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Guess who’s coming to dinner? (Mohammed Bakri and Hamid Dabashi)

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

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Guest Blogger: Delectable

Israel Matzav and Artists 4 Israel have the scoop on the underlying story of the Manhattan JCC supporting a film festival, and Shabbat dinner, that promotes blood libels against Israel. (The Shabbat dinner is sponsoring Mohammed Bakri as a speaker – he was the filmmaker behind Jenin, Jenin, which claimed Israel committed a genocide in Jenin. He was later sued for libel by soldiers, and admit he lied in his ‘documentary.’)

I was scanning over the JCC’s “Other Israel Film Festival” web page today, and found another juicy little “nugget” of information.

In addition to the “Other Israel Film Festival” being co-founded by Mohammed Bakri, who was the filmmaker behind the blood libel, Jenin, Jenin, our old friend Hamid Dabashi is also supportive of this festival.

That is right – Hamid Dabashi. He is the known bigot who is a cheerleader for both Hamas and the Iranian regime. Source, source, and source. He has made his career openly supporting a regime (Iran) and fake-regime (Hamas) that brutalizes their own people.

This is what we are up against.

The JCC is allying itself with the Iranian regime (via Dabashi), propagandists for Jihad (Bakri), and J Street. (no real difference between the three at this point)

On the plus side, I now understand why J Street opposed the Toronto Film Festival’s attempted boycott of Israeli films! Carole Zabar (of the Zabar’s food store fame), founder of this “film festival,” explained that she opposed the Toronto Film Festival’s boycott because she believes it is better to show anti-Israel Israeli-made films!

This all makes sense now! Rather than boycott the Israeli film industry, it is apparent that the Manhattan JCC, and J Street, support the Israeli film industry…which they see as a vehicle for their version of anti-Israeli activism! Recall that one of the claims J Street makes about it being “pro-Israel” is that they were against the Toronto Film Festival’s boycott. They are doing all this while claiming to be “pro-Israel.” (pro-Israeli surrender, but in their eyes, that might be considered “pro-Israel”)

I find it shocking, how these progressives are twisting reality into such a cartoonish caricature.

The other positive I can say is that I now see the money train from Zabar’s to Jihad-supporting activities. I never would have imagined that Zabar’s of all places would support such a twisted ideology, but now at least I am aware of where part of the money train is emanating from.

Update by Delectable:

One point of clarification…

When I compared J Street to the Iranian regime, I did so because they are the only major Jewish organization to oppose sanctioning the regime, and they invited a paid lobbyist for the Iranian regime (Trita Parsi) to speak at their Annual Gala. They also invited Salam al-Marayati (who has repeatedly linked himself with terror groups), Palestinian Authority representatives, and many other supporters of terrorism.

J Street was also the only major Jewish organization to oppose Cast Lead, support the “settlement freeze,” oppose building in Jerusalem, and not oppose the Goldstone Report.

I just wanted to clarify why I stated what I stated.

Perhaps I was being a tad overdramatic to say there is “no difference” between J Street” and the Iranian regime, but there are open connections between J Street and the Iranian regime, and clear unification of policy in many respects.

NBC:Rushing To The Exit!

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

The decline of NBC as a non-partisan broadcaster began long ago, the exact date is unknown to me. For the current era of “state run” media, NBC fought and clawed their way to the front of the line to be Øbama’s boot-lickers.

The best example, of course, was the absurdity that Chris Matthews of MSNBC bestowed on us in Feb ‘08:

I have to tell you, you know, it’s part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama’s speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often. No, seriously. It’s a dramatic event. He speaks about America in a way that has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with the feeling we have about our country. And that is an objective assessment.

Since that time, the same Chris Matthews made the following statement:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah, well, you know what? I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that –

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Is that your job? You just talked about being a journalist!

MATTHEWS: Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country.

SCARBOROUGH: Your job is the make this presidency work?

MATTHEWS: To make this work successfully. This country needs a successful presidency.

That was then, this is now.

In the news ratings between FOX and the MSNBC news shows, the following are the latest Nielsen ratings available.

Glenn Beck vs. Chris Matthews; Sean Hannity vs. Rachel Maddow TV Ratings Through Thursday, September 24.

O’Reilly vs. Olbermann TV Ratings Through Thursday, September 24.

The numbers speak for themselves, as MSNBC is so far behind FOX in the ratings, they aren’t even trying anymore, just currying favor with the new administration. I don’t see that as business plan that will define success.

