We have terrorist plan, includes lying and deception

fight today.

Understand the deceptive ways the Islamic plan to rule:
Goals of the Muslim Brotherhood's "The Project"
 December 1982 document found during a raid in Switzerland by Swiss authorities on 7 November 2001. The target of the raid was Youssef Nada, director of the Al-Taqwa Bank of Lugano, who has had active association with the Muslim Brotherhood for more than 50 years and who admitted to being one of the organization’s international leaders. The 14-page document outlines a 12-point strategy to "Establish an Islamic government on earth." (more)
 
•    Networking and coordinating actions between like-minded Islamist organizations;
•    Avoiding open alliances with known terrorist organizations and individuals to maintain the appearance of “moderation”;
•    Infiltrating and taking over existing Muslim organizations to realign them towards the Muslim Brotherhood’s collective goals;
•    Using deception to mask the intended goals of Islamist actions, as long as it doesn’t conflict with shari’a law;
•    Avoiding social conflicts with Westerners locally, nationally or globally, that might damage the long-term ability to expand the Islamist powerbase in the West or provoke a lash back against Muslims;
•    Establishing financial networks to fund the work of conversion of the West, including the support of full-time administrators and workers;
•    Conducting surveillance, obtaining data, and establishing collection and data storage capabilities;
•    Putting into place a watchdog system for monitoring Western media to warn Muslims of “international plots fomented against them”;
•    Cultivating an Islamist intellectual community, including the establishment of think-tanks and advocacy groups, and publishing “academic” studies, to legitimize Islamist positions and to chronicle the history of Islamist movements;
•    Developing a comprehensive 100-year plan to advance Islamist ideology throughout the world;
•    Balancing international objectives with local flexibility;
•    Building extensive social networks of schools, hospitals and charitable organizations dedicated to Islamist ideals so that contact with the movement for Muslims in the West is constant;
•    Involving ideologically committed Muslims in democratically-elected institutions on all levels in the West, including government, NGOs, private organizations and labor unions;
•    Instrumentally using existing Western institutions until they can be converted and put into service of Islam;
•    Drafting Islamic constitutions, laws and policies for eventual implementation;
•    Avoiding conflict within the Islamist movements on all levels, including the development of processes for conflict resolution;
•    Instituting alliances with Western “progressive” organizations that share similar goals;
•    Creating autonomous “security forces” to protect Muslims in the West;
•    Inflaming violence and keeping Muslims living in the West “in a jihad frame of mind”;
•    Supporting jihad movements across the Muslim world through preaching, propaganda, personnel, funding, and technical and operational support;
•    Making the Palestinian cause a global wedge issue for Muslims;
•    Adopting the total liberation of Palestine from Israel and the creation of an Islamic state as a keystone in the plan for global Islamic domination;
•    Instigating a constant campaign to incite hatred by Muslims against Jews and rejecting any discussions of conciliation or coexistence with them;
•    Actively creating jihad terror cells within Palestine;
•    Linking the terrorist activities in Palestine with the global terror movement;
•    Collecting sufficient funds to indefinitely perpetuate and support jihad around the world

The Moral Psychosis of Demonstrating in Support of Hamas

Students for justice in Palestine did this!

Temple Univ. Jewish Student Punched In Face And Called ‘Kike’ In Anti-Semitic Attack

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A Jewish student on the campus of Temple University was assaulted on Wednesday afternoon and called “kike” and “baby killer” by members of the anti-Semitic student group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Daniel Vessal, a Camera on Campus fellow and a member of the Jewish fraternity AEPi, was…

Students for justice in Palestine is an EVIL,  Monstrous group. Fight them everywhere,

Students for justice in Palestine is an EVIL, Monstrous group. Fight them everywhere,

The Moral Psychosis of Demonstrating in Support of Hamas

"That pro-Palestinian student activists, those who purport to be motivated by a desire to bring “justice” to the Middle East, could publicly call for the renewed slaughter of Jews in the name of Palestinian self-determination demonstrates quite clearly how ideologically debased the human rights movement has become. Activists on and off U.S. campuses, who never have to face a physical threat more serious than getting jostled while waiting in line for a latte at Starbucks, are quick to denounce Israel’s very real existential threats and the necessity of the Jewish state to take counter measures to thwart terrorism."

