Huma: 'Jews in America greatly aided by the American memory of the Holocaust, the use of Israel as an American 'strategic ally' in the Middle East'
A radical Muslim journal for which Huma Abedin - likely to be chief of staff in a Clinton White House - served as assistant editor, published an article during her tenure containing anti-Semitic overtones directed at American Jews.
Abedin, who is vice-chair of Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, spent 12 years as an assistant editor for Journal of Minority Muslim Affairs.
Her mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, is the journal's editor-in-chief and has been accused of espousing the views of the Muslim Brotherhood through the publication.
Huma Abedin's brother, Hassan, is an associate editor and her sister, Heba, is an assistant editor.
Huma Abedin was listed on the journal's masthead for more than a decade after she joined Clinton's team in 1996, rising from White House intern to one of the presidential nominee's closest confidantes.
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One article, published during Huma Abedin's tenure, claimed that many Americans have a 'distorted and negative view' of Islam, Muslims and Arabs - ranging from perceptions of 'poverty, filth, the desert' to ideas that 'their 'sport' (other than sex, of course) is to destabilize Western economies and ruin the world in order to master it'.
The piece from 1999 also alleges that there are deep ties between the upper echelons of U.S. politics and pro-Israeli, Jewish-Americans, suggesting that Jewish people have been able to 'work the system' and are 'greatly aided by the American memory of the Holocaust' and Israel serving as America's ally in the Middle East.
The article was written by Michael W. Suleiman, a professor of Arab studies at Kansas State University who died of cancer in 2010.
'Within the US, pro-Israeli support has been strong among Jewish Americans, whereas Muslim and Arab Americans (another ethnic community) have sympathized with the Palestinians,' the article reads.
'However, Jewish Americans have had a distinct advantage over Muslims and Arabs in the US in that they are better organized, more committed, more united, and generally far better adept at working the American political system of presidential democracy.
'In this they have been greatly aided by the American memory of the Holocaust, the use of Israel as an American 'strategic ally' in the Middle East, as well as by the active missionary zeal and political support of Christian Zionists.'
The article goes on to say that while other minority groups in the U.S. have made great progress in equality, 'it seems that the only people that continue to be presented negatively and maligned with impunity are the Muslims/Arabs'.
But American Jews will vote overwhelmingly for Clinton anyway, because Trump is anti-abortionanti-immigrationa Republican.
The most anti-Semitic college campus in the United States is...
The most anti-Semitic college campus in the United States is the home of Edward Said and Joseph Massad and Rashid Khalidi and the center for 'Palestinian studies.' Yes, you guessed it, it's Bir Zeit on the Hudson.
According to the [David Horowitz Freedom] Center, Columbia University is listed first because
it is home to the “most well-known antisemitic professors in the
nation such as Rashid Khalidi and Joseph Massad, who has been accused
of harassing Jewish students on multiple occasions. In addition, it is
home to a highly active SJP chapter that has recently brought BDS
founder Omar Barghouti and disgraced antisemitic professor Steven
Salaita to campus.”
The Center also cited a number of offending events held at Columbia
University in 2014, such as Israeli Apartheid Week and a protest with
signs that read “Call to Action: Stand with Gaza.”
Cornell University came in second place followed by George Mason
University, Loyola University Chicago, Portland State University, San
Diego State University and San Francisco State University. Rounding off
the list was Temple University, University of California Los Angeles and
Vassar College.
#ChapelHillShooting victim: Anti-Semite and pro-terrorist
If you read the comments this morning, you would have seen that someone has taken me to task for having the gall to tell people not to cry too much over Kayla Mueller. I'm sure there will be people who will criticize this post as well.
