Hillary Clinton gets her news about Jews from radical anti-religious website Failed Messiah
In yet another attempt to discourage critical analysis, the State Department did a dump of Hillary Clinton's email at 6:00 pm on New Year's Eve. Yair Rosenberg posted the email above this morning.
Perhaps as interesting as Yair Rosenberg's headline above is the source for the email:
Failed Messiah. Learning about what religious Jews think from Failed Messiah (read the bio linked above) is about equivalent to learning about what Zionists think by reading
Mondoweiss.
The fact that Hillary Clinton learns about Jews from Failed Messiah is something that speaks volumes to her inability to see non-Leftist viewpoints (by the way, based on another Twitter experience I had last night, I can tell you that Hillary has the anti-Semitic vote locked up). That's a sore point that American Jewish voters should take to heart.
Labels: Failed Messiah, Hillary Clinton, Mondoweiss, US presidential campaign 2016, US State Department
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
Video: Bret Stepens rips Peter Beinart a new cavity
This is from a debate that took place at Columbia University on March 31 between Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal (and formerly of JPost) and uber-Leftist Peter Beinart. Beniart makes accusations against Stephens that aren't based in reality and Stephens destroys him. The accusations relate to Iran's nuclear program.
Let's go to the videotape.
You can watch the full debate (it's about an hour and a half long)
here.
Labels: Bret Stephens, Iranian nuclear threat, Mondoweiss, Peter Beinart
There is no anti-Semite like a Jewish anti-Semite
More
here.
Labels: Jewish anti-Semitism, Mondoweiss, self-hating Jews
Even the Atlantic says Mondoweiss is anti-Semitic
The Atlantic has condemned the anti-Semitic Mondoweiss blog as... well... anti-Semitic. But what's more interesting is that in the process they go after
Peter Beinart's Open Zion blog, which is published by Newsweek on the Daily Beast website.
Yesterday, Peter Beinart's pluralistic blog, Open Zion, published a post by Alex Kane, a staff writer for a website called Mondoweiss.It's impossible to peer into the hearts and minds of the people who edit the site, but Mondoweiss often gives the appearance of an anti-Semitic enterprise. Site founder and editor Phil Weiss, a former writer for the American Conservative when Pat Buchanan was editor, wrote this past May, "I can justly be accused of being a conspiracy theorist because I believe in the Israel lobby theory ... certainly my theory has an explanation of the rise and influence of the neocons. They don't have a class interest but an ideological-religious one."
An April 2011 article on the site strongly implied that Mossad agents were involved in the murder of Italian activist Vittorio Arrigonni, an assertion for which there's no factual evidence. In 2011, contributor Max Ajl argued against "left-wing" condemnation of the Itamar massacre, in which attackers killed five members of a settler family, including a three-month old baby. In 2009, Jack Ross, who has contributed to the white nationalist, Holocaust-denying journal The Barnes Review, argued on Mondoweiss that "it was not the appeasement, but the internationalist hubris and bellicosity of Chamberlain which started World War II." In other words, lay off the Nazis.
"Iran has never officially denied the Holocaust," Mondowess claimed in April of this year. This statement might be technically true, but it is functionally false. It also reflects a troublingly dismissive attitude towards Holocaust denial on the part of high-ranking Iranian officials.
One winner of Mondoweiss' recent "New Yorker parody contest" was a bizarre entry in which former Israeli Prime Minister has a teary reunion with the ghost of his long-lost father: Adolf Hitler.
...
Is Alex Kane, the Mondoweiss writer whose post was featured on Newsweek's Open Zion, responsible for all this? Of course not. But he is a Mondoweiss staff reporter. Publicly, he does not challenge the site's lunacy. And Open Zion, in carrying a byline from Mondoweiss, incorporates not just Kane but the Mondoweiss reputation and all of its sordid baggage into its larger conversation.
Kane and Mondoweiss are marginal. Open Zion, Peter Beinart, and Newsweek are not, and neither is their subject matter. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a century-long tangle of ethnic, religious, political, and historic sensitivities, and everything from superpower politics to the 25th chapter of the Book of Genesis has the potential to scramble or intensify it. It's easy to lose faith in the possibility of a rational, humanizing discourse when so many communal and even theological imperatives have been clashing for so long, and when something like the re-opening of a ten foot-wide passageway can spark riots that kill dozens of people. But cynicism is hardly an excuse for letting the discourse backslide or corrode.
Publishing anti-Semites, or people who work for websites that traffic in anti-Semitic innuendo or conspiracy theories, empowers ideas aimed at obscuring the humanity of one side of an already-violent conflict.
