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:
I'll have more to say about the elections in the days ahead, but for
now let me offer a whole-hearted good riddance to Ed Miliband, the now
departed Labour leader who, in a desperate last-minute pander, offered
to "outlaw Islamophobia".
That was the British political establishment's contribution to a rough
couple of weeks for free speech, culminating in the attempted mass
murder in Garland, Texas.
That's what it was, by the way - although you might have difficulty telling that from the news coverage. The Washington Post offered the celebrated headline "Event Organizer Offers No Apology After Thwarted Attack In Texas", while the Associated Press went with "Pamela Geller says she has no regrets about Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest that ended in 2 deaths".
The media "narrative" of the last week is that some Zionist temptress
was walking down the street in Garland in a too short skirt and hoisted
it to reveal her Mohammed thong - oops, my apologies, her Prophet
Mohammed thong (PBUH) - and thereby inflamed two otherwise law-abiding
ISIS supporters peacefully minding their own business.
It'll be a long time before you see "Washington Post Offers No
Apology for Attacking Target of Thwarted Attack" or "AP Says It Has No
Regrets After Blaming The Victim". The respectable class in the American
media share the same goal as the Islamic fanatics: They want to silence
Pam Geller. To be sure, they have a mild disagreement about the means
to that end - although even then you get the feeling, as with Garry
Trudeau and those dozens of PEN novelists' reaction to Charlie Hebdo,
that the "narrative" wouldn't change very much if the jihad boys had
got luckier and Pam, Geert Wilders, Robert Spencer and a dozen others
were all piled up in the Garland morgue.
If the American press were not so lazy and parochial, they would
understand that this was the third Islamic attack on free speech this
year - first, Charlie Hebdo in Paris; second, the Lars Vilks event in Copenhagen; and now Texas. The difference in the corpse count is easily explained by a look at the video of the Paris gunmen, or the bullet holes they put in the police car.
The French and Texan attackers supposedly had the same kind of weapons,
although one should always treat American media reports with a high
degree of skepticism when it comes to early identification of "assault
weapons" and "AK47s". Nonetheless, from this reconstruction,
it seems clear that the key distinction between the two attacks is that
in Paris they knew how to use their firepower and in Garland they
didn't. So a very cool 60-year-old local cop with nothing but his
service pistol advanced under fire and took down two guys whose heavier
firepower managed only to put a bullet in an unarmed security guard's
foot.
The Charlie Hebdo killers had received effective training
overseas - as thousands of ISIS recruits with western passports are
getting right now. What if the Garland gunmen had been as good as the
Paris gunmen? Surely that would be a more interesting question for the
somnolent American media than whether some lippy Jewess was asking for
it.
...
In Copenhagen, in Paris, in Garland, what's more important than the
cartoons and the attacks is the reaction of all the polite, respectable
people in society, which for a decade now has told those who do not
accept the messy, fractious liberties of free peoples that we don't
really believe in them, either, and we're happy to give them up -
quietly, furtively, incrementally, remorselessly - in hopes of a quiet
life. Because a small Danish newspaper found itself abandoned and alone,
Charlie Hebdo jumped in to support them. Because the Charlie Hebdo
artists and writers died abandoned and alone, Pamela Geller jumped in
to support them. By refusing to share the risk, we are increasing the
risk. It's not Pamela Geller who emboldens Islamic fanatics, it's all
the nice types - the ones Salman Rushdie calls the But Brigade. You've
heard them a zillion times this last week: "Of course, I'm personally,
passionately, absolutely committed to free speech. But..."
