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		<title>Happy Birthday, Sir Nicholas Winton!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2014 04:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Weiss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holocaust hero turns 105 years old.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/winton.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-225810" alt="winton" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/winton.jpg" width="300" height="225" /></a>A holocaust hero, Sir Nicholas Winton, turns 105 years old today, May 19, 2014.</p>
<p>Nicholas Winton, (originally Nicholas Wertheim), was born on May 19, 1909, in London.  He was born to German-Jewish parents who moved to England in 1907.  They changed their last name in order to assimilate, and later converted to Christianity.  They also had Nicholas baptized.</p>
<p>Winton was a highly educated man and became a London stockbroker.  At age 29, in 1938, he was planning to take a skiing vacation in Switzerland during the Christmas holiday, when he received a call from his friend Martin Blake telling him to cancel.  “Come to Prague; I have an interesting assignment and need your help”, Blake pleaded [paraphrasing].  Winton cancelled his trip and went to visit his friend, who was working with Jewish refugees.</p>
<p>Winton was appalled at the terrible treatment of the Jews.  He was already convinced that war was inevitable after the Nazis had annexed Sudetenland in October, 1928, in accordance with the Munich Pact.  He was certain that the rest of the country would follow.</p>
<p>After the November Kristallnacht, Jewish agencies set up a Kindertransport, enabling German and Austrian children to obtain safe haven in the UK.  But there was no such program for the children in Czechoslovakia.</p>
<p>Although the British House of Commons passed a law allowing families to enter the UK, it required them to pay a guarantee of 50 pounds per person for the cost of anticipated repatriation.  The fee amounted to a small fortune for many of the families who were so poor that they struggled to eat.  Those who couldn’t afford to relocate their entire family desired to at least secure their children, but nobody in Prague would allow children to leave by themselves.</p>
<p>Winton decided to set up a rescue operation, called, “The British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Children’s Section”.  Originally, his office consisted of a dining room table in his hotel.  Families rushed to his office, often waiting in long lines, pleading with Winton to place their children on his list.  Later he moved his office to central Prague, where the committee consisted of him, his mother, a secretary, and a few volunteers to help.  They raised money to pay the 50 pound fees and the costs of transportation. Winton stayed at the new office for only a few weeks before appointing others to carry out the day-to-day operations while he returned to London to find the children homes.  He placed advertisements in British newspapers, churches and synagogues, often displaying photos of the children in order to make a greater appeal.  He contacted numerous countries asking them to accept the children but only the UK and Sweden responded.  Then, the British Home Office dilly-dallied in providing visas, believing no harm would come to Europe’s shores. Therefore, Winton’s office falsified the documents to expedite the process, which also increased the risks.</p>
<p>Beginning March 14, 1939, Winton’s operations began transporting children to their new homes, primarily in the UK.  The first group left by plane, and seven trains followed.  The last train, the largest group, with 250 children, never made it to safety.  Hitler invaded Poland that day, and all borders controlled by Germany were closed.  The children were never seen or heard from again, a vision that haunts Winton to this day.</p>
<p>However, to his credit, immediately prior to the war’s outbreak, Winton managed to save 669 children from certain death.  Virtually none of the siblings or parents that these children left behind survived the Holocaust.  Most were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.</p>
<p>For decades, Winton kept his humanitarian efforts to himself.  When he married, he didn’t even tell his wife!</p>
<p>Then, one day in 1988, his wife Grete, was rummaging through their attic.  There, she found a scrapbook listing all the children Winton had saved, along with the names of their parents and the names of the homes to which they were sent.  After sending out letters, 80 of the survivors responded, confirming the story.  They became known as “Winton’s children.”</p>
<p>For 50 years, Winton’s children did not know who saved them nor had the world heard of Nicholas Winton.  Then, BBC had a viewing of the TV show “That’s Life!”.  Winton was invited to attend in the audience.  During the event, the host revealed Winton’s scrapbook and extolled his altruistic efforts.  The host announced that Vera Gissing was one of the people on Winton’s list and pointed her out in the audience, noting that she was seated next to Winton.  They were thrilled to meet each other.  Then, the host asked if there was anyone else in the room who owed their lives to Winton.  One by one, approximately 24 people stood and gave him a standing ovation.  Winton became teary-eyed.  It was the first time he had seen them since they were children during the war.</p>
<p>Today, over 5000 surviving progeny are alive due to Winton’s sacrifices.</p>
<p>Winton was subsequently knighted by Queen Elizabeth, is an honorary citizen of Prague, was made a Member of the British Empire and awarded the Merit Cross by the Minister of Defense of Czechoslovakia.  He also had an elementary school named after him in Czechoslovakia, a small planet named after him by astronomers, and thanks to a petition signed by 32,000 Czechoslovakian children, he was nominated as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate in 2008.  Additionally, several plays were written about him, as were three films and two documentaries including, “The Power of Good: the case of Nicholas Winton”, which won an Emmy award.</p>
<p>September 1, 2009 marked the 70<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the final train of the Czechoslovakian Kindertransport.  During the anniversary, a special “Winton Train” left the Prague train station and headed toward London.  It consisted of the original locomotive and carriages from the Kindertransport and travelled the Kindertransport route.  After the train departed, a statue of Winton was unveiled in his honor.  Aboard the train were many that Winton had saved, as well as their children and grandchildren.  When they arrived in London, they were greeted by Winton.</p>
<p>A total of 1.5 million children during the Holocaust were murdered in gas chambers, ovens, starved to death, heaped into mass graves (sometimes alive), and subjected to torturous diabolical “experiments”.  Over 15,000 of them were Jewish Czechoslovakian children.  Winton saved as many as possible from this fate.</p>
<p>Still, Winton maintains that his actions were commonplace and that he just did was the situation called for.  He insists that he’s not a hero.  But the rest of the world knows better.  He is known in Europe as “the British Schindler”.</p>
<p>Winton’s scrapbook and other documents can be found at Yad Vashem in Israel.  Winton is still alive and wears a ring given to him by some of the Winton children.  It’s inscribed with a line from the Talmud, which reads: “Save one life; save the world”.  He turns 105 years old today.  Happy Birthday, Sir Nicholas Winton!  May HaShem bless you and all the Winton’s children!</p>
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		<title>Being Jewish and Making Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 04:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Widlanski]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Israel's existence is tied in with being a Jewish state. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p dir="LTR"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/israel1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223920" alt="PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL/" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/israel1.jpg" width="315" height="202" /></a>What does &#8220;Being Jewish&#8221; have to do with Arab-Israeli peace? Why does Israel insist Palestinians accept Israel as a Jewish state? What causes Palestinians and other Arabs to be threatened by the &#8220;Jewish&#8221; character of Israel?</p>
<p><b>Answer One:</b> Israel is designed to be &#8220;Jewish&#8221; in the sense that it is meant to be a spiritual home and a physical refuge for Jews—the world&#8217;s most persecuted minority.</p>
<p>If you pick a century—or even a decade—in history, you can find how the powers of the day set out to persecute, rob, enslave and kill the Jews of their time: Egyptian pharaohs, Babylonian kings, Roman emperors, European knights, Spanish Inquisitors.</p>
<p>In the last century alone, Nazis and their allies murdered 6,000,000 Jews—a third of the world&#8217;s population. In ecological terms, Jews are an endangered species.  Israel is a nature preserve for Earth&#8217;s most persecuted and perhaps most productive minority.</p>
<p>Israel is a home where Jews can be safe to practice their religion (or not), to identify as Jews or Israelis (or not) without fear of persecution by German Nazis, Russian Cossacks, British Crusaders, French fascists, Islamic maniacs, etc.</p>
