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History is repeating itself. Remember 30November. Don’t Be A Statistic!

Here’s why you should come to Israel


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If a person’s only motivation to come to Israel is refuge from anti-Semitism, he or she won’t be happy. On a material level, it’s far from comfort zone here. But for the soul, the Land of Israel is paradise. Miracles are natural in the Land of Emuna. Here’s why you should come:

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Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-12November2024-Here’s why you should come to Israel

 

 

Nefesh B'Nefesh: Live the Dream US & CAN 1-866-4-ALIYAH | UK 020-8150-6690 or 0800-085-2105 | Israel 02-659-5800 ext. 1 https://www.nbn.org.il/ aliyah@nbn.org.il WhatsApp: 1-551-800-5414

Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream US & CAN 1-866-4-ALIYAH | UK 020-8150-6690 or 0800-085-2105 | Israel 02-659-5800 ext. 1 https://www.nbn.org.il/ aliyah@nbn.org.il WhatsApp: 1-551-800-5414

It’s time to come home! Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream 1-866-4-ALIYAH

Better yet. Make Aliyah! Have them call Jewish Agency to start the formal application on 0800-085-2105 / 0800-051-8227 or email gci-en@jafi.org https://www.jewishagency.org/aliyah/

10November2024 Preparations to harm Israelis in major cities in the UK, and several European cities.


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BREAKING NEWS:
Note from the Israeli National security council says they have uncovered preparations to harm Israelis in major cities in the UK, and several European cities.
“In the past few days, there have been calls among pro-Palestinian/terrorist-supporter groups to harm Israelis and Jews, under the pretense of demonstrations and protests, taking advantage of mass gatherings (sports and cultural events) to maximize the damage and the media coverage”

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Jews are attacked by violent mobs in Europe, America and beyond who scream “Free Palestine!”


Caroline Glick-tweet-8November2024-Jews are attacked by violent mobs who scream Free Palestine
Every day, Jews are attacked by violent mobs in Europe, America and beyond who scream “Free Palestine!”
“Free Palestine,” is the current way of saying “Death to the Jews.”
Everyone knows it. But in our world of lies, bigots in suits get away with insisting that “anti-Zionism” isn’t Jew hatred, thus proving two things:
1. They hate Jews and want to see us harmed.
2. Israel is the only place where Jews are defended. That is, Zionism remains not only the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, but that without Israel, there would be no Jewish people.

Caroline Glick-tweet-8November2024-Jews are attacked by violent mobs who scream Free Palestine

Caroline Glick-tweet-8November2024-Jews are attacked by violent mobs who scream Free Palestine

 

 

Visit Holland. Feel like 1941 again.


Caroline Glick-tweet-8November2024-The Palestinian flag is today’s swastika
Let’s remember that today, in Holland, anti-Semites are trying Israel for genocide in one kangaroo court, and deliberating over whether to issue arrest warrants against our leaders in another kangaroo court.
The “Palestinian” flag is today’s swastika.
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Visit Holland. Feel like 1941 again.

Caroline Glick-tweet-8November2024-The Palestinian flag is today's swastika

Caroline Glick-tweet-8November2024-The Palestinian flag is today’s swastika

 

 

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The cult of death vs the nation of life


Cheryl E-tweet-28November2024-The cult of death vs the nation of life
The red triangle 🔺 on the Palestine 🇵🇸 flag represents the tip of a sword stained with blood. It represents death.

The Star of David ✡️ on the Israel 🇮🇱 flag is the Shield of David… it protects life and represents the sanctity of life.

That is the difference.

This entire war is the cult of death vs the nation of life.

Cheryl E-tweet-28November2024-The cult of death vs the nation of life

Cheryl E-tweet-28November2024-The cult of death vs the nation of life

 

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Riots have broken out again in Amsterdam tonight

11November2024


Hen Mazzig-tweet-11November2024-Riots have broken out again in Amsterdam tonight
Riots have broken out again in Amsterdam tonight. Rioters are damaging property and shouting “Kankerjoden,” which means “Cancer Jews.”

To Amsterdam’s Jews, please stay safe. Don’t go outside.

To the rest of the world, look at what you’ve done.

You can deny it all you want, but as these horrible attacks continue to happen, know it is your fault. You have enabled it, you have defended it, and, deep down, you were probably hoping it would happen again.

Hen Mazzig-tweet-11November2024-Riots have broken out again in Amsterdam tonight

Hen Mazzig-tweet-11November2024-Riots have broken out again in Amsterdam tonight

 

 

 

13November2024-After all the Israelis and Jews left Amsterdam


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⚠️After all the Israelis and Jews left Amsterdam, the Islamist rioters are now attacking native Dutch citizens.

 

 

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“Not one German was involved in rounding up and deporting Holland’s Jews; it was Dutch police and Austrians”


Herb Glatter-tweet-8November2024-Not one German was involved in rounding up and deporting Holland’s Jews
A plaque on the wall of the anne frank house museum in Amsterdam reads:
“Not one German was involved in rounding up and deporting Holland’s Jews; it was Dutch police and Austrians”

Herb Glatter-tweet-8November2024-Not one German was involved in rounding up and deporting Holland's Jews

Herb Glatter-tweet-8November2024-Not one German was involved in rounding up and deporting Holland’s Jews

 

The law is not a moral compass. The people who hid Anne Frank were breaking the law. The people who killed her were following it. The next time someone screams Israel is violating “International Law”, show them this meme and ask, “What did your group or country do to actively save the Jews from the Holocaust, Pogrom or Terrorist Attack?” The list of Jew haters will be very, very long. For the US Democrats, let’s start with FDR closing the gates to Jewish immigration to the US in the 1930s and 1940s and not bombing the Death Camps. The British closed the gates to Eretz Israel. Germany, France and the rest of Europe along with the Arabs; aiding and abetting the Nazis in murdering 6 Million Jew along with Arab Pogroms against the Jews because they were Jews.

The law is not a moral compass. The people who hid Anne Frank were breaking the law. The people who killed her were following it. The next time someone screams Israel is violating “International Law”, show them this meme and ask, “What did your group or country do to actively save the Jews from the Holocaust, Pogrom or Terrorist Attack?” The list of Jew haters will be very, very long. For the US Democrats, let’s start with FDR closing the gates to Jewish immigration to the US in the 1930s and 1940s and not bombing the Death Camps. The British closed the gates to Eretz Israel. Germany, France and the rest of Europe along with the Arabs; aiding and abetting the Nazis in murdering 6 Million Jew along with Arab Pogroms against the Jews because they were Jews.

 

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State-Enforced Antisemitism in America? Lawfare against Jews in America

Jewish Journalist Sloan Rachmuth Arrested for Objecting to Islamic Terror Symbol in U.S. Grocery Store—A Chilling Precedent (Exclusive Interview)

Amy Mek 28February2025  https://rairfoundation.com/jewish-journalist-sloan-rachmuth-arrested-objecting-islamic-terror/

 

Jewish Journalist Sloan Rachmuth Arrested

Jewish Journalist Sloan Rachmuth Arrested

Dragged from her home in handcuffs, paraded past her neighbors, and thrown in jail on a bogus charge, Jewish journalist Sloan Rachmuth was politically targeted, humiliated, and silenced for daring to object to a U.S. grocery store employee wearing an Islamic terror symbol—exposing a shocking case of corporate complicity, police overreach, and state-enforced antisemitism.

 

Holly Springs, NC – Sloan Rachmuth, a Jewish journalist and political commentator, was arrested at her home in front of her terrified children on November 3, 2024. Her alleged crime? According to Rachmuth, she objected to a supermarket employee at Harris Teeter wearing the controversial keffiyeh, a political symbol widely associated with Hamas and its ambitions to destroy Israel and the Jewish people worldwide.

 

Rachmuth, an outspoken advocate against antisemitism and a contributor to national media outlets on Middle Eastern affairs, explained to RAIR Foundation in an exclusive interview that she was handcuffed, marched through her neighborhood, and charged with cyberstalking, posting about the troubling incident online.

 

Rachmuth explained the police never asked for her side of the story, nor investigated the credibility of the alleged victim. Her arrest was based solely on an unverified accusation, raising serious concerns about law enforcement’s complicity in this apparent retaliation.

 

Rather than uphold its corporate attire and political expression policies, Harris Teeter—a subsidiary of The Kroger Co., the largest supermarket chain in America—ignored its regulations. Indeed, Harris Teeter allowed an employee to wear a threatening symbol of Islamic and Palestinian terrorism, visibly wrapping it around her head while working with customers.

 

Rachmuth describes this as not just corporate censorship or police overreach but state-backed antisemitic persecution and the criminalization of those who publicly object to terror support and antisemitism.

 

Sloan Rachmuth

 

A Known Hamas Symbol in a U.S. Grocery Store

On October 31, 2024, Rachmuth entered Harris Teeter on Sunset Lake Road in Holly Springs, North Carolina, a store where she had shopped regularly for seven years. According to Rachmuth, as she checked out, she noticed an employee handling food while wearing a keffiyeh—a garment long associated with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and frequently worn by Hamas militants and supporters. In America, the keffiyeh has been used as a rallying icon for violence against Jews during demonstrations. Even countries like the United Arab Emirates and Egypt—both Arab nations—have banned its political use, recognizing its ties to Islamic groups.

 

Aware of its political significance, Rachmuth says she politely asked the employee, Amira M. Fattah, “It’s Halloween; are you wearing this as a costume?” Fattah replied, “No, it’s for Free Palestine,” confirming she wore the keffiyeh as a political statement rather than for religious reasons.

