THIS WEEK'S JEWISH NEWS

Posted March 23:

[Isn't it time for the U.S. military to invade sicko Israel (and its Jewish citizens who don't know what morality is) to install a little "democracy" for a few thousand folks, above and beyond the millions of oppressed Palestinians? Information on Jewish and Israeli dominance of the world sex slave trade, pornography, etc., can be found here here. 300-400 brothels in tiny Israel? There are places where Israel is only 10 miles wide, and those stretches must be clogged with herds of fat pimps beating off each other's extended appendages to get at each other's stable of crucified non-Jewish women. Truly, Dante's Inferno.]
Israel's prostitution industry turnover NIS 5b a year. Knesset Parliamentary Inquiry Committee on the Trading in Women: 3,000-5,000 women have been smuggled into Israel and sold into prostitution at 300-400 brothels in recent years,
by Zvi Lavi, Globes (Israel), March 23, 2005
"Israel's prostitution and trading in women industry has a turnover of NIS 5 billion a year, states the concluding report by the Knesset Parliamentary Inquiry Committee on the Trading in Women chaired by MK Zahava Gal-On (Yahad). The report was published today. The report states that 3,000-5,000 women have been smuggled into Israel and sold into prostitution in recent years. The report's authors say that women are traded for $8,000-10,000 each. The women are reportedly held in 300-400 brothels across the country, and work 14-18 hours a day, seven days a week. The women serve scores of clients, but keep only NIS 20 from the NIS 120 each client pays. The rest is handed over to their pimps. A special survey commissioned by the committee found that the public does not consider trading in women to be a violation of human rights."

[Um, I guess it's, uh, good to know that at least Jewish women are treated decently in the Jewish state:]
Rabbi: Courts are provoking men to murder their wives,
By Amiram Barikat and David Ratner, Haaretz (Israel), March 21, 2005
"Chief Sephardic Rabbi Shlomo Amar said Monday that rushed court verdicts against husbands accused of abusing their wives are likely to provoke the men to commit murder. "Many times husbands are taken from their home on the basis of an uninvestigated complaint," said Amar, during a meeting with leaders from Na'amat, the largest women's rights organization in Israel. "Sometimes the deterioration can take place in the court, when a man feels he is not being heard." "Just as we are warned to denunciate all violence," said Amar, "we are warned against surpassing the appropriate level of caution, because then we are no longer being just." According to the rabbi, the courts are capricious and heavily influenced by events in the news."Each time the courts hear that someone murdered his wife, they become very tense," said Amar. "I don't envy the man that is brought before them [during those times], to be made hung as an example." "A few days pass, and everything returns to normal," said Amar. "This is very serious, in my opinion, that the courts are so capricious." In the meeting, which took place at the rabbi's office, the Na'amat representatives asked the rabbi to approve a fast-track divorce process for women whose husbands are abusive. The rabbi condemned marital violence, and promised to bring his recommendations to a discussion in the rabbinical courts. Earlier Monday, a 40-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in Haifa, apparently at the hands of her 53-year-old husband. Police found her body in their apartment, with her husband nearby. The couple has five children. The motive in the case is unclear. The Haifa murder is the sixth case since the beginning of the year in which women have allegedly been murdered by their husbands or boyfriends."

Lawyer pleads guilty to corruption charge,
BY ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO, New York Newsday, March 21, 2005
"A prominent Brooklyn lawyer who once headed the borough's bar association pleaded guilty Monday to a federal corruption charge. Edward Reich admitted that he agreed to accept cash bribes while he served as court-appointed referee for the sale of foreclosed real property. In a statement read to Judge John Gleeson, Reich said that while he handled the auction sale of property in state court cases, he accepted various payments ranging from $500 to $2,000. In return, Reich told Gleeson, he did favors for the bidders by sometimes lowering the purchase price or agreeing to accept less of a down payment than required. He stated that the payments were received from May 2002 to June 2003. Reich, 68, entered his plea to one count of conspiracy just as jury selection was to begin in his case. Afterward, he tried to evade reporters who were pursuing him by exiting the federal court house in Brooklyn through a little-used staircase. He was scheduled to go to trial yesterday on various bribery-related charges. He agreed to resign from the bar in about two months. Officials said Reich also faces a prison term of 33 to 41 months. Reich also admitted to Gleeson that he had submitted an affidavit to the court last December that he knew contained "materially false information." That false filing will be taken into consideration when Reich's sentence is computed, officials said. In addition to being a prominent lawyer in Brooklyn, Reich had also been a vice president of the New York State Bar Association from 1999 to 2003. He also was an official with the prestigious Torah Club, a social group of Jewish lawyers and judges who gather four times a year at a Brooklyn synagogue."

[Jewish domination of the computer world, here, spam, google, computer crime, you name it. Surprise! Here below we have the "Junk Mail King" and, gosh, he's a member of the tribe!]
Junk mail king Amir Gans: I'm fulfilling Bill Gates' ideas. He is seeking the dismissal of Microsoft's NIS 2.5 million lawsuit against him,
by Yitzhak Danan, Globes (Israel), March 22, 2005
"E-mail advertiser Amir Gans claims that Microsoft's (Nasdaq:MSFT) lawsuit against him is baseless and fantastic. He said he had not violated any legal obligation or current Israeli law regarding advertising by e-mail. In its lawsuit against Gans, Microsoft estimates it is entitled to $50 million in compensation for at least ten million pieces of junk mail sent by Gans to Hotmail subscribers. However, for the purpose of the court fee and chances of collection, Microsoft is suing Gans for NIS 2.5 million. In his statement of defense, Gans claims that Microsoft is a competitor in e-mail advertising. He says that Microsoft is cynically abusing an expensive and time-consuming legal procedure to drive him out of the e-mail advertising market. Gans says that Microsoft's lawsuit should be dismissed because there is no opponancy and because the evidence is inadmissible and not credible. He says he has not deviated from the activities and ideas of Bill Gates outlined in his book "Business @ the Speed of Thought" ... Gans regularly attends meetings of the Knesset Committee for Scientific and Technological Research and Development, which is preparing a bill to deal with junk mail. Gans emphasizes that Israel has not yet passed any law regarding e-mail advertising, which means that he has not broken any existing Israeli law. Gans says that e-mail advertising (junk mail) is not necessarily parasitic, nor does it necessarily harm its host."

French woman arrested for murder of banker Edouard Stern: judge,
Channel News, March 16, 2005
"Swiss police have arrested a French woman who allegedly confessed to the sex-related killing of banker Edouard Stern, one of France's richest men, the judge in charge of the case revealed. Swiss radio said a French woman involved in Geneva's sado-masochistic scene had been detained and that the shooting of Stern had been sex-related. The suspect had "admitted" the crime, Judge Michel Graber said in a statement released here on Wednesday. "It was a woman of French nationality with whom he (Stern) had intimate and regular relations for several years," he said. He did not identify the woman. "Mr. Stern was wearing a latex bodysuit and he was shot with four bullets from a firearm, two to the head, in the context of a sexual relation that was part of his private life," the judge said ... Stern, son-in-law of Michel David-Weill, chairman of French merchant bank Lazard, was separated from his wife, who lives in New York with their three children. He was buried last week at a Jewish cemetery in Veyrier near Geneva. Stern was David-Weill's heir apparent before he left Lazard in 1997. Since then he had run his own investment fund, valued at some 600 million euros (800 million dollars)."

