Abusing 'Anti-Semitism',
by Ran HaCohen, antiwar.com, September 29, 2003
"The eve of the Jewish New Year is an excellent occasion for what Jewish tradition calls Kheshbon Nefesh, or soul-searching on so-called "anti-semitism", which has now become the single most important element of Jewish identity. Jews may believe in God or not, eat pork or not, live in Israel or not, but they are all united by their unlimited belief in anti-semitism. When a Palestinian kills innocent Israeli civilians, it's anti-semitism. When Palestinians attack soldiers of Israel's occupation army in their own village, it's anti-semitism. When the UN General Assembly votes 133 to 4 condemning Israel's decision to murder the elected Palestinian leader, it means that except for the US, Micronesia and Marshal Islands, all other countries on the globe are anti-semitic. Even when a pregnant Palestinian woman is stopped at an Israeli check-point and gives birth in open field, the only lesson to be learnt is that Ha'aretz journalist Gideon Levy – who reported two such cases in the past two weeks, one in which the baby died – is an anti-semite. Anti-semitism is an all-encompassing explanation. Anything unpleasant to anti-Palestinian ears is just another instance of anti-semitism. Jewish consciousness focused on anti-semitism has taken the shape of anti-semitic conspiracy theories, like that of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion: whereas the anti-semitic classic relates every calamity to Jewish conspiracy, Jews relate to anti-semitic conspiracy every criticism of Israel. As we shall see, this is not the only similarity between anti-Palestinianism and anti-semitism. It is high time to say it out loud: in the entire course of Jewish history, since the Babylonian Exile in the 6th century BC, there has never been an era blessed with less anti-semitism than ours. There has never been a better time for Jews to live in than our own ... Nowadays, anti-semitism is a taboo and a criminal offence in every developed country on earth. Even truly anti-semitic groups deny their anti-semitic character, knowing it is politically unacceptable ... A Jew can be the mayor of Amsterdam in "anti-semitic" Holland, a minister in "anti-semitic" Britain, a leading intellectual in "anti-semitic" France, a president of "anti-semitic" Switzerland, editor-in-chief of a major daily in "anti-semitic" Denmark, or an industrial tycoon in "anti-semitic" Russia ... No other genocide even comes close to the 250 memorial museums and research institutes dedicated to the Holocaust around the world, and no other genocide survivors have been financially compensated like the persecuted Jews. In such a world, whoever cries "anti-semitism" twice a day has an extremely heavy burden of proof to shoulder. The State of Israel has always been cynically exploiting allegations of anti-semitism, condemning purported and cooperating with actual anti-semites at will. Last week, to quote just a minor example, when the world was outraged by Italy's monarch Berlusconi's claim that his fascist predecessor Mussolini "had not killed anybody but just sent people to holidays in exile" – which comes fairly close to Holocaust denial – the only official Israeli reaction was that of an unnamed spokesman for the 2nd Minister in the Ministry of Finance, who mumbled that "If the words have been said (!), one can not agree with them, since History speaks for itself" (Ha'aretz 14.9, p.12 bottom). The reason for this ear-deafening outcry is simple: Berlusconi, like most right-wing extremists, has taken a decisive pro-Israel stand in Europe. So let him even deny the Holocaust if he likes, Israel will show understanding. After all, Israel was a closest ally of the most racist regime in the post-WWII era, South Africa's Apartheid: moral considerations have never played any role whatsoever in Israel's politics and diplomacy. On a state level, some may excuse it as Realpolitik. The institutionalised pro-Israel lobby has compromised its integrity to such an extent, that I won't be surprised if, say, the Anti-Defamation League, which cries anti-semitic wolf on a daily basis, now hails the fascist apologist Berlusconi as a distinguished statesman; Actually, precisely this world-record of hypocricy has taken place this very week. Much more disturbing is the intensive resorting to "anti-semitism" claims by Jewish individuals and institutions who do try to maintain a look of integrity.Such claims take many creative forms: for example, some Jews have a morally repulsive pastime of looking for worst cases of oppression – Russian atrocities in Chechnya (whose veterans, by the way, join the Israeli army), Chinese in Tibet – which supposedly "prove" that the media focus on Israel is anti-semitically motivated. As if it were not outrageous enough to be on the shortlist of evil-doers, as if only the gold medal in this satanic competition, but not bronze or silver, is worthy of protest. And I wonder how many of those arm-chair pro-Israel Tibet specialists ever bothered to actually do something to free Tibet, except for exploiting its suffering to distract from Israel's atrocities. The abuse of alleged anti-semitism is morally despicable. It took hundreds of years and millions of victims to turn anti-semitism – a specific case of racism which led historically to genocide – into a taboo. People abusing this taboo in order to support Israel's racist and genocidal policy towards the Palestinians do nothing less than desecrate the memory of those Jewish victims ... Thus, evoking Jewish victims of the past to defend Jewish victimisers of the present –remember that Israel has one of the mightiest armies on earth – is a moral fault on a par with, and embarrassingly similar to, anti-semitism itself."

Subject: THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF B’NAI B’RITH. FACTS VERSUS ITS SMEARS AND LIES,
by Gordon Thomas, yourmailinglistprovider.com
[Thomas's web home page here.]
"The paragraph was short and based on information from NASA and the Israeli’s Space Agency. It dealt with the role of Israeli astronaut, Ilon Ramon, one of the crew of the ill-fated Columbia shuttle. This is what I wrote in that paragraph: 'Astronaut Ilon Ramon was conducting secret experiments on the Columbia to discover new ways to beat Saddam’s threat to use biological and chemical weapons against Israel. For most of his 16 days on board the Columbia, he had been using cameras linked directly to the Israeli Space Agency to study desert dust and wind-drifts emanating from the deserts of Iraq.' In a splurge of rage, the New York based Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, through its 'Anti-Semitism-International' – a newsletter rant on the Internet – accused me of being an 'anti-Israel author', and one of those who used 'the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster for their own purposes, anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers and Israel bashers… promoting warped conspiracy theories'. Abraham H Foreman, the Anti-Defamation League’s National Director even managed to include me in his all-sweeping diatribe that 'even in times of tragedy for the American people, the anti-Semites and hatemongers never let up'. There is much, much more, of this demented hysteria in Anti-Semitism-International. In over 50 years of being a published writer, I have never met such a vicious smear. It’s all the more incredible for when I first reported from Israel, since the Suez Crisis of 1956, I have been repeatedly praised for my balanced reporting about that country. I co-authored the Academy Award multi-nominated 'VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED', a saga of Jewish courage. I arranged for the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC to receive all the research material on this saga. I have lectured widely to Israeli congregations about the pernicious anti-Semitism now rife. I write for a UK newspaper, the Sunday Express, owned by a powerful Jew. I have a huge network of Jewish correspondents and contacts, many of them highly placed in Israel. Would all these good people continue to help me if they thought I was 'anti-Israel' or anti-Semitic? That is what makes outlandish, vicious and dangerous labelling by the League so serious, because if they can label me an anti-Semite, then who else can they damage at the whim of the likes of Mr Foreman? People who cannot reply to their ridiculous accusations. The reality is that, what it espouses to defend – free speech – the League sets out to stifle it. I had asked them to print a simple apology. My request was ignored. Hence this article' ... I wrote the story, and it has been clearly linked as part of the League’s attack on anti-Semites. The truth is that in doing so the League has defamed me – because there’s nothing in my story that can be remotely called anti-Semitic or anti-Israeli ... For some time now I have been aware of the ways the League pounced on those less rich and powerful. It has its followers in all levels of the media: in publishing, in radio and in television. Others who work in those areas have told me of their fear of the League. How it can black-list a book, mobilise an onslaught against a columnist, use its powerful connections in Washington to crush opposition. But until recently, I had no idea just how powerful it could be. The first hint came when I published 'Seeds of Fire' (Dandelion Books), a non-fiction book which dealt with the relationship between Israel and China and the role of Mossad in the United States. The book drew favourable reviews from distinguished critics. Carol Adler, my feisty publisher based in Phoenix Arizona, felt optimistic that the book would continue to sell in big numbers. But suddenly, though she could not prove it, she felt the heat. Barnes & Noble, America’s largest bookseller, withdrew its support for the book. Why? Because it had just announced it was going to collaborate with the stated aims of the League. Seeds of Fire became among the first victims of what I regard as a pogrom against the truth. Carol Adler had lined up a major promotion to build upon the reviews. Suddenly she found that radio and TV appearances were cancelled on national shows ... Last year, I co-published (with Martin Dillon) 'Robert Maxwell: Israel’s Super Spy' (Carroll & Graf, New York). Maxwell, a media tycoon and crook on a grand scale, as well as being a Mossad 'asset' was a staunch supporter of the League. The result was that the League mounted a disgraceful attempt to bury the book. Newspapers that support the League – The New York Times among them – either refused to review the book or used it, yes, you’ve got it, to accuse Dillon and myself of anti-Semitism. When we protested about one such scabrous attack in The Washington Post, it refused to publish our letter."

The Conservatism of Fools: A Response to John Derbyshire,
by Kevin MacDonald
"This is a response to a review by John Derbyshire of my book, The Culture of Critique, that appeared in The American Conservative ... My purpose is to document Jewish intellectual and political movements—movements led by Jews and motivated by perceptions that these movements would advance Jewish interests. I have tried to document all such movements that I am aware of, but this is not the same as documenting Jewish contributions to civilization or culture. ... As a result of his generally positive attitude about Jews and Judaism, Derbyshire is, apart from some minor irritations, quite uncritical about Jewish motives and influence, even when they conflict with the interests of people like himself. He implies that non-Jews should understand Jewish motivation to break down the ethnic homogeneity of their own societies while advancing the interests of Israel as an ethnostate. We non-Jews should understand such Jewish behavior because these outcomes are good for Jews. But, somehow he fails to follow through with this logic, imputing malice to people like me who are concerned about the future of their own people in societies where they are becoming minorities surrounded by groups that, like Jews, harbor deep historically conditioned hatreds toward them. It is quite an extraordinary omission and lapse in consistency by Derbyshire. In the end, the logic is as follows: Jews have made wonderful contributions to civilization. Therefore, non-Jews should welcome Jewish efforts to advance their interests even when they conflict with others ... Derbyshire’s review begins with a chilling account of how critics of Jews simply disappear from sight—their professional horizons diminished if not entirely ended. One thinks of people like Joe Sobran, William Cash, and a host of politicians who have had the temerity to criticize Israel or American support for Israel, or who have called attention to Jewish power and influence in particular areas. Jewish groups have made any critical discussion of Jewish issues off limits, and that’s vitally important because, yes, Jews are a very powerful group. What Derbyshire refers to as Jewish 'world-perfecting idealism' is very much with us and is still wreaking havoc in the modern world, everywhere from the erection of a multi-cultural police state in the United States—the origins of which are the general topic of The Culture of Critique—to the current war for the 'liberation and 'democratization' of Iraq, a war that is being fomented by Jewish neo-conservative activists based in the Bush administration, congressional lobbying organizations, and the media. As with other examples of Jewish idealism, the destruction of Iraq is shrouded in a lofty moral idealism aimed ultimately at securing a rather obvious Jewish ethnic goal — Israeli hegemony throughout the Middle East. That these latest examples of Jewish 'world perfecting idealism' also happen to conform rather obviously to Jewish ethnic interests should be of concern to all non-Jews ... Derbyshire does not think it hypocritical for Jews to promote multiculturalism in the U.S. while wishing to maintain Jewish ethnic dominance in Israel. The hypocrisy comes from the fact that, as I note in Chapter 8 of The Culture of Critique, the Jewish advocacy of Israel as a Jewish ethnostate coincided with a major effort by Jewish organizations and Jewish-dominated intellectual and political movements to supplant the prevailing view of the United States as a European Christian civilization with a European ethnic base. Especially hypocritical is that the disestablishment of the European basis of American identity was performed with appeal to universalist Enlightenment ideals of justice and individual rights, while it pathologized the ethnocultural basis of American civilization that had become an important foundation of American identity by the early decades of the 20th century. Although it is common for defenders of Israel to describe Israel as a democracy based on Western political ideals, I have yet to see any important Jewish organization or intellectual movement pathologize the ethnic basis of Israeli society or challenge the many ways in which Jewish ethnic interests are officially recognized in Israeli law and custom (e.g., the Law of Return). Indeed, the American Jewish community has been complicit in the ongoing ethnic warfare in the Middle East that has resulted in the dispossession, degradation, and large-scale murder of the Palestinians."
[John Derbyshire's review of MacDonald's work is "The Marx of the Anti-Semites", The American Conservative, March 10, 2003]

[Despite the Jewish Lobby's lock on the major mass media outlets, the bizarre thing is that sordid propagandists like Zuckerman and Hoenlin -- as apologists for Israeli racism and brutality -- in dangling Jewish money and its control of American foreign policy actively CREATE what they can only understand as "anti-Semitism."]
Seeking Allies in the Global Struggle Against Anti-Semitism,
CBN.com,
"Coming on the heels of another Al Qaeda threat against the international Jewish community, Israel continues to be concerned that Jews here and abroad are being targeted with anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment. While U.S.-Israeli strategic cooperation is closer than it has been in years, and while Israel enjoys a favorable relationship with the majority of members of the U.S. Congress, anti-Israel actions are still flourishing, worldwide. College campus hatred of Jews and Israel; attacks on Israelis visiting Africa; sanctions against Israel in the European parliament; calls for international boycotts against Israeli goods; the torching of synagogues, personal attacks on individuals — all remain tactics used by those who foment hatred against the Jewish people and the Jewish state. Most of the recent threats and acts of violence have come from Islamic extremists. In an effort to combat terrorism against the global Jewish community, a recent conference took place between international Jewish groups and moderate Moslem countries in Central Asia. The purpose was to forge a closer relationship with nations that are favorable towards Israel and the Jewish people. Chairman Mortimer Zuckerman, and Vice Chairman Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, spoke to members of the foreign press in Israel about the conference. In Central Asia, a declaration was issued that condemned terrorism and extremism ... 'These countries are on the edge and they are looking to the West, and the Jewish community,' Hoenlein said. Jewish representatives who visited Central Asia found leaders from those nations more than willing to form strategic bonds with western Jews ... Both Hoenlein and Zuckerman see Central Asian countries as a firewall of protection for the international Jewish community. They believe that if one of the nations in Central Asia falls to Islamic extremism, all will be endangered. While these kinds of partnerships are forging ahead, Hoenlein admits that anti-Semitism is a continued worry for Jewish groups in the Diaspora ... Both Hoenlein and Zuckerman feel that anti-Israel sentiments are being expressed as a euphemism for anti-Semitism. And they vehemently disagree with Israel being held to a double standard by the international community, especially when hate groups have a 'great sympathy for dead Jews but have a problem with living Jews,' according to Hoenlein. Today, Jewish leaders claim that the outbreak of anti-Semitism, especially in Europe, has taken on a different identity than in past times. The animosity that was once directed toward the individual Jewish person is now being applied to the collective Jewish community."

[The omnipresent, anti-Jewish Conspiracy Theory: the bedrock of Jewish identity:]
Symposium: Anti-Semitism - the New Call of the Left,
By Jamie Glazov, FrontPageMagazine.com, March 14, 2003
"Contemporary empirical realities demonstrate one undeniable fact: anti-Semitism is no longer associated prominently with the Right. Instead, the primary source of the hatred of Jews now emanates from the Left. In fact, anti-Semitism has evolved into a cultural code and even a rallying cry for progressive radicals throughout the world. This reality is perfectly illustrated by contemporary efforts to pressure Western universities and institutions to divest from financial holdings in Israel. What explains this phenomenon of growing Leftist anti-Semitism? Why has contempt for Jews become the mantle of Leftist politics – or was it actually always the case, but just more subtle? To discuss these and other aspects of Leftist anti-Semitism with us today, Frontpage Symposium has aligned a distinguished panel of experts." Our guests today are Michael Lerner... Judith Klinghoffer ... Leonard Dinnerstein ... and Jonathan Kay, the editorials editor of the National Post who has written extensively on anti-Semitism and the academic Left. [NOTE: The National Post is controlled by avid Zionist censor Izzy Asper and his CanWest Canadian media empire.] ... Dinnerstein: ... [T]here is no doubt in my mind that the current wave of "increased" anti-Semitic manifestations is driven both by Muslim activists and concerns about Israeli policies. Kay: Anti-Semitism is, without doubt, an old phenomenon. Nonetheless, it has definitely found many new converts thanks to the rise of the New Left ... [T]here is a tendency for university activists to swallow wholesale the anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic myths that circulate widely in the Arab media and on pro-Palestinian web sites... Lerner ... What irks many on the Left is when Jews take a larger portion than others relative to their proportion in the population of the world’s wealth (e.g. by being disproportionately represented in the elites of the most piggy society on the face of the earth which has 5% of the world’s population but consumes 25% of the world’s wealth) or when the Jews benefit from the support of colonial or imperial ambitions of, first Britain, and then the U.S., in the Middle East to establish a society benefiting as the single largest recipient of U.S. aid, and then using those benefits to create a society which oppresses Palestinians. Here, a small percentage of people on the Left single out the Jews and Israel for special, and in my view anti-Semitic attention, allowing what could be legitimate criticisms were they spread to all beneficiaries of an unjust global system to be focussed illegitimately on critique of the Jewish people and on Israel, and by ignoring the vicious and immoral acts of terror committed against Israeli civilians by some who advocate the Palestinian cause. Moreover, some groups on the left deny Jews the same right to have national self-determination (and with it all the attendant distortions that nationalism frequently produces) that they champion when it comes to other historically oppressed groups. Klinghoffer: I do not believe that anti-Semitism on left is either new or marginal. It is and has always been enmeshed in the wedge issues of the day. Thus, in the Thirties it became enmeshed in the Stalin –Trotsky power struggle. In the nineteen sixties it became enmeshed with the Vietnam and the Six Day wars and when the left lost the Vietnam war as a mobilizing issue, it increased its focus on the Palestinian one ... As the Haggadah says, 'in every generation . . .' [NOTE: this Jewish religious verse continues ...' they will rise against us.'] Only the excuses are different."

