July 07, 2010
Auschwitz Borders
Barack Obama's circle of Jew-hating friends. Clockwise from top: Obama with Edward Said, Rashid Kalidi, Bill Ayres, and Obama's spiritual mentor Jeremiah Wright.
In 1969 Abba Eban warned that a return to pre-1967 borders would mean Auschwitz borders for Israel.
President Obama, though publicly making nice to Netanyahu—elections in November, y'think—is, without a doubt, privately pressing for Israel to make further concessions to the Arab terrorists.
Remember the Gaza consession for, ahem, peace?
Ten thousand Jews were expelled from their homes and another plot of Arab Muslim land was rendered Judenrein. And then the Arabs in Gaza immediately lobbed thousands of rockets directly at Israeli civilian centers.
Because when you show weakness to a proudly genocidal-yearning enemy, they do not become your BFF, but move in for the kill.
Anyone who thinks that there's going to be peace with the Arab Muslims in the forseeable future is either stupid, delusional or a member of the anti-Jewish/Israeli lobby J Street.
The Arab Israeli conflict has nothing to do with borders. Those who cling to this notion are either—let me repeat myself—stupid, delusional or a member of some dopey human rights (frequently code for Jew-hatred) movement.
It's about Arab Muslim hatred for Jews and an imperial Islam that has always denied the 3,000 year old Jewish claim to the Jewish homeland.
There is no such thing as peace in the Middle East. There are only brief cessations of hostilities.
Anyhoo.
In any future “agreement” with the so-called Palestinians, Israel has a critical need for defensible borders. This video outlines the threats to Israel from terrorist rockets, ballistic missiles, and conventional ground and air threats from the east.
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June 29, 2010
War Against the Jews
Two years ago, David Horowitz and I had lunch together at Pico Kosher Deli, the best kosher deli in the known universe. David, articulate, passionate and witty, made a huge impression on me. We discussed history, Hollywood, the death of Sarah Rose, his daughter, and the death of my son, Ariel Chaim.
As David spooned his matzah ball soup—an experience that can best be described as the Jewish madeleine—I was, for a moment, overcome with a feeling of fragility. Here was David, a former Communist, and yours truly, an ex-lever-pulling Democrat, fully involved in a desperate endeavor: to alert and save the world from the scourge of IslamoNazis.
David believes, as I do, that university campuses are sewers of Islamist radicals—students and professors—and their leftist allies.
It is here that David makes a stand against the evil that is Salafist Islam and the nihilistic leftists/liberals/progressives who, in the name of social justice, make common cause with Jew-haters and genociders.
This is a speech David delivered at the University of California, San Diego on May 10, 2010. It been edited for publication.
Here’s another instructive fact about Gaza. After the 1948 war, the entire Gaza Strip was annexed by Egypt. It disappeared from the maps. The same thing happened to the West Bank, which was annexed by Jordan. Yet there was no protest from the Arabs or the “Palestinians.” So much for the desire for Palestinian self-determination.
The so-called Palestine Liberation Organization was created in 1964, fifteen years after the creation of Israel. This was the first time since the Arabs invaded the region in the 7th Century that there was any hint there was a people who identified themselves as “Palestinians” and desired a Palestinian state.
The charter of the newly created PLO which proclaimed the goals of the “liberation” movement failed to mention either the annexation of the West Bank or the Gaza strip. There was not a word in it about the liberation of Gaza from Egypt. There was not a word about the liberation of the West Bank from Jordan. Instead the PLO charter called for the elimination of the “Zionist entity.” From its beginning the Palestinian liberation movement has been a movement driven by Jew hatred. It is not designed to liberate the Palestinians by winning them a state; it is designed to “liberate” Israel and the Arab Middle East from the Jews, to expunge an infidel presence from the Muslim umma. Hamas and Hizbollah and the PLO do not want a Palestinian state. They want an Islamic empire, an infidel-free zone stretching “from the Jordan to the sea.”
Now allow me to deal with some of the lies perpetrated by the Muslim Students Association and their “Israel Apartheid Week” on this campus. On the “apartheid” wall of hate funded by this university there is a map that pictures Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. It is labeled “occupied Palestine.” It is a lie.