Israel is fighting EVIL PALESTINIANS on behalf of all of Western civilization.

The BDS Divestment groups on campus are defending EVIL! Sjp Students For Justice in Palestine is a group defending those who advocate genocide and killing every Jew, sending 10000 missiles at civilians, deny their women and gays rights, kill political opponents, teach children in school to hate and kill. It is a totally immoral reprehensible organization organizing divestment movements vs companies doing business with Israel's efforts to defend itself vs the barbarians. Anyone you know in SJP is a monster or being duped by monsters. Le tthem know the TRUTH! If they sincerely want peace

J Street Endorsees in Congress Refuse to Support Iron Dome Funding for Israel

http://thejstreetchallenge.com/2014/08/25/new-j-street-u-president-urges-richer-communication-with-israel-haters/

J Street Endorsees in Congress Refuse to Support Iron Dome Funding for Israel

J Street funnels $92,387 to members who wouldn’t support Iron Dome

An Iron Dome missile interceptor overlooking Haifa, Israel / AP

BY: Adam Kredo
August 21, 2014 1:30 pm
Eleven lawmakers backed by liberal advocacy group J Street either voted against or refused to vote in favor of increased funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, which has been a critical life-saver during Hamas’s latest assault on the Jewish state.
Congress overwhelmingly approved an emergency increase in funding for Iron Dome this month by a vote of 395 to 8.
Three of the eight who voted against the funding increase are J Street-backed lawmakers. Another eight abstained from the pro-Israel vote and also are financially supported by the group.
J Street’s political action committee (PAC) has already donated and bundled in this election cycle alone at least $92,387 to lawmakers who did not vote in favor of Iron Dome funding—which J Street itself claims is a priority for its endorsees.
The revelation that 11 of the 37 lawmakers who either voted against or abstained from supporting Iron Dome prompted outrage in the pro-Israel community and criticism of J Street for financially supporting lawmakers who take an explicitly anti-Israel line.

Palestinians are not underdogs

The Myth of the Palestinian Underdog

Evelyn Gordon | @EvelynCGordon 08.21.2014 - 9:30 AM

One of the enduring myths of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is that much of the West supports the Palestinians out of natural sympathy for the underdog. Victor Davis Hanson of Stanford’s Hoover Institution effectively demolished that myth last week, pointing out that if sympathy for the underdog were really driving the massive pro-Palestinian demonstrations sweeping the West, one would expect to see equally massive demonstrations in support of occupied Tibet, the undoubted underdog against superpower China, or embattled Ukraine, the equally undoubted underdog against superpower Russia. In reality, he argued, anti-Israel sentiment flourishes not because Israel is Goliath, but because it is David:

Israel is inordinately condemned for what it supposedly does because its friends are few, its population is tiny, and its adversaries beyond Gaza numerous, dangerous and often powerful.

Or to put it more bluntly, condemning Israel entails no costs and frequently provides benefits, whereas supporting it could invite retaliation from its numerous enemies. So just as Western countries are reluctant to push China on Tibet for fear that China will retaliate by barring access to the world’s largest market, or to push Russia too hard on Ukraine because Russia is a major natural gas producer with no qualms about cutting off supplies to its political opponents, they often find it easier to push Israel than to push its enemies.
Take, for instance, the cases of Qatar and Turkey, currently Hamas’s two main patrons. Qatar is Hamas’s leading financier, giving it hundreds of millions of dollars per year to build its rocket arsenal and tunnel network; it hosts Hamas leader Khaled Meshal; it reportedly torpedoed an emerging Hamas-Israel cease-fire deal by threatening to kick Meshal out if he signed; and according to former Israeli Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin, about a third of all cement imported to Gaza for Qatari-sponsored projects was instead diverted to Hamas’s tunnel network–presumably with Doha’s willing cooperation, since EU-managed projects suffered no similar diversions.
Turkey also gives Hamas hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and hosts about a dozen senior Hamas officials, including Saleh Arouri–who, over the past week, has both admitted to being behind the kidnapping of three Israeli teens in June and been accused by Israel’s Shin Bet security service of organizing a massive terror network in the West Bank tasked with starting a third intifada and overthrowing the Palestinian Authority. Israel has arrested some 90 members of this network and confiscated weapons and funds; the PA took the accusation seriously enough to launch its own investigation.
In fact, it’s no exaggeration to say that without the support Hamas receives from Turkey and Qatar, it could never have built the war machine that enabled it to start this summer’s war, and thus the death and destruction the world is now decrying in Gaza would never have happened.
Since both America and the European Union have designated Hamas as a terrorist organization, one might expect this flagrant support for Hamas to prompt sanctions on Qatar and Turkey as state sponsors of terrorism. But Qatar is the world’s largest natural gas exporter and richest country, as well as home to the main U.S. air force base in the Middle East, while Turkey is a NATO member and major emerging economy. So in fact, far from sanctioning Qatar and Turkey, both America and Europe consider them key partners. In short, it’s simply easier for the West to condemn Israel’s response to Hamas attacks and pressure it to accede to Hamas demands than it would be to condemn and penalize Turkish and Qatari support for Hamas.
Clearly, Israel has many strengths, including a thriving economy, a relatively powerful army, and strong American support. But as Hanson noted, it’s still a tiny country with few friends and many enemies, and anti-Israel protesters intuitively sense this. So don’t be fooled by their pretensions to “moral indignation” against Israel’s “oppression of the underdog.” They’re just doing what mobs have done since time immemorial: targeting a victim they see as fundamentally vulnerable.

