Anti-Semitism has Become Politically Correct
by Ron Jager
We really shouldn’t be
surprised that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei only recently
released a new doctrine explaining why it would be ‘legally and morally
justified’ to commit genocide and wipe Israel off the map. “
In short, despite his
public claims that it is the moral obligation of every Muslim to destroy Israel
and commit genocide against all Jews, nobody in the international community,
none of the leading human rights organizations, not the New York Times nor any
other known liberal outlet in the digital world has demanded that the ruling
regime in Iran be perceived as an unacceptable apartheid regime harbouring and
based on explicit Anti-Semitism inherently illegitimate and has no right to
exist.
Hatred of Jews, demonisation of Israel, anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism have
all become interchangeable and analogous terms; acceptable politically correct
superlatives in the public discourse in recent years. We hear it everywhere,
whether from the mouths of Arab leaders, European organizations, academicians
in the United States and Europe, and from leading journalists exercising their
right of “free speech”, they all have elevated the hatred of Jews to socially
acceptable. What we are witnessing without even realizing is the creation of an
emerging new world order that is based on ridding the whole world of Jews.
Sound familiar?
This narrative of making
the hatred of Jews politically correct is being effectively conveyed by the
Western media, bloggers, and NGO’s, in which Jews and
…What is remarkable for
most of us, is that instead of rejecting the elevation
of the hatred of Jews to being politically correct, many Jews and non-Jews
belonging to the progressive intelligentsia have largely embraced it as
rational and true. To a large extent this is because that same western
intelligentsia has itself supplanted rationality by an ideology of hatred. Not
only do they hate Jews and wish to rid the world of Israel, but they do so
while accepting financial support and backing from organizations and countries
that employ the systematic killing of civilians and glorify the murder of
innocents.
…The gateway has been
opened for the flooding of words and innuendo’s accepting the hatred of Jews
and
Food for Thought. by Steven Shamrak
It is quite
disturbing to watch support so-called “Arab Spring” receives from the Western
democracies. In reality, it is just a replacement of dictatorial regimes by
Islamic ones. Surprisingly, the
Iran Waged War Against Israel
The terror
bombings in New Delhi and Bangkok have unmasked Iran for the world to see its
true face. "Iran is undermining the world's stability and harms innocent
diplomats, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Knesset. Indian officials
have said there are signs that confirm Israel’s accusations that Iran was
behind the attack that seriously wounded Tal Yehoshua-Koren, the wife of an
Israeli diplomat in New Delhi. Almost simultaneously, terrorists failed in an
attack on Israeli diplomats in Georgia. Bombs
found in a Thai house rented by Iranians were similar to devices used against
Israeli diplomats in
It is a Symbiotic Need for Security
The Ministry of Defense
announced that it conducted a successful test on the “Arrow” anti-missile
system. The exercise
demonstrated the interoperability of the US Aegis and Israel's Arrow 4
ballistic missile defense systems and, most
importantly, of their two radars. The successful collaboration of these systems
has elevated the
Egypt: Money – “Yes”, Peace – “No”
Essam El-Erian, a schairman
of the Egyptian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said that should aid
from Washington be cut, the Brotherhood would consider changing the terms of
Egypt’s 1979 peace treaty with Israel. 71 percent of Egyptians oppose US
economic aid to their country. Congress has already approved $1.3 billion in
military aid and $250 million in civilian aid for the current fiscal year. That
assistance, however, is conditioned upon Egypt meeting all of its obligations
under its peace treaty with Israel.
Norway
Losing Jews as a Result of anti-Israelism
According to the paper,
half of the membership fees from the Oslo synagogue go to security. During WW2
772 Jews were arrested and deported during, only 34 survived. The paper put the
number of Jews affiliated with the two synagogues at 819, and said “the numbers
are dropping due to migration and marriage out of the community.” (Norway covered up its cooperation with Nazis, including
running of the POW labour camps, after the war. Anti-Semitism is still strong
in the country, especially after the doors were opened to Muslim immigration.
Through the history, many countries suffered economic and cultural stagnation
and degradation after Jews left them!)
Jail the Best Place for Terrorists to ‘Earn’ PA Salary
Two Gaza terrorists, who worked with Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(PFLP), were arrested after being caught when they cut through the Gaza
security fence. They wanted to be arrested in Israeli after carrying out an attack
so they could collect the monthly stipend provided by the Palestinian Authority
for prisoners in Israeli jails. The PA maintains its budget with the help of
funds from the United States and the European Union.
