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		<title>Terror Decentral</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time for Israel to destroy the indoctrination and incitement that trigger Palestinians to kill. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/F141105YS01-e1415190015595-635x357.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244812" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/F141105YS01-e1415190015595-635x357-406x350.jpg" alt="F141105YS01-e1415190015595-635x357" width="328" height="283" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-Terror-decentral-381065">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>In the postmortems of the terrorist car attacks in Jerusalem, it is easy to see the writing on the wall. Ibrahim al-Akary, the terrorist who on Wednesday ran over crowds of people waiting to cross the street and catch the Jerusalem Light Rail, was the brother of one of the terrorist murderers freed in exchange for IDF hostage Gilad Schalit.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">He had placed the photograph on his Facebook page of Moataz Hejazi, the terrorist killed by police after shooting Yehuda Glick outside the Begin Heritage Center last Wednesday.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">A few days before Abdur Rahman Slodi got into his car and mowed down three-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun and a dozen other pedestrians two weeks ago, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas exhorted the Palestinians to prevent Jews from visiting the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, by all means possible.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Slodi had served time in prison for terrorist offenses and was active on social media where he expressed murderous hatred for Jews and a desire to kill them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So yes, the writing was on the wall. But unfortunately, the writing is on all the walls, or Facebook walls. It is not at all clear how Israeli security services could have known to distinguish these men from the thousands of other Palestinians and Jerusalem Arabs who hate Israel, support the murder of Jews and identify with various terrorist organizations.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On Thursday security forces arrested several people in villages around Hebron with suspected ties to Akary. So he may not have been acting on his own. But all the same, neither he nor Slodi seem to have been directed to carry out their attacks by a cell commander who himself was directed by a higher level terrorist operative.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rather, in all likelihood, something triggered both men to carry out attacks in a wholly independent or semi-independent manner.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The question is, what was the trigger and how was it pulled? The Israeli media are obsessed with the question of whether or not we are experiencing an third Palestinian terrorist onslaught, or intifada. Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch insists that we are not. Others insist that we are. Whatever we want to call it, we are seeing a new form of Palestinian terrorist warfare against Israel, which in many key aspects mimics the larger jihad carried out by al-Qaida and its affiliates and spin-offs.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In a recent article in the online Small Wars Journal, Maj. Nicholas Pace from NATO’s Joint Forces Command discussed how al-Qaida and Islamic State have decentralized their terrorist networks.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Due to the superior signals intelligence fielded by the US, Pace explained, al-Qaida and Islamic State have diffused and decentralized their networks into smaller hubs that operate independently.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The role of terrorist chiefs like al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is to inspire and incite, and to a degree direct, operations, rather than plan and order them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today the main factor unifying al-Qaida and Islamic State and their sister groups and followers in the region and worldwide is ideology.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They all share the same hatred of the West, of all religions other than Islam and of all competing forms of Islam. They all seek the establishment of a global caliphate that will rule the world under the banner of Islam.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Pace notes, this shared ideology was all that US Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan needed to feel that he was a member of al-Qaida when in 2009, after have a few Internet communications with al-Qaida ideologue Awar al-Awlaki, he walked onto the Fort Hood military base in Texas and massacred his fellow soldiers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Pace argues that Islamic State forces in Iraq and Syria also operate along a decentralized model of operations, and the more they are directly targeted by the US and its allies, the more they will decentralize and compartmentalize their force structure.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The operational advantage of this model is that it gives enormous flexibility and independence to operatives in the field to maximize their resources. The drawback is that those resources tend to be less sophisticated than those that can be brought to bear by a centrally organized and resourced military organization.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But this isn’t really a problem for jihadists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Pace notes, they see themselves as soldiers in a long-term struggle. Their goal is not necessarily to conquer their target populations. Rather they seek to make life impossible for target societies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Mass chaos sowed by constant, low intensity, near-scatter-shot attacks can over time be sufficient to break the will of a targeted society or military organization to fight them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Certainly this has been the case for the Iraqi military that has melted away in the face of Islamic State’s fanatical troops.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For such a decentralized military system to work, the leadership needs two things: a shared ideology, and communications capabilities that enable them to incite and loosely directly violence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Ideology is not something that people pick up or discard quickly or easily. For a person to be attracted to the jihadist cause he has to undergo indoctrination over a significant period of time.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">You cannot incite a person to strike if he hasn’t already been indoctrinated in a manner that makes him amenable to your incendiary call to action.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And this brings us back to the Palestinians and the trigger for the attacks conducted by independent or semi-independent terrorist operatives.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">With the exception of Pakistani students in madrassas, few societies have undergone the mass indoctrination that the Palestinians have undergone over the past 20 years of Palestinian Authority rule. From the cradle to the grave, and most significantly in the school system, Palestinians are indoctrinated to hate Jews and seek the violent destruction of Israel. They are told that it is an Islamic duty to fight Jews and destroy Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This is as true in regular PA schools as it is in schools run by the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA).</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We are experiencing today in Jerusalem a decentralized terrorist campaign rooted in the 20-year indoctrination of the Palestinians.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Yes, Hamas and Fatah still operate terrorist cells and units that are members of terrorist hierarchies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But at the same time, they have used a model similar to al-Qaida’s in developing semi-independent and wholly independent networks of operatives and operational cells. These independent cells are highly motivated and are willing to wait until they receive generalized signals from their leadership to strike.