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		<title>The Judenrein Port of Oakland</title>
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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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		<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>Why Presbyterians Took Up the &#8216;Palestinian Cause&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Paulin]]></dc:creator>
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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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		<description><![CDATA[Guess who the Presbyterian Church is boycotting? Hint: it's not Iran, North Korea or China. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ptr.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234680" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ptr-349x350.gif" alt="ptr" width="248" height="249" /></a>The Presbyterian Church has never boycotted Iran, North Korea or China. Shamefully, the organization last week voted to divest from businesses that supply products in Israel, and as <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ronn-torossian/the-partisan-liberal-american-jewish-committee/">The American Jewish Committee</a> stated, a group within the Presbyterian Church was “driven by hatred of Israel” and had led a campaign of misinformation. (Organizations including the Simon Wiesenthal Center, ADL, B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith, and many others also condemned the church.)</p>
<p>While the organization has been quiet about burning churches in the Middle East, they wrongfully work to harm the only Jewish state. A 1998 Presbyterian Church General Assembly Overture called for a suspension of all U.S. aid to Israel. For a long time, the website of the Presbyterian Church web site said “Proponents of divestment say it would pressure Israeli and American companies to change policies toward the Palestinians in the same way economic pressure on South Africa led to an end of apartheid.”</p>
<p>The best answer comes from the Zionist prophet, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11816#.U6d2cZsU9D8">Ze’ev Jabotinsky</a> in an essay he wrote many years ago: “Instead of excessive apology and instead of turning our backs to the accusers – as there is nothing to apologize for, and nobody to apologize to – it is long overdue to respond to all current and future accusations, reproaches, suspicions, slanders and denunciations by simply folding our arms and loudly, clearly, coldly and calmly answer,&#8217;Go to Hell!&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;Who are we, to make excuses to them; who are they to interrogate us? What is the purpose of this mock trial over the entire people where the sentence is known in advance? Our habit of constantly and zealously answering to any rabble has already done us a lot of harm and will do much more. The situation that has been created as a result, tragically confirms a well known saying: &#8216;Qui s’excuse s’accuse&#8217; (He who apologizes condemns himself).</p>
<p>&#8220;We ourselves have acquainted our neighbors with the thought that for every embezzling Jew, it is possible to drag the entire ancient people to answer, a people that was legislating at a time when their neighbors had not even invented a bast shoe. Every accusation causes such commotion among us that people unwittingly think, &#8216;Why are they so afraid of everything?’ Apparently their conscience is not clear. Exactly because we are ready at every minute to stand at attention, there develops among the people an inescapable view about us, as of some specifically thievish tribe.</p>
<p>&#8220;We think that our constant readiness to undergo a search without hesitation and to turn out our pockets will eventually convince mankind of our nobility; look what gentlemen we are–we do not have anything to hide! This is a terrible mistake. The real gentlemen are the people that will not allow anyone for any reason to search their apartments, their pockets or their souls. Only a person under surveillance is ready for a search at every moment. This is the only inevitable conclusion from our maniacal reaction to every reproach, to accept responsibility as a people for every action of a Jew, and to make excuses in front of everybody.</p>
<p>&#8220;I consider this system to be false at its very root. We are hated not because we are blamed for everything, but we are blamed for everything because we are not loved.  We do not have to apologize for anything. We are a people as all other peoples; we do not have any intentions to be better than the rest. We do not have to account to anybody; we are not to sit for anybody’s examination and nobody is old enough to call on us to answer. We came before them.  We are what we are, we are good for ourselves, we will not change and we do not want to.&#8221;</p>
<p>In fact, with Muslim extremists killing Christians &amp; burning Churches throughout the Middle East today, one can ask The Presbyterian Church, as <a href="http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/its-time-for-bibi-netanyahu-to-cry-uncle/">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu</a> asked at the United Nations some years ago, &#8220;Have you no shame?  Have you no decency?&#8221;</p>
<p>Decent people everywhere should say shame on The Presbyterian Church. Israel’s struggle – as Netanyahu notes &#8211; against “fanaticism does not pit faith against faith nor civilization against civilization. It pits civilization against <em>barbarism</em>, the 21st century against the 9th century, those who sanctify life against those who glorify death.” It is the good guys against the bad guys.</p>
<p>In recent years, countless Christian-Americans and Christian world leaders have been strong allies and partners for Israel, and they undoubtedly will continue to be, despite this wrong decision by The Presbyterian Church.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/glover.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-225834 alignleft" alt="FRANCE/" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/glover.jpg" width="339" height="260" /></a>Radical leftist Danny Glover, an outspoken supporter of the anti-Semitic BDS movement, is at it again, this time <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/danny-glover-pushes-for-tel-aviv-festival-boycott/">calling for a boycott</a> of an upcoming film screening scheduled to be held in Tel-Aviv. Glover called for a complete cultural boycott of the Mideast’s only democracy, stating, “We stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine, and support their call for cultural and academic boycott of Israel.” Considering his past associations with assorted autocrats and xenophobes, Glover’s sanctimonious comments reek of hypocrisy and are demonstrative of man more concerned with bashing those pesky Jews than advancing the cause of human rights.</p>
<p>Glover, along with the likes of Roger Waters and Alice Walker, typify today’s contemporary brand of anti-Semitism. It is more insidious than the more traditional anti-Semitism of yore in that it masquerades itself as a human rights issue but is in reality a malevolent form of racism. Precisely because of this, famed Soviet dissident and human rights activist Natan Sharansky formulated a test, known as the <a href="http://jcpa.org/phas/phas-sharansky-f04.htm">3-D Test of anti-Semitism</a>, to determine whether positions and statements critical of Israel veer into traditional anti-Semitism. The test centers on whether attacks are meant to demonize and delegitimize Israel and whether those who level the criticism are applying blatant double standards.</p>
<p>Based on this test, it is clear that Glover’s attacks on Israel plainly cross the line of legitimate discourse and constitute anti-Semitism and racism in its most vile form. Glover has chosen to let loose with invective against Israel, a vibrant liberal democracy, while ignoring egregious and ongoing human rights abuses occurring throughout the Arab world and the world at large.</p>
<p>Indeed, Glover, who perniciously labels Israel an “Apartheid regime,” attended the Dubai Film Festival in the UAE, a country rife with human rights abuses, xenophobia, homophobia and misogyny. Its convoluted system of justice would likely make Orwell cringe. In 2013, a Norwegian woman who had filed a complaint with Dubai authorities <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/20/world/meast/uae-norway-rape-controversy">alleging rape</a> was herself charged with having sex outside of marriage and alcohol consumption and sentenced to 16 months of incarceration. Other women who were victims of sexual assault in Dubai and had the temerity to file complaints against their attackers have endured similar horrific experiences at the hands of Dubai authorities. In its annual survey, Freedom House labeled the UAE <a href="http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2013/united-arab-emirates">“Not Free”</a> and citing a host of human rights abuses, gave it an atrocious negative rating of “6,” with “7” being the worst rating.</p>
<p>Glover has also cozied up to autocratic Venezuelan rulers Hugo Chavez and his successor Nicolas Maduro and <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/danny-glover-defends-venezuelan-government-686635">defended</a> their oppressive regimes and authoritarian styles. Glover’s passionate defense of Maduro came in the midst of a violent government crackdown on democracy protestors. Maduro employed para-military thugs armed with clubs and guns to beat the protestors into submission and borrowed chapter and verse from the brutal methods employed by the mullah’s of Iran when they were confronted with similar disturbances in 2009. In the Freedom House survey, Venezuela fared just slightly better than the UAE with a <a href="http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2013/venezuela">ranking of “5.”</a></p>
<p>But to truly get a sense of Glover’s duplicity and warped sense of justice, one need look no further than an <a href="http://en.cubadebate.cu/news/2011/12/22/visiting-gerardo-and-comparing-gross-with-cuban-five/">article</a> he co-authored with radical leftist and Castro admirer, Saul Landau. Glover laments the incarceration of the so-called “Cuban Five,” a group of <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/26/world/americas/cuban-agent-released/">Cuban spies</a> convicted after a jury trial on a multiplicity charges ranging from aiding and abetting murder to possession of forged documents. Glover absurdly likens their trial to the hypothetical of Jews being tried in Berlin in 1938. Here Glover demonstrates at best willful ignorance but more likely, a malevolence that is innate in all racists. In the same breath, he accuses <a href="http://pjmedia.com/yellowribbonproject/alan-gross-turns-65-in-cuban-prison-family-fears-he-may-not-see-next-birthday/?singlepage=true">Alan Gross</a>, a forgotten American held hostage by Cuban authorities since 2009, of engaging in “activities designed to undermine Cuba’s government.” Gross’s sole “crime” was to provide Cuba’s tiny Jewish community with Internet access. For that “crime” Gross now languishes in a Cuban dungeon after being tried in a kangaroo court by government appointed stooges. Gross’s seizure and incarceration by Cuban authorities violates all norms of international law but Glover doesn’t see it that way. In Glover’s convoluted mind, it is the United States that is at fault and the Cubans are blameless.</p>
<p>Glover, who was quick to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1119">characterize</a> George W. Bush as racist, ironically establishes himself as the premiere racist and hypocritical bigot. He sees fit to wrongfully demonize and delegitimize Israel with mendacious and defamatory rhetoric but in the same breath not only ignores worldwide human rights abuses but actually advocates for those who perpetrate them. As such, Danny Glover joins the ignominious club of marginal haters such as the <a href="http://observer.com/2013/12/the-anti-semitic-stench-of-pink-floyd/">detestable Roger Waters</a>, whose depravity knows no bounds.</p>
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		<title>Rejecting the Boycotters at the Celebrate Israel Parade</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1370206259-nyc-fifth-avenue-turns-blue-and-white-for-the-celebrate-israel-parade_2112940.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224019" alt="1370206259-nyc-fifth-avenue-turns-blue-and-white-for-the-celebrate-israel-parade_2112940" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1370206259-nyc-fifth-avenue-turns-blue-and-white-for-the-celebrate-israel-parade_2112940-450x299.jpg" width="315" height="209" /></a>If a small group of grass-roots Jewish organizations have their way, more than one hundred protestors will <a href="http://jccwatch.org/">assemble in New York City on April 29, 2014</a>, each carrying a shofar. On cue, at 5:30 in the afternoon, rain or shine, all will raise their curved rams’ horns, long and short, and wail to the heavens in visceral unison producing a piercing spectacle of protest. The cacophonous alarums will continue their outcry until the shofar blowers feel they have made their point.</p>
<p>What are they protesting? It is their communal leadership.</p>
<p>The dissident shofar blowers will assemble in front of the 59<sup>th</sup> Street headquarters of the UJA-Federation of New York. The Federation’s beneficiary, the Jewish Community Relations Council, is the chief organizer of the <a href="http://celebrateisraelny.org/">Celebrate Israel Parade</a> scheduled for June 1st. The upbeat procession of floats, runners, and marchers is normally a public show of Jewish unity in support of Israel. But this year, the parade has become a maelstrom of disunity over the participation of the controversial New Israel Fund and other groups which recent revelations now link to the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement and the campaign to delegitimize Israel internationally.</p>
<p>The outrage in some American, Jewish, and Israeli circles over the NIF’s inclusion in the highly visible parade, formerly known as the Israel Day Parade, may be more than just a passing horn blast. The discontent may be energizing a historic decision among American Jews. Just what constitutes the Jewish mainstream? Is American Jewry about to set limits on its open tent of inclusion, a precept the community wears as a badge of honor?</p>
<p>More than a few American Jews feel their community has been hijacked from within by such groups as the J Street lobby, the New Israel Fund, and other organizations that constitute a powerful, well-funded minority able to wage war against Israel seemingly in the name of the Jewish people. “These groups are anti-Jewish,” says Judith Freedman Kadish, special project director of Americans for a Safe Israel, “and they are funding groups that are anti-Semitic. They just veil their actions by saying they are trying to influence public policy and an occupation.” The accused organizations and their defenders in the Jewish media and within the Jewish activist community vigorously insist their activities are simply democratic dissent aimed at solving Israel’s problems.</p>
<p>The New Israel Fund, enabled by taxpayer subsidies of its 501(c)(3) status, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edwin-black/financing-mideast-flamesc_b_4874795.html">has been a pivotal funder of the BDS movement</a> that wages economic war against Israel. Until 2011, the NIF was a lead supporter of the Coalition of Women for Peace, which established a global BDS infrastructure. According to NIF financial records, in 2008 alone, the NIF bestowed $93,457 upon the Coalition of Women for Peace. Over a period of years, NIF financing of this organization reached a strong six-figure sum, which included both direct grants and those where the NIF acted as a go-between for other donors—a technique they called “donor advised funding.”</p>
<p>The NIF no longer provides money to the Coalition of Women for Peace. Now, the CWP is strong enough to gather its monies from other sources. But detractors say—the irreparable damage was done. Moreover, the BDS movement today is fortified by a conveyor belt of brutality and oppression accounts—some legitimate, some exaggerated, some invented—force fed to the world by agitation NGOs, including many financed by <a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/02/05/news-opinion/opinion/op-ed-boycotting-settlements-is-not-anti-israel">the New Israel Fund</a>. NIF’s financial records for 2012 indicate that it granted $109,615 to Breaking the Silence, $255,477 to B’Tselem, and $209,161 to Adalah. These three groups are among dozens of NIF grantees that critics accuse of operating on the front lines of anti-Israel information and distorting the facts about international law as it affects Israel. Numerous Knesset members and Israeli military men have gone on record to decry the NIF as a well-financed, foreign, multinational NGO, hell-bent on “destabilizing the Israel Defense Forces” and erasing the Jewish identity from the State of Israel.</p>
<p>For example, NIF recipient Adalah’s admitted mission is to erase Israel’s Jewish identity and get Israelis prosecuted for war crimes in foreign capitals. On its website, Adalah brags of its robust role in the now-retracted <i>Goldstone Report</i> that accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza. B’Tselem provides cameras to agitators involved in orchestrated confrontations with Israeli soldiers, even as it tolerates repeated child endangerment by Palestinian provocateurs in the process. Another NIF recipient, an online publication known as <i>+972,</i> has published a Photoshopped image graphically depicting Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders in their underwear holding their crotches while carrying rifles, as well as a cartoon depicting former <a href="http://972mag.com/the-hater-in-the-sky-by-eli-valley/45492/">Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barack raping and eating the limbs of Barack Obama in outer space</a>.</p>
<p>On its website, Partners for a Progressive Israel, has prominently encouraged the boycott of such Israeli products as Ahava and Sodastream. If the Sodastream facility were being run by Mormons from Utah, Polish nuns from Warsaw, or Mennonites from Indiana, it would be up for a Nobel Prize. Moreover, when confronted and called on it, no one can reliably cite the international law Sodastream is allegedly violating with its factory known to treat all equally.</p>
<p>Now, several Jewish and Zionist organizations are vociferously demanding that the NIF, B’Tselem, and Partners for a Progressive Israel all be excluded from marching in the upcoming annual Celebrate Israel Parade. The NIF has participated in prior years. These grass-roots groups and individuals—about a dozen main ones— include Rabbi Elie Abadie of the architectonic Edmond de Safra Congregation in Manhattan, the Zionist Organization of America, Americans for a Safe Israel, and the campaign’s central mover, JCC Watch, headed up by Richard Allen, a private individual.</p>
