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There is something very disturbing going on with the University of California school systems that is more serious than over-inflated allegations of anti-Semitism and hate crimes on college campuses in California, and that is special interest bully pulpit attempt by some Jews to get regulations passed that outlaw any kind of speech that that basically rejects the Zionist project in Israel as a Jewish State. This is a very serious attack on free speech in one of America’s college systems. Trying to broaden the definition of anti-Semitism as “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination and denying Israel the right to exist” is clearly political blackmail. For several years now various Jewish right-wing organizations and individuals have been waging a political battle against criticism of Israel and Zionism and now it is focusing more and more on American campuses. See video: BDS Grows Across College Campuses.
Alarming: Some Jews and Zionists Are Using Exaggerated Hysteria to Destroy Free Speech on UC Campuses
By Grady Grip
[Note: There is a legitimate reason why this essay is written under a pseudonym—it is because of the controversial nature of this complaint. In this world people who speak truth to power can find themselves and their reputations destroyed such as some professors who get to critical of Israeli politics. If it was safe to put real name to this message I would do it—but the truth is that many people are afraid to criticize Israel, Zionists and Jews because they know they will be attacked in many ways. Steven Salaita was fired from the UI at Urbana-Champaign for posting tweets critical to Israel’s role in Gaza. Zionist fanatic Alan Dershowitz succeeds in destroying the teaching career of Norman Fickelstein, etc., with other examples as a real war on free speech. So the arguments herein must stand on their own merits. Also if broader definitions of anti-Semitism are enacted you would not be allowed to learn of this letter or the article attached below. Contentious speech especially needs to be protected.]
[Note 2: The Regents of the Regents of University of California System need to take their time and not rush into anything rash just because some vociferous people are trying to use emotional blackmail and supposed morality to get their way. These campuses need a new Free Speech Movement like back in the 1970s when upper class kids were finally getting riled up about America’s involvement in slaughtering millions of Asians in Indonesia. It doesn’t need a ball and chain status in a world in which even much of the mainstream media has been corrupted.]
[Note 3: If you feel this message is important, then by all means, email, fax, print, manually mail, propagate, tweet, twitter, and publish to all that might care. It is very important other people help spread worthy ideas and arguments. There is a very serious battle going on in America and we cannot allow psychological blackmail to win out.]
There is something very disturbing going on with the University of California school systems that is more serious than over-inflated allegations of anti-Semitism and hate crimes on college campuses in California, and that is special interest bully pulpit attempt by some Jews to get regulations passed that outlaw any kind of speech that that basically rejects the Zionist project in Israel as a Jewish State. See: University Of California May Give Students Right To Not Be Offended by Blake Neff at: http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/11/university-of-california-may-give-students-right-to-not-be-offended/
This is a very serious attack on free speech in one of America’s college systems. Trying to broaden the definition of anti-Semitism as “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination and denying Israel the right to exist” is clearly political blackmail—and frankly there has been far too much political blackmail by Zionists around the world—especially regarding censoring unpopular ideas they do not want circulated (and too often ideas showing how the history of modern Zionism has really operated). Take for example some history journals refusing to allow advertisements of the following well documented book: Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel by Alison Weir, see: http:/http://www.IfAmericansKnew.Org or http://www.amazon.com/Against-Our-Better-Judgment-History/dp/149591092X.
For several years now various Jewish right-wing organizations and individuals have been waging a political battle against criticism of Israel and Zionism and now it is focusing more and more on American campuses. See video: BDS Grows Across College Campuses at: https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2KIo9cFQv5VoCkAFbssnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByN2RnbHFoBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDdmlkBHZ0aWQDBGdwb3MDMw--?p=Adelson+sheldon+Bias+On+College+Campus&vid=711cf2e890d1cc2683c7f7dc3567dca3&turl=http%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DWN.qVH0ju47lApMKIPuSZp2Uw%26pid%3D15.1%26h%3D172%26w%3D300%26c%3D7%26rs%3D1&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhttp://www.dailymotion.com%2Fvideo%2Fx2tcvlr&tit=BDS+Grows+Across+College+Campuses&c=2&h=172&w=300&l=173&sigr=1189fvn71&sigt=111sr2om4&sigi=12l1d6lj4&age=1433891032&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&fr=yhs-mozilla-004&hsimp=yhs-004&hspart=mozilla&tt=b
To give an idea how prevalent this is here is a small sampling of articles one can read on the internet—there are many more:
Silencing Dissent: How Biased Civil Rights Policies Stifle Dialogue on Israel at: http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/silencing-dissent-how-biased-civil-rights-policies-stifle-dialogue-on-israel
Right-Wing Thought Police: Assault Free Speech on Campus at: http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CX5348-ThoughtPolice.htm
Israel’s War on American Universities | Common Dreams - See more at: http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/israels-war-on-american-universities-common-dreams-11902#sthash.c2pKprUU.dpuf
It’s happening in Israel too. See: The full story behind the war against free speech in Israel’s Universitiesat: https://electronicintifada.net/content/full-story-behind-war-against-free-speech-israels-universities/11783
Conservative activist admits responsibility for #JewHaters posters at UCLAat: http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/conservative_activist_david_horowitz_admits_responsibility_for_posters
Israel's War on American Universities by Chris Hedges at: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Israel-s-War-on-American-U-by-Chris-Hedges-AIPAC_Academics_Activists_Boycott-140317-525.html
Right-wing groups creating climate of fear at Israeli Universities at: https://electronicintifada.net/content/right-wing-groups-creating-climate-fear-israeli-universities/8533
The Jewish War On Free Speech by Br Nathanael Kapnerat: http://abundanthope.net/pages/True_US_History_108/The-Jewish-War-On-Free-Speech.shtml
Obviously some people are waking up to some Jews yelling and screaming about feelings of intimidation and fear by supposedly anti-Semites. And not surprisingly too often it is a tactic of reverse psychological intimidation. People have been so beaten by the constant guilt-trip Christians and Nazi’s destroying Jews. The anti-Semite card is used all the time to cow people in giving in to more Israeli and Zionist demands. Few people dare directly challenge this emotional game of intimidation.
And it also turns out that some so called swastika vandalism events were actually carried out by Jewish person pretending to be non-Jewish anti-Semites in order to create false panic and hysterical alarm about in trying to project a climate of how supposedly terrible the environment is for Jewish students. This pattern has been found out several times around the country.
It is easy to alleged one is victim to some hate crime when no one really knows who really carried it out, such as etching “Hitler did nothing wrong” or a message found in a campus saying “Zionists should be sent to a gas chamber”. Too often no one knows who really carries out these things and no doubt some are really acts of anti-Zionism or anti-Semitism.
If you read about the concept “swastika vandalism” at: http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Swastika_vandalism
The article, that delineates specific instances of Jews carrying out this sort of thing, starts out:
Swastika Vandalism is vandalism aimed at garnering sympathy for victims of faith-hatred (or other minorities) for some kind of political or (sometimes) personal reason/gain. It is sometimes referred to as a "false-flag" because it has at times been carried out by members of the "persecuted minority" themselves.
Of course no one really knows how often alleged acts of anti-Semitism are true—surely some are. But when we look at the ADL website we can read some statements from their annual audit at: http://www.adl.org/anti-semitism/united-states/c/2014-audit-of-anti-semitic-incidents.html#.Vf351ZdbqM8
The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States increased by 21 percent in 2014 in a year marked by a violent anti-Semitic shooting attack targeting Jewish community buildings in Kansas and anti-Jewish expressions linked to the war in Gaza.
The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents counted a total of 912 anti-Semitic incidents across the U.S. during the 2014 calendar year. This represents a 21 percent increase from the 751 incidents reported during the same period in 2013, and is the first time in nearly a decade of declines where the overall number of incidents has substantially risen.
Despite the increase in incidents, the total number of anti-Semitic acts still represents one of the lowest totals of anti-Semitic acts reported by ADL since it started keeping records in 1979. Still, the Audit has also identified new trends in anti-Semitic incidents, including the phenomenon of hacking attacks on community and synagogue websites by overseas hackers, which multiplied in 2014.
The ADL Audit cited a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents during the 50 days of conflict between Hamas and Israel beginning with air raids on July 7 and into the subsequent ground invasion in Gaza to root out Hamas rockets and tunnels. Anti-Semitism manifested on the fringe of anti-Israel movements during and after Israel’s Operation Protective Edge as Jewish individuals and institutions became the targets of anti-Semitic rhetoric and acts of vandalism…
Whereas if we realize there are supposedly about 20.6 million college students in the United States, and if we were to assume 1000 incidents of alleged anti-Semitism happened that would be about 1 for every 20,000 students. But not all reports are from colleges but rather from a much larger statistic—the population of the United States that is over 300,000,000.
An ADL audit for two years earlier 2012 is at: http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/anti-semitism-usa/adl-audit-us-anti-semitic-incidents-declined-14-percent.html
It starts out: “ADL Audit: U.S. Anti-Semitic Incidents Declined 14 Percent in 2012: Continuing Two-Year Downward Trend” and later in that report we get the act number of incidents reported on colleges across the country: “The ADL Audit reported a significant increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus during 2012. A total of 61 incidents were reported on college campuses, compared with 22 incidents reported in 2011.”
Within this report it also expresses how ‘opinions’ (not acts of intimidation) are anti-Semitic:
Some of those incidents included the use of anti-Semitic imagery under the guise of anti-Israel activism, with conspiracy theories about Jewish political and economic control being voiced on campus. For example, at a May “Palestine Liberation Week” program at the University of California, Irvine, Amir Abdul Malik Ali, a Northern California-based imam, claimed that “Zionists” were responsible for the financial crisis in the U.S. He also argued that Zionism is a corrupting force for “Jews who believe in it.” At Northeastern Illinois University in March, Gilad Atzmon, a self-described Israeli “ex-Jew” who has described Judaism as “extremist, chauvinist [and] racist,” used Holocaust-related language to demonize the State of Israel and reiterated conspiracy theories.
Personally I’ve read several of Gilad Atzmon’s criticisms of Israel and he far from being some blatant anti-Semite. Rather he contributes important and critical insights to those who are not deterred from reading his stuff. His right to be heard is exactly what America should be all about. It is time for young people everywhere to read famous quotations on free speech such as those many by John Stuart Mills. It’s contentious and radical free speech that deserves defending—not the stuff that has no power to offend. Read Zionists Latest Anti-Semitic Inducing Provocation: Trying to Destroy a Highly Worthy and Sane Nuclear Deal with Iranby Sea Shelly (found on the Internet). This type of intelligent discussion is exactly what Zionists are trying to suppress and make it illegal to discuss. Such an article would not be allowed and yet it should have the right to be heard.
Salomon Rushdie would be imprisoned under this kind of wolf in sheep skin repression.
So it seems rather obvious this censoring attack at the University of California is sinister as it conflates ugly opinions (which all people have a right to hold since we live in a world where very ugly things happen) with the concept of anti-Semitism equals anything that criticizes Jews or Zionists or Israelis in any way that seems of feels hostile. This is really an insidious game being underhandedly played (and of course this very essay too will be called anti-Semitic because it frustrates the Zionist agenda).
We are not talking about people being beaten up or physically attacked (by far in most incidents). 61 incidents in 2012 over a 20 million population of college students is not a super huge phenomenon. 20 million divided by 100 equals 1 alleged victim for every 200,000 students. Granted it would be ideal if humankind lived in some utopia and this counterargument is not meant to not take serious what truly is serious even it actual occurrences are statistically small.
But more to the point the screaming of anti-Semitism has little to nothing to do with the truth value of an opinion such as someone who argues “Zionists are responsible for the financial crisis” or “Israel was behind 9/11” or “Hitler did not do anything wrong”, etc. but rather trying to destroy the right to share an ugly or critical opinion by creating laws that criticize something about Israel regardless of whether the so-called anti-Semitic statements is true or not. This is really the notion of extremist totalitarianism.
Just maybe Hitler was far less the monster than many of us have been lead to believe? Some historian opinions who argue such have been outlawed as anti-Semitic in Europe. Maybe Israel was in fact involved in 9/11—doesn’t that idea deserve proper examination—rather than rejecting the notion as not fit to think about. Granted a lot of people do not want to think about it.
Some people want to live in a mental bubble in which they can believe that Jewish peoples and Zionists never do anything wrong and are always history’s victims. Yet there are some theories out there that paint a very different picture (they are labeled conspiracy theories to denigrate them so people will be less prone to explore them).
The question is not trying to create the impossible—a world of make believe in which Zionist can do whatever they want and no one will be allowed to question their behavior. The question is more the need for people to get out of their conceited bubbles and dare looking at alternative explanations that sometimes seen more real and true than what they currently think. See this important article: Campus is seen as next battleground against Iran Deal — by ‘rightwing fanatics’ Annie Robbins at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/09/battleground-rightwing-fanatics?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=c724b6059b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-c724b6059b-309261654 And it is important to realize after reading some of these references that campus Hillel are directly involved and they cannot claim some kind of neutrality.
Alternative explanations on the history of World War 2 that are different than the Zionist-dominated explanations we have been inundated with for decades do not automatically make them evil even if they paint Zionism with a brush that suggest unethical behavior by some Zionists. These alternative explanations are often called Holocaust Denial or World War 2 Revisionism and are being outlawed in various countries in Europe and elsewhere. This kind of double standard is desperately insane. See:
“Laws against Holocaust denial” at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial
Also see: “Israel Campaigns Against Global Free Speech” at: https://alethonews.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/israel-campaigns-against-global-free-speech/
and “Hate-Speech Hypocrites: How can we ban hate speech against Jews while defending mockery of Muslims?” at: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2012/09/free_speech_vs_hate_speech_why_is_it_legal_to_insult_muslims_but_not_jews_.html
and “Criminalizing Criticism: A Zionist Project – An Analysis” by Lawrence Davidson at: http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2015/06/criminalizing-criticism-a-zionist-project-an-analysis-by-lawrence-davidson/
But more alarming is the likelihood that college and university politics of allegations of anti-Semitism is the possibility people learn of some disturbing but possibly important truths that require they see their relationship with Israel in new ways.
There has been too much hysteria acted out to manipulate freedom of speech rules not just on campuses but around the world and including our country. In fact many organizations and people get their very ideas about prejudice from Zionist organizations such as ADL and Southern Poverty Law Center, themselves biased as even some ADL groups have been involved in promoting anti-Muslimism. See another eye-opening article: Anti-Muslim bigotry is being funded by the Israel-right-or-wrong crowd by EllyBulkin and Donna Nevel at: http://mondoweiss.net/2012/10/anti-muslim-bigotry-is-being-funded-by-the-israel-right-or-wrong-crowd#sthash.ydjGrZPm.dpuf (in this article we see ADL sometimes gets involved in promoting such prejudice (as they do far too little to combat anti-Muslimism even though for example the Palestinians are far more related to the ancient Israelis than modern Caucasian Jews who mostly have no DNA connection what-so-ever)).
So this political battle is about far more than allegations of anti-Semitism on college campuses. This is a continuation of trying to quell curiosity and true free speech. Americans, including many Jewish-Americans are far more naïve about things than reality seems to be. People have a right and duty to learn ugly truths.
Another current example of this is how this whole ISIS/ ISIL phenomenon as explained by the mainstream media is very different than what Americans are being told. It seems as reported from multiple sources it is a secret plan to fight another of Israel’s enemies—namely the Bashar Assad regime of Syria (but Israel of course isn’t taking any refugees). See a smattering of alternative explanations that suggest the world is being deeply lied to by mainstream media:
http://govtslaves.info/site-intelligence-group-released-beheading-video-isis/
http://investmentwatchblog.com/we-trained-him-well-and-we-had-lots-of-help-from-america-u-s-training-helped-mold-top-islamic-state-military-commander/
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/us-drones-attack-syrias-military-disguised-as-an-airstrike-against-isis/
http://www.inspiretochangeworld.com/2015/09/isis-is-working-on-mossadcia-plan-to-create-greater-israel/
http://investmentwatchblog.com/state-department-whistleblower-exposes-covert-terrorist-funding/
http://investmentwatchblog.com/washington-was-planning-to-overthrow-syrian-government-years-before-2011-uprising/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/isis-j30.html
http://theinternationalreporter.org/2015/08/04/usa-turkey-and-israel-act-as-air-force-for-isis/
http://www.juancole.com/2015/09/israels-refugee-yarmouk.html
http://journal-neo.org/2015/09/11/western-media-hype-russian-aggression-in-syria/
If people start waking up to what has really been going on then there will be some anger and some finger pointing. Most Jews and Zionists don’t know either. Instead they want to maintain a status that what they believe in isinvariably true and any expression that implicates their people is obviously a lie and a hate crime. Furthermore they want everyone else in the world to continue to believe what seems their fantasy world.