Attacks on Jews in USA and the West. I'll keep updating.

Update on spread of recent anti Semitism incidents
USA and Canada

1, http://www.timesofisrael.com/philadelphia-synagogues-historian-beaten-to-death/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp%3Butm_medium=twitter

2, http://www.bill613.com/anti-semitism/religious-jew-sucker-punched-arab-queen-mary/

3. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/temple-univ-jewish-student-punched-face-and-called-kike-anti-semitic-attack#.U_U3ZtIndCQ.twitter

4./ http://pamelageller.com/2014/08/miami-rabbi-shot-killed-way-synagogue-morning.html/

5. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/students-justice-palestine-hijack-black-narrative-and-confirm-they-hate-america

 want to kill Jews

11. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2731871/ISIS-rapidly-developing-method-blowing-major-US-city-senator-warns-Hagel-says-military-ready-action.html

10. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/22/chicago-gets-chilling-islamic-state-tweet/

 12. http://www.westernjournalism.com/muslims-rally-support-hezbollah-terrorists-in-orlando/

 
16. http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/24/canadas-hydro-one-employee-afreeda-zaman-all-the-jews-deserved-to-die-during-the-holocaust/

 15. http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/25/shame-on-you-america-israeli-ship-unable-to-dock-in-oakland-after-dock-workers-refuse-to-unload/

 19. http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/anti-semitic-thugs-attacks-jewish-couple-in-new-york-city/2014/08/26/

22. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/tennessee-imam-who-called-jews-and-christians-filthy-uses-ban-on-foley-vid-to-argue-for-blasphemy-laws

 
20. http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/28/sleep-tight-western-world-toronto-transit-commission-employee-we-will-kill-all-israel/

EUROPE
21. http://www.timesofisrael.com/spanish-imam-allah-destroy-every-single-jew/#ixzz3BhEcngSH

17. http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/25/france-a-day-in-the-life-heres-a-picture-of-a-jew-getting-beaten-senseless-by-members-of-the-religion-of-peace/

6.http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/08/19/young-jewish-swedish-leader-all-my-friends-are-getting-death-threats/

7. 8/22 A Jewish school in Copenhagen had its windows smashed and anti-Semitic graffiti referring to the conflict in Gaza spray-painted on its walls.


13. http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/21/the-israeli-flag-with-a-swastika-on-it-was-recently-seen-at-a-basketball-game-in-bosnia-just-despicable/

14. http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/24/hungarian-mayor-holds-mock-public-execution-of-israeli-leaders/

A rise in the number of reported anti-Semitic crimes in Denmark last week prompted local politicians to organize a "kippah march" in central Copenhagen in support of Jewish people's right to display their religion openly.

