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Europe: Anti-Semitism up, Islamophobia down

Study on 'group-focused enmity' conducted by researchers from University of Bielefeld in Germany finds hatred of Muslims decreased over past year, while hatred of Jews and homosexuals growing. Poland defined as most racist country.

Anti-Semitism is also still widely spread in Europe. The team of scientists from the universities of Amsterdam, Bielefeld, Budapest, Grenoble, Lisbon, Marburg, Oxford, Padua, Paris, and Warsaw found that 41.2% of Europeans believe that “Jews try to take advantage of having been victims during the Nazi era”. The highest degree of affirmation was in Poland - 72%, and the lowest in the Netherlands – 5.6%. More

Israel settlement freeze inspectors accompanied by brutish Yasam guards

In one incident on Sunday at the Samarian town of Kedumim, Yasam officers reportedly struck the town's mayor and threw several young local girls to the ground to clear a way for the inspectors.

The prime minister reiterated that the settlement freeze will end in 10 months, regardless of how the international community views the situation. More Yeah right!

Call to Tear Down Illegal Arab 'Castles'

(IsraelNN.com) The Regavim Movement for safeguarding national lands appealed to the Minister of Defense Friday and demanded the immediate destruction of illegal mansions built by Arabs near Hussan and El Hadr, west of Bethlehem.

Attorney Amir Fisher, who represents the movement, noted in a letter that there should be no problem to carry out the demolition immediately, now that the Civilian Administration has recruited dozens of new building inspectors. More

Yesha Council head: We'll break Netanyahu's 'white book' policy

In a meeting of settler leaders in Ofra on Saturday night, Danny Dayan, who heads the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, said that "We will violate the decision to freeze [construction] and are prepared to pay the price in order to break [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu's 'White Book' policy."

Dayan announced that a mass demonstration against the building moratorium to be held in Jerusalem on Wednesday, under the slogan "We will break the freeze." More

English-language radio in Israel to the world

Mainly due to licensing difficulties with the Communications Ministry, stations like the legendary Voice of Peace launched by Abie Nathan on a ship in the Mediterranean off the coast of Israel, the short-lived, long-lamented Jerusalem-based Radio West in the 1990s and more recently the Ramallah-Jerusalem coexistence station RAM FM, all suffered similar fates of being shut down because they were broadcasting without a government-issued license - in essence operating as pirate radio stations.

English language radio station attracts Anglo-Israelis, listeners abroad.
Adam Mallerman, a new immigrant from England, has neatly pole-vaulted over the whole nuisance of proper permits, sanctioned bandwidths and the bureaucratic black hole that has relegated countless grassroots radio startups to the broadcasting junk heap. Ironically though, his spunky radio station can't be tuned into on a radio - Rusty Mike Radio (www.rustymikeradio.com) is an Internet-only station "broadcasting" from Jerusalem's Talbiyeh neighborhood to Israel and the world beyond. More

THE Number One Way to Conquer a Cold or Flu: Vitamin D

Vitamin D is an amazingly effective antimicrobial agent, producing 200 to 300 different antimicrobial peptides in your body that kill bacteria, viruses and fungi.

In the United States, the late winter average vitamin D level is only about 15-18 ng/ml, which is considered a very serious deficiency state. It’s estimated that over 95 percent of U.S. senior citizens may be deficient, along with 85 percent of the American public. More

Messianic Jew attacked by Orthodox in northern Israel

Two Orthodox Jewish residents of the northern Israel town of Beit She'an were arrested on Wednesday a day after they are suspected of having torched the parked car of a local Messianic Jew.

Eliav Levine said his car was burned while it was parked outside the Beit She'an police station. His lawyer, Calev Myers of the Jerusalem Institute of Justice, said the entire Levine family has suffered constant harrassment from Beit She'an's religious community. More

Judea and Samaria: MKs agree the freeze has gone too far

(IsraelNN.com) Cabinet ministers who voted for the freeze on Jewish construction, a Knesset subcommittee, and coalition MKs agree: The freeze has gone too far.

Committee member MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) was more biting: “The Defense Minister, who likes to speak about law enforcement, himself totally disregards the law. He causes the IDF Central Commander to sign an order in opposition to the Cabinet decision – which stated that it takes effect only after it is publicized – and this has yet to be done.  In addition, he is in violation of Knesset laws. He instructed his representatives not to appear at our committee session – which he may do only if he himself appears in their stead. This he did not do, and I plan to present legislation stipulating that in such a case, he should be forcibly brought to the Knesset just like any other lawbreaker.”  More

Iranian pilgrims' bus explodes in Damascus neighborhood

Syria's interior minister said a blast hit a Damascus suburb on Thursday, and witnesses said it targeted a busload of Iranian pilgrims causing an unconfirmed number of casualties.

Interior Minister Said Mohammad Sammour told Lebanon's Al-Manar Hezbollah television station that the cause of blast had not yet been determined. An Associated Press photographer at the scene in the Sayyida Zainab suburb in southern Damascus saw a damaged bus. More

Of course the US and Israel will be blamed.

Messianic Jew Paul Wilbur live in Dubai November 24