Gaza-based cartoonist Bahaa Yaseen published this yesterday, the anniversary of the burning of Al Aqsa Mosque by a mentally ill Christian.
A Muslim woman prays "O Allah, protect our al-Aqsa" on a prayer mat with a pile of stones next to it.
A snake dressed as a Jew, with Stars of David on his skin, wearing a black hat, tallit and tefillin, with a flamethrower shofar, hisses at her.
Another snake, holding a Temple menorah and machine gun, is next to him.
Both of them are dreaming of burning down the mosque.
This is the same artist who, in 2015, published a cartoon showing a religious Jewish man raping a Palestinian woman and shooting a baby while a nearby PA soldier does nothing. Palestinians were scandalized - not by the Jew-hatred, but by the depiction of rape.
Usually the Western Israel haters deny any Palestinian antisemitism. When shown things like these, they often retreat back to "Can you blame the Palestinians for hating Jews?"
And from there is only a small step to "Can you blame us for hating Jews?"
(h/t @MoranT555)
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ZIONISM. One of the most interesting results of the anti. Semitic agitation has been a strong revival of the national spirit among the Jews in a political form. To this movement the name Zionism has been given. In the same way that anti-Semitism differs from the Jew-hatred of the early and middle ages, Zionism differs from previous manifestation of the Jewish national spirit. It was originally advocated as an expedient without Messianic impulses, and its methods and proposals have remained almost harshly modern. Nonetheless it is the lineal heir of the attachment to Zion which led the Babylonian exiles under Zerubbabel to rebuild the Temple, arid which flamed up in the heroic struggle of the Maccabees against Antiochus Epiphanes. Without this national spirit it could, indeed, never have assumed its present formidable proportions. The idea that it is a set-back of Jewish history. in the sense that it is an unnatural galvanization of hopes long since abandoned for a spiritual and cosmopolitan conception of the mission of Israel, is a controversial fiction. The consciousness of a spiritual mission exists side by side with the national idea. The great bulk of the Jewish people have throughout their history remained faithful to the dream of a restoration of their national home in Judea. Its manifestations have suffered temporary modifications under the influence of changing political conditions, and the intensity with which it has been held by individual Jews has varied according to their social circumstances, but in the main the idea has been passionately clung to.
It is not a bad article, but as with many such articles in the early 20th century, the author simply thought it was impossible, and he gave many reasons to be confident in his analysis:
Remember, today's experts are no more competent in predicting the future (and in fact probably far less competent) than the author of this article. He thought he could see the trajectory of history clearly and Israel had no part in it.
That doesn't take away from his analysis of how Zionism is simply a new manifestation of and ancient desire of Jews.
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Every year, the Tomb of the Patriarchs is open exclusively to Jews for ten days and open exclusively to Muslims for ten days. The shrine is split between the two groups all the other days of the year.
The schedule is publicized well ahead of time (although the Muslim days may move by a day depending on when the new month is declared.) There are no surprises. The Waqf and Israeli side cooperate with each other; when one of the exclusive days comes up the other side puts away their prayer objects.
But in the Palestinian media, every time a Jewish day comes along, they try to incite violence and hatred.
The Zionist occupation authorities closed, this morning, Wednesday, the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, until ten o'clock in the evening today; under the pretext of Jewish holidays.
The director of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, Ghassan Al-Rajabi, said in press statements that the occupation authorities closed the mosque from ten o’clock yesterday, Tuesday, until ten o’clock today, and prevented the call to prayer and worshipers from entering the mosque.
He believes that this closure is a crime against the Ibrahimi Mosque and a flagrant violation of it, stressing: “The mosque is a purely Islamic endowment, and the Jews have no right to it.”
Let's look at that last sentence.
When the Palestinian Muslims deny that the Temple Mount was ever the site of the Temples, they are obviously lying, but that lie is the justification for their insistence that Jews have no right to visit the holiest Jewish site.
But they cannot deny that the "Ibrahimi Mosque" is the burial place of the Biblical patriarchs and matriarchs - because they believe it too. They cannot deny that the three (or four) couples buried there are the ancestors of the Jewish people, while only one of them is an ancestor to the Arab people.
So when the director of the mosque at the site says "The mosque is a purely Islamic endowment, and the Jews have no right to it," he is denying that Jews have even a historical or emotional right to visit the burial place of their own ancestors. Somehow the Muslim claim to the burial place of Jacob, who at best is just a prophet to them, is exclusive, while the Jewish claim to their own ancestors' burial place is meaningless.
