New York Times Sued by Israel's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             

                Ramy Abdu, Hamas Affiliated Deviously Ramy Abdu is a Palestinian financial expert and human rights advocate who was born in the Gaza Strip. He is the founder and chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, established in 2011.   There are very few males in Gaza who don't belong to Hamas, if you want to know.  Children grow up with the goals of Hamas.  They will never admit this to an outsider;  they're not stupid. AI said: Estimates of Hamas's armed wing (the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades) in Gaza generally range between 20,000 and 40,000 fighters as of 2024-2025, according to various intelligence and media reports. While total population exceeds 2 million, the vast majority of males in Gaza are not combatants or official members of Hamas.  Sure.  It's like believing that China just wants to be USA's friend and would love to help us with the Strait of Hormuz.

Netanyahu, Sa’ar to sue New York Times over ‘one of 

most distorted lies’ against Israel

Prime minister and foreign minister say Israel will sue the American newspaper over what they call one of the most horrifying lies ever published against the country, after Pulitzer winner Nicholas Kristof alleged systematic sexual violence of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers and prison guards.

The decision follows an opinion column by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof, who accused IDF soldiers and Israeli prison guards of systematic and brutal sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees.  Many of these detainees were Security Prisoners or those convicted or suspected of planning or carrying out attacks against Israelis.  There are another type;  Administrative Detainees who are held without charges, often for an undetermined time, so far. It may be that in  the USA, they would be held for 24 hours and released, but here in Israel, where the state is dodging bomb attacks by such terrorists  that the USA never experience, it's a different proposition.  If people would stop stabbing and bombing Israelis there would be no Administrative detainees.

Among the claims cited in the column were allegations of rape using dogs, metal rods and other forms of sexual violence. Kristof is accusing them of defaming Israeli soldiers and “perpetuating a blood libel about rape.” “They tried to create a false symmetry between the genocidal terrorists of Hamas and Israel’s valiant soldiers,” Netanyahu wrote. “Under my leadership, Israel will not be silent. We will fight these lies in the court of public opinion and in the court of law. Truth will prevail.”

Hamas, a terrorist organization

The move came a day after Israel’s Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry published a report saying one of the key sources used in Kristof’s column was Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a Geneva-based organization headed by Ramy Abdu, whom Israel has linked to Hamas.

"One of the NGO’s primary figures, founder and chairman Ramy Abdu, was the subject of an Israeli administrative detention order issued in 2020 under Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Law due to his alleged activities with “IPalestine,” an organization designated by Israel as affiliated with Hamas, according to the report published on May 13.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, while registered in Switzerland as a regional human rights organization, focuses overwhelmingly on anti-Israel advocacy, including documentation efforts, legal submissions to international bodies and media campaigns accusing Israel of war crimes and genocide, the report states.

The ministry said the organization provided “evidentiary infrastructure” to South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, including allegations related to mass graves and damage to Gaza’s healthcare system."

According to the ministry, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor presents itself as a regional human rights organization focused on the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, but in practice concentrates much of its work on harming Israel and its interests. The ministry said Abdu, Euro-Med’s founder and chairman, was the subject of an Israeli administrative seizure order signed in 2020 by then-Defense Minister Benny Gantz under counterterrorism legislation. The order, which expired in August 2022, was issued over Abdu’s role as a board member of IPalestine, which Israel designated as a Hamas-affiliated terrorist organization.

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Kristof’s column, published under the headline “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians,” alleged that sexual abuse had become a “standard operating procedure.” The column included graphic accounts of Palestinians whose genitals were allegedly pulled or beaten, men who allegedly underwent testicle amputations because of violence inflicted on them, and claims that detainees were raped with metal batons. Kristof said the column was based on interviews with 14 alleged victims.

I've been following all this since 2004. This is the usual attack by using what they have done to Israel by turning the story against themselves as the victim later. They found that victims get more empathy from the news. So much of what they cite happened to Israel on October 7, 2023 by such horrid attackers as Hamas. I'll never forget this one: (A girl was raped over and over in front of her family and it was so bad they broke her hips separating her legs, finally. )

Available on google is: In 2011 Abdu founded and became the chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.

Abdu was the assistant director and Palestine Office Manager for Council for European Palestinian Relations, and was on the board of trustees of the International platform of NGOs working for Palestine. In 2011 he was the media coordinator for the Freedom Flotilla II. He is a policy analyst with the Al-Shabaka, a Palestinian policy network. meaning in their words, 

We’re building a network 
for liberation.

