Zionist Conspiracy

Current Events Quiz:
Count the number of pro-Israel articles or writers appear on Ben Gurion
University anti-Zionist Oren Yiftachel's course syllabus for course
entitled "ISRAEL/PALESTINE: THE POLITICS OF LAND AND IDENTITY"

Syllabus appears here:
http://hsf.bgu.ac.il/mapmes/uploadDocs/MAMPES_syllabus_full.rtf

Correct answer: zero (aside from some writers about America under the
first topic)

2. The Israeli Left just awarded to itself the Israel Prize once
again. A panel of people appointed by Labor Party Minister of Education
Yuli Tamir, all of whom had personal ties to the Israel Democracy
Institute and had received money from it, decided to award this year's
Israel Prize to . (drumroll) . the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI). The
IDI is a leftist political SWAT team, promoting the Left's agenda.

Meanwhile, a scoop in Haaretz on April 2 reveals that the Israel Democracy
Institute (http://www.idi.org.il/sites/english/Pages/homepage.aspx ),
supposedly an institution favoring accountability and fiscal
responsibility in government, is a fever swamp of self-enrichment and
fiscal irresponsibility. The President (CEO) of the IDI is leftist Dr.
Arik Carmon, whose compensation package is 119,000 shekels per month or
1.43 million shekels per year. That is much MUCH larger than what the
Prime Minister of Israel earns.

In recent days Tel Aviv University has been under vicious media attack for
handing out to its senior officials grossly bloated salaries that were ONE
THIRD OF WHAT CARMON PAYS HIMSELF!!!! A full professor in Israel earns
about a fifth of what Carmon gets. Between 2004 and 2007 Carmon was paid
even more than that! And recently he was awarded a new 15% raise that has
not yet gone into effect. After all, like those mafiosis in Godfather
III, he just wants to wet his beak a little.

Other fat "salaries" for other people are also paid by the IDI. The IDI's
web site is kvelling about it getting the Prize, but does not mention
anywhere the media scoop about Carmon's beak wetting.

3. The Oslo Dayenu

When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that Arafat would pursue peace.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that Hamas would be more of a threat to the PLO than to Israel.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that Arafat would fight the Hamas and Islamic Jihad "with no Supreme Court
or 'Betselem'" (in Rabin's immortal words).
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that terrorism would decrease.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that hostility to Jews in the Arab and the Western media would decrease.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that trade between Israel and Arab countries would flourish.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the Palestinian Authority would be disarmed.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the PLO would cooperate strategically with the Israel Defense Forces.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that there would be an economic peace dividend.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that Israeli Arabs would demonstrate increasing moderation due to the
"peace process".
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the Hamas and Jihad would be persecuted and suppressed by the PLO.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that PLO arms would never again be used against Jews.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the PLO leadership would speak in terms of peace with the Jews.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the PLO would denounce and renounce anti-Semitism.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the PLO would encourage normalization and daily peaceful commerce
between Arabs and Jews.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the Palestinian Authority would be forced to spend all its energies
on resolving domestic social and economic problems.
But they were ever so wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the Palestinian Authority would have so many internal troubles that
it would not have the time or ability to pursue confrontation with Israel.
G-d, but they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the US would back Israel if the PLO reneged on its obligations or
displayed duplicity.
What a joke, they were so wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the US would cease to pressure Israel to endanger its security and
fundamental interests.
But they were mega-wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the Europeans would rush forward to support Israel.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the Japanese and Saudis would pour money into regional investments,
including into Israel.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the Egyptians would end all animosity towards Israel, Zionism and
Jews.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the non-Arab Moslem countries would gush friendship for Israel.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that Arab military expenditure would drop significantly.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that Arab verbal threats against Israel would end.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that Nazi-like propaganda in Arab countries would end.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the Israeli Left would lead the retreat from the Oslo experiment it
if proved to be not working.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the Palestinian Authority would never behave as a tin cup Third-World
kleptocracy if granted power.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that Jews remaining in Moslem countries would see their treatment
dramatically improved.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that liberals and leftists around the world would congratulate Israel for
taking risks for peace and rush forward with goodwill and support.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that the majority of Palestinians would denounce all violence and terror.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that Israeli Arabs would exhibit moderation and increasing loyalty to the
state of Israel.
But they were wrong.
When they forced Israel to commit Oslo, the Israeli politicians assured us
that Palestinian chants of "Death to the Jews" and "Massacre the Jews"
would end.
But they were wrong.
Dayenu. Any one of these errors in judgment should have been enough to
end the career of a politician in a normal country, possibly even enough
to indict that politician and imprison him or her. But in Israel? The
politicians prepare for negotiations on the Saudi Plan and prepare for new
unilateral withdrawals from Judea and Samaria.
Dayenu.