 

As a Jewish woman and a longtime customer, Rachmuth was deeply uncomfortable with a store employee openly supporting an ideology that symbolized the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people while handling food. While at the store, Rachmuth escalated her concerns to store manager Sheronna Irick, expecting Harris Teeter to uphold its policies against political speech in the workplace.

 

Instead of addressing the hostile work environment created by an employee wearing a symbol of Jewish oppression, Irick dismissed Rachmuth’s complaint outright and told her, “Like it or leave.”

Harris Teeter’s Failure to Act

Realizing that the store manager was indifferent to the issue, Rachmuth contacted Harris Teeter’s corporate office to inform them of what had occurred.

 

Frustrated by the store manager’s hostile response, Rachmuth turned to social media and posted about the encounter on X (formerly Twitter). She included a photo of the employee wearing the keffiyeh—showing only the employee’s profile—along with a caption questioning the corporation’s stance on political speech in the workplace.

 

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Sloan Rachmuth-tweet-31October2024-HarrisTeeter-Hamas Employee

 

The post quickly gained traction, sparking widespread debate about corporate complicity in antisemitism. Rather than address the concern, Harris Teeter’s employees escalated the situation by calling the police in what appears to be an act of retaliation against a customer.

 

According to arrest records and law enforcement, store manager Sheronna Irick played a pivotal role in facilitating this retaliation. made it clear that the Harris Teeter manager’s actions directly enabled Rachmuth’s falsely-charged arrest.

The Arrest: How Law Enforcement Was Weaponized Against a Jewish Mother

Three days later, after Rachmuth’s X post, Holly Springs Police officers—Elliott Warren, Benjamin Marino, and Edgar Hernandez—arrived at Rachmuth’s home and began pounding on her door.

 

Holly Springs Police officers-Elliott Warren, Benjamin Marino, and Edgar Hernandez

Holly Springs Police officers-Elliott Warren, Benjamin Marino, and Edgar Hernandez

 

To understand how this politically motivated arrest unfolded, examining events leading up to it is important.

A Timeline of the Political Arrest

  • October 31, 2024: Rachmuth reports that she noticed a Harris Teeter employee wearing a keffiyeh, questioned her about it, and later posted images on social media.
  • November 2, 2024: Holly Springs Police took a report from the employee and store manager, who alleged that Rachmuth called her a terrorist in the store—an accusation Rachmuth vehemently denies.
  • The incident report officially labeled the case as ‘ANTI-ISLAMIC (MUSLIM),’ suggesting that law enforcement intentionally framed the situation as a bias-motivated offense. This classification raises serious concerns about whether police exaggerated or misrepresented the nature of the allegations to justify Rachmuth’s arrest. If Rachmuth’s concern over a political symbol was rebranded as a ‘hate crime,’ does this mean that simply objecting to Hamas-affiliated imagery is now considered a criminal act? The implications of such a designation are chilling—especially given that there was no investigation into whether the allegations against her were truthful.
  • November 3, 2024: Officer Elliott Warren obtained an arrest warrant, accusing Rachmuth of using her cellphone to “harass, embarrass, or terrify” the employee.
  • Later that day: Police arrived at her home with an arrest warrant in hand, leading to what many believe was an effort to humiliate her publicly.

Rachmuth, a mother of two, says she was shocked and confused by the officers’ presence. When she demanded the reason for her arrest, Officer Benjamin Marino chillingly replied, “Something you did made her uncomfortable, all right?”

Rachmuth’s arrest video shows she was then handcuffed with no questions asked. She says the police paraded her through her neighborhood before taking her to Wake County Jail. Adding to the cruelty of the arrest, this occurred on her 17th wedding anniversary, as her terrified children, concerned husband and protective German Shepherd watched helplessly.

 

Sloan RING footage

 

Rachmuth states that despite the alleged crime being an unarrestable misdemeanor, she was forced to pay a $1,000 cash bail—a sum typically reserved for serious offenses—and was treated like a violent criminal during the booking process.

 

Democratic activists and their media swiftly circulated her mugshot and charge sheet online, weaponizing the arrest as a political smear campaign. Major left-wing outlets, including The Independent, The Intercept, MSN, Daily Mail, and other partisan publications, immediately jumped on the bandwagon, launching coordinated attacks against Rachmuth. They spread her mugshot far and wide, framing her as a villain—without even attempting to reach out to her for comment.

 

This rapid media blitz has left many questioning who contacted the media so swiftly and how they were able to mobilize coverage within hours of her arrest. Just as questions linger over who at Harris Teeter initially called the police, suspicions are growing that this was not an organic reaction but rather a carefully coordinated effort to weaponize the criminal justice system against a Jewish journalist. Many believe this was a deliberate, politically motivated attack meant to silence and intimidate her—setting a dangerous precedent for anyone daring to expose antisemitism or radical extremism in America.

A Baseless Charge Meant to Intimidate and Silence Critics

The charge against Rachmuth—cyberstalking—had no legal precedent or justification. The accusation alleged that she used her phone to take a photo with the intent to embarrass someone—an assertion unsupported by any state or federal law and one that raises serious First Amendment concerns.

 

Even Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman, a Democrat, acknowledged the blatant injustice of the case and dropped all charges the next day, stating that the alleged conduct did not meet the elements of the offense.

 

However, this charge’s legal overreach and selective enforcement remain deeply troubling. North Carolina’s cyberstalking statute, G.S. 14-196.3, requires repeated electronic communications made to a person with the intent to “annoy, threaten, or harass” an individual. Rachmuth’s single post about a store policy does not meet this legal threshold. Furthermore, legal precedents in State v. Bishop (2016) and State v. Shackelford (2019) have reinforced the principle that vague and overly broad interpretations of online speech statutes violate constitutional protections of free speech and press freedom.

 

If this charge had moved forward, it would have set a chilling precedent for journalists, activists, and citizens engaged in lawful political speech. The case raises serious questions about lawfare and the use of activist law enforcement to target political dissenters.

 

While Freeman ultimately dropped the charges, the fact that the Holly Springs Police Department pursued them in the first place—despite clear constitutional and procedural concerns—demonstrates the selective weaponization of the law to intimidate and silence individuals exposing antisemitism and Islamic radicalism. The police department has yet to acknowledge any wrongdoing in Rachmuth’s case.

 

The damage is done. Rachmuth has been publicly humiliated, smeared as an extremist, and left to deal with the lasting emotional trauma inflicted on her and her children. Left-wing media outlets quickly distributed her mugshot and charge sheet, weaponized to destroy her credibility and intimidate others from speaking out.

 

The swiftness with which the media picked up the story—without even verifying the charge’s validity—further supports the growing suspicion that this was a coordinated attack on a Jewish journalist for daring to challenge the glorification of Hamas and its genocidal ideology.

A Dangerous Precedent: How Hamas Sympathizers Exploit U.S. Institutions

Rachmuth argues that this arrest highlights a disturbing trend in America: where Jewish individuals who expose the glorification of Islamic terrorism and Hamas’s genocidal ideology are punished. At the same time, those who promote these dangerous movements face no repercussions. She asserts that the legal system has been weaponized to silence and intimidate those who speak out against radicalism, making it increasingly risky for Jewish Americans to call attention to antisemitism and extremism.

 

According to Rachmuth, her arrest raises serious concerns about how political and ideological biases impact law enforcement actions, particularly when it comes to Jewish Americans who challenge the normalization of anti-Jewish hostility.

 

Rachmuth also points to what she describes as a two-tiered justice system at play. Between 2022 and 2023, she lodged multiple detailed complaints with the Holly Springs Police Department regarding relentless harassment, cyberstalking, and threats she received for being Jewish and having an Israeli husband. Internal documents shared with RAIR show her detailed police reports of the doxxing of her family, anti-Jewish slurs, and ongoing harassment from known perpetrators were ignored by the police chief. Emails show the police declined to take action, stating that ‘no criminal North Carolina General Statutes have been violated.’

 

In a letter to Rachmuth dated January 9, 2023, the police admitted that they had thoroughly analyzed the documentation, consulted with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (NC-SBI), and ultimately concluded that the harassment fell under ‘First Amendment protected speech’—even though it included threats, public exposure of personal records, and clear targeting of her family. In an email, the police chief justified inaction by citing the need to follow a chain of command before presenting charges for judicial review.

 

Yet, regarding her arrest, no such legal scrutiny or procedural delay was observed, as evidenced by the charges being dropped within 24 hours. She was promptly taken into custody without the due diligence police had claimed was necessary in previous cases. The statute requires ‘repeated’ communication directly to a person, a requirement absent from the arrest warrant. Furthermore, North Carolina courts have overturned similar cases on constitutional grounds.

 

Questions remain over who ordered her arrest. The DA was not involved in the initial decision—as later suggested when Freeman personally called her to confirm there was no case. Was this the work of a police department eager to silence her? She argues that the lack of due process in her case, compared to the meticulous legal caution used when she was the victim, speaks volumes about the selective enforcement of the law.

 

Rachmuth insists that those responsible for what she describes as her wrongful arrest, including Holly Springs Police Chief Paul Liquorie and the officers involved, must be held accountable. She warns that the decision to arrest her, despite the lack of legal grounds, sets a dangerous precedent for civil liberties, Jewish advocacy, and the ability to challenge radical ideologies without fear of state-backed retaliation.

Unanswered Questions: Who Will Be Held Responsible?

