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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Kosher</title>
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		<title>BDS Vandalism Forces Removal of Kosher Food from UK Supermarket</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what pandering to BDS bigots does. ]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s not anti-Semitism, it&#8217;s anti-Zionism. Except no, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727266/Sainsbury-s-strips-kosher-food-shelves-fear-attacks-anti-Israeli-protesters.html">it really is anti-Semitism</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A Sainsbury&#8217;s branch emptied its kosher food shelf after the manager feared anti-Israeli protesters outside would attack it, the supermarket giant has said.</p>
<p>Meats, cheeses and sauces were removed from a Sainsbury&#8217;s Local branch in Holborn, central London, as it was picketed by demonstrators who were calling on the grocer to boycott Israeli goods.</p>
<p>Actor Colin Appleby took a photo of the empty shelf, prompting uproar online as hundreds condemned the grocer for appearing to succumb to the demands of the protesters.</p>
<p>People also pointed out that many of the goods were not from Israel and instead came from nations including Britain and Poland.</p>
<p>Mr Appleby wrote that a staff member defended the decision by stating: &#8216;We support Free Gaza&#8217;.</p>
<p>When he then pointed out the distinction between Israeli and kosher goods, staff &#8216;walked away&#8217;, he wrote.</p></blockquote>
<p>Because there is no distinction. It&#8217;s all about Jews.</p>
<blockquote><p>Facebook user Gavin Platman made a formal complaint about the incident, which happened half a mile from the company&#8217;s headquarters at London&#8217;s Holborn Circus.</p>
<p>&#8216;I presume you are also removing Halal food in protest against the Islamic State slaughtering Yazidis. Clearly not &#8211; therefore you have blurred the line between political statement and hate crime.&#8217;</p>
<p>The incident yesterday happened on the same day as demonstrators ‘wreaked havoc’ in a Tesco store after a protest against its stocking of Israeli food got out of hand.</p>
<p>Protesters accused of hurling produce and attacking police at the supermarket in Hodge Hill, Birmingham, are being hunted by officers.</p>
<p>It is understood similar protests at Israeli military action in Gaza have taken place outside Tesco stores in Rochdale and Sale in Greater Manchester, Blackburn and Luton. A march involving 1,500 people in Cardiff last month led to criticism of the police after footage emerged of violence erupting.</p>
<p>Tesco sells fruit, peppers, potatoes and herbs from Israel, along with branded goods. A spokesman said: ‘We do this in line with the Government position on trade with Israel, and we mark all products clearly with the country of origin, so customers can make informed choices about what to buy.’</p></blockquote>
<p>This is what pandering to BDS bigots does. It encourages more of the same.</p>
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		<title>Baby Food Jihad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 05:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[baby formula]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Halal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the halal certification group whose board member calls Jews corrupt apes and swine. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/unnamed.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-213777" alt="unnamed" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/unnamed-450x346.jpg" width="270" height="208" /></a>Baby formula is vital to an infant’s health, as it contains the nutrients necessary for proper physical and mental development. Some baby food, though, while being healthy for babies, is associated with terrorism and bigotry.</p>
<p>For Orthodox Jews and others, the baby formula that their children consume needs to conform to kosher dietary laws, meaning that the food excludes ingredients that would render it religiously inedible. A hechsher or kashruth symbol is placed on a number of products to let those concerned know that they are okay to eat. The most prominent hechsher found on U.S. baby food is the “U” with an “O” around it, the symbol of the group Orthodox Union.</p>
<p>Recently, the Muslim community has gotten into the act, creating a market for Islamic halal (permissible) food, as they too have restrictions regarding food consumption – halal being the Muslim equivalent of kosher. This, though, seems to be more about something other than religious duty, as Jewish dietary laws are more stringent than Muslim ones, rendering kosher food perfectly acceptable to Muslims and halal food entirely unnecessary.</p>
<p>One reason for the existence of halal deals with money. The margin of profit can be great when it comes to the food industry, especially baby food. The other reason seems to be political motivation. Placing Muslim symbols on products is a convenient way to push Islamist culture into non-Muslim American households.</p>
