<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Zionism</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/tag/zionism/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 07:56:08 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en-US</language>
		<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
		<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	
	<item>
		<title>The Presbyterian Church USA&#8217;s Terrorist Ties</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/the-presbyterian-church-usas-terrorist-ties/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-presbyterian-church-usas-terrorist-ties</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/the-presbyterian-church-usas-terrorist-ties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hezbollah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meeting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presbyterian church usa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=247057</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why the Hezbollah-allied church could soon lose its tax-exempt status. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/pcusa.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-247061" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/pcusa.gif" alt="pcusa" width="233" height="235" /></a>On April 18, 1983, an explosive laden truck driven by a Hezbollah terrorist slammed into the U.S. embassy in Beirut killing 63 people, including 17 Americans, some of whom were CIA operatives. According to the CIA, it was the <a href="https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2014-featured-story-archive/flashback-april-18-1983-u-s-embassy-bombed-in-beirut.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">most lethal</span></a> attack ever against the Agency. Just six months later, Hezbollah terrorists struck again, this time hitting the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/13/world/meast/beirut-marine-barracks-bombing-fast-facts/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">U.S. Marine compound</span></a> in Beirut.  In a repeat of the embassy bombing, a Hezbollah homicide bomber crashed his explosive laden truck into the barracks killing 220 marines and another 21 U.S. service personnel. It was the largest single-day loss of life sustained by the marines since Iwo Jima.</p>
<p>Hezbollah’s atrocities against the United States and its allies did not cease with the embassy and marine compound outrages and have in fact, continued unabated in intensity and scope since that time. Hezbollah has recently carried out a global campaign of terror spanning five continents including an attack and bombing of a civilian tourist bus in Bulgaria that resulted in the deaths of six civilians.</p>
<p>Despite Hezbollah’s involvement in international terrorism and its designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the United States, the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) has had extensive contacts with the organization according to a federal complaint filed by the legal advocacy group, Shurat HaDin, Israel Law center.</p>
<p>The 38-page complaint filed with the Internal Revenue Service alleges that PCUSA has engaged in “a range of activities prohibited under U.S. tax law” which are wholly inconsistent with PCUSA’s stated aims when it filed for tax exempt status in 1964.</p>
<p>In its 1964 filing with the IRS, PCUSA posed as a religious body whose purpose was to engage in “peaceful relationships with individuals of all faiths and wholly unengaged in political activities.” But the federal complaint filed by Shurat HaDin paints a completely different picture and alleges that PCUSA has repeatedly met and established dialogue with Hezbollah terrorist officials.</p>
<p>The complaint also alleges that PCUSA violated its tax-exempt status by “publishing anti-Semitic materials, enacting a racist policy to divest from American companies doing business with Israel, lobbying the U.S. Congress, and distributing political advocacy materials&#8230;”</p>
<p>Indeed, as far back as 2004 PCUSA officials met with Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon with one PCUSA official, perhaps in an attempt to endear himself to his Hezbollah hosts, making crude <a href="http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/294.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">anti-Jewish</span></a> remarks. Though PCUSA subsequently disavowed itself from the remarks as well as the meeting, PCUSA sanctioned meetings with Hezbollah continued.</p>
<p>In October 2005, a PCUSA delegation headed by Robert Morley and Father Nihad Tomeh <a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/1535.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">met with</span></a> Nabil Qaouk, a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon. During the exchange, Qaouk complained that U.S. policies in the region were dictated by Israel. It is the same banal complaint often regurgitated by an assortment anti-Semitic groups and conspiracy types. Nevertheless, the delegation, rather than challenging Qaouk, concurred with him stating that PCUSA was blameless because its members had voted for the Democratic Party and the organization was under pressure from U.S. Jewish groups due to its divestment efforts against Israel.</p>
<p>The Israel-Palestine Mission Network of the PCUSA has been engaged in a relentless effort to delegitimize Israel. As <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&amp;x_issue=37&amp;x_article=2712"><span style="color: #0433ff;">detailed</span></a> by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), the IPMN has been linked to a number of anti-Israel initiatives the most notorious of which is a malevolent publication called “Zionism Unsettled.”</p>