With all that, as if it weren’t enough, there is the matter of prime time NBC network shows. If it weren’t for college football, NBC wouldn’t win any time slots, but to fully illustrate the corrupt and maladaptive environment at NBC, there were two incidents on Friday, 25 Sep 09 that need mentioning.

The first was this outrageous email sent by an NBC “Dateline” producer.
“Bite Me, Jew Boy!”

Then, on Friday night, the season premiere of the series “Law and Order” added another voice to the howl of the moonbats, as evidenced in the following trailer.

Yes, that’s right, they are still pushing for the prosecution of members of the Bush administration.

They did have at least one positive review for the show, as evidenced here.

Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote on the Huffington Post that “[w]hat McCoy understands is that in America, the rule of law applies to everyone. No one is above the law, not even (and some might say especially) the most powerful. … In real life, there has yet to be an investigation into the high-level authorization of torture, a crime that has stained the reputation of our nation at home and abroad.

Of course, if the ACLU says our nations reputation is stained, then it must be anything but.

An actual voice of reason can be found at Gateway Pundit:

Hey Hollywood– This may came as a surprise but America is angrier today with the radicals in Washington than they were when Bush was in charge.
When will we see the Obama-bashing episodes?

The answer to GPs question will go unanswered, just as all requests from the NBC producer have been.

Ahmadinejad says Holocaust a Lie and Israel will not last long

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Good morning my fellow Blogmocracy Netizens! It’s Friday and there is a weekend of football to look forward to! As always, I am the bearer of bad news.

The Islamo-Fascist President of Iran and Progressive icon: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has raised the stakes against Israel. He went on a diatribe mocking the Holocaust and calling for their destruction in the annual Qods (Jerusalem) parade in Iran. This clearly indicates that The IAEA report of Iran having Nuclear capabilities is true. Why is Iran clearly mocking Israel and claiming their time is running out? If you read the history of Islamic Imperialism whenever they make threats, they back it up.

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TEHRAN (Reuters) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has raised the stakes against Israel by describing the Holocaust as a lie, just as world powers are trying to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions of an Iran in political turmoil.

“The pretext (Holocaust) for the creation of the Zionist regime (Israel) is false … It is a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim,” he told worshippers at Tehran University at the end of an annual anti-Israel “Qods (Jerusalem) Day” rally.

“Confronting the Zionist regime is a national and religious duty.”

Ahmadinejad’s anti-Western speeches and comments on the Holocaust have in the past caused an international outcry and isolated Iran which is at loggerheads with the West over its disputed nuclear programme.

The hardline president warned leaders of Western-allied Arab and Muslim countries about dealing with Israel.

“This regime (Israel) will not last long. Do not tie your fate to it … This regime has no future. Its life has come to an end,” he said in a speech broadcast live on state radio.

Read the rest.

This is disturbing rhetoric that must be confronted. However the problem is with Obama being a Transnationalist Progressive, he doesn’t care. It is in the interest of Progressives to see Israel destroyed. They hate that nation and that is why back in 2005-2007, they did everything possible to prevent a strike against Iran. This was done on purpose as they view Israel as a liability in their relations with the Islamic world. Israel should be preparing for war and building underground bunkers. It is obvious that the Islamo-Fascist will launch a nuke attack to exterminate them.

My question goes out to Jews who vote for the Democrats: why do you vote for a party that wants your homeland and cousins exterminated?  See Update below.

If Israel is exterminated, I will hold the Progressives responsible for this new Holocaust. The blood of the Israelis will be on the hands of Keith Olberman, Chris Matthews, Seymour Hersh, MSNBC, GE and others in the Progressive Movement.

Isarel is alone and must rely on only God to protect them.

Update: I want to apologize to fultonchain for being offended at what I said. Although he is a Liberal, he’s not a radical Progressive and is a valued Blogmocracy Netizen. He called me out for a generalized statement I made and he was correct. I will now rephrase the question better.

My Question to Jews who vote for the Democrats is this. How can you vote for a Party that now has been taken over by George Soros and Radical Progressives, who want Israel exterminated? If you don’t agree with the Reepublicans that’s fine, but take back your Party from these Progressives! We need a sane and responsible Democratic Party in America, not this Totalitarian Neo-Fascist Entity that now rules in Washington.

(Update Hat Tip: fultonchain)

Anti-Jewish ‘futball’ chants are illegal

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

From JihadWatch:
Dutch court blocks “football chant” of “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas”

Because the chant is “insulting to Jews.” No kidding, really? Even the fact that this had to be discussed is bad enough. Europe is veering close once again to tolerating the intolerable.
The Dutch High Court ruled on Tuesday that the chant ‘Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas’ is punishable by law because it is insulting to Jews, reports broadcaster Nos.