It is impossible to interpret that statement as anything other than official antisemitism.
The Israeli side always tries to respect the rights of all religions. The Palestinian side expresses nothing but contempt for Jewish rights. And the world is more sympathetic towards the side that is institutionally antisemitic.
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On Friday, UNRWA issued a situation report on the Lebanese Ein el-Hilweh camp where there had been fierce fighting at the start of the month.
While the media has largely lost interest as the cease fire took hold, the camp is still largely controlled by terror groups:
Reports indicate that armed fighters are allegedly still deployed in some areas and continue to be intermittently present in UNRWA schools in the northern schools compound, along with the nearby UNRWA camp services office – a serious violation of the neutrality of UNRWA installations. The reported presence of fighters in areas around the school compound has prevented UNRWA staff from accessing these installations. Reports indicate that the ongoing presence of armed fighters in some areas is also preventing the return of some residents to their homes.
At a Thursday press conference, Director of UNRWA affairs in Lebanon Dorothee Klaus added more information, saying that between 200-400 houses were completely destroyed. A UNRWA school complex for over 3,000 children had been “violated" and other schools and a health center were also damaged.
She noted that “it is s not safe for any UN personnel to access (some) areas currently, we’re also not having clearance from the Lebanese military to go inside those areas on the Lebanese military being in control of access to the Ein El-Hilweh camp.”
Far more houses were destroyed by the fighters in Ein el Hilweh than were destroyed by Israel in Gaza in May - but unlike for Gaza, there are no news articles about these destroyed homes with interviews of distraught homeless Palestinians.
If they cared so much about the welfare of Palestinians, then why haven't they condemned the fighting and ongoing militant control of large swaths of the camp?
This is again more proof that human rights is not what drives obsessive NGO and media coverage of Israeli actions, but old fashioned antisemitism.
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This article from JTA, published in September 1939, sounds like it could have been written today in regard to "anti-Zionists."
DISCUSSES ANTI-JEWISH ATTITUDE
Priest Assails Those Who Say They Are Not. Opposed to "Good Jews."
PITTSBURGH—Those who mask their anti-Semitism with the assertion that they are not opposed to "good Jews" were assailed by the Rev. Charles Owen Rice in an address he delivered yesterday at St. Joseph House of Hospitality here.
"One of the features connected with the present wave of anti-Semitism that is being stirred up is that some of the leading purveyors of anti-Semitism hotly deny that they are anti-Semites," he said. "They employ a clever sophistry in their attempts to escape the stigma. They define anti-Semitism in a certain restricted sense and then they claim that their teachings and utterances -do not bring them under the term. "
"For instance, these enemies of the Jew will define anti-Semitism as persecution of the Jew because he is a Jew. They will hold that because, to their anti-Jewish attacks, they affix a rider saying that they exempt good Jews, therefore, they are automatically absolved of anti-Semitism. "
"As a matter of fact the unctuous employment of the 'good Jews' qualifier generally intensifies that anti-Semitism of the statements as whole. Also we can have attacks upon Jews, as Jews, without direct statements. The brutal crude, direct anti-Semitic utterances, are far less harmful than the subtle ones.
"Off hand I can give a partial list of some of the more commonly used anti-Semitic statements and inferences.
"It is anti-Semitism to exaggerate the power of Jews, whether it be power in finance, in industry, in newspaper publishing, in radio or anything else.
"It is anti-Semitism to say or hint there is a mysterious central controlling Jewish, national or international. leadership.
"It is anti-Semitism to exaggerate the clannishness of Jews.
"It is anti-Semitism to speak of deliberate controlled Jewish campaigns against Christianity.
"It is anti-Semitic to exaggerate Jewish participation in Communism and similar movements.
"It is anti-Semitism to hint at, or charge, a tie-up between 'International Jewry' and International Masonry. The very term 'International Jewry' has definite ant-Semitic implications.
"You will note that these effective types of anti-Semitism consist of lies. and exaggerations. Their harmfulness consists in their engendering a feeling of mixed fear and anger in the breasts of non-Jews. All of them have been proved false. They are damnably un-American, un -Christian and anti-social."
Then, like now, antisemites denied being antisemitic.
Then, like now, antisemites attempt to re-define "antisemitism" to exclude themselves.
Then, like now, antisemites defend themselves by saying that there are some "good Jews" who agree with them.
Then, like now, the subtle antisemitism that hides as social justice is often more dangerous than the explicit kind.
