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		<title>France: Europe’s Clockwork Orange State</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 04:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jew-haters trash central Paris twice in one week.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gaza-paris-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236993" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gaza-paris-2-431x350.jpg" alt="gaza-paris-2" width="265" height="215" /></a>“Here is the new France, the one which is emerging, the one which is beginning, the one of the future. You the inhabitants, Islamic or not, of the housing projects, you are the future of France, you are the rising generation, the one which will save this country from ruin…”   </em></p>
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<li>President Francois Hollande in a speech to residents of an immigrant ghetto before France&#8217;s 2012 national election</li>
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<p>French President Francois Hollande was probably correct when he told the Muslim inhabitants of one of France’s suburban ghettos (known as &#8220;banlieues&#8221;) they were “the future of France.” This community’s high birthrate and his socialist government’s pro-immigration policies will see to that. But if last Saturday’s rioting in the center of Paris is anything to go by, that future will be a bleak and scary one of Clockwork Orange-type violence. And, contrary to the Hollande’s statement, this “new France” will not save the country from ruin, but rather lead to it.</p>
<p>Last weekend, for the second weekend in a row, the French public watched in exasperation while the city that represents the heart of their country and culture to the world was defiled yet again by several thousand rioters of mostly North African and Middle Eastern origin. Demonstrating, allegedly, against the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, over several hours and often to shouts of &#8220;allahu akbar&#8221; the rioters smashed store windows, burned vehicles and subjected the forces of law and order to a hail of bottles and rocks, injuring a dozen police officials.</p>
<p>“It was war, in the middle of Paris, in the city that receives the most tourists in the world,” said one upset storeowner, whose shop windows were broken, to the French newspaper <em>Le Figaro</em> the next day. “Why isn’t there a (government) minister here this morning to say that these guys who smashed everything are going to go to prison?”</p>
<p>During another “pro-Palestinian” demonstration the previous weekend, rioters had even attempted to attack two Parisian synagogues. But these failed assaults only served to display the protest&#8217;s true motivation, which was anti-Semitism and Jew-hatred rather than opposition to Israeli policy. Besides the synagogue attacks, the demonstration’s anti-Semitic overtone was also more than evident in the slogans the rioters were yelling, which included such civilized gems as “death to the Jews” and “Hitler Was Right.”</p>
<p>“[H]atred for Israel and for Jews has become a major component of the identity of French of an Arab or African background; it is the cement of the second generation,” said Gil Mihaely, founder and director of <em>Causeur</em>, a French magazine dedicated to intellectual debate.</p>
<p>Mihaely states the recent Paris demonstrations, “without a doubt,” are about “hatred of Jews and not the taking of a political position.” He cites the fact these rioters do not demonstrate and become violent about the 200,000 Muslims killed in the Syrian or other ongoing conflicts as further proof that the Paris riots were primarily about anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>“I believe that these demonstrations betray a profound need to identify oneself as an adversary of Israel and of the Jews,” Mihaely said.</p>
<p>The anti-Semitism was so evident in the first protest that French authorities banned last weekend’s second, anti-Israel &#8220;manif,&#8221; as the French call a demonstration. Nevertheless, several thousand people still gathered to wreak havoc and express anti-Jew hatred, the rioters somehow believing that attacking police in France and sacking a part of central Paris will bring peace to Gaza. It is interesting to note no such rioting is occurring in Islamic North African countries, where many ‘manif’ participants have their origins.</p>
<p>Besides the acts of anti-Semitism and destruction that occurred in their greatest city, law-abiding French citizens were more than disturbed by the fact that a prohibited demonstration actually was able to take place at all. To them, this signals a frightening weakness, even a powerlessness, on the part of President Hollande and his socialist government, from which planners of future, violent mayhem will expect to profit. The French government appears incapable of getting these &#8220;residents &#8230;of the housing projects” to obey the law. Rather, it is the people of Hollande’s “new France” who were dictating to lawful authorities by holding the banned demonstration, telling government officials, in essence, that they are “prohibited from prohibiting.”</p>
<p>Many French were also put out that so few rioters were arrested after so much violent lawlessness. From the demonstration that saw the synagogues attacked, only five people were turned over to the courts, charged with “violence against security forces” and “rebellion.” One of their number was acquitted of the violence charge but was jailed for four months for “rebellion.” The others had yet to have their day in court.</p>
<p>Last weekend’s riot saw 44 arrested, of whom only 19 were kept in police custody.</p>
<p>Some in France regard these numbers as disgraceful, especially when one considers that in 2013, French security forces arrested about 1,000 people protesting at different demonstrations the Hollande government’s pro-gay marriage law. With their children present “in the thousands,” these protesters behaved like angels compared to last weekend’s criminals. Nevertheless, at one anti-gay marriage demonstration alone, in central Paris where the recent anti-Semitic riots occurred, police arrested 293 people.</p>
<p>“Police determined to clear the area seized unarmed people and used brutal violence to force them into vans,” stated one report. “They were taken to police cells where they were left in dirty conditions for as much as 17 hours without charge and access to lawyers.”</p>