And the minute you hear the "but", none of the build-up to it
matters. A couple of days before Garland, Canadian Liberal MP (and
former Justice Minister) Irwin Cotler announced his plan to restore
Section 13 - the "hate speech" law under which Maclean's and I
were dragged before the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission and which, as
a result of my case, was repealed by the Parliament of Canada. At the
time Mr Cotler was fairly torn on the issue. We talked about it briefly
at a free-speech event in Ottawa at which he chanced to be present, and
he made vaguely supportive murmurings - as he did when we ran into each
other a couple of years later in Boston. Mr Cotler is Jewish and, even
as European "hate" laws prove utterly useless against the metastasizing
open Jew-hate on the Continent, he thinks we should give 'em one more
try. He's more sophisticated than your average But boy, so he uses a three-syllable word.
Muslims threaten to murder Pam Geller, media silent or cheering
I find the lack of a harsh reaction in the US media to threats against the life of Pamela Geller - the prominent blogger and organizer of last weekend's Mohammed cartoon drawing contest - incredible. Her life was threatened by the monsters from Islamic State earlier this week, but perhaps even more incredible is this clip from Fox News that went up a short time ago.
Radical Imam Anjem Choudary told Pamela Geller tonight on Hannity that
she should be tried in Shariah Court and slaughtered... for speaking out
against radical Islam.
Let's go to the videotape.
But it's not just the media. The United States government is ignoring its most basic task: To protect its citizens. Pamela Geller told Sean Hannity tonight that she reached out to the FBI
but has not heard back from them after ISIS issued a death threat
against her on Tuesday. Homeland Security has also not contacted her.
Let's go to the videotape.
This is the United States of America in 2015. Stay safe Pam....
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility
Tuesday via its official radio station for a gun attack on an
anti-Muslim event in Texas over the weekend showcasing cartoons mocking
the Prophet Mohammed.
"Two of the soldiers of the caliphate executed an attack
on an art exhibit in Garland, Texas, and this exhibit was portraying
negative pictures of the Prophet Mohammed," the jihadist group said.
Congratulations Barack Obama. You've officially brought Islamic terrorism to the US!
Garland, Texas: No, it wasn't an 'anti-Islam' event
As I'm sure those of you in the US (at least) have heard already, over the weekend, two Islamic terrorists were killed while attempting to attack a Draw Mohammed cartoon contest in Garland, Texas. It goes without saying that the multi-culti Islam-loving media is blaming the organizers for organizing such an 'offensive' event. (Funny, I don't recall anyone complaining or anyone trying to kill the organizers or participants in Iran's Holocaust cartoon contest).
One of the organizers, Pamela Geller, went on CNN Monday morning and destroyed the mediabot (Alisyn Camerota) who was questioning her.
Leave it to Pam Geller. She's offering a $10,000 prize for the best Mohammed cartoon at a May 3 contest in Garland, Texas.
It’s time to stand up.
That’s why my organization, the human rights advocacy group the
American Freedom Defense Initiative, or AFDI, will be holding a contest
for cartoons of Muhammad, and an exhibit of Muhammad cartoons this May
in Garland, Texas. The keynote speaker will be Dutch freedom fighter and
Parliamentarian Geert Wilders – one of the very few politicians on the
international scene who dares to speak the truth about the jihad threat.
The contest will be online, with entries posted at the AFDI website.
The winning cartoon will be announced at the May 3 cartoon exhibit in
Garland. The winning cartoonist will be awarded a $10,000 prize.
The cartoon exhibit will feature images of Islam’s prophet, both
historic and contemporary, and speeches by leading voices of freedom and
internationally renowned free speech advocates. Also speaking will be
brave artists who are unbowed by violent threats and determined to stand
for the freedom of speech.
The exhibit will be held at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland on
Sunday, May 3. This was the site of a Muslim conference denouncing
“Islamophobia” – an obscene stand for them to take after the Charlie
Hebdo massacre – and our massive Free Speech Rally outside that event.
The Muslim event was held in a hall owned by the local school district.
When asked why they allowed that event on their premises, they answered
that their hall was open to anyone who wished to rent it. So we are
renting it for our Muhammad Cartoon Exhibit.