The case was brought before the High Court by a football supporter who had been sentenced to 80 hours community service and probation of two years by the lower court.

The man refused to accept the judgement saying the chant forms part of the culture surrounding football. ‘It is not used with the intention of insulting Jews but to provoke other supporters,’ he said in his defence…

Not used with the intention of insulting Jews? It’s just part of the culture surrounding football to chant of genocide, deal. M’k?

/s

There is some bad crazy in the world, people.

Obama Administration Funding Projects “Towards The Establishment of Independent Palestinian State”

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Obama HeadscarfThe United States is funding a Palestinian Authority project to place non-Hebrew road signs throughout Judea and Samaria.  The PA plans to implement it in exclusively Israeli-controlled areas as well.

The project is part of American aid “towards the establishment of an independent Palestinian state,” as a top official of USAID (United States Agency for International Development) in the PA, Howard Sumka, told the Al-Hayat Arabic daily.

The project was announced by PA transportation minister Dr. Saadi Alkaranz. Correspondent Haggai Huberman reports that it is the first of its kind since Jordan lost control of the area when it attacked Israel during the 1967 Six Day War.  All roads and localities will appear in Arabic and English on the new signs; Hebrew will not appear.

Minister Alkaranz said, “This project is included in the government’s plans to lay the foundations for the establishment of a Palestinian state whose capital is Jerusalem.” He explained that the signs will not include the names of any Jewish locations in the region.

{The Article}

Although the writing on roadsigns might sound like a non-issue, it has become a very contentious issue in the Arab/Israel conflict recently.  Not too long ago, Israeli Transportation Minister, Yisrael Katz  suggested that although all the roadsigns in Israel will continue to be in Hebrew, and Arabic (and English), they will use the Hebrew names for Israeli cities.  Thus, instead of now where the signs refer to Jerusalem as “Jerusalem” in English, “Yerusahlaim” in Hebrew, and “Al-Quds” in Arabic, they will all read “Yerusalaim” but be written in all three languages.   This caused an outpouring of all hell from the Israeli-Arabs,  and Muslim/Arab world with claims of racism, ethnic cleansing, etc.  Dispite this, the PLO/PA plan, funded by the U.S. (ie: your tax dollars) is to only use Arabic!

We also should not ignore the scope, message, and impact of this plan.  The project will effect EVERY area of Judea & Samaria, creates facts on the ground, impact the daily lives of the Arabs in Judea & Samaria, and interfere directly with Israeli sovereignty.  This is all without getting into how it is premature, and in violation of the principles, requirements we have insisted upon before such actions could be taken.  (see Road Map, Annapolis, Oslo, Camp David…)  As we all know, this hasn’t stopped the Obama administration from holding Israel to the previous agreements. (ie: removing roadblocks, giving the PLO soverignty, and “settlements”)

Hopefully it is accidental, but the Obama Administration is participating in history revisionism, racism, and ethnic cleansing.  The Obama administration seems to be making the same mistakes as the Bush administration did with the “Disengagement”, and supporting an outcome that is inherently Anti-Semitic.   By creating these “Arab only” facts on the ground, the Obama administration is wiping the historic Jewish connection to Judea & Samaria out of the history books, and supporting the forced exclusion of Jews from a future Palestine, and bolstering the Arab claim that a future Palestine shoudl be Judenrein.

Swedish Blood Libel

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Swedish writer ‘not sure’ story’s true

But it did not stop him from writing the story.

A report in Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet earlier this week alleging that Israel was harvesting Palestinians’ organs for transplant continued to cause ripples on Wednesday with statements by Israeli officials, the Swedish Embassy in Tel Aviv and the writer of the report.

Swedish Embassy “shares Israel’s dismay” over report IDF abducts Palestinians to steal organs.

“I have a personal opinion, it concerns me that it’s true,” Donald Bostrom, who penned the story, told Israel Radio en route to an emergency meeting at the editorial offices Aftonbladet, presumably to discuss the aftermath of the report.

“I was [present] during the interview that night, I was a witness. It concerns me to the extent that I want it to be investigated,” Bostrom told the station. “But whether it’s true or not – I have no idea, I have no clue.”

He was referring to a Palestinian witness who recounted an incident where a Palestinian was allegedly taken by the Israeli military and his body returned several days later – lacking some internal organs.

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon responded to the report by saying: “This is a blood libel and the worst type of anti-Semitism.”

Ayalon called on the Swedish government to condemn these accusations and said Israel “sees a correlation between the Swedish government’s public statements, which are extremely critical of Israel, and anti-Semitism in the press.”