<p>It’s a shame that such firmness wasn’t shown towards those gathering for last Saturday’s illegal demonstration before any destruction of private property took place and streets were torn up for projectiles to throw at and wound police.</p>
<p>Besides the small number arrested, the sentences the rioters are expected to receive are already a topic of ridicule among those unhappy with the government’s tepid response to the law-breaking. People can’t understand, for example, why one rioter, as mentioned, received only four months in jail for his violent actions, while a member of the populist National Front Party was sentenced recently to nine months and fined $100,000 for stupidly and inexcusably comparing on Facebook France’s justice minister, who is black, to an ape.</p>
<p>But the discrepancy in numbers concerning those arrested in the recent anti-Semitic riots and last year’s anti-gay marriage law demonstrations is probably a reflection of the political interests and beliefs of France’s ruling Socialist Party. And most likely the same holds true concerning the different sentence lengths meted out to the rioter convicted of “rebellion” and the person who made the asinine, racist comparison.</p>
<p>On the socialist list of unpardonable crimes, racist and anti-gay beliefs probably rank number one and two, and are greater sins in some socialists’ eyes than attacking synagogues and ransacking central Paris. Besides, as indicated in the quote above from Hollande’s 2012 pre-election speech, French socialists regard the Muslim citizens of France’s banlieues as their ideological, and voting, constituency, which may also account for the lenient treatment rioters receive.</p>
<p>“We are encountering in the left of today (the view of) immigrants as being the new face of the group charged with carrying out the downfall of history,” said French philosopher Robert Redeker.</p>
<p>Redeker states immigrants, both legal and illegal, the youth of the banlieues and Roma have replaced the native French proletariat as the socialist weapon to transform French society, because French workers, not being revolutionary enough, were not up to the task. Interestingly, Redeker adds leftist promotion of immigration is also the punishment the Left &#8220;inflicted on the proletariat for having failed in its historic duty.”</p>
<p>This socialist partiality for the Muslims of the banlieues was also evident in Hollande’s statement about the synagogue attacks. While he stated he would not tolerate anti-Semitism, Hollande also said he does want the Israeli-Palestinian conflicted brought to French soil. This reprehensible equating of Israel with the terrorist organization Hamas was probably made with his party’s Muslim constituency in mind.</p>
<p>But Hollande’s opposition to Jew-hatred on the one hand and catering to the Muslim vote on the other will not keep the peace. While he tells France’s national Jewish council he supports it in its fight against anti-Semitism, the Socialist Party is pro-Muslim immigration. This is a recipe for disaster. The only hope for France&#8217;s future, if there still is one, is to restrict such immigration and adopt a tough, zero-tolerance policy toward all civil disturbances, especially those of an anti-Semitic nature.</p>
<p>If the current situation continues, one only has to look at what happened to the Jewish communities in Islamic countries after the Six Day War in 1967 to predict the fate of France’s 500,000 Jews, Europe&#8217;s largest Jewish community. Under severe persecution, their members were forced to flee North African and Middle Eastern states, never to return.</p>
<p>And since Holland and his fellow French socialists do not appear to want to learn from history, then this tragic historical lesson is doomed to be repeated in “the new France,” of which he and his fellow socialists are so proud.</p>
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		<title>After ZOA Campaign, Northeastern U. Axes Anti-Semitic SJP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morton A. Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A university finally takes a stand against campus Jew-hatred. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/safe_image1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-221340 alignleft" alt="safe_image" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/safe_image1.jpg" width="283" height="194" /></a>The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) sent a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://zoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/letter-to-President-Aoun-re-SJP-suspension-3-12-14.pdf">letter</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">  yesterday to Dr. Joseph E. Aoun, the president of Northeastern University in Boston, MA, strongly praising Northeastern for promptly and appropriately disciplining the anti-Semitic student group that calls itself “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP).  At the close of the SJP’s annual anti-Semitic “Israel Apartheid Week,” the SJP put fake “eviction notices” under students’ doors in several of Northeastern’s residence halls.   These notices contained false and demonizing information about Israel, calculated to incite hatred of the Jewish State.  The “eviction notices” were designed to look genuine, leading some students to believe that they were actually being evicted – during mid-terms.  These actions, like previous actions of the SJP, caused alarm and even fear in students, especially Jewish students.  Northeastern took strong and decisive action, suspending the anti-Semitic SJP for at least one year; permanently banning its current executive board members from serving on any future board in the organization; mandating training led by university administrators as a condition of reinstatement, and possibly imposing individual sanctions against at least two SJP students, including expulsion.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The SJP has a history of engaging in a campaign of anti-Semitic harassment and intimidation on campus.  Last year, the SJP disrupted a presentation by Israeli soldiers and was placed on probation. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The ZOA had been urging Northeastern to remedy the campus anti-Semitism.  In a July 2013 letter to President Aoun, the ZOA detailed the anti-Semitic harassment and intimidation that Jewish students were being subjected to; the letter was based on interviews that ZOA conducted with almost 20 students, as well as with faculty and community members.  