March 2012
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Not a Parody: Peace Now Shocked to Discover Arabs... →
What will it take to convince supporters of Peace Now the imperative of their organization’s name depends on the Arabs rather than the Jews? After 18+ years of Arab terrorism and rejection of peace offers since the Oslo Accords, it’s hard to say whether anything the Palestinians could do or say would cause them to rethink their myopic view of the world.
But give Americans for...
February 2012
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HOWARD WALDOW REPORTS ON ILAN PAPPE AT CSUN, by... →
There is something happening here, and the old Israel-haters do not quite know what it is. It is the sound of a movement of reasonable people who understand bigotry when they hear it and will not tolerate it on our campuses. StandWithUs and student organizations such as CSI provide the essential infrastructure and support for this movement. There is only one thing needed to build momentum...
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Harvard, Jew haters, motherhood and Israel, by... →
In the decades before the Holocaust, an evil wind blew through academia and other elite quarters throughout the Western world. The doctrines of race and eugenics became all the rage of the anointed intellectuals. Even an otherwise liberal thinker like Oliver Wendell Holmes was drawn to the fashionable concept of killing mentally disabled in the name of eugenics.
These doctrines gave the...
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The Big Lie Returns, by Ben Cohen →
Atzmon fixates upon the irredeemably tribal and racist identity he calls “Jewishness.” The anti-Gentile separatism that compels Jews to amass greater power and influence is manifested, he preaches, in any context where Jews come together as a group. The Wandering Who finds Atzmon on territory well-trodden by anti-Semites past and present: Holocaust revisionism (one chapter is entitled...
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Deconstructing "Israeli Apartheid", by Alex Safian... →
While Israel’s adversaries have always charged the country with many misdeeds, only relatively recently have these alleged transgressions coalesced into the so-called BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions), modeled after the campaign against apartheid South Africa, and based on the allegation that Israel too is an apartheid state. An integral part of the BDS campaign is Israeli ...
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Contentions - Sting and the Police State, by Abe... →
In terms of lifestyle, dictators and rock stars occupy the same stratum. Consider only a fraction of what they share: palace residences, obsessively broadcast concern for the poor, appearances before strange crowds who chant their names, flattery from identical media sycophants, protection from hired flunkies who allow their eccentricities full expression, an ever-ready foul word for Israel,...
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Cover Me – Hamas’ Illegitimate Human Shield →
A couple of months before Operation Cast Lead began in late 2008, the Hamas Representative Fathi Hammad was already preaching…
“For the Palestinian people death has become an industry, at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly...
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Onward Christian soldiers Unsurprisingly, there... →
WASHINGTON — Think North American campus activism for Israel and chances are you won’t think of a Hispanic Catholic organizing pro-Israel events.
Or, of an African American Catholic at a historically black college telling not just her fellow students, but also a Jewish youth group, why she supports Israel.
Yet, Stanley Gonzalez-Martinez and Alexis Crews are among thousands of non-Jewish ...
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Trying to give respectability to the one-state... →
The premise for effecting a one-state solution is, on its face, obscene, a thinly-disguised ploy to offer a diplomatic solution to an intractable problem, which its proponents know full well would be implemented only for the benefit of Palestinian self-affirmation and to the detriment, and destruction, of Israel. That is exactly why the participants of the Harvard conference are a retinue of...
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Canada store owner defeats anti-Israel boycotters,... →
The story of Shani Bar-Oz, a Canada-based Israeli facing venomous protests outside her Vancouver soap products store, elicited a huge wave of support and generated new business, the shop owner old Ynet.
“I received a huge embrace and plenty of support,” Bar-Oz said, after an article about her plight appeared on Ynet. In the story, the store owner, who insists on selling Israeli products, shared...
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Why Apologize to Afghanistan? The reaction to an... →
Do you know why you are supposed to stay mum about the intentional Muslim sacrilege but plead to be forgiven for the accidental American offense? Because you would otherwise have to observe that the Koran and other Islamic scriptures instruct Muslims that they are in a civilizational jihad against non-Muslims, and that it is therefore permissible for them to do whatever is necessary —...