 
13. http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/21/the-israeli-flag-with-a-swastika-on-it-was-recently-seen-at-a-basketball-game-in-bosnia-just-despicable/

14. http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/24/hungarian-mayor-holds-mock-public-execution-of-israeli-leaders/

http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/09/07/young-jewish-swedish-leader-all-my-friends-are-getting-death-threats/


SOUTH AMERICA
8. http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/headline-Venezuela-threatens-its-Jews-over-Gaza-conflict-22280.htm

MIDDLE EAST
9.http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/08/22/well-known-jewish-couple-found-stabbed-to-death-in-istanbul-apartment/

AUSTRALIA


18. http://www.timesofisrael.com/anti-semitic-fliers-delivered-to-sydney-jewish-neighborhoods/

22. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/tennessee-imam-who-called-jews-and-christians-filthy-uses-ban-on-foley-vid-to-argue-for-blasphemy-laws

New anti-Semitism is bad enough, but it’s no Holocaust, says scholar

‘It is beneath us and counterproductive’ for Israeli and Jewish leaders to use scare tactic to validate their own agendas, argues Prof. Deborah Lipstadt

By Amanda Borschel-Dan August 25, 2014, 6:04 pm 29

Stop the Holocaust in Gaza: A pro-Palestinian protester at a Berlin rally Friday, July 18, 2014. (Micki Weinberg/The Times of Israel)

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Although historian Deborah Lipstadt has spent much of her career in high-profile cases combating Holocaust deniers, of late the Emory University professor is working to convince the world that Jews are not on the brink of a second Shoah.

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To clarify: surging anti-Semitism in Europe is indeed serious, with violent physical attacks as well as hate speech, anti-Jewish bias and graffiti, Lipstadt believes. But it’s not a new Holocaust.

“Each event made me think something strange is happening here and we should take notice,” she said in a phone interview from Atlanta. “But it’s a whole different world.”

“We have condemnation by leaders of countries, prosecution by police, we have history, we know what happened — we have the State of Israel,” she said.

Prof. Deborah Lipstadt (photo credit: Courtesy of Emory University)

Calling warnings of a new Holocaust “Chicken Little talk,” as a historian of the deliberate genocide it is important to Lipstadt that the term not be devalued.

“It is beneath us and counterproductive” for Israeli and Jewish leaders and politicians to use it as a scare tactic to validate their own agendas, she said.

Among others, Vladimir Sloutzker, head of the Israeli-Jewish Congress, said at a July Knesset meeting, “Never before since the Holocaust have we seen such a situation as today. We are potentially looking at the beginning of another Holocaust now.”

Lipstadt asked rhetorically what a “new Holocaust” means. “Are Jews being taken off to a camp, deported?”

“They’re wrong historically. They prey on people’s fears and the worse thing you should do is make people frightened. It is ethically wrong, Jewishly wrong and strategically wrong” — because if or when there really would be a Holocaust, no one would pay attention, she said.

Full to capacity room at the Knesset’s emergency meeting on rising anti-Semitism in Europe, July 28, 2014. (Israel Bardugo / The Israeli-Jewish Congress)

In an op-ed last week for The New York Times called “Why Jews Are Worried,” Lipstadt discussed the serious rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. Citing examples of anti-Semitic attacks — including murders — from the past few years, Lipstadt rebuts the notion that the anti-Semitism is “just rhetoric” and that the current Hamas-Israel conflict is the impetus.

“Nor am I comforted by the explanation that these actions are being taken by ‘disgruntled Muslim youth.’ (By one estimate, 95 percent of anti-Semitic actions in France are committed by youths of Arab or African descent.) Many of these Muslims were born in Europe, and many of those who weren’t are the parents of a new generation of Europeans,” she wrote in the much-shared op-ed.

Lipstadt said she chose The New York Times — as opposed to a Jewish media outlet — to reach the most diverse readership possible.

“The point I really wanted to address is that all the members of the European elite seemed to not be disturbed by this [rise in anti-Semitism] and seemed to be saying,  ‘Israel has done terrible things, so this is ok,’” said Lipstadt.

Robert Wistrich (photo credit: courtesy)

Scholar of anti-Semitism Prof. Robert Wistrich of the Hebrew University has also spoken of the importance of “elite opinion,” including academia and the media.

Particularly in Britain, “elite opinion is the most disconnected from reality,” said Wistrich in a July interview with The Times of Israel.