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So it was for instance in June with the kidnapping and murder of the three teenagers in Gush Etzion. A few weeks before the kidnapping took place, from his home in Qatar, Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal remarked that Hamas needed more hostages to trade for jailed terrorists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The terrorists in Hebron were motivated to strike. With the financial assistance of Saleh al-Arouri, the Hamas ideologue and operational commander in Turkey, they were able to purchase what they needed for the kidnapping. And when Mashaal said the time had come to kidnap Israelis, the countdown to the kidnap and murder of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-Ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrah began.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The cell was isolated and tiny. Mashaal’s order was indirect.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In the case of the violence in Jerusalem, indoctrination in UNRWA schools in places like Shuafat refugee camp where Akary lived, not to mention throughout Judea, Samaria and Gaza, has raised generations of Arabs who hate Israel and Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Owing to this indoctrination, when presented with mass incitement by preachers in the mosques, and most importantly by the official Palestinian Authority media, these calls for violence are immediately embraced on a massive scale. Indeed, the comfort level that the Arabs of Jerusalem feel today in supporting terrorism may well be unprecedented.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For instance, until this Wednesday night, every time terrorists in Jerusalem used motor vehicles to murder Israelis, their families and neighbors insisted that they were not terrorists but hapless drivers. There had been no attack, merely a traffic accident.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On Wednesday night when reporters went to interview Akary’s family and neighbors, they were met by shouts of praise for his murderous act. He was embraced as a martyr. And just as important, his act inspired mob violence in Shuafat and other Arab neighborhoods against police forces. For the first time, support for terrorism outweighed concern about alienating their Jewish neighbors or forcing police retaliation.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On Thursday Fatah’s Facebook page was full of images calling for Palestinians to run over Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Palestinian Media Watch reported, one used a play on words between the Arabic acronym for Islamic State and the Arabic word for running something over, thus positively associating the terrorists who run over Jews with members of Islamic State.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas – Fatah’s partner in the PA’s coalition government – was similarly quick to praise Akary and call for more such attacks.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In dealing with this burgeoning, decentralized terrorist campaign, aside from taking action to protect bus stops with various barricades, Israel needs to go after the triggers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It needs to break up the indoctrination system.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And it needs to destroy the Palestinian leadership’s ability to communicate their incendiary messages.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since UNRWA schools operating in Jerusalem engage in anti-Semitic indoctrination, Jerusalem municipal authorities must give them the choice of using Israeli textbooks or shutting down. If Israel wishes to assert its sovereignty, UNRWA schools would be a good place to start. Beyond that, preachers in mosques who incite murder and call for the destruction of Israel should be arrested.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As for the PA’s communications networks, all of the radio and television signals operating in the PA come from the Israeli electromagnetic spectrum. It is time to shut them down. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Wednesday, Abbas is directly inciting the murderous attacks on Jerusalem through the PA media organs. The way to protect Jerusalem is to remove him and his Hamas partners from the airwaves.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There has been a lot of talk over the years about providing positive and negative incentives to convince the Palestinians not to engage in terrorism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But now is not the time for incentives. The population mobilized through incitement has become too fanatical to engage with reason.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The terrorists who take the wheel and run over pedestrians know that they will more than likely never come home. And they don’t care.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They certainly don’t care that Israel will destroy their homes. And they also certainly won’t be impressed by discounted mortgages if they integrate into Israeli society.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In the long term, it is imperative that Israel provide incentives to both the Jerusalem Arabs and the Palestinians to integrate peacefully with Israeli society. But before the government can seriously engage in this task, it needs to destroy the triggers of this terrorist onslaught. It is not enough to complain about Palestinian indoctrination and incitement. It is time for Israel to end them.</span></p>
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		<title>Fake “Peace” for Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 04:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the U.S.-mediated "proximity talks" with the Palestinians spell danger for Israel.]]></description>
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<p>The Israeli-Palestinian “proximity talks” were ostensibly launched this week. U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell is expected to shuttle between Jerusalem and Ramallah, seeking to find a path to “direct” talks whose purported aim would be peace. To say all this is a triumph of hope over experience is a severe understatement.</p>
<p>Many have pointed out why even the “indirect” or proximity talks bear no positive potential, and there is no need to belabor these matters. If Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas couldn’t reach an agreement with former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert—who, at least as far as the PA is concerned, bought totally into the “peace” ideology—how would he reach one with current prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who doesn’t? And what about the fact that the Palestinian Arabs between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea are now bifurcated into distinct entities—the Fatah-run PA and Hamas-led Gaza—that are at loggerheads, with Hamas officially shunned by the U.S. as a terrorist organization?</p>
<p>There’s also the matter of the supposedly more moderate PA’s ongoing “incitement”—or, more accurately, its inculcation of a terror-cult centering on the mass murder of Israeli Jews, as <a href="http://palwatch.org/STORAGE/special%20reports/PA%20honors%20terrorists%20Final%20Eng.pdf">heavily documented</a> by Palestinian Media Watch and others. Seemingly the notion of a peace partner for Israel and the notion of an anti-Israeli terror cult are mutually exclusive. The U.S. State Department has <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?sid=aV.WAFxl80g4&amp;pid=20601087">praised</a> Abbas for saying he “will work against incitement of any sort” and Netanyahu for purportedly calling off construction for Jews in a Jerusalem neighborhood. As usual, the moral equivalency between terror and building homes is repugnant, and the chances that Abbas could negate seventeen years of PA hate-indoctrination in a few months, even if he tried to, nil.</p>
<p>If, then, the talks are likely to lead nowhere, are they simply unimportant? Unfortunately not—because they sustain the fiction of the PA’s legitimacy despite its murderous ideology, and the fiction of Israel’s supposed need to reduce itself to the <a href="http://www.defensibleborders.org/images/map6.jpg">death-trap 1967 borders</a>.</p>
<p>Meanwhile another Arab party with which Israel <em>did</em> sign a peace treaty, Egypt, has been pushing to get Israel’s nuclear-weapons capability (never officially acknowledged but universally believed to exist) on the international agenda—and not without success.</p>
<p>The Obama administration’s <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703871904575216443259477482.html">reported</a> interest in Egypt’s proposal for a “Middle East nuclear-free zone”—a euphemism for defanging Israel—has already been <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=174709">publicly confirmed</a> by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at this month’s nonproliferation conference at UN Headquarters in New York. (In a separate but related development, the International Atomic Energy Agency is reportedly considering subjecting Israel’s nuclear program to <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hN1gG2FKiM6vZJsY_qF2lYN2R7qQD9FI8FPG0">“unprecedented scrutiny”</a> next month.) Egypt is calling specifically for negotiations on a nuke-free Middle East to begin in 2011.</p>
