THIS WEEK'S JEWISH NEWS



Posted March 13, 2005


[JTR contributor's note: "A dramatic project being organized in Europe/Middle East to stand up for the rights of Palestinians ."]

Caravane for Palestine,
"A great and ambitious project is under construction in France. A caravan constituted by more than 100 vehicles will leave Strasbourg (seat of the European Parliament) on July 4, 2005 and will reach Jerusalem on July 19. 75 persons (about 20 vehicles) are already registered for the journey, whose route passes through great cities like: Geneva, Bologna, Ancona, Patras, Athens, Thessalonica, Istanbul, Ankara, Damas and Amman. The team is a melting pot of people who believe in the power of human relationships and solidarity. We are convinced that the application of international law is the key to resolve the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. We decided to travel just under this simple and consensual demand in order to forget our disagreements on the Palestinian questions, and to make it possible for the civil society to be united and strong. The project is meant to meet the population, to call out for media cover, and to exercise pressure on governments. All these purposes can only be reached if the movement is well-known and supported by the civil society all over the world. and, obviously, all the more, in the countries visited by the Caravan."

[JTR contributor's note: "Those who are pushing for continued occupation of Iraq know they cannot do so unless they can lull the American public into silence. They believe if they can downplay the casualties they won't break through the thin ice of popular support. Here's a one click where you can email all your members of Congress at once. http://www.usalone.com/iraq.htm
In the next couple weeks there are major demonstrations planned in protest, plus the Congress will be asked to cough up yet another 80 billion dollars ($80,000,000,000.00) to be raided from every other pressing social or economic program in our already busted budget. We already know the TV cameras are controlled by people with instructions to point them away from the masses
who will turn out next week, people who may have traveled many miles to make their voices heard by their presence. That is why we are appealing for all those who care about what our government is doing in Iraq to take just a minute and one click to SPEAK OUT NOW by submitting a personal message to all their members of Congress as well, whatever other action you taking."]

[JTR contributor's note: "The art of strategic morbidity."]
Gaza's settlers prepare to exhume their dead before the withdrawal,
by Toby Harnden, Telegraph (UK), March 13, 2005
"When 8,000 settlers are expelled from the Gaza Strip this summer under Israel's "disengagement plan", they will not be the only Jews to be taken from their land; the 46 occupants of a Gaza graveyard will be dug up and evicted as well. Those buried in the Gush Katif cemetery include five victims of terrorist attacks, four members of the Israeli defence forces and an Auschwitz survivor. Just how to organise their removal is one of the biggest challenges facing Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister. While the prospect of Israeli troops forcing Jews to abandon their homes is unsettling enough, the plan forexhumation, which is forbidden under rabbinical law in all but the most extreme circumstances, is so highly charged that no government official will discuss how or when it will happen. "I can't believe they would do this to him," whispered Bryna Hilburg, her voice just audible above the sound of the cemetery's Israeli flag snapping in the breeze. "He died in action for his country." Mrs Hilburg, 54, was standing over the grave of her son, Sgt Maj Yochanan Hilburg, a member of the elite Shayetet 13 naval commando unit who was killed during a secret raid in Lebanon, aged 22, almost eight years ago. She has still not decided whether to witness the gruesome ceremony if it has to be performed. "How can I let them fiddle around with his body and not be here to make sure he's OK?" she said. "On the other hand, how can I stand here and watch them desecrate his body? Everything's going to be rolling around - a finger here
and a toe there - and by Jewish law they have to get everything. Skull and ribs. Teeth. Can you imagine that? There's no end to the horrors." According to the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew bible, relatives have to tear their clothes and engage in ritual mourning after disinterment and again after reburial. Mrs Hilburg and her husband, Sammy, 55, a twice-wounded Vietnam veteran, were both originally from New York but moved to Gush Katif, the main settlement area in southern Gaza, 26 years ago ... Ironically, Mr Sharon, their biggest political foe, was once a champion of the settler movement. Now he argues that the settlements in the Gaza Strip, which are surrounded by 1.3 million Palestinians, cannot be sustained politically or militarily. The 21 settlements are due to be evacuated after July 20 and the area handed over to the Palestinians, a decision fraught with controversy. Some rabbis have issued religious rulings against the Gaza withdrawal and Mr Sharon's aides say they fear soldiers might disobey orders or be attacked by settlers. A clear majority of Israelis support the move as a way of strengthening the Jewish state's borders and boosting the chances for peace but the exhumation issue heightens Mr Sharon's vulnerability ... Only soldiers are buried in coffins in Gush Katif; the rest are wrapped only in white shrouds so they can be at one with the earth of Israel, making the collection of all the remains more difficult. According to Jewish custom, soil to a depth of three fingers must be removed with the body to retrieve any fluids that may have seeped into it."

Report highlights the ugly occupation,
By Ze'ev Schiff, Haaretz (Israel), March 11, 2005
"The recently released report on the unauthorized settlement outposts in the territories exposes the occupation in all its ugliness. It reveals that settlers have been working underground for years in the branches of the government, that senior officials refused to divulge information to the report's compiler, attorney Talia Sasson, and that other officials acted contrary to the policies of their ministers. The issue takes on an even more serious nature in light of the fact that heading the Civil Administration is a military officer with the rank of major general who was involved in unlawful acts. As a result, the Israel Defense Forces is entangled in this affair of deception. The report's compiler levels accusations at all the branches of the government and the ministries connected with the settlement enterprise in the territories, but she refrains, almost demonstratively, from determining the responsibility of the Prime Minister's Office and the prime minister himself. This fact will not excuse the prime minister from honoring his letter of commitment - written by attorney Dov Weisglass to Condoleezza Rice on September 14, 2004 - to dismantle the illegal outposts within a short period of time. Neither will it stop the Israeli public from becoming increasingly aware that the entire affair was one huge con on the part of the government. The U.S. administration suspected as much a long time ago, but was unsure whether the government was intentionally breaking the law and lying, or had lost control over what was going on and was required to make false statements about construction in the territories. The worrying thing is that when Secretary Rice visited Israel, she made do with a brief mention of the Israeli letter of commitment vis-a-vis the outposts, but failed to insist on the need to dismantle them as soon as possible. It appears that she, too, accepted the claim that it is best to focus now on the big plan, the disengagement, and leave the affair of the illegal outposts to the next stage. The underground activity took place primarily in the defense establishment ... For its part, the Civil Administration was involved in allocating private Palestinian land on which outposts were unlawfully established. Fifteen of the outposts are on privately owned Palestinian land. The Civil Administration, in essence, failed to carry out the supervision work with which it was entrusted. Out of the entire defense establishment, attorney Sasson had good remarks for just one individual - Brigadier General (res.) Baruch Spiegel, who helped her to get her hands on particulars that others had kept from her."

Jews Without Borders,
by DANIEL LAZARE, The Nation, March 9, 2005
"Now another front seems to be opening up with regard to Jewish Orientalism, an area especially ripe for investigation since Jews have never been fully comfortable in either the Oriental or Occidental camp. Indeed, as the perennial odd man out, their
role, for better or worse, has been to disrupt the binary worldview of everyone from the Crusaders and jihadis to the imperialists and their Third World opponents, and now Said and his legion of followers. Just how disruptive can be seen from Tom Reiss's lively new book, The Orientalist, a study of the interwar journalist Lev Nussimbaum, best remembered--to the degree he is remembered at all--as the author of a picturesque 1937 novel called Ali and Nino. In Nussimbaum, Reiss has chosen as his subject one of the most bizarre figures in twentieth-century letters, which is saying a great deal. Born in 1905 to a millionaire father and a left-wing mother who committed suicide for unknown reasons when he was still a child, Nussimbaum grew up in the booming oil city of Baku at a time when it was poised precariously among Russians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis, not to mention czarists, nationalists and revolutionary socialists of various stripes ... Born an Ashkenazi Jew, he now billed himself as a Muslim aristocrat of mixed Turkish and Persian descent, a relative, no less, of the Emir of Bukhara ... Friends and rivals were left guessing as to whether he was a genuine Turk, a member of some other exotic Asian nationality or, as a growing number of German rightists and Turkish nationalists suspected, merely another "Jewish falsifier." "Who is this Essad Bey?" demanded Leon Trotsky, writing from exile to his son in 1932. He was not the only one who wanted to know."

[It is way past time for Jews to clear the stage and stop hogging the microphone. Catholic universities. Start a boycott of anything Jewish until all these Jewish yehsiva start providing reciprocal classes on Christianity and Islam. It won't happen. The roots of Judaism are a self-obsessive form of totalitarianism.]
New major sheds light on Jewish faith,
by Sheena Laird, The Depaulia, March 2005
"Professors of the religious studies department at DePaul, the nation’s largest catholic university, are excited to launch a new Jewish studies concentration within the current religious studies curriculum. This new concentration will offer DePaul students a distinctive approach to one of the world’s dominant monotheistic religions. According to Alexei Sivertsev, a religious studies assistant professor who will head the new concentration, students following this concentration will acquire a unique “depth and breadth of knowledge regarding the institutional framework of Judaism within the context of religious studies.” The Jewish studies concentration will also be the first religious studies program to require a foreign language. Students will be required to take at least one year of a two-year sequence of Hebrew in order to properly study required texts. Naomi Steinberg, an associate professor of religious studies, will be the professor of these biblical Hebrew courses. The first year will introduce the students to Hebrew and focus on grammar. The second year will concentrate on reading texts such as the Hebrew Bible and scrolls such as the Dead Sea scrolls. “

[The Holocau$t Indu$try has long since $pread into the art$. Writing songs about Jewish $uffering is a cheap way to get some serious funding for your next project. With the "Holocaust Cantata" must inevitably come Holocaust 31 Flavors Ice Cream, Holocaust singing and yodeling contests, Holocaust frog races, Holocaust cheeseburgers, Holocaust bowling balls, Holocaust video arcades, Holocaust trading cards, and Holocaust porn movies (actually, these already truly exist in Israel).]
Rackham choir finds meaning in 'Holocaust'. Songs of great sadness and despair, yet hope, will resonate with two Metro Detroit audiences,
By Lawrence B. Johnson, Detroit News, March 11, 2005
"Life and death and the bleakness that was the space between are remembered in Donald McCullough's "Holocaust Cantata," which Detroit's Rackham Symphony Choir performs at two area locations Sunday afternoon and evening. Subtitled "Songs From the Camps," McCullough's 1998 work for chorus, vocal soloists, piano and cello draws on songs and commentaries written by prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. McCullough, director of the Master Chorale in Washington, D.C., found the documents in the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington ... This year marks the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the huge concentration camp the Nazis established in Poland in 1940 ... In the "Holocaust Cantata," titles of individual songs tell much about their collective narrative: "In Buchenwald," "The Prisoner Rises," "The Striped Ones," "Song of Days Now Gone." One song called "The Train," for baritone and chorus with cello accompaniment, evokes the despair of leaving loved ones behind."

[More immoral predation (here largely directed at the African-American community), literally in the name of the Hebrew word for "truth."]
Shame on Hot 97,
by Errol Lewis, New York Daily News, March 8, 2005
"The direct phone line to Jeffrey Smulyan, the founder and chairman of the Indiana company that owns New York's Hot 97 hip hop radio station, is (317) 684-6530. People disgusted by the station's reliance on music that glorifies violence and contempt for women should call and give the man an earful. The phone number appears in the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics posted on the Web site of Hot 97's parent company, Emmis Communications. When I called yesterday, Smulyan answered on the first ring, but he didn't want to speak to me about the company's ethics or anything else. I don't blame him. Emmis is Hebrew for "truth," and the truth is that Hot 97 doesn't just romanticize violence, it actively fosters it. This is the company where a man was shot last week while the station happily broadcast on-air taunts between two crack dealers-turned "artists," 50 Cent and The Game. The same Hudson St. address is where in 2001 a machine-gun-toting member of rapper Lil' Kim's entourage shot a man in a rival rapper's group - a crime for which the shooter is serving 12 years in prison. "That could have happened just as easily outside of anyplace where hip hop artists gather," a Hot 97 spokesman said yesterday. Maybe. But this is the same station that last month announced a twisted on-air game, "smackfest," in which female contestants would slap one another in the face, with a cash prize to the one producing the loudest sound and/or causing the greatest injury. The game only ended because the deejays promoting it got fired for airing a song parody that ridiculed victims of the Asian tsunami. One deejay told a Korean-American staffer who complained about the parody, "I'm gonna start shooting some Asians." The sickening corporate promotion of violence is reminiscent of the famous first chapter of the novel "Invisible Man" by the late Ralph Ellison."

Rally 4 Hip Hop: Stop racist Hot97,
by Davy D, San Francisco Bay View, March 9, 2005
"New York City’s hip hop community rallied Friday afternoon in Union Square against the racist radio station Hot97. “The heart of the hip hop culture has always been the community, and we feel Hot97, the supposed place “where hip hop lives,” has lost its respect and responsibility to the community a long time ago, and it is about time for the community to step forward and take it back,” the organizers explained. With each passing day more and more people are getting fed up with the disrespect and exploitation of hip hop culture and Black, Latino and other communities of color by these large broadcast media outlets. For those who live in New York, Hot97 has come to epitomize everything wrong with commercial radio. It’s more than just playing the same 10 songs everyday. It’s more than the deejays who come on the air and act irresponsibly each day by saying and doing silly things like using the N word and the B word or in the latest instance helping fuel a beef between rival rappers Game and 50 Cent, which led to yet another shoot-out in front of the radio station. This is about holding the executives, who are the real shot callers, accountable. Nothing goes on the airwaves without their encouragement or approval ... Know the facts and help stop racist Hot 97 The white executives at Emmis Broadcasting, which owns Hot 97 [JTR note: Why smear "whites" so freely? Why are Jews sacrosanct from criticism? Screaming at "whites" is kosher, screaming at Jews isn't. The guy who controls Emmis is Smulyan, WHO IS JEWISH - see below]: l Undermine the values and positive work of the greater Hip-Hop culture, giving a bad name to Black and Latino people and encouraging ignorance on the airwaves. l Exploit and misuse hip hop culture under the false pretense of doing good business, yet resurrecting nasty stereotypes about hip hop music and culture. l Hire Black executives like Barry Mayo, who they use as a front, but who actually defend all actions listed above and the stereotypical caricatures that are heard daily on the airwaves."

Executive Profiles: Jeff H. Smulyan, CEO,
Emmis Broadcasting
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Jeffrey H. Smulyan, 57, serves as Chairman of the Board of Emmis Communications Corporation, an Indianapolis—based radio, TV and magazine publishing company with operations in 24 U.S. markets and Hungary and Belgium. A cum laude graduate of the University of Southern California with a B.A. in History and Telecommunications, Smulyan earned a Juris Doctor degree from USC School of Law, where he served as note and comment editor of the USC Law Review. After operating two radio stations — WNTS in Indianapolis and KCRO in Omaha - Smulyan formed and became principal shareholder of Emmis in 1980. A public company since 1994, Emmis owns and operates 23 FM and 2 AM radio stations in the nation’s largest markets; 16 television stations; six local, regional and national magazine operations; the No. 1 radio network in Hungary, the be one radio network in the Flanders region of Belgium, and Rdio Expres in Slovakia. In 1995 Emmis became the first company to own top-rated stations in New York and Los Angeles simultaneously. A director of the National Association of Broadcasters and former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Radio Advertising Bureau, Smulyan serves as past chair of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, a consortium of CEOs from central Indiana’s largest corporations, and sits on the Board of Trustees of Ball State University and the University of Southern California and the Board of Directors of Finish Line, Inc., an athletic apparel company ... In 2000, Smulyan was honored with the American Women in Radio and Television’s Silver Satellite Award, the National Association of Broadcasters’ National Radio Award, and as Radio Ink’s “Radio Executive of the Year.” In 1995, the radio industry newspaper, R & R, voted Smulyan one of the 10 most influential radio executives of the past two decades. He received the American Women in Radio and Television's Star Award in 1994 and the Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Ernst & Young the following year. Other honors include the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Breath of Life Award; the Jewish National Fund's Tree of Life Award; the Indianapolis Business Journal's Entrepreneur of the Year Award; the Leukemia Society Diamond of Hope Award; the State of Indiana’s “Sagamore of the Wabash”; and he has been inducted into the Indiana Business Hall of Fame."

[Context for above. Emmis Broadcasting is rooted in Indianapolis.]]
Remarks by President to Jewish Federations,
William J. Clinton Foundation, November 18, 1997
"THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. And, ladies and gentlemen, I have been told that because I was a few moments late, that Dore Gold filled in me, and that's a pretty good substitute. I want to thank him as well. (Applause.)
It's an honor for me to be able to speak to the Council of Jewish Federations General Assembly and to all of you who are watching your local federations over the CJF satellite network. I'm pleased to know that Connie Giles, Joel Tauber, Billie Gold have convened this General Assembly to further the proud tradition of the Jewish Federation system, and I trust that my good friend Jeff Smulyan is being a gracious host in his home town of Indianapolis. (Applause.)"

