It’s Time to Beat the Jew-Haters

Klinghoffer-1Originally published by the Jerusalem Post

The decision by the most prestigious opera house in America to produce an opera that mainstreams Jew-hatred and anti-Jewish terrorism is a great victory for elitist anti-Semitism. In the world of elite anti-Semitism, Jews are told that truth is but a narrative. Jewish history and rights have no more merit – indeed less merit – than the lies of Jew-haters. And if Jews dare to object to the propagation of lies against them, they open themselves to the easy accusation that they seek to stifle free speech.

The goal of elitist anti-Semitism is to erode the right of Jews to have and promote Jewish rights and interests. This is done by demonizing those who defend Jewish rights and advance Jewish interests, while elevating and romanticizing the lives and largely false narratives of those who seek to destroy Israel.

The Met’s singular contribution to the cause of elitist anti-Semitism is the prestige its production of The Death of Klinghoffer confers on the cause.

Another dam has been breached. Another safe zone has become a no-go zone.

On the other hand, at the end of the day, as bad as elitist anti-Semitism is, over the past decade or so, American Jews have developed tools to deal with it.

In the weeks that preceded the opera’s opening last Monday night, much – although not all – of the Jewish community in New York was able to unify in opposing it. Politicians and luminaries joined with more than a thousand protesters on opening night to express their revulsion at the opera.

And the Met has already paid a price for its elevation of anti-Semitism to high art.

Far from living up to its reputation as a leader in the arts, on Monday, due to the massive protest against the production, the Met lost its artistic credibility. The crowd that gave the opera a standing ovation didn’t do so because they had just experienced a musical masterpiece. They stood and cheered because they were happy the Met elevated murderous, Jew-hating terrorists, whom they support.

One of the novel aspects of the opposition to the production was an action taken Monday by the Zionist Organization of America. Hours before the opera began, the ZOA issued a press release demanding that major Jewish donors to the Met, including the Michael Bloomberg LP company, the Annenberg Foundation, the Neubauer Family Foundation and the Toll Brothers Foundation, account for their decision not to revoke their multimillion dollar support for the opera house.

The ZOA’s move is important because as Jews see more and more public support for the denial of Jewish rights and interests, it will become increasingly important to call to account those backing institutions that advance this growing trend toward Jewish disenfranchisement.

The ZOA’s move was important as well because it points us in a useful direction for dealing with a second and increasingly prominent form of anti-Semitism in the US and Canada. That form is violent anti-Semitism.

Increasingly, anti-Semites in the US are adopting brownshirt tactics to violently advance their goal of removing Jews from the public square and intimidating others into boycotting Israel and those who support it.

Take just a few examples in recent weeks. In late September, several hundred anti-Semitic rioters at the Port of Oakland prevented longshoremen from unloading cargo from the Israeli cargo ship Zim Shanghai. According to media reports, there were 50 policemen from the Oakland police force on the scene, but their presence did not stop the rioters or enable the longshoremen to offload the cargo.

None of the anti-Semites were arrested. Zim Shanghai was forced to leave the port with its cargo and sail on to Los Angeles.

The group that organized the assault on the Zim ship calls itself Block the Boat for Gaza. It operates through its Facebook page where it openly organizes violent assaults on Israeli shipping. Another assault is planned, according to its Facebook page, for October 25.

A previous assault in August, during Operation Protective Edge, also took place with police presence and nonintervention. The Zim Piraeus was forced as well to pull anchor with its cargo and sail on to Los Angeles.

Block the Boat for Gaza is supported by another group called Arab Resource and Organizing Center.

On October 8, the Brooklyn Nets played an exhibition game against Maccabi Tel Aviv at the Barclay Center in downtown Brooklyn. The event was a benefit for Friends of the IDF. Twelve IDF soldiers wounded during Operation Protective Edge were guests at the event.

About a hundred anti-Semitic rioters organized outside the event. They were members of variety of organizations reportedly including Jewish Voices for Peace, Adalah – New York, and the Direct Action for Palestine.

After the event, a number of the rioters accosted Leonard Petlakh, the director of a local Jewish community center, as he was leaving the arena with his two young sons. According to The Forward, they shouted, “Free Palestine,” and, “Your people are murderers.” And then one of them punched him in the face, breaking his nose.

The assailant was arrested. But strangely, he was not charged with committing a hate crime despite the clear anti-Semitic character of his crime.

On October 5, hours after the end of Yom Kippur, swastikas were painted on the walls of AEPi Jewish fraternity at Emory University near Atlanta.

Swastikas were also painted at the Yale University campus. In July, mailboxes of AEPi members at University of Oregon were defaced with swastikas.

In August, a Jewish student at Temple University was assaulted by a member of Students for Justice for Palestine.

In a video filmed at the national convention of AEPi and posted on YouTube two weeks ago, members of AEPi from campuses around the US and Canada shared the stories of anti-Semitic assaults they and their friends suffer regularly on their campuses. The attacks described included, among other things, violent assaults.

Gideon Rafal, the president of AEPi at University of Arizona, described how he was assaulted while trying to prevent a group of 20 Jew-hating thugs from forcing their way into his fraternity house.

Rafal said he was struck from behind and lost consciousness.

The injuries he sustained during the assault included a skull fracture, bleeding in the brain, a concussion and a lower back fracture. He says that he was hospitalized for three weeks, spending 10 days in the intensive care unit.

