Academic accused of promoting anti-semitism,
Guardian (UK), October 25, 2002
"A row has broken out between a Birmingham University lecturer and Jewish groups over a personal website which the Jewish groups say promotes anti-semitism. The Board of Deputies of British Jews, has written to the university demanding that they remove links between Ms Blackwell's official university website and her personal pages. They say links from the site take you to images glorifying suicide bombing and comparing Israel with Nazi Germany. Sue Blackwell, an English lecturer, today defended her site saying: 'I would not link to a terrorist organisation - there is no link to a Hamas website. If I've inadvertently linked to something that glorifies suicide bombers I would remove it immediately. Nobody has yet told me which one leads to these images. I think these allegations are groundless and malicious.' A spokesperson for the Board of Deputies said: 'Over the past year, Jewish students have felt increasingly threatened by anti-Israel and anti-semitic propaganda on campus which has directly resulted in an increase in campus anti-semitism. As an academic, Ms Blackwell has a responsibility to the truth and it is sad that she has allowed herself to become a mouthpiece for recognised anti-Israel groups.'" [Here is Susan Blackwell's web site]

Ad says Cleland silent on anti-Semitism,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 26, 2002
"More than 100 Jewish Georgians have signed an advertisement scolding U.S. Max Cleland (D-Ga.) for not condemning [African-Americans] U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney and state Rep. Billy McKinney's 'anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements' during their re-election campaigns last summer. The full-page ad in Friday's edition of the weekly Atlanta Jewish Times, which has a circulation of 25,000, endorses Cleland challenger Republican Saxby Chambliss. The ad includes a picture of the Israeli flag at the top next to the headline: 'The Jewish Community Supports Saxby Chambliss for U.S. Senate.' Jewish business leaders, local entertainment figures and politicians signed the ad, including Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, who could not be reached for comment Friday."

Why The Rise In Anti-Semitism In Europe?,
by Alfred M. Lilienthal, Palestine Chronicle, October 27 2002
"Any time that we hear that Jews are 'suddenly' being persecuted, we have to ask what is really going on. Are their opponents attacking them only because they are Jews? An op-ed piece by Abraham Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League, entitled 'Europe's Anti-Israel Excuse' appeared in the Washington Post on June 26, 2002. Foxman claims to believe that the growing criticism in Europe of Israeli misconduct somehow equals a resurgence of anti-Semitism similar to the dark Hitler era. For that matter, he makes an even far wider claim that this supposed new rise in the old anti-Semitism is somehow central to all human experience: Throughout history a constant barometer for judging the level of hate and exclusion vs. the level of freedom and democracy in any society has been anti-Semitism -- how a country treats its Jewish citizens. Jews have been persecuted and delegitimized throughout history because of their perceived differences. Any society that can understand and accept Jews is typically more democratic, more open and accepting of 'the other.' This predictor has held true throughout the ages.' Here in Foxman’s own words, we have a prime example of the kind of egocentric and grandiose preoccupation with his Jewishness that tends to give other Jews a bad name. What hogwash that throughout all of human history and throughout all the societies that have ever existed, the world has somehow revolved around the status of 'The Jews!' This claim of unique Jewish specialness is preposterous and offensive. If the Irish, the Chinese, the Arabs, the Catholics, the Buddhists, or any other ethnic or religious group made such a ridiculous universal claim about themselves, we would likely find it both disgusting and laughable. Foxman makes this absurd statement, but if we dare to say it is absurd, immediately he would counter that we are anti-Semitic to say so."

The Wages of Hate. Anti-semitism and the war,
Andrew Sullivan, October 2002
"A student-written article in the Yale Daily News last week, the paper for the elite American university, was typical fare. It was a piece by a precocious first-year student criticizing what he regards as the anti-Semitism tolerated at the U.N. The response, however, was far from typical. He'd touched a nerve. In the comments section, posted online next to the article, a torrent of anger was unleashed. Here's one respondent's comments: 'I recently attended a forum focusing on the Israeli/Palestinian issue. Both sides made very valid points but there was a moment of heated exchange when the pro-Israel side initiated the "anti-semite" slur and completely ended it for me. I am sick and tired of Jewish people always smearing those that merely disagree with their views as 'evil'. I never thought I'd say this but a lot of what the so-called "white supremacists" are saying are proving to be more accurate than I feel comfortable admitting.' Sympathy for the arguments of 'so-called white supremacists'? At Yale? The comment was not anonymous. Now there's always scope for nut-cases venting on the web. But the tenor of the discussion on a Yale website was certainly something new."

Paint It Black,
by Max Hastings, Toronto Globe and Mail, October 19, 2002
Focus, p. F3
"For nine years as editor of the [British] Daily Telegraph, Max Hastings had to navigate the politics and personal passions of the paper's Canadian-born proprietor. In this exclusive excerpt from his compelling new book [An Inside Story, by Max Hastings (Macmillan, 2002), he offers an inside look at how [non-Jewish media mogul] Conrad Black does business ...As the years went by, [Black] also developed increasingly strong views on the Middle East question, and thus on our coverage of it. Especially after his purchase of the Jerusalem Post, Conrad showed himself an energetic supporter of the Israeli cause against that of the Palestinians. Conrad and I had several sharp exchanges, after pieces appeared in the Telegraph which he deemed anti-Israel or even anti-Semitic. One of Conrad's favourite terms of approbation was to describe a friend or colleague as 'giving me a high comfort level.' Conversely, when one of our writers erred in his eyes, I knew it was time to hoist storm signals when the chairman declared - with only a nod toward irony or conscious extravagance - that 'this snivelling product of some pinko journalism school administered by the John Pilger/Christopher Hitchens Trust for the propagation of liberal mendacity does not give me a high comfort level, Max.' It was ironic, therefore, when one of the major rows of our time together descended on Conrad because he was accused of publishing anti-Semitic material in one of his own organs. In November, 1994, a Los Angeles 'stringer' for the Telegraph, William Cash, wrote a piece for The Spectator - which the Telegraph had purchased from Algy Cluff in 1991 - suggesting that Hollywood was a Jewish town. In the wake of its publication, the roof fell in. A long roll-call of Hollywood luminaries headed by Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand and Kevin Costner wrote letters to Conrad and an open letter to The Spectator, and delivered diatribes to anyone who would listen, denouncing the Cash piece as a disgraceful piece of journalism. 'We have seen it all before, from the Inquisition in 13th-century Spain to the Holocaust of 20th-century Germany,' ran one of the less hyperbolic passages of their Spectator letter. 'When, to the editors of magazines like the Spectator, racist cant becomes indistinguishable from thoughtful commentary, it should sound a loud warning that we have not progessed so far after all.' I was sitting in Conrad's office while he took a call from an enraged Jack Valenti, speaking on behalf of the Hollywood Motion Picture Association, about the piece. They were demanding space not only in the Spectator, but also in the Daily Telegraph, to denounce the author. It was one of the few moments in my time with Conrad when I saw him look seriously rattled. I did not think the Cash piece represented memorable - perhaps not even tasteful - journalism, but nor did I believe that it deserved the ludicrous overreaction of the Hollywood community. Their demands, especially for space in the Telegraph, seemed absurd. I urged that they should be given a right of reply in The Spectator, but otherwise told to take a running jump.' Conrad said: 'You don't understand, Max. My entire interests in the United States and internationally could be seriously damaged by this.' The complaints eventually subsided. So too did the row, as I was growing to understand that all rows eventually do. [Note: the assertions by William Cash in The Spectator are, of course, true -- see here for more about the Cash incident, and a long, documented investigation about Jewish hegemony in Hollywood]

At Canadian campus rally, speakers assail anti-Semitism,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Oct. 20, 2002
"One month after pro-Palestinian demonstrators prevented [former right-wing Israel prime minister] Benjamin Netanyahu from speaking at Montreal’s Concordia University, more than 500 people assembled on another Canadian campus for a forum about the Concordia riot. The rally came as Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal asked Concordia to reinvite the former Israeli prime minister to speak at the school. Bob Rae, a former premier of Ontario, was the headline speaker at the rally, which was organized by an interfaith group called Canadians Against Anti-Semitism and filled the largest auditorium at the University of Toronto. Like the speakers who followed him, Rae linked the Concordia disturbances of Sept. 9 to a growing international climate of hate against Jews and Israel — expressed in union resolutions, divestment campaigns, boycotts of Israeli intellectuals, and pamphlets, posters and pronouncements that appear to meet every definition of hate speech."

How to shut up your critics with a single word,
by Robert Fisk, The Independent (UK), October 21, 2002
"Thank God, I often say, for the Israeli press. For where else will you find the sort of courageous condemnation of Israel's cruel and brutal treatment of the Palestinians? Where else can we read that Moshe Ya'alon, Ariel Sharon's new chief of staff, described the 'Palestinian threat' as 'like a cancer – there are all sorts of solutions to cancerous manifestations. For the time being, I am applying chemotherapy.' Where else can we read that the Israeli Herut Party chairman, Michael Kleiner, said that 'for every victim of ours there must be 1,000 dead Palestinians'. Where else can we read that Eitan Ben Eliahu, the former Israeli Air Force commander, said that 'eventually we will have to thin out the number of Palestinians living in the territories'. Where else can we read that the new head of Mossad, General Meir Dagan – a close personal friend of Mr Sharon – believes in 'liquidation units', that other Mossad men regard him as a threat because 'if Dagan brings his morality to the Mossad, Israel could become a country in which no normal Jew would want to live'. You will have to read all this in Ma'ariv, Ha'aretz or Yediot Ahronot because in much of the Western world, a vicious campaign of slander is being waged against any journalist or activist who dares to criticise Israeli policies or those that shape them. The all-purpose slander of 'anti-Semitism' is now used with ever-increasing promiscuity against anyone – people who condemn the wickedness of Palestinian suicide bombings every bit as much as they do the cruelty of Israel's repeated killing of children – in an attempt to shut them up. [Jewish academics] Daniel Pipes and Martin Kramer of the Middle East Forum now run a website in the United States to denounce academics who are deemed to have shown 'hatred of Israel'. One of the eight professors already on this contemptible McCarthyite list – it is grotesquely called 'Campus Watch' – committed the unpardonable sin of signing a petition in support of the Palestinian scholar Edward Said. Pipes wants students to inform on professors who are guilty of 'campus anti-Semitism'. The University of North Carolina is being targeted – apparently because freshmen were required to read passages from the Koran – along with Harvard where, like students in many other US universities, undergraduates are demanding that their colleges disinvest in companies that sell weapons to Israel. In some cases, American universities – which happily disinvested in tobacco companies – have now taken the step of blocking all student access to their records of investment."

What is Antisemitism?,
By Michael Neumann, Counterpunch, June 4, 2002
"Every once in a while, some left-wing Jewish writer will take a deep breath, open up his (or her) great big heart, and tell us that criticism of Israel or Zionism is not antisemitism. Silently they congratulate themselves on their courage. With a little sigh, they suppress any twinge of concern that maybe the goyim--let alone the Arabs--can't be trusted with this dangerous knowledge. Sometimes it is gentile hangers-on, whose ethos if not their identity aspires to Jewishness, who take on this task. Not to be utterly risqué, they then hasten to remind us that antisemitism is nevertheless to be taken very seriously. That Israel, backed by a pronounced majority of Jews, happens to be waging a race war against the Palestinians is all the more reason we should be on our guard. Who knows? it might possibly stir up some resentment! I take a different view. I think we should almost never take antisemitism seriously, and maybe we should have some fun with it. I think it is particularly unimportant to the Israel-Palestine conflict, except perhaps as a diversion from the real issues. I will argue for the truth of these claims; I also defend their propriety. I don't think making them is on a par with pulling the wings off flies. 'Antisemitism', properly and narrowly speaking, doesn't mean hatred of semites; that is to confuse etymology with definition. It means hatred of Jews. But here, immediately, we come up against the venerable shell-game of Jewish identity: 'Look! We're a religion! No! a race! No! a cultural entity! Sorry--a religion!' When we tire of this game, we get suckered into another: 'anti-Zionism is antisemitism!'quickly alternates with: 'Don't confuse Zionism with Judaism! How dare you, you antisemite!' ... The more things get to count as antisemitic, the less awful antisemitism is going to sound. This happens because, while no one can stop you from inflating definitions, you still don't control the facts ... Israel is building a racial state, not a religious one."

An uncomfortable kernel of truth,
Israel Insider, October 31, 2002
"For Ireland's reputation [for no "antisemitism"] is very much undeserved. Historically, anti-Semitism was as prevalent here as it was elsewhere in Europe, differing only in its emphasis on issues of religion rather than race. The Jews were seen as the enduring enemies of Christianity ... The fact that there was no serious anti-Semitic violence in Ireland after 1904 had less to do with national virtue than with the fact that there were very few Jews to conduct violence against. And the Irish authorities were determined to keep it that way ... In an era of de-colonization, Ireland began to identify increasingly with the refugees as victims of an 'imperialist enterprise' and, after 1967, this was easily transmuted into support for Palestinian 'national' demands. This led Ireland to adopt an increasingly critical position with regard to Israel in international forums, culminating in its becoming in 1980 the first EU country to recognize the PLO and a Palestinian 'right to self-determination' ... But does the persistence of anti-Israel feelings in Ireland constitute anti-Semitism? Certainly, it seems at times as if the Irish will always find a stick with which to beat Israel. That Irish anti-Zionism sprang fully formed from the head of Catholic anti-Semitism in undeniable but over the years it succeeded, for the most part, in freeing itself from purely anti-Jewish prejudice. However, while it has been 30 years since the last significant anti-Semitic scandal, antipathy towards the Jews does still exist. The last major survey published in 1996 found declining yet significant levels of anti-Semitism, most notably in rural areas, and these do inform attitudes towards Israel today. The tone of some of the criticism leveled at Israel since September 2000 is clear evidence of this and it is doubtful whether the next survey will show a continued decline in anti-Jewish feeling. However, residual anti-Semitism cannot explain the scale and intensity of anti-Israeli feeling in Ireland today. Mr. Vance's contention that Nationalist Ireland, as a "financial, logistical, moral and political" supporter of the IRA, almost instinctively backs the PLO is certainly broadly true of Northern Ireland where the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign seems little more than an arm of Sinn Fein and pro-Palestinian flags and murals adorn nationalist areas ... The Intifada, therefore, is considered wholly legitimate; Marwan Barghouti is seen as a Michael Collins-type hero, his Tanzim terrorists as 'freedom fighters.' The IDF play the role of the hated British army. Today, such perceptions lie at the heart of Irish hostility to Israel. When combined with both a residual and now growing anti-Semitism and an impossibly biased media, the result is a nationally unanimous view of the Middle East conflict, one based on an almost universal condemnation of Israel and unconditional support for the Palestinians."

Storm over 'Elders of Zion' Anti-Semitic series on Egypt TV stirs outrage,
San Francisco Chronicle, October 31, 2002
"Muhammed Sobhi seems genuinely puzzled by all the fuss being made about his latest project -- a 'historical' series about a Jewish plot to rule the world due to start airing during the television-intensive holy month of Ramadan. 'The whole issue doesn't deserve five minutes on the headline news,' said the popular Egyptian actor-playwright. 'The bigger issues we should talk about are the events in Palestine and the decision to attack Iraq.' Nevertheless, Sobhi, the Egyptian government and the country's media and entertainment structure find themselves in the center of a gathering storm. The reason: Sobhi's series appears to take much of its inspiration from the infamous 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion,' the alleged blueprint for Jewish global domination almost universally regarded in the West as an anti-Semitic fraud first perpetrated by czarist secret police in 19th century Russia ... The series, funded with private money, is scheduled to begin airing on Egyptian state television early next month, during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, when television ratings and ad prices traditionally are at their peak. The fact that the Egyptian government -- the world's second-largest recipient of U.S. aid -- is not only sanctioning but profiting from the series could become a major diplomatic issue ... The U.S. official in Cairo worried that neither Sobhi nor his potential television audience recognize the depth of negative feeling in the West regarding the 'Protocols.' 'There's a line between talking about a Zionist conspiracy, which I know a lot of people out here do believe, and actually talking about the 'Protocols' as an authentic document,' he said."