<p>All this is anathema to Israelis of all political persuasions. From the days when major figures of Israel’s founding Labor Zionist movement, like its first prime minister David Ben-Gurion and its current president Shimon Peres, first began to build Israel’s nuclear capability in the 1950s, it has been seen as a fundamental deterrent and insurance for Israel’s survival in a Middle East where Israel is drastically outnumbered by Arab and Muslim populations and military forces.</p>
<p>Why, then, would Egypt—not only formally at peace with Israel for three decades but often said to be tacitly in alliance with it against radical actors like Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas—be working to undo this mainstay of Israel’s endurance?</p>
<p>Some might say it’s out of fear. But as Israeli commentator Caroline Glick <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=174946">points out</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>Notwithstanding their protestations to the contrary, Israel’s neighbors fully recognize that the purpose of Israel’s undeclared nuclear arsenal is to guarantee Israel’s survival…. This is why although it is four decades old, Israel’s undeclared nuclear arsenal has never caused a regional nuclear arms race.</p></blockquote>
<p>Unlike, that is, Iran’s imminent nuclear capability—which the Middle East <em>does</em> fear and, unlike Israel’s, will undoubtedly spark a nuclear buildup in the region if it comes to fruition.</p>
<p>In other words, there appears to be no explanation for Egypt’s push against Israel’s nukes except malevolence. But if the result of thirty years of formally sanctioned peace, and a degree of pragmatic cooperation against mutual foes, is that Egypt is still working to neutralize, through international pressure, a guarantor of Israel’s existence—that is, to put Israel in acute jeopardy, albeit by diplomatic instead of military means as in 1948, 1967, and 1973—what does that say about the depth of the “peace”?</p>
<p>At the start of “Israeli-Palestinian proximity talks,” such sobering thoughts are, of course, no more welcome than the facts about Palestinian “incitement.” Attending to them would indicate that continuing the pressure on Israel to give up its vital strategic buffer in the West Bank is profoundly dangerous to it in such a hostile environment. Better to hear and see no evil and keep the “process” grinding away.</p>
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		<title>Palestinian Nazis and Double Standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anav Silverman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration's shameless silence on who is truly fanning the flames of hate in the Middle East. ]]></description>
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<p>The Obama administration’s  pursuit of Middle East peace has brought little if any promising results thus  far. Assigning who is to blame for the stalled talks, however, seems to be a  much easier task for the US administration. In typical fashion, Washington has laid  responsibility for the failure in the recent launch of peace negotiations  squarely on Israel’s shoulders, using the announcement of the 1,600 new homes  built in eastern Jerusalem during VP Joe Biden’s visit, as the primary reason  why peace talks were not progressing.</p>
<p>“We  have to make clear to our Israeli friend and partner that the two state solution  which we support…requires confidence building measures on both sides and the  announcement of the settlements the very day the VP was there, was  insulting  and unfortunate…” stated Secretary of State Hillary  Clinton recently.  Although Clinton attempted to smooth things over in her AIPAC  address, she stated that the US was obligated to tell Israel the truth.</p>
<p>Clinton’s assessment of this current ‘obstacle’ to the Middle East peace  process simply reveals how very little Washington truly understands of the  conflict, especially by dressing the situation with terms like “confidence  building.” The current problems in the Mideast conflict are beyond issues of  mistrust.</p>
<p>As  Palestinian demonstrations and continued rocket attacks in the past week have  shown, deep currents of hate and ideological calls for destruction against  Israel still continue to run strongly among Palestinian leaders.   The rededication of the Hurva synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem on  March 15, originally constructed in the 18<sup>th</sup> century, was the most  recent example of how Israel’s recognition of ancient Jewish landmarks in the  Jewish state infuriates the radical Islamic leadership of Hamas and even the  PA.</p>
<p>In  response to the synagogue dedication, Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh  declared that Jerusalem will “always remain Islamic.”  In addition,  Hamas’s ambassador in Lebanon, Osama Hamadan, told Al-Jazeera  TV  that the opening of the Hurva Synagogue was part of a larger Israeli attempt to  “invent” a Jewish history for Jerusalem.  On March 16, Hamas  declared a Day of Rage and defense of Al-Aqsa Mosque, as a way to further incite  Palestinians and escalate tensions.</p>
<p>The  continued incitement and hate-education of Israel is carried out not only by  Hamas. Palestinian Media Watch recently reported that PA television is  broadcasting a new children’s program called Chicks that teaches children about  different areas of Palestine, using a map labeled only “Palestine” which depicts  all of Israel.  Next to the map, written in English and Arabic is  “Explore Your Country.” Education for a two-state solution does not exist on PA  television programs for youth.</p>
<p>However, the most disturbing developments which Washington continues to  steadfastly ignore is Iran’s continued financial and moral support of Hamas’s  terrorist and incitement activities. Dr. Khalil Al Hayya, a Hamas leader who was  interviewed earlier this year on Hamas’s military wing’s website, Iz a-din  al-Qassam Brigades, stated that “Iran supports us financially, politically and  morally without political price.”</p>
<p>Furthermore, the Iranian Intelligence Minister Hydar Maslahi recently  called on Muslim countries to launch a so-called media intifada against Israel  during a conference for the <em>National and Islamic Solidarity for the Future of  Palestine </em>held in Teheran on February 28 (The Intelligence and Terrorism  Information Center). Maslahi stated that his ministry was willing to provide any  assistance to Palestinian people who would carry out anti-Israel and anti-US  propaganda campaigns through on-line social networking.</p>
<p>Until  Washington recognizes the broader problems facing the Middle East at this time,  including the continuing incitement that Palestinian leaders generate among  their constituents, as well as “Islamizing” Israel’s Jewish history and refusing  to recognize to recognize any “Jewish” rights to the land, the road to  negotiations is near impossible.</p>
<p>Mainstream media and much of the world community have always maintained  that Israel’s building of Jewish homes and settlements are the primary obstacles  to peace talks.  To continue to believe so is not only  irresponsible but dangerous on the part of the US government. A truly  comprehensive peace process can be constructed only when the ideological issues  that continue to fan the flames of hate are addressed. By not doing so,  Washington is building another faulty foundation for a peace process that is  bound for collapse.</p>
<p><em>Anav Silverman is the international correspondent for Sderot Media  Center: <a href="http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/" target="_blank">www.SderotMedia.org.il</a>, a social media organization dedicated to bringing  the voices of Sderot residents to the attention of the global community. </em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Dutch court is forced to compare Mein Kampf and the Quran in the Wilders trial. ]]></description>
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<p>What started as a trial against Geert Wilders for alleged Islamophobia has nearly turned into its opposite: a historical case about the message of the Quran. The Amsterdam court trying the controversial Dutch politician is now preoccupied with the question of whether this book, sacred to more than a billion believers, can be compared to one of the most vile publications in the history of Western civilization—Hitler&#8217;s &#8220;Mein Kampf.&#8221; What could possibly go wrong?</p>