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Actor and Musician Jamie
Foxx jumped on “The Jews Killed Jesus” bandwagon on August 4th
and on August 6th he apologized. In so doing, he joined a club: that
of the legions of celebrities who broadcast rude and blatantly antisemitic
statements to their legions of followers after which they apologize. These
celebrities have learned that you can say the worst antisemitic thing, as long
as you apologize.
In case you missed it, here is what Jamie Foxx chose to post
to his 16.2 million followers:
"They killed this dude name Jesus... What do you think
they'll do to you???!" followed by the hashtags #fakefriends #fakelove
This post was then duly deleted by Foxx. Then, once he
deemed enough time had elapsed to make it still seem sincere, Foxx apologized:
I want to apologize to the Jewish community and everyone who
was offended by my post. I now know my choice of words have caused offense and
I'm sorry. That was never my intent.
To clarify, I was betrayed by a fake friend and that's what
I meant with "they" not anything more. I only have love in my heart
for everyone. I love and support the Jewish community. My deepest apologies to
anyone who was offended [three heart emojis]
Aniston, following in Foxx’s (antisemitic) footsteps, liked the
screed about the people who killed Jesus, and then denied she had done so, or
been antisemitic. No. Antisemitism makes her sick. As per the Guardian:
“This really makes me sick,” said Aniston’s statement, which
was posted on Instagram Stories. “I did not ‘like’ this post on purpose or by
accident. And more importantly, I want to be clear to my and anyone hurt by this
showing up in their feeds – I do not support antisemitism. And I truly don’t
tolerate HATE of any kind. Period.”
So let me break this down for you, Foxx had a friend named
Jesus who was killed by a fake friend who was not a Jew, chas v’shalom. Jamie
is filled with nothing but love.
Aniston, meanwhile, seems to be vaguely asserting she was
hacked, or perhaps the butler did it, while she, Aniston, was in the shower. In
either case, the apology, or even the suggestion of one, even via a canned
lawyer’s statement augmented by numerous emojis, is all that counts in the end.
The calls of support came flowing in, suggests the Guardian, though that seems
to require a generous interpretation of “numerous.” But they managed to dig up
a court Jew, so that’s all right (emphasis added):
Foxx’s handling of the episode did earn him numerous
supportive comments. Alongside the actor’s apology Saturday, music producer
Breyon Prescott wrote, “Anyone that has been around you knows that you have no
hate for anyone!!! … [You’re] the best, don’t let anyone make you think
differently.”
The actor Porscha Coleman added: “People can’t even speak
any more without someone being offended. You were clearly talking about someone
you thought was a friend who turned out to be a backstabber … Society is so
sensitive these days!”
And podcast host Mark Birnbaum, who is Jewish, wrote
on Instagram that he found Foxx to be “the most inclusive non-antisemitic
person out there”.
“He’s got nothing but love for everyone, including us
Jews,” Birnbaum said. “Let’s move onto the next nonsensical story of the
day.”
Other users remarking on Foxx also alluded to his prior
displays of solidarity with the Jewish community. In 2017, he performed at a
barmitzvah-themed birthday party in honor of the singer Drake as well as at
a Jewish fan’s barmitzvah.
Oh, wow. He performed at a Bar Mitzvah. Clearly the guy
loves Jews.
Look. We’ve seen this show before. We saw it with Ilhan
Omar, how she “unequivocally” apologized after saying it’s all about the Benjamins
and AIPAC, but essentially still saying the same thing: AIPAC wields problematic
political clout. P.S. It doesn’t.
Even self-perpetuating PA president Mahmoud Abbas did the
antisemitic blurt out and apology thing while speaking to the Palestinian
National Council. After saying crazy things like the Jews took money from
Hitler to settle in Palestine, Abbas issued an “official” apology. From Ynet
(emphasis added):
"Ifpeople were offended by my statement
in front of the PNC, especially people of the Jewish faith, I apologize
to them. I would like to assure everyone that it was not my intention to do so,
and to reiterate my full respect for the Jewish faith, as well as other
monotheistic faiths."
“If.” Get that? If people were offended. Especially Jews.
Kyrie Irving did the same thing. Tweeted an antisemitic
documentary, and then apologized. But of course as he said, he was “unjustly”
labeled an antisemite. And of course, the apology only came after he was
suspended.
ViacomCBS cut ties with Nick
Cannon after the latter said stupid stuff about Jews on a podcast. So
Cannon apologized.