[Apparently Russell Simmons justifies pimping for AIPAC, racist-apartheid Israel, and the Jewish Thought Police but draws his line when his Jewish Masters demands that he crawls about on all fours and reject Louis Farrakhan. New grassroots campaign desperately need: "I am NOT a Jew, and I RESIST that neurotic suffocation."]
ADL Goes After Russell Simmons,
by Nisa Islam Muhammad, Manhunt
"Rap and hip-hop music mogul Russell Simmons has refused to bow to pressure from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to denounce Minister Farrakhan as being anti-Semitic as part of Mr. Simmons’ involvement with the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding’s new campaign to raise awareness of anti-Semitism. The program involves actors and musicians to film public service announcements identifying with the Jewish people and denouncing worldwide anti-Semitism. The ads are called “I am a Jew” and work to promote cross-cultural dialogue. “While it is important that the public be informed and educated about the current state of anti-Semitism in the world, it is unfortunate that one of those promoting this campaign is Russell Simmons. Despite our meeting and repeated requests over the years, Mr. Simmons has continued to make apologies for Minister Louis Farrakhan and his long record of anti-Semitism,” wrote ADL National Director Abraham Foxman, in a released statement. “It is hypocritical for Mr. Simmons to lead a charge against anti-Semitism, while failing to denounce manifestations of anti-Jewish hatred within his own community.” Mr. Simmons and Minister Farrakhan have a long history of working together with great admiration between the two. Cedric Muhammad, of blackelectorate.com, recently interviewed Mr. Simmons on his support for the Minister. “What he (Minister Farrakhan) has done for American Blacks; people went home after the Million Man March™ and changed. No matter what they say. I know so many people who have. I saw the half-a-million people at the Million Family March in the crowd and they were crying. And they don’t do what he said; they do what he says,” Mr. Simmons explained. “That is why Minister Farrakhan can speak to so many Christians and so many non-Muslims in a way that is inspiring. He’s not teaching tolerance as much as he is teaching love.” The Black community is not the only group that sees the ADL’s request as preposterous. On the website Jewlicious.com, a cartoon calls the situation a “senseless fight.” Another person wrote, “Simmons has been honored by the UJA-Federation of New York, has worked with Israeli Consulate in New York, has consulted for AIPAC. Simmons is all about rapprochement and, in that respect, has also had ties with Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam.” Many in the Black community are watching this war of the wills and are praising the strong stance of Mr. Simmons. “I heard about the ADL’s demand and just held my breath for a moment,” said Jason Washington, a student at Howard University. “I was wondering what Mr. Simmons was going to do. I’m glad he didn’t do it. I heard about the time when Black leaders were denouncing the Minister. We don’t need that today. We need unity."

Beaming Israeli men hoping same-sex marriages spark legal recognition at home,
Yahoo! News, March 11, 2005
"Four couples got married Friday in a civil ceremony that could have a profound impact on the other side of the world. With the artificial flowers arranged neatly and a mini-stereo playing Here Comes the Bride, the couples - all Israeli men - officially tied the knot at city hall, both as an expression of love and as a political statement. Israel does not recognize same-sex marriage. "We shouldn't have to fly half-way around the world to sign some papers to get really some very basic and simple rights," said Craig Kondon, 32, one of the eight beaming grooms ... An entire flight crew from El Al, Israel's national airline, was on hand to witness their flight-attendant colleague exchange vows and rings ... Israel recognizes civil unions performed outside its borders, but not those of gays. Last September, the first openly gay man elected to Israel's parliament wed in Toronto but he has had no success in having the marriage recognized at home. The issue of same-sex marriage has created bitter divisions within Canada's Anglican church and other churches around the world. It has also sparked a debate among Jews in Israel, where marriage falls under the exclusive domain of the Orthodox rabbinate, which frowns on homosexuality and hence gay unions."


Posted March 11, 2005

[A fabulou$ly rich Jewi$h robber baron/vulture is hoarding a huge portion of the world'$ Islamic arti$tic legacy. Cultural plundering. By what moral rights should a Jew own it? Jewish domination of the world art racket, here. Profound Jewish influence in real estate, here.]
God is Great. Londoners spurned his collection of Islamic art. Now billionaire David Khalili is giving it to them again, whether they want it or not.
by Matthew Swibel, Forbes, March 28, 2005
" It's hard to know when art maven and real estate investor Nasser David Khalili first felt a craving for legitimacy. Could it have been when his teacher at a Jewish day school in Tehran, Iran ridiculed and flunked him for aspiring to genius? "I was outspoken, and I wanted to prove my teacher wrong," Khalili today recalls. So, to that end, he wrote and published at age 14 a book ranking 233 world geniuses. Or was it later, after he had purchased from a trusted London dealer an $86,000 bird-shaped ceramic sculpture from Raqqa, Syria (circa 1250)? Although the object came with a certificate of authenticity from Oxford University art historians, Khalili had a different set of dons reexamine the object, this time using samples taken from anywhere except its base ... Or could it have been in 1992, when Khalili's offer to lend his 20,000-piece Islamic art collection to Great Britain prompted critics to ridicule his taste and disparage his philanthropy? Khalili did not get what he had hoped for--a separate museum bearing his name, paid for by British taxpayers. Instead he was dismissed as a front man for the Sultan of Brunei (whom he has advised on art). Parts of his collection were deemed ill-gotten "rubbish." Khalili, 59, learned long ago to channel rejection into resolve. Besides his Islamic art--the largest private collection known to exist anywhere in the world--he owns another 7,000 heterogeneous pieces: a mix of Japanese art from the Meiji period (1868-1912), Indian and Swedish textiles and Spanish damascened metalwork. Some say the depth of Khalili's art holdings rivals that of the Getty or the Gulbenkian. As owner, Khalili (new this year to the Forbes billionaire list) enjoys unique standing: He is the only billionaire whose fortune derives predominately from art. Technically the entire collection is held by a trust, set up by Khalili's late father, which funds the purchases of art and also invests in commercial real estate, primarily European. Khalili himself, however, has effective control over what artworks are bought and sold. Born into a Jewish family of art dealers in Iran (Achaemenid, Parthian, Sasanian and Byzantine antiques were his clan's stock in trade), Khalili understood the value of cultural artifacts from age 10, when he traded stamps and banknotes. When he turned to Persian cast metalwork and Koranic calligraphy as an adult, few Western collectors competed in this field ... Khalili competed during a good stretch of the 1970s and 1980s on a field with a scarcity of players. Prices, reasonable when he started in the 1970s in New York, were brought still lower by the 1979 Iranian revolution and by a mid-decade depression in the Turkish art market. Sipping wine today at his headquarters in London's Mayfair (a red-brick Georgian town house with stacks of paintings still unwrapped in a library) Khalili describes what once had been his common practice: "I used to buy 50 pieces for $100,000. Over the course of the following year I would keep the five best and sell the rest for $500,000." ... At his peak Khalili bought around 100 items a day. His pace has now slowed to at most an occasional daily dozen ... Most of the time Khalili keeps a low profile, though he ventured into the public spotlight five years ago when he brought a successful libel suit against Associated Newspapers in London after the newspaper chain erroneously accused him of smuggling an antiquity from Iran. Such accusations have arisen in part because of the secrecy with which Khalili cloaks his buying ... Khalili trained in the Shah's military (he never entered combat) and came to New York in 1967 to get a B.S. in computer science from Queens College. But he made his first millions dealing art by day--and spent his evenings trolling museums and galleries, memorizing, he says, 500 labels at a time ... In the next decade Khalili inked office and residential deals topping $150 million in England, Scotland and abroad. Public records show his privately held property development firm, Favermead, and its seven subsidiaries listed $31 million in assets for 2003, but Khalili's reach extends beyond that pile of assets. He sold a London mansion near the late Princess Diana's Kensington Palace to fellow Forbes billionaire Bernie Ecclestone for $90 million in 2001... The artwork he has now--purchased over 35 years for around half a billion dollars--he vows he will never sell. "As a collector, when you start saying, ‘I bought it for $10,000--what will it be [worth] in five years?' you go wrong," says Khalili. "With a collection, don't ever buy for investment. Everything I have collected is going through the roof, probably ten- to twelvefold, but if you are not interested in selling any of the art it doesn't mean anything." Tell that to the Lloyd's insurance consortium, which underwrites Khalili's artwork for, we are told, a sum exceeding 1 billion pounds sterling. That translates to less than $2 million in annual premiums--a figure that does not include what museums and institutions pay to indemnify items they borrow and put on display.
Judging the collection accurately is difficult, not just because few people have seen it in its entirety but because art enthusiasts and auction houses often base their opinions on published catalogs ... Khalili's trust has spent $7.5 million publishing a handsome 38-volume catalog ..."

[The World Jewish Thought Police leaves no stone uncovered: "Can't you throw the dirty anti-Semites in jail, for something?"]
Jewish community indignant over press, legislation,
The Baltic Times, March 3, 2005
"VILNIUS - International Jewish Affairs Director Andrew Baker met with President Valdas Adamkus on March 7 to express disappointment over a recent decision by the Prosecutor General’s Office to terminate a probe into anti-Semitic articles in the Respublika daily. Rita Grumadaite, the president’s press secretary, said that pre-trial findings by the Prosecutor General’s Office “looked dubious” to the head of state."

[The Jewish Lobby's veiled propaganda spreads everywhere, stealing children from their parents via the schools. Jewish interest in "diversity" always really means "I'm a Jew. Kiss my holy ass." People! What else is "foisted" upon American children under the Zionist Anti-Defamation League's illusory jargon of "tolerance and diversity?"]
Colorado Schools To Show Controversial Children's DVD. 'We Are Family' Program Being Taught In Schools,
The Denver Channel, March 10, 2005
"Every public and private elementary school in Colorado will get a copy of the controversial children's DVD "We are Family" Thursday, but some groups are concerned about the message. The video shows dozens of popular cartoon characters teaming up to sing "We are Family," a popular song from the 1970s. Fairview Elementary School in Denver plans to show the video to students Thursday morning. A
fter the video, first-graders and kindergartners will do an exercise from the "We are Family" teacher's guide, developed by the Anti-Defamation League. A representative from the Anti-Defamation League said the controversy over the DVD is overshadowing the positive message of the video. "The purpose is to provide materials and resources for kindergarten, first grade that really promote diversity and respect," said Beth Yohe with the Anti-Defamation League. But the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family does not agree. It's reviewing the video right now and say they are concerned the DVD and its teachers' guide is really a way to promote the acceptance of homosexuality. In January, the Focus on the Family vice-president Dr. Bill Maier was quoted as saying "To have Big Bird and Cookie Monster and Elmo tied to an effort to propagandize kids in the public schools about homosexuality, I think should concern all parents. Focus on the Family issued a statement Thursday, saying, "We were not surprised to see no mention of homosexuality in the teachers' guide we reviewed, even though media who saw an earlier draft of the document noted that it contained several references to same-sex parents." "We can only assume the We Are Family Foundation removed those references after realizing the majority of American parents do not want such material to be foisted on their children under the guise of 'tolerance and diversity.'"

[Another Jewish front for subversive Zionism. Whatever else he is, David Horowitz is a right-wing pro-Israel zealot.]
Be careful what you call 'diversity',
by Russell Cobb, The Daily Texan, March 10, 2005

Ben Chertoff: Propagandist & Illuminati Disinformation Tool,
By Christopher Bollyn, Educate Yourself (from American Free Press), March 6, 2005
"With high federal offices being given to the wives, sons and daughters of senior members of the Bush administration, the Hearst Corporation executives that publish Popular Mechanics magazine probably didn't worry about the ethical considerations of hiring a cousin of Michael Chertoff, a former Assistant Attorney General and the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as senior researcher. But the March 2005 issue of Popular Mechanics (PM) plumbs new depths of nepotism and Hearst-style "yellow journalism" with its cover story about 9/11. PM's senior researcher, 25-year-old Benjamin Chertoff, authored a propagandistic cover story entitled "Debunking 9/11 Lies" which seeks to discredit all independent 9/11 research that challenges the official version of events ... The Chertoff article goes on to confront the "poisonous claims" of 16 "myths" spun by "extremist" 9/11 researchers like myself with "irrefutable facts," mostly provided by individuals in the employ of the U.S. government ... But who is Benjamin Chertoff, the "senior researcher" at Popular Mechanics who is behind the article? American Free Press has learned that he is none other than a cousin of Michael Chertoff, the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. This means that Hearst paid Benjamin Chertoff to write an article supporting the seriously flawed explanation that is based on a practically non-existent investigation of the terror event that directly led to the creation of the massive national security department his "cousin" now heads. This is exactly the kind of "journalism" one would expect to find in a dictatorship like that of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Because the manager of public relations for Popular Mechanics didn't respond to repeated calls from American Free Press, I called Benjamin Chertoff, the magazine's "senior researcher," directly. Chertoff said he was the "senior researcher" of the piece. When asked if he was related to Michael Chertoff, he said, "I don't know." Clearly uncomfortable about discussing the matter further, he told me that all questions about the article should be put to the publicist - the one who never answers the phone. Benjamin's mother in Pelham, New York, however, was more willing to talk. Asked if Benjamin was related to the new Secretary of Homeland Security, Judy said, "Yes, of course, he is a cousin."

[An Israeli hospital full of Jewish Dr. Mengeles! Yes! The steady stream of sordid stories coming out of the Jewish homeland is beyond belief. That Jews throughout the world continue to champion corrupt sicko Israel is a crime against humanity. If an Israeli hospital will do this to (presumably) Jews, what is the state making kosher for Arabs?]
Geriatric hospital suspected of illegal human experiments,
By Ran Reznick, Haaretz (Israel), March 11, 2005
"The Health Ministry is probing suspicions that two elderly patients died last year at Gedera's Hartzfeld Geriatric Hospital after undergoing an illegal invasive medical experiment. The patients allegedly died from a severe urinary tract infection caused by the extraction of urine by puncturing their bodies. One of the two died of the infection in February. The experiment allegedly was conducted about two weeks after she had undergone surgery for removing part of her small intestine. After her death, hospital management allegedly advised its doctors not to recruit any more patients for the experiment. The Health Ministry suspects that at least two types of experiments were illegally conducted at the hospital in 2003-2004 on dozens of patients aged 70 to 90. One experiment was invasive, consisting of urine extraction by puncturing the patient's stomach. The other involved administering iron to hospital in-patients. The ministry suspects that both experiments were conducted without obtaining the patients' full consent, and without providing them with all the pertinent information and advising them of the risks involved, as required by law. At least four geriatric doctors from the hospital are implicated in the affair. Owned by the Clalit Health Maintenance Organization (HMO), Hartzfeld contains 300 beds and is one of the country's largest public geriatric hospitals. In 2003, some 4,000 patients were hospitalized at Hartzfeld, with 826 having died there. The hospital is a division of Rehovot's Kaplan Hospital, whose management, headed by Dr. Yossi Barel, is responsible for it. The Health Ministry also is looking into further suspicions of attempts to conceal information and disrupt the inquiry. Numerous documents regarding the experiments have disappeared, and hospital personnel are suspected of trying to destroy or hide evidence tying some of the doctors to illegal acts ... The inquiry was triggered by the State Comptroller's probe of allegations of experiments on human beings at Israeli hospitals, as Haaretz recently reported. The comptroller's office is investigating suspicions that doctors conducted experiments in violation of the law and ministry directives, and that deaths during experiments had not been reported or investigated, as required by law. It is also looking into alleged experiments on elderly people, mentally ill people, and children, without obtaining all requisite permits or the full consent of all subjects. The comptroller's office is conducting the investigation both in general and psychiatric hospitals."

'Israeli textbooks racist’. Egyptian researcher says Israeli schools promote war, anti-Arab hatred,
By Roee Nahmias, Yedioth Aharonoth (Israel), March 11, 2005
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Israeli teaching methods and anti-Arab textbooks aim to promote a belligerent attitude among students here in a bid to hamper peace efforts, an Egyptian researcher says. “Israeli school textbooks aim at implanting the desire for war in the souls of students,” she said. Abdel Aal says based her findings on 11 history textbooks and five geography textbooks used in Israeli primary schools. The books explain that war is the only way to defend the Jewish people’s legitimate historic rights, she said. “These textbooks hamper attempts to achieve peace or to establish an independent Palestinian state,” Abdel Aal added. The Israeli textbooks also focus on attaching derogatory descriptions to Arabs, the Egyptian researcher said. Safa Abdel Aal made the charges during a convention dealing with a new American law against anti-Semitism. “The Arabs are given mean descriptions in the Israeli textbooks such as thugs and thieves,” she said. The convention, which was attended by legal experts, political commentators, social activists, and media personnel from across the Arab world, is the first of its kind following the adoption of the new U.S. law. A convention participant said the law reflects American domination, with other participants agreeing that the legislation’s genuine aim is to block anti-Israel criticism."

[Does this mean there will be Stars of David engraved on the armored U.S. vehicles, like dart board targets?]
Israeli Firm Wins U.S. Weapons Contract in Iraq,
Defense News, March 8, 2005
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Israeli company Palsen Sasa has won a contract to provide armor for U.S. military vehicles in Iraq, company sources said March 8. Under the terms of the contract, the Sasa kibbutz company in the northern Galilee region will provide amour for 2,000 trucks and other vehicles. It will supply kits that can be assembled on site by U.S. troops serving in Iraq. Aside from the Israeli and U.S. armies, Palsen Sasa also supplies the British, Dutch and Indian militaries."