Deah Barakat was one of three Muslims who was killed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on Wednesday morning in what may have been an argument over a parking space and not a hate crime as has been alleged. It turns out that Mr. Barakat was a profuse user of Twitter, tweeting more than 8,000 times. Here are some samples:
RT @FISDJ: Zionism is to Judaism what Terrorism is to Islam
— Deah Barakat (@arabprodigy30) March 5, 2013
North Miami Beach synagogue vandalized by Hamas supporters
Hamas and its supporters haven't just taken their battle against Israel and the Jews to Europe. They've also taken it to the United States. Here's video from a synagogue that was vandalized in North Miami Beach, Florida.
Surprise: Pro-Hamas rally in Montreal 'turns violent'
In Montreal last Saturday (July 19), a woman stood up with an Israeli flag in the middle of a pro-Hamas terrorism rally. Within a short time, pro-Hamas thugs assaulted the woman, tore away her flag and dragged her on the ground.
B'nai Brith Canada has learned from Canadian Jewish tourists aboard a Norwegian Jade cruise ship that Israeli tourists have been denied the right to disembark when the ship dropped anchor at the Port of Tunis, Tunisia. As passengers began preparations to visit the country, Israelis on board were quietly told that they were not welcomed by the Tunisian Government and would have to remain onboard.
According to some Jewish passengers no prior notice was issued, either in writing or by public announcement. The cruise line also failed to advise passengers in advance that Israeli tourists would be confined to the ship when arriving at the Tunisian port. Other Jews aboard were unaware that their coreligionists were being detained and were outraged when news of the incident spread.
According to B'nai Brith Canada's CEO, Frank Dimant, "The cruise line has a responsibility to it's passengers to advise them of this discriminatory policy in advance. Better still the cruise line should avoid ports that have such policies. "
Aren't you glad that there was an Arab spring so that all the Muslim countries get self-determination?
You might recall the story of Eilat-based Yitzhak Rabin Ramsy, and his quest for Israeli citizenship. Rabin and his mother have finally gotten their wish. Rabin and his mother got Israeli citizenship on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, after years of struggling with the Ministry, that wish
was finally granted by Interior Minister Gidon Sa'ar. Sa'ar traveled to
Eilat to present Rabin with his Israeli identity card - and citizenship -
in a special ceremony.
"I went to the Interior Ministry, the military and the media,"
Rabin's attorney, Naomi Gonen, told the press after the event. "I was
sure it would be easier, but then I found out that things work very
slowly to move through the system. It took a few months, but the main
thing is that in the end we succeeded - mainly thanks to the media, who
supported the cause."
"The struggle of Yitzhak Rabin ends now that he has successfully
obtained an identity card, and the gates of the country are open for
him," the attorney continued. "Were it not for the positive response of
the media in this fight to get him his citizenship, we would never have
succeeded."
London Holocaust Day speaker admires Hitler, hates Jews
I'd like you all to meet Hassan Farooq. Farooq was a Holocaust Day speaker in London in 2013.
Let's go to the videotape.
But a British organization called Stand for Peace has done an investigation into Mr. Farouq and has found some very disturbing things.
Hassan Farooq is a a “senior member” of the Newham Dawah Team, an East
London-based organisation which attempts to spread the message of
Islam. Newham Dawah Team is part of the Islamic Education and Research
Academy (iERA) Network, and its officials regularly liaise with iERA officials such as Abdurraheem Green. The iERA is an extremist Salafi group, some of whose officials have been banned from the UK. Abdurraheem Green talks of a Jewish “stench” and advocates the killing of homosexuals.
Here are some choice tweets from Mr. Farooq's Twitter account.
I keep meaning to post this. Earlier this week, there was an interview in the New Yorker in which President Obama claimed that Islamic anti-Semitism is a product of 'recent decades' (i.e. if only we got rid of Israel, the Muslims would love the Jews). That statement is factually incorrect.
“Obama reveals that he has no idea, or doesn’t want to give the
impression that he has any idea, about the reality of Islamic
anti-Semitism,” said Robert Spencer, the author of many books on Islamic
ideas and director of Jihad Watch.
“Anti-Semitism is hard-wired into Islam,” from its origins before 700, said Andrew Bostom, author of three books
about Islam, including “The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism,” which
lists centuries of anti-Semitic hatred, murders, pogroms and
apartheid-like discrimination.
