Muslim Americans and the USHMM

New Sheriff in Town

by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

 

I have made a minor effort to organize Yahoo!Answers users to resist Zionist or Jewish intimidation and chauvinism. Generally, Zionists are able to shovel a tremendous amount of fecal matter into a discussion, but they tend to fold under the pressure of the facts.

 

I have been adding questions like the following. Unfortunately, few respondents seem to understand either the inappropriateness or the historical distortions associated with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and there really is not yet sufficient understanding among the American and world populations of the sophisticated marketing techniques that Zionists use to maintain the State of Israel and to profit from it.

 

Joachim M : Shouldn't there always be at least one Muslim American on the United States Holocaust Museum Memorial Council?

 

http://www.ushmm.org
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/council/

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) serves in the effort to use the Holocaust to justify the theft of Palestine by Eastern European Zionists.

In the past directors like William Reich have tried to use the Museum as a platform for anti-Arab propaganda.

The USHMM is working with Neocons to mischaracterize the conflict in Darfur in order to distract from the Neocon program to incinerate Arab and Muslim Countries.

Shouldn't the US memorialize the injustice of slavery and destruction of N. American native populations before addressing the Holocaust?

The USHMM consistently covers up the role of Soviet ethnic Ashkenazim in Soviet mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide and, therefore, can only create misunderstanding of the Holocaust.

Because of American complicity in the Holoexaleipsis (erasure of Palestinians from Palestine) wouldn't a US Holoexaleipsis Memorial Museum be more appropriate?

Additional Details

I meant Walter Reich and not William Reich. He is the husband of Tova Reich, who wrote "My Holocaust."

From Melvin Jules Bukiet:

Serious and hilarious and utterly scathing -- no, lacerating; no, disemboweling -- My Holocaust takes no prisoners in its two short, bookended chapters and its two lengthy set pieces, one inside the museum's hallowed walls and another on a special donors' tour of Auschwitz. Reich knows this territory intimately; her husband, Walter, used to be the head of the D.C. institution she now pillories.

See Reviews at  http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com/book-review/my-holocaust/tova-reich .

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Answers (11)

1. by vtjames7...

Short answer= NO

 

2. by Martha Z

man whats your problem?

 

3. by midnyter...

 

I'm going to quote William F, Buckley here..

"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."

Sorry but, you need to be more learned before posting - see below:

Source(s):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Dec...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-Afr...

 

4. by deadzedz

 

Concentration camps and holocaust, yep.
Yews will never forget and never forgive and germans are always going to be nazis

 

5. by Dukemeis...

 

The short answer to you is simply NO!

6. by Dr Schmoo

 

Your post is an example of active negative intelligence.

 

7. by bluekitt...

 

Your prejudice is showing, as well as your ignorance.

The campaign in Bosnia was an attempt to protect the mostly muslim population.

The US is not the only country in the history of the world to have had slaves; however, unlike muslim countries of today, the US abolished slavery over 140 years ago.

Source(s):

http://www.injusticeline.com/slave1.html

 

8. by Anil S

 

History go of its own . The demolition of USSR, and distribution of several states and their sovereignty , East and South Germany, Division of Korea, - so there are various examples. The debate will definitely be there and there will be different opinions of two class people. Some will say 'X' and other will ' Y'
Only thing is , what is said to be , or deemed to be right has to go with the mass and manifested and propagated to awake the understanding of the mass and compel the rulers to initiate the desired action.

 

9. by mikail brown

well there seams to be many questions here to answer
Memorials are there for people to remember
it does not seam like the people are listening though as still people are killing people for there beliefs it is a bit hypocritical really and a waste of money
but it does get us talking

10. by D@!Z

 

right,
and Christians are responsible for the holocaust.........

http://nobeliefs.com/nazis.htm

 

11. by wizbang

considering that most muslim nations were allies of Hiltler and his Nazis, then yes it makes sense to put them to work in places where they can serve Jews to atone for this evil....in fact, when thats considered perhaps we can consider the present subjugation of the Arab nations as a necessary mopping up effort long postponed......

 

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"Little House" Big Role 2008

Heroes of Freedom Inspire Candidate

by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

 

George Ajjan added the following to the Lew Rockwell Blog on Jan. 11, 2007.

Rose Wilder Lane

Posted by Lew Rockwell at January 11, 2008 07:33 AM

Writes George Ajjan: "Karin Friedemann points out that Rose Wilder Lane, whom Ron Paul mentioned in his 'Onward!' email yesterday as one of the 'heroes of freedom', was the daughter of Almanzo Wilder. He attributed his unusual first name to a family tradition dating back to the Crusades, in which an ancestor of Wilder had his life saved by a certain el-Manzoor - Almanzo being the anglicized tribute. Karin says, 'The good deed of one Muslim is resulting in a presidential candidacy. Never underestimate the power of mercy!'"

Rose Wilder Lane is the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who wrote the Little House on the Prairie books, which later became a television series.

The Cato Institute provides a brief biography of her at http://www.cato.org/special/threewomen/wilder-lane.html .

Ron Paul describes her as a Hero of Freedom and lists her as an inspiration for his decision to enter politics. Because of Lane's book Islam and the Discovery of Freedom, the war-mongers and anti-Arab anti-Muslim Neocon racists were unable to ensnare Paul in the false Islamophobic consensus they were trying to create through fear.

George Leef, president of Patrick Henry Associates in Michigan, reviews the book at http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=3552 .

Leef notes the following.

Lane also argues that the West was exposed to the ideas of liberty that would in time lead to its ascendancy through contacts with Muslim traders and scholars. She notes that Spanish Catholics, while welcoming the Catholic kings of the reconquista, nonetheless would not give up the liberty they had enjoyed under Islamic rule (which was tolerant of religious differences). They demanded and got documents guaranteeing their freedoms. Ahmad adds that Magna Carta, to which Westerners trace the beginnings of the idea of limited government, resulted from pressure by English nobles who had returned from the Crusades, where they had learned that the Muslim leader Saladin was bound by the law the same as any other citizen.

Columbia Professor Richard W. Bulliet describes rather more academically in The Case for IslamoChristian Civilization the balance between the central government and the ulama (Islamic legal intellectual class) that created a system of checks and balances to limit governmental authority and provide space for personal freedom. The form of secularization that the West has encouraged or enforced throughout the Islamic world has contributed to shattering the balance and creating in Muslim countries a form of authoritarianism that resembles the strong-man dictatorial governments of nineteenth century Europe. A class of Western scholars now make the rather circular and illogical argument that the prevalence of such authoritarianism in Muslim countries indicates that Islam is incompatible with democracy.

Along the same line of thought Leef suggests that Lane's depiction of Islam is incomplete.

