Idiots Learning Harsh Lessons For Their Antisemitic Hate

gwb-trading · Jan 8, 2025

gwb-trading · Jan 9, 2025

Welcome to Norway... where the Muslim invaders are kicking Jews out of stores.

Norwegian teen kicked out of convenience store 'for being a Jew' - interview
The clerk allegedly responded by calling Elpeleg a “child murderer” and told him he was no longer allowed in the store.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-836884

Good1 · Jan 14, 2025

gwb-trading said:
Those spreading antisemitism are just pushing Russia's propaganda playbook.

As antisemitism spikes across Europe, more fingers are pointing at Russia
https://www.jta.org/2023/11/27/glob...ss-europe-more-fingers-are-pointing-at-russia

When Stars of David began appearing on Jewish homes and institutions in Paris’ 10th arrondissement late last month, as well as on a Jewish woman’s home in Berlin, many were quick to bring up comparisons to the Nazi era.

But French authorities pointed to a surprising culprit: Russia.

According to French authorities, the pictures of the Stars of David first began to spread via a Russian-run news site called Recent Reliable News (RRN) before being found by others online. Shortly after the incident went viral, VIGINUM, France’s intelligence unit devoted to tracking foreign digital interference, recorded more than 1,000 bots making over 2,500 posts related to the incident on X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter.

RRN, seemingly a news aggregator, was revealed in June to be part of a network of web domains used by Russian hackers for a disinformation operation targeted at Western Europe known as “Doppelganger.” RRN and sites like it were used to mimic major news outlets and even government sites, sharing information with a clearly pro-Russia slant.

“VIGINUM has a high degree of confidence that these bots are affiliated to the RRN network, given that one of their main activities consists in redirecting people to RRN websites,” France’s foreign ministry said in a press release earlier this month. “France strongly condemns the involvement of the Russian network Recent Reliable News (RRN/Doppelgänger) in the artificial spreading and initial distribution on social media of photos of graffiti representing Stars of David in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.”

As antisemitism has spiked in Europe in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, multiple investigations have pointed to Russian involvement in stoking an already tense situation. While motives remain unclear, experts have noted that fomenting already brewing divisions and chaos in the West has been a tradition of Russia’s security services since the Cold War.

French investigators noted that their probe is ongoing, and they still have yet to confirm if the vandalism was the work of Russian state-backed actors. But they revealed that two suspects arrested in connection with the graffiti were Moldovan nationals who allegedly painted the stars on the orders of an unknown individual whom they communicated with by phone in Russian. (While Moldova’s national language is Romanian, like many other former Soviet republics, Russian has remained a first language for many of its citizens.)

As more details about the vandalism emerged, more questions were raised. For one, not all of the stars were sprayed on Jewish buildings. Second, the style of the stars — from an elegant stencil, in a deep blue color reminiscent of the Israeli flag — seemed out of place for an antisemitic incident.

While the details remain murky, Nina Jankowicz, the U.S vice president of the Centre for Information Resilience and an expert on disinformation, said the episode tracks with Russia’s modus operandi.

“This definitely seems like it could fit the bill of the types of provocation that Russia has been known to be behind in the past,” Jankowicz told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “Russia uses these pre-existing fissures in society to drive further polarization or drive issues that are hot button issues in society, generally, without regard for, for the context.”

Such moves have been part and parcel of Russia’s foreign policy for decades and a key feature of its so-called “hybrid war” since its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

“Driving polarization in Western societies is really an easy way to have wins for Russia,” Jankowicz said.

That hasn’t been restricted to amplifying divisive topics in the digital sphere. During the 2016 U.S. elections, dueling protests unfolded on the streets of Houston, Texas, both for and against a local Islamic center. What neither side fully knew at the time was that both protests were spawned by Facebook groups made by operatives in Moscow.

“I think we’d like to think that at this point, Russia is just doing stuff on the internet and then poisoning dissidents every so often. But these sorts of on-the-ground operations — which sometimes aren’t carried out in the most perfect way — are 100% the sort of thing that they’ve done in the past, and that they continue to do even after the U.S. election in 2016,” Jankowicz said.

Jankowicz noted that Russia is an equal opportunity inciter, switching from causes on the right to left at will, and the country is no stranger to using antisemitism as a weapon. In fact, it’s a trick cribbed straight from the Soviet Union playbook.

“During the Soviet period, especially in places like Germany, Russia, would very deliberately deface memorials and use antisemitic attacks, as late as the 80s, in order to stoke the specter of antisemitism,” she said.

