Zionist Conspiracy

1. The story about the leftist women cheerleaders for terrorism
getting their hooters grabbed and otherwise being molested by the
"Palestinians" is now available in English, here:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/israeli-and-american-leftists-face-sexual-harassment-assault-by-palestinians-they-aim-to-defend/

Warning: You may laugh so hard you need to change your shorts.

The story also appears on the BLAZE news site at
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/israeli-and-american-leftists-face-sexual-harassment-assault-by-palestinians-they-aim-to-defend/

None of the feminists upset by the molestation of these chicks when
they rally for jihad in the West Bank were upset by Bill Clinton's
behavior.

2. The leftist ultras now have a new slogan. As you know, there are
many pro-jihad homosexual groups now demanding that Israel be
annihilated, never mind how homosexuals are treated by the
Islamofascists. The Left has a new term for it when Zionists defend
Israel by pointing out that Israel is quite a tolerant place when it
comes to homosexuals, where violence and discrimination against
homosexuals in Israel are prohibited and rare, while they are
routinely murdered under Moslem regimes. When people DEFEND Israel's
record on homosexuals, the leftists call this "pinkwashing." Meaning
the Zionists are "white washing" Israel's treatment of "Palestinians"
by discussing its treatment of homosexuals.

Well, I have a suggestion. Any time any leftist even uses the
nonsense term "pinkwashing" in a sentence, we should all respond
loudly by demanding that leftists have their limp wrists broken.

3. You may have noticed that David Newman, the leftist hater of
democracy and enemy of freedom of speech who is pseudo-academic Dean
at Ben Gurion University and crayons columns for the Jerusalem Post,
had a column last week DEFENDING the granting of the Israel Prize this
year to Rabbi Haim Druckman. See:
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=261600

Newman is a radical anti-Israel leftist, while Druckman is a leader in
the religious Right. So is Newman suddenly in favor of pluralism and
diversity of opinion?

No, grasshopper. Druckman could never teach a course in the
department of politics at Ben Gurion University, Newman's home, or
even give a talk in a "conference" hosted by GBU. It is doubtful he
could speak before any other BGU audience. BGU is an institution
where only correct leftist opinion may be expressed and no Zionist or
non-leftist may address students of political science. Newman has
never invited Druckman, whom he "celebrates" in his Jerusalem Post
column, to lecture at Ben Gurion University. He just is pretending to
think that hosting diversity of opinion is nice when OTHER people or
other institutions do it, just as long as no one expects HIM to do it.

4. Meet an interesting guy:
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/meet-the-jewish-billionaire-who-studies-torah-every-morning-1.419038

5. SO the world just cut Iran off from SWIFT, the electronic payments
mechanism used for international transfer of funds, leaving the
Iranian barbarians as outsiders to modern finance. The Ayatollahs can
of course still shop with cash. And between you and me, the cutoff
does not really do anything because Iran will simply have
collecting/paying agencies in the West doing its financial settlements
for it, collecting its payments and making payments for it, diverting
everything to some western country. But the media and the Obama
people are all pleased with the results for the moment. See
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4204264,00.html

So here is a question. If cutting Iran out of SWIFT is such an
effective sanction against barbarism and a blow to its rep and
finances, then why not do the exact same thing with Gaza and the
Pestilinians? Gaza pays and collects all its payments using the
Israeli payments clearing system and the Bank of Israel, and through
them has access to SWIFT. Why not cut them completely off? Let the
Hamas buy its missiles with bags of coins and gumballs!! Let it pay
off its suppliers without any use of the payments clearing systems of
the 21st century!

6. When academic McCarthyists whine about McCarthyism:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4203449,00.html

Related story:
http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/the-academic-jihad-against-israel/2012/03/14/

7. I found this really interesting:
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/15/how-i-became-a-hate-group/

1. Comrades, I am afraid we cannot just delve into today's news
stories without some preparatory warm-up, because they all involve
matters of adult carnal activity, lust, territories south of the
border, misuse of gonads, and panky-hanky.

To get you into the right state of mind I cite the old jugband
music song (full lyrics here:
http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/t/takeyourfingersoffit.shtml )
about roaming fingers:

Man, take your fingers off it
Now don't you try to touch it
'Cause you know it don't belong to you

PG rating on what follows, for – after all – we are a family incitement service.

Israeli academic institutions are all sweaty and breathing heavily
over the latest scandal involving a professor and his female student,
engaged in, er, shall we say - pillowing. There have been quite a few
such stories, in which the professor gets to misuse his power to put
the student in a position (using that word in two or three different
senses) in which she has trouble saying no. We have seen previous
scandals at the Hebrew University involving faculty in the department
of sociology there accused by female students of molesting them or
even raping them. One of the faculty members, the far-leftist Eyal
Ben Ari, has been fired by the Hebrew University, constricting the
number of tenured far Leftist anti-Israel faculty members at the
Hebrew University by a fraction of one percent.

The newest scandal involves a professor at Tel Aviv University, who
conducted an affair with his female student. She later filed an
ethics complaint against him for taking advantage of the "unbalanced
power relation" between them. The university investigated, held
internal discipline committee indictments, and found the professor
guilty. He is now suspended and being docked some pay.

Haaretz reports the story in banner headline. Alas, it is not on the
English Haaretz site (yet) and other news sites have not yet reported
it. The news story can be read in full (Hebrew only) here:
http://www.haaretz.co.il/news/education/1.1665211

The big question here is who the perp is. In the past, most of the
tenured perps found to be groping, molesting and even raping the
female students were far leftist anti-Israel radicals. Haaretz is
being coy about who the current molester is, which makes me believe it
is one more leftist. Haaretz reported with glee every accusation
against a popular Rabbi accused of sexual misbehavior, never shy about
naming him. Israel being Israel, I am confident the name of the
pervert will leak into the web within a few days, and evidently oodles
of people at Tel Aviv University already know who it is. Once it
leaks, I will report it.

There are a couple of subtle "hints" in the Haaretz coverage. First,
Haaretz runs a giant photo of the Humanities building at TAU as part
of this news story, and it is pretty clear Haaretz is "signaling" its
readers that the events and the perp are in the humanities. Then in
the Hebrew Haaretz web site, Haaretz seems to have purposely left up a
talkback comment in which someone claims to have reason to believe
that the perp is actually the ultra-anti-Semitic professor of history,
the Stalinist pseudo-academic, Shlomo Sand, who claims the Jews were
never a people. Let me say that I have no evidence that Sand is the
one involved in the sexual scandal. I simply find it significant that
the Haaretz web site, which will censor, erase, and bar any talkback
comment that supports Zionism or the right of Israel to kill
terrorists, has decided to leave this talkback up, unaltered. Hebrew
readers can see the accusation in talkback 10 here:
http://www.haaretz.co.il/news/education/1.1665211. Under recent
changes in Israeli law, Haaretz could get its kafiyya sued off if the
talkback accusation is not correct.

The exact verdict of the disciplinary committee that convicted the
professor in question can be read in Hebrew here:
http://www.tau.ac.il/acad-sec/mishmat/seg-2011-1.pdf but without the
names of the professor and student being shown. The verdict is
pretty similar to the way it is reported in the Haaretz news story.

This is clearly a story worth following!

I suppose in the interests of candor I should point out that in the
early 1980s I taught at the Technion and dated a student there, not a
student in MY classes but a student nevertheless, married her 27 years
ago, and the "unbalanced power relation" that resulted manifests
itself to this day in me doing the dishes and the hoovering.

2. An even more-fun story is the latest news service revelation of
the wide-scale sexual harassment by Palestinians of Western women who
come to their villages to express their solidarity with Palestinian
terror and the right of Palestinians to murder Jews.

Large numbers of Western leftist chicks come jiggling through
Palestinian villages, places in which the local horny young men
ordinarily only get to see women behind scarves, bulky dresses and
worse. The jiggling gets their hormones running and the result has
been a series of rapes and molestations of the "solidarity"
protesters. The media have reporting these stories for years, but
Haaretz today runs a new expose about various young women from the
Anarcho-fascists Against the Wall and other anti-Semitic pro-terror
groups becoming the squeeze toys of the local terrorists. Even worse,
they are also being groped and worse by male leftist Israeli
"activists," also to be found in the Palestinian villages where they
throw rocks at Jews and other living things.

Now Israeli leftists would be the very first people on earth to insist
that all women have the right to walk through Meah Shearim and other
neighborhoods of Ultra-Orthodox "chareidim" in Jerusalem in thong
bikinis, and that any bearded black-coated religious man who makes any
comment about their dress should be whisked away for re-education in a
leftist Gulag camp. But the Left's only response to the many cases of
Western pro-terror women being molested and groped by Palestinians has
been to urge the lassies to dress more modestly and cover up a larger
portion of their anatomies. Feminism for some!

The delightful story of the Western and Israeli leftist "solidarity"
gals getting groped and worse by their Palestinians is in Haaretz
today, alas – only in the Hebrew edition and web site:
http://www.haaretz.co.il/news/law/1.1665119, where Hebrew readers can
chortle in delight over every syllable. I personally had to change my
knickers twice after reading it and laughing so hard.
The woman showed in the photo on that page is Hanna Beit Halachmi, -
active in the movement to prevent Jews from moving into the Simon the
Righteous neighborhood in Jerusalem and polluting it with their
presence. I believe she is the daughter of a far-leftist Professor of
Psychology at the University of Haifa, Benjamin Beit Halachmi
(sometimes spelled without the C).

There have been plenty of previous stories about anti-Israel
pro-terror "peace" activists being raped and harassed sexually by the
very same Palestinians they have come to clasp to their throbbing
bosoms (I warned you these stories would get racy!) . Here are a few
examples: http://elitestv.com/pub/2010/09/israel-are-peace-activists-harassed-by-palestinian-men-being-silenced
And http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/pa-protest-leaders-hushed-up-attempted-rape-of-u-s-activist-1.302015
(last one from Haaretz)

While Palestinians molesting the pro-terrorists sexually is not really
new, the Haaretz story reveals that numerous web sites of Israeli
far-leftist organizations (the ones propped up by the Eurotrash and
the New Israel Fund), have carried reports lately of terrorettes
(pro-terror female protesters) getting manhandled and worse by leftist
Israeli activists. In one, the girl complained that her attacker at
first seemed to have all the positive characteristics she was looking
for – (in her words) he was Post-Zionist, anti-capitalist,
post-colonialist, and so on. I know from her passionate description
of his many good qualities that I myself would have been happy to
allow him to plant a kiss on my lower left rear cheek below my belt!
The Anarcho-nazis against the Wall issued their own statement that
they plan to struggle against chauvinism and sexual abuse against
their members by Palestinians almost as passionately as they will
continue the struggle against Israel's existence.

