Marc Lamont Hill and Mark Ruffalo.

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Now they call us ‘White Jews’: A new American antisemitism

If you remain silent when you hear the term “white Jews,” you are not doing your part to stop this creeping hatred.

This is a VERY important article. The origins of All Jews in the Middle East. More importantly, the idea of “white Jews” is absurd when you are speaking about one of the most persecuted minorities in human history. It is another, newer, form of antisemitism. This article brilliantly explains why.

“If you don’t use the term “white Muslims” then you must not use the term “white Jews” and anyone who uses the term “white Jews” must be immediately confronted as to why no other religion gets this “white” definitional treatment.”

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Women’s March in Chicago Canceled Amid Accusations of Antisemitism at National Level

JNS.org – Citing limited “time, money and effort,” the Women’s March in Chicago organization has canceled its 2019 march. This...

Good. These people are reprehensible. They claim that they abhor hatred in any form-but are the same people that kicked a group of women out of the march because they had a flag with the Star of David on it. They are bigots and liars.

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The New York Times Just Published An Unqualified Recommendation For An Insanely Anti-Semitic Book

The book, by conspiracy theorist David Icke, was recommended by author Alice Walker. It repeatedly cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, dubs the Talmud “among the most appallingly racist documents on the planet,” and says the Jews funded the Hol

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Hanukkah Is Not Christmas. This Year, Let's Embrace That

Hanukkah ought to be celebrated in its own right. And failure to see it for what it truly is means children will likely abandon Judaism

Excellent article. Chanukah is NOT a holiday about religious tolerance, and I love that fact. It is the holiday where we say to the world: we are Jewish, you can't change that, and we'd rather fight and sacrifice our lives than be coerced into assimilation.

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CNN pundit calls for Israel's destruction, by violence, in UN address

At annual UN pro-Palestine event, CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill says violence against Israel is legitimate, concluding, "Justice requires a Free Palestine from the River to the Sea." By Gary Willig CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill addressed the openin

I’ve despised this person for a very long time. This is absolutely atrocious. Where are all of people who supposedly oppose bigotry on this? Antisemitism is the last bastion of allowable ethnic hatred: which is why there is so much of it on both right and left. That said, the left seems unable to admit it as a problem.

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Jordanian MP Who Praised Murder of Seven Israeli Schoolgirls Feted in UK Parliament

A Jordanian Member of Parliament who hailed the murder of seven Israeli schoolgirls in 1997 was feted in the British...

Britian has always had serious problems with antisemitism. Its becoming more and more socially acceptable and thats’s scary.

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UCLA Shamefully Condones Students for Justice in Palestine

Imagine if the KKK asked to hold a conference at UCLA. Does anyone seriously believe that the administration would allow...

USC, my alma mater is just as bad. Universities are dominated by the far left and the far left is extremely antisemitic. I would have far more respect for the people who facilitate that embrace of hatred if they were honest about it. But they aren’t. They cloak it all with fake claims about tolerances, free speech, and diversity.

“Imagine if the KKK asked to hold a conference at UCLA. Does anyone seriously believe that the administration would allow it to take place, or make excuses about the Klan having a First Amendment right to hold the event?”

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The not-so-sweet taste of hypocrisy about anti-Semitism | JNS

Ben & Jerry’s decision to fund a group whose leaders endorse Louis Farrakhan throws zero tolerance for hate out the window.

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Media Say Anti-Semitic Incidents Are Up 57%. Here's The Real Story.

This week, major media outlets (The Washington Post,

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Outrage as Pence brings out Messianic ‘rabbi’ to pray for synagogue victims

Loren Jacobs invokes 'Jesus the Messiah' in his prayer; Pence says he did not know the cleric, who was invited to event by Jewish GOP candidate Lena Epstein

And today’s “spade a spade” moment: this. This was a huge screwup and endemic of the huge blind spot of many in the Christian community. Our enmemies are our enemies because they want to destroy us. That is true whether they choose violence, actively attempting to convert the naive, or assimilation. Shame on Pence and his staff for being this tone deaf (at best) or hypocritical (at worst).

