Morsi Anti-Semitism: Better Late Than Never For the New York Times
January 15, 2013 12:53 by Simon PloskerIn a story that was reported by Israeli press, including the Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel, a video from 2010 was released by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi opposing peace with “the descendants of apes and pigs.” (See transcript here.)
That the leader of the Arab world’s most powerful and influential state has openly expressed anti-Semitic views and his opposition to peace with Israel was a potentially huge international story. Or was it?
Forbes magazine’s Richard Behar asked the question as to why no American newsrooms deemed Morsi’s comments worthy of attention:
Needless to say, this was HUGE NEWS for American mass media! Only it wasn’t. (Knock, knock, New York Times? Anybody home?) In fact, to be fair to the paper of record, not a single major outlet has covered it. Not AP or Reuters. Not CBS News or CNN. Not Time magazine or U.S. News & World Report. Not the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, or USA Today. Etcetera. And therein lies a story, which this column can only begin to skin open here. …
Undoubtedly, the Cairo and Jerusalem bureaus of the big U.S. media outlets saw the story. But the news only found its way to certain American readers and viewers by getting picked up in Jewish and/or conservative forums over the following days. …
Most would agree that, even in the internet age, the [New York] Times is still the leading agenda-setter for major media. It is, after all, the best paper around, a true wonder-of-the-world. But it does seem to avoid covering Islamist incitement against Jews (and Christians) like the plagues.
Lo and behold, however, today’s New York Times (January 15) covers the Morsi story. While it took the intervention of a respected publication such as Forbes before the New York Times woke up and reported the news that should matter to its readers, credit to the paper for publishing the story while other mainstream media such as CNN, BBC, Washington Post and others have failed to do so.
From the original release of the story on January 4 and Richard Behar’s article on January 11, it has taken some eleven days for the New York Times to file a report.
According to the NY Times report: “Representatives of Mr. Morsi have declined repeated requests over more than three days for comment on his remarks.” This would imply that journalist David Kirkpatrick first cottoned on to the story on the day that Behar called out the NY Times.
While it is concerning that the NY Times initially didn’t consider anti-Semitic and anti-Israel comments from the Egyptian president to be worth covering, at least the paper did eventually publish the story. We wait to see whether others will follow the NY Times’s lead.
Why is this important? That Egypt’s president uttered these statements is newsworthy in its own right. But in the bigger picture, the media tends to concentrate its attention on presenting Israel as the intransigent side, placing issues such as settlements at the heart of the Middle East conflict. Meanwhile, anti-Israel incitement from the Palestinians and the wider Arab world is virtually never covered and is thus rarely factored in as a potential obstacle towards peace.
It’s time that the mainstream media acknowledges that the Mideast conflict might actually be based on more than just a simple territorial dispute.
In this case, thanks to Richard Behar, it’s better late than never.
UPDATE
The Algemeiner reports that Morsi’s anti-Semitic remarks have been condemned by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney at a Tuesday press briefing:
“We strongly condemn the remark that then-Muslim Brotherhood leader Morsi made in 2010. The language that we have seen is deeply offensive. We completely reject these statements, as we do any language that espouses religious hatred. This discourse–this is a broader point–this kind of discourse has been acceptable in the region for far too long and it’s counter to the goal of peace. President Morsi should make clear that he respects people of all faiths, and that this type of rhetoric is not acceptable or productive in a democratic Egypt. Since taking office President Morsi has reaffirmed Egypt’s commitment to its peace treaty with Israel in both word and deed, and has proven willing to work with us towards shared objectives including a ceasefire during the crisis in Gaza last year. These commitments are essential to our bi-lateral relations with Egypt as well as for stability in the region.”
Dafna Yee
2:38 am
Jan 22, 2013
BUTSeriously — I don’t write my articles and essays to try and convince Arabs of the truth. I write them to try and show Jews, both Israelis and Americans mostly, that they are hurting Israel every time they use words like “settlements,” “West Bank,” “Palestine,” and “Palestinans” just to name four. I know all about the British double cross but I’m more interested in fighting Israelis who insist that Abbas is a “moderate peace partner” and are willing to negotiate with terrorists like Hamas to have a cease fire brokered by none other than Morsi! I am still angry that Sharon and Olmert betrayed the Israelis who lived in Gush Katif and used Israeli soldiers to force them from their homes and gave that land to Arabs reinforcing the lie that Israel was “occupying” (another hurtful word!) Arab land!!