[This is from a left-wing blog called "Lenin's Tomb." It's called that for a good reason. As you can see, it's a dead thing, strangling itself in censorial fascism. In its insistent totalitarianism, it exudes a deep, dank darkness against growth and Light. "Lenin's Tomb." I couldn't have imagined a better term for it. Decayed, buried, and obsolete. Completely out of touch with reality. Or does this represent that version of Lenin in a glass box, perpetually floating in formaldehyde? Free thinkers -- truly "progressive" people of any sort -- exchange ideas. Worried totalitarians -- Left or Right or in-between -- categorically block out information that doesn't fit their world view. The key to understanding the material below is that "Lenin's Tomb" hasn't a clue who or what the Jewish Tribal Review represents. Because it refuses to try to understand it. Or read the evidence. And the truth always threatens peoples' fragile illusions. It's an old standard for the Thought Police: if you can't reasonably argue your position, and you're worried that your nemesis can, screen him out by enforcing an absolute censorship. Refuse to engage in debate. And then smear him with vulgarity, epithets and insults -- as if that represents any substance about anything. Judeocentrism's lock on the Left, here.]
Oldest of Hatreds,
Lenin's Tomb, March 22, 2005
"Oh, joy of joys! I now have nutters visiting me from the Jewish Tribal Review, an anti-Semitic website created by fundamentalist Christians and 'revisionists'. I won't link to it, but the reason for the link is that the blogger Robert Lindsay has written a post complaining about anti-Semitic comments of his being deleted from the Tomb. The JTR, which Lindsay links to (see under The Jewish Question), has republished his post on their site, although they may well have done this without his permission. If any of their visitors take to depositing anti-Semitic filth in the comments boxes, they will be deleted and banned. Yeah, see, its because I'm part of the evil Zionist conspiracy that controls the world and... woo ha ha ha ha ha. Etc. The Tomb is commodious enough to handle most kind of kooks, but not these fucking fruitbats."

[Here's a deeper move in Israel towards fascism. One of the old Jewish Zionist Nazis has been awarded a day in his name. Behold Vladimir Jabotinsky, head of "Revisionist" Zionism, who once said: "Every race possessing a definite uniqueness seeks to become a nation, that is, to create for itself an economic, political, and intellectual environment in which every detail will derive from its specific thought and consequence that will also relate to its specific taste. A specific race can establish such an environment only in its own country, where it is master. For this reason every race seeks to become a state." [AVISHAI, B., p. 225] "Breaking away [from other Zionist groups] in the 1920s," says Peter Grose, "Jabotinsky's Revisionist Zionism organized its own fighting force in Palestine. The Irgun Zvai Leumi came to remind unsympathetic outsiders of Mussolini fascists; [Israel's first prime minister David] Ben-Gurion called the Revisionist leader 'Vladimir Hitler.'" [GROSE, p. 161] "Revisionists," notes Edwin Black, "... were heavily fascists and profoundly influenced by Mussolini ... True to fascist ideology, the fist and shout were the preferred methods of achieving Revisionist goals." [BLACK, E., p. 143] "Jabotinsky's most cherished creation was Betar," noted Livneh Eliezer, "[This] youth movement ... was ... a semi-militaristic entity that stressed hierarchy, discipline, obedience to superiors, rituals, and ceremonies. Military values [were] ... a virtue." [ELIEZER, p. 16] Some in the Revisionist camp in the 1930s, notes Jewish scholar Walter Laquer, "expressed the view that but for Hitler's anti-Semitism German National Socialism would have been acceptable [to Jews] and that, anyway, Hitler had saved Germany [LAQUER, W., p. 33] ... Within the [Revisionist] movement there were ... sections, some of them influential [where] fascist ideas had made considerable headway and, but for the rise of Hitler and Nazism, would no doubt have become even more prominent." [LAQUER, p. 382]
Law honoring Zionist forefather passed. Jabotinsky Day will be celebrated annually to commemorate one of Zionism's great forefathers; law created in bid to bring public closer to Zionist values,
by Ilan Marciano, Yedioth Ahronoth (Israel), March 23, 2005
"The Knesset approved the Zeev [i.e., Hebrewized from Vladimir] Jabotinsky Law Wednesday after it passed a second and third reading, following in the footsteps of the Binyamin Zeev Herzl [i.e, Hebrewized from Theodore Herzl] Law and Rehavam Zeevi law. The main objective of the law is "to endow future generations with Jabotinsky's vision and legacy, to commemorate his memory and to educate future generations with Zionist goals and visions." Knesset member and law initiator Ronnie Bar-On (Likud) said the law was created because Jabotinsky is considered one of the great forefathers of Zionism who dedicated his life to establishing a Jewish State in Israel. "He left an impression on Zionism and on the country's identity in the same spirit as the country's visionary Binyamin Zeev Herzl," he said. "Jabotinsky's vision laid down the foundations for a liberal and modern country based on democratic values and concern for fellow-man and minorities." Bringing Israel closer to Zionism Bar-On said the law had been created in a bid to draw Israel's youth and public closer to Zionist values and to instill within them the Zionist legacy and perpetual memory of the Zionist forefathers. To implement these values, "Zeev Jabotinsky Day" will be celebrated on an annual basis with educational activities in schools, the IDF and public institutions ... Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a Zionist philosopher, author and journalist, who founded and lead the Revisionist movement. He was prompted into Zionist thought during Russian pogroms against the Jews and within a short while was one of the leading Zionist personalities in Russia. In 1925, he established the Union of Zionists-Revisionists (Hatzohar) which called for the immediate establishment of a Jewish State. He is the forefather of Zionist activism and greatly influenced the political vision of the right-wing political parties in Israel."

[Not money for the poor, the aged, etc. However disguised, a large part of $56 million dolars from Canadian taxpayer pockets will be used to essentially oppose criticism of Jews and Israel. Not only is Canada's "Justice Minister"/hypocrite Irwin Cotler Jewish, he is an avid activist for Israeli apartheid.]
Ottawa announces $56M anti-racism plan,
by Ron Csillag, Canadian Jewish News, March 2005
"Just days after B’nai Brith Canada announced that anti-Semitic incidents hit a record high last year, the federal government marked the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination by unveiling this country’s first cross-departmental action plan against racism. Dubbed “A Canada For All,” the plan, released Monday, calls for new initiatives across four federal ministries: heritage, labour, justice and immigration. Funding for the program – $56 million over five years – was earmarked in last month’s federal budget. Of special interest to the Jewish community will be the collection and standardization of data on hate-motivated crimes, identifying the needs of victims of hate crimes, and a renewed intention to fight hate on the Internet, including setting up a tip line to report Web-based hate. “Canada is a world leader in the development of policies and laws to fight racism, but many Canadians still experience racism and discrimination in their daily lives,” Raymond Chan, minister of state for multiculturalism, said at a press conference in Ottawa. Chan was joined by Justice Minister Irwin Cotler, who promised a multi-point anti-racism plan last year after the firebombing of a library at United Talmud Torahs in Montreal, as well as by Labour and Housing Minister Joe Fontana and Immigration and Citizenship Minister Joe Volpe. "The underlying message of this first-ever Action Plan Against Racism is clear: we seek a Canada in which there will be no sanctuary for hate and no refuge for racism,” Cotler said. The initiative is organized into six priority areas: assisting victims and groups vulnerable to racism and discrimination; developing strategies to promote diversity and combat racism; strengthening the role of civil society; strengthening regional and international co-operation; educating children and youth on diversity and anti-racism; and countering hate and bias ... Data collection on hate-motivated crime will standardize the collection of information on hate crimes, including anti-Semitic incidents ... Canada plans to sign the Council of Europe’s protocol on Web-based racism, signalling Ottawa’s intention to take part in the global fight against Internet hate. As well, a “Countering Internet-Based Hate Crime” program will establish a tip line for reporting online hate and work with Internet service providers ... Bornmann said the Jewish community’s priorities centred around hate crimes and hate on the Internet."

