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Monday, June 12, 2023

06/12 Links Pt2: Lipstadt: Aware of CAIR's antisemitic past, giving them a chance to overcome; An anti-Israel center for Israel studies

From Ian:

MEMRI: The New U.S. National Strategy To Counter Antisemitism Reveals Ignorance About The Reality Of Antisemitism In America
On May 25, 2023, the Biden administration published the first-ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism,[1] a 60-page document full of calls to Congress and "Whole-of-Society" calls to action. Notably, the strategy includes several instances of placing Islamophobia on par with antisemitism.[2]

Hatred of Muslims is indeed a real phenomenon in the United States. However, antisemitism cannot be put together with other phenomena, such as Islamophobia. Antisemitism is not only an ideology – rather, it is manifested in action, and there are more antisemitic hate crimes than there are for any other hateful ideology in America. In November 2022, FBI Director Christopher Wray said that 63% of religious hate crimes are motivated by antisemitism, despite the fact that Jews only comprise less than 3% of the U.S. population.[3] In addition, the FBI, the ADL, and even police departments have recorded a significant increase in antisemitic attacks in recent years.[4]

Moreover, many Muslim clerics in America themselves preach antisemitism and call for violence against Jews. The MEMRI archives contain dozens of videos of American imams calling for the annihilation of the Jews, predicting that the Muslims will slaughter the Jews on Judgment Day, referring to Jews as the descendants of apes and pigs, and referring to the corruption, mischief, and "filth" of the Jews.

It would have been valuable for those who authored the new strategy to familiarize themselves with this reality. Had they done so, they would not have made the mistake of putting the victim and the victimizer together in a document dedicated to countering antisemitism.

Indeed, the strategy does touch briefly on reality – on page 37, it states: "The President has long called for fundamental reforms to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and Congress should remove special immunity for online platforms." Unfortunately, this too reveals the ignorance behind the strategy – instead of taking swift and decisive action as the executive branch to reform Section 230, the administration appears to be satisfied with issuing just another "call to action" among dozens of other empty calls. Section 230 is the root cause of the online spread of hateful ideologies (including jihad and antisemitism), and the administration has failed to reform the legislation and make social media companies and their owners accountable for the content on their platforms – even though all other forms of media are accountable. Social media can be compared to nuclear energy: It carries a great amount of potential and benefit, but nobody in their right mind would allow it to remain unregulated.

Below are examples of American Muslim clerics preaching hate of Jews and calling to violence against them:
Lipstadt: Aware of CAIR's antisemitic past, giving them a chance to overcome
Deborah Lipstadt, United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism, knows that there are Jewish leaders who are upset about the way her historic Combating Antisemitism Strategy was launched a few weeks ago at the White House, but she stands firm behind it.

“I’m not naive,” she told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday in an exclusive interview. She is in Israel in honor of the annual Global Forum of the American Jewish Committee in Tel Aviv.

One of the main criticisms was about allowing an organization with antisemitic statements in its past to participate in implementing the plan. According to the fact sheet that has been sent out by the White House, “the Council on American-Islamic Relations [CAIR] will launch a tour to educate religious communities about steps they can take to protect their houses of worship from hate incidents, such as instituting appropriate security measures, developing strong relationships with other faith communities and maintaining open lines of communication with local law enforcement.”

CAIR is a self-declared Muslim civil rights and advocacy group headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, with regional offices nationwide. CAIR is America’s largest Muslim civil liberties organization. Yet according to an official document of the US Department of Justice in 2013, the FBI cut off ties with CAIR. “

The guidance specifically stated that, until the FBI could determine whether there continued to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and Hamas, ‘the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner’ for non-investigative activities,” the document stated.

In addition, according to a background document of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), some members of CAIR’s leadership have used inflammatory anti-Zionist rhetoric that on a number of occasions has veered into antisemitic tropes related to Jewish influence over the media or political affairs. According to the ADL, CAIR frequently partnered with vehemently anti-Zionist and anti-Israel groups like Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and American Muslims for Palestine, many of whose members employ extreme rhetoric and questionable tactics to demonize Zionism and Zionists and disrupt pro-Israel activity.

