Rash of anti-Semitic vandalism and threats seen across Houston area

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/front/3054025

A spike in anti-Semitic hate crimes and vandalism across Houston in recent months has alarmed police and set the Jewish community on edge, investigators and activists said today.

Since September, 14 such crimes have been reported in the Houston and Harris County area. Eight occurred in a three-week period in December, said Martin Cominsky, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League. The last known incident occurred Dec. 30.

Police say they have never seen this many anti-Semitic crimes reported in such a short period of time. What's more, they have no idea who's doing it -- or if these "personal" attacks, as investigators describe them, are even related.

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In some cases, the words "Juden Raus" -- meaning "Jews Out" -- were painted on sidewalks and benches in southwest Houston. The slogan was the title of an infamous board game in Germany during the 1930s that capitalized on the Nazi era, but sold poorly.

[Fenris]

1. That's not surprising.

When I was growing up there I heard the word "Jew" used as a verb many times.

[sasquatch]

2. The Kristians are at it in Texas

:puke:

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[DrWeird]

9. In Houston?

German muslim nazis?

[DemsUnite]

41. "the other religion that hates the Jewish enough ..."

What 'religion' hates the Jewish?

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[Jim Sagle]

46. Maybe he doesn't FEEL like cooling it.

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[saigon68]

58. Adios

[yinkaafrica]

47. What a foolish thing to say

[JohnLocke]

3. Nazi Freepers (nt).

[Must_B_Free]

19. Neepers!

German scholars - shouldn't it be "Juden aus"? that would literally mean "Jews out"; what is the R from in "Raus"?

[okasha]

28. 'raus

is a shortened form of "heraus."

[Ian David]

29. Grammar Lesson

CENTURION:
What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?

BRIAN:
It-- it says, 'Romans, go home'.




CENTURION:
'Go home'? This is motion towards. Isn't it, boy?

BRIAN: Ah. Ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the... accusative! Accusative! Ah! 'Domum', sir! 'Ad domum'! Ah! Oooh! Ah!



Sorry, I don't mean to make light (being a Jew myself).

[Dirk39]

54. Hello from Germany: "raus" is correct ,

it was exactly one of the most "popular" Nazi-slogans.
Doesn't matter much and doesn't contribute anything to this discussion, but the poster was right.

Dirk

[Must_B_Free]

56. may I venture to guess that it is short for

"heraus"

[Mike Daniels]

33. Since FReepers pretty much defend anything Israel does geopolitically

I seriously doubt they would qualify as anti-Jew.

Guess again....

[raysr]

40. Isreal is a different

factor w/freepers. All Neo-Nazis are professed Kristians. ALL! I don't know what the attachment to isreal is unless is a front.

[Colorado Blue]

43. I believe it is a front. The Freepers down deep see Israel

as a useful pawn in the Middle East.

The Rapture freaks are playing a different game though. IMO they want to restore the Middle East to The Way Things Were When Jesus Was Alive, so maybe he will return.

At that point of course the Jews will be thrown into the fiery chasm along with all the other "unsaved".

They are seriously dangerous, I think - looking for signs and portents. The possibility that they might blow up something significant within Israel, maybe in Jerusalem, causing political repercussions, loss of life and possibly open war, is very real.

[yinkaafrica]

49. You got it

Hillbilly, redneck, woman hating, liberal hating Nazi Freepers.
They only love Israel when it involves hating Mulims.

[GainesT1958]

4. Hmmm...

Sounds as though Tom Delay's buddies weren't merely satisfied with just chasing out DEMOCRATS!:mad:

B-)

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[physioex]

10. I have to agree with you there....

This country needs to stop bending down to Israel and AIPAC and take a more balanced approach to foregin policy. Then maybe the rest of the world will stop hating this country.

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[Darranar]

26. A grain next to a mountain. n/t

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[geek tragedy]

22. Who said he was a liberal? More likely a 'patriot.' eom

[Andromeda]

14. That's not true.

"Zionists own and run the USA."

THAT'S about as bigoted a statement as I've ever heard. You are spouting anti-Israel propaganda and for FREE.

Unless, of course, you're a paid agitator, which I doubt.

What you are saying is BS, Mr. hangemhigh (how appropriate). Now, all you need is a noose and a tree and maybe a couple of Jews, huh?

[physioex]

16. Explain US foregin policy....

Why does Sharon get whatever he wants from Shrub? Explain the neocons like Wolfie and Perly?