[Judeocentric Totalitarianism is everywhere. Vast programs of ideological engineering throughout America's education process instill the notion that the Jewish community is categorically saintly, and that any critical examination of Jewish history and identity is a moral crime.]
Antisemitism: The Power of Myth,
Facing History and Ourselves
"For the past 27 years, Facing History and Ourselves has been exploring the history of the events that led to the Holocaust. As part of that study, teachers and students investigate the historical roots, characteristics, and consequences of antisemitism. Today, with antisemitism in the news once again, Facing History has created a series of seven readings that examine aspects of contemporary antisemitism. Each links the past to the present."

Hillel Reports to Senate Republicans about Anti-Semitism on Campus,
Hillel, March 27, 2003 (Washington, DC — March 26, 2003)
"Hillel's Director of the Center for Israel Affairs and the Israel on Campus Coalition Wayne Firestone joined Rubin at the meeting requested by senators to discuss the rise of anti-Semitism on campus with major Jewish organizations and government representatives. Senators Rick Santorum (PA), Robert Bennett (UT), Sam Brownback (KS), and Norm Coleman (MN) all spoke in support of Senate efforts to eliminate anti-Semitism on campus. Coleman encouraged the attendees to keep senators informed, stressing 'This is not just a Jewish senator being concerned, but it's about all of us.' Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (TN), and Senators Lindsey Graham (SC) and George Voinovich (OH) sent staff representatives. During the meeting, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights Louis Goldstein, said that universities that receive federal funding cannot discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin. Goldstein said that although there are some cases of anti-Semitism on campus pursued by his office, many fall through the cracks. He asked Jewish organizations to help by reporting incidents of anti-Semitism ... Santorum announced a plan to introduce an amendment to the upcoming review of Title IX legislation requiring 'ideological diversity' at universities across the country. Brownback said he would introduce a commission under Title IX to investigate anti-Semitic incidents on campuses. 'We have to hold the universities responsible when there are incidents and claims of intimidation or a student feeling uncomfortable,' concluded Hillel's Wayne Firestone. 'Students in the classroom must feel comfortable to express their views. American campuses are places where everyone can go to express their views freely no matter where they may stand.'" [Hmmm. Except if they stand on the other side of the powerful Jewish Lobby.]

Father Charles Coughlin,
Social Security Online (U.S. Government)
"Father Coughlin first took to the airwaves in 1926, broadcasting weekly sermons over the radio. By the early 1930s the content of his broadcasts had shifted from theology to economics and politics. Just as the rest of the nation was obsessed by matters economic and political in the aftermath of the Depression, so too was Father Coughlin. Coughlin had a well-developed theory of what he termed 'social justice,' predicated on monetary 'reforms.' He began as an early Roosevelt supporter, coining a famous expression, that the nation's choice was between 'Roosevelt or ruin.' Later in the 1930s he turned against FDR and became one of the president's harshest critics. His program of 'social justice' was a very radical challenge to capitalism and to many of the political institutions of his day. Father Coughlin was an early and passionate supporter of President Roosevelt, since he viewed FDR as a radical social reformer like himself. Roosevelt's rhetoric during his inaugural address implicitly promised to 'drive the money changers from the temple.' This was music to Coughlin's ears since a core part of his own message was monetary reform. Roosevelt's early monetary policy seemed to fulfill this promise and so Coughlin viewed him as the savior of the nation. But when FDR failed to follow-on with additional radical reforms, Coughlin turned against him ... Father Coughlin's influence on Depression-era America was enormous. Millions of Americans listened to his weekly radio broadcast. At the height of his popularity, one-third of the nation was tuned into his weekly broadcasts. In the early 1930s, Coughlin was, arguably, one of the most influential men in America. Although his core message was one of economic populism, his sermons also included attacks on prominent Jewish figures--attacks that many people considered evidence of anti-Semitism. His broadcasts became increasingly controversial for this reason, and in 1940 his superiors in the Catholic Church forced him to stop his broadcasts and return to his work as a parish priest."

Road maps and dead ends,
Brattleboro Reformer (Vermont), April 14, 2003 [Editorial]
"If the daily deaths of Palestinian civilians are not enough to make the United States stand up to Israel, then how about the shooting of two Western peace activists within a week, less than a month after American Rachel Corrie was killed beneath the treads of an Israeli bulldozer? Like dozens of international peace volunteers, these brave young people went to Palestine to try to protect civilians, of whom hundreds have been killed during the uprising of the past two years. Here's what they got for their trouble: Rachel Corrie, 23, of Seattle, was crushed to death last month in Gaza as she attempted to block a bulldozer from demolishing the home of a Palestinian doctor. Brian Avery, 24, of New Mexico, was shot in the face in Jenin last weekend as he stood with colleagues on a street corner, waiting to go to a refugee camp where shooting had been heard. He remains in critical condition and may never speak again. On Saturday, Tom Hurndall, 21, of Britain, was fatally shot in the head as he tried to get children out of the line of fire in Gaza. These are quiet heroes, hundreds of miles from the well-publicized front lines in Baghdad, standing in where their governments have failed in their moral obligation to protect civilians being killed by weapons bought with American money. Yet while Jessica Lynch captures American hearts, Rachel Corrie and Brian Avery remain unknown. Two peace-loving Americans and one British civilian have suffered the same fate that befalls Palestinians civilians every day. Still, the Israeli government feels so confident in its actions that it didn't even bother to brief its American diplomats on the Avery shooting. Asked about the shooting four days after it happened, Israel's consul general to New England, Hillel Newman, said he was unaware of it. Nor did he carry out his pledge to find out about it and get back to us. The fact that this shooting was taken so casually as to not even merit mention in a diplomatic brief speaks volumes about Israel's position in this country. Those who dare broach Israel with a critical eye risk the extreme discomfort of the slanderous label 'anti-Semitic,' 'anti-Jew' or 'anti-Israel.' Blind allegiance to Israel and its occupation of the Palestinians is sheer folly, especially now, as the United States attempts to make its way through the new road map of the Middle Eas ... . By perpetuating this occupation, with its total disregard for human rights and international law, [Ariel] Sharon continues to fuel a terrorist breeding ground, and the cycle will continue. The United States cannot sit idly by as civilians are shot, with lawmakers afraid to insist on an investigation or even to support a toothless resolution commemorating Rachel Corrie, while the soldier who killed her is back on the job. What's imperative now is a bold approach to this intransigent problem. American politicians will continue to fear a backlash as long as their constituents remain silent. Call your congressional representatives and tell them what's happening is not acceptable. Urge them to find the courage to stand up to those who would counsel blind faith. We cannot remain blind to Palestine. It exists on no map, but lives fiercely and stubbornly in the hearts of millions. It's time to recognize both states, and the legitimate rights of both peoples to live in security and peace."

Argentine Military Battles Antisemitism,
[Jewish] Forward, April 18, 2003
"In another sign of change in South America, the Argentine military signed an agreement earlier this month incorporating the Anti-Defamation League's educational materials on racism and antisemitism into the curriculum of the country's military schools. The agreement between the army and the Rioplatense foundation, an Argentine human rights group, was supposed to have been celebrated last week in New York with a meeting between the ADL's national director, Abraham Foxman, and Fernando Maurette, Argentina's vice-minister of defense and the person responsible for the project ... Besides his ministerial position and his Peronist loyalties, Maurette heads the international studies center at the Rioplatense foundation. The foundation was started with the support of the Buenos Aires regional government but is now sustained exclusively by private donors. Through some Jewish friends, Maurette contacted the ADL for assistance in tackling the issues of antisemitism and racism in the military schools. He reached an agreement with the American Jewish group in April of last year, which entailed bringing seven officials from the Buenos Aires regional government, including police officials, to the ADL's headquarters in New York for training. In the meantime, the foundation and the ADL worked together to translate and adapt the ADL's 'A World of Difference' manual. Teach-ins and seminars on tolerance were organized last year at police and magistrates' schools. But the main project was to formally incorporate the manual into the curricula of several educational institutions, starting with the military schools. Through his position in government, Maurette had access to the top military officials and pushed the idea."

[Here we have defined -- in David Horwitz's Front Page journal -- the Jewish Israelization of America. America is increasingly hated because of its Israel-based foreign policy and Judeocentric arrogance.]
Americans: The Jews of the World,
by Daniel Jennings, FrontPageMagazine.com, April 23, 2003
"The popular 20th Century Jewish American novelist Edna Ferber once wrote 'the United States seems to be the Jews among nations. It is resourceful adaptable, maligned, envied and feared... its peoples are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving shifting, restless.' Sadly enough, recent events have proven that Ferber was right. The Jewish people and the United States have a lot in common, both are successful, resourceful, adaptable, highly creative, inventive and hated. Like the Jews, Americans are increasingly the objects of hatred, fear, jealousy, bigotry, prejudice, violence and terror from all corners of the globe and the political spectrum. In particular, America and Americans are now the target of a vicious, irrational, destructive, well-organized, well-defined, popular and widespread campaign of hatred, prejudice and hysteria similar to that directed against the Jews before World War II. Anti-Americanism has become as popular and as widespread as anti-Semitism was in the 1920s and 30s and its effects could be just as destructive and as tragic as the wave of anti-Semitism that gave rise to Adolph Hitler and the Final Solution. The historical analogies between anti-Semitism in the first half of the 20th Century and anti-Americanism today are absolutely bone chilling. In the early 1920s, all of the world's problems were blamed on the Jews. The Jews had somehow started World War I, Jewish bankers had financed the Russian Revolution, Communism was a Jewish conspiracy to enslave the world, the Jews had somehow engineered Germany's defeat in 1918, Jewish artists and intellectuals were responsible for the decline of culture and morality, Jewish businessmen were responsible for all the problems of capitalism and the troubles of the poor. This was nonsense but it was widely believed even by the most educated and respected of people. Today, the problems of nations and peoples all over the world are blamed upon America."

$10 million award upheld in feud. ADL likely to appeal ruling in couple's defamation lawsuit,
by Karen Abbott, Rocky Mountain News, April 23, 2003
"A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a jury's $10 million award to a former Evergreen couple denounced as anti-Semites by the Anti-Defamation League after their Jewish neighbors secretly recorded their telephone conversations. The 2-1 ruling by a panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals likely will be appealed by the ADL, which faces spending a fourth of its annual budget to pay the award to William and Dorothy 'Dee' Quigley. The ruling also increases the worries of other advocacy groups and lawyers who help them. The nationally publicized case drew three friend-of-the-court briefs in support of the ADL from other groups and lawyers, contending the danger of huge legal liabilities threatened their ability to work for good causes. The Quigleys sued the ADL and the then-director of its Denver office, Saul Rosenthal, for defamation, violations of federal wiretap law and invasion of privacy. The 10th Circuit panel threw out the invasion of privacy claims Tuesday, but left other claims and the jury's total damages award intact. The Quigleys' attorney, Jay Horowitz, said the ruling may not end the legal dispute. 'The Quigleys have been involved in difficult and extraordinarily expensive litigation for the preceding 8 ½ years,' he said. 'They are extremely gratified by the United States Court of Appeals decision. They are aware, however, that proceedings may continue. For that reason, they must restrict their comments, other than to say that they are committed to continue this battle as long as it takes, and to vindicate their name, their reputation and their rights of privacy' ... The Quigleys' Jewish neighbors, Mitchell and Candice Aronson, consulted the ADL in 1994 after overhearing the Quigleys' telephone remarks on their Radio Shack police scanner. They said they heard the Quigleys discuss a campaign to drive them from the neighborhood with Nazi scare tactics: tossing lampshades and soap on their lawn; putting pictures of Holocaust ovens on their house; dousing an Aronson child with flammable liquid. The Aronsons were advised to record the conversations. Based on the recordings, they sued the Quigleys in federal court; Jefferson County prosecutors charged the Quigleys with hate crimes; and Rosenthal denounced the Quigleys as anti-Semites in a press conference. The Quigleys got death threats and hate mail, including a box of dog feces. Their own Catholic priest denounced them from the pulpit. Later, everyone found out that the recordings became illegal just five days after they began, when President Bill Clinton signed a new federal wiretap restriction into law. The hate charges were dropped, and Jefferson County paid the Quigleys $75,000 after prosecutors concluded Dee Quigley's remarks to a friend were only in jest. Two lawyers on the ADL's volunteer board, who had advised the Aronsons, paid the Quigleys $350,000 to settle a lawsuit. The Quigleys and Aronsons dropped their legal attacks on each other, and neither family paid the other anything. The Aronsons divorced. The Quigleys now live in another state."

[The above article refers to this piece in Santa Rosa Junior College's school newspaper:]
Is Anti-Semitism Ever The Result Of Jewish Behavior?
By Kevin McGuire
"Israel is the largest and most dangerous terrorist organization in the world. Israel is currently and has been historically involved in a genocidal war against the Arab world. The Zionist Jews believe they are the 'chosen people' of god and that the world was given to them and is their possession. The Zionist Jews want to establish a Jewish holy land with no non-Jews present. They currently occupy Israel but are constantly trying to expand their borders with their superior military power over their Arab neighbors. No fewer than 2,265 Palestinians have been murdered by the Israelis in the last three years since September 28, 2000. Many of these victims were children, 22.8% were less than 18 years old and 12.8% (that's 291 killed) were less than 15 years old (http://www.palestinemonitor.org/). The Israelis carry out these attacks with armored tanks, helicopter gun ships and fully automatic rifles. The Palestinians must defend themselves with rocks. A typical plan of attack involves ramming an Israeli tank through the home of a Palestinian family and shooting anyone who happens to survive, including children. Then, once the cleansing process has been completed, the town is re-occupied with so called "Jewish settlers". This attitude of racial hatred and genocide is also reflected in the Torah: "Destroy all of the land; beat down their pillars and break their statues and waste all of their high places, cleansing the land and dwelling in it, for I have given it to you for a possession" Numbers 33:52,53. Israel is in violation of far more international laws than Iraq. Although bound by the same laws as Iraq, Israel is 'allowed' not only to possess chemical and genocidal race-specific Anti-Arab biological weapons, but they also have over 300 known nuclear bombs. These weapons, being held in the hands of proven Israeli terrorists, pose a much greater threat to world peace than all of the other terrorist organizations combined. This threat is partially to be blamed on us as American citizens, for doing nothing to prevent it. The Jewish war of genocide is being funded by us, the American tax payer. Since 1973, Israel has officially received $2,500,000,000 in US Foreign aid. Divide that by the current US population and it's over $5,700 paid per US citizen. On average Israel receives $6.3 billion per year, or $17 million per day. (http://www.sustaincampaign.org/). US aid to Israel makes up a full quarter of the Israeli annual budget. In addition to money, we also supply them with military gifts, such as F16 fighter jets, Apache helicopters, gun ships, tanks, machine guns, missiles and bullets. Without the heavy US aid to Israel that they are currently receiving Israel would no longer be able to continue its program of genocide. Each of us contributes directly to the Israeli holocaust waged against the people of Palestine and we each personally purchase the intense Arab hatred for America which caused the 9/11 attacks. American funding of Jewish genocide is not only felt by Arabs in the Middle East. On September 11, 2001 our nation was targeted by Arab terrorists not because they 'hate our freedoms', but because we are supplying the bullets that kill their children. Not only are we forced to pay a serious amount of money to fund the Jewish holy war which benefits America in no way, but American lives are also being sacrificed in service to Israel. Our national 'leaders' say nothing, do nothing, and deny the facts. Israel is the most powerful and dangerous terrorist organization in the world and they have hi-jacked America. Our spineless national 'leaders' refuse to even discuss the Israel issue because the Israeli-American lobby in Washington DC, funded by Zionist Jews, is the most powerful lobby in existence, wielding even more power than the NRA. It is now politically incorrect to question our Israeli policy, because any resistance to demands by Jews is anti-Semitism and that is 'hate,' the label politicians fear most. Our corrupt weakling politicians know that any mention of the Israel problem will be career suicide. They place their own selfish, greedy career and power interests over those of our national interests and the interests of the American people. In closing, here is a 1998 quote from Osama Bin Laden: 'So we tell the Americans as people, and we tell the mothers of soldiers and American mothers in general that if they value their lives and the lives of their children, to find a nationalist government that will look after their interests and not the interests of the Jews.' The continuation of tyranny will bring the fight to America, as Ramzi Yousef and others did. This is my message to the American people: to look for a serious government that looks out for their interests and does not attack others, their lands, or their honor. And my word to American journalists is not to ask why we did that, but ask what their government has done that forced us to defend ourselves. It is our duty to lead people to the light."

News in brief from California's North Coast,
Mercury News (California), May 2, 2003
"The offices of Santa Rosa Junior College's student newspaper were locked temporarily following death threats against the editor for a piece she published attacking Israel and Jews. The piece in the biweekly Oak Leaf appeared six weeks ago. Since then, 19-year-old editor Kristinae Toomians has been the target of demands calling for her firing and an increase in faculty control over the content of the biweekly newspaper. Jewish faculty members have received abusive letters from white supremacist groups. 'The goal was to get a lively discussion going,' Toomians said Thursday. 'I'm sorry for any pain it caused. That wasn't the point of publishing it. It was for debate purposes.' The article, entitled 'Is anti-Semitism ever the result of Jewish behavior?', was written by Mark McGuire, a student who's not a member of the newspaper staff. The piece included inflammatory language, took a pro-Palestinian position and used arguments popular in white supremacist literature. Outrage over the article has extended far beyond the campus and has colored the perception of the college, SRJC President Robert Agrella said. 'The article should never have been printed,' he said. 'If anything good has come out of this, it is that we are finally focusing in on the work of the Oak Leaf, and the staff and the role of the adviser.' Rich Mellott, the adjunct professor who advises the Oak Leaf staff, said he read the piece quickly and saw no reason not to run it. 'It was racially charged and there were a few inflammatory things, but it wasn't libelous and it didn't incite people to violence,' Mellott said. 'The First Amendment isn't there to protect agreeable stories.' Meanwhile, editor Toomians said the furor the article has been a learning experience. 'I was really nervous at first," she said of threatening letters and fliers left on her car windshield, 'but I have a lot of support here, and I'm feeling more at ease.'"

