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		<title>Kat Yang Stevens Really Hates Jews, America, White People</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2014 14:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["White folks who are not immediate friends or family of mine are about to be banned"]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Cornell-Anti-Israel-Taunting-Shut-your-fucking-mouth-11-19-2014-e1416606505832-612x442.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-246698" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Cornell-Anti-Israel-Taunting-Shut-your-fucking-mouth-11-19-2014-e1416606505832-612x442-450x325.jpg" alt="Cornell-Anti-Israel-Taunting-Shut-your-fucking-mouth-11-19-2014-e1416606505832-612x442" width="450" height="325" /></a></p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/meet-the-craziest-anti-israel-boycotter/">last time we met Kat-Yang Stevens</a> she was living in the &#8220;occupied territories belonging to the Onondaga &amp; Cayuga Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy&#8221; in so-called New York and working as a &#8220;Full Time Unpaid Community Organizer.&#8221;</p>
<p>After a prolonged bout with the Ghostcat Collective for social justice organizers, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/meet-the-craziest-anti-israel-boycotter/">she was forced to leave</a> because they refused to use her gender neutral pronouns to refer to her.</p>
<p>Since then she&#8217;s been denouncing Cornell for being on &#8220;occupied&#8221; Indian land&#8230; and Israel. Because that&#8217;s what you do when you&#8217;re a <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/11/cornell-pro-israel-students-taunted-fk-you-zionist-scums/">full time insane unpaid community organizer</a> screaming about the Jews.</p>
<blockquote><p>As I captured video depicting Kat Yang-Stevens, she approached me, screaming at me not to touch her. As I raised my hands in the air, she came closer to me. She continually shouted at me as she came within a centimeter of my face, breathing deliberately and forcefully all over me. She shouted to me to “slap me bitch” as her friends egged me on. I never initiated with her or her fellow protesters. I was attacked, and effectively spit on, for being Jewish and taking a video.</p></blockquote>
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<p>But to be fair to Kat Yang-Stevens, she also hates white people in general.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kat-yang-stevens-3.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-245628" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kat-yang-stevens-3-450x150.jpg" alt="kat yang stevens 3" width="450" height="150" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Kat Yang-stevens<br />
November 8 at 9:18pm ·</p>
<p>Yo seriously, white folks who are not immediate friends or family of mine are about to be banned from my comments on my facebook page.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8230; at least she makes exceptions for family members.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kat-stevens.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-245630" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kat-stevens-450x138.jpg" alt="kat stevens" width="450" height="138" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kat-yang-stevens.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-245631" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kat-yang-stevens-450x211.jpg" alt="kat yang stevens" width="450" height="211" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kat-yang-stevens-2.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-245632" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kat-yang-stevens-2-450x229.jpg" alt="kat yang stevens 2" width="450" height="229" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Had a long, but overall good day, at Skidmore College presenting on settler colonialism as a structure, not an event . I never cease to be amazed at how many people are moving through life perceiving almost nothing of the reality of what living in a settler colonial nation even means. Yeah, how about that &#8220;education&#8221;? Fuck the academy and it&#8217;s stronghold over youth. ‪#‎brindowntheirinstitutions‬ ‪#‎bringdowntheiramerica‬</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kat-yang-stevens-5.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-245629" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kat-yang-stevens-5-450x70.jpg" alt="kat yang stevens 5" width="450" height="70" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Highly suspect of white americans who throw themselves to the cause of Palestinian liberation without an ounce of understanding of their own status as members of the white supremacist colonizing class, reproducers of the settler colonial nation of the US, and by proxy their complicity in ongoing genocide.</p></blockquote>
<p>What about half-Taiwanese half-white colonial settlers?</p>
<blockquote><p>Kat Yang-stevens<br />
November 13 at 4:37pm ·</p>
<p>About to give a presentation at George Mason University in Washington DC on the intersections between Settler Colonialism in the US &amp; Israel, the Non-Profit Industrial Complex &amp; Greenwashing. Reports that Hilel has plans to disrupt the event because I am an &#8220;anti-semitic&#8221; speaker. Uh huh. I&#8217;ve never heard that before.</p></blockquote>
<p>And a lot of other things too.</p>
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		<title>Something Is Rotten in UCLA’s Center for Near East Studies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell G. Bard]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/James-Gelvin.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247782" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/James-Gelvin-450x299.jpg" alt="James-Gelvin" width="295" height="196" /></a>Recently, UCLA’s federally subsidized Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) has come under fire by a pro-Israel watchdog that conducted a review of the Center’s programs from 2010-2013 and concluded that many featured “anti-Semitic discourse and anti-Israel bias.”</p>
<p>Among the findings of the report by the AMCHA Initiative:</p>
<p><strong>CNES Israel-related events had an overwhelmingly anti-Israel bias:</strong> Of the 28 Israel-related events, 93% were anti-Israel;<strong><br />
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<p><strong>CNES favors speakers who engaged in anti-Semitic activity prior to speaking at CNES: </strong>Of the 31 speakers at the CNES Israel-related events, 84% have engaged in Anti-Semitic activity, including the demonization and delegitimization of Israel, denying Jews the right to self-determination, comparing Israelis to Nazis and condoning terrorism;<strong><br />
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<p><strong>Each CNES director had engaged in anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity: </strong>All three CNES directors from 2010-2013 publicly opposed the UC Israel Abroad Program, despite touting the public abroad program as part of the center’s fulfillment of the Title VI funding requirement. In addition, each of the directors endorsed boycotts of Israel, and one is a founder of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel.</p>
<p>Professor James Gelvin, a historian studying the Middle East, wrote a spirited defense of CNES on behalf of the Faculty Advisory Committee, which, oddly enough, appeared in an Arabic publication. Gelvin focused his rebuttal on AMCHA’s statistics regarding the number of programs regarding Israel; however, he presents no evidence to dispute the fundamental charge of anti-Israel bias. His answer to the failure to bring speakers who might balance some of the panels critical of Israel is to say that CNES also does not feel the need to “balance” the criticism of Arab states. He further justifies the faculty invited by CNES by asserting that they are “accomplished scholars presenting original work.” If you look at much of what the invited guests have said about Israel, it is highly questionable whether they deserve to be called accomplished and certainly are not presenting original critiques of Israel.</p>
<p>Gelvin becomes positively Orwellian when he tries to explain how a center purportedly devoted to academic freedom can tolerate directors who support the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign, including the current director who, in 2014, signed a letter calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions and pledging not to collaborate with Israeli institutions, attend their conferences or publish in Israeli journals. Gelvin’s response is that the BDS movement, which calls for the destruction of Israel, “is not out of the mainstream within the scholarly community” because a few hundred faculty Israel deniers support singling Israel out for special treatment.</p>
<p>One can’t help but wonder how “accomplished” a professor can be if they can’t recognize they are part of a concerted campaign to destroy the only democracy in the Middle East while having no qualms about the activities of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the rest of the serial human rights abusers. Then again, Gelvin claims the BDS movement isn’t anti-Semitic because it is not on a State Department list of anti-Semitic activities. Rather than look to the State Department with its own dark history of anti-Semitism, he might look at the statement signed by more than 60 international Jewish organizations representing the spectrum of Jewish opinion that denounced the BDS movement as “counterproductive to the goal of peace, antithetical to freedom of speech, and part of a greater effort to undermine the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their homeland, Israel.” The cosigners acknowledged that “individuals and groups may have legitimate criticism of Israeli policies,” but added that “criticism becomes anti-Semitism…when it demonizes Israel or its leaders, denies Israel the right to defend its citizens or seeks to denigrate Israel’s right to exist.” A similar statement was signed by 38 Nobel Prize winners.</p>
<p>As AMCHA reported, two former CNES directors called on the University of California to stop Education Abroad Programs in Israel. Gelvin’s excuse? They were protecting the rights of Palestinian-American students who he alleges were “either harassed or prevented entry into the country.”</p>
<p>Rather than take issue with professor Gelvin’s own statistics defending the programs at CNES, let’s consider just one example of a symposium that took place in 2009, before the period examined by AMCHA. This public event, “Gaza and Human Rights” featured four outspoken critics of Israel. CNES director Susan Slyomovics opened the session by telling the audience they would learn the “truth” about Gaza that had been hidden or distorted by the media. UCLA historian Gabriel Piterberg compared Zionist policy since 1900 to European colonialism that led to the extermination and enslavement of the indigenous peoples. UCSB’s Lisa Hajjar, who chairs a Law and Society Program, accused Israel of war crimes. Richard Falk, who taught international law at Princeton before being named UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territories, compared the Israeli treatment of Palestinians to the Nazi extermination of Jews, insisted that Hamas and its missiles posed no security threat to Israel, and labeled Israeli action in Gaza as a “savagely criminal operation.” The fourth speaker, UCLA English literature professor Saree Makdisi, said that it was Israel’s “premeditated state policy” to kill Gazans and stunt the growth of their children.</p>
<p>The event was later referred to as an “academic lynching,” a “one-sided witch hunt of Israel,” a “Hamas recruiting rally” or, at the very least, “a degradation of academic standards.” UCLA Chancellor Block responded to the controversy by restating UCLA’s commitment to the “free exchange of ideas &#8230; as a core value of academic freedom” and praised UCLA as one of the most invigorating intellectual campuses in the world.</p>
<p>The event may have violated the congressional mandate that federally supported outreach programs promote intellectual diversity and balanced debate. When asked if CNES would plan any events to present an alternative point of view, the center’s director, Susan Slyomovics, reportedly said no. Sondra Hale defended the one-sided panel and said it was necessary to criticize the “state policies that have led to this calamity.” In another example of the fox guarding the henhouse, Hale, chair of the center’s faculty advisory committee at the time, was an organizer of the academic boycott of Israel.</p>
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		<title>Mark LeVine Unhinged on Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cinnamon Stillwell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UC Irvine professor to fellow professor and critics: "F--- all of you," Israel must be destroyed.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ahqdefault.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247171" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ahqdefault-450x337.jpg" alt="ahqdefault" width="345" height="258" /></a>UC Irvine history professor Mark LeVine, who recently suffered a <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2014/11/mark-levine-meltdown"><span style="color: #0463c1;">meltdown</span></a> after being called “anti-Israeli,” has since proven the point by posting this profanity-laden, unhinged <a href="http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2zrq1jd&amp;s=8#.VItkwTHF-Sq"><span style="color: #0463c1;">rant</span></a> on Facebook:</p>
<blockquote><p>[P]eople like Carey Nelson and other “machers” [Yiddish for a self-important person] in the American Jewish community get up in arms about BDS [boycott, divestment, sanctions]. Well, Cary Nelson and the rest of you: F— you. Call me uncivil, but still, f— you. F— all of you who want to make arguments about civility and how Israel wants peace when this is what Israel does, it’s “mowing the lawn” and “defending” freedom. This is, in no uncertain terms, genocide. If you want to argue about it, come to Gaza with me. Come look at Palestinians in the eye and talk about how uncivil Steven Salaita is and how you are in fact a “critic” of Israel. There is only one criticism of Israel that is relevant: It is a state grown, funded, and feeding off the destruction of another people. It is not legitimate. It must be dismantled, the same way that the other racist, psychopathic states across the region must be dismantled. And everyone who enables it is morally complicit in its crimes, including you.</p></blockquote>
<p>LeVine was commenting on a photograph from French freelance photographer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/anne.paq.7"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Anne Paq</span></a>, who, according to her <a href="http://www.annepaq.com/cv-references/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">bio</span></a>, has been “based in Palestine since 2003,” and who specializes in the sort of emotionally-charged—and, <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/pallywood-a-history/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">all too often</span></a>, staged or manipulated—<a href="http://www.annepaq.com/occupation/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">imagery</span></a> regularly employed by Hamas and others to demonize Israel in the international media. Paq’s photograph certainly elicited that reaction in LeVine, who, one can safely assume, would be quick to “dismantle” the allegedly illegitimate nation of Israel long before he gets to the other unnamed “racist, psychopathic states.”</p>
