[IHW] Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi's presentation at ISNA convention in Washington DC about Shia-Sunni Unity

In his address to the July 4th ISNA conference, Imam Muhammad Elahi of Michigan's Islamic House of Wisdom echos some themes on which this blog focuses (see the left border column):

We have to be aware that there are people in this country who are conspiring to prevent Muslims from enjoying equal protection under Constitutional law. They are a real danger to all American values. We have to coordinate our efforts with our fellow citizens to help steer our country away from racism, exploitation and violence.

Although we should focus on domestic challenges, it is impossible to ignore developments in the Islamic world. Congressman Tip O'Neill used to say: "All politics is local.” In an era of globalization "All global politics is local, and all local politics is global."

To read the entire speech, click here.
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Roya Hakakian: Shadow of Recollections

On July 9 I heard the following radio feature while I was driving along Route 24 to Brockton, MA.

I was already irritated that broadcast and print news almost certainly as a result of Jewish social networking had designated Iranian American Jews disproportionately as the favored interpreters of Iranian events. Yet the combination of Jewish American NPR radio journalist Terry Gross and Iranian Jewish American Roya Hakakian stood out for dishonesty.

I lost count of the number of times Gross used the word anti-Semitism while she was speaking with Hakakian, and the emphasis suggested an effort to refute the reports from Roger Cohen about Iranian Jews in the NY Times.

Hakakian started out with a good deal of misdirection in her discussion of her father's experiences while he was growing up in Iran.

While some Shiites do worry that non-Shiites can transmit ritual impurity, the belief is not specifically anti-Jewish, and a lot of Jews have the same belief about non-Jews: Touch Non-Jew, Wash Hands.

While Mr. Hakakian's life may have been harsh in the 20s or 30s, I doubt it was worse than that of the average Iranian Muslim of the time period, and as I point out in the short excerpt below from David Shasha: Holocaust, Mean-Spirit, Fraudsters, Iranian Jews made tremendous economic progress in the 50s, 60s, and 70s as a result of Jewish social networking, which was able to take advantage of some of the Shah's economic and political goals.

Joachim's note: I am not sure that I can do justice to the history in a short paragraph, for I consider the interactions of Iran with the USA far more complex than usually depicted, but the US overthrew Mossadegh (or assisted the British in overthrowing him or let the Iranian regime collapse in the face of British intransigence over nationalization of the Iranian petroleum industry) in part because he planned to apply developmentalist models to the Iranian economy and to use Iranian oil wealth to modernize. The Shah and the Shah’s associates cut a deal to partner with Western interests to loot Iranian wealth while relatively little was spent on improving the lot of Iranians -- something like the later scenario in Chile. Eventually the Shah invested a lot in strengthening Iran militarily sometimes at cross purposes with American or Zionist goals, but on the whole certain wealthy, politically powerful and non-Zionist Americans have been quite happy when Arabs, Iranians or Turks buy US weapons. In the process of the Shah’s military buildup many Iranian Jews became involved in profiteering associated with the looting of Iranian wealth especially when Western Jews were on the American or British side of the equation. The younger generation of Iranian Jews generally does not understand the ambivalent role that some of their parents and grandparents played in the Iranian economy and society under the Shah.

[The enmeshment of Iranian Jews in Ashkenazi social networking has followed the similar evolutionary pattern of the Algerian Jewish community albeit with much more explicit Zionization.]

After finishing the discussion of Hakakian's family issues without any genuine discussion of the ambivalent relationship of the Iranian Jewish community with the Shah, Gross made sure to go through some of the main points of Jewish Zionist propaganda.

Because Khomeini was no political fool and probably began to understand the nature of Jewish Zionist politics during his exile in France where the Jewish community was very much ethnically split, he had no problem in distinguishing between Ashkenazi-dominated Zionism and Jewish Arabs or Persians. Yet Gross tried to make it seem outrageous and anti-Semitic that he would reject hegemonic Zionist identity discourse by distinguishing ethnic Arab and ethnic Persian Jews from Jewish Zionists that have seized control of Palestine.

Gross then tried to equate suggesting that the Zionist regime would vanish from the pages of history with genocide incitement and wound up the interview by accusing Ahmedinejad of the ultimate sin of Holocaust denial even though he did nothing of the sort and even though revising American understanding of the Holocaust is long overdue

• because of information that has become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union and
• because of the excessive importance assigned to the Holocaust in contemporary American politics:

1. Holoexaleipsis, Holocaust, Holosphage and Holodomor
2. Haaretz Confirms: Two Separate Holocausts
3. Jewish Peril: 1933 Versus 2009
4. Why did the Heavens not Darken? by Arno Mayer
   

At that point in the interview, Gross began to recite a portion of the Zionist credo while Hakakian dutifully affirmed whenever Gross paused.

Because Hakakian lived only 18 years in Iran and then 25 years in the USA, the thoroughness of the Hakakian's enmeshment in the ethnic Ashkenazi Zionist worldview is not surprising and probably assured her annointment as a pundit specializing in Iran issues.

According to the Roya's events section of her website, Hakakian is a regular speaker at synagogues or Jewish organizations and is apparently quite aware who is buttering her bread.

Not only does the Roya's essays section of her website include lots of discussions about Neda and the required Holocaust denial article, but there is nothing about Marwa, Rachel, Suraideh, or Abir, and Hakakian has never addressed why the vast majority of Iranians despise Zionism and consider the question of Palestine to be of supreme importance.
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Neda, Marwa, Rachel, Suraideh, Abir, Henryk

Walid el-Houri writes in Neda and Marwa: a Tale of Two Murdered Women: 

On June 20th 2009, Neda Agha Soltan was shot dead during the post-election protests in Iran. The protests occupied the largest news segments around the world, with analysts and commentators predicting the fall of the Iranian regime and the dawn of freedom breaking in "the axis of evil."

Neda's death became an icon of the Iranian opposition and a symbol for millions of people of the injustice of the Iranian regime and the defiance of the protesters. Neda's death was put in context. It was taken from the personal realm of the death of an individual to the public realm of the just cause of a whole society. 

On July 1st Marwa El Sherbini, an Egyptian researcher living in Germany, was stabbed to death 18 times inside a courtroom in the city of Dresden, in front of her 3-year-old son. She had won a verdict against a German man of Russian descent who had verbally assaulted her because of her veil. Her husband, who rushed in to save her when she was attacked in the courtroom, was shot by the police. Marwa's death was not reported by any Western news media until protests in Egypt erupted after her burial. The reporting that followed focused on the protests; the murder was presented as the act of a "lone wolf," thus depriving it of its context and its social meaning. 

Such disproportionate coverage is not new.

 

Whenever powerful media Jews want a story suppressed (e.g., Suraideh Gharbieh and Abir Aramin), it gets buried in the back pages as the NY Times treated the mass murder of Jews during WW2 or simply ignored like the Ukrainian Holodomor, which was for the most part planned and carried out by Soviet Ashkenazim. Heaven help the author that wants to allude to the pattern of Jewish financial aggression over the last 140 years (e.g., Matt Taibbi).

 

If the story refuses to stay buried, racist Jews work hard to demonize the victim (e.g., Rachel Corrie) or to blame the non-Jewish readers (e.g., the Holocaust), and no one is allowed to discuss the context of Jewish misbehavior

• that provokes animosity toward Jews (Jewish Peril 1933 Versus 2009) or
• that incites official and unofficial violence or oppression against people (often called anti-Semites) that Jews dislike.

