Thursday, December 24, 2009

Harvard Psychiatrist Kenneth Levin on self-hating Jewish anti-Semites:

 

 

1.  Harvard Psychiatrist Kenneth Levin on self-hating Jewish anti-Semites:

http://frontpagemag.com/2009/12/24/auto-genocide-jewish-style-by-kenneth-levin/?dsq=27137291#comment-27137291

 

Auto-Genocide, Jewish Style – by Kenneth Levin

Posted By Kenneth Levin On December 24, 2009 @ 12:10 am In FrontPage | 1 Comment

Demonization not only of Israel's Jews but of all Jews, and calls for their mass murder, are a staple of media, mosques and schools throughout most of the Arab world and in some non-Arab Muslim countries such as Iran. Jews are portrayed as vermin or as satanic beings, the source of all human ills, ritual murderers of Muslim and Christian children, evil-doers fit only for extermination.

Yet, as in virtually every past situation when incitement against Jews and attacks on them have intensified, some Jews have rushed to volubly defend the Jews' attackers. They have become supporters and cheerleaders even for those most committed to translating their Jew-hatred into action.

Hamas's charter quotes a Hadith in which Allah declares that the Day of Judgement will not come until the Jews are all killed and even the stones and trees will help in murdering them. The charter adds that Hamas "aspires to the realization of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take." Hamas has, of course, perpetrated innumerable terrorist attacks targeting Israeli civilians, including suicide bombings and rocket and mortar barrages, and Hamas children's television instructs its young audience to kill Jews.

Yet Jewish member of Britain's Parliament Gerald Kaufman has affectionately compared Hamas to Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto. American Sara Roy, a "researcher" at Harvard's Center for Middle East Studies and a perennial figure on the Israel-bashing lecture circuit, has waxed rhapsodic about the supposed "evolution in [Hamas's] political thinking… [and] its position on a two-state solution" and defends the organization's administration of Gaza. This as Hamas seeks to impose Sharia law across Gaza and repeatedly proclaims its unswerving commitment to its anti-Israel and anti-Jewish agenda.

Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah has declared that "If [the Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide," and Hezbollah has in fact gone after them worldwide, as in its 1994 bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires that claimed 87 lives. But none of this has constrained Noam Chomsky from visiting with Nasrallah and other Hezbollah leaders, praising the organization and advocating its arming. Norman Finkelstein has likewise met with Hezbollah leaders and offered encomiums to the group. Emoted Finkelstein at one point, "I say this without fear: for those who believe in freedom and dignity, we are all Hezbollah now."

Iran's Achmadinejad has, of course, repeatedly asserted there was no Holocaust while promising to visit a future Holocaust on Israel. He has virulently attacked "the Jews" and ratcheted up Iran's support in money, weapons and training to Hamas and Hezbollah. Yet Achmadinejad's Iran, too, has its Jewish supporters, who cast the Iranian theocracy as Israel's victim. This is not limited to the usual culprits such as Chomsky. For example, the voice of the blog "Tikun Olam" (which has now widely come to mean somehow healing the world by attacking and seeking to undermine the Jewish state), one Richard Silverstein, declared, regarding Iran's nuclear threat, "Of course, the Iranians do not have an ICBM to carry such a warhead. Nor do they have a nuclear weapon. But these are mere technicalities when it comes to frightening the world into adopting the Israeli government's priorities and interests."

Noteworthy is that many of those who embrace today's would-be exterminators of the Jews make a point of advertising that they are themselves children of Holocaust survivors. Examples are Finkelstein and Sara Roy. In their twisted thinking, they trumpet their parents' history as though it somehow confers on them a special right to back forces that aspire to another Holocaust.

A variation on outright Jewish support for purveyors of genocidal Jew-hatred is the spectacle of Jews who downplay the threat and indict those taking it seriously. The latter are ridiculed as paranoiacs mentally scarred by past assaults on the Jews and simply projecting that past onto a relatively benign present. The leader of the new American Jewish lobby "J Street" (which has opposed stronger sanctions against Iran), Jeremy Ben-Ami, characterized as irrational anyone who would construe the threat presented by Hamas or Hezbullah or Iran as so great as to justify a military response. Ben-Ami went on to observe, in a New York Times interview, "… there's their grandmother's voice in their ear; it's the emotional side and the communal history…"

