Original articles on Israel and related issues written by Steven Plaut, a professor at an Israeli university.
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1. British Gutter Anti-Semites:
http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2006/04/27/im_not_a_racist_but.php
2. Scandinavian Scum
http://israelnn.com/news.php3?id=102687
3. Haaretz wants to fight poverty by having Jews have fewer children!
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/708907.html
4. For those trying to write the President of Tel Aviv University about
the anti-Israel atrocities there this past week (see
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22214 ), he has
evidently blocked his email address thanks to the many of you who have
written him. To reach
him now, you need to contact him via his secretary at
marlene@post.tau.ac.il
5. You know how Mikey Lerner likes to tell everyone about that
"ordination ceremony" of his in which three hippies plaed their hands on
his head and
declared him to be a "rabbi"? Well, in synagogue this past Shabbat, while
listening to the Torah Portion, it struck me how closely Mikey's
description of his "ordination" resembles the laying of the hands of the
Temple priests on a goat before sacrificing it on the altar in the
Biblical Temple!
6. Brandeis University was once considered a "Jewish" university, but
these days it is filled with leftwing moonbats, jihadniks, and anti-Semites,
and regularly plays host to anyone seeking Israel's destruction.
This week it opened an "art exhibit" containing anti-Israel "Palestinian
art". Here are some details:
Voices from Palestine
An Art Exhibition of Children's paintings from
Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem
Hussam, 16, from Beit Jibrin, a village destroyed in 1948. He dreams of
liberation for Palestine and hopes to become a Nerves Surgeon.
Wednesday, April 26th, 5:30pm
Goldfarb Library
Ibrahim Masri has over ten years of experience working with children and
families living in Palestine. He will talk about the political, social,
psychological situation and its impact on the Palestinian family in
general and the children in particular.
Khitam Edelbi worked at "The Early Childhood Resource Center" for 14
years, where she taught drama to kindergarten teachers and children in
E.Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza. She will talk about her experiences.
For further information, please contact Lior Halperin at
Liorhalperin@comcast.net 617-592-4166
This was followed by the announcement that Brandeis is to host the
producer of the pro-terrorism film "Munich"". Here is the ZOA
announcement denouncing Brandeis for that:
ZOA CRITICIZES BRANDEIS U. FOR HONORING
ANTI-ZIONIST PLAYWRIGHT TONY KUSHNER
New York - The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), who
includes Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis among its former
presidents, criticized Brandeis University for planning to give
anti-Zionist playwright Tony Kushner, an honorary doctorate at its
commencement on Sunday, May 21, 2006 in the Gosman Sports Center there.
Tony Kushner, whose recent screenplay Munich was widely
condemned by numerous critics as being grossly inaccurate in ways that
were hostile to Israel and inappropriately sympathetic to Palestinian
terrorists. The critics include the Wall Street Journals Bret Stephens;
Harvards Alan Dershowitz; Columbia Professor and author Samuel Friedman
(Jerusalem Post); the New Republics Leon Wieseltier; movie critic and
social analyst Michael Medved; former U.S. Holocaust Museum Director Dr.
Walter Reich (Washington Post); the New York Times Edward Rothstein;
Commentarys Gabe Schoenfeld; Charles Krauthaumer; Variety Magazine and
MTVs Kurt Yoder. The anti-media bias organization CAMERA (Committee for
Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America), for example, stated that
in Munich, Kushner repeatedly blamed Israel for supposed ethnic cleaning
and dispossession of Palestinians casting the alleged action of denying
Palestinians a homeland as the root fo the Arab-Israeli conflict, while
disregarding the reality of the Arab worlds rejection of a non-Arab,
non-Muslim Jewish homeland in its midst and Israels repeated peace
overtures. Only this week on the Charlie Rose Show, Ephrain Halevy,
former Director of Mossad, the Israeli secret service, said that Tony
Kushners screenplay of the movie Munich had no relation to the truth or
the facts.
Kushner has also made numerous egregious statements viciously
condemning Israel and decrying its very existence. He called Israels
founding a mistake, saying it would have been better if Israel never
happened. He also condemned Israel for ethnic cleansing and behaving
abominably and denounced, the shame of American Jews for failing to
denounce Israel.
Kushner also deplored the brutal and illegal tactics of the IDF
and the deliberate destruction of Palestinian culture and a systematic
attempt to destroy the identity of the Palestinian people. He is also
on the board of an organization that opposes the security fence, a
unified Jerusalem, or military aid to Israel, recommends Norman
Finkelsteins notorious anti-Israel, anti-Jewish books, and supports
boycotting and divesting from Israel.
It is especially painful to think of the anguish this award to
the anti-Zionist Kushner would mean to the ardent pro-Israel Zionist
Justice Louis Brandeis. He would be horrified having his name
associated with such an Israel-hater. We believe that a man who
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt regarded as a model of morality,
affectionately nicknaming Brandeis Isaiah would consider this award the
height of immorality in sullying the good Zionist name of Brandeis.
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin wrote in his acclaimed book, Jewish
Literacy, (Morrow Books, 1991, pg. 412-413):
Shortly before his appointment to the Supreme Court, Brandeis
was converted into a passionate and highly involved Zionist. He served
as president of the American Zionist Federation, and actively raised
funds to further Jewish settlements and cultural life in Palestine.
Subsequent to his appointment to the Supreme Court, he resigned from all
extra-judicial affiliations except for his Zionist activities. In 1920
he even considered resigning from the Supreme Court to become head of
the World Zionist Organization.
Brandeis aggressively criticized Jews who expressed fear that
support for Zionism would call their loyalty to America into question.
Multiple loyalties, he cogently explained, do not necessarily imply
mutually exclusive loyalties. A man can be loyal to his family, his
city, his state and his country, and need have no fear that these
loyalties will conflict. Today, some three quarters of a century later,
American Jews still cite Brandeiss formulation to counter accusations
that those who work on behalf of Israel are guilty of having dual
loyalties.
He was an ardent supporter of Zionism, and upon his death, the
largest bequest in his will was to the Zionist movement. He was
particularly disheartened as were many Jews and non-Jews by the
attraction of many secular Jews in the 1930s to communism.
The following is a selected list of Tony Kushner quotes:
[Israel was] founded in a program that, if you really want to
be blunt about it, was ethnic cleansing, and that today is behaving
abominably towards the Palestinian people.
Yale Israel Review (winter 2005)
Ive never been a Zionist. I have a problem with the idea of a
Jewish state. It would have been better if it never happened.
The New York Sun reporting Kushner comments made at a
conference in NY (10/14/02)
Kushner: Establishing a state means F****** people over.
However, I think that people in the late 20th century or early 21st
century having seen the Holocaust, having seen the 20th century and all
of its horrors cannot be complacent in the face of that.
Haaretz reporter: But you are saying that the very creation of Israel as
a Jewish state was not a good idea.
Kushner: I think it was a mistake.
Haaretz (4/7/04)
Zionism aimed as the establishment of a national identity is
predicated on a reading of Jewish history and an interpretation of the
meaning of Jewish history I dont share. Insofar as Zionism is an idea
that the solution to the suffering of the Jewish people was the
establishment of a Jewish nation, I think it is not the right answer.
Haaretz (4/7/04)
I am not a Zionist in case you havent noticed. Kushner cited
the shame of American Jews for failing to denounce Israel.
Chicago Tribune (4/10/02)
The existence of the state of Israel, because of the terrible
way that the Palestinian people have been treated, is now in great peril
and the world is in peril as a consequence of it.
In These Times interview (3/4/02)
Israel is a foreign country. I am no more represented by
Israel than I am by Italy.
Haaretz (4/7/04)
The Israeli-built security wall should come down, the homeland
for the Palestinians should be built up, with a strictly enforced peace,
not enforced by the Israel Defense Forces, but by the United Nations.
Baltimore Jewish Times (6/4/04)
I deplore the brutal and illegal tactics of the Israeli
Defence Forces in the occupied territories. I deplore the occupation,
the forced evacuations, the settlements, the refugee camps, the whole
shameful history of the dreadful suffering of the Palestinian people;
Jews, of all people, with our history of suffering, should refuse to
treat our fellow human beings like that.
London Times (5/7/02)
[Israel is involved in] a deliberate destruction of
Palestinian culture and a systematic attempt to destroy the identity of
the Palestinian people. New York Sun (10/4/02)
To avoid facing up to such atrocity, to sustain the refusal of
any Israeli share in culpability, Zionism has produced a long, shameful,
and debilitating history of denial...
Wrestling with Zion Introduction p.5
In a report that CAMERA released on January 4, 2006 about Tony
Kushner they wrote,
Kushner sits on the Board of Advisors of the Jewish Voice for
Peace (JVP), which advocates divestment and boycott campaigns against
Israel. His name appears on JVP letterhead, including on a letter
salut[ing] the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) for its move toward divesting
from companies that do business with Israel. The letter posted on the
JVP Web site not only applauds selective divestment focused on
particular companies as proposed by the Presbyterians but says we
absolutely reject the accusation that general divestment or boycott
campaigns are inherently anti-Semitic.
JVP also posted a related statement saying:
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), the largest grassroots Jewish
peace group of its kind in the United States, applauds the Presbyterian
Church (PCUSA) for its recent vote to explore divesting from companies
who profit from the harming of innocent people, Palestinian or Israeli.
JVPs Web site contains additional examples of its anti-Israel
activity as well as press releases denouncing Israel in distorted and
unbalanced language. JVP opposes Israels construction of a security
barrier in the West Bank, opposes military aid to Israel, opposes a
unified Jerusalem, recommends the notorious Norman Finkelsteins books
and much more.
In a press release published on the occasion of Yasir Arafats
death, JVP condemned Israel for not fulfilling his burial wishes,
mentioning only briefly that the Palestinian leader was associated with
violence. Although Arafat is the father of modern terrorism, with a
grisly record that includes the killing of innocent men, women and
children in Israel and beyond, his seminal role in this global scourge
was omitted.