National Pride is Needed to Stop Assimilation
MK Danny Danon, chairman of the
Knesset Aliyah and Absorption Committee, said that “150,000 Jews assimilate
every year and are lost to the Jewish people. This committee is committed to
Zionist activity on behalf of the Jewish people and I call on government
offices to use the services of the WZO, especially advancing the work of the
WZO on Hebrew ulpanim for adults. The committee also urges ministries to fund
all groups that sponsor and promote aliyah.” The Knesset Aliyah and Absorption
Committee on Monday conducted a discussion on
activities by the World Zionist Organization to prevent assimilation -
and how more activity was needed to ensure that Jews remain affiliated with the
Jewish people. (Israeli government must set the
national goal - re-unite all Jewish land and end by any means available Islamic
terror - only than the Jewish national pride and unity will be restored.
Anything else is just a ‘feel good’ useless activities!)
Policy of Blackmail and Confrontation
Abbas
conditioned the resumption of direct negotiations with Israel on a full
cessation of construction in settlements and east Jerusalem, Israeli acceptance
of the two-state solution on the basis of the pre-1967 lines and the release of
Palestinian prisoners and detainees, especially those who were imprisoned
before the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. Otherwise, Abbas threatened to return to UN Security
Council, General Assembly for state recognition.
By suddenly stating, contrary to all informed
estimates, that
Gaza Goes Dark - Blame Egypt
Hamas announced the sole power plant in Gaza went
dark after it ran out of diesel. Ahmad Abu al-Amrin, an official from Gaza's
energy authority, called on Egypt "to assume its historical responsibility
in supporting the resistance of the Palestinian people by ensuring they had all
the necessary fuel to operate the plant". According to the UN agency for
humanitarian affairs (OCHA) "Only half of the amount of fuel that entered
in the previous weeks has been coming into Gaza for the past two weeks." (Islamic ‘Spring revolution’ does not care about ‘poor
Palestinians’)
Quote of the Week:
“Today’s acts of terrorism against Israeli
diplomats underscore the perilous nature of the world we live in. And they
underscore the need to stand by our allies in the fight against Jihadism. The
war against Israel is a war against all democracies, including our own. We
can’t afford to let down our guard.” - Presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney condemned the attempted attacks on Israeli
diplomats in New Delhi and Tbilisi - Why
are most US presidents are truthful about Arab-Israel conflict and are good
friends of Israel only before election? After election the game of deception
and lies continues! He has promised also, as many presidential candidates
before him, to move the US embassy to Jerusalem.
Hollywood Needs Moral Reality Check
by Mark Silverberg
Just as Leon Uris's epic film on
the birth of the State of Israel (Exodus) set the course for positive
relations between America and Israel throughout the 1960s, so the films being
generated now by Hollywood on Middle East events will have the exact opposite
effect.
Charles Krauthammer wrote
recently: "Nothing tells you more about Hollywood than what it chooses to
honor." Nominated for best foreign film this year was Paradise Now,
a sympathetic portrayal of two suicide bombers. Nominated for best picture was Munich,
a sympathetic portrayal of Arab terrorism. Nominated for best screenplay was Syriana,
a film that reinforces every negative perception of America, Americans and
American foreign policy
in the Middle East.
In Paradise Now, the
audience is brought into the world of the suicide bomber and is left with the
impression that these are not so much indoctrinated killers as ordinary,
regular folk who are simply misunderstood, who act violently because of Israeli
"repression", who suffer from the same human frailties as you and me,
and who are consequently worthy of our sympathy for possessing such a
pathology.
The movie justifies the murder of Israelis by suggesting that the Palestinians have
tried every peaceful method for resolving "the problem of Israeli occupation
and ethnic cleansing." In one scene, a Palestinian taxi driver explains
that the settlers have "poisoned the wells by Nablus" in order to
kill Palestinians. The passenger expresses no surprise at this primarily
because the Palestinians have long since accepted the medieval anti-Semitic
canard that Jews poisoned Christian wells during the bubonic plague that
ravaged Europe in 1347. So, why not Palestinians wells, too? And just before
these suicide bombers set out on their road to "martyrdom", they casually
sit down to eat a final meal, together with eleven men, in the exact
arrangement and with the exact number of participants as in Da Vinci's famous
painting, The Last Supper. This parallel is by design, not by accident…