Some choose to use the phrase “anti-Israel activist” rather than “anti-Zionist” because one apparent goal of this exaggerated fear-mongering to conflate the terms anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism as if the two meanings were the same—all neatly under the same rubric (as somehow always a moral crime whereas criticizing other nationals is seldom deserving of such a notorious conceptual symbol packed with so much obvious evil). As Sea Shelly writes: “No one complains about calling Muslims terrorists and accusing them of perpetrating 9/11”. That is to say no one is trying to outlaw that kind of free speech.
This way they can scream with so much histrionics ANTISEMITISM IS ON THE RISE on campuses, and yet they know it largely involves Israel. But there is a big war planned to kill free speech on American colleges due to the BDS movement. Sheldon Adelson is ready to spend millions of dollars to kill this intellectual movement on college campuses. These forms of anti-Semitism politics is not going away any time soon. And could some complainers actually be paid for this kind of thing? See: Adelson to Host Event on Anti-Semitism Within U.S. College Campuses by Suzanne Vega at: http://jpupdates.com/2015/06/02/adelson-to-host-event-on-anti-semitism-within-u-s-college-campuses/
I do not believe the extent of these claims made are as real as how the imagination works for rhetorical effect. Surely there are legitimate cases of anti-Semitism at play especially in a statistical field as large as the United States. And granted I’m not part of any campus system and I do not have firsthand experience—but I am well aware that one Zionist strategy in killing the message is ad hominem attack on the messenger. Exaggerating anti-Semitism, as crying wolf, is typical strategy rather than dealing with the actual realities that build anti-Zionist attitudes such as Israel’s horrific and war crime attacks on Palestinians last summer. Now Israel’s and AIPAC’s push to kill the Iran deal which is a better than a good deal.
People have a right to oppose the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine or old Canaan. This is not some Absolute-in-Stone concept all peoples simply should accept. There are good reasons to oppose any theocratic government or ethnocentric movement—no matter how some feel ordained. Such an opinion or argument should not be barred from discussion. Granted Israel doesn’t overtly call for the Palestine’s destruction—rather it practices it year after year with war crimes. Meanwhile Israel cries out about threats of being pushed into the sea—but it engages pushing Palestinians off the map.
What some people are calling for is the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism. See U.S. State Department Official Definition of 'Anti-Semitism’ - (Wow.) by Martin Hill at: http://libertyfight.com/2015/US_state_dept_official_definition_antisemitism.html
It is important that you read this citation because you can see how very broad and implicating such a political move is (and note many of the key positions held at the Department of State are people who are Jewish). It’s not a definition rather it is a jail cell composed of many iron bars.
Yet compare these supposed thought crimes to the actual crimes committed in Gaza last summer. See: Israeli Atrocities: NY activist students highlight Israeli crimes…Netanyahu Leverages Terror Threat To Further Colonial Expansion And More at: http://investmentwatchblog.com/israeli-atrocities-ny-activist-students-highlight-israeli-crimes-netanyahu-leverages-terror-threat-to-further-colonial-expansion-and-more/ and also see: Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza by Marjorie Cohn at: https://consortiumnews.com/2014/07/15/israels-war-crimes-in-gaza/
What Israel has been doing for years is not simply making people feel bad or merely hurling insults or allegations or posting hostile symbols but rather a whole litany of brutal and ferocious war crimes. The real question is why there have not been more loud and uproarious protests on college campuses and around the country? The reaction here in America has been tame. You could call it a charade and would still be less hyperbolic than the whiners and complainers who feel because they are Jewish they have some inevitable right to get their way here in America because Americans are naïve pushovers.
No doubt likely there are instances of anti-Semitism such as messages painted on doors. And surely not everyone protesting anti-Semitism is doing it under false premises. I do not discount the concern as real and yet I refuse to allow this type of easy exaggeration, especially in an implied statistical sense, to become red- herring because some Americans don’t want to know how much others are waking up to the atrocities in Israel and their overly zealous control they have practiced over our Government (especially Congress).
The goal expressed by some is to silence Jewish voices. This is “their”opinion (and it is a subjective opinion), which they certainly have a right, as few have heard of silenced Jewish voices in modern America.
But nor should any campus allow Jewish or Zionist voices to silence others who harbor righteous anger over the politics of the Israeli government. There are a lot of people who feel silenced by this typical Zionist self-righteousness. This is their style of intimidation and it has worked around the world rather well.
So it doesn’t matter if some Jewish Americans get angry and cry like babies because they can’t always get their way! It is time they grow up and realize other people have right too.
Amen
[Note: If you feel this message is important, then by all means, email, fax, print, manually mail, propagate, tweet, twitter, and publish to all that might care. It is very important other people help spread worthy ideas and arguments. There is a very serious battle going on in America and we cannot allow psychological blackmail to win out.]
By Grady Grip
[Note: There is a legitimate reason why this essay is written under a pseudonym—it is because of the controversial nature of this complaint. In this world people who speak truth to power can find themselves and their reputations destroyed such as some professors who get to critical of Israeli politics. If it was safe to put real name to this message I would do it—but the truth is that many people are afraid to criticize Israel, Zionists and Jews because they know they will be attacked in many ways. Steven Salaita was fired from the UI at Urbana-Champaign for posting tweets critical to Israel’s role in Gaza. Zionist fanatic Alan Dershowitz succeeds in destroying the teaching career of Norman Fickelstein, etc., with other examples as a real war on free speech. So the arguments herein must stand on their own merits. Also if broader definitions of anti-Semitism are enacted you would not be allowed to learn of this letter or the article attached below. Contentious speech especially needs to be protected.]
[Note 2: The Regents of the Regents of University of California System need to take their time and not rush into anything rash just because some vociferous people are trying to use emotional blackmail and supposed morality to get their way. These campuses need a new Free Speech Movement like back in the 1970s when upper class kids were finally getting riled up about America’s involvement in slaughtering millions of Asians in Indonesia. It doesn’t need a ball and chain status in a world in which even much of the mainstream media has been corrupted.]
[Note 3: If you feel this message is important, then by all means, email, fax, print, manually mail, propagate, tweet, twitter, and publish to all that might care. It is very important other people help spread worthy ideas and arguments. There is a very serious battle going on in America and we cannot allow psychological blackmail to win out.]
There is something very disturbing going on with the University of California school systems that is more serious than over-inflated allegations of anti-Semitism and hate crimes on college campuses in California, and that is special interest bully pulpit attempt by some Jews to get regulations passed that outlaw any kind of speech that that basically rejects the Zionist project in Israel as a Jewish State. See: University Of California May Give Students Right To Not Be Offended by Blake Neff at: http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/11/university-of-california-may-give-students-right-to-not-be-offended/
This is a very serious attack on free speech in one of America’s college systems. Trying to broaden the definition of anti-Semitism as “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination and denying Israel the right to exist” is clearly political blackmail—and frankly there has been far too much political blackmail by Zionists around the world—especially regarding censoring unpopular ideas they do not want circulated (and too often ideas showing how the history of modern Zionism has really operated). Take for example some history journals refusing to allow advertisements of the following well documented book: Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel by Alison Weir, see: http:/http://www.IfAmericansKnew.Org or http://www.amazon.com/Against-Our-Better-Judgment-History/dp/149591092X.
For several years now various Jewish right-wing organizations and individuals have been waging a political battle against criticism of Israel and Zionism and now it is focusing more and more on American campuses. See video: BDS Grows Across College Campuses at: https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2KIo9cFQv5VoCkAFbssnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByN2RnbHFoBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDdmlkBHZ0aWQDBGdwb3MDMw--?p=Adelson+sheldon+Bias+On+College+Campus&vid=711cf2e890d1cc2683c7f7dc3567dca3&turl=http%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DWN.qVH0ju47lApMKIPuSZp2Uw%26pid%3D15.1%26h%3D172%26w%3D300%26c%3D7%26rs%3D1&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhttp://www.dailymotion.com%2Fvideo%2Fx2tcvlr&tit=BDS+Grows+Across+College+Campuses&c=2&h=172&w=300&l=173&sigr=1189fvn71&sigt=111sr2om4&sigi=12l1d6lj4&age=1433891032&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&fr=yhs-mozilla-004&hsimp=yhs-004&hspart=mozilla&tt=b
To give an idea how prevalent this is here is a small sampling of articles one can read on the internet—there are many more:
Silencing Dissent: How Biased Civil Rights Policies Stifle Dialogue on Israel at: http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/silencing-dissent-how-biased-civil-rights-policies-stifle-dialogue-on-israel
Right-Wing Thought Police: Assault Free Speech on Campus at: http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CX5348-ThoughtPolice.htm
Israel’s War on American Universities | Common Dreams - See more at: http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/israels-war-on-american-universities-common-dreams-11902#sthash.c2pKprUU.dpuf
It’s happening in Israel too. See: The full story behind the war against free speech in Israel’s Universitiesat: https://electronicintifada.net/content/full-story-behind-war-against-free-speech-israels-universities/11783
Conservative activist admits responsibility for #JewHaters posters at UCLAat: http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/conservative_activist_david_horowitz_admits_responsibility_for_posters
Israel's War on American Universities by Chris Hedges at: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Israel-s-War-on-American-U-by-Chris-Hedges-AIPAC_Academics_Activists_Boycott-140317-525.html
Right-wing groups creating climate of fear at Israeli Universities at: https://electronicintifada.net/content/right-wing-groups-creating-climate-fear-israeli-universities/8533
The Jewish War On Free Speech by Br Nathanael Kapnerat: http://abundanthope.net/pages/True_US_History_108/The-Jewish-War-On-Free-Speech.shtml
Obviously some people are waking up to some Jews yelling and screaming about feelings of intimidation and fear by supposedly anti-Semites. And not surprisingly too often it is a tactic of reverse psychological intimidation. People have been so beaten by the constant guilt-trip Christians and Nazi’s destroying Jews. The anti-Semite card is used all the time to cow people in giving in to more Israeli and Zionist demands. Few people dare directly challenge this emotional game of intimidation.
And it also turns out that some so called swastika vandalism events were actually carried out by Jewish person pretending to be non-Jewish anti-Semites in order to create false panic and hysterical alarm about in trying to project a climate of how supposedly terrible the environment is for Jewish students. This pattern has been found out several times around the country.
It is easy to alleged one is victim to some hate crime when no one really knows who really carried it out, such as etching “Hitler did nothing wrong” or a message found in a campus saying “Zionists should be sent to a gas chamber”. Too often no one knows who really carries out these things and no doubt some are really acts of anti-Zionism or anti-Semitism.
If you read about the concept “swastika vandalism” at: http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Swastika_vandalism
The article, that delineates specific instances of Jews carrying out this sort of thing, starts out:
Swastika Vandalism is vandalism aimed at garnering sympathy for victims of faith-hatred (or other minorities) for some kind of political or (sometimes) personal reason/gain. It is sometimes referred to as a "false-flag" because it has at times been carried out by members of the "persecuted minority" themselves.
Of course no one really knows how often alleged acts of anti-Semitism are true—surely some are. But when we look at the ADL website we can read some statements from their annual audit at: http://www.adl.org/anti-semitism/united-states/c/2014-audit-of-anti-semitic-incidents.html#.Vf351ZdbqM8
The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States increased by 21 percent in 2014 in a year marked by a violent anti-Semitic shooting attack targeting Jewish community buildings in Kansas and anti-Jewish expressions linked to the war in Gaza.
The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents counted a total of 912 anti-Semitic incidents across the U.S. during the 2014 calendar year. This represents a 21 percent increase from the 751 incidents reported during the same period in 2013, and is the first time in nearly a decade of declines where the overall number of incidents has substantially risen.
Despite the increase in incidents, the total number of anti-Semitic acts still represents one of the lowest totals of anti-Semitic acts reported by ADL since it started keeping records in 1979. Still, the Audit has also identified new trends in anti-Semitic incidents, including the phenomenon of hacking attacks on community and synagogue websites by overseas hackers, which multiplied in 2014.
The ADL Audit cited a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents during the 50 days of conflict between Hamas and Israel beginning with air raids on July 7 and into the subsequent ground invasion in Gaza to root out Hamas rockets and tunnels. Anti-Semitism manifested on the fringe of anti-Israel movements during and after Israel’s Operation Protective Edge as Jewish individuals and institutions became the targets of anti-Semitic rhetoric and acts of vandalism…
Whereas if we realize there are supposedly about 20.6 million college students in the United States, and if we were to assume 1000 incidents of alleged anti-Semitism happened that would be about 1 for every 20,000 students. But not all reports are from colleges but rather from a much larger statistic—the population of the United States that is over 300,000,000.
An ADL audit for two years earlier 2012 is at: http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/anti-semitism-usa/adl-audit-us-anti-semitic-incidents-declined-14-percent.html
It starts out: “ADL Audit: U.S. Anti-Semitic Incidents Declined 14 Percent in 2012: Continuing Two-Year Downward Trend” and later in that report we get the act number of incidents reported on colleges across the country: “The ADL Audit reported a significant increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus during 2012. A total of 61 incidents were reported on college campuses, compared with 22 incidents reported in 2011.”
Within this report it also expresses how ‘opinions’ (not acts of intimidation) are anti-Semitic:
Some of those incidents included the use of anti-Semitic imagery under the guise of anti-Israel activism, with conspiracy theories about Jewish political and economic control being voiced on campus. For example, at a May “Palestine Liberation Week” program at the University of California, Irvine, Amir Abdul Malik Ali, a Northern California-based imam, claimed that “Zionists” were responsible for the financial crisis in the U.S. He also argued that Zionism is a corrupting force for “Jews who believe in it.” At Northeastern Illinois University in March, Gilad Atzmon, a self-described Israeli “ex-Jew” who has described Judaism as “extremist, chauvinist [and] racist,” used Holocaust-related language to demonize the State of Israel and reiterated conspiracy theories.
Personally I’ve read several of Gilad Atzmon’s criticisms of Israel and he far from being some blatant anti-Semite. Rather he contributes important and critical insights to those who are not deterred from reading his stuff. His right to be heard is exactly what America should be all about. It is time for young people everywhere to read famous quotations on free speech such as those many by John Stuart Mills. It’s contentious and radical free speech that deserves defending—not the stuff that has no power to offend. Read Zionists Latest Anti-Semitic Inducing Provocation: Trying to Destroy a Highly Worthy and Sane Nuclear Deal with Iranby Sea Shelly (found on the Internet). This type of intelligent discussion is exactly what Zionists are trying to suppress and make it illegal to discuss. Such an article would not be allowed and yet it should have the right to be heard.
Salomon Rushdie would be imprisoned under this kind of wolf in sheep skin repression.
So it seems rather obvious this censoring attack at the University of California is sinister as it conflates ugly opinions (which all people have a right to hold since we live in a world where very ugly things happen) with the concept of anti-Semitism equals anything that criticizes Jews or Zionists or Israelis in any way that seems of feels hostile. This is really an insidious game being underhandedly played (and of course this very essay too will be called anti-Semitic because it frustrates the Zionist agenda).
We are not talking about people being beaten up or physically attacked (by far in most incidents). 61 incidents in 2012 over a 20 million population of college students is not a super huge phenomenon. 20 million divided by 100 equals 1 alleged victim for every 200,000 students. Granted it would be ideal if humankind lived in some utopia and this counterargument is not meant to not take serious what truly is serious even it actual occurrences are statistically small.
But more to the point the screaming of anti-Semitism has little to nothing to do with the truth value of an opinion such as someone who argues “Zionists are responsible for the financial crisis” or “Israel was behind 9/11” or “Hitler did not do anything wrong”, etc. but rather trying to destroy the right to share an ugly or critical opinion by creating laws that criticize something about Israel regardless of whether the so-called anti-Semitic statements is true or not. This is really the notion of extremist totalitarianism.
Just maybe Hitler was far less the monster than many of us have been lead to believe? Some historian opinions who argue such have been outlawed as anti-Semitic in Europe. Maybe Israel was in fact involved in 9/11—doesn’t that idea deserve proper examination—rather than rejecting the notion as not fit to think about. Granted a lot of people do not want to think about it.
Some people want to live in a mental bubble in which they can believe that Jewish peoples and Zionists never do anything wrong and are always history’s victims. Yet there are some theories out there that paint a very different picture (they are labeled conspiracy theories to denigrate them so people will be less prone to explore them).
The question is not trying to create the impossible—a world of make believe in which Zionist can do whatever they want and no one will be allowed to question their behavior. The question is more the need for people to get out of their conceited bubbles and dare looking at alternative explanations that sometimes seen more real and true than what they currently think. See this important article: Campus is seen as next battleground against Iran Deal — by ‘rightwing fanatics’ Annie Robbins at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/09/battleground-rightwing-fanatics?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=c724b6059b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-c724b6059b-309261654 And it is important to realize after reading some of these references that campus Hillel are directly involved and they cannot claim some kind of neutrality.
