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Steep Rise in Number of Anti-Semitic Attacks Across Holland


Society & Culture  (tags: world, anti-Semitism, terrorism, violence, humanrights, safety, rights )

Cal
- 304 days ago - haaretz.com
Since Israel began Operation Cast Lead on December 27, the Dutch Jewish community has recorded six violent incidents against Jewish institutions and buildings.
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Lindsey O. (209)
Friday February 6, 2009, 10:02 am
And naturally the perpetrators are choosing to blame "the Jews", wherever those despicable Jewish people may happen to be, for the actions of a nation in the Middle East.

So what else is new?
 

catherine g. (119)
Sunday February 8, 2009, 12:45 pm
aren't people supposed to be smarter than this? what hope do we have to address all the pressing environmental and extinction issues if we can't even stop this kind of behavior? ~
 

Laura Hovland (132)
Monday February 9, 2009, 9:54 am
"Say Zionists, not Jews. Reset the equation."

When Zionists dismiss all criticism of their actions antisemitism, they bring their crimes to bare on all Jewish people. Sad, and in a way, quite sickening. We activists sometimes inadvertently lend power to this technique, by speaking of expanding settlements, for example, as Jewish, or as being perpetrated by Jews. This is not exactly true, but the Zionists need the distinction between Zionism and Judaism to be left unmade. Without that distinction being widely used and understood, they are able to deflect and dismiss all criticism as antisemitism.
By addressing and exposing the difference we can undermine the Zionist propaganda which groups all Jewish peoples together, and exposes the good people to such spite. Each day, more Jewish people, in Israel and abroad, are coming forward and speaking up for peace, and speaking out against the violent actions of Israel and the Zionists. This is often very difficult for them. Please speak well of them, and lend them power by sharing their words, and/or sharing your own story.
 

Linda B. (57)
Monday February 9, 2009, 1:32 pm
Nazis and skinheads are on the rise in the EU. We also have way too many in the US. Scary.
 

Locan Sleeping-Squirrel (89)
Monday February 9, 2009, 8:22 pm
Sadly not as many as there will be, Linda.
 

CHRISTIAN RYAN (13)
Monday February 9, 2009, 9:10 pm
THE HARD CORE JEWS OR ZIONISTSA NEED TO ALSO STOP THEIR AGGRESSION ON THE PALESTINIANS THIS IS A 2 WAY STREET THEY ELECTED A NEW PRIME MINISTER IN ISRAEL I HOPE THINGS GET BETTER
 

Ray P. (6)
Tuesday February 10, 2009, 1:15 am
I HEARD THE NEW PRIME MINISTERS ARE THREATHENING TO INCREASE THE WAR AGAINST GAZA. THEY ALSO HAVE INTENTION OF ATTACKING IRAN WITH AMERICAS HELP AND EVEN PREPARED TO GO IT ALONE IF AMERICA IS UNWILLING. ONLY GOD CAN NOW HELP THE PEOPLE BECAUSE IT SEEMS ISRAELS INTENTION IS TO RULE THE ENTIRE WORLD VERY SOON.
 

Cal Mendelsohn (443)
Tuesday February 10, 2009, 1:59 am
Hard economic times have always spurred anti-Semitism amongst those carefully taught to embrace it. It's hard to know how much the situation in Gaza inspires it vs. it just being another excuse to bash the Jews. Be Careful on putting forth arguments that one injustice makes the other tolerable--it doesn't and if you think both are wrong, don't excuse one because of the other!
 

Lindsey O. (209)
Tuesday February 10, 2009, 6:30 am
Ray, I hardly think that Israel has any grandiose dreams of ruling or conquering the entire world. That would be a practical impossibility in any case - and any nation in this day and age knows that.

I assume you have some credible evidence of that claim and it would be interesting to see links to specific statements made by Israeli politicians stating that they wish to rule the world. Care to post those links here?
 