<p>The anti-NIF protestors have been dismissed as a “fringe.” New York’s <i>Jewish Week</i> ran an NIF op-ed defaming the protestors as a “<a href="http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial-opinion/opinion/why-new-israel-fund-marching-israel">tiny extremist group.”</a> Ardent Israel supporter Alan Dershowitz decried the exclusion effort. The Anti-Defamation League in a statement and New York’s <a href="http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial-opinion/editorial/making-mischief-parade"><i>Jewish Week</i> in an editorial, denounced JCC Watch</a> for a protest flyer featuring a photo of the 1933 iconic “April First” Nazi boycott of Jews in Germany.</p>
<p>In his flyer, Allen of JCC Watch was referencing that the organized international Arab boycott against Jews began on April 1, 1933, after the Mufti of Jerusalem imported Hitler’s April First boycott into the Arab and Islamic world. Few remember that April First Nazi boycott was launched by Hitler after a million-man, anti-Nazi protest in <a href="http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/b/black-edwin/chapter-03.html">Madison Square Garden</a> and elsewhere a few days earlier on March 27, 1933. Even fewer recall that the <a href="http://reformjudaismmag.net/rjmag-90s/999eb.html">March 27 rally</a> was preceded earlier that month by a scraggly, rag-tag assemblage of Jewish War Veterans, who marched in New York City calling for a pre-emptive boycott of Nazi Germany. As they marched, those JWV were vociferously denounced, disowned and marginalized by the leaders of organized Jewry who labeled them as “nobodies” and “extremists,” saying they “speak for no one.” History immutably records that the JWV actually spoke for many — and long before others were willing to speak at all.</p>
<p>JCC Watch and its anti-NIF coalition might be a so-called “fringe,” with an unpolished website, inelegant rhetoric and few dollar resources. But its message has struck a chord. Perhaps one hundred chords. Perhaps wailed by one hundred shofars on a street corner in Manhattan. Kadish of AFSI says she has never blown a shofar before in her life—but on April 29, she intends to be in front of the UJA offices to sound off. Allen of JCC Watch says he has been assured, “Shofars will come from far and wide as we chant ‘Hear O’ Israel.’”</p>
<p>Maybe … just maybe … something is happening.</p>
<p>The movement for the Jewish community to draw lines may have gained traction as a result of an unrelated April 11, 2014 event. The controversial lobby known as J Street, which applied for membership in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, was subjected to what <a href="http://forward.com/articles/196459/j-street-fails-to-win-over-key-committee-for-presi/"><i>The</i> <i>Forward</i>  called “a grilling”</a> by the Conference’s membership selection committee over J Street’s ties to other BDS movement organizations, such as Jewish Voices for Peace. A source described the session as “passionate, intense—a lot of arguing.” Ultimately, she added, “the selection committee declined to vote, making it procedurally very difficult” for J Street to join the Presidents’ Conference. The esteemed Presidents’ Conference epitomizes the Jewish communal mainstream, reflecting a vast gamut of views&#8211;from Americans for Peace Now, highly-critical of Israel, to the staunchly defensive Zionist Organization of America—52 organizations in all.</p>
<p>In the days before the selection committee’s “grilling,” the leadership of several organizations and well-known commentators expressed dismay that J Street—sometimes accused of fronting for the Arab Lobby—would even apply. An opinion piece in <i>The</i> <i>Jerusalem Post</i> last fall declared, “[J Street] Founder and president Jeremy Ben-Ami refuses to recognize Israel as a ‘Jewish state’ … co-founder Daniel Levy has described Israel’s creation as ‘an act that went wrong.’ … Ben-Ami was also proven to be a serial liar when, despite his repeated denials, the anti-Israeli George Soros was exposed as one of his major contributors.”</p>
<p>Now, as the Jewish and Israeli media buzzes with the kitchen-table revolt cooked up by JCC Watch, Rabbi Abadie, and others railing against the NIF’s participation in the Celebrate Israel Parade, the umbrage against the NIF’s participation is only growing. Rabbi Abadie has threatened to pull his congregation’s participation and financial support for the parade, and like-minded Sephardic congregations have promised to join him. An article in <i>The Algemeiner</i> likened the NIF’s parade inclusion to “appeasement.” Earlier this month, <a href="http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2014/4/10/at-50th-anniversary-israel-parade-aims-for-pride-but-gets-protests#.U1Pcg1dgyHg">Member of Knesset Nissim Ze-ev joined flag-waving protestors</a> in a Manhattan demonstration against the JCRC. MK Ze-ev declared, “Any Jewish organization which supports the BDS [movement] has no place among supporters of Israel. The UJA and JCRC, as leading organizations of American Jewry, must adhere to this policy if they are to be considered supporters of Israel.”</p>
<p>An April 4, 2014 article on the controversy in <i>The</i> <i>Jerusalem Post</i> led with the subhead: “Diaspora Affairs Ministry reconsidering its funding of future parades.” Subsequent reports conveyed confusion over whether the ministry was considering pulling funding or simply reallocating its budget. A number of Israeli officials consider themselves at war with the New Israel Fund. A source in the Celebrate Israel Parade management, not authorized to speak to the media, stated, “The parade derives its revenue from registration fees, float sponsorship, private philanthropy, and a grant from the Israeli government.” A second parade management source added, “The money from the Israeli government is not reduced but each year comes from different ministries and offices in tweaked amounts.”</p>
<p>In an interview, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch defended his group stating, “Some of these folks are saying that the NIF is now synonymous with the boogie man … We get blamed for everything. It is patently absurd. It bears no relation to reality. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so sort of sad.”</p>
<p>Clearly, a key demonstration of Jewish unity for Israel has now transmogrified into roiling divisiveness. That’s the opposite of the parade’s intent. For this reason, NIF supporters call for the open tent of inclusion to be broad enough to allow the most dissident factors in.</p>
<p>The Jewish community is now looking at its own mainstream and some are asking if the river banks need to be more defined and steeper. Some are also asking if whether the open tent, so precious to all, can survive if burning flames are brought inside.</p>
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		<title>Uninstall Firefox</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 04:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/screen_shot_2014-04-08_at_8.40.54_am.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223124" alt="screen_shot_2014-04-08_at_8.40.54_am" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/screen_shot_2014-04-08_at_8.40.54_am-439x350.png" width="307" height="245" /></a>In 31 years of broadcasting, and 40 years of writing, I have never advocated a boycott of a product.</p>
<p>Quite the opposite, in fact.</p>
<p>During the 2012 presidential campaign, when the left attempted to destroy Chick-Fil-A for its owner&#8217;s views on same-sex marriage, I suggested on my radio show that the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, stand in front of a Chick-Fil-A restaurant while enjoying some Ben and Jerry&#8217;s ice cream. In that way, I argued, he could show one of the great moral differences between the right and the left. Though Ben and Jerry are leftists, we conservatives do not believe that company owners&#8217; views should matter to consumers. We believe that products should speak for themselves. If the ice cream is good, despite whatever repugnance we might feel regarding the views of the makers of that ice cream, we will still purchase it.</p>
<p>The left does not see things that way. The left is out to crush individuals and companies with whom it differs. This is especially so today on the issue of same-sex marriage.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most dramatic example of this took place last week. The governing board of the widely used browser, Firefox, forced the company&#8217;s CEO, Brendan Eich, to resign. The Firefox board had learned that in 2008, Eich donated $1,000 to the Proposition 8 campaign in California. Proposition 8 amended the California Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. In classic Communist fashion, gay rights organizations demanded that Eich publicly recant. When Eich did not, gay rights and other leftist organizations called for a boycott of Firefox. Firefox immediately forced Eich out.</p>
<p>All these years, the left, after coining the term &#8220;McCarthyism&#8221; in order to disparage the right, had fooled most people into believing that it is the right that suppresses liberty. The truth, of course, has been the opposite. Worldwide, with the exception of Nazi Germany (which was a uniquely race-based totalitarianism, neither left nor right — while it rejected Marxist class-based struggle, it supported socialism (&#8220;Nazism&#8221; was short for National Socialism), every genocidal totalitarian regime of the 20th century was leftist. And domestically, too, the left has much less interest in liberty than in forcing people to act in accord with its values. A totalitarian streak is part of the left&#8217;s DNA. How you think matters and what you do away outside of work matters: More than 20 states prohibit judges from being leaders in the Boy Scouts — because the left deems the Boy Scouts homophobic.</p>
<p>During the McCarthy era, the left (and not only the left) screamed when people were falsely charged with supporting Stalin and Communism, one of the greatest evils in human history.</p>
<p>But the left also screamed when people who really did aid and abet Stalin were dismissed from their jobs. In other words, for those on the left who celebrate Eich&#8217;s ouster, it was evil to deprive a man who supported Stalin of a job, but it is right to fire a man who supports the man-woman definition of marriage. Such is the left&#8217;s moral compass.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is important to further note that gay employees at Firefox acknowledge that Eich never discriminated against gays, whether in employment, benefits or any other way. But that doesn&#8217;t matter to the left because a totalitarian streak is part of the left&#8217;s DNA.</span></p>
<p>As Princeton Professor of Jurisprudence Robert George warned on my radio show, today the left fires employees for opposition to same-sex marriage. Tomorrow it will fire employees who are pro-life (&#8220;anti-woman&#8221;). And next it will be employees who support Israel (an &#8220;apartheid state&#8221;).</p>
<p>The reason to boycott Firefox is not that it is run by leftists. Nor is the reason to support the man-woman definition of marriage. It is solely in order to preserve liberty in the land of liberty. If Firefox doesn&#8217;t recant and rehire Eich as CEO, McCarthyism will have returned far more pervasively and perniciously than in its first incarnation. The message the gay left (such as the Orwellian-named Human Rights Campaign) and the left in general wish to send is that Americans who are in positions of power at any company should be forced to resign if they hold a position that the left strongly opposes.</p>
<p>And right now that position is opposition to same-sex marriage.</p>
<p>Think about that. In the United States of America today, the belief that marriage should remain defined as the union of a man and woman is portrayed as so vile by the left that anyone who holds it is unfit for employment.</p>
<p>A handful of those on the gay (and straight) left have spoken out against the forced resignation of Eich. If their words are to mean anything, they must join in the call to boycott Firefox. Otherwise, their protestations are meaningless, made solely to preserve their moral credibility.</p>
<p>The battle over Firefox is the most important battle in America at this particular moment. If you use Firefox, uninstall it. Instead use Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera, Safari, or try Pale Moon for Windows, which is based on the Firefox engine and will import all of your bookmarks. For mobile devices, you can try Puffin.</p>
<p>America can have liberty or it can have Firefox. Right now, it cannot have both.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the forced departure of Brendan Eich from Mozilla and #CancelColbert have in common.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/eich460.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223032" alt="eich460" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/eich460-450x305.jpg" width="315" height="214" /></a>What do the forced departure of Brendan Eich from Mozilla and #CancelColbert have in common? They are both examples of Fakectivism.</p>
<p>Fakectivism is social media activism by small numbers of people that is integrated into the news cycle because it matches the media’s political agenda.</p>
<p>Every Tea Party member knows that media coverage of actual protests is unequal. Twenty students, most of them volunteers at an environmental non-profit, protesting Keystone will get media coverage that a thousand Tea Party members protesting ObamaCare won&#8217;t receive.</p>
<p>The same is true of online protests.</p>
<p>Many of the real life protests covered by the media are fake. For example, unions hire non-union protesters to protest on their behalf, a fact that the media organizations covering the protests rarely point out. (That same privilege wouldn&#8217;t be extended to Tea Party members who hired professional protesters to yell at the cameras for them.)  Other protests pretend to be grass roots when they actually consist of members or even paid employees of a single organization.</p>
<p>Fakectivism online multiplies the problems with media coverage of left-wing activism by completely distorting the number of people participating in a protest and their credibility in representing anyone except themselves.</p>
<p>In real life protests, the media routinely reported higher turnout for left-wing protests and lower turnout for conservative protests. Online, Fakectivism dispenses with head counts. If it&#8217;s a trending topic, then it&#8217;s news. And sometimes it&#8217;s news, even if it isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Fakectivism begins with left-wing agitprop sites selectively collecting tweets in support or against something. The handful of tweets are described in collective terms as &#8220;The Internet&#8221; being outraged about something. The use of the collective &#8220;Internet&#8221; is a staple of Fakectivism because it conflates a manufactured story with the opinions of billions of people.</p>
<p>Successful Fakectivism moves up the ladder to higher end left-wing websites searching for teachable controversies. These websites have enough status that they are monitored by producers and editors from the mainstream media looking for stories.</p>
<p>The mainstream media harvests content from sites such as Slate or the Huffington Post and reframes it in biased but credible language while disguising its sources. Twitter Fakectivism is invariably described as a &#8220;backlash&#8221; or a &#8220;firestorm&#8221;. Phrases such as &#8220;Twitter was lit up by outraged users&#8221; give non-technical readers the impression that the complainers represent the consensus of the site instead of a small number of overactive users.</p>
<p>The manufactured Fakectivism becomes a major news story by a successive filtering process that disguises the dubious source and the credibility of the originating event.</p>
<p>Eich&#8217;s donation in defense of marriage had already become an issue two years ago. The same Twitter attacks were curated by left-wing Fakectivist websites, but the &#8216;spark&#8217; that would allow the story to go mainstream was missing. Instead Eich walked away, mostly unscathed, because the protests did not gain traction in the media.</p>
<p>The Fakectivism directed at Eich in 2012 fizzled away because without media involvement the professional social justice activists are nothing more than their own feeble rage echo chamber.  It&#8217;s the mainstream media that makes Fakectivism work by choosing to report on it. Its outlets put the final &#8220;fake&#8221; in Fakectivism.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not mythical grass roots outrage that seals the fate of someone like Brendan Eich. It&#8217;s the mainstream media. The social justice Tumblr and Twitter activists like to think that they can claim scalps, but the only scalps that they claim are the ones that the media allows them to take.</p>
<p>Fakectivism is really a means of allowing media professionals to pursue their political agendas through selective reporting. The left-wing online ecosystem lives or dies by its ability to move &#8220;edgier&#8221; material and agendas into the mainstream media and the media decides whether the time is right to force the agenda on its viewers, listeners and readers.</p>
<p>Media and social media Fakectivists both calculate their stories around a larger agenda.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the role of the social media Fakectivists to aggressively push their most radical agendas and of the media Fakectivists to moderate their tone. The media act as the formal gatekeepers of liberalism determining which radical agenda can be mainstreamed this week while the social media activists keep forcing the gates to open even wider.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s never about the facts. The media and social media Fakectivists only care about emotional manipulation in the service of their agenda. Their stories are morality plays that expect the audience to view a human drama and come down on their side and for their agenda. The drama is the narrative which both sets of Fakectivists skew their way through misleading reporting.</p>
<p>In the Eich case, the media deliberately misreported facts about the Mozilla Foundation. For example, media stories claimed that board members were resigning in protest over Eich&#8217;s role. That was untrue. Mozilla was in turmoil and had been for some time, but the reasons for that had nothing to do with Eich’s views on marriage. Eich had stepped into a thankless role that he didn&#8217;t want in an organization whose signature browser had been steadily losing market share.</p>
<p>Likewise the media failed to explain Eich&#8217;s major contribution to the modern internet while highlighting protest Tweets from a handful of Mozilla employees, mostly non-technical and/or associated with the Open Badges Project.</p>
<p>Some of this can be attributed to sloppiness, but had Eich been a gay CEO targeted by Twitter protesters angry over his sexual identity, there is little doubt that the backstory would have been researched and accurately clarified. Media sloppiness is a calculated blindness on stories where research would only damage the narrative.</p>
<p>The media outsources much of its research to left-wing sites and often only rewrites their stories. A belated fact check may occasionally shoot down a false story, as with the Washington Post&#8217;s Keystone attack on the Koch Brothers, but mostly content from Media Matters, Think Progress, Salon, Gawker and worse streams uninterrupted into the newspapers of record and the wire services with changes in style, not substance.</p>