It should be noted that often news stories referring to JVPs
involvement in anti-Israel activity makes special mention of Tony
Kushner as a member of the Board of Advisors.
Tony Kushner is involved with a radical group called, Not In
Our Name (NION) that opposes U.S. policy in Palestine. Kushner has been
a signer of neon-ads and a member of the Statement Advisory Board.
according to a Chicago Sun Times report (10/20/02):
The NION group was started and is being run by founders of a
New York-based radical group called Refuse & Resist, who are closely
tied to the Maoist-inspired Revolutionary Communist Party.
NIONs various chapters sponsor demonstrations with extreme
anti-Israel themes, such as Tear Down the Israeli Apartheid Wall was the
slogan on a banner bearing the NION label and logo.
At the same demonstration, Free Palestine marchers carried PLO
flags and a banner saying We shall return.
An October 7, 2002 story in The New York Sun was headlined
Park Peace Protest Is Riddled with Anti-Semitism. It reported on many
anti-Israel and anti-Jewish statements at an anti-war demonstration in
Central Park sponsored by Not in our Name.
ZOA National President Morton Klein, Chairman of the Board Dr.
Michael Goldblatt and Chair of the Executive Committee Dr. Alan Mazurek
has written to Brandeis President Jehuda Reinharz and Brandeis Board
members saying,
We are deeply grieved by Brandeis decision to honor Tony
Kushner, an anti-Zionist who called Israels establishment a mistake
openly stating, I am not a Zionist, while condemning the shame of
American Jews for failing to denounce Israel.
Should a university named after one of Americas greatest
Zionists give an honorary doctorate to such a man as Tony Kushner who
said that the world is in peril as a consequence of the terrible way
that (Israel) has treated the Palestinian people.
Should a Jewish oriented university who professes a love of
Israel give honor to Tony Kushner who said, The Israeli built security
fence should come down, and who deplores the brutal and illegal tactics
of the IDF and who condemned Israel for the deliberate destruction of
the Palestinian culture and a systematic attempt to destroy the identity
of the Palestinians.
Would Justice Louis Brandeis be anything but revolted by your
honoring Tony Kushner who sits on the Board of the Jewish Voice for
Peace (JVP), which advocates divestment and boycott campaigns against
Israel and condemns Israel for not fulfilling the brutal wishes of the
arch-terrorist and killer of Jews Yasser Arafat.
We are certain that Justice Louis Brandeis would be turning over
in his grave if he know this honor was being given to Tony Kushner in
the Zionist Justices name.
Tony Kushner is in the same league as MIT Professor Noam Chomsky
when it comes to hatred of Israel and Israel-bashing.
ZOA was surprised by some at Brandeis saying that this award is
being given not because of Kushners political views, but because of his
artistic accomplishments: Would they support giving a Brandeis honor to
David Duke, if Duke was a great playwright? Would they support giving
Noam Chomsky a Brandeis honor for his academic work in linguistics,
ignoring Chomskys virulent attacks on Israel? Would they support giving
Wagner, the great German composer who hated Jews, a Brandeis doctorate?
Given Tony Kushners documented record of hateful statements
toward Israel and Zionism, we respectfully urge you to reconsider giving
Kushner this prestigious honor. Brandeis enjoys the respect of the
Jewish and non-Jewish community. We believe following through on this
award can only harm its reputation and gives solace, comfort and support
to other bashers of the Jewish State of Israel and to those who hate its
very existence.
Please, Mr. President Reinharz and members of Brandeiss
National Board, search your souls, and do whats right and whats moral
and what Justice Louis Brandeis would have called on you to do. Rescind
this honor to the hater Tony Kushner and stop any further harm to
Brandeis' reputation.
1. The Nazification of "The Independent"
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"*The Independent <http://www.independent.co.uk/>*" is a leftwing magazine
in the UK. When it comes to bashing Israel and baiting Jews, it competes
with openly Neo-Nazi rags and Trotskyite papers. The Independent has a long
track record of claiming there is some sort of Jewish cabal to control the
world.
The Harry's Place weblog
<http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2006/04/27/im_not_a_racist_but.php>(
http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2006/04/27/im_not_a_racist_but.php )
has now collected a number of cover stories run in the Independent promoting
its neo-nazi agenda, alongside of which are seen the covers of actual openly
nazi magazines. It is hard to tell the difference. Consider the front cover
of its latest issue:
The story is written by ultra-moonbat Robert
Fisk<http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13029>,
a pro-terror extremist
anti-Semite<http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=2185>.
This is not the first time *Independent *showed its swatika character.
Consider the cover a few years back announcing that the world is dominated
by a "kosher conspiracy" (see below):
Earlier, cartoons<http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=62&x_article=1076>from
the
*Independent* were entered
<http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1029799/posts>in that Holocuast Denial
contest Iran held.
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2. Corrected (forgive earlier typos):
Is Tikkun's Michael Lerner an Orthodox Jew?
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Ok, I admit, this is not the most important news item, but you may
nevertheless find it of interest.
You know how Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun Magazine, claims to be an
Orthodox Rabbi? And you know how we have been pointing out that he never
graduated from any Rabbinic seminary and was never ordained a Rabbi at all,
other than if you believe his claim that three hippies placed their hands on
his head and proclaimed him "rabbi", *domini domini domini*?
Well, put all that aside for the moment. The question I want to raise is
whether Lerner is Orthodox, as he always tells anyone willing to listen.
Well, I decided to put the matter to a test.
Let me explain.
Jewish holidays in Israel, such as Passover or Succot, last one day, but
last two days everywhere in the Diaspora under Jewish law. In addition,
there is a ten hour time zone gap between Israel and Berkeley, where Lerner
lives. I decided to conduct an experiment to see if Lerner is religiously
observant, or Orthodox.
On Passover, it was the evening after the holiday when I sent Lerner an
email inquiry from Israel under a fake name. Let me make this clear: it was
no longer holiday in Israel when I sent it out, but was still the first day
of the two-day holiday in California. My plan was to see if Lerner would
respond to the letter on the second day of the two-day holiday. (Some Reform
Jews in the Diaspora only celebrate the first of the two-day holidays.)
As it turns out, I was wrong. Lerner responded to the letter when it was
still the FIRST day of the two-day holiday! From the timing of the letter,
he wrote it even while it was still the first of the two days of "Yom Tov".
Now "Yom Tov" or the holiday of Passover is when all work (other than
cooking food) is prohibited by Judaism and - specifically - writing and
operating electronic equipment is prohibited, including computers. But
"Rabbi" Lerner was spending his holiday playing with his computer and
conducting correspondence. No doubt his sabbath is spent the same way.
Let me emphasize that it is not my place to tell non-religious or
non-Orthodox Jews how to spend their holidays or how to live their lives. It
is not my business if some Jew wishes to live his life as a secularist and
play with his computer on the sabbath or on holidays.
Indeed I only mention this matter simply because of the hypocritical gall
and outright dishonesty of this buffoon Lerner pretending to be an Orthodox
Rabbi.
In my letter to Lerner under the false name, I asked him if he would be
willing to silence all those questioning his "rabbinic" credentials by
agreeing to take a spot quiz in Bible and Talmud. Personally, I am of the
opinion that he has never read the Books of the Prophets in the Bible whose
"ethics" he likes to cite when he promotes his New Age pro-LSD "liberation
theology". He wrote back (while it was still Yom Tov) that he would NOT
agree to this and that he had no need to do so because he had been admitted
as a member of the California Board of Rabbis.
Here are his words:
>From : Rabbi Michael Lerner rabbilerner@tikkun.org
"Absolutely not. They are already sinners spreading *lashon hara (hearsay)*,
so there is no possible reason to believe that they would be satisfied by
anything. I am a member of the Board of Rabbis of Northern California, which
did its own careful assessment of my qualifications as it does with every
applicant."
Now, as a matter of fact, the California Board of Rabbis does NOT check out
anyone's credentials who applies for membership. Membership is automatic and
hardly constitutes proof that someone is a Rabbi. A few years back, a friend
of mine and I began to register his goldfish as a "Rabbi" in the California
Board of Rabbis, to prove the point. But we decided it would tarnish the
name of the Board and embarrass the actual Rabbis who are members, so we
called the prank off. The above statement by Lerner however does show how
thoroughly dishonest he is.
In short, Michael Lerner is neither Orthodox nor a Rabbi. We DO know that he
is an anti-Semite though, one who claims that Jews themselves are to blame
for anti-Semitism! (See this
<http://sf.indymedia.org/print.php?id=124531>for details and
this <http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1461>.)
1. Uncle Jake-ism:
http://acpr.org.il/ENGLISH-NATIV/08-issue/sharan-8.htm
2. Jews for a Second Holocaust:
http://acpr.org.il/ENGLISH-NATIV/08-issue/gerstenfeld-8.htm
3. More Peres Sleaze
http://israelnn.com/news.php3?id=102649
4. Maybe someday Israel will allow Jews to commit self-defense?
http://israelnn.com/news.php3?id=102677
5. Is Tikkun's Michael Lerner an Orthodox Jew?
Ok, I admit, this is not the most important news item, but you may nevertheless find it of interest.
You know how Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun Magazine, claims to be an Orthodox Rabbi? And you know how we have been pointing out that he never graduated from any Rabbinic seminary and was never ordained a Rabbi at all, other than if you believe his claim that three hippies placed their hands on his head and proclaimed him "rabbi", domini domini domini?
Well, put all that aside for the moment. The question I want to raise is whether Lerner is Orthodox, as he always tells anyone willing to listen.
Well, I decided to put the matter to a test.
Let me explain.
Jewish holidays in Israel, such as Passover or Succot, last one day, but last two days everywhere in the Diaspora under Jewish law. In addition, there is a ten hour time zone gap between Israel and Berkeley, where Lerner lives. I decided to conduct an experiment to see if Lerner is religiously observant, or Orthodox.