Now, they didn't come out and say they were a Hamas organization, but if you know history, 1967 was a turning point, and the meeting in Africa decided the 3 No's.  Hamas wants to crush Israel and take over.  It took a while.  Hamas was founded in December 1987 in the Gaza Strip during the beginning of the first Palestinian Intifada (uprising). It emerged as an offshoot of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, established by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and other activists.

Hamas Ideology: Combines Palestinian nationalism with Islamic fundamentalism, aiming to

establish an Islamic state in

place of Israel.

Abdu sponsored the establishment of We Are Not Numbers in early 2015. Conceived by American journalist Pam Bailey and co-founded by journalist Ahmed Alnaouq under the umbrella of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, the project was launched for young adults in the Gaza Strip and designed both to help them share their narratives (and those of their people) in their own words with the Western (English-speaking) world to counter stereotypes about Palestinians.

It is truly a modern day blood libel. The saddest, and scariest, part of this is that millions of people around the world actually belief these lies. 

Resource

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Eighteenth Century of Anti-Semitism By Exiling Jews

 Nadene Goldfoot

Eighteenth century

1703                                                                     

The Aleinu prayer is prohibited in most of Germany. There are 21 lines.

In the traditional words of the Aleinu, we state that God will "sweep away false gods from the earth" and "repair the world." On that day, the prayer says, "God will be One and God's Name will be One." The Aleinu, in its essence, is a prayer about our hope for the world to be united and at peace, for evil to be driven ..Aleinu or Aleinu leshabei'ach, meaning "it is upon us" or "it is our obligation or duty [to praise God]", is a Jewish prayer found in the siddur, the classical Jewish prayerbook. It is recited in most communities at the end of each of the three daily Jewish services and in the middle of the Rosh Hashanah mussaf.

1	It is our duty to praise the Master of all,	Aleinu l'šabeaḥ la'Adon hakol	עָלֵינוּ לְשַׁבֵּחַ לַאֲדוֹן הַכֹּל,‎
2	to ascribe greatness to the Author of creation,	latet gedulah l'yoṣer b'reišit,	לָתֵת גְּדֻלָּה לְיוֹצֵר בְּרֵאשִׁית,

                                                       

            

1706

An outbreak of the plague and a terrible famine in Algiers reduced many Jewish families to indigence. Then, influenced by false accusations, the bey imposed an exorbitant fine on the community and ordered the destruction of the synagogues, which were saved only by the payment of a further sum. This ruined the majority of the Jews.

1711

Johann Andreas Eisenmenger writes his Entdecktes Judenthum ("Judaism Unmasked"), a work denouncing Judaism and which had a formative influence on modern antisemitic polemics.In Amsterdam he met three Christians who had been converted to Judaism, and this filled him with indignation. As a further cause of his hatred of Judaism, he claims the otherwise unknown attacks against Christianity which he heard from the mouth of David Lida, then (1681) rabbi of Amsterdam. For nineteen years he studied rabbinical literature assisted by Jews, first in Heidelberg and afterward in Frankfort-on-the-Main, pretending that he desired to be converted to Judaism.Having collected from rabbinical literature all that was calculated to bring it into disrepute and to give justification for anti-Jewish prejudices, he published his "Entdecktes Judenthum" (Judaism Unmasked), which has remained the arsenal for detractors of Talmudic literature down to the present day. We have 2;  Palestinian- by people before 400 BCE and Babylonian-by people before 500 BCE. This one is longer.    A collection of the records of academic discussion and judicial administration of Jewish Law by generations of scholars and jurists in many academies and in more than one country. What a record of thinking before those dates!  

1712

Blood libel in Sandomierz, Poland and expulsion of the town's Jews. An allegation that Jews murder Christians in order to get blood for the Passover or other rituals.  

1715

Elector Max Emanuel orders the deportation of all Jews living in Bavaria-SE of Germany-

Major cities include Munich (its capital and largest city, which is also the third largest city in Germany), Nuremberg, and Augsburg.

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1717

All Jews living in Gibraltar-bordered on north by Spain,  are expelled.

1718

The last Jews of Carniola, Styria and Carinthia are expelled.