[My dear. Get it right. The correct term in 2005 is Jew Klux Klan. The amazing level of self-delusion in the Jewish community is such that this racist Zionazi calls herself a "progressive." By that token, elbows are palm trees and tea is sliced baloney. She probably walks around her kitchen chanting in Hebrew: "Work makes you free."]
Ku Klux Ken,
By Melanie Phillips, Melanie Phillips, March 8, 2005
"The Jew-baiting students at SOAS (see post below) should know they're in great company in lauding their hero Ken Livingstone. For who should also have come out in staunch support of Ken but David Duke, the American white supremacist, former Ku Klux Klansman and rabid Jew-hater. On his website, Duke foams about yours truly as a 'Jewish supremacist' who has 'unwittingly exposed the real reason why Ken Livingstone is under attack', and draws the attention of racists across the world to this website in order to 'spread the truth' about the evil of the Jews. If you can stomach such ravings, here's a taster: 'You see, you can’t liken an individual Jew, no matter how obnoxious, to a concentration camp guard. You have stepped on the toes of the Holy People, the unassailable people, the people you can’t criticize or God help you!...The will of the people be damned, you cannot offend the real rulers. Get it in your head, you Gentile dolts, we do not live in Democracy. We live in a Jewocracy!' To David Duke, Ken is a hero because he realised that 'Israel was a Jewish supremacist state that is every bit as “racist” as was Nazi Germany'. And indeed, if you cover up the top of the page, you might think you were reading a far-left or Islamist website -- because huge chunks of this vile filth about Israel are exactly the the kind of stuff that is currently being churned out by both the left and radical Islamists. Duke's rantings graphically illustrate what has long been apparent -- that there is now an extraordinary axis linking neo-Nazis or white supremacists, the left and radical Islam, who come together in their hatred of Israel and the Jews."

[A grassroots stand against the Jewish Wall of Apartheid.]
The School of Orchestrated Anti -Semitism,
by Melanie Phillips, Melanie Phillips, March 7, 2005
"The emergency student union general meeting held at London's School of Oriental and African Studies on Friday to elect Ken Livingstone as its honorary president (see posts below) seems to have been, as might have been expected, a vicious affair in which hatred for Israel and Jews was on rampant display. This is the account written by Gavin Gross, an official of the Jewish Society (which, incidentally, along with the Israel Society, is excluded altogether from the School’s list of student union societies) :
I explained why I felt an African and world leader was a better choice for the School of Oriental and African Studies than Ken Livingstone, a divisive candidate. The proposers of the motion and its supporters (including many from the SOAS Islamic and Palestine Societies) spent little time discussing the merits of Ken Livingstone, but instead launched numerous attacks (while pointing towards me) on "apartheid Israel", the "war criminal" Ariel Sharon, the "Jewish lobby", the "Zionist press", the SOAS Jewish Society, and the "Zionist and Mossad conspiracy" to disparage the Mayor. 'This was not a debate on the Middle East. Quite what an assault on the state of Israel, Jews and the Jewish Society had to do with selecting an Honorary President of the Union I don't know, but it demonstrated the bigotry and pathological obsession that some SOAS students have with Israel and Jews. Many Jewish students in the room felt intimidated by being there. It confirmed my initial fears that the meeting, held on an emergency basis to rush through the selection of Ken Livingstone, had little to do with the sudden desire to have an Honorary President. Instead it had everything to do with insulting Jewish students by rewarding the Mayor for attacking a Jewish reporter and Israel, and providing a platform for extremist students to publicly vent their hostility towards Israel and the Jewish Society in the Union. It also shows what real-world impact is being felt by Jewish students in London following the Mayor's series of disgraceful remarks. Near the end of the meeting, I was also personally attacked by the Environment officer of the SOAS Union, who called me a f***ing w***er from the microphone ... The day after the meeting, I also received an extremely abusive email from the Academic Affairs officer at the SOAS Union, which I have forwarded to the proper authorities."

[Virtually everything Jews complain and raise Hell about in the West is standard fare in their beloved Israel. Not surprisingly, a network of mostly Ashkenazi Jews from Europe dominating the mass media is also the exact paradigm in Jewish-dominated Hollywood.]
White power. Study of prime-time TV programming reveals secular, veteran Israeli men of European descent rule the screen,
By Raz Shechnik, Yedioth Aharonoth (Israel), March 11, 2005
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Israel is home to multiple ethnicities and religions, but you would never know it by watching local television shows. A recent study paints a bleak picture of deep-seated bias in the depiction of minorities on the small screen. Jewish, secular men of Ashkenazi (European) descent dominate prime-time programming, according to the study. Meanwhile, Jews of Middle Eastern origin are likelier to be associated with crime, violence, and poverty than Ashkenazi Jews. Professors Eli Avraham of University of Haifa and Anat First of Netanya College analyzed various programs, including newscasts, talk shows, game shows and dramas for about a year for the study, commissioned by Israel’s Second Broadcasting Authority . Their conclusion is that Israel’s minority groups, namely Arabs, Ultra-Orthodox, and new immigrants, have become virtually extinct when it comes to TV appearances. Women mostly appear in cooking, lifestyle shows Meanwhile, women and Israelis of Middle Eastern origin did appear on television occasionally, but to a much lesser extent than their percentage in the population warrants. On another front, women tended to be featured in cooking, fashion and lifestyle shows. Settlers were also largely absent from the local television scene, with the exception of news programs. The study found new immigrants played a central role in only 21 news items during the year, while 1,626 items focused on veteran Israelis. Ethiopian immigrants fared particularly poorly, with only three items focused on them. This trend was also seen on talk shows, with guests likely to be veteran, secular Israeli Jews, mostly of European descent. The same pattern held true for game show participants. When it came to dramas, 99 percent of characters were Jewish. The only non-Jew to make an appearance on one of the shows was a foreign worker. Meanwhile, 20 percent of the Arabs appearing on news shows were presented as holding provocative views, compared to only 5 percent of the Jews."

[So what else is new? It's getting to the point where if the head of a big Jewish organization ISN'T some kind of criminal, THAT should be news.]
Felon picked as leader. No rules prevent convict from heading government-funded Crown Heights group; he won't 'handle checks',
by Glenn Rush, Newsday, March 10, 2005
"Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin, new chairman of the politically wired Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, is famous for inviting his neighbors to a lavish annual Purim party. But Rubashkin spent his 2003 Purim in the pokey - serving out a 15-month federal plea deal for passing $325,000 in bad checks on behalf of his troubled textile business.On Jan. 31, 2005 - less than a year after walking out of Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey - Rubashkin was elected chairman of the council, which receives $1.9 million a year in city and state social services and housing contracts. While no laws prevent a felon from running a government-funded group, Rubashkin has vowed "not to handle any of the checks" for the council, said a source close to him. Rubashkin, 46, refused to comment through a spokesman. Rubashkin unseated chairman Chanina Sperlin, garnering about 800 of 1,200 votes in a bitter election that divided many in the Lubavitcher Hasidic community. Women weren't allowed to vote. The council's leaders often play a role in citywide politics. In 1997, Bruce Teitelbaum, chief of staff to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, reportedly worked to oust the council's then-chairman Rabbi Joseph Spielman ... In 1999, Rubashkin wrote three checks from his nearly empty bank account to Montex, a Pennsylvania-based textile company. When an associate warned Rubashkin that he needed to cover the checks or face prosecution, he replied, "So, I will go to jail," according to documents released by federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania.When he passed the checks, he was being investigated for reporting irregularities in payroll taxes, a law enforcement source said on condition of anonymity. He was hit with a $278,194 federal tax lien in 1997, according to city records. It's not clear whether he ever paid it off."

SBU Detains Israeli Drug Smuggler In Kyiv,
Ukrainian News Agency, March 3, 2005
"The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained an Israeli national in Boryspil airport during an attempt to smuggle psychotropic substances into Ukraine. Ukrainian News learned this from the press service of the SBU. The press service reported that the smuggler came by plane from London and attempted to pass the customs checkpoint in a simplified control zone (the so called green corridor). He hid two large bags with drugs in his trouser-pockets. The SBU established that the detainee formerly possessed Ukrainian citizenship and now he is a rabbi assistant in London.
His detention ended the joint operation of the SBU and British law enforcement agencies aimed at uncovering the drug smuggling channel. The Israeli possessed 152 grams of methylene-dioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA), which in combination with other substances is used to make ecstasy. SBU said it is the first time they seize MDMA in Ukraine ... The Israeli was in charge of organizing drug deliveries from London to Kyiv and came to Kyiv this time at the urgent request of his customer."

[More on the world Jewish sex slave trade, centered in Israel, here. Jewish history of world dominance in trafficking women, here.]
Belarus, Israeli police crack down on criminal group,
Interfax News Service, February 25, 2005
"MINSK - Belarussian and Israeli law enforcement agencies have broken up an international organized criminal group that recruited Belarussian women to engage in prostitution abroad, the Belarussian Interior Ministry told Interfax on Friday.
"Several people involved in these crimes were also detained in Israel," the ministry said. Investigators have reached the preliminary conclusion that Belarussian women were transferred to Tel Aviv under fake documents, after which, dependent on their patrons, they were subjected to sexual exploitation, the ministry said."

[This looks quite like the kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, and the way they too ignore pollution laws.]
Classic Cake's pollution fines among top in N.J.,
By LAWRENCE HAJNA, Courier-Post (New Jersey),March 5, 2005
"If you were asked to name South Jersey's worst polluters, oil refineries would surely spring to mind. Or perhaps any of the myriad chemical companies that line the Delaware River. You'd be wrong. It's a bakery. Classic Cake Co. of Cherry Hill, famous for its deluxe cakes and kosher baked goods, has amassed $675,000 in water-pollution fines from the Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority since around 2001, according to CCMUA officials. This is one of the highest amounts racked up by any company anywhere in the state.It might seem like an awful lot of money for discharging, of all things, excessive levels of grease and sugar into sewers. But Andrew Kricun, the CCMUA's deputy director, called this a case of an "incorrigible" company failing to adhere to regulations designed to protect both the CCMUA treatment plant and the river. He said the situation has languished far too long. "Usually fines are sufficient to get companies back into compliance. This particular industry wasn't deterred at all," he said, adding the CCMUA is now trying to collect a significant portion of the fines through an administrative law judge. But Michael Dolin, who has owned the sprawling bakery on Springdale Road since 1999, says he tried working with environmental consultants and the CCMUA to fix the problem ... Dolin was ordered by a Superior Court judge in July to pay the Delaware River Port Authority $14,177 restitution for the 1,100 times his trucks went through E-ZPass lanes on area bridges without paying tolls. Dolin was also placed on five years of probation. His Classic Cake Co. repeatedly violated CCMUA standards for excessive levels of grease, which can clog sewers as well as equipment at the CCMUA's regional treatment plant in Camden, Kricun said. It also failed to meet CCMUA standards for compounds that increase biological oxygen demand, Kricun said. In this case, sugars are the culprit. The sewer plant must work harder to break down bacteria bred by all that sugar before wastewater is discharged into the river; high levels of bacteria can reduce dissolved oxygen needed by fish and other aquatic organisms."

[More Jewish "tolerance" for Blacks -- in Israel. Some Jews (including Chabad) don't accept the Ethiopian Falasha as Jews.]
High Court asked to bar Ashdod principal,
By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER, Jerusalem Post, March 3, 2005
"The High Court of Justice ordered the state on Wednesday to prepare an affidavit detailing the behavior of an Ashdod principal accused of abusing and discriminating against Ethiopian students, according to lawyers involved in the case. The Tebeka Center for Legal Aid and Advocacy for Ethiopian Jews is demanding that the principal be barred from teaching and running schools after he was twice suspended for mistreating pupils, for which he is currently under investigation by the police. While the criminal investigation continues, he has been allowed to resume his duties as principal of the Moriah Elementary School. The incidents include his allegedly hitting a student, forcibly removing a child from a school bus, and throwing a youngster out of school for the day, leaving him without adult supervision, according to Tebeka attorneys. His acts "seem racially motivated" because they were all directed against Ethiopian pupils despite their being a minority of the student body, according to Tebeka co-counsel Hagai Ashlagi, who added that the principal had previously been reprimanded for segregating Ethiopian and non-Ethiopian children at recess."[

[The dirt on alleged sexual predator rabbi Mordechai Gafni:]

Case of Rabbi Mordechai Gafni. (aka: Marc Gafni,  Mark Gafni, Marc Winiarz, Mordechai Winiarz, Mordechai Winyarz),
Awareness Center

[JTR contributor's note: "Below is an article I thought you might find interesting. I think the premise is questionable. Hip hop has always seemed more dividing than uniting to me. It has some pretty hateful lyrics that are disrespectful to women, police officers, white people, other rappers, etc. Remember the big "East Cost/West Coast" rivalry in the hip-hop industry that ended in several murders?? I don't think hip hop is the key to world peace. :) Anyway, I found this interesting and thought you might also." Our comment: This is a very nice example in Israel of how the blind, mass herd instinct in pop music (here, Jewish hip-hop) can be a useful tool for fascism.]
The great divide. Israel's leading rapper is a rightwing Jew with Ariel Sharon on his side. His rival is a leftwing Arab who compares Jews to Nazis. Hip-hop was supposed to bring them together - but politics keeps forcing them apart. Dorian Lynskey reports,
The Guardian (UK), March 11, 2005
"Kobi Shimoni and Tamer Nafar are both 25, both Israeli and both MCs. That's where the similarity ends. Shimoni, who calls himself Subliminal, lives in affluent Tel Aviv, where his business empire includes a studio, a record label, a publishing company and a clothing line. Nafar, who raps under the name TN in the trio DAM, lives in the dilapidated town of Lod, 10 miles to the south. Shimoni is a household name who has worked with US stars such as Wyclef Jean and whose last album went double platinum; Nafar has yet to secure a record deal. Shimoni gets calls from the office of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon; Nafar gets stopped and searched in the street. Shimoni is Jewish; Nafar is an Arab. Five years ago they were allies, if not quite friends, in Tel Aviv's then-minuscule hip-hop scene. Shimoni owned a club and would invite Nafar to appear alongside him. In Channels of Rage, an award-winning documentary tracking their divergent paths, we see them meeting for the first time, on a coach to a rap festival in Eilat in summer 2000. There are political differences between the two men, but there is also hope that hip-hop can bridge them. With his arm around Shimoni's neck, a grinning Nafar cries: "Film the coexistence!" Only months after the scene was filmed, Shimoni and Nafar disastrously fell out. Talking now, they refer to each other as "fuck" and "idiot". So much for coexistence. "I chose these two young boys because they reflected the older people here," says Anat Halachmi, the documentary's director. "How people behave is not mature. If I took Arafat and Sharon, it would be the same dynamic." Israel's political traumas make many of hip-hop's key obsessions resonate twice as powerfully. Lyrics about guns hit harder in a country where 18-year-olds must serve three years in the military; regional rivalries bite deeper in a land where people fight and die for territory; threats of violence ring louder when young people fear tanks and suicide bombers. "Hip-hop is how people express themselves," says Shimoni. "Through our lyrics you can understand what the Israeli youth feels, believes, wants. Just listen and you'll understand exactly what is going on." Hip-hop didn't gain a cultural foothold in Israel until the mid-1990s, with MTV's arrival in the country. Even after rock-rap group Shabak Sameh introduced Hebrew MCing in 1995, the airwaves remained devoted to apolitical rock, psychedelic trance and terrible pop. It took the success of Subliminal to turn a cult interest into a lucrative phenomenon. Now Hebrew raps and samples of traditional Israeli music are everywhere. "It's ridiculous," says 36-year-old MC Khen Rotem, aka Sagol 59, from Jerusalem. "Everything that happened in the States in 25 years happened here in three ... The increasingly bloody uprising shattered the Oslo peace process and brought down the Labour prime minister, Ehud Barak. It also gave angry young Israelis on both sides an appetite for fierce rhetoric. As the country lurched to the right, many Jews looked to Kobi Shimoni to deliver that rhetoric. To some he is a national hero. When I mention his name to a security guard at Ben Gurion airport, she smiles, raises her thumbs and says: "He is a great man." But to others he is "despicable". Last summer, a festival took place in Brooklyn celebrating Jewish and Arabic hip-hop: the organisers invited Nafar and Rotem but snubbed Shimoni. Subliminal's fanbase is immense - based on Israel's high ratio of bootlegs to official sales, he estimates that a copy of his second album, The Light and the Shadow, is in 25% of Israeli homes - but he has no doubt where his core support lies. "Whenever you're drafted into the army, you become a Subliminal fan," he says with pride. At concerts, he delivers a unique spin on rap's usual call-and-response shtick: "Whoever is proud to be a Zionist in the state of Israel, put your hands in the air! Hell yeah!" The nerve centre of Subliminal's empire is in a Tel Aviv business park. Walking past the offices of his record label, Tact (Tel Aviv City Team), we settle down in his studio's lavishly equipped control room. ... Shimoni happily describes himself as a rightwing Zionist. During his army service, he was bodyguard to Shaul Mofaz - then chief of the general staff, now defence minister. As a musician, he has the endorsement of Ariel Sharon ... Shimoni may take his style and slang from US hip-hop, but not his attitude. "In Israel I make the rules," he declares. "I built hip-hop. We tried to create our own, better version of the hip-hop world. I was the one deciding what's fashionable or not and I decided whatever I do is cool. You can call me not cool but the fact is I am cool." He looks at me, daring me to challenge his coolness. Five years ago, Israeli society was so different that Shimoni was briefly an underdog, something he never tires of emphasising. The key line in Living From Day to Day - "The whole country's shaking like a cigarette in Arafat's mouth" - and its creator's fondness for the Star of David outraged many journalists, who dubbed him "the settlements singer" and avatar of "the Zionist Underground". "They called me Nazi," he protests. Bypassing the usual media channels with a well-funded grassroots campaign, Shimoni made his first major album, The Light From Zion, into an overnight sensation. Success emboldened him. The more political follow-up - The Light and the Shadow, recorded with his old army buddy Yoav Eliasi, aka the Shadow - spawned nine hit singles. The first 20,000 pressings came with a Star of David pendant. Shimoni considers himself a reasonable, tolerant man who is besieged by anti-semites ... "I believe Arafat should have been dead 10 years ago because it would have saved us a lot of time." As in, assassinated? "Yeah. Fuck, yeah! Everybody knows he paid the families that sent their sons to kill themselves inside a fucking club. Do you believe that Tony Blair or Bush would stand for something like that?" He's shouting now. "No! But Israel is under a microscope, so Israel gotta be all humanitarian." Two days later, I visit Tamer Nafar at his house in Lod. We sit on his bed, beneath huge posters of Tupac Shakur and Che Guevara. On the opposite bed, usually occupied by his brother and bandmate Suhel, sits DAM's third member, Mahmud Jrere. When I mention I met Subliminal at his offices, Nafar barks a laugh. "His offices? You are standing in my offices." Nafar seems to be angry at everything: angry at Israel, angry at Arab governments, angry at the music industry, angry at me for not following his directions properly and getting lost. He barely smiles, but then he has little to smile about. Since forming in 1999, DAM (Da Arabic MCs) have played countless shows and posted several songs on the internet but they have yet to release a CD. Although they rap in both Arabic and Hebrew, no Israeli label will sign them because Arab rap isn't a money-spinner. And no Arab label will touch them because they hold Israeli ID cards, and so are considered traitors. Nafar supports his family by selling insurance over the phone. Midway through explaining all this, he lowers his head and roars with frustration: "My situation is fucked!" Half Jewish and half Arab, Lod is mixed but not integrated. The Arab district is a run-down clump of ugly apartment blocks and unpaved streets; it is rife with unemployment, drug-dealing and gang violence. "This environment of crime got me connected to Tupac," Nafar says. "It's the same behaviour, the same attitude, the same systems." One in five Israelis are Arabs, but to Nafar the concept is oxymoronic. "We're strangers here. When I go on a bus I'm also scared - bombs cannot separate between Jews and Muslims and Christians. I feel that fear with them but I cannot feel happiness with them. If you go to a mall and you speak Arabic on the phone, people look at you. You feel like a monster. It's a land for the Jewish, so I have no place here." When I ask him about Subliminal, he grimaces. Like many things in Israel, their feud has two opposing narratives. The facts are roughly the same but the interpretations are night and day. Shimoni says he mentored Nafar back in 2000 and persuaded him to rap in Arabic rather than English. "He was a cool guy. Kind of smart. Not some dumb fuck. I thought, this guy don't need to be pro-Israeli, he just needs to be real." When the intifada started, Nafar became more outspoken about Palestine, recording songs such as Who Is the Terrorist: "Who's the terrorist? You're the terrorist! You've taken everything I own while I'm living in my homeland." In June 2001, a suicide bomber killed 17 people in a beachfront disco called the Dolphinarium. Shortly afterwards, Nafar told a TV interviewer that he could understand why the bomber did it, although he did not condone it. Shimoni saw the videotape the same night he had invited Nafar to perform with him. "That was like a slap to the face," says Shimoni. "This ... fuck got up on TV and said: The guy that blew himself up? I can identify with him. I just got up on stage and dissed him hardcore. You wanna talk about the Zionist enemy, homie? Well here I am." Nafar remembers things differently. "Listen up. I was a good Arab to him when I was not rapping about politics. When you put hummus on the table and smile and tell jokes, that's a good Arab. But you say you want your rights and it's: you little motherfucker, I'll step on your head. That's Israel. That's Subliminal. But I can't hate him because I think he's ignorant and an idiot. He's saying Tamer has nothing to do with Palestine. That's my cousins over there, my brothers over there! But he doesn't know that stuff. Subliminal is an average Israeli." But didn't you also compare Israeli Jews to Nazis in Who Is the Terrorist? "Ah, that thing. Hmm. Yes I did." Was that a good idea? "Not if you want to deliver a message. I was young and angry. But he didn't get angry just from this line. He got angry when I said that Israel raped the Palestinian soul so it got pregnant and gave birth to suicide bombers. They still don't get it."

