Indyk under fire for anti-Semitic tropes
It's been just five days since I reported that Martin Indyk attacked the Washington Free Beacon's Adam Kredo for
using anonymous sources after having been one so often himself. Now, there's a much more serious and well-substantiated charge against Indyk:
He's a Jewish anti-Semite.
Martin Indyk — who served as President Bill Clinton’s ambassador to
Israel and assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs, followed
by a stint as the Obama administration’s envoy for Israeli-Palestinian
negotiations — is being urged to clarify comments he made in
a tape-recorded private conversation from 1989, in which he
reportedly said Israelis are “paranoid,” “arrogant” and “think the rules
of society do not apply [to them]” because “they are the goy’s rules.”
Indyk, who is Jewish himself, also reportedly applied this assessment
to the character of Jews generally, saying that Jewish people “would do
whatever they can to avoid paying taxes,” and believe it is justified
to “find a way to ignore the law or get around it.” He added, “In my own
family, my grandfather used to stay up nights to figure out how to
avoid paying taxes.”
Professor Eunice G. Pollack, an historian of antisemitism and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, told JNS.org that Indyk’s reported statements “echo three of the most infamous centuries-old tropes of antisemites.”
“You have an updated version of the classic ‘Jewish swindler,’
combined with the ‘disloyal Jew’ who evades his patriotic duty to pay
taxes, and the millennia-old ‘arrogant Jew’ who, in a more religious
era, was accused of deriving his arrogance from his partner, Satan,”
said Pollack.
...
Indyk’s alleged comments were made while he was executive director of
the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and were brought to
light in 1995 by Amcha-the Coalition for Jewish Concerns, after Indyk
was nominated as ambassador to Israel. At that time, neither the news
media nor senators involved in his confirmation hearing gave the
allegations any attention.
Indyk has not responded to multiple requests for comment by JNS.org.
This is not the first time Indyk’s remarks about Israel have drawn criticism.
Adam Kredo, a senior foreign policy writer for the Washington Free Beacon, told JNS.org
that Indyk “is known among reporters for anonymously criticizing Israel
in the press, for planting stories meant to pressure the Jewish state
into making concessions [and for] leading the Obama administration’s
efforts over the years to discredit Israel and blame it for the failure
in peace talks.”
I'm sure that Indyk would say much worse about Israel and Jews today (I once watched him have a
shouting match with several participants at the President's Conference in 2011). And I'm sure that $14 million donation from Qatar to the Brookings Institute, which Indyk heads, would have nothing to do with that. Of course not. It's why Qatar gave him the money in the first place.
Labels: Jewish anti-Semitism, Martin Indyk
Political correctness on American college campuses is manifest anti-Semitism, but can it be fought?
Nearly thirty years ago, I had a business trip to San Francisco that required me to spend the Sabbath in the Bay Area. I only knew one Orthodox Jew in the area: Someone from the class behind me in both high school and college (Columbia) was at the time the rabbi in Berkeley. He arranged for me to stay with one of his congregants - he was in the process of leaving the community to move on to 'bigger' things. I won't mention his name because I'm still friends with many of his relatives, but that Sabbath was a real eye-opener. My friend had become what we would today term 'anti-Israel' and a 'Jewish anti-Semite.'
I was floored.
What I'm about to describe was probably inevitable. The fight for 'safe spaces,' BDS and political correctness on American college campuses has morphed into blatant anti-Semitism. The role that prominent Leftist Jews has played in making this happen will not shield them from the monster they created. See Germany (which will be insulted if you say so, but remains anti-Semitic more than 70 years after Hitler's death) and Stalinist Russia. Different campuses are at different stages, but most American college campuses appear to be heading inexorably toward anti-Semitic group think.
This report that I saw on Facebook comes from a current student at my alma mater, Bir Zeit on the Hudson.
Rochman is describing a university course calling for the 'elimination' of Israel taught by what we would call an 'as a Jew' (someone who uses the accident of his birth to permit him to blatantly incite to anti-Semitism) using terms not much different from the terms that Hitler used to describe the elimination of Jews 70 years ago. As I have mentioned several times in the past couple of months, the role of Germany in financing the
continued prominence of the 'Palestinians' in world affairs reflects the continued anti-Semitism in Germany (I am now reading an earlier book by Tuvia Tenenboim about anti-Semitism in Germany today - that book's publication was nearly blocked!).
Let's start with what should be obvious: Being 'anti-Israel' or subjecting Israel to double standards in 2016 is no different than being anti-Semitic in the 1940's. Saying you're 'only against Israel' but 'not against Jews' is putting a politically correct cover on an ancient hatred.
At Berkeley, the cradle of the false distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, things have
only gotten worse. This article discusses a 'for credit' course on the Berkeley college campus.
According to Tammi Rossman-Benjamin,
co-founder of the AMCHA Initiative — which combats, monitors and
documents antisemitism at institutions of higher education in America —
the course in question, titled “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis,” is a “classic example of antisemitic anti-Zionism.”
“Based upon the syllabus, the class
treats Israel as a settler colonial state and Zionism and Israel as
illegitimate,” Rossman-Benjamin told The Algemeiner,
adding that “a goal of the class appears to be talking about ways to
decolonize Palestine, which essentially means to eliminate the Jewish
state.”
“This is clear eliminationist
anti-Zionism, which is not just criticism of Israel, but opposition
to the existence of the Jewish state with efforts to eliminate that
state,” she said.
Lily Greenberg Call, a Jewish UC
Berkeley student who serves as a CAMERA Fellow and is the co-vice
president of the campus group Bears for Israel, told The Algemeiner that she became “very upset” after seeing posters advertising the class.
“It’s one thing to have a political
group like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) on campus, but
teaching material that is so biased and factually inaccurate in a
classroom setting violates academic integrity,” she said.
“Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis” is being offered as a “DeCal” course,
which is part of a program of student-run classes that falls under the
jurisdiction of UC Berkeley’s Academic Senate. According to a
description of the course — which acknowledges “contentious” material
will be taught — the class will:
…[E]xamine key historical developments that have taken
place in Palestine, from the 1880s to the present, through the lens of
settler colonialism…we will explore the connection between Zionism and
settler colonialism, and the ways in which it has manifested, and
continues to manifest, in Palestine. Lastly, drawing upon literature on
decolonization, we will explore the possibilities of a decolonized
Palestine, one in which justice is realized for all its peoples and
equality is not only espoused, but practiced.