German and English-language coverage of the murder of Marwa el-Sherbini has yet to mention the efforts of Jewish racists like Henryk Broder and Ralph Giordano to create an environment of fanatic Islamophobia in Germany:

• From Anti-Semitism to Islamophobia
• Material Support for Zionist Terrorism
• Germans Split Over a Mosque and the Role of Islam

Because Jewish-dominated media disinform on all topics related to Jews, public discussion on the most important public issues is misguided, vacuous or irrational to the point of threatening democracy in the USA and throughout the world. The situation will only worsen until the US government

1. designates the IDF as a terrorist organization (as required by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution),
2. begins arresting or purging Zionists, and
3. starts seizing Zionist assets like major media corporations.

 

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Where Atzmon, Harun Yahya Meet

The similarity of the messages is striking that Gilad Atzmon and Harun Yahya deliver.

Below Gilad discusses the materialism of the Enlightenment.

Gilad's content needs qualification because Neocons are generally FEI (Free-Market Except Israel) and not PEP (Progressive Except Palestine) should be contrasted with the ideas of Harun Yahya:

• Harun Yahya Responds to Interview Questions
• Harun Yahya on Iranian Election

Here is the second part of Gilad's address:

It is worth contrasting Gilad's analysis with that of Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weis and with that of Mujahid Adam Yehiye Gadahn Azzam (the American) in Comparing and Contrasting Anti-Zionist Statements. Sphere: Related Content

Promote Peace, Human Rights but not in Israel

The Haaretz article shows the outrageousness of Zionist chutzpah (arrogance)! Because the Israeli government provides all sorts of funding and resources to US organizations often for anti-democratic and criminal purposes, Israeli Ambassador Knei-Tal hardly has any legitimate grounds for complaint.

In the meeting last week between Knei-Tal and the director-general of the Dutch Foreign Ministry, the Israeli ambassador suggested that the Netherlands' funding of the organization should be terminated, according to a source.

"The Dutch taxpayer's money could be better used to promote peace and human rights," the source quoted Knei-Tal as saying.

According to sources familiar with the situation, Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen - considered one of Israel's staunchest supporters in the European Union - did not know that the embassy in Tel Aviv was funding Breaking the Silence. He learned about it after the organization's funding sources were published in an article in The Jerusalem Post.

Sources say Verhagen reproached senior figures in the Dutch Foreign Ministry upon learning this and gave instructions to launch an internal investigation on the matter. It showed that the embassy in Israel gave Breaking the Silence 19,995 euros to help put together its 2009 report, which discusses Operation Cast Lead and was released earlier this month. Had this figure been five euros higher, it would have required approval from The Hague.

The director-general of the Dutch Foreign Ministry told the Israeli ambassador that in light of the probe, funding for Breaking the Silence would be reevaluated because of the political sensitivities of the issues covered by the organization.

Breaking the Silence, which was founded by Israel Defense Forces veterans, has collected what it says are damning testimonies from soldiers who took part in the January offensive against Hamas in Gaza. The report contains almost 30 anonymous testimonies.

An Israeli diplomat said that in the meeting last week, Knei-Tal said Israel was a democratic country and that such funds should go to places without democracy. Breaking the Silence was a legal and legitimate organization, he said, according to sources, but its funding by the Dutch was unreasonable "in light of the political sensitivities."

According to a senior Israeli official: "A friendly government cannot fund opposition bodies. We are not a third world country."

As if Israel has no problems with peace and human rights!?

Verhagen really seems to be completely enmeshed by the Zionist دعوة (da`wa -- it seems to cover the Zionist subversion program so much better than הסברה‎ or hasbarah). Is he of Jewish origin? I know he describes himself as Roman Catholic, but Verhagen is a fairly famous German Jewish surname.

I read that the Minister was quite upset at the reinstatement Bishop Richard Williamson. I listened to Williams' interview on the Holocaust. It was fairly stupid, but Zionist mythology about the Holocaust has even less connection to the facts than Williamson's comments, and I was unaware that Zionist Holocaust myths had become part of Catholic doctrine.

Group that exposed 'IDF crimes' in Gaza slams Israel bid to choke off its funds

By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent

Tags: Israel News

An organization that alleged Israeli troops used Palestinians as human shields in Gaza accused the Foreign Ministry on Sunday of "endangering democracy," following a Haaretz report that the ministry had asked the Netherlands to freeze funds to the group. Acting on instructions from the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, the Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands, Harry Knei-Tal, met last week with the director-general of the Dutch Foreign Ministry and complained about the Dutch embassy's funding of Breaking the Silence. The group said Sunday that the ministry and the establishment were conducting a "witch hunt...only a part of which was exposed in the Haaretz report," that it claimed was testimony to the "erosion of democratic culture in the State of Israel." Breaking the Silence added: "The attempts to silence voices from Israeli civil society are dangerous. As opposed to reports, the IDF has never denied the [validity of the] testimonies and it and the foreign ministry's virulent reaction... only strengthens the position of the testifying soldiers, who are not willing to be exposed." "It looks like the ministry draws ideas from shady regimes, in which those who point out internal failures are considered traitors." In the meeting last week between Knei-Tal and the director-general of the Dutch Foreign Ministry, the Israeli ambassador suggested that the Netherlands' funding of the organization should be terminated, according to a source. "The Dutch taxpayer's money could be better used to promote peace and human rights," the source quoted Knei-Tal as saying. According to sources familiar with the situation, Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen - considered one of Israel's staunchest supporters in the European Union - did not know that the embassy in Tel Aviv was funding Breaking the Silence. He learned about it after the organization's funding sources were published in an article in The Jerusalem Post. Sources say Verhagen reproached senior figures in the Dutch Foreign Ministry upon learning this and gave instructions to launch an internal investigation on the matter. It showed that the embassy in Israel gave Breaking the Silence 19,995 euros to help put together its 2009 report, which discusses Operation Cast Lead and was released earlier this month. Had this figure been five euros higher, it would have required approval from The Hague. The director-general of the Dutch Foreign Ministry told the Israeli ambassador that in light of the probe, funding for Breaking the Silence would be reevaluated because of the political sensitivities of the issues covered by the organization. Breaking the Silence, which was founded by Israel Defense Forces veterans, has collected what it says are damning testimonies from soldiers who took part in the January offensive against Hamas in Gaza. The report contains almost 30 anonymous testimonies. An Israeli diplomat said that in the meeting last week, Knei-Tal said Israel was a democratic country and that such funds should go to places without democracy. Breaking the Silence was a legal and legitimate organization, he said, according to sources, but its funding by the Dutch was unreasonable "in light of the political sensitivities." According to a senior Israeli official: "A friendly government cannot fund opposition bodies. We are not a third world country." The director-general of the Dutch Foreign Ministry said Spain had also funded Breaking the Silence. A diplomat in Jerusalem said Breaking the Silence had also been funded by the British government. Israel has not yet approached Spain or Britain on the matter. Related articles: New Yorkers call for boycott of Motorola over dealings with IDF Dutch backer of Israel boycotts rebuked over 'misleading' flier Dutch teens convicted of insulting Jews ordered to visit Anne Frank House

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[Khaleej Times] The Black Hole of CMU

Over all, the Communications Management Unit (CMU) has the appearance of the first step in the Israelizing the US prison system just as US legal system, military codes, and foreign policy were Israelized during the Bush administration through the efforts of numerous Neocons moving from think tanks into the federal bureaucracy.

