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“The Jews killed Jesus” – this has been the claim of Anti-Semites for centuries during the Middle Ages until the Age of Enlightenment forced them to abandon such mystical religious nonsense and scientifically rationalize their prejudice with racist scientific theories which were equally full of it.
Jesus was accused of heresy by the Jewish high council, the Sanhedrin, and handed over to the occupying Romans to be executed for sedition against Rome by reportedly claiming the title “King of the Jews.” The Roman governor offered the crowd a choice between freeing a known murderer and Jesus and the crowd chose the murderer.
From a religious standpoint, the claim of “Jews killed Jesus” should not have created such fury. After all, if those Christians who hated (and still hate) the Jews for supposedly killing their messiah actually read the Bible (and read between the lines rather than taking things so literally) they would have understood that Jesus’ death was pretty much pre-ordained and a necessity for the Christian religion.
So Christians should keep the Jews warm in their heart every Easter season and send them thank you cards because otherwise they’d be burning in hell for being pagans never having heard about the true religion. Let’s face it, without the Crucifixion and resurrection, would Dark Age Goths and the like have been as willing to give up their bloody and fierce gods for the words of an unemployed carpenter living in the desert? I don’t think the party tricks of multiplying of fish and bread or turning water into wine would have wowed the pagan barbarians back then.
Christianity needed a dead savior to be more marketable back in those times. Without the Crucifixion, there’d be no Easter. There’d be no Christian symbolism to attach to and dominate pagan spring rituals. There’d be no Easter Bunny, no fish sticks on Fridays, and probably no Christmas or Santa Claus even. And more importantly there’d be no resurrection – the main selling point of Christianity to simpleminded people who couldn’t (and still can’t) look past the magical bells and whistles to the underlying message of peace to your fellow man and all that jazz.
By killing Jesus, the Jews in affect saved Christianity and we’ve shown them piss-poor gratitude in return. So if you’re Christian, hug a Jew today and say to them: “Thank you for killing my Messiah! I’d probably be worshipping trees and sacrificing virgins to the Cthulhu or some other pagan devil if it weren’t for you and your people!”“The Jews killed Jesus” – this has been the claim of Anti-Semites... more
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Student activists in California have exposed inflammatory remarks made by a university lecturer who is the head of an Israel lobby group that tries to pressure college administrations and state officials into investigating what the lecturer calls anti-Semitism. Activists have started a petition calling on the University of California President to condemn the statements made last year by Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, a Hebrew lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). The remarks were only recently publicized after students discovered them through a YouTube video of Rossman-Benjamin’s remarks.
Last June, Rossman-Benjamin gave a presentation on what she calls “campus anti-Semitism” at the Ahavath Torah Congregation in Stoughton, Massachusetts. She unleashed vitriolic comments smearing student activists who work for Palestinian rights as anti-Semites with ties to terrorist organizations, though she did not back up her statements with evidence. Rossman-Benjamin is the head of the AMCHA Initiative, a Zionist pressure group that targets professors and student groups for alleged anti-Semitism, though the actions AMCHA goes after are activism for Palestinian rights.
“They are generally motivated by very strong religious and political conditions--they have a fire in their belly. They come to the university, many of them are foreign students, who come from cultures and countries where anti-Semitism is how they think about the world,” said Rossman-Benjamin, referring to students involved with the Muslim Students Association and Students for Justice in Palestine. “These student groups often have strong ties to international campaigns to demonize and delegitimize Israel as well as to organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood...[They] have ties to terrorist organizations.” Later in her speech, Rossman-Benjamin also claims to have met with state legislators in California.
In response to Rossman-Benjamin’s remarks, activists from UCSC Committee for Justice in Palestine have started a petition that has so far garnered over 850 signatures. They are calling on the University of California President to “take a clear stand against hate speech directed at marginalized communities, and distance itself from extremists like Tammi Benjamin and the Amcha Initiative that work to smear and silence student human rights campaigners.”
So far, the University of California President’s Office has stayed silent. In an e-mail response to an inquiry from Mondoweiss, Shelly Meron, a media specialist with the president’s office, wrote: “We have no comment on this.”
