tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post3626525802666397323..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: Israel fears for Tunisia's JewsMike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-63960823767195822632013-02-18T22:50:30.796-08:002013-02-18T22:50:30.796-08:00And on that note, we agree. ;)And on that note, we agree. ;)Randall Kohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06262147784760614189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-76166117669333404562013-02-18T21:09:06.437-08:002013-02-18T21:09:06.437-08:00Is Obama an anti-Semite?
An anti-Semite is someon...<b>Is Obama an anti-Semite?</b><br /><br />An anti-Semite is someone who repeats the kinds of anti-Semitic tropes that have lead to anti-Jewish violence in the past. Obama does not do this. <br /><br />I see no evidence that Obama is an anti-Semite. He is, however, someone who is enabling the foremost anti-Semitic movement in the world today which is political Islam, which is the Muslim Brotherhood. <br /><br />In this way the question becomes irrelevant because even if he is not, and I assume that he is not, who cares? He's the president of the United States and he is helping bring anti-Semites into power both internationally and domestically.<br /><br />For me that's the bottom line.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-26883033618992437162013-02-18T16:10:12.650-08:002013-02-18T16:10:12.650-08:00Just out of curiosity, I wonder how many of those ...Just out of curiosity, I wonder how many of those who smear and disparage me have bought dinner tonight from an Egyptian shawarma vendor who keeps a framed photo of Morsi at his grill? Or how many of them even live within like 500 miles of such a place? Not to mention right down the block...<br /><br />Diversity runs much deeper than the simple thoughts of some random anonymous jerkoff on the internet, is my point here.JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-39987582033508968002013-02-18T13:17:57.560-08:002013-02-18T13:17:57.560-08:00If this comment was a petition, I'd sign it.
...If this comment was a petition, I'd sign it.<br /><br />This is precisely what I'm still struggling to understand -<br /><br />"<i>Progressive elites begrudge our success overall, in favor of cultures that openly deny the human rights of their own peoples, and particularly minorities. Wrapped in their theories, their anti-Western orientation causes them to discriminate against Jews that still must seek self-determination, treating no one else the same, yet they are blind to their own bigotry, not to mention the humanitarian racism that goes alongside.</i>"<br /><br />Where is the switch one needs to flip to get more to take a step back and ponder this? As one whose own switch was flipped on this very question even I don't know...JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-7360730543182357272013-02-18T11:16:07.263-08:002013-02-18T11:16:07.263-08:00That's what I get for being too brief in my re...That's what I get for being too brief in my remarks. ;) But it contributed to making this an interesting thread.<br /><br />To start with, I take it as a given that Obama's antisemitic. But I also agree with Dan and others who discourage dwelling on his motives. (Now if I could only practice what I preach.) <br /><br />As Dan pointed out, what matters is the antisemitism of our elites. This antisemitism is a part of a feudal world view that leaves the Jews without a significant role. <br /><br /> Randall Kohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06262147784760614189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-79554774517840909522013-02-18T10:46:53.113-08:002013-02-18T10:46:53.113-08:00This is an argument that goes nowhere, in my opini...This is an argument that goes nowhere, in my opinion.<br /><br />It is why I asked where is the antisemitism initially.<br /><br />Obama is certainly not Israel's BFF as some have indicated, but people should be careful not to throw around labels when there is disagreement.<br /><br />Better to identify the real antisemites, of which there is no shortage, and not make the word become like "racist," which Lars Hedegaard has described:<br /><br /><i>“After several years of misuse, the word ’racist’ means nothing more than a person considered by the rulers to be a threat to their power, and whom they thus persecute by all means possible. Being called ’racist’ in Sweden today is similar to being branded an ‘outlaw’ during the Middle Ages – a person standing outside the protection of the law, and whom one can thus freely lie about, assault and even kill.”</i><br /><br />http://www.d-intl.com/lars-hedegaard-sues-swedish-media-for-libel/#.USJ2zmdfIus oldschooltwentysixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15672887176887940797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-56219822311759323422013-02-18T09:43:10.960-08:002013-02-18T09:43:10.960-08:00Actually, I want to retract that question because ...Actually, I want to retract that question because it makes it sound like Obama is, in fact, an anti-Semite and I am asking what made him so.<br /><br />That is not the question. The question is this:<br /><br /><b>What is the argument necessary for us to conclude that Barack Obama is an anti-Semite?</b>Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-77236533293108790012013-02-18T09:40:05.028-08:002013-02-18T09:40:05.028-08:00Fabulous!