Full speech here.
H/T Vixen
David takes questions at UC San Diego and gee, what a shock, he flushes out an Islamist genocide-yearning Jew-hater:
Karen and I wish all our friends and relatives a meaningful fast.
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June 23, 2010
In the Land of Anne Frank
Europe was home ground to the Holocaust, powered by a synthesis of Nazi ideology and traditional European/Christian Jew-hatred. Now, in the blink of an eye, Europe is once again fertile ground for Jew-hatred. This time it is driven by Islamist ideology fused with the international left, which has the exact same eliminationist goals of German National Socialism.
As we have said many times: Jews are civilization's canary in the coal mine.
Anti-Semitism has gotten so ugly in The Netherlands that Jews walking along Amsterdam’s street are being harassed by young Muslims who yell insults or give Nazi salutes.
Last Sunday, a Dutch TV channel aired a secretly recorded video that showed a rabbi enduring such harassment, according to a Dutch news report.
To fight such anti-Semitism, Acting Amsterdam Mayor Lodewijk Asscher has hit upon a novel crime-fighting idea: “Decoy Jews.”
Dutch police “already use people posing as pensioners and gay men in an effort to catch muggers and gay-bashers,” noted DutchNews. So the use of “decoy Jews” represents a new variation of an old crime-fighting tactic.... A country of 16.3 million, The Netherlands’ Muslim population numbers 945,000 or 5.8%.
A TV programme broadcast on Sunday by the Jewish Broadcasting Organisation showed rabbi Lody van de Kamp confronted by Moroccan youths giving the Hitler salute. The footage was recorded with a hidden camera. The rabbi and two school children went to various neighbourhoods in Amsterdam last week and were confronted not only by Hitler salutes but also by verbal abuse.
Members of the KKK are forbidden to wear face hoods in order to disguise themselves. This was a law that was passed for the common good. The burqa is not only a face mask but a body mask that gives Islamist genociders a convenient cover under the guise of religious freedom. Tolerance of the intolerant is not only dumb but suicidal.
Andrew Bolt provides videos. Unfortunately they are in Dutch. But you get the general idea.
An earlier radio broadcast by the Jewish Broadcasting Organisation showed that the situation is equally serious in some other parts of the Netherlands, including the city of Rotterdam.
And over in Antwerp:
“Jews are deserting Antwerp,” headlines De Standaard. The Belgian newspaper predicts that in fifty years there will be no more Jews living in the city. Due to an increase of Anti-Semitism, many young Jews are leaving the city to study in London, New York or Israel, where "working with a skullcap (kippah) isn’t a problem", and they never return. Furthermore, it has become more difficult for them to start a career in Antwerp since the Jewish community has lost its dominant position in the diamond trade and hasn’t found a new economic alternative yet. De Standaard comments: “Only the poor Hasidic Jews stay and they refuse to adapt.”
Now remember kids, this Jew-hatred has nothing to do with Islam, which as we all know, is the religion of peace. The Nazi salutes and verbal taunts are just the expressions of, um, disaffected youths.
This was in Los Angeles—hence the clever Hollywood reference. Again, keep in mind that anti-Zionism has nothing to do with Jew-hatred. Just, y'know, disregard the sign.
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May 25, 2010
Egyptian TV: “We Must Get Our Children Accustomed to Hating the Jews.”
This slice of progressive education from Egyptian TV is notable for a few reasons.
Egyptian TV is state run, hence all programming and opinions have the official Egyptian seal of approval.
Egyptian cleric sheik Ahmad Al-Johainy soberly instructs his audience that if you want to learn how to properly and vigorously hate Jews, well, just study the Koran. It is the authoratative text.
Unlike others who claim that modern day Muslim Jew-hatred is derived from Nazi ideology, Seraphic Secret maintains that normative Islam is the source of Arab Muslim Jew-hatred. Nazi propaganda is just the icing on the cake.
The video is quite refreshing. The imam does not even try and pretend that he's “merely anti-Zionist.” He's wonderfully candid and proud of his Jew-hatred.