<p><b>Answer Two:</b> Israel must insist on having its &#8220;Jewishness&#8221; recognized because Arab and Islamic individuals, states and organizations say Jews can only exist as a second-class status within a sovereign Arab or Islamic community. In Islamic terms, this is called being a <i>dhimmi—</i>having protected but limited  second-class religious rights.</p>
<p>Making Muslims accept Israel as Jewish really means making them accept that Jews have political and cultural rights like Arabs and Muslims. Arabs have 22 sovereign states whose area is bigger than Europe. The Muslims have 50 or 60 states. No one questions that. So, the Jews can have one state the size of New Jersey.</p>
<p>The so-called &#8220;Arab World&#8221; and the &#8220;Islamic Community&#8221; say they do not have an ideological problem with Jews as a religion, but they are being misleading in asserting this. The truth is that they do not have a problem with Jews as long as the Jews &#8220;stay in their place.&#8221;</p>
<p>Many Arabs and Muslims have a huge problem with the Jewish nationalism known as Zionism. Recognizing Israel as Jewish means Jews are not just a religion but are also a nation, have national rights, and cannot be evicted from their homeland.</p>
<p>When Jew-haters (or genteel anti-Semites from Britain or Norway) say they do not hate Jews but only hate Israel or Zionism, they are lying. It is like saying they are not against Jews but only against Jews having arms, legs, eyes—the ability to see for themselves, build for themselves  and protect themselves.</p>
<p>Zionism means a Jewish state, a Jewish refuge, a predominantly Jewish home. This is not just a practical option but a moral imperative. Worldwide, Jews are safer when there is a Jewish state, because it helps them.</p>
<p>In addition, non-Jews are also safer because a Jewish state does not persecute Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bahai, Circassians and others who live in that Jewish state, and that same &#8220;Jewish state&#8221; also helps to protect non-Jewish minorities in nearby states, and it often gives them refuge from persecution.</p>
<p>The 22 Arab states and 50-odd Islamic states cannot make that claim.</p>
<p><b>Answer Three</b><b>:</b> Many Arabs, many Muslims and particularly the Palestinians are threatened by a &#8220;Jewish&#8221; Israel because Israel is real and successful—a  modern state with  traditional values. The Jewish state&#8217;s very success casts a harsh light on the failures of the &#8220;Arab&#8221; and &#8220;Islamic&#8221; states and their values.</p>
<p>This is particularly true of the Palestinians who cannot even agree on who will lead them—the PLO in the West Bank or Hamas or Islamic Jihad in Gaza. Palestinians feel threatened by Israel because of their own internal weakness and incoherence.</p>
<p>This is not just political frailty but a weakness of spirit. Palestinians sense something artificial about their own identity.  The concept &#8220;Palestinian&#8221; is relatively new in Arab thinking. It is a foreign word in Arabic. &#8220;Palestine&#8221; is never mentioned in the Quran, Islam&#8217;s holy book. &#8220;Israel&#8221; and &#8220;the Jews&#8221; are mentioned scores of times.</p>
<p>This internal Palestinian lack of identity may be the psychological reason for the PLO-Hamas long-time insistence that Israel cease to exist. Perhaps this explains why both PLO and Hamas refuse to recognize the Jewish character of Israel.</p>
<p>Even so-called Arab &#8220;moderates&#8221; (who are not really moderate) like PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas violate treaties with Israel. They try to boycott, isolate and hurt Israel. Indeed, Abbas and other &#8220;moderates&#8221; recoil in disgust at the suggestion of accepting a &#8220;Jewish&#8221; Israel.</p>
<p>On the other hand, staunch Israeli patriots or religious  Jews do not fear Arab nationalism, Muslim religion or Palestinian sentiment.  Most Israelis feel strong enough about themselves to accept Palestinian Arab nationalism, even as most Arabs still reject the very idea of Zionism or a Jewish state.</p>
<p>The real question remains: Are Arabs, Muslims and especially the Palestinians able to make peace by accepting the Jewish state as a real partner and neighbor?</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2014 05:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The left's preoccupation with a bogus dichotomy.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/border.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214525" alt="border" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/border-450x270.jpg" width="315" height="189" /></a>Now that it&#8217;s 2014, the gates of the U.K. are wide open for immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria, way over at the other end of the European Union. Some Brits are concerned: will the newcomers flood the labor market? Or the welfare offices? Or both?</p>
<p>For Britain&#8217;s leftist establishment, however, the question is a different one. As the <i>Guardian </i><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/poll/2014/jan/01/romania-bulgaria-migrants-welcome-britain-poll">put it</a> the other day: “Now that Romanian and Bulgarian citizens are able to move to the UK to seek work, an alliance of Tory, Labour and Liberal Democrats has warned that politicians&#8217; anti-Roma rhetoric is already inflaming community tensions. Has this debate helped those planning to migrate to the UK feel welcome?”</p>
<p>To make them feel welcome or not to make them feel welcome: <i>this </i>is the question? For many on the European left, yep, it most assuredly is. “Are we welcoming enough?” “Will they have a good impression of us?” We&#8217;re dealing here with people who feel what may be fairly described as a compulsion to act like store greeters – only instead of hovering in the doorway of a Walmart they&#8217;re standing, figuratively speaking, at the airport arrivals gate, welcoming all and sundry to the sceptred isle. Indeed, on New Year&#8217;s Day, at least two of these dimwits were <i>literally </i>out there welcoming the newcomers to dear old Blighty: Home Affairs Committee chairman Keith Vaz, a Labour MP, and Mark Reckless (ha!), a Tory MP, actually dragged themselves to Luton Airport to shake the hands of arriving Bulgarians and Romanians and buy them coffee. Embarrassing.</p>
<p>Exactly what species of psychological disorder are these people suffering from? Why are they so terribly anxious lest newcomers fail to feel sufficiently “welcomed”? Why is that even a concept? I moved from one country to another many years ago, and then from that country to another country, and in neither case did it occur to me to think about whether I was being made to feel welcome or not. I was just one more person going through customs. Nor did I want or expect to be “welcomed”: what would that entail, anyway? All I wanted was to be left alone to find my way.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s not enough for some of these European leftists, for whom such movements of population are shot through with profound ideological significance. For these folks, it&#8217;s almost as if their own countries are nothing more than empty vessels waiting to be filled – and given meaning – by new arrivals from distant shores. It&#8217;s as if they view themselves as little more than welcome mats on which immigrants are welcome to wipe their shoes. Or as servants waiting for their masters to arrive. Or as a godless people awaiting a messiah.</p>
<p>These folks talk a lot about the “Other” – a pivotal notion in postmodern academic folderol. At the heart of their self-definition – at the heart of what makes them, in their own eyes, good people – is that they&#8217;re prepared to embrace all “Others” without distinction or qualification. Simply knowing that other people are “Others” is enough to make them open their arms wide. And the more “Other” those others are, the better.</p>
<p>But this isn&#8217;t all: their twisted mentality comes with an important corollary. Since they view all of this stuff through a black-and-white, “us vs. them” lens, when they hear <i>anybody</i> express <i>any</i> concern about <i>any </i>aspect of immigration, they immediately attribute that concern to pure xenophobia – in other words, to a blanket hatred of the “Other.” Now, my own observations have convinced me that only a vanishingly tiny minority of Europeans actually consider “Others” by definition a bad thing; at the same time, they know enough about certain “Others” to know that it&#8217;s wise to be wary.</p>
