UN Watch has another report on the upcoming UN anti-Israel and Democracy Conference The World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. It seems that not only is Durban II going after Israel, but it’s really going to try to codify anti-Islamic blasphemy.

UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer, a modern-day Don Quixote who bangs his head against the windmill called United Nations, spoke against the declaration.

The declaration makes only one reference to a country situation, “reiterat[ing] its concern about the plight of the Palestinian people under foreign occupations.” Neuer asked, “Why is a non-African situation mentioned in a declaration about Africa, one that references neither Sudan’s racist killings, nor any other country in Africa?”

“The special reference to the Palestinian issue implies that Israel is practicing racism. This reverts to the discredited rhetoric of the UN’s 1975 “Zionism is Racism” resolution, sponsored by the Soviet and Arab blocs, which was repealed by the United Nations in 1991, and which has since been repudiated by its highest officials,” said Neuer.

But the UN representatives were unimpressed.

“It is only one paragraph that mentions the Palestinians, so the interest of Israel was never badly damaged,” Ibrahim Wani, from the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, told Reuters, after the 3-day talks in Abuja.

Durban II is part of a strategy developed long ago by Israel’s enemies to dehumanize her in every forum available.

[...] the “Durban strategy” — a two-pronged tactic launched at the ‘01 conference to paint Israel as a “racist, apartheid” state and isolate the Jewish nation through boycotts, divestment and sanctions.

The Ford Foundation is still funding the Jew-haters. Henry Ford would be proud.

The Ford slice of funds to anti-Israel nongovernmental organizations may pale compared to that provided by Europe and its myriad governmental agencies. But the Ford funding enables the groups to wage low-key, diplomatic and economic warfare against Israel, dragging the Palestinian conflict from the battlefield into international forums, media, the Internet and college campuses.

[...] Despite the revised guidelines, Ford appears unable — or unwilling — to prevent some of its grantees from lending support to the movement that was launched in Durban.

The new JTA investigation, which examined a large cross-section of Ford grantees that speak out on the Middle East conflict, finds that several signed a major 2005 boycott and divestment petition against “Apartheid Israel.”

Signatories agreed they were “inspired by the struggle of South Africans against apartheid, and in the spirit of international solidarity, moral consistency and resistance to injustice and oppression.”

There is an organized, well-funded movement to discredit and dehumanize Israel in every aspect. The world media ignore the daily attacks on Israel by the terrorists on her borders and within, while holding up every injured Palestinian as an example of Israeli cruelty or negligence—unless those Palestinians are harmed by their fellow Palestinians or Arabs. Egypt is murdering Sudanese refugees for the crime of trying to enter Israel, and the world media barely touches upon it—or on the cruelty and lack of compassion by Egypt for the refugees within its borders that forces these people to risk their lives to enter Israel.

The only true democracy in the Middle East is demonized and hated. Europeans use the Palestinians as an excuse to rid themselves of the guilt of nearly destroying European Jewry—as poll after poll shows how much Jews are still hated in the countries that the pro-Palestinian left say that Israelis should “go back to” (utterly ignoring the 50% of all Israelis who are descended from the Jews of Arab countries who were forced out after 1948).

As always, Jews are the canary in the coal mine. Because the second great aim of Durban is to strangle democracy’s most precious posession: Free speech.

The new text calls upon states to avoid “inflexibly clinging to free speech in defiance of the sensitivities existing in a society and with absolute disregard for religious feelings.” Other provisions in the text on “incitement to religious hatred,” said Neuer, “mirror efforts by Islamic states at the UN Human Rights Council to insinuate Islamic anti-blasphemy prohibitions into international law. Yet UN expert on religious freedom Asma Jahangir and other international human rights experts have expressly opposed ‘defamation of religion’ resolutions, which seek to alter international human rights law by defining religions — instead of individuals — as the bearers of rights.”

The declaration’s attack on free speech contravenes the Article 19 guarantee of freedom of expression of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Durban II: Bigger. Badder. Bolder. And full of bull.

Elie Wiesel’s attacker will be released from jail soon. I don’t have a problem with it. As I said when these facts first came to light, I really do think this is a case of a young man badly in need of chemicals to balance an unbalanced mind.

A man convicted of accosting Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel in a San Francisco hotel will be released from jail after a judge sentenced him to two years Monday, but gave him credit for time served and good behavior.

[...] During the sentencing, Hunt stood in his orange state-issued uniform to read a letter of apology to Wiesel, who was not at the hearing. In it, Hunt asked for forgiveness from the Nobel Peace Prize winner, saying he had been “sucked into anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on the Internet” but that he does not deny the Holocaust.

“I’m tremendously sorry my mental problems infringed on your life,” Hunt read. “I hope you can live a life free of being scared of strangers.”

Those are not the words of a hard-core Jew-hater. And as I said months ago, Hunt is at the age when young men first show signs of bipolar disorder. I’m thinking the lithium is helping. I hope he can pull his life together. And I hope he stays away from the creeps who influenced him in the first place.

Oh, look. A modern-day kapo.

Some of Hecht-Galinski’s critics say she is misusing her deceased father’s stature as an esteemed public figure to mount an anti-Israel campaign. She has invoked the phrase “as the daughter of Heinz Galinski” to defend her criticisms of Israel.

In a Deutschlandradio interview last year, she defended the remarks of German Catholic Bishops Gregor Maria Hanke and Walter Mixa, who, while visiting Israel in March 2007, equated Israel with Nazi Germany.

“This morning we saw pictures of the Warsaw Ghetto at Yad Vashem and this evening we are going to the Ramallah ghetto,” Hanke said. For Mixa, Ramallah was “ghetto-like” and “almost racism.”

The Yourish.com mantra works for people like her, too.

Hugh Chavez met with Jewish leaders last week and insisted that he’s not an anti-Semite. No, he just likes sending his goons into Jewish gatherings.

“We mentioned our concerns about anti-Semitism and asked him what his position was,” Schneider said. “And he said he was certainly not an anti-Semite.”

The socialist president said it was a “very important meeting,” but did not elaborate.

Funny. You’d think a man who was truly interested in setting to rest charges of anti-Semitism would say more than that. Because when he does things like this:

Venezuela’s Jewish groups condemned a police raid on their community center last December, saying authorities were searching for nonexistent weapons. They also have denounced graffiti on synagogue walls with slogans such as “Here are the assassins of Palestine” and “Jews go home.”

it sure looks like he has a problem with Jews—not just “Zionists.”

Yet another incident proves the French have their own little cachet when it comes to anti-Semitism.

French police are investigating the sale of T-shirts bearing an anti-Semitic slogan and have detained the owner of a Paris shop that sold the clothing.

[...] The official is not authorized to speak publicly and asked to remain anonymous, but corroborated a report that the T-shirts bear the words, in German and in Polish: “Entry to the park forbidden to Jews.”

They can’t even think up anything new. They’re recycling old German slogans. Schmucks.

