The Day of the Dhimmi is Done - Michael Lumish, Proprietor
Monday, February 29, 2016
And Now For Some Good News
Doodad
Not really a surprise; Americans don't really care for terrorists.
The Children's Intifada
Michael L.
The Children's Intifada.
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When western university students and faculty call for support for the current pogrom against the Jews, the Children's Intifada, this is what they are advocating.
The Children's Intifada.
\When western university students and faculty call for support for the current pogrom against the Jews, the Children's Intifada, this is what they are advocating.
Say "hello" to contemporary Palestinian-Arab culture as designed by Yassir Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas.
They are sending their own children off to die in an effort to kill Jews and the allegedly "liberal" West could hardly care less.
They are sending their own children off to die in an effort to kill Jews and the allegedly "liberal" West could hardly care less.
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Pushing the Jews out of Europe
Michael L.
{Also published at the Elder of Ziyon, Jews Down Under and Vocal Europe.}
In a January 18 piece for the Guardian entitled EU adopts resolution criticising Israeli settlement activity by Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem and Jennifer Rankin in Brussels, we read:
The problem is not that Europe is importing perhaps millions of Middle Easterners and North Africans onto the continent, but that huge percentages of these folk happen to despise the Jewish people and tend to have no desire to integrate into liberal European society. They also tend to have an outright hatred for Gay people and a belief in the inferiority, and servitude, of women. We all know this, of course, but few decision-makers in Europe honestly seem to care or find it in their political best interests to publicly acknowledge this cultural reality.
What makes it so much worse, of course, is the inclination among those European decision-makers to isolate and reprimand the Jewish state as a kind-of unique evil. Of all the countries in the world, it is little democratic Israel that gets singled out by the EU and various European governments for sanction and continual reprimand because Jews actually dare to live in Judea and Samaria, the land that Jewish people come from.
Not only does the EU not strongly oppose the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction the State of Israel (BDS) it absolutely encourages that political movement via efforts such as this one. What the EU is telling the world - much to the happiness of Islamists everywhere - is that Jewish people have no right to purchase housing on historically Jewish land..
There is an irony in the fact that while western Europe has flung open its doors for Arabs to come and live wherever they want, the western European elite wrinkle their noses at the whif of Jews building housing for themselves on the land that Jewish people have lived upon for something close to four-thousand years.
There is also considerable irony in the fact that while the EU opposes Jews who build housing for themselves and their children beyond the so-called "green line" within Israel it actively supports construction for Palestinian-Arabs within "area C" which is supposed to be fully controlled by Israel according to the Oslo Accords.
Furthermore, by sanctioning the Jews of Judea and Samaria - which Jordan dubbed "West Bank" for the purpose of erasing Jewish history and thereby undermining Jewish claims to their own homeland - the EU encourages violence toward European Jewry by those very same immigrants who often tend to despise Jews for religious reasons to begin with.
When the EU adopts resolutions such as the one above it sends a very clear message not only to the great Arab-Muslim majority in the Middle East, but to the Arab-Muslim minority in Europe, that it is open-season on Jews.
It certainly has nothing to do with Israeli-Jewish intransigence on the question of a 23rd Arab state because the Jewish people have acknowledged their readiness to give away their heartland for peace since the Peel Commission of 1937. The reason that there is no peace between the Arab majority and the Jewish minority in that part of the world, despite the fact that Israel treats its Arab citizenry far better than does the rest of the Arab-Muslim societies, is because of Koranic forbiddance.
Yet Europe smacks around its Jews, so can you blame Jewish people for wanting to leave Europe?
Were I a European Jew I would be pondering every possibility for relocation to Israel, North America, or Australia.
{Also published at the Elder of Ziyon, Jews Down Under and Vocal Europe.}
In a January 18 piece for the Guardian entitled EU adopts resolution criticising Israeli settlement activity by Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem and Jennifer Rankin in Brussels, we read:
The European Union has unanimously adopted a tough resolution criticising Israeli settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories, despite fierce efforts by Israel to persuade some EU members to block it.
