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February 14, 2013
Anti-fas versus neo-Nazis in Dresden —again
World War 4 Report

Hundreds of neo-Nazis attempted to march on Dresden to crash commemorations of the 1945 Allied bombardment, and were blocked by a human chain of thousands of anti-fascists. 

In what has now become an annual ritual, a group of hundreds of neo-Nazis attempted to march on Dresden's city center to crash commemorations of the 1945 Allied bombardment of the eastern German city, and were blocked by a human chain of thousands of anti-fascist activists. Some 13,000 anti-fascists linked arms in a chain stretching for

December 15, 2012
Hungary: political fight over resurgent fascism
New Jewish Resistance

Legal action is threatened against Hungary's far-right Jobbik party after lawmaker Marton Gyongyosi called for an official "list" of influential Jews in the country. 

Hungary's far-right Jobbik party is radicalizing as fast as it is being mainstreamed. Prime Minister Viktor Orban belatedly condemned Jobbik lawmaker Marton Gyongyosi's call to create a list of Jewish politicians—the day after some 10,000 demonstrated in Budapest to protest the proposal.

October 25, 2012
France: Muslims under attack... and Jews
Bill Weinberg

A right-wing "Identity Group" seized a mosque in Poitiers, issuing a "declaration of war" against the "Islamization" of France—weeks after a bomb attack on a kosher shop in Paris. 

The interminable divide-and-rule game between Muslims and Jews worldwide goes on, with the latest maddening development in France.

September 20, 2012
Denial on Jew-hatred fuels Zionist backlash ...again
Bill Weinberg

A bomb attack on a kosher grocery store in France is met with timid equivocation by the authorities and media —and only right-wing Zionist commentators rise to the occasion of calling it out. Except us, of course.

Tell us again how anti-Semitism is all in our paranoid imaginations. We keep forgetting. From the AP, Sept. 19:

August 15, 2012
New Franco-Intifada: plus ça change...
Bill Weinberg

The new Socialist president of France, François Hollande, is emulating his reactionary predecessor Sarkozy in his response to a new uprising by immigrant youth—and setting up Jews to take the hit.

Well, if you thought that France getting a new Socialist president, François Hollande, was going to mean a retreat from the Franco-dystopia that unfolded under his reactionary predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy—time to think again.

July 18, 2012
Bulgaria terror: usual suspects blame usual suspects
Bill Weinberg

Five Israeli tourists are blown up at a Bulgarian resort. Netanyahu wastes not a minute in blaming Hezbollah. Conspiranoid websites waste not a minute in calling it an Israeli "false flag" attack. Birds of a feather.

No surprises here. A bomb goes off in a tour bus in the Black Sea resort city of Burgas, Bulgaria, killing five Israelis and wounding some 30. Netanyahu wastes not a minute: "All signs point to Iran. In just the past few months we've seen Iran try to target Israelis in Thailand, India, Georgia, Cyprus and more. The murderous Iranian terror continues to target innocent people.

April 2, 2012
Toulouse terror and Jew-hatred: usual denial on both sides
Bill Weinberg

In the wake of last month's kill-spree in southern France, lines across the blogosphere are drawn predictably, indicating the near-complete polarization and lack of any dialectical spark in contemporary thinking on the question of anti-Semitism.

Here we go, yet again. In the wake of last month's kill-spree in southern France, lines across the blogosphere are drawn predictably, indicating the near-complete polarization and lack of any dialectical spark in contemporary thinking on the question of anti-Semitism.

February 29, 2012
WikiLeaks Belarus: shameful silence
Bill Weinberg

WikiLeaks and Anonymous team up to target Stratfor, winning favorable alterno-coverage. Predictably, nobody is talking about WikiLeaks' continued silence on charges of complicity with grave human rights abuses in Belarus.

The two most annoying icons of the rad left, WikiLeaks and Anonymous, team up to target the equally annoying 

February 2, 2012
Ron Paul's Nazi pals
Bill Weinberg

"Anonymous" attacked the website of the neo-Nazi outfit American Third Position, splashing internal e-mails on the group's homepage—to reveal that the "A3P" white supremacists are a well integrated into Ron Paul's political machine! 

Us old-school lefties have been wondering for a quite some time, which is more annoying—the legions of "Anonymous" hacktivists who think that faceless adventurism is the cutting-edge of revolution, or Ron Paul supporters who think that this ultra-reactionary Republ

December 5, 2011
The Gutman flap and reductionist thinking
Bill Weinberg

US ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman calls out Israeli inflammation of European anti-Semitism—but in terms that smack of denial about the extent and depth of the problem.

A Dec. 3 report on YNet is aghast at the heretical comments by the US ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman—without actually bothering to quote them. We are treated only to a paraphrase:

November 25, 2011
Greece: fascists take over?
Bill Weinberg

Despite the media line that Greece's new "austerity" government is staffed by non-ideological "technocrats," the administration includes figures from the old-line Greek fascist right, spawn of the military junta that ruled from 1967 to 1974.

The hegemonic media line that Greece's new "austerity" government is being staffed by non-ideological "technocrats" is deflated by Mark Ames on the N

November 10, 2011
The UNESCO vote, Zionism and the fascist legacy
Bill Weinberg

A wave of anti-Semitism in Lithuania is seized upon by Israeli commentators to delegitimize Lithuania's vote for Palestine's UNESCO entry. Meanwhile, Israel's own UN ambassador is caught in a photo-op with French ultra-rightist Marine Le Pen...

In the wake of this week's UNESCO vote to admit Palestine as a full member, the legacy of World War II and the Holocaust is once again being used as a political football.

November 4, 2011
Stéphane Hessel: French Resistance fighter for Palestine
Bill Weinberg

Veteran French Resistance fighter Stéphane Hessel calls Israel's treatment of the Palestinians an "outrage" and violation of international law.