  • Is Amira M. Fattah still employed at Harris Teeter?
  • Is Sheronna Irick still working as the store manager?
  • Did Harris Teeter issue a policy clarification prohibiting political symbols in the workplace?
  • Why hasn’t Rachmuth received an apology from Harris Teeter or Holly Springs PD?
  • Who within Harris Teeter’s corporate leadership initiated the false police report?

State-Enforced Antisemitism in America?

Rachmuth argues that her arrest is a direct attack on Jewish Americans who speak out against antisemitism and radicalism. She believes that her treatment at the hands of Harris Teeter and the Holly Springs Police Department reflects a growing danger faced by Jews in the United States—where supporters of terrorism are given a platform. At the same time, those who oppose terrorism are silenced and criminalized.

 

For Rachmuth, this case is more than just corporate censorship or police overreach—it is a glaring example of how extremists manipulate the United States legal system to punish those who object to terrorism. Lawfare is a tool of intimidation and activist police departments are complicit, using their power to suppress dissent and terrorize law-abiding citizens, she says.

 

Rachmuth warns that this weaponization of law enforcement against a Jewish journalist sets a dangerous precedent for the future of free speech, religious liberty, and civil rights. She argues that if an American can be arrested simply for objecting online to pro-terrorist symbolism in a grocery store, then no one is safe from politically motivated prosecution.

 

RAIR Foundation will continue to monitor this case closely and demand full accountability from Harris Teeter, the Holly Springs Police Department, and all individuals responsible for what it describes as a blatant abuse of power.

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Sue the arresting officers, city, & police department for deprivation of Constitutional rights under the color of the law. You get to hit the city and the individual government agents in THEIR personal wallets and the state’s coffers.
42 USC § 1983
18 USC § 242

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A cheering crowd fills the streets over terror against Jews


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A day after a pogrom, a cheering crowd fills the streets over terror against Jews.
You don’t understand one thing, you blonde, European, useful idiots.
#thewestisnext

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Im Tirtzu-tweet-8November2024-A cheering crowd fills the streets over terror against Jews

 

 

 

You hypocritical terrorist supporters


Yoseph Haddad-tweet-8November2024-You hypocritical terrorist supporters

תזכרו שאתם הבאים בתור ועוד קצת זמן החיוכים שלכם יתחלפו בבכי כשאתם תהפכו למטרה של אותם המחבלים מהמזרח התיכון יא אהבלים תומכי טרור צבועים! הסרטון הזה שרץ ברשת הוא מסתבר לא מהיום אחרי הפרוגרום אלא מלפני כמה שבועות- אבל לא תראו את אותם תומכי טרור מגנים או מתנערים מהפרוגרום אלא שמחים ומברכים עליו. והמסר הוא אותו מסר- מי שתומך בטרור של אותם מחבלים שהיגרו מהמזרח התיכון יהיה מי שיבכה כשיהפוך למטרה הבאה שלהם!

Translated from Hebrew by

Remember that you are next in line and in a little while your smiles will turn to tears when you become the target of those terrorists from the Middle East, you hypocritical terrorist supporters! This video that is running on the net is apparently not from the day after the program but from a few weeks ago – but you will not see those supporters of terrorism condemning or rejecting the program but rather happy and congratulating it. And the message is the same message – whoever supports the terrorism of those terrorists who immigrated from the Middle East will be the one who will cry when he becomes their next

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Yoseph Haddad-tweet-8November2024-You hypocritical terrorist supporters

 

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Every time in history, The excuses change; the hate persists.


The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome-tweet-9November2024-Every time in history
Every time in history there’s been an antisemitic attack, people have found ways to defend the attackers and justify the violence.

Remember Amsterdam? Jews were mobbed because “Israelis were rowdy.”

October 7? Because Jews have a country.

The Tree of Life massacre? Because Jews “helped migrants.”

The Har Nof massacre? Because Jews “threatened al Aqsa.”

The Farhud? Jews “sided with the British.”

The Holocaust? Jews were “racially inferior.”

The Dreyfus Affair? Jews were “treasonous.”

The Russian pogroms? Jews “caused poverty.”

The Chmielnicki Massacres? Jews “colluded with Polish nobility.”

The Inquisitions? Jews were “undermining Christianity.”

The Black Death pogroms? Jews “poisoned the wells.”

The Expulsions? Jews were “heretics.”

The Second Temple’s destruction? Jews “defied Rome.”

The excuses change; the hate persists.

The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome-tweet-9November2024-Every time in history

The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome-tweet-9November2024-Every time in history

 

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Israel to dispatch rescue flights following Amsterdam pogrom

Both civilian and military planes will be sent to bring Israeli emergency teams to Holland and bring Jews back to Israel.

Israel National News / 8November2024, 7:48 AM (GMT+2) http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398825

 

Riots in Amsterdam

Riots in Amsterdam

 

The Ministry of Transportation has announced that in accordance with the directive of the Minister of Transportation, three additional flights have been added to rescue Israelis from Amsterdam by the three Israeli companies in addition to the three existing flights.

 

“In the wake of the lynching and pogrom against Israelis that took place in Amsterdam, the Minister of Transportation instructed the Civil Aviation Authority and the Airports Authority to contact the Israeli airlines in order to reinforce the flights from Amsterdam to Israel, in order to evacuate the Israelis from Amsterdam.”

 

It was further reported that “the Ministry of Transportation has been in constant contact since the beginning of the incident with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Security Council and is prepared in addition to the three existing flights to add three additional flights of Israair, Arkia and El Al in order to rescue the Israeli soccer fans who were attacked in Amsterdam.”

 

The Minister of Culture has instructed all the Ministry’s agencies to provide any possible assistance in order to rescue the Israelis and return them home.

 

Additionally, the IDF will send a contingent of Home Front Command rescue personnel in IAF cargo planes to assist in treating and evacuating the victims. The mission has been coordinated with the Dutch authorities.

 

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Foreign Ministry guidelines for Israelis in Amsterdam

Israelis in Amsterdam advised to avoid displaying Jewish symbols, fly back to Israel as quickly as possible following antisemitic pogrom.

Israel National News / 8November2024, 9:18 AM (GMT+2)  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398831

 

The Israeli Foreign Ministry and National Security Council published new instructions at 9:05 a.m. Israeli time for Israelis staying in Amsterdam following the antisemitic pogrom committed in the city overnight.

1. The local security forces have been deployed in the area and those who wish to get from the hotel to the airport – this is possible and you can go out and use local transportation.

2. The local police must be informed immediately of any incident of threat or attack and the local Israeli consulate must be informed by phone 0031646312161. You can also call the situation center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 02-5303155.

 

In addition, you can call the following numbers:

 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

025304358

025303287

025303644

025303401

0505074986

Embassy of Israel in the Netherlands:

+31703760570

+31642648282

+31648493297

3. One should avoid walking around the streets while wearing visible Israeli/Jewish symbols.

4. Those who can, should advance their flight back to Israel.

5. Israelis staying in Amsterdam are advised to install the Home Front Command application where targeted updates about the situation will be transmitted.

6. A number of Israeli planes are expected to arrive in Amsterdam in the coming hours, more details about flights back to Israel will be published later.

 

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, MK Sharren Haskel (National Right Party) stated, “The antisemitic pogrom in Amsterdam is an unimaginable event. This incident is one of the extremes that have occurred recently and echoes the events of Kristallnacht, which took place exactly 80 years ago. I spoke with the ambassador and the embassy staff, and rescue and medical teams are on their way to the Netherlands.”

 

“Radical Islam is spreading terror and hatred everywhere. Europe is no longer safe for Jews, and if it will not wake up, it will soon no longer be safe for anyone,” Haskel said. She also urged any Israeli who requires assistance or guidance to call the above numbers

Readers Comments:

Rationilst Jew8November2024
Jews not living in Israel – Remember once strong and true statement

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. It is only a waiting game. America is no promised land -Try to see if you can Remember Crown Heights!

The only reason it is called the promised land – is the “promise” sooner or later it happen here again in larges scales. An economic breakdown leading to a strong depression and try to guess what happens? Don’t delude yourself you are safe!

 

Guest 8November2024
They just reinforced the case for the State of Israel’s existence. Weren’t no planes coming to rescue Jews after Kristallnacht

 

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El Al announces Shabbat rescue flights from Amsterdam

Israeli airline announces it will run free last-minute flights to bring Israelis home from Amsterdam today, even on Shabbat, following the pogrom against Israeli soccer fans.

Israel National News / 8November2024, 10:25 AM (GMT+2) http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398838

 

El Al flight

El Al flight

 

Following last night’s antisemitic pogrom in Amsterdam, El Al announced that it will operate rescue flights from the destination to Tel Aviv at short notice, including on Shabbat. The flights will be free of charge, the first flight will take off from Amsterdam at 2:00 p.m. (local time), and is expected to land back in Tel Aviv later today.

 

Hundreds of fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team reported that they were attacked overnight Thursday by Arabs in Amsterdam, as they left the stadium following Maccabi’s game against AFC Ajax.

 

The fans testified that an ambush had been prepared for them in advance at various points outside the stadium.

 

Disturbing footage from the city, which was posted to social media, fans are seen being violently attacked, beaten and even run over. One of the fans was forced to say “Free Palestine” before he was let go. Some of the fans barricaded themselves in shops and other places in the city. The local police escorted some of the Israelis back to their hotels.

 

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said that ten fans were injured and that three people are unaccounted for, and efforts to get in touch with them are ongoing.

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this morning spoke with Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof following the pogrom.