<p>LeVine’s primary target is Cary Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and past president of the American Association of University Professors. Nelson has been an outspoken opponent of BDS, including <a href="http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157273"><span style="color: #0463c1;">co-editing</span></a> the recently published <span style="color: #0463c1;">book</span> of essays, <i>The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel</i>. His principled defense of academic freedom <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/15/cary-nelson-faces-backlash-over-his-views-controversial-scholar"><span style="color: #0463c1;">has not</span></a> gone over well with BDS <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/9711"><span style="color: #0463c1;">supporters</span></a> such as <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2012/09/profs-levine-and-zunes-plot-to-globalize-bds"><span style="color: #0463c1;">LeVine</span></a>, who signed an August, 2014 <a href="http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/18811/over-100-middle-east-scholars-and-librarians-call-"><span style="color: #0463c1;">letter</span></a> calling on Middle East studies scholars and librarians to boycott Israeli academic institutions. Accordingly, at the annual Middle East Studies Association (MESA) convention last month, members voted overwhelmingly in favor a <a href="http://mesana.org/annual-meeting/2014-resolution-information.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">resolution</span></a> that sets the stage for MESA to adopt BDS in 2015.</p>
<p>In his diatribe, LeVine alludes to Nelson’s public <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/08/08/essay-defends-university-illinois-decision-not-hire-steven-salaita"><span style="color: #0463c1;">support</span></a> of UIUC’s decision to withdraw an offer of tenured professorship to former Virginia Tech University English professor Steven Salaita. UIUC made its <a href="http://illinois.edu/blog/view/1109/115906"><span style="color: #0463c1;">choice</span></a> based on Salaita’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/martinkramer.page/posts/10152355398877293"><span style="color: #0463c1;">atrocious</span></a> academic <a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/183813/steven-salaita-academic-work"><span style="color: #0463c1;">record</span></a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/martinkramer.page/photos/a.103151622292.93283.21262362292/10152390955067293/?type=1"><span style="color: #0463c1;">inflammatory</span></a>, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic <a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/183274/salaita-tweets"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Twitter posts</span></a>, which went far beyond incivility, the charge leveled at the time by some of his critics.</p>
<p>As LeVine demonstrates with his ad nauseam repetition of “uncivil” and “civility,” the terms have become rallying cries both for Salaita’s defenders and for the now-famous ex-academic himself, who, speaking on the “Scholars Under Attack” <a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/11/11/news-opinion/united-states/one-year-after-boycott-vote-israel-issue-still-divides-asa"><span style="color: #0463c1;">panel</span></a> at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association in November, made this <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/quotes.php"><span style="color: #0463c1;">inane</span></a> proclamation:</p>
<blockquote><p>Civility is the language of genocide. It’s inherently a deeply violent word. It’s a word whose connotations can be seen as nothing if not as racist.</p></blockquote>
<p>Indeed, Salaita has become a cause célèbre in academia, even warranting his <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2014/10/stacked-mesa-panel-to-praise-steven-salaita"><span style="color: #0463c1;">own panel</span></a> at the recent MESA convention, at which he was <a href="http://dc-web1.commentarymagazine.com/2014/11/25/heros-welcome-for-hater-of-israel-at-mesa/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">hailed</span></a> as a hero and a martyr. LeVine sees him as a victim of nefarious forces, ludicrously <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/13987"><span style="color: #0463c1;">blaming</span></a> his “dehiring” on the “wrath of pro-Israel conservatives in the United States.” Lost amidst the pity party is the fact that Salaita’s “<a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/14280"><span style="color: #0463c1;">scholarship</span></a>” was never up to the task. As <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/12/02/mesa-resolution-shows-whats-wrong-with-academe/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Michael Rubin</span></a>, writing for <i>Commentary</i>, put it:</p>
<blockquote><p>The scandal isn’t so much that the University of Illinois rescinded its preliminary tenure offer after learning about Salaita’s incitement on twitter; rather, it’s that he was seriously considered in the first place.</p></blockquote>
<p>It’s not difficult to ascertain why LeVine would defend Salaita: both of them embody the <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2014/11/ucla-sondra-hale-supports-asa-boycott"><span style="color: #0463c1;">activist academic</span></a> that has <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/12/03/boycott-fever-at-mesa/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">overtaken</span></a> the field of Middle East studies; both are incredibly thin-skinned; both are prone to posting juvenile, profanity-riddled rants on social media; and both, LeVine’s disingenuous protestations notwithstanding, are unambiguously anti-Israel.</p>
<p>Nor is it a mystery as to why LeVine would accuse Nelson of being “morally complicit” in Israel’s purported “crimes,” given that he sees those who “enable” the nation simply by supporting its existence to be responsible for (an imaginary) “genocide.”</p>
<p>With his immature, petulant, and hateful <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=750302261691105&amp;id=221916871196316"><span style="color: #0463c1;">outbursts</span></a>, LeVine has shown his true face. When hotheaded advocates take the place of objective scholars, this is the result. And it isn’t pretty.</p>
<p><i>Cinnamon Stillwell is the West Coast Representative for</i> <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/"><span style="color: #0463c1;"><i>Campus Watch</i></span></a><i>, a project of the</i> <a href="http://www.meforum.org/"><span style="color: #0463c1;"><i>Middle East Forum</i></span></a><i>. She can be reached at</i> <span style="color: #0463c1;"><i>stillwell@meforum.org</i></span><i>.</i></p>
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		<title>BDS Mohammed Would Rather Ride Donkey than Use Israeli Gas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2014 14:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Shouldn&#8217;t be too hard to manage if he&#8217;s serious about it. It&#8217;s not like <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/11/israeli-natural-gas-news-roundup.html#.VHEzaouooeU">Jordan has a major donkey or wood shortage</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A proposal for Jordan to buy $15 billion (Dh55.08 billion) of natural gas from Israel is facing strong opposition in the kingdom because of the intensifying Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which officials fear could delay or even scupper the deal.</p>
<p>At a protest on Sunday in front of Nepco’s Amman headquarters, protesters held up placards opposing “the Zionist gas deal”.</p>
<p>Yahya Mohammad Al Saud, an MP and president of the Jordanian parliamentary committee on Palestine, said: “The Jordanian [people are] not willing to accept this agreement. I will return to riding on a donkey and heating my house with wood before I would consider taking gas from Israel.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Jordanian ministers were supposed to be driving Priuses to &#8220;fight pollution&#8221; after Japan gave Jordan 110 of the cars. (Apparently people aren&#8217;t actually big on buying them.) I&#8217;m not sure if those Priuses trickled down to the president of the Jordanian parliamentary committee on Palestine, but if Mohammed wants to trade a hybrid for a donkey, no one will gainsay him.</p>
<p>Mohammed is on the heavy side so it might be hard on the donkey, but it seems only appropriate that this guy should be riding a jackass.</p>
<p>Now you might be wondering, did I deliberately pick a photo in which Mohammed looks like a crazy idiot. But here are the photos I had to work with. Good luck finding a better one.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/jackass.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-245847" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/jackass.jpg" alt="jackass" width="389" height="340" /></a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s Mohammed announcing his plan to found a Nazi dictatorship consisting of just him and the donkey.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/201254105RN526.jpeg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-245849" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/201254105RN526.jpeg" alt="201254105RN526" width="400" height="326" /></a></p>
<p>Here is Mohammed just discovering how to point. It&#8217;s an exciting moment for him.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1333906653soud.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-245850" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1333906653soud-353x350.jpg" alt="1333906653soud" width="353" height="350" /></a></p>
<p>Here is Mohammed when he couldn&#8217;t decide whether to be a guerrilla or a mafia don and tried to be both.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/s3ood_1_0_0_0.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-245851" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/s3ood_1_0_0_0-450x283.jpg" alt="s3ood_1_0_0_0" width="450" height="283" /></a></p>
<p>Here is Mohammed doing his favorite thing in the world, pointing at something. Possibly Palestine.</p>
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<p>Here is Mohammed having to be restrained from jumping off the podium and diving into the crowd.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/imgid130812.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-245853" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/imgid130812.jpg" alt="imgid130812" width="377" height="280" /></a></p>
<p>Here is Mohammed with the giant pile of money he intends to burn instead of the Israeli gas.</p>
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<p>If you want the live action version, here&#8217;s Mohammed getting into two really lame fake fights in parliament. I pity the jackass that has to put up with this jackass.</p>
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		<title>Judeophobia on Full Display at UCLA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students vote for economic warfare against the Jewish State. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/la-me-ln-ucla-divestment-israel-20141119-001.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245771" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/la-me-ln-ucla-divestment-israel-20141119-001.jpg" alt="la-me-ln-ucla-divestment-israel-20141119-001" width="331" height="260" /></a>Anti-Semitism on college campuses is nothing new and, partly as a result of the growing influence of groups like the Muslim Students Association (<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/MSA%20and%20Jihad%20Network%20v5b-1.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood</span></a>) and Students for Justice in Palestine, has witnessed a sharp rise in recent years. In fact, some of today’s institutions of higher learning are among the greatest purveyors of Judeophoboia and anti-Israel sentiment.</p>
<p>At San Francisco State University for example, an institution subsidized by the taxpayer, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/taxpayers-fund-radical-profs-overseas-meeting-with-terrorists/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi</span></a>, a pseudo professor of “Race and Resistance Studies,” was allowed (under false pretenses) to meet and collaborate with known terrorists on a university-funded excursion. And at Northeastern University, professors have been <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/09/28/video-shows-professors-teaching-anti-semitism-anti-israelism/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">videotaped</span></a> openly expressing Jew-hatred in the classroom with one professor stating quite candidly that he wears the label of anti-Semite as a badge of honor.  But when it comes to base anti-Semitic vitriol, the University of California, Los Angeles has the dubious distinction of being among the worst of the lot.</p>
<p>On November 18, at around the same time when Jewish worshipers were being hacked and shot to death in a Jerusalem synagogue, UCLA’s student government, by a vote of 8 to 2 with 2 abstentions, <a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/11/19/news-opinion/united-states/ucla-student-government-passes-israel-divestment-resolution"><span style="color: #0433ff;">passed a resolution</span></a> urging the university to divest from Israel and from American companies doing business with Israel.  Despite the fact that some 2,000 students signed a petition opposed to the pernicious measure, the student government, stacked with Judeophopes and their mindless partners in crime, acted as anti-Semites normally do and voted to target the Jews.</p>
<p>Last February, a similar resolution sponsored by the SJP <a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/02/26/news-opinion/united-states/ucla-student-council-rejects-divestment-resolution"><span style="color: #0433ff;">failed</span></a> by a vote of 7 to 5 provoking an embarrassing and memorable <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/02/video-ucla-student-melts-down-after-anti-israel-resolution-defeated/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">meltdown</span></a> by a BDS-supporting, student note-taker. It is ironic that the instant resolution was co-sponsored by groups like Queer Alliance and Bruin Feminists for Equality. Someone should remind these useful idiots that Palestinians <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/04/20/pinkwashing-difference-between-israel-palestinians-gay-rights/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">don’t take kindly to gays</span></a> and areas governed by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are rife with so-called “<a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=10767"><span style="color: #0433ff;">honor killings</span></a>” where women are often tortured and brutalized. This strange alliance merely demonstrates that when it comes to targeting Jews, radical leftists and their Islamist allies generally find common ground and put their difference aside.</p>
<p>What is also ironic is that the vote comes at a time when the Muslim Middle East is imploding. While dysfunctional countries like Iran, Syria, Iraq and Egypt are devoid of any semblance of democracy and brutally subjugate their people, Israel stands as a beacon of democratic values where minorities enjoy full civil rights and where tolerance is the norm rather than an aberration. Yet the student government saw fit to disregard the facts and instead painted a broad bull’s-eye over the Jewish State.</p>
<p>The vote also comes on the heels of a <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/from-gaza-to-ucla-israel-faces-multi-front-war/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">vindictive campaign</span></a> by UCLA’s honorary Brown Shirts to prevent Avi Oved, a Jewish undergraduate and economics major and former vice president of the UCLA student government, from serving as a UC Board of Regents student representative. The campaign failed, but is testament to the broad effort that the SJP is conducting to intimidate Jewish students. UCLA’s SJP’s chapter also tried to invalidate last February’s student government vote of two student government members who allegedly took sponsored trips to Israel that were allegedly subsidized by organizations affiliated with pro-Israel causes. That drive fell flat as well, but the students had to devote much time and effort defending themselves against spurious allegations laced with anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Though the instant anti-Israel drive was boycotted by Jewish and pro-Israel groups, and the sad but predictable result amounts to nothing more than a publicity stunt with more bark than bite, the malevolent vote represents a black stain and a mark of shame on UCLA. Already, <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/major-ucla-donor-pledges-pull-funds-if-administration-backs-bds"><span style="color: #0433ff;">prominent</span></a> UC alumni and donors have voiced <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/second-ucla-donor-pledges-funding-cut-if-administration-doesnt-condemn-bds"><span style="color: #0433ff;">staunch opposition</span></a> to the BDS resolution and have made clear that they will cease donations to the university until it issues an unequivocal rejection and condemnation of the student government’s action.</p>