<p>Too many people on the left, however, are utterly blind to these elementary rational distinctions. And so we have articles like <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/31/romanian-bulgarian-migration-politicians">one</a> that the <i>Guardian </i>ran the other day, in which Paul Quinn, a social “researcher” at Brussels Free University, explained the misgivings of many Britons about the forthcoming influx of Bulgarians and Romanians as symptoms of a psychopathology: our brains, he lectured, are “hardwired” to suspect and stigmatize people who are different from us but who don&#8217;t actually represent any threat to us whatsoever. Implicit in his argument was that people like himself and his right-thinking <i>Guardian </i>readers – who are busy fretting about whether the newcomers from Sofia and Bucharest are being made to feel welcome – are more evolved than those prehistoric <i>Daily Telegraph </i>types, and have therefore overcome their hardwiring.  So condescending was Quinn toward Brits who are concerned about this new wave of immigration that it didn&#8217;t occur to him that they might actually have done some reading and reflecting on the topic. No: his article was a perfect illustration of the fact that people like him regard people like them as mouth-breathing morons who operate on sheer herd instinct.</p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s Queen Margrethe of Denmark. In her New Year&#8217;s speech, Margrethe <a href="http://politiken.dk/indland/ECE2171416/laes-dronning-margrethes-nytaarstale-2013/">brought up</a> the mass rescue of the Danish Jews during the Nazi occupation, and observed – quite correctly – that on that occasion “Danish society showed its strength,” with gentiles from all walks of life risking their own safety to help their Jewish neighbors to escape to Sweden. But then she dared to suggest a similarity between those heroic actions and what she described as Danes&#8217; obligation to “recognize and respect” the fact that today their country is composed of “different people with different cultures and languages.”</p>
<p>In the past, Margrethe has been excellent on these issues, but this speech, alas, was a painfully typical example of muddy leftist pseudo-thinking about the “Other.” The facts are these: seven decades ago, the Nazis marched into Denmark and told the gentiles there that they were brothers – fellow Aryans – and that the relatively few Jews among them were the “Other” who needed to be gotten rid of. The gentile Danes knew better. The Jews were their neighbors. They were Danes. Morally, the <i>Nazis</i>,<i> </i>with their evil ideology, were the true “Other” – not an ethnic but an ideological “Other” that it would be self-destructive folly to welcome into Denmark with open arms.</p>
<p>Today, there are quite a number of ethnic “Others” in Denmark who are grateful to live in a free country, who contribute to it, and who – far from being seen as “Others” at all – should in fact be treasured. Among them is the brave young Danish-Palestinian <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/andrew-harrod/danish-muslim-apostate-faces-hate-speech-charges/">poet</a> Yahya Hassan, whose blunt criticisms of Islam have made him a bestseller and have exposed him to death threats. But there are also more than a few ideological “Others” in that country (some of whom have been responsible for those death threats) whom Margrethe – following the errant logic of today&#8217;s left – would appear to be comparing to the wartime Danish Jews. Alas, the correct parallel is to the invaders who, seven decades ago, goose-stepped into her kingdom from the south.</p>
<p>On New Year&#8217;s Day, the <i>New York Times </i>served up another helping of this benighted brand of leftist logic about the “Other.” It took the form of an op-ed, headlined “European United, in Hating Europe,” by Andrea Mammone, an Italian historian at the University of London. (The title was telling: for Mammone, as for so many of his ilk, “Europe” isn&#8217;t the people of Europe but the supranational institutions that have been imposed on them.) How, Mammone wondered aloud, can European voters support “far-right” types like Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders? For Mammone, European voters&#8217; concern about the Islamization of Europe isn&#8217;t worth serious discussion: in his view, these voters are little better than mindless robots who – unknowingly imitating earlier generations of Europeans – are simply acting on a visceral need for “an &#8216;other&#8217; to oppose, exclude, resist, restrict or oppress.” In other words, they&#8217;re the ideological heirs of the Nazis.</p>
<p>All this leftist balderdash about the “Other” is, of course, rhetorically very useful. Instead of defending their own positions on these issues with logical, fact-based arguments (which, in many cases, is an outright impossibility), these leftists respond to their opponents by purporting to diagnose them – thus neatly leaving the impression, in the minds of impressionable and ignorant readers, that it&#8217;s those opponents who are factually and logically challenged. In reality, however, it&#8217;s the leftists who, by employing this slick dodge, neatly skirt the obligation to mount legitimate arguments for their own views. And what they manage to disguise, by doing this, is that it&#8217;s not the critics of Islam and immigration who are fixated on the “Other” – it&#8217;s these leftists themselves, whose one-note, nuance-free ideology makes even the most alarming and malignant manifestations of the “Other” hopelessly irresistible to them.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 05:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fighting fire with fire.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/choc-protest-420x0.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-213805" alt="choc-protest-420x0" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/choc-protest-420x0.jpg" width="306" height="242" /></a>Eighty years ago, the Nazis dispatched thousands of SA thugs to enforce their boycott of Jewish businesses. Stars of David were painted on windows. Leaflets listing the crimes of the Jews were handed out. Cameras were set up outside stores to photograph anyone violating the Nazi BDS campaign.</p>
<p>Like modern BDS campaigns, it went beyond businesses to Jewish hospitals, Jewish professionals and Jewish academics. Its goal was to pave the way for mass murder by isolating the Jews of Germany.</p>
<p>Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, called the boycott a “great moral victory.” Modern BDS activists echo his rhetoric calling their attacks on Jewish businesses and academics a “moral victory”.</p>
<p>The Muslim boycott of Jewish businesses in Israel began in the twenties and predated the Nazi boycott. It may have even helped to inspire it. This was followed by the Arab League boycott of Israel after the Holocaust. The modern BDS boycott is the direct successor of a Saudi policy under a progressive flag.</p>
<p>The BDS boycott of Israel has no peaceful agenda. It does not take breaks during peace negotiations. Its activists do not care whether there are negotiations or not. They just want Israel gone.</p>
<p>Boycotts isolate a group, cutting it off from support, dehumanizing it and then destroying it. The academic boycott of Israel by the American Studies Association, a radical left-wing group that has declared that opposition to American imperialism is at the center of its field, holds to that aim.</p>
<p>The only way to fight a boycott is with a boycott. Either you isolate the people whose goal is to cut you off from the larger society or they cut you off. The dueling boycotts in the 1930s settled the question of who would be isolated as a problematic group, the Nazis or the Jews, when the world accepted the Nazi regime and rejected the Jews. The question was only truly reopened with the invasion of Poland.</p>
<p>Today the question is whether the Jews or the terrorists trying to kill them will be the ones isolated.</p>
<p>The Nazis began as a fringe group. They took over because there were too few decent people willing to stand up to them. Like the rest of the BDS movement; the ASA is a fringe group. The question is will anyone stand up to the BDS movement and its ASA allies?</p>
<p>In the seventies, the United States responded to the Arab League boycott by banning American companies from complying with it. The modern progressive rebirth of that boycott should be met by banning the use of American taxpayer money to fund any organization or event that provides material aid to terrorists by boycotting the Jewish State.</p>
<p>The ban on the use of public funds to subsidize boycotting groups could be used to not only to cut direct funding of such organizations, but would require organizations that provide them with funding to prove that no Federal grant money is being used to subsidize boycotting groups or events by these groups.</p>
<p>The practical effect of such measures would be a boycott of the boycotters forcing non-profits and government organizations to either end funding of these groups or to make their funding process so difficult that the flow of money would diminish.</p>
<p>Bills such as these can be passed by Congress and by states, cities and towns to ensure that any boycotting organization is boycotted by preventing taxpayer money from flowing to it. Efforts to kickstart bills may be easiest in a few heavily Jewish municipalities—including New York City.</p>
<p>Individuals can lead the way by writing to pro-Israel council members, state senators, senators, congressmen and other legislators at all levels of government urging them to advance such a bill.</p>
<p>The sooner action begins; the less likely it will be that any major university will cross that red line. If it does cross that red line then the legislation will be burdened by protests from students and faculty.</p>
<p>While BDS activists target companies and individuals, they have had their biggest successes with non-profits. And non-profits are vulnerable because they are parasitically dependent on outside money.</p>