Congrats, Jay, and I will look forward ...Fabulous!<br /><br />Congrats, Jay, and I will look forward to reading your writing.<br /><br />Good for you, dude.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-80907442485601601852013-02-18T06:39:04.884-08:002013-02-18T06:39:04.884-08:00Actions. Actions. What have been the actions of Ba...<b>Actions. Actions. What have been the actions of Barack Obama? That is what matters.</b><br /><br />The actions of Barack Obama:<br /><br /><b>[</b><a href="http://israel-thrives.blogspot.com/2013/01/if-obama.html?showComment=1359123643559#c5652326613009285870" rel="nofollow"><b>1</b></a><b>]</b> <b>[</b><a href="http://israel-thrives.blogspot.com/2013/01/if-obama.html?showComment=1359123664857#c1944180304038061930" rel="nofollow"><b>2</b></a><b>]</b> <b>[</b><a href="http://israel-thrives.blogspot.com/2012/09/democrat-legislator-warns-american-jews.html?showComment=1347770746974#c7100543400021937598" rel="nofollow"><b>3</b></a><b>]</b>*<br /><br />(Note: * I apologize for my harsh writing in item 3.)<br /><br />----<br /><br />And Barack Obama is not the "main" issue. Barack Obama is just part of a larger problem -- the problem of anti-Jewish / anti-Israeli bigotry among the makers of the foreign policy of the U.S. government, and, therein, the problem of what is an anti-Israeli agenda and campaign being engaged in by the makers of foreign policy of the U.S. government. And the issue of Barack Obama is not about him as a person. It's about his actions and the effects of his actions. Barack Obama is currently the President of the United States of America, and the administration that is his administration is currently the administration of the U.S. government, so, therein, although the issue of Barack Obama himself is not the "main" issue, Barack Obama and the U.S. administration that is the U.S. Presidential administration of Barack Obama is a crucially important issue -- one of the most important issues.<br /><br />It's not about "personalities". It's not about abstract concepts about the "goodness" or "badness" of certain ideologies or personalities. It's not about "self-identity". It's not about attaching one's own "self-identity" to certain political ideologies or to certain personalities. It's about seeing what is the case and doing what is beneficial.<br /><br />----<br /><br />"<i>I don't know that Barack Obama is racist toward Jews, but I certainly understand how someone like Randall might.</i>"<br /><br />"racist toward Jews"<br /><br />I think a more correct phrase to use in this case is the phrase "bigoted toward Jews". What does "bigoted toward Jews" mean? Bigotry towards Jews -- anti-Jewish bigotry -- is not some "special" thing. The bigotry in anti-Jewish bigotry is not some "special" thing. Anti-Jewish bigotry is not some "special" thing that needs "special" defining. Anti-Jewish bigotry -- bigotry towards Jewish people -- does not need to meet some "special" qualifiers or "special" standards to be bigotry. Bigotry towards Jews -- anti-Jewish bigotry -- is simply bigotry towards Jews. And bigotry towards Jews is pervasive in the way of thinking of most people in Western societies. The lack of recognizing bigotry towards Jews as being bigotry is, itself, bigotry towards Jews.<br /><br /><b>Western Culture, the Holocaust, and the Persistence of Antisemitism, Introduction YIISA Seminar, Yale University, 5 March 2009 Dr. Catherine Chatterley University of Winnipeg (Canada), Department of History:</b><br /><br />Video of the Talk (Streaming Video (RealMedia)): http://streaming.yale.edu:8080/ramgen/cmibroadcast/yiisa/chatterley_030509.rm<br />Direct Link to streaming video file: rtsp://128.36.236.13:554/cmibroadcast/yiisa/chatterley_030509.rm?cloakport=8080,554<br /><br />Discussion Draft of the talk: http://web.archive.org/web/20090422150719/http://www.yale.edu/yiisa/chatterleypaper3509.pdf<br /><br />YIISA (Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism) was founded in 2006 and was was shut down in 2011. It was shut down in accordance with, and as part of, the anti-Jewish bigotry that is discussed in this talk by Catherine Chatterley.<br /><br /><b>Antisemitism in America - Yale Kills YIISA, by Clemens Heni</b><br />http://clemensheni.