British University Teachers to debate academic boycott of Israel,
By DOUGLAS DAVIS, The Jerusalem Post, May 4, 2003
"Britain's 46,000-strong Association of University Teachers will debate a motion calling for an academic boycott of Israel at its annual three-day conference this week. The motion, proposed by English lecturer Sue Blackwell, of Birmingham University, calls on the union to sever 'any academic links they may have with official Israeli institutions.' Delegates will also be urged not to attend conferences in Israel and to support colleagues who have allegedly been the focus of a 'witch-hunt' because of their support for an academic boycott. The motion is one of 59 that has been selected for debate by the union's six-member agenda committee from several hundred submissions. It has been set down for debate on Friday afternoon, when a number of Jewish academics will be absent because of the onset of the Sabbath. The decision to raise the issue has provoked an angry reaction from some academics, who say it is anti-Semitic and should not be given a public hearing. The union's national executive has recommended that the call for action be rejected, although it has defended its decision to debate a boycott of Israel. Secretary-general Sally Hunt said that the union represents 'a wide spectrum of views on numerous matters. This subject will be fully debated and I am sure those who feel strongly about the issue will put forward their arguments.' Emanuele Ottolenghi, an Israeli lecturer at Oxford University's St Antony's College, condemned the motion as anti-Semitic and contrary to the ethics of the academic community ... Blackwell told the Sunday Telegraph in London that she rejected the charge [of anti-Semitism]: 'I deny emphatically that I am somehow anti-Semitic by bringing this motion,' she said. 'I have been a member of the Anti-Nazi League for many years and a campaigner for human rights. I absolutely condemn terrorism of any kind.'"

[Even a prominent member of the British Parliament who dares to criticize the Jewish "cabal" is not immune from the Thought Police Squad and its legal wrangling to veil the truth:]
Anger over Dalyell's 'Jewish cabal' slur,
by FRASER NELSON, The Scotsman (Scotland), May 5, 2003
"Tam Dalyell, the Father of the House, may be referred to the Commission for Racial Equality after claiming a 'Jewish cabal' operating in both the United States and Britain is driving the governments of both countries into a war against Syria. Eric Moonman, the president of the Zionist Federation in London, has said he believes Mr Dalyell’s remarks constitute a formal offence - and that he is considering a formal complaint to the commission. Mr Dalyell said that he now expects to be victimised because he raised 'a whisper of criticism' about the influence which Jewish advisers hold on Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, and George Bush, the president of the US. The outrage was prompted by Mr Dalyell’s comments in Vanity Fair magazine, where he said the ideas of hardline Jewish White House advisers are being embraced by men of equivalent stature in London. He has named Peter Mandelson, Jack Straw and Lord Levy as the trio which influences Mr Blair in his foreign policy - and are ensuring that Britain follows a "Zionist agenda" in the Middle East. When asked to explain his comments, Mr Dalyell told The Scotsman yesterday he was not anti-Semitic but felt the need to lay out his fears that Zionist ministers may make Syria the 'next stop' after Iraq. 'A Jewish cabal have taken over the government in the United States and formed an unholy alliance with fundamentalist Christians,' he said. The members of this cabal, he said, are Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defence secretary, Elliott Abrams, a member of the national security council, Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, and John Bolton, the undersecretary of state. 'I was asked [by Vanity Fair] what effect this has had on Britain and I said it has fallen on fertile ground here. I mentioned Mandelson, Straw and Levy as being fertile ground. They have all encouraged Blair to go through with this terrible war' ... Mr Dalyell said he is aware about the opposition his remarks caused. 'One is treading on cut glass on this issue and no one wants to be accused of anti-Semitism, but if it is a question of launching an assault on Syria, then one has to be candid.' David Garfinkel, the editor-in-chief of the London Jewish News, said Mr Dalyell’s remarks introduced an anti-Semetic dimension into the debate - and would send shock waves through the community ... Mr Wolfowitz and Mr Abrams are usually named with Douglas Feith and David Wurmser as members of the 'cabal.' All men are prominent figures of the US neo-conservative movement."

Dalyell remarks on Jewish cabal may face scrutiny by watchdog,
By Benedict Brogan, Telegraph (UK), May 5, 2003
"Tam Dalyell, Labour's most senior MP, faces being referred to the Commission for Racial Equality over remarks he made to an American magazine which suggested Tony Blair was unduly influenced by Jewish figures in his inner circle. Prof Eric Moonman, a former Labour MP and current president of the Zionist Alliance, said he had consulted lawyers about comments published yesterday that he described as 'highly inflammatory'. Mr Dalyell, MP for Linlithgow and Father of the House, was alleged to have accused the Prime Minister of 'being unduly influenced by a cabal of Jewish advisers'. The remark, which was not a direct quote but claimed to describe his attitude, appeared in the current issue of Vanity Fair magazine in an article to mark Mr Blair's 50th birthday. Mr Moonman who is a former senior vice-president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, described himself as a long-standing friend of Mr Dalyell but said his views were unacceptable. 'It's the sort of insidious thing I would expect to see in a poorly produced BNP pamphlet,' he said. 'It is bad enough for an MP to start to use this language but it is much worse when he is Father of the House. If he were to point out a cabal of black people, he would be referred to the CRE.' Mr Moonman said he did not believe Mr Dalyell was anti-Semitic. But he added: 'This sort of language is quite wrong and ultimately will do him a great deal of harm. We will look very closely at what he says in the future. I have taken advice from several lawyers and will have further consultations on whether there is a case for a referral to the CRE. I believe there is' ... Mr Dalyell, an opponent of the war against Iraq, is said to have identified Lord Levy, the Prime Minister's special envoy to the Middle East, Mr [Jack] Straw [Foreign Secretary] and Peter Mandelson, whose father was Jewish. He denied he was anti-Semitic. 'I am fully aware that one is treading on cut glass on this issue and no one wants to be accused of anti-Semitism, but, if it is a question of launching an assault on Syria or Iran . . . then one has to be candid,' he said. Last night Mr Dalyell said he was worried Mr Blair was being 'led up the garden path on a Likudnic-Sharon agenda', a reference to Ariel Sharon, the hard-line Israeli prime minister and his Likud party. He said he only used the word "cabal" in reference to figures in the Bush administration. 'The cabal I referred to was in the US. That is the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs,' he said."

Fury as Dalyell attacks Blair's 'Jewish cabal',
by Colin Brown & Chris Hastings, Telegraph (UK) , May 4, 2003
"Tam Dalyell, the Father of the House, sparked outrage last night by accusing the Prime Minister of 'being unduly influenced by a cabal of Jewish advisers.' In an interview with Vanity Fair, the Left-wing Labor MP named Lord Levy, Tony Blair's personal envoy on the Middle East, Peter Mandelson, whose father was Jewish, and Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, who has Jewish ancestry, as three of the leading figures who had influenced Mr. Blair's policies on the Middle East. Yesterday Mr. Dalyell, the MP for Linlithgow, told The Telegraph: 'I am fully aware that one is treading on cut glass on this issue and no one wants to be accused of anti-Semitism but, if it is a question of launching an assault on Syria or Iran . . . then one has to be candid.' He added: 'I am not going to be labeled anti-Semitic. My children worked on a kibbutz. But the time has come for candour.' The Prime Minister, Mr. Dalyell claimed, was also indirectly influenced by Jewish people in the Bush administration, including Richard Perle, a Pentagon adviser, Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, and Ari Fleischer, the president's press secretary."

[Dick Morris is Jewish and a former close advisor to President Bill Clinton who once let a prostitute listen to his phone conversation with the president.]
QUEEN NOOR'S ANTI-SEMITISM,
by Dick Morris, New York Post, May 5, 2003
"OH, that Khadafy! Jordan's Queen Noor assures us that the Libyan dictator and his wife are such a "delightful and charming couple," with whom she spent 'a remarkably pleasant evening.' Strife in the Middle East? It's the Jews who are at fault, her majesty informs us in 'Leap of Faith,' her new best-selling autobiography: 'Jews, Muslims, and Christians had lived peacefully in the Middle East and indeed in Palestine for centuries. It was not until the rise of Zionism and the creation of Israel that animosities took root.' Anti-Semites never attack Jews, the way she tells the tale, but only Zionism or Israel. And nothing is the fault of the Arab nations (who attacked Israel four times and refused to absorb Palestinians into their borders). America? Overrun by Jewish interests: 'Jews . . . achieved influence and power at the highest levels.' Worse yet, friends of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) are 'CEOs of large American corporations and representatives of the top levels of media and entertainment businesses, financial institutions, legal and medical professions and, increasingly, the highest reaches of government.' It's good old fashioned anti-Semitism, dressed up to sound better. Instead of 'shylock,' she speaks of the dominance of Jews over 'financial institutions.' Instead of the Elders of Zion, she speaks of Jews' power over the 'highest reaches of government.' Instead of going after Jews in Hollywood, it's the 'top levels of media and entertainment businesses.' Bigotry and prejudice leaps out from each page of the book ... Anti-Semitism always advances disguised. Queen Noor attacks Israel, Zionism and Jewish power in America. She complains of Jewish domination of banking, business and media. She doesn't go out into the street and yell 'Death to the Jews,' but Queen Noor, King Hussein's fourth wife, has written an anti-Semitic book nonetheless. Americans, and Jews, should not do her the favor of buying it."

[FrontPage is David Horowitz's neo-con web site.]
Fascists, Communists Unite Against President Bush,
By Brian Sayre, FrontPageMagazine.com, May 5, 2003
"The pudgy, balding man openly waved his protest sign - 'Hands off Iraq - No Blood For Zionism!' Below that bit of anti-Semitism, he'd printed the web address of the National Alliance - the openly neo-Nazi, white-supremacist organization founded by William Pierce ... On Friday, May 2nd, I watched this bigot march alongside young people wearing the t-shirts of Anti-Racist Action. It was a strange day in Santa Clara, California, where the remnants of the broken anti-war protests gathered to protest President Bush's appearance and speech at a nearby manufacturing plant ... What I saw were extremists, plain and simple. A few themes stood out: their belief that President Bush is a fascist, their belief that America is a terrorist nation, and their rampant anti-Semitism. First, the obsession with fascism. Leaving aside the real fascists, who walked openly among them, many in the small crowd took pains to equate President Bush with Adolf Hitler, and the American government with Nazi Germany ... The last theme, of course, was anti-Semitism. That's full-time ideology and profession of the National Alliance, which was openly wandering the streets, happily talking with the protestors about Jewish conspiracies. Besides our pudgy, already-mentioned National Alliance supporter, an elderly man with no sign went from person to person, pressing small slips of paper into their hand: "It's All About Israel." A masked, black clad man roamed the crowd with a sign that read "Zionist Puppet" on one side, "No More Wars For Israel" on the other ... And don't be fooled - this kind of nonsense wasn't just coming from cranks in the audience. An anonymous activist from the South Bay Mobilization, never identified by his full name, told the crowd that 'neoconservatives' had promised Bush the presidency for life, as long as he followed the polices of Israel. He spoke this through a microphone, as an official rally speaker. Anti-Semites don't just attend these rallies, they speak from the stage. If I were a Democrat like Joe Liebermann, I might want to ask my fellow candidates, Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich, what their supporters were doing mingling with neo-Nazis, flashing their signs and recruiting for their campaigns? Of course, the protest was organized by the usual suspects, the communist Workers' World Party-controlled International ANSWER."

Rabbi speaks out against anti-Semitic propaganda,
By Laura Crimaldi, Milford Daily News, May 7, 2003
"A local rabbi sided yesterday with the police decision to nab three men accused of littering area lawns with anti-Semitic propaganda over the weekend, saying the arrests might give the trio pause. 'The police should look for a legal excuse to lock them up even if it's protected under the First Amendment,' said Rabbi Mendy Kivman of Milford. Ian C. Clark, 22, of 50 Edgewater Drive in Blackstone; Michael P. Medeiros, 24, of 18 Saunders St. in Pawtucket, R.I.; and Jeffrey Broadbent, 40, of 1034 Tremont St. in North Dighton; are charged with defacing property, littering from a motor vehicle, being disorderly and disturbing the peace, court papers show. Broadbent is also charged with carrying a dangerous weapon after police recovered a folding knife and a box of .40-caliber ammunition, police said. Police arrested the trio over the weekend after police were deluged with complaints about the anti-Semitic propaganda being dropped at doorsteps. The National Alliance, a West Virginia-based white supremacist group, penned the propaganda, urging people to warn their children about Jews, end aid to Israel and attack the so-called 'Jewish media control.' Kivman acknowledged the role free speech could play in the criminal case ... Defense attorneys for Broadbent and Medeiros attacked the charges as assaults on free speech and promised to fight them in court. 'It's classic free speech protected by the First Amendment,' said attorney John Manni. 'I don't see how they could charge him with any of these.' Police Chief Gerard Daigle scoffed at the notion police did not have sufficient grounds to press charges. 'To me, we did what we had to do,' he said. Police never cited free speech in filing charges. Rabbi Barbara Symons of Temple Etz Chaim in Franklin offered words of comfort to the community. 'The more they speak out, the more the kind of people who pass out that sort of information will see that their message is falling on deaf ears. They are their own comfort,' she said. Bellingham Selectman Ann Odabashian said she didn't want to give the three defendants much credence. 'In today's world, where we have so much to worry about, it's very small-minded people that come up with this,' she said."

Rights group: hatred of Jews at highest level since WWII,
Ha'aretz (Israel), May 13, 2003
"Anti-Semitism is rising at a rate unseen since the end of World War Two, fuelled in part by an explosion of hate sites on the Internet, Jewish leaders told an international conference on intolerance Monday. From just one Web site in 1985, there were now more than 4,000 promoting terrorism, hate and historical revisionism, according to a report released at the conference held at the Paris headquarters of UNESCO, the UN scientific and cultural body. The three-day conference, which plans to combat anti-Semitism through 'education for tolerance', is attended by religious leaders and experts, as well as political representatives including Minister for Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky; U.S. congressman Robert Beauprez, Republican of Colorado; and France's Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Also scheduled to attend are the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello and former NATO commander in Europe General Wesley Clark. 'Not since the end of World War Two has the world seen such a proliferation of anti-Semitism,' Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center which preserves the memory of the Holocaust, said in a conference address. 'I believe that you have a new generation of professional haters who are serving as leaders, demagogues, and they're inspiring young people to do their bidding while they often hide,' he told journalists earlier. Hier cited cartoons in Western newspapers and a range of comments by leading Arab officials as evidence of the rise in anti-Semitism. It was wrong to blame poverty or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the upsurge, which could only be confronted by speaking out, he said. 'There is nothing new about the oldest hatred,' he said. 'Some will hide behind what Israel is doing... but those are just excuses, that's a ruse.' Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal center, presented a report detailing 4,000 international Web sites that he said promote terrorism, hatred or Holocaust denial. 'We are seeing now a very sophisticated manipulation of the Internet by terrorists and their supporters,' he said. 'They are ahead of the curve in understanding the possibilities of the Internet.' But protesters outside, including many Jews and members of the Americans Against the War coalition, said Cooper had deliberately excluded radical Zionist groups from the list. In a letter to the conference host, UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura, the protesters said the Wiesenthal center, 'under the deceitful cover of the struggle against anti-Semitism, is on the contrary encouraging intolerance and racism in our societies' ... Shimon Samuels of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Paris branch said anti-globalization protests had degenerated into attacks 'on what they see as the vultures of society [who] are in most cases the United States and the Jewish people.' 'They have taken the old stereotypes and simply modernized them... thereby proliferating and having a multiplier effect they were never able to do in previous decades,' he said."

This month's 'Gentile Groveling to the Jewish Machine Award.' First lover: Jewish. Second wife: Jewish. View of the world: psychoanalysis (i.e., Jewish). What's antisemitism? : "People achieve their sense of identity by becoming socialized into the projective identifications of their peer group or subculture." (i.e., one becomes "antisemitic" because of a kind of peer group pressure to become an irrational bigot). Bottom line: Psychoanalysis. This man has apparently imprinted -- like a young lost duck -- upon the Jewish tribe as his mother. As Mr. Young clearly proves, sucking a mother's breast (and an infant's poo-poo wielded as a weapon) is the origin of what is called 'antisemitism.' Sorry, folks. If you guessed this one correctly, you can collect your stuffed bear in front of the Bearded Lady tent. I guess it all means that once you suck Psychoanalystic Psychobabble from your first Jewish lover's nipple, you tend to go berserk and cannot fetch the velvet slippers for the Jewish Lobby -- and your inevitable Jewish daughters -- fast enough."
WHAT, IF ANYTHING, CAN BE DONE ABOUT MY ANTISEMITISM?,
by Robert M. Young, Human Nature, May 15, 2003
"My first lover was a Jew, and I miss her very much, having mistakenly abandoned her for a Methodist, who became my wife for a short time before abandoning me and our son. My second wife was a Jew, the most beautiful woman I have known (think of Sofia Loren), and we have two remarkable and highly accomplished Jewish daughters, one a lawyer with two sons, the other a doctor ... My third accuser, a well-known Jewish analytical psychotherapist, was, if he is to be believed, even more acute in spotting my anti-Semitism. I founded and ran a small and dramatically unprofitable publishing imprint called Free Association Books. Its parent company was Process Press Limited, and at a certain point I began publishing a few books under that imprint, below which on the title page I put this slogan: ‘Only purity of means can justify the ends.’ I drew it from a novel by Arthur Koestler which I greatly admire, Darkness at Noon, whose hero was ruminating what went wrong with Bolshevism as he awaited execution in the Stalinist purge trials. He concluded that where they went wrong was in believing that the end justified the means, and he decided that instead they should have taken care to get the process right. Never mind what I thought I was doing in invoking that quotation, the appearance of the word ‘purity’ was enough to lead my colleague to accuse me of anti-Semitism. Believe it or not, I was subjected to some uncomfortable conversations with other Jewish members of the editorial board of a journal I published and edited, so enthusiastic and effective was his witch-hunting ... I want to suggest that the key to understanding the psychodynamics of anti-Semitism and other virulent denigrating feelings about groups and peoples is the unconscious mechanism called projective identification. Projective identification is a primitive mental mechanism in Kleinian psychoanalysis, probably the most important concept she conceived. It began as a rather simple idea about early infant development but became, at the hands of subsequent writers, the most basic element of all communication. Here is what Klein wrote: She concludes seven pages on the fine texture of the infant’s early paranoid and schizoid mechanisms as follows: 'So far, in dealing with persecutory fear, I have singled out the oral element. However, while the oral libido still has the lead, libidinal and aggressive impulses and phantasies from other sources come to the fore and lead to a confluence of oral, urethral and anal desires, both libidinal and aggressive. Also the attacks on the mother's breast develop into attacks of a similar nature on her body, which comes to be felt as it were as an extension of the breast, even before the mother is conceived of as a complete person. The phantasied onslaughts on the mother follow two main lines: one is the predominantly oral impulse to suck dry, bite up, scoop out and rob the mother's body of its good contents... The other line of attack derives from the anal and urethral impulses and implies expelling dangerous substances (excrements) out of the self and into the mother. Together with these harmful excrements, expelled in hatred, split-off parts of the ego are also projected onto the mother or, as I would rather call it, into the mother. These excrements and bad parts of the self are meant not only to injure but also to control and to take possession of the object. In so far as the mother comes to contain the bad parts of the self, she is not felt to be a separate individual but is felt to be the bad self. 'Much of the hatred against parts of the self is now directed towards the mother. This leads to a particular form of identification which establishes the prototype of an aggressive object-relation' (Klein, 1946, pp. 7-8). Note carefully that we have here the model - the template, the fundamental experience - of all of the aggressive features of human relations. Six years later Klein adds the following sentence: 'I suggest for these processes the term 'projective identification.'"

