Showing posts with label ADL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ADL. Show all posts

09 December 2009

U.S. officials face 'pro-Israel' background check

Hey America, what's the craic? Enjoying the Holidays? Festive Spirit and all? Feeling good? You won't after reading this:

From NorthernTruthSeeker
There is an amazing story in Ha'aretz today on the "pro-Israel" litmus test that determines who is permitted to serve in the United States government:

Every appointee to the American government must endure a thorough
background check by the American Jewish community.
The story goes on to rehearse what happened to Chas Freeman (whose appointment was derailed by the Israel lobby because he voiced a few mild criticisms of Israel's behavior) and reports that similar complaints are now being raised against the appointment of former Senator Chuck Hagel. Rightwing Jewish groups are complaining about the appointment of Hannah Rosenthal to direct the Office to Combat and Monitor Anti-Semitism. Why? Apparently she's been involved with J Street. Ms. Rosenthal, who is forced to defend her own appointment by telling an interviewer:

I love Israel. I have lived in Israel. I go back and visit every
chance I can. I consider it part of my heart. And because I love it so much, I want to see it safe and secure and free and democratic and living safely."
READ IT ALL
HERE


03 November 2009

ZIONIST ADL~SCHIZOPHRENIA AT IT'S BEST

The ADL are a busy little gang these days. What with directing Clinton’s praise to Israel for their “unprecedented moves” on settlements. (Note the comedy there) And then of course scanning the world for anything that they can remotely fashion into a victimization of Jews or the 2nd coming of the holocaust. But I have noticed the ADL seems to be suffering from a severe case of Schizophrenia. Let me illustrate this phenomenon.

On October 30th this was reported:
ADL after LA synagogue attack:Jews most targeted religious group

The Anti-Defamation League has expressed deep concern over Thursday's shooting at the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue in North Hollywood. "Statistics consistently show Jews to be far and away the most frequently targeted religious group
Only the ADL can decide, before ANY police investigation what so ever, that an attack on 2 Jews outside a Synagogue in a “dangerous” LA neighbourhood is automatically an attack on “Jews” and “Anti Semitic.” Using this same logic, anyone shot outside of a bar is clearly being attacked because they drink.

So for 24 hours the cries of “Anti-Semitism” rang out, the LA police had to beef up security for Jews in the area, (or else) because of the predicited outcry. All the major Jewish news papers had the headliner “Jews Attack At Synagogue-Anti Semitism” et al. Fanning the flames of victimization and “poor us” as usual. But then came this:
link By day's end, authorities had come to believe that the shooting, in which two men were wounded, was probably a far more mundane crime."There is absolutely no evidence to support any connection to terrorism or a hate crime," said Mike Downing, deputy chief of the LAPD's Counter Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau
.And with that the ADL still was not convinced, however they rolled back pushing the 2nd holocaust theory as much. And then the bombshell came:
link Several law enforcement sources told The Times that investigators were exploring whether the shooting was related to a business or personal dispute. The sources said detectives believe that one of the victims was the target and that the second victim may have been shot because he witnessed the attack.
OMG could it be? One of the “poor persecuted victims of worldwide Anti-Semitism” just may be involved in shadly dealings….oooops! Far be it for the ADL to think for one minute that one of their “precious persecuted people” might be involved in nefarious dealings and that the crime was brought about by his own activities. No that can’t possibly be correct, Jews are ALWAYS the victims, so say the ADL. So now let’s get to the ADL’s Schizophrenia episode. Remember the headline on the 30th of October was this: ADL after LA synagogue attack: Jews most targeted religious groupBut look what they published the very next day:
link The level of anti-Semitism in the United States has tied a historic low point, according to an Anti-Defamation League poll. "The fact that anti-Semitic attitudes have reached their lowest point to date is good news, the product of many years of constant and intense efforts by ADL
Now perhaps the ADL might want to have a wee look at THESE statistics below. Because in America they are not the real victims of hate crimes. They don’t even come close.
link Among groups currently included in the Hate Crime Statistics Act, the greatest number of hate crimes of any kind are perpetrated against African-Americans. From the lynching to the cross-burning and the church-burning, anti-black violence has been and still remains the prototypical hate crime - an action intended not only to injure individuals but to intimidate an entire group of people. Hate crimes against African-Americans impact upon the entire society not only for the hurt they cause but for the history they recall, and perpetuate.
But hey, it’s the ADL and facts are not important to them, grabbing headlines with false and phony cries of Anti-Semitism, That’s the game they play.

20 October 2009

THE "WORD POLICE" ARE NOT HAPPY

OMG people have stolen their Letters and Words!!!



WARNING, WARNING, THE LETTER AND WORD POLICE ARE COMING! There have been serious flagrant violations of the sacred letters and word lately. This morning I bring you very sad news indeed. All are now forbidden to use the following letters of the Alphabet: O-C-L-U-S-A-H-T you see, these letters are considered “sacred” to the Zionist hasbara machine, therefore only allowed to be used by the “chosen ones” AND not even ALL the chosen ones either, just “some” of the Chosen ones. Why? Because together those letters create the word “Holocaust” a word that belongs to only one group of people, the “chosen ones” and can only be used when attempting to garner sympathy for, you guessed it, “The Chosen Ones” all other uses are a violation and WILL be dealt with immediately! Case in point is the recent public flogging and arse kicking given to US Representative Alan Grayson, a Democrat from Florida USA by the “Zionist Word Police” , also known as the ADL, when he said this shocking, horrific, abomination, sinful and wholly anti-Semitic statement about US Health Care Jpost:
“the absence of adequate health care has resulted in a "Holocaust in America,"
Did you notice the violation there? Not used in proper context, not used to garner Jewish Sympathy, a clear violation of the Letter and Word laws. Yes, the ADL “Word Police” quickly descended upon his soon to be politically lifeless body. And, get THIS, Grayson is…..wait for it folks…..Jewish! GASP!! Still, he broke the law and must be publicly flogged and made to confess and apologise in public. Which he dutifully did post haste. See here:
Grayson, who is Jewish, has since written to the Florida regional director of the Anti-Defamation League that he did not "mean to minimize the Holocaust," and that "I regret the choice of words, and I will not repeat it."
I particularly loved the phrase “And I will Not Repeat it” How old is he? Now away with you to the blackboard you evil doer, and write 2 thousand times “I will not repeat it” you anti-Semitic Semitic you!But not all those who commit flagrant word and letter violations are so willing to “repent” see here:
“the editor-in-chief of the Polish Catholic newspaper Gosc Niedzielny ("Sunday Visitor") stands by his unseemly comparison of abortion to the annihilation of European Jewry during World War II.