[Jews decide who gets censored and who gets Catholic posts in Argentina. Kirchner is often a Jewish surname in the U.S. But we haven't seen any evidence yet that the president of Argentina is Jewish.]
Argentina: Despite Vatican, President Sacks Controversial Military Bishop,
by Marcela Valente, Inter Press Service News Agency, March 18, 2005
"In a decision running counter to the position taken by the Vatican, Argentine President Néstor Kirchner on Friday sacked the country's military bishop, who had quipped that the health minister should be "thrown into the sea" because he is in favour of decriminalising abortion. After the government's diplomatic efforts to get the Vatican to remove Bishop Antonio Baseotto from his post, the president signed a decree in which he withdrew his support from the 2002 agreement that the Argentine government signed in 2002 when the bishop was appointed by the Vatican. Kirchner also issued a second decree depriving the bishop of the government funds assigned to the military vicariate, which received 20,000 pesos a month (around 6,000 dollars), of which 5,000 pesos (1,700 dollars) went to the bishop ... Fernández said the government's decision "does not imply entering into any kind of debate, dispute or confrontation with the Church," and likened the bishop's dismissal to that of any official who makes controversial remarks. But in this case, the Vatican had actually confirmed the bishop in his post on Monday ... Baseotto has a long history of anti-Semitic and McCarthyist remarks, as well as statements justifying the gross human rights violations committed by the country's last military dictatorship (1976-1983). But a major controversy broke out in late February, when he lashed out against Health Minister Ginés González García. At that time the minister, who is in favour of the distribution of free condoms and the decriminalisation of abortion, became the target of an outburst by the bishop, who in a reference to a biblical passage said he should be "thrown into the sea headfirst with a large millstone around his neck." His remark had an especially strong impact in Argentina, where the security forces actually dumped political prisoners alive into the sea from military aircraft during the dictatorship. Past statements by Baseotto have also included anti-Semitic references. In 1986, when he was a priest in the northern province of Santiago del Estero, he said on a local TV programme that "if pornography is good business, Hebrews will sell pornography. If drugs are good business, they will sell drugs. If they can get more money by blackmailing, they will blackmail, and if they have to destroy their competition, they will do so." Although the local Jewish community expressed its outrage at the time, Baseotto received support and was kept in his post. More recently, the bishop stated in an argument against abortion (which is illegal in Argentina) that "we cross ourselves for the victims of the Nazis. And (killing) the unborn? Is that not an abominable crime?" ... Argentina's Jewish community, the largest in Latin America, has been applying pressure for Baseotto to be removed from his post, a demand that was reiterated Thursday by Carlos Susevich, the father of one of the 29 victims of a 1992 bomb attack on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires."

[Anything to control, regiment, oppress, harass, monitor, intimidate, torture, humiliate, and spy upon people you can probably purchase from the expert in the field: Israelis.]
Suspect Detection Systems hits jackpot in Atlantic City airport deal,
by Zuri Dar, The Marker (Israel), March 23, 2005
"Ramat Gan-based startup Suspect Detection Systems has won a plum contract to help secure the Atlantic City Airport, by means of detecting when people are unreasonably nervous. The United States Transportation Security Administration gave it the contract to install a system identifying unarmed terrorists. The Atlantic City, N.J., airport will install an experimental version this year. SDS beat out a host of American competitors, including Boeing, to secure the contract, valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars. The system has won approvals of the Israeli security apparatus. People being checked place their hand on the device and are presented with an array of questions. A special detector measures physiological responses. Questions come in a variety of culturally sensitive versions. The primary fear of a suicide bomber is to be caught, according to Yeshayahu Horowitz, former head of the police's polygraph division and current chief scientist at SDS. The system is based on the belief that the terrorist's fear will be reflected in measurable psycho-physiological parameters. "Foreigners flying El Al are currently subjected to 10-20 minutes of questioning," says SDS CEO Shabtai Shoval. "The line for U.S. immigration authorities is liable to take 90 minutes. Our system is a type of kiosk making an initial assessment within three minutes. If the system identifies a suspect, he can be sent to a personal agent to complete the investigation." Shoval, a former division manager at Comverse Technology, founded SDS along with Horowitz and former deputy Mossad chief Amiram Levin. The founders have sunk hundreds of thousands of shekels of their own funds into the company and have secured a grant from the chief scientist of the Ministry of Trade and Industry."

[The British prime minister cavorts amidst the requisite puppet strings and does somersaults on cue for his rich Jewish overseers:]
Blair pledges to fight anti-Semitism,
by Douglas Davis, Jerusalem Post, March 23, 2005
"British Prime Minister Tony Blair has promised the Jewish community he will "never allow the Labor Party to be tarnished by anti-Semitism." Blair was addressing the annual dinner of the Board of Deputies of British Jews on Monday night for the first time since becoming prime minister seven years ago. Referring to Labor Party election posters, which depicted Jewish opposition leader Michael Howard as a Fagin figure and as a flying pig, Blair pledged his friendship to the Jewish community and to Israel. "I think you know that my support for the Jewish community is unwavering," he said. "I am, and always will be, a strong supporter and friend of the Jewish community and of the State of Israel." As long as he led the Labor Party, he said, "it will always treat the Jewish community with respect and admiration. And we will always fight anti-Semitism with all our might because we know it is not a joke. It is a serious threat, and the day we forget it is the day we start to repeat it."

[What exactly did these "anti-Semitic" posters say that merited three men to be thrown in jail. Of course the article doesn't say. It's enough to say they were "anti-Semitic," which is -- by vague definition -- itself the actual crime.]
Three arrested for anti-Semitism in Serbia,
Jerusalem Post, March 23, 2005
"Belgrade police have arrested three men for plastering anti-Semitic posters in the Serbian capital, the authorities said Wednesday. Interior Minister Dragan Jocic declined to identify the suspects but said they were "young people ... found in possession of copies of the posters" identical to those that appeared Tuesday at the entrance to Belgrade's Jewish cemetery and along Jewish Street in Belgrade's historic city center. "Serbia is not an anti-Semitic place, these are extremely rare cases ... we want to know what incited the young men" to put up the messages that also blasted Serbia's liberal B92 Radio and Television station and two pro-Western human rights groups. The posters were signed by a hitherto unknown group calling itself National Order, saying B92 was anti-Serb, had a negative influence on Serb youth and spread "Western diseases" in Serbia. Jocic said he met with the head of Serbia's tiny Jewish community, Aca Singer, to offer assurances that police would "thoroughly investigate the incident," as promised on Tuesday by Serbia's pro-Western president, Boris Tadic, who called the messages "absolutely unacceptable." Later Wednesday, the Jewish community released a statement expressing hope that "state bodies will find and punish perpetrators and prevent any recurrence or a lapse into physical violence." The incident was "well organized, it was coordinated and financed from one place" the statement also said, without elaborating. Serbia's deputy prime minister, Miroljub Labus, agreed that "what happened was not spontaneous at all," adding that "it was a deliberate, organized attempt to try discredit our country." He also didn't elaborate. Last month, Singer said he had received anonymous hate mail telling him "Jews should leave Serbia."