Rossman-Benjamin did not return an e-mail and a phone message for comment on this story by the time of publication.
The petition from the UCSC Committee for Justice in Palestine also states that Rossman-Benjamin’s remarks “reflect the worst stereotypes and slurs leveled at Arab and Muslim communities in the post-9/11 era. They have absolutely no place in a university environment and it is completely unacceptable for a University of California lecturer to be making them, especially about students.”
Multiple students have also filed formal complaints with the University of Santa Cruz’s Hate/Bias Response Team. A school official told one student activist who preferred to go unnamed that they will look into the complaint and may investigate it and refer it to higher offices and take corrective action if appropriate.
Rachel Roberts, civil rights coordinator for the Council on American Islamic Relations in San Francisco, condemned the statements from the Hebrew lecturer in an interview.
“Her comments are an example of the ways in which Muslim students and Arab students and students organizing for Palestine are disparaged in a way that’s completely unfair to them. I personally don’t see how any reasonable individual could possibly believe that our students have ties to terrorist organizations overseas,” she said. “It’s ridiculous, it’s an attempt to sow fear.” Roberts’ organization has been working in coalition with other social justice groups to fight back against smears from legislators and others in California that conflate solidarity with Palestinians with anti-Semitism.
Other people who signed the petition, including alumni and former professors from the UC system, have echoed the student activists’ condemnation of Rossman-Benjamin. “I have experienced firsthand the intimidation tactics and attempts to silence dissent on Israel on the UCSC campus,” wrote Lisa Nessan, who described herself as a “Jewish UCSC alumna (’00) and a former Santa Cruz Hillel Foundation employee.”
Nessan went on to write that “Tammi Benjamin's racist and islamophobic remarks are the antithesis of the type of tolerance and diversity that is expected on a University of California campus.” Robert Weil, who described himself as a “retired Visiting Assistant Professor, Lecturer and Union Organizer on the UC Santa Cruz campus,” wrote that he “can attest directly to the chilling effect that Tammi Rossman-Benjamin has had on those of us who hold critical views of Israeli policies and who support the struggle of the Palestinian people. She is a disgrace and a threat to the spirit of free academic debate and the right of all citizens--on and off campus--to express their ideas without intimidation.”
The activists’ petition--and the video that sparked it--shines a light on the tactics of Rossman-Benjamin. Through her organization, the AMCHA Initative, Rossman-Benjamin has targeted professors who show solidarity with Palestinians and who support the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) call. Her modus operandi is to conflate support for Palestinian human rights and strong criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism.
As Mondoweiss has reported, Rossman-Benjamin was behind a 2011 federal complaint against the University of California at Santa Cruz. The complaint charged that the university ignored concerns that a hostile environment for Jewish students was being created on campus due to criticism of Israel. The U.S. Department of Education took up the Title VI complaint, and continues to investigate, according to the student activists’ petition. Rossman-Benjamin also unsuccessfully tried to get the California State University system to distance itself from a tour on campuses that featured Israeli professor Ilan Pappe. Her attempts to get state officials to investigate a professor who supports the BDS call also failed.
Still, activists say the remarks from a lecturer employed by the University of California is a glaring example of a hostile climate on campus when it comes to organizing for Palestinian rights. Last year, the California state legislature passed a bill that conflated activism and the BDS movement with anti-Semitism and also claimed that student activists had ties to terrorist organizations--similar rhetoric to what Rossman-Benjamin used at her Massachusetts appearance. That state legislation also applauded the release of a “campus climate” report on Jewish students in California that has been criticized for suggesting things that would impose restrictions on Palestine solidarity activism.
http://mondoweiss.net/2013/02/california-university-terrorists.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenewsStudent activists in California have exposed inflammatory remarks made by a university... more
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"(Reuters) - Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi triggered outrage from Italy's political left on Sunday with comments defending fascist wartime leader Benito Mussolini at a ceremony commemorating victims of the Nazi Holocaust." ...
Berlusconi Quote from the article:
## "Obviously the government of that time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler's Germany rather than opposing it," he said.