This book is not, however, a "warts and all" portrait of Islam, which was quite indifferent to the enslavement of Africans and Europeans and placed non-Muslims on a lower legal plane. For discussion of the dark side of this civilization, one must look elsewhere.

The negative characterization of the position of slaves and non-Muslims in Islamic society has served as a staple of the modern Western critique of Islamic society, but more recent scholarship has tried to get past the propaganda and polemic.

Islamic slavery cannot be equated with the common forms of Euro-American or European slavery. For example, Ottoman slavery could provide social mobility, confer political authority and give social status to members of an alien immigrant population. Tel Aviv University Professor Ehud Toledano discusses such aspects of Ottoman Slavery in Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East. 

Hebrew University Professor Haim Gerber provides some of the results of his research into the Sharia-based legal system of the Ottoman Empire in State, Society and Law in Islam: Ottoman Law in Comparative Perspective.

 

Gerber's data and analysis indicates that in a comparison of the courts of the core Ottoman Bursa/Istanbul region with those of core English region of the UK, the Ottoman State was far closer to the ideal of a Rechtstaat and achieved far greater legal equality among members of different religious groups or economic classes than the contemporary UK at all periods that Gerber studied.

 

Even though Rose Wilder Lane was not an academic specialist in Islam, her depiction of Islamic society could be a good deal closer to the historical reality of Arab-Islamic and Ottoman society than Leef believes because her unique family history made it possible for her to transcend traditional Western anti-Islamic and anti-Arab prejudices that Neocons and Zionists have worked so hard to revive and inflame in modern American society.

 

In the Ron Paul candidacy Americans are benefiting from Rose Wilder Lane's unprejudiced perspective. If Ron Paul helps shatter the perverted lens through which Americans view the Middle East, el-Manzoor's descendants may also reap the rewards of charity sown like a seed so long ago.

 

 

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Yahoo Answers: Infested by Zionists

On June 1, 2007, I distributed an email message entitled The Zionist War on Truth. It describes the effort of the Hasbarah Fellowships of Aish haTorah (the Jewish face of HonestReporting) to make sure that only Zionist propaganda is available from Wikipedia.

Six months later, I took a day to look at Yahoo Answers (http://answers.yahoo.com/), which is a sort of disorganized Wikipedia with none of the pretensions. It was tremendously infested with Zionists.

Here is one of the less obnoxious questions from riviva .

Open Question

Explosives hidden in aid to Palestinians?

How can we stop this without incurring the wrath of the international community?

Additional Details

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,...

I provided the obvious answer.

The conflict will continue until the murderous genocidal Zionist thieves and interlopers confess their crimes, return the country they stole, restore Palestinian residence rights, pay compensatory damages for over 100 years atrocities, and hand over their leadership to be tried in Nuremberg-style tribunals.

Yet, I am impressed by Zionist groupthink, pertinacity, racism, fanaticism and obliviousness to the facts.

I put up the following questions, which may be useful to anti-Zionists and anyone committed to fundamental American principles of support for human rights, opposition to racism, and encouragement of democracy.

Can anyone that supports Zionism discuss political or religious extremism rationally?

Someone that believes that Eastern European ethnic Ashkenazim had the right to steal Palestine from the native population on the basis of an etymological relationship between the word "Jew" and the word "Judea" would by the same reasoning argue that the Irish have the right to ethnically cleanse and steal Rome because the Irish mostly practice the Roman Catholic religion, which contains the word "Roman" in its name.

Zionist ideology is so extreme that it is practically psychotic.

Why has Zionist subversion of the US government had so much more success than earlier Communist subversion?

Walt & Mearsheimer have clearly demonstrated in The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy that the Israel Lobby has manipulated US foreign policy to the detriment of US interests.

During the 20s, 30s, and 40s US communists secretly undertook similar subversion but were generally less successful.

Do Zionist subversives succeed where Communist subversives failed because Zionists use Christian religious gullibility while Communists attacked religion?

According to the Bible won't all Christian Zionists burn in Hell for eternity?

Modern Palestinians are the descendants of ancient Judeans, who remained true to 2nd Temple Judaism for Christianity and Islam are far closer to 2nd Temple Judaism than modern Rabbinic Judaism.

Modern Jews are descended of non-Judean populations that gradually assimilated to Rabbinic and Karaite Judaism after the 10th Century CE.

By supporting Zionist thieves, interlopers, and invaders in the genocide of the native Palestinian population, aren't Christian Zionists helping fanatic and extremist Jewish racists thwart the end-time prophecies of St. John with the result that the return of Jesus may be delayed forever.

Could there possibly be a greater sin from the standpoint of Christianity than Christian Zionism?

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Here are some articles that I have put together that describe the non-Judean origin of modern Rabbinic and Karaite Jews.

http://www.eaazi.org/ThorsProvoni/hist...

http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/10/origin...

http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/12/les-or...

http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/12/jewish...

Isn't the Holoexaleipsis (the great erasure of the native Palestinian population) the archetypal genocide?

During the Russian Revolution, the 20s and 30s, the most important Soviet genocide planners and perpetrators were Jewish. It is hardly surprising that Central and Eastern European populations hated, feared and wanted to kill Jews as a sort of collective revenge for the massive and horrendous crimes of Soviet Ashkenazim, but Palestinians became victims of genocide simply because they lived on land that Zionists wanted to steal.

Additional Details

Here is article 2 of the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.

http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html

Article 2

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Zionist invaders, thieves and interlopers have and continue to commit the crimes described in (a)-(d).

Zionists are prima facie genocidaires, and many argue (especially Jews) that genocide denial is genocide incitement.

UPDATE for Paperback_writer:

From 1933-1940 the Jewish population under German Nazi control increased. It hardly means that German Nazis were not trying to destroy the German Jewish and ethnic Ashkenazi populations of greater Germany.

Is it reasonable for Israeli Zionists to expect to live in peace and security?

They are living in a stolen country, often on stolen property and sometimes in stolen homes.

Would Zionism be wrong if modern German and E. European Jews had no ancestral connection to Palestine?

Here is my theory of Jewish origins after studying the issue for approximately 40 years:

http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/10/origin...

http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/12/les-or... (more documentation -- unfortunately in French)

http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to...

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Factoidalism at Haaretz

All the News That's Fit to Fake

translated by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

 

I am providing this translation because Americans critical of US ME policy tend to put too much trust in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. 

 

Organizations within the Boston-area Israel Lobby and organized Jewish community have discussed funding German leftist pro-Israel journals of the sort discussed in Weinthal's article.

