[Taking Goldberg's pissing on France below as an act of what he thinks is liberation, may we now feel free (in the interests of the French-born notion of genuine equality) in proclaiming, per Mr. Goldberg, that "Jews are a big smelly cheese in the world's grocery" and hope for the best Christmas present of all: the "destruction of Jews as an idea?" Myth? Myth? Someone say myth? It is not the French, Mr. Goldberg, who set the standards for moral deception. The French were wrestling with the very concept of Western-style democracy when your ancestors -- Talmudic Jews -- were probably drawing pickpocket tag-team straws over which gentile to rip-off next. "Joy to the world, and down with the Jews!" Does that sound kosher? No, Mr. Goldberg? But against the French it's OK? May we fairly assume then that your dirty little dual moral standard is the very foundation of your own sense of (Jewish) "liberty?"]
France is a big smelly cheese in the world’s grocery,
by Jonah Goldberg, Union-Leader (New Hampshire), December 27, 2004
"Ah, Christmastime. Joy to the world. God bless us, everyone. Through the rapturous din of carols and chimes, a stray condemnatory note can be heard, chastising the yuletide revelers for being too materialistic, too concerned with gifts that come wrapped in pretty paper and shiny bows. Who can help but sympathize with such concerns, as the groaning hordes of shoppers appear like Huns outside the doors of Wal-Mart? That is why I am so grateful for a special Christmas present — holiday present, if you must — for the whole world. No mere thing or shiny bauble, this present is an idea, glowing with an ecumenism that fires the mind and illuminates the heart, uniting nearly all mankind in fellowship. What idea is that? Why, the total destruction of France, of course. No, no, I don’t mean — or want — to kill the French people and salt the earth where they live. That would be wrong. I mean the destruction of France as an idea, as a shining fromagerie on a hill, serving as a beacon of asininity to left-wing radicals and a siren to kleptocratic Third World dictators, who, after a career of mass murder, want decent medical care, a good lawyer and a fresh croissant. Two new books are out that attack the cheese-eating surrender monkeys from two of France’s three most vulnerable sides, facts and logic (the third vulnerability, duh, is its border with Germany). For centuries France has claimed a monopoly on political virtue by glomming all the credit for the Enlightenment, and by pretending to be its anointed protector throughout history. Gertrude Himmelfarb demolishes the first part of this myth in her scintillating intellectual history “The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments.” The Enlightenment was that moment when mankind allegedly first threw off the shackles of superstition, tribalism and tyranny, and embraced reason, universal human rights and democracy. Personally, my own view on debates over the Enlightenment can be summarized by Mike Myers’ Scottish crank character from “So I Married an Axe Murderer”: “If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap.” Himmelfarb updates this ancient wisdom by persuasively placing the Scottish Enlightenment under the rubric of the British Enlightenment, so as to join Edmund Burke and Adam Smith in a single tradition. She also adds another Enlightenment, the American, to the mix as well. The French have long tried to claim that the American Revolution is merely an offshoot of the French Enlightenment project. Himmelfarb disagrees. She shows that the French took a different road to modernity than the Anglo-Americans, who took similar but slightly different routes. The British valued virtue more than liberty, the Americans had it the other way around. But where the French differed is that they sought to replace the religion of old Europe with a new cult of reason. They even made Notre Dame Cathedral into a “Temple of Reason.” By making a religion out of politics, with the state at its center, the French never embraced liberty the way Anglo-Americans did. It was this legacy which lent intellectual heft to all the great dictators, Napoleon, Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. My friend and colleague John Miller picks up the story basically where Himmelfarb leaves off. In “Our Oldest Enemy,” he and his co-writer Mark Molesky debunk the mythology that America and France were anything like sister republics fighting side by side in lady liberty’s defense. Yes, the French throne — not the Enlightenment philosophes — helped us out during the American Revolution, but that was a calculated attempt to give Britain a wedgie. But before that — during the French and Indian War — and almost ever after, the French have practiced a nasty Realpolitik towards America and the world. The French supported the Confederacy in the Civil War, and let’s not count how many Frenchmen supported the Germans — and the Holocaust ... So joy to the world, and down with the French! But I repeat myself."

"Meet Market." ''Fockers'' sets Christmas record. The comedy sequel earns $44.7 million over the weekend, outscoring ''Fat Albert'' and ''Aviator'',
by Gary Susman, Entertainment Weekly, December 27, 2004
"Is there a nice irony in the fact that the movie that now holds the record for Christmas business is about a proudly Jewish family? Maybe it was Barbra Streisand's return to the screen after eight years that got moviegoers so verklemmt over Meet the Fockers that the film rang up an estimated $44.7 million over the weekend. (The Meet the Parents sequel has earned a total of $68.5 million since it opened on Wednesday.) That $44.7 million beats the Christmas weekend record set two years ago by Leonardo DiCaprio's Catch Me If You Can ($30 million), while Fockers' Christmas Day take of $19 million topped the $14 million record set last Dec. 25 by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King."

[The "Indymedia" Internet "open publishing" news sites are supposed to be efforts at democratic, progressive political revelation -- grassroots expressions of news who can't get elsewhere. Here below, you'll see how the Zionist Arm controls the political Left, like everywhere else. Wendy Campbell's censored comments are here.]
Indybay in SF Censors Anti-Zionist Activist,
by Wendy Campbell, Santa Cruz Indymedia, December 2004
"This article has been deleted with code."

[JTR contributor's note: "See list of speakers and agenda." Our comment: We're trying hard to squeeze 5 non-Jewish names out of this, but it might be a stretch.]
Free Speech in War Time, [Conference: January 16-17, 2005]
Rutgers-Camden Law School
"Participating speakers:
"Floyd Abrams, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York
Derrick Bell, New York University School of Law
Lisa Brown, American Constitution Society
The Honorable Michael Chertoff, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center
Ronald Collins, First Amendment Center
Robert Corn-Revere, Davis Wright Tremaine, Washington, D.C.
Eric Foner, Columbia University, Department of History
Charles Fried, Harvard Law School
Elena Kagan, Harvard Law School
Stanley Katz, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Earl Maltz, Rutgers University School of Law at Camden
David McIntosh, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Wash., D.C., & Federalist Society
David Rabban, University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Rand Rosenblatt, Rutgers University School of Law at Camden
Frederick Schauer, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
John Seigenthaler, Founding Editorial Director, USA Today
David Skover, Seattle University School of Law
Rayman Solomon, Rutgers University School of Law at Camden
Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago Law School
David Strauss, University of Chicago Law School

[The Judeocentric government within a government?]
From Eilat to Galilee, local D.A. sees complex Israel on JCRC trip,
by joe eskenazi, Jewish Bulletin, December 17, 2004
"Kamala Harris, who grew up in Montreal surrounded by Jewish friends and even extended family, always yearned to visit Israel. But it’s a long way from Quebec to the Western Wall, and Harris never made it to the Jewish state. Until now. The San Francisco district attorney was one of about a dozen mostly elected officials taken on a tour of Israel late last month by the Jewish Community Relations Council ... The JCRC has been bringing Bay Area community leaders to Israel for the past 15 years with the aim of shedding some light on the nation’s myriad complexities and spurring person-to-person relationships with Israelis in similar leadership positions. “As we expose groups to the various issues within Israel, we give them a good picture, if you will, of the beauty of the land and its history,” said Rabbi Doug Kahn, executive director of the JCRC about the trips, which are underwritten by the Jewish Community Endowment Fund and Bernard Osher Foundation. “Our view is to open up this extraordinary society to our participants and help encourage a variety of long-term relationships to be built as well as a lifetime of interest in terms of Middle East issues.” In addition to Harris, trip participants included state Assemblymembers Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento, Johan Klehs (D-San Leandro) and Rebecca Cohn (D-Saratoga); Jesse Blout, the director of the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development; and Steve Cohn, a Sacramento City Council member."

An Israeli Interrogator, and a Tale of Torture,
New York Times, December 27, 2004
"To the Editor: In your excerpts from an interview with a former Israeli interrogator, Michael Koubi ("Psychology and Sometimes a Slap: The Man Who Made Prisoners Talk," Week in Review, Dec. 12), you wrote: "Despite Palestinian accusations to the contrary, Mr. Koubi said Israeli
interrogators use only 'very low levels' of physical coercion." But every credible Israeli, international and Palestinian human rights organization that has investigated the situation has reached the same conclusion: interrogation procedures used by Israel from 1987 to 1993 (during which time Mr. Koubi boasts he conducted such questioning) constituted torture. Far more than just "two slaps" or putting a "cover on a his head to scare him," these methods of torture included forcing prisoners to sit on low chairs, their legs bent below the chair and their hooded heads thrust forward, or tying them to a pipe to force them to remain standing, sometimes on tiptoe or with arms stretched up behind them, for long periods. These types of torture were often accompanied by sleep deprivation and exposure to temperature extremes. Prisoners were violently shaken (at least one prisoner died from being shaken) and threatened with death or the rape of members of their family. Reports of severe beatings were common, including on the genitals and other sensitive areas. While originally justified on the grounds of finding "ticking bombs," the use of such methods of torture became routine. Trying to paint Israeli interrogation practices as merely an intellectual game is
clearly a denial of the facts. And allowing Mr. Koubi to paint himself as a hero is a further violation of the rights of those whom he tortured. - William F. Schulz, Executive Director, Amnesty International U.S.A., New York, Dec. 20, 2004"