[I started reading this and thought, with sarcasm, "Oh. Another case of 'anti-Semitsm.'" But, lo! That tool is absolutely standard for the tide of Jewish exploiters. A Jew wants it his way? Voila! "Give me what I want, anti-Semite!"]
Man’s eligibility to vote disputed in Alexandria,
by Gordon D. Fraser, Citizen Online (New Hampshire), March 10, 2005
" When Cary Silverstein tried to vote in the town election on Tuesday, Town Clerk Becky Olney contested his right to do so. Again. Silverstein claims that he is an Alexandria resident, although he works in Malden, Mass., where his daughter attends public school. He has a New Hampshire driver’s license, and often commutes between New Hampshire and Massachusetts.Olney maintains that he is not a resident, citing a series of recent court cases in which Silverstein was denied a handgun permit because of non-residency.Silverstein was allowed to vote, but the dissension was recorded and forwarded to the state Attorney General’s office, which does not wish to comment on whether they will pursue the case.Wrongful voting is a Class A misdemeanor, and carries a civil penalty of up to $5,000. But Silverstein claims that this is a case of "typical Alexandria harassment," and that he may sue Olney in Superior Court. Several weeks ago, Silverstein reported that anti-Semitic slurs, including "Die Jew" and "Go back to Mass Jew," had been spray-painted onto the sliding glass doors of his Alexandria home. That case is under investigation by the State Police. Silverstein also claims that Alexandria Police Chief Jeff Musheno, who originally denied his application for a gun permit in May of 2001, has harassed him on several occasions.Olney says raising the issue of Silverstein’s residency at the polls was not harassment, but enforcement of the law. "The Supreme Court has said he’s not a resident," Olney explained. She said that contesting the votes of possible non-residents is part of her job as town clerk, and that she has no personal conflicts with Silverstein. "The only time it gets heated is when he comes in here to vote."

[JTR contributor's note: "Jews whine, school apologizes."]
Religion, prom collide at Warren High,
By Bob Susnjara, Yahoo! News, March 10, 2005
"Warren Township High School senior Jennifer Mann says this year's prom might as well be called a "no-Jews-allowed event." Mann criticized Gurnee-based Warren District 121officials for scheduling prom on April 23 - the first night of the Jewish holiday Passover, which commemorates deliverance of the ancient Hebrews from slavery in Egypt. Warren officials admitted they made a mistake when they responded to Mann, who'll miss senior prom because of her family's Passover observation. "I apologize," District 121 board President Mari Carlson said. "We'll take the blame for this. I'm ashamed and I'm embarrassed." An informal Daily Herald survey Wednesday showed no prom-Passover conflicts at Lake County's 15 other high schools, from Deerfield to Antioch. Warren administrators were told in November that Passover made April 23 a poor choice for prom, Mann said at a school board meeting Tuesday. She said there was time to change the date, but District 121's failure to act made prom a "no-Jews-allowed event." "This is not, by any means, a minor holiday," Mann said."

[A Jewish "Christian" finds his way back to the Klan.]
Latin Jews finding a home in South Florida,
by Sandra Hernandez, Sun-Sentinel, March 11, 2005
"Mariano Moshe Otero grew up struggling to understand both his faiths. "We were brought up in a Christian home but knowing we were Cuban Jews," said Otero, 43, a former Evangelical minister who is now pursuing rabbinical studies in Miami. "It was very confusing, but now I understand this was part of the experience many Latin Jews have about their faith and their place in the community. It isn't always easy being a Hispanic Jew," said Otero. According to figures released in the mid- to late 1990s, the most recent available, more than 9,500 Latin Jews were living in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, according to Ira Sheskin, director of the Jewish Demography Project at the University of Miami."

["Everybody" was given a Holocaust poem? I haven't gotten mine yet, but I'm sure it's coming. By the way, the notion of Jewish "resistance" to anything or anybody in World War II is largely a fabrication to assuage modern Jewish shame about the era and feed into today's Zionist warrior principle.]
Guest speaker discusses Holocaust,
by Tony Gutierrez, North Texas Daily, March 11, 2005
"Everybody was given a piece of paper Thursday afternoon with a poem titled "Lullaby For My Little Son in the Crematorium." As they looked over the English lyrics, they heard the poem sung in its original Yiddish. Dr. Alan Udoff of St. Francis College's Philosophy and Religion Studies departments in Brooklyn, N.Y., passed this paper out as part of his guest lecture on the spiritual aspect of the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. The poem was written by a Holocaust survivor in 1942 after he witnessed the execution of his three-year old son. The Jewish Studies Program brought the lecture to NT ... According to Udoff, it was during the medieval period that the idea of Jewish martyrdom evolved on a large scale. Although God had been the actor up to this point, the Jews then became the actors on the "stage." "Resistance is every act designed to thwart the enemy's plans in any way, to directly attack the enemy, though it may clash with the will to survive," Udoff said. "If we wish to understand the ghetto, we must understand what the enemy wants" ... "I think in learning about the Holocaust, you start to know the existence of God," Marilyn Friebol, Public Health alumni, said. Friebol, a convert to Judaism, said she attended the lecture to better understand the beauty of her religion ... Udoff ended his lecture with an anecdote of when he was a student. His professor asked the class what the Jewish people wanted. He said every head turned towards him, and he said, as a joke, that the Jewish people wanted a sale. Clarifying to his classmates, he told them that a sale represented a normal existence. "They just want to be able to enjoy their children," Udoff said. "Why is it the Jew should be looking for anything else than a normal existence?" [JTR note: Of all the things on the planet, Jews want a sale? This "joke" infers that Jewish normalization centers around money, the exchange of money, pinching pennnies, and material possession.]

["Grand opening party?" Is it a costume ball? Can Prince Harry come in his Nazi outfit?]
Holocaust Museum Reopens,
NBC-5, March 10, 2005
"Construction on the new site for the Holocaust Museum and Center for Education and Tolerance is completed, and museum officials are ready to throw a grand reopening party Thursday night.The private reopening party marks the new location for the museum in downtown Dallas, near Dealey Plaza and the Sixth Floor Museum. The new venue (display pictured, left) delivers a relevant message to generations of people, according to museum officials."

[JTR contributor's note: "Lubavitch News Service. All Chabad, all the time:"]
Welcome to Chabad Lubavitch,
Lubavitch World Headquarters


Posted March 10, 2005

[More here than meets the eye?]
Name: Jamie Masada,
About Michael Jackson
"Role: Jamie Masada, the owner of a West Hollywood comedy club, The Laugh Factory, is alleged to have introduced Michael Jackson to the cancer-stricken boy he has been accused of molesting.
Profile: In 2001, when the boy was diagnosed as having only 2-3 weeks to live, Masada arranged for the meeting of Jackson and the boy at the request of the child. Apparently, Masada met the boy at a camp where stars teach underprivileged children about comedy. He said the boy told him how he would like to meet Jackson and Masada made "a few phone calls." Masada has, by desire or necessity, placed himself in the position of being the unofficial spokesperson for the family or, at the very least, the information conduit for the media.
Biographical sketch: Jamie Masada came to the United States at the age of 14 and always wanted to be a famous comedian. He had several odd jobs and saved his money. Eventually, he opened the successful Laugh Factory on Sunset Blvd in 1979. Today it’s one of the best known comedy stages in the world. Masada is also heavily involved in the community as he offers his club to numerous charity organizations to use for benefits."

[Context for the above. Older article. Jamie Masada is Israeli. Scammed of his money by a (Jewish) producer, Masada goes on to become influential in the Los Angeles comedy-entertainment world. How? Thanks to whom? Unknown.]
No kidding. Laugh Factory founder continues 15-year tradition of hosting free High Holy Days service,
by Naomi Pfefferman, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, September 22, 2000
"On the evening of Sept. 29, the line will start early at The Laugh Factory on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. About 500 people will wait patiently to jam every available space in the showroom or crowd around TV monitors upstairs. If you think they're expecting Seinfeld, think again. For the past 15 years, Laugh Factory founder Jamie Chaim Masada has hosted free High Holy Days services, advertised in large letters on the club's marquee. Anyone is welcome, but mostly the worshippers are struggling comics, artists, actors and musicians working on the fringes of showbusiness."They come to Hollywood with high hopes, and then reality strikes," says Masada, who was motivated to offer the services and other free programs because of his own struggle in Hollywood years ago. He grew up in Israel and Iran, the son of a cantor and entertainer who used to take him along to wedding and Bar Mitzvah gigs. At the simchas, Masada's father played accor-dion while Jamie told jokes; one day a man visiting from Los Angeles who called himself a producer suggested the boy had a future in show business. Before long, the 14-year-old was on an airplane to L.A., armed with only $850 and the producer's address at Sunset and La Cienega. When the man took the money and ran, Masada found himself alone and penniless in a strange city. Fortunately, the building manager took him under his wing, offering Masada a job cleaning apartments and a couch in an empty garage. Local comics befriended the immigrant comedian, allowing him to tag along to clubs and coffee shops in the wee hours. Masada wasn't so lucky his first Rosh Hashanah, when he walked to a Fairfax-area shul and was turned away for lack of a ticket ... Masada remembered the feeling after he founded The Laugh Factory with borrowed money in a leased storefront on Sunset in 1979. As Steve Martin and Robin Williams began dropping by, the impresario started hosting free Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, which now seat more than 4,000 people each year. In the early days, Masada also began buying High Holy Days tickets for Jewish comics with no place to go - until he realized the $2,000 he was shelling out for 10 seats could help establish a free service for hundreds of people."

[Confirmation: open Israeli hunting season on journalists where they're not wanted.]
U.K. cameraman killing case closed. IDF attorney tells family two-year internal probe had not uncovered proof of wrongdoing and IDF soldiers would not be put on trial,
By Hanan Greenberg, Yedioth Aharonoth (Israel), March 2005
"Relatives of the British cameraman who was killed in an exchange of gunfire in 2003 met IDF Prosecutor General Avichai Mandelblith Wednesday to hear why IDF soldiers involved in the incident would not be put on trial. James Miller, 34, was killed in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip while making a documentary, "Death in Gaza", about Palestinian children caught up in the conflict with Israel. Mandelblith told Miller's relatives that the two-year internal probe had not uncovered proof of wrongdoing. "The findings of the military police show that the commanding officer of the unit at the scene allegedly fired his weapon in breach of Israel Defense Force rules of engagement," Mandelblith said. "However, it is not legally possible to link this shooting to the gun shot sustained by Miller (to) provide a reasonable chance for conviction." Mandelblith told the family that the scientific evidence collected during the investigation, such as the ballistic tests, led to the conclusion that the evidence in the case was insufficient for conviction."