Alternative explanations on the history of World War 2 that are different than the Zionist-dominated explanations we have been inundated with for decades do not automatically make them evil even if they paint Zionism with a brush that suggest unethical behavior by some Zionists. These alternative explanations are often called Holocaust Denial or World War 2 Revisionism and are being outlawed in various countries in Europe and elsewhere. This kind of double standard is desperately insane. See:
“Laws against Holocaust denial” at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial
Also see: “Israel Campaigns Against Global Free Speech” at: https://alethonews.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/israel-campaigns-against-global-free-speech/
and “Hate-Speech Hypocrites: How can we ban hate speech against Jews while defending mockery of Muslims?” at: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2012/09/free_speech_vs_hate_speech_why_is_it_legal_to_insult_muslims_but_not_jews_.html
and “Criminalizing Criticism: A Zionist Project – An Analysis” by Lawrence Davidson at: http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2015/06/criminalizing-criticism-a-zionist-project-an-analysis-by-lawrence-davidson/
But more alarming is the likelihood that college and university politics of allegations of anti-Semitism is the possibility people learn of some disturbing but possibly important truths that require they see their relationship with Israel in new ways.
There has been too much hysteria acted out to manipulate freedom of speech rules not just on campuses but around the world and including our country. In fact many organizations and people get their very ideas about prejudice from Zionist organizations such as ADL and Southern Poverty Law Center, themselves biased as even some ADL groups have been involved in promoting anti-Muslimism. See another eye-opening article: Anti-Muslim bigotry is being funded by the Israel-right-or-wrong crowd by EllyBulkin and Donna Nevel at: http://mondoweiss.net/2012/10/anti-muslim-bigotry-is-being-funded-by-the-israel-right-or-wrong-crowd#sthash.ydjGrZPm.dpuf (in this article we see ADL sometimes gets involved in promoting such prejudice (as they do far too little to combat anti-Muslimism even though for example the Palestinians are far more related to the ancient Israelis than modern Caucasian Jews who mostly have no DNA connection what-so-ever)).
So this political battle is about far more than allegations of anti-Semitism on college campuses. This is a continuation of trying to quell curiosity and true free speech. Americans, including many Jewish-Americans are far more naïve about things than reality seems to be. People have a right and duty to learn ugly truths.
Another current example of this is how this whole ISIS/ ISIL phenomenon as explained by the mainstream media is very different than what Americans are being told. It seems as reported from multiple sources it is a secret plan to fight another of Israel’s enemies—namely the Bashar Assad regime of Syria (but Israel of course isn’t taking any refugees). See a smattering of alternative explanations that suggest the world is being deeply lied to by mainstream media:
http://govtslaves.info/site-intelligence-group-released-beheading-video-isis/
http://investmentwatchblog.com/we-trained-him-well-and-we-had-lots-of-help-from-america-u-s-training-helped-mold-top-islamic-state-military-commander/
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/us-drones-attack-syrias-military-disguised-as-an-airstrike-against-isis/
http://www.inspiretochangeworld.com/2015/09/isis-is-working-on-mossadcia-plan-to-create-greater-israel/
http://investmentwatchblog.com/state-department-whistleblower-exposes-covert-terrorist-funding/
http://investmentwatchblog.com/washington-was-planning-to-overthrow-syrian-government-years-before-2011-uprising/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/isis-j30.html
http://theinternationalreporter.org/2015/08/04/usa-turkey-and-israel-act-as-air-force-for-isis/
http://www.juancole.com/2015/09/israels-refugee-yarmouk.html
http://journal-neo.org/2015/09/11/western-media-hype-russian-aggression-in-syria/
If people start waking up to what has really been going on then there will be some anger and some finger pointing. Most Jews and Zionists don’t know either. Instead they want to maintain a status that what they believe in isinvariably true and any expression that implicates their people is obviously a lie and a hate crime. Furthermore they want everyone else in the world to continue to believe what seems their fantasy world.
Some choose to use the phrase “anti-Israel activist” rather than “anti-Zionist” because one apparent goal of this exaggerated fear-mongering to conflate the terms anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism as if the two meanings were the same—all neatly under the same rubric (as somehow always a moral crime whereas criticizing other nationals is seldom deserving of such a notorious conceptual symbol packed with so much obvious evil). As Sea Shelly writes: “No one complains about calling Muslims terrorists and accusing them of perpetrating 9/11”. That is to say no one is trying to outlaw that kind of free speech.
This way they can scream with so much histrionics ANTISEMITISM IS ON THE RISE on campuses, and yet they know it largely involves Israel. But there is a big war planned to kill free speech on American colleges due to the BDS movement. Sheldon Adelson is ready to spend millions of dollars to kill this intellectual movement on college campuses. These forms of anti-Semitism politics is not going away any time soon. And could some complainers actually be paid for this kind of thing? See: Adelson to Host Event on Anti-Semitism Within U.S. College Campuses by Suzanne Vega at: http://jpupdates.com/2015/06/02/adelson-to-host-event-on-anti-semitism-within-u-s-college-campuses/
I do not believe the extent of these claims made are as real as how the imagination works for rhetorical effect. Surely there are legitimate cases of anti-Semitism at play especially in a statistical field as large as the United States. And granted I’m not part of any campus system and I do not have firsthand experience—but I am well aware that one Zionist strategy in killing the message is ad hominem attack on the messenger. Exaggerating anti-Semitism, as crying wolf, is typical strategy rather than dealing with the actual realities that build anti-Zionist attitudes such as Israel’s horrific and war crime attacks on Palestinians last summer. Now Israel’s and AIPAC’s push to kill the Iran deal which is a better than a good deal.
People have a right to oppose the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine or old Canaan. This is not some Absolute-in-Stone concept all peoples simply should accept. There are good reasons to oppose any theocratic government or ethnocentric movement—no matter how some feel ordained. Such an opinion or argument should not be barred from discussion. Granted Israel doesn’t overtly call for the Palestine’s destruction—rather it practices it year after year with war crimes. Meanwhile Israel cries out about threats of being pushed into the sea—but it engages pushing Palestinians off the map.
What some people are calling for is the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism. See U.S. State Department Official Definition of 'Anti-Semitism’ - (Wow.) by Martin Hill at: http://libertyfight.com/2015/US_state_dept_official_definition_antisemitism.html
It is important that you read this citation because you can see how very broad and implicating such a political move is (and note many of the key positions held at the Department of State are people who are Jewish). It’s not a definition rather it is a jail cell composed of many iron bars.
Yet compare these supposed thought crimes to the actual crimes committed in Gaza last summer. See: Israeli Atrocities: NY activist students highlight Israeli crimes…Netanyahu Leverages Terror Threat To Further Colonial Expansion And More at: http://investmentwatchblog.com/israeli-atrocities-ny-activist-students-highlight-israeli-crimes-netanyahu-leverages-terror-threat-to-further-colonial-expansion-and-more/ and also see: Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza by Marjorie Cohn at: https://consortiumnews.com/2014/07/15/israels-war-crimes-in-gaza/
What Israel has been doing for years is not simply making people feel bad or merely hurling insults or allegations or posting hostile symbols but rather a whole litany of brutal and ferocious war crimes. The real question is why there have not been more loud and uproarious protests on college campuses and around the country? The reaction here in America has been tame. You could call it a charade and would still be less hyperbolic than the whiners and complainers who feel because they are Jewish they have some inevitable right to get their way here in America because Americans are naïve pushovers.
No doubt likely there are instances of anti-Semitism such as messages painted on doors. And surely not everyone protesting anti-Semitism is doing it under false premises. I do not discount the concern as real and yet I refuse to allow this type of easy exaggeration, especially in an implied statistical sense, to become red- herring because some Americans don’t want to know how much others are waking up to the atrocities in Israel and their overly zealous control they have practiced over our Government (especially Congress).
The goal expressed by some is to silence Jewish voices. This is “their”opinion (and it is a subjective opinion), which they certainly have a right, as few have heard of silenced Jewish voices in modern America.
But nor should any campus allow Jewish or Zionist voices to silence others who harbor righteous anger over the politics of the Israeli government. There are a lot of people who feel silenced by this typical Zionist self-righteousness. This is their style of intimidation and it has worked around the world rather well.
So it doesn’t matter if some Jewish Americans get angry and cry like babies because they can’t always get their way! It is time they grow up and realize other people have right too.
Amen
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First, some corrections to the history above. The Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley was in 1964 to demand that political literature tables be allowed on campus for all political groups. The University was treating the students as children and not allowing political literature tables. Some of the leaders, including Mario Savio, were veterans of the summer registration drives of black people in the segregated South, as occurred in 1964. FSM was in many ways the civil rights movement of the South brought home. The massacre of 1 million assumed communists by the CIA in Indonesia in 1965-6 was not part of FSM, but there were probably people protesting that as well.
The civil rights movements of the 1960s soon became the anti-war, anti-draft movement of 1965-1973 to protest the US war against Vietnam, a war of anti-Communism that was the same as the US war against Korea, 1950-1953, which war against Vietnam ended in 1973 with the end of the draft. Many movements grew under the umbrella of this peace movement, including concern for all international issues that involved the CIA and the anti-communist bogeyman.
One of the leading anti-Communists was the Nazi Israeli government, which supported its patron, Nazi USA, in its war against Vietnam. Most Americans were proud anti-Communists until they were faced with the draft, had some relative or friend killed or seriously wounded in Vietnam, or until 1968, with the successful Tet offensive of the Vietnamese liberation movement. Only since the official end of the Cold War with the destruction of the Soviet Union in 1991 has anti-Communism not been the prevailing attitude of most Americans. The Communist bogeyman was an effective fund-raising tool for the war machine to as to maximize profits for the ruling class, the greatest profits being in oil and munitions, and when there was no longer the Communist bogeyman, they came up with the 9/11 Inside Job in 2001, with the help of Israel, to promote the Muslim bogeyman, which works the same as Nazi Germany's Jewish bogeyman. On Israel's role, see Solving 911 by Christopher Bollyn (2012) and http://www.bollyn.com
Zionist terrorism of Americans in terms of threatening everyone’s job if they do not sing the Zionist tune has been going on since 1948 when US imperialism created its military base called Israel to protect US oil profits in the Middle East and promote war against national liberation struggles around the world with Israeli arms. Zionism and anti-Communism were 2 sides of the same terrorist, anti-labor coin from 1945 to 1991, and Zionism continues to this day carrying out the same wishes of the capitalist class to maximize their profits. See
The Strange History of the Anti-Defamation League: ADL Spies
by Jeffrey Blankfort, June 12, 2013, Counterpunch at
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/12/adl-spies/
The Israel Lobby Archive at
http://www.irmep.org/ila/
The Zionists on these college campuses are from the same upper middle class as all the non-Zionists, but the major difference from the Arab American students is that practically all of them are at least 2 generations, and most are at least 3 generations American with no memory of any class or national liberation struggle. In today’s world, there is no mass campus movement against US imperialism, as there was from 1964-1973, and there is no draft threatening the lives and careers of the male students, so there is no radicalizing force on college campuses. Off campus, the radicalizing force is the impoverishment of the workingclass, and it is from labor that you must take leadership to put an end to the private profit system that is a threat to humanity and the earth.
As to anti-Semitism in this society, it exists, and is always more common during economic hard times. This has nothing to do with the slap in the face to the entire Jewish community and everyone else that is Israel, also known as the American military base and rich Americans’ settler colony investment.
The Best Defense is a Good Offense
1. Telling anyone that their home is a country with which they have no connection and in the case of Israel, thousands of miles away from the USA, is anti-Semitic when it applies to Jews. The very idea of Israel as a homeland for Jews, which it never was and can never be, is vicious anti-Semitism.
2. Arabs are Semites too. If any such law somehow forbidding anti-Semitism is passed, it applies against the Zionists who promote anti-Arab racism, a theme that is constant among Zionists.
3. The free speech argument is very effective and on that ground alone, the Zionists should loose. If there is a lawsuit, added to all other arguments must be that Arabs are Semites too and the Zionists are guilty of vicious anti-Arab racism every chance they get.
4. Israel is a racist, theocratic, anti-women, capitalist state and all of those points must be made when condemning Israel. These Zionists always claim to be highly educated and in this country demand separation of church and state, as everyone should, but in Israel, there is no separation of church and state. This is horrifying to all Americans who would be horrified if they would suddenly have to deal with religious law instead of civil law for personal status, citizenship, marriage, death and inheritance. Zionists in Israel are required to learn the Bible and answer Bible questions to graduate from high school. Only a backward society promotes religion, yet these Zionists claim to be sophisticated. This needs to be highlighted when opposing the Zionists.
The civil rights movements of the 1960s soon became the anti-war, anti-draft movement of 1965-1973 to protest the US war against Vietnam, a war of anti-Communism that was the same as the US war against Korea, 1950-1953, which war against Vietnam ended in 1973 with the end of the draft. Many movements grew under the umbrella of this peace movement, including concern for all international issues that involved the CIA and the anti-communist bogeyman.
One of the leading anti-Communists was the Nazi Israeli government, which supported its patron, Nazi USA, in its war against Vietnam. Most Americans were proud anti-Communists until they were faced with the draft, had some relative or friend killed or seriously wounded in Vietnam, or until 1968, with the successful Tet offensive of the Vietnamese liberation movement. Only since the official end of the Cold War with the destruction of the Soviet Union in 1991 has anti-Communism not been the prevailing attitude of most Americans. The Communist bogeyman was an effective fund-raising tool for the war machine to as to maximize profits for the ruling class, the greatest profits being in oil and munitions, and when there was no longer the Communist bogeyman, they came up with the 9/11 Inside Job in 2001, with the help of Israel, to promote the Muslim bogeyman, which works the same as Nazi Germany's Jewish bogeyman. On Israel's role, see Solving 911 by Christopher Bollyn (2012) and http://www.bollyn.com
Zionist terrorism of Americans in terms of threatening everyone’s job if they do not sing the Zionist tune has been going on since 1948 when US imperialism created its military base called Israel to protect US oil profits in the Middle East and promote war against national liberation struggles around the world with Israeli arms. Zionism and anti-Communism were 2 sides of the same terrorist, anti-labor coin from 1945 to 1991, and Zionism continues to this day carrying out the same wishes of the capitalist class to maximize their profits. See
The Strange History of the Anti-Defamation League: ADL Spies
by Jeffrey Blankfort, June 12, 2013, Counterpunch at
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/12/adl-spies/
The Israel Lobby Archive at
http://www.irmep.org/ila/
The Zionists on these college campuses are from the same upper middle class as all the non-Zionists, but the major difference from the Arab American students is that practically all of them are at least 2 generations, and most are at least 3 generations American with no memory of any class or national liberation struggle. In today’s world, there is no mass campus movement against US imperialism, as there was from 1964-1973, and there is no draft threatening the lives and careers of the male students, so there is no radicalizing force on college campuses. Off campus, the radicalizing force is the impoverishment of the workingclass, and it is from labor that you must take leadership to put an end to the private profit system that is a threat to humanity and the earth.
As to anti-Semitism in this society, it exists, and is always more common during economic hard times. This has nothing to do with the slap in the face to the entire Jewish community and everyone else that is Israel, also known as the American military base and rich Americans’ settler colony investment.
The Best Defense is a Good Offense
1. Telling anyone that their home is a country with which they have no connection and in the case of Israel, thousands of miles away from the USA, is anti-Semitic when it applies to Jews. The very idea of Israel as a homeland for Jews, which it never was and can never be, is vicious anti-Semitism.
2. Arabs are Semites too. If any such law somehow forbidding anti-Semitism is passed, it applies against the Zionists who promote anti-Arab racism, a theme that is constant among Zionists.
3. The free speech argument is very effective and on that ground alone, the Zionists should loose. If there is a lawsuit, added to all other arguments must be that Arabs are Semites too and the Zionists are guilty of vicious anti-Arab racism every chance they get.
4. Israel is a racist, theocratic, anti-women, capitalist state and all of those points must be made when condemning Israel. These Zionists always claim to be highly educated and in this country demand separation of church and state, as everyone should, but in Israel, there is no separation of church and state. This is horrifying to all Americans who would be horrified if they would suddenly have to deal with religious law instead of civil law for personal status, citizenship, marriage, death and inheritance. Zionists in Israel are required to learn the Bible and answer Bible questions to graduate from high school. Only a backward society promotes religion, yet these Zionists claim to be sophisticated. This needs to be highlighted when opposing the Zionists.
Jews are the ORIGINAL "nazis" !!!
The PALESTINIANS are the descendants of HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS. HOLOCAUST by the HEBREWS.
The Canaanites/Amorites/Philistines/Midianites/PALESTINIANS were in PALESTINE long before Israel was even thought of.
These passages are the foundation of Israel's self written "deed" to the land of Palestine.
If they are not ALL true, then the entire "claim" to Palestine, in the book THEY WROTE, IS NOT TRUE.
Deuteronomy 7:16, 20:16 “And thou shalt consume all the peoples which the Lord thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them…thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth.”