Students are also required to attend at least one event, on or off campus, “relating to Palestine.”
The faculty sponsor of the course, Dr. Hatem Bazian,
is the co-founder of SJP and a major supporter of the US Campaign for
the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI). Bazian is a
former fundraising speaker for the anti-Israel organization KindHearts,
which was shut down by the US government in 2006 for its alleged ties to
Hamas.
You might think there's nothing wrong with that because college campuses are supposed to facilitate 'the free exchange of ideas.' But that's not what's going on here.
According to Rossman-Benjamin, “You
just need to take a look at the instructor, facilitator, authors of the
reading materials and listed guest speakers to see that the course is
biased and presents an egregious framework against Israel.” Furthermore,
she noted, “Not one reading or guest lecturer isn’t a virulent
anti-Zionist, absolutely opposed to the existence of the state of Israel
and supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.”
Reading material includes selections
from works by anti-Zionist Israeli historian Ilan Pappe; the late Edward
Said, a fierce Israel critic; and Saree Makdisi, an advocate of the
elimination of Israel as a Jewish state. Also, there are testimonies
from the controversial and widely debunked Israeli group Breaking the Silence.
“As seen from the syllabus, the class
doesn’t look at Israel and ask if it is a settler colonial state or if
Zionism is a legitimate ideology,” Rossman-Benjamin said. “The starting
point is that it is illegitimate. This is completely one-sided and has a
clear anti-Zionist bent, to the extent that it opposes the existence of
the Jewish state.”
And if you still think this course is anything other than a 'safe space' for anti-Semitic rants....
She also told The Algemeiner
that she finds it “concerning” that the course has “a strict
no-technology policy — no phones, voice recordings or photographs —
which makes me worried that some of the content will be inherently
anti-Israel and as such, the facilitators don’t want to make it public
in any way.”
By the way, if you pay taxes to the State of California, you're supporting this.
Is there any way to fight back? Here's one promising story from
Miriam Elman, an Associate Professor at Syracuse University.
A brief recap: [Israeli Filmmaker Shimon] Dotan [of New York University's Graduate School of Journalism] was invited by a University of Nebraska colleague to screen the film at SU. A tenured professor in SU’s Religion Department, M. Gail Hamner, then rescinded the invitation on account of warnings from colleagues that the “BDS faction on campus will make matters very unpleasant” for her and Dotan if he came. Bottom line: Hamner was reluctant to bring Dotan to the conference because she felt intimidated by a faculty caucus who wouldn’t be happy about the screening of a well-received Israeli film.
SU responded admirably by reasserting the university’s commitment to free speech and its opposition to “any boycott of Israeli academic institutions or faculty.” An invitation to Dotan to present his film at a later time this year was also extended. On her part, Hamner issued an apology and reaffirmed her own support for academic freedom. To my mind, this rings hollow. A true defender of campus free speech actively solicits diverse viewpoints, and doesn’t surrender to peer pressure to conform. Still, Hamner’s expression of regret seems sincere and heartfelt.
All’s well that ends well? Not quite. Lingering questions remain: did Hamner have to “vouch” in the same way for other films in the conference – or was it just the product of an Israeli national that required special scrutiny? Are a group of anti-Israel colleagues exercising subtle veto power when it comes to academic programming related to Israel?
To get answers to these questions, and assess the magnitude of the problem, I and other SU faculty are now urging the administration to undertake a comprehensive and transparent investigation. Supported by the Academic Engagement Network, a new national organization committed to opposing BDS on campuses and to preserving academic freedom and free speech, we believe that only a full exploration as to why Dotan’s invitation was withdrawn will both lay this incident to rest and ensure that something like it won’t happen again.
This inquiry shouldn’t be construed as a witch hunt, nor is it likely to reveal a campus awash in anti-Israel animus. SU is generally a welcoming place for Israeli scholars and students. An exploration of the matter may also show that Hamner panicked unnecessarily and that her fears of the “BDS faction” were overblown. But it’s possible too that the inquiry will uncover more evidence of stealth boycotting.
Three lessons about these silent boycotts and how to defeat them can be learned from my university’s “Dotan Affair.”
First, administrators need to recognize that just because their schools are on record opposing academic boycotts of Israel doesn’t mean that individual faculty members are adhering to that institutional policy in their personal instructional practices. Administrators must make school policy crystal clear, but they also have to institute mechanisms to ensure that faculty members comply with it.
Second, the case highlights that successfully confronting silent boycotting ultimately depends on whether individual faculty are willing to take a stand. Like all bullies, stealth boycotters get away with their bigotry and intimidation because most faculty aren’t as honest and forthright as Hamner was about the pressures they’re facing, and because the vast majority of professors prefer to do their research and teaching and hesitate getting involved in "campus politics." The now multiplying anti-BDS organizations operating on campus are going to have to figure out a way to incentivize more faculty to engage proactively – and get those feeling cowed by BDS harassment to go public.
Lastly, the “Dotan Affair” shows that BDS, which bills itself as a human rights movement aimed at ending the Israeli "occupation," is in fact pure racist hatred, from which even famous anti-occupation, progressives Israelis – like Shimon Dotan – aren’t immune. To put a stop to stealth boycotting on campus and prevent more Israeli scholars from being privately shut out of academia, Zionists from across the political spectrum – left, center, and right – will need to fight together to ensure that all their voices can be heard on campus.
This battle is far from over. But I sure would not want my children or grandchildren on an American college campus today.
Labels: Adolph Hitler, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, BDS, Bir Zeit on the Hudson, Columbia, German anti-Semitism, Germany, Jewish anti-Semitism, University of California at Berkeley
Monday, the Rabbi demonized Israel
A devastating letter written to the board of directors of a Raleigh, North Carolina conservative synagogue was shared with me yesterday by
Richard A.
Devastating Letter sent to Synagogue board. This Rabbi
partners with terror organizations and BDS organizations to indoctrinate
Jews against Israel.
Esteemed Board of Beth Meyer,
Good
morning. We are a young Jewish family
here in the Triangle and recently learned of Rabbi Solomon's Behind the
Scenes Tour of Israel. The rabbi says his goal with the trip is to
raise the awareness American Jews to the realities on the ground in
Israel so they can form their “own positions that
are based on fuller, more complex information.” However, according to
the online trip guide, most of the sources of information during Rabbi
Solomon’s trip, will come from the most radical proponents of
BDS, and even pro-Islamic terror sources.
