April 10, 2018

GI Jews Didnt Just Fight Nazis They Battled Anti-Semitism In The Ranks Too

GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II” begins as many Holocaust documentaries do, with a history of the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany mixed with what is now standard archival footage of Brownshirts and Kristallnacht. Throw in interviews with some Jewish celebrities — in this case, Carl Reiner and his friend Mel Brooks wearing his old Army jacket — and it has all the workings of a typical PBS documentary.

But the film, which premieres April 11, on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, quickly takes an unexpected turn. Jewish-American soldiers, the viewer learns, weren’t only fighting Nazis during the war — they had to battle the anti-Semitic prejudice of many of their fellow soldiers.

All told, some 550,000 Jews served in World War II. A few had experienced anti-Semitism at home already in the form of “Gentiles Only” signs, for example, which were found at some public facilities across the country.

Mimi Rivkin, one of the 10,000 Jewish women who enlisted, a future member of the Women’s Army Corps, recalled a more personal incident in public school: “Suddenly kids weren’t playing with me. I asked one why and she said, ‘The teacher told us you’re a Jew and we’re not supposed to play with you.’”


more

April 10, 2018

Republican candidate for Oregon Legislature frequently disparages Jews and Muslims on social media

Joshua Powell, a Republican candidate for an open Eugene-area statehouse seat, frequently makes vitrolic and expletive-filled anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim posts on social media.

“New York Times called the Bundy ranch people trying to spin the narrative ... (expletive) Jews!” Powell wrote on Facebook last October during the trial for the 2014 Bundy standoff in Nevada. “A new (expletive) low by the Jew York Times.”

“Saw more Muslims in Eugene,” Powell wrote a month earlier. “ISIS right under our noses.”

“Washington (state) is crawling with Muslim rats,” he wrote in another post last fall.

---snip---

“We’ve never had Muslims here in Oregon, ever, until now,” he said. “Jewish liberals are opening up the borders, and innocent bystanders are subjected to this aggressive agenda. And then they wonder why there’s anti-Semitism.”

more...

April 3, 2018

Nazis destroyed this Berlin synagogue. A Muslim politician and a Jewish leader want to rebuild it.

Along a narrow canal in one of Berlin’s largest Turkish and Muslim neighborhoods sits a synagogue’s ghost — the site of a worship hall that was largely destroyed by the Nazis on the November night in 1938 known as Kristallnacht.

Eighty years later, a Palestinian-born German politician and the leader of Berlin’s Jewish community stood together on a recent morning outside the vanished building’s single remaining wing and outlined a plan to give the ghost new life.

If they can raise the funds, the two hope to completely rebuild the Fraenkelufer synagogue as a house of worship and neighborhood meeting place for people of all faiths and none. The aim, they said, is to send a message of comity and reassurance at a time when rising Islamophobia and fears of a new wave of ­anti-Semitism in Germany are deepening social mistrust.

---snip---

“I wouldn’t be a good Muslim if I didn’t champion Jewish life in my home city, Berlin,” he said. “And a Christian wouldn’t be a good Christian, either, if he didn’t intervene when a woman’s hijab is being torn from her head.”

?


more...

April 2, 2018

(Jewish Group) Long-lost film that predicted rise of anti-Semitism has ominous message for todays w

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

Long-lost film that predicted rise of anti-Semitism has ominous message for today’s world

BERLIN — In Europe, anti-Semitism once again dominated this week’s news agenda.

On Monday, thousands marched in London against what they perceive to be blatant anti-Semitism in Britain’s mainstream Labour Party. The same day, the Paris prosecutor’s office said that it was investigating whether anti-Semitism was a motivation for the killing of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor last week. Anti-Semitic incidents in schools triggered a quest to find solutions all week in Germany. And in Poland, a renowned anti-racism activist was branded a traitor after speaking out against the nation's controversial anti-defamation law concerning Holocaust complicity.

It’s against this backdrop that producers of a newly restored 1924 Austrian movie want their work to be seen.

Austria’s national film archive has worked for over a year to carefully restore “The City Without Jews,” a pre-World War II silent film that served as a warning against the scapegoating of Jews at the time. The film — which sparked furious reactions in the mid-1920s — was believed to have been lost until a copy was discovered in a Paris flea market in 2015.

The film describes a fictional city in the 1920s, troubled by rising unemployment and poverty, and where resentments against Jews is mounting as people increasingly blame them for the city’s woes. After a national law is passed to force all Jews to leave the country, residents celebrate — only to soon realize that they are worse off than before. The law is eventually reversed.

more...

--------

If you are craving some real-time anti-Semitism, simply scroll though the comment section. The first thing most of the Jew-haters bring up...Israel, usually a good predictor of an anti-Semite in a discussion about anti-Semitism.