Haaretz of course has an acute identity crisis when it comes to such
things. On the one hand, the paper tends to be ultra-feminist and so
is upset by the hankying and pankying against the pro-jihad
"solidarity activists" in the West Bank. But on the other hand, the
paper approves of violent Palestinian behavior towards Israelis and
Westerners in general. So the paper for thinking Israelis can never
be sure whether to approve of and explain away the harassment or to
condemn it.

Back to the future?

The following article came out in Midstream magazine, a North American
Zionist magazine, in 1988. It was actually written in 1987, making it
a quarter century old. I had by that time made aliya to Israel,
completely adjusted, and even was married with a baby at the time. I
will not reveal to you how many years older I am now, a quarter
century later.

Anyway, Midstream at the time was not on line, and few other things
were. I do not think this piece was fully published on line until
recently, but I stumbled across it on the educational resources page
of the World Zionist Organization. (Many years back I may have posted
a draft of it on my list and blog.)

I was hoping you would find it of interest:

http://www.resources.en.wzo.org.il/home/P102.jsp?arc=202518

On Zionist Youth Movements
About: This article is brought to you by the Hagshama Department
Author: Steven Plaut Originally published as: Published May 1988
Midstream, Subscription Dept. 633 3rd Avenue - 21st Floor New York, NY
10017

I grew up in a Zionist youth movement. Like most of the members of all
Zionist youth organizations, the movement itself played a central role
in my childhood and teen-age years, and perhaps even today exercises a
certain amount of influence upon me. For many years the movement was
the center of gravity in social matters. I have many fond memories of
those years; some of my closest friends today are old movement
comrades.

The movements, of course, strive to be much more than social
organizations. Each group has a specific agenda, with immigration to
Israel playing a particularly important role. Each has a political
self-definition and identity. Few other organizations could generate
in teen-agers and college students the same feelings of importance,
righteousness, and of serving the grand cause.

Today I am advancing reluctantly toward middle age (I said THAT in
1988!! -- SP). I am also an Israeli. I intend here to put aside
nostalgia in order to engage in a critical analysis of Zionist youth
movements from an adult perspective. I am sure many will not agree
with it; perhaps it may serve as a catalyst for dialogue.

Zionist youth organizations are worth discussing for the simple reason
that they are the future of and in many ways the most important bodies
within organized Zionism in the Diaspora. To some extent they produce
future Israelis, although this is not their sole function. At minimum
they are extremely influential over their own membership.

The weaknesses of the Zionist youth movements are so obvious when
viewed in retrospect through adult eyes that it seems hard to explain
why they have been and remain so difficult to identify for those
participating directly in those movements. I will discuss several of
these shortcomings that are in my opinion the most harmful and
disturbing.

I find the most problematic aspect of the Zionist movement in general
and of the Zionist youth movements in particular to be their divisions
and allegiances along the internal party lines of Israel. Each
organization seems to see itself as the overseas appendage of a
specific Israeli party, following that party's lead and line. Each
organization believes its raison d'etre is to act as a Diaspora base,
supplying personnel and political support for its Israeli counterpart.

This partisan politicization of the Zionist movement is in fact only a
natural extension to the Diaspora of the extensive over-politicization
of all aspects of life in Israel, upon which I have commented
elsewhere. Indeed it extends beyond the Zionist movement proper and
into the general Jewish (and occasionally non-Jewish) communities in
the form of partisan support for Israeli political organizations,
e.g., Peace Now, Gush Emunim, and so on.

Of all the problems that could and should be addressed by organized
Zionism in the Diaspora, or as I prefer to think of it - the Zionist
'opposition" within Diaspora Jewry, can think of none that would be
less relevant and less beneficial than the question of the "proper
stance" vis-a-vis Israeli elections. Affter all, what importance or
relation do these elections have to the issues facing Diapora Jewry,
to the questions of individual and communal Jewish identity, Jewish
education, assimilation, Anti-Semitism, or even aliyah?

The partisan mobilization consigns the Zionist movement to marginality
because it focuses energy and attention on elections whose outcomes do
not directly affect Diaspora Jews. The latter are by and large
ignorant of what those elections are all about and the issues at play.
In any case, election issues like monetary policy and urban planning
are not exactly the stuff from which dramatic Zionist rallying cries
are made.

Several Zionist youth organizations are associated with specific
kibbutz associations in Israel. I can recall impassioned debates among
American movement colleagues, sometimes running into the wee hours,
over the advantages and disadvantages of these kibbutz associations. I
would wager that not one Israeli kibbutz member in five can clearly
explain or cares the least about the differences among these
associations. (Perhaps the picture was different 50 years ago.) Among
non-kibbutz Israelis virtually no one knows or cares. Yet in the
United States the Zionist youth movements splintered and passionately
"battled" one another over such irrelevant lines of distinction.

It is ironic to note that the Israeli parties themselves receive very
little benefit from this Diaspora politicization. For example, the
flow of American immigrants to kibbutzim is minuscule; many who join
are not movement graduates, and some are not Jewish. Of movement
graduates who join kibbutzim, many subsequently leave, and many also
leave Israel. The net increment (inflow minus outflow) from all
overseas youth movements to all kibbutzim together is at most a few
score per year, and probably at times is negative. Financial support
from the Diaspora organizations to their Israeli counterparts is also
small, and in some cases it too is probably negative on net. Even the
political support for specific Israeli parties generated in the
Diaspora by Zionist and non-Zionist organizations is not of great
value, given the natural (and usually justified) inclination of
Israelis to dismiss as meddling attempts from abroad, including those
from Zionist Jews, to preach to them about their political
alternatives.

These anachronistic partisan loyalties condemn much of the Zionist
youth movement to impotence and render it unable to exploit the scale
economies and momentum that would accompany organizational
amalgamation. Even religious distinctions would not stand in the way
of amalgamation as party loyalties do. American Jews are generally
much more tolerant of one another's religious (or non-religious)
inclinations than are Israelis; the religious heterogeneity of most
Diaspora Zionist organizations is a testament to the feasibility of
amalgamation.

Another major problem of the Zionist movements is the role assigned to
aliyah and the way in which the "aliyah issue" is represented. I say
this not because I think aliyah is unimportant (I think it is
important) nor because I think American Jews should not make aliyah (I
think they should). The problem is that aliyah is a major life
decision, something on the same order of magnitude as marriage or
parenthood. In the youth movements, however, it has been reduced to a
slogan.

People do not make life decisions -at least not successful ones- on
the basis of slogans. Aliyah must stem from a careful examination of
one's goals, ideology, religious outlook, world-view, etc. It is
really not a one-shot "decision," but rather an ongoing chain of
decisions that continues long after physical relocation to Israel.

Even serious and well-considered aliyah decisions often end in reverse
migration within a few years. Frivolous aliyah decisions seldom
succeed.

Part of the problem is that the Zionist youth movements, while
excessively aliyah-centered, are insufficiently Jewish- and
educationally-centered. Herzl once said that in order to get the Jews
out of Egypt Moses first had to get Egypt out of the Jews. The Zionist
organizations cannot hope to create an aliyah stream unless they first
succeed in a campaign of serious Jewish education. Aliyah is a
byproduct of deep Jewish commitment and consciousness. Because there
is little Jewish consciousness, and weak Jewish identity, there is
little aliyah. Interestingly, this is very poorly understood in
Israel. Israel continues to pour significant amounts of money into the
network of shlichim (emissaries), whose function is supposed to be the
encouragement of aliyah. A cabinet minister for absorption is also
supposed to be working at encouraging aliyah.

Perhaps it is time to re-examine the effectiveness of the shaliach
idea. In most cases, the shaliach supplies some technical information
or expedites some bureaucratic chore involved in aliyah - but it is
rare that he or she inspires the decision to make aliyah itself. To
increase aliyah, fundamental Jewish identity issues must be addressed.

The 'sloganization" of aliyah in the youth movements has a number of
negative repercussions. When aliyah is the central focus of youthful
enthusiasm, many forget to ask the obvious next question, "After
aliyah, what?" There are many movement graduates who optimistically
made the immigration decision completely unprepared for life and
career thereafter.

Zionist youth organizations are in many cases indifferent toward
career preparation and in some cases downright hostile toward it. In
the kibbutz-oriented movements career goals are often considered
ideologically impure, or are at least relegated to secondary
importance, since the future oleh is to dwell in an agricultural
communal proletariat. Many seem to have been convinced that in kibbutz
life skills, training, and education are expendable. Of course they
are not. And in Israeli life outside the kibbutz confines, these
things are certainly no less vital than they would be in America.

When aliyah is seen as the grand solution, other life problems may
remain unaddressed. It is a truism among veteran olim that every
single problem someone has before aliyah will remain with him after
aliyah, with some new ones to boot. Life in Israel can be extremely
rewarding, but no one claims that it is easy. It is probably
impossible really to prepare someone for many of the tribulations of
absorption. But to tackle absorption without some direction in terms
of one's professional goals means that additional life crises and
problems must be tackled at the same time.

There are countless stories about movement graduates who have
immigrated to Israel, joined kibbutzim, and then - ten years down the
line - leave the kibbutz only to find themselves unskilled,
under-qualified, bereft of savings, and with a family to support.
Under these circumstances it is not surprising that many leave Israel
altogether. Given a choice between a fresh start in America vs.
blue-collar or low-rung clerical work and salary in Israel, few
breadwinners over 30 will choose the latter. (And that was BEFORE
most kibbutzim in Israel went bankrupt - SP)

In some of the youth movements the urgency with which aliyah is
stressed means in effect that immigration takes place by age 20 or so,
or else it is "too late." This reminds me of how single women past a
certain early age are relegated to spinsterhood in some societies.

To arrive in Israel armed with professional skills, or at least with a
clear decision about career direction, is to win half the battle. It
also makes aliyah a more rewarding experience. The youth movements do
not seem to have digested the fact that Israel's swamps have been
drained and its roads have been built. The pioneering challenges of
today have changed. Israel of the 1980s is an advanced modern society
full of problems. The modern pioneer, the immigrant who wishes to
devote himself to attempts at resolving those problems, needs more
than the fervor of his Zionist commitment. He needs skills, degrees,
training and of course infinite patience and energy, to succeed.

