What does Intifada mean?

 

What does the globalized Intifada mean? It means killing Jews all over the world just as it happened in Australia.

Sydney massacre

 The resent massacre of Jews in Sidney, Australia has caused chaos all over the world.

Zionism

 Zionism is the word, that the Jews use, when they speak about their homeland. Zion meant the city of Jerusalem. 

Is Jesus a Palestinian?

 

Some Arabs are claiming that Jesus was a Palestinian, but this video shows that he was not. He was a Jew. 

70 Christians beheaded in church in Republic of Congo

 

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Joel Kontinen

The Jews are not the only ones that are being sacrificed. It is  the Christians who have also been killed, especially in Congo, The culprit is Isis.

”Seventy Christians were beheaded in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Christians were murdered by terrorists from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) – a group with ties to the Islamic State (ISIS). 

According to sources, at around 4 am last Thursday (13 February) suspected militants from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) – a group with ties to the Islamic State (IS) – approached homes in Mayba in the territory of Lubero, saying: “Get out, get out and don’t make any noise.” Twenty Christian men and women came out and were captured. ADF terrorists surrounded the village and captured a further 50 Christians.

The 70 prisoners were taken to a Protestant Church in Kasanga where they were bound, murdered, and beheaded with machetes. Sources report that local Islamist terrorists wouldn’t let Christian leaders bury the dead for some five days.

Following the attack, many Christians fled the region, seeking safety. Muhindo Musunzi, director of the Kombo Primary School, stated that churches, schools, and health centers had already shut down due to the deteriorating Security Situation.”

Hundreds of Christians are being murdered every year.

Source:

Adam Eliyahu Berkowictz 70 Christians beheaded in church in Republic of Congo  - Israel365 News 23 February 2025

Racicim towards Jews is evident in our world

 

Image courtesy of Simone Rotella

Joel Kontinen

”It has been more than four years since Darnella Frazier, then a teenager, captured on camera the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by white police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Yet the impact on Frazier’s brain of what she witnessed could linger for much longer.”

“I still hold the weight and trauma of what I witnessed,” Frazier wrote in a social media post on the one-year anniversary of Floyd’s murder. “I’m not who I used to be. A part of my childhood was taken from me.”

For instance the Palestinian anger towards Jews, including the college intifada slogans, of all Jews is a testimony of all Israelis are the source of racism.

 

Source:  

Layal Liverpool, 2024, Race is a social construct, but racism can cause real biological harm | New Scientist 5 June

What Judaism meant for Adolf Hitler

 

Joel Kontinen

Recently, Whoopi Goldberg said the Nazi Holocaust was not about race. She was mistaken, as Hitler and his Nazi colleagues proved otherwise.

Wilhelm Marr argued the Jews were not a religion. Rather, they were a race locked in a “struggle for existence” with Germans

Hitler aided the mass murder of myriads of Sinti and Roma (Gypsies), Slavs, and others he saw as racially inferior.

Fritz Lenz was one of the leading geneticists in Germany before the Nazis came to power. He integrated anti-Semitism into his co-authored textbook on human genetics. And he was by no means alone.

The Germans dubbed the extinction of the Jews as Scientific Racism, so it gave a bad scent to all German philosophies.

Source:

Weikart, Richard. 2022. Let’s Learn from Whoopi Goldberg’s Misunderstanding about the History of Racism Evolution News and Science Today.  7 February. 

Portuguese honours its Schindler

  Aristides de Sousa Mendes (Screenshot). 

Joel Kontinen

Portugal honoured Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a former diplomat for the country, who helped save thousands of Jews from the Nazis during Second World War,

 He probably saved 30 000 refugees of which 10,000 were Jewish. The numbers were the greatest anyone could save during the holocauust.  

 “People who at the decisive moment put their and their family’s safety at risk for the greater good are rare. Sousa Mendes was one of those people,” said Speaker of the Portuguese Parliament Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, reported AP on Tuesday.

A tomb with his name was placed in the country’s National Pantheon.

 Portugal was a neutral country during the Second World War.  Mendes disobeyed orders made by his superiors, including from dictator António Salazar, when he was a consul in Bordeaux, France. In 1940, he issued visas to those who feared that the Nazis would hunt for them. The Portuguese visas allowed Jews and others to escape via Lisbon on the way to the United States and other countries.

 Mendes was fired as a result and died in poverty in 1954, according to the report. The Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem recognizes him as a Righteous Gentile and is noted in “The Righteous Among the Nations.”

 In 2017, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo announced Mendes being given the country’s highest honour: the Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty.

