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LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2288
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 4:22 pm: | 
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Received this disturbing email today from a colleague of mine. The incident took place in Clifton.
Dear XXXX,
I am sorry to share some very disturbing news. This morning when my employees arrived at work two of my vans had their windshields broken, and painted on one of our garage doors was F--- You Jew.
We are of course filing a police report, I will contact the Anti-Defamation League, and the local newspaper.
Any suggestions as to what other steps to take?
Jealousy, bigotry and hate have raised their ugly head yet again. I thank G-d my parents are not alive to see this.
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Carrie Avery
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Username: Carrie33
Post Number: 192
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 4:31 pm: |
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Are you serious?? This is such a shame in this day and age. What is wrong with people! I hate to think we have not evolved at all and are regressing to a time where we have to fight all over again for our rights as people.
What will be next? When will this hatred end!
ps I suppose when we are all dead and gone. |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5118
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 5:21 pm: |
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Nancy:
How scary. Hopefully this will prove to be an isolated incident. |
anon
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Username: Anon
Post Number: 1686
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 5:48 pm: |
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I don't mean to trivialize this but the title of the thread is "Anti-Semitism in Essex County" and you then relate an incident that took place in Clifton - Passaic County! |
gozerbrown
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Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 664
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 5:53 pm: |
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I would be interested in knowing if this incident was indeed isolated or if it was widespread. There's no excuse for using hateful language, but considering this happened to a business owner, could it have been some kind of difficulty they had with a particular customer? |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2289
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 6:01 pm: |
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Sorry Anon,you're right of course.. I didn't realize that Clifton was not in Essex. Should change the title in AntiSemitism in N.J. if only knew how.
There was another recent incident in Milburn at a synagogue. Two incidents in a month within shoutind distance of my home do NOT make me feel good, to say the least/
Goz, yes it was a business, but why vandalize and attack it with horrible obscene antiJewish slurs? |
juju's petals
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Username: Jujus_petals
Post Number: 27
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 6:02 pm: |
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This is awful. Now can I pose a thoughtful question? Does publicizing this outrage bring greater light and awareness to the problem or inflict the racist message on a larger audience. Maybe both? Interested in thoughtful replies on this. |
The Libertarian
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Username: Local_1_crew
Post Number: 511
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 6:05 pm: |
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as a jewish libertarian in this county i feel doubly threatened! |
Straw & manure
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 4639
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 6:24 pm: |
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Anti Semitism in the UN, Europe, and NJ..What else is new? |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5120
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 7:52 pm: |
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Juju:
I believe that it is important to make people aware of what is happening. That is the only way the community can unite to prevent such incidents from happening here or if they do happen, to work to catch the person or persons responsible.
Hate crimes, regardless of their severity or the group the hatred is directed against, are extremely threatening to everyone's well being. |
Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 682
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 9:56 pm: |
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LL Make it three because the synagogue on Millburn Ave was hit twice. What's with some people? Are they that unhappy with themselves? |
Phenixrising
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Username: Phenixrising
Post Number: 481
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 9:14 am: |
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N.J. a hotbed for Nazi-inspired racist music
“Meet the new Justin Kraemer, at 19: shaved head, suspenders, boots. Nazi SS death's head decorating the zipper of his jacket. Justin Kraemer is a skinhead. A foot soldier of the Fourth Reich.
He hands out leaflets in suburban communities. He's the New Jersey representative for an Arkansas-based group called White Revolution. He participates in online chats, talks up white power to other kids, spreads the word every way he can.
"I'm not the kind of guy who sits back and lets history go by," Justin says. "I want to get out there and make history."
The music that rocked Justin Kraemer's world is the soundtrack of the white supremacist revolution. And it's thriving in New Jersey.
A record label in Clifton distributes racist CDs worldwide. One of its artists, under the name Sturmführer, makes music that glorifies Adolf Hitler. Police in Passaic recently broke up a performance of the Blue-Eyed Devils, a New Jersey "Reich-and-roll" band. Prosecutors in Toms River say a skinhead drummer translated violent lyrics into action by taking a baseball bat to a Hispanic man”.