Zionism has exahausted itself." An interview with Amos Elon,
by Ari Shavit, CounterPunch (from Haaretz - Israel), December 27, 2004
"But many people don't really know who Amos Elon is. The man who was once the preeminent journalist in Israel has been totally erased from the memory. The man who was the chief chronicler of the Israeli story has ceased to register in the Israeli consciousness. He is much better known to readers of the New York Review of Books than to readers of Ha'aretz ...
Have you developed a feeling of alienation toward Israel?
"Not alienation. Disappointment. I have no common language with the people who are at the top in politics. I think they're wrong. Their style repulses me. And maybe there is alienation because I don't know them anymore. I'm not involved with them. I used to know everyone. I used to be intimately acquainted with them. And today it's a group that I don't know. And maybe there is alienation because of the sharp rightward shift in Israel. Toward the right and toward religion.
"Do you find Israel to be barbaric, unenlightened, nationalistic?"
In Israel there's the `Gush Dan' state and the political state. The `Gush Dan' state is a state of live-and-let-live. Of tolerance. Of the desire for peace and a good life. But the political state, well, you know what it looks like.
"What does it look like?"
It's partly quasi-fascist and partly religious with narrow horizons.
"Quasi-fascist?"
Quasi-fascist in the sense that abstract principles of religion are dictating our fate without any democratic process. There are religious people here who believe they've put their finger on the very essence of being. They know everything. They're in direct contact with God" ...
The critical mistake of `67 opened the door to dark forces that overwhelmed the Israel to which you belonged, to which you felt a genuine closeness?
"There were two sources of the perversion: the mixture of religion with political policy and the secular right's military adventurism. Force. The worship of force. By the way, it hasn't only come from the Likud. It also came from Ahdut Ha'avoda (the United Workers Party, a precursor of the Labor Party), from people like Allon and Galili. Ahdut Ha'avoda always seemed to me to be a party of farmers fighting over each piece of land with pitchforks."
And the result is that this place has corrupted itself?
"The occupation certainly corrupted Israeli society. There is no dispute about that."
Has Israel slid into a situation that places it in a category other than the democratic Western nations?
"Without a doubt. And I'm still wracking my brain wondering what those people were thinking after the Six-Day War. How did they think they could keep it? What did Dayan think? Did he really think that if we just treat them nicely, everything will be fine? What provinciality it was. What historic ignorance. Had this ever happened anywhere else in the world? From this perspective, the Israeli occupation is perhaps the least successful attempt at colonialism that I can think of. This is the crappiest colonial regime that I can think of in the modern age."
How is it worse than French or British colonialism?
"In the French and British colonies, there were mixed marriages. In India, for instance. But especially with the French. They're freer than the British are in bed, that's well-known. But both the French and the British tried to co-opt the elites. As a rule, whenever a European nation took over territory in the Third World, it tried to embrace the elite. Here there was no such attempt. There were no mixed marriages, there was no significant commercial cooperation. The only human partnership was in the lowest dimension of all: crime" ...
What you're saying is that it's an illusion to think that the disengagement will solve the problem.
"Of course it's an illusion. Gaza will explode. I think there will be a terrible explosion there. That's why I still say today that the victory in the Six-Day War was worse than a defeat" ...
Is Amos Elon a Zionist, a post-Zionist or an anti-Zionist?
"I definitely agree with the idea that there was a need to establish a state-of-the-Jews in Israel for those Jews who want to live here. I also recognize the right of Jews who don't want to live here not to do so. They're doing okay. And in their daily life, they're refuting the Zionists' claim that they were doomed to extinction. I think that Zionism has exhausted itself. Precisely because it accomplished its aims. If the Zionism of today isn't a success story, it's the fault of the Zionists. It's because of the religio-zation and Likudization of Zionism and because what was supposed to be a state-of-the-Jews has become a Jewish state."

Mahathir asks Muslim states not to trade in US dollars,
The Daily Star (Malyasia), December 19, 2004
"Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday urged Muslim countries not to trade in US dollars as it only strengthens the capabilities of the United States to develop and supply arms to Israel that 'they then use to kill Muslims'. He also urged Muslim countries to put to one side their differences and concentrate on developing their economic potential and argued that democracy has 'weakened' many Muslim countries. Mahathir was talking at a breakfast meeting organised by the Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) on "Islam and the West". "The same dollars that we trade in are being used to develop and supply US arms to Israel that kill Muslims," Mahathir stated. "I've asked Arabs to sell oil in other currencies. If we don't use US dollars, the currency will become useless". He explained that if the oil and other raw materials possessed by Muslim countries are sold in currencies other than dollars, the dollar would devalue. "If the US is poor it cannot dominate the world."

[Jews and sports, here.]
The Owner. The Enigma,
By SCOTT BARANCIK and DAMIAN CRISTODERO, St. Petersburg Times (Florida,), December 26, 2004
"Malcolm Glazer is not a sports guy, but he's in on some of sport s' biggest deals. He's not a high society guy, but he lives with in it. And everyone's talking about him, except him ... In the 10 years since [Malcolm] Glazer bought the Bucs [Tampa Bay Buccaneers] for a then-record $192-million, that picture has become even less defined - strange because Glazer probably never has been on a more public stage. Not only does he own the NFL's ninth most-valuable team, valued at $779-million by Forbes, he is attempting to buy England's Manchester United soccer club, one of the world's richest sports franchises. Tampa Bay Lightning president Ron Campbell called it "the biggest prize in all of sports" ... He leaves the Bucs' day-to-day operation to sons Bryan and Joel. "He told me more than once that he was buying the team because the boys loved it," said Sandy Freedman, who was Tampa's mayor when the purchase went through. "But you don't go out and spend that kind of money because your boys want a toy. He knew it was going to be a smart business investment." But talk about it? As far as Glazer is concerned, that is not in the job description. "He could be a very visible guy," said James Jennings Sheeran, publisher of Palm Beach Society magazine, "but I don't think he either needs that or wants it; I mean a fronting role, like a George Steinbrenner. My feeling - in Palm Beach and New York, where I lived - the less they say, the bigger and better they are." And the more difficult it is to discern perception from reality about this American-born son of Lithuanian immigrants, who grew his fortune after taking over his father's Rochester, N.Y., wholesale jewelry business. There is the Glazer who holds dear his immediate family, including wife Linda and their six children, but who fought his four older sisters in court over their mother's estate. There is the Glazer who grew up blue-collar, but was sued by residents of mobile home parks he owned in the Rochester area for allegedly overcharging them, including charging extra for children and pets. There is the Glazer who, along with his family, was left $300 in a cigar box when his father died, according to a 1995 St. Petersburg Times article. Glazer's sister Jeanette Goldstein recently told the Times her brother has misportrayed his childhood. "He did not," Goldstein said, "come from nothing." Perhaps most interesting is the Glazer who jealously guards his privacy, but simultaneously has pushed himself into the international spotlight with his pursuit of high-profile sports franchises. Before buying the Bucs, Glazer eyed the NFL's New England Patriots, an expansion football franchise for Baltimore and baseball's San Diego Padres and Pittsburgh Pirates. In 1999, Glazer reportedly attempted to buy the New York Jets. Last year he tried to buy the Dodgers for an estimated $450-million. Most recently he has driven Manchester United's proud fans into an anti-Glazer frenzy with an anticipated bid for the team that, if successful, could cost well over $1-billion. "For such a reclusive personality, he has huge, high-profile ambitions," Campbell said. "There's an interesting lesson there. We just don't know what it is, because people rarely get to talk to him." Glazer and his children declined interview requests for this story, as did all but one of the 11 NFL owners contacted - including those who serve with Glazer on the league's powerful finance committee - and many nonfootball associates. But interviews with dozens of friends and acquaintances provided some insights into this very private man, beyond his stewardship of a franchise that went from NFL laughingstock to 2002 Super Bowl champions. There are his business principles ("All gamblers die broke," he once said), his strong identification with his Jewish heritage and his ability to make fun of himself. Glazer's homes are on the market for a combined $49-million, though he'll likely remain in the one that doesn't sell first. He takes cabs to the airport ... British newspapers have not been kind to Malcolm Glazer since he began buying shares of Manchester United stock by the millions. The Sun titled its Glazer profile "Trailer-Park Tyrant." A Times of London bio bore the headline "Glazer: Ruthless, Religious and Decidedly Rich." The Manchester Evening News branded him an "American predator." Supporters call the portrayals unfair. "He's a good businessman," Rochester attorney and family friend Beryl Nusbaum said. "That's not a sin" ... From a business perspective, Glazer's rules of engagement might appear smart and admirable. To a sports fan, a tenant or a small investor, the same rules can suggest avarice. Take the "slumlord" label, one of the most enduring assaults on Glazer's character. Several months after Glazer bought the Buccaneers in 1995, a tenant group drawn from several mobile home parks he owned sued, accusing him and holding company First Allied Corp. of illegally charging an extra $5-per-month for pets and $3-per-month for each resident beyond the first two per household. The residents sought $100-million in punitive damages ... But Marasco blamed Glazer for his own bad publicity. "He could have went a long way to making amends to these folks rather inexpensively. (But) I think he dug in his heels and said, "If you don't like it, sue me.' " Minority shareholders of Zapata Corp., a publicly traded Rochester company Glazer controls, have not been shy about suing him. Several suits said Zapata made questionable investments in other Glazer-controlled companies. At least two accused him of improperly using Zapata to finance his purchase of the Bucs. All but one of the suits was dropped, a fact rarely mentioned by the British media. But many shareholders still question the propriety of Glazer's four-year consulting deal with Zapata, which pays him $122,500 per month through mid 2006, plus health benefits. Glazer's son Avram is the company's chairman and CEO. He and three other Glazer children form a majority on the board, which includes publicist Leffle ... Glazer's humble origins are a matter of some conjecture. Nusbaum, the Rochester attorney who handles Glazer's business litigation and has been friends since childhood with Glazer's younger brother, Jerome, said the family had a "rough time." "If they had money," Nusbaum said, "there was absolutely nothing they ever did that showed it." Nonsense, said Jeanette Goldstein, one of four older sisters who fought Glazer over their mother's estate in the 1980s. She said her estranged brother likes to burnish his rags-to-riches legend. "We had everything possible," said Goldstein, 83. "I had music lessons, I had violin lessons, we had dancing lessons. ... I mean, he (Glazer) can stand on his own qualifications. He doesn't have to knock down my mother and father" ... A new group [in Palm Beach] called the Palm Beach Fellowship of Christians and Jews encouraged interfaith dialogue and helped establish the town's first Hanukkah celebration. Wealth, not pedigree, had become the new currency. Glazer, who lost a number of relatives in the Holocaust, has contributed generously to both synagogues and hosted fundraisers for them at his home."He keeps kosher, he's a very proud, conscientious Jew," said Palm Beach Synagogue Rabbi Moshe Scheiner, who guessed that half of Palm Beach's in-season population today is Jewish. "And he has raised his family, and now his grandchildren, with a strong sense of Jewish identity." Though Palm Beach may be conflicted about its growing Jewish population, the town has never been inhospitable to ostentatious displays of wealth. Rolls-Royces are a common sight along glittery Worth Avenue, home to boutiques like Jimmy Choo and Cartier. The average single-family home sold for $3.5-million last year, said local real estate attorney and Glazer friend Les Evans. At Cafe L'Europe, where entrees range from $30 to $40 and Beluga caviar costs $100 an ounce, Glazer can get a good seat without causing a stir. For a rich man who seeks privacy and anonymity, there might be no better town to burrow ... A quiet giver, primarily to Jewish causes, Glazer is not known in Palm Beach or the Tampa Bay area as an important philanthropist. The Glazer Family Foundation, founded in 1999, donated more than $1.5-million worth of grants, Bucs tickets and other in-kind gifts during its first four years ... Aside from owning the Bucs, Glazer might be best known in Palm Beach for a couple of minor scrapes. One involved a second beachfront property he owns. In 2000, Glazer paid $14-million for a 11,000-square-foot mansion designed by famed architect Addison Mizner. He then sought local permission to move the landmark house toward the back of the lot and demolish some secondary buildings to make way for a new, larger dwelling on the beach. But Glazer's attorney and architect couldn't persuade the town's Landmark Preservation Commission that failing to do so constituted a "financial hardship." The estate is back on the market for $29.5-million. Another scrape involved Glazer's house at 1482 S Ocean Blvd. In 2001, next-door neighbor Bill Wallace saw a real-estate brochure for the house, which Glazer had listed for sale, and worried that potential buyers might misconstrue access rights to a beach stairwell that crosses both properties. Wallace, who in five years had never met his neighbor, said he called Glazer to discuss the issue. He offered to let the Glazers continue to use the wooden stairwell as long as they lived next door. But when Wallace said he'd demolish the stairs if Glazer sold the home, Glazer went from "very nice" to "very defensive," Wallace testified later. Glazer surprised Wallace with a lawsuit, arguing that years of continuous use legally entitled his family and its successors to permanent access to the stairwell. The case dragged on for more than three years before a judge dismissed it in June 2004. In the meantime, a contractor told Glazer he could build a stairwell entirely on his own land for $20,000. Glazer declined, saying it would lead to a less desirable section of the beach."Is it your testimony that the Wallaces should leave those steps so you can maximize the (resale) value of your property?" Wallace's lawyer asked during a deposition."Yeah," Glazer answered. "They should leave the steps alone."