<p>The media now mainly reports on trending internet content, whether it&#8217;s Twitter protests, pop stars or cat videos. The distinction between CNN and any random website that collects the same viral content is that the viral site is likely to have it first. That&#8217;s increasingly the same distinction between NBC News and the Huffington Post.</p>
<p>Fakectivism extends a convenient relationship in which the media acts as a gatekeeper for social media into the political realm. The difference is that while the media is agnostic when it comes to passing along cat videos or reporting on a pop star&#8217;s trashy antics, it carefully curates which protests it takes seriously, which causes it advances and which people it gets fired.</p>
<p>The media has come to embody a decentralized relationship between different levels of left-wing content providers from major activist groups to random aspirants for social justice fellowships trying to get a hashtag going on Twitter. What we think of as the media is only the formal tip of the iceberg with its billion dollar brand names and national and international operations.</p>
<p>The real media isn&#8217;t a station or a newspaper, it&#8217;s an agenda. It&#8217;s a network of relationships between open radicals and covert radicals. The media has become a closed loop of the left, inventing its own stories and reporting on the stories that it invents.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The disturbing new heights of anti-Semitic fanaticism at U.S. universities. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/UM-brownshirt.png"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-222175" alt="UM-brownshirt" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/UM-brownshirt-262x350.png" width="262" height="350" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-One-Campus-brownshirts-rising-346739">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>Jill Schneiderman is an unlikely warrior for Jewish rights. A professor of Earth sciences at Vassar College and a lesbian activist, Schneiderman’s political passions put her smack in the middle of the far-Left academic mainstream.</p>
<p>At least they did until she decided to organize a student trip to Israel to study water issues.</p>
<p>To get a sense of just how far to the Left Schneiderman is, when her initiative ran into trouble, she contacted fanatic anti-Israel activist Phillip Weiss to ask for his support.</p>
<p>Hers was not going to be a ZOA student mission to Israel.</p>
<p>Scheiderman needed help, because when the Vassar chapter of the anti-Semitic hate group, Students for Justice in Palestine, got wind of her initiative, their members began picketing her pre-trip seminar. They stood outside the classroom and pressured students to drop the class.</p>
<p>Spooked by this thuggish behavior, Schneiderman complained to the college’s administrators and sought redress for her students whose academic freedom and civil rights were being obstructed.</p>
<p>In response to her complaint, earlier this month the administration convened a meeting of the school’s Committee on Inclusion and Excellence.</p>
<p>Rather than take action against the thugs from the SJP, both the members of the committee and the audience quickly joined forces with them and doubled down on their assault against all even mildly pro-Israel voices on campus.</p>
<p>As Scheneiderman wrote on her blog, at the meeting she was “knocked off-center by a belligerent academic community dedicated to vilifying anyone who dares set foot in Israel.”</p>
<p>Weiss wrote of the meeting, “The spirit of that young progressive space was that Israel is a blot on civilization, and boycott is right and necessary.</p>
<p>If a student had gotten up and said, I love Israel, he or she would have been mocked and scorned into silence.”</p>
<p>Weiss is pleased with the air of intimidation. As he sees it, this is the whole point of the so called boycott, sanctions, and divestment movement that calls for institutions to boycott businesses that do business with Jews in Israel.</p>
<p>As Weiss explained, the real purpose of the BDS movement in all its component parts is to make it impossible to voice any sentiment in relation to the Middle East on college campuses that isn’t anti-Israel.</p>
<p>And the brownshirts at Vassar are from a unique phenomenon.</p>
<p>As Scheiderman and her students were being intimidated for daring to study about and plan travel to Israel, members of the University of Michigan’s student government voted to indefinitely suspend debate on a resolution submitted by an anti-Jewish campus group that called for the university to boycott and divest from companies that do business with the Jewish state.</p>
<p>The anti-Jewish goons behind the resolution hail from an organization that ironically refers to itself as SAFE, an acronym for Students Allied for Freedom and Equality. They responded to the student government’s decision with rage and violence.</p>
<p>They staged sit-ins at the student government, where they cursed Jewish members of the council, calling them “dirty Jew” and “kike.” According to <em>The Washington Free Beacon</em>, some students received death threats from the anti-Jewish activists.</p>
<p>According to the <em>Free Beacon</em>, rather than defend its students from these criminal assaults and protect their civil rights, university administrators forced the head of the student government to apologize to the aggressors from SAFE for voting to table the anti-Israel resolution. They also reportedly compelled the student government to hold an immediate vote on the measure.</p>
<p>As one Jewish leader told the <em>Free Beacon</em> ahead of the vote, “University administrators are allowing students to be bullied into taking an anti-Israel vote with a gun pointed to their heads.”</p>
<p>And he was not exaggerating. The anti-Jewish protesters are open in their embrace of violence.</p>
<p>In January, Yazan Kherallah, who serves as SAFE’s “divestment coordinator,” posted a photo of himself on his Facebook page. In the picture, titled, “It’s on,” Kherallah’s face is covered in a khafiyyeh and he is stabbing a pineapple.</p>
<p>Speaking to the <em>Free Beacon</em>, Kenneth Marcus, the former staff director for the US Civil Rights Commission who now heads the Louis D.</p>
<p>Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, explained that by not protecting its students from anti-Semitic harassment and threats of violence, the University of Michigan is exposing itself to civil litigation for civil rights violations and to federal investigation.</p>
<p>Marcus explained, “If the university allows a hostile environment to form without taking effective action, it could be liable for a civil lawsuit or federal investigation….If Jewish students are being called ‘kike’ and ‘dirty Jew’ and the university is not addressing it in a firm and effective way, the university may be liable under federal law.”</p>
<p>And this is really the point. As Weiss made clear, brownshirt tactics are the new norm for anti-Semitic activists on college campuses. Indeed, he said that the movement to silence pro-Israel voices on US college campuses is where the “progressive” movement is going these days.</p>
<p>This is not only a Jewish problem. If the rise of brownshirt tactics and anti-Semitism on US campuses goes on at its current pace, it will destroy higher education in the United States.</p>
<p>Anti-Semitism is predicated and can only survive and grow in an atmosphere in which reason is rejected. Brownshirt tactics are designed to replace reasoned discussion with intimidation and violence. And when violence and unreasoning hatred reign, there is no learning. Hence the threat to the entire university system.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the administrators at too many universities do not seem to care.</p>
<p>The only instances where university administrators have taken action against anti-Semites on their campuses have been when outside forces compelled them to do so. And in all cases where action has been taken, administrators have done as little as possible.</p>
<p>These instances, and the steps that led up to them must become the basis for developing a general plan for stemming the rise of anti-Semitism on US campuses.</p>
<p>Two recent examples illustrate the general trajectory of successful action.</p>
<p>Last February, Brooklyn College held a BDS event that was co-sponsored by the college and Students for Justice in Palestine. Four Jewish students who attended the event were forcibly removed by campus police acting on orders from the event organizers, who identified the four as potential sources of pointed questions that the BDS advocates could not answer well.</p>
<p>Rather than defend the students, Brooklyn College’s administrators attacked them and endorsed SJP’s transparently false claim that the four — who had been sitting quietly — had been “disruptive.”</p>
<p>Three of the students turned to the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) and the Brandeis Center for Human Rights for legal assistance. And as a result of legal pressure, City University of New York, of which Brooklyn College is a part, conducted an investigation that found the students had been persecuted for their viewpoints, in violation of their civil rights. On March 10, Brooklyn College’s president issued a public apology to the four Jewish students. She also promised to institute new procedures to ensure that students’ civil rights are respected.</p>
<p>While no serious disciplinary action appears to have been taken against the SJP, the university police, or university administrators who violated the students’ civil rights, civil litigation against Brooklyn College is still pending.</p>
<p>Likewise, after allowing anti-Semitic intimidation of Jewish students at Northeastern University to go unhindered for years, the university administration finally suspended SJP’s campus affiliation for a year earlier this month.</p>
<p>As they have done on other campuses, including University of Michigan last December, SJP at Northeastern placed mock eviction notices under the dorm room doors of pro-Israel students across campus. They affixed anti-Semitic stickers to walls, doors, windows, and other free spaces all around campus (in violation of university rules), and they interrupted Jewish events and intimidated pro-Israel students.</p>
<p>Last summer the ZOA sent a letter to Northeastern president Joseph Aoun detailing incident after incident of anti-Semitic agitation and intimidation inside and outside classrooms. The letter mentioned that University of California Santa Cruz is currently under investigation by the federal government for its apparent violation of the civil rights of its Jewish students by enabling an anti-Semitic atmosphere to rein on campus.</p>
<p>It is likely that ZOA’s letter had a significant impact in compelling Northeastern’s administrators to finally take action after years of willfully ignoring entreaties from students for help and support.</p>
<p>With a gun pointed at their heads, on Tuesday night University of Michigan’s student government voted on the anti-Semitic resolution. Given the administration’s role in supporting the violent hoodlums from SAFE, the council members had no one but themselves to rely on to protect them.</p>
<p>And so, before voting on the resolution, the council decided that the vote on the resolution would be cast by secret ballots.</p>
<p>The resolution failed 25-9.</p>
<p>The members of the student government should be applauded for their moral and intellectual courage. Although no democracy can long survive without a citizenry capable of displaying such strength of convictions and basic decency, these characteristics are becoming all too rare on campuses. Indeed it is the rarity of such devotion to truth that makes the council members’ behavior so heartening.</p>
<p>But it is due to the rarity of such displays of moral courage that a campaign to defeat the rising tide of anti-Semitism on college campuses cannot rely on the moral and intellectual fortitude of students and on their willingness to stand up not only to the campus brownshirts, but to their enablers in the administrations.</p>
<p>The developments at Northeastern and Brooklyn College make clear that the only way to defeat the anti-Semites on campus is to go after the administrations that enable them. Only the threat of civil lawsuits, federal investigations of civil rights violations, and alumni threats to withhold gifts will force university administrations to take action against the anti-Semitic thugs that are instituting a reign of terror at university after university.</p>
<p>The lesson from Brooklyn College and Northeastern is that the pressure should be unrelenting.</p>
<p>In both cases, the steps the administrations took this month were the minimal steps they think they can get away with. They need to be forced to do more.</p>
<p>For instance, in the case of Brooklyn College, attorneys should push forward with lawsuits for civil damages for all four students for the college’s violation of their civil rights both at the BDS event itself, and in the administration’s subsequent demonization of the students in the media.</p>
<p>The pressure must similarly continue until the campus police who ejected the students from the event and the administrators who attacked them in the media are fired from their positions and SJP is permanently barred from operating on campus.</p>
<p>Similar demands should be made to Northeastern.</p>
<p>Only when universities are made to pay a painful price for their support for anti-Semitism will other university administrators think twice before they give free reign to Jew haters on their campus and so doom their institutions to moral and intellectual destruction.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/rsz_465197167.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-221077 alignleft" alt="rsz_465197167" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/rsz_465197167-430x350.jpg" width="301" height="245" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Indivisible-anti-Semitism-345343">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>On March 19, it will be two years since Mohammed Merah slaughtered three Jewish children and a rabbi in the courtyard of the Ozar Hatorah Jewish day school in Toulouse, France.</p>
<p>Far from being a wake-up call that forced the French to their senses, and compelled them to purge their society of the Jew-hatred that inspired Merah to film himself blowing his victims’ brains out, his act served as an inspiration for other anti-Semites.</p>
<p>According to the French Interior Ministry, anti-Semitic attacks rose 60 percent in 2012 over 2011 levels.</p>
<p>Over the past decade and a half, anti-Semitism has moved from the backroom to the living room throughout Europe.</p>
<p>All aspects of Jewish life are under assault.</p>
<p>Religious observance has become an act of near rebellion against social graces.</p>
<p>In 2009, the British Supreme Court ruled that Jewish schools that followed religious tradition and only admitted children who have a Jewish mother were guilty of racial discrimination.</p>
<p>In other words, the British Supreme Court said that traditional Judaism is racist.</p>
<p>In country after country, campaigns to ban Jewish ritual practices are in full swing. Government after government has passed or moved toward passing bans on shechita, Jewish traditional slaughter of animals. Mila, infant male circumcision, is also under assault. Both, of course, are foundations of Jewish observance.</p>
<p>Denmark is the latest European state to ban shechita. And the movement to implement a similar ban in Britain has grown so popular that Prime Minister David Cameron felt compelled to oppose it during his speech at the Knesset on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Of course, even more popular than accusing Jews of subjecting cows and chickens to monstrous slaughter is the practice of accusing Jews of subjecting Palestinians to monstrous slaughter.</p>
<p>For Europe’s elite, radical and increasingly, violent anti-Zionism has become the anti-Semitism of choice. Among other things, anti-Zionists believe that Israel is inherently illegitimate and necessarily, and purposely, evil. For them, Israel is Nazi Germany.</p>
<p>And supporters of Israel are for them the greatest evildoers in the world. They should be accorded no courtesy, and be treated as human scum.</p>
<p>This has been made clear, most vividly in recent years on college campuses where pro-Israel supporters are run off campuses, shouted off stages and barred from presenting their views.</p>
<p>One recent episode of this sort occurred on March 5 at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where British professor Alan Johnson tried to speak in opposition to an initiative to get the university to join the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.</p>
<p>A YouTube video of the event showed how a mob of BDS supporters prevented him from speaking. They shouted curses at him and his colleagues and demanded they “get the f*** off our campus!” Writing of the experience and the hate movement that stands behind it in The Times of Israel, Johnson reported that the student leading the effort to silence him is the head of NUIG’s Palestine Solidarity Society named Joseph Loughnane.</p>
<p>In 2008, Loughnane said, “The Jews run the American media and push their agenda.”</p>
<p>Johnson wrote that “the border between being radical and transgressive [toward Israel] and being anti-Semitic is now porous.”</p>
<p>Although accurate, Johnson’s assertion understates the problem.</p>
<p>Opposing Judaism and Jews, denying Jewish rights to education and ritual observance, and attacking Jews; and opposing the Jewish state, denying Jews their right to self-determination and attacking supporters of the Jewish state, are two sides of the same coin. There is no border – porous or solid between them. They are one and the same.</p>
<p>And all anti-Semites know it.</p>
<p>On Monday, The New York Times reported that attempts by French authorities to silence the anti-Semitic comic Dieudonne M’bala M’bala have backfired. The performer who invented and popularized the inverted Nazi salute has bridged the divide between French Muslim anti-Semites and French fascist anti-Semites.</p>
<p>The habit of Dieudonne’s fans to have their pictures taken at Jewish sites and Nazi death camps while performing the salute caused French officials to ban his public performances, arguing reasonably that his incendiary anti-Semitic incitement is a threat to public safety.</p>
<p>Rather than listen to authorities and recognize that Dieudonne’s actions are obscene, hateful and dangerous, the official ban on his performances has only raised his popularity. According to the Times, his most recent YouTube video had two million hits in its first week.</p>
<p>The Times argues that by banning Dieudonne, French officials only helped him by raising his public profile and transforming him into a martyr for freedom of speech.</p>
<p>But this is not the real reason that the ban has backfired.</p>
<p>The ban backfired because the French don’t take the government seriously.</p>