"As part of this alliance, there were impositions, including combating and exterminating Jews," he told reporters. "The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well," he said, referring to laws passed by Mussolini's fascist government in 1938. ##
Yes, in the considered opinion of a man who was recently Prime Minister (and still hopes to reprise that role) Mussolini had lots of mostly good ideas. And this great body of GOOD work should not be tarnished by a few missteps like going along with Hitler's idea of, "combating and EXTERMINATING the Jews". Besides, Hitler made him do it. (We do know in hindsight what a bully Hitler could be when he wasn't getting his way!)
The European Right seems to be having the same problem as the GOP is here. They spend so much time drinking their own Kool Aid / telling each other how right they are, and so little time debating their ideas out in the broader public arena, that they are increasingly prone to say what they really think in public without any idea of how crazy it's going to sound.
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There are a few small historical problems with Silvio's interpretation.
Italy signed its first treaty of alliance with Germany in 1937, the Anti-Comminturn Pact under which Germany - Italy - and Japan committed to jointly fighting Communism.
In 1937, Hitler was still widely seen more as Mussolini's protégé than the other way around. Hitler did indeed admire Mussolini; and el Duce's enormous ego, which seems to have been larger than even Hitler's own, certainly did not allow him to see the relationship otherwise.
Further, in 1937 Germany was still rearming from WWI and was widely seen to be the sure loser should a major European war erupt.
Italy upgraded its alliance with Germany and Japan to a full military alliance in 1938, nearly a year before England and France declared war on Germany under their treaty obligations to defend Poland.
At this time, Germany was still seen as the underdog in a war with Britain and France. Moreover, Italy, being divided from Germany by the Alps, never seriously feared a German assault had they stayed out of Germany's adventures.
In fact, el Duce was impressed with Hitler's expansionist territorial ambitions, and hoped to piggy back on any military success that Germany might have by realizing his own territorial ambitions, beginning in the Horn of Africa. He liked his odds of consolidating Italy's position in Ethiopia and adding some neighboring British territories while Germany, France, and Britain were busy contending with other. And whatever the result of the hostilities in the North of Europe, he doubted that the war weary winners would have the stomach to contest the "fait accompli" of any Italian conquests in Africa.
This turned out to be another one el Duce's "less than successful" projects, as the Italian military operations in Africa went badly awry.
One has to wonder, which of Mussolini's "good ideas" Italy might be able to build on, if they could just get over that whole Nazi Alliance thing? Judging people by the company they keep is so 20th Century ..."(Reuters) - Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi triggered outrage from... more
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Pretty weird. A bunch of Tottenham fans were attacked. It was discovered later at least two of the attackers had ties to a far-right anti-Semitic group.
Victims describe is as an "organised attack." While several Tottenham fans were beaten, other members of the gang blocked the doors of a pub so they couldn't escape.Victims reported anti-Semitic slurs being shouted during the assault.
Tottenham fans were apparently targeted because Tottenham has ties to a Jewish community in London. Two members of the gang have been charged with attempted murder.
http://www.aljazeera.com/sport/football/2012/11/2012112311254708759.htmlPretty weird. A bunch of Tottenham fans were attacked. It was discovered later at... more
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Israel Apologist Bingo is a fun game that you can play during Operation Pillar of Cloud. Try it with your family, friends and co-workers today!Israel Apologist Bingo is a fun game that you can play during Operation Pillar of... more
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A well kept secret? Many young Jews are questioning the wisdom of voting Obama. You won't see it in the msm, but you can see it in the movie that is the subject of this article.
A Jewish themed video about the U.S. presidential race that has “gone viral” has been nearly completely ignored by the mainstream media, which may not be all that surprising.
What is a cause for concern is that the Jewish media has failed to report on it as well.
“Absolutely Uncertain: Obama, Israel & the Nuclear Threat” was published on YouTube on September 26 by RightChange and is just under 19 minutes long. The video can be seen by clicking here. (Note: some of the dress is not in line with halakha).
According to the news website The Blaze, the video generated 650,000 hits in its first three days online. The article can be found by clicking here..
"Absolutely Uncertain”was at nearly two million views by October 7, 2012. Given the press attention Sarah Silverman’s pro-Obama video received in 2008 this is especially alarming. According to YouTube Silverman’s video has only 2,166,148 views as of October 7. Measured another way, Silverman’s video has just over 7,000 Likes and“Absolutely Uncertain” has earned just under 5,000 Likes.
