Zionist Conspiracy

The Blood Libel from Bar Ilan

http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/20844/Bar_Ilan's_Blood-Libel_Scandal.html

Bar Ilan's Blood-Libel Scandal

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By: Steven Plaut Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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By now just about everyone in the Jewish world has heard about the
blood libel affair that has emerged from Bar Ilan University in Israel. It
involves a professor of history there, Ariel Toaff, who claims that Jews
used gentile blood for ritual purposes in Italy in the Middle Ages.

Last week, The Jewish Press ran a letter by Prof. Toaff in which
he wrote inter alia: .In light of the false and distorted interpretation
given to my recently published book, I have requested the Italian
publishing house El Molino to immediately stop further distribution of the
book in order that I may re-edit those passages which comprised the basis
of the distortions and falsehoods that have been published in the media. I
was astounded by the sheer force of these misrepresentations, which turned
what is a research book into a vehicle used to harm Judaism and the Jewish
people and, God forbid, as a justification for blood libel..

He added that he apologizes to those who have been offended by
his .research. and offered to donate royalties from this book to the
Anti-Defamation League.

All very nice, except that Toaff has not really repudiated any of
his false claims. The real scandal in all of this has to do with academic
fraud, pseudo-scholarship and lies. Toaff.s posturing notwithstanding, the
problem is not that the media have .distorted. Toaff.s claims, but rather
that Toaff made fraudulent claims in the first place, based largely on
.confessions. made by Jews being tortured in Inquisition courts.

It was Toaff who assigned the decidedly undistorted title to the
book that states everything needed to know about it: Pasque di Sangue, or
Passover of Blood. His promise to send any royalties to the ADL that he
may or may not receive is a worthless gesture.

To put this matter into perspective, let me emphasize that Toaff
would not be the first academic in Israel to produces anti-Jewish
materials that are picked up and utilized by anti-Semites. Israel has
scores, if not hundreds, of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel radical faculty
members. Many of these are documented at www.israel-academia-monitor.com.

What is unusual in the Toaff affair is that it comes out of Bar Ilan
University, a school established mainly to serve Orthodox Jewish student
and that is now refusing to take disciplinary action against a professor
publishing fraudulent material about Jews.

There are numerous precedents from all over the democratic world
of universities firing tenured professors for fraud and for open promotion
of lunatic, obviously false .theories.. Several Holocaust deniers have
been fired from tenured jobs, with France.s Robert Faurrison perhaps the
most notorious. (Of course, there are open Holocaust deniers who have been
allowed to retain academic jobs.)

Professors promoting offensive ideas or exhibiting behavior
offensive to their employers have been fired in the U.S. Professors have
been stripped of tenure for the mere expression of crackpot ideas in
American universities. The University of Colorado.s Ward Churchill, who
justified the 9/11 attacks and called the victims inside the WTC towers
.Little Eichmanns. was removed from a number of campus positions and may
well be fired altogether.

Similarly, academics caught committing explicit fraud have been
fired and dismissed from academic positions. Luk van Parijs was fired from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for fraud, as were a professor
in the UK and an economics professor in Northern Kentucky. Even people
willing to defend the most offensive campus opinions in the name of
.academic freedom. generally agree that a professor should be fired if he
commits fraud. Professors in Western countries who have endorsed or
collaborated with terrorism have also been fired.

Within Israel, there have been some well-known cases of blatant
fraud in research by Israeli academics. The most famous is the notorious
Tantura story pushed by Dr. Ilan Pappe and his MA student Teddy Katz. Katz
fabricated a massacre of Arabs in the town of Tantura south of Haifa,
supposedly perpetrated by the Palmach Jewish militia in 1948.

Not a scrap of evidence of any such massacre exists. Katz was
sued for libel by the veterans association of the Palmach unit in
question. In court and under counsel from his attorney, Katz confessed
that he had fabricated the massacre, but later renounced his own
confession.

Pappe, for his part, continues to tout the non-existent massacre
in anti-Israel propaganda outlets all over the world.

There is some precedent for firing tenured faculty in Israel when
fraud has been committed. An associate professor of anthropology was fired
by the Hebrew University when it was discovered that she.d published
fraudulent research. A half-hearted but unsuccessful attempt was even made
within the University of Haifa, where Ilan Pappe is employed, to get Pappe
stripped of his tenure and fired.

All of which brings us back to the case of Toaff. Had these
merely been the charlatan claims of an Islamist extremist or some other
garden variety anti-Semite, no one would have paid them any attention. But
as every neo-Nazi website on the planet has already publicized with
jubilation, here we have an Italian-Israeli .scholar. who has published a
book that claims Jews in the Middle Ages engaged in ritual murder and used
Christian blood for religious rites.

True, Toaff says the Jews in question were heterodox sectarians
from outside the established Jewish community, but that is not exactly a
serious reason for treating Toaff with any leniency.

Toaff.s book is a complete fraud, at least the sections in it
about blood rituals (and they raise serious doubts about all the rest of
Toaff.s .research.). Of course, no Jew has ever used blood, human or
animal, for ritual purposes, other than animal sacrifices in the Temple of
Solomon. Nevertheless Toaff writes: .Over many dozens of pages I proved
the centrality of blood on Passover. Based on many sermons, I concluded
that blood was used, especially by Ashkenazi Jews, and that there was a
belief in the special curative powers of children.s blood. It turns out
that among the remedies of Ashkenazi Jews were powders made of blood..

Toaff claims that .a black market flourished on both sides of the
Alps, with Jewish merchants selling human blood, complete with rabbinic
certification of the product . kosher blood.. Here is the son of a rabbi
who apparently does not know that blood of any sort can never be kosher.

Toaff.s fraud has been universally denounced by Jews and
Christians. Even Israeli secularists were outraged. Writing in Yediot
Aharonot, Sever Plocker (a leftist) wrote: .Professor Toaff.s book has
nothing whatsoever to do with academic freedom. The man raised an
unfounded argument, which was rejected outright by the world.s finest
historians and experts on the period the book refers to. The blood libel
against the Jews has remained an evil plot..

Meanwhile, Bar Ilan University officials, facing a worldwide
explosion of rage, have politely distanced themselves from Toaff. But they
have not taken any serious action against him, have not stripped him of
his tenure for fraud nor fired him, and in fact have been going out of
their way to circle the wagons and defend Toaff.s .academic freedom..
Suddenly lies and fraud are protected academic scholarship at Bar Ilan.

As noted, Toaff has offered to pull the book off the shelves for
a little while in order to insert some .clarifications.. The problem is
not deficient clarity but rather all-too-clear anti-Semitic lies. His
duplicitous .apology. aside, Toaff is sticking to his guns about his main
claims, and told the Jerusalem Post he would not repudiate them even if it
means .he gets crucified. (his words). Accusing Jews of being behind
crucifixion is of course entirely consistent with his brand of
scholarship.

Toaff.s shenanigans illustrate perfectly why Israeli universities
are sinking into a quagmire of mediocrity and how the unwillingness to act
against charlatans and fraud is destroying Israeli academia.

1.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/6950
(see web page for links)

The Ward Churchill of the University of Haifa
10 Adar 5767, 28 February 07 10:40by Prof. Steven Plaut(IsraelNN.com) Over
the past few years, Ward Churchill, an instructor at the University of
Colorado, has become the best-known symbol of academic lunacy in the
United States. In an essay and then in a "book" authored by Churchill,
both with the title On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Consequences of
American Conquest and Carnage, published by the "radical and anarchist"
publisher AK Press, Churchill wrote that the victims of the 9/11 Al-Qaeda
attacks on New York were "the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile
sanctuary of the Twin Towers."

Instead of repudiating Churchill's lunacy, many on the fringes of the
Western Left embraced and endorsed him, not only supporting his "right of
free speech," but agreeing with the content of his statements.

Churchill has a long history of turning out anti-American hate screeds. He
has long tried to pass himself off falsely as an American Indian, a victim
of "white Amerika." He has a long track record of defending terrorism and
playing apologist for Holocaust deniers.

Churchill teaches "ethnic studies" at the University of Colorado at
Boulder. Since the "little Eichmanns" incident, a movement led by the
Governor of Colorado has sought to get Churchill dismissed from his
university job, and those efforts are expected to be successful very
shortly.

A bit less well known than Ward Churchill, the University of Haifa has its
own faculty member who makes a practice out of Eichmann metaphors, whose
comments denouncing Israeli soldiers closely resemble those of Churchill
endorsing the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center towers.

In the Haifa weekly Kolbo, dated February 1, 2002, page 30, Professor
Avraham Oz, a far-leftist anti-Israel associate professor of theater at
the University of Haifa, denounces Israeli soldiers as "little Eichmanns."

The news clipping above cites Oz as saying in his classroom, in the middle
of a lecture that was part of a university course, that "in each of these
people [evidently meaning Israeli soldiers] is hiding a little Eichmann."
Oz then went on to compare the actions of Israel's military in the
"occupied territories" to those of Nazi Germany. Students listening to him
were outraged and complained. (That is probably how the newspaper heard
about the incident.)

Oz has a long history of denouncing Israel inside his classroom and
utilizing his classroom for purposes of political indoctrination. He was
earlier denounced for this by Limor Livnat when she served as Minister of
Education, who also demanded that Haifa University officers take action
regarding Oz.

Oz's credentials to issue fatwas in judgment of Israeli soldiers are that
he teaches courses in theater. When contacted for a reaction by the paper,
Oz admitted the comments about Eichmann and added that he even was
including questions on them in his course exam. Pity the student who does
not provide him with the political answers he is seeking in those exam
questions.