Ninety-seven percent of Israelis have voted with their feet against
kibbutz life. Kibbutzim are increasingly marginal to Israeli society
in all senses. Small-town agricultural communal life is in many ways
the most unnatural and the most difficult to adapt to for those raised
in urban, individualist, Western society. The centrality of the
kibbutz for so much of organized Zionism often backfires in that it
steers many away from urban and suburban life-styles available in
Israel, the ones chosen by the vast majority of the Israelis, the ones
most amenable for a Western Jew. I am behind those who choose to live
on kibbutzim. I am also behind those who choose to live in urban or
suburban Israel. There is nothing morally superior about the former.

The aliyah issue is actually only one side of a more general problem,
namely the role of "youth" and of the youth movement. This is
particularly manifested in the attitudes of youth organizations and
their members toward the relative importance of education vs.
activism. The movements revel in the idea that education, or at least
Zionist education, can and should be completed by the late teens, if
not sooner. Thereafter the movement member becomes an educator and
activist. The result is a population of teen-agers and those in their
early twenties convinced that they already know all there is to know
(at least all that is important to know) about Israel, Zionism,
Judaism, politics, sociology, etc.

Such an attitude is of course a sure path to intellectual shallowness
and closed-mindedness, and perhaps even anti-intellectualism. Somehow
the idea gets conveyed in the youth movements that solutions and
answers are possible without serious, long years of deep and difficult
analysis and experience. For college-age movement members, Zionist
activities often consist of campus activism and agitprop, but not
serious education and learning. Many of them move to Israel thinking
they have the answers to Israel's problems in their suitcase.

The feeling that answers are already known to movement seniors is
reflected in other ways. Among the Zionist movements, several define
themselves as Socialist, and at least one as Marxist. Members and
individuals in other organizations also sometimes follow Leftish fads.
Zionist youth movement graduates have always been active on the far
Left of the political spectrum, both within Israel and on American
campuses. For some, the transition from the Zionist Left to just plain
campus Leftism (and anti-Zionism) comes easily -another symptom of the
shallowness of movement education.

Marxism, of course, has taken on more of the trappings of a cult than
of a serious social science and "Socialism" is no more than the slogan
of the economically illiterate. The continuing romance with Socialist
rhetoric by so much of the Zionist movement damages that movement in
many ways. Though this is not the place to go into details, I believe
the main source of Israel's economic difficulties is the continuing
attempt by its political elite to run the economy along Socialist
lines. The last thing Israel can use is more "Socialism," that is,
more bureaucracy, regulation, government control of the economy, and
taxation. Immigrants who come to Israel with Socialist banners become
part of the economic problem, not the solution. Ironically,
"Socialism" as a slogan and ideal is dead in Israel for virtually all
those outside of the kibbutz, and perhaps even for many inside.
Socialist preaching is a sure method for being dismissed as irrelevant
or just ignored.

Within the Diaspora it also hinders the positive role the Zionist
organizations can play. The bulk of the non-Orthodox community has
replaced Jewish self-interest and survival with the American liberal
agenda as their political identity, indeed as their religion. The role
of Zionism should be to confront American Jewish assimilationism and
present an alternative based on Jewish interests. By singing Socialist
tunes the Zionist movement ends up playing the role of Left-wing
opposition within the Jewish community, rather than Zionist
opposition. "Zionists" are then no more than Jewish liberals in a
hurry. In some extreme cases, movement graduates migrate into the
Leftist anti-Zionist opposition groups within the Jewish community.

I have been speaking very critically, perhaps severely, of organized
Zionist youth movements. I hope my intentions are not misconstrued. I
think that in small doses the movements do some positive things, and
there is potential for doing much better.

The way for organized Zionism to expand its role and its contribution
is to amalgamate its various youth organizations into a very small
number of broad and non-political organizations (preferably just one).
Organized Zionism should divorce itself from Israeli electoral
politics and from kibbutz associations. Its political stance, to the
extent that it should have any, should be supporting the broad Israeli
electorate on those matters for which consensus exists. Its role
within the Diaspora should be first and foremost educational. Its
activism within the Jewish community should be over issues of Jewish
self-interest and not the American electoral questions of Right and
Left. Israel should play a central role. Aliyah should be discussed,
even encouraged, but its complexities and difficulties, too, should be
addressed. The idea of spending at least part of one's life in Israel
should be promoted, but not as a slogan, Education should be a
serious, professional, continuing process. Finally, the causes of the
Left liberal political agenda may or may not be justified on their own
grounds. Regardless, they are not the causes of Jewish self-interest,
the Zionist agenda. This should be made crystal clear to all by those
in the Zionist movement; first and foremost, they must learn it
themselves.

Purim is the holiday in which Jews celebrate the killing of
anti-Semites. While it has been hijacked by the dark forces of
political correctness in recent years, who attempt to convert it into
anything from a day for women's liberation to Kum-ba-ya niceness among
peoples, it is clearly a day that commemorates the killing of
anti-Semites. It is not even the holiday of the rescue of Jews from
threats of annihilation. We know that from the date of Purim. The
actual rescue of the Jews was in the month of Sivan, about nine months
before Purim, when the writs of Hamas to massacre the Jews were
cancelled. The date of Purim is set for when the Jews finished
killing off the anti-Semites who had earlier threatened them. That,
indeed, is why "Shoshan Purim" in walled cities is a day later,
because the Jews there took an extra day to kill off the anti-Semites
near them.

Purim time is the best time of the year for killing anti-Semites.
That is why the cleaning operation in Gaza today was so spectacular,
in which 15 terrorhoids were dispatched to their virgins, including
Zuhair al-Qaissi, the arch-murderer commander of the Islamofascist
"Popular Resistance Committee," the group that kidnapped Gilad Shalit.
The anti-Semitic media are of course calling al-Qaissi a dead
"militant," as if all he ever did while alive was march to save the
whales. That is because the anti-Semitic media approve of terrorists
murdering Jews.

Any day in which vermin like al-Qaissi are killed is a Jewish holiday,
but in this case it fell right after Purim, Israeli children still
wearing their costumes, to make the celebrations all the more festive.

Now all that is left is to decide what to do with the murderer's
carcass. I have started to come up with ideas, but someone should
really put out a book about the 101 things to do with a dead
Islamofascist terrorist, based on that book about 101 things to do
with a dead cat.

Thirty Three Inspired Ideas of What to do with al-Qaissi's Carcass

1. Upset the environmentalists by using it to poison piranha fish.

2. Use it to help boost Purina's stock value.

3. One word: McNuggets.

4. Give it tenure at Ben Gurion University.

5. Fire it off into space so Barry Chamish's UFO friends will never want
to visit earth again.

6. Clone it and sell the spinoffs as 21st century scarecrows.

7. Pretend it is Rachel Corrie and run a bulldozer over it.

8. Save Holland by using it to plug the dikes.

9. Let it occupy Wall Street with a sign reading "Will Terrorize for
Food".

10. Market it as a carpet beater.

11. Let the US javelin team train on it for the Olympics.

12. Makes a great speed hump.

13. Tie it to a pole and use it as the bait at the dog race track.

14. Send it to the Harvard BDS leaders.

15. Enroll it in the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Seminary. Heck, it
already has taken more Rabbinic courses than Michael Lerner.

16. Halloween Decoration.

17. Clearicil could use it in its commercials to show what happens if
you use the inferior brand.

18. Export it to France as a wine supplement.

19. Sell it as organic produce in Berkeley.

20. Tie it to the back of cars for newlyweds in MTV commercials.

21. Use it to scare your kids when they refuse to clean their rooms.

22. Sell it as a Yigal Tomarkin original sculpture.

23. It gives people 101 reasons to prefer having a dead cat.

24. Use it to become the patron saint for dung beetles.

25. Sell it to that Museum in Sweden that ran the "Snow White Pure" sculpture.

27. Enter it in the Texas State Cow Chip Toss as the world's largest cow
chip.

28. Make it the drummer in a punk rock band. Or better yet, the drum.

29. Tell Anna Nicole Smith it is rich.

30. "Fear Factor" TV show could make people sit on a bench next to it.
.
31. Put it in an envelope and send him to the Elect Ralph Nader
committee.

32. Let Brandeis hire it for its peace and justice studies program.

33. Rent it to Cubans as a device to hold their place in the bread line
while they go off fishing.

Once Upon a Time there was an Adorable Little Country named Israel
By Steven Plaut

Once upon a time there was an adorable little country named
Israel. It was a unique country of Jews. It was a thriving young
country. The adorable little country also had a government,
consisting only of the wisest of leaders.

Then, soon after it was born, those wise leaders of Israel granted
the right to hundreds of thousands of Arab refugees, later calling
themselves "Palestinians" to return to live within the borders of
Israel from the neighboring countries to which they had fled during
the War of Independence. And so the portion of the country's
population composed of Jews declined.

After the Six Day War, large numbers of "Palestinians" living in
the West Bank and Gaza managed to attain the right to live in Israel's
territory from before the war, and other "Palestinians" were granted
to right to move into the West Bank and Gaza from other places where
they had been living. And so the portion of the country's population
composed of Jews declined.

Later the wise leaders of the country granted Vietnamese "boat
people," ethnic Chinese refugees escaping Vietnam after the communist
takeover, the right to live in the country. After all, said the wise
leaders, who knows better than the Jews the tribulations of being a
refugee. And so the portion of the country's population composed of
Jews declined.

When the civil war broke out in Lebanon, the wise leaders of the
country granted some Lebanese the right to escape their strife-torn
country and move to Israel. And so the portion of the population
composed of Jews declined. Later the members of the Southern Lebanese
Army, after Israel under Ehud Barak betrayed them and abandoned them
to their fates in Lebanon, were granted the right to live in Israel.
And so the portion of the country's population composed of Jews
declined. When civil war tore Bosnia to smithereens, the wise leaders
offered some of the Bosnians refuge in the adorable country, including
Bosnian Moslems. And so the portion of the country's population
composed of Jews declined.

When things got tough in the Sudan and Sudanese of different
creeds and races were massacring one another, the wise leaders of the
country granted huge numbers of them the right to move to Israel. The
wise leaders tuned a blind eye, as countless thousands slipped across
the unguarded border of the adorable country to make their homes in
Israel. They of course had to pass through Egypt to reach Israel, and
no one was murdering them in Egypt, but they were allowed into Israel
anyway. And so the portion of the country's population composed of
Jews declined. When other African learned of the deal, thousands of
them joined in the trek to the adorable country, sometimes pretending
to be Sudanese. And so the portion of the population composed of Jews
declined.