Intellectuals, politicians and diplomats are loath to admit the
centrality of anti-Semitism in Islamic beliefs, because it fuels
conflict with Israel and the West and it can’t be fixed by Westerners,
Bostom said. ”You’re dealing with an intractable situation, and people
hate intractable situations,” he said, adding “diplomats are the worst.”
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Obama’s “course of decades” comment “ignores the numerous
anti-Semitic teachings of the Quran and other Islamic texts — most
notably the Quran’s designation of the Jews as the worst enemies of the
believers,” Spencer said.
For example, Spencer cited the fifth chapter of
the Quran, which declares that “If [Jews] believed in Allah and the
Prophet and that which is revealed unto him, they would not choose them
for their friends. But many of them are of evil conduct. Thou wilt find
the most vehement of mankind in hostility to those who believe (to be)
the Jews and the idolaters.”
The Jew-hatred in the Quran is critical, said Bostom, because orthodox
Muslims believe the Quran is a word-for-word copy of a divine book
resting on a table in “jannah,” or the Islamic version of heaven. Most
Christians believe most of their Bible is open for interpretation, but
for Muslims, the Quran is “permanent and perfect. … It applies to all
time, it is eternal, it is a pure, divine, eternal form of reality,”
Bostom told The Daily Caller.
And why is the President so anxious to deny reality and claim that Islamic anti-Semitism is all Israel's fault? Well, aside from the usual 'blame Israel' meme, there's something more at work here.
Obama’s attempt to ignore Islam’s anti-Semitism reflect a broader effort
by liberals to excuse Muslims for their beliefs, said Bostom. By
exculpating Islam, liberals can blame Europeans, imperialism and Israel
for the Arabs’ wars and various problems, and allow themselves to play
the role of modern peacekeeper, he said.
This is the amazing story of a Jordanian baby named Yitzchak Rabin (who was so named two months after the original Rabin was assassinated) and his struggle to stay in Israel with his mother.
Protecting Yitzhak has been her life’s mission ever since he was
born, in January 1996, near the city of Irbid in northern Jordan—just
two months after the assassination of the original Yitzhak Rabin at the
hands of an extremist Israeli Jew opposed to the prime minister’s peace
overtures to the Palestinians. Miriam decided to name her son after the
Israeli leader in honor of the historic Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty
signed in 1994 by Rabin and Jordan’s King Hussein.
The problems started almost immediately. The media in both Jordan and around the world got windof the plan,
and the Jordanian Interior Ministry wouldn’t approve the name. Only the
personal intervention of King Hussein, Miriam says, allowed the couple
to prevail. “The king said, ‘Let them name the baby whatever they
want.’”
Local opposition to the move didn’t subside, however, especially after
King Hussein himself fell ill (he would die, in 1999, from complications
arising from cancer). The family was harried by Palestinians inside
Jordan who were strongly opposed to any reconciliation with Israel.
(Yitzhak’s parents are Bedouin Jordanians, also referred to as native
“East Bankers,” as opposed to Jordanians of Palestinian origin who came
to the Hashemite Kingdom as refugees in 1948 and 1967.) Miriam and her
infant son were forced to move from place to place like fugitives, even
spending nights in bus depots and a safehouse with an uncle in Amman.
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The former first lady of Israel arranged for the family to emigrate,
and assisted them in their early years in Israel with work and
navigating bureaucratic hurdles. But she passed away in 2000, after
which the family fell on harder times.
Yitzhak, entering first grade in central Israel, was picked on by
kids in his class—“Arab-Israeli children, whose parents put thoughts in
their heads,” Miriam recalled. There were issues, too, between Miriam
and her Palestinian co-workers, who knew the family’s history. But the
most tragic situation befell Miriam’s brother back in Jordan, who,
according to Miriam, was murdered by a group of thugs as revenge for his
nephew’s name. Miriam took Yitzhak to Jordan with the intention of
attending her brother’s funeral, but, in her telling, a melee ensued at
the border crossing, where a small group of protesters awaited them. She
put Yitzhak, still a toddler, back on the bus to Israel, bruised and
bleeding. It was the last time he would set foot on the soil of his
native country.