<p>How can it be wrong for Frenchmen to parade through the streets of Paris ordering the Jews to leave the country, when the French government also trucks in anti-Semitism? How can French authorities’ 14-year defense of France 2 television network’s invention of the Muhammad al-Dura blood libel be squared with their denunciation of Dieudonne? It will be recalled that in October 2000, France 2’s Israel correspondent Charles Enderlain broadcast a story where he presented doctored footage that created the illusion Dura had been killed while crouching in fear, by venal IDF soldiers in Gaza. That doctored footage served as the impetus for massive anti-Semitic demonstrations, and murderous anti-Semitic attacks on Jews in Israel, throughout Europe and around the world.</p>
<p>In January 2006, Ilan Halimi was kidnapped and tortured to death because he was a Jew.</p>
<p>Despite the fact that during his 26 days in captivity Halimi’s kidnappers telephoned his mother 700 times, during which she heard the tortured cries of her son while his kidnappers recited verses from the Koran over the phone, French law enforcement officials insisted that Halimi’s abduction was a run-of-the-mill kidnapping for ransom, rather than an anti-Semitic hate crime. Consequently they refused to accept that his life was in danger, or that they should devote resources to finding and saving him.</p>
<p>And their denial of the nature of the crime didn’t end when Halimi turned up naked, at the railway siding, with burns over 80 percent of his body, only to die shortly thereafter.</p>
<p>It took French authorities another week to acknowledge that Halimi was murdered because he was a Jew.</p>
<p>Two years ago, French authorities tried to hide the fact that Merah was a Muslim, claiming instead that he was a Nazi. When they were finally forced to acknowledge the truth, they blamed Israel for his crime.</p>
<p>Speaking to reporters, then-French interior minister Claude Gueant said that Merah was associated with al-Qaida and that he was upset about what Gueant referred to as Israel’s “murder” of Palestinian children.</p>
<p>The 17,000 Frenchmen who marched through the streets of Paris on the eve of International Holocaust Memorial Day in January and called for the Jews to get out of France see through French authorities’ hypocrisy.</p>
<p>French and other European authorities who libel Israel by projecting onto the Jewish state the crimes committed by Muslim terrorists against Jewish children do not scare the likes of Dieudonne and his millions of supporters.</p>
<p>They know it is a joke when the same officials who cultivate and legitimize anti-Semitic blood libels profess shock and outrage at their unvarnished Jew-hatred. They are not intimidated.</p>
<p>And they certainly are not convinced of the error of their ways.</p>
<p>The simple fact is that you cannot fight anti-Semitism by endorsing it. The only way you can fight anti-Semitism is by fighting all forms of anti-Semitism, including the demonization and delegitimization of Israel.</p>
<p>The European have good company in denying this basic fact. Senior American Jewish leaders similarly ignore it.</p>
<p>EARLIER THIS month, the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee announced their opposition to state bills barring universities from using public funds to fund academic organizations that participate in boycotts against Israel. Bills of this type are being debated by the Maryland and New York state legislatures and are being drafted at the federal level by members of Congress.</p>
<p>Both groups claimed that they oppose the bills even though they oppose the BDS movement, because they claim that such actions limit academic freedom.</p>
<p>Three things stand out in their explanation.</p>
<p>First, preventing taxpayer money from being used to fund campaigns to demonize and criminalize Israel and so promote hatred of Jews has nothing to do with limiting academic freedom.</p>
<p>Second, the actions of BDS activists have nothing to do with academic freedom. By demonizing and intimidating students and faculty who oppose them, their aim is to end both free speech and academic freedom.</p>
<p>And conversely, fighting them advances both free speech and academic freedom.</p>
<p>Finally, it is simply bizarre that the ADL and the AJC felt compelled to weigh in on this issue to begin with. If they didn’t want to be associated with this action, they could have kept their mouths shut.</p>
<p>By entering the fray on behalf of the BDS movement, they gave legitimacy to it, despite their claims that they oppose anti-Israel boycotts.</p>
<p>Both the ADL and the AJC present themselves as among other things, Jewish civil rights groups that aim to defend Jews, including the Jewish state.</p>
<p>And yet, here they are making an artificial distinction between the two – a distinction not shared by the haters.</p>
<p>It is no doubt tempting to accept the artificial distinction between rejecting Israel’s right to exist and rejecting the right of Jews to practice Judaism. Doing so allows you to pretend that the problem isn’t as bad as it is, and to pretend that the fates of Israel and Jews of the Diaspora are not directly linked. It allows you to pretend that Jewish Americans who join the BDS movement are not anti-Semites. And it allows you to pretend that European leaders who minimize real anti-Semitic crimes by equating them with imaginary Israeli crimes are not inherently hostile to Jews.</p>
<p>But you cannot fight Jew-hatred by making distinctions between its various forms. They are all components of the same thing. And either you fight all of them, with no distinction, or you fight none of them, and even legitimize the bigotry.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/gty_obama_netanyahu_press_conference_ll_130320_wg.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220538" alt="gty_obama_netanyahu_press_conference_ll_130320_wg" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/gty_obama_netanyahu_press_conference_ll_130320_wg-450x320.jpg" width="270" height="192" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-one-Surviving-Obama-344621">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>Bloomberg columnist Jeffrey Goldberg minced few words in discussing the interview that US President Barack Obama gave him on the eve of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s latest visit to Washington.</p>
<p>Speaking with journalist Charlie Rose, Goldberg equated Obama’s threat to stop supporting Israel in international forums to the talk of a mafia don. Obama told Goldberg that if Israel doesn’t cut a deal with the Palestinians soon, “our ability to manage the international fallout is going to be limited.” He added, “And that has consequences.”</p>
<p>That statement, Goldberg noted, was a “veiled threat” and “almost up there with, ‘Nice little Jewish state you’ve got there. Hate to see something happen to it.’” Goldberg saw the interview as Obama’s way of showing that he is beginning to abandon the pretense of supporting Israel, now that he no longer faces reelection. In Goldberg’s words, “It’s not that the gloves are coming off. It’s more that the mask of diplomatic language is coming off a little bit.”</p>
<p>Goldberg added that due to the fact that Obama “doesn’t have to run again for anything,” he doesn’t need to pretend feelings for Israel that he doesn’t have, by among other things, going to the AIPAC annual policy conference.</p>
<p>And indeed, Obama has achieved a comfort level with implementing anti-Israel policies. His threat to step aside and let Israel-haters have their way in places like the United Nations or in certain quarters of Europe is of a piece with several steps the he is already reportedly undertaking to harm Israel in various ways.</p>
<p>Before he was reelected in 2012, Obama felt it necessary to align his policies on Iran to the preferences of the US public. And as a consequence, although he voiced harsh criticism of congressional sanctions bills against Iran, he grudgingly signed them into law. (He then proceeded to use the sanctions he opposed but signed as proof that he supported Israel in speeches before Jewish audiences.) Now that he no longer has to concern himself with the wishes of the American public and its representatives in Congress, Obama has dropped the mask of opposition to Iran and forged ahead with a diplomatic process that all but ensures Iran will acquire nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>The same is apparently the case with joint US-Israeli missile defense programs. On Wednesday, it was reported that the administration has slashed funding of those programs by two-thirds for the 2015 fiscal year. Obama touted his previous willingness to fully fund those programs – manifested in his decision not to veto congressional appropriations, despite his stated desire to slash funding – as proof of his administration’s “unprecedented” security cooperation with Israel.</p>
<p>Then there are the low-level bureaucratic sanctions that Obama began enacting against Israel last year. These involve State Department activities that are not subject to easy congressional oversight.</p>
<p>For instance, last week it was reported that last year the State Department drastically decreased the number of Israeli tourist visa applications it approved. The rise in rejection rates has prevented Israel from participating in the visa waiver program.</p>
<p>Foreign Ministry officials told reporters they believe this is a deliberate, premeditated policy.</p>
<p>And this week we learned that last year the State Department rejected hundreds of visa requests from members of Israel’s security services.</p>
<p>Although White House spokesman Jay Carney was quick to claim that Israel’s interception of the Iranian missile ship en route to Gaza on Wednesday morning was the result of US-Israeli intelligence cooperation, the fact is that the US continues to undermine Israel’s covert operations in Iran. Earlier this week, CBS reported that the Obama administration has demanded that Israel stop its reported covert campaign to kill Iranian nuclear scientists in order to delay or block Iran’s nuclear progress.</p>
<p>Obama’s new willingness to threaten Israel and to take the actions he feels it is safe to take to downgrade Israel’s relations with the US will likely only grow after November’s midterm elections.</p>
<p>After the congressional elections, Obama will feel entirely free to attack the US’s closest ally in the Middle East.</p>
<p>So what can Israel do? How can Israel safeguard its interests at a time when the US president publicly trashes and threatens those interests and privately undermines them? Israel already did the most important thing in this regard when voters reelected Netanyahu to lead the government last year. During his trip to the US this week, Netanyahu made clear that he understands the challenge and is competent to handle it.</p>
<p>Since Netanyahu returned to the premiership in January 2009, he has implemented a policy of waiting Obama out. Over the past five years, the prime minister has only directly challenged Obama when he had no choice. And that has been the right course. Little good comes to Israel from open fights with the White House. Such fights should only be engaged when the consequences of having a fight are less bad than the consequences of not fighting.</p>
<p>In his speech at the AIPAC Conference on Tuesday, Netanyahu rebutted every position Obama has staked out on the Palestinians and Iran without ever mentioning Obama’s name. By doing so he energized Israel’s supporters while denying Obama the ability to claim that Netanyahu is unsupportive of his policies.</p>
<p>In other words, he humored the White House while staking out an independent Israeli policy for which he secured the support of Israel’s American backers.</p>
<p>But Netanyahu’s skill in maneuvering around Obama is not enough for Israel to safely weather his presidency. Israel needs an overall strategy for securing its interests.</p>
<p>Such a multi-pronged strategy begins with Iran.</p>
<p>Israel needs to directly attack Iran’s nuclear installations – by covert action as well as through overt military strikes, as required.</p>
<p>According to CBS, after Obama’s diplomatic capitulation to Iran became public, Netanyahu ordered Israel’s intelligence services to concentrate their efforts in Iran on exposing the fraudulence of Iran’s purported commitment to freezing its nuclear progress. But while this is important, exposing Iran’s duplicity is not nearly as important as incapacitating Iran’s nuclear sites.</p>
<p>With Obama now joining Secretary of State John Kerry in openly threatening to passively support a European trade war against Israel, it is imperative that Israel develop every economic opportunity it has to expand its markets. As Netanyahu made clear in his speech to AIPAC, Israel’s technological prowess has already made it a magnet for global investors. But these opportunities should be maximized through further economic liberalization.</p>
<p>In a conversation with Haaretz earlier this week, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz noted that “President Obama has been the president most hostile to the nation of Israel in modern times.”</p>
<p>In a conversation with this writer on Tuesday, Cruz placed the blame for Obama’s success in implementing his anti-Israel policies on the Senate Democrats, led by Majority LeaderHenry Reid.</p>
<p>In his words, “The challenge we are facing is that the number one protector of Obama’s foreign policy has been Harry Reidand the Senate Democrats.”</p>
<p>On the sidelines of the AIPAC conference, Cruz blasted the hypocrisy of Senate Democrats. “At the same time they block the Kirk-Menendez sanctions [bill against Iran] and blame Israel for the impasse in peace negotiations, they proclaim their support for Israel,” he said.</p>
<p>And Cruz is certainly correct.</p>
<p>There can be no doubt that Israel’s strongest supporters today are in the Republican Party.</p>
<p>But it is important to remember that most Democrats also support Israel. They are simply unable politically to withstand the pressures that Obama has brought to bear to force them to stand with him against Israel.</p>
<p>In his speech to AIPAC, Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, who chairs the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee confessed that he was forced to stand down on Iran sanctions due to partisan pressure.</p>
<p>In his words, “When it comes to Iran, I have stood with you and have stood against so many in my own party.”</p>
<p>Menendez’s admission that he couldn’t withstand the pressures that Obama and Reid brought to bear against him indicates that among some Democrats, support for Israel remains strong, but that under Obama, Israel’s Democrat supporters are weak.</p>
<p>While deeply problematic, this is a problem with a limited shelf-life.</p>
<p>If Obama views the midterm elections as the final restraint on his ability to act against the will of the American public, his fellow Democrats likely view the elections as the last time Obama will serve as the head of their party during an election cycle. In the 2016 elections, the Democrat presidential nominee will set the tone for the party, not Obama. Moreover, as the full economic impacts of Obamacare, Obama’s signature domestic policy, become known after the midterm elections, Obama will be even more severely weakened. Consequently, his ability to pressure his Democrat colleagues to toe his line will be diminished.</p>
<p>Finally, given Obama’s obsessive focus on demanding that Israel surrender its land to the Palestinians, it is imperative that Israel develop a strategy for waiting Obama out on this issue.</p>
<p>Obama told Goldberg that Israel must surrender to the Palestinians forthwith, because it has no other option. In his words, “I have not yet heard… a persuasive vision of how Israel survives as a democracy and a Jewish state at peace with its neighbors in the absence of a peace deal with the Palestinians and a two-state solution.</p>
<p>As I explain in my book The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East, which was released on Tuesday, Israel has a viable alternative.</p>
<p>It involves applying Israeli law to all of Judea and Samaria and integrating the Palestinians into Israeli society.</p>
<p>Israel would not be endangered demographically or democratically if it adopted this approach, and it would certainly be better off militarily.</p>
<p>Netanyahu has stated his support for establishing a Palestinian state. But he has made clear that he will only agree to a peace deal that protects Israel’s vital interests. While maintaining faith with that position, it would be prudent for him to discuss publicly and at length the fact while a negotiated peace is his preference, there is a fine alternative to a Palestinian terror state in Israel’s strategic and historic heartland.</p>
<p>If the Palestinians are uninterested in negotiating a viable agreement with Israel, then Israel will feel free to adopt an alternative course of applying its laws to Judea and Samaria.</p>
<p>At a minimum, such a move by Netanyahu would discredit and end Obama’s demographic threats, which are based on falsified Palestinian census data. It would place pressure on the Palestinians to show their hand – either embracing peace in a genuine manner, or demonstrating the basic falsity of their protestations of peaceful intentions. Either way, Israel would be better off.</p>
<p>Obama’s newfound courage to begin abandoning his pretense of supporting Israel presents Israel with a new challenge. But it is far from insurmountable. With the proper mix of policies, Israel can absorb Obama’s blows and even to blunt them, as Obama becomes an independent, unrestrained, and weak lame duck president.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Chloe-Simone-Valdary.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-219964" alt="Chloe-Simone-Valdary" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Chloe-Simone-Valdary.jpg" width="255" height="232" /></a>Today&#8217;s FrontPage Interview guest is Chloe Simone Valdary, a junior and international studies major at the University of New Orleans (UNO). In her short time on campus, Ms. Valdary has distinguished herself as a passionate defender of Israel and Zionism, creating the organization Allies of Israel, one of the lone pro-Israel groups at her university. Ms. Valdary is also the assistant director of special programs for the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel (ISBI) and blogs for </i>Arutz Sheva<i> and the </i>Times of Israel<i>. In addition to being featured by t</i><em>he</em> Jewish Press<i>, BET.com, Breitbart.com, the </i>Jerusalem Post<i>, among others, </i>Algemeiner<i> named Ms. Valdary one of the top 100 people positively affecting Jewish and Israeli life. Recently, Ms. Valdary&#8217;s advocacy has elicited the ire of anti-Israel activists, one of whom resorted to racist attacks against her. </i></p>