And make no mistake about it, the hatred of Jews has nothing to do with so-called occupation or so-called settlements, just as the Arab-Israeli conflict has nothing to do with national boundaries. It's codified Islamist intolerance that goes back to the times of Mohammed, a doctrine that sees the annihilation of the Jewish people as a religious duty.
Ironically, Egypt is considered a moderate Muslim country. If this is the face of moderation imagine the barbarism of Gaza, Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Sudan, and Iran.
The racist views of this genocidal yearning imam are the norm in the Arab Muslim world. Arab TV is saturated in this kind of filth.
Finally, the so-called peace process is and will remain a dangerous delusion until the Arab Muslim world frees itself from the malignancy of Jew-hatred.
We must enlighten the younger generation about our cruel enemy. We must show them who the enemies are, who the Jews are. This must be done in several respects.
First, there is the family. The parents must take an interest in their children, and teach them who the Jews are. This must be achieved by means of the Koran, by studying the raids of the Prophet Muhammad, and how he treated the Jews of the Nazir, Quraiza, and Qaynuqa’ tribes – how the Prophet dealt with the Jews, how he signed a treaty with them, only to be betrayed by them, and what he did to them, after they had violated the treaties. We must teach these things to our children. We must plant in our children’s hearts the truth about the Jews — that oppressive and cruel enemy.
We must teach our children who the Jews are. We must get our children accustomed to hating the Jews. We don’t want our children to grow up knowing nothing.
Go to MEMRI to view the video.
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May 17, 2010
Jew Producer
Ah, the brave and irreverent Comedy Central.
A few weeks ago the network censored an episode of South Park following death threats from Islamists offended—have you noticed that Muslims are always offended about something, anything—at the show's portrayal of Mohammad.
Well, Comedy Central has moved on.
The all too credible threats of decapitation assure that Islam and Mohammed are no go zones.
But Israel and Judaism are fair game.
Currently appearing on Comedy Central's website is a game called "I.S.R.A.E.L. Attack!" The premise of this game has nothing to do with Israel and, as such, is nothing more than an insidious attempt at association. The game's introduction begins with a character who states:
You lied to me, Jew Producer...
... referring to a character who has failed to carry out a mission to destroy other child-like cartoon characters. If this piece of anti-Semitism isn't bad enough, a robot — the Intelligent Smart Robot Animation Eraser Lady — is sent to do the job that the Jew Producer failed to achieve.
The character openly calls the robot by its acronym - ISRAEL - and the association created by those behind this game is unmistakable — Israel the child killer.
The game then involves the robot destroying everything and everyone in its path, including children and animals.
In short, Israel are mass murderers.
Full story at Honest Reporting.
So clever, so funny, so perfectly post-modern.
And, I have to admit, perfectly in tune with the general Hollywood gestalt.
Producers and executives are terrified of the highly organized Islamist activists who swarm over every script in town. In reality, these smooth, media savvy Muslim activists are terrorist enablers and financiers connected to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
And so Hollywood retreats into multicultural, politically correct speech. Thus, moral relativity excuses the most heinous and barbaric behavior. But writers and producers aggressively attack Christianity and Judaism—and of course Conservatives—in order to display their, um, courage.
Of course, the Jewish community will not threaten Comedy Central with throat slitting or decapitation. We'll just write blog posts, and oh yeah, boycott Comedy Central's advertisers.
This is something I would expect to see on Arab TV, a vehicle for endless, medieval style Jew-hatred.
Truly disgusting.
Make no mistake about it, Islamists have reason to cheer. They are slowly but surely suppressing free speech in America through the naked use of intimidation and the threat of violence.
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March 02, 2010
Dubai: On the Lookout for Jews
Dubai chart of the assassination. Your mission, should you choose to accept it,
is to identify the Jooz.
The media are in a self-righteous frenzy about the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a Hamas terrorist.
Was it a Mossad hit?
Probably.
Hope so.
Hey, I'm having trouble getting all worked up about the assassination of a known terrorist and bagman.
Dubai and the world press are just scandalized that false passports were used. Afterall, the assassins should have played fair and used their real passports, right?
They're also all worked up that there were false beards, bad wigs, big hats, and a clean get-a-way.