<p>In his writing and speeches, Mr. Wilders has found these two works to be similar in terms of their anti-Semitism and incitement to hatred, and has thus called for a publishing ban on the Quran similar to the one in place for &#8220;Mein Kampf.&#8221; This is what triggered Mr. Wilders&#8217;s prosecution for discriminatory and insulting remarks against Muslims and Islam. The Dutch politician, though, denies having insulted Muslims. He insists his focus is on radical Islam and the Quran, which he considers to be not only a religious text but also a political pamphlet encouraging Muslims to discriminate against and, if necessary, kill Jews, Christians, apostates and other unbelievers. That&#8217;s why Mr. Wilders claims the right to criticize and condemn Islam.</p>
<p>Following complaints brought by mostly Muslim and radical leftist activists, Amsterdam&#8217;s district attorney in 2008 at first found no legal basis for prosecuting Mr. Wilders. Prosecutors were forced to change course only after an activist appeals court last year ordered Mr. Wilders&#8217;s prosecution—basically condemning the politician before any trial could even begin and before Mr. Wilders had a chance to defend himself. The court&#8217;s unusual intervention illustrates the Dutch confusion about the conflict between two essential rights: the right to free speech and the right to protection from discrimination.</p>
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<p>According to polls, Mr. Wilders&#8217;s Freedom Party, a libertarian-conservative movement with populist tendencies, is currently the most popular political party in the Netherlands. If elections were held today, Mr. Wilders would be a serious contender for the position of prime minister. Mr. Wilders&#8217;s detractors are mistaken if they think a conviction would hurt him politically. The trial is a win-win situation for him: If the court rules to restrict Mr. Wilders&#8217;s right to free speech, many Dutchmen will interpret this as an effort by the politically correct establishment to limit the growing strength of the Freedom Party, which would widen its appeal to many voters. If, on the other hand, the prosecution fails to prove that Mr. Wilders has purposely insulted Muslims because of their religion, Mr. Wilders&#8217;s views will be seen as vindicated. Again, he will gain politically.</p>
<p><strong>To continue reading this article, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703906204575026532718536518.html">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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		<title>Full Report: Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israel Hatred on the Huffington Post</title>
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<hr /><strong><em><em><span style="font-weight: normal;">[Editors’ note: The following is an introduction to, and summary of a new investigative report </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: normal;">by </span><a style="color: #2a5db0;" href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Huff-Watch</span></a></em><em><span style="font-weight: normal;">: </span><strong>&#8220;The Stimulus And The (Approved) Response: Anti-Semitism and Israel-Hatred on Huffington Post.&#8221;</strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Click </span><a style="color: #2a5db0;" href="http://frontpagemag.com/full-report-anti-semitism-and-anti-israel-hatred-on-the-huffington-post/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> for the full report.]</span></em></em></strong></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In its four years of existence,<a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.huffingtonpost.com/');" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/" target="_blank">The Huffington Post</a> (aka <span style="text-decoration: underline;">“HuffPost”</span>) has grown from obscurity into the world’s <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/technorati.com/pop/blogs/');" href="http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/" target="_blank">most-visited blogsite</a>, and <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1886214,00.html');" href="http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1886214,00.html" target="_blank">one of America’s most popular news sites</a>. It now has <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004022708');" href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004022708" target="_blank">more monthly visitors</a> than the <em>Washington Post</em>, and is supported by some of the largest advertisers in the world. Its representatives have been allowed to <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1878625,00.html?iid=tsmodule');" href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1878625,00.html?iid=tsmodule" target="_blank">ask questions</a> at presidential press conferences, and one was even given <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0609/Obama_calls_on_HuffPost_for_Iran_question.html');" href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0609/Obama_calls_on_HuffPost_for_Iran_question.html" target="_blank">preferential treatment</a>. It now enjoys access to, and influence over, the top levels of the U.S. government. Top members of the U.S. Senate are among HuffPost’s official bloggers, including <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kerry');" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kerry" target="_blank">John Kerry</a>, <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-carl-levin/');" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-carl-levin/" target="_blank">Carl Levin</a>, <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-dodd');" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-dodd" target="_blank">Chris Dodd</a>, <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-barbara-boxer');" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-barbara-boxer" target="_blank">Barbara Boxer</a> and others.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A significant reason for HuffPost’s success and “legitimization” are its claims that it is <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22861.html');" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22861.html" target="_blank">a</a> <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22861.html');" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22861.html" target="_blank">nonpartisan “newspaper,”</a> dedicated to <em><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&amp;aid=147167');" href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&amp;aid=147167">“ferret(ing)</a> <span style="font-style: normal;"><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&amp;aid=147167');" href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&amp;aid=147167"><em>out the truth,”</em></a> and <em><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2007/11/14/Huffington-Post-Profile/');" href="http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2007/11/14/Huffington-Post-Profile/" target="_blank">“debunking</a> <span style="font-style: normal;"><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2007/11/14/Huffington-Post-Profile/');" href="http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2007/11/14/Huffington-Post-Profile/" target="_blank"><em>the left-right way of thinking.”</em></a></span></em></span></em></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HuffPost also <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.huffingtonpost.com/comment/policy/');" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/comment/policy/" target="_blank">claims</a> to be non-partisan in its moderation of user comments. <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2010');" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2010" target="_blank">Arianna Huffington</a>, the site’s founder and Editor-In-Chief, claims HuffPost has <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/bill-oreilly-needs-to-en_b_92646.html');" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/bill-oreilly-needs-to-en_b_92646.html" target="_blank"><em>“a zero tolerance policy”</em></a> for hate speech, and that it acts vigilantly to keep its comment threads free of offensive content, 24-7.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, HuffPost consistently “frames” news stories in such a way that incites anti-Israel perceptions and hatred. Further, in violation of its own policies, it approves and tolerates user comments submitted in response to these stories that contain incendiary, hate-filled libels against Israelis and Jews, as well as links to anti-Semitic hate websites.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Given the fact that an estimated 135,000 of Huffington Post’s unique monthly visitors reside in Iran and Pakistan, there is great concern among informed observers that its incitement against Israel influences perceptions far outside the United States.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This report, the result of three years of observation, documents:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Numerous examples of Huffington Post’s incitement of anti-Israel perceptions, and the defamatory user comments that have appeared on the site in response, with special focus on Israel’s recent Operation Cast Lead.