The resolution was agreed by the EU foreign affairs council on Monday after Greece, one of five countries Israel had hoped would block acceptance of the resolution, backed down following a weekend of wrangling and pressure from Palestinian officials and other European diplomats.Europe seems intent upon making itself more and more irrelevant to the Jewish State of Israel, as well as to the Jewish people as a whole. The EU's open-door policy for Arab-Muslim migrants in the millions is contributing to the evacuation of many Jews throughout Britain and the continent. The reason for this is because of the amazingly high level of violently-inclined Arab-Muslim anti-Semitism as expressed in the streets of Malmö or Paris or any number of European cities today.
The problem is not that Europe is importing perhaps millions of Middle Easterners and North Africans onto the continent, but that huge percentages of these folk happen to despise the Jewish people and tend to have no desire to integrate into liberal European society. They also tend to have an outright hatred for Gay people and a belief in the inferiority, and servitude, of women. We all know this, of course, but few decision-makers in Europe honestly seem to care or find it in their political best interests to publicly acknowledge this cultural reality.
What makes it so much worse, of course, is the inclination among those European decision-makers to isolate and reprimand the Jewish state as a kind-of unique evil. Of all the countries in the world, it is little democratic Israel that gets singled out by the EU and various European governments for sanction and continual reprimand because Jews actually dare to live in Judea and Samaria, the land that Jewish people come from.
The resolution emphasised that EU agreements with Israel applied only to the State of Israel within the pre-1967 border, adding that the “EU must unequivocally and explicitly indicate their inapplicability to the territories occupied by Israel in 1967. This does not constitute a boycott of Israel, which the EU strongly opposes”.This is a lie, of course.
Not only does the EU not strongly oppose the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction the State of Israel (BDS) it absolutely encourages that political movement via efforts such as this one. What the EU is telling the world - much to the happiness of Islamists everywhere - is that Jewish people have no right to purchase housing on historically Jewish land..
There is an irony in the fact that while western Europe has flung open its doors for Arabs to come and live wherever they want, the western European elite wrinkle their noses at the whif of Jews building housing for themselves on the land that Jewish people have lived upon for something close to four-thousand years.
There is also considerable irony in the fact that while the EU opposes Jews who build housing for themselves and their children beyond the so-called "green line" within Israel it actively supports construction for Palestinian-Arabs within "area C" which is supposed to be fully controlled by Israel according to the Oslo Accords.
Furthermore, by sanctioning the Jews of Judea and Samaria - which Jordan dubbed "West Bank" for the purpose of erasing Jewish history and thereby undermining Jewish claims to their own homeland - the EU encourages violence toward European Jewry by those very same immigrants who often tend to despise Jews for religious reasons to begin with.
When the EU adopts resolutions such as the one above it sends a very clear message not only to the great Arab-Muslim majority in the Middle East, but to the Arab-Muslim minority in Europe, that it is open-season on Jews.
Hinting that further measures may be in the pipeline, it continued: “The EU will continue to closely monitor developments on the ground and their broader implications and will consider further action in order to protect the viability of the two-state solution, which is constantly eroded by new facts on the ground.”The two-state solution is dead for the very simple reason that the Arab powers, including the Palestinian Authority, never wanted it to begin with. The tendency among Europeans to blame the Jews for Arab behavior is a measure of European dislike of Jews, in general.
It certainly has nothing to do with Israeli-Jewish intransigence on the question of a 23rd Arab state because the Jewish people have acknowledged their readiness to give away their heartland for peace since the Peel Commission of 1937. The reason that there is no peace between the Arab majority and the Jewish minority in that part of the world, despite the fact that Israel treats its Arab citizenry far better than does the rest of the Arab-Muslim societies, is because of Koranic forbiddance.
Yet Europe smacks around its Jews, so can you blame Jewish people for wanting to leave Europe?
