…After all, how can you expect an entire civilization represented by Christianity to not harbor antisemitic feelings. Their churches and preachers have drummed it into their heads for the past 2,000 years that the Jews killed their god. Just because Christianity has recently "forgiven" or found the Jews not guilty, doesn't mean that 2 millennia of brain washing will disappear.
…While ignoring all the wondrous things Jesus said on the Mount of Olives, through the centuries Christians demonstrated their "love" for their Jewish brethren with inquisitions, pogroms and, of course, the holocaust. Since WWII the bigotry has gone pretty much underground. It is naive of anybody to think that it went away altogether. Read more.
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NGO rescinds award to U.S. Women's March due to antisemitism
Social democrats accuse US Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour of antisemitism.
Benjamin Weinthal
Jerusalem Post • November 11, 2018
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The think tank for the German social democratic party withdrew its Human Rights Award to the Women’s March USA in Washington, DC, on Thursday because doctoral students associated with the foundation accused the organisers of the march of hardcore antisemitism and support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign targeting the Jewish state.
…According to the open letter, “Sarsour, Carmen Perez [another board member of Women’s March USA], and Tamika D. Mallory [co-chairwoman of Women’s March USA who is to receive the FES Human Rights Award], have attracted attention due to their long-standing support of the notorious antisemite Louis Farrakhan, who, among other things, called Adolf Hitler a ‘very great man’ while recently comparing Jews to termites.” Read more.
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British Jews Should Start Thinking About Migrating to Israel
Mor Altshuler
Haaretz • November 13, 2018
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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has no illusions about Jeremy Corbyn. In an interview with New Statesman that was published in late August, the former chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth called Corbyn an antisemite and denounced the British Labour Party leader’s statement that British Zionists “don’t want to study history and ... don’t understand English irony.” Sacks understands that Corbyn is accusing British Jews of dual loyalty, a classic antisemitic canard.
Corbyn is a longtime supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah, which openly declare their desire to destroy Israel. Nevertheless, he has thus far won support from liberal Jews in Britain who have long seen Corbyn’s party as their home. For many years, Labour reflected their ideals — globalization, universalism and love of the “other.” Now, their world is collapsing around them.
The British Jewish journalist Melanie Phillips assailed them in an essay in Britain’s Jewish Chronicle (September 13) for having been silent when Corbyn spouted antisemitic venom about Israel and painted it as a bloodthirsty occupier, a satanic state, yet being shocked now that he’s closing in on them.
Denial of reality, shock and disbelief are classic responses to distress among liberal Jewish communities, from German Jews who, after the rise of the Nazis, refused to believe that their loyalty to Germany would end in their deaths, to Communist Jews in Stalin’s Soviet Union, who believed the blood libels against other Jews until they themselves were executed or exiled to prison camps in Siberia.
Now as then, liberal Jews are trapped by their noble mission of “fighting from within.” In Britain, they refuse to admit that Corbyn prefers his Muslim friends to bleeding-heart Jews. And in France, philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy compares the Jews to Jonah the prophet, who was sent to persuade residents of Nineveh repent.
The Jews must remain in France and fight so that it won’t fall into the hands of the barbarians, he said last year in a lecture at Bar-Ilan University. Levy’s barbarians aren’t just right-wing antisemites, but also the left-wing antisemites who fawn over Muslim voters, whose numbers are steadily growing in western Europe.
Frighteningly, the old antisemitism of the right in Europe is increasingly joining hands with the antisemitism of the left and Muslim immigrants, and this combination is liable to reach the United States as well. The day is nearing when it will no longer be possible to distinguish between antisemitism toward the Jewish community, which espouses liberal and universalist values, and antisemitism toward Israel, “the Jew among the nations.” And it’s impossible to legitimize or forgive either of them, because they stem from the same poisoned root.
I’m sorry for those enlightened, cosmopolitan Jews, but this must be said openly: Their mission to rehabilitate the haters and discover the light in their hearts has ended. They shouldn’t wait until Corbyn is elected prime minister of Britain, or until Linda Sarsour becomes head of the Democratic Party in the United States. They must correctly understand the historical process by which antisemitism effects a rapprochement between the radical right and the radical left and its Muslim supports.
This is the time to start thinking about emigration. Luckily for them, their parents supported the establishment of Israel, and therefore, today they have a homeland and a country to which to flee.
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Palestinian worker in Israel killed by Hamas Rocket Had Nowhere to Run
Yotam Berger and Jack Khoury
Haaretz • November 13, 2018
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The civilian who was killed on Monday night when a rocket hit an apartment building in Ashkelon has been identified as Mahmoud Abu Asba, a 48-year-old man from Halhul, a town near Hebron in the West Bank.
Abu Asba was located thanks to a Jewish neighbour, Shlomi Lankri, who passed by the ruined building after emergency services had left the scene. Lankri noticed the fingers of a woman who was buried under the rubble. She and another woman, both in their forties, were pulled out of the ruins, one in critical and the other in serious condition.
Lankri had come to the site to document the destruction at around 1 am. He said he noticed some movement and started digging in the rubble with the help of another man who arrived on the scene. Together they pulled out Abu Asba and one of the women. Abu Asba was declared dead at the site.
One of Abu Asba’s neighbours said that there were no shelters in the building. “There is nothing here, it’s all closed” he added. “People converted what there was into storage spaces. Even if there was a shelter, older people wouldn’t have reached it. All the older people left after the rocket hit.”
None of the neighbours knew Abu Asba and there were rumors in the neighborhood that he was a collaborator or that he was in the city without a permit. However, it turns out that he worked in Israel with a permit. Like other workers, he had obtained permission from the defense establishment to remain in Israeli territory instead of leaving the country's borders after each workday. He worked at construction sites during the day, returning to the apartment at night. The rocket which hit the building buried him under the rubble.
A grocery owner nearby said that Abu Asba had lived there for at least two months and shared the apartment with other workers, who were not there on Tuesday morning. The grocery owner added that one of the injured women also lived in that apartment. Neighbors said she was Palestinian, but didn’t know her name or any other details.
Abu Asba was the first casualty in Israel in this round of hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians, which began on Sunday.
Abu Asba's family said in a statement released on Tuesday that he left his house in Halhul on Sunday and that his wife was with him in the apartment in Ashkelon when the building was hit by the rocket.
His family is expected to come to Israel to identify his body. His funeral is slated to take in Halhul. Abu Asba is survived by six children- four sons and two daughters.
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Archaeologists reveal 1500 year old image of Jesus - clean shaven, long nose, curly hair
Mike McRae
Science Alert • November 14, 2018
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The crimson pigment is sun-bleached, its eroded lines barely visible against the texture of the plaster. But with effort, you can see a face that once decorated an ancient Christian baptismal in southern Israel. And it's not what you'd expect. Read more.
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