Press Release: ADL Survey of Five European Countries Finds One in Five Hold Strong Anti-Semitic Sentiments; Majority Believes Canard of Jewish Disloyalty,
Anti-Defamation League, October 31, 2002
"An opinion survey of adults in five European countries found that 21% harbor strong anti-Semitic views, and 56% believe that Jews are more loyal to Israel than their own country, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported today. European Attitudes Toward Jews: A Five Country Survey of 2,500 -- 500 each in Austria, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland -- was conducted by telephone in the native language of each of the countries September 9-29, 2002 by First International Resources for ADL ... The Findings: ... Of those surveyed: 21% harbor strong anti-Semitic views. 34% in Spain, 23% in Italy, 22% in Switzerland, 19% in Austria, 7% in the Netherlands. 56% believe Jews are more loyal to Israel than their own country. 72% in Spain, 58% in Italy, 54% in Austria, 49% in Switzerland, 48% The Netherlands. 40% believe that Jews have too much power in international financial markets. 71% in Spain. 29% say Jews don't care about anyone but their own kind. Spain and Switzerland 34%. 25% say Jews are more willing than others to use shady practices to get what they want. Spain 33%, Austria 28%, Italy and Switzerland 27%. 49% believe Jews still talk too much about the Holocaust. Spain 57%, Austria 56%, Switzerland 52%, Italy 43%, The Netherlands 35%."

Berliners protest move to put 'Jewish' back into street name,
Drudge Report, November 1, 2002
"Crowds of angry residents in Berlin Friday protested attempts to return a road to its pre-Nazi-era name of Jewish Street, with several shouting, 'The Jews have made us suffer enough.' The protest began peacefully enough Friday afternoon when about 40 people turned out to protest the changing of Kinkel Strasse to Jueden Strasse, which had been approved by the Berlin city council. Local residents, particularly several retailers, said they had not been adequately informed about the name change and they resented the inconvenience of changing business cards and advertisements. The protest turned ugly, however, when representatives of Berlin's Jewish community arrived for the formal name-changing ceremonies. Then there were chants of 'You Jews have had enough say' and 'The Jews have made us suffer enough.' Jewish Community Chairman Alexander Brenner attempted to fend off the attacks as TV camera crews filmed the scene, but as the vehemence rose, he responded, 'You people are siding yourselves with the Nazis with such remarks,' and turned and left."

Will Jewish votes for Dems speed the mainstreaming of anti-Semitic voices?,
Jewish World Review, November 5, 2002
"There are three basic anti-Semitic streams within the Democratic Party. The first is the small but powerful group of good old-fashioned anti-Semites, whose distaste for Jews leads them into admiration for anti-American enemies of Israel. These include David Bonior, former representative Cynthia McKinney (whose defeat by a black opponent enraged most of her colleagues), and former Senator James Abourzek of South Dakota, Tom Daschle's old mentor. This group is unpleasant but not dangerous - though it is arguably more dangerous than the similar kinds of anti-Semites within the Republican Party. Their Republican counterparts - think of someone like George Ball - are less dangerous, because their distaste for Jews is old-fashioned second-rate WASP - a group that is on the wane. The Boniors and McKinneys are far more dangerous because their anti-Semitism is more populist, connected as it is to grassroots anti-Semitic communities within the Black community and the Arab-American population. The second is the small but prominent group of self-proclaimed idealists - whose idealism involves a wish that the United States could be as deeply good as a nation as they themselves are as individuals. And with odd inevitability, this self-regard takes the form of a bitter dislike of Israel. The most prominent such figure is Jimmy Carter, whose statements on Israel since he left the presidency reek of intense personal dislike ... Now, the war against terror has brought a new group surging into prominence within the Democratic Party - the left wing anti-war group. This group is motivated by hatred of Israel, hatred of America, and the inborn affection for bullying and pushing people around that is at the basis of all socialism ... More than any others, they will work to make anti-Semitism respectable among nice people - and even fashionable. The process is beginning now on elite college campuses with the 'Divest from Israel' campaign. It's typical of American Jewish misunderstanding of our enemies that institutions like the ADL have been so obsessed with crèches and campus crusades that they've paid no attention to what is going on at Harvard and Columbia."


Welcome Voice? Harvard invites academic who wants Jews 'shot dead',
by Tom Gross, National Review, November 12, 2002
"Harvard University's English department has invited Tom Paulin — the Oxford poet who has called for the slaughter of U.S. Jews on the West Bank — to deliver 'The Morris Gray Lecture' this Thursday (November 14). The invitation was sent to other faculty heads last week, encouraging them to have their students attend, and an announcement was made on the English department's web page. Earlier this year Paulin, who lectures in 19th- and 20th-century English literature at Oxford University, told the influential Egyptian paper al-Ahram Weekly that what he described as 'Brooklyn-born' Jewish settlers should be 'shot dead.' He said: 'They should be shot dead. I think they are Nazis, racists, I feel nothing but hatred for them.' He added: 'I can understand how suicide bombers feel. . . . I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.' Paulin, who has regularly declared that Israel has no right to exist, and recently resigned from Britain's ruling Labour party on the grounds that Tony Blair was heading a 'Zionist government,' is no doubt entitled to his opinion ... The [Jewish] president of Harvard, Larry Summers, who less than two months ago denounced the spread of anti-Semitism in the guise of anti-Zionism at American universities, is said in private to be 'horrified' by the invitation to Paulin, but has made no public comment."

German party fined for funding allegedly anti-Semitic leaflet,
Ha'aretz (Israel), November 13, 2002
"A German opposition party said Wednesay it has been fined 839,000 euros (US$) by parliament for irregular financing of a campaign leaflet that attacked Jewish and Israeli leaders and prompted accusations of anti-Semitism. The penalty matches the amount spent on the leaflet by Juergen Moellemann, who quit as deputy head of the Free Democrats after others in the party blamed the controversy for its poor showing in Sept. 22 national elections. Party officials said they intend to pay the penalty ordered by Parliament President Wolfgang Thierse. Moellemann's leaflet criticizing German Jewish leader and talk show host Michel Friedman as well as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was sent to more than 8 million homes ... He already sparked outrage in May by saying that Friedman, who criticized his strident stance against Sharon's policies toward the Palestinians, might himself fuel anti-Semitism with his 'intolerant, spiteful style.' Jewish leaders condemned the remark."

Anti-Semitism in Israel Growing Anti-Semitic feelings in Israel growing,
Pravda (Russia), November 19, 2002
"The immigrants, who come to Israel from Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union are considered to be the major reason for the development of anti-Semitic sentiments in Israel. As it has been said, these immigrants basically only have distant relatives who were Jews. The so-called promised land is currently considering restricting immigration from Russia. According to the London newspaper the Sunday Telegraph, the number of racist incidents grows every day in the Jewish state. These incidents include violence and insults, drawing swastika on houses, and desecration of cemeteries. Because of the growing anti-Semitism in Israel, the Israeli government might reconsider it’s immigration policy. Yuli Edelstein, the Minister for Absorption of New Immigrants, was one of the first statesmen who set forth such an idea. The official is concerned about the growth of anti-Semitic sentiments in Israel ... Now, the 'homeland' is thinking over the necessity of inviting people who have distant Jewish relatives. Rabbi Zalman Gilchensky researched anti-Semitic incidents in the 'promised' land. Five hundred such incidents have been registered over the recent year."

Canada accused of failing to fight anti-Semitism. Head of World Jewish Congress assails 'unholy alliance' of leftists, intellectuals,
National Post, November 19, 2002 [Note: the National Post is part of the vast Canadian newspaper chain of avid Zionist Israel Asper]
"The riot at Montreal's Concordia University that prevented former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu from speaking is part of a campaign to delegitimize Israel, says Avi Beker, head of the World Jewish Congress. Avi Beker, secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), said yesterday the anti-Semitic campaign is spreading throughout university campuses across North America ... Mr. Beker, who attended a board meeting of the WJC in Ottawa yesterday, also blamed the media for promoting stereotypical racist views of Jews. He criticized Canada for not doing enough to fight anti-Semitism and called on the Chrétien government to take a leading role at the United Nations to focus on human rights abuses in Arab nations. 'What is really shocking is that you have here today an unholy alliance between liberals, intellectuals from the left and the most extremist forces of Islam. It's very hard to comprehend how people who are liberal, people who are intellectuals, are going together with representatives of cultures ... which are so in sharp contrast to human rights in their countries,' Mr. Beker said. 'In North America and Canada and the U.S., it's entering most of the campuses. In the campuses today, you have really violent attacks against Israel and also against Jews. Sometimes there is a feeling that this is even a witch hunt against people who are supporting Israel -- among faculty members and among the students. It's something that is worrying us very much. It is something that we are now going to fight' ... A letter to the Prime Minister from the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) obtained by the National Post and made public at the board meeting yesterday criticized Jean Chrétien and the entire Canadian delegation that attended this fall's meeting of La Francophonie in Lebanon for failing to denounce the many speakers in attendance who criticized Israel. "CJC was deeply concerned that neither you nor anyone from the Canadian delegation denounced the despicable politicization of the conference by speaker after speaker who used the occasion to vilify Israel.'"

Rising anti-Semitism reported in Australia,
stalert.com, (from UPI), November 26, 2002
"Australia's Jewish community is experiencing the highest level of anti-Semitism since statistics were first collected 57 years ago, figures released this week by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry showed. Council President Jeremy Jones told United Press International there were 593 reports of anti-Semitism in the year to Sept. 30, with incidents ranging from physical and verbal assaults to firebombs thrown at synagogues and community centers, telephone threats, hate mail and e-mail ... 'But what does concern us is that in the media there is a line being crossed from vigorous political debate to anti-Jewish stereotyping. We are also concerned that perpetrators are never found or charged,' he said. 'If this means racists feel it's a better climate for them to operate in, then it's a concern.' He said there are dozens of groups perpetrating hate crimes. The main ones are the Australian League of Rights, the Adelaide Institute, neo-Nazi fringe groups, and the Citizens Electoral Councils, which are followers of U.S.-based Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. The man with the highest profile is historian Frederick Toben of the Adelaide Institute, who, like British historian David Irving, denies the existence of the Holocaust. In September, Jones's organization won a landmark ruling in the Federal Court ordering Toben to stop publishing racially offensive material on the Internet. Jones also lamented what he calls horrific material from Muslims in Australia and singles out Sheik Taj al Din al Hilaly, spiritual leader of Australia's Muslims and one of the country's most contentious religious figures."

Report cites rising anti-Semitism in Greek media reports of intifada,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, December 2, 2002
"Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Greece, according to a new report. The Greek Helsinki Monitor, a nongovernmental organization affiliated with the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, said in the report that since the start of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict more than two years ago, 'blatant anti-Semitism' has been expressed in the Greek media 'by a spectrum of influential personalities in politics, labor, education and culture.' The Sept. 11 attacks in the United States also contributed to the rise of anti-Semitism here, according to the 64-page report that was issued last week. The report cited a sharp increase in anti-Semitism in the media after Israel launched a large-scale military operation last spring to uproot the Palestinian terror infrastructure in the West Bank. At that time, according to the report, mainstream Greek newspapers were 'deluged' with anti-Semitic editorials and cartoons drawing parallels between the Israeli military operation and the Holocaust, and comparing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Hitler. Indeed, expressions of anti-Semitism through Holocaust imagery were so harsh in the Greek media and political circles at the time that Hronika, the official magazine of the Central Board of Greek Jewish Communities, spoke of a climate of 'hysteria and anti-Semitism' that was masquerading as mere criticism of the State of Israel. International Jewish organizations soon stood up and took notice of the development. In July and September, the Anti-Defamation League sent two letters to the Greek prime minister, Konstantine Simitis, and the foreign minister, George Papandreou, protesting the use of Holocaust imagery in the Greek media."
During a July meeting at which European security representatives discussed anti-Semitism, Shimon Samuels, the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Paris office, urged Simitis and other Greek leaders to publicly condemn the use of anti-Semitic stereotypes and Nazi imagery when criticizing Israel. 'Anti-Israel fanaticism has degenerated into anti-Jewish hate mongering by leading intellectuals and politicians,' Samuels said at the time. In a more recent development, the Simon Wiesenthal Center sent a letter to the Greek government calling on it to close down the TV station of Yorgos Karatzaferis, the leader of the far-right Popular Rally Party."

Another study critical of racial attitudes at St. Cloud State,
Star Tribune (Minnesota), Dec. 1, 2002
"When students, faculty and staff members at St. Cloud State were invited to take a survey addressing attitudes toward minorities and on other issues, some of the findings among the 400 people who responded included: • About one in five faculty and staff members agreed that there are too many Jewish faculty members and administrators in higher education, and that they control university policy and direction. • About one in four professors, staff and students agreed that the problem with hiring Jewish professors is that they gradually displace Christian ideas and values with secularism. • About one in three faculty and staff members and two in five students said discrimination against blacks on campus would be largely eliminated if they would make a sincere effort to assimilate into the St. Cloud community and campus life. The statements 'are pretty disturbing, and we need to address the attitudes that lie behind them,' Michael Spitzer, [Jewish] provost and vice president for academic affairs, said last week. 'It's important to know that the people who responded to the survey were self-selected and it was not a random sampling,' Spitzer said. Indeed, only 164 of the university's 16,000 students and 237 of the 1,600 employees responded to an invitation to fill out the Web-based survey. Despite the small numbers, Spitzer said, 'there are issues on campus that we need to take very forceful action to deal with.'"

Europe's new face of anti-Semitism 5 countries now ban production of kosher meat as synagogues burn, boycott of Israel continues,
World Net Daily, December 3, 2002
"One of the first steps in Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic drive in the creation of his Third Reich was instituting a ban on the kosher slaughter of animals. Today, as a new wave of ugly, and sometimes violent, anti-Semitism sweeps through the European continent, at least five countries have banned kosher food production, and one of them is considering halting all import of kosher meat. The latest nation to join the movement is Holland, where the move was guised in concern for cruelty to animals. 'They simply don't want foreigners and they don't want Jews,' said Rabbi Michael Melchior, former chief rabbi of Norway, another European nation that bans kosher meat production. 'I won't say this is the only motivation, but it's certainly no coincidence that one of the first things Nazi Germany forbade was kosher slaughter. I also know that during the original debate on this issue in Norway, where shechitah has been banned since 1930, one of the parliamentarians said straight out, 'If they don't like it, let them go live somewhere else.' While animal-rights activists have indeed been at the forefront of the recent efforts to ban kosher slaughter, there is growing concern on the part of people like Melchior, now an Israeli official, that initiatives spreading through Europe are gaining popularity because of deep-seated anti-Semitism manifesting itself in many other ways, from Belgium to Germany to France and Switzerland ... German police are investigating an incident last month where anti-Semitic disruptions occurred at a Berlin ceremony to restore a street name referring to Jews that was erased by Nazi officials in 1938. Hecklers at the event booed, whistled and shouted slogans including 'Jews out' and 'The Jews crucified Jesus,' according to Germany's Central Council of Jews. Paul Spiegel, the group's head, said he was horrified and that the incident 'reminds us painfully of the late 1920s,' when the Nazis began their rise to power in Germany ... A one-day international conference on sanctions and divestment in London last week called for a boycott of Israel 'not dissimilar to the campaign which contributed to the end of apartheid in South Africa ... While the Holland ban offers some loopholes to the Jewish community in the country, the Swiss ban on shechitah may go even further. The government earlier this year considered a ban on the import of kosher meat, and the Swiss Animal Association is calling for a national referendum on barring the import of such products. A poll shows 76 percent of the population would support such a move. 'It's ominous,' said Rabbi Menachem Genack, the kashrut administrator for the Orthodox Union, the largest kosher-certifying organization in the world."

St. Cloud State Settles Antisemitism Suit,
Star-Tribune (Minnesota), December 4, 2002
"St. Cloud State University will create a Jewish Studies and Resource Center and require anti-Semitism training for all faculty members under a lawsuit settlement announced this afternoon. The suit, which alleged a pattern of anti-Semitism and retaliation at the university, was filed in October 2001 by professors Geoffrey Tabakin and Laurinda Stryker, former professor Arie Zmora and student Robbi Hoy. Under the settlement, Zmora will receive $165,000, Stryker $80,000 and a paid educational leave for the current academic year, and Tabakin $20,000 and a job reassignment for two semesters. An additional $50,000 was set aside for Jewish faculty and staff members and anyone who filed a complaint that they suffered retaliation for opposing anti-Semitism. Another $265,000 will go for plaintiffs' attorney fees."