On Passover, it was the evening after the holiday when I sent Lerner an email inquiry from Israel under a fake name. Let me make this clear: it was no longer holiday in Israel when I sent it out, but was still the first day of the two-day holiday in California. My plan was to see if Lerner would respond to the letter on the second day of the two-day holiday. (Some Reform Jews in the Diaspora only celebrate the first of the two-day holidays.)
As it turns out, I was wrong. Lerner responded to the letter when it was still the FIRST day of the two-day holiday! From the timing of the letter, he wrote it even while it was still the first of the two days of "Yom Tov". Now "Yom Tov" or the holiday of Passover is when all work (other than cooking food) is prohibited by Judaism and - specifically - writing and operating electronic equipment is prohibited, including computers. But "Rabbi" Lerner was spending his holiday playing with his computer and conducting correspondence. No doubt his sabbath is spent the same way.
Let me emphasize that it is not my place to tell non-religious or non-Orthodox Jews how to spend their holidays or how to live their lives. It is not my business if some Jew wishes to live his life as a secularist and play with his computer on the sabbath or on holidays. Indeed I only mention this matter simply because of the hypocritical gall and outright dishonesty of this buffoon Lerner pretending to be an Orthodox Rabbi.
In my letter to Lerner under the false name, I asked him if he would be willing to silence all those questioning his "rabbinic" credentials by agreeing to take a spot quiz in Bible and Talmud. Personally, I am of the opinion that he has never read the Books of the Prophets in the Bible whose "ethics" he likes to cite when he promotes his New Age pro-LSD "liberation theology". He wrote back (while it was still Yom Tov) that he would NOT agree to this and that he had no need to do so because he had been admitted as a member of the California Board of Rabbis.
Here are his words:
From : Rabbi Michael Lerner rabbilerner@tikkun.org
"Absolutely not. They are already sinners spreading lashon hara (hearsay), so there is no possible reason to believe that they would be satisfied by anything. I am a member of the Board of Rabbis of Northern California, which did its own careful assessment of my qualifications as it does with every applicant."
Now, as a matter of fact, the California Board of Rabbis does NOT check out anyone's credentials who applies for membership. Membership is automatic and hardly constitutes proof that someone is a Rabbi. A few years back, a friend of mine and I began to register his goldfish as a "Rabbi" in the California Board of Rabbis, to prove the point. But we decided it would tarnish the name of the Board and embarrass the actual Rabbis who are members, so we called the prank off. The above statement by Lerner however does show how thoroughly dishonest he is.
In short, Michael Lerner is neither Orthodox nor a Rabbi. We DO know that he is an anti-Semite though, one who claims that Jews themselves are to blame for anti-Semitism! (See this for details and this.)
1. Report: Peres accepted illegal payments
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JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 27, 2006
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MK Shimon Peres (Kadima) is suspected of accepting illegal contributions
for his Labor Party primaries campaign according to a special report
published by State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss Thursday morning.
According to the allegations, Peres received a forbidden donation of some
$320,000 from two overseas donors on the eve of his loss to Amir Peretz in
the party leadership race, the Yediot Aharonot newspaper first reported
some three months ago.
The details of the report have already been brought to the attention of
Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz and Peres has employed the services of
attorney Ram Caspi.
A spokesman for Peres stated that the former prime minister vehemently
denied the accusations.
The complete State Comptroller report was set to be published in three
weeks.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961236541&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
2. How to Destroy Israel: Appoint Amir Peretz Defense Minister:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961233441&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
3. Holocaust Denial Chic:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22229
4. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel is a misnamed extremist
anti-Israel pro-terror group. It is headed by writer Sami Michael who has
justified Arab terrorist attacks on Jews. Here is its latest: The
Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) came out against the
expulsion of the Palestinian parliamentarians who are residents of East
Jerusalem, to which the government decided in reaction to the suicide
bombing in Tel-Aviv, killing nine.
ACRI adv. Oded Feller sent an urgent appeal to Attorney General Menny
Mazuz asking him to instruct the government to reverse its decision which
would take away residency status of several newly-elected Palestinian
lawmakers.
5. "There are two types of Jews - those who believe Judaism is social
justice and those who know Hebrew"
--- Dennis Prager
6. The Anti-Semitic Tony Judt:
http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/9653/America%2C_Israel_and_Tony_Judt.html
7. Moonbats Demand the Right to Play Hooky!
You will all be happy to hear that our leftist brethren have a new banner
and cause celebre - defending the rights of children to play hooky! Well,
at least when the kid pretends to be engaged in "demonstrating against
injustice". In many schools on the Left Coast, students have been walking
out of school to show their support for illegal immigrants. After all, if
the illegals do not have to do homework then why should we?
Fighting injustice by educating yourself? FUGGEDABOUDIT!
You see, the Moonbaterie is upset because some principals are not letting
their pupils have unlimited time off from school to go right the wrongs of
society. In one extreme case, Anthony Soltero, an organizer of his
school.s walkout, shot himself after his vice-principal at the De Anza
Middle School supposedly threatened Soltero with a three year prison term,
forbade him to participate in graduation ceremonies, and threatened his
mother with fines for Anthony.s truancy and involvement in the protest
(First Casualty of Student Walk Outs). Oh, the humanity!
With the nice weather upon us, skipping school to march for justice and to
ogle the babes is becoming more popular among the adolescent-acne scene.
In California last March during the student walkout about 50 students were
corralled by police officers in Los Angeles and cited.
In the San Pedro area, a group of 200 skipped school after being
threatened with disciplinary consequences. In the city of Carson,
California authorities with batons and helmets temporarily ringed dozens
of youngsters in front of a high school before allowing them to march.
Students at several Las Vegas high schools also walked out. On Monday,
some 36,000 students from 25 Los Angeles County school districts walked
out of class, officials said, with more than 1,000 protesting outside Los
Angeles City Hall for much of the day. The Indymedia web sites of the
anarcho-fascists are even proposing: "They (the hooky players) should all
receive straight .A.s. in their History class, not punishment for
participating in democracy."
All together now:
We don't need no education! We don't need no thought control! No dark
sarcasm in the classroom! Teacher leave the kids alone! Hey! Teacher!
Leave the kids alone!
8. How come the Brits can make praising terrorism illegal but not Israel?
http://calpatriot.org/article.php?articleID=415
9. CAIR Beaten Again
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22230
1. R&D = Re-Occupation and DeNazification:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=102518
2. Rabbi Rapper for Olmert:
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2006/04/rapping-rabbi-to-promote-kadima-in-us.html
3. Excellent piece:
http://www.theonerepublic.com/archives/Columns/Thornton/20060424ThorntonHate.html
4. Why are there so many stupid Jews (by Dennis Prager)?
http://jewishworldreview.com/0406/prager.php3
5. Academic Stupidity:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0406/tobin040406.php3
6. Osama U
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9725
7. Michigan State finds some hate speech:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192960,00.html
8. When is it not "transfer" to dump Palestinian refugees in Syria?
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961224283&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
9. When "settler" means "Jew":
http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2006/04/even-satmar-are-settlers.html
10. The FBI identifies some terrorists:
FBI seeks pro-Israel reporters' names
WASHINGTON, April 25 (UPI) -- The FBI wants to know the identities of
pro-Israel reporters who once worked for late Washington journalist Jack
Anderson, a report said Tuesday.
Mark Feldstein of George Washington University, who is writing a book on
Anderson's Nixon-era exposes, said FBI agents sought the information in
March in the prosecution of two ex-lobbyists with the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee.
Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman were indicted in August on charges of
receiving and transmitting national defense information.
Feldstein told The Washington Post he was surprised the FBI agents
mentioned the case when they asked about reporters who worked for Anderson
who were pro-Israel or close to the AIPAC.
Feldstein "tried to wave (FBI agents) off" when they mentioned specific
reporters' names, the Post said.
The agents also wanted to know if Anderson's files contained classified
documents relating to Israel and Iran as early as the 1980s. Feldstein
said no classified documents have been found in nearly 200 boxes of
Anderson's records.
The FBI said it will continue efforts to see Anderson's files, a move
Anderson's family has fought.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060425-082352-4947r
11. Something the Feminazis have never protested:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20060425/wl_csm/oabuse
12. An old nugget from P.J. O'Rourke:
Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
At Tel Aviv University, Holocaust Remembrance Day Marked by Solidarity
with Iran and Suppression of Free Speech
by Steven Plaut
This is being written on Yom Hashoah or Holocaust Commemoration Day in
Israel. The sirens went off a little while ago, during which the entire
country stood in silence in remembrance. Well, almost the whole country.
These are also the days in which the government of Iran at one and the same
time denies there ever was a Holocaust, while building nuclear weapons in
order to perpetrate a second one.
And just before Holocaust Remembrance Day began this year, a group of
leftist and "Post-Zionist" radical professors at Tel Aviv University
decided that the time was apt to show their own solidarity with Iran and
defend it from American "imperialist ambitions". Really.
Just a few hours before Holocaust Remembrance Day commenced, Tel Aviv
University (TAU) held the official initiation ceremony for its Center for
Iranian Studies, a new research institute on campus. Some TAU leftist
faculty members were upset about that. A group of extremist professors
held a demonstration, together with Arab and Jewish student radicals, and
sent an official letter of protest against opening the Center to campus
authorities, as reported in Israeli dailies Haaretz and Yediot Ahronot.
First, in their letter they expressed fear that the new Center will be
"misused" to paint Iran as a radical anti-Semitic and pro-terrorism state
and grant legitimacy to Western demonization of Iran. Second, they
expressed concern that the operations of the Center could be exploited by
American imperialism in justifying American aggression against Iran.
Finally, the radicals were particularly upset because a speaker at the
opening ceremony was the Iran-born Shaul Mofaz, who had been Commander in
Chief of the IDF and then Minister of Defense of Israel. As such, Mofaz is
guilty in the eyes of the protesters of illegitimately fighting against
Islamofascist terrorism, rather than appeasing it and capitulating to the
demands of the terrorists. "We cannot remain indifferent, let alone on the
eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, to statements coming from Tehran by one of
the most extreme leaders since Hitler, who denies the Holocaust and calls
to destroy Israel. We must take it seriously," Mofaz said at the ceremony.