Seeking a quieter existence away from the major Arab-Israeli
population centers of northern and central Israel, the family moved down
to Eilat, and have called the resort city on the Red Sea home for the
past 11 years. Given everything that has transpired, it’s no surprise
that Yitzhak has grown up wholly Israeli, surrounding himself with
Jewish friends, speaking Hebrew, and adopting Judaism as his own (he is
set to officially convert in the coming weeks).
The ITF’s announcement is a welcome and courageous one for three
reasons. Firstly, by correctly depicting the Tunisian decision as based
upon “prejudice,” it rejects wholesale all the justifications and
rationalizations for the boycott of Israel and Israelis advanced by the
Arab League Central Boycott Office and its contemporary echo, the
anti-Semitic “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” (BDS) movement, which
portrays the boycott of Israel as the twenty-first century incarnation
of the movement to boycott apartheid South Africa.
Secondly, the announcement shifts the costs of a boycott away from
the Israelis onto the boycotting countries themselves. Those countries
that continue insisting on a boycott of Israeli athletes now have a
choice: either drop this primitive bigotry, or accept that through your
actions, it is your own professional sports representatives that will be
punished.
Lastly, the ITF decision should properly be read as establishing a
precedent that can equally apply in other sports. At an international
swimming competition in Dubai last month, the Israeli team was
grudgingly allowed to participate, but scoreboards at the event, as well
as television broadcasts, were banned from mentioning the word
“Israel.” Gratifyingly, the success of the Israeli swimmers at the tournament meant that the policy of pretending that the team was not present became untenable.
Nonetheless, there should be consequences to these actions. As well
as ejecting boycotting countries from competitions, international
sporting authorities should also ban countries that still advocate the
boycott of Israel – like Qatar, which will host the 2022 soccer World
Cup – from hosting such prestigious events. Thanks to the ITF, that
outcome is now one step closer.
Well, yeah. But we're still a long way from - for example - the Olympics banning countries who refuse to allow their athletes to compete with Israelis.
The governing body of men's tennis, ATP,
cleared the player of wrongdoing but the International Tennis Federation
(ITF) decided to impose the ban.
"The ITF Board of Directors
found that the Tunisian Tennis Federation was in breach of the ITF
Constitution by interfering with international sporting practice and
ordering Tunisian player Malek Jaziri not to compete against Israeli
player Amir Weintraub at the 2013 Tashkent Challenger in October," the
ITF said in a statement on Saturday.
"The Board was not satisfied
with the case put forward by the Tunisian Tennis Federation and voted
to suspend Tunisia from the 2014 Davis Cup competition."
ITF
President Francesco Ricci Bitti added: "There is no room for prejudice
of any kind in sport or in society. The ITF Board decided to send a
strong message to the Tunisian Tennis Federation that this kind of
action will not be tolerated by any of our members."
I'm waiting to hear what they did to Jaziri's brother. But it's good to hear that someone is taking this seriously.
At a 'cultural event' in London, we see what may be the ultimate lie perpetrated by Muslims: They're now claiming to be victims of the Nazis.
There can be no ambiguity in what the artist is claiming here: Jews,
gays, and ... Muslims (dressed in concentration camp outfits) were equal
victims of the Nazi holocaust. The myth of Muslim victimhood and
'Islamaphobia' is one that is now constantly pushed not just by the
Muslim Brotherhood, but even more so by their useful idiot leftist
allies, like the 'guerilla artist' here. To cast Muslims as equal
victims when they were actually
among the most enthusiastic participants in the Nazi persecution of Jews
takes the
myth of Muslim victimhood to a whole new level; and as with
most Muslim propaganda it is a perfect inversion of reality.