Oz has long been a defender and ally of Ilan Pappe, denouncing his own
dean and drumming up support for Pappe in the infamous "Tantura Affair"
fabrication. (Pappe and a student invented a non-existent "massacre" of
Arabs by Jews, and had their legal defense fees financed in part by the
PLO.) Like Pappe, Oz has also been active in promoting international
boycotts of Israel and even of his own university.

He falsely claims his own university "discriminates against Arabs" and he
has tried to organize "Nakba Day" on his campus together with Pappe. On
Nakba Day, Israel's catastrophic creation would be mourned.

Among Oz's extra-curricular activities is his running an anti-Israel,
anti-Semitic chat list named "ALEF" ("Academic Left"), whose members
include some of the worst neo-Nazis and anti-Semites on the planet, some
of them Jewish. ALEF operates under the auspices of the University of
Haifa and is hosted on the University of Haifa computer. A good idea of
the nature of ALEF can be derived from the fact that its members engage in
debates over whether or not Hitler was "guilty" of anything, and also post
praise there for David Irving. Oz only intervenes in the list debates when
pro-Israel material is posted there inappropriately.

Because of his devotion to denouncing his own country and hosting
neo-Nazis and anti-Semites on his chat list, Oz is celebrated by them,
ranging from Al-Ahram to communist web sites and neo-Nazi web magazines.

2. The Brokeback Sheep:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27120

3. From Tom Gross

Kibbutz where Seinfeld picked bananas goes capitalist:
* Seinfeld, who volunteered in 1971: "I didn't like the kibbutz. Nice
Jewish boys from Long Island don't like to get up at six in the morning
to pick bananas."

* Film star Sigourney Weaver: "On the kibbutz, I dreamt we'd all be
working out in the fields like pioneers, singing away. Not at all. We were
stuck in the kitchen. I operated a potato-peeling machine."

* Bob Hoskins during the 1967 Six-Day War: "I was very good at
ploughing. I loved it .. and the birds [girls] were amazing. I was happy
being
a kibbutznik but they said to me 'You gotta join the army' and I said
'But I'm not Jewish', and they said 'It don't matter', so I left."

After nearly a century, Israel's first kibbutz calls time on communism
By David Sharrock
London Times
February 24, 2007

When Eliezer Gal arrived at Israel's first kibbutz he had already
served in the Red Army as a platoon tank commander at the siege of
Leningrad, escaped to West Berlin after being marked down by Stalin for
the
labour camps and been turned away by the British when he arrived in
Palestine aboard the Jewish refugee ship Exodus.

Mr Gal took a lowly job in the cow shed for 18 years and married
Michal, a daughter of the kibbutz's founders, raising his family in the
pastoral version of Zionist communism.

Now, aged 82, he is living one final adventure, which he and the other
members of Degania call Shinui (The Change). The kibbutz has just voted
to privatise itself and assume the trappings of capitalism.

4. Moments after the US announces it will conduct "talks" with the Syrian
and Iranian fascists, the US stock market drops in the worst crash since
911. Coincidence?

1. A Second Blood Libel Anti-Semite from Israeli Academia
by Steven Plaut

Yehiam Soreq or Sorek is one of the most openly anti-Semitic "academics"
employed in Israeli academia. He teaches at the "Beit Berl" college,
associated with the kibbutz movement and the Israeli "labor movement" (teh
Labor Party and the Histadrut); it is named after the Zionist leader Berl
Katsenelson. Sorek teaches history there. He is a vicious anti-Israel
extremist, signs all the anti-Israel petitions (here is but one:

http://maritimes.indymedia.org/news/2002/09/2941.php ). He differs from
the other academic anti-Zionists in Israel mainly in turning out
propaganda articles that are much loopier and loonier than those of most
of the others . see below. (His web site in Hebrew is at

http://www.beitberl.ac.il/professors/ProfessorsPreview.asp?ID=347

It says
he has a PhD from South Africa.)

SOrek has now become the SECOND Israeli "academic" to endorse medieval
blood libels about Jews supposedly using blood for ritual purposes in the
Middle Ages. As you know, Prof. Ariel Toaff from Bar-Ilan University has
been making such claims and Bar Ilan University is now under ENORMOUS
attack for employing such a person. Toaff yesterday refused to appear
before a Knesset committee to answer questions and he may be charged with
contempt.

Over the past weeks, numerous people, including myself, have been saying
that there is not a single Jew in the world who endorses Toaff's
ridiculous "research". Alas, we were wrong. There is now one other .
Yehiam Sorek. In today's Maariv, he basically endorses Toaff's claims
(which Toaff himself is now trying to play down). He proclaims Toaff a
brave hero and insists that just as there cannot be smoke without a fire,
medieval blood libels against Jews must have some factual basis.
Criticism of people like Toaff is as illegitimate, writes Sorek, as
similar criticisms against pro-Palestinian propagandists in Israeli
academia who write about the "Naqba", the Arab word for catastrophe,
favorite nonsense word of the braindead Left when referring to Israel's
creation.

Yehiam Sorek's blood libel anti-Semitic screed can be read in Hebrew at

http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/549/546.html

Ben Dror Yemini, editor of Maariv, dismisses Sorek as a vile anti-Semite
and pseudo-academic, in Hebrew at

http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/549/492.html

Ben Droro Yemini writes
that it is only a question of time before Sorek discovers that the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion also are factually correct and entitled to
be taught in Israeli schools.

The director or Beit Berl is Ruthie Gavri at
Phone 972-9-7476302
ruth@beitberl.ac.il

Beit Berl's fax is 972-9-7476340
A form letter on the web for writing Beit Berl is at

http://www.beitberl.ac.il/InfoPages/InfoPagesPreview.asp?ID=494

You may also wish to write to the Minister of Education, Yuli Tamir,
email info@education.gov.il , make cc to mankal@education.gov.il and
owl@education.gov.il

Here is an earlier posting of mine on Herr Sorek:

Yehiam Soreq or Sorek, a "historian" who teaches at the Beit Berl
College

http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/12/hannuka_among_the_hellenists_1.html
December 15, 2006
Hannuka Among the Hellenists
By Steven Plaut
Of all the Jewish holidays, the one that I think best captures the
contemporary Jewish zeitgeist, the one that is the most relevant to the
current (and, if certain trends are not reversed, the last?) chapter in
Jewish history, is Hannuka.
Hannuka is, of course, the story of Jewish national liberation. It is the
story of the military victory of the few against the many, of the
champions of Judaism against the pagan barbarians.

But it is more than this. It is the saga of the heroic struggle of Jewish
survivalists (those one would today label "Zionists") against the
assimilationists and self-hating Hellenists of the second century BCE.
Hannuka is less a story about the battle against the Greeks than it is
about the battle against the predominant assimilationist paradigm at the
time among the Jews. It is about the battle against the anti-survivalists,
those who hated themselves for being Jews, those who seek to be
"progressive", "modern", and "in", through rejecting, abasing, disgracing
and degrading themselves and their people. The Hellenists who fought the
Hasmoneans were struggling against Jewish survival. Sound familiar?

In the United States, the main movement of Hellenistic assimilationism has
been the school of "Political Liberalism as Judaism", the pseudo-religion
that holds that all of Judaism can be reduced to the pursuit of this
week's liberal political fads. But the global avante garde of Jewish
self-hatred these days is the Israeli Fundamentalist.

The Israeli Fundamentalist is the main manifestation today of Jewish
anti-Semitism.

It not only promotes "plans" and policies designed to end Israel's
existence, increasingly endorsing the one-state, bi-national Rwanda
solution to the "problem" of Israeli national existence, but it also
regularly attacks every symbol and concept of traditional Judaism.

You think I am exaggerating? Well just consider the Op-Ed a few years back
in the Israeli anti-Zionist daily Haaretz, penned by one Yehiam Soreq, a
"historian" who teaches at the Beit Berl College in Israel. Beit Berl is a
college run by the kibbutz movement. Article appears in English here:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=294419

The "historian" Soreq devoted his Haaretz column to proving that the
Maccabees were fascist and racist hooligans, bloodthirsty zealots, and
downright Likudniks. His column was entitled "Bloodthirsty Zealots". His
thesis was that Jews should stop celebrating Hannuka and the exploits of
the Maccabees, and should instead feel sympathy for the poor occupied and
mistreated Greeks and Hellenists.

His article was not a spoof.

The evil Maccabees were plotting to perpetrate population "transfer",
wrote Soreq, that most evil of all crimes in the "minds" of Israel's
fundamentalists. Population "transfer" is far worse than, say, mass
murdering 2000 Jews after signing with them a series of peace accords, or
turning the West Bank and Gaza over to barbarian fascists to allow them to
carry out such mass murders. Soreq is a member of that same Fundamentalist
that will not rest until all Jews have been expelled from the West Bank
and Gaza in an act of ethnic cleansing, and until no Israeli armed forces
are left behind to interfere with the terrorist activities of the
"Palestinians."

Matityahu, the father of Judah Maccabee and his brothers, was a lunatic,
wrote Soreq. He was a warmonger who dragged his country into an
unnecessary "war of choice", one that was not a legitimate "war of
self-defense". (Never mind that there is nothing at all in Judaism that
says Jews should refrain from conquering their lands unless it is part of
a war of self-defense.) The Maccabees were the aggressors, insisted Soreq.
And they suppressed the free speech of those who supported the Greeks; how
undemocratic of them!