[Colorado Blue]

17. Oh please. Since...

when are Jews not allowed to be neocons? Does the presence of a couple of Jewish neocons mean the Jews are running the country?

Give me a BREAK already.

Jewish people are ALLOWED to be Republicans and even Neocons. We are NOT all alike. The presence of a couple of Jewish people who happen to be Neocons does not indicate an imminent takeover of the US by Jews.

You guys are getting very confused and I must say, perhaps you should take some time to read Mein Kampf. It is a book by Adolf Hitler in case you aren't aware of that.

You might recognize yourselves in there, along with your wierd fantasies. I am absolutely serious about this.

Please be aware that you are echoing the obscene thoughts of the neo-Nazis as well as the original arch-Nazi, who played upon people's age-old hatred of the Jewish people and fanned it into an unstoppable flame. You are talking about PEOPLE here, dammit!

As far as US foreign policy is concerned, it may well be unbalanced. Write to your Congressman. Do NOT go excusing the bigotry expressed in Houston by suggesting that it is somehow justified by US foreign policy or by the presence of two Jews in Washington.

[Andromeda]

18. You first.

Since you asked the question you must have all the answers.

Before Bush, Wolfowitz, Perle, there was a whole slew of presidential advisors in the 20th century, who weren't Jewish, that stood with Israel's leaders.

Both the U.S. and Israel are democracies and are natural allies. The Jewishness of a presidential advisor of any given administration has nothing to do with their actions.

I'm disturbed by increased anti-Semitic rhetoric that I'm hearing and the notion that Jews are responsible for all the ills of the world. Israel is not perfect but they are far from being the source of all the woes of the Middle East and the rest of the world.

[physioex]

52. Ummm...I already explained....

AIPAC...The most powerful foregin policy lobby in this country.

[Darranar]

27. Because control of the Middle East is their aim...

Israel has very often come in handy as a tool to destroy nationalist governments.

[durutti]

35. The USA supports hardline Zionism, for sure...

But it's for geopolitical reasons, not because the U.S. is run by Zionists. If anything, it's the other way around.

[Eric J in MN]

15. If someone wrote threatening graffiti where you worship,

maybe it wouldn't be so boring to you.

[Behind the Aegis]

20. Not going to flame you

We have "talked" before. I have sat here wondering how to respond to you. So, I will just say, my family is Jewish. I am saddened that you feel anti-Semitism is a "yawn."

[geek tragedy]

21. Zionists own and run the USA? Are "The Protocols" your favorite book? eom

[The Stranger]

34. Zionism is not the same thing as Judaism. Christian Zionism is rampant

among the Freepers, the "Christian" Right Wing Fundamentalists, and this Administration.

I didn't see the post that was now deleted, but the distinction noted in this post is critical.

[geek tragedy]

37. Trust me, the post I was responding to didn't make that distinction. eom

[CindyDale]

23. What a cowardly and untruthful hate post! Jews didn't even vote for Bush.

I will point out that Christians elected your administration. Few Jews voted for it. If Jews can't get their candidate elected, they obviously don't own the USA.

Greed owns the USA. Lying, immoral, gas-guzzling Americans own the USA. Greed owns you, and you are too cowardly to admit it. You steal oil and blame the Jews, but history will tell the truth about you.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. Please...

In these times, don't no one feign surprise at this. Don't even start. These scum are emboldened now, they think that this is their time and it is only gonna get worse before it gets better.

They have always been there. Always. We kept them tamped down and neutralized. But the repukes opened the Pandora's Box. They are out and smelling their piss.

[yinkaafrica]

51. Yes. I see them popping up all over. Loud and proud. It scares me.

[TwentyFive]

7. Catholics & Fundies used to teach that Jews killed Christ.

Today, during the PC era, they are much more subtle (but no less effective) about it.

You get coded statements like the "Hollywood elite" and "Liberal College Professors" and "Activist Judges" and "Greedy Trial Lawyers"...and then pointing out somebody with a Jewish surname who wants to outlaw G-d from the classroom.

[VegasWolf]

11. Spreading those old fashioned xtian values around Texas. n/t

[98geoduck]

13. Brought to you by Skinheads for Republicans and their family values.

[Demeter]

24. Yup. The Native-killers are getting restless

More signs that nothing succeeds like excess.

