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Showing posts with label fighting anti-Semitism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fighting anti-Semitism. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Video- More Hamas Fauxtography Dedicated To Roger Waters

A video compilation of Hamas fauxtography, dedicated to Pink Floyd's anti-Semite and BDSer Roger Waters.

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Pro-Palestinian NYU Group Slips Fake Eviction Notices Under Dorm Room Doors

A pro-Palestinian New York University organization took their fight to the New York University dorms.  Around 2000 undergrad students found fake "eviction notices" under their dorm room doors with the following notice:

"We regret to inform you that your suite is scheduled for demolition in three days." 
"If you do not vacate the premise by midnight on 25 April, 2014, we reserve the right to destroy all remaining belongings. Charges for demolition will be applied to your student accounts."

Although Students for Justice in Palestine placed "This is not a real eviction notice" at the bottom of the flyer, and they were slipped into dorm rooms of both Jews and non Jews alike, it had the Jewish students particularly fearful.

"It's an attack on the Jewish community," said sophomore Laura Adkins, 19, a pro-Israel activist. "It's specifically targeting Jewish students, which makes them feel not so safe."
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"People are fearful," she said. "Parents of prospective students have called me asking, 'Is my student safe going to NYU?' "

Not a peep from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.  You know there would be hell to pay if someone had slipped a flyer about Muslim terrorism under the doors of the NYU grads.

More here.

However, this isn't the first time pro-Pali student groups have done this.  They pulled a similar stunt at Florida Atlantic University, in Boca Raton, Florida a few years back.

Friday, May 31, 2013

More Anti-Semitism At Florida Atlantic University- Noor Fawzy Gets Prestigious Award

Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, has been party to some major controversies recently- from the "Jesus-stomping" incident, to anti-Semitic activities, to professor James Tracey's loony conspiracy theories about Sandy Hook and the Boston Marathon bombing, to naming the stadium after the for-profit prison corporation GEO Group, which fell through after major protests.
President Mary Jane Saunders was even forced to step down after all the flak. We can now add one more to the bucket full of missteps: honoring the leader of Students for Justice in Palestine, Noor Fawzy, with the very prestigious 2013 Wimberly award. Only one student receives the award per year.

Political Science Major Noor Fawzy received FAU’s 2013 Stan and Renee Wimberly Scholar award, the most prestigious student academic prize given by the university. It is awarded in recognition of outstanding academic achievement, along with evidence of leadership, campus involvement and community service.

Way to go, FAU.

Monday, March 11, 2013

Video Exposes Florida University (FAU) Anti-Semitic Extremism

In response to the rampant  anti-Semitic and anti-Israel activity on the campus of Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Alan Bergstein (in association with Tom Trento's The United West) has put together a video exposing the extremist activities of the Students for Justice In Palestine (SJP). What irks Bergstein the most is that FAU has failed to condemn SJP's activities (including posting mock eviction notices on dorm rooms last year), while at the same time acknowledging that SJP has the right to do so. Freedom of speech, and all that.

The video is meant to persuade potential students and donors that they might want to choose another university to either attend or donate to.  Naturally, there are many who are outraged by this video, but - freedom of speech, and all that.

Monday, January 14, 2013

Anti-Semitism In The Newton, MA School Curriculum - Charles Jacobs Fights Back

Anti-Semitism in Massachusetts isn't anything new, it's been going on for years, but you wouldn't expect it in a high school curriculum.  And yet there it was in material from the Arab World Studies Notebook which was part of a world history class at Newton South High.

What some parents took issue with, when it was discovered in 2011, was the following:

“Over the past four decades, women have been active in the Palestinian resistance movement. Several hundred have been imprisoned, tortured, and killed by Israeli occupation forces since the latest uprising, “Intifada,” in the Israeli occupied territories.”
When confronted by Charles Jacobs from Americans For Peace and Tolerance the superintendent had this to say:

The Superintendent finally issued an official explanation that is appallingly transparent. The students were not taught this as truth, he said. They were only given the "lesson" as part of a critical thinking exercise. "We don't tell them what's true. We only teach them how to think."
What Jacobs took most offense to was the fact that they presented the material as truth and never bothered to inform the students that it was a flat out lie.

It took a year for Jacobs, with the help of other Jews and Christians, to finally have that offensive material removed, and now they are speaking before the Newton School Committee to demand answers, among other things. He's inviting anyone in the area to join him.

Monday, January 14 at 6:45 PM.