I
hope that Rabbi Solomon is
being honest about his intentions with this tour and it’s objectives.
As you will see below, it will appear to most that the Rabbi intends to
stir hatred for Israeli Jews and fro the IDF, who is sole guarantor of
the Jewish State.
To begin, the most troubling
aspect of MEDJI Tours is that they partner with the Holy Land Fund, a designated terror group who
has provided funding and support to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood according
to the U.S. Justice Department. That a Rabbi from Raleigh is partnering with a Hamas terror
financier is alarming and it must be investigated by the community and others.
The other partners and teachers of this trip include
a sundry list of the most vile haters of the Israeli Jewish people and avid promoters of BDS.
Examples:
- All that’s Left - They
report to be a collective unequivocally opposed to the occupation and committed to building the diaspora angle of resistance. taking to the streets with visual and educational strategies to reshape how visitors
think about Israel, which includes total, one-sided demonization of the IDF. http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.528285
- Mahmoud Darwish Museum
- who partners with BDS group IACHD to sponsor anti-Israel propaganda tours to gin up hatred of Israeli Jews. http://www.summerinpalestine.org/2015/blog.html In
fact, Mahmoud Darwish was a poet who not only called for all living
Jews to leave "Palestine" , but to take with them also their dead
ones!!!
- Yassar Arafat's Tomb - the father of modern
terrorism deserves respect with a visit to his gravesite? Arafat
is directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Israeli
citizens,
the deaths of untold numbers of Arabs and the killing of more than 100
U.S. citizens and the Rabbi pays his respects thereby validating his
muderous acts??
- Combatants for Peace – partner of pro-BDS movement, anti-IDF
activists who
utilizes highly demonizing language, accusing Israel of “ethnic
cleansing,” “genocide,” “collective punishment,”
and “apartheid”; promotes BDS campaigns against Israel; and explicitly
advocates for the end of the state of Israel as the nation state of the
Jewish people.
- Even the Bait al Karama Culinary School and the Birzeit
Brewery company travelers will visit for pleasure are known anti-Israel BDS activists whose companies were created for this purpose
- Rabbi Solomon’s ittenerary also includes a stop where travelers will “Learn the story of Open
House Ramle where the non-fiction story Lemon Tree took place.” According to Stand With us, “Lemmon Tree” is pure fiction and it’s a propaganda piece that presents
the extremist Palestinian case against Israel and says we should be
“deeply concerned” that some secondary schools are using the book. https://www.standwithus.com/news/article.asp?id=256
These
are but a sampling of the details of this trip, which promotes hatred
towards Israeli Jews from beginning to
end. This tour should be led by either the Palestinian Authority,
Hamas, or the Muslim Brotherhood; not by the Rabbi of a Conservative
synagogue in Raleigh, North Carolina.
I am
asking today that you look into this trip further and to ensure that
all consumers understand clearly the pro-BDS
and anti-IDF education this trip will offer. And above all, consumers
should be well informed of the Islamic terror-supporting partners of
this trip. Many
are now researching whether it's legal to financially partner with
foreign terror sponsors and with companies who organizes boycotts
against Israeli Jewish citizens.
Thank you for your consideration in this troubling matter.
J. Sloan Rachmuth
Writer's contact information was redacted.
Labels: BDS, Islamic terrorism, Jewish anti-Semitism, Palestinian terrorism, Yasser Arafat
There is no anti-Semite like a Jewish anti-Semite: Meet Max Blumenthal
Shavua tov, a good week to everyone.
On Saturday night, Elie Wiesel z"l passed away. Wiesel, who survived the Holocaust as a teenager, spent the rest of his life trying (among other things) to chase down the Nazi scum that systematically murdered six million Jews during the years of the Second World War. Even Haaretz published a
sympathetic obituary.
But alas, there are some Jews for whom nothing is holy - not even the memory of the six million Holocaust victims. We know them as Jewish anti-Semites. Meet Max Blumenthal (if you haven't had the 'pleasure' already).
And there are many more anti-Semitic tweets about Wiesel - from himself and from others - on
Blumenthal's timeline.
For those of you who are voting in the US election, here's another tidbit to keep in mind:
I'd love to see an intrepid reporter ask Hillary what she thinks of Max's disgusting comments. But I'm not holding my breath - it's highly unlikely to happen.
Labels: Elie Wiesel, Hillary Clinton, Holocaust, Jewish anti-Semitism, Max Blumenthal, US presidential campaign 2016
When the looney Jewish Left writes a Haggada
In case I don't get to post again before the holiday starts, a Chag Kasher v'Sameyach (Happy and Kosher Passover) to all of you. And since there's still a little time left, let this Passover - and if not this certainly the next one - be celebrated with the paschal lamb being sacrificed in the rebuilt Third Temple in the Holy City of Jerusalem. There's plenty of room for a tent for all of you to stay in my backyard :-)
At Legal Insurrection, Miriam Elman reports that the loony Jewish Left, lead by 'Jewish' Voice for 'Peace' (JVP) has
published a Haggada this year. I have my doubts that anyone who reads this blog is going to want it in their house, but....
I was curious to see what they do for the end of the seder, when we all say "Next year in [rebuilt] Jerusalem. Here's the answer.
Question 4. “Next Year in Jerusalem!”
We now end our Seder meal once again with the proclamation “Next Year in Jerusalem!” And so
we ask: what will we do to ensure that Jerusalem lives up to its name as a city of peace? How will
we respond as the Jewish state increasingly implements policies that claim this holy city in the
name of one people only? Do we dare to dream of a city divided or a city truly united for all its
inhabitants?
...and if we do believe that Jerusalem must be, once and for all, a true City of Peace, what are we
willing to do to make it so?
CLOSING
As we close tonight, go around your table and say goodnight and one thing that you are taking
away with you from this evening’s seder.
TOGETHER:
Next Year in Jerusalem! Next Year in al-Quds! Next year in a City of Peace!
Kumbaya.... Totally delusional. Either the Jews will control Jerusalem or the Arabs will make it
Judenrein (Jew-free).
But as Miriam reports, the loony Jewish Left has done much more than publish a Haggada.
This week JVP activists have also been partnering with other Jewish activists affiliated with the recently founded If Not Now movement to field a “public Passover action” on April 19-21.