And last but not least, one of the comments that I generally delete without even looking:

If there were real peace the US would not need to give Egypt any military aid or money. Use your f***ing head you stupid f***ing Jew. YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS. F***ing fake white ass c****. Go back to where you come from. Go back to europe you f***ing c***. F*** you and your families. Shalom to you yiddish piss f***s.

That’s from an anti-Semitic f**k in Brighton, England using the IP address 90.198.98.84. (They use the c-word in England like it’s “jerk” or something.) And may I say, do the world a favor and just die already, you ignorant, anti-Semitic twat. (They use that word a lot over there as well.)

It really makes you wonder: How small are anti-Semites’ penises to make them so very angry like that? I mean, their inferiority of intellect is obvious in the fact that almost none of them can make a coherent email. But there must be something else driving them. Besides their inherent stupidity, that is. Because this moron doesn’t even know that I’m living in America, not Israel, and, well, America is the country where the smart Europeans come to get away from the stupid Eureopeans like this one.

I think that one hurt its brain after reading my site.

An Iranian minister made the mistake of declaring that he didn’t hate Israel.

He’s about to lose his job because of it.

More than 200 Iranian parliament members slammed Vice President Esfandiar Rahim Mashai for stating that Iranians are ‘friends of all people in the world — even Israelis.’

In a condemnation statement issued by the parliament members, they called on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to “deal with his deputy with severity” – in other words, to ensure that he is dismissed.

“Mr. Mashai has no right to make such shameful remarks, and is not at the position to take such responsibility,” the statement said. “It appears that Mr. Mashai is unaware of the fact that those who he refers to as a people are the ones occupying the homes of millions of Palestinians.”

The statement noted that “these people created the illegitimate Zionist regime. We do not recognize a country called Israel, let alone its people.”

Remember that the next time Ahmadinejad lies to a reporter and says he has no problem with Jews—that it’s only “Zionists.” And the realize that when he says “Zionists,” he doesn’t mean Israelis. He means Jews. And so do his people.

[...] “We do not recognize a country called Israel, and so we cannot recognize a nation called Israel,” the lawmakers said in their statement, according to Fars, the semiofficial Iranian news agency.

“If Mr. Mashai does not have the political awareness that the Israeli people are the same people who have occupied the homes of millions of innocent and oppressed Palestinians and have created the army of the Zionist regime, he has no right to hold such a position,” the statement added.

Funny, I can’t find an AP article on this. Only one on the statement of friendship three days ago.

Iranian media are quoting the country’s vice president as saying Iranians are “friends of all people in the world — even Israelis.”

It is a rare instance of official Iranian media carrying an expression of sympathy toward Israelis from such a high-level official.

Yes, that rare instance is now going to be the reason the man is fired. God forbid an Iranian minister not be an anti-Semitic nutjob. And let us not mistake the Iranian anti-Semitism. Its client terrorist group targeted Jews and Jewish insititutions in Buenos Aires—not the Israeli embassy, or The Zionist Club Of Buenos Aires. The Iranians used to be the friends of the Jews, but Alexander is long dead and gone. Shame on his descendants.

Yes, he’s totally out of the closet. Now he’s accusing American Jews of being “Fifth columnists.” Gee, it’s like he’s not even trying to pretend he’s not an anti-Semite anymore. Because what’s the downside? When has anyone ever lost a job for making anti-Semitic remarks?

A Democratic House that came to power denouncing the rush to war on Iraq is about to vote to demand that Bush commit an act of war against Iran.

The front men for 362 are liberal Gary Ackerman of New York and conservative Mike Pence of Indiana. But the juice behind them is that of the Israeli lobby AIPAC, which is marching in step with Israel.

Last week, Mossad’s chief, Meir Dagan, was here to make the case for war on Iran. This week, Defense Minister Ehud Barak visits Dick Cheney and maybe Bush. Next week, it is the head of Israel’s armed forces.

Israel and its Fifth Column in this city seek to stampede us into war with Iran. Bush should rebuff them, and the American people should tell their congressmen: You vote for 362, we don’t vote for you.

Yeah, like it’s not in America’s interest to stop Iran from gaining hegemony over the Middle East. Or from getting nuclear weapons. Note how Buchanan disingenuously quotes the NIE report on Iran’s nuclear ambitions:

Though the ex-head of Mossad, Shabtai Shavit, says Iran may be one year away from a bomb — and will use it on Israel — according to the latest U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, Iran shut down its nuclear weapons program in 2003.

Everyone but Buchanan is backing away from that misstatement of what the NIE really said. It said that Iran could easily start the weapons program right back up. But it’s also true that you can create a nuclear weapon without working on a nuclear weapons program. The missiles are there, the technology to wed the bomb to the missile is there, and the technological know-how is there. And if it isn’t, well, there’s North Korea and the A.Q. Khan black market. Just ask Syria, Iran’s proxy, about how easy it is to build a nuke.

I think it’s time for the Yourish.com mantra: Anti-Semites of the world, just die already. And Pat—please, lead the queue.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck—it’s an effing duck. (H/T: Charles.)

On June 29th, MSNBC personality and three-time presidential candidate Pat Buchanan appeared on a neo-Nazi radio program to promote his new revisionist history of the Second World War, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World. James Edwards is the host of the program “Political Cesspool,” the stated mission of which is to “represent a philosophy that is pro-White.” Edwards and his colleauges seek “to revive the White birthrate above replacement level fertility and beyond to grow the percentage of Whites in the world relative to other races” and believe that “Secession is a right of all people and individuals. It was successful in 1776 and this show honors those who tried to make it successful in 1865.”

According to the researchers at the Anti-Defamation League, who listened to the show, Buchanan defended Charles Lindbergh, saying, “…his reputation has been blackened because of a single speech he gave and a couple of paragraphs in it where he said that … the Jewish community is beating the drums for war … but frankly, no one has said what he said was palpably untrue.”

Buchanan is in good company. Perusing the guest list of Political Cesspool, one sees Willis Carto, (perhaps the most prominent anti-Semite in America), Mark Weber (Director of the Institute for Historical Review, a Holocaust denial outfit) and Jared Taylor, the editor of American Renaissance, a eugenicist publication. A political cesspool indeed. Calling Buchanan a “brownshirt” a few weeks ago may have seemed a little impertinent at the time, but it’s entirely accurate.

A quick reference to the Wikipedia entry on Lindbergh gives you some idea about his thoughts on Jews. They’re not unlike Buchanan’s, I think.

Lindbergh’s reaction to Kristallnacht was entrusted to his diary: “I do not understand these riots on the part of the Germans,” he wrote. “It seems so contrary to their sense of order and intelligence. They have undoubtedly had a difficult ‘Jewish problem,’ but why is it necessary to handle it so unreasonably?”

In his diaries, he wrote: “We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence… Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur. It is too bad because a few Jews of the right type are, I believe, an asset to any country.”

So let’s take a look at what our newly uncloseted neo-Nazi has to say about the Jews, from his piece titled, “Who’s Planning Our Next War?”