Earthquake in P.C. Land,
by Jonathan Rauch, overlawyered.com
(from National Journal), March 6, 1999
"To the surprise of no one so much as itself, on March 1 the faculty of the University of Wisconsin's flagship campus revoked the university's speech code for professors. Now, when I say this is notable, I must confess a certain bias. For years I've been writing and agitating against speech codes, and the opportunity to agitate arose again when a free-speech group called the Faculty Committee for Academic Freedom and Rights invited me there to give a talk. (They paid my travel expenses, though my speech was free, pardon the expression.) Still, what I saw when I got there was not what I had expected to see. UW is, after all, an epicenter of political correctness. It promulgated a speech code for students in the 1980s, when that was what everybody was doing, only to have the code blown away by a federal judge who ruled it unconstitutional in 1991 ... . So faculty were warned darkly that professors' `expressive behavior' (what you and I call `speech') is `subject to discipline' if it `is commonly considered by persons of a particular gender, race, cultural background, ethnicity, or handicap to be demeaning to members of that group'; if a listener has objected to such speech; and if the speech `makes the instructional setting hostile or intimidating or demeaning to members of the group of average sensibilities' ... To say that the code perpetrated a reign of terror on campus would be wrong. It was rarely used, and many professors were unaware of its existence until the repeal movement gained force. But it did reflect the ethos of an era when the mere accusation of racism was a sentence of perdition. In 1990, an art professor named Richard Long was spuriously accused of antisemitism by two graduate students with axes to grind. Neither of them was Jewish, but never mind: In Stalinesque secrecy--meaning that everybody knew except the target--the university proceeded to investigate Long, without notifying him formally, naming a plaintiff, or detailing any charges. In 1991, Long, who is an ebulliently outspoken conservative, was finally summoned to answer such questions as, `Have you ever used the word `feminazi'?'' Still later, the matter was dropped as mysteriously as it arose. Long was neither charged nor vindicated. `I was devastated,'' he says. `Your name is tarnished forever. For 20 years I tried to do everything they asked me to do. I loved being a professor. My father was a tenant farmer, so I saw this as a kind of opportunity. I venerated this university. I was a fool, obviously.'''

Q&A: Michael Moore,
[An Interview with Filmmaker Michael Moore]
Entertainment Weekly,October 25, 2002
Daniel Fierman: A film executive once told me that you had a reputation for being anti-Semitic – it had to do with Roger & Me and your supposed refusal to allow the film to be shown in Israel. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Moore: [Long pause] Right. Okay. I'm glad you asked that. Here's what happened. In Roger & Me, [Newlywed Game host] Bob Eubanks tells a joke. He says, Why don't Jewish women get AIDS? And I don't want this reprinted, so I won't say it, but it's an anti-Semitic, antigay, antiwoman joke. So I'm out in L.A. and Rob Friedman, who was then the head of [Warner Bros. Advertising and publicity], says, "You're not going to believe what's going on. The Anti-Defamation League and Bob Eubanks are blasting Michael Moore for putting anti-Semitism in the film." [Long pause] A week later, Jewish weeklies across the country all run the story that the ADL sent out saying that Michael Moore put anti-Semitism in the film. Now, I have a Jewish friend who says that his grandpa has two columns; good for Jews and bad for Jews. [Laughs] And once that appeared, it stuck in a lot of people's minds: Roger & Me – bad for Jews. Plus at the end of the film one of the tourism ladies in Flint says, I'm going to move to Israel and maybe I'll become the mistress of tourism. And then as a joke it cuts to the first intifada and I put up [the subtitle] "One month after Maxine arrived" – which I thought was funny, to go from war zone to war zone. So those two things got this weird vibe going, and then the film was invited to the Jerusalem Film Festival. [Sighs] I had two requests – that the film not be shown [if] people would be prohibited from seeing it because of curfews and that the film have Arabic subtitles. [The festival agreed to neither] so I said, "I am so sorry, I want to come, but I can't. how can I if people were not allowed in because of who they were?"
EW: But why does this still have currency 13 years later?
Moore: It's as simple as my not toeing the standard line on Israel. I would stand up for anybody who is going to be persecuted. And that position has no credibility if I won't do it for Palestinians [as well as Jews].

Anti-Semitic manuscript fails to sell,
BBC, June 6, 2001
"An anti-Semitic manuscript suppressed for more than a century and put up for sale by the group representing Jews in the UK has failed to sell at auction. There were fears the controversial manuscript, which claims Jews engaged in human sacrifice, could be used by neo-Nazis to provoke anti-Semitic hatred. The Board of Deputies of British Jews wanted to sell the manuscript - Human Sacrifice among the Sephardine or Eastern Jews - which it once said should never be seen in public. The paper was written by the Victorian explorer and diplomat Sir Richard Burton, who also translated the Kama Sutra, and has never been published. It went up for auction at Christie's in London on Wednesday but failed to reach its reserve price despited being expected to fetch up to £200,000 ... The board admitted prior to the auction that it needed money to move to new offices. The manuscript has been locked away for nearly 100 years Lord Janner, a former president of both the Board of Deputies and of the Holocaust Educational Trust, had attacked the board's decision to put the manuscript up for sale ... The manuscript was written after Burton had worked as a diplomat in Damascus. It focused on the 1840 disappearance of a Capuchin friar and the arrest of 13 Jews who were accused of ritual murder but later acquitted. But the manuscript was thought so inflammatory and damaging to the author's reputation that it was never published. In her will Burton's widow Isabel asked for it and other papers to be destroyed to protect her husband's name. The manuscript survived and came into the hands of the board in 1909 when it was hidden away."

What, You Condemned Anti-Semitism? How very one-sided!,
by Barry Strauss, National Review, December 11, 2002
"It's been a season of anti-Semitism on campus ... Oops! I mean, it's been a season of anti-Semitism and of anti-Muslim bigotry. At least that is what most American college and university presidents seem to think I should mean. The biggest news on campus this year may be the refusal of most American university presidents to sign a statement in October that called for an end to intimidation on campus and a return to tolerance. Although hundreds of university presidents did sign the statement, over a thousand did not. Why? Because the statement condemned all intolerance but specified only anti-Semitism as an example. Condemning anti-Semitism used to be as controversial as praising motherhood. Not any more. Come to think of it, now that motherhood has been condemned as a sexist plot, it makes sense that anti-anti-Semitism is a hot topic."

Chief Blasts Bigotry,
Totally Jewish, March 7, 2001
"The [British] chief rabbi has identified anti-Semitism as the most successful ideology of modern times in a speech to British community leaders. Addressing the inaugural meeting of the Parliamentary Committee Against Anti-Semitism last week, Dr Jonathan Sacks warned: 'There can be little doubt that it is the most successful ideology of modern times. Fascism came and went. Soviet communism came and went. Anti-Semitism came and stayed. It exists today in many parts of the world in more virulent forms than at any time since the Holocaust. Anti-Semitism is like a virus and like a virus it mutates.' Sacks told the invited audience of MPs, ambassadors and parliamentarians that Britain’s 280,000-strong Jewish community could play an active role in stemming racist sentiments in the UK. He said: 'We should to wear our identity with pride. The worst mistake Jews ever made was to believe that since Jews are the target of anti-Semitism, they must therefore be the cause of it. We know this is not true.'”
Drawing attention to the work of the Union Of Jewish Students in combating 'Islamophobia' on campus, he called on Muslims, Christians and others to take up the challenge of fighting bigotry. He added: 'What we are witnessing today is the second great mutation of anti-Semitism in modern times. The very worst crimes of anti-Semites of the past - racism, ethnic cleansing, genocide – are now attributed to Jews and the State of Israel, so that if you are against Nazism you must ipso facto be against Jews. I regard that as one of the most blasphemous inversions in the entire history of the world’s oldest hate.'”

Racism charge against newspaper. Respected national newspaper Politiken denies charges of anti-Semitism,
Copenhagen Post (Denmark), by Tøger Seidenfaden,
"The editor of national daily Politiken has rejected accusations from prominent members of the Jewish community that his newspaper is anti-Israel and uses anti-Semitic rhetoric in its reporting. Seidenfaden was forced to issue the denial in response to an article in the rival Jyllands Posten, stating that a number of prominent Danish Jewish leaders have decided to finance a full-page ad in Politiken, protesting against the paper's anti-Semitic tone and its hate campaign against Israel. The cause of the controversy was a featured article in Politiken on the 20th of November, in which writer Lau Sander claimed that the circumcision of Jewish and Muslim boys was just as great a problem as the ongoing debate about the clitoridectomy of Somalian teenage girls, but people were afraid to address the issue because of 'a fear of upsetting Jewish interests.' Seidenfaden dismissed the accusations as 'totally out of proportion.' 'It's nonsense to say we are anti-Israel, anti-Semitic or in any way anti-Jewish, and if the charges weren't so ridiculous they would be extremely insulting. We haven't as yet received the text for the ad, but it's interesting to note that a number of those named are connected to or employed by rival newspapers.'"

Uncle Velvel's Antisemitic Hammer,
by Martin Jaffe, [Jewish] Forward, December 13, 2002
"Uncle Velvel's hammer swung down, missed its mark and swatted him squarely on the thumb. With a howl of pain, he leaped up, threw the hammer violently to the ground and yelled at the top of his barely Americanized, Lower-East-Side-Yiddish-inflected voice: 'Antisemit!' And that's the day I learned that the antisemites were not just a bad memory from the Russian steppes my grandparents had fled, or a safely defeated pack of Nazi thugs confined now to the bad accents of Hollywood stereotypes. No, that day I learned about what Max Nordau, the turn-of-the-century Zionist thinker and colleague of Theodore Herzl, called: 'the Antisemitism of Things.' Hatred of Jews — it was said — had so worked its way into the structure of reality that not only people, but even inanimate objects — hammers, for example — might conspire to foil the best efforts of Jews to become part of the larger human world. Quite a concept to wrap my 8-year-old mind around! ... . Later, in graduate school, I learned from sociologists and historians the interesting notion that, especially in the centuries since Jews had embraced the modern world and assimilated into the surrounding European and American cultures, the continued presence of antisemitism — as long as it wasn't too extreme — was in fact an essential element in Jewish survival. Prejudice against Jews reminded them of the need for a common front against the gentile. In the absence of the deeply held, thoughtful and full-bodied religious culture that had sustained Jews in pre-modern times, modern Jews needed the threat of violence in order to find reasons to be Jews. Antisemitism was, it turned out, good for the Jews. A survival tool! ... But it seems pretty obvious to me that antisemitism was and remains one of the most vital and adaptable of modern ideologies. It attaches itself like a virus to a cultural system and reproduces itself until the entire cultural identity is bent to its service. And it particularly likes to feed on ideological systems in which a group sees its own historical misfortune as the result, not of its own decisions and failings, but as the issue of hidden, subterranean historical forces that conspire to prevent history's true and unsung victims from receiving their due ... No, I don't think Uncle Velvel was right. He's still with us, thank God, and remains unshakable in the views expressed in his encounter with the hammer. But how can I argue with him? ... It's almost like, gee... some conspiracy or something!"

Germany fights increasing anti-Semitism,
by Jeffrey Fleishman, Boston Globe, December 13, 2002
"[O]pinion polls suggest that this nation of 83 million is again witnessing strong and, on some issues, growing anti-Semitism and prejudice against immigrants. To an increasing degree, anti-Semitism is rooted in disdain for Israel's military crackdown on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. During Germany's federal election campaign in September, Juergen Moellemann, former deputy chairman of the Free Democrats, attempted to attract far-right voters by making what were widely seen as veiled anti-Semitic comments. He also supported a fellow politician who characterized Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel as using 'Nazi methods' to battle Palestinians. Moellemann's tactics troubled the establishment, because they emerged from a mainstream organization. Some, however, contend that he and others expressing similar views were attacked merely for raising legitimate criticisms of Israeli policy. 'It's always the Jews,' said Horst Mahler, a longtime leftist turned right-wing sympathizer and a lawyer for the NPD. 'They define who is an anti-Semite. If they say when you criticize Sharon and what's going on in Palestine, you're an anti-Semite, then I say, `Yes, I am.' But what does it mean?' The wider problem of anti-Semitism and xenophobia emanates from German fears of unemployment, economic problems, and the perceptions that foreigners are exploiting the welfare state and that Germany's pride and identity are melting away in a world of increased globalization. In a poll published last month, 22 percent of respondents said Jews have too much influence on society; 17 percent said they are partly responsible for anti-Semitism; and 52 percent said they take advantage of Germany's guilt over World War II ... During a recent ceremony naming a Berlin street in honor of Jews, a small crowd began chanting, 'Jews, go home!' Hate mail to prominent Jews is on the rise, according to Jewish groups. Calling it a 'document of hate,' the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper refused to publish excerpts of Martin Walser's popular German novel, 'Death of a Critic,' in which a writer fantasizes about the demise of his Jewish archrival. 'There are no thresholds of restraint anymore,' Wolfgang Benz, a scholar on anti-Semitism, wrote recently in Berliner Zeitung newspaper. Many Germans are 'reaching into the box of prejudice. ... People used to privately degrade Jews in the back rooms of pubs. Today, they defame them in public, with no inhibitions.'"

Manufacturing Anti-Semites,
by Uri Avnery, Tikkun, November-December 2002
"The first Israeli victim of Saddam Hussein is a Zionist myth on which we were brought up. The myth tells us that Israel is a haven for all the Jews in the world. In all the other countries, we are told, Jews live in perpetual fear that a cruel persecutor will arise, as happened in Germany. Israel is the safe haven, to which Jews can escape in times of danger. Indeed, this was the purpose of Israel's founding fathers when they established the state. Now Saddam comes along and proves the opposite. All over the world, Jews live in safety; they are threatened by annihilation in only one place on the planet: Israel. Here national parks are being prepared for use as mass graves, here (pathetic) measures against biological and chemical weapons are being prepared. Many people are already planning to escape to the communities in the Diaspora. End of a myth. Another Zionist myth died even before that: The Diaspora, so we learned in our youth, creates anti-Semitism. Everywhere the Jews are a minority, and a minority inevitably attracts the hatred of the majority. Only when the Jews gather in the land of their forefathers and constitute the majority there, we learned, will anti-Semitism disappear throughout the world. Thus spoke Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism. Nowadays this myth, too, is giving up its blessed soul. Whatever good the existence of the State of Israel may or may not have done, the current government of Israel is quickly undoing. The Sharon government is a giant laboratory for the growing of the anti-Semitism virus. It exports it to the whole world. Anti-Semitic organizations, which for many years vegetated on the margins of society, rejected and despised, are suddenly growing and flowering. Anti-Semitism, which had hidden itself in shame since World War II, is now riding on a great wave of opposition to Sharon's policy of oppression. Sharon's propaganda agents are pouring oil on the flames by accusing all critics of his policy of being anti-Semites. Many good people, who feel no hatred at all towards the Jews but who detest the persecution of Palestinians, are now called anti-Semites. Thus the sting is taken out of this word, giving it something approaching respectability. The practical upshot: not only is the State of Israel not protecting Jews from anti-Semitism, but—on the contrary—its government is manufacturing and exporting the anti-Semitism that threatens Jews around the world."

Ex-FSIN chief praises Hitler in speech
The StarPhoenix, December 14, 2002
[Note: the StarPhoenix is owned by Jewish/Zionist activist media mogul Izzy Asper; this article is also highlighted here, in his paper, the Leader-Post, in Regina, Saskatchewan, which Asper also owns]
"A respected Saskatchewan Indian leader said Friday Hitler did the right thing when he 'fried' six million Jews during the Second World War. In comments one local Jewish leader described as unfortunate, David Ahenakew, a senator with the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN), a former chief of the organization and a former chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), said in an interview Friday the Nazi leader was trying to clean up the world during the war. 'The Jews damn near owned all of Germany prior to the war,' Ahenakew said. 'That's how Hitler came in. He was going to make damn sure that the Jews didn't take over Germany or Europe. That's why he fried six million of those guys, you know. Jews would have owned the goddamned world. And look what they're doing. They're killing people in Arab countries' ... When asked how he could justify the Holocaust, Ahenakew said: 'How do you get rid of a disease like that, that's going to take over, that's going to dominate?" Ahenakew said when he served in Egypt in 1964. he saw Jews kill people. When asked for details, he said mines planted by the Israeli army killed civilians. 'All I know is what the Germans told me. Of course, I believe them. I saw the Jews kill people in Egypt when I was there. The Palestinians, Arabs. I saw them (Israel) f---ing dominate everything ... I don't support Hitler. But he cleaned up a hell of a lot of things, didn't he? You would be owned by the Jews right now the world over. Look, a small, little country (Israel) like that and everyone supports them. Who the hell owns many of the banks in the states, many of the corporations? Look at here in Canada. Izzy Asper (chair of CanWest Global, the owner of The StarPhoenix). He controls the media. What the hell does that tell you? That's power. That's f---ing power.' Ahenakew, who was FSIN chief from 1968-78 and AFN chief from 1982-85, grew impatient when told non-Jews own media companies, as well. 'The hell with the Jews. I can't stand them. And that's it. I don't want to talk about them.'"