Frank Foley was a British spy who saved 6,000 Jews, and Sir Nicholas Winton also saved 669 of the Jewish children in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia.  

 Source:

JNS. 2021.  Portugal honors diplomat who saved Jews from Nazis, Israel 365 News, 20 October.  

 

 

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Japanese Diplomat Saved 6 000 Jews From Concentration Camps

 Sugihara.  Image courtesy of public domain.

Joel Kontinen

Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, a virtual event on Monday honoured a hero often referred to as the “Japanese Schindler” for helping to save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.

Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania, defied his own government’s orders by issuing handwritten transit visas in 1940 to more than 6,000 Lithuanian Jews, enabling them to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. He continued to do so for over a month until the Japanese consulate was closed. More than 40,000 descendants of those Jews are believed to be alive today because of his courageous actions.

Sugihara died in 1986 at the age of 86.

The online event highlighted Sugihara’s heroic deeds and the lessons we can learn from him in battling contemporary anti-Semitism. The reception was hosted by the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement and B’nai B’rith International.

Sacha Roytman Dratwa, executive director of the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement, told JNS, “While Sugihara has gotten more attention in recent decades, particularly after Yad Vashem gave him the ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ title in the 1980s, most people, including Jews, are still unaware of his heroic deeds. So, it is important that we honour those, such as Sugihara, who came to the aid of the Jewish people in the darkest hour of their history.”

“With fewer and fewer survivors of the Holocaust alive to tell their stories, it is vital that its lessons continue to be shared,” he continued. “The Sugihara lesson is about what one person can do in the face of evil—which, with anti-Semitism on the rise around the world, is as relevant as ever.”

He was not the only one to save Jews: Apart from Schindler, who saved 1 200 Jews from concentration camps, Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker, teamed with 20 others and smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some in ambulances and trams between October 1940 and April 1943 and placed them in Catholic homes. And in the UK, they had Frank Foley, who saved 10,000 Jews  and sir Nicholas Winton who saved 669 Jewish children..

Source 

Ghermezian, Shiryn. 2021. Honoring the Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from Holocaust Jewish News Syndicate 27 January

 

Yad Vashem Debuts New Exhibition On Kristallnacht Anniversary

 

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View of the old synagogue in Aachen after its destruction during Kristallnacht, public domain.

Joel Kontinen

The Jews  of Europe were tortured. Their businesses were destroyed, as were their synagogues. Now, 82 years after Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, Yad Vashem is showcasing a new digital exhibition to elaborate on the events that took place from Nov. 9 to 10, 1938.

The online exhibition entitled, “‘It Came from Within:’ The November Pogrom (Kristallnacht)” features personal stories, archives, a Torah scroll, video testimonies and more. The exhibition is available in English, Hebrew, German and Spanish.

“That night was so aggressive and I want to show that when people think of Kristallnacht, they think it was only synagogues that were burning and glass was broken,” Yona Kobo, the curator at Yad Vashem who created “It Came from Within, said. “They don’t know what happened to the people.”

In this exhibition, Kobo gathered several stories that show what exactly happened to individuals during the pogrom.

This marked the beginning of Adolf Hitler’s fought against the Jews that saw him advancing science to take care of those not fit for life,  and this same Anti-Semitism is still alive today.

Not only did the two-day event have an impact on Jews across Europe, but the days before and after were just as dangerous. There are 10 interactive pictures to click on, each telling a different story from Kristallnacht.

“It’s a very important turning because after that, it wasn’t just anti-Jewish legislation,” Kobo said. “There was a lot of vandalism against the Jews in a very severe way.”

One of the exhibition’s key elements is Lore Mayerfield Stern’s story about her doll. This wasn’t just a doll, but a symbol of how she and her mother survived the pogrom in Marburg, Germany.

“She only managed to take her pajamas from her home,” Kobo said. “The pajama is what the doll is wearing.”

The November Pogrom started with Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish teenager living in Paris at the time. He went to the German embassy in Paris and shot diplomat Ernst vom Rath. The Nazis used the murder as a way to attack the Jewish communities across Europe. The narrative spread across Europe that all Jews were responsible and needed to be held accountable.

In a two-day span, 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and deported to various concentration camps. Jewish businesses and synagogues were destroyed. Roughly 100 people were murdered by the Nazis in the first major mass incarceration of Jews, and several committed suicide in the days after.

“They took away their dignity,” Kobo said.

In the days and weeks following Kristallnacht, Jews began to flee en masse from Germany. Some went to the Netherlands and France, but ultimately fell victim to the Nazi regime.

