Like numerous other cities and municipalities in Germany, the city of Hagen also raised the Israeli flag at the city hall on Wednesday. As in the previous year, this was to mark the anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany on 12 of May 1965.

Against the backdrop of the current events in the Middle East, the raising of the flag caused irritation, according to the city administration, and was interpreted by some people as a one-sided expression of solidarity related to the current conflict. There were several complaints, according to a spokeswoman for the city.

In order to correct this impression and to prevent further misunderstandings, the city of Hagen took down the flag again on Wednesday in coordination with the Hagen police.

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The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has warned American employers that they may be held liable for “any adverse reactions” if they force employees to take Covid-19 vaccines “as a condition of their employment”.

LifeSite reported that OSHA released its new guidance on April 20 on its website in the FAQ section related to COVID-19 safety compliance.

Any employer who mandates employees to receive these experimental SARS-Cov-2 vaccine shots is required to record adverse events as part of the requirements for serious work-related injuries or illnesses. Not only does this make an employer vulnerable to worker’s compensation claims, but it could also negatively impact the employer’s safety record. Also, employers requiring these injections may be held legally liable for violating federal law, because, according to America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS), products approved for emergency use only “are prohibited from being mandated by federal law”.

In the FAQ section, OSHA noted:

If I require my employees to take the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of their employment, are adverse reactions to the vaccine recordable?

If you require your employees to be vaccinated as a condition of employment (i.e., for work-related reasons), then any adverse reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine is work-related. The adverse reaction is recordable if it is a new case under 29 CFR 1904.6 and meets one or more of the general recording criteria in 29 CFR 1904.7.

This clarification comes in the wake of an increasing number of employersseeking to force their workers to take the experimental injections despite the obvious legal risks.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on how machine operators, office workers, restaurant waiters, and medical staff were being forced to take the jab. “The Houston Methodist Hospital network is mandating vaccines for both existing employees and new hires, barring an exemption. Those who fail to comply will at first be suspended without pay, and later terminated.”

The 28-year-old Sara Stickles, a nutritional specialist at Swedish American hospital in Rockford, Illinois died just five days after her second shot of one of the mRNA gene-therapy vaccines. She took the vaccine because it had been required by her employer although the US Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization (EUA) specifically states that individuals must have the free “option to accept or refuse” these vaccines.

Curiously, pharmaceutical manufacturers do not face the same risk as employers do in the US. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 shields them from any liability due to injuries or death caused by their products.

Data released from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that between December 14, 2020 and April 30 a total of 157 277 adverse events were passively reported to VAERS, including 3 837 deaths and 16 014 serious injuries.

Fox News commentator, Tucker Carlson, recently highlighted how the US government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) revealed that at least 30 people a day died from the Covid vaccine between December 2020 and April this year.

“More people, according to VAERS, have died after getting the shot in four months during a single vaccination campaign than from all other vaccines combined over more than a decade and a half,” Carlson pointed out.

Moreover, the number of deaths is probably much higher than the VAERS figures, after reports submitted to the US Department of Health and Human Services in 2010 that found “fewer than 1 percent of vaccine adverse events are reported by the VAERS system”.

No other vaccines have been quite as deadly as the anti-Covid jabs. Of all of the MENVEO vaccines given to prevent bacterial meningitis, only one person died from the vaccine between 2010 and 2015. In 1976, 45 million Americans were vaccinated for H1N1. A total of 53 people died from the vaccine. Because of the deaths, the US government halted the vaccination programme, deemed too risky.

But it is clear that authorities will ensure vaccine compliance by using economic warfare: By marginalizing unvaccinated people from society gradually until the costs of avoiding the vaccine are too great, they force their experiment on the population.

AFLDS has provided a template letter for those who refuse to comply with forced vaccinations:

“The law is clear. An experimental vaccine cannot be mandated. Any employer, public school, or any other entity or person who mandates experimental vaccines on any human being is not protected from liability for any resulting harm. While vaccine manufacturers may be shielded from liability, your institution is not protected, and neither are you.”

