THIS WEEK'S JEWISH NEWS
Posted March 18, 2005:
[Nice web site about all the perverted rabbis and Jewish efforts to veil them, here. Excellent analysis of how priests and such are continuously slammed by the Judeocentric mass media, but Jewish perversion gets a free pass, here. One of our catalogues about Jewish sex crime, prostitution, domination of the world sex slave trade, etc., begins here.]
Rabbi Expelled From RCA,
[Jewish] Forward, March 18, 2005
"The largest union of Orthodox rabbis has expelled one of its members from the organization, Rabbi Mordecai Tendler, following an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment made by several women.In a statement announcing its decision, the Rabbinical Council of America said that Tendler "has refused to cooperate with the [organization] in its investigation, and has refused to appear at a hearing.” The RCA also stated that Tendler had "engaged in conduct inapporopriate for an Orthodox rabbi.”
"Therefore,” the statement declared, "Rabbi Mordecai Tendler has been expelled from the RCA.”
[Jewish control of the world "art" market, here and here. A photograph of a bunch of Israeli storm troopers sitting in a mess hall is worth $102,00? Of course! Why WOULDN'T it be worth that much? How can you put a price on love?]
Israeli art takes off in NY. The colors white and blue dominate a global art auction as Israeli artists sell a variety of pieces for more than USD 4 million to international bidders at a New York auction,
By Eitan Amit, Yedioth Ahronoth (Israel), March 17, 2005
"Israeli artists raked in more than USD 4 million at an international art auction this week, while more Israeli art continues to be showcased in major art and culture museums in New York, breaking a lull in art sales buoyed by a four-year Palestinian uprising, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported on Thursday. Israeli artists took home more than USD 4,037,100 at an auction at Sotheby's Auction House in Manhattan, organizers said. “The auction showed that Israeli art stands for itself and does not need the assistance of international artists,” said auction manager Jennifer Roth. “The results will encourage Sotheby's to continue to sell Israeli art in the United States. One notable Israeli piece that was sold was a painting of a combination of playing cards by Mordechai Ardon, a Polish-born Jew who also goes by the name Max Bronstein. The piece, which stood at 71 feet (180 cm), sold for USD 190,000. Reuven Rubin’s colorful “The Tel Aviv Area,” which he painted in 1923, sold for USD 204,000 ... Israeli art is slowly breaking ground in New York, with several pieces currently being presented in a contemporary exhibit in the Chelsea Art Museum and some in the Armory Show near the Hudson River. This is the second year Sotheby's has included Israeli artwork in its international art auction ... A photograph by Adi Ness that pictured IDF troops sitting at a typical army mess hall was sold to a religious Jew for USD 102,000."
Jewish investors secretly buy Old City properties from Greek Orthodox Church. Patriarchy was reportedly unaware and has launched enquiry,
The Daily Star, March 19, 2005
"Foreign Jewish investors have paid millions of dollars to buy two large properties at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City through a secret deal with the Greek Orthodox church, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday. The highly controversial deal, details of which appeared in the Maariv daily, saw a group of Jewish investors paying millions of dollars for a tract of land in Omar Ibn Khatib Square just inside Jaffa Gate, which lies at the main entrance to the Old City. The Friday article did not give an exact purchase price for the deal. The site is currently home to two landmark properties managed by two well-known Palestinian families: the Imperial and Petra hotels. A row of Palestinian-run shops selling tourist trinkets and memorabilia is situated on the ground floor of the two compounds. Neither the hotel managers nor the shop owners had any knowledge of the sale, which the newspaper said was carried out with money transferred through various European banks. Asked to comment, a source close to the Greek Orthodox patriarchy said the church was unaware of the of the land sale and that "an internal investigation" was underway. The source said the patriarch, Irineos I, would never have agreed to such a transaction and that suspicions were growing that it had been carried out by a Greek Orthodox lawyer who had acted outside the bounds of his authority and then fled the country to avoid detection. Irineos and about 20 priests visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City under police escort on Friday, as some 50 people brandishing copies of the Maariv newspaper held a silent protest outside the church. Purchasing property in the Old City, which is situated in occupied and annexed east Jerusalem, is fraught with political tensions as Jewish groups often try to obtain properties in the heart of Palestinian areas in a major settlement drive. In order to avoid detection, Jewish investors often use Palestinian middlemen who operate in utmost secrecy and at great risk to their own lives in exchange for huge sums of money."
[Jews are still struggling to drag London mayor Ken Livingstone down, down, down. But he's handcuffed. He can only play games about criticizing "Zionists," and fears to say the "J" word, even though it is self-defined "Jewish" groups that are coming to protest him. Mr. mayor. Think this all through. It is not just "Zionists" who are out to get you.]
Mayor's Jewish Guide,
by Alex Sholem, Totally Jewish, March 16, 2005
A Jewish cultural organisation has defended its decision to collaborate with the disgraced Mayor of London on a guide to Jewish London. The pamphlet, produced by Ken Livingstone’s office cost £20,000 of public money. However communal and political leaders have condemned it as an insincere sop to Anglo-Jewry following a series of incidents this year that have upset the community. These included comparing a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard, and then refusing to say sorry. Professor Eric Moonman, President of the Zionist Federation, said: “He can’t apologise for what he said to the Jewish people but wants to be seen doing things for the Jewish people. “My answer, simply, is: nonsense, nonsense, nonsense. You have no credibility Mr Livingstone, everyone knows it and it’s about time your staff told you.” The mayor - who praises “the enormous contributions of generation after generation of Jewish people across all fields of social, political, cultural and economic life” in the foreword to the booklet - also caused outrage this month by calling for the imprisonment of Ariel Sharon for war crimes. Conservative GLA member for Camden and Barnet, Brian Coleman, said: “If he really thinks this is going to make up for his recent disgraceful comments he is living in cloud cuckoo land. Does he think the Jewish community is stupid? It smacks of hypocrisy. “This is a sop to the Jewish community. It is £20,000 of public money that could have been better spent.” ... Meanwhile Jewish youth and student groups are set to display their disgust over Ken Livingstone’s “anti-Semitic” remarks to the reporter with a protest march at City Hall on Monday."
[JTR contributor's note: "Summary: Jews are still controlling us pretty effectively, but they should still fine-tune their propaganda so the monopoly on our thoughts is not lost. What a familiar theme!" Our comment: Here we have a Jewish American "pollster" functioning as a Zionist agent and propagandist. American know nothing about Israel, except that Jews deserve to be worshipped because of the "Holocaust." The Judeocentric Lobby controls public discourse about everything Jewish. If Americans knew an ounce of information about the hellhole Israel is, U.S. aid to the Jew Klux Klan nest would evaporate overnight. The Jews of Israel could virtually bury all the Palestinians in a mound of dirt and hardly any American would hear about it. Americans have become sheep with bags over their heads, subject to the prod of their Thought Police shepherds.]
Americans: What Pullout From Gaza? Israeli sacrifices going unnoticed, according to new poll, .
by Gary Rosenblatt, The Jewish Week, March 18, 2005
"While Israeli society is deeply concerned about the prospect of a civil war over the government’s planned pullout from Gaza and part of the West Bank this summer, nearly six in 10 Americans are unaware of the proposed disengagement. And in a sign that efforts to improve Israel’s image need to be stepped up, Americans have no idea the Gaza pullout was initiated by Israel to improve the prospects of peace with the Palestinians. Those are among the findings of a new poll on American perceptions of Israel at this critical moment in the Mideast conflict — post-Arafat and four months prior to the planned evacuation of Gaza. According to Stanley Greenberg, who conducted the survey of 800 likely U.S. voters in mid-February, “Israel is doing more” in terms of initiating efforts to promote a more peaceful climate with the Palestinians, “but people don’t know it.” What’s more, Greenberg said, this is happening at precisely a time when “the pressure is on for Israel to do more” in the way of compromise toward the Palestinians, whose image has grown more favorable in recent months. Greenberg, a leading polling adviser to President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other leaders, discussed the results of his survey at a meeting here Monday of about two dozen Jewish communal leaders. The telephone survey was conducted with Neil Newhouse for The Israel Project, an Israel advocacy group. Overall, the poll found that Americans continue to favor Israel over the Palestinians, but the 4-to-1 ratio — 40 percent favor Israel, 10 percent the Palestinians — is lower than it was a year ago, when it was more than 5-to-1 (52 percent to 8 percent) ... Greenberg expressed concern, though, over the large number of respondents — 39 percent — who said they favor neither or both the Israelis and Palestinians.
“Given our understanding of Israel’s role, this equivalence shows that we have work to do,” Greenberg said of the pro-Israel community, adding: “We need to create a moral imperative.” When Americans were asked which side the United States should support in the conflict, 53 percent said neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians, with 28 percent calling for American support for Israel and 8 percent for the Palestinians. The question on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan to voluntarily disengage Israeli troops and civilians from Gaza and four West Bank settlements described the proposal in some detail, but only 40 percent of respondents said they were aware of it, and 57 percent said they were not ... Greenberg said he was concerned that “there is virtually no knowledge that this is a unilateral action taken by Israel,” and that Israel is “getting no credit for it.” Several Jewish officials, apprised of the findings, said they were not surprised that awareness of the disengagement policy was low among Americans, who are notorious for not knowing much of their own history or current events, including who their vice president is. But the officials said the organized Jewish community should undertake an educational campaign in the coming months to prepare Americans, Jewish and non-Jewish, for what could be deeply disturbing scenes of resistance among settlers being evacuated forcefully by the Israeli army this summer. The evacuation is scheduled to begin July 20. “We’ve been standing on the sidelines,” said Abraham Foxman, national director of the ADL, “and we should be stepping up our activities to show that American Jews believe in Israel and that Israel is willing to take risks for peace.” Foxman criticized the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations for “having to be dragged into” endorsing the disengagement plan. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, went further last month, calling the Presidents Conference “irrelevant” because of its lukewarm stance on the Gaza pullout. Foxman called for “leadership conferences” in New York or Washington to spread the word about the planned pullout, noting that Americans “have not seen this [disengagement policy] embraced by the American Jewish community, and they are looking to us.” ... Greenberg, in the presentation on his findings, said it falls to American Jewish leaders to explain Israel’s actions in a positive light, emphasizing the sacrifices being made for peace ... While The Israel Project favors making Israel’s case through the media, often in television ads, others emphasize the value of personal contacts. Ken Goldstein, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, told community relations leaders recently that focus groups he conducted with main-line Christians in Los Angeles recently led him to conclude that one-on-one contacts with Christians are far more effective than costly media advertising ... An astounding 98 percent of those questioned said they knew what the Holocaust was and believed it happened, and more than half said they learned about the tragedy from middle school or high school. Jennifer Mizrahi, the founder and president of The Israel Project, hailed those statistics as “an enormous success for the Jewish community” in stressing Holocaust education for many years."
[Attention! Attention! All politicians and world officials on the Jewish chain (which is most of them in the West). There is a new requirement: When you press your lips to kiss pompous Jewish butt dangling from the pedestal above your head, you must also spit on Arafat's grave.]
Annan's Bow at Arafat's Grave Sparks Outrage in City,
BY MEGHAN CLYNE, New York Sun, March 17, 2005
"U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's decision to lay a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat while on his way to the dedication of a Holocaust museum in Israel is infuriating New York politicians and Jewish leaders, some of whom are labeling Mr. Annan's gesture "outrageous," "grotesque," and an example of "mindless incompetence." The secretary-general joined world leaders in Israel on Tuesday to commemorate the opening of a new Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. His visit Monday to Mr. Arafat's grave rankled some representatives of the United Nations' host city, who said Mr. Annan had damaged the world body's already poor public image and may have further imperiled U.N. plans to expand into neighboring parts of Turtle Bay. Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, a Democrat who represent parts pf Brooklyn and Queens in Congress, said yesterday: "It is almost grotesque to travel to Israel to pay tribute to the 6 million Jews massacred in the Shoah and use the opportunity to pay tribute to a terrorist who is responsible for murdering thousands more." "Just when I think the U.N. and its leadership had reached a new low," Mr. Weiner added, "I am reminded that when it comes to Israel, and sensitivity toward the Jewish community, there is no bottom to their pit." ... To Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat who represents parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, Mr. Annan's tribute to Arafat was symptomatic of the anti-Semitism ailing his organization ... One of the city's representatives in Albany, State Senator Martin Golden, Republican of Brooklyn, expressed weary disappointment in Mr. Annan. "I can't honestly tell you I'm surprised," Mr. Golden said, adding: "If anyone's looking for a set of reasons why Kofi Annan should step down ... here's another perfect example of mindless incompetence." Mr. Golden is one of the state senators thwarting the United Nations' ambitions to renovate and expand its headquarters in Manhattan. He has said on multiple occasions that his opposition to the project would dissipate were Mr. Annan to resign ... Jeffrey Wiesenfeld - one of the members of the United Nations Development Corporation, the city-state entity overseeing the expansion - was also outraged by Mr. Annan's gesture. "It's certainly not in his self-interest, nor in the interest of the image of the U.N., to put a wreath at the grave of such a vehement Jew-hater," Mr. Wiesenfeld said, adding that he would be no more appalled if Mr. Annan had honored the grave of Hitler henchman Adolf Eichmann, who implemented the Nazis' "Final Solution." ... Mayor Bloomberg, whose administration is strongly supportive of the U.N. expansion, was unavailable for comment yesterday because he was en route from Israel, where he was participating in the Holocaust museum events, according to spokesman Jordan Barowitz. Mr. Bloomberg's sister, Marjorie Tiven - commissioner of the New York City Commission for the United Nations, Consular Corps and Protocol, and a director of the UNDC - declined to comment for this story. The president of the UNDC, former state senator Roy Goodman, did not respond to a request for comment."
[FBI! Bust the entire Zionist, dual-loyalist Jew Klux Klan, IF you can escape their clutches within your own ranks. Yes, Virginia. There is a ZOG Claws.]
Aipac Puts Two Officials on Paid Leave,
By Ori Nir, [Jewish] Forward, March 18, 2005
"The country's most influential pro-Israel lobbying organization has put on leave two top officials who are the target of an FBI investigation. Recently the American Israel Public Affairs Committee put Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman on paid leave, the Forward has learned. It is not clear what led Aipac to take the step. The two were put on leave this past September, shortly after news of the FBI investigation first broke. But they were called back to work several days later to prevent having it appear that the organization's work was being hurt by the investigation. At the time, despite the examination, Aipac officials said that "it is business as usual." According to press reports, Rosen, Aipac's director of research, and Weissman, deputy director of foreign policy issues, are suspected of transferring a secret document to an Israeli diplomat in 2003 from Larry Franklin, a midlevel Pentagon official with expertise on Iran. For the most part, Jewish communal officials close to Aipac did not know of the decision to sideline the two Aipac officials and they were left wondering what had triggered the move. "It seems that something has happened which makes [Aipac] want to distance itself from these two," said a Jewish activist with close connections to Aipac. In an attempt to avoid negative publicity, Aipac has been tight-lipped about the investigation in recent weeks. A spokesman for the organization said that it does not comment on personal matters involving its staffers. Aipac has consistently contended that none of its employees did anything wrong. "Neither Aipac nor any member of our staff has broken any law," the organization declared in a statement this past December. "We are fully cooperating with the governmental authorities. We believe any court of law or grand jury will conclude that Aipac employees have always acted legally, properly and appropriately." That statement was released after the FBI raided Aipac's Washington office and four of the organization's senior staffers — executive director Howard Kohr, managing director Richard Fishman, communications director Renee Rothstein and research director Rafi Danziger — were subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury. U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty of
Alexandria, Va., a prosecutor with experience in criminal cases involving national security, is handling the case. According to press reports, he has handed evidence to a grand jury for a decision on possible indictments."
Israelis believed behind vast robbery attempt in Britain,
By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz (Israel), March 18, 2005
"Israeli police believe many suspects in a plot to steal 229 million pounds from the London branch of Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui are in Israel. The burglary attempt via the Internet took place in October 2004, and was uncovered by the British police's technology crimes unit. Yaron Bolondi, a 23-year-old Holon resident, was ordered held without bail for another seven days Wednesday in Tel Aviv Magistrates Court. Bolondi was allegedly going to launder 20 million pounds of the stolen money through bank accounts belonging to a company he owns, Waro Fuel Marketing. He will be charged with money-laundering and fraud. Two British police detectives have been in Israel for the past few days to participate in Bolondi's interrogation. Police sources said this week that the Israeli interrogation team hopes to uncover Bolondi's controllers, as the British police do not yet know anything about the alleged perpetrators. Bolondi's lawyer said during the bail hearing that his client doesn't know the perpetrators and agreed to the request to launder millions of pounds because he thought it was a joke. The investigation has revealed that the thieves sought to launder the high sum through 10 bank accounts in 10 different countries. The accounts are all registered to Bolondi's company."
[Hey! Jewish Thought Police! This woman uses the word "Auschwitz" in a joke and you're going to let her get away with it just because she's Jewish? She shows a little (or a lot of) Jewish thigh and that makes it kosher? Shame!]
Jewish Thighs on Broadway Opens Off March 18 ,
by Andrew Gans, Playbill, March 18, 2005
"The one-woman show Jewish Thighs On Broadway officially opens at Off-Broadway's Harold Clurman Theatre March 18; previews began March 16. Actor-singer-writer-director Penny Orloff's one-woman show is loosely based on her "misadventures in show business." "Breaking into show business is like breaking into Fort Knox," reads a production statement. "Breaking out, we're talking Alcatraz." The limited engagement, featuring musical direction by Jose C. Simbulan, runs through March 27. Jewish Thighs, according to press notes, concerns Miriam Rosen, who has been "in love with show business since early childhood. [She] has imagined herself as the Little Trouper who finds stardom and true love by the end of the movie. After a hundred shows and a hundred one-night stands love and fame still elude her, and she'd rather suck a tailpipe than face another audition. Complicating her search for the Busby Berkeley ending is her primitive alter-ego —The Beast. This creature can track, kill, dismember and devour an entire cheesecake; and kick the crap out of smaller muggers on the sidewalks of New York. When she finds love at long last, she is faced with an agonizing choice: Showbiz or The Guy." The production also features tunes by Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Stephen Sondheim."
