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Mehmet Sahin, a Dutch Muslim doctoral student, exposes the Jew hatred of Dutch-Turkish Muslim youth

 

Mehmet Sahin, a Dutch Muslim doctoral student, interviewed four Dutch-Turkish youths from the town of Arnhem on February 17, 2013 for Nederlands TV2. While the youngsters were aware of the fate of Anne Frank, it did not deter these teens from expressing their outright hatred of Jews over and over again, and open admiration of Hitler, insisting that everyone at their school harbored similar views.

Paul Goldenberg is the key person in the development of defense principles for American Jewry

 

Paul Goldenberg was instrumental in the design and development of the Secure Community Network (SCN) and currently serves as its National Director. SCN monitors activities possibly dangerous to American Jewry and also trains Jewish community members in ways to keep themselves and their facilities safe.

“SCAN acts as the homeland security effort for the organized Jewish communities,” Goldenberg said. It partners with local, state, and federal officials to prepare for lone shooters, explosive devices, and even natural disasters.

Hanne Nabintu Herland denounces the high level of anti-Semitism in Norway

 

Hanne Nabintu Herland, a historian of religion, bestselling author and self-described “social pundit,” accused Norway of being “the most anti-Semitic country in the West” and attacked the government in Oslo for “biased support for only the Palestinian views.”

Mats Green, Chairman of Jönköping Municipal Executive Board, has campaigned against the sale of anti-Israel propaganda at a municipal cultural center

 

Mats Green has been the driving force in the effort to oust Bokcafét, a shop operating inside a city-owned cultural center in Jönköping, Sweden. Bokcafét is a socialist initiative according to its website selling "books and other revolutionary materials." Bokcafét also sells T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan “Burn, Israel, burn.” The shirts sell for about $40.

Philippe Karsenty and his fight against the Muhammad al-Dura falsehood

 

Philippe Karsenty has been campaigning for more than twelve years to prove that a broadcast by France 2 about the “death” of Mohammad al-Dura was not what it seemed and may even have been staged by the Palestinians. Mohammed al-Durra, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy was allegedly killed by Israeli bullets during a confrontation between the Israeli army and Palestinian armed elements.

Tahir Aslam Gora founded the “Canadian Thinkers’ Forum” (CTF) and the “Muslim Committee against anti-Semitism” as a means to curb Anti-Semitism in Islamic Centers of Canada

 

Tahir Aslam Gora, a secular Canadian Muslim writer and journalist, founded the Canadian Thinkers’ Forum (CTF) as a Toronto base Think Tank. Gora is determined to curb Anti-Semitism in Islamic Centers of Canada with the help of over one hundred secular progressive Muslims and partner Muslim and Non-Muslim organizations and individuals.

Melanie Roloff named a 2012 “Mover and Shaker” for fighting school anti-Semitism

 

Melanie Roloff is in seventh grade but she is no stranger to anti-Semitic bullying. In fourth grade, she was harassed so badly by classmates that she was forced to change schools. Three years later, the Stamford Connecticut teen whose mother is Israeli and has grandparents living in Sderot Israel is being trained to help facilitate workshops for “Confronting Anti-Semitism” (CAS), a program of the Anti-Defamation League’s Connecticut Regional Office.

Roloff was named among the Movers and Shakers of 2012, an annual honor bestowed by the Connecticut Jewish Ledger that highlights top Jewish leaders from across the state. Melanie Roloff was one of 14 Teen Trainers in the Connecticut Anti-Defamation League’s Confronting Anti-Semitism (CAS) program to be honored. “These are truly special kids doing very important work very well,” said Gary Jones, ADL’s Connecticut regional director.

Melanie Goldberg chooses to follow the Jabotinsky credo and fight rather than hide at a Brooklyn College BDS event

 

A panel on the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel (BDS) was hosted at Brooklyn College on February 7, 2013. The BDS movement views Israel’s very existence as a Jewish state as illegitimate. Activists call for undermining Israel -- and the Jewish State alone -- by boycotting its commerce, disinvesting from its economy, boycotting Jewish-Israeli academics, and imposing sanctions against the Jewish state.

Chloe' Simone Valdary organized “Allies of Israel” on the campus of the University of New Orleans in order to fight hatred against Jews and Israel

 

Chloe' Simone Valdary is a Christian African-American student who is a sophomore studying international relations at the University of New Orleans. She has just organized a pro-Israel student group on her campus called “Allies of Israel.” While the group currently has just nine members, there are about 200 followers on Facebook. They held their opening event on Jan. 28, 2013 called “Declare Your Freedom” which was a “pro-Israel, pro-America” activity.