Why isn’t the media, mainstream or Jewish, covering this obviously popular and influential video on Obama's views on Israel?
As The Blaze details “Irina, the 23-year-old “Jewish New Yorker” who narrates much of the documentary, explains that she has always seen American-Israeli relations as a cornerstone of American politics, reaching into both parties.”
Is the reason that the video has been ignored the overwhelming allegiance to the Democratic party that so much of the American Jewish establishment leadership has so aptly exhibited since the days of FDR?
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency / JTA newswire has not reported on “Absolutely Uncertain.” JTA is funded in large part by the Jewish Federation system. Many Jewish community newspapers depend on JTA for their national news and are also funded by Federations. It is worth noting that The Jerusalem Post has an editorial calling the privately-sponsored video a Republican campaign film and explaining that the link to the film was sent to JPost readers as a paid advertisement.
It should be clear from the popularity of “Absolutely Uncertain” that many Jews, especially young, committed Jews, are questioning the wisdom of supporting the Democratic party.
The question remains what future does the Jewish Federation system have in the U.S. if it continues to be so unabashedly one-sided? Can U.S. Jewish leaders afford to alienate even more Jews - and young Jews at that?
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12280A well kept secret? Many young Jews are questioning the wisdom of voting Obama. You... more
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Under the guise of "fighting anti-Semistism", the California State Assembly approved a resolution calling on colleges and universities in the state to stifle free speech and demonstrations regarding Israel, Zionism and Jewish issues.
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The California State Assembly approved a resolution calling on colleges and universities in the state to combat anti-Semitism.
The symbolic resolution was approved Tuesday with no debate, according to The Associated Press. It also calls on the schools to quash campus demonstrations against Israel.
Pro-Palestinian and free speech activists were angered by the resolution, saying it characterizes pro-Palestinian speech as anti-Jewish.
A University of California spokesman told the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday that it would not support the resolution, saying that it violates the First Amendment.
The resolution was authored by state Assemblywoman Linda Halderman, a Republican from Fresno. Some 66 of the Assembly's 80 members signed the resolution as co-authors.
Jewish students reportedly have felt under siege at several University of California campuses, where pro-Palestinian demonstrations are a regular occurrence.
In one incident, in February 2010, 11 Muslim students stood one by one and interrupted a speech by Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, at the University of California, Irvine. They also shouted "Mass murderer!" and "War criminal!" before being removed from the room by campus police.Under the guise of "fighting anti-Semistism", the California State Assembly... more
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A seemingly endless debate over politics, religion and territory is coming to a train station near you.
An explosive ad about Israel is now igniting a firestorm of controversy.
The display shows shrinking Palestinian territory in Israel over the years and refers to 4.7 million Palestinians there as refugees.
The ads are appearing in 50 Metro-North stations.
At the train station in White Plains, the politically-charged ad was raising eyebrows.
"That's quite amazing if you ask me," one man told CBS 2′s Scott Rapoport.
Some Jewish leaders said they were concerned.
"I think the ad is very offensive, it's certainly offensive to Jews," said Dovid Efune, the the editor of the Jewish newspaper "The Algemeiner."
Efune said the ad is anti-Semitic.
"It paints Jews as aggressors, as imperialists, as people that are stealing or taking land from others," Efune said.
Henry Clifford, the chairman of a group called the Committee for Peace in Israel and Palestine, spent $25,000 of his own money on the ads.
"The Palestinian people have lost most of their homeland and the map shows exactly what is happened to them," Clifford said.
When asked what he hopes to get out of the ad campaign, Clifford responded by saying he wants to "educate people."
"Simply to open their eyes and let them see what has happened on the map," he said.
The advertisements have caught the eye of commuters in White Plains as well.
"I thought it was all settled back in the 1970s with the 6 Day War," one man responded.
"My reaction is why is there an anti-Israel ad sitting here at the train station?" asked Cliff Argintar, of Hoboken, N.J.
