11/01 Links: Melanie Phillips - Anti-Semitism on the rise in Europe; The Palestinians’ genocidal logo

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Ezra Levant with Melanie Phillips - Anti-Semitism on the rise in Europe


Chloé Valdary: Pride & Privilege

At that moment, I understood what was really meant in academic circles by the concept of “privilege.”
There is a type of Palestinian-Arab privilege which exists today that makes anti-Semitism "okay," acceptable in academic discourse, and even politically correct. It enables college students of the anti-Israel persuasion to question a Jew’s very identity, to reduce him or her to a monolithic creature which exists solely for the purpose of living in a dejected, victimized, dehumanized state. It divorces them from their past in their native land, and thus strips them of their history, and therefore allows them no future.
This type of prejudice must be fought against. It is not enough to fight lies and slanders in the media if we do not understand that these are variations of the old European libels that manifested themselves in racist anti-Jewish laws for centuries in Western Europe, and which culminated in the Holocaust. They undermine a people’s dignity and sense of belonging. Our endeavor to educate others must be coupled with one crucial element, one which speaks to not only the logic and rational basis of a movement, but the heart and soul of a people: Pride.

The Palestinians’ genocidal logo

There is something particularly revolting about ostensibly civilized, modern nations giving both official recognition and massive funding to terrorist organizations with a clearly expressed genocidal goal.
Sweden is the latest country to officially recognize “the state of Palestine”.
But to put Sweden’s embarrassingly amateurish, vote-grabbing domestic politicking move into a proper international perspective, one has only got to look at the Palestinian Arabs’ national symbols. Just to see how “peace-loving” they really are.
But here’s the salient point: We must all – bloggers, the media, local politicians, national politicians, the diplomatic corps, the EU, the UN – insist that both Fatah and Hamas change their official logos (which show their wished-for state of Palestine as replacing ALL of Israel). Their “national symbol” actually predicates the destruction of UN member state Israel.
And in case the map itself is not enough, there are also swords in the official “national logo” of Hamas to drive home just how this Palestinian coalition government partner intends to destroy Israel and replace it with Palestine.

Merah-inspired jihadists 'plot attacks in France'

Morocco said on Thursday it has arrested two jihadists inspired by French terrorist Mohamed Merah who were planning to attack banks and multinational companies in France and in the North African country.
An interior ministry statement said a Frenchman and a Franco-Moroccan arrested on Monday had also been planning to join the Islamic State jihadist group.
It said they used the Internet to urge "individual terrorist acts in Morocco and France", citing preliminary results from the investigation.
Both men had been motivated by the actions of Mohamed Merah, a French-Algerian national killed by French police in March 2012 after murdering seven people, including several children at a Jewish school.

Galloway inflames again

As tensions rose in Jerusalem yesterday (they never completely disappear) after the shooting of a rabbi by a Palestinian terrorist, Israeli authorities briefly shut down access to the Al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount. It was reopened for Friday prayers to worshipers over the age of 50 and women.
George Galloway, as is his wont when it comes to Jerusalem, did his bit to inflame the situation even further with a post on his Facebook page– where, in typical colonialist fashion, he presumes to tell Muslims what they “must” do:
(As for the one place in the world where Palestinians are actually suffering and dying in large numbers– the Yarmouk camp on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria– I can find no response, outraged or otherwise, from Galloway.)
The enthusiastic responses are truly blood-curdling– most notably this:
Update: I guess Galloway or someone associated with him reads Harry’s Place. The pro-Hitler posts have been removed.

US to present plan for resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks

The US administration is planning to present a proposal to resume the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians after the mid-term elections for Congress, the Palestinian daily Al-Quds reported over the weekend.
The report came as State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki announced that a Palestinian delegation would arrive in Washington for high-level talks on ways to move forward with the stalled peace talks and the ongoing crisis in the Gaza Strip.
The delegation, headed by chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat, is expected to meet with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday.
The two sides are also scheduled to discuss ways of ending the recent upsurge in violence in east Jerusalem, a Palestinian Authority official said.

Washington Post urges Obama to ‘reset’ ties with PM after ‘chickenshit’ affair

The Washington Post urged President Barack Obama to “initiate a reset” in relations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of the “chickenshit” affair.
In an editorial posted online late Friday, the newspaper’s editorial board said the resort to a “crude” “barnyard epithet” by an unnamed administration official to deride Netanyahu last week “raised the question of why the Israeli leader provokes such passionate animus from an administration that coolly shrugs off insults from the likes of Vladi­mir Putin.”
The article acknowledged “legitimate and substantive frustration” in the administration with Netanyahu over settlement-building.
It also cited speculation “that dissing Mr. Netanyahu may be part of the administration’s groundwork for the deal it hopes to strike with Iran on its nuclear program this month.