<p><b>FrontPage Magazine: </b><i>First off, thanks so much for speaking with FrontPage. You&#8217;re doing such impressive work fighting anti-Israel and anti-Semitic extremism on campuses today, which is very serious and, unfortunately, growing. When did you decided to take on this cause and what was the trigger for you?</i></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Chloe Simone Valdary: </b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I grew up in a philo-Semitic house. I am a Christian, but one of a different breed, some may say. I grew up observing Shabbat, keeping kosher dietary laws, and observing the Holy Days like Succot and Yom Kippur. So I was always learning about Israel from a historical standpoint. Throughout high school, I became fascinated with Jewish literature. I remember picking up a book called &#8220;Choose Life&#8221; by Rabbi Bernard Mandelbaum from my library. It was a collection of sayings from famous people which were all very positive and inspiring. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Another important moment in my life was watching the film “Freedom Writers.” I can now say retrospectively that film changed my life for ever. Because what occurs in that film is a class of students changing their lives for the better, and the turning point in the film is when they begin to learn about the Shoah. So that had a huge impact on me. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Moreover, I read the works of Leon Uris voraciously. So I identify each of these events as one of several precursors to the life I lead now. At any rate, these instances spurred within me a fascination and admiration for the Jewish people, and in college I decided to do a research paper on the modern day state of Israel, particularly as it pertains to the Arab-Israeli conflict. It was then that I discovered the level of anti-Semitism in the Middle East and also resurfacing in Europe. This was the trigger that led to my activism on and off campus. </span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">FPM</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">:</span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </b><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Can you tell us about your organization at the University of New Orleans and its mission statement?</i></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">CSV</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: The name of my organization is Allies of Israel. We are a two-year-old organization. The Allies of Israel Association (AIA) strives to educate students on college campuses about the history, geopolitics, and foreign policies affecting the age old Arab-Israeli conflict. The AIA supports the existence of Israel as a Jewish State and aims to create positive dialogue amongst college students. AIA recognizes the growing threat of global anti-Semitism and seeks to combat this phenomenon through education, the media, and if necessary, by means of the law. Working together, we can end the unjust demonization of the sovereign state of Israel.</span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">FPM</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">What is the atmosphere like at the University of New Orleans (UNO) campus? There were reportedly protestors at your pro-Israel event &#8220;Declare Your Freedom.” What happened? </i></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">CSV</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: UNO is very calm, actually. Before I created Allies of Israel, there were no pro- or anti-Israel movements. Even today, B”H, there are no anti-Israel groups, no Israel apartheid weeks, and no BDS movements on campus. Our first Declare Your Freedom (DYF) event actually took place last year in January, and even that protest was mild. People found out about it the day of and apparently staged a silent protest, which just appeared to be the students leaving to go to class. One person stood up and held a sign that said, “Justice for All.” So it was comparatively mild. </span></p>
<p>However a month after that, we actually partnered up with StandWithUs and brought some Israeli soldiers on campus to speak, and that was when we saw an anti-Israel backlash. Students came from all over the city to protest this event, in part, I think because they were angry at us for having the DYF event; they found out about that at the last minute. Many of the Arab students voiced their support for Hamas and it was just a rough time. They also staged a walkout. But most of these people didn&#8217;t actually go to UNO. They just coalesced together for this one event. Besides that, there has been no anti-Israel activity on my campus at all this year.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I do, however, work extensively with students in Tulane United for Israel. (Tulane University is 20 minutes away from UNO.) There is a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group on that campus and while they are comparatively mild, they&#8217;re extremely corrosive in their narrative. They have brought in rabidly anti-Semitic speakers, one of whom actually claimed that Israel and America were involved in a world conspiracy to enslave all the peoples of the world. So Tulane&#8217;s campus is a bit of an issue we may have to deal with in the coming semesters. </span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">FPM</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">How do you feel traditional pro-Israel campus voices are equipped to deal with the increasing aggressiveness of Israel boycotters? Did this also motivate you to start Allies of Israel?</i></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">CSV</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: To my knowledge, I dont think I was aware of any BDS movement when I first started AOI. It was more of a global battle I thought I was fighting as opposed to a regional one. Iran was in the news a lot. And again, it was mostly that research paper that was in the back of my mind.  </span></p>
<p>I think in the past, pro-Israel groups have sort of made the mistake of being responsive as opposed to being assertive. What I mean by this is that we would respond to Israel Apartheid Week as opposed to preempting Israel Apartheid Week and illustrating on our campuses what a disgrace it actually is. But I think the tide is turning, and I think we&#8217;re learning to be more assertive on campus, and thats a great thing. I&#8217;ve certainly noticed it, and I think the tide is turning in the battlefield of ideas on college campuses. People aren&#8217;t afraid to speak out against SJP any more. People aren&#8217;t afraid to call BDS what it really is. We are becoming emboldened and I hope that trend continues in the future.</p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">FPM</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">This brings up a great point. One of the aspects of your message that is so bold is that you are not afraid to make the clear association between the boycott movement, so-called &#8220;anti-Zionism&#8221; and anti-Semitim. This is something that many defenders of Israel are reluctant to be vocal about. What really cements in your mind the belief that the BDS movement is a front for anti-Semitism and what do you say to those in denial? </i></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Chloe Simone Valdary</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: Well I think you know for all intents and purposes BDS is overt about being anti-Zionist. Omar Bhargouti, the founder of the movement has said he wants a &#8220;Palestine next to a Palestine,&#8221; so its not like it’s a mystery in terms of what their intentions are. So I wouldn&#8217;t even say the BDS movement is a front for anti-Semitism. It is simply a manifestation of anti-Semitism, as it calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, and the end of Jewish civil rights. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Moreover I would add that, generally speaking, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, because to espouse this idea that Jews are not allowed to have self-determination in their ancestral homeland is to promote the abrogation of Jewish civil rights. This is a point of fact. To those proponents of BDS who are in denial about the BDS movement — well, they&#8217;re either willfully ignorant of the situation (because they ignore what the founder of their own movement declares) or they really do know what the movement stands for, but they think it is more politically expedient to feign ignorance. </span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">FPM</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Perhaps the biggest indicator of your effectiveness as a pro-Israel activist is the invective you&#8217;ve received from the opposition. Recently, you were the victim of a racist attack by writer Richard Silverstein over your opposition to BDS-supporter Judith Butler being invited to the Jewish Museum of New York. Can you tell us a bit about what happened?</i></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">CSV</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: Sure. Last Saturday morning, a friend brought it to my attention that a certain Richard Silverstein accused me of being a &#8220;Negro Uncle Tom&#8221; because of my support for Israel. Initially, I was unsure as to why I should pay attention to this, but then I realized that Silverstein was actually read and followed by certain people in the journalistic world for some inexplicable reason. I realized that in the past he had apparently written for the Huffington Post and the Guardian, and so I realized this was a serious issue and it wasn&#8217;t just some random person making racist slurs at me. So, I began to fully process what the accusation was and the implications of such an accusation. Many in the social media world came to my defense; I truly have many friends which I am eternally grateful for, who really stood up for me, so that was really sweet to see. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">At the same time, I didn&#8217;t personally really want to engage Silverstein on Twitter, which was the main forum where all the communication was taking place. So I actually worked with a few other people in my close circles and we developed a strategy on how we wanted to officially respond to him. I decided that I wanted to be the one to write a response on my own behalf in the Times of Israel, which I did. And after I wrote it (it’s called, “In Defense of Liberty,”) it sort of fizzled out I suppose. Although to a certain extent, people are still berating Silverstein for what he did and he seems to be digging himself even deeper into an immoral quagmire, so we&#8217;ll see how long that will last. But as far as I’m concerned, I have spoken my piece so my dealings with him are over.  </span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">FPM</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">In addition to your work at UNO, you&#8217;re also involved with the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel. Can you explain the connection you see between the black and Zionist causes and what draws you to this interesting intersection?</i></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">CSV</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: Yes, I am the assistant director of special programs at the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel. Like the black cause, which has historically been about freedom, in the most basic sense of the word, the Zionist cause entails that very same notion of the pursuit of freedom. Both these causes began with a real fundamental premise, namely, that man is free, he derives his freedoms from a Higher Authority, and, as such, no man on the face of the earth has the right to take those freedoms away from him. And this is where these two causes are in point of fact one and the same. The black cause posits that the black people are first and foremost free and equal. And since we are free and equal before God we possess certain innate rights, which cannot be taken away from us, and if these rights are threatened, it is our moral duty to pursue justice and oppose such measures. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Likewise, the Zionist cause posits that the Jewish people are free and equal before God, that that freedom means that there are certain inalienable rights the Jewish people possess, which can never be infringed upon or taken away from them, and that when such rights are threatened, it is the moral duty of the Jewish people to resist such unjust measures.  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The responsibility comes with the acknowledgement that we are first and foremost free, and this is a key component of these causes, which I cannot stress enough. A free human being must, by definition, express him or herself in a manner most befitting of that freedom. This means that we must distinguish between right and wrong and we must act on that distinction, and pursue what is just. If we were not free, if we were slaves to the opinions of mankind, we would not act upon such notions of moral and evil, but would instead be swayed by the opinions of our peers. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But this is not freedom. This is not acting out of one&#8217;s own volition. Neither is cowardice a trait of free individuals. If we are cowards and do not speak out against injustice, then we are slaves to our deepest fears of public opprobrium. This entails, as you can imagine, being scared to speak out against BDS, being scared to speak out against Israel Apartheid Week, and being scared to call these pitiful movements precisely what they are.  But we are not cowards, nor are we shackled bondsmen. We are free. So we will speak out against these gross injustices and episodes of slander against our people. Hence the black cause and hence the Zionist one. An attack on one is an attack on the other, and we saw this with the Silverstein ordeal. These causes are both one and the same. </span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">FPM</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Clearly, there are many prominent anti-Israel figures who are African-American and claim to represent the black community. For instance, Abdul Malik Ali, who calls Jews &#8220;Nazis&#8221; and says their &#8220;days are numbered,&#8221; is regularly brought on campuses. Louis Farrakhan is of course another well-known figure in the same vein. No one brings race into the equation with these individuals and their worldviews. What do you think would prompt over-the-top reactions to black solidarity with Israel, such as we saw with Silverstein? </i></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">CSV</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: Silverstein has a certain view of the world which posits that blacks must think, act, behave, and be a certain way. To deviate from this &#8220;way&#8221; is to deviate from what it means to be black according to his definition. The figures you mentioned are acting in accordance to what Silverstein thinks should be the definition of black behavior; therefore they are not ridiculed. </span></p>
<p><b>FPM</b>: <i>Does the criticism deter you in any way or give you more resolve?</i></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">CSV</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: With regards to the whole issue of racism, it made me very angry, and so I suppose it did strengthen my resolve in that sense. </span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">FPM</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">What sort of plans are on the horizon for you in terms of your activism? Any important events in the works? </i></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">CSV</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: Allies of Israel is working with Tulane United For Israel and McNeese State University to put on &#8220;Declare Your Freedom 2.0,&#8221; the second annual pro-Israel festival in New Orleans. It will take place on March 30.  The purpose of this festival is to declare our support of Israel and Zionism and Jewish civil rights. It will hopefully be the largest pro-Israel student-led festival in New Orleans. Speakers and artists will be present. There will also be giveaways, food and drinks, a cultural exhibit, and just a good time all around. Im looking forward to it. </span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">FPM</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Any final words for fellow students or critics? </i></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">CSV</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: Only a word for fellow Jewish students who may feel intimidated on campus by the onslaught of defamation coming your way: You must show the world that you are Jews. Unabashedly. And unashamedly. And you must show the world that you are Zionists. Brazen, audacious, fearless, Zionists. The legitimacy of your existence is not contingent upon the dissenters’ approbation or their hatred of you. The fact of the dawn of your civilization in a land flowing with milk and honey is neither up for debate nor dispute. It is already etched in the soil of Eretz Yisrael. And it is already flowing in the blood of your veins, in the heartbeats of your future children, in the dust of your skin.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">So you see you must be bold, you must be courageous. You must call out liars when you encounter them. You must speak, you must shout, you must chant, you must protest — you must live free.</span></p>
<p><b>FPM</b>: <em>Chloe, thanks so much for speaking with FrontPage. It was a pleasure to hear your story and we wish you the best of luck.</em></p>
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		<title>The Anti-Zionist Challenge to the Jewish Establishment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 05:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the target of groups like J Street is not the Right, but the leftist Jewish establishment.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/jews-boycotting-israel.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-219192" alt="jews boycotting israel" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/jews-boycotting-israel.jpg" width="287" height="214" /></a>Originally published by the<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Our-world-The-anti-Zionist-challenge-to-the-Jewish-establishment-341701"> Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>There is a difference between speech and war. Both are forms of expression, to be sure. But the essence of the former is engagement, and the essence of the latter is destruction.</p>
<p>This distinction is apparently too subtle for many of Israel’s Supreme Court justices. On Sunday, the Court heard arguments on the constitutionality of the 2011 Anti-Boycotts law. The law allows targets of boycotts to sue boycotters for damages in civil courts, and empowers the finance minister to revoke the non-profit status of NGOs that engage in boycotts. It is being challenged by a consortium of foreign-funded, radical, anti-Zionist NGOs.</p>
<p>The essence of boycotts is destruction, not engagement.</p>
<p>True, boycotters express an opinion when they boycott their targets. But just so, armies express an opinion when they bomb enemy targets.</p>
<p>The question is not whether in levying boycotts, the boycotters are expressing a position. It is whether the primary purpose of a boycott is to express an opinion or to annihilate its target.</p>
<p>As a form of economic warfare, boycotts aim to harm the profitability of targeted entities and either force them to toe the boycotters’ line, or force them out of business. That is, the aim is either coercive or eliminationist.</p>
<p>As a form of cultural warfare, the goal of boycotts of cultural or academic institutions is to place their targets outside of polite society, and so annihilate them culturally, professionally and socially.</p>