[A JTR commentator wonders: "Will we be finding in America Israeli A. B. Yehoshua's new book that blames Jews for "anti-Semitism?" Don't hold your breath.]
No matter its origins, anti-Semitism, like any disease, needs to be fought,
By Hillel Halkin, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, May 20, 2003
"When we ask ourselves whether anti-Semitism is essentially one thing or many, just as when we ask ourselves whether or how it will cease — when we ask, in other words, what must change to make it cease — are we not really asking whether the real cause of anti-Semitism is to be found in the Jews or in the world? Before anyone protests that even to inquire whether the Jews might be the cause of anti-Semitism is an abject capitulation to the anti-Semites, I would remind you that the belief that they are the cause of it has been traditionally shared by anti-Semites with Jews. Why are the Jews like the fruit of the olive tree? ask the rabbis in the Midrash. 'Because,' they answer, 'as all liquids mix with each other, but the oil of the olive does not, so Israel does not mix with the Gentiles . . . And as the olive does not yield its oil unless it is crushed, so Israel does not return to God unless it is crushed by affliction.' Being chosen and set apart exacts a double price. It makes an envious and indignant world persecute the Jews and it makes a pedagogical God allow this to happen. Historically, this is the normative Jewish point of view. Classical Zionism, too, viewed the Jews as the cause of anti-Semitism ... Zionism understood the Jews’ misfortunes differently from rabbinic Judaism, which made it more optimistic about overcoming them. And yet there is in all self-blame a peculiar sort of optimism that helps to explain why, starting with the biblical prophets, there has been so much of it among Jews; for if you are the cause of your own suffering, you have the ability to rectify it, as you do not if it is caused by something or someone outside you ... If anti-Semitism has a single cause — the Jews — it is a dragon that can be slain. If it has many causes — as many as the world has fears, hatreds and phobias — it is a hydra: Cut off one head and it will grow another. Is that, then, what we are asking when we ask whether the new anti-Semitism is or is not just the old one all over again: whether we are fighting a dragon or a hydra? ... [A. B.] Yehoshua is writing a book, too. In it he maintains that the ultimate reason for anti-Semitism is the Jews themselves. Although this does not, needless to say, excuse or justify prejudice against them, the Jews have throughout their history, Yehoshua believes, baffled and exasperated the world. They have done this by taking two ideas that were their contribution to civilization and by which civilization subsequently organized itself — the idea of monotheistic universalism and the idea of national particularism — and fusing them in a way that has subverted both, thus ironically making them in the world’s eyes the symbolic enemy of humanity and of the nation alike. It is this fusion, or confusion, Yehoshua argues, that has enabled the Arab states to turn a political and territorial conflict with Israel into a successful anti-Semitic campaign, since Israel’s failure to distinguish clearly between religion and nationality — that is, between Jewishness and Israeliness — makes it an anomaly among democracies and exposes it to charges of racism and discrimination."

 

Anti-Semitism, right here at home,
By Lily Galili, Haaretz (Israel), May 24, 2003
"Not long ago the first Israeli neo-Nazi Internet site was launched. To put it more precisely, it is actually an Israeli site in the Russian language. Who says there are no original productions here? To the list of oddities by which the world is now defined, a few local paradoxes can be added. It appears that the number of Russian Jews who will emigrate to Germany this year will be larger than the number who come to Israel; the law under which Jews from the former Soviet Union can immigrate to Germany is close to the restricted definition of 'Jewish under Jewish law.' The Israeli Law of Return, however, is in fact based on the Nuremberg Laws, in which the Germans expanded the definition of who is Jewish in accordance with their own needs. Anti-Semitism has been swelling recently in Europe, and also in the Jewish state. Not long ago, the first Israeli neo-Nazi Internet site was launched. More precisely, it is an Israeli site in the Russian language. Who says there are no original productions here? The site is well organized. It has text and pictures showing the activists of the organization, 'The White Israeli Union,' some of them in Israel Defense Forces uniforms on the background of army camps and saluting with a raised arm. The expanded text is divided into sub-sections. There is one on "Who we are," where the managers of the site introduce themselves as "Ilya from Haifa and Andrei from Arad," and it is related there that the members of the organization are 'people who have pride in themselves and are sick of living among the dirty bastards.' There is a section on 'Who our enemies are,' where all the 'enemies' are extensively documented: the Jews, the Arabs, the immigrants from all Moslem republics of the former Soviet Union, the Moroccans, the foreign workers - in short, the 'black-asses' ... There is also a 'codex' section of rules of behavior for members of the organization, among them respect for parents, but also 'not to be miserly, because a miser is a Zhid,' a derogatory Russian word for Jew, approximately equivalent to 'Kike' ... Those who follow phenomena of this sort say that in its structure and content, the site resembles neo-Nazi sites in Russia, and strong connections exist between the activists here and the activists there. In the forum on the local site, there is an ambivalent attitude toward the fact that these proud white people are living in Israel ... The White Israeli Union site is a new peak among a number of anti-Semitic phenomena in the Russian-speaking community in Israel ... In Russian bookstores in Israel, books that promote Holocaust-denial are sold openly (which is against the law), as are cassettes of neo-Nazi songs like 'The Nazis are Coming."'Gilichinsky's attempts to enlist the help of the Anti-Defamation League, the president of Israel and the official site maintained by the State of Israel and the Jewish Agency have all been answered in the same spirit: 'It's not our mandate. Our mandate is anti-Semitism around the world, not in Israel.'"

[The horrible virus/contagion of JEWISH NEUROSIS, gone berserk:]
The new anti-Semitism?,
by Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, June 3, 2003
"Anti-Semitism, like some plague-inducing virus, is 'evolving' -- or so warns Holocaust scholar Daniel J. Goldhagen in the American Jewish weekly The Forward. According to the author, the lessons of the Holocaust are slowly being forgotten and a 'free-floating' globalised hatred of Jews is being spread via the Internet and television. Goldhagen's piece, 'The Globalisation of anti-Semitism,' is one of the latest contributions to a growing body of reports by American and Israeli journalists and research centres purporting to show that a powerful new strain of racism is sweeping the globe. None of the authors is as disinterested as he claims: each hopes to silence criticism of both Israel and the muscular Zionist lobby groups within Washington that support Israel. Goldhagen's trick is to turn traditional Christian anti-Semitism on its head. Where once the anti-Semites accused the Jews of being the contagion carriers -- harming their neighbours by spreading their uniquely 'diseased' financial, professional and moral ideas -- now it is the non-Jew who must be quarantined. We are all anti-Semites unless we can prove otherwise. 'Globalized anti-Semitism has become part of the substructure of prejudice in the world,' Goldhagen writes. 'It is relentlessly international in its focus on Israel at the center of the most conflict-ridden region today, and on the United States as the world's omnipresent power.' The rise of Arab anti-Semitism, which has no obvious connection to historic European hatred of Jews, is explained away: 'Essentially, Europe has exported its classical racist and Nazi anti-Semitism to Arab countries, which they then applied to Israel and Jews in general." The process, however, has not stopped there, according to Goldhagen. "Then the Arab countries re-exported the new hybrid demonology back to Europe and, using the United Nations and other international institutions, to other countries around the world. In Germany, France, Great Britain and elsewhere, today's intensive anti-Semitic expression and agitation uses old tropes once applied to local Jews -- charges of sowing disorder, wanting to subjugate others -- with new content overwhelmingly directed at Jews outside their countries." The only way to prove one is not infected, Goldhagen implies, is by abstaining from any criticism of Israel and Zionist influences -- Christian as well as Jewish -- currently dominating Washington's policy-making circles ... The diagnosis from Goldhagen and others is that we, the non-Jews, are doomed to our age-old racism. It's in our genes: we are born in thrall to our prejudice. Where does such a thesis lead? In another time and place, it may -- like other philosophies of uniqueness and disease that preceded it -- take us along a route that leads to the horrible gas chambers of a warped imagination."

["Anti-semitism" is the greatest conspiracy theory in history: it is alleged to everywhere, anywhere, in every possible shape and form. All non-Jews are unstood to be contaminated by it, and they must purge themselves before the Jewish Tribunal:]
The Village Is Not Burning: A Realist`s Appraisal Of Anti-Semitism Today,
By Leon Wieseltier, The Jewish Press, June 4, 2003
"In recent years it has become increasingly acceptable, in our politics and in our philosophy, to proclaim the end of the Enlightenment, or to dream of it. The spectacle of contemporary anti-Semitism, the extraordinary durability of the antipathy toward the Jews, should embarrass this idea, even if the Enlightenment was itself shot through with the intolerance that it brilliantly denounced. If there is still any question that the human world, including the Western parts of it, does not yet suffer from a surfeit of reason and decency, the re- symbolization of the Jew in our time should answer it. 'Very few phenomena of human history have a history of approximately 2000 years,' Victor Tcherikover once remarked. 'Anti-Semitism is one of them.' And so we now have a whole array of Judeophobias to consider. The taxonomy of present-day anti-Semitism is ominously large. There are religious varieties and secular varieties; theological varieties and ideological varieties; political varieties and cultural varieties; old varieties and new varieties. There is the anti-Semitism of Christians, which comes in many forms, and the anti-Semitism of Muslims, which comes in many forms. There is the anti-Semitism of the Right, in Europe and in the United States, still stubbornly blaming the Jews for modernity and there is the anti-Semitism of the Left, most recently seeking shelter (and finding it) in the anti-globalization movement, which has presided over a revival of the New Left`s dogmas about capitalism and liberalism and Americanism. And there is the anti-Semitism that manifests itself as anti-Zionism. This is, I think, the most dangerous anti-Semitism of them all. It is not the case, of course, that every criticism of the Jewish state is an instance of anti-Semitism; but it is certainly the case that every instance of anti-Semitism is a criticism of the Jewish state, a fundamental criticism, since it denies the legitimacy of the ideal of a normal life for Jews, who are consigned by anti-Semites of one kind or another to an endless abnormality of one kind or another. If Israel cannot be above criticism, neither can Israel`s critics be above criticism; and the anxiety that many critics of Israeli policy are at bottom critics of Israeli reality -- that the opposition to Israeli actions in Jenin or Gaza is sometimes motivated by a prior historical or religious dogma -- is not an outlandish anxiety. Anti-Semitism should be the occasion for an international conference at a center for non-Jewish history. Let me explain. The hatred of the Jews is a matter of urgent concern to Jews because of the injury that they may suffer as a result of it. The Jewish investigation of anti-Semitism is plainly a requirement of self-interest, and also a requirement of dignity, because defending oneself against one`s enemy is an ethical duty of the most elementary sort. The search for security has a foundation in morality. Still, the solution to the problem of anti-Semitism is not to be sought in the Jewish struggle against it. It is indecent to ask the victims to make themselves responsible for an end to their victimization. After all, they are not doing this to themselves. This is being done to them. If anti-Semitism will ever vanish from the earth, it will be the consequence of a transformation not in the mentality of Jews, but in the mentality of non-Jews."

["Antisemitism" a "criminal offense?"]
Europe warned on anti-Semitism,
BBC, June 19, 2003
"Attacks on synagogues have increased since 11 September 2001. The United States has said Europe must do more to tackle a resurgence of anti-Semitism around the world. The plea was made by former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, representing the US at a conference in the Austrian capital, Vienna. "Words do not suffice to turn the tide of anti-Semitism that is once again growing in Europe and other parts of the world," he said. About 400 officials from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have gathered for the unprecedented two-day meeting following a rash of anti-Jewish incidents in Europe in recent years. The European Union told the conference it was taking action against anti-Jewish hatred but denied there had been a distinctive rise in anti-Semitism. Official limits Mr Giuliani told delegates to take concrete steps to stamp out violence against Jews, including keeping statistics on hate crimes, identifying problems early on and comparing performances between countries. In a message read to the conference, US President George W Bush urged countries to "ensure that anti-Semitism is excluded from school text books, official statements, official television programming and official publications' ... Israeli chief representative Avraham Toledo called on conference delegates to make anti-Semitism a criminal offence."

[The New Totalitarianism in western democracies. Criticize Jews? Get fined $30,000]
Lawyer targeted by hateful Web site awarded $30,000,
by Adam Grachnik, June 19, 2003
"An Ottawa lawyer who became the target of a hate crime after he led the charge to shut down an anti-Semitic Web site was awarded $30,000 by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal last month, the Citizen has learned. Richard Warman, an Ottawa lawyer, tried to have www.patriotsonguard.org removed from the Internet because he believed the anti-Semitic content was 'over the line.' He send a note to the Internet service provider that hosted the site and in April 2001 it was pulled. Yet, weeks later, the site resurfaced and Mr. Warman became the target of the Web site, which was controlled by Fred Kyburz of Alberta. Mr. Warman filed complaints against Mr. Kyburz with the Canadian Human Rights Commission alleging hateful content on the site and personal attacks against him. Last month, the tribunal ruled on the case. 'In the tribunal's view, there can be no doubt that the messages contained on the Patriots on Guard Web site are likely to expose Jews generally to hatred and contempt,' the 29-page report from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal stated. In March 2001, Mr. Warman, who has been campaigning against hate on the Internet, became aware of the site and notified the Internet service provider. The site was shut down for several days in April. But a few weeks later it was back up on a different provider. Responding to the initiative taken by Mr. Warman, Mr. Kyburz shifted his focus. 'You are an anti-Semite since your ilk have the blood of thousands of Jews on your hands as well as the blood of millions of white people. You are an anti-Semite, anti-white and anti-right ... I have warned you idiots of my intent to expose your communistic Zionist agenda,' Mr. Kyburz e-mailed to Mr. Warman. The missive was highlighted in the tribunal's report. In its ruling the tribunal stated: 'There can be no doubt that Mr. Kyburz both retaliated and threatened to retaliate against Mr. Warman for having filed his Section 13 human rights complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission ... He said Canada has been aggressive in challenging hate sites. Mr. Warman said it took almost two years for the decision to come down because the tribunal was waiting for the decision on Ernst Zundel. In January 2002, the Canadian Human Rights Commission tribunal forced Mr. Zundel, a Holocaust denier, to shut down the site, saying it vilified Jewish people as 'liars, cheats, criminals and thugs.' There were additions made to the Canadian Human Rights Act when Bill C-36 was passed in Dec. 2001, which made the prohibition against spreading repeated hate messages by telephonic communications to include all telecommunications technologies. Mr. Warman said the amending of Bill C-36: 'Spells out that the Canadian Human Rights Commission includes the Internet. 'This is something that should have been done a long time ago," he added."

The new anti-Semitism. A document once used by the Nazis to stir up hatred of Jews and long known to be a forgery is once again being circulated, this time by Muslim scholars. David Aaronovitch challenged them, by David Aaronovitch,
Observer (UK), June 22, 2003
"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion - supposedly a transcript of a meeting of the world's top Jews, called to discuss the achievement of world domination - was concocted by an ultra-orthodox member of the Tsar's secret police, Sergei Nilus in about 1903. By the early 1920s it was being widely circulated in Europe and America, was later taught in the schools of Nazi Germany and is now to be found on any good neo-nazi web-site near you. It is the classic of Holocaust-era anti-Semitism, portraying the Jews as a conniving, Machiavellian race, plotting how to gain power well beyond their puny numbers, through manipulation and money. So what on earth is it doing in the twenty-first century manifesto of an Islamic movement?"

Jewish Nazis raise heil in Israel,
By CORKY SIEMASZK, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, June 24, 2003
"Hamas, Islamic Jihad - and now Jewish Nazis. As if they didn't have enough trouble with Palestinian militants, Israelis now have to contend with threats from a homegrown neo-Nazi group called Israeli White Unity. And they don't just hate Arabs - they hate their fellow Jews as well. Worse, they've infiltrated the Israeli Army and operate a Russian-language Web site on which they deny the Holocaust, make concentration camp jokes - and maintain links to other neo-Nazi groups elsewhere. 'It's not a big group, but unfortunately it's there,' said Mark Weitzman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Task Force Against Hate. Israeli officials have launched an investigation into the group, whose members are recent immigrants from Russia. 'They immigrated as Jews, but you have to understand the question of who is a Jew is not as clear-cut as in the U.S.,' Weitzman said. 'You have people who claimed Jewish ancestry to get out of Russia but who aren't all that Jewish.' Last night, the group's Web site, which is routed through a server in Holland, was shut down. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published photos of White Unity members wearing Israeli Army uniforms and giving Nazi salutes."

[More Jewish Thought Patrol:]
Gibson's Jesus Pic Faces More Anti-Semitism Charges,
Washington Post, June 25, 2003
"Continuing to raise concerns over "The Passion," the Mel Gibson-directed film about the last days of Jesus Christ, the Anti-Defamation League of America (ADL) charged Tuesday that, based on a study of an early version of the screenplay, the project could be 'replete with objectionable elements that would promote anti-Semitism.' The ADL embraced the findings of an interfaith committee of scholars that has raised objections to the unreleased film -- even though the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has distanced itself from the same group. In its statement, the ADL contended that Gibson and his collaborators 'must complement their artistic vision with sound scholarship, which includes knowledge of how the passion accounts have been used historically to disparage and attack Jews and Judaism. Absent such scholarly and theological understanding, productions such as 'The Passion' could likely falsify history and fuel the animus of those who hate Jews.' 'To be certain, neither I nor my film are anti-Semitic,' Gibson said in a previously released statement, which his spokesman provided in response to the latest allegation. 'Nor do I hate anybody -- certainly not the Jews,' continued Gibson, who is a devout Catholic. "They are my friends and associates, both in my work and social life. Thankfully, treasured friendships forged over decades are not easily shaken by nasty innuendo. Anti-Semitism is not only contrary to my personal beliefs, it is also contrary to the core message of my movie.' Gibson directed 'The Passion,' which he also co-wrote and produced through his Icon Entertainment banner, in Italy earlier this year. Filmed in Aramaic and Latin, the project stars James Caviezel as Christ and has not yet been shown to potential distributors. The ADL first began to raise concerns about the film in March, in both a letter to the New York Times and a letter addressed to Gibson that the organization posted on its Web site. The controversy erupted again earlier this month when a report was leaked to the media that had been prepared by scholars, associated with both the ADL and the USCCB, based on a study of an early version of the script and containing a long list of objections. The USCCB, however, quickly dissociated itself from the report, with Mark Chopko, general counsel for the USCCB, saying: 'We regret the situation has occurred and offer our apologies. ... When the film is released, the USCCB will review it at the time.' In its current statement, the ADL says it 'fully stands behind' the scholars' report and raises a series of questions such as, 'Will the final version of 'The Passion' continue to portray Jews as bloodthirsty, sadistic and money-hungry enemies of Jesus?'"