Cruz: Time To Respond To Obama Administration’s 'Disgraceful' Treatment Of Israel

In an opinion piece published in Time on Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) shamed the Obama administration for its “disgraceful” comments about Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu, calling it “an unprecedented attack on a critical ally of the United States.” Cruz also warned of the danger posed by the administration’s defeatist position on Iran, which he said is “an inexcusable betrayal of the national security of the American people.”
According to The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, various anonymous officials referred to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as both “a chicken****” and “a coward.” While these indefensible comments have received the lion’s share of media attention, the substantive remarks about Iran were even more troubling. Goldberg wrote that another senior official claimed that due to their pressure on Netanyahu, it is now “too late” for Israel to stop Iran from amassing an “atomic arsenal.”
Citing WH Press Secretary Josh Earnest’s dismissive response to questions about the “chickensh*t” comment and admission that they weren’t bothering to find out who said it, Cruz argued that the administration’s hostile treatment of Israel and fatalist position on Iran posed a real threat to U.S. security interests:

Kerry phones Netanyahu, apologizes for ‘chickenshit’ comment

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday phoned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and apologized to him in the name of the Obama administration for the comments made by an anonymous US official who called the prime minister “a chickenshit.”
On Thursday, Kerry had publicly distanced himself from the comments, stressing that neither he nor US President Barack Obama were behind the remarks, which he said were “disgraceful, unacceptable, and damaging.”
American officials were quoted Friday night as saying that the Kerry-Netanyahu phone call was a “good conversation” and that they discussed ways to improve relations between the US and Israeli leaderships. The two were also said to have discussed other regional issues, including efforts to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Labor MK: Israel should give PA East Jerusalem neighborhoods

Labor Party MK Eitan Cabel said Saturday that Israel should transfer control of the Arab East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Issawiya and Beit Hanina to the Palestinian Authority, but keep the capital united.
Speaking at a cultural event in northern Israel, Cabel, who heads the opposition’s Labor’s Knesset faction, said the restive Palestinian areas of Jerusalem should be handed over to PA control in the long term.
“A united Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and thus it shall remain with any future agreement [with the Palestinians], but Palestinian villages such as Issawiya and Beit Hanina aren’t really part of the city, and in the long term Israel’s clear interest is to transfer them to Palestinian control,” Cabel said.

Back to square one on Jordanian-Israeli relations

The alliance, said Ya’alon at a conference at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Center, was created by the events of September 1970.
But that is only partially true.
Indeed, the 1970 events were pivotal in lifting the special yet secret relations that existed between the two sides to a new level, but they were the result of a close, clandestine intelligence and security cooperation that had began a decade earlier, as well as of their unique mutual geo-strategic posture.
A brief reminder: After three years in which Yasser Arafat’s PLO had created in Jordan a state within a state, threatening the very existence of the regime, King Hussein decided that enough was enough. He declared war on the PLO, and his army – the welltrained Arab Legion founded by the British – butchered Palestinian combatants.
President Hafez Assad of Syria, who with his radical anti-monarchist approach saw himself as a supporter of the Palestinian cause, sent in tanks to help the PLO.
The Jordanian monarch feared the invasion would result in his being toppled by the joint Syrian-Palestinian force. Encouraged by the Nixon administration, which perceived the king as a pro-American regional asset, Israel was brought into the frame. Jerusalem concentrated forces on the Israeli-Jordanian border and sent its air force to patrol the skies, signaling to the Syrian invaders that it was ready to act.
The message was received loud and clear in Damascus.
Assad ordered his tanks to roll back, and the king’s life and regime were saved by Israeli intervention – and it was not the first time.