An August 2013 op-ed in </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Jewish Advocate</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the major Jewish newspaper in the Boston area, praised the ZOA’s letter, noting that it “exposes with intense moral clarity the stark failure of Jewish leaders and American educational institutions to keep Jewish students safe from a hostile environment.  It should be a clarion call for all Jews and people of conscience to speak out in condemning this failure.  Only consistent and unyielding pressure will protect Jewish youth from hatred.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In addition to describing the anti-Semitic hostility, the ZOA proposed that Northeastern take several steps calculated to remedy the hostility.  These included a recommendation that President Aoun publicly and forcefully condemn campus anti-Semitism, and that Northeastern enforce its Code of Conduct and hold Jew-haters accountable when Jewish students are threatened or harassed. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Shortly thereafter, Northeastern began implementing these steps.  In late October 2013, President Aoun gave his state of the university address.  To an audience of thousands, Northeastern President Aoun publicly proclaimed, for the first time, that Northeastern would have “zero tolerance for anti-Semitism.”  Then, in November 2013, Northeastern issued a written message to faculty that students must be able to express their views without fear of intimidation or reprisal.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Based on its recent decision to suspend the anti-Semitic SJP, among the other punishments imposed, Northeastern is demonstrating that it will hold the SJP accountable for its harassing, intimidating, bigoted and racist behavior, which violates university rules and policies.  As the ZOA wrote to President Aoun yesterday, “You have now told the SJP, loud and clear, that it is accountable for its infractions, just like everyone else.  You have also sent an equally important message to the rest of the university community – that while Northeastern supports a robust exchange of diverse ideas, it will not be at the expense of anyone’s physical and psychological safety and well-being.  Fostering a climate of hostility, which is the SJP’s modus operandi, is against the mission and core values of Northeastern University.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Morton A. Klein, ZOA National President, and Susan B. Tuchman, Esq., Director of the ZOA Center for Law and Justice, strongly praised President Aoun and Northeastern University for taking a stand against anti-Semitic bigotry, stating, “We at the ZOA applaud President Aoun for taking Jewish students’ concerns seriously and ensuring that they have a campus environment that every student deserves – one that’s physically safe, emotionally safe and conducive to learning.  The ZOA thanks President Aoun for his strong action and leadership in protecting the civil rights of Jewish students.”</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 05:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just who is enabling the secretary of state's aggression toward Israel? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ShowImage.ashx_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218014" alt="ShowImage.ashx" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ShowImage.ashx_.jpg" width="185" height="140" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Our-world-Kerrys-Israeli-supporters-340258">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>Once again, on Saturday, US Secretary of State John Kerry tried to extort Israeli concessions to the PLO by threatening us with a Western economic boycott.</p>
<p>Kerry is obsessed with Israel’s economic success. Last May he told us that we’re too rich to surrender our land.</p>
<p>Now he’s saying we’ll be poor if we don’t do so.</p>
<p>The anti-Semitic undertones of Kerry’s constant chatter about Jews having too much money are obvious. But beyond their inherent bigotry, Kerry’s statements serve to legitimize the radical Left’s economic war against the Jewish state. Administration supporters and fundraisers from Code Pink and other pressure groups, as well as the EU understand that if they escalate their economic and political persecution of the Jewish state, their actions will be met with quiet understanding, and even support from the Obama administration.</p>
<p>This is so even if the State Department issues indignant press releases expressing fury that Israeli elected officials have the chutzpah to object to Kerry’s behavior.</p>
<p>Israel has been subjected to plenty of abuse from American secretaries of state. But Kerry’s incessant talk of “illusory” Jewish money is unprecedented.</p>
<p>Why does Kerry believe he can get away with this? The overwhelming majority of US lawmakers oppose economic warfare against Israel.</p>
<p>The vast majority of Americans support Israel and believe that a Palestinian state will support terrorism and be hostile to Israel.</p>
<p>So if the American public opposes Kerry’s obsessive aggressiveness toward Israel, who is supporting him? Who is giving him cover for his anti-Jewish smears and his irrational focus on Jewish communities beyond the 1949 armistice lines? The answer is as infuriating as it is apparent. It is the Israeli Left and through it, much of the American Jewish community that enables Kerry’s diplomatic aggression against the Jewish state.</p>
<p>Operating under their cover, Kerry feels free to engage in anti-Jewish bigotry directed against Israeli society. He believes he is immune from allegations of ill-will toward Israel even as he places the full weight of the US government behind a plan that will endanger Israel, bring no peace, destabilize the Middle East and fail to win the US any friends or allies in the Islamic world.</p>
<p>On the face of it, it is hard to understand why leftist Israeli Jews cheer Kerry’s aggressive attacks and threats.</p>
<p>After all, they live here.</p>
<p>They know as well as the rest of the country that if Israel bows to his will and surrenders Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria to the PLO the move will bring no peace.</p>
<p>Rather it will unleash a Palestinian terrorist assault the likes of which we haven’t seen before.</p>
<p>They know that the international delegitimization of Israel only expands with every Israeli concession to the PLO, and that giving up the store will bring us no respite from the Western world’s assault on our right to exist.</p>