Judah Maccabee was guilty of causing many families to lose their loved
ones by leading people to war, wrote Soreq, instead of pursuing some sort
of Hellenistic Oslo appeasement and capitulation, the sort the
"enlightened " seeks today to impose upon Israel. All Judah Maccabee
really wanted to do was to Occupy, Occupy, Occupy, insists Soreq. No
better than the West Bank settlers today! And not only that, but Judah and
his hooligans were Orthodox Jews, which every fundamentalist knows must
make them primitive and barbaric; you know, unlike the enlightened Marxist
historians who live on nice kibbutzim or teach at the Beit Berl college.

Unfortunately, Soreq is hardly a lone phenomenon. Israel's anti-Jewish
have been launching similar jihads against every other symbol of Jewish
valor. Masada was a cesspool of non-tolerant fanatics, according to them.
The Bible is a backward document full of fabrications. Schools should stop
teaching it altogether, they demand, and instead teach something really
useful, like the works of Palestinian "poets". Archeology proves the Bible
is nothing but lies and fantasy, they insist. One wag labeled such people
Pentateuch Deniers (intended as a play on "Holocaust Deniers").

In Israel, the country's politics - particularly its cultural/educational
elite and its chattering classes - are now largely dominated by those
motivated by the desire for their country to commit national suicide. They
scorn themselves, their own country and their own people, the same way
that the Hellenized Jews did at the time of the Maccabees. Many endorse
boycotts of Israel by anti-Semites abroad. Like the Hellenized Jews, they
are convinced that traditionalist Jews are reactionary and primitive, and
that the greatest national priority should be renunciation of Jewish
peculiarity and the striving to assimilate amongst the cosmopolitan
progressive "Greeks" of the world. They are ashamed of their Jewishness
and convinced that the only path to peace is to renounce it. They insist
that a Seleucid "narrative" should replace the Jews' own reactionary
national one.

Israel's universities are by and large the Occupied Territories of these
Hellenists. The Israeli media is to almost the same extent. Hellenists
dominate much of the Israeli military and, somewhat incredibly, the
intelligence services. (It is doubtful the country could have undergone
the Oslo debacle had these intelligence services not operated as lap dogs
for the Beilinized Israeli Fundamentalist.)

Hellenists have attempted to rewrite the Israeli school curriculum, to
teach Israeli Jewish children to despise themselves. Their message is that
Jews must feel ashamed, because they are mean, selfish, evil and immoral
people. Surely, there would be no anti-Semitism on the planet were not the
Jews such racist and insensitive people.

Their aim is to convince the Jews that the only way they may become
accepted in the world is to adapt to paganism, to stop seeking to exist as
a separate national entity, to commit national suicide. Moreover, their
campaign is aimed at challenging the moral existence of the Jews. They
realize this is the weakest chink in the armor of the Jews. If Jews can be
convinced that they are morally in the wrong, then no Maccabees will
emerge. The aim of the Jewish Hellenists is the delegitimization of the
Jews as a nation, discrediting the moral position of Jewish survivalism.

The message of the contemporary Hellenists is unambiguous: Those who wish
to purify the Temple, who seek pure oil for the Temple lamp, who wish to
evict the barbarians from Jerusalem, are the enemies of peace. The
Maccabees must be arrested for incitement. The Jews must provide Antiochus
with concessions and arms and funds and a Road Map. Under no circumstances
should the Jews seek to defend themselves militarily against the
Seleucids, for there is no military solution to the problem of Seleucid
aggression. If the barbarians murder the Jews, it is because the Jews are
evil, selfish people and because they have been too reluctant to abandon
their primitive survivalism.

If the Israeli anti-Jewish has its way, the Post-Hasmonean,
post-survivalist era will be upon us.
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Sorek's email address is yehiam.sorek@beitberl.ac.il

2. Genocidal Textbooks:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1171894507976&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

3. A Leftist who regained sanity:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1171894495079&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

4. Korean anti-Semitism:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3369184,00.html

5. Funding your enemies:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/6945

6. Yet another leftist from Ben Gurion University - this time defending
hosting jihadniks at Brandeis:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3369875,00.html

7. Campus Jihad Collaborators:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1171894524953&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

8. Prager on Jewish leftist anti-Semitism:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27119

About those whining Jewish leftists:
JEWISH LEFT WHINES ABOUT LEFTIST ANTI-SEMITISM - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT?

By Don Feder
Posted February 21, 2007

Among the many groups for whom I feel absolutely no sympathy is the Jewish
left - which has lately been agonizing over the prevalence of Jew-hatred
at anti-war rallies.

Signs comparing Israelis to Nazis and identifying Jews as the enemies of
humanity have become de rigueur at (you should pardon the expression)
peace rallies.

Jewish leftists - at least those who still feel a connection to the Jewish
people - are dismayed.

An article in the January 27 Contra Costa (California) Times calls our
attention to the San Francisco Anti-Defamation League's first conference
on how progressives "can protect themselves against anti-Semitism - from
the liberal left."

Among other examples of tolerance and brotherhood cited by the Times, at
one San-Fran demonstration last year, Arabs chanted "Jews are our dogs."

According to the article, many on the lox-and-cream-cheese left is upset
with former President Pinhead's latest book, "Palestine: Peace Not
Apartheid" - which condones suicide bombings. (Carter calls on peaceful
Palestinians to stop terrorist attacks if Israel begins "respecting
international law" - rolling over and playing dead. )

Jewish progressives wonder why the movement seems to single out Israel for
hysterical denunciations, and if their comrades haven't replaced "Israel"
for "Jew" in the old anti-Semitic formulation. (Try to imagine Carter
writing a book called "Saudi Arabia: Equality Not Misogyny" or "Iran:
Democracy Not Theocracy.")

Regarding the group-therapy for Jewish leftists, Jonathan Bernstein,
director of the ADL's San Francisco regional office, says, "We have heard
from so many people who feel ostracized and alone and don't really know
what to do with this problem." Bernstein complains that said good people
shouldn't "have to pick between being Jewish and whatever worthwhile
cause."

That some Jewish leftists are uncomfortable with the movement's uglier
antics is surely one of humanity's great tragedies - ranking right up
there with the heartbreak of psoriasis.

According to organizers, the conference (which was held the following
weekend) would include a discussion of "coping strategies," "having a
rally within a rally," and "on the spot responses to hurtful language."
Wow, "on the spot responses to hurtful language" - talk about getting
tough with anti-Semitism.

I'm reminded of a Woody Allen movie where the comedian is at a cocktail
party and some of his Upper East Side friends start discussing how to
respond to the Nazis marching in New Jersey. One suggests putting on a
satirical play parodying the brown shirts. An agitated Allen says that -
harsh as that may be - instead, perhaps they should consider getting rocks
and clubs and beating the Nazis to a bloody pulp.

Now that's a coping strategy I can relate to.

Leftist anti-Semitism is as old as the left. Since the French Revolution,
polemicists have cast Israelites as the quintessential capitalist
exploiters - never mind the prevalence of Jews in various socialist
movements. (Voltaire charged that the Jews were "born with a raging
fanaticism in their hearts.")

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (the father of modern socialism and anarchism) --
who coined the expression "Property is theft" - explained:

"The Jew is by temperament an anti-producer. He is an intermediary, always
fraudulent and parasitical, who operates, in trade and in philosophy, by
means of falsification, counterfeiting, and horse-trading."

What then should be done with this irredeemably anti-social element? "The
Jew is the enemy of mankind," Proudhon advised. "It is necessary to send
this race back to Asia, or exterminate it...By fire or fusion, or by
expulsion, the Jew must disappear." Said genocidal raving predated the
Holocaust by a century.

Karl Marx, old Uncle Fuzzy-Whiskers (the scion of a German-Jewish family
that had converted to Christianity for social position) explained the
Jewish problem this way: "What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical
need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering.
What is his worldly God? Money."

No wonder Hitler and Stalin got on famously, until that unfortunate
incident of June of 1940.

After the fall of the Third Reich, the Soviet Union became the worldwide
nexus of anti-Semitism.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, anti-Semitism's Mecca shifted to -
well, Mecca. In the Moslem world, Mein Kampf and "The Protocols of Zion"
are best-sellers and rabid Jew-hatred is standard fare in political,
religious and cultural discourse. So, naturally, Islam has become the
left's pet religion and Islamacism its principal ally.

Besides an unremitting animus toward the Jewish state, the anti-war left
has embraced many of the old anti-Semitic stereotypes of its revolutionary
forebears. Feminist author Phyllis Chesler observes: "The Jews and the
Jewish state have become the symbol of Satanic America, capitalism,
imperialism, colonialism."

Consider Noam Chomsky - Hugo Chavez's favorite philosopher. Sure he wants
to see Israel destroyed, and trusts in the good will of Hamas and Fatah
for the safety of those Jews left in Palestine. Sure he associates with
Holocaust-deniers. And sure he admires Iran's version of Jack The Ripper.
But is the Jewish-born Chomsky an anti-Semite?

In a 2002 interview with a Palestinian solidarity group, Chomsky declared,
"By now, Jews in the US are the most privileged and influential part of
the population."

When a Marxist says someone's "privileged" it means they're getting
something they didn't earn and don't deserve.

Chomsky hates American society. Thus the avatar of the New Left and
leading intellectual light of the anti-war movement is saying that Jews
have risen to the top of a rotten, corrupt culture that spreads war,
famine and misery across the globe. Did they attain that favored status by
dint of their virtues?