Related: Swedish Jews: Story doesn’t resonate

1930’s all over again.

(many thanks to Speranza for the tip)

Fatah: We’ll sacrifice victims until Jerusalem is ours.

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

The status of Jerusalem as the future capital of a Palestinian state is a red line that no Palestinian leader is permitted to cross, President Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah faction declared in the West Bank on Saturday.

According to Israel Radio, the Fatah general conference, which convened in Bethlehem for a three-day gathering, adopted a position paper which also states that the Palestinian national enterprise will not reach fruition until all of Jerusalem, including the outlying villages, come under Palestinian sovereignty.

“Fatah will continue to sacrifice victims until Jerusalem will be returned [to the Palestinians], clean of settlements and settlers,” the paper states.

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U.S. to demand Israel, Palestinian deal with borders

The U.S. administration will demand that Israel and the Palestinians address the issue of borders as the first step in the Middle East peace plan, senior Palestinian officials said Thursday.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday that Washington will present its new plan for a comprehensive Middle East peace soon.

The Rest….

If I recall correctly, appeasing Hitler before WW2 worked out so well for the appeasers.

Pro-Israel lobby probe by FBI linked to anti-Semitism

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

From the Washington Times…

A long-running FBI espionage probe of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington appears to have been motivated in part by anti-Semitism, says a former Pentagon official who revealed this week he had cooperated for 10 weeks with federal agents conducting the probe.

During the AIPAC probe, Franklin said, FBI agents whom he declined to identify by name “asked me about every Jew I knew in [the office of the secretary of defense]. There was an element of that.” Several Jews held prominent positions in the department at the time, including Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith. Both were associated with the “neoconservative” faction in the Bush administration that supported close U.S. ties with Israel and was accused by critics of having exercised undue influence on President Bush and his top aides leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Franklin said he is a “practicing Catholic” and opposes prejudice. “I guess I embraced Pope John Paul II’s view that the Jewish people are our elder brothers, and there was never any prejudice in my family and should not be in my faith,” he said. The FBI investigation targeted AIPAC lobbyists Steven B. Rosen and Keith Weissman as well Naor Gilon, an official at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Franklin said he wore a portable recording device during meetings with two of the officials during a 10-week period in 2004. Larry Franklin, a former Pentagon analyst who pleaded guilty in 2005 to revealing classified information to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), made the charge in an interview with The Washington Times, his first conversation with an American newspaper since his arrest five years ago. Franklin said in that interview that he became disturbed by several apparently anti-Semitic remarks by his FBI handlers. His cooperation with the agency, which involved taping his conversations with officials of AIPAC and the Israeli Embassy, was first reported by the Times on Wednesday. “One agent said to me, ‘How can an Irish Catholic from the Bronx get mixed up with all these …,’ and I finished the sentence for him: ‘Jews?’ And I proceeded to tell him that Christ and all the Apostles and even his mom were Jewish,” Franklin said in the interview. “So it was that sort of thing. And just sarcastic turns of the phrase from time to time. You know, I felt dirty sometimes,” he said. FBI Assistant Director John Miller declined to address the charges of anti-Semitism. “We have no way to respond to thirdhand characterizations of partial statements allegedly made by unnamed FBI employees several years ago,” Mr. Miller said. “If Mr. Franklin would like to make a formal complaint about the conduct of any FBI employee, there is a process to do.” Franklin, a prominent Iran analyst with the Defense Department before his arrest, said he did not want to tarnish the FBI, and noted that he had come to know many valorous FBI agents in the process of working with the agency on Iran issues and other matters. “But that [anti-Semitism] dimension was part of this investigation and may have been an initial incitement of this investigation,” he said. Read the rest here

Soros Advising Obama On Destroying Jewish Homes In Judea & Samaria

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

If you needed another reason to support the “settlements”, I just found it.  George Soros (Obama’s “Rove”) is clandestinely working overtime to destroy them!

The Soros created International Crisis Group (ICG), a think tank staffed with people such as anti-Israel Samantha Power who once called for a US invasion of Israel to impose a solution to the Palestinian issue (and since moved into the administration), Zbigniew (the Jews are the Problem with the world) Brzezinski and Robert Malley. (info from Yid with Lid)

Recently the ICG has issued a report to assist President Obama craft his policy on how to most effectivly destroy Israeli “settlements”.  Soros’ classless organization even went as far as sneaking into Israeli Synagogues, and dressing up as religious people to spy on the Jews there.