 

Benjamin Weinthal: Slow to Write Back 

by Mattias Gockel and Thomas Immanuel Steinberg

 

On August 7, 2007 Ha'aretz put "Letter from Berlin: The anti-anti-Zionists" by Benjamin Weinthal into the Net. In it the author mentioned a lead-article from Konkret (Concrete) publisher Herman L. Gremliza about the attack on Iraq and compares it with the unqualified pro-war position of the magazine Bahamas.

 

Also Weinthal identifies die junge Welt (The Young World),

which even today remains an incorrigibly reactionary newspaper on the left whose coverage is filled with left-wing anti-Semitic diatribes against Israel and American Jews.

Because we both have written for Konkret and also for die junge Welt, we wanted to know whether Gremliza with regard to the Iraq war took in Weinthal's eyes a qualified pro-war position; and in what sense die junge Welt is according to Weinthal's opinion filled with anti-Semitic incitement against Israel and American Jew; finally, whether he arguably considers all "American Jews" to be Zionists. We wrote to Haaretz.

An:  feedback(at)haaertz.co.il
Cc: letters(at)haaretz.co.il
Datum: 07.09.07 19:41:20 Uhr 

Dear Sir/Madam:

we would like to address a letter to Mr. Weinthal in regard to his column "Letter from Berlin". Can you kindly let us know how to contact him or his office? Or should we send it to you and you can forward it?

Thank you very much for your attention.

Dr. Matthias Gockel and Thomas Immanuel Steinberg, Germany

Still we received no answer from Haaretz. So we snail-mailed anew and enclosed our inquiry to Benjamin Weinthal

Datum:13.09.07 10:14:49 Uhr 

Dear Sir/Madam:

Enclosed you find our response to Mr. Weinthal's column about "The Anti-anti-Zionists". We think that the column contains questionable statements that should be rectified or at least explained.

We would appreciate a brief reply by the author.

Thank you very much for your consideration.

Kind regards, ...

The Inquiry

Dear Mr. Weinthal, 

we have read your article in Ha'aretz "Letter from Berlin: The anti-anti-Zionists" (August 7, 2007) with great interest. As journalists who have written for Konkret as well as for junge Welt we would like to ask you to explain a few of your statements in greater detail, if you don't mind. 

First, you mention Gremliza's editorial regarding the attack on Iraq and compare it to the "unqualified pro-war position" of Bahamas. How do you read Gremliza's editorial? Is it a qualified pro-war position? 

Second, you claim that the junge Welt is "filled with", i.e., full of, "anti-Semitic diatribes against Israel and American Jews". This is a serious charge. If it were true, we would be honestly concerned, since we have written a number of articles for junge Welt. We would be rather distressed to give the impression of associating ourselves with an anti-semitic publication. 

In contrast to your claim, we think that the junge Welt is devoted to the oath of Buchenwald and constantly publishes articles with a strong anti-fascist stance. It also convers the right-wing and neo-Nazi scene in Germany and often reports sympathetically about protests against neo-Nazi actions or anti-Semitism in general. Examples can be found in the newspaper's web edition. 

Of course, we are aware that junge Welt reports critically about Israel's actions in the West Bank and its military actions against neighboring states. If you can explain to what extent these reports are anti-semitic, we would be very grateful. 

Finally, we are certain that there has never been any "diatribe" against "American Jews", unless you claim that all "American Jews" hold Zionist positions. If you have an example to the contrary, please let us know. 

Thank you for your attention and kind regards, ... 

Again we obtained no answer. So we send the same mail on September 17, 2007 anew to Haaretz. Again we received no answer. Then we send a fifth letter to Haaretz:

Datum: 24.09.07 18:50:28 Uhr 

Dear Editor:

Unfortunately, you have not responded to our letter regarding the article by Benjamin Weinthal about "The Anti-anti Zionists".

We are rather disappointed, especially since we think that the article contains a number of serious mistakes that warrant, at the very least, an explanation. We expect better from a liberal newspaper.

Sincerely, ...

Meanwhile a colleague shared Weinthal's mailing address with us. We wrote him what we had already snail-mailed to Haaretz:

An: bweinthal(at)yahoo.com
Datum: 26.10.07 19:54:20 Uhr

Dear Mr. Weinthal,

we have read your article in Ha'aretz "Letter from Berlin: The anti-anti-Zionists" (August 7, 2007) with great interest. Although the column appeared more than 2 months ago, we would like to hear your comment on a few questions. As journalists who have written for Konkret as well as for junge Welt ...

It is now two months since. We are waiting and still waiting for an answer. Is Weinthal lazy to respond? Of late he translated into English what Ariel Muzicant puffed out about the natural gas deal between Austrian OMV and Iran. Just like Muzicant, Weinthal assiduously misreports [literally: botches] on behalf of the US-Israeli war lobby.

T:I:S, 24. Dezember 2007

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Attack Journalist Swiftboats Ron Paul

Some Comments on the Recent Primaries

by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

 

The statistics of the New Hampshire primary indicates a double cross-over effect.

 

The polls on the Democratic side so favored Obama that many pro-Obama independents crossed over to vote for McCain in the Republican primary because Obama seemed not to need their votes. (There may also have been a racial effect.)

 

When I woke up the day of the NH primary, I found that my AOL inbox contained an email from The New Republic. The message announced a slew of new articles. I clicked on Politics, and James Kirchick's article Angry White Man popped up. I read it and thought to myself, "The Zionist news media (FOX News, the Wall Street Journal, CanWest, TNR, et al.) have graduated from blacking out Ron Paul to swiftboating him." I wondered about the blogosphere and checked via google. It was covered with the Kirchick article, and anyone not familiar with the sort of drivel that Kirchick writes for TNR editor-in-chief Martin Peretz (see "The Staged Legacy of Rachel Corrie" below) and planning to vote for Ron Paul almost certainly reconsidered.

 

Ron Paul's independent supporters had no alternative in the Republican primary. These voters, who are disproportionately employed in the hi-tech industry and who almost certainly have fond memories of the Bill Clinton 90s, probably crossed over to vote for Hillary Clinton. Up until that point, polls were showing Ron Paul at 17% in the NH primary. The crossover boost to Hillary was almost certainly significant.

 

Maria's article below after the videos is worth reading because she discusses the similar sorts of smears that Boston area Israel advocates flung at her during the campaign of the Boston Jewish Community Relations Council against the Somerville Divestment Project.  Both the Israel Lobby and the organized Jewish community take any threat to the flow of cash from the USA to Israel very seriously, and various Zionist think tanks in the USA and in Israel have long been constructing a sophisticated knowledge base to counteract any challenge to Zionist control of US ME policy.

 

The Battle for Divestment from Israeli Securities in Somerville - Seva Brodsky from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (headed by Dore Gold who is a former Israeli ambassador to the UN) discusses both Maria and me as well as other Boston area anti-Zionists. It is the sort of documentation that researchers and schemers at Zionist think tanks are producing.