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Left's Response To The Mass Shooting Of Jews Is An Act Of Bad Faith

If you think calling out George Soros is de facto anti-Semitism, your main concern is liberalism, not Jews or anti-Semitism.

I try not to be too overtly political on my Moptu page. But this needed to be said. I would love anyone who disagrees with anything said here to provide a factual rebuttal proving that's the case. I've watched over the course of my life as the bulk of antisemitic activity has shifted from the right to the left. Not acknowledging the shift is to excuse antisemitism by placing ideology and partisanship above facts and logic.

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Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre Victims Identified, Include 97-Year-Old, Pair of Brothers

The 11 Jews massacred on Saturday by a white supremacist gunman at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh have...

Baruch dayan ha’emet. May their memories be a blessing.

Anyone who politicizes this, as so many have, should rot in hell. I mean that with every ounce of sincerity I have. Millions have exploited an abhorrent tragedy to push a political agenda and they each have some of the victims’ Blood on their hands and the blood of any future victims who perish because far too many Americans can’t seem to take antisemtism seriousky. Jewish blood is cheap way too many of you.

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Why We Cling To The Tree Of Life

On Saturday, in a constantly-repeating story as old as the Jewish people, a Jew-hating murderer decided to slaughter as many Jews as possible. This murderer shouted the slogan of Jew-haters throughout time: “All Jews must die.”

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Report: 72% of L.A. Religious Hate Crimes Targeted Jews

The latest report from the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations shows that 72 percent of hate crimes against religion in the...

There are segments of the political community that obsess over “Islamaphobia.” These same people almost never acknowledge anti-Jewish hate crimes as a serious problem because there is far less political cachet in discussion of antisemitism. The attack today in Pittsburgh puts the disengdnousness of the obsession with Islamaphobia under a light that exposes it fully as the non-issue that it has always been.

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The Slaughter in Pittsburgh, A Jewish Perspective

Based on the early evidence, the shooter was not only consumed with a hatred of Jews but possessed a kind of sneering contempt for Trump on the grounds that Trump was basically a Jewish agent or a Jew-lover himself. View Post

“Because we are obliged by the sickness of our political culture to analyze every despicable event in a manner designed to confirm our priors, we have already, mere hours after the barbarity, sunk into a nauseating discussion about how much blame to assign to the president for this unspeakable act. The obvious answer is: None. Donald Trump should be assigned no such blame, even if the shooter were the president of the Donald Trump Fan Club, because he pulled no trigger and committed no crime. Period.“

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Jew Hater Jenny Tonge’s Vile Reaction to Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre

I am sure it matters little to Tonge that the murderer likely had no love for her beloved palestinians

It’s not just her. The entire left is, apallingly, exploiting the deaths of eleven Jewish Americans to push the gun control/anti-Trump narrative. It’s unbelievably disgusting and inappropriate.

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Why Does The Left Give Louis Farrakhan A Pass?

Somehow, every time he compares Jews to insects or accuses them of causing transgenderism, Louis Farrakhan gets a big pass from the left.

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Twitter Says Louis Farrakhan Tweet Comparing Jews to Termites Does Not Violate Rules

"I'm not an anti-Semite. I'm anti-Termite."

And not even a slight amount of outrage from his many supporters on the left including many in Congress.

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US Jewish Groups, Israeli Politicians Hail Outgoing UN Ambassador Haley for Defense of Jewish State

Major American Jewish groups and top Israeli politicians issued effusive praise of US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley following...

She will be seriously missed. I was sad when I heard the news. Haley was the best UN Ambassador we've ever had (sorry Jean Kirkpatrick).

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New York Times: 'Israel Says' a Terror Attack Happened | HonestReporting

Why did the New York Times' first headline in response to a brutal Palestinian terrorist attack, state "Israel Says" when the facts were already known?

The NYT will say literally anything ti denigrate Israel.