<p>In other words, unlike other forms of expression, the principle aim of boycotts is not engagement, or even incitement. It is destruction. Therefore, the question of whether or not boycotts are also a form of speech is entirely irrelevant.</p>
<p>But not for Israel’s Supreme Court justices. In their hearing on Sunday, the justices insisted that boycotts are primarily a force of engagement and as such, protected speech.</p>
<p>Or at least some boycotts are.</p>
<p>As they argued it, there is a distinction between boycotts of Israeli entities within and beyond the 1949 armistice lines.</p>
<p>In maintaining faith with the absurd claim that boycotts are indistinguishable from newspaper columns, and then making a distinction between boycotts within the armistice lines and boycotts of Israeli entities operating beyond them, the Court did more than show its hand. It exposed a leftist establishment’s incapacity to deal with the anti-Zionist Left.</p>
<p>For the past 25 years, the leftist establishment has coalesced around the view that there is a distinction between Israel within the 1949 armistice lines and Israel beyond those lines. The former is entirely legitimate.</p>
<p>The latter is the bane of Israel’s existence.</p>
<p>The justices tried to convince the attorneys for the petitioners to accept their view. But the anti-Zionist petitioners would have none of it. As they see it, since Israel is a democracy, and the vast majority of Israelis do not agree with their views, the entire country is illegitimate.</p>
<p>As Dan Yakir from Association for Civil Rights in Israelexplained, all of Israel is tied up to the so-called occupation.</p>
<p>So if the justices think it is okay to boycott the areas of the country that they would like to part with, they have to accept a boycott of areas of the country they wish to keep.</p>
<p>Building on this view, Adalah’s Hassan Jabareen insisted that all of Israel is politically disputed. And as a consequence, all of it is the legitimate target of boycott.</p>
<p>The petitioners’ rejection of all of Israel, rather than just parts of it, puts the justices and the leftist establishment as a whole in a difficult position.</p>
<p>They have to make a choice between the public, which sees no distinction between Ariel and Tel Aviv, and the anti-Zionists who also see no distinction between Ariel and Tel Aviv. That is, they have to decide what is more important to them – being Zionists, when that mantle is worn by the type of Jews they have spent their lives trying to distinguish themselves from, and being anti-Zionists, and so denying their right to exist.</p>
<p>The Israeli leftist establishment’s dilemma is not unique. The American Jewish establishment faces the same brutal choice. The American Jewish establishment followed along after the Israeli leftist establishment when it embraced the PLO in 1993. Ever since, the American Jewish establishment has drawn a distinction between consensus Israel, within the 1949 armistice lines, which they supported, and controversial Israel, outside those lines, which they marginalized, or debased.</p>
<p>And just as the activist Israeli Left has joined the campaign to destroy the Jewish state and so is now forcing the leftist establishment to either side with the public it holds in contempt or with the anti-Zionist Left that rejects Israel completely, so the activist American Jewish Left has become a leading voice in the campaign to criminalize Israel. Today it is forcing the Jewish establishment to make a choice between siding with all Israelis, including the Israeli Right, or siding with the likes of J Street whose aim is to delegitimize the organized American Jewish community’s right to defend Israel.</p>
<p>On Monday, a new documentary about J Street called The J Street Challenge, debuted in Miami. The film, produced by the social action group Americans for Peace and Tolerance, shows how J Street, which claims to be pro-peace and pro-Israel, seeks to eliminate American Jewish groups on the Right and weaken overall American Jewish support for Israel by delegitimizing the American Jewish organizational structure.</p>
<p>In July 2010, as the IRS was engaged in delaying and denying the applications for the non-profit status of groups that campaigned for limited government, J Street asked the IRS to cancel the non-profit status of American charities that support Israeli entities located in or operating beyond the 1949 armistice lines.</p>
<p>Since then, a dozen completely legitimate, law-abiding charitable organizations have been embroiled in lawsuits or audits and have been forced to fight for their institutional lives.</p>
<p>The J Street Challenge provides footage of speeches by J Street leaders and founders who question Israel’s right to exist and defame the American Jewish community for supporting Israel. In one such speech, J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami used the classical anti-Semitic imagery of a Jewish hydra suffocating the world in his description of the American Jewish establishment.</p>
<p>As he put it, “I think we’re taking on much more than AIPA C. I think it is the Conference of Presidents. It’s the American Jewish Committee. It’s the lobbying structures of the Federations. It’s the network of JCRCs, the community relations councils. It’s a multi-layered, multi-headed hydra.”</p>
<p>The most outspoken critics of Israeli anti-Zionist NGOs and J Street are on the Right. And that makes sense. It isn’t hard for rightists to make the distinction between speeches and extortion.</p>
<p>But the primary target of these groups is not the Right.</p>
<p>It is the leftist Jewish establishment, in Israel and in the US. And as J Street’s nearly unchallenged rise in the US, and the Court’s self-defeating incoherence on the boycott campaign indicate, over the decades, the establishment Left has become so dependent on rejecting the Right for its own sense of identity, that it is no longer clear whether its members are capable of siding with the hated Right against their common foes.</p>
<p><em>The author’s new book, The Israeli Solution: A One- State Plan for Peace in the Middle East, will be released on March 4.</em></p>
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		<title>Glorifying Fringe Jewish Extremists at the NY Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 05:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How vital is it to provide a prominent platform to religious anti-Israel Jews?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/03israel_n070424.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-219108" alt="03israel_n070424" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/03israel_n070424-450x333.jpg" width="315" height="233" /></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The New York Times continues to go out of its way to glorify Jewish extremists who represent a </span>minuscule<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> portion of world Jewry, yet command high-profile media coverage. In the latest absurdity, this weekend, the New York Times ran a 1,300-word polemic entitled </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/us/a-conflict-of-faith-devoted-to-jewish-observance-but-at-odds-with-israel.html?_r=1">“<i>A Conflict of Faith: Devoted to Jewish Observance, but at Odds With Israel”</i></a><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">about observant Jews</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">who oppose the State of Israel.  (There’s about as many traditional Jews who oppose Israel’s existence as there are Black KKK Members, or GOP voters who support communism.)</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While a rational person may question why readers of one of the world’s most circulated newspapers would have any interest in such an obscure topic, a more educated person may surmise that multiple Jewish reporters of the NY Times endorse the extreme viewpoints espoused in the article. There can be no other reason to explain such a topic being covered.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As one who travels often and has met tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews in countless synagogues across the world, I must say I have never encountered in any synagogue Jews </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">opposed </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">to the State of Israel.  This weekend, I attended a weekend retreat with thousands of Orthodox Jews – and while there was much debate on many issues, amazingly, not a single one voiced such a viewpoint.  Nor have I ever heard a single Orthodox Jews endorse a boycott against Israel.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Of course, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Ronn-Torossian/e/B005DOQIPO">as an author</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.algemeiner.com/author/ronn-torossian/">contributor to multiple Jewish newspapers</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> who travels quite often I have never seen dancing lesbian Chinese midgets, or pigs whom can fly, but indeed such things may exist. Other than the quackadoo extremists of the Neturei Karta, the positions the NY Times detail are not one which a single Orthodox, or even conservative synagogue in the world would embrace.  Think its extreme?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A person like Charles H. Manekin who says he was pleased that there was an academic boycott of Israel and is “&#8217;sympathetic&#8217; to B.D.S., as the global movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel,” is the very definition of a person whom Lenin spoke about when he said that those who work against their own people’s best interests in support of their enemies are “useful idiots.” Then there is Stefan Krieger who is proud that he “will not rise in synagogue for the traditional prayer for the state of Israel.” Kreiger’s position as a donor </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://issuu.com/newisraelfund/docs/nif_2012_ar/32">to the extremist New Israel Fund</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> wasn’t detailed as he said, “I think nationalism and religion together are toxic.”</span></p>
<p>The New Israel Fund’s associate director has said she believes in 100 years Israel would be majority Arab and that the disappearance of a Jewish state would not be the tragedy that Israelis fear since it would become more democratic<b>. </b>Dangerous people for anyone who supports peace in the Middle East.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Then there is Rabbi Alissa Wise</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">who works for the</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), which the liberal ADL describes as an anti-Israel organization and says use “its Jewish identity to shield the anti-Israel movement from allegations of anti-Semitism and provide it with a greater degree of legitimacy and credibility.” ADL says the group exploits its so-called “Jewish nature,” yet their ideology is nothing but a complete rejection of Israel.” Another source is Daniel Boyarin of the University of California, Berkeley.  He is so extreme that the liberal American Jewish Committee condemned him.  In an essay entitled “&#8221;Progressive&#8221; Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism,” Alvin H. Rosenfeld says Boyarin lacks &#8220;lucid thinking&#8221; and is biased for making an analogy between the Holocaust and the Israeli government&#8217;s conduct toward the Palestinians.</span></p>
<p>Harvard professor Ruth Wisse wrote, “the rapid demoralization of Jews in the face of anti-Zionism… shows the depth of the influence of the past, for many have yet to achieve the simple self-respect that has been eluding the Jews collectively since the dawn of modernity.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Useful idiots like those quoted desire a “humanity” that will divest the Jewish people of their humanity. To oppose Israel so vehemently is simply endangering Jews. There has never been a shortage of people or groups who harm Jews – and the most effective stick for beating Israel over the head is a Jewish or Israeli stick, who are allies of Jewish enemies.</span></p>
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		<title>Obama’s War on Israel</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/obama-kerry_2747856b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218618" alt="obama-kerry_2747856b" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/obama-kerry_2747856b-437x350.jpg" width="262" height="210" /></a>If the left’s foreign policy these days had a slogan, it would be, “Boycott Israel, not Iran.” The double standard, dishonest as it is ugly, is also the motto of Obama’s foreign policy, which benevolently blesses Iran’s nuclear program with one outstretched hand in the name of peace and chokes concessions out of Israel to the terrorists with the other also in the name of peace.</span></p>
<p>Both peace plans are going disastrously according to plan.</p>
<p>Iran has made it clear that it will dismantle nothing and that it will go on developing ballistic missiles and nuclear technology. Its military commanders threaten to attack the United States and boast that their ships are encroaching on America’s maritime borders.</p>
<p>The Palestinian Authority has shed the last vestiges of democracy as its leader begins the tenth year of a four-year term and its elected legislature has been discarded in favor of the PLO Council. Instead of a representative government, the Palestinian Authority has reverted back to what it always was; the PLO.</p>
<p>A Palestinian state has receded into the figment of a dream as elections have become a distant memory and Hamas continues to hold Gaza, leaving a PLO mafia in the West Bank to maintain its monopoly on cigarettes and other commodities while passing around Western aid money to its terrorist militias.</p>
<p>The more Kerry pressures Israel, the more bellicose PLO leaders have become. Fatah officials have accused Kerry of threatening to poison Abbas, the Palestinian Authority’s current President-for-Life. The accusation is ridiculous, but the PLO, like Iran, is feeling emboldened by American weakness.</p>
<p>The softer American power gets, the harder its enemies hit.</p>
<p>Obama Inc. however has eyes only for Israel. Its officials and its allied media apparatus in New York and Washington have decided to hold Israel’s Prime Minister personally accountable for any criticism of Kerry and Obama not only by Israeli Jews … but also by American Jews.</p>
<p>An Obama Inc. official said that Obama and Kerry were disturbed over “Jewish activism in Congress” and that the administration had informed Israel of its displeasure over criticism of them by American Jews.  Holding Netanyahu accountable for the comments of American Jewish leaders is an ugly Alinskyite tactic in which Obama uses Israel as a hostage in order to silence domestic Jewish criticism.</p>
<p>“Shut up or the Jewish State gets it.”</p>
<p>The constant monitoring and suppression of Israeli criticism was so pervasive that Kerry’s handler, Jen Psaki, denounced a comedy video mocking his disastrous diplomacy put out by an Israeli political group, sight unseen, while discussing expectations that Israeli leaders would rein in criticism of Kerry.</p>
<p>Psaki described criticism of Kerry as “not an attack on him; that’s an attack on the process. And of course that kind of rhetoric we find unacceptable.” John Forbes Kerry had become the living embodiment of peace. The peace process, whether in Iran or Israel, had become reducible to peace. Opposing it meant opposing peace and supporting war. And Kerry had become reducible to the process and therefore to peace. Louis XIV had only claimed to embody the State. Kerry claims to embody peace.</p>
<p>Meanwhile Kerry makes poorly coded threats about international boycotts and intifadas to Israel while promising Jerusalem to the PLO.</p>
<p>The lack of options is the theme of both peace plans. Sanctions on Iran mean war, claims Obama. A failure to reach a deal that will let Iran keep its nuclear program also means war. And so, in true Chamberlainian fashion, the only alternative to war is to accept any offer that the enemy makes.</p>
<p>The willingness to accept any deal is the traditional negotiating posture of the losers of a war, but when any alternative to a peace deal is considered unacceptable, the peace negotiators come to the table as the losers of a war that was never even fought because they had already surrendered in all but name.</p>
<p>When the Senate attempted a little bit of bipartisan pressure on Iran, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes began denouncing the vast Jewish war conspiracy and the left-wing of an already left-wing media shrieked that we were about to be plunged into a war by the Zionist warmongerers. The same outlets that give a hearing to proposals to boycott Israel, chant in angry unison that any boycott of Iran is an act of war.</p>
<p>Every good progressive in Obama Inc. and in its media corps knows that Iran, which took American hostages and murdered hundreds of Americans, is a victim of American foreign policy, while Israel, which is being cut up into a completely indefensible, broken territory for a peace that will never come, is its beneficiary. The terrorist peace processes are unworkable, but they were never supposed to work.</p>
<p>The peace process with the Palestinian Authority has always failed because it was always meant to fail. Peace was the brass ring that Israel was supposed to reach for, but never actually get close enough to reach, carving itself to pieces under the bloody knives of the negotiators in the hopes of proving its moral worth to the world. Dying so that it might be allowed to live. The Iranian deal is more of the same.</p>
<p>Perhaps there is enough tie dye in Obama’s blood for him to genuinely want a world without nukes, but if the US is to retain its nuclear capability, then like Oppenheimer and the other scientists who helped the USSR get the bomb in the name of world peace, he wants Iran to have the bomb for world peace.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Netanyahu thought that he might be able to trade one peace process for another, but he hasn’t even been able to trade concessions to terrorists for sanctions on Iran. Instead he has made the worst possible bargain, trading a self-inflicted punch in the face for an enemy’s kick in the teeth. Israel has once again ended up with the worst of both worlds in the name of peace.</p>
<p>Obama’s dual peace processes have the same agenda. They are both meant to destroy Israel. If the PLO can’t get the job done with intermittent terrorism and negotiations, maybe a nuclear Iran will. The goal is to create enough threats to Israel that it either ceases to be a viable state or simply ceases to exist.</p>
<p>The destruction of Israel flows naturally from the destruction of American power. Israel has to be undone, just as Mubarak was undone, just as the United States military was undone, to heal the humiliations of the Muslim world. The United States had to lose in Afghanistan and Iraq, it had to destroy its allies in the Middle East, to make Muslims feel good about finally defeating the United States.</p>