<p>“Zionism Unsettled” adopts a viscerally anti-Israel narrative, in line with the views of Hamas and has won praise from the who’s who of Judeophobes including former KKK “Grand Wizard” David Duke.  Among its many pernicious lies is that Jews had “harmonious relations” with Muslims prior to the ascendancy of Zionism and that Zionism is the sole cause for Palestinian suffering. The screed was peddled and offered for sale on PCUSA’s website and was taken down only after encountering extremely negative feedback and intense public pressure.</p>
<p>PCUSA took its anti-Israel political advocacy to new levels when in June 2014, its General Assembly <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/presbyterian-shame-article-1.1844099"><span style="color: #0433ff;">voted</span></a> by a narrow margin to attack Israel’s legitimacy by divesting itself from three companies doing business with Israel. A similar resolution in 2012 failed but remains testament to the relentless effort PCUSA places on political advocacy when it comes to harming relations with the Jewish State.</p>
<p>PCUSA, by both word and deed, has made itself out to be a leading purveyor of anti-Semitism. Its divestment initiatives hold Israel to a standard expected of no other nation. By peddling an anti-Semitic screed on its website, it becomes an integral party to anti-Semitism. By meeting and maintaining dialogue with Hezbollah, a Foreign Terrorist Organization that next to al-Qaida was responsible for more American deaths than any other terrorist group, it provides aid and comfort to the enemy.</p>
<p>In 1964, PCUSA presented itself to the IRS as a benign religious organization with an apolitical agenda. The facts however, prove otherwise. As Shurat HaDin’s founder, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner accurately summed it up in an email to me; “The Presbyterian church long ago abounded any claim that they are not a political organization with ties to terror groups and an Israel-bashing agenda.  The IRS is obligated to investigate PCUSA and strip it from its tax free status. The PCUSA would need to decide ultimately whether they are a church or a political group.”</p>
<p>Given the PCUSA’s aggressive political agenda and its anti-Israel machinations, it is patently clear that they’ve already made that decision.</p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>. </b></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf" target="_blank"><b>Subscribe</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to Frontpage&#8217;s TV show, <i>The Glazov Gang</i>, and </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>LIKE</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> it on </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>Facebook.</b></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/the-presbyterian-church-usas-terrorist-ties/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>&#8216;The New Anti-Semitism&#8217; Comes of Age a Decade Later</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/fern-sidman/the-new-anti-semitism-comes-of-age-a-decade-later/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-new-anti-semitism-comes-of-age-a-decade-later</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/fern-sidman/the-new-anti-semitism-comes-of-age-a-decade-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fern Sidman]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Semitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jihad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=246140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The re-release of a prescient book comes at precisely the right time. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/newanti-semitism.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246361" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/newanti-semitism-240x350.png" alt="newanti-semitism" width="222" height="324" /></a><i><strong>To order a copy of &#8220;The New Anti-Semitism,&#8221; click <a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Anti-Semitism-Phyllis-Chesler-ebook/dp/B00PWL472E/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1416514415&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=the+new+anti-semitism">here</a>.</strong><br />
</i></p>
<p>As one holds a copy of Dr. Phyllis Chesler&#8217;s updated book &#8220;The New Anti-Semitism&#8221; in their hands, we can all breathe a collective sigh and exclaim &#8220;this tome hasn&#8217;t come a minute too soon.&#8221;  Thanks to the excellent research and prophetic analysis conducted by this acclaimed author, lecturer and activist, the reader is afforded the necessary context and perspective with which to understand the invidious phenomenon of contemporary Jew hatred.</p>
<p>Written over a decade ago in a compelling, easy to read and free flowing style, Dr. Chesler&#8217;s premise was and still is that classical anti-Semitism as espoused by such nihilists and evil madmen as Hitler and the scores that preceded him has now been deemed to be &#8220;politically correct&#8221; by the trendy denizens of the Western academy and the &#8220;intellectual&#8221; crowds.  Chesler was among the first to have seen and denounced the suicidal alliance between the Western intelligentsia and fundamental Islam. The anti-Semite needed a new and more acceptable veneer and the little place on the globe known as Israel would serve as the perfect subterfuge. Thus, Zionism does not equal racism but anti-Zionism does. In fact, it is part of what makes the new anti-Semitism &#8220;new.&#8221;</p>
<p>There is no doubt that the al Aqsa intifada and the traumatic events of 9/11 served as an impetus for Dr. Chesler to pen this book as she naturally drew a correlation between the kind of terrorism that had become endemic to the state of Israel and the Jihadic terrorism that was let loose upon the world.  &#8220;War and a new kind of anti-Semitism had been declared,&#8221; she writes.</p>