KILL THE SICK and CRIPPLED
Numbers c.5 v.2-4
KILL HOMOSEXUALS
Leviticus c.20 v.13 well, really the whole chapter
KILL ALL DISSIDENTS:
Exodus c.32 v.27
Numbers c.11 v.1-2
Numbers c.16 all
Numbers c.21 v.5-6
Numbers v.26 v.10
KILL anyone who engages in "DIVERSITY" or "INTEGRATION"
Numbers v25 v.4-8
Deuteronomy c.14 v.2
DEHUMANIZE and then EXTERMINATE ALL NON-MEMBERS:
Numbers c.21 v.03 Canaanites
Numbers c.21 v.24 Amorites
Numbers c.21 v.33-35 Bashan
Numbers c.31 all Midianites
Numbers c.32 v. more Amorites
Deuteronomy c.2 v.34 People of Heshbon
Deuteronomy c.3 v.6 really the whole chapter. threescore cities
Joshua c.12 A list of victims of Israeli GENOCIDE
Where are THEIR "holocaust" Memorials!
OCCUPY YOUR VICTIM'S DWELLINGS/LAND
Numbers c.21 v.25
Numbers c.32 v.39
Numbers c.33 v.53
(just to name a FEW)
GENOCIDE CODIFIED IN THEIR RELIGION
Numbers c.33 v.31-34
Deuteronomy c.7 v.2
Deuteronomy c.12 v.28-30
Deuteronomy c.20 v.11-16
TERRORISM CODIFIED IN THEIR RELIGION
Deuteronomy c.2 v.2
Deuteronomy c.7 v.1
LOOTING ART and WEALTH
Exodus c.3 v.22
Exodus c.11 v.2
Exodus c.12 v.35-36
Jews SELF-anointed "The CHOSEN People of GOD"
Nazis SELF-anointed "The CHOSEN People of GENETICS".
TODAY Israel states that it is creating "A PURE Jewish State"
YESTERDAY the Nazis were creating "A PURE German State"
And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword . . . (Joshua 6:21)
For modern day reinforcement of these "rules" research/google "the KINGS TORAH"
The PALESTINIANS are the descendants of HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS. HOLOCAUST by the HEBREWS.
The Canaanites/Amorites/Philistines/Midianites/PALESTINIANS were in PALESTINE long before Israel was even thought of.
These passages are the foundation of Israel's self written "deed" to the land of Palestine.
If they are not ALL true, then the entire "claim" to Palestine, in the book THEY WROTE, IS NOT TRUE.
Deuteronomy 7:16, 20:16 “And thou shalt consume all the peoples which the Lord thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them…thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth.”
KILL THE SICK and CRIPPLED
Numbers c.5 v.2-4
KILL HOMOSEXUALS
Leviticus c.20 v.13 well, really the whole chapter
KILL ALL DISSIDENTS:
Exodus c.32 v.27
Numbers c.11 v.1-2
Numbers c.16 all
Numbers c.21 v.5-6
Numbers v.26 v.10
KILL anyone who engages in "DIVERSITY" or "INTEGRATION"
Numbers v25 v.4-8
Deuteronomy c.14 v.2
DEHUMANIZE and then EXTERMINATE ALL NON-MEMBERS:
Numbers c.21 v.03 Canaanites
Numbers c.21 v.24 Amorites
Numbers c.21 v.33-35 Bashan
Numbers c.31 all Midianites
Numbers c.32 v. more Amorites
Deuteronomy c.2 v.34 People of Heshbon
Deuteronomy c.3 v.6 really the whole chapter. threescore cities
Joshua c.12 A list of victims of Israeli GENOCIDE
Where are THEIR "holocaust" Memorials!
OCCUPY YOUR VICTIM'S DWELLINGS/LAND
Numbers c.21 v.25
Numbers c.32 v.39
Numbers c.33 v.53
(just to name a FEW)
GENOCIDE CODIFIED IN THEIR RELIGION
Numbers c.33 v.31-34
Deuteronomy c.7 v.2
Deuteronomy c.12 v.28-30
Deuteronomy c.20 v.11-16
TERRORISM CODIFIED IN THEIR RELIGION
Deuteronomy c.2 v.2
Deuteronomy c.7 v.1
LOOTING ART and WEALTH
Exodus c.3 v.22
Exodus c.11 v.2
Exodus c.12 v.35-36
Jews SELF-anointed "The CHOSEN People of GOD"
Nazis SELF-anointed "The CHOSEN People of GENETICS".
TODAY Israel states that it is creating "A PURE Jewish State"
YESTERDAY the Nazis were creating "A PURE German State"
And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword . . . (Joshua 6:21)
For modern day reinforcement of these "rules" research/google "the KINGS TORAH"
"Grady Grip", you need to sit down with somebody who can explain to you what is problematic with what you are saying. You have destroyed any possible valid anit-Israel criticism with ....
"But more to the point the screaming of anti-Semitism has little to nothing to do with the truth value of an opinion such as someone who argues “Zionists are responsible for the financial crisis” or “Israel was behind 9/11” or “Hitler did not do anything wrong”, etc. but rather trying to destroy the right to share an ugly or critical opinion by creating laws that criticize something about Israel regardless of whether the so-called anti-Semitic statements is true or not. This is really the notion of extremist totalitarianism. "
Are you really of the opinion that anti-Semitism means "hating Jews while at the same believing that you have NO reason for that hatred"? That would imply that there are no anti-Semites, or at least I never have encountered one who did not think there were valid reasons to explain how they felt about Jews.
And please, those who comment, words in any language mean what they mean in terms of how they are used, not by logic of what they "should" mean in terms of how they are formed. Anti-Semitism does NOT mean "hatred of Semites". PLEASE, I am by no means saying that hatred of Arabs (and other Semites) isn't wrong, just that our language doesn't have a specific term for it in the sense that our language does have this term meaning "hatred of Jews".
"But more to the point the screaming of anti-Semitism has little to nothing to do with the truth value of an opinion such as someone who argues “Zionists are responsible for the financial crisis” or “Israel was behind 9/11” or “Hitler did not do anything wrong”, etc. but rather trying to destroy the right to share an ugly or critical opinion by creating laws that criticize something about Israel regardless of whether the so-called anti-Semitic statements is true or not. This is really the notion of extremist totalitarianism. "
Are you really of the opinion that anti-Semitism means "hating Jews while at the same believing that you have NO reason for that hatred"? That would imply that there are no anti-Semites, or at least I never have encountered one who did not think there were valid reasons to explain how they felt about Jews.
And please, those who comment, words in any language mean what they mean in terms of how they are used, not by logic of what they "should" mean in terms of how they are formed. Anti-Semitism does NOT mean "hatred of Semites". PLEASE, I am by no means saying that hatred of Arabs (and other Semites) isn't wrong, just that our language doesn't have a specific term for it in the sense that our language does have this term meaning "hatred of Jews".
My apology for not being more comprehensive in my comment.
1. The dictionary definition of Semite includes both Arabs and Jews. Zionism is racism and anti-Semitism, a form of racism against both Arabs and Jews. For more on Zionism, see
Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, Vol. 3 by Alan Hart (2005, 2010) Clarity Press, ISBN 0-932863-69-8/978-0-932863-69-0. Alan Hart, a former ITN (part of British news agency that produces outstanding Channel 4 of UK) and BBC Panorama correspondent, covers the horrors of Zionism in Israel and its relationship to the United States from 1967 to January 2010 from the perspective of a non-Jewish journalist with lots of worthwhile insights.
Israel-Palestine on Record by Howard Friel and Richard Falk
(2007) Verso, ISBN 978-1-84467-109-0 (Contains eyewitness testimony for 2000 to 2006 of Israeli destruction of Palestinian homes and the horrors of daily life in Occupied Palestine due to daily Israeli terrorism, all paid for with $6 billion US tax dollars annually, making Israel the 4th largest military gang in the world).
Anti-Defamation League, a staunch Zionist organization, Supports Racist Grand Jury in Ferguson, Missouri and New York Police who choked Eric Garner to death after he protested 11 times that he can’t breathe. See
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PgWafnuqHRYkwN-y0h22g4PDCiyNrNUWbdOm36dDwYg/viewform?c=0&w=1
Torture by Israel of Rasmea Odeh with our tax dollars:
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/court-motion-details-palestinian-american-rasmea-odehs-torture-israeli
http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/
http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Children_and_Youth_Soldiers_Testimonies_2005_2011_Eng.pdf
http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/
"Ukraine: Israeli Special Forces Unit under Neo-Nazi Command Involved in Maidan Riots" by Michel Chossudovsky, 3/3/14 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-israeli-special-forces-unit-under-neo-nazi-command-involved-in-maidan-riots/5371725
Zionist Supporters of “Good Night Left Side” European fascists at:
"Israeli calls for Palestinian blood ring at fever pitch" by David Sheen, 7/15/14 at
http://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-calls-palestinian-blood-ring-fever-pitch/13578
The screenshot enlarges the whole short video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzd4pytX7bg
Israel’s nuclear war capacity and history of threatening the former Soviet Union in an excellent article by John Steinbach:
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/issues/policy/israeli-nuclear-policy/steinbach_israeli_program.pdf
Palestine Inside Out by Saree Makdisi, (2008, 2010) Norton Press, ISBN 978-0-393-33844-7. With a beautiful foreword by Alice Walker, comparing the racist horrors of Zionist Israel to white racism in the USA, Makdisi, a Palestinian-American professor of English literature at UCLA, writes a detailed account of the daily horrors of life in Occupied Palestine. His periodic sections “By the Numbers” offer useful statistics, his maps are plentiful, and his entire book is a ringing indictment of the mental illness that is religion and the anti-women horror of theocratic states. As Americans read it, we must remember that this is all paid for with our tax dollars and supported 100% by every single Democratic and Republican politician at every level of government. It is opposed by all socialist parties and the Green Party.
http://sareemakdisi.net/books/
2. It should surprise no one that Israel, like the rest of the US military machine, had something to do with the 9/11 Inside Job since it was a US military operation at the behest of the US capitalist class to perpetrate fascism at home and war abroad to maximize profits, with the maximum profits being in munitions and oil. The 9/11 Inside Job was another Reichstag Fire where the Nazis burned down their government building and blamed the Communists to destroy labor at home and the Soviet Union abroad as the Nazis were first and foremost anti-Communists, all to maximize profits of the capitalist class. Chris Bollyn's book on the Israel and the 9/11 Inside Job is best described as follows:
Solving 911 by Christopher Bollyn
(2012) Published by Christopher Bollyn. ISBN 978-0-9853225-8-8 http://www.bollyn.com
Laughing Israelis at World Trade Center on 9/11/01 identified themselves on TV, and much more on Israel’s complicity in the 911 Inside Job which should surprise no one since Israel, a US military base since its inception in 1948, is and always has been part of the US military-agent provocateur-spy system of US imperialism. EHUD OLMERT, mayor of Jerusalem in 2001, from a terrorist Irgun family, visited New York City on 9/10/11. While all civilian flights were grounded immediately after the 9/11/01 Inside Job and for at least a week thereafter, a full El Al Boeing 747 left New York City’s JFK airport for Israel with authorization from the US Department of Defense, and US military officials were at the JFK airport to make sure this flight was cleared for take-off. Florida, the alleged base of the non-existent “Arab hijackers” was and is a base for Israeli Mossad operations as is the rest of the USA. EHUD BARAK, who has degrees in physics and mathematics, attended Stanford University, was Israel’s Defense Minister during the Massacre of Gaza of 2008-2009, making him a war criminal according to the Goldstone Report, and was Prime Minister of Israel from July 1999 to March 2001, when he came to the US to work as a partner in SCP Partners, a Mossad-run private equity company concerned with “security,” which had in its portfolio a company called Megallurg Holdings, Inc. capable of producing and applying an advanced form of super-thermite, a powerful explosive, which was found in the dust of the Twin Towers. On 9/11/01, he stated on BBC TV that the world faces a War on Terror and called for an invasion of Afghanistan, clearly the cover for the 911 Inside Job.
3. Israel continued to do the bidding of US imperialism as it has always done since its inception:
Israel’s participation in the 7/7/05 London staged bombing:
7/7 led to wars & loss of freedoms ... but do we know what really happened that day? By Tony Gosling, Martin Summers, 8/2/15 at
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/02/18775666.php
An Israeli firm also had access to London's tube tunnels, winning a CCTV contract when parts of the Underground were privatized a few months before the attacks. Verint Systems looked like a good bet but someone didn't do due diligence because the fraudster chairman Kobi Alexander, of Verint's parent company, Comverse Technologies, was on the run. He was evading the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) somewhere in Africa after disappearing with $13m of company money.
4. People are known by the company they keep. The Zionists kept company with Meyer Lansky, the gangster. See
Meyer Lansky, a Jewish gangster, was a proud Zionist and contributed money and guns to the founding of Israel. See:
Cuba Pre-1959: The Rise and Fall of a U.S. Backed Dictator with Links to the Mob by Timothy Alexander Guzman, July 23, 2015 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/cuba-pre-1959-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-u-s-backed-dictator-with-links-to-the-mob/5464738
5. The founders of Israel, all proud terrorists, were collaborators with Nazi Germany, just as the Zionists now collaborate with Nazi USA. See
Zionism in the Age of Dictators by Lenni Brenner at
http://www.pdf-archive.com/2012/04/11/zionism-in-the-age-of-the-dictators/
The Iron Wall by Lenni Brenner at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/ironwall/index.htm
The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/index.htm
51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis edited by Lenni Brenner
(2002) Barricade Books, New Jersey, ISBN 1-56980-235-1
The Transfer Agreement by Edwin Black
(1984, 2001) Carroll & Graf, NY, ISBN 0-7867-0841-7
http://www.transferagreement.com/
The Third Reich and the Palestine Question by Francis Nicosia
(1985) University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-72731-3
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
(2006) Oneworld Publications, ISBN 978-1-85168-555-4
(Has full details on the 1948 to present mass murder of boys and men, rape and murder of girls and women and theft of Palestinian land all planned by David Ben-Gurion, first president of Israel, and cohorts, as Ben-Gurion described in his diary quoted in Pappe’s book.)
Al-Nakba (Catastrophe) Awareness Campaign
http://www.al-nakba-history.com/
6. The name of the game is always money, in particular oil profits. See
http://laborforpalestine.net/
“Israeli Company Targeted by Oakland Blockade Imports Ammunition Into US”
Thursday, 28 August 2014 By Darwin BondGraham Truthout Reprint at:
http://laborforpalestine.net/2014/08/28/israeli-company-targeted-by-oakland-blockade-imports-ammunition-into-us-truthout/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-and-natural-gas-the-israeli-invasion-and-gaza-s-offshore-gas-fields/11680
http://stop30billion.org/about.html
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
Occupy AIPAC (AIPAC stands for American Israel Public Affairs Committee-pro-capitalist, pro-Israel wealthy lobbyists who deliver almost entire US Congress and every president to support the US military base that exists to protect US Middle East oil profits and US imperialism around the world, commonly known as Israel. They are officially lobbyists but in reality, are a mouthpiece of the US capitalist class as Israel is a colony of the US. Occupy AIPAC opposes AIPAC.)
http://www.occupyaipac.org
http://www.occupyaipac.org/about/articles-on-aipac/
7. We must thank the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement for breaking the silence we have kept in opposition to the Zionists because we had to live in a sea of anti-Communism proudly supported by the Zionists. They have terrorized Americans since 1948 with loss of employment and supported the murder of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg by the US government on June 19, 1953, after being framed by Democrat Pres Harry Truman in 1950, and the 19.5 year false imprisonment of co-defendant Morton Sobell to, as Julius put it make Jew, Communist and traitor synonymous to build support for the US war against Korea, 1950-1953. The Zionists were and are first and foremost anti-Communist. They did not fight fascism; they collaborated with fascists and still do because they are fascists.
1. The dictionary definition of Semite includes both Arabs and Jews. Zionism is racism and anti-Semitism, a form of racism against both Arabs and Jews. For more on Zionism, see
Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, Vol. 3 by Alan Hart (2005, 2010) Clarity Press, ISBN 0-932863-69-8/978-0-932863-69-0. Alan Hart, a former ITN (part of British news agency that produces outstanding Channel 4 of UK) and BBC Panorama correspondent, covers the horrors of Zionism in Israel and its relationship to the United States from 1967 to January 2010 from the perspective of a non-Jewish journalist with lots of worthwhile insights.
Israel-Palestine on Record by Howard Friel and Richard Falk
(2007) Verso, ISBN 978-1-84467-109-0 (Contains eyewitness testimony for 2000 to 2006 of Israeli destruction of Palestinian homes and the horrors of daily life in Occupied Palestine due to daily Israeli terrorism, all paid for with $6 billion US tax dollars annually, making Israel the 4th largest military gang in the world).