After a Polish judge late last month fined Gosc Niedzielny $11,000 for comparing a woman's desire to have an abortion to medical experiments perpetrated by Nazi war criminals at Auschwitz, and ordered its editor, Father Marek Gancarczyk, and the Katowice Archdiocese as the weekly's publisher, to issue an apology, Gancarczyk defiantly declared "we will continue to voice views which we hold, as our conscience obliges us to."
Now that’s making a stand against the “Word Police” but he’s not alone, enter Rush Limbaugh LOL:
Rush Limbaugh's predictable response "If there is a holocaust in this country, it is abortion."
Ooooh and check out Brazil, where another violation of the “word police” took place:
This past March, Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of Recife, Brazil, decried abortion as a "silent Holocaust" in his defense of his recent excommunication of doctors who had performed an abortion on a nine-year-old girl who had been raped by her stepfather.
And still more “law breakers” below:
Another hyperzealous pro-life activist, Father Thomas J. Euteneuer, said that billionaire Warren Buffett "will be known as the Dr. Mengele of philanthropy unless he repents" for supporting Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights groups, referring to the notorious SS doctor who sent thousands of Jews, including my mother's sister, to the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Uh Oh, even the Zio-Christian and settler loving, Muslim hating, racist, bigot, next Republican Candidate for President, Mike Huckabee broke the rulzs as well:
In 2007, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, then a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, told a conservative Christian audience that "more than a million people... would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973."
Never mind about Mike though, as he has more than made up for his “transgressions” by becoming a true supporter of Zionism, illegal settlements and annihilating all Muslims from the Middle East. So he only gets a mention, no punishment for him. But, Former President Ronald Reagan did not escape the “Word Police” attention:
President Ronald Reagan’s 1985 description of Nazi soldiers buried in the German military cemeteries at Bitburg as “victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps” was an early milestone in a succession of glib, inappropriate, and historically inaccurate analogies.
And, even animal lovers are on the “word police” hit list. Yes, your furry friend supporters are also anti-Semitic:
Some years ago, PETA circulated an exhibit of posters entitled "Holocaust on Your Plate" that juxtaposed images of animals about to be slaughtered with photographs of Nazi concentration camp inmates.
Here it comes folks the HOLY GRAIL and the “Word Police” law engraved in stone:
The Holocaust was the greatest carnage ever perpetrated. It looms as the epitome of all that is worst in the human condition, and led to the codification of genocide as a crime against humanity.
To which the evilness was then studied by the victims of the evilness and then resurrected in 2009 during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. Who are the Nazi’s now?

Now if you will excuse me I must quickly go back and edit out ALL the illegal letters and words in my post today. Before the “Word Police” come for me……………

09 September 2009

SHOCK~Israel Goes After More Dead People

How low can they go? This time it's an American, this time it's Ted Kennedy:
Abe Foxman, President of ADL and AIPAC knew exactly what they were doing

The plan was to wrap Ted Kennedy’s casket, side by side with the American flag,(and the Israeli Flag) each flag to cover roughly half of Ted’s casket during Kennedy’s internationally broadcast funeral, which was even watched live in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs. Only the lobby’s continuing exploitation of the Holocaust and ADL’s unauthorized use of the image of Yasser Arafat to demonize him and raise millions to fund illegal settlement expansion, did Foxman see such a terrific chance to hype brand Zionism. This time by linking it in perpetuity to the Kennedy mystique and the Arlington Cemetery eternal flame. Wrapping Kennedy in the Israeli flag for history would no doubt give a boost to Israel’s preferred historical narrative and the Israeli flag which has increasingly come to represent virulent Zionism and its crimes.

AIPAC claims the well intentioned project to wrap Kennedy in the Star of David was no more than another gesture for the memory of a friend of the Jewish people. Perhaps Abe saw his initiative as a return tribute for Ted’s thoughtfulness during the November 6, 1995 funeral for Yitzak Rabin on Mount Herzl (renamed for the founder of modern Zionism, Hungarian Binyamin Ze'ev (Theodore) Herzl, who had never set foot in Palestine, from its ancient expunged Arabic name “Jabal Assalam” meaning ‘Peace Mountain”)

Despite some intense lobbying, the Kennedy family graciously declined the Foxman-Aipac offer and Ted’s coffin carried only the American flag. link
So, how low can Israel go? Evidently VERY low

07 August 2009

ZIONISTS SMEAR CATHOLICS

Today I was looking at news articles and came across several regarding the former Irish President Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland and Champion of Women’s Rights internationally. Having been born in the North of Ireland, she has experienced first hand oppression, bigoty and racism. As such, she then went on to do human rights work within the United Nations and has been a friend to oppressed people like the Palestinians. President Obama is honouring her with the Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour. As you would expect, the Zionists in AIPAC are not happy about this and have begun to attack Obama, Mary Robinson and even the Catholic religion. So, let’s talk about the subtlety of Zionist racism with a glaring example. First this:
Mary Robinson as one of this year’s recipients of the Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, might be a source of special joy and pride for the former president and United Nations human rights commissioner. She will be joined at next week’s ceremony at the White House by a small, diverse and distinguished group including Senator Edward Kennedy (should his illness allow it), Archbishop Desmond Tutu, physicist Stephen Hawking, actor Sidney Poitier and former supreme court justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
Seems innocent enough, but wait. Here comes AIPAC:
Robinson’s award has been overshadowed, however, by a noisy dispute over her record on Israel and Palestine, with some influential pro-Israel groups in the US accusing her of showing a consistent bias against the Jewish state and a handful of bloggers going as far as describing her as an anti-Semitic bigot. “She refused to reject the twisted notion that the wrong done to the Jews in the Holocaust was equivalent to the pain suffered by the Palestinians in the Middle East.”

Aipac also blames Robinson for a 2002 resolution approved by the UN Human Rights Commission that affirmed “the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to resist the Israeli occupation”, a phrase some understood as an endorsement of Palestinian violence.
This is the response from the Whitehouse and Robinson:
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs held firm to the decision to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Robinson as a "crusader of women's rights." The White House is standing by its decision to award the Medal of Freedom to the former president, but Robinson is distressed by the attacks on her record, which she described this week as “unjust and unwarranted”.

She has also accused “certain elements of the Jewish community” of bullying, a charge that has triggered a fresh round of criticism from pro-Israel groups.
Now, see if you can spot the “covert” bigotry and racism below HINT: It is contained in the headline of an article in the NYpost, a pro-Zionist rag.