[JTR contributor's note: "This is getting really unreal ..." Our comment: The Anti-Defamation League is a rental whore bandwagon, featuring censorial thugs and drooling moral hypocrites that crawl and creep with barbed nets in every direction. The sordid ADL changes colors even as you stare in disgust at it. Have gag, will travel. The growing problem for the world's foremost "tolerance" Thought Police, of course, is that gagging people sometimes involves the very delicate business of gagging fellow Jews. Even Israelis. Two or three Israelis on any given day may have an ethical core, and they -- at the heart of belly of Monster Zionism -- are dangerous people to the world Jewish Tribe and must be silenced. Freedom of speech is a serious threat to totalitarian octopi like the ADL. Curiously, even in the Jewish homeland. Look below, how Jews "pressure" Jews to squeeze the last drops of twisted political mucus out of the tube. Let us hope that the ADL's great trans-world vat of festering dragon shit ferments, gasifies, and implodes with enough force to tear open ragged windows to their ugly inners for the shocked public eye.]
When the anti-Israel sentiment comes from within,
by Yair Sheleg, Haaretz (Israel), March 10, 2005
"For years, Jewish organizations and their leaders seeking to contend with blatant anti-Israel statements have encountered the response, "What do you mean? Similar statements are made in Israel, by Israelis." A few weeks ago, there was a new precedent for this phenomenon. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, sent a letter to Hebrew University President Prof. Menachem Megidor demanding a public response to statements made by the head of the university's German studies department, Prof. Moshe Zimmerman. According to the letter, Zimmerman compared Israel Defense Forces soldiers to Nazis. University authorities in effect failed to say a thing to Zimmerman. Moreover, the university rector, Dan Rabinowitz, demanded that the former leader of the Jewish community in Berlin, Dr. Alexander Brenner, apologize for his statement that "there are professors at the Hebrew University who compare the behavior of IDF soldiers to the behavior of SS soldiers." Foxman decided to intervene after the matter was brought to his attention in repeated requests from one of the university's lecturers, Dr. Yaacov Bergman of the School of Business Administration. Bergman, who says that he leans to the political right since the events of September 11, 2001, is leading a campaign over Zimmerman's statements, not only on the political front but also mainly as part of a struggle for the image of universities in Israel. His own university, he says, "acts as a guild primarily protecting the interests of its own members, as opposed to the interests of the public." In applying pressure to Foxman, Bergman took advantage of the fact that Foxman has been embroiled in a similar affair in New York in recent months. There, in a scandal that made waves across the United States, Foxman urged Columbia University leaders to denounce Arab professors in the Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures Department, who regularly question the legitimacy of Israel. In the wake of the media storm, Columbia President Lee Bollinger decided to cancel a controversial course entitled "Palestinians and Israel," taught by Prof. Joseph Massad. Massad was quoted as having said in a lecture that "The Jewish state is a racist state that does not have a right to exist," and that Ariel Sharon "resembles Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels." Another professor, Hamid Dabashi, was quoted as having said that Israel is "a ghastly state of racism and apartheid," and called Israel's supporters "Gestapo apparatchiks." Dabashi later announced that he had decided to exercise caution regarding his public statements, and canceled several public appearances. Foxman did not enter lightly into the Zimmerman affair at the Hebrew University. Bergman says that he threatened Anti-Defamation League personnel that if they do not intervene here, he would "pick up the telephone and call Bollinger's office to tell him that he does not need to take them seriously." In recent months, Bergman consistently leaned on Ken Jacobson, who heads the Anti-Defamation League's International Department, to the point where Jacobson angrily responded, "I do not respect your pressure tactics." However, the pressure appears to have worked. On February 16, after a few weeks of correspondence, Foxman wrote a letter to Megidor. In his letter he notes that, "While any professor has the right to express his or her views, it seems to me that the university administration has an obligation to consider when certain views are beyond the pale and harmful to the institution and the Jewish People. I believe leaders of institutions have an obligation to speak out when hateful messages are conveyed, and to consider taking certain actions against those individuals who are articulating such messages." As the letter's tone makes clear, Foxman does not point to specific actions ... Foxman said he indeed approached Megidor with a measure of hesitation partially because a Jewish and Israeli institution was involved. "However, I cannot finally adhere to a double-standard: One demand of Columbia University and another of Hebrew University." The affair began in August 2001, with an article written by historian Anat Peri for Haaretz. Peri's article investigated the image of Europe and its relations to Israel. Peri wrote a sentence stating that while smaller European nations denounced Israel and compared Israel to Nazi Germany, "Germany, which cannot afford to denounce Israel as the equivalent of Nazi Germany, supports any Israeli person or group who compares Israel to the Nazis, from B'tselem to Prof. Moshe Zimmerman." Zimmerman filed a libel suit against Peri and Haaretz. It is not Zimmerman's first libel suit. The late Rehavam Ze'evi sued him for libel in response to an article in the weekly Jerusalem that compared members of the right-wing to Nazis. In 2000, Ze'evi won that suit. This time, too, Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court Judge Yehudit Shevah accepted the assertions of Peri and Haaretz that Zimmerman did compare Israeli organizations and individuals to Nazis, on various occasions. She even cited some examples, "Between Hebron youth and Hitler Youth, between the motivation and conditions of service in some of the IDF's elite units and that of the Waffen SS, between Israeli soccer fans and those of the Third Reich, and between the Old Testament and Mein Kampf." In January 2004, about two months before Zimmerman's suit was dismissed, Alexander Brenner was interviewed on Israel Radio in a program about new European anti-Semitism. "The fact that Hebrew University professors compare Israel to the Nazis fans the flames of German anti-Semitism," he complained. A few days later, Brenner received a letter from Zimmerman demanding an apology, on the grounds that, "The faculty at the Hebrew University may assume that you were hinting about me ... Zimmerman does not deny the existence of comparisons he has made between aspects of the Nazi period and present-day Israel, but concludes that they are "The comparisons of a historian, based on his professional principles. Comparison does not mean that both sides are necessarily equivalent." Regarding the involvement of Bergman and Foxman in the affair, he says, "I don't have to respond to every barking dog in the street," and criticizes Foxman's failure to contact him before turning to university administration. "People have to know the facts before they start running around," he says. Foxman, in turn, said: "It is not my role to conduct a dialogue with this professor. And what could he possibly tell me? That Israel really does resemble the Nazis? What concerns me is that the university handle this." Foxman promises to continue to confront those who compare Israel with the Nazis in the future, "exactly as we do in regard to people who are not Israelis or Jews. We must not say that it is forbidden for some and permissible for others." [JTR note: Dear Abraham Foxman. Not only is Israel like Germany in too many ways, there is a direct parallel between the censorial policies of the Nazi ideology and YOUR censorial activism against what you decree to be "forbidden" public utterances. YOU are no less a threat to freedom and democracy than any "Nazi." At least the Nazis were clear about what they were doing. You slink, draping the "pro-tolerance" sheep's clothing to hide your savagely brutal pro-Israelism. Endless predator upon raw truth-telling, your hunt to strangle free speech throughout the globe (on behalf of Judeocentric/Zionist aggrandizement) is far WORSE than the Nazis if for no other reason than their reach was never as distant, nor as disguised, as your many-tentacled poisonous appendages.]

Czech Court Rejects Mein Kampf Publisher Conviction,
Yahoo! News, March 10, 2005
"The Czech Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the conviction of a man who published a Czech language translation of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf," ruling he did not seek to propagate the book's racist ideas. Michal Zitko was convicted by a Prague court in January 2004 for having the text of Hitler's book, which foreshadowed devastating wars of conquest in Europe and the killing of six million Jews, translated and published. He was given a three year suspended sentence for promoting "a movement aimed at surpressing human rights," but the Supreme Court said on Thursday his actions were not an active attempt to support those who may believe in the book's contents. Hitler wrote the book largely while in prison after a failed 1923 coup, 10 years before the Nazis seized power. The finance ministry of the German state of Bavaria, which says it has copyright over the book, recently called on Poland to pull the book from stores there saying it must approve any publication. Mein Kampf (My Struggle) is banned in Germany except in limited circumstances."

[The thing I have trouble understanding is what the difference is between "neo-Nazis" in Germany (and I presume, to make a point, the worst stereotypes about them) and the violently ethnocentric, race-centered, Arab-hating, apartheid principles (and murderous actions) of the Jewish state: Israel. Frankly, in this comparison, I'm probably doing the "neo-Nazis" in Germany a slanderous disservice. Please, Abraham Foxman. Explain the differences to me and I will post them in an exchange with this web site.]
German Court Rules Neo-Nazi Band is Criminal Group,
Yahoo! News, March 10, 2005
"Germany's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a neo-Nazi rock group that spread racial hatred was a criminal organization, upholding the first such judgment in the country against a music band. The top court also upheld the three year and four month prison sentence against Landser lead singer Michael Regener. A Berlin court had ruled in December 2003 that Regener, 39, had formed a criminal organization, incited racial hatred and spread Nazi propaganda in a case that set a legal precedent. Prosecutions have often been brought against individuals under laws banning Nazi propaganda and promotion of racial hatred, but this was the first time a collective prosecution of this kind had been brought against a music group. Thursday's Supreme Court ruling upheld the lower court's judgment, saying the group had acted together to produce and distribute right-wing, racist songs."

[JTR contributor's note: "Re Livia Chertoff: the obituary of Chertoff's mother, I'm the one that found it and put it on the net (at www.libertyforum.org). The obit can be found at http://www.factiva.com. I access it from a university computer, which dumps me to: http://global.factiva.com/en/eSrch/search.asp
for searches. It's indeed a real obit." Our comment: Done then. Fact: Michael Chertoff is of course the new head of America's "Homeland Security." His mom was, uh, shall we say "sort of close" to Israel and Zionism. REPOST:]

Livia Chertoff, 73, El Al flight attendant,
The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), December 21, 1998
"OBITUARY Services for Mrs. Livia Chertoff, 73, of Delray Beach, Fla., mother of former U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Michael Chertoff, will be held at 1 p.m. today in the Kreitzman's Memorial Home, 1500 Morris Ave., Union. Mrs. Chertoff died Saturday in the Ashbrook Nursing Home, Scotch Plains. She was the first airline hostess for El Al Airlines and participated in Operation Magic Carpet, the famous airlift of Yemenite Jews to Israel. Mrs. Chertoff also operated L'Artigue, an art gallery in Elizabeth. Her son, Michael, served as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 through 1987 and as First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1987 through 1990. He was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1990 through 1994 and during the Whitewater investigation in 1995 and 1996, he was counsel for the Senate Banking Committee. Born in Poland, Mrs. Chertoff lived in Palestine and Elizabeth before moving to Florida several years ago. Also surviving are three sisters, a brother and two grandchildren." 

The Witchhunts Continue. Columbia University and the New Anti-Semitism,
By M. JUNAID ALAM, CounterPunch, March 2, 2005
"Rape, massacre, theft, torture, ethnic cleansing: these are not crimes which nations can defend with ease - especially when unearthed by their own historians. Israel recently faced this most troubling predicament. Combing through declassified state archives, Israeli scholars of the past twenty years have discovered their nation was founded upon the mass expulsion and deliberate destruction of the native Palestinian people. Israel, it turned out, was far more Goliath than David. Since this presented somewhat of a public relations problem for a state still engaged in brutalizing Palestinians and stealing their land, a new self-justifying rationale needed to be authored. Enter the "new anti-Semitism." This doctrine turns reality on its head, declaring criticism of Israel's racist behavior to be itself racist ­ "anti-Semitic." Empathy for Palestinians being beaten, bullied, and bulldozed out of existence, the doctrine goes, is nothing but some disguised expression of Jew-hatred. Goose-stepping Germans and uprooted Palestinians are portrayed as part of the same unbroken line of anti-Semitism, even though those inhabiting concentration camps today ­ "the largest ever to exist," says Israeli historian Baruch Kimmerling - are the Palestinians themselves. But no matter. Abusing the memory of Holocaust victims to shut down criticism of Israeli crimes ­ crimes unearthed mostly by Jewish historians - may be obscene, but it is also effective. Wielding this new ideological weapon, Israel's champions aim to cut down pro-Palestinian voices inside America with the same ruthlessness Israeli soldiers employ to shoot up Palestinian children outside their homes. The latest targets in this well-organized hit are Arab-American professors at Columbia University who teach Middle Eastern studies. The targets have been judiciously selected. Since these particular professors are Arab in an age when bombing and torturing Arabs has virtually become a national sport, they make for easy prey; and since they have added to their original sin of being Arab the even graver sin of speaking the truth about Israel's past ­ no less in a country which subsidizes Israel's existence - they also make for necessary prey. In full accordance with "new anti-Semitism" modus operandi, the attacks paint the professors themselves as the attackers. With Orwellian brushstrokes, they are rendered as demons bent on "intimidating" Jewish students at the university. This much is to be expected. Less expected, however, is the almost embarrassing shoddiness of the trumped-up production. The wild charges made against the professors are so poorly substantiated and the political motives of the accusers so painfully transparent, one almost forgets that America's well-financed pro-Israel network has extensive experience in smearing its opponents."  

Assassination attempt? Irish newspaper says Israel attempted to assassinate expelled Palestinian terrorist who resides in Dublin; Israel denies accusations,
Yedioth Aharonoth (Israel), March 2005
"
Irish intelligence authorities tracked down two Israeli intelligence agents who were apparently attempting to enter Ireland to assist in the assassination of a senior Palestinian terrorist, Irish newspaper Evening Herald reported. According to the report, Irish intelligence authorities tracked down the agents in January as they were gathering intelligence for an operation that was supposed to culminate with the Palestinian militant’s death. The Palestinian militant, Jihad Jaara, was a senior member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror organization until he was expelled to Europe, along with 12 of his counterparts, following a standoff with IDF troops at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in 2002 ... Israeli security authorities contend that Jaara, who currently resides in Dublin, continues to support terror attacks against Israel from abroad. Jaara said he does not fear for his life and hopes the exiled Palestinians would be able to return to their families in good health. “Life is in the hands of God, not in the hands of (Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon and his Mossad,” he said. Irish officers visited him at his home and promised not to let any harm come to him while on Irish soil, Jaara told Ynet."I clarified to the officers I am not safe in Israel and that the Israelis always violate their agreements and committments," he said. "No official in the world trusts Israel" ... The Evening Herald said various officials have attempted to keep the affair under wraps so as not to obstruct the positive political atmosphere in the Middle East. Ireland has not filed an official complaint against Israel as of yet, but Irish security sources said the country is “concerned.”

[Jewish Lobby: subdivison B4653-2352.]
2005 Consultation on Conscience,
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
"
Join Jewish leaders and advocates from across the nation in Washington, DC, to hear from key policy and government leaders about issues that shape our lives, to explore the connection between ancient Jewish texts and current events, and to build strong social action and advocacy skills to take back to congregations. This year, the Consultation will take place Sunday, March 13 - Tuesday, March 15, 2005,  featuring a Sunday night keynote address by actor and activist Michael J. Fox, speaking on Stem Cell Research. " 

[Accusing someone of being "anti-Semitic" is the heart of Jewish identity, even if a Jew aims the slur at his/her mother. The Jewish community seems to finally be moving in that direction. Here below we have more from the constantly obsessive Jewish tribal attack that has spread from merely slandering all non-Jews as "anti-Semites" to smearing fellow Jews as hate-filled "anti-Semites" too. It's comical. It's tragic. It's absurd. It's pathetic. But Jews get a taste of their own medicine! Calling someone an "anti-Semite" actually echoes the way some people always use"f**king" as their preferred adjective when they are too morally and intellectually lazy to think of anything else to say. The word becomes filler. Example of a sentence that has absolutely no meaning: "Look at that f**king anti-Semite." Here below a Jew gets accused by another Jew of "anti-Semitism" and it looks like it will distress him to the grave. Hey, Alderman! Live with it! To Hell with your "reputation." Accept the consummate Jewish-propelled slur as a badge of honor. When the Jew Klux Klan turns on you and casts you from the fold, it's time to carve your own way through the Judeocentric jungle.]
Anti-Semite? Self-Hating Jew? Moi?,
by Eric Alterman, The Nation, March 28, 2005 issue
"[Cathy]
Young's attack on me shared some of these bizarre qualities. She seized on a brief blog item I wrote on Altercation.msnbc.com, in which I noted the insensitivity of demanding that Arabs attend Holocaust remembrance ceremonies that (of course) made no mention of what many Arabs believe to be the Holocaust's connection to what they consider their own "catastrophe"--namely, the founding of the State of Israel. Young distorted my argument to accuse me of anti-Semitism and self-hatred, using an ellipsis to make it appear as if I were describing the founding of the Jewish state as a "catastrophe" rather than attributing that view to Palestinians and their Arab supporters. She went even further, insisting that by acknowledging that Palestinians and their supporters perhaps had reason to be less than thrilled with the creation of Israel, I was actually--I kid you not--blaming "long-dead Holocaust victims" and arguing that "every Muslim is justified in viewing every Jew as the enemy." (In fact, the item in question spoke of Arabs, not "Muslims." Neither Young nor her editor, Nick King, appears to understand the difference.) Were it not for the fact that the approximately 474,845 people who read the daily Globe now consider me an anti-Semitic, self-hating Jew, the episode would be ridiculous. Young describes herself as a "nonobservant Jew." She sure got the nonobservant part right. A former girlfriend of Wall Street Journal right-winger John Fund--which may or may not explain everything--Young has no profile whatever in Jewish affairs, Middle East debates or discussions of anti-Semitism. Your columnist, on the other hand, is not only a pretty serious Jew--bar mitzvah, educated in Israel, lights candles on Friday night, goes to shul, sends the kid to Hebrew school, contributes to the Forward, etc.--but has been writing on Israel and anti-Semitism, speaking in synagogues, minoring in Jewish studies during doctoral work, etc., since first publishing on anti-Semitism at Yale, in, um, the Boston Globe twenty years ago, when he was the paper's stringer there. (The piece was deemed so sensitive to Jewish concerns, I received a congratulatory letter from none other than Martin Peretz, who invited me to contribute to The New Republic.) When I attempted to redress some of Young's damage with a letter to the paper containing the original blog item, the Globe truncated it, preventing its readers from seeing the evidence. The paper also refused to publish letters from a number of prominent Jewish voices, like that of M.J. Rosenberg, policy director of the Israel Policy Forum, and Jo-Ann Mort, a national board member of Americans for Peace Now (some of the letters the Globe didn't publish can be found at www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6980484/). When the editors did finally run a letter in support of my work, from Boston attorney and Jewish peace activist Geoffrey Lewis, they not only edited it self-protectively but mistitled it, "He's Pro-Israel," as if that were somehow the point. (Just ask Jerry Falwell if it's possible to like Israel and still claim all Jews are going to hell.) The paper's own ombudsman, meanwhile, termed Young's column "ad hominem" and "not worthy of an opinion page where readers expect (and usually get) thoughtful analysis and insight." Boston Phoenix media critic Dan Kennedy wondered, "How could a toxic suggestion that Alterman is a 'self-hating' Jew make it through the editing process?" True, it is the kind of thing one reads all the time in the swamps of the conservative blogosphere--indeed, David Horowitz ran it untouched. ... So the Globe feels it is entitled to destroy a reputation established over two decades while simultaneously investigating the internal operations of any powerful entity it chooses, but when one of the victims of its own abuse of power who happens to have a media column seeks to clarify just how it took place, its editors claim the equivalent of "executive privilege." Is it any wonder so many people resent the media? Whether she sought payback for what I've written in The Nation about her ex-boyfriend or merely to silence anyone who expresses sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians, the result of Young's clumsy slander is to aid the cause of anti-Semitism by revealing the political motivation of those who use the accusation as nothing more than a convenient ideological weapon."

Pro-Israel speaker hot topic at UCSC. Some deface fliers advertising lecture,
by Jondi Gumz, Santa Cruz Sentinel, March 10, 2005
"Someone doesn’t want people to know that Itamar Marcus is speaking at UC Santa Cruz tonight. Marcus, the director of Palestinian Media Watch who has testified before the U.S. Senate, will talk about Palestinian suicide bombers in the Middle East. His talk, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Classroom 321 at Kresge College, is sponsored by Students for Peace in the Middle East and the Chabad Student Center, two UCSC groups, and Stand with Us, a national organization supporting Israel. Hundreds of fliers posted Monday on bulletin boards and at bus stops on campus, have been removed or defaced, said UCSC lecturer Tammi Rossman-Benjamin. She saw slogans such as "Zionism = Racism" and "Occupation is Murder" written on the fliers. "I’ve never seen fliers defaced in this way," said Rossman-Benjamin, a member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, the faculty group co-sponsoring the talk by the pro-Israeli Marcus."