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BUTSeriously
3:03 am
Jan 22, 2013
Its called ‘infiltration’ – and it works with Jews and Americans. It is not open and blatant, but operates quitely, underhandedly and insidiously. People in key positions are offered carots, then comes the big thud – when they cannot do much about it. There’s a well planned strategic chess game going on and one of the players is asleep at the wheel. America, a super power, was easilly felled by YES WE CAN bytes.
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Irv Dain
4:54 am
Jan 22, 2013
Why is Morsi so antisemitic, Israel is a democratic country, is highly productive and
contributes many products which it exports to other countries. If Egypt did only
half as much, it will be an improvement.
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martin
2:12 pm
Jan 22, 2013
Morsi is not anti semitic, as this includes Arabs,too. He does hate the Jews though. Jealousy is a most powerful arguement and so easy to blame more successful people, because they had to work. Most Arabs are just lazy and will beg for everything. If it was not for oil, all of the Islamic lands would still be living in caves and slums. Work is hardly a word that matters. Except those that live and work in Israel, or those who are allowed to commute into Israel. Now they do work, no doubt having seen what the Jews achieved. Oh, do I need to ,mention the word jealousy again?
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BUTSeriously
2:22 pm
Jan 22, 2013
Its foolish to say Muslims are not anti-semetic. Just about all Muslims are, else they cannot be Muslims. Nor can we say Islam is peaceful – else they would give Israel some land instead of demanding serial 2-states in the same tiny land.
But this has backfired: the Muslims expend some 90% of their time and energy focused and obsessed with Israel – to the extent they have become the least productive group in the world, despite every advantage & free resource given them. Europe & Britain are also paying a price for fostering and supporting Islamic anti-semitism at the UN: all that they sanctioned against Israel has become the weapon Muslims use against them by default and subsequence
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Dafna Yee
4:40 pm
Jan 22, 2013
Sanych —
Thank you for your words of support. I wrote a paper about how one doesn’t need documents of any kind to be considered a “palestinian” and how most of the Arabs known by that label neither lived in the Palestine Mandate nor had ancestors who did. Just the other day I was watching a TV show about a dance competition, and one of the entrants, who was born in Alabama, called herself a “full fledged Palestinian” when explaining her love of belly-dancing!!
As for that essay on the origin of Arabs, it is possible that some of the old-fashioned language is due to the fact that English is not his native language; he is Italian. In any event, I will send him an email to inquire about his sources. I do not think it is a problem to use old sources; I often do so myself, when I can find them.
To me, the biggest problem is how the Arabs, fueled mainly by Saudi money, have infiltrated the school systems, including revised texts and structured lessons, from as early as elementary schools all the way through graduate schools! Is it any wonder that the people indoctrinated by this revisionist history, who now are in sensitive jobs like editors, senators,
members of the State Department, etc., are overwhelmingly pro-Arab?!! I took a continuing education course in art history, and wasn’t allowed to do my term paper on ancient Jewish art (!) but when I expressed outrage at the text including “ancient Palestine” the situation got so ugly that I dropped the course!!! (The worst thing was that the Dean of the college, who is Jewish, did not stand on Israel’s side!!) That is why I said that Israelis and Zionists in general, using the Arab terms in ordinary talk, is extremely hurtful to Israel.
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Sanych
5:46 pm
Jan 22, 2013
No, Dafna, the problem is not with Arabs, but with Jews.
Arabs do what they are supposed to do. It is Jews, especially the liberal types, who have no backbone, don’t want to confront lies, and would rather stay away from any fights.
Speaking of “ancient Palestine” – I have a book by American Jewish Committee’s historian Steven Bayme – “Understanding Jewish History”. He opens it with a tale of Hebrew tribes coming from Egypt into Palestine. I personally asked him about it. He claimed that AJC’s leadership asked to change “Land of Israel” to “Palestine”. The book was published during the Oslo peace process and they thought it would be undiplomatic to stick to truth.