In case that last paragraph wasn't enough of a hint for you, Garland, Texas has a Muslim population. Garland is in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, which has the fourth largest Muslim population of any metropolitan area in the United States.
As you might imagine, the 'security costs' of putting on an event like this are going to be enormous. Read the whole thing.
Canadian Muslim group demands rabbi's removal from Harper delegation
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, one of Israel's best friends, is here visiting for a few days. One of the people how is part of his delegation is a rabbi named Daniel Korobkin. The National Council of Canadian Muslims - the Canadian branch of Hamas-affiliate CAIR - has demanded that Harper remove Rabbi Korbokin from his delegation. Pamela Geller explains why.
[T]he Rabbi attended and spoke briefly at my September talk in Canada.
Their letter charged that both Robert Spencer, who also spoke at that
September event, and I “have a lengthy and clear record of promoting
anti-Muslim sentiments and demonization.” In support of this, they
listed a number of statements (wrenched from explanatory context, of
course) that are demonstrably true and abundantly established by every
day’s headlines. Do they think Harper, a strong defender of Israel, is
so stupid as to be blind to the reality of Islamic jihad?
Whatever the nature of the things that I say, Rabbi Korobkin didn’t
utter them and is not by any conceivable stretch of the imagination
responsible for them. It is bitterly ironic that Islamic supremacist
groups would label my efforts to defend the freedom of speech and
equality of rights for all people before the law as “anti-Muslim.” That
speaks volumes. However, whatever my work may be about, it is not Rabbi
Korobkin’s work or his responsibility.
There is another strategy at play here: the message is being sent to
every rabbi and clergyman, and everyone in the public square, that if
you have anything to do in the public square with those fighting jihad
and Sharia, they will come after you.
You don't think Canada's Muslims are trying to shut their opponents up, do you?
'An embarrassing decision for this so-called land of democracy'
Bloggers and anti-Islamist activists Pam Geller and Robert Spencer have been banned from entering England, where they hoped to speak at a rally of the English Defence League on Sunday.
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, who set up Stop Islamization of
America, and run the website Jihad Watch, have been forbidden from
entering the country on the grounds their presence would "not be
conducive to the public good".
The far-right English Defence League
was planning a march on Saturday ending in Woolwich, south-east
London, where soldier Drummer Lee Rigby was murdered last month. Geller
and Spencer were both set to attend.
A Home Office spokesman said:
"We can confirm that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are subject to an
exclusion decision … We condemn all those whose behaviours and views
run counter to our shared values and will not stand for extremism in any
form."
I would like to say it's unbelievable but it's not. Pam and Robert are in good company: Geert Wilders and Moshe Feiglin have been banned (Wilders was later allowed in), while Hezbullah spokesman Ibrahim Moussawi and Islamic Movement Northern Front Sheikh Raed Salah were allowed in (although Salah was subsequently arrested). It took years before Britain changed their laws so that Israeli politicians and IDF officers could enter the country without fear of arrest.
What a morally decrepit country England has become....
For those who have forgotten just what Eltahaway did, please go to that last link. It's quite entertaining.
Eltahaway has already admitted her guilt - at least outside the court room.
After all this agitation, Eltahawy has now decided that it was
finally time to do what one could have expected from a prominent writer
long ago, and she has taken to the pages of the Guardian’s Comment is Free (CiF) website to make her case in writing.
It is quite obviously a weak case. The headline of her post announces “If anti-Muslim ads are protected, so must be my free speech right to protest”
– but the text reveals that even Eltahawy is aware that her act of
vandalism wasn’t really an exercise of free speech, because she admits:
“I broke the law, yes.”
But Eltahawy adds defiantly: “So what? I broke it to make a point of
principle. Eleven years after the 9/11 attacks, American Muslims are
still being bullied and vilified.”
Indeed, Eltahawy tries hard to make the case that there is at least
some “coincidental correlation” between the ads that denounce violent
jihad as savage and various incidents of anti-Muslim violence and
bigotry.