Ottawa Centre MPP Joel Harden issued an apology after
footage was leaked of him saying horribly antisemitic things. From the Jerusalem Post
(emphasis added):
In footage from a 2021 interview of Harden by the Ottawa
Forum on Israel Palestine (OFIP) that recently surfaced and gained prominence,
Harden stated that he has "asked many questions of Jewish neighbors here
about how much longer we should put up with this, because if I were to
name... the single greatest threat – the single greatest origin of violence in
the Middle East – is unquestionably the State of Israel and the way in which they
feel absolutely no shame in defying international law doing whatever they want."
Harden also condemned antisemitism and said that
manifestations of Jew-hatred in pro-Palestinian camps were unhelpful to the
cause, but conditioned that "I can also understand from the
pro-Palestinian standpoint how the barbarity and the scale of viciousness can
lead someone to strike out withintemperate hateful language [!!] because
of that real hurt where people are at."
But the guy apologized.
Last year I participated in an interview with the Ottawa Forum on Israel Palestine, where I spoke in a way that perpetrated an antisemitic stereotype towards Jewish neighbours.
I regret my choice of words. My full statement and apology is below. https://t.co/h6IPxjD68G
Should we believe him? Only if you really, really want to, or
perhaps share common cause with him in some completely different area as with RFK
Jr. and Farrakhan.
The fact is there is no way to prove the sincerity of an
apology. Lie detectors are easily fooled and the interpretation of body
language is not an exact science. Some Jews would say that’s precisely why we
should give these antisemites the benefit of the doubt. Others, like this
writer, reject the apologies as a matter of course. It’s not just that the apologies
are too well-timed, canned, or inadequate—it’s that it’s a matter of self-preservation.
Some say that the Jews never see the danger until the gates
are closing and it’s too late. It’s the nature of nice, normal people to make
the choice to always see things in a positive light. Jews may even tell you
that benefit of the doubt is a Jewish value. But Judaism doesn’t tell us to be
stupid. For a Jew, survival often means taking off the blinders that make us
see benign intent where none is meant.
Police have granted a public gathering outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm on Friday. The woman behind the application states that she plans to "light the Torah with a lighter".
The demonstration is scheduled for 12 noon on Friday.
"We are conducting a dialogue with the organizer and other parties who may be affected, for example the Israeli embassy,"says Mats Eriksson, press spokesperson at the police.
The application is submitted by a woman in her 50s who states that it is a "manifestation for children's rights in Sweden which are systematically violated". She writes that the plan is to "light the Torah with a lighter".
What, exactly, does burning a Torah (more likely a printed Chumash) have to do with children's rights?
There are only two answers - both of which are profoundly antisemitic.
One is that they have nothing to do with each other, but the woman wants publicity, and she knows that attacking Jewish holy objects will get her the publicity she wants. Which means that every crank in Sweden will now seek to burn sacred Jewish objects to get their cause in the newspapers, and antisemitism has become a gimmick.
The other is that somehow she is associating Judaism with violating children's rights. Which is not so far fetched - "progressives" in Europe and the US always associate Israel with every social justice crime they can think of.
And as this incident shows, the modern antisemites don't distinguish between Judaism and Israel, as much as they claim to. Otherwise, why is she intending to do her stunt outside the Israeli embassy?
Either way, antisemitism is becoming cheapened and commoditized, which means that people are becoming less and less outraged at attacks on Jews and Judaism as more of these stunts get approved.
I support freedom of speech. Technically, what she wants to do is legal. Nazis in 1933 could also justify their book burnings as freedom of their own expression - yet everyone knows what it really meant.
History shows that book burners are the people who care the least about freedom of expression.
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RFK Jr. got into hot water on July 15, when the New
York Post aired footage of a press event during which he said (emphasis
added):
“COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19
attacks certain races disproportionately,” Kennedy said. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people
who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
“We don’t know
whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there
that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact,” Kennedy hedged . . .
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says COVID was ethnically targeted to spare Jews The Democratic presidential candidate "claims without proof": COVID-19 is a genetically engineered bioweapon which is “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi (European) Jews & Chinese https://t.co/kIyK2t7mRi
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims coronavirus was an "ethnically targeted" bioweapon designed to be more deadly for caucasians and blacks — and spare Jews and Chinese https://t.co/xfAdovs0sYpic.twitter.com/og4xHdKs7x
When called on the carpet for these antisemitic, racist,
conspiracy theorist comments, RFK Jr. doubled down, tweeting:
“The U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically
targeted bioweapons and that a 2021 study of the COVID-19 virus shows that
COVID-19 appears to disproportionately affect certain races. The furincleave docking site is most compatible with blacks and Caucasians and
least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews. In that
sense, it serves as a kind of proof of
concept for ethnically targeted
bioweapons.”