<p>It does appear that the pressure is having the desired effect. Just a day following the passage of the anti-Semitic resolution, Chancellor Gene Block <a href="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla-chancellor-gene-block-statement-on-student-vote-on-israel-divestment"><span style="color: #0433ff;">released a statement</span></a> plainly rejecting the BDS outrage, noting that it unfairly held Israel to a different standard. This axiom is of course ignored by the SJP and other Islamist and radical student groups whose platforms are ensconced in Jew-hatred and xenophobia.</p>
<p>While the Chancellor’s statement represents a step in the right direction, stronger action is clearly needed to stem the growing cancer of anti-Semitism that is so pervasive at UCLA. Until it is seriously addressed, we can expect more abominations from UCLA.</p>
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		<title>Harvard&#8217;s Reckless Sponsorship of Anti-Israelism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sara Greenberg]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BDS legitimized at the Ivy League school. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/widener.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245524" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/widener-450x337.jpg" alt="widener" width="327" height="245" /></a><em>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/11/18/harvard-bds-panel-support/">Harvard Crimson</a>. </em></p>
<p>I never imagined that a day would come when some of the world’s leading corporations would fund calls for Israel’s destruction, let alone at one of the world’s most prestigious universities. But that is exactly what happened last week at Harvard.</p>
<p>My invitation to “Harvard Arab Weekend” promised to provide a “mosaic of perspectives and insights on the most pressing issues in the Arab world.” Many of the panels appeared worthy of the conference’s corporate support from McKinsey &amp; Co, The Boston Consulting Group, Booz Allen Hamilton, Bank Audi, Strategy&amp;, and the energy giant Shell. And yet featured prominently on the conference agenda was a panel devoted to the destruction of Israel: “<a href="http://harvardarabweekend.org/panels/">The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement: Accomplishments, Tactics and Lessons</a>.”</p>
<p>The panel’s moderator, Ahmed Alkhateeb, began by noting that a primary goal of the BDS movement is “promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties” in what is today Israel. As President Barack Obama pointed out in 2008, this goal stands in opposition to a “two state solution” and “would extinguish Israel as a Jewish State.” And in an op-ed published in Al Akhbar newspaper, Cal State professor As’ad AbuKhalil, an outspoken advocate of the BDS movement,<a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/angry-corner/critique-norman-finkelstein-bds"> affirmed</a> that “the real aim of BDS is to bring down the state of Israel.” This is the “unambiguous goal…[and] there should not be an equivocation on the subject.”</p>
<p>He’s right. While Jews are the majority in the democratic state of Israel today, the BDS movement imagines and seeks a state in which Jews would ultimately become the minority, implying the end of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination.</p>
<p>Of course, students have a right to speak their minds freely, and corporate sponsors have a right to donate their money and institutional backing to any political view. But is it appropriate for Harvard University to lend its facilities to a group of activists who are working to eradicate the one Jewish state?</p>
<p>Not everyone at Harvard thinks so. Former Harvard president and current professor, Lawrence H. Summers, spoke out in 2002 against calls for Harvard to divest from Israel. When I asked him about last week’s panel, he told me that “promoting BDS is exactly the kind of thing I had in mind when I warned years ago about actions that were anti-Semitic in effect, if not intent.”</p>
<p>“Avoiding censorship, which is right, should not equal sponsorship, which is wrong,” Summers explained. “I am sorry that Harvard, not for the first time, has allowed its good name to be associated with calls to delegitimize Israel.”</p>
<p>The panel at Harvard was not a debate about the goals and merits of BDS—it was an endorsement. <a href="http://harvardarabweekend.org/panels/">Panelists</a> included a <a href="http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/d/EventDetails/i/46854">vocal supporter</a> of BDS who frequently accuses Israel of “apartheid,” a professor who initiated the American Studies Association academic and cultural boycott, a Presbyterian minister who led the Church<a href="http://www.ecclesio.com/2012/03/the-long-road-to-bds-by-jeff-deyoe/"> boycott</a> of Israel, as well as MIT professor Noam Chomsky.</p>
<p>Student organizers of the panel told me that Chomsky would provide the “anti-BDS” perspective, and he was introduced as the only voice on the panel to be critical of BDS “tactics.” But Chomsky would have none of it: “It’s interesting that I’m introduced as someone that has criticized BDS tactics; actually I have strongly advocated for BDS.”</p>
<p>Chomsky also encouraged anti-Israel activists to take a phased approach toward the annihilation of Israel as a Jewish state: “The one-state option is a good idea in the long run but there’s only one way that I can imagine we can reach it, and that’s in stages.”</p>
<p>The panel discussion left me with an overwhelming sense of sadness: I was sad to see firsthand how BDS encourages Palestinians to reject compromise in pursuit of the destruction of Israel; sad that the student organizers of the conference were unwilling to create a panel of diverse, honest views that would have led to true dialogue; sad that Harvard administrators allowed an event promoting an end to the national existence of the Jewish people to take place under Harvard’s auspices; and sad that the names and institutional prestige of major corporations were used to give legitimacy to the BDS campaign.</p>
<p>I sent inquiries to senior executives at every sponsor company before the conference, but the panel went on. After the conference, a senior McKinsey spokesman wrote to me to apologize for the firm’s involvement with the conference: “The firm does not knowingly associate its name with political issues and debates.” I believe it is likely that the other corporate sponsors also did not intend to have their funds used to promote the BDS movement.</p>
<p>Corporations and universities should not lend mainstream legitimacy to such a radical and odious movement, nor should they provide funding or resources to events that demonize Israel as this one did.</p>
<p>I hope Harvard and the corporations that sponsored Harvard Arab Week—and in doing so sponsored the BDS panel—will publicly pledge to be more vigilant in the future and never again associate their names or provide funding to any movement that seeks to destroy Israel.</p>
<p><em>Sara K. Greenberg is a joint masters degree student at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School. You can listen to the full audio of the BDS panel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmM3KIRop-c">here</a>.</em></p>
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		<title>First Victim of American Studies BDS Boycott of Israel was Palestinian Student</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does BDS hate Muslims?]]></description>
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<p>Why does BDS hate Muslims?</p>
<p>This BDS victory was almost as successful as getting a whole bunch of Arab Muslims fired by shutting down the Sodastream plant. As<a href="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/best-of-intentions-asa-boycott-bds-debate%29"> a story in Dissent Magazine</a> reveals, BDS kills its own. (<a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/">via Elder of Ziyon</a>)</p>
<p>The American Studies Association&#8217;s radicals decided to take a break from studying sixth wave feminist anti-capitalist readings in Navajo weaving to boycott the only country in the Middle East that protects their kind from being murdered in the street by angry mobs.</p>
<p>Whom did the boycott hurt? The same people BDS always hurts. Muslims and lefties.</p>
<blockquote><p>The ASA boycott’s first victim was a PhD student at Tel Aviv who recently completed his doctoral dissertation. His advisor was unable to recruit qualified outside readers to review the thesis due to its Israeli provenance. The fact that this same student is Palestinian (in this case, an Arab citizen of Israel) contributes an element of black comedy to an already unhappy situation.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s another BDS victory.</p>
<p>That will teach that Muslim student we&#8217;re trying to advocate on behalf of to study an academic subject that we&#8217;re trying to promote.</p>
<blockquote><p>Most recently, <a href="http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2011/07/return-of-yael-sternhell.html">Dr. Yael Sternhell</a> has undertaken steps to organize another conference in Tel Aviv, this one to be devoted to the history of segregation. The intention is to generate a comparative discussion about racial and ethnic discrimination as practiced over the past century in the United States (which is Sternhell’s own specialty as a historian of the American South) as well as in Europe, India, Africa, and Israel. It is not yet clear whether her efforts will bear fruit, though recent experience raises serious doubts.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2011/07/return-of-yael-sternhell.html">The aptly named Sternhell</a> is a radical anti-Israel leftist who compares Israel to the South. Now she&#8217;s having problems organizing an anti-Israel conference accusing Israel of Segregation&#8230; because the participants are boycotting Israel.</p>
<p>This is like the time that Hitler accidentally bombed Mussolini.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s next? BDS boycotting Israeli boycotters? Then the snake can finally finish eating its own insane tail.</p>
<blockquote><p>What does this mean in terms of the future of the Palestinian struggle? Will the ASA boycott, for instance, deter Drs. Shamir and Sternhell from continuing their own activist politics against the Israeli occupation of Palestine? I expect not. Will the ASA boycott demoralize them, politically as well as professionally? It already has.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m starting to like this BDS thing. Where can I sign up to professionally demoralize anti-Israel academics?</p>
<blockquote><p>What is the source of such inanity? Why is the ASA determined to aid the forces of reaction in Israeli society while weakening those struggling on behalf of peace and coexistence?</p></blockquote>
<p>Why do you hate us? We want to collaborate with you in destroying our own country. Stop kicking us. We&#8217;re trying to kick ourselves.</p>
<blockquote><p>I don’t mean to suggest that there is no place for foreign intervention in bringing about an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine, assuming that this is the ASA’s objective. Divestment, for instance, should continue to be one of its goals&#8230;   But international economic sanctions are a potentially powerful tool for change.</p></blockquote>
<p>Boycott them. Don&#8217;t boycott us. We&#8217;re the good Jews.</p>
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		<title>BDS War on SodaStream Just Killed Muslim Jobs and Created Israeli Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mission accomplished?]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-10-29/sodastream-to-close-factory-at-center-of-israelpalestinian-spat">Mission accomplished</a>?</p>
<blockquote><p>SodaStream International Ltd. will close a factory in a West Bank settlement that had prompted calls by pro-Palestinian activists for consumers to boycott the Israeli company’s soda machines.</p>
<p>SodaStream Chief Executive Officer Daniel Birnbaum defended his company to journalists in February at a tour of the plant, which as of this year employed 500 Palestinians, 450 Israeli Arabs and 350 Israeli Jews.</p>
<p>Production will be relocated to a facility in the southern town of Lehavim, Hurwitz said. SodaStream is working with the Israeli government to secure work permits for the Palestinian employees, she said.</p></blockquote>
<p>File that under &#8220;good luck&#8221;.</p>
<p><a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/10/sodastream-relocating-factory-to-southern-israel/">Work permits or no work</a> permits, Muslim terrorism is the great disruptor and an international company can&#8217;t be tied to a workforce whose travel will be unpredictably disrupted.</p>
<p>While the media is giving BDS credit for it, SodaStream&#8217;s stock fall didn&#8217;t have anything to do with BDS, it did have to do with overestimating the market for home soda by assuming it would follow the Keurig model. That plan fell apart and SodaStream is pushing into flavored water, also debatable, and trying to ally with Pepsi.</p>
<p>The Lehavim plant was already part of the plan. So this has less to do with BDS and more to do with a changing business model and the assumption that there isn&#8217;t going to be peace any time soon so there&#8217;s also no sense in a long term commitment. Israel has been pushing companies to relocate to the Negev and offering generous tax incentives so that BDS is taking credit for Israeli government policy.</p>
<p>But let&#8217;s take the BDSers at their word and assume that it&#8217;s all due to them. What exactly did they accomplish by putting a bunch of the people they claim to care about out of work?</p>
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		<title>Racist BDS Activists Try to Put Pig&#8217;s Head in Kosher Food, Put it in Halal Instead</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not anti-Semitism. It’s anti-Zionism. No wait, it’s still anti-Semitism.]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s not anti-Semitism. It&#8217;s anti-Zionism. No wait, it&#8217;s still anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>The Communist ANC was always anti-Semitic despite the presence of Jews within its ranks, but that had never stopped the actual Communist Party in the USSR. <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/african-national-councils-youth-league-tweets-keep-calm-and-kill-jews/">Lately its level of anti-Semitism has </a>gotten a bit much.</p>
<blockquote><p>A concert at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa featuring Israeli saxophonist Daniel Zamir turned ugly Wednesday night when members of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) group began to sing, “dubula e juda” (“shoot the Jew”) as concert attendees were entering the music hall</p>
<p>The SA Jewish Board of Deputies wrote a letter to the African National Congress on Sunday to act against hate speech on a Twitter account that was believed to belong to the ANC Youth League.</p>
<p>“We were appalled to learn that earlier that day (Sunday) via a Twitter site presumably used by the ANCYL, namely @ANCYLVote2014, a message calling for the killing of Jews was tweeted,” the board said in its letter.</p></blockquote>
<p>And it keeps on getting more blatant, even by the standards<a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/10/24/south-african-bds-activists-target-woolworths-kosher-food-section-with-severed-pigs-head/"> of the blatantly racist BDS movement.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel took another step into open antisemitism today when student activists in South Africa placed the severed head of a pig in the kosher meat section of a Woolworths store in Cape Town. The shocking gesture was aimed, the perpetrators said, at preventing “people who will not eat pork to pretend that they are eating clean meat, when it is sold by hands dripping with the blood of Palestinian children.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Just to get that blood libel in there&#8230; in case it was a little too ambiguous. BDS South Africa retweeted this, but then claimed that it isn&#8217;t responsible.</p>