Native leader under fire for applauding Hitler,
Globe and Mail (Toronot), December 16, 2002
"A prominent Jewish group in Canada is calling for a hate-crimes investigation after a former national native chief publicly applauded Adolf Hitler for the six millions Jews "fried" in the Holocaust. Keith Landy, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, suggested the Saskatchewan government should consider criminal charges against David Ahenakew, a former leader of the Assembly of First Nations, the country's most prominent native organization. 'There's no doubt that the police should be looking into this,' Mr. Landy said. 'These statements cannot be made with impunity.' In an interview with a Saskatchewan journalist after a public speech before a provincial native group, Mr. Ahenakew was quoted as saying that the genocide Hitler ordered against Jews and other ethnic groups was an attempt to 'clean up the world.' 'That's how Hitler came in,' he told the Saskatoon Star Phoenix [see article below]. 'He was going to make damn sure that the Jews didn't take over Germany and Europe. That's why he fried six million of those guys, you know. Jews would have owned the goddamned world. And look what they're doing. They're killing people in Arab countries' ... Asked by a reporter to clarify his statement, he said he agreed with the Germans, and in reference to the Holocaust, responded, 'How do you get rid of a disease like that, that's going to take over, that's going to dominate?' When it was pointed out to him that the Nazis had committed genocide, he said: 'I don't support Hitler. But he cleaned up a hell of a lot of things, didn't he? You would be owned by Jews right now the world over' ... Native leaders have made efforts to distance themselves from his comments ... . 'We respect David,' [the chief of the Saskatchewan native organization, Perry] Bellegarde said Sunday. 'But his views on the Holocaust are his own personal views. His language and train of thought must have gotten off track. We don't try to push people apart and burn bridges.' Mr. Bellegarde said he plans to send letters of apology to Canada's Jewish organizations ... A criminal charge under the country's hate laws would require the consent of Saskatchewan's Attorney-General. The offence, defined as advocating and promoting genocide, carried a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Mr. Landy said his group will review the process for filing a complaint and gather input from other Jewish representatives in Saskatchewan. 'One has to question what is the motivation and how deeply held are these views,' said Mr. Landy, who wants to hear from the native community. 'This is the time for good people to speak up."

Hate-speak: an aboriginal's rant,
Globe and Mail (Canada), December 17, 2002
"Evidently, no one turned a hair when David Ahenakew launched his rant against the Jews last Friday. After all, he rants all the time ... Now that the garbage has hit the fan, the native higher-ups have turned tougher on Mr. Ahenakew. Still, you've got to ask yourself: Why don't people who describe themselves as oppressed minorities identify with the most oppressed minority in history? How come so many oppressed minorities are inclined to demonize Jews, instead?" [This web site answers these questions, at length.  Jews as "the most oppressed minority in history" is absolute nonsense.]

Germans have disturbing attitudes toward Jews, according to new poll,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Dec. 17, 2002
"Negative attitudes toward Jews are widespread in German society today, according to a new survey. Among other results, the American Jewish Committee poll found that 52 percent of Germans believe Jews are exploiting the memory of the Holocaust for their own purposes. The AJCommittee’s executive director, David Harris, called this the 'most disturbing result' in the survey, the third such poll conducted since German unification in 1990 ... The poll found that 60 percent of Germans acknowledge that anti-Semitism is a problem in their country, and 35 percent say the problem is increasing — facts that 'bear watching,' Harris said ... In the talks Monday with Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and Interior Minister Otto Schily, concern about anti-Semitism, as well as Germany’s relations with Israel and the United States, were high on the agenda, said Harris, who described the meetings as 'positive.' German-Israel relations continue to be strong, he said, despite current political debate about German military sales to the Jewish state. 'We can count on Germany being there for Israel. We heard many expressions of understanding and support for Israel’s dangerous situation,' Harris said .. Among [the survey's] other findings: • 40 percent said Jews exert too much influence on world events, and 20 percent said they have 'too much influence' in Germany; • 35 percent of Germans believe Jews 'are motivated by feelings of revenge' more than other groups; • 59 percent agreed with the statement, 'Many people in Germany are afraid to express their true feelings about Jews' ... In November, Bielefeld University released a study of 3,000 Germans indicating that increasing numbers of them sympathize with 'law and order,' xenophobic, anti-Semitic and anti-Islam politics. According to that study, 22 percent agreed without reservation that 'Many Jews try to take advantage today of the history of the Third Reich, and the Germans pay for this.' In all, as many as 80 percent agreed to some degree with the statement."

Return of `the oldest hatred',
Ha'aretz (Israel), December 18, 2002
"Six months after a wave of anti-Semitism incidents around the world, Jewish and international organizations are releasing reports that caution that the phenomenon is not only continuing, but also taking root in Western countries. Although it may sound strange to use the words 'taking root' in reference to anti-Semitism, which recently was described as 'the oldest hatred' - this year, a new paradox emerged. While at the beginning of 2002 the intifada and Israel's actions in the territories were the immediate reason behind anti-Semitic acts - mostly carried out by Muslims in Europe - as 2003 approaches, there is an emerging trend among the local radical right and neo-Nazis to translate this anti-Semitism into anti-Israel attacks. They have been joined in this effort by left-wing academic circles ... The problematic link between anti-Semitism and the conflict in the Middle East worries others besides the Chabad representatives in Brussels. In November, Jewish leaders from 40 countries met in Prague to discuss rising anti-Semitism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the demonization of Israel and Holocaust denial ... The Helsinki Human Rights Watch group reported that since the outbreak of the intifada, Greek newspapers have published quotes from influential figures in politics, education and culture that indicated 'blatant anti-Semitism.' Greek papers 'were flooded' with caricatures and headlined stories that drew parallels between Israel's actions in the territories and the Holocaust and compared Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Hitler ... German newspapers are still discussing the results of a public opinion poll that found that 22 percent of Germans believe the Jews 'have too much influence' in their country and 17 percent believe that the Jews themselves are to blame, at least partially, for anti-Semitism. At a Zionist Federation conference in Canada in early December, the speakers noted that Jew hatred is being camouflaged as criticism of Israel. Recently, there has also been an increase in the number of references to blood libels and 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,' that imply that via Israel, the Jews are taking over the world. Comments of this sort are also appearing in academic circles ... Bnai Brith's Anti Defamation League last week submitted a ten-point plan for a war against anti-Semitism to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Among the points are a call for member countries to follow the U.S., Germany and France, and to enact laws against racism and anti-Semitism ... In his lecture on anti-Semitism in Canada, Prof. Frederic Krantz, the director of the Canadian Institute of Jewish Studies noted ironically that: 'once it was thought that the establishment of a Jewish state would put an end to anti-Semitism. But things did not develop according to the expectations.'"

Universities deny they spawn hatred Ad: Jews intimidated,
by Michael Higgins, National Post (Canada), December 18, 2002
"Canadian universities said a newspaper advertisement portraying them as hotbeds of Jewish intolerance was unfair and asserted no evidence exists of large-scale anti-Semitism on campuses. The ad stated an increasing number of Jewish students are being intimidated into remaining silent during discussions about the Middle East, sending a 'chill' over Canadian universities. 'The struggle between Israelis and Palestinians has created an atmosphere of intolerance that is pervasive and frightening for many students, especially Jews,' said the ad placed by the activist group Solidarity with Jews at Risk and supported by more than 100 famous and respected Canadians. However, universities rejected the allegations ... Robert Kerr, the vice-president (academic) at the University of Manitoba, said the ad paints an unfair picture of Canadian universities ... Solidarity with Jews at Risk is a group formed this year by Anna Morgan, a journalist with the Canadian Jewish News, Geraldine Sherman, a writer, and Rachael Turkienicz, a professor of education at York University. The ad was supported by Canadians from all walks of life, including Irving Abella, a York University professor and former Canadian Jewish Congress president; Margaret Atwood, an author; Professor David Bercuson of the University of Calgary; Alex Colville, an artist; June Callwood, a writer and activist; Edward Greenspan, a lawyer; David Mirvish, the theatre producer; Arlene Perly Rae, a reviewer of children's literature and the wife of former Ontario premier Bob Rae; Heather Reisman, Indigo chief executive; her husband Gerald Schwartz, chief executive of Onex Corp.; and Moses Znaimer, head of Citytv." [NOTE: THESE PEOPLE ARE, OF COURSE, ALMOST ALL JEWISH]

Jews and Judaism in Rev. Moon's Divine Principle. A Report by A. James Rudin, Assistant Director, Interreligious Affairs Department, The American Jewish Committee, 1976
Freedom of Mind
"... THE PERIL OF REV. MOON (by RABBI MARC H. TANENBAUM) There are several levels of significance implied for the American people, and, especially for the Jewish community, in this study of the basic text of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's movement -- the first systematic study, to our knowledge, that has been published of the 'sacred scriptures' of Moonism. The first is that Rev. Moon is contributing to a theologically reactionary mentality whose traditional fixations on anti-Semitism have been repudiated in recent decades by virtually every major Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, and Evangelical group and leader -- from Vatican Council II, the World and National Council of Churches, to Dr. Billy Graham and the Southern Baptist Convention. At a time when the majority of enlightened Christian leadership throughout the world is laboring to uproot the sources of the pathology of anti-Jewish hatred which culminated in the Nazi holocaust, Rev. Moon appears to be embarked on a contrary course of seeking to reinfect the spiritual bloodstream of mankind with his cancerous version of contempt for Jews and Judaism. On this level. therefore, this document is published as a clinical diagnosis intended to expose the Moon infection in order that both Christian and Jewish leadership will be vigilant to the need for combatting any effort of Rev. Moon and his followers to enter the mainstream of American religion and culture with his horrendous baggage of bigotry ... The troubling question cannot be evaded: why are Rev. Moon and his political backers resorting to the Nazi model of exploiting anti-Semitism for ideological purposes? Every American Congressman, Senator and public official who is approached by the Moon movement ought to be alert to this ideological land-mine of fanatic hatred when courted for support by Rev. Moon and his backers. And finally, this document is intended for the consciences of Jewish young people who, most incredibly, have been enticed or seduced to become a 'Moonie.' It has been estimated that nearly thirty percent of the Moonies today are Jewish young men and women who have been subjected to this latest form of totalitarian brainwashing."

Calling Korkor anti-Semitic a misuse of label,
by Jesse Abrams-Morley, Daily Northwestern, October 24, 2002
"Two weeks ago, Bassel Korkor suggested that U.S. and Israeli policies may be encouraging rather than preventing terrorism in the Arab world. That was not anti-Semitism. Korkor's opinions, although debatable, did not hurt anyone. But apparently Kellogg Profs. Stuart Meyer and Allan Drebin thought differently. In their Oct. 14 column, the pair wrote, 'The president of Harvard University recently pointed out that columns like Korkor's occur on campuses for less-than-laudable reasons.' The statement was a reference to Harvard President Lawrence Summers' Sept. 17 speech on the rise in anti-Semitism on American college campuses. Rather than directly accusing Korkor of anti-Semitism, Meyer and Drebin insinuated it by referring to the speech. Such a dirty attack should be above any person, let alone a university professor. If Meyer and Drebin had any sense of decency, they would issue a public apology. But beyond the sheer gall these men displayed, there are deeper, more troubling aspects to their accusation ... It should make you think twice before throwing words like anti-Semitism around blindly. The professors' attack also showed too many people think of the terms 'Israeli' and 'Jew' as synonymous. Korkor never criticized Jewish people in his column. He criticized the U.S. government and, to a lesser extent, the Israeli government ... I would like to see a day when there is no anti-Semitism. But absent that, I'd like to see a day when people no longer use charges of anti-Semitism as weapons. There's enough hatred in the world already without us inventing more."

WIESENTHAL CENTER URGES JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST SENIOR OFFICIAL WHO UTTERED ANTI-JEWISH SLUR, Simon Wiesenthal Center, November 7, 2002
"The Simon Wiesenthal Center urged Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to take significant action against Vice Minister of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Yoshio Kimura, who referred to 'money-grubbing ghoulish Jews' while discussing important social and economic issues earlier this week. In his letter to the Japanese Prime Minister, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Wiesenthal Center's associate dean stated that, 'this official (Mr. Kimura) has succeeded in insulting and endangering Jews the world over.' 'Even more devastating,' Cooper continued, 'is that the vice minister's false arguments and horrific imagery parallels the very hate that motivates terrorists and suicide bombers who murder Jews and attacked Jewish institutions on three continents. Unless appropriate action is taken these terrorists and bomb makers will believe they have found new friends and allies in Japan,' he added."

The Mother of All Anti-Jew Sites. Islamic info source boasts thousands of pages in battle against 'Zionists',
World Net Daily, May 27, 2002
"Despite the prominent display of the words 'No hate, no violence,' an anti-Jewish website provides plenty of opportunities – in several different languages – to read about the 'evils' of the Jews and how the 'deception' of the Holocaust is being used as a propaganda tool by 'Zionists.' Radio Islam (http://www.radioislam.org) is named for a radio station of the same name in Stockholm, Sweden, begun in 1987, according to the site. The website creators say its goal is to 'combat Jewish racism and the Zionist ideology by information in order to reveal the simple propaganda – lies that Zionists use in order to promote their ideology and political aims – lies which thereby become an instrument of oppression of people. This site is a forum for information about Zionism, Jewish racism, and the so-called 'holocaust' (i.e., about what really did happen to the Jews during the Second World War, as this is one of the main themes of Zionist propaganda)' ... A main theme woven throughout the site is the claim that Jews control the United States. A questionable quote the site attributes to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says: 'We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.' Another page features a list of Jews in the Bush administration, including photos, while still another is titled, 'USA's Rulers: All Are Jews!' ... Although WND has run stories about Islamic websites in the past, none has the sophistication or depth of Radio Islam."

Is anti-Semitism sweeping Canada?,
National Post, January 2, 2003
"Anti-Semitism, warns The Jerusalem Post in last Wednesday's editorial, is on the rise in Canada. Outsiders' views on such a serious subject command attention, and when the commentator is an Israeli newspaper and the evaluation of the situation so grave as it was in the Post, one cannot help but consider the matter carefully. Is there indeed a wave of anti-Semitism in Canada today? The Jerusalem Post is certainly not the first to say so. Canadian Jews are increasingly apprehensive ... 'In Europe,' Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer has claimed, 'it is not very safe to be a Jew. What is odd is not the anti-Semitism of today but its relative absence during the past half-century. That was the historical anomaly. Holocaust shame kept the demon corked. But now the atonement is passed' ... Material is hardly in short supply. From the Middle East engines of classic anti-Semitic propaganda generate incitements -- including The Protocols of the Elders of Zion with its blood-curdling pedigree going back to the Czarist Empire. Anti-globalization campaigners have spawned anti-Semitic fellow travellers, promoting an anti-Jewish vision of the world internationally. Images of the atrocious struggle of Israelis and Palestinians appear instantly, broadcast around the world. How could these not become the grist for any number of political mills?"

SCSU official apologizes after flap over flag,
St. Cloud Star-Tribune, January 7, 2003
"A St. Cloud State vice president apologized after a student political group claimed he violated their First Amendment rights by demanding the removal of an Israeli flag. Nathan Church, vice president for student life and development, said Monday in a letter to the College Republicans that he simply requested they remove the flag on display at Atwood Memorial Center. The flag, which was part of a pro-Israel booth, incited heated debate and a scuffle between a professor and a student. After fielding complaints, Church said he asked the group to remove the flag. The group, which said it was displaying the flag to show support for Israel's right to defend itself, claimed Church was using his position to order them to remove the flag. `I have come to appreciate your feelings that my request was experienced by you, and others at your display, more like a directive than a request,' Church wrote in his letter to the group. 'I, and the University, want to assure you that we vigorously support your rights to freedom of expression' ... The display featured literature prepared and paid for by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, the flag, and a list of terrorism victims in Israel. A professor thought some of the display was anti-Semitic, a sensitive charge at St. Cloud State. The university recently settled a class-action lawsuit alleging anti-Semitism for more than $1.25 million."

If you hate Israel, you hate the Jews,
By Kirk Wisemayer, Daily Journal, January 10, 2002
"What is it that makes people hate Israel so? What is it that makes people hate Jews so? Anyone who is capable of any semblance of truth will admit that if one hates Israel, then one hates the Jews -- and vice versa. Hateful views of Israel are what they are ... anti-Semitism. There is no reason for anyone who is not a Jew-hater to be anti-Israel. Israel is an ally of the United States, a bastion of (and the only) multi-party democracy and human rights in a region replete with various forms of corrupt autocracy and dictatorship and some of the worst human rights abuses in the world. Israel has an independent and fair legal and judicial system, with an appellate system available and well used by all -- especially the Palestinians. Israel is a pluralistic society that guarantees freedom of worship to people of all religions -- yes, even the Palestinians. Anyone who can paint Israel as the villain of the Intifada can only be a Jew-hater. It is the Palestinians who teach in their schools to hate and kill Jews." [Kirk Wisemayer is executive director of the Jewish Federation of Cumberland County. His column runs every other Friday]

Jews in France Fearful of Attacks,
The Washington Post, Jan 11, 2003
"Jewish parents tell their sons not to wear yarmulkes. A rabbi is stabbed. Elderly women are frisked before entering synagogues – just in case. As the stresses of being Jewish in France multiply, some feel it safer to hide their religion. Others have decided the only solution is to pack up and leave – more than twice as many as a year earlier, according to statistics released last week by the Jewish Agency. The agency, which arranges immigration to Israel, said 2,326 of France's 600,000 Jews left. They were 6.7 percent of the total reaching Israel in 2002, the highest rate since 1972. At that time French Jews flocked there full of pride at Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War. Today, their reasons are different. In synagogues and at Jewish gatherings, people say they are frightened by a rise in anti-Semitic incidents. Though the government has loudly condemned the attacks, many wonder if France's leaders are committed to fighting anti-Semitism. 'In Israel, at least we know the government is on our side,' said Stephanie Ohana, a 34-year-old Parisian Jew, at a prayer service this week for her rabbi, who was stabbed. 'It's paradoxical, isn't it? But we have the feeling we'd be safer in Israel.'"