The @nypost story is mistaken. I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. I accurately pointed out — during an off-the-record conversation — that the U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021…
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 15, 2023
Except that none of this is true. Jews had a higher mortality rate from COVID-19 compared to other ethnic groups in, for example, the UK. From the JPost
(emphasis added):
Despite Kennedy’s claims that Ashkenazi Jews had a higher
immunity to COVID-19, in June of 2020, the Office for National Statistics
released data revealing Jews had a
higher mortality rate from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom compared to other
ethnic groups. At the peak of the
pandemic, in April 2020, Jewish mortality from COVID-19 was twice that of
non-Jews.
But perhaps we can’t altogether blame RFK Jr.’s hateful
views about Jews, since it’s kind of a family legacy going all the way back to
Grandpa Joseph P. Kennedy, a known antisemite. From Joseph Kennedy and the Jews
(emphasis added):
Arriving at London in early 1938, newly-appointed U.S.
Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy took up quickly with another transplanted
American. Viscountess Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor assured Kennedy early in
their friendship that he should not be put off by her pronounced and proud
anti-Catholicism.
"I'm glad you are smart enough not to take my [views]
personally," she wrote. Astor
pointed out that she had a number of Roman Catholic friends - G.K. Chesterton
among them - with whom she shared, if nothing else, a profound hatred for the
Jewish race. Joe Kennedy, in turn, had always detested Jews generally,
although he claimed several as friends individually. Indeed, Kennedy seems to
have tolerated the occasional Jew in the same way Astor tolerated the
occasional Catholic.
The above article, by the way, is prefaced with a note:
“Note: Due to a number of anti-Semitic comments that have been posted, comments
have been disabled for this article.”
Here is more from the same source in which Hitler is viewed as a solution to the Jewish question, and Communism, too (emphasis added):
As fiercely anti-Communist as they were
anti-Semitic, Kennedy and Astor looked upon Adolf Hitler as a welcome solution
to both of these "world problems" (Nancy's phrase). No member of
the so-called "Cliveden Set" (the informal cabal of appeasers who met
frequently at Nancy Astor's palatial home) seemed much concerned with the
dilemma faced by Jews under the Reich. Astor
wrote Kennedy that Hitler would have to do more than just "give a rough
time" to "the killers of Christ" before she'd be in favor of
launching "Armageddon to save them. The wheel of history swings
round as the Lord would have it. Who are we to stand in the way of the
future?" Kennedy replied that he expected the "Jew media" in the
United States to become a problem, that "Jewish pundits in New York and
Los Angeles" were already making noises contrived to "set a match to
the fuse of the world."
During May of 1938, Kennedy engaged in extensive discussions
with the new German Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Herbert von
Dirksen. In the midst of these conversations (held without approval from the
U.S. State Department), Kennedy advised
von Dirksen that President Roosevelt was the victim of "Jewish
influence" and was poorly informed as to the philosophy, ambitions and
ideals of Hitler's regime. (The Nazi ambassador subsequently told his bosses
that Kennedy was "Germany's best friend" in London.)
Columnists back in the states condemned Kennedy's
fraternizing. Kennedy later claimed that
75% of the attacks made on him during his Ambassadorship emanated from "a
number of Jewish publishers and writers. ... Some of them in their zeal did not
hesitate to resort to slander and falsehood to achieve their aims." He
told his eldest son, Joe Jr., that he disliked having to put up with
"Jewish columnists" who criticized him with no good reason.
RFK Jr. isn’t the only descendant of Joe Kennedy to become an ardent antisemite. Joe Jr. was apparently a chip off the old block. He thought Hitler was just the bee's knees (emphasis added):
Like his father, Joe
Jr. admired Adolf Hitler. Young Joe had come away impressed by Nazi
rhetoric after traveling in Germany as a student in 1934. Writing at the time, Joe applauded Hitler's insight in realizing the
German people's "need of a common enemy, someone of whom to make the goat.
Someone, by whose riddance the Germans would feel they had cast out the cause
of their predicament. It was excellent psychology, and it was too bad that it
had to be done to the Jews. The dislike of the Jews, however, was well-founded.
They were at the heads of all big business, in law etc. It is all to their
credit for them to get so far, but their
methods had been quite unscrupulous ... the lawyers and prominent judges were Jews, and if you had a case
against a Jew, you were nearly always sure to lose it. ... As far as the
brutality is concerned, it must have been necessary to use some ...."
