Friday, June 10, 2011
Spocked
Last summer I saw Mister Spock. Or, as he is better known, Leonard
Nimoy the Leftist anti-Israel Twit.
Nimoy is the third rate actor best known for playing the Vulcan on
the early Star Treks. He also appeared in some movies, none very
memorable. And it turns out, Spock also likes to take photographs.
I was vacationing in the Berkshires with the Missus, and the
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art was about to open a special
exhibit of Spock's photographs. (See
http://culturemob.com/leonard-nimoy-photography-show-opens-at-mass-moca-on-august-1
) Some of these had seemingly Jewish content in them, but usually
nothing deeper than a Jewish symbol tossed into a photo about
something else.
I must confess up front that this was the first time I ever
realized that Nimoy was Jewish. I had assumed he was Greek from his
name. The superficial Jewish themes in the photos kind of gave it all
away. And at one point I saw him walking into the back of the Museum
where a fancy dinner was being organized in his honor. He was not
sporting any Vulcan ears for the occasion, to my disappointment.
Nimoy has long had pretensions of interest in Jewish subjects, but
his interest never goes beyond the most shallow glossing over of a
Jewish theme then forced into a politically correct straightjacket.
Take a look at this:
http://www.rmichelson.com/Artist_Pages/Nimoy/pages/Shekina.htm
Now I mention all of this because Nimoy just became the latest
Hollywood airhead to offer his "opinions" about the Middle East
conflict. He decided to suck up to the local US chapter of "Peace
Now" and write a letter that supports its political platform,
including a call for dividing Jerusalem and giving the important parts
to the barbarians. See this:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4079727,00.html . Naturally
he also favors a Palestinian state.
Now just why would Nimoy think he is qualified to offer an
"opinion" about such weighty things? I mean, come on now, do I tell
HIM how to run things on Vulcan? Just what are his intellectual
credentials that entitle him to pontificate about peace settlement in
the Middle East? Has he even been to Israel?
Hollywood actors in general seem to think that if they appear on a
movie screen then their opinions about serious matters of state are of
tremendous importance and interest to the world. Here is an
interesting thought experiment: make a list of all the Hollywood
actors with whom you would like to spend a full hour in conversation.
The catch is that you have actually to engage them in a serious
conversation about something other than their movies or acting. You
would have to force them to discuss with you some subject having to do
with something else, and you would have to do so for a whole hour.
With the possible exception of Anthony Hopkins, I cannot imagine a
worse form of torment and torture!
Nevertheless, perhaps something of value has come from Nimoy's
shooting off his mouth (and his pointed ears). Let's all agree that
the only reasonable place for the "Palestinians" to enjoy political
sovereignty is on Vulcan. And we can start by beaming them up,
Scotty, starting with Hanan Zoabi and the other terrorists in the
Israeli Knesset.
Until then, I propose that anytime Spock gets an urge to
pontificate about matters that do not involve photon torpedoes – that
he be given a Vulcan nerve pinch and a good old fashioned yankee slap
across the kisser.
2. Time to Boycott the anti-Israel Israeli boycotters and bigots:
http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Israeli%20extremism%20-%20Nadav%20Haetzni%20-%20Boycott%20The%20Boycotters.htm
A Call on Israeli Society to Boycott the Boycotters
This is simple and easily done, and each and every one of us can
contribute. Take a person like Professor Emmanuel Farjoun from the
Hebrew University. He was interviewed by Channel Two and he admitted
that he was trying to bring us to our knees by means of an
international boycott. Professor Farjoun has students, colleagues,
research assistance, neighbors, relatives. There are stores he shops
in, cafes he frequents. Each and every one of those locations ought to
turn him into a persona non grata. And wherever it is legally
possible, they ought to refuse to serve him, to give him work; they
ought to turn him a cold shoulder. The same applies to Professor Neve
Gordon from Ben-Gurion University. This man has worked to have IDF
officers prosecuted by foreign courts. The same applies to Kobi Snitz,
an Israeli mathematician who belongs to the group that led to the
cancellation of the Pixies' concert.