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/yale-kills-yiisa/Daniel Bielakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792786894694523598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-70610413098291775882013-02-18T00:24:00.463-08:002013-02-18T00:24:00.463-08:00And totally o/t, but I've finally decided I...And totally o/t, but I've finally decided I've gotten the hang of this blog thing, and I've launched my blog fer' real this time...<br /><br /><a href="http://jayinphiladelphia.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">JayinPhiladelphia</a><br /><br />I have work to do on design and whatnot, but I've figured out what I need to focus on (urban history, transit issues, the effects of deindustrialization, etc etc), and I'm a ready to go.<br /><br />Hope youze will all stop by from time to time to check out what I'm up to, if youze are so inclined. I can commit to at least one new post a week for now...JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-41676914124798289672013-02-18T00:17:46.790-08:002013-02-18T00:17:46.790-08:00This -
"This is a place where people can dis...This -<br /><br />"<i>This is a place where people can disagree without acrimony. We've always been like this. I am damn proud of that fact, actually.</i>"<br /><br />Concur.JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-30284642708902787622013-02-18T00:10:26.334-08:002013-02-18T00:10:26.334-08:00I hope that he does disagree and outlines precisel...I hope that he does disagree and outlines precisely why he does so.<br /><br />Shit, if he doesn't do it, I'll do it for him.<br /><br />This is a place where people can disagree without acrimony. We've always been like this. I am damn proud of that fact, actually.<br /><br />I want Randall to make his case.<br /><br /><b>Why is Barack Obama an anti-Semite?</b><br /><br />I think that this is a very interesting question at least, in part, because it is taboo.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-72482263873998270292013-02-18T00:04:07.025-08:002013-02-18T00:04:07.025-08:00Yes, I agree that you and I... agree. Heh.
I wil...Yes, I agree that you and I... agree. Heh.<br /><br />I will also note here that I like Randall, and I hope he doesn't take this discussion personally.JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-20605470469571201562013-02-17T23:53:04.749-08:002013-02-17T23:53:04.749-08:00Yup. I agree.
I've never been one to worry mu...Yup. I agree.<br /><br />I've never been one to worry much about tactics. I just say the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they will, but I have never said that Obama is an anti-Semite, either.<br /><br />I think that we are in agreement and I think that Randall, good guy that he is, should make his case. <br /><br />Is Barack Obama an anti-Semite?<br /><br />That's the question under discussion at this moment, I guess.<br /><br />I can immediately think of arguments both pro and con.<br /><br />I tend to lean toward con, but in a sense it doesn't matter. What does matter is that Obama, in my opinion at least, is getting ready to launch the next round of <a href="http://israel-thrives.blogspot.com/2013/02/op-ed-israelis-must-protest-obamas-visit.html" rel="nofollow">the delegitimization effort.</a> <br /><br />I don't care about Obama's intentions, I care about his effects.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-83622903209710736862013-02-17T23:23:14.212-08:002013-02-17T23:23:14.212-08:00Thanks, Mike. I can surely understand that point,...Thanks, Mike. I can surely understand that point, and if I can clarify what I mean to say a bit more (and if we can forget that I said I wouldn't comment on this again, heh), I would say that I think there's quite a large difference between calling out obvious internet antisemites, or fanatical enablers of same (like David Harris-Gershon), and leveling such a charge against the president of the United States.<br /><br />Let's pick our battles, is I guess my main point here.<br /><br />If we're gonna argue against what he's doing, let's do it from rock-solid ground.<br /><br />Know what I mean?JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-10913069839403001532013-02-17T23:23:00.519-08:002013-02-17T23:23:00.519-08:00Jay,
I'm basically with you on this.