For today's left, the Jew is the corporate executive, exploiting his
workers, raping the environment and reaping obscene profits. He's the
globalist, pushing a world economy run by multinationals. He's the neo-con
manipulating the White House and Congress to engineer a war with Iran - to
enhance Israel's security. He's the quintessence whatever the left
despises at any particular point in time.

And not just the loony left, not just the fringy left - but the
establishment left.

Toward the middle of last month, in an online posting at Arianna
Huffington's website, retired general and former Democratic presidential
candidate Wesley Clark was asked why he thought America would attack Iran.

Clark replied: "You just have to read what's in the Israeli press. The
Jewish community is divided but there is so much pressure being channeled
from the New York money people to the office seekers."
,p>Why the Israeli press, and not the Wall Street Journal, Rush Limbaugh
or Fox News? And, in case you haven't guessed it, "the New York money
people" isn't code for Episcopalians.

In his 2004 campaign, Howard Dean urged that regarding Israel and the
Palestinians, the United States should adopt an "even-handed" approach.
This is another way of saying that between an historic ally and a people
who invariably side with our enemies and never miss a chance to tell us
how much they hate our guts, America should be strictly impartial.

Any objections from Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama to Carter's vile
comparison of Israel to South Africa's former white supremacist regime?
Not that I'm aware of.

Is the Democratic Party anti-Semitic or merely soft on anti-Semitism?
Nothing could be more damning than the party of Old Joe Kennedy's embrace
of Al Sharpton - the man who sparked a full-scale pogrom in Crown Heights
in 1991 and a massacre at Freddy's Fashion Mart in 1995. (Instead of "New
York money people," Sharpton prefers "diamond merchants with blood on
their hands" and "interlopers.")

During the 2000 campaign, Al Gore obediently appeared at a
Sharpton-organized debate at Harlem's Apollo Theater - which would be
comparable to George Bush carrying the torch at a cross-burning.

Anywhere you look on the left, you'll find spiritual descendants of the
Cossacks and storm troopers - anti-Semites or those who condone
anti-Semitism.

Peace and justice don't grow in a cesspool. Instead of kvetching about
"hurtful language" and devising "coping strategies," Jewish leftists -
those who are more Jewish than leftist -- should reconsider their
"whatever worthwhile cause" - which may not be that worthwhile after all.

http://www.donfeder.com/news.ivnu

1. Campus Nuremberg Rallies against Israel:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27042
Many of them are starring Israeli academic traitors.

2. More "progressive" Jewish anti-Semitism:
http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/20773/Anti-Israel_'Progressives'_Run_With_The_Jackals_Of_Hate.html

3. Meet that Zionist:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1171894488324&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

4. Dan Margolit becomes an inciter:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1171894486792&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

5. Hollywood romances Pestilinian terror:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27056

6. Anti-Semitism at Stanford:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1171894488107&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

7. A REAL plan for peace with Iran:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/2

8. February 23, 2007
COMMENTARY
An Upside-Down World
By NICK COHEN
February 23, 2007; Page A10

LONDON -- The other day Ken Livingstone, the mayor of my hometown of
London, organized a conference on Islam and the West. It was a carefully
rigged affair in which handpicked speaker after handpicked speaker stood
up and announced that the democracies were to blame for the tidal wave of
murder sweeping the world. To provide a spurious air of balance, the
organizers invited a few people who dissented from the line of the Muslim
Brotherhood and its British allies. Agn.s Poirier, a French feminist, was
one of them, but she pulled out because although there were no special
facilities for Christians, Hindus and Jews, Mr. Livingstone had provided
separate prayer rooms for Muslim men and Muslim women.

She wanted to know: Does Ken Livingstone's idea of multiculturalism
acknowledge and condone segregation? It clearly does, but what made this
vignette of ethnic politics in a European city worth noting is that
commentators for the BBC and nearly every newspaper here describe Mr.
Livingstone as one of the most left-wing politicians in British public
life. Hardly any of them notices the weirdness of an apparent socialist
pandering to a reactionary strain of Islam, pushing its arguments and
accepting its dictates.

Mr. Livingstone's not alone. After suicide bombers massacred Londoners on
July 7, 2005, leftish rather than conservative papers held British foreign
policy responsible for the slaughters on the transport network. ("Blair's
Bombs," ran the headline in my own leftish New Statesman.) In any
university, you are more likely to hear campaigns for the rights of Muslim
women derided by postmodernists than by crusty conservative dons. Our Stop
the War coalition is an alliance of the white far left and the Islamist
far right, and George Galloway, its leader, and the first allegedly "far
left" MP to be elected to the British parliament in 50 years, is an
admirer of Saddam Hussein and Hezbollah.

I could go on with specific examples, but the crucial point is the
pervasive European attitude to the Iraq catastrophe. As al Qaeda, the
Baathists and Shiite Islamists slaughter thousands, there is virtually no
sense that their successes are our defeats. Iraqi socialists and trade
unionists I know are close to despair. They turn for support to Europe,
the home of liberalism, feminism and socialism, and find that rich
democrats, liberals and feminists won't help them or even acknowledge
their existence.

There were plenty of leftish people in the 20th century who excused
communism, but they could at least say that communism was a left-wing
idea. Now overwhelmingly and everywhere you find people who scream their
heads off about the smallest sexist or racist remark, yet refuse to
confront ultra-reactionary movements that explicitly reject every
principle they profess to hold.

Why is the world upside down? In part, it is a measure of President Bush's
failure that anti-Americanism has swept out of the intelligentsia and
become mainstream in Britain. A country that was once the most
pro-American in Western Europe now derides Tony Blair for sticking with
the Atlantic alliance. But if Iraq has pummeled Mr. Blair's reputation, it
has also shone a very harsh light on the British and European left. No one
noticed it when the Berlin Wall came down, but the death of socialism gave
people who called themselves "left wing" a paradoxical advantage. They no
longer had a practical program they needed to defend and could go along
with ultra-right movements that would once have been taboo. In moments of
crisis, otherwise sane liberals will turn to these movements and be
reassured by the professed leftism of the protest organizers that they are
not making a nonsense of their beliefs.

If, that is, they have strong beliefs to abandon. In Europe and North
America extreme versions of multiculturalism and identity politics have
left a poisonous legacy. Far too many liberal-minded people think that is
somehow culturally imperialist to criticize reactionary movements and
ideas -- as long as they aren't European or American reactionary
movements. This delusion is everywhere. Until very recently our Labour
government was allowing its dealings with Britain's Muslim minority to be
controlled by an unelected group, the Muslim Council of Britain, which
stood for everything social democrats were against. In their desperate
attempts to ingratiate themselves, ministers gave its leader a knighthood
-- even though he had said that "death was too good" for Salman Rushdie,
who happens to be a British citizen as well as a great novelist.

Beyond the contortions and betrayals of liberal and leftish thinking lies
a simple emotion that I don't believe Americans take account of: an
insidious fear that has produced the ideal conditions for appeasement.
Radical Islam does worry Europeans but we are trying to prevent an
explosion by going along with Islamist victimhood. We blame ourselves for
the Islamist rage, in the hope that our admission of guilt will pacify our
enemies. We are scared, but not scared enough to take a stand.

I hope conservative American readers come to Britain. But if you do,
expect to find an upside-down world. People who call themselves liberals
or leftists will argue with you, and when they have finished you may
experience the strange realization that they have become far more
reactionary than you have ever been.

Mr. Cohen, a columnist for the Observer and the New Statesman, is the
author of "What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way" (Fourth Estate,
2007).

URL for this article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117220083341716983.html

1. Foreign governments funding treasonous Israeli NGOs:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1171894478646&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Manipulating 'civil society'

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GERALD M. STEINBERG , THE JERUSALEM POST Feb. 20, 2007

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The differences between Europe and the Israeli government over the status
of the West Bank - Judea and Samaria - are well known. In London, Paris
and Brussels, this area is viewed as "occupied territory," while for
Jerusalem, the area is "disputed."

A similar debate is taking place within Israeli society, as groups with
different ideologies challenge the government's policies, including the
expansion or removal of settlements and the route of the security barrier.
This discussion is important, legitimate and extremely complex.

But when foreign governments team up with and provide financial support to
private Israeli groups in order to oppose policies that are set by
democratically elected leaders, this is a problem. It is also a violation
of sovereignty, and a clear example of neocolonialism.

Nevertheless, the recent discovery that the British Embassy in Tel Aviv is
funding an Israeli non-governmental organization (NGO) known as "Bimkom -
Planners for Planning Rights" - is not surprising. The ostensible focus of
the "research" is on the impact of the security barrier on Palestinian
villages caught in the middle, and since Bimkom is a political
organization, the outcome is a forgone conclusion.

In this way, the British government will receive an analysis from an
Israeli group that supports London's position against the route of the
barrier. The same information could have been obtained through official
government channels, (i.e., intelligence) but without the important
political dimension. (The Danish government provided Bimkom with $200,000
for a project on "Palestinian neighborhoods.")

For years, European governments have used the same approach by providing
funding to well-known Israeli domestic political groups, such as Peace
Now, B'Tselem, and the Peres Center. The Swiss Foreign Ministry and the
European Union, among others, supported the failed public relations
campaign to sell the Israel public the Geneva Initiative - a track-two
peace proposal led by Yossi Beilin and his Palestinian counterparts.