Argentine general jailed for racist remarks,
BBC, June 25, 2003
"One of the most notorious figures from Argentina's former military dictatorship has been jailed for three-and-a-half years after being found guilty of making anti-Semitic remarks. Former general Guillermo Suarez Mason was found guilty of racial discrimination for comments he made to a magazine in 1996. He said he did not trust Jews at the time of the dictatorship that left thousands dead and missing. Federal Judge Norberto Oyarbide sentenced Suarez Mason: 'For having justified the crime, for having made an exaltation of the torture and of the activity that developed in the last genocidal dictatorship that terrorised the country and for the discrimination in the Jewish community' ... The ex-general tried to defend himself in court saying: "Jews are Argentines but a different group." But in the comments he made to a magazine in 1996, Suarez Mason said: "I am not an anti-Semite. I know Jews well, which is different. I am wary of them." The ex-general is currently under house arrest in Buenos Aires on charges of kidnapping children during the dirty war. It is thought that about 300 children were taken from their mothers and given to the families of army and police personnel for adoption. Human rights groups say the babies' parents were then killed."

[Exploitive Judeocentrism to the maximum: Jewish hegemony in American culture and foreign policy has created the inevitable "anti-American" hostility throughout the world:]
To Beat The Axis of Evil, Confront The Axis Of Anti-Semitism,
By Jonathan Rauch, National Journal, June 27, 2003
"Increasingly and ominously, anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism are converging. We Americans are all Jews now. Strange though this may sound in the age of the Holocaust Museum and "Schindler's List," even in America anti-Semitism remains underappreciated. Or, more precisely, it is not appreciated properly. It is seen as a secondary problem, a symptom of other, more serious maladies. But evidence mounts that anti-Semitism is more than that. For a look at the fever chart, log onto www.memri.org and make your way to the Arab Anti-Semitism Documentation Project ... It is a signal and striking fact that with the important exception of North Korea, the Axis of Evil is identical to the Axis of Anti-Semitism [Editor's Note: maybe it might count that Jewish influence is so great that David Frum, who is Jewish, created George Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech?] It is an even more signal and striking fact that the Axis of Evil has been essentially identical to the Axis of Anti-Semitism not just recently but since at least the 1930s. From that day to this, the best single way to predict whether a country or movement will threaten America or the world has been by noticing whether it threatens the Jews. There must be a reason Nazism, Communism, and now Baathism and Bin Ladenism all have had one thing in common."

RUTGERS GETS 'F' FOR PUTTING ANTI-SEMITISM 101 ON THE SCHEDULE,
By ANDREA PEYSER, New York Post, July 9, 2003
"IT WILL be big. And ugly. And in New Jersey. The nation's third college - and the first on the East Coast - to harbor a national anti-Israel hate-fest, featuring tips for destroying the Jewish state and speeches from notable anti-Semites, will not be Columbia or NYU. A student group at Rutgers University, no slouch in the destroy-Israel department, has snagged the third annual National Student Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement, to be held Oct. 10-12. The event, which organizers expect to draw at least 500 Israel foes from the world over, is to include classes designed to teach kids how to pressure their universities to stop investing in companies that do business with Israel. Expect workshops in nonviolent resistance. Or so we hope. Organizer Charlotte Kates told me peaceful resistance is the fest's guiding principle. Yet she noted that she, as well as the sponsoring organization, the New Jersey Solidarity Movement - an offshoot of International Solidarity - supports Palestinian homicide bombers. "Palestinian resistance in all its forms has been a very powerful tool of justice," said Kates, 23, a Rutgers law student. "All forms, from armed struggle to mass protest." And does Israel have a right to exist? "Israel is an apartheid, colonial settler state. I do not believe apartheid, colonial settler states have a right to exist." At the two previous conferences, at Berkeley, Calif., and the University of Michigan, pro-Palestinian rhetoric "crossed into virulent anti-Semitism," said Shai Goldstein, director of the New Jersey Anti-Defamation League chapter. The university said the show will go on, despite 230 letters of protest. As a state school, Rutgers bestows public funding to Solidarity, said a spokeswoman."

[The truth about the Jewish Lobby. Speakable only behind closed doors and private diaries:]
Harry Truman's Forgotten Diary. 1947 Writings Offer Fresh Insight on the President,
By Rebecca Dana and Peter Carlson, Washington Post, July 11, 2003; Page A01
"The Jews, I find are very, very selfish," President Harry S. Truman wrote in a 1947 diary that was recently discovered on the shelves of the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., and released by the National Archives yesterday. Written sporadically during a turbulent year of Truman's presidency, the diary contains about 5,500 words on topics ranging from the death of his mother to comic banter with a British aristocrat. But the most surprising comments were Truman's remarks on Jews, written on July 21, 1947, after the president had a conversation with Henry Morgenthau, the Jewish former treasury secretary. Morgenthau called to talk about a Jewish ship in Palestine -- possibly the Exodus, the legendary ship carrying 4,500 Jewish refugees who were refused entry into Palestine by the British, then rulers of that land. "He'd no business, whatever to call me," Truman wrote. "The Jews have no sense of proportion nor do they have any judgement [sic] on world affairs. Henry brought a thousand Jews to New York on a supposedly temporary basis and they stayed." Truman then went into a rant about Jews: "The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as D[isplaced] P[ersons] as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes." Yesterday, those comments startled scholars because Truman is known as a president who acted to help Jews in postwar Europe and who supported recognition of Israel in 1948, when his State Department opposed it. "My reaction is: Wow! It did surprise me because of what I know about Truman's record," says Sara J. Bloomfield, director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Truman's sympathy for the plight of Jews was very apparent." But Truman's comments were, Bloomfield says, "typical of a sort of cultural anti-Semitism that was common at that time in all parts of American society. This was an acceptable way to talk." "Truman was often critical, sometimes hypercritical, of Jews in his diary entries and in his correspondences, but this doesn't make him an anti-Semite," says John Lewis Gaddis, a professor of history at Yale University and a prominent Cold War scholar. "Anyone who played the role he did in creating the state of Israel can hardly be regarded in that way."

How I became an 'unconscious fascist',
By Fiamma Nirenstein, Jewish World Review, July 15, 2003
"In 1967 I was a young communist, like most Italian youngsters. Bored by my rebellious behavior my family sent me to a Kibbutz in the upper Galilee, Neot Mordechai. I was quite satisfied there, the kibbutz used to give some money every month to the Vietcong. When the Six Day War began, Moshe Dayan spoke on the radio to announce it. I asked: "What is he saying?" and the comrades of Neot answered: "Shtuyot," silly things. During the war I took children to shelters; I dug trenches, and learned some simple shooting and acts of self defense. We continued working in the orchards, but were quick to identify the incoming Mig-im and the outgoing Mirage-im, chasing one another in the sky of the Golan Heights. When I went back to Italy, some of my fellow students stared at me as somebody new, an enemy, a wicked person who would soon become an imperialist. My life was about to change. I didn't yet know that, because I simply thought that Israel rightly won a war after having been assaulted with an incredible number of harassments. But I soon noticed that I had lost the innocence of the good Jew, of the very special Jewish friend, their Jew: I was now connected with the Jews of the State of Israel, and slowly I was put out of the dodecaphonic, psychoanalytic, Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Philip Roth, Freud shtetl, the coterie that sanctified my Judaism in left wing eyes. I have tried for a long time to bring back that sanctification, and they tried to give it back to me, because we desperately needed each other, the left and the Jews. But today's anti Semitism has overwhelmed any good intention. Throughout the years, even people that, like me, who had signed petitions asking the IDF to withdraw from Lebanon, became an "unconscious fascist" as a reader of mine wrote me in a letter filled with insults. In one book it was simply written that I was "a passionate woman that fell in love with Israel, confusing Jerusalem with Florence." One Palestinian told me that if I see things so differently from the majority, this plainly means that my brain doesn't work too well. Also, I've been called a cruel and insensitive human rights denier who doesn't care about Palestinian children's lives. A very famous Israeli writer told me on the phone a couple of months ago: "You really have become a right-winger." What? Right winger? Me? An old feminist human rights activist, even a communist when I was young? Only because I described the Arab-Israeli conflict as accurately as I could and because sometimes I identified with a country continuously attacked by terror, I became a right-winger? In the contemporary world, the world of human rights, when you call a person a right-winger, this is the first step toward his or her delegitimization. The Left blessed the Jews as the victim "par excellence," always a great partner in the struggle for the rights of the weak against the wicked. In return for being coddled, published, filmed, considered artists, intellectuals and moral judges, Jews, even during the Soviet anti-Semitic persecutions, gave the Left moral support and invited it to cry with them at Holocaust memorials. Today the game is clearly over. The left has proved itself the real cradle of contemporary anti-Semitism. When I speak about anti-Semitism, I'm not speaking of legitimate criticism of the State of Israel. I am speaking of pure anti-Semitism: Criminalization, stereotypes, specific and generic lies which have fluctuated between lies about the Jews (conspiring, blood thirsty, dominating the world) to lies about Israel (conspiring, ruthlessly violent) starting most widely since the beginning of the second Intifada in September 2000, and becoming more and more ferocious since Operation Chomat Magen ("Defensive Shield"), when the IDF reentered Palestinian cities in response to terrorism. The basic idea of anti-Semitism, today as always, is that Jews have a perverted soul that makes them unfit, as a morally inferior people, to be regular members of the human family. Today, this Untermensch ideology has shifted to the Jewish state: A separate, unequal, basically evil stranger whose national existence is slowly but surely emptied and deprived of justification. Israel, as the classic evil Jew, according to contemporary anti-Semitism, doesn't have a birthright, but exists with its "original sin" perpetrated against the Palestinians. Israel's heroic history has become a history of arrogance ... The caricature of the evil Jew is transformed to the caricature of the evil state ... Even Jews don't want to call an anti-Semite by his name, fearing disruption of old alliances. Because the left has a precise idea of what a Jew must be, when Jews don't match its prescription, they ask: How do you dare being different from the Jew I ordered you to be? Fighting against terrorism? Electing Sharon? Are you crazy? And here the answer of Jews and Israelis is the same. We are still very shy, very concerned about your affection. So, instead of requesting that Israel become an equal nation and that Jews become equal citizens in the world, we prefer standing with you shoulder to shoulder, even when you have come out with hundreds, thousands of anti-Semitic statements. We prefer to stand with you at Holocaust memorials cursing old anti-Semitism while you accuse Israel, and therefore the Jews, of being racist killers ... Well, people can, and always did, take for granted the prejudices about Jews; everyone is free to think whatever he wants. But we, the Jews, must reserve our moral right to hold such people accountable: in our eyes, they will plainly be anti-Semites. We will have to say to them: when you lie or use prejudices and stereotypes about Israel and the Jews, you are an anti-Semite, and I'll fight you."

[What about the fact that ultra-Orthodox Jews are so despised by secular Jews in Israel? They are loathed exactly the same way non-Jews loathed Jews in Europe, where in many areas the Haredim were the majority of the Jewish population.]
Anti-Semitism in Israel,
Noah Efron explores why ultra-Orthodox face `unfathomable hostility' in the Jewish homeland Author fears country tearing itself,
Toronto Star, July 19, 2003
"Noah Efron grew up in the United States a cosseted Jew. He was innocent of anti-Semitism; had never experienced a single insult or slur. He was denied nothing because of his religion. To him, anti-Semitism was "a grand abstraction, like communism." All that changed when he moved to another country. In his new home, Jews were depicted in the crudest of stereotypes that had never found public expression in the U.S. In newspapers, magazines, on TV shows and posters, among politicians, youth and the intelligentsia, Jews were portrayed as vampires, leeches and apes, sometimes with hooked noses, warts and stooped backs. They were accused of controlling the government like a puppeteer. They were presented as lecherous, money-grubbing parasites and clannish, corrupt fifth-columnists. The ugly imagery was chillingly reminiscent of Nazi-era depictions of Jews. It's what got Julius Streicher, founder of the Third Reich newspaper Der Stuermer, hanged at Nuremberg. What was most disturbing was that this was happening, of all places, in Israel, a land Efron effusively says "cascades in miracles." "My first encounter with anti-Semitism was in Israel, and the anti-Semites were my people, my heroes, the people I'd moved halfway around the world to join. After many years, I had finally seen the face of anti-Semitism, and it looked surprisingly like my own," writes Efron in Real Jews: Secular vs. Ultra-Orthodox And The Struggle For Jewish Identity In Israel (Basic, 2003), a disturbing work that shows the land of milk and honey tearing itself apart over the very essence of what it means to be a Jew. Many simply refer to it as Israel's "other war." Of course, Israel is the Jewish state, so the anti-Semitism there is not aimed at all Jews, as Efron duly notes. Instead, it's directed toward a small sub-group of "Semites:" Haredim (literally, "those who tremble"), the ultra-Orthodox, who make up roughly one-tenth of all Israelis, and who are the targets of "unfathomable hostility" by the country's secular and even moderate quarters. One of the many studies Efron quotes found that half of Israeli high school students said they hate the ultra-Orthodox, the same percentage that admits to hating Arabs ... Add to all that the fact Haredim live, for the most part, in segregated communities and want nothing to do with the outside world for fear of being contaminated by secularism, and the makings of ferocious tensions are set. They've boiled over again of late, with consecutive weeks of violence as more than 1,000 Haredi men in long black coats have clashed with police over demands that a main thoroughfare in Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan St., be closed to Sabbath traffic. Haredi cries of "Nazis!" directed at baton-swinging police have filled the air. Those railing against a perceived Haredi stealth campaign to transform Israel into a theocracy have found voice in a single-issue political party, Shinui. Led by the charismatic and fiercely anti-clerical Joseph "Tommy" Lapid (now deputy prime minister and justice minister), Shinui ran on the slogan "Beat Back the Haredim," and won six seats in the Knesset in 1999. In the 2003 election, the party was supported by one in seven Israelis and won an astonishing 15 seats, making it the third largest political party in Israel today ... . An array of groups actively fights, some with near-glee, what they see as creeping Haredi power in politics, culture, and everyday life (extending to public swimming pools and shopping malls.) In Israel, this has become a calling."

[The usual Jewish apologetics:]
The collective Jew: Israel and the new antisemitism,
by Brian Klug, Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations, June 2003
"A century later, fifty years or so after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, there are those who see the rise of a 'new antisemitism' in the world, with the Jewish state itself as the focus of hostility towards Jews. According to proponents of this view, contemporary antisemitism is new in two respects. First, on their account, a new wave or outbreak of hostility towards Jews began with the start of the second Palestinian intifada in September 2000 and is continuing at the present time. They see this expressed in an increase in attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions. They perceive a change in the public climate of Western European societies whereby anti-Jewish sentiment has become more socially acceptable among 'the chattering classes' and on the activist left. And they cite the growth of an antisemitic discourse in Muslim circles. Some commentators, such as Avi Becker, Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress, believe the current wave of antisemitism 'is unprecedented since the end of World War II'. Second, and more fundamentally, the 'new antisemitism' is said to involve a new form or type of hostility towards Jews: hostility towards Israel. 'New' here does not necessarily mean within the last few years; it could be as old as the state itself or even older. However, those who hold this view tend to think that the new form of antisemitism has intensified with the recent intifada."

[The great Israeli embarrassment: chronic Jewish racism and self-obsession evokes "antisemitism" among non-Jewish Russians (with distant Jewish relatives) stuck in Israel. This -- the old cause-and-effect loop -- is inevitable since the core of modern Jewish identity is hatred of the "antisemitic" neighbor.]
Aliyah from former Soviet Union brings a surprise — anti-Semitism,
By Ariel Finguerman and Elana Shap, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, July 22, 2003
"Synagogues defaced by swastikas in B’nai Brak? Graves vandalized in Beit Shemesh? A teenager harassed for being a Jew on her way to school in Netivot? Such cases may seem far-fetched, but they all occurred in the Jewish state. According to the Information Center for Victims of Anti-Semitism in Israel, a nongovernmental organization, there have been some 500 such incidents in Israel during the past three years. “The Russian-language newspapers in Israel print a story on an anti-Semitic incident every week, and at every police station in the country at least one anti-Semitic case is registered,” says Zalman Gilichinsky, director of the information center. It’s ironic, he adds, that some victims who are immigrants from the former Soviet Union have come all the way to Israel to experience anti-Semitic aggression for the first time. Until last month, the Israeli government virtually ignored such incidents. However, recent articles in Yediot Achronot and Ha’aretz have helped place the issue on the national agenda. In a June 22 Cabinet meeting, Justice Minister Yosef “Tommy” Lapid told Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that “neo-Nazis have arrived in the country” ... Anti-Semitism also is surfacing in other Israeli venues: Arbat, a bookstore with branches across Israel, sells books imported from Moscow with titles such as “The Holocaust Myth” and “Jewish Fascism in Russia” ... Dvora Biton, 38, turned to Gilichinsky for help after an unpleasant situation developed about two years ago. She told JTA that her adversary was a neighbor in Yeroham, a city in the Negev Desert. In the beginning, the relationship with the neighboring family was pleasant, and the Bitons, who are Orthodox Jews, invited them for a Shabbat dinner. When they discovered that the neighbors were not Jewish, however, the Bitons decided to cut down on their social contact. The neighbor reacted badly and started to call Biton “zhidovka,” a pejorative Russian term for a Jew. Every time they met, the neighbor made the cross sign on her chest, shouted, spat on the floor and cursed Biton, she says. “Life became unbearable,” Biton says. “It sounds absurd, but we finally decided to move and today we live in Eilat.” The investigation that Rubinstein ordered last month is a victory for Gilichinsky, who until not long ago was avoided by the authorities. “They prefer to brush this issue under the carpet,” he says. “They think my work could denigrate the Russian aliyah” ... [T]he ADL might review its position [of non-involvement] if Israeli authorities confirmed the existence of a major problem. “Meanwhile, we think that the people who give publicity to these incidents are using them for a political agenda — they want to change the Law of Return,” which guarantees Israeli citizenship not just to Jews but to their children and grandchildren, she says. Gilichinsky admits that’s true: He says he favors an immediate change to the Law of Return to prevent immigrants who are not Jewish from entering the country. “This law was created to increase the Jewish population in Israel, but today it has the opposite effect and it is increasing the numbers of non-Jews,” Gilichinsky says. But he rejects the idea that neo-Nazism in Israel is a product of bad treatment that young non-Jewish immigrants allegedly suffer. “If we followed that logic, the anti-Semites should be attacking Israelis and not other immigrants,” he says. “Throughout history, Jews were always blamed for anti-Semitism. Now we cannot point to the Jewish state as the cause of this evil.”