Some Israelis promote the same line. Hebrew University political scientist Yaron Ezrahi has virtually made a career of purveying this comprehension of reality. Ezrahi has suggested that the perception of existential threats reflects in large part less actual dangers than a warped world view embraced by some Jews and "founded on a long memory of persecution, genocide, and a bitter struggle for survival…"

Many more Jews could be mentioned who support those openly calling for the Jews' annihilation, and still more who downplay the threat and caricature concerned voices. Hardly less unsavory are the myriad Jews who attack Israel's policies as the source of all the nation's difficulties, insist that "peace" can be had if only Israel would reform itself and make sufficient concessions, militantly advocate such a course and say nothing of the genocidal agenda of the nation's enemies or of their aggressive indoctrinating of additional cadres dedicated to enacting that agenda.

M.J. Rosenberg, erstwhile director of Israel Policy Forum's Washington Policy Center, has written multiple articles on, for example, Israel and Hamas. He has invariably used them to excoriate Israel and complain about the Jewish state and the U.S. not being more forthcoming to the Palestinian Jihadists – as in "The U.S. should be extending carrots to Hamas" – and has never addressed Hamas's explicit and continually reasserted commitment to the extermination of Israel and the Jews. He has acknowledged Hamas's involvement in terror and its opposition to Israel's existence but has uniformly done so in the context of criticizing Israeli policies.

Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian mullahs and others of Israel's enemies have not hidden their objective. As has been the case whenever Jews have been under threat, there is no shortage of those from the community who side with the aggressors, or dismiss the threat and demean anyone taking it seriously, or rationalize the threat, cast fellow Jews as instigating it and demand their reform. All, shamefully, lend succor and cover to the would-be annihilators.

Kenneth Levin is a psychiatrist and historian and author of The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People under Siege.

 

 

2.  Scratch a leftist and you will find a bolshevik fighting against market competition and in favor of cartels and monopolies.   Take Nitzan Horowitz, one of the few remaining Knesset Members of the rump Meretz party.   Horowitz wants to pass a new law against competition in pricing books in the country of the People of the Book.

 

How come?

 

Well, the past few days some of the leading members of Israel's Literary Left took time off from fighting for the annihilation of Israel by the terrorists to demand that the government manipulate book prices to force them artificially higher.  It seems that they are upset because they earn royalties based on a percent of the take when their books get sold.  This past week David Grossman, A. B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz, and several other literary lefties issued a whine about competition driving book prices lower.  The solution, they seem to have sold to Meretz, is to restrict competition in book stores and force prices up.

 

 

3.  Fighting the New Blood Libel

BY LOU MARANO, CONTRIBUTING WRITER

http://www.jewishjournal.com/ world/article/fighting_the_new_blood_libel_20091222/

4. 

December 23, 2009

NGO Monitor
1 Ben Maimon Blvd.
Jerusalem, Israel 92262

mail@ngo.monitor.org
www.ngo-monitor.org

 Promoting Accountability in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

 

NGOs and the BDS Movement: Background and Funding

Background: The "Durban Strategy" has become the core of the global anti-Israel boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, led by NGOs and linked to "war crimes" cases against Israeli officials ("lawfare").  Much of this activity is supported by government-funded political NGOs (primarily European and private foundations).

This BDS campaign resulted from the NGO Forum at the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism (Durban), which adopted "a policy of complete and total isolation of Israel as an apartheid state," and called for "the imposition of mandatory and comprehensive sanctions and embargoes, the full cessation of all links (diplomatic, economic, social, aid, military cooperation, and training) between all states and Israel."

On November 9, 2009, the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly adopted a "Resolution against Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Movement." This can serve as a model for other organizations, including the NIF. The "action recommendations" call on organizations to:

  • Declare that the BDS movement be regarded with the utmost urgency;
  • Lead an effective response and devise a proactive strategy to the BDS movement...
  • Conduct research to develop the most effective messages and strategies for the major sectors of BDS activity;
  • Educate [leaders] about the nature, tactics and dangers of BDS;
  • Train local leadership on how to counter BDS initiatives in local communities;
  • Be on alert for BDS initiatives and support each other as necessary.

