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Representing Jewish Communities in 100 Countries Across Six Continents
25 June 2010
A group of Jewish dancers has been attacked with stones by a group of teenagers during a performance at a street festival in Hanover, Germany. After one dancer suffered a leg injury, the group canceled its performance. The six attacking teenagers, five of whom are children of Muslim immigrants of Lebanese, Palestinian and Iranian origin, also used a megaphone to shout anti-Semitic slurs such as “Juden raus” [Jews out] during the attack, which occurred last Saturday. Two of the assailants aged 14 and 19 were arrested.
The city of Hanover has filed charges of slander and intent to cause grave physical harm. It was repotedly the first violent anti-Semitic incident this year in the Hanover area that was not committed by neo-Nazis.
Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told the newspaper ‘Die Welt’ that anti-Semitic feelings were widespread in both far-right and Muslim communities in the country. "It particularly saddens me that those anti-Semitic views can already be seen with such vehemence among children and youths," she said.
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It is to be expected of Iranian, Lebanese and Palestinian children. These anti-semitic slurs are taught by their parents from infancy on. Good for the city of Hanover that they filed charges against these teenagers.
If this had been the other way around, how many weeks would this have been on CNN and BBC?
I am against the use of Anti-Semitism and more in favor of anti Jewish. Why? The Lebanese and Palestinian are Semites. If I hear the word Semite, I can small the stanch of the Third World with camel and sheep pee, filth everywhere, swarms of fly’s and primitive analphabet people who are screaming in the streets. You have to admit with me that we are much better than that? How can someone compare people like Albert Einstein, Stefan Zweig, Thomas Mann en Robert Oppenheimer with those Allah Akbar morons
Today all muslims want to convert whole of the world to islamic wolrd.nations. But these foolish uneductaed muslim can see fuurre how the world will b eunder islamic laws and ways. Imagine.. no dance music ..without dance and music how it will be Imagine ..no more books only one book quran and all libraies will be burned no more printing press. Imagine.. No movies ,no TV and no intertainemnt. without this what a man and women will do may be killing will be sport. Imagine ..No schools for women ,no education ,no jobs for them.3 billion uneducated women with no edcuation will be like slaves and traded by man. Imgine children born to these women what will be their future. Imgine no more muse ms no photos of any one as Mohammed has no picture. and much more on crime and judgement a book and TV serial or Movie will in lighten our leaders who are promoting them .
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