[Forget feminism. Jewish self-obsession is at root across any ideology. Jewish self-absorbed neurosis GUARANTEES growing disgust for endless Jewish chauvinism and hypocrisy. Herein lies endemic Jewish intellectual fascism, disguised as the noble justice-warring "progressive."]
Waking Up the World to a Resurgence of Antisemitism,
By LISA KEYS, [Jewish] Forward, July 25, 2003
"Phyllis Chesler has made a career out of challenging the status quo. With over three decades of activism under her belt, the radical feminist author has exposed sexism in the field of psychology, fought against what she calls "gender apartheid" and, most recently, criticized women for their harmful, unsisterly ways. Now, however, Chesler — a psychologist and scholar — is directing her fiery determination to a decidedly different cause: defending Israel, and Jews, against the violent crescendo of antisemitism in the Middle East, Europe and, most alarmingly, progressive intellectual circles. "I sometimes wonder whether being Jewish defines my intellect more than being a woman," said Chesler, whose stellar career was launched in 1972 with the publication of her first book, "Women and Madness" (Doubleday). Chesler, with her bright red hair, resolute statements and bulky, bold jewelry to match, is a presence with a capital "P." And this evening, sitting in the dining room of her townhouse in the trendy Park Slope section of Brooklyn, she's riled up. She's jumping out of her seat, literally, as she decries "the betrayal of the truth — and of the Jews — by Western intellectuals." "I want to wake the world," Chesler said in her passionate, soundbite-ish style. "It's as if the whole world has been sleeping — and dreaming, 'Hate the Jews.'" In her latest tome, "The New Anti-Semitism — The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It" (Jossey-Bass), out next week, Chesler passionately argues that a new, terrifying strain of antisemitism has become de rigueur among a wide swath of global society, from right to left. Often addressing her readers as "friends," Chesler pleads for sanity; she dispels myths, dispenses horrific facts and offers her vision of an anti-antisemitic future. To some, the book represents a departure from her radical ways. But, said Chesler, as global antisemitism reaches a fever pitch, "I had no choice but to write this book." And while Zionism is far from chic in liberal circles, Chesler hasn't "recanted" her progressive past. "I'm beyond right wing or left wing, feminist or anti-feminist," she said. "I care about all that, but I care about the survival of the Jews, the survival of the Jewish state. I will therefore make alliances with anyone who shares that concern. Bring them on!" "We have Republicans who may disagree with me on domestic or feminist agendas, but if they're with me on Israel, I'm with them," she said. "If you want to call me a Republican, a conservative, fine! Maybe that's what I am right now." Chesler is still a feminist, she notes; she's still proudly, loudly liberal. However, when it comes to left-wing ideologues, she said, "I do choose to part company on the issue of Israel, Jews and Zionism." On her academic Internet listservs, she said, the word "Zionist" is akin to a curse word. Today, gay rights activists align themselves with the free Palestine movement — even though in Arab countries, she told the Forward, homosexuality is "punished in terrifying ways." Feminists — once welcoming of all women — blackball Israelis, as in the case of Marilyn Safir, who was uninvited from an international feminist conference in Turkey in 2000. Chesler writes in her book: "It's almost as if the feminist world has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the PLO." "How do we combat lies that are told over and over again, so much that they gain the dimension of being true?" Chesler said. "There's an Orwellian misuse of language that's happening — not calling a thing by its right name is very dangerous." Nonetheless, Chesler may appear to be a strange advocate for the Jewish state. As a founder of Women of the Wall — she was an editor, along with Rivka Haut, of the recently published "Women of the Wall: Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site" (Jewish Lights, 2003) — Chesler has been involved in 14 years of lawsuits against the State of Israel in an attempt to secure women's rights to pray at the Western Wall. And yet, she says her criticisms position her perfectly to defend Israel. "I understand that Israel is not a paradise; it's as imperfect as an American democracy," she said. "Clearly, it's the only country in the region where women could bring such a lawsuit to the Supreme Court and not be stoned to death. Can you imagine that scenario taking place in Tehran?" Chesler, 62, has always been a Zionist ... In the 1960s, Chesler became a pioneer in the fledgling feminist movement, joining a sisterhood that, after many battles, flung open doors of opportunity through which young American women walk today. As a student at Bard College in the 1960s, in order to support her "vice" of writing, Chesler decided to become a psychoanalyst ... With "The New Anti-Semitism," Chesler acknowledges that she was somewhat apprehensive tackling such an enormous, important subject in which she had no formal training. She feared that what she had to say might not be good enough. "I'm not an expert," she admitted, adding, "Sometimes it's the passionate and personal voice that's everything." Passion is something Chesler has in great amounts. When asked, for example, where the pro-Israel voices on the left are, Chesler cried, "Hineni! Here I am!" "One does not exit from Jewish history just because one now has a Jewish state," Chesler lamented. Instead, she said, we must work for a world free of antisemitism; we must discourage the intense gaze on Israel — "a distracting luxury," said Chesler, given the world's problems such as drought and AIDS — as well as form alliances, discourage antisemitic myths and spread truths. "When the City of Peace is not at peace, the world's in real trouble," she said. "I'm hoping this book will bring more light into the world."

In Defense Of Harry S. Truman,
By William Hughes, The Palestine Chronicle (from Rense.com), August 2, 2003
"It's a good thing that he did not express his feelings to someone like myself, because I would have DECKED him." Now, who do you think uttered those nasty words about our 33rd president, Harry S. Truman? Was it cowboy tough guy, John Wayne? No! Was it the California "Governator," Ah-nuld Schwarznegger? Sorry, wrong thug! It was Richard Cohen, a trendy Woody-Allen-like syndicated columnist! Cohen was all steamed up about the recent disclosure of portions of a diary belonging to the late Truman, who had taken over as president on April 12, 1945, after the sudden death of FDR. On July 21, 1947, while Truman was still in office, and with the heavy burdens of a post-WWII on his shoulders, he had written, "The Jews, I find are very, very SELFISH. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs, or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as Displaced Persons as long as the Jews get SPECIAL TREATMENT. "Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political, neither Hitler or Stalin," Truman continued in a philosophical vein, "has anything on them for CRUELTY OR MISTREATMENT to the underdog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist, he goes haywire." The irresponsible Cohen insisted that he would have assaulted Truman had he expressed those same words "to someone like myself." Well, at least, Truman was in good company. Cohen's rant also managed to insult Thomas Jefferson, one of Virginia's finest patriots. Truman's critical remarks about the pushy Zionist Cartel caused Cohen to lash out at him, in a July 15, 2003 spiel that appeared in the NY Daily News tabloid. Cohen said Truman's words were "anti-Semitic," but that he would give him the "benefit of the doubt," since he had helped to "recognize Israel." Oh, Mr. Cohen, you are so generous. Truman, a magnificent son of Missouri, was one of American's greatest presidents. He brought the war against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan to a successful conclusion in 1945. During that monumental conflict, American troops were fighting in five different theaters, and on two major global fronts: in the Pacific and in Europe. Truman, ably assisted by giants: like George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, and other heroes, too, carried the day. In a just world, every night before he goes to bed, Cohen should get on his knees and say a prayer of thanksgiving that Truman led us to final victory in WWII. Now, instead of sincere gratitude, 58 years after WWII, this pipsqueak of a scribbler and serial apologist for Israeli wrongdoing, is puffing away about how he would, circumstances permitting, have DECKED President Truman! Really? To tell you the truth, in a head to head match up, I would have to bet on the feisty Truman. The gutsy ex-Field Artillery Captain from WWI did not take any crap from anyone. Of course, if he had fought with Cohen and won, then Cohen, a Chicken Hawk, would probably have yelled, "Hate Crime!" And, the bullies from the ADL would have come running to his rescue ... By 1947, Truman was surely aware, too, that many of Josef Stalin's top executioners, like the "Wolf of the Kremlin," Lazar Kaganovich, were Jewish. He must have also known that some of the Communist regimes that Stalin was imposing on Eastern Europe were also significantly dominated by Jews (See "Black Book of Communism," Stephane Courtois, Ed.)."

CLOSER LOOK AT THOSE WHO CRY ANTI-SEMITISM,
Atlantic Highlands Herald (New Jersey), August 7, 2003
"Dear Congressman Smith; ... you state that government policies regarding Israel should not give license to any hatred of the Jewish people. Hatred, no, but animosity, yes. There is a fine line between the two. I was never one to stoop to toppling Jewish grave stones, or painting Swastikas etc., but I do resent the policies of our government, supported by yourself as far as I can tell, which so favor Israel over the Gentile states in the region. As long as Israel calls itself The Jewish State, animosity is bound to be felt by Jews, even though many, to their credit, are not inclined to be Zionists. This is human nature. I am a retired TWA Captain, as well as a retired LCDR USNR. I received my Commission at Kings Point in 1953. I appreciate your efforts in supports of my Alma Mater. During my 30 years with TWA, I had many occasions to lay over for rest in Tel Aviv. While there, I observed first hand how Christians are treated in The Jewish State. We are the underdogs, just as Jews were in Nazi Germany. Government policy in Israel is blatantly anti-Gentile. Israel is NOT a Democracy, as they claim to be, but are in fact a Theocracy, where it is Juden uber alles, and we had better not forget it. I learned a lot of this from a Christian woman who was my maid in the Tel Aviv Hilton for many trips. Her life was a living Hell in The Jewish State. You mention the ADL, as if this is a good organization. Sir, I beg to differ with you here. The ADL is a despicable organization bent on censorship of any news that reflects negatively on The Jewish State and believe me Chris, there is much negative to reflect upon. I started writing letters to the editor of local newspapers, critical of Israel, citing real flaws in our huge monetary support of Israel, at a cost of animosity from much of the world, especially the Arab nations. My letters were hard-hitting, and difficult to rebut. Enter Mr. Suall, of the ADL. In a letter to my Chief Pilot, Captain Richard Forristal, he complained loudly about how there was an anti-Semite flying TWA's airplanes, to Tel Aviv, of all places. How does TWA expect it's Jewish passengers feel with a maniac like this flying them? I was hauled in to the office and asked to explain myself. I did. I told my Forristal I was exercising my freedom of the press, and I was not involving the company in my letters. I also pointed out that the Gentiles in Israel were Semites, whereas most of the Jews were not. Apparently Suall became enraged that no action was taken. More letters followed in which I was described as insane, dangerous, a poor pilot, a drunk, a wife beater, a child abuser, etc. and for G-d's sake, shut this man up!. All this was nonsense, of course. I have a lovely Irish wife and 6 healthy, happy children. When asked by Forristal what I had to say for myself, I called Suall a liar. I asked if there was any proof of what he said. There was none ... Being beaten by me, the ADL went to the head of the NJ JWV. He wrote to Tillinghast, TWA CEO at the time, and demanded Captain Toner be fired. When that failed, the JDL stepped in, threatenned to kill me, my wife and 6 kids, rape them, blow up my home and car, etc.. I called the FBI in on this and it was investigated by Special Agent James Trahone. Using the FOIA, I was able to obtain the complete file. The file is Manhattan Bur. File # 9A-NY-228125. It has 86 pages. If you would like to examine it, please let me know. I will mail it to you. In conclusion, I ask you to take a closer look at our support for Israel, and it's fanatical supporters, who cry "Anti-Semitism" every time a voice is raised against The Jewish State, the citizens of which are not really Semites for the most part, but trace their ancestry back to Russia, Poland and other Eastern European nations. A microcoms of these people exist in Lakewood, NJ. Very respectfully, Edward J. Toner Jr. Brick NJ

[The Zionist "opportunity" to unify international Jewry against the rest of the world:]
Anti-Semitism is our problem,
By Natan Sharansky, Haaretz (Israel), August 11, 2003
"Last week a unique and unusual conference took place in Jerusalem. Representatives of Jewish organizations from all over the world joined Israeli officials and academics to formulate a joint strategy for a war on anti-Semitism. No more local reaction to one incident or another, but an attempt at universal Jewish cooperation. The participants in the conference agreed on two basic assumptions. First, that we are facing a wave of anti-Semitism the like of which we have not known since World War II, both in scope and force. Second, that, like a malignant disease, today's anti-Semitism has developed a new mutation and is not limited to acts of violence against Jews, carrying swastikas and burning synagogues. The new anti-Semitism appears in the guise of "political criticism of Israel," consisting of a discriminating approach and double standards toward the state of the Jews, while questioning its right to exist. The doubt which traditional anti-Semitism cast on the right of the Jewish individual to exist as an equal in general society, turned, in the new anti-Semitism, into a dispute of the right of the Jewish nation to exist on its land as any other nation. Another feeling shared by the delegates in the conference is that the new trend caught us, both in Israel and in the Diaspora, unprepared. It took us a long time to understand that we are facing a new incarnation of anti-Semitism and to respond accordingly. Thus, for example, we did not prepare for the Durban Conference that turned into an anti-Semitic carnival; we didn't fight hard enough against the UN resolutions against Israel, which are becoming more hypocritical and radical and we failed to warn of the anti-Semitic cries and measures accompanying the protest against the war in Iraq. How did we fall asleep on our guard? How is it possible that despite the great efforts invested by organizations monitoring anti-Semitism, almost two years went by until the Jewish world understood that anti-Zionism can no longer be separated from anti-Semitism and that both constitute an existential danger to the Jewish people? ... There are different issues on our respective agendas, internal processes have polarized our positions and sharpened our differences, tensions have sprung up and the alienation between us increased. In a somewhat absurd fashion, the war on anti-Semitism gives us a new opportunity to mend the rift. Our joint destiny is sometimes a heavy burden, but it also gives a lot of strength. Our power is in our unity, in mutual responsibility and in partnership. If we succeed in overcoming the alienation, if we manage to bring together the torn shreds of the Jewish nation and make them feel that we are brethren again - then we have a chance. We cannot miss this opportunity."

World-Famous Philosopher Honderich Hit with "Anti-Semite" Slur in Germany; Habermas and Suhrkamp Cut and Run,
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN, Counterpunch, August 13, 2003
"The distinguished British philosopher Ted Honderich, is threatening to sue the head of the Holocaust museum in Frankfort for calling him an anti-Semite. The director, Micha Brumlik , levelled the charge last week after Honderich's book "After The Terror" was published in Germany in July. Suhrkamp, the jelly-kneed publisher, has said it is taking the book off the market, though in practice this appears to mean Surhkamp won't order a reprinting when the first printing of 3,000 is sold out. Germany's most eminent philosopher, Jurgen Habermas, has said he was the one who recommended the book to Suhrkamp, can find nothing anti-Semitic in it, though, in a kindred display of pusillanimity, simultaneously says he regrets having been involved in anything that may have caused offense. Honderich is a resolute supporter of the Palestinian struggle for nationhood. But, as he emphasizes, he is in no way an anti-Semite, has a Jewish wife and step children and has always refused to lecture in Germany because of the Holocaust. The book was published in a German translation as Nach dem Terror: Ein Traktat, in July 2003, by Suhrkamp in Frankfurt on Main, as one of their 40th anniversary books. Micha Brumlik is director of a centre for the history and effects of the Holocaust in Frankfurt, and a professor of science-education, at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt on Main. On August 5, in the liberal paper Frankfurter Rundschau, Brumlik published an open letter to the publisher Suhrkamp denouncing the book and Honderich as anti-Semitic, and demanding that it be taken off the market. On August 6 the paper carried an embarrassed dispatch from Prof. Dr. Jurgen Habermas, Germany's best known philosopher. This man of the mind vouchsafed that himself had recommended After the Terror to Suhrkamp for publication. Having been surprised by his friend Brumlik's letter, he had now read the book again and found in it no evidence of anti-Semitism. But he was sorry to have been involved in something that caused hurt. Suhrkamp then announced in a press release it was taking the book off the market. Subsequently it became clear that what this comes to is that they are not reprinting a book that has sold out, or more or less sold out its run of 3,000 copies. It remains the case that they have 'banned' a book. In a letter to Honderich they remark in passing that they have a Jewish imprint within their house. On August 8, after it had already appeared on my website, the Frankfurter Rundschau published most of an open letter from Honderich to Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. Honderich denied as absurd the charge of anti-Semitism, saying that it was made only because he assrted the moral right of the Palestinians to their terrorism or resistance, as the Israeli state asserts its moral right to killing. He demanded the removal of Brumlik from his professorship. The affair has become theprime cultural-political controversy in Germany. eliciting at least 50 articles, some virulent. Honderich says, " I have come to realize fully, mainly from German journalists, German emotions about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, 60 years after the event, remain very strong indeed, [involving] guilt, resolution, and probably other things. "My strong line has been the one in my open letter: I am being attacked as anti-Semitic because I assert the moral right of the Palestinians to their terrorism, as the neo-Zionist state in Israel asserts a moral right overtly and covertly to kill Palestinians. (My claim of a moral right to violence is far from unique.) "That I am anti-Semitic is certainly a falsehood, probably a lie. The neo-Zionist use of the libel and slander of anti-Semitism is very well-known, at any rate outside of Germany, and recorded in the English liberal press. It is dirty politics and dirty morals."