“JEWS RIP O HAIL MARY”

Did you get that? Catholics say “Hail Mary’s” as part of their religion. They have used her name and linked it with her religion in a racist derogatory Anti-Catholic smear. Note that AIPAC picks its targets carefully, so as to avoid OVERT “racism” as we can see from the example below:
Political observers in Washington have noted that Aipac, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Robinson’s other critics have said little or nothing about the award of the Medal of Freedom to Tutu, whose criticism of Israel’s alleged human rights abuses has been just as forthright as Robinson’s.
You see, if they dared to pick on Tutu, as they have done with Robinsion, they’d soon find Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton along with the NAACP in their faces. And rightly so! Not to mention the entire African American population. But they have no qualms over attacking Mary Robinson AND her religion. Catholics should be outraged and should write to the NYpost about the “title” of that article which is clearly Anti-Catholic. But Israel has a long standing policy of Anti-Catholicism. They have done to Catholics what they are doing to Palestinians today:
The roots of Anti-Catholicism in Israel can be traced back to the origin of the Jewish state in 1948 when several villages with majority Catholic populations, such as Kafr Bir'im and Iqrit, were forcibly depopulated by the Israel Defence Forces.[65] Catholic priests have been expelled from the country, and dozens of churches have been occupied, closed or forcibly sold since 1948. More recently Israel has denied residence status to Catholic clerics and has attempted to block the appointment of Catholic bishops.[66] Israeli government attempts such as the failed 1998 effort to block the Holy See's appointment of Boutros Mouallem as archbishop of Galilee were condemned by the Vatican and other nations.[67] Suspicion and hostility towards Catholic clerics has led to incidents such as the October 2002 detention and harassment of Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop Elias Chacour and Archbishop Boutros Mouallem, who were prevented from leaving Jerusalem to attend an interfaith meeting in London.[68] link

In The Much Too Promised Land , a new account of US efforts to broker peace in the Middle East, Aaron David Miller, who advised both Republican and Democratic administrations, suggests Aipac may be less powerful than its critics believe and the group itself likes to pretend. However, he quotes the group’s former executive director, Tom Dine, as declaring that being “the tough guy in the neighbourhood” is still essential. “Aipac and the community can hurt you,” Dine said.

This week, Robinson is discovering in the most painful and immediate terms how true those words remain. source
Lastly this:
Today we are proud of Mary Robinsion, for her work in Women’s Rights, for having the courage to stand up to the Zionists and for her support of the Palestinian plight. Congratulations to Mary Robinson, when AIPAC attacks you, then you must be doing something right!My fellow Irish blogger Sheilanagig has a view on this as well HERE

04 August 2009

Censorship~Acquired Target America

I write quite a lot of posts about the Zionists attempting to expand it's agenda of censorship. Today there is an excellent op-ed by Jeff Gates over at Middle East Online regarding the new push by the ADL for a re-write of the laws governing "hate crime." You see, the term "hate crime" is the pretty wrapping paper that covers the deeper nefarious agenda of "America's Best Friend"
To betray, you must first befriend. To defraud, you must first create trust. Accountability for this trans-generational duplicity will commence as the ADL’s true motives become transparent and its supporters apparent. The restoration of national security requires that those complicit in this covenant—including cooperative lawmakers and their staffs—are held accountable for their support of this statute. read it all HERE
Israel has a long standing "censorship" policy. For those who think Israel is a democracy like America, think again. Just take a gander at this report from 2006 for a shocker:
Israel's chief military censor, who has -- in her own words -- "extraordinary power." She can silence a broadcaster, block information and put journalists in jail.

"I can, for example, publish an order that no material can be published. I can close a newspaper or shut down a station. I can do almost anything," Col. Sima Vaknin said Wednesday.
Get ready America, your freedom of speech will soon be gone...........

30 June 2009

CENSORSHIP~The Wolf In Sheeps Clothing



Let's talk about America's "Best Friend"

Several months ago I did a post about how Israel works to censor the Internet and the media with regards to reports or information that shows Israel in a bad light, or exposes its criminal acts. But here is an additional wee bit that I found which is quite interesting. It appears that YouTube has partnered with the ADL to censor videos and channels. Yup you heard that right. The powerful American Jewish Lobby has infiltrated yet another social network where free speech abounds,
or it used to.....

There is just something inherently wrong with a lobby group that represents “one” particular type of person/religion, to be allowed to oversee, control and decide what videos get to remain on YouTube. I mean, what if Rev John Hagee was allowed to work with YouTube. If that happened we’d not have anything that discusses “Harry Potter” as he believes the books to be “Witchcraft” Additionally, there would be no videos allowed that discuss “Global Warming” because according to him, it’s a big fat lie. And let’s not forget he hates Catholics, so you can’t make videos either.

Pretty soon we’d only have one type of video. Sound crazy? Well, if it sounds crazy with Hagee then you can’t discount the agenda of the ADL and the many other Jewish/Zionist groups who are actively working online to censor social networking sites. Why? Because they pose a great danger to Israel as they can allow the truth to be exposed. To Prove my example first read this from the ADL's website. And please note the date of this article, only two weeks before the Israeli genocide in Gaza began, Hmmmmmmmm they were already planning on the fallout. Which, begs the question did the ADL and other Jewish Lobby groups know in advance??????
I say again Hmmmmmmm:
YouTube Taps ADL As Partner In Fight Against Hate

New York, NY, December 11, 2008 … YouTube has reached out to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for its expertise in dealing with hate on the Internet. In one outgrowth of that partnership, the League is now a contributor to YouTube's newly launched Abuse & Safety Center, where users are empowered to identify and confront hate, and to report abuses.

The YouTube Abuse & Safety Center features information and links to resources developed by ADL to help Internet users respond to and report offensive material and extremist content that violates YouTube's Community Guidelines on hate speech.

ADL also serves as the U.S. representative to the International Network Against Cyber-Hate (INACH). Source
So we see the extent of the ADL's infiltration into not only social media but the US government as well.

Note that it sounds like it’s the "general public" that makes the complaints to take down videos and suspend or close accounts on YouTube. This is not entirely the truth, as the ADL have at their disposal the JIDF a worldwide Jewish Internet Defense Force with huge numbers who target videos that criticize Israel. Additionally, they also work with another group called “YouTube Smackdown” which is a right wing neo-con group that also supports Israel and targets videos critical of Israel. Below you can see a screenshot from their site, illustrating that they are linked to the JIDF:




So, the ADL and their affiliated groups claim they are against violent supporting videos? Well, just ask yourself why they seem to have no problems allowing Jewish Groups to produce videos supporting violence. Even Jewish Groups who have committed acts of terrorism and bombings inside the USA. See here

Are they calling for these to be removed?

Nope... After all, it’s not really about being against “violence supporting” videos, it’s really about pushing the militant Israeli-Zionist agenda. from the JDF site:
June 23 2009 - 1:15:22:pm by JDL
If any JDL members or supporters would like firearms training and live in or around Allegheny County, PA or in Phoenix/Scottsdale, AZ, please email us for referral to NRA certified instructors who are JDL supporters. We are looking for people in every locality to assist in teaching Jews in firearms proficiency, so please email us. We will be building a separate list of these contacts on another section of our site.
And you can view their video here To view even more extreme videos go to YouTube and search this phrase "Jewish firearms" I certainly hope the CIA are watching these terrorist groups.