Yet Israel is even today pushing Bush into a pre-emptive war with a naked threat to attack Iran itself should Bush refuse the cup.

[...] Ehud Olmert came home from a June meeting with Bush to tell Israelis: “We reached agreement on the need to take care of the Iranian threat. … I left with a lot less question marks regarding the means, the timetable restrictions and American resoluteness. …

“George Bush understands the severity of the Iranian threat and the need to vanquish it, and intends to act on the matter before the end of his term. … The Iranian problem requires urgent attention, and I see no reason to delay this just because there will be a new president in the White House seven and a half months from now.”

If Bush is discussing war on Iran with Ehud Olmert, why is he not discussing it with Congress or the nation?

[...] Moving through Congress, powered by the Israeli lobby, is House Resolution 362, which demands that President Bush impose a U.S. blockade of Iran, an act of war.

Is it not time the American people were consulted on the next war that is being planned for us?

Blaming the Jews: Check. Blaming Israel: Check. Blaming “the Israel lobby”: Check. Implying that Israel and/or Jews are running American foreign policy: Check.

You could easily interchange Lindbergh’s and Buchanan’s words and not know which was speaking. No wonder Buchanan defended Lindbergh on a neo-Nazi radio station. They’re brothers-in-ideology, separated by a few decades.

And in case you’re thinking that people are exaggerating about neo-Nazi quotient of the radio program, here are some quotes from the host’s blog:

At any rate, it’s nice to see that, while Jews in the government, media, and among the neocons work feverishly to get America to attack one Muslim country after another because of “Islamofascism” and “the Muslim threat to Israel”, other Jews are condemning white Europeans for not warmly welcoming tens of millions of these same Muslims into their midst.

Oh, but there’s more:

Jews have always been the biggest pushers of interracial marriage in America. Not for themselves, of course, and God forbid interracial marriage should be legal in Israel! But, as Greenberg makes plain, Jews think white people people marrying blacks should happen a lot.

This one’s just too-too:

Boy, here’s a surprise. A homosexual Jew editor over at The New Republic doesn’t like Pat Buchanan’s new book on World War II.

That’s about as much hate as I can take in one sitting.

Remember when I said just a few weeks ago that Buchanan had gone about as low as he could go? I was wrong. He’s now fully down in the gutter with the Jew-hating scum, and no longer bothering to hide it. (I wonder if Michael Kinsley would like to change his assertion that Buchanan doesn’t have a problem with Jews.) Buchanan is now openly on David Duke’s level, and in fact, has now spoken on the radio station that proudly interviewed David Duke as well. The question is, will NBC finally fire him?

Debbie Schlussel has quite a lot of stories about her personal experiences with Buchanan’s Jew-baiting. Why is it that the news shows seem to think Buchanan is immune, but sportscasters like Jimmy the Greek get fired for racist remarks?

Oh, wait. I forgot. It’s The Exception Clause. Bigoted statements are cause for immediate firing, except when made about Jews.

Time for the Yourish.com mantra: Anti-Semites of the world, just die already.

This story happened in Ukraine during the Soviet times and has two protagonists:

• Jewish Professor of psychiatry, a diminutive man widely known for his knowledge, professionalism, ornery character and a compassion toward his patients.
• Ukrainian Patient who got into a totally catatonic state for more than a year, without any cure in sight. Fed via a tube and slowly wasting away in a Soviet psychiatric hospital.

The doctor responsible for the Patient was totally despaired. Every known drug and every known therapy failed. Relatives visited the patient from time to time, talked to him to no avail, and, after shedding some tears, left without receiving any response. There was no hope.

And then our Professor came into the picture. He even made a bet with his colleague on success of his way of treatment. You see, he counted on the power of suggestion. Hearing and vision of the Patient were not impaired - he heard and saw everything, but apparently didn’t respond to it, living deep inside his shell. Professor also counted on the ingrained discipline of an army veteran - Patient served in the army for a very long time.

The only thing to do was to prepare Patient for the appearance of a person whose voice would penetrate Patient’s soul to the maximum imaginable depth. To this end, twenty or more times a day nurses, doctors and even some volunteer patients told Patient about a legendary Professor and his wizardly powers. Yes, Professor will definitely come, it is only that he is too busy at the moment, teared apart by the incessant demands of his other patients and other commitments. Of course, the whole brainwashing procedure was orchestrated by Professor, building up hope in the mind of the Patient. This centuries old remedy: belief-based cure - worked this time perfectly as well. With a small detail that is the reason for the story.

Well, after ten or so days of the brainwashing, Patient was told that tomorrow Professor will definitely stop by. And the patient started showing some signs of excitement that developed towards dawn into a fever of anticipation.

Come morning, about six doctors in white smocks burst into the room and promptly sorted themselves in a line which would have mollified even a drill sergeant. Patient started sweating and his eyes became almost clear. And then Professor - a small, white-haired and power-exuding figure - came into the room, approached Patient and barked: “Stand up!”.

And Patient sat up in his bed and, with some assistance, stood up!

Then, jabbing his finger in the Patient’s stomach (because of Professor’s puny height), Professor barked again: “Do you know who I am?”.

And, as if there were no year long stretch of catatonic state and muteness, the Ukrainian licked his dry lips and obediently answered:

“A kike.”

This wonderful bitter-sweet story was translated (poorly, I am afraid) by me from a book Walks Around The Barracks : Autobiographical Novella by Igor Guberman, an outstanding poet/philosopher, an ex-Soviet dissident, a Jerusalemite, a mensch. I hope Igor doesn’t mind this rip-off. Maybe it will be another tiny push to translation of this (and many other Igor’s books) into English.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews.

Pat Buchanan is now blaming the Holocaust on Great Britain, indirectly at least. He says that yes, Hitler hated Jews, but no, he wasn’t going to destroy them. Britain made him do it.

That Hitler was a rabid anti-Semite is undeniable. “Mein Kampf” is saturated in anti-Semitism. The Nuremberg Laws confirm it. But for the six years before Britain declared war, there was no Holocaust, and for two years after the war began, there was no Holocaust.

Not until midwinter 1942 was the Wannsee Conference held, where the Final Solution was on the table.

That conference was not convened until Hitler had been halted in Russia, was at war with America and sensed doom was inevitable. Then the trains began to roll.

And why did Hitler invade Russia? This writer quotes Hitler 10 times as saying that only by knocking out Russia could he convince Britain it could not win and must end the war.

There’s a pretty big problem here for Pat. Well, there are a lot of problems with this logic. But we can start with a pretty clear indication that Hitler intended to murder the Jews. There was a group of Nazis known as the Einsatzgruppen, whose job it was to kill all of what the Nazis considered “undesirables.” They were murdering Jews before the Wannsee Conference was held.