[The Jewish Thought Police strikes again:]
Cartoonist sacked after being accused of anti-Semitism,
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), August 15, 2003
"An award-winning cartoonist dumped by New Zealand's biggest newspaper because of his drawings on the Middle East conflict said he stood by his work and rejected an editor's right to direct what he could or could not draw. Malcolm Evans, twice named as the country's cartoonist of the year, says he was sacked by The New Zealand Herald after the newspaper received complaints from Jews about his cartoons on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Evans, who denied that his cartoons were anti-Semitic, said while he accepted an editor's right to reject a cartoon, he did not accept an editor's right to direct what he should draw. He said the paper's editor-in-chief, Gavin Ellis, had told him to stop submitting cartoons on Israel. However, Ellis said Evans had been sacked on legal advice, but would not comment further. Evans, who had worked for the Herald for seven years, told National Radio the argument had started when the paper received letters from readers about his cartoons critical of Israel. "I have got to acknowledge in the first instance that the paper had the balls to publish those cartoons, but once they were published and reaction came in, the paper seemed to shrink from association with them and ultimately I received this edict."

[Look at a Jew cross-eyed? Get fired. Go to Jail. Get harassed. Become persecuted. Etc., etc., etc. Jews are SACRED: DO NOT CRITICIZE THEM.]
Star makes waves in Jewish circles; Philadelphia Inquirer cartoon spurs fury,
By Faygie Levy and Alexandra Perloe, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (from Philadelphia Jewish Exponent)
"A cartoon that first appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer is having repercussions as far away as Seattle, where the cartoon also appeared. The editorial cartoon by Tony Auth, which first appeared July 31, depicts a wire fence in the shape of a Jewish star. Enclosed in each of seven sections — the six points of the star, as well as the center — stand groups of Palestinian men, women and children. According to Auth, the drawing was designed to illustrate "that the State of Israel is building a fence that separates Palestinians and is an obstacle to peace." But that´s not how many people saw it. "It was really outrageous," said Israel´s consul general in Philadelphia, Giora Becher. "It was insensitive for the cartoonist to use the Jewish symbol of a Magen David, and to use it with barbed wire and some connotation of the concentration camp." Harold Goldman, president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, said, "The Tony Auth cartoon crossed a line between what is acceptable political commentary and satire to what is clearly anti-Semitic and anti-Israel commentary." Nancy Baron-Baer of the regional Anti-Defamation League office added that the cartoon evoked memories of the Holocaust, "where the fence was used to commit atrocities, equating that to the Israelis´ building a fence to keep terrorists from committing atrocities." By using a symbol of the Jewish faith, she added, Auth "has put his criticism forth to say that it´s representative of all Jews, not just the State of Israel." Auth responded that over the years he has drawn many cartoons critical of suicide bombers. He also said that those who seek to peg him or the Inquirer as anti-Semitic are dead wrong. "It is only possible to regard me and my work as anti-Semitic by selectively looking at certain cartoons," he said. Several groups — including the federation; the ADL; the Zionist Organization of America; the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia; the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, and others — lodged formal complaints with the paper. A letter written by the local JCRC and the Va´ad: Board of Rabbis said the groups were "appalled that Mr. Auth can take a symbol of the Jewish people, the Star of David, and so distort and pervert it — that it borders on desecration." The cartoon, said Steve Feldman, executive director of the ZOA´s Philadelphia branch, "defames the Jewish people and defames Israel."

* The Jewish Tribal Review has made the Canadian national news. Why? Because of the email comments here of Jewish professor Michael Neumann. All information: here. Here's the most recent article about this controversy:
Jewish Group Criticizes Trent Prof,
by David Smith, The Peterborough Examiner (Canada), August 18, 2003
"The executive director of the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) said the organization won't rest until Trent University does something about what it calls anti-Semitic statements attributed to one of its philosophy professors. "If I were a Jewish student or if I were an Israeli exchange student or if I were an Israeli taking courses at Trent University, I would not feel comfortable whatsoever in his classroom, and for good reason," said Bernie Farber, referring to Michael Neumann, a Jewish professor. Neumann most recently drew fire from the CJC for an apparent e-mail exchange he had with an unnamed Webmaster of the Jewish Tribal Review, who later posted the comments on the Internet site ... Neumann would not agree to a telephone interview, insisting upon an e-mail exchange. The Examiner does not conduct e-mail interviews, but agreed to send Neumann the questions and have him read his responses over the telephone. Neumann refuses to inspect the JTR's contents or comment on the accuracy of the statements attributed to him. "I hadn't the slightest idea that the exchange might be published, and certainly not without my permission," Neumann said. "I do not keep complete records of my correspondence in any case so confirmation would be difficult. And, I don't want to lend legitimacy to a site I consider anti-semitic." While "I don't encourage anti-Semitism and don't approve of encouraging it," Neumann said risk of "misuse by anti-Semites ... deter me from speaking my mind." Farber said Neumann "has engaged in a lot of bafflegab," but the fact he hasn't denied he made the statements indicates he wrote the material. "If this was me and I was misquoted by any Web site, I would be yelling bloody blue murder instead of saying I'm not going to read it therefore I'm not going to comment on it. So, we are left with the unmistakable impression unless he says otherwise that this is his material," Farber said. This is the third time Neumann has come under fire from the CJC this year, Farber said."

Present Is Where The Danger Is,
by Charley Reese, King Features Syndicate, August 20. 2003
"Right now some Jewish groups are attacking a movie Mel Gibson has made that depicts the last day of Jesus' life. They claim it is anti-Semitic because it shows that certain Jews in that day were behind Christ's crucifixion. Well, according to the Gospels, they were, but so what? Why should anyone in the year 2003 look with disfavor on somebody else living in the year 2003 because of something someone else did in 33 A.D.? That's nonsense. You might as well say you don't like Italians because the Romans were so cruel. Besides, all the "good guys" in Gibson's movie are also Jews. How can a movie be anti-Semitic when both the heroes and the villains are Jewish? For that matter, how can criticism of Israel's bad treatment of Palestinians be anti-Semitic since the Palestinians are also Semitic people? There are way too many people abusing history to achieve their own contemporary political goals these days. History ought to be approached like any other subject — with logic, common sense and an open mind."

[Lawrence Summers is Jewish.]
No, it's not anti-semitic,
by Judith Butler, London Review of Books, August 21, 2003
"'Profoundly anti-Israel views are increasingly finding support in progressive intellectual communities. Serious and thoughtful people are advocating and taking actions that are anti-semitic in their effect if not their intent.' Lawrence Summers, 17 September 2002. When the president of Harvard University declared that to criticise Israel at this time and to call on universities to divest from Israel are 'actions that are anti-semitic in their effect, if not their intent', he introduced a distinction between effective and intentional anti-semitism that is controversial at best. The counter-charge has been that in making his statement, Summers has struck a blow against academic freedom, in effect, if not in intent. Although he insisted that he meant nothing censorious by his remarks, and that he is in favour of Israeli policy being 'debated freely and civilly', his words have had a chilling effect on political discourse. Among those actions which he called 'effectively anti-semitic' were European boycotts of Israel, anti-globalisation rallies at which criticisms of Israel were voiced, and fund-raising efforts for organisations of 'questionable political provenance'. Of local concern to him, however, was a divestment petition drafted by MIT and Harvard faculty members who oppose Israel's current occupation and its treatment of Palestinians. Summers asked why Israel was being 'singled out . . . among all nations' for a divestment campaign, suggesting that the singling out was evidence of anti-semitic intentions. And though he claimed that aspects of Israel's 'foreign and defence' policy 'can be and should be vigorously challenged', it was unclear how such challenges could or would take place without being construed as anti-Israel, and why these policy issues, which include occupation, ought not to be vigorously challenged through a divestment campaign. It would seem that calling for divestment is something other than a legitimately 'vigorous challenge', but we are not given any criteria by which to adjudicate between vigorous challenges that should be articulated, and those which carry the 'effective' force of anti-semitism. Summers is right to voice concern about rising anti-semitism, and every progressive person ought to challenge anti-semitism vigorously wherever it occurs. It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims. Sometimes we surely are, but sometimes we surely are not. No political ethics can start from the assumption that Jews monopolise the position of victim. 'Victim' is a quickly transposable term: it can shift from minute to minute, from the Jew killed by suicide bombers on a bus to the Palestinian child killed by Israeli gunfire. The public sphere needs to be one in which both kinds of violence are challenged insistently and in the name of justice. If we think that to criticise Israeli violence, or to call for economic pressure to be put on the Israeli state to change its policies, is to be 'effectively anti-semitic', we will fail to voice our opposition for fear of being named as part of an anti-semitic enterprise. No label could be worse for a Jew, who knows that, ethically and politically, the position with which it would be unbearable to identify is that of the anti-semite. The ethical framework within which most progressive Jews operate takes the form of the following question: will we be silent (and thereby collaborate with illegitimately violent power), or will we make our voices heard (and be counted among those who did what they could to stop that violence), even if speaking poses a risk? The current Jewish critique of Israel is often portrayed as insensitive to Jewish suffering, past as well as present, yet its ethic is based on the experience of suffering, in order that suffering might stop. Summers uses the 'anti-semitic' charge to quell public criticism of Israel, even as he explicitly distances himself from the overt operations of censorship. He writes, for instance, that 'the only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.' But how does one vigorously advocate the idea that the Israeli occupation is brutal and wrong, and Palestinian self-determination a necessary good, if the voicing of those views calls down the charge of anti-semitism? ... If the president of Harvard is letting the public know that he will take any criticism of Israel to be effectively anti-semitic, then he is saying that public discourse itself ought to be so constrained that such statements are not uttered, and that those who utter them will be understood as engaging in anti-semitic speech, even hate speech."

'Anti-Semitic' labels used as political tools,
by Linda S. Heard, Gulf News, August 26, 2003
"If [Mel] Gibson seeks prolongation of his Hollywood career, he may have to go a lot further with his protestations [that his film The Passsion isn't "antisemitic"] than that in order to shake off the anti-Semitic slur. While there is no doubt that anti-Semitism has existed throughout the ages and should be condemned, as should all form of racism and bigotry, it is also true that the label is currently often misused and deliberately so. What is "anti-Semitism"? Its etymology is confusing as it does not mean "hatred of Semites", which would also include most Arabs. The term has come to mean solely "hatred of Jews" and implies an irrational hatred, hatred due to their religious, ethnic or cultural differences. In other words, "anti-Semitism" is another way of saying " bigoted or racist attitudes towards Jews"… or it should be. It is true to say that the pogroms against Jews in Russia and the Nazi Holocaust were, indeed, horrific racist acts against a people, anti-Semitic mass murders, but it is also true that accusations of anti-Semitism are brandished by the Israeli government and Jewish groups as protective mantels deflecting not only anti-Jewish/Israel bigotry but also justified criticisms of Israel's crimes against the Palestinians. Gretta Duisenberg, wife of the governor of the European Central Bank and Chairperson of Stop the Occupation, was blacklisted by Israel as an anti-Semite for flying a Palestinian flag from the balcony of her home. The writer A.N. Wilson metamorphosed into an "anti-Semite" in Zionist eyes for daring to compare the damage inflicted upon the Church of the Nativity by Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) with the destruction of the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan. Aggressive policies A French ambassador was deemed an anti-Semite for describing Israel as "a small shitty country", a remark related to the aggressive policies of the Israeli government, rather than the Jews as a people ... If the truth be told, the Semitic recipients of racism in today's world are not the Jews but the Arabs who in the U.S., and to a lesser extent in Europe, are having to unfairly defend themselves from slurs of religious extremism or even links to terrorism. The Arabs are the ones who are today suffering from negative stereotyping as well as having to respond to insults piled on to their culture and religion. Perhaps "anti-Semitism" should be expunged from our lexicon. Its blatant misuse has destroyed both lives and careers, often without foundation. Its interpretation is too broad and its definition shaded with historical connotation."

[Say "too many whites?" No problem. Say "too many Jews?" You're a bigot. And we all know there couldn't be too many Jews in Philadelphia politics.]
He says 'ethnic slur' got him unfair treatment. City official files complaint over reprimand,
By DAVE DAVIES, Philadelphia Daily News, August 27, 2004
"An official of the city's Minority Business Enterprise Council has filed a discrimination complaint against the city, charging he was unfairly reprimanded for complaining about too many Jewish firms working on a city project. Hanford Jones filed the complaint June 9 with the city's Commission on Human Relations, five days after he was publicly criticized by city officials for his alleged remarks. City Finance Director Janice Davis said then she'd given Jones a "tongue lashing" about comments he made in April complaining that developers competing for a North Philadelphia project were slanted towards "Jewish architects and Jewish lawyers." Davis said her meeting with Jones had been so intense that he had wept. Jones, who is black, alleges in the complaint that the city "discriminated against the black complainant with regard to terms, conditions and privileges of employment, including but not limited to failing to conduct a thorough investigation with regard to comments he made at a meeting which were misconstrued by some to be an ethnic slur." Jones, a $64,000-a-year coordinator for the city's Minority Business Enterprise Council, is now on paid leave. He could not be reached for comment yesterday, but in June, he contended city officials had listened to a few people who complained about his remarks, "and they took their word carte blanche, never gave me a chance to confront my accusers...I'm not going to take this lying down." Jones insisted he was not anti-Semitic and was simply emphasizing the need to recruit more minorities for city projects. "I could just as easily have said 'white architects,' " Jones said."

[Self-delusion is a foundation of modern Jewish identity. Jews are not interested in "facts" that impugn the innocent, Jewish victimology tradition. The fact that what Jews define as "antisemitism" exists across all time, geographical, cultural, and political realms is decreed to be illogical, meaningless, and confirmation that criticism of Jewry and its racist state is an irrational disease of bigotry.]
Just do it,
By David Landau, Haaretz (Israel), August 31, 2003
"In Alan Dershowitz's new book, "The Case for Israel," the famed advocate and Harvard law professor argues that the State of Israel has become "the Jew among the states of the world." Only the age-old phenomenon of blind anti-Semitism, he says, can explain "the world's bizarre reaction to Israel's generous peace offer [in the Barak era - D.L.] and the Palestinians' violent response to it." Throughout history, the Jew has been judged "by different and far more demanding standards," writes Dershowitz. "So too [now] with the Jewish nation." Dershowitz's Canadian friend and colleague, the veteran human rights campaigner Irwin Cotler, offers a similar diagnosis. After years of battling in United Nations forums and international conferences, Cotler, a member of the Canadian parliament, says Israel "has become the new anti-Christ for large parts of the Western world, and a kind of Salman Rushdie in the eyes of many Muslims." Many Israelis have been coming to the same conclusion. Whereas in the past a preoccupation with anti-Semitism was associated mainly with the political right ("the whole world is against us"), nowadays liberals and people on the left are finding it increasingly difficult to explain what is happening to us, both in the region and in the wider world, without reaching for terms like double standards, irrational hatred and anti-Semitism ... Actually, these questions were answered a hundred and some odd years ago, in the days of the old anti-Semitism, by the founding father of Zionism. He intuitively grasped - and therein lay his greatness - that in respect of anti-Semitism, there was nothing to argue about and no point in self-justification. A prejudice that is essentially irrational could not be countered or abated by explanations and rationales taken from the realm of logic. Facts were equally useless. Even if a Jew converted, assimilated and turned his back on his genes, it did him no good."

[Satire? Who knows? Jewish efforts to fight "antisemitism" are so bizarre this could be real.]
'''Blueberry' soldiers to fight anti-Semitism creatively'',
by Gabriel Ash, Yellow Times, September 1, 2003,
"Among the resolutions of the 34th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem in 2002, one resolution called for criminalizing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Indeed, since then, there have been a growing number of attempts to stifle criticism of Israel by defining it as a new form of anti-Semitism. French journalists were put on trial for reporting the shooting of Palestinians, the BBC was excommunicated by the Israeli government, and campaigns to silence academic criticism of Israel have been mounted in the U.S., including one spearheaded by the hatemonger formerly known as Daniel Pipes. So far, none of this has worked. But it appears that the setbacks suffered by Israel's willing apologists have made at least some of them rethink their strategy. They now understand that Israel must consider the impact of its own military actions on world public opinion. The proof is the following memo that found its way to my mailbox.
From: The CLOATSP-ME coalition (Concerned Liberals Of America for a True Secure Peace in the Middle East)
To: Shaul Mofaz, Minister of Defense, Israel
RE: Educating against Hate and Anti-Semitism
With the imminent collapse of the "Road Map," we foresee Israel resuming its large scale operations against Palestinian cities and camps. While we strongly believe Israel's future depends on separation from the territories, we share with you a commitment to Israel's security. In the spirit of that commitment, and out of deep worry for the future of Jewish identity, we call your attention to a problem that concerns us all. We believe that the last cycle of military operations produced among many Palestinians, especially among the residents of targeted cities such as Jenin and Gaza, a visceral hatred towards Israel and Israelis. Even more troubling is the fact that these negative feelings are often directed toward Israeli soldiers as "Jews" -- a usage that, in our opinion, is more than a whiff anti-Semitic, in its effect if not in its intention. Without trying to excuse the perpetrators, we note that the spreading of such feelings contribute to the pool of volunteers for suicide missions. Worse, in the last three years animosity toward Israel has grown exponentially all over the world, mostly as a result of media attention to the plight of Palestinians who suffered the results of Israel's legitimate attempts to defend its citizens. Some of this animosity has spilled into attacks against Jews and Jewish symbols, including the burning of synagogues. We note that certain actions by Israeli soldiers, for example, painting graffiti of the Star of David on the walls of Palestinian houses, contribute to these unhealthy and troubling attitudes. You were the chief of staff during the recent massive Israeli offensives, including the destruction of the Jenin refugee camp, and are now in charge of Israel's security policies. We therefore implore you to spare no effort in combating the spread of anti-Semitism. And we respectfully suggest that Israeli soldiers take the following measures in any future attack on Palestinian targets: All ammunition, vehicles and weapons should be clearly marked as belonging to the state of Israel. If the mark includes a Star of David, an attached disclaimer should clarify that the Star of David isn't used as a religious symbol but merely as a secular state symbol. Soldiers should be instructed not to use the Star of David when defacing Palestinian property. Soldiers should use the Menorah instead, because it is not as strongly associated with Jewish religion. Alternatively, the IDF could provide soldiers with defacement kits which include a sticker with the following disclaimer (in colloquial Arabic): "This humiliating act is performed by the State of Israel and has nothing to do with Jewish religion." Regularly, but especially before air raids, Apache helicopters should drop leaflets explaining the difference of meaning between the adjectives "Jewish" and "Israeli." The leaflets should be written in simple, colloquial Arabic. Recorded audiotapes should be used to reach the illiterate. Before every attack on civilians, jeeps equipped with loud speakers should drive around the target area explaining the reason for the attack in plain colloquial Arabic. After the attack, but before ambulances are allowed to reach the wounded, local residents should be rounded up and briefed by the commanding officer so that they understand how their misery contributed to Israel's security. The briefing should include a clear statement that the attack was not carried out by Jews, but by Israeli soldiers. Available South Lebanese Army and Druze officers should be displayed prominently before the natives. Families whose house has been demolished should receive a special folder of information about Israel with photos of lush Kibbutzim and colorful Tel-Aviv nightlife scenes. The folder should include material explaining that the loss of their home clears the ground for another Jewish housing unit that will make the desert bloom. It is important to humanize Israelis and emphasize to the family that the soldiers who destroyed their houses are people just like themselves, and have families too." [Etc. More like this at the original site.]