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Angela Merkel’s Ugly Romance With the Iranian Regime

In a remarkable comment that was ignored by the German media last month, the president of the country’s roughly 100,000-member Central Council of Jews suggested that Germany has failed to internalize the lessons of the Holocaust. According to Dr. Josef

It’s beyond ironic, and sick, that the nation responsible for the Holocaust is now strongly aligning itself with the nation most committed to the destruction of the Jewish state and a second Jewish genocide.

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Qatar’s Underhanded PR Strategy: AJ+

Qatar’s agenda is obvious with Al Jazeera and all their platforms. The efforts to whitewash terrorism and minimize (even promote in Arabic) antisemitism.

Please don’t fall prey to the propaganda of “AJ+.” It is NOTHING but an arm of Qatar’s government. As such, it’s a major proponent of terrorism. It preys on naive American liberals who believe that it actually mirrors their values. It is, in reality, a major purveyor of hate.

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New England Patriots Star Shares Western Wall Photo With Jewish High Holidays Message

New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman posted pictures of himself in Israel, including one praying at the Western Wall, on...

Good for Edelman. People should be proud of their heritage.

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Alan Dershowitz: Why Did the Clintons Share the Stage With Farrakhan? | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

A version of this article first appeared in The Hill. Imagine President Trump being invited to speak at the funeral of a...

This is an excellent question. Alan Dershowitz is a life-long democrat. He is also honest. It's a travesty that more people can't acknowledge the utter hypocrisy of remaining silent while an ex-president sits on the same stage with an open bigot. You can only imagine what the reaction would have been if it were Trump.

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As new anti-Israel threats emerge, students get crash course on changing campus environment

A four-day conference run by CAMERA in Boston teaches tools of activism, using words, facts, patience and plain-old courage to combat the scourge of anti-Israel sentiment on campus.

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Report: More Arabs Want to Vote in Jerusalem Municipal Elections, but Face Threats From Palestinian Terror Groups

Ahead of the upcoming Oct. 30 municipal elections in Jerusalem, Palestinian terror groups are pressuring Arab residents of the city...

The first thing that you have to understand about the Palestinian issue is that Palestinians are manipulated, constantly, by their own leaders and other Arab nations for political gain. So the idea that Arab Israelis, who are citizens, vote - exposes the lie of Israeli "apartheid."

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Holocaust Survivor Leads Panel Discussion at Comic-Con About Art During World War II

A survivor of three Nazi concentration camps led a panel discussion about art and the Holocaust on Thursday at the Comic-Con International...

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg says he won’t remove Holocaust denial posts

Founder of social media giant says those denying Holocaust may be doing so unintentionally and should not be removed, drawing condemnation from ADL; later clarifies remarks

I am going to quote the words of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on this one: “Unacceptable & outrageous remarks by @MarkZuckerberg about #Holocaust denial. Must clarify his remarks & make clear Holocaust denial is a willful and hateful attempt to trivialize murder of 6 million Jews. No room for Holocaust denial on @facebook...”

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Starbucks' flavored drinks lose Kosher certification - CBS News

A top Kosher certification company has dropped Starbucks drinks with syrups, sauces, toppings and powders

If you're in Southern California: the Coffee Bean is better anyway. Starbucks is, at best, a questionably company ethically. Although, full disclosure, I do drink their plain coffee and tea. The bottom line is that if this costs them customers, they will go back to trying to adhere to the standards for a kosher certification.

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Racist anti-Semite wins North Carolina primary, GOP withdraws support | The Times of Israel

Russell Walker, running for state's General Assembly, claims God is a racist white supremacist and Jews are descended from Satan

Kudos to the GOP for withdrawing support for this scumbag.

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Norwegian rapper curses ‘the f***ing Jews’ at diversity concert

Leader of Jewish community threatens legal action against Kaveh Kholardi, who says remark at Oslo concert was 'taken out of context'

Of course. This could only happen at something called a “diversity concert.” Antisemitism is where the far right and far left meet, but today’s biggest antisemitic threat is from the left. It’s a growing problem and to ignore it is incredibly dangerous and foolish.

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Johannesburg councilor suspended for Israel support

“I would like to declare that I am a friend of Israel, and the city of Johannesburg is a friend of Israel! Shalom, Shalom!” she declared on Sunday.