There's also outrage that there were so many assassins.
Because, um, their carbon footprint was way too big.
But the real scandal is that Dubai knowingly allowed this murderer and terrorist financier to use their country as a forward base for meeting with Iranian agents to secure arms and funding.
Look, if the U.S. can use drones in Afghanistan to delete terrorist scum—with collateral damage, meaning innocent civilians—then a clean hit in a Dubai hotel room seems perfectly within the bounds of counterterrorist activities.
You want to get all worked up about some false passports?
Knock yourself out.
I'd like to volunteer the use of my passport if it will help liquidate an Islamist terrorist.
It would be an honor.
But let's focus for a moment on Dahi Khalfan Tamim, the Dubai chief of police, who, not surprisingly, is a raving Jew-hater. Elder of Ziyon reports on comments that have not been reported in the clueless Western press.
Dahi Khalfan Tamim, Commander in Chief of Dubai Police, said Israel is a rogue state, and that goes beyond international legitimacy and laws. Its leaders have sick mentalities, and they need psychologists, saying that its use of passports shows great arrogance and contempt for the world.
(Tamim said that) the leaders of Israel have blood on their hands the blood of others throughout history, pointing out that the "Israeli" people are human beings like any other people who want to be loved and open to others but that the successive governments, the Governments of bloodshed and assassinations, and wars and the Governments of the occupation and aggression, are not interested in peace in the world at all.
He added that the vanity which haunts the Israeli mentality stems from the time of Pharaoh, and their hate comes up to this day and age.
He said that the entire world should study the mentality of the Israeli leaders throughout history. Their sick psyches needs to be analyzed by psychology professors, who need to examine why they launch crises, and why they brought on themselves hate from others, since the time of Moses, peace be upon him.
He said we will train our personnel in the passport of the forms and features of the Jewish people and their names, noting that no one can hide their features of Jewishness. He asked the appropriate departments to prepare nationality and residency sessions to familiarize the staff with [Jewish] forms and names, especially since most Jews hold dual passports [with Israel.]
More here.
I like the part about “training their personnel in the features of the Jewish people and their names.”
Good luck with that fella.
What a racist moron.
And this is the guy the world press is breathlessly quoting as if he's some Muslim Sherlock Holmes.
Meanwhile, where is the CCTV footage outside al-Mabhouh's room?
Whoops.
Once again, Elder of Ziyon reports that the so-called “careless” assassins jammed those particular hallway cameras.
Nice.
Apparently, Interpol is getting involved in the investigation and are looking to arrest the assassins.
But Interpol never sought to arrest al-Mabhouh, a known murderer and terrorist.
Weird how that works, huh?
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February 25, 2010
Welcome to College Where You Can Major in Jew-Hatred
Learn more about Crossing the Line.
H/T Jack
When Hitler moved to solidify his power base in Germany, he discovered that the chattering classes, particularly university intellectuals, were early and enthusiastic supporters of the Nazi ideology. Scientists, lawyers, artists, and an overwhelming number of physicians were all too willing to provide an intellectual framework for Nazi oppression and genocide.
Moral clarity and courage are rarely found in universities. The chattering classes almost always find justifications for totalitarian rule.
During World War II Jean Paul Sartre—hero to the left— and his high-minded, highly libidinous existential buddies spent the war years yammering away in fashionable Parisian coffee shops while all around them Jews were rounded up and sent to the ovens of Auschwitz.
Thus, it's no surprise that American and European universities are natural breeding grounds for the Islamists who openly plot to destroy western civilization and finish up Hitler's Final Solution, finally.
As we have pointed out, Congo is the murder, rape and mutilation capital of the world, with 45,000 murdered every single month since 2007. Thus over 6.9 million people have been slaughtered.
You would think that the oh-so-compassionate left would be taking to the streets in protest.
But there is a deafening silence in regards to Congo.
Why?
Because there are no Jews to blame.