After the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the Einsatzgruppen’s main assignment was to kill Communist officers and Jews on a much larger scale than in Poland[3]. These Einsatzgruppen were under the control of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) (Reich Security Main Office); i.e., under Reinhard Heydrich and his successor Ernst Kaltenbrunner. The original mandate set by Heydrich for the four Einsatzgruppen sent into the Soviet Union as part of Operation Barbarossa was to secure the offices and papers of the Soviet state and Communist Party; to liquidate all of the higher cadres of the Soviet state; and to instigate and encourage pogroms against all local Jewish populations. The orders that Heydrich drafted on July 2, 1941 stated that the Einsatzgruppen were to execute all Soviet officials of higher and medium rank; members of the Comintern; “extremist” Communist Party members; members of the central, provincial and district committees of the Communist Party; Red Army commissars; and all Communist Party members of Jewish origin[4]. In regards to Jewish populations in general, “No steps will be taken to interfere with any purges that may be initialed by anti-Communist or anti-Jewish elements in the newly occupied territories. On the contrary, these are to be secretly encouraged”[5].

There is much more about them at the Jewish Virtual Library. Here’s a document from 1941 that lists the numbers of Jews murdered by the Nazis—before the Wannsee conference.

EK 3 detachment in Minsk from 28.9-17.10.41:

Today I can confirm that our objective, to solve the Jewish problem for Lithuania, has been achieved by EK 3. In Lithuania there are no more Jews, apart from Jewish workers and their families.

The distance between from the assembly point to the graves was on average 4 to 5 Km.

I consider the Jewish action more or less terminated as far as Einsatzkommando 3 is concerned. Those working Jews and Jewesses still available are needed urgently and I can envisage that after the winter this workforce will be required even moe urgently. I am of the view that the strelization programme of the male worker Jews should be started immediately so that reproduction is prevented. If despite sterlization a Jewess becomes pregnant she will be liquidated.

Buchanan ignores facts like the above, and massacres like Babi Yar, which also occurred before the Wannsee Conference.

Kiev … contained a Jewish population of 175,000 on the eve of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. The Nazi forces captured the city in mid-September; within less than a fortnight, on the 29th and 30th, nearly 34,000 Jews of the ghetto were brought to a suburban ravine known as Babi Yar, near the Jewish Cemetary, where men, women, and children were systematically machine-gunned in a two-day orgy of execution. In subsequent months, most of the remaining population was exterminated.

And then there’s the sick, twisted logic to Buchanan’s claims. Hitler intended to rid Germany of all of its Jews. Here was his plan from the Wannsee Conference that Buchanan implies wouldn’t have happened without Britain’s entering the war in defense of Poland:

The purpose of the conference was to inform heads of German Government Departments that had responsibility for various policies relating to Jews of Reinhard Heydrich’s appointment as the sole executor of the “Final solution to the Jewish question”, and to obtain their agreement to subordinate their policies to him. In the course of the meeting, Heydrich presented a plan, approved by Hitler, for the deportation of the Jewish population of Europe to German-occupied areas of the Soviet Union, and the use of the Jews fit for labour on road-building projects; that plan was never fully implemented, owing to the failure to achieve final victory over the Soviet Union, and most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe were sent to extermination or concentration camps, or killed where they lived.

Let’s take Buchanan at his word. Let’s imagine that Britain never got into the war, that Germany fought Russia, and even beat Stalin. What do you think would have happened to the Jews of Europe, who were now in concentration camps, awaiting their fate? Slave labor camps at best, a quick execution at the worst? The Wannsee Conference was convened to discuss “The Jewish Question,” not to discuss “What Do We Do With the Jews Now That We Lost Russia?” Question. And “The Jewish Question” was a theme throughout Hitler’s reign. To pretend that he would not have murdered the six million if only Britain hadn’t started fighting him is the lowest Buchanan has gone yet.

Buchanan is a liar and a dissembler, who ignores inconvenient facts when they get in the way of his Hitler adoration. The fact is that with or without Britain, Germany would have run rampant over Europe, and murdered Europe’s Jews. The Nazis were already setting the plan in motion. Jews were being gassed in 1941, before the Wannsee Conference took place.

At another, later gassing — also in autumn 1941 — Grabner* ordered me to pour Zyklon B into the opening because only one medical orderly had shown up. During a gassing Zyklon B had to be poured through both openings of the gas-chamber room at the same time. This gassing was also a transport of 200-250 Jews, once again men, women and children. As the Zyklon B — as already mentioned — was in granular form, it trickled down over the people as it was being poured in.

The facts are there. Buchanan ignores them.

Buchanan is a liar, a purveyor of Jew-hatred and an admirer of Adolph Hitler. The man disgusts me more now than he has ever done before. That NBC continues to employ him is reprehensible. That Fox News brings him on as a commentator is reprehensible. That anyone pays this man a salary for anything repulses me. I used to say he was a more subtle David Duke. But he has brought himself down to Duke’s level with this latest book.

Anti-Semitism has been rising the world over, and now it seems to be going mainstream. Witness this ad campaign in New Zealand:

Billboards pitching a new programme for Prime Television have been removed after complaints from the Jewish community.

One billboard in Wakefield St, Wellington, and two in Auckland were removed yesterday after going up on Tuesday.

The billboards were for Madmen: The Glory Years of Advertising, due out at the end of the month, and bore the slogan: “Advertising Agency Seeks: Clients. All business considered, even from Jews.”

The billboards were removed after a complaint from New Zealand Jewish Council chairman Geoff Levy, who was also angry about a two-page advertisement using the same wording in the latest Time magazine.

So let me get this straight. In an ad for a TV series about a time when there was a fair amount of anti-Semitism (as well as probably anti-black and anti-woman prejudice), the marketers thought that it would be a great idea to use the sentence “All business considered, even from Jews.” Time Magazine saw no problem at all running a two-page ad with that sentence. Imagine the controversy if the word “Muslims” had been substituted for “Jews.”

However, the damage had already been done and 26,000 copies of Time would remain on waiting-room tables and in houses for months to come, he said.

We’re actually used to anti-Semitism from Time, right down to letting us know more than 30 years ago that Menachem Begin rhymes with Fagin. But stories like this make me think that anti-Semitism is, indeed, being mainstreamed.

Prime spokesman Tony O’Brien said approval for the campaign, which was to mirror “archaic” 1960s’ attitudes prevalent in the show, had been given by the marketing department, which had made an error of judgment.

All the billboards were immediately removed and an apology would run in the next edition of Time, he said.

“We take full responsibility for this and we have totally apologised to the Jewish community. The campaign crossed the line from being provocative to being offensive.”

Yes, it did, and the most shocking thing is that no one in the Prime marketing department blinked an eye at letting this campaign go through. Because after all, who gives a damn if a few Jews are offended? It’s not like they’re going to go around blowing up embassies or anything. And anyway, why should they take offense? All we’re doing is reproducing an attitude from the sixties.

Riiiight.

There is a double standard involved, but then, there always has been. The Exception Clause reigns supreme.

