Pat Condell on our crippling fear of the truth
Here's Pat Condell on our crippling fear of the truth. There are several links that follow the video.
Let's go to the videotape.
The fascist "anti-fascists". No hope, plenty of hate.
English Defence League mission statement. Disagree with any of this?
http://englishdefenceleague.org/missi...
EDL leader condemns attacks on Muslims. Listen to the interview and see if you disagree with any of it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22852371
Spencer and Geller banned from the UK for telling the truth
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/e...
Robert Spencer shows that he knows the Koran better than an imam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnO-EG...
Petition to allow Geller and Spencer to speak in the UK
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/a...
You can contribute to their legal fund to challenge the ban at
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/law...
A gross double standard over hate speech
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/douglas-...
The slimy hypocrisy of Keith Vaz
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/douglas-...
Charles Moore: We are too weak to face up to the extremism in our midst
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknew...
No hope and full of hate.
http://oppressedmajority.wordpress.co...
Blasphemy law comes to Facebook
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2...
UAF fascists plan to disrupt Ukip public meeting
http://brightonuaf.org/2013/05/29/nig...
And here they are doing it. UAF fascists try to stamp out free speech again
http://vimeo.com/67604802
If only 33,000 people knew the truth
http://www.thecommentator.com/article...
Socialist Workers Party leadership under fire over rape kangaroo court
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/201...
Socialist Workers Party's misogyny by a former longtime member
http://socialistunity.com/oh-good-lor...
Socialist Workers Party defends Islamic terrorists who planned street attack with a bomb, knives and shotguns.
http://hurryupharry.org/2013/06/12/no...
Anti-fascist group appoints fascist as vice-chair
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/and...Labels: English Defence League, Islam, Pat Condell
Sorting out the European Right
Since Anders Behring Breivik murdered 76 Norwegians two weeks ago, there have been numerous accusations made of ties between Israel (as in the Israeli government) and various organizations of the European Right. Some of the ties are real, others involve individual MK's and not the government. Some of the European counterparts are legitimate conservative parties while others might better be considered part of the 'radical right.' Benny Weinthal tries to
sort things out.
Prof. Barry Rubin, an Israeli Middle East expert and director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, said the depiction of connections between the Netanyahu government and the FPÖ is “very misleading.”
“The only real link that can be shown is one or two members of parliament [the Knesset] acting alone. Israel has boycotted the Austrian FPÖ – a point the article deliberately ignored – and there are no Israeli officials who have met with these parties in any direct way. The real story, then, is the exact opposite: how limited Israel’s contacts are with parties that proclaim they are pro-Israel,” Rubin said.
He continued that “a few months ago the Israeli Embassy in London took the unprecedented step of condemning the English Defense League. I’m not passing judgment on these different parties, but clearly there are hardly any ties between Israel and any of them, and that means both Israel’s government and major political forces in Israel.”
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, an Israeli who has written several books on Norwegian- Israeli relations, said Europe is “in a totally confused situation.”
In contrast to the Spiegel report, Gerstenfeld does not see a unified politically right-wing movement in Europe. Besides the liberal and conservative Right, there are three types of right-of-center political organizations, he said. The Progress Party in Norway and Geert Wilders Party for Freedom are pro-Israel and stay away from anything that “smells of Nazism.”
Italy’s Northern League falls into a second category on the European Right. It is primarily a separatist movement.
The third component includes Belgium’s Vlaams Blok party, the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, the British National Party, France’s National Front, and Austria’s FPÖ, which, according to Gerstenfeld, meet the standard of radical right-wing groups.
Gerstenfeld said the FPÖ, for example, along with other radical-rightist parties “are people on the European Right who think they can whitewash themselves with ties to Israel.
“Israel is in the forefront of the enormous totalitarian threat to all humanity coming to out of the world of Islam, which also threatens Muslim moderates, Europe and anything Western. Former prime minister of Spain Jose Maria Aznar also sees it this way and wrote an article saying that if Israel goes down, the entire West goes down,” said Gerstenfeld.
Read the whole thing. For those who have forgotten or who lump all of the European Right into one big group, you may want to watch this speech by former Spanish Prime Minister
Jose Maria Aznar, which I was privileged to attend last year.
Labels: Anders Behring Brievik, British National Party, English Defence League, Geert Wilders, Jose Maria Aznar, Norwegian Progress party, Vlams Belang
Der Spiegel tries to blame the Likud for Breivik
Sorry about the lengthy break. I had a lot of paying work today, but I did not anticipate being off for this long.