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http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/images/2007/09/13/obama_george_soros2.jpg(IsraelNN.com) The International Crisis Group, an investigative think tank connected to billionaire George Soros, has issued a report on the current influence of the religious Zionist movement and ways in which its opposition to further Israeli retreats can be overcome. Soros, who was a major contributor to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and who is vehemently opposed to the “Israel lobby” in the United States, is a member of the Crisis Group’s executive committee.

After conducting extensive research in Israel, including dozens of interviews with Jewish leaders, senior and junior officials, rabbis, military men, residents of Judea and Samaria and many others, the group’s analysts concluded that the government needs to “rein in” the “settlerment enterprise” and stop showing “lenience toward anti-Palestinian violence or hateful incitement, especially with a religious content.”

However, they also note that Israel’s religious right has “deep roots,” and that “even its most militant expression cannot be dealt with exclusively through confrontation.”

Advocating what some may see as a divide-and-rule approach to the religious Zionists, the report’s authors believe that the religious right’s opposition to further Israeli pullouts can be minimized if an agreement reached between Israel and Arabs marks exactly where the border between Israel and the PA will pass, thus making it clear which communities can keep on growing and which are on the chopping block.

The report also warns of a drift by ultra-orthodox Jews towards nationalistic positions, and recommends that the United States and other “foreign actors” attempt to woo ultra-Orthodox parties like Shas and United Torah Judaism by involving them in the diplomatic process.

{For Details Regarding The Reports Suggestions Read The Rest}

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I guess President Obama’s policy of “not interfering in other Countrie’s internal affairs” (see: Iran) does not apply to working up an active policy of weakening Israel.

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(*UPDATE: 2:15 p.m. PST by WrathofG-d):  It probably won’t surprise anyone, but ICG is hardly “unbiased” and actually presents itself to the Arab-Israel conflict having already accepted the Arab narrative, and arguments as fact regarding “settlements”, Israel’s security, Jerusalem, giving land to Syria, creating a “Palestinian State”, and appeasing Lebanon.

1. Crisis Group’s Middle East Initiative

On 22 September 2006, the International Crisis Group launched a new global advocacy initiative designed to generate new political momentum for a comprehensive settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Major funding support for the project — to cost around US$400,000 in its first year — was announced at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York.

Crisis Group’s Initiative was designed to help fill the present policy vacuum, stem the slide toward greater instability, and provide a viable alternative for moderates in the region on both the Israeli and Arab sides. The goal, or political horizon, must be unambiguously stated as security and full recognition to the state of Israel within internationally recognised borders — along with an end to the occupation for the Palestinian people in an independent, sovereign state with East Jerusalem as its capital, recovery of lost land to Syria, and a fully sovereign and secure Lebanese state.

Further details of Crisis Group’s Middle East Initiative, including the full text of the document and list of signatories, can be found on our Middle East Initiative page.

EU Blames Israel For The PA Wasting Their Aid Money

Monday, July 6th, 2009

The EU seems to be waking up to the fact that all of the billions they have funneled into the terrorist organization known as the P.A. (Palestine Authority) for decades has been wasted.  Unfortunately however, they have decided to blame this on the Jews.

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The European Commission issued a statement Monday blaming Israel for the fact that aid money has not succeeded in stabilizing the Palestinian Authority economy. Despite decades of aid, much of it from Europe, the PA economy remains in shambles.

According to the commission, the fault lies with Jews living in Judea and Samaria. Jews take fertile land that could otherwise be used for Arab agriculture and their presence leads to restrictions on Arab travel, spokesmen said. Travel restrictions also harm the PA economy, they claimed.

“It is the European taxpayers who pay most of the price of this [PA] dependence” on aid, the commission concluded.

The EU funds the PA and Gaza to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars per year. European countries have poured $280 million in aid into PA coffers in the first half of 2009 alone.

Despite the aid, the PA regularly reports a budget deficit. Much of the budget goes to pay salaries – the PA employs roughly 160,000 people, including many PA loyalists in Gaza who receive paychecks despite being without work since the Hamas takeover in 2007.

{The Rest of The Article}


 

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This response is dispicable, and the Europeans are shameless.  To them, the murdering Phakestinians can do no wrong.  In 2005, Israel donated to the Phakestinians fully working greenhouses, synagogues, and other buildings to be used as their infrastructure.  They destroyed them, and used them for terrorism instead. Since 1967, Israel has been giving the Phakestinians money, electricity, water, etc.

Despite all of this, the pathetic Europeans are once again simply blaming the Jews, and excusing the horrid behavior of the terrorist Phakestinians.  This “blame the Jew” mentality seems to have become reflexive, and internationally accepted. It is truly a shame.