<p>The world’s largest halal food certification company is the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America (IFANCA), based in Park Ridge, Illinois, an affluent suburb of Chicago. IFANCA’s symbol, a crescent alongside an “M,” can be found on different baby formulas, including ones made by leading brands Similac and Gerber, their Crescent-M dwarfing the <a href="http://www.ou.org/contact/">O-U kosher hechsher</a> sitting next to it.</p>
<p>Those seeking kosher food – even those seeking halal food – or anyone else who uses these baby food products may be shocked to find out that IFANCA is linked to international terrorism and bigotry.</p>
<p>IFANCA is <a href="http://halalfocus.net/usa-halal-alliances-isna-and-ifanca/">working with the Islamic Society of North America</a> (ISNA) to create a national halal standards and accreditation body. In 2007 and 2008, ISNA, which was co-founded by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leader Sami al-Arian, was named by the United Sates Justice Department as a co-conspirator in the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. Just this past September, the Canadian government stripped ISNA of its tax status in Canada for the financing of a Pakistani terrorist group.</p>
<p>IFANCA is an active <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ghr9rrkzs5jn5h/CIOGC_Member_Organizations.jpg">member of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago</a> (CIOGC). Other members include: the Mosque Foundation (MF), which has held fundraisers for individuals and groups associated with PIJ and Hamas; Islamic Relief (IR), which has been associated with al-Qaeda financing and that was named by the Israeli government a front for Hamas; Helping Hand (HH), which partnered with a Pakistani charity at the same time that charity delivered close to $100,000 to the residence of the head of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal; and the Muslim American Society (MAS), which has used the internet to propagate materials degrading women, cursing Christians, and calling for the murder of Jews and homosexuals.</p>
<p>IFANCA’s terror and hate-related affiliations are understandable, given the individuals who are in charge of the organization.</p>
<p>Muhammad Munir Chaudry is a Founding Board Member and President of IFANCA. He is listed, along with a photo, on the <a href="http://www.isna.net/speaker-biographies.html">“Speaker” page of ISNA</a>. Sharing the page with him are fellow ISNA speakers: Esam Omeish, who resigned from the Virginia Commission on Immigration, after videos surfaced depicting him calling for violent jihad; Nihad Awad, National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a reported front for Hamas; Siraj Wahhaj, who was named a party to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; and Zulfiqar Ali Shah, the former South Asia Division Coordinator for KindHearts, a charity whose funds were frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department in February 2006 for its alleged role as a Hamas financier.</p>
<p>Roger Othman is the Executive Director of IFANCA. According to his <a href="http://www.ifanca.org/media/IFANCA%20Biography%20Profiles.pdf">bio found on the IFANCA website</a>, Othman “has served on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Mosque Foundation.” As mentioned earlier, MF has been involved in Palestinian terror-related fundraising. In July 2007, one of Othman’s fellow MF Executive Committee alumni, Muhammad Salah, was convicted of obstruction of justice for making false statements during a legal proceeding and was sentenced to 21 months in prison. According to the FBI, Salah was recruiting and training Hamas members and was raising money for Hamas.</p>
<p>Ahmad Hussein Sakr is a member of IFANCA’s Board of Directors and has been with IFANCA since its inception. Prior to IFANCA, he was a <a href="http://www.ahmadsakr.com/bio.html">founding member and president of the Muslim Students Association</a> (MSA), ISNA’s main youth group and the first major Muslim Brotherhood organization inside the U.S. Sakr also served as an officer and sat on the Board of Directors of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), ISNA’s financing wing. Like ISNA, NAIT was named by the United States government as a co-conspirator to the financing of Hamas. As well, Sakr served as the first director and representative of the Muslim World League (MWL), a group that has reportedly been involved in the funding of Hamas, al-Qaeda and other terrorist outfits.</p>
<p>Sakr is the author of the book, ‘Pork: Possible Reasons for its Prohibition.’ In it, he describes Jews as being cursed, monkey-like, filthy and corrupt. He wrote: “It is known that some of the children of Israel regularly disobeyed Allah and as a result, were cursed. Some of them stagnated spiritually and mentally and hence became idol-worshippers; others lost their mission in life as human beings and became entertainers (if such a term is to be used) like monkeys, apes and chimpanzies [sic], and still others became filthy of mind and body, gluttonous eaters of carnivorous animals, and lived totally a corrupted life as swines [sic].”</p>
<p>Sakr’s book was published in 1993 by Sakr’s group, the Foundation for Islamic Knowledge, and is still in circulation as a paperback. A <a href="http://msa.evansville.edu/PagesForNonMuslims/Dialogue/WhyPorkIsHaram.pdf">copy of the text is located</a> on the website of the MSA at the University of Evansville, Indiana, in a section ironically titled, ‘Pages for Non-Muslims.’</p>