Iceland provides refuge for chess champ Fischer,
New Zealand Herald, March 23, 2005
"Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer's Icelandic citizenship has been finalised and his supporters hope he can fly to Iceland this week, ending a lengthy detention in Japan and avoiding deportation to the United States. Fischer -- wanted in the United States for violating sanctions against former Yugoslavia by playing a chess match there in 1992 -- has been detained in Japan since July, when he was arrested for travelling on what US officials said was an invalid passport. Iceland's parliament had granted Fischer, 62, citizenship on Monday, opening the door for the fugitive American to settle in the tiny North Atlantic republic where he won the world title in 1972 in a classic Cold War encounter with Soviet champion Boris Spassky, a victory that made him something of a hero in Iceland. "The formal procedure is finished. Mr Fischer is a true Icelander now," Iceland's ambassador to Japan, Thordur Oskarsson, told Reuters on Wednesday, adding that he was notifying the Japanese government of that fact. Fischer has used a series of legal moves to fight deportation to the United States, including seeking refugee status, renouncing his US citizenship and unveiling plans to marry his companion Miyoko Watai, a four-time Japan women's chess champion. Iceland offered Fischer a home late last year and in February agreed to issue him a special passport that would allow him to travel through 15 West European countries in what is known as the Schengen Zone ... The United States said on Tuesday that it was disappointed at its ally Iceland's decision to grant Fischer citizenship ... In an interview with a Philippine radio station, Fischer praised the strikes and said he wanted to see America "wiped out". Born to a Jewish mother, Fischer has also stirred controversy with anti-Semitic remarks."

[More ugly, neurotic tentacles from the world Jewish censorial octopus. Today's dictate: if you wear your hair too short in Russia, you're a Nazi. And those who endorse shaved hair should be punished. Please, hysterical Jews. The world views behind "skinheads" cross the ideological spectrum. Or, kind censors, are you fixed upon stereotyping?]
Russia’s Jewish Communities protest skinhead notebooks,
ITAR - TASS, March 23, 2005
"The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) on Monday protested against the printing of school notebooks depicting skinheads. The covers of 48-page notebooks show a skinhead boy embracing a girl in a skinhead-type outfit. The notebooks, printed by the Eksmo publishing house, also offer a dictionary of skinhead slang. “The printing of 200,000 school notebooks showing fascist youngsters and explaining the notions that make up the basis of their antihuman cult of force cannot but be considered a provocation,” the FEOR press service said. It said, “The printing of such notebooks is a blow to the unity of the multinational Russian people and can be regarded as an attempt to broadly promote the antihuman youth subculture of skinheads, which entails the revival of Nazi ideology.” FEOR said the notebooks were printed in Russia on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War. The press service expressed the hope that “the organisers of this criminal action will not get away unpunished.”

[These rates of poverty below are those for Israel proper, and not the surrounding "occupied"Arab territories which are mired to the neck in Jewish-enforce poverty. It must also be understood that expressly Jewish "poverty" in Israel largely reflects the steady stream of immigrants to the Jewish state, including the Ethiopian Falasha. Impoverished non-Arabs who are mercilessly exploited in the Jewish state also include "immigrant workers" and literal sex slaves, who are bought and sold by Jewish pimps.]
Bank of Israel: Arab poverty rate triple Jewish rate. 46.2% of Arab households lived in poverty in 2003, compared with 14.6% of Jewish households,
by Zeev Klein, Globes (Israel), March 23, 2005
"46.2% of Arab households in Israel lived in poverty in 2003, compared with 14.6% of Jewish households, according to a study by the Bank of Israel research division. The report will be published in early April this year. The Bank of Israel research division found that the incidence of poverty among Israeli Arabs was higher than in the Jewish sector. Furthermore, the proportion of households living in poverty in the non-Jewish sector was even higher, taking into account factors like education, the family car and its size, rate of participation in the civilian labor force, and employment in various fields. The study shows that while the poverty rate in the Arab sector in 2003 was 6% higher than in 2000, and 18.6% higher than in 1995, poverty among Jewish families has risen by only 2.3% since 2000, and by 1.2% since 1995."

Posted on March 22:

Millionaire Cuts Plea Deal On Child Rape Charge,
by Tracy Vedder, Komo News- TV, March 17, 2005
"A Bainbridge Island millionaire is free after cutting a plea deal with prosecutors over child rape charges. David Nusbaum walked out of jail a free man after spending less than a year behind bars. In April of 2004, Nusbaum was charged with repeatedly raping and molesting a 13-year-old girl at his Bainbridge home. Detectives say the assaults began when the girl was just 6-years-old. She and her mother lived with Nusbaum for about nine years. Prosecutors cut a deal Wednesday, dropping the charges to third-degree assault with sexual motivation and turning a potential 10-year sentence into just eleven months in jail. "We are confident that he had inappropriate contact with that girl, that's what the charges reflect," said Kitsap County Prosecutor Russ Hauge, "but that's about all we can prove." But several sources tell KOMO 4 News that's ridiculous. The rape case was set to start last Monday. The lead detective believes the case is solid. "We had a very credible witness, or I should say victim," said Bainbridge Police Detective Scott Weiss, "there's also some scientific evidence probably admitted at trial that was going to be very damning on Mr. Nusbaum's part." The victim, now 14, was ready and willing to testify. She'd even gotten familiar with the courtroom just last Friday. Last April the victim spoke to KOMO 4 News . She said talking about what happened helped her heal. "It helped tremendously, it felt like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders that I'd been carrying around for seven years," she said. Over the weekend the deputy prosecutor handling the case had a family emergency. In the space of just three days, the new deputy prosecutor decided to deal, saying a civil suit by the victim damaged the criminal case. "The argument that the defense would make -- that this was all a fabrication just to get at him and his money -- looks pretty good," explained Hauge. "What does money have to do with someone touching their child?" wondered the victim's mother. "Nothing." Seeing him walk free Thursday, she believes prosecutors stole something precious from her daughter. "This is a child who is brave enough to talk, she should have a chance." Although this case is virtually over, detectives are concerned that Nusbaum could still be a flight risk. That's because he still faces the possibility of charges in several other states and he's worth about $11 million."

[JTR contributor's note: "Israeli oil giant falls to "Russians."]
Nevzlin, Yukos partners buy 26% of Petrochemical Enterprises : The Menatep group will also finance an investment by the controlling shareholders in place of Bank Hapoalim, which opposed the deal,
by Shai Shalev, Globes (Israel), March 20, 2005
"The controlling shareholders of Israel Petrochemical Enterprises David Federman ; Gima Investments, controlled by Israel Petrochemical Enterprises chairman Jacob Gottenstein; and Alex Pesel have recruited a powerful partner for the controlling interest : the Menatep group, owned by billionaires Leonid Nevzlin, Vladimir Dubov, and Mikhail Brudno. The trio, who are among the owners of Russian fuel company Yukos, now live in Israel, after having fled Russia where they were accused of tax evasion. The three claim that they were victims of political persecution ... A few weeks ago, Bank Hapoalim, which had funded the owners' purchase of control in Israel Petrochemicals, reportedly refused to allow Menatap entry into the company. Presumably, the bank's refusal was related to the police investigation of its HaYarkon Street branch on suspicions of a multimillion dollar money laundering operation. (The trio apparently have no connection to the affair)."

Racism alive and well in Israeli society,
By TONY JASSEN, Jerusalem Post, March 22, 2005
"A survey conducted on occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, observed Tuesday in the Knesset for the first time in Israel, demonstrated that racism is alive and well in Israeli society. According to the survey, 43% of Israelis are unwilling to marry, or have their children marry, Ethiopians. More than 50% refuse to live in the same neighborhood as Arab families, 25% would not want their children to marry religious Jews and more than 10% were averse to their children marrying Sephardim. And these numbers are only the tip of the survey's iceberg. In response to the results, Mehereta Baruch, the former Ambassador contestant and member of the Ethiopian community, said, while officiating at the Knesset ceremony, "I feel bad for these people. They have a narrow minded view. Surely just as they hold these opinions, they hold themselves back from many beautiful things in life, because they are afraid to try and afraid from something different."

