The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), the British Labour Party, and antisemitism

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THIS IS AN IMPORTANT video because Quakers, who are most definitely NOT antisemitic, have rightly criticized the Israeli State over many years for its policies and often lethal actions against Palestinians. 

Quakers do NOT condone violence whether from the Palestinians or Israelis. This debate, current in the UK, will most certainly come to Australia's shores. We need to be prepared for it, especially those Friends who have visited the Holy Land in whatever capacity. 

To conflate antisemitism with a justified concern about the violence directed towards Palestinians (on many levels) is not only immoral but is supportive of that violence, and thus a serious violation of the spirit of our Peace Testimony.

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21 August at 03:50

The Labour Party is under pressure to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism with all eleven of its 'illustrative examples'. Many people, including the original author of the examples, have serious concerns about it being used in this way.

Watch the video for six key facts in the debate that you might not know.

#BackNECcode Labour members can email the NEC here: https://grassrootsforjeremy.good.do/Defen…/DefendFreeSpeech/

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)

https://www.transcend.org/tms/2018/08/u-s-to-cut-200m-aid-to-gaza-and-west-bank/

Polish bishops condemn anti-Semitism

Polish bishops condemn new wave of anti-Semitism

• Catholic News Service
  Mar 16, 2018
   

 

Hundreds of Poles gathered to express their solidarity with Jews who perished in the Holocaust, were expelled from Poland 50 years ago or feel the effects of anti-Semitism today, in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, March 11, 2018. The speakers at the demonstration also denounced the policies of the current Polish government which have led to a dispute with Israel and sparked a wave of anti-Semitic rhetoric. (Credit: Czarek Sokolowski/AP.)

Oops, NRA. Your Anti-Semitism is showing in the land of the free and the home of the brave

America's NRA (National Rifle Association) and Anti-Semitism.

Go to here to read of the hysterics of the NRA

in the wake of the killings at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School,

in Parkland, Florida in the USA.

Charlottesville, Anti-Semitism, Israel, the BDS Movement, and the Jewish Voice for Peace

The video below comes from the Facebook site of Jewish Voice for Peace. 

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Judith Butler takes on Richard Spencer and white supremacist support for Israel while unraveling the dangerous mislabeling of BDS activism as antisemitic

"If the sign of antisemitism, the proof of antisemitism is a willingness to be critical of the State of Israel, then the historical and contemporary meaning of antisemitism has become highly reduced in the service of defending the State of Israel."

Judith Butler (UC Berkeley professor and JVP advisor)

The website of Jewish Voice for Peace is here.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement

(also known as BDS and the BDS Movement)

Charlottesville attack: What, where, and who?
Read about Israel's secret blacklists of BDS supporters here

JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE : BDS & antisemitism - Live on Facebook

The evils of religious hate and Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp media

Jeff Sparrow writes in the latest Overland magazine of not only anti-Islam feelings in Australia but anti-semitism.  It focusses on the involvement of people connected to Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp including former Leader of the Labor Party in Opposition, Mark Latham. Read more here.  

It is sad and evil that prejudice and hate are given such currency in Australia.  The only positive thing that can be said is that we know who they are and where they are and what they think.

Anti-semitism on the rise in Europe?

A scene from The Death of Klinghoffer … 

The New York Met has cancelled its global telecast of the opera.

 Photograph: Tristram Kenton

The New York Met this week cancelled its planned global telecast of John Adams's The Death of Klinghoffer, the opera that portrays the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship by the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1985. While emphasising that the work itself is not antisemitic, the Met's general manager, Peter Gelb, said that he recognised concerns among Jews "at this time of rising antisemitism, particularly in Europe". Regardless of one's view of either the opera or the Met's decision, Gelb is unfortunately spot on about Europe.

A survey of global attitudes towards Jews conducted by the Anti-Defamation League recently found that 24% of people in western Europe (37% in France, 29% in Spain, 27% in Germany, 69% in Greece) and 34% in eastern Europe (41% in Hungary, 45% in Poland, 38% in Ukraine) harboured antisemitic views. By this it meant they agreed with six or more classical stereotypes about Jews from a list of 11 including "Jews have too much control over the US government", "Jews are responsible for most of the world's wars", and "People hate Jews because of the way Jews behave".

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