. . . Like his friend Charles Coughlin (an anti-Semitic
broadcaster and Roman Catholic priest), Kennedy
always remained convinced of what he believed to be the Jews' corrupt,
malignant, and profound influence in American culture and politics. "The
Democratic [party] policy of the United States is a Jewish production,"
Kennedy told a British reporter near the end of 1939, adding confidently that Roosevelt
would "fall" in 1940.
On July 17, 1949, the JTA released a report that states in
part (emphasis added):
Anti-Semitic views claimed to have been expressed by Joseph
P. Kennedy — during the time when he was U.S. Ambassador in London — in his
conversations with the German Ambassador there in 1938, were revealed here
today in captured German diplomatic documents made public by the State
Department.
The documents, which claim that Kennedy approved of the Nazi
treatment of Jews in Germany, were discovered in the top secret archives of the
German Foreign Ministry. One of them is a letter from the then German
Ambassador to Great Britain, Dr. Herbert von Dirksen, to Baron Ernst von
Weizsaecker, State Secretary of the German Foreign Ministry who was recently
convicted on war crimes charges. In this report, von Dirksen wrote of Kennedy
as follows:
“The Ambassador then touched upon the Jewish question and
stated that it was naturally of great importance to German-American relations.
In this connection it was not so much
the fact that we wanted to get rid of the Jews that was so harmful to us, but
rather the loud clamor with which we accompanied the purpose. He himself
understood our Jewish policy completely; he was from Boston and there, in one
golf club, and in other clubs, no Jews had been admitted in the past 50 years.
In the United States, therefore, such pronounced attitudes were quite common,
but people avoided making so much outward fuss about it.
In 1938 Joseph
Kennedy had a solution to “the Jewish problem.” The New York Times reported
that he had worked out with prime minister Chamberlain a plan to ship all
German Jews to Africa and other places in the Western Hemisphere under the
joint administration of Britain and the United States. That was news to the
State Department, which Kennedy had not consulted, and to President Roosevelt
for whom Kennedy had become an embarrassing loose cannon.
You might be tempted to say—considering the legacy of antisemitism that RFK Jr. inherited from Grandpa Joe—that all the Kennedys suffer from the same malady. Except that there is reason to believe that this is not so. For one thing, JFK's daughter Caroline, married a Jew. And in Bobby Kennedy’s Admiration for Israel, we learn that while RFK Jr.’s father Bobby at first tried not to choose sides in his coverage for the Boston Post of events leading up to Israel’s declaration of statehood. Then he changed his mind, and realized that Israel was in the right (emphasis added):
[In] “British Hatred by Both Sides,” RFK labored mightily to
present the arguments of both Arabs and Jews. “There are such well-founded
arguments on either side,” Kennedy wrote, “that each side grows more and more
bitter toward the other. Confidence in
their right increases in proportion to the hatred and mistrust for the other
side not acknowledging it.”
Bobby Kennedy, father of RFK Jr., really seemed to get it. How brave the Jewish people were in fighting to create a Jewish state in Palestine, after thousands of years in exile. From the same source (emphasis added):
In the subsequent three articles, however, RFK and his
Boston Post editors no longer attempted to convey an objective view of the
competing claims of Jews and Arabs. As the headline on his June 4th article
indicates, RFK chose a side: “Jews Have a Fine Fighting Force—Make Up for Lack
of Arms With Undying Spirit, Unparalleled Courage—Impress the World.” The
article gets directly to the point: “The
Jewish people in Palestine who believe in and have been working toward this
national state have become an immensely proud and determined people. It is
already a truly great modern example of the birth of a nation with the primary
ingredients of dignity and self-respect.” Many similar articles appeared in
the American press of the day. The
surprising thing about these Boston Post articles was not their pro-Zionist
sentiments, but the fact that they had been written by Joseph P. Kennedy’s son.
After RFK Jr.'s latest remarks, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz gave him a talking to from
the podium. It was a pretty good speech. But it's hard to take her seriously, considering she's on the wrong side of many issues that pose a danger to Israeli Jews.
RFK Jr.’s response to Wasserman Schultz carried more
than a grain of truth, for which we must give him credit:
I won’t be lectured to about antisemitism from Democratic lawmakers like Wasserman Schultz @RepDWStweets who voted to give Iran $150b while that regime promises a new Holocaust against the Jews. #Kennedy24
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 22, 2023
Joseph P. Kennedy's grandson RFK Jr., looks to be a serious contender for the Democratic
presidential nomination. As such, it is important to talk about his problem with Jews
and Asians and to keep talking about it long and loud. Everyone should be well aware of
the character of the candidate they choose for president. And that includes our current Democratic president.