 

Prime Minister Netanyahu said that he views with utmost gravity the planned antisemitic attack against Israeli citizens and requested that security be increased for the Dutch Jewish community.

 

The Prime Minister thanked his Dutch counterpart for expressing shock over last night’s events and for saying that it was an extraordinary and antisemitic event.

 

Pursuant to the Prime Minister’s directive, Israeli planes are now en route to the Netherlands to bring back the [Israeli] citizens, including the wounded.

 

Dutch right-wing leader Geert Wilders condemned the violence and wrote on X, “Looks like a Jew hunt in the streets of Amsterdam. Arrest and deport the multicultural scum that attacked Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters in our streets. Ashamed that this can happen in The Netherlands. Totally unacceptable.”

 

He later posted again about the incident and wrote, “A pogrom in the streets of Amsterdam. We have become the Gaza of Europe. Muslims with Palestinian flags hunting down Jews. I will NOT accept that. NEVER.”

 

“The authorities will be held accountable for their failure to protect the Israeli citizens. Never again,” he added.

 

 

EL AL mobilized to assist Israeli citizens in Amsterdam


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Following therecent violent events in Amsterdam, we mobilized to assist Israeli citizens and our country, and we will continue to do so as needed.

We operated a total of eight flights from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv – six flights on Friday and two additional flights on Saturday, with all evacuation flights operated on wide-body aircraft. We flew a total of approximately 2,000 passengers back home.

These evacuation flights, which cost millions of shekels, were fully funded by EL AL and were free for passengers.

Additionally, we responded to over 10,000 inquiries received by our customer service center.

We are proud to be a pillar for Israelis, even in difficult times.

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Dutch police refuse to guard Jewish sites over ‘moral dilemmas,’ officers say

Marcel de Weerd and Michel Theeboom, from the Jewish Police Network, claimed ““There are colleagues who no longer want to protect Jewish targets or events.”
By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
OCTOBER 4, 2024 12:32 https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-823171

 

Officers in the Dutch police force have been refusing to protect Jewish targets, two officers told Nieuw Israëlisch Weekblad earlier this week.

 

Marcel de Weerd and Michel Theeboom, representing the Jewish Police Network, expressed concerns over changes they were seeing in the force.

 

“There are colleagues who no longer want to protect Jewish targets or events. They talk about ‘moral dilemmas,’ and I see a tendency emerging to give in to that. That would truly mark the beginning of the end. I’m concerned about that,” Theeboom said.

 

Adding to Theeboom’s claims, De Weerd said, “We see that leadership is struggling with this. Especially now, with the conflict in the Middle East, we risk drifting away from what we should stand for as a collective. We need to keep discussing this with each other.”

 

De Weerd also claimed that many of the younger officers he had encountered were ignorant of the country’s history, including the police’s role in World War II.

 

The officers later spoke with De Telegraaf, where they said that some members of the police expressed they didn’t want to be deployed at the Dutch National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam and refused food and drinks from the venue.

 

Mireille Beentjes, the police force’s spokeswoman, told De Telegraaf she had heard of officers making moral objections, admitting there were “no strict policies.”

 

“We take moral objections into account when creating schedules. But if there’s an urgent task, you will be deployed, whether you want to or not,” she said. “You are expected to behave professionally. Others shouldn’t notice anything.”

 

Beentjies claimed officers had been made to guard institutes and events that they found morally objectionable in other circumstances.

 

“It pains them when the Quran is burned, but at the same time, they still have to protect the people who do it,” Beentjes stressed.

 

According to the Brussels Signal, Commissioner of the Dutch National Police Janny Knol claimed, “Police officers are human beings and have the right to their own opinions and emotions.” However, he stressed, “But when it comes to people’s safety, that is our top priority. We are here for everyone. That is the foundation of our work as police officers.”

 

Nine Kooiman, President of the Dutch National Police Union, reportedly added, “If you keep giving in to everyone, there’s no end to it. You are in service of society and must be able to distance yourself from your personal considerations and emotions. A professional attitude.”

 

Koen Simmers, another official at the union, said, “It is unacceptable that there are police officers who refuse to carry out tasks and orders, such as protecting Jewish, Christian, Islamic institutions, demonstrations, or social events.

 

“The police are there for everyone. Moral objections may exist and are expressed, but if you are not prepared to protect everyone, then you have chosen the wrong job.”

 

Dutch Member of Parliament Geert Wilders condemned officers refusing to guard Jewish institutes.

 


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Onacceptabel. Als een agent geen joodse objecten wil bewaken is dat reden voor ontslag.

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Unacceptable. If an officer does not want to guard Jewish objects, that is grounds for dismissal.
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Agenten willen geen Joodse objecten bewaken: korpsleiding heeft begrip voor ’morele bezwaren’

Translated from Dutch by

Police officers do not want to guard Jewish objects: police leadership understands ‘moral objections’

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Geert Wilders-tweet-1October2024-Unacceptable

 

“Unacceptable. If an officer does not want to guard Jewish objects, that is grounds for dismissal,” Wilders wrote on X/Twitter.

The threats faced by Dutch Jews

In the Netherlands, much like the rest of the Diaspora, antisemitic incidents significantly increased after Hamas’s October 7 attacks – an increase of over 800%, according to the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel.

 

In March, pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated outside the opening of a Holocaust museum in Amsterdam. President Isaac Herzog had attended the opening.

 

In April, a former hostage released from Hamas captivity was verbally abused by Dutch airport staff. In the same month, Dutch Rabbi Aryeh Leib Heintz told The Jerusalem Post that he was violently assaulted in an antisemitic incident in Utrecht.

 

More recently, Germany arrested a teenager being groomed to carry out an attack on Dutch Jews while on a school trip to Holland.

 

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Police did not arrest a SINGLE assailant who participated in the pogrom


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BREAKING: Dutch police released 52 of 62 detained assailants, merely fining 40 for “disorderly conduct” & “violating public order.”

A pogrom is not just “disorderly conduct.”

It’s no wonder Jews only feel safe in the country created to protect us from this sort of injustice.
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UPDATE: Contrary to original Dutch police reports, the 62 arrests were made before/during the match, and police did not arrest a SINGLE assailant who participated in the pogrom after.

The handling of this attack only becomes worse by the hour.

Jews deserve better.

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Hen Mazzig-tweet-9November2024-Police did not arrest a SINGLE assailant who participated in the pogrom

 

 

No arrests were made on the night of the Pogrom


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In de nacht waarin tientallen Israëli’s werden aangevallen op straat in Amsterdam is geen enkele aanhouding verricht, bevestigt het OM.

Translated from Dutch by

No arrests were made on the night when dozens of Israelis were attacked on the streets of Amsterdam, the Public Prosecution Service confirmed.

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Source: https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1428164439/om-bevestigt-geen-arrestaties-in-amsterdamse-nacht-vol-geweld

 

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After Days of Antisemitic Riots the Police are taking action


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The world needs to see this. Yesterday around 11 pm pro-Palestinian protestors in Amsterdam got relocated by police to an industrial area. There they got hunted down, beaten up and hunted down again. One protestor is beat up while she’s laying on the ground. Please share!

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Revealed: How Pro-Palestinian mob organised via WhatsApp to ‘Hunt Jews’ across Amsterdam

Fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv attacked before and after their team’s Europa League match against Ajax

Dutch police detain a man in Amsterdam after he had allegedly provoked Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters Credit: JEROEN JUMELET/Shutterstock

Dutch police detain a man in Amsterdam after he had allegedly provoked Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters Credit: JEROEN JUMELET/Shutterstock

Gordon Rayner Associate Editor. Connor Stringer Senior reporter
08 November 2024 5:45pm GMT https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/08/jewish-maccabi-tel-aviv-fans-attacked-in-amsterdam/#Echobox=1731143020-1

 

The most famous and revered stop on Amsterdam’s tourist trail is the four-storey house on the Prinsengracht canal where the diarist Anne Frank lived in hiding for two years.

 

Now a museum, it is one of Europe’s most powerful reminders of the Holocaust, with a near-sacred status as a memorial to Jews like Anne who were exterminated by the Nazis.

 

On Thursday night, a terrible echo of the “Jew hunts” that took place during the German occupation played out just a few hundred yards from Anne Frank’s House as Israeli football fans were pursued through the streets and attacked.

 

The parallels were too obvious to ignore, prompting the Dutch king to say his country had failed Jewish people just as it did during the Second World War.

 

A pro-Palestinian demonstration had coincided with a European football match between the Maccabi Tel Aviv, the Israeli side, and Ajax, the local team whose fans refer to themselves as the “Super Jews”. The result was as shaming as it was foreseeable.

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Amsterdam attacks

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Videos posted on social media showed fans of the two teams being punched, kicked and humiliated as pro-Palestinian marchers shouted anti-Semitic slurs at them.

 

Now it has emerged that the attacks on the Jewish football fans were planned in advance and co-ordinated using WhatsApp and Telegram.

 

The Telegraph has seen messages from a group chat called Buurthuis, a Dutch word for a type of community centre, which were posted on Wednesday, the day before the match.

 

One message says: “Tomorrow after the game, at night, part 2 of the Jew Hunt.

 

“Tomorrow we work them.”

Buurthuis group chat

Buurthuis group chat

 

Another member of the group says: “Who can sort fireworks?” adding, “We need a lot of fireworks”. Participants refer to “cancer dogs”, a particularly vile insult in the Netherlands.