<p>But the telling tell is all the way at the end.</p>
<blockquote><p>It is unacceptable that people, especially those who claim to believe in God to buy products from supporters of Israel. We will not allow people who will not eat pork, to pretend that they are eating clean meat, when it is sold by hands dripping with the blood of Palestinian children. Woolworths is NOT Kosher. We cannot allow food like this to be called halaal or Kosher. It is dirty food – the dirtiest food. We have placed the pigs head in Woolworths to show these people of God that Woolworths is Haraam and it is not Kosher.</p></blockquote>
<p>Haraam is a Muslim Arabic term. So we&#8217;ve got someone who is Muslim or Muslim influenced placing a pig&#8217;s head. That&#8217;s the sort of thing Muslims claim is a hate crime when done to them.</p>
<p>But apparently they&#8217;re fine handling pigs when doing it to others. Except being racist idiots, t<a href="http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2014/10/24/pigs-heads-in-woolies-cosass-piss-poor-shock-tactics">hey did it to themselves</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A Woolworths representative confirmed that the incident had occurred but clarified that while the tweets allege that the pig’s head was placed in the kosher section of the store, the area depicted in the tweets is in fact the halaal food section.</p></blockquote>
<p>Genius.</p>
<blockquote><p>According to the Congress of South African Students though, &#8220;We are not being bombastic when we say will bring the supporters of Israel pigs &#8211; we are being revolutionary.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>I think they&#8217;re being literal. Literal bigots.</p>
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		<title>Will NY Times Support Jewish Prof Persecuted for Opposing BDS the Way it Supported Prof Who Called for Murder of Israelis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Somehow I don&#8217;t think<a href="http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_26324536/carroll-should-tenure-protect-unhinged-fanatics-like-steven"> the New York Times will</a> start clamoring <a href="http://tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/185511/kafka-was-the-rage">about academic freedom in this case the way </a>that it did for <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/08/10/the_problem_with_college_tenure_123615.html">mass murder </a>enthusiast <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/08/10/the_problem_with_college_tenure_123615.html">Steven Salaita</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>In those tweets, as RealClearPolitics editor Carl Cannon explains, &#8220;Salaita reveals himself to be a foul-mouthed fanatic whose antipathy for Israel is so thorough that he calls for the country&#8217;s destruction, fantasizes about the mass murder of Jewish settlers [and] blames Jews themselves for anti-Semitism &#8230; .&#8221;</p>
<p>Ever nasty, Salaita also suggested that a pro-Israel reporter&#8217;s story &#8220;should have ended at the pointy end of a shiv.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The New York Times and multiple other media outlets came to the defense of Salaita&#8217;s mass murder fantasies. But in this case I think they will go on playing the silent game.</p>
<p>After all it&#8217;s a Jewish professor being persecuted for being pro-Israel.</p>
<blockquote><p>Anastasia Coleman, Fordham’s Director of Institutional Equity and Compliance, and its Title IX Coordinator, wanted to meet with me. “It has been alleged,” she wrote, “that you may have acted in an inappropriate way and possibly discriminated against another person at the University.&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>It was this stand that led Fordham’s Title IX officer to launch the proceedings. During an emotional meeting convened to discuss the appropriate response to the measure, I stated that should Fordham’s program fail to distance itself from the boycott, I will resign from the program and fight against it until it took a firm stand against bigotry. The program’s director, Michelle McGee, in turn filed a complaint against me with the Title IX office, charging that I threatened to destroy the program. (As if I could? And what does this have to do with Title IX?) This spurious complaint (the meeting’s minutes demonstrated that I did not make such a threat) ushered me into a bruising summer that taught me much about my colleagues, the university, and the price I must be willing to pay for taking on the rising tide of anti-Zionism on American campuses.</p>
<p>Coleman never asked to meet me, and I assumed that the attempt to muzzle my opposition to the boycott died down. In late July, however, I received Coleman’s report in which she cleared me of the charge of religious discrimination. It was the first time that I learned what I was actually accused of doing, so I’m still not sure how opposing anti-Semitism amounts to religious discrimination&#8230;</p>
<p>It was a sobering summer. I have had to defend my reputation against baseless, ever-evolving charges, ranging from sex discrimination to religious discrimination. I went through a Kafkaesque process in which I was never told exactly what I supposedly did wrong, nor was I ever shown anything in writing. Eventually I learned that the charge was religious discrimination born of my opposition to anti-Semitism. The implication is that anti-Semitism needs to be tolerated at Fordham, and that those who dare to fight it run afoul of university rules.</p></blockquote>
<p>BDSers love to play victim even as they engage in constant and ruthless aggression. It&#8217;s academic freedom when they lose a job that they didn&#8217;t have for spewing hate on Twitter. But it&#8217;s safe spaces when they want to muzzle Jewish professors on campus.</p>
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		<title>Profs Who Blacklist Jewish State Complain of Being Blacklisted by Jews</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What's good for the goose is good for the gander, unless the gander has a PhD]]></description>
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<p>What&#8217;s good for the goose is good for the gander, unless the gander has a PhD in which case it&#8217;s a violation of his academic freedom.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s nothing anti-Israel academics love more than playing the victim. Given a choice between the fountain of youth and the opportunity to whine about how they&#8217;re being persecuted for their anti-Semitism, they will always choose the latter.</p>
<p>We dealt <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/bds-boycotters-say-boycotting-them-is-mccarthyism/">with their whining and cries of McCarthyism</a> last month.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Amcha Initiative put out a list of college faculty who support pro-terrorist boycotts of Israel. Its sources were mostly the boycotters themselves.</p>
<p>BDS targets Jewish faculty and institutions for boycotts. Its members smash the windows of Jewish stores and force supermarkets to pull Kosher food from shelves.</p>
<p>Their whole reason for existing is to assemble lists of people and things to boycott. That’s not McCarthyism. But assembling a list of the boycotters… that’s McCarthyism.</p>
<p>Apparently it’s not McCarthyism to boycott Jews. It’s only McCarthyism when Jews boycott back.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now a bunch of professors have claimed that listing the names of BDS advocates is a blacklist. Either this whole thing is a promotion for the second season of The Blacklist or they think that boycotts should only go one way.</p>
<p>The professors, who include the repulsive Hasia Diner, denounce the denounciations as a threat to academic freedom. Somehow it&#8217;s not a threat to academic freedom to engage in BDS boycotts of faculty from the Jewish State.</p>
<p>But when someone says something critical about BDS PhDs, they have to be muzzled right away by the likes of Hasia Diner. That&#8217;s not a violation of academic freedom.</p>
<p>Censorship always favors the censors.</p>
<p>But here are Hasia Diner&#8217;s views on a BDS boycott of Israel.</p>
<blockquote><p>“I am always suspicious of the way ‘anti-Semitism’ is used—it is an easy, convenient label used to end a conversation or analysis instead of exploring what is really going on. This does not mean that there is not a thing called anti-Semitism, but I think it is profoundly overused,&#8221; Hasia Diner said.</p>
<p>&#8220;BDS is labeled anti-Semitic. Why is it that somebody can not take a political, moral, ethical stance and say, ‘I think the policies of the Israeli government are reprehensible and the only way to push Israel to change is to boycott their products’? I am not sure why that constitutes anti-Semitism, but they are immediately tarred with that feather. Among other problems, this means it is impossible to have a conversation about Israel or BDS because one is accused of being anti-Semitic.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Those darn Jews. So if we can demand the destruction of the Jewish State and attacks on Jewish businesses and faculty members as a form of academic freedom&#8230; why can&#8217;t we have a conversation about BDS supporters without being accused of McCarthyism?</p>
<p>Sure violations of academic freedom exist, but they&#8217;re often used as convenient labels to end a conversation instead of exploring what is really going on.</p>
<p>Hasia Diner, Robert Alter, David Myers and the rest of the gang really need to stop trying to shut down the conversation with their convenient labels and allow AMCHA and Jewish students on campus to continue to expand the conversation.</p>
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		<title>BDS Unions Tell South Africans It&#8217;s Better to Get AIDS than Buy Israeli</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2014 20:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BDS. It now spreads AIDS.]]></description>
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<p>BDS. It now spreads AIDS.</p>
<p>South Africa has AIDS stats that are out of this world. But the South African versions of SEIU can just assure them all that <a href="http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2014/10/02/rumor-bds-pressure-caused-s-africas-rejection-of-israeli-hiv-protection/">they are getting HIV in a good cause</a>.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s their martyrdom for Hamas and the PLO. They ought to feel privileged to die of AIDS so that terrorists can bomb Israel.</p>
<blockquote><p>Although South Africa’s Department of Health denies that approval of an Israeli circumcision device has been delayed because of pressure to boycott Israel, BDS groups may be targeting individual nurses and health facilities and threatening them not to use the product. South African Trade Unions openly called for the boycott of Perpex, a non-surgical circumcision device produced in Israel. It was approved by the World Health Organization, and studies show it reduces the chances of contracting HIV by 60%.</p>
<p>Sizwe Plama, spokesman for the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union told Business Day Live that it would not permit the use of Israeli products.</p>
<p>“We have told the African National Congress and the government that our position is clear and unambiguous when it comes to Israel. We boycott every thing and every product that comes from that pariah and apartheid state.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Great plan. We&#8217;ll spread AIDS just to spite the Jewish State. That will show them. Maybe next Plama can ban penicillin and the Theory of Relativity. If that doesn&#8217;t show those Jews, I don&#8217;t know what will.</p>
<p>I hope Sizwe Plama and the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union retain that same commitment <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-scientist-leads-search-for-ebola-cure/">when it comes to the Ebola viru</a>s.</p>
<blockquote><p> Israeli scientist leads search for Ebola cure &#8211; BGU virologist Dr. Leslie Lobel is developing a vaccine by studying the immune systems of the disease’s survivors</p></blockquote>
<p>Nothing the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union will be interested in, I&#8217;m sure.</p>
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		<title>BDS Boycotters Say Boycotting Them is McCarthyism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Bullies really hate it when you fight back. Punch a bully in the nose and no matter how many times he hit you, he runs away and cries that it&#8217;s unfair. He&#8217;s the only one who is supposed to be able to hit people.</p>
<p>BDS bullies are the same way. They&#8217;re the only ones who are supposed to be able to boycott. Boycotting them isn&#8217;t fair. It&#8217;s wrong. It&#8217;s&#8230; it&#8217;s McCarthyism.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amchainitiative.org/">The Amcha Initiative put out a list of college faculty</a> who support pro-terrorist boycotts of Israel. Its sources were mostly the boycotters themselves. But now the boycotters, who love playing the victim like they love Made in China keffiyahs, are chanting the name of a dead Irishman.</p>
<blockquote><p>Corey Robin, a political science professor accused AMCHA Initiative, of &#8220;McCarthyism,&#8221; and asked that it add his name to the list.</p></blockquote>
<p>But wait&#8230; isn&#8217;t adding his name to the list also McCarthyism? Doesn&#8217;t that make Corey Robin a McCarthyite?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;And they wonder why we call it McCarthyism,&#8221; Corey Robin whines.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well yeah we do.</p>
<p>BDS targets <a href="http://www.amchainitiative.org/academic-boycotts-israel-antisemitic/">Jewish faculty and institutions </a>for boycotts. Its members <a href="http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2013/02/love-in-at-cliffs-variety-store-in-san.html">smash the windows of Jewish stores </a>and <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100283382/the-kosher-controversy-at-sainsburys-speaks-to-a-profound-problem-acquiescence-to-anti-semitism/">force supermarkets to pull Kosher food</a> from shelves.</p>
<p>Their whole reason for existing is to assemble lists of people and things to boycott. That&#8217;s not McCarthyism. But assembling a list of the boycotters&#8230; that&#8217;s McCarthyism.</p>
<p>Apparently it&#8217;s not McCarthyism to boycott Jews. It&#8217;s only McCarthyism when Jews boycott back.</p>
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		<title>BDS Vandalism Forces Removal of Kosher Food from UK Supermarket</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>It&#8217;s not anti-Semitism, it&#8217;s anti-Zionism. Except no, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727266/Sainsbury-s-strips-kosher-food-shelves-fear-attacks-anti-Israeli-protesters.html">it really is anti-Semitism</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A Sainsbury&#8217;s branch emptied its kosher food shelf after the manager feared anti-Israeli protesters outside would attack it, the supermarket giant has said.</p>
<p>Meats, cheeses and sauces were removed from a Sainsbury&#8217;s Local branch in Holborn, central London, as it was picketed by demonstrators who were calling on the grocer to boycott Israeli goods.</p>
<p>Actor Colin Appleby took a photo of the empty shelf, prompting uproar online as hundreds condemned the grocer for appearing to succumb to the demands of the protesters.</p>
<p>People also pointed out that many of the goods were not from Israel and instead came from nations including Britain and Poland.</p>
<p>Mr Appleby wrote that a staff member defended the decision by stating: &#8216;We support Free Gaza&#8217;.</p>
<p>When he then pointed out the distinction between Israeli and kosher goods, staff &#8216;walked away&#8217;, he wrote.</p></blockquote>
<p>Because there is no distinction. It&#8217;s all about Jews.</p>
