In the 21st century, anti-Zionism means anti-Semitism

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Jewish group asks Iceland to act on Anti-Jewish terrorist website


BOSTON: A Jewish advocacy group is calling on Iceland’s government to take action against a pro-Palestine website seeking to “dismantle” various Boston-area Jewish institutions that’s being hosted by an Icelandic Internet company.
The website is hosted by Reykjavík-based 1984 Hosting Co.

The Anti-Defamation League, in a letter Wednesday to Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, said it has already voiced its concerns about the “Mapping Project” to Iceland’s ambassador to the US and its national police but hasn’t received a “substantive response.”
The website features an interactive map of Massachusetts listing nearly 500 institutions — many of them Jewish — and accusing those institutions of complicity in a range of “harms,” including ethnic cleansing, colonialism and Zionism.

“We deeply regret the apparent lackadaisical attitude of Icelandic officials toward this threat to the Jewish community and ask that your government take expeditious measures to prevent this website from being hosted in your country,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL’s CEO wrote in the letter.
Icelandic authorities will cooperate with US officials if a request for mutual legal assistance is received, but the government doesn’t have jurisdiction to investigate crimes by subjects located in other countries, Sveinn Guðmarsson, a spokesperson for the Iceland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs, said in a statement Thursday.

The FBI’s Boston office and the US Attorney for Massachusetts’ office, which have both said they’re looking into the site, declined to comment Thursday.
The 1984 Hosting Co., which didn’t respond to a request for comment, has previously said it doesn’t “host those who advocate violence, terror, suppression or hatred” but declined to address the Jewish community’s concerns.

Jewish group asks Iceland to act on pro-Palestine website (arabnews.com)

 

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Jewish group asks Iceland to act on Anti-Jewish terrorist website

How was that anything to do with terrorism?
Seems like political activism.

The Mapping Project

mapliberation.org

Are you accusing Amnesty of terrorism for selling anti-apartheid t-shirts too?

Amnesty UK to release 'end Israeli apartheid' merch line

“We expect the t-shirts and other End Israeli Apartheid campaign products to be popular," the NGO's Crisis Response Manager told The Jerusalem Post.

www.jpost.com

 

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You are pushing...

Sorry but you are openly advocating, cheering, and justifying targeting random Jews around the world because you don't like Israel. It's exactly the same as people targeting random Muslims over 9/11.

There's no way you can spin this that doesn't show you as racist.

 

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Sorry but you are openly advocating, cheering, and justifying targeting random Jews around the world because you don't like Israel. It's exactly the same as people targeting random Muslims over 9/11.

There's no way you can spin this that doesn't show you as racist.

You are pushing a racist trope.

There are lots of Jewish groups protesting Israeli apartheid and the occupation.
Are you claiming they are anti-semitic for protesting Israeli apartheid as well?

People are protesting policy by the Israeli government.
You should be protesting apartheid as well, instead of defending it while pretending you are against racism.

IfNotNowMovement

www.ifnotnowmovement.org

 

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New report highlights ties between IfNotNow and anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian group



Canary Mission launched a campaign and report revealing a strategic partnership between IfNotNow and American Muslims for Palestine, a group that has incited and celebrated violence against Israelis, denied Jewish peoplehood and mocked the Holocaust on social media.



(July 30, 2019 / JNS) The progressive Jewish activist group IfNotNow has generated several headlines in the past year by challenging mainstream American Jewish organizations on its support for Israel, and more recently, for its campaign to bait 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to condemn the so-called “occupation” of the disputed territories by Israel.

While these moves may seem outside of the mainstream consensus on Israel, more troubling evidence has emerged on the group’s ties with the virulently anti-Semitic organization American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).


The Investigative organization Canary Mission recently launched a campaign and report revealing a strategic partnership between IfNotNow and AMP, a group that has incited and celebrated violence against Israelis, denied Jewish peoplehood and mocked the Holocaust on social media.

“The Jewish community should find the AMP and IfNotNow partnership particularly worrying,” according to Canary Mission. “IfNotNow is not a youthful Jewish organization, but in fact, it’s “a well-trained, radical fringe group that has no qualms about partnering with anti-Semites.”