 

The previous day had some skirmishes, which the Jewish fans escaped by going into a local casino. One of the messages sent by the pro-Palestinians said: “They won’t go to the casino any more.”

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Buurthuis group chat-2

 

Tensions had been running high before the match because Amsterdam was in the midst of a week of pro-Palestinian protests.

 

The demonstrators had wanted to protest at the Johan Cruyff Arena, home of Ajax, but Femke Halsema, the city’s mayor, ordered police to keep them a kilometre away from the stadium.

 

Some demonstrators tried to get to the stadium anyway but were stopped.

 

Police were given stop-and-search powers within areas deemed a security risk and riot police patrolled the streets. Yet, they failed to prevent violence that has attracted condemnations from around the world.

 

One piece of footage posted online shows a man who had jumped into a canal in a desperate attempt to escape his attackers.

 

As he thrashes around in the water, a pursuer shouts: “Say Free Palestine, and we’ll let you go,” and spits out a vile Dutch phrase that means “Cancer Jew”.

 

The person who posted the video on X commented: “This coward jumped into the canal, afraid of getting beaten.” It was accompanied by “crying with laughter” emojis.

 

Another video shows a man who appears unconscious on the street being repeatedly kicked as he lies in the fetal position.

 

A third film shows a young Israeli football fan cornered in a narrow alley where he ends up crouching on the floor. He begs for mercy but his assailants knock him out with a punch to the head.

 

There is little wonder why one Israeli diplomat described it as “a pogrom”.

 

Ben Myers, a British-Israeli living in Amsterdam, said injured football fans were rushed to safe houses by a group of Israeli men and women who mobilised on WhatsApp groups.

 

Mr Myers, who helped coordinate the rapid response, said the Jewish community had been failed by the Dutch police.

 

He added: “It really was a testament to the power of the women, organising a mini Dunkirk and getting Israelis to safety.

 

“There were definitely people being pushed into canals. They must have known it was going to kick off. One of the biggest gripes was the lack of police action. A lot of Israelis were saying they didn’t see police for hours.

 

“Even when they did, they were driving nonchalantly by. It was definitely a failure by the Dutch police to protect the football fans.”

 

Two Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, Aviv and Harel, told the Kan public broadcaster: “There was a police force standing on the side, not doing too much when there was some kind of protest. Each of us had been to the Netherlands four times; we had never felt like this before.”

 

Violence flared when a group gathered at the National Monument in Dam Square – the country’s cenotaph – started chanting pro-Palestinian slogans at passing Israeli fans.

 

One Maccabi Tel Aviv fan dressed in a blue and yellow dressing gown gestured at the protestors and shouted “f— you” and others joined in by shouting “f— you Palestine”.

 

Maccabi fans descending into the Amsterdam metro sang: “Let the IDF win, we will f—* the Arabs” and “f— you Palestine.”

 

What appeared to be a visiting fan was filmed being hoisted up to a first-floor window where he grabbed a Palestinian flag and tore it down.

 

Soon the football fans were being chased through the streets by locals.

 

The victims included a man wearing the yellow strip of Tel Aviv crouching on the ground as his attackers kicked him and shouted: “It’s for the children motherf——.”

 

“Please take all my money,” he responded in desperation, in a video posted on social media.

 

The attackers responded: “Free Palestine now.”

 

Further video footage showed a man being kicked to the ground as fireworks went off around him.

 

He was dragged along the street and then tried to escape as a pro-Palestinian assailant filmed the scene and said: “Now you know how it feels.”

 

He shouted: “That’s Gaza. That’s Palestine. That’s Gaza motherf—–.”

 

Others had narrow escapes.

 

Amit Amira, a Maccabi fan, said: “Three people approached me on the street and asked where I was from. I said, ‘Greece.’ One of them grabbed my hand and told me to show my ID. I pushed him away and went into the casino.

 

“We stood at the entrance to the casino, and no one wanted to help us. They told us, ‘Why did you come here?’ In the end, an Arab Israeli helped us. He said, ‘No one will mess with you. You’re with me.’ He ordered two taxis for us, and we escaped.”

 

Amsterdam was known as the Jerusalem of the West before the war because of its thriving Jewish population, many of whom supported Ajax, whose stadium was close to the Jewish quarter. Giant Israeli flags are a common sight at Ajax home games.

 

Today, Amsterdam also has a large Arab population, including more than 77,000 Moroccans who live in the Dutch capital.

 

In the aftermath of the attacks, many shaken and traumatised Maccabi fans said they were the victim of what some said were pre-planned attacks that could have ended in fatalities as they sought to leave the Netherlands on the first available flight.

 

One shaken Israeli woman who spoke to Dutch media NOS from Amsterdam’s Schipol airport: “It seems like it was organised. There were a lot of people. They saw everyone in yellow.

 

“They jumped on us. They stabbed people. They beat them. They did horrible things. We hid in the hotel until it was safe outside.”

 

Others said they would not return to Amsterdam and were even scared to take taxis to the airport for fear of being attacked by drivers, some of whom apparently took part in the clashes.

 

In all, five people were hospitalised and 62 were arrested, according to local police.

 

Rescue flights were sent to Amsterdam to get the Tel Aviv fans home safely. As one flight waited on the runway, passengers posted social media videos of everyone on the plane punching the air and shouting with relief.

 

Dozens of armed police officers stood guard at the check-in desk, cornered off passengers travelling on the last flight from Schiphol airport to Tel Aviv on Friday evening.

 

Outside, still wearing his navy Maccabi Tel Aviv tracksuit, Ofek Ziv’s voice begins to break as he recalls being ambushed by the pro-Palestinian mob.

 

The 27-year-old financial advisor was hit by a rock as he and other fans were attacked by a gang of ski-masked men.

 

He told The Telegraph: “We have been let down by the police and the country. They did nothing. I was frightened, I was in shock. It was a very intense moment because you don’t expect to get attacked in this country – they accept all cultures.”

 

The ambush echoed that of October 7, in which he lost a close friend, he said.

 

He added: “My friend was killed in Nova on October 7. It’s the same feeling today – you see all these people attacked without any help and you can do nothing.”

 

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The Fear, The Answer Aliyah


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Just landed in Israel with my family. On the way here, we stopped in France. In the airport, my son yelled, “I’m so excited to go to Israel!” My heart sank.

We got nasty stares, and looks of disgust. It was uncomfortable and sad—it didn’t used to be like that.

As soon as we got to Israel, all of that melted away. The Israeli flags everywhere, waving proud. Israeli soldiers there to protect us. And a booming country fighting multiple wars with one arm tied behind her back.

My son was expecting to walk into a war zone. To his surprise, we feel safer walking on the streets here than anywhere in the world.

It makes me proud that a people rose from the ashes of the Holocaust and built this thriving country. Nobody will ever take it from us again.

It’s so sad to see the ignorant hate this country gets, from people that have never been here before.

I invite all the keyboard warriors who get their information from TikTok to get on a plane and experience the Holy Land for themselves.

God Bless Israel.

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‘Zionists leave Britain or be slaughtered’: Antisemitic flyers spread in London Jewish neighborhood

The incident, which saw antisemitic leaflets dispersed in a London Jewish neighborhood, was reported to Stand With Us.

By COREY TUSAK
28NOVEMBER2024 12:41 Updated: 28NOVEMBER2024 14:01  https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-831132<

 

An Israeli flag flies below the Union Jack at Hendon Town Hall in London, Britain, October 9, 2023. (photo credit: Anna Gordon/REUTERS)

An Israeli flag flies below the Union Jack at Hendon Town Hall in London, Britain, October 9, 2023. (photo credit: Anna Gordon/REUTERS)

 

Antisemitic leaflets reading “Zionists leave Britain or be slaughtered” were recently dispersed in a London Jewish neighborhood, GB News reported on Wednesday.

 

“Zionists leave Britain or be slaughtered” was written in Hebrew on flyers that were distributed in Hendon, a highly Jewish-populated neighborhood, GBN reported.

 

Also reportedly written on the flyer was the phrase “Zionist free zone” in English.

 

“We are witnessing a troubling trend of red lines being repeatedly crossed,” Isaac Zarfati, the executive director of Stand With Us UK, told GBN. “This is not just another wave that will pass if we remain passive.”

 


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‘Zionists leave Britain or be slaughtered’: Leaflets distributed in London Jewish neighbourhood

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GB News-tweet-27November2024-Zionists leave Britain or be slaughtered

 

“We must take those threats and statements seriously because one day they will turn into actions, and decisive steps are needed to combat this alarming phenomenon,” Zarfati added.

 

Trend of antisemitic flyers, statements

A similar incident occurred close by before Yom Kippur with statements like “F*** the Jew” and “Heil Hitler” as well as the swastika symbol being raked into bunkers (sand dunes) on the golf course of the Heldon Golf Club, GBN reported.

 

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, commented on the golf course incident, stating that he was “sickened by the rise in antisemitism in our city. Hate crime is a criminal offense and has no place in London.” The GBN quoted the mayor.

 

The number of antisemitic hate crimes in London has more than doubled in the space of a year, according to figures put out by the London Metropolitan Police.

 

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Why young British Jews are leaving for Israel

The vicious intolerance sweeping Europe is now impossible to ignore.

Neil Davenport

8December2024 https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/12/08/why-young-british-jews-are-leaving-for-israel/

 

For most British teenagers in their final year of A-levels, thoughts are now turning to choosing universities, attending open days and organising accommodation. But for a growing number of young British Jews, these familiar rites of passage are being replaced by more urgent concerns: joining the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) or volunteering in Israel.