<blockquote><p>Facebook user Gavin Platman made a formal complaint about the incident, which happened half a mile from the company&#8217;s headquarters at London&#8217;s Holborn Circus.</p>
<p>&#8216;I presume you are also removing Halal food in protest against the Islamic State slaughtering Yazidis. Clearly not &#8211; therefore you have blurred the line between political statement and hate crime.&#8217;</p>
<p>The incident yesterday happened on the same day as demonstrators ‘wreaked havoc’ in a Tesco store after a protest against its stocking of Israeli food got out of hand.</p>
<p>Protesters accused of hurling produce and attacking police at the supermarket in Hodge Hill, Birmingham, are being hunted by officers.</p>
<p>It is understood similar protests at Israeli military action in Gaza have taken place outside Tesco stores in Rochdale and Sale in Greater Manchester, Blackburn and Luton. A march involving 1,500 people in Cardiff last month led to criticism of the police after footage emerged of violence erupting.</p>
<p>Tesco sells fruit, peppers, potatoes and herbs from Israel, along with branded goods. A spokesman said: ‘We do this in line with the Government position on trade with Israel, and we mark all products clearly with the country of origin, so customers can make informed choices about what to buy.’</p></blockquote>
<p>This is what pandering to BDS bigots does. It encourages more of the same.</p>
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		<title>The Judenrein Port of Oakland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 04:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radical leftists, anarchists, fascists and Islamists join forces to block Jewish goods from entering America. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Port_of_Oakland_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238672" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Port_of_Oakland_.jpg" alt="Port_of_Oakland_" width="315" height="175" /></a>Israel’s recent counter-insurgency campaign against the Hamas terror group has left the organization <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/06/opinion/francona-gaza-hamas-on-the-ropes/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">battered and bruised</span></a>. Despite Hamas’s cynical exploitation of Gaza’s civilian population, the Israeli Defense Forces outfought and outsmarted the genocidal organization. Close to three dozen terror tunnels were destroyed and nearly 1,000 terrorists were killed. In addition, 2/3 of Hamas’s rocket stockpiles have been depleted and, unlike in years past, Hamas will have a tough time restocking thanks in part to greater Egyptian vigilance in monitoring the border with Gaza.</p>
<p>Having lost on the field of battle – for the tenth time – the Israel haters and assorted anti-Semites have resorted to other methods in an attempt to inflict damage. Europe has witnessed a <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/letting-the-anti-semitism-genie-out-of-the-bottle/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">surge of anti-Semitism</span></a> not seen since the ascent of the Third Reich. In France and throughout Europe, Jewish shops, synagogues and other institutions were torched and vandalized as the police stood helplessly on the sidelines.</p>
<p>Judeophobia is to be expected in Europe where growing Muslim populations have asserted their power and have become increasingly radicalized. Chants of “Hitler was right,” “<a href="http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/anti-semitism-international/adl-documents-dramatic-surge-in-global-anti-semitism.html#.U-0o9sVdViN"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Jews to the gas</span></a>,” “Allahuakbar” and “Heil Hitler” have become commonplace. But what was once limited to Europe and the Muslim Middle East is now crossing the Atlantic and creeping its way into the Land of the Free &amp; the Home of the Brave.</p>
<p>In Oakland, California, a motley assortment of radical leftists, anarchists, fascists and Islamists have found common ground and banded together in a scheme to prevent an Israeli ship from unloading its cargo at an Oakland port. The list of participating groups includes such lunatic outfits as “Queers Undermining Israeli Terror” and “Totally Radical Muslims.” It makes no difference that if given the chance, members of the latter group would likely behead members of the former – ISIS style – to shrieks of “Allhuakbar.” Nothing brings people of divergent viewpoints closer together than good old-fashioned Jew-hatred. The communists and the fascists, the “queers” and the radical Islamists, have temporarily put aside their squabbles to first deal with the greater evil – those pesky Jews.</p>
<p>A <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1447374682195857/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Facebook event</span></a>, misleadingly called “Block The (sic) Boat for Gaza” calls for preventing an Israeli cargo ship from the Israeli-owned Zim shipping company from docking and unloading its cargo. If those organizing the event were honest as to their ultimate intentions and objectives, they would have appropriately named the event “Block the Boat for Genocide against the Jews.”</p>
<p>The event organizers utilize the same banalities often employed by anti-Semites to defame and smear Israel. The word “Apartheid” is prominently featured and liberally peppered throughout the Facebook screed. Of course, there is no mention of the slaughter in Syria with upwards of 200,000 killed, the massacres in western and northern Iraq, the carnage in Libya, Iranian nuclear proliferation, and continued victimization of Coptic Christians in Egypt.</p>
<p>There is no need to point out the hypocrisy of those who stand against Israel. Whether at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Gaza, Eurabia or Oakland, vitriolic hatred of Jews is as ingrained as it is irrational. Reasoning with those who wish to see the destruction of the Jewish State and perpetrate a second Holocaust is pointless.</p>
<p>Thankfully, however, the United States is not Europe. Pro-Israel sentiment <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/US-public-support-for-Israel-at-near-record-highs-363051"><span style="color: #0433ff;">remains at peak levels</span></a> and if anything, the Gaza conflict has only served to reinforce pro-Israel attitudes among the American constituency. The war has served to underscore the difference between a humane army that seeks to avoid civilian casualties at risk to their own soldiers and a barbaric, medieval terrorist group that <a href="http://www.idfblog.com/blog/2014/08/04/captured-hamas-combat-manual-explains-benefits-human-shields/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">employs human shields</span></a> and <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183750#.U-0rk8VdViM"><span style="color: #0433ff;">seeks to maximize</span></a> both Israeli and Gazan civilian casualties.</p>
<p>Like most Boycott Divestment &amp; Sanctions endeavors, this initiative in Oakland is destined to fail. Various attempts by the BDS movement to prevent celebrities from visiting Israel and promote divesture initiatives in academic institutions have largely been met with abysmal failure. But the failure of BDS to get off the ground does not mean that we should remain complacent; on the contrary, BDS has been thwarted due to an active, motivated and well-informed vocal opposition. If we are to maintain the upper hand against those who wish to impose fascism and perpetuate evil, those laudable anti-BDS activities must continue and intensify.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 04:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What lurks behind the self-righteous condemnations of Israel.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ob62.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238319" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ob62-450x337.jpg" alt="ob6" width="236" height="177" /></a>Long before the recent Gaza War between the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas and Israel, groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organized anti-Israel rallies and Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaigns against the Jewish State. These so called “justice seekers” have not seen fit to rally for the oppressed Tibetans, who have not resorted to terrorism in spite of the brutal Chinese occupation, nor have they demanded a state for the stateless Kurds. Why focus only on justice for Palestinians on one hand, and single out the Jews of Israel on the other? Answer &#8211; SJP is not only hypocritical, but anti-Semitic as well.</p>
<p>Similarly, recent violent demonstrations and rallies in support of Hamas in major European capitals reveal sheer hypocrisy. Again, only Palestinians are “victims” and only the “Jews” are the victimizers. No one cares in these mob gatherings that Hamas started this latest war (called by Israel Protective Edge Campaign), and that Hamas alone is using civilians as “human shields” with the clear intention to bring about maximum civilian casualties among Palestinians in order to elicit sympathy and win the public relations war.</p>
<p>Nor do these mobs care that thousands of Hamas rockets have been fired indiscriminately at Israeli civilian centers in order to deliberately kill women and children. By way of contrast, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) phoned Palestinian civilians and dropped leaflets warning them of impending shelling, and urged them to evacuate the area in order to prevent civilian casualties. The contrast between civility and barbarity is clear, but it does not matter to the Islamists and their European native allies tainted with the recessive anti-Semitic gene.</p>
<p>Rich Lowery of the <em>National Review </em>wrote on August 5, 2014, under the title Hitler Was Right: “Welcome to the New Europe, where the street thugs have learned a lot from the Old Europe. Their protests of the Gaza War during the past few weeks haven’t been anti-Israel so much as anti-Jew. Some of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world — Paris, Berlin, London — have witnessed demonstrations airing hatred associated with Europe’s <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/384581/hitler-was-right-rich-lowry">darkest crimes</a>.”</p>
<p>Pro-Palestinian protesters in Berlin shouted just a few weeks ago in the old capital of Nazi Germany, “Jew, Jew, cowardly swine, come out and fight on your own!” The <em>New York Times</em> reported on July 21, 2014, “several hundred protesters sought to storm two synagogues in the French capital during an anti-Israel demonstration in which protesters chanted, “Death to Jews!” and “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/world/europe/israels-gaza-incursion-sets-off-protests-in-europe.html?_r=0">Hitler was right</a>.” Deidre Berger, the American Jewish Committee Berlin office director declared: “We are concerned that there are no more <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/item/anti_semitic_pro_palestinian_rally_in_berlin_spurs_charges">taboos</a> against open expressions of anti-Semitism at anti-Israel protests.”</p>
<p>Britain’s <em>Sunday Times</em> quoted Jewish Agency chairman Nathan Sharansky as saying “We are seeing the beginning of the <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=19085">end</a> of Jewish history in Europe.” The European media reported that 45,000 people joined anti-Israel protests in Europe over the weekend of July 25, 2014. According to the same report in the <em>Sunday Times</em> over 100 hate crimes were committed in Britain in July, 2014.</p>
<p>The European media, although not a monolith, helped fuel the growing anti-Semitism in Europe under the guise of condemning Israeli actions. Commentators on the <em>BBC</em> and <em>France 24</em> repeated accusations of “excessive force” used by Israel, and the deliberate showing of human cost among Palestinians in Gaza, without pointing out the antecedence of the conflict, and simultaneously failing to present the human cost Israel is enduring. European Muslims and their allies do not need the media as an excuse to spout their blind Jew hatred.</p>
<p>The U.N., U.S., and EU governments apply standards of behavior to Israel that are rarely applied to other nations or their own. Bret Stephens opined (Wall Street Journal, August 5, 2014) that “The world is outraged by Israeli self-defense but only ‘concerned’ when Muslims kill Muslims.” In Syria, over 200,000 were killed by the Assad Regime, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda affiliates, mostly civilians, and many of them women and children. In addition, millions have been forced to flee their homes. There was no expression of outrage by the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. The same Ban Ki-Moon called the accidentally hit UNRWA-run school that killed 10 people, three of them terrorists from the Islamic Jihad, “a moral outrage and a criminal act” that had to be “swiftly investigated.” The U.S. State Department announced that it is “appalled” by the Israeli action.</p>
<p>Interestingly, a short time before Israel launched operation “Protective Edge,” the Pakistani army launched an offensive in North Waziristan against jihadist terrorists. It resulted in 500,000 out of 600,000 civilians fleeing their homes, and 376 terrorists dead. No one knows exactly how many civilians were killed. The July estimate stands at <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/bret-stephens-palestine-and-double-standards-1407194971">1,500</a>.</p>
<p>In the midst of the saturation coverage of the Gaza War (because it involved Jews) few paid attention to the fact that in Iraq, 1,600 people were killed in July, 2014. U.N. envoy Nickolay Mladenov reacted to the Iraqi casualties by saying “I am <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/bret-stephens-palestine-and-double-standards-1407194971">concerned </a>about the rising numbers of casualties in Iraq, particularly among the civilian population.” There wasn’t, however, any expression of “outrage.”</p>
<p>Another form of hypocrisy has been the Obama administrations mantra about Israel “exercising restraint” and avoiding civilian casualties. Although it can hardly be compared to the European hypocrisy, which is tainted with anti-Semitism, the Obama administration is preaching to Israel what it does not practice in Pakistan and Yemen, where U.S. drones have killed many civilians.</p>
<p>The most outrageous form of hypocrisy however, is reserved for the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The majority of the UNHRC member-states do not represent democracies, yet they habitually condemn Israel almost 50% of the time. As of 2014, Israel had been condemned in 50 resolutions by the Council since its creation in 2006. The Council had adopted almost more resolutions condemning Israel than the rest of the world combined. The 50 resolutions comprised almost half (45.9%) of all country-specific resolutions passed by the Council.</p>
<p>On July 23, 2014, UNHRC voted to open an international inquiry into Israeli violations that may have been committed during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. In an emergency session in Geneva, the 47-member UNHRC adopted the resolution presented by the Palestinians with 29 states voting in favor, 17 abstentions, including “so called” friends of Israel: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Romania, and the UK. The U.S. alone voted against this outrage.</p>
<p>Astoundingly, the same ambassadors to Israel of the European countries that abstained, previously joined the international outcry against Hamas’ indiscriminate firing of rockets into Israel, and supported Israel’s right of self-defense. Yet, instead of investigating the Hamas terrorists, the UNHRC turned logic upside down. Hamas has committed double war crimes: 1) firing deadly rockets at innocent Israeli civilians, and 2) carrying out attacks on Israel behind innocent Palestinian civilians who formed a “Human Shield.”</p>
<p>UNHRC Chief Navi Pillay cited cases of Israeli air strikes and shells hitting homes and hospitals in Gaza, declaring that “These are just a few examples where there seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that would amount to <a href="http://www.dw.de/uns-pillay-strong-possibility-of-israeli-war-crimes/a-17801640">war crimes</a>.” Pillay chose to ignore the fact that Hamas has stored rockets in homes, hospitals, and even UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) schools, the very same schools funded by the U.S. and EU, that teach hatred of Israel and Jews.</p>