Now imagine for one second if a Muslim Organisation had a video exactly like this one. How long would it be allowed to remain on YouTube? Answer: About 3 seconds!Israel likes to claim Muslims are terrorists. Perhaps they should look in the mirror. Aside from committing terrorist acts inside America, I found this little article from 2008 which proves that as long ago as 60 years Israel supported terrorism. And who was the target 60 years ago? Britain……….
July 19, 2008
Jewish guerrillas told British: quit Palestine or die

A pamphlet warning Britons to leave the Middle East or face death has come to light in a stash of illicit propaganda.

The document does not hail from Basra or Baghdad, nor was it penned by the Islamists of al-Qaeda or the al-Mahdi Army. It was found in Haifa, about 60 years ago, and it was issued by the underground group led by Menachem Begin – the future Prime Minister of Israel and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

The document, which surfaced at an auction house this week, is addressed to “the soldiers of the occupation army” and aimed at British soldiers serving in Palestine, then under the British Mandate, preceding the establishment of Israel in 1948. The print has faded and the paper has discoloured since it was unearthed from a grove of trees in Haifa in the summer of 1947. Yet the language and the concerns remain current.

Richard Westwood-Brookes, Mullock’s historical documents specialist, said the pamphlet was a remarkable find, which “ amounted to a manifesto for terrorist action”. He added: “It also raises the question as to who are ‘terrorists’ and who are ‘freedom fighters’. It’s a debate which raged through the troubles of Northern Ireland and continues in the Middle East.” source
So who has a current history of Terrorism against England and the West? Not the Muslims, but America’s best friend.

Yeah, America should keep sending them Billions each year, and keep allowing them to control the Internet, and keep allowing Zionist Terrorist groups to operate inside America. So who owns America, whoever controls it, that's who.

Here are some links you may find interesting:

Anti-JIDF channels:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbm3vgoSxZ0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wJ064ZDB4Y&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfN6W5JozeA
posted by CherylSpeaksOut

JIDF information:

Lists the January 2009 results of 79 accounts suspended by JIDFWhich took place at the beginning of the Gaza Holocaust may I remind you.

here’s one on their current list:

http://www.youtube.com/user/freeplalestine

and you can see their full list of targets here: scroll down to the smaller scroll box where they have the list they want removed. You may be on it.

25 June 2009

MASSIVE FAIL~Jewish Lobby FAILS to Oust Robinson


CONFIRMED: Ok to compare Gaza to Holocaust. Yes, the American Jewish Lobby Groups are, at this moment, in the process of ripping out their own eyeballs in order to stuff them into their ears to stop the horrible sound of "FAILURE" from entering. GAZA=HOLOCAUST Two reports below:
Calif. professor's Gaza e-mail cleared by panel

On Wednesday, he was notified that a faculty committee had found no "probable cause" to undertake a full investigation of complaints filed against him related to e-mail messages he sent to his students in which he compared Israelis and Nazis. Further, he was notified that the administration at the University of California at Santa Barbara had accepted the faculty members' analysis, and that the case was over -- without his ever having faced formal charges before a disciplinary committee.

Supporters of Robinson, a tenured professor of sociology, agreed with those findings. But they said that grievances filed over e-mail messages sent in January should have been seen immediately as baseless, and that allowing the case to linger for months endangered the academic freedom of Robinson and others.

The case has attracted attention far beyond Santa Barbara, with the American Association of University Professors last month calling on the university to "pause" its inquiries because of the academic freedom issues involved. Cary Nelson, national president of the AAUP, said Wednesday night that "although I am pleased that the Robinson case has been closed, I am also concerned that unnecessary investigations of faculty exercising their academic freedom are having a serious chilling effect on our more vulnerable or less courageous colleagues."

The dispute dates to an e-mail message that Robinson sent to the approximately 80 students in January in a course about sociology and globalization. The e-mail contained an article criticizing the Israeli military's actions in Gaza. Part of the e-mail was an assemblage of photos from Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews and from Israel's actions in Gaza. Students were invited to look at the "parallel images." A message from Robinson argued that Gaza would be like "Israel's Warsaw."

In February, the Anti-Defamation League's Santa Barbara office wrote to Robinson to protest the e-mail and to urge him to repudiate it. "While your writings are protected by the First Amendment and academic freedom, we rely upon our rights to say that your comparisons of Nazis and Israelis were offensive, ahistorical and have crossed the line well beyond legitimate criticism of Israel," the letter said. It went on to say that the "tone and extreme views" in his e-mail were "intimidating to students," and that using his university e-mail to send "material that appears unrelated to" his course violated university standards for faculty members.
(Hmmmmmm, so freedom of speech only applies to Israel and it's hasbara)
Following that letter, two students in the course dropped the class and filed complaints against Robinson. One student wrote that she felt "nauseous" upon reading the e-mail, and felt it was inappropriate. A second student complaint accusing Robinson of being unprofessional -- also from a student who dropped the course after receiving the e-mail -- said that Robinson has "clearly stated his anti-Semitic political views in this e-mail."
(I'll bet dollars to doughnuts these "two" students are most likely members of THIS groups no doubt)
The position of Robinson and his supporters has been that Israel's conduct in Gaza was in every way appropriate as a topic for discussion in a class on global issues, and that the complaints filed against him were a simple case of students (and some pro-Israel groups) disagreeing with Robinson's analysis. Robinson could not be reached Wednesday, but last month he told Inside Higher Ed that the charges against him were "absolutely absurd." He noted that he is Jewish and said that he abhors anti-Semitism, and that his academic freedom is being violated by the university taking seriously charges that link his e-mail criticisms of Israel's government with anti-Semitism. "This is all because I have criticized the policies of the State of Israel."

Stand With Us, a pro-Israel group that has been organizing petition drives to back the idea of a full investigation of Robinson, issued a statement Wednesday night questioning the university's decision. link
This bears repeating all day long:
GAZA=HOLOCAUST
GAZA=HOLOCAUST
GAZA=HOLOCAUST
GAZA=HOLOCAUST
GAZA=HOLOCAUST
GAZA=HOLOCAUST
GAZA=HOLOCAUST
Until their collective heads explode

12 June 2009

ARM YOURSELF Zionists "Buy Weapons Now!"