Rafal did not say who the assailants were or what legal measures were taken against them or what organization if any, they were associated with.

Other students described threats against Jewish students manning a table for Birthright Israel programs at Loyola University in Chicago, and the assault of a Jewish female student at University of California at Santa Cruz.

Shane, a student at University of Calgary, described how he, his mother and sister were violently assaulted for counter-protesting at an anti-Israel protest. The group that sponsored the anti-Israel protest and whose members attacked him and his family is an official campus organization.

Shane said he fears for his life as he walks through campus.

In recent years it has become apparent that university campuses have become breeding grounds for anti-Semitism. The incidents described by the Jewish students who attended the AEPi convention indicate that the anti-Israel propaganda taught in the classrooms is increasingly being translated into anti-Jewish violence outside of them.

The major American Jewish organizations were incompetent to contend with anti-Israel incitement as it became a major force in university classrooms some 15 years ago. Jewish students found themselves with few communal resources to rely on when they suddenly and unexpectedly found themselves at the front lines of the anti-Semitic battle against Jewish rights.

New groups like Stand with Us and Hasbara Fellowships were formed to fill the vacuum. CAMERA, ZOA and other major groups have in recent years invested massive efforts into empowering students to stand up to this incitement.

But today, as anti-Semites on and off campus increasingly resort to brownshirt tactics, the American Jewish community again finds itself without the means to contend with a new challenge.

And this brings us back to the ZOA’s naming the names of Jewish philanthropists still supporting the Met.

The organizations involved in intimidating Jews and assaulting Jews on and off campus who support Israel are not interested in dialogue. Groups that organize to prevent the conduct of normal commercial relations between Israel and the US are not concerned with whether or not they are considered mainstream. The goal of these groups is to intimidate and terrorize the American and Canadian publics into silence as they make it impossible for Israel and its supporters to have a place in the public square.

Educational efforts are of little value in contending with thugs. But this doesn’t mean that there is nothing to be done. Groups like Block the Boat for Gaza, Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voices for Peace, Adalah, the Arab Resource and Organizing Center and Direct Action for Palestine need to be investigated.

Where does their money come from? Who are their leaders? What are their ties to terrorist groups? What are their ties to organized labor? What are their ties to politicians? What is their tax status and what do their tax returns say? If members of various groups are intimidating Jewish students then there should be restraining orders against them. Criminal complaints should be filed against them. Their tax-exempt status should be challenged.

Jewish students should be demanding that Students for Justice in Palestine be expelled from their campuses along with other hate groups, like Jewish Voices for Peace. Jewish alumni should be organizing to withhold all donations from universities that permit anti-Semitic groups to operate on campus. And Jewish lawyers should be filing lawsuits against universities and other institutions that enable the operation of anti-Semitic groups on their premises.

If Jewish students complain that they feel threatened on campus, then lawsuits should filed against the universities for engendering a threatening atmosphere against them.

Politicians who support or, when asked, fail to condemn these groups, individuals and their actions as racist and bigoted should be called out for their behavior. Police departments like the Oakland police department that do nothing to stop rioters from preventing the lawful, unfettered operation of a major US port should be subjected to public and legal scrutiny.

The challenge of anti-Semitism in North America is growing and mutating by the day. Jews in America and Canada need to adapt quickly to changing circumstances. Reasonably, American Jews have no interest in aping the hateful tactics of anti-Semites to fight them. But an aggressive campaign of legal, political, social and financial opposition to those who seek to demonize Jews and deny Jews civil rights as Jews as well as those who enable them can go a long way toward making members of these hate groups and their supporters rue the day they decided to go after the Jews.

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  • Vinegar Hill

    Once again Glick is barking up the wrong tree. While anti Semitism is to be deplored it is debatable if the production falls within this category and certainly does not justify why she should arrogantly dictate what productions should be allowed on stage at the Met.
    The protests carried out by BDS, Block the Boat for Gaza and student campus organisations etc. stem from a justifiable cause. The writer ignores this because it is the heart of the whole matter and does not fit with her extremist views. There are millions of Palestinians suffering in the Middle East as a result of direct and indirect policies carried out by the Israeli government. Take away the cause and you will take away a major reason for the protests that Glick decries.

    • Gee

      Thus spoken the racist troll. The extremist here is you a supporter of genocide and terrorism.

      • achantus

        So muslims will accept Israel as a state if they only treat Palestinians better? Why is it not “racist” to be an anti-semite?

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          Muslims don’t even accept fellow Muslims. (Sunni vs Shiite, females, apostates)

          So how can Muslims accept Infidels?

    • montana83

      Taken from the Democratic Party playbook.
      Palestinians are “suffering” because they are very useful to Worldwide Muslim interests. They must continue to “suffer”. Allah has willed it, so to speak. Useful idiots like you are very helpful in keeping the “suffering” going.

    • Ken Kelso

      Vinegar you must be an idiot.
      BDS, Block the Boat for Gaza and student campus organizations want Israel to be enslaved by Islamo fascists like the Terroristinians.