Were I a European Jew I would be pondering every possibility for relocation to Israel, North America, or Australia.
Friday, February 26, 2016
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
The SFSU Afro Floor
Michael L.
I have been heavily critical of San Francisco State University ever since it dedicated a mural to that old anti-Semitic anti-Zionist, Edward Said.
I noticed a story recently from the school newspaper entitled, BSU Brings Afro Floor to SF State, by Nashanta Williams:
If you read deeper into the article it says that people of the non-African-American persuasions will be allowed to live in the dorm, Ward Hall, but it is unclear whether or not they would be allowed to live on the Afro Floor, itself.
I called around the university and got no real response to the question until dean of students, Mary Ann Begley, was kind enough to promptly reply to an email.
I wrote her this:
I do wonder, though, how this will play itself out in actuality.
My suspicion is that - influenced by the alleged need for "safe spaces" - this will become a self-segregated floor within a university dormatory. The implication from Begley's email is that the Afro Floor is just one among other planned "theme communities."
I have no burning desire to give SFSU a hard time about this particular initiative, but it does leave me wondering about the social benefits. What would the university say if the SFSU Young Americans for Freedom wanted to create an Anglo Floor wherein the contributions to world society by white people would be taught and celebrated?
Somehow I do not think that it would go over so well.
{In truth, I am frankly astonished that SFSU even has a YAF chapter. I wonder if it is still in actual operation?}
And how would the SFSU community respond to a Jew Floor?
That would be a key test and I would encourage Hillel SFSU to look into the possibility.
I have been heavily critical of San Francisco State University ever since it dedicated a mural to that old anti-Semitic anti-Zionist, Edward Said.
I noticed a story recently from the school newspaper entitled, BSU Brings Afro Floor to SF State, by Nashanta Williams:
This story, of course, is a departure from our regular focus on the ongoing Arab war against the Jews in the Middle East and Europe. However, it seems to fit-in nicely with the recent academic concerns over "microaggressions" and the need for "safe spaces" where young impressionable minds will not be troubled.SF State’s housing will welcome a new community-themed floor after a successful bout of lobbying and protests by the Black Student Union. The “Afro Floor” will be available to students interested in living in themed housing on campus and will house cultural artwork and resources for the students.
SFSU Mural at Malcolm X Plaza
The situation arose after a list of demands were sent to Dr. Luoluo Hong, the vice president of enrollment management, and Mary Ann Begley, the interim dean of students, after the BSU protested and took over a “pouring rights” rally last year. The protest was successful in stopping SF State’s University Corporation from signing a pouring rights deal and opened the door for conversations about the needs of black students on campus.
“We met with them in January, about a couple of our demands: some of them were retention of black students, a multicultural center and the afro floor, and they told us that the afro floor was something that can and will be done,” said BSU President Ismail Muhammad.
If you read deeper into the article it says that people of the non-African-American persuasions will be allowed to live in the dorm, Ward Hall, but it is unclear whether or not they would be allowed to live on the Afro Floor, itself.
I called around the university and got no real response to the question until dean of students, Mary Ann Begley, was kind enough to promptly reply to an email.
I wrote her this:
Dear Ms. Begley,In response Ms. Begley writes:
I am a SFSU alumnus and I came across a Feb 10, 2016, story at the Golden Gate Express entitled, BSU Brings Afro Floor to SF State.
The article states that anyone may live in the dorm despite ethnicity, but may anyone, despite ethnicity, live on the floor?
I will look forward to your timely response and you have my sincerest appreciation.
Michael Lumish
Hi Michael. Thanks for reaching out with your inquiry. It’s always good to hear from an alumnus! :)Although I have no idea what assumption that she is referring to, because I made none, it seems as if what the dean is saying is that students of any ethnicity would be allowed to live on the Afro Floor, which is precisely as it should be.