Anti-Defamation League, a staunch Zionist organization, Supports Racist Grand Jury in Ferguson, Missouri and New York Police who choked Eric Garner to death after he protested 11 times that he can’t breathe. See
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PgWafnuqHRYkwN-y0h22g4PDCiyNrNUWbdOm36dDwYg/viewform?c=0&w=1
Torture by Israel of Rasmea Odeh with our tax dollars:
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/court-motion-details-palestinian-american-rasmea-odehs-torture-israeli
http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/
http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Children_and_Youth_Soldiers_Testimonies_2005_2011_Eng.pdf
http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/
"Ukraine: Israeli Special Forces Unit under Neo-Nazi Command Involved in Maidan Riots" by Michel Chossudovsky, 3/3/14 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-israeli-special-forces-unit-under-neo-nazi-command-involved-in-maidan-riots/5371725
Zionist Supporters of “Good Night Left Side” European fascists at:
"Israeli calls for Palestinian blood ring at fever pitch" by David Sheen, 7/15/14 at
http://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-calls-palestinian-blood-ring-fever-pitch/13578
The screenshot enlarges the whole short video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzd4pytX7bg
Israel’s nuclear war capacity and history of threatening the former Soviet Union in an excellent article by John Steinbach:
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/issues/policy/israeli-nuclear-policy/steinbach_israeli_program.pdf
Palestine Inside Out by Saree Makdisi, (2008, 2010) Norton Press, ISBN 978-0-393-33844-7. With a beautiful foreword by Alice Walker, comparing the racist horrors of Zionist Israel to white racism in the USA, Makdisi, a Palestinian-American professor of English literature at UCLA, writes a detailed account of the daily horrors of life in Occupied Palestine. His periodic sections “By the Numbers” offer useful statistics, his maps are plentiful, and his entire book is a ringing indictment of the mental illness that is religion and the anti-women horror of theocratic states. As Americans read it, we must remember that this is all paid for with our tax dollars and supported 100% by every single Democratic and Republican politician at every level of government. It is opposed by all socialist parties and the Green Party.
http://sareemakdisi.net/books/
2. It should surprise no one that Israel, like the rest of the US military machine, had something to do with the 9/11 Inside Job since it was a US military operation at the behest of the US capitalist class to perpetrate fascism at home and war abroad to maximize profits, with the maximum profits being in munitions and oil. The 9/11 Inside Job was another Reichstag Fire where the Nazis burned down their government building and blamed the Communists to destroy labor at home and the Soviet Union abroad as the Nazis were first and foremost anti-Communists, all to maximize profits of the capitalist class. Chris Bollyn's book on the Israel and the 9/11 Inside Job is best described as follows:
Solving 911 by Christopher Bollyn
(2012) Published by Christopher Bollyn. ISBN 978-0-9853225-8-8 http://www.bollyn.com
Laughing Israelis at World Trade Center on 9/11/01 identified themselves on TV, and much more on Israel’s complicity in the 911 Inside Job which should surprise no one since Israel, a US military base since its inception in 1948, is and always has been part of the US military-agent provocateur-spy system of US imperialism. EHUD OLMERT, mayor of Jerusalem in 2001, from a terrorist Irgun family, visited New York City on 9/10/11. While all civilian flights were grounded immediately after the 9/11/01 Inside Job and for at least a week thereafter, a full El Al Boeing 747 left New York City’s JFK airport for Israel with authorization from the US Department of Defense, and US military officials were at the JFK airport to make sure this flight was cleared for take-off. Florida, the alleged base of the non-existent “Arab hijackers” was and is a base for Israeli Mossad operations as is the rest of the USA. EHUD BARAK, who has degrees in physics and mathematics, attended Stanford University, was Israel’s Defense Minister during the Massacre of Gaza of 2008-2009, making him a war criminal according to the Goldstone Report, and was Prime Minister of Israel from July 1999 to March 2001, when he came to the US to work as a partner in SCP Partners, a Mossad-run private equity company concerned with “security,” which had in its portfolio a company called Megallurg Holdings, Inc. capable of producing and applying an advanced form of super-thermite, a powerful explosive, which was found in the dust of the Twin Towers. On 9/11/01, he stated on BBC TV that the world faces a War on Terror and called for an invasion of Afghanistan, clearly the cover for the 911 Inside Job.
3. Israel continued to do the bidding of US imperialism as it has always done since its inception:
Israel’s participation in the 7/7/05 London staged bombing:
7/7 led to wars & loss of freedoms ... but do we know what really happened that day? By Tony Gosling, Martin Summers, 8/2/15 at
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/02/18775666.php
An Israeli firm also had access to London's tube tunnels, winning a CCTV contract when parts of the Underground were privatized a few months before the attacks. Verint Systems looked like a good bet but someone didn't do due diligence because the fraudster chairman Kobi Alexander, of Verint's parent company, Comverse Technologies, was on the run. He was evading the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) somewhere in Africa after disappearing with $13m of company money.
4. People are known by the company they keep. The Zionists kept company with Meyer Lansky, the gangster. See
Meyer Lansky, a Jewish gangster, was a proud Zionist and contributed money and guns to the founding of Israel. See:
Cuba Pre-1959: The Rise and Fall of a U.S. Backed Dictator with Links to the Mob by Timothy Alexander Guzman, July 23, 2015 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/cuba-pre-1959-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-u-s-backed-dictator-with-links-to-the-mob/5464738
5. The founders of Israel, all proud terrorists, were collaborators with Nazi Germany, just as the Zionists now collaborate with Nazi USA. See
Zionism in the Age of Dictators by Lenni Brenner at
http://www.pdf-archive.com/2012/04/11/zionism-in-the-age-of-the-dictators/
The Iron Wall by Lenni Brenner at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/ironwall/index.htm
The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/index.htm
51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis edited by Lenni Brenner
(2002) Barricade Books, New Jersey, ISBN 1-56980-235-1
The Transfer Agreement by Edwin Black
(1984, 2001) Carroll & Graf, NY, ISBN 0-7867-0841-7
http://www.transferagreement.com/
The Third Reich and the Palestine Question by Francis Nicosia
(1985) University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-72731-3
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
(2006) Oneworld Publications, ISBN 978-1-85168-555-4
(Has full details on the 1948 to present mass murder of boys and men, rape and murder of girls and women and theft of Palestinian land all planned by David Ben-Gurion, first president of Israel, and cohorts, as Ben-Gurion described in his diary quoted in Pappe’s book.)
Al-Nakba (Catastrophe) Awareness Campaign
http://www.al-nakba-history.com/
6. The name of the game is always money, in particular oil profits. See
http://laborforpalestine.net/
“Israeli Company Targeted by Oakland Blockade Imports Ammunition Into US”
Thursday, 28 August 2014 By Darwin BondGraham Truthout Reprint at:
http://laborforpalestine.net/2014/08/28/israeli-company-targeted-by-oakland-blockade-imports-ammunition-into-us-truthout/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-and-natural-gas-the-israeli-invasion-and-gaza-s-offshore-gas-fields/11680
http://stop30billion.org/about.html
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
Occupy AIPAC (AIPAC stands for American Israel Public Affairs Committee-pro-capitalist, pro-Israel wealthy lobbyists who deliver almost entire US Congress and every president to support the US military base that exists to protect US Middle East oil profits and US imperialism around the world, commonly known as Israel. They are officially lobbyists but in reality, are a mouthpiece of the US capitalist class as Israel is a colony of the US. Occupy AIPAC opposes AIPAC.)
http://www.occupyaipac.org
http://www.occupyaipac.org/about/articles-on-aipac/
7. We must thank the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement for breaking the silence we have kept in opposition to the Zionists because we had to live in a sea of anti-Communism proudly supported by the Zionists. They have terrorized Americans since 1948 with loss of employment and supported the murder of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg by the US government on June 19, 1953, after being framed by Democrat Pres Harry Truman in 1950, and the 19.5 year false imprisonment of co-defendant Morton Sobell to, as Julius put it make Jew, Communist and traitor synonymous to build support for the US war against Korea, 1950-1953. The Zionists were and are first and foremost anti-Communist. They did not fight fascism; they collaborated with fascists and still do because they are fascists.
Alarming: Some Jews and Zionists Are Using Exaggerated Hysteria to Destroy Free Speech on UC Campuses (latest draft Sept 22, 2015).
By Grady Grip
[Note: There is a legitimate reason why this essay is written under a pseudonym—it is because of the controversial nature of this complaint. In this world people who speak truth to power can find themselves and their reputations destroyed such as some professors who get to critical of Israeli politics. If it was safe to put real name to this message I would do it—but the truth is that many people are afraid to criticize Israel, Zionists and Jews because they know they can be attacked or labeled and blackballed in many ways. Steven Salaita was fired from the UI at Urbana-Champaign for posting tweets critical to Israel’s role in Gaza. Zionist fanatic Alan Dershowitz succeeds in destroying the teaching career of Norman Fickelstein, etc., with other examples as a real war on free speech. So the arguments herein must stand on their own merits. Also if broader definitions of anti-Semitism are enacted you would not be allowed to learn of this letter or the article attached below. Contentious speech especially needs to be protected and as contentious as these ideas may be they too deserve a fair hearing.]
[Note 2: The Regents of the Regents of University of California System need to take their time and not rush into anything rash just because some vociferous people are trying to use emotional blackmail and supposed morality to get their way. These campuses need a new Free Speech Movement like back in the 1970s when upper class kids were finally getting riled up about America’s involvement in slaughtering millions of Asians in Indonesia. It doesn’t need a ball and chain status in a world in which even much of the mainstream media has been corrupted. If you want to understand anti-Semitism read the book: The Politics of Anti-Semitism by Alexander Cockburn. The fact that someone who knows something wrote such a book some years ago should give a clue to what many young and ideologically naïve do not—including many elderly people. I wish I lived in society where I could share my identity when I share certain critical opinions but I cannot. Still this letter to the editor/ opinion piece to UC student campus newspapers should be published in its entirety to bring up some important topics.]
[Note 3: If you feel this message is important, then by all means, email, fax, print, manually mail, propagate, tweet, twitter, and publish to all that might care. It is very important other people help spread worthy ideas and arguments. There is a very serious battle going on in America and we cannot allow psychological blackmail to win out.] An earlier draft (this is the latest and better polished) of this essay is also found at: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/21/18777931.php
There is something very disturbing going on with the University of California school systems that is more serious than over-inflated allegations of anti-Semitism and hate crimes on college campuses in California, and that is special interest bully pulpit attempt by some Jews to get regulations passed that outlaw any kind of speech that that basically rejects the Zionist project in Israel as a Jewish State. See: University Of California May Give Students Right To Not Be Offended by Blake Neff at: http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/11/university-of-california-may-give-students-right-to-not-be-offended/
This is a very serious attack on free speech in one of America’s college systems. Trying to broaden the definition of anti-Semitism as “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination and denying Israel the right to exist” is clearly political blackmail—and frankly there has been far too much political blackmail by Zionists around the world over several decades—especially regarding censoring unpopular ideas they do not want circulated (and too often ideas showing how the history of modern Zionism has really operated). Take for example some history journals refusing to allow advertisements of the following well documented book: Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel by Alison Weir, see: http:/http://www.IfAmericansKnew.Org or http://www.amazon.com/Against-Our-Better-Judgment-History/dp/149591092X.
For several years now various Jewish right-wing organizations and individuals have been waging a political battle against criticism of Israel and Zionism and now it is focusing more and more on American campuses. See video: BDS Grows Across College Campuses at: https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2KIo9cFQv5VoCkAFbssnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByN2RnbHFoBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDdmlkBHZ0aWQDBGdwb3MDMw--?p=Adelson+sheldon+Bias+On+College+Campus&vid=711cf2e890d1cc2683c7f7dc3567dca3&turl=http%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DWN.qVH0ju47lApMKIPuSZp2Uw%26pid%3D15.1%26h%3D172%26w%3D300%26c%3D7%26rs%3D1&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhttp://www.dailymotion.com%2Fvideo%2Fx2tcvlr&tit=BDS+Grows+Across+College+Campuses&c=2&h=172&w=300&l=173&sigr=1189fvn71&sigt=111sr2om4&sigi=12l1d6lj4&age=1433891032&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&fr=yhs-mozilla-004&hsimp=yhs-004&hspart=mozilla&tt=b
You should really watch that video as it provides important context. To give an idea how prevalent this is here is a small sampling of articles one can read on the internet—there are many more:
Silencing Dissent: How Biased Civil Rights Policies Stifle Dialogue on Israel at: http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/silencing-dissent-how-biased-civil-rights-policies-stifle-dialogue-on-israel
Right-Wing Thought Police: Assault Free Speech on Campus at: http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CX5348-ThoughtPolice.htm
Israel’s War on American Universities | Common Dreams - See more at: http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/israels-war-on-american-universities-common-dreams-11902#sthash.c2pKprUU.dpuf ****Important.
It’s happening in Israel too. See: The full story behind the war against free speech in Israel’s Universitiesat: https://electronicintifada.net/content/full-story-behind-war-against-free-speech-israels-universities/11783
Conservative activist admits responsibility for #JewHaters posters at UCLAat: http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/conservative_activist_david_horowitz_admits_responsibility_for_posters
Israel's War on American Universities by Chris Hedges at: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Israel-s-War-on-American-U-by-Chris-Hedges-AIPAC_Academics_Activists_Boycott-140317-525.html
Right-wing groups creating climate of fear at Israeli Universities at: https://electronicintifada.net/content/right-wing-groups-creating-climate-fear-israeli-universities/8533
The Jewish War On Free Speech by Br Nathanael Kapnerat: http://abundanthope.net/pages/True_US_History_108/The-Jewish-War-On-Free-Speech.shtml
People will dismiss what I write as a screed and probably some are already labeling it anti-Semitic (again read: The Politics of Anti-Semitism by Alexander Cockburn).
Still some people are waking up to some Jews yelling and screaming about feelings of intimidation and fear by supposedly anti-Semites. And not surprisingly too often it is a tactic of reverse psychological intimidation. People have been so beaten by the constant guilt-trip about Christians and then Nazi’s destroying Jews. The anti-Semite card is used all the time to cow people in giving in to more Israeli and Zionist demands. Few people dare directly challenge this emotional game of presupposed moral high ground intimidation.
And yet it also turns out that some so called swastika vandalism events were actually carried out by Jewish person pretending to be non-Jewish anti-Semites in order to create false panic and hysterical alarm trying to project a climate of how supposedly terrible is the environment is for Jewish students. This pattern has been found out several times around the country.
It is easy to alleged one is victim to some hate crime when no one really knows who really carried it out, such as etching “Hitler did nothing wrong” or a message found in a campus saying “Zionists should be sent to a gas chamber”. Too often no one knows who really carries out these things and no doubt some are really acts of anti-Zionism or anti-Semitism.
If you read about the concept “swastika vandalism” at: http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Swastika_vandalism
The article, that delineates specific instances of Jews carrying out this sort of thing, starts out:
Swastika Vandalism is vandalism aimed at garnering sympathy for victims of faith-hatred (or other minorities) for some kind of political or (sometimes) personal reason/gain. It is sometimes referred to as a "false-flag" because it has at times been carried out by members of the "persecuted minority" themselves.
Again usually no one really knows how often alleged acts of anti-Semitism are true—surely some are. But when we look at the ADL website we can read some statements from their annual audit at: http://www.adl.org/anti-semitism/united-states/c/2014-audit-of-anti-semitic-incidents.html#.Vf351ZdbqM8
The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States increased by 21 percent in 2014 in a year marked by a violent anti-Semitic shooting attack targeting Jewish community buildings in Kansas and anti-Jewish expressions linked to the war in Gaza.
The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents counted a total of 912 anti-Semitic incidents across the U.S. during the 2014 calendar year. This represents a 21 percent increase from the 751 incidents reported during the same period in 2013, and is the first time in nearly a decade of declines where the overall number of incidents has substantially risen.
Despite the increase in incidents, the total number of anti-Semitic acts still represents one of the lowest totals of anti-Semitic acts reported by ADL since it started keeping records in 1979. Still, the Audit has also identified new trends in anti-Semitic incidents, including the phenomenon of hacking attacks on community and synagogue websites by overseas hackers, which multiplied in 2014.
The ADL Audit cited a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents during the 50 days of conflict between Hamas and Israel beginning with air raids on July 7 and into the subsequent ground invasion in Gaza to root out Hamas rockets and tunnels. Anti-Semitism manifested on the fringe of anti-Israel movements during and after Israel’s Operation Protective Edge as Jewish individuals and institutions became the targets of anti-Semitic rhetoric and acts of vandalism…
Whereas if we realize there are supposedly about 20.6 million college students in the United States, and if we were to assume 1000 incidents of alleged anti-Semitism happened that would be about 1 for every 20,000 students. But not all reports are from colleges but rather from a much larger statistic—the population of the United States that is over 300,000,000.