[Jews worry that the protective walls they've built around their exploitive ethnocentrism is about to burst. The talking head below will never get it. Mainstream Jewish support of the endless atrocities and injustices of Israel and the stigmatizing of protest of Israel as also "anti-Semitism" GUARANTEES further "anti-Semitism." ]
Study: Dems more anti-Semitic than GOPers. Survey finds bias against Jews greater among young, World New Daily, January 15, 2003
"A new study finds Democrats are more anti-Semitic than Republicans. The Institute for Jewish & Community Research, which conducted an authoritative public opinion survey on the topic of anti-Semitic beliefs, also reveals the young are more likely to be anti-Jewish than those over 35. 'In the wake of the Holocaust, social norms in the United States and elsewhere in the world were more prohibitive of most overt expressions of anti-Semitism,' said Gary Tobin, president of the institute. 'The constraints against anti-Semitism are weakening, and the rise in anti-Semitic beliefs is part of that trend.' The survey, entitled, 'Anti-Semitic Beliefs in the United States,' by Tobin and Sid Groeneman, also asked some other timely questions, and yielded some surprising results: Nearly one-third of Americans (32 percent) were concerned that a Jewish president might not act in America's best interests if they conflict with Israel's. This belief recalls the 'dual loyalties' stigma sometimes applied to American Jews – that Jewish Americans are at least equally swayed by Israel's interests as by what is best for America. Democrats tend to be more anti-Semitic than Republicans. For example, Republicans are less likely to view Jews as caring only about themselves (12 percent) than Democrats or independents (20 percent each). This finding may come as a surprise to many Jews, who are much more heavily aligned with the Democratic Party. Thirty-seven percent of Americans agree that Jews were responsible for killing Jesus Christ. Historically the Christ-killing charge has served as an ideological basis of anti-Semitism. Moreover, the analysis shows that those holding the view that Jews killed Jesus Christ are more likely to accept other anti-Jewish stereotypes, see Jews as different from themselves, and also see Jews as a moral threat to America. In addition, the survey asked respondents about their beliefs regarding: Jewish "control of the media" Jewish lawyers Holocaust denial Jewish "influence on Wall Street" The data from the survey also revealed a connection between anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism. 'Much of anti-Israelism is thinly veiled anti-Semitism – anti-Semitism in disguise,' said Tobin."

[Why not just chisel it into a marble slab at the entrance to campus?: Jews are Beyond Criticism.]
CU announces action plan against bigotry,
9 News (Denver), January 18, 2003
"The University of Colorado's president says bigotry is a troubling issue facing college campuses. President Elizabeth Hoffman released a statement and an action plan against bigotry Friday. Her actions come after recent acts of anti- Semitism on the CU Boulder campus. 'The University of Colorado stands firm on the fundamental importance of human dignity and denounces those engaging in acts of racism, sexism, homophobia, bigotry, anti-Semitism or culturally intolerant behavior,' Hoffman’s statement reads. She also released an action plan including adding 'ethnic intimidation' to the student code of conduct. The Anti Defamation League and Hillel Council of Colorado call her actions an 'important first step.'"

Poll indicates anti-Semitism on rise among young Americans,
Omaha.com (from the Washington Post), January 21, 2003
"Anti-Semitism may be increasing in the United States as more young adults express bigoted views about Jews than do middle-aged Americans, according to a national poll by the Institute for Jewish and Community Research in San Francisco. On question after question, researchers found that the proportion of Americans ages 18 to 35 who held anti-Semitic views was consistently higher than the percentage of middle-aged Americans who shared those attitudes. For example, nearly one in four young adults - 23 percent - agreed with the statement that Jews were a 'threat' to the country's 'moral character,' a view shared by 15 percent of Americans between ages 45 and 54. And 20 percent of young adults agreed that Jews 'care only about themselves,' compared with 12 percent of middle-aged Americans. Gary Tobin, president of the group that commissioned the survey, suggested that the disquieting results may reflect "'he blurring of anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism on college campuses' and that 'the social norms against anti-Semitism that took root following the Holocaust have worn off.'"

French Jewry stunned by allegations that rabbi faked stabbing,
by Daniel Ben Simon, Ha'aretz (Israel), January 24, 2003
"The French Jewish community is in an uproar over allegations that Reform Rabbi Gabriel Farhi, who was stabbed on January 3, may in fact have faked the stabbing. The allegations surfaced in a report this week by the right-wing weekly Marianne, which was then picked up by Le Figaro. The journal reported that police officers investigating the stabbing said it is not clear whether Farhi was actually stabbed by an unknown assailant, and they are not ruling out the possibility that Farhi in fact stabbed himself. The report stunned French Jewry, which for the past two years has been vociferously protesting law enforcement agencies' failure to take effective action against the hundreds of anti-Semitic attacks the community has suffered. 'You can imagine what a destructive effect this affair could have on the Jewish community,' said one community leader, who asked to remain anonymous. 'For two years we have been screaming about the attacks against us and the rise of anti-Semitism in France. If, God forbid, it turns out that the stabbing was staged, not just Rabbi Farhi is in trouble, all the Jews are in trouble. Who will take us seriously? And that is without even mentioning the enormous shame caused by the thought that four former prime ministers took the trouble to support the rabbi and the Jewish community. What will we do now? Apologize to them?' The Reform community is backing Farhi fully. When its executive board met Monday night to elect a new president, all 18 members made a point of shaking Farhi's hand and offering their support ... A few days later, the doctor who examined Farhi submitted a report to the police in which he wrote that 'the wound does not match the rabbi's version of the assault.'"

[The Anti-Defamation is a corrupt, pro-Israel, pro-war, Thought Police organization that seeks to view all political events on the planet through a prism of "anti-Semitism."]
Anti-Israel Protest Calendar,
Anti-Defamation League, updated: January 28, 2003
"The prospect of war against Iraq and the crisis in the Middle East have led to a continuation of large rallies against Israel across the United States in 2003. As in 2002, anti-globalization, antiwar and Muslim and Arab-American groups and supporters have increasingly coalesced against Israel's treatment of Palestinians and the American government's policies in the Middle East. While ADL does not consider mere criticism of Israel to be anti-Semitic or illegitimate, large rallies opposing the Jewish state - spurred by events in the Middle East - repeatedly serve as forums supporting violence and terrorist organizations, and have been marred by anti-Semitic expression. In attempting to de-legitimize Israel and challenge its right to exist, members of organizations that publicly repudiate bigotry against Jews - as do most of those named below - tolerate or initiate at their events a grotesque inversion of history equating Zionism with Nazism."

["Antisemitism" defined now as "terrorism?"]
FBI sees recent crime as terrorism,
Las Vegas Sun, January 30, 2003
"The FBI has classified recent vandalism associated with swastika and racist graffiti in Las Vegas as terrorism, and agents are worried that it may be a harbinger of violence if local white supremacist groups are left unchecked. This week, the FBI opened a civil rights investigation into racist and anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed on a wall and a truck at a southwest Las Vegas business. On Jan. 21, two signs with white supremacist messages were posted along Interstate 215 at Tropicana Avenue and Sunset Road with a website address and a phone number for the local chapter of a large, national racist group. Racist fliers have been popping up on cars at shopping centers and at concert venues throughout the valley. 'What we're seeing in the area are groups of white supremacists who are trying to organize and get publicity; they're beginning to recruit,' said Special Agent Daron Borst of the FBI's Las Vegas office. 'These groups are classified as terrorist groups because they are attempting to change social opinions through force or threat of force. We consider this to be a precursor to crimes of violence, and it has the potential to be dangerous' ... Allen Lichtenstein, general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, said that while vandalism is illegal, racist speech is permitted under the First Amendment. 'As much as we do deplore hateful and racist messages, that speech is protected, but the mode of speech isn't,' he said."

[The Jewish notion of a "brown-left" alliance (i.e., the political Right and Left) against Jews and Israel entails the full political spectrum. In other words, organized Jewry fears EVERYONE because ALL in Jewish eyes are "antisemites."]
French Jewish leader stirs anger with talk of anti-Semitic alliance By Philip Carmel,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, January 30, 2003
"French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Rafarrin and leaders from across the political spectrum were enjoying last week what has traditionally been one of the more agreeable consensual events of the calendar. But then CRIF President Roger Cukierman spoke about a new alliance threatening France’s 500,000 Jews, linking neo-Nazis, environmentalists and left-wing groups. Speaking of a 'brown-green-red alliance,' Cukierman warned of the danger faced by Jews from the alliance, which he described as 'anti-globalization, anti-capitalist, anti-American and anti-Zionist.' Moreover, when he referred to — though did not mention by name — the spokesperson for France’s peasant farmers and international anti-globalization activist José Bové as being a leading light in such an alliance, the national secretary of the Green Party, Gilles Lemaire, promptly stood up from his table and left the dinner. Bové, together with other pro-Palestinian activists, broke through Israeli army barricades last year to stand alongside Yasser Arafat during the army’s siege of the Palestinian leader’s headquarters in Ramallah ... 'This brown-green-red alliance gives us the shivers,' Cukierman added. This comment particularly enraged the Greens. The atmosphere was not helped the following day by a report in the daily Liberation newspaper which capitalized the word 'Verts' — French for Greens — thereby implying that Cukierman was referring specifically to the political party ... The Greens, though, were not alone in condemning Cukierman’s remarks — which France’s Socialist Party described as 'excessive.' The Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist League, which Cukierman specifically named in his speech and which received around 5 percent of the vote in last year’s presidential election, called the remarks 'intellectual terrorism that hides state terrorism.' However, Cukierman’s views are widely held in the Jewish community, which believes that the left has not done enough to deal with anti-Semitism. Leading Jewish intellectual Alain Finkielkraut wrote recently that anti-Semitic discourse was taking root in the anti-globalization movement and within left-wing intellectual circles"

[So how come the U.S., like a puppet, must always come to the aid of Jewish tribalism? How come the U.S. is even understood by so much of the world community as an expression of Jewish tribalism? The Jewish Lobby uses America as a shield, a tool, a beast of burden, to protect Judaic ethnocentric interests.]
Backlash Vs. Jews Seen In Iraq War. U.S. wants European capitals to do more to thwart possible anti-Semitic surge,
Jewish Week, January 31, 2003
"Even as it prepares for a possible war with Iraq, the Bush administration is working urgently to avert what it believes could be a widespread anti-Semitic backlash in Europe triggered by a confrontation with Saddam Hussein. European Jewish communities that already have been hard hit by waves of new anti-Semitic incitement and violence could be early targets of an anti-Israel, anti-American backlash, administration officials have told Jewish leaders. 'Going into Iraq will likely produce an anti-American backlash on the streets of Europe, and the Jews are likely to bear the brunt of it,' said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. In recent weeks the State Department has used a variety of diplomatic channels to send the same message: European leaders have to do much more to prepare for and thwart the expected anti-Semitic surge. But the results of those official efforts have been mixed, at best, according to Washington insiders, in part because the expected anti-Semitism surge will be closely linked to a fierce anti-American backlash that may have the quiet acquiescence, if not outright encouragement, of European governments. In recent meetings with leaders of the World Jewish Congress, top administration officials indicated that they independently raised the specter of a rising tide of anti-Semitism stemming from a possible Iraq war with their European counterparts and urged them to develop pre-emptive plans, said Avi Beker, secretary general of the World Jewish Congress ... 'There are extremists here who will try to portray the war as all Israel’s doing, and we have to concerned about the growing anti-Israel energy coming out of the anti-war movement,' said one community relations activist. 'But it will probably be confined to the fringes. Under most scenarios, there’s no real fear of widespread anti-Semitism.' If the war proves difficult and costly, however, that calculus could change. Already the nascent anti-war movement here is steeped in vehement anti-Israel ideology. 'It’s a dangerous mix,' this source said. 'We have a bad economy, a war that could go bad and an anti-war movement that seems willing to tolerate real anti-Semitic expressions. So we’d be fools not to take seriously the possibility of a backlash here."

[The Commisioner of Major League Baseball, Bud Selig, is also Jewish, as are the Commissioners of major league football (Tagliabue), hockey (Bettman), and basketball (Stern)]
Froemming suspended 10 games, pulled from Japan trip,
Sports Illustrated, January 31, 2003 2003
"Longtime umpire Bruce Froemming has been suspended for 10 days and has lost his Opening Day assignment in Tokyo for using an anti-Semitic slur to describe a major league baseball administrator, sources said. USA Today reported Friday that Froemming had been pulled from the Japan trip and was expected to be suspended for the slur in a conversation about umpiring administrator Cathy Davis. The newspaper said Froemming called Davis a 'stupid Jew bitch.' Two baseball management sources, speaking on the condition they not be identified, told The Associated Press late Thursday night that Froemming was suspended for 10 days without pay. At 63, Froemming is baseball's most senior umpire. He was to start off his 33rd major league season by working the two-game, opening series between the Oakland Athletics and Seattle Mariners in Tokyo on March 25-26."

The Obsession,
by Joe Sobran, Sobrans, February 1, 2003
"We have been getting 24/7 coverage of Jews, the Holocaust, and Israel for years now. The front pages, the evening news, the magazine covers devote so much attention to Israel -- a country the size of New Jersey on the other side of the world -- that you could get the impression that it spans several time zones and includes much of the world's population (plus a few gentiles) ... Every American president has to spend a disproportionate amount of his time coddling Israel and denouncing or actively fighting Israel's enemies. It's become part of the job description, as much as if it were written into the Constitution -- or more so, since constitutional obligations have become optional and 'this' obligation is definitely not. At the same time, no president or any other politician may suggest that the American-Israeli alliance imposes undue risks, costs, or burdens on the United Stat es. Journalism still devotes so much attention to the Holocaust that, as I once quipped, 'The NEW YORK TIMES should be renamed HOLOCAUST UPDATE.' Books and movies about it continue to pour forth; bookstores have whole sections on the Holocaust, and universities consecrate entire departments to 'Holocaust studies' ... Many gentiles live in dread of being labeled anti-Semitic, a charge against which there is no real defense or appeal: to be accused is to be guilty. The burden of proof, as I've often pointed out, is on the defendant -- and a difficult burden it is, since he hardly knows what he's being accused of. How can you prove your innocence of an undefined crime? By the same token, there is no penalty for false charges of anti-Semitism, since a meaningless charge can't be proved false anyway. No gentile is quite safe from the charge. The Gospels, Catholicism, and the papacy have been indicted; so have Chaucer, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Edmund Burke, Dickens, Henry James, Henry Adams, Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Hemingway. (So far Jane Austen and Emily D ickinson seem to have escaped the accusation.) Then there are whole anti-Semitic nations, among them Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Germany, France, and Spain, lately joined by most of the Arab nations (thereby proving it is possible to be Semitic and anti-Semitic at the same time). Billy Graham was recently roasted for anti-Semitism when it transpired that he'd made a few disparaging comments about Jews in the media during what he'd thought were private conversations with President Richard Nixon '30 years ago!' Perish the thought that there might have been a grain of truth in what he'd said; Graham dutifully groveled, then, when Jewish groups indignantly complained that this was not enough, he groveled again. A few years back, even that Hollywood icon Marlon Brando had to do a tearfully groveling retraction of some mildly critical comments about Jews in Hollywood. And they wonder why I'm obsessed ... Despite various warnings and pressures -- veiled threats, really -- I wasn't about to back down or retract anything ... But if I wanted to thrive in journalism, I was expected to put Jewish interests ahead of everything, or at least keep quiet. As I told Bill Buckley at the time, the Jewish- Zionist interest amounted to an unacknowledged third party in American politics. Though it had been traditionally liberal, it had sprouted a 'neoconservative' wing since 1967. In truth, the neoconservatives were hardly conservative at all. For most of them, Israel was everything and overrode all other issues. You could agree with them on nine out of ten issues, but if the tenth was Israel the other nine didn't matter to them. You were the enemy. You couldn't really feel the power of the Jewish Party until you ran up against it. ... The plague-carriers, so to speak, are the secularized, liberal, middlebrow Jews whose vulgarity sets the tone for American politics, public discourse, and popular culture. Some of them, like Steven Spielberg and Barbra Streisand, have real talent, of sorts; most of them are good at making money and aggressive in using it for their pet causes. Above all, they have a low genius for propaganda -- for shaping the popular mind and its characteristic platitudes. This is the prevalent body of Jews, our unacknowledged third party -- the party of Zionism, Holocaust promotion, secularism, sexual license (including 'gay rights' and legal abortion), and an aggressive U.S. foreign policy (in the interests of Israel, not the United States itself). The Jewish Party, only a small fraction of the U.S. population, donates more than half the money received by the presidential candidates of the two major parties. It also dominates the major news and entertainment media. The Jewish Party's inordinate power, though unmentionable in the major media, explains why gentiles, especially the ambitious, dread the label of 'anti- Semitism.'"