This time it's American Zionists calling for their supporters to "Arm" themsleves and buy weapons. I sincerely hope the CIA is watching these nutters. Given that just last week some American Zionists visiting Israel were filmed calling Obama the "n" word and calling for him to be shot, and after that Zionist settlers also called Obama the "n" word and also set fire to a Palestinian farm. They say every time Obama pressures Israel they will attack a Palestinian home. Nice people. And now we see this video Calling for American Zionists to buy weapons now:

09 April 2009

JEWISH LOBBY AT IT AGAIN

What is it with these people? They want to censor the world, let me remind everyone that this same group, the ADL (Anti_Defamation League)were the ones behind the ban on George Galloway in Canada. Now, they are going after Desmond Tutu who is to speak at a Michigan University. well, I can understand Israel's problem with Tutu. After all, Israel supported the apartheid government in South Africa and continues it's own version of Apartheid in Israel against Palestinians. Once a racists, always a racist. Please, America, get these Zionist Israeli agents out of your politics and country, next they will start censoring the Internet, Oh sorry, forgot, my bad, they already ARE doing that HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE!! Story on Tutu below:

Anti-Defamation League asks MSU to reconsider Tutu

In a letter sent last week, the Anti-Defamation League asked Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon to reconsider the invitation extended to Archbishop Desmond Tutu to give the university’s commencement address next month.

The Jewish advocacy organization said the South African cleric, whose opposition to Apartheid earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, had made statements about Israel that “conveyed outright bigotry against the Jewish homeland and the Jewish people.”

It said he supports a cultural and academic boycott of Israel “based on ideas that are anti-Semitic and should be anathema to any institution of higher learning truly committed to academic freedom.”

Simon responded earlier this week. She said no.

While noting that university leaders had publicly opposed such a boycott, she wrote in a letter dated Monday, “Michigan State University rejects the notion that free intellectual exchange and scholarly activities should be casualties of political disagreement.”

07 April 2009

Hey America, Don't Think You Have a Zionist Problem??

Hello America, the US Zionists are at it again, you have subversive groups, within your borders, loyal to another country working against your President. Would you allow British, French,German, or Arab control of your country? Well you are allowing Israel to control America and it is working against what is best for America. Cut these people loose. Support your President and your country, expel them if they are working against America's policies and also attempting to free a man who spied on the USA and was convicted of this HERE And so far as Israel being a "friend" to America, if the spy is not enough to convince you, then remember the USS Liberty and then read this:

Don't Give in to Pressure for a PA State

In a congratulatory letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the US-based National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) urged him to reject global pressures to agree to a Palestinian state. The organization also called for action to obtain freedom for imprisoned Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard

The April 1, 2009 letter, released to the press on Monday, was signed by Shlomo Z. Mostofsky, Esq., President of the NCYI, and Rabbi Pesach Lerner, its Executive Vice President. The NCYI represents over 150 Orthodox synagogues throughout the United States and Canada, with another 50 congregations in Israel affiliated with its sister organization, Yisrael HaTza'ir.

The NCYI leaders referred to unnamed "external forces" that "may call upon you to take a conciliatory approach towards the Palestinians," adding, "[We] implore you to stand firm and reject any pressure to accede to calls for the creation of a Palestinian state. We believe that an independent Palestinian state would merely compound the complex problems that currently exist and open the door to a new wave of acts of terror directed at innocent Israeli civilians."

As for the Israeli agent in American hands, Mostofsky and Rabbi Lerner further said, "[We] hope that when you meet with President Obama, you will directly ask the President to commute Jonathan Pollard's prison sentence. ...It is time to set Jonathan Pollard free and send him home to Israel."
(No, it's time to STFU and throw away the key and let him serve his LIFE sentance!!)

04 April 2009

Israeli Consulate Takes Over Palestinian Discussion Group in New Hampshire

Here's Israel bullying it's way into a group discussing the plight of Palestinians. The group in New Hampshire, has been carrying on discussion throughout February. Then, suddenly "Several members of the public, who complained to library officials, said the event was not accurate and was one-sided." Translation, the Jewish Lobby, the same people who smeared Charles Freeman and the same people who banned a Member of the British Parliament from entering Canada. Yet, they have the right to force themselves into a public venue to spew their Israeli "hasbara" to the public? Why can't people be allowed to have groups without Israel horning in. I'll tell you why, because Israel is loosing the battle for the hearts and minds of the public, that's why this is so important that they have to bully into groups like this, and if they can't bully into them, then they destroy them or shut them down. Censorship and manipulation is what they do best. Oh and smearing their enemies.

If you live in, or near this location, I highly suggest you get there and give this guy some heated questions. Because, rest assured, they will have pro-Israel people bussed in and planted in the audience to support this guy. Report below:

Israeli consul will speak in Portsmouth

PORTSMOUTH — A high-ranking Israeli diplomat will be at Portsmouth Public Library on Monday to continue what has become an intense local discussion regarding the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Several members of the public, who complained to library officials, said the event was not accurate and was one-sided. Ultimately, the last installment of the series was moved to a different location, but library officials said it was because of a scheduling conflict.


Scheduling conflict? Don't you mean pressure from the Jewish Lobby?

Without addressing the Teach-ins directly, a spokeswoman for the consulate general said Tamir recognized the dialogue was occurring and wanted to help introduce Israel's perspective.


Translation=He needs to get in there and spread Israel's false version of events. Why bother, we can all go to the IDF website or the HUGE amount of Jewish Publications if we want the IDF version of events. Or, we could just watch FOX news!

Nadav Tamir, who serves as consul general of Israel to New England in Boston, will answer the public's questions regarding recent events in Israel and Gaza.

Throughout February, the library hosted the first three meetings in a series of Palestine Teach-ins, hosted by Seacoast Peace Response and Palestine Education Network. The purpose of the event was to discuss the plight of the Palestinians during the conflict, which organizers said is often ignored by the media, but is just as tragic.


So Israel has to come in and hijack this groups discussion, such bullies and propaganda spreaders, using the ever powerful threats from Jewish lobbyists and groups to seize and take over discussion groups to control people and force their views on the public. And here it is in their own words below:

"There's been some events going on in the area, and we want to come in and be part of that discussion," said Daniella Caplan, director of press and media relations for the consulate general. "We want to make ourselves available to the public to answer any questions."

In a released statement, Tamir, who joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993, said, "As a democratic country, Israel prides itself on its open society of dialogue and pluralism.


Open democracy eh? What about sexism ,racism and equality, and diversity, you forgot those wee things, all of which are present in any real democracy.Notice who is sponsoring the event below:

The sponsors of the event are Temple Israel, New Hampshire Center for Middle East Peace, New Hampshire Council of Churches and the Consulate General of Israel to New England.


I smell a MAJOR HASBARA ALERT coming to New Hampshire!

03 April 2009

George Galloway Sues Bernie Farber ADL Canadian Jewish Lobby



Galloway going to get Jason Kenney and Bernie Farber (head of Canada's Jewish Lobby who got Kenney to ban George) in court for defamation. If I were Bernie and Jason, I'd pay a visit to youtube and refer to when Galloway took on the US congress. Be afraid, be very afraid LOL

All I can say is GO GEORGE!! The only person with enough "Chutzpah" to take them on. Too bad the American President won't do the same and defend his own appointments from the Zionists who run American foreign policy and politics. I hope George drags their sorry arses through a long drawn out trial so the world can see how evil they are.