Secret US plans for Iraq's oil,
by Greg Palast, BBC (UK), March 17, 2005
"The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil before the 9/11 attacks, sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC's Newsnight has revealed. Two years ago today - when President George Bush announced US, British and Allied forces would begin to bomb Baghdad - protesters claimed the US had a secret plan for Iraq's oil once Saddam had been conquered. In fact there were two conflicting plans, setting off a hidden policy war between neo-conservatives at the Pentagon, on one side, versus a combination of "Big Oil" executives and US State Department "pragmatists". "Big Oil" appears to have won. The latest plan, obtained by Newsnight from the US State Department was, we learned, drafted with the help of American oil industry consultants. Insiders told Newsnight that planning began "within weeks" of Bush's first taking office in 2001, long before the September 11th attack on the US. An Iraqi-born oil industry consultant, Falah Aljibury, says he took part in the secret meetings in California, Washington and the Middle East. He described a State Department plan for a forced coup d'etat. Mr Aljibury himself told Newsnight that he interviewed potential successors to Saddam Hussein on behalf of the Bush administration. Secret sell-off plan The industry-favoured plan was pushed aside by a secret plan, drafted just before the invasion in 2003, which called for the sell-off of all of Iraq's oil fields. The new plan was crafted by neo-conservatives intent on using Iraq's oil to destroy the Opec cartel through massive increases in production above Opec quotas. The sell-off was given the green light in a secret meeting in London headed by Ahmed Chalabi shortly after the US entered Baghdad, according to Robert Ebel. Mr Ebel, a former Energy and CIA oil analyst, now a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, told Newsnight he flew to the London meeting at the request of the State Department. Mr Aljibury, once Ronald Reagan's "back-channel" to Saddam, claims that plans to sell off Iraq's oil, pushed by the US-installed Governing Council in 2003, helped instigate the insurgency and attacks on US and British occupying forces. "Insurgents used this, saying, 'Look, you're losing your country, you're losing your resources to a bunch of wealthy billionaires who want to take you over and make your life miserable,'" said Mr Aljibury from his home near San Francisco. "We saw an increase in the bombing of oil facilities, pipelines, built on the premise that privatisation is coming." ... Ariel Cohen, of the neo-conservative Heritage Foundation, told Newsnight that an opportunity had been missed to privatise Iraq's oil fields. He advocated the plan as a means to help the US defeat Opec, and said America should have gone ahead with what he called a "no-brainer" decision ... " New plans, obtained from the State Department by Newsnight and Harper's Magazine under the US Freedom of Information Act, called for creation of a state-owned oil company favoured by the US oil industry. It was completed in January 2004 under the guidance of Amy Jaffe of the James Baker Institute in Texas."
[Paul Wolfo-rothschild? Some things never change. Another bigoted, dual-loyalist Jew gets to pull the purse strings all over the world, including poor Gaza.]
Israel pleased with choice of Wolfowitz,
by Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, March 16, 2005
"Senior Israeli officials reacted with satisfaction Wednesday to news that US President George W. Bush tapped Paul Wolfowitz as his choice to be the next head of the World Bank. Wolfowitz, currently Deputy Defense Secretary to Donald Rumsfeld, is slated to replace James Wolfensohn, who will end 10 years as World Bank President on June 1. Wolfowitz's appointment to head the World Bank will have significance for Israel since the World Bank is expected to play a key economic role in Gaza after Israel's withdrawal. Wolfowitz, who has become a lightening rod in Washington because of the prominent role he played in developing the US strategy in Iraq that overthrew Saddam Hussein, is a leading neo-conservative. He is considered a friend of Israel who knows the issues in the Middle East very well. Although widely viewed as a leading hawk in the Bush Administration, he supports a two state solution here and has not demonstrated over the years emotional attachment to the settlement movement. The World Bank is expected to supervise the implementation of hundreds of million of dollars worth of projects to rebuild Gaza. One official said that Wolfowitz would likely ensure that the Palestinians fulfill strict conditions regarding reform and democratization in order to get the money ... The World Bank is also the body that will oversee the channeling of millions of dollars into the Galilee and Negev for development of these regions as well. The US traditionally chooses the head of the 184-member World Bank, a 184-member institution. The Bank's 24 member board will now have to vote on the Wolfowitz nomination, which is expected to stir a lively debate in Europe, where Wolfowitz is a highly controversial figure."
[No. Pike's Peak doesn't want to be a landing strip for Israeli paratroopers coming over for lunch at the governor's mansion.]
University Chief Running for Colo. Gov.,
Yahoo! News, March 16, 2005
"University of Denver President Marc Holtzman has announced plans to run for Colorado governor next year. Holtzman, a 45-year-old Republican, was appointed by GOP Gov. Bill Owens to oversee the state's technology development efforts in 1999, later leaving to take the university job in May 2003. He has never held elected office. "I'm spending my time now taking the pulse of what's important to Colorado voters," Holtzman told a Pueblo-area Rotary Club on Monday. "This summer, I will visit all 64 counties in the state." Holtzman, a former investment banker, said his campaign would stress his experience in economic development."
Death of Amnesty International founder. Peter Benenson, 1921-2005,
Amnesty International USA, February 26, 2005
"Peter Benenson, the founder of the worldwide human rights organisation Amnesty International, died yesterday evening. He was 83. Mr Benenson founded and inspired Amnesty International in 1961 first as a one-year campaign for the release of six prisoners of conscience. But from there came a worldwide movement for human rights and in its midst an international organisation – Amnesty International - which has taken up the cases of many thousands of victims of human rights."
Peter Benenson's Biography,
Amnesty International
"Born on 31 July 1921, Peter Benenson is the grandson of the Russian-Jewish banker Grigori Benenson and son of the notable Flora Solomon who raised him alone after the death of her husband, British Army colonel John Solomon. He was tutored privately by WH Auden, then went to Eton and Oxford where he studied history. His flair for controversy emerged early, when his complaint to the headmaster of Eton about the poor quality of the school's food prompted a letter to his mother warning of her son's "revolutionary tendencies". ... His concern about political imprisonment and mistreatment was inspired by Arthur Koestler's Spanish Testament, which described the horrors of imprisonment and threatened execution by the Fascists. It was this concern that led to his next campaign - the plight of Jews who had fled from Hitler's Germany. Despite some opposition, he succeeded in getting his school friends and their families to raise £4,000 to bring two young German Jews to Britain, thus very likely saving their lives."
[JTR contributor's note: "The usual cynical emotional blackmail."]
Enlisting Children´s Prayer in the Struggle,
Israel National News, March 15, 2005
"In addition to the political and civil (disobedience) fronts in the struggle against the disengagement, the spiritual front is also very active. March 17 and 22 are two key dates. This Thursday, a day of fasting has been declared by leading rabbis from various sectors of the Jewish population. Among those behind the call are former Chief Rabbis Avraham Shapira and Mordechai Eliyahu, as well as rabbis of Chabad and others. Those who can fast a full day are recommended to take the commitment upon themselves during tomorrow's afternoon Mincha prayer; those who can't should fast, if they can, until the early afternoon. The day is to be devoted to prayer and fasting to overturn the government’s decision to expel Jews from their homes in Gaza and northern Samaria and turn the communities over to Israel’s enemies. During the fast, an assembly will be held in N’vei Dekalim in Gush Katif, which will be attended by the two former Chief Rabbis. In addition, it has been announced that children around the world are being called upon for a day of prayer a week from today, in the spirit of the "turnabout miracle" spirit of the upcoming Purim holiday. "We have tried to bring about the nullification of the cruel disengagement decree in various ways," say the organizers in an announcement ... "Apparently, to fight such a harsh and cruel decree we need the strong powers of children. Their strength is complete, pure, and not motivated by any other external factors. Therefore, on the 11th day of Adar Bet (March 22), two days before the Fast of Esther, the Jewish nation in Israel and around the world will unite, and will conduct a special prayer service, with the participation of all the children of all the sectors in our nation." ... The relevant law is that which appears in Orach Chaim 329,6: "Gentiles who besieged Jewish towns... if it is suspected that they might be coming to kill – even if they are merely preparing to come – Sabbath must be desecrated to fight them. And in cities that are close to the border, even if the enemy only wants to steal straw, Sabbath must be desecrated [to fight them] for fear that they want to conquer the city, thus enabling them to capture the whole country."
[The Jewish Lobby is ON the offensive (and IS offensive) in every possible manner:]
EU denies it funded PA terror,
By Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, March 18, 2005
" The European Union's anti-fraud squad released a long-awaited report Thursday that found "no conclusive evidence" to link EU funds to Palestinian terror, a conclusion variously dismissed in Israel as "mistaken" and a "whitewash." According to an EU press release, the European Union's anti-fraud squad known as Olaf, which conducted a two-year investigation into allegations that millions of EU euros given to the Palestinian Authority were diverted for terrorist purposes, said the body found "no conclusive evidence of support of armed attacks or unlawful activities financed by the European Commission's financial contributions to the [PA] budget." raised with the PA." ... Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, head of Shurat Hadin-Israel Law Center – which filed a NIS 100 million suit in Tel Aviv District Court against the EU on behalf of the Blumberg family of Karnei Shomron, decimated by a terrorist attack in August 2001 – likened the Olaf report to European leaders' pleas of ignorance during WWII. "As we expected, the report said that the EU is completely innocent. This is a whitewash," she said. "Just like European leaders in the 1940s didn't know Jews were being killed in Auschwitz, now they didn't know that their money sent to the PA was going to kill Jews."
Posted March 17:
[It's transparent. Even Jews know the Holocaust Industry has become an exploitive, shameful scam.]
Using the Holocaust to ward off criticism,
by Amira Hass, Haaretz (Israel), March 16, 2005
"The crowd of world leaders visiting the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem attests to the strength of Israel's position in the West. Israel is often criticized in the home country of these leaders, but many Israelis and Jews will, as usual, attribute such criticism to anti-Semitism. Palestinians and left wingers including Jews will discover that the knowledge about the Israeli occupation in these countries is meager, and the public's interest in it is weak. The pilgrimage to Jerusalem of so many European leaders shows that they are not deterred by the criticism of Israel - they are taking part in a media event that can only be interpreted as support for Israel, as it is today ... Are the German foreign minister and the Dutch and Swedish prime ministers - after crossing themselves and proving they remember the Holocaust - planning to remind Israel that all the settlements, not only the outposts, are illegal? Will they demand that Israel evacuate them? Which of the participants in the ceremony will go to see the roads for Jews only and for Palestinians only? Will any of them protest the laws discriminating against Israeli citizens, only because they are non-Jews - Arabs - and threaten to impose sanctions unless these laws are revoked? ... The way to fight the fading memory is not merely with memorial monuments and ceremonies. It is done mainly with an uncompromising rejection of the master race ideology, which divided the world into superior and inferior races and denied the principle of equality among human beings. We were placed at the bottom of the ladder of the Nazi ideology. Would this ideology not have been criminal had we been ranked in the upper rungs? An ideology that divides the world into those who are worth more and those who are worth less, into superior and inferior beings, does not have to reach the dimensions of the German genocide to be improper and wrong - the apartheid in South Africa, for example. Thirty-eight years of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian nation have accustomed generations of Israelis to regard the Palestinians as inferior, and therefore not as deserving as we are. But hush, one must not say that out loud, because Israelis will raise an indignant cry: "How can you compare?" In the same way, it is forbidden to demand of us - with diplomatic threats - to change our ways. Because then we will remind them of our people who were murdered. This widely covered event shows that Israel has turned the liquidation of Europe's Jews into an asset. Our murdered relatives are being enlisted to enable Israel to continue not giving a damn about international decisions against the occupation. The suffering our parents endured in the ghettoes and concentration camps that filled Europe, the physical and mental anguish and torment that our parents were subjected to every single day since the "liberation," are used as weapons to thwart any international criticism of the society we are creating here. This is a society with built-in discrimination on the basis of nationality, and the discrimination is spreading on either side of the Green Line. This is a society that is systematically continuing to banish the Palestinian nation from its land and usurp its rights as a nation and its chances for a humane future."
[More censorship from the Neurotic Nuthouse. Jews claim to have a virtual copyright on some English words: "Holocaust," "Nazi," and the like. The Jewish Lobby always complains when someone uses these sorts of terms in manners that are not deemed kosher. Here below in Israel, Jewry's censorial Alice in Wonderland threatens to lift things to the next stage. We eagerly await the day when such a censorial law is exported to the Judeocentric West (or do some countries already have them?]
Call Somebody a Nazi? Go to Jail---for 7 Years,
Israel National News, Mar 16 2005
"Under new bills proposed by Labor MK’s, calling somebody a “Nazi” might land you in the clink. And once you’re in jail, watching a certain movie by Mel Brooks won’t get you off for good behavior. Know someone who recently insulted somebody by calling him a Nazi? According to the bill proposed by MK Colette Avital (Labor), such a person, or anybody using Nazi terminology or symbolism lightly would face a prison term of up to seven years behind bars. The Knesset is considering two legislative proposals submitted by Labor party MK’s that would impose stiff penalties on anyone using Nazi terms, symbols, or imagery in every-day discourse. The bills outlaw the term “Nazi” or other words carrying a similar connotation. The bills also outlaw symbols of the Holocaust, such as concentration camp style prison garments, yellow Stars of David, and swastikas. Despite the stiff penalty, Avital’s bill passed a Knesset committee by a vote of 14-3. Many MK's such as Aryeh Eldad of the National Union party, who strongly opposes the legislation, claim that it places unreasonable limitations on freedom of speech. Eldad claims that the bill will “silence” legitimate freedom of expression such as when opponents of the disengagement distributed orange Stars of David to symbolize the intensity of their disapproval of the government’s plant to destroy 21 Jewish towns and villages and expel the residents from their homes in Gaza and Northern Samaria. And what about Israel’s most eloquent statesman Abba Eban? MK Eldad asks whether his famous comment about making sure Israel doesn’t return to “Auschwitz borders” would have landed him a term cutting potatoes for the Prison Services. MK Avital said that freedomof expression should “have its limits,” pointing out that Israel has backed similar legislation in other countries. MK Yuli Tamir, who drafted one of the bills, said that “public discourse must be free of Nazi terminology.” If the bill passes, make sure you close you shutters and lock your doors before watching a DVD of Mel Brooks’ “The Producers” or listen to Seinfeld crack a joke about Nazi soup."
Police foil £220m bank robbery,
by James Sturcke, Guardian (UK), March 17, 2005
"Police have foiled an audacious attempt to steal £220m from the London offices of a Japanese banking group, it emerged today. A high-technology crime ring planned to hack into Sumitomo's computer systems and transfer money electronically to 10 bank accounts around the world. It would have been Britain's biggest ever theft, dwarfing the £26m robbery from Belfast's Northern Bank in December, it was reported. The thieves planned to use a method called keylogging - software which records buttons pressed on computer keyboards - to glean user names and passwords. The programme had already been installed, but police have not confirmed whether this was done by an inside accomplice, or by a break-into the City bank, or whether they managed to do it from outside via the internet. Police in Israel yesterday arrested a man whose business account had been the intended recipient of some of the money, the Financial Times reported. He has been charged with money laundering and deception after the thieves tried to transfer 20m euros (£13.9m) to the account ... According to the Financial Times, officers from the National High-Tech Crime Unit have been investigating the attempted theft since October, after the gang gained access to Sumitomo's computer systems and tried to transfer the money. The plan was uncovered before any money was transferred. Police have not said how they uncovered the attempted theft or how many people are believed to be involved in the gang. The attempted theft highlights the growing threat to commercial operations posed by sophisticated organised gangs. "The rise of keyloggers poses a real threat to companies and this may be the first time we have evidence of organised criminals using the equipment to attack a bank," Alan MacDonagh, managing director of the fraud consultancy Hibis Europe told the Financial Times."
[JTR contributor's note: "The real lesson of all this - what Ms.Gorin won't admit - is that jews are the ones who decide what ends up being news or not. The news coverage in the US is essentially judeocentric. You might have criticism of Israel here and there but that country will never be demonized like Serbia was, bombed by the US for two months and a half, its leaders arrested and tried before a dubious tribunal. This judeocentrism is exemplified in this article too: Gorin uses Serbs in an attempt to legitimise the Israeli cause - you can bet she wouldn't give a damn if she could not have linked them to Israel."]
A Jewish Albatross: The Serbs,
by Julia Gorin, FrontPageMagazine, March 16, 2005
"A 1994 article in a monthly Jewish publication called “Midstream,” which caught on early, cites an interview between a French journalist named Jacques Merlino and James Harff, of the D.C.-based PR firm Ruder & Finn, which was representing Croatia, Bosnia and the Kosovo Liberation Army. After boasting about having set up meetings between Bosnian officials and Al Gore, George Mitchell, Bob Dole and other politicians, Harff described the achievement he was most proud of: “To have managed to put Jewish opinion on our side…At the beginning of August 1992, ‘New York Newsday’ came out with the affair of [Serb] concentration camps. We jumped at the opportunity immediately. We outwitted three big Jewish organizations--B'nai B'rith, Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, and the American Jewish Congress. We suggested to them to publish an advertisement in the ‘New York Times’ and to organize demonstrations outside the United Nations. That was a tremendous coup. When the Jewish organizations entered the game on the side of the Bosnians, we could promptly equate the Serbs with the Nazis in the public mind.”
[Per the above: More on the above manipulation of public opinion (which is magic in the hands of the world Jewish Lobby) and the enforced illusion of "moral capital" Jewry has invented for themselves.]
Stopping the War in Yugoslavia,
by Yohanan Ramati, Balkan Peace (originally in Midstream), 1994
"James Harff: That was a tremendous coup. When the Jewish organizations entered the game on the side of the [Muslim] Bosnians, we could promptly equate the Serbs with the Nazis in the public mind. Nobody understood what was happening in Yugoslavia. The great majority of Americans were probably asking themselves in which African country Bosnia was situated. But by a single move we were able to present a simple story of good guys and bad guys, which would hereafter play itself. We won by targeting Jewish audience. Almost immediately there was a clear change of language in the press, with the use of words with high emotional content, such as "ethnic cleansing", "concentration camps", etc., which evoked images of Nazi Germany and the gas chambers of Auschwitz. The emotional charge was so powerful that nobody could go against it."
Kin of Slain Protester Suing Caterpillar,
By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE, Washington Post, March 15, 2005
"The parents of a 23-year-old activist killed while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home is suing Caterpillar Inc., the company that made the bulldozer that ran over her. The federal lawsuit, which lawyers said would be filed here Tuesday, alleges that Caterpillar violated international and state law by providing specially designed bulldozers to Israeli Defense Forces that it knew would be used to demolish homes and endanger people. Rachel Corrie, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, was standing in front of a home in a refugee camp in Rafah, near the Egyptian border, in March of 2003 when a bulldozer plowed over her. "The brutal death of my daughter should never have happened," Corrie's mother, Cindy Corrie, said in a statement released by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a law firm handling the case. "We believe Caterpillar and the (Israeli Defense Forces) must be held accountable for their role in the attack." ... The Corries have filed separate claims in Israel against the state of Israel, the Israeli Defense Ministry and the Israeli Defense Forces. The Israeli military classified Corrie's death as an accident."
IT SEEMS LIKE TODAY IS JEWISH MAYOR DAY! YAY! AND WHAT ARE JEWISH MAYORS PAID TO DO? WHY, FIGHT "ANTI-SEMITISM!"