Canary Mission’s report shows that 58 IfNotNow members have actively partnered or trained with 25 of AMP’s most anti-Semitic professional activists.

At an event co-hosted by the two groups, University of California, Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian, the anti-Semitic organizing force behind Students for Justice in Palestine and AMP founder, stated that “ … AMP and IfNotNow are coming together,” in May 2018. Bazian has previously spread classic anti-Semitism, denied Jewish peoplehood and compared Israel to Nazi Germany, stating his personal approval of the partnership with IfNotNow.



Taher Herzallah, who has been known for advocating violence against Israeli Jews, in addition to spreading an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory and having been arrested twice for anti-Israel disruptions, was invited by IfNotNow leaders to train their members.

IfNotNow members, Canary Mission shows, led protests together with Herzallah in 2017 and 2018.

Neveen Ayesh, who has advocated for violence against Jews, said that being Jewish was a “#crimeworthyoftherope” and called to “burn” Israelis into “ashes.” The Canary Mission report shows that three IfNotNow activists who staged a “walk-off” from a Birthright Israel trip conducted an exclusive livestream conference call with Ayesh in July 2018.

“The deep AMP/IfNotNow relationship we revealed in this campaign is all the more unbelievable since AMP’s activists have spread such intense hatred of Jews—some of the worst we have ever found,” Canary Mission told JNS.

For example, the organization notes, Leena Yousef of AMP-Chicago tweeted, “I believe in [the] holocaust. One of my fav parts of history.”

Mohamad Habehh of AMP-NJ called Jews “dogs” and wished “the worst in life” to Jews: “If you work with the yahood [jews] idc if you’re Muslim or atheist you’re a kalb [dog] and you deserve the worst in life.” He has also tweeted about the “Knockout Game,” saying the game should be applied to assault and sucker punch Jews unconscious without warning.

“@sumerx3: Knockout ain’t even a new game tho????????”
The yahoodi knockout game is new
— Peace for Palestine ???????? (@mhabehh) November 21, 2013

Ahmad Aburas of AMP-NJ tweeted against Palestinian negotiations with Israel and in support of the terrorist organization Hamas, saying, “We will resist until we get our freedom without your BS negotiations ! #كلنا_حماس [#We_Are_All_Hamas].”




‘A fringe far-left group’

According to Canary Mission, while condemning anti-Semitism of the AMP is very important, it is even more “mind-boggling” to see the willingness of a self-proclaimed “vibrant and inclusive movement within the American Jewish community” to work directly with an organization whose members specifically state that they want to see violence against Jews and see Israel destroyed.

“IfNotNow’s leadership have willingly and knowingly steered their organization in this direction,” stated the organization, posing that the general American public “needs to how nefarious AMP is,” especially as it uses IfNotNow to “provide it with Jewish cover.”

Canary Mission also warns that IfNotNow shares AMP’s pivotal goal to influence American politics. The report states that since its founding in 2006 by Bazian, AMP has attempted to turn American Jews against Israel on college campuses and beyond, in addition to congressional lobbying efforts and attempts to influence intersectional politics. The group employed six full-time activists to follow the summer campaign trails of various Democratic candidates and lobby them to take a position against “the occupation.”

In addition, IfNotNow co-founder Max Berger, positioned himself as a director of progressive partnerships for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 Democratic presidential campaign. Berger, an avowed anti-Israel activist, recently came under fire for a 2013 tweet exposed by Canary Mission in which he remarked that he would be “friends with Hamas.”

“IfNotNow has their sights on influencing the 2020 presidential elections, lobbying presidential candidates and claiming to represent a new generation of young American Jews,” Canary Mission noted, when in reality it is “a fringe far-left group that attacks mainstream Jewish institutions like Birthright and Hillel International while partnering with the virulently anti-Semitic AMP.”

Canary Mission called on IfNotNow to disavow its ties with AMP and “apologize to the Jewish community and answer for their partnership with the anti-Semitic AMP.” However, it noted, “their silence so far is damning.”

New report highlights ties between IfNotNow and anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian group (jns.org)

 

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Canary Mission launched a campaign

Canary Mission is an Israeli funded site that attacks American students for arguing for Palestinian rights.
Now they are attacking Jews as well?