 

Ron Paul's platform is particularly scary to Zionists. Not only does he intend to halt US payments to Israel, but he would dismantle the Zionist network control maintained by facilitators and gatekeepers in the national human services, civil rights and educational bureaucracies.

 

The following articles indicate the degree to which Zionists have subverted national and state bureaucracies:

• Profiteering from humanitarianism
• Civil Rights for Some Americans
• Nakba education vs Holocaust disinformation for Americans.

Paul is correct that the USA really cannot afford to maintain the bloated national government as well as an oversized military. In addition, he shows remarkable insight in identifying the overweening power of  the national bureaucracies as a threat to basic American liberty, but the twenty ton elephant in the room is the opportunity that such bureaucracies provide for subversion by agents loyal to a foreign power. At this point eliminating the bureaucracies and finding less expensive, less dangerous means to address national issues and problems may be the only way to save American democracy.

 

I have spent a week in trying to substantiate Kirchick's charges. I find parsimoniousness and excessive trust in the free market. After six years of paying for Neocon adventurism by printing money, attention to the bottom line is probably a good idea. Ron Paul does not seem to understand that a free market must be biased against the large players; otherwise, the problem of gambler's ruin and the inevitable trend to monopolization rear their ugly heads.

 

Because Ron Paul is a doctor, I can forgive a lack of understanding of probability theory while Fox News and TNR (i.e., CanWest) are working hard to show him that the inordinate power of big business can be just as dangerous as excessive governmental power.

 

Below are some videoclips that address Ron Paul's opposition to racism and his stance on gay marriage. Ron Paul was one of the few Republicans to oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment because it represented an attempt to expand federal power. No one can deny Dr. Paul's consistent effort to constrain the national government.

NAACP Director Nelson Linder Defends Ron Paul

 

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A 20 year friend of Ron Paul ,Austin Texas' NAACP Director Nelson Linder is interviewed by Scott Horton of Anti War radio concerning the accusations of racism against the congressman.The interview also explores the issue of civil rights and inequality in the American justice system .For more information on this story go to http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/011308_not_racist.htm .

The President of Hip Hop Warms to Ron Paul

 

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My state of the summer address, and also some more info on Presidential Candidate Mr. Ron Paul.

Ron Paul Doesn't Want White Supremacist Support

 

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DIGG THIS: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Ron_Paul_I_don_t_want_white_supremacists_support
racist scum cockroaches ron paul doesn't want or need your support racism don black stormfront david duke
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/350/index.html

Ron Paul on Gay Marriage at 2'20" mark

 

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John Stossel Interviews Republican on Personal Freedom, Drugs, Prostitution and Gay Marriage. 2007.12.07
original location: http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=3970423&page=1

Hit Piece Bruises Ron Paul

Maria Hussain
January 10, 2008
MariaHussain.wordpress.com

Martin Peretz, publisher and co-owner (along with CanWest) of The New Republic and contributor to the Hillary campaign, really hurt Paul yesterday. It was a typical Peretz thing to do - smear someone as a "homophobe" and "racist" the day of the election. The New Republic's Jamie Kirchick ludicrously claimed that Ron Paul personally called Martin Luther King a "gay pedophile" and made other outlandish claims he later retracted as mere gossip.

A very similar thing happened in Somerville on the eve of the vote about whether or not city funds should be invested in Israel or locally - in order to make it sound more "controversial" than the issue really was, all the Neocon pundits went crazy in making up stories that I am a supporter of the local investment movement and that I'm a homophobic terrorist supporter that hangs out with David Duke. This sort of smear is a common tactic. It makes you seem really "scary" to liberals,  on whose vote we were counting.

If the American people can't get beyond the "homophobic" smear in order to save their country, America probably deserves to be crushed like a bug quite frankly. People act exactly like insects. Running around doing what "they" expect, never thinking.

We have to be prepared in advance. I mentioned a couple weeks ago the Zionist press is going to do this. Dr. Paul needed a pre-emptive attack - a statement on how his program is best for Blacks and Gays. As we all know, there is no difference between Huckabee and Hillary when it comes to AIPAC issues. This game is a distraction. But there is a comeback.

Is Dr. Paul a racist? No, Dr. Paul WILL SET YOU FREE. We need to emphasize his prison release program and of make sure people realize that Hillary and Obama are NOT going to end war, they want new wars. Ron Paul is the Black Man's Best Friend. He is going to bring your sons home from the war and release all non-violent drug offenders from prison his first day in office, he said. Ron Paul has more Black supporters than any other Republican candidate and more active US military personnel supporters than any other candidate.

The issue is not which candidate will win or lose. The real issue is are we going to lose our country? Americans are such sheep. If we don't somehow teach our friends to mistrust the media and double check everything, that's it for USA. The sad part is that Dr. Paul was polling at 17% but then a lot of those people went to vote Democratic because they were embarrassed by the homophobic racist smear that was circulated on the Internet. It is true that there was reportedly voter fraud. The hand count of the votes puts Dr. Paul at 15% not 8% as the news media erroneously reported. But that still means he lost 2% of the expected vote and all of the fence-sitters who could have put him above 20% just because of this typical Jewish smear tactic that was coordinated and planned to not give Ron Paul time to answer the accusations before the election.

Dr. Paul will not be counted as a winner unless he wins by an overwhelming landslide. Even then, the Neocons might send in the National Guard to prevent him from taking office, except the Guard is in Iraq. (How convenient.) What happens next? No country in the world knows what the next step is, how to get free. The question is, how much longer will Americans fall for these tricks?

RON PAUL'S RESPONSE

Ron Paul has already responded to these ridiculous accusations and slammed them as political haymaking to coincide with the New Hampshire primary.

"The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever believed. I have never uttered such words and denounce such small-minded thoughts.

In fact, I have always agreed with Martin Luther King, Jr. that we should only be concerned with the content of a person's character, not the color of their skin. As I stated on the floor of the U.S. House on April 20, 1999: `I rise in great respect for the courage and high ideals of Rosa Parks who stood steadfastly for the rights of individuals against unjust laws and oppressive governmental policies.'

This story is old news and has been rehashed for over a decade. It's once again being resurrected for obvious political reasons on the day of the New Hampshire primary.

When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit. Several writers contributed to the product. For over a decade, I have publicly taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name."

[We invite readers to share their views on Mr. Kirchick's article by e mailing him at james.kirchick@gmail.com.]