'Jordan Must Internalize Temple Mount is Under Israeli Control'

Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) responded to the Jordanian government's threat to revoke the 1994 peace agreement with Israel, due to controversy over the Temple Mount.
Israel temporarily closed the Mount to both Jewish and Muslim worshippers on Thursday, in an attempt to calm tensions.
Jordan has been threatening to nullify the peace treaty at various times for months. In February, Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur threatened to pull the treaty if the Knesset were to continue advancing a bill to allow Jews to pray on the Mount.
Jordan has also been pushing in the UN Security Council to advance the Palestinian Authority's demand for Israeli withdrawals through unilateral moves.
"I hear the Jordanians are threatening the peace agreement and wonder if they have forgotten the Six Day War and the years in which King Hussein leaned on Israel. The Temple Mount and Jerusalem are under Israeli sovereignty just as Amman is under the absolute rule of Jordan. They should internalize this fact," Ariel wrote.

Haniyeh: We'll Fight Israel Over Temple Mount

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Friday declared that his organization will fight Israel and will not allow it to do as it pleases on the Temple Mount.
According to Channel 2 News, Haniyeh took part in a mass protest in Gaza, part of a “day of rage” that was called for by Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. While the “day of rage” mostly fizzled in Jerusalem, it was in full force in Gaza.
Haniyah claimed during the protest that Israel’s closure of the Temple Mount, which was quickly reversed following international pressure, was part of an Israeli plan to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

PA Calls Assassin Terrorist 'Hero Defending Freedom'

Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqa on Thursday lionized Mu'taz Hijazi, the Islamic Jihad terrorist who tried to assassinate Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick in Jerusalem on Wednesday and was later killed in a shootout with police.
"Hijazi was one of the heroes of the Palestinian prisoners' movement who defended freedom and dignity," Qaraqa wrote in a statement published by the Palestinian Arab Ma'an News Agency.
Calling Hijazi a defender of "freedom and dignity" is particularly ironic, given the fact that he shot Glick who has championed the effort to gain Jewish prayer rights on the Temple Mount - the holiest site in Judaism - where the Jordanian Waqf (Islamic trust) has banned Jewish prayer and discriminated against Jewish visitors.
The praise comes on the heels of similar lauding by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, which called the terrorist a "heroic martyr" while declaring Friday a "day of rage" in a call for terrorism in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.

Suspected shooter of Jewish activist buried in Jerusalem

A man suspected of carrying out the attempted assassination of a right-wing Jewish activist and killed by police in a shootout was buried late Thursday, as supporters and relatives marched through East Jerusalem.
The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court gave the go-ahead for the funeral Thursday after the family lawyer of Mu’taz Hijazi’s family requested that the suspected assassin’s body be transferred from the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute to Jerusalem for immediate burial.
The court accepted the family’s plea, despite the fact that no autopsy had been performed on Hijazi’s body.

Police arrest second suspect in Glick shooting

Police on Friday arrested a man who they said may have assisted the alleged shooter of right-wing activist Rabbi Yehudah Glick, Mu’taz Hijazi, Channel 2 reported.
Like Hijazi, the man worked in the cafeteria at Jerusalem’s Menachem Begin Center, outside which the shooting took place.
However, police said it was not clear whether the second man knowingly helped Hijazi commit the crime, or whether he unwittingly provided him with information which allowed him to do so.

Rocket launched from Gaza lands in Israel, army confirms

A rocket launched from Gaza on Friday landed in the Eshkol Regional Council in southern Israel, the army said.
The IDF had detected a projectile heading toward Israeli territory – the second such incident since Israel and Hamas reached a deal on August 26 to halt seven weeks of fighting. The cease-fire has largely been holding.
It was not immediately clear whether the rocket landed in Israel or within Gaza, as no sirens were heard in Gaza frontier communities.
Earlier this month, code red alerts sent tremors across the Gaza border, as residents in southern Israel fled to shelters for cover, a scene reminiscent of the 50-day war that dominated the summer.
The sirens turned out to be false alarms, likely triggered by rocket launching tests within the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave.

Arab-American Leaders All-In to Defend Convicted Terrorist Odeh

They complain that the federal judge in Detroit has narrowed the case to the simple question of whether she lied about her criminal past, not the broader question of Israeli policy in the region. They also claim the judge found her claims of torture to be credible, obscuring the fact that he had to draw inferences in her favor in order to rule on the question of whether those claims--never substantiated or proven in any way--should reach the jury.
Above all, Odeh and the Arab-American organizations that support her show no remorse for Israeli victims of terror. In a series of videos at the Investigative Project on Terrorism, the relatives of one of the victims, Edward Joffe, speak out. Their voices are a searing indictment of Odeh's past.
There are certainly Arabs and Palestinians who reject terror. Unfortunately, as the Odeh case shows, their self-appointed leaders in the U.S. feel otherwise.

