This really doesn’t look like anti-Zionism to me.
“We don’t want Jews here” and “Jews get out” were the slogans daubed on a Caracas synagogue’s walls Saturday.
David Bitan, vice president of the Jewish community in Venezuela, told Ynet that late Friday night a number of assailants broke down the synagogue’s door and threw scripture books on the floor, then proceeded to graffiti the hateful slogans on the walls.
“We found the guard on the floor, he had been threatened with a gun,” Bitan said. “Until 3 am they destroyed the offices, opened the Ark of the Covenant, and threw the Torah books on the floor.”
[…] An Israeli residing in Caracas said images from the ravaged synagogue had been displayed in the local media. He said he had seen that another slogan, “Death to the Jews”, was also sprayed in the synagogue.
Yeah, I’m still not seeing the relevance to protesting Israel’s action in Gaza here. But then, when your nation’s government contributes to the tide of rising anti-Semitism in your country, things like this should be expected. That’s what pogroms are made of: Government support of anti-Semitic acts.
The president of the Jewish community in Venezuela on Monday accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of promoting anti-Semitism and giving the phenomenon legitimacy.
Speaking at the World Jewish Congress conference in Jerusalem on Monday, Abraham Levy Ben Shimol said “you probably hear of many anti-Semitic incidents, but where we live, the anti-Semitism is sanctioned; it comes from the president, through the government, and into the media. Since the government is very involved in the day-to-day lives of its constituents, its influence is much more effective.”
Ben Shimol added that in recent days, swastikas have been spray painted on the walls of the Caracas synagogue and a Palestinian flag was waved during a parliament session.
When you demonize the world’s only Jewish state, you encourage the haters in your country to come out and harm the Jews—all in the name of supporting the Palestinians.
On Wednesday the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem announced that it had ordered Venezuelan diplomats in Israel to exit the country by the end of the week. In response, Caracas stated that the country was proud its diplomats had been expelled, and called Israeli leaders criminals.
It starts with words, as someone said quite recently. But it doesn’t end with words. It always ends with violence, and ultimately, the death of Jews.
This is probably off topic but would
all of you please sign this petition?
It was forwarded to me by my brother.
Thank you all so much!
Letter to the UN SG
Hamas Leaders to International Trial
http://www.petitiononline.com/tap12009/petition.html
I won’t sign it. The UN is not worth humoring, as if it were actually going to do something worthwhile.
From the letter:
“A failure to prosecute the Hamas leadership in International Court would, no doubt, lead to their war crimes growingly become normative behavior, and to more of the same humanitarian catastrophes, to millions of victims of oppression and killings undefended by the UN.”
The Sec Gen knows full well that Hamas, and all the other terrorist groups, are carrying out war crimes. He doesn’t give a damn, nor do any of the other Bigshots who scream about international law. International law is a stick to beat the USA and Israel, and applies to no one else. It exists, but is ignored except to use as propaganda against us.
Furthermore terrorism has already become normative behavior. Not only do non-state actors like Al-Qaeda and Hamas use it as their primary means of operations, but a large number of states do too. In fact they were using it before the rise of the non-state actors to prominence. Terrorism is accepted warmaking under international law now, at any rate by the non-Western powers. And most Western powers are copacetic with it so long as they are not the targets.
Further from the letter:
“Mr Secretary General, we would appreciate your considered reply, which, with your permission, we would publish, along with this letter. We shall follow your relevant activities with great honor, high expectations, and deep moral support.”
They’re being sarcastic, aren’t they?
The UN is a sink of corruption, anti-Americanism, antisemitism, racism, incompetence, and evil. We should not humor this immoral and evil organization by petitions asking its officials to live up to its charter. They will not, have no intention of doing so, and if they tried would be prevented by the dominant powers at the UN, the Muslim states, Russia, and China. The Euros would go along with the dominant ones in order to sell a few arms to them or otherwise make a profit from cooperating with evil, as the French assisted the Rwanda genocide and sold weapons to Saddam Hussein while the embargo was on.
To petition the Sec Gen is to pretend that the UN has relevance or moral worth. It does not.