Round-up: Jew-Hate Around The Globe

Austria

Spurred by a baseball bat attack on the leader of the Jewish community in Graz,  a new department in the Chancellor’s office has been created to track and combat antisemitic activity, and Austrian citizenship will be offered to descendants of Jews expelled during the Nazi regime as a “gesture of reconciliation.”

Chancellery Minister Karoline Edtstadler met with Elie Rosen, who was chased by a 31 year old Syrian man as he left his office at the city’s main synagogue last weekend and had his windshield smashed after escaping the attack. Only a few days beforehand he had warned of dangerous “left-wing and anti-Israel antisemitism” in Graz.

Seeking to root out “antisemitic and anti-Zionist incidents”, Edstadler told the press “many incidents are not reported out of shame, perhaps because one has already come to terms with the fact that something like this happens when it shouldn’t.”

France

BDS radicals announced a campaign to harass a team representing Israel at this years’ Tour de France. The premier annual cycling event on the planet is set to run from August 29-September 20 with the participation of “Israel Start-Up Nation,” a team financed by a man Barron’s calls “Israel’s Billionaire Roving Ambassador.”

Quebec-born real estate tycoon Sylvan Adams recruited top stars including four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome of Britain and French riders Rudy Barbier, Hugo Hofstetter, and Alexis Renard. In response, the terrorist-proxy “prisoner rights” organization Samidoun vowed to take action, including a “Twitterstorm” against what they “putting a sporting cover on the face of colonialism, racism, and occupation.”  The group urged supporters to “Go to the route of the Tour and protest along the route to stand up for Palestine and against #IsraelApartheidNation.”