      Palestinian Murderer of a 3-month old Jewish baby is a hero to the Palestinians. This is their value system! Let history judge just what they are, we already know.

      http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/186507#.VElyk_nF_ls
      Senior Abbas Aid Lauds Jerusalem Terrorist as a ‘Heroic Martyr’
      Abdelrahman Shaludeh, who murdered a three-month-old girl in last night’s attack, glorified and portrayed as victim in PA official’s post.
      By Ari Soffer
      10/23/2014

      • billobillo54

        “Vinegar”: He’s not only idiotic, he’s evil.

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          Sour grapes.

      • Vinegar Hill

        What is the point of going down the road that you take when you refer to the death of “a three month old girl”? You forgot to mention the babies that were slaughtered in Gaza by the IDF in August. You forgot to mention that approximately 29,900 children required medical treatment for their beating injuries in the first two years of the intifada? Nearly a third of them were aged ten or under.
        What else do you need to be reminded of?

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          Babies are slaughtered by HamASS who purposely put men, women and CHILDREN in harms way, hoping for their death, to blame Israel.

          Meanwhile HamASS leaders hide in underground bunkers, or outside Gaza, like Khalid Mashaal who lives in Qatar while the expendable ones in Gaza are left to die.

          The World sees ISIS beheading surrendered prisoners. ISIS is current day Islam.

          • Vinegar Hill

            I think you have forgotten about the Dahiya doctrine. It makes for very interesting reading.
            You also need to ask yourself where were the meetings held between the government and top military officers when the brutalities wrere carried out by the IDF.

          • SCREW SOCIALISM

            Israel retaliating against HamASS rocket attacks is justified.

            HamASS using Human Shields is a War Crime.

            ISIS beheading innocents is a War Crime.

            Muslim Brotherhood killing Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai is a War Crime.

            The Taliban shooting a girl in the head (Malala, who recently was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize) is a Crime Against Humanity.

            Islam is at War with the Entire World. I expect you to continue to fail to deflect blame for world-wide terrorism by Islamofascists.

        • iluvisrael

          hamas and the other arab savages celebrate the deaths of their own

      • Vinegar Hill

        I see the mental midget is getting very upset and has flagged all of my comments. So in defence of democracy I’ll post a second time what the mental midget deleted.
        What is the point of going down the road that you take when you refer to the death of “a three month old girl”? You forgot to mention the babies that were slaughtered in Gaza by the IDF in August. You forgot to mention that approximately 29,900 children required medical treatment for their beating injuries in the first two years of the intifada? Nearly a third of them were aged ten or under.
        What else do you need to be reminded of?

    • garyfouse

      Vinegar Hill,

      You are wrong. Palestinians are suffering because of the leaders they follow. They have endorsed terrorism and a determination to destroy Israel altogether. Thus, they have become a people dependent on the charity of the outside world. When you say take away the cause, you mean take away Israel altogether because a two-state solution will not stop the drive to obliterate Israel altogether.

      I see first-hand the thuggery and brown shirt tactics taking place on college campuses as a result of the pro-Palestinian movement. (I teach part-time at UC Irvine.) Anti-Semitism is running amok on college campuses. It is absurd that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be the biggest issue of contention on college campuses. The reason for it is that a well-oiled and well-financed pro-Palestinian lobby has linked up with the anti-American left-wing faculty in a perfect marriage of convenience.

      Wise up.

      • ed_in_tx

        Not to mention that they are suffering because their fellow Arabs encouraged their parents and grandparents to flee in 1948, “guaranteeing” them the Jew’s property when they won the war. So they fled, and their fellow Arabs refused to allow them to settle in the countries to which they fled when the multiple wars were lost. And the UN encourages this non-assimilation, by having a permanent “Refugee” committee and effort dedicated to the Arabs who fled.

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          Pal-e-SWINIAN “refugee camps” with 6 story “tents” of tattered canvas.

          Sigh.

      • Vinegar Hill

        You know as well as I do that the roots of the issue lie deep in the past, they go back to the establishment of the state of Israel. There are two options open to Israel and the Israel government does not want either. So what is a possible scenario? I believe the country will go the way that South Africa went and eventually, due to external and internal prssures, the government will have to give in. The sooner the better because the slaughter carried out by the IDF in Gaza for the past 5/6 years cannot, and will not, be tolerated.
        Regarding your references to “thuggery” you of all people should realise that the best way to deal with it is to attack the causes not the reaction. You are putting the cart before the horse but you are not alone, Glick too has gotten muddled on the issue as well.

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          I believe your Pal-e-SWINE will go the way of National SOCIALIST Germany – with its UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER to Infidels of various stripes.

          Pal-e-SWINE, like its Islamofascist comrades, are at War with the Entire World.

          Anytime there is a shooting, bombing, crash, the first thought is that it’s ANOTHER Islamofascist atrocity.

          See the Ottawa Canada attack, the NYC hatchet attack. Converts to Islam – behaving “badly”.

      • Vinegar Hill

        SS has lost control so I will reply to you once again.

        You know as well as I do that the roots of the issue lie deeper than recent events, they go back to the establishment of the state of Israel. There are two options open to Israel and the Israel government does not want either. So what is a possible senario? I believe the country will go the way that South Africa went and eventually due to external and internal pressures the government will have to give in. The sooner the better because the slaughter that was witnessed in Gaza for the past 5/6 years cannot, and will not, be tolerated.
        Regarding your references to “thuggery”, you of all people should realise that the best way to deal with it is to attack the causes, not the reaction. You are putting the cart before the horse. As I wrote initally, Glick too has gotten muddled on the issue as well.