The effort is spread on social media through this week’s trending
hashtags #LiberationSeder and #IfNotNow (see samples below). It’s a five
city (Boston, NYC, Chicago, Bay Area, and Washington, D.C.) series of “seders in the streets”
and in various buildings that house major Jewish organizations in order
to appropriate the holiday’s rituals and texts for an anti-Israel
narrative.
The explicit goal of these publicly staged seders is to replace the
essential Passover themes—the retelling of the exodus from Egypt and the
Jewish people’s redemption in the land of Israel—with messages
concentrated on the “fight for Palestinian liberation”.
Let's go to the videotape.
Even more, it’s a bizarre program of anti-Jewish propaganda that has a
precedent. As I describe below, in the 1920s some deluded Jews in the
Soviet Union also enlisted in a campaign to eliminate the true meaning
of Passover.
It gets worse and there's a lot of it.
Read the whole thing, but please don't let it ruin your Passover.
Labels: Jewish anti-Semitism, Jewish Voice for Peace, Leftist Jews, Pesach, Pesach seder, radical Left
Maybe she's on to something... but not for the reasons she thinks: SUNY Plattsburgh prof compares 'Israeli apartheid' to campus rape
An
Israeli-born professor (link in Hebrew) of Gender and Women's Studies at the State University of Plattsburgh has
compared 'Israeli apartheid' to campus rape in an interview with the online publication Alternet.
The Professor's name is Simona (Sima) Sharoni. Her academic credentials are
here. This is from the second of the three links above.
Sharoni, a professor at the State University of New York at
Plattsburgh in the Gender and Women's Studies Department, said that both
the conflict and campus sexual assault feature institutionalized
disparity of power as a linchpin.
Sharoni articulated that the
pro-Israel narrative embraces a victim-blaming narrative akin to "she
was asking for it" allegations common in rape culture. "The assumption
that Palestinians bring the violence on themselves...it's similar to
telling a survivor that it's what she was wearing," Sharoni said.
Additionally, she asserted that supporters of Israel engage in a
behavior analogous to discrediting rape victims in their repudiation of
Palestinian claims.
"Palestinians are not believed, which is the
same with survivors [of sexual assault]. It's very similar to saying,
'No, he's actually a nice guy,' about a man accused of rape," Aharoni
remarked.
The professor concluded her interview by explaining
that drawing parallels between campus rape and the "Israeli apartheid"
is strategically advantageous for both the BDS movement as well as
sexual assault survivors groups because it serves as "a means to an
end...to create a just and equal society."
Well, Israel's treatment of 'Palestinians' does have something in common with campus rapes. It's widely exaggerated in the media, and the media reports about it (as well as the crimes themselves) are often based on lies by people who want to
create abuse that doesn't exist. Often, both are based on fiction.
Labels: BDS, Israeli apartheid, Jewish anti-Semitism, Leftist anti-Semitism, rape
#Caring anti-Israel Jew justifies Monday's Jerusalem bus bombing
Yes, this paragon of 'Jewish values' is for real:
Right.....
Labels: Jerusalem, Jewish anti-Semitism, Palestinian terrorism, self-hating Jews
Bernie's 'Jewish Outreach' Director: F*** You Bibi
Greetings from... well, you can guess where.
Bernie Sanders has appointed a 'Jewish outreach' director. He need not have bothered. In a March 3, 2015 Facebook post, the director, one Simone Zimmerman, threw a slew of expletives - including
the "F" word - at Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
Here's the original unedited post:
Zimmerman later edited the post to replace 'a-hole' with 'politician' and 'F-you' with 'shame on you.' But the internet has a long memory, and as Noah Pollak points out, the edits won't help Sanders much.
The choice of Zimmerman, a young anti-Israel activist with a history
of support for the BDS movement, signaled that the Sanders campaign was
not retreating from recent campaign behavior that many in the pro-Israel
community viewed as hostile.
Sanders turned down an invitation to speak at the annual AIPAC
conference, a bipartisan campaign stop for Republican and Democratic
politicians. Zimmerman condemned
Hillary Clinton’s speech to the AIPAC conference as “racist and
orientalist.” Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer on Sunday called Sanders’s recent comments about Israel’s conduct during fighting with the Hamas terrorist group “libelous.”
Zimmerman comes to the Sanders campaign after a stint as an
undergraduate at Berkeley, where she headed the campus chapter of J
Street, an anti-Israel lobbying and activist group.
Last year, Zimmerman promoted
a play called Martyr’s Street, whose plot compares an Israeli settler
to a Hamas bomb-maker. While a student at Berkeley in 2012, she signed a letter
criticizing the University of California system for issuing a report
about anti-Semitism on UC campuses. The next year, Zimmerman wrote an op-ed
calling on Hillel International, a national Jewish student
organization, to sponsor campus events promoting the BDS movement, which
seeks Israel’s destruction.
Maybe Bernie doesn't want any Jewish votes. He certainly doesn't want any pro-Israel votes.
Labels: BDS, Bernie Sanders, Jewish anti-Semitism, liberalism, US presidential campaign 2016
Schindler's List producer rips Hollywood letter supporting Iran sellout
As you might expect, all the liberals in Hollywood are in the bag for Obama and his Iran sellout. And of course the 98 who signed a letter in support of Hussein Obama's Iran sellout insisted on
portraying themselves as Jews as if Israel necessarily matters to them.
But there's one courageous voice in Hollywood. It's Gerald Molen, the producer of
Schindler's List.
A producer of the film “Schnidler’s List,” Gerald Molen, criticized an open letter signed by nearly 100 prominent Los Angeles Jews supporting the recent accord on Iran’s nuclear program.
Molen, who won an Academy Award for the 1993 film about the Holocaust, wrote an email opposing the agreement to LAJewishLeadersForIranDeal@gmail.com, the email account set up by the letter’s signatories, The Hollywood Reporter reported Friday. Molen wrote that Iran is not a trustworthy negotiating partner, and that the agreement will allow it to obtain nuclear weapons down the line.
Molen also expressed concern that Iran will use money received in the deal to finance terrorism against Israel.
“Can we trust Iran? Do they not deny the Holocaust? Do they not invest in terror organizations?” Molen wrote, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “This will more than likely push the inevitable nuclear crises out of many of the signers’ lifetimes and onto the backs of their grandchildren or great grandchildren.”
