From Are American Jews Too Powerful? Not Even Close: Those who accuse modern Jews of having excessive clout are getting it precisely backward. In the real world, Jews have too little power and influence. I am a teacher of Yiddish literature. The Yiddish language, developed by European Jews over almost a thousand years, was practically erased along with them in a mere six, 1939-45. So studying...
Looking for a scapegoat, the world again turns to Jews
An excerpt from the widely heralded Victor Davis Hanson’s Looking for scapegoat, world again turns to Jews : Who recently said: “These Jews started 19 Crusades. The 19th was World War (1). Why? Only to build Israel.” Some holdover Nazi? Hardly. It was former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan of Turkey, a NATO ally. He went on to claim that the Jews — whom he refers to as...
Press Release: Pakistan and UN Islamic Bloc Slams Holocaust Survivors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Media Relationsmedia1@unwatch.org Geneva, Sept. 28, 2007 — An international coalition of non-governmental organizations today published a protest against a U.N. speech by Pakistan that accused Holocaust survivors of “campaigning against Muslim symbols in the Western world” and that called hatred of Muslims “a cruel form of Anti-Semitism.” The...
Mark Weil, Tashkent Theater Director, is murdered at age 55
An Ashkenazi Jew and star of the arts in Uzbekistan, Mark Weil, the artistic director at Tashkent’s famed Ilkhom Theatre, Uzbekistan, was found murdered near his home Thursday night. There were stab wounds all over his body. The police said the murder was carried out by two men and it is is believed to have been an anti-Semitic act. Weil was involved in the local Jewish community and...
Today in Jewish History – Elul 19
Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1941, Charles Lindbergh, who achieved fame by being the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, delivered an anti-Semitic speech on the radio. Lindbergh became an outspoken supporter of Nazi Germany, even recommending in testimony before Congress that the U.S. negotiate a neutrality pact with Germany. At a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, he made an infamous speech...
Yeshiva student attacked in Australia
Alon Tam, 17, was walking home from a kosher restaurant in a Melbourne suburb heavily populated by Jews on Saturday night when two men armed with baseball bats confronted him. He told the Australian Associated Press the men yelled “Jew, you deserve to die,” as they beat him. Tam sustained injuries to his torso, arms and shoulder, and is expected to have X-rays to determine the extent...
Jewish cemetery desecrated in Poland
A Jewish cemetery in southern Poland has been desecrated with around 100 tombstones daubed with anti-Semitic slogans and Nazi symbols, police said Monday. Police spokesman Adam Gaska said that the perpetrators were believed to be local youths, and that a criminal investigation had been opened in Czestochowa in the country’s south. “Numerous tombstones have been covered with insulting wording or...
Sweeping Anti-Semitism in South Africa Under the Carpet
From the author of It’s Almost Supernatural: I have been waiting for weeks for the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and the South African Jewish report to publicize the findings of the South Africa Anti-Semitism report,06 by the Institute of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University. And I will most likely continue waiting until the Messiah comes so I have decided...
French rabbi punched in anti-Semitic attack
Anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, but France has seen a particularly significant jump in the number of violent attacks on Jews. On Thursday, a rabbi was punched in the face and hospitalized. The rabbi of Nord-Pas-de-Calais in northern France was violently attacked Thursday morning by a 20-year-old man while walking in the lanes of the Paris North train station. Rabbi Elie Dahan said, “I...
Jew hatred in Manitoba
Examples of anti-Semitic incidents reported in Manitoba during 2006: * Windows and doors of Ashkenazi Synagogue on Burrows Avenue repeatedly smashed and broken over a seven-day period. * A swastika drawn on a newspaper box in front of a seniors apartment building with tenants who are survivors of the Holocaust. * Lit cigarette dropped in a mail box at a synagogue, along with burned mail and an...