So my post yesterday appears to have pissed off the neo-Nazis so much, that they copied me on a sock-puppet email conversation about some Jew converting to Christianity. I expect they wanted me to join in, or be hurt, or curl up and cry over the fact that someone converted from Judaism to another religion. Gee, like that never happened before.

Maybe they thought I’d get mad or something. Nah. I think I’ll just back up yesterday’s post with numbers. 155 Jewish Nobel prize winners since the prize began. Let’s see, 49 in biomedical science, 23 in economics, 27 in chemistry, 44 in physics, 12 in literature.

And gee, there are basically no Jews giving out the prizes, so there goes that conspiracy theory. 155 prizes out of a total of 797. Gee, what’s that percentage? Carry the one, subtract the—wow, that’s nearly twenty percent given to the Jews.

So, how many Nobel prizes have British neo-Nazis won over the years?

None. That’s right. A great big goose egg.

Have a nice day, boys. Try not to let those penises get any smaller.

The Jew-hating bastards on yet another Holocaust denial site (based in the U.K., there’s a surprise) have linked to one of my old teaching posts (and not in a good way). And they don’t like my No Israel-Bashing Zone policy, either. Aww. My heart bleeds. Jew-haters are unhappy because I won’t let them pour out their filth on my blog.

The Purim mentality is not confined to Zionist opinion formers, but would seem to be shared (and passed on) by many ordinary Jews such as teacher and blogger Meryl Yourish, who under the heading Teaching Little Jews to be Big Jews, tells us:

I’m a Jew-hater’s worst nightmare: I teach little Jews to be big Jews. I may not have children of my own, but I’m doing my part to propagate the Jewish nation. That knowledge gives me great satisfaction.
…I pass it on to my students. I’ve taught them that one way to piss off a Jew-hater is to chant “Am Yisrael Chai” (”The people of Israel live”). I’ve noticed that if you start that chant at an anti-Israel protest, it really torks off the anti-Israel protesters. This always leads my students into chanting the phrase for a minute or two in class, which they love. They also like it when I say things like “Purim is the holiday where the Jews kicked the crap out of the Persians.”

Don’t even think about debating with the like of Ms Yourish, since she tells us that her website is a No-Israel Bashing Zone.

I’ve no doubt that she and her students will be cheering on the bombs and missiles, if and when they start falling on Tehran.

So, should I consider it an honor that I’m on the front page of a Holocaust-denying, Jew-hating site? Or should I just laugh at them and continue to do what I’m doing, as it’s obviously working.

I think I’ll just laugh. Poor, pitiful people. Their feelings of inadequacy are so large, they have to blame someone for their failures. And hey, why not blame the people who have the largest per capita representation in Nobel prizes, in the arts, literature, and science in the world? Why not blame the people who have invented the cure for polio, instant messaging, drip-irrigation technology, and a thousand other things that helps humanity thrive? Why not blame the people who have defied the odds to remain not just in existence, but thriving in every nation they comprise a significant population?

Clearly, the Jew-haters have issues. Psychiatry might help. But their hatred is so deep, I suspect it’s incurable.

Like I teach my children: They tried to kill us. They failed. Let’s eat.

Am Yisrael chai.

Or, to put a more modern turn on it: In your face, assholes.

Jimmy Carter in the Guardian’s Comment is Free section:

The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An entire population is being brutally punished.This gross mistreatment of the Palestinians in Gaza was escalated dramatically by Israel, with United States backing, after political candidates representing Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Authority parliament in 2006. The election was unanimously judged to be honest and fair by all international observers.

Israel and the US refused to accept the right of Palestinians to form a unity government with Hamas and Fatah and now, after internal strife, Hamas alone controls Gaza. Forty-one of the 43 victorious Hamas candidates who lived in the West Bank have been imprisoned by Israel, plus an additional 10 who assumed positions in the short-lived coalition cabinet.

As I’ve commented in the past, Jimmy Carter’s say-so that elections are “honest and fair” is worthless as he’s covered for elections stolen by Yasser Arafat and Hugo Chavez.

Still Carter, is not a lawyer and knows nothing about international law. However, David B. Rivkin and Lee Casey specialize in the subject and outlined Israel’s rights and obligations according to international law.

It is because an occupying power exercises effective control over a territory that international law substantially restricts the measures, military or economic, it can bring to bear upon this territory, well beyond the limits that would be applicable before occupation, whether in wartime or peacetime.The Israeli military does not control Gaza; nor does Israel exercise any government functions there. Claims that Israel continues to occupy Gaza suggest that a power having once occupied a territory must continue to behave toward the local population as an occupying power until all outstanding issues are resolved. This “principle” can be described only as an ingenious invention; it has no basis in traditional international law.

The adoption of any such rule (designed to limit Israel’s freedom of action and give Hamas a legal leg up in its continuing conflict) should be actively opposed by the United States. Its adoption would suggest that no occupying power can withdraw of its own volition without incurring continuing, and perhaps permanent, legal obligations to a territory. This issue is particularly acute regarding territory not otherwise controlled by a functioning state — failed states or failed areas of states where the “legitimate” government cannot or will not exercise effective control. Such places — call them badlands — were once rare. Over the past 15 years, though, there has been an explosion in the number of such areas, notably parts of Afghanistan, Somalia and portions of Pakistan.

I suppose that Jimmy should be flattered, they called his declaration that Israel should not be allowed to defend itself “ingenious.” I don’t think they meant it in a complimentary fashion though.

Furthermore restricting Israel’s right to defend itself, has implications in relation to the United States.

Unduly handicapping states that intervene in such badlands — whether to protect their own interests, those of the local population or both — is unrealistic and irresponsible. Requiring agreement by the “international community” (whatever that may be) as a precondition for extinguishing such a designation is equally unproductive if the goal is saving lives. Consider the example of Darfur.Even worse is pretending that groups such as Hamas are merely criminal gangs that must be dealt with as a local policing problem — just one of the potential side effects of imposing an “occupied” status on a territory. This implicates U.S. interests directly, since America’s ability to use robust armed force against al-Qaeda and similar non-state actors remains critical to defending our civilian population from attack.

Perhaps rather than lecturing us about international law, Jimmy ought to sit down and read a book or two on the topic before spouting off.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

Uzi Arad, a former director of intelligence for the Mossad, has an op-ed in Ynet today that states exactly what I’ve been saying for decades: When Jews say “Never again,” we don’t mean that never again will the world commit genocide, or that we won’t let it happen. That’s a given. We have no control over the world, nor over mankind’s basest instincts (which is why there is Darfur and was Cambodia and will be somewhere else in another few years). But we do have control over what happens to Jews.

“Never again” means never again will we go down without a fight. “Never again” means never again will the world be able to nearly exterminate the Jewish population of nation after nation, indiscriminately, without any real punishment. “Never again” means never again will Jews rely on the kindness of others to save us from the genocidal maniacs that roam the earth.

