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Related: About this forumRome posters call for boycott of Jewish shops
An apparent collaboration between left- and right-wing extremists, fliers list over 40 businesses to avoid.
Italys Jewish leadership called a new wave of anti-Jewish signposting in Rome an alarm bell that cannot be ignored, suggesting that it appeared to link far-left and far-right factions.
Renzo Gattegna, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, issued the warning after fliers urging a boycott of Jewish-owned stores in the capital were discovered plastered on walls in several districts of Rome on Saturday.
The fliers were signed by an extreme-right group, Vita Est Militia, but its pro-Palestinian text echoed slogans of the far-left.
We are witnessing with concern the solidifying of the extremist underworld in the name of a common anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hatred, whose most violent mode of expressions, still partially latent, risks forming a danger to the entire national collective, Gattegna said.
The fliers said that boycotting any type of Jewish product or business is fundamental to stop the massacre in Palestine, claiming that every shop, factory and business under Jewish ownership sends a percentage of its profits to Israel to furnish weapons and continue to kill those who have a right to live in their own homeland.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/rome-posters-call-for-boycott-of-jewish-shops/
marym625
(17,997 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Based on bullshit speculation, at best.
King_David
(14,851 posts)Is most times identical .
That's not bullshit .
A lot of times a person could be reading about Jewish Supremacism or anti Zionist this or that and very much pro Palestinian too , and not know if it's an extremist right wing website or extremist left wing website.
This boycott in the OP is a perfect illustration .
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Racism is a problem in Israel and their PM and his racist cabinet are part of that problem.
Jerusalem teachers warn of increase in racism after Gaza war
Staff concerned that Education Ministry lesson plans not enough to combat racist comments at start of school year.
By Yarden Skop | Aug. 31, 2014 |
Teachers in Jerusalem say they are concerned about facing more racism than ever before in the capitals schools, especially following Operation Protective Edge. As the school year opens, the Education Ministry has published lesson plans on racism to be taught during the first two weeks, but many teachers say that is not enough.
R. is a junior high teacher in the Jerusalem area. Like other teachers Haaretz spoke with, he asked that his name not be used so he could speak more freely. R. says the expressions of racism were harsh in the WhatsApp group he started to keep in touch with his students.
The whole thing that started with the kidnapping and murder of the three boys in the West Bank happened over summer vacation, and thats terrible in the sense that it left the students alone in the battle against the media and the blitz on social media, and did not allow educators to mediate the reality, he said.
R. told Haaretz that he used the racist comments as a basis for debate instead of silencing them, using WhatsApp in an unorthodox manner as a tool of informal education. R. says he has to deal with calls for violence against Arabs and accusations that hes a bleeding-heart leftist, as well as with anger that has no other outlet. The fact that I allow the students to make extremist remarks doesnt mean they are right, he says. But if they dont use me to deal with these issues they wont use anyone, and they will remain with their baseless opinions and childish emotions.
R. says he objects to what he says is the Education Ministrys directive not to broach explosive subjects in the classroom. I have students who say in every class, Lets talk about Arabs. It preoccupies them and they have no solution.
T., another Jerusalem area junior high teacher, says, I have students who took part in violent acts or right-wing demonstrations. I have a student who has a police file because of a hate crime. Other teachers at her school sometimes openly make racist statements, T. says, and some tell her that workshops on racism are a waste of time, that we are at war with the Arabs, and they dont see the importance of these programs.
Groups of teachers have gotten together in various parts of the country to work on the issue of racism at the beginning of the school year. Last week, at a meeting in Jerusalem, two groups Tnuat Hamorim and Hameorer handed out lesson plans on racism, filling what they say is a void left by the Education Ministry.
Rani Hazon Weiss, a teacher at the Givat Gonen High School in the capital and a member of the leadership of Tnuat Hamorim, who took part in the meeting in Jerusalem, said the subject of racism is not a new one at her school, where some of the students are members of La Familia, an extremist group of fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team. I saw many teachers trying to deal with the same problems, and so we decided to meet so we, the teachers, would have someone to talk to, she said.
Weiss said a representative of the Education Ministry came to talk to one of the groups, which she considered very important. At that meeting, she said, the teachers discussed what to do when students say Death to Arabs which they do frequently and we gave each other the benefit of our experience. We talked about giving the students the knowledge they lack such as, what is Hamas, what is the West Bank? These things should be part of the subjects they are taught.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.613244
Israel's educational neglect creates a racist ghetto
Prime Minister Netanyahu is sacrificing his country's most prized possession: an open, revolutionary and humanist culture.
By Sefi Rachlevsky | Sep. 3, 2014
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.613791
King_David
(14,851 posts)No matter how inconvenient .
Extremist Leftist anti Israel and anti Zionist is lots of time cover for AntiSemitism
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)King_David
(14,851 posts)No matter how inconvenient for your narrative it is an illustration of the broad extreme right and extreme left .
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)in Israel with Bibi and his racist cabinet members leading the charge.
King_David
(14,851 posts)Bibi ? Racist Israel ?
Ok I get it , that's what the OP is all about .
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Your post #3 where you're insinuating about another conversation you had earlier with
another DU member.
Extremist right and extremist left AntiSemitism
Is most times identical .
That's not bullshit .
A lot of times a person could be reading about Jewish Supremacism or anti Zionist this or that and very much pro Palestinian too , and not know if it's an extremist right wing website or extremist left wing website.
This boycott in the OP is a perfect illustration .
King_David
(14,851 posts)'Boycotting any type of Jewish product, business is fundamental to stop the massacre in Palestine,' flyers say
Italys Jewish leadership called a new wave of anti-Jewish signposting in Rome an alarm bell that cannot be ignored, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Sunday.
Leaflets urging a boycott of Jewish-owned stores in the capital were discovered plastered on walls in several districts of Rome on Saturday.
The fliers were signed by an extreme-right group, "Vita Est Militia."
Renzo Gattegna, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, said in response: "We are witnessing with concern the solidifying of the extremist underworld in the name of a common anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hatred, whose most violent mode of expressions, still partially latent, risks forming a danger to the entire national collective."
http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/39871-140811-rome-calls-to-boycott-jewish-owned-stores
King_David
(14,851 posts)Fresh posters urging Rome residents to boycott Jewish-owned businesses have appeared in Italy's capital, two weeks after anti-Semitic graffiti and flyers defaced shops and walls in the Jewish San Giovanni neighbourhood.
The flyers, signed by extreme-right group Vita Est Militia, said that "boycotting any type of Jewish product of business is fundamental to stop the massacre in Palestine" and claimed that "every shop, factory and business under Jewish ownership sends a percentage of its profits to Israel".
They listed by name 50 clothing stores, butcher shops, restaurants and bars and hotels allegedly owned by Jews.
"Buying from these INFAMI [villains] means contributing to kill thousands of other women, children and elderly who have to fight day by day to maintain their land, which was pillaged transforming every road in trench, raping women, burning children and destroying houses," reads the poster.
Italy's president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, Renzo Gattegna, called the new flyers "an alarm bell that cannot be ignored", even suggesting that far-right factions may have linked to far-left ones in a common anti-Semitic cause.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nazi-era-jewish-business-boycott-posters-appear-rome-1460660
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Let them reap what they sow.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)who claim anti-Zionism is not anti semitism. These are stores owned by Jewish people - not Israeli's. Shouldn't take too long for the deflectors to try and change the subject to something else (edited to add: I should have read the comments first, it's already happened - how predictable).