Jewish communities in Germany are on the alert!

According to information reported by the tabloid BILD based on security circles, Jewish community representatives in several federal states are concerned about Islamist attacks on synagogues and Jewish institutions.

There is said to have been a “considerable increase” in hostile messages, calls and concrete incidents in front of Jewish communities within the past 48 hours.

The so-called hostile “contacts” are said to come mainly from men with an Arab background who use the escalation in Israel and the Gaza Strip as an opportunity for threats and attacks against Jewish communities in Germany.

On Tuesday evening, there were violent riots and attacks on Jewish citizens in the Israeli city of Lod, where many Arab citizens also live. Rioters set fire to a synagogue. The concern of many German communities: These anti-Semitic riots could also reach Germany.

According to BILD information, the Federal Criminal Police Office has also already consulted with the criminal investigation departments of the federal states about strengthening the guarding of Jewish institutions. Intensive talks between officials of the Federal Ministry of the Interior as well as the state interior ministries are expected on Wednesday.

In BILD, Felix Klein (53), the federal government’s anti-Semitism commissioner, calls on the authorities to adapt security measures in front of Jewish communities in Germany to the new threat situation. “The protection of Jewish institutions in Germany is particularly important now. The security authorities must keep an eye on the consequences of the current tensions in the Middle East on the security situation here,” said Klein.

On Wednesday evening, a spontaneous demonstration took place in front of a synagogue in Gelsenkirchen. According to the “Initiative against Anti-Semitism Gelsenkirchen”, anti-Semitic slogans were being shouted there.

The police called for reinforcements and the situation calmed down at first. About a hundred demonstrators still marched through Gelsenkirchen in the evening.

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Anti-Semitic incidents already occurred in Münster, Düsseldorf and Bonn on Tuesday:

▶︎ In Bonn, the Jewish synagogue on Tempelstraße was pelted with stones on Tuesday evening. The police seized three papers with probably Arabic writing on them at the scene. On the pavement they found a white and blue flag – very probably the Israeli flag – which had been set alight. Three suspicious men (20, 20 and 24) were temporarily arrested.

▶︎ According to BILD information, there were also concrete threats against the liberal Jewish community of Hanover. As BILD learned, a man called the community on Monday and threatened to set fire to the synagogue. The Ministry of the Interior has been informed, the State Security Service is investigating. An Islamist background is suspected.

There was an anti-Semitic arson attack in Düsseldorf on Tuesday. In Kasernenstraße, an attempt was made to set fire to a memorial plaque for a former synagogue using an incendiary liquid. Fortunately, there was no major damage. The perpetrators are as yet unknown. The State Security Service is investigating this case as well. The memorial commemorates a synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis during the November pogroms in 1938.

▶︎ In Münster, the State Security Service is investigating the burning of an Israeli flag on Tuesday evening: a group of about 15 people burned an Israeli flag in front of the synagogue on Klosterstraße. Eyewitnesses alerted the police. They were able to arrest 13 people.

Sharon Fehr, chairman of the Jewish community in Münster, spoke to BILD of “great uncertainty in the ranks of the members” after the incident. It was “a terrible thing that happened here in front of the synagogue.

Fehr told BILD: “There seems to be a lot of bubbling under the surface. We are appalled by what has happened here. And anyone who burns an Israeli flag in front of a Jewish place of worship loses all decency, any form of tolerance and the efforts towards human coexistence.

https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/politik-inland/nach-terrorangriff-auf-israel-alarmiert-angst-vor-islamistischen-attacken-in-deu-76370456.bild.html?wtmc=fb.shr&fbclid=IwAR1mX1RnE_DUUsbuTH93pRLgxcWUD5MM3sdc4pGDJ5TOLk0QYJWmt0lhe1E

Police officers from the Bühl police station are looking for the owner of a statue that was found in front of a property in the street Hauptstraße on Monday afternoon. The damaged sculpture is believed to depict Joseph according to Christian belief. It is not yet clear how it got there and where it came from. Officers can be contacted by calling 07223 99097-0 for information.

https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/110975/4913377

Several young adults attacked a synagogue in the Gronau district of Bonn early on Tuesday evening: they destroyed the entrance area and set fire to a flag. The police arrested three young men.

According to the police, a resident saw several younger adults attacking the entrance of the synagogue at around 7.30 pm. He also saw them lighting a fire on a nearby pavement and immediately called 911.

The three or four persons dressed in dark clothes ran away in the direction of the Rhine before the police arrived.