Germany's Der Spiegel has a story that lumps
the Likud together with Rightist parties in Europe and blames all of them for Anders Behring Breivik's murderous spree in Norway last week.
Islamophobic parties in Europe have established a tight network, stretching from Italy to Finland. But recently, they have extended their feelers to Israeli conservatives, enjoying a warm reception from members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition. Some in Israel believe that the populists are Europe's future.
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The reason for the growing focus on Israel is not difficult to divine. "On the one hand," Strache told SPIEGEL ONLINE in a recent interview, "we are seeing great revolutions taking place in the Middle East. But one can't be totally sure that other interests aren't behind them and that, in the end, we might see Islamist theocracies surrounding Israel and in Europe's backyard."
In other words, in the battle against what right-wing populists see as the creeping Islamization of Europe, Israel is on the front line.
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Many in Israel see it the same way. Eliezer Cohen, known in Israel by his nickname "Cheetah," says that leftist parties in both Europe and Israel have lost their way. Cohen, a decorated Israeli air force colonel now in retirement, is a former member of the Knesset with Yisrael Beiteinu, the hardline nationalist party led by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman that currently governs together in a coalition with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party.
"Right-wing politicians in Europe are more sensitive to the dangers facing Israel," Cohen, who gave a keynote address during Dutch right-wing leader Geert Wilders' visit to Berlin last October, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "They are talking the exact same language as Likud and others on the Israeli right. I'm too old for bullshitting -- we hope the right wing wins out in Europe."
Kara sounds no different. "I am looking for ways to lessen the Islamic influence in the world," Kara told the Israeli daily Maariv in June. "I believe that is the true Nazism in this world. I am the partner of everyone who believes in the existence of this war."
I have no problem with figures on Israel's Right having connections with Right wing parties in Europe so long as those Right wing parties are not anti-Semitic when they are not dealing with Israel. Some people would call that realpolitik. And as I have noted on numerous occasions, one of the rules in the very tough Middle East is that my enemy's enemy is my fried. I know that sounds like a cliche, and so does, "nations don't have friends, they have interests." But there's a lot of truth in those sayings.
In fact, most of the Right wing parties in Europe are not, as I understand it, anti-Semitic, although some of them have anti-Semitic pasts. Every time I hear someone accuse Geert Wilders of anti-Semitism, I dismiss them as having an agenda.
To use a broad brush to tar all of the European Right with blame for Breivik's actions is outrageous. The Likud and the parties on the Right in Europe are no more to blame for Breivik's actions than Noam Chomsky is for Osama Bin Laden's actions.
Read the whole thing. More
here.
Labels: Anders Behring Brievik, Ayoub Kara, English Defence League, Geert Wilders, Likud party, Vlams Belang
Anti-Semites at Mondoweiss blame 'right-wing Zionists' for Norwegian massacre
The anti-Semites at Mondoweiss have found a way to blame the
Jooos '
right-wing Zionists' for Friday's mass murder in Norway.
An examination of Breivik's views, and his support for far-right European political movements, makes it clear that only by interrogating the nexus of Islamophobia and right-wing Zionism can one understand the political beliefs behind the terrorist attack.
Breivik is apparently an avid fan of U.S.-based anti-Muslim activists such as Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and Daniel Pipes, and has repeatedly professed his ardent support for Israel. Breivik's political ideology is illuminated by looking at comments he posted to the right-wing site document.no, which author and journalist Doug Sanders put up.
Amman-based blogger Alex Kane then goes on to give a list of examples of Breivik's ideology, which included a total of two mentions of Israel, one of which described the ideology of the 'Vienna school of thought' which clearly was not Breivik's invention. The other comment said
We must therefore make sure to influence other cultural conservatives to come to our anti-rasistiske/pro-homser/pro-Israel line. When they reach this line, one can take it to the next level...(page 41)
How
Jooos '
right-wing Zionists' are responsible for the fact that a Norwegian bigot wants to adopt a pro-Israel line is not clear to me. I wonder if Kane would be willing to accept responsibility for the fact that Hamas and Hezbullah (and many other Islamist organizations) have set finishing the work of the Nazis (God forbid) as one of their goals? If not, why should we take responsibility for Breivik?
Oops - I forgot - saying that Hamas and Hezbullah wish to exterminate Jews makes me
anti-Muslim Islamophobic in Kane's book.