We call them Jewish anti-Semites. There are no worse anti-Semites around. You can tell a lot about a person by the company he keeps. Peter Beinart keeps company with the people who write Mondoweiss. Decide for yourselves what that means.
Labels: Jewish anti-Semitism, Mondoweiss, Peter Beinart
Al-AP whines about 'Palestinians' having their laptops searched
Al-AP must read Mondoweiss. Nothing else could explain the timing of this feature on Israel forcing 'Arab visitors' to
open their email on their laptop computers.
The agent, suspecting Tamari was involved in pro-Palestinian activism, wanted to inspect her private email account for incriminating evidence. The 42-year-old American of Palestinian descent refused and was swiftly expelled from the country.
Tamari's experience is not unique. In a cyber-age twist on Israel's vaunted history of airport security, the country has begun to force incoming travelers deemed suspicious to open personal email accounts for inspection, visitors say.
Targeting mainly Muslims or Arabs, the practice appears to be aimed at rooting out visitors who have histories of pro-Palestinian activism, and in recent weeks, has led to the expulsion of at least three American women.
It remains unclear how widespread the practice is.
However, asked about Tamari's claims, the Shin Bet security agency confirmed she had been interrogated and said its agents acted in accordance with the law.
...
The security procedures appear to be getting stricter: Recent searches of journalists at official events have been invasive enough to create a series of mini-uproars and walkouts — a situation that has dovetailed with increasing concerns that the government is trying to stifle dissent.
It's got nothing to do with stifling dissent and everything to do with the country's security. How many other countries in the world need to be seriously concerned that people are arriving from abroad to attempt to undermine the country's existence?
Butto said she has led three tour groups to the region over the past year, and in each case, at least one member of the group was asked to open their email. She said Muslims, Arabs, and Indians were typically targeted, and in most cases, were denied entry.
Butto said agents typically want to see people's itineraries, articles they have written or Facebook status updates.
Indians? There's a non-Jewish Indian (from India - now lives in Europe) who reads this blog, and with whom I met while he was here, and he didn't say anything like this.
But in any event, when you travel to the US, they want all your details before you ever get on the plane, and I am sure that if they had serious concerns about someone that could be resolved by checking their Facebook status, they do it while you're flying across the Atlantic. Israel doesn't have the power to obtain information in advance about people arriving here like the US does, and yet our concerns about terrorism are at least as serious.
The article goes on to mention the story that appeared on Mondoweiss earlier this week, which I blogged
here. But it innocuously refers to the organizations with which the women are involved as 'Palestinian activist groups' and makes it sound like their involvement was limited to when they were in college. If you read my post (linked in this paragraph), you will get a more complete picture.
Please note the following:
American Embassy spokesman Kurt Hoyer said the embassy does not comment on specific cases. But he said the embassy is "usually" contacted whenever an American citizen is not allowed to enter Israel, or any other country.
The embassy typically remains in contact with local authorities throughout the process until a decision on entry is made.
He said the U.S. stresses to all governments "to treat American passport holders as Americans, regardless of their ethnic origin ... At the same time, any sovereign nation has the right to decide who to let in, and not to let in."
...
Emanuel Gross, a law professor at Haifa University, said such a practice would seem to be illegal in Israel.
"In Israel, you need a search warrant to go into somebody's computer," he said. "I'm skeptical that the security guards asked a judge first for a warrant and I'm skeptical that a judge would give it."
Hoyer has it right. As to Gross' comments, I'm not sure how someone who is not a citizen of a country would get the rights of a citizen - at least unless and until they are allowed into the country. The US, for example, doesn't exactly give civil rights to the people who are imprisoned at Guantanamo (which is physically in Cuba, but which is US sovereign territory).
Labels: Ben Gurion Airport, International Solidarity Movement, Mondoweiss, Students for Justice in Palestine
Why might Israel deport two young American women who landed at Ben Gurion Airport? (UPDATED with screen shot of Linked-In page)
The virulently anti-Israel Mondoweiss blog publishes an account from two young Arab women who were denied entry into Israel. There's a lot missing.
The account was written by Najwa Doughman and Sasha Al-Sarabi, two University of Virginia graduates from the New York City area, who are American citizens of Arab (I assume 'Palestinian,' although they don't say that) extraction.
The account is about as
unbiased as they get.
“Do you feel more Arab or more American?” she asked. I had answered the ten previous questions very calmly, but with this question I looked back at the security official confused and irritated. She couldn’t have been much older than me—her business attire and stern facial expressions did not mask her youth.
“I don’t know, I feel both. Why? Does this affect my ability to get in?”
She ignored my question. “Surely you must feel a little more Arab, you’ve lived in many Middle Eastern countries.”