I do n...Jay, <br /><br />I'm basically with you on this.<br /><br />I do not recall Obama repeating any anti-Semitic tropes.<br /><br />The problem is that he is backing a large-scale anti-Semitic movement within a population that outnumbers the Jews 60 or 70 to 1 in the Middle East.<br /><br />That being the case it is not difficult to see how members of the threatened population (us) might come to that conclusion.<br /><br />I don't know that Barack Obama is racist toward Jews, but I certainly understand how someone like Randall might.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-55061289432511970422013-02-17T22:14:55.231-08:002013-02-17T22:14:55.231-08:00And regarding antisemitism vs. anti-Zionism, I def...And regarding antisemitism vs. anti-Zionism, I defy anyone to check out <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/02/israels-prisoner-x-scandal-australian-imprisoned-impossibly-commits-suicide-story-under-gag-order-for-two-year.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> Naked Capitalism thread to see if s/he can tell the difference.Randall Kohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06262147784760614189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-83629212760996782442013-02-17T22:11:07.475-08:002013-02-17T22:11:07.475-08:00Greetings, fellas. I just got back home after giv...Greetings, fellas. I just got back home after giving in to my Irish side and stopping at a corner pub for a couple Lagers (I usually drink better beer, but hey that stuff's cheap, it's Our Thing and it actually ain't bad, either). The experience, as usual, was pretty much <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjQEBIBQaO4" rel="nofollow">just like this</a>.<br /><br />They absolutely nail the Kenzo Experience (2:29 - 3:38). Yo.<br /><br />;)<br /><br />Anyway.<br /><br />I know I'm not gonna change any minds here, and after this comment I'll simply agree to disagree. Whoever wants the last word, can have it.<br /><br />Is the president naive? Possibly.<br /><br />Is the president arrogant? Absolutely. Then again, that's pretty much a requirement of the position. If one does not hit at least an 8.9 on the Arrogance Richter Scale, one likely isn't making it past the New Hampshire primary. Let alone into the White House.<br /><br />Is the president spiteful? Possibly. He's only human, after all, and I think that's the likely explanation for most of what he's done lately.<br /><br />Look, once things start getting off into the weeds of "invisible antisemitism" and all that, nothing is accomplished. Aside from most people then tuning out.<br /><br />I'm not claiming that such a thing isn't a real phenomenon (it is), and I'm not claiming that bringing it up is unfair (it actually fits many leftists quite to a t). I would, however, make the point that calling the president an antisemite, clearly without any solid evidence of same, accomplishes absolutely nothing.<br /><br />Aside from turning many people away from any further argument(s) you make against his policies, that is...<br /><br />Which is to say, there's something to be said for tact. Even if you do believe (which I absolutely do not) that such a charge is true. Choose your battles, for the better good.<br /><br />Once again, feel free to take the last word. I'll agree to disagree, and I'd hope that I'm not the only one here.JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-68935710170808246812013-02-17T21:13:59.420-08:002013-02-17T21:13:59.420-08:00"For a liberal, voting for McCain is not with..."For a liberal, voting for McCain is not without contradictions – but it is necessary."<br /><br />I just wanted to see that again. ;)<br />Randall Kohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06262147784760614189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-8508935116983184772013-02-17T15:07:57.459-08:002013-02-17T15:07:57.459-08:00No. But I just wanted to give at least a small sam...No. But I just wanted to give at least a small sample indicative of what the situation is.Daniel Bielakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792786894694523598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-79302131369340676872013-02-17T15:01:12.473-08:002013-02-17T15:01:12.473-08:00“But I am a Zionist!”, by Clemens Heni, 2008
