Shelley Neese, who produced this video, writes:
My name is Shelley Neese. We have communicated in the past as Israpundit has published some of my op-eds. I am also a regular reader and so appreciate the work of Israpundit. Anyways, I wanted to share a new video that I have produced and went live with yesterday. It has huge potential to go viral and I produced it with the intent of educating a younger audience on the rise of antisemitism in France. Its part of an effort to help the Jewish Agency finance the thousands of requests from French Jews to make aliyah. The hard-hitting lyrics cover 200 years of Jewish history in France, from Dreyfus to the most recent kosher supermarket attack.
The message of the song is that there is a storm coming to Europe’s shores. The storm metaphor extends to Israel in that Israel is Noah’s Ark and we have to get the French Jews to safety. Two by Two.
Here is the link. I’m sharing it with all my favorite news sources first! I would so appreciate it if you could include it in one of your featured daily videos or social media outlets. It is especially relevant this month as Israel commemorates Yom Hashoah and Yom HaZikaron but also celebrates her 67th birthday.
French Jews need to come to Israel now. This is good for them and good for Israel.
The prophet Isaiah teaches us that an ingathering of the exiles will herald the day of Redemption, for “You will be gathered up one by one, O Children of Israel; It shall be on that day that a great shofar [ram’s horn] shall sound, and those lost in the land of Assyria and foresaken in the land of Egypt [and from all the other countries of exile and dispersion] will come [together] and bow down to Hashem on the holy mountain of Jerusalem (Isaiah 27:12-13).
Sylvia Said:
Teenagers love ANYTHING that offends the “older generation”.
Dandaman Said:
Bad mistake, sorry. And naturally, you have a rationale to justify it.
@ Dandaman:
The purpose is to target a younger demographic – their into this type of music. Hatred is taught. The youth aren’t going to listen to the old cronies. Why should they? Look at what has been passed down to them.
If you want Israel to be an unsinkable lifeboat to hundreds of thousands of Jews facing anti-Semitic threats — a number that could jump to a million or more in the future — than the government of today’s Israel ought first to take steps to make sure of the following:
1) That all of Eretz-Yisrael will be ruled by government of the Jewish nation, by the Jewish nation, and for the Jewish nation.
2) That no large population of most always hostile and sometimes murderous Arabs will be left behind in Eretz-Yisrael to fester as a permanent enemy.
3) That the Jewish state will be independent of any or all non-Jewish nations and their governments, sustained by the armaments and battle-readiness of the Jewish youth of Israel, and the willingness and capability to neutralize or destroy any armed or even economic threat from any foreign source.
If not, than any claims of Israel being any sort of unsinkable lifeboat whatsoever must be considered little more than a boast of the permanent weak and perpetually unready.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Rap, especially this terrible rap, is an unfortunate mistake and a new soundtrack should replace it ASAP.
@ dove:
Good post Dove, Thank you, very informative.
Powerful video! Very well done!
Anti-Semitic Violence Rises 40% in 2014
Germany and Australia See Steepest Increase, Study Says
By JTA
Published April 15, 2015.
The number of violent anti-Semitic incidents worldwide increased by nearly 40 percent, according to a new report.
Some 766 violent anti-Semitic acts were registered around the world in 2014, up sharply from the 554 violent anti-Semitic incidents logged in 2013.
The highest number of violent incidents was as for the last several years registered in France, with 164 compared to 141 in 2013. The findings were released Wednesday, on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, by The Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University, and were prepared in cooperation with the European Jewish Congress.
Violent anti-Semitic acts are considered by the report as those perpetrated with or without weapons and by arson, vandalism or direct threats against Jewish persons or institutions such as synagogues, community centers, schools, cemeteries and monuments as well as private property.
Among the other countries where there was a sharp rise in violent incidents were the United Kingdom, with 141 compared to 95 the previous year; Australia, with 30 compared to 11; Germany, with 76 or more than double the 36 incidents in 2013; Austria , with 9 compared to 4 the previous year; Italy, with 23 compared to 12, the previous year; Sweden, with 17 compared to only 3 in 2013; Belgium, with 30 compared to 11; and South Africa, with 14 compared to 1 in 2013.
“Many streets in our European cities have become hunting grounds for Jews, and some Jews are now forced to avoid community institutions and synagogues as a result,” said Dr. Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, in a statement. “Some are choosing to leave the continent, many are afraid to walk the streets and even more are retreating behind high walls and barbed wire. This has become the new reality of Jewish life in Europe.”
Kantor called for stronger security measures to prevent further loss of life, and attacks against Jews. “The fight must be taken to the attackers instead of allowing it to affect the everyday lives of the victims. We need to move from defense to offense,” Kantor said. The report found that during 2014, there were 68 attacks on Jews and their property and institutions with weapons; more than double the number the previous year, and 101 cases of weaponless violence. The number of arson cases more than tripled over 2013, and there were 412 incidents of vandalism. More than 306 people were targets of attacks, a two-thirds increase over 2013. Some 114 attacks on synagogues marked an increase of 70 percent. In addition, 57 community centers and schools, 118 cemeteries and memorial sites, and 171 private properties were targeted.