[IndianaGreen]

30. While it is too early to say who is behind these attacks....

The war in Iraq, the failure to settle the I/P question, the unholy alliance in America between the neocons, the Christian Right, and Jewish organizations, are factors that will fan the flames of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism can also be found among some elements of the Left that rivals the anti-Jewish rhetoric spewed by the Nation of Islam.

If Jews are not safe in the US, then we cannot be safe anywhere except in Israel. Our opposition to Israel's policies vis-a-vis the Palestinians must be tempered with the realization that we cannot support any peace scheme that will jeopardize the existence and survival of the Jewish State.

[CindyDale]

36. Is Israel safe?

There is a radical right wing there, too, as well as terrorists.

[Darranar]

38. Jews are not safe in Israel. n/t

[hector459]

39. Remember, several attacks of these kind were found to be faked before.

In three publicized incidents Jews were found to have staged the attacks themselves. (I'll find the links--I think one was in Maryland and two in Florida).

[Colorado Blue]

44. Well, they haven't been faked at all around my area.

Several synagogues have been desecrated recently. It's the most terrible thing, to see fire damage, windows broken, hideous graffiti scrawled on the walls of a temple.

It is like something out of Schindler's List. You can have no idea how bad this feels.

Beyond that I'm seriously concerned that people are going to start getting hurt. There are many Hassidic Jews around here, with their distinctive appearance - it wouldn't be difficult at all to hurt them.

[Ian David]

31. This is not directed to anyone in particular

I would like to point out that the American Neo-cons "support" for Israel is a smokescreen.

Bush and pals "support" Israel the way Frank Purdue "supports" chickens.

Frank Purdue wants his chickens all fattened-up and golden-yellow not because he loves them and respects them and wants them to someday run the factory. Frank Purdue wants to prepare them to be slaughtered and packaged and shipped to supermarkets.

Bush and Falwell and Robertson and Rove and Rice and Rumsfeld etc. etc. etc.... they "support" Israel because they want to prepare it for what they believe will be "the second coming of Jesus." They're fattening-up Israel for the coming slaughter.

That "Road map for Peace"?

It's not a road map. It's a cookbook.

They WANT the Israel-Palestinian conflict to maintain a slow simmer until the whole Middle East boils over.

They WANT to create a situation where Israel and Jews are scapegoated right along with Middle Easterners and homosexuals.

Every fascist regime needs its scapegoats.

I'm not saying the Israelis are blameless. But when you point the finger at them, remember this:

1) Our own leaders here have been intentionally making the situation worse.
2) What America is doing now is much worse than anything Israel has done in the past 50 years. You know what they say about glass houses?

The majority of Israelis (and an even larger majority of Jews) feel as powerless to stop what is happening in Palestine as we do to stop what is happening in Iraq-- and about to happen in Iran.

In the meantime, Bush is going to make sure that Israel becomes involved in the June attack on Iran. That way, they can be served-up nice and pretty for Jesus.

[IndianaGreen]

32. Christian support for Israel is predicated on the Second Coming

Christian theology, particularly Christian eschatology, requires Jews and an Israel in order for the prophecies to be fulfilled. The prophecies also say that only 144,000 Jews will be witnesses against the Antichrist, presumably all the other Jews will be dead by then. At the end, there are no Jews and no Judaism for everyone that is alive is a Christian, all others being cast into the fires of Hell.

It is quite a hateful and bloodthirsty theology!

[raysr]

42. I thought Bushs'

re-election was the "second cumming".

[physioex]

53. I'd have to mostly agree with what you are saying...EOM

[Zhade]

55. "It's not a road map. It's a cookbook." Genius quote!

NT!

[BlueManDude]

57. very well put

Bush and the fundy freaks have no respect for jews, their religion or their culture. Israel is merely a piece of real estate where the second coming occurs and all jews will either convert or die.

[IndianaGreen]

59. To the fundies, Israel is the sacrificial lamb for the Christian god

As IanDB1 said, Israel is to be fattened for the Apocalyptic slaughter that they are trying so hard to bring about. No matter what fundies say, to them Israel is the sacrificial lamb for the Christian god. According to their own New Testament, there is no room for Jews and Judaism when their vengeful god returns to slaughter all those that rejected him. If you don't believe me, read the Book of Revelation.

[BlueManDude]

60. the leader of the free world subscribes to this horseshit

and he's never been pressed on it.