“It had nothing to do with the document itself, nothing to do with the formulation of the policy,” Lipstadt said of the mention of CAIR in the fact sheet that was attached to the strategy text.
Stephen Daisley: Tucker Carlson and the danger of antisemitism
It’s hard to believe Carlson is a victim of ignorance or coincidence. It is more likely that he dropped these tropes into his monologue because he knew it would scandalise his progressive and liberal critics. A little thumb in the eye, just because he can. This is part of his schtick, alongside the smug chuckle, the caricature voices, and the goofy mugging for the camera.

Carlson is a troll, but he is a troll with significant standing across the various strands of the American right, including the less pleasant ones. As Tamara Berens observes in a thoughtful essay for Mosaic: ‘Antisemitism is not only the glue holding disparate parts of the far right together. It’s also the building block of a wall being constructed to define who is and isn’t part of this loose constellation of movements.’

Not all of the people watching Carlson will pick up on these tropes but some will be only too familiar because they’re looking for them. For these people, talk of dead-eyed rats and shifty persecutors of Christians is more than obvious bait for Media Matters and the New York Times. To them it is a nod and a wink, a subtle salute to the fringe from the mainstream right. They will have come away from Tucker Carlson’s first Twitter monologue emboldened and hungry for more.


An anti-Israel center for Israel studies
UCLA’s Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies is screening a film featuring the co-founder of the anti-Israel group If Not Now (INN), Simone Zimmerman. The film claims to be a documentary and portrays what it describes as a generational divide. Young American Jews, it asserts, no longer see Israel as central to their identity. Instead, they see it through the lens of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—with Israel, of course, as the villain.

Why would a center for Israel studies elevate an ideology that lives on the fringes of American Jewry? Perhaps that is a question better asked of the center’s director and donors.

INN is a movement that falsely claims that Israel engages in apartheid and the displacement of Palestinians. The group conveniently ignores the facts on the ground, such as that Israeli Arabs have full citizenship rights. Palestinians living under the rule of the terrorist group Hamas, on the other hand, suffer from the brutality of a regime that does not recognize human rights like freedom of speech and religion or gender equality. The Palestinian Authority also subjects its citizens to inhumane treatment.

In the film, Zimmerman likens displays of Jewish pride to celebrations of terrorism, falsely conflating Jewish institutions that respect members of Israel’s military with summer camps in Gaza run by terrorists that indoctrinate children.

The documentary strongly criticizes the education of Jewish children about Jewish history and Israel. It appears that the filmmakers would prefer Jewish children to be ignorant of the story of their people and instead engage in self-flagellating performative acts of social justice. This brainwashes young American Jews and manipulates them into believing they should be ashamed of the Jews who have stood up, fought and died for our people to have a nation.

This is why institutions like the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies can be dangerous. Their complicity in spreading anti-Jewish and anti-Israel lies and tropes normalizes Jew-hatred.

No credible institution of higher learning would support the screening of a film so rife with lies and defamation if it were directed at any other minority. Imagine if the Department of African American Studies at UCLA hosted a screening of the infamously racist 1915 film Birth of a Nation and hosted a discussion with its director.
IfNotNow: Opposing Israel From Within the Jewish Community
Along with Jewish Voice for Peace, one of the most prominent Jewish anti-Israel organizations in the United States is IfNotNow (INN).

Since its inception in 2014, INN has accumulated a substantial following on social media and has been profiled by several mainstream media organizations, including The New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times.

However, like JVP, IfNotNow is not a mainstream, good-faith actor when it comes to representing the American Jewish community or opining on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Rather, INN is a radical organization that opposes establishment American Jewish organizations and their support for the Jewish state, acts against Israel’s interests in the political sphere, is ambivalent about the threat of Palestinian terrorism, and fights against right-wing antisemitism while turning a blind eye to antisemitism emanating from left-wing and progressive quarters.

IfNotNow & the Jewish Community
IfNotNow was founded in 2014 as a protest movement of young Jews who were angered by the American Jewish establishment’s support for Israel’s fight against Hamas during Operation Protective Edge.

The name of the organization is taken from a rabbinic dictum by the Talmudic sage Hillel the Elder.

In order to appeal to both anti-Zionists and left-wing Zionists, INN did not take an official stance on such issues as the one-state or two-state solutions, BDS or Zionism.