<p>The latest war in Gaza has exposed the hypocrisy and double standard when it comes to Israel. One can only conclude that behind the self-righteous condemnations of Israel lurks the old virus of anti-Semitism.</p>
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		<title>BDS Pro-Hamas Marchers Invade Jewish Area, Face Instant Counterprotest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2014 21:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Hamas supporters of NYC2GAZA had been making a nuisance of themselves by harassing individual Jewish businesses, such as a cosmetics store. Then they announced a plan to #BringTheWarHome by harassing Jewish businesses in the Diamond District.</p>
<p>But the combination of left-wing hipsters and angry Muslims were clearly not too familiar with what they were getting into. The businesses around there are working class and have a lot of Israelis, a lot of Middle Eastern Jews and a lot of Chassidic Jews.</p>
<p>Those are three groups of people that aren&#8217;t likely to take the Goebbelsian tactics of NYC2GAZA and BDS lying down.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/08/03/Spontaneous-Pro-Israel-Rally-Erupts-in-Response-to-Protestors">Danielle Avel reports and shows us what</a> happened next.</p>
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<blockquote><p>Amidst the raucous shouts of “Free, free Palestine!” a different call emerged. A pro-Israel crowd appeared, clapping and chanting “Is-ra-el, Is-ra-el!” Some business owners closed their stores to join, supporters flooded the sidewalk, and the street filled with chants celebrating Israel. The “Free Palestine” zealots looked dazed and confused, their voices out of unison, a couple of stray “Allahu Akbars” honked out as a last resort.</p>
<p>As Zionists filled the street, they called out “Ha-mas ter-ror-ists!” A full-throated celebration of the Israel Defense Forces then broke out with an “I-D-F!” chant. The spontaneous display of pride in Israel ended with the crowd of now hundreds singing songs celebrating Israel.</p>
<p>So, anti-Israel fanatics started the day with a vitriolic “direct action” to disrupt Jewish-owned businesses. But they inadvertently inspired a memorable, moving, and spontaneous display of celebration of the Middle East’s only true democracy.</p></blockquote>
<p>This turned out to be a bit of an educational experience for NYC2GAZA which forgot that this part of Manhattan is also layered with little ethnic enclaves like Koreatown and Little Brazil. Around there, there are a whole lot of Middle Eastern Jews who escaped Islamic Supremacism with the clothes on their backs.</p>
<p>They&#8217;re not going to respond well to BDS.</p>
<p>NYC2GAZA, the hate group in question, appears to be linking itself to Occupy Wall Street while organizing its hate events out of the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, 520 Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn. That&#8217;s an Episcopal church that was also being used by OWS. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s unfortunate that Michael Sniffen, the rector of the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew is allowing it to be used to stage the harassment of Jewish businesses. </p>
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		<title>How Amnesty Will Harm U.S. Support for Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 04:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Smith]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An overlooked consequence of the changing composition of America. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bds-580x433.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236962" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bds-580x433-450x335.jpg" alt="bds-580x433" width="317" height="236" /></a>The more patriotic Jewish Americans may see connections between the latest Gaza uprising and the onslaught of unaccompanied alien children at our southern borders. The waves of Qassam rockets hitting Beersheva and Ashdod and the waves of illegal aliens coming over into Texas and Arizona have posed respective existential threats to Israel and the US for years and the challenge is getting increasingly serious. Although the BDS movement hasn’t died down in the US, <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;frm=1&amp;source=web&amp;cd=4&amp;ved=0CCwQFjAD&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.com%2Fnews%2Fdiplomacy-defense%2F1.606557&amp;ei=SIfOU4SoMNTLsASD-oJA&amp;usg=AFQjCNGxqBAyqpeQj7soTO8eq4uMvNhpag&amp;bvm=bv.71198958,d.cWc"><span style="color: #0463c1;">polls</span></a> showing continued American support for Israel’s efforts in Gaza no doubt provide reassurance to most American Jews. But depending on how the US manages its southern borders in the years ahead, broad support for Israel may not always be a sure thing.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The number of Hispanics in America, both legal and illegal, has almost <a href="http://www.agencypost.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/140.gif"><span style="color: #0463c1;">quadrupled</span></a> since the last census in 2010. The level of support for Israel among this rapidly-expanding demographic, however, is at polar opposites with groups like traditional <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/the-israel-project-american-hispanics-are-the-most-hostile-toward-israel-1.412851"><span style="color: #0463c1;">conservatives</span></a>, the strongest supporters of Israel in the US, outside American Jews. A 2011 poll covered by the Israeli press found that nearly <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/poll-nearly-50-of-hispanic-americans-believe-u-s-too-supportive-of-israel-1.352409"><span style="color: #0463c1;">50 percent</span></a> of Hispanics thought the ‘US was too supportive of Israel.’ These results should have acted as a “wake-up call” according to the Jewish organization that commissioned it. Jewish advocacy groups in general, however, like Bend the Arc or the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), continue to <a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/07/09/news-opinion/united-states/jewish-groups-call-on-obama-to-welcome-the-stranger"><span style="color: #0463c1;">support</span></a> amnesty for illegal aliens, including the latest wave we’ve seen. Whether groups such as these are paying close attention to the long-term effects of their lobbying is doubtful.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The recent waves of unaccompanied alien children have arrived mostly from <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Guatemala-becomes-latest-country-to-recognize-Palestine-309410"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Guatemala</span></a>, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/26/us-honduras-palestine-idUSTRE77P7AX20110826"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Honduras</span></a> and <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/130510/el-salvador-establishes-diplomatic-relations-palestine-authori"><span style="color: #0463c1;">El Salvador</span></a>, countries that have each made moves in the face of US and Israeli opposition to recognize Palestine as a sovereign, independent state – <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/palestinians-win-statehood-status-us-objections/story?id=17837415"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Mexico</span></a> has also made similar moves – Meanwhile, opinion <a href="http://www.globescan.com/news_archives/bbccntryview/backgrounder.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">polls</span></a> in other Hispanic countries, such as Brazil, Chile and Argentina, show Israel to be about as popular as North Korea and Iran. Kenya, India and Russia, countries that have very large Islamic populations and a history of poor relations with Israel, are generally <a href="http://www.globescan.com/news_archives/bbccntryview/backgrounder.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">shown</span></a> to be more supportive than most Latin American countries – Although polling in <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.591154"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Venezuela</span></a> could not be located, just recently that country pledged to send the Palestinian Authority 240,000 barrels of oil, presumably as an act of solidarity.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As the Hispanic population and its share of the electorate continues to lurch forward, American Jews, especially those committed to open-borders, should pay greater attention to this issue. Apart from Bill Kristol, Jewish immigration-restrictionists don’t have wide profiles. Former American Jewish Congress director and senior analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), <a href="http://njjewishnews.com/article/4321/activist-blasts-jewish-groups-on-immigration#.U8280ElZSP8"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Stuart Steinlight</span></a> has warned open-borders Jewish groups that continuous waves of Hispanics will “erode Jewish political clout” in this country. Groups like HIAS, according to Steinlight, are fronted by “unelected, aging plutocrats” who are actually working against Jewish interests by “pushing to let in more and more Muslims.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Although Steinlight and CIS are frequently targeted by the <a href="http://forward.com/articles/179296/jews-unite-behind-push-for-immigration-reform/?p=all"><span style="color: #0463c1;">pro-amnesty</span></a> Anti-Defamation League (ADL), that organization found in a 2002 poll that the levels of anti-Semitism in the US was highest among Hispanics and <a href="http://archive.adl.org/anti_semitism/2002/as_survey.pdf"><span style="color: #0463c1;">triple</span></a> the rate found among Whites.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Other figures have noted the potential long-term threat to Israel from America’s immigration policy. Following Obama’s 2012 re-election, Michael Freund, ex-communications director for Prime Minister Netayahu, wrote an <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Fundamentally-Freund-Time-for-Hispanic-hasbara"><span style="color: #0463c1;">op-ed</span></a> in <i>The Jerusalem Post</i> demanding that, due to the ‘changing face of America’, Israel must “launch a comprehensive and coordinated Hasbara, or public diplomacy, campaign that makes Israel’s case to Hispanics directly and ‘en Espanol.’”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Whether a PR campaign could be so successful is unclear. The four decades-old Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA), a Hispanic activist organization with a long history of pushing for open-borders, <a href="http://www.nationalmecha.org/archives/2012/03/national_mecha_endorses_palestinian_boycott_call_against_israel.php"><span style="color: #0463c1;">endorsed</span></a> the BDS movement in 2012.  Their announcement was made on <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/land-day-and-cesar-chavez-day-latin-youth-association-endorses"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Cesar Chavez Day</span></a>, which happens to fall on ‘Palestinian Land Day.’</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In a report on Hispanic and Palestinian solidarity, the anti-Zionist website <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/how-latino-activists-are-standing-israel-lobby/13225"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Electronic Intifada</span></a> profiled Gabriel Camacho of the open-borders American Friends Service Committee who said he was inspired after a trip to the West Bank to start a new activism project: a presentation called “Two Walls, One Struggle: a structural comparison of colonization, territorial loss, and racist aggression in Mexico and Palestine.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Electronic Intifada’s report concludes, “[a]s long as Latinos in the US are subjected to racial profiling, the deportation of undocumented loved ones, and the effects of colonialism in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and in the southwest states, comparisons will be made between Latinos and Palestinians.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In pushing for increased immigration and amnesty for illegals, such a comparison could become increasingly mainstream. Some American Jewish groups may need to begin asking themselves just what they’re advocating and who they’re really advocating for.</p>
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		<title>Presbyterian Divestment Stokes Ancient Fires</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2014 04:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Warner]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Presbyterian Church (USA) brings anti-Semitism into the mainstream. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/symbol-bluewhite.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235831" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/symbol-bluewhite-350x350.gif" alt="symbol-bluewhite" width="254" height="254" /></a>Many Christians were in shock recently when the 221<sup>st</sup>  General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (PC/USA), by a slim margin, <a href="http://www.pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/oga/pdf/ga221-middle-east-faq.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">voted to divest</span></a> from three major international companies that do business in Judea, Samaria and Israel (Hewlett Packard, Caterpillar and Motorola). Assembly leaders claim the fault lies in Israel’s “illegal occupation” of Judea and Samaria (also called the West Bank) and its oppression of Palestinian neighbors. But there is a much more sinister agenda behind this action.</p>
<p>While the PC (USA) asserts that they are not (at all) motivated by anti-Semitism and they take &#8220;no position&#8221; on Zionism, they nevertheless lay all problems in the area at Israel’s feet, blaming the so-called &#8220;illegal occupation.&#8221;  However, a recent article by <a href="http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article.php?id=4261"><span style="color: #0433ff;">NGO MONITOR</span></a> has found strong evidence of underlying anti-Semitism in the PC (USA) leadership.</p>
<p>Currently, the vicious battle against the Jewish people and Israel is being waged by international alliances of Christians, Muslims, the hard Left, the press, and academia for the express purpose of instigating Israel’s destruction.</p>
<p>Thousands of representatives of Christian organizations like the PC (USA) gather annually or bi-annually in national enclaves to discuss the business of their denomination as they have for centuries.  In some more liberal leaning activist denominations like PC (USA), the agenda includes Israel. The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/13/us/methodists-to-sell-shares-as-a-protest-over-israel.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Methodists</span></a>, Presbyterians (USA), <a href="http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/news_and_events/news/archive/2013/the_inheritance_of_abraham_revised_report_released"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the Scottish Reformed Church</span></a> and the <a href="http://www.uccpalestineisraelnetwork.org/Action-Alerts.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">United Church of Christ</span></a>, <a href="http://www.exposingtheelca.com/on-israel.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the Evangelical Lutheran Church</span></a>, <a href="http://www.churchofengland.org/media/1478023/gs%201874b-palestine%20and%20israel%20pmm.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the Church of England</span></a>, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/united-church-of-canada-boycotts-israeli-companies/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">The United Church of Canada,</span></a> and the <a href="http://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/middle-east/israel"><span style="color: #0433ff;">World Council of Churches</span></a> all seem to have a stake in proposing schemes to punish Israel.</p>
