Islamic Congress Sinks into Anti-Semitic Hate Fest
Abraham H.
Miller,
American Thinker, May 04, 2014
In some deep corner of hell, Hitler is smiling. One
Hundred and Fifty Thousand Muslims gathered in Paris, France, to attend the
Union of Islamic Organization’s Thirty First Congress. It was advertised as a
gathering about immi-gration, assimilation, and culture, but it soon descended
into an anti-Semitic hate fest.
When the “Jew”
was cast into the conven-tion’s spotlight, the crowd was whipped into frenzy with
as much emotion as Albert Speer could have ignited from his Nazi rallies
orchestrated with cascading lights and burning torches. The atrocities in
Syria, the bloodbaths in the streets of Cairo, the barbaric behavior of Boko
Haram in Nigeria, and all the evil and wanton cruelty in the Islamic world that
daily leap out at us from television, print, and the Internet, all of this was
explained as being guided by an invisible hand, the Jew.
Hatred is the
great unifier of mass move-ments. Hitler dressed millions of compliant Germans
in uniforms and marched them to their deaths to fight the international Jew. He
convinced the Germans they were Aryan supermen.The ideal version of which was
blond, tall, and slim. So, consider, here was Hitler with dark hair; Goering who was morbidly obese; and Goebbels who was a dwarf,
all preaching the genetic virtue of the blond, slim, and tall Aryan
superman. And the incongruity escaped mass detection because hatred is also the
enemy of rational thought.
In Paris, Hani
Ramadan (brother of Tariq) took his place in the pantheon of Jew haters while
spewing the irrational to an overly en-thusiastic audience, who suspended
disbelief. Does any rational human being believe that all the evil in the
world, all the violence and barbarism in the imploding Islamic world, and all
the backwardness of Islam is due to the all powerful Jew, who is clinging to a
sliver of land the size of New Jersey in a region that is one huge cesspool,
whose peoples, like those meeting in Paris, are seeking eagerly to return to
the seventh century?...
Speech for
Israel's 66th Birthday, May 5, 2014
On this day, we celebrate the miracle that is
Israel, which exists and flourishes against all odds. We celebrate
Israel's democracy, in which all citizens enjoy full civil rights regardless of
their faith or ethnicity. Arab citizens of Israel serve as members of
Israel's Parliament, judges on Israel's courts (including the Supreme Court),
diplomats in Israel's Foreign Service and officers in Israel's armed forces.
We
celebrate that all of Israel's citizens enjoy full freedom of religion. The
freest Christians and Muslims in the Middle East are the Christian and Muslim
citizens of the Jewish state of Israel.
While
Christians throughout the Arab world are being bombed, shot and decapitated,
the Christian population of Israel can worship in complete safety. While
Christian populations throughout the Arab world are plummeting, the Christian
population of Israel is steadily growing.
We
celebrate that Israel is on the forefront of developing technology that
improves our lives and our world. It is simply incredible that in 66 short
years Israelis have won 12 Noble Prizes (mostly in recent years - Editor).
We
celebrate that Israel is living Isaiah 49:6 by being a "light unto the
nations" as a first responder to natural catastrophes and human suffering
around the world.
As we
celebrate Israel, let us pray that she will continue to survive and
thrive. And let us dedicate ourselves to action in support of our
prayers. Source: Christians United For Israel
PO Box 1307,
San Antonio TX 78295
Palestinian Girl
Confronts Anti-Israel Lies
Editor's
Note: It is
interesting (and disturbing) to note that Israel is surrounded by dozens of
despotic regimes that care nothing about human rights. Israel remains the only
nation in the Middle East that is a democracy in which human rights are honored
and protected. Yet Israel is continuously and falsely singled out for supposed
human rights violations. The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement
targets only Israel, and none of the many dozens of regimes around the world
that are truly despotic. This is anti-Semitism, cloaked in the term
"Anti-Zionism."
Yet despite this injustice (which Jews have
been suffering from for thousands of years), Israel continues to bless the rest
of the world. Whenever there is a major earthquake or other disaster, Israel is
normally the first nation to have mobile hospitals on the ground to help the
injured and crews to locate those in need of help. We all benefit from the
tremendous advances in science, technology, agriculture, and medicine that the
Jewish people continue to supply the world. It makes me wonder what kinds of
advances we might have if the Six Million who died in the Holocaust had lived
to procreate many more gifted people.