<p>So what do they gain by giving cover to Kerry? Why do people like Labor MK Shelly Yacimovich applaud Kerry for placing unrelenting pressure on the government to take steps that the majority of Israelis oppose and urge him to keep it up? Ron Pundak, one of the original architects of Israel’s embrace of the PLO and the so-called two-state solution at Oslo in 1993 supplied the answer in a recently published paper.</p>
<p>Last November the George Soros-supported International Crisis Group published a paper by Pundak entitled “Leap of Faith: Israel’s National Religious and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”</p>
<p>The purpose of his paper was to provide strategies for contending with the religious Zionist opposition to the two-state model. According to Pundak, non-secular Israelis oppose the two-state policy because it “is seen as&#8230; aimed at de-Zionizing the state.”</p>
<p>Rather than develop talking points to convince Israeli Zionists that they are wrong to view the two-state model as an anti-Zionist project, Pundak admitted they are right. Indeed, destroying the Zionist underpinning of the Jewish state is not a byproduct of the two-state model. It is the purpose of the two-state model.</p>
<p>In Pundak’s words, “Peace is not an objective by itself. It is a way to transition Israel from one era to another: to an era of what I consider is a normal state. Israelisation of society rather than its judaisation&#8230;”</p>
<p>Pundak’s explanation is not new. Before the Sharon government surrendered Gaza to Palestinian terrorists and forcibly expelled its 8,000 Jewish residents from their homes,<em>Haaretz</em> published an unsigned editorial along the same lines.</p>
<p>“The disengagement of Israeli policy from its religious fuel is the real disengagement currently on the agenda. On the day after the disengagement, religious Zionism’s status will be different.”</p>
<p>The editorial concluded that all the talk about enhanced security or peace was pure nonsense. The purpose of destroying the communities in Gaza was to destroy the political and social power of religious Zionism in Israel.</p>
<p>“The real question is not how many mortar shells will fall, or who will guard the Philadelphi route [between Gaza and Egypt], or whether the Palestinians will dance on the roofs of [the destroyed communities]. The real question is who sets the national agenda.”</p>
<p>Other leftist commentators and policy makers including Doron Rosenblum, Avirama Golan, Avrum Burg, Efraim Sneh, Dan Margalit and Ami Ayalon made similar arguments.</p>
<p>For Pundak and his colleagues in the post-Zionist camp, Kerry is a key ally. And to the extent Kerry weakens the government and its supporters, he is a strategic asset.</p>
<p>True, Kerry’s “framework” will bring no peace. But if what Pundak and his camp were after was peace, they wouldn’t have embraced the PLO to begin with. They would have cultivated pro-Israel Arabs who would lead their people into Israeli society.</p>
<p>That is, they would have done precisely what center- right governing coalitions – that included religious Zionists – sought to achieve, with significant success, in the decade and a half that preceded the phony peace-process.</p>
<p>Israel is a democracy. And it is perfectly legitimate for Pundak and his colleagues to try to advance their policy goal of replacing Zionism with a de-Judaized state or anything else they wish.</p>
<p>What is illegitimate is the means they have employed to advance their goal.</p>
<p>In a democracy, the strategic goals and policies of the government are supposed to be based on the will of the public as expressed at the ballot box. In Israel, there is a political party that shares the goals of the post-Zionist camp. It is called Meretz and it receives between two and five seats in the Knesset every election.</p>
<p>Pundak and his colleagues know that they cannot convince the majority of Israelis to abandon Zionism in favor of their anti-Jewish vision of the future. So rather than tell us the truth about what they are doing, they engage in subversion and subterfuge. They call themselves “the peace camp,” and use outside pressure and coercion to bend an unwilling public to their will.</p>
<p>For them, Kerry is best when he’s worst for their country.</p>
<p>And Kerry knows this. And so he piles on the threats, and the anti-Semitism, and with their support, he knows he can get away with it.</p>
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<p><strong>Other posts in this series:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/middle-east-peace-process/"><strong>Palestinian Official Threatens Nuclear Attack on Israel. </strong></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/middle-east-peace-process-2/">Palestinian Official Calls Jews “Satans” at Public Event to Cheering Crowd. </a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/middle-east-peace-process-3/">Palestinian TV Praises Man Who Murdered 84-year-old Israeli as a ‘Hero’.</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/middle-east-peace-process-4/">Palestinian Schoolgirls Recite: Jews &#8216;Most Evil Among Creations&#8217;; &#8216;Barbaric Monkeys, Wretched Pigs&#8217;.</a></strong></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Alice-Walker-008.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-194256 alignleft" alt="Alice Walker" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Alice-Walker-008.jpg" width="212" height="163" /></a>Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker has further burnished her anti-Semitic credentials. Her latest book, “The Cushion in the Road,” is <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/06/19/adl-blasts-anti-israel-author-walker-she-is-unabashedly-infected-with-anti-semitism/">replete</a> with an abundance of anti-Jewish rhetoric, including 80 pages devoted to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which she compares the Jewish State to Nazi Germany, bashes Jews and Judaism in general, and suggests that Israel should cease to exist.</p>
<p>Abraham H. Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), illuminates the thrust of Walker&#8217;s latest effort. “Alice Walker has sunk to new lows with essays that remove the gloss of her anti-Israel activism to reveal someone who is unabashedly infected with anti-Semitism,” said Foxman. “She has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level, revealing the depth of her hatred of Jews and Israel to a degree that we have not witnessed before. Her descriptions of the conflict are so grossly inaccurate and biased that it seems Walker wants the uninformed reader to come away sharing her hate-filled conclusions that Israel is committing the greatest atrocity in the history of the world.”</p>