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Sanych
5:54 pm
Jan 22, 2013
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Language defines one’s existence. I cringe when Israel’s politicians say “West Bank” – they effectively give away Judea – their homeland. I understand that they may do so for efficiency, but they indirectly relinquish Jewish HISTORY and their own IDENTITY.
Additionally and unfortunately, there are many, many Jews now who run around spreading all kinds of lies about Israel. They actually make careers on publishing books bashing Israel and Zionism, running seminars and travelling the world organizing anti-Israel actions. But that’s another story…
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BUTSeriously
2:49 am
Jan 23, 2013
“I cringe when Israel’s politicians say “West Bank”
That’s the best quote of all. If Israel gets a statesmen again instead of Politicians, they would not accept any one or any correspondence, discussion or interaction with those who call Muslims as Palestinians. And just as importantly – the accounting of a ‘death to Israel’ 3-state as a 2-state. This must also include the UN, Allies, Media – these should be seen as new age Nazis and honored with a special section in Yad Vashem.
These are covert, inspired, intentional ‘genocidal premises’. Such cannot be justified under any circumstances and at any cost. Hello Bibi, Naftali, HR, all Gd Fearing honest folk: just do it. Make it God’s law.
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Dafna Yee
6:46 pm
Jan 22, 2013
I thought I made it clear that I also think that the basic problem is the Jews’ acceptance of Arab propaganda and revisionist history! I know that I said that I don’t write my articles/essays for an Arab audience. However, it was and is Arab money that is responsible for the change in Western education which in turn has overwhelmingly affected today’s attitudes about Israel. It is not a coincidence or an accident that backing for the “palestinians” is much more powerful today than it has been in the past. There is a complete generation of non-Arabs who have no memory of the Middle East prior to 1967 when the “Arab palestinians” first appeared and rely completely on what they hear and read today!! There is a book about the “plight of a Palestinian family” and the evil Jews called “Mornings in Jenin.” It was originally published as “Scars of David” about five years ago but it wasn’t very successful but now it’s a hit!! The important point is not the book itself; it’s the more than 100 five star reviews which basically say that they never realized before what was actually happening!!!! These reviews are nearly all decidedly anti-Israel!!
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Sanych
8:47 pm
Jan 22, 2013
Please don’t blame everything on Arab money, give the old-fashioned antisemitism some credit.
American Jews had it well for some time, but for many, especially after Protestants’ BDS vote, the reality started to sink in.
As far as “memory” is concerned, there is plenty of documentation to support Israel’s side. We just need to be educated, listen to the arguments from the other side, and be willing and capable to contradict them.
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Dafna Yee
11:00 pm
Jan 22, 2013
Sanych –
I’m not blaming everything on Arab money. I’m saying that Arab money has allowed a well-planned, long time campaign of anti-Israel, pro-Arab — particularly pro-palestinian — dogma to be incorporated into the education system which includes everything from textbooks and lesson plans to courses and even entire degree majors!! That is a main reason why we now have an unprecedented number of people already indoctrinated with that mindset in positions of power and influence today. There is certainly anti-semitism but overt anti-semitism at least can be recognized as such. This change in the education of both Jews and non-Jews in Western countries is why revisionist language like “occupation,” “settlements,” etc. has become so strongly entrenched that even most Israelis have adopted its use.
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martin
2:32 am
Jan 23, 2013
I have noticed that there is very often 1 disagree shown, no doubt by an Arab or sympathiser. Therefore, my question above which s/he did not like is directed towards that person regarding their claim that we are descended from apes and pigs. so let us have your answer. Why do you never your own thoughts, instead of just disagreeing. I appreciate that using brainpower is expected to make communication more fully.
So Disagreer, please answer my questions above. Thank you
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martin
2:36 am
Jan 23, 2013
Sanych I agree. Even worse than when they say Palestinian instead of Fakestin ian. Why must they be so respectful, when they show us none whatsoever and are always politically more aggressive. The Jewish left (communists) are a disgrace and it really is for ordinary Jews to become more involved and chuck the spineless idiots out of power.