Molen, a critic of President Obama, also produced “2016: Obama’s America,” an anti-Obama documentary written and directed by conservative activist Dinesh D’Souza.
Interesting that one of the 98 signers of the letter was Frank Gehry. At least until he
resigned. One would have thought
that experience would have raised his sensitivities to anti-Semitism.
Labels: anti-Semitism, Barack Hussein Obama, Iran Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Iran sanctions regime, Iranian nuclear threat, Jewish anti-Semitism, Simon Wiesenthal Center
Obama's @TheIranDeal twitter shill tweets a link to anti-Semitic website
Among anti-Semitic websites, one Jewish one stands out: Mondoweiss. Don't take my word for it. Listen to
MJ Rosenberg writing on the Far Left Tikkun website:
Lately I have been struck by the raw anti-semitism evinced on
anti-Israel websites (most egregious example, Mondoweiss).
http://mondoweiss.net/
There is nothing novel about it. It’s not “the new anti-semitism”
that the Anti-Defamation League likes to talk about. But the old kind,
masquerading as anti-Zionism but manifesting itself as support or, at
least, sympathy for every group or individual hostile to Jews: from Pat
Buchanan to Hizbullah.
On Tuesday, @TheIranDeal, which is the official White House twitter account that shills support for Hussein Obama's sellout to a nuclear Iran, tweeted this:
The tweet is still alive - that's how I was able to embed it.
Pam Geller - who screenshot the tweet in case it disappears - argues that tweeting Mondoweiss is just the latest step in a
White House campaign to make Jew hatred normal.
Joel Pollak, who
knows a thing or two about Jewish anti-Semites,
makes the same argument.
And 78% of American Jews voted for this lowlife....
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Iran Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Iran sanctions regime, Iranian nuclear threat, Jan Schakowsky, Jewish anti-Semitism, Joel Pollak, Mondoweiss, Obama's anti-Semitism, Pamela Geller
Our own worst enemy
The recent uproar over
remarks (later
walked back) by the President of the French international phone conglomerate Orange about how he would shut down operations in Israel if he could, was the result of pressure applied by
Leftist Israeli NGO's financed (via the New Israel Fund) by European governments and American Jewish Federations. Ronn Torossian reports (Hat Tip:
Richard A).
What prompted these statements? Several NGOs that lead the boycott
against Israel in Europe, including the Israeli organization “Who
Profits from the Occupation?” issued a report in France intended to
pressure Orange.
Who Profits accused Partner (the Orange Brand partner in Israel), of aiding war efforts during Operation Protective Edge, participating in the Adopt a Soldier project, and offering discounted service rates to IDF soldiers.
"Who Profits from the Occupation?" is a project launched in 2006 by Coalition of Women for Peace, an organization which has received funding from the New Israel Fund.
In
2013, following the growth and establishment of a research center under
the auspices of "Who Profits", the project registered as an independent
organization, and today they run joint activities as sister organizations. "Who Profits" is one of the leading organizations in the Anti-Israel boycott campaign and manages a website with a database on companies that invest or are
involved in projects located over the Green Line or in Israeli security
companies.The website encourages international companies and foreign countries to divest themselves of such investments.
...
In short, the NIF provided funding to Coalition of Women for Peace
during the launch of the "Who Profits" project, one of the leading
organizations in the boycott campaign against Israel. The damage caused
by the activities of Coalition of Women for Peace continues to have
repercussions to this day.
Shamefully, certain American Jewish extremists including The Jewish Communal Fund, Alisa Doctoroff, President of UJA-Federation,
the Leichtag Foundation and others donate significantly to The New
Israel Fund, thus supporting and encouraging boycotts against Israel.
Shameful is not a strong enough word.
Indeed.
Labels: BDS, boycott divest sanction, Jewish anti-Semitism, Jewish Federations of North America, New Israel Fund, New York Jewish Federation, Orange, self-hating Jews, UJA-Federation
Haaretz joins the 9/11 'truthers'
In an inflammatory cartoon in Thursday's editions, Israel's Hebrew 'Palestinian' daily is
blaming Prime Minister Netanyahu for 9/11.
The cartoon struck many as tone deaf, akin to depicting Netanyahu as Hitler.
Not surprisingly, it inflamed
those who already believe Haaretz is so left wing as to verge into
anti-Israel territory. But it also left even many diehard Bibi haters raising their eyebrows.
Haaretz is standing by the cartoonist, Amos Biderman, publishing another article article on Thursday in which Biderman claims - get this - that he didn't know that Americans were so sensitive about 9/11.
“It was certainly not my intention to insult or upset anyone,”
Biderman told Haaretz on Thursday. “I wasn’t sufficiently aware of the
great sensitivity that 9/11 holds for Americans.”
According to Biderman, his cartoon contained criticism of Netanyahu.
“I was mocking Bibi,” he said. “He’s been acting like a bull in a
china shop with the United States, which is Israel’s most important
strategic asset.”
Is that what it was? I thought cartoons were supposed to be funny. This one obviously is not.
Mike Doran came up with this response:
Hmmm.
Labels: 9/11, Binyamin Netanyahu, Haaretz, Israel's Hebrew Palestinian daily, Jewish anti-Semitism
Thousands expected to protest 'Death of Klinghoffer'
In a bit more than an hour, thousands of people are expected outside New York's Lincoln Center to protest the premiere of '
Death of Klinghoffer' by the Metropolitan Opera.
The Lincoln Square Business Improvement District sent an email last
Friday, alerting area businesses and residents about the protests:
We
have been informed by the New York City Police Department that there
will be a protest on Monday, October 20, 2014, between the hours of
4:00pm and 8:00pm in and around Dante Park (across from Lincoln Center
between 63rd and 64th Street), in connection with The Metropolitan
Opera's Opening Night Performance of The Death of Klinghoffer. It is our
understanding that the NYPD expects 3,000-4,000 people to attend, with
protesters gathering at approximately 2:00pm. The parking lane alongside
Dante Park on Columbus Avenue between 63rd and 64th Street will be
cordoned off with police barricades, which may be moved further west to
close traffic lanes if necessary. It is also our understanding that
there will be a platform set up in the parking lane near West 63rd
Street.