[Older article: No stone is left unturned in the Jewish war against Palestinians and the Arabs. And it is a war of a very powerful network against the collectively weak. So if it is kosher to sue the murderers of innocent victims of violence in the Middle East, and there was such a thing as a truly objective legal system out of the West, then Israel would go bankrupt with lost lawsuits in an afternoon. But it doesn't work that way. The game is set as always to appease Jewish suffering and complaint, and no one else ever counts.]
Lawsuit accuses Arab Bank of aiding terrorists. Institution paid suicide bombers, laundered money, suit alleges,
CNN, July 6, 2004
"Six families of U.S. citizens killed or hurt in terrorist attacks in the Middle East have filed an $875 million lawsuit against the Arab Bank, accusing it of financing terrorist actions in Israel and the West Bank. The lawsuit states "the Jordanian-based banking institution with a branch in New York is knowingly administering the distribution of financial benefits to terrorists, the families of terrorists and foreign terrorist organizations as part of a scheme to encourage and facilitate acts of international terrorism." An Arab Bank spokesman in New York told CNN he had no immediate comment on the lawsuit, but that "a response will be coming soon' ... The Arab Bank has close to 20 branches in cities in the West Bank, the suit said."

Dreaming of a white Chrismukkah,
Yahoo! News (From AFP), December 23, 2004
"When President George W. Bush kicked off his year-end press conference this week by wishing everyone a "Happy Holidays," he was flirting with an issue that has triggered protests, lawsuits and boycotts. Touted as the season of harmony, Christmas in the United States has become a source of discord and debate over how to celebrate the holiday without promoting religion in a way that might alienate non-Christians. The argument is a perennial one, but this year, with the Christian right taking credit for Bush's re-election, traditionalists are fighting harder than ever against what they see as a political effort to take the Christ out of Christmas. "A covert and deceptive war has been waged on Christmas to remove any mention of it from the public square during the Christmas season," declares the California-based Committee to Save Merry Christmas on its website. The committee has launched a campaign to boycott major retailers, including big-name department stores like Macy's, which favour in-store decorations proclaiming "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" rather than "Merry Christmas." ... A school district in New Jersey achieved national media attention for banning Christmas carols, even instrumental versions, while the organisers of a "Winterfest" in Wichita, Kansas, opted to call their
Christmas tree a "Community tree." The main battleground for the Happy Holidays Vs. Merry Christmas debate is the public school system, as witnessed by two letters to ... The American holiday season kicks off with the non-denominational celebration of Thanksgiving, but then gets more complicated with the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, closely followed by Christmas. Jewish groups have been prominent in lobbying schools to keep the seasonal celebrations inclusive for the 18 percent of Americans who are non-Christians. "People get carried away on both sides," said Todd Gutnick, a spokesman for the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, which sends letters out to schools every year offering guidelines for recognising religious and cultural diversity. "We are not out to ban Christmas," Gutnick said. "We're just worried about situations, in a school for example, where a child might feel alienated. That can be hurtful." The ADL cited an incident when students in one classroom were working on Christmas-angel arts and crafts project, and Jewish students were instructed to leave and work on another project in the hallway. A lighter resolution to the debate has been put forward by the creators of the television teen soap "The O.C." in the form of a hybrid holiday called "Chrismukkah." The idea has gained some traction among inter-faith couples and
even spawned a website selling Chrismukkah gifts, including T- shirts with slogans like "Oy Joy" and "Merry Mazeltov."

Figures show new low in immigration to Israel,
By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz (Israel), December 27, 2004
"Absorption Minister Tzipi Livni presented the Knesset Immigration and Absorption Committee on Monday with immigration figures for 2004 indicating a new low in new arrivals for the past year. By the end of 2004, 21,744 immigrants are expected to arrive, 13 percent down from last year's 25,009 immigrants. There was a dramatic 70 percent drop in immigration from Argentina. The Absorption Ministry and the Jewish Agency both attribute the drop to economic recovery in Argentina in the past year. Immigrant assistance organizations in Israel believe immigrants' difficulties upon arrival deter family members from following in their footsteps. Alternative Laboral, a voluntary organization that helps Argentinean immigrants look for work, reports that requests for assistance have not decreased ... The Jewish Agency has invested $10 million in the past three years in Argentinean Jewry, which Abir says has not gone down the drain. "We invested most of the money in rescuing the local education system and made a substantial contribution to preventing assimilation. We are in a holding action, after which we hope to see immigration increase again." Two hundred new immigrants from the U.S. are meanwhile slated to arrive Wednesday on a special flight operated by national air carrier El Al. The Jewish Agency-Nefesh B'Nefesh immigration organization flight will be the fourth of its kind, bring the number of U.S. immigrants this
year to a twenty-year high of 2,850."

Sitting on the sidelines,
By Mark Seal, Haaretz (Israel), December 24, 2004
"Much has been written over the last four years on the profound support that American Jews give Israel and the centrality of Israel in Jewish communal life. So great was this fidelity that American Jewish concerns were publicly framed around one single issue. And yet, as Israel stands ready to evacuate all its settlements in Gaza and four in the northern West Bank; as the Palestinian population of the territories is poised to elect democratically a successor to Yasser Arafat; as the U.S. and its European allies prepare to resume their role as peacemakers; as Egypt makes conciliatory statements and takes actions to bridge the gap between itself and Israel, the organized American Jewish community is strangely silent. After the cabinet endorsed the Gaza withdrawal, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, American Jewry's central political body in its relationship to Israel, declined to take a position in support of the effort. Even after the Knesset ratified the plan, there are virtually no American Jewish voices enthusiastically supporting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's vision. At the same time, American Jewish organizations are ready to condemn any attack against Israeli military or civilian positions in Gaza. How are we to make sense of this? Are Jewish organizations incapable of supporting efforts at reconciliation, compromise and coexistence? Is organized American Jewry capable only of public acts of condemnation? Are we committed only to a vision of Israel as helpless, vulnerable and in desperate need of our protection? ... Why is a community that supported John Kerry for President by a ratio of 3-1, so unenthusiastic in response to peace initiatives and so impassioned in its support of military response? One reason is that it is much easier to achieve consensus over condemnation of an act or program, than it is to forge agreement over a particular plan. As the intifada raged and the events of 9/11 unfolded, most American Jewish organizations hardened their positions on Israel and the Middle East. Current organizational leadership was elected or empowered during this period and is predisposed to lack enthusiasm for evacuating Gaza settlements. Another reason is that American Jewish organizational leadership is relatively homogenous in experience and worldview. Support for Israel, combating anti-Semitism and fighting for Jewish rights are the consensus priorities for advocacy and activism. The events of the last four years have set this agenda in stone. Now, it is proving difficult to change direction."

[Pulling people back into the Tribe. The world Jewish Mafia seeks to get its Network in Eastern Europe fully active again.]
Krakow Jewish conference aims to empower volunteers in Europe,
By Carolyn Slutsky, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, December 23, 2004
"KRAKOW, Poland - After the dual destructions wrought by the Holocaust and communism, Eastern European Jewish communal life was little more than a memory 15 years ago. But last week in Krakow, Poland, the region’s Jewish community got a shot in the arm as Jewish volunteers and professionals gathered for the first pan-European conference for Jewish community volunteers. The conference brought together 70 participants from 11 countries in Eastern and Western Europe, the United States and Israel. Co-sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the European Council of Jewish Communities and the Polish Social Welfare Commission, the conference, known as the Volunteer International Program, is the first of its kind, uniting community members from developed and developing countries to share ideas for Jewish communal service. “Everyone will learn best practices and learn how different volunteer programs work in different communities,” said Daniel Sherman, who works for the JDC in New York ... “After communism, people are still searching for their identities, thinking, ‘What does it mean to be a Jew?’ ” said Zoltan Haberman, director of social services for the Hungarian Jewish Social Support
Foundation ... “In Eastern Europe, there are Jewish people but not really a strong community,” Taly Shaul, Haberman’s colleague, told JTA. “The main challenge today is to bring as many people as possible back to Jewish life. People should learn community isn’t only a place to get, but to contribute as well" ... Kasia Zarnecka, volunteer program coordinator for the Warsaw-based Jewish Welfare Commission and one of the organizers of the conference, said Jewish communal work both in emerging and well-established communities is challenging but rewarding. “We all have common goals and share the same motivations,” Zarnecka said. “It’s always best to have a dialogue.”