<p>Until the government acts, individuals who are asked to donate to colleges should reply that they will only donate if it is established that their money will not in any way go to fund members or groups that conduct a boycott of Israel. Enough such requests will lead to an internal “boycott” within academic institutions forcing them to carefully source funds to and segregate funds around boycotting groups.</p>
<p>Even a public conversation about such measures will encourage the remaining 81 schools that are institutional members, such as Rutgers, Brigham Young University, the University of Texas and NYU, to join the schools such as Penn State that have done the right thing by pulling out.</p>
<p>Boycotts, like all forms of bullying, are easy when the bully doesn’t pay a price. A minority of ASA members voted to boycott Israel because it was easier for them to go along than to stand up to the radicals who had hijacked their organization. That will change when there are real consequences, not just for the people whom they are boycotting, but for them as well.</p>
<p>An unfortunate truth of human nature is that many people unthinkingly follow orders. And that is as true of the academics of the American Studies Association as it is of the shoppers in the plazas of Berlin. There were those good Germans who defied the Nazis and their boycott and there are those good ASA members who have chosen to cut their ties with it, rather than be complicit in its bigotry and hate.</p>
<p>But the majority often takes the easy way out by going along with those who are shouting the loudest until they are confronted with the terrible consequences of their actions.</p>
<p>A boycott represents a power relationship. Those who boycott presume that they have the right to cut off a group from society because society hates the group that they have targeted as much as they do. Now is the time to test this faulty premise of the BDS movement and the American Studies Association and see whether Americans, who invariably poll pro-Israel, support Israel or the Muslim terrorists.</p>
<p>The United States is not Nazi Germany even if some academics talk like it is and act like it is. Those academics who try to play Goebbels may have a nasty surprise waiting for them when Americans reject them and everything that they stand for.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a historian of modern Germany, I find it depressing that West's nonsense finds some fans.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/war1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-199994" alt="war" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/war1.jpg" width="274" height="217" /></a>Ronald Radosh’s riposte to Diana West fantasies about Soviet control over American foreign and military policy during World War II is most welcome and very well done. It is depressing that West’s nonsense finds some fans. Yet error and Radosh’s convincing criticism draws welcome attention to the complexity of World War II and of the alliance of the Western democracies with the Soviet Union. Winston Churchill, who as much as any one person saved Western civilization in 1940 and 1941, put it best. When asked how he, whose political career was bound up with anticommunism since he advocated armed intervention to overthrow the new Bolshevik regime in 1917-1918, could support an alliance with Stalin he famously replied: “If Hitler invaded Hell, I would rise in the House of Commons to make a speech in favor of the devil.” In 1941, Hitler invaded the Hell of Stalin’s Russia and Churchill made a remarkable speech on the BBC to offer an alliance with the previous Soviet foe.</p>
<p>As a historian of modern German history, including the Nazi era, I would add the following by drawing on a vast and excellent scholarship by historians of Germany and Europe that West appears to have ignored.</p>
<p>1.  The idea that the United States was dominated by the Soviet Union and entered World War II as a result of that influence was a core theme of Nazi propaganda. The Nazis, of course, asserted that an international Jewish conspiracy had created the alliance between the Americans and the British with the Soviet Union. The Nazis were particularly enraged at Franklin Roosevelt who, they believed, had robbed them of the chance to win the war in Europe. (For the relevant material see my book <i>The Jewish Enemy:  Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust</i>.)  In spring 1945, Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s Minister of Propaganda, attacked the “Anglo-Saxon powers,” the United States and Great Britain for, in effect, stabbing Nazi Germany in the back as it was fighting the “Jewish Bolshevik” threat. West’s argument about Soviet domination over American policy evokes disturbing parallels to the Nazi interpretation of World War II.</p>
<p>2.  Peter Hoffmann, the leading historian of the German resistance to Hitler, makes clear that Klaus von Stauffenberg, the leader of the attempted anti-Nazi coup of July 20, 1933, and his fellow conspirators did not have the support of the vast majority of the German officer corps. Indeed, as historians Omer Bartov, Christopher Browning, Saul Friedlander among others in this country, and a host of historians in Germany in recent decades such as Horst Boog, Ulrich Herbert, Manfred Messerschmidt and Juergen Foerster have overwhelmingly demonstrated, the German general staff and officer corps distinguished itself not only by its criminality in fighting a racial war of extermination on the Eastern Front but also by its fanatical determination to fight the war to the very last day. West’s suggestion that the United States or Britain should have had anything to do with the German army after its participation in the Holocaust and these massive crimes is grotesque. The generals and senior officers belonged in war crimes trials, not in a new alliance with the Western democracies. As it was, too many of them successfully avoided trial and punishment in the postwar years. The dismantling of the German military was a precondition for peace and stability in postwar Europe.</p>
<p>In making this suggestion of an alliance with remnants of the Nazi regime, West unintentionally also echoes Soviet propaganda following World War II. It was the Soviet Union, the Communist states and Communist parties in Europe who claimed that West Germany and the American-led NATO alliance were simply a new version of the former “fascist” anticommunism of the Nazi regime. The leaders of the postwar alliance—Truman, Marshall, Eisenhower, Acheson among others—all understood that the defeat and definitive end of Nazism as a political force was a precondition for an effective containment of Communism in the Cold War. Joseph McCarthy didn’t understand that distinction. Perhaps Diana West does not either.</p>
<p>3.  Some ex-Nazi intelligence officers paraded their anticommunist credentials and supposed knowledge of the Soviet Union after the war and some were, for a time, hired by the CIA. Richard Breitman, Norman Goda and Timothy Naftali’s work on US intelligence and the Nazis offers important material on these issues. The results of the “intelligence” about the Soviet Union offered by the ex-Nazi was often embarrassingly stupid. American intelligence officials concluded that their supposed knowledge of the Communist regimes was generally worthless.</p>
<p>4.  There is a shameless quality to the arguments then and since by the isolationist right in the United States. Having fought Roosevelt’s efforts to warn early on about Hitler’s danger and to intervene in the European war the “isolationists” then attacked him—and Truman—for the fact that the Red Army was in Berlin. Had Roosevelt not intervened in the war, it would likely have ended with the Red Army on the coast of France. Had the United States intervened earlier, the Red Army might have been at the Soviet-Polish border in May 1945.</p>
<p>5.  Some official Soviet histories of World War II argue that the only reason the US entered the European war was to prevent the Soviet Union from expanding further or, in communist terminology, to prevent “revolutionary” developments in Western Europe as well. Apparently those Soviet historians had not been informed that in reality Roosevelt was Stalin’s stooge. In fact, as Robert Dallek, Warren Kimball and Gerhard Weinberg have all pointed out, American entry into the war in Europe had everything to do with the defense of American national security and, initially preventing the defeat of Britain in 1940.  One implication of West’s argument is that the United States should not have intervened in World War II in Europe and thus should have stood by passively as Nazi Germany dominated Europe and, as Weinberg and Goda have pointed out and as Admirals of the United States Navy understood by 1939, posed a direct threat to the continental United States. What non-intervention in a war against a regime of such radical evil and huge global ambitions had and has to do with conservatism immersed in the Western moral and political tradition is hard to discern.</p>