Hitler was actually inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood's antisemitism and the Palestinian leader Haj Amin al Husseini
was a key ally of Hitler who helped set up Hitler's Muslim SS division,
who were active in murdering Jews in Eastern Europe. Hitler promised
al Husseini that he would be allowed to carry out the murder of every
Jew in Palestine once the Nazis advanced there, and al Husseini had
drawn up detailed plans of the execution programme. And, of course,
Arab countries such as Iraq were formally allies of Nazi Germany.
Anyway, just to makes sure that nobody can be in any doubt where the
'guerilla artist' Ego Leonard's true sympathies lie he was also
exhibiting a print showing that the Arabs - with the ubiquitous large
key - have been the true owners of the land of Palestine 'since the time
of Jesus' (a good quality image of this print can be seen on the
artist's website here).
Much more about the real relationship between Muslims and Nazis here (including video) and here.
Why did the Muslim worshippers chant slogans against the US, Britain
and France? Because they believe that these countries are the enemies of
Islam and were involved in the "conspiracy" to remove the Muslim
Brotherhood from power in Egypt.
But of course such demonstrations cannot occur without also shouting threats and slogans against Jews.
Why Jews? Because the declared goal of these extremists is to destroy Israel and establish an Islamic Caliphate.
It is frightening to see thousands of Muslims chanting, "Khaybar, Khaybar Jews -- the army of Mohamed will return!"
They were referring of course to the Battle of Khaybar, fought in the
year 629, between Muslims and Jews living in the oasis of Khaybar in
the Arabian Peninsula.
The Jews there were attacked after being accused by the Muslims of
inciting hostilities among Arab tribes. The Jews finally surrendered and
were permitted to live in Khaybar on condition that they gave one-half
of their produce to Muslims.
The demonstrators at the Aqsa Mosque are hoping that the Muslims will
again attack the Jews, this time in Israel, and force them to succumb,
and either to leave or agree to live as a humiliated minority under the
rule of an Islamic Caliph.
But Abu Toameh was not the only one who saw Friday's demonstrations. So did 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud AbbasAbu Mazen.
The anti-Jewish demonstration in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque is a sign
of the growing power of Muslim extremists in the city and the West
Bank.
This is a real and imminent threat not only to Israel and its Western
allies, but also to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and
his loyalists in the West Bank.
This threat also explains why the Palestinian Authority rushed to
condemn the extremists for using the Aqsa Mosque as a platform for
"advancing outside agendas" -- namely that of the Muslim Brotherhood and
other radical Islamic groups.
The thousands of demonstrators did not forget to condemn the
Palestinian Authority for "selling out to Jews" and accepting a
two-state solution instead of seeking Israel's destruction.
Abu Mazen hears the demonstrators. John Kerry does not. Until Kerry opens his eyes and ears to see and hear what Abu Mazen is hearing, he will not understand why this is not the time or the circumstances in which 'lasting peace' can come to the Middle East. But opening his eyes and ears would mean that Kerry would have to acknowledge that he has no chance for success in his quest for peace. And Kerry will never acknowledge that.
Poll: More 'Israeli Arabs' than Jews believe Erdogan motivated by anti-Semitism
Don't look at me - I have no doubt that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's policies toward Israel are motivated by anti-Semitism.
Interesting. BESA poll shows more Israeli Arabs (23%) than Jews (5%) believe Erdogan's policies to Israel animated by anti-Semitism #Jpost
— Herb Keinon (@HerbKeinon) July 7, 2013
Why else would he irrationally blame the Jews for all his troubles? Why else would he obsess with slamming Israel at every opportunity - behavior that began more than a year before the Mavi Marmara? Why else would he use his political capital for Hamas and Gaza when he is so desperately in need of it at home?
Arrest of Islamic anti-Semite leads to wild melee in Brooklyn
The arrest of an Islamic man who assaulted a Jewish man on a Brooklyn subway train last Monday turned violent when a mob surrounded police officers.