They are historically significant regions in the Alps, primarily located in what is now Slovenia and Austria. They were part of the Inner Austrian territories, ruled by the Habsburgs. These regions were duchies, and their historical significance lies in their role as a buffer zone between the Habsburg lands and the Kingdom of Hungary, Venice, and other surrounding states. 

1721

Arab creditors set fire to an Ashkenazi synagogue, fed up with debts. Ashkenazi Jews are banned from Jerusalem along with anyone who looks like an Ashkenazi Jew. Some Ashkenazim dressed up like Sephardic Jews in order to fool the authorities.

1721

Maria Barbara Carillo was burned at the stake for heresy during the Spanish Inquisition. She was executed at the age of 95 or 96 and is the oldest person known to have been executed at the instigation of the Inquisition. Carillo was sentenced to death for heresy for returning to her faith in Judaism.

1724

Jews of Radom, Poland are exiled.

1727

Edict of Catherine I of Russia: "The Jews... who are found in Ukraine and in other Russian provinces are to be expelled at once beyond the frontiers of Russia."

1734

The Haidamaks, paramilitary bands in Polish Ukraine, attack Jews.

1736

María Francisca Ana de Castro, called La bella toledana, a Spanish immigrant to Peru, was arrested in 1726, accused of "judaizing" (being a practicing Jew)  (anusim). She was burned at the stake after an auto de fe in 1736. This event was a major spectacle in Lima, Peru but it raised questions about possible irregular procedures and corruption within the Inquisition.

1737

Blood libel in Jarosław, Poland leads to Jews being tortured and others being put to death.  

1742 Elizabeth of Russia issues a decree of expulsion of all the Jews out of Ukraine. Her resolution to the Senate's appeal regarding harm to the trade: "I don't desire any profits from the enemies of Christ". One of the deportees is Antonio Ribera Sanchez, her own personal physician and the head of army's medical dept.  In 1742, Elizabeth of Russia (Elizaveta Petrovna), not Queen Elizabeth (of England), was the reigning empress of Russia. She came to power in 1741 and ruled until her death in 1762. While Elizabeth did rule a vast territory, including parts of what is now Ukraine, it's important to note that the concept of "Ukraine" as a distinct, unified entity is a more modern idea. The territory she ruled was part of the broader Russian Empire, and its governance was structured differently than a modern nation-state. 

1743

The Russians gain control of Riga, Latvia and all local Jews are expelled.

1744

Frederick II The Great (a "heroic genius", according to Hitler) limits Breslau, Poland to ten "protected" Jewish families, on the grounds that otherwise they will "transform it into complete Jerusalem". He encourages this practice in other Prussian cities. In 1750 he issues Revidiertes General Privilegium und Reglement vor die Judenschaft: "protected" Jews had an alternative to "either abstain from marriage or leave Berlin" (Simon Dubnow).

1744                                                                    

Archduchess of Austria Maria Theresa orders: "... no Jew is to be tolerated in our inherited duchy of Bohemia" by the end of Feb. 1745. In December 1748 she reverses her position, on condition that Jews pay for readmission every ten years. This extortion was known among the Jews as malke-geld (queen's money).^] In 1752 she introduces the law limiting each Jewish family to one son.

1746

The city of Radom, Poland bans Jews from entering.

1753

The Jewish community of Kaunas, Lithuania  is expelled

1755

Jeronimo Jose Ramos, a merchant from Bragança, Portugal, is burned at the stake for being secretly Jewish. (anusim).                       

Painting (16th century) showing the alleged desecration of hosts by Jews in Passau in 1477 (detail), Oberhausmuseum [de] (Passau); The picture is attempting to show a Jew stabbing  the bread (body of Christ), thereby killing their god.  

         Catholic rite in church by priest:  

In the Catholic Eucharist, the bread is unleavened, wheaten bread, often called a host. The wine is natural grape wine, typically red, to which a small quantity of water is added. The bread and wine are consecrated and transformed into the body and blood of Christ, according to Catholic belief. 

1761

Several Jews from Alsace, France are executed after being accused of host desecration,

It involves the mistreatment or malicious use of a consecrated host—the bread used in the Eucharistic service of the Divine Liturgy or Mass, an old accusation tried again.  

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1761

The Jews of Kaunas, Lithuania are expelled after anti-Jewish riots.

1762

Rhode Island refuses to grant Jews citizenship stating "no person who is not of the Christian religion can be admitted free to this colony."