Cohen orders anti-Semitism study,
Expatica, March 17, 2005
"Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen has ordered a limited investigation into claims some primary school children are being taught to hate Jews. He was reacting to reports of anti-Semitism at Het Mozaïek primary school in the Pijp district of the city, newspaper De Telegraaf said on Thursday. Some students were said to have celebrated Mohammed B, the 26-year-old accused of murdering filmmaker Theo van Gogh, and of approving of the Holocaust. "We are sticking the thermometer into a number of schools to see if these sorts of attitudes are at play there as well," a spokesperson for the mayor told the newspaper."
Bloomberg denounces campus anti-Semitism,
by Hilary Leila Krieger and Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post, May 17, 2005
"New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg denounced anti-Semitism at college campuses in America Wednesday while in Jerusalem to commemorate the opening of Yad Vashem's new museum. "I'm very concerned that in a number of universities there does seem to be an anti-Semitism that's cropped up," he said at a press conference at the David Citadel Hotel "Intolerant behavior, whether it's anti-Semitism or anti-Muslim feelings or anything else, is just unconscionable, and if you [students] are interested in being free for the rest of your life, you have an obligation to make sure there is no intolerance against any group, even if it's a group that you don't particularly want to support," he said. "Intolerance has a habit, as does terrorism, of coming back to bite those who feed it. History has shown that so many times. Columbia University, an Ivy League institution located in New York City, has been one of the colleges under attack for having an anti-Israel campus climate that has made some Jewish students and Israel supporters feel uncomfortable. He recommended the "moving experience" of Yad Vashem for examining where intolerance can lead. Bloomberg, himself Jewish and the mayor of the United State's largest Jewish population, condemned the continental spread of anti-Semitism ... He praised Israel as the Middle East's only true democracy and said he would be marching in the parade honoring Israel's 57th year of independence this spring."
World Mayors to Converge on Jerusalem,
Israel National News, March 14, 2005
"Seventy mayors from major cities around the world will convene in Jerusalem for city’s Conference of Mayors the week of April 10-16. Mayors attending the event will hail from India, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, Finland, Hungary, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania, Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Lithuania, Ukraine, Albania, Georgia, Singapore, and the United States. Mayor of Jerusalem Uri Lupolianski will be hosting the conference, entitled “The 21st Century City: Where Diversity and Complexity Converge”, which will enable the leaders to discuss current challenges facing today’s rapidly changing cities ... The conference is sponsored by the American Jewish Congress Council for World Jewry, who initiating the annual gathering in 1980, it is held with the cooperation and support of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the US Conference of Mayors."
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[The following is floating through the email system. York University, you'll recall, is the place where Jewish professor Daniel Noble has exposed political scandal in the Zionist-rooted "York Foundation." Is York University taking applications for an investigation into Jewish bigotry and apartheid, emanating from the "Chosen People" concept? We don't think so. But here below is another Jew who knew how to bring out the best in people. Want to change the world for the good (or shape it to your will)? Throw money at them.]
John Lockwood (1913-1997) was a long time member and Honourary Chairman of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews. This award honours his leadership in, and commitment to, breaking down the barriers of bigotry and discrimination. The Canadian Council of Christians and Jews is a non-religious organization dedicated to eliminating prejudice through education and bridging and to promoting respect, understanding and goodwill among all groups in Canada. The CCCJ- John Lockwood Memorial Award, which is valued at $3,750, is to be given to a graduate student who is focusing his/her studies on issues related to cultural diversity or cross-cultural understanding in Canada. Among other things, the student's research may focus on prejudice in Canadian society and/or proposals for its elimination. The student will be invited to present his/her research to a CCCJ committee or to a public forum. Additionally, the student may be invited to publish his/her research (or a precis thereof) in a CCCJ newsletter, periodical or other publication. Each nominee must demonstrate financial need to achieve his/her academic goals as well as academic excellence. The recipient must meet OSOTF residency requirements. Students must submit their completed application TO THEIR GRADUATE PROGRAMME BY APRIL 1ST OF EACH YEAR. Graduate Programmes must then submit their nominations to the Faculty of Graduate Studies (283 York Lanes) by April 8, 2005. Nominations should include a letter of support from the Graduate Programme Director and if submitting more than one nomination they must be ranked. The Faculty of Graduate Studies Awards Committee will select the recipient. Karen Ramdohr
Information Assistant Faculty of Graduate Studies York University"
The Jews of Iraq,
by Naem Giladi, Couples Company (originally posted at The Link, Americans for Middle East Understanding), April-May 1998
"I write this article for the same reason I wrote my book: to tell the American people, and especially American Jews, that Jews from Islamic lands did not emigrate willingly to Israel; that, to force them to leave, Jews killed Jews; and that, to buy time to confiscate ever more Arab lands, Jews on numerous occasions rejected genuine peace initiatives from their Arab neighbors. I write about what the first prime minister of Israel called “cruel Zionism.” ... I am using bank vault storage for the valuable documents that back up what I have written. These documents, including some that I illegally copied from the archives at Yad Vashem, confirm what I saw myself, what I was told by other witnesses, and what reputable historians and others have written concerning the Zionist bombings in Iraq, Arab peace overtures that were rebuffed, and incidents of violence and death inflicted by Jews on Jews in the cause of creating Israel."
[JTR contributor's note: "Brain-Dead Body-Builders For Israel. (This text is accompanied by a picture of the body-builders squeezing pretty Israeli soldierettes." Our comment: Way too many steroids shrinks the testicles and turns moral reasoning into mush. But of course the economic world of bodybuilding is dominated by Jews -- Joe Weider, Gold's Gym, etc. -- so it may all simply be a form of self-promotive male prostitution. We suggest Christian circuses start going over to Israel to perform for the military apparatus of Jewish apartheid -- preferably muscle-bound clowns who break bricks with their heads.)
Christian bodybuilders flex support for Israel,
By Avi Krawitz, Jerusalem Post, March 17, 2005
"A group of Christian bodybuilders known as "The Power Team" put their strength to a unique test this week in a performance for over 400 soldiers, as part of their first visit to Israel. The 300-pounders, famous for "blowing up hot water bottles like balloons, snapping baseball bats like twigs and ripping telephone books like pieces of paper," according to their brochure, were visibly moved by their interaction with the troops, and ended their 10-day visit to Israel on Wednesday with pledges to spread the word about Israel and to return for more. It was not simply matter of flexing their muscles for the soldiers however, as the four bodybuilders with their entourage of 58 pilgrims came to spread their message of hope and positive feeling in "a display of love and support for the people of Israel." "We came on a mission to give and uplift, and left with a whole lot more," said team member Jonathan Caldwell. "Seeing the appreciation and excitement of the soldiers made our visit to the military base the highlight of my career." The group gave one performance during its visit, which consisted mainly of touring the country's Christian holy sites, and is planning a follow-up tour towards the middle of 2006 to do more shows for Israel's security forces. "Based on the success of this week's show, we are working on a bigger program for next year, which will include a show in front of over 5,000 soldiers, firefighters and police," said Shalom Almog, CEO of Coral Travel, who with the Tourism Ministry was responsible for bringing the team here. Almog met the Power Team over a year ago with representatives from the Israel Tourist office at a pastors conference in Orlando, Florida and arranged for the group's leadership to visit Israel as guests of the ministry in June 2004 to prepare for the mission. The Power Team, which today consists of 18 core and seven to 10 stand-in members, has been performing since 1976 across the US and in over 40 countries."
[Jewish domination of the literary and publishing world, here.]
Philip Gourevitch Named Editor of The Paris Review,
Yahoo! News, March 17, 2005
"The board of The Paris Review Foundation today named Philip Gourevitch as the magazine's new editor. Gourevitch, 43, is a well-known author and long-time staff writer of The New Yorker. His appointment comes at a time of renewed enthusiasm and support for sustaining The Paris Review following the death, in 2003, of George Plimpton, who had presided over the magazine for its first half century. "Philip greatly impressed us," said Robert Silvers, co-editor of The New York Review of Books, who led the Search Committee. "He is best known for his brilliant reporting. But he has an intense interest in fiction and fresh ideas for the magazine. His editorship promises to continue the tradition of The Paris Review by surprising us with new writing." Gourevitch said he began reading The Paris Review in the library periodical room as a college freshman ... Gourevitch holds an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Columbia University, and has published a number of short stories in literary quarterlies. He worked as cultural editor of the Forward in the early nineties, before turning to writing full time ... Gourevitch, a long time board member of the writers' organization PEN, has written extensively from Africa, Asia, and Europe, and will be interested in publishing more writing from abroad."
[More expressly Jewish censorship, here in the Netherlands. "Anti-terrorist" groups are usually Zionist fronts scheming to control public discourse. Arab and Muslim free speech is increasingly censored and marginalized in the "democratic" West.]
Coalition Against Terrorist Media Praises Netherlands for Banning Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV; European Action Against Hate Broadcasts Follows Month of Advocacy,
U.S. Newswire, March 17, 2005
"The Netherlands today banned Hezbollah’s al-Manar television from New Skies Satellite following an agreement by the European national audiovisual authorities to oppose broadcasts inciting hatred and violence. The move follows a month of meetings and briefings with European officials by the Coalition Against Terrorist Media and its executive director, Avi Jorsich. “This move by the audiovisual authorities is a tremendous blow to al-Manar and opens the door to even further action,” said Jorisch. “The Netherlands should be praised for recognizing that al-Manar is a deadly weapon in the hands of known terrorists who use it to incite violence and sow hatred.” The Coalition Against Terrorist Media -- http://www.stopterroristmedia.org -- which was organized by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies -- http://www.defenddemocracy.org -- has been in Brussels this week meeting with the audiovisual authorities, members of the EU parliament, and other officials concerned with al-Manar. Prior to today’s meeting, the coalition provided each of the national audiovisual authorities with a copy of Jorisch’s book on al-Manar, Beacon of Hatred, (published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy), a CD-ROM of video clips, and background information highlighting al-Manar’s history, operations, and support for terror. Jorisch had met with many European officials during an earlier visit in February arranged with the support of one coalition member, the American Jewish Committee."
[More from the cabal of Jewish censors (and their ideological servants) in academe. The issue here is free speech, pure and simple. But the essence of this is far from just censorship of Holocaust-related ideas. Why should Judeocentric politics smother your right to even declare that the moon is green? When was the last time you saw this kind of censorial action towards, say, someone who claims there are UFOs? In a genuine free society, people have the fundamental RIGHT to be heard, however unpopular and unconventional their positions. But the Jewish Lobby doesn't work that way. Whether the subject is the Holocaust, or Israel, or ANYTHING Jewish portrayed in a less than flattering light, the aim is to BAN it from public consciousness. It is a totalitarian nazification of democracy.]
More Than 200 Historians Protest C-Span Broadcast of Holocaust-Denier,
U.S. Newswire, March 17, 2005
"More than two hundred prominent historians and social scientists from the United States, Canada, Germany, and Israel have signed a letter protesting C-SPAN's plan to broadcast a lecture by Holocaust-denier David Irving on its program "Book TV". The letter was organized by the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which publishes the only annual report on Holocaust-denial around the world. C-SPAN officials claim the broadcast of Irving is needed to "balance" its planned broadcast of a speech by Holocaust historian Prof. Deborah Lipstadt. (Lipstadt has now withdrawn her permission for C-SPAN to broadcast her lecture, to protest C- SPAN's plan to give Irving a platform.) C-SPAN's Book TV executive producer Connie Doebele, of , said: "You know how important fairness and balance is at C-SPAN. We work very, very hard at this. We ask ourselves, 'Is there an opposing view of this?' " (Washington Post, March 15, 2005) Wyman Institute director Dr. Rafael Medoff strongly disagreed with Doebele, saying: "The Holocaust is not a topic with 'opposing views.' It is a historical fact. Giving a platform to a Holocaust-denier to 'balance' a Holocaust historian is as outrageous as giving a platform to the Flat Earth Society to balance a speech by an astronomer. Like any responsible news outlet, C-SPAN should not broadcast speeches or statements it knows to be false." The signatories on the Wyman Institute letter include leading historians from Yale, Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Princeton, UCLA, Georgetown, the University of Chicago, and other prominent universities, and many of the most noted historians of the Holocaust, such as Christopher Browning, Richard Breitman, Deborah Dwork, Ronald Zweig, and David S. Wyman." [JTR note: Why should such people, as academic censors, be morally or intellectually trusted? Why do they have zero faith in the free exchange of ideas towards truth? In an open public forum, what is it they so desperately feel they will lose? If David Irving is a jerk, give him his say and then expose him.]
[This movie star obsession with Jewi$h $tyle mystici$m is a direct result of their inundation in the decadent Jewish swamp of Hollywood. Hollywood is a Jewish Hall of Mirrors and for some, once immersed, there is obviously no way to discern light from darkness. Some hustling rabbi dangles a "red string" for God's sake, and the spiritually wasted grab for it.]
Ashton wants time off for Kabbalah worship,
Ananova, March 2005
"Ashton Kutcher has reportedly demanded time off from his sitcom That '70s Show to mark Kabbalah holy days. The actor, who was converted to the mystic Jewish faith by girlfriend Demi Moore, is said to have asked for extra days off from filming to observe the Jewish High Holy Days reports Femalefirst.co.uk. The star couple, who have a 15-year age gap, recently joined a Kabbalah pilgrimage to Israel - with Madonna and Guy Ritchie - to celebrate the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. They were also rumoured to be planning to tie the knot in a Kabbalah wedding ceremony next month. A source said: "A wedding is imminent and will probably happen around Thanksgiving in late November." After months of talking with Kabbalah teachers, the couple reportedly decided the time was right to proceed with the union. Other celebrity followers of the controversial religion include Ashton's ex-girlfriend Brittany Murphy, pop star Britney Spears and hotel heiress Paris Hilton, who all wear the religion's signature red string bracelet."
[This email is circulating from the National Jewish Democratic Council, NJDC. Hey, Republican Jews! The NJDC is screwing up. They put our "anti-Semitic" web site on their email list. So when do we get a free ticket to an AIPAC dinner?]
"Greetings, DNC Chair Howard Dean spoke eloquently this week about the powerfully pro-Israel agenda of the Democratic Party -- first in a meeting with a delegation of NJDC leaders, and later that same day before an AIPAC audience. The Forward and Washington Jewish Week report today on Governor Dean's strong statements during the well-received AIPAC speech; links to the full article texts can be found below. Governor Dean on Israel and terrorism:
* "The greatest threat that the world faces today comes from Islamic terrorists."
* "A strong Israel is an essential part of the ability of the United States to build democracy everywhere in the world."
* Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon "has put himself at great political risk, making a decision to withdraw from Gaza ... it is time for the other side to begin to show that they are willing to take great political risks."
* "We will approach the bargaining table as an ally of Israel."
Governor Dean on incitement and anti-Semitism:
* "Incitement of violence and hatred must be an issue that we confront, and I do not speak simply of the textbooks that are found in Palestinian schools. I speak about what Saudi Arabia is doing around the world to finance the teaching of hatred of Americans, Christians, Jews and moderate Muslims. We need to confront that, and we need to confront it boldly because there is a long-term danger in what the Saudis are using our oil money for."
Governor Dean on Iran:
* Iran "right now is potentially the most dangerous nation on the face of the earth. Should they get the atomic bomb, that presents an enormous danger; not simply to Israel, but to the United States, as well. We cannot permit Iran to possess nuclear weapons, and we need to do everything we can to stop that."
* Governor Dean expressed his disappointment that "it has taken us five years to do what should have been done immediately. I think Iran - which clearly funds terrorism everywhere, clearly has blood on its hands - not just of Israelis, but also of Americans - needs to be dealt with in a way that makes it very clear what our intentions are. At the end of the day, the United States must make it clear that we will not permit Iran to possess nuclear weapons, and that is a bright line. Let them not put one toe across that bright line." To view the full text of the Forward article on Governor Dean's remarks, please see:
http://ga4.org/ct/07zvyxM14RzJ/NJDC
To view the full text of the Washington Jewish Week article on Governor Dean's remarks, please see:
http://ga4.org/ct/0pzvyxM14RzD/NJDC "
Jewish 'plot over Temple Mount'. Jewish extremists are plotting to take over the Temple Mount in an attempt to thwart Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, an Israeli TV station has reported,
BBC News (UK), March 17, 2005
"Channel Two showed a video of the plotters, including rabbis and far-right extremists, in a meeting to discuss ways to occupy the holy site. The Temple Mount is known as the Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) to Muslims. The meeting took place at a secret location in the Old City of Jerusalem, the TV station said. It involved representatives from 30 different groups. Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei has appealed to Israel to stop any action against the compound. "We warn that the region will explode if there is any attack against al-Aqsa," Mr Qurei told reporters. Large numbers of Israeli police were deployed around the Temple Mount compound in mid-February for fear of an attack by Jewish extremists. Protests against withdrawal Opponents of the Gaza withdrawal plan have been protesting in a number of ways, including blocking traffic on major roads causing massive jams. Israel is due to withdraw all settlers and the troops that protect them from Gaza in July this year. Israel has occupied Gaza since 1967, and will retain control of the strip's external borders, airspace and coastline. The Temple Mount compound, in the old city in East Jerusalem, covers an area of 35 acres. The site is holy to Jews because it is the site of the First and Second Temple in ancient times. It is known in Jewish tradition as the "abode of God's presence". The same area is known to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary). It is of deep religious, political and national significance to Palestinians and to Muslims around the world."
[The man is dead. He can't defend himself. Anyone can say anything about him. This sounds like the way a bunch of Jews jumped out of the wallpaper to claim folklorist Joseph Campbell was "anti-Semitic" after he had died.]
Lauderdale reconsiders honor for city pioneer. Racism allegations surface about deceased developer,
By Brittany Wallman and Jean-Paul Renaud, Sun-Sentinel, March 17, 2005
"The city is retreating from a plan to honor the late L.C. Judd, credited for launching much of Fort Lauderdale's coastal development, after hearing allegations from two prominent citizens that the longtime businessman talked openly about his hatred of Jews and blacks. Judd, who died in 1985, was to be recognized on April 19 as an "honored founder,'' an annual award that carries with it a plaque with the nominee's name and image in the lobby of City Hall. The nomination is on hold now, while commissioners contend with allegations that Judd, who once owned one of the most successful real estate firms in Broward County, boasted about keeping Jews from living on Fort Lauderdale's east side, and treated African-Americans with contempt. "He bragged openly about his hatred ... throughout his life,'' local attorney W. George Allen wrote to commissioners on Friday. Another recent letter from a former city commissioner recounted Judd's bragging about keeping Jews from living on the coast. Judd's daughter, who now lives in Palm Beach Gardens, said she never saw her father show any disrespect to minorities, highlighting that her family always had black servants in their home and that they were never mistreated. "I never saw him be disrespectful to anyone," said Elizabeth Judd, 48 ... A March 9 letter from former City Commissioner Jack Latona caught city officials off guard because it contained a first-hand account of an anti-Semitic boast by Judd. Latona wrote that he and his wife were referred to Judd's popular real estate firm to find a home when they moved here in 1977. While on a boat tour with Judd, Latona wrote, he "bragged to us that he `had kept the Jews out of the east side of Fort Lauderdale for years.'" Latona, who is white, wrote that he doesn't "doubt that many people shared these feelings in the past, but they should not be honored now by our city.''