And under the misleading label of "partners for peace," the EU Delegation
in Tel Aviv is funding a group known as the Israeli Committee Against
House Demolitions, which promotes anti-Israel boycotts and divestment. It
also funds Israeli-Arab groups, such as Mossawa and Adallah, which
ostensibly advocate for social and economic justice for the Arabs of
Israel, but have done their fair share to demonize the Jewish state.

WHAT IS new in the case of Bimkom is the response of the Foreign Ministry,
which stated: "It is interference by Britain in an internal Israeli
matter. How would they react in London if our embassy was to fund research
on a British organization that is trying to promote an agenda that is
critical of [the government]?"

The language is a diplomatic and understated - indeed, almost English -
reaction to a fundamental defect in European policy toward Israel. A more
blunt response might have provided a hypothetical examples - such as an
advertising campaign funded by the US government in London or Paris
promoting a hard-line anti-abortion position. Or a propaganda effort on
the Northern Ireland conflict, or in support of separatist movements in
France (Corsica) or Spain (ETA).

Furthermore, the scale of European government funding for Israeli and
Palestinian political organizations that claim to promote human rights,
peace and democracy is huge, and largely hidden. The massive
Euro-bureaucracy has created a complex network of funding agencies for
"civil society" in the region, and no central index or reporting system
exists.

Until last year, the EU office in Tel Aviv violated its own principles of
transparency and kept the list of Israeli NGO beneficiaries secret,
ostensibly due to threats of violence. NGO Monitor's investigations led to
a change in this instance, but funding for Palestinian NGOs is still
largely covert.

THE CHANGE in Israeli government policy and a willingness to confront such
anti-democratic manipulation, particularly by European governments
(including non-EU countries such as Norway and Switzerland), marks an
important step. Going beyond the terse statement, the Israeli
representatives should bring a detailed file on the funding provided for
politicized NGOs to every meeting between heads of state, foreign
ministers and government officials.

If Europe expects to play a more important role in regional security and
diplomacy, it cannot also continue to provide funding designed to
undermine the Israeli government's positions, both internally and in the
international arena.

In Europe, the amorphous entities known as "civil society organizations"
and NGOs also need close scrutiny. These bodies are unelected, and their
officials are not accountable.

In democratic societies, government officials who provide funds to these
entities generally use this as a means to promote their own interests and
objectives, without checks and balances or transparency. In closed
non-democratic societies, such as Syria, Egypt and the Palestinian
Authority, foreign government assistance for NGOs that promote democracy,
tolerance, and human rights may have a positive impact, but only if this
support is carefully monitored to prevent abuse. Europe's failure to
provide such monitoring exacerbates the damage.

Israel, as a vibrant democracy, does not need, and should not be the
target of "civil society initiatives" engineered by foreign governments,
whether well-meaning or hostile. From this perspective, the example of
Bimkom, the security barrier, and the British Embassy is small but highly
illustrative.

The time has come to end this misguided and patronizing policy.

The writer heads the Program on Conflict Management at Bar-Ilan University
and is the executive director of NGO Monitor.

2, Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3367480,00.html

3. Police chief must go!
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3366604,00.html

4. Yediot leftist enters the university of DUH:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3366869,00.html

5. More about the Jews for a Second Holocaust:
http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=486
and also
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/contentions/index.php/ottolenghi/168

6. More scholarship from Ben Gurion University:
Ben Gurion University Anti-Israel 'Against the Wall' activist Koby Snitz
injured in Bil'in

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/02/16/bilin-16-02-07/
Protester claims he was beaten on head with rifle butt in Bil'in

7. More on Israel's system of judicial tyranny:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1171894469567&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

8. Goobers again:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3367036,00.html

9. Petition to get Blood Libel professor from Bar-Ilan canned:
http://www.petitiononline.com/silv56yh/petition.html

1. The headline in today's Israeli press: The Minister of Internal
Security (meaning police) offered to appoint Amram Miztna as Director
General of the Ministry. Now why exactly is that funny?
Because Amram Mitzna, the ex-Mayor of Haifa, current Mayor of Yeruham, and
has-been contender for Prime Minister as past-Rais of the Labor Party, is
one of the most crooked politicians in Israel. His crooked deals and ties
with Israeli oligarchs make those in post-Soviet Russia look tame.
Appointing him as chief of the police is a bit like appointing Ahmad Tibi
as commander of the army.
After it hit the press, the Minister, Avi Dichter, seems to have backed
away from the idea.

2. More anti-Semitic conspiracist balderdash:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/02/oh_those_jews.html

3. Ben Caspit attacks the Israeli Biased Media:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359880296&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

4. So many fences, only one "apartheid fence" in the "minds" of the Left:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359860662&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

5. From Jerusalem Post:
Haman & Amalek

Sir, - In "The Amalek syndrome" (UpFront, February 9) Samuel G. Freedman
suggests that Alvin Rosenfeld's report on "progressive" Jewish
intellectuals' anti-Israel positions is an example of the "Amalek
syndrome." Most Passover celebrants understand the agenda behind the
traditional, self-contradictory, remembrance of Amalek, whose memory is to
"be blotted out from under Heaven," not as quenching nonconformists among
themselves but as remembering that every generation of the Jewish people
has external enemies.

Prof. Freedman, who describes himself as a "political Zionist," accuses
Rosenfeld not only of an attempt to suppress discussion and "invalidate,
delegitimize and disenfranchise" the objects of his immediate criticism,
Jacqueline Rose, Michael Neumann, Tony Judt and Tony Kushner, but also of
effectively disempowering young Jewish intellectuals on college campuses
who "yearn" for a "chance to openly dissent about Israel" without being
"banished from the Jewish community."

No such sanctions are recommended by Rosenfeld's report, which is
thoughtful, extremely well-informed, academically precise and free from
the "demagogic" tendency Freedman imputes to it. It is not easy to meet on
its own intellectual ground. Hence the outcry against it: Apparently
freedom of opinion is limited to the side against which Rosenfeld engages
in debate.

Freedman opens by referring to Purim. It might be apt to recollect that in
the Book of Esther the main danger is not the military attacks of an
Amalek, but the scheming of Haman, an anti-Semitic politician in the
Persian capital.

LEONA TOKER
Hebrew University
Jerusalem

6. No, the Pestilinians are NOT deserving of their own state:
http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/10695.htm

7. Self-hating Jews reduct:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/beyond_selfhating.html

8. Will Eric Hunt by granted tenure at Ben Gurion University now?
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3366306,00.html

9. Demos and Iran:
http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/article/1063/

10. Well, the GOOD news is that neither Shulamit Aloni nor Yael Dayan
were posing:
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/827472.html

Neve Gordon's editor sentenced:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070215/D8NAEK4G2.html

Ernst Zundel, neo-nazi, has published several articles by Neve Gordon. He will serve 5 years in German prison for Holocaust Denial. Gordon did NOT file suit against Zundel for publishing Gordon's anti-Semitic articles. For details, see
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article3528.html

1. Today Brandeis, tomorrow Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv
University?
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13674

2. The Left defiles the Holocaust:
http://www.engageonline.org.uk/journal/index.php?journal_id=14&article_id=55
http://www.engageonline.org.uk/journal/index.php?journal_id=14&article_id=58

3. Leftist Pseudo-Rabbi guilty of assaulting Zionist activist:
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2007/feb/15/hillel_director_apologizes_attack/
See also:
2007-02-16 http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=17231

UCLA Hillel rabbi apologizes, settles 2003 case with woman
journalist

By Gaby Friedman, Contributing Writer

Copy of faxed apology from Rabbi Seidler-Feller
A UCLA Hillel rabbi accused of accosting a freelance journalist in
October
2003 has sent the writer a letter of apology as part of a court
settlement.

Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, UCLA Hillel director, was accused by
Rachel
Neuwirth of verbally and physically assaulting her outside Royce Hall, on
the
UCLA campus, during a speech by Alan Dershowitz more than four years ago.

The letter was part of a settlement reached by Seidler-Feller and
Neuwirth on
Jan. 19, 2007.

In the letter, Seidler-Feller wrote "I am deeply sorry that I hit,
kicked,
and scratched you and called you a liar. By taking these unprovoked
actions,
I have contradicted the pluralism, peace and tolerance about which I so
often
preach."

The incident occurred after Seidler-Feller approached some
pro-Palestinian
activists protesting Dershowitz's speech and invited them to an event
featuring Suri Nusseibeh, the Palestinian representative for Jerusalem.
Nusseibeh has been accused of encouraging Saddam Hussein to launch scud
missile attacks against large Jewish population centers in Israel.
Overhearing
the invitation, Neuwirth started arguing with the rabbi, who then
assaulted
her. Neuwirth responded by calling him a "Kapo", a derogatory term used to
describe Jews who collaborated with the Nazis in World War II.

Neuwirth filed a report with campus police the day after the
incident, which
occurred on Oct. 21, 2003, and the university turned the investigation
over to
the city attorney's office. She also filed a civil suit against
Seidler-Feller
and Hillel in November 2003.

In December 2003, the city attorney's office ordered Seidler-Feller
to undergo
a 36-hour anger-management course, and to pen a letter of apology to
Neuwirth.

Neuwirth described that first letter of apology as "slippery," and
pursued her
civil suit, which was scheduled to go to trial in April 2007.

On Jan. 19 both parties reached a settlement, the terms of which
have not been
disclosed. However, Neuwirth told The Journal that it included a
"substantial
amount of money" in restitution, to be paid by Seidler-Feller and Hillel,
as
well as a new letter of apology.