The majority of the demonstrators will be in Dante Park; however, there
will be approximately 40-50 additional demonstrators in front of Lincoln
Center's Josie Robertson Plaza. Expect to see "No Parking" signs
around the perimeter of Dante Park on Monday, October 20 and, depending
on the turnout, there may be temporary lane/crosswalk closures in and
around the Dante Park area. The NYPD will maintain a presence
throughout the event. We will also have our public safety officers
present.
On Monday, the Anti-Defamation League issued a
statement by Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffer, the daughters of Leon Klinghoffer HY"D (May God Avenge his blood). The statement also appears in the Metropolitan Opera's Playbill program that is being distributed at the Opera, a measure of how much impact the protests have had.
Twenty nine years
ago, our 69 year old, wheel chair-bound father, Leon Klinghoffer, was
shot in the head by Palestinian hijackers on the Achille Lauro cruise
ship. The terrorists threw his body, along with his wheelchair,
overboard into the Mediterranean. A few days later, his body washed up
on the Syrian shore.
Tonight, as you watch The Death of Klinghoffer, a baritone will play the role of Leon Klinghoffer, and sing The Aria of the Falling Body
as he artfully falls into the sea. Competing choruses will highlight
Jewish and Palestinian narratives of suffering and oppression,
selectively presenting the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The terrorists, portrayed by four distinguished opera singers, will be
given a back story, an "explanation" for their brutal act of terror and
violence.
We are strong
supporters of the arts, and believe that theater and music can play a
critical role in examining and understanding significant world events. The Death of Klinghoffer
does no such thing. It presents false moral equivalencies without
context, and offers no real insight into the historical reality and the
senseless murder of an American Jew. It rationalizes, romanticizes and
legitimizes the terrorist murder of our father. Our family was not
consulted by the composer and librettist and had no role in the
development of the opera.
Our father was one
of the first American victims of Middle Eastern terrorism. Nearly three
decades later, after PanAm 103, 9/11, and countless other attacks and
threats, Americans live under the deadly threat of terrorism each and
every day.
For our family,
the impact of terrorism is obviously deeply personal. We lost our father
because of the violent political agenda of these terrorists. The trauma
of his murder never goes away. Our father was caring, creative,
thoughtful and smart. As a young man, he invented the rotisserie oven,
the first of its kind. After his stroke, our father continued to use his
one good arm to repair anything that needed fixing. With the help of
our mother, he never allowed his disability to limit his enjoyment of
good times with his family and friends, who meant everything to him. He
loved life and lived it to the fullest. He was an inspiration to us. It
is particularly sad that the life of such a vibrant and gentle man could
end suddenly in such a hate-filled and violent manner.
Our father is also
a universal symbol of the threat terrorism poses to our societies, our
values and our lives. Indeed, we have dedicated our lives since this
tragedy to educating about terrorism, and putting a personal face on the
victims and their families.
Terrorism cannot
be rationalized. It cannot be understood. It can never be tolerated as a
vehicle for political expression or grievance. Unfortunately, The Death of Klinghoffer does all this, and sullies the memory of a fine, principled, sweet man in the process.
In June, following
series of conversations between Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National
Director, representing the wishes of the Klinghoffer family, and Peter
Gelb, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, the Met announced that
it would cancel a global simulcast of the controversial John Adams opera
in response to concerns that the opera’s biased portrayal of events
surrounding the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro could foment
anti-Semitism globally or legitimize terrorism. At that time, Mr.
Foxman said: "Obviously from our point of view and from that of the
Klinghoffer sisters, we would have hoped that the Metropolitan Opera
would have stayed away from mounting such a problematic opera," Mr.
Foxman said. "We certainly did not want to see the Met production
simulcast into theaters around the world. The Met was very open to
hearing our concerns. After listening to our views, they have agreed to
cancel the simulcasts and to take steps to ensure that the Klinghoffer
family’s perspective is clearly heard by opera patrons."
In 1986, the Klinghoffer family established the Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer Memorial Foundation of the Anti-Defamation League, which is dedicated to which is dedicated to developing educational, legislative and legal responses to terrorism.
Even Metropolitan Opera director Peter Gelb understands that
the public is furious over the eight performances that are to begin tonight in Lincoln Center.
In anticipation of the rally, there will be a
“heavy police presence” at Monday night’s opening, the New York Post
reported, citing police sources.
“It’s been a steady diet of e-mails, phone
calls and letters for a couple of months now,” Met director Peter Gelb
told the Sunday Times. “The people who don’t want this opera to be
performed are not silly; they are very angry.”
The Jewish organizations will host a press
conference at 5 p.m. ahead of the protest. Rabbi Avi Weiss and other
rabbinical leaders are set to host a vigil outside Lincoln Center in
memory of Klinghoffer ahead of the protest.
The rally is organized by some 50 Jewish and
Catholic groups, including the Zionist Organization of America, One
Israel Fund, One Family Fund, Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Catholic
League. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani reportedly will be the
keynote speaker at the event.
I hope that Gelb has trouble sleeping at night, and that the Met loses enough money on this fiasco to force it to close. Arrogant _ _ _ _ _ _ _ s.
Labels: Achille Lauro, Anti-Defamation League, Jewish anti-Semitism, Leon Klinghoffer, Metropolitan Opera, New York City
It figures: Klinghoffer creator a (former) Jewish anti-Semite
Alice Goodman - the creator of the terror-glorifying opera 'Death of Klinghoffer' - is
a former Jew turned Anglican Priest (Hat Tip:
Dan F). Going back to the prophet Isaiah, we have been warned that those who would destroy us will spring forth from among us. A quick review of Goodman's recent Twitter entries shows a visceral hatred for Jews, and for Israel and those who support it. Here are some examples.
Not really. In fact, most American Jews support a 'two-state solution.' If the protest were taking place in Israel, Goodman might have a point. Unless, of course, she supports the extirpation of Israel's existence (maybe she does).
It's apparently inconceivable to Ms. Goodman that anyone could feel revulsion at the use of dead Jews as 'art,' and at the glorification of terrorism that her 'opera' aims to accomplish.
It should also be clear to all of you that Ms.Goodman's motivations have nothing to do with art and everything to do with hatred of Jews and Israel. There is indeed no anti-Semite like a Jewish anti-Semite.