In fact, every odious charge brought against Israel/Judaism are crimes for which the Islamists and their western enablers are guilty. They are totalitarian thugs who cruelly oppress Jews, Christians, homosexuals and, of course, women. Apartheid is state law in Saudi Arabia—Jews are forbidden to set foot in this racist Muslim kingdom, and Christians are forbidden to worship. And Iran, with metronomic regularity, promises to wipe Israel/Jews off the face of the earth.
Jew-hatred is the coin of the realm in every single Muslim country on the planet. The Jews of Yemen, the last remnants of an ancient and proud Jewish/Yemenite community, are fleeing. Except for the 2,000 Jews of Morocco, the Arab Muslim world is Judenrein.
And the trend to expel Jews from their homes and lands of birth is spreading to Europe.
Jihad in Antwerp, Eurabia.
The Jews of Malmo, Sweden are fleeing.
In one generation, there will be no Jews living in Scandinavia.
The Jews of France and England have been targeted by Islamists and their leftist allies. French and British Jews are quietly making plans to leave their homes. The last time I was in Israel a real estate agent showed me blocks and blocks of empty apartments. “Purchased by French and British Jews who are waiting for the inevitable pogrom that will bring them to Israel,” he explained.
Europe has made a fateful decision. They have decided to trade loyal, productive Jewish citizens for disloyal, sharia-yearning Muslims who are frequently on the dole.
It's a recipe for national suicide.
Make no mistake about it, academic Anti-Zionism is the new Jew-hatred, and Western universities are the breeding ground for this malignancy, the new Reichstag.
UC Irvine, the epicenter of Islamist/academic Jew-hatred in California.
And guess which American church is ushering in the holiday of Purim with some old-fashioned Jew-hatred?
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February 04, 2010
Lancet: Phony Medicine, Sincere Jew-Hatred
The Lancet Medicine Show is coming to your town.
The Lancet, an allegedly prestigious British medical journal, has retracted claims that vaccines cause Autism.
It's a little late.
Phony medicine kills:
Meanwhile, Britain's child vaccination rates had plummeted to below 70% in some areas, down from more than 90% in the mid-1990s. The country has since suffered waves of measles outbreaks. In 1998 England and Wales had 56 cases; by 2008 the number was 1,370. In 2006, the first British child died of measles in more than a decade.
Meanwhile The Lancet has yet to retract a “study” recently published which claims that Palestinian wife beatings are the fault of—who else?—the Jooz.
Phyllis Chesler reports on the Lancet Blood Libel:
Their study is titled: “Association between exposure to political violence and intimate-partner violence in the occupied Palestinian territory: a cross-sectional study.” And yes, they have found that Palestinian husbands are more violent towards Palestinian wives as a function of the Israeli “occupation”— and that the violence increases significantly when the husbands are “directly” as opposed to “indirectly” exposed to political violence.
I believe that Arab and Muslim men, including Palestinian men, are indeed violent towards Arab and Muslim women. I also believe that war-related stress, including poverty, usually increases “intimate partner violence,” aka male domestic violence. But beyond that, how does one evaluate this study?
Full story here.
This is all part of a well-orchestrated plan to delegitimize the Jewish State. The attacks come every day, from every corner of the globe. The infamous Goldstone Report is a blood libel on an international scale. Ultimately, the Arab Muslim world and her leftist Western apologists are seeking to turn Israel into a pariah state, another South Africa. Israeli passports will no longer be recognized—first in Europe, then South America and finally North America—thus Israel wll be transformed into the final Jewish ghetto, ripe for genocide.
That is the plan.
What is our plan?
Fighting a defensive war is a sure road to defeat.
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October 29, 2009
Shooting in Los Angeles Synagogue
Adat Yeshurun, an Orthodox Sephardic synagogue in Los Angeles.
This story is still breaking, but I'd like to make two quick observations.
1. The entire notion of a hate crime strikes me as a depraved concept where crimes and criminals are categorized by an elite thought police. If the victims were, say, residents in a nursing facility for elderly black people, would that place the crime on a lesser scale? How about when black gangs and Latino gangs fatally clash because, y'know, they hate each other, does that qualify as a hate crime? Favored victim status is, in itself, a crime against democracy and justice.