The continued obsession with silencing Pamela Geller
Here's a Sun News Canada report on the latest effort to silence Pamela Geller. This one involved her speaking at a synagogue in York, a suburb of Toronto. The rabbi was forced to cancel Geller's appearance after he was told that he would be removed as a chaplain of the local police department if Geller was allowed to speak in his synagogue.
Let's go to the videotape.
More from Pamela here. Why do these people all think that silence will make it go away?
Here's what Pamela Geller said at the Chabad House in Great Neck last Sunday. This is what the Jewish Left and the Muslims didn't want you to hear. And it should be obvious why: It conflicts with and destroys their world view.
Introduced by David Yerushalmi, Pamela Geller gave this talk at Chabad
of Great Neck, Long Island, after her scheduled talk was cancelled at
Great Neck Synagogue under leftist and Islamic supremacist pressure. The
Chabad house was packed and the overflow crowd watched on a jumbotron
outside -- nearly 1,000 people attended. Videographer Pamela Hall.
The video is a response to Rabbi Michael White and Rabbi Jerome
Davidson's article in the Jewish Week called Hate Speech Has No Place in
a Synagogue dated Tue, 04/09/2013, which led the cancellation of a
speech by Pamela Geller. This is also a message to her critics and those
critical of her message.
They blocked Pamela Geller of Atlas
Shrugs website by saying that her anti-Jihad ads are hate speech and a
hate crime, but are they? Or is she just telling the truth about Jihad
and terrorism.
Geller's adverts don't target Muslims but targets
Jihadists who attack Israel, Buddhists, Christians, atheists, Hindus,
and other groups. Most of her ads are in response to anti-Israel ads
that call for the unfunding of Israel and making false claims against
the only Jewish nation state in the word.
Are Rabbi Michael White and Rabbi Jerome Davidson ignorant of what the Quran says about Jews, Christians and others, like this;
Qur'an 3:32—Say: Obey Allah and the Apostle; but if they turn back, then surely Allah does not love the unbelievers.
Qur'an 5:51—O
you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends;
they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a
friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the
unjust people.
Qur'an 9:29—Fight
those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that
forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor
acknowledge the Religion of Truth, from among the People of the Book,
until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves
subdued.
Qur'an 9:30—And
the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The
Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they
imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy
them; how they are turned away!
Qur'an 9:73—O Prophet! strive
hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to
them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination.
Qur'an
9:111—Surely Allah has bought of the believers their persons and their
property for this, that they shall have the garden; they fight in
Allah's way, so they slay and are slain; a promise which is binding on
Him in the Taurat and the Injeel and the Quran; and who is more faithful
to his covenant than Allah? Rejoice therefore in the pledge which you
have made; and that is the mighty achievement.
Qur'an 9:123—O
you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and
let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who
guard (against evil).
Qur'an 47:35—Be
not weary and fainthearted, crying for peace, when ye should be
uppermost: for Allah is with you, and will never put you in loss for
your (good) deeds.
Qur'an 48:29—Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him are severe against disbelievers, and merciful among themselves.
Qur'an
98:6—Verily, those who disbelieve (in the religion of Islam, the Qur'an
and Prophet Muhammad) from among the people of the Scripture (Jews and
Christians) and Al-Mushrikun will abide in the Fire of Hell. They are
the worst of creatures.
Sahih Muslim 33—It has been narrated on
the authority of Abdullah b. Umar that the Messenger of Allah said: I
have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there
is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and they
establish prayer, and pay Zakat and if they do it, their blood and
property are guaranteed protection on my behalf except when justified by
law, and their affairs rest with Allah.
Sahih Muslim 4366—It
has been narrated by 'Umar b. al-Khattab that he heard the Messenger of
Allah (may peace be upon him) say: I will expel the Jews and Christians
from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim.
Al-Bukhari,
Al-Adab al-Mufrad 1103—Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, said, "Do not give the People of the
Book the greeting first. Force them to the narrowest part of the road."