    • MukeNecca

      “There are millions of Palestinians suffering in the Middle East as a result of direct and indirect policies carried out by the Israeli government.

      “Palestinians” suffer for the same reason you do, which is seeing
      Israel alive, strong, flourishing – the light to the nations that seek light
      and victorious over those who seek to destroy her.

      You and “Palestinians” suffer because you choke on your impotent hate witnessing Jews succeeding against all odds. What torture that must be to live with your festering and constantly frustrated hatred.

      I won’t say “may you choke to death on your hate”. Not because I am a nice guy, but because your suffering pleases me immensely.

      Long live Israel!

      • Vinegar Hill

        I think you totally misunderstand the situation. The Palestinian people were designated to have their own state according to the British Mandate and this was “stolen” from them and a total injustice prevailed. This is the origin of the suffering. You write about Israel being “the light to the nations that seek light” but for many it has been nothing but darkness and a nightmare. The Palestinians have been thrown off what was their land and brutalised by Israeli government policies.
        Until this situation is addressed there will be continuous conflict in the area and if Israel persists goning down this road it will lead to submitting to world pressure.

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          Dummy,

          Jordan is Pal-e-SWINE. That’s the East Bank of the Jordan River.

          And your Pal-e-SWINIAN Death Cult has a real King and Queen – NOT the carpetbaggers Yassir and Suha ( who doesn’t live with her “people”, but in Paris and Tuhisia).

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          Your Pal-e-SWINE would be a Darkness upon nations that seek Darkness.

          Pal-e-SWINIAN, a subset of Islamofascism, Muslim Brotherhood is a retrograde pseudo nationality that exists only as a tool to attack Jews, as Islamofascism also attacks Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Bahais, Zoroastrians, Animists.

        • MukeNecca

          ”I think you totally misunderstand the situation.

          What is here to understand?

          “The situation” is perfectly clear to anyone unless one is a
          moslem, or Jew hater. Your “arguments” or “facts” have been peddled for decades by liars and haters vastly cleverer than you and million times adeptly refuted by vastly more eloquent than myself. Are you really so dumb to believe I would waste time trying to engage your risible, lying gibberish? For what purpose?

          No, it is you who “totally misunderstood the situation” believing my reply to your comment was an attempt to correct
          your “understanding of the situation” by systematically disproving your “facts”.
          The facts and “facts”, truth and “truths” have been available to all for very long time. Like a moslem who loves death more than I love life you chose “facts” over facts and “truths” over truth and there is nothing I could do about it.
          No. My comment was an occasion to, once again, express my utter contempt for you and delight in seeing you and, so called, “Palestinians” sizzling in your constantly frustrated hate.

          I was spitting in your direction – that’s all. And it was fun.

          • Dan Knight

            Actually Muke, you’re pretty eloquent! Good job!

          • MukeNecca

            Thank you, Dan!

          • Vinegar Hill

            You are refusing to see the real cause of the problem and are going against the winds of change that are blowing through the land. You know what happens when you “spit” against the wind!!

          • MukeNecca

            Oh, you’re the wind all right. Pox on who has passed you.

        • iluvisrael

          wrong dummy – the paleostonians don’t really care about getting their own state – it just makes them and other moslems seethe with hatred and jealousy that we Jews have our own thriving and sovereign state – go crawl back under your rock

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      Socialist Hill, Who is responsible for the following atrocities?

      - 9/11
      - 1993 truck bombing of the WTC
      - 1988 bombing of passenger plane Pan Am 103
      - hijacking of the Achille Lauro
      - hijacking of the 1972 Olympics and murder of Olympic athletes
      - Boston Marathon bombing
      - 2005 bombing of London underground and bus
      - beheading of Lee Rigby
      - Beslan school massacre
      - 1968 assassination of US Senator and Presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy
      - Beltway sniper
      - Ottawa Canada attack
      - Mumbai India massacre
      - Nairobi Kenya mall massacre
      - 8 year Iraq/Iran war – 1,000,000 died
      - Halabja Iraq poison gas attack on the Kurds
      - Luxor Egypt massacre
      - threats of 9/11 scale attacks on the UK and Eurabia
      - SUV bombing of Times Square
      - death fatwa on writer Salman Rushdie for writing a book of fiction
      - current day slavery in Sudan and Mauritania
      - Bali bombing
      - ISIS beheading prisoners
      - stoning women to death over “family honor”
      - beheading a woman in Oklahoma
      - Fort Hood massacre
      - hatchet attack on NYPD
      - $100 per barrel oil and overpriced gasoline pair for with After Tax dollars
      - dress codes for women – cover up or else

      The Truth will set everyone Free.

      • Ken Kelso

        Thanks for that info. Here’s more facts.
        1 million Muslims killed each other in the Iran-Iraq War.
        150,000 Arabs killed each other in Algeria since 92.
        130,000 killed in Syria by the dictator Assad.
        150,000 Lebanese killed each other in their civil war started by Arafat from 75 to 90.
        20,0000 Arabs killed each other in Jordan, after Arafat tried to overthrow King Hussein’s government in 1970.
        Saddam Hussein kills and murders 200,000 Kurds.
        Assad Sr kills 20,000 Syrians in 1982 in Hama.
        Thousands of Palestinians kill each other in 2007 in Hamas Fatah war.
        1 million Bangladeshi Muslims killed by Pakistan in 1971.
        2 million Black Christians in South Sudan killed by North Sudan.
        1.5 million Armenians killed by Turkey in WW1.
        Thousands of Muslims killing each other in Egypt, Somalia, Yemen etc
        The list goes on.