By the way, have you ever researched the Oslo Accordfs and the Norwegian Jew/Israel hating communists who knowingly did all they could to harm Israel. This all the time with swine such as Peres. Beilin etc. did they know who they were dealing with. The Norwegians had the Israeli communists tied around their little fingers.
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martin
2:42 am
Jan 23, 2013
Soeof the Oslo elite involved in the so called Oslo peace process, which was disastrous for Israel openly called for the destruction of Israel to be replaced by the secular democratic state of Palestine..
If anyone wants, I can give you names of all those involved. Then you will wonderwhy, like I do, how Peres, Beilin and all the Israeli conspirators never faced trial for treason. You can start with ex pm Brundtland, who openly and happily wore her jewellry donated to her by her friend, the pardophilic murderer Yasser Arafart.
Ex hoyre parti (rightwing) pm Willoch, has suddenly shown his Israel hating credentials. He never was in the past, so why now. Please see some posts above .
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Morsi Anti-Semitism: Better Late Than Never For the New York Times « World Chaos
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Janet Mishner
10:48 pm
Jan 25, 2013
Morsi may say Jews descended from apes but has anyone looked at this “man?”
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Dafna Yee
12:06 am
Jan 26, 2013
Janet, When my husband heard what Morsi said, he said that he could accept Jews descended from apes since that meant they had evolved but it was obvious that he was still a close relative!! On second thought, Morsi also shows signs that there is definitely some swine in his family tree!!
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rosenberg
3:03 am
Jan 27, 2013
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. I have bowed out of the local interfaith Holocaust service, because it was a custom to include Hatikvah at the end, but now some Christian groups object as they support the Palestinians and the Muslim Imams would either sit or leave during the Hatikvah. Perhaps interfaith Holocaust programs no longer make sense, at least to me. I do not need the stress of seeing disrespect being afforded to Israel and nor do I wish to compromise by leaving Hatikvah out. This is a personal choice and I DO NOT ADVOCATE ANYONE NOT PARTICIPATING IN ANY INTERFAITH HOLOCAUST SERVICE. I INTRODUCED INTERFAITH HOLOCAUST SERVICES IN 1974 AND WAS ONE OF THE FIRST IF NOT THE FIRST TO DO SO. Perhaps it should be called INTERFAITH GENOCIDE SERVICE OR INTERFAITH DAY FOR VICTIMS OF PERSECUTION. IF I was a Palestinian or a Muslim , I WOULD FEEL AS THEY DO. BUT I AM A JEW AND A ZIONIST. This was a difficult decision for me based on personal principle. The interfaith Holocaust memorials started as well intentioned way for the Jewish people and other groups to pause and reflect on man’s capacity to perpetuate unbelievable cruelty against his fellow and to commiserate as a group and others, with the Jews and hopefully prevent this nightmare from reoccurring. Over the years it was understandably modified to include other victims of genocidal mass killings, though these mass killings were not really analogous, as the Nazis were obsessed at not just killing Jews as a competing group, but Hitler desired to eliminate our creed and it’s pervasive influence on humanity. As a result of extremist Muslim participation and twisted liberalism, this is morphing into a twisted canard where Israel is being blamed for perpetuating ethnic killings against the Palestinians as the Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis. One can understand the Islamo-Nazis belief system with a quote from the Talmud. We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are. RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG, CHILD OF Holocaust survivors and a refugee born in a D.P. camp
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BUTSeriously
3:18 am
Jan 27, 2013
There are very few true honest Christians today – most the not. There is no interfaith dialogue with those who remained silent of the Balfour’s corruption & Britain’s White paper – it was the substantial cause of the Holocaust. These same folk today call a death to Israel 3-state as a 2-state and have transfered the name Palestinian to those panting for another Holocaust. These make the Nazis loook honest and have tied the hands of their Lord. You did right by disassociating with this lot – those who fostered the Holocaust and those who deny it are peas in the same pod. Guess why Eurabia is happening and all islamic regimes are crumbling.
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Euel
6:05 pm
Jan 27, 2013
Morsi is now terribly frightened. Muslim brotherhood is also Shaking, Egypt is now terribly shaking, fearful, watching out the reaction of Israel and US.
Egypt without US yearly aid would have resulted the poorest Arab country in the world….