The more Jewish, the more vulnerable,
By Steven M. Cohen, Ha'aretz (Israel), February 2, 2003
"Alarmed by the growing specter of terrorism abroad and at home, American Jews report feeling high levels of anxiety and fear of further attacks - on their nation, their community and themselves. The September 11 attacks, ongoing violence in Israel and reports of anti-Semitic threats worldwide have combined to create a widespread feeling of vulnerability as Americans and as Jews, according to a survey conducted in November and December. Terrorism, moreover, is changing many Jews' definition of anti-Semitism. Jews are shifting their primary focus of attention from the domestic social groups that once stirred their anxiety to newer groups, including Muslims, that have become identified with the terrorist threat. For growing numbers of Jews, the threat of anti-Semitism has shifted from social discrimination to anti-Israel hostility ... When asked, 'How much anti-Semitism do you think there is in the United States today?', 34 percent answered 'a great deal' and 53 percent answered 'a moderate amount ... [T]he survey pointed to a new source of anxiety: 'anti-Israelism,' clearly perceived by Jews as a form of anti-Semitism. Almost half (47 percent) believe that many or most 'journalists who criticize Israeli policies' are anti-Semitic. Even more (59 percent) feel that way about American Muslims. We have no parallel figures from earlier studies. In other words, two groups seen as anti-Israel - groups with which most American Jews have little social contact - now lead the list of perceived anti-Semites, while perceptions of anti-Semitism among other groups are in sharp decline. These trends suggest that American Jews are redefining anti-Semitism. In earlier days it meant exclusion from jobs, housing and universities. Today it means hostility toward Israel ... Respondents were asked whether several American leaders and groups were pro-Palestinian, pro-Israel or even- handed ... Noteworthy were the low pro-Israel perceptions for the Christian right and Fox News, whom Jewish communal leaders have praised both for their pro-Israel views. Clearly, the message of praise has not been adopted by the Jewish rank-and-file."

The Jews and I. Passover Reflections,
by John Derbyshire, National Review, April 10 , 2001
"I also appreciate the opportunity offered by Passover to take out my own thoughts and feelings about the Jews and examine them, an exercise I recommend to all Gentiles, though once a year is probably often enough. I myself grew up among the traditional attitudes of the English lower classes. These were best expressed by the late Kingsley Amis, who was once asked by an interviewer whether he was antisemitic. 'Very, very mildly,' replied Amis. Pressed to elaborate, he offered this: 'Well, when I'm watching the credits roll at the end of a TV program, I say to myself: 'Oh, there's another one.'' That is about the temperature of antisemitism I knew as a child: barely detectable. (I have, of course, already outraged a number of American readers, devotees of the proposition that anyone who makes the merest remark about the Jews that is not absolutely, irreproachably positive, is secretly plotting to massacre them. I acknowledge this with a resigned sigh. One thing you learn, writing for the public, is that anything whatsoever that you say about the Jews will be seen as virulently antisemitic to somebody, somewhere.) ... I was a bit disconcerted some years ago, when some different Jewish friends took me along to a Kol Nidre service, and I discovered that the only reference to England in the prayer book was to the 12th-century pogrom at York. Come on, guys: That was eight hundred years ago. Isn't there a statute of limitations on pogroms? ... I find myself now, in middle age, with complicated and sometimes self-contradictory feelings about the Jews. Those early impressions — culture, wit, intelligence, kindness, and hospitality — are still dominant, and I have read enough to know what a stupendous debt our civilization owes to the Jews. At the same time, there are aspects of distinctly Jewish ways of thinking that I dislike very much. The world-perfecting idealism, for example, that is rooted in the most fundamental premisses of Judaism, has, it seems to me, done great harm in the modern age. That dreadful speech Charlie Chaplin gives at the end of The Great Dictator made me gag instinctively, even before I understood why. I also find the theories of Kevin Macdonald (The Culture of Critique) about the partly malign influence of Jews on modern American culture very persuasive — though this is not an endorsement of Macdonald's theory of 'group evolutionary strategies,' which I do not understand. And like (I suppose) every other Gentile, I have often been irritated by Jewish sensibilities, and occasionally angered by them. For an example of what I mean by that last, recall the Spectator incident of 1994. In October of that year, the London Spectator — a literary and political magazine of impeccable gentility — published an article titled 'Kings of the Deal,' analyzing, in a thoughtful and entirely unthreatening way, the dominance of Jews like Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg in Hollywood. To the amazement of the Spectator's editor (who was Dominic Lawson — a Jew!) this innocuous article caused a storm of outrage in the U.S.A. The young author, William Cash, was denounced from the pulpits of political correctness — that is, from the Op-Ed pages of the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. Prominent American Jews like Leon Wieseltier went into high-hysterical mode, denouncing Cash as the new Julius Streicher and so on. The storm went on for weeks, led by a howling mob of buffoons — Barbra Streisand, for example — who had certainly never read, nor probably even heard of the Spectator up to that point. (I have been reading it for 30 years, and have also written for it.) It was a display of arrogance, cruelty, ignorance, stupidity, and sheer bad manners by rich and powerful people towards a harmless, helpless young writer, and the Jews who whipped up this preposterous storm should all be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. Taken all in all, though, I am proud to call myself a philosemite, and even at low points like the Spectator affair still, at the very least, an anti-antisemite ... What an astounding story theirs is! 'How odd of God, to choose the Jews.'"

A Troubling Upsurge of American Anti-Semitism,
CBN News, February 4, 2003
"For many years, the United States has been a safe haven for Jews, a place where they could practice their religion freely. But a recent upturn of anti-Semitism on university campuses, and throughout America, has left many Jews feeling uneasy and wondering whether America will continue to be a place where they can live free from persecution ... What is happening here reflects an increase in global anti-Semitism that has many, like the Jewish Anti-Defamation League's Robert Leikind, alarmed. 'There's a growing feeling within the Jewish community of being besieged. And there's sort of a sense among people that it feels like the 20's and 30's. I'm not saying it is the 20's and 30's. I'm saying people feel like it is. The world no longer feels like a safe place,' Leikind said. Anti-Semitism shows up as Jewish stereotyping in the Arab media. And in Europe, which has seen a dramatic rise in anti-Semitic activity, hate messages fuel daily acts of violence. In France, home to Europe's largest Muslim and Jewish communities, synagogues have been burned, Nazi and Islamic graffiti scrawled on homes and businesses. And anti-Semitic ideas spread throughout the world more rapidly than ever before through the Internet. Even the old lie that the Holocaust was a hoax has taken on a new life and a new audience. And the rumor that Israel was responsible for the 9/11 attacks spread like wildfire over the Internet ... 17 percent of Americans hold views about Jews that the A.D.L.. calls 'unquestionably anti-Semitic,' while another 35 percent hold views that are somewhat anti-Semitic, suggesting that a 'strong undercurrent of Jewish hatred persists in America.' Negative attitudes toward Israel are triggering the anti-Semitism that is creeping into American society. According to the A.D.L. survey, slightly more than half of Americans, 51 percent, said the U.S. has been tilting too much toward Israel. And 20 percent of Americans surveyed agreed with the statement: 'Jews have too much power in the U.S. today.' Those same negative feelings toward Israel have spilled over onto American college campuses, where anti-Semitism is being fueled by the 'Divestment from Israel' movement. The divestment campaign calls on American universities to stop investing in companies that do business with Israel."

Anti-Semitism now sprouts from the left: professor. Arafat has replaced Castro as radicals' darling, Toronto conference told,
National Post, February 11, 2003
"The true threat of 'the new anti-Semitism' emanates not from right-wing nationalists, but from the left and anti-globalization activism, a University of Toronto conference on anti-Semitism heard yesterday. 'Before the [Second World War], the right rather than the left was the paramount source of hatred and contempt for European Jews,' said Todd Endelman, a professor of modern Jewish history at the University of Michigan. 'This is no longer true. On the right, anti-Semitism no longer functions as a cultural code or a rallying cry, while on the left, it has become entangled with and draws energy from ... anti-Americanism, Third Worldism and the anti-globalization campaign,' Dr. Endelman said. The two-day conference, called Anti-Semitism: The Politicization of Prejudice in the Contemporary World, brings together nearly two dozen academics to probe the roots and scope of anti-Jewish bias and hatred. Yesterday, scholars defined the differences between the old anti-Semitism that was embodied in Nazi Germany and the often more subtle manifestations seen today. Anti-Semitism is again on the rise, said Dr. Endelman. 'There is more hostility to Jews in Western Europe now than there was a decade or two earlier.... Alongside the taunts of hooligans and the ravings of skinheads, expressions of overt hostility have sprouted in the liberal media.' Dr. Endelman offered examples, including the New Statesman, the flagship weekly journal of the British left, which carried the cover headline 'A Kosher Conspiracy?' with artwork that would not have seemed out of place in Nazi Germany, and the Italian daily La Stampa, which carried a cartoon of an Israeli tank attacking Jesus in a manger ... Steven Zipperstein, a professor of Jewish culture and history at Stanford University, said Israel is in danger of being 'written off by much of the left and, perhaps, by [many] liberal opinion-makers in the Western world, as this decade's South Africa,' he said, referring to international opposition to that nation's former apartheid regime. 'In Europe, hundreds of academics, primarily in England, pressed the European Union to cease its dealings with Israeli academics and their institutions as a protest against Israeli policy in the occupied territories,' said Dr. Zipperstein ... There is a clear distinction between thoughtful disagreement with Israeli policies and anti-Semitism, he said. Dr. Endelman suggested the line is crossed when opponents: question the legitimacy of a Jewish state and Jewish nationalism, but no other state or any other nationalism; blame the Arab-Israeli conflict on Jews alone; and when there is an obsessive concern for the 'sins of the Israelis and the plight of the Palestinians' while virtually ignoring other nationalist issues, occupations and human suffering. 'When these lines are crossed, one has left the world of rationale foreign policy debate and plunged into a cesspool of fantasy, obsession, fear and irrationality,' Dr. Endelman said."

[Here's an example of the usual Jewish obsessions with finding "anti-Semitism" in everything and the subsequent Judeo-centric subversion of the political Left. The anti-war movement, in Jewish eyes, is twisted into a debate about "anti-Semitism." A.N.S.W.E.R's answer to this slander follows the excerpt below.]
'Politics of meaning' guru confronts reality --- and is Left a pariah,
by Sam Schulman, Jewish World Review, February 12, 2003
"In the last few days, a flurry of activity has erupted among the anti-war movement. The pro-Saddam, pro-North Korean, pro-Pol Pot organization behind most of the big anti-war demos, ANSWER, has banned Rabbi Michael Lerner from speaking at the San Francisco demonstration this Sunday. Why? Because he's pro-Israel. Lerner's supporters are rightly incensed about this smear. How can such a man be regarded as pro-Israel? A group of largely Jewish writers, intellectuals, poets and other publicity-seekers argue, furiously, that he cannot be called pro-Israel ... But what's really staggering is the reaction of other Jews and friends of Lerner to this well-deserved snub. About 150 have signed a statement that humbly begs the leaders of the antiwar demonstrations to let Lerner speak. The signers include such Jewish luminaries as Jack Newfield, Professor Howard Zinn, Ariel Dorman, Michael Berube of Penn State, Ariel Dorfman, Katha Pollitt, Eric Alterman, Jon Wiener, Matthew Rothschild, Editor ot The Progressive, Stanley Aronowitz, Bogdan Denitch, Phyllis Cheslerl, Andrew Gumbel, Dr. Aryeh Cohen, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, Terrence McNally, Marge Piercy, Sean Strub, POZ Magazine, and Larry Gross (and please forgive me if I have stigmatized any of these people as Jews if they are not). This petition bravely urges the rally organizers to let this 'Anti-War Rabbi' - as they style him - speak. They want Lerner to address this rally, backing a cause that is fundamentally, unavoidably, and gloriously anti-Semitic."

[Michael Lerner, a liberal Zionist, is the editor of Tikkun magazine and is so self- (and Jewishly) obsessed he was once caught writing "Letters to the Editor" under fake names so he could carry on public conversations with himself.]
FOUR COALITIONS RESPOND TO MICHAEL LERNER,
ANSWER, A.N.S.W.E.R, February 11, 2003
"In the last day, as anti-war forces around the country have been working together to build for this weekend's important mobilizations, we at A.N.S.W.E.R. have been taken by surprise by a campaign initiated by Michael Lerner and furthered by David Corn (a reporter for the Nation and Fox News) and others that has sought to deceive the anti-war movement and to misdirect its energies to instead focus on fraudulent claims of victimhood by Michael Lerner because he was not asked to speak at the San Francisco demonstration this Sunday. This attack has now been picked up by ultra-right, pro-war forces in an effort to defame the movement. We have heard from many who have been anguished by the false claims put forth by Lerner. The following is a statement by the four major anti-war coalitions that are co-sponsoring the San Francisco rally on Sunday, February 16 that sets the record straight. The four coalitions are Not in Our Name Project, United for Peace and Justice, the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, and the Bay Area United Against War. Please post where necessary to clarify Michael Lerner's deceptions -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FEBRUARY 12, 2003 ... We would like to clarify the misunderstanding regarding Rabbi Michael Lerner's perception that he was 'banned' from speaking at the peace rally. His charges are untrue, and we wish to set the record straight. ... One of the first agreements that was made between the groups organizing the Feb. 16 anti-war protest was that none of the coalitions would propose rally speakers who had publicly attacked or worked to discredit one of the coalition groups. When members of the Tikkun Community, who have actively participated in the organizing meetings for Feb. 16, suggested to Bay Area United for Peace and Justice, that it propose Michael Lerner as a speaker, it was explained by members of UFPJ that since he had publicly attacked A.N.S.W.E.R in both the New York Times and Tikkun community e-mail newsletters, his inclusion in the program would violate the agreement among the Feb. 16 organizing groups. It was this issue -- Michael Lerner's public attacks against one of the anti-war coalitions - that resulted in his not being formally proposed as a speaker on Feb. 16; his views on Israel and Palestine had nothing to do with it. Within the anti-war movement, there is a wide spectrum of diverse and opposing views regarding Israel and Palestine, and those views will be heard on Feb. 16. On that day, two rabbis, David Cooper and Pam Frydman-Baugh, both of whose views are similar to those of Michael Lerner, will be speaking. To reiterate, the fact that Michael Lerner was not invited to speak on Feb. 16 was not the consequence of a veto by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition. None of the coalitions have veto power over the Feb. 16 program. We strongly abhor all forms of racism and bigotry, including anti-Semitism. At the same time, we don't believe that criticism of Israeli government policies should be labeled as anti-Semitism any more than criticism of U.S. government policy should be labeled as anti-American."

[Jewish subversion of the Left, and their efforts to censor the Jewish dimensions of the Jewish-inspired, pro-Israel Iraq war.]
Pearce to talk at Sunday's anti-war rally, but Lerner 'blackballed',
Jewish Bulletin of Northern California, February 14, 2003
"Michael Lerner is off the podium at Sunday's anti-war rally, but Rabbi Stephen Pearce is on. The senior rabbi of the largest congregation in Northern California is among the Jewish voices who will speak out against a U.S. invasion of Iraq at the San Francisco rally, which is expected to draw well over 100,000 people. 'I think it's important that someone from the mainstream Jewish community be represented [at the rally] even if I don't agree with all the organizations sponsoring it,' said the spiritual leader of San Francisco's Reform Congregation Emanu-El. 'If the Jewish community doesn't make itself heard on this, it will subject itself to anti-Semitism. We need to show we have a voice in this community by not being absent.' The anti-war rally here is one of many taking place throughout the country, with another major event scheduled in New York. Other Jewish leaders speaking here will include David Cooper, spiritual leader of Berkeley's Kehilla Community Synagogue, and Rabbi Pam Frydman Baugh of San Francisco's Or Shalom Jewish Community ... While highly critical of Lerner, Ernest H. Weiner, executive director of the local chapter of American Jewish Committee, declined to comment on Pearce's appearance at the rally. But he did say that Jews choosing to march should be aware of with whom they are associating. Weiner's gripe is with International ANSWER, (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism), a socialist group aligned with the Workers World Party, which is one of the rally's primary sponsors. Calling it a Marxist, anti-American and often anti-Semitic group, Weiner said attending an ANSWER-sponsored rally only advances its agenda ... Pearce said the Jewish state would only figure into his remarks if he followed a speaker critical of Israel, adding that in his view, the Israeli-Palestinian issue had no place in the dialogue about a war in Iraq. But Cooper said he will definitely talk about Israel, and he was up-front with organizers, telling them he will do so from the perspective of a pro-Israel Jew. 'I will be speaking as a person who loves Israel and fears for Israel's security,' he said ... In a widely circulated e-mail, part of which was printed in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, Lerner wrote: 'It is offensive and outrageous that those of us who wish to protest against what we see as a fundamentally unjust war must be subjected to a barrage of slogans and speeches that are one-sidedly hostile to Israel, as though our opposition to war had suddenly made us champions of Palestinian groups which use terror and violence against Israeli civilians."