<p>We scholars often complain that what we do does not reach a broad enough audience, that much of what we do is miscontrued and that the great simplifiers have an easier time finding a mass echo. West’s claims not only fly in the face of the work of historians of Soviet espionage. They also display striking ignorance of the findings of many historians of both World War II, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and the Cold War in Europe. Ronald Radosh deserves the congratulations and thanks from many fellow historians who have worked for decades to write accurately and truthfully about these events. He has done the kind of thing that distinguished historians of the first rank need to do when our discipline is attacked because it presents work that unsettles some conventional wisdom or another.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Jeffrey Herf is a professor of modern European history at the University of Maryland specializing in 20th century Germany. He is the author of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0674213041" target="_blank">Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys </a></em>(Harvard University Press), <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/War-Other-Means-Resistance-Euromissiles/dp/0029150302/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376026948&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=War+By+Other+Means%3A+Soviet+Power%2C+West+German+Resistance+and+the+Battle+of+the+Euromissiles" target="_blank">War By Other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance and the Battle of the Euromissiles</a></em> (Free Press) and <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Reactionary-Modernism-Technology-Culture-Politics/dp/0521338336/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376027004&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Reactionary+Modernism%3A+Technology%2C+Culture+and+Politics+in+Weimar+and+the+Third+Reich" target="_blank">Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich</a> </em>(Cambridge University Press).</strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Germany invaded Poland, MGM further consolidated its alliance with the Nazis by donating eleven of its most popular movies to the cause of German war relief.]]></description>
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<p>WW2 is often described as the Golden Age of Hollywood patriotism but the reality is somewhat more complex. On the talent level Hollywood had a good deal of Communists who vigorously opposed war with Nazi Germany during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact. On the studio side there <a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/134503/hollywood-nazi-urwand#undefined">was a greed for access to German markets</a>, the same greed that led the Hollywood of the present day to give Communist China censorship power over its biggest blockbusters.</p>
<blockquote><p>Urwand has titled his riveting book The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact With Hitler, and as you turn its pages you realize with dismay that collaboration is the only fitting word for the relationship between Hitler and Hollywood in the 1930s. Using new archival discoveries, Urwand alleges that some of the Hollywood studio heads, nearly all of whom were Jewish, cast their lot with Hitler almost from the moment he took power, and that they did so eagerly—not reluctantly.</p>
<p>What they wanted was access to German audiences. What Hitler wanted was the ability to shape the content of Hollywood movies—and he got it. During the ’30s, Georg Gyssling, Hitler’s consul in Los Angeles, was invited to preview films before they were released. If Gyssling objected to any part of a movie—and he frequently did—the offending scenes were cut. As a result, the Nazis had total veto power over the content of Hollywood movies. What is shocking and new about Urwand’s account is its blow-by-blow description of Hollywood executives tailoring their  product to meet the demands of the Nazi regime.</p></blockquote>
<p>Like modern Hollywood whose executives eagerly collaborate with Muslim countries that are pathologically anti-Semitic, the Nazi hatred for Jews proved to be no barrier.</p>
<blockquote><p>In 1936, all Jews associated with the American film industry in Germany were forced to leave the country. Yet even after this, the studios eagerly kept up their profitable dealings with Hitler’s regime.</p></blockquote>
<p>And the studios did more than just censor movies.</p>
<blockquote><p>In the late 1930s, Urwand claims, Paramount and 20th Century Fox produced newsreels in Germany depicting major Nazi events. Most shocking of all, Urwand maintains, in 1938 MGM invested in factories making German weapons in Austria and the Sudetenland. As Urwand put it in a recent YouTube interview, “The biggest movie studio in America was actually financing the production of German armaments immediately before World War II.”</p>
<p>After Germany invaded Poland, MGM further consolidated its alliance with the Nazis by donating eleven of its most popular movies to the cause of German war relief.</p></blockquote>
<p>Much like Hollywood studios after 9/11 played up Muslim victimization.</p>
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<p>Dutch TV shows Muslim kids praising Hitler and hoping for a new Holocaust:</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you’ve never been called a Nazi by a leftist, then you’re not trying hard enough, or you’re a leftist. This past week, world-class America-hater Noam ‘the gnome’ Chomsky &amp; legendary imbecile Tony Bennett cried “Nazi” about America. Chomsky was on state-run Iranian television -Iran being the greatest state sponsor of jihad terrorism on earth- telling their headscarf-wearing Muslim female ‘reporter’ that America is a terrorist state and that <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/02/04/Chomsky-Nazi-US-Is-leading-terrorist-state-in-world">“We’re just like the Nazis”.</a> The day Chomsky stops saying vile things about America is the day he drops dead.</p>
<p>As for Tony <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/new-tony-bennett-biography-david-evanier-singer-son-steamed-article-1.1024557">“Banana Nose”</a> Bennett, this rank Sinatra tried be taken seriously on the current “gun control” issue, but failed miserably. His &#8220;speech&#8221; quickly dropped to the bottom of the leftist barrel as he said, in essence, that if we&#8217;re not like him, a “far out” “pacifist,” well then, <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/08/tony-bennetts-confusing-gun-theory-we-need-gun-control-to-prevent-times-like-when-the-nazis-came-over-and-created-tragic-things/">we’re going to become Nazi Germany and the world’s going to destroy us the way we destroyed the Nazis</a>. This is nothing new for the “I left my brain in San Francisco” singer. Recall how <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/09/20/tony-bennett-tells-howard-stern-us-caused-11-attacks/">Bennett blamed us for 9/11</a>, saying, “Who are the terrorists? Are we the terrorists or are they the terrorists? Two wrongs don&#8217;t make a right…They flew the planes in, but we caused it…because we were bombing them and they told us to stop.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2013/02/07/singer-tony-bennett-says-other-countries-will-invade-us-stop-gun-#ixzz2KJkA9lz1">Newsbusters tried to make sense of Bennett’s ‘we’re Nazis if we don’t ban guns’ nonsense</a>:</p>
<p><em>“The illogic is enough to make one’s head spin: The rest of the world will invade America if it doesn’t pass gun control because we will be like the Nazis in creating violence. But such an action would be wrong because attacking Germany in World War II was not morally justified nor is attacking Islamic terrorist groups.”</em></p>
<p>Question: What do you think anti-American Americans hate more, America or themselves? And can the one hatred even exist without the other?</p>
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		<title>Current TV Bought By Al Jazeera</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ben-shapiro/current-tv-bought-by-al-jazeera/al-gore-current-tv-al-jazeera-3/" rel="attachment wp-att-172944"><img class=" wp-image-172944 alignleft" title="al-gore-current-tv-al-jazeera" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/al-gore-current-tv-al-jazeera-450x337.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="236" /></a>This week, former presidential candidate and global warming guru Al Gore sold his failing cable television network, Current TV, to an ideological ally: Al Jazeera. He’d had an offer from Glenn Beck to buy Current TV, but according to Beck, he turned it down out of hand on the grounds that the two were philosophically incompatible. He had no such qualms about pocketing $100 million from the Qatar-owned propaganda outlet for America’s terrorist enemies.</p>
<p>That’s no coincidence. The two most left-leaning networks in America are now owned by two of America’s greatest geopolitical foes. RT, which carries American hosts like Thom Hartmann, is Russia Today – it’s owned by the Kremlin. And now Current TV, which carried people like former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (both of whom have now quit), is owned by a foreign government that backs terrorism.</p>
<p>The media has attempted, lamely, to spin the Al Jazeera purchase as a legitimate news outlet buying a legitimate news outlet. Howard Kurtz writes at CNN that “Al Jazeera English … doesn’t have the same reputation” as Al Jazeera proper (no doubt because Al Jazeera English is almost indistinguishable from the Western self-hatred evident on most liberal news networks). “In fact,” writes Kurtz, “no less a figure than Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has praised it as ‘real news,’ and the channel has won journalism awards for its reporting on the Arab Spring and other events.”</p>