Stéphane Hessel, 93-year-old hero of the French Resistance, urges a new generation to renew the struggle for social justice in his book Indignez-vous! (rendered in translation as Time for Outrage!)—released just in time for the Occupy Wall Street protests.

October 21, 2011
Paris: 1961 massacre of Algerians commemorated —and denied
World War 4 Report

Demonstrators gathered in Paris to mark the 50th anniversary of a police massacre of Algerian anti-war protesters that has become one of the most shameful episodes of modern French history—still officially denied by the state.

Politicians, historians and others gathered in Paris Oct. 17 to mark the 50th anniversary of a police massacre of Algerian protesters that has become one of the most shameful episodes of modern French history. Although authorities still only acknowledge three deaths, estimates by historians and activists range from 50 to 300—many of the victims beaten and thrown into the river Seine.

September 30, 2011
John Mearsheimer and the "weaponizing" of anti-Semitism
Bill Weinberg

John Mearshiemer, co-author of The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, provides a jacket blurb for Hitler apologist Gilad Atzmon's new book. Will progressives balk at calling him out for fear of legitimizing bogus charges of anti-Semitism?

The problems with the ritual squawking that "anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism" have rarely been made so clear as in the egregious faux pas just committed by John Mearsheimer, co-author of The Israel Lobby and

September 19, 2011
Sicilian Jews back after 500 years
New Jewish Resistance

The Union of Italian Jewish Communities held an unprecedented conference at the Sicilian city of Siracusa for "Ebrei di Ritorno," or "Returning Jews." The island has a synagogue again for the first time since the Inquisition.

Last week, the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) held an unprecedented conference at the Sicilian city of Siracusa for "Ebrei di Ritorno," or "Returning Jews"—descendants of Jews forcibly converted during the Inquisition who are now seeking a return to Jewish identity and faith.

September 5, 2011
Bialystok stands up to racism and Jew-hatred
New Jewish Resistance

Some 130 turned out for a "Unity March" in the Polish city of Bialystok, in response to a wave of racist and anti-Semitic attacks—including the defacement with swastikas of a memorial to a pogrom where hundreds of Jews were killed in 1941.

Some 130 turned out for a "Unity March" in the Polish city of Bialystok Sept. 4, in response to a wave of local racist and anti-Semitic attacks—including the defacement with swastikas of a memorial to a pogrom where hundreds of Jews were killed in 1941 at the nearby town of Jedwabne.

July 29, 2011
Propaganda vultures still descend on Oslo
Bill Weinberg

Israeli pundit Caroline Glick, cited in the Oslo bomber's manifesto, rails that the struggle against "multiculturalism" (read: Islam) should not falter in the wake of the attacks—while more conspiranoids claim a Mossad "false flag" operation.

Jim Lobe on InterPress Service informs us that Israeli pundit Caroline Glick was among those cited in the 

July 27, 2011
Israelis' perverse glee in Oslo terror
Bill Weinberg

The Israeli troll-o-sphere is abuzz with ghastly cheerleading for the Oslo attacks, while the Jerusalem Post warns of the "the abject failure of multiculturalism." But will the Judeophobes also call out similar verbiage from Pat Buchanan?

The Israeli troll-o-sphere appears to be abuzz with ghastly cheerleading for the Oslo attacks. J.J.

July 26, 2011
Fear of Muslims unites Oslo bomber, "left"
Bill Weinberg

Accused Oslo bomber Anders Behring Breivik in his manifesto demonizes the Muslims of ex-Yugoslavia as a jihadist menace—as do professional conspiranoids like Wayne Madsen who accuse him of being  a Mossad agent.

Media reports have noted that accused Oslo bomber Anders Behring Breivik indicated through his online spewings that he is a fan of professional IslamophobePam Geller, who led the protes

July 25, 2011
Oslo terror: political vultures circle in
Bill Weinberg

Conspiranoid cranks claim (on no evidence) that Mossad was behind the Oslo terror attacks, providing an opportunity for the right-wing Israeli press to tar "anti-Zionists" as conspiranoid cranks.

Gee, that didn't take long.

July 23, 2011
Islamophobia (not Islam) in Oslo terror
Bill Weinberg

Europe's right-wing media voices all jumped to the al-Qaeda thesis in the Oslo terror attack—but it now emerges the perpetrator is a lone right-wing extremist who evidences the predictable Islamophobic rhetoric in his Internet footprint.

The blood was not even dry from the July 22 coordinated bomb blast and shooting rampage in Oslo that left at least 94 dead before Britain's The Telegraph was asking in a headline, "Oslo explosion: Is

June 29, 2011
Neo-Nazis shut down St. Petersburg gay pride march
New Jewish Resistance

An unauthorized Slavic Gay Pride march in St. Petersburg, Russia, lasted just four minutes —first violently attacked by hooded neo-Nazis and then dispersed by the police. 

An unauthorized Slavic Gay Pride march in St. Petersburg, Russia, lasted just four minutes on June 25—first attacked by neo-Nazis and then dispersed by the police. Some dozen activists shouting "Russia With No Homophobes" and "Equal Rights With No Compromise" marched to the Bronze Horseman in central St.

June 16, 2011
Avraham Zecchillo, brought daylight to Italian crypto-Jews
New Jewish Resistance

Avraham Zecchillo, who returned from Israel to his native Puglia to reopen the 750-year-old synagogue in the port city of Trani after it had been closed for centuries, died on June 10. 

June 15, 2011
Russian neo-Nazis get life for racist murders
World War 4 Report

A court in St. Petersburg, Russia, sent two members of a neo-Nazi group behind bars for life for the murder of several African immigrants, North Caucasians and anti-fascist activists in St. Petersburg and Moscow over the past several years.