I did not see the correlation. I have never felt the need to choose. “Yes I have but I also lived in the US for the past seven years, and was born there, so I feel both.” My response did nothing to convince her.
“Hm. Will you go to Al-Aqsa?”
“Yeah, maybe.”
“Will you go to Jewish sites as well?”
“Yes, why not? We want to see everything.”
“But you have been here two times already. Why are you coming now for the third time? You can go to Venezuela, to Mexico, to Canada. It is much closer to New York, and much less expensive!”
I realized the conversation was going nowhere. “Right, but I wanted to come back here again. Don’t you have tourists who come back more than once?”
“I’m asking the questions here,” she replied disgruntled.
“Okay, we are going to do something very interesting now!” Her face transformed from a harsh stare to a slight smirk. She proceeded to type “www.gmail.com” on her computer and then turned the keyboard toward me. “Log in,” she demanded.
“What? Really?” I was shocked.
“Log in.”
I typed in my username and password in complete disbelief. She began her invasive search: “Israel,” “Palestine,” “West Bank,” “International Solidarity Movement.”
...
She sifted through my inbox, reading every single email with those keywords. She read sentences out loud to her colleague, sarcastically reenacting and mocking old Google Chat conversations between Sasha and me about our future trip to Jerusalem. I squirmed in my seat.
The Israeli authorities have a notorious reputation for denying entry to Palestinians of all citizenships, and I had received all sorts of advice, solicited and unsolicited, on how to cope with the problem. The security officer opened an email from a friend living in Jerusalem who had advised me to remove myself from internet searches. “They are heavy on googling names at the airport recently,” he had written. “See if you can remove yourselves, not crucial but helpful.”
The security guard found this especially hilarious. With a laugh, she called her blonde colleague over and reread the sentence mockingly. “You can tell your friend, not only do we google you, we read your emails, too!”
Read the whole thing. Read the comments too - they're downright hostile to Israel. Look at the pictures of Najwa and Sasha. They look like they'd be stoned in Tehran or Gaza City. Perhaps they could take some
fashion lessons from Catherine Ashton.
So why did Israel deny these two young New York professionals entry into the country? Here's what they're not telling you:
First, they don't discuss what those gmail searches produced but I'd bet there were a whole bunch of hits from the "International Solidarity Movement" search. I don't have to tell you all
who the ISM is.
Second, a look at
Najwa and
Sasha's linked-in pages produces some interesting information (Thanks to
Stephen L for the inspiration). Najwa worked for UNRWA in Tripoli, Lebanon [
corrected, CiJ] from January 2010 through January 2011. I assume that was with a different passport than the one used in her two previous trips to Israel. You can't enter Lebanon with an Israeli stamp in your passport. At the University of Virginia, Najwa was also the
President of '
Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine' (sometimes known as 'Students for Justice in Palestine').
'Students for Justice in Palestine' has
an 'impressive' record.
The SJP fomented new radicalism about the Palestinian-Israel conflict and gave a new energy and visibility to Palestinian propaganda. Even the progressive Forward quoted activists who claimed that the SJP moved “far beyond legitimate criticism of the Israeli government and its policies into complete delegitimization of the Jewish state.”[3]
The SJP equates Israel’s treatment of Palestinians with apartheid South Africa and calls for divestment from Israel and an end to the ‘occupation.’ It organizes demonstrations and political theater to dramatize the plight of the Palestinians whom it sees only as innocent victims. SJP chapters have set up mock checkpoints, mock “concentration camps” with barbed wire to demonstrate how Palestinians suffer, mock “apartheid walls” and even fake re-enactments of IDF soldiers beating up pregnant Palestinian women.[4] Some chapters even organize Deir Yassin remembrance day to mark what Palestinians have claimed was a massacre of Palestinians in 1948. In 2002, the Berkeley SJP staged this event on Holocaust Remembrance Day and directly competed with the commemoration Jewish students had organized.[5]
SJP also agitates to prevent pro-Israel speakers from visiting their campuses. The De Paul University SJP captured media attention in April 2005 because it protested against a pro-Israel professor who had argued with SJP members at their campus table. The University deferred to SJP and fired the professor, Thomas Klocek. He has brought a legal suit against the school.[6]
SJP chapters are only loosely affiliated with one another, and some are more radical than others, but as a whole, the group will not even condemn terrorism.
Obviously, there's enough there to make Najwa an undesirable from Israel's perspective.
There's not quite as much out there on
Sasha, but she does list 'Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine' among her UVa activities, and the fact that she was traveling with Najwa undoubtedly opened some eyes.
I want to go back to the very biased account for a minute. Here's how they describe their call from the American embassy.