Christy Anastas, a young
Palestinian Chris-tian woman from Beth-lehem, has bravely re-leased a compilation video in which
she, in several different ven-ues, confronts the
joint lies that Israel is re-sponsible for the suf-fering of the Pales-tinians
and for the flight of fellow Christians from the city of Jesus’ birth.
The Anastas
family is no stranger to the media. When Israel decided to erect the “West
Bank” security barrier in response to incessant Palestinian suicide bomb
attacks, the Anastas house near the outskirts of Bethlehem
was unique in that it was surrounded by concrete walls on three sides, inviting
constant media coverage.
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But in an address to students
at Uppsala University this year, Christy was firm in her position that the inconveniences
and suffering inflicted on her family and so many others can not ultimately be
blamed on Israel.
The Christian population of
Bethlehem actually grew during the years it was under “Israeli occupation,” she
reminded her audience, putting to rest the falsehood that Israel is engaged in
some kind of ethnic cleansing, especially against Christians.
The real culprits were her own
people. Anastas described how when the Second
Intifada broke out in 2000, she had a front row seat, as her family’s home is
located very near to Rachel’s Tomb.
According to Anastas, the Palestinians began attacking the Jewish holy
site “day and night,” purposely endangering the lives of Palestinian civilians
in the area. But more to blame than those brainwashing the “freedom fighters”
was the Palestinian Authority itself, which Anastas
reminded had committed itself to maintaining public order and instilling the
principles of peace. Instead, she noted, the Palestinian regime actively
encouraged young Arabs to take to the streets in violence.
In the midst of this, Anastas said that local Christians in Bethlehem quickly
began to realize that the Muslim militias were deliberately launching their
attacks against Israel from in the vicinity of Christian houses, so that the
Israeli response would damage or destroy those homes. This tactic paid
dividends in the public relations campaign, as Christians began fleeing for
fear of Israeli counter-attacks.
To further bolster the notion
that the Palestinians are their own worst enemy, Anastas
recounted that during this time, her uncle decided to stop paying the jizya, the tax non-Muslims must pay for the right to
live in a Muslim-dominated society (YES, this still exists in “Palestine”). In
response, Palestinian militiamen imprisoned, tortured and eventually executed
her uncle.
Anastas
said that stories like this, which are by no means uncommon, are never told to
the international media for fear of retaliation.
During an earlier Q&A
session at Oxford (also included in the following video), chief Palestinian
negotiator Saeb Erekat was confronted by Anastas, who
asked him whether or not he was able to negotiate impartially with the Israelis,
despite all the pain inflicted in the course of the conflict.
Erekat was adamant that his
pain and frustration only made it more certain that an agreement resulting in a
free, open and accountable Palestinian state would be achieved.
Anastas
later wondered if the freedom of speech and other liberties Erekat spoke of
would be extended to her own family, now that she has publicly supported
Israel’s biblical claims to the land. For it certainly hadn’t been before,
for instance when her uncle stopped paying the jizya.
“I’d like to ask you, Dr.
Saeb, I believe that you are a man of honor, and I believe that you will keep
your word and protect my family members,” Anastas
said in the opening of her new video compilation.
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As
of 2014, 1,500 of New York’s 56,000 prisoners are Jews that keep kosher... I am
a real Jew, albeit a bad Soviet one, and know something about the community of
Jews in prison.
Prison is much more receptive to skinheads
and the Nation of Islam, than it is to Jews; and the cops I encountered weren’t
too fond of us either. I had to decide very quickly, upon arrival, whether I
would practice or not. But my Bar Mitzvah rabbi survived the camps, camps he
could have probably avoided because of his Aryan looks. How could I forget his
dictate to always be proud to be a Jew, even in circumstances when it might not
seem to ones advantage? Perhaps the prisons of New York State were not quite
what he meant, but in the end practicing my faith and never denying it only
sharpened my will and sense of self. And the community inside, which clings to
its rituals and traditions, is strong and cohesive enough that it draws curious
new converts. Only in America do prisoners convert to Judaism. Poor old Yakov Smirnov would have said, ‘Vat a country!’