While it initially billed itself as an anti-“occupation” organization, INN has broadened its mission statement in recent years to include ending American support for “Israel’s apartheid system.”

Related Reading: The ‘Apartheid’ Myth: The Improper Use of False and Misleading Claims Regarding Israel

In 2014, INN’s first major protest was outside the Manhattan headquarters of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

Since then, the organization has spoken out against other American Jewish communal institutions such as Birthright, the Celebrate Israel parade in New York City, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), American Friends of Magen David Adom (the Israeli version of the Red Cross) and the Anti-Defamation League.

A major focus of IfNotNow’s advocacy within the Jewish community is education. As several members of INN are graduates of the Jewish day school system who feel that they were not properly educated about Israel, the group initiated the “You Never Told Me” campaign that calls for the inclusion of Palestinian narratives within the American Jewish education system.

INN’s spotlight on Jewish education is also the focus of “Israelism,” a 2023 documentary film that claims that Jewish educational institutions lie about Israel and then build a Jewish identity around that lie.


UK leaders slam Roger Waters’s antisemitism
Roger Waters, the co-founder of the band Pink Floyd, has faced widespread criticism for Holocaust and anti-Israel imagery at his concerts. Ahead of a June 10 concert in Manchester, national and local U.K. politicians distanced themselves from the musician.

“The Labour Party stands with the Jewish community and fully condemns Roger Waters,” Labour Party leader Keir Starmer wrote to the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

“Many people will think of Roger Waters as famous for being a member of one of the most important bands in history, but he is now more synonymous with spreading deeply troubling antisemitism, and that is why I believe this show should not be allowed to go ahead,” Starmer added. “Views like this should not be given a platform.”

Michael Gove, another member of Parliament and secretary of state for leveling up, housing and communities, as well as minister for intergovernmental relations, also wrote to the Board of Deputies.

“The government is clear that everyone has a clear and fundamental right to freedom of speech and artistic expression, so long as they remain within the boundaries set by law,” the Conservative Party’s Gove wrote. “There is also a societal expectation placed on people with a significant public profile to behave responsibly and not abuse their platform. This is an expectation of which Roger Waters is reportedly falling short.”

The show, titled “This Is Not a Drill,” took place on Saturday at the AO Arena in Manchester.

“Is anyone surprised anymore? Tonight, Roger Waters’ fans in Manchester chanted ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’” tweeted the Campaign Against Antisemitism.

“The chant only makes sense as a call for the destruction of the world’s only Jewish state—and its replacement with a State of Palestine—and is thus an attempt to deny Jews, uniquely, the right to self-determination, which is a breach of the international definition of antisemitism,” the group wrote.


Arabic Euronews Conceals Conviction of Sbarro Terrorist Ahlam Tamimi
A June 2 Arabic Euronews article misleadingly reported that Jordanian-Palestinian terrorist Ahlam Tamimi was “arrested for eight years in Israel,” concealing the essential fact that she had been tried and sentenced to 16 life terms for her role in the deadly 2001 Sbarro suicide bombing (“After a coma of more than two decades – the passing of an Israeli woman injured in a 2001 attack”).

The Palestinian-Jordanian terrorist herself proudly and repeatedly admitted her role in the murder of 15 civilians in the Jerusalem pizzeria (the 16th victim died just this month after 22 years in a coma), both when she was in prison and again later after she was released to Jordan in a prisoner swap.

Notably, the Turkish version of the same Euronews report (the only other language in which Euronews published this report) did contain the basic information that Tamimi was serving a jail term after her conviction in the devastating terror attack.

As of this writing, Euronews has failed to uphold Euronews’ EU charter governing standards of accuracy, accountability and impartiality. Despite CAMERA Arabic’s communication with editors, the misreporting stands uncorrected.
Unusual Suspects Haaretz Impugns Rabbis, Bar-Ilan Graduates
Haaretz has long made clear that it regards justices living beyond the Green Line in the disputed West Bank as inherently tainted with intrinsically compromised professionalism. But now the paper’s English edition has apparently expanded the pool of automatically disqualified jurists to include rabbis and all those educated at Bar-Ilan University in central Israel. The university is located in Givat Shmuel, outside of Tel Aviv, within internationally-recognized Israeli territory.