For those who can make it this evening to protest in New York:
Labels: Achille Lauro, Jewish anti-Semitism, Leon Klinghoffer, Metropolitan Opera, New York City
This is rich: Hillel, J Street University and Students for 'Justice' in 'Palestine' sponsor an event together
And you thought that Hillel would have nothing to do with Students for 'Justice' in 'Palestine' and other anti-Zionist groups, and that's why '
Open Hillel' was started. And you also thought that 'pro-Israel, pro-peace' J Street
wouldn't partner with groups that promote BDS. Well, you were wrong. And what started on the
east coast has now come to the
west coast.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a club new to
Occidental this year, collaborated with Hillel and J Street last
Wednesday to co-host a candlelight vigil mourning the
lives lost in the most recent Gaza-Israel conflict. Approximately 30
members of the Occidental community gathered in the middle of the Quad
in remembrance of those killed, and also in a stand of solidarity.
The Gaza-Israel war has left many like-minded students
shaken and questioning the cyclical, systematic nature of the violence,
prompting the idea for the on-campus vigil.
“Yes, we need to remember lives of the people that were
lost, but [the vigil] is also to draw in people and give them the sense
that this has got to stop,” Beebe Sanders (senior) said.
Testimonials read aloud at the vigil gave the gathering a
closer view of the horrors that have become Israelis’ and Palestinians’
reality. One such account was from the perspective of a father, who
witnessed the bombing of his house while his children were inside.
“Our main goals were that people walk away with a sense
of togetherness, with a sense that as Americans, as all people, we have
some investment in this conflict,” J Street Co-Chair Ben Poor (senior)
said. “I hope people felt that they had a chance to mourn and to reflect
on the events of this summer as a campus community.”
The collaborative event served as an introduction to SJP,
which was established by Sanders, seniors Janan Burni and Robert
Rodriguez-Donoso and Yasmine Dabbah (sophomore). SJP is a national
organization established in 2001 with more than 80 chapters, the purpose
of which is to advocate for human rights and a peaceful resolution to
the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“We wanted to start SJP because we felt there was a lack
of voice for Palestine on issues such as human rights and advocating for
an end to the occupation,” Sanders said.
You American Jews keep blindly donating money to Federation to support this, okay? But at least
call Hillel to register a protest!?!?!
Labels: American Jewish leadership, BDS, Hillel, J Street, J Street U, Jewish anti-Semitism, Jewish Federations of North America, pro-Israel pro-peace, Students for Justice in Palestine
Ex-Israeli Jewish anti-Semite claims Sotloff worked for the Mossad
Jewish anti-Semite and ex-Israeli
Gilad Atzmon claims Steven Sotloff, who was murdered by ISIS,
worked for the Mossad.
The articles tells a story of a “worldwide network of friends
included over 150 members, speaking 20 different languages, who scanned
every post Steven has made on Facebook or Twitter and removed any
mentions of his Israeli or Jewish connections.” I can only think of one
Jewish organization that could facilitate such an grand scale operation
and it isn't JVP.
We also learned yesterday that Sotloff spent 3 years at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. An institute that is linked to the Mossad according to some media sources.
Israeli press comes short of linking Sotloff to the Mossad but it
produces the necessary evidence that would make such a suggestion into a
valid option.
If God Forbid I was kidnapped by ISIS, I'd bet that 150 of my friends would immediately wipe out this blog and then go through Facebook and Twitter and make sure they can't find anything on me. And I don't work for the Mossad. And you can bet that if Sotloff worked for the Mossad, ISIS would be crowing about it.
Atzmon's writings are those of a paranoid lunatic.
Labels: anti-Israeli Israelis, Gilad Atzmon, ISIS, Jewish anti-Semitism, Mossad
New Israel Fund 'activists': 'The Holocaust is a whore who justifies the occupation'
You can't make this stuff up. The New Israel Fund has reached new heights of anti-Semitism with the dissemination of the video below called 'The Holocaust visits Yad Vashem' (Yad Vashem is Israel's national Holocaust memorial).
Let's go to the videotape (language warning). More after the video.
And the connection to the New Israel Fund? That's
here (link in Hebrew). Here's a partial translation:
But beyond the academic interest in a Naziphile fantasy like this one, it would be worthwhile on this day to take an interest in the small people who stand in the background. These are the transparent activists, the epitome of the 'other,' without whom this sort of snorting production would be impossible. The first, the honored matron Moran Sharir, the producer and photographer, who showed off her dream regarding the return of all the 'uprooted Palestinians' to a convention of the Zochrot organization last year, and whose cinematic creations are shown off with others at the 'social television' site (25,000 from the New Israel Fund in 2012.
She and the additional photographer Guy Boktavia (also from the 'social television' of course) are the bread and butter without which the New Israel Fund's prostitution of the Holocaust would not reach our screens.
Second, but not secondary, is Mr. Itamar Shapiro, who lightly skips between activism in the anti-IDF group 'Breaking the Silence' (about 100,000 dollars from the New Israel Fund in 2012) and the establishment of the anti-IDF group 'Fighters for Peace.' In between, Shapiro found time to try to be a guide at Yad Vashem, where he was surprisingly fired after comparing the Holocaust to the occupation. A lot of investment for a cheap provocation.
And of course it would be impossible without the Professor of Honor, the Great Teacher, the Great Oracle of the psychotic Left, Gidon 'I am a Holocaust survivor so I'm allowed' Spiro, who took the trouble to be interviewed in the video, and to inform those few who made it to 7:05 in the video that "the Holocaust victims in Israel are the manufacturers of the next Holocaust."
After it massively and actively supports the boycott of Israel, prevents the IDF from protecting the State's citizens, destroys Israel's economy in the name of utopias of equality (of blessed memory), the time has come to tell the New Israel Fund and the organizations it has spawned: Have the Jewish people not suffered enough?
With the exception of the Shapiro link (a story I covered on this blog at the time), all the rest of the links are in Hebrew.
But keep this video in mind when you see the New Israel Fund-supported groups marching in the Celebrate Israel Parade on June 1. Disgusting, isn't it?
Labels: Holocaust, Jewish anti-Semitism, New Israel Fund
What a piece of work...
An American Jew who converted to Islam while living in Israel has been convicted in the United States of criminal incitement and
sentenced to 2.5 years in jail for inciting violence against Jews.
Born Joseph Leonard
Cohen, Yousef al-Khattab, 45 from New Jersey, converted from Judaism to
Islam in his late 20s, when he was living in the Middle East. Upon his
return to the US in 2007, he started the Revolution Muslim website.
In a post from 2009,
Khattab posted a photo of the Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn with a
link to map, noting the main temple was always full during prayer time,
the Washington Post reported.