The protesting faculty members expressed fears that the new Iran Center
would have a "defensive-military" character (as opposed to an appeasing
one). The protesters noisily sat in the hall in which the ceremony took
place, holding signs with the names of Palestinians allegedly killed in
Israeli shelling when Israel fired back at Qassam missile launchers and
otherwise took retaliatory action for Palestinian terrorists. No names of
Israeli victims of Arab terrorism were on the signs.
Numerous faculty and student protesters were then evicted from the hall by
security guards for disrupting the ceremony and trying to prevent Mofaz
from speaking. The Tel Aviv University "First Amendment" was certainly on
display for all to see. One extremist TAU professor, Dr. Anat Matar (an
activist in supporting and organizing mutiny and insurrection among Israeli
soldiers, who has been arrested in the past for violent protests against
Israel's security wall) was behaving in such a disruptive manner that she
was forcibly prevented by security guards from entering the hall at all.
The protesters screamed at Mofaz that he was a "war criminal" because he
had commanded the army during operations against terrorism, andthey carried
signs threatening Mofaz with prosecution at the "World Court" in the Hague.
A letter signed by numerous anti-Israel extremist faculty members at TAU
opposed the opening of the Center altogether and demanded that Shaul Mofaz
be prevented from addressing the opening ceremony. As in other countries,
leftist extremist faculty members at TAU are opposed to freedom of speech
for those with whom they disagree.
The TAU faculty members who signed that letter included the above-mentioned
faculty hooligan Anat Matar, as well as communist professor Yehouda Shenhav
(currently a contender for a new job at Columbia University and inventor of
the "theory" that Oriental Jews are in fact Arabs of the Jewish faith),
Prof. Adi Ophir ( a founder of "Peace Now" who wrote on the anti-Semitic
web site Counterpunch that Israel is conducting genocide), Prof. Gadi
Algazi (a founder of the seditious Taayush organization and fanatic
anti-Zionist); Prof. Israel Gershoni (a leftist extremist from Middle East
Studies who has promoted boycotts of Israel), Dr. Amalia Ziv (who
teaches"lesbian Marxist theory" in "Women's Studies" at TAU and leads a
"queer anti-occupation" group of Israel-Bashing homosexuals), Eva Jablonka
(an old-left communist who has been active in calling for boycotts of
Israel), and some others.
The Center for Iranian Studies was funded with contributions by Jews who
had escaped Iran for the West and succeeded there. After the ceremony,
Mofaz commented on the radical protesters who disrupted it and suggested
that they could better spend their time be visiting the families of Jews
murdered by terrorists. According to the news reports in Israel, the
leftist faculty protesters were of the opinion that defending democracy
requires the suppression of Shaul Mofaz' freedom of speech.
Outraged by the behavior of these Tel Aviv University faculty members? Why
not left TAU's President, Professor Itamar Rabinovich, know what you
think. He can be reached at itamarr@tauex.tau.ac.il, or fax
972-3-6422379. Make sure the far-leftist foul-mouthed spokesman for TAU,
Danny Shapiro, gets a copy, at dans@post.tau.ac.il
2. Oh, and let's not overlook Ben Gurion University. All Israeli
newspapers today are reporting that a 60 year old professor of veterinary
science at BGU, one Avi (or Avraham or Allen) Dagan was arrested for drug
trafficing. He is alleged to have smuggled cocaine from Argentina on
behalf of a Bedouin drug dealer.
1. A Call for Help from anti-Israel extremist Neve Gordon:
Help Ezra Nawi
Many of you have either have met or heard of Ezra Nawi. For the past five years he has been the leading force behind the political activity in South Hebron, struggling literately day and night in an effort to
strengthen the Palestinian cave dwellers as the Israeli government and settlers try to expel them from their land. Rain and shine he was there, building water wells, planting olive trees, ploughing fields, organizing summer camps for the children, taking patients to the hospitals, and filing scores of
complaints against settler violence.
On Monday April 18th, during a Ta'ayush (fanatic anti-Israel organization -- SP) ploughing activity north of
Hebron, Ezra's vehicle was stolen (poor baby -- SP). It was a 4X4 Mitisbuhi Magnum pickup truck, which Ezra used regularly for his political activities. Indeed, the car was bought in order to enable Ezra to reach
the cave dwellers and carry out his political activities. Unfortunately, Ezra did not have theft insurance (poor baby -- SP).
Now is the time to express our solidarity with Ezra and help him out. The car was worth 75,000 shekels and we want to raise at the very least a large part of this sum. Any little bit helps, 30, 50, 100, 250 or 500
shekels (or any other currency).
For more information you can call Neve Gordon 054-2242482
Please send checks made out to Ta'ayush, to:
Dr. Neve Gordon
Department of Politics,
Ben-Gurion University,
Beer-Sheva, 84105
Israel
(the above was NOT a joke!)
2. Pot Unluck for Tikkun
The Food and Drug Administration in Washington just issued a report
proving that marijuana has no medical value whatsoever in anything. Mark
Souder, R-Indiana, chairman of the House Government Reform subcommittee on
drug policy, has said the promotion of medical marijuana "is simply a red
herring for the legalization of marijuana for recreational use."
"Studies have continually rejected the notion that marijuana is suitable
for medical use because it adversely impacts concentration and memory, the
lungs, motor coordination and the immune system." Michael Lerner and the
staff of the anti-Israel Far-Leftist hippy magazine Tikkun will be holding
a million-being march against the FDA for this violation of what Tikkun
regards as the central tenets of Judaism!
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it
does not support the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Tikkun's
Michael Lerner insisted that this violates every moral value from the
Bible!
3. PC Terror at Penn State:
http://israelnn.com/news.php3?id=102371
4. More Peace and Love:
http://israelnn.com/news.php3?id=102366
5. . 'Protocols of Zion': The Life of a Fraud & Its True Believers
By Philip Kennicott
This article can now be uploaded from
http://somebodyhelpme.info/Protocols_of_Zion_Philip_Kennicott.html
6. IQ test for liberality:
http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=20767
7. Trotskyites Denounce Harvard Anti-Semitism!
I student of mine once asked me to explain in class the difference between
a Trotskyite and a Trotskyist. I replied that it was precidely the same as
the difference between bull manure and cow manure.
But you know that the Messianic Age is nigh when the main Trotskyite
weekly, "The Militant",
(http://www.themilitant.com/2006/7017/701750.html) comes
out not only to denounce the Harvard
anti-Semitic "research" article about the demonic Israeli lobby, but also
to denounce anti-Semitism in the Left and leftist paranoid obsession with
"neocons". Are those the bells of the donkey carrying in the Messiah I
hear?
Yes, in its May 1, 2006 issue (Trotskyites are so in love with May 1 that
they seem to give th eMay 1 date to any issue in any time of the year),
The Militant comes out with the following insights:
".Neocons. responsible for Iraq war? In this context some liberal
Democratic politicians and commentators, in attacking their Republican
rivals, resort to the false and misleading charge that a secretive
.neoconservative. group is shaping U.S. foreign policy and betraying
'American interests.' ... Not surprisingly, Walt.s 'research' paper won
hearty applause from ultrarightist David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan
leader. On his web site davidduke.com, he praised the Harvard dean for
revealing .how these Jewish extremists have manipulated American policy
against the clear interests of the American people.. These assertions
about .neoconservative. and even .Jewish. control over Washington.s
policies in the Mideast are fraudulent and reactionary. First, the leading
figures in the alleged .neocon conspiracy. such as Wolfowitz and Feith,
are no longer in the Bush administration. Second, none of the central
officials responsible for Washington.s policy in Iraq - Bush, Cheney, and
Rumsfeld - are Jewish.... The conspiracy theories, including the
Jew-hating varieties, let the U.S. capitalists off the hook while
promoting American nationalism. "
Now while the Trots are as moonbatesque as ever when it comes to their own
"theories" about the world, their uncharacteristic common sense when it
comes to conspiracist nonsense and anti-Semitic filth is refreshing.
Indeed, I venture to say that their coverage of the crap about some
supposed "Israel Lobby" is far more objective than what is to be found in
the liberal mainstream media.
8. Afraid I disagree with Lee Kaplan here:
http://israelnn.com/article.php3?id=6179
Israel would just set the terrorist free, if not make him a member of the
Knesset!
1. Leftist Attacks on Neo-Nazi Norman Finkelstein
DePaul's Norman Finkelstein, considered by the Anti-Defamation League to
be a Holocaust Denier and open anti-Semite, is now under attack... from
the LEFT! The Finkie is still spreading his swastikas around DePaul, the
same campus in which Prof. Thomas Klocek was fired for daring to be
politiclaly incorrect!
It is not just the signers of the Euston Minifesto who know a neo-nazi
when they see one!
Writing in What Next?, Tobias Abse demolishes Finkelstein and callsf or
the sane Left to distince itself from such critters. He writes, inter
alia:
"NORMAN Finkelstein.s new book, The Holocaust Industry, does no service to
the left, to Jews or to genuine anti-fascists of any variety. Objectively,
this book, whose very title echoes the rhetoric of Holocaust denial rather
in the way that the phrase .race relations industry. is a hallmark of all
British racists, provides considerable comfort to every Holocaust denier,
neo-Nazi and anti-Semite on the face of the planet....With ever increasing
frequency, the overall tone of Finkelstein.s work becomes increasingly
reminiscent of a neo-Nazi tract; no non-Jewish anti-Stalinist left-wing
opponent of Zionism would ever dare to indulge in such blatant
anti-Semitic stereotyping....Finkelstein.s appetite for anti-Semitic
humour is as gross and insatiable as Irving.s or Le Pen.s...For
Finkelstein, the world Jewish conspiracy is boundless, in words
reminiscent of The Protocols of the Elder of Zion."