When Bashar Asad started massacring his own people in the last
months before his regime fell, tens of thousands of Syrians were
allowed to enter the adorable country on grounds that this was the
humane thing to do, and that a country of Jews could not turn its back
to refugees escaping tyranny and seeking safety. Israel became the
largest home for Alawis in the world. When there were proposals later
to repatriate the Alawis back to Syria, the adorable country's poets,
writers, journalists and professors all objected. How can Israel
expel Alawi CHILDREN? they moaned. These innocent children had lived
for years as Israelis and knew no other life. It would be inhuman to
deport them, almost as inhuman as were similar efforts earlier to
deport the Sudanese. And so the portion of the country's population
composed of Jews declined.

When the Iranian regime was annihilated in Operation Alexander,
with American, NATO, and other allied forces destroying the country's
nuclear stockpiles and liquidating the Islamofascist ruling class
there, hundreds of thousands of Iranian civilians trekked across the
deserts to demand refuge and warm beds in Israel. The wise leaders of
the Jewish state insisted that no Jew could turn down the pathetic
sufferers. And so the portion of the country's population composed
of Jews declined.

When the North Korean regime was overturned in a bloody revolt
and civil war, millions of starving refugees arrived by the ship-full
at the ports of the adorable Jewish state. We demand to be allowed to
enter, they wailed. They were joined by millions more Tibetans,
escaping the ethnic cleansing that the Chinese regime was implementing
against them. Along with them came hundreds of thousands of Kurds
escaping oppression, myriads more Burmese, Congo-ese by the bus load,
Greeks escaping the enormous taxes implemented to extract that country
from bankruptcy, Gypsies from all over Europe, and the entire
population of Moldova.

And after helping so many groups of people, after absorbing so
many sets of refugees, after solving so many of the world's problems,
there were no longer any wise leaders to govern the adorable little
state. Because the adorable little state had ceased to exist
altogether. It had humanitarian-ized itself into oblivion.

1. Samizdat Now!!

It is not the most alarming news story in the country, in fact it is
in many ways rather trivial, but it illustrates a lot of what is wrong
with Israel under the helm of Bibi Netanyahu.

Israel has just formally introduced literary bolshevism into the
country, and it is part of the government's capitulation to pressures
from Israel's writers to implement market bolshevism for books. Book
prices are to be controlled by a governmental Soviet. Competition
among book sellers is to be suppressed. And pointy-headed government
regulators are to dictate contract terms between authors and
publishers. Book publishing is to be more regulated than it is these
days in Russia and other post-Soviet countries.

It is all part of a public pressure campaign by Israeli literati,
almost all of whom are also far-leftist bashers of Israel. They have
been unhappy about their royalty checks. Typical contracts with
publishers in Israel give the author a percent of sales revenues as
their royalties, although no one is forcing any writers to agree to
such contracts and no one is stopping them from demanding other
contractual terms. Anyhow, even though book retailing in Israel is a
near monopoly (controlled by the Steimatzky chain), there are some
downward pressures on prices, especially as non-print technologies
grow in sophistication and popularity. The little competition in book
sales at the margin sometimes produces price cuts and bargain sales,
and this eats into the royalties of the authors. For years they have
been demanding Soviet style price controls to prevent this from
happening.

The new bolshie law was drafted by Likudniks. Limor Livnat from
"Ministry of Culture and Sports" (talk about Bolshevik
bureaucracies!!), the Ministry of Justice (the Minister of which is
now suddenly about to be indicted for tax evasion), and even an
economist who should know better but is evidently willing to endorse
bolshevism for a price, Prof. Eugene Kandel from the Hebrew
University, Bibi's economic advisor. Amazingly, his PhD is from the
University of Chicago (as in Milton Friedman)!!

The new law sets minimum levels of royalties that publishers need to
pay authors, which will effectively price out of the market most new
and non-leftist writers. It prohibits discounts on books by
retailers, giving Israeli consumers a Likud boot up the ole toochis.
It dictates and micro-manages how retailers have to arrange their
merchandise on shelves, in order not to give certain publishers
preferential visibility. (Maybe Bibi's book about how the government
should not control markets should be required to be in all store
windows, alongside books by Stalin!)

And all this from a government that on paper is pledged to free
markets and economic liberalism!

What is one to make of all this? Well, in my opinion, this Bolshevik
assault on the Israeli consumer deserves to be met with civil
disobedience. True, there were calls for a consumer boycott of
cottage cheese producers last year when the semi-monopoly for cottage
cheese jerked up prices. But most people do not have access to milk
cows outside the kolkhoz to make their own cheese.

My proposal is that as long as this bolshevik oppression is on the
books, Israeli consumers should fight back with piracy. (Those who
recall my earlier articles about Jewish pirates of the Caribbean
should consider this a call to join that rich tradition!) As long as
book prices are being bolshevized and manipulated by Israel's central
planners, Israeli consumers should fight back by utilizing all the
considerable advanced technology, making Israeli literary works
available to others electronically and otherwise, without being
subject to the controls of the literary Soviet. In other words, just
like in the darkest days of the Soviet Union, I hereby call for a
campaign of samizdat, underground distribution of literature in ways
beyond the control of the bolsheviks. We must strike at the power of
the Literary Soviet in Israel!

Samizdat Now!

2. On the day after the attempted lynching in Haifa by Arabs of two
Jewish soldiers, Haaretz, the Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew,
buried the story on page 10 and made it sound like a case of mistaken
identity by street criminals. So if this was page 10 news, what was
front page news? The answer is that day there was no front page.
Haaretz cancelled it. Instead it ran a sappy whiney essay by
far-leftist author David Grossman (speaking of literary bolshies). It
also had no news on page 2, which in recent weeks has been where
Haaretz places its anti-Israel Op-Eds. The good news seems to be
that lots of Haaretz readers were outraged by the stunt and there are
rumors flying of cancelled subscriptions.

Meanwhile, we wonder if the attempted lynch in Haifa has anything to
do with the politics of the Haifa Mayor. Hizzonuh is Yonah Yahav,
from the Shinui-Green left-leaning party. While running as a
reformist "clean candidate" who would clean up the sleaze of Amram
Mitzna, the Haifa municipality continues under Yahav to operate one of
the most corrupt municipal machines on the planet, one that would be
an embarrassment even in the Third World. Hizzonuh has allowed PLO
flags to fly over the "Jewish Arab Center" in Haifa, and just issued a
statement endorsing the decision by Supreme Court Arab judge Salim
Jubran (or Joubran, who is from Haifa) to refuse to sing Hatikva.

More on the Haifa pogrom follows:

The silence of the Left
by Michael Freund
The Jerusalem Post
March 1, 2012
http://www.michaelfreund.org/11275/israeli-left-silence
Israel's Left is notoriously garrulous and effusive. Never ones to
hide their sentiments about the issues of the day, our comrades on the
other end of the political spectrum rarely mince words. Normally loud
and clear about where they stand, the Left seldom shies away from
controversy. And that is what makes their recent reticence so
remarkable. For despite a surge in violence between Arab and Jew,
including incidents at some of the most sensitive flashpoints in the
region, the voice of the Left has all but fallen silent.
The ubiquitous righteous indignation, the pervasive and ever-present
cries for justice and human rights are suddenly nowhere to be heard.
And just why, you might be wondering, have the would-be defenders of
decency abruptly grown inaudible?
The answer is as revealing as it is disturbing.
Put simply, it is because the victims in recent incidents are Jews.
Take, for example, the near-lynching that took place over the weekend
in Haifa, when two off-duty soldiers were nearly beaten to death by a
group of Israeli Arabs. After parking their car, the two young men
were accosted by at least seven Arabs, who asked them if they were
Jewish, began chanting, "Jews, Jews" and proceeded to pummel them with
clubs and metal bars. The culprits grabbed one of the victims, pounded
him into the pavement, and then carved the words, "you dog," in
Arabic, into his head using a sharp object.
"At certain moments I felt my end was near," one of the soldiers told
Yediot Aharonot.
Fortunately, security guards from nearby Rambam hospital heard the
commotion and intervened, saving the two soldiers from near-certain
death. Incredibly, the police initially sought to downplay the
incident, preferring instead to label it an act of "hooliganism," as
though it were a late-night bar brawl that got out of hand.
Subsequently, however, they backtracked and acknowledged that it was a
hate crime.
Indeed, by all indications, this was a vicious and unprovoked
anti-Semitic attack on two young men who are giving the best years of
their lives to defend this country and safeguard the liberties that
each and every one of us take for granted.
Every Israeli, regardless of political outlook, should be outraged by
this assault, and yet not a word of condemnation was heard from the
Left. There were no denunciations of the anti-Jewish bigotry that
exists among some Israeli Arabs nor any calls for their leadership to
demonstrate greater tolerance and understanding.
Can you imagine the outcry had the situation been reversed and a group
of soldiers had mauled two innocent Arabs?
We all know how that would have played out.
But for some reason, when the perpetrators are Arabs and the victims
are Jews, the Left sees fit to hit the mute button. They seem to adopt
a similar approach when it comes to the exercise of fundamental
freedoms by Jews as well.
Consider the unrest on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem over the past
week, where the police had their hands full quelling numerous
outbreaks of Palestinian violence. On Friday, more than 100
Palestinians rioted following prayers at the Aksa Mosque and stoned
policemen. It was the fourth time in five days that Muslims on the
Mount had attacked Israeli police or groups of Jewish and Christian
visitors.
In one incident, they sought to intimidate a group of would-be
pilgrims by hurling stones and shoes at the police accompanying them.
These incidents are all part of a coordinated Palestinian effort to
subvert the rights of Jews and Christians to visit the Temple Mount
and worship there.
Anyone who claims to cherish the values of tolerance and liberty
should be out in front condemning such incidents with all the passion
they can muster. The right to worship freely should apply equally to
all, regardless of whether they are followers of Moses or Muhammad.
And yet here too, the Left had nothing absolutely nothing to say, as
though breaching Jews' freedom of religion is not a human rights issue
worth fighting for.
None of this, of course, is at all surprising. Israel's Left has never
shown a propensity for intellectual consistency, let alone a penchant
to apply its principles in an evenhanded manner. But what makes this
all so ironic is that they are undermining the very liberal principles
they claim to hold dear. You can't be selectively open-minded and
expect people to take you seriously, just as you can't willfully
ignore acts of injustice simply because they run counter to your
political agenda.
Perhaps that explains why the power of the Left has been steadily in
decline in recent years. Disingenuousness and deceit will only get you
so far. Even in the political realm.