In the late 1980s, before German reunification, Rainer Sonntag, the leader of West Germany’s most influential Neo-Nazi group, was doing double duty as a spy for both the East German Stasi and Soviet KGB. During the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, the Stasi forged hundreds of letters of support from “veterans of the Waffen-SS” in an attempt to embarrass West Germany.

“They have been on both sides of issues like civil and human rights issues related to the Black population in the United States, LGBT rights, and all sorts of things. So it’s not beyond them to play both sides,” Jankowicz said.

Russia has leveled the same charges at the West, most commonly at Ukraine and the United States. Last month, Moscow claimed U.S.-backed forces instigated the mob which stormed Makhachkala airport looking for Jews in Dagestan, Russia

“The events in Makhachkala last night were inspired also through social networks, not least from the territory of Ukraine, by the hands of agents of Western special services,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the time.

“This is something we’ve noted previously in a variety of online influence campaigns — more of a ‘muddying of the waters’ than a clear ‘trying to do X’ type operation,” said Justin Crow, a researcher at the University of Sussex who focuses on Russia and open source intelligence. “Almost always around highly sensitive contemporaneous cultural issues — i.e. exploiting circumstantial events to sow discord, without that discord needing to be specifically targeted at one group or another.”

Russia isn’t the only country deploying the strategy and involving Jewish institutions. Two weeks ago, a fire was set outside of a synagogue in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan. The building was only lightly damaged, but Armenian authorities were quick to open an investigation, claiming that the arson was committed by a foreign national who was only in the country for a few hours.

Like the situation in France, news of the attack was most widely spread by media connected to an opposing nation: Azerbaijan, which has been at war with Armenia over the disputed region known as Nagorno-Karabakh to Azeris and Artsakh to Armenians.

Azerbaijani media has reported that the attack, as well as a vandalism of the same synagogue in early October — just before the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7 — had been claimed by ASALA, an Armenian Marxist-Leninist group that had fought with Turkey in the 1970s and 80s but has largely been considered inactive since 1991.

“We didn’t know what had happened yet, and Azerbaijani channels were already circulating photos of the building,” said Rima Varzhapetyan, the head of Armenia’s Jewish community, according to the Times of Israel. “Obviously, there are some forces that work not against us Jews, but against Armenia. This is outrageous.”
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A brief history on anti-ethnicity toward Jews in Ukraine.

gwb-trading · Jan 15, 2025

Europe is losing some of its top professionals due to countries not addressing outrageous antisemitism.

Europe urged to tackle antisemitism as thousands of Jews 'leave the continent'
https://www.euronews.com/2025/01/14...tism-as-thousands-of-jews-leave-the-continent

gwb-trading · Jan 17, 2025

Pro-Palestinian groups are nothing more than pandemic aid scam artists. Lock these criminals up.

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ph1l · Jan 17, 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/us/columbia-professor-katherine-franke-retires.html

Columbia Professor Says She Was Pushed to Retire Because of Her Activism

Katherine Franke, a law professor and vocal advocate of pro-Palestinian students, had been under investigation over remarks she made about Israeli students.

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Katherine Franke said she was harassed after Columbia’s president spoke about her in a congressional hearing.Credit...Chad Batka for The New York Times
By Stephanie Saul

Jan. 10, 2025
Columbia University and one of its longtime law professors, Katherine Franke, have severed ties after an investigation stemming from her advocacy on behalf of pro-Palestinian students.

It was the latest fallout from student and faculty activism related to the Gaza War on a major university campus.

Ms. Franke, a tenured professor known primarily for her work as founder and director of Columbia’s Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, had been an advocate for pro-Palestinian students as protests erupted on the campus last school year.

She was also one of several faculty members investigated by the university over allegations of antisemitism, after the school received complaints about comments she made about Israelis on a radio program.

Describing her departure as a “termination dressed up in more palatable terms,” Ms. Franke said in a statement on Friday that she had reached an agreement with the university to leave, because Columbia had become a “toxic and hostile environment.”

A Columbia University spokeswoman, Samantha Slater, said in a statement that the university was “committed to being a community that is welcoming to all and our policies prohibit discrimination and harassment.”

She added that a complaint had been filed “alleging discriminatory harassment in violation of our policies. An investigation was conducted, and a finding was issued.”

In a statement on Friday, the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization where Ms. Franke previously served on the board, called the end of Ms. Franke’s Columbia career “an egregious attack on both academic freedom and Palestinian rights advocacy.”