He dismisses Finkie's "book" as a "crude polemic" and Finkelstein as a
fraud and racist. There are serious questions as to whether DePaul,
clearly uninterested in maintaining academic standards, should be
considered to be an academic institution at all.
2. Suppressing Artistic Freedom and Free Speech at Penn State!
The Penn State student paper carries the story of the latest act of
suppression of free speech by the PC stormtroopers.
Seems that a Penn State student named Josh Stulman was about to open his
own art exhibit when it was censored by the Penn State Big Brother for
being politically correct.
His 10-piece exhibit was entitled "Portraits of Terror". Just before it
was scheduled to open, Stulman received an e-mail message from the School
of Visual Arts who said his exhibit on images of terrorism "did not
promote cultural diversity" or "opportunities for democratic dialogue" and
the display would be cancelled. In other words, it did not give equal time
to the terrorists.
The exhibit is based mainly on the conflict in "Palestinian" territories,
and raises questions concerning the destruction of Jewish religious
shrines, anti-Semitic propaganda and cartoons in Palestinian newspapers,
the disregard for rules of engagement and treatment of prisoners, and the
indoctrination of youth into terrorist acts.
"I'm being censored and the reason for censoring me doesn't make sense,"
Stulman was cited as saying. "It's not about hate. I don't hate Muslims.
This is not about Islam," Stulman said. "This is about terrorism impacting
the Palestinian way of life and Israel way of life."
Stulman said advertisements for the event were defaced in the Patterson
and School of Visual Arts buildings, one of which had a large swastika on
it. But THAT was politically acceptable hatred at Penn State and so
nothing was done about IT! Stulman, who is Jewish, said he felt threatened
and abused by the Nazi symbol and is concerned for his artwork and his
personal well-being.
3. Rabbi Jihad:
http://www.al.com/opinion/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1145727980125570.xml&coll=2
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/04/liberal_jews_ar.html
FILEA top Muslim leader, the grand mufti of Bosnia, visited Birmingham
recently. At an interfaith meeting with clergy at Southside Baptist
Church, Mustafa Ceric called for more interfaith dialogue to help promote
peace and understanding for the situation of Muslims in the world. Ceric
also visited Temple Emanu-El.
Recently, Rabbi Jonathan Miller hosted Bosnia's Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric
to speak at Temple Emanu-El so we Jews and Christians might "make room in
our hearts and souls for others who believe differently from us." The
rabbi should have done some research first.
Ceric recently called on the world to stand by Syria, a state that
sponsors terrorism against Israel and U.S. forces in Iraq. During the
March 2004 pogroms in Kosovo against Orthodox Christian Serbs by Albanian
Muslims - in which 19 people were killed, dozens of churches and
cemeteries desecrated, and close to 4,000 of Kosovo's minority Serbs
displaced - BBC.com reported Ceric "expressed concern about the rise of
anti-Islamic hysteria in the West." He added there was "no such thing as
Islamic terrorism," and said there were no charities linked to al-Qaida
operating in Bosnia.
That a rabbi would invite a terror enabler to ingratiate himself and his
religion to a Judeo-Christian audience is a disgrace. The American Jewish
Committee's counter-terrorism division has warned about Islamists using
interfaith to gain legitimacy, noting Muslim organizations have learned
"interfaith dialogue is a good way to spread the ideology," and adding,
"these organizations come to the Jewish community to talk about
`interfaith,' while they still teach anti-Western and anti-Christian
doctrines to their followers."
That aside, the vision of a Muslim cleric lecturing fair-minded American
audiences on being open to other faiths borders on the obscene. If Jews
continue doing PR for movements that wish them ill, they'll find
themselves in a position similar to what they were in during World War II.
At that time, Jerusalem Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini met with Hitler to
offer support. Thousands of Bosnian Muslims answered the mufti's call to
volunteer for service in the Waffen SS. When we finally arrive at the
logical conclusion of the current state of affairs, in which Jews are
fleeing Europe once again and 6 million in Israel are threatened with
"erasure" from the map, it won't be because "the world" looked the other
way. It'll be because of my fellow Jews' own fatal ignorance.
Never again? What a joke. Shame on this so-called rabbi, and shame on
every Jew and Christian in the audience who applauded the speaker on cue.
Julia Gorin
Las Vegas
4. 'Protocols of Zion': The Life of a Fraud & Its True Believers
By Philip Kennicott
To view the entire article, go to
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/21/AR2006042102
5. Loonier and loonier:
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2006/04/chamish-singlehandedly-fights-off.html
6. Corrie Crud Coming Canada:
http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_marathonpundit_archive.html#114568020318154827
1. Not Extinct?: The Intelligent non-Satanic Leftist!
We have grown so accustomed to seeing the Left is little more than a
collection of babbling moonbats and totalitarian crackpots that we all
tend to forget that hiding in the shadows is a minority among the Left who
are not overtly stupid and grossly evil. It is true that one has to search
them out with effort to locate them.
Now, a large group of these leftist non-moonbats in the UK has issued what
is being called the "Euston Manifesto." Its motivation seems to be to
rescue the Left from its ultas, pro-terror anti-Semites and
anti-democratic moonbats. The signers want to demonstrate that there
really are some non-insane people left in the Left!
The initiators call themselves the Website of a new democratic progressive
alliance. But from the very start, they part ways with the ultras and the
moonbats. They begin:
"We decline to make excuses for, to indulgently 'understand', reactionary
regimes and movements for which democracy is a hated enemy - regimes that
oppress their own peoples and movements that aspire to do so. We draw a
firm line between ourselves and those left-liberal voices today quick to
offer an apologetic explanation for such political forces."
They go on to defend human rights for all people, even for Jews. They
endorse democracy (how refreshing from the Left!). Even more
revolutionary, they reject anti-Americanism!!
"We reject without qualification the anti-Americanism now infecting so
much left-liberal (and some conservative) thinking. ...The United States
of America is a great country and nation. It is the home of a strong
democracy with a noble tradition behind it and lasting constitutional and
social achievements to its name. Its peoples have produced a vibrant
culture that is the pleasure, the source-book and the envy of millions. "
It endorses solutions to the Middle East conflict that leave Israel intact
as a Jewish state. "Vandalism against synagogues and Jewish graveyards and
attacks on Jews themselves are on the increase in Europe. 'Anti-Zionism'
has now developed to a point where supposed organizations of the Left are
willing to entertain openly anti-Semitic speakers and to form alliances
with anti-Semitic groups. We stand against all variants of such bigotry."
It rejects oppression of women even when it is done by Moslems.
"We defend liberal and pluralist democracies against all who make light of
the differences between them and totalitarian and other tyrannical
regimes....We repudiate the way of thinking according to which the events
of September 11, 2001 were America's deserved comeuppance, or
"understandable" in the light of legitimate grievances resulting from US
foreign policy. What was done on that day was an act of mass murder,
motivated by odious fundamentalist beliefs and redeemed by nothing
whatsoever. No evasive formula can hide that."
A list of the signers can be found here
http://eustonmanifesto.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=1.
None of these are Counterpunch writers.
The signers still entertain certain anachronistic ideas about markets and
approve of certain PC notions, including protectionaism and
anti-globalization. But these people certainly have hope and represent a
radical awakening of sanity among the radicals. Indeed, one of these days,
we expect them all to morph into intelligent neocons!!
http://eustonmanifesto.org/joomla/
2. The Revenge of the Anosim?:
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=81&story_id=29040&name=Spain+will+%27not+be+a+Catholic+country+in+20+years%27
3. CAIR Bears:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22144
4. For any of you out there sending threats to the RENSE neo-nazi
Holocaust
Denial web site (see http://rense.com/general69/zattk.htm), please keep up
the good work!
We recently had occassion to comment on the PC nuttiness that has spread to Baylor University, the world's largest Baptist university. While retaining on its faculty an anti-Semitic ultra-Moonbat, Marc H. Ellis, as it sloan "professor of Jewish studies," Baylor recently denied tenure to the eminent Francis Beckwith, a leading bio-ethicist and one of the most accomplished scholars at Baylor.
Beckwith had been associate director of the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies and associate professor of church-state studies. The vote to deny him tenure was little more than an act of political censorship directed against his conservative political and religious views. It has also turned into a media nightmare for Baylor's administration. Rod Dreher at the Dallas Morning News wrote this about Baylorgate: "The fact that a Baptist university cannot bring itself to award tenure to a scholar of Dr. Beckwith's stature is scandalous -- and will cause shock waves beyond Waco."
Ellis is also Texas's answer to Norman Finkelstein, considered by the Anti-Defamation League to be a Holocaust Denier. In fact, there are surprisingly few differences between Finkelstein's beer-hall anti-Semitism and Ellis' "scholarly work." Indeed, the two have a long history of collaboration with one another. They appear at one another's conferences and on one another's web sites, endorsing one another with true brotherly comradeship.
Now, Baylor is back in the news. It's chiefs have issued a fatwa prohibiting female students from posing for Playboy magazine. Playboy spokeswoman Theresa Hennessey declined to say how many Baylor University students were interviewed when the photographers set up at a hotel for two days this week, but said the turnout was less than at other schools "because Baylor is a religiously affiliated school." Tell THAT to Prof. Beckwith!
In 2002, a Baylor student was suspended after posing nude for Playboy, though her picture did not appear in the print version of the magazine. Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity also was suspended for a year after about 50 members were featured, clothed, along with four bikini-clad women in the same issue, which also had a Big 12 theme.
1. http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22104
Self-Loathing in Tel-Aviv
By Steven Plaut
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 20, 2006
Americans are familiar with campus characters, such as Ward Churchill and
Noam Chomsky, who misuse their positions in academia to disseminate
anti-American hate and propaganda from the university podium, often in the
guise of "scholarship". But in many ways Israeli universities are
considerably worse.