&quo...<b>“But I am a Zionist!”, by Clemens Heni, 2008</b><br /><br />"<i><b>For a liberal, voting for McCain is not without contradictions – but it is necessary.</b></i><br /><br />"<i>On Germany, anti-Semitism, Israel, Iran and the new American Presidency</i><br /><br />"<i>The art of the intellectual is to have his/her finger on the pulse of the times, in terms of both politics and social theory. Peter Viereck (1916-2006), almost forgotten today even in the USA, was such a splendid artist. In 1940, in light of Nazi Germany and World War II, he wrote in a brilliant article: 'But I am a conservative', which became a beacon for conservatives in America, so to speak. In doing so, he decidedly turned against his own father, Sylvester Viereck, an enthusiastic Nazi who was the first foreign journalist to interview Hitler in the early 1920s. Even more, <b>it was a wake-up call in America, against the 'liberals' and 'leftists' who praised the Hitler-Stalin Pact as well as the USSR as a bulwark against war.</b></i><br /><br />"<i>To this day, many think that anti-Zionism is harmless and anti-Semitism more evil, but that little or nothing connects the two. That is incorrect. Especially after Auschwitz, every form of anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic. I will explain this in the following.</i><br /><br />"<i>After Auschwitz, it is no longer readily possible to stigmatize Jews as Jews. Usually, the term “Zionist” is used as code. That was or is easy to observe in the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, but also in the Arab and Muslim worlds, and even in Latin America and Africa. In the West, Zionism and Israel became the concept of the enemy, especially for the (radical) Left, in particular after the Six-Day War in 1967 (but, as will be shown, even much earlier). “Liberals” or leftists such as Noam Chomsky, Tony Judt, Giorgio Agamben or Judith Butler are perfectly happy to be anti-Zionist and consider themselves far from propagating anti-Semitic sentiments. But that is exactly what they do. It is stated that Israel is a state (what a crime!), even a brutal nation-state and a priori racist and exclusive, just like all nation-states. It is almost amusing that many theoreticians and activists obsessively select no other country but Israel to deconstruct the principle of the nation-state. Where are all the demonstrations against Saudi Arabia as a nation-state or against North Korea, or against Latvia, Denmark, Finland, South Africa, Kenya, Sudan, Venezuela or Yemen? All of them “brutal nation-states” … But nobody fundamentally questions their existence. Israel, on the other hand, is questioned.</i><br /><br />"<i>Not a single country in the world was founded without violence. Not a single country in the world is non-exclusive. So what? Why the focus on Israel? Why attack precisely the only Jewish state and not the dozens of Arabic, even Muslim ones, Iran to be precise, or other problematic regimes such as the ones in North Korea or China?</i><br /><br />"<i>The relationship between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism as well as Jewish self-hatred was made a topic of discussion as early as 1976 in the most important German-language journal on Jews and anti-Semitism, Tribüne. And now things become truly interesting. Rudolf Pfisterer (Wider den Mythus von der Coexistenz, in: Tribüne, vol. 15, issue 59, 1976, pp. 6988-6997, here 6988f.) analyzes the situation for Jews in Arabic and Muslim countries especially in the period before 1933 and shows that anti-Zionism is much more than Israel-bashing, it is nothing less than hatred of Jews:</i>..."<br /><br /><a href="http://clemensheni.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/but-i-am-a-zionist/" rel="nofollow">http://clemensheni.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/but-i-am-a-zionist/</a>Daniel Bielakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792786894694523598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-68818680094890129172013-02-17T15:00:15.579-08:002013-02-17T15:00:15.579-08:00Jeez, Dan.
Is that all ya got?