Turkey finds a new best-seller in "Mein Kampf",
Yahoo! News, March 17, 2005
" Cheap cover prices and a rise in nationalist sentiment have made an unlikely best-seller in Turkey of Adolf Hitler's infamous autobiography, "Mein Kampf", analysts here say ... But since January, the book has sold more than 50,000 copies and is number four on the best-seller list drawn up by the DetR bookstore chain. "'Mein Kampf' has always been a sleeper, a secret best-seller," said Oguz Tektas of Mefisto editions, one of several publishing houses to re-release the book Hitler wrote while in jail in 1925. "We took it out of the closet for purely commercial reasons" ... "The times we live in have a definite impact on sales," Kilic said. "It is an astonishing phenomenon." He linked interest in the book to Turkey's bid to join the European Union, seen by the right-wing as a desertion of national values, and rising sentiment against the United States and its ally Israel over the treatment they are perceived here as meting out to the Iraqis and the Palestinians, respectively. "This book, which does not contain a single ounce of humanity, unfortunately appears to be taken seriously in this country," political scientist Dogu Ergil complained in a recent newspaper interview. He agreed that the unexpected popularity of "Mein Kampf" in this Muslim-majority country has its roots in a rise in anti-American sentiment sparked by the occupation of Iraq and anti-Semitism resulting from Israel's Palestinian policy. "Nazism, buried in the dustbin of history in Europe, is beginning to re-emerge in Turkey," he warned. But despite what the sales may imply, Turkey has never been an anti-Semitic country -- on the contrary, it has been a safe haven for Jews ever since the 15th century, when Sultan Bayezit II first took in Spanish Jews fleeing the inquisition. Throughout Ottoman times and the republic proclaimed in 1923, Jews fleeing pogroms and extermination camps were always welcome in Turkey. Silvyo Ovadya, the head of Turkey's Jewish community, said he was "troubled" by the book's popularity. Ovadya told AFP he was "astonished a 500-page book that sows the seeds of racism and anti-Semitism can sell at such a low price." But, he said, his complaints to the publishers have gone unheeded."
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by Isi Liebler, Israel Insider, March 16, 2005
"In these times we are surely obliged to forge new alliances. Our traditional friends of yesteryear -- the liberals and the left -- now stand at the forefront of campaigns to demonize and delegitimize Israel and increasingly indulge in outright anti Semitic rhetoric. It is not coincidental that the Bush Administration -- which today stands alone between Israel and its foes -- has been strongly influenced by Christian evangelicals who continue to demand that American foreign policy be based on moral and biblical foundations. In stark contrast to the Presbyterians and the World Council of Churches who even now continue campaigning for divestment and delegitimization, the evangelicals have elevated support for the Jewish state as one of their top priorities. Interdenominational activities have always been a sensitive issue. Rabbi Joseph Soloveichik, the revered spiritual leader of modern orthodoxy, warned of the dangers of becoming involved in theological or interfaith dialogue both on halachic and pragmatic grounds. He predicted that such activities would invariably encourage false facades of supposed shared theological foundations. Rabbi Soloveichik did approve of activities with other denominations to promote common humanitarian objectives. He would assuredly have endorsed relations with evangelicals based on support of Israel and common social goals as long as theological dialogue was avoided. ... However, the most disconcerting aspect of the WJC relationship with the Catholics is the prominent role accorded to the Cardinal of Paris, Jean Marie Lustiger, who until his recent retirement was regarded as a possible candidate to become the next Pope. Over the past two years, Cardinal Lustiger, a Jew who converted to Catholicism, has become a virtual World Jewish Congress icon. He was a major speaker at Governing Board and Executive meetings and, even more surprisingly, was selected to be the keynote speaker for the WJC Plenary Assembly held earlier this year in Brussels. There is no doubt that Lustiger is sincerely committed to combating anti-Semitism in the Church and obviously enjoys representing the Church at Jewish and Jewish related activities. The Pope is clearly happy to use him in this capacity and even appointed him to be his personal representative at the 60th commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz in Warsaw. However it is difficult to understand how an international Jewish body headed by an orthodox Jew using a rabbinical mantle, repeatedly invites Cardinal Lustiger to participate at gatherings of international Jewish leaders, ignoring the fact that Cardinal Lustiger is not just an enlightened Catholic prelate opposed to anti Semitism. He is an apostate, a Jew converted to Catholicism. More than that, Lustiger who speaks Yiddish, continues to describe himself as a Jew, albeit a "fulfilled Jew" ... In the past such situations were avoided. When the World Council of Churches nominated the Rev. Dr. Hans Ucko to be their liaison on Jewish affairs, IJCIC with the full support of the WJC, politely declined on the grounds that they did not wish to deal publicly with an intermediary who was an apostate. They would certainly never have considered him as a keynote speaker to an international Jewish meeting. Now all of this is highly delicate. But whilst we are obliged to maintain cordial relations with the Catholic and other Churches they must understand that we Jews also share profound sensitivities. There may be grounds for liaising privately with a man such as Cardinal Lustiger, but it is surely grotesque and crossing the line if Jews promote him as a role model. It is not only a matter of Jewish dignity. As Rabbi Soloveichik emphasized, we also need clarity regarding our end goals in relation to ecumenical activities. Otherwise one day we may even have some bright PR activists appealing for more Jews to convert in order to more effectively fight anti-Semitism."
Posted March 16:
[This "problem" of too many Jewish criminals isn't limited to Orthodox Jewish religious communities, as implied below (although it's a very nice admission. Is it time for a communal Jewish confession?). Some samples to all this massive Jewish criminality can be found here or here, but this web site is full of listings of such things, all over the place. Bottom line: Jewish Talmudism sanctions exploitation of non-Jews.]
Jewish felons: the problem of criminality in observant communities,
by Joel Cohen, Tikkun, March 1, 2005 [Posted online in full, here.]
"As a prosecutor and, more recently, a white-collar defense attorney in New York, I have witnessed a disturbing rise in crime among Orthodox and Hasidic Jews. When I broach the subject with Jewish friends, they say that writing about this subject will be "a disgrace to the name of God," viewing the writing on the issue as the disgrace and ignoring the underlying conduct. They see Jews, particularly observant Jews, as a community that outsiders focus on in search of scandal and feel that exposing the problem will add fuel to the fires of anti-Semitism. I feel that this reasoning is wrongheaded: To ignore crime within our ranks does us a great disservice, both because it weakens us as a community and because tolerating it suggests to the outside world that Judaism does not promote a righteous moral compass. A Growing Problem There is no shortage of high-profile Jewish crime. Take the infamous New Square scandal, in which four Hassidim were convicted for defrauding the government of $11 million by setting up a fictitious yeshiva to receive federal student aid money. Or the case in Williamsburg, New York, in which the rabbi of a Jewish day school stole 6 million dollars from the Board of Education over several years by falsely identifying more than eighty individuals as school employees. The problem in the observant community, however, is not merely occasional, nor does it often make headlines. Daily, in metropolises around the country, yarmulka-wearing criminal defendants appear before the bar of justice. In the early 1970s, a particularly imaginative criminal defense lawyer in New York City successfully sued the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to provide kosher food for one or two of his incarcerated clients. The sad truth is that these days, kosher food has become as commonplace in many penal institutions as it is on airlines. Today, every day in the minimum-security camp at the Otisville Federal Correctional Institution in Rockland County, New York, there are sizeable minyanim, three times daily. A full-time rabbi attends to the congregation's spiritual and religious needs. Daily religious classes are offered. Shabbat and holiday meals are provided. There are so many observant inmates--inmates who were ostensibly observant at the time of their arrest, not those who "found God" after they broke the law, thereby increasing the numbers--that such provisions are now available at a number of other federal penal institutions. Anyone practicing in the justice system of a large urban metropolis with a significant Jewish population--New York, Los Angeles, and Miami, for example--has seen a similar trend. These observant defendants are not typically charged with street crime or narcotics trafficking. The most common charge is fraud: against businessmen and run-of-the-mill citizens alike, most frequently involving victims outside of the Jewish community; against the government; against insurance carriers; against banking institutions; health care fraud; money laundering; and stock swindling. Perhaps most disturbing is a new breed of fraud involving observant community leaders, sometimes rabbis themselves, and intended to benefit the community itself, such as fraud against government spending programs for education and health care. The perpetrators in these cases don't typically profit personally, but the government and the intended recipients of these government programs are no less defrauded of funds designated for a particular use. And more often than not, the community, including its lay and religious leaders, stands up for the perpetrators by defending, or at least excusing, their behavior. For example, following the convictions of four Hassidim in the New Square scandal, Hassidic leaders defended President Clinton's pardon of these individuals on the grounds that the stolen funds were funneled back into their community rather than into their own pockets. The Key Question Why is fraud so common in the Orthodox and Hasidic communities? Perhaps Judaism itself concentrates too heavily on technical observances designed to honor the Kingdom of God and not enough on a code of conduct honoring and respecting each other. Maybe the religion, as taught, isn't sufficiently concerned with ethical precepts particularly with regard to faceless government bodies or individuals outside the fold. Even more disturbing, perhaps criminal, or merely unethical, behavior is simply not inconsistent with religious observance ... Finally, some may suggest that certain Jewish groups who emigrated from Eastern Europe were victimized there by anti-Semitic regimes, which makes their disrespect for secular rule of law understandable. [JTR note: Cop-out! More Jewish denial, a la mode. Note how Jewish corruption engrained in traditional Jewish belief and identity is ALWAYS blamed on the "anti-Semitic" other, as a matter of course.] This argument raises a bizarre affirmative action defense that seeks immunity from the laws of the United States for wrongs that the United States had nothing to do with. Regardless, the previously victimized community should take no solace in such an explanation, as there is simply no comparison between Poland in 1939 and America in 2004. The Community's Response It is astonishing, sometimes, how the observant and Hasidic communities react to criminal charges by a superficially observant defendant. Often, those communities assume that anti-Semitism is the driving force behind an unfounded prosecution or that the defendant is being prosecuted (or persecuted) more severely because he is Jewish. Even after a guilty verdict or plea (which should remove any lingering doubt about guilt, as well as any claim of a frame-up), his community will frequently write supportive letters to a sentencing judge suggesting that this is simply aberrant behavior for "an otherwise observant Jew." And that may be true--sometimes."
[Yo! Hot off the press, today, and -- per the above -- the CCAR isn't "Orthodox and Hasidic." This kind of stuff is EVERYWHERE in the Jewish community. And Jews know it.]
CCAR Uncovers $1 Million Shortfall. Reform rabbinical group launches independent audit, takes severe cost-cutting steps,
by Stewart Ain, The Jewish Week, March 16, 2005
"It was a routine personnel change: The comptroller for the Reform movement’s New York-based rabbinic arm resigned at the beginning of the year. But what the new comptroller found — or rather did not find — was anything but routine. The discovery that $1 million was missing from the Central Conference of American Rabbis has sent shockwaves through the 1,500-member organization and led to some drastic cost-cutting measures there. The CCAR’s finding comes at a time when Jewish organizations are under increasing financial scrutiny in the wake of alleged improprieties plaguing another prominent Jewish organization, the World Jewish Congress. State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has launched an inquiry into the WJC matter." A letter dated March 7 informing CCAR members of the missing, though apparently not stolen, money — sounded an ominous tone. “This is a difficult letter for me to write,” Rabbi Paul Menitoff, the group’s executive vice president, began ... “We don’t believe there was any fraud involved, but we want to make sure,” he said." [Of course there wasn't any fraud! The million dollars had a mind of its own and left on the back of a mosquito to Acapulco.]
Talmud teacher convicted of sodomy. Teacher abuses mentally ill children, family members; judges criticize local authorities,
By Tal Rosner, Yedioth Aharonoth (Israel), March 16, 2005
"The Jerusalem District Court sentenced a 37-year-old Talmud (Oral Law) teacher of mentally challenged students to a 12 year prison term Wednesday for acts of sodomy and sexual misconduct involving teens and children. The teacher, who is currently divorced without children, mainly molested family members, including his nephew, who was 10-years-old at the time. Investigators found dozens of naked photos of children on his personal computer. The teacher, who grew up in New York, arrived in Israel to study in a Yeshiva; he later returned to the U.S. to complete his degree in Computer Science, but came back to Israel to teach children with learning disabilities and serve as a boarding school counselor. The teacher told welfare services that a summer camp instructor had sexually assaulted him when he was 11 years-old."
[Ho-hum. Just another day in the fascinating world of Judaism:]
Rabbi faces assault charges,
by JACQUI GAL, Australian Jewish News, March 16, 2005
"A Sydney rabbi faced Waverley Local Court last week charged with assault. Rabbi Elozer Gestetner of Coogee Synagogue is accused of attacking his brother-in-law, Rabbi Dovid Slavin, who was admitted to Prince of Wales Hospital following the incident on February 23. Yeshiva Centre company secretary Henry Kinstlinger confirmed to the AJN this week that Rabbi Slavin was attacked outside the Yeshiva Synagogue on Flood Street. Although he said he was not present at the time of the incident, Kinstlinger said he had reviewed it on surveillance tapes. Rabbi Slavin is executive director of the Yeshiva Rabbinical College. His wife, Laya Slavin, is the sister of Rabbi Gestetner’s wife Miri."
Russian-Israeli press magnate implicated in money laundering scam,
Servihoo, March 7, 2005
"Russian-Israeli press baron Vladimir Gusinski is wanted for questioning over a multi-million dollar money laundering scandal that has engulfed Israel's largest bank, police said. Documents have been seized from his home and the businessman will be questioned upon his return from abroad, Israeli police said. The 52-year-old Gusinski is a leading figure in the Jewish diaspora with large investments in Israel, where he has a large stake in the Maariv newspaper and interests in a wide range of media outfits. Hapoalim -- the largest bank in Israel -- and its Hayarkon Street branch in Tel Aviv are suspected of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars. Twenty-four employees of the seafront branch have been arrested for questioning and several are expected to be remanded in custody, police said. According to Israeli public radio, 12 bank employees were remanded last night in connection with the affair. Around 200 clients of the branch may also be questioned and 180 accounts totalling 180 million dollars have been frozen."
[There are different kinds of fraud going on throughout this next story. One of them is that it is not mentioned that the crux of the problem in this article is Jewish/Israeli-based. The jailed head of Yukos oil -- Khordokovsky -- is Jewish. And so is the "Russian" mafia (also here) and "Russian" oligarchy that control such internaitonal money laundering scams.]
Spain 'cracks $300m money racket'. Police in Spain say they have smashed a massive international money-laundering ring centred on the southern coastal resort of Marbella,
BBC (UK), March 13, 2005
"Forty-one people of at least five nationalities were arrested. The group is suspected of laundering more than $300m (£155m) for gangs involved in murder, drug trafficking, arms dealing and prostitution. Spanish authorities said they suspected some of the cash was illegally siphoned from Russian oil company Yukos. A spokesman for Yukos has denied any involvement in money-laundering. Yukos defiant A boat, two planes and more than 40 luxury cars were also seized in the raid which went ahead after 10 months of investigation, officials said. Spanish, French, Finnish, Russian and Ukrainian nationals were among those arrested. Interpol and Europol were both involved in the joint Spanish-Russian operation, nicknamed White Whale. The Spanish interior ministry described it as its biggest investigation. Large sums are thought to have been diverted from Yukos to a Dutch company and then to one of its Spanish branches, the ministry said. The Russian oil giant has been under investigation by Russian authorities seeking the repayment of $28bn (£15bn) in alleged unpaid taxes. The company's founder, Mikhail Khordokovsky, has been in jail since October 2003 and faces separate fraud and tax evasion charges. Company spokesman Alexander Shadrin denied all wrongdoing in an interview with Moscow Radio, Russia's Interfax news agency reported. "The only place left to look is on Mars - did we launder something there?" he said. Spain's Costa del Sol, a coastal strip including Marbella and the city of Malaga, has long played host to a number of international criminal gangs, earning the nickname "Costa del Crime"."
[Continuous, unending, unproven Jewish libel of Mel Gibson and Christianity. More here.]
Gibson film linked to attacks on Jews,
by Etan Vlessing, Reuters, March 16, 2005
"Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" has been cited by a report as the cause of an upsurge last year in Canadian anti-Semitic attacks, now running at a record pace. The League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith, releasing its 2004 audit of anti-Semitic attacks in Canada, said last year's media coverage of Gibson's film and its alleged depiction of Jews as the "Christ killer" led to an often violent spike in attacks against the Canadian Jewish community. "Whereas only nine incidents in 2003 had religious connotations to the story of Jesus' death, there were 32 such incidents in 2004, nine of them in February when the movie opened and a further 15 in the three months following its release," the B'nai Brith study said when published Tuesday. In a statement, B'nai Brith Canada vp Frank Dimant said incidents of anti-Semitism last year reached an all-time high and were becoming more violent. The B'nai Brith audit cited instances last year in which a Montreal caller to a Jewish organization exclaimed, "We don't need Mel Gibson's film to hate you!"; a synagogue in Thornhill, Ontario, was defaced with crosses; and a minister on a local Toronto TV channel alleged there was a "Jewish plot for world control."
[Our stash of Jewish anti-Mel Gibson "hate" articles, here. Sayeth the censorial Jews about Gibson: "Crucify him!"]
Anti-Jewish Elements Intact in Gibson's "Passion Recut", SaysAnti-Defamation League,
Yahoo! News, March 15, 2005
"In the recut of his film "The Passion of the Christ," now in theaters, Mel Gibson removed six minutes of violence, but chose to leave untouched the anti-Jewish elements of the original, including scenes where Jews are portrayed as villains and responsible for the death of Jesus. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed concern that the newly released film, "The Passion Recut," will now become the definitive version of the Passion story for the holy season. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement: As we come into the Christian holy season, it is troubling that Mel Gibson made changes to "The Passion of the Christ" to de-emphasize the violence, yet made no effort to mitigate or remove the film's anti-Jewish elements. "The Passion Recut" demonstrates that Mr. Gibson indeed has the power to make changes. His recut is selective to accommodate concerns of excessive violence, but not those of the Jewish community and concerned Christians disturbed by his offensive portrayal of Jews that leads viewers to believe Jews are responsible for the death of Jesus. Our concern is that Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" and "The Passion Recut" will become the definitive version for the holy season, bringing to life on screen the most vicious anti-Semitic elements of traditional Passion Plays. It will continue to play again and again, year after year to audiences around the world without the benefit of the very public discussion that surrounded the film's initial debut in February 2004. In a world where anti-Semitism is on the rise and the classical canard that "the Jews killed Jesus" is being promulgated, Mr. Gibson has unfortunately become a contributor."
