Spanish university cancels ‘Auschwitz/Gaza’ seminar comparing Holocaust to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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More judaeophobia from Spain, the medieval Catholic country that threw out and exiled all of its Jewish citizens.  From JTA: “After taking criticism from several Holocaust scholars and Jewish organizations, a Spanish university has canceled a course titled “Auschwitz/Gaza: A Testing Ground for Comparative Literature,” according to the European Jewish Congress. The course at the University of of Santiago of de Compostela in Galicia trivialized the Holocaust by comparing it to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jewish groups argued. The Simon Wiesenthal Center condemned the seminar in a letter sent Monday to Spain’s minister of universities, Manuel Castells Oliván. “This very title

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Jewish Tomb of Patriarchs Desecrated by Muslims

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Originally Posted: 08 Sep 2008 02:36 PM CDT “Ma’arat HaMachpela,” the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, is the second holiest site to Jews in the world. The site was off-limits to Jews and Christians for 700 years – from 1267-1967.  Jews were prevented from praying at the tombs despite its sanctity to Jews, and despite the fact that the building above the caves was built by Herod some 2,000 years ago, six hundred years prior to Muhammad’s birth. Since Israel’s return to Hebron in 1967 the site has been accessible to all people of all faiths. However, Muslims refuse

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Palestinians Stocked Slabs, Stones, and Fireworks at Al-Aqsa Compound for Temple Mount Riots

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Premeditated murder.  Via Times of Israel: In the days leading up to Friday’s mass rioting at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Palestinians stockpiled stone slabs, rocks and fireworks around the site, Israel’s Channel 12 reported. Israeli security forces were attacked from within the Al-Aqsa mosque.

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Palestinians Fire 90 Rockets at Israel in Two Days

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Via Times of Israel: On Sunday and Monday, Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired 90 rockets at Israel from Gaza. 90% of those heading toward populated areas were intercepted by the IDF’s Iron Dome system. In response, Israel launched multiple retaliatory air raids against Islamic Jihad bases in Gaza, as well as an airstrike on a squad as it was preparing to launch rockets. There was some damage to homes and infrastructure in Israel, and a few Israelis sustained minor injuries while running to bomb shelters. See also Video: Israeli Civilians under Palestinian Rocket

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Jihadi Textbooks in Palestinian Schools Are Funded with 100 Million British Pounds

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The Daily Mail has discovered that tens of millions of pounds of UK foreign aid is helping fund Palestinian schools in Gaza and the West Bank that use textbooks on martyrdom and radical Islamism. The textbooks include a reading exercise for six-year-olds with the words “martyr” and “attack,” plus poems for eight-year-olds which include phrases such as “sacrifice my blood” to “eliminate the usurper from my country” and “annihilate the remnants of the foreigners.” Ten-year-olds learn the most important thing is giving their life for “sacrifice, fight, jihad, and struggle.” The British aid money goes via UNRWA. During the past

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The Right of Israeli Children near Gaza to Grow Up Quietly

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Via JPost: Since Israel’s 2005 disengagement from Gaza, the residents of Israel near Gaza have been living under fire, with rockets, terrorist tunnels, booby traps, and burning fields and tires. Israeli children living near Gaza haven’t had a day or night without fear of Red Alerts, fear of being killed in their homes by rocket attacks or infiltration of terrorists into their communities. These Israeli children are denied all basic rights: the right to a normal life, the right to security, the right to go to school and the right to play outside without fear, the right to sleep peacefully

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