<p>Kurtz does admit, however, that Al Jazeera does allow airtime for Egyptian Islamist Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who spends an inordinate amount of time raving about Jews and Americans, and who backs suicide terrorism. Qaradawi, Kurtz didn’t mention, actually appeared on air and said this: “Oh Allah, take this oppressive Jewish, Zionist band of people. Oh Allah, do not spare a single one of them.” But, says Kurtz, the network also has on Shimon Peres! Which is somewhat like saying that if you have on Adolf Hitler, mid-Holocaust, and also Neville Chamberlain, you’re evenhanded.</p>
<p>Kurtz hilariously proclaims that the network might “have its own biases.”<br />
And that “Al Jazeera English is sometimes determined to paint the US in a negative light.”</p>
<p>Sometimes?</p>
<p>According to Gordon Crovitz in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>,</p>
<blockquote><p>“In 2008, Al Jazeera threw an on-air party for Samir Kuntar when he was released from an Israeli prison. Kuntar led a Palestine Liberation Front terrorist team that kidnapped an Israeli family in 1979. He shot the father and killed the 4-year-old daughter by smashing her head against rocks along the beach. In footage available on YouTube, Al Jazeera’s Beirut bureau chief hands Kuntar a scimitar to cut the celebratory cake and says: ‘This is the sword of the Arabs, Samir.’”</p></blockquote>
<p>The newest chair of Al Jazeera is the cousin to the emir of Qatar. The emir recently signed a $400 million check to Hamas.</p>
<p>Well played, Mr. Vice President.</p>
<p>And the staff is angry. They’re not too upset about Al Jazeera’s hatred for Jews and Israel. And they’re not particularly perturbed about Al Jazeera’s history of supporting American enemies. No, they’re mad because Al Jazeera is owned by oil producers. “[Gore] has no credibility,” one Current TV staffer told Fox News. “He’s supposed to be the face of clean energy and just sold [the channel] to very big oil, the emir of Qatar! Current never even took big oil advertising – and Al Gore, that bulls&#8212;ter sells to the emir?” Another staffer was just as angry … about Gore making money. “Al was always lecturing us about green,” said the staffer. “He kept his word about green all right – as in cold, hard cash!”</p>
<p>The left’s reaction to the Al Jazeera sale – anger at the lack of environmentalism rather than the lack of moral compass – is astonishing, but revealing. They are ideologically aligned with Al Jazeera on foreign policy. They openly say so, when they reject even hearing an offer from Glenn Beck in order to sell to the producers of “Oh Allah, kill all the Jews” material.</p>
<p>What’s even scarier is that Gore’s sale represents not only the merger of American leftist media and the media of our enemies, but the merger of American leftism and the philosophy of our enemies. And that is truly frightening.</p>
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		<title>Anti-Semitism Is Racism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 04:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s progressive to hate Jews.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/anti.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-131431" title="anti" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/anti.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="194" /></a>Islam is not a race. Even though Islamophobia has become the great obsession of the politically correct elites of the Western world&#8211; there is nothing innate about Islam. One is not born a Muslim and there is no double helix of DNA that intertwines with the Koran. Muslims are followers of a belief system and no belief system should be above criticism or reproach.</p>
<p>Jews however are a race, a fact that has been known for thousands of years and has been backed up by genetic evidence in modern times. A fact that has been dismissed by liberals who are eager to denounce racism except when it comes to the one particular race that they have given themselves permission to hate.</p>
<p>By embracing the Islamophobia narrative, the left prioritized combating discrimination against a belief system over combating discrimination against a race, reversing its past position that racial prejudice is worse than any other form of prejudice because it persecutes an innate aspect of the individual, rather than an external adopted one. And when the two were in conflict over the racist aspect of the ideology, it chose the ideology and its racism.</p>
<p>Leftist and Islamic persecution of Jews and the common alliance of the two groups have made it necessary for the left to ignore or even legitimize displays of Anti-Semitism. The supremacy of these two ideologies over the rights and humanity of the most persecuted racial minority in the world are the toxic ingredients in the “New Anti-Semitism” which has revived Anti-Semitic racial prejudice as a progressive value.</p>
<p>American and European elites have become obsessed with protecting a single religion from any criticism, even when that religion comes burdened with an ugly legacy of racism that believes the Jewish people are its eternal enemies who must be destroyed in an apocalyptic Islamic genocide that concludes with every rock crying out,  “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him!”</p>
<p>The rocks have remained silent, but left-wing newspapers have taken up the call in their place. Jewish store windows are smashed, synagogues burned, schools attacked and children murdered, while the media ignores, justifies, whitewashes and even occasionally praises these crimes. Every other news story from the Middle East is either an attack on the Jewish State or a celebration of the Muslim Brotherhood and its plans for a genocidal theocracy stretching across the region and eventually across the world.</p>
<p>Attacks reminiscent of the work of Goebbels’ pet propagandists regularly make their way into the pages of The Guardian and Time Magazine as part of the Leftist-Islamic alliance against the Jews. Warnings about growing Anti-Semitism are ridiculed or dismissed while Islamophobia is treated as a grave threat, even though crime statistics clearly show a <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/09/06/inconvenient-truth-10-times-more-hate-crimes-against-jews-muslims">far higher numbers</a> of attacks on Jews contrasted with a fairly insignificant numbers of attacks on Muslims.</p>
<p>The left cannot deny the hate crimes statistics, so instead it chooses to ignore them. The artificial reality bubbles sent up by its media empires clamor about the manufactured crisis of Islamophobia, while claiming Anti-Semitism is largely overblown, a tool that it insists Jews use to silence Muslims and leftists. The same elites who claimed that McCarthyism was worse than the Gulags, now claim that Islamophobia is worse than Anti-Semitism.</p>
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		<title>Why Thomas Friedman Abetted Anti-Semitism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times repeats a staple of Nazi propaganda. ]]></description>
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<p>After a lifetime of studying the left, I have concluded that leftism is a form of moral poison. It causes otherwise decent and kind people who take it into their systems to say and/or do cruel and sometimes evil things.</p>
<p>While not specifically about the left, a major new scholarly book, &#8220;Pathological Altruism&#8221; (Oxford University Press), explores this phenomenon of people wanting to do good things yet ending up doing bad. It applies to The New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas L. Friedman, who has a deep altruistic urge to bring peace to the Middle East. But because he sees the world through the liberal/left prism, he says morally reprehensible things — statements that individuals associated with hate-filled, non-altruistic groups and ideologies would make.</p>
<p>In his Dec. 13 column, yet another of his attacks on Israel and its supporters, Friedman wrote: &#8220;The standing ovation (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) got in Congress this year was &#8230; bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.&#8221;</p>
<p>If a non-Jew had written this, he would have been severely condemned for writing something outright anti-Semitic. The notion that Jews manipulate the levers of power in Western societies for their own nefarious ends is probably the most enduring of all the West&#8217;s Jew-hating myths. It was a staple of Nazi anti-Semitism and is the single most repeated charge of those in the Arab and larger Muslim worlds who seek to annihilate Israel, since its purpose is to convince people that non-Jews who support Israel have been paid off by Jews.</p>
<p>But Friedman, who is a Jew and a liberal, can get away with it — even though it is so morally repulsive that Jew-haters can now assert they are merely quoting a well-known Jew. Who&#8217;s going to call him on it? The New York Times?</p>
<p>To his credit, one congressman did condemn Friedman. Rep. Steven R. Rothman (D-N.J.) released this statement: &#8220;Thomas Friedman&#8217;s defamation against the vast majority of Americans who support the Jewish State of Israel, in his New York Times opinion piece today, is scurrilous, destructive and harmful to Israel and her advocates in the U.S. Mr. Friedman is not only wrong, but he&#8217;s aiding and abetting a dangerous narrative about the U.S.-Israel relationship and its American supporters.</p>