[More Jewish censorial fascism in America:]
CMU Hosts Controversial Speaker. Finkelstein's Previous Speech Canceled,
WPXI, March 14, 2005
"A controversial speaker will take the podium at Carnegie Mellon University Monday. Norman Finkelstein's appearance was postponed from earlier this year after complaints by Jewish students. His lecture will discuss Zionism and the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. His detractors said he is a Holocaust revisionist, a description Finkelstein disputes. The lecture is from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m."
[More world Judeocentric fascism, in France, and yet another prisoner wrestles beneath the world Thought Police. Increasingly in the Jewish-strangled West, it is becoming illegal to criticize Jews and Israel.]
French comic faces retrial for anti-Jewish jibes,
Expatica, March 17, 2005
"France's highest court of appeal on Tuesday ordered that comedian Dieudonne be retried on charges of racial defamation and inciting racial hatred after making anti-Jewish comments, striking down his acquittal. In a November 2003 interview with Lyon Capitale magazine, Dieudonne said: "Jews are part of a sect, it's a fraud. It's one of the worst sects, because it was the first one." The atheist comedian, whose full name is Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala, added: "Racism was invented by Abraham. 'The chosen people' - that's the start of racism." Dieudonne was acquitted both by a lower court and the Paris appeals court, which said that while the comedian's use of the words "sect" and "fraud" were "strong and shocking" they should be taken in context of the entire interview. But on Tuesday, the Cour de Cassation struck down that ruling, saying: "The remarks in dispute notably called into question the Jewish community." The Cour de Cassation's ruling means that Dieudonne - who has repeatedly denied that he is anti-Semitic, but merely a critic of Israeli policies - will face a new trial in the Paris appeals court. Dieudonne, born to a French mother and a Cameroonian father, has riled France's 600,000-strong Jewish community - the largest in Europe - on several occasions with his comments. He sparked outrage in December 2003 when he performed a sketch on national television in which he dressed up as an Orthodox Jew, gave the Nazi salute and jokingly urged French youths to "join the Axis of Good: the American-Zionist Axis". He was subsequently forced to cancel a number of stand-up shows, but was cleared of racism charges. Last year he was fined EUR 5,000 (USD 6,600) by a court in Avignon for remarks made about Jews in an interview with Le Monde newspaper. He could face further legal action after allegedly referring to ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death camps as "memorial pornography". Dieudonne later filed a counter-complaint, saying he never made the comment."
[Consider the unspoken title of the article below: "Poland's Progress" ... in powdering Jewish ass. Fact: 3 million non-Jewish Poles were killed by the Nazis. (Jewish figures cite an equivilant 3 million Jewish Polish dead). But who cares about non-Jews? The Jewish dead must be worshipped by all. The best book to read about the 3 million non-Jewish Poles who died in World War II is The Forgotten Holocaust (University of Kentucky Press). You don't know about them because they're not slobbering in your ear every second about it like the Jewish Lobby does about its own obsessive interests.]
Poland's Progress,
by Andrew Baker, American Jewish Committee (from New York Post), January 26, 2005
"When Polish President Lech Walesa organized the 50th anniversary commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz 10 years ago, he so angered Jewish leaders and survivors they held their own ceremony one day earlier. This year, world leaders will participate in one program coordinated with Jewish organizations and Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Museum. It benefits from President Alexander Kwazniewski's diplomatic skills and a decade of change in Poland and the region. In 1995, the breaking point came when Walesa's aides refused to include the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, in the official program. It was symptomatic of insensitivity to Jews and an incomplete knowledge of the Holocaust. In the West, Auschwitz was known as the death camp where 1 million Jews were murdered, its name synonymous with the Nazis' genocidal plan. But in Poland, it was seen as a place of Polish martyrdom. For decades schoolchildren were taught - erroneously - that a million Poles perished there, too, although the actual number, horrible in its own right, was a small fraction. Walesa's missteps were criticized abroad, but they reflected the attitudes of many Poles. A 1995 American Jewish Committee survey found most Poles viewed themselves as equal to Jews as Nazi victims. Nearly 40 percent of Poland's population still harbored anti-Jewish sentiments. Polish officials bristled at demands for the return of Jewish communal property, while restituting far more extensive holdings to the church ... The three Baltic states established national historical commissions to examine the role of their citizens in the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust and the anti-Semitic conditions preceding it. There are now official Holocaust remembrance days and educational programs. Despite a history of anti-Semitism, most Poles saw themselves as victims with no role in the Nazi extermination of Jews. In 1995, 75 percent believed Poles did everything possible to help Jews during the Holocaust. This myth was challenged with the publication of "Neighbors," describing the 1941 pogrom unleashed by the citizens of Jedwabne on their Jewish neighbors. In 2002, President Kwazniewski spoke at Jedwabne's mass grave and begged forgiveness. Romania appointed its own historical commission, chaired by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. Its findings, publicly accepted by the president in November 2004, established the culpability of the wartime regime of Antonescu and took to task the country's Holocaust deniers. Every country in the region has taken some measures to restitute Jewish communal property or has begun the process. History texts are being corrected, and the enthusiasm for reviving wartime fascist leaders has waned. Equally important, each of these countries has established close ties with Israel and has experienced the salutary effects of trade and tourism. Yet the record is imperfect and incomplete. Recent surveys in Poland show anti-Jewish sentiments are still held by a quarter of the population. Marginal but not insignificant political parties court voters with anti-Semitic appeals and the sale of anti-Semitic literature. Politicians in Hungary and Romania act similarly, while denying the facts of the Holocaust in their own nations. Restituting Jewish property in all of Eastern Europe remains an unpopular measure, giving pause to well-intentioned politicians."
[It's curious how the Jewish censorial mind works: If a Jew writes a book that features an attack on someone, the assaulted individual has no right to respond in a public forum against his accuser.]
C-SPAN's Balance of the Absurd,
by Richard Cohen, Focal Point Publications (from Washington Post), March 15, 2005
"You will not be seeing Deborah Lipstadt on C-SPAN. The Holocaust scholar at Emory University has a new book out ("History on Trial"), and an upcoming lecture of hers at Harvard was scheduled to be televised on the public affairs cable outlet. The book is about a libel case brought against her in Britain by David Irving, a Holocaust denier, trivializer and prevaricator who is, by solemn ruling of the very court that heard his lawsuit, "anti-Semitic and racist." No matter. C-SPAN wanted Irving to "balance" Lipstadt. The word balance is not in quotes for emphasis. It was invoked repeatedly by C-SPAN producers who seemed convinced that they had chosen the most noble of all journalistic causes: fairness. "We want to balance it [Lipstadt's lecture] by covering him," said Amy Roach, a producer for C-SPAN's Book TV. Her boss, Connie Doebele, put it another way. "You know how important fairness and balance is at C-SPAN," she told me. "We work very, very hard at this. We ask ourselves, 'Is there an opposing view of this?' ... Lipstadt was in effect being told that if she wanted to promote her book on C-SPAN (an important venue) she would also have to promote Irving. If she was to get a TV audience, then so would he." [JTR note: Hmmm. Cohen is upset with what eerily sounds like genuine democracy wherein people hear two opposing opinions and decide for themselves what it all means. No wonder it isn't considered kosher. If the subject in any way has to do with Jews, there is NEVER two sides to a story. I mean, of course! So what's your problem?]
[It seems that the world Jewish Lobby increasingly dares people to draw the lines between the dots. Jewish musical chairs: Wolfensohn out, Wolfowitz in. What remains constant? The perpetual Wolf in sheep's clothing.]
Bush to Tap Wolfowitz as New World Bank President,
ABC News, March 16, 2005
"Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, a lightning rod for controversy as one of the main advocates for the Iraq war, is President Bush's choice for World Bank president, administration officials said on Wednesday. Wolfowitz would replace World Bank chief James Wolfensohn, who said earlier this month that Wolfowitz was no longer in the running for the top job after a Pentagon official suggested he wanted to stay at the Defense Department ... By tradition, the United States selects the World Bank president while Europeans nominate a head of the International Monetary Fund. Bush's choice of Wolfowitz must still be ratified by other World Bank members, a process that could prove unusually contentious. Wolfowitz is a deeply controversial figure in Europe because of his role in designing and promoting the Iraq war. He has also been a frequent target of criticism from congressional Democrats for what they called his "rosy" assessments of the Iraq war. Before the invasion, he assured Congress: "We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon." ... Wolfensohn, an Australian who became American to take the job, was
appointed by President Bill Clinton. But he frequently clashed with Bush's Treasury Department, which decided it was time for a change."
Beautiful" Losers. GOP = Gay Old Party?,
Dow Blog
"The vulgar ("Jeff Gannon") scandal has revived Washington whispers that the supposedly anti-gay Republican Party is really nothing less than a gay affirmative action program. Glance at whose running the GOP and it looks like a Harvey Fierstein cocktail party. A few months ago, activist Mike Rogers of RawStoryQ.com revealed that GOP National Field Director Dan Gurley is gay and sought unsafe sex online. Rogers also revealed that Ken Mehlman, chair of the Republican National Committee, is gay."
[Historic American building becomes a Zionist nest. Chabad is an excellent example of the worst of the racist Jewish Klux Klan. NEVER does the mass media investigate exactly what Chabad believes and stands for. Just by donning their black Jewish uniforms, they are media heroes.]
Rabbi hopes to reopen General Wayne Inn,
The Daily Times, March 16, 2005
"It’s been a long time coming, but finally the historic General Wayne Inn is about to undergo a major and much needed renovation project.
When the building opens sometime later this year, it will serve as a restaurant and a center for Jewish life. But for the man behind the renovation, it’s been a bit of learning experience. Rabbi Shraga Sherman readily admits that he never learned much about historic preservation while he was a student in rabbinical school. But suddenly, he finds himself getting plenty of on-the-job training. As director of the Chabad-Lubavitch of the Main Line, Sherman’s upcoming preservation task is a formidable one. He is working on preserving and renovating one of the Main Line’s oldest buildings, the 300-year-old General Wayne Inn on Montgomery Avenue. The restaurant, built in 1704, thrived for years, but was the scene of a murder involving its chef in 1996. Later, another restaurateur tried to revive the business, but again closed the doors in 2002. About two years ago, Sherman’s organization bought the building and now Sherman and others have embarked on a long journey to restore the building. He hopes to have part of the building ready for use before the High Holy Days this October ... The congregation has raised $1.2 million since buying the building for nearly $700,000 ... Believed to have been built in 1709, the General Wayne Inn is among the oldest buildings in Lower Merion."
[More myth. The same kind of Jewish-enforced myth that says Jews don't drink and have higher moral standards than other people. Most of the Jews of Israel (and world Jewry that supports it) have no problems with murdering Palestinians ("targeted killings" and "pre-emptive strikes" that slaughter innocents) as a matter of course.]
Case Stirs Fight on Jews, Juries and Execution,
by Dean E. Murphy, Gadsden Times (from New York Times), March 16, 2005
"The convictions of dozens of death-row inmates in California are coming under legal scrutiny because of accusations that Jews and black women were excluded from juries in capital trials in Alameda County as "standard practice." A former Alameda prosecutor, John R. Quatman, made the contentions in a sworn declaration in the habeas corpus case of Fred H. Freeman. Mr. Freeman is a condemned inmate who is seeking to overturn his conviction in 1987 in a killing and robbery at a bar in Berkeley. Mr. Quatman, who worked for 26 years as a deputy district attorney and prosecuted the case, said the trial judge, Stanley Golde, advised him during jury selection that "no Jew would vote to send a defendant to the gas chamber." "Judge Golde was only telling me what I already should have known to do," Mr. Quatman's statement said. "It was standard practice to exclude Jewish jurors in death cases." Mr. Quatman said the practice extended to African-American women, who have also been widely considered sympathetic to defendants, though in Mr. Freeman's case that has not been an issue. Alameda County officials strongly disputed the claims, with the man who was district attorney in 1987 calling the accusations dishonest ... Mr. Quatman, who left the office in 1998 and is now a lawyer in Montana, declined to comment. In his declaration, he said Judge Golde had asked him in chambers why he had not removed a prospective Jewish juror. "He said I could not have a Jew on the jury and asked me if I was aware that when Adolf Eichmann was apprehended after World War II there was a major controversy in Israel over whether he should be executed," Mr. Quatman said in his declaration. "Judge Golde said no Jew would vote to send a defendant to the gas chamber. I thanked Judge Golde for his advice and thereafter excused any prospective juror who was Jewish." One of Judge Golde's two sons, Matthew, is a deputy district attorney in Alameda. The other, Ivan, is a lawyer in Oakland. Both said they were suspicious of Mr. Quatman's timing, because their father was not able to defend himself. The Goldes said their father was opposed to the death penalty, in part because of Jewish religious teachings. He was a member of Temple Sinai in Oakland."
[JTR contributor's note: "Former Beverly Hills fashion designer worked with Spielberg on "documentary." Our comment: MORE Beverly Hills fashion designers are definitely needed to give history lessons!]
Holocaust survivor shares story,
by Tami Jo Nix, Madera Tribune, March 16, 2005
"Mike Hinton, history teacher at Madera High School, took his students' understanding of World War II to a higher level on Monday with a guest speaker, Holocaust survivor Renee Firestone. The former Beverly Hills fashion designer is one of the people responsible for the 1999 Steven Speilberg documentary, “The Last Days.” Hinton has showed the film to his class to introduce and illustrate the Nazi atrocities to Jewish people during the war. Firestone is originally from Hungary. She was incarcerated in Auschwitz-Birkenau ... These days the 83-year-old Firestone devotes much of her time speaking to groups about her experiences. “I feel it is my duty to make the world aware of the Holocaust because the six million who were murdered have no voice,” she said."
[The blanket falls far. At last, Holocaust lessons on the Moon! (Sort of)]
Holocaust seminar opens Moon students' eyes,
by By David Mayernik Jr., Corapolis Moon Record, March 16, 2005
"Education is not only needed to combat deficiencies in reading and math, it is also the best defense against hatred. That was the main objective of a seminar on the final 18 months of the Holocaust, attended by Moon Area Middle School eighth grade students last week. Much more than an ordinary history lesson, the theme of this year's presentation was "Clinging to Humanity...The Final Year from Ghettos, Camps and Death Marches to the Dawn of Liberation." Fifty students in the accelerated arts program and gifted support program attended the seminar, which was hosted by the Holocaust Center of the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh and held at David Lawrence Hall at the University of Pittsburgh. Moon Area has been participating in the program for the past four years. Tracey Spinelli, who teaches gifted students at Moon Area Middle School, said they have been reading "The Diary of Anne Frank" in their classes as an introduction to the Holocaust ... Spinelli said the day's events raised a lot of questions in the students' minds which will be able to be explored further in May when they take a trip the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C."
[The president of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski, may be Jewish. We don't read Polish, and we don't know the ideology or veracity of this linked web site, but here is a site that seems to present evidence about Kwasniewski's Jewish roots. The claim seems to be that his real (born) name is Izaak Stoltzman.]
Polish leader vows to remember Holocaust,
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI, Yahoo! News, March 16, 2005
"Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski told world leaders gathered for the opening of a new Holocaust museum that he will preserve the memory of the Polish Jewish community that was nearly wiped out in the Nazi genocide, and he vowed to fight racism in modern Poland. The visiting leaders attended a second day of ceremonies and educational conferences Wednesday to mark the opening of the $56 million museum, which tells the story of the Holocaust from the point of view of the victims — hundreds of thousands of whom were Polish Jews ... "For the benefit of the past, but also for a future that has to be free of xenophobia, racism, we, the Polish people believe it's very important to not to lose the memory of our Jewish brothers and sisters," Kwasniewski told a round-table of world leaders. "I would call upon everyone from here, from this stage, to have the courage to always stand against evil, not to try to smooth around the corners, not to stay indifferent," he added ... "The Jewish communities, the cultural centers, had great influence on the Polish tradition and culture. For hundreds of years we have drawn inspiration and we have enriched ourselves and each other," Kwasniewski said. Teaching the young this history and having them interact with Israeli youth could "counteract the influence of stereotypes in our societies," Kwasniewski said."[JTR note: Israelis to wipe away stereotypes about Jews? Try this on for size.]
[The real "lesson" of the Holocaust is there's only room enough in the world for one Chosen People-Master Race.]
Lessons of Holocaust Still Not Learned, Survivors Say,
by Julie Stahl, Crosswalk, March 2005
"Rising anti-Semitism is an indication that the world still has not learned the lessons of the Holocaust, survivors here for the opening of the new Holocaust museum said on Tuesday. Holocaust survivors as well as presidents and government ministers from some 40 countries are in Jerusalem this week for the inauguration of the new Holocaust History Museum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem. But Rebbetzin (title for a rabbi's wife) Esther Jungreis, who runs an organization called Hineni for Jewish students in the U.S., said that while the Jewish people triumphed over the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is as bad today as it was when she was a child. "Anti-Semitism, and racism and hatred are growing around the world...Anti-Semitism is escalating and we have not learned the lesson of the Holocaust," said Jungreis. "I see anti-Semitism today as I saw it when I was a young child." Anti-Semitism has been on the rise in Europe and elsewhere since the outbreak of the Palestinian armed conflict against Israel more than four years ago. Jungreis, who is a member of the delegation representing President Bush at the events here this week, is a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ... Jungreis challenged the West to do some "soul-searching" because, she said, it was the "most delightful nation in the world" that perpetrated the Holocaust and it was the lawyers, doctors and scientists who orchestrated it, she said. Elie Wiesel, one of the most famous survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp, is also a member of the U.S. delegation, led by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Wiesel spoke at the inaugural ceremony at Yad Vashem on Tuesday evening. Wiesel said that many people say that the Holocaust was "man's inhumanity to man" but it was not. "It was man's inhumanity to Jews," he said." [JTR note: In other words, Wiesel insists that Jews are not "man" and therefore beyond mere humans.] ... Speaking at a dinner following the ceremony, Israeli President Moshe Katsav said that the wave of anti-Semitism in the world is the worst since World War II. The Jewish people thought that anti-Semitism would "never raise its head again," Katsav said, but once again there are attacks on synagogues and cemeteries. Nevertheless, Katsav commended those European leaders who had reacted against anti-Semitism and denounced attacks against Israel. "Europe is now another Europe," he said ... The 4200-square meter museum will replace the older museum at the 25-acre memorial site. It is designed to tell the story of the Holocaust from the victim's - the Jewish - perspective. Nevertheless, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said that this week's event delivers two important messages. First of all that 40 nations are standing here in Jerusalem in memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust and against anti-Semitism but also that German dictator Adolph Hitler did not succeed in wiping out the Jewish people, Regev said. "Today Israel is a thriving successful state," Regev said. "Israel is the answer to the Holocaust." By coming here, the nations are identifying with the "Jewish past" but also "with the Jewish future, which is Israel," he added."