Egypt is fearful of absence of US b/c US has given Egypt power and Helped Egypt to appear powerful in the Arab world ….Now Egypt started to beg for Saudi and Qatar support…ahahahahahaha!
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Morsi: The Jews Distorted My Anti-Semitic Comments « American Infidels
7:01 pm
Jan 28, 2013
[...] about Jews being “descendants of apes and pigs” have been picked up by the mainstream media, particularly the New York Times, perhaps they might want to follow up on the meeting of US senators with Morsi in Cairo, as [...]
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rosenberg
2:09 am
Jan 29, 2013
Rabbi Chaim Vital wrote in the 16th Century, “At the End of Days, Israel is destined to experience the Ishmaelite exile. This fifth and last exile will be the most difficult of all. It is the exile of Ishmael, who is called ‘pe’re adam,’ a wild man.” Be strong, cling to your faith and we will see Moshiach wipe all this away. As we sing in Shir Hamaahlot (Psalm 126), we were like dreamers, meaning before our redemption, now in the end times. RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG
Fwd: IS THIS WHAT OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO??
Subject: IS THIS WHAT OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO??
NO-GO AREAS FOR JEWS IN EUROPE, by Giulio Meotti, 12/26/2012
Thinking of visiting Europe? Keep your kippah in your pocket (or like me, wear a baseball cap–then they only hate you for being American). –
Giulio Meotti is an Italian Christian journalist…truly a modern day Righteous Gentile -of which, thank the Lord, there still are quite a few, even in Europe where Jew-hatred as always rampant.
No-go Areas for Jews in Europe
By Giulio Meotti Arutz-7 (Israel)
December 18, 2012 — Surprised that Israelis entering Jordan are required to deposit religious Jewish items, like skullcaps and tefillin, for “security reasons? It’s happening in many European countries as well, where Jews are once again in grave danger and Judeophobia has become the common currency of politics. Jews in Denmark have just been warned by Israeli officials not to appear publicly wearing Jewish religious symbols such as yarmulkes or stars of David in order to avoid increasing anti-Israel and anti-Semitic altercations. “We advise Israelis who come to Denmark and want to go to the synagogue to wait to don their skull caps 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,” said Israel’s ambassador to Denmark, Arthur Avnon.
Got that? To be identifiable as a Jew in public in Europe is to invite violence. There are European areas in its bigger cities where you cannot go outside looking like a Jew – it’s like being in Gaza. In the last few weeks, an Israeli representative of the Magen David Adom was attacked at Copenhagen Central Station, while in central Copenaghen Jews who were wearing a kippah were have been physically and verbally attacked.
An elderly Israeli man was assaulted by a group of Arabic-looking men when he ate a kebab at Nørrebro. They kicked the victim several times and tore his necklace, on which a visible star of David was hanging, off. That’s why today most of Danish Jews think twice before deciding whether to wear a necklace with a Star of David on it.
In the enlightened Europe of today, there is witch hunt against any authentic Jew with a beard and a skullcap. Jewish students have been advised not to wear a kippa in the streets in Germanyeither. The Jewish Abraham Geiger Theological College in Potsdam advises its rabbis against wearing a kippah in public, while the orthodox Or Avner school in Berlin has issued similar guidelines.
Whenever its pupils go on trips to the zoo or the museum, Jewish pupils are warned: “Speak German, not Hebrew, put a baseball cap over your kippah so you don’t give stupid people something to get annoyed about.” Camouflaged in this way, young Jews travel on Berlin’s metro trains. The rector of the school has explained that “it is safer to not appear to be a Jewish person”.
A few days ago Finland’s Jewish community was advised not to wear the skullcap in public for fear of anti-Semitic attacks. In Malmö, Sweden, the country which once gave the world saints like Raoul Wallenberg, members of the local synagogue decided not to keep on their kippahs upon exiting their synagogue.
Norway’s Jewish Community has advised its members against speaking Hebrew loudly on the streets or wearing Jewish emblems. Norwegian police have just increased security around Oslo’s main synagogue. A teacher, Inge Telhaug, who was wearing a Magen David around his neck under a T-shirt, was informed by the Kristiansand Adult Education Center that wearing the star could be deemed a provocation towards the many Muslim students at the school.