Israeli universities are crawling with extremist faculty members, many of
whom hate their own country, endorse the enemies of their country, and
collaborate with Bash-Israel organizations around the world, sometimes
even with open anti-Semites. Over the past year, the "Israel Academia
Monitor," a watchdog group that monitors anti-Israel extremists and
"Post-Zionists" in Israeli universities, has begun to expose the
activities, behavior, and statements of these people. Their effort
includes uncovering in-classroom indoctrination, law-breaking, seditious
activity, and even violent behavior by Far Leftist faculty members in
Israel.
While it would be hard to point the finger at the very worst campus in
Israel when it comes to anti-Israel faculty activism, Tel Aviv University
(TAU) is surely a serious contender. And unlike the other campuses, the
anti-Zionist radicalism at TAU seems to operate with the blessings and
support of the university President, Itamar Rabinovich.
In recent years, TAU has been in the news for turning its campus over to
Israel's predominantly-Arab Communist Party to operate a "socioeconomic
studies" program. A "legal clinic" is run in the TAU Law School in
collaboration with an anti-Semitic organization (the anti-Israel extremist
group "Physicians for Human Rights"). A propaganda course entitled "The
Psychology of the Occupation" is now being taught by an anti-Zionist
professor in the TAU Department of Psychology. Among the leading lights
of anti-Zionism and Marxism on the TAU faculty are Yehouda Shenhav, Yoav
Peled, Anat Biletzki, Ran HaCohen, Tanya Reinhart (a Noam Chomsky protg),
and many others. There are entire departments at TAU that are
near-uniformities of leftwing extremism, but apparently none more so than
the TAU Department of History. And that department's chairperson is a
leading "Post-Zionist," meaning an anti-Zionist or anti-Israel radical,
one with one of the skimpiest academic publication records in all of
Israeli academia.
Among the leading voices opposing any Israeli action at all aimed at
stopping the massive firing by Palestinian terrorists of Qassam and other
rockets at Israeli civilians is Aviad Kleinberg, the chairman of the
Department of History at Tel Aviv University. How convenient for him that
his campus is not (yet) within range of the Palestinian rockets and
missiles.
Kleinberg claims to have some expertise in medieval history, as well as
philosophy and religion. (His interest in Jewish "religion" seems to end
with his pronouncements that the sage Maimonides necessarily implies that
one must vote for the Israeli Labor Party's candidate, or Kleinberg's
fatwa that all retaliation against terrorists is "not kosher".) Some of
his research has been on pop pseudo-medieval novels, like "The Name of the
Rose" and the "Da Vinci Code." He also heads the Tel Aviv University
Press, a small in-house publishing house at TAU, and writes a regular
leftwing column for Yediot Ahronot, Israel's largest-circulation tabloid.
In a recent Op-Ed, Kleinberg denounced all counterattacks by Israel aimed
at stopping the firing of Qassam rockets, insisting that the "War on
Qassams (is) not kosher... Even during Pesach (Passover), there are
methods that are simply not kosher."
Now Qassam rockets are routinely fired by Palestinian terrorists from the
Hamas, the PLO and the Islamic Jihad, shot into civilian areas INSIDE
Israel, that is, inside Israel's 1967 border lines. Thousands have
already been fired at the Jews by the terrorists. Recently the PLO-Hamas
terror army added Katyusha rockets to its Gaza arsenal, the same weapon
used by the Soviet Red Army with such effectiveness in terrorizing its
enemies in World War II, and at least one has been fired at Jewish
civilians.
Kleinberg's central thesis is that Israel is behaving like a barbarian
terrorist state when it defends its civilians from these rockets:
"IDF (Israel Defense Forces) attacks almost always strike the innocent.
The reason they are being fired is psychological. They are intended to
give Israelis a nice feeling for the beginning of Pesach (Passover) .
"See, the IDF isn't sitting on its hands." Quite the opposite, the army
is using what the media admiringly calls (sic) its "iron fist", and is
striking painful blows to the innocent."
In other words, Israel shoots at the terrorists for the heck of it because
it is a bloodthirsty irrational country trying to terrorize the poor
innocent Palestinians for no reason. Kleinberg insists that Israel should
not respond at all to having thousands of Qassam rockets shot into its
civilian areas, since such rockets are not an "existential threat" to
Israel.
Among his other comments in the same piece, Kleinberg denounces the
Israeli media for not opposing Israeli retaliations against the rocket
shooters:
"If you listen carefully, you can hear the sounds of spring: Birds
chirping, the buzz of mosquitoes, and the incessant sound of IDF
artillery, turning the lives of innocent Gazans into a living hell.
Springtime's here, alright. The IDF's firing a lot, alright, thousands of
shells into "open fields" from where the Qassam Rockets are being fired.
Of course, the term "open fields" is given to interpretation..Qassams are
primitive rockets. You can find an article, maybe even a picture, in
(Israeli daily) Yedioth Ahronoth, of a dog at Kibbutz Zikim that was
literally scared to death by the exchange of fire. "The artillery fire
killed our dog," screamed the headlines. Who said Jews had no
compassion?...And IDF attacks almost always strike the innocent..."
Kleinberg has long denounced Israel for retaliatory and pre-emptive
anti-terror strikes. Kleinberg believes Israel should be prevented from
conducting any such strikes as long as there is any risk at all that some
Palestinian civilian might get hurt. But since the terrorists firing the
rockets at the Jews always are based and hiding among Palestinian
citizens, Kleinberg's position is equivalent to demanding that Israel
refrain altogether from defending its own citizens from Palestinian rocket
and mortar terrorism.
Instead, Kleinberg demands that Israel restrict its responses to terrorism
to displays of pacifism and turning the other cheek, at least until a
danger arises that is "considered an existential necessity." Otherwise,
Israel itself is the real terrorist. Kleinberg then concludes: "Arab
lives are very cheap in the State of Israel."
All this is the familiar message from Israel's extremist anti-Israel
leftist academics: Palestinian atrocities are acts of "self-defense" and
"protests against occupation," even when they involve shooting rockets
into Jewish civilian homes. Israel's actions to stop the rockets are
human rights abuses that must be denounced and obstructed at all costs,
all so that the Qassams may be fired with continued impunity. As
Kleinberg says:
"But more importantly, the (Israeli counter-) attacks are also intended -
pay attention to the sophisticated psychology here . to put pressure on
the civilian population, that (sic) will put pressure on PA authorities,
that (sic) will put pressure on the Qassam gunmen to stop shooting. It's
like that song about the little goat at the end of the Pesach haggadah
(holiday prayer reader)."
Kleinberg has been turning out extremist anti-Israel propaganda from his
Tel Aviv University office for many years. Israel is not a democracy at
all, Kleinberg pontificates, because of the "reversal of Israel('s)
integration into the block of democratic nations and the adoption in its
place (of) the same pattern of violent and ethnocentric policies we
officially condemn." In other words, in order to be a democracy, Israel
first needs to adopt those extremist policies which he himself favors and
most Israeli voters oppose.
Kleinberg insists Israel is "autocratic" and undemocratic because it
"relies on its leaders," like Ariel Sharon. "This (system of democracy) is
not the case in Israel today. The great weakness of the system is that too
much power is concentrated in the hands of the prime minister, sending
signs of autocracy (for instance, making his son a secret advisor.)"
Kleinberg considers Ariel Sharon a warmonger devoted to preventing peace,
but also regards Ehud Barak from the Labor Party Left in the same way.
All they offered the Palestinians, according to Kleinberg, was a
"Bantustan," that familiar nonsense term beloved by the Bash-Israel Left.
(Google and Yahoo list over 40,000 web pages in which Israel haters have
linked the term "Israel" and "Palestinian" with "Bantustan".) Here is
Kleinberg's bottom-line assessment of his own country's defense strategy:
"So Israel has to make sure the Palestinians give up their dreams, that
they reach total despair."
Kleinberg's conception of democracy is best illustrated by the fact that
he is a longtime endorser of politically-motivated insurrection and mutiny
by Israeli soldiers. Law-breaking is his notion of the highest values of
democracy. As a writer featured on many Palestinian propaganda web sites,
he has signed calls upon Israeli soldiers to refuse to serve in the
military. This is his own anti-democratic tactic to coerce the country
into implementing the policies endorsed by Israel's anti-Zionist far Left.
Then, without pausing even to take a breath, he denounces the Jewish
"settlers" for "law breaking": "The settlers pose a danger not only
because the 'legal' settlements stand in the way of any lasting agreement
between us and the Palestinians, but because a whole generation has grown
up with no respect for authority and a view of its representatives as a
hindrance." Meanwhile, the Gaza Jewish settlements were all removed, but
in response the Palestinians escalated the rocket shootings. So much for
the learned history professor's analysis of why there is no peace.
In general, Kleinberg dismisses Israel as a racist society and has
denounced Israel as "marching to apartheid." A few years back Israeli
universities temporarily abolished college board exams, but then
reintroduced them, realizing that without them standards were simply being
"dumbed down." Kleinberg attacked the universities for their "anti-Arab
racism" in restoring the exams. In any test of academic proficiency,
Arabs in Israel do worse than Jews on average, which indicates to
Kleinberg that such proficiency must not be tested at all.
[Interestingly, he did not denounce Arab universities in Arab countries
for their own "anti-Arab racism," even though they also use entrance
exams.] Never mind that those very same Israeli universities have
implemented affirmative action preferences across the board in favor of
Arabs.
Naturally, Kleinberg is also anti-American. Right after the start of the
liberation of Iraq from Saddam, Kleinberg wrote: "The war in Iraq was more
than the first expression of the United States' readiness to go to war as
an empire (sic)..The world has a new sheriff who does not hesitate to use
his pistol, with or without partners, with or without sanction, with or
without justification."