 

The change in the priorities of young British Jews shows how much their world has changed since 7 October last year. First, Hamas’s brutal slaughter of civilians in Israel provided a horrifying wake-up call. And then the subsequent surge in anti-Semitism in Britain and Europe made it clear that many supposedly tolerant institutions are anything but.

 

‘I had always intended to join the IDF’, 17-year-old Thalia Cohen tells me. ‘But the events of 7 October solidified my decision. I want to help Israel defend itself and make sure something like that never happens again.’

 

Orli Miller completed her sixth-form studies this year. Visiting British university campuses since 7 October has transformed her view of the UK. ‘I visited one of the universities I’d applied to, and I was deeply unsettled by what I saw’, she recalls:

 

‘Posters of hostages taken by Hamas had been torn down. I realised this wasn’t an environment where I’d feel comfortable or supported. As a Zionist, I knew I’d be much happier in Israel, where I can align my actions with my beliefs without fear of judgement.’

 

Orli initially applied to serve in the IDF but was turned down on medical grounds. But rather than return to a university campus in the UK riddled with anti-Semitism, she chose to sign up for Sherut Leumi, Israel’s alternative national-service programme. Participants get to work in a wide range of areas, including healthcare, nursing homes and in disadvantaged communities.

 

That increasing numbers of young British Jews are now turning their backs on the UK university system provides a damning indictment of the vicious intolerance washing over campuses today. Universities were once regarded as sanctuaries of free thought and inclusivity. They have now become breeding grounds for hostility towards Jews. For Thalia and Orli, the message sent by universities is clear: all racism is condemned, apart from anti-Semitism.

 

Thalia has refused to shrink away. ‘People tell us to hide our religious symbols’, she says. ‘I take the opposite view – we should display them proudly. We should stand tall, proud of our religion, and proud of Israel.’

 

Both Thalia and Orli stress that Israel’s existence as a refuge for Jews is not merely symbolic – it’s also essential for their survival. ‘One of the tragic reasons so many Jews were murdered during the Holocaust was the absence of a place to escape to’, Orli tells me. ‘That’s why Israel matters. It’s the one place where Jews can find security, even though it’s constantly under threat. The need for a Jewish homeland has never been more urgent.’

 

Thalia agrees. Her family and friends support her decision to join the IDF, and some of her relatives are already serving as reservists. ‘I feel Jews should make this self-sacrifice – it is vital for Israel’s survival’, she says, before adding, ‘but it depends on how connected you are to Israel’.

 

Their sense of urgency is palpable. ‘Israel is under constant threat from terrorist groups that aim to destroy it’, says Orli. ‘Their weapons are becoming more sophisticated, and they are overwhelming our defence systems. To survive, we must fight back – and fight hard.’

 

The fallout from the 7 October atrocities has left scars. Orli lost friends, and one was kidnapped. Thalia describes the tense atmosphere in Israel:

 

‘When I visited in the summer, people were more nervous. You have to think about where to shelter if something happens. But there’s also a deep sense of unity. People are coming together to help each other.’

 

Recent attacks on Israeli Jews in Amsterdam have only added to their anxiety. It’s a grim reminder that Israel is not a ‘settler-colonial’ state – it is a refuge, a nation born from the ashes of persecution in Europe and the Middle East. For Israel to remain a safe haven, Jews must defend it – a stark reality that young people like Thalia and Orli understand all too well.

 

But this fight cannot fall solely on the shoulders of Jews. The growing anti-Semitism across Britain demands a response from those who claim to oppose bigotry in all its forms. Now is the time to send a clear message: Jews are not alone.

 

Names have been changed in this article

 

Neil Davenport is a writer based in London.

 

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Pro-terror demonstrators in Paris


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BREAKING: Pro-terror demonstrators in Paris completely destroyed a McDonalds and Starbucks.

Families were eating inside as these domestic terrorists smashed the windows and climbed onto the building. These terror supporters are destroying the West.

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LILLEY: Canadian officials make it clear, Jews not welcome here

There’s are different set of rules for Jews in Canada

Brian Lilley
Published 27November2024

 

Are Jews being treated differently in Canada? Absolutely, and not in a good way.

 

From local police to the federal government, Jews are clearly not the chosen people of Canadian government officials.

 

Take the case of Rabbi Adam Scheier who was asked by police to leave downtown Montreal because he looked too Jewish and there was a pro-Hamas protest coming.

 

“The only thing I am guilty of is shopping in downtown Montreal … while wearing a kippah,” Scheier wrote in a Facebook post.

 

“The policeman explained to me that he was fearful of a ‘fire starting between the two sides.’ Apparently, my presence is deemed a sufficient provocation for removal, while their hateful chants are allowed to continue.”

 

Shouldn’t it be the job of the police to ensure the people who march through the streets belting out genocidal chants don’t start getting violent?

 

Nah, easier to make sure the guy who looks Jewish just leaves.

 

In Toronto, police have been protecting the pro-Hamas protests since they started their marches immediately after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. They have allowed them to take over city streets at will without permits to block traffic and block street cars. At times they have even shut down major roads to pray in the middle of the street.Last Sunday, as a group of pro-Hamas types gathered at Bathurst St. and Sheppard Ave. W. – a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood – it was a Jew who was arrested.

 

When Ezra Levant of Rebel News tried to take his cameras to interview the folks waving placards celebrating Hamas – a protest that included a guy dressed like Yahya Sinwar, the recently killed mastermind of the terror attacks on Israel – it was Levant who was arrested.

 

Though released, Levant had been arrested for disturbing the peace. The people actually disturbing the peace by bringing a message that celebrated the killing of Jews into a Jewish neighbourhood were left alone.

 

There is even a photo of Toronto Police Staff-Sgt. Jeffery MacDuff sharing a chuckle with Ahmad Jarrar Hajahmad, a key organizer of many of the protests in the city and a backer of the encampments that took over university campuses in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa last spring.

 

The message is clear, there are different rules for Jews in Canada.

 

Take the example of the Jewish National Fund, a charitable organization in Canada for over a century that had their charitable status revoked this past summer. The revocation came after an audit started in 2014 for charitable works that had taken place in 2011-12 and which had never been an issue in the past.

 

However, a sustained campaign against the group by anti-Israel, anti-Jewish activists pushed the Canada Revenue Agency to reconsider what was approved. Rather than working with JNF, which had never failed an audit before, the CRA pulled the organization’s status, and the issue is now being challenged in court.

 

It’s very different approach from the one taken by CRA after their audit of the Muslim Association of Canada determined the organization was working with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Syria. While the Muslim Brotherhood is not considered a terrorist group in Canada, documents obtained and reported on by Le Journal de Montreal show there was real concern.

 

CRA found that the Syrian group had asked MAC for financial assistance, including for weapons. The Brotherhood in Egypt has been tied to political violence.

 

“Even entities that are not considered terrorist in Canada can put a charity’s resources at risk of terrorist abuse if those entities are linked to violent ideologies,” say CRA documents obtained by Le Journal.

 

The reaction of CRA to these revelations and several others was simply to ask MAC to take corrective action and not associate with people or groups that may have links to terrorism or violent ideologies.

 

The difference in treatment could not be more stark and, like the police action, the message to Canada’s Jewish community from government officials could not be clearer. Add to that the attack on Kosher meat by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency after hundreds of years of being allowed in this country and you really see what is going on.

 

Canadian officials are making it clear, Jews aren’t welcome in Canada and they will harass you until you get the picture.

 

It’s sad and wrong but it is true.

 

blilley@postmedia.com

 

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The Jewish community in Australia is not safe.


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LABOR HAS BROUGHT SHAME ON AUSTRALIA

The Australian Labor government has brought shame on Australia.

For the first time ever the prestigious Simon Wiesenthal Center has issued a negative travel advisory on Australia for Jews the world over.

Instead of learning the principles of Never Again, the govt actions and inactions which have facilitated a violent antisemitism crisis has brought us to Never Before.

This is Labor’s legacy.

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Australian Jewish Association-tweet-12December2024-Simon Wiesenthal Center issued negative travel advisory on Australia

 

Simon Wiesenthal Center issued negative travel advisory on Australia

Simon Wiesenthal Center issued negative travel advisory on Australia

 

 


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THIS IS ANITSEMITIC TERRORISM IN AUSTRALIA

Confirmed torching of the large orthodox Jewish Adass synagogue in Melbourne.

This is the flow on from the most hostile Federal government in Australia’s history to the Jewish community and the most anti-Israel. Since 9 October 2023, our political leaders and law enforcement have betrayed us – in terror supporting policies, on university campuses, on the streets and in the media.

This attack is on an orthodox community, some might say ultra-orthodox. They are NOT known as being particularly Zionist.

Just like the Opera House riot on 9 October (before Israel made any response), these campaign have always been about a hatred of Jews.

And our governments response? Condemn Israel, give $millions to Hamas supporters locally and overseas, and import 1000s from terrorist controlled Gaza with minimal security checks.

There used to be a wonderful country called Australia. Perhaps you remember it.

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Australian Jewish Association-tweet-5December2024-ANITSEMITIC TERRORISM IN AUSTRALIA

 

 

 


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Days after a Melbourne synagogue was firebombed, a Sydney suburb was graffitied and a car torched in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish families.

Wake up Australia. Your country is turning into a cesspool of Jew-hatred

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Aviva Klompas-tweet-16December2024-car torched in Jewish neighborhood

 

 


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Genuine question. What has the jewish community in Australia done to deserve this type of hatred?