<p>The ADL cites a dozen essays contained in a section of the book titled &#8220;On Palestine,&#8221; in which Walker makes the effort to <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/169106#.UccA6-sjH1y">justify</a> terrorism inflicted against Israelis. She even rails against black churches whose leaders cite Biblical passages in which Jews emerge triumphant. “It amazes me, in these churches, that there is no discussion of the fact that the other behavior we learned about in the Bible stories: The rapes, the murders, the pillaging, the enslavement of the conquered, the confiscation of land, the brutal domination and colonization of all ‘others’ is still front and center in Israel’s behavior today,” Walker writes. She then compared the plight of Palestinians with the treatment of black Americans. “It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel’s attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.&#8221;</p>
<p>Walker condemns Israel for its moral values, which are based on little more than a feeling of &#8220;supremacy,&#8221; further noting that Israeli settlements are based on the idea that “possession is nine-tenths of the law,” a lesson she claims she “learned from my Jewish lawyer former husband. This belief might even be enshrined in the Torah,” she contends.</p>
<p>Walker&#8217;s &#8220;Jewish lawyer former husband&#8221; was civil rights attorney Mel Leventhal. Apparently the reality that Leventhal&#8217;s parents <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/david-swindle/alice-walker-the-war-against-the-jews-and-human-sacrifice/">fled</a> the Holocaust made no impression on Walker, who takes a cheap shot at the man in her book. She describes a meeting with an elderly Palestinian women who accepts a gift from the author. “May God protect you from the Jews” the woman says. “It’s too late, I already married one,” Walker responds. Several paragraphs later she takes another shot at him, his family, and Jews in general. &#8220;These were people who knew how to hate, and how to severely punish others, even those beloved, as he was,” she writes.</p>
<p>Regarding an encounter with a young Israeli soldier manning a checkpoint, Walker is equally contemptuous. “I couldn’t bring myself to use the ‘N’ word, but I did say,  &#8216;Don’t you think this behavior &#8212; insulting, threatening, humiliating &#8212; makes you all seem rather Germanesque? I meant the old Germanesque of the late thirties and early forties, not the current Germanesque,” she explains. When she speaks of Israel&#8217;s treatment of the Palestinians, all of the typically libelous catchphrases are employed in the effort. Thus, Israelis are responsible for “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing,” “crimes against humanity,” and “cruelty and diabolical torture.” Walker also hammers the 2009 Toronto Film Festival, comparing it to Nazi propaganda festivals established by Hitler leading up to WWII, and <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/adl-alice-walker-unabashedly-infected-with-anti-semitism/">conceived</a> to “make the bully look more respectable.”</p>
<p>Comparing Israelis soldiers to Nazis no doubt enables her to rationalize Palestinian terrorism perpetrated against innocent Israeli civilians. Walkers believes it is “dishonest&#8230; that people claim not to understand the desperate, last ditch resistance involved in suicide bombings; blaming the oppressed for using their bodies where the Israeli army uses armored tanks,” she contends.</p>
<p>Walker&#8217;s latest anti-Semitic outburst follows a familiar pattern. In 2011, she <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/25/alice-walker-gaza-freedom-flotilla">announced</a> her participation in the Freedom Flotilla II, the second attempt to break the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. The effort, aimed at delegitimizing Israel&#8217;s determination to keep weapons from being smuggled into Gaza, ended in <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/davidhornik/israel-1-flotilla-0/">failure</a>, one that even former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-says-gaza-flotilla-an-attempt-to-provoke-israel-not-necessary-or-useful/2011/06/23/AGSyEqhH_story.html">labeled</a> “neither necessary or useful.”</p>
<p>Walker even alienated radical leftist Rabbi Michael Lerner. Lerner had <a href="http://www.beyttikkun.org/article.php/20090929072148570">second thoughts</a> about letting her give a speech on Yom Kippur, one he characterized as &#8220;so lacking in nuance and filled more with attitude than facts or analysis,&#8221; due in large part to Walker&#8217;s completely unsubstantiated claim that Israeli soldiers raped Palestinian women.</p>
<p>Lerner went further. &#8220;I personally experienced some of her remarks as offensive to me and her manner of talking to us dismissive and put-downish and her perception of the Jewish people seemed largely ignorant of the tradition of Jews that we represent and that has been growing worldwide,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;So I want to apologize to our community for subjecting you to this talk.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 2012, Walker again stirred up controversy when she <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4245040,00.html">refused</a> to allow her most famous book, &#8220;The Color Purple,&#8221; to be translated in Hebrew. Writing a letter to Yediot Books, Walker insisted that Israel engages in &#8220;apartheid&#8221; and must change its policies. &#8220;I would so like knowing my books are read by the people of your country, especially by the young and by the brave Israeli activists (Jewish and Palestinian) for justice and peace I have had the joy of working beside,&#8221; she wrote in the letter. &#8220;I am hopeful that one day, maybe soon, this may happen. But now is not the time.&#8221;</p>
<p>Last month, Walker, along with the Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement that advocates an economic boycott of Israel, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/06/12/alicia-keys-tel-aviv-concert/2415729/">turned</a> their attention towards entertainer Alicia Keys, pressuring her to cancel a July 4 concert in Tel Aviv. In a personal <a href="http://www.usacbi.org/2013/05/open-letter-from-alice-walker-to-alicia-keys/">letter</a> to Keys, Walker warned Keys about &#8220;putting yourself in danger (soul danger) by performing in an apartheid country that is being boycotted by many global conscious artists.&#8221;  Walker urged Keys to visit her website where she can learn about the &#8220;unconscionable harm Israel inflicts every day on the people of Palestine, whose major &#8216;crime&#8217; is that they exist in their own land, land that Israel wants to control as its own.&#8221; She tells Keys the information at that website will provide the singer with &#8220;a wonderful opportunity for you to learn about something sorrowful, and amazing: that our government (Obama in particular) supports a system that is cruel, unjust, and unbelievably evil.&#8221;</p>