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          The current “civil war” in Syria/Iraq has resulted in the deaths of 191,000+.

          More of “The Religion of Peace” behaving badly – and imbeciles like Vinegar Hill spinning to blame JOOOZ, Israel, Zionists for Islamofascist depravity.

    • Michael Garfinkel

      This is a revealing comment, once you get past the odious nature of the writer’s bias.

      At bottom, the destiny of the “Palestinans” is not in their hands; their failure to live in peace and make a life for themselves – instead of dancing in the streets celebrating the murder of infants – is the fault of someone else, i.e. the Jews..

      They have no moral or ethical standing; they are children, really, and the successful and strong Israelis must accommodate their demands, however unreasonable. Or else.

      Here is the heart of the Left’s embrace of the Palestinians.

      It’s quite something to behold.

    • tickletik

      Please define how, in abstract, one constructs a “justifiable cause” that allows you to assault someone who is not directly attacking you. Since language is creatively used by leftists to mean just about anything, I define “directly attacking” as meaning someone using physical force, at that precise moment, to cause physical damage.

      I am curious, because I too would like to put aside the law, take a lead pipe and smash your brains in, only I do not know how to define a “justifiable cause” that allows me to put aside those laws prohibiting me from doing so.

      Thanks in advance.

      • Vinegar Hill

        The “justifiable cause” goes back to 1948 with the setting up of the state of Israel. The Palestinians were well on the way to the establishment of their own state according to the processes and legalities followed by the British through their mandate over Palestine.

        There are at least two options that the Israel government can followed but have so far failed to do so. If they were serious about finding a solution to the conflict then you would have no need to “smash” my “brains in”.

        I repeat what I said in my original comment (flagged by the mental midget) that you (and Glick) need to address the cause of the problem. Until you realise this then the bloodshed will continue.

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          Your Pal-e-SWINIANS are as real as ISIS.

          Brutal, depraved, death worshiping, terrorist, godless savages.

          Every terrorist attack committed by islamofascist terrorists proves that Israel isn’t the problem…

          Islamism is the problem.

        • tickletik

          1. The Hebron Massacre of 1929 put the lie to your concept that this hatred began with an Arab state in Israel

          2. To quote someone who can say this better than me E. Nora Amrani There is no Palestinian culture, language, nor cuisine. There has never been a land called “Palestine” ruled by “Palestinians.” (FYI, Philistines were Greek and they ate pork. Delilah and Goliath were Philistines. Philistines died out.) There has never been a Palestinian president or Prime Minister or government or military. This whole notion of there being a Palestine is a recent and false invention, based on lies and violence, with NO intention for peaceful co-existence with Israel, or any other nation who won’t kowtow to them. Since the 1880′s, it was the Jewish pioneers who began to redeem the land, Israel, from wilderness. Only thereafter, did the Arabs come from other lands to benefit from what the Jews built and try to take it away from them.

          3. Never, in all the arguments that I have had with you, have you ever sourced anything to prove your assertions. You once made a vague references to a treaty that actually referred to the opposite. Again, when referring to “Palestinians” before 1960, the reference is towards JEWS not ARABS

          Most importantly. I did not ask you for a repeat of your baseless and easily disproved assertions. I asked you to give me an abstract rule that would allow me to determine when a person is justified to break the law and commit violence against another human being who is not in the process of committing violence to the first one. You have, once again, as you always do, failed to answer a challenge given to you, and instead resort to misleading rhetoric to weasel your way out of it.

          By doing so you once again prove that your “justifications” for harming Jews are nothing but lies and propaganda. If you do not have an abstract framework to determine when a complaint actually justifies an assault against a non violent individual, then it means that your current justifications are simply arbitrary and based on nothing more than your feelings of hatred, envy, and cowardice.

          You are disgusting, as usual.

          • Vinegar Hill

            In international law, when a state is dissolved (Ottoman empire) and new states are being established, “the population follows the change of sovereignty in matters of nationality”. As a general rule, citizens of the former state should automatically acquire the nationality of the successor state in which they have been habitually residing. This separation started automatically between Palestine and other newly created “states”: Trans-Jordan , Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. Following the international legal framework that had been established by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne that ended Ottoman sovereignty over the Middle East,.
            Each of the four countries developed a separate nationality for its population through domestic legislation.
            The British had the Mandate for several territories includint Palestine. The French also had Mandates.
            The primary object of a Mandate was to prepare the local people for self rule. In the Mandate the British were preparing the Palestinians for self rule.
            Foreigners wishing to enter Palestine had to obtain a visa either from the Government of Palestine or from a British consulate.
            Various terms had been used to describe the actual, de facto, existence of nationality. The Immigration Ordinance directly employed the term “citizen of Palestine”. The term “permanent residents” of
            Palestine was commomly used.. In practice, the Government of Palestine utilized the term “Palestinian” to describe the inhabitants in a number of forms, including: “Palestinian officials”, “Palestinian magistrates”, “Palestinian Public Prosecutor”, “young
            Palestinians”, “British and Palestinian”.
            As I wrote earlier they were being prepared for self rule. They were denied this and their territory was occupied by the Zionists.
            You acknowledge Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, …all mandated territories developed the same way as was Palestine….but you refuse to acknowledge that the Palestinians had the right to self rule.