<p>The most vocal of Israel’s defamers are Christian pastors and leaders like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps-v2NkoNVg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Stephen Sizer</span></a> (Anglican), <a href="http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/sabeel_and_naim_ateek_factsheet"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Naim Ateek</span></a> (Anglican), and <a href="http://www.meforum.org/3769/israel-evangelical-support"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Gary Burge</span></a> (Evangelical/Protestant).   They cloak their mission to undermine Israel under an aggressive &#8220;peace and justice&#8221; cover-up. They ask the question, “Does Israel really have a legitimate right to call the land its own (Zionism)?” to which their answer is a resounding “no.”</p>
<p>If you bother to read Steven Sizer’s recent book <a href="http://www.stephensizer.com/books/christian-zionism/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Christian Zionism The Road to Armageddon</span></a>, you will discover there that Christian Zionism is not simply Christians standing for the rights of Israel to live in the land. According to Sizer, Christian Zionism is a plot to undermine the USA and the world. Needless to say, Sizer affirms the decision of the PC (USA) to divest from the companies who do business in Judea and Samaria.  <a href="http://stephensizer.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Steven Sizer speaks</span></a> around the Western and Islamic world against Christian Zionism and Israel’s right to continue to live in the land of its ancestors.</p>
<p>In order to justify this Anti-Zionism stance, PC (USA) and its allies need to do to the Jews the very same thing the church planned to do in the second century.  They need to invert the truth, demonize, and ridicule Israel in order to accomplish what until now has been their elusive goal of destroying Israel and the Jewish people.</p>
<p>Just like the Presbyterian (USA) Council last week, the church councils of centuries past turned their language against the Jews. Name calling couched in fancy theologies justified the persecution of Jews.  While the world is burning in Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Africa, while Christians are slaughtered in those same lands, the daily headlines accuse Jews of blocking the progress of world peace by building apartments in Jerusalem or <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/scarlett-johanssons-defense-of-sodastream-factory-in-occupied-west-bank-fails-to-sway-critics/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_r=0">manufacturing seltzer in Ma’ale Adumim.</a></span></p>
<p>At the root of the Christian animus towards Jews is a theological narrative which has stoked the ancient fires of hostility for two millennia.</p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">In her recent column<a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/jesus-was-a-palestinian-the-return-of-christian-anti-semitism/">, Melanie Phillips wrote,</a> </span></p>
<blockquote><p>Within the Protestant world, many churches are deeply hostile to the State of Israel &#8211;  What is less known is the more disturbing fact that this perverse animus is increasing fed not by the politics of the present moment but by theology.</p></blockquote>
<p>The theology that Ms. Phillips mentions is known by a variety of names but is undergirded by the concept of &#8220;Replacement Theology.&#8221;  This term grew out of the early Church where the Founding Fathers laid claim to the promises God made to Abraham and his offspring.  They accused Jews of being “<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/the-origins-of-christian-anti-semitism/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Christ killers”</span></a> and said that God had nullified His covenant with Abraham and transferred his &#8220;Covenant blessings&#8221; to the Church which they called &#8220;The Israel of God.&#8221;</p>
<p>Christianity, birthed from the womb of Judaism two thousand years ago, continues a mission to assassinate its very own Jewish parents. Ridicule, defamation, distortion, fire, and the sword, have all punctuated the Christian enterprise for two thousand years.  “God,” say many Christians, <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.christianzionism.org/BibleSays/Sizer03.pdf">“has replaced the Jews as God’s chosen people.”</a></span></p>
<p>The Emperor Constantine (In 325 CE,) laid the organizational groundwork  of a &#8220;Christianity&#8221; designed for Roman pagans and non-Jews. The Apostle Paul was the last vestige of the Jewish foundation of the original Church.  After he died (65 CE), it didn’t take the gentile Church Fathers long to muster up a case against the Jews.</p>
<p>Christians claimed that God’s &#8220;everlasting covenant&#8221; with the Jews through Abraham was defunct and claimed the covenant blessings. This Christian theology of “Replacement,” also called <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.theologicalstudies.org/resource-library/supersessionism/324-defining-supersessionism">“Supersessionism</a>,</span>” energized a paradigm of anti-Judaism that informs some of Western Christianity today.</p>
<p>This <i>Replacement</i> concept is the framework for the most virulent forms of  the anti-Zionism we currently see.  For PC (USA) or the Scottish Church or any of the others who demonize Israel to admit to anti-Semitism might bring world criticism. So they couch their concerns in words and actions that are subtle inversions of the truth like calling Judea and Samaria “illegally occupied.”  When Jordan actually did &#8220;illegally occupy&#8221; Judea and Samaria from 1948 to 1967, the world heard not a peep of opposition from these churches.</p>
<p>From roughly 165 CE through about 500 C.E., the &#8220;Fathers&#8221; tilled a garden of Jewish hatred.  To make everything official, the Emperor Constantine, who, it is said, had a personal epiphany of Jesus, called Bishops around the Empire to attend the First <a href="http://messianicfellowship.50webs.com/nicea.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Council of Nicea (325 CE). </span></a>  This Council, like the Council of PC (USA) last week, concocted its anti-Jewish, anti-Israel narrative which served to advance Church goals and bolster the Imperial Roman Empire at the same time.</p>
<p>The Nicean Council succeeded in manufacturing the first layer of this new &#8220;imperial religion.&#8221; Constantine dubbed Christianity the exclusive state religion. <a href="http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/chrysostom_adversus_judaeos_01_homily1.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">John Chrysostom</span></a> (407C.E.) followed and honed the narrative against the Jews to a fine edge without any opposition. Later key theologians embarked on some far-flung theologies which are respected by some Christians today.</p>
<p>Soon, civil laws throughout the Empire followed suit, prohibiting Jews from holding public office or from eating with or marrying Christians. Forced conversions became commonplace. Demonizing, bullying, torture, and mass killings flourished throughout Catholicism and later Protestantism.</p>
<p>Today, much of Western Christianity occupies that very same anti-Jewish space with not even a grasp of its ancient foundations in Hebrew Scripture. Instead, its paradigm is as a stand-alone creature amputated from its root system.</p>
<p>The PC(USA) and their collaborators are clones of the Founding Fathers.  The theological paradigm is that Israel and the Jews of today are no longer under the covering of the original, eternal covenant with God. Today’s Jews, according to the narrative, are &#8220;different.&#8221;  And since God removed his blessings from them when they “killed the Christ.”  The church has replaced the Jews for all time.  This false theology of <a href="http://www.jewishvoice.org/media/publications/articles/supersessionism.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">supersessionism</span></a> is interwoven into the fabric of Catholicism, Anglicanism, Presbyterianism and other branches of Calvinist and Reformed theologies.</p>
<p>Within Protestantism, Catholicism, and the Orthodox Churches today there are, of course, some denominations more extreme than others.  Protestant Evangelical groups (Bethlehem Bible College, Sabeel) for example, hold conferences, like <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/bethlehems-christ-at-the-checkpoint-conference-a-personal-report/2014/03/18/"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Christ at the Checkpoint</i>,</span></a> with the underlying purpose of nullifying Jewish claims to the Land of Israel and dubbing <a href="http://www.foi.org/free-resources/article/jesus-palestinian/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Jesus a Palestinian.</span></a> Partnering together at the bi-annual Christ at the Checkpoint Conference are notables such as Sizer, Ateek, <a href="http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/24218/Default.aspx?article=related_stories"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Lynn Hybels</span></a> (Willow Creek Church) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXxR_C-6oOw"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Tony Campolo</span></a> (Eastern University) and other advocates of disabling Israel and replacing her with a one-state Palestinian solution.</p>
<p>Evangelical Christians, those who interpret the Bible literally, have been among Israel’s best and most loyal friends. But the winds are shifting yet again as more and more Christian Evangelicals are lured by a pro-Palestinian, pro-&#8221;peace and justice&#8221; narrative. Some Christian/Israel loyalists are concerned about this trend and are working to counter it. A few rays of light and hope peek through the cracks with groups like Christians United for Israel, Friends of Israel, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, and Bridges for Peace among them.</p>
<p>The paradigm that grips many Christians with a theologically based hatred of Jews and Israel must be broken.  Israel’s survival is not guaranteed.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poisonous merger of Christianity, Marxism, and the work of Edward Said.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rel-pcus.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235718" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rel-pcus.gif" alt="rel-pcus" width="267" height="164" /></a>What has happened to America&#8217;s Presbyterians? Leaders of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have joined ranks with the radical left in recent years. They vilify Israel, apologize for Islamic terrorists, and cheer on the Palestinian cause.</p>
<p>Now, these leftist elites are savoring an important victory, having pushed through a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/21/us/presbyterians-debating-israeli-occupation-vote-to-divest-holdings.html?_r=1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">resolution</span></a> to divest from U.S. companies operating in Israel: Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions, and Hewlett Packard. The contentious vote in the church&#8217;s general assembly passed by a narrow 310-to-303, and was a long-time goal of leftist Presbyterians, who since 2006 had submitted four divestiture resolutions that failed to muster sufficient votes.</p>
<p>Divestiture is largely symbolic: The companies in the portfolio of America&#8217;s largest Presbyterian denomination represented a pittance of its investments, about $21 million. But leftist Presbyterians saw divestiture as a way to shame the companies and ostracize Israel over what they believe is its humiliation of Palestinian Arabs and illegal occupation of their lands – a situation they claim begets terrorism. They conveniently forget that Israel has been ready to trade land for peace since its birth in 1948. As for the companies they vilify: Caterpillar&#8217;s bulldozers are used in anti-terror operations; and Motorola Solutions and Hewlett Packard provide electronic security systems.</p>
<p>More than a few rank-and-file Presbyterians were outraged over the June 20th divestiture vote; tens of thousands have <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/jonathan-marks-presbyterians-join-the-anti-israel-choir-1403476490"><span style="color: #1255cc;">left the church </span></a>in recent years as it drifted left. “We stand in full support of Israel&#8217;s right to protect its citizens and of all American companies to engage in honest free enterprise,” <a href="http://www.news-press.com/story/news/local/fort-myers/2014/06/24/first-presbyterian-church-condemns-vote-by-national-governing-body-against-israel/11304965/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">said Rev. Paul deJong</span></a>, senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Fort Myers, the oldest Presbyterian church in Lee County, Florida.</p>
<p>“The church has been infected,” a Presbyterian seminary student in Texas once told me, a women in her 30s who became a minister. She was referring to a pro-Palestinian conference hosted several years ago by Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). At the time, leftist Presbyterians were calling for a divestiture resolution.</p>
<p>Israel is not perfect, of course; no country is. But the venom of Israel-bashing Presbyterians has been troubling because of how it negates anything positive about the Middle East’s only democracy. Israel is singled out as a rights abuser.</p>
<p>What accounts for this moral confusion?</p>
<p>Israel-bashing didn&#8217;t used to be fashionable, including among Presbyterians. Indeed, Israel was widely admired in the years after its birth and miraculous growth. Upbeat news articles spoke of those “plucky Jews.” But no more. Now Israeli Jews are denied credit for their nation’s economic and democratic miracle, growing out of a region that American writer Mark Twain – passing through as a travel writer in 1867 – had described as an unpopulated and “desolate country.”</p>
<p>Now, Israel’s story has a new twist, one put forth by left-leaning Presbyterians and fellow-travelers in other Christian denominations. Jews achieved what they did because they exploited somebody else: Palestinian Arabs. In this view Palestinian Arabs, not Jews, are now the chosen people.</p>
<p>This Israel-bashing narrative also bristles with anti-Americanism, and over the years it has become popular in America&#8217;s universities. That&#8217;s an old story. But what&#8217;s less well known is that this same narrative has gained currency at many Christian seminaries. Many seminary professors have adopted a world view similar to the post-modern left; what for them is a strange hybrid of Christianity, Marxism, and Edward Said. (Said, of course, was the high-profile Columbia University professor who popularized the idea of Palestinian victim hood within an anti-Western context.) At some Presbyterian seminaries, students in their early 20s –  future ministers and church leaders – have been indoctrinated for years with the ideological poison of the post-modern left, albeit within a Christian context.</p>
<p><b>Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary</b></p>
<p>One Presbyterian seminary that I&#8217;m familiar with is in Texas: a 112-year-old institution whose idyllic grounds are near the University of Texas campus in Austin, the state capital. I&#8217;m not a Presbyterian, incidentally. I’m not even a regular church-goer, although I regularly attended a mainline Protestant church as a youngster. Eight years ago, however, I took a greater than usual interest in religion, after noticing  Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary was hosting a thought-provoking conference: “American Churches and the Palestinians.” The theme of the two-day event was inspired by a line from Isaiah 58:6: “To Loose the Chains of Injustice…”</p>
<p>I briefly visited the conference, and that passage’s subordination to a political view quickly became clear: Israeli Jews were colonial oppressors; and Palestinian Arabs were their victims. The event’s main sponsors were hardly friendly toward Israel: The Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights; Friends of Sabeel-North America; and Pax Christi USA. Hundreds of religious leaders from around the country, representing various denominations, attended along with seminary faculty.</p>