Kane goes on to link 'anti-Muslim activists' with 'right-wing Zionists' as if the two are one and the same. It's one long piece of guilt by association. In Kane's book, Breivik admires the English Defense League and Geert Wilders and they both admire Israel and therefore they must all be behind Breivik's actions. And you must be anti-Muslim in Kane's book if you believe that Islam is attacking Judaism and Christianity in a 'clash of civilizations, and you are surely anti-Muslim if you opposed to the construction of the Ground Zero Mosque on the site of the World Trade Center - after all, you could not have just criticized it as being in poor taste.
Kane goes on to slander Dan Pipes some more, along with Dennis Ross and Martin Kramer. He's got it all figured out.
And why is Mondoweiss publishing this kind of scurrilous attack on the Jewish people? Because he's an
anti-Zionist anti-Semite. Proof once again that we are our own worst enemies.
Labels: Anders Behring Brievik, anti-Semitic stereotypes, anti-Semitism, clash of civilizations, Dan Pipes, Dennis Ross, English Defence League, Martin Kramer, Mondoweiss, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer
English Defence League issues statement strongly supporting Israel
The English Defence League has issued a statement
strongly supporting Israel.
There is an unholy trinity that has come together to bring about what Palestinians shout at their demonstrations ‘From the River to Sea, Palestine will be free!’ It is a tripod of hate from the intellecutally bankrupt Left-wing communists and right-wing fascists and Nazis, supported by Islamists. From the River to the Jordan to the Mediterranean sea Palestine will be established at the expense of the state of Israel. Yet there has never been a state of Palestine, there has never been an Arabic nation based in Palestine, it was invaded in the 7th and 8th Centuries by Arab Islamists seeking to spread their evil ideology to the world. Arabs were offered 80% of the British Palestine Mandate known as Trans-Jordan, but they rejected it. They wanted it all. Ever since, Muslims everywhere have sought and fought to bring about the destruction of the Jewish state.
63 years ago, the dream of Jews around the world came into being. The formation of a homeland for the Jews in their historic and geographic land of origin. Yet despite the size of this nascent nation being insignificant, it was enough for the Islamist Arabs to describe the event as the Nakba - the catastrophe. They launched a frenzied military attack on the new nation and despite the overwhelming superiority in arms, they were thrown back. The State of Israel was born and survived its traumatic birthing.
Despite the efforts of the Islamists and the Political far-left and right to denigrate, demonise and delegitimise the state of Israel, it still remains a free, democratic society in which freedom of thought, religion and politics is still practiced. Despite the lies of being called an apartheid state, Arabs and other non-Jewish Israeli citizens are afforded equality before the law and are given equal access to jobs, education and welfare. Muslims, people sworn to uphold the commands of their prophet and of their amoral book to destroy Israel and the Jews, even sit in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. The rabid desire of the anti-semitic far-left and far-right to see the end of Israel and the dispersal of the Jews from their homeland again, leads them to produce a constant diatribe of outlandish lies, untruths and fabrications that goes far beyond what is normal for a sane, rational human being.
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So, when you see the flag of Israel flying amongt the crosses of St. George at an EDL protest, know that it is because we, the EDL, stand in solidarity with our Jewish brothers and sisters. Know that we stand with them for reason, for the rule of law, of human rights and the rights of the indiviudal. We stand with them because they stand with us. They have stood with us over the centuries to fight evil and the heavy hand of tyranny. They have helped to maintain civilisation in the face of the evils of Communism, Fascims, Nazism and Islamism. The flag of Israel, with the flag of St George represents a light in the all-pervading hatred of all that thas is good and civilised. Don’t be fooled by the lies of the left, there is no 'Elders of Zion’ conspiracy for world domination by Jews. Judaism by it’s nature is not an evangelising religion. Don’t be fooled by the fascists that the world banking system is controlled by Jews. Just remember that if there are a number of Jews in banking, it’s because Christians in the middle-ages put them there. Christians, when they followed their faith, could not involve themselves in banking (something about charging interest...sound familiar) so they needed people who could do the dirty work. Don’t be niggled by the 'Nazis' who fear Jews.
Stand with EDL and stand with Israel and ignore the anti-semites who would like to see the genocide of the Jews.
Read the whole thing. Make sure to watch the video while you're there.
According to the person who sent this to me, some of the people who had to approve this statement, some of the people who had to approve this statement have backgrounds with the BNP and the National Front - organizations that are not generally known for having warm feelings toward Jews. Therefore this statement is extremely significant.
Labels: English Defence League, pro-Israel