<p>&#8220;I gave Prime Minister Netanyahu a standing ovation, not because of any nefarious lobby, but because it is in America&#8217;s vital national security interests to support the Jewish State of Israel, and it is right for Congress to give a warm welcome to the leader of such a dear and essential ally. Mr. Friedman owes us all an apology.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Voices of Palestine: Haj Amin al-Husseini</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nazi collaborator and founder of the Palestinian Arab movement.]]></description>
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<p><em>Editor’s note: Below is the latest profile of Frontpage’s new series, “Voices of Palestine,” which will illuminate the core beliefs, in their own words, of leading figures in the Palestinian death cult. Click the following to view the profiles of </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/24/voices-of-palestine-ahmad-bahr/"><em>Ahmad Bahr</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/26/voices-of-palestine-mahmoud-al-zahar/"><em>Mahmoud al-Zahar</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/01/voices-of-palestine-ibrahim-mudayris/"><em>Ibrahim Mudayris</em></a> and<em> </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/03/voices-of-palestine-yasser-ghalban/"><em>Yasser Ghalban</em></a><em>.</em></p>
<p>Appointed Mufti of Jerusalem by the British High Commissioner in May 1921, Haj Amin al-Husseini was the founder of the Palestinian Arab movement. He relied upon virulent anti-Jewish incitement to garner popular support. Throughout his public career, the Mufti used traditional Koranic anti-Jewish motifs to arouse the Arab street. For example, during the incitement which led to the 1929 Arab revolt in Palestine, he called for combating and slaughtering &#8220;the Jews&#8221;, not merely Zionists. In fact, most of the Jewish victims of the 1929 Arab revolt were Jews from the centuries old <em>dhimmi</em> communities (e.g., in Hebron), as opposed to recent settlers identified with the Zionist movement.</p>
<p>With the ascent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the Mufti and his coterie intensified their anti-Semitic activities to secure support from Hitler&#8217;s Germany, Bosnian Muslims, and the overall Arab Muslim world, for a <em>jihad</em> to annihilate the Jews of Palestine. Following his expulsion from Palestine by the British, the Mufti organized a brutal anti-Jewish pogrom in Baghdad (1941), concurrent with his failed effort to install a pro-Nazi Iraqi government.</p>
<p>Escaping to Europe after this unsuccessful coup attempt, the Mufti spent the remainder of World War II in Germany and Italy. From this sanctuary, he provided active support for the Germans by recruiting Bosnian Muslims, in addition to Muslim minorities from the Caucasus, for dedicated Nazi SS units. The Mufti&#8217;s objectives for these recruits, and Muslims in general, were made explicit during his multiple wartime radio broadcasts from Berlin, heard throughout the Arab world: an international campaign of genocide against the Jews.</p>
<p>For example, during his March 1, 1944 broadcast he stated: &#8220;Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion.&#8221; Haj Amin made an especially important contribution to the German war effort in Yugoslovia where the Bosnian Muslim SS units he recruited (in particular the Handzar Division) brutally suppressed local Nazi resistance movements. The Mufti&#8217;s pamphlet entitled, &#8220;Islam and the Jews&#8221;, was published by the Nazis in Croatian and German for distribution during the war to these Bosnian Muslim SS units. This hateful propaganda served to incite the slaughter of Jews, and (Serb) Christians as well.</p>
<p>Indeed, the Bosnian Muslim Handzar SS Division was responsible for the destruction of whole Bosnian Jewish and Serbian communities, including the massacre of Jews and Serbs, and the deportation of survivors to Auschwitz for extermination. However, these heinous crimes, for which the Mufti bears direct responsibility, had only a limited impact on the overall destruction of European Jewry when compared with his nefarious wartime campaign to prevent Jewish emigration from Europe to Palestine. Invoking the personal support of such prominent Nazis as Himmler and Eichmann, the Mufti&#8217;s relentless hectoring of German, Rumanian, and Hungarian government officials caused the cancellation of an estimated 480,000 exit visas which had been granted to Jews (80,000 from Rumania, and 400,000 from Hungary). As a result, these hapless individuals were deported to Nazi concentration camps.</p>
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		<title>A Brave Rabbi Speaks Out</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Schlomo Lewis of Atlanta minces no words in stressing the urgency of confronting the threat we face. ]]></description>
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<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: The sermon below, delivered by Rabbi Schlomo Lewis of Atlanta </em><em>on the first day of Rosh Hashanah,  2010</em><em>, has  been referred to as the “Sermon of the Century.”</em></p>
<p><strong>“Ehr Kumt” (Yiddish for “He’s Coming”)</strong></p>
<p>I thought long and I thought hard on whether to deliver the sermon I  am  about to share.  We all wish to bounce happily out of shul on the  High Holidays, filled with warm fuzzies, ready to gobble up our brisket,  our  honey cakes and our kugel.  We want to be shaken and stirred – but  not too much.  We want to be guilt-schlepped – but not too much.  We  want to be provoked but not too much.  We want to be transformed but not  too much.</p>
<p>I get it, but as a rabbi I have a compelling obligation, a  responsibility to  articulate what is in my heart and what I  passionately believe must be said and must be heard.  And so, I am  guided not by what is easy to say but by what is painful to express.  I  am guided not by the frivolous but by the serious.  I am guided not by  delicacy but by urgency.</p>
<p>We are at war.  We are at war with an enemy as savage, as voracious,  as heartless as the Nazis but one wouldn’t know it from our behavior.  During WWII we didn’t refer to storm troopers as freedom fighters.  We  didn’t call the Gestapo, militants.   We didn’t see the attacks on our  Merchant Marine as acts by rogue sailors.  We did not justify the Nazis  rise to power as our fault.  We did not grovel before the Nazis,  thumping our hearts and confessing to abusing and mistreating and  humiliating the German people.</p>
<p>We did not apologize for Dresden , nor for The Battle of the Bulge, nor for El Alamein, nor for D-Day.</p>
<p>Evil – ultimate, irreconcilable, evil threatened us and Roosevelt  and Churchill had moral clarity and an exquisite understanding of what  was at stake.  It was not just the Sudetenland, not just Tubruk, not  just Vienna, not just Casablanca .  It was the entire planet.  Read  history and be shocked at how frighteningly close Hitler came to  creating a Pax Germana on every continent.</p>
<p>Not all Germans were Nazis – most were decent, most were revolted by  the Third Reich, most were good citizens hoisting a beer, earning a  living and tucking in their children at night.  But, too many looked  away, too many cried out in lame defense – I didn’t know.”  Too many  were silent.  Guilt absolutely falls upon those who committed the  atrocities, but responsibility and guilt falls upon those who did  nothing as well.  Fault was not just with the goose steppers but with  those who pulled the curtains shut, said and did nothing.</p>
<p>In WWII we won because we got it.  We understood who the enemy was  and we  knew that the end had to be unconditional and absolute.  We did  not stumble around worrying about offending the Nazis.  We did not  measure every word so as not to upset our foe.  We built planes and  tanks and battleships and went to war to win….. to rid the world of malevolence.</p>
<p>We are at war… yet too many stubbornly and foolishly don’t put the  pieces together and refuse to identify the evil doers.  We are  circumspect and disgracefully politically correct.</p>
<p>Let me mince no words in saying that from Fort Hood to Bali, from  Times Square to London , from Madrid to Mumbai, from 9/11 to Gaza, the  murderers, the barbarians are radical Islamists.</p>
<p>To camouflage their identity is sedition.  To excuse their deeds is contemptible.  To mask their intentions is unconscionable.</p>
<p>A few years ago I visited Lithuania on a Jewish genealogical tour.   It was a stunning journey and a very personal, spiritual pilgrimage.   When we visited Kovno we davened Maariv at the only remaining shul in  the city.  Before the war there were thirty-seven shuls for 38,000 Jews.   Now only one, a shrinking, gray congregation.  We made minyon for the  handful of aged worshippers in the Choral Synagogue, a once majestic,  jewel in Kovno.</p>
<p>After my return home I visited Cherry Hill for Shabbos.  At the oneg an elderly family friend, Joe Magun, came over to me.</p>
<p>“Shalom,” he said.  “Your abba told me you just came back from Lithuania .”</p>
<p>“Yes,” I replied.  “It was quite a powerful experience.”  “Did you  visit the Choral Synagogue in Kovno?  The one with the big arch in the  courtyard?”</p>
<p>“Yes, I did.  In fact, we helped them make minyon.”  His eyes opened  wide in joy at our shared memory.  For a moment he gazed into the  distance and then, he returned.  “Shalom, I grew up only a few feet away  from the arch.  The Choral Synagogue was where I davened as a child.”</p>