            Zionists were responsible for the failure of the Mandate for Palestine….why?….because the Zionoists robbed their land. The evidence (check out your friend D B-G) is there for all to see, unless one is blind and hateful.

          • tickletik

            First of all, cite the actual part of the treaty you are referring to, I’m not going to dig through 143 sections just to find out what crackpot line you are basing your entire delusional structure on.

            Second of all, and for the last time, “Palestinian” never referred to Arabs, it referred to Jews. You yourself effectively say that when you say “In practice, the Government of Palestine utilized the term “Palestinian” to describe the inhabitants” You assume the modern meaning of the word which refers to the Arab colonizers that have invaded my country and stolen my land. When the reality is that it referred and always did refer to JEWS.

            Your entire argument is actually a support for our side.

          • Vinegar Hill

            When violence takes place against a non violent individual I let the due process of the law take over. What do you do?

          • tickletik

            I try to help protect and safeguard the non-violent individual. If necessary, I call law enforcement.

            But you still haven’t answered my question. You insinuated that violence against Jews was justified. Once again, since you have a habit of ignoring questions that are more than superficial, I will ask this. What is the rule by which you determine when violence against a non violent individual is justified by events he is indirectly a part of?

  • cacslewisfan

    I can’t believe I am seeing the rise of Nazism in my lifetime. I stand with Israel.

    • Patriot077

      All the ME money that has been endowing our greedy universities and then forcing their will upon them has led to this. They have accepted funding of entire departments to push hatred of Jews and Christians alike, subsuming the individual rights of all students while turning a blind eye to their own hypocrisy.
      They need to be called out in every possible way!

    • Jacob Greenwood
      • Dallasyaherd

        I wonder why all the pro-Israel Jews who have written plays never got their “free speech” demonstrated at the Met?!?!?!?!?!? Think about real prominent infinitely more brilliant authors of plays made pro-Israel works, such as Ben Hecht, Eric Hoffer on the center, and Koestler on the far-left liberal side none ever even made it to Broadway let alone the Met. And the hundreds of Jewish authors of Broadway shows many of whom supported Israel, never abused their power to make shows about Israel at all, or did it very gently.

        We are dealing with the greatest evil in human history and no one has figured it out yet infinitely worse than the Nazis it’s the Nazis level 2, and that’s no exaggeration, there were a million Jews in Arab world 100 yeARS 3 MILLION 200 YEARS AGO TODAY THEIR ARE ZERO!!! But the worst what makes this the greatest evil in human history is that the whole world even “the pro-Israel” like you guys are doing it for the wrong reasons such as religion, this is beyond religion this is by far the greatest evil evil that ever was. There hundreds of thousands of Jews in Central Europe and Germany, there are zero in the place where most of the greatest Jewish books were written ZERO, and the whole world including the Israel supporters don’t get the level of unprecedented evil unmatched in human history conniving evil we have on our hands.

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        • Jacob Greenwood

          I agree completely. Most people are either complacent, compliant or complicit. The 3 C’s. Time for them to extract their craniums from their rectums. Catharsis is rarely pretty.

          It helps if one understands there is a creator, and that humanity has been here for about 12,000 years since “The Flood”. It’s logical and supported by archaeology, although archaeologists also need a catharsis.

          There was no war until a natural cataclysm occurred in 3123 bce. http://www.MesopotamiaNow.org

  • billobillo54

    Caroline has almost understated the injustice, evil and vileness of the anti-Jewish thugs all over the U.S. and indeed throughout the West. Jew hatred and the justification of it is rising in both intensity and frequency. From which political flank does this extreme Jew hatred emanate? It comes primarily from the liberal, secularist left aka supporters of the Democrat Party. The irony is that American Jews have overwhelmingly supported the political entity that is tied to and is supported by the same anti-Jewish thugs who openly express Jew hatred: The Democrat Party. And, the Democrat Party and Western secularists (along with the Republican idiots who support the Two State Solution) are also now the main force behind the underhanded and cunning “Two State Solution” and the subsequent weakening of Israel and the strengthening of its enemies. When are American Jews going to abandon their overwhelming liberal, secularist, socialist, Democrat Party political proclivities? Another irony is that American Jews have a great disdain for conservative Christians. These are the greatest supporters of Israel and Jews in the world according to an authority no less than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

    • ed_in_tx

      Part of the problem is that many Americans of Jewish faith do not support Israel.

      • SCREW SOCIALISM

        Socialists are enemies of the US and its allies,

        and friends of America hating savages (Islamofascists, Commies).

      • Lightbringer

        They are not Americans of Jewish faith. They are Americans of Jewish ancestry. There is a difference. Those of us who actually practice the Jewish faith love Israel and support it.

    • Lightbringer

      Many of us are very grateful for the support of conservative Christians. Thank you.

      • billobillo54

        It is our honor and duty to support Israel and the Jews to the death if necessary. All in the Name of Y-shua.

        • tickletik

          This is one more very good reason why I am opposed to our neurotic obsession with writing the word “God” as “G-d”.