An ADL audit for two years earlier 2012 is at: http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/anti-semitism-usa/adl-audit-us-anti-semitic-incidents-declined-14-percent.html
It starts out: “ADL Audit: U.S. Anti-Semitic Incidents Declined 14 Percent in 2012: Continuing Two-Year Downward Trend” and later in that report we get the act number of incidents reported on colleges across the country: “The ADL Audit reported a significant increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus during 2012. A total of 61 incidents were reported on college campuses, compared with 22 incidents reported in 2011.”
Within this report it also expresses how ‘opinions’ (not acts of intimidation) are anti-Semitic:
Some of those incidents included the use of anti-Semitic imagery under the guise of anti-Israel activism, with conspiracy theories about Jewish political and economic control being voiced on campus. For example, at a May “Palestine Liberation Week” program at the University of California, Irvine, Amir Abdul Malik Ali, a Northern California-based imam, claimed that “Zionists” were responsible for the financial crisis in the U.S. He also argued that Zionism is a corrupting force for “Jews who believe in it.” At Northeastern Illinois University in March, Gilad Atzmon, a self-described Israeli “ex-Jew” who has described Judaism as “extremist, chauvinist [and] racist,” used Holocaust-related language to demonize the State of Israel and reiterated conspiracy theories.
Personally I’ve read several of Gilad Atzmon’s criticisms of Israel and he is far from being some blatant anti-Semite. Rather he contributes important and critical insights to those who are not deterred from reading his stuff. His right to be heard is exactly what America should be all about—and it is what the ADL and other holier-than-thou pro-Israeli organizations are trying to stop.
It is time for young people everywhere to read famous quotations on free speech such as those many by John Stuart Mills. It’s contentious and radical free speech that deserves defending—not the stuff that has no power to offend. Read, for example, the eye-opening:Zionists Latest Anti-Semitic Inducing Provocation: Trying to Destroy a Highly Worthy and Sane Nuclear Deal with Iran by Sea Shelly (found on the Internet). This type of intelligent discussion is exactly what Zionists are trying to suppress and make it illegal to discuss. Such an article would too not be allowed under these changes that a minority of zealots are trying to railroad down the University System and yet it should have the right to be heard. And frankly UC President New Yorker Janet Napolitano via Jewish Scholarship is not a neutral or trustworthy actor in this drama—She should recluse herself as should the Jewish student regent who made a dramatic statement about her mother telling him to wear the Star of David proudly (as if people had already attacked his symbol). This board is already being stacked in favor a politically biased and this issue now is a very consequential situation that is about to set a precedent for a broader academic life around the nation.
Salomon Rushdie would be imprisoned under this kind of wolf in sheep skin repression that is so neatly being disguised as reasonable and necessary. The University of California has several big colleges. What we have are really a minor number of complainants echo chambering a miscellaneous incidents mostly of angry opinion to be outlawed as forbidden transgression. And it really rather shallow—I mean the whole show. A few instances of swastikas and a few writings everyone is supposed to assume is based on true evil intent by true Jew-haters and more complaints about conflicting opinion. Cities in the U.S. get bombarded with tons of graffiti vandalism daily. The swastika automatically brings to mind death squads and murder and yet it could have been by some shallow pranksters. This issue doesn’t even equate to the equivalence of one domestic violence complaint. It’s mostly about being angry about Israel. This is a third rate witch hunt in which most of the fears are imagined or exaggerated and it has a strong political motive that will seriously hamper free speech.
Let’s start with the ADL website page on the UC Irvine campus. The first group mentioned is the Muslim Student Union. I copy their ‘own’ statement directly:
The University of California, Irvine (UCI) has become a center for anti-Semitic activity in recent years. Much of this activity has been organized by the Muslim Student Union (MSU), a vocal student group at UCI, which is responsible for staging large events every spring featuring virulently anti-Semitic speakers.
In July 2010, the MSU was suspended for one year because of its involvement in disrupting a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren in February of that year. The university's investigation into the matter uncovered evidence that MSU organized a calculated demonstration at Ambassador Oren's speech that was in violation of university policy against disorderly conduct, obstructing university activities, furnishing false information and other campus policies. Eleven students—9 from UCI and 2 UC Riverside—were arrested at the time. The group was eventually only suspended for the Fall 2010 semester.
Since its reinstatement, the MSU has shown no signs of dialing down its rhetoric and activity. In May 2012, Amir Abdul Malik Ali was invited to speak as part of the group’s “Palestine Liberation Week” on campus. Malik Ali, who had previously delivered anti-Semitic speeches on campus in years past, used the platform to accuse Zionists of orchestrating the financial collapse and condemn UC president Mark Yudof as a “Zionist Jew” who supports the “apartheid state of Israel.” Malik Ali also responded to a question from the audience about Israel being the Jews’ homeland with, “ya’ll came from Europe...you gotta go back.”
This is some broad witch hysteria cauldron of anti-Semitism related to divergent opinions and a mysterious swastikas and hate messages that are playing more the part of window dressing. You have a have a high caliber Israeli official, Ambassador Oren, being interrupted (surely for political reasons and why is he allowed to speak on campuses with his Pro-Semite biases?).
This campus that is somehow so supposedly anti-Semitic is really about being political. Code Pink group interrupts important political events all the time, including a speech by the divine Netanyahu himself (not to mention Congressional meetings and even the President himself—no one is automatically calling their great organization (my bias) un-American (because it is not—it is only un-Zionist). No hyperbolic double standard here?
There is a Noam Chomsky speech on DemocracyNow.Org this week and he clearly says the same kinds of ugly things about Israel and their government and how many are going to accuse him of being anti-Semitic (as his ancestry is Jewish). What is really going on is a double standard that if you are Muslim you are not allowed to say things critical of Israel or Zionism.
So it seems rather obvious this censoring attack at the University of California is sinister as it conflates ugly opinions (which all people have a right to hold since we live in a world where very ugly things happen) with the concept of anti-Semitism equals anything that criticizes Jews or Zionists or Israelis in any way that seems of feels hostile. This is really an insidious game being underhandedly played (and of course this very essay too will be called anti-Semitic because it frustrates the Zionist agenda).
AND someone called Israel an anti-apartheid State. Well surely that deserves a crackdown of opinion on American colleges?
But of course when you have more than a handful of colleges to choose from certainly you can find a few other instances of wild and ferocious hatred. Enter UC San Diego Professor Shlomo Dubnov with a recent opinion piece When scholarly criticism ends and anti-Semitism begins. Given a music teacher needs passion but this man’s writing is not exceptional convincing. In fact he asserts:
As a UC professor, privy to a front-row seat, I know firsthand that being a Jewish student is not what it was like a mere five or 10 years ago. Anti-Semitism on campus is rising at an alarming and frightening rate. And it largely involves Israel.
This several paragraphs article but it is hyperbolic opinion spun as factoid. See:
When UC students from different campuses report fear of wearing a Star of David necklace because they might get spit on or yelled at by anti-Israel activists, and when a UCLA student reports she was afraid to walk to Hillel for sabbath dinner and another says she stopped telling people she was Jewish, that is anti-Semitism.
I guess I need to point out that have an imagined fear that one “might” get spit on is not the same as it being done. Equally speculating fear of walking to Hillel is not the same as someone actually being attacked like Israelis actually do to Palestinians on a routine basis. We have fiction posing as fact. For someone sitting in the first row he doesn’t really make much of a case (maybe he ought study some logic) and does that mean everyone else has been in the back row?
This is really making a mountain out of a mole hill. Although this stuff can be disturbing it is far from making major news and creating a demand for bureaucratic tic and legalistic change. Is it just because Jewish people are often used to getting their way irrespective of the fairness of the matter? All college students should be highly concerned about this proceeding and how it developed and where it is going. Another question is why is Janet Napolitano even a President of major college system when she comes from a political background that creates more a police state in this country?
But the most disturbing aspect of professor Dubnov is his insistence for the adoption of the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism as his naïve words:
Opponents claim the State Department definition is overreaching. They argue it suppresses free speech and conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. They are flat-out wrong.
No Dubnov is clearly wrong—and hopefully it is because of ignorance of hypocrisy and this whole this is not some staged process. His statement is demagogic and focuses on an agenda—the State Departments definitions of anti-Semitism—an agenda to change the freedom levels of what can be freely argued as to what mostly affects Jews. This is one reason why they insist the Regents must come up with new wording protecting their “special interests” and feelings. Any true democratic statement would not have to focus specifically on how Jews feel about the conflict frankly caused by the Zionist propensity toward injustice.
We are not talking about people being beaten up or physically attacked. This is not pogroms and isolating groups by making them wear certain symbols or only allowing Jews to operate in certain professions. It is ironic the only student regent is Jewish and willing to play the guilt card.
61 incidents in 2012 over a 20 million population of college students is not a super huge phenomenon. 20 million divided by 100 equals 1 alleged victim for every 200,000 students. Granted it would be ideal if humankind lived in some utopia and this counterargument is not meant to not take serious what truly is serious even it actual occurrences are statistically small.
But more to the point the screaming of anti-Semitism has little to nothing to do with the truth value of an opinion such as someone who argues “Zionists are responsible for the financial crisis” or “Israel was behind 9/11” or “Hitler did not do anything wrong”, etc. but rather trying to destroy the right to share an ugly or critical opinion by creating laws that criticize something about Israel regardless of whether the so-called anti-Semitic statements is true or not. This is really the notion of extremist totalitarianism.
Just maybe Hitler was far less the monster than many of us have been lead to believe? Some historian opinions who argue such have been outlawed as anti-Semitic in Europe. Maybe Israel was in fact involved in 9/11—doesn’t that idea deserve proper examination—rather than rejecting the notion as not fit to think about. Granted a lot of people do not want to think about it.
Some people want to live in a mental bubble in which they can believe that Jewish peoples and Zionists never do anything wrong and are always history’s victims. Yet there are some theories out there that paint a very different picture (they are labeled conspiracy theories to denigrate them so people will be less prone to explore them). If Jews think it so bad to be Jewish on American campuses read the following essay: “Where Will It End? More Israeli Murders’ by By Stephen Lendman at: https://alethonews.wordpress.com/2015/09/22/where-will-it-end-more-israeli-murders/ (fresh off the press).
The question is not trying to create the impossible—a world of make believe in which Zionist can do whatever they want and no one will be allowed to question their behavior. The question is more the need for people to get out of their conceited bubbles and dare looking at alternative explanations that sometimes seen more real and true than what they currently think. See this important article: Campus is seen as next battleground against Iran Deal — by ‘rightwing fanatics’ Annie Robbins at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/09/battleground-rightwing-fanatics?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=c724b6059b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-c724b6059b-309261654 And it is important to realize after reading some of these references that campus Hillel are directly involved and they cannot claim some kind of neutrality.
Alternative explanations on the history of World War 2 that are different than the Zionist-dominated explanations we have been inundated with for decades do not automatically make them evil even if they paint Zionism with a brush that suggest unethical behavior by some Zionists. These alternative explanations are often called Holocaust Denial or World War 2 Revisionism and are being outlawed in various countries in Europe and elsewhere. This kind of double standard is desperately insane. See:
“Laws against Holocaust denial” at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial
Also see: “Israel Campaigns Against Global Free Speech” at: https://alethonews.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/israel-campaigns-against-global-free-speech/
and “Hate-Speech Hypocrites: How can we ban hate speech against Jews while defending mockery of Muslims?” at: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2012/09/free_speech_vs_hate_speech_why_is_it_legal_to_insult_muslims_but_not_jews_.html
and “Criminalizing Criticism: A Zionist Project – An Analysis” by Lawrence Davidson at: http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2015/06/criminalizing-criticism-a-zionist-project-an-analysis-by-lawrence-davidson/
But more alarming is the likelihood that college and university politics of allegations of anti-Semitism is the possibility people learn of some disturbing but possibly important truths that require they see their relationship with Israel in new ways.
There has been too much hysteria acted out to manipulate freedom of speech rules not just on campuses but around the world and including our country. In fact many organizations and people get their very ideas about prejudice from Zionist organizations such as ADL and Southern Poverty Law Center, themselves biased as even some ADL groups have been involved in promoting anti-Muslimism. See another eye-opening article: Anti-Muslim bigotry is being funded by the Israel-right-or-wrong crowd by EllyBulkin and Donna Nevel at: http://mondoweiss.net/2012/10/anti-muslim-bigotry-is-being-funded-by-the-israel-right-or-wrong-crowd#sthash.ydjGrZPm.dpuf (in this article we see ADL sometimes gets involved in promoting such prejudice (as they do far too little to combat anti-Muslimism even though for example the Palestinians are far more related to the ancient Israelis than modern Caucasian Jews who mostly have no DNA connection what-so-ever)).
So this political battle is about far more than allegations of anti-Semitism on college campuses. This is a continuation of trying to quell curiosity and true free speech. Americans, including many Jewish-Americans are far more naïve about things than reality seems to be. People have a right and duty to learn ugly truths. People need to wake up to their own naiveté. There has in fact been a routine pattern of Zionist duplicity. It has been sophisticated and deserves some study. Muslims, as do all Americans, have a right (and if they feel so a duty) to protest and to sound angry. Liberal Jews have no problem promoting black hostility against white men (especially those not Jewish). Where is there any comparable analysis about how it is OK to scream and shot at white people especially police if you are black? Rather the show has been the more blame and guilt the better for white male men.
Another current example of this is how this whole ISIS/ ISIL phenomenon as explained by the mainstream media is very different than what Americans are being told. It seems as reported from multiple sources it is a secret plan to fight another of Israel’s enemies—namely the Bashar Assad regime of Syria (but Israel of course isn’t taking any refugees). See a smattering of alternative explanations that suggest the world is being deeply lied to by mainstream media:
http://govtslaves.info/site-intelligence-group-released-beheading-video-isis/
http://investmentwatchblog.com/we-trained-him-well-and-we-had-lots-of-help-from-america-u-s-training-helped-mold-top-islamic-state-military-commander/
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/us-drones-attack-syrias-military-disguised-as-an-airstrike-against-isis/
http://www.inspiretochangeworld.com/2015/09/isis-is-working-on-mossadcia-plan-to-create-greater-israel/
http://investmentwatchblog.com/state-department-whistleblower-exposes-covert-terrorist-funding/
http://investmentwatchblog.com/washington-was-planning-to-overthrow-syrian-government-years-before-2011-uprising/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/isis-j30.html
http://theinternationalreporter.org/2015/08/04/usa-turkey-and-israel-act-as-air-force-for-isis/
http://www.juancole.com/2015/09/israels-refugee-yarmouk.html
http://journal-neo.org/2015/09/11/western-media-hype-russian-aggression-in-syria/
If people start waking up to what has really been going on then there will be some anger and some finger pointing. Most Jews and Zionists don’t know either. Instead they want to maintain a status that what they believe in isinvariably true and any expression that implicates their people is obviously a lie and a hate crime. Furthermore they want everyone else in the world to continue to believe what seems their fantasy world.
Some choose to use the phrase “anti-Israel activist” rather than “anti-Zionist” because one apparent goal of this exaggerated fear-mongering to conflate the terms anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism as if the two meanings were the same—all neatly under the same rubric (as somehow always a moral crime whereas criticizing other nationals is seldom deserving of such a notorious conceptual symbol packed with so much obvious evil). As Sea Shelly writes: “No one complains about calling Muslims terrorists and accusing them of perpetrating 9/11”. That is to say no one is trying to outlaw that kind of free speech.
This way they can scream with so much histrionics ANTISEMITISM IS ON THE RISE on campuses, and yet they know it largely involves Israel. But there is a big war planned to kill free speech on American colleges due to the BDS movement. Sheldon Adelson is ready to spend millions of dollars to kill this intellectual movement on college campuses. These forms of anti-Semitism politics is not going away any time soon. And could some complainers actually be paid for this kind of thing? See: Adelson to Host Event on Anti-Semitism Within U.S. College Campuses by Suzanne Vega at: http://jpupdates.com/2015/06/02/adelson-to-host-event-on-anti-semitism-within-u-s-college-campuses/
I do not believe the extent of these claims made are as real as how the imagination works for rhetorical effect. Surely there are legitimate cases of anti-Semitism at play especially in a statistical field as large as the United States. And granted I’m not part of any campus system and I do not have firsthand experience—but I am well aware that one Zionist strategy in killing the message is ad hominem attack on the messenger. Exaggerating anti-Semitism, as crying wolf, is typical strategy rather than dealing with the actual realities that build anti-Zionist attitudes such as Israel’s horrific and war crime attacks on Palestinians last summer. Now Israel’s and AIPAC’s push to kill the Iran deal which is a better than a good deal.
People have a right to oppose the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine or old Canaan. This is not some Absolute-in-Stone concept all peoples simply should accept. There are good reasons to oppose any theocratic government or ethnocentric movement—no matter how some feel ordained. Such an opinion or argument should not be barred from discussion. Granted Israel doesn’t overtly call for the Palestine’s destruction—rather it practices it year after year with war crimes. Meanwhile Israel cries out about threats of being pushed into the sea—but it engages pushing Palestinians off the map.