<p>Keys wasn&#8217;t buying it. “I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show,&#8221; she <a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/despite-protests-alicia-keys-says-she-will-perform-in-tel-aviv/?_r=0">told</a> the <i>New York Times.</i></p>
<p>In a piece entitled &#8220;The Conspiratorial World of Alice Walker,&#8221; Commentary Magazine&#8217;s Jonathan Kay reveals how far beyond the borders of reason Walker has traveled, noting that her &#8220;recent musings about world-domination plots still serve to disqualify her from the mainstream marketplace of ideas.&#8221; He refers to her effusive praise of a 2010 book,  <i>Human Race Get Off Your Knees</i> by author David Icke. Icke is a one-time professional soccer player convinced the earth has been taken over by giant lizards that have taken human form. Kay notes that Icke is a long-time fan of the <i>Protocols of the Elders of Zion</i>, and his book makes constant references to “Rothschild Zionists,” who control vast numbers of corporations, NGOs and media organizations, and who have inflicted vast amounts of misery on the Palestinians.</p>
<p>According Walker, the book is “amazing,” “stunning,” “magical,” “profound” and “the ultimate reading adventure.”</p>
<p>Thus, it should surprise no one that “The Cushion in the Road” represents little more than another brick in Walker&#8217;s ever-rising wall of anti-Semitism. Thanks to people like Alice Walker and others, anti-Semitism in America has become more &#8220;trendy&#8221; than ever.</p>
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<p>On Wednesday, President Obama <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/susan-rice-tom-donilon-national-security-council-92259.html">nominated</a> Samantha Power to be US Ambassador to the United Nations. Power has “been a relentless advocate for American interests and values, building partnerships on behalf of democracy and human rights, fighting the scourge of anti-Semitism and combating human trafficking,” the president contended. Power&#8217;s record, however, tells a much different tale. Power is, unsurprisingly, not only a radical leftist who <a href="http://freebeacon.com/samantha-powers-five-worst-statements/">believes</a> America is evil and owes the world an apology, but someone with an egregious history of antipathy directed towards Israel.</p>
<p>In a March 2003 <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/srebenica-liberalism-balkan-united%20nations#">article</a> for the New Republic, Power engaged in the typically leftist denigration of the United States, characterizing American foreign policy as &#8220;an explicitly amoral enterprise.&#8221; She bemoaned the fact that America&#8217;s &#8220;exceptionalist impulses,&#8221; had been &#8220;with us for a long time,&#8221; and that they animated George W. Bush&#8217;s &#8220;militant moralism.&#8221; She was further lamented that such &#8220;militant moralism&#8221; was left unchecked by Congress, due in large part to the fact that America no longer sustained enough war casualties to animate their concern &#8220;thanks to U.S. technological supremacy.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the same New Republic piece, Power reveals her true disdain for the US &#8220;criminal&#8221; foreign policy: &#8220;U.S. foreign policy,&#8221; she said,</p>
<blockquote><p>needs not tweaking but overhauling. We need: a historical reckoning with crimes committed, sponsored, or permitted by the United States&#8230;A country has to look back before it can move forward. Instituting a doctrine of the <i>mea culpa</i> would enhance our credibility by showing that American decision-makers do not endorse the sins of their predecessors.</p></blockquote>
<p>In 2009, Obama did exactly what Power recommended, and apologized to the Arab world for America&#8217;s &#8220;sins.&#8221; In 2011, the <i>Washington Post</i> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/arab-worlds-views-of-us-president-obama-increasingly-negative-new-poll-finds/2011/07/12/gIQASzHVBI_blog.html">revealed</a> how well that approach worked out. &#8220;In most countries surveyed, favorable attitudes toward the United States dropped to levels lower than they were during the last year of the Bush administration,&#8221; the paper reported.</p>
<p>Power&#8217;s attitude towards Israel is also alarming and destructive. In 2001, she attended the United Nations&#8217; World Conference Against Racism, held in Durbin, South Africa. She remained there after the U.S. withdrew most of its diplomatic participation, when it became apparent the gathering would amount to little more than a platform for anti-American, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic tirades.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFdt6fjdHQw">year later</a>, Power was interviewed by Harry Kreisler of Berkeley’s Institute of International Studies. He asked Power to engage in a &#8220;thought experiment&#8221; about how she would advise the president &#8220;to put a structure in place&#8221; with regard to the Palestine-Israel problem to &#8220;monitor the situation,&#8221; if one party or the other was &#8220;moving towards genocide.&#8221;</p>
<p>Power appears quite comfortable with the obviously loaded question, never once acknowledging that Kreisler was making no distinction between the Palestinians, who were in the midst of waging an intifada against Israel, and Israel&#8217;s right to defend itself from annihilation. After noting there was an abundance of information that didn&#8217;t necessitate some sort of &#8220;early warning mechanism,&#8221; Power insisted the United States needed &#8220;a willingness to actually put something on the line in the service of helping the situation. And putting something on the line might mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import.”</p>
