Bulletin of Jew Hatred - June 24, 2009

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Summaries:

North America

June 8, 2009

Brooklyn, NY

A New York state assemblyman has said a new Brooklyn Holocaust memorial should
be only for Jews.

June 8, 2009

New York, NY

Andre Aciman reminds Obama of the exodus Obama failed to mention in his
speech to the Islamic world.

June 9, 2009

Middletown, CT

Stephen Morgan, on trial for killing Wesleyan student Johanna Justin-Jinich,
has pled not guilty to new charges.

June 10, 2009

Hampton, VA

Reverend Jeremiah Wright claims "The Jews" are keeping him from Obama.

June 10, 2009

Toronto, Canada

Only half of Canadians polled have a favorable view of Jews and Judaism. More here.

June 10, 2009

United States

Facebook advertisers unaware they advertise side by side with Holocaust denial
pages.

June 11, 2009

Washington, DC

James Glassman, former Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, said Obama's
Cairo speech fell short by failing to offer a new strategic direction. Glassman
said the problem is the president continued the ineffective line of reasoning
that the best way to counter the false notion that the U.S. is out to destroy
Islam is by promoting the "to know us is to love us" theme.

June 11, 2009

Washington, DC

White supremacist Gunman opens fire inside the lobby of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum. He killed a security guard before being captured.

June 11, 2009

Morgantown, WV

Former Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani begins to speak out about Islam
in response to Daniel Pearl's beheading.

June 11, 2009

United States

Victor Davis Hanson points out historical errors in Obama's Cairo speech.

June 15, 2009

United States

Jewish groups have asked their constituents to send thousands of cards and e-cards
on behalf of Gilad Shalit to Obama ahead of the June 21 Father's Day holiday.

June 15, 2009

United States

American voters' support for Israel has dropped 20 percent in the past nine
months, a new survey found.

June 16, 2009

United States

Neo-Nazis in the United States Army. Since the launch of the wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq, the military has loosened regulations, issuing "moral waivers" and
allowing even those with criminal records to join.

June 16, 2009

Washington, DC

Op-ed piece "Where Anti-Semitism Is Mainstream", by Richard Cohen.

June 17, 2009

Canada

" 'Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people,' said Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu in his Bar Ilan speech last week, summing up in nine words
why the Middle East conflict is intractable. Being the Jewish nation-state is
precisely what the Arab/Muslim world can't accept about Israel." writes George
Jonas in his op-ed piece.

June 22, 2009

United States

Scholar and former Muslim discusses Islamic Anti-Semitism in the foreword
to Andrew Bostom's The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism.

June 22, 2009

United States

N. Richard Greenfield asks "Where are American Jews?" in this opinion piece.

June 22, 2009

Toronto, Canada

Two Canadian firms are committing "war crimes" by building on land in the
West Bank, a Palestinian farming community is claiming in a lawsuit. More here

South America

June 18, 2009

Cartagena, Colombia

Orthodox Jews refuse to accept new converts and refuse them access to Jewish
mikvahs.

June 22, 2009

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

It is now mandatory to teach the holocaust in Porto Alegre's schools. Porto
Alegre is among Brazil's 10 largest cities and, with some 12,000 Jews, home
to its third largest Jewish community. It has been the site of many anti-Semitic
attacks.

Middle East

May 29, 2009

Morocco

Morocco's King Mohammed VI has recognized the horror of the holocaust,
calling the Holocaust "one of the blots, one of the most tragic chapters in
modern history. Amnesia has no bearing on my perception of the Holocaust,
or on that of my people."

June 9, 2009

London, England

London-based A-Sharq al-Awsat reports that U.S. President Barack Obama presented
his version of peace in the Middle East to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
during the latter’s visit to Washington last month. Obama is giving Netanyahu
six weeks from the date of his Cairo speech to respond to accept the plan.

June 10, 2009

Israel

A Zionist student group at Hebrew University was met with Nazi salutes
by other students during a pro-Israel demonstration.

June 10, 2009

Palestinian Authority

U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell sounded out the Palestinian Authority
on a land swap that would allow Israel to retain large population centers in
Judea and Samaria in return for the PA’s receiving land that includes Arab cities.

June 11, 2009

Lebanon

Palestinian Peace Activist Writes on 'Lessons of the Holocaust'. Aziz
Abu Sarah writes, "I was moved by the story to a degree that I cannot describe.
The connection I made with those who suffered the Holocaust goes beyond nationality,
religion or race; it was the connection of one human being to another in the
face of universally understandable pain."

June 11, 2009

Saudi Arabia

In an anti-Semitic column in the Saudi daily Al-Watan, titled "A Palestinian
Hitler," Saudi columnist 'Abdallah Nasser Al-Fawzan questioned the Holocaust
and claimed that year after year, the Jews were inflating claims of the number
of its victims by the thousands. Al-Fawzan further claimed that the real holocaust
was the ongoing Israeli slaughter of the Palestinians, and that the Jews were
taking revenge on the Palestinians as if it were the Palestinians and not the
Germans who had murdered their fathers.

June 11, 2009

Tehran, Iran

Iranian Presidential Candidate Mohsen Rezai says "The Holocaust should not be
part of our political discourse. Video here.

June 16, 2009

Tehran, Iran

The Jewish community here has canceled social and educational programs out of
safety concerns during the current unrest.

June 17, 2009

Gaza

A jihadist website posted a 15-minute audio recording by Sheikh Abdallah Al-Muhajir,
commander of the Gaza organization Ansar Jund Allah, titled "The Proclamation"
(from the "The Proclamation Battle," the name given to the June 8, 2009 attack
for which Ansar Jund Allah took responsibility). In it, Al-Muhajir tells
the Jews, 'We Have Come To You... With People Who Love Death More Than You Love
Life'

June 19, 2009

Tehran, Iran

Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denied that the country's recent elections were
fixed, called on protesters to stop, and blamed the "Zionist" media.

June 21, 2009

Yemen

An appeals court in Yemen sentenced Abdul-Aziz al-Abdi to death for the murder
of a Jewish man.

Europe

June 8, 2009

Budapest, Hungary

Hungarian Jews are reeling from far-right party's political
gains. The party Jobbickreceived nearly 15 percent of Hungary's vote
in the EU parliamentary elections.

June 9, 2009

Washington, DC

Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union today called for criminal
charges of ethnic incitement to be brought against a member of the Kherson,
Ukraine regional legislature after he threatened pogroms in a recent interview.

June 10, 2009

Rome, Italy

Roman Jews planned to boycott meeting with Libya's Ghadafi unless the date is
changed from Shabbat. Thousands of Jews were forced out of Libya in 1967.

June 10, 2009

European Union

European Jews have expressed fears that the gains by anti-Islam and anti-immigration
parties in this week’s European Union parliamentary elections will heighten
anti-Semitism.

June 16, 2009

Berlin, Germany

The head of German's Jewish community condemned any suggestion of negotiations
with the current Iranian regime.

June 16, 2009

Budapest, Hungary

Vandals desecrate Holocaust memorial with pigs' feet.

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