On site, the investigators then saw the damage that had been done: A glass area of the entrance door was apparently destroyed with two stones. In front of the entrance, the police seized three A4 pieces of paper with Arabic characters. A white and blue flag was apparently set alight on the pavement opposite the synagogue. The police did not say whether it was the Israeli flag.

Shortly afterwards, three young men were temporarily arrested: Two in the Adenauerallee area, both about 20 years old. Another 24-year-old was arrested shortly afterwards in the Niebuhrstraße area. The suspects’ vehicle was also seized.

The police state security department of the Bonn police has now taken over the further investigation of the incident. The investigators are currently checking whether other persons were involved in the attack against the synagogue. Witnesses had seen another female person, aged between 18 and 22, with dark hair tied in a braid.

The police are now asking for further information from witnesses. They are asked to contact the police state security department by calling 0228-150.

https://www.express.de/bonn/angriff-gegen-bonner-synagoge-maenner-zerstoeren-tuer-und-zuenden-fahne-an—3-festnahmen-38379934?cb=1620813673422

Israeli flags were set alight in front of two synagogues in North Rhine-Westphalia on Tuesday evening.

The police in Münster reported that several witnesses had called the police in the evening to report that “a group of about 15 people with Arabic appearance” was in front of the synagogue, shouting loudly and burning an Israeli flag. The synagogue itself was not damaged. The suspects are facing criminal charges for violating the right of assembly.

The day before, late on Monday evening, an unknown person had set fire to the memorial for the former large synagogue in Düsseldorf. Passers-by alerted the police. The fire went out by itself. In this case, too, the State Protection Service is investigating, the police announced on Tuesday. The Jewish community in Düsseldorf considered the incident an arson attack. “We are very concerned that there was this attack here with us in the heart of Düsseldorf, in the immediate temporal context of the current escalation of violence in Israel,” said Oded Horowitz, chairman of the Jewish community. Horowitz calls for more protection for Jewish institutions in the face of increasing anti-Semitic incidents: “I therefore urgently appeal to the state government to immediately initiate appropriate measures in the common interest.”

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/antisemitismus-nahost-konflikt-synagogen-deutschland-1.5292100

In the French daily Le Figaro, Marie-Claude Barbier Mosimann, lecturer at the École nationale supérieure (ENS) Paris-Saclay and expert on South Africa, discusses the current perception of the Arab-Muslim slave trade, which plays almost no role in the public consciousness. A comprehensive work by the historian Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau entitled “Les traites négrières” had already shown in 2004 that there was not only one slave trade, but three different forms: the Atlantic slave trade, the Arab-Muslim slave trade and the intra-African slave trade, which supplied the slaves to the other two.

When the then President of the Republic, Jacques Chirac, decided in 2005 that May 10 – the anniversary of the passing of the “Loi Taubira” law, which recognised slavery as a crime against humanity – would henceforth be celebrated as a “day of commemoration of the black slave trade, slavery and its abolition”, only the whites had been blamed. A year later, the former French Minister of Justice and eponym of the “Loi Taubira”, Christiane Taubira, clarified her silence regarding the Oriental slave trade. She said it was better not to mention the Arab-Muslim trade in black slaves so that the “young Arabs” would not carry “the whole burden of the legacy of the misdeeds of the Arabs”.

But, notes Barber Mosimann, the Western slave trade lasted three centuries, while the Arab-Muslim slave trade lasted 13 centuries: “Since the beginnings of Islam in the seventh century, it has spread throughout the Maghreb, from where the caravans started, crossing the Sahara to take black slaves with them from the sub-Saharan coast. Timbuktu was a hub of this trade”.

With the expansion of the Ottoman Empire in North Africa, the slave trade and slavery would have continued to flourish, “and cities such as Algiers, Tunis or Tripoli offered large slave markets supplied by raids on land, but also at sea, as they emanated from barbarian pirates to rob Christian slaves on the northern shores of the Mediterranean. The Arab-Muslim slave trade affected virtually the entire African territory north of the Zambezi”.

How can one therefore still accept, the author asks at the end of her article, that “only the white man is called a slaveholder and colonialist?”

https://www.die-tagespost.de/politik/aktuell/suedafrika-expertin-arabisch-muslimischer-sklavenhandel-wird-bewusst-verschwiegen;art315,218118

Lorenz Salomon Beckhardt is Jewish himself. However, he only found this out in young adulthood, as his parents, as Shoa survivors, wanted to enable him to grow up without worries(?). Today Beckhardt is a staff member of the broadcaster WDR and, among other things, editor of the science magazine “Quarks”. Above all, however, he is a valiant campaigner against the right-wing.