What some people are calling for is the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism. See U.S. State Department Official Definition of 'Anti-Semitism’ - (Wow.) by Martin Hill at: http://libertyfight.com/2015/US_state_dept_official_definition_antisemitism.html
It is important that you read this citation because you can see how very broad and implicating such a political move is (and note many of the key positions held at the Department of State are people who are Jewish). It’s not a definition rather it is a jail cell composed of many iron bars.
Yet compare these supposed thought crimes to the actual crimes committed in Gaza last summer. See: Israeli Atrocities: NY activist students highlight Israeli crimes…Netanyahu Leverages Terror Threat To Further Colonial Expansion And More at: http://investmentwatchblog.com/israeli-atrocities-ny-activist-students-highlight-israeli-crimes-netanyahu-leverages-terror-threat-to-further-colonial-expansion-and-more/ and also see: Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza by Marjorie Cohn at: https://consortiumnews.com/2014/07/15/israels-war-crimes-in-gaza/
What Israel has been doing for years is not simply making people feel bad or merely hurling insults or allegations or posting hostile symbols but rather a whole litany of brutal and ferocious war crimes. The real question is why there have not been more loud and uproarious protests on college campuses and around the country? The reaction here in America has been tame. You could call it a charade and would still be less hyperbolic than the whiners and complainers who feel because they are Jewish they have some inevitable right to get their way here in America because Americans are naïve pushovers.
No doubt likely there are instances of anti-Semitism such as messages painted on doors. And surely not everyone protesting anti-Semitism is doing it under false premises. I do not discount the concern as real and yet I refuse to allow this type of easy exaggeration, especially in an implied statistical sense, to become red- herring because some Americans don’t want to know how much others are waking up to the atrocities in Israel and their overly zealous control they have practiced over our Government (especially Congress).
The goal expressed by some is to silence Jewish voices. This is “their”opinion (and it is a subjective opinion), which they certainly have a right, as few have heard of silenced Jewish voices in modern America.
But nor should any campus allow Jewish or Zionist voices to silence others who harbor righteous anger over the politics of the Israeli government. There are a lot of people who feel silenced by this typical Zionist self-righteousness. This is their style of intimidation and it has worked around the world rather well.
So it doesn’t matter if some Jewish Americans get angry and cry like babies because they can’t always get their way! It is time they grow up and realize other people have right too.
Amen
[Note: If you feel this message is important, then by all means, email, fax, print, manually mail, propagate, tweet, twitter, and publish to all that might care. It is very important other people help spread worthy ideas and arguments. There is a very serious battle going on in America and we cannot allow psychological blackmail to win out.]
There is something very disturbing going on with the University of California school systems that is more serious than over-inflated allegations of anti-Semitism and hate crimes on college campuses in California, and that is special interest bully pulpit attempt by some Jews to get regulations passed that outlaw any kind of speech that that basically rejects the Zionist project in Israel as a Jewish State. This is a very serious attack on free speech in one of America’s college systems. Trying to broaden the definition of anti-Semitism as “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination and denying Israel the right to exist” is clearly political blackmail. For several years now various Jewish right-wing organizations and individuals have been waging a political battle against criticism of Israel and Zionism and now it is focusing more and more on American campuses. See video: BDS Grows Across College Campuses.
By Grady Grip
[Note: There is a legitimate reason why this essay is written under a pseudonym—it is because of the controversial nature of this complaint. In this world people who speak truth to power can find themselves and their reputations destroyed such as some professors who get to critical of Israeli politics. If it was safe to put real name to this message I would do it—but the truth is that many people are afraid to criticize Israel, Zionists and Jews because they know they can be attacked or labeled and blackballed in many ways. Steven Salaita was fired from the UI at Urbana-Champaign for posting tweets critical to Israel’s role in Gaza. Zionist fanatic Alan Dershowitz succeeds in destroying the teaching career of Norman Fickelstein, etc., with other examples as a real war on free speech. So the arguments herein must stand on their own merits. Also if broader definitions of anti-Semitism are enacted you would not be allowed to learn of this letter or the article attached below. Contentious speech especially needs to be protected and as contentious as these ideas may be they too deserve a fair hearing.]
[Note 2: The Regents of the Regents of University of California System need to take their time and not rush into anything rash just because some vociferous people are trying to use emotional blackmail and supposed morality to get their way. These campuses need a new Free Speech Movement like back in the 1970s when upper class kids were finally getting riled up about America’s involvement in slaughtering millions of Asians in Indonesia. It doesn’t need a ball and chain status in a world in which even much of the mainstream media has been corrupted. If you want to understand anti-Semitism read the book: The Politics of Anti-Semitism by Alexander Cockburn. The fact that someone who knows something wrote such a book some years ago should give a clue to what many young and ideologically naïve do not—including many elderly people. I wish I lived in society where I could share my identity when I share certain critical opinions but I cannot. Still this letter to the editor/ opinion piece to UC student campus newspapers should be published in its entirety to bring up some important topics.]
[Note 3: If you feel this message is important, then by all means, email, fax, print, manually mail, propagate, tweet, twitter, and publish to all that might care. It is very important other people help spread worthy ideas and arguments. There is a very serious battle going on in America and we cannot allow psychological blackmail to win out.] An earlier draft (this is the latest and better polished) of this essay is also found at: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/21/18777931.php
There is something very disturbing going on with the University of California school systems that is more serious than over-inflated allegations of anti-Semitism and hate crimes on college campuses in California, and that is special interest bully pulpit attempt by some Jews to get regulations passed that outlaw any kind of speech that that basically rejects the Zionist project in Israel as a Jewish State. See: University Of California May Give Students Right To Not Be Offended by Blake Neff at: http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/11/university-of-california-may-give-students-right-to-not-be-offended/
This is a very serious attack on free speech in one of America’s college systems. Trying to broaden the definition of anti-Semitism as “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination and denying Israel the right to exist” is clearly political blackmail—and frankly there has been far too much political blackmail by Zionists around the world over several decades—especially regarding censoring unpopular ideas they do not want circulated (and too often ideas showing how the history of modern Zionism has really operated). Take for example some history journals refusing to allow advertisements of the following well documented book: Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel by Alison Weir, see: http:/http://www.IfAmericansKnew.Org or http://www.amazon.com/Against-Our-Better-Judgment-History/dp/149591092X.
For several years now various Jewish right-wing organizations and individuals have been waging a political battle against criticism of Israel and Zionism and now it is focusing more and more on American campuses. See video: BDS Grows Across College Campuses at: https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2KIo9cFQv5VoCkAFbssnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByN2RnbHFoBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDdmlkBHZ0aWQDBGdwb3MDMw--?p=Adelson+sheldon+Bias+On+College+Campus&vid=711cf2e890d1cc2683c7f7dc3567dca3&turl=http%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DWN.qVH0ju47lApMKIPuSZp2Uw%26pid%3D15.1%26h%3D172%26w%3D300%26c%3D7%26rs%3D1&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhttp://www.dailymotion.com%2Fvideo%2Fx2tcvlr&tit=BDS+Grows+Across+College+Campuses&c=2&h=172&w=300&l=173&sigr=1189fvn71&sigt=111sr2om4&sigi=12l1d6lj4&age=1433891032&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&fr=yhs-mozilla-004&hsimp=yhs-004&hspart=mozilla&tt=b
You should really watch that video as it provides important context. To give an idea how prevalent this is here is a small sampling of articles one can read on the internet—there are many more:
Silencing Dissent: How Biased Civil Rights Policies Stifle Dialogue on Israel at: http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/silencing-dissent-how-biased-civil-rights-policies-stifle-dialogue-on-israel
Right-Wing Thought Police: Assault Free Speech on Campus at: http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CX5348-ThoughtPolice.htm
Israel’s War on American Universities | Common Dreams - See more at: http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/israels-war-on-american-universities-common-dreams-11902#sthash.c2pKprUU.dpuf ****Important.
It’s happening in Israel too. See: The full story behind the war against free speech in Israel’s Universitiesat: https://electronicintifada.net/content/full-story-behind-war-against-free-speech-israels-universities/11783
Conservative activist admits responsibility for #JewHaters posters at UCLAat: http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/conservative_activist_david_horowitz_admits_responsibility_for_posters
Israel's War on American Universities by Chris Hedges at: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Israel-s-War-on-American-U-by-Chris-Hedges-AIPAC_Academics_Activists_Boycott-140317-525.html
Right-wing groups creating climate of fear at Israeli Universities at: https://electronicintifada.net/content/right-wing-groups-creating-climate-fear-israeli-universities/8533
The Jewish War On Free Speech by Br Nathanael Kapnerat: http://abundanthope.net/pages/True_US_History_108/The-Jewish-War-On-Free-Speech.shtml
People will dismiss what I write as a screed and probably some are already labeling it anti-Semitic (again read: The Politics of Anti-Semitism by Alexander Cockburn).
Still some people are waking up to some Jews yelling and screaming about feelings of intimidation and fear by supposedly anti-Semites. And not surprisingly too often it is a tactic of reverse psychological intimidation. People have been so beaten by the constant guilt-trip about Christians and then Nazi’s destroying Jews. The anti-Semite card is used all the time to cow people in giving in to more Israeli and Zionist demands. Few people dare directly challenge this emotional game of presupposed moral high ground intimidation.
And yet it also turns out that some so called swastika vandalism events were actually carried out by Jewish person pretending to be non-Jewish anti-Semites in order to create false panic and hysterical alarm trying to project a climate of how supposedly terrible is the environment is for Jewish students. This pattern has been found out several times around the country.
It is easy to alleged one is victim to some hate crime when no one really knows who really carried it out, such as etching “Hitler did nothing wrong” or a message found in a campus saying “Zionists should be sent to a gas chamber”. Too often no one knows who really carries out these things and no doubt some are really acts of anti-Zionism or anti-Semitism.
If you read about the concept “swastika vandalism” at: http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Swastika_vandalism
The article, that delineates specific instances of Jews carrying out this sort of thing, starts out:
Swastika Vandalism is vandalism aimed at garnering sympathy for victims of faith-hatred (or other minorities) for some kind of political or (sometimes) personal reason/gain. It is sometimes referred to as a "false-flag" because it has at times been carried out by members of the "persecuted minority" themselves.
Again usually no one really knows how often alleged acts of anti-Semitism are true—surely some are. But when we look at the ADL website we can read some statements from their annual audit at: http://www.adl.org/anti-semitism/united-states/c/2014-audit-of-anti-semitic-incidents.html#.Vf351ZdbqM8
The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States increased by 21 percent in 2014 in a year marked by a violent anti-Semitic shooting attack targeting Jewish community buildings in Kansas and anti-Jewish expressions linked to the war in Gaza.
The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents counted a total of 912 anti-Semitic incidents across the U.S. during the 2014 calendar year. This represents a 21 percent increase from the 751 incidents reported during the same period in 2013, and is the first time in nearly a decade of declines where the overall number of incidents has substantially risen.
Despite the increase in incidents, the total number of anti-Semitic acts still represents one of the lowest totals of anti-Semitic acts reported by ADL since it started keeping records in 1979. Still, the Audit has also identified new trends in anti-Semitic incidents, including the phenomenon of hacking attacks on community and synagogue websites by overseas hackers, which multiplied in 2014.
The ADL Audit cited a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents during the 50 days of conflict between Hamas and Israel beginning with air raids on July 7 and into the subsequent ground invasion in Gaza to root out Hamas rockets and tunnels. Anti-Semitism manifested on the fringe of anti-Israel movements during and after Israel’s Operation Protective Edge as Jewish individuals and institutions became the targets of anti-Semitic rhetoric and acts of vandalism…
Whereas if we realize there are supposedly about 20.6 million college students in the United States, and if we were to assume 1000 incidents of alleged anti-Semitism happened that would be about 1 for every 20,000 students. But not all reports are from colleges but rather from a much larger statistic—the population of the United States that is over 300,000,000.
An ADL audit for two years earlier 2012 is at: http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/anti-semitism-usa/adl-audit-us-anti-semitic-incidents-declined-14-percent.html
It starts out: “ADL Audit: U.S. Anti-Semitic Incidents Declined 14 Percent in 2012: Continuing Two-Year Downward Trend” and later in that report we get the act number of incidents reported on colleges across the country: “The ADL Audit reported a significant increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus during 2012. A total of 61 incidents were reported on college campuses, compared with 22 incidents reported in 2011.”
Within this report it also expresses how ‘opinions’ (not acts of intimidation) are anti-Semitic:
Some of those incidents included the use of anti-Semitic imagery under the guise of anti-Israel activism, with conspiracy theories about Jewish political and economic control being voiced on campus. For example, at a May “Palestine Liberation Week” program at the University of California, Irvine, Amir Abdul Malik Ali, a Northern California-based imam, claimed that “Zionists” were responsible for the financial crisis in the U.S. He also argued that Zionism is a corrupting force for “Jews who believe in it.” At Northeastern Illinois University in March, Gilad Atzmon, a self-described Israeli “ex-Jew” who has described Judaism as “extremist, chauvinist [and] racist,” used Holocaust-related language to demonize the State of Israel and reiterated conspiracy theories.
Personally I’ve read several of Gilad Atzmon’s criticisms of Israel and he is far from being some blatant anti-Semite. Rather he contributes important and critical insights to those who are not deterred from reading his stuff. His right to be heard is exactly what America should be all about—and it is what the ADL and other holier-than-thou pro-Israeli organizations are trying to stop.
It is time for young people everywhere to read famous quotations on free speech such as those many by John Stuart Mills. It’s contentious and radical free speech that deserves defending—not the stuff that has no power to offend. Read, for example, the eye-opening:Zionists Latest Anti-Semitic Inducing Provocation: Trying to Destroy a Highly Worthy and Sane Nuclear Deal with Iran by Sea Shelly (found on the Internet). This type of intelligent discussion is exactly what Zionists are trying to suppress and make it illegal to discuss. Such an article would too not be allowed under these changes that a minority of zealots are trying to railroad down the University System and yet it should have the right to be heard. And frankly UC President New Yorker Janet Napolitano via Jewish Scholarship is not a neutral or trustworthy actor in this drama—She should recluse herself as should the Jewish student regent who made a dramatic statement about her mother telling him to wear the Star of David proudly (as if people had already attacked his symbol). This board is already being stacked in favor a politically biased and this issue now is a very consequential situation that is about to set a precedent for a broader academic life around the nation.
Salomon Rushdie would be imprisoned under this kind of wolf in sheep skin repression that is so neatly being disguised as reasonable and necessary. The University of California has several big colleges. What we have are really a minor number of complainants echo chambering a miscellaneous incidents mostly of angry opinion to be outlawed as forbidden transgression. And it really rather shallow—I mean the whole show. A few instances of swastikas and a few writings everyone is supposed to assume is based on true evil intent by true Jew-haters and more complaints about conflicting opinion. Cities in the U.S. get bombarded with tons of graffiti vandalism daily. The swastika automatically brings to mind death squads and murder and yet it could have been by some shallow pranksters. This issue doesn’t even equate to the equivalence of one domestic violence complaint. It’s mostly about being angry about Israel. This is a third rate witch hunt in which most of the fears are imagined or exaggerated and it has a strong political motive that will seriously hamper free speech.
Let’s start with the ADL website page on the UC Irvine campus. The first group mentioned is the Muslim Student Union. I copy their ‘own’ statement directly:
The University of California, Irvine (UCI) has become a center for anti-Semitic activity in recent years. Much of this activity has been organized by the Muslim Student Union (MSU), a vocal student group at UCI, which is responsible for staging large events every spring featuring virulently anti-Semitic speakers.
In July 2010, the MSU was suspended for one year because of its involvement in disrupting a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren in February of that year. The university's investigation into the matter uncovered evidence that MSU organized a calculated demonstration at Ambassador Oren's speech that was in violation of university policy against disorderly conduct, obstructing university activities, furnishing false information and other campus policies. Eleven students—9 from UCI and 2 UC Riverside—were arrested at the time. The group was eventually only suspended for the Fall 2010 semester.
Since its reinstatement, the MSU has shown no signs of dialing down its rhetoric and activity. In May 2012, Amir Abdul Malik Ali was invited to speak as part of the group’s “Palestine Liberation Week” on campus. Malik Ali, who had previously delivered anti-Semitic speeches on campus in years past, used the platform to accuse Zionists of orchestrating the financial collapse and condemn UC president Mark Yudof as a “Zionist Jew” who supports the “apartheid state of Israel.” Malik Ali also responded to a question from the audience about Israel being the Jews’ homeland with, “ya’ll came from Europe...you gotta go back.”
This is some broad witch hysteria cauldron of anti-Semitism related to divergent opinions and a mysterious swastikas and hate messages that are playing more the part of window dressing. You have a have a high caliber Israeli official, Ambassador Oren, being interrupted (surely for political reasons and why is he allowed to speak on campuses with his Pro-Semite biases?).