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fact that many of the most egregious violators of Huffington Post’s stated policies, including some of its most prolific anti-Semitic propagandists, remain active users – some, with tens of thousands of comments in their archives.
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fact that contrary to Huffington Post’s public statements, since at least March 2008, it has been pre-moderating all user comments, meaning that all of the hateful and defamatory comments that appear have been approved by its moderators.
<p></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of the following anti-Semitic user comments were published <em>after</em> HuffPost <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/4.bp.blogspot.com/_XLVZ0IbIMas/SitxMK82x6I/AAAAAAAAAGs/PJo1Q3VmAAY/s1600-h/03Mar08BRODIGAN_1.jpg');" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XLVZ0IbIMas/SitxMK82x6I/AAAAAAAAAGs/PJo1Q3VmAAY/s1600-h/03Mar08BRODIGAN_1.jpg" target="_blank">announced</a>, in March 2008, that the only comments that would appear on its site are those that a human moderator had reviewed, approved and made the decision to publish. Ms. Huffington <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&amp;aid=147167');" href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&amp;aid=147167" target="_blank">confirmed</a> this fact, several months later.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>“Jews are evil. Israel runs the world. Lets kill ‘em all and give the land back to Islam; result-perpetual peace. Seig Heil.”<br />
<em><span style="font-weight: normal;">By “pedrothemigrant,” 5/23/08</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>“Funny how [Israelis] had NO problem with wiping the [Palestinians] off the face of the earth until they discovered they might actually be able to strike back in a meaningful way. proof that bullies like this are nothing but cowards.”<br />
<em><span style="font-weight: normal;">By “peacekitten,” 1/2/09</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>“There’s a reason they [Jews] have been the most problematic group for thousands of years.”<br />
<em><span style="font-weight: normal;">By “Amennyc,” 1/4/09</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>“[W]omen holding limp little bodies of children in their hands, crying, as an Israeli soldier aims an AK.-47 at her head. With each civilian casualty Israel gets closer to the regime in Germany that provided the impetus for the creation of Israel.”<br />
<em><span style="font-weight: normal;">By “SkepticHume,” 1/3/09</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>“Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle with Jooooz [Jews]“<br />
<em><span style="font-weight: normal;">By “JamesR.,” 11/22/08</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>“They [Jews] all need to be rounded up and gassed.”<br />
<em><span style="font-weight: normal;">By “markoze,” 12/30/08</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps more shockingly, all of these comments were posted by users whose accounts are <em>still active</em> (they have not been banned), some of whom HuffPost has allowed to post thousands of additional comments. This stands in stark contrast to the fact that HuffPost routinely bans other users who don’t violate its policies — some after as few as <em>six comments</em> — but dare to challenge or mock the radical leftists that the site attracts.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These comments are representative of thousands of others containing anti-Semitic and Israel-bashing libels, hate and propaganda that have been published on HuffPost in recent years. Columbia University professor Lincoln Mitchell recently <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lincoln-mitchell/the-shooting-anti-semitis_b_214140.html">claimed</a> that on nearly every HuffPost news story concerning international affairs, <em>regardless of the topic,</em> he and his friends usually find that it takes no more than <em>ten comments</em> before its users are finding a way to blame Jews.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most incendiary of these comments are usually submitted in response to “news” stories that HuffPost publishes regarding Israel, which it consistently “frames” in ways that incite inaccurate and unjustifiably negative perceptions of the Jewish state, and particularly its military. HuffPost does this primarily through the use of inflammatory, decontextualized headlines and headline imagery, and biased “news” sources. Examples of this incitement include:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its daily depiction of Israel’s incursion into Gaza in December 2008, in which it cast Israeli soldiers as thuggish villains, Palestinian civilians as their targets, and Hamas terrorists (often labeled as <em>“security forces”</em>) as victims. One example of this was its headline on 12/29/08 that featured a picture of a dead Muslim toddler, alongside text that claimed, <em>“Israeli assault targets symbols of Hamas power.”</em>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its headline story on 3/11/09 featured Charles Freeman’s claims that a Jewish conspiracy led him to withdraw his nomination to a national security post.<em> HuffPost did not post any indication of the broad, bipartisan opposition to his nomination.</em>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It uncritically uses biased Arabic “news” sources – including the <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/littlegreenfootballs.com/article/32867_Al_Jazeera-_The_Network_That_Praises_Child_Killers');" href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/32867_Al_Jazeera-_The_Network_That_Praises_Child_Killers" target="_blank">jihadist-celebrating</a> al Jazeera (also a past HuffPost <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUSN1738968120090218');" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUSN1738968120090218" target="_blank">advertiser</a>) – as single-sources for its headlines. One example was its 5/29/09 article that used a little-known Arabic “news” source’s account of what it described as an “activist” that was killed by the Israeli military. 24 hours earlier, the “activist” was identified by CNN as a suspect in several deadly terror attacks, and that the Israeli military had attempted to arrest him. Instead, he opened fire on them, and was killed.<em> None of this was covered in HuffPost’s depiction of the incident.</em>