[Welcome to Amerisraelistan. The day is coming when Israelis will own the land under your feet. Here's yet ANOTHER Israeli land grab of American soil. Israelis just swallowed the landmark Plaza Hotel in Jew York City, and now another set of them swipe this:]
Ofer Brothers to develop Manhattan luxury project,
by Haim Handwerker, Haaretz (Israel), March 23, 2005
"The New York Post published initial details yesterday of plans by Eyal Ofer to develop a luxury residential project in a prestigious section of Manhattan in partnership with American investor Goldman Sachs. The project, which will include two apartment towers of 19 and 50 stories, will replace the Mayflower Hotel. The project, bordered by Central Park West, Broadway, 61st and 62nd Streets, is said to be one of the most luxurious and expensive in Manhattan. The plans call for building 250-280 residential units, averaging 2,100 square feet per apartment. Some 88,000 square feet of stores will occupy the bottom four floors. The target occupancy date is late 2007. Architectural firm Cesar Pelli and Associates is designing the project. Ofer, the son of Sammy Ofer, one of the owners of The Israel Corporation, Zim, and United Mizrahi Bank, bought the Mayflower last summer, along with an adjacent empty lot, with managing partners Arthur and Lie Zeckendorf of Goldman Sachs' Whitehall Fund for $401 million. The group closed the hotel and has now demolished it. The partners paid top dollar, just as real estate magnate Yitzhak Tshuva did to acquire the Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue. New York real estate sources told Haaretz that none other than Tshuva had expressed interest in picking up the Mayflower property prior to Ofer. The sources claim that Ofer swiped the deal from under Tshuva's nose, but his family denied the allegation. Razing the Mayflower, whose aura had faded since falling on hard times, drew much less attention than Tshuva has faced in his efforts to level the Plaza, still considered a wondrous and important landmark."

Anti-Zionism at London school intimidates some Jewish students,
By Daniella Peled, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 21, 2005
"The University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies has a reputation as a world-class center of learning. But recently the college has been in the news more for the anti-Israel sentiments of some of its students than for the quality of its teaching. A series of high-profile controversies have left Jewish students at the central London college feeling threatened and intimidated, and some are warning that tensions are spiraling out of control. The latest furor centers on an article published in SOAS Spirit, the glossy student magazine. The article, “When Only Violence Will Do,” scoffs at the concept of “innocent” Israeli victims, describes the whole of Israel as a Jewish colony that should be dismantled and calls for all Zionists to be “exposed.” “Non-violent resistance is no solution either,” writes its author, Nasser Amin. “We know what the Israelis can do to unarmed peace activists. Violence, rather than feebleness, generates power for the oppressed.” A graduate student in Near and Middle Eastern studies who heads the college’s Jewish club said the article made him feel uncomfortable. “There are Israeli students here, and people like myself who consider themselves Zionists,” said Gavin Gross, 43. “The article seems to imply that we’re all targets.” The magazine’s editor, Matthew Phillips, said it was his responsibility “to give freedom of speech to students at the school.” That argument, however, seems somewhat weakened by the union’s attempt last month to bar Israeli Embassy official Roey Gilad from addressing a Jewish society event. That decision eventually was overturned by the college administration. But this is just the latest in a series of incidents to hit the college, long dubbed “the School of Anti-Semitism” in Jewish student circles ... Describing the aggressive atmosphere at the union’s general meeting, Gross said, “It was used as a forum to attack ‘apartheid’ Israel, the ‘war criminal’ Ariel Sharon, the Zionist press and Mossad conspiracies. But the meeting shouldn’t have been about Israel at all.” But the Middle East conflict is the dominant issue on the school’s campus. The student union officially considers Zionism as a form of racism, and in November 2004 the school hosted an international conference called “Resisting Israeli Apartheid.”

Libeskind in final round for Poland's Jewish Museum design,
United Jewish Council of Greater Toledo, March 22, 2005
"In total eleven architects are competing in the final round for the design of Polands planned museum on the history of Polish Jews, it was stated Tuesday. Among the contestants are renowned U.S. architects Peter Eisenmann and Daniel Libeskind, who designed the masterplan for the new U.S. World Trade Centre, the head of the competition commission Bohdan Paczkowski told reporters in Warsaw. The choice among the originally 119 proposals had been so difficult that the commission had accepted 11 rather than, as originally planned, nine contestants into the final round, he added ... Architects from in total 36 countries had presented designs to the commission, and among the designs that made it into the final rounds were proposals from Poland, Britain, Germany, Israel, U.S., Finland, Japan, Spain, and the Netherlands, said Paczkowski."

[This is the wrong idea. We think the Statue of Liberty should be torn down and put Anne Frank's likeness there instead. The most sickening thing about this is that all the spineless U.S. politicians will cluster around to support this stupidity for fear of being called "anti-Semitic" otherwise. How about Joan of Arc for posthumous U.S. citizenry? St. Francis of Asissi? Martin Luther? The prophet Mohammed? All the popes? Lawrence of Arabia? Copernicus? Galileo? Mahtma Gandhi? Any Palestinian child murdered by the Israelis?]
Lawmaker Seeks U.S. Citizenship For Anne Frank,
WNBC, March 21, 2005
"Anne Frank, whose teenage memoir has taught generations of Americans about the Holocaust, would be made a United States citizen under a bill being pushed by Rep. Steve Israel. The New York Democrat said Monday he would introduce a bill giving Frank honorary citizenship, a distinction previously conferred on Winston Churchill, Mother Teresa and a handful of other adults. Israel plans to introduce the bill in two weeks when Congress resumes, calling Frank "a symbol of bravery and hope." Born in Germany in 1929, Frank and her family left for Amsterdam four years later, seeking to escape rising anti-Semitism."

[Another Jew stands morality and truth upside down and drags them into his sewer. The Jewish Lobby routinely tries to destroy Jewish whistleblowers.]
Academic Witch-Hunt at Depaul University,
by Steve Plaut, Chronwatch, March 22, 2005
"Depaul University is a large, if not particularly renowned academically, Catholic college in Chicago. Until recently the main cause of controversy surrounding Depaul was its insistence on employing notorious anti-Semite Norman Finkelstein as an assistant professor in its political science department. But recently Depaul took a giant step in implementing Orwellism and anti-democratic suppression of political incorrectness on its campus. The immediate target of Depaul's campaign against political incorrectness was Thomas Klocek, a part-time adjunct professor at DePaul University's so-called "School for New Learning". ("New learning" evidently is not something Depaul confuses with learning, as the events there show.) Klocek's crime? He was guilty of expressing support for Israel. Evidently Holocaust Denial is ok at Depaul, but not expressing support for Israel. After 14 years of continuous employment at the Chicago-based college, Klocek was suspended with pay last September, and then stayed suspended - this time without pay - through the winter quarter. Klocek is guilty of nothing more than expressing pro-Israel views in the face of extremist Palestinian propaganda on Depaul's campus, including students and non-students proliferating the usual lies and canards about Israel and Rachel Corrie. Klocek's courses have ranged from Critical Thinking to College Writing to Languages and Cultures of the World. By all accounts, he was a popular teacher and his classes were always full. Despite having an unblemished record during that span, DePaul summarily dismissed him from his duties after the school learned that he had insulted and demeaned. several Muslim students at a campus fair for extracurricular groups. Klocek had publicly expressed his belief that, "strictly speaking, right now there is no such place as Palestine on the map. The Palestinian people were simply Arabs who lived in the West Bank and Gaza." We seem to recall that Galileo was also persecuted by Church institutions for daring to tell the truth! Klocek, by the way, is Roman Catholic.With no current income and facing the possibility of losing the health  insurance he desperately needs for a serious kidney condition, Klocek, the 21st century Galileo of Depaul, decided to go public with his fight. The Chicago Jewish news runs a large expose of Depaul's auto da fe against Klocek this week. The university contends that Klocek's case "is not a case of academic freedom but a situation of inappropriate behavior outside the classroom by a university employee," according to Mattson, the university spokesperson. Yeah, right, while another Depaul professor has made a career out of promoting and cheering Holocaust Deniers and serving as the darling of neonazi web sites!! HIS "behavior" does not disturb the Depaul Inquisitors ... Depaul's sudden horror at the supposed "unprofessorial behavior" by Klocek (they allege he made an impolite hand gesture to Muslim students who had been calling him names) stands in sharp contrast with the university's record regarding Norman Finkelstein, the most openly anti-Semitic Jew on the planet. Depaul employs Finkelstein as anassistant professor in political science, this after Finkelstein got fired from two NY area adjunct teaching jobs (at NYU and Hunter College) because of his pseudo-scholarship and fraudulent rantings against Jews and Israel. Finkelstein is a disciple of Holocaust Denier David Irving and claims Irving is an authoritative historian. Finkelstein refers to the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis as the "Six Million" in quotation marks and says that nearly every Holocaust survivor is a fraud and a thief and a liar. (Finkelstein's own parents are Holocaust survivors, and Finkelstein has long tried to capitalize on this as a way to legitimize his own anti Semitism. The psychiatry department at Depaul might have interesting things to say about this.) ... Gven the sensitivity of the Church today to charges of anti-Semitism and the sincere attempts by the Vatican to atone for centuries of Church persecution of Jews, the employment of Finkelstein by Depaul as an  "academic" is an open outrage and insult to the world and especially to Catholics."