Sahih
al-Bukhari, Ch. 88—Narrated Ibn Umar that the Prophet said, "My
livelihood is under the shade of my spear, and he who disobeys my orders
will be humiliated by paying Jizya."
Are White and Davidson like
the old Nazsi judenrats who sided against their own Jewish and Israeli
people hoping that nothing will happen to them...or are they just stupid
and ignorant about what Islam teaches and says about Jews and the
Jewish people, not only Jewish people but all other people, like Hindu,
Buddhist, atheist, Christian people? Are White, Davidson and their ilk
the new Judenräte?
Here's a News 12 report on Pamela Geller's
speech at Chabad Great Neck and the subsequent free speech rally calling
for the resignation of Habeeb Ahmed of the Nassau County Human Rights
Commission.
Ahmed allegedly tried to prevent Pam Geller from speaking.
'While many ... feel strongly about their Zionism, few have the courage to publicly express their opinions'
Caroline Glick explains how moral relativism is silencing American Jewish supporters of Israel.
It was not a coincidence that the Times failed to mention why
Morsi's castigation of Jews as apes and pigs was so familiar to Muslim
audiences.
The Islamic sources of Muslim
Brotherhood Jew hatred, and indeed, hatred of Jews by Islamic leaders
from both the Sunni and Shi'ite worlds, is largely overlooked by the
liberal ideological camp. And the overwhelming majority of the American
Jewish leadership is associated with the liberal ideological camp.
If
the Times acknowledged that the Jew hatred espoused by Morsi and his
colleagues in the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as by their Shi'ite
colleagues in the Iranian regime and Hezbollah is based on the Koran,
they would have to acknowledge that Islamic Jew hatred and other bigotry
is not necessarily antithetical to mainstream Islamic teaching. And
that is something that the Times, like its fellow liberal institutions,
is not capable of acknowledging.
They are
incapable of acknowledging this possibility because considering it would
implicitly require a critical study of jihadist doctrine. And a
critical study of jihadist doctrine would show that the doctrine of
jihad, or Islamic holy war, subscribed to by the Muslim Brotherhood and
its affiliates, as well as by the Iranian regime and Hezbollah and their
affiliates, is widely supported, violent, bigoted, evil and dangerous
to the free world.
And that isn't even the
biggest problem with studying the doctrine of jihad. The biggest problem
is that a critical study of the doctrine of jihad would force liberal
institutions like the New York Times and the institutional leadership of
the American Jewish community alike to abandon the reigning dogma of
the liberal ideological camp - moral relativism.
Moral
relativism is based on a refusal to call evil evil and a concomitant
willingness to denigrate truth if truth requires you to notice evil.
Since
pointing out the reality of the danger the jihadist doctrines
propagated by the likes of the Muslim Brotherhood involves the implicit
demand that people make distinctions between good and evil and side with
good against evil, moral relativists - that is most liberals - cannot
contend with jihad.
This is why the American
Jewish leadership refused to join Rand Paul and his conservative
Republican colleagues in the Senate and demand an immediate cessation of
US military aid to the Muslim Brotherhood-controlled Egyptian military
even after the evidence of the Brotherhood's genocidal Jew hatred was
splashed across the front page of the Times.
It
is the dominance of moral relativism in liberal institutions like the
New York Times that make even the most apologetic expose of the Muslim
Brotherhood a major event. And it is the dominance of liberal
orthodoxies in the mainstream Jewish community that makes it all but
impossible for Jewish leaders to speak up against the Muslim
Brotherhood, despite the manifest danger its genocidal hatred of Jews
poses not only for Israel, but for Jews everywhere.
It
is bad enough that liberal Jewish leaders won't speak out against the
Koranic-inspired evil that characterizes the ideology of the Muslim
Brotherhood. What is worse is what their own morally relative blindness
causes them to do.