          See here, all this fellow (assuming it’s a guy) had to do to confuse uneducated Jews regarding our faith and his faith was to put the stupid dash in between the name of his deity, and the word referencing the concept of God. If we had not been using the idiotic dash to make a special word this wouldn’t have been a problem.

          And don’t even get me started on what the more educated Jews have been doing regarding the “k” sounds. Either say the actual word properly, or avoid saying it completely and use the word “Hashem” which means, literally, “the name”. I do not know who this strange new god “Elokim” is. I never heard of him, I do not see his name anywhere in our literature or sacred works, and it confuses me who the community is referring to when they speak about him.

          • Lightbringer

            Tickletik, I like your posts very much, but this is one time when I must respectfully disagree with you.

            Although I don’t have much in the way of a Jewish education, I made sure that my children did, from preschool on. They all either have learned or are currently learning in Haredi yeshivos both in the US and in Israel for many years, and their wives are Beis Yaakov and right-wing seminary-educated. And yes, they do use the dreaded dash in writing and the “k” in common speech and writing. To my mind the dash is unnecessary because “God” is not a Hebrew word and therefore is not used in prayer or formal Torah reading (leining), but the “k” is necessary in speech, since the word is Hebrew and it is important to differentiate between its use in prayer or leining as opposed to study or conversation.

            I understand the concerns stated in your second paragraph. Those concerns are quite valid, but please don’t assume that all Christian supporters of Israel are looking to mislead uneducated Jews. Some are, but many are not. Many of the people who post on this site are not. I have quite a few relatives who are Evangelical Christians and they have never, never said a word to me or to my children that could be construed as trying to sway us. Don’t paint them all with the same brush. There are all kinds of people in the world.

          • billobillo54

            My point as an Evangelical Christian is this: Yes, I’m trying to persuade everyone that Jesus is the Messiah. But, I will love and honor Israel no matter what….and I will love everybody, especially Jews…no matter what. Christians have done great evil against Jews and we deserve condemnation, skepticism and criticism for the vast amount of evil done in His Name, but 100% against His will. Jews must now accept and understand that there are millions of Evangelicals and other Christians who love Israel and Jews BECAUSE OF JESUS. Recognize the phenomenon. These Evangelicals believe that Jesus is the Messiah for “the Jew first and also for the gentile,” they show Jesus to Jews in deed rather than word, although if asked they would share His Word. Notwithstanding, we have a mission from Jesus to love, honor, support and defend Israel and Jews TO THE DEATH NO MATTER WHAT THEY THINK OF US OR OF JESUS.

          • Lightbringer

            Of course you want to persuade people that Jesus is the Messiah. Your religion makes you a much happier, better, and more whole human being and you want to share that joy. I have had polite invitations from acquaintances, friends and family to consider Christianity, and an equally polite “No, thank you. I am happy being the best Jew I can be” has never ended the relationship or caused any enmity. I respect you and the many good Christians I know, and am extremely grateful for your support of Israel. May God bless you.

      • Larry Larkin

        You don’t have to be a conservative Christian to support Israel or the Jews around the world.
        You don’t have to be Buddhist, or Taoist, or Hindu, or Christian to support civilization.

        All you have to be is civilized. I’m one of the “meh” atheists (all discussions of God or religion are effectively irrelevant to me except where they impact on civilized behaviour) and I’m a life long strong supporter of Israel.

        • Lightbringer

          Larry, you’re right. This is a struggle between civilization and chaos, and it is clear which countries and philosophies represent each. Your support for the forces of civilization are very important and we Jews are or should be very grateful for your support of Israel. Best wishes and (dare I say?) blessings on you.

        • billobillo54

          I accept your civil thoughts Larry. In Jesus’ Name and in the name of civilization and justice.

    • Michael Garfinkel

      Neither, but the angels weep.

  • Jacob Greenwood
  • garyfouse

    I wonder if they were playing Wagner at the Klinghoffer opera.

    • ed_in_tx

      Good one.

    • Michael Garfinkel

      Peter Gelb and the Met are acting in the service of a higher cause.

      At least, that’s the claim.

      Gelb avers that art excels when it reveals truth – but the “truth” Gelb seeks to reveal is really just a perfidious calumny.

      “The Death of Klinghoffer” is an operatic showcase for a claim.

      That claim is not novel: it states that there is a case to be made that justifies the murder of Jews.

      Just the other day, Gelb was quoted as saying that in “Schindler’s List, the Nazis were portrayed as human beings.”

      For an opera house director, and a Jew, Gelb is unusually tone-deaf.

      But Peter Gelb is not atypical; as a man of the elite Left, he’s passionate about the arts, loathe to ascribe evil to a protected class (the “oppressed”
      of the Third World), and contemptuous of the Jewish people.

      Many who share these attitudes are in the audience at the Met tonight, delighting in this display of art in the service of corruption.

      Caroline points out that the Metropolitan Opera depends in large part on the patronage of Jewish donors.

      Hopefully, these donors have enough self-regard to withdraw their support – and see that Peter Gelb is fired.

    • Lightbringer

      It’s not likely. Wagner, anti-semitic creep that he was, wrote really good music, which Peter Gelb does not. And I am more likely to go to Bayreuth than to ever go to the Met again. The crowd is probably less anti-semitic there.