In the UK there is an elite opinion that is “truly poisonous and has a great deal of responsibility for this very deliberately one-sided and massively partisan pro-Palestinian and hypocritical response [to Operation Protective Edge],” he said.

“British media are in fact for several decades now, especially the last 14 years, injecting the population with arsenic in small doses… I don’t think they give a damn for the Palestinians,” said Wistrich.

Addressing the paucity of pro-Israel advocacy among Europe’s elite, Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi wrote an oped for eJewishPhilanthropy.com Monday called “An ‘Iron Dome’ Needed to Protect Jews in Europe.”

Mizrahi is a founder of The Israel Project (TIP), which was formed to change US and European perceptions of Israel. In her op-ed, a call to action, she writes, “Serious philanthropists and the government of Israel should get together to support focus groups of opinion elite men, opinion elite women, moderate Muslims and Jews in Europe.

“Scientific strategic communications plans need to be put in place and implemented – along with strong partnerships with European security organizations,” wrote Mizrahi. (TIP’s European advocacy efforts halted in 2012 when Mizrahi left the presidency.)

Protesters burn an Israeli flag on a rooftop where is hung a placard reading zionism = nazism in Paris on July 19, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Francois Guillot)

In the meantime, saying the Holocaust should not be compared “to any other event in human history,” Finance Minister Yair Lapid addressed Europe last week in a speech at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial in defense of Operation Protective Edge and in condemnation of surging anti-Semitism.

“Some of the criticism stems from anti-Semitism. It has raised its ugly head once more. To those people we say: we will fight you everywhere. The days when Jews ran away from you are over. We will not be silent in the face of anti-Semitism and we expect every government, in every country, to stand shoulder to shoulder with us and fight this evil with us.”

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The Rise Of Anti-Semitism In Britain Follow Virtual Jerusalem on and  Date Posted: 2014-08-28 16:30:03

Years ago, living in London as a graduate student, I confided to a fellow student that I'd been set up on a blind date with an Israeli. "How many Palestinians has he killed?" was his prompt reply.

Equating Israelis with murderers was still a social taboo when this exchange took place. True, there were the occasional anti-Israel marches through the streets, but calling an entire country killers was still considered rude; my fellow student apologized for making such a blatant, racist remark.

No more. Over the past several years, being anti-Israeli has become more and more the mark of a civilized person in Britain; opposing the Jewish state is increasingly a sine qua non, an essential hallmark, of being a considered "moral" person in Britain. And as anti-Israel sentiment grows, anti-Semitism is rising throughout the United Kingdom.

Biased Media

Britain's press has treated the current war in Gaza not just as another piece of world news, but as something utterly unrivalled in its scope or horror. Blanket coverage and biased reporting have ensured that Israel is uppermost in the minds of people throughout the United Kingdom.

Israel ranks fifth in the list of countries covered by the Guardian, the influential British newspaper, whose Associate Editor said Israel "has no right to defend itself" and claimed as his personal goal the spreading of "revulsion" against Israel around the world at an anti-Israel rally in London in August, 2014. Britain's Sky News characterized Israel's goals in the Gaza war as "smashing and maiming, dismemberment and mass grief" and compared Israel's actions to the bombing of Dresden and nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Over at Channel Four, all pretext of impartial reporting was abandoned when veteran journalist Jon Snow cried on camera as he spoke of visiting children in a hospital in Gaza. "I can't get those images out of my mind," he said. "I don't think you can either, because they've been everywhere. They are the essence of what is happening in Gaza."

Of course, to an objective reporter it is Hamas' provocation by firing thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians and its cynical use of human shields - Hamas headquarters are located in the basement of the Al-Shifa hospital that Mr. Snow visited - that are the "essence" of what is happening in Gaza. Mr. Snow, however, erroneously reported that none of Hamas' rockets have hit Israel.

BBC's bias is legendary. This lack of context - in which Israel is seen as a bloodthirsty aggressor - often echoes classic anti-Semitic themes. The Guardian defended its decision to run a cartoon portraying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu controlling British Prime Minister David Cameron as a puppet, even though it evokes the anti-Semitic canard that powerful Jews somehow control world leaders. An infamous cover of The New Statesman magazine depicted a Jewish star piercing a Union Jack, the British flag, under the headline "A Kosher Conspiracy"? Even the Lancet, the prestigious British medical journal, depicts Israel as a murderous provoker, calling Israel's measured response to thousands of rockets being launched from within civilian sites in Gaza "the creation of an emergency to masquerade a massacre" of innocent women and children.