British MP to sue for defamation after being barred from Canada

British MP George Galloway, an outspoken supporter of the Palestinian cause who was barred last month from entering Canada for a speaking tour, says he plans to sue the head of the Canadian Jewish Congress and CTV for defamation.

George Galloway told a cheering crowd in Ottawa he plans to sue some Canadians for defamation over comments made after he was denied entry to Canada. (Canadian Press)

Speaking to an audience in Ottawa through a video internet connection from New York, Galloway said Thursday he will fight for his reputation, but did not say specifically how he had been defamed.

“I have instructed my lawyers in Canada to bring an action for defamation against Bernie Farber, the CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress, and CTV, for comments he made that they allowed him to make,” he said.

“I am not a terrorist. I am not a threat to Canada’s national security.”

He said he will sue if he doesn't receive an apology, reimbursement for administrative costs and payment for damages.

A spokesman later said Galloway plans similar action against Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.

A spokesman for the immigration minister said the border agency made the decision that Galloway was inadmissible based on the law, not politics.

A Federal Court ruling issued March 30 upheld the CBSA decision to prohibit the MP from visiting Canada.

Supporters of the politician from Scotland — now on a speaking tour of about a dozen U.S. cities — called the decision an affront to free speech that smacked of political interference by the Conservative government.

MP says his audiences are larger now

In his speech by video to hundreds of people who filled a community theatre in Ottawa, Galloway said efforts to ban him from speaking in Canada have backfired spectacularly.

"Far more people have come to these rallies than would otherwise have done," he said.

31 March 2009

WATCH George Galloway's Banned Speech VIDEO

This is a video of Geroge Galloway's speech transmitted into Canada via video link

you can watch it HERE

enjoy!

Canada Will Need Thousands More Customs Officers

I like this take on the Galloway decision. If Canada,(or any country for that matter) is going to start the habit of banning anyone who holds different views in order to censor them, then they better start hiring thousands more Customs officers LOL, Too true!

British MP George Galloway is no more a threat to Canada’s national security than was deported racist Ernst Zundel.

If Canada is going to bar all prominent visitors who are obnoxious, or who spout political views we don’t agree with, then we had better start hiring thousands more customs personnel LINK

30 March 2009

CENSORSHIP LIVES~Galloway Ban Upheld~Thanks to Jewish Lobby Who Run Canada

Well it appears that the ADL of Canada controls the Government in the same way the ADL and AIPAC do in the USA. I find it stunning that a foreign country has this much of a grip on both Canada and the USA. Why should Americans, or Canadians for that matter bother to even vote as Israel is the real power in both countries.Note there is an update at the end as this story continues to develop


British MP banned from Canada
12:39pm
Edmonton / iNews880.com
3/30/2009

Controversial British MP George Galloway's request for an injunction to enter Canada has been denied by a Federal Court judge.

The decision prevents Galloway from appearing in person at an event in Toronto this evening, the first of three scheduled events in Canada.

The federal government has told Galloway he could not enter Canada because he allegedly engaged in terrorist activities.

In a letter to Galloway, the government says the MP delivered humanitarian goods to war-torn Gaza and gave $45,000 to Hamas, which is a banned terrorist organization in Canada.

On Sunday, one of the lawyers who made the injunction bid said Galloway gave money to the head of the government in Gaza, not to the head of Hamas, even though they are the same person.

Organizers of Galloway's speaking tour have said the Toronto speech, scheduled for 7 p.m. ET, would go ahead - either in person if he wins the court injunction, or via video if he loses.


Don't belive the Jewish Jobby had anything to do with this decision? See here:


Galloway speech will aid Hamas, group alleges

A Federal Court judge in Toronto has upheld a Canadian travel ban for outspoken British MP and antiwar activist George Galloway.

George Galloway's planned visit to Canada is not just a speaking junket, but a fundraising tour that would benefit the outlawed terrorist group Hamas, the Canadian wing of the Jewish Defence League alleged yesterday.

The controversial Zionist group cited a press release from Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, one of Mr. Galloway's hosts, that said a Montreal event on Wednesday "will aim to raise additional funds for Galloway's Gaza aid caravan."

Meir Weinstein, national director of JDL, said he did not know if it was his March 16 letter, citing Mr. Galloway's own promotional material, that tipped the Conservative government to the visit.

Mr. Weinstein said he is primarily concerned with the fundraising, not the famously bombastic content of Mr. Galloway's speeches.

He said concerns over free speech made him feel "damned if you do, and damned if you don't." But he said he "can't accept being relegated to second rate status, that we don't have a right to object."

"We would oppose him speaking anywhere and we would oppose any apologist or supporter of Hamas," he said. "But whether or not the government would prevent that, I don't know. We're not taking a stand on the issue of free speech here... It's extremely dangerous what this individual represents."

Laith Marouf, branches coordinator for Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights in Montreal, said that for the JDL to accuse others of supporting terrorism "is like the pot calling the kettle black."

He referred to the FBI's description of JDL as "a violent extremist Jewish organization." Among other critics, the Southern Poverty Law Center calls it a "hate group," and denounces its "long history of bombing, assaulting and threatening its perceived enemies."

JDL's Canada wing was recently reformed under Mr. Weinstein after a period of inactivity.

Mr. Marouf said Mr. Galloway's aid caravan brought humanitarian and medical aid to Gaza, and did not support terrorism.

"That is what we are aiming to raise funds for," Mr. Marouf said, adding that the money would be given as a donation to the British charity Viva Palestina.

This charity, backed by Mr. Galloway, has said it raised around $2-million, largely as a result of public outcry at Israel's offensive there in January.


I find it rich that the ADL has the audacity to cite "terrorist" activity when people are making charitable donations for humanitarian aid to people who just suffered a holocaust committed by Nazi Israelis. This when the ADL has a legacy of being a terrorist group. They are just terrorists in suits, without balaclavas!

see HERE form the FBI website!

"Investigation by the Los Angeles JTTF revealed that Irving Rubin and Earl Krugel were active members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), a known violent extremist Jewish Organization. A Cooperating Witness reported statements made by Rubin and Krugel indicating a plan to attack the Islamic Muslim Public Affairs Council (IMPAC) office in Los Angeles or possibly the California office of United States Congressman Darrell Issa. Statements made by Kruger indicated the motivation for the attack was to serve as a "wake up call" to the Muslim Community. Rubin and Krugel were arrested by members of the Los Angeles JTTF for conspiring to build and place an improvised explosive device at the IMPAC office. Irving Rubin committed suicide and Earl Krugel's charges are pending."