Your assumption is correct. All students regardless of identity/protected status, including but not limited to ethnicity, are able and encouraged to live within any of our theme communities; this would include the Afro theme community that is currently being developed.
I hope that answers your question in full. Feel free to write me back if you have other questions.
I do wonder, though, how this will play itself out in actuality.
My suspicion is that - influenced by the alleged need for "safe spaces" - this will become a self-segregated floor within a university dormatory. The implication from Begley's email is that the Afro Floor is just one among other planned "theme communities."
I have no burning desire to give SFSU a hard time about this particular initiative, but it does leave me wondering about the social benefits. What would the university say if the SFSU Young Americans for Freedom wanted to create an Anglo Floor wherein the contributions to world society by white people would be taught and celebrated?
Somehow I do not think that it would go over so well.
{In truth, I am frankly astonished that SFSU even has a YAF chapter. I wonder if it is still in actual operation?}
And how would the SFSU community respond to a Jew Floor?
That would be a key test and I would encourage Hillel SFSU to look into the possibility.
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Obama's Potential Third Term Undermining of Israel
Michael L.
In an article for Israel National News by Elad Benari, we read:
In fact, I am pretty sure that we have seen it over and over and over again since Yitzak Rabin stood on the White House lawn shaking the hand of our friend Yassir Arafat as President of the United States, Bill Clinton, smiled aglow nearby.
Hillary Clinton will likely continue the counter-productive anti-Jewish / anti-Israel Oslo-policies of Barack Obama and who, as Obama's Secretary of State, threatened and browbeat the Jews of Israel on behalf of their Palestinian-Arab enemies. They did so, and do so, while claiming to be "friends" of the Jewish people and the Jewish State of Israel.
This, unfortunately, is false.
Those of us who care about the well-being of Israel, and the well-being of the Jewish people, understand that Barack Obama has been the least friendly president of the United States toward Israel, even surpassing the record of Jimmy Carter, both presidential and post-presidential.
Carter welcomed the ayatollahs to prominence and, to this day, likes to visit his friends in Hamas. Obama simply moved the United States aside, thereby enabling a muscular Iran, with a recent influx of 100 billion dollars, to develop its nuclear program undisturbed as it expands its presence throughout the Middle East and continues its violent operations against Jews and proxi-war against Sunni Arabs in that part of the world.
This has, not surprisingly, fomented a growing strategic relationship - if not alliance - between Israel and some of the Sunni Arab states, such as Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, in opposition to both a nuclear Iran and a US-EU-Iranian strategic and economic partnership.
It should also be remembered that it was Hillary Clinton who flew to Cairo to ensure a smooth transition into power of the Muslim Brotherhood, even as that organization - the parent of both Hamas and Qaeda - called for the conquest of Jerusalem. It was also Hillary Clinton, at the behest of the Obama administration, that flew to Jerusalem at the start of the Operation Protective Edge to protect Palestinian-Arabs from the foreseeable consequences of their attempts to kill Jews, via rocket-fire, from the Gaza Strip.
The genocidal anti-Semitic Palestinian-Arabs deserve a state, while the peaceful and civilized Tibetan-Buddhists apparently do not. The Kurds are fighters and an oppressed minority throughout that part of the world, but apparently they do not deserve a state, either. Only the Pal-Arabs deserve a state, although one is left to wonder just what their contribution to humanity has been that they "deserve" to control a Judenrein Arab state among the 22 other largely Jew-free and hostile Arab states in the Middle East?
The "Palestinians" did not even have a self-conscious national identity until shortly before the Beatles broke up.
Hillary is either deluded or simply does not care... in much the same way that Obama is deluded or simply does not care.
The only question that I have, in the fairly likely event of a Hillary presidency, is will she be more, or less, hostile toward Israel than Barack Obama? I do not know the answer to that question, but given her advisers I would I would not put much faith in a Hillary presidency.
She is a creature of Oslo.
She is riding a dead horse, and it will be the Israelis - both Jewish and Arab, between the River and the Sea - that will pay the price.
