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2024-02-11 Britain
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UK university rabbi goes into hiding after death threats over wartime IDF service
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[IsraelTimes] ‘Hundreds’ of menacing messages, phone calls targeting Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch for reserve duty drive him and family out of their home, as campus antisemitism flares post-October 7
The Jewish chaplain at the University of Leeds was forced into hiding with his family after receiving numerous death threats over his service as a reservist in the Israel Defense Forces, the UK’s Daily Mail reported Friday.
Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch, a rabbinical emissary serving as the Jewish chaplain of several British universities since 2021, returned to Israel to serve in the IDF during the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
. Since resuming his chaplaincy in January, he has received multiple messages and phone calls threatening violence against him, his wife Nava, and their two children.
The threats, reported by the Daily Mail to be in the "hundreds", were graphic and profane, and led local police to transfer the Deutsch family to a safe location, amid a worrying rise in antisemitism in the United Kingdom, both on and off campus, following Israel’s war on Hamas
 ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
On Western university campuses, the war has sparked unprecedented anti-Zionist protests, which sometimes feature thinly veiled antisemitic rhetoric.
...and often completely unveiled Jew-hate. So there's that... At the University of Leeds where Deutsch is chaplain, the Jewish campus Hillel House was defaced Friday with "Free Paleostine" graffitied on its walls.
The campaign against Rabbi Deutsch has been waged since at least November 2023, when a petition was circulated by Leeds students demanding the rabbi’s dismissal from the chaplaincy of their university, as well as those of Sheffield, York, Bradford and Leeds Beckett universities, for having "left the UK to participate in a foreign war with the Israeli army, even going as far as sharing videos on an open student WhatsApp group."
On Friday, students at Leeds University staged a protest in the city calling for Deutsch’s dismissal, which the Daily Mail reported was organized by the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign and Socialist Worker Student Society. A similar protest was held on campus in November.
The Friday protest came after the campaign against Deutsch was picked up by the Moslem Association of Britannia, a self-described "grassroots" organization shown by the London-based Jewish Chronicle to have ties to Hamas, which called the rabbi a "war criminal complicit in genocide."
Like other diaspora communities, British Jewry has faced rising levels of antisemitism during the current Gaza conflict, including recent attacks on a kosher supermarket and a group of Israelis putting up posters of hostages. A recent poll found "frightening" rates of antisemitic tropes among British youth.
Rabbi Deutsch and his wife Nava both trained for two years at Ohr Torah Stone’s Straus-Amiel Institute for rabbinical emissaries in Jerusalem. They previously worked with the Jewish community in Addis Ababa, Æthiopia.
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