<p>He paused for a moment and once again was lost in the past.  His  smile faded.  Pain filled his wrinkled face.  “I remember one Shabbos in  1938 when Vladimir Jabotinsky came to the shul”  (Jabotinsky was  Menachim Begin’s mentor – he was a fiery orator, an unflinching Zionist  radical, whose politics were to the far right.)  Joe continued “When  Jabotinsky came, he delivered the drash on Shabbos morning and I can  still hear his words burning in my ears.  He climbed up to the shtender,  stared at us from the bima, glared at us with eyes full of fire and  cried out. ‘EHR KUMT. YIDN FARLAWST AYER SHTETL – He’s coming.  Jews  abandon your city.’ ”</p>
<p>We thought we were safe in Lithuania from the Nazis, from Hitler.   We had lived there, thrived for a thousand years but Jabotinsky was  right — his warning prophetic.  We got out but most did not.”</p>
<p>We are not in Lithuania.  It is not the 1930s.  There is no  Luftwaffe overhead.  No U-boats off the coast of long Island .  No  Panzer divisions on our borders.  But make no mistake; we are under  attack – our values, our tolerance, our freedom, our virtue, our land.</p>
<p>Now before some folks roll their eyes and glance at their watches  let me state emphatically, unmistakably – I have no pathology of hate,  nor am I a manic Paul Revere, galloping through the countryside.  I am  not a pessimist, nor prone to panic attacks.  I am a lover of humanity, all  humanity.  Whether they worship in a synagogue, a church, a mosque, a  temple or don’t worship at all.  I have no bone of bigotry in my body,  but what I do have is hatred for those who hate, intolerance for those  who are intolerant, and a guiltless, unstoppable obsession to see evil  eradicated.</p>
<p>Today the enemy is radical Islam but it must be said sadly and  reluctantly  that there are unwitting, co-conspirators who strengthen  the hands of the evil doers.  Let me state that the overwhelming number  of Muslims are good Muslims, fine human beings who want nothing more  than a Jeep Cherokee in their driveway, a flat screen TV on their wall  and a good education for their children, but these good Muslims have an  obligation to destiny, to decency that thus far for the most part they  have avoided.  The Kulturkampf is not only external but internal as  well.  The good Muslims must sponsor rallies in Times Square, in  Trafalgar Square, in the UN Plaza, on the Champs Elysee, in Mecca  condemning terrorism, denouncing unequivocally the slaughter of the  innocent.  Thus far, they have not.  The good Muslims must<br />
place ads in the NY Times.  They must buy time on network TV, on cable  stations, in the Jerusalem Post, in Le Monde, in Al Watan, on Al Jazeena  condemning terrorism, denouncing unequivocally the slaughter of the  innocent – thus far, they have not.  Their silence allows the vicious to  tarnish Islam and define it.</p>
<p>Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.</p>
<p>I recall a conversation with my father shortly before he died that  helped me  understand how perilous and how broken is our world; that we  are living on the narrow seam of civilization and moral oblivion.   Knowing he had little time left he shared the following – “Shal.  I am  ready to leave this earth.  Sure I’d like to live a little longer, see a  few more sunrises, but truthfully, I’ve had it.  I’m done.  Finished.  I  hope the Good Lord takes me soon because I am unable to live in this  world knowing what it has become.”</p>
<p>This startling admission of moral exhaustion from a man who  witnessed and lived through the Depression, the Holocaust, WWII,  Communist Triumphalism, McCarthyism, Strontium 90 and polio.  – Yet his  twilight observation was – “The worst is yet to come.” And he wanted  out.</p>
<p>I share my father’s angst and fear that too many do not see the  authentic, existential threat we face nor confront the source of our  peril.  We must wake up and smell the hookah.</p>
<p>“Lighten up, Lewis.  Take a chill pill, some of you are quietly  thinking.  You’re sounding like Glenn Beck.  It’s not that bad.  It’s  not that real.”</p>
<p>But I am here to tell you – “It is.”  Ask the member of our shul whose  sister was vaporized in the Twin Towers and identified finally by her  charred teeth, if this is real or not.  Ask the members of our shul who fled a bus in downtown Paris , fearing for their safety from a gang of  Muslim thugs, if this is an exaggeration.  Ask the member of our shul  whose son tracks Arab terrorist infiltrators who target – pizza parlors,  nursery schools, Pesach seders, city buses and play grounds, if this is  dramatic, paranoid hyperbole.</p>
<p>Ask them, ask all of them – ask the American GI’s we sit next to on  planes who are here for a brief respite while we fly off on our Delta  vacation package.  Ask them if it’s bad.  Ask them if it’s real.</p>
<p>Did anyone imagine in the 1920’s what Europe would look like in the  1940’s.  Did anyone presume to know in the coffee houses of Berlin or in  the opera halls of Vienna that genocide would soon become the  celebrated culture?  Did anyone think that a goofy-looking painter named  Shickelgruber would go from the beer halls of Munich and jail, to the Reichstag as Feuhrer in less  than a decade?  Did Jews pack their bags and leave Warsaw, Vilna, Athen ,  Paris , Bialystok, Minsk, knowing that soon their new address would be  Treblinka, Sobibor, Dachau and Auschwitz?</p>
<p>The sages teach – “Aizehu chacham – haroeh et hanolad – Who is a  wise person – he who sees into the future.”  We dare not wallow in  complacency, in a misguided tolerance and naïve sense of security.</p>
<p>We must be diligent students of history and not sit in ash cloth at  the waters of Babylon weeping.  We cannot be hypnotized by  eloquent-sounding rhetoric that soothes our heart but endangers our  soul.  We cannot be lulled into inaction for fear of offending the  offenders.  Radical Islam is the scourge and this must be cried out from  every mountain top.  From sea to shining sea, we must stand tall,  prideful of our stunning decency and moral resilience.<br />
Immediately after 9/11 how many mosques were destroyed in America?  None.</p>
<p>After 9/11, how many Muslims were killed in America?  None.</p>
<p>After 9/11, how many anti-Muslim rallies were held in America?  None.</p>
<p>And yet, we apologize.  We grovel.  We beg forgiveness.</p>
<p>The mystifying litany of our foolishness continues.  Should there be  a shul in Hebron on the site where Baruch Goldstein gunned down  twenty-seven Arabs at noonday prayers?  Should there be a museum  praising the U.S. Calvary on the site of Wounded Knee ?  Should there be  a German cultural center in Auschwitz ?  Should a church be built in the Syrian town of Ma’arra  where Crusaders slaughtered over 100,000 Muslims?  Should there be a  thirteen story mosque and Islamic Center only a few steps from Ground  Zero?</p>
<p>Despite all the rhetoric, the essence of the matter can be distilled  quite easily.  The Muslim community has the absolute, constitutional  right to build their building wherever they wish.  I don’t buy the  argument – “When we can build a church or a synagogue in Mecca they can  build a mosque here.”  America is greater than Saudi Arabia .  And New  York is greater than Mecca .  Democracy and freedom must prevail.</p>
<p>Can they build?  Certainly.  May they build?  Certainly.   But  should they build at that site?  No — but that decision must come from  them, not from us.  Sensitivity, compassion cannot be measured in feet  or yards or in blocks.  One either feels the pain of others and cares,  or does not.</p>
<p>If those behind this project are good, peace-loving, sincere,  tolerant Muslims, as they claim, then they should know better, rip up  the zoning permits and build elsewhere.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, I am a dues-paying, card carrying member of the  ACLU, yet from start of finish, I find this sorry episode disturbing to  say the least.</p>
<p>William Burroughs, the novelist and poet, in a wry moment wrote –  “After one look at this planet, any visitor from outer space would say –  “I want to see the manager.”</p>
<p>Let us understand that the radical Islamist assaults all over the  globe are but skirmishes, fire fights, and vicious decoys.  Christ and  the anti-Christ.  Gog U’Magog.  The Sons of Light and the Sons of  Darkness; the bloody collision between civilization and depravity is on  the border between Lebanon and Israel .  It is on the Gaza Coast and in  the Judean Hills of the West Bank .  It is on the sandy beaches of Tel  Aviv and on the cobblestoned mall of Ben Yehuda Street .  It is in the  underground schools of Sderot and on the bullet-proofed inner-city  buses.  It is in every school yard, hospital, nursery, classroom, park,  theater – in every place of innocence and purity.</p>
<p>Israel is the laboratory – the test market.  Every death, every  explosion, every grisly encounter is not a random, bloody orgy.  It is a  calculated, strategic probe into the heart, guts and soul of the West.</p>
<p>In the Six Day War, Israel was the proxy of Western values and  strategy while the Arab alliance was the proxy of Eastern, Soviet values  and strategy.  Today too, it is a confrontation of proxies, but the  stakes are greater than East Jerusalem and the West Bank .  Israel in her struggle  represents the civilized world, while Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Queda, Iran,  Islamic Jihad, represent the world of psycho pat hic, loathsome evil.</p>
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