Things must be getting desperate for them.

 

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Anti-Semitic terrorist apologists(aka the pro Palestinian movement) refuse to talk about the human rights abuses by the Palestinian Authority/Hamas ruled Gaza


(July 18, 2022 / JNS) The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) will for the first time home in on the actions of the Palestinian Authority. Members of the Geneva-based body, which is a subsidiary of the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), will meet on Monday and Tuesday.

The committee will determine whether the P.A. is in compliance with the U.N. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and investigate instances of forced disappearances, violent interrogations, the holding of the remains of Israeli soldiers, and other issues. The review will also address actions by Hamas, the terror group that rules the Gaza Strip and is routinely accused of torture by international watchdogs.

“Evidence continues to emerge of widespread torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees held in Palestinian custody in the West Bank and Gaza,” Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, told JNS.

The 10-member CAT is meant to review all parties (174 to date) to the Convention against Torture every four years. However, this will be the first review of the P.A., which signed on to the convention in 2014 despite not being a state.

According to a spokesperson at the Israeli mission to the U.N. in Geneva, CAT reviews are considered quite thorough, marked by demanding questions by committee members. Prior to this year’s session, Ramallah submitted the required compliance report, which nonetheless ignores documented P.A. abuses or deflects blame for them onto Israel.

For example, the June 2021 death in P.A. custody of critic Nizar Banat, which led to a wave of protests in which Palestinian police beat protesters, journalists, civil society activists and lawyers, is completely omitted from the P.A.’s submission to CAT.

The Palestinian Authority, which is a party to other U.N. rights bodies such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), has a habit of skirting responsibility in such forums, according to the spokesperson at the Israeli mission in Geneva.

“They usually take little responsibility and blame Israel and ‘the occupation’ for everything going wrong. CEDAW had, for instance, called them out on this lousy excuse,” the Israeli spokesperson told JNS.

CAT is expected to review additional reports submitted by American, Palestinian and Israeli NGOs. These include Human Rights Watch, the Palestinian Coalition Against Torture, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Clinic on International Human Rights, among others.

Botswana, Nicaragua and the United Arab Emirates are also set to be reviewed.

In its own report, UN Watch charged that the P.A. and Hamas routinely torture human rights activists, women, members of the LGBT community, political opponents, “collaborators” with Israel, and Palestinians who sell land to Jews. CAT published the UN Watch report on its website. UN Watch representatives will present their findings to CAT’s 10-member committee during a private briefing for human rights groups on Monday.

The UN Watch report details numerous instances of torture by the Palestinian Authority, including a 2021 series of arrests of activists and students who were taken to an infamous Jericho prison and severely abused. UN Watch also noted examples of P.A. torture of those accused of “collaborating” with Israel, including beatings, the pulling out of teeth and sexual abuse.

The report also cited the life sentence handed down in 2018 to American-Palestinian Isaam Akel for violating the P.A. law prohibiting land sales to Jews. Akel’s sentence for selling his Jerusalem property included hard labor. A U.S. official who visited Akel in prison confirmed that he had been put in isolation and tortured.

“We trust that our collection of evidence and harrowing testimonies will assist the UN committee experts when they review whether the P.A. has followed through on its promises to eradicate the use of torture,” said UN Watch’s Neuer, who called on the Palestinian envoy to Geneva, Ibrahim Khraishi, to come clean about the P.A.’s regular use of torture.

CAT’s conclusions, which will include recommendations for reforms, are due later this month.

UN Committee Against Torture reviews Palestinian Authority’s record - JNS.org

UN Watch report says the P.A. and Hamas routinely torture human-rights activists, women, members of the LGBT community, political opponents, “collaborators” with Israel and Palestinians who sell land to Jews.

www.jns.org

 

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Anti-Semitic terrorist apologists(aka the pro Palestinian movement) refuse to talk about the human rights abuses by the Palestinian Authority/Hamas ruled Gaza

Take them to the ICC as well.

 

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You are pushing a racist trope.
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Yes, I am pushing back at your overt racism where you want to hold foreign Jews accountable for your Israel obsession.

Why do you think it's okay to target people simply because they share a religion with some you want to criticize? Should we start protesting outside of shawarma shops because MBS is a despot?