The Israeli incarceration system also has a system of special prisons, in which innocent Palestinians are held without even the fiction of a conviction or guilty plea in order to transform prisoners into collaborators via a combination of physical and psychological pressure.

Had McCain won the 2000 Presidential election, the CMUs might have moved on to the next step, and the continued presence of Zionist moles or subversives in the Obama administration suggests the process may yet continue. The next level of oppression has already been created in the Special Management Unit (SMU): Chapman: Prison Conditions Oppressive.

Prisoners of a Special Kind
Karin Friedemann (Letter From America)
28 July 2009

Not much is known about the new federal prisons that house primarily Muslims and political activists, that are called Communications Management Units (CMUs), except that they are located in Terre Haute, Indiana and Marion, Illinois.

Although the US government refuses to disclose the list of prisoners to the public, inmates include Enaam Arnaout, founder of Islamic charity Benevolence International Foundation, Dr. Rafil Dhafir, physician and founder of Iraqi charity Help the Needy, Ghassan Elashi, founder of Holy Land Foundation and original incorporator of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), Randall Royer, Muslim civil rights activist, Yassin Aref, Imam and Kurdish refugee, Sabri Benkahla, an American who was abducted the day before his wedding while studying in Saudi Arabia, and John Walker Lindh, an American convert to Islam who was captured in Afghanistan, plus some non-Muslim political activists. Most of these prisoners were falsely accused of terrorist offenses and then imprisoned for lesser charges but given sentences meant for serious terrorism-related crimes.

[To read the entire article click here. Note that the Khaleej Times version incorrectly identifies Elashi as a founder of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). According to some of the biographical information he probably served on the ISNA board of directors at some point.]
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Insufficient to Call Israel Nazi!

Israel is only a piece of the problem.

The Zionist Virtual Colonial Motherland (or Judonia) orchestrated the colonization of Palestine, the 1947-8 ethnic cleansing/genocide and benefited from both (especially the theft of practically all movable and immovable Palestinian property and assets within Stolen Palestine (pre-1967 Israel):

• Virtual Colonial Motherland as Political Innovation
  
• Herzl and Normalizing Jewish Power
  
• Makdisi Overlooks US Journalistic Nazification

Nowadays, the Israel Lobby is the public face of the Zionist Virtual Colonial Motherland, which runs a vast imperial system, in which the State of Israel is the keystone or linchpin and the United States of America is an intimidated and dependent client state: [Stephen Walt] Obama meets the Lobby.

So far the USA has spent $5-6 trillion in maintaining the Zionist state in Stolen and Occupied Palestine and subsidizes the State of Israel to the tune of $60-100 billion per year.

As a client state within the Zionist imperial system, obviously the USA is subordinate to the will of Zionist plutocracy and intelligentsia (the Cacocracy) and cannot possibly be restored to political and economic health until the Zionist political-economic vampire is staked through the heart by means of:

• clawing back approximately $5-6 trillion from Judonia,
  
• purging Zionist subversives from all positions of responsibility within the USA,
  
• putting all supporters of Zionist terrorism in jail under anti-terrorism laws, and
  
• removing or obliterating the criminal Zionist conglomeration of racist, murderous, genocidal invaders, interlopers, thieves, and usurpers from Stolen and Occupied Palestine as is required under post-WW2 Nuremberg Law and the International Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.

According to AJC statistics 80% of American Jews are either Zionists or support Zionism and are therefore either Nazis or Nazi-supporters. America is dying because Jewish Nazis permeate the political, legal, economic, financial, cultural and academic elite. The USA can only be saved by purging Jewish Zionist subversives as supporters of Zionist terrorism.

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[The Nation] Prussia on the Mediterranean?

Although I would not have made the gratuitous slur on Prussia, Roane Carey's article Prussia on the Mediterranean? describes the Israel I saw while working on and off on EU development projects during the 90s and early 2000s.

It is an assumption almost universally acknowledged among the liberal American intelligentsia that while the Israeli occupation is repressive and abhorrent, Israel itself is an open, fully democratic state with a lively, argumentative and very free press.

Perish the thought. After spending three months in Israel on a fellowship, I can say that nearly every member of the liberal Israeli intelligentsia I've talked to says something quite different: that their country's media are seriously diseased, failing to provide the minimal level of fair reporting and serious critical inquiry that are crucial pillars of an open society.

Americans who don't read Hebrew or watch Israeli television news may get a skewed view of the spectrum, assuming that Ha'aretz, the smaller-circulation daily read mostly by intellectuals and the political classes--and foreigners, who devour its English-language edition online--is representative, and that critical columnists and reporters like Gideon Levy, Akiva Eldar and Amira Hass are sprinkled throughout the Israeli media. It isn't, and they aren't. The larger-circulation dailies Yediot and Ma'ariv, as well as the Jerusalem Post and television news, are tilted much more to the right--just like the mainstream US media, which certainly have nothing to teach Israel in this regard.

In his concluding paragraphs Carey comes very close to the truth about Israel.

Certainly the Gaza campaign brought out the worst in the apparatus of repression, which was fueled by a public mood of vengeance and hatred of Palestinians, which was itself heightened by the Hamas rocket barrages. (Berkovitch told me that many passers-by at the January demonstration shouted abuses at the protesters, calling them traitors and saying things like "Jews should kill more Arabs." "So much hatred I've never encountered in my life," she said.) The trend is worrying, but it should be emphasized that in general, Israeli Jews, unlike Palestinians, still enjoy a remarkable degree of freedom to speak out on almost any issue.

With a far-right government that is not only determined to avoid serious negotiations with the Palestinians but is actively promoting settlement growth; that shows all the signs of preparing for war against Iran and is actively stoking public paranoia on that front; that increasingly sees Palestinian citizens as a menace, as the enemy within, the contradictions of a nation that claims to be both Jewish and democratic are fraying. How can a state that imprisons 4 million Palestinians behind ghetto walls, bypass roads and a blockade, and treats another 1.5 million as second-class citizens, be democratic? BGU geography professor Oren Yiftachel calls Israel an ethnocracy (the title of a recent book of his); the late Hebrew University sociologist Baruch Kimmerling called it a "Herrenvolk democracy." Whatever you call it, if Israel continues along its current path, the repression will necessarily intensify, and the avenues for free expression will become ever more constricted. The old joke about Prussia was that it was an army masquerading as a state. Is Israel destined to become Prussia on the Mediterranean?

Because I discussed the nature of the German Nazi state with Kimmerling, I can safely state that he was aware that the German Nazis were much more democratic than generally assumed and that they loved to hold elections and plebiscites as long as the right people voted in terms of race or ethnicity.

He agreed with me that Claudia Koonz's The Nazi Conscience inadvertantly provided a perfect description of the Zionist conscience.

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[Uncut Version] Conspiracies involve lower US Officials

Even though Israel advocates are licensed freely to defame Arabs and Muslims, the rest of us are severely hindered from pointing out criminal Zionist misbehavior in the media even if it is fully documented, takes place right out in the open, or is only barely concealed.

Below is the original uncut version of [Khaleej Times] Of Conspiracies and Plots by Karin Friedemann. The other blog posts related to this topic are:

• Hub of the World (Zionist Conspiracy) and
  
• Patterns of Boston Jewish Power.

Conspiracy involves lower US officials
by Karin Friedemann

Many blame Ashcroft, Cheney, and Bush for ongoing campaigns against activists, politicians and organizations that try to help Arabs and Muslims.

Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner, a long time Palestinian rights advocate, told supporters that he believes former US Attorney General John Ashcroft personally orchestrated a sting operation to remove him from office. As in previous cases, strategic “media update sessions” put the media into a predatory frenzy before the accused even went to trial. Media accusations often do not even coincide with the actual charges.

Riad Hamad, founder of Palestinian Children’s Welfare Fund in Texas, believed George Bush was after him. When Hamad died mysteriously and violently after a vicious media campaign libeling him as a terrorism supporter, police and FBI refused to investigate. Clearly, there was a conspiracy involving media and law enforcement. Yet for Bush personally to take such an interest in local politics is probably beyond plausibility.

This pattern of political persecutions from Turner to Chas Freeman can be best understood with a bottom-up approach.

As Jewish wealth, power, and influence have increased so has its ability to punish those offending the organized Jewish community in some way. While the Jewish power elite seems to enjoy legal immunity, Americans and US residents targeted by these powerful political economic oligarchs suffer media and governmental abuse. This is particularly true in the Boston area, which is now a major command and control center for transnational Jewish politics and Zionist lobbying.

Not only do many such organizations that long ago should have lost 501(c)(3) tax deductible status continue to incite racism effectively with US government subsidization, but financial predation has to be truly awesome before discussion of their financial wrongdoing becomes even slightly possible, and to this day a Boston-area fraudster like longtime Madoff-associate Robert Jaffe has yet to face criminal charges.

Americans should wonder whether the studious obliviousness of US Attorney to federal criminal violations, including all the ongoing bribery of US public officials with trips to Israel, indicates that Zionist power has trumped Constitutional loyalty.

Although the pattern of abuse of power extends well beyond the Boston area, much if not most of Zionist social, political, economic, and academic misbehavior links back to the Boston-area Jewish community or educational institutions where young Jews often first hook up with vast corrupt Jewish social networks. As a major American and world education center, Boston provides the most efficient and excellent means for the Jewish power elite to influence the USA and the world. No one should be surprised US Senator from Israel Joseph Lieberman and Harvard Professor Ruth Wisse are co-in-laws.

Although the presence of extremist Zionists like Rahm Emanuel or Dennis Ross near the president is disturbing, lower rank staffers like Treasury Department official Stuart Levey or pro-Israel propagandist Matthew Levitt are far more threatening to US democracy. While serving the government, Boston-bred Levitt constructed a vast terrorist conspiracy out of paranoid Zionist fantasies trying to explain the refusal of Muslims to acknowledge that it was just to establish a Jewish state in Palestine.

In Levitt's delusions, to which other lesser ranking government officials like Daniel Pipes and Rachel Ehrenfeld contributed, Islamic finance and Islamic charity serve as a many-headed hydra of evil. Through vast numbers of meetings and internal dissemination of documents Levitt and Levey spread Zionist doctrine throughout government bureaucracy until practically every official from Ashcroft down could on cue reflexively repeat the whole litany of the sins that Levitt had fabricated about each charity or financial entity that was targeted for demonization.

Roots of the conspiracy involving Pipes, Levitt, and Levey lead back to the Boston area, where the Israel Lobby is deeply embedded in the region's educational institutions.

Aafia Siddique, who was a graduate student in cognitive neuroscience at Boston area Brandeis University, was demonized as a terrorist to punish her Muslim activism at the Jewish institution. The case constructed against Siddiqui has the flavor of psychotic paranoia so common in Matthew Levitt’s anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic fantasies.

During the Bush administration Levitt, who manipulated the US government into putting a lot of good people in jail, was a close associate of both Ashcroft and Levey, who continues in the Obama administration as an American Jewish Committee covert operative.

Understanding the centrality of Boston Jewish power in the USA requires a critical look at The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy. Professors Mearsheimer and Walt incorrectly claim the Israel Lobby is just another lobby even though the Israel Lobby is really the public face of an international criminal web, which has rendered the USA a dependent intimidated client state within the Zionist imperial system.
Because US hard power is vast while the Israel Lobby only has soft power, maintaining the privilege of the Jewish power elite requires tentacles that reach into American society well beneath national finance and foreign policy levels in order to keep most Americans confused, intimidated, or ignorant.

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Responding to Zionist Collaboration Propaganda

Open Letter to Guardian Editor

In Re: Israel uses Hitler picture to sell its settlement expansion

 

Dear Mr. Leach,

 

I am an historical political economist specializing in modern E. European and Jewish studies.

 

I have often been puzzled by the claim that "the Mufti of Jerusalem ... helped [the Nazis] raise an SS division in Bosnia" because he spoke neither Serbo-Croation nor German. As far as I can tell he spent most of his time in Yugoslavia with a N. African Arabic regiment that had more or less been conscripted to fight alongside the Wehrmacht in E. Europe.

 

There is no evidence that the Mufti sympathized with the German Nazis except insofar as they were willing to help him drive Eastern and Central European Zionist invaders out of Palestine.

 

You can find my blog entry on Zionist-Nazi collaboration at Nazi-Zionist Friendship Commemorative Medal.

 

Sincerely yours,

 

Joachim Martillo

President

Ethnic Ashkenazim Against Zionist Israel

Boston, MA

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Zionism, Fascism, Nazism for Dummies

Often I state definitions of Nazism and fascism in order to relate these ideologies to Zionism, but I have not done such a good job of explaining the ideological details clearly and simply. Except for confusing fascism with Nazism, Shingo recently described the ideological congruence of (Jabotinskian) Zionism with German Nazism almost to perfection in a recent comment on Mondoweiss:

1. Zionism is indeed a political/secular philosophy and movement.
2. Israel absolutely exalts nation and ethnicity above the individual, no question. Can anyone say, right of return? Israel is never described a state of individuals, but a collective belonging to the Jewish people and thereby qualifying the rights of individuals as secondary.
3. Israel is a militaristic state, where the military lives by it’s own rules. The government is indeed centralized. One need only read the charter of all political parties to realize they are one and the same.
4. Israel does not have an autocratic leader but does exercise severe economic and social regimentation as well as forcible suppression of opposition, in this care, the Arab parties.
5. Suppression of non-violent opposition? Can anyone say Gaza, Fatah? Does shooting demonstrators not qualify as suppression of non-violent opposition?
6. Politicized ethnic fundamentalism is rampant and unambiguous. All political parties are unanimously dedicated to the maintaining of Jewish state and to only recognizing the right of return of Jews. As the saying goes, the right are unabashed about wanting to remove the Arabs. The left will agree as long as the buses are air conditioned.
7. Extremist organic nationalism is blatantly obvious. Israel has moved so far to the right that it will soon pop up on the left.
8. Whether there are Jews of every race is irrelevant because Israel practices racial and bigoted discrimination against non-Jews.
9. Social Darwinism might not have been a component of Zionism, but it has become embedded in Zionist ideology. [Actually both Herzl and Max Nordau were unabashed social Darwinists.]
10. Biological determinism is a component of Zionism because rights (and presumptive character) of individuals are ideological determined according to birthright. Over half of the Jewish population in Israel believes the marriage of a Jewish woman to an Arab man is equal to national treason.
11. Essentialism is the very foundation of Zionism. It is the belief that Jews are unique and as such, will never be accepted into wider society.
12. Primordialism. Most Jews are not related in any way to the Biblical Israelites but are in fact the descendants of relatively recent converts to the religion.
13. Perverted eugenic theory is indeed a fundamental aspect of Zionism. Zionism is based on the belief that all Jews and the descendants of Biblical Israelites even though the claim is founded in scientic impossibility [and explicitly contradicted by the Bible in the Book of Esther.]
14. Opposition to race mixing: Over half of the Jewish population in Israel believes the marriage of a Jewish woman to an Arab man is equal to national treason. Many if not most Jewish Zionists believe that Jews who intermarry are self-hating Jews.
15. If there is any state that exemplifies the belief in national revival through racial purity, Israel is it. Israel believes a piece of land belongs to Jews, which only makes sense in the context of Jews being genetically related to one another and descended from Biblical Israelites.