[Question: What EXACTLY is this Polish station's "attacks" on Jews? Until we know this, how can we pass fair judgement on the new Catholic TV station, unless criticizing the Jewish community and Israel is -- by definition -- a moral crime. Also note that Cardinal Glemp, who is portrayed below to be in opposition to the new TV station, also came under enormous attack by the international Jewish community a few years ago as an "anti-Semite" during the Carmelite nun controversy near Auschwitz.]
Controversial Polish Catholics enter TV. The group has angered Poland's Catholic Church,
BBC (UK), February 13, 2003
"A controversial Polish Catholic group whose hugely popular radio station has been accused of intolerance and anti-semitism has been awarded a licence to open a television station. The hard-line Catholic Lux Veritatis Foundation, run by Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, says the Tvam satellite channel will mainly broadcast religious programmes but also aims to educate and inform the Polish people. The license was granted despite widespread controversy surrounding Radio Maryja, the station founded by Father Rydzyk shortly after the fall of communism in Poland. The station now claims around five million listeners. Critics say Radio Maryja's mixture of sermons, prayers and hymns is underpinned by a xenophobic message that frequently attacks the European Union and Jews. The head of one political party has accused the station of spreading hatred, intolerance and disrespect for people with differing viewpoints, and it has also come under pressure from Poland's Catholic Church. The country's Primate, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, started moves to close down the station's fund-raising offices in Warsaw last year. BBC Warsaw correspondent Nicholas Walton says the expansion of Father Rydzyk's media empire into television is likely to increase the reach of his message and cause further concern among his many critics. Tvam's license was granted on Thursday by Poland's National Radio and Television Council, and the station is expected to begin broadcasting later this year."

Professor's e-mail raises concerns of intimidation,  
Canadian Jewish News, February 13, 2003
"Trent University student Sara Berniker was astounded when she returned to school after winter vacation to find an e-mail titled 'Jew-baiting' waiting for her in her inbox. The message was sent to the Trent Jewish Students Association (TJSA) list by Prof. Michael Neumann, a Jewish philosophy professor at the university. Neumann was responding to another e-mail sent to the TJSA students the day before by B'nai Brith Canada's national campus co-ordinator, Arieh Rosenblum, about the organization's efforts to highlight possible anti-Israel and anti-Semitic writings and activities on campuses and to respond to them. In his message, Rosenblum expressed concern about an article by Neumann that was, in Rosenblum's opinion, 'anti-Israel and anti-Semitic' in its 'premises, tone and intent,' and asked the students if the professor expressed similar views in his classes. The article Rosenblum was referring to is called 'What is Anti-Semitism?' and was published in the June 4, 2002 edition of Counterpunch, a left-wing magazine. Neumann responded to Rosenblum's e-mail, which was forwarded to him, with the comment, 'It is people like you who endanger and corrupt the Jewish people' ... Prof. Derek Penslar, the director of University of Toronto's Jewish studies program, said Neumann's views are not new. His articles, he said, are part of a far-left, fringe discourse, but 'the Internet has made these views more accessible.' Technology has increased the availability of these kinds of views, Penslar said, and now the question is, 'How do we deal with it?' When asked about possible responses the university could take, Penslar said, 'There are situations when university administrators have to censure academics' to ensure that all students feel comfortable on campus."

[Typical Jewish attack, likening critics of Jewry as being "Aryan" fanatics and "Nazis."]
The unsavoury tales of Hoffman,
Jewish Chronicle (UK), February 14, 2003
"Tasteless: an anti-Semitic cartoon Hoffman sent to the Jewish editor of California-based Skeptic magazine ... This week's [London] Evening Standard column by the writer A. N. Wilson draws heavily on the previously published work of Holocaust-denier Michael A. Hoffman II, and an armed forces veteran Brigadier General James J. David. Hoffman, in particular, is familiar to American organisations that deal with white supremacists and Holocaust-deniers. Wilson concluded his piece, headlined 'Israel's record speaks for itself,' by advising readers to read 'The Israeli Holocaust Against The Palestinians' by M. Hoffman and Professor Moshe Lieberman, giving an address from which this could be obtaine ... His website, The Campaign for Radical Truth in History, is almost wholly devoted to anti-Israel and anti-Jewish polemic. Lawyer Norm Gissel, whose successful $6-million civil suit two years ago forced the breakup of the Aryan Nations' compound in Coeur d'Alene, said this week that he was 'amazed that a journalist would take this flake and raise him to a respectable status' ... In 1994 he sent an anti-Semitic cartoon (pictured) pouring scorn on the Holocaust to the editor of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer, who had criticised Hoffman's articles." [A.N. Wilson's article at the London Evening Standard is noted online as being "unavailable" anymore, i.e., it has been censored. Wilson's article is here, from someone who cut and pasted part of it. The article, and the Evening Standard's subsequent retraction beneath the heel of the Jewish Lobby, is also posted here.]

[Edgare J. Steele is a lawyer who has defended a number of controversial clients.]
In Defense of Anti-Semitism,
by Edgar J. Steele, Conspiracy Pen Pal, February 15, 2003
"I wanted to call this, 'Why I am an anti-semite.' It is telling, indeed, that even I finally knuckled under and chose a less sensational title. The silence in America concerning jews is simply deafening, isn't it? The old adage has it that, when visiting a foreign country, to ascertain who really runs things, one need determine only who is spoken about in whispers, if at all ... No, Israel does not run America, but the shadowy cartel that does run America is solidly behind Israel. Israel is that cartel's mistress, America its dowdy wife. No, not every member of that cartel is jewish, but so many are that it might as well be exclusive. There was a time, in the not-too-distant past, when I thought that jewishness was religious and cultural, possibly racial, too - but so what? After all, American jews are generally well off, well educated, well spoken, a little clannish and well connected. Just like you and me, only better dressed and with trust funds - like rich Mormons, maybe. It is an outlook shared by most Americans. It is wrong. This common misperception will prove fatal to America, just as it has to so many nations down through time. This is where I am supposed to utter the obligatory, 'I'm not anti-semitic, I'm really just anti-zionist.' That is a cop-out and I refuse to do it, even though strictly true. I am appalled that all jews allow the zionists among them to fall back into their ranks, hiding behind their jewishness, while hurling charges of anti-semitism at those they dislike - and their fellow jews don't say a word about it. In the law, we call that a conspiracy and we lock up the co-conspirators just like the perps. Ok, I'll play. I'm anti-semitic. So what? Do you really blame me, after all that you have done to me, my family and my country - nay, the world? Let's get the terms straight. Joe Sobran really is right on the money regarding 'anti-semite,' first of all. Ultimately an antisemite is whatever a jew says - whoever a jew dislikes - and, ultimately, jews seem to dislike everybody else. In fact, I have seen jews acknowledge that everybody who isn't a jew is, by definition, anti-semitic. Kind of like the rationale underlying hate crime laws, which are only applied against white people, because all white people are deemed racist, per se. 'Jew.' It's a race, not a religion. Facts are facts. The majority of Israelis are atheist. At this moment, jews are doggedly trying to craft a deadly virus that will select people, such as Arabs, for their DNA differences from jewish DNA. And I don't want to hear all this buzz about Khazar versus Sephardic jews or who deserves to claim to be descended from the Biblical family of Abraham. There is a group of people scattered throughout the world that calls itself jewish. We all know who they are, just as they do. They are racially identifiable, even if of two or three flavors. They get the label 'jew,' and that is reality, history aside. 'Zionist.' Used to mean those who worked toward the establishment of a jewish homeland. Now it means jewish supremacist, pure and simple. Kind of like white supremacist, only kosher. Zionists are the real problem and they are found among the ranks of jews everywhere. They are the ones that always cross the line and get the whole lot of them thrown out of a country. You don't believe this? Ok, then you offer a single logical reason why it has happened, time and again, in all the European countries. Zionism is racism of the first order. Yes, jews do get persecuted. What gets overlooked is the reason. Kind of like focusing on the rights of the murderer and not his victim."

[The Jewish scam of calling everyone under the sun an "anti-Semite" is about to implode.]
''Orwellian" anti-Semitism,
By John Chuckman, YellowTimes.org, July 25, 2002
"George Orwell understood the power of words, and he understood the power of ideology to utterly corrupt their meaning ... The word anti-Semitism, after the Holocaust, became a terrible epithet imbued with the blood of millions of innocents. Now, less than 60 years later, it is being twisted and abused, even trivialized, by, of all people in the world, some Jews. This word is carelessly, foolishly thrown around today, particularly in the United States. Write something criticizing policies in Israel, and you are anti-Semitic. Stand up for reason, justice, and decency - applied to all, not just to some - and you are anti-Semitic. Point out the fact that a murderous thug is now the prime minister of Israel, and you are anti-Semitic. I actually had one individual write me saying that he knew I was glad Jewish children were being murdered. This was written to someone who gave up the country of his birth rather than murder children in Vietnam. The words are precisely the same kind of filth I receive from true anti-Semites or black-hating racists aroused by other issues. Let any kind of violent crime be committed anywhere today, and if the victim is Jewish, the crime is, ipso facto, anti-Semitic. The very government of Israel becomes involved, as it did in the recent murder in Los Angeles airport by a distracted, demented man. Another example is the murder of a Jewish man with a beard and a yarmulke by a young drugged-up thug in Toronto. Literally, teams of people busied themselves trying to prove there was anti-Semitic intent, their acts rendering the victim less important than his identity. (Lest anyone misunderstand how unusual that murder was, the murder rate in Toronto, a city proud of having the most cosmopolitan, diverse population in the world, is a tiny fraction of that for any American city.) ... Talk about hideous language, language that loses its meaning to ideology, consider the frightful words casually written recently by an American Jew, a lawyer, advocating the execution of the relatives of suicide-bombers. This lawyer quotes scripture, the Torah, to justify a repulsive idea. But you cannot hide behind ancient scripture, the stories of people who lived twenty-five centuries years ago, to defend what is plainly barbarism today. Do we quote the Incas on the appropriateness of human sacrifice? Or the writings of the Holy Inquisition on burning heretics alive? And why not? Because civilization's sense of morality, thank God, develops over time. Thus we see the kind of intellectual and moral debasement Mr. Sharon's blood-soaked policies yield, with some using scripture to defend serial murder. Others using epithets like anti-Semitism against those who object. Not to mention a president of the United States too intellectually and morally weak to say "stop, enough!"

[Typical Jewish political effort to toxify the anti-war, anti-Jewish racism, and anti-Israel movement as itself "hate."]
German peace movement criticized, [in the "Breaking News" section],
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, February 18, 2003
"The Berlin Association Against Anti-Semitism accused the German peace movement of anti-Semitism. The group issued the criticism following a demonstration Saturday of some 500,000 anti-war protesters in Berlin. 'From the start of the demonstration, it became clear that groups were involved whose worldview includes nationalism, racism and anti-Semitism,' said the letter, signed by about 100 scholars, Jewish religious and communal leaders, and activist groups from Germany and abroad. 'Revisionist banners and anti-Israel chants were heard. Israel was depicted as pulling the strings in the Iraq conflict; its politicians were cursed as ‘child killers,’ and a few flags of the Islamic extremist Hamas and Hezbollah groups were waved,” the letter added."

[Israeli invasion of Belgium?]
Belgium: Waiting for the Guillotine,
by Isaac Kohn, Israel National News, February 19, 2003
"'Unpretentious, hypocritical slagheap of bigotry surrounded by a thick halo of transparent anti-Semitism.' No other phrase can best describe the Belgian court decision to ´try´ top Israeli officials for alleged ´war crimes´ supposedly committed in her past wars against Arab terrorists. Specifically, Belgium intends to put on trial former top Israeli leaders (including Prime Minister Sharon, at the end of his tenure) who presided as military commanders during the Lebanese War of 1982. This modern blood libel perpetrated by Arabs and swallowed in its entirety by Belgium, is not only preposterous, but the cynicism that oozes from the core of this idiotic, partisan decision, begs for a strong, eye-for-an-eye, response. Having brandished the sword of bigotry in defiance of common-sense, Belgium is in dire need of an immediate, Israeli (and American - how far are the Belgian show trials against Viet-Nam era US servicemen?) counter-punch, which will transform the Belgian roar into a soundless twitter ... Should Belgium insist on proceeding with this abysmal, anti-Semitic ruling in order to pursue Israeli leaders, I suggest that Israel reciprocate on a non-stop tit-for-tat. The archives of world history are packed to the rafters with the criminal behavior of various Belgian personalities, in the not so distant past... and present. Israel should seek the immediate indictment and prosecution of the current Belgian Government due to its diligent acquiescence to the extortion process being propagated by the Islamic world against world Jewry. Its silent collaboration with the ongoing Arab attempt at genocide of Israelis and Jews in general fits perfectly with its anti-Jewish stance in WW II. While the crematoriums haven´t yet cooled off entirely, while the millions of exterminated Jews (with explicit Belgian complicity) silently demand revenge and retribution against Belgian politicians, past and present, these same should be put on trial for the slaughter they committed among the people of the Congo. The tortured souls of multitudes of enslaved Congolese natives scream for justice, retribution and punishment of scoreless criminal Belgian businessmen, who committed untold heinous atrocities in the employ of an expanding Belgian empire. Belgium, beware! The next head in the guillotine may be yours."

[Merely telling the truth, as always, is grounds for the charge of "anti-Semitism."]
'JEWISH' CRACK SPURS POLITICAL WAR OF WORDS,
By David Seifman, New York Post, February 22, 2003
"A city councilman found himself in a firestorm yesterday by suggesting an anti-war resolution hasn't been passed by the council because many Jews feel it's 'not in the best interests' of Israel. Councilman Robert Jackson (D-Manhattan) made the comment during an interview Thursday on Brian Lehrer's popular WNYC radio show. 'New York City is the home away from home for most Jews,' Jackson responded when Lehrer asked why the council was lagging behind municipalities around the country in opposing a war against Iraq. 'And this is seen by many members of the Jewish community as a resolution that will go against Bush and, in the long run, will not be in the best interests of the state of Israel.' Lehrer announced on the air that irate Jewish listeners were lighting up his phone lines minutes after those remarks were uttered. Assembly Dov Hikind, who represents one of the city's largest Jewish communities in Borough Park, Brooklyn, yesterday ripped Jackson as 'divisive.' 'It's sad he has to decline into the mud of anti-Semitism,' said Hikind. 'It only does one thing. It divides us.' Council Speaker Gifford Miller's office had no comment on Jackson's remarks. Other colleagues defended Jackson - but called his words poorly chosen. 'Bob Jackson is no anti-Semite, and not opposed to the Jewish community,' said Councilman Oliver Koppell (D-Bronx), who represents a large Jewish constituency in Riverdale. But Koppell said the problem with Jackson's comments are that they suggest American Jews would place Israel's interests before those of the United States."

It's OK to Eat Belgian Chocolate,
by Uri Avnery, Uri Avnery, February 22, 2003
"'Don't eat Belgian chocolate,' the Israel consul in Florida ordered the large Jewish community there. In Israel, anti-Belgian curses reached an ear-splitting new crescendo. Miserable Belgium! Mad Belgium! Megalomaniac Belgium! And again and again, Anti-Semitic Belgium! Neo-Nazi Belgium! The Israeli ambassador was, of course, recalled from Brussels. No wonder, how can Israel keep an ambassador in the world capital of anti-Semitism? The storm broke when a Belgian court decided that Ariel Sharon can be sued for alleged war crimes, but only after finishing his term as Prime Minister of Israel. Israel army officers connected with the 1982 massacre in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps can be sued even now ... Well, it were the Jews who demanded, after World War II, that all countries put Nazi war criminals and their allies on trial. [Nazi fugitive Adolf] Eichmann was judged in Israel according to the Israeli 'Law for bringing the Nazis and their Helpers to Justice', which does not recognize any borders. More recently the Knesset enacted another law, enabling Israeli courts to judge perpetrators of any crime committed against Jews anywhere in the world. If so, what's wrong with the Belgian law of 'universal jurisdiction', that allows Belgian courts to judge was criminals from all over the world? Immanuel Kant promulgated the Categorical Imperative: 'Act as if the principle by which you act were about to be turned into a universal law of nature'. But then, Kant was probably an anti-Semite. Hundreds of years ago, the world adopted a legal doctrine that allowed every country to judge and hang pirates, irrespective of their ethnic identity, origin and area of activity. The assumption was that the pirate is an enemy of humanity at large, and that therefore every country has the right – indeed, the duty – to judge him. The Belgian law against war crimes is a step in this direction, and I hope that many other countries will follow suit."