[JTR contributor's note: "He calls neocons 'Luciferians'!"]
The Devil's Christmas,
by Justin Raimondo, antiwar.com, December 24, 2004
"I don't believe in God, but the Devil is another matter entirely. Proof of the Malevolent One's existence is all around us, and he's been pretty busy lately – filling the military hospitals with the wounded (30,000-plus so far), torturing and otherwise abusing helpless prisoners of war (the Devil never signed the Geneva conventions), and slowly but surely shrinking the parameters of freedom in this country by pretending to expand them abroad. All the blood spilled on Iraqi soil is not enough to quench his devilish thirst, and old Lucifer is constantly seeking out new venues for his traveling horror show: Islamofascism, after all, is quite a weak reed on which to hang a new world war. Osama bin Laden and his ragtag crew nowhere hold state power, and the battle against al-Qaeda requires tactics more akin to police work than to conventional military strategy and the business of moving great armies across the globe. As it dawns on Americans that the Iraq war has only empowered bin Laden, the paucity and relative invisibility of the enemy is a problem for the Luciferians, and they're trying to solve it by restarting the cold war. The U.S. government-funded organization known as "Freedom House" has recently delivered a Christmas present to Russian President Vladimir Putin: his country has been downgraded, from "partially free" to "not free." Israel, of course, is deemed completely "free," in spite of treating its Arab subjects worse than Sparta ever treated its helots. Putin is no Jeffersonian democrat, but neither has he rounded up and imprisoned an entire people and sought to ethnically cleanse them from their homeland. Freedom House standards are elastic, bending to the dictates of American foreign policy. In Tony Blair's England, an internal passport in the form of a national ID card has been instituted, you can be arrested for making politically incorrect remarks about officially protected minority groups, and spy cameras are on every corner, yet the Brits get off scot "free." Bollocks. The Devil is fond of quoting Scripture, and we are inundated with calls for ending "tyranny" not only in Iraq, but also Russia and Ukraine. Yet any reference to the steady erosion of civil liberties in the sainted West is greeted with cries – Luciferian cries, to be sure – of "moral equivalence!" and accusations of "anti-Americanism." The real anti-Americans are to be found in the front ranks of the War Party: it is they who lied us into a war that has served only to further the interests of a foreign country – namely, Israel. It is they who have repeatedly denied what is obvious to our own FBI and other law enforcement agencies: that Israel has been engaged in a long-term and very damaging spy operation in the U.S., one that involves the major pro-Israel lobbying group, and quite probably reaches into the upper echelons of the U.S. government. Not only that, but Israel has lately been selling sensitive military technology to China. (Technology, one might add, that was either purchased – with our tax dollars – or stolen from the U.S.) Although, for some reason, we haven't been hearing much about that in the English-language media. The professional super-"patriots" and other "pro-American" neocons, who manage to get themselves worked up over accusations of "treason" – either real or imagined – and the alleged "betrayals" of our allies, have been strangely silent when it comes to Israel's apparent treachery. Lying is a major Luciferian trait. Just as members of certain Buddhist sects aspire to pray constantly, so the neocons – uh, er, I mean, Luciferians – lie almost without interruption. Deception comes as naturally to them as breathing, and it has come to the point where they clearly don't care about the truth: only "truth" that serves their ideology is to be acknowledged."

[What has American education become? A Zionist whorehouse. University presidents, if not Jewish, today feel the need to be robust pimps for apartheid Israel and the world Zionist invasion strategy.]
A Jewish Studies Champion,
by Robert Sklar, Detroit Jewish News, December 27, 2004
"As undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury under President Reagan, M. Peter McPherson worked with the Israeli government and U.S. Jewish leaders to cut the interest rate on Israel’s debt from 13 to 6 percent, saving the Jewish state $1 billion. As president of Michigan State University, McPherson guided the largest building boom in the 150-year history of the East Lansing campus, launched a $1.2 billion Capital Campaign, shaped the study abroad program into a national model, added a law school, and saw Jewish enrollment climb to nearly 3,000 — 43 percent of the nearly 7,000 Jewish students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After the second Gulf War, President Bush tapped McPherson to rebuild Iraq’s currency and banking system and to bring foreign investment to the former anti-Zionist dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. Retiring on Dec. 31 after 11 years at the helm of MSU, McPherson, 64, is moving with his wife, Joanne, to Arlington, Va. He’ll concentrate on the Partnership to Cut Hunger in Africa, which he co-founded, and he’ll advise Congress on overseas study programs. MSU, for example, hopes to again grant financial aid and scholarships for study in Israel by 2006; such study ended when Palestinian terror broke out in 2001. McPherson, who is Christian, jump-started the Jewish Studies program at MSU in 1998 when he created a lay advisory board and authorized the first two staff positions — for American Jewish History and Culture, and Hebrew Language and Literature. Up to 800 students, some not Jewish, now enroll each year in Jewish Studies courses, which are spread over eight departments and three colleges. The courses wisely focus on Jewish life in North America and Israel; European Jewry would not offer the same resonance. Students can’t major in Jewish Studies, but they can specialize in it. I applaud all four directors over the years — Barry Gross, Steve Weiland, Keely Stauter-Halsted and now Ken Waltzer. A new initiative is the East European Jewish Studies summer study at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. A Strong Supporter Beyond anchoring Jewish Studies, McPherson has spoken up against anti-Zionism and Jew hating. Shortly after arriving at MSU in 1993, McPherson was aghast when a brick was thrown at a window at Hillel House. He said MSU would not tolerate anti-Semitic or racist acts on the 45,000-student campus. At the 2002 opening of the new Hillel, he renounced protests around the country calling for universities to divest of their investments in Israel. For the past five years, McPherson made it a point to include the Detroit Jewish News as a stop on his annual Oakland County visit with Jewish alumni. I felt proud to be a Jew as he spoke of building Jewish Studies from scratch with the help of an active advisory board led by Birmingham attorney Michael Serling. Michigan Jewry owes McPherson, a gentle giant of academia, a sincere yasher koach for a deed well done! Under his watch, the Jewish Studies program has helped counter assimilation and apathy by deepening Jewish identity among participating Jewish students. The evening of Dec. 15 was cold and snowy, but I was determined to attend a farewell reception for Joanne and Peter McPherson hosted by metro Detroit alumni at the Bloomfield Hills home of Rhonda and Gary Ran. "One of my proudest activities has been to help the MSU Jewish Studies program become firmly established in our curriculum both intellectually and fiscally," McPherson said, causing a swell of approval to cascade through the crowd. "Much of the progress in Jewish education at MSU, all that has been accomplished with the Jewish Studies program, including the new Hillel House, could not have happened without the support and leadership of President McPherson and First Lady Joanne," Serling said. "It is a wonder that he would have had the time to work so closely with the Jewish community" ... I was touched when Serling told the 71 guests at the Rans’ home about Peter McPherson’s heartfelt support of Israel. Serling, his wife, Elaine, and friends have endowed a chair for Israel Studies at MSU. Bloomfield Hills philanthropist Ed Levy Jr. has endowed a scholarship fund for study in Israel. Serling told how McPherson, while waiting for a ride to Amman as he ended his four-month stay as part of the coalition reconstruction team in Iraq, spoke by audio feed to a largely non-Jewish crowd back at MSU. Yet he didn’t hesitate to say, "I have a vision of Iraq as a free, democratic country with a growing, successful capitalistic economy like Israel." Serling applauded McPherson’s foresight. "Through the seed that you planted," Serling said, "we have now raised nearly $4 million for Jewish Studies and have much to show for it." Retirement aside, McPherson put the call out for another $3 million to enrich Jewish Studies, including a fourth staff position: Jewish Religious and Philosophical Thought. "We will continue to strengthen Jewish Studies as an academic initiative, raise its national visibility and expand its impact," McPherson said. "President Designate Lou Anna Simon shares my commitment."

What happened in Kurdish Halabja?,
by Mohammed al-Obaidi, Al-Jazeera, December 22, 2004
The truth of what happened in Halabja had always been hidden from the public, and many who knew exactly what happened in this Kurdish village in the second half of March 1988 disputed the western media coverage of the story. It is a fact that key Kurdish leaders aided by the CIA and the Israeli Mossad have used a wide network of public relations companies and media outlets in the west to manipulate and twist the truth of what happened in Kurdish Halabja in 1988 in favour of the Kurdish political parties. In 1993, an organisation was established in Israel called The Kurdish Israeli Friendship League founded by a Jewish Kurd called Moti Zaken, who originally immigrated from Zakho, Iraq, and worked closely with the American Zionist lobby in the US. His efforts ended in 1996 in the establishment of the Washington Kurdish Institute, an organisation founded with the financial help and supervision of the Zionist Mike Amitay. Mike Amitay is the son of Morris Amitay, a long-time legislative assistant in Congress and lobbyist for the influential American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. Amitay senior is an adviser to Frank Gaffney's Centre for Security Policy and the former vice-chairman of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a US-based pro-Israeli Likud advocacy outfit that specialises in connecting US military brass to their counterparts in the Israeli armed forces. JINSA associates include Dick Cheney, John Bolton, Douglas Feith, and Richard Perle. A group of Kurdish figures known for their connection with the Israeli Mossad manage the Washington Kurdish Institute. Those are: Najmaldin Karim, Omar Halmat, Birusk Tugan, Osman Baban, Asad Khailany, Kendal Nezan, Asfandiar Shukri and Mohammad Khoshnaw.Such organisations have devoted themselves to championing the claims that the Iraqi army bombed Kurdish villages with chemical agents throughout 1988. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW) "at least 50,000 and possibly as many as 100,000 people, many of them women and children, were killed out of hand between February and September 1988, the victims being Iraqi Kurds systematically put to death in large numbers on the orders of the central government in Baghdad". There are other champions of the genocide claim. One is Jeffrey Goldberg, whose 18,000-word story, The Great Terror, in the 25 March 2002 issue of The New Yorker forms the basis of the US Department of State's website on alleged Iraqi genocide. Goldberg's story is long on lurid details; we are told, for instance, that one woman, Hamida Mahmoud, died while nursing her two-year-old daughter. Goldberg also follows the Human Rights Watch formula in invoking the Nazis: "Saddam Hussein's attacks on his own citizens mark the only time since the Holocaust that poison gas has been used to exterminate women and children."What Goldberg did not tell his readers about is that he has dual Israeli/American citizenship and served in the Israeli defence forces a few years back. Or that he purposefully ignored the War College report, which, of course, reached quite different conclusions. The Iraqi army allegedly used chemical weapons in "40 separate attacks on Kurdish targets" during a campaign that HRW labels as genocide. The most prominent of these purported attacks was the March 1988 "chemical assault" on the town of Halabja, in which the number of dead, according to Human Rights Watch "exceeds 5000". It is known that both Iran and Iraq used chemical weapons in their eight-year war from September 1980 to August 1988. Most of Iraq's alleged assaults on the Kurds took place while this war was raging, although Human Rights Watch claims the attacks extended into September 1988. Iraq has acknowledged using mustard gas against Iranian troops to overwhelm the human waves tactic used by Iranians who wanted to benefit from the fact that they outnumbered Iraqis, but has consistently denied using chemical weapons against civilians. The only verified Kurdish civilian deaths from chemical weapons occurred in the Iraqi village of Halabja, near the Iran border, are several hundred people who died from gas poisoning in mid-March 1988. Iran overran the village and its small Iraqi garrison on 15 March 1988. The gassing took place on 16 March and onwards; who is then responsible for the deaths - Iran or Iraq - and how large was the death toll knowing the Iranian army was in Halabja but never reported any deaths by chemicals? The best evidence to answer this is a 1990 report by the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College. It concluded that Iran, not Iraq, was the culprit in Halabja ... After 15 years of support to the allegations of HRW, the CIA finally admitted in its report published in October 2003 that only mustard gas and a nerve agent was used by Iraq. The CIA now seems to be fully supporting the US Army War College report of April 1990, as a cyanide-based blood agent that Iraq never had, and not mustard gas or a nerve agent, killed the Kurds who died at Halabja and which concludes that the Iranians perpetrated that attack as a media war tactic. Despite the doubt cast by many professionals as well as the CIA's recent report, and after years of public relations propaganda made for the Kurdish leaderships by the assistance and support of the Israeli Mossad, the issue of genocide has been marketed to the international community. In a telephone interview with the Village Voice in 2002, Stephen Pelletiere said: "There is to this day the belief - and I'm not the only one who holds it - that things did not happen in Halabja the way Goldberg wrote it." And it is an especially crucial issue right now. We say Saddam is a monster, a maniac who gassed his own people, and the world should not tolerate him. But why? Because that is the last argument the US has for going to war with Iraq."
Professor Mohammed al-Obaidi is the spokesman for the People's Struggle Movement (Al-Kifah al-Shabi) in Iraq, and works as a university professor in the UK. He was born and educated in al-Adhamiyah district in Baghdad. He is writing a book about Halabja."