Efune is calling for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to take the ads down. However, the MTA said it doesn't restrict ads on the basis of viewpoint and while it doesn't endorse the ad, the posters will remain up.
The Anti-Defamation League, for its part, called the ads "Deliberately misleading, biased and fundamentally anti-Israel."A seemingly endless debate over politics, religion and territory is coming to a train... more
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Interesting video. Not too sure what to make of it.
A rabbi claims that the days of "open anti-semitism" are over and suggests that a group of Jewish special forces will kill any open groups of anti-semites just like they do with Muslims.
I'm not sure who will be the one to determine who is an "anti-semite" or if the killings will be done through any legal channels.Interesting video. Not too sure what to make of it.
A rabbi claims that the days of... more
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The Holocaust is very important to President Obama as he claims that his uncle liberated concentration camps during WW2.
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President Obama named or renamed seven members of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.
The selections -- all donors to Democrats -- included representatives from the entertainment, social media and human rights sectors, as well as a past AIPAC president.
They are:
* Amy Friedkin, based in San Francisco and a major donor to Jewish and Democratic causes, is a past president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and is close to Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the minority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.
* Susan Lowenberg, also from San Francisco, is a real estate magnate and has served on the board of a number of Jewish groups, including the American Jewish World Service and the San Francisco JCC. She is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
* Deborah Oppenheimer is executive vice president at NBCUniversal International Television Production. The daughter of Holocaust survivor parents, she won an Academy Award in 2000 for producing "Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport."
* Cheryl Peisach, the daughter of a survivor, is a Florida-based importer and distributor of flowers.
* Richard Price, who heads Mesirow Financial, a financial services firm, is a major player in Chicago-area philanthropy.
* Elliot Schrage, based in the San Francisco Bay area, is the vice president for communications at Facebook. He has been a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and served on the board of the International League for Human Rights.
All of the appointees have given predominantly to Democrats, although a number also have given occasionally to Republicans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X1nEEPGYlU&list=UUTvbY2GkErHc1mudHfouicA&index=4&feature=plcpThe Holocaust is very important to President Obama as he claims that his uncle... more
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What a very strange article.
Current has blocked the the URL from the original article posted at the Times Of Israel as spam, so I have to use an alternate link which is from international jazz musician and author, Gilad Atzmon.
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/jews-do-control-the-media.html
Here are a few exerpts from the bizarre ramblings of one Elad Nehorai who uses the pseudonym "Manny Friedman" for this particular article.
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We Whos are a funny breed. We love to brag about every Who-ish actor. Sometimes we even pretend an actor is Who-ish just because we like him enough that we think he deserves to be on our team. We brag about Who-ish authors, Who-ish politicians, Who-ish directors. Every time someone mentions any movie or book or piece of art, we inevitably say something like, “Did you know that he was Who-ish?” That’s just how we roll.
Let’s be honest with ourselves, here, fellow Whos. WE DO CONTROL THE MEDIA.
We’ve got so many dudes up in the executive offices in all the big movie production companies it’s almost obscene. Just about every movie or TV show, whether it be “Tropic Thunder” or “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” is rife with actors, directors, and writers who are Who-ish. Did you know that all eight major film studios are run by Whos?
The truth is, the anti-Semites got it right. We Whos have something planted in each one of us that makes us completely different from every group in the world. We’re talking about a group of people that just got put in death camps, endured pogroms, their whole families decimated. And then they came to America, the one place that ever really let them have as much power as they wanted, and suddenly they’re taking over. Please don’t tell me that any other group in the world has ever done that. Only the Whos. And we’ve done it before.
Of course, people hate when anyone says this. They assume that if you’re saying that Whos are special, it somehow implies that they’re better.
To be honest, I’m not really sure what the word “better” even means. What I do know is that being special simply means a person has a responsibility to do good.
I think that’s the real reason most Whos are so afraid to admit that there’s something inherently powerful and good about them. Not because they’re afraid of being special. But because they’re afraid of being responsible. It means that they’re suddenly culpable when they create dirty TV shows that sully the spiritual atmosphere of the world. It means that things can’t just be created for the sake of amusement or fun or even “art.”What a very strange article.
Current has blocked the the URL from the original... more
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What a very strange article.