 

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Yes, I am pushing back at your overt racism where you want to hold foreign Jews accountable for your Israel obsession.

Why do you think it's okay to target people simply because they share a religion with some you want to criticize? Should we start protesting outside of shawarma shops because MBS is a despot?

Yes, you are pushing a racist trope.
Criticism of Israeli policy is fair and legit.
It is not an attack on the Jewish people, its discussion of government policy.

Protesting apartheid is a moral duty of anyone who is against racism.
Clearly you aren't moral or against racism.

You could take a stand and say you are against apartheid.
But you won't, will you?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1547612014557552642

 

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Yes, you are pushing a racist trope.
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Do you realize how stupid and obsessed you appear when you claim it is racist to be against racist targeting of Canadians simply because their religion?

 

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Do you realize how stupid and obsessed you appear when you claim it is racist to be against racist targeting of Canadians simply because their religion?

I'm saying its a racist trope when you try to claim that criticizing Israel for being apartheid is racist, as reported by Amnesty, the UN, HRW and B'tselem.
Protesting against racism in the form of apartheid is a moral duty, not anti-semitism.
You are pushing a racist trope.

Poll finds a quarter of US Jews think Israel is ‘apartheid state’

Also, 22% of respondents believe 'Israel is committing genocide'; 67% say denying Jewish state's right to exist is antisemitic

www.timesofisrael.com

 

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I'm saying its a racist trope when you try to claim that criticizing Israel for being apartheid is racist,...

Except what you are doing is saying Canadian and other non-Israeli Jews should be targeted because you're obsessed with Israel.

Just another case where you directly meet the criteria listed in Canada's definition of anti-semitism.



p.s. yes, YOUR obsessive, ridiculously double-standard attacks on Israel while justifying any nasty group that also hates Israel makes you an anti-semite (according to Canada at least).

 

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The Anti-Jewish Terrorist movement(aka Pro-palestinian movment) was started by the grand mufti of Jerusalem Nazi Collaborator Haj Amin al-Husseini who was the uncle of Yasser Arafat(Egyptian Born).

 

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Except what you are doing is saying Canadian and other non-Israeli Jews should be targeted because you're obsessed with Israel.

No, people who support apartheid and the occupation should be targeted.
Like you, who self identify on this board as Irish IIRC. You should be targeted for protest for supporting apartheid.

Its about policy, not race.
Lots of Jews are against apartheid.

25% of US Jews say Israel is apartheid. They are standing up against racism and apartheid.
You could do it too.

Poll finds a quarter of US Jews think Israel is ‘apartheid state’

Also, 22% of respondents believe 'Israel is committing genocide'; 67% say denying Jewish state's right to exist is antisemitic

www.timesofisrael.com

To argue that this is about race is an anti-semitic trope.

 

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The Anti-Jewish Terrorist movement(aka Pro-palestinian movment)

Supporting Palestinian rights is not anti-semitic or terrorism.
As someone who self-identifies as black, I find it shocking you support apartheid.

Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity

Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, Amnesty International said today in a damning new report. The investigation details how Israel enforces a system of oppression and domination against the Palestinian people wherever it has...

www.amnesty.org

 

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Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), a member of the far-left “Squad” in the U.S. House of Representatives, is under fire by Jewish and pro-Israel groups for accepting fundraising assistance from Neveen Ayesh, a woman with a history of making threats against Jews and Israel. The most recent of those was at a July 16 reception in support of Bush.

According to the watchdog group Canary Mission, Ayesh—a government relations coordinator for the St. Louis Chapter of the American Muslims for Palestine—has in the past tweeted that she would like to “set Israel on fire with my own hand and watch it burn to ashes along with every Israel in it” and that “if you are a ‘yahoodi,’ a Jew, “please kill yourself cause you aren’t welcome anywhere.”

Bush is facing Missouri State Sen. Steve Roberts in the Aug. 2 Democratic primaries to represent Missouri’s 1st Congressional District. Roberts has his own connection to Ayesh, as the two reportedly dated for a time, with Roberts claiming in a public letter that they parted when “her views became clear to me … .”

The district was redrawn in 2020 and includes neighbors such as University City, where a large segment of St. Louis’s Jewish community resides.