The investigation of Ms. Franke involved comments she made on the left-leaning media platform Democracy Now! after an incident in January 2024 on the steps of Columbia’s Low Library.

A smelly substance had been released on pro-Palestinian students during a rally demanding the university divest from Israel. One student who was suspended in connection with the incident — and who subsequently sued the university — was identified as a former member of the Israel Defense Forces.

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In the Democracy Now! interview several days later, Ms. Franke said that she and other professors at Columbia had been concerned about Israeli students coming to Columbia “right out of their military service” because they had been known to harass Palestinian and other students on campus.

Two Columbia colleagues filed a complaint against Ms. Franke, saying that her comments amounted to harassment of Israeli members of the Columbia community. An outside law firm hired by the university to investigate the complaint found last November that the remarks violated Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action policies, which Ms. Franke said she appealed.

The investigator also concluded that Ms. Franke had violated policy by disclosing the name of one of the complainants against her and reposting a social media post that made disparaging comments about him.

During a congressional hearing in April, Dr. Minouche Shafik, then Columbia’s president, was asked by Rep. Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York, what disciplinary actions had been taken against Ms. Franke. Ms. Stefanik misquoted Ms. Franke as having said that “all Israeli students who served in the I.D.F. are dangerous and shouldn’t be on campus.”

During the hearing, Dr. Shafik responded, “I agree with you that those comments are completely unacceptable and discriminatory.”

Dr. Shafik’s remarks during the hearing, about Ms. Franke and others, drew sharp rebukes from faculty members as inappropriate and damaging to her relationship with the faculty.

Dr. Shafik resigned several months later, becoming the third university president who appeared before the congressional committee to leave her job.

In her statement on Friday, Ms. Franke called Dr. Shafik’s remarks during the hearing defamatory. “President Shafik was aware at that time that Congresswoman Stefanik’s summary of my comments was grossly inaccurate and misleading,” Ms. Franke said.

She said the hearing testimony led to death threats against her, as well as other forms of harassment.

After Dr. Shafik’s testimony, she wrote, colleagues had videotaped her without her consent and leaked the videos to right-wing organizations. Students, she said, had gone so far as to enroll in her class to provoke discussions that they could record and post online, then file complaints against her.

“I have also come to regard Columbia University as having lost its commitment to its unique and important mission,” Ms. Franke said in her statement.

Rather than fostering critical debate, research and learning, she said, the university had “demonstrated a willingness to collaborate with the very enemies of our academic mission.”
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Maybe she could help her cause and start a new "Center for Gender and Sexuality Law" in Gaza, the West Bank, or some Arab country?

VOLdemort · Jan 17, 2025

Good1 said:
A brief history on anti-ethnicity toward Jews in Ukraine.

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Rich, coming from a vehement antisemite like @Good1. Putin sends much love to the Jews.

Good1 · Jan 17, 2025

VOLdemort said:
Rich, coming from a vehement antisemite like @Good1. Putin sends much love to the Jews.
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Where would you get that impression?

gwb-trading · Jan 19, 2025

gwb-trading said:
Pro-Palestinian groups are nothing more than pandemic aid scam artists. Lock these criminals up.

Non-Profit A Jewish Voice for Peace, Inc. to Pay $677,634 to Resolve PPP Fraud Allegations
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/...-inc-pay-677634-resolve-ppp-fraud-allegations

Non-Profit Americans For Peace Now, Inc. to Pay $261,890 to Resolve PPP Fraud Allegations
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/...-inc-pay-261890-resolve-ppp-fraud-allegations

Non-Profit Middle East Institute to Pay $718,558 to Resolve PPP Fraud Allegations
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/...tute-pay-718558-resolve-ppp-fraud-allegations
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This is your reminder that these pro-Hamas supporter groups are nothing more than scam artists. They should be criminally prosecuted for knowingly stealing this U.S. taxpayer money.

In Latest Blow, Anti-Israel Group, Jewish Voice for Peace, Ordered To Pay Nearly $700,000 for Covid Relief Fraud Scheme
‘It looks like Jewish Voices for Peace are frauds on multiple levels,’ one Jewish student activist says.
https://www.nysun.com/article/in-la...y-nearly-700000-for-covid-relief-fraud-scheme

gwb-trading · Jan 23, 2025

Well Harvard. FAFO.

Harvard settles antisemitism suits as Trump defunding threats loom
Suits include Harvard agreeing to use hotly debated definition of antisemitism
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...semitism-lawsuit-trump-title-vi-b2683909.html