Now, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, Yad Vashem is seeing an uptick in its website’s traffic. The Holocaust museum believes it is an opportune time to teach about the events that occurred and their timeline. And Yad Vashem is getting creative by using the pandemic as a time to make its collections and exhibitions easily accessible.

We thought nobody would care about it right now, but the numbers are great,” Kobo said. “People want to see something authentic.”

The biggest lesson of all, though, from the exhibition is to never give up hope.

“After such a terrible ordeal, you can still get up and continue,” Kobo said. “We have stories [of people] who managed to leave and build a new life.”

For Kristallnacht’s anniversary this year, March of the Living launched #lettherebelight, a social media campaign to spread awareness about the night of terror. They are also inviting people across the globe to keep their lights on to show solidarity with the Jewish community in memory of those were killed in the Holocaust.

Source:

Wolkin, Joseph, 2020. Yad Vashem debuts new exhibition on Kristallnacht anniversary.  World Israel News.  8 November. 

Wave of Covid Brings Worldwide Wave of Anti-semitism

Image courtesy of AndresHerutJaim, public domain.




Joel Kontinen


The tragic and shocking killing of Afro-American George Floyd by a white policeman in Minneapolis, a new stage has emerged where some anti-Israel activists inject anti-Semitic themes into valid civil rights protests. They claimt that the slave traders who brought Africans to America were Jews; police forces in the US are brutal and racist because they are trained by the Israel Police; and that African- Americans and Palestinians share the same cruel fate.

The controversy is not limited to the USA, In Europe, and the Near East, the covid-19 pandemic has created a unique way of anti-Semitism.

"It partly reiterates classic antisemitic themes, includes conspiracy theories alongside medieval blood libels, now renewed in a 21st century format. An Oxford University study revealed that 19.1% of the British public believe that the Jews caused the pandemic."
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Dr. Giovanni Quer, an Italian researcher at the Kantor center, which collected data for the study, said: “Universal disasters have been attributed to the Jews and Israel before, giving rise to anti-Semitic discourse such as conspiracy theories blaming Israel for 9/11 or false reports accusing Israeli soldiers of harvesting organs from the bodies of dead Palestinians. The current wave of antisemitism is unprecedented, however, because, spreading very swiftly through the social media, it focused at first on the COVID-19 crisis and then quickly moved on because of social and political changes,” he said.

Islamists describe Israel as the COVID-1948 virus – after the year in which the Jewish state was established.

In Israel, Israel and the Israel Defense Forces are constantly accused of spreading the coronavirus by force among Palestinians, especially inmates in Israeli prisons. This claim, however, completely ignores the facts: So far only one person has died of coronavirus in the Palestinian Authority and Gaza.

Source

Itzkovich, Judy Siege, 2020. Worldwide Wave of Covid Brings Worldwide Wave of Anti-semitism Israeli Study Reveals. Breaking Israel News 23 June.

Sugihara Chiune: How a Japanese man saved 6 000 souls from the Holocaust

Sugihara Chiune, known as "Japanese Oskar Schindler. Image courtesy of public domain.




Joel Kontinen

Sugihara Chiune’s father wanted his son to study medicine. Instead, he wanted to study languages and joined the diplomatic corps.

In 1939 he was sent to Lithuania, where he ran the consulate. There he was soon confronted Jews who fled from German-occupied Poland.

Three times he called his embassy, asking for permission to issue visas to the refugees. the answer was no. Chiune desired to defy the government:

“Day and night he wrote visas. He issued as many visas in a day as would normally be issued in a month. His wife, Yukiko, massaged his hands at night, aching from the constant effort. When Japan finally closed down the embassy in September 1940, he took the stationery with him and continued to write visas that had no legal standing but worked because of the seal of the government and his name. At least 6,000 visas were issued for people to travel through Japan to other destinations, and in many cases entire families traveled on a single visa. “

He was not the only one to save Jews:


Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker, teamed with 20 others and smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some in ambulances and trams between October 1940 and April 1943 and placed them in Catholic homes. And in the UK, they had Frank Foley and sir Nicholas Winton.

Source:

Wolpe, David, 2018, the Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting The New York Times (15 October).

Frank Foley – British Spy Risked His Life to Save Over 10,000 Jews From Nazi Camps

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UK government, public domain.




Joel Kontinen

Frank Foley, (1884–1958) British spy, who was positioned in Berlin in the 1930s, got to know about the concentration camps that were being built. He was an spy, a bit pauchny, wearing horm--rimmed glasses. Not at all like James Bond.

He fought to get Jewish liberated and sent to Israel. After breaking some rules, he got 10,090 Jews to leave Germany.