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Peter Horovitz-tweet-6January2025-Jewish community in Australia is not safe

 

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Israel will always be the safest place on earth for a Jew


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Interviewing “Kaplanist*” at a demonstration: “We’re fed up here. We’re moving to Europe.” OK, bro, if you don’t want our holy homeland, here’s what’s waiting for you in Europe…
Israel will always be the safest place on earth for a Jew. Shabbat Shalom!
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#BREAKING: New footage of a mob of antisemites attacking Jewish soccer fans in Amsterdam

*Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street is known the world over these days as the weekly meeting place of the mass movement fighting the Netanyahu government’s judicial overhaul

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Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-8November2024-Israel will always be the safest place on earth for a Jew

 

 

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Never Again will we leave our fate in the hands of others


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There was no occupation.
There was no “open air prison”.
There was no Nakba.
There is no genocide.
There is no famine.
There is no 45k “civilian casualties”.

When the evidence shows that all these accusations are false, how has half the planet allowed itself to be brainwashed so easily by the largest psychological propaganda campaign in human history? How have the very institutions entrusted to educate our children been allowed to deliberately and maliciously manipulate, invert, and destroy history and truth?
Why have so many governments knowingly ignored the truth and gone along with this charade?

Everything that has happened since October 7 has been well funded, well choreographed, well planned, well coordinated and well executed.

If history teaches us anything, it’s that however bad we think things are today after 14 months of this, this is still just the beginning. Things are going to get worse. Much worse.

When the Nazi Party first rose to power, they too tried to downplay antisemitism. Their entire propaganda machine stated that it was just anti communism. And it spread until Hitler took over as chancellor and Hindenburg died. And it’s at that point, four years later, that the real intention came out and the masks came off. But by then, it was too late. Millions were slaughtered. Millions suffered. And like today, the world stood by and watched and did nothing. The greatest human tragedy of the 20th century unfolded in front of our eyes and the world was silent.

And today, the wave of Jew hatred and propaganda is infinitely worse, more widespread, more toxic and more dangerous. And, like then, the world is watching it unfold in front of their eyes and simply stay silent.

The consequences we can’t even imagine. But what we can assure you is that it doesn’t matter what is said, what is threatened, what UN resolution is passed, or how large this wave will still grow, we as the Jewish people will never allow ourselves to simply be massacred by this hate. Things are different now in 2024 only in that we will fight to the end. We will never allow our people to meet the same fate as many of our ancestors did back in the 1930’s.

We will fight to the death, and like it or not, it won’t be our death. We will survive this as we survived every time before it. You can stand with us, or you can stand against us. But regardless, we will win this war.

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Cheryl E-tweet-17December2024-Never Again will we leave our fate in the hands of others

 

 

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Fueled by fear and fraternity, foreigners start buying up Israeli homes, just in case

With antisemitism on the rise and many wanting to be more involved in Israel, property acquisitions by non-residents are surging, especially in Beit Shemesh and Jerusalem

By Shoshanna Solomon
6 December 2024, 10:35 am  https://www.timesofisrael.com/fueled-by-fear-and-fraternity-foreigners-start-buying-up-israeli-homes-just-in-case/

 

Children wave Israeli flags outside of a car as members of the Jewish community gather at Simon Wiesenthal Center on Monday, June 24, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP/Damian Dovarganes)

Children wave Israeli flags outside of a car as members of the Jewish community gather at Simon Wiesenthal Center on Monday, June 24, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP/Damian Dovarganes)

 

Earlier this year, with the country still at war in Gaza and recovering from the shock of the October 7 attack, Marc and Yael Azran bought an apartment in Beit Shemesh, a city of some 175,000 situated in the hill country about 30 kilometers (18.5 miles) west of Jerusalem.

 

The Azrans, who live in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC, closed the deal in March. Since then the family has spent the Passover and Sukkot holidays in their second home, despite the continuing threat of rocket and missile attacks on Israel from Iran-backed groups in Gaza, Lebanon and around the region.

 

Buying a property in Israel was always a dream for the Azrans. Both had spent time in Israel on youth programs as teenagers, and when they married, they lived in Israel for a while. The idea was to someday return, said Marc Azran.

 

The push came after the October 7 events, he said, because the couple felt the need to “be connected” and support Israel, he said. Though they continue to live in the US, they now have a home to visit in Israel, and hope to eventually move there.

 

“I feel like it’s time for the Jewish people to be in Israel, and I want to be part of that destiny, and I want my children to be part of that destiny,” Azran said over the phone as he drove to his job where he works as an anesthesiologist. “I do not feel that there is a bright future for Jews in America and in Europe, in the long term.”

 

According to official figures, the Azrans are just one of hundreds of foreign residents who have snapped up homes in Israel since the start of fighting some 15 months ago. By all appearances, the trend is being driven by Jewish buyers who want to enhance their connection with the Jewish state, and by fears of rising antisemitism around the globe, which outweigh concerns about the threat of war or terrorist violence.

 

Marc Azran, left, Yael Azran, second left, and their three children at their second home in Beit Shemesh in October 2024. (Courtesy: Jeff Kalwerisky.)

Marc Azran, left, Yael Azran, second left, and their three children at their second home in Beit Shemesh in October 2024. (Courtesy: Jeff Kalwerisky.)

Antisemitic incidents have surged around the world since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, in which terrorists from the Gaza Strip invaded and killed some 1,200 people, took 251 hostages and triggered the ongoing war there.

 

According to data published in November by the Finance Ministry, foreign residents in September acquired 254 apartments in Israel, a sharp increase of 119 percent compared to September last year, and the highest level of acquisitions since July 2022, when the market was infused with post-COVID optimism and a lower tax rate.

 

Home purchases by foreigners dropped steeply in October 2023 in the wake of the attack and war, official figures show, but quickly rebounded, reaching pre-war levels by December. They mostly continued to rise throughout the year before the September surge.

 

“After October 7, for one month, there was nothing…. It was dead, nobody was calling,” said Donny Fein, a real estate agent who owns the Elite Israel Realty firm which focuses on the Beit Shemesh area. “It took about three or four weeks, [and then] the phones did not stop ringing.”

 

Donny Fein. (Courtesy: Jared Bernstein)

Donny Fein. (Courtesy: Jared Bernstein)

Fein should know, Beit Shemesh and the larger Jerusalem area are ground zero for the resurgent foreign buyer phenomenon, making up over half the properties purchased by foreigners in September. In Beit Shemesh alone, 87 apartments were purchased by non-residents in September, outstripping even the capital despite being less than a fifth of its size.

 

A Brooklyn native who immigrated to Israel, Fein said some customers had bought homes in Israel without ever visiting them in person. The buyers aren’t necessarily looking for their dream home, but rather to have a safe haven in their back pocket should trouble strike and they need to flee, he said. Until then, the foreign owners generally rent out their units on short-term leases of two years or less, to keep their options open.

 

“They call it the Mashiach clause,” Fein said, making joking reference to the messianic yearning for Israel deeply ingrained in Jewish Orthodox theology. While standard contracts in Israel contain no such clause accounting for the possibility of divine salvation, it’s an idea in the back of many buyers’ minds, according to Fein.

 

Illustrative: Students protest on the street after police close the student plaza during an anti-Israel demonstration over the war in Gaza at the George Washington University in Washington, April 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Illustrative: Students protest on the street after police close the student plaza during an anti-Israel demonstration over the war in Gaza at the George Washington University in Washington, April 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

“They know that they’re not making Aliyah anytime soon, but if they have to, if the Nazis come knocking on the door, they have a place to go,” he said. “This is not 1939 anymore. We have a home in Israel, and we have a place to come to. This is what they say.”

 

Foreign home purchases in Israel are nothing new, and even with the surge in September, levels remain far below their 2005 high, when some 1,400 homes were sold to foreigners in a single fiscal quarter. But many in Israel also see the purchases as a scourge, taking properties off a market where demand already exceeds supply and driving prices higher. Foreign acquisitions in luxury complexes are also often kept as vacation homes rather than being rented out, turning whole buildings in prime locations into dimly lit shells for much of the year.

 

Donny Fein. (Courtesy: Jared Bernstein)

Builders working on the Mamilla luxury apartments, situated across from David’s Village, both considered to be part of Jerusalem’s “ghost apartments.” (photo credit: Rebecca Zeffert/Flash 90)

But since October 7, experts believe the purchases are being fueled by the same antisemitism fears driving immigration to Israel even as war rages.

 

According to data published by the Aliyah and Integration Ministry and the Jewish Agency, some 31,000 new immigrants came to Israel from around the world between September 2023 and September 2024. Most of the immigrants were from Russia, North America, France, Ukraine, Belarus and Britain, the figures show.

 

The city that absorbed the most immigrants was Netanya, followed by Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, Bat Yam, and Ashdod.

 

New immigrants from France arrive on a special “Aliyah Flight” at Ben Gurion Airport in central Israel on August 1, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

New immigrants from France arrive on a special “Aliyah Flight” at Ben Gurion Airport in central Israel on August 1, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

According to the Finance Ministry, foreign purchases of homes in Tel Aviv remain near record-low levels. But Netanel Shuchner, the CEO of real estate firm RMA-ET, said his company has seen a sharp rise in demand from foreign residents for homes in Israel, mainly in Tel Aviv and Ra’anana.

 

Many of the prospective buyers are from the US and France, and Shuchner predicted even more people would also begin looking for homes in Israel following a wave of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel violence that rocked Amsterdam when the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team visited for a match.