The English version of Amira Hass’ June 7, “Israel Stops Gazan From Getting Treatment in Jordan to Save His Leg From Being Amputated“) (page 1 of the print edition, and online here) reports about the judge who heard the Palestinian’s case:
The petition was heard on Sunday by Judge Ilan Sela, who has a doctorate in law from religious-Zionist-oriented Bar-Ilan University and is also an ordained rabbi. At the hearing, Sela said the classified material that two Shin Bet officials showed him had persuaded him the petition should be rejected.

How is the information that Judge Sela studied at Bar-Ilan and is also an ordained rabbi possibly relevant to the story? Notably, the educational institutions and extracurricular activities of no other figure in the story is reported. The effect is to cast doubt on the judge’s credibility and professionalism, as if studying at Bar-Ilan or being an ordained rabbi is a mark against him. Notably, the Hebrew version of Hass’ article does not include the irrelevant biographical information. Does Haaretz really intend to smear all religious Zionist rabbis and all graduates of Bar-Ilan University, a vast and diverse student body, as intrinsically suspect? At the very least, editors’ failure to heed CAMERA’s call to remove the irrelevant information indicates a certain level of comfort with the insinuation.
CBC Radio Gives Anti-Israel Organization Platform To Lobby Against IHRA Definition
In recent years, a growing number of Canadian provinces have adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition, including Alberta, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as the federal government in 2019.

According to CBC, the Yukon Legislature may join other jurisdictions across Canada in adopting the IHRA definition in its fall session.

On May 31, Midday Café with Leonard Linklater, a CBC Radio program with a focus on the Yukon Territory, interviewed Marvin Rotrand from B’nai Brith Canada, a national Jewish advocacy organization, where the two discussed the possibility of the territory adopting the IHRA definition.

During the interview, Rotrand told Linklater that the IHRA definition was of critical importance, highlighting statistics which show Jews in Canada representing a disproportionate number of hate crime victims, and that “If you’re going to combat something, you need to define it.”

But Linklater’s coverage of the IHRA definition of antisemitism ruffled some feathers among anti-Israel groups.

Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), an organization which has previously spread anti-Israel disinformation, has endorsed the one-state solution (the de facto elimination of Israel as a Jewish State) and which has actively condemned the IHRA definition of antisemitism, condemned CBC the very next day for its coverage.

On June 1, the group published a letter it sent to Linklater and other senior CBC staff, complaining that it failed to “pose any critical questions” to Rotrand regarding IHRA, and referring to the working definition as “notoriously controversial.” It also claimed that the definition aimed to “silence human rights organizations and pro-Palestinian activists by conflating criticism of Israel’s apartheid and settler-colonial policies with antisemitism.”
BBC ignores follow-up on attack on Irish UNIFIL troops
Although it is now clear that the man arrested in December is a member of Hizballah, along with the four others indicted by the Lebanese authorities conducting one of those three investigations, no news of those indictments has appeared on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page or ‘Republic of Ireland’ page.

With the BBC previously having published no fewer than nine items on the story, once again the question arises as to whether the fact that the BBC maintains a bureau in Beirut (located a fifteen-minute drive away from Hizballah’s Dahieh stronghold) enhances or actually negatively affects the coverage audiences receive of stories from Lebanon and the region.


How a trip to Auschwitz taught me about Arab-Jewish partnership - opinion
On the third day of the tour, the air is dank and chilly. May in Auschwitz is like January in Israel. We arrive in a town within a natural grove, selected as an appropriate site for death camps because it served as a giant hub of freight railway tracks from all over Europe. Groups of tourists wander around the remains of this camp of horrors, their faces gloomy as the sky. It’s less than ten degrees Celsius and we feel guilty in our warm jackets, wondering how the prisoners who were tortured here managed to survive in minus-20-degree temperatures in winter, with no food and in the thinnest of pajamas.

The sights silence our vibrant Middle Eastern group. One and a half million children were murdered in the Holocaust, and of all the gigantic piles of confiscated suitcases and remains of shaved human hair, it is the tiny toddler boots within the endless mountains of shoes which are the hardest to look at.