The time has come for students to refuse to enter lectures given by
Neve Gordon, for people to refuse to work and fraternize with Kobi
Snitz, for their aunts, relatives and acquaintances hang up the phone
on them. Of course, there are more people and groups on the list, such
as Yesh Gvul. They all repudiate the right of Israeli and Jewish
society to determine its own fate. They are all trying to twist our
arm by means of foreign courts and governments. They have all become
far more dangerous than Ahmadinejad and Nasrallah, and the time has
come for us to respond accordingly.
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/121/269.html [in Hebrew]
IsraCampus Translation
Boycott The Boycotters
Nadav Haetzni
17/6/2010
In the past few weeks the phenomenon of Israelis pushing the entire
world to boycott us has become decidedly salient. The phenomenon is
nothing new, but the boycotters have recently recorded a number of
successes, honing the grave danger posed by their activity. For many,
the most painful was the Pixies' decision to cancel their performance
here. Before that they urged Elton John and Leonard Cohen and every
other artist who was planning to perform here to cancel the visit.
They are responsible for the boycott of products that are manufactured
in Judea and Samaria, they have brought about the boycotting of
Israeli universities, they have brought about arrest warrants being
issued against high-ranking officers and so forth.
That band of people has only bad things to say about us, and their
worldview is anti-democratic and offensive. Since they have despaired
of persuading us of their extremist positions, they try to force them
on us from the outside. As long as they boycotted settler products
they barely bothered a soul. But now the trend has changed, mainly
since the damage that was done to the holy of holies - the Pixies. A
majority of Israelis are furious with that band and suggestions have
already been made to use the current body of law against them, to pass
new legislation, to revoke their citizenship and so forth.
All of that is certainly justified, but in the meantime those bad
people are continuing to go about their affairs and live among us as
if nothing were wrong. We politely shake their hand, we invite them to
talk shows, we hire them for work and we show up to hear their
lectures as if they hadn't shown up as the spearhead of Israel's
enemies. They render our blood forfeit in the world and turn us into
lepers, whereas we smile at them with a closed mouth. This is an
absurd situation that runs contrary to any logic and fundamental
instinct. After all, what could be more natural than boycotting back
the people who are boycotting you? That simple means is in the hands
of each and every one of us: they want to turn us into shunned people?
So let them receive, at least in our midst, a wall-to-wall shunning of
their own. Of course, they must not be physically attacked, but the
time has come for Israeli society to respond like a public that has
the basic desire to survive and to defend itself. The people who break
the rules of the game and try to ostracize us from the fraternity of
nations is going to find himself ostracized from us.
This is simple and easily done, and each and every one of us can
contribute. Take a person like Professor Emmanuel Farjoun from the
Hebrew University. He was interviewed by Channel Two and he admitted
that he was trying to bring us to our knees by means of an
international boycott. Professor Farjoun has students, colleagues,
research assistance, neighbors, relatives. There are stores he shops
in, cafes he frequents. Each and every one of those locations ought to
turn him into a persona non grata. And wherever it is legally
possible, they ought to refuse to serve him, to give him work; they
ought to turn him a cold shoulder. The same applies to Professor Neve
Gordon from Ben-Gurion University. This man has worked to have IDF
officers prosecuted by foreign courts. The same applies to Kobi Snitz,
an Israeli mathematician who belongs to the group that led to the
cancellation of the Pixies' concert.
The time has come for students to refuse to enter lectures given by
Neve Gordon, for people to refuse to work and fraternize with Kobi
Snitz, for their aunts, relatives and acquaintances hang up the phone
on them. Of course, there are more people and groups on the list, such
as Yesh Gvul. They all repudiate the right of Israeli and Jewish
society to determine its own fate. They are all trying to twist our
arm by means of foreign courts and governments. They have all become
far more dangerous than Ahmadinejad and Nasrallah, and the time has
come for us to respond accordingly.
3. Dingbette of the month:
http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/HaifaU%20-%20Dalit%20Baum%20-%20working%20from%20within.htm