Neuwirth also said both parties have agreed to not "disparage or
denigrate"
each other.

Seidler-Feller's attorney Joshua Pollack, an associate at Proskauer,
Rose,
LLP, would not comment on the terms of the settlement, nor on the length
of
the negotiation, except to say that "The matter has been resolved
amicably."

4. Neve Gordon's editor sentenced:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070215/D8NAEK4G2.html
Ernst Zundel, neo-nazi, has published several articles by Neve Gordon. He
will serve 5 years in German prison for Holocaust Denial.
Gordon did NOT file suit against Zundel for publishing his
anti-Semitic articles. For details, see
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article3528.html

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1.
>From Tom Gross:
www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000829.html

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1. "Israeli Apartheid Week" kicks off
2. An insult to black South Africans
3. Toronto University officially hosts web page advertising "Israel
Apartheid Week"
4. When is "Saudi Apartheid Week"?
5. Avi Shlaim and Norman Finkelstein
6. Some might call them self-loathing
7. Ilan Pappe: Iran should get the bomb
8. "One of the most progressive states in the world"
9. "Modern Israel is a far cry from old South Africa" (By Irshad Manji,
The Australian, Feb. 9, 2007)
10. "Worldwide events mark 'Israeli Apartheid Week'" (Yediot Ahronot,
Feb. 9, 2007)

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[Note by Tom Gross]

"ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK" KICKS OFF

Following on from the success of Jimmy Carter's recent book which
defames the state of Israel with various untruths, an international
"Israeli
Apartheid Week" began yesterday. It will last until Sunday, and be held
jointly in New York, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, London, and at the
universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

"Israel Apartheid Week" is comprised of several events featuring
professors, students and economists. These include lectures, information
booths, cultural events, film screenings and demonstrations.

On the official website (www.endisraeliapartheid.net), organizers claim
"The past few years have seen an explosion of literature and analysis
that has placed Israel alongside other settler-colonial states like
South Africa, arguing that Israel is in fact an apartheid state, not just
a
belligerent occupying power."

They say that the aim of the week is to "push forward the analysis of
Israel as an apartheid state and to bolster support for the boycott,
divestment, and sanctions campaign."

AN INSULT TO BLACK SOUTH AFRICANS

Israel is, of course, not an apartheid state. Indeed it is the
opposite. It is by far the most egalitarian state in the Middle East. Arab
Israelis enjoy social and political freedoms and benefits only dreamed of
by minority groups in most other countries in the world.

Israel grants full freedom of speech to its Arab parliamentarians, even
when they call for Israel to be dismantled and for Hizbullah to bomb
Israeli Jews. There is almost no another country in the world which
permits such a degree of freedom to its internal opposition groups.

By saying that Israeli Arabs and Palestinians are being subjected to
apartheid, Carter and others not only insult Israeli Jews, but also
grossly malign black South Africans. Nelson Mandela and other black South
Africans have been an inspiration to the world in the way they have
demonstrated peaceful coexistence with the white population, whereas both
the Palestinian Fatah and Hamas leadership and their supporters have
repeatedly called for the mass murder of Jews, and taught kindergarten
children that blowing up buses full of Israeli children is a glorious
objective.

TORONTO UNIVERSITY OFFICIALLY HOSTS WEB PAGE ADVERTISING "ISRAEL
APARTHEID WEEK"

The official University of Toronto web site includes a web page
advertising the upcoming events. It can be seen here: arab.sa.utoronto.ca.

This page labels the entire current state of Israel as "Palestine" and
places it next to a map of South Africa.

In response, the University of Toronto issued an official statement,
"Concerns have been raised by some members of the community about an
upcoming series of events to be held on campus by the Arab Students'
Collective under the title Israeli Apartheid Week... all University
activity
is subject to the laws of Canada, and behaviour or speech that
constitutes hatred or incitement to hatred against any group will be dealt
with
quickly and appropriately."

Presumably, advocating the destruction of a whole nation does not fall
under the term "hate speech".

The itinerary for the planned events at Toronto can be seen here:
verbena19.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/toronto-israeli-apartheid-week-2007-feb-12-17/

Amongst the organizers of the events in England at the University of
London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) are Israeli Arab
students who have their education subsidized by the government of
Israel, and whose air fares to London for "Apartheid week" are being
partly
funded by the British Embassy in Tel Aviv.

WHEN IS "SAUDI APARTHEID WEEK"?

Only last month, Israel appointed Ghaleb Majadleh, a Muslim Arab, to
the cabinet. For more, see the dispatch "Israel appoints its first Arab
cabinet minister (& Mossad-KGB double agent dies)" (Jan. 11, 2007),
www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000816.html.

There are Arabs represented in many different political parties of both
right and left in the Israeli Knesset and local councils. In fact,
Arabs in Israel have the opportunity to progress in virtually every sector
of society, from economics to politics to culture to sport. The Israeli
soccer team, for example, has for many years included Israeli-Arab
players. For more, see the dispatch "Scoring goals against the 'Israeli
apartheid' myth" (March 31, 2005),
www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000318.html. One of the
players mentioned in this dispatch,
Walid Badir, only last week scored for Israel in its game against
Ukraine.

Similar to most other Arab Muslim countries, Saudi Arabia does not
afford equal (or virtually any) rights to women, Christians, Jews, Hindus
and others. To see Saudi apartheid in action please look at the first
picture on this page, depicting a road for "Muslims only":
www.tomgrossmedia.com/SaudiArabia.html

AVI SHLAIM AND NORMAN FINKELSTEIN

A host of Jewish left-wing extremists will be participating in the
"Israeli Apartheid Week" events. For example, at Oxford University,
speakers include Israeli-born academic Avi Shlaim, who has based virtually
his
whole career on slandering Israel.

At Hamilton University in Ontario Canada, Professor Norman Finkelstein
will be speaking on "Palestine & Israel: Roots of Conflict, Prospects
for Peace."

For Finkelstein's views on the Holocaust, see the first note in the
dispatch "David Irving: Auschwitz 'was a tourist attraction' (& British
Muslims scrap Holocaust Day)" (Jan. 31, 2007)
www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000823.html.

Also speaking in Montreal is Israeli-Arab Member of the Knesset
(Israeli parliament) Jamal Zahalka. He told Yediot Ahronot (article
attached
below) that "Calling the occupation apartheid isn't an overstatement,
it's an understatement... The Israeli occupation in the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip are worse than apartheid."

Zahalka apparently doesn't see the irony that he is a freely elected
member of the Israeli Knesset yet claims Israel is like apartheid in
South Africa. Apparently he is unaware of what apartheid actually was.

He also seems to have "forgotten" that Israel withdrew entirely from
Gaza in 2005, and that Gaza, for only the second time in two millennia
has now been ethnically cleansed of any Jewish presence (other than a
young Israeli, Gilad Shalit, kidnapped by the Hamas-led Palestinian
government he apparently so admires). For more, see this photo montage:
Exodus from Gaza (www.tomgrossmedia.com/ExodusFromGaza.html).

SOME MIGHT CALL THEM SELF-LOATHING

Among Israeli left-wing agitators taking part in the "Israeli Apartheid
Week" events are the writer Yitzhak Laor (a poet, playwright and
journalist for Ha'aretz), the filmmaker Eyal Sivan (who also teaches in
the
cinema department of Israel's Sapir college in the Negev in southern
Israel), the historian Dr Amnon Raz (from Ben Gurion University also of
the Negev), and Ryvka Bar Zohar, who is helping to organize the New York
part of Israeli Apartheid Week.

Ilan Pappe from Haifa University, an advocate of ending the state of
Israel and before that of boycotting Israeli institutions (including his
own), will speak at Oxford University on "Resisting Apartheid:
Divestment and Solidarity" on Friday. Chairing the meeting is Prof. Steven
Rose, a British Jew who has led calls for a worldwide boycott of the
Jewish
state.

Other possible speakers mentioned include Prof. Gabi Piterberg, an
Israeli from the University of California at Los Angeles, who has
previously spoken on "Zionism and Apartheid."

The participation of these Jewish academics has been warmly welcomed by
many non-Jewish haters of Israel.

ILAN PAPPE: IRAN SHOULD GET THE BOMB

Last Sunday, at the American Colony Hotel in east Jerusalem, the
unofficial base for the PLO in Jerusalem, Ilan Pappe received several
standing ovations as he addressed a packed crowd to launch his new book,
"The
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine".

According to my sources present, the audience included many western
journalists, European diplomats, publicly-funded local UN staff, and
anti-Israeli Jews including Mordechai Vanunu.

In his talk, Pappe, made an attack on Israeli Jewish politicians of
left and right, and said it was "horrible" that Shimon Peres had received
a Nobel peace prize. (He did not criticize Yasser Arafat for getting
one. See: www.tomgrossmedia.com/ArafatAllies.htm.)

According to my sources present, Pappe said he was sympathetic to the
idea of Iran getting a nuclear weapon, and "Arab states should have one
too."

He received rousing lengthy applause and many standing ovations.

See also

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359860111&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

2. STATEHOOD FOR PALESTINE? TAKE A GOOD LOOK
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/02/14/statehood_for_palestine_take_a_good_look/

3. (Pseudo-?) Scholar Activism
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26954

4. "Author" "astounded" Why should Jews resent his claiming they drink
gentile blood on Passover?:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359860024&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

5. Why "progressive Zionists" are neither progressive nor Zionists:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359843531&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/20684/The_End_Of_Judicial_Tyranny_In_Israel?.html

The End Of Judicial Tyranny In Israel?