[World Jewish 'hasbara' (propaganda) is an essential foundation of modern smear-centered Israel and Jewish self-delusion, as displayed below. If anyone wants to find verifiable "hate" in books, the Jewish Talmud and other Orthodox Judaic texts, as well as Zionist apartheid laws in the Jewish state, are as good a place to start as any. Don't hold your breath for a formal investigation of these saintly tomes any time soon.]
Palestinian textbooks: Where is all that 'incitement'?,
by Roger Avenstrup, International Herald Tribune, December 17, 2004
"Palestinian textbooks contain incitement to hatred of Israel, right? Both President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton have said so. Zionist groups constantly lobby European foreign ministries to stop support for Palestinian textbooks on that basis, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon affirmed it at a recent Likud party meeting. Detailed analyses of the textbooks have been done by research institutes. The U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem commissioned studies from the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI), and in Europe the Georg Eckert Institute facilitated research. Research papers have also been published in international fora such as the Hebrew University's Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, the Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture, and presented at the Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief. At the political level, a U.S. Senate subcommittee on Palestinian education and the Political Committee of the European Parliament have both held hearings on the matter. No country's textbooks have been subjected to as much close scrutiny as the Palestinian. The findings? It turns out that the original allegations were based on Egyptian or Jordanian textbooks and incorrect translations. Time and again, independently of each other, researchers find no incitement to hatred in the Palestinian textbooks. The European Union has issued a statement that the new textbooks are free of inciting content and the allegations were unfounded. The IPCRI 2003 report states that the overall orientation of the curriculum is peaceful and does not incite to hatred or violence against Israel and the Jews, and the 2004 report states that there are no signs of promoting hatred toward Israel, Judaism or Zionism, nor toward the Western Judeo-Christian tradition or values. Yet Sharon now claims that the Palestinian textbooks are a greater threat than terrorism. If that is so, education for peace and conflict resolution has become the greatest threat to Israel. Maybe it is: What little independent research has been done on Israeli textbooks, together with the recent New Profile report on the militarization of the Israeli education system, gives grounds for serious concern about what is happening to future generations on that side of the wall. Peace might feel threatening to a war-ingrained identity. If, as part of its policy of reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq, the White House is looking for a modern education founded in positive Islamic values and which promotes peace and conflict resolution, it should look at Palestinian textbooks for a model. The first editions are not perfect: There are gaps in the presentation of both Palestinian and Israeli history, but they are a good starting point nonetheles. As usual in national curriculum processes, criticism from extremists on either side is a sign that the process is probably on the right track. The biggest constraint, in the words of a Palestinian parent, is that Israeli tanks and soldiers are shooting in the streets outside while teachers are trying to promote peace in the classroom."

[Where has America gone? When did its principles turn into blatant Jewish "segregationalism" and legalized Judeocentric apartheid? Why is Jewish hatred for Christianity and oppression of even "Jews for Jewish" organizations secularly kosher in Western civilization?]
'Jews for Jesus' Concertgoer Loses Employment Suit Against Jewish Center. Evangelical Christian claimed her firing resulted from concert attendance,
by Shannon P. Duffy, The Legal Intelligencer, December 21, 2004
"Finding Title VII's exemption for religious institutions "is not limited to facilities where prayer takes place," a magistrate judge has dismissed a suit against a Jewish community center brought by an evangelical Christian who claims she was fired because she attended a "Jews for Jesus" concert. In his 15-page opinion in LeBoon v. Lancaster Jewish Community Center, U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacob P. Hart rejected the plaintiff's argument that the LJCC is not entitled to the exemption because its purpose is "essentially secular," and it is not affiliated with any synagogue. Instead, Hart found that courts have taken a broader view of the exemption, extending it to any institution that includes religion among its primary purposes. Plaintiff's attorney J. Michael Considine Jr. of West Chester, Pa. argued in court papers that LJCC's mission statement showed that it focuses on developing a Jewish community in Lancaster through "identity, education and cooperation." As a result, Considine argued, LJCC's mission "is not spiritual." Hart disagreed, saying "this fails to take account of the fact that LJCC seeks to sustain a specifically Jewish community." Minutes from the LJCC's board meetings, Hart said, "reveal the pervasive Jewish orientation of the organization." Although the LJCC is not run by, and is not directly answerable to, any one synagogue or denomination of Judaism, Hart found that more than 75 percent of its funding came from the Lancaster Jewish Federation campaign, and that rabbis of the three local synagogues were ex officio members of LJCC's board of directors and assisted in programming and fund-raising. The LJCC also decided to maintain a kosher kitchen, Hart noted, in order to create "an environment where all members of the Lancaster Jewish community could feel comfortable participating." Hart also noted that the center produces Jewish education and cultural programming, including a Holocaust Commemoration Day, a Chanukah dinner and a Purim carnival, and that "only Jews were to be solicited as LJCC members." Although a number of programs sponsored by the LJCC are religion-neutral and open to members of the general public -- such as fitness and self-defense classes, and a secular pre-school program -- Hart found that "this does not change the underlying purpose and orientation of the organization." The ruling is a victory for LJCC's lawyers, Daniel J. Brennan and Christine N. Schulz of McAleese McGoldrick Susanin & Widman in King of Prussia, Pa. According to court papers, plaintiff Linda LeBoon worked for the LJCC as a bookkeeper between 1998 and her termination in August 2002. In the suit, LeBoon claimed that the firing was the result of both religious and racial discrimination that stemmed from her support of a black woman who was fired from LJCC and her attendance at the Jews for Jesus concert. In court papers, LJCC insists that LeBoon was fired for purely economic reasons. But LeBoon claims that events immediately preceding her termination show that economic explanation is not true, and instead was a "pretext for discrimination." Eight months before LeBoon was fired, an organization called the Messiah Truth Project gave a seminar at the LJCC. MTP, which is headed by David Goodman, had as its goal the education of Jews in order to counter the efforts of Jews for Jesus and similar movements that specifically seek to convert Jews to Christianity. Just one week before LeBoon was fired, she attended a Jews for Jesus concert at her church where she saw Goodman and introduced him to one of the Jews for Jesus singers.
An LJCC receptionist testified that "a couple of days after" LeBoon was terminated, she overheard a conversation in which LeBoon's supervisor, Natalie Featherman, told several LJCC board members that Goodman had come to the LJCC and told her that LeBoon attended the Jews for Jesus meeting. LeBoon also claimed in the suit that four months before she was fired, she objected to Featherman's decision to terminate the contract of Sandy Simms, a black woman, in order to make room for a Jewish bookkeeper who formerly worked at Jewish Family Services. The suit alleged that Featherman said she did not want "those kind" working at the front desk, referring implicitly to Simm's race ... In a motion for summary judgment, LJCC's lawyers argued that LeBoon's claim of religious discrimination must be dismissed because LJCC is entitled to an exemption from such a claim under §702 of Title VII. Hart found that §702 once permitted exemption from suit only with regard to religious activities, but was amended in 1972 to extend protection to all activities of religious organizations. Considine argued that LJCC does not qualify for the exemption due to the mostly secular nature of its activities."

[Castendada, you'll recall, is of Jewish heritage. And what about his "alliance" with "powerful lawmaker and union leader" Elba Esther Gordillo? How many Mexican women are named after the Jewish heroine "Esther?"]
AP: Castaneda to Run for Mexico Presidency,
by Morgan Lee, Yahoo! News (from Associated Press),
"Barnstorming by bus throughout Mexico, Jorge Castaneda's low-budget, independent presidential campaign is designed to be a little unorthodox. Castaneda, a well-known intellectual with a long political history, said he's taking the road-less-traveled to the presidency because he not only wants the job — he wants to lead an alternative political movement in Mexico, capitalizing on widespread voter frustration with political parties and the system in general. It's a long shot. The Supreme Court hasn't even decided if it will consider allowing his name to be put on the ballot without a party's official nomination. But Castaneda brushes aside doubts, focusing his attention on selling his solutions to poverty and berating Mexico's big political parties. Those parties are the focus of Castaneda's scathing attacks, with the most pointed comments reserved for the leftist Democratic Revolution and allied Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the front-runner in early presidential polling. "With every day, they're more backward, more populist, more irresponsible, more devoid of proposals," Castaneda says of Lopez Obrador and his party, speaking to The Associated Press recently in a book-lined apartment in the elite Mexico City neighborhood of Polanco. Political observers say Castaneda's timing couldn't be better. Voters are disgusted with endless corruption scandals and a messy breakdown in federal budget negotiations. "Clearly, he's found a period where the established parties are down in the dumps. Their image problems are severe," says Federico Estevez, a political analyst at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. "He's doing pretty well' ... Conversations are underway with the tiny Convergencia party, and Castaneda's independent campaign is organizing supporters that could represent a new political party. There's talk of an alliance with powerful lawmaker and union leader Elba Esther Gordillo, a Castaneda confidant, if she were to leave Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party. "I contemplate alliances with everyone who wants to participate," Castaneda says. "If Elba Esther makes that decision, there's nothing more to do than welcome her." While Castaneda criticizes the party establishment, he is not exactly a political outsider. Only two years ago, Castaneda still served on Fox's Cabinet, where he shook up relations with Cuba and reached for a major migration accord with the United States — an elusive goal in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. His father held the foreign secretary job long before him. Castaneda holds a teaching post at New York University and his political opinions are published in newspapers and journals across the Americas. Foreign politicians like former Czech President Vaclav Havel and former President Clinton are personal acquaintances. As a political appointee, Castaneda's prickly personality won him headlines and some resentment among the Mexican press."