Dr. Paul has an honest opinion. The Neo-liberals have think tanks working night and day doing marketing analysis and using psychology to turn the public away from Dr. Paul. There are Israeli/Neocon spies that keep tabs on every political activist in Boston and do write-ups about them in Jerusalem, and meet with the local & Israeli government about how to neutralize them. In Palestine they just use gun with laser-targeting if someone starts telling the truth. In America they character assassinate more often. Like we have any importance whatsoever. They flew the mayor of Somerville to talk with President Moshe Katzav about how to silence eleven Boston responsible investment activists.

Basically how the Lobby won it (and it was a close race, 45 to 55%) was they made a bunch of slick posters with Deval Patrick's face on it, AND they released a number of news reports and commentaries that totally twisted the positions and arguments of both sides, so that the average voter would be confused about what they were voting for or against. They also used a lot of psychological pressure labeling people as "racists" "anti-Semites" etc. so that the people who would normally support the ballot initiative got scared away.

These people are very serious about not wanting Dr. Paul's voice to be heard and they don't want him to win. But they always use the same tactics.

If they don't succeed in turning Dr. Paul's name into mud, they will turn on the organizers of the movement. It's going to go on and on and we have to strategize. Is there a strategic planning wing of the People for Paul movement?

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The staged legacy of Rachel Corrie.
Girlish Figure
by James Kirchick

Only at TNR Online | Post date 11.22.06

Of all the subjects for a 90-minute, one-woman show, Rachel Corrie ought to have been at the bottom of the list. Corrie was the 23-year-old Evergreen State College student crushed in March 2003 by an Israeli bulldozer that was either set to raze a Palestinian home or clear brush that could conceal explosives, depending on whom you believe. She trekked all the way from Olympia, Washington, to the Gaza Strip with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM)--which, despite claiming the mantle of a "peace" movement, has nonetheless abetted Palestinian suicide bombers. And now, New York's Minetta Lane Theater is telling her story in "My Name is Rachel Corrie," which brought the largest advance for any show ever performed there. It is based on Corrie's e-mails and diary entries, and it paints her as a saint who died for a worthy cause by eliding all of the intricacies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In locales from Corrie's dorm room to the streets of the Rafah refugee camp, "My Name is Rachel Corrie" takes us into the mind of its namesake. But there is hardly any mention of the Palestinian people she was so committed to. Corrie looks either like one of the upper-middle- class kids who take Latin American latrine-digging vacations to buff up their college resumes, or one of the "political pilgrims"--to use Paul Hollander's phrase--of the cold war (Paul Robeson, Ramsey Clark, Susan Sontag) who ventured to totalitarian lands and returned to boast of slumming it with the liberated natives. The selection of Corrie's writings on display never adequately explains why she would so determinedly seek out a dangerous place she knew little about, other than that she had a deep antipathy toward "injustice." A telling indicator not in the play was a photo circulated after her death; in it (and in her diary), Corrie flaunts her hatred of the United States by burning a mock American flag while Palestinian children crowd around her.

If the Palestinians in this play are props, the Israelis are sound effects. As this is a one-woman show, we obviously do not see either the Palestinians or the Israelis, but we sense the latter more than the former. We hear machine guns, helicopter blades, and tanks (though never the sounds of suicide bombs). If you watched "My Name is Rachel Corrie" knowing little about this decades-long crisis, you would leave thinking that Israelis are sadistic monsters who kill Palestinians at random, destroy olive groves, and harass women and children for the sheer thrill of it. The few mentions of terrorism or suicide bombing are vague, and only in reference to "the right of people to legitimate armed struggle." Never is it suggested that these acts take place against civilian targets, not soldiers (though, in her diary, Corrie excuses that, too).

In prostrating herself before an Israeli bulldozer, Corrie actually became that which she was (unwittingly, perhaps) protecting: the Palestinian suicide martyr. She received the martyr treatment--in both Palestinian propaganda and far-left protest circles--becoming a pieta of the anti-Israel movement. Or, as her ex-boyfriend put it, "she has become her death."

The actress Megan Dodds, who plays Corrie, does so accurately. She alternates between two personas in the play: on the one hand, an exuberant girl we see at the beginning (jumping about her messy room, perkily talking about boys) and, on the other, a self-righteous college activist espousing platitudes about the state of the world and the evils of U.S. foreign policy. Dodds, to her credit, is an honest performer: She does not bend to the (no doubt difficult) temptation to make Corrie less grating or sanctimonious than her diaries make her seem.

For a one-person show to sustain itself, its subject must either be humorous (think Elaine Stritch), possess some sort of intellectual severity (Spalding Gray), or both (Hal Holbrooke as Mark Twain). Rachel Corrie did not have any of these. Corrie's bouts of moral indignation overshadow a few moments of humor, which are nothing more than girlish flightiness anyway. She was a simpleton when it came to world politics,
and yet the play sanctifies her as some sort of sage witness to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In part, due to the epistolary basis of "My Name is Rachel Corrie," comparisons have been made to "The Diary of Anne Frank." This is partly true. The villains in both plays are heard from but, for the most part, not seen; they are nevertheless omnipresent and threatening. But the comparison ends there: With Corrie, the bad guys are Israelis; with Frank, they are Nazis--hardly equal purveyors of horror. And Anne Frank was a probing character whose blameless observations of fascist Europe demonstrated the cruelty of a period in which children were perfunctorily murdered. Rachel Corrie was a know-it-all who deliberately placed herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. What's more, there is an issue of moral culpability among antagonists. Obviously, Frank's murderers had it. But Corrie died, accidentally, after giving intellectual (and actual) cover to those who are, essentially, the heirs of Frank's killers.

Bereft of gravity, a sympathetic character, or a compelling story, "My Name is Rachel Corrie" ignominiously turns to emotional blackmail. The image on the playbill is of a pre-pubescent Corrie smiling with wispy blond hair blowing across her face. Much of what the editors selected from Corrie's diaries reflect upon her childhood innocence. (Those editors are the venerable British actor Alan Rickman and, less shockingly, Katharine Viner, a writer and editor for The Guardian.) The last segment in the play is a video, taken when Corrie was in the fifth grade, decrying the state of world poverty and declaring her intent to personally "save" the poor. "I'm here because I care," she says in the video, and no doubt she was in Gaza because she cared. (What exactly she cared about is something the play, and Corrie herself, obfuscates.) But this adorable video is meant to convert your sympathy for Corrie into sympathy for her cause. How dare we ridicule such an precocious and idealistic young girl who now lies dead because of her devotion to world peace? What right do any of us have to question the cause for which Corrie gave her life? This is Cindy Sheehan politics.

But what the video unwittingly reveals is that Corrie never outgrew the naive little schoolgirl. Corrie at 23 was just like Corrie at ten. And that is what's so tragic and so telling about those who wish to change the world without really trying to understand it.