4. The Multi-galactic Passover Seder:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/2733

5. MAKING THE WORLD JUDENSTAATREIN
by Irwin Cotler

Some 125 parliamentarians gathered together last month for the historic
founding conference of the Interparliamentary Coalition for Combating
Anti-Semitism (ICCA), brought together by a new sophisticated,
globalizing, virulent and even lethal anti-Semitism reminiscent of the
atmospherics of the 1930s, and without parallel or precedent since the end
of World War II.
The new anti-Jewishness overlaps with classical anti-Semitism but is
distinguishable from it. It found early juridical, and even institutional,
expression in the UN's "Zionism is racism" resolution . which the late US
senator Daniel Moynihan said "gave the abomination of anti-Semitism the
appearance of international legal sanction" . but has gone dramatically
beyond it. This new anti-Semitism almost needs a new vocabulary to define
it; however, it can best be identified using a rights-based juridical
perspective. In a word, classical or traditional anti-Semitism is the
discrimination against, denial of or assault upon the rights of Jews to
live as equal members of whatever host society they inhabit. The new
anti-Semitism involves the discrimination against the right of the Jewish
people to live as an equal member of the family of nations . the denial of
and assault upon the Jewish people's right even to live . with Israel as
the "collective Jew among the nations."
As the closing "London Declaration" of the ICCA conference affirmed: "We
are alarmed at the resurrection of the old language of prejudice and its
modern manifestations . in rhetoric and political action . against Jews,
Jewish belief and practice and the State of Israel."
Observing the complex intersections between the old and the new
anti-Semitism, and the impact of the new on the old, Per Ahlmark, former
leader of the Swedish Liberal Party and deputy prime minister of Sweden,
pithily concluded: "Compared to most previous anti-Jewish outbreaks, this
[new anti-Semitism] is often less directed against individual Jews. It
attacks primarily the collective Jews, the State of Israel. And then such
attacks start a chain reaction of assaults on individual Jews and Jewish
institutions... In the past, the most dangerous anti-Semites were those
who wanted to make the world Judenrein, 'free of Jews.' Today, the most
dangerous anti-Semites might be those who want to make the world
Judenstaatrein, 'free of a Jewish state.'"
Genocidal Anti-Semitism
The first modality of the new anti-Semitism . and the most lethal type .
is what I would call genocidal anti-Semitism. This is not a term that I
use lightly or easily. In particular, I am referring to the Genocide
Convention's prohibition against the "direct and public incitement to
genocide." If anti-Semitism is the most enduring of hatreds and genocide
is the most horrific of crimes, then the convergence of this genocidal
intent embedded in anti-Semitic ideology is the most toxic of
combinations.
There are three manifestations of this genocidal anti-Semitism. The first
is the state-sanctioned . indeed state-orchestrated . genocidal
anti-Semitism of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran, dramatized by the parading in
the streets of Teheran of a Shihab-3 missile draped in the emblem "wipe
Israel off the Map," while demonizing both the State of Israel as a
"cancerous tumor to be excised" and the Jewish people as "evil incarnate."
A second manifestation of this genocidal anti-Semitism is in the covenants
and charters, platforms and policies of such terrorist movements and
militias as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hizbullah and al-Qaida, which not only
call for the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews wherever they
may be, but also for the perpetration of acts of terror in furtherance of
that objective.
The third manifestation of this genocidal anti-Semitism is the religious
fatwas or execution writs, where these genocidal calls in mosques and
media are held out as religious obligations . where Jews and Judaism are
characterized as the perfidious enemy of Islam, and Israel becomes the
Salmon Rushdie of the nations.
In a word, Israel is the only state in the world . and the Jews the only
people in the world . that are the object of a standing set of threats by
governmental, religious and terrorist bodies seeking their destruction.
The London Declaration . again in a significant clarion call . recognized
that "where there is incitement to genocide signatories [to the Genocide
Convention] automatically have an obligation to act." This promise must
now be acted upon.
Ideological Anti-Semitism
Ideological anti-Semitism is a much more sophisticated and arguably a more
pernicious expression of the new anti-Semitism. It finds expression not in
any genocidal incitement against Jews and Israel, or overt racist denial
of the Jewish people and Israel's right to be; rather, ideological
anti-Semitism disguises itself as part of the struggle against racism.
The first manifestation of this ideological anti-Semitism was its
institutional and juridical anchorage in the "Zionism is racism"
resolution at the UN. Notwithstanding the fact that the there was a formal
repeal of this resolution, Zionism as racism remains alive and well in the
global arena, particularly in the campus cultures of North America and
Europe, as confirmed by the recent British All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry