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We Whos are a funny breed. We love to brag about every Who-ish actor. Sometimes we even pretend an actor is Who-ish just because we like him enough that we think he deserves to be on our team. We brag about Who-ish authors, Who-ish politicians, JWho-ish directors. Every time someone mentions any movie or book or piece of art, we inevitably say something like, “Did you know that he was Who-ish?” That’s just how we roll.
Let’s be honest with ourselves, here, fellow Whos. We do control the media. We’ve got so many dudes up in the executive offices in all the big movie production companies it’s almost obscene. Just about every movie or TV show, whether it be “Tropic Thunder” or “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” is rife with actors, directors, and writers who are Who-ish. Did you know that all eight major film studios are run by Whos?
Of course, people hate when anyone says this. They assume that if you’re saying that Whos are special, it somehow implies that they’re better.
To be honest, I’m not really sure what the word “better” even means. What I do know is that being special simply means a person has a responsibility to do good.
I think that’s the real reason most Whos are so afraid to admit that there’s something inherently powerful and good about them. Not because they’re afraid of being special. But because they’re afraid of being responsible. It means that they’re suddenly culpable when they create dirty TV shows that sully the spiritual atmosphere of the world. It means that things can’t just be created for the sake of amusement or fun or even “art.”What a very strange article.
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We Whos are a funny breed. We love to brag... more
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So much for seperation of church and state. Let me guess, the other 3% goes to atheist and abortion groups?
Interesting how the article uses the 2009 Holocaust museum attack as an excuse for DHS to funnel money into Jewish front groups when the only person who was killed was a Black security guard.
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While the budget has shrunk in recent years, the threat to Jewish institutions has not changed; as a result, Jewish non-profits will receive a record percentage of the funds.
Jewish non-profit organizations in the United States will receive 97% of the funds granted by the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year 2013, money which is aimed at dealing with security threats those institutions face.
In 2013, Jewish institutions in the U.S. will receive $9.7 million, or 97% of the funds intended for dealing with security threats, as part of the Vital Nonprofit Security Grants distributed by the Department of Homeland Security.
In 2009, when the white supremacist James W. von Brunn opened fire at the Washington Holocaust Museum, killing a guard, Jewish NGOs received over $9 million out of $15 million allocated to 227 non-profit organizations, aimed to "bolster the security of nonprofit institutions deemed by the Department of Homeland Security to be vulnerable to terrorist attacks."
In 2010, Jewish institutions received $15 million of the total sum of $19 million distributed by Homeland Security.
However, in recent years the budget has been shrinking, while the threat level has not changed, resulting in Jewish non-profits - community centers, schools, hospitals, synagogues and charities – primed to receive a record percentage of next year's non-profit funding.
"I'd gladly trade out threat level not to qualify for these grants," William Daroff, vice president for Public Policy of The Jewish Federations of North America told Haaretz.So much for seperation of church and state. Let me guess, the other 3% goes to atheist... more
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Do these groups ever do anything else but complain?
I mean, not one but two student groups invited Louis Farakahn to speak, the school approved the invitation and Farrakahn accepted the invitation.
I don't know what these complainers have anything to do with Farakahn speaking here. If they don't like what Farrakahn says, then they don't have to attend the presentation.
End of story.
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Farrakhan is scheduled to address students at Elmore Gymnasium on April 10th. A coalition of student groups asked the long time Nation of Islam head to come earlier this month, saying Farrakhan brings a message of “hope and positive energy.” But Jewish groups in north Alabama scoffed at that assessment, calling it outrageous and insulting. The 78 year-old leader has a long history of anti-Semitic statements, along with other disparaging racial remarks.
“All I can say is shame on A&M for allowing him [Farrakhan] to come,” said Etz Chayim synagogue member Max Rosenthal. “We [Jews] are related to Satan according to Mr. Farrakhan…Mr. Farrakhan is a rabid hate-monger, a rabid anti-Semite, and I think all he’s going to do is try to poison the minds of the A&M students. It’s a real disaster to the community, and I believe it’s going to be very divisive.”