[Jews tend to dominate homosexual organizations and have been important to their historical growth. It appears that Zionists actively control some major gay organizations, including the one below, and it's a credit to some homosexuals who actively resist their masters' racist, Judeocentric tenor.]
Boycott World Pride 2005,
Boycott World Pride
"An Open Letter to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer Groups and Individuals
We ask you to join us in a boycott of travel to World Pride Jerusalem 2005 as part of the international boycott of Israel and the campaign to divest from Israel. As you know, many groups have joined the movement to boycott Israeli goods and to divest from Israel in protest of the ongoing occupation of Palestinian lands, the construction of the apartheid wall in the West Bank, and the destruction of Palestinian olive trees, homes, and villages. We believe that the goal of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) liberation is best served by supporting local community organizing while also supporting the liberation struggles of all oppressed peoples. We support the work of Jerusalem Open House (the local sponsor of World Pride 2005 in Jerusalem) in fighting queer oppression, and we understand and respect that LGBTIQ people and organizations within Israel and Palestine will decide for themselves how to relate to World Pride. However, we ask LGBTIQ people from other countries to boycott travel to Israel and not to attend World Pride 2005 in Jerusalem. Although Jerusalem was designated as an "international city" by the United Nations, travel to Jerusalem may only be accomplished with the consent of the Israeli government and its military forces. Palestinians and other people of Arab and North African descent have routinely been barred from the City of Jerusalem by the occupying Israeli forces. We are appalled that InterPride chose Jerusalem as the site of the second World Pride event and is encouraging LGBTIQ people from all over the world to ignore the boycott and spend significant funds in Israel, bolstering its tourist economy and its disingenuous claim to be a "free," democratic, state. We are also appalled at the blatant misrepresentation of the event as one that will be open to all LGBTIQ people and the chosen theme "Love Without Borders."The promotion of this event by InterPride has included the distribution of thousands of DVDs at Pride 2004 in San Francisco and New York. The DVD promotes the "great parties" and "beautiful women" in Israel. The DVD also promotes the fact that the Israeli army allows openly lesbian and gay people to serve. It does not discuss the role of the army in oppressing people in the Occupied Territories, but does condemn the Palestinian Authority for its treatment of lesbian and gay people. The only mention of the Intifada (Palestinian resistance struggle) is to say that it makes it more difficult for lesbian and gay Palestinians to come out or to "escape" to Israel. We understand that some conservative and right-wing people in Israel are opposed to World Pride being held in Jerusalem because they oppose LGBTIQ rights, and that some LGBTIQ people are considering attending the event to oppose these forces and support the local LGBTIQ groups. We certainly understand this impulse, but we believe that after examining all of the many political issues involved it is more important to boycott travel to World Pride 2005 in Jerusalem to send the message to Israel that the civil rights victories gained by some LGBTIQ people within Israel do not justify or excuse the oppression of the Palestinian people or the occupation of their lands."

[Politics in Great Britain increasingly seem to center around Jews -- especially constant Jewish complaints about alleged anti-Jewish slurs. Prominent Jewish politicians are decreed to be beyond criticism because criticism is really "anti-Semitism.]
Nazi slurs and New Labour,
Daily Mail (UK), March 22, 2005
"Even by the standards of the filthy campaign in which New Labour is subjecting Michael Howard to vicious personal attacks, the latest smears plumb new depths. Yesterday, a senior Labour MP, Kevin McNamara, said the Tory leader's plans for a crackdown on unauthorised travellers' sites had the 'whiff of the gas chambers about them'. Former union boss Rodney Bickerstaffe reinforced this message by insidiously linking Tory policy and the treatment of gipsies by the Nazis in World War II. This is the politics of the gutter. Mr Howard is Jewish and, unlike Messrs McNamara and Bickerstaffe, lost relatives in Hitler's concentration camps. But we've been here before. There was the sly anti-semitism of the Fagin and flying pigs posters. And there was Labour minister Michael O'Brien writing in antisemitic terms in The Muslim Weekly and asking: 'Will Mr Howard stand up for the right of Muslim women to wear the hijab'. Such sickening tactics speak volumes for the bankruptcy of Labour's thinking. But more than anything they show how successful the Tory leader has been in raising the issues that affect the majority of people and how desperate the Prime Minister is to avoid a real debate."

Posted March 21:

[The opening line in this unattributed Associated Press article tells us a lot about the person who wrote it. And where the Judeocentric mass media's sensitivities lie. How many people know which college Israeli prime minister Golda Meir went to in America? How many average Americans -- other than the usual special interest group -- even know who Golda Meir was?]
Panthers Put UW-Milwaukee on the Map,
Earthlink (from Associated Press), March 21, 2005
"MILWAUKEE - Before last weekend, Wisconsin-Milwaukee was best known for being the school where the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir went. For "Happy Days" aficionados, it's where Richie Cunningham, Potsie Weber and Ralph Malph all hit the books when they weren't hanging out at Arnold's Drive-in. Now, the No. 12 Panthers are the lowest seed remaining in the NCAA tournament, holding the banner for all the mid-majors who dream of knocking off the big basketball schools like Alabama and Boston College, both of which fell to Bruce Pearl's pressing Panthers, champions of the Horizon League, last week in Cleveland."

At Beit Warszawa, Polish Jews experienc a liberal alternative ,
by Carol Slutsky, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 21, 2005
"In a large white villa in the southern part of Warsaw, in a room with bright paintings exploding all over the walls, a woman plays the piano. A CD of a New York Jewish jazz group plays over her music, and in the kitchen people cook up a big lunch. The music and the meal follow a morning spent studying Torah. The night before, there had been traditional services and a communal dinner, usually drawing between 40 and 50 people. This is a typical Shabbat at Beit Warszawa, Warsaw’s progressive Jewish congregation ... Everything about the service recalls the Shabbat experience of many Reform congregations in the United States. That’s not surprising — the community was started in 1999 by a group of American expatriates and Poles who were trying to create an alternative to the Orthodox community, which prays in Warsaw at the Nozyk Synagogue. Until last year, the group met in a number of apartments. Then Seweryn Ashkenazi, a Polish-born American businessman, provided the villa that now is Beit’s home ... Since the fall of communism in 1989, Poles with Jewish roots have been grappling with their identities, and some are afraid to “come out” as Jews in a country still perceived by many to be anti-Semitic. Today, as Weinsberg pointed out, “This is a safe country. We have no terrorism, and a pro-Israel government.”