[The British Broadcasting Company squirms, on its knees, before the Jewish World Power, formally acquiescing to Israeli censorship of news.]
BBC says sorry to Israel,
by Chris McGreal, Guardian (UK), March 12, 2005
"The BBC has bowed to an Israeli demand for a written apology from its deputy bureau chief in Jerusalem, Simon Wilson, who was barred from the country for failing to submit for censorship an interview with the nuclear whistleblower, Mordechai Vanunu. Mr Wilson was allowed to return to Israel on Thursday after signing a letter to the government acknowledging that he defied the law by ignoring demands from the security service and military censors to view tapes of an interview with Mr Vanunu after he was released from 19 years in prison last year.
The climbdown has angered some BBC journalists, who say it will compromise their work in Israel. The agreement was to have remained confidential, but the BBC unintentionally posted details on its website before removing them a few hours later. Officials of Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, demanded a letter of apology and a promise not to re-offend when the authorities refused to extend Mr Wilson's work permit at the end of last year and barred him from re-entering Israel. At the time, the BBC said it could not meet such a demand. The BBC website said Mr Wilson had now acknowledged to the Israeli government that he was in the wrong. "He confirms that after the Vanunu interview he was contacted by the censors and was asked to give them the tapes. He did not do so. He regrets the difficulties this caused," the BBC statement said. "He undertakes to obey the regulations in future and understands that any further violation will result in his visa being revoked."
Syria: Jews use hot pokers to gouge Palestinians' eyes. Damascus releases updated 'Protocols' book filled with canards about 'treacherous' Zionists,
By Aaron Klein, World Net Daily, March 9, 2005
"Syria has published an updated version of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," an anti-Semitic story that claims Jews run the world by proxy, adding to it Islamic extremist ideology and dedicating the work to Palestinian suicide bombers, WorldNetDaily has learned. The new edition of the Protocols was introduced at February's Egyptian International Book Fair, considered the most important event in the Arab literary world, and was published by a Syrian company, Dar al-Awael, which credits Syria's Ministry of Information with approving the text of the book. The work contains several sections that claim Jews control the world, the Holocaust was a Zionist creation, and Israelis seek to kill Arab children, according to a translation provided to WND by Israel's Center for Special Studies. Chapters include "Judaism is a closed religion," "The Jews are treacherous," and "The laws of humanity and humanistic behavior among Jews are only valid for themselves." The book, written by Raja Abd al-Hamid Urabi, who is presented as a Syrian historian, opens with a "history" of the Jewish people that claims Jews invented the idea of their nation being "chosen" and later created a false connection to the land of Israel. The first section also tells readers Jews "from time immortal" have dominated the fields of prostitution and drug dealing." [JTR note: The "Chosen People" is the bedrock of Jewish identity and anyone who knows anything about Jews at all knows that. Jewish domination of pornography and the sex slave trade here and here.]
[JTR contributor's comment: "Kosher mass murder. Replace iraqis with jews and it would be on every US TV channel." Our note: If the victims were Jews, not only would it be on every channel in the Western world, it would be constantly declared that Jews had been subjected to another Holocaust.]
After the war comes cancer,
Deutsche Welle (Germany), March 9, 2005
"Information collected for a German project investigating the use of uranium-charged ammunition in Iraq shows that when Iraqi women fear for their children's health, it is with good reason. After two wars where oil wells were torched, chemical factories bombed and radioactive ammunition fired, the first thing Iraqi women ask when giving birth is not if it is a boy or a girl, but if it is normal or deformed. The number of cancer cases and children born with deformities has skyrocketed after the two Gulf Wars. "Since 1991 the number of children born with birth deformities has quadrupled," said Dr. Janan Hassan, who runs a children's clinic at a hospital in Basra in southern Iraq. "The same is the case for the number of children under 15 who are diagnosed with cancer. Mostly, it is leukemia. Almost 80 percent of the children die because we neither have medicine nor the possibility to give them chemotherapy." Doctors have also recorded an extreme rise in cancer cases among adults. "In 2004 we diagnosed 25 percent more cancer cases than the year before and the mortality rate increased eight-fold between 1988 and 1991," said Dr. Jawad al-Ali of the Sadr Hospital in Basra ... Hassan and al-Ali are two of 15 Iraqi specialists who have joined forces with German scientists in a project to research diseases provoked by acts of war, financed by the German Academic Exchange Service. In Iraq, burning oil wells, bombed chemical factories, demolished production sites for chemical weapons and even the use of radioactive ammunition are just a few of the things which may have triggered diseases there. "As epidemiologists, we are quite sure that other diseases than cancer and birth deformities also have to be considered," said project leader Wolfgang Hoffmann from the University of Greifswald ...In the two US-led wars on Iraq, missile warheads containing the depleted uranium-238 were used. While it is only lightly radioactive, it is an extremely tough waste-product to contain because the uranium pulverizes and contaminates the whole surrounding area with radioactivity at the moment of the explosion. "Naturally, the nations leading the war refuse to acknowldege that this type of uranium can be harmful. But as an epidemiologist, I have to say that every bit of radiation can give rise to cancer. It's just a question if what was fired in this case led to an increase in the number of cancer cases," said Professor Eberhard Greiser from the University of Bremen. As with many of the questions arising from the project so far, there is no definite answer. But al-Ali tried to give a partial answer. "In Basra in 1991, the Americans and the British dropped at least 300 tons of this kind of ammunition in one battle. That was the battle where they destroyed all the tanks of the then Republican Army. After the war, the population was urged to gather all weapons and sell them to the government. Also if people had guns or bazookas or whatever they found in the desert, they were told to bring it with them," he said. According to al-Ali's calculations, approximately 750,000 people in Basra and the surrounding areas were exposed to radiation as a result."
[There are so many Zionists in government these days, you need a pry bar to fit any more in. But where there's a will, there's a way -- especially when it's husband and wife tag-teams.]
Chertoff & Chertoff: New power couple,
GSN Magazine (Government Security News), March 2005
"With his nomination of federal appellate judge, Michael Chertoff, to be secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), President Bush may have scored a political "twofer." When the Newark, NJ-based Chertoff returns to Washington, he will bring with him not only his hands-on experience as a senior level Justice Department counter-terrorism warrior, but also an important political asset — his wife. In the wake of 9/11, as Michael Chertoff, was working to ferret out other potential terrorists and developing cross-agency information sharing and multi-agency collaboration to detect and disrupt terrorist operations, his wife Meryl was equally busy in her role as director of the State of New Jersey’s Washington, DC, office, strategizing ways to get congressional lawmakers and the executive branch to fund homeland security projects for the state. "As the governor’s primary Washington contact following the September 11, 2001 attacks, she spearheaded state efforts to secure earmarks and grants for New Jersey homeland security and transportation projects from Congress and federal agencies as part of the state’s relief and recovery efforts," according to a brief biography of Meryl posted on the Web site of her most recent employer, Trenton, NJ-based lobby and public relations firm Nancy H. Becker Associates. Meryl resigned as the firm’s vice president and legal counsel after President Bush nominated her husband to be DHS secretary. Not only is Meryl, 46, experienced in lobbying Congress and the agencies, but she also has worked at the very agency that her husband now heads ... With the arrival of the Chertoff team in the nation’s capital, Washington could soon see the emergence of what may be the perfect homeland security power couple — Chertoff & Chertoff, highly educated, politically savvy, and practically old hands in the evolving realm of homeland security."
Dylan autobiography: The intimacy of art. Dylan the singer now Dylan the writer up for major award this week: book is more about the music than the man,
By Sharon Muldabi, Yedioth Ahronoth (Israel), March 16, 2005
"Except for early passing references to his uncles who served in World War II and Israel’s capture of Adolf Eichmann in 1960, there is no overt discussion of [Bob] Dylan’s cultural and religious roots. Readers who had been looking for Bob to say his time at the Theodor Herzl summer camp in northern Wisconsin was a formative time, or whether he really considered moving to a kibbutz in the 1970s will have to wait for Volume 2 to see if he is willing to address that part of his life."
How AIPAC Works -- Part 1 - "Community Liason" vs. Foreign Policy,
The Gorilla in the Room. Shattering the Taboo on Discussion of Israel's "Agents of Influence"
"This is just a short personal anecdote, but I think you'll find it informative. Right after I finished college, I spent several years working on Capitol Hill for a couple of Democratic members of the House of Representatives. I was hired as a Legislative Assistant by a Member from a rural district with very few Jews or Arabs, who cared little about the Middle East, or foreign policy in general. I covered foreign policy, defense, and veterans issues -- a pretty standard portfolio. One of the other L.A.'s covered domestic social welfare issues, some other things, and Jewish community liason. She was Jewish. Again, a pretty standard "domestic issues" Legislative Assistant portfolio. I got to answer the mail and calls from veterans disputing disability claims with the V.A., and she got to do the same for Social Security, etc. And tracking legislation on those issues. However, when it came to the Middle East, that was, as I learned, a "Jewish community liason" issue, not a "foreign policy" issue. When AIPAC members scheduled meetings to come into the office and talk to staff, or to the member we worked for, it was handled by the other L.A. as "Jewish community liason", not by me as a "foreign policy" issue. You might think that, given that I want to blog anonymously, I wouldn't mention this story, but that's the way most Congressional offices handle the issue of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East. And for most Members of Congress, the issue is just like it was for the Member I worked for back then -- a peripheral issue about which they knew or cared very little. Vote the way AIPAC wants, and you'll get some out-of-state contributions -- vote against AIPAC, and you'll find yourself with a very well-funded opponent in the next election cycle. At the time, I personally didn't care much -- I just saw it as part of the way Washington worked. Looking at how little critical debate there was about the Iraq War, however, I've changed my mind. Everybody knew what AIPAC wanted (even though they weren't out publicly clamoring for it), and most members of Congress kept their mouths shut, even though a lot of them had real misgivings, and a lot of them understood the motivations of the neocons pushing for it.
[The Jewish circumcision tradition of sucking blood from a baby's cut penis has surely given rise to non-Jewish rumors and guffaws throughout history -- yes, another ingredient in the stew of "anti-Semitism." When a 15th century peasant heard about this bizarrely perverse custom in Judaism, they were of course supposed to be "tolerant." Come on ! Hey, Freud! You were Jewish and proud of it! What does an old man sucking a baby's penis blood mean? When all the Jewish Lobbyists start screaming about how backward fundamentalist Islam is, pull out this.]
Freedom of circumcision v. health hazard,
by Nathan Guttman, Haaretz (Israel), March 16, 2005
"The tragic death of an infant in New York's Haredi ultra-Orthodox community has put brit milah (Jewish ritual circumcision) in the spotlight over the past few weeks. The debate, which includes rabbis, mohels (ritual circumcisers) and American health authority representatives, centers on the question of how the mohel should draw blood after performing a circumcision, and whether it is prudent in modern times to permit direct contact between the mohel's mouth and the baby's sex organ. Beyond the issue of this practice itself, the discussion has extended to questions of freedom of religion versus the intervention of authorities and the sanctity of ancient practices versus scientific innovations. The tragedy in question occurred last year in the Haredi community of Monsey, New York. The mohel, Rabbi Yitzchok Fischer, circumcised twins in a double ceremony. The circumcision was performed in the traditional manner accepted among many Haredim, and consists of three stages - incision of the foreskin, its retraction and removal, and drawing of blood. According to ultra-Orthodox practice, this is done directly, with the mohel's mouth on the site of the incision. Ten days after the brit, one of the babies died, and an examination revealed that the cause of death was herpes. The second twin also tested positive for herpes, and after New York City health authorities opened an investigation, they discovered the virus in another baby who had been circumcised by Fischer. The public health department's initial conclusion was that there was a reasonable suspicion that all three babies had been infected by Fischer when he drew blood with his mouth ... The Jewish community is divided on the question of the continued practice of direct oral contact during the brit. While many in the Haredi and Orthodox community believe direct contact between the mohel's mouth and the site of the cut foreskin is necessary, many others have adopted the more modern approach in which the blood is drawn through a small, sterilized glass tube that ensures no direct oral contact in order to avoid the risk of infection ... Tendler stressed in interviews granted to the U.S. Jewish media that herpes is much more common than many people think, and direct oral suction of blood is certainly a dangerous custom. Tendler added that even after this fact became well known, and after studies were published proscribing that adherence to the custom of oral suction needlessly endangers a baby, some parents still insist that the mohel follow the custom, and there are mohels who still continue with this hazardous practice. Not everyone accepts this approach, even when it is presented by an Orthodox authority. " For tens of thousands of believing Jews in the New York area, this practice is an integral part of the fulfillment of the circumcision commandment; to them it is not optional," Kurzmann says, noting that only part of the Jewish community has adopted the changes instituted in the suction method in the past 150 years. No one has data on the proportion of circumcisions that use direct oral suction, but Orthodox community sources estimate that thousands are performed annually ... While in the United States, the Orthodox community is trying to present a creative approach to the issue of oral suction, the Orthodox neighborhoods of Jerusalem have been plastered with posters clarifying that the position of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel remains firm on maintaining the ancient tradition. The posters quote a ruling by Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the leader of the Degel Hatorah party and today's most important Ashkenazi Jewish legal authority, according to which there is nothing to fear from direct oral suction. Elyashiv states that when a mohel has a sore in or on his mouth, he should let someone else perform that part of the ceremony. Degel Hatorah's newspaper, Yated Neeman, defined the Fischer affair as outrageous, "an attempt to harm one of the foundations of the existence of the Jewish people," and "informing (tale bearing) to the gentiles." [i.e., Jews don't want this rather odd part of their heritage known outside the community.] The newspaper stated that notifying the American media regarding the spreading of herpes was "a modern form of the libel that Jews had poisoned the wells" during the time of the Black Plague ... Extensive media interest in the affair, which was covered not only by the Jewish newspapers, but also by local newspapers throughout the country, has placed Jewish customs in a problematic light. The reports portray the brit as a custom that belongs to a bygone era, and which should be modernized in keeping with contemporary medical and public practices."
Divestment resolution likely to pass,
By Donn M. Fresard and Justin Miller, The Michigan Daily (University of Michigan), March 15, 2005
" A resolution supporting divestment from Israel appears to havea reasonable chance of passing in tonight’s Michigan Student Assembly meeting, several top MSA officials said yesterday. The resolution, which attacks the Israeli military’s practices toward the Palestinians as “reprehensible” and “unjustifiable” in 14 paragraphs leading up to its conclusion, would urge the University Board of Regents to create an “advisory committee to investigate the moral and ethical implications” of the University’s $11,000,000 worth of investments in companies that do business with Israel. As of 3 a.m. this morning, a vote count by The Michigan Daily found that MSA representatives who knew how they would vote were almost evenly divided between supporting and opposing the resolution. MSA officials said a similar late-night tally, conducted by assembly officials, yielded roughly the same results. The student government at the University’s Dearborn campus passed a similar resolution last month, and the student government at the Flint campus is also expected to take up the issue tomorrow. In an unusual move last night, MSA President Jason Mironov came out against the resolution before the vote. While its supporters claim the resolution merely suggests that a committee explore the issue, Mironov condemned it as disingenuous, saying it presents only the anti-Israel side of the argument ... Jesse Levine, student general counsel of MSA and the Students 4 Michigan presidential candidate for next week’s MSA elections, echoed Mironov’s statements, saying the timing of the resolution ignores the recent progress made in the peace process and that such a resolution “doesn’t necessarily make sense right now.” ... Rachel Snyder, co-chair of American Movement for Israel, said the resolution would damage the relationship between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian groups on campus ... The resolution is supported by SAFE, Muslim Students’ Association, Pakistani Students’ Association, Native American Student Association and several other student groups and faculty members."
Posted March 15, 2005
[Israel prepares for yet another strike into the heart of Islam in its perverted Zionist quest for the apocalypse. In turn, America barks and gets Israel the paper.]
Revealed: Israel plans strike on Iranian nuclear plant,
by Uzi Mahnaimi, Times Online (UK), March 13, 2005
"Israel has drawn up secret plans for a combined air and ground attack on targets in Iran if diplomacy fails to halt the Iranian nuclear programme. The inner cabinet of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, gave “initial authorisation” for an attack at a private meeting last month on his ranch in the Negev desert. Israeli forces have used a mock-up of Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant in the desert to practise destroying it. Their tactics include raids by Israel’s elite Shaldag (Kingfisher) commando unit and airstrikes by F-15 jets from 69 Squadron, using bunker-busting bombs to penetrate underground facilities. The plans have been discussed with American officials who are said to have indicated provisionally that they would not stand in Israel’s way if all international efforts to halt Iranian nuclear projects failed. Tehran claims that its programme is designed for peaceful purposes but Israeli and American intelligence officials — who have met to share information in recent weeks — are convinced that it is intended to produce nuclear weapons. The Israeli government responded cautiously yesterday to an announcement by Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, that America would support Britain, France and Germany in offering economic incentives for Tehran to abandon its programme. In return, the European countries promised to back Washington in referring Iran to the United Nations security council if the latest round of talks fails to secure agreement ... “No pressure, bribe or threat can make Iran give up its legitimate right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes,” said an Iranian spokesman. US officials warned last week that a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities by Israeli or American forces had not been ruled out should the issue become deadlocked at the United Nations."
Focus: Taking aim at Iran,
by Uzi Mahnaimi and Tony Allen-Mills, Times Online (UK), March 13, 2005
"Israeli troops are training for an assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Will it happen and what would be the fallout? ... For the past few months, elite Israeli commandos have been training for an assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities. One more full rehearsal has been scheduled for next month, said senior Israeli intelligence sources last week. The news that Israel is planning unilateral action to end what it considers an imminent Iranian nuclear threat comes as American and European diplomats are announcing new initiatives for negotiation with Tehran. Although publicly committed to the diplomatic effort, Israeli officials say the “point of no return” will come later this year when they calculate Iran will be in a position to start processing uranium. They say Ariel Sharon’s inner cabinet has decided to act alone if the impasse has not been broken. “If all efforts to persuade Iran to drop its plans to produce nuclear weapons should fail, the US administration will authorise Israel to attack,” said one Israeli security source. So in the tradition of Israeli military adventurism — the honour roll includes the destruction of Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981 and the raid on Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976 — Jerusalem is preparing for another daring strike.It is a move which, if carried out, might scupper President George W Bush’s Middle East peace plans and unleash the full force of Iran’s military might against Israel and Jewish interests around the globe ... Officials said that for more than a year, Israeli special forces have been operating a listening post close to the Iranian border in Iraqi Kurdistan. It is also said to have deployed intelligence-gathering submarines in the Gulf and sent special forces on spying missions. The Israeli Ofek-6 spy satellite — previously used to monitor Saddam Hussein’s Iraq — has also been moved to an Iranian orbit. Unlike Osirak, the Israelis are said this time to be co-ordinating with American forces. They have no choice. Any air-launched attack on Iran would send Israeli warplanes over Turkey and close to Iraqi airspace, currently controlled by the Pentagon. Both Washington and Jerusalem know that whoever carries out any attack, the world will see it as a joint conspiracy. It is equally clear that a number of hurdles stand in the way. Jerusalem must prepare for retaliatory assaults, either by Iranian-supplied missiles based in Lebanon or by Iranian backed terrorists ... “Yes, of course you can do a bit of bombing,” said a senior Washington official. “But are you sure you can hit everything? No. And when you’ve done it, what’s the reaction? The Iranians close ranks, there’s international uproar and they’ve still got their weapons programme. What did you achieve by this?”