Here's Rabbi Yosef Geisinsky on why he agreed to host Pamela Geller on Sunday at the Chabad of Great Neck (Hat Tip: Zvi S).
Speaking to COLlive.com, Rabbi Geisinsky said Geller was not the radical "the media proposes" she is. "She speaks against Sharia, terror and anti-Semitism," he said, noting that he expects a crowd of over 1000 people.
He said that "99.9%" of the feedback he has received since scheduling Geller's talk has been positive. "We have been getting very positive input," he said.
"The one who was able to block (her coming to speak) was a Reform Rabbi who fought our public display of the menorah for many years and hates anything to do with Yiddishkeit," he said.
While Rabbi Geisinsky didn't mention the person by name, the Jewish Press reported that cancellation was due to "the intimidating and relentless tactics engaged in by certain leftist Jews, notably Rabbi Jerome Davidson and Rabbi Michael White."
"I knew right away, if this person is against it, I should be for it," said Rabbi Geisinsky who was in a coma recently after suffering a massive heart attack and miraculously recovered.
Rabbi Geisinsky gets what so many - even Orthodox - Jews don't get. The Jews who seek to destroy us from within are the same Jews who make themselves the protectors of radical Islam. Here in Israel, the same Jews who rail against the 'ultra-Orthodox' (and often include the 'settlers' in their rants) are often the same Jews who seek to create a 'Palestinian state.'
Two courageous and magnificent Rabbis have asked me to speak on Sunday. Rabbi Yoseph Geisinsky of the Chabad, Great Neck and Rabbi
Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg of Congregation Beth-El in Edison, New Jersey
have both invited me to speak at their synagogues on Sunday -- the same
day I was scheduled to speak at the Great Neck Synagogue on Long Island
until that synagogue caved to a leftist/Islamic supremacist smear and
intimidation campaign.
Rabbi Geisinsky and Rabbi Rosenberg both
extended the invitations to me personally this morning, and I commend
them both for it. The cancellation by the Great Neck Synagogue was
particularly craven and cowardly, as it sends the message that if
leftists and Muslims defame those they hate loudly enough and for a long
enough time, they will succeed in getting them silenced. But in
contrast to that unconscionable self-imposed dhimmitude, both of these
Rabbis are standing up for the freedom of speech and the defense of the
Jewish people. They're saying no to thuggery and pressure tactics. Above
all, they're standing up for the truth.
Indeed.
The event in Edison is at 7:00 pm on Sunday. More details about both here. If you're near either location on Sunday, I would urge you to attend.
While Yeshiva University upheld 'free speech' by inviting anti-Semite Jimmy Carter to speak on its campus on Wednesday, the Left won another victory by threatening to harm Sunday school kids if Pamela Geller were allowed to speak at a synagogue in Great Neck. As a result, Geller's speech was canceled.
The rabbi, the members of the shul’s men’s club – that is who invited
her to speak – the parents of the children in the GNS Sunday School,
everyone was beaten down. They were beaten down by those who hear
Geller’s name and don’t see a sassy woman with long hair, they see a
waving red cape, like the one held by matadors.
Geller’s opponents become so enraged by the thought of Geller
speaking – speaking, mind you, not striking, not hitting, not bombing,
not shooting – that they metamorphosed into a herd of stampeding
bullies. Geller is the capa, these guys heard her name and they started
pawing the ground, snorting, and threatening clergy members, Sunday
School children, and parents.
But it isn’t really Geller herself they cannot bear, it is the way
she speaks – without apologies – about the dangers of Islamic ideology
embodied in Sharia, and that she warns without hesitation that it is
encroaching upon this country. That they simply cannot abide.
...
Geller said she understood how it was that the synagogue was unable
to withstand the thuggery and intimidation by those who simply could not
bear to allow her to talk.