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/05/13/us-employers-may-be-held-liable-for-vaccine-damage-if-they-mandate-covid-jabs/

France has cracked down on progressive efforts and placed a ban on gender-neutral words being used in public schools. The minister of education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, said that the French language must not be destroyed or manipulated, however, he says he supports the feminization of occupations and positions, calling it “progressive”.

Activists in favor of the changes to the French language say they will not give up, and the teacher’s union called on teachers to ignore the ban.

The new decree sent to schools across the country is particularly opposed to the introduction of dots in the middle of words to indicate gender-neutral terms.

The plural of ami (friend) is, for example, available to use in the masculine form of amis and the feminine form amies, however, the female amies can be used only if there is not a single man in the group. Progressives don’t like that. According to them, a gender-neutral word for friends should use dots or periods in the middle and look like ami.e.s.

Activists have also long sought to put a feminizing “e” at the end of some words, which they say will contribute to greater inclusiveness. This applies, for example, to the word “élus” used for elected officials, which would become “élu.e.s”.

Two members of the French Academy, which is responsible for protecting the French language, opposed the periods in the middle of words. “The use of periods is detrimental to practice and understanding of the French language,” experts said.

The French Ministry of Education also pointed out possible problems with spelling words in such a manner.

“It breaks words into two. If inclusive writing in French is expanded in such a manner then English, already prevalent around the world, would certainly beat French for good,” said Nathalie Elimas, secretary of state for priority education.

The use of periods in the middle of words was also opposed by the French Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer. He told Le Journal du Dimanche that “the dots in the middle of words are a barrier to communication in our language, for example, for students with learning disabilities, such as dyslexia.”

“Our language is the first French treasure, the one that unites us all and makes us a world power,” the minister said, recalling a circular from 2017 issued by then-Prime Minister Édouard Philippe who banned the use of inclusive writing in government offices at the time.

However, the SUD, one of the world’s largest teachers’ unions, has called on teachers across the country to ignore the ministry decree.

Feminization of occupational names

The decree also calls for the aforementioned feminization of the names of professions and functions, including the use of the term “présidente” instead of “président” in the case of the female leader.

Most job titles are masculine in French, which experts say discourages women from applying for such positions.

The decree, therefore, newly requires schools to use both masculine and feminine words in advertisements when offering jobs. It should be clear that the function is open to both sexes.

According to Le Journal du Dimanche, there is a war between the “old guard”, which wants to preserve traditions, and left-wing groups, which claim that the language should be raised above its so-called “sexist” roots.

The debate on inclusive writing came to the media’s attention, for example, in February after 60 MEPs came up with a bill banning civil servants from using gender-neutral words at work.

“The advent of inclusive writing makes it difficult to learn the French language because it creates a gap between spoken and written language,” wrote Macron MPs from La République en Marche and Conservative Republicans.

https://rmx.news/article/article/progressives-angered-as-france-bans-gender-neutral-words

In the media yesterday we read headlines about the event in front of the synagogue in Gelsenkirchen such as ” Protest against Israel in the city centre” or “Spontaneous demonstration pro Palestine”. In the linguistic jargon of the mainstream media, there was almost constant talk of “anti-Israeli slogans”. What really happened is shown by a video that appeared on Youtube today.

For our journalists, of course, this has nothing to do with anti-Semitism. After all, this only comes from those who are politically positioned to the right-wing of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Left Party (Linkspartei) and the Greens. Moreover, someone could still get the idea that integration has failed if members of the religion of peace are associated with hatred of Jews:

It was a spontaneous gathering, they say. So the police can be forgiven for not being immediately present with sufficient forces. However, at no time did they make an effort to stop the march or at least to pick out individuals in order to record their personal details.

After all, dozens of offences from the area of so-called hate crime were committed here. Tomorrow is Nakba Day. The day after tomorrow at the latest, Palestinians and other Muslims in Germany will traditionally take to the streets. If the police in Germany are not better prepared, we will see very unpleasant scenes compared to slogans during the march on a synagogue!

https://philosophia-perennis.com/2021/05/13/demo-in-gelsenkirchen-kindermoerder-israel-und-sch-juden-polizei-schaut-tatenlos-zu/

Can someone be employed in a German Federal Ministry who calls the State of Israel a “terrorist state” – while in Israel Jews, Christians and Muslims are under massive fire from Islamist Palestinian terrorists? So reversals between terrorists and victims are not only found in Germany on social platforms, in some newspapers, but probably even exist in federal ministries.