["It seems that [poet Allen] Ginsberg had traced an obscenity in the dust of a dormitory wihdow; the words were too shocking for the Dean of Students to speak, so he had written them on a piece of paper which he had pushed across to the desk to my husband: 'Fuck the Jews.' ... 'He's a Jew himself,' said the Dean. 'Can you understand his writing a thing like that?' Yes, Lionel could understand; but he couldn't explain it to the Dean." - Jewish author, Diana Trilling, in Bloom, Alexander. Prodigal Sons. The New York Intellectuals and Their World, Oxford University Press, 1986, p. 302]
Anti-Semitic slur found on business,
by Brian Spadora, Herald News (New Jersey), March 11, 2005
"An anti-Semitic slur was written on the garage door of a Jewish-owned business, and the windshields of two of the company's vans were smashed late Wednesday or early Thursday. An employee of Quality Construction on Colfax Avenue discovered the vandalism at 6:30 a.m. Thursday, Noah Tenenbaum, the company's owner, said. The last employees left the business at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, he said. The evidence of the crime was still visible Thursday afternoon. The phrase "F--- YOU JEW" was scrawled in black magic marker on the building's white garage door. The vans, which were parked in the street outside of the building, were apparently struck with a hammer. A small round hole was punched through one windshield, and two small round cracks sat at the center of spider-web-shaped cracks in the other windshield ... Tenenbaum, who lives in Livingston and who has run his construction business in Clifton for 30 years, said he had a suspicion about who was responsible for the damage to his property, but added that it would be inappropriate to speculate. "It's got to be someone that knows me or knows that I'm Jewish," he said. Tenenbaum is the son of Holocaust survivors and the co-chairman of the Maplewood and South Orange Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance Committee ... Tenenbaum said his parents' history and his own experience made him eager to draw attention to the incident."
[More Chosen People crap. Why are these people in Israel "banned" from getting married? Because in racist Israel -- the beloved of world Jewry everywhere -- it is illegal for a Jew to marry a non-Jew. With so many people flooding into Israel from Russia with mixed parentage, this can cause problems for the Orthodox Jewish ideology that seeks to keep bloodlines pure.]
250,000 Israelis banned from marriage. Growing numbers of Israelis prefer to tie the knot overseas; religious establishment's power decreasing,
Yedhioth Ahronoth (Israel), March 13, 2005
"Some 247,000 Israelis, mostly new immigrants from former Soviet Union countries, cannot get married in Israel because they are not considered Jewish, Central Bureau of Statistics data show. The figures also show that in 2002, 7,089 Israelis got married overseas - with 49 percent of them tying the knot in Cyprus - compared to only 3,639 in 1997. Other popular marriage destinations included Bulgaria, the U.S., and former Soviet Union countries. According to the data, 1,408 Israeli men married non-Israeli brides overseas, and 789 Israeli brides married non-Israeli men. Also, the figures indicate that the number of marriage ceremonies performed by Israel's religious establishment, the rabbinate, has significantly dropped since the 1970’s in relation to the increase of the Jewish population in Israel ... Zamira Segev of the Forum for Free Choice in Marriage says the large number of Jewish immigrants who choose to get married overseas proves they do not want “to go through the torture of the rabbinate exams.” "The continuous rise in the number of Israelis who get married abroad shows the need for a comprehensive solution," she says. “The fact that most of the those who get married overseas are Jews proves the Jewish public is tired of the religious coercion and the orthodox monopoly.”
["Sensitivity" to Jewish demands is in direct parallel to rising Jewish power to dictate whatever it wants throughout the subservient "free world." Jews snap their fingers and "world leaders" (a rag-tag assemblage of empowered pimps, whores, broken plastic puppets, and political beggars looking for handouts) pull down their pants and dance the hula for them.]
Katsav: Sensitivity to Holocaust growing,
by Greer Kay Cashman, Jerusalem Post, March 13, 2005
"Leaders of the free world are showing more sensitivity to the Holocaust than ever before," President Moshe Katsav said Sunday. He was referring to the large number of presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers and other dignitaries from abroad who will be attending the Tuesday opening of Yad Vashem's new History Museum. "Perhaps they needed the historic perspective of 60 years to identify with the Holocaust," he said, noting that this large-scale, high-ranking commemoration started at Auschwitz-Birkenau in January, is being given further expression in Israel this week, and will gain momentum in Russia in May. Applauding the decisions of those world leaders who have come to Israel at this time, Katsav said they have come to show solidarity not only with Israel but against anti-Semitism. Katsav, who will meet the dignitaries at Yad Vashem and again at a state dinner that he and his wife Gila will host at the Knesset on Tuesday evening, will also have private meetings with some of them at Beit Hanassi. He is scheduled to meet on Monday with Latvian President Vaidan Adamkus, Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. On Tuesday Katsav will meet with Dominican vice president Rafael Alburquerque de Castro, Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson, Albanian President Alfred Moisiu, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, with whom he has met several times both in Israel and in Poland, and Ivan Gasparovic, the president of Slovakia. Katsav's scheduled meetings on Wednesday are with Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu, Swiss President Samuel Schmid, Croatian President Stjepan Mesic, Bosnia-Herzegovina President Borislav Paravac, and the head of the Danish delegation, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The round of meetings with world leaders concludes on Thursday with Svetozar Marovic, the president of Serbia-Montenegro. Meanwhile, Katsav has received a letter from German President Horst Kohler assuring him that Germany will remain permanently committed to the struggle against anti-Semitism, right-wing extremism and racism. Kohler, who initially met Katsav in Poland in January and again in Israel at the beginning of February, reiterated Germany's warm friendship towards Israel and concurred with Katsav's view that the best way to enhance the cordial bilateral relations was to expand the youth interchanges so that each would get to know and understand the other ... Germany will be represented at the Yad Vashem ceremony by Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, who is a frequent visitor to Israel."
[Whine, whine, whine. It's about time other people get to squeeze in a critical word once and a while against the Jewish steamroller. But here the Judeocentric Thought Police seeks to strangle free speech on yet another campus. As always, endemic Jewish/Isreali racism demands legal protection from critique.]
Tide of extremism is rising against us, say Jewish students,
By Sean O'Neill and Yaakov Lappin, Times Online (UK), March 12, 2005
"In her native Israel, Channa Gerrard is on the political left and involves herself in peace campaigns. In London, where she came to study Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies, she believes that she is singled out as a Zionist extremist. Ms Gerrard, 29, is one of a number of Israeli and Jewish students at the renowned college in Russell Square, Central London, who complain of being targeted by radical Muslim students in an increasingly isolating and intimidating atmosphere. Concern about anti-Semitism at the school has led Hazel Blears, the Minister who is responsible for policing and community safety, to order her officials to prepare a report on events at SOAS. She told MPs that legislation banning religious hatred may be needed. “If any of these incidents are breaches of the criminal law, then there is provision for religiously aggravated offences now in terms of the provisions that we brought in,” Ms Blears said. For Ms Gerrard, action to combat the abuse cannot come soon enough. “This is not a good place to be a Jewish student, and especially not if you are Israeli as well,” she said. “It is getting out of hand. Consistently people just look at me as Jewish or Israeli. They don’t look at me as an individual. I am interested in a peaceful solution. I came here to study Arabic and have productive discussions with people of different views. It is very frustrating and unpleasant just to be seen as the enemy.” ... SOAS, founded in 1916, prides itself on its academic reputation, its diverse student population and its vibrant political debate. But with world affairs dominated by events in the Middle East, college authorities are worried about bitter divisions in the student body. They have intervened twice in recent months to reverse student union decisions. Earlier this month they overturned the election of Ken Livingstone as honorary president of the student union. The Mayor of London had been nominated at the height of the controversy over his remarks to a newspaper reporter who is Jewish. The meeting at which he was elected produced a heated argument about Middle East politics dominated by talk of Zionist conspiracies."
[When I first saw this headline, I thought it referred to Israeli treatment of the Palestinians:]
Jews win right to ritual slaughter,
Cleveland Jewish News, March 2005
"British Jews won an 18-month battle to gain government assurances protecting the community's right to practice ritual slaughter. The future of such slaughter, or shechitah, in Britain had been threatened following a June 2003 report from the Farm Animal Welfare Council recommending the government repeal the right of the Jewish community to carry out kosher slaughter. The council asserted that animals killed according to Jewish law, without being pre-stunned, were "likely to experience very significant pain and distress." But the government decision Tuesday accepted evidence put forward by Jewish lobbyists that demonstrated ritual slaughter was a humane method of killing animals for food."
[The Jewish head of Disney, Michael Eisner, has passed the top post to Robert Iger, who also appears to be Jewish. Iger is a "committee member" of the Orthodox Jewish/Zionist Aish Ha Torah organization. After the Jewish Tribal Review web site posted this fact (here) from Aish Ha Torah's Jerusalem Fund web page, the organization took its original post down.]
Iger's Disney position is Eisner's final win,
by James Bates, Sun News (from Los Angeles Times), March 15, 2005
"During just the past 12 months, Michael Eisner has weathered several storms, any one of which could have sunk a less-seasoned, or stubborn, executive. In March 2004, after Walt Disney Co. shareholders blistered him with a 45 percent vote of no confidence, he was removed as chairman of the board. Late last year, his judgment was repeatedly questioned during testimony at a trial about his ill-fated hiring of his former friend Michael Ovitz. A few weeks ago, a best-selling book portrayed him as paranoid and obsessed with his enemies. On Sunday, the resilient chief executive who has run Disney for nearly 21 years appeared to have the last laugh. With the naming of Disney President Robert Iger as his successor, Eisner demonstrated once again the enormous control he wields over the Disney empire. By picking Iger, an Eisner protege and the lone inside candidate, the Disney board effectively endorsed the status quo. In contrast to an outsider, who might have felt pressure to transform the Burbank, Calif.-based entertainment corporation, Iger will no doubt endorse continuity ... The board's decision revealed Eisner's genius for managing and protecting his legacy at Disney. But, then, he's well-known for his meticulous attention to detail - including the color of the curtains in Disney's hotel rooms, which he personally selected. What was striking Sunday wasn't just that Eisner got his way. It was that the role he insisted on playing in the search seemed to have assured his success. According to several sources, Eisner's demand that he be part of the interviewing process made it hard for Disney to lure strong contenders."
[Omnipresent Jewish Thought Police, spreading and spreading. If you dare to criticize Jews and apartheid Israel, the Judeocentric media dictates that you are an "extremist." Censoring whatever you have to say "may be needed."]
Tide of extremism is rising against us, say Jewish students,
by By Sean O'Neill and Yaakov Lappin, Times Online (UK), March 12, 2005
"In her native Israel, Channa Gerrard is on the political left and involves herself in peace campaigns. In London, where she came to study Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies, she believes that she is singled out as a Zionist extremist. Ms Gerrard, 29, is one of a number of Israeli and Jewish students at the renowned college in Russell Square, Central London, who complain of being targeted by radical Muslim students in an increasingly isolating and intimidating atmosphere. Concern about anti-Semitism at the school has led Hazel Blears, the Minister who is responsible for policing and community safety, to order her officials to prepare a report on events at SOAS. She told MPs that legislation banning religious hatred may be needed. “If any of these incidents are breaches of the criminal law, then there is provision for religiously aggravated offences now in terms of the provisions that we brought in,” Ms Blears said. For Ms Gerrard, action to combat the abuse cannot come soon enough. “This is not a good place to be a Jewish student, and especially not if you are Israeli as well,” she said. “It is getting out of hand. Consistently people just look at me as Jewish or Israeli. They don’t look at me as an individual. I am interested in a peaceful solution. I came here to study Arabic and have productive discussions with people of different views. It is very frustrating and unpleasant just to be seen as the enemy.” The latest sign of increasing anti-Semitism at the college is the publication this week in SOAS Spirit, the student union magazine, of an article advocating suicide terrorism by Palestinians. The article, written by Nasser Amin, argues that violence is the best hope of the Palestinian people, describes Israel as a Jewish colony and says that all Zionists must be exposed. “Those who benefit from the immoral actions of a colonial state in which they have chosen to reside cannot be considered as innocent,” the article reads. All Israeli adults, it continues, are “personally complicit in the national wrongdoing” and jeopardise their children’s lives by choosing to live there. Ms Gerrard said that she found the language of the article deeply offensive. “I love studying here,” she said, “but it has become quite stressful. There can be a very unpleasant atmosphere.” SOAS, founded in 1916, prides itself on its academic reputation, its diverse student population and its vibrant political debate. But with world affairs dominated by events in the Middle East, college authorities are worried about bitter divisions in the student body. They have intervened twice in recent months to reverse student union decisions. Earlier this month they overturned the election of Ken Livingstone as honorary president of the student union. The Mayor of London had been nominated at the height of the controversy over his remarks to a newspaper reporter who is Jewish. The meeting at which he was elected produced a heated argument about Middle East politics dominated by talk of Zionist conspiracies ... However, Peter Baron, the general manager of the student union, denied that anti-Semitism was a problem at SOAS. “Our line on racism is very clear. If there were any incidents, we would report it directly to the school,” he said. “But I don’t think there is any evidence of anti-Semitism at SOAS. It was discussed at the union general meeting last week and agreed that there was no anti-Semitism.”
[We suggest a "Jew tax" wherein all people in the Western world pay a special "guilt fee" so all Jews can sit around on velvet thrones, tickling the undersides of peacocks, using high-powered megaphones to bitch about the Holocaust without having to waste their holy energies in owning so many media forums to do it.]
U.S. to pay US$25.5 mil. for Holocaust train,
China Post, March 13, 2005
"The federal government on Friday reached a US$25.5 million (euro19 million) settlement with the families of Hungarian Holocaust victims and will acknowledge the U.S. Army's role in commandeering a trainload of the families' treasures during World War II. Under the terms of the settlement, the money will be distributed to needy Hungarian Holocaust survivors rather than individual claimants who lost family possessions. About US$21 million (euro15.7 million) in funding for humanitarian services will be distributed to social service agencies worldwide based on the percentage of survivors, including 40 percent in Israel, 22 percent in Hungary, 21 percent in the United States and 7 percent in Canada."
[There are millions of censored horror stories in the Jewish state. Here's some from a government policy that screwed Sephardic Jews.]
The Ringworm Children, [Documentary]
Link TV
"In the early 1950's, approximately 100,000 immigrant children, primarily from North Africa, received X-ray radiation treatment for ringworm upon their arrival in Israel. At the time, the medical establishment thought ringworm a grave danger to public health. It was later discovered that these treatments caused high rates of infertility, cancer and death. This tragic affair was hidden from the public eye for decades… until now. Through exhaustive research and testimonies of survivors, this emotional documentary illustrates how stereotyping immigrants can have horrific consequences."
[The world of Jewish discourse: Jewish centered, Jewish rooted. See no evil, hear no evil.]
World without Israel,
by Josef Joffe, Front Page Magazine, March 11, 2005
"Since World War II, no state has suffered so cruel a reversal of fortunes as Israel. Admired all the way into the 1970s as the state of “those plucky Jews” who survived against all odds and made democracy and the desert bloom in a climate hostile to both liberty and greenery, Israel has become the target of creeping delegitimization ... One motif is the “wagging the dog” theory. Thus, in the United States, the “Jewish lobby” and a cabal of neoconservatives have bamboozled the Bush administration into a mindless pro-Israel policy inimical to the national interest. This view attributes, as has happened so often in history, too much clout to the Jews. And behind this charge lurks a more general one—that it is somehow antidemocratic for subnational groups to throw themselves into the hurly-burly of politics when it comes to foreign policy ... Another soft version is the “root-cause” theory in its many variations. Because the “obstinate” and “recalcitrant” Israelis are the main culprits, they must be punished and pushed back for the sake of peace. “Put pressure on Israel”; “cut economic and military aid”; “serve them notice that we will not condone their brutalities”—these have been the boilerplate homilies, indeed the obsessions, of the chattering classes and the foreign-office establishment for decades. Yet, as Sigmund Freud reminded us, obsessions tend to spread. And so there are ever more creative addenda to the well-wrought root-cause theory. Anatol Lieven of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace argues that what is happening between Israelis and Palestinians is a “tremendous obstacle to democratization because it inflames all the worst, most regressive aspects of Arab nationalism and Arab culture.” In other words, the conflict drives the pathology, and not the other way around—which is like the streetfighter explaining to the police: “It all started when this guy hit back.” ...Is this anti-Semitism, as so many Jews are quick to suspect? No, but denying Israel’s legitimacy bears an uncanny resemblance to some central features of this darkest of creeds. Accordingly, the Jews are omnipotent, ubiquitous, and thus responsible for the evils of the world. Today, Israel finds itself in an analogous position, either as handmaiden or manipulator of U.S. might. The soft version sighs: “If only Israel were more reasonable…” The semihard version demands that “the United States pull the rug out from under Israel” to impose the pliancy that comes from impotence. And the hard-hard version dreams about salvation springing from Israel’s disappearance. Why, sure—if it weren’t for that old joke from Israel’s War of Independence: While the bullets were whistling overhead and the two Jews in their foxhole were running out of rounds, one griped, “If the Brits had to give us a country not their own, why couldn’t they have given us Switzerland?” Alas, Israel is just a strip of land in the world’s most noxious neighborhood, and the cleanup hasn’t even begun." [JTR note: Jews weren't "given" Israel over "Switzerland." They demanded it, according to their disguised religio-fascism.]
[Promising new blog:]
Gorilla in the room. Shattering the Taboo on Discussion of Israel's "Agents of Influence,"
Gorilla in the room
Israel Boycotts Peace Conference; Mainstream Media Mum on Meeting,
by Christopher Bollyn, American Free Press, March 13, 2005
"Unreported in the corporate controlled press, the Israeli boycott of the recent international Middle East peace summit in London illustrates why the Israel-Palestine conflict remains stuck in a quagmire after 57 years and who is ultimately responsible. Although Israel stayed away, its hard-line government dictated the conference agenda and terms of discussion. Foreign ministers and high-level delegations from 23 nations and six international organizations convened in London on March 1 to try and advance the “peace process” between the Palestinians and Israelis. The attendees included the newly elected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan,Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy chief Javier Solana and World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn.Representatives from the UN, EU, the United States and Russia—the “Quartet” members who drafted the current peace plan known as the “road map”—were also present for the one-day conference at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center. Despite the presence of so many high-level delegations, the international gathering, which Blair had originally hoped would be, or lead to, a peace conference, was unable to advance the peace process even one step because the chief antagonist of the conflict in Palestine, the Israeli government, simply boycotted the conference. This, however, went unreported in the U.S. mainstream media."
