Wednesday, August 24, 2011

A Call to Arms - Please help Put Larry Derfner in Prison!

Call to Arms!


. I would like to ask you take a few minutes in order to help
remove the criminal anti-Semite Larry Derfner from his position of
columnist at the Jerusalem Post and to petition that he be indicted
and jailed for supporting mass murder against Jews.

Derfner is fairly well known to most of you. He is probably the
most extremist leftist columnist writing at the Jerusalem Post. He is
also probably the stupidest. There is of course nothing wrong with
the Jerusalem Post running leftist columnists or stupid columnists.
The Post is probably the most pluralistic and politically balanced of
all Israeli newspapers, more so than the Hebrew media. (By
comparison, Haaretz is less pluralistic and balanced than was Pravda
back in the days of Brezhnev, and Yediot Ahronot only slightly less
biased.)

Being stupid is also not a reason for a newspaper to refuse to
employ a columnist. In Israel it is often not only the necessary
condition for a person to be so employed, it is also sometimes the
sufficient condition. Derfner is unusually stupid even for a leftist;
as one indicator, he has teemed up to run a web site with the
anti-Semitic Seattle blogger, subliterate Hamas apologist, and serial
libeler Richard Silverstein, a fellow who has never heard of a murder
of a Jew he does not seek to justify and celebrate.

Derfner however is not just stupid and not just leftist. He is a
racist and traitor who is calling for mass murders of Jewish
civilians.

The credit for the exposure of Derfner's treason and his calling
for mass murders of Jews belongs largely to ace journalist Sam
(Shmuel) Sokol, whom I have cited in the past. He has a full-length
expose of Derfner's criminal behavior, which I will attach in a monent
below.

Derfner's celebratory justifications of mass murders of Jewish
civilians were not a prank. The calls appear on Derfner's blog:
http://israelleft.com/2011/08/21/the-awful-necessary-truth-about-palestinian-terror/
. I expect him to take this down once the doodoo hits the fan, so you
might want to keep a downloaded copy of the text.

As you can see, he open there with these comments:

'I think a lot of people who realize that the occupation is wrong also
realize that the Palestinians have the right to resist it – to use
violence against Israelis, even to kill Israelis, especially when
Israel is showing zero willingness to end the occupation, which has
been the case since the Netanyahu government took over (among other
times in the past). But people don't want to say this, especially
right after a terror attack like this last one that killed eight
Israelis near Eilat. And there are lots of good reasons for this
reticence, such as: You don't want to further upset your own
countrymen when they are grieving, you don't want to say or write
anything that could be picked up by Israel's enemies and used as
justification for killing more of us. (These are good reasons; fear of
being called a traitor, for instance, is a bad reason.) But I think
it's time to overcome this reticence, even at the cost of enflaming
the already enflamed sensitivities of the Israeli public, because this
unwillingness to say outright that Palestinians have the right to
fight the occupation, especially now, inadvertently helps keep the
occupation going.'

You can read the rest, if your stomach allows.

Let us note that under Israel's "rules" of restricted freedom of
speech, no one has the right to call for mass murder, even though
leftists are never prosecuted for doing so. You may recall the recent
case of the Ben Gurion University faculty member Eyal Nir, whom I call
Doc Jihad, who issued such calls (see
http://zioncon.blogspot.com/2011/06/meet-ben-gurion-universitys-doc-jihad.html
). A non-leftist and especially an Orthodox Jew who would suggest
that, under some circumstances of war, a gentile civilian may be
targeted, would be immediately arrested and indicted in Israel for
"racism" and for "incitement," and many such people have already been
prosecuted. The leftist anti-democratic Deputy Attorney General Shai
Nitzan is building an entire political career upon prosecuting
non-leftists who exercise their freedom of speech to express opinions
he finds "objectionable."

Well, there has never been a more glaring example of a leftist
endorement of atrocities and mass murders of Jews than Larry Derfner's
latest rant. He ends that rant with the comment, "Writing this is not
treason. It is an attempt at patriotism" He is wrong. It is not
patriotism and it IS treason. It is also a felony.

I would like to ask you to take a moment and send a note to the
editor of the Jerusalem Post insisting that Derfner's employment at
the newspaper be immediately terminated. There are, after all,
plenty of non-felon leftists who can write columns for the Jerusalem
Post demanding that Israel capitulate to Arab terrorism and duplicate
Gaza in the West Bank or embrace communism as economic policy. They
do not need Derfner to do those things. The current editor in chief
is Steven Linde, at email steve@jpost.com . (He recently replaced
David Horowitz) If you have the energy, the names and emails of the
other senior Jerusalem Post editors are all on this page:
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/AboutUs.aspx . Sending CC copy to
the wonderful Caroline Glick at caroline@jpost.com is a good idea.