I encountered other Jews in each of the
twelve prisons I visited, but usually only one or two. The only joint that had
enough Jews for a minyan, the quorum of ten Jewish men needed to fulfill
certain religious obligations, was Greenhaven
Correctional Facility, a maximum-security big house with a unique hot kosher
program.
Because of its kosher kitchen, Greenhaven housed Israelis and Lubavitchers
and Bobovers and Sephardim and Falasha
and Satmars and just bad High Holiday Jews, like myself, from the Lower East
Side and Brooklyn. All of us were packed together into a fifty-man dining hall.
When I was first introduced to this scene, I was horribly curious about what
each of them did to get there, and that is a question that is difficult to ask
inside. With time, I knew all the stories.
Around half of my fellow Jews inside had no
criminal backgrounds, but awful tempers. This meant that they killed their
wives. You get 25 to Life for that. One especially frantic Hasid had wrenched
his wife to death in front of all nine of his children. His 25 years was up,
but the kids kept coming to the parole boards to argue against his release.
Meanwhile Chabad, the ultra-religious Jewish organization, sent emissaries to
argue the opposite.
The Israelis were drug dealers, all
casualties of the popularity of ecstasy in the 1990’s. They smuggled it in from
Europe in sculpted toads and diamond cases and even in the beards of Lubavitchers who couldn’t resist the money. A movie was
made about these guys eventually, ‘Holy Rollers’, but in real life they were
rather hapless, insecure Sabras who dreamed of blondes and Miami. One of them,
a nice fellow name Yaakov, knew my taste for gefilte fish and used to sneak me
entire logs of the stuff that Catskill hotels had donated for our celebrations.
Jewish holidays are taken seriously in
prison. Of course it is a result of lawsuits and not the respectful nature of
the Department of Corrections, but we had Seders and a Sukkah tent and Chanukah
candles. Each facility has a Rabbi, though some of the smaller ones have
traveling Rabbis that go from joint to joint. I clerked for many of them,
including a female Rabbi working for the state. They are limited in what they
can do, but financially the Jewish congregations are well taken care of by
outside organizations.
Our holidays consisted of services and
feasts. The Lubavitchers all knew the Hebrew prayers,
siddurs were available, and services were long and serious. We fasted for Yom
Kippur, read from the Megillah for Purim, and said bruchas over every meal. Behind bars Judaism is practiced
intensely, more so than the version you’d find in many modern synagogues on the
outside.
Some of the length and intensity of the services
was a ploy to keep out the religious tourists. Some cons are promiscuous about
their religious affiliation, identifying with whichever G-d promised the most
snacks and ceremonies based on that week’s holiday schedule. Rabbis can tell
when someone changes their religion to Jewish for the perks. They can’t stop
them, but they would write ‘self-declared’ in Yiddish on the paperwork for the
next Rabbi to see.
Orthodox Conversion in prison is
impossible, because there is no troika of Rabbis to oversee it and no ritual mikvah bath to anoint the convert. Even the gentiles who
sincerely try to practice the faith are considered ‘self declared’ in their
paperwork. And yet a surprising amount of guys do turn to Judaism. The rapper Shyne was born Jewish but became very religious after a
shooting involving P-Diddy landed him a ten year sentence.
He clerked for the same Rabbi I did, only in the neighboring prison. Of course
there aren’t many Jewish converts compared to the success of missionary efforts
by evangelical churches and the Jehovah’s Witnesses. But there are enough
African-American and Latino ‘converts’ trying to live as
Jews in prison that Reaching Out,
the Lubavitcher run prison newsletter, has a special
guidebook for them on Noachide Law, the moral code
demanded of righteous gentiles.
Our Kiddush prayers were done with gefilte
fish and grape juice. The New York Board of Rabbis would send in cases of macaroons
for the congregation at every Passover. The Jews were the only faith group that
got such extensive pampering, but that is because there are so few real Jews in
prison so it’s easier to provide for them. And according to Torah law, every
Jewish soul is sacred. They may have been chosen to serve some time, but they
are still Chosen.