Muslim Youngster Fights Anti-Semitism in Sweden

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

Arno Klarsfeld is threatened by Islamists because of his strong support of Israel in France

 

Arno Klarsfeld, lawyer, and son of famed Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, expressed his solidarity with Israel during a rally outside the Israeli embassy on November 20, 2012 in the wake of Operation Pillar of Defense. His speech invoked the wrath of French Islamists who threatened to kill him.

Germany Fights to Ban Hate-Filled Fascist Party

Politicians seek to ban the largest far-right Nazi-like party in Germany, Reuters reported late last week.

Interior ministers from each of the 16 provinces in Germany agreed to recommend a ban of the National Democratic Party (NPD), which "incites violence, promotes hate, and aggressively pushes an anti-democratic agenda

Hungarians Demonstrate against Neo-Nazism

Jewish and civic groups in Hungary organized 10,000 demonstrators on Sunday to protest the Nazi-like call to screen and register all Jewish citizens of the country, the Times of Israel reported.

Kasim Hafeez: From Radical Islamist to Proud Zionist

"It is not easy, and that’s what makes it so necessary."


If a child grows up in a community ingrained in the belief that Jews are evil and trying to control the world, what will he believe as an adult?  If that same child grows up in a community that uses the word "Jew" as an insult, how will that child act as an adult?  If that exact same child grows up learning that it is his duty to destroy the Jewish people and Jewish state, what will that child do as an adult?

Father Patrick Desbois is a Catholic priest who has devoted his life to uncovering mass gravesites in Eastern Europe where Jews were killed during the Holocaust

Father Patrick Desbois joined leaders in the French-Catholic and Jewish community in 2004 in founding Yahad-In Unum ("together" in Latin and in Hebrew). Its largest and most ambitious initiative is to locate the sites of mass graves of Jewish victims of the Nazi mobile killing units,

UK Jewish Academic Exposes Anti-Semitic College Union in Court

A Jewish academic in the UK fought the anti-Semitic actions of the University and College Union (UCU) in court on Oct. 31.

Eitan Ori Behar, the Director of the Center for Diaspora Communications & Countering anti-Semitism, works to combat anti-Semitism on the internet

 

Eitan Ori Behar is combating anti-Semitic hatred in his position as director of the Center for Diaspora Communications & Countering anti-Semitism, which is a part of the World Zionist Organization. He has recruited numerous volunteers dedicated to monitoring Anti-Semitic acts and statements and exposing them on the Center’s multilingual website.

Ugandan Umar Mulinde is a fighter against hatred who was given medical treatment in Israel as a victim of Islamic terror

 

Ugandan Umar Mulinde is a convert to Christianity from Islam. He became a pastor and has a thriving congregation at the 1,000-member Gospel Life Church International in Namasuba, 10 kilometres from Kampala Uganda. He has campaigned against the Islamization of Uganda and expressed a love for Israel that has led him to organize various pro-Israel activities.

Islamic extremists threw acid at him in front of his church on Christmas Eve 2011. He received burns that cover about 30 percent of his face and cost him sight in one eye. He is presently being treated at Sheba Hospital in Israel as a victim of terror.

Jamie Rich proposes a “broken windows” concept for fighting anti-Semitic hatred and echoes Ze'ev Jabotinsky’s call for Jews to reject being passive victims

 

Jamie Rich writing in The Independent on Sept. 24, 2012 proposed that anti-Semitic comments about Jews should be immediately rebuffed. Her words can be said to bring the “broken windows theory” of law enforcement into the fight against anti-Semitism. Rich advises that comments like "very Jewish" shouldn't be part of everyday rhetoric; it's our duty to bring people up on it. It's not acceptable to let slide Anti-Semitism remarks among friends.

Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski stands largely alone in combating Anti-Semitism in Poland

 

Poland has a history of shrugging off anti-Semitic incidents. There have been dozens of cases in recent years where complaints were not investigated by police, purportedly because the perpetrators were not identified or the damage was minor.

Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, however, is the exception. He has brought legal action against anti-Semitism on internet websites and spoken out against desecration of holocaust memorials. He managed to get a doctor from the town of Zezhov dismissed from her job for refusing to treat Jewish patients.

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