<p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its prominent positioning on 8/19/09 of a blood libel against Israel — that it murders Palestinians in order to harvest their organs — even though the “reporter” behind the story <em>admitted in the article </em>that he has <em>“no idea… no clue”</em> if the allegations are true or not. <em>Soon thereafter, credible sources determined that these allegations were physically impossible, and further discredited the “reporter.” Yet HuffPost gave these stories little to no “play” (certainly nowhere near the prominence of the original blood libel).</em></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Given the growing <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-70335677156278639');" href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-70335677156278639" target="_blank">resurgence</a> of anti-Semitism worldwide, HuffPost — like every other “legitimized,” advertiser-supported “newspaper” — is obliged to ensure that its “news” stories concerning Israel are fact-based and contextual. Further, HuffPost is obligated to enforce its nonpartisan comment moderation policy. In both of these regards, HuffPost is failing profoundly.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is hoped that<strong> </strong>this detailed report will spur HuffPost to take corrective measures to ensure that it is living up to its self-proclaimed standards, particularly in regards to Israeli and Jewish affairs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Click <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/full-report-anti-semitism-and-anti-israel-hatred-on-the-huffington-post/">here</a> to read the full report.</strong></em></span></p>
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		<title>Censorship and Libel at USC</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A university shows tolerance for Muslim student radicals – but not for their critics.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:</strong> In September 2009, David Horowitz was invited by the University of Southern California College Republicans to come on campus and protest an Islamic Hadith calling for the genocide of the Jews that appeared on an official USC website. His speech was attacked in advance by Students for Justice in Palestine and the USC Progressive Alliance, who made up quotes and attributed them to Horowitz in order to paint him as an Islamophobe and a racist. Undeterred by this slander, Horowitz spoke on the USC campus on November 4 to a packed house.</p>
<p>On December 3, the USC Vice President of Student Affairs, Michael Jackson, published “<a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/JacksonOpenLetter.pdf">an open letter to the USC community</a>” in the <em>Daily Trojan</em>, the USC campus newspaper, attacking the College Republicans for bringing Horowitz to campus. Jackson claimed that Horowitz’s presence “led members of our community, our Muslim students, to feel threatened, unsafe, and betrayed.” This letter was also sent to every official USC student, faculty, and staff email address and was published as an ad in the <em>Daily Trojan</em>.</p>
<p>Horowitz wrote a response to Jackson’s letter and submitted it as an ad to the <em>Daily Trojan</em>, which Jackson controls and which initially rejected it. The David Horowitz Freedom Center responded by notifying USC officials of its intent to pursue relief under California&#8217;s Unruh Act, which requires student papers to observe rules of basic fairness. After reflection, the <em>Trojan</em> agreed to print Horowitz&#8217;s response and it ran in Tuesday’s edition of the paper. It appears below. Tomorrow, <em>FrontPage </em>will run the speech Horowitz gave at USC, which aroused the ire of the campus left.</p>
<p><strong>An Open Letter to the USC Community: Response to VP Student Affairs Michael L. Jackson:</strong></p>
<p>Vice President Jackson’s “Open Letter to the USC Community” denigrating student leaders of College Republicans for inviting me to speak is ill-informed and provides unfortunate support for campus hate speech, specifically for the attacks on Jewish students that have become increasingly prevalent on college campuses these days. I was invited to USC to speak about this problem and specifically about an incitement to kill Jews posted on an official USC website and attributed to the prophet Mohammed. The incitement was originally posted by the USC Muslim Student Union. It was removed last spring by Provost Nicias, who called it “disgusting,” over protests from the Muslim Student Union. It was recently restored to a USC website by another campus group. When this re-posting came to my attention, I contacted USC students and said I would like to come to campus to address this and related issues. This led to my invitation from College Republicans.</p>
<p>My speech and my hosts were attacked, however, before I even appeared at USC. We were subjected to a series of vicious slanders which should have no place on a university campus. A flyer put out by the USC Progressive Alliance maliciously and falsely claimed that College Republicans hate Muslims and then invented an entire quote attributed to me claiming that Muslim believers are “soulless beasts.” I have never said or written anything that could be construed this way, nor do I believe it. In the millions of words I have published I have never used the phrase “soulless beast” to describe anyone, let alone pious Muslims.</p>
<p>Nor was this the only attack on us. The president of Students for Justice in Palestine sent out a campus email making a series of false claims about what I have written in the past, including the malicious lie that I said that African Americans should be grateful for slavery. A version of this slander endorsed by half a dozen recognized USC student groups and five USC professors was published in the <em>Daily Trojan</em>, which is under Michael Jackson’s jurisdiction and which refused to print my rebuttal.</p>
<p>In his “Open Letter” Vice President Jackson not only ignores these assaults on campus tolerance but singles out the victims of these attacks for disapprobation. He justifies this moral blindness by claiming that I described the USC Muslim Student Union as “a terrorist organization with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.” I never made such a statement – not before my speech nor during the course of it.</p>
<p>What I did point out in my speech was the USC Muslim Student Union’s decision to post the alleged saying of the prophet Mohammed that in order for the Day of Judgment to come, Muslims must “fight the Jews and kill them,” and its defense of the posting after Provost Nicias ordered its removal.</p>
<p>It is true that on other occasions I have said that the <em>national</em> Muslim Students Association is part of the Muslim Brotherhood network with ties to Hamas. I have also said that the national Muslim Students Association sponsors anti-gay, anti-woman and anti-Semitic speakers on many campuses, and is behind an event on every anniversary of the creation of the state Israel that calls for its destruction – a genocidal incitement. These claims are documented here in this <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/31.pdf">Investigative Project report</a> on the Muslim Student Association. In any case, they should be a legitimate part of any dialogue on a university campus concerned with the current conflict between radical elements in Islam and the democracies of the West. The fact that a vice president in charge of student affairs should want to de-legitimize and thereby suppress these opinions in the name of “tolerance” is positively Orwellian and does not speak well for the intellectual climate at this great university.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>David Horowitz</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the Jewish collaborators in the Islamic war against the Jews.]]></description>