It is clear that the threats hurled at us frequently by Iran’s leaders and their emissaries (Hamas, Hizbullah, etc.) are no less than a call – or pledge – for genocide. Some of them deny the Holocaust, yet at the same time justify their war against us by claiming that Israel was forced upon the region by those who perpetrated the Holocaust – and this entire twisted argument is meant to pave the way for the holocaust that would befall Israel.

The world hears the voices and sees the deeds, yet aside from a few (but important) friends it watches idly and adopts a complacent attitude. In fact, predictions regarding Israel’s possible demise are becoming increasingly fashionable among some elements worldwide: Within governments, at university campuses, and in intellectual magazines. Apocalyptic terms have gained a foothold even in Israel.

[...] However, on Holocaust Memorial Day, we are permitted to – and in fact, obligated to – make it clear to others that there will be no situation whereby the State of Israel will be harmed without those who perpetrate this, including their collaborators, paying the full price for it. The decree “Never Again” does not only mean that no longer will we be defenseless, but also that those who harm us will not be spared.

Peres and Ben-Eliezer made it clear - and they were telling the truth. Recognizing this would ensure the realization of the “Never Again” decree’s original meaning – there will no longer be anyone who will dare rise against us.

Shimon Peres is not known as a hawk, and yet, he told the world that attempts to destroy Israel are a two-way street that would result in the destruction of the aggressor. God forbid that it should be so, because I don’t want to see a nuclear device go off in Israel. But seventy years after the onset of the Holocaust, it’s only right that Israel should be pointing out that Jews today are a lot better armed than we were in 1938. Harm us at your peril, this time.

How do the Palestinians commemorate Naqba?With a play, of course.

LGF in And now the Nakba dwarf describes the scene.

… a malignant dwarf with an automatic rifle, dressed as a stereotype Jew.

Snapped Shot (and a h/t for alerting me to this) in Naqba Coming Soon: Those Dastardly Zionists

Seriously, I’m not sure what I find funnier about this picture—The fact that they use midgets to represent the IDF, or the fact that there is almost nobody watching (at least, judging by the background).

Israelly Cool’s take:

Apparently, the palestinians believe that in 1948, they were attacked by Zionist mafia dwarfs.

Of course though we may laugh at the absurdity of the scene, what’s being promulgated here is a real life caricature of the short, hook nosed Jew that is so common in Palestinian cartoons. And of course such stereotyping isn’t unique to the Palesitnians; it has long been the caricature of Jews by those who hate them.

I recently saw an essay equating Naqba-denial with Holocaust denial. What the writer failed to grasp is that much of what fuels Naqba commemorations is the same hatred that, unchecked, fueled the Holocaust.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

Anti-Semitic attacks are up worldwide, and “major” anti-Semitic attacks—ones classifed as severely violent—tripled in the past year. And this time, the world doesn’t have the Lebanon war to blame for their attacks on Jews. It’s just plain old vanilla Jew-hatred, aided and abetted by the media portrayal of Jews and Zionism, with a lot of help from the anti-Semitic United Nations.

A 6.6% rise in the number of anti-Semitic attacks has been registered across the world in 2007, a report published on Wednesday by the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at the Tel Aviv University revealed.

Furthermore, the number of severe violent attacks rose threefold in 2007.

According to the study, 632 incidents of racially-motivated violence against Jews have been reported in 2007, compared to 593 in 2006. Fifty-seven percent of the attacks in 2007 have been classified as “major attacks” – three times higher than in 2006, when the number of major attacks stood at 19.

The report’s authors noted that the trend of growth in anti-Semitics violence continued last year, despite the absence of a direct “external catalyst” – such as the Second Lebanon war the year before.

Islamophobia is mentioned. I’ll have to read the full report, because this sounds like excuse-making to me:

They further suggested that the rise in major attacks could be linked to internal social and economic tensions in various countries and the consequent rise in Islamophobia.

The vast majority of violent assaults were registered in western and central Europe, where the growing presence of millions of immigrants, including some 20 million Muslims, is a source for constant friction, the report maintained.

And the three countries with the biggest rise in anti-Semitic attacks?

Meanwhile, in Germany, Canada and Britain the number of anti-Semitics assaults in both categories grew in 2007.

The good news: Attacks grew only 6.6%. The bad news: Attacks in 2006 doubled over 2005. I suppose we should be grateful that the growth industry is seeing a severe slowdown. But let’s face it: Attacks on Jews never go out of style. And now, they rarely go reported, except by Jewish organizations.

Two Orthodox Jewish men were stabbed in fairly rapid succession, yet the British press first called these attacks “random,” and the perpetrator is not being charged with a hate crime. See if you can guess the probable faith of the perpetrator.

A man has been charged following a double knife attack on two Orthodox Jews in Golders Green.

Mohamed Jama Ahmed, 37, of North Circular Road, Cricklewood, was arrested after two stabbings which happened just meters apart in roads off Golders Green Road on Friday.

A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said the attacks, which happened at around 6pm, appear to have been random and unprovoked, but were not being treated as faith hate crimes.

Officers were alerted to a 47-year-old man in The Drive who was suffering from stab wounds to his arm and chest.

While at the scene, police were informed that a 43-year-old man had been stabbed in nearby Beverley Gardens.

Yes, the attacks were meters apart, and “random and unprovoked,” but the British police—who charged a British television station with race hate for running a program that showed the anti-British, anti-Semitic, and anti-infidel attitudes of radical Islamists in British mosques—can’t seem to bring themselves to discover a faith-based motivation for an attack on two religious Jews. I guess they must have been attacked on the day they didn’t dress as religious Jews. Or maybe the British police are of the opinion that it’s anti-Zionism, not anti-Semitism, motivating the attacker.

Here’s another whitewashing:

The 37-year-old was arrested after two men were attacked within minutes of each other in Golders Green, north-west London.

A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said detectives are keeping an open mind about the stabbings.

But she added that the attacks, which took place on Friday at about 6pm, were not being treated as faith hate crimes.

Amazing how the U.K. simply cannot call an anti-Semitic attack an anti-Semitic attack. No wonder anti-Semitism is on the rise in the U.K.

So, it’s anti-Zionism, not anti-Semitism, right? Right? Right?

Wrong.

Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri described the United Nations as an enemy to Muslims and vowed attacks on Jews both inside and outside Israel in a statement posted on the Internet on Wednesday.

“The United Nations is an enemy of Islam and Muslims,” he said. “We promise our Muslim brothers that we will do our utmost to strike Jews in Israel and abroad with help and guidance from god.”

Someone really needs to tell the root causes side that perhaps, just perhaps, the root cause is the world’s oldest hatred. Because they don’t seem to have gotten the memo.

In the weeks since revelations about Sen. Obama’s relationship with Rev. Wright became known, I was wondering when we’d hear from the National Jewish Democratic Council. Well we’ve finally heard from them on the controversy.

That’s right.
Silence.

(Note: I’m referring to the NJDC’s blog. Maybe individual members have commented on the controversy or issued public statements. Usually those would be linked to on the blog. Certainly if a Republican candidate had a similar relationship with a racist we’d have seen something on the blog.)