Former Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Affirms That USS Liberty Was ‘Tragic Friendly Fire Incident’ as Al Jazeera America Prepares to Air ‘Shocking Report’ by Conspiracy Theorist

With U.S.-Israeli bilateral relations hitting a new low this week, the Qatari-financed news broadcaster Al Jazeera America is tonight broadcasting a special report on the USS Liberty, the American naval vessel that came under deadly fire from Israeli forces on June 8, 1967 – the fourth day of the Six Day War which pitted the Jewish state against a coalition of Arab armies.
Thirty-four Americans died and 171 were injured in the attack. Israel said it mistook the Liberty for an enemy vessel, the Egyptian ship El Quseir. Subsequently, Israel issued a full apology for the attack, and has to date paid out more than $12 million in compensation to the survivors and their families, as well as the U.S. government.
In an interview with The Algemeiner, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren, an expert on the Liberty affair who now serves as Ambassador-in-Residence at The Atlantic Council, asserted that “thousands of pages of formerly classified documents on the Liberty have been declassified, both Israeli and American. None of those documents – I stress none – indicate that the Liberty was anything other than a tragic friendly fire episode.”
Among the declassified documents, Oren said, “are the tapes made by Israeli pilots and the tapes intercepted by American intelligence. All of them indicate that the Liberty attack was an accident. Every once in a while, someone comes up with ‘new evidence,’ but it always falls short.”

Ben-Dror Yemini: The western media's double-standard on Israeli 'racism'

So-called prestigious newspapers the Guardian and New York Times give a platform to every nonsensical item about Israel while conveniently ignoring the reality in other countries.
And on it goes. Europe has witnessed the growth of the radical right in recent years, and a neo-Nazi representative from Germany was elected to the European Parliament. France has imposed a ban on the wearing of niqabs and burqas. Switzerland has banned construction of minarets. And polls in France, Britain and Germany show that more than 70 percent of their populations view Islam in a negative light.
In other words, even without a conflict that has lasted for decades, even without rockets, even without Hamas and its declarations of destruction, the incidents of racism, violence and hostility in Europe far outnumber those in Israel, even in relative terms. But the facts won't throw Professor Sand, or The Guardian, or The New York Times, which offer a platform to every falsehood and piece of nonsense.

Jewish Group to Kerry’s Wife’s Foundation: Disavow Grant to Anti-Israel Eatery

In a letter responding to B’nai B’rith, Heinz Endowments President Grant Oliphant attempted to disassociate the foundation from the anti-Israel messages promoted by Conflict Kitchen.
“I want to be especially clear that [Conflict Kitchen’s] current program on Palestine was not funded by the endowments and we would not fund such a program, precisely because it appears to be terribly at odds with the mission of promoting understanding. … [Heinz Endowments] emphatically does not agree with or support either the anti-Israel sentiments quoted on Conflict Kitchen’s food wrappers or the program’s refusal to incorporate Israeli or Jewish voices in its material,” Oliphant wrote.
Conflict Kitchen, located near Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, says it aims to use its menu to teach students about conflict between the U.S. and the countries it features in its cuisine selection. The information spread via the anti-Israel food wrappers includes quotes defending terrorism against Israel. One wrapper reads, “How can you compare Israeli F-16s, which are some of the best military planes in the world, to a few hundred homemade rockets?”

Pro-BDS Jewish group boycotts Brussels Jewish film festival

A small, left-leaning Jewish organization pulled out of the 16th annual Brussels Jewish Film Festival, objecting to the involvement in the event of the embassies of Israel and the United States.
The Union of Progressive Jews of Belgium, or UPJB, announced its decision to pull out of the event, which it had agreed to sponsor, in a statement dated Oct. 24 that appeared on the organization’s website on Tuesday, the opening day of the six-day event.
The festival, with the theme “Under the Same Sun,” features films about relations between Israelis and Palestinians.
The UPJB statement referred to Israel as a “state of colonization and occupation” and affirmed UPJB’s support for the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement, or BDS, against Israel. UPJB wrote in its statement that it had agreed to co-sponsor the event because it supported the theme as presented to UPJB by event organizers from the Jewish Audiovisual Memorial association, the event’s organizer.

Pro-Terrorism T-Shirts Sold on Campus of Tufts Univ.