[Hmmm. The people selling Jewish yellow badge fakes from Hollywood movies to various Holocaust museums would probably be, uh, people of Romanian or Mozambique heritage?]
Conversations: Hunting Fakes. A Smithsonian sleuth says counterfeits lurk in museum collections the world over,
Archeology, January-February 2005
"Jane Walsh, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, is best known for her work with museum collections and for exposing several crystal skulls, once thought to be Precolumbian, as nineteenth-century German fakes. She is now working with several museums to create a database that can be used to identify bogus Precolumbian jade, crystal, and other stone artifacts. She talked to ARCHAEOLOGY about why you shouldn't always trust what you see at museums.
Can you say how many fakes are in any one museum's collection?
Well, no. But what I can tell you is any museum--I don't care what museum it is--has fakes, because fakes are ubiquitous. I have a friend who works at the Holocaust Museum as a conservator, and even they have forgeries--Star of David badges and prison uniforms that were made for Hollywood films and later sold by dealers as authentic artifacts."

[Jewish dominance of the art market, here.]
Wall Street bull sculpture for sale,
by Pat Milton, Seattle Times, December 21, 2004
"The beloved bull sculpture that symbolizes Wall Street capitalism is for sale, and bidding starts at $5 million. But any prospective buyer will have to keep the 7,000-pound bronze "Charging Bull" where it is, in a park near the New York Stock Exchange, said its creator. "I put the bull up for sale because I need the money to create more masterpieces for New York," said Arturo Di Modica, 63, who sculpted the slick, powerful-looking bull, which mysteriously appeared on Wall Street 15 years ago. Di Modica insisted that any deal would require the buyer to donate the landmark sculpture to New York City, with the new owner's name inscribed on a plaque to be placed next to it ... Stefan Oppermann, owner of the Fine Arts Collection, which promotes artists and is representing Di Modica said those who have expressed interest in buying the bull are from the banking industry, large insurance companies and investment houses, as well as a few individuals."

[Like so many of those who dominate(d) the European art market, Goudstikker was of course Jewish. And notice the love below by his descendants for recovered art piece$.]
Sole Goudstikker heir recovers Bassano painting,
Looted Art
"Marei von Saher, the sole living heir of Jacques Goudstikker, the foremost collector and dealer of Old Masters in pre-World War II Holland, announced today the restitution to her of a painting entitled "The Annunciation to the Shepherds" by the Studio of Jacopo Bassano. The painting is part of an extensive collection of art that was owned by Goudstikker but looted by the Nazis shortly after they occupied the Netherlands in 1940. Jacques Goudstikker, together with his wife and only son, fled the Netherlands in May 1940 when the Nazi troops invaded. Goudstikker was forced to leave behind his business and 1,400 artworks, escaping only with his personal effects. Reich Marshall Hermann Goering subsequently took back to Germany artworks from the collection that he considered to be the best and the Bassano painting was among these ... The Goudstikker family is delighted that information on the Internet is making it easier to identify lost Goudstikker paintings, wherever they might be held. Likewise, the family hopes that the commitment made by many public institutions around the world to publicize the history of the artworks in their collections on the Internet will lead to further identifications and returns of works from the Goudstikker Collection. The painting will now be offered for sale in London at Christie's upcoming Old Master Pictures Auction on July 9."

[Play the "I'm a Jew, I'm a victim, and I'm discriminated against" card. And THAT is how you get on the cheerleading squad even with three peg-legs and two-ton chips on the shoulder. Formed at birth? Or socialized into the twisted Klan?]
Judge Rules Against UGA Coach,
News 11, December 20, 2004
"Fired University of Georgia cheerleading coach Marilou Braswell on Monday was denied her request to be reinstated and was told by a federal judge that she faced an uphill battle in her lawsuit against the university. Braswell hoped to have her job restored pending the civil lawsuit. U.S. District judge Tom Thrash said Braswell did not prove her rights to free exercise of religion and free speech had been violated. “She refused to accept the judgment of her superiors and allowed her vehement disagreement to cloud her judgment and put herself in an adversarial position with the university and the athletic association,” Thrash said. “Ordering her reinstatement would cause more harm to the university than would be warranted for an interest in reinstating her to vindicate her constitutional rights.”
Braswell was fired Aug. 23, two weeks after she read a prepared statement informing cheerleaders that teammate Jaclyn Steele had made allegations of religious discrimination against her. Braswell sued the University of Georgia Athletic Association, athletic director Damon Evans, senior associate athletic director Frank Crumley, UGA President Michael Adams and the University System Board of Regents. Braswell, who coached for 12 years, claims the athletic association tried to deprive her of her First Amendment freedom of speech and free exercise of religion, as well as 14th Amendment due process and equal protection rights. Thrash said he could grant Braswell’s request to be reinstated only if he thought she had a good chance for success in her lawsuit. In a ruling university attorneys believe could indicate Thrash may approve their request to dismiss the suit, the judge said “I do not believe it is likely the plaintiff will prevail on her constitutional claims.” Braswell’s attorney, Hue Henry, said he would press on with the lawsuit, despite the prediction from Thrash.
“We’re going to educate the judge further,” Henry said. “This is a preliminary ruling. ... I have been in many situations where the judge thought we were going to lose and the jury thought otherwise. Judges are not infallible' ... Braswell, who wiped away tears as Thrash made his ruling, insisted after the hearing “I have never discriminated against anybody.” “I guess that’s the hard part of being fired when you know you’ve done nothing wrong,” Braswell said. Steele, who is Jewish, and another Jewish cheerleader first complained that Braswell gave unfavorable treatment to non-Christian cheerleaders and others who did not participate in pregame prayers and Bible studies at Braswell’s home. The university investigated their complaint and placed Braswell on probation while ordering Steele to be placed on the football cheerleading squad without a tryout. On Aug. 7, Braswell read a prepared statement to the cheerleaders explaining why Steele was back on the squad, and in the statement Braswell said she planned to fight the charges of discrimination. On Aug. 23, Braswell received a letter from Crumley terminating her employment. Henry said Georgia football coach Mark Richt has received public complaints for encouraging his players to participate in Christian services. Attorneys for the athletic association and the university argued that Braswell’s case is different because a team member charged Braswell with discrimination ... “The football program is not on trial here,” Thrash said. “The only relevance would be to find Mrs. Braswell had her equal protection rights violated.”

[Bodies in Iraq aren't even cold yet, and some Jewish movie producers figure there's some $ in them. "Bing West", a former Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan, seems to be an honorary member of the Tribe. His slaughter barbarian Arabs perspective seems to be about par for the Zionist course.]
Harrison Ford signs for Iraq war film,
The Guardian (UK), December 16, 2001
"Harrison Ford is to star in what will be Hollywood's first feature about the current Iraq war. Producers Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher have bought the option for No True Glory: The Battle for Fallujah, a non-fiction written by Slate reporter Bing West. The book is due to be published in May and tells the story of an assault on Iraqi insurgents in Falluja, from the perspective of US marines. Variety reports that Ford is already attached to play General Jim Mattis, in charge of the attack. Shamberg and Sher's production company Double Feature has already been working with Ford on the medical drama For His Sick Kid, based on the novel by Geeta Anand. It is probable that the film will strike a different tone to the only major feature about the US's previous war in Iraq, 1999's Three Kings, which told the story of a group of cynical, self-serving US soldiers. West's coverage of the war has tended to side with US troops."

Turner Writing Magneto X-Men Spin-Off,
Coming Soon (from Variety), December 13, 2004
"Simon Kinberg is writing the third installment. Magneto will likely be produced by the "X-Men" duo of Lauren Shuler Donner and Marvel Studios' Avi Arad."

[More Jewish slaughter of innocents. This victim is British (not Arab) so he gets (a little) more attention.]
Soldier who shot Briton admits lying. Israeli on trial for manslaughter says peace activist was unarmed,
by Chris McNeal, The Guardian (UK), December 16, 2004
"The Israeli soldier on trial for killing the British peace activist Tom Hurndall in the Gaza Strip has admitted he was lying when he said his victim was carrying a gun, but said he was under orders to open fire even on unarmed people. Sergeant Idier Wahid Taysir is charged with manslaughter for shooting Mr Hurndall, 22, as he tried to shelter children on the edge of Rafah from Israeli army gunfire in April last year. He died of his injuries in January. The sergeant told the military court that after shooting Mr Hurndall he had reported it to his commander. "I told him that I did what I'm supposed to; anyone who enters a firing zone must be taken out. [The commander] always says this," he said. The army has already been accused of carrying out an unwritten policy of shooting unarmed civilians who enter a closed security zone in Rafah, which led to the killing of a 13-year-old girl. Sgt Taysir told the army investigators he had opened fire at Mr Hurndall because the Briton was on the edge of the security zone, carrying a weapon and wearing camouflage clothing. In fact, he had not entered the closed zone, had no gun and was wearing a bright orange jacket. The prosecutor asked the sergeant if Mr Hurndall had a weapon. Sgt Taysir replied: "No. That's the truth." "So you gave a false report to the company commander?" the prosecutor asked. "I did not give a false report. He might have had a weapon under his clothing. People fire freely there. The [Israeli army] fires freely in Rafah."

