FSWC Reports:
From The Times of Israel:
Contrary to a Knesset member’s charge that a Nike World Cup ad is anti-Semitic, the Anti-Defamation League dismissed such claims saying that six points do not an anti-Jewish image make.
“Anyone who thinks this is anti-Semitism is certainly off base,” an ADL
spokesperson said in a statement, rejecting a remark to that end by MK
Shimon Ohayon of the Yisrael Beytenu party. “You can put anything in a
configuration of six. Just because it appears to look like the Star of
David, it does not mean it is.”
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Thursday, 12 June 2014
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
Professor Who Took Palestinian Students to Auschwitz-Birkenau Resigns From His Post
FSWC Reports:
From The Media Line via ynetnews.com:
The Palestinian professor who touched off a maelstrom of controversy by taking a group of students to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in Poland is now at odds with his former employer after the school accepted his resignation.
Dr. Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi, who headed the American studies department and served as chief librarian at Al-Quds University, stirred-up a hornets’ nest among Palestinians who felt that the visit was not appropriate when he led the March trip.
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From The Media Line via ynetnews.com:
The Palestinian professor who touched off a maelstrom of controversy by taking a group of students to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in Poland is now at odds with his former employer after the school accepted his resignation.
Dr. Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi, who headed the American studies department and served as chief librarian at Al-Quds University, stirred-up a hornets’ nest among Palestinians who felt that the visit was not appropriate when he led the March trip.
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Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Jewish Building and Home in North York Spray Painted With Swastikas
FSWC Reports:
From the Jewish Tribune:
Reactions ranged from fear to defiance after swastikas were spray painted on a Jewish building and a Jewish home in the Bathurst and Sheppard area last week.
Staff at Na’amat Canada discovered Friday morning that a swastika had been spray painted on the building they share with Kol Yisroel Congregation and a daycare centre. They believe it was done while they were closed for Shavuot.
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From the Jewish Tribune:
Reactions ranged from fear to defiance after swastikas were spray painted on a Jewish building and a Jewish home in the Bathurst and Sheppard area last week.
Staff at Na’amat Canada discovered Friday morning that a swastika had been spray painted on the building they share with Kol Yisroel Congregation and a daycare centre. They believe it was done while they were closed for Shavuot.
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Israeli Parliament Allocates One billion Shekels for Holocaust Survivors
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
The Knesset authorized in second and third reading Monday a bill which allocated some one billion shekel to holocaust survivors. The bill was sponsored by Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Welfare Minister Meir Cohen and is the legal cornerstone of a national program to aid survivors.
The program stipulates raising the minimum stipend enjoyed by all Holocaust survivors to NIS 2,200 – as opposed to NIS 1,825 – and will range up to NIS 5,400. The move will affect some 70,000 Holocaust survivors considered to be psychically handicapped in wake of the Holocaust as well as 18,500 survivors of the ghettos and the death camps.
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From ynetnews.com:
The Knesset authorized in second and third reading Monday a bill which allocated some one billion shekel to holocaust survivors. The bill was sponsored by Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Welfare Minister Meir Cohen and is the legal cornerstone of a national program to aid survivors.
The program stipulates raising the minimum stipend enjoyed by all Holocaust survivors to NIS 2,200 – as opposed to NIS 1,825 – and will range up to NIS 5,400. The move will affect some 70,000 Holocaust survivors considered to be psychically handicapped in wake of the Holocaust as well as 18,500 survivors of the ghettos and the death camps.
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Monday, 9 June 2014
Las Vegas Cop Killers Being Investigated for Possible Links to White Supremacy Movement
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com with contribution from Reuters:
The couple who shot two Las Vegas police officers to death in a weekend ambush before killing a bystander and themselves in a nearby Wal-Mart harbored anti-law enforcement and anti-government ideologies but are believed to have acted alone, authorities said on Monday.
Police are still investigating their links to white supremacy movement after swastika symbols were found in the couple's apartment, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported.
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From ynetnews.com with contribution from Reuters:
The couple who shot two Las Vegas police officers to death in a weekend ambush before killing a bystander and themselves in a nearby Wal-Mart harbored anti-law enforcement and anti-government ideologies but are believed to have acted alone, authorities said on Monday.
Police are still investigating their links to white supremacy movement after swastika symbols were found in the couple's apartment, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported.
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Leader of French Far-Right Party Defends Her Father, the Former Leader of the Party, Against Allegations of Antisemitism
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
The head of the far-right French party the National Front, Marine Le Pen, has downplayed remarks by her father, party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, who told an interviewer that a Jewish singer should be sent to the "oven". Footage of the comments was published on the party's website over the weekend.
During the interview, Le Pen lashed out at various celebrities, including Madonna, who had criticized the party's achievements in the EU parliamentary elections last month. When the interviewer told Le Pen that one of those critics had been French Jewish singer Patrick Bruel, he replied: "I am not surprised. Next time we should arrange another 'shipment' to the oven".
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From ynetnews.com:
The head of the far-right French party the National Front, Marine Le Pen, has downplayed remarks by her father, party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, who told an interviewer that a Jewish singer should be sent to the "oven". Footage of the comments was published on the party's website over the weekend.
During the interview, Le Pen lashed out at various celebrities, including Madonna, who had criticized the party's achievements in the EU parliamentary elections last month. When the interviewer told Le Pen that one of those critics had been French Jewish singer Patrick Bruel, he replied: "I am not surprised. Next time we should arrange another 'shipment' to the oven".
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Sunday, 8 June 2014
Israeli Government Approves Emergency Plan to Encourage Jews in Europe to Immigrate to Israel
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
In face of the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe, the government and the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption launched an emergency plan aimed at encouraging European Jews, especially from Ukraine, to immigrate to Israel. The government allocated NIS 100 million to the plan.
After 66 years in which the issue of immigration was handled by the Jewish Agency and other bodies, the government decided to take matters into its own hands and establish an independent company to encourage aliyah. The company will not have the same restrictions applied to government-owned corporations, and it will be able to operate freely in European countries.
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From ynetnews.com:
In face of the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe, the government and the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption launched an emergency plan aimed at encouraging European Jews, especially from Ukraine, to immigrate to Israel. The government allocated NIS 100 million to the plan.
After 66 years in which the issue of immigration was handled by the Jewish Agency and other bodies, the government decided to take matters into its own hands and establish an independent company to encourage aliyah. The company will not have the same restrictions applied to government-owned corporations, and it will be able to operate freely in European countries.
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