If German Nazism is substituted for Zionism, if German Aryan is substitued for Jew, if the German State is substituted for Israel, if Jew is substituted for Arab, and if ancient Teutons is substituted for Biblical Israelites, the above analysis applies almost exactly to German Nazism. [Note that Hitler was not nearly as autocratic as Western historiography tends to depict him especially because the obvious contemporary comparison would be the far more autocratic Joseph Stalin.]

In contrast, fascism, which is a revision of Marxism, attempts to demonstrate that class conflict can be transcended via national revival. In fascist thinking, the nation need not be defined according to racist or voelkisch principles, but when it is (especially in the German context), the precise terminology is Volkssocialism, and Chaim Arlosoroff expounded the fascist principles of Labor Zionism in book entitled Der juedische Volkssozialismus. The Strasser faction of German Nazism could also be described as Volkssocialist. The Zionist political scientist Zeev Sternhell dishonestly identifies Labor Zionism as national socialism, which he distinguishes from Nationalist Socialism or Nazism, in order to obscure its true voelkisch racist fascist of Volkssocialist nature.

The definitions of fascism and Nazism can be applied to the basic Zionist political categories as follows:

1. Herzlian or Congress Zionism (both political and cultural): voelkisch (proto-Nazi) theoretically racist Imperialist — reformulated in the USA by Brandeis as Refugeeism.
2. Labor Zionism: properly identified as voelkisch or racist fascism (Volksocialism) and comparable to the Nazism of the German Nazi Strasser faction.
3. Jabotinskian/Revisionist Zionist: historically comparable to the spectrum from mainstream to extreme Right German Nazism with the Zionist version in many ways far more extreme and irrational — especially today.
4. Voelkisch occult mystical Zionists: comparable to a minor current of thought within the German Nazi movement.

Today mainstream American Zionism, which developed from Refugeeist Zionism, is a full-fledged form of Nazism with an important currents of voelkisch occult mystical Nazism while J-Street and American Friends of Peace Now as remnants of Labor Zionist fascism represent a minor insignificant internal opposition to Jabotinskian Zionist Nazism.

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[Stephen Walt] Obama meets the Lobby

Stephen Walt provides some rather misleading analysis in Obama meets the Lobby:

First, although a few individuals in the Israel lobby continue to downplay its influence, the very fact that this meeting was held is additional testimony to its important role in shaping U.S. Middle East policy. Why was Barack Obama taking time from his busy schedule to meet with the heads of groups like AIPAC, the Anti-Defamation League, J Street, Hadassah, and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (among others)? Simple: he knows that these groups have a lot of political power. He also knows that the success of his Middle East policy depends in large part on getting significant support from them. In a political system like ours, where well-organized interest groups routinely wield disproportionate influence over the issues they care about, holding a White House sit-down with these key leaders was smart politics.

Second, the meeting also makes it clear that there have been significant changes within the lobby over the past several years, and that there is an evident rift between those who think the United States should continue to the same "special relationship" with Israel, and those who believe that it would be in Israel and America’s interest if Washington adopted a more candid and nuanced policy toward the Jewish state. It is noteworthy that the invitees included representatives from both J Street and Americans for Peace Now -- groups that openly favor a two-state solution and have been backing Obama's campaign to halt all construction in the settlements. Maybe even more noteworthy, the more hard-line groups were remarkably restrained in defending the settlement enterprise.

There is no other lobby that holds meetings like this one. Do we see the heads of organiztions with the Cuban, agricultural or gun lobbies holding meetings like this one with the President of the USA? We do not because those lobbies only lobby while the Israel lobby is the public face of the Zionist virtual colonial motherland (or Judonia).

Obama took part in an executive branch to executive branch meeting with the public face of the leadership of Judonia or to be more precise with the highest level of the paid employees within Judonia's executive branch. The actual Zionist political economic oligarchs were absent

• because they shun publicity and
• because as merely the president of an intimidated and dependent client state within the Zionist imperial system Obama ranks lower than a Zionist plutocrat (albeit higher than the Israeli prime minister).

The virutal state analysis of the Israel Lobby is supported by the ongoing blatant effort of Judonia to manipulate Dutch and EU politics by supporting Geert Wilders and by earlier and ongoing less blatant but relatively successful efforts at manipulating the British, French, and German governments. While the USA has manipulated European governments in the past, no other US lobby has so explicitly interfered in European politics or law as the Israel Lobby currently is doing.

The Israel Lobby functions internationally in an effectively governmental or imperial role.

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Nazi-Zionist Friendship Commemorative Medal

Now that "Israeli embassies are being instructed to use for public relations purposes an infamous photograph of Adolf Hitler meeting a top Palestinian cleric," neglecting to point out Zionist-German-Nazi collaboration, alliance, and ideological congruence is practically criminal.

In 1933 German Nazis and Zionists began a collaboration that was mutually beneficial for the next five years. I discuss one of the initial reciprocal outreach efforts in Jewish Peril 1933 Versus 2009:

Because many German Nazis shared Churchill's opinion that Zionism provided a cure for Jewish anti-social behavior, the German Nazis fairly quickly reached out to Zionists in part to thwart threats of a boycott but also because of genuine belief that Zionists and German Nazis were on the same völkisch racist wavelength.

Nazi Journal Der Angriff struck the above medal to commemorate fact-finding trip to Palestine.

Even Zionists, who pretend to be moderate, want to reserve to Jews the right to make accusations of Nazism or Fascism. Thus, Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims can be demonized in the media as (Islamo-)Nazis or (Islamo-)Fascists in order to make sure that Jewish privilege can be preserved in Stolen and Occupied Palestine, but if anti-Zionists correctly respond with a counter-accusation characterizing Zionism as Jewish Nazism, Zionists and fellow travelers accuse them of prejudice or of anti-Semitism.

Determining whether Zionism is a form of Nazism is a straightforward exercise.

One simply compares the primary literature of Zionism and German Nazism.

The ideologies are practically identical with the obvious ethnic substitutions. In many regards, Zionism is far more extreme.

While Zionists have not yet managed the wholesale slaughter associated with German Nazism, they are certainly getting there and the rule of comparison is the following:

1. Israeli Palestinians live under conditions like those of German Jews in 1935 or 1937.
2. Jerusalem Palestinians live under conditions like those of German Jews in the first half of 1939.
3. OT Palestinians live under conditions like those of Polish Jews during the German Nazi occupation but before the start of Operation Barbarossa, which was the invasion of Russia on June 22nd 1941.

The Zionist German Nazi ideological equivalence was obvious in the 1930s. Victor Klemperer wrote about it in his Tagebücher (Diaries). George Mosse even discussed it in lectures at Hebrew University.

Anti-Zionists and pro-Palestinians have to get over the reluctance to call Zionists Jewish Nazis because the identification is simply true, and the more Jews are willing to call Zionists Nazis, the more the US Israel Alliance can be undermined with the ultimate result of liberating Palestinians from Zionist oppression and of freeing the USA from Zionist subversion.

It is this simple. Jews who want to help Palestinians must openly declare Zionism to be Jewish Nazism.