This campus that is somehow so supposedly anti-Semitic is really about being political. Code Pink group interrupts important political events all the time, including a speech by the divine Netanyahu himself (not to mention Congressional meetings and even the President himself—no one is automatically calling their great organization (my bias) un-American (because it is not—it is only un-Zionist). No hyperbolic double standard here?
There is a Noam Chomsky speech on DemocracyNow.Org this week and he clearly says the same kinds of ugly things about Israel and their government and how many are going to accuse him of being anti-Semitic (as his ancestry is Jewish). What is really going on is a double standard that if you are Muslim you are not allowed to say things critical of Israel or Zionism.
So it seems rather obvious this censoring attack at the University of California is sinister as it conflates ugly opinions (which all people have a right to hold since we live in a world where very ugly things happen) with the concept of anti-Semitism equals anything that criticizes Jews or Zionists or Israelis in any way that seems of feels hostile. This is really an insidious game being underhandedly played (and of course this very essay too will be called anti-Semitic because it frustrates the Zionist agenda).
AND someone called Israel an anti-apartheid State. Well surely that deserves a crackdown of opinion on American colleges?
But of course when you have more than a handful of colleges to choose from certainly you can find a few other instances of wild and ferocious hatred. Enter UC San Diego Professor Shlomo Dubnov with a recent opinion piece When scholarly criticism ends and anti-Semitism begins. Given a music teacher needs passion but this man’s writing is not exceptional convincing. In fact he asserts:
As a UC professor, privy to a front-row seat, I know firsthand that being a Jewish student is not what it was like a mere five or 10 years ago. Anti-Semitism on campus is rising at an alarming and frightening rate. And it largely involves Israel.
This several paragraphs article but it is hyperbolic opinion spun as factoid. See:
When UC students from different campuses report fear of wearing a Star of David necklace because they might get spit on or yelled at by anti-Israel activists, and when a UCLA student reports she was afraid to walk to Hillel for sabbath dinner and another says she stopped telling people she was Jewish, that is anti-Semitism.
I guess I need to point out that have an imagined fear that one “might” get spit on is not the same as it being done. Equally speculating fear of walking to Hillel is not the same as someone actually being attacked like Israelis actually do to Palestinians on a routine basis. We have fiction posing as fact. For someone sitting in the first row he doesn’t really make much of a case (maybe he ought study some logic) and does that mean everyone else has been in the back row?
This is really making a mountain out of a mole hill. Although this stuff can be disturbing it is far from making major news and creating a demand for bureaucratic tic and legalistic change. Is it just because Jewish people are often used to getting their way irrespective of the fairness of the matter? All college students should be highly concerned about this proceeding and how it developed and where it is going. Another question is why is Janet Napolitano even a President of major college system when she comes from a political background that creates more a police state in this country?
But the most disturbing aspect of professor Dubnov is his insistence for the adoption of the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism as his naïve words:
Opponents claim the State Department definition is overreaching. They argue it suppresses free speech and conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. They are flat-out wrong.
No Dubnov is clearly wrong—and hopefully it is because of ignorance of hypocrisy and this whole this is not some staged process. His statement is demagogic and focuses on an agenda—the State Departments definitions of anti-Semitism—an agenda to change the freedom levels of what can be freely argued as to what mostly affects Jews. This is one reason why they insist the Regents must come up with new wording protecting their “special interests” and feelings. Any true democratic statement would not have to focus specifically on how Jews feel about the conflict frankly caused by the Zionist propensity toward injustice.
We are not talking about people being beaten up or physically attacked. This is not pogroms and isolating groups by making them wear certain symbols or only allowing Jews to operate in certain professions. It is ironic the only student regent is Jewish and willing to play the guilt card.
61 incidents in 2012 over a 20 million population of college students is not a super huge phenomenon. 20 million divided by 100 equals 1 alleged victim for every 200,000 students. Granted it would be ideal if humankind lived in some utopia and this counterargument is not meant to not take serious what truly is serious even it actual occurrences are statistically small.
But more to the point the screaming of anti-Semitism has little to nothing to do with the truth value of an opinion such as someone who argues “Zionists are responsible for the financial crisis” or “Israel was behind 9/11” or “Hitler did not do anything wrong”, etc. but rather trying to destroy the right to share an ugly or critical opinion by creating laws that criticize something about Israel regardless of whether the so-called anti-Semitic statements is true or not. This is really the notion of extremist totalitarianism.
Just maybe Hitler was far less the monster than many of us have been lead to believe? Some historian opinions who argue such have been outlawed as anti-Semitic in Europe. Maybe Israel was in fact involved in 9/11—doesn’t that idea deserve proper examination—rather than rejecting the notion as not fit to think about. Granted a lot of people do not want to think about it.
Some people want to live in a mental bubble in which they can believe that Jewish peoples and Zionists never do anything wrong and are always history’s victims. Yet there are some theories out there that paint a very different picture (they are labeled conspiracy theories to denigrate them so people will be less prone to explore them). If Jews think it so bad to be Jewish on American campuses read the following essay: “Where Will It End? More Israeli Murders’ by By Stephen Lendman at: https://alethonews.wordpress.com/2015/09/22/where-will-it-end-more-israeli-murders/ (fresh off the press).
The question is not trying to create the impossible—a world of make believe in which Zionist can do whatever they want and no one will be allowed to question their behavior. The question is more the need for people to get out of their conceited bubbles and dare looking at alternative explanations that sometimes seen more real and true than what they currently think. See this important article: Campus is seen as next battleground against Iran Deal — by ‘rightwing fanatics’ Annie Robbins at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/09/battleground-rightwing-fanatics?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=c724b6059b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-c724b6059b-309261654 And it is important to realize after reading some of these references that campus Hillel are directly involved and they cannot claim some kind of neutrality.
Alternative explanations on the history of World War 2 that are different than the Zionist-dominated explanations we have been inundated with for decades do not automatically make them evil even if they paint Zionism with a brush that suggest unethical behavior by some Zionists. These alternative explanations are often called Holocaust Denial or World War 2 Revisionism and are being outlawed in various countries in Europe and elsewhere. This kind of double standard is desperately insane. See:
“Laws against Holocaust denial” at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial
Also see: “Israel Campaigns Against Global Free Speech” at: https://alethonews.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/israel-campaigns-against-global-free-speech/
and “Hate-Speech Hypocrites: How can we ban hate speech against Jews while defending mockery of Muslims?” at: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2012/09/free_speech_vs_hate_speech_why_is_it_legal_to_insult_muslims_but_not_jews_.html
and “Criminalizing Criticism: A Zionist Project – An Analysis” by Lawrence Davidson at: http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2015/06/criminalizing-criticism-a-zionist-project-an-analysis-by-lawrence-davidson/
But more alarming is the likelihood that college and university politics of allegations of anti-Semitism is the possibility people learn of some disturbing but possibly important truths that require they see their relationship with Israel in new ways.
There has been too much hysteria acted out to manipulate freedom of speech rules not just on campuses but around the world and including our country. In fact many organizations and people get their very ideas about prejudice from Zionist organizations such as ADL and Southern Poverty Law Center, themselves biased as even some ADL groups have been involved in promoting anti-Muslimism. See another eye-opening article: Anti-Muslim bigotry is being funded by the Israel-right-or-wrong crowd by EllyBulkin and Donna Nevel at: http://mondoweiss.net/2012/10/anti-muslim-bigotry-is-being-funded-by-the-israel-right-or-wrong-crowd#sthash.ydjGrZPm.dpuf (in this article we see ADL sometimes gets involved in promoting such prejudice (as they do far too little to combat anti-Muslimism even though for example the Palestinians are far more related to the ancient Israelis than modern Caucasian Jews who mostly have no DNA connection what-so-ever)).
So this political battle is about far more than allegations of anti-Semitism on college campuses. This is a continuation of trying to quell curiosity and true free speech. Americans, including many Jewish-Americans are far more naïve about things than reality seems to be. People have a right and duty to learn ugly truths. People need to wake up to their own naiveté. There has in fact been a routine pattern of Zionist duplicity. It has been sophisticated and deserves some study. Muslims, as do all Americans, have a right (and if they feel so a duty) to protest and to sound angry. Liberal Jews have no problem promoting black hostility against white men (especially those not Jewish). Where is there any comparable analysis about how it is OK to scream and shot at white people especially police if you are black? Rather the show has been the more blame and guilt the better for white male men.
Another current example of this is how this whole ISIS/ ISIL phenomenon as explained by the mainstream media is very different than what Americans are being told. It seems as reported from multiple sources it is a secret plan to fight another of Israel’s enemies—namely the Bashar Assad regime of Syria (but Israel of course isn’t taking any refugees). See a smattering of alternative explanations that suggest the world is being deeply lied to by mainstream media:
http://govtslaves.info/site-intelligence-group-released-beheading-video-isis/
http://investmentwatchblog.com/we-trained-him-well-and-we-had-lots-of-help-from-america-u-s-training-helped-mold-top-islamic-state-military-commander/
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/us-drones-attack-syrias-military-disguised-as-an-airstrike-against-isis/
http://www.inspiretochangeworld.com/2015/09/isis-is-working-on-mossadcia-plan-to-create-greater-israel/
http://investmentwatchblog.com/state-department-whistleblower-exposes-covert-terrorist-funding/
http://investmentwatchblog.com/washington-was-planning-to-overthrow-syrian-government-years-before-2011-uprising/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/isis-j30.html
http://theinternationalreporter.org/2015/08/04/usa-turkey-and-israel-act-as-air-force-for-isis/
http://www.juancole.com/2015/09/israels-refugee-yarmouk.html
http://journal-neo.org/2015/09/11/western-media-hype-russian-aggression-in-syria/
If people start waking up to what has really been going on then there will be some anger and some finger pointing. Most Jews and Zionists don’t know either. Instead they want to maintain a status that what they believe in isinvariably true and any expression that implicates their people is obviously a lie and a hate crime. Furthermore they want everyone else in the world to continue to believe what seems their fantasy world.
Some choose to use the phrase “anti-Israel activist” rather than “anti-Zionist” because one apparent goal of this exaggerated fear-mongering to conflate the terms anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism as if the two meanings were the same—all neatly under the same rubric (as somehow always a moral crime whereas criticizing other nationals is seldom deserving of such a notorious conceptual symbol packed with so much obvious evil). As Sea Shelly writes: “No one complains about calling Muslims terrorists and accusing them of perpetrating 9/11”. That is to say no one is trying to outlaw that kind of free speech.
This way they can scream with so much histrionics ANTISEMITISM IS ON THE RISE on campuses, and yet they know it largely involves Israel. But there is a big war planned to kill free speech on American colleges due to the BDS movement. Sheldon Adelson is ready to spend millions of dollars to kill this intellectual movement on college campuses. These forms of anti-Semitism politics is not going away any time soon. And could some complainers actually be paid for this kind of thing? See: Adelson to Host Event on Anti-Semitism Within U.S. College Campuses by Suzanne Vega at: http://jpupdates.com/2015/06/02/adelson-to-host-event-on-anti-semitism-within-u-s-college-campuses/
I do not believe the extent of these claims made are as real as how the imagination works for rhetorical effect. Surely there are legitimate cases of anti-Semitism at play especially in a statistical field as large as the United States. And granted I’m not part of any campus system and I do not have firsthand experience—but I am well aware that one Zionist strategy in killing the message is ad hominem attack on the messenger. Exaggerating anti-Semitism, as crying wolf, is typical strategy rather than dealing with the actual realities that build anti-Zionist attitudes such as Israel’s horrific and war crime attacks on Palestinians last summer. Now Israel’s and AIPAC’s push to kill the Iran deal which is a better than a good deal.
People have a right to oppose the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine or old Canaan. This is not some Absolute-in-Stone concept all peoples simply should accept. There are good reasons to oppose any theocratic government or ethnocentric movement—no matter how some feel ordained. Such an opinion or argument should not be barred from discussion. Granted Israel doesn’t overtly call for the Palestine’s destruction—rather it practices it year after year with war crimes. Meanwhile Israel cries out about threats of being pushed into the sea—but it engages pushing Palestinians off the map.
What some people are calling for is the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism. See U.S. State Department Official Definition of 'Anti-Semitism’ - (Wow.) by Martin Hill at: http://libertyfight.com/2015/US_state_dept_official_definition_antisemitism.html
It is important that you read this citation because you can see how very broad and implicating such a political move is (and note many of the key positions held at the Department of State are people who are Jewish). It’s not a definition rather it is a jail cell composed of many iron bars.
Yet compare these supposed thought crimes to the actual crimes committed in Gaza last summer. See: Israeli Atrocities: NY activist students highlight Israeli crimes…Netanyahu Leverages Terror Threat To Further Colonial Expansion And More at: http://investmentwatchblog.com/israeli-atrocities-ny-activist-students-highlight-israeli-crimes-netanyahu-leverages-terror-threat-to-further-colonial-expansion-and-more/ and also see: Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza by Marjorie Cohn at: https://consortiumnews.com/2014/07/15/israels-war-crimes-in-gaza/
What Israel has been doing for years is not simply making people feel bad or merely hurling insults or allegations or posting hostile symbols but rather a whole litany of brutal and ferocious war crimes. The real question is why there have not been more loud and uproarious protests on college campuses and around the country? The reaction here in America has been tame. You could call it a charade and would still be less hyperbolic than the whiners and complainers who feel because they are Jewish they have some inevitable right to get their way here in America because Americans are naïve pushovers.
No doubt likely there are instances of anti-Semitism such as messages painted on doors. And surely not everyone protesting anti-Semitism is doing it under false premises. I do not discount the concern as real and yet I refuse to allow this type of easy exaggeration, especially in an implied statistical sense, to become red- herring because some Americans don’t want to know how much others are waking up to the atrocities in Israel and their overly zealous control they have practiced over our Government (especially Congress).
The goal expressed by some is to silence Jewish voices. This is “their”opinion (and it is a subjective opinion), which they certainly have a right, as few have heard of silenced Jewish voices in modern America.
But nor should any campus allow Jewish or Zionist voices to silence others who harbor righteous anger over the politics of the Israeli government. There are a lot of people who feel silenced by this typical Zionist self-righteousness. This is their style of intimidation and it has worked around the world rather well.
So it doesn’t matter if some Jewish Americans get angry and cry like babies because they can’t always get their way! It is time they grow up and realize other people have right too.
Amen
[Note: If you feel this message is important, then by all means, email, fax, print, manually mail, propagate, tweet, twitter, and publish to all that might care. It is very important other people help spread worthy ideas and arguments. There is a very serious battle going on in America and we cannot allow psychological blackmail to win out.]
There is something very disturbing going on with the University of California school systems that is more serious than over-inflated allegations of anti-Semitism and hate crimes on college campuses in California, and that is special interest bully pulpit attempt by some Jews to get regulations passed that outlaw any kind of speech that that basically rejects the Zionist project in Israel as a Jewish State. This is a very serious attack on free speech in one of America’s college systems. Trying to broaden the definition of anti-Semitism as “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination and denying Israel the right to exist” is clearly political blackmail. For several years now various Jewish right-wing organizations and individuals have been waging a political battle against criticism of Israel and Zionism and now it is focusing more and more on American campuses. See video: BDS Grows Across College Campuses.
First, israheili intel is running a worldwide propaganda op with its agents running stories about "rising tide of anti semitism". but
it is all a lie, just propaganda designed to get sympathy for the "poor jews, i.e. zionist thugs" who are committing mass murder in gaza. Just google: rising tide of anti semitism............you can see the operation for yourself.
Second, see the link below for an example of the zio mafia trying to turn
legitimate criticism of israheil into a crime. under their definition saying
"that sure was horrible of israheil to mass kill all those kids last
summer" or "israheil killing all those kids in gaza reminded me of the
warsaw ghetto" would be hate speech and therefore a crime.
http://www.amchainitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/CNES-Report.pdf
see pages 16 to 18 for the conspiracy.
it is all a lie, just propaganda designed to get sympathy for the "poor jews, i.e. zionist thugs" who are committing mass murder in gaza. Just google: rising tide of anti semitism............you can see the operation for yourself.
Second, see the link below for an example of the zio mafia trying to turn
legitimate criticism of israheil into a crime. under their definition saying
"that sure was horrible of israheil to mass kill all those kids last
summer" or "israheil killing all those kids in gaza reminded me of the
warsaw ghetto" would be hate speech and therefore a crime.
http://www.amchainitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/CNES-Report.pdf
see pages 16 to 18 for the conspiracy.
California Education Code Section 66301 provides that The Regents of the University of California shall not "make or enforce a rule subjecting a student to disciplinary sanction solely on the basis of conduct that is speech or other communication that, when engaged in outside a campus of those institutions, is protected from governmental restriction by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution or Section 2 of Article I of the California Constitution." http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=66301.&lawCode=EDC
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