[More struggle against the Judeocentric noose. America has become a censorial Jewish country and people of Christian faith are routinely dismissed as second-class citizens, herded to the darkest sidelines. Jews get to herald their Hannukah War of Violence Victory Party in honor of traditional Jewish refusal to ASSIMILATE into cultures and people around them. In turn, Christians are forbidden to herald their icons of birth and peace.]
Protesters gather at Broward malls to criticize lack of Nativity scenes,
by Alva James-Johnson, Sun-Sentinel, December 13, 2004
"If malls display Jewish menorahs, they should also display Christian Nativity scenes, protesters at the Broward and Fashion malls said Sunday. The group of about 35 people accused the shopping centers and their anchor stores, Macy's and Burdines, of exhibiting a double standard when it comes to religious symbols during the holidays. While both malls display menorahs for Hanukkah, they don't put up Nativity scenes for Christmas -- and they should, according to this group.Christmas is about the birth of Christ. This is what should be recognized, not Christmas trees and Santa Claus," said Len Torres, a parishioner of the nearby St. Gregory's Catholic Church in Plantation. "The de-Christianization of Christmas is a travesty." Hanukkah commemorates a successful Jewish revolt more than 2,100 years ago led by five brothers, the Maccabees, who overthrew a foreign army and relit the Great Menorah when they rededicated the temple. Inside Broward Mall on Sunday, a menorah stood next to the customer service area. General Manager Karl Woodard said it's against mall policy to display religious symbols such as Nativity scenes. But the menorah doesn't violate the policy because "it's a celebration of a battle," not a religious event, he said. "But I'm not Jewish, so I really don't know a lot about it," he added ... Torres said U.S. merchants make billions of dollars from the Christmas holiday annually yet fail to recognize the reason for the season. He and fellow parishioners stood at the intersection of University Drive and Broward Boulevard with signs that read: "Macy's Burdines Refuse Nativity Scenes" and "Broward Mall-Burdines Insults 240 Million Christians." They called for Christian shoppers to boycott the malls and Federated Department Stores, owner of Macy's, Burdines and Bloomingdale's. Some drivers honked while crossing the intersection, helping to fuel the movement to "Bring Jesus Christ Back to Christmas," as the group put it. Organizers handed out copies of a column by conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly that claimed Christmas is "under siege by the growing forces of secularism in America." "Surveys show that more than 90 percent of Americans celebrate the federal holiday of Christmas," O'Reilly wrote in the Dec. 9 column. "Despite that overwhelming number, the tradition of Christmas in America continues to get hammered." The protesters said they would demonstrate in front of the two malls again next Saturday and Sunday, the last weekend before Christmas. The issue is a recurring one in South Florida. Most recently, in December 2003 a woman in Bay Harbor Islands began fasting to force town leaders to put up Christian holiday decorations equivalent to the Stars of David and menorah they had erected on the Broad Causeway."

[A quick look at part of the Federated Department Stores network:]
Federated Announces New Chairman/CEO for Macy's East; New President/Chief Merchandising Officer at Rich's/Lazarus/Goldsmith's-Macy's,
Federated Department Stores, Investor Relations, February 3, 2004
"Federated Department Stores, Inc. (NYSE:FD)(PCX:FD) today announced that Ronald Klein, 55, will be returning to Macy's East as chairman/ceo of the New York-based division, effective February 15. Klein, who previously served as vice chairman of Macy's East, succeeds Hal Kahn, 58, who is retiring after having served as chairman/ceo of the 104-store division since 1994. The company also announced that Michael G. Krauter, 46, currently executive vice president/director of stores at Rich's/Lazarus/Goldsmith's-Macy's, will assume a new position as president/chief merchandising officer of the Atlanta-based division where Klein has been chairman since July 2001. Krauter will join with David L. Nichols, who will remain as president/chief operating officer of the division, a position he has held since August 2000.

[JTR Contributor's comment: "Jewish 'art.'" Our comment: The Jewish-run art swamp, here.]
Ex-Abs,
by Deidre Stein Greben, Art News, December 2004
"In today’s anything-goes atmosphere, switching camps—from abstraction to representation or vice versa—is not considered exceptionally radical, or even brave, but it still gives us pause. “People felt betrayed, as if I did it to them,” says Jonathan Santlofer, who shifted in the early 1990s from making abstract constructions to painting portraits and other representational images. Similarly, Alfred Leslie “got a tremendous amount of flack” some 40 years ago, when he stopped painting canvases covered with thick, broad strokes and splatters and began making large grisaille portraits. Says Leslie, “I still receive it today. Many people saw my realist work as a negation of my abstract work' ... Arguably the most legendary conversion was that of Philip Guston, one of the artists included in the Maier Museum show. When Guston exhibited a group of figurative canvases at New York’s Marlborough Gallery in 1970, the art world was stunned, the critics outraged. How could an artist they had counted among the heroes of Abstract Expressionism for two decades venture into forbidden territory? Guston began by working in his rough, cartoonish style in the evenings, while continuing in his abstract mode by day, according to art historian Martin Hentschel. “We are image makers and image ridden,” Guston declared in a discussion with fellow New York School painters in 1960. Less known is that Dan Flavin, who never actually abandoned abstraction, indulged a passion for the Hudson River School, painting and drawing landscapes and sailing pictures while making his neon sculptures. ... Jake Berthot found the outside world creeping into his works when he moved from Manhattan to upstate New York. Other abstract artists, notes Mark Rosenthal, curator of the ambitious survey of abstract painting at the Guggenheim in 1996, are prompted to make the jump to representation because of a “sense of exhaustion” with what they have been putting on canvas ... Leslie, who is also an independent filmmaker, says he was initially attracted to abstraction because “at the end of the war, figuration seemed false and to carry no real weight.” He was also influenced by William Baziotes and Tony Smith, who taught art classes at New York University, where Leslie was enrolled for a short time on the GI bill. Then, in 1949, Clement Greenberg included Leslie’s paintings in the exhibition “New Talent,” at New York’s Kootz Gallery, and his third film, Directions: A Walk After the War Games, was presented at the Museum of Modern Art. “At this point,” Leslie recalls, “I began to realize there was conflict between the disciplines. I felt I couldn’t have two public voices' ... When she painted from life, [Pat] Passlof often did so along with her late husband, Milton Resnick, who, although he had a separate studio, “didn’t want to be alone with a young model.” Passlof recalls one session in which she and Resnick seated themselves on either side of a woman who had particularly large breasts. “During her break,” Passlof recalls, “the model went over to look at our canvases and then started to laugh. Not seeing the other’s work, we had both made her flat chested!” Resnick, once counted among the most dedicated abstractionists, eventually abandoned his imposing, pigment-encrusted fields of color for gouache renderings of representational imagery. “I got old. I had to sit down,” he told David Rattray in a 1992 interview published in conjunction with an exhibition at New York’s Robert Miller Gallery ... Today, deciding to paint figuratively or abstractly, artists and curators agree, is no longer considered a problem. “My own sense is that it is now a false distinction,” says Robert Rosenblum, a professor at New York University and a curator at the Guggenheim."

[Older article:]
Support for authenticity of book of Matthew comes from an unlikely place,
by Neil Altman, Kansas City Star, June 7, 2003
"Buried in ancient texts of Jewish historical works are fragments of evidence that appear to show the first book of the New Testament actually was written by one of Jesus' apostles. One of these texts also challenges a long-held assertion that no ancient text except the Bible mentions Jesus' birth. Taken together, the information lends support to the claims of some Christian scholars that Matthew actually wrote the Gospel bearing his name, a Gospel that more than the three others emphasized Jesus' Jewish roots ... [Israel] Yuval wrote that a leading rabbinical scholar of the time was "considered to have authored a sophisticated parody of the Gospel according to Matthew." The parody, written by a rabbi known as Gamaliel, is believed by some well-respected liberal Christian scholars to have been written about A.D. 73 or earlier. The fact the parody exists and the date when it was believed to be written "would undercut badly (biblical critics') claims of a late date of A.D. 85-90 or later," said Bob Newman, professor of New Testament at Biblical Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania."

[Not for the squeamish: the view from the Arab side of "slaughter for democracy":]
Images from the War in Iraq: Fallujah Photos,
Dar Jamail's Iraq Dispatches

[MEMRI is, of course, one of the many wealthy Zionist propaganda organizations that seeks to trash the Arab and Muslim world. You know, if I was in Iran, and I looked around and saw that the Zionist cult had hijacked American foreign policy which was now playing with the idea of bombing the Hell out of the innocents of Iran (in the hidden name of Israel), I'd be wondering if Israelis harvested eyes too. After all, they seem to harvest kidneys.]
MEMRI TV Releases Report on Iranian Drama Series by Former Education Ministry Official about Israeli Government Harvesting Palestinian Children's Eyes,
U.S. Newswire, December 22, 2004
"Today MEMRI released a special report from its TV Monitor Project, titled "Iranian TV Drama Series about Israeli Government Stealing Palestinian Children's Eyes." The Iranian weekly TV series, named "For You, Palestine," or "Zahra's Blue Eyes" is being broadcast on Iran's Sahar 1 TV station. The drama was written and directed by former Iranian education ministry official Ali Derakhshni. It premiered on Dec. 13, and airs every Monday. The show details an Israeli plot to harvest organs from Palestinian children, particularly eyes, and to use them for transplants. Sahar TV also broadcast an interview with the director of the series, who discussed his motivations for making a series "about children."

[Unspoken here is the much-documented Jewish Lobby's activism against formal recognition of Armenian suffering, in deference to Israeli military ties with Turkey.]
U.S. Excercises Double Standard on Holocaust and Genocide,
by Haruout Sassounian, Armenian Daily (from the Californian Courier), December 23, 2004
"Next year is the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. Around 1.5 million prisoners -- most of them Jews -- perished in gas chambers or died of starvation and disease at Auschwitz. Next year is also the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide during which 1.5 million Armenians were killed or died of starvation and disease during forced deportations by the Ottoman Turks. While it would be appropriate to pay tribute to the memory of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, it would be just as appropriate to recognize both anniversaries and pay tribute to the Jewish and Armenian victims of crimes against humanity. The United States government, however, is asking the United Nations to commemorate the anniversary of one of these genocides, while ignoring the other. The international community is being requested to respect the memory of one group of victims, but not the other! Last week, US ambassador John Danforth wrote a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan asking that the General Assembly convene a special session on January 24, 2005 to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. There is no question that the whole world, including the United Nations, should recognize this solemn occasion. It is utterly unacceptable, however, that the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide be overlooked. The US government should not discriminate among victims of genocide. Political games should not be played with the memory of the victims of such horrible crimes. Armenian Americans should vigorously protest the selective amnesia of the Bush Administration. They should meet with Ambassador Danforth and ask him to make a similar request from the General Assembly for the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Failing that, Armenia should make its own request to the UN to commemorate appropriately the anniversary of the Genocide, given the fact that back in 1985, a UN human rights panel adopted a report recognizing the Armenian Genocide."