Who's the real "terrorists"
So, it appears the Israeli terrorists are allowed to grow and flourish, however, those who want to help collect humanitarian aid for the victims of those terrorists are now considered the terrorists. Yes, perhaps in Bizarro Land

UPDATED X1
Travel ban upheld for outspoken British MP Galloway
Ruling leaves open the possibility that there could be a full hearing on whether Mr. Galloway can enter Canada at a later date. Barbara Jackman, who represented Mr. Galloway and his supporters, said she was disappointed with the decision.

"The court was asked to do something courageous, to defend free speech," said Ms. Jackman, who added that she is not aware of any other British MP ever being denied entry to Canada.

She indicated there may be a full hearing at a later date to decide if Mr. Galloway can enter the country in the future.

29 March 2009

DECEPTION~Israeli Government Plan to Deceive Obama



Yesterday I made an entry regarding the Chief Negotiator for the Palestinian Authority's statement where he said Israel is not interested in peace.

Additionally, Uri Avnery wrote an incredible piece about the new Israeli Government working to deceive the Obama administration regarding peace with Palestine. He puts forth the argument, using history and facts, the “Biberman” government AKA (Bibi Netanyahu and Avigdor Liberman) or “Bibarak” AKA (Bibi and Ehud Barak) will work diligently to pretend to want peace whilst indeed working to destroy it. This is a chilling warning to Americans and the American Government of what it could very well face in its quest for a fair and just peace in the Middle East. Let us all work hard to keep the Obama Administration on the course it chose. As we have already witnessed the nastiness and smear tactics of the American Jewish Lobby (AIPAC, ZOA, ADL and So many others!!) that have controlled US politics for too many years, when it forced the removal of Chas Freeman and other potential choices made by Obama. America elected Obama, not Netanyahu, Americans need to remember that and make certain that no foreign country is allowed to create America’s course. America needs to do what is best for America, and if that is counter productive to the whims of Israel then too bad. Link to the full analysis can be found at the end of this post.

Netanyahu’s grand strategy is to avoid peace by deceiving the US and Europe
By Uri Avnery

29 March 2009

Uri Avnery argues that, conscious that his government's opposition to peace with the Palestinians will put it on a collision course with the US, Binyamin Netanyahu will “present to the world, and especially the US and Europe, a false picture, pretending that our new government is yearning for peace ... while doing the exact opposite”.

”Liberman, Netanyahu, Barak, Ellie Yishai of Shas and Danny Hershkovitz of the “Jewish Home” party are in total agreement about the Palestinians. All of them agree on the need to prevent the establishment of a real Palestinian state. All of them agree not to talk with Hamas. All of them support the settlement enterprise. During Barak’s stint as Prime Minister, the settlements grew even faster than during Netanyahu’s tenure. Liberman is himself a settler, Hershkovitz’s party represents the settlers. All of them believe that there is no need for peace, that peace is bad for us.”

Binyamin Netanyahu has proven that he is a consummate politician. He has realized the dream of every politician (and theatre goer): a good place in the middle. In his new government he can play off the fascists on the right against the socialists on the left, Liberman’s secularists against the orthodox of Shas. An ideal situation.

The pinnacle of his achievement was the acquisition of the Labour party for his government.

In one stroke he turned a government of lepers, which would have been viewed by the whole world as a crazy bunch of ultra-nationalists, racists and fascists, into a sane and balanced government of the centre. All this without changing its character in the least.

The most ardent supporter of this feat was Liberman, the new foreign minister of Israel. This extreme racist, this spiritual brother of the French Jean-Marie Le Pen and the Austrian Joerg Haider (I hope both, the living and the dead, will not feel insulted), was very anxious about what was awaiting him. In his imagination he saw himself extending his hand to Hillary Clinton and being left with his arm dangling in the air. Leaning forward to kiss Angela Merkel only to see her draw back in horror. Unpleasant.

The addition of the Labour Party solves everybody’s problem. If the social democrats are joining the government, all this talk of fascism must be nonsense. Obviously, Liberman has been misunderstood. He has been misrepresented. He is not a fascist at all, God forbid. He is not a racist. He is just a traditional right-wing demagogue who exploits the primitive emotions of the masses to garner votes. Which elected politician could object to that?

Indeed, the whole government has been given a kosher certificate by Ehud Barak. He continues the glorious Labour Party tradition of political prostitution.

Why did Barak do this? And why did the majority of the Labour Party support him?

Labour is a government party. It has never been anything else. As early as 1933 it took over the Zionist movement, and since than it ruled the Yishuv (the pre-1948 Jewish community in Palestine) and the state without interruption until Begin’s ascent to power in 1977. For 44 consecutive years it held unchallenged power over the economy, the army, the police, the security services, the education system, the health system and the Histadrut, the then all-powerful Labour federation.

So what will be the real platform of this government?

In four words: Deception for the fatherland.

On this government’s chosen path there lies a huge rock: the United States of America.

While Israel made a big leap to the right, the US has made a big leap to the left.

Netanyahu is conscious of this problem, perhaps more than any other Israeli leader. He grew up in the US, after his father, a history professor in Jerusalem, felt himself deprived of his rightful place in academia because of his extreme right-wing views and went to America. There Binyamin attended high school and university. He speaks the fluent American English of a travelling salesman.

If there is one thing that unites practically all Israelis, from right to left, it is the conviction that the relationship between Israel and the US is critical for the security of the state. Netanyahu’s main concern is, therefore, to prevent a serious break between the two countries.


The clash seems inevitable. Obama wants to create a new order in the Middle East. He knows that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict poisons the atmosphere against America in the Arab world – and indeed in the entire Muslim world. He wants a solution to the conflict – exactly what Netanyahu and his partners want to prevent at any price, except the price of a breach with the US.

The solution is written in the Bible (Proverbs 24:6): “For by ruses thou shalt make thy war.”

(In the King James version, the Hebrew word Takhbulot is translated as “wise counsel”. In Modern Hebrew it means ruses, tricks, ploys – and that is the way it is understood by all Hebrew-speakers today.)

From the beginnings of Zionism, its leaders have known that their vision necessitates a large measure of make-belief. It is impossible to take over a country inhabited by another people without disguising the aim, diverting attention, hiding the acts on the ground behind a screen of flowery words.

Because of the special circumstances of their enterprise, the Zionists have had to use deceit perhaps a bit more than usual.

Now the task is to present to the world, and especially the US and Europe, a false picture, pretending that our new government is yearning for peace, acting for peace, indeed turning every stone in search of peace – while doing the exact opposite.

But deceiving, like dancing the tango, takes two: one who deceives and one who wants to be deceived.