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		<title>Israel Won&#8217;t Submit to Boycott Threats</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 05:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Kerry’s efforts to intimidate the Israeli leadership won't succeed.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ben.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218419" alt="ben" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ben-450x304.jpg" width="315" height="213" /></a>The speech given by Secretary of State John Kerry at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, February 1, 2014, created quite a stir in Israel. The media debated Kerry’s intent and politicians from across the political spectrum reacted to what they perceived as threats of boycotts against Israel. It is clear that Kerry’s statements were intended to intimidate the Israeli leadership into falling in line with the framework for peace he will be delivering in the near future.</p>
<p>In Munich, Kerry stated, “Everywhere I go in the world, wherever I go – I promise you, no exaggeration, the Far East, Africa, Latin America – one of the first questions out of the mouths of a foreign minister or a prime minister or a president is, ‘Can’t you guys do something to help bring an end to this conflict between Palestinians and Israelis?’ Indonesia – people care about it because it’s become either in some places an excuse or in other places an organizing principle for efforts that can be very troubling in certain places.  I believe that – and you see for Israel there’s an increasing de-legitimization campaign that has been building up. People are very sensitive to it. <a title="http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/02/221134.htm" href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/02/221134.htm" target="_blank">There is talk of boycotts</a> and other kind of things. Are we all going to be better with all of that?”</p>
<p>Secretary of State Kerry spoke of consequences for Israel should the current peace talks fail. He warned that “Today’s status quo absolutely, to a certainty, I promise you 100 percent, cannot be maintained. It’s not sustainable. It’s illusionary…”</p>
<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded on Sunday, February 2, 2014 to Kerry’s speech. He said, “Boycott attempts are <a title="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/02/02/netanyahu-dismisses-kerry-warning-about-boycott-threat/" href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/02/02/netanyahu-dismisses-kerry-warning-about-boycott-threat/" target="_blank">immoral</a>, unjust, and will not achieve their goal.” Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz argued that “Israel can’t conduct negotiations with a gun pointed to its head.” He went on to say that Kerry’s comments were “offensive.”  Naftali Bennett, the Economics Minister, charged that Kerry’s statements show him as siding with Israel’s foes. “We expect our friends around the world to stand beside us, against anti-Semitic efforts targeting Israel, and not for them to be their amplifier.” Ethiopian-born Member of Knesset Pnina Tamano-Shata, of the centrist Yesh Atid party, observed that Kerry’s statements at the Munich Conference “are irresponsible in my view and harm the State of Israel.”</p>
<p>Israeli voices on the political left including Justice Minister Tzipi Livni defended Kerry saying, “When the leader says to us friends, the reality is going to change in the event of a political deal, this does not constitute a <a title="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/177045#.UvAUXeQo6nA" href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/177045#.UvAUXeQo6nA" target="_blank">threat</a> to the State of Israel, but rather defines reality as it is.”</p>
<p>What Livni neglected to explain however, is why Kerry failed to mention what consequences the Palestinians would suffer if the talks failed. It is the Palestinians under Mahmoud Abbas (not to mention the Palestinians of Hamas in Gaza) who have been the rejectionist party in these negotiations (scheduled to end on April 29, 2014, unless extended). In an interview with the New York Times on Sunday, February 2, 2014, Abbas was asked by a reporter about recognition of Israel as a Jewish State. He replied, “This is <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/world/middleeast/palestinian-leader-seeks-nato-force-in-future-state.html?_r=0" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/world/middleeast/palestinian-leader-seeks-nato-force-in-future-state.html?_r=0" target="_blank">out of the question</a>,” noting that “Jordan and Egypt were not asked to do so when they signed peace treaties with Israel.”</p>
<p>According to Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, who also spoke at the Munich Security Conference, “(Israel) was not willing to talk about giving up one inch unless the Palestinians agree that at the end of the process, the framework of the negotiations will include the recognition of our right to exist as a nation-state of the Jewish people, a finality of claims, (meaning an end of conflict-JP), <a title="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/1-340094" href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/1-340094" target="_blank">giving up the right of return</a>, (of Palestinian refugees to Israel-JP) and addressing our security needs.”  Yaalon added, “Hopefully we’ll get it, if not, we will manage.”</p>
<p>It is unlikely that Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinians will compromise on the “right of return,” which might be a deal breaker. They know full well that such an agreement would be akin to Israel committing demographic suicide. Nor will the Palestinians show flexibility with recognizing Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. Mahmoud Abbas told the NY Times that Israeli soldiers could remain in the West Bank for up to five years and that Jewish settlements should be phased out of the new Palestinian state. He proposed that NATO forces should be responsible for security on the West Bank and in preventing terror attacks against Israel. He also promised a demilitarized Palestinian state with only “police” forces to keep order.</p>
<p>Israel’s experience with foreign forces policing against terror or preventing war is rather bitter. In Lebanon, UNIFIL forces enabled Hezbollah to accumulate over 100,000 missiles now aimed at Israel, and allowed Hezbollah terrorists to fire at Israeli communities across the border. In the Sinai, UN troops folded as soon as Nasser ordered them out in May, 1967. And, NATO forces did little to prevent the bloodletting in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990’s. Even if Israel agreed to the infringement on its right to self-defense and accepted NATO forces, the Palestinians will not compromise on all the other issues mentioned by Yaalon.</p>
<p>Palestinian NGO’s and labor unions initiated the call for Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel in 2005, and managed to bring anti-Semites, and extreme-leftist groups in Europe and America under their umbrella. Ironically, while in South Africa (a BDS movement stronghold) for the funeral of Nelson Mandela last December, President of the Palestinian Authority, Abbas said that he does <span style="text-decoration: underline;">not </span>support a <a title="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/22/mahmoud-abbas-rejection-israel-boycott" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/22/mahmoud-abbas-rejection-israel-boycott" target="_blank">boycott against Israel</a>.</p>
<p>The mere mention of boycotts by Kerry was a way of taking sides &#8211; the Palestinian side. Boycotts, however, are nothing new. The Jews in Palestine lived with them even before the Jewish state was established. Much like in Nazi Germany, Zionist institutions and Jewish businesses were boycotted by the Arab establishment in Mandatory Palestine. Soon after Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, the Arab League imposed its boycott, which lasted until the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993. In 1994, the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council countries ended their boycott of Israel.</p>
<p>On campuses across the country there are <a title="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/IsraelonCampusReport2012.pdf" href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/IsraelonCampusReport2012.pdf" target="_blank">two specific groups</a> responsible for waging BDS campaigns: The Muslim Students Association (MSA) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). What goes unreported and what Kerry neglects to acknowledge is that <a title="http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-1000679786" href="http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-1000679786" target="_blank">85%</a> of Palestinian residents on the West Bank are interested in economic cooperation with Israel.</p>
<p>Then, there are Europe’s traditional anti-Semites in academia and business who have embraced the opportunity to harm the Jewish state, allegedly in the name of peace. European bankers are now queuing up in Tehran for post-sanctions business, while at the same time, boycotting Israeli banks that do business on the West Bank. They should be publicly shamed and targeted for counter-boycotts.</p>
<p>The Arab/Muslim world has tried war, terror, and economic warfare against Israel and has failed. The Jewish state is more prosperous now than ever, while the Arab world is mired in poverty and misery. The Europeans murdered Six Million Jews, but failed to destroy the Jewish people. A strong and flourishing Israel is an anathema to the Europeans, and to the anti-Semites on campuses in Europe and America. John Kerry must understand that his insinuation of the boycott threat against Israel can only evoke the dark memories of the past, and will not bring Israel to submission, or force it to sacrifice its vital interests.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 05:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just who is enabling the secretary of state's aggression toward Israel? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ShowImage.ashx_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218014" alt="ShowImage.ashx" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ShowImage.ashx_.jpg" width="185" height="140" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Our-world-Kerrys-Israeli-supporters-340258">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>Once again, on Saturday, US Secretary of State John Kerry tried to extort Israeli concessions to the PLO by threatening us with a Western economic boycott.</p>
<p>Kerry is obsessed with Israel’s economic success. Last May he told us that we’re too rich to surrender our land.</p>
<p>Now he’s saying we’ll be poor if we don’t do so.</p>
<p>The anti-Semitic undertones of Kerry’s constant chatter about Jews having too much money are obvious. But beyond their inherent bigotry, Kerry’s statements serve to legitimize the radical Left’s economic war against the Jewish state. Administration supporters and fundraisers from Code Pink and other pressure groups, as well as the EU understand that if they escalate their economic and political persecution of the Jewish state, their actions will be met with quiet understanding, and even support from the Obama administration.</p>
<p>This is so even if the State Department issues indignant press releases expressing fury that Israeli elected officials have the chutzpah to object to Kerry’s behavior.</p>
<p>Israel has been subjected to plenty of abuse from American secretaries of state. But Kerry’s incessant talk of “illusory” Jewish money is unprecedented.</p>
<p>Why does Kerry believe he can get away with this? The overwhelming majority of US lawmakers oppose economic warfare against Israel.</p>
<p>The vast majority of Americans support Israel and believe that a Palestinian state will support terrorism and be hostile to Israel.</p>
<p>So if the American public opposes Kerry’s obsessive aggressiveness toward Israel, who is supporting him? Who is giving him cover for his anti-Jewish smears and his irrational focus on Jewish communities beyond the 1949 armistice lines? The answer is as infuriating as it is apparent. It is the Israeli Left and through it, much of the American Jewish community that enables Kerry’s diplomatic aggression against the Jewish state.</p>
<p>Operating under their cover, Kerry feels free to engage in anti-Jewish bigotry directed against Israeli society. He believes he is immune from allegations of ill-will toward Israel even as he places the full weight of the US government behind a plan that will endanger Israel, bring no peace, destabilize the Middle East and fail to win the US any friends or allies in the Islamic world.</p>
<p>On the face of it, it is hard to understand why leftist Israeli Jews cheer Kerry’s aggressive attacks and threats.</p>
<p>After all, they live here.</p>
<p>They know as well as the rest of the country that if Israel bows to his will and surrenders Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria to the PLO the move will bring no peace.</p>
<p>Rather it will unleash a Palestinian terrorist assault the likes of which we haven’t seen before.</p>
<p>They know that the international delegitimization of Israel only expands with every Israeli concession to the PLO, and that giving up the store will bring us no respite from the Western world’s assault on our right to exist.</p>
<p>So what do they gain by giving cover to Kerry? Why do people like Labor MK Shelly Yacimovich applaud Kerry for placing unrelenting pressure on the government to take steps that the majority of Israelis oppose and urge him to keep it up? Ron Pundak, one of the original architects of Israel’s embrace of the PLO and the so-called two-state solution at Oslo in 1993 supplied the answer in a recently published paper.</p>
<p>Last November the George Soros-supported International Crisis Group published a paper by Pundak entitled “Leap of Faith: Israel’s National Religious and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”</p>
<p>The purpose of his paper was to provide strategies for contending with the religious Zionist opposition to the two-state model. According to Pundak, non-secular Israelis oppose the two-state policy because it “is seen as&#8230; aimed at de-Zionizing the state.”</p>
<p>Rather than develop talking points to convince Israeli Zionists that they are wrong to view the two-state model as an anti-Zionist project, Pundak admitted they are right. Indeed, destroying the Zionist underpinning of the Jewish state is not a byproduct of the two-state model. It is the purpose of the two-state model.</p>
<p>In Pundak’s words, “Peace is not an objective by itself. It is a way to transition Israel from one era to another: to an era of what I consider is a normal state. Israelisation of society rather than its judaisation&#8230;”</p>
<p>Pundak’s explanation is not new. Before the Sharon government surrendered Gaza to Palestinian terrorists and forcibly expelled its 8,000 Jewish residents from their homes,<em>Haaretz</em> published an unsigned editorial along the same lines.</p>
<p>“The disengagement of Israeli policy from its religious fuel is the real disengagement currently on the agenda. On the day after the disengagement, religious Zionism’s status will be different.”</p>
<p>The editorial concluded that all the talk about enhanced security or peace was pure nonsense. The purpose of destroying the communities in Gaza was to destroy the political and social power of religious Zionism in Israel.</p>
<p>“The real question is not how many mortar shells will fall, or who will guard the Philadelphi route [between Gaza and Egypt], or whether the Palestinians will dance on the roofs of [the destroyed communities]. The real question is who sets the national agenda.”</p>
<p>Other leftist commentators and policy makers including Doron Rosenblum, Avirama Golan, Avrum Burg, Efraim Sneh, Dan Margalit and Ami Ayalon made similar arguments.</p>
<p>For Pundak and his colleagues in the post-Zionist camp, Kerry is a key ally. And to the extent Kerry weakens the government and its supporters, he is a strategic asset.</p>
<p>True, Kerry’s “framework” will bring no peace. But if what Pundak and his camp were after was peace, they wouldn’t have embraced the PLO to begin with. They would have cultivated pro-Israel Arabs who would lead their people into Israeli society.</p>
<p>That is, they would have done precisely what center- right governing coalitions – that included religious Zionists – sought to achieve, with significant success, in the decade and a half that preceded the phony peace-process.</p>
<p>Israel is a democracy. And it is perfectly legitimate for Pundak and his colleagues to try to advance their policy goal of replacing Zionism with a de-Judaized state or anything else they wish.</p>
<p>What is illegitimate is the means they have employed to advance their goal.</p>
<p>In a democracy, the strategic goals and policies of the government are supposed to be based on the will of the public as expressed at the ballot box. In Israel, there is a political party that shares the goals of the post-Zionist camp. It is called Meretz and it receives between two and five seats in the Knesset every election.</p>
<p>Pundak and his colleagues know that they cannot convince the majority of Israelis to abandon Zionism in favor of their anti-Jewish vision of the future. So rather than tell us the truth about what they are doing, they engage in subversion and subterfuge. They call themselves “the peace camp,” and use outside pressure and coercion to bend an unwilling public to their will.</p>
<p>For them, Kerry is best when he’s worst for their country.</p>
<p>And Kerry knows this. And so he piles on the threats, and the anti-Semitism, and with their support, he knows he can get away with it.</p>
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		<title>Threatening for Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2014 05:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kerry warns Israel to concede or reap the wrath of the gods.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/kerry-300x203.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217891" alt="kerry-300x203" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/kerry-300x203.jpg" width="270" height="183" /></a>Secretary of State John Kerry has been repeatedly warning Israel of dire consequences if the current talks with the Palestinians do not lead to a negotiated peace. In November he </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" title="" href="http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Kerry-extends-his-stay-in-Mideast-says-significant-progress-made-in-some-areas-of-peace-talks-330912" target="_blank">warned of a third intifada</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> on Israeli TV.</span></p>
<p>And on Sunday at the Munich Security Conference, Kerry <a title="" href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/US-responds-to-Israel-uproar-says-Kerry-never-called-for-boycott-340097" target="_blank">had this to say</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Today’s status quo, absolutely to a certainty, I promise you 100 percent, cannot be maintained. It is not sustainable. It is illusionary. You see, for Israel there is an increasing delegitimization campaign that has been building up. People are very sensitive to it. There is talk of boycott and other kinds of things. Are we all going to be better with all of that?</p></blockquote>