“The synagogue didn’t turn on me, it did what it felt it needed to do
to protect the Sunday School children. Once the thugs announced they
were going to organize a mob march of leftist Jews and Muslims on the
shul on Sunday morning, when all the children are there to attend Sunday
School – the parents were terrified and the shul had to respond,”
Geller told The Jewish Press, just hours after she learned of the cancellation.
The opposition to Geller's talk was led by two kapo-like 'rabbis.'
“Rabbi Jerome Davidson became involved, and he really riled up their
forces. He let it be known that he was organizing a march with some of
his congregants and some Muslims from the Westbury Mosque. When parents
got wind of that, they turned to the head of the local Jewish day
school, and he then turned to the rabbi and began demanding
indemnification and who can withstand that kind of tsunami,” asked
Wiesenfeld.
Davidson, rabbi emeritus of Temple Beth-El of Great Neck, New York,
and Michael White, the senior rabbi of Temple Sinai of Roslyn, New York,
co-authored an article in The Jewish Weekin
which they called Geller’s proposed talk “hate speech,” and enthused
about their deep and abiding love for their Muslim neighbors.
“We state unequivocally that Geller’s inflammatory rhetoric does not
represent us or the great majority of Jews in Great Neck and on Long
Island. Hate speech has no place in synagogues. Synagogues should be
places for worship, positive dialogue and reasoned political debate,”
rabbis White and Davidson wrote. They did not mention the planned march
or the waves of orchestrated phone calls, or the threats to the Sunday
School children’s physical and emotional well-being.
Any 'rabbi' who cannot put a love for fellow Jews ahead of a love for Muslims doesn't deserve the title 'rabbi.'
On Friday, the Forward reported that the Great Neck Synagogue is coming under pressure from 'Jewish' Leftist groups to cancel an appearance by Pamela Geller, who writes the blog Atlas Shrugs.
New York activist groups Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews
for Racial and Economic Justice, and Jews Say No! announced their
opposition to a speech set for April 14 by Pamela Geller, an activist
known for her extreme anti-Muslim rhetoric, at the Modern Orthodox Great
Neck Synagogue.
In an email sent to JVP activists on April 3, the
organization called on members to contact the Great Neck Synagogue and
ask it to cancel the event. Rebecca Vilkomerson, JVP’s executive
director, told the Forward on April 4 that at least 50 people had
contacted Great Neck Synagogue at the group’s behest.
“Our hope is that the synagogue will cancel her
appearance,” Vilkomerson said. “The kind of venom that she spews against
Islam is completely inappropriate for a synagogue.”
Here is the full statement I gave to the Forward (they only used one or two sentences):
"These
are not truly Jewish organizations. Their fundamental allegiance is to
the political left. They are consistently anti-Israel, and manifest
complete indifference -- or worse -- when innocent Jews are murdered in
cold blood by Islamic jihadists, and when the Gaza Muslims celebrate
those murders. Jewish history is plagued with these quislings, who are
willing tools serving as the public face for supremacists and
annihilationists.
The
left uses these Jews to defame and destroy a Jew who is truly standing
up for Israel and for the principles of freedom and human rights that
the Jewish State represents. It's inexcusable. The kapos had guns to their heads. What's their excuse?"
These savages speak whenever and wherever they want, but challenge
the big lies and the manufactured myths and you are in for a world of
pain. Huge props to the Great Neck synagogue for standing firm for free
speech -- a Jewish value, I might add. I urge my readers and all freedom
lovers to join me at the Great Neck synagogue on April 14th and drown
out these voices of darkness.
Here is the truth about Pamela Geller. There are people in the world who see a wrong, give a quick "oh that's so sad" and get on with their lives. Then there are others who see a wrong and go all out to right it. That’s Pamela-- someone who goes out of her way to do what we call in Hebrew, Tikun Olam, repair the world.
Let me explain what I mean with a story the Progressives would never repeat.