Jesus
(Yeshua in Hebrew) had no problem turning water into
wine, but turning a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jew into
a staunch Zionist is quite another story. For many streams of Haredi Judaism, Zionism is a dirty word, and last week's
Yom Ha'Atzmaut (Independence Day) was just another
bad day. But such was no longer the case for Chava
(not her real name), a 23-year-old Haradi Jewess who
recently accepted Yeshua as Messiah.
"This was my first Yom Ha'Atzmaut," says Chava.
"In our family, we were forbidden to even mention it. We were told by our
parents to close the shutters so that we could not see what the abominable Goyim (derogatory word
for Gentiles) were doing in the streets. We call it 'Tzibele' (onion)
day in Yiddish." For many Haredi Jews, Yom Ha'Azmaut is foul, dirty and pagan. "We hated
Israel," Chava admits. "Our parents did not
want us to be Israeli at all. My father wanted to take us all to America."
Now a believer in Yeshua, all of that
changed for Chava forever. "When I heard the
siren sound in memorial for the fallen soldiers who had given their lives for
this nation, I stood up, and my heart stood still," she said. "I understood
for the first time how much the people of Israel, my people, had sacrificed to
bring us back to this land and make a nation and a home for us, the Jewish
people."
Chava feels
embarrassed that her whole life she never honored the brave men and women who
had given their lives to secure a homeland for the Jewish people. She admits
that she even despised and hated them. "I give thanks to Yeshua who opened
my eyes. He has given me a right spirit and a whole new understanding,"
she says.
In Israel, Memorial Day flows directly into
the Yom Ha'Azamut celebrations. Independence can only
be celebrated while remembering those who have gave their lives to make it
happen, while the joy of nationhood can sweeten some of the painful memories of
those who have fallen.
"I understand now how important it is
to show respect and honor for the people of this land who have sacrificed so
much for me, for my family and for Jewish people around the world," says Chava about her first Memorial Day and Yom Ha'Atzmaut. "I feel proud to be an Israeli now,"
she says. "I am glad that I can live here and be a part of our people. God
loves our people, all of our people, secular, religious, Arab and Jew. He loves
us all," she smiles.
Report Faults Obama for Ignoring Persecution of Christians
William Bigelow,
breitbart.com May 2014
A new report from the
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan
group, asserts that the Obama administration is turning a blind eye to
persecution of Christians by Muslims in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and North
Korea.
Dwight Bashir, the commission's deputy
director of policy and research, told FoxNews.com:
While the Obama administration should con-tinue to shine a spotlight
on abuses through public statements, it also should impose targeted sanctions
to demonstrate that there are conse-quences, too. By not utilizing an existing
legis-lative tool, the United States risks sending the message that it prefers
a nuclear deal to standing up for the rights of the Iranian people. The worst
16 countries that violated religious freedom were listed in the report. Iran,
the report stated, had gotten even less tolerant after "purportedly
moderate President Hassan Rouhani" ascended to the presidency last year.
Of Iran, the report added, “As of February 2014, at least 40 Christians were
either in prison, detained or awaiting trial because of their religious beliefs
and activities.”...
Growing Intimidation on Campus
Tammi
Rossman-Benjamin and JNS.org
aish.com, May
2014
...Over the last
several years, Jewish students on campuses across the country have been
physi-cally, emotionally, and intellectually harassed, in-timidated, threatened
and bullied – by their fellow students and by some of their professors.
• Anti-Israel
student activists at the University of Michigan last month hurled death threats
at Jewish student council members and called them “dirty Jew” and “kike.”
• At University
of California, Berkeley, a Jewish girl holding an “Israel Wants Peace” sign was
ramrodded with a shopping cart by the head of Students for Justice in
Palestine.
• At Harvard
University, the Palestine Security Committee frightened Jewish students by
placing mock eviction notices on their dormitory rooms.
• At
Northeastern University in Boston, Students for Justice in Palestine vandalized
a menorah and disrupted Jewish events.
• At San
Francisco State University this past fall, the General Union of Palestine
Students hosted an all-day event where participants could make posters and
t-shirts that said, “My Heroes Have Always Killed Colonizers,” meaning Jews.
• And just last
week (May 2014), at New York University, pro-Palestinian students slipped
“evic-tion notices” under the doors of 2,000 under-grads, scaring Jewish
students and parents....