Derfner himself has email address: lderfner@gmail.com

As I say, any non-leftist promoting and celebrating mass murder of
civilians would long ago have been arrested and indicted in Israel.
To demand that the rules for the goose also serve as the rules for the
lemming, and to demand that Larry Derfner face criminal indictment for
his racism and incitements to murder, please write to


Yaakov Neeman, Israeli Minister of Justice
Fax 972-2- 6285438
Email: sar@justice.gov.il
Mail Address: 29 Salah a-Din Street
Jerusalem, 91010 Israel

The Attorney General of Israel (same mail address)
Phone 972-2-6466521 or 522 at the end
Fax 972-2-6467001
And you can also type your complain into this form:
http://www.forms.gov.il/globalData/GetSequence/GetSequence.aspx?formType=yoetzmishpati1@justice.gov.il
The form is in Hebrew, but you can write in English. The bottom part
of the form is where the complaint goes. The upper part is your name
and contact details

If you fax, send a copy also to the director of criminal prosecution
in the Ministry at fax 972-2-6271783

I suggest also sending a complaint to the Israeli Prime Minister. You
can do so online in English here:
http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Public+Applications/PublicApplications/


The following expose of Derfner appears in the American Orthodox "Ami" magazine.
AMI EXCLUSIVE: Jerusalem Post columnist calls Eilat terror attack "justified"
By Samuel Sokol, Ami Magazine

JERUSALEM- Calling his comments "an attempt at patriotism," Jerusalem
Post columnist and well known political commentator Larry Derfner
endorsed the use of violence against Israeli citizens this week in an
article posted on the self-described left-wing Zionist blog "Israel
Reconsidered."
Derfner, well known as a staunch advocate for a two-state solution,
posted a link to his article on Facebook on Monday, drawing praise
from friends for his contention that "Palestinians have the right to
resist [the occupation] – to use violence against Israelis, even to
kill Israelis." This is especially the case, Derfner wrote, since
"Israel is showing zero willingness to end the occupation, which has
been the case since the Netanyahu government took over."
According to Derfner, Israelis, many of whom he regards as secretly
agreeing with him, do not want to come out and say this, however, for
"fear of being called a traitor." However, he asserted, "it's time to
overcome this reticence, even at the cost of enflaming the already
enflamed sensitivities of the Israeli public, because this
unwillingness to say outright that Palestinians have the right to
fight the occupation, especially now, inadvertently helps keep the
occupation going."
Continuing to explain his thesis, Derfner argued that since the
continuing Israeli presence in the territories validates Palestinian
terrorism, "the Left's ritual condemnations of terror are translated
in the Israeli public's mind – as justification for the occupation and
an iron-fist military policy."
"But if, on the other hand, we were to say very forthrightly what many
of us believe and the rest of us suspect – that the Palestinians, like
every nation living under hostile rule, have the right to fight back,
that their terrorism, especially in the face of a rejectionist Israeli
government, is justified – what effect would that have?" he asked. "A
powerful one, I think, because the truth is powerful."
Stopping short of actively calling for terrorism, however, the
columnist -a Los Angeles native who immigrated to Israel in 1985-
asserted that while he "think[s] the Palestinians have the right to
use terrorism against us, I don't want them to use it, I don't want to
see Israelis killed."
As an Israeli," he explained, "I would do whatever was necessary to
stop a Palestinian, oppressed or not, from killing one of my
countrymen."
Still, I don't think Hamas and their allies need any more
encouragement, so whatever encouragement they might take from me or
any other liberal Zionist is coals to Newcastle," Derfner quipped.
He also stated that he is opposed to "encouraging Israelis in their
blindness" that prevents them from seeing that they are "compelling
[the Palestinians] to engage in terrorism." Such encouragement, he
explained, "endanger[s] their lives and ours, their country and ours,
much more than if we told the truth and got quoted on Hamas websites."
Concluding with a brief discussion of last week's triple-terror attack
in Eilat, Derfner said that "Whoever the Palestinians were who killed
the eight Israelis near Eilat last week, however vile their ideology
was, they were justified to attack."
The government of Israel, which he termed "harsh" and "unjust," is "to
blame for those eight Israeli deaths."
"Writing this is not treason. It is an attempt at patriotism," Derfner
explained.
Responding to comments on Facebook, Derfner summed up his thesis by
saying that "the occupation makes Palestinian terror justified and
inevitable." After all, he asked, "if non-violence doesn't convince
Israel to end the occupation, what are [the Palestinians] supposed to
do?"
These shocking comments, coming as they do on the heels of a national
tragedy that almost led Israel to war, will certainly create a stir.

The Jerusalem Post has indicated that it is looking into the matter of
Derfner's statements.