[This below is Jewish fascism, in sheep's clothing. The more I read this kind of crap, the more I reconsider the idea of a giant Jew Central headquarters (fat mafia guys puffing cigars, their feet up on the table) doesn't seem so absurd anymore. It's that place where Zionist policy is decided in a secret nuclear bunker under New York City and spread by instant microchip to every volunteer Jew who offers to humiliate the sanctity of truth and integrity in order to sacrificially vomit codified Klan Policy into the public forum.]
Exposing Advocacy Teaching,
By Amitai Bick-Raziel, Columbia Spectator, March 10, 2005
"Since the release of Columbia Unbecoming, the University has become embroiled in allegations of intimidation. Criticism has flown back and forth over whether Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures professors are truly threatening or their accusers. The focus has centered on the question of professors’ inappropriate behavior. However, there is an issue of greater concern: academic pedagogical abuse. This abuse involves professors, particularly those in introductory courses, who teach only their own particular viewpoints, ignoring other scholarly ideas. Professors have their own opinions and a right to express them in class. In fact, it would be impossible to expect them to teach in a completely evenhanded manner, since, as Chris Beam of the Spectator noted, “teaching is inherently biased simply by virtue of a professor’s vocabulary, personal background, and mood on any given day.” But there is a huge difference between this and teaching one’s opinions at the expense of other scholarly ideas, something that Professor Richard Bulliet refers to as advocacy teaching. Professors who only teach their own political views exploit the hallowed principle of academic freedom. Those who believe in academic freedom must realize that with it comes great responsibility, especially in intro-level classes where the majority of the students have no other perspective on the subject. Within MEALAC, I personally experienced this advocacy teaching last year in the introductory class Topics in the Middle East and South Asia. The goal of the class as stated in the syllabus was to give “an introduction and entry point that will allow you to pursue a deeper historical and critical understanding of the complexity and diversity of the two parts of the world.” The professor on South Asia followed this guideline, going so far in one instance as requiring the class to read an article that challenged the immorality of Sati, the former practice of widow self-immolation. Unfortunately, her Middle East counterpart chose the inappropriate road of advocacy teaching—particularly on the subject of Zionism and Israel. His lectures on this complex issue simplified its history to the anti-Zionist narrative of Israel as the racist colonialist-settler state with discrimination and constant massacring of the Palestinians. Yes, it is true that Israel does have its problems of racism as well as troubling, unjust instances in its history, all of which must be taught. My point is that simplifying and de-contextualizing this complex history is irresponsible, inappropriate and pedagogically abusive." [JTR note: We agree on one point. Sort of. Let's put Israeli racism back into context: Israeli racism comes from Jewish racism, bred in the segregationist Talmud. When you teach the objective fact that Israel hideously oppresses the Palestinians as a matter of institutionalized Zionist/Jewish policy, you need to understand the Jewish identity texts from where that ideology comes from.]

[The subversives go home for a visit:]
Mayor Leading Delegation To Israel Next Week,
NY1 News, March 10, 2005
"
Mayor Michael Bloomberg will travel to Israel next week to lead an American delegation at the dedication of a Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, NY1 has learned. Joined by former Mayor Ed Koch and other dignitaries, Bloomberg will leave the city on Monday and return Wednesday night. It’s the mayor's fourth trip to Israel since his election .... NY1 will be traveling to Israel to cover the mayor's trip. Davidson Goldin will have reports from Israel starting on Monday."

[JTR contributor's note: ..."To discuss Holocaust reparations." Our comment: Someone be sure to tell the Lithuanian president to wear professional knee pads so when he has to grovel and crawl before the Jewish Lords he doesn't scrape himself too badly. Imagine. Heads of state today are obligated to go to Israel to explain to the World Aristocracy why they didn't show up for the most recent mandatory Holocaust Festival.]
Lithuanian president to visit Israel,
Yahoo! News, March 10, 2005
"President Valdas Adamkus is to travel to Israel on Sunday for talks with Israeli officials that will touch on a controversy over World War II commemorations, and the restitution of property formerly owned by Jews in his former Soviet Baltic state, a presidential advisor said. The visit, which will be a personal first for the Lithuanian president, will allow Adamkus to explain to Israeli leaders his refusal to attend commemorations in Moscow of the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, advisor Valteris Baliukonis said. Both Adamkus and President Arnold Ruutel of Estonia on Monday said they would stay away from the celebrations because for the Baltic states the end of the war carried painful memories of the subsequent Soviet takeover in their countries. Baliukonis added that the question of Jewish property restitution could also be brought up by the Israeli side."

[Hey! When's recess? Why is everyone forced to study what has become the Jewish RELIGION? If I was Anne Frank and "fleeing for my life," I'd probably look for an ice cream cone at the nearest Holocaust museum.]
Teachers earn Mile High kudosl. Excellence in classroom noted,
by Tillie Fong, Rocky Mountain News, March 10, 2005
"The lesson was about Anne Frank and her life while hiding from the Nazis, but the questions weren't about the young victim of the Holocaust. Instead, seventh-grade social studies teacher Miles Schwartz asked his students at Skinner Middle School what they would take with them if they were like Frank and fleeing for their lives. When Delaney St. Germaine, 12, answered she would take a family portrait, Schwartz asked her why. "What if your family died?" she said. "You want a memory of them." Schwartz nodded. "That's very mature," he said of her response. "You take things that will make you happy." He then asked the students to go beyond thinking about packing clothes - an item mentioned by a number of students. "Would it matter to you what you have to wear?" he asked. "If you dig a little deeper, what is it? What is important to you?" Exchanges such as the one in class Wednesday are why Schwartz was named by Skinner Middle School and Night High School as one of 256 Mile High Teachers. The teachers were honored by the city of Denver and Denver Public Schools Wednesday at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science ... A relatively new teacher, Schwartz is a transplant from West Palm Beach, Fla. He came to Colorado because he liked to snowboard and bike. He also wanted to share his love of education, which he majored in at Florida State University."

Stage Review: Children convey Holocaust reality,
by Anna Rosenstein, Post-Gazette, March 10, 2005
"Concerns voiced include the scarcity of teaching about the Holocaust in many schools. Prime Stage's "Butterfly Project," which, along with the one-acts, includes discussions and a lobby display, tries to rectify that. Artistic director Wayne Brinda, who directs the plays, is working with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. to create a national model for teaching secondary school students about the Holocaust through the arts. What the stage production does well is relay the human and individual aspects of the Holocaust. It doesn't -- and perhaps can't -- get at the overwhelming horror, although it may be as significant to comprehend the senseless death of one as to try to imagine the unimaginable deaths of millions."

[JTR contributor's note: "Incredible."]
Welcome to the website of Shechita UK.,
Shechita. UK,
"This web site will tell you more about Shechita - the Jewish religious humane method of animal slaughter for food."

[JTR contributor's note: "Congress more Zionist than White House, as always."]
U.S. officials defends $350 million Palestinian aid request,
Haaretz (Israel), March 11, 2005
"Bush administration officials sought to assure skeptical lawmakers Wednesday that $350 million in proposed Palestinian aid won't be diverted to terrorists or wasted in corruption. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State David Satterfield said prospects for the Palestinian Authority to meet its commitments to fight terrorism and corruption are better than ever. He cited the death of Yasser Arafat, the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas and the support of regional leaders for the new Palestinian government ... Satterfield and James Kunder, assistant administrator at the U.S. Agency for International Development, spoke at the House International Relations' Middle East subcommittee. Many of the panel's members strongly support Israel and have been wary of the Palestinian commitment to peace. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the panel's Republican chairwoman, said Congress must be cautious in expanding assistance programs to Palestinians "to ensure that these are not manipulated to serve the interests of those who seek the destruction of Israel and its people." "The United States should not be expected to write a blank check to the Palestinian Authority," she said. Rep. Gary Ackerman, the panel's top Democrat, said Bush's assistance proposal lacks imagination and coherence ... Under questioning by Democratic Rep. Howard Berman, Satterfield said the administration does not plan to provide any of the $200 million directly to the Palestinian Authority."

[In today's America, "being Jewish" is being a lobby. When Americans understand this, it will be time to treat them with the respect due the latter.]
Jewish groups oppose U.S. efforts to impose stricter controls on asylum,
by Matthew E. Berger, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 8, 2005
"Several American Jewish groups are lobbying against proposed immigration reforms that passed the U.S. House of Representatives last month. At the same time, organizations are pressing for a provision to extend benefits to elderly and disabled refugees, including many immigrant Jews. Immigration reform has grown increasingly important in Washington, as lawmakers seek measures that will protect the country from an influx of potential terrorists. But the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and other Jewish groups fear that in an effort to fight terrorism, the United States will deny asylum to people facing religious and other types of persecution."

[Overwhelmingly throughout the world: Racist Zionism and allegiance to Israel = Jewish collective identity.]
All Jewish, All the Time: Argentina Radio Station Has Jewish Tunes, News,
by Larry Luxner, United Jewish Federation of Tidewater (from Jewish Telegraphic Agency), March 9, 2005
"On the first floor of a stately old building in the Once neighborhood of Buenos Aires, nearly 100 Jewish men and women, most of them elderly, enjoy a free kosher lunch, while a bearded Orthodox rabbi with a microphone lectures them on the weekly Torah portion. On the third floor of the same building, Daniel Saltzman also speaks into a microphone -- but tens of thousands of people hear his voice. Saltzman is host of "Coffee Break," a talk show that airs every weekday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Radio Jai, Argentina's Jewish radio station. On this day, Saltzman and co-hosts Alejandra Polack and Jaime Mizraji are discussing politics with Ricardo Alfonsin. He's the son of former Argentine President Raul Alfonsin, who is widely respected in the Jewish community for bringing democracy back to Argentina after many years of military dictatorship "Among the Jewish community, our influence is very strong, but about 30 percent of our listeners are non-Jewish," Saltzman told JTA during a commercial break. "Many of them are evangelicals -- and others just like the music." Broadcasting on 96.3 FM in Buenos Aires and 107.5 FM in the interior city of Corboda, Radio Jai has around 200,000 listeners, said Miguel Steuermann, the station's founder and general manager. Since October 1999, Radio Jai has maintained a Web site at www.radiojai.com.ar. It now registers at least 300,000 hits a month ... Steuermann, 39, was born and raised in Chile. He studied at Israel's Bar-Ilan University and at the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary in Buenos Aires. He worked for two years at the Israeli Embassy in Santiago and for another two years at the Israeli Embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay. He said he was inspired to launch Radio Jai in 1992, in response to the terrorist bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires that killed 29 people and injured more than 100. "After that attack, I felt that it was very important to have a strong Jewish voice in this part of the world," said Steuermann, who learned Yiddish at a Jesuit university in Chile and also speaks English, Spanish, Hebrew, Portuguese and German. "Originally, my dream was to create a virtual community of Spanish-speaking Jews, an international satellite signal for the rest of the continent," he continued. "Today, that dream has been realized thanks to the Internet. "Argentine Jews who made aliyah years ago continue listening to Radio Jai in Israel every day online. They're always sending messages to us. We even get e-mails from Jews in Ecuador and Bolivia." One reason for Radio Jai's popularity among Argentine Jews is that it offers news in Spanish straight from Israel. Three times each day, it broadcasts transmissions from the Voice of Israel radio station."

Posted March 9, 2005

[Dig around, you'll find the usual nest:]
Two Waksal Friends Charged With Fraud,
By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Yahoo! News, March 9, 2005
" A physician credited with pioneering cancer treatment research and another friend of jailed ImClone Systems Inc. founder and former Chief Executive Samuel Waksal were charged Wednesday with securities fraud in the same stock scandal that brought down Martha Stewart. Zvi Fuks, 68, chairman of radiation oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, and Sabina Ben-Yehuda, 51, an Israeli citizen living in New York City, were arrested on charges stemming from sales of ImClone stock on Dec. 27, 2001. Prosecutors alleged Fuks, a former member of ImClone's scientific advisory board, and Ben-Yehuda made the sales after they were tipped by Waksal that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would not review ImClone's experimental cancer drug, Erbitux. Stewart, 63, sold 3,928 shares that same morning; prosecutors said she had been tipped that Waksal was selling. The homemaking maven was convicted of lying to federal investigators and served five months in prison. She was released last week. Waksal, 56, is serving a seven-year sentence in federal prison after admitting he tipped his daughter to sell her ImClone shares. Aliza Waksal was not charged with a crime. In a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the government charged Fuks and Ben-Yehuda with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud."

[Bottom line: there are no "odds" in a stacked deck. The Jewish tribe claws its way -- tooth and nail -- through its vast network, always to the top.]
Jews: Figuring The Odds,
by Thomas Keyes, Useless Knowledge, March 8, 2005
"Years ago I noted the disproportionate number of Jews in journalism, law, science and other professional fields, but in casually discussing this with acquaintances, I found that many people merely denied or dismissed this idea altogether, or attributed this anomaly to mere chance or random selection. So to put this on the firm ground of statistics, I devised a formula for calculating the odds. Let G denote the size of a group of people, J the number of Jews in the group and P the proportion of Jews in the population from which group G is drawn. Then calculate O, the odds against the group's having such a composition, using the following formula (which I hope manages to get e- mailed without being garbled!):
O = J! x (G - J)! / G! x P^J x (1 - P)^(G - J) - 1
For example, the 108th Congress of the USA had 11 Jewish Senators out of 100 Senators in all, in a country where Jews make up .025 (2.5%) of the population. What are the odds against this configuration? Translating the above equation into numbers we get:
O = 11! x 89! / 100! x .025^11 x .975^89 - 1 = 28,189
This means that the odds against having 11 Jews in the Senate, if the selection had been made entirely at random, say by drawing lots, would have been 28,189 to 1. So it looks as if something other than chance is at work. Of course, if the composition of the Senate were the only instance of this bias, we mightn't have to give it another thought. But here are some other cases: In a list of New York City department stores, 10 are named after people, with 6 being named after Jews. In a city that is 11% Jewish, what are the odds that this situation would occur by the operation of mere chance? Using the formula, we get odds of 4283 to 1. If you had bet $233 dollars on six Jews finishing, you'd be a millionaire. Of the 20 most widely circulated newpapers in the US, each of 6 had a Jew in the top spot-- president, chairman, CEO, whatever his title. Again the US is 2.5% Jewish. The odds against this particular distribution are 150,629 to 1. An article on the Russian oligarchs, that is, tycoons who popped up after the collapse of the USSR, identifies 7 oligarchs, of whom 5 are Jewish, in a country whose population is 0.5% Jewish. The odds are approximately 15,391,000,000 to 1. A photograph of the Communist Party's leaders taken in the USSR in 1920, when the population was 2.5% Jewish, shows 22 Jews out of a total of 61 men. The odds are 21,330,000,000,000,000,000 to 1, that's right, 21 quintillion to 1. Supposing that a roulette wheel had 40 numbers, and you chose a single number, which is 2.5% of 40 numbers, you can see, that if they turned the wheel 61 times a day, you'd never in a million years win 22 times in one day. Even 2 wins would be good, and anything above 3 or 4 would be unheard of. The most incredible of all is that in the period from 1901 to 2000, inclusive, one century, Jews, constituting a mere .0025 (0.25%) of the population of the world, which is 1 out of 400, received 128 Nobel Prizes out of a total of 718 awarded. The odds against this are about 9 x 10^188 to 1. For those not mathematically inclined, "9 x 10^188" means "9 followed by 188 zeroes". This number is greater than than the number of hydrogen atoms that could fit in the Universe. I want to look into the matter of Jewish Nobel laureates a little further though, but I´ll leave that for another article called, "Jewish Nobel Prizes and the Holocaust."