2. Synagogues in America and Canada must take the issue of security seriously, right up there with prayer and Torah study. Unarmed rent-a-cops are close to useless. I believe that Jews who attend synagogue must be armed and trained. Synagogues should find out who of their membership is proficient in armed self-defense and institute a home guard. A few years ago, Muslim prisoners in a California prison hatched a plot to attack two local Orthodox synagogues. Luckily, an inmate turned snitch and the plot was broken up. But the plan was horrendous and hundreds would have died. Islamist cells—virulently anti-Semitic—in America and Canada, funded by Saudi Wahhabi petro dollars are highly motivated, and sooner or later they will turn their attention to a soft Jewish target. We must be ready to defend ourselves.
Los Angeles police have detained a man in the search for the suspect who shot and wounded two men at a synagogue in North Hollywood. The incident is being labeled a hate crime.
The shooting occurred at 6:19 a.m. Thursday at the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue in the 12000 block of Sylvan Street.
According to a police statement, a man with a handgun entered the synagogue and shot two people in the leg in what is being labeled as a hate crime.
The victims, both Jewish, were transported to a local hospital in stable condition, officials said. It's believed the men, said to be in their 30s, were shot as they arrived at the temple for morning prayers.
The suspect was described only as a black man.
Police were later seen detaining a young man matching the suspect's description about one mile away from the crime scene.
The synagogue is located next to an elementary school. It was not immediately known whether the suspect search affected the school.
The attack occurred 10 miles away from a 1999 shooting at a Jewish community center where white supremacist Buford Furrow wounded three children, a teenager and an adult. He later killed a letter carrier.
Police arrest a suspect in the Adat Yeshurun shooting.
Via: KTLA-TV, Los Angeles
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September 08, 2009
Jew-hatred: The New Cool
Cartoon by Hugh MacLeod.
As the Van Jones scandal broke—on the blogosphere via Gateway Pundit, and on Fox's Glenn Beck—I turned to Karen and said:
“Guaranteed, this guy is also a gold-played Jew-hater.”
Not a hard call.
As you move leftward on the political scale so does the level and tolerance of Jew-hatred.
This oldest of hatreds is dressed up in the Orwellian language of human rights, social justice, and support for the Palestinian people. But it's the same gutter-level Jew-hatred that gripped Nazi Germany, and which now animates the entire Arab Muslim world.
Jew-hatred comes in many guises.
Human Rights Watch, as my friend Omri Ceren has just uncovered, employs a Nazi fan boy to investigate Israel.
Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson—calling themselves The Elders, because Jew-hatred is the new wisdom—travel around Israel and self-righteously cluck about the evil Israelis.
Question: Why aren't they in Iran, Congo, Libya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Syria, Saudi Arabia, where murder, torture and rape are sport?
Answer: Because there are no Jews in these blighted Lands.
Van Jones: ignored by ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, The New York Times, the entire MSM. But now that this loathsome creature, a 9-11 truther, is gone, the MSM are piling on, defending a self-confessed Communist and now revealed, a Jew-hater.
Here's Van Jones ranting about Israel:
I came to the holy land to get a view of the human rights situation. I was totally unprepared. THE WORST RACIAL PRACTICES OF THE LAST CENTURY ARE PRESENT HERE, IN SHOCKING COMBINATION. Arab citizens under a pass situation like apartheid... about the harassment of an Arab American in our group at the airport... people in the U.S. don't have a clear view of what is going on.. like 'settlements'... 30,000 people in massive cities, with Burger Kings and malls, and defended with the whole might of the Israeli army... wholesale demolition of Palestinian homes... the US supporting the whole mess.. to see it... to see what it means for Arab people is really really distressing.