At 6:15, a guard came and told us that the US embassy was phoning for us. My parents had called them from Virginia after our two-minute conversation to inform them of what was happening. Sasha answered the phone. “Oh, thank God, we’ve been trying to get in touch with you! This is Sasha. We’ve been through a lot the past few hours.”
“As I told your friend’s parents yesterday, there is really nothing we can do. I’m just glad that you’re going to be able to get on the next flight.” the woman said dispassionately.
“This is ridiculous. They went through my friend’s email. Is that legal?”
“Well, they can do whatever they want. There is nothing we can do. They are their own country, and they make their own rules.”
“If only you could see the conditions we are in. I just wish you could come and smell the room.”
“Oh, I’m really sorry, but at least you’ll be getting on the next flight,” her voice was annoyingly monotonous.
That's the bottom line. Every country - including Israel - has the right to control who enters. If you want to come here, you have to play by our rules. And if the authorities suspect you're here to help a radical terror group, you won't be allowed in. Just like the US has its 'no fly' lists and insists on having name, rank and serial number on every arrival in advance, Israel will bar anyone it believes is affiliated or assisting a 'Palestinian' or Islamist terror group. And Lebanon, Syria and a whole bunch of other Arab countries will bar anyone with an Israeli stamp on their passport. Deal with it and stop whining.
UPDATE 11:56 PMNajwa has removed her
Linked-In profile, which I linked above.
You can find the Google cache version
here (and yes, Najwa, there's a screen cap of it available if you'd like me to post it). Thanks to
David Appletree via
Twitter.
UPDATE TUESDAY 10:35 AMI understand that the Google cache version of Najwa Doughman's Linked-In profile has been removed. I am posting the screen cap as a ScribD embed below (Hat Tip:
David A).
Najwa Doughman Linked-In Screen CapLabels: Ben Gurion Airport, International Solidarity Movement, Mondoweiss, Students for Justice in Palestine
Video: Swedish Algerian reporter blames Norway attack on Mossad
Swedish - Algerian journalist Yahya Abu Zakariya tells Iranian television that the Mossad is responsible for the Iranian attacks.
Let's go to the videotape.
Sounds just like Moondoweiss, doesn't he?
Labels: Anders Behring Brievik, Mondoweiss, Mossad, Oslo bombing, Utoya massacre
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
NIF opposes BDS but only because it doesn't work
Contrary to the picture at left, the New Israel Fund admits in a fascinating note to the anti-Israel Mondoweiss blog that
BDS doesn't work.
We believe that global BDS is a counter-productive and inflammatory strategy, for the reasons Professor Chazan discussed exhaustively in Australia and elsewhere. We think that both the proponents and antagonists of the global BDS movement exaggerate its impact to elevate their own ideologies and the threats of their opponents; as a study by The Forward demonstrated, global BDS has created a lot of heat but very little light. That said, Professor Chazan acknowledged in Australia that it is generally a legitimate, non-violent tool of democratic action. It is not one that we support or fund. We are not “aggressively campaigning” against the global BDS movement – it is a distraction from our job of serious social change in Israel. Every organization working in Israel sooner or later faces the BDS question, and we’ve answered that question to our own, if not to everyone’s, satisfaction. We surely are not defending the American arms industries! We are going about our business, painfully difficult and challenging now, of strengthening Israeli democracy and supporting hundreds of organizations and thousands of activists working in dozens of sectors for equality and justice.
This is like the 'Palestinian Authority' opposing terror attacks because they are not helpful to the cause. The terrorists see nothing morally wrong with terrorism. And the anti-Israel Israeli Jews at the New Israel Fund see nothing morally wrong with BDS.
With 'friends' like this, who needs enemies?
Labels: BDS, Mondoweiss, New Israel Fund
False Mondoweiss fund raiser written by 9/11 truther and Haider admirer
I usually ignore Mondoweiss, a 'progressive' blog written by two very sick self-proclaimed Jews. Unfortunately, a lot of other people don't ignore it. While their Technorati ratings are far lower than mine, Alexa shows that a lot more people read that blog than read this one.
But
this is too much to ignore regardless of whether you normally read the blog.
As reported here yesterday, the blog Mondoweiss first published, then rescinded without explanation, a fundraising plea falsely claiming the blog needed help because it was "under Israeli attack". When a regular reader who had seen the original version posted a sympathetic comment asking what form the Israeli attack on Mondoweiss had taken, an editor of the blog was forced to admit that the charge had been false, but failed to explain how it came to be published. The headline was changed to something innocuous and the fraud was forgotten. (Read here.)
Here's a screen capture of the page in question (in its original form).
Continue reading
here.
Labels: blogosphere, Mondoweiss, progressives