[With a top legend of "Nazi-Zionist Friendship Medal" and a bottom legend of "Zionism = Jewish Nazism," the above image could be worked into a great T-shirt for all Jewish anti-Zionists to wear as a sort of uniform at pro-Palestinian rallies.]

While German Nazism is evil, German Nazis, who were never a majority of Germans, could try to justify extreme measures in that Germany had to deal with both

• the Soviet Union, which was not incorrectly perceived as a murderous genocidal Judeobolshevik state, and also
  
• the Great Depression, which followed the 1929 Crash, which was to a large extent precipitated by German Jewish American financial machinations — especially at Goldman Sachs.

What did Palestinians ever do to German Jews and ethnic Ashkenazim? Absolutely nothing.

Thus, Zionism (ethnic Ashkenazi Nazism) is far more evil than German Nazism, and those of us that care about Palestinians, the USA, or the world must be explicit on this point.

Not only are Zionists Nazis, but they are even more effective, more sinister, more insidious Nazis — no ifs, ans, or buts.

Unlike Germans during the Nazi period, the majority of modern Jews sympathize with Zionism or identify as Zionists.

• Because this total involvement may reach as high as 80% or more and
  
• because Zionism is Jewish Nazism,

altogether at least 80% of world Jewry are either Nazis or Nazi sympathizers.

[Phil Weiss discusses the ongoing Zionist campaign to associate Palestinian resistance with German Nazsim in Lieberman uses Hitler against Palestinians. Why not against India?.]
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[The Crescent Report] Lessons from the Color Line Even ‘Famous’ Black Men Can Be Thrown Up Against the Wall

MAS Freedom Civil and Human Rights Director Ibrahim Abdil-Mu’id Ramey discussed Cambridge police mistreatment of Harvard Professor Henry “Skip” Louis Gates, Jr., in Lessons from the Color Line Even ‘Famous’ Black Men Can Be Thrown Up Against the Wall:

For those who may not otherwise be aware, Harvard University Professor Henry “Skip” Louis Gates, Jr., is one of America’s most preeminent scholars and public intellectuals, in addition to being a prolific writer, researcher, and producer of major documentaries for American public television.

Professor Gates is also a Black man; and apparently, that was the most salient part of his identity when it came to a confrontation with Cambridge, Massachusetts police officers earlier this week.

It seems that Professor Gates, on returning from a trip to China, was attempting to un-jam his front door with the help of a driver hired to drive him in from the airport, and while doing so, the local police department received a report that “unidentified” black men had been seen attempting to break into the Gates residence.

When officers arrived on the scene to investigate, Gates, in producing his University identification also happened to ask, as was his right, for the badge numbers of the officers confronting him. The officers reportedly refused to identify themselves, a disagreement followed, and Professor Gates was arrested – somewhat roughly – and charged with the offense of disorderly conduct.

[To read the entire article, click here.]

I am aware of localities where DWB (Driving While Black) is a reason for a cop to pull over a car.

Yet while I am certain that there was a racial component in the incident, I have had the same problem with Cambridge cops even though I am white.

Asking for an officer's identification in Cambridge is almost always good for a quick trip to the police station during encounters either with Cambridge city cops or with Harvard cops, who are deputized by the city if I am not mistaken.

I was able to talk my way out of an arrest, but I have worked over a lot of the last 15 years as a salesman. If I were still on the MIT faculty, I would probably have had more difficulty with the Cambridge police.

The USA has a really sick police culture, which seems to make it easy for cops (and sometimes FBI agents) to think they can get away with anything despite the laws and regulations.

This attitude is probably the root of the subversion of the Boston FBI office by the Winter Hill gang, and I have to admit — even if it is racist to say so —

1. that African American cops generally are not as power crazed as the white cops and
   
2. that I always prefer to deal with a black officer than a white cop.

I recently consulted with a retired DA about the Chuck Turner sting, and he mentioned in passing that Boston-area cops really don’t understand how much their misbehavior has made them objects of scorn and distrust. Nowadays a large part of a Boston-area prosecutor’s job involves overcoming hardly unreasonable anti-cop feelings on the part of local juries.
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Cost-Effective Patriotic Anti-Zionism

Because the Israel Lobby has such vast resources in the USA for PR, advertising, marketing research, and political manipulation, cash starved pro-Palestinian, Islamic, Arab, and anti-Zionist activists must choose cost-effective activities with the biggest bang for the buck. Here is my list:

1. Zionist and Jewish organizations and donors routinely violate the rules under which donations to 501(c)(3) organizations may be treated as tax-deductible. As a consequence, many organizations and individuals associated with pro-Israel causes are involved in massive tax-fraud, and anti-Israel activists should start filing the paperwork to alert the IRS to such civil and criminal violations of the tax code and agitate for investigation if the IRS does not follow through with investigations and assessments for underpayments or legal actions in the case of clear fraud.
   
   [Many leaders of Muslim and Arab American charities were put into jail -- often for periods between 10-65 years with accusations of technical violations far less severe than those in which Jewish and Zionist 501(c)(3) organizations routinely engage. A pattern of racial or religious discrimination in law enforce can be the basis for overturning sentences, for a class action lawsuit, and for charging Jewish Zionist subversives in the US government with crimes. In addition, American Zionist racists are neither going to stop their attacks on American Muslims nor are they going to go away. Arab, Muslim, and anti-Zionist Americans to work to put members of criminal Zionist conspiracies into jail in order to assure full participation of Arab or Muslim Americans within American society and in order to make rational discussion of US ME policy possible.]
   
2. The USHMM (United States Holocaust Museum Memorial) provides the organized Jewish community with a subsidized platform to progandize a Zionized Holocaust narrative and to poison human rights discourse. Anti-Israel activists should lobby for Obama to appoint Arno Mayer, Mahmood Mamdani, Ahmed Samatar, or Ali Mazrui to the USHMM council.
   
   [The USHMM provides US tax subsidized Zionist propaganda about the Holocaust, Sudan, Arabs, and Muslims. It helps Jewish Zionists control genocide discourse as a club against anti-Zionists in the USA. It provides a false version of Jewish history in Central and Eastern Europe. Obviously the USHMM is an evil institution that does immense harm. While it might be possible to fix the USHMM, putting someone like Mayer, who provides historical context for the Holocaust, or the other three scholars, who have extensive understanding of African Islam, would do much to undercut Jewish Zionist arrogance and to neutralize the harm that Jewish-dominated US Holocaust discourse does to the USA, to Palestinians, to Arabs, and to Muslims. If the USHMM is going to run politics addressing African Muslim countries, it is simply wrong not to have any African American Muslims on the USHMM council.]
   
3. The US government gives Zionist organizations and individuals a pass on many civil and criminal violations. Anti-Israel groups should schedule or take advantage of meetings with US attorneys and the Attorney General to demand equal enforcement of US laws as required by the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.
   
   In particular, the statute criminalizing conspiracy against rights, which has been a particularly important tool in guaranteeing the civil rights of Americans, has not been enforced against Israel advocates and advocacy groups that have worked to prevent Arab and Muslim Americans from exercising their Constitutional rights of assembly, expression, religious practice. Israel advocates routinely engage in conspiracies to prevent Arab and Muslim Americans from obtaining jobs and positions, which might be usable as a podium to explain the crimes of Zionism or the threat posed by it to the USA.
   
   [Mosque and other Muslim organizations need to start scheduling regular meetings with US attorneys to demand that the US government start to prosecute Jewish Zionist racists and their allies for violating TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 241.
   