into Anti-Semitism.
The second manifestation is the indictment of Israel as an apartheid
state. This involves more than the simple indictment; it also involves the
call for the dismantling of Israel as an apartheid state as evidenced by
the events at the 2001 UN World Conference against Racism in Durban.
The third manifestation of ideological anti-Semitism involves the
characterization of Israel not only as an apartheid state . and one that
must be dismantled as part of the struggle against racism . but as a Nazi
one.
And so it is then that Israel is delegitimized, if not demonized, by the
ascription to it of the two most scurrilous indictments of 20th-century
racism . Nazism and apartheid . the embodiment of all evil. These very
labels of Zionism and Israel as "racist, apartheid and Nazi" supply the
criminal indictment. No further debate is required. The conviction that
this triple racism warrants the dismantling of Israel as a moral
obligation has been secured. For who would deny that a "racist, apartheid,
Nazi" state should not have any right to exist today? What is more, this
characterization allows for terrorist "resistance" to be deemed
justifiable . after all, such a situation is portrayed as nothing other
than occupation et r.sistance, where resistance against a racist,
apartheid, Nazi occupying state is legitimate, if not mandatory.
Legalized Anti-Semitism
If ideological anti-Semitism seeks to mask itself under the banner of
anti-racism, legalized anti-Semitism is even more sophisticated and
insidious. Here, anti-Semitism simultaneously seeks to mask itself under
the banner of human rights, to invoke the authority of international law
and to operate under the protective cover of the UN. In a word . and in an
inversion of human rights, language and law . the singling out of Israel
and the Jewish people for differential and discriminatory treatment in the
international arena is "legalized."
But one example of legalized anti-Semitism occurred annually for more than
35 years at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. This
influential body consistently began its annual session with Israel being
the only country singled out for country-specific indictment . even before
the deliberations started . the whole in breach of the UN's own procedures
and principles. In this Alice in Wonderland situation, the conviction and
sentence were pronounced even before the hearings commenced. Some 30
percent of all the resolutions passed at the commission were indictments
of Israel.
After the commission was replaced in June 2006 by the UN Human Rights
Council, the new body proceeded to condemn one member state . Israel . in
80% of its 25 country-specific resolutions, while the major human rights
violators of our time enjoyed exculpatory immunity. Indeed, five special
sessions, two fact-finding missions and a high level commission of inquiry
have been devoted to a single purpose: the singling out of Israel.
This week's ICCA conference and London Declaration unequivocally condemned
this "legalized" anti-Semitism, calling out that "governments and the UN
should resolve that never again will the institutions of the international
community and the dialogue of nations states be abused to try to establish
any legitimacy for anti-Semitism, including the singling out of Israel for
discriminatory treatment in the international arena, and we will never
witness . or be party to . another gathering like Durban in 2001."
The Resurgence of Global Anti-Semitism: Evidentiary Data
The data unsurprisingly confirm that anti-Semitic incidents are very much
on the rise. Still, the available figures only show half the picture .
they demonstrate an increase in this old/new anti-Semitism by
concentrating on the traditional anti-Semitic paradigm targeting
individual Jews and Jewish institutions, while failing to consider the new
anti-Semitic paradigm targeting Israel as the Jew among nations and the
fallout from it for traditional anti-Semitism. But the rise in traditional
anti-Semitism is bound up with the rise in the new anti-Semitism,
insidiously buoyed by a climate receptive to attacks on Jews because of
the attacks on the Jewish state. Indeed, reports illustrate both an
upsurge in violence and related anti-Semitic crimes corresponding with the
2006 Second Lebanon War and the recent Israel-Hamas war, which delegates
to the ICCA conference characterized as a "pandemic."
Conclusion
It is this global escalation and intensification of anti-Semitism that
underpins . indeed, necessitates . the establishment of the ICCA to
confront and combat this oldest and most enduring of hatreds. Silence is
not an option. The time has come not only to sound the alarm . but to act.
For as history has taught us only too well: While it may begin with Jews,
it does not end with Jews. Anti-Semitism is the canary in the mine shaft
of evil, and it threatens us all.

Irwin Cotler is a Canadian MP and former minister of justice and
attorney-general. He is professor of law (on leave) at McGill University
who has written extensively on matters of hate, racism and human rights.
He is a co-founder of the Interparliamentary Coalition to Combat
Anti-Semitism with UK MP John Mann. This article appeared in the Jerusalem
Post

6. If this were Shulamit Aloni doing it, the protest would be life
threatening: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130779
Hareidi Strips Naked in Protest of 'Public' Hametz Sales

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