Here is Derfner's full blog entry:


The awful, necessary truth about Palestinian terror
Posted on August 21, 2011 by Larry Derfner
I think a lot of people who realize that the occupation is wrong also
realize that the Palestinians have the right to resist it – to use
violence against Israelis, even to kill Israelis, especially when
Israel is showing zero willingness to end the occupation, which has
been the case since the Netanyahu government took over (among other
times in the past).
But people don't want to say this, especially right after a terror
attack like this last one that killed eight Israelis near Eilat. And
there are lots of good reasons for this reticence, such as: You don't
want to further upset your own countrymen when they are grieving, you
don't want to say or write anything that could be picked up by
Israel's enemies and used as justification for killing more of us.
(These are good reasons; fear of being called a traitor, for instance,
is a bad reason.)
But I think it's time to overcome this reticence, even at the cost of
enflaming the already enflamed sensitivities of the Israeli public,
because this unwillingness to say outright that Palestinians have the
right to fight the occupation, especially now, inadvertently helps
keep the occupation going.
When we say that the occupation is a terrible injustice to the
Palestinians, but then say that Palestinian terror/resistance is a
terrible injustice to Israel, we're saying something that's patently
illogical to anyone but a pacifist, and there aren't many pacifists
left, certainly not in Israel. The logical, non-pacifist mind
concludes that both of those statements can't be true – that if A is
hurting B and won't stop, then B damn sure has the right to hurt A to
try to make him stop. But if everybody, not only the Right but the
Left, too, is saying that B, the Palestinians, don't have the right to
hurt A, the Israelis, then the logical mind concludes that Israel must
not be hurting the Palestinians after all, the occupation must not be
so bad, the occupation must not be hurting the Palestinians at all -
because if it was, they would have the right to hurt us back, and
everybody agrees that they don't. So when they shoot at us or fire
rockets at us, it's completely unprovoked, which gives us the right,
the duty, to bash them and bash them until they stop – and anybody who
tries to deny us that right doesn't have a leg to stand on, so we're
just going to keep right on bashing them. And when the Palestinians
complain about the occupation, we Israelis can honestly say we don't
know what they're talking about.
This, I'm convinced, is how the Left's ritual condemnations of terror
are translated in the Israeli public's mind – as justification for the
occupation and an iron-fist military policy.
But if, on the other hand, we were to say very forthrightly what many
of us believe and the rest of us suspect – that the Palestinians, like
every nation living under hostile rule, have the right to fight back,
that their terrorism, especially in the face of a rejectionist Israeli
government, is justified – what effect would that have? A powerful
one, I think, because the truth is powerful. If those who oppose the
occupation acknowledged publicly that it justifies Palestinian
terrorism, then those who support the occupation would have to explain
why it doesn't. And that's not easy for a nation that sanctifies the
right to self-defense; a nation that elected Irgun leader Menachem
Begin and Lehi leader Yitzhak Shamir as prime minister.
But while I think the Palestinians have the right to use terrorism
against us, I don't want them to use it, I don't want to see Israelis
killed, and as an Israeli, I would do whatever was necessary to stop a
Palestinian, oppressed or not, from killing one of my countrymen. (I
also think Palestinian terrorism backfires, it turns people away from
them and generates sympathy for Israel and the occupation, so I'm
against terrorism on a practical level, too, but that's besides the
point.) The possibility that Israel's enemies could use my or anybody
else's justification of terror for their campaign is a daunting one; I
wouldn't like to see this column quoted on a pro-Hamas website, and I
realize it could happen.
Still, I don't think Hamas and their allies need any more
encouragement, so whatever encouragement they might take from me or
any other liberal Zionist is coals to Newcastle. What's needed very
badly, however, is for Israelis to realize that the occupation is
hurting the Palestinians terribly, that it's driving them to try to
kill us, that we are compelling them to engage in terrorism, that the
blood of Israeli victims is ultimately on our hands, and that it's up
to us to stop provoking our own people's murder by ending the
occupation. And so long as we who oppose the occupation keep
pretending that the Palestinians don't have the right to resist it, we
tacitly encourage Israelis to go on blindly killing and dying in
defense of an unholy cause.
And by tacitly encouraging Israelis in their blindness, I think we
endanger their lives and ours, their country and ours, much more than
if we told the truth and got quoted on Hamas websites.
There's no time for equivocation anymore, if there ever was. The
mental and moral paralysis in this country must be broken. Whoever the
Palestinians were who killed the eight Israelis near Eilat last week,
however vile their ideology was, they were justified to attack. They
had the same right to fight for their freedom as any other unfree
nation in history ever had. And just like every harsh, unjust
government in history bears the blame for the deaths of its own people
at the hands of rebels, so Israel, which rules the Palestinians
harshly and unjustly, is to blame for those eight Israeli deaths – as
well as for every other Israeli death that occurred when this country
was offering the Palestinians no other way to freedom.
Writing this is not treason. It is an attempt at patriotism.

http://israelleft.com/2011/08/21/the-awful-necessary-truth-about-palestinian-terror/






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