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What is the Secret of our People's Survival? By... →
Purim teaches us the age-old lesson, which has been verified even most recently, to our sorrow, that no manner of assimilationism, not even such which is extended over several generations, provides an escape from the Hamans and Hitlers; nor can any Jew sever his ties with his people by attempting such an escape.
On the contrary: Our salvation and our existence depend precisely upon the fact...
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Fighting campus hatred Op-ed: Israel Apartheid... →
Anti-Israel hatred on campus crests each year during an event called “Israel Apartheid Week.” With this ominous name and programs that thrive on ignorance and blind disregard for the facts, tens of thousands of college students are urged to rise up against Israel – painfully evoking the types of racist characterizations of the Jewish people which defined attitudes once heard in Europe in...
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When a seven year-old is branded a bigot, by... →
The word ‘Orwellian’ has become over-used to the point of cliche. Yet there is really no other way to describe the deeply sinister, upside-down onslaught upon common sense that has extended even into the school playgrounds of politically correct Britain.
The aim was originally to create a kinder, gentler world — with a commitment to eradicating racial or any other type of prejudice.
Supporters...
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Memo to Jews: After They Come for the Catholic... →
Today it is contraception and the morning-after pill. Tomorrow it will be kosher slaughter, or matrilineal descent, or circumcision, or other matters of existential importance to Jewish observance. If the Obama administration gets away with forcing Catholic institutions to step across lines of life and death in the name of “health,” the federal government will have a precedent to legislate...
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Islamist Lobbies’ Washington War on Arab and... →
The most dramatic oppression of the region’s civil societies and the Arab Spring is not by means of weapons, or in the Middle East. It is not led by Gaddafi, Mubarak, Bin Ali, Saleh, or Assad. It is led by the powerful Islamist lobbies in Washington DC. People may find my words curious if not provocative. But my arguments are sharp and well understood by many Arab and middle eastern liberals...
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Arab Like Me - Maybe, just maybe, Arabs can break... →
There are two kinds of Arabs in this world. Those who hate Jews, and those who don’t. And in my life, I have met more of the former than the latter.
I am not proud to say that. Arabs will not like me for admitting it. But it is true. And it is something I wish the Obama administration understood. It is something Americans should know as the “Arab Spring” enters its second year.
I didn’t...
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Palestinians and the Greatest Political Scam of... →
Further, the claim bruited by Arab propagandists of various stripes that the Palestinian refugees were driven out by Israeli forces during the War of Independence is more than likely only minimally valid. The brunt of the responsibility for the flight of Palestinian villagers and fellaheen must be borne almost exclusively by the Arabs. “Every year,” writes Sol Stern in A Century of Palestinian...
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Obama Budget Decreases Missile Funding to Israel... →
For the second straight year, President Obama is seeking to decrease funding to joint U.S.-Israel missile defense programs.
Tucked within Obama’s 2013 budget proposal is a request to reduce the amount of money Israel receives for its critical missile defense systems by $6.3 million relative to the 2012 budget proposal. Among these defense systems are Arrow and David’s Sling, both of which are...
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Now is the time to fight for Jewish refugees, by... →
Some years ago, a daughter of the wealthy Jewish Castro family from Egypt heard Anwar Sadat’s widow Jehan deliver a talk in New York. Congratulating her afterwards, the Egyptian Jewess exchanged pleasantries with Mrs. Sadat. “But you must come back to visit [Egypt] and to show it to your children,” Mrs. Sadat said, adding the traditional Egyptian courtesy, beti betak – “my house is your...
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“However little we may like it, toughness is the price of survival. A nation...”
– George Orwell - The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius - Part III: The English Revolution, chapter iii
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Why Speculate, by Michael Crichton →
Do we all agree that nobody knows what the future holds? Or do I have to prove it to you? I ask this because there are some well-studied media effects which suggest that simply appearing in media provides credibility. There was a well-known series of excellent studies by Stanford researchers that have shown, for example, that children take media...