In France several Jews were attacked and beaten in the streets after wearing the skullcap. In Paris it is safer for young Jewish men to walk in groups, not alone. They should wear baseball caps instead of the traditional head covering to avoid being attacked by anti-Semites. In many neighborhoods of Marseille and Lyons, it is no longer safe for Jews to walk the streets. A few weeks ago a Jewish man was attacked and rendered unconscious in a Paris metro. How did the anti-Semitic mob recognize that he was Jewish? Because of a philosophy book by the chief rabbi of Paris that he was reading in the metro when he was attacked.
Meanwhile, half the Jewish families in Villepinte, working-class suburb north of Paris, have left due to anti-Semitism, fleeing to other Paris neighborhoods considered safer for Jews, or out of France entirely. Villepinte’s 40-year-old synagogue, already torched in 2001, will close because it often lacks a minyan.
In the UK, there have been many cases like that of an Orthodox child, who was wearing a kippa and tzitzit, verbally threatened and physically intimidated by a hooded youth as he travelled on a London bus. When the faithful leave Rome’s main synagogue they immediately hide the skullcap. Police patrol the area day and night.
In the Netherlands, the country of Baruch Spinoza, police officers began wearing yarmulkes to catch Dutch Jew haters in the act of physical or verbal assault. Jewish students are told to “put a cap over your kippah”.
In Amsterdam, the shelter of Spanish Jews who fled from Inquisition, the twenty-five Lester M. Wolff van Ravenswade described the difficulties faced by Jews living in an open letter to the newspaper NRC Handelsblad: “I cannot go to public events dressed as a Jew, let alone go out on Saturday night. Which party do I have to vote for in order to live safely with the kippah on my head?”.
Everywhere in Europe, steel barriers are in place outside certain buildings with Jewish or Israeli connections to prevent parking. In many British areas where Jews live the “Shomrin”, or guardians, patrol the streets like Israelis do in isolated “settlements” in Israel. Last autumn the ancient Dutch synagogue of Weesp became the first synagogue in Europe since the Second World War to cancel Shabbat services due to the threats to the safety of the faithful.
Eighty years ago next January, Adolf Hitler seized power in Germany. Every time I see a Jewish child walking down the street in Vienna, Paris or Rome wearing a kippah, I know that Hitler did not get to finish his job. It makes me feel proud – or at least somewhat better. But the Holocaust, in which two thirds of European Jewry were annihilated, did not end when Nazi Germany and its satellites were routed militarily. The spirit of annihilation continues eighty years later. That’s why Israel’s former chief rabbi, Meir Lau, predicted that European Jewish history is nearing its end.
Indeed, it seems a tragic but unavoidable process: Europe as a Jew-free continent or a realm of fear in which Jews will survive as “invisible”, like during the Inquisition, where even lighting candles on Shabbath is a hazard because someone could see the holy flames from the street.
Europe’s streets are getting very dark these days and the sublime orchestras are playing Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” and “Die Meistersinger” once more, while the faith in “truth as beauty and beauty as truth” can again meet its horrible end.
The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book “A New Shoah”, that researched the personal stories of Israel’s terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary. He is at work on a book about the Vatican and Israel.
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2:45 am
Jan 29, 2013
Muslims and the Pre-Islamic Arabs have no connection with Ishmael, who was half Jewish/half Egyptian. The ancient Egyptians were not Arab. Its a historical hoax as big as Muslim Palestinians, a fals. The Arabs never existed as an ethnic group even in King Solomon’s time.
The upcoming war has nothing to do with Jews or Israel and is really a war between Islam & Christianity ultimately: two big religions with the same opposing doctrines. Israel is used as a transit deflection, but we can see this war is slowly but surely emerging between Muslims and the West. Each of these two groups thought its ok to target Israel – not realizing they are fostering a premise which is attacking both of them.
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rosenberg
8:44 am
Jan 29, 2013
On January 27, 1945 the death camp Auschwitz, where 1,000,000 Jews were exterminated, was liberated by the Allies
Remember and Never Forget the Holocaust must be summed in two simple words:
Support Israel!
The Jewish nation redemption and vindication will only come through a larger and more powerful Jewish state.