Such images have an effect. 41% of Britons say their opinion of Israel has worsened because of the current Gaza conflict, and more than half feel Israel has acted disproportionately.
Media messages and provocative statements also create an atmosphere in which egregious statements receive little or no protest; these in turn enter the public dialogue and further degrade people's opinion of Israel. When Britain's National Union of Students, in an emergency session called to debate the Gaza war, voted to boycott Israel, a member erroneously stated "Palestinian students are tortured and imprisoned" in Israel: in the echo chamber created by such anti-Israel rhetoric, no allegation is too outlandish to repeat.

Anti-Israel Rallies

Simplistic, one-sided views of Israel have also been on display in the massive anti-Israel protests in Britain's cities this summer where Israel is slandered as the sole obstacle to peace, and routinely compared to Nazi Germany. Protestors in London waved signs saying "Well done Israel - Hitler would be proud". Many placards are provided by Britain's "Stop the War" coalition, which accuses Israel of bizarre, horrific crimes such as deliberately "slaughtering" pregnant women. Some protestors have chosen to identify with Hamas. Ignoring Hamas' brutal imposition of Islamic law, its execution of political opponents, refusal to hold elections, its sending of thousands of rockets into Israel, and miles of terror tunnels dug in order to carry out attacks, protestors this summer have shouted "We are all Hamas" at rallies in front of Britain's parliament and Israeli embassy.

Increasingly, anti-Israel sentiment is gaining official sanction. MP George Galloway declared that Israelis are not welcome in his constituent city of Bradford; MP Nick Ward, representing Bradford East, tweeted "if I lived in Gaza would I fire a rocket? - probably yes". In Scotland, prominent figures have come out strongly against Israel: activist Yvonne Ridley has declared her intention to make Scotland a "Zionist-free zone". Her message came ahead of decisions by governments in Glasgow and Fife to fly the Palestinian flag over official buildings in solidarity, a Glasgow spokesman said, with the "innocent victims" of Gaza - but not the innocent Israelis killed and terrorized by Hamas rockets. Scotland's Deputy First Speaker Nicola Sturgeon has also come out as an opponent of Israel, speaking at an anti-Israel event in Scotland.

Anti-Israel protesters are now using bully tactics to create an economic boycott. When protestors gathered outside a Sainsbury's supermarket in Holborn in central London on Saturday, August 16, 2014, calling for a boycott of Israeli goods, managers ordered their entire kosher section to be removed. A shopper who confronted asked why was told "because we support a free Gaza." It wasn't the first time a store gave into anti-Israel protestors: Ahava, an Israeli beauty company finally closed its Covent Garden location in 2011 after years of anti-Israel demonstrations outside its store, and 2014 saw the closure of Brighton's Sodastream outlet after similar protests, and the decision by John Lewis to stop selling the company's products. The Tricycle Theatre in London dropped - and then reinstated - its support for the annual UK Jewish Film Festival. The Israeli group Incubator was forced out of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (though it eventually performed in Glasgow, Leeds and London).

British Jews

Attacks on Jews in Britain haven't reached the levels seen in France, where synagogues have been besieged and Jewish-owned stores firebombed. But anti-Semitic attacks have skyrocketed. July 2014 was the second worst month since records began, logging 240 anti-Semitic incidents in one month alone. Paul Morron, President of Glasgow Jewish Representative Council, has said "the level of anxiety is quite unprecedented." That sounds like a typically reserved British way of saying that the community is beginning to question its very future in Britain. A poll conducted by the Jewish Chronicle found that nearly two thirds of British Jews are questioning their future in the United Kingdom.

British Jews are fighting back, though. Pro-Israel rallies are flourishing throughout the UK, and British communal life is thriving. Perhaps the best way to counter the negative feelings about the Jewish state is to embrace what is being attacked: to engage in Jewish life, to use Jewish and Israeli products, to remain strong in our commitment to Jewish life around the world and especially in Israel, the Jewish state.

By Yvette Alt Miller via aish.com