<p>It would make sense for Jews and others to be outraged that such an organization as IFANCA would be able to place its symbol on the packaging of major brand baby formula, let alone get paid to do so, <i>and they are – very well!</i> And it’s not just baby formula. The Crescent-M is found on a number of other types of products, including soups, ice cream, chicken and cheese.</p>
<p>Parents have a choice. They could go with a baby formula that has a terror and bigotry-associated symbol on it, as found on Similac and Gerber products, or they can go with a product that is IFANCA-free, such as Enfamil.</p>
<p>Companies have a choice, too. This author contacted one of them – <a href="https://svcs.abbott.com/abtcontactus/contact.do?">Abbott which makes Similac and PediaSure</a>, a kids’ nutrition supplement which also sports the Crescent-M – and was told that the company only wishes to cater to the Muslim community.</p>
<p>Question: Does catering to Muslims mean having to cater to extremists?</p>
<p>In the case of halal certification, it appears that even baby formula has become a symbol of how violence and bigotry is insinuating itself into the very essence of American family life.</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<title>The Left-Wing Movement to Hijack Kosher Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 04:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look for the Soros-funded seal of approval.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/1172992347b1a25f2b6583069975.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-131885" title="1172992347b1a25f2b6583069975" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/1172992347b1a25f2b6583069975.gif" alt="" width="375" height="257" /></a>Orthodox Jews, as well as vegans and allergy sufferers, know that a Kosher certification label on food means that it complies with religious dietary laws. For example a Kosher product marked as “dairy” will not have meat ingredients in it. But to the left, Kosher food represents an untapped opportunity to use as a Trojan horse for imposing their social agenda. And the vehicle for that agenda is “Tav HaYosher” a form of certification that describes itself as “Kosher,” but is actually a union label in disguise.</p>
<p>The group pushing this seal, Uri L’Tzedek, describes itself as an Orthodox social justice organization, but is actually a left-wing group closely interlocked with the Soros-backed Jewish Funds for Justice. Its model is to declare boycotts against Jewish companies for failing to comply with union demands while offering its political “seal of approval” to restaurants and supermarkets that are willing to knuckle under to them.</p>
<p>Uri L’Tzedek dresses up the thuggish tactics of the secular left in religious garb and calls its community organizers “rabbis” in order to be able to better shake down Jewish establishments, but there’s no more religion here than in the similar antics of the Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Reverend Al Sharpton.</p>
<p>Staging a boycott of a company for political offenses and then offering “protection” to other companies with the boycotter’s own social justice certification is an old game and it helped hucksters like Jesse Jackson build an empire. Now Uri L’Tzedek is one of several left-wing groups misrepresenting the social justice certifications from its “compliance officers” as a religious function and wrongly associating its union label with Kosher certification.</p>
<p>Restaurants that allow Uri L’Tzedek’s blackmailing community organizers in the door discover that they can’t leave <a href="http://newsdesk.tjctv.com/2009/06/the-scoop-on-mikes-bistro-and-the-tav-hayosher/">without being subjected to a smear campaign</a>. Its latest “victory” was won on behalf of the Industrial Workers of the World, a radical leftist union, with ugly views on Israel, against a Jewish company. There is no reason to think that this would trouble Uri L’Tzedek, whose leaders are not known for being too fond of the Jewish State.</p>
<p>Ari Hart, a co-founder of Uri L’Tzedek, has written several articles attacking Israel, describing the Jewish State as “responsible for the suffering and oppression of another people.”</p>
<p>The Rosh Beit Medrash of Uri L’Tzedek, Elisheva Goldberg, is an Anti-Israel activist who works for George Soros’ <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7616">New America Foundation</a>, as an assistant to Peter Beinart and a contributor to his Open Zion blog. The former Compliance Officer and current Director of Tav HaYosher Engagement at Uri L’Tzedek, Hadas “Dasi” Fruchter, is a J Street and Occupy Wall Street supporter. And the Uri L’Tzedek Board includes a member of J Street’s Finance Committee.</p>
<p>While Uri L’Tzedek is an arm of the Anti-Israel left, its focus isn’t on Israel and it has avoided highlighting its enthusiasm for groups such as J Street, though its personnel haven’t been nearly as discreet on their Twitter and Facebook accounts. A number of its personnel, including at least one of its founders, are also veterans of Encounter, another left-wing group with a pseudo-religious overlay, which seeks to undermine the Jewish State. But unlike J Street, Uri L’Tzedek is not currently focused on a campaign against Israel; rather it is at war with traditional Jewish communities right here in the United States.</p>
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