A safe, impregnable Israel, in its present borders, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, is the only true memorial to the genocide-Holocaust, where one of every three Jews in the world was exterminated.
All the rest is commentary and bad theatre. rabbi dr. bernhard rosenberg
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BUTSeriously
10:57 am
Jan 29, 2013
Supporting Israel means rejecting a 3-state and the term Palestinians applied to Muslims. These are intentional candy-coated genocidal aspired premises that make the Nazis more honest than Britain, the EU & the UN. Its called European Taqiyah.
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Dafna Yee
12:45 pm
Jan 29, 2013
Dr. Rosenberg — I want to thank you for publishing Giulio Meotti’s stirring letter. I had not realized that things had gotten so bad in Europe for Jews. Since this horrible situation is not publicized widely, if at all, I’m afraid that the true scale of what was happening had escaped me.
I am a child of a Holocaust survivor. My father was born in Germany and grew up in Palestine while my mother was born in New York and was a passionate Zionist. I grew up on stories about the daring of the Haganah (my father cut the telephone wires in the raid on Atlit) and the horrors of the Holocaust. I saw the documentary “The Warsaw Ghetto” when I
was four years old and nearly 55 years later, I can still see the bodies being collected on wheelbarrows! To say that my background helped make me a strong Zioinst who believes that Israel must keep its borders from the Jordan to the Mediterranean is, I think, obvious.
I am saddened to see the words “Never Forget” becoming a plea instead of a rallying cry. I wish your comments on this site had a wider audience. Kol hakavod to you for your work in support of a strong Israel.
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Sanych
3:37 am
Jan 30, 2013
Common wisdom claims that Jews are smart. After reading these comments I wonder if the opposite is true. First, there are some butt-holes who keep writing the same illogical b/s over and over again, insult people of other faiths (like Christians, many of whom are bigger supporters of Israel than many Jews), distort history, etc. Do you think you help Israel with that? Then there are these constant references to the Holocaust. What you morons don’t get is that the Holocaust was the culmination of two thousand years of antisemitic violence. Connecting the Holocaust to Israel only supports Arab claims that they were not responsible for the event (mufti-shmufti) and should not “pay” for it.
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3:47 am
Jan 30, 2013
Israel did not ask Muslims to pay: and if israel did so then Muslims would have utterly failed this test same as the Nazis did.
Israel is the only state in the Region returned legally via the UN with all nations voting – icluding all Islamic states. But when the nations’ voting favoured Israel, there was a multi-state Arab attack on Israel, perpetrated with a declared goal of genocide – same as the Nazis did. This then was and remains the worst violation in the UN’s history – as yet with no UN Resolution #.
This after Muslims were handed 23 Islamic states which never existed 100 years ago. Israel was a sovereign state 3,000 years ago, with Jerusalem her Capital and Hebron her birthplace.
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Sanych
4:11 am
Jan 30, 2013
Look, butt, you don’t know what you are talking about and your last post only proves this.
Jerusalem was a capital of Judea. Hebron was also in Judea. Israel was another Jewish state and it did not last long compared to the Kingdom of Judea.
Look, lifetime is not enough to answer all the bs that you write. Please, learn some Jewish history before you post.
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4:40 am
Jan 30, 2013
History of ancient Israel and Judah
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Israel and Judah were related Iron Age kingdoms of the ancient Levant. The Kingdom of Israel emerged as an important local power by the 9th century BCE.
Iron Age I: 1200–1000
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4:32 am
Jan 30, 2013
No sir, I do know what I’m talking about. Judea was/is Israel: the Romans had limited phonational alphabets, one of the reasons they changed the Hebrew name of Judah to Yudea. Both Judah and Israel were soveregn Jewish states by the same in the same landmass between the river and the Med sea and with the same names 3000 years ago – with Jerusalem the Capital and Hebron the birthplace of Judaism. Judea was especially not an Islamic or Pre-Islamic Arab state but an exclusive Jewish one. Aside from this being evidenced by 1000′s of Roman and Hebrew archives, this was also stated in the UN declaration that cited the ‘UNIQUE’ [exclusive] connection of the Jews to this land. Jews don’t rob lands!
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