Unreal. South Africa should know better. It doesn’t.

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Sign at future San Diego Jewish center vandalized with threatening graffiti

Threatening graffiti was written on a sign announcing the future home of the University of California San Diego Hillel Jewish Center in the United States.

This is very sad, I lived in San Diego for 13 years and still consider it a second home. But, to be very honest, this doesn't surprise me at all. I experienced more (real) antisemitism during my time in San Diego than I had in my entire life previous to living there. It's just reality that outside of LA and New York it's just more common (although I have experienced it in LA too - particularly during my time at USC which has a history of looking the other way at bigotry when it's directed at Jews).

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In Britain, poll indicates, 23% ‘unwilling’ to have a Jew in the family

Similar number found in Italy, Germany and Austria in survey of 15 countries in Western Europe; the Dutch found to be most accepting

The more things change...

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Pro-Israel UCLA Students to Meet With Administration After Anti-Zionist Peers 'Violently' Disturb Event | Jewish & I

Pro-Israel students at the University of California, Los Angeles who called for the suspension of an anti-Zionist group that disrupted their...

UCLA has become one of the most hostile schools to Jewish students in the country. I am sure that every one of the "protestors" claims that they respect free speech and "diversity." Notice that they all complain about the "nakba," but not one of them ever wants to acknowledge the hundreds of thousands of Jews ejected from Arab countries at the same time. As for the "both sides do it" argument, please find me a single example of this ever going the other way.

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Gaza Riots: Really About the Embassy?

Throughout history, the excuses to attack Israel keep changing. For 8 years under the Obama administration, the Palestinians had portrayed themselves, and been treated as, the deserving underdog -- the "good guys." Now, a foreign government is actually

Why is the truth so hard for some people to accept?

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Israel Has the Right and Obligation to Defend Its Border with Deadly Force | National Review

I challenge anyone who disagrees with Israel's recent actions to explain, rationally, why any of the points in this article are incorrect.

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Israeli diplomat kicked out of Uber after speaking Hebrew: 'Can't believe this is happening in America' - Chicago Tribune

An Israeli diplomat took to social media to report that an Uber driver kicked him out of a vehicle in the middle of a busy Chicago street after hearing him speak Hebrew on the phone.

I can totally believe that this happened in America. I was refused entry imto the Arclight theater in Hollywood when I was with an Israeli friend. The manager was very obviously of Middle Eastern descent. Arclight opted to do exactly nothing about it. I won't be going back.

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Steven Spielberg urges mandatory Holocaust education

Director, actors, recall filming ‘Schindler’s List’ at special 25th anniversary screening

He is very obviously correct about this.

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NEVER AGAIN? On Yom Hashoah, Poll Shows Two Thirds Of Millennials Don't Know What Auschwitz Was

According to a new survey released on Thursday by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, fully 41 percent of Americans don’t know what Auschwitz was, including two-thirds of Mil

If this doesn’t terrify you, you’re either ignorant or missing a key number of IQ points.

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The brutal killing of a Holocaust survivor raises anti-Semitism fears in France

French authorities are investigating whether the victim was targeted because of her religion.

The problem with Europe isn’t that most Europeans are flagrantly antisemitic. It’s that way too many Europeans tolerate antisemitism. So they are less overtly anti-Jewish, but, as we know that attitude has the same dire results. So flagrant or merely tolerant, they allow innocent people to be murdered simply based on their Jewishness. It’s the 21st century and not much has changed in Europe. That this happened to this woman, a survivor of the Holocaust, is absolutely atrocious.

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Trayon White Sr., D.C. council member, blames winter storms on Jews

A D.C. Council member has apologized for anti-Semitic comments he made Friday suggesting that Jewish financiers control the weather.

Sadly, even in 2018 this doesn’t surprise me.