  • herb benty

    As “Gladiator Maximus ” observed to Caesar, ” the time of glorifying yourself, will soon end”. Anti-Semitism along with Anti-Christianity is having, “it’s day”, This world is just plain wicked, it’s the godless left that refuse to see it that get us into all manner of problems. If Jews are bad, is THAT why Islam is good? What is one redeeming quality in Islam? If a Jihadist Army invaded America, you can be sure these “Peaceful” Muslims would join them. What kind of “immigrant” is that?

  • Hard Little Machine

    The only way to confront brownshirts is to smash them in the streets. Curbstomp them. They want an altercation, I say bring bats and firebombs.

  • Demo P. Seal; PouponMarks

    Caroline, you and other Conservative, Traditional Jews have failed to point out the huge chasm between Jews like you and the Marxist/Communist/Atheist Anti-American, self-loathing destructive Jews that subvert national sovereignties and seek to dominate through the disparagement and seeking destruction of other races and ethnic groups.

    Their alliance with Islamists, identity politicks, and the implementation of TransNational Governance has caused most in the World to confuse and conflate them with yours.

    They are mentally ill, Caroline, and will destroy Jewry as sure as Caliphate Muslims. Abe Foxman is the equivalent of any Jew hating imam. He continually is stuck on destroying White Christian culture and peoples, in belief that Jewish survival is dependent on such. When White Christians finally out that they have been targeted for destruction, there will be a holocaust for him and his people. Foxrman’s hate and vitriol against Evangelical Christians-who support Israel more than Jews themselves, and express love and support for Jews and their Homeland-is a conformity to Cultural Marxism/Communist One World wet dreams.

    It’s all very sickening: https://truthtellers.org/alerts/foxmanhatecriminal.html

  • info warrior

    Interesting, an anti-American writer who obsessively demonizes Muslims is now complaining about antisemitism. What would Freud say?

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      Demonize Muslims who hijack passenger planes and fly them into buildings?

      Shock-A!

      You’d prefer to give them a medal or honor?

      • info warrior

        If you fear Muslims then the propaganda has won.

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          Propaganda?

          Like 9/11, Fort Hood, bombing of Pan Am 103, Ottawa Canada attack, Mumbai India attack, Nairobi Kenya mall massacre, 2005 British Muslim attack on London transport, beheading of prisoners by ISIS, hatchet attack on NYPD officers, 1993 truck bombing of Times Square?

          Propaganda like the oxymoron calling itself “The Religion of Peace”?

          Are you a Socialist too?

  • lostlegends

    Jews have always been their own worst enemies. Nothing new here. Until they end their obsession with their messiah Karl Marx this sh_t will go on and on.

  • garyfouse

    Vinegar Hill,

    Deep in the past? Deeper than you think. Do some research on the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al Husseini. He predates the establishment of Israel.

    Actually it goes as deep as the 7th century. The fact is that Arab Muslims will never accept a Jewish state in their midst. This is not about who owned what land prior to 1948. It is about religion.

    • Vinegar Hill

      I see the mental midget is getting very upset and has flagged all of my
      comments. So in defence of democracy I’ll post a second time what the
      mental midget deleted. I will reply soon to your comment above.

      You know as well as I do that the roots of the issue lie deeper than, they go back to the establishment of the state of Israel. There are two options open to Israel andthe Israel government does not want either. So what is a possible senario? I believe the country will go the way that South Africa went and eventually due to externatl and internal prssures the government will have to give in. The sooner the better because the slaughter that was witnessed in Gaza for the past 5/6 years cannot and will not be tolerated.
      Regarding your references to “thuggery” you of all people should realise that the best way to deal with is to attack the causes not the reaction. You are putting the cart before the horse as I wrote initally Glick too has gotten muddled on the issue as well.

  • Dan Knight

    Keep up the good fight Caroline, I wish you all the best. It’s a bit frightening to see all of the Nazi-like propaganda kicking in. And it’s disheartening to know that we Gentiles will be blamed after we’re forced to put out the fires. In the meantime, many innocent people have been, are, and will be hurt by Anti-Semitism.

  • Dallasyaherd

    I wonder why all the pro-Israel Jews who have written plays never got their “free speech” demonstrated at the Met?!?!?!?!?!? Think about real prominent infinitely more brilliant authors of plays made pro-Israel works, such as Ben Hecht, Eric Hoffer on the center, and Koestler on the far-left liberal side none ever even made it to Broadway let alone the Met. And the hundreds of Jewish authors of Broadway shows many of whom supported Israel, never abused their power to make shows about Israel at all, or did it very gently.

    We are dealing with the greatest evil in human history and no one has figured it out yet infinitely worse than the Nazis it’s the Nazis level 2, and that’s no exaggeration, there were a million Jews in Arab world 100 yeARS 3 MILLION 200 YEARS AGO TODAY THEIR ARE ZERO!!! But the worst what makes this the greatest evil in human history is that the whole world even “the pro-Israel” like you guys are doing it for the wrong reasons such as religion, this is beyond religion this is by far the greatest evil evil that ever was. There hundreds of thousands of Jews in Central Europe and Germany, there are zero in the place where most of the greatest Jewish books were written ZERO, and the whole world including the Israel supporters don’t get the level of unprecedented evil unmatched in human history conniving evil we have on our hands.