Khattab admitted posting articles encouraging readers to take
unspecified action against Jewish leaders and publishing names and
addresses of Jewish leaders and synagogues.
Posting a video on YouTube in 2009 of violence in the Gaza
Strip, Khattab encouraged Muslims angered by the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict to "deal with them directly at their homes."
...
Renouncing the articles
in court, he asked the judge to hold him responsible only "for what I
say, not how people understood it," the Post reported.
In an interview with NPR, Khattab admitted that his actions were "stupid" and "wrong."
"They interpreted me giving the message of Islam as being a
threat to the Jewish community, which it wasn't," Khattab told NPR, but
could not explain how providing addresses and pictures of Jewish leaders
after an anti-Semitic post could be misinterpreted.
Khattab claimed in court that he was a "clown" and "the Gilbert
Gottfried of the Muslims," saying he did not intend to incite violence,
according to the Post. He also noted he would not make the same posts
today.
Yeah, he's a clown alright. A very dangerous one.
Labels: crime, Jew hatred, Jewish anti-Semitism, Muslim Jew hatred
Journalist found guilty of throwing rocks, interfering with security forces
Journalist Joseph Dana, known in the Twitterverse as @IbnEzra, has been found guilty of
interfering with the security forces in the course of carrying out their duties for throwing rocks during a demonstration at Nebi Salah in October 2010 (link in Hebrew).
On October 24, 2010, there as a demonstration of 'Palestinians,' 'internationals' and Israelis in Nebi Saleh in Samaria. One of the policemen saw Dana and someone named Yuval Oron throwing stones at the security forces. The two were arrested half an hour later for activity designed to prevent the police from fulfilling their legal duties, for participating in an illegal demonstration in a manner that disturbed the peace and instilled fear in the public.
Dana claimed that he had not thrown stones and that he was in the area due to his occupation as a 'journalist.' He claimed that he arrived fifteen minutes before he was arrested from Naalin, where he had reported on his Twitter account. Therefore, he claimed that he could not have been throwing stones half an hour before he was arrested.
Dana tried to get himself released by claiming that he was a journalist.
The judge did not accept his story and believed the police instead. The judge cited a text message from anarchist Jonathan Pollack to Dana that placed both of them in Nebi Salah when the stones were thrown. She also rejected Dana's claim that he was acting as a journalist, citing the fact that there was no article or recording of Dana engaged in journalism that day.
Heh.
Labels: crime, Jewish anti-Semitism, Joseph Dana, moonbats
Tom Friedman's gall has no bounds
Tom Friedman, who has probably done as much or more to harm Israel than any mainstream media reporter, ,has the unmitigated gall to call Israel's ally, Sheldon Adelson,
Iran's best friend.
And now Iran has an ally: Sheldon Adelson — the foolhardy Las Vegas
casino magnate and crude right-wing, pro-Israel extremist. Adelson gave
away some $100 million in the last presidential campaign to fund
Republican candidates, with several priorities in mind: that they
delegitimize the Palestinians and that they avoid any reference to the
West Bank as “occupied territories” and any notion that the U.S. should
pressure Israel to trade land for peace there. Both Newt Gingrich and
Mitt Romney took the money and played by Sheldon’s rules.
In case you missed it, the R.J.C., the Republican Jewish Coalition, held
a retreat last weekend at an Adelson casino in Las Vegas. It was dubbed
“the Sheldon Primary.” Republicans lined up to compete for Adelson’s
blessing and money, or as Politico put it: “Adelson summoned [Jeb] Bush
and Govs. Chris Christie of New Jersey, John Kasich of Ohio and Scott
Walker of Wisconsin to Las Vegas. ... The new big-money political
landscape — in which a handful of donors can dramatically alter a
campaign with just a check or two — explains both the eagerness of busy
governors to make pilgrimages to Las Vegas, and the obsession with
divining Adelson’s 2016 leanings.
Adelson
personifies everything that is poisoning our democracy and Israel’s
today — swaggering oligarchs, using huge sums of money to try to bend
each system to their will.
Christie,
in his speech, referred to the West Bank as “occupied territories” — as
any knowledgeable American leader would. This, Politico said, “set off
murmurs in the crowd.”
Some Republican Jews explained to Christie after
he finished that he had made a terrible faux pas. (He called something
by its true name and in the way the U.S. government always has!) The
West Bank should be called “disputed territories” or “Judea and
Samaria,” the way hard-line Jews prefer. So, Politico reported, Christie
hastily arranged a meeting with Adelson to explain that he misspoke and
that he was a true friend of Israel. “The New Jersey governor
apologized in a private meeting in the casino mogul’s Venetian office
shortly afterward,” Politico reported. It said Adelson “accepted”
Christie’s “explanation” and “quick apology.”
Read that sentence over and contemplate it.
I
don’t know if Israel has a Palestinian partner for a secure withdrawal
from the West Bank, or ever will. But I know this: If Israel wants to
remain a Jewish, democratic state, it should be doing everything it can
to nurture such a partner or acting unilaterally to get out. Because,
I’m certain that when reports about the “Adelson primary” reached the
desk of Supreme Leader Khamenei in Tehran, a big smile crossed his face
and he said to his aides: “May Allah grant Sheldon a long life.
Everything is going according to plan.”
How many things does Tom have wrong here? The 'Palestinians' aren't going to vote Israel out of existence any time soon - even if they are given the 'right' to do so - so long as we don't flood the country with 'Palestinian refugees' as Tom would like us to do.
There aren't 2.7 million 'Palestinians' in Judea and Samaria - there are a bit more than half that number.
Judea and Samaria are not 'occupied.' They are at worst disputed. At best, they out and out belong to Israel because they were part of the original 'Palestine mandate' and were designated for close settlement by Jews as part of that mandate. From 1949-67 they were occupied by Jordan, an occupation that was recognized by precisely two other countries: Britain and Pakistan.
It's not up to the US government to pressure Israel to take risks to Israel's security. Israel has never asked the United States to fight its wars for it, and Israel never will.
There is no 'Palestinian partner for peace' now and it is unlikely that there ever will be one. Acknowledging that reality could be the first step in Tom Friedman's road to recovery from his delusions.
Labels: Chris Christie, demography, Jewish anti-Semitism, New York Times, occupation, Sheldon Adelson, Tom Friedman