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Jewish advocacy group denounces Putin for suggesting Jews behind election meddling | TheHill

The American Jewish Committee is urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to "clarify" his comments suggesting that Russian minority groups, including Jews, could be behind efforts to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The American Jewish Committee should be doing A LOT more than asking Putin to " clarify." The idea that Jews who are Russian citizens are not truly Russian, is a very old antisemitic claim. To hear it from the Russian head of state in 2018 is surreal. I've been saying this for decades, but mainstream Jewish communal groups need to WAKE UP and stop acting like being civil is more important than taking action. Putin ought to be condemned for this and the American Jewish community should be demanding action from our government that lets Russia know that these kinds of comments have repercussions. Anything less is weak, feckless and meaningless.

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Make Superman Jewish Again – Tablet Magazine

Mazal tov to Brian Michael Bendis: The esteemed comic book writer has recently jumped ship from Marvel to DC, and, later this year, will give new life to the publisher’s most iconic hero, Superman. “I'm a little Jewish boy from Cleveland,

Many people don't know this, but Superman's creators were Jewish and there are many Jewish connections to the character.

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As Attacks on Jews Rise in Europe, Antisemitism Is the New Cool | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

More disturbing than the alleged arson at a suburban Paris kosher supermarket on Tuesday — the third anniversary of the terror...

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Delta employees detail a pattern of anti-Semitic abuse at airline

  NEW YORK (JTA) — It wasn’t long after Nahum Amir began working for Delta Airlines as a mechanic that he says his manager started calling him “the Jewish guy.” Then Amir says the manager accused him and other Jews of “killing kids in G

Delta was already a despicable company for many reasons, this just adds to the many reasons not to support them.

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Sir Ringo Starr to perform in Israel - The Jewish Chronicle

Former Beatles drummer to play Tel Aviv - 52 years after the Fab Four were forced to cancel their planned Israeli gig

GOOD for Ringo! I mean..."Sir Ringo'!

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Exposed! USC Professor David Kang Teaches That Israeli Zionists Are All Terrorists

This man has no business teaching his evil ideas to the younger generation

I am an alumnus of USC. I used to be proud of my school and active in alumni events. No more. A few years ago they bent over backwards to hypocritically defend an Holocaust denier and bigot on their staff. Now they are behaving similarly in this situation. They aren't even slightly responsive to the concerns of Jewish alumni. The so called "Trojan family," which the relentlessly push as a fundraising and recruiting tool, is a complete joke. If any professor took similar positions regarding other ethnic groups that person would correctly be fired. I will never give another dime, promote in any way, or do anything to support this atrocious school. It is run by hypocritical, dishonest, and bigoted people.

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Yair Lapid: World must recognize Israeli sovereignty over Golan, united Jerusalem as capital - Diplomatic Conference - J

Lapid, who is one of the heads of the opposition, surprisingly used his speech to support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on what is seen as a historic day for Israel.

It;s absolutely absurd to claim that anything but Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. How about of the Arabs recognize Israel before they complain about where the capital is? The bottom line is that there isn't a single government building that is on disputed land. This is just another excuse for Arab activists to cause more violence.

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Yes, Ashkenazi Jews (Including Gal Gadot) Are People of Color | Dani Ishai Behan | The Blogs | The Times of Israel

Edit: thank you all for your constructive feedback. My response can be found here. Edit #2: my response to......

It's sickening that this is even a controversial idea. I am not a fan of dividing people up by the shade of their skin (in any way). BUT, the movement to paint Jews as white Europeans is rooted in centuries old antisemitic tropes. It is wielded mot often to deny our millennia old connection to Israel-and was unheard of until relatively recently.

"The fact that Jews writ large are not racially European (i.e. white), but rather an indigenous Middle Eastern/”Oriental” people who are cousins of the Arabs, was common knowledge until the 1960s. And this knowledge only became obscured with the concomitant rise of anti-Zionist ideology, which rests on denying Jewish indigeneity to the Middle East and, by extension, our right to be there at all (at least as something other than “inferior dhimmi”)."

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102-year-old Holocaust survivor reunites with newly discovered nephew | The Times of Israel

Eliahu Pietruszka believed his brother, who escaped Warsaw ghetto, had died in a Russian labor camp, but, generations later, a Yad Vashem genealogy project led to incredible news

Such a touching story. People need to understand that the Shoah (the Holocaust) was a blip in time ago. That's one of the many reasons that forgetting that it happened, or minimizing it, is so disgraceful.

