THIS WEEK'S JEWISH NEWS

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. After 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
"David Horowitz, the former Marxist radical turned right-wing crusader against liberal academia, has been on a roll lately. First, he helped turn a local flap over University of Colorado at Boulder professor Ward Churchill into a national scandal that ended in the resignation of CU President Hoffman on Monday. Now, he is parlaying the fear and angst over the ethnic studies professor into support for his "Academic Bill of Rights," which the Colorado Legislature and governor recently endorsed. Other state governments, including Ohio and Georgia, have made moves to advance Horowitz's new pet project. The bill sounds innocent enough: It aims to promote "pluralism, diversity, opportunity, critical intelligence, openness and fairness ... the cornerstones of American democracy" and protect against political or religious indoctrination by professors. But, for all the lofty ideals espoused in the Academic Bill of Rights, it is essentially a political wedge for Horowitz's far-right political agenda. Horowitz and his proxy organization, Students for Academic Freedom, have been revving up their campaign against the supposed liberal hegemony on campus through mass e-mails to "news" organizations like GOPUSA.com - the same outfit that backed faux journalist Jeff Gannon."

[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
"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
"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."

[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."

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 t