On the morning of December 10, 2007 Aqsa Parvez huddled in a Mississauga, Candad bus shelter with another Grade 11 student, a girl she had been staying with for the past couple of days. They had plenty of time to make it to their first class at Applewood Heights Secondary School. As they waited, Aqsa’s 26-year-old brother Waqas, a tow-truck driver, showed up at the bus stop. He said that she should come home and get a fresh change of clothes if she was going to be staying elsewhere. Aqsa hesitated, and then got into his car. Less than an hour later, Muhammad Parvez phoned 911 and told the dispatcher that he had killed his daughter. Within minutes, police and paramedics arrived at 5363 Longhorn Trail, a winding suburban street near Eglinton and Hurontario, and found Aqsa unconscious in her bedroom. The 16-year-old wasn’t breathing. The paramedics started CPR, found a faint pulse, and rushed her to Credit Valley Hospital, 10 minutes west. She died just after 10 that evening. The official cause was “neck compression”—strangulation.
Aqsa Parvez was buried in an unmarked grave. Her family refused to acknowledge her life, because she "dishonored" them. In defiance of her devout father she began taking off her hijab, the traditional Islamic headscarf, when she went to school, and would put it back on when she returned home. Her dad would go to her school during school hours and walk around trying to find her, trying to catch her not wearing Islamic garb, talking to boys or hanging out with "non-Muslims".
Pamela grabbed that wrong by the neck and did what she could to eradicate the evil. She raised money (and threw in her own) for a tombstone for Aqua’s grave. When the family refused to allow the memorial stone, she did not give up:
“.. we inquired as to purchasing a plot near Aqsa's body, we could not. Not a tree. Not a rock. Not a bench. All the plots were owned by the Islamic Society of North America. I tried to contact the family at that time, but they would not take my calls -- I spoke to the them once, but they pretended not to speak English. And they were adamant: the family refused to allow the headstone to be put on Aqsa's grave, and according to the cemetery, could remove it if it were placed there by others.”
Feeling that this Muslim girl’s memory shouldn’t be tossed out like the trash, Pamela found a way to honor her memory— Aqsa Parvez grove and plaque in the American Independence Park in Nes Harim, Israel.
This is only one of many examples of the hard work of Pamela Geller to protect and honor Muslims, how she has provided safe-houses for Muslim girls threatened with honor killings, how she has fought against those who would destroy Israel.
Pamela and I got our starts in blogging around the same time, commenting on a certain other blog I won't mention. We've been in touch by email from time to time - unfortunately, we have still never met in person.
There are a lot of bloggers out there. I don't know any that are as passionate about what they write as Pamela is. She writes what she believes and she doesn't pull punches. She has gone outside her blog to support the causes in which she believes. Even if you don't agree with her all the time (I agree with her most of the time, but not all), you have to admire her commitment to her causes and her passion for promoting her views. She's the one blogger I know that everyone has heard of. And she's also a single mother of four daughters - I don't know how she does it. But I'm thrilled that she's on our side here in Israel.
So if you're in the New York area on April 14 (I won't be), go hear Pamela speak. You won't be disappointed.
I really admire fellow blogger Pam Geller's willingness to stick to her convictions. This is the kind of crap she has to suffer. It comes from al-Jazeera, which doesn't even know that people like me exist (full disclosure: I have been attacked in a newspaper in the Arab world, but chose not to highlight it to all of you).
Let's go to the videotape.
Pam is a single mother. I sure hope these morons are at least laying off her kids.
I am an Orthodox Jew - some would even call me 'ultra-Orthodox.' Born in Boston, I was a corporate and securities attorney in New York City for seven years before making aliya to Israel in 1991 (I don't look it but I really am that old :-). I have been happily married to the same woman for thirty-five years, and we have eight children (bli ayin hara) ranging in age from 13 to 33 years and nine grandchildren. Four of our children are married! Before I started blogging I was a heavy contributor on a number of email lists and ran an email list called the Matzav from 2000-2004. You can contact me at: IsraelMatzav at gmail dot com