100 Walnut Street, Newton, Ma

Education Building, second floor.



Support us in spirit (join us if you can) as we speak before the Newton School Committee, demanding access to curricula and an honest explanation for the anti-Semitic materials that slipped into a high school class.

Would they have used a KKK worksheet on black IQ? No. Would they use a misogynist worksheet on women's problems in thinking mathematically?

How about a homophobe worksheet on "abominations?" Never! Only the Jews get the "critical thinking" treatment.....

We want the school department to tell the simple truth: that they let slip some hate literature into our schools and will warn others and never do it again!

Jacobs has already addressed the committee before. Watch the reactions at the end of the video by the school committee members. Typical liberal response.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Young Muslim Man Fighting Anti-Semitism in Sweden

Siavosh Derakhti is a young Muslim living in Malmo, Sweden. Fortunate enough to have been raised by parents who are seemingly open and tolerant, they've brought up a young Muslim who gives the world hope. Siavosh has made it his goal to fight anti-Semitism in his adopted country, a dangerous thing considering most Muslims there don't feel the same way, but he's determined to educate others, and he's being rewarded for that.

The Swedish Committee Against Anti-Semitism gave out its first Elsa Award to a young Muslim Swede named Siavosh Derakhti on Nov. 8, 2012. Derakhti, who is 21 years old, works tirelessly to teach students about anti-Semitism in his hometown of Malmo. In 2010, he founded “Young Muslims against Anti-Semitism” and organized a student trip to Auschwitz. His work frequently takes him across the country to educate students about anti-Jewish bigotry and the Holocaust.

From a young age, Derakhti has been interested in World War II, and specifically the Holocaust. “I asked my father how I could learn more about this, and he told me, ‘No problem, I will take you to a concentration camp so you can see it with your own eyes." Derakhti went to Bergen-Belsen with his father at 13, as well as Auschwitz at 15.

The trip affected him deeply. "When you come to Auschwitz, suddenly everything feels so amazingly real, even though it is inconceivable that there are people - not animals - who have been detained there...I could smell and feel what had happened, and I thought, ‘That could have been me, or it could happen again if nothing is done,” Derakhti said.

Keep in mind that people could be brought here for no reason other than that they were Jews. Or, for that matter, they were also political opponents of the regime, Roma, homosexuals, socialists, and others.

A lifelong resident of Malmo, Derakhti was shocked when he read in the newspapers about anti-Semitism in the city, which is Sweden‘s third-largest and is the site of regular anti-Semitic attacks and intimidation. "I was so sorry that Jew hatred is so strong. And to blame the Jews in Malmö for the state of Israel policy is not sensible," Derakhti said. This anti-Semitism struck a chord in Derakhti, whose Turkish-Azerbaijani family left Iran during the country’s war with Iraq in hopes of an easier, safer life in Scandinavia.

With an estimated 1,500 Jews among an overall population of 300,000, Malmo has also gained a reputation as the scene of some of the most hostile anti-Israel demonstrations in Europe in recent years. The city’s mayor, Ilmar Reepalu, has been criticized for blaming Jews for attacks against them, saying they must distance themselves from Israel. He was also forced to apologize for claiming, perversely, that they have ties to the country’s anti-Semitic far right.

“I found out Jews are fleeing Malmo, that they feel scared and unsafe on the streets,” says Derakhti. “And then I thought that something needs to be done. We can’t keep on letting this happen — not in a country like Sweden, and not in my hometown of Malmo.”

“My parents fled from dictatorship so their children could grow up in a peaceful place and experience democracy, and then to come to a country where there is hate, discrimination and racism on our streets, this is not acceptable. His father taught him that there is no place in this world for hatred. Something must be done,” Derakhti says.

Sia Derakhti asked classmates what they knew about Auschwitz - and was frightened by how little his high school classmates knew, and that his school, Malmös Latinskola, was not trying to change the situation.

Derakhti decided to educate his fellow Swedes about anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. “I proposed the idea of a class trip to Auschwitz, to teachers and principals, but nobody supported me,” he said. He was completely alone, not because of the destination, but because the school considered it impossible to get all the money that would be needed.

Read the rest of Siavosh's story here.

The key to peace between Muslims and Jews lies with the Muslim youth. But that all depends on their parents- and whether those parents raise their kids to be tolerant, like Siavosh's parents, or indoctrinate them with hate like parents in Palestine.

Too many do the latter.