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By: Steven Plaut Wednesday, February 14, 2007
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It pains me to tell you this, but Ehud Olmert has actually done
something right. Possibly the very first correct thing he has done
since becoming prime minister. And it is spectacularly correct!

Olmert has appointed Professor Daniel Friedmann as the new minister
of justice. And Professor Friedmann is determined to blow the
whistle on the long reign of judicial tyranny imposed on Israel by
its anti-democratic judges and by advocates of judicial activism.

First, let�s back up a bit. Israeli democracy has for many years
been under massive assault by anti-democratic elitists promoting
judicial tyranny. Under their doctrine of judicial activism, it is
the proper role of unelected judges to trample, trump and override
the decisions of the elected representatives of the Israeli people.

Led by previous chief justice Aharon Barak and now by current Chief
Justice Dorit Beinisch, the advocates of judicial activism believe
leftist judges should dictate to Israel�s legislature what laws
those lawmakers may or may not make. Accordingly, judges should be
empowered simply to make up the law as they go along.

Bear in mind that judges in Israel cannot be removed from the bench
through any process of impeachment or ballot referendum. Advocates
of non-impeachable activist judges want them to dictate everything
in the country, from micro-decisions made by the army to Israel�s
foreign policy because �absolutely everything should be subject to
judicial review� (a favorite Barak slogan).

These people generally want the courts to impose a leftist political
agenda on Israel, and that is what judicial activism judges often
do. Barak infamously has stated that judges in Israel impose ideas
favored by �enlightened opinion,� which of course always means the
secularist Left. The vast majority of Jewish Israelis hold
�unenlightened opinions,� according to such snooty elitists.

The Israeli Supreme Court has ordered the government to record
homosexual �marriages� that were registered in other countries, and
has granted spousal rights and privileges to homosexual couples. The
court ruled that there is a constitutional right in Israel to be an
importer of non-kosher foods (remarkable, given that Israel has no
written constitution at all), but no such right to be an importer of
kosher food.

The court has collaborated in the many assaults against free speech
and free expression in Israel, assaults invariably directed against
the Israeli Right. The court has refused to stop the persecution of
anti-Oslo dissidents or to overturn Israel�s ridiculous
�anti-racism� law, which declares that expressing Kahanist points of
view is a felony but cheering on suicide bombers or calling for
Israel to be annihilated is protected speech.

A Supreme Court justice, Ayalla Procaccia, last year tossed female
teenage settlers into prison for their criticism of government
policy at a protest, declaring that the girls were guilty of
expressing an unacceptable political opinion. �The message must be
made clear that the law will be enforced, at times of calm or at
times of crisis, for minors or adults,� the judge declared.

Just a few weeks back, hopes for reining in judicial tyranny in
Israel seemed bleaker than ever. Professor Ruth Gavison had been a
contender for appointment to the Israeli Supreme Court. A longtime
champion of civil rights, somewhat left of center and secularist,
Gavison nevertheless is a ferocious opponent of judicial activism
and would have worked against the activist judges on the bench.

That was enough to arouse the Left against her. In a campaign
somewhat reminiscent of the malicious jihad in the U.S. against the
nomination of Yale Professor Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, the
Israeli Left mobilized its shock troops against the Gavison
appointment and it was shot down.

Meanwhile, Dorit Beinisch took over as chief justice when her mentor
Aharon Barak retired. Beinisch used the occasion of her accession to
praise Barak�s judicial activism and promised to conduct more of the
same Like Barak, she believes the court is entitled to revoke and
cancel laws passed by the Knesset, supposedly as part of �judicial
review.� Never mind that there is no constitutional basis in Israel
for such judicial review.

The distinguished Robert Bork mentioned above is on record as
declaring that Israel�s Supreme Court is the very worst in the
democratic world in terms of ignoring checks and balances and in its
promotion of judicial activism. He wrote: �Israel must have the most
activist, and from my point of view, the worst court in the Western
world. They have developed an intrusive, pervasive constitutional
law without really having a Constitution. Now that�s hard to do, but
they�ve managed it and they have managed to get themselves in a
position where they, in effect, control the membership of their own
court.�

Tel Aviv law don Daniel Friedmann is both a man of principle and a
man of conservative legal principles. Politically he is a centrist.
He was one of the people who served on the Beijski Commission in the
1980�s, set up after the bank share scandal of 1983. That commission
recommended a program of critical economic reforms that the
political hacks largely ignored.

Educated at the Hebrew University and Harvard, Friedmann strongly
opposes judicial tyranny and is dead serious about reining it in. He
wants to end the system under which the Israeli commission for
appointing judges acts as a rubber stamp for candidates supported by
the judges already on the Supreme Court. He wants to create a
constitutional court that will strip the Supreme Court of its powers
of judicial review of laws. He wants to change the system under
which the chief justice of the Supreme Court is selected.

In short, he wants to appoint judges who will actually obey the law,
an idea quite novel in Israel.

Professor Friedmann was one of those jurists who vehemently opposed
the appointment of Beinisch as chief justice, repeatedly declaring
his position that she is not competent or qualified to serve on the
Supreme Court.

Beinisch had personally led an earlier successful campaign against
the appointment of Professor Nili Cohen as a Supreme Court judge.
Friedmann was the country�s leading promoter of Cohen for the post
and accused Beinisch of blocking the appointment for petty personal
reasons. �It appears the justices are not immune to the possibility
of misusing power, as the developments in the process of appointing
judges has proven,� he wrote.

All judges in Israel are appointed by a Judicial Selection
Committee, which is currently made up of three Supreme Court
justices, two ministers (including the minister of justice), two
Knesset members, and two members of the Israel Bar Association. Once
a judge is appointed, it is all but impossible to get him or her
dismissed. Dismissals can take place when the chief justice leads
the campaign against a judge � and not always then.

In reality, the committee usually rubber stamps what the Supreme
Court justices, who dominate it, want. Hence, appointment of judges
in Israel effectively consists of unelected judges dictating which
other unelected judges will sit on the bench.

Under Friedmann�s proposals, the Judicial Selection Committee will
be revamped. Only a single sitting judge will be a member. The
others will be representatives of the public and the voters, and
they will be in a position to flex their muscles against judicial
abuse.

And the Israeli Left is simply hysterical about that. Israel�s
leftist Haaretz has been overflowing with outraged articles opposing
Friedmann. One Haaretz writer compared the appointment of Friedmann
to a hypothetical appointment of convicted traitor Tali Fahima as
head of the Shin Bet intelligence service. (The comparison is
amusing since Haaretz has long served as cheerleader for Fahima and
would probably support her appointment as head of the Shin Bet if it
were to take place.)

Meanwhile, the leftist apparatchik and godmother of the Oslo
debacle, Yossi Beilin, had a public fit when he heard the news of
Friedmann�s appointment. Far-left Meretz Knesset member and Peace
Now leader Avshalom Vilan raged in the press at the fact that an
academic, not a political hack, was being appointed � someone the
Left would have difficult in bullying into political compliance.

A retired Supreme Court Justice and advocate of judicial activism,
Mishael Cheshin, openly threatened Professor Friedmann with
violence, promising to �cut off the arm of anyone who raises a hand
against the court.�

The Israeli law enforcement system has long been little more than
the occupied territory of the Israeli Left. The attorney general
does little to hide his political agenda when he makes decisions
about investigations and indictments.

Friedmann�s appointment upsets this cozy undemocratic arrangement
and threatens to strip the Left of its unelected de facto domination
by democratizing Israel�s legal system. And that�s the first piece
of really good news in Israel in quite a while.

1. Fast current events quiz? At which university is the world's most
open "academic" endorser of anti-Semitic blood libels employed? Did you
say Ben Gurion University? Did you say DePaul?

No, grasshopper.

The world's worst endorser of medieval blood libels against Jews is
employed at Bar Ilan University. Yes, Israel's supposedly Orthodox Jewish
university, created largely for observant Jews, not only employs Ariel
Toaff, a pseudo-academic crank who claims Jews drank gentile blood on
Passover in medieval Italy, but it is now circling the wagons in
solidarity with the good "professor".

What is Bar Ilan going to do about it? Defend Toaff's "academic
freedom"! He will not be fired. (He is scheduled to retire in the
summer)

Now let us bear in mind that all over the world there are limits to
"academic freedom", including in the bastions of democracy. Open
Holocaust Deniers have been fired from several schools in Europe. The
infamous quack Ward Churchill was removed from some of his positions at the
University of Colorado for his "little Eichmanns" comments and
endorsements of al-Qaeda. Some positions are simply indefensible as
"academic inquiry", amounting to little more than inane stupidity and hate
speech, automatically disqualifying someone from pretense to be a scholar.
And all over the world crackpots such as Holocaust Deniers can be
stripped of tenure and dismissed from university jobs. David Irving does
not hold an academic post in the name of academic freedom, but rather
until recently warmed a prison cot in Vienna.

And at Bar Ilan University? Medieval blood libels are business as
usual! See
See http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/825351.html

Indeed, the heads of Bar Ilan are defending their "Solidarity with the
Blood Libeler" by claiming that, after all, they did not fire Prof. Hillel
Weiss either. Weiss is an activist professor from the right who opposes
Oslo. The only problem is that there is no comparison nor similarity
between Weiss and Herr Toaff. Weiss is a serious academic who is indeed
deserving of protection of academic freedom of speech even if he takes
positions that some people may not like, while Toaff is a pseudo-academic
crackpot who is now responsible for an explosion of anti-Semitic
demonizing all over the world. The vile comparison of Weiss to Toaff by
the heads of Bar Ilan University is roughly equivalent to defending free
speech for Neo-Nazis David Irving and Ernst Zundel because after all the
president of Bar Ilan also enjoys freedom of speech.