This irrepressible will to fight anyone who is politically right-wing in relation to WDR, Annalena Baerbock and Lusia Neubauer may well have been his motivation for sending out this tweet yesterday, which was, however, deleted by Twitter a few hours later for violating community standards:

Because, in the fight against the right-wingers or even against alleged Nazis, even as a child of survivors of the Shoah, one may use a wording that is often used contemptuously by anti-Semites. The term philosemitism was often used in standard works of the precursors of National Socialism to disparage friends of the Jewish people, their religion and culture. “Judenfreund” was regarded as a swear word that could hardly be made more offensive.

This makes Beckhardt’s use of it all the worse. Obviously, the German left is now willing to use any means to fight the enemies of its pseudo-open society. And in Beckhardt’s view, Hans-Georg Maaßen (former President of the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Ed,) is undoubtedly one of them.

Will this tweet have consequences for Beckhardt? Most certainly, but probably none less than the Grimme Prize or the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany!

https://philosophia-perennis.com/2021/05/12/wdr-journalist-beckhardt-gott-moege-alle-judenfreunde-toeten/

Pastor Artur Pawłowski, known for his decisive opposition to Covid-19 restrictions, was detained on a busy street and arrested by Calgary police alongside his brother Dawid. The police announced that his arrest was related to him holding a Saturday mass despite the lockdown in Canada, with the police charging him with “organizing an illegal meeting in person”, reported Christian news portal LifeSiteNews.

A day prior to the arrest, the pastor refused to back down from holding a mass even though authorities consider the community’s gatherings illegal. Pawłowski did not spare harsh words during the encounter while comparing police officers to “Nazis”. Alongside other faithful worshipers, he drove the police out of the church’s grounds. The pastor also took part in protests against government restrictions. In another incident that went viral, Pawlowski kicked officers out of his church.

The latest video recorded by an eyewitness shows how Pawłowski leaves his vehicle at the behest of a police officer and is handcuffed while kneeling. The pastor then refused to enter the police vehicle and compared the officers to the Gestapo and urged them to “do it the Nazi style”. The officers can then be seen dragging both the pastor and his brother across the ground and into the vehicle.

The person recording the video can also be heard shouting towards the police officers: “Shame on you guys, this is not communist China. Don’t you guys have families and kids? Whatever happened to Canada, God keep our land glorious and free. What’re you gonna do when they come for your kids? Shame on you guys, you call yourselves Canadians? Where is your oath? Where is your honor? Where is your dignity? You guys aren’t Canadian.”

The clip also shows the reaction of a pair of cyclists passing by who saw the whole incident and began to call the officers “damned Nazi cowards”.

Pastor Pawłowski’s lawyer pointed out that article 176 of the Canadian penal codex deems it a crime to interrupt mass and arrest priests during their return home from mass. The lawyer also noted that the ban on protests imposed by the court is not compatible with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

This is the second arrest of Pawłowski but not the only action from Canada to place restrictions on the freedom of religious gatherings. Not long ago, pastor James Coates spent a month in prison for holding masses despite the lockdown.

https://rmx.news/article/article/video-polish-pastor-arrested-in-canada-by-police-for-holding-mass-despite-lockdown

The EU financial market commissioner Mairead McGuinness wants to take action against cash. Austria’s Finance Minister rejected the plans on Monday because he said a new super surveillance agency was being planned.

Austria’s Finance Minister Gernot Blümel (ÖVP) stepped forward as a tough opponent of these cash restrictions after the EU’s financial market commissioner Mairead McGuinness announced the coup in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. She said: “We’re talking about an upper limit of 10 000 euros. Carrying that much money around in your pockets is pretty difficult. Most people don’t do that.”

The regulation is to be part of a package of legislative proposals against money laundering that the Commission intends to present in July.

Then she dropped a completely different bombshell: McGuinness revealed to the newspaper that she wanted to propose the establishment of an EU authority to fight money laundering and terrorist financing with the support of the member states. In essence it would be yet another EU super agency devouring millions.

The package in July will be a “big bang” for the fight against money laundering as the Commission intends to present the corresponding legislative package in July. McGuinness does not see a bigger problem in this.

Austria’s Finance Minister Gernot Blümel (ÖVP) rejected the plans on Monday. In the Austrian newspaper Heute, he said: “We will not accept a creeping abolition of cash.” Blümel added: “The fight against money laundering should not be at the expense of honest citizens.”

Different maximum limits already exist in some Member States, but not in Germany. McGuinness also said she needed member states’ support to set up her new surveillance agency to fight money laundering and terrorist financing.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/05/12/eu-commission-wants-to-ban-cash-payments-over-10-000-euros/