[Imagine if a band of rich "whites" in America pooled over $200 million to instill a white "birthright" ideology in "white" youth, flying them en masse to some indoctrination center in Europe. How would the powerful Jew Klux Klan react to it? It would be assailed as abject racism on every front, every second, from every possible angle. So why is this "birthright" crap by rich Jews not condemned on all fronts as an expression of what it is: a subtle form of Jewish/Zionist Nazism? And why isn't the Jewish-rooted university, Brandeis, investigated by government agencies for sanctioning naked racism? Jews call the shots. What's racist for you isn't considered racist for them. And this "born Jew" garbage is merely part of the steady diet of modern Jewish American identity, teflon-screened like so much else from public critique and examination. Jews are Jews, after all, and Western culture insists whatever they think or do is beyond question of us mere mortals.]
After five years, birthright shows success in building Jewish identity,
by Rachel Pomerance, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, December 21, 2004
"Birthright israel, the free trip to Israel for Diaspora youth, makes a profound impact on a participant’s Jewish identity, according to a recent study. Findings from the study, conducted by independent researchers at Brandeis University, were released Dec. 15 at a conference in Herzliya, Israel. The full report has yet to be released. “It changes Jewish identity,” Leonard Saxe, co-author of the study and director of the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, said of birthright. Before going on birthright, participants typically are less engaged with Judaism and Israel than those who participate in other Israel programs, who often have strong Jewish backgrounds. That may not be surprising, since birthright is open only to those who have never been on a peer trip to Israel, a segment that is likely to include youth less interested in Jewish identity. Afterward, however, birthright participants show levels of identification similar to those who go on other programs, Saxe said. Birthright alumni may not become more religiously observant, but they are more likely to take Jewish studies courses at college and return to Israel on other programs, paving the way for increased Jewish commitment ... Begun in late 1999 as a five-year pilot project to strengthen the identity of young Jews, the $210 million program was to be funded evenly by three partners: a group of 14 philanthropists, the Israeli government and world Jewish communities, primarily the North American Jewish federation system. But the intifada, which began in late 2000, drained Israel’s resources and scared off some would-be participants. In the end, more than $150 million was invested in birthright its first five years, with the lion’s share — $71.6 million — coming from philanthropists. Israel contributed more than $35 million and world Jewish communities donated more than $44 million, said Sandy Cardin, executive director of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, one of the philanthropists involved. Many of the philanthropists, most notably Michael Steinhardt, have voiced outrage over the failure of other funding partners to pony up. But Cardin has faith: “All the partners in the program are committed to doing their best to share the cost,” he said. Some 70,000 youth have taken part in birthright, and the program has pumped some $110 million into the Israeli economy, according to birthright officials. In year six, birthright is receiving $10 million from the Israeli government, $12 million from philanthropists and $10 million from the federation system, half of which is being provided by its overseas partner, the Jewish Agency for Israel, said Jeffrey Solomon, president of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, which contribute to birthright. Funding is secure for the more than 15,000 young people expected to visit Israel on birthright in 2005, Solomon said. The program is expected to continue indefinitely, he said, but enrollment depends on funding — and there’s not enough space for everyone who wants to go."

[The OSI is essentially the Jewish Revenge wing of the U.S. government, millions of dollars a year paid for at taxpayer expense. Forced into being by Jewish Congresswoman Holtzman and a few others of the Klan in the 1970s, we wonder who will be their target when the State Department's formal "monitoring" of "anti-Semitism" joins forces with the OSI when all the WWII Nazis die out, and they need something to do with their time. Looking to hunt down those who were involved in "severe human rights violations?" Parallel premise: is it time to kick every Jew in America who served in the Israeli army out for crimes against humanity?]
Government’s Nazi-hunting unit expands to track other war criminals,
by Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, December 21, 2004
"The blunt government instrument that for 25 years has kept former Nazis living in the United States from sleeping soundly, now will come knocking on the doors of those associated with other atrocities. A little-noticed provision in the intelligence overhaul bill signed by President Bush last week mandates the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations to seek the deportation of former aliens who were involved in severe human rights violations — an expansion of its 1979 brief, which was limited to those associated with Nazi crimes. The provision adds the words “commission of any act of torture or extrajudicial killing” and “severe violations of religious freedom” to the office’s original mission, which was to target those who “assisted in Nazi persecution or engaged in genocide.” That spells a new lease on life for the OSI, an office that thrilled the Jewish world soon after it was established in 1979 as its army of young — and mostly Jewish — lawyers deported dozens of former Nazis and their allies. “It’s a phenomenal office, it’s done yeoman’s work,” said U.S. Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.), who led a bipartisan effort to include the language. “They’re up and ready, and I didn’t want to create new bureaucracy to do something they’re so good at doing.” The OSI has removed 95 people with Nazi pasts from the United States, a record that earns the “highest marks” of any country seeking such deportations, according to Ephraim Zuroff, who heads the Jerusalem office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which tracks the prosecution of former Nazis. “They are head and shoulders above any agency,” said Zuroff, who was an OSI staffer in the 1980s. He especially praised the OSI’s longtime director, Eli Rosenbaum ... Its actions largely are the result of research by a staff where 10 historians outnumber eight lawyers, and that is not as reliant on tips as is commonly believed. Staffers scour yellowing documents searching for hints; a surge of prosecutions in the mid-1990s resulted from the opening of archives in post-Communist Eastern Europe. Still, in recent years it looked as if the OSI would outlive its purpose. In 2004 there have been only two removal actions initiated, following a burst of activity in the previous two years, when the office initiated 15 such actions. The new language in the bill changes that. Foley said that, if necessary, he would fight to expand the OSI’s current $5 million budget. “If they need money, I’ll be the first to try and provide it,” he said."

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer

[JTR contributor's note: "Before you get to excited about Bill Donahue ...poor old USA, everybody's already nobbled, the fix is in ..." Our comment: Incredible! Jewish masters of a supposed "Catholic Rights" organization. It is endlessly astounding. When we think we've seen everything, and Jews CAN'T possible be rooted in another realm which by definition shouldn't be their provenance, we're in for a shock. Time and time again. Choose your subject. Start digging. And you find Jews staring up from the floorboards. It looks that Bill Donahue (the head of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights), so much in trouble with the Jewish media for recently making "anti-Semitic" comments about "secular Jews running Hollywood," is running lost, schizonphrenic. The assertion of Catholicism -- by definition -- demands a negation of the Jewish, NOT a Jewish cooptation of power even in Catholic organizations. For Donahue to have called Culture Wars magazine and its editor "anti-Semitic" for looking at Jews cross-eyed is ludicrous, and for him to face the same charges by the Jewish Lobby right now for his comments on a recent TV program oought to put the whole "anti-Semitic" scam in very sharp focus for him. But read on. With Donahue so beholding to his earlier Jewish "neo-con" masters, is the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights really just at root another Jewish-run pimp operation for Judeocentric interests, like virtually everything else in sight? God -- or something -- help us all.]
Answered Prayers: Bill Donohue’s Catholic League Whacks Culture Wars,
by Thomas J. Herron, Culture Wars, 2004
"I had been a member [of the early Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights], off and on, for a number of years.  I knew what Father Blum was trying to do when he organized the League in the early ’70s: avoid the marginalization of Catholics and their interests in the American public forum.  It appears that he understood that the questions of aid to parochial schools, government distribution of contraceptives and the alleged right to an abortion were not the workings out of abstruse constitutional theory by the secular priesthood of the federal judiciary.  They were, rather, refined gang fights in which the Catholic Church came out as the loser against organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Jewish Committee and the Southern Jurisdiction of Scottish Rite Masonry ... What little we knew of what the national organization [the Catholic League] did we learned by reading The Catalyst, which was then in paper format only.  The League always seemed to be involved in some kind of legal actions, but they did not only involve Catholics.  One case I remember was that of an Orthodox Jewish Air Force officer who was suing to be allowed to wear his yarmulke when the service had ruled it out of uniform.  The League had filed an amicus curiae brief on his behalf. When I brought this up at a chapter meeting Jim Nolan informed us that the League’s full-time paid regional director in Chicago was Jewish and that he got the job because he used to work for the ADL.  Jim also noted many times that “weird people” worked at the national headquarters in Manhattan ... As I had been a long-time reader of National Review, I was intrigued by the fact that [Donahue] knew a lot of people at that magazine.  The anti-Semitism smear of Joseph Sobran and Patrick Buchanan by the editor William F. Buckley in December 1991 still stuck in my mind, and I asked Bill about it.  Bill just shook his head. “I don’t know what got into Buckley,” he said, “both those guys are very good Catholics. I feel betrayed by what he did.  When I was a student at a Catholic high school in Queens, I went door to door handing out flyers for Bill Buckley when he ran for mayor in 1965 on the Conservative Party line.  He was a hero to the working class Catholics in the city' ... I had been reading National Review since I was in high school and thought that I kept up on these matters but was totally confused.  The story that a group of sinister figures from New York City, mainly non-Christians who once followed Leon Trotsky, but now were respected members of the Republican establishment was almost beyond belief.  What was more incredible was that there were Catholics who were following their lead, and rumors abounded of Catholic organizations like the Catholic Campaign for America (CCA) being taken over by the neocons, who drained the resources and redirected a religious initiative into a more political one ... Well, when I reviewed the book [by Bill Donahue in 1985 about the ACLU] I found out that maybe discussing Catholic issues isn’t Mr. Donohue’s primary concern, maybe there was another group he was always more intent on impressing.   In his acknowledgements on p. xxiii the author states the following, “In the fall of 1982, I received a letter from Irving Kristol commenting on the first chapter of my book.  His words of encouragement gave me the impetus to continue despite his admonition that publishing a polemic on the ACLU would be difficult.  He proved to be correct.  Were it not for Aaron Wildavsky, this book might not have been published.  He believed in my work and directed my to Transaction.  Unlike every other publisher I had dealt with, Irving Louis Horowitz responded promptly and affirmatively.  I cannot thank him enough for his consistent support and advice' ...   If you’re known by the company you keep, the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights might today be correctly described as a neoconservative.  Mr. Kristol is of course the one person who started the whole trend from his days as a Trotskyite campus agitator at CCNY, to his current position as elder statesman of the Republican Party, with an award from President George W. Bush.  The late Professor Wildavsky of Berkeley, in his long winded introduction to Donohue’s book, told of his days as an ACLU chapter head and how he felt betrayed by the actions of the Union when it supported the right of the Nazis to march through the Chicago Jewish suburb of Skokie. He was also upset by their adoption of equality of results, which was also opposed by Jews as a group, as opposed to their former stand for equality of opportunity.  Transaction Press was related to Rutgers Universi