2. Desperately needed now - a Saudi protectorate in control of the
political science department at the Hebrew University:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359843540&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

3. The Hillel houses from Chelm:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=6913

4. Lying about the Temple Mount:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3364001,00.html

5. Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359844051&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

6. The Israel Bar Association has denounced retired Supreme Court
"judicial activist" judge Mishael Cheshin for uttering threats of violence
against the new Minister of Justice Prof. Daniel Friedmann. Friedmann
means to rein in judicial tyranny in Israel and Chechin and his comrades
in arms for "judicial activism" are upset by Friedmann.

7. Brigita Muhauft, a terrorist from the infamous Bader-Meinhof
commie-terrorist organization that operated in the 70s, is soon to be
released from German prison after serving 30 years for murder.

Will she be offered an academic post in political science at Ben
Gurion University? Or in history at Bar-Ilan University? In the name of
academic freedom?

8. Or maybe Harvard?
http://frontpagemag.com/blog/index.asp

9. When greenies team up with anti-Semites:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26915

1. Too little, too late. The ADL at last wakes up to the fact that the
Left is anti-Semitic:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26866

The ADL Discovers Leftist Hate
By Don Feder

Among the many groups for whom I feel absolutely no sympathy is the Jewish
Left . which has lately been agonizing over the prevalence of Jew-hatred
at antiwar rallies.

Signs comparing Israelis to Nazis and identifying Jews as the enemies of
humanity have become de rigueur at (you should pardon the expression)
peace rallies.

Jewish leftists . at least those who still feel a connection to the Jewish
people . are dismayed.

An article in the January 27 Contra Costa (California) Times calls our
attention to the San Francisco Anti-Defamation League.s first conference
on how progressives .can protect themselves against anti-Semitism . from
the liberal Left..

Among other examples of tolerance and brotherhood cited by the Times, at
one San-Fran demonstration last year, Arabs chanted .Jews are our dogs..

According to the article, many on the lox-and-cream-cheese Left is upset
with former President Pinhead.s latest book, Palestine: Peace Not
Apartheid . which condones suicide bombings. (Carter calls on peaceful
Palestinians to stop terrorist attacks if Israel begins .respecting
international law. . rolling over and playing dead. )

Jewish progressives wonder why the movement seems to single out Israel for
hysterical denunciations, and if their comrades haven.t replaced .Israel.
for .Jew. in the old anti-Semitic formulation. (Try to imagine Carter
writing a book called Saudi Arabia: Equality Not Misogyny or Iran:
Democracy Not Theocracy.)

Regarding the group-therapy for Jewish leftists, Jonathan Bernstein,
director of the ADL.s San Francisco regional office, says, .We have heard
from so many people who feel ostracized and alone and don.t really know
what to do with this problem.. Bernstein complains that said good people
shouldn.t .have to pick between being Jewish and whatever worthwhile
cause..

That some Jewish leftists are uncomfortable with the movement.s uglier
antics is surely one of humanity.s great tragedies . ranking right up
there with the heartbreak of psoriasis.

According to organizers, the conference (which was held the following
weekend) would include a discussion of .coping strategies,. .having a
rally within a rally,. and .on the spot responses to hurtful language..
Wow, .on the spot responses to hurtful language. . talk about getting
tough with anti-Semitism.

I.m reminded of a Woody Allen movie where the comedian is at a cocktail
party and some of his Upper East Side friends start discussing how to
respond to the Nazis marching in New Jersey. One suggests putting on a
satirical play parodying the brown shirts. An agitated Allen says that .
harsh as that may be . instead, perhaps they should consider getting rocks
and clubs and beating the Nazis to a bloody pulp.

Now that.s a coping strategy I can relate to.

Leftist anti-Semitism is as old as the Left. Since the French Revolution,
polemicists have cast Israelites as the quintessential capitalist
exploiters . never mind the prevalence of Jews in various socialist
movements. (Voltaire charged that the Jews were .born with a raging
fanaticism in their hearts..)

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (the father of modern socialism and anarchism) .
who coined the expression .Property is theft. . explained:

.The Jew is by temperament an anti-producer. He is an intermediary, always
fraudulent and parasitical, who operates, in trade and in philosophy, by
means of falsification, counterfeiting, and horse-trading..

What then should be done with this irredeemably anti-social element? .The
Jew is the enemy of mankind,. Proudhon advised. .It is necessary to send
this race back to Asia, or exterminate it.By fire or fusion, or by
expulsion, the Jew must disappear.. Said genocidal raving predated the
Holocaust by a century.

Karl Marx, old Uncle Fuzzy-Whiskers (the scion of a German-Jewish family
that had converted to Christianity for social position) explained the
Jewish problem this way: .What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical
need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering.
What is his worldly God? Money..

No wonder Hitler and Stalin got on famously, until that unfortunate
incident of June of 1940.

After the fall of the Third Reich, the Soviet Union became the worldwide
nexus of anti-Semitism.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, anti-Semitism.s Mecca shifted to .
well, Mecca. In the Moslem world, Mein Kampf, and .The Protocols of Zion.
are best-sellers and rabid Jew-hatred is standard fare in political,
religious and cultural discourse. So, naturally, Islam has become the
Left.s pet religion and Islamacism its principal ally.

Besides an unremitting animus toward the Jewish state, the antiwar Left
has embraced many of the old anti-Semitic stereotypes of its revolutionary
forebears. Feminist author Phyllis Chesler observes: .The Jews and the
Jewish state have become the symbol of Satanic America, capitalism,
imperialism, colonialism..

Consider Noam Chomsky . Hugo Chavez.s favorite philosopher. Sure he wants
to see Israel destroyed, and trusts in the good will of Hamas and Fatah
for the safety of those Jews left in Palestine. Sure he associates with
Holocaust-deniers. And sure he admires Iran.s version of Jack The Ripper.
But is the Jewish-born Chomsky an anti-Semite?

In a 2002 interview with a Palestinian solidarity group, Chomsky declared,
.By now, Jews in the U.S. are the most privileged and influential part of
the population..

When a Marxist says someone.s .privileged. it means they.re getting
something they didn.t earn and don.t deserve.

Chomsky hates American society. Thus the avatar of the New Left and
leading intellectual light of the antiwar movement is saying that Jews
have risen to the top of a rotten, corrupt culture that spreads war,
famine and misery across the globe. Did they attain that favored status by
dint of their virtues?

For today.s Left, the Jew is the corporate executive, exploiting his
workers, raping the environment and reaping obscene profits. He.s the
globalist, pushing a world economy run by multinationals. He.s the neo-con
manipulating the White House and Congress to engineer a war with Iran . to
enhance Israel.s security. He.s the quintessence whatever the left
despises at any particular point in time.

And not just the loony Left, not just the fringy Left . but the
establishment Left.

Toward the middle of last month, in an online posting at Arianna
Huffington.s website, retired general and former Democratic presidential
candidate Wesley Clark was asked why he thought America would attack Iran.

Clark replied: .You just have to read what.s in the Israeli press. The
Jewish community is divided but there is so much pressure being channeled
from the New York money people to the office seekers..

Why the Israeli press, and not the Wall Street Journal, Rush Limbaugh, or
Fox News? And, in case you haven.t guessed it, .the New York money people.
isn.t code for Episcopalians.

In his 2004 campaign, Howard Dean urged that regarding Israel and the
Palestinians, the United States should adopt an .even-handed. approach.
This is another way of saying that between an historic ally and a people
who invariably side with our enemies and never miss a chance to tell us
how much they hate our guts, America should be strictly impartial.

Any objections from Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama to Carter.s vile
comparison of Israel to South Africa.s former white supremacist regime?
Not that I.m aware of.

Is the Democratic Party anti-Semitic or merely soft on anti-Semitism?
Nothing could be more damning than the party of Old Joe Kennedy.s embrace
of Al Sharpton . the man who sparked a full-scale pogrom in Crown Heights
in 1991 and a massacre at Freddy.s Fashion Mart in 1995. (Instead of .New
York money people,. Sharpton prefers .diamond merchants with blood on
their hands. and .interlopers..)

During the 2000 campaign, Al Gore obediently appeared at a
Sharpton-organized debate at Harlem.s Apollo Theater . which would be
comparable to George Bush carrying the torch at a cross-burning.

Anywhere you look on the Left, you.ll find spiritual descendants of the
Cossacks and storm troopers . anti-Semites or those who condone
anti-Semitism.

Peace and justice don.t grow in a cesspool. Instead of kvetching about
.hurtful language. and devising .coping strategies,. Jewish leftists .
those who are more Jewish than leftist . should reconsider their .whatever
worthwhile cause.. ...Which may not be that worthwhile after all.

2. The Jihad at UC-Davis:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26881

3. Code Name Esther:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/code_name_esther.html

4. Mega-moonbette:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/02/obscene.html

5. Intifada Chic:
http://i10.tinypic.com/42v73bt.jpg

6. Flash! Barry Chamish has discovered that Shimon Peres, the Pope, and
three space aliens are all the joint fathers of Anne Nicole Smith's baby!
Anne Nicole was obviously a secret follower of Shabbtai Zvi.