In an article for Israel National News by Elad Benari, we read:
I believe that we have seen this movie before and it does not end well.Speaking Sunday to CNN, Clinton vowed to support Israel but also said she would insist on the “two-state solution”, that is the formation of a Palestinian state, in order to bring an end to the conflict.
In fact, I am pretty sure that we have seen it over and over and over again since Yitzak Rabin stood on the White House lawn shaking the hand of our friend Yassir Arafat as President of the United States, Bill Clinton, smiled aglow nearby.
Hillary Clinton will likely continue the counter-productive anti-Jewish / anti-Israel Oslo-policies of Barack Obama and who, as Obama's Secretary of State, threatened and browbeat the Jews of Israel on behalf of their Palestinian-Arab enemies. They did so, and do so, while claiming to be "friends" of the Jewish people and the Jewish State of Israel.
This, unfortunately, is false.
Those of us who care about the well-being of Israel, and the well-being of the Jewish people, understand that Barack Obama has been the least friendly president of the United States toward Israel, even surpassing the record of Jimmy Carter, both presidential and post-presidential.
Carter welcomed the ayatollahs to prominence and, to this day, likes to visit his friends in Hamas. Obama simply moved the United States aside, thereby enabling a muscular Iran, with a recent influx of 100 billion dollars, to develop its nuclear program undisturbed as it expands its presence throughout the Middle East and continues its violent operations against Jews and proxi-war against Sunni Arabs in that part of the world.
This has, not surprisingly, fomented a growing strategic relationship - if not alliance - between Israel and some of the Sunni Arab states, such as Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, in opposition to both a nuclear Iran and a US-EU-Iranian strategic and economic partnership.
It should also be remembered that it was Hillary Clinton who flew to Cairo to ensure a smooth transition into power of the Muslim Brotherhood, even as that organization - the parent of both Hamas and Qaeda - called for the conquest of Jerusalem. It was also Hillary Clinton, at the behest of the Obama administration, that flew to Jerusalem at the start of the Operation Protective Edge to protect Palestinian-Arabs from the foreseeable consequences of their attempts to kill Jews, via rocket-fire, from the Gaza Strip.
I also believe the Palestinians deserve to have a state of their own. That's why I support a two-state solution.This is a strange argument and one that we have heard many times before.
The genocidal anti-Semitic Palestinian-Arabs deserve a state, while the peaceful and civilized Tibetan-Buddhists apparently do not. The Kurds are fighters and an oppressed minority throughout that part of the world, but apparently they do not deserve a state, either. Only the Pal-Arabs deserve a state, although one is left to wonder just what their contribution to humanity has been that they "deserve" to control a Judenrein Arab state among the 22 other largely Jew-free and hostile Arab states in the Middle East?
The "Palestinians" did not even have a self-conscious national identity until shortly before the Beatles broke up.
I happen to think that moving toward a two-state solution, trying to provide more support for the aspirations of the Palestinian people is in the long-term best interests of Israel, as well as the region, and, of course, the people themselves.Should it not be painfully obvious by now that the aspirations of the Palestinian-Arabs is not for two states living side-by-side in peace next to one another? They have refused every single offer since the Peel Commission of 1937, they name sports stadiums and boulevards after the murderers of innocent Jews, and they have trained a whole generation of their children to believe that chopping off the heads of Jewish toddlers, or stabbing old men in the streets with scissors, is beloved in the sight of Allah.
Hillary is either deluded or simply does not care... in much the same way that Obama is deluded or simply does not care.
The only question that I have, in the fairly likely event of a Hillary presidency, is will she be more, or less, hostile toward Israel than Barack Obama? I do not know the answer to that question, but given her advisers I would I would not put much faith in a Hillary presidency.
She is a creature of Oslo.
She is riding a dead horse, and it will be the Israelis - both Jewish and Arab, between the River and the Sea - that will pay the price.
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