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Did Saudi prince buy Fox's silence? by Diana West... →
Have you heard about the 23-year-old Saudi journalist who tweeted an imaginary conversation with Muhammad? It went something like this: He loved Muhammad, he hated Muhammad, he couldn’t understand Muhammad, he wasn’t going to pray for Muhammad. If this isn’t exactly a disquisition on faith and doubt a la “The Brothers Karamazov,” remember, we’re just ...
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Persistence, patience, complicity in high places,... →
“The Zionist regime, due to repeated crimes against humanity, is the main party accused of terrorist activities,” an Iranian leader reportedly said.
An incredible, jaw-dropping example of the pot calling the kettle black, but, oddly, true, if you rely on the predominantly anti-Semitic United Nations’ predilection for anti-Israel condemnation – a longstanding, untenable situation that is ...
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Whatever happened to Human Rights? By Nick Cohen →
When it comes to Shari’a law, Human Rights Watch hedges and mutters and refuses to condemn illiberal prejudices in plain language.
As Sahgal, says: ‘It is simply not good enough to say we do not know what kind of Islamic law, if any, will result, when it is already clear that freedom of expression and freedom of religion — not to mention the choice not to veil — are under threat. And while...
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Antisemitism in the Media The Tip of the Iceberg? ... →
Anti-Semitic journalists, however, keep surfacing from all professional backgrounds. Take Matt Moss, for example, recently in the New York Times travel section, who in a breath,taking combination of unprofessionalism, prejudice (pre-judging something without so much as a current look at it), lack of curiosity, boasted that although he is Jewish, the only country on the entire planet he does...
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Michigan is breeding poverty, by Nolan Finley →
Since the national attention is on birth control, here’s my idea: If we want to fight poverty, reduce violent crime and bring down our embarrassing drop-out rate, we should swap contraceptives for fluoride in Michigan’s drinking water.
We’ve got a baby problem in Michigan. Too many babies are born to immature parents who don’t have the skills to raise them, too many...
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Assad@axisofevil.com . . . Leaked emails show... →
There are also few surprises regarding the workings of the presidential palace in Damascus. The place is run by petty bureaucrats whose power rests entirely on the willingness of others to commit acts of terrorism—against either Syria’s neighbors or their fellow Syrians—on their behalf. When the Assad regime at last finds its back against the wall, these are not the sort of figures who...
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The Palestinian refugees of 1936 were...Jews →
Here are photos of Jewish houses in Tel Aviv destroyed by Arabs of Jaffa at the outbreak of the “non-violent” riots in 1936:
Thousands of Jews were forced to flee their homes:
Some Jews were forced to move their belongings to a public park in Tel Aviv:
Here is a refugee camp near Rishon LeZion for the Jews who lost their homes during the riots.
All these photos were...
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Israel and Iran on the Eve of Destruction in a New... →
It probably felt a bit like this in the months before the Six-Day War of 1967, when Israel launched its hugely successful preemptive strike against Egypt and its allies. Forty-five years later, the little country that is the most easterly outpost of Western civilization has Iran in its sights.
There are five reasons (I am told) why Israel should not attack Iran:
1. The Iranians would...
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University of Exeter Gives Pappé a Pass on... →
For one brief shining moment, it looked as if the University of Exeter was going to hold Ilan Pappé accountable for attributing a fake quote to David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister.
Those hopes were in vain. Not only did the university’s Ethics Committee fail to hold Pappé accountable for his fabrication, the committee accepted an explanation from the historian that is simply so...
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Why No Peace? Because the PA Tells Its People that... →
The trouble with the Palestinian Authority (PA) is that while in the Western mass media it is virtually always portrayed as moderate the PA simply doesn’t act that way. Its contrary behavior involves not keeping its commitments, daily incitement to kill Israelis and destroy Israel in its institutions, and refusal to negotiate seriously.
Above all, it means refusing to make peace in the context of...
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BBC Bias Alert: Justifying and Humanizing... →
When is murder not murder? According to the BBC, when Jews or Israelis are the victims.
In a feature on Palestinians prisoners released and exiled as part of the Gilad Shalit deal , the BBC states:
The releases were enormously controversial in Israel, where some of the prisoners were seen as mass murderers.
When terrorists deliberately kill innocent Israeli civilians, that’s murder. Period.
As...