["Big Lies" are the provenance of propaganda agencies like the Anti-Defamation League who forbid critical discussion of Jewish influence and power. There is no unholy union between the political right and the Islamic world -- only that intelligent people of any political persuasion recognize a very serious problem with world Jewry and its political arm: racist Zionism.]
Conspiracy Theories about Jews and 9/11 Cause Dangerous Mutations in Global Anti-Semitism, Says the Anti-Defamation League,
Propaganda Matrix (from US Newswire) Sept. 2, 2003
"Two years after the horrific 9/11 attacks on America, hateful conspiracy theories claiming the attacks were actually carried about by Israelis and Jews continue to gather force around the world, causing dangerous new mutations of global anti-Semitism. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), concerned at how such rumors continue to find acceptance despite two years of intensive efforts by watchdog groups and democratic governments to combat them, today issued a report coinciding with the second anniversary of the attacks, documenting the continuing spread of 9/11 conspiracy theories and the potential for this "Big Lie" to rationalize and fuel global anti-Semitism. According to the League's report, Unraveling Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories, the canard of Jewish or Israeli involvement in 9/11 has gained widespread acceptance in the Arab and Muslim world, parts of Europe and even in the United States. "The 9/11 attacks have fueled an entire new genre of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories leading to an environment where rumors about Jews are finding acceptance in the mainstream," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "As we gather to commemorate the second anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the Big Lie shows no signs of diminishing. In fact, it is finding new acceptance every day. That is not just disturbing, but tragic, because we cannot win the war against terrorism without first winning over the hearts and minds of people in the Arab World who accept anti-Semitic 9/11 conspiracies as fact. What's really needed is a concerted effort by democratic nations to reject anti-Jewish conspiracies." Unraveling Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories documents how anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon spread around the world with lightening speed, ushered along with the help of global electronic communications, especially the Internet and satellite television. According to ADL, the rumors, while finding expression in the media, speeches and in public statements, have also brought together a disparate group of Jew-haters who are using the Big Lie to fuel anti-Semitism. "Never in the history of the Jewish people has one terrible lie about 'Jewish control' spread so quickly and with such power, captivating not only those on the extreme fringe but the educated elite, particularly in the Muslim and Arab word," said Foxman. "The Big Lie has been repeated by imams, the press and government officials in the Arab world, and is contributing to disturbing and dangerous mutations in global anti-Semitism." The League's report documents the spread of the Big Lie from the first whisperings of blame against Jews in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, to more recent manifestations and permutations. Among the ADL's conclusions: -- The Big Lie has united American far-right extremists and white supremacists and elements within the Arab and Muslim world that are exchanging and repeating information, ideas and conspiracy theories."

Minister Louis Farrakhan: In His Own Words,
Anti-Defamation League [indexed on September 4, 2003]
"On Jews. Farrakhan on past anti-Semitic remarks: "I can never apologize for telling the truth... I can apologize for the manner of telling the truth." BET Tonight with Travis Smiley, 9/11/00-9/12/00 ...
Farrakhan on Jewish control: Farrakhan said that he is fighting the "inordinate control" some Jews have over Blacks, particularly in entertainment and business. Associated Press, 7/31/00
"They [the Jews] are the greatest controllers of Black minds, Black intelligence. They write the scripts -- the foolish scripts on television that our people portray. They are the movie moguls that feature us in these silly, degrading, degenerate roles. The great recording companies that portray our people in such a filthy and low-rating way, yet they would not allow such a man as Michael Jackson to say one word that they thought would besmirch their reputation, but they put us before the world as clowns and as purveyors of filth. No, I will fight that." Meet The Press interview, 10/18/98
"Of course, they [the Jews] have a very small number of people but they are the most powerful in the world, they have the power to do good and they have the power to do evil...Now what do the Jews do best? Well, they have been the best in finance that the world has ever known...They finance a lot of stuff in the world, and there's nothing wrong with that, but they are not good politicians, they are the worst politicians because they don't recognize really their friends and as well their enemies..." Saviours' Day Speech, Chicago, 2/22/98
"I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government...Yes, they exercise extraordinary control, and Black people will never be free in this country until they are free of that kind of control..." Meet The Press interview, 4/14/97
"To continue to point out the truth of that control and how that control never will allow us to be full and completely men, free, justified, and equal. Why should we be controlled by the power, influence, and money of others? We should not be under that kind of control...going to Jewish philanthropists, begging them for money to support our causes, and through that money, there is control, and that kind of control limits the freedom of our people to speak freely, write freely, think freely, and act as free men..." Meet The Press interview, 4/14/97
"And you do with me as is written, but remember that I have warned you that Allah will punish you. You are wicked deceivers of the American people. You have sucked their blood. You are not real Jews, those of you that are not real Jews. You are the synagogue of Satan, and you have wrapped your tentacles around the U.S. government, and you are deceiving and sending this nation to hell. But I warn you in the name of Allah, you would be wise to leave me alone. But if you choose to crucify me, know that Allah will crucify you." Saviours' Day Speech, Chicago, 2/25/96
"I don't own Hollywood. Who depicted Black people? Who writes the books? Who writes the plays, the songs that make us look less than human? Do you mean to tell me that Jews have never done any evil to Black people?...Were they not involved in the slave trade? Yes, they were...and to the extent that they were involved, somebody has to bring them to account. And I believe that has fallen on me." Interview with New York Amsterdam News, 1/8/94
On 'Jewish Conspiracies': "We are not giving them [Jews] power by getting into the debate, they already have power. They control Black intellectuals, they control Black politicians, Black preachers, Black artists – they control Black life. I’m not against Jews, I’m against control by any group, of us… I don’t know how you can talk about Black liberation without confronting that and not talk about those who stifle Black thought, freedom of Black liberation." Daily Challenge, 10/12/00
"The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith and other reactionary Jewish groups who want to maintain control of Black organizations by trying to tarnish independent Black voices who challenge their control, only prove the point when they hurl the same, tired invectives at leaders like Min. Farrakhan whenever he’s critical of, or raises questions about Jewish conduct." Final Call on-line, 8/29/00 (Note: Final Call is the newspaper of the Nation of Islam) ...
"I look at Lucianne Goldberg, Linda Tripp, Monica Lewinsky, and I ask myself, 'Why was this introduced at this time when Netanyahu was being pressured by the president to give up more land on the West Bank,'...I think we need to look deeper into this than just what appears on the surface." Meet The Press interview, 10/18/98
"Don't be afraid of the Zionists. Don't be afraid of their power, Mr. Clinton. Stop bowing down." Speech at Howard University, Washington DC, 10/16/98 "They call them [Hezbollah] terrorists, I call them freedom fighters...No one asks why they would do such a thing. Why would they do such a thing? What has driven them to this point? That's what the UN, the U.S. and Europe doesn't want to deal with because the Zionists have control in England, in Europe, in the United States and around the world." Speech at the District Council 33 Union Hall, Philadelphia, PA, 4/22/96 ...
"[U]ntil Jews apologize for their hand in that ugly slave trade; and until the Jewish rabbis and the Talmudic scholars that made up the Hamitic myth -- that we were the children of Ham, doomed and cursed to be hewers of wood and drawers of water -- apologize, then I have nothing to apologize for." Interview in Swing magazine, 9/24/96
"How did I get to be an anti-Semite...What have I done? I told the truth about Jewish involvement in the slave trade. Your own writers say the same thing. Well, if they're not anti-Semitic for writing it, how the hell am I anti-Semitic for reading what they wrote and then saying it?...I didn't write your history, you wrote it. And then the sad thing, when you confront them with what their scholars have said, they say, 'Well is this part of the old conspiracy talk?'" Mosque Maryam, Chicago, 3/19/95 ...
On Dialogue with Jews "I want to sit down and dialogue with members of the Jewish community with no preconditions. That demand for me to apologize comes out of an arrogance that makes one feel that if I am critical of Jewish behavior relative to Black people, that all of a sudden I have to apologize for being critical...I don't think that I should have to apologize unless I am shown that there is something that I have said that is not correct. Then I would have no problem...to ask for forgiveness..." Meet The Press interview, 10/12/97 "

[MORE campus resistance to racist Zionism needed:]
How Pride Beat Hate in Montreal. THE IVORY TOWER,
By GIL TROY, [Jewish] Forward, September 5, 2003
"Summer is ending and students are returning to campus. Many Jewish students, however, will be returning not only to seminars and syllabi, but also to the anti-Israel protests and propaganda that have plagued many North American campuses since the Palestinians launched their intifada in the fall of 2000. Montreal's Concordia University, in particular, has become infamous as a center of unreason and discord. The situation at "Gaza U." has been one of unrelenting hostility to Zionism — and often Jews. Faculty members demonstrate the casual bigotry of the politically correct, injecting anti-Israel remarks into lectures unrelated to the Middle East and dismissing Jewish nationalism by referring to the Jewish "people" in quotation marks ... Clearly, Concordia University functions as an unhappy harbinger of what could happen on any campus where antisemitism masquerading as anti-Zionism festers. Even when Palestinian activists were not rioting — punching professors and kicking Holocaust survivors on that awful day — even when the anarchist-run student government was not stigmatizing Hillel, too many Jewish students felt scared at Concordia, a shocking failure for a modern university. Fortunately, this tale has a less known but happier twist. Finally, Jewish students, the Jewish community and the broader community of Concordia students belatedly mobilized last spring. This academic year begins with a sense of hope — and relative calm. Concordia now offers a model for how to respond to the epidemic of anti-Zionist, antisemitic bigotry afflicting too many of the West's most progressive circles ... For years now in Montreal, fueled by a happy combination of the Birthright Israel buzz, the broader Jewish identity agenda and superb communal leadership, many young Jews have been celebrating Israel, Zionism and Judaism, not just manning the barricades."

[The endless Jewish smear of "antisemite" is now spreading against the Latino community:]
BUSTAMANTE BUSTED: ANTI-SEMITIC TIES?,
By LESLEY MIA ROBINS, Jewish Observer, September 1-7, 2003
"Comprising 2.9% of California voters, Jews up and down the State of California are actively doing their research into who will make the best candidate to possibly replace current Gov. Gray Davis. With 134 candidates qualified to run for California's governorship and purported anti-Semitic ties emerging against the gubernatorial recall front-runner and only Democrat candidate, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, how will the Jewish community vote? Bustamante’s alleged past ties to a purported Latino anti-Semitic group seem to be coming back to haunt him. What’s more, his apparent failure to disassociate himself with Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, MEChA, has been the focus lately of news coverage spanning television, radio and the Internet and is causing concern in the Jewish community. Of note, MEChA's affiliated online newspaper, La Voz de Aztlan, (The Voice of Aztlan) recently published an article, "Bustamante pressured to repudiate MEChA," which suggests that Bustamante yet has ties with the group. Recently, the Jewish Observer received an e-mail from a concerned Jewish reader who alleged that Aztlan publishes "highly anti-[Semitic] literature of Bustamante's group 'MECHA' - a movement devoted to annexing California to Mexico." The Jewish Observer responded by telephoning Bustamante’s office for a comment. However, all attempts to contact Bustamante and clear up the allegations, or at least to comment on them, went unanswered ... One need only to view the group's website www.aztlan.net to understand the cause for concern amongst area Jewry. Some articles on its website, such as "McDonald's becomes latest victim of the 'Kosher Nostra Scam'," "The Israelization of the USA and its Dangers to Mexico," and "Israel and the U.S.: A Unique Relationship" are some examples of the types of stories published by La Voz de Aztlan. What’s more, La Voz de Aztlan has posted on its website a petition drive to stop U.S. military aid to Israel, a petition for an investigation committee on "Ariel Sharon’s Crimes against Humanity," and a petition to end Kosher certification labels."

A crude attempt to equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism,
By Jean Shaoul, World Socialist Web Site, December 22, 2003
"A recent article in the British newspaper, the Guardian, provides a noxious example of the concerted effort being orchestrated by the Zionist political establishment to rubbish all criticism of its murderous policy towards the Palestinian people. In an op-ed piece headlined Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism: behind much criticism of Israel is a thinly veiled hatred of the Jews, Emanuele Ottolenghi attempts to equate any opposition to Zionism and the colonial policies of the Israeli state with hatred of the Jewish people in general and the infamous and reactionary anti-Semitism of the Nazis in particular. Ottolenghi holds an unpaid post at the privately endowed Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the Middle East Centre at St Anthony’s College, Oxford. But by no stretch of the imagination can his article be described as a scholarly piece of work. His is an attempt on behalf of Israel’s international backers to silence opposition to Ariel Sharon’s regime and to legitimise its Greater Israel policy and brutality towards a people who bear absolutely no responsibility for the Holocaust, which is evoked by Ottolenghi as a bludgeon against Zionism’s opponents. His article offers total indemnity for Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians and a carte blanche for Sharon to do whatever he likes. Using the politics of amalgam, Ottolenghi links anyone who criticises the Israeli state with anti-Semitism, irrespective of their political views. As far as Ottolenghi is concerned it is impermissible to note that Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians are reminiscent of those employed by the Nazis. Such an equation between victims and murderers, he says, denies the Holocaust. “Worse still, it provides its retroactive justification for the Holocaust: if Jews turned out to be so evil, perhaps they deserved what they got,” he continued. This argument is made up from whole cloth. One does not have to deny the extermination of European Jewry in the Nazi gas chambers to say that Israel’s dispossession, subjugation and enclosure of the Palestinian people bears a striking resemblance to the policies of the Nazis towards the Jews, Poles, gypsies, other ethnic minorities and political opponents ... The Sharon government and the Zionist establishment routinely utilise the lie that their opponents are anti-Semitic. Ottolenghi runs with this by inventing a “counter-argument” from an imaginary accused that reeks of racism. “Jewish defenders of Israel are then depicted by their critics as seeking an excuse to justify Israel, projecting Jewish paranoia and displaying a ‘typical’ Jewish trait of ‘sticking together’, even in defending the morally indefensible.” Later he lists what he claims are anti-Semitic themes used repeatedly by anti-Zionists—“the Jewish conspiracy to rule the world, linking Jews with money and media, the hooked-nose stingy Jew, the blood libel, disparaging use of Jewish symbols, or traditional Christian anti-Jewish imagery—are used to describe Israel’s actions”. Who says this? Ottolenghi never quotes a single concrete example, except for reference to an Italian cartoon and to Labour MP Tam Dalyell’s reference to a “Jewish cabal” having influence on British foreign policy. This author cannot vouch for the Italian cartoon he cites, but the World Socialist Web Site has written on the attack made on Dalyell (See “Britain: Labour extends antiwar witch-hunt to Tam Dalyell”). But the essential message is that all anti-Zionists “repeatedly” resort to crude anti-Semitic attacks. And he can find no proof of this at all."

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The new anti-Semitism,
By Cathy Young, Boston Globe, December 22, 2003
"A year ago, Harvard President Lawrence Summers caused a stir with a speech in which he charged that anti-Semitism was making a comeback under the guise of criticizing Israel's conduct toward the Palestinians. Some applauded Summers's message, while others accused him of equating criticism of Israel with bigotry. Today, the "new anti-Semitism" is garnering more and more attention in the United States and in Europe. In France, which many regard as an epicenter of this phenomenon, the government has recently stepped up its condemnation of anti-Semitic hate crimes -- and even the mainstream press, which is rife with an anti-Israeli animus, has started to admit that the lines between "anti-Zionism" and "anti-Semitism" are being blurred. That anti-Semitism is bad hardly seems subject to debate. Yet the debate rages o ... At the same time, few would deny that right now, the hatred of Israel emanating from much of the Muslim world has become virtually indistinguishable from the most virulent kind of anti-Semitism. One may recall the notorious speech by then-Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia to the Tenth Islamic Summit conference in October, in which he charged that "the Jews rule this world by proxy" (a statement that was widely condemned in Europe and America but applauded by many Arab leaders). For years now, the mostly government-run media in Arab countries, including "moderate" ones such as Egypt, have been feeding their audiences a steady stream of anti-Semitic propaganda that would not seem out of place in Nazi Germany -- and that makes no distinction between "Zionists" and Jews. This revolting fare includes Holocaust denial as well as recycling of old anti-Semitic forgeries and canards, from the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" to the "blood libel" which accuses the Jews of using the blood of Gentile children in their rituals. The "new anti-Semitism" in Western Europe is a more complex issue. As Gabriel Schoenfeld documents in his forthcoming book "The Return of Anti-Semitism" (Encounter Books), the anti-Israeli backlash has often taken the form of physical attacks on Jews, including beatings of Jewish children in schools, assaults on Jews wearing religious garb in the streets, and vandalism against Jewish cemeteries and synagogues. But there is also the question of what Schoenfeld and many others regard as a more "genteel" anti-Semitic bias perpetrated by progressive intellectuals. Often, the lines are difficult to draw ... Thus, a cartoon in a respectable Italian daily, La Stampa, showed an infant Jesus lying in front of an Israeli tank -- with a caption saying, "Don't tell me they want to kill me again." The reference to the smear against Jews as "Christ killers" is impossible to miss. In England, a columnist for a leading newspaper, The Observer, declared that he refused to read pro-Israel letters signed with Jewish-sounding names, and suggested that Jews writing on issues related to the Middle East should identify their background. The report censored by the European Union's center on racism pointed to the dangers of the anti-Israeli animus on the left: "Israel, seen as a capitalistic, imperialistic power, the `Zionist lobby,' and the United States are depicted as the evildoers in the Middle East conflict as well as exerting negative influence on global affairs." In many cases, it seems that this "progressive" outlook is providing a cover for a very old prejudice."