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North and South America/

June 29, 2009
Washington DC
A top aide to President Barack Obama provided a keynote address at last weekend’s 46th Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) national convention, a gathering that attracted thousands of people and also featured anti-Semitic, homophobic rhetoric and defense of the terrorist group Hezbollah.

July 13, 2009
United States
Facebook bans anti-terror, anti-jihadist groups but refuses to remove holocaust deniers and other groups that spread hate.

July 15, 2009
Washington DC
An imam at a major Muslim conference gave an anti-Semitic speech in which he blamed Jews for the holocaust. Some rabbis who have been trying to build closer relations between Muslims and Jews were in attendance.
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July 16, 2009
New York, NY
Ronald Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress, reminds the Charity Commission that the recent definition of anti-Semitism by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia includes “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, for example by claiming that the existence of a state of Israel is a racist endeavour” after the Charity Commission supports a worldwide boycott of Israel.

July 15, 2009
New York, NY
A national campaign to educate the general public about Islam through a series of advertisements on buses is tainted by the fact that a Web site related to the campaign links out to sites that contain anti-Semitic materials, according to the ADL.

July 21, 2009
Washington DC
DHS chief Janet Napolitano appointed Arif Alikhan as assistant secretary for the Office of Policy Development at the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Alikhan is a member of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, an organization that supports Hezbollah, is pro-Palestine, and calls Israelis “the worst terrorists in the world.”

Middle East

June 25, 2009
Syria
Syrian Minister of Religious Endowment Muhammad Abd Al-Sattar says Jews brought extremism to the Middle East and also says that Jews entice the U.S. to attack. Video here.

July 9, 2009
Gaza
Children watch reenactment of mother’s suicide bombing in propaganda piece.

July 21, 2009
Israel
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar called on American Jews to explain to the Obama administration the religious obligation of every Jew to live in every part of the Land of Israel and says Obama ‘settlement’ stance opposes Torah.

Europe

July 13, 2009
Amsterdam, Netherlands
About 100 cars were vandalized. Cars were scratched with swastikas and the word Jew.

July 14, 2009
Ploiesti, Romania
Jewish Cemetery of Ploiesti vandalized. Five tombstones destroyed.

July 20, 2009
Ionnina, Greece
Cemetery is vandalized for the third time this year.

Asia

July 20, 2009
Mumbai, India
A day after the the lone surviving gunman confessed to the Mumbai jihad attacks, the judge presiding over his trial confronted some tough choices on how the court should proceed with the case.

Op-ed pieces of interest

March 11, 2009
Philadelphia, PA
Why I Am A Bad Jewish Person, by Rami Kaminski. “As killing Jews for being Jews has been a national sport for centuries, Islamic militants are justified in believing they are merely fulfilling historical tradition in Argentina, India and Gaza. Surely the Jews in Mumbai did not occupy Gaza. They were tortured and killed just for being Jews. And predictably, in the eyes of the world, they immediately became good Jews, just like my murdered family in Bertishev.”

July 11, 2009
United States
For Liberal Jews, Obama Is the Messiah, by Abraham H. Miller. “The difference between radical Muslims and liberal American Jews is that the former seek to become martyrs, while the latter aspire to become victims.”

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