I came over here very concerned about Israeli children living in fear... nobody is winning here. WHAT I'VE SEEN HERE GOES FAR BEYOND WHAT COULD BE CONSIDERED FOR SAFETY. ABSOLUTE HOUSE ARREST FOR EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN A CITY... 24/7 FOR WEEKS AT A TIME... NONE OF THIS COULD RATIONALLY BE CONCEIVED OF AS DEFENSE... I HAVE BEEN A LIFELONG OPPONENT OF ANTI-SEMITISM. NOW NOT TO SPEAK OUT HERE IS ANTI-SEMITIC. WE OWE IT TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. AND PALESTINE TO PUT AN END TO THESE KIND OF ABUSES. THERE IS NO DIVISION BETWEEN US POLICY TOWARD IRAQ AND TOWARD ISRAEL-PALESTINE. THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ON THE WRONG SIDE OF SANITY. to push Iraq into a corner and threaten it with massive war. We need new leadership in Tel Aviv and Washington.. let's link all these situations together... boldly speaking the truth... I went to the funeral of a young Palestinian boy shot by Israeli soldier... I saw his bloody body being placed into the ground... since I've been here four children killed by soldiers... not being reported by the media... but being recorded in the hearts and minds of the mothers and fathers here.
Entirely predictable: dressing up his Jew-hatred as someone who is an opponent of Jew-hatred. The left has perfected this black flag strategy.
The entire, lunatic transcript is here.
Van Jones is just one in a long line of Obama associates, friends and, ahem, spiritual mentors, who hate America, Israel/Jews.
Here's Charles Krauthammer drawing a line from Jeremiah Wright to Van Jones. “It's a reflection of the boss.”
But of course, to the Democrats, Van Jones is a hero:
How many of Obama's Czars will be revealed—by the blogosphere and Fox News—as left wing radicals completely out of step with America and American values?
Update #1: Our friend Jake Novak, senior producer at Fox Business News draws our attention to John Holdren, Obama's Science Czar—and a genuine moon bat.
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September 07, 2009
Wide-Angle: Toronto Film Festival Jew-Haters
Yesterday we asked: Why Are Jews Liberals?
Today we observe that the left is a comfortable home for Jew-hatred.
I know the defense: these creatures are not really Jew-haters, they are, ahem, “nuanced thinkers,” protesting the policies of the state of Israel.
Yeah, the way Iran, Hamas and Hizbullah protest.
Look, 50,000 people die in the Congo every month from murder, forced starvation and disease. Mass rape is sport in that blighted land. There are 1.2 million refugees from the Congo living in the most deplorable conditions.
But these, uh, artists, choose to beat up on Israel.
And Tel-Aviv is a problem?
Huh?
Tel Aviv was sand dunes—not an Arab village—until Jews built it into a great city. But the Arab Muslim world considers all Israel to be occupied land.
Thus it's clear that these celebrity boycotters are really protesting Israel's existence.
Or, maybe they are just ill-informed idiots.
One of the great ironies of this protest is that John Greyson, one of the boycotters, makes gay-themed films. Now, let me ask a simple question:
What country in the Middle east would allow Greyson to screen his films?
Israel, of course.
If he tried to show his films in Gaza, Iran, Libya, Algeria, Egypt, Syria, etc. he would be lynched in the public square. Saudi Arabia would behead Greyson.
And of course, Danny Glover has cozied up to Hugo Chavez, a tyrant who is leading a policy of repression against Venezuela's Jews.
Jane Fonda should have been prosecuted for sedition back when she posed with her North Vietnamese buddies by an anti-aircraft installation. But she was a Hollywood celebrity, thus hands-off.
The Hebrew reads: Don't Tread on Me. via: Joshua Pundit
Make no mistake about it, this is Jew-hatred disguised as “mere anti-Zionism.” These people are the fashionable lap dogs of the PLO, Hamas and Hizbullah, self-confessed Jew-hating terrorists who boast that their long-term strategy is to eradicate Israel and Jews from the face of the earth.
Some 50 celebrities, artists and filmmakers, including actors Jane Fonda and Danny Glover, musician David Byrne and filmmaker Ken Loach, have accused the Toronto International Film Festival of "complicity with the Israeli propaganda machine" over its spotlight this year on Tel Aviv.
The 2009 festival will present 10 films by local filmmakers on the Israeli metropolis, for its City to City program, which each year focuses its lens on a different city.
The choice led to protests that the film festival was "staging a propaganda campaign" on Israel's behalf, given "the absence of Palestinian filmmakers in the program," said an open letter to festival organizers, AFP reported.
Full story here.
My good friend, two-time Oscar winner, Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, blasted everyone who signed the letter.
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