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.., made headlines this weekend when he seemed to claim that COVID-19 could have been genetically engineered to target certain populations, and then mentioned there have been studies that suggested that Chinese people and Ashkenazic Jews are less susceptible to the virus.
"COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese," the Democratic presidential candidate said in a video that the New York Post published.
There is indeed such a study, from 2020, which he gets slightly wrong. The two groups that the study claimed were less likely to be susceptible to COVID-19, based on an analysis of two specific genes, were Ashkenazic Jews and the Amish. Latino, South and East Asian, and Finnish people were less susceptible than other groups as well.
Kennedy later clarified, saying he “never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. I do not believe and never implied that the ethnic effect was deliberately engineered.”
Obviously, a large number (and percentage) of Ashkenazic Jews died of COVID-19, so the study did not predict anything accurately.
But the cat is out of the bag, and conspiracy theorists now have more ammunition to attack Jews.
And they are the most likely people to be antisemitic to begin with.
A new study published in Nature shows that antisemitism is not so much associated with the political Right or Left as it is with extremist thinking and conspiracy theories.
The researchers checked the association between antisemitic attitudes and likelihood to believe in other theories. For example, they found a high correlation between antisemites that those who believed in totalitarianism:
•To bring about great changes for the benefit of mankind often requires cruelty and even ruthlessness.
•Soft and idealistic people can never be the doers of great events.
•Almost any unfairness or brutality may have to be justified when some great purpose is being carried out.
•The unhappiness of a few people simply doesn’t matter when it is a question of a step forward for the majority of the people.
•Sometimes when a new society is in its early stages, the masses have to be ruled with an iron hand for their own good
Similarly, antisemitic attitudes were correlated with belief in conspiracy theories, such as:
•The government permits or perpetrates acts of terrorism on its own soil, disguising its involvement.
•The power held by heads of state is second to that of small unknown groups who really control world politics
.•A small secret group of people is responsible for making all major world decisions such as going to war.
•Secret organizations communicate with extraterrestrials, but keep this fact from the public
•The spread of certain viruses and/or diseases is the result of the deliberate, concealed efforts of some organisations.
•Technology with mind-control capacities is used on people without their knowledge.
And they are also associated with support for authoritarianism, both associated with the Right:
•What our country needs most is discipline, with everyone following our leaders in unity.
•An ideal society requires some groups to be on top and others to be on the bottom.
•Some groups of people are simply inferior to other groups
And the Left::
•Rich people should be forced to give up virtually all of their wealth.
•Most investment bankers need to be thrown in prison.
•Political violence can be constructive when it serves the cause of social justice.
•Books that contain racism or racial language should be censored.
•I should have the right not to be exposed to views I find offensive.
While both the Right and the Left attack each other as antisemites, they usually remain blind to the antisemitism that is on their own side. And too many on their own sides want to see an authoritarian government that supports their viewpoints - and violently represses others.
Which indicates that antisemites are often some of the worst people on Earth. And those who find antisemites on their own political side should be in the forefront of denouncing them, not accommodating them.
Incidentally, the introduction to the study cited quite a few studies that showed a strong correlation between Judeoiphobic antisemitism and anti-Zionist antisemitism. And the people who would self-describe as anti-Zionists were just as likely to believe in the other noxious theories listed here as those who espouse the "old" antisemitism.
(h/t Irene)
our country needs most is discipline, with everyone following our leaders in unity.
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Arabs, including Arab Islamists, repeatedly claim that they have no problem with Jews but only Zionists.
In Arabic, things are a little different.
During a plenary session in Egypt's parliament on Sunday, Ahmed Khalil, head of the Parliamentary Committee of the Nour Party, spoke about Israel's anti-terror activities in Jenin.
Khalil said, "What happened in Jenin was genocide from the Israeli occupation."
Then, to make sure that no one would think that absurd accusations of "genocide" against Israel is anything but antisemitic, he added, "We have to confront the Jews because they are the most hostile of people."
He bases this expression on a verse in the Quran. That verse has been widely used to justify antisemitic writings in the Muslim world.
There has been no controversy in Egypt over explicit antisemitism being spouted in the Egyptian parliament. Which is the other reason you know that the Islamist protests that they oppose antisemitism are only for Western consumption.
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Reminder: Everyone has the right to freedom of expression
Really?