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<p>Demonization not only of Israel&#8217;s Jews but of all Jews, and calls for their mass murder, are a staple of media, mosques and schools throughout most of the Arab world and in some non-Arab Muslim countries such as <span id="lw_1261624590_3">Iran</span>. Jews are portrayed as vermin or as satanic beings, the source of all human ills, ritual murderers of Muslim and Christian children, evil-doers fit only for extermination.</p>
<p>Yet, as in virtually every past situation when incitement against Jews and attacks on them have intensified, some Jews have rushed to volubly defend the Jews&#8217; attackers. They have become supporters and cheerleaders even for those most committed to translating their Jew-hatred into action.</p>
<p><span id="lw_1261624590_4">Hamas</span>&#8216;s charter quotes a <span id="lw_1261624590_5">Hadith</span> in which Allah declares that the Day of Judgement will not come until the Jews are all killed and even the stones and trees will help in murdering them. The charter adds that Hamas &#8220;aspires to the realization of Allah’s promise, no matter how long that should take.&#8221; Hamas has, of course, perpetrated innumerable terrorist attacks targeting Israeli civilians, including suicide bombings and rocket and mortar barrages, and Hamas children’s television instructs its young audience to kill Jews.</p>
<p>Yet Jewish member of Britain’s Parliament <span id="lw_1261624590_6">Gerald Kaufman</span> has affectionately compared Hamas to Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto. American Sara Roy, a &#8220;researcher&#8221; at Harvard&#8217;s Center for <span id="lw_1261624590_8">Middle East Studies</span> and a perennial figure on the Israel-bashing lecture circuit, has waxed rhapsodic about the supposed &#8220;evolution in [Hamas's] political thinking&#8230; [and] its position on a <span id="lw_1261624590_9">two-state solution</span>&#8221; and defends the organization&#8217;s administration of Gaza. This as Hamas seeks to impose Sharia law across Gaza and repeatedly proclaims its unswerving commitment to its anti-Israel and anti-Jewish agenda.</p>
<p>Hezbollah head <span id="lw_1261624590_11">Hassan Nasrallah</span> has declared that &#8220;If [the Jews] all gather in <span id="lw_1261624590_12">Israel</span>, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide,&#8221; and Hezbollah has in fact gone after them worldwide, as in its 1994 bombing of the <span id="lw_1261624590_13">Jewish Community Center</span> in Buenos Aires that claimed 87 lives. But none of this has constrained <span id="lw_1261624590_14">Noam Chomsky</span> from visiting with Nasrallah and other Hezbollah leaders, praising the organization and advocating its arming. Norman Finkelstein has likewise met with Hezbollah leaders and offered encomiums to the group. Emoted  Finkelstein at one point, &#8220;I say this without fear: for those who believe in freedom and dignity, we are all Hezbollah now.&#8221;</p>
<p>Iran&#8217;s Achmadinejad has, of course, repeatedly asserted there was no Holocaust while promising to visit a future Holocaust on Israel. He has virulently attacked &#8220;the Jews&#8221; and ratcheted up Iran&#8217;s support in money, weapons and training to Hamas and Hezbollah. Yet Achmadinejad&#8217;s Iran, too, has its Jewish supporters, who cast the Iranian theocracy as Israel&#8217;s victim. This is not limited to the usual culprits such as Chomsky. For example, the voice of the blog &#8220;Tikun Olam&#8221; (which has now widely come to mean somehow healing the world by attacking and seeking to undermine the Jewish state), one Richard Silverstein, declared, regarding Iran&#8217;s nuclear threat, &#8220;Of course, the Iranians do not have an ICBM to carry such a warhead. Nor do they have a nuclear weapon. But these are mere technicalities when it comes to frightening the world into adopting the Israeli government’s priorities and interests.&#8221;</p>
<p>Noteworthy is that many of those who embrace today&#8217;s would-be exterminators of the Jews make a point of advertising that they are themselves children of Holocaust survivors. Examples are Finkelstein and Sara Roy. In their twisted thinking, they trumpet their parents&#8217; history as though it somehow confers on them a special right to back forces that aspire to another Holocaust.</p>
<p>A variation on outright Jewish support for purveyors of genocidal Jew-hatred is the spectacle of Jews who downplay the threat and indict those taking it seriously. The latter are ridiculed as paranoiacs mentally scarred by past assaults on the Jews and simply projecting that past onto a relatively benign present. The leader of the new American <span id="lw_1261624590_18">Jewish lobby</span> &#8220;J Street&#8221; (which has opposed stronger <span id="lw_1261624590_19">sanctions against Iran</span>), Jeremy Ben-Ami, characterized as irrational anyone who would construe the threat presented by Hamas or Hezbullah or Iran as so great as to justify a military response. Ben-Ami went on to observe, in a <em>New York Times </em>interview, &#8220;&#8230; there&#8217;s their grandmother&#8217;s voice in their ear; it&#8217;s the emotional side and the communal history&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Some Israelis promote the same line. <span id="lw_1261624590_20">Hebrew University</span> political scientist Yaron Ezrahi has virtually made a career of purveying this comprehension of reality. Ezrahi has suggested that the perception of existential threats reflects in large part less actual dangers than a warped world view embraced by some Jews and &#8220;founded on a long memory of persecution, genocide, and a bitter struggle for survival&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Many more Jews could be mentioned who support those openly calling for the Jews&#8217; annihilation, and still more who downplay the threat and caricature concerned voices. Hardly less unsavory are the myriad Jews who attack Israel&#8217;s policies as the source of all the nation&#8217;s difficulties, insist that &#8220;peace&#8221; can be had if only Israel would reform itself and make sufficient concessions, militantly advocate such a course and say nothing of the genocidal agenda of the nation&#8217;s enemies or of their aggressive indoctrinating of additional cadres dedicated to enacting that agenda.</p>