As we exit the camp, rigid from the horrors and the cold, I stop for coffee with Wisam Faiz Omar, the council head of Tuba-Zangaria, and Lt. Col. Kais Mazariv, the representative of the Home Front Command. Wisam was most horrified by the photograph of a woman before Auschwitz, and then again, after four months in the camp, a mere skeleton of skin and bones. "When I saw that picture, I decided to bring our high school graduating class here", he says, “last year I had no budget for it, but next year I'll find the budget no matter what".

Kais quietly nods. "The hardest part for me was to realize how we behave", he says. "How is it possible that after all this we don't embrace one another in the State of Israel, and serve as an example of listening, learning and tolerance to the world? If only our politicians served as an example of respect and mutual understanding. It’s heartbreaking that people ended their lives this way, and there is no clear message to the entire world".

Their honest words touch me - hypocrisy and cynicism are erased in Auschwitz- Birkenau. Kais makes me think of how we've all been speaking lately. Some dismiss the internal hatred as something normal that goes back to the days of Altalena, but it isn’t true. We're trying to interpret a completely new era with the rationale of the old world. The ability to distribute information has multiplied, and the platforms reward hatred – it’s a means to increase traffic and income. Too many people generate fake news, simply because they can, and in the end, most of the political messages focus on defaming some social group. As this phenomenon gains significance and power, these become our values as a society.

It's easy to get dragged into, easy to ascribe the traits of extremists to an entire camp, which in reality contains a whole range of views and shades. After seeing the depths humans sunk to when they were fed negative beliefs about Jews, it's difficult to understand why we aren’t more cautious. It’s not only Arabs that need to come here, but also more Jews. 2.5 million tourists visit Auschwitz annually, and less than one hundred thousand of them are Israelis.

Amit and Dalia’s partnership is admirable, even astounding. The monitoring committee of the Arab community tried to fight them, and the Ministry of Education has yet to approve them as a Youth Movement. Nonetheless, slowly and with great determination, the new Arab Israeli movement is growing, yearning to integrate, succeed, connect with the legacy and find their own path within it - the proud, unique narrative of Arab Israelis. It is led by excellent people and backed by Zionist Jewish donors who believe in the future of Atidna, and after a four-day tour with them in Poland, I emerged deeply moved and full of hope.
Antisemitic, sexist, racist, homophobic: Silvio Berlusconi’s controversial statements
Ever the showman, former Italian prime minister and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi, whose death was announced on Monday, was known for his gaffes and one-liners, many of them sexist, racist, or in poor taste.

Islam and Jews
In September 2001, two weeks after the terror attacks in the United States, Berlusconi caused outrage in the Islamic world when he said the West “should be confident of the superiority of our civilization.”

In 2010, he offended the Jewish community in turn when he told a joke about a Jewish family hiding another Jew for a hefty rent, without telling him that World War II was over.

Diplomatic gaffes
In 2003, Berlusconi sparked a diplomatic crisis between Berlin and Rome when, after heckling by German Euro-MP Martin Schulz and others at the European Parliament, he said that the German would be perfect to play the role of a Nazi camp guard in a film.

Two years later, in 2005, he offended Finland when he criticized its food and claimed he had used his “playboy” charm to convince the country’s then president Tarja Halonen to allow the EU’s Food Safety Authority to be located in Parma rather than Finland.

In 2008, shortly after the election of Barack Obama as US president, Berlusconi said “he’s young, he’s handsome and he is tanned.”

Berlusconi’s view of history
In 2003, he defended the record of Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, claiming “he never killed anyone” but merely “used to send people on holiday.”

In 2006, he said that Chinese Communists under Mao Zedong had babies “boiled to fertilize the fields.”
New Jersey man accused of targeting Jewish homes in arson attack
New Jersey police have charged a man after a house was burnt to the ground and more than a dozen homes were vandalised with swastika graffiti.

Condemning “senseless acts of bigotry and hate,” New Jersey police charged Ron Carr, 34, with 36 criminal counts, including aggravated arson, criminal mischief and “bias intimidation”.

Carr allegedly told police he torched the house and painted the swastikas because he thought the owners were Jewish.

The attacks took place in Manchester Township, an area of New Jersey where increasing numbers of strictly Orthodox Jews have moved in recent years.

Police first received reports of vandalism at about 11.45pm last Tuesday.

At 3.11am, they responded to a house fire in the same neighbourhood and received reports of a suspicious person in the area.

The individual identified matched the description of the graffiti suspects.