Because on more than one occasion, Amnesty showed exactly how little it cares about freedom of expression.
Amnesty provides various spaces for rent in its London offices. There are no policies listed on its webpage saying who is allowed to rent their space. Yet in 2018, months after the Jewish Leadership Council made arrangements to rent out space for a debate on UN policy towards Israel, and only days before the planned event, Amnesty canceled the rental agreement and refused to allow the debate to take place.
Their reason? “We reserve the right to withhold permission for our building to be used by organisations whose work runs directly counter to our own. The presence of UN Watch is of significant concern and they have been active in the promotion of the event. We have partners and colleagues – both Israeli and Palestinian – working on the ground and this does put some of their working relationships at risk." They also told the JLC that they did not think it was appropriate to allow speakers who support Jews living in Judea and Samaria while Amnesty campaigns a boycott of "settlement goods."
This means that Amnesty will only rent their space to those whom they do not have any political disagreements with. Which includes antisemitism, since Amnesty-UK did rent their space to an organization that featured a speaker who justified and praised the terror attack murdering Israeli children in the Mercaz Harav yeshiva massacre.
And it is not only Amnesty-UK that only rents out its public spaces to those it agrees with. In 2014, when the Columbia University branch of Amnesty invited Alan Dershowitz to speak, Amnesty International told them to cancel the event, which they did.
Which proves that it isn't that Amnesty opposes pro-settlement speech - but any kind of Zionist speech.
The BBC has weakly apologized for presenter Anjana Gadgil saying, as a fact, that “Israeli forces are happy to kill children” during her interview with former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett.
In a statement, the BBC said, “While this was a legitimate subject to examine in the interview, we apologise that the language used in this line of questioning was not phrased well and was inappropriate.”
But how could Gadgil have even thought that Israelis are such monsters to begin with?
The answer is almost certainly - Haaretz.
A review of news articles from the past 20 years finds that it is very rare for even the most extreme haters of Israel to accuse Israelis of happiness at killing children.
During the 2009 Gaza war, in The Guardian, a resident of Gaza writes in an op-ed, "A short message to the pilots in the Israeli F-16s: does it make you feel happy to kill Palestinian children and women? Do you feel it's your duty? Killing every child and woman, man and teenager in Gaza? I don't know what exactly you feel, what exactly you think, but please think of your mother and sister, your son and daughter." But even for a Gaza resident seeing airstrikes, the idea that Israel wants to kill children was not stated as a flat fact.
A satirical Israeli filmmaker in 2012 prompted children visiting a war museum to say that killing Arabs makes them happy, which the Electronic Intifada promoted as if they don't understand how Borat-style filmmakers can elicit the responses they want from people eager to please an interviewer.
But outside of those contrived cases from years ago, I cannot find even the most biased news source making such a libelous claim that killing children makes Israelis happy.
Until this two months ago.
That's when Haaretz published an op-ed by an execrable person named Yossi Klein who wrote, "Killing children is designed to cause pain, to strike the most sensitive place of all. It isn’t designed to stop terrorism; it’s designed to deter the terrorists and make us happy."
The Haaretz headline that everyone saw, since changed, was "Killing children brings Israelis together."
At the time I argued that this was the most antisemitic article ever published. Hitler never claimed Jews relish killing children. Medieval Christians and later Muslims said that the Jews murder gentile children for religious reasons, not out of sheer pleasure.
Only Haaretz made that claim.
Western news professionals rely heavily on Haaretz to inform themselves of the alleged Israeli zeitgeist. It cannot be a coincidence that Gadgil's libelous accusation comes on the heels of Klein's own blood libel. No one would have dared to say something so outlandishly false unless they felt that it was backed up by facts - and Haaretz gave the antisemites of the world the ammunition they need to go even beyond the classic blood libel accusation.
When the Haaretz article was published, I wrote that Klein's words "will be used by antisemites forever as proof that Jews admit their happiness at murdering Arab children."
That is exactly what happened here.
And it will keep happening - because what would be unthinkable to say out loud gets a kosher stamp of approval when a Jew says it.
(Interestingly, as of this writing, Haaretz has not reported on the BBC interview nor on the apology. Could it be that they do not want people to make this connection between their own libel and that of Anjana Gadgil?)
(h/t Benjamin)
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This is the same artist who, in 2015, published a cartoon showing a religious Jewish man raping a Palestinian woman and shooting a baby while a nearby PA soldier does nothing. Palestinians were scandalized - not by the Jew-hatred, but by the depiction of rape.
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