<p>M.J. Rosenberg, erstwhile director of Israel Policy Forum&#8217;s Washington Policy Center, has written multiple articles on, for example, Israel and Hamas. He has invariably used them to excoriate Israel and complain about the Jewish state and the U.S. not being more forthcoming to the Palestinian Jihadists &#8211; as in &#8220;The U.S. should be extending carrots to Hamas&#8221; &#8211; and has never addressed Hamas&#8217;s explicit and continually reasserted commitment to the extermination of Israel and the Jews. He has acknowledged Hamas&#8217;s involvement in terror and its opposition to Israel&#8217;s existence but has uniformly done so in the context of criticizing Israeli policies.</p>
<p>Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian mullahs and others of Israel&#8217;s enemies have not hidden their objective. As has been the case whenever Jews have been under threat, there is no shortage of those from the community who side with the aggressors, or dismiss the threat and demean anyone taking it seriously, or rationalize the threat, cast fellow Jews as instigating it and demand their reform. All, shamefully, lend succor and cover to the would-be annihilators.</p>
<p><strong>Kenneth Levin is a psychiatrist and historian and author of <em>The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People under Siege.</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong>To see Frontpage’s series on Jewish Collaborators, <a href="../2009/12/04/collaborators-in-the-war-against-the-jews-richard-a-falk-by-steven-plaut/">click here</a>. </strong></p>
<p><strong>To get the whole story on the psychology of Jews who aid and abet those who wish to annihilate them, read Jamie Glazov’s new book, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/1935071602">United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror.</a></em></strong></p>
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		<title>Free Speech on Trial &#8211; by Robert Spencer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geert Wilders is a test case for freedom.]]></description>
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<p>Free speech goes on trial in the Netherlands on January 20, when Dutch politician Geert Wilders appears before the Amsterdam District Court on charges of having “intentionally offended a group of people, i.e. Muslims, based on their religion,” as well as having incited to hatred and discrimination.</p>
<p>What did Wilders do to warrant such charges? He told the truth about the global jihad and Islamic supremacism, and their roots in Islamic texts and teachings, in his film <em>Fitna</em> and elsewhere. But nowadays truth-telling is at such a premium that those who still dare to engage in it are threatened, harassed and prosecuted.</p>
<p>But Wilders is defiant: “On the 20<sup>th</sup> of January 2010, a political trial will start. I am being prosecuted for my political convictions. The freedom of speech is on the verge of collapsing. If a politician is not allowed to criticise an ideology anymore, this means that we are lost, and it will lead to the end of our freedom. However I remain combative: I am convinced that I will be acquitted.”</p>
<p>The very idea of trying someone for offending someone else is absurd – especially when the offended group is known to traffic in the PC multiculturalist coin of wounded feelings, so as to gain the political power that comes from victim status. That the Amsterdam District Court would aid and abet this absurdity and obvious manipulation unmasks the Wilders trial – even before it starts – as what it really is: an attempt by the nation’s political elites to silence one of their most formidable critics. The one who has the power to decide what is an actionable offensive statement or prosecutable incitement has the power to control the discourse – and that’s what the prosecution of Wilders is all about. If offending someone is a crime, can those who find hate speech laws offensive bring suit against their framers?</p>
<p>The action against Wilders is taking place, moreover, against the backdrop of the 57-government Organization of the Islamic Conference’s ongoing efforts at the United Nations to silence speech that they deem critical of Islam &#8212; including “defamation of Islam” that goes under the “pretext” of “freedom of expression, counter terrorism or national security.”</p>
<p>If they succeed in doing this, Europeans and Americans will be rendered mute, and thus defenseless, in the face of the advancing jihad and attempt to impose Sharia on the West &#8212; in fact, one of the key elements of the laws for dhimmis, non-Muslims subjugated under Islamic rule, is that they are never critical of Islam, Muhammad, or the Qur’an. Thus this prosecution in Amsterdam not only aids the advance of Sharia in the West, but is itself an element of that advance.</p>
<p>The stakes are so high in the Wilders case also because the OIC has a new, powerful ally as it moves against the freedom of speech. In October the Obama Administration actually co-sponsored an anti-free speech resolution at the United Nations. Approved by the U.N. Human Rights Council, the resolution, cosponsored by the U.S. and Egypt, calls on states to condemn and criminalize “any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.”</p>
<p>Echoing Obama’s stated determination to combat “negative stereotyping of Islam” in the United States, the resolution also condemns “negative stereotyping of religions and racial groups.” This is, of course, an oblique reference to accurate reporting about the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism &#8212; for such reporting, and not actual negative stereotyping or hateful language at all, is always the focus of OIC complaints.</p>
<p>Last year the Secretary General of the OIC, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, issued a warning: “We sent a clear message to the West regarding the red lines that should not be crossed” regarding free speech about Islam and terrorism. And he reported success: “The official West and its public opinion are all now well-aware of the sensitivities of these issues. They have also started to look seriously into the question of freedom of expression from the perspective of its inherent responsibility, which should not be overlooked.”</p>
<p>For the first time, an American President has bowed to the OIC’s demands and taken cognizance of that “responsibility.”</p>
<p>But Geert Wilders, and all those who stand with him, have a responsibility, too. We have a responsibility to bear witness to the world that the freedom of speech is a cornerstone of any free society, and that once it is gone, there is no defense against tyranny, no safeguard against the encroaching power of a protected class against whom there is no appeal, and from whose rulings there is no dissent. If Geert Wilders is found guilty, tyranny and authoritarianism will have won a huge victory in Europe, and in the world in general.</p>
<p>The stakes are as high as they can possibly be. Geert Wilders must prevail. If he does not, Europe, and America, and the world, are in for a long, dark night.</p>
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