James Kirchick is a writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

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Ron Paul Supporters Attack Islamophobe

(Of course, they didn't know it)

 

The confrontation with Sean Hannity follows the FOX exclusion of Ron Paul from the FOX Republican Forum. (See Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine?.)

 

All things being equal, Murdoch and his media corporations (FOX, the Wall Street Journal) should be Paul's most avid advocates because of Paul's support of free market principles and responsible government finance, but Paul rejects Bush-Neocon-Jewish-extremist* warmongering and has not sworn fealty to Israel like the other presidential candidates. Even worse, Paul acknowledges no obligation for Americans to pay for Israel.

 

Murdoch Media (MM) has already shown a pattern of distortion in the coverage of Paul.

 

From online WSJ Obama, Huckabee Win Iowa:

 

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The hard-copy version of this graph stopped at row four for both Democrats and Republicans. Obviously exclusion of candidates with single digit results was not the goal. If space were the issue, the Democratic side could have shown three bars, and the Republican side could have shown five bars. (The hard-copy version consisted of a Democratic bar-graph over a Republican bar-graph.)

 

Below are the two Sean Hannity videos. In the second, the Hannity segment starts at about 2:10. Even though Hannity's Islamophobia is usually much more over the top, I failed find a more typical video example of Hannity vicious anti-Muslim and anti-Arab racist hatred and incitement. The video descriptions come from the google-video host locations.

 

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David Horowitz and his army of Campus Republicans are launching "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" October 22-26 on hundreds of campuses across the country. They are ominously calling this "the biggest conservative campus protest ever." Invoking '60's themes like "free speech" and combating the "oppression of women in Islam" as a cover, they plan to harass Muslim Student Associations and Women's Studies Departments, and silence anyone that questions the Bush regime's official narrative, including even those concerned about global warming!

Given the Bush regime's escalating threats toward Iran, the danger of a complicit campus environment cannot be underestimated. The College Republicans can claim to be the victim of the "academic left," but people like them run this country and dominate the world. They are the ones holding "catch an illegal immigrant day" at the same time as the Bush regime's ICE raids are ripping apart immigrant families. This is not just a question of campus politics and a few loud mouth bigots. If we ignore them, they will NOT go away. They have their sights set on the last remaining bastions of critical thinking with the aim of transforming all of society. If they can create an atmosphere at these colleges where it is okay to be openly racist and reactionary, where progressive faculty are intimidated by ridiculous claims of "left-wing academic dictatorship," and radical dissenting ideas are ruled beyond the pale and off the table...then they have won, not only at the universities, but in their efforts to remake the social fabric of this country in a fascist way.

On the other hand, if we can politically confront these college Republicans and their "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week," expose their real agenda, raise awareness of the growing danger of U.S. fascism and the real fascist direction that the Bush regime has been taking this country in—the endless war, the torture, the Patriot Act, the unlimited domestic spying, and the whole police state infrastructure, the Christian Fundamentalism that is undermining women's rights, gay peoples rights, science, and rational thought—and if we can bring forward a radical student movement that refuses to choose between Islamic Fundamentalism and the Bush Regime's Christian Fascist war on the world...then we can turn Horowitz's plan upside down.

This week will either strengthen their side or strengthen OUR side.

By bringing forward a determined and uncompromising student movement on campuses October 22-26th we can paralyze Horowitz' ability to further target and blacklist professors and be a major part of transforming campuses into centers of intellectual ferment, activism, and organized resistance that are so desperately needed at times like these.
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* Murdoch is Jewish on his mother's side and counts as a major stealth player in the Israel Lobby. He has been willing to run newspapers at a loss in order to provide soap boxes and to give jobs to pro-Israel columnists and pundits.

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Education et travail

French Translation of

The Best Arab Photograph of 2007

Education et travail (une photo primée du photographe de presse syrien Wasim Kheir Beik)

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Education et travail (photo : Wasim Kheir Beik)

Prix de la meilleure photo de presse arabe 2007, attribué par l'Union des Agences Arabes à l'agence de presse syrienne SANA.

Le photographe a dû un peu ruser pour obtenir cette photo d'une petite fille de sept ans en train de faire ses devoirs tout en vendant des confiseries sur un trottoir de Damas.

Ce n'est qu'après plusieurs tentatives que le jeune photographe de presse syrien Wasim Kheir Beik (27 ans) a pu prendre cette photo, car la petite fille refusait de se laisser photographier ; elle se couvrait le visage de ses mains à chaque fois qu'il essayait de le faire.

Wasim a expliqué qu'il avait pu finalement photographier cette petite fille grâce à un zoom, depuis une distance de trente mètres. C'est par hasard qu'il l'avait découverte ainsi, à son emplacement habituel pour gagner quelques menues piécettes tout en travaillant…

Interrogé sur le message qu'il entendait faire passer grâce à cette photo, Kheir Beik a déclaré : « Je veux démontrer qu'un être humain peut vaincre la pauvreté grâce à la volonté et au travail. »

(traduit de l'arabe en anglais par Adib S. Kawar, revu par Joachim Martillo, puis traduit de l'anglais par M. Charbonnier)

 

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Beware of Jews Flinging Slurs

Letter to the Editor of the Detroit News (letters@detnews.com)
by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

To the Editor:

 

Laura Bermen writes in "Paul eyes the cranky Mich. vote," Detroit News, January 3, 2003.

Paul, an obstetrician-turned-lawmaker, hates taxes, sloppy immigration policies, abortion, and the loss of the gold currency standard. His campaign rhetoric goes heavy on "freedom." He exudes a twangy "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" authenticity that college students, libertarians, Ayn Randians, and the usual suspect fringe of survivalists and neo-Nazis find appealing.

Before I learned about the media update sessions that the organized Jewish community provides to reporters to explain how they should cover the news, I used to think that Berman's sort of snide, insinuating and misleading comment was just ignorance.

Why did Berman not mention as a way of defining a baseline of comparison that we do not have to look at the "fringe" supporters of Giuliani to find reasons for concern about the Giuliani campaign. Giuliani's chief advisors are far scarier than anyone supporting Ron Paul. For example, Podhoretz uses the Goebbelsian big lie technique to promote an attack on Iran that will plunge the USA in at least 100 more years of pointless war for the sake of the State of Israel. (See The Case for Bombing Iran in the June 2007 issue of Commentary.)

Why did Berman not tell Detroit News readers what Nazism is before accusing some subgroup of Paul supporters of being Nazis?

Nazism is a form of politicized ethnic fundamentalism that combines racism, extremist organic nationalism, biological determinism, eugenics, theories of national decline through race-mixing, concepts of national revival through racial purity, social Darwinism, essentialism, and primordialism. It was particularly prevalent in Central and Eastern Europe during the WW1-WW2 inter bellum period until the end of WW2. Nazism made a brief come-back in a revival of Greater Serbianism in post-Soviet Yugoslavia. 