;O)Jeez, Dan.<br /><br />Is that all ya got?<br /><br />;O)Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-4551265672742424822013-02-17T14:59:15.515-08:002013-02-17T14:59:15.515-08:00"...Invisible Antisemitism
"Is it famil..."...<i>Invisible Antisemitism</i><br /><br />"<i>Is it familiarity or indifference that produces invisibility? In the case of antisemitism it may be both. <b>One of the reasons why people today reject the charge of antisemitism is because, as mentioned, it is largely defined by Auschwitz in the Western imagination. If one is not prepared to physically attack or attempt to harm Jews one can safely remain aloof to the charge of antisemitism. In Western culture, the beliefs many people still hold about ‘the Jews’ are not seen to be antisemitic (read genocidal) but are simply felt to be reflective of day-to-day reality.</b> In other words, what some of us identify as antisemitic ways of thinking most people see as simply reflective of a reality in which Jews are in fact wealthy, in fact powerful, in fact connected to one another, and in fact work together (or conspire) to protect their own communal and individual interests, which today include the fate of the State of Israel. Again, this is not new but fully consistent with classical forms of European antisemitism, in which antisemites point to 'reality' to illustrate Jewish power, conspiracy, materialism, criminality, or whatever negative association they want to affix to 'the Jews.' And the 'reality' they find then reconfirms their pre-existing antisemitism, as it does today. After almost 2000 years of indoctrination, which has worked very hard to fix the Western imagination—and our individual attention—upon this abstract collective called 'the Jews,' we should not be surprised to discover that Western culture is riddled with antisemitic perceptions and habits of thought about the Jewish People. And this complex invisible reality has not been exorcised by the Holocaust. Negative beliefs and attitudes about Jews are so normal and so ingrained in Western perceptions and attitudes that people—<b>both gentiles and Jews</b>—are simply unable to recognize them for what they are. Like a second skin, antisemitic thinking has become invisible to most people.</i> ..."<br /><br />-- <a href="http://israel-thrives.blogspot.com/2013/02/ignorance-of-well-intentioned.html?showComment=1360971763965#c2594890618569047764" rel="nofollow">Western Culture, the Holocaust, and the Persistence of Antisemitism, by Dr. Catherine Chatterley</a>Daniel Bielakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792786894694523598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-44020066979955096112013-02-17T14:58:37.292-08:002013-02-17T14:58:37.292-08:00French Protestant NGO refuses to attend Shoah comm...<b>French Protestant NGO refuses to attend Shoah commemoration</b><br />http://philosemitism.blogspot.com/2013/02/french-protestant-ngo-refuses-to-attend.html<br /><br />"<i><b>Sadly European Jews fail to see what is going on.</b> Strange that a French Jewish umbrella organisation invited CIMADE, an NGO involved in anti-Israel militancy to attent a Holocaust commemoration ... and they were only too happy to decline and to publicise their views...</i>"<br /><br />----<br /><br /><b>Must Jewish celebrities behave like Dhimmis?</b><br /><br />http://philosemitism.blogspot.com/2013/02/must-jewish-celebrities-behave-like.html<br /><br />http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2012/12/must-jewish-celebrities-behave-like.html<br /><br />"...<i><b>Cluzet has never been challenged for falsely alleging, on France's FR 2 (the TV channel which first broke the 'Al Dura' hoax), that Hamouri was jailed by Israel merely for speaking out against Israeli 'colonialism'. In spite of the main watchdog against antisemitism (BNVCA) berating them for 'disinformation and incitement to hatred', the French media have never made any effort to correct Cluzet's lies.</b></i>"<br /><br />"<i><b>Where do Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano stand?</b> The two friends are ostensibly proud of their heritage. Their first film was based on their experiences running the Jewish summer camp of Yaniv. They appeared on French-Jewish radio to promote their film 'Untouchable'. But <b>instead of condemning Cluzet's political views, they gave evasive and mealy-mouthed answers. They claimed that Cluzet had been misunderstood and misrepresented.