 

“Following the recent events in Amsterdam I expect we will see a further rise in demand,” said Shuchner, who is also a lecturer in economics and real estate valuations at the College of Management Academic Studies.

 

Netanel Shuchner. (Courtesy: Amit Moser)

Netanel Shuchner. (Courtesy: Amit Moser)

A Times of Israel report on November 28 pointed to “unprecedented” interest in immigration to Israel among Dutch Jews following the attacks on Israeli fans and others.

 

David, a Jewish lawyer who lives in West Hempstead, New York, with his family, also acquired a home in Beit Shemesh some six months ago.

 

The house is rented for two years, and the idea is to eventually use it as a vacation home, said David, who asked that his real name not be used because of privacy concerns.

 

“We are not moving yet,” he added, though it could happen in a couple of years.

 

The timing of the acquisition was related to the outbreak of the war, David said, although the family had been planning to buy something in Israel for a long time.

 

A construction site in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh on September 5, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

A construction site in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh on September 5, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

“The war made us feel like it’s time to buy something,” he said by phone. While rising antisemitism in the US was not a driving factor, he admitted it may have played a role as he and his wife decided on the purchase. “It is not a conscious thing, but it definitely was in the back of our minds.”

 

Whatever the pull, it is strong enough to motivate buyers to pay above-market prices in order to have a home in Israel rather than anywhere else, Fein noted. He called it an “emotional premium.”

 

“People always said to me it’s not safe in Israel, but I always said at least in Israel we know who your enemies are,” he said. “In America, you could be walking down some random street and some crazy guy who hates Jews can literally just knock you out.”

 

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I asked Grok to draw picture of Zionist Twitter and a pro-palestine Twitter


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I asked Grok to draw a picture of Zionist Twitter
I asked Grok to draw a picture of pro-palestine Twitter

Caт Вee-tweet-9December2024-I asked Grok to draw a picture of Zionist Twitter and a pro-palestine Twitter

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You made us into the people you now resent.

Unknown Author 15April2025
https://www.israpundit.org/you-made-us-into-the-people-you-now-resent/

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You say we run the banks. You say we run Hollywood. You say we control the media. You say we have too much influence, too much power, too much pride.

 

But you never ask why.

 

So let me tell you.

 

We were banned from owning land, so we learned to make a living with our minds. While others built legacies on soil and serfdom, we built ours in scholarship and study. We became merchants, financiers, physicians, and philosophers — not because we craved gold, but because the ground was never ours to till.

 

We were denied entry into universities, so we opened our own schools and studied twice as hard. Our emphasis on education didn’t arise from privilege; it arose from exclusion.

 

In the shtetls of Eastern Europe and the ghettos of Western Europe, the Torah was our textbook, and Talmudic reasoning became our discipline. When others mocked us for being bookish, we turned the insult into armor.

 

You pushed us into ghettos and restricted us from guilds and professions. So we turned to what was left: entertainment, garment work, trade, and storytelling. In America, barred from many “respectable” jobs, we went west and helped invent Hollywood — not to brainwash, but to dream. To create magic from nothing. To tell our stories because no one else would.

 

You say we run the banks, but we never asked for that job either. In medieval Europe, the Church banned Christians from lending money with interest, calling it a sin — usury.

 

But kings and nobles still needed loans, and someone had to do the collecting. So they turned to the Jews, already considered impure, already despised. Tax collection, moneylending, and finance were viewed as “dirty work,” so who better to assign it to than the “dirty” Jew?

 

And so we became moneylenders not by ambition, but by force. We were squeezed for every coin we could collect, and then, when the debts mounted or the crown no longer needed us, we were expelled, or worse.

 

Our financial roles were used as justification for persecution, pogroms, and blood libels. Yet we survived. We learned. We built an understanding of money because we had no other choice. And centuries later, you turned around and said, “Look how greedy they are!”

 

You say we stole the land from others — but you forget where we came from. Jews lived across the Arab and Muslim world for centuries — not as equals, but as dhimmis. Second-class citizens. Tolerated, not accepted. Protected, but humiliated.

 

We had to pay special taxes just to exist. We weren’t allowed to build homes taller than those of our Muslim neighbors. We had to step aside in the streets, lower our gaze, and never, ever forget our place.

 

Sometimes we were left in peace. Other times, our synagogues were torched, our women assaulted, our children taken, our lives uprooted. And when the State of Israel was born, nearly a million Jews were expelled or forced to flee from Arab lands — stripped of their property, their citizenship, and their dignity.

 

From Baghdad to Cairo, from Tripoli to Damascus, Jewish communities that had lasted for millennia vanished almost overnight. No United Nations agency was created for those Jewish refugees. No global “right of return” was demanded. We didn’t hang our trauma like a weapon; we used it to build.

 

Many of the Mizrahi Jews you see in Israel today are the grandchildren of those who lost everything — but finally found something greater: a home that would fight for them.

 

You say we’re tribal. But you forget that we tried to integrate. We tried to blend in. We changed our names, straightened our curls, even abandoned our faith.

 

But no matter how much we tried, you reminded us we were Jews. So we turned inward and leaned on each other. We built communities where we were locked out. Synagogues where we were barred from churches. Hospitals when we weren’t welcome in yours. Organizations to defend ourselves when no one else would.

 

You say we’re too successful. But success was our only security. When pogroms came, we needed money to flee. When quotas blocked our children, we needed influence to open doors. When no nation would have us, we built our own — Israel — so we’d never again rely on the mercy of foreign powers.

 

We are accused of dual loyalty, but loyalty to what? To a world that burned us or stood by while we burned? Our loyalty is to each other because history taught us that no one else would be.

 

You hate that Israel exists. Not because of its policies. Not because of land. You hated us before 1948, before a single border was drawn. What you hate is that the Jew now has power. A standing army. A government. A home. You preferred us weak, wandering, dependent on your pity — or your permission to live. Israel is the ultimate Jewish response to 2,000 years of homelessness, humiliation, and massacre.

 

You hate that we don’t ask permission anymore. That we don’t wait for the world’s sympathy to defend ourselves. You hate that we build, we innovate, we revive ancient languages and make deserts bloom. You hate that Jewish self-determination is real, and thriving, and permanent.

 

And here’s what scares you the most: Israel is not a reaction to the Holocaust; it is the insurance policy against the next one. It is the place where “Never Again” isn’t just a slogan; it’s a security doctrine. It’s F-16s, Iron Dome, and boys and girls in olive green who won’t go quietly.

 

You hate that Israel exists because it means the Jew is no longer at your mercy, and you hate that Israel is strong. But what did you expect? That the people you scattered, ghettoized, and slaughtered would build a weak country? That a nation born from Holocaust ashes would vow “Never Again” — and not mean it?

 

You hate that Zionism has been the most successful decolonization project, perhaps ever. While nations all over the world were casting off foreign rule, one ancient people did the impossible: We returned home after 2,000 years in exile. Not to conquer someone else’s land, but to reclaim our own.

 

Zionism was never about imperialism; it was about ending the longest colonization in history, the displacement of Jews from their indigenous homeland. We are indigenous to the Land of Israel. Our language was born there. Our prophets walked there. Our ancestors prayed there facing Jerusalem, not Paris, not Warsaw.

 

We didn’t “colonize” the land; we revived it. We built a state not on conquest, but on return. And we did it while surrounded by enemies, embargoed by the world, and mourning our murdered millions.

 

You celebrate decolonization — until the Jew does it. You want every people to rise — except us.

 

And then came October 7th. You showed us, again, exactly why we need Israel. You showed us what happens when Jews are vulnerable. What happens when we let our guard down. What happens when we believe that hatred has an expiration date.

 

On October 7th, the mask fell. Hamas didn’t target soldiers. They targeted babies. Grandmothers. Festival-goers. Peace activists. Holocaust survivors.

 

They raped, mutilated, burned, and broadcasted it to the world. And while we searched for our kidnapped children and buried our dead, the world gathered to chant, not against terror — but against us.

 

You held up signs that said, “By any means necessary.” You justified the slaughter with words like “resistance.” You turned our grief into your celebration.

 

October 7th wasn’t just a massacre; it was a revelation. It reminded us that no amount of assimilation, no level of success, no Nobel Prizes, no peace treaties, and no hashtags will protect us if we cannot protect ourselves.

 

We now live in a post- October 7th world. A world where Jews are done apologizing. Done seeking your approval. Done believing that if we just explain ourselves better, you’ll stop hating us.

 

We now know, without a doubt, that the world’s memory is short, but ours is long.

 

We are a people who carry both trauma and tenacity. We are the children of refugees who became warriors. The descendants of Holocaust survivors who became state-builders. The grandchildren of exiles who came home.

 

You tried to destroy us on October 7th. Instead, you reminded us who we are.

 

Here’s the irony you refuse to see: It was your hatred that made us this way. You forced us out of your professions, so we mastered the ones you didn’t want. You shut us out of your elite institutions, so we built better ones. You isolated us, so we built our own networks. You called us weak, so we became strong. You wanted us poor and powerless — and in trying to keep us there, you gave us every reason to rise.

 

Antisemitism didn’t stop Jewish success. It caused it. You wanted us out of your world. We built a new one. And now you complain it’s thriving.

 

So yes, we are proud. Yes, we are successful. Yes, we are influential. But none of it came easy. Every Jewish triumph stands atop centuries of exile, scapegoating, genocide, and resilience. We became strong because you gave us no other choice.

 

You made us into the people you now resent.

 

And we’re not sorry

 

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