The t-shirt proclaiming that "resistance is not terrorism" features terrorist hijacker Leila Khaled, a member of the terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Khaled participated in two airplace hijackings: one in 1969 and the other in 1970.
The t-shirt attempts to justify Palestinian terrorism, which includes suicide bombings, against Israel as a legitimate form of resistance against Israel and the Israeli government.
One conference attendee commented on the photo that she "bought the same tshirt."
Prior to the conference a Tufts University administrator defended the three day gathering, telling the Washington Free Beacon that it is in line with a "robust exchange of ideas,” which “can be challenging and uncomfortable." (h/t Jewess)

Second terror attack in as many weeks rattles northern Sinai

Seven Egyptian security personnel were injured on Friday, after a blast sent ripples across a northern city in Sinai, Egypt's Al-Ahram reported.
Two officers and five soldiers were wounded when their armored vehicle drove over a roadside bomb, planted near El-Arish. The men were transferred to a local hospital following the attack.
The incident comes on the heels of two deadly terror attacks which left 33 Egyptian soldiers dead on October 24.

Are TEACHERS a potential terrorism target? Teachers at home and abroad warned by that they could be attacked by ISIS lunatics

Jihadists are encouraging attacks on Australian teachers working in Australia and abroad, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has advised.
Teachers at the East Hills Boys School in Sydney have been asked to monitor their students after 'ISIS R coming' was sprayed across the school building in graffiti paint.
Fayaz Kanaan, also know as the ginger jihadist, attended the school before leaving to join the Islamic State.
He has since returned to Australia, after his father intercepted him in Turkey.
According to the Daily Telegraph, teachers at the school have been asked by the AFP to monitor all students for radical tendencies following the incident.
'The AFP and its partners are spending significant time in schools and the community to encounter extremist narratives,' a spokesperson told the newspaper.
Students at the school have been counselled over the war in Iraq and Syria.

'Iran not answering questions on possible military aspects of nuclear program'

Iran has stopped answering the UN nuclear watchdog's questions about its suspected past efforts to design nuclear weapons.
This according to a report on Friday in The New York Times.
Yukiya Amano, the director general of the IAEA said Friday that Iran failed to provide more information on what Amano termed "possible military dimensions," of its nuclear program.
According to the Times, Amano said that cooperation had not been forthcoming, despite receiving assurances from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that Iran "would clarify the ambiguity," with regard to documents that appear to show work on nuclear weapons.
“What is needed now is action,” the Times quoted Amano saying in reference to a list of around a dozen issues that require Iranian clarification.
An IAEA report issued in early September showed Iran had failed to answer questions by an Aug. 25 deadline about what the UN agency calls the possible military dimensions of the country's nuclear program.

US and Israel pledge ‘unprecedented coordination’ on Iran

The United States and Israel will maintain “unprecedented coordination” as nuclear talks go forward with Iran, the White House said after a summit of the two nations’ security advisers.
“On Iran, the US delegation reaffirmed our commitment to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon,” said the statement describing the Thursday meeting of the US-Israel Consultative Group, co-chaired at the White House by Susan Rice, the US national security adviser; and Yossi Cohen, her Israeli counterpart.
“The two sides discussed the ongoing diplomatic efforts of the P5+1 and EU to reach a comprehensive solution that peacefully and verifiably resolves the international community’s concerns with Iran’s program,” the statement said, using the acronym for the major powers now in nuclear talks with Iran. “The delegations pledged to continue the unprecedented coordination between the United States and Israel as negotiations continue.”

Saudi Arabia's Religious Police Outlaw 'Tempting Eyes'

It’s a safe bet that Sheikh Motlab al Nabet, spokesman of Saudi Arabia’s religious police, isn’t a fan of Cole Porter. “The lure of you” is precisely why Nabet announced yesterday that the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice will cover any women’s eyes that are deemed “tempting.” “The men of the committee will interfere to force women to cover their eyes, especially the tempting ones” he said. “[We] have the right to do so.”
What are “tempting” eyes? One Saudi journalist mused on condition of anonymity that they are “uncovered eyes with a nice shape and makeup. Or even without makeup, if they are beautiful, the woman will be in trouble.” The Orwellian-named committee did not provide a definition of tempting, but if they happen to rely on Merriam-Webster, then it means “having an appeal.” What is an appeal? According to the dictionary, it is “arousing a sympathetic response.” And what is sympathetic? “Showing empathy,” according to Merriam-Webster.
So there you have it. To allow a women’s eyes to capture the unfettered glory of the world, one must empathize with her very existence. But the religious police–massively funded by King Abdullah–cannot do this. “It’s so stupid,” the Saudi journalist tells me. “I don’t know what to say. They have to stop this. Many people will oppose this in the country.