[Jewish exploitation of the "Holocaust" for personal and collective advancement is central to the modern West.]
Jewish Nobel Prizes And The Holocaust,
by Thomas Keyes, Useless Knowledge, March 8, 2005
"As I mentioned in my article, "Jews: Figuring the Odds," in the period 1901-2000, Jews, numbering 0.25% of the population of the world, received 128 of 718 Nobel prizes, the odds against the chance occurrence of such a landslide being 9 x 10^188 to 1, that is, 9 followed by 188 zeroes to one, praiseworthy and astonishing.
But in analyzing these data, I happened onto a very doubtful and suspect phenomenon, which also can hardly be due to chance, viewed from the standpoint of statistics and probability. Let me explain: Out of their 128 prizes for the century, Jews won 22 in the period 1901-1942 and 106 in the period 1943-2000. If they had continued to collect prizes at the rate they had set between 1901 and 1942, Jews would have won 30 prizes, rather than 106 prizes, for the period from 1943 to 2000, in which case they would have won 52 prizes instead of the 128 prizes that they did win. But suffering a supposed loss of about 33% of their population in the holocaust, Jews might have expected to win only 20 prizes, rather than either 30 or 106 prizes, in the period 1943-2000, and would thus have ended up with a total of 42 prizes, instead of 52 or 128, for the entire century.
At first glance, it might appear that Jews, receiving 106 Nobel prizes in the period from 1943 to 2000, as against 20 prizes probabilistically expectable, collected 86 extra prizes in the post-holocaust period, but that number should be reduced to 73 extra prizes, as the economics prize was instituted only in 1969, and could not have been anticipated by the figures for the pre-holocaust period. These statistics are tabulated below:
ACTUAL NUMBER OF PRIZES
Pre-holocaust.........22
Post-holocaust.......106
Total................128
ADJUSTED NUMBER OR PRIZES
Pre-holocaust.........22
Post-holocaust........93
Total................115
EXPECTABLE NUMBER OF PRIZES
Pre-holocaust.........22
Post-holocaust........20
Total.................42
The adjusted number of prizes is the number that excludes economics prizes, while the expectable number is the number of prizes Jews could have been able to expect, once population losses had been considered, if they had continued throughout the century at the tempo they had established between 1901 and 1942. The figures to compare are 93 and 20, which means that 73 extra prizes popped up after the holocaust. What is the likelihood that such an unexpected explosion of Nobel prizes could have occurred spontaneously, completely by chance? To answer that question, let us assume, with Samuel Untermyer, that Jews are the aristocrats of the planet: The total number of prizes awarded in the period 1901-1942 was 208, and the Jewish share was 22. Thus Jews made up 10.58% of the Nobel community in the first 42 years of the century, which is a 42-fold overrepresentation. But this is as it should be, since Jews are the aristocrats! The total number of Nobel prizes awarded from 1943 to 2000, less economics-related prizes, was 465, with Jews winning 93. So if we assume that Jews naturally make up 10.58% of the Nobel population, what are the odds against finding 93 Jews in the post-holocaust group of Nobel laureates numbering 465? Substituting numbers in the formula given in the abovesaid article, we have: O = 372! x 93! / 465! x .1058^93 x .8942^372 - 1 = 1,174,051,355 Thus if we allow that Jews are entitled to a 42- fold overrepresentation among Nobel prizewinners in the first place, the odds against the chance occurrence of such a boom, lasting from the holocaust till the end of the century are over a billion to 1. The conclusion is inescapable that the upsurge in Jewish prizewinning is causally related to the holocaust. How could this be? What do Nobel prizes have to do with the holocaust? I can think of three possible connections:
1.) Jews used the holocaust to enlist the sympathy of the Nobel Foundation;
2.) Jews used the holocaust to pressure the Nobel Foundation;
3.) Jews used the holocaust to pressure publishers to spotlight their achievements and dazzle the Nobel Foundation.
Doubtless, Jews are entitled to a good share of the prizes, far more than their numbers would suggest, but it looks as though manipulation and machinations may have played a role in their phenomenal preeminence."

[Older article. The JewBeeEye?]
Robert S. Mueller, III, Director, FBI. American Jewish Committee Annual Conference,
FBI, May 8, 2003
"This leads to my final observation of where the FBI is in the war on terrorism. With the authorities provided us to track down terrorists there also comes great responsibility. Let me assure you that the FBI remains committed to protecting civil liberties and acting within the boundaries of the Constitution. The modern FBI has a number of internal and external safeguards built in to ensure the protection of civil liberties. But, the fact of the matter is that the FBI is, like any other organization, an organization of human beings. And, inevitably, human beings sometimes make mistakes. That is part of the reason that every New Agent is required to attend a training session at the National Holocaust Museum. I think you know that this program was begun by Louie Freeh after his first visit there in 1994. It ensures that our Agents begin their careers understanding and knowing what happens when police officers become instruments of state repression. No one comes away, not one of the new agents comes away from that experience unchanged, and it is our hope that those lessons stay with our agents for the rest of their lives."

Words exchanged at Las Vegas meeting about white separatist group,
KESQ News Channel 3 (Palm Springs, CA),
"
A sharp exchange at a meeting last night about a white separatist group recruiting in Las Vegas.Before leaving the room, a man who wouldn't give his name asked why white pride advocates are criticized while members of other races are encouraged to celebrate their cultures. The head of the Nevada state Anti-Defamation League says the difference is exclusivity and intolerance." [Exclusivity? The Jewish state of Israel forbids any non-Jew from moving there to be a citizen. Intolerance? The Anti-Defamation League refuses to recognize the rights of any other ethnic group to mirror what the ADL is itself: a lobbying group for an apartheid ethno-state.]

[Welcome to Amerisraelistan: case #432,235,953.]
Israeli entrepreneurs train to enter U.S. homeland security market,
Baltimore Business News, March 7, 2005
"
MarketReach America, a program to help Israeli high-tech companies enter the U.S. market, is kicking off its third session this week with a focus on homeland security companies. MarketReach America was launched by the Maryland/Israel Development Center (MIDC), an alliance of the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, Israel's Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. Its ultimate goal is for Israeli companies to open U.S. offices in Maryland. To date, the alliance has received grants totaling $340,000 from the U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation to fund the program, and has raised $310,000 in private-sector donations. Since April 2004 the alliance has conducted two sessions of MarketReach America, one focused on biomedical companies and the other on information technology companies. The 12-month program incorporates three steps: a strategic planning conference; one-on-one consulting to develop a strategy to enter the U.S. market; and marketing outreach to meet potential customers, investors and partners in the United States. Companies participating in the current session include Bsecure Ltd., a publicly traded manufacturer of self-adhesive labels; Encyclopedia Britannica, a U.S. company whose Israel-based subsidiary, Melingo, makes software for analyzing complex languages like Arabic and Hebrew; and Barritec Ltd., which develops plastic films with a nonpermeable barrier that can be used for homeland security including chemical warfare sheeting and protective gear."

[Welcome to Canadisraelistan: Case 423,269,324.]
Canadians observe Israeli security,
by Matthew Kalman, The Globe and Mail, March 8, 2005
"Commissioner Gwenneth Boniface of the Ontario Provincial Police looked on as a battered white Peugot appeared from the hills near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Seconds later, two Israeli police jeeps screeched to a halt, blocking it front and rear. Put your hands out of the window and throw the keys on the roof," the police ordered through a loudspeaker as armed officers took up their positions, their M16 rifles trained on the vehicle. One by one, the suspects were ordered out of the car on the side nearest the police and told to lift their shirts, turn around and lie on the ground. The second suspect was wearing a zip-up jacket. He removed it, revealing a suicide bomb belt strapped around his torso. Suddenly, he produced a pistol and began running toward the Israeli jeep, firing as he ran. The police opened fire, cutting him down. Fortunately, it was just a demonstration for the benefit of Commissioner Boniface and 20 colleagues from her police force and the Ontario government. The Canadians were spending the day as observers at Beit Horon, a training base for the Israeli border police, but earlier in the day, they got closer than they might have liked to the real thing. They were visiting the emergency room at Jerusalem's Hadassah University Hospital when two ambulances screamed to a halt outside and medics rushed in, carrying two border policemen wounded by a Palestinian sniper in the West Bank city of Hebron. It was the last day of a week-long Israeli visit by the Canadian law-enforcement officials, headed by Ontario Community Safety and Correctional Services Minister Monte Kwinter and former Toronto police chief Julian Fantino, who has been appointed as the province's new head of emergency response. The trip took them from the Golan Heights to the Dead Sea, and from an Israeli correctional facility to a briefing with the Palestinian security adviser to the Middle Eastern peace negotiations ... Commissioner Boniface, the most senior commander on the trip, said she hopes Toronto will never witness scenes such as the ones acted out at Beit Horon, but she noted that behind the scenes there is "a paramilitary structure in policing in Canada," with special units similar to the Israeli fighters."

[The Jewish Thought Police gets riled when they can't control everything. The Jewish Lobby prefers that porno, hedoni$m, and nihili$m rule the world. And it will fight for this. In essence, Jewry fears that if religion ever took hold in the West the Jews would lose their power reins, i.e., wherein the porno, hedonism, and the like that rule ours live are firmly in Jewish hands.]
ADL: Americorps Decision Crosses Threshold to Weaken Church-State Separation ,
U.S. Newswire, March 9, 2005
"
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed deep disappointment by a U.S. Court of Appeals decision permitting government-funded AmeriCorps teachers to provide religious instruction in religious schools. The decision was handed down on March 8 by the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Daniel S. Alter, ADL Civil Rights Director, issued the following statement in response to the decision: In finding the challenged program constitutional, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has crossed a new threshold, allowing AmeriCorps teachers, paid with taxpayer dollars, to teach in religious schools and even to teach religion courses. Unfortunately, the Court of Appeals decision will provide additional support for those seeking to channel public funds to religious institutions through faith-based initiatives. We continue to believe that such initiatives are not only constitutionally problematic, but also bad public policy. When the government provides personnel or direct financial assistance to religious institutions, the ability of those religious institutions to act free from government interference is necessarily compromised. ADL participated in the case, American Jewish Congress v. Corporation for National and Community Service, as amicus curiae."

An animated life.
by Rick Polifo, Marin Independent Journal, March 8, 2005
"Michael Lipman says he works alone. But that's not really true. Lipman is surrounded. Buzz Lightyear stares from one shelf. Several incarnations of Spider-Man stand vigil. Too many Simpsons characters march in the same plastic army. Lipman is surrounded. By other people's ideas. And that's OK, most days. The 45-year-old Mill Valley dad is an animator. He makes images come to life ... Lipman wouldn't be called the last of his breed. But he's lasted longer than most of his breed. He is an animator in what he calls "the traditional" sense, traditional meaning two dimensions but also meaning Macromedia's Flash program, the one that gave rise to thousands of animated epics coming to an obscure Web site near you. Lipman was part of that corner of the dot-com boom that threw wads of cash and frenetic inspiration into the idea that the Internet was going to be the farm team to TV as a source of multimedia entertainment ... Now he gets to do more fun products, such as his "Cro-Marmot" short for the Happy Tree Friends series - the lone still-viable entry in Mondo Media's mini-show - that has attracted an underground following of the depraved and the merely amused. The series focuses on cute and cuddly animals that meet rather gruesome endings, a kind of Itchy and Scratchy of "The Simpsons" without all the intellectual undertones."

[An unfortunate choice of titles? Is it a, uh, Freudian slip?]
Kent Holocaust Scheme,
by Alex Sholom, Totally Jewish

"A group of 200 children from seven schools across Kent are set to gain a unique insight into Theresienstadt concentration camp with an opera performance followed by a talk by a Shoah survivor. The event, organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust and Kent County Council, will feature a performance of Viktor Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis on 2 March, which was written at the Czech camp during the war, followed by a talk by Steven Frank."

Jewish Community Center Association Partners With cMarket to Deliver Auction Fundraising Tools to Local JCCs,
Yahoo! News, March 8, 2005
"Jewish Community Center Association of North America (JCC Association), the continental umbrella organization for the Jewish Community Center Movement, and cMarket, the leading provider of Internet-based auction fundraising services, today announced that they have formed a strategic partnership to improve the marketing and fundraising services available to all JCCs in North America. cMarket's technology will be the preferred online auction platform for charitable fundraising for JCC Association, whose efforts ensure the continuation of the innovative Jewish programming and support provided to two million children, teen and adult users as well as member JCCs, YM-YWHAs, and summer camps."


Posted March 8, 2005

Fried to be Nominated Assistant Secretary of State for Europe,
U.S. Department of State, March 7, 2005
"Currently serves at National Security Council. President Bush will nominate Daniel Fried as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, the White House announced March 7. Ambassador Fried, who began his career in the Foreign Service in 1977, has served as special assistant for European and Eurasian affairs at the National Security Council since 2001 ... Ambassador Fried has served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council since 2001.  Previously, he was Principal Deputy Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States.  From November 1997 until May 2000, he was U.S. Ambassador to Poland.  Ambassador Fried began his career with the Foreign Service in 1977.  Since then, he has served in several positions within the State Department and the National Security Council."

[Fritz the Cat/Mr. Natural cult figure/cartoonist Robert Crumb isn't Jewish. But his home environment sure is. Crumb's cartoon When the Goddam Jews Take Over America may be found online here. We eagerly await his When the Goddamn Jew (his wife) Took Over My Life.]
'When I was four, I knew I was weird'. From 60s hippies to 90s film-makers and 21st-century art galleries, each generation has rediscovered the misanthropic, sex-obsessed cartoonist Robert Crumb. Now it is to happen again: in coming days he will be the subject of two retrospectives, a film season and a new biography. To celebrate, the Guardian this week will publish a selection of new and little-known Crumbs, along with some more familiar works. Today, Simon Hattenstone introduces the series by interviewing him at his home in the south of France,
Guardian (UK), March 7, 2005
"In the 1990s [Robert Crumb] became famous for a second time when the director Terry Zwigoff made a documentary about his life, Crumb. The film put Crumb's life in context - yes, his foot fetish, his piggyback fixations and his urge to dominate big, dominant women (in a pretty submissive way) were weird, but not half as weird as those of his two brothers. The Crumbs must surely rank among the strangest families ever committed to celluloid. The film showed Crumb and his wife Aline, also a cartoonist and artist, preparing to leave America for France. He seemed to be dogged by fame and despair about modern America, and Aline was determined to drag him somewhere he would find it easier to live a reclusive life ... When Crumb and Aline started to draw a strip about themselves (he drawing himself, she drawing herself), art began to imitate life. Now, it's gone a stage further - life is imitating art imitating life. They look like cartoon characters - Crumb, the bearded stick insect; Aline, all short skirts, bulging biceps and big hair. She does most of the talking, he does most of the silence. The first impression is of her overbearing self-confidence and his paralysing reticence. But, as with the cartoons, it is more complicated than that. Crumb listens quietly, affectionately, as Aline talks ... "I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy," says Crumb. He tells me that Aline is both physically and mentally strong; his kind of woman. "She's very dominant. She has complete alpha energy. I'm just a vacillating, ineffectual individual." Aline shakes her head. "I don't think you're like that." Crumb: "Yes, I am. Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work." Aline: "I think you're really strong minded and dominating about what you think" Crumb: "That's my work. When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate." Aline: "You don't care enough, that's what it is." Robert: "I do care enough, but I just can't fight it. Aline does battle for me." I ask if that is really him or more the image he likes to have of himself - a little boy piggybacked through the world by ever-willing Amazons. "I think that's part of it," Aline says for him. "And it appeals to me, too." Has she ever wanted to stop piggy-backing him through the world? "Well, we have separate lives and we've had various adventures which keep our main relationship interesting. But we've always had a very strong commitment to each other on some level." Crumb nods enthusiastically. "We're bohemian," he says with pride. What does he mean? "We don't subscribe to the standard bourgeois values, we see the possibility of life being open. Things are open-ended." In what way? Aline, as usual, is the one to get down to business. "He liked to have a lot of girlfriends, and I used to like to go to exotic, dangerous places, for example. He only has one other girlfriend now - that I know of." It's a typical exchange - loving, bickering over details. They finish stories off for each other. Crumb likes to talk about Aline's evil father, even though he never met him. They often compare notes about the damage inflicted on them by their monster parens ... "My older brother Charles bullied me into drawing. Before Aline, my brother Charles dominated my life ...I ask Aline, who depicted herself losing her virginity in her first cartoon, who she thinks is the less politically correct of the two of them. Erm, she says, tough one - he just about edges it. "Well, he is a sexist, racist, antisemitic misogynist," she says. Does he agree? "Oh, I guess all that stuff is in me, sure. ... Robert sits quietly, occasionally interjecting in English, often singing to himself. He says he doesn't speak French and seems content in his role as outsider. I ask him why they left America. Ach, it was Aline's decision, he says, and he just went along with it. But yes, it did have something to do with him. "Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America." What was the contempt based on? "Familiarity, I guess. I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything. Aline used to roll her eyes because she thinks I ranted and raved about everything that is wrong, so she moved us over here and got us outta there." What did he think was wrong? He doesn't know where to start - corporatism, Coca-Cola, George W, intolerance, Christian fundamentalism, red tape, prices, logos, environmental destruction, property developers. "Oy!" he says. He sounds like an elderly Jewish man with his oy-yoys. In fact, it's Aline who is Jewish; he is an eternally lapsed Catholic."

Israeli magnate in bank fraud scam,
Aljazeerah, March 7, 2005
"Russian-Israeli media baron Vladimir Gusinski is among dozens wanted by police for questioning over a multi-million-dollar money laundering scandal. Documents have been seized from the home of the 52-year-old businessman and he will be questioned upon his return from abroad, Israeli police said Monday. After a year-long undercover investigation, police believe hundreds of millions of dollars were laundered through Hapoalim Bank. But Gusinski - the one-time owner of Russian television stations NTV and TNT - is no stranger to fraud investigations ... The Russian authorities have an international warrant for his arrest, accusing him of laundering money through his Media-MOST empire, although media groups have accused Moscow of merely trying to quash the independent press. A leading figure in the Jewish Diaspora with dual Israeli-Russian citizenship, Gusinski has a large stake in Israel's Maariv newspaper and interests in a wide range of media outfits, including in SpainIsrael's ambassador to London and a business partner of Gusinski, Zvi Hefetz, is also set to be questioned along with businessman Arcadi GaydamakGaydamak - an Angolan, Canadian, Israeli and French passport holder - was previously implicated in Angolan arms trafficking that saw Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, a son of the former French president, jailedSo far, 24 employees of Hapoalim's seafront Hayarkon Street branch in Tel Aviv have been arrested for questioning, including those who worked on desks dealing with France and republics in the former Soviet Union."   