Here’s what the British press tells about him:

“i>When the rules insisted on £1,000 for a Palestine visa – a huge sum, especially for Jews with bank accounts frozen by the Nazis – Foley would accept payments of £10 on the grounds that £990 would somehow magically appear once the refugee disembarked in the port of Haifa.

When people said they had no money at all, he would gently hint that maybe someone could write them a letter promising them £1,000 …

In late August, days before war broke out, Foley left the Berlin passport office for the last time, but not before he had summoned someone to collect visas for 80 young Jews.

Even after Foley left Germany, Jews were still escaping on papers signed by him. The last group, 300 men, got out on August 28 1939, four days before Hitler’s invasion of Poland started the Second World War.”

Source:


Lusher, Adam, 2018.Frank Foley: The mild-mannered nered British spy who defied Hitler and saved 10,000 Jews from the Nazis Independent (18 September)

Dishonest reporting: When the media made a Jew into a Palestinian

Joel Kontinen

The media have often failed to report Near East news honestly. Ten years ago, (30 September 2000) the New York Times and several other papers published a photo in which an Israeli policeman was depicted as about to strike a wounded and bleeding Palestinian boy with his baton at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

The second intifada had just begun.

The caption turns the facts upside down. The ”Palestinian boy” in the photo was actually an American Jew, a student from Chicago. The Palestinians were chasing after him, trying to kill him. The ”cruel” policeman was protecting the Jewish boy who was running for his life.

Recently, Tuvia Grossman (the Jewish boy in the photo) met the policeman who saved his life.




Unfortunately, time and again, the western media misrepresent the events in the Near East. (Read more here and here.)

New study confirms the Bible’s description of the origin of Abraham’s descendants

Rembrandt van Rijn: Sacrifice of Isaac (1635). Image courtesy of Wikipedia. A new study confirms the Bible’s description of the origin of Abraham’s descendants.



Joel Kontinen


According to some wild theories, the Ashkenazi Jews of eastern Europe are not genetically Jews but Eastern Europeans who have converted to Judaism.

A new study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics refutes this view. Harry Ostrer, a geneticist at New York University, and colleagues examined 237 Jews living in different countries.

The researchers noticed that these Jews living in Iran, Iraq, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria and eastern Europe share a "genetic thread".

The Jews are related to the Druze, Bedouins and Palestinians and even Italians.

The research confirms that what the Pentateuch and the other Old Testament writings disclose of the origin of Abraham’s descendants.

The study will probably also bury the view that the British (or Finns or some other non-Jewish nation) are one of the lost tribes of Israel.


Source:

Katsnelson. Alla. 2010. Jews worldwide share genetic ties. Nature News (3 June) http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100603/full/news.2010.277.html

BBC: ”East Jerusalem is not a Jewish city”

Jerusalem. Image courtesy of Berthold Werner, Wikipedia.





Joel Kontinen

In BBC's documentary Panorama Jane Corbin takes a walk in Jerusalem and suggests that practically everything Israel does in East Jerusalem is illegal since in her view it is not a Jewish city.

History knows a very different kind of Jerusalem. The Israelites ruled the city over 3000 years ago and even in the 19th century during the Ottoman period, there were more Jews than Arabs in Jerusalem. In 1844, out of a population of 15, 510, the Jews numbered 7, 120. There were 5, 000 Muslims and 3, 390 Christians in the city. At the time of Israel’s War of Independence (1948), 100, 000 Jews, 40, 000 Arabs and 25, 000 Christians lived in Jerusalem.

In reality, East Jerusalem was an Arab city only from 1949 to 1967 after the Jordanians expelled the Jews from their homes. In addition, it might be good to remember that up to 1865 ”Jerusalem” consisted of what is now known as East Jerusalem. The other parts of the city were built later.

Panorama gives the impression that many Israelis are scoundrels who will do anything to keep East Jerusalem in Jewish hands. The programme makes a big issue of Palestinian sufferings.

Corbin does not seem to know about the ethnic cleansing of 1948, when the Jews of East Jerusalem were forced to leave the dwellings that had been theirs for decades if not centuries.

Panorama is obviously not interested in objective reporting. Incidentally, the British have had a pro-Arab bias almost since time immemorial. For instance, in the 1948 war they sided with the Arabs. Recently a British MP claimed that the Israelis are playing mini-Mengele.


Sources:

Bard, Michael. Myths & Facts Online: Jerusalem http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf20.html#m

BBC: Denying Jewish Jerusalem. Honest Reporting 20 January 2009 http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/new/BBC_Denying_Jewish_Jerusalem.asp