Author accused of anti-Semitism. Critics compare book to Mein Kampf, say it could encourage racists,
Prague Post (Czech Republic), February 26, 2003
"Last summer, the Supreme Court ruled that the publication of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf could not be banned. Now, a new book that some have decried as anti-Semitic has sparked a new legal battle. Within two weeks of the mid-February release of Petr Bakalar's Taboos in Social Sciences, a lawsuit was filed to halt the book's publication. Critics have denounced the work as racist propaganda. 'It seems to be more dangerous than the publication of Hitler's Mein Kampf,' said Tomas Jelinek, chairman of the Prague Jewish Community. He said the book could become a manual for Czech racists and anti-Semites.The 300-page book, which is presented as scholarly research with about 400 footnotes, describes theories purporting that levels of human intelligence are based on race and ethnicity. The book 'tries to bring new arguments about the influence of the Jews in the world and about the role of Jews in undermining the role of Christian societies,' Jelinek said. 'As a citizen of the Czech Republic, I found many arguments in the book outrageous, and I don't understand the scientific methodology of the book,' he added. 'What was it that he wanted to prove? What was it that he wanted to say?' Brisk sales Olomouc-based publishing house Votobia printed 4,500 copies. It does not plan to translate the book for sale in other countries. Within one week, 4,000 copies were sold. 'The book is dangerous because it appears as scientific work. And its form corresponds to it,' said Prague sociologist Tomas Kamin, who filed a lawsuit against Bakalar. The lawsuit is based on paragraph 260 of the penal code. The paragraph states: 'Someone who supports or promotes a movement that explicitly aids the suppression of the rights of man or promotes ethnic, religious, nationalist or class hatred against some person will be punished by one to five years in prison.' 'The author has only chosen quotations from specific sources so that they correspond to his objective. And his goal, in my view, is to present racist and anti-Semitic views,' Kamin said. Bakalar, 33, rejects the racist label ... Petr Jungling, owner of Votobia, said he anticipated the negative responses. 'I read it and, of course, I don't agree that it is racist,' he said. Since its publication, the book has received positive feedback, Jungling said ... 'The motivation of many endeavors is boredom, and I was bored by the conventional psychological authorities and the political correctness,' [Bakalar] said. 'Political correctness and science cannot go together.'"

[The Thought Police swing again into action: JEWS ARE BEYOND CRITICISM. Since the editor of the newspaper (The Independent) in question is -- as usual, as everywhere -- Jewish, essentially we have but another in-house Jewish argument.]
Anti-Sharon newspaper cartoon provokes charges of anti-Semitism,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, February 27, 2003
"The Israeli Embassy in London has accused a British newspaper of perpetuating the blood libel against Jews after it ran a cartoon that depicted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon eating a baby. The cartoon in the Independent newspaper showed Sharon crouched in the ruins of a village, biting the head off a baby as helicopters circle overhead broadcasting the message 'Vote Sharon.' 'What’s wrong.... You never seen a politician kissing babies before?' Sharon asks in the drawing. The embassy filed its complaint via celebrated lawyer Anthony Julius, who successfully defended scholar Deborah Lipstadt when Holocaust denier David Irving sued her for libel in a highly publicized case in London in 2000. 'The complaint concerns neither politics nor art. It is instead about anti-Semitism,' Julius argued. 'The cartoon associates Prime Minister Sharon, a Jew, with a particularly dreadful crime allegedly committed by Jews — indeed, habitually and exclusively by Jews. It associates him with the blood libel.' Describing it as 'a gruesome, appalling image,' Julius says the cartoon 'has an implicit politics, one which supposes Israelis to be murderous brutes, and Palestinians, martyred innocents' ... The commission has asked the Israeli Embassy whether it is acting on behalf of Sharon. The embassy’s complaint charges that not only Sharon, but also the Israeli army and electorate, are the targets of attack. The Independent rejects the charge that the cartoon is anti-Semitic . Its editor-in-chief, Simon Kelner — who is Jewish — declined to speak to JTA. But he told London’s Jewish Chronicle newspaper: 'I am Jewish myself, so I would be sensitive to anything anti-Semitic. This was a very powerful cartoon and it is clearly anti-Sharon. However, that is very different [from] being anti-Semitic.'” [The cartoon is here].

The Marx of the Anti-Semites,
By John Derbyshire, The American Conservative, [paper edition],
March 10, 2003
[Review of: The Culture of Critique, by Kevin MacDonald, 1st Books, 466 pages]
"The Jew thing. It was said in the kind of tone you might use of an automobile with a cracked engine block, or a house with subsiding foundations. Nothing to be done with him, poor fellow. No use to anybody now. Got the Jew thing. They shoot horses, don't they?
Plainly, getting the Jew thing was a sort of occupational hazard of conservative journalism in the United States, an exceptionally lethal one, which the career-wise writer should strive to avoid. I resolved that I would do my best, so far as personal integrity allowed, not to get the Jew thing. I had better make it clear to the reader that at the time of writing, I have not yet got the Jew thing-that I am in fact a philo-Semite and a well-wisher of Israel, for reasons I have explained in various places, none of them difficult for the nimble web surfer to find. If, however, you have got the Jew thing, or if, for reasons unfathomable to me, you would like to get it, Kevin MacDonald is your man. MacDonald is a tenured professor of psychology at California State University in Long Beach. He is best known for his three books about the Jews, developing the idea that Judaism has for 2,000 years or so been a 'group evolutionary strategy.' The subject of this review is a re-issue, in soft cover, of the third and most controversial of these books, The Culture of Critique, first published in 1998 ... The main thrust of this book's argument is that Jewish or Jewish-dominated organizations and movements engaged in a deliberate campaign to delegitimize the Gentile culture of their host nations -- most particularly the USA -- through the twentieth century and that this campaign is one aspect of a long-term survival strategy for the Jews as an ethnicity. In MacDonald's own words, 'The rise of Jewish power and the disestablishment of the specifically European nature of the U.S. are the real topics of CofC' ... The Culture of Critique includes many good things. There is a spirited defense of the scientific method, for example. One of the sub-themes of the book is that Jews are awfully good at creating pseudosciences -- elaborate, plausible, and intellectually very challenging systems that do not, in fact, have any truth content -- and that this peculiar talent must be connected somehow with the custom, persisted in through long pre-Enlightenment centuries, of immersing young men in the study of a vast body of argumentative writing, with status in the community -- and marriage options, and breeding opportunities -- awarded to those who have best mastered this mass of meaningless esoterica ... MacDonald is very scathing about these circular and self-referential thought-systems, especially in the case of psychoanalysis and the 'pathologization of Gentile culture' promoted by the Frankfurt School. Here he was precisely on my wavelength, and I found myself cheering him on."

The Vyshinsky of the philo-Semites,
by Henry Gallanger Fields, The Last Ditch / Thornwalker, March 3, 2003
"Only a few days after I first wrote about The American Conservative's descent into PC, what appeared atop the cover of the March 10 issue but the promo, 'Derbyshire on Anti-Semitism.' How daring! And just what America is crying out for, too — another article on anti-Semitism. In my original piece I predicted — in jest, actually — that Joshua Muravchik would eventually become editor of TAC, and here the magazine stoops even lower by bringing on sycophantic shabbos goy John Derbyshire to smear the courageous Kevin MacDonald in a 'book review' of The Culture of Critique. Derbyshire is a self-styled philo-Semite and a supporter of the Zionist Likudniks who is currently serving as one of Anglo-America's foremost cheerleaders for the war in the Middle East. While milord is the perfect shabbos goy today, in the past (before 9/11), he strayed a teensy bit off the reservation. (Winnie Churchill tended to do the same thing.) For example, in April 2001, Derbyshire wrote on National Review Online that the 'merest remark about the Jews that is not absolutely, irreproachably positive, is secretly plotting to massacre them....' He was, indeed, writing ironically, for he went on to explain: 'One thing you learn, writing for the public, is that anything whatsoever that you say about the Jews will be seen as virulently anti-Semitic to somebody, somewhere.' He continued: 'I also find the theories of Kevin MacDonald (The Culture of Critique) about the partly malign influence of Jews on modern American culture very persuasive.' Rest assured Derbyshire has gotten through that sticky wicket, now branding the hitherto persuasive MacDonald with the lethal charge of anti-Semitism in a scathingly hostile review. If Derbyshire, too, used to be an 'anti-Semite,' back in April 2001, say, he has more than made up for any past indiscretions. Derbyshire's title, 'The Marx of the Anti-Semites,' signals the purposed lethality of his attack."

[The Jewish defense of Israeli racism: criticizing the Jewish Lobby and the impending war on behalf of Israel is "hate."]
Anti-war sentiment borders hate speech. Guest commentary: Masha Katz, Joel Sokoloff, Robert Galinsky, Dan Gruber and nine co-signers,
Oregon Daily Emerald, March 04, 2003
"Free speech -- on which this country was founded -- is the right and privilege of all individuals. With this freedom comes responsibility, which was jeopardized on Feb. 18. At the intersection of 13th Avenue and University Street, a swastika, a symbol of atrocity and anti-Semitism, was depicted with 'Bush=Hitler' written nearby. As Jewish students, we feel that incident warrants commentary. First, using a swastika for political discourse is offensive and unacceptable. The swastika, as utilized by Nazi Germany, is the symbol that was used to unite a nation for the systematic extermination of our ancestors. This was not only the symbol to pool hatred solely against the Jews, but also many other minority groups which were thought to be inferior. The Nazi swastika has forever become the mark of anti-Semitism and hate. There is no denying that President George W. Bush is a controversial political leader. However, the comparison of Hitler to Bush marginalizes the horrors the Nazis committed. Any objective view of recent history and current events will show that this analogy is flawed in many ways. Those responsible should be more aware of the implications of their actions and understand that what they did forms a basis for the resurgence of hate on campus. There is already concern among many that the revitalization of the anti-war movement has brought around hateful thoughts in the masses that are hard to quell once in progress. One example of this is the subtle but strong cartoon depiction of Ariel Sharon in the Emerald ... Although this cartoon is not the specific matter in question, it is obvious that the anti-Israel movement is broadening to include anti-Jewish thought. This all goes back to the line between free speech and hate speech. This is a difficult scale to try to balance because free speech is held so dearly in this country. There is the case that any censorship is a distinct violation of free speech and will just lead to further suppression of free expression. This rationale is valid most of the time, but there must be an awareness that not all speech is conducive to critical thinking and sometimes has the reverse effect. Using hate to rally others behind your thoughts just creates more mindless following and doesn't recognize that there may be people who are deeply offended by this absurd demonstration of insensitivity."

German Propaganda Archive,
Calvin
[A college posting of historical German Nazi material, including Nazi expressions of antisemitism]

[When daring to criticize Israel -- let alone the Jewish Lobby -- any author is always forced into a defensive position to wiggle out of the Jewish censorial tool: the accusation of "anti-Semitism."
It's not anti-Semitic to connect Iraq and Israel.Palestinians were not responsible for the Holocaust, yet today they are being made to pay the highest price for it,
The Independent (UK), March 6, 2003
"Ten days ago, I described how painful and confusing it was to hang on to precious relationships, in particular with Jewish friends whom I love and trust, who have done much to fight against Islamophobia. I see connections between Iraq and Israel, connections that they find unsettling. Like many liberal Jewish people, they worry that this may be just another excuse to resurrect anti-Semitism, which is very a light sleeper. I know that political criticism of the state of Israel today could indeed validate anti-Jewish hatred, and is doing so, and I am worried that I'm becoming too detached from these fears. I also said, and say so again, in spite of the hundreds of Muslims who have written to disagree, that the anti-war marches should have focused only on Iraq, but that public debates had to discuss both Iraq and Israel because there is an indisputable link between them. The world today needs us all to cross boundaries to places outside our fields of simple loyalties, and this is becoming impossibly hard in the present atmosphere. In response, Howard Jacobson produced a denunciation of me in particular and all those who drag Israel into the current conflict ... We are condemned by Jacobson as anti-Semites because we dare to question Israel. I am obviously a Jew-hater because I use the word 'murdered' for six hundred Jewish victims of Palestinian bombers and the word 'massacred' for over 2,000 (plus 14 more since I last wrote) Palestinian victims of the Israeli army."

Obsessions about Israel,
by Joe Sobran, Focal Point, March 6, 2003
"The other day a Zionist writer accused me of being 'an obsessed critic of Israel.' And here I'd imagined I was an obsessed critic of the U.S. Government. My point is not just that the accusation is silly, but that I don't see why it's even an accusation. A boy in love is obsessed with a girl. A mathematician may be obsessed with a theorem. Beethoven was obsessed with music. I could understand someone saying I was obsessed with the U.S. Constitution, or Lincoln, or Shakespeare. These are subjects I've written books about; I've written columns about them even when they weren't on the front pages. But Israel is seldom OFF the front pages. It's an obsession that's forced on all of us, unless we make an effort to ignore it. Columnists like Charles Krauthammer, Cal Thomas, and William Safire write about it far more often than I do, and nobody calls them 'obsessed,' because, like most pundits, they are always and absolutely on Israel's side. It's only when you occasionally contradict the Niagara roar of Zionist propaganda in the media that you are charged with having an unhealthy preoccupation with Israel. Then you are told that if you can't write something nice about Israel, you shouldn't write about it at all. As I once wrote about another Zionist detractor who kept accusing me of being obsessed with Israel, 'I guess he can't stop thinking about my obsession.' Israel isn't a subject that really excites me; I don't have the energy to write a book about it. But now and then the ironies are too rich to resist. Here is a 'democracy' based on the denial of human equality. Here is an 'ally' that steals military secrets from the United States, while making it enemies it didn't use to have. Here is a 'homeland' for Jews who have never lived there and can't trace their ancestry to it, but who can claim rights that are denied to actual natives of the land. Here is a country that complains about 'terrorism' and keeps electing rulers like Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, and Ariel Sharon. Lots of other writers are well aware of these incongruities, but they avoid talking about them for fear of professional reprisals. Editors and publishers fear the wrath of Jewish advertisers. Talk about obsession! There is such a thing as an obsessive silence about the obvious. The Victorians thought about sex a lot, but they seldom talked about it, except in cautious circumlocutions. And that is a lot more understandable than discussing an urgent foreign- policy problem in delicate euphemisms. As Michael Kinsley recently wrote, Israel is the elephant in the living room -- seen, but evaded in conversation."

[Non-Jewish puppet speaks for the tribe:]
New York’s Own Anti-Semitism,
New York Sun, March 6, 2003, p. 7
"[Israel] is the only democratic state in the Middle East and the birthplace of Christianity.The cities of the New Testament — Nazareth, Galilee, and Bethlehem — are located here and the Israeli government safeguards them ... I am Catholic and wear a gold cross around my neck, so strangers somehow feel it is perfectly permissible to make anti-Semitic remarks to me as if we belong to some secret organization — the I Am Not a Jew Club. When I was younger, I didn’t think much of it because most ethnic New Yorkers called each other names in jest that are now considered politically incorrect. It took parenthood and a desire to raise my children free from prejudice to make me aware of how ingrained anti-Semitism is in our society, especially here in New York. Recently, I was on the number 6 bus, and as it passed Ground Zero a man I had been talking to asked for my opinion about the proposed design for the World Trade Center ... The man said that he had seen a sign for a Jewish real estate company depicting the restored Twin Towers.Then, he asked sotto voce, 'You’re not Jewish, are you? These Jews just want to build and build. They don’t care about the people who died there' ... In the past, I’ve made various excuses for not attacking such blatant anti-Semitism. When a Hungarian woman who was shopping in a store I once managed told me that she had to be careful what she bought because her mother-in-law was Jewish and 'you know how they are,' I should have asked her what she meant. I didn’t because she was spending a lot of money in my store. When the nurse at my obstetrician’s office claimed that the doctor was cheap with her salary and told me, 'they’re all a bunch of penny pinchers,' I didn’t say anything because I was young and she was a middle-aged shrew. But I am no longer young and I feel no need to be diffident to those who espouse such opinions. In times of stress and community upheaval, this antipathy can turn to resentment and finally hatred. Has everyone forgotten the 1991 three-day pogrom in Crown Heights, Brooklyn when rioters ran through the streets yelling, 'Kill the Jews!'? How could this happen in our great city?"