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BRITISH LABOR PARTY ANTI-SEMITISM and ANIT-SEMITIC POSTERS IN CALIFORNIA from David Hocking (www.davidhocking.org)

BRITISH LABOR PARTY ANTI-SEMITISM

Three prominent British Jewish authors said in an open letter that they are concerned that anti Zionism in the country's Labor Party is now "closer to anti-Semitism.

Howard Jacobson, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Simon Schama said in the open letter in The Times that they are "troubled by the tone and direction of debate about Israel and Zionism within the Labor Party."

The letter said "We are alarmed that during the past few years, constructive criticism of Israeli governments has morphed into something closer to anti-Semitism under the cloak of so-called anti-Zionism. We do not object to fair criticism of Israel governments, but this has grown to be indistinguishable from a demonization of Zionism itself."

The authors noted that accusations of international Jewish conspiracy and Jewish control of the media have once again become ubiquitous, as have creating parallels between the Jewish state and Nazism.

"Such themes and language have become widespread in Jeremy Corbyn's Labor Party. So far the Labor leadership's reaction has been derisory.  It is not enough to denounce all racisms in general when this specific strain rages unchecked," the authors wrote.

They also noted the suffering of the Palestinian Arabs. "We do not forget nor deny that the Palestinian people have an equally legitimate, ancient history and culture in Palestine nor that they have suffered wrongs that must be healed. We hope that a Palestinian state will exist peacefully alongside Israel," they wrote.

Jacobson won the Mann Booker Prize 2010 for "The Finkler Question." Schama recently published "Belonging," the second part of his trilogy "The Story of the Jews," and Montefiore is the author of "Jerusalem: The Biography."

ANIT-SEMITIC POSTERS IN CALIFORNIA

Northern California synagogue vandalized with posters portraying Jews as rapists, using anti-Semitic slurs, and praising Hitler's 'warning'.

Anti-Semitic posters portraying Jews as serial rapists and praising white supremacist mass-murderer Dylann Roof were pasted to a synagogue in suburban Sacramento, California over the weekend.

Members of congregation Or Rishon on discovered about 10 to 15 of the hate posters stuck to the building, The Sacramento Bee reported. They were placed on the building overnight between Friday and Saturday.

The posters included one seemingly justifying the June 2015 mass-shooting committed by white supremacist Dylann Roof at a predominantly black church in South Carolina, killing nine.  Other posters featured anti-Semitic caricatures.

One poster portrayed Jews as rapists, showing an image of disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and a man with side-locks sexually assaulting a non-Jewish woman. The poster also appears to praise Adolf Hitler and other prominent anti-Semites, exhorting the public to heed their "warnings" against Jews. The poster also used an anti-Semitic epithet.

"Yikes! Kikes! Hitler, Rockwell, and Pierce warned you about sleazy Hollywood kikes," the poster said, referencing white supremacists William Luther Pierce and George Lincoln Rockwell.

The incident was reported to the Sacramento Sheriff's Department and the FBI, according to the report.

Security camera footage is being reviewed, the temple's president, Kimberly Olker, told local NBC affiliate KCRA, Channel 3 news.

Rabbi Alan Rabishaw told the Bee that he has received messages of support from community leaders and leaders of the Muslim community. He said it is the first time the temple, which serves about 275 families, has been targeted.

He told the newspaper the temple will not change how it operates in response to the attack.

"They're not in control, not even a little bit. We're not hiding, we're not afraid. We just do what we do with joy and peace in our hearts," he said.