I remember some years ago watching A&E's program "American Justice" where they did a segment on white supremist & hate groups. I was surprised at the numbers here in New Jersey. Supposedly one of the highest on the East coast. Recently, the Feds were questioning a white supremist DJ in Bergen County about the murder of the judge's husband and mother in Chicago (since then, they found the real culprit yesterday).
Obviously, these groups need to be closely watched by the Feds.
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shoshannah
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Username: Shoshannah
Post Number: 781
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 10:43 am: |
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Definitely better to express the outrage and publicize. Shoving these incidents under the rug is like appeasement. And you know where that will get us. |
mem
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Username: Mem
Post Number: 4733
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 11:43 am: |
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Also, the largest population of klu klux klan - right down the road in south jersey.
Disgusting. |
Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 2666
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 4:57 pm: |
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Please support the work of the Simon Wiesenthal Center: http://www.wiesenthal.com
"At a time when violent antisemitic attacks on British Jews increased 42% last year reaching greater levels than in France, where just days before Holocaust Memorial Day Jewish gravestones were desecrated with swastikas, while at the same time there was a spate of violent attacks against Jews in North London, where Jewish students feel increasingly intimidated on university campuses for openly expressing their support for Israel, and when young people in the UK increasingly display a lack of understanding of the Nazi Holocaust, the slanderous comments against a Jewish reporter and the State of Israel by London's controversial mayor have fueled an already dangerous environment.
Mayor Ken Livingstone's most recent statements accusing the Israeli government of "ethnic cleansing" and his description of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as a "war criminal who should be in prison" have added to the anger over comments made last month when he compared a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard. Livingstone has refused consistent calls from Prime Minister Tony Blair, British officials, Holocaust survivors, and London's Jewish community to apologize.
Therefore, we must join the Simon Wiesenthal Center's protest directly to London Mayor Ken Livingstone to urge him to immediately apologize for his comments trivializing the Holocaust and demonizing Zionism and Israel.
Livingstone has had a long history of conflict with British Jews. Last year, he hosted Sheik Yusuf al Qaradawi, a Muslim Brotherhood Imam who has endorsed suicide bombings against civilians in Israel and attacks on foreign civilians in Iraq. In 2000, he made a speech claiming that global capitalism was responsible for more deaths that the Nazis. And as far back as 1983, in his capacity as a newspaper editor, he published a cartoon of then-Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin dressed in an SS uniform with a caption reading, "The Final Solution."
Additionally, the Center is urging mayors of all cities to refuse to officially welcome Livingstone to their cities until he apologizes for his reckless and incendiary behavior."
-s. |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2292
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 7:07 pm: |
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Here's the article in today's paper.
http://netmail2.verizon.net/agent/mobmain/Heraldnews.pdf?fold=INBOX&msgvw=INBOXM N382DELIM2651&part=2&FileName=Heraldnews.pdf |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5129
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 9:06 pm: |
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Nancy:
That link requires a Verizon ID/password. |
Mustt_mustt
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Username: Mustt_mustt
Post Number: 297
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 9:44 pm: |
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Talking about glorifying Hitler as part of the anti-semitic discourse, you might want to pay special attention to the rhetoric of right wing Hindu zealots whose model of Hindu nationalism was initially inspired by Hitler. Gowalkar was the first to borrow heavily from Hitler in formulating the discourse of Hindu nationalism around Hindu pride and the need for India to be a Hindu nation.
Yet, these are the very folk (whose presence in the American diaspora is very strong) that have no qualms asssociating themselves with the Zionists and Christian fundamentalists in the name of the "war on terror" by persecuting Muslims and abusing human rights in Kashmir. Now, that's a tinderbox and not many people are paying serious attention to it.