Ray P. (6)
Wednesday February 11, 2009, 6:19 am
LINDSEY O. YOU ONLY HAVE TO LOOK AT THEIR DEEDS TO KNOW WHAT THE REAL AGENDA OF THE ISRAELI POLITICIANS ARE. THE FACT THAT THEY TALK ABOUT ATTACKING IRAN ON THEIR OWN IF USA IS NOT PREPARED TO JOIN THEM JUST SHOWS WHAT WAR-MONGERS THEY ARE AND THEIR ARROGANCE NOW THINKING THEY ARE THE NEW SUPERPOWER OF THE WORLD AND THEREFORE DO WATEVER THEY WANT. BREAKING SO MANY UN LAWS ALSO SHOWS YOU THEIR BLATANT DISREGARD FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW. SO WHERE DO YOU THINK THEY ARE HEADING NEXT IF NOT TO WORLD DOMINATION.
 

Lindsey O. (209)
Wednesday February 11, 2009, 6:54 am
How can they be "headed" towards world domination if they aren't capable of conquering the world?

Iraq also attacked Iran unilaterally under Saddam. And it attacked Kuwait under Saddam. And it broke a truly horrendous number of U.N. laws. Did that mean that Iraq wanted "world domination"?
 

Leigh B. (178)
Wednesday February 11, 2009, 9:39 am
Isreal has every right to defend theirselves. Hamas started it with their rocket attacks. This terrorist group should never have been voted into power. What about the war on terror. Doesn't it include Hamas?
 

Lili O. (15)
Wednesday February 11, 2009, 6:05 pm
Israel is the agressor not the victim.
Israel has beem committing ethnic cleansing and slow genocide for 60 years.
To say israel is DEFENDING ITSELF, is just plain funny.
So..the fourth strongest nation in the world with nukes and sofisticated military arsenal, is DEFENDING itself against home make piddly rockets?????
The Palestinians are occupied and therefore the Israelis have to look after them as they are the occupiers. In the meantime Israelis are stealing their land. When the Palestinians object eg rocket on the settlers who are on their land [a pin prick] , the Israelis respond with an attack with full arsenal eg. bombing etc, [=cutting heads off ].
I ask you this question. If your neighbour, took your house and threw you into an open field next door, would you throw stones over the fence?
What about if they responded to this [in self defence of course] with machine gun fire and wiped out your kids, and your wounded husband could not get to hospital because they fired at the ambulance and killed the driver? What do you think of this concept of self defence???
This in a nut shell is the problem. But you watch the news controlled by zionist bosses and it is put in such a way, that it is in fact propaganda, and you become brainwashed. You can't recognise the truth anymore !!!
Walk in the Palestinian shoes and try to empathise, what would you do???
 

Lindsey O. (209)
Wednesday February 11, 2009, 6:14 pm
Suicide bombings and rocket fire are not "pinpricks". They kill people. Lots of people, including innocent civilians.

Whatever one may feel about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, don't insult the memory of the dead by calling their deaths mere "pinpricks".

Take a look at the faces and the names of just some of those children whose lives are deemed to be of so little importance:

http://www.zionism-israel.com/vic/123_israeli_kids_killed.htm
 

Ray P. (6)
Thursday February 12, 2009, 6:16 am
LEIGH B STOP BEING SO IGNORANT. RESEARCH THE TRUE SITUATION OF WHAT IS HAPPENING. STOP BELIEVING ALL THE LIES YOU HEAR ON CNN AND BBC. TYPE IN ASTROCITIES PERPETRATED BY ISRAEL IN GAZA AND YOU WILL PERHAPS BECOME MORE KNOWLEDGABLE ABOUT THE REALITY OF THIS WAR.
 

David R. (23)
Thursday February 12, 2009, 5:41 pm
Israel + Gaza= 1,000 BTW that number can be way high
Jordan + Black September= 10,000 Dead Palestinians
Syria + Hamas, (Massacre of the City) = 20,000 Dead Islamic Syrians
Iran + Iraq = 1,000,000 + Dead
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Who is committing mass murder?

 

Past Member (0)
Thursday February 19, 2009, 10:40 am
Sad to mention, but breaking windows in synagoges happened before, during and likely will happen after operation in Gaza. Interesting, that it made it into news...
 

Past Member (0)
Thursday February 19, 2009, 10:44 am
Just wondering, why burning all monasteries in Kosovo after it was taken by albanians did not make it into news?
 
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