The Alabama A&M Poetry Club and Alabama A&M Democrats were two of the student groups that invited Mr. Farrakhan to campus. Poetry club president Kris Taylor says A&M administrators gave the go-ahead for Farrakhan to come, and called criticism of his past remarks overblown.
“There’s going to be positive energy coming from this,” said Taylor. “I don’t believe he’s going to come here and bash the Jews…There should be no division when you’re trying to uplift and bring positive energy to something.”Do these groups ever do anything else but complain?
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LOL. at junk science and deceptive journalism.
The article specifically states that "Propranolol had no effect on a different measure of "explicit" racial prejudice, religious and sexual prejudice, or prejudice against drug addicts" but the headline alleges that the drug "combats racism."
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Volunteers given the beta-blocker, used to treat chest pains and lower heart rates, scored lower on a standard psychological test of "implicit" racist attitudes.
Experimental psychologist Dr Sylvia Terbeck, from Oxford University, who led the study published in the journal Psychopharmacology, said: "Our results offer new evidence about the processes in the brain that shape implicit racial bias.
"Implicit racial bias can occur even in people with a sincere belief in equality. Given the key role that such implicit attitudes appear to play in discrimination against other ethnic groups, and the widespread use of propranolol for medical purposes, our findings are also of considerable ethical interest."
Two groups of 18 participants took part in the study. Each volunteer was asked to undertake a "racial Implicit Association Test" (IAT) one to two hours after taking propranolol or the placebo.
The test involved categorising positive and negative words, and pictures of black and white individuals, on a computer screen.
More than a third of the volunteers had a "negative" IAT score, meaning they were biased towards being non-racist at a subconscious level. This was not seen in any member of the placebo group.
Propranolol had no effect on a different measure of "explicit" racial prejudice, religious and sexual prejudice, or prejudice against drug addicts.
These were tested using a "feeling thermometer" psychological tool used for assessing explicit prejudice. Volunteers were asked to rate how "warm" they felt towards different groups on a 10-point scale analogous to a thermometer.
The scientists wrote: "The main finding of our study is that propranolol significantly reduced implicit but not explicit racial bias."LOL. at junk science and deceptive journalism.
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Excerpts from the article Sayanim - Israeli Operatives in the U.S. from Guilt By Association author Jeff Gates.
A bit legthy, but well worth the time reading if you want to begin to understand anything about US foreign policy.
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The Sayanim System
When Israeli-American Jonathan Pollard was arrested for spying in 1986, Tel Aviv assured us that he was not an Israeli agent but part of a “rogue” operation. That was a lie.
Only 12 years later did Tel Aviv concede that he was an Israeli spy the entire time he was stealing U.S. military secrets. That espionage—by a purported ally—damaged our national security more than any operation in U.S. history.
In short, Israel played us for the fool.
From 1981-1985, this U.S. Navy intelligence analyst provided Israel with 360 cubic feet of classified military documents on Soviet arms shipments, Pakistani nuclear weapons, Libyan air defense systems and other intelligence sought by Tel Aviv to advance its geopolitical agenda.
Agents differ from assets and sayanim. Agents possess the requisite mental state to be convicted of treason, a capital crime. Under U.S. law, that internal state is what distinguishes premeditated murder from a lesser crime such as involuntary manslaughter. Though there’s a death in either case, the legal liabilities are different—for a reason.
Sayanim (singular sayan) are shielded from conventional legal culpability by being told only enough to perform their narrow role. Though their help may be essential to the success of an Israeli operation, these volunteers (sayanim also means helpers) could pass a polygraph test because their recruiters ensure they remain ignorant of the overall goals of an operation.
In other words, a sayan can operate as an accomplice but still not be legally liable due to a lack of the requisite intent regarding the broader goals—of which they are purposely kept ignorant. Does that intentional “ignorance” absolve them of liability under U.S. law? So far, yes.
Much like military reservists, sayanim are activated when needed to support an operation. By agreeing to be available to help Israel, they provide an on-call undercover corps and force-multiplier that can be deployed on short notice.
How are sayanim called to action? To date, there’s been no attempt by U.S. officials to clarify that key point. This may explain why Pollard was again in the news on July 13th with a high-profile Israeli commemoration of his 9000th day of incarceration.