NGOs involved in BDS and their funders (partial list):
*The NDC mechanism is funded by Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands; 2008-9

NGO

Primary Funders

Funding Amount

Central Involvement

 

Addameer

Sweden

€207,000 (2009)

 Signatory to 2005 BDS call (http://www.bdsmovement.net/)

 

NDC*

$250,000

 

Al Haq

Netherlands

$461,201 (2008)

 BDS is part of mission statement

Diakonia

$204,134 (2008)

 

NDC*

$150,000

 

Norway, Ireland

 unknown

 

Al Mezan

Sweden

€105,000 (2007-9)

 Signatory to 2005 BDS call (http://www.bdsmovement.net/)

 

NDC*

$500,000

 

Norway, EU

unknown

 

Alternative Information Center

Ireland, Sweden (via Diakonia), Catalan gov't

unknown

 "Yes to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Against Israel"

 

Alternatives (Montreal)

Canada

$C2 million 2008-10 (halted?)

 Signatory to 2005 BDS call (http://www.bdsmovement.net/)

 

Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (PA)

EU

€374,174 (2009-11)  

 Signatory to 2005 BDS call (http://www.bdsmovement.net/)

 

Spain

€98,347 (2009)

 

Switzerland

 unknown

 

Badil (PA)

NDC*

$100,000

 Leader of BDS movement

 

Christian Aid

UK, Ireland, EU

combined €22 million 2007-8

"Partner supporting" calling for BDS and "pursuing parastata Zionist orgs"

 

Coalition of Women for Peace

EU

€247,954 (2005-7) 

 Runs "Who profits?" website, which is central in the Norwegian BDS campaign

 

NIF

$285,509 (2006-8)

 

Defence of Children International -Palestine Section

Sweden

€316,000 (2009[1]) 

 Signatory to 2005 BDS call (http://www.bdsmovement.net/)

 

NDC*

$450,000

 

Diakonia

Sweden

$42.7 million (2008)

 Advocates for divestment strategy against Israel, lobbies against EU-Israel upgrade

 

EU

 unknown

 

Human Rights Watch

Soros' Open Society Institute

$2,353,895 (2007-8) 

Supported Caterpillar boycott, Call for cuts in U.S. foreign aid to Israel

 

Ford Foundation

$445,000 (2009-11)

 

Netherlands via Oxfam-NOVIB 

$987,818 (2007-8)

 

Israel Committee Against House Demonstrations (ICAHD)

Spain

€105,000 (2009)

 Leader in BDS activism

 

NDC*

$80,000

 

KAIROS

Canada.
Funding was recently
halted.

$1,575,966 (2008) 

 Main supporter of church divestment campaign

 

Machsom Watch

EU

€251,650 (2007-2010)

 Norwegian Pension Fund divestment campaign

 

NIF

$165,198 (2006-8)

 

Miftah

EU

$100,531 (2008)

Signatory to 2005 BDS call (http://www.bdsmovement.net/)

 

Denmark

$101,767 (2008)

 

Norway

$129,870 (2008)

 

Mossawa

NIF

$517,642 (2006-8)

Norwegian Pension Fund divestment campaign

 

EU

€298,660 (2006-8)

 

UK

unknown

 

Norwegian Association of NGOs for Palestine (incl. Norwegian People's Aid)

Norway

€57,000 (2008) 

Coordinates Norwegian Boycott Israel Campaign

 

USA

€8,000 (2008)

 

Sweden, Netherlands

 unknown

 

Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO)

NDC*

$130,000 

Leader of BDS movement

 

 

Received France's Human Rights Prize

 

 

Sabeel

Sweden

€76,000 (2006-8)

Leader of global church divestment movement

 

Trocaire

Ireland

€23,499,837 (2008)

Supports BDS movement, lobbies against EU-Israel upgrade, calls for review of arms export licenses

 

UK

€640,682 (2008)

 

EU

€1,698,692 (2008)

 

War on Want

UK

€256,000 (2008)

Advocates for sanctions, including arms boycott

 

Ireland

€77,000 (2008)

 

EU

€266,000 (2008)

 

  [1]Grant shared with other NGOs; breakdown not provided.

 

 

 

5.  http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/12/shhhmubarak-is-building-a-wall.php
by Khaled Abu Toameh
Journalist

Shhh…Mubarak is building a wall  An Apartheid Wall?

 

 

6.  Anyone see anything bizarre about this?  http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/12/mosque-at-ground-zero-adding-insult-to-agony.html

Mosque at Ground Zero in NY

 

7.  The Zohar on Left vs. Right:  http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2009/12/left-out-from-this-weeks-zohar.html

 






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