3. More on HAHVAHD pogrom:
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=259938

4. Ben Gurion University extremist insists rock throwing is not
violence: http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Lee%20Kaplan%20-%20BGU%20-%20Idan%20Landau%20-%20rock%20throwing%20not%20violent%20protest.htm

5. TAU extremists jihading along as usual:
http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Petitions%20-%20Matar%20and%20Algazi%20-%20protest%20cancellation%20of%20conference%20on%20Israel%20an%20apartheid%20state.htm

1. Sex, Marxism and Fraud - The Marc Ellis Affair at Baylor
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/29/sex-marxism-and-fraud/

Sex, Marxism and Fraud
Posted By Steven Plaut On February 29, 2012 @ 12:06 am

Scott Ritter is not the only darling of the Left to get himself into
trouble because of his sexual misbehavior. Another is Marc H. Ellis, a
tenured professor at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and one of the
most malicious collaborators in the Campus Wars against the Jews. He
openly calls for Israel to be exterminated. He is to be one of the
key speakers at the "Annihilate Israel" academic "conference" to be
held in a few days at Harvard.
Baylor University's president is Kenneth Starr, best remembered from
his investigations of another sexual predator, Bill Clinton. The
current campaign to rid Baylor of Ellis is because Ellis reportedly
sexually harassed a female faculty member, who got herself a lawyer
and filed a complaint. Evidently all sorts of Baylor faculty knew
about it. In response to this, Starr and Baylor have suspended Ellis
from all teaching and administrative duties indefinitely. Baylor
offered to "buy Ellis out" to get him to leave. Last July the Faculty
Dismissal Committee notified Ellis that the administration was seeking
his dismissal.
As this world's largest Baptist University, Baylor officials do not
take kindly to professors manhandling the prairie womenfolk. Ellis
seems to be defending himself by claiming his suspension is
"discriminatory" because others at Baylor have been involved in
hanky-panky and have not been similarly punished. In his words, his
are "alleged offenses reportedly routine at Baylor." In other words,
if other gropers were coddled, so should he be. Ellis is also
claiming there is a dark conspiracy by the tiny local Waco Jewish
community to pay Baylor to get him fired.
The radical Left has long adored and celebrated Ellis because he is a
radical Jewish anti-Semite in the tradition of Hezbollah agent Norman
Finkelstein. The anti-Israel Middle East Studies Association issued a
statement defending and endorsing Ellis, as did the American
Association of University Professors. How ridiculous these groups
appear now that it is known that Ellis is under fire not because of
his anti-Semitism but because of his inability to control his
lascivious behavior.
A pro-Ellis petition has been organized by Cornell West and is being
promoted by such luminaries as Noam Chomsky. (What a comedown for
Chomsky, the one-time apologist for the Khmer Rouge, now merely an
apologist for Ellis.) It charges that Ellis is a victim of
"persecution." The very first endorsement of the petition is by the
discredited pseudo-academic fraud Ilan Pappe. In a speech at the
American Academy of Religion in November, Cornell West, who just does
not like Jews very much, described Ellis as a "prophetic figure."
Ellis is a professor of "Jewish Studies" who knows nothing at all
about Judaism or Jewish Studies. He has built a career as a
Bash-Israel propagandist and supporter of Islamofascism and as a
leader in the movement to exterminate Israel and Israelis. Indeed,
that is the real reason the radical Left is defending him.
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright loves him. Academic terrorist Edward
Said adored him while Said was still alive. George McGovern likes
him. Neo-Nazi Norman Finkelstein is the close soul-brother of Ellis,
who endorsed Finkelstein's "book" and who likes to mimic Finkelstein's
smear terminology about the "Holocaust Industry."
Ellis has no degrees and no academic training at all in Jewish
theology, Jewish history, Jewish anything. He holds a PhD degree from
a Jesuit University (Marquette), where people may know their Catholic
catechism but no one would consider it a serious place to learn about
Judaism. Ellis later was employed at the Maryknoll School of Theology
in Maryknoll, New York (a liberation theology school that closed in
1994 and was not even accredited). Ellis woke up one fine morning and
decided he was an expert in "Jewish Studies." He peddled himself as
such to Baylor, which evidently did not check out his credentials very
thoroughly. There he set up the university's Center for Jewish
Studies as his one-man fiefdom. While Baylor should be saluted for
wanting to have a Jewish Studies department operating in this Baptist
University, hiring Ellis was hardly the way to go about it.
Ellis replaces the traditional Jewish Biblical Patriarchs of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob with Marx, Lenin and Arafat. In Ellis's writings as a
purported "theologian," there is nothing to indicate he has any
familiarity at all with Jewish religious sources or concepts. Indeed,
there is no evidence that he has ever read the Bible, let alone
studied the Talmud or other classical Jewish texts. Ellis's
"theology" is the same as that of the wacky pro-LSD hippie magazine
"Tikkun," on whose board of editors he sits. Tikkun is published by
Michael Lerner, promoter of psychedelic drugs and one-time SDS leader.
While Lerner pretends to be a rabbi, he is not and never has been
ordained by any rabbinic school. Both Lerner and Ellis like to cite
obsessively the "Ethics of the Books of the Prophets in the Bible" as
artillery support for their politics, but neither has ever provided
any evidence that he has ever read those books or has the slightest
idea what they contain.
Marc Ellis's curriculum vita is not published anywhere on the Baylor
University web site, nor anywhere else in the Internet for that
matter. And there is a good reason for this. His CV is an
embarrassment and reveals the pathetic quality level of his "work."
Ellis has virtually no academic publications, in spite of his having
served as a tenured full professor at a large university. I could
find no publications by Ellis in any international refereed academic
journals, the usual yardstick to evaluate an academic. Most of his
journal articles are in the "Journal of Palestine Studies," a
propaganda magazine controlled by the PLO. He also has a few things
in Christian liberation theology magazines, none of which could be
considered academic publications, and almost all of these articles are
bashings of Israel. He has published a few screeds in Marxist
magazines and other bash-Israel magazines. The closest thing to an
Ellis academic publication I could find was something he has in an
obscure Turkish journal about how insensitive Americans were about
Muslims after 9-11.
Ellis's entire "academic" record consists of Bash-Israel propaganda
books purporting to be concerned with theology, mostly published with
either Marxist publishers, like the Pluto Press (which used to have
Trotskyite connections and likes to publish anti-Semitic screeds), or
with obscure publishers specializing in Christian liberation theology.
Ellis serving as a professor of Jewish Studies at a university makes
about as much sense as Shirley MacLaine working as a distinguished
professor of physics. Ellis has essentially never published anything
about Judaism, but instead only about the shallow Marxism he expects
Jews to embrace as a replacement for Judaism. Jewish theologians who
have heard of him at all consider him a quack.
Ellis's main academic achievements seem to be the invention of
nonsense terms and the utilization of the Holocaust as a bludgeon to
demonize Israel. Ellis is openly contemptuous of any talk about Jews
being in need of any national empowerment. Such things constitute
"Constantinian Judaism," to use Ellis's favorite terminology, a
malapropism picked up – one suspects – after spending too much time
misrepresenting Judaism at Christian theological institutions.
Constantinian Judaism, in Ellis's view, is conscripting religion to
serve the agenda of the militarist state. Ellis uses the term to
describe Jews who support either Israel or the United States. Jews can
only fulfill their proper ethical role in history, which – Ellis is
persuaded – is to promote socialism and leftist fads, if they are
stateless and suffering. Ellis never finds time in all his discussions
of the theological implications of the Holocaust to consider the mass
murder of Jewish children by his beloved Palestinians. Uniformed
Jewish youths certainly have no right to prevent such things. No Anna
Franks in Israel are entitled to defense.
Ellis pretends to be some sort of expert on "Holocaust Studies" but
the only "Holocaust lesson" Ellis derives is the need to have a second
Holocaust to rid the world of Israel and Israelis. Ellis has publicly
endorsed not only Finkelstein's The Holocaust Industry, but also
Finkelstein's scurrilous attacks on Nobel Prize winning-writer and
concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel. Ellis sometimes writes for
the pro-jihad "Counterpunch" web magazine of the Cockburns, where he
appears alongside some of the worst Holocaust Deniers on the planet.
The theological lesson that Marc H. Ellis draws from the Holocaust and
preaches wherever he goes is that Jews must stop trying to defend
themselves against violent anti-Semites and that "progressive Jews"
such as himself should see to it that Israel is destroyed. He will be
conveying this "lesson" at the upcoming Harvard Nuremberg Rally.
(Harvard, hide thy womenfolk.) It remains to be seen whether
participants will march from the rally along Harvard Street to
Brookline to burn down any synagogues.
It would be preferable if Baylor fired Ellis for being a fraud, a
pseudo-academic, an imposter with no knowledge of "Jewish Studies,"
someone unqualified to serve as a professor of anything. But the
United States got rid of Al Capone by convicting him of income tax
evasion. So I suppose Baylor could do worse than firing Marc H. Ellis
because of sexual misconduct.