[More massive Jewish swarming as subversive policy to silence dissent. Mark it down clearly: this is how the Jew Klux Klan functions. Credit goes to this reporter who didn't let the manipulative Jewish Zionazi bandwagon hide from scrutiny.]
Jewish community lines up to blunt message of anti-Zionist author,
By Caitlin Cleary, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 15, 2005
"Pittsburgh's Jewish community turned out in force last night for Norman G. Finkelstein's lecture at Carnegie Mellon University. People lined up by the dozen more than an hour before the speech began, anxious to claim a seat in McConomy Auditorium. Normally, this is not Finkelstein's crowd. The scholar and author of books like the international best-seller "The Holocaust Industry" and the forthcoming "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History," Finkelstein argues that American Jewry has "played the Holocaust card," exploiting the suffering of Jews as a political tool to generate sympathy for Israeli policy and further the aims of Zionism. Finkelstein also spoke of human rights abuses Israel has inflicted on Arabs. Many in the crowd spoke of betrayal and outrage that Finkelstein, whose parents both survived the ghettos and concentration camps of Europe, would draw analogies between Nazi and Israeli policies. So why wait in line to hear the man speak for two hours? It was part of a carefully planned effort by the United Jewish Federation to minimize the impact of Finkelstein's appearance by quietly filling the seats of the lecture hall with Jews already inured to his "ridiculous and vile distortions," said Jeffrey Cohan, spokesman for the UJF. Given several weeks' notice of Finkelstein's appearance, the UJF, which represents all Jewish organizations in the Pittsburgh area, deployed a "rapid response team" to e-mail more than 400 people, asking them to show up, and early. Cohan characterized Finkelstein's support in the Jewish community as "minuscule" and "very extreme fringe." Ken Boas is one of those supporters. Boas teaches English at the University of Pittsburgh, and came to hear Finkelstein speak about his support of the Palestinian struggle and Israel's "abhorrent and criminal policies" against Palestinians ... The atmosphere was tense. CMU administrator Indira Nair spoke first, laying out the rules: no questions, no loud remarks, "no noises that your mothers wouldn't approve of." Finkelstein began his remarks with apologies to those who had come "hoping for a circus." "I'm not going to be providing one," he said."
[More Jewish Fascism, course 101 . By what logic, morality, or twisted maiming of the very principles of free speech, democracy, and an open society can the omnipresent censorial Jewish Lobby demand that a person it assaults and impugns has no right to publicly respond to Jewry's charges?]
Wyman Institute Condemns C-Span Broadcast of Holocaust-Denier,
U.S. Newswire, March 15, 2005
"The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies today sent the following letter to C-SPAN, regarding the cable television channel's plan to broadcast a lecture by Holocaust-denier David Irving:
... Dear Ms. Doebele: On behalf of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, I am writing to express our opposition to your reported decision to broadcast a lecture by Holocaust-denier David Irving, to "balance" your intended broadcast of a lecture by Holocaust historian Prof. Deborah Lipstadt. We support Prof. Lipstadt's refusal to participate in this project. Falsifiers of history cannot "balance" historians. Falsehoods cannot "balance" the truth ... The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies recently issued its second annual report on Holocaust-denial around the world. It found that Holocaust-denial is a real and growing problem, and continues to be actively promoted in Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere, and in some cases enjoys government sponsorship. If C-SPAN broadcasts a lecture by David Irving, it will provide publicity and legitimacy to Holocaust-denial, which is nothing more than a mask for anti-Jewish bigotry. We strongly urge you to cancel your planned broadcast of the Irving lecture, and to proceed with your original plan to broadcast Prof. Lipstadt's forthcoming lecture at Harvard University. Cordially, Rafael Medoff, Ph.D. Director, The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies."
[JTR contributor's note: "This article is about as inchoate as the supposed "victim's" justification for suing the Carpenter's Union in New York, but in so being it helps illustrate the whiny lack of logic and common sense exercised by the Tribe. The carpenter/boxer gets hurt in a personal dispute so he tries to bring down an entire workingman's union? Why bother joining the union in the first place if you hate everyone else in it? This is just like when Jews join clubs and then sue the club for not operating exactly to their taste. These guys are moral and ethical freaks. No doubt this pansy twit and his lawyer will be shopping for judges and venues; bad news is they already have a lock on the judges in NYC."]
Boxer Socks Union,
by Denise Buffa, New York Post, March 14, 2005
"A former Golden Gloves boxer who now works as a carpenter is aiming to knock out his union for more than $10 million for ignoring his complaint that Irish members brutally attacked him at their gym because he's a Spanish Jew. Rafael Farrait — who's held many amateur titles, including the New York City Golden Gloves — says he was wearing a yarmulke when he showed up at the Queens gym last March to teach youths to box, but he claims Richard Kiley, a member of Local No. 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, threw the first figurative punch. "He motioned to my yarmulke," Farrait, 34, of The Bronx, told The Post. "He said we don't want your kind here. We don't need you here." Kiley, 33, denies the claim, noting his two closest friends, his boxing trainers, are Jewish and he's half Puerto Rican. "I'm not against myself," he said. "The whole story is fabricated." Both men agree they sparred one another in a ring at the gym, and Kiley got hurt. They both say they took the fight outside after that — but while Farrait maintains he was attacked by Kiley and four of his friends, Kiley insists it was a one-on-one bout. Farrait says Kiley sucker-punched him outside the ring, Kiley's friends then attacked him, and Kiley socked him again. "One of the guys kicks me from behind on my leg, on my right leg, and that's when my kneecap went out," Farrait said. "Richard Kiley stood over me and he started punching me in the head while I was on the floor." Then Kiley, a father of two, and his friends left. "They say, 'That's good for you, you f- - -in' Jew. We don't want you here,' " Farrait said, adding, "I got lumps all over my head. I have my kneecap on the other side of my leg. I'm delirious . . . I'm screaming like crazy, 'Help! Help!' " Kiley says Farrait, a father of three, taunted him after he got hurt in the ring. "You're a p- - - -. You got no heart," Kiley recalled Farrait saying. He said they took it outside and "started mixing it up" until Farrait got hurt. "He started screaming, 'My leg! My leg! My leg!' " Kiley said. "He hurt his kneecap, maybe the way he turned or something . . . He was screaming bloody murder." Cops were called, but no one was busted."
[Experts on the Jewish religion lock horns. History will view Madonna as a public clown, perfectly straddling (so to speak) Jewish mysticism and a lapdance striptease.]
MADONNA HITS BACK AT BOY GEORGE HOMOPHOBE JIBES,
Contact Music, March 11, 2005
"Pop icon MADONNA has rubbished gay singer BOY GEORGE's claims she is a hypocrite for following Kabbalah - insisting the mystical offshoot of Judaism isn't homophobic. The former CULTURE CLUB singer expressed horror the MATERIAL GIRL flirted with lesbianism - most famously in her controversial kisses with BRITNEY SPEARS and CHRISTINA AGUILERA at 2003's MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS - yet supports a religion which he believes preaches homosexuality is a disease which can be cured. But Madonna's spokeswoman LIZ ROSENBERG has moved to emphasise her client's devotion to the gay and lesbian community. She tells website PAGESIX.COM, "There's not enough room on Page Six to respond to Boy George's ridiculous accusations much less list Madonna's long-standing passion, love, commitment and devotion to the gay community which has not changed for 20 years." Rosenberg is adamant Kabbalah does "not discriminate against homosexuals, nor do they work toward changing anyone's sexual preference. I wish Boy George would go back to writing songs... Does he ever have anything nice to say about anyone?"
[Increasingly, religion in Judeocentric consumer culture has become less than a joke: it's something you find at Kmart -- in the trash bin -- with all kinds of other throwaway plastic trinkets. "WWJD"? (What would Jesus do?) He'd over turn the money-changer tables and kick the defiling Jews out of the temple.]
Winter Springs company's products say 'Jewish is cool',
By SANDRA PEDICINI, The Gainesville Sun, March 15, 2005
"Hip Christians proclaim their faith with WWJD bracelots and T-shirts emblazoned with 'Jesus is my homeboy.' The teenager mentioned that to his dad, and a new business was born. Larry Broome - with some creative input from his 14-year-old son Will - has created KewlJu, a line of T-shirts and jewelry marketed online to young Jews. Broome calls it "21st-century Jewish gear." The product line includes black T-shirts and red tank tops that say "Hot 4 Hebrew" and "KewlJu" - a more hip version of "cool Jew" that Will says is "not so ordinary. It's not boring." The Broomes have sold about 200 shirts at $15 to $28 each and 1,000 Lance Armstrong-inspired blue bracelets, at $3 each, that say "Chosen." ... Broome, who separately sells broadcast equipment, is stepping into a territory overwhelmingly dominated by Christian products, on which Americans spend $4.5 billion a year. Christian retailing has become increasingly mainstream. The initials WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) decorate everything from bracelets and T-shirts to mugs and pencils ... Other entrepreneurs have begun to discover the untapped market. Chosen Couture sells tote bags that read "The girl's got chutzpah!" and T-shirts with slogans including "Yo Semite," "He'Brew, The Chosen Beer" and "Jew.Lo." ... Broome may have more luck with the Israeli Bobsled Team. The team of Jewish athletes, which includes former San Francisco 49ers tight end John Frank, agreed to partner with Broome after he contacted them with the idea of designing promotional clothing and accessories. Broome hasn't finalized designs, but he plans to incorporate the team's bobsled logo and nickname, "Frozen Chosen." Team brakeman David Greaves of Canada said KewlJu products have a lot in common with the Israeli athletes, who are trying to compete in the 2006 Olympics as Israel's first bobsled team. Israel hasn't had many athletes compete in the Winter Olympics, Greaves said. "It's neat marketing for Jews," Greaves said. "He is just wanting people to wear with pride something that's fun and fashionable and Jewish, and we're sort of telling a similar story. We're wanting . . . people to know we're proud to be Jewish; we're proud to be Israeli."
[Little New Zealand is a land of heroes! More countries are needed to stand up to the Jewish/Zionist wall like this:]
Government shuts out Israeli general,
by Patrick Goodenough, New Zealand Herald, March 15, 2005
"The Government has blocked a private one-day visit to New Zealand by Israel's second most senior military officer.
Deputy Chief of Staff Major-General Gabi Ashkenazi was to have addressed a meeting in Auckland last Sunday of the United Israel Appeal, the premier Jewish fundraising agency. A spokesman for Foreign Minister Phil Goff confirmed yesterday that a visa had been refused and linked the decision to the unresolved diplomatic row over the passport fraud affair. He said General Ashkenazi's proposed visit "fell well outside the relevant guidelines" established by the Government last July. This was after two Israelis, believed to be Mossad agents, tried to obtain a passport by assuming the identity of a disabled New Zealander. Among the steps taken were restrictions on high-level visits from Israel to New Zealand. A spokesman for the Prime Minister said yesterday that Helen Clark "could not recall" whether General Ashkenazi's visa application had been run past her, but "a matter like that would be the Foreign Minister's decision - and it would be in keeping with the official position on contacts with Israel at present". The Immigration Service turned down the application just days before the planned trip. In the end, senior Cabinet minister Natan Sharansky spoke to the 180-strong Auckland audience by phone from Jerusalem. United Israel Appeal officials in Auckland and Sydney declined to comment ... Speaking from Tel Aviv, a spokesman for General Ashkenazi's office would not comment, other than to say the general had decided not to visit New Zealand "for personal reasons".
Goff hopeful of Israeli apology over spies,
New Zealand Herald, March 15, 2005 (NZPA, HERALD STAFF)
"Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff has said diplomatic talks to secure an apology over the Israeli spies case are progressing. The Government is seeking an assurance from Israel that there will be no repeat of the incident in which suspected Mossad agents attempted to fraudulently obtain New Zealand passports. Mr Goff said today: "We have had an approach from Israel. We are hopeful the matter can be resolved and normal relations resumed." The onus was on Israel to solve the problem as New Zealand was the wronged party. "This country takes seriously agents being sent to do criminal acts," he said. His comments came after the Herald revealed the Government refused to allow a senior Israeli military officer to visit New Zealand ... The president of the Jewish Council, David Zwartz, said there was a long history of the Jewish community inviting speakers from overseas to fundraising events. "I think it's unfortunate that the Government is applying its guidelines on a matter of diplomatic difference between Israel and New Zealand in a way that punishes the New Zealand Jewish community," he said on National Radio."
[More hateful "anti-Semitism?" No problem. Lawrence Summers is Jewish and immune from criticism.]
Harvard Leader Loses No-Confidence Vote,
Earthlink (from Associated Press), March 15, 2005
"In a symbolic but stunning rebuke, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences passed a motion Tuesday saying it lacked confidence in President Lawrence Summers - the first such action in the nearly 400-year history of the university. The arts and sciences faculty is one of 10 that comprise the university. Summers reports to the Harvard Corporation, the university's governing board, which has expressed its support for him. But the 218-185 vote supporting the motion - which even supporters had expected to be defeated - was a significant setback to Summers' efforts to rebuild his standing with Harvard's faculty in the wake of the uproar over his comments about women in science at an academic conference in January. At the very least, the vote seemed likely to prolong the period of divisiveness among faculty and hinder Summers' efforts to return focus to his agenda for remaking the university. The measure stated simply: "The Faculty lacks confidence in the leadership of Lawrence H. Summers." The faculty also passed, 253-137, a milder rebuke of Summers' comments and "managerial approach." "As I said to the faculty, I have tried these last couple months to listen to all that has been said, to learn from it, and to move forward, and that's what I am going to do," Summers said afterward. J. Lorand Matory, a professor of anthropology and African and African-American studies, introduced the lack-of-confidence motion. He had expected it to be supported by no more than 30 percent of attendees. Matory said Summers should quit. "There is no noble alternative to resignation," he said. Summers, however, has given no indication of stepping down ... The criticism over Summers' comments quickly expanded into a broader attacks on the president's management style and his vision for the university, including major projects to expand Harvard's campus across the Charles River in Boston, and his ideas about what direction scientific research should take. Ruth Wisse, a literature professor and Summers supporter, emphasized the "lack of confidence" measure was different from a "no-confidence" vote, which in the British parliamentary system causes the fall of a government."
[Another Zionazi rabbi demands that Christians kiss Jewish butt. Calling Israel a "democracy" is like calling a camel turd an eagle. Who "speaks" for American Christians? Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein and moral whores like Gary Bauer.]
NOTED RABBI HITS MAINLINE PROTESTANTS FOR ANTI-ISRAEL POLICIES,
Religion News Services, March 7, 2005
"Jews who used to think that liberal, mainline Protestant churches would stand alongside them in solidarity with Israel must finally recognize that they were dead wrong, said Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, a noted bridge-builder between the Jewish and evangelical Christian communities. “At the same time that we’re seeing the results of 25 years of efforts in bringing together Jewish and evangelical groups in support of Israel, we’re also facing the sobering reality of mainline denominations not only turning their backs on Israel, but lining up to viciously attack the only Middle Eastern country with democratic values and practices,” Eckstein said. Eckstein’s comments accompanied the release of a white paper distributed by his organization, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. “The Growing Church Calls for Divestment from Israel – A Jewish Response” examines the roots of the widening rift between mainline Protestants and the Jewish community and the growing strength of the Jewish-evangelical alliance. Gary Bauer, a prominent evangelical leader and head of the non-profit group American Values, welcomed Eckstein’s analysis. “Mainline Christian groups need to be held accountable for their irresponsible, unjust attacks on Israel – these church bureaucrats do not speak for American Christians,” he said. “Rabbi Eckstein does a real service by speaking out on this issue, just as The Fellowship does by bringing Jews and evangelicals together in support of Israel.” ... The paper can be read or downloaded from The Fellowship’s website (www.ifcj.org) ... The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, based in Chicago and Jerusalem, promotes understanding and cooperation between Jews and Christians and builds broad support for Israel and other shared concerns. The Fellowship has contributed more than $100 million in recent years toward Jewish immigration, resettlement, social welfare and security projects in Israel, as well as food, housing and social-service programs in the Former Soviet Union."
[The closure here is clear: Israeli president screams about "anti-Semitism" = New Holocaust museum opens up for $56 million. The Holocaust festival below is something akin to a horror movie in which all the aristocrats on the planet crawl on all fours to pay homage to the monster King. Consider: all the big shots in the world are migrating to Jerusalem to get their "kosher-sanctioned" tattoos.]
Katsav warns of renewed anti-Semitism,
by Steve Gutkin, C News (Canada), March 15, 2005
"Israel's president warned Tuesday of renewed anti-Semitism as he participated in the opening of a $56-million US Holocaust museum that focuses on the personal tragedies of the six million Jews who perished in the Nazi genocide. Leaders from dozens of countries attended the ceremony at the Holocaust History Museum at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem memorial, which took 10 years to complete. The building, designed by Israeli-American architect Moshe Safdie, spans more than 4,000 square metres, making it four times larger than the museum it replaces ... On hand for the inaugural ceremonies were UN Secretary General Kofi Annan; the presidents of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia and Montenegro and Switzerland; prime ministers from France, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Romania; and foreign ministers from Germany, Norway and Spain. Transport Minister Jean Lapierre represented Canada at the ceremonies. Israeli president Moshe Katsav cut the ribbon opening the building and then called on European countries to fight renewed expressions of anti-Semitism. "We are concerned about Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism," he said. Europe "must accept the burden of the memory and lessons of the Holocaust for the future it is building. It owes this to the millions of Jews who were murdered on its soil."
[The Holocaust Industry continues to go transnational. The Jew Klux Klan itself is the model for the transworld multinational corporation and pro-Zionist toadies frolic in the upper eschelons of Power throughout the West.]
Bloomberg Revels As Leader Of U.S. Delegation To Holocaust Museum,
WNBC, March 15, 2005
"New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg expressed pride Tuesday at being selected to head the U.S. delegation to the reopening of Israel's new Holocaust museum, saying it was something that would have amazed his father. Bloomberg was chosen by President Bush to represent the American people at the opening of the $56 million Yad Vashem museum ... The delegation Bloomberg heads included Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and former New York Mayor Ed Koch. Dignitaries from some 40 countries joined the American delegation for the museum's opening. They included U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan; the presidents of Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia & Montenegro and Switzerland; prime ministers from France, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Romania and foreign ministers of Germany, Norway and Spain." [JTR note: What?! None from Iraq and Afghanistan?]
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