<p>The domestic constituency is plainly Jewish Americans. This description in particular reveals Power&#8217;s sympathy with stereotypes of Jewish wealth and power. Yet Power showed an even greater and darker anti-Semitic streak in the followup, essentially advocating an invasion of Israeli territory on behalf of the Palestinians to protect them from &#8220;major human rights abuses&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p>It may mean, more crucially, sacrificing, or investing I think more than sacrificing, literally billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel’s military but actually investing in the new state of Palestine; in investing billions of dollars it would probably take also to support I think what will have to be a mammoth a protection force&#8211;not of the old Srebrenica kind or of the Rwanda kind, but a meaningful military presence. Because it seems to me at this stage&#8211;and this is true of actual genocides as well and not just major human rights abuses which we’re seeing there&#8211;that is that you have to go in as if you’re serious, you have to put something on the line.</p></blockquote>
<p>In a further cementing of her twisted moral equivocation, Power describes terrorist leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (who made tremendous concessions to the belligerent Arab Palestinians), as morally comparable; as two men “politically destined to destroy the lives of their own people,” and &#8220;dreadfully irresponsible.&#8221;</p>
<p>Power and her supporters <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2379">claim</a> those remarks were taken out of context. Yet in 2003, a quote by Power contained in the book &#8220;Ethnic Violence and Justice,&#8221; <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2008/02/11/more-samantha-power/">demonstrates</a> a reflexive antipathy towards Israel as well. Power asks David Rohde, a <i>New York Times</i> reporter who covered the intifada, the following question:</p>
<blockquote><p>I was struck by a headline that accompanied a news story on the publication of the Human Rights Watch report. The headline was, I believe: &#8220;Human Rights Report Finds Massacre Did Not Occur in Jenin.&#8221; The second paragraph said, &#8220;Oh, but lots of war crimes did.&#8221; Why wouldn’t they make the war crimes the headline and the non-massacre the second paragraph?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>In other words, despite the reality that the so-called Jenin massacre never happened, Power thought the <i>Times</i> should juxtapose its headline to show that Israel was still guilty of war crimes.</p>
<p>In a 2004 review of radical leftist Noam Chomsky&#8217;s book <i>Hegemony or Survival</i>, Power agreed with many of his criticisms of American&#8217;s foreign policy, and lumped Israel with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, Russia, and Uzbekistan in references to the “sins of our allies in the war on terror.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then in 2007, when Power was a professor at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, she <a href="http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2013/06/05/hear-samantha-power/">gave</a> an interview that has been scrubbed from the school&#8217;s website. &#8220;Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the &#8216;national interest&#8217; as a whole is defined and pursued…&#8221; Power contended.</p>
<blockquote><p>America’s important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.</p></blockquote>
<p>In addition to appealing to conspiracy theories of tiny Israel&#8217;s control of US foreign policy, Power completely ignores the reality that the &#8220;counter-productive&#8221; war in Lebanon was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/world/middleeast/13mideast.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0">precipitated</a> by Hezbollah in a cross-border assault, during which eight Israeli soldiers were killed and two captured. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah admitted the operation had been planned for months.</p>
<p>In 2008, Power released a book, <i>Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World</i>, a biography of the UN official killed in Baghdad in a 2003 terrorist bombing. When a UN force sent to Lebanon in 1982 to stop a series of attacks emanating from a mini-state created by the PLO in that country proved ineffective, Israel forces remained there as well. Power argued  that:</p>
<blockquote><p>Israeli forces refused to comply with the spirit of international demands to withdraw and the major powers on the Security Council were not prepared to deal with the gnarly issues that had sparked the Israelis invasion in the first place: dispossessed Palestinians and Israeli insecurity.</p></blockquote>
<p>Again, Power implied moral equivalency by ignoring the reality that Israel went into Lebanon to <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3631005,00.html">destroy</a> a terrorist infrastructure on the Lebanese-Israeli border that had attacked IDF forces and the Israeli communities near the border.</p>
<p>Also in 2008, Power wrote a <i>Time</i> magazine <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1704682,00.html">column</a> belittling concerns about Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, characterizing it as a figment of George W. Bush&#8217;s imagination. And again in that same year, she completely <a href="http://www.miftah.org/display.cfm?DocId=16291&amp;CategoryId=5">disavowed</a> her 2002 &#8220;thought experiment&#8221; in an interview with <a href="http://Miftah.org/">Miftah.org</a>., a pro-Palestine sovereignty website. &#8220;Even I don&#8217;t understand it,&#8221; she says. &#8220;This makes no sense to me. The quote seems so weird.&#8221;</p>
<p>Power&#8217;s nomination as the US Ambassador to the UN make perfect sense, of course, for an Obama administration that has made it clear there is precious little in the way of moral clarity with regard to its relationship with Israel, even as the disaster of the Arab Spring threatens to destabilize the region in a manner that may pose an unprecedented level of danger to the Jewish State.</p>