2. Genocidal Liberalism:
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/29/genocidal-liberalism-the-universitys-jihad-against-israel-jews/
Genocidal Liberalism: The University's Jihad Against Israel & Jews
3. Harvard's Ruth Wisse on Harvard's Academic Pogrom:
Wall Street Journal
• OPINION
• FEBRUARY 28, 2012, 6:34 P.M. ET
Harvard's Latest Assault on Israel
Promoting the Jewish State's destruction at a school dedicated to
'democratic governance.'
By RUTH WISSE
In 1948, when the Arab League declared war on Israel, no one imagined
that six decades later American universities would become its overseas
agency. Yet campus incitement against Israel has been growing from
California to the New York Island. A conference at Harvard next week
called "Israel/Palestine and the One-State Solution" is but the latest
aggression in an escalating campaign against the Jewish state.
The sequence is by now familiar: Arab student groups and self-styled
progressives organize a conference or event like "Israeli Apartheid
Week," targeting Israel as the main problem of the Middle East. They
frame the goals of these events in buzzwords of "expanding the range
of academic debate." But since the roster of speakers and subjects
makes their hostile agenda indisputable, university spokespersons
scramble to dissociate their institutions from the events they are
sponsoring. Jewish students and alums debate whether to ignore or
protest the aggression, and newspapers fueling the story give equal
credence to Israel's attackers and defenders.
A featured speaker at Harvard's conference is Ali Abunimah, creator of
the website Electronic Intifada, who opposes the existence of a
"Jewish State" as racist by virtue of being Jewish. A regular on this
circuit, he also keynoted a recent University of Pennsylvania
conference urging "Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions" (BDS) of, from
and against Israel. Ostensibly dedicated to protecting Palestinian
Arabs from Israeli oppression, BDS has by now achieved the status of
an international "movement," some of whose branches exclude Israeli
academics from their journals and conferences.
But the economic war on Israel did not start with BDS. In 1945, before
the founding of Israel, the Arab League declared a boycott of "Jewish
products and manufactured goods." Ever since, the Damascus-based
Central Boycott Office has tried to enforce a triple-tiered boycott
prohibiting importation of Israeli-origin goods and services, trade
with any entity that does business in Israel, and engagement with any
company or individual that does business with firms on the Arab League
blacklist. Although the U.S. Congress took measures to counteract this
boycott, and the Damascus Bureau may be temporarily preoccupied on
other fronts, the boycott momentum has been picked up by Arab students
and academics.
Freedom of speech grants all Americans the right to prosecute the
verbal war against Israel. But let's differentiate toleration from
abetting. Harvard may tolerate smoking, but its medical school
wouldn't sponsor a conference touting the benefits of cigarettes
because doctors have learned that smoking is hazardous to health. The
avowed mission of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, host of
the upcoming conference, "is to strengthen democratic governance
around the world by preparing people for public leadership and by
helping to solve problems of public policy." How farcical that instead
of seeking to strengthen democratic governance, its students hijack
its forum for "studying" how to destroy the hardiest democracy in the
Middle East.
The pattern of anti-Israel attack, administrative embarrassment,
Jewish confusion, and media exploitation of the story will continue
until all parties realize that the war against Israel is fundamentally
different from biases to which it is often compared. Once Americans
acknowledged the evils of their discrimination against
African-Americans, they abjured their racism and tried through
affirmative action to compensate for past injustice. Arab and Muslim
leaders have done the opposite. Having attempted to deny Jews their
right to their one country, they accused Jews of denying Arabs their
22nd. After losing wars on the battlefield, they prosecuted the war by
other means.
Students who are inculcated with hatred of Israel may want to express
their national, religious or political identity by urging its
annihilation. But universities that condone their efforts are triple
offenders—against their mission, against the Jewish people, and
perhaps most especially against the maligners themselves. Smoking is
less fatal to smokers than anti-Jewish politics is to its users.
Remember Hitler's bunker.
Ms. Wisse, a professor of Yiddish and comparative literature at
Harvard, is the author of "Jews and Power" (Schocken, 2007).

4. Jubran was one of the Supreme Court judges who ruled against
freedom of speech in the Gordon-Plaut court case. Now he is jihading
against Hatikva:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153267\

5. My Habonim Colleague:
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=259801

6. Israel's caring classes, led by its radical feminists, have been
terribly upset when one or two bus lines were set up in Ultra-Orthodox
chareidi neighborhoods in which the menfolk and womenfolk sat
separately.

The irony here is that there really is a form of malicious bus-related
gender discrimination in Israel, although one about which Israel's
feminists have never had anything to say.

Israel may be the only Western country in which there are no (or
virtually no) women bus drivers. The reason for this is that, ever
since it was created, the Egged monopoly has refused to allow women to
be bus drivers. In my 32 years in the country I have seen one or two
women bus drivers, and I think they were not even on Egged busses but
Dan busses (the Tel Aviv separate bus monopoly). Egged denies it bars
women from being drivers but Egged is lying.

In all other countries, women drive busses. And since Egged drivers
are grossly overpaid, driving a bus would be a great form of
livelihood for women who do not have college educations or technical
training, and would even allow divorced and single mothers to raise
families. There are also almost no women taxi drivers in Israel.

The radical feminists, invariably also radically anti-Israel, have
never once had a single word to say about this gross gender apartheid
and discrimination. That is because they are far too busy demanding
that the number of women on Knesset lists be increased, and that women
be assigned as directors of public corporations, even when they are
underqualified women with no business training. In other words, the
feminists are concerned with the advances of the pampered Queen Bees,
but working class women have no interest for them.

Israeli women are harmed by the Egged discrimination far more than
they were from being asked to sit separately from men on the Chareidi
bus line.

7. http://www.isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Lee%20Kaplan%20-%20TAU%20-%20Michal%20Givoni%20-%20New%20Polysyllables%20to%20Eliminate%20Israel.htm
Tel Aviv University (Dept of History) and UC Berkeley (Townsend
Humanities Lab): Michal Givoni Strives for New Polysyllables that Can
help Eliminate Israel
By Lee Kaplan IsraCampus.org.il

1. Jewish occupiers and colonialists (Buchenwald concentration
camp): http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_20/s_w37_53064427.jpg

2. Zionism's Greatest Achievement (re-posting)

In some ways it is a depressing period in Jewish history. The American
Jewish Diaspora community, or at least the non-Orthodox bulk therein,
is in the process of committing cultural/national/religious suicide.
Most American Jews are indifferent to their Jewishness; intermarriage
is close to and may be above 50 percent; and the dominant "religion"
of the American non-Orthodox Jews is the pseudo-religion of
Liberalism-as-Judaism, its chief tenet being that Judaism is nothing
more nor less than the political agenda of the American Left, never
mind that this agenda is totally bankrupt intellectually on its own
demerits. The Reform movement, the Deconstructionist
Reconstructionists and many Conservatives (as in Conservative
synagogues) are simply religious liberals, with political liberalism
as their dogma.

The "defense" organizations, American Jewish Congress, B'nai Brith, et
al, are also largely devoted to the practice of political liberalism
as pseudo-religion.

And then we have the chattering classes in Israel - the media and
intelligentsia and literati - devoted to seeing Israel weakened and
dismembered.

In these days of frustration, I think there is one idea that we should
bear in mind. And that is that the Zionist movement has many fantastic
accomplishments under its belt, one of the most important of which is
that Zionism forced a major change in the nature and expression of
anti-Semitism.

Not that anti-Semites are really any different when they hide behind
the mask of anti-Zionism. These are the same gutter bigots, the same
people who refuse to acknowledge that Jews are humans, that Jews are
entitled to rights and equality. But they have been forced to express
their bigotry differently.

This should be obvious any time you observe the campus anti-Semites of
the Left, the Arab fascists and the self-hating leftist Jewish
anti-Semites demonstrating against Israel.

For centuries, the slogans of the anti-Semites were that Jews were
racially inferior, intellectually inferior, cowards, money-grubbers,
killers of God, sub-humans.

But observe the main slogan of anti-Semites today: The Jews are mean.
They are mean to the poor Palestinians.
Ooooh, soooo mean.

What a marvelous transformation! The main calumny thrown at the Jews
is that they are bullies, meanies. What greater accomplishment of
Zionism could be imagined?

Of course, this does not mean that the anti-Semites really think that
the Jews are mean or cruel to the "poor" Palestinians. The
anti-Zionists do not give a damn about the Palestinians, and the last
thing they care about is Arab human rights. This is why they have
absolutely nothing to say about the treatment of Arabs in Arab
countries or by the Palestinian Authority's Gestapo.

When Saddam Hussein ordered Kuwaiti civilians to be forced to drink
gasoline and then had his troops shoot into their bellies to make them
explode (to the cheers and laughs of his stormtroopers) there was not
a single anti-Zionist who expressed disapproval or concern. The
anti-Zionists know perfectly well that Arabs are treated a thousand
times better in Israel (and this would be so even if one were to
believe all their accusations and allegations of mistreatment) than
are Arabs in Arab countries.

The anti-Semites lament supposed Israeli mistreatment of the "poor"
Palestinians because they think this is an effective way to
delegitimize and undermine the existence of Israel. In other words,
they are motivated by hatred of Jews and not by any compassion for
Palestinians. They seek to see Israel destroyed, not the Palestinians
enfranchised, or rather their only interest in Palestinian
enfranchisement is as a tool to endanger Israel's existence. Of the
enormous Arab territories of the Middle East, almost twice the land
mass of the United States, the only place where they suddenly are
concerned for the welfare and civil rights of Arabs is in Israel. The
other Arabs, as far as they're concerned, can go to hell.

And if they can accuse Israel of violating Arab civil rights (never
mind that their accusations are false and invented) then they can
pretend to be compassionate and interested in peace, not gutter bigots
who hate Jews.

The anti-Semites have lost their ability to march about and accuse the
Jews of ritual murders and similar medieval libels (at least outside
the Arab media and Counterpunch magazine). Such things would make them
laughable in the West. No one outside the Arab world takes the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion as anything other than an
embarrassment for anti-Zionists. Hence they have seized onto a new
propaganda tactic, complaining that the Jews are oh, so mean and cruel
- and bullies to boot.

At long last -after two millennia of exile - to be accused of being
bullies! To leave the anti-Semites with no more effective weapon than
heaping invective upon the mean Jews! For this one must say a blessing
of thanksgiving, a shecheyanu. And often.

It is Zionism's greatest achievement!

3. Quaker Bigots:
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/28/friends-seminary-plays-bait-and-switch-on-anti-semitism/

4. More leftwing fascism:
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/27/unm-occupiers-war-on-free-speech/

And even MORE Leftwing Fascism:
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=259661

5. Ecological Fascism:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4195413,00.html

6. An Adar Thought:

As you know, there has been some ruckus in Israel in recent weeks
over gender separation among the ultra-Orthodox, or what the media are
calling "HADARAT NASHIM" – meaning exclusion of women.

Well, a film crew wondered into a bank in an ordinary Israeli
neighborhood, meaning one with ordinary modern Orthodox and secular
Israelis, and saw there a case of reactionary gender separation, with
all the men in one line and all the women in another. The crew asked
the manager how he can tolerate this HADARAT NASHIM and wasn't this
just the worst example one can find of Ultra-Orthodox religious
coercion and theocratic bullying.

No, you do not understand, said the bank manager. All the men are
waiting in the line for depositing money and all the women are in the
line for withdrawals.

1. Friends, Comrades, Fellow Inciters!

Eureka!

I believe I have at long last found a formula for ending the Middle
East strife and bringing pace to Israel. All we need to do is make
thousands of copies of the column from today's Haaretz by
arch-Israel-hater columnist Gideon Levy and distribute it in
Afghanistan! The article is entitled "Allah is NOT Akbar," although
the web version of the article distorted the title to read "Allah is
NOT Akbar in Syria," (Haaretz's web coward weenies at work!!), which
you can read in Hebrew here:
http://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/1.1650340 . The Haaretz English web
site has evidently not posted it lest any Afghans see it.