Professor Kleinberg is somewhat knowledgeable about medieval Christianity,
which he seems to think entitles him to issue policy pronouncements on
everything from the Jewish religion to Israel's water policy. While he
has trouble rustling up any sense of indignation at the firing of Qassam
missiles into Jewish civilian homes, Kleinberg gets positively livid and
uncontrollably outraged at one group of people: religious Jews. He is
even more of a zealot of hate when it comes to the Jewish "settlers":
"The settlers are in the grip of a godly zealotry . for years they have
been operating outside of the law, motivated by a deep feeling that they
are not transgressing the .real laws.. In the name of zealotry, they
robbed, lied, and cheated, spilt blood, and all this so that their feeling
of complete devotion to God remains undamaged."
A few years back, Kleinberg signed a statement that declared:
"In this part of the world there are two borders that are now recognized
internationally and regionally: the international border (sic) between us
and the Arab states and the border of June 1967 between Israel and the
Palestinians. The Palestinians accept this border. Not only that, they
have shown a readiness to demilitarize the Palestinian state in relation
to heavy weapons, to recognize the annexation of the ring of Israeli
suburbs built in Jerusalem, and other changes in the 1967 border, on the
basis of a mutual agreement and lands swap."
Now that the Hamas has seized power in the West Bank and Gaza and is
rapidly building an Islamofascist terror army, we are waiting for the TAU
Professor of History Aviad Kleinberg and his extremist friends from Tel
Aviv University to repudiate that statement and issue an academic apology.
We will not be holding our breath.
I have prepared a strategy for dealing with Hamastan, the Islamofascist
terrorist state that Shimon Peres and the rest of the Israeli political
elite have erected in the outskirts of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. It is
based on several scientific rational sources concerning the proper and
effective way to deal with such pestilence. Here they are:
"The Hamas has arisen as a rod of evil but none of it shall remain, none
of its multitude and none will weep for it when it has been elimiated.
--- Ezekiel 7; 11
"I will punish those who fill their master's house with Hamas and deceit."
Zephaniah 1: 9
This is not the first time in recent days when the best strategic
scientific analysis was in the Bible. Remember when Ehud Barak ordered
the Israeli army to run away from Lebanon in cowardly retreat? Well:
"For you will be engulfed in the Hamas from Lebanon and you will be robbed
by beasts who cause you to feel afraid, drenched in the blood of people,
and then the Hamas will be in your land and in your Capital and in all who
dwell in it."
Habakuk 2; 17
Would a serious campaign of R&D or Re-Occupation and DeNazification
actually work? Here is the answer:
" He delivers me from my enemy and lifts me above those who arise against
me, he rescues me from the Hamas man."
--- Psalms 18: 49. (Almost same exact wording in Samuel II: 22: 49)
(in all citations the word Hamas appears in the original Hebrew as noted)
2. Counterpunch suddenly Finds a "Massacre" to Care About
Counterpunch has sunk to serving as a cesspool for pro-terror jihadniks,
naked anti-Semites, neo-nazis and Holocaust Deniers, and anyone who hates
America. These are the cockroaches befriended and promoted by Alexander
Cockburn, the man who despises America, but not enough to give up his
perqs and move back to his rainy British isles.
Now all of a sudden the magazine of choice for the Baath and the Taliban
got all hot and excited over a "massacre".
The "massacre" in question took place in Lebanon exactly 10 years ago.
What happened was that Israel invaded southern Lebanon to drive out the
terrorist bands that were shellingt civilian areas in northern Israel and
dispatching terror teams to infiltrate Israel and conduct mass murder.
Some of these Arab terrorists set up rocket launchers inches from a UN
camp for "refugees" under the presumption that Israel would be afraid to
fire back at the rocket team for fear of the shell landing in the UN-run
camp. The acting Prime MInister at the time was leftist and peacenik
Shimon Peres, the godfather of teh Oslo capitulation.
Following massive bombardment of Israeli civilian areas, Peres ordered the
army to respond. In the counter-bombardment, one large shell landed in the
UN camp and killed some civilians.
Those Lebanese civilians were murdered by the Hizbollah and other
terrorists firing rockets at Israel and forcing Israel to retaliate. As in
all Arab terrorist atrocities against Israel, including that in Tel Aviv
last week, the blame for any and all Arab civilians killed in Israeli
counter-attacks is squarely on the shoulders of the terrorists who murder
Jews and necessitate the retaliation. And also on the shoulders of the
apologists for the terrorists, like Alexander Cockburn and his
Counterpunch vermin.
But Counterpunch's take on the event is, naturally, to blame Israel and
denounce Israel. In "The Massacre at Qana, 10 Years Later," by anti-Semite
Stanley Heller, Israel just massacred civilians in the Lebanese camp for
th eheck of it out of pure cussedness. He runs an anti-Israel web site
that distorts the events at Qana, when he is not weeping over the clueless
rachel Corrie, and outright lies about both. He supports terrorism and
boycotts against Israel to force it to capitulate to the terrorism.
Counterpunch and its columnists have never had a single word to say
against the countless massacres of Jews by Islamofascist terrorists,
including the massacre in Tel Aviv earlier this week. The only time they
give a flying fig about massacred civilians is when they can blame Israel
for deaths caused by Arab terror.
3. Hiroshima Revisionism Debunked
Holocaust Revisionism is not the only form of pseudo-history being
promoted by conspiracist moonbats and neo-nazis these days. Its cousin is
Hiroshima Revisionism.
I have argued for years that the anniversary of the dropping of the A-bomb
on Hiroshima should be a day for picnics and fireworks and celebrations.
After all, it saved many millions of lives, most of them Japanese. Had the
bomb not been dropped, countless millions of Japanese lives would have
been lost in the ground invasion of Japan by the Allies. Many hundreds of
thousands of lives of Allied soldiers would also have been lost. (To
right, reason to picnic!)
It would be hard to think of a single even that saved MORE lives than the
bombing of Hiroshima. Japanese should be particularly grateful for it.
Certainly every single Allied soldier in the Pacific War saw the Hiroshima
bomb that way, as did the hundreds of millions of Asians living under
Japanese imperialist oppression.
But in recent years, the Hate-America campus pseudo-scholars have tried to
rewrite history. The US bombed Hiroshima because Americans were anti-Asian
racists (and never mind the hundreds of millions of Asians who cheered the
bombing), they moo. There was no need at all to bomb Hiroshima. The
Americans did so out of cussedness and an irrational desire for revenge or
to scare the Russians. The Japanese were innocent victims.
Such trendy revisionism has taken over the moonbat Left and also many a
college campus. Even the Smithsonian Institution planned an exhibit to
mark the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima that relied almost
exclusively on revisionist "scholarship." It was cancelled due to outrage
from non-moonbats.
Robert James Maddox.s Weapons for Victory: The Hiroshima Decision Fifty
Years Later effectively dismantled Hiroshima revisionism, as did Richard
B. Frank.s Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. But while
those and other volumes have always been reliable antidotes to the dopey
PC distortion of history, now even a Japanese historian, Tsuyoshi
Hasegawa, demolishes many of the revisionist claims in his Racing the
Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (Harvard University
press, 2005). While a book having lots of problems and partly sympathizing
with the attempt tro paint Japan as a "victim", Hasegawa rejects most of
the central axioms of the revisionists.
Hasegawa rejects much of the anti-American thesis, including the
critically important claim that Japan could have been induced to surrender
prior to the events of August 6-9, when atomic bombs were dropped on
Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9) and the Soviet Union declared
war on Japan (August 8). In th ereview of his book by the Historic
Society, the conclusion is: "At best, he leaves the revisionist case as he
found it, in ruins."
4. Do me a favor. First read this:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/04/19/cstillwell.DTL
and then read this: http://barrychamish.com/html/larry-silverstein.htm
What do you conclude?
5. Peace Partners:
The Vital Role of Arab MK's
http://zalmi.blogspot.com/2006/04/government-of-chelm.html
1. Mikey Lerner Organizes a Love-In
Mikey Lerner, the Rabbi Impersonator who publishes the hard-core New Age
"liberation theology" hippy rag Tikkun Magazine, a sort of a mix between a
nominally-Jewish Rolling Stone and Z Magazine. Mikey is a rabbi in
precisely the same sense that Ward Churchill is an Indian and I am a
ballerina. Tikkun is holding its position in solid 315,802th place in the
web rankings of Alexa.Com. Tikkun endorses LSD use, demanded that its
readers
feel the pain of bin Laden after the 9-11 attacks, and endorses
anti-Semites of all stripes. Mikey is on record as favoring the "smashing
of synagogues" and claims anti-Semitism is the Jews' own fault for not
being communist enough. (At right, Lerner tries on a goofy hat on his
goofy head, filled with his goofy "thoughts".)
When Professor Edward Alexander from the University of Washington wrote an
expose of Lerner, the latter sent threatening letters to numerous Jewish
newspapers and magazines, warning they would be sued by him if they
printed the piece. (The classic and authoritative analysis of the Lerner
career is still the book written by the same Alexander (The Jewish Wars:
Reflections by One of the Belligerents, Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press, 1996, especially pp. 141-51). Professor Alexander has
described Lerner as "a kipah (skullcap)-wearing, rotund beard-plucker of
vaguely 'rabbinic' appearance who could always be relied on to blame
Israel and not the Arabs for the absence of peace, and to liken Israeli
defense against Palestinian Arab violence to medieval Christian mobs . . .
organizing pogroms against the whole Jewish community." Mikey invented the
"Politics of Meaning", which the Hillary endorsed for a while, consisting
of compulsive recitations of the words "loving and caring" and insisting
that the highest form of religiosity is the pursuit of the political
agenda of the Far Left. Hillary later dumped Mikey as her guru when she
realized what an embarrassment he had become.
Now to get some attention for his little cult, Mikey has issued a new
fatwa to attend his upcoming Bash-the-Right conference. It is to be called
the "Spiritual Activism conference" and will be held in Washington, D.C.
May 17-20, 2006. The conference is part of the so-called Network of
Spiritual Progressives, co-chaired by Mikey of Meaning, Benedictine Sister
Joan Chittister, and professor of African American studies and Religion at
Princeton U. Cornel West, you know - the goofball professor of rap "music"
driven out of Harvard.