<p>Consider three high-profile guest speakers:</p>
<p>Robert Jensen, a radical left-wing University of Texas journalism professor, discussed what he claimed was biased media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – biased, that is, against Palestinian Arabs. Jensen was hardly unbiased himself, however. Days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, he gained national notoriety for his <a href="http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/attack1.htm"><span style="color: #1255cc;">inflammatory Op-Ed</span></a> in the Houston Chronicle, “U.S. Just as Guilty of Committing Own Violent Acts.” The attacks, Jensen argued, were “no more despicable than the massive acts of terrorism…that the U.S. government has committed during my lifetime.”</p>
<p>Two years earlier, Jensen published an<a href="http://www.outlookindia.com/article/I-Helped-Kill-A-Palestinian-Today/215147"><span style="color: #1255cc;"> Op-Ed </span></a>in the Houston Chronicle and Palestine Chronicle. Its title and first sentence were the same: “I Helped Kill a Palestinian Today.”</p>
<p>“If you pay taxes to the U.S. government, so did you,” Jensen explained. He went onto to say that “the current Israeli attack on West Bank towns is not a war on terrorism, but part of a long and brutal war against the Palestinian people for land and resources.” He said nothing about billions of U.S. dollars of international aid flowing over the years into the Palestinian territories – only to be squandered, pocketed by corrupt officials, or used to fund terrorism.</p>
<p>At the conference&#8217;s dinner, the main speakers were Cindy and Craig Corrie, parents of Rachel Corrie. At age 23, Rachel Corrie died when she stood in front of an Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer conducting anti-terror operations – clearing tunnels utilized by Palestinian terrorists. The driver failed to see her, and she was run over. Corrie is now a martyr to her supporters – their very own Joan of Arc. But the more accurate description of her would be “terror advocate.” A memorable photo shows her clad in Muslim garb – her face contorted with rage as she holds a burning American flag drawn on a piece of paper.</p>
<p>Corrie&#8217;s parents head the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, a <a href="http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">non-profit </span></a>“that conducts and supports programs that foster connections between people, that build understanding, respect, and appreciation for differences, and that promote cooperation within and between local and global communities.”</p>
<p>The conference&#8217;s star speaker was the Rev. Naim Ateek, a Palestinian Episcopal priest who founded and directs the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem. He has <a href="http://christianfairwitness.com/ateek/Ateek_One_State_Solution.htm"><span style="color: #1255cc;">questioned</span></a> Israel&#8217;s right to exist, and like his Presbyterian counterparts apologizes for Islamic terrorists. He distributed a thought-provoking <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4835.htm"><span style="color: #1255cc;">scholarly paper </span></a>he&#8217;d written: “What is theologically and morally wrong with suicide bombings? A Palestinian Christian Perspective.” The subject was timely. Suicide bombings were more common at the time: Israel’s “separation barrier” – which has saved lives by thwarting suicide bombers, but that leftist Presbyterians widely criticized – was not finished at the time.</p>
<p>Ateek’s paper navigated a thicket of theological issues, but its conclusion was fairly simple: Suicide bombers do indeed violate Christian doctrine – but the desperation fueling their misguided actions is understandable: It&#8217;s Israel’s fault. Neither Ateek nor his Presbyterian supporters, incidentally, have ever given credence to three other “root causes” of Palestinian Arab terrorism: Islamist ideology; the culture of hate permeating Palestinian culture; or an “honor-shame” mentality that undermines efforts for peace which the overwhelmingly majority of Israelis desire.</p>
<p>Visiting the conference, I walked down hallways lined with exhibits outside classrooms where &#8220;workshops&#8221; were held. The exhibits bristled with pro-Palestinian political literature and books. One focused on Palestinian culture, displaying clothing and other items. (Not included were suicide vests or a replica of the Sbarro pizzeria suicide bombing; such an exhibit was <a href="http://archive.adl.org/israel/israel_sbarro.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">displayed</span></a> by clever Hamas student activists at al-Najah University in Nablus).</p>
<p>Rev. Ateek, of Sabeel, must have felt right at home. He was clearly a favorite speaker &#8211; a veritable celebrity. Conference-goers eagerly repeated his stories of alleged Israeli terrorism against Palestinians, including when, he says, his family was forcibly removed by Israeli troops on May 12, 1948. This, of course, was days before Arab armies tried to wipe Israel off the map. Perhaps Ateek’s personal stories are true; perhaps not. However, what’s clearly false about these stories, revolving around Israel&#8217;s creation, is that Ateek presents them as normal and everyday occurrences, the result of Israel’s aggression; the defining narrative of what Israel was and became.</p>
<p>The conference was a sold-out event; and no doubt it and similar events in recent years have persuaded increasing numbers of Presbyterians to support divestiture. The conference&#8217;s main organizer, Whitney S. Bodman, must have been pleased. A high-profile professor at Austin Seminary, he is an expert on Islam. He&#8217;s an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and holds a doctorate in comparative religion from Harvard University. His <a href="http://www.freelists.org/post/amc/FW,7"><span style="color: #1255cc;">research interests</span></a>, he says, includes “Christian theology in an Islamic context.” Politically active, Bodman has <a href="http://globalresonance.net/passage.cfm?psg=100116&amp;pf=1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">praised terror group</span></a> Hezbollah as a nation-building organization that fends off Israel&#8217;s aggression. He has worked closely with the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the problematic Muslim group. Above all, he has been a prominent figure on the “inter-faith dialogue” circuit that attempts to bridge differences with Muslims. That effort kicked into high gear after the 9/11 attacks.</p>
<p>Speaking at a “religious diversity” <a href="http://www.satodayscatholic.com/031706_DifferentFaith.aspx?print=Y"><span style="color: #1255cc;">symposium</span></a> not long after Europe&#8217;s infamous “cartoon riots,” Bodman belittled the idea that Muslims alone were responsible for Islamic-inspired terrorism and mayhem, and endeavored to smooth over the hurt feelings of Muslims. He explained: &#8220;First, remember that no incident happens in a vacuum and the violence and hatred exploding throughout the world today is not really about one event or something as seemingly trivial as a cartoon. It is an accumulation of hurt over months and years. It is Iraq and Palestine, suicide bombings and Abu Ghraib and Gitmo and 9/11 and this whole sense that there really is a clash of civilizations, an insidious danger to our way of life.”</p>
<p>What must the learned professor have thought about an Islamic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Ontario_terrorism_plot"><span style="color: #1255cc;">terror plot</span></a> in Canada that made headlines around this time – one involving 17 young Muslim men and youths? Their roots were not in the Middle East but Canada – home to anti-Americanism, multiculturalism, and unlimited tolerance. Yet they wanted to blow up Canada’s landmarks and behead the prime minister.</p>
<p>In their eagerness to appease Muslims, some Presbyterians have put themselves in even more compromising positions. In October, 2004, Ronald Stone, a retired professor of Christian and social ethics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (affiliated with Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), met in southern Lebanon with Hezbollah commander Sheikh Nabil Kaouk, while on an official “fact-finding mission” to the Middle East.</p>
<p>Stone <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_%28USA%29_Hezbollah_controversy"><span style="color: #1255cc;">caused a furor </span></a>when he told an Arab television channel that “relations and conversations with Islamic leaders are a lot easier than dealings and dialogue with Jewish leaders.”</p>
<p>“We treasure the precious words of Hezbollah and your expression of goodwill towards the American people,” he added. It was an odd way to describe Hezbollah, which Washington has designated a terror group for killing hundreds of Israeli and Americans. This included 200 U.S. Marines in the 1983 suicide bombing of their Beirut barracks and deadly attacks on the Israeli Embassy in Argentina in 1992 and Israeli cultural center in Buenos Aires in 1994.</p>
<p>Stone was part of the lead group of the church’s Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy. The church <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/02/national/02church.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">repudiated</span></a> his remarks. But the controversy didn&#8217;t stop the head of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in the Chicago area, Rev. Robert Reynolds, from <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/US-clergymen-met-with-Hizbullah"><span style="color: #1255cc;">meeting</span></a> nearly one year later with a Hezbollah commander, much to the outrage of Chicago-area Jewish leaders.</p>
<p><b>Subtle Indoctrination</b></p>
<p>It&#8217;s hardly coincidental that these Presbyterian leaders and activist echo the political and theological line that&#8217;s promoted at more than a few Presbyterian seminaries. Sometimes, the political indoctrination of young seminary students can be insidious.</p>
<p>A few weeks before its pro-Palestinian conference, Austin Seminary hosted a photography exhibition related to the conference’s theme: Palestinians as victims; Jews as their exploiters. Dozens of heart-rending photos adorned hallway walls outside classrooms. For future ministers and religious leaders, the photos were there to see, ponder, and absorb. The exhibit was from left-leaning documentary photographer Alan Pogue, a Vietnam War-veteran specializing in political and social issues from a “social justice” angle.</p>
<p>The exhibition’s theme was unmistakable: European Jews displaced by World War 2 had created Israel – and ejected Palestinians from their ancestral homes. In fact, this was the caption of one photo. There were no positive photos of Israel or Israeli-Jews.</p>
<p>Two photos arranged side by side impressed me for the subtle anti-Americanism and moral equivalence suggested by their juxtaposition. One was a photo from New York City after the September 11 attacks – a poignant scene of a make-shift sidewalk memorial. It was a still life of sorts: flowers, photos, and mementos left by friends and family members.</p>
<p>Beside it was a strikingly similar photo – one of a Baghdad sidewalk memorial. It remembered the approximately 300 mostly women and children killed by a U.S. precision-guided bomb during the U.S.-led liberation of Iraq. They died in an underground shelter that U.S. military planners presumed was one of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s command-and-control centers. Just before the war, however, it was converted into an air-raid shelter – one Saddam’s military men avoided. This of course is a common tactic among Middle Eastern terrorists and “insurgents” – putting civilians in harms way, and then when they are killed blaming and shaming the enemy.</p>
<p>Pogue saw things differently. His caption referred to the photos&#8217; “similarities.” The subtle impression was that Americans now knew the same horrors their government had visited upon foreign lands.</p>
<p>Curiously, the photo exhibit was removed the day before a rare event at the seminary: a colloquium of Presbyterian ministers and rabbis held two weeks after the pro-Palestinian conference. The event’s title: “A Difficult Friendship: Divestment, Dialogue, and Hope.”</p>
<p>It was a revealing title. Seminary professors have gone out of their way in recent years to bridge “differences” with Palestinian Arabs and Muslims – even to the extent of excusing Islamic terrorism or apologizing for Judeo-Christian culture and history. Yet their “difficult relationship” is with Jews – not Muslims.</p>
<p>No wonder that a generation of seminary students has been infected with the poison of the postmodern left: a poison that vilifies Israel, America, and even the West. In casual conversations I had with young and idealistic seminary students, I noticed a common thread: They couldn&#8217;t bring themselves to condemn other cultures &#8212; especially those they considered underdogs. You&#8217;ve heard of self-hating Jews. They were self-hating Christians.</p>
<p>One Austin Seminary student in her early 20s, an honor student, told me about participating in an “interfaith” function with Muslim men at Austin Seminary; and after the Muslims broke their fast she offered to shake hands with one man in a flowing robe. Yet he only reluctantly grasped her hand, she recalled.</p>
<p>She wasn&#8217;t shocked or put off.</p>
<p>She made excuses for him, explaining it was important to “understand” his culture. Yet this was in a Christian seminary &#8212; and a Muslim holy day was being celebrated there.</p>
<p>In explaining Arab rage against the West, this same student mentioned the “crusades” – no matter that quite a few Jews had their heads lopped off by crusaders; or that the crusades were a delayed response to Muslim aggression. Now, Islamic aggression is on the march again – and some of its religious underpinnings are making inroads into the Christian faith, judging by what&#8217;s being taught at more than a few Christian seminaries.</p>
<p>One seminary student even spoke of terror master Yasar Arafat as a freedom fighter. “You know, he won a Nobel Peace Prize,” he reminded me.</p>
<p>Recently, Austin Seminary got a <a href="http://www.austinseminary.edu/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">new dean</span></a>, a long-time theology professor at the seminary named David H. Jensen. One of his more interesting scholarly articles pondered the cultural imperialism fostered by America’s most famous hamburger: the Big Mac. In &#8220;The Big Mac and the Lord&#8217;s Prayer,” <a href="http://bigcarnival.blogspot.com/2007/08/would-jesus-eat-at-mcdonalds-left-wing.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Jensen argued </span></a>that McDonald&#8217;s and its all-American mean were emblematic of the dark underbelly of globalization &#8211; and even at odds with Christian values. “The McMeal is…a parody of the Eucharist, extending an invitation to all, but embodying only one culture,” he wrote. Interestingly, McDonald&#8217;s strongest sales at the time were in none other than anti-American France and former Cold War enemies China and Russia. All of which underscores the perception gap that exists between leftist elites and ordinary people – a gap now reflected in the battle between rank-and-file Presbyterians and leftist elites in Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).</p>
<p>Years ago, the Presbyterian church was part of the venerable WASP establishment. It had produced many presidents over the years. Its parishioners were well-heeled, well-educated, and very successful. They believed in America. Those days are gone.</p>
<p>Now that divestiture is finally a reality, the soul of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) may have been lost forever to the left. Decent Presbyterians, like those at First Presbyterian Church of Fort Myers, will face an uphill battle to reclaim it.</p>
<p>The left is in charge, for now.</p>
<p><b>David Paulin, an Austin, Texas-based freelance writer, is a former foreign correspondent previously based in Venezuela and the Caribbean.</b></p>
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