Nazi and fascist ideologies differ. Fascism is an extremist organic nationalist revision of Marxist socialism. According to fascist theory, national revival provides the means to transcend the class conflict. Nazism and fascism can coexist. The Strasser faction of German Nazism was inclined to fascism while some forms of fascism that incorporate racist ideas often developed Nazi tendencies.

Today, Nazi ideology remains a vital, dominant and dangerous ideology only in the State of Israel. In stolen Palestine (pre-1967 Israel) and occupied Palestine, the Zionist invader population has for the last 60 years pursued a program of genociding the native population right before the eyes of the world with 80% support levels (according to American Jewish Committee statistics) among ethnic Ashkenazi Americans.

Berman fails to report such essential information while she uses guilt by alleged and tenuous association to delegitimize the candidacy of Ron Paul, who questions any US obligation to pay trillions of dollars as foreign aid to maintain the State of Israel. Because Berman is propagandizing instead of reporting, the Detroit News should fire Berman summarily and replace her with someone, who does not consciously or reflexively twist news reports for the sake of an ethnic agenda.

Sincerely yours,

Joachim Martillo
ThorsProvoni@aol.com

CC: Laura Berman (1-248- 647-7221 or lberman@detnews.com)

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Thursday, January 3, 2008

Laura Berman:

Paul eyes the cranky Mich. vote

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Even if the New York Pekingese meet-up currently lists more online members than the Metro Detroiters for Ron Paul group, the Republican from Texas is investing in Michigan.

And because Michigan investors -- whether political or corporate -- are scarce of late, Paul's recent moves in Michigan are worth looking at.

Last weekend, his campaign opened a Detroit office on Telegraph Road, an event an official campaign press release indicated drew more than 200 people but an observer said attracted less than 50. Paul -- who has both ideas and principles, few of them mainstream or tepid -- sees possibilities in Michigan's cranky voter base, ready to be mobilized for the Jan. 15 primary. As it happens, just the thought of that primary is enough to make any but the most hard-core partisan cranky.

Paul's stock is rising

Given a Democratic primary that's been engineered to produce a Hillary Clinton victory and a Republican primary that's open to disaffected Democrats and independents, Paul is no longer the complete and utter longshot he appeared back in November, when only 2 percent of likely primary-voting Republicans named him as their pick.

Now, he's up to 4 percent, according to an EPIC/MRA poll, and polling 16 percent in Macomb County, where cranky (otherwise known as "independent"), party-crossing voting is a tradition.

Paul, an obstetrician-turned-lawmaker, hates taxes, sloppy immigration policies, abortion, and the loss of the gold currency standard. His campaign rhetoric goes heavy on "freedom." He exudes a twangy "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" authenticity that college students, libertarians, Ayn Randians, and the usual suspect fringe of survivalists and neo-Nazis find appealing.

Cash surge boosts bid

His promises to seal the nation's borders, end the IRS and the Department of Education and to bring home the troops from Iraq within a few months of his election comprise an ambitious collage of ideas, one backed by an unexpected surge of cash: Paul's campaign received $25 million in donations in 2007, most of it in the final quarter.

"We're flesh and blood supporters," says Scotty Boman, a Detroit college instructor and teacher, who is backing Ron Paul. "We all want more freedom and less government control."

Like other Paul followers, Boman -- a Libertarian who recently joined the Republican Party to back Paul -- says the Texas congressman is the first Republican or Democrat he's wanted to vote for since 1980.

Paul's decision to open a Detroit office bespeaks a real interest in Michigan, if not a full-scale commitment.

As of Wednesday, his new Detroit office did not have a listed telephone number.

You can reach Laura Berman at (248) 647-7221 or lberman@detnews.com.

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Jewish History: Facts versus Delusions

Judging Jewish Historical Claims

by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

When I was taking Jewish studies courses at Harvard, a group of us undergraduates realized that there were four basic principles that we had to apply to evaluate the truth of Jewish historiography about Jewish communities.

1. Everything almost invariably takes place later than claimed. The best example is the collapse of second Temple Judaism into many separate currents. From these "Judaisms," Constantinian Christianity crystallizes first, then Islam, and the last is Medieval Judaism, which crystallizes in the tenth century CE and later develops into Modern Judaism. In other words modern Judaism is the younger sister of Christianity and Islam.

2. From the sixteenth century onward important historical events almost invariably take place first in Poland at least from the standpoint of Judaism but often in general.

For example, Commonwealth Poland started its evolution into the first modern failed state in the seventeenth century even if the consequences of the Chmielnicki Rebellion of 1648 did not become fully clear until the eighteenth century.

A more recent example is the Auschwitz convent controversy, which proved to be the model for all later attempts of the organized American Jewish community to control discourse about the Holocaust and genocide. The nasty effort of Holocaust bigots to prevent the construction of a convent at Auschwitz to memorialize martyred Poles resulted in a predictable immense increase in Judeophobic feeling among ethnic Poles as well as in the transformation of Radio Maria into an important Jew-hostile phenomenon of Polish Catholicism.

Needless to say, the organized Jewish community has tried to use the Polish reaction to American Jewish arrogance, bigotry and prejudice as proof that anti-Semitism is an integral component of Polish identity and the gentile psyche in general. Similar subsequent behavior of the organized American Jewish community throughout Europe and the USA has almost invariably led to an increase in hostility to Jews wherever the organized Jewish community has cracked the whip on non-Jewish communities.

3. "Many the lie that Jews live by." Now that we have more information from Eastern Europe and Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and we better understand the role of ethnic Ashkenazim in overthrowing Czarist Russia, consolidating the Soviet Union, Soviet ethnic cleansing, Soviet mass murder and Soviet genocide, Jewish powerlessness must be considered a myth in Central and Eastern Europe. In point of fact, greater education and more liquid assets made it possible for Eastern European ethnic Ashkenazim to do a lot of damage to many countries.

4. Jewish perception of the amount of historical Jewish suffering doubles roughly every century. Careful analysis of the data indicates that approximately 10,000 Jews died as collateral damage during the Chmielnicki rebellion. By the end of the seventeenth century, the number was 20,000. By the end of the eighteenth century, the number was 40,000. By the end of the nineteenth century the number was 80,000. And by the end of the twentieth century, the number was 160,000. Nowadays Poles and Ukrainians are often described as combining forces to attack Jews.

Generalizations like the above are always subject to criticism and need to be applied judiciously unlike the common practice ethnic Ashkenazi Americans to generalize shamelessly about goyim (non-Jews), about Germans, about Russians, about Poles, about Arabs, and about Muslims. At least, I generally try to consult primary Jewish and non-Jewish sources, and when I extrapolate from sociological and demographic studies, I try to apply sound mathematical and scientific principles.