The Pow Wow for Marxism being planned will feature as speakers an entire
Who's Who of pseudo-clergymen and leftwing ultra-moonbats, including Cindy
Sheehan, "Rabbi" Brain Walt (national chair, pro-terror "Rabbis for Human
Rights"), Seyyed Hossein Nasr (author, The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values
for Humanity), Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey (chair, Progressive Caucus, U.S.
House of Representatives), Robert Thurman (Buddhist teacher and author The
Jewel Tree of Tibet), Jonathan Granoff (chair, American Bar Association
committee on disarmament), Katrina Vanden Heuvel (editor, The Nation),
Holly Near (progressive music), Arthur Waskow (Shalom Center, also known
as Rabbi Woodstock), Harvey Cox, and others. We figure that if you add up
the sum of the IQ's of all present, it may reach triple digits.
While tales of Lerner's stupidity could fill a whole blog, our favorite is
that of the wedding cake, related to us by our comrade David Horowitz, in
which Lerner decided to get very temprarily hitched:
The cake at his first wedding was inscribed with a Weatherman slogan:
Smash Monogamy. Soon he and his wife had a child, and the young family
went east. When the couple separated shortly thereafter, mother and son
went to live in Boston. Lerner, however, returned to Berkeley. "Michael,"
I said, "how can you leave your son in the east to come to Berkeley? He
needs you." Without hesitation, Lerner answered: "David, you don.t
understand. I have to be here. Berkeley is the center of the
world-historical spirit." Lerner also made me understand that drugs were
central to the consciousness of the Movement. On discovering that I had
never taken LSD, he was incredulous: "You have to take LSD. Until you.ve
dropped acid, you don.t know what socialism is."
Besides having been an SDS commie in Seattle back in the glorious 60s,
Mikey is also an open racist. When he was shopping for his third wife, he
sent out a note recruiting offers of women's names and measurements that
he might consider marrying. Only thing is, he insisted he was only
interested in white European "Ashkenazi" Jewish women and no darker
"Sephardic" women need apply. Frankly, I think the Sephardic women should
have said a Blessing of Deliverance for that.
See excellent expose of Lerner at
http://sf.indymedia.org/print.php?id=124531
2. More Oslo Success:
Egyptian paper praises Tel Aviv bombing
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3241041,00.html
State-controlled Al Gomhuria calls Monday's suicide bombing 'sacrificial,
martyrdom attack,' warns more attacks to follow
3. How you know Campus Watch has them running scared:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22081
4. Murder is Jericho:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22078
5. More Leftist Racism:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22036
6. Need a place to send your Orthodox leftist friends? Here is the
Orthodox Jewish Anarchist Moonbat Blog (gevalt):
http://www.orthodoxanarchist.com/
7. The Jews for a Second Holocaust have a seder:
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/61239/index.phphttp://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/61239/index.php
8. The Anarcho-fascists get funded:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22089
9. SO what do YOU think? If Israel had spent the past few years shooting
th efamily members of suicide bombers or at least deporting them with none
of their property, would Central Tel Aviv yesterday have been turned into
the Valley of the Shadow of Death?
If you will it, it is no legend:
http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/7940/harovbomb33jy.jpg
1. Over the past year, the Israeli Moonbat Left has adopted as its main
symbol an image consiting of a green square or rectangle alongside a blue
square or rectangle, with a black line down the center in between the two
squares. The image is supposed to convey the Left's "peace plan". That
is, blue (Israel) alongside green (Palestine) with a nice black border
separating them
(along the 1967 border line of course). The image appears on bumper
stickers and as graffiti everywhere. It is on car windows and aprtment
walls and store doors and on manhole covers wherever one looks.
I have now adopted the same image, with some slight modifications as my
own image and hope to use it. Here is the image, after my modifications:
http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/7940/harovbomb33jy.jpg
You are welcome to adopt it also!
2. DePaul "University's" Holocaust Denier Endorses Death Threats
Muslim Refusenik is a web site for dissident Muslims who reject
Islamofascism and terrorism, run by Irshad Manji. The New York Times has
dubbed Irshad Manji "Osama Bin Laden's worst nightmare." She takes that as
a compliment. She is the best-selling author of The Trouble with Islam
Today: A Muslim.s Call for Reform in Her Faith. It has been banned in a
number of Islamofascist countries. On her website, she posts her messages
in English as well as in Arabic, Urdu, and Persian.
She is now at Yale University as a Visiting Fellow with the International
Security Studies program, and also writes columns that are distributed by
the New York Times Syndicate. She has collaborated at length with Salman
Rushdie and the two have repeatedly denounced Islamist fascists for
promoting neo-nazi and anti-Semitic diatribes, including the "Protocols of
the Elders of Zion."
She has been using her site to collect signatures to a petition that
denounces Islamist violence and Islamofascism. In her site, she explains
that she and her friends had received a serious death threat from the
British-based Islamist website ummah.com, and that signatures of
solidarity would show that signers are not afraid to defy Islamist
radicals. Some 1,200 signed and the number is still growing!
There is one person of note who did not sign, and in fact publicly
endorsed the Islamist terrorists making death threats against Manji. It is
none other than the neo-nazi pseudo-academic Norman Finkelstein, groupie
of David Irving and considered by the Anti-Defamation League to be a
Holocaust Denier, the beerhall buffoon still employed by DePaul
"University" as professor in its department of political science. (DePaul
keeps him on board in the name of "academic freedom," but fired Prof.
Thomas Klocek for daring to talk back to anti-Israel campus jihadniki in a
confrontation outside of class.) Omer Bartov, a noted historian at Brown
University, compared Finkelstein's book to the Protocols of the Elders of
Zion. The eminent historian Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has dismissed
Finkelstein as an anti-Semitic crackpot, as a pseudo-scholar, and as an
apologist for the Hamas terrorists. DePaul's disregard for academic
standards and its in-classroom indoctrination in hatred of America grow by
the day!
Finkelstein wrote the Muslim Refusenik web site and asked, "Is there a
petition supporting the death threats?"
Finkelstein is now not only endorsing the mass murder of Jews but also the
killing of anti-Islamofascist dissidents from the Moslem world!
For the list of signers to Manji's petition, including quite a few
Moslems, go to the web site.
Norman Finkelstein has been repeatedly praised by the anti-Israel
extremist Neve Gordon from Ben-Gurion University, who compared Finkelstein
ethically to the Prophets in the Bible!
3. Must Read:
http://www.yale.edu/isps/seminars/antisemitism/rosenfeld.pdf
4. Speaking of Finkelstein, the DePaul nazi recently gave an interview to
an Irish web site:
"There is credible evidence for the claim that the Iraq war was a Jewish
war. I happen to believe that the evidence is superficial but,
nonetheless, there is evidence for it," he said.
"So if, as the situation gets worse in Iraq, if Jews are scapegoated,
it is in part a disaster of their own making."
http://home.eircom.net/content/irelandcom/topstories/7823049?view=Eircomnet
5. Zsa Zsa vs. Cynthia the Cow:
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/larryelder/2006/04/13/193546.html
6. The Conspiracy Teletubby is Now endorsing an openly Nazi book:
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/189
Chamish sent out an e-mail to his list, in which he links to the
amazon.com page selling a book by Hennecke Kardel titled Adolf Hitler -
Founder of Israel: Israel in War With Jews, then writes:
Look at the book above and decide if you want to read it. . I frankly
don't know if the book is right or wrong. It was just a great conspiracy.
If you do want to read it, write me and I'll send it to you. It takes 12
minutes to download and I sure wasn't going to punish my list with it.
It'll come to you right after I'm back from Cyprus.
Chamish may "frankly [not] know if the book is right or wrong" but I do.
It's an atrocious antisemitic screed. As one amazon.com reviewer sums it
up, the book argues that "the Nazi leadership had .Jewish ancestry' .
therefore, the Holocaust was an act of Jewish self-hatred." And Chamish
has no opinion?
Here is Chamish's posting:
Barry Chamish <chamish@netvision.net.il> wrote:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0965752305/002-5580771-4996009?v=glance&n=283155
What I won't do for my readers. 70 or so requests is enough. Look at the
book above and decide if you want to read it. This is the symbol you
couldn't download. I frankly don't know if the book is right or wrong. It
was just a great conspiracy.
If you do want to read it, write me and I'll send it to you. It takes 12
minutes to download and I sure wasn't going to punish my list with it.
It'll come to you right after I'm back from Cyprus.
That's my solution.
While I'm here, two responses. There are two Rav Eliahus. The one from
Tsfat mentioned in my article is the good one. My apologies to him. My
opinions of Yesha's leadership remains the same.
7. By the by, has the Hamas been speaking with Chamish?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/092mxhht.asp
8. Junk Science:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22022
9. Libya Refuses to Admit Moonbats
Libya has refused to admit a "peace delegartion" of the usual
pro-Islamofascist "peace" moonbats. They were too pro-terror for Muammar
Khaddafi.
(http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/28877/format/html/displaystory.html
)
After approaching the Libyan border hand-in-hand, singing songs of peace,
the "peace" mission turned on each other when it became clear Libya would
not let them enter. A grueling two-week trek, sponsored by the
Berlin-based nonprofit group Breaking the Ice, "climaxed" (triple
entendre?) at the Libyan border. The nine-member peace mission, including
two Israelis for the destruction of Israel, marched in a horizontal line
to the Egypt-Libyan border, singing .Give Peace a Chance,. John Lennon.s
.Imagine. , convinced the Libyans would let them in.
The Iraqi, Palestinian, Iranian and Afghan members of the group yelled at
their teammates, trying to explain how insulting and absurd it was to
think that the Libyan border authorities would let them in without visas.
The "peace delegates" apparently then traded punches. We root for all
sides!
They then went back to Egypt. We are trying to find out if they will be
swallowing laced Kool Aid there.
10. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49753
Easter story.
11. ABC's Take on an Un-Jewish Moses for Passover:
http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=20622
and
http://blogs.chronwatch.com/archives/2006/04/the_abc_series.asp