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ADL: 'Proud Anti-Semite' bumper sticker a sign of the times

For most people, a bumper sticker reading "Proud Anti-Semite" would be disturbing. But one driver in Farmingdale had no problem proclaiming his stance, after a woman snapped a photo while driving her children home from a Girls Scout event on Rou

The most surprising aspect of this story is that no one took a baseball bat to the car.

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New York Times Avoids Calling a Jew a Jew | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

When is a Jew not a Jew? When The New York Times is writing about him or her and is...

"In a conversation, when someone dances around a topic or avoids it the way the Times is treating Judaism in these articles, it’s sometimes because of a concern that raising it might be somehow embarrassing, or even insulting. If that’s how Times journalists feel about Judaism, it’s too bad."

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A new Dutch play about Anne Frank doesn’t mention Jews or Nazis - Diaspora - Jerusalem Post

The play, which is slated to premiere on Nov. 11 in the Netherlands, is set in modern times and mentions neither the Nazis nor why they murdered Anne Frank.

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Alan Dershowitz: Berkeley’s hard-left stunningly silent over anti-Semitic caricature of me

I was recently invited to present the liberal case for Israel at Berkeley. In my remarks I advocated the establishment of a Palestinian state and a negotiated end of the conflict.

Don't be intellectually lazy and dismiss this simply because it appears on Fox News. This was written by Alan Dershowitz-a life long democrat. The points he makes here are not only valid, but crucial to understanding the hypocrisy and nuances of today's left. Most liberals see themselves, rightly or wrongly, as a bulwark against racism, and as defenders of minorities, yet real antisemitism, very serious manifestations of bigotry disguised as mere political differences with Israel, is rampant on the left and people, perhaps in denial, are totally silent. Thie hypocrisy needs to end.

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How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets - The New York Times

Exploiting the popular Kaspersky antivirus software, Russian hackers searched millions of computers for American intelligence keywords. Israeli intelligence tipped off American officials.

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A Sydney suburb bans construction of a synagogue because of terrorism fears

Jewish leaders said the decision, “effectively placed in jeopardy the future of Jewish life in Australia."

This is truly sickening. The cowards and the terrorists win in cases like this. How can the Australians be this pathetic?

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Company selling swastika apparel as progressive symbol of peace

Before being used by Hitler’s Nazi regime, swastikas were commonly known as an ancient sign used by Hindus and Buddhists carrying positive associations such as auspiciousness and good fortune.

The far left these days is doing all it can to diminish the horror of the Holocaust. Part of the reason for that is that they, wrongly, believe that diminishing the Holocaust diminishes Israel's legitimacy. I

s anyone else sick and tired of re inherent arrogance of doing something THIS offensive by claiming that it is "pushing boundaries"? This is a boundary that people have no right to push. How wonderful that some egotistical hipster can virtue project this symbol of horror. They are so completely consumed with their egos they don't even care what kind of an effect this would have on a survivor.

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Progressive Groups’ Banning of Star of David Flags Isn’t Anti-Zionism. It’s Anti-Semitism.

Why are some American progressives embracing overt anti-Semitism?

"in practice, intersectionality functions as a kind of caste system ."

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Trump’s State Department Blames Israel For Palestinian Terrorism | Daily Wire

“Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, the perception that the Israeli government was changing the status quo on the Haram Al Sharif/Temple Mount, and IDF tactics that the Palestinians

Trump's apologists will, and already are, claim that this isn't Trump's fault, it's just holdovers from the Obama administration. That idea is, of course, pathetic, childish, and delusional. The buck stops with the president. Period. He is in charge of the Executive. He will not be moving the embassy, as he has stated, will not reverse the Iran deal (the ONLY GOP candidate who held that position even during the campaign), and has no significant record being an advocate for Israel. The idea that he was "pro-Israel" was always wishful thinking at best.