No condemnation of Sen. Obama’s ties to a racist and antisemite. No expression of regret that the junior senator from Illinois didn’t condemn Rev. Wright until the issue became an embarrassment.

The NJDC, though, is quite happy about the prospect of having so many Jewish super-delegates to the Democratic convention.

According to a Gallup Poll published yesterday, Jewish voters are split roughly down the middle. 48% prefer Senator Clinton, and 43% prefer Senator Obama; this 5-point lead for Senator Clinton is within the margin of error. With the race as close as it is, these Jewish superdelegates could play a pivotal role in determining the Democratic presidential nominee.

So Jews could play a role in handing the Democratic nomination to a white woman instead of a fellow who attends a church whose former pastor considers “Israel” a dirty word. That isn’t exactly something I’d be excited about.

Perhaps a group of Jewish Pennsylvania politicians understand that too. The Caucus reports: Pa. Jewish Leaders Praise Obama in Letter

The letter, which can be found online here at the Jewish news service JTA, praises Senator Obama at length for his recent speech on race and argues that he shouldn’t be held accountable for incendiary remarks made by his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. While we are profoundly disturbed by the unpatriotic, bigoted and anti-Semitic comments of the retired pastor of Senator Obama’s church, we are moved that Barack stood up at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia earlier this month, and “condemned in unequivocal terms the statements of Reverend Wright” and expressed his own views on issues near and dear to the heart and soul of the Jewish community.

Specifically, in repudiating the remarks of his former pastor, Senator Obama said Reverend Wright “expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country…a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam.”

“We respectfully ask that you stand with Senator Barack Obama and vote for him on April 22,” the letter ends.

Sen. Obama’s speech, to my mind, contained too much equivocation to be viewed in such a positive light. It was less a “repudiation” than asking others to understand where Rev. Wright was coming from.

The Caucus item concludes:

Henri Barkey, chairman of the international relations program at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., is an unpaid foreign policy adviser to the Obama campaign who affixed his signature to the letter. Senator Obama has been “misrepresented” by his association with Reverend Wright, Mr. Barkey said, and Jewish people should hear the truth about Mr. Obama’s pro-Israel policies from fellow Jewish people.“This is how American politics can get — very dirty and personal,” Mr. Barkey said. “My sense in this day and age is you don’t let anything fester. You set the record straight, and perhaps that should have been done earlier. When you don’t respond quicker, people assume it’s true.”

Dirty? Personal? Sen. Obama’s ties with Rev. Wright really go to the heart of his character. The most charitable explanation is that Sen. Obama didn’t accept what he was hearing or was even appalled by it, but he attended the church because it was politically expedient for him to do so. Of course that makes him as cynical as we’ve come to expect politicians to be. Nothing messianic about that. It’s politics as usual, with an unusually articulate salesman making the deal.

Israel Matzav critiques the Jewish Pennsylvania politicians:

Not every ‘liberal cause’ is reconcilable with Judaism. But it’s clear that these ‘leaders’ have decided to replace the Jewish version of social justice with their own.

Still other aspects of Sen. Obama’s ties to the church are hard to explain away. How does Sen. Obama pose as a supporter of Israel when his church’s newsletter published the manifesto of Hamas without, apparently, eliciting any sort of objection from the senator? (h/t Colossus of Rhodey.Hube) And how does he stand by his church’s support for Minister Farrakhan? He may have denounced Farrakhan, but he did march in the million man march. What’s expedient? Sen. Obama’s flirtation with Farrakhan or his disavowal of said relationship? The same can be asked of his ties to Rev. Wright.

The NJDC considers talks of Sen. Obama’s ties with Farrakhan to be smears. As mentioned above, Sen. Obama’s ties to Farrakhan aren’t unfair game. They speak against his “post-racial” appeal. They also suggest that Sen. Obama’s is good deal more cynical than his supporters would acknowledge. This isn’t American idol we’re talking about. We’re talking about a campaign to see who will lead the free world.

Someone who has built his career by tolerating the intolerant needs to explain that tolerance. Sen. Obama’s reassessment ought to have come before Rev. Wright or Minister Farrakhan became liabilities. That it didn’t raises questions about Sen. Obama’s sincerity in repudiating them.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

It so happened that soon after finishing the Russian parents, beware post, I have received a link to a Russian-made movie made sometime in 2005. Seeing its first few frames, I was inclined to quit immediately. After all, the title of the movie is “Russia stabbed in the back” (precise translation is “Russia with a knife in the back”), its subtitle is “Jewish Fascism and the genocide of the Russian people”.

But seeing the surprised reaction of some friends who considered the case described in “Russian parents, beware” to be an isolated outbreak of anti-Semitic plague, I have decided to give the movie my full attention. If only to show that the blood libel episode described in that post is only a symptom of a much more serious malady that continues to eat its way into the very heart of Russia, that great and unfortunate nation that for so many years cannot find its way to true democracy and true freedom.

The movie clearly shows that:

1. The blood libel case is only a single incident in a well-organized anti-Semitic campaign
2. The campaigners are numerous and occupy positions of power and influence in modern Russia
3. The worst and more revolting incidents in rich Russian tradition of anti-Semitic libel are alive and well, being tirelessly revived

It is with heavy heart that I come to this task.
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After the appetizer of the first chapter, it will be easier for you to digest what is coming now. I am almost sure, that is. Time to introduce another participant.
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Welcome, my staunch and stubborn readers - I know there are very few of you who remained reading this long post…
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I’m sorry, but I have only one answer to this:

Russia’s foreign minister called on Friday for an end to the blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and demanded that Israel halt settlement activity in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Sergey Lavrov said it was “unacceptable” for Gaza to be afflicted with the blockade, which was imposed by Israel and Egypt after the Islamic militants of Hamas seized control of the coastal territory last June from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement.

“The siege should stop so the Palestinian people in the strip could lead normal lives,” Lavrov said at a news conference in Ramallah with Abbas, whose Palestinian administration governs the West Bank.

The single word: Chechnya.

Chechnya, you effing hypocrites. Chechnya, you effing sons of bitches. Chechnya, you effing piles of dog crap that oppressed your Jews for centuries, and in modern times, kept your Jews hostage for decades. Chechnya, you anti-Semitic bastards who wrote the forgery “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and even today are passing the blood libel freely around.

Okay, so maybe that was more than a single word. But eff off, Russia. You’ve done enough damage to the Jews. You backed the Arabs from the 1950s on. You sent Russian soldiers and pilots to fight against Jews in 1967 and 1973. You trained the Syrians, the Egyptians, the Iraqis, the terrorists—and you are today helping Iran to get nuclear weapons.

Chechnya, you lying, hypocritical, anti-Semitic pox on the world. I thank God that my great-grandparents left your nation and came to America.