<p>The last thing America needs is another representative willing to see the entire world, including Israel <i>and</i> the United States, in morally relative terms. Power&#8217;s clear disdain for American exceptionalism is more than enough to disqualify her for the job of UN Ambassador. Our enemies have no such misgivings about who they are and what they want &#8212; and what they are willing to do to get it.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[P. David Hornik]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And what it should tell Washington about Israel and the Middle East.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/davidhornik/jews-under-muslim-attack-in-europe/french_jews-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-178610"><img class=" wp-image-178610 alignleft" title="French_jews" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/French_jews-450x249.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="174" /></a>With President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry planning to visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority next month, speculation proliferates as to whether Obama plans—once again—to push for “peace” between Israel and the PA, or has learned from his first term that such an outcome is hard to attain and still more effort in pursuit of it is not likely to be rewarded.</p>
<p>Meanwhile the French Jewish community <a href="http://dl.antisemitisme.org/REPORT%202012.pdf">reports</a> a record rise of 58% in anti-Semitic incidents for 2012—a total of 614 compared to 389 in 2011. While seemingly not directly relevant to the question about Obama’s visit, the situation in France—and Western Europe generally—in fact tells much about the Middle East and Israel’s position in it.</p>
<p>Amid the general increase in anti-Semitic activity in France, then, there were almost twice as many physical attacks on Jews there in 2012 as in 2011, and 25% of those involved a weapon. Why the dramatic rise? While anti-Semitic behavior is known to burgeon during and after major Israeli military operations, 2012 saw only the eight-day-long Operation Pillar of Defense against Gaza rocket fire in November.</p>
<p>Yet the incidents in France started to mount well before then—after an <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/davidhornik/toulouse-jihadist-revealed/">incident</a> on March 22. In it a French Muslim of Algerian descent named Mohamed Merah murdered four Jews in a school in Toulouse. Merah had earlier murdered three off-duty French soldiers.</p>
<p>Merah’s victims at the school were a 30-year-old teacher-rabbi, his six-year-old and three-year-old sons, and an eight-year-old girl whom Merah chased, grabbed by the hair, and shot in the head.</p>
<p>Ever since, French Jewry has been reporting a rise in attacks. The above-linked report confirms it: “After the Toulouse attack, numerous anti-Semitic acts were committed and included support or identification to Merah and his act.”</p>
<p>In other words, there were many for whom the school massacre was an inspirational event, evoking not condemnation but emulation.</p>
<p>The report notes that “55% of racist violence in France in 2012 targeted Jews” and then gives this breakdown: “175 violent hate crimes have been recorded: 96 anti-Semitic acts, 70 racist and xenophobic acts, and 9 anti-Muslim acts.”</p>
<p>That imbalance is all the more magnified by the fact that the French Muslim community is about ten times the size of the French Jewish one. The report, however, never gets around to saying what French population group, if any, tends to be responsible for the attacks on Jews.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/06/03/france-three-jews-beaten-with-hammers-iron-bars-by-islamic-youths/">report</a> in <em>Algemeiner</em> last June was less circumspect, describing a brutal attack on three French Jewish youths by a Muslim gang and quoting French Jewish artist Ron Agam:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is about time now for the French authorities to radically search for these Imams and put a stop to the brainwashing [of] tens of thousands of Muslim kids in France.</p>
<p>It is unacceptable that this culture of racism and antisemitism is being tolerated by a significant number of the Muslim community, this culture must stop.</p></blockquote>
<p>An <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=303836">article</a> this week by leading anti-Semitism scholar Manfred Gerstenfeld makes clear that the problem goes well beyond France and is widespread in Western Europe.</p>
<p>While “detailed data on Muslim anti-Semitism in Western Europe is very limited,” Gerstenfeld notes, “the few existing studies all point in one direction.”</p>
<p>One of them, in 2011, found that about 50% of Muslim second- and third-grade students in Dutch-language elementary schools in Brussels “could be considered anti-Semites, versus 10% of others.”</p>
<p>Another study that same year interviewed 117 “Muslim male youngsters (average age 19) in Berlin, Paris and London” and found that “the majority…voiced some, or strong anti-Semitic feelings. They expressed them openly and often aggressively.”</p>
<p>After citing some more findings in this vein, Gerstenfeld notes that “These projects and much anecdotal information reveal that anti-Semitism among substantial parts of European Muslim communities is much higher than in autochthonous populations”—however much, one might add, some in the French Jewish community find it impolitic to mention it.</p>
<p>Gerstenfeld, however, goes on to fault the authorities of those autochthonous populations for “allow[ing] immigrants into their countries in a non-selective way without taking into account the cultural differences…. They should have known that actively promoting anti-Semitism was part and parcel of the cultures these people came from.”</p>
<p>That observation, in turn, is easily substantiated by Pew Center polls of Middle Eastern and other Muslim-majority countries—like the one in 2009 that <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=168176">found</a> 74% of Indonesians, 78% of Pakistanis, 97% of Jordanians, 98% of Lebanese, 95% of Egyptians, and—dare one say it—97% in the Palestinian territories expressing anti-Semitic attitudes.</p>
<p>Clearly, a hatred so powerful and categorical that it leads even Muslims in Western Europe to attack non-Israeli Jews in the streets, and identify with a deliberate child-murderer, is far removed from “criticism of Israeli policy” or longing for a two-state solution.</p>
<p>For Obama and Kerry in their visit, then, the better part of wisdom would be to avoid treating Israel and the 97%-anti-Semitic Palestinian Authority as equivalents and pressuring the former into concessions.</p>
<p>Indeed, the longstanding flaw in U.S. policy is a failure to treat Israel as what it is: a country radically different from the surrounding societies both in its democratic norms and in the degree of its high-tech and military prowess, making it an ideologically apposite and strategically valuable ally especially if strengthened rather than weakened.</p>
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