[Of course it's no big deal that Poland's foreign minister is Jewish. That's why this fact is featured by this Jewish news agency.]
Poland’s foreign minister is Jewish, but most people say it’s no big deal,
By Carolyn Slutsky, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 14, 2005
"Adam Daniel Rotfeld, who replaced Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz as Poland’s foreign minister earlier this year, was born to a large Jewish family in the eastern part of the country, near what is now the Ukrainian city of Lvov. JTA was unable to obtain an interview with Rotfeld, but in an interview he gave to Polityka, a Polish magazine, he spent the years between 1941 and 1948 hiding in a monastery, and then he lived in a children’s home in Krakow. He was one of two family members to survive the Holocaust. After the war, Rotfeld studied international law and diplomacy in Warsaw and Krakow. He mostly ignored his Jewish background. That’s typical of people in his situation, according to Stanislaw Krajewski, a Jewish leader in Poland and the American Jewish Committee’s consultant on that country. He is open about being Jewish, but he makes no attempt to join the Jewish community, and community leaders respect that position ... In 1989 Rotfeld became director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. He remained there until 2002, when he was named vice minister of foreign affairs. Poland was instrumental in aiding the recent revolution in Ukraine, and Ukraine’s continuing democratization is one of Rotfeld’s primary concerns. Rotfeld also is focused on Poland’s involvement in the Iraq conflict ... Rotfeld is not the first prominent Polish Jewish politician in the post-Communist era. Bronislaw Geremek, a former foreign minister, is now a member of the European Parliament. He had a Jewish upbringing but avoids talking about his Jewish roots ... Since the end of the Communist era, several politicians and other notable Poles have been accused by their detractors of having Jewish roots. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, who in 1989 became the country’s first post-Communist prime minister, lost a bid for the presidency the next year. His loss was attributed, in part, to a whisper campaign that accused him of being Jewish. “In general, people are accused of Jewishness by their opponents,” Krajewski said. “Interestingly, the attacks are more fierce against those who are believed or gossiped to be Jewish but have not admitted anything, perhaps because they have nothing to ‘admit.’ President Kwasniewski belongs to this category.” ... Today Poland is seen by many as one of Israel’s best friends in Europe. Krajewski said, “Poland is among the most pro-Israel countries. Paradoxically, in Poland — and I think in much of Europe — Jews are sometimes less willing to promote pro-Israeli attitudes than non-Jews, who are not afraid of the double loyalty accusations.”

[Let's respect Judaism! Doesn't Jewish law say something like all Jewish American prisoners need to spend their jail time on Israeli golf courses?]
U.S. Jewish inmates have stake in case before Supreme Court,
By Matthew E. Berger, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 17, 2005
"When Brandl Rifka was serving time in a Florida prison, she asked for a special meal to break the Yom Kippur fast. Instead, she was given ham. “They did it purposefully,” she recalls angrily. Brandl Rifka, who asked that she be identified by her Hebrew name because she is on probation, said she became more religiously observant during the two years she spent in Florida prisons after being convicted of fraud. In a telephone interview from Florida, she said she faced anti-Semitism on a daily basis from prisoners and guards who, she says, inhibited her attempts to practice her religion, and by others who suggested she accept Jesus. “It’s beyond punishment,” she said. “If you’re a Jewish prisoner, you’re ostracized in many ways.” The question of inmates’ ability to practice their religion will come before the U.S. Supreme Court on March 21. The court will hear oral arguments in the case of Cutter v. Wilkinson, an Ohio case that is challenging the constitutionality of a law passed by Congress in 2000 that was intended to expand religious freedom in prison ... It is unclear how many Jews are in prison, because the government does not keep statistics on inmates’ religion. Friedman said his organization is in touch with 5,500 inmates, but estimates the number
of Jews in prison could be double that ... Richard Dobelle, who spent more than 12 years in federal prisons for trafficking cocaine, recalled in a phone interview from Florida that he told the chaplain at one federal prison that he couldn’t have grain products on his tray during Passover, but the Christian chaplain didn’t tell the kitchen staff ... A wide consortium of Jewish groups are parties to a brief, filed by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, that says the law has the purpose of protecting the free exercise of religion from unnecessary government interference ... Meanwhile, experts and former prisoners say Jews are at a disadvantage because there are only a handful of them at each penitentiary, as opposed to many Christians and Muslims. “It’s like Tonto and the Lone Ranger riding alone, with all the Indians around them,” said Robert Burns, a former inmate who is now director of prisoner services at the Aleph Institute, a Chabad organization that reaches out to Jews in prison."

Rapid response assembles Jewish turnout at CMU for anti-Zionist speaker,
By Adam Brandolph, Pittchron.com (The Official Web Site of the Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh)
"Jewish community members showed up in large numbers for Norman Finkelstein's appearance at Carnegie Mellon University, thanks to efforts by the United Jewish Federations to recruit community members to, as one person in the audience said, "put warm bodies in the seats." Jewish Pittsburghers were called upon at synagogue, the Jewish Community Center and by e-mail to raise awareness and to support Jewish students at Finkelstein's lecture Monday evening at CMU. Finkelstein, an assistant professor of political science at DePaul University in Chicago and author of "The Holocaust Industry," and the forthcoming "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History," was brought to CMU under the University Lecture Series and the Palestinian Awareness Series, and sponsored by the Arab Student Organization, the Muslim Student Organization, the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee, and Students for Justice in Palestine. He is the third speaker in five weeks to speak negatively about Israel and/or Judaism at CMU. Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, (and frequent co-lecturer with Finkelstein) and Malik Zulu Shabazz, national chair of the New Black Panther Party for Defense, spoke at CMU last month. Unlike those events, the Jewish community was well represented at the Finkelstein lecture, with dozens of senior citizens waiting in line one hour before its 5 p.m. start. The first in line were Mordecai and Sibyl Treblow of Squirrel Hill. They said they came to show their support for Jewish students on campus. With a strategy devised by Hillel JUC Director Aaron Weil, as supported by the UJF, a rapid response team of more than 200 people trained in Israel advocacy were sent an e-mail about the event. Another 200 people from the UJF Board of Delegates were also e-mailed, according to UJF Director of Community and Public Affairs Jeff Cohan. Those efforts produced a turnout that included more than 200 people, many of whom were from outside the university. In spite of the large turnout, Cohan stressed that no CMU students were denied access to the event, and in fact, there were empty seats in the hall. As Finkelstein began his speech, "Legitimate and Illegitimate Differences and Disagreements on the Israel-Palestinian Conflict," the soft-spoken New Yorker immediately introduced himself as being the son of survivors of Auschwitz, which he used as a badge of infallibility throughout the lecture. Calling Anti-Defamation League Director Abraham Foxman "the current grand wizard of the ADL" (an allusion to Ku Klux Klan-like behavior), he said that whenever Israel comes under scrutiny from the rest of the world, the ADL calls it anti-Semitism ... Cohan said it was the success the community had in turning out its supporters that prompted Finkelstein to tone down his remarks. "We are pleased with the fact that we put so many Jews in the seats that [Finkelstein] dramatically changed the content of his lecture," he said. However, the student groups that sponsored Finkelstein's lecture were not as pleased. They produced a letter, a copy of which was placed on each seat, suggesting that students were turned away from the lecture "because the seats are filled with people who don't want you to hear an alternative point of view."