CNET discusses German Jews’ attempt to get YouTube to remove Nazi propaganda from its ranks. The commenters take this opportunity—of course—to bash the Jews. But not in the way you think. No, on the eve of Good Friday, one of our tolerant Christian friends chooses to point out that, gee, it’s always a good time to blame the Jews.

Let the Central Council of Jews in Germany view / not view, and / or post, what they want; and let all others view / not view, and / or post, what they want. With regards to … ‘Honestly, killing people because of their religion is pretty lame.’ - I agree; especially with tomorrow being ‘Good Friday’ - the day that Jesus died at the hands of the Jews.

Yeah, you gotta love the attitude that blames the Jews for killing Jesus, even though they’re taught that Jesus had to die to save their sins.

Once again, however, The Exception Clause corollary is proven: In any internet discussion involving religion, politics, or Jews, the probability of it devolving into anti-Semitism is 100%.

Beware Russian parents. Keep watch over your children before the coming of April 2008, the Jewish holiday of Passover. These disgusting people still engage in ritual practice to their gods. They kidnap small children and remove some of their blood and use it to prepare their holy food (matza). They throw the bodies (of the children) out in garbage dumps.

Nope, it is not a quote from some XIX century anti-Semitic pamphlet. It comes from a text distributed in fair Russian city of Novosibirsk these days.

Hundred of anti-Semitic announcements warning Russian parents to beware of the supposed Jewish practice of using children’s blood to prepare Passover matza were put up around the city of Novosibirsk, Russia in southwest Siberia on Wednesday.

Amos Hermon, the Jewish Agency official in charge of the fight against anti-Semitism, told Ynet following the incident in Novosibirsk that “this is an appalling and extraordinary incident.

Beg your pardon, Mr Hermon - this is where you are mistaken. While the incident is appalling, it is in no way extraordinary.

Watch this page for more in a few days.

Update: for readers of Russian here is the text.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews.

Imagine that two molotov cocktails were thrown at the home of a representative of a Muslim organization. Imagine the outrage, the news articles, the media notice.

Now imagine that two molotov cocktails were thrown at the home of a representative of an African-American organization. Imagine the outrage, the news articles, the media notice.

Now imagine that two molotov cocktails were thrown at the home of a representative of a Jewish organization. Imagine the outrage, the news articles, the media notice—or not.

PROVIDENCE — A Molotov cocktail was thrown into the apartment of a graduate student from Israel but did not explode and a second liquid-filled bottle landed in the yard outside the apartment building, exploded and burned itself out early Saturday, triggering an intensive investigation by several agencies including the FBI.

Targeted in the 1:15 a.m. episode was the second-floor apartment of Josef Knafo, 25, at 122 Camp St., a Brown University graduate fellow who also works at the the Brown University/Rhode Island School of Design Hillel House, on the city’s East Side. Knafo was home at the time, said Deputy Police Chief Paul J. Kennedy.

“At this point, we just don’t know whether to call this a hate crime because we don’t know the motivation,” Kennedy said yesterday.

Funny how they’re so quick to call a firebombing of any other minority a hate crime, yet they hesitate, and hem and haw and insist they have to find out the “motivation” behind the crime before they can even think about whether or not it’s a hate crime.

Kennedy said Knafo was in the kitchen of his apartment when he heard a bang. After looking out the window and seeing the fire on the ground, he came upon the unexploded bottle inside his bedroom, Kennedy said.

So what’s the Jewish agency?

The Jewish agency has hundreds of envoys worldwide that engage in all manner of educational, Zionist and PR endeavors. The agency furthermore organizes numerous solidarity rallies with Israel, including a recent rally following the shooting attack on the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Uh-huh. No idea if it was a hate crime. Because it’s so normal to throw molotov cocktails into apartments in Rhode Island. Happens every week or two, right? To everyone. Really. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Daled Amos observes that the State Department recognizes that Anti-Zionism may indeed be antisemitism.

The report is thematic in nature and, using illustrative examples of contemporary forms of anti-Semitism, provides a broad overview of anti-Semitic incidents, discourse and trends. The report documents traditional forms of anti-Semitism such as those associated with Nazism, but also discusses new manifestations of anti-Semitism, including instances when criticism of Israel and Zionism crosses the line into anti-Semitism. The report covers anti-Semitism in both government and private media, and within the United Nations system. It concludes with a review of governmental and nongovernmental efforts to combat the problem.

Daled Amos is correct that this is a step in the right direction. But did Secretary Rice read the report?

Recently Mahmoud Abbas said that he wouldn’t rule out a return to “armed struggle.” It was a statement so egregious that Nita Lowey threatened to hold up US funding to the PA over it. It was so notable that even the New York Times mentioned it, albeit a week or two late. And how did Secretary Rice treat the comments?

“We have all had the experience of perhaps saying things that we wish we hadn’t said, and I can just tell you that this is somebody who for many, many years now has rejected violence as a means to statehood,” Rice said, noting that Abbas had later said the comments were taken out of context. “I can’t account for his comments. I think they were extremely unfortunate. We made that very clear to him.”

(h/t LGF)

Well did Abbas apologize when apprised of the State Department’s concerns? And what happened say when Arafat launched the “aqsa intifada” in 2000? Did Abbas resign in protest? Did he insist that Arafat accept PM Barak’s offer at Camp David? Has he ever categorically condemned a terror attack on Israelis?

On the basis of what evidence does Secretary Rice know that Abbas has “for many, many years now has rejected violence?” I’ve seen nothing in his record to conclude that is true. He’s mostly said the right things in English. But his actions surely haven’t been the actions of a moderate. Nor have many of his statements. Why can’t Secretary Rice acknowledge the anti-Zionism of the “moderate” leader of Fatah?

It’s a positive step that the State Department recognized the problem. It would be a hugely positive step if the State Department would act on its conclusion.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

An EU official says that half the anti-Semitic attacks in Europe are carried out by Muslims.

The figure comes from European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Franco Frattini, who is responsible in the EU for combating racism and anti-Semitism in Europe. Frattini mentioned it in a conversation with Minister for Diaspora Affairs Isaac Herzog last week, and said it was based on European Union reports.

Gee. Remember that suppressed report about anti-Semitism in the EU? The one that the EU said wasn’t suppressed because it showed most anti-Semitic attacks were carried out by Muslims, but that it wasn’t “ready” or something equally ridiculous? It’s still online. And Muslim anti-Semitism has gotten worse. Muslims are a minority in Europe, and yet, they’re carrying out half of the attacks on Jews.

So. What are the Europeans doing to stop the overt anti-Semitism?

According to Herzog, European governments are responding to this “aggressively,” including educating Muslim imams throughout the continent on “European values, principles of democracy, the rights of women and the like.”

Oh, that’ll help. Because it’s done so much to stop it so far. All you have to do is read back through my archives to see how well that’s worked.

According to this detestable post (and letter to the editor that inspired it) we may conclude:
1) In 1941, the Jews of Warsaw were firing rockets from Warsaw at civilians in Danzig.
2) European Jews had a history of killing thousands of people by blowing th