Sure, what Levy meant is that things are not pleasant in Syria, and it
is largely Israel's fault because Israel alienated Turkey when it
refused to allow its unarmed soldiers to be murdered by Turkish
flotilla terrorists, thus undermining the ability to collaborate with
Turkey to fix things in Syria.

So there is something of an innocent explanation for Levy's headline,
just as there was for those accidental burnings of the Koran in
Afghanistan. But several murdered GIs later, we know how much the
Afghans care about such excuses.

Therefore I say, let the Afghans know all about Gideon Levy and
Haaretz, and maybe invite a few plane loads of Afghans to go visit the
Haaretz headquarters in Tel Aviv.

I can see peace breaking out within days thereafter!

2. Meanwhile it is always nice to see Israel's loyal patriotic Arab
citizens displaying their political allegiances. This weekend a group
of them held a rally in Haifa to support and defend Bashar Asad. The
rally was led by Said Nafa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_Nafa ),
a Druse Knesset Member and chairman of the Israeli (Arab) Communist
Party, a party that never quite got around to repudiating Stalin. The
rally was one of several to be held by the Committee to Support Syria,
a communist party front.

Probably not coincidentally, at around the same time not far away, two
young Jews walking in Haifa were approached by ten Arabs who asked if
they were Jews and then beat them.

Haaretz is undergoing a facelift. It has canned a lot of its
writers because evidently it is facing serious financial crunch
(Huzzaaahh!!). Its own journalists union is on strike. It cut out
one of the sections of the paper altogether, cutting out most of its
investigative reporting and features, although retaining all its
treasonous Op-Eds and editorials.

And this weekend in its weekend magazine (which still exists) it has
a long piece "exposing" the Institute for Zionist Strategies. This
follows its early "expose" o fthe funding of NGO Monitor. In both
cases, the "scoop" is that the group accepts some donations from
overseas.

The Institute is an important Zionist think tank that Haaretz
despises because the Institute is not seeking Israel's destruction,
like most Haaretz writers are. The long "expose" reveals that the
Institute gets some donations. The donors are all pro-Israel people
or organizations. Haaretz has never thought it was of interest to
report the identities of all the anti-Israel people and groups who
prop up the NGO's of Israel's radical Left. Anti-Israel donations are
fine and do not require exposure. You can see the article here:
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/finding-the-right-donors-1.414174
I find its reporting that Zionist think tanks are able to raise
donations very encouraging.

But the most delicious part of this "scoop" is who wrote it.

It is Uri Blau, waiting to face trial for anti-Israel espionage in the
Anat Kamm affair, in which a leftist woman soldier and Tel Aviv
University student stole large amounts of classified documents from
the army and passed them on to Blau for leaking.

That is right! The Haaretz writer chosen to "out" the Institute for
Zionist Strategies for accepting donations from overseas because that
is of questionable ethical rectitude is himself one of the worst
anti-Israel spies in history.

Just as a followup to yesterday's item on why Marc H. Ellis, the
fraudulent pseudo-academic anti-Semite at Baylor University, should
get canned.

It now turns out that the move at Baylor to fire Ellis has nothing to
do with Ellis' (lack of) academic credentials or his anti-Semitic
political views.

It has to do with sexual misbehavior. Yes, at this Baptist
University, they do not take kindly to professors manhandling the
females. Groping women may just be another example of the "Prophetic
Ethics" that Ellis always claims he practices. You know, the TIKKUN
version he learned from Mikey Lerner.

The full story was broken by JTA, see this
http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2012/02/10/3091610/why-is-marc-ellis-on-the-outs-at-baylor-university

The initiative to fire Ellis is because of alleged sexual misconduct!!

Meanwhile the radical Left continues to campaign for Ellis – see this
petition to support him and note how the top signature is by Osama bin
Laden: http://www.change.org/petitions/ken-starr-president-of-baylor-university-stop-persecution-against-prof-marc-ellis#

The pro-jihad anti-Israel Middle East Studies Association has issued
statement backing Ellis and claiming he is being persecuted merely
because he is an anti-Semite. MESA looks even more ridiculous than
usual in this!

To help rid Waco of this vermin, please send a note to the heads of
Baylor University. The President of the university and the initiator
of the move against Ellis is Kenneth Starr, yes the one and the same
from the Clinton era's investigations. His email is not published but
his mailing address is Office of the President
Baylor University
One Bear Place #97096
Waco, TX 76798-7096
You can email Dr. Karla Leeper at email address:
Karla_Leeper@baylor.edu and she can forward the message to President
Starr.

You may have noted that Ellis is not the FIRST person investigated by
Starr for failure to keep his old dingdong zipped away

1. Call to Arms!

Earlier in the week I posted an item about the "Destroy Israel"
conference in Harvard, where one of the speakers there is to be Marc
H. Ellis, a pseudo-academic from Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Ellis has pretensions of being a "Jewish theologian," but is not
recognized as such by any Jews. He is in fact a full time basher of
Israel, who churns out "liberation theology" mixes of Marxism with
anti-Semitism and calls for Israel's extermination.

I have written about Ellis before. See these:
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=8889

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36028

http://www.jewishpressads.com/pageroute.do/17617/

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12103

It turns out that there is now a move afoot at Baylor to sack Ellis.
Evidently the heads of the school have figured out that their
"professor" of "Jewish Studies" knows nothing at all about Judaism and
is nothing more than a clone of Norman Finkelstein, who has already
been fired from HIS school for being a fraud and bigot.

The radical Left is up in arms about this. A pro-Ellis petition was
organized by the anti-Jewish Cornell West and is being promoted by
such luminaries as Noam Chomsky. The very first endorsement of the
petition is by Ilan Pappe. It accuses Baylor of trying to fire Ellis
because of Ellis' vile anti-Israel and pro-terror opinions (and just
what would be so bad about that if it were true?). In reality, the
initiative against him is because he misrepresents himself as a Jewish
theologian and holds a university slot reserved for someone who knows
something about Judaism. Ellis is on the board of Tikkun magazine and
everything he knows about Judaism and the Bible seems to be things
that Mikey Lerner, publisher of Tikkun, has taught him. In other
words, neither has ever read the Bible, let alone studied the Talmud.

The story of the pro-Ellis petition appears here on the anti-Semitic
Mondoweiss blog:
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/11/cornel-west-rosemary-ruether-launch-petition-to-stop-marc-elliss-dismissal-from-baylor-university.html
You can see the petition itself at
http://www.change.org/petitions/ken-starr-president-of-baylor-university-stop-persecution-against-prof-marc-ellis
and note that Pappe is the first name on it.

I would like to propose that all Jews for Jews hold a counter-action
and contact the heads of Baylor University, urging them to fire Ellis,
while pointing out that Ellis is nothing but a fraud and a
pseudo-academic who has made a career out of promoting bigotry and
terrorism.

To help rid Waco of this vermin, please send a note to the heads of
Baylor University. The President of the university and the initiator
of the move against Ellis is Kenneth Starr, yes the one and the same
from the Clinton era's investigations. His email is not published but
his mailing address is Office of the President
Baylor University
One Bear Place #97096
Waco, TX 76798-7096
You can email Dr. Karla Leeper at email address:
Karla_Leeper@baylor.edu and she can forward the message to President
Starr.

2. Two sad notes. My good friend Avi Strimber A"L, who ran Jewish
radio programming in the Philadelphia area, just died suddenly, at the
age of 61. Avi and I had been telephone buddies for years and he
often interviewed me for his shows. We met face to face for the first
time completely by accident when I took my son into a kosher pizza
place in Phila and got to chatting with the only other guest (it was 4
PM) – who turned out to be Avi.

Many people have asked me if I am related to the great Gunther Plaut,
who also just passed away, A"L.

Baruch Dayan Emet in both cases

I am a very distant relative of Rabbi Gunther, a prominent Jewish
leader in Toronto. He was one of the few Reform Rabbis I was actually
willing to call a Rabbi without cringing, and he was a great scholar
and mensch. I forced myself to think of him every time I was inclined
to bash the entire Reform synagogue movement. He was the greatest
exception to the stereotype of Reform leaders being ignorant
professional liberals, those who preach and promote the view that all
of Judaism reduces to political liberal fads. Here is a short bio
about him: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/world/americas/w-gunther-plaut-rabbi-and-scholar-dies-at-99.html?pagewanted=all
I met him several times and was very impressive. When people would
ask how closely we were related, he and I would both say "Not close
enough for Steve to get a loan."

There are so many stories about him that I will not keep you from your
chore of writing Baylor. Just one fast one, not about Gunther but
about his mother. At the age of 96 she decided to get her BA,
something she had never managed to do. And she did it. She was
awarded a BA at the age of 102, I think from York. All the newspapers
in Canada wrote about the oldest person in Canadian history to receive
a degree. She passed on a few years after that.

Haaretz, the Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew, has uncovered
a grand conspiracy! On the front page it runs a lurid expose of the
fact that some corporations have contributed funds to a US think tank
that challenges and questions the dogma of human-caused global
warming. (The story is not on their English site, only their Hebrew
site – at http://www.haaretz.co.il/news/science/1.1647215 - and I am
sure the reason is that English readers would just guffaw at the
"scoop.")

Their discover goes like this. Some large corporations, including
Microsoft, Pfizer drugs, and General Motors, have made donations to
the Heartland Institute (http://heartland.org/ ), a think tank that
challenges politically correct theologies regarding education, the
environment, health care, and other matters. Heartland is actually
just a minor player in the global warming debates. There are
thousands of serious scientists who have no ties with Heartland who
also raise doubts about the idea that human activity is producing
global warming.

Haaretz first dismisses out of hand the credibility of Heartland by
describing it as a "Neo-Liberal" think tank. Now the very use of that
nonsense word requires some interpretation. These days Marxists refer
to all those who reject Marxism as "Neo-Liberal." .When they use the
term, they do not mean people who newly want to vote for Obama or who
newly want to support affirmative action or spend more on welfare,
those the rest of us usually describe as liberals. Anyone using the
term "Neo-Liberal" is essentially a communist and someone who can have
nothing of intelligence to say about anything else in the world.

So when Haaretz dismisses Heartland as "Neo-Liberal," it means
Haaretz is condemning the think tank for not being communist.