   When the US attorney holds meetings with the Muslim community as he occasionally does, Muslim organizations should prep members to demand action against Islamophobes, who are conspiring to violate Muslim American civil rights. If the US attorney is unresponsive, it may be worthwhile that preventing the enforcement of any US law or statute during time of war can constitute seditious conspiracy.
   
   At the very least Muslim and Arab groups should demand to know the degree and areas of collaboration of the US attorney, the FBI, and local law enforcement with racist Jewish organizations like the AJCom, the SPLC, and the ADL so that the American Muslim community can take appropriate actions.]
   
4. Anti-Israel forces need to establish an organization to research the role of Rahm Emanuel's father Benjamin in crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and genocide during the 1947-8 Zionist rampage against the native Palestinian population. If it is determined that Benjamin neglected to provide critical information about his activities during the Palestine Mandatory period and 1948, the organization will educate and agitate for the Office of Special Investigations to deport Benjamin for trial by the ICC at the Hague.
   
5. Anti-Israel forces need to publicize the subversion of the US government by Zionists like Stuart Levey, Matthew Levitt, Jonathan Schanzer, Daniel Pipes, and Rachel Ehrenfeld, who all seem to have been involved in a seditious conspiracy to prevent anti-terrorism and related laws from being applied against Zionists while they manipulated the legal system to intimidate Muslim Americans as well as to demonize Islamic charities, Islamic finance, and Arabic media.
   
   Anti-Israel activists should seek the official designation of the IDF as a terrorist organization under US anti-terrorism laws so that the US government will be forced to dismantle Zionist organizations, to arrest Zionists, and to seize all their assets under the anti-terrorism laws.
   
6. Arab and Muslim donors need to fund a think tank devoted to a full accounting of the cost of Israel to the USA as well as the yearly total subsidy with which the US provides Israel. The former figure is probably approximately $6-8 trillion dollars while the latter probably hovers between $60-100 billion/year.
   
   Because Zionists have manipulated the USA into expending this money under false pretenses, the think tank will educate the American publish about the immensity of Zionist fraud against the USA.
   
   Because of the current economic disaster, which is to a large extent caused by the activities of corrupt Jewish Zionist networks in the finance industry, anti-Israel activists should find tremendous traction for a complete clawback of the total amount of the fraud that Zionists have committed against the USA and also for the imposition of a penalty equal to a multiple of the total amount of the fraud.
   
7. Anti-Israel groups need to work with the families of victims of Zionist terrorism to file terror victim lawsuits. Major cases could seek damages for the IDF terrorist murders of Americans like Rachel Corrie or Suraideh Gharbieh. Such cases might run into problems in suing the IDF directly because of issues of sovereign immunity, but the extremely wealthy Israel lobby provides many wealthy vulnerable defendants that could not claim sovereign immunity. Another problem might result from Jewish Zionist judges that have subverted the US legal system.
   
   Because the US public has been sensitized to the issue of ethnic bias in judicial rulings thanks to Republican scrutiny during the Sotomayor hearings, terror victim lawsuits could provide an opportunity to purge the US judiciary of racist Jewish judges that are criminally misusing their judgeships "for the good of the Jewish people."
   
8. Anti-Israel groups and individuals need to fund legal action by Canadian Arab groups to reclaim the Dead Sea Scrolls, which have been stolen by the Zionist state for propaganda purposes: Khaleej Times: Israel Steals Palestinian Heritage, History.
   
   The Dead Sea Scrolls are the cultural product of the ancestors of modern Palestinians. At the time the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, the ancestors of modern Jews were practicing various pagan religions. Jewish Zionists claim the Dead Sea Scrolls as part of a massive self-deception and an ongoing effort to dupe gullible Christians.
   
9. Because US public discourse and public school curriculums are so polluted by nonsense about the Holocaust, Jewish history, and the State of Israel, anti-Israel activists need to create basic texts that provide factual objective (not balanced) non-Zionist introductions to the Holocaust, Jewish history, or Zionism and that can be used in public schools or interfaith activities.
   
   Personally, I am disgusted that Boston public schools indoctrinated the students including my daughter with Zionist propaganda: Zionist Indoctrination: Boston Grammar Schools.

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[Khaleej Times] Of Conspiracies and Plots

Karin Friedemann has been looking at the same Israel Advocacy organizations and behavior as I have. Here is her analysis which has an emphasis rather different from mine.

Of Conspiracies and Plots

Karin Friedemann

23 July 2009

Many blame Ashcroft, Cheney, and Bush for the ongoing campaigns against activists, politicians and organisations that try to help Arabs and Muslims.

Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner, a long time Palestinian rights advocate, told supporters that he believes former US Attorney General John Ashcroft personally orchestrated a sting operation to remove him from office. As in previous cases, strategic “media update sessions” put the media into a predatory frenzy before the accused even went to trial. Media accusations often do not even coincide with the actual charges.

Riad Hamad, founder of Palestinian Children’s Welfare Fund in Texas, believed George Bush was after him. When Hamad died mysteriously and violently after a vicious media campaign libeling him as a terrorism supporter, police and FBI refused to investigate. Clearly, there was a conspiracy involving media and law enforcement. Yet for Bush personally to take such an interest in local politics is probably beyond plausibility.

This pattern of political persecutions from Turner to Chas Freeman can be best understood with a bottom-up approach. As Jewish wealth, power, and influence have increased, so has its ability to punish those offending the organised Jewish community in some way. While the Jewish power elite seems to enjoy legal immunity, Americans and US residents targeted by these powerful political economic oligarchs suffer media and governmental abuse. This is particularly true in the Boston area, which is now a major command and control centre for transnational Jewish politics and Zionist lobbying.

[To read the entire article, click here.]

My previous discussion can be found in:

• Hub of the World (Zionist Conspiracy) and
• Patterns of Boston Jewish Power.

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Modern Jews Misinterpreting Jewish Texts

Rashi, a Missing Yud, and R. Moses Isserles from the Menachem Mendel blog provides an excellent example why it is so important to have a thorough understanding at least of common (koine) Greek before trying to interpret Jewish texts whose origins like the Talmud or the Mishna belong to the Greco-Roman period.

In the blog entry, which I fully reproduce below, various commentators (including RASHI) and commentaries use all sorts of dubious reasoning and assumptions to explain a homiletic interpretation probably originally based in a sound anagram that Hellenistic sages familiar with both Hebrew and Greek would have heard from Biblical Hebrew asimam (I will place/appoint them) to Greek miasma (taint of guilt).

Once a Hellenistic Torah scholar (a hakham, who is a sophos), trying to explain why asimam is used instead of the equivalent asim otam, connected asimam with miasma, he can propose without actually having a scroll with a defective spelling that the sound anagram of miasma and asimam suggests rethinking asimam as ashmam, which would be a heteronym (same spelling, different meaning, different pronunciation) under a defective transcription, and the midrash Sifrei on Deuteronomy, piska 13 is explained.

RASHI inherits many such traditions from his teachers apparently without always fully understanding the underlying reasoning. In this particular case the compositors of Sifrei lacked a key step in the logic and probably invented an alternative explanation.

Here is the original blog article.

Rashi, a Missing Yud, and R. Moses Isserles

This morning I started working on a blog post and saved it with the intention of finishing it tonight or tomorrow. I now see that R. Josh Waxman at Parshablog has posted on the same topic, adding more than I ever intended to write. I wanted to mention a few different things so read Josh’s post and here’s mine.