In 1762, Rhode Island was a British colony, not yet part of the United States. The United States of America was formed later, after declaring independence from Great Britain in 1776 and formally established with the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Rhode Island became the 13th state to ratify the Constitution on May 29, 1790. 

1766

All but 6 Jews are expelled from Toruń, Poland.

1768

Haidamaks massacre the Jews of Uman, Ukraine.

Russian brigand bands of the eighteenth century. The disorganized condition of Poland during the eighteenth century made it possible for the discontented peasants and Cossacks of the Greek Orthodox faith to make organized attacks on their Catholic masters—the Polish nobles—and the Jews. The general disorder, and the agitation of the Greek Orthodox priests led to the formation of brigand bands known as "Haidamacks," composed of runaway serfs, Saporogians, and Cossacks from Russian Ukraine. In 1734 and again in 1750, under Cossack leaders, they robbed and destroyed many towns, villages, and estates in Kiev, Volhynia, and Podolia, killing a great number of Jews and Polish nobles. In 1768 occurred the Uman massacre, when Gonta and his followers killed thousands of Jews, sparing neither old nor young.

1775

Pope Pius VI issues a severe Editto sopra gli ebrei (Edict concerning the Jews). Previously lifted restrictions are reimposed, Judaism is suppressed.

1775

A blood libel spread in Hebron, Palestine, in which Jews were falsely accused of murdering the son of a local sheikh. Mob attacks took place. At first the Sheikh demanded to kill all the Jews but after pleas settled on a large fine that nearly destroyed the community.

1776

The Jewish community of Basra, Iraq is massacred.

1782

Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II abolishes most of persecution practices in Toleranzpatent on condition that Yiddish and Hebrew are eliminated from public records and judicial autonomy is annulled. Judaism is branded "quintessence of foolishness and nonsense". Moses Mendelssohn writes: "Such a tolerance... is even more dangerous play in tolerance than open persecution".

1783

The Sultan expels the Moroccan Jews for failing to pay an exorbitant ransom.

1785

Ali Burzi Pasha murders hundreds of Libyan Jews.

1786

Jews are expelled from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, most of them flee to Yemen.

1790

Yazid becomes the Sultan of Morocco and immediately orders troops to massacre and plunder the Jewish quarter of Tétouan, Morocco.

1790

The Touro Synagogue's warden, Moses Seixas, wrote to George Washington, expressing his support for Washington's administration and good wishes for him. Washington sent a letter in response, which read in part:

"... the Government of the United States ... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. ... May the children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy."

— Letter of George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island:  It expresses his wish for the Jewish community in the United States to enjoy peace and prosperity, along with the broader concept of religious liberty for all citizens. 1744–1809. Moses Seixas was a first-generation American of Portuguese Jewish stock, his parents having emigrated from Lisbon. The family settled in Newport, Rhode Island, where Seixas was later to distinguish himself in civic, religious, and mercantile affairs. A Freemason, Seixas was grand master of his Masonic lodge.There is an annual event reading Washington's letter, and speakers at the annual event have included Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan; and Brown University Presidents Ruth Simmons and Christina Paxson.

1790, 20 May

Eleazer Solomon is quartered for the alleged murder of a Christian girl in Grodno, Belarus.

1790–1792

Destruction of most of the Jewish communities of Morocco.

1791                                           

Catherine II of Russia confines Jews to the Pale of Settlement and imposes them with double taxes.

1797                                                               

Napoleon calls for the end of Jewish segregation, ghettoization and the denial of equal rights.                  

                  1806 French print depicting Napoleon granting freedom of worship to the Jews

The first laws to emancipate Jews in France were enacted during the French Revolution, establishing them as citizens equal to other Frenchmen. In countries that Napoleon Bonaparte's ensuing Consulate and French Empire conquered during the Napoleonic Wars, he emancipated the Jews and introduced other ideas of liberty. He overrode old laws restricting Jews to reside in ghettos, removed the forced identification of Jews by their wearing the Star of David. In Malta, he ended the enslavement of Jews and permitted the construction of a synagogue there. He also lifted laws that limited Jews' rights to property, worship, and certain occupations. In anticipation of a victory in the Holy Land that failed to come about, he wrote a proclamation published in April 1799 for a Jewish homeland there.                                  

Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_antisemitism

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-treatment-of-jews-in-arab-islamic-countries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_and_the_Jews

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7056-haidamacks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_desecration