| Bless them for taking a stand. |
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....gunman on a synagogue in the city of Halle in which two people were murdered.
The club, which actively campaigns against racism and antisemitism, was first launched in the 1970s by bikers who opposed the nationalist and right-wing tendencies that dominated the scene at the time.
Oliver Westermann, a biker who initiated the vigil, told the assembled crowd, "We’re here to protect the synagogue."
Other members of the club held up a white banner bearing the words "Together for Our Synagogue" in Hebrew.
Other speakers at the event included Charlotte Knobloch — the head of the Munich Jewish community — who recalled her enthusiasm when Westermann suggested the vigil a few weeks ago.
Praising the bikers’ for their commitment, Knobloch said that "the name ’Yom Kippur’ has sat heavily in our hearts since Halle."
More than 50 worshippers who attended the Halle synagogue on Yom Kippur in 2019 would have faced a certain massacre at the hands of the gunman, neo-Nazi Stephan Balliet, had the synagogue’s security doors not prevented his entry.
Another speaker at the vigil, Susanne Breit-Kessler, chairwoman of the Bavarian Ethics Council, released two white balloons in memory of the two people murdered by Balliet after he fled the synagogue.
"We give antisemitism, racism and neo-fascism
...a political system developed in Italy, symbolized by the Roman fasces-- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. Its distinguishing philosophical feature is the Corporate State. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about...
a clear rejection," she declared, adding, "L’Chaim! To life in diversity."
Far-right activists stage anti-Semitic hate speech incidents in Scandinavia on Yom Kippur
[IsraelTimes] Several incidents involving anti-Semitic hate speech occurred in Scandinavia over the weekend in what the World Jewish Congress says is a coordinated campaign by neo-Nazi
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....s on Yom Kippur.
Most of the incidents recorded on Sunday and Monday in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland involve the circulation of anti-Semitic pamphlets, sometimes in the form of small posters near Jewish community buildings. There was no violence in any of the incidents.
In Norrköping, a city located about 70 miles southwest of the Swedish capital of Stockholm, a handful of men from the Nordic Resistance® Movement stood outside the local synagogue on Yom Kippur with flags of their movement, the Jewish Central Council writes in a statement. The synagogue was empty at the time.
"The Jews circumcise their babies so rabbis can suck blood from the penises of newborns and according to the Talmud they may have sex with children from the age of 3," one of the posters seen at that demonstration said.
The World Jewish Congress in a statement saying the effort was "a string of coordinated actions on Yom Kippur targeting Jews" calls on the nations to follow Finland’s example from earlier this year "and move swiftly to ban the Nordic Resistance® Movement and rid its