Saudi Health Ministry cautions on MERS after 6 new cases reported; advises against drinking camel urine

With reports of 38 confirmed Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) since early September and 32 cases reported this month, the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health (MOH) is admitting that the novel virus is still a threat in the Kingdom.
This follows the reporting of 6 cases during the past 24 hours, including one fatality.
Of the recent surge in MERS cases in the Kingdom, the city of Taif has been hit exceptionally hard with 17 cases. Riyadh has also reported an uptick in cases…
…[P]eople should avoid close contact with animals, particularly camels, when visiting farms, markets, or barn areas where the virus is known to be potentially circulating. General hygiene measures, such as regular hand washing before and after touching animals and avoiding contact with sick animals, should be adhered to.
Food hygiene practices should be observed. People should avoid drinking raw camel milk or camel urine, or eating meat that has not been properly cooked.

Study: 19 of 20 Worst Countries for Women Are Muslim-Majority Countries

It's official. According to the latest data, 19 of the 20 worst places in the world to be a woman are Muslim-majority countries. That's too strong a correlation to be a coincidence. (Note: The only country in the top 20 that isn't a Muslim-majority country is Ethiopia, where more than a third of the population is Muslim.)
Meanwhile, Muslim organizations like CAIR continue to silence anyone who criticizes the treatment of women in Muslim lands, and gullible American "feminists" are converting to Islam.

Court strips Dieudonne of damages for cancellation of anti-Semitic show

A French appeals court nullified a lower tribunal’s award of damages to the comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala for the cancellation of his show for its anti-Semitic content.
The Court of Appeals of Poitiers in western France handed down the ruling last week, Le Figaro reported.
The court excused an event management firm from the coastal municipality of La Rochelle from paying Dieudonne a little over $50,000 in damages that the municipality’s Tribunal of Commerce had awarded Dieudonne in 2012.
Dieudonne, who has 10 convictions for inciting racial hatred against Jews, sued the La Rochelle Evénements firm in 2009 when his performance at the Espace Encan event hall was cancelled.

City in horror: Belarus town shocked to discover buildings and pavements built of gravestones of Jews the Nazis tried to erase

Residents of a Belarus town on the border with Poland made the macabre discovery that thousands of Jewish gravestones have been used to construct buildings, roads – and even garden paving.
The headstones have been turning up in locations all over Brest over the past six years, with around 1,500 discovered so far.
Hundreds were discovered in May during the construction of a supermarket, with headstones unearthed by diggers.
Debra Brunner, co-director of The Together Plan, a UK-based charity that promotes the development of skills and education in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, has been helping with efforts to have the headstones protected and turned into a memorial.
She has visited the supermarket site herself and described the experience as ‘bizarre’.

Jewish Polio Vaccine Inventor Jonas Salk Gets Google Doodle for 100th Birthday

The late Jewish American researcher Jonas Salk, who discovered the polio vaccine, was honored Oct. 28 with a “Google Doodle” for what would have been his 100th birthday. Before the polio vaccine was introduced in 1957, many children became paralyzed as a result of the illness.
Google is known for creatively revising its search engine doodle to match current events. In the Salk image, the researcher is seen surrounded by happy children holding a poster with the wording “Thank you, Dr. Salk!”
Salk famously chose not to patent his vaccine, saying, “Could you patent the sun?” Before he died in 1995 at the age of 80, he had been working on a cure for HIV.

Thousands to attend Rabin memorial in Tel Aviv

Thousands of people are expected to gather in Tel Aviv Saturday night for the memorial event marking the 19th anniversary — according to the Hebrew calendar — of the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
The ceremony, titled “Returning to the square, restoring hope,” will be held at 19:30 pm at Rabin Square — as it is every year — where Rabin was shot dead on November 4, 1995, by right-wing extremist Yigal Amir. The site, originally called Malchei Yisrael Square, was renamed Rabin Square following the assassination.
A number of main streets in Tel Aviv were closed to traffic starting at 18:00 pm including Ibn Gabirol, Frishman, King David, Gordon, Malchei Yisrael, Ben Gurion, Bloch and Arlozorov.
Among the speakers invited to address the rally-goers were President Reuven Rivlin, former president Shimon Peres, Rabin’s son Yuval Rabin, and head of the Eshkol Regional Council Haim Yellin.