Morris Amitay, former executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, explains how this invisible cadre aids the Israel lobby in advancing its geopolitical agenda:
“There are a lot of guys at the working level up here [on Capitol Hill]…who happen to be Jewish, who are willing…to look at certain issues in terms of their Jewishness…These are all guys who are in a position to make the decision in these areas for those senators…You can get an awful lot done just at the staff level.”
Victor Ostrovksy, a former Mossad katsa (case officer) wrote in 1990 that the Mossad had 7,000 sayanim in London alone. In London’s 1990 population of 6.8 million, Israel’s all-volunteer corps represented one-tenth of one percent of the residents of that capital city.
If Washington, DC is ten times more critical to Israel’s geopolitical goals (an understatement), does that mean the FBI should expect to find ten times more sayanim per capita in Washington?
What sayanim are not told by their katsas is that an Israeli operation may endanger not only Israel but also the broader Jewish community when these operations are linked to extremism, terrorism, organized crime, espionage and treason. Though sayanim “must be 100 percent Jewish,” Ostrovsky reports in By Way of Deception (1990).Excerpts from the article Sayanim - Israeli Operatives in the U.S. from Guilt By... more
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California Jews Shake Down Mel Gibson For Reparations
Does it ever end? Get a load of this…
Congregation Beth Shalom in Corona, California has sent Mel Gibson a letter in hopes of guilting him into forking over some cash to bail them out of a bad investment they made on their local synagogue. Apparently, the group took out a giant loan that they can’t afford to pay back and are now facing foreclosure.
In a move reminiscent of something out of post-war Germany, the Southern California synagogue is looking to Gibson as though he should pay some kind of “Holocaust” style reparations for the so-called anti-Semitic tirade he made back in 2006.
I guess it’s not enough that Mel has already spent millions of dollars contributing to Jewish charities, including $5 million to the Jewish Cedars Sinai Hospital. Not to mention getting down on his knees and apologizing to the Jewish community on numerous occassions—only to have his career railroaded anyway.
Entertainment website TMZ apparently got their hands on the letter. Here’s what it says:
“Our proposal to you, Mr. Gibson, is since you have been cited as an Anti-Semitic, and have denied those allegations, what better way to prove to all your fans and the nay Sayers — than to endorse and help raise funds for our cause — SOS, Save Our Synagogue…“Mr. Gibson, we offer you to be a Mensch and make a sizable contribution to our cause.”
That’s what you call CHUTZPAH, folks!
Congregation Beth Shalom is affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism and, as a Reform synagogue, strives to help Jews and their families live Jewish lives, rich in the traditions of our people.California Jews Shake Down Mel Gibson For Reparations
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There is evidence that in 1991 an Israeli undercover team planned to assassinate a U.S. President. The intended victim was George Herbert Walker Bush.
The first person to write of the plot was a former 11-term Republican Congressman from Illinois, Paul Findley. In a 1992 article in the Washington Report for Middle East Affairs.
On January 13th the Atlanta Jewish Times featured a column by its owner-publisher suggesting that Israel might someday need to “order a hit” on the president of the United States.
In the column, publisher Andrew Adler describes a scenario in which Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu would need to “give the go-ahead for U.S. based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel.”
Numerous Jewish leaders quickly condemned Adler, who has now apologized for the column, resigned, and there are some reports that he plans to put the newspaper up for sale. An Israeli columnist noted that the hatred being stirred up against Obama is similar to conditions in Israel that led to the murder of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a Jewish extremist.
Many of those criticizing Adler claim that he had defamed Israel by suggesting that it would ever do such a thing. Abe Foxman, head of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL) proclaimed: “There is absolutely no excuse, no justification, no rationalization for this kind of rhetoric. It doesn’t even belong in fiction.”
In reality, however, Adler’s expectation that Israel’s inner circles have explored such a course of action, and would be willing to undertake it, may be entirely accurate. The fact is that Israel has killed and plotted to assassinate people throughout the world; a number have been Americans. One alleged plot was chillingly similar to Adler’s suggestion.There is evidence that in 1991 an Israeli undercover team planned to assassinate a... more
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