On another note, Soda quotes that Jewish students feel intimidated on campuses in Britain, but I beg to differ that the case is different here in the US. I teach at one of the local universitites and have witnessed events dealing with Palestine being cancelled or being rudely interrupted by Zionists. Any discussion of Israel's policy or the recent report which lambasted the Sharon govt is strictly "prohibited." The pressure that is brought to bear upon the Arab and Muslim students on American campuses is to be seen to be believed.
What is strange is that a discussion of anti-semitism is happening on Soapbox?
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LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2293
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 11:46 pm: |
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Anti-Semitic slur found on business
Friday, March 11, 2005
By BRIAN SPADORA
HERALD NEWS
CLIFTON - An anti-Semitic slur was written on the garage door of a Jewish-owned business, and the windshields of two of the company's vans were smashed late Wednesday or early Thursday.
An employee of Quality Construction on Colfax Avenue discovered the vandalism at 6:30 a.m. Thursday, Noah Tenenbaum, the company's owner, said. The last employees left the business at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, he said.
The evidence of the crime was still visible Thursday afternoon.
The phrase "F--- YOU JEW" was scrawled in black magic marker on the building's white garage door.
The vans, which were parked in the street outside of the building, were apparently struck with a hammer. A small round hole was punched through one windshield, and two small round cracks sat at the center of spider-web-shaped cracks in the other windshield.
Tenenbaum said he would install surveillance cameras outside the business by next week.
The crime is the second incident of anti-Semitic vandalism in the city in less than a week. Last Friday, a resident discovered a 15-foot-long swastika stamped into the snow in Robin Hood Park on Standish Drive.
Police Sgt. Robert Bracken said a detective would be assigned to the case and that there was no evidence connecting the two incidents.
Tenenbaum, who lives in Livingston and who has run his construction business in Clifton for 30 years, said he had a suspicion about who was responsible for the damage to his property, but added that it would be inappropriate to speculate.
"It's got to be someone that knows me or knows that I'm Jewish," he said.
Tenenbaum is the son of Holocaust survivors and the co-chairman of the Maplewood and South Orange Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance Committee.
"I wrote an e-mail to a rabbi this morning saying, 'Thank God my parents are not alive. It'd be a shame for them to see this,'" he said.
Tenenbaum said his parents' history and his own experience made him eager to draw attention to the incident.
"Do I want to make trouble?" he said. "Nobody made trouble from '33 to '39 in Germany, and 6 million Jews and 5 million other people were killed."
He said he had never experienced an incident like this in his 30 years of working in the city and that this one wouldn't affect him.
"I don't make a good victim," he said.
And postings like the one above show why these types of incidences may continue to happen.
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Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5131
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 12, 2005 - 7:42 am: |
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Nancy:
Thanks for posting the full text of the article. |
Ukealalio
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Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 1877
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 12:48 am: |
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"What is strange is that a discussion of anti-semitism is happening on Soapbox "
Why ?. |
Mustt_mustt
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Username: Mustt_mustt
Post Number: 298
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 9:17 am: |
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It is an issue that is fraught with politics, that is why. I was trying point out the ironies in the ideology of Hindu nationalism and there is every reason a Hindu right wing nut will contest my position, in which case, Dave might decide to move this thread to another location.
Anti-semitism is to be condemned in no uncertain terms but criticism of Israel's occupation of Palestine should not be construed as an anti-semitic position because my secular critique of Israel's position is not rooted in any religious position as such. I am disturbed by the clamping down on the free speech of Palestinian students in area campuses. As free speech advocates who will not tolerate hate speech, I think the onus is on us to stand up to the rights of one and all. |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5146
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 9:24 am: |
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Mustt_mustt:
The anti-Jewish attacks on a synagogue in a neighboring town and a Jewish owned business are the matters of most concern here. If such attrocities can occur in Millburn and Clifton (and have occurred in Maplewood and South Orange in the not so distant past) they can occur here again.
That concern goes way beyond politics, extending to the welfare and safety of ourselves and our neighbors.
Now do you understand why this is most certainly a viable conversation to be holding here? |
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