So far my research indicates that ethnic Ashkenazi Americans are the major fabricators and purveyors of Islamophobic propaganda (cast in the mold of classic anti-Semitism). Jewish-owned major media corporations and Zionist facilitators in their employ are working hard to spread anti-Islamic incitement throughout the world.

I discuss aspects of this issue in my article "The significance of the AJC attack on 'progressive' Jews." This essay can be read at: http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/07/updating-ajc-attacks.html.

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James Piscatori Islamophobia Normalizer -- Re: Mike Huckabee, Christian Zionist

 

Thanks for the information. You can be certain I will not vote for Huckabee. It is scary.

Below is the announcement of my university about a speech. Do you know the person? Are his views objective?

Dr. James Piscatori: "Iraq in the Future of Political Islam"

I have not read any of his books, and I would have thought that as a researcher at Oxford he would have been not have been influenced by the ongoing Islamophobic incitement to which we are subjected in the USA.

 

Yet, he gave an interview found at The World Today - Expert says Muslim extremism increasing, and it contains the following segment:

NICK MCKENZIE: How is it that these Australian-born Muslims, very small, marginal group, are drawing so heavily on the inspiration, or so heavily from what's going on in Israel and Iraq and other places?

JAMES PISCATORI: In part it's because of the media, which make it easily able to… for people to follow what is going on around the world.

So in a sense, they're given the opportunity to know what is going on.

The knowledge base is quite… much higher than it of course was some time ago.

But you have to add something, the much more intangible part of this is why do Muslims care about the plight of other Muslims around the world? What is it about the solidarity of the faith?

And here, there isn't anything that one can say that is predictable or concrete, except that the sense of belonging to a larger community is ingrained, and this would occur in the minority situation, perhaps even more so because of a feeling that the larger society isn't welcoming in some ways.

Why do Christians care about Christians around the world? Why do Jews care about Jews around the world?

 

Why did young white men in Maine care so much about Southern slavery that they signed up to fight in the US civil war?

 

Piscatori is trying to depict a fairly normal human behavior as somehow unique, sinister, and dangerous in Muslims as part of the subtle normalization of Islamophobia.

 

He continues further.

NICK MCKENZIE: Given the threat of terrorism, do we then need to take the position that the civil liberty argument needs to be scaled back somewhat and for instance, radical preachers, radical sheikhs in Australia need really to be curtailed?

JAMES PISCATORI: I think it is within the permit of… the purview of a liberal society to in effect put some restrictions, for example, imams ought to be… their English ought to be certified, the trainings of imams could perhaps be looked at in co-operation with existing Muslim organisations and communities.

Why not look at the teachings of Christian preachers or Jewish Rabbis?

 

There is a lot of material in Hebrew and Christian scripture that can be twisted to justify hate, slaughter and aggression.

 

Bush wears his Christianity on his sleeve as he incinerates Arab and Muslim countries while Jews have sliced and diced Jewish scripture to justify plundering, expelling and murdering the native population of Palestine.

 

Given the influence and wealth of the Jewish communities in both Australia and the USA, should we not perhaps be asking ourselves whether Jewish racism, extremism and fanaticism is not the greatest threat to the human race today?

 

I took a quick look at Piscatori's publications and found Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Jewish Fundamentalism in Comparative Perspective, by Laurence J. Silberstein, Hardcover

Synopsis

In recent decades, religious fundamentalism has played an increasingly significant role in Western and Middle Eastern politics and culture. In this volume, an international group of scholars from fields such as religious studies, sociology, political science, history, and anthropology explore diverse dimensions of religious fundamentalism and relate it to a range of cultural and political issues. Although the focus is on fundamentalism in its Jewish guise, the methodological and comparative emphases make it valuable to specialists in a variety of fields. Among the issues examined are: the characteristics that link fundamentalist movements within various religious traditions; the study of fundamentalist motifs as they appear specifically in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (and whether or not this is a useful approach); the relationship between religion and modernity; the impact of fundamentalism on the Arab-Israeli conflict; and the interaction of modern Jewish fundamentalist movements with traditional Judaism. The book also provides important insights into the emergence of religious fundamentalism as a powerful social and political force in Jewish life, particularly in Israel. Contributing to the volume are: Gerald Cromer (Bar-Ilan Univ.), Menachem Friedman (Bar-Ilan Univ.), Susan Harding (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz), James Davison Hunter (Univ. of Virginia), Aaron Kirschenbaum (Tel Aviv University), Hava Larazus-Yafeh (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem), Ian Lustick (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Alan Mittleman (Muhlenberg College), James Piscatori (Univ. College of Wales), Elie Rekhess (Tel Aviv Univ.), Laurence J. Silberstein (Lehigh Univ.), and Ehud Sprinzak (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem).

Practically all the authors are Jewish. The synopsis indicates that the article selection conforms to Jewish/Zionist prejudice by excluding discussion of ethnic fundamentalism even though Zionism is obviously an example of the class of Central and Eastern European ethnic fundamentalist ideologies to which German Nazism and Greater Serbianism belong.

I have to suspect the name Piscatori is probably a translation of name Fisher and that James Piscatori is just another Jewish academic producing biased scholarship in the service of Zionism or ethnic Ashkenazi tribalism of the sort that German Jewish and ethnic Ashkenazi scholars have been producing since the founding of movement for the Wissenschaft des Judentums in the early nineteenth century.

James Piscatori holds the Chair in Arab & Islamic Studies at the Australian National University. Most recently he was a Fellow of Wadham College and of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. and member of the Faculties of Social Studies and Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. He has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Wales, the Australian National University and at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the John Hopkins University. He was Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, in London, and a Senior Fellow of the Council of Foreign Relations. Professor Piscatori is the author of Islam in a World of Nation-States (Cambridge University Press, 1986) and co-author (with Dale F. Eickelman) of Muslim Politics (Princeton University Press, 1996). He is the editor of Islam in the Political Process (Cambridge University Press, 1983) and co-editor of Muslim Travellers: Pilgrimage, Migration, and the Religious Imagination (Routledge/University of California Press, 1992). As Islam team director of the Fundamentalism Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he edited Islamic Fundamentalisms and the Gulf Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 1991). He is co-editor (with Susanne Hoeber Rudolph) of Transnational Religion and Fading States (Westview Press, 1997). His Islam, Islamists, and the Electoral Principle appeared as the first in a series of papers for the International Institute for the Study of the Modern Muslim World (ISIM) in Leiden in December 2000.

Date(s):	Wednesday, January 16, 2008
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