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Director of Colorado Jewish Cemetery Promised $100,000 by BDS Activist Linda Sarsour in March 2017 Says Money Still Hasn’t Arrived

A Jewish cemetery in Colorado that has fallen into severe disrepair has yet to receive a check for some $100,000 from...

There's a shocker. The woman is a bigot & no different than someone like David Duke. End of story.

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Roger Waters’ Jewish Problem Catches Eye of Award-Winning Filmmaker

His so-called activism will be the subject of a new documentary.

Anyone who supports Roger Waters is supporting bigotry. It's that simple. He is exactly like someone like David Duke.

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Division at the Western Wall is no path to unity - Opinion - Jerusalem Post

Over 60% of American Jews are totally unaffiliated, and have little or no interest in Judaism, Israel, Jerusalem or the Western Wall.

I know that this article will be controversial to many people, and is not what those same people want to hear. I would be interested in hearing a commons sense, FACT driven response that would refute any of the logic here. I do not believe that that is possible. From the article:

"Gender-separate prayer services are no “ultra-Orthodox” invention; they are part of our universal Jewish heritage. Descendants of refugees from Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Algeria pray at the Western Wall, alongside those whose grandparents were born in Israel and those who immigrated to escape Soviet oppression and antisemitism in France – joined by immigrants and students from America and around the globe. Despite millennia of dispersion, Jews everywhere follow the same basic prayer service. In our common Jewish practice, we find unity."

I agree. We should NOT be basing decisions about the Kotel on emotions.

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Opinion | I’m Glad the Dyke March Banned Jewish Stars

his weekend, at a lesbian march in Chicago, three women carrying Jewish pride flags — rainbow flags embossed with a Star of David — were kicked out of the celebration on the grounds that their flags were a “trigger.

Yes, yes and yes again. This is the best opinion piece I have read in years concerning the quickly growing mutual exclusivity of being a proud Jew and a progressive liberal in the current American form of liberalism (which is not what many people refer to as classical liberalism). As the author of the article states "Since when did a politics that celebrates choice — and choices — devolve into a requirement of being forced to choose?" It is very sad that American Jews are being forced to choose, like their ancestors in Europe, between their identities and "fitting in." For me the choice is very simple: fitting in will ALWAYS lose.

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Honor a Holocaust Victim by Tattooing Her Number?

My teenage daughter would like to honor my mother by getting a tattoo of her Auschwitz number. We are quite divided on this issue. Can you please help?

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Game of Thrones star: ‘Thanks to my grandparents, I’m here today’

Laura Pradelska, who played Quaithe in hit HBO series, reveals incredible tale of survival ahead of Yom HaShoah event

This is yet another amazing story of surviving the Shoah (Holocaust).

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Passed over by Nazis and Communists, remnants of Ukraine's last shtetl prepare to celebrate | The Times of Israel

Numbering just 50 today, the Jews of Bershad have managed to protect their 200-year-old clay synagogue through successive despotic regimes

It has never occurred to me that any shtetls survived the Holocaust. This is amazing. I am sure that this is exactly the kind of place that some of my ancestors came from.

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'Scandal' Co-Star Called 'Jew Rat,' 'Kike' on Social Media After Cursing Oscar-Winning Director Mel Gibson, Infamous for

The Jewish actor who plays David Rosen in the hit ABC series “Scandal” was called a “Jew rat,” “Kike” and “Jew fa**ot”...

Antisemitism is alive and well. If you think that it started after Trump took office, you haven't been paying attention.

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Anti-Semites Praise Trump For Berating Jewish Reporter And Refusing To Condemn Anti-Semitism In Press Conference

Anti-Semitic writers are thrilled that President Donald Trump denounced a Jewish reporter at a press conference and told him to be quiet after he asked the president to condemn anti-Semitism. They said Trump’s performance was “amazing” and “one of the greatest things I’ve ever witnessed in my life” because he criticized “the Jews” and showed that the press is “totally part of the Jewish deep state.”

Not only are people defending Trump's behavior, which was bizarre throughout, at his press conference, many of them seem completely unaware that it's not just what Trump says, but the repercussions of what he says that are the problem.