Since the Islamist terrorist organisation Hamas resumed firing rockets at Israel and waging a War of Terror on Monday, unrealistic discussions about who are the terrorists and who are the victims started in Germany as well. The staff member, Mouatasem Alrifai, on the Youth Advisory Council of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) publicly referred to Israel as a “terrorist state” via a social network.

He also claimed that the reporting of the German media is false and a pack of lies, writing that the “biggest German media” do not tell the “story told by the lion (Palestinians)” but instead tell the “story of the hunter (Israelis)”. In this context, he cites the newspapers Der Spiegel, Bild-Zeitung, Tagesschau and Die Welt.In another post, Alrifai, using the same hunter-lion comparison, spoke of “this is how the biggest German media hypocrites about Israel”.

https://twitter.com/Mo_Alrifai/status/1391529894941794311

The lion-hunter comparison is in the context of surviving accounts that say that crusaders went lion hunting in “Palestine” in the 12th century as well as that 100 years later lions became extinct in this region. This view must also be understood in the context of the Christian crusade to conquer “Palestine” around 1095/99. Against this background, Christians and Jews today are referred to as “crusaders” and “hunters” with negative connotations. The Palestinians, on the other hand, are metaphorically given a special victim role with the term “lions”. Such terminology and comparisons are readily used by radical Islamic circles.

The term “crusader” is thus used by many anti-Israeli to anti-Semitic organisations and individuals as a synonym for Israelis as alleged “colonialists”. When Turkish President Erdogan hinted at a deliberate “total liberation” of the Palestinians in the course of the conversion of Hagia Sophia back to a mosque, the pro-government Turkish media responded by calling Erdogan the saviour of the “tyranny of the crusaders” – this is a rhetoric used by the Islamic State (IS) and al-Quaida and always has a firm anti-Semitic flavour in this context due to the world views present.

The current BMZ staff member also shared a post by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in which they expressed solidarity with Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and the West Bank, writing: “We are a movement committed to ending settlement colonialism in all its forms and we will continue to work for the liberation of Palestine. #SaveSheikhJarrah”. Alrifai made it clear that he welcomed this. He also changed his Facebook profile picture to show solidarity with the #SaveSheikhJarrah campaign and UnitedPalastinans.

Alrifai switched from his membership of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to the Green Party in spring 2020. Since March 2021, he has served on the Youth Advisory Council of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). In 2019, he was nominated for the German Commitment Award with prize money of 10,000 euros, which he said he had donated – among others to the radical left-wing climate activist group “Extinction Rebellion” and the alliance “Seebrücke”, which according to the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution is under left-wing extremist influence, which the “Seebrücke” itself denies. In 2019, Extinction Rebellion founder Roger Hallam referred to the Holocaust as “another piece of shit in history”.

Since 2020, Alfrifai has been a member of the youth committee of the federal programme “Democracy Live” under the patronage of Federal Minister for Family Affairs Franziska Giffey (SPD). He is probably also a member of “Fridays for Future” in Syria, because in July 2020, an event, reportedly a demonstration, took place in Idlib, where “Fridays for Future Syria” Mouatasem Alrifai was listed under contact information.

In response to an enquiry from TE magazine, a spokesperson for the BMZ said that Mr. Alrifai’s statements were being reviewed and that a decision would then be made about his membership in a meeting:

“The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) condemns all forms of anti-Semitism and calls for hatred and violence. The statements you have quoted contradict our approach of engaging in a spirit of understanding between people and peoples worldwide. If our review confirms that Mr Alrifai has expressed himself in this way, he cannot be a member of the BMZ Youth Advisory Council. The BMZ Youth Advisory Board will convene for its inaugural meeting on May 21-22, 2021.”

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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