In a joint statement, Ocean County prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer and the state’s attorney general Matthew Platkin said those who felt entitled to “trample on their neighbours’ rights to live in peace and exercise their constitutional freedoms” would not find safe haven in New Jersey.

“Random acts of hate designed to instil fear and to violate New Jerseyans’ sense of security and belonging, solely based on who they are and what they believe in, will be dealt with swiftly and harshly by law enforcement,” he said.

Platkin said: “This crime spree and the antisemitism that it expressed caused pain, destruction, shock and fear among the residents of Manchester Township.


‘Leopoldstadt’ and ‘Parade’ win Tony awards, bringing antisemitism center stage
Broadway made a statement about antisemitism Sunday evening, as two high-profile shows on the subject this season — the play “Leopoldstadt” and the musical revival “Parade” — pulled in multiple major Tony awards.

Some of the shows’ honorees, in turn, made statements of their own linking hatred of Jews with other forms of hatred, including homophobia and anti-transgender sentiment at a time when trans inclusion is under attack in many places.

“Leopoldstadt,” Tom Stoppard’s epic semi-autobiographical play about three generations of a Viennese Jewish family before and after the Holocaust, won four of the six Tonys for which it was nominated, including best play.

The “Leopoldstadt” actor Brandon Uranowitz, the only member of the play’s large cast to receive an acting nomination, won for featured actor in a play and thanked Stoppard for writing a show about antisemitism and “the false promise of assimilation.”

He noted that members of his family were murdered by the Nazis in Poland.
Israel Defeats South Korea for Bronze at U20 World Cup, After Historic Run
Israel’s under-20 (U20) national soccer team won third place on Sunday night, after defeating South Korea 3-1. They previously fell to Uruguay 1-0 in a semifinals match.

The Israeli team already made local soccer history when it defeated Brazil 3-2 in the quarter-finals, after an epic match that went into overtime. The young players leave Argentina with their names etched into the country’s soccer history books.

For the first time, the U20 squad recorded a FIFA World Cup match win for Israel, then a knockout stage qualification, followed by a knockout stage win at the senior or youth level, and now they’ve brought home a medal.

The sensational quarter-final game had the Brazilians enter as the overwhelming favorite. Back-and-forth scoring by the two teams kept the game suspenseful.. Brazil had the lead one minute into overtime, but Israel quickly equalized. In the 105th minute, Dor Turgeman faced off with goalkeeper Kaique Pereira, and made the game-winning goal.

“Congratulations to the Israeli youth soccer team for a historic achievement – third place in the World Cup! You are ending a wonderful and exciting journey in the Mondialeto and we are all proud of you” said Israel’s President Isaac Herzog, as the first to comment on the historic win.
Israel defeats South Korea for bronze at U20 World Cup, after historic run
The team already made Israeli soccer history when it defeated Brazil 3-2 in the quarter-finals, and brought more sports pride with a 3rd place finish

Israel's under-20 (U20) national soccer team won third place on Sunday night, after defeating South Korea 3-1. They previously fell to Uruguay 1-0 in a semifinals match, before the South American team defeated Italy to win the cup




150-year-old JC found in time capsule at Jewish museum synagogue
Israel’s under-20 (U20) national soccer team won third place on Sunday night, after defeating South Korea 3-1. They previously fell to Uruguay 1-0 in a semifinals match.

The Israeli team already made local soccer history when it defeated Brazil 3-2 in the quarter-finals, after an epic match that went into overtime. The young players leave Argentina with their names etched into the country’s soccer history books.

For the first time, the U20 squad recorded a FIFA World Cup match win for Israel, then a knockout stage qualification, followed by a knockout stage win at the senior or youth level, and now they’ve brought home a medal.

The sensational quarter-final game had the Brazilians enter as the overwhelming favorite. Back-and-forth scoring by the two teams kept the game suspenseful.. Brazil had the lead one minute into overtime, but Israel quickly equalized. In the 105th minute, Dor Turgeman faced off with goalkeeper Kaique Pereira, and made the game-winning goal.

“Congratulations to the Israeli youth soccer team for a historic achievement – third place in the World Cup! You are ending a wonderful and exciting journey in the Mondialeto and we are all proud of you” said Israel’s President Isaac Herzog, as the first to comment on the historic win.




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