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[Jews have been profoundly influential in increasing America's drug problems. Jews and drugs, here. General crime here and here.]
Betrayed by mob, 'the old man' sang,
by William Sherman, New York Daily News, March 19, 2005
"Burton Kaplan of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, is the last man you would suspect of being the trusted intermediary between the Mafia and the two NYPD detectives now indicted as contract killers for the mob. He worked for years as an importer and sportswear manufacturer in the Garment District. Pisces Trading was one of his companies. His daughter is a highly successful professional woman. That's one side of Burton Kaplan. The other side is that for nearly 50 years, Kaplan has been a confidant, adviser and friend of the city's highest-ranking mafiosi, not to mention earning millions of dollars as one of the biggest marijuana importers in U.S. history. He had connections in Mexico, South America and Asia. The wiseguys from various crime families affectionately called him "The Old Man." On one occasion alone, Kaplan was paid $500,000 in cash for a single marijuana delivery in Staten Island, according to law enforcement records. Kaplan had a secret warehouse in Staten Island where he kept the marijuana, the records detail. He was rich enough to make $20 million bail yet he attracted little or no attention from the law until he was past 60. "He is in the tradition of Meyer Lansky," said a source familiar with Kaplan's activities in a reference to the late Jewish mob kingpin. "A modest guy, not flashy, up from the streets, very smart, smarter than the Mafia guys he was with, and very, very loyal," said the source. To a point. Nearly a year ago, Kaplan, jailed since 1997 on tax fraud and marijuana smuggling convictions and facing 19 more years in prison, began negotiating with prosecutors to tell what he knows about the two NYPD detectives who allegedly were secretly on the payroll of the Luchese crime family. The two detectives, now retired, allegedly committed murders for the mob and also provided information to an underboss in the Luchese organization. And on March 11, the ex-detectives, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, were arrested in Las Vegas and charged with participating in at least eight murders on behalf of the Mafia beginning in the mid-'80s. As the go-between, Kaplan was an eyewitness to alleged dirty work by Eppolito and Caracappa, as well as their paymaster, providing them with $4,000 a month in cash. To protect his life, Kaplan has been moved to a series of federal prisons, including facilities in West Virginia and the New York City metropolitan area. His family also is under federal protection. Meanwhile, Kaplan's decision to become a cooperating witness came about because he was betrayed by his best friend in the mob, Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso, a Luchese family underboss ... Kaplan's major earnings came from the marijuana trade. Court documents filed by prosecutors state that Kaplan was importing between 4,000 and 5,300 pounds at a time from Juarez, Mexico, into Texas in produce trucks, Winnebagos and cars. Kaplan insulated himself carefully, seldom personally meeting with growers, transporters and buyers in the United States. In wiretapped telephone conversations, Kaplan was always referred to as "The Old Man." He paid his workers well, sometimes as much as $20,000 a trip."

[JTR contributor's note: "The Church of Mammon selects it's new Pope. I love how the title conflates "US" interest with
superich,jewish/zionist neocon interest."]
Wolfowitz Says He Won't Impose U.S. Agenda on World Bank,
By Carol Giacomo and Lesley Wroughton, Yahoo! News, March 19, 2005
"After helping lead the United States to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, Paul Wolfowitz is fighting a different kind of fight -- to secure approval as the next World Bank president by portraying himself as a consensus builder. From his spacious but cluttered office, the Pentagon's No. 2 official this week waged a campaign to ease fears in Europe and elsewhere that he would change policies at the bank to reflect the conservative Bush administration's foreign and social priorities. Wolfowitz telephoned U2 rock star-turned-debt relief advocate Bono, a potentially key ally; cheerfully endured interviews by major media, especially those with European audiences; and courted key finance and political officials from around the world. His message was clear as he sought to win the hearts and minds of a new, more global constituency: He is more multidimensional than his hard-line, conservative image as deputy defense secretary suggests ... "You do the job you have in front of you," he told Reuters in an interview late on Friday. He was explaining how he would segue to his new role from his Bush administration duties of combating terrorism, remaking the military and asserting American power to promote democracy, especially in the Middle East. "I am not going to impose the U.S. agenda on the bank," he said. "I am ready to listen." APPROVAL LIKELY Although his candidacy is controversial, Wolfowitz's approval by the bank's board, which operates by consensus, is likely a foregone conclusion. The United States has the largest voting share on the 24-member board, which represents the 184 member states, and traditionally nominates the bank president ... Wolfowitz, who has spent 24 years in government under six U.S. presidents, had hoped for a promotion in President Bush's second term. But one by one, top jobs like secretary of state, national security adviser and CIA director went to others. Congressional sources predicted that because of Iraq, Wolfowitz might find it impossible to win Senate approval for jobs requiring confirmation, like secretary of state. Critics blame him for pushing America into war with Iraq on the basis of inaccurate intelligence about weapons of mass destruction and sending troops into battle without sufficient plans for what would happen once the shooting stopped."

[Jewish stranglehold on Hollywood and the mass media, here.]
This Is Why Candor Is Rare in Hollywood,
by Rachel Abramowitz and Meg James, Los Angeles Times, March 19, 2005
"It's the first rule for talent agents: Aim the spotlight on your clients, not yourself. David Wirtschafter, president of William Morris Agency, learned that lesson the hard way this week, after an 11,000-word profile of him in the New Yorker prompted two actress clients to quit and set off a wave of gleeful nitpicking among his rivals. First to depart was Sarah Michelle Gellar, she of TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fame. Apparently angry over Wirtschafter's description of her as being "nothing at all" before the horror movie "The Grudge," Gellar ditched the agency Tuesday. Then on Thursday, Oscar winner Halle Berry — whose career, according to the article, needed "burnishing" after the bomb "Catwoman"— dismissed the agency as well. By Friday, seemingly everyone in Hollywood had a copy of an apologetic e-mail Wirtschafter sent late Thursday announcing Berry's departure to his William Morris colleagues. "As you know, I am the subject of a story in the New Yorker that has caused some problems," he wrote. "I had personal reasons for doing the article and I recognize that these became blurred with my professional life. "I never intended to harm any of our colleagues or our clients by participating in this story," he continued. "While I can elaborate on the fine points of how I was portrayed and what I said, I did participate in this and want to apologize for any hurt that has stemmed from it." At the top agencies around town that compete with William Morris, meanwhile, there was gloating all around. One agent at a rival agency, asked by e-mail whether he was pursuing the "Catwoman" star, answered simply, "Meow!!" ... New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend first approached the notoriously press-shy agent nearly two years ago, and eventually persuaded him to provide broad access. Among other things, Friend spent more than two weeks in the William Morris offices. The resulting article paints the agency as vital and aggressive, despite its sometimes fuddy-duddy reputation. Wirtschafter describes that perception in the piece: "In the minds of our competitors, we're still a lot of old Jews dropping dead in our offices." The article also contains what, in the world of talent representation at least, passes for a bombshell. Wirtschafter is quoted calling one client — the singer Alicia Keys — "my favorite." For agents, who spend much of their time nursing the huge-but-frail egos of A-list stars, such declarations are a no-no. "Relationships with clients are the hardest to define, and they can be the most perishable," said an agent at another firm ... The New Yorker article comes just three months after an executive shuffle at William Morris that saw Wirtschafter promoted to president and led to the exodus of three powerful longtime agents: Sam Haskell, the agency's TV chief; Richard Rosenberg, who built the company's successful music and concert division; and Chief Operating Officer Steve Kram, who helped push the agency's international initiatives. The three had clashed with Chief Executive Jim Wiatt [Jewish?] over priorities and management style ... Another colleague agreed. "This is a business that's notorious for liars. And here you have a guy whose biggest fault is that he was honest. He's being crucified for telling the truth."

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