Police have eye on second suspect bank,
By Jonathan Lis, Roni Singer and Shlomy Golovinski, Haaretz, March 8, 2005
"The Israel Police may open a money-laundering investigation into another Israeli bank in the wake of the recent discovery of massive money-laundering
at a Bank Hapoalim branch in Tel Aviv
, Haaretz has learned. Police investigators from the International Crimes Unit suspect that money-laundering may have occurred at a branch of this second bank by means of the same methods applied at Hapoalim's Hayarkon Street branch. Moreover, they believe that the customers involved, like those in the Bank Hapoalim case, are wealthy Russian immigrants. However, investigators do not believe this second case is as serious as the Bank Hapoalim one ... Investigators are trying to map the financial activities of each of the suspect businessmen as well as to tie each suspicious transaction conducted via the bank by a front man to a particular suspect. Among those who gave statements to the police yesterday was former Bank Hapoalim CEO Eli Yones, who now sits at the top of the Mizrahi Bank pyramid. Sources involved in the probe said that they had strong evidence against some suspects. For instance, they said, there was solid evidence that businessman Vladimir Gusinsky had sent large sums of money into various accounts that were apparently opened for him by front men, as this money was quickly retransferred to Gusinsky accounts in other countries. Therefore, they said, it would not be surprising if Gusinsky were eventually indicted for money-laundering - though only on the lesser count of having failed to report the relevant transactions. Proving full-fledged money-laundering is difficult, as it requires proving that the laundered funds stemmed from criminal activity. This, in turn, entails both widespread investigations overseas and importing witnesses from abroad who can testify in court to the criminal origins of the money, both of which are beyond the capabilities of the Israel Police ... One suspect, billionaire Arkadi Gaidamak, is also wanted in France on charges of fraud and tax evasion, and Israel and France have therefore been cooperating closely in his investigation. But even with this cooperation, the Israeli police do not believe they have the resources to delve into Gaidamak's alleged crimes in France - crimes that if they could be proved in a local court, might serve as a basis for money-laundering charges. Since most of the owners of the suspect accounts at the Yarkon Street branch do not live in Israel, police are currently preparing to take depositions from some 50 of these account-holders in several different countries in an effort to determine which of them, if any, served as front men for the
suspect businessmen."

[Germans at cats, Jews as mice ... Unspoken here is the fact that Art Spiegelman's "Maus" comic book features Poles (i.e., Polish non-Jews) as pigs. Categorically. Not entirely appreciated in today's Poland.]
Holocaust comics" go on view in the Budapest metro,
Yahoo! News, March 4, 2005
"The Budapest subway opened an exhibition of the work of New York-based artist Art Spiegelman who has translated the horror of the Holocaust into a comic book novel. Pictures from Spiegelman's "Maus," in which he depicts Jews as mice and Germans as cats in a black-and-white interpretation of his own parents' survival of the Auschwitz death camp, have gone on display on two subway lines. The pictures will be shown for one month in the capital's 46 metro cars. Culture Minister Andras Bozoki said the comics reminded metro passengers of the world of children but the pictures raised serious questions. "What happens when there are adults who never grow up, for whom the use of force and murder are only games," he asked at the exhibition's opening at one of the capital's metro stations. "This question is the subject of the infernal humour of Spiegelman's Auschwitz comics," Bozoki said."

[You know that constant whine by Jews that there's always "anti-Semitism" where there isn't even any Jews? It's important to throw anti- "anti-Semitism" seed in every direction. Calling all rich Jews! Calling all rich Jews! A "non-profit" "peace" group in Japan has a project for you! Yes! Having a "Holocaust museum" is a mark of status these days. It's fashionable. It's like having a flag up the flagpole on your lawn for your favorite SuperBowl team. I root for THESE guys: you know, the team that lost that is perpetually winning. ]
Japan's Auschwitz museum raising funds for more space,
The Japan Times, March 8, 2005
"Auschwitz Peace Museum Japan, a 100-sq.-meter facility in Shirakawa, Fukushima Prefecture, hopes to raise funds to build a larger building to house its exhibits, officials said Monday.The museum, run by a nonprofit group, plans to build a 495-sq.-meter facility at a cost of some 30 million yen to 40 million yen, given that this year marks the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the infamous Nazi death camp in Poland. "The current exhibition space is so small that the materials that we have cannot be displayed sufficiently," curator Mari Obuchi, 48, said. "As this year is the 60th anniversary, we hope to build a larger facility so that it may provide many people with an opportunity to think about peace." The museum uses part of an old house and displays some 100 items, including photographs as well as the clothing and bowls used for meals by Holocaust victims who were placed in Auschwitz. Museum officials said the facility has about 1,000 more items for display that, due to lack of space, cannot be shown. The museum's operators have so far raised about 10 million yen for the construction of a new building through a nonprofit organization and are seeking contributions."

[So you're an Arab, you're Palestinian, you want your human dignity and human rights and Jews decree you a "Nazi" for this.]
Nazi Roots of Palestinian Nationalism,
by David Storobin, New York Jewish Times, March 8, 2005
"Within weeks of Adolf Hitler`s ascendance to power, the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, contacted the German counsel-general in Palestine. With the exception of funding some anti-Semitic riots, Germans rejected the Arab`s overtures until 1937, when Adolf Eichmann and Herbert Hagen were sent to Palestine to establish a framework to provide Husseini with military and financial aid by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy." [JTR note: Jewish links in those days include dealings with Hitler (take, for example, the notorious "transfer agreement") and Mussolini was a hero to the Zionist right-wing.]

[JTR contributor's comment: "Here we have a Jewized non-Jew (I know, case number 999,999,999), director of McKenzie Study Centre, Jack Crabtree, who assures us that the Jews are still the special, holy people that they always where. In fact, God is so concerned about his chosen failures that: "As the apostle Paul sees it, the Jews are a unique people on the face of the earth. No other people in all of human history has or ever will have a comparable status or role in God's dealings with mankind...And as a people, the Jews stand alone. God has and will accomplish in and through them what He will accomplish in and through no other nation or family on the earth not the Irish, not the English, not the Russians, not the Americans." Of course, if your a gentile it gets worse. Since the 'time of the gentiles' is now at hand, Crabtree states that in the 'end times': "What does this mean for the Gentiles who live in that time? It appears that they are forsaken. The Spirit will stop giving Gentiles 'eyes to see'; no more will Gentiles be 'born' of the Spirit. The Gentiles in that day will almost universally hate God and oppose all that He stands for. Paul seems to read it this way, for he speaks of a time when 'the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.'" Yup, it would appear that us Goyim, forever the sinners, god-haters, and oh yes, anti-Semites have only one thing coming: "But this prophetic scenario can mean only one thing for the Gentile world. The day shall come when Gentile ears are stopped up, when Gentile hearts remain hopelessly hardened against God, when Gentile rebellion against God manifests itself unceasingly and without shame, and when the gospel proclaimed by the apostles is no longer of any interest to any appreciable portion of people among the Gentiles. " For those whiny preachers and Christians who worry about Jews accepting the Gospel, bending over forward (err, I mean backwards) to make it more appetizing to these holy ones there is only one response appropriate for them: "Shut the f*ck UP"! If any people have a right to be concerned about weather Christianity is good for their people, it is us Gentiles, not the Jews and their Goyim-hating gospel!" Our comment: This article is a sinine horse manure, spread thick across your field of vision. This is a form of religious sado-masochism:]
Has the Time of the Gentiles Passed?,
by Jack Crabtree, McKenzie Study Center (An Institute of Gutenberg College)
"Our culture's acceleration into moral degeneracy is dizzying. Every day's news introduces yet greater and more dramatic shamelessness, debauchery, perversion, and foolishness. Rebellion against God, truth, goodness, and beauty is becoming outspoken and rampant. Given this, one question refuses to go away: Are we seeing what the Bible predicts as the passing of the "times of the Gentiles"? As the apostle Paul sees it, the Jews are a unique people on the face of the earth. No other people in all of human history has or ever will have a comparable status or role in God's dealings with mankind. This is not to say that the individual Jew will receive any eternal reward unavailable to an individual Gentile. That is decidedly not the case. In eternity, there are no nations or people, only individuals. But in history, God deals with people as well as individuals. And as a people, the Jews stand alone. God has and will accomplish in and through them what He will accomplish in and through no other nation or family on the earthnot the Irish, not the English, not the Russians, not the Americans. No other discernible group on the face of the earth has been chosen by God to be His people. And there are four concrete ramifications of this Jewish chosenness ..." [Sorry, I can't stand to post any more of this vomitous bile. You'll have to follow the link and climb into the sewer by yourself.]

Israel accuses French charity of helping Hamas,
Yahoo! News, March 6, 2005
"Israel accused a French charity of providing financial help to the Palestinian radical group Hamas, according to a military intelligence document received by AFP. According to the Israelis, papers seized during army raids in Jenin and Ramallah, in the northern West Bank, showed bank transfers of several thousand euros, including a sum of 45,000 euros for the months of January to June 2004. The papers showed correspondence between the Welfare and Rescue Committee for Palestinians and Islamic welfare groups based in the West Bank which the Jewish state charges are a cover for Hamas activities. The funds had reportedly gone to families who had lost a relative through Israeli repression or been killed in an anti-Israeli attack. According to the papers, they had also helped Palestinians rebuild houses destroyed by the Israeli army and helped prisoners and their families. Some of the funds were seized during army operations last year. Israeli military intelligence views these actions as direct or indirect aide to Hamas "terrorist infrastructures". In August 2003, the United States blocked or froze the assets of the French charity and four other Palestinian aid organisations. The charity at the time dismissed charges of support for Hamas, which is classified as a terrorist organisation by Washington and the European Union, as "ridiculous" and said its funds were used to help 3,000 Palestinian orphans."

Not anti-Semitic, just an Israel hater. London mayor’s remarks are cause to recall ambassador,
by Sever Plocker, Yedioth Aharonoth (Israel), March 6, 2005
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Ken Livingstone, the socialist mayor of London, is not anti-Semitic. Some of his best friends are Jews, and he’s clearly uncomfortable about the Holocaust. “The Holocaust was the ultimate, industrialized expression of racist barbarity,” he writes in last Friday's Guardian newspaper. And just look at the “contributions” of Jews to world society: “the contribution of Jewish people to human civilization and culture is unexcelled and extraordinary. You only have to think of giants such as Einstein, Freud and Marx.” Thanks, Ken, for being so enlightened. So he’s got no problem with the Jews who stayed in Europe. He just hates the State of Israel, its government, and everything they do. Livingstone is careful not to brand Israel a Nazi state. It’s just that “the same universal human values that recognize the Holocaust as the greatest racist crime of the 20th century require condemnation of the policies of successive Israeli governments”. Israelis, he writes, are not Nazis because “they do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism sought the annihilation of the Jews”. So it’s not a Holocaust here, just a hideous atrocity. And yes, Israel, and no one else, is the root of terrorism. For decades, explains Livingstone, Israel has demonized the Arabs. Currently, Israel stirs up hostility via that disgusting propaganda organization, the Middle East Media Research Institute, “run by a former colonel in Israeli military intelligence (Yigal Carmon), which poses as a source of objective information but in reality selectively translates material from Arabic and presents Muslims and Arabs in the worst possible light.” Livingstone’s message is clear as day: Jews—oops, I mean Israelis—control the Internet, control Arabic-English translations, and control world opinion ... The Jews of London will simply wipe the spit off of Israel’s - and their own - collective face. There will be no mass demonstrations, no tax strike, and community leaders will not demand the immediate removal of Livingstone from office. They will simply go about their daily affairs - look at how beautiful the Thames looks today! What a lovely spring in Hyde Park! What a nice account at Citibank! Why get all excited? So Livingstone, the elected mayor of London, called the elected Prime Minister of Israel a war criminal? So what? So he says that Israel incites worldwide terror. Big Deal. The important thing is that Livingstone denounced the Holocaust, and swears he’s not anti-Semitic. He just hates Israel: Israel’s very existence is a reward for her criminal legacy. Should Livingstone denounce Russian President Vladimir Putin as a war criminal, one can be sure the Kremlin would not make do with a “strong objection”. Moscow would recall its ambassador to London—as should Israel. A city that could elect such an individual as Livingstone - and open, unabashed Israel hater - is no place for a representative of ours."

[We eagerly await the day when "concerned residents join forced with the Anti-Defamation League" to fight Israeli racism, violence, intolerance, bigotry, hypocrisy, and apartheid. The ADL's fundamental purpose is to veil Jewish/Israeli versions of the very things they publicly condemn in other communities.]
Community rallies to embrace No Place for Hate program,
By Parna Sarkar-Basu, Daily News , March 4, 2005
" Concerned residents have joined forces with the Anti-Defamation League to make Westwood more open to diversity and to fight bigotry and hate crimes.
 Westwood Interfaith Council members are forming a steering committee to work with town officials and local organizations to educate students and residents on ways to combat prejudice. The committee's March 30 meeting is open to public.  As part of its mission, the Interfaith Council voted to make Westwood a "No Place For Hate" community, said the Rev. Peter Lovett of First Parish Church.  Participants' experience with hate crimes and the defamation of Temple Beth David prompted the members to try to adopt the program, he added.  Lovett was referring to the July 2003 incident where two black swastikas were painted on both sides of the sign hanging in front of the synagogue. Police said they suspected students were responsible for the vandalism ... In 1999 the Anti-Defamation League, in partnership with the Massachusetts Municipal Association and more than 50 coalition member organizations, created the "No Place for Hate" campaign. The statewide program is designed to empower communities to challenge hate-crimes and indifference through action and education."

[They spend all their time in Las Vegas and Tel Aviv? Isn't that a little bit like dividing your time between Sodom and Gomorah?]
Couple contributes $15 million for Jewish living center in Dedham ,
WGRB, March 7, 2005
"A 15 million dollar donation to support a Jewish living center in Dedham. The gift announced today from Doctor Miriam and Sheldon Adelson supports the multigenerational community that Hebrew SeniorLife plans for the 162-acre site. The campus is to feature residences for senior citizens and a school for kindergarten through grade eight. Because of the gift, the center will be named after the Adelsons. The couple are former residents of Newton who now spend their time in Las Vegas and in Tel Aviv, Israel. Sheldon Adelson is the developer of The Venetian, a hotel on the Las Vegas strip."

Cooperation Between Israel and the State of South Carolina,
Jewish Virtual Library

Top 10 Reasons Why Paul Wolfowitz Would Make a Good World Bank President,
by John Cavanagh, Truthout, March 5, 2005
"1. He would follow in the great tradition of World Bank president Robert McNamara, who also helped kill tens of thousands of people in a poor country most Americans couldn’t find on a map before getting the job.
2. It helps to be a good liar when you run an institution with employees who earn over $100,000 a year to pretend to help billions of people who live on less than $1 a day.
3. With all his experience helping U.S. companies grab Iraq ’s oil profits, he's got just the right experience for doling out lucrative World Bank contracts to U.S. businesses.
4. After predecessor James Wolfensohn blew millions of dollars on "consultations" with citizen groups to give the appearance of openness, Wolfowitz's tough-guy style is just what’s needed to rid the World Bank of those irritating activists.
5. Unlike former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, another one of the four leading candidates, at least Wolfowitz hasn't failed at running a Fortune 500 company.
6. Unlike the Treasury Department’s John Taylor, another leading candidate, at least Wolfowitz doesn't want to get rid of the institution he would head.
7. While earning a University of Chicago Ph.D. , he was exposed to the tenets of market fundamentalism that have reigned at the World Bank for decades.
8. He has experience in constructing echo chambers where only the advice he wants to hear is spoken.
9. He knows some efficient private contractors who build echo chambers for only a few hundred billion dollars (cost plus, of course).
10. He can develop a pre-emptive poverty doctrine where the World Bank could invade countries that fail to make themselves safe for U.S. business, modeled on the U.S. pre-emptive war doctrine he helped craft."

Jewish rabbi allows settlers to steal Palestinians’ crops
,
Aljazeera, March 7, 2005
"The chief rabbi of the Jewish Yitzhar settlement, located in the West Bank, will issue an edict that allows settlers to steal the agricultural crops of Palestinian farms in nearby villages. Israeli sources said that the rabbi, regarded as the  spiritual leader of the settlement, said that other rabbis have different opinions as to whether it is legal for the settlers to rob the Palestinian farmer’s crops or not. However, he said that he will issue an edict allowing such acts after considering each case separately. Jewish settlers in the Yiitzhar settlement have repeatedly attacked Palestinians in nearby villages and towns. Last month, they poisoned and damaged the main water spring for the Madama village."

[Go Livingstone!]
London Mayor Continues Anti-Israel Line,
by Sam Ser, Jerusalem Post, March 8, 2005
"Despite calling Prime Minister Ariel Sharon "a war criminal who should be in prison," London Mayor Ken Livingstone told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that he would agree to meet with him face-to-face should he visit England. "And I would express to him in a meeting exactly the same views I have expressed in public," he added. That would include charges that Sharon "continues to organize terror" by combating the current intifada, that Israel is engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians similar to that of the Serbs in Bosnia and that the government is trying to frame Muslims for European anti-Semitism – all of which were outlined in a column published Friday in The Guardian. On Monday, in a written response to questions from the Post about that column, Livingstone not only reiterated those claims but even went a step further, saying that the Israeli government "threatens all of us" by inspiring groups such as al-Qaida to attack the West." "The threat is from the policies of the current Israeli government, which in its abuse of the human rights of the Palestinians, typified by the shocking image of the wall being built around them, raises the temperature of the Middle East to a boiling point – thereby creating threats to all of us," he wrote. "This policy acts as a recruiting sergeant to extremist groups such as al-Qaida who can pose as supporters of the Palestinian cause. Before the Guardian column, Livingstone endured a month of criticism for calling a Jewish reporter "a concentration camp guard." Henry Grunwald, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, led the call for the mayor to apologize for the remark and accept it as anti-Semitic. Livingstone has only done the opposite. "He is a maverick figure who recognizes no control other than his own prejudices," Grunwald said ... Louise Ellman, chairwoman of the Jewish Labour Movement and vice chairwoman of the Labour Friends of Israel, firmly rejected Livingstone's arguments. "We're deeply opposed to what he wrote," Ellman told the Post. Livingstone's column in Friday's newspaper, she said, "shows his deep hostility toward Israel. It was not the response of a reasonable person."

 

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