</b> Cluzet is not the first, nor will he be the last, actor to hold anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian views. Hollywood is full of 'useful idiots' like him. Hardly a week goes by without some celebrity climbing on a boycott bandwagon or signing petitions. If Cluzet is nominated for an Oscar in February 2013, shouldn't the media and the selection committee be made aware of his political militancy? Equally, the issue here is whether two proud Sephardi Jews should use their position in the public eye to correct defamation and distortion. <b>Do they have a duty not to let Cluzet get away with it ? Or must Jews who have achieved fame and fortune always behave like dhimmis?</b></i>"<br /><br />----<br /><br /><b>European Jewish NGOs members of NGO headed by a Muslim Brother</b><br />http://philosemitism.blogspot.com/2011/12/european-jewish-ngos-members-of-ngo.html<br /><br />----<br /><br /><b>Anti-Semitism in Europe: Jews who can do so, leave Europe</b><br />http://philosemitism.blogspot.com/2013/01/anti-semitism-in-europe-jews-who-can-do.html<br /><br />"<i>In an interview in a French magazine a few years ago, a man who survived the death camp in Auschwitz said: '<b>In the 1930s, the pessimists found ways to survive; it was the optimists who died.</b>'</i>"<br />Daniel Bielakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792786894694523598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-72412011549262429062013-02-17T14:58:19.164-08:002013-02-17T14:58:19.164-08:00Riga, Viktor Arajs, march 16, the Latvian Legion a...<b>Riga, Viktor Arajs, march 16, the Latvian Legion and the Holocaust</b><br />http://clemensheni.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/riga-viktor-arajs-march-16-the-latvian-legion-and-the-holocaust/<br /><br />"<i>Last Tuesday, March 16, some 200 former Waffen-SS members marched through the city of Riga, the capital of Latvia, accompanied by at least 1000 Neo-Nazis and other ordinary Latvians. I never have seen before in live such a parade of people and their units who had been actively involved in the Shoah.</i><br /><br />"<i>Why could something like this happen in today’s world, 2010?</i>"<br /><br />----<br /><br /><b>Barry Rubin fails to address Lithuania’s hunt against Jewish anti-Nazi partisans</b><br />http://clemensheni.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/barry-rubin-fails-to-address-lithuanias-hunt-against-jewish-anti-nazi-partisans/<br /><br />----<br /><br /><b>The Prague Declaration, Holocaust Obfuscation and Antisemitism</b><br />http://clemensheni.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/the-prague-declaration-holocaust-obfuscation-and-antisemitism/<br /><br /><b>The Prague Declaration: Antisemitism with a democratic face…</b><br />http://clemensheni.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/the-prague-declaration-antisemitism-with-a-democratic-face/<br /><br /><b>The “Prague Declaration” is Europe’s new Antisemitic Poison</b><br />http://clemensheni.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/the-%E2%80%9Cprague-declaration%E2%80%9D-is-europe%E2%80%99s-new-antisemitic-poison/<br /><br />----<br /><br /><b>New book exposes indifference to Nazis after World War II</b><br />http://philosemitism.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-book-exposes-indifference-to-nazis.html<br /><br />"...<i>Algemeiner: A new book claims that governments around the world were unwilling to track down Nazi criminals in the wake of World War II because of 'vested interests.'</i><br /><br />"<i>The UK’s Daily Mail writes that 'Nazi Hunt: South America’s Dictatorships and the Avenging of Nazi Crimes,' by German historian Daniel Stahl, calls the half-hearted efforts of postwar governments a ‘coalition of the unwilling.’</i><br /><br />"<i>Stahl writes that the French feared prosecutions would expose their collaboration during the war, the South Americans feared a spotlight on their own murderous regimes and the West Germans wanted to help ‘old comrades’ get away.</i> ..."<br />Daniel Bielakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792786894694523598noreply@blogger.com