In this week’s Torah reading we read the following verse, (Deut. 1:13)

הבו לכם אנשים חכמים ונבנים וידעים לשבטיכם ואשימם בראשיכם

“Pick from each of your tribes men who are wise, discerning, and experienced, and I will appoint them as your heads.”

On this verse Rashi wrote the following on the word ואשימם,

חסר יו”ד, למד שאשמותיהם של ישראל תלויות בראשי דייניהם, שהיה להם למחות ולכוון אותם לדרך הישרה

“The word ואשימם lacks the letter yud. This teaches that the guilt of Bnei Yisroel is placed on the heads of their judges for it is their duty to admonish and direct them onto the right path.”

The source for Rashi’s comment can be found in the midrash Sifrei on Deuteronomy, piska 13. (See Josh’s post on this point.) This rabbinic interpretation is based upon the the “defective” spelling of the word ואשימם, yet if one looks in just about every single humash or Tanakh the word is written “full/plena” with a yud. See here for the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Not surprisingly, in some editions of Rashi a comment was added saying that in most Tikkunim and Sifrei Torah the word is written with a yud.

First of all, this just shows how ridiculous it is to try and find hidden messages in the Torah by counting letters, numbers, etc. See this article by Jeffrey Tigay which I have linked to before. Secondly, whether a word is written “full” or “defective” may have halakhic implications when determining if a Sefer Torah contains a mistake which will invalidate it or not. In the Shulhan Aruch, OH 143:4 the Rama wrote that even if a mistake was found in a Sefer Torah, we only take out a different one if it is a “real mistake” and not one of full vs. defective spelling.

והא דמוציאין אחר, דוקא שנמצא טעות גמור, אבל משום חסירות ויתרות אין להוציא אחר, שאין ספרתורה שלנו מדוייקים כל כך שנאמר שהאחרת יהיה יותר כשר

The Mishnah Berurah amplifies the Rama’s comment.

כגון ווי”ן או יודי”ן מלאים או חסרים שלא נשתנה בהם הענין והמבטא כגון במקום שהיה צריך לכתוב אבותינו מלא וי”ו ונמצא חסר או להיפוך וכן במקום שהיה צריך לכתוב מלא ביו”ד שימושית ונמצא חסר או להיפוך אבל טעות שנשתנה במבטא אף שלא נשתנה הענין כגון כבש שהיה כתוב במקום כשב או שלמה שמלה צריך להוציא אחרת וכן ה”ה אם כתב מגרשיהן במקום מגרשיהם דהא איכא שינוי לשון וכן אם כתב רחבה במקום רחבו צריך להוציא אחרת אע”ג דנוכל לקרות בחולם כמו אהלה וכן בפסוק והנה תומים בבטנה אם כתב תומים מלא באלף תאומים אע”ג שהענין אחד צריך להוציא אחרת שהרי נרגש במבטא וכן בתיבת ונחנו מה אם כתב ואנחנו מה וה”ה אם נשתנה הענין עי”ז אע”ג שלא נשתנה במבטא כגון בתיבת ונמצה דמו כתב ונמצא דמו או בתיבת מאן יבמי שהוא שרש מיאון כתב מאין ביו”ד וכן כל כיוצא בזה צריך להוציא אחרת ועיין בדה”ח ובשערי אפרים שהאריכו בפרטים אלו

Moses Isserles was also a scribe and in Alei Sefer, no. 19, there are a number of articles on his Sefer Torah.

BTW, I am not the only person that looks at RASHI in this way. See Rashi, interpreter of the biblical letter by Menahem Banitt.

I believe Banitt and I came to similar conclusions simultaneously with me around 1973-4. I was searching for a link between Greek-speaking and Aramaic-speaking Judaism while Banitt was looking at RASHI carefully within the Old French context.

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Olmert Follows Israel Project Script

In How to Achieve a Lasting Peace former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is just writing the sort of mendacious op-ed that designated Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow writes (Moral Turpitude at Harvard L-School).

Just as Minow's lies were coming straight from the IDF, Olmert followed the script from The Israel Project (p. 12) to the last jot when he avoided using the word Jew in his column and refers only once to the Jewish population:

Don’t talk about religion. Americans who see the bible as their sourcebook on foreign affairs are already supporters of Israel. Religious fundamentalists are Israel’s “Amen Choir” and they make up approximately one-fourth of the American public and Israel’s strongest friends in the world. However, some of those who are most likely to believe that Israel is a religious state are most hostile towards Israel (“they’re just as extreme as those religious Arab countries they criticize”). Unfortunately, virtually any discussion of religion will only reinforce this perception.

Therefore, even the mention of the word “Jew” is many Israel contexts is going to elicit a negative reaction—and the defense of Israel as a “Jewish State” or “Zionist State” will be received quite poorly. This may be hard for the Jewish community to accept but this is how most Americans and Europeans feel.

While the IDF clearly ghosts Minow on legal issues relating to the IDF, The Israel Project and other US Israel advocacy organizations almost certainly provide Olmert with talking points on all important and broader Zionist issues to make sure his words (like those of other senior Israeli leaders) conform to the goals and desires of the international Zionist leadership to which the State of Israel is subordinate.
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Zionist Parable: Yosef Mokir Shabbat

I have always found this children’s story based on Talmudic aggadah (אגדה) to be particularly disturbing.

While the symbolism of the fish indicates a reworking of Christian material or of the myth of Isis and Osiris, the Talmudic version in effect explains that God will give the wealth of a gentile to someone, who is strictly obedient to the Law of Moses. In today’s time period when Jews define themselves ethnically according to ideas of extremist organic nationalism, they can read into this story a parable justifying either the theft of Palestine from the native population or the looting of the world financial system.

Yosef Mokir Shabbat

(based on tractate Shabbat 119a)

There was once a man called Yosef. Yosef loved the Sabbath and honored it very much. Everyone called him, "Yosef Mokir Shabbat," for Shabbat was very dear to him.

Near Yosef's house there lived a wealthy Gentile who owned a lot of property.

One day the non-Jew visited his sages, the stargazers. They said to him: "We see in the stars that all of your property will go to Yosef Mokir Shabbat."

The Gentile was afraid of losing all his wealth. He went and bought a very precious jewel with all of his money. He took a fancy hat and sewed the jewel upon it.

He thought to himself: "Now I am sure that my wealth will remain in my hands, for it rests upon my head all the time."

But God in heaven decreed differently. One day the non-Jew went for a walk on a bridge. Suddenly, a strong wind came and blew the hat into the water.

The a huge fish appeared and swallowed the jewel on the hat.

On Friday afternoon the fish was caught by the fishermen. They brought it to market but they worried: Who would buy such a gigantic fish - especially since by this time, everyone had already prepared fish for Shabbat?

One of the fishermen said, "Take the fish to Yosef Mokir Shabbat. He will surely buy such a special fish, even if he has already prepared other fish."

The fishermen went to Yosef Mokir Shabbat and he bought the fish.

Yosef hurried to prepare the fish in honor of Shabbat. He took a knife and opened the fish.

And behold! Inside the fish's belly Yosef found the precious jewel!

After Shabbat Yosef sold the jewel for a lot of money. An old man met him and said, "If someone lends to the Sabbath, the Sabbath will pay him back."

[Of course in real life, the Zionist Jew -- let's call him Yosef Mokir Genevah -- took a club, knocked off the old gentile's hat, beat him senseless, stole the gem, and justified the crime as the will of God and good for the Jews]. Sphere: Related Content