The melee began when suspect Stephan Stowe, 17, and a group of eight
friends approached a Jewish man wearing a yarmulke aboard a
Brooklyn-bound 3 train just before 3 p.m. Monday, police sources said
Wednesday.
"Assalamu Alaikum," Stowe said to the man, using a common greeting
among Muslims that means, "Peace be with you," court documents allege.
When the man ignored the greeting, Stowe allegedly became combative.
"You think you're better than me?" the teen allegedly said. "We are cousins."
"No we’re not," The man shot back, and told Stowe to leave him alone.
The suspect then started hurling ethnic slurs and called the man disrespectful, according to court papers.
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"I'm going to kill you right now," Stowe said, according to cops and
court records. He then swore at the man, according to cops and court
records, and in an apparent reference to the Holocaust added, "They
should have killed all of you."
The man managed to swipe his phone back from Stowe and ran to alert the
conductor, police sources said. As the train pulled into the Eastern
Parkway/Brooklyn Museum stop, cops were waiting to collar Stowe, police
sources said.
You'll all remember Jeremiah Wright, the pseudo-Christian preacher in whose church Barack Hussein Obama sat for 20 years before being forced to dissociate himself (at least temporarily) at the height of the 2008 US election campaign due to Wright's virulent anti-Semitism.
Obama's second BFF in the world, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsy, also has a virulently anti-Semitic religious guide, whose pronouncements about Jews match, if not exceed, the hatred in Morsy's own statements. Meet Mohammed Badie, spiritual guide to Mohammed Morsy, with whom Morsy continues to consult regularly.
References to Jews as "apes" and "pigs" also are repeatedly found in
the speeches of the man many liberal Egyptians regard as the real power behind Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie. According to Germany's Der Spiegel, Morsi regularly meets with Badie and has shown that he expresses obedience to the supreme guide.
"The Zionists, the West and the lackey rulers conspired together. If
the Muslim Brotherhood had remained in the field, the Zionist Entity
would not have stood not its flag raised. Of old God forced the Jews to
become pigs," Badie said in a July 7, 2010 sermon found on the Brotherhood's website.
Badie returned to the theme in a June 14, 2012 speech on the eve of Morsi's election.
"The Lord of Glory has threatened these murdering Zionists criminals
with a penalty of a kind which operates in this world before the
Hereafter," Badie said, then quoting: "So when they were insolent about
that which they had been forbidden, We said to them, 'Be apes,
despised.' [Quran 7:166]."
"The cause of Palestine is of considerable importance. It is not a
cause of power, nor of Palestinians, nor of the Arabs, but is the basic
cause of life of every Muslim," Badie said. "For the sake of its return,
every Muslim must wage jihad, sacrifice; and expend his money for the
sake of restoring it.
"Palestine and Jerusalem is a holy Muslim land, part of the faith of
the Muslim ummah," Badie continued. "To forsake any part of it is to
forsake the ummah's civilization and faith. This is a great sin."
Agence France Presse (AFP) quoted Badie calling for a "Holy Jihad" to liberate Jerusalem from Israeli control in an Oct. 11, 2012 report.
"Jerusalem is Islamic ... and nobody is entitled to make concessions"
on the holy city, said Badie in his weekly message to supporters,
according to AFP.
"The jihad for the recovery of Jerusalem is a duty for all Muslims,"
he said, stressing that taking back Jerusalem "will not be done through
negotiations or at the United Nations."
The "apes and pigs" motif about Jews resurfaced in November
at a protest organized by the Brotherhood and its political arm,
Al-Qalyubi. Preacher Muhammad Ragab called on Muslims at the protest "to
raise the banner of jihad against the tyrannical, invading and wicked
sons of apes and pigs [i.e., the Jews], and to unite against the enemies
of Allah" during the protest.
But so long as Barack Hussein Obama remains in power in Washington, we can rest assured that this type of anti-Semitism will be ignored. Maybe Jeremiah Wright will return to the White House this term?
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