Netanyahu believes that Obama will want to be deceived. Why would he want to quarrel with Israel, confront the mighty pro-Israel lobby and the US Congress, when he can settle for soothing words from Netanyahu? Read it all HERE

27 March 2009

Oliphant Cartoon~False Anti-Semitism Fest

The following post is a MUST READ from Desertpeace

The following was written by my Associate, David Baldinger. As an artist he is most interested in this particular issue.
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Oliphant Channels Robert Minor

Pat Oliphant, syndicated editorial cartoonist, created a cartoon the other day that has Zionists everywhere screaming their usual accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’. Bravo, Pat, for being one of the few main stream media cartoonists to make a critical statement about the Israeli government’s over kill in Gaza. Anyone who dares criticize Israel is automatically labeled an anti-Semite so the charge has little meaning any longer.

I am surprised that no one has picked up on Oliphant’s reference to the great early 20th Century Communist cartoonist, Robert Minor (1884 - 1952). The Oliphant headless soldier is obviously not ‘NAZI’ imagery but that of the mindless soldier that Robert Minor called, ‘the perfect soldier’. This soldier dates from World War 1 USA and not NAZI era Germany. read it all HERE

26 March 2009

US Jews Support Palestinain Unity Government Including Hamas

US Jews back Obama's Mideast path
Hilary Leila Krieger

WASHINGTON, DC – A new J Street poll finds that large majorities of American Jews support US President Barack Obama's active engagement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, even if that means exerting pressure and publicly disagreeing with Israel.

American Jews would also like the United States to deal with a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas in pursuit of a peace agreement, a position at odds with current US and Israeli policy shunning Hamas.

The poll, commissioned by the dovish pro-Israel lobby and released Monday, also reports that American Jews are evenly split between those who support a US military attack on Iran if it is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons and those who oppose a military attack in those circumstances. The finding mirrors a similar result in an American Jewish Committee poll last year.

Relating to the recent elections in Israel, the survey also asked about Avigdor Lieberman, who is likely to become Israel's next foreign minister.

With 62 percent name recognition, the poll found that Lieberman has only a 27 percent favourability rating in comparison to 74 percent for Obama, 58 percent for incoming Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and 53 percent for current Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.

They also found that 69 percent disagreed with Lieberman's views in which he "has previously called for the execution of Arab members of Israel's parliament who met with Hamas and whose main campaign message called for Arab citizens of Israel to sign a loyalty oath to the Jewish state in order to prevent their citizenship from being revoked".

Additionally, 32 percent said him becoming a senior minister in the government "weakens my personal connection to Israel because Lieberman's positions go against my core values" while 58 percent said it would not affect their feelings towards Israel and 10 percent said it would strengthen them.


For another take on this you can read one at tikun olam

25 March 2009

Charles Freeman & Jewish Lobby~REDUX

"Freeman became sort of a martyr," argued Ian Lustick, political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania. "The lobby might have won, but they paid a price."

Chas Freeman Redux, from Haaretz, more information on the Freeman dirty dealings by the Israeli Lobbyists in the USA.
'The pro-Israel lobby is alive and well, and bipartisan'

Indeed, with Freeman departing under pressure, pro-Israel activists succeeded in drawing a line in the sand and sending a strong signal to the Obama administration about what is acceptable in Middle East policy.

But critics, interestingly, are celebrating the bright light the Freeman issue shone on their own questioning of American policy toward Israel and on their claims that the pro-Israel lobby routinely uses its clout to ensure that dissenters gain no foothold. They say their attempt to discuss the Israel lobby issue won a legitimacy it never had before.

"Freeman became sort of a martyr," argued Ian Lustick, political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania. "The lobby might have won, but they paid a price."

The eruption of public debate over the role of pro-Israel activists in shaping American policy toward the Middle East comes nearly three years after two leading scholars, Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, published their article about the Israel lobby, which later turned into a book, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy."

And the outcome of the episode indicates that strong critics of Israel may be cut off from government positions of real influence. Several incidents in recent years also suggest that untenured faculty at some colleges may want to consider their career prospects before speaking out too boldly.

Mearsheimer sees the situation as nuanced. "The Freeman issue had a significant influence on how people think; it had some influence on the discourse - and almost none on how policy is made," he told the Forward.
Mearsheimer praised the Internet as the main force promoting a new sense of openness on this issue. He condemned the mainstream media as "hopeless."

"We made our representation to members of Congress and to people in the administration," said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "Sometimes we talk publicly and sometimes privately."

They argue instead that some also seek to stifle or penalize those who speak out on the other side. And they insist that the success of the pro-Israel lobby in influencing American policy - though pursued legitimately - has harmed American interests.

AIPAC's former director of foreign policy, Steve Rosen, who used his blog to lead the fight against Freeman?s appointment, saw it differently. Rosen, who once famously described the lobby as a night flower that "thrives in the dark and dies in the sun," made clear that the public exposure did not serve the pro-Israel lobby?s interests.

"I'm sure AIPAC was happy when Freeman withdrew, but they might also be worried by the high profile of the Freeman issue," he said.


Tobin, speaking at a March 15 panel discussion at Queens College, said the lobby?s show of force made clear that Obama will not "fall on his sword" to defend appointees perceived as anti-Israel. He said it also suggested that Obama would not spend political capital on fighting with incoming Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Walt agreed. "The worst aspect of the Freeman affair is the likelihood of a chilling effect on discourse in Washington, at precisely the time when we badly need a more open and wide-ranging discussion of our Middle East policy," he blogged at foreignpolicy.com.

Critics respond that through their donations to congressional campaigns, organized Jewish contributors and a network of pro-Israel political action committees do much to help shape that will.

It was clear that Freeman had few friends in Congress. The anti-Freeman push came from some of Israel?s strongest supporters. Democratic New York Senator Charles Schumer personally lobbied White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who is also a strong backer of Israel. After Freeman withdrew his nomination, Schumer stated publicly that he "repeatedly urged the White House to reject him" because Freeman?s views on Israel were "way over the top."

Several other strong supporters of Israel took action on this issue, including Democratic Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman and two congressmen - Democrat Steve Israel of New York, and Republican Mark Kirk of Illinois.

Washington Post columnist and staunch centrist David Broder deplored the influence of the Israel lobby in this case. He fingered Congress as the critical force that compelled Freeman?s departure. The foreign policy analyst, who speaks Mandarin Chinese and Arabic, was set to ride out the storm when Broder met him for breakfast the day he left. "But after another visit to members of Congress, Freeman was gone," Broder reported.

In his wake, advocates on both sides of the debate about the lobby agree that public discourse is now more receptive to ideas challenging the lobby?s positions. But despite the lively debate in the blogosphere and in the press, the political echelons are untouched by this trend.

"I don't see it happening in the near future," Lustick said. "The last people to change are the politicians."


Link here