“What part of this anti-Semitic activist did Rep. Bush not know about? Her wish to see Israel and the world’s largest Jewish community burn and be reduced to ashes? Her support for Hamas terrorism?” asked Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “Do these sentiments reflect Cori Bush’s worldview? If not, say so and return the money!”

Jewish groups slam Rep. Cori Bush for support by woman who aims to ‘set Israel on fire’ - JNS.org

 

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According to the watchdog group Canary Mission

That's a pro-apartheid group dedicated to trying to out American students for supporting Palestinian rights.
Funded by the Israeli government, apparently.

Its Israeli cancel culture.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1064557404338171904

 

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Jewish student sues Leeds University 'after being given fail in sociology assignment for not criticising Israel'

Leeds University is being sued by a Jewish graduate who claims she was given a ‘fail’ in one of her sociology assignments because she did not criticise Israel.

Danielle Greyman said her essay about crimes committed by Hamas against Palestinians did not pass because it did not pin any blame on the Jewish state.

The 23-year-old student, who had never previously failed an essay at university, was forced to resit the module, which she passed. Despite this, Miss Greyman was unable to get her undergraduate degree certificate in time to take up a place on a master’s course at Glasgow University.

In her original essay, Miss Greyman referenced Hamas’s use of human shields, saying it was viewed as ‘a betrayal of the Palestinian people by their government’. The moderator’s note next to that part of the essay said: ‘This ignores the fact that the Israeli state commits acts of violence.’

in a review of her essay, an external examiner recommended that it should have been passed.

Miss Greyman’s lawyers have issued a legal claim against Leeds University for negligence, discrimination and victimisation.

Miss Greyman, from London, told the Jewish Chronicle: ‘It’s been massive emotional damage. I almost had a complete breakdown over this.’

One of the original markers of Miss Greyman’s failed essay was academic Claudia Radiven, who signed a petition defending scholar David Miller, who was fired by Bristol University following controversial comments about Jews.

Jewish student sues Leeds University after essay fail 'over Israel'

Leeds University is being sued by a Jewish graduate who claims she was given a 'fail' in one of her sociology assignments because she did not criticise Israel.

www.dailymail.co.uk

British broadcast regulatory authority Ofcom ruled that Shia Muslim TV channel Ahlebait was guilty of “antisemitic hate speech” in response to Community Security Trust (CST) complaints it received.

Ofcom said the Shia Muslim station broadcast material that “amounted to antisemitic hate speech” and was “abusive and derogatory towards Jewish people,” the UK Jewish News reported.

The ruling came after Ofcom looked into complaints made by the CST over a live discussion show that aired in March 2021. During a discussion on “20th Hour” about money and power, one of the guests spoke about Jews, saying: ”Their antisemitism comes from their actions of impoverishing people and they then respond and then they call it antisemitism but we know that it’s because they do and they get punished and as Allah says, you know, he will expel... send them to all corners of the world to be an excoriation and a hissing and a booing to wherever he had sent them.... So antisemitism comes from debt, not cancelling the debt, and usury.”

He added this was why Jews had been “expelled from 47 different countries and city-states in the last one thousand years.”

The host of the show called the antisemitic statements “interesting” and then claimed that “money is being weaponized” by the US.

Another guest said: “It’s worth just noting that antisemitism was created by Theodor Herzl at the back end of the 19th century in order to frighten and create the circumstances that would encourage Jews to migrate to Israel so antisemitism is actually a Jewish creation.”

Ofcom said they had investigated the program for three violations of regulations: hate speech, material that is derogatory towards a religion, and breaching acceptable standards.

UK regulator finds Muslim TV station guilty of ‘antisemitic hate speech’

British broadcast agency rules that Shia Muslim TV station broadcast antisemitic content on a discussion show in 2021.

www.israelnationalnews.com

 

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Jewish student sues Leeds University 'after being given fail in sociology assignment for not criticising Israel'

Good on Leeds for calling out shoddy work.
Ignoring the occupation and apartheid in an essay on human rights there should fail you.

Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity

Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, Amnesty International said today in a damning new report. The investigation details how Israel enforces a system of oppression and domination against the Palestinian people wherever it has...

www.amnesty.org