<p>Many Israelis reacted angrily. Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz called Kerry’s words “offensive, unreasonable and unacceptable. It is impossible to expect Israel to negotiate with a gun to its head.”</p>
<p>State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki came to Kerry’s defense, saying:</p>
<blockquote><p>Secretary Kerry has a proud record of over three decades of steadfast support for Israel’s security and well-being, including staunch opposition to boycotts…. [He] expects all parties to accurately portray his record and statements.</p></blockquote>
<p>It is an accurate portrayal to say that to most Israelis, these statements sound like threats. “Make peace, or really bad things will happen to you” is perceived as a threat. Resentment is only intensified by the fact that—at least in public—Kerry <a title="" href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=7239" target="_blank">makes no comparable threats to the Palestinian side</a>.</p>
<p>But aside from the propriety of what Kerry said in Munich, is it true? Will Israel be an increasingly delegitimized, boycotted country if the current talks end without an agreement?</p>
<p>On the one hand, in moves regarded by many as alarming, in recent days two major European banks have taken action against Israeli banks. Sweden’s Nordea Bank—Scandinavia’s largest—asked for “clarifications” from two Israeli banks involved in building in the West Bank. Denmark’s Danske Bank—largest in that country—announced on its website that it was boycotting Israel’s Bank Hapoalim for that same alleged sin of building in places Europe thinks should be Jew-free.</p>
<p>On the other hand, as an Israeli official <a title="" href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/US-responds-to-Israel-uproar-says-Kerry-never-called-for-boycott-340097" target="_blank">observed to the Jerusalem Post</a>, “The success of the so-called boycotters has been limited in the extreme.” The official pointed out that</p>
<blockquote><p>[Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu returned last week from the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he met both with leaders of countries—such as Mexico, Panama, Nigeria and China—and international companies who were very eager to do business with Israel, “not because they are Zionists, but because they understand there is so much to gain from doing business with us.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile <a title="" href="http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/10/06/the-ten-worst-purveyors-of-antisemitism-worldwide-no-9-roger-waters/" target="_blank">antisemitic rock star Roger Waters</a> has been <a title="" href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=15223" target="_blank">lashing out angrily</a> at the likes of rock star Neil Young and actress Scarlett Johansson for refusing to ostracize Israel.</p>
<p>But let’s say, for the sake of argument, that Kerry and others who bludgeon Israel with warnings about terrible outcomes if peace talks fail—a binational state, a boycotted state, an intifada—are right.</p>
<p>Even if that were the case, there would still be problems.</p>
<p>For one thing, imagine being on the Palestinian side and hearing that Israel is essentially desperate; that for Israel the talks are do-or-die. You would react, of course, by driving as hard a bargain as possible—or just letting the talks drift into failure and watching Israel meet its bitter fate.</p>
<p>But there is an even more fundamental problem. What if, despite Israel’s best efforts, the other side is not interested in peace?</p>
<p>Evidence for that supposition is not exactly lacking; it’s abundant. Israel has had to free dozens of Palestinian terrorists just to have the talks at all; they were <a title="" href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-prisoners-on-way-to-ramallah-for-festive-welcome/" target="_blank">received as heroes</a> and got big boosts in their stipends. Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas has said that the Palestinian side would <a title="" href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/hard-line-speech-from-abbas-marks-turn-from-position-in-talks/" target="_blank">never relinquish the right of return</a>, a formula for Israel’s demographic doom, and <a title="" href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/176491" target="_blank">never recognize Israel as a Jewish state</a>.</p>
<p>Meanwhile the Palestinians—as “peace talks” continue—keep <a title="" href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=10603" target="_blank">naming their schools after terrorists</a> and raising another generation with terrorists as role models. One can easily go on in this vein. What one cannot do is convince a hard-core peace processor like John Kerry that it matters.</p>
<p>Instead the onus is put on Israel, while the entity that celebrates and cultivates terror gets a free pass. It’s a disgrace.</p>
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		<title>John Kerry&#8217;s Blackmail</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2014 05:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The secretary of state tells Israel to surrender -- or the boycotters will win. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/17763891.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217858" alt="17763891" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/17763891-450x337.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>American Secretary of State John Kerry continued the Obama Administration’s record of bullying, saying on Saturday, “for Israel there is an increasing de-legitimization campaign that has been building up. People are very sensitive to it, there is talk of boycott and other kinds of things. Are we all going to be better with all of that?&#8221; Kerry is pressuring Israel to make very difficult compromises, claiming if not there will be a “high risk” of increased boycotts, and a higher likelihood of international isolation for Israel. This, in English would be called </span>blackmail<em>.</em><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p>This administration has repeatedly pushed through controversial, executive action policies that the majority of Americans oppose – and the Middle East is no different. Instead of standing with America’s closest ally, Kerry spent the weekend threatening violence and boycotts against Israel if the Jewish State doesn’t make sacrifices to placate the Palestinian Arabs. Despicable incitement which provides moral encouragement to those who seek to kill Jews and are also enemies of the West.</p>
<p>Why haven&#8217;t the Palestinians been threatened if peace talks break down? As a fellow Front <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ari-lieberman/palestinians-cheer-while-america-mourns/">Page Mag columnist previously noted, Palestinians cheer while America mourns</a>. In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/gaza-arabs-celebrate-boston-marathon-attack-with-dance-candies/2013/04/17/?src=ataglance">Palestinians in Gaza cheered</a>, “danced in the streets and handed out candy and sweets to motorists and pedestrians alike.” “Similarly, after the 9-11 attacks that killed 3,000 people, the Palestinian response was quite similar. Old women were seen <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRA0NKQ0k6E">shrieking in jubilation</a> while children passed out sweets and men cheered approvingly.”  And these are the people American officials support?</p>
<p>Lest one forget, there were mass protests against America amongst Palestinian Arabs during President Barack Obama&#8217;s visit to the region.  Palestinians are no friends of the Christians, and stand as allies of Arab fundamentalists who are also anti-American.  Israel remains the only place in the Middle East where American flags aren’t burnt.</p>
<p>In November, John Kerry encouraged the Arabs to commit violence against Israel when he asked, &#8220;<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/07/us-palestinians-israel-kerry-idUSBRE9A60P220131107">I mean, does Israel want a third intifada</a>?&#8221; Kerry said Israel&#8217;s &#8220;isolation&#8221; would be their own fault if a peace deal with the Palestinians falls through. Kerry further warned the Israelis that &#8220;the alternative to getting back to the talks is the potential of chaos.&#8221; Tantamount to incitement by saying either give in or accept attacks. Despicable<i>.</i></p>
<p>Simply, John Kerry is telling Israel that if it does not sacrifice land to the Palestinian Arabs, then they can deal with Arab violence. What Kerry neglects is that if Israel does sacrifice, it will also deal with Arab violence, and the Arabs won’t stop attacking as long as there is a Jewish State. The Palestinian Arabs have massacred Jewish men, women and children before there was a state of Israel, and don&#8217;t need John Kerry to encourage them to continue to do so.<br />
These are Israel’s so-called “peace partners.” These are the people who are demanding that Kerry and Obama forget that America and Israel share common Christian-Judeo values, and Israel is a staunch ally of America.  It is time for Kerry to wake up and realize that Israel is not the problem in the Middle East – the Palestinian Arabs are.</p>
<p>As Israel’s Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon noted, the county &#8220;will not negotiate with a gun put to our head,&#8221; and &#8220;We will make decisions that protect the interests of the state of Israel – If we had made decisions according to every boycott threat, we would not be here today.&#8221; <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11816">Zionist prophet Ze&#8217;ev Jabotinsky</a> said many years ago: &#8220;At the root of our 2000 years of suffering is our refusal to surrender. The history of the Jewish people in the exile is not the history of what they did, but the history of what was done to them.&#8221;</p>
<p>John Kerry: Leave Israel Alone and stand with Israel, not with those who celebrate the Boston Massacre and 9/11.</p>
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		<title>Let the BDS Movement Be a Warning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Ellen Wald]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How we are losing the battle on behalf of Israel.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/bc.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-216653" alt="bc" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/bc.gif" width="300" height="194" /></a>Last year, a tiny academic organization, the <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/12/17/american-studies-association-backs-boycott-israeli-universities">Association for Asian American Studies</a>, voted in favor of a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions.  Last month, a relatively small academic organization, the <a href="http://www.theasa.net/what_does_the_academic_boycott_mean_for_the_asa/">American Studies Association</a> (ASA), adopted a similar resolution.  This month, one of the largest academic organizations in the humanities, the <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/MLA-Delegates-Approve/143985/">Modern Language Association</a> (MLA), voted in favor of a resolution calling on the State Department to condemn Israel for supposedly restricting academics from traveling to the West Bank and debated, but did not vote on, a resolution expressing solidarity with the ASA and condemning “the attacks on the ASA” for its boycott.</p>
<p>In a rare moment of unity, both BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) supporters and their critics left satisfied with their accomplishments at the MLA’s annual meeting.  MLA members active in the BDS movement believe they have made significant progress and that a full-fledged boycott resolution will be adopted next year.  Meanwhile, the professors and organizations that oppose the BDS movement have been misguidedly patting themselves on the back for keeping the MLA from voting in favor of anything more serious.</p>
<p>It is dangerous to mistake the outcome of the MLA vote as a victory against BDS, and doing so reflects a limited understanding of the perverse bigotry and dishonesty of the BDS movement and the true nature of such radicalism in academia.  Rather than basking in the number of universities that came out against the ASA’s academic boycott and in favor of “academic freedom,” Jewish and pro-Israel groups should be preparing themselves for a long, protracted confrontation with academia that has been building for years.  Unfortunately, it is likely to become a much more intense fight before any real victory can be claimed.</p>
<p>The real problem with campaigns like those initiated by the BDS movement is not these boycotts themselves or the meaningless resolutions that academic organizations debate and pass.  BDS supporters in academia do not actually believe that boycotting Israeli scholars and institutions will directly affect the State of Israel on an international level.  They seek to vilify Israel and Jews in scholarship and education.  The goal is to make it acceptable and common to teach about Israel the same way students are taught about Nazism, Pol Pot, and the Jim Crow South.  It must be continuously repeated that the true basis for their complaint seems to be old-fashioned anti-Semitism.  We known this because the BDS movement is unable to explain why it singles out Israel, and Israel alone, for vilification.</p>
<p>First, it is vital to recognize the extent to which we are losing the battle in the classrooms in an array of disciplines, many of which have nothing to do with the Middle East or the history of Israel.  In fact, BDS supporters are much closer to their goal than non-academics realize.  The MLA panel called <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/01/partial-victory-over-anti-israel-efforts-at-2014-mla-convention-shows-battle-winnable/">“Academic Boycotts: A Conversation about Israel and Palestine,”</a> should provide a much needed wake-up.  The MLA’s annual conference is not a gathering of specialized scholars to present works-in-progress.  It is a major gathering where hundreds of graduate students interview for a chance at the elusive tenure track jobs, hopeful scholars pitch new books to publishers, emerging trends in scholarship are featured, and education policies are debated.  The fact that a mainstream conference hosted a panel with the sole purpose of vilifying Israel already demonstrates the influence exerted by the BDS movement in the humanities.  The existence of this panel alone discourages any dissent amongst already cautious academics, particularly amongst those seeking jobs or tenure.</p>
<p>Vilification of Israel begins, however, in the college classroom where students of the humanities and social sciences are introduced to ideas like “settler colonialism,” “cultural imperialism,” “post-colonial theory,” and “western neo-imperialism.”  These methodological tenets, derived from the work of scholars like Edward Said, Michel Foucault, and Antonio Gramsci, blame so-called imperial powers (mostly Western) for physical, mental, cultural, economic, intellectual, environmental, and political wrongs done to indigenous (mostly non-Western) peoples.  These post-modern methodologies have completely captured the intellectual development of subjects like area studies, women and gender studies, ethnic studies, global studies, and development studies, and are de rigueur in more traditional departments such as history, English, comparative literature, politics, and anthropology.</p>
<p>In the bubble we call higher education, the intellectual world-view and the political world-view are one, and this methodology is easily transformed into radical political ideologies that cultivate movements like BDS.  Professors prime students for BDS ideology by employing neo-colonial analyses in their courses.  They introduce the demonization of the West and Israel through these post-modern methodologies.  An example is BDS supporter <a href="http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Samer-FoundingAndGenocide.jpg">Samer Ali</a> who has inelegantly stated that “most states … didn’t have the right to exist because of genocide/forced labor at their founding such as those in the Americas and Israel is among them because of its massacres of indigenous populations.”  By attaching their opinion of Israel to these en-vogue post-modern methodologies, academics are able to attack Israel from almost anywhere in the university course catalogue.  For a student, the indoctrination can be as simple as taking a course on the literature of indigenous peoples or the economic development of the “global south” (i.e. Third World).</p>
<p>The instruction continues in the professor’s office, where students looking for guidance, follow their teachers’ directions to textbooks, articles, and sources deeply biased against Jews and Israel.  Undergraduates lack the techniques to recognize the biases these scholars promote, especially when the professor intentionally neglects to even balance these sources with those from another perspective.  The result is a generation of students who consider Hanan Ashrawi an unbiased source of information on the Oslo negotiations and believe that the Dreyfus Affair was the only expression of anti-Semitism in the nineteenth century, both real examples I have witnessed.</p>
<p>It gets worse.  Secondary schools pick up the scholarship produced under this rubric.  Teachers with little expertise in the Middle East, deliberately or unknowingly, use sources with biased information.  They attend seminars from Middle East Studies outreach centers at universities that are often funded by Saudi Arabia and headed by BDS supporters (like <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=118&amp;x_article=2161">Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies</a>) and bring back textbooks, lesson plans, and curricula that not only misstate facts, but teach students the same biases coming out of the academy, such as the books published by James Gelvin, a professor at UCLA and another BDS supporter.</p>
<p>This dishonest and hateful scholarship and education seeps into policy and the media.  Honesty in education is vital, not only for the sake of a good education, but for the sake of preserving a proud national conscience and a responsible citizenry.  Therefore, rather than celebrate a stalemate at the MLA, it is time to acknowledge the extent of academic bias and damaged caused by it.  This issue should concern not only supporters of Israel, but also those who support academic honesty, oppose bigotry, and are concerned about the future of our civic society.</p>
<p>We’ve become complacent and allowed the umbrella term of “academic freedom” to cover hatred, dishonestly, irresponsible indoctrination, and the miseducation of our students.  There is room for disagreement in the humanities and social sciences, but “academic freedom” should not mean that we fund and give a podium to individuals to spout their falsehoods and hatred.  I’ve heard that once there was a time in academia when scholars followed their sources to reveal the truth rather than molded evidence to fit a pre-conceived political ideology.  The success of the BDS movement at the ASA and MLA conferences is a sign that the tolerance of hatred has gone on too long.  The bigots need to be uncovered, dishonest scholarship refuted as lies, and false education revealed.</p>
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