Haaretz is simply recruiting itself into the broader assault on
Heartland that began a few days ago on the Far-Leftist Huffington Blog
in the US. See
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-h-gleick/heartland-institute-documents_b_1289669.html.
The Huffington pinkies revealed that Heartland gets some funding from
corporations. Big deal. (Other Huffington "esposes" of Heartland are
at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/heartland-institute-leaked-documents_n_1282824.html
and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-demelle/heartland-institute-expos_b_1277374.html
). According to the data in the Haaretz piece, total corporate
support for Heartland comes to maybe a million bucks, almost enough to
buy a large apartment in a good neighborhood in Tel Aviv.

This is part of the Left's attempt to rescue global warming
theories from the "Climategate Scandals," in which it turned out that
promoters of the theory had cooked the books and distorted data. (See
http://www.realclearscience.com/2011/12/02/did_climategate_scientists_039pull_an_enron039_244326.html
) It comes in the very days when lots of other respectable
scientists and journalists are expressing skepticism about global
warming (see for example
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577171531838421366.html
reprinted below since you may not be able to open it - note that one
of the signers is a scientist at the Hebrew University!. It is so
nice to see the Hebrew University in the news for a change for
something other than treason!)

The main thing to be learned bout the Heartland Institute story is how
poorly funded the skeptics about global warming are compared with the
promoters.

But for Israelis, the REAL story here – in my opinion – is how Haaretz
gets so self-righteous and aggressive about "exposing" the sources of
funding for a conservative think tank. This is the same Haaretz that
has been leading the jihad AGAINST any disclosure or transparency for
the myriad picayune anti-Israel extremist NGO's operating in Israel
with funds provided by the EU and other anti-Israel players.

•
• From the Wall Street Journal:
• FEBRUARY 21, 2012
The Not-So-Vast Conspiracy
Stolen documents show the tiny budget of global warming skeptics.
When did it become received media wisdom that global warming
skepticism was all the work of shadowy right-wing groups lavishly
funded by oil companies? As best we can tell, it started with a 1995
Harper's magazine article claiming to expose this "high-powered engine
of disinformation." Today anyone who raises a doubt about the causes
of global warming is accused of fronting for, say, Exxon, whatever the
facts.
Now comes a rare glimpse inside the allegedly antiscience behemoth,
with the online publication last week of documents purloined from the
conservative Heartland Institute. The files appear to contain detailed
financial, donor and personnel information and outline the
think-tank's projects. Chicago-based Heartland says one of the
documents is fake and warns that others may have been altered.
Given the coverage the story has generated, you'd think some vast
conspiracy had been uncovered. Heartland is, according to the
Associated Press, "one of the loudest voices denying human-caused
global warming, hosting the largest international scientific
conference of skeptics on climate change." The Vancouver Sun reports
that it is "heavily funded by right-wing industrialist Charles Koch,"
while the Virginian-Pilot dubs it "the ideological center of the
denial movement."

So how flush is Heartland? The documents show the group is expecting
revenues of $7.7 million this year, mostly from private donations and
grants. Mr. Koch's "heavy" funding came to $25,000 in 2011, though the
Heartland "Fundraising Plan" has it hoping for an increase in 2012. To
put those numbers in not-for-profit perspective, last year the Natural
Resources Defense Council reported $95.4 million in operating
revenues, while the World Wildlife Fund took in $238.5 million.
Press coverage has focused in particular on Heartland's plans to
produce and distribute "educational material suitable for K-12
students on global warming that isn't alarmist or overtly political."
Heartland is budgeting $200,000 this year for the effort, which in the
past has "had only limited success," per one of the documents. Little
wonder if teachers aren't returning Heartland's calls: Last year the
World Wildlife Fund spent $68.5 million on "public education" alone.
As for "the largest international scientific conference of skeptics,"
Heartland will, according to the documents, spend all of $388,000 this
year on the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change.
That's against the $6.5 million that the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change costs Western taxpayers annually, and the $2.6
billion the White House wants to spend next year on research into "the
global changes that have resulted primarily from global
over-dependence on fossil fuels."
In the pages of Rolling Stone last summer, Al Gore warned of the
"Polluters and Ideologues [sic] . . . . spending hundreds of millions
of dollars each year on misleading advertisements in the mass media."
He had the wrong spenders.

• OPINION
•
No Need to Panic About Global Warming
There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to
'decarbonize' the world's economy.
Editor's Note: The following has been signed by the 16 scientists
listed at the end of the article:
A candidate for public office in any contemporary democracy may have
to consider what, if anything, to do about "global warming."
Candidates should understand that the oft-repeated claim that nearly
all scientists demand that something dramatic be done to stop global
warming is not true. In fact, a large and growing number of
distinguished scientists and engineers do not agree that drastic
actions on global warming are needed.
In September, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever, a supporter
of President Obama in the last election, publicly resigned from the
American Physical Society (APS) with a letter that begins: "I did not
renew [my membership] because I cannot live with the [APS policy]
statement: 'The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is
occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions
in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems,
security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce
emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.' In the APS it is OK to
discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a
multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is
incontrovertible?"
In spite of a multidecade international campaign to enforce the
message that increasing amounts of the "pollutant" carbon dioxide will
destroy civilization, large numbers of scientists, many very
prominent, share the opinions of Dr. Giaever. And the number of
scientific "heretics" is growing with each passing year. The reason is
a collection of stubborn scientific facts.
Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for
well over 10 years now. This is known to the warming establishment, as
one can see from the 2009 "Climategate" email of climate scientist
Kevin Trenberth: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of
warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." But the
warming is only missing if one believes computer models where
so-called feedbacks involving water vapor and clouds greatly amplify
the small effect of CO2.
The lack of warming for more than a decade—indeed, the
smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.'s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing
projections—suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how
much warming additional CO2 can cause. Faced with this embarrassment,
those promoting alarm have shifted their drumbeat from warming to
weather extremes, to enable anything unusual that happens in our
chaotic climate to be ascribed to CO2.
The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and
odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key
component of the biosphere's life cycle. Plants do so much better with
more CO2 that greenhouse operators often increase the CO2
concentrations by factors of three or four to get better growth. This
is no surprise since plants and animals evolved when CO2
concentrations were about 10 times larger than they are today. Better
plant varieties, chemical fertilizers and agricultural management
contributed to the great increase in agricultural yields of the past
century, but part of the increase almost certainly came from
additional CO2 in the atmosphere.
Although the number of publicly dissenting scientists is growing, many
young scientists furtively say that while they also have serious
doubts about the global-warming message, they are afraid to speak up
for fear of not being promoted—or worse. They have good reason to
worry. In 2003, Dr. Chris de Freitas, the editor of the journal
Climate Research, dared to publish a peer-reviewed article with the
politically incorrect (but factually correct) conclusion that the
recent warming is not unusual in the context of climate changes over
the past thousand years. The international warming establishment
quickly mounted a determined campaign to have Dr. de Freitas removed
from his editorial job and fired from his university position.
Fortunately, Dr. de Freitas was able to keep his university job.
This is not the way science is supposed to work, but we have seen it
before—for example, in the frightening period when Trofim Lysenko
hijacked biology in the Soviet Union. Soviet biologists who revealed
that they believed in genes, which Lysenko maintained were a bourgeois
fiction, were fired from their jobs. Many were sent to the gulag and
some were condemned to death.
Why is there so much passion about global warming, and why has the
issue become so vexing that the American Physical Society, from which
Dr. Giaever resigned a few months ago, refused the seemingly
reasonable request by many of its members to remove the word
"incontrovertible" from its description of a scientific issue? There
are several reasons, but a good place to start is the old question
"cui bono?" Or the modern update, "Follow the money."
Alarmism over climate is of great benefit to many, providing
government funding for academic research and a reason for government
bureaucracies to grow. Alarmism also offers an excuse for governments
to raise taxes, taxpayer-funded subsidies for businesses that
understand how to work the political system, and a lure for big
donations to charitable foundations promising to save the planet.
Lysenko and his team lived very well, and they fiercely defended their
dogma and the privileges it brought them.
Speaking for many scientists and engineers who have looked carefully
and independently at the science of climate, we have a message to any
candidate for public office: There is no compelling scientific
argument for drastic action to "decarbonize" the world's economy. Even
if one accepts the inflated climate forecasts of the IPCC, aggressive
greenhouse-gas control policies are not justified economically.
Princeton physics professor William Happer on why a large number of
scientists don't believe that carbon dioxide is causing global
warming.
A recent study of a wide variety of policy options by Yale economist
William Nordhaus showed that nearly the highest benefit-to-cost ratio
is achieved for a policy that allows 50 more years of economic growth
unimpeded by greenhouse gas controls. This would be especially
beneficial to the less-developed parts of the world that would like to
share some of the same advantages of material well-being, health and
life expectancy that the fully developed parts of the world enjoy now.
Many other policy responses would have a negative return on
investment. And it is likely that more CO2 and the modest warming that
may come with it will be an overall benefit to the planet.
If elected officials feel compelled to "do something" about climate,
we recommend supporting the excellent scientists who are increasing
our understanding of climate with well-designed instruments on
satellites, in the oceans and on land, and in the analysis of
observational data. The better we understand climate, the better we
can cope with its ever-changing nature, which has complicated human
life throughout history. However, much of the huge private and
government investment in climate is badly in need of critical review.
Every candidate should support rational measures to protect and
improve our environment, but it makes no sense at all to back
expensive programs that divert resources from real needs and are based
on alarming but untenable claims of "incontrovertible" evidence.
Claude Allegre, former director of the Institute for the Study of the
Earth, University of Paris; J. Scott Armstrong, cofounder of the
Journal of Forecasting and the International Journal of Forecasting;
Jan Breslow, head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and
Metabolism, Rockefeller University; Roger Cohen, fellow, American
Physical Society; Edward David, member, National Academy of
Engineering and National Academy of Sciences; William Happer,
professor of physics, Princeton; Michael Kelly, professor of
technology, University of Cambridge, U.K.; William Kininmonth, former
head of climate research at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology;
Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric sciences, MIT; James
McGrath, professor of chemistry, Virginia Technical University; Rodney
Nichols, former president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences;
Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer, designer of Voyager and SpaceShipOne;
Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut and former U.S. senator; Nir
Shaviv, professor of astrophysics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Henk
Tennekes, former director, Royal Dutch Meteorological Service; Antonio
Zichichi, president of the World Federation of Scientists, Geneva.