<p>In the decades prior to the 9/11 and the advent of al Qaeda, Chesler is acutely aware of the festering anti-Semitism that appears to be increasingly more ubiquitous with each passing moment.  She details major events  that she personally encountered during her years as part of the vanguard of the second wave feminist movement and the reader can easily connect the proverbial dots to see and feel the palpable resentment of those who championed the politically correct cause against Israel, now known as liberalism.</p>
<p>Always sensing a strong undercurrent of such bigotry in the various human rights movements that came to define her raison d&#8217;etre, Chesler is most disheartened when women&#8217;s conferences and forums such as Copenhagen and a pre-Durban one were hijacked by Jew hating agendas. She justifiably laments the fact that some important conferences are cancelled because of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel bias. &#8220;Women, you see, cannot be accused of racism &#8211; unless, of course, they are Jewish women,&#8221; she sardonically writes.</p>
<p>Because she is keenly aware that anti-Semitism may start with the Jews but never ends with the Jews, she makes the logical connection between the opprobrium that is harbored for both America and Israel by those who assign blame to all forms of human oppression in terms of colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism.  &#8220;The Palestinian uprising has increasingly been seen as the uprising of all oppressed peoples against their colonial oppressors, that is,  Jews, Zionists and Americans,&#8221; she ruefully observes. And, she notes, few understand that Muslim history is one of imperialism, colonialism, conversion by the sword, gender and religious apartheid, and slavery. Only the post enlightenment Judeo-Christian West are seen as mighty sinners.</p>
<p>Unlike other authors who have offered works of this genre, Chesler&#8217;s meticulous research is beyond impeccable as she explores the genesis of post 9/11 Islamic terrorism specifically directed against the West and their global interests. Israel, of course is viewed as the little Satan by the retinue of pro-Palestinian apologists and their Western lackeys and Chesler takes the Big Lies and bold propaganda to task by exposing their motives. Case in point: The unfortunate Muhammed Dura incident and the use of &#8220;fauxtography&#8221; are given more than an ample dose of good old fashioned sunlight as she reveals one of the most egregious anti-Israel hoaxes ever sold to the public; however deceptively.</p>
<p>While reading this book, one is in retrospective mode as we imbibe a seemingly endless litany of horrifying anti-Israel and anti-Jewish events at university campuses that took place in the first decade of the new century and compare them to how much worse they are today.  It should come as no surprise that the BDS movement and physical and verbal violence against pro-Israel Jewish students has gained a dangerous degree of momentum, power and economic viability in institutions of higher learning.</p>
<p>Chesler cites the palpable but surreal bellicosity that has become an endemic part of campus life for Jews who wish to express pro-Israel sentiments. Physical  attacks, heckling of speakers, academic boycotts, incendiary street theater predicated on distortions,  the lies being promulgated at the annual Jew roasting, better known as Israel apartheid week and the infinite amount of Orwellian rhetoric being circulated in every facet of academic life to just name a few. &#8220;The New McCarthyism on campus consists of the anti-Israeli  and pro-Palestinian point of view. No other view will be tolerated,&#8221; she writes.</p>
<p>Chesler is under no illusions and does not even attempt to sugarcoat the obvious. European anti-Semitism is at pre-World War II levels and the flames of destruction are being consistently fanned not only by the &#8220;usual suspects&#8221; but by the formidable fourth estate. The European press she writes &#8220;have continuously held Israel accountable for Palestinian terrorism, and justified human homicide bombing as a function of Palestinian &#8220;despair.&#8221;</p>
<p>This book is easy to read yet it is filled with a voluminous amount of facts and is definitely driven by concrete and verifiable data. What causes the words to leap off the pages, however, and to embed themselves in our collective psyches  are the nuanced and urbane analyses proffered both by Chesler and by an extensive array of  experts. Frightening as it may be, they provide us with the kind of perspective we need to tackle anti-Semitic diatribes.</p>
<p>Yes, Dr. Chesler cautions us to grant this matter the gravitas it deserves and not to dismiss it as mere blather.  In the expanded last chapters of the book she prodigiously confronts the Big Lies and blood libels as she challenges the sheer mendacity of pseudo and rather lethal Palestinian narratives in ways that are both comprehensible and thought provoking. On an uplifting note she provides us with ways in which each of us can support Israel and Judaism, either through economic empowerment against boycotts of Israeli made products and development of community and college based pro-Israel programs connecting with individual Israelis as part of our families.</p>
<p>In one of her final exhortations, Dr. Chesler has stumbled upon what may be the most important component in staying afloat as a people as we navigate the turbulent tide of anti-Semitism. She writes: &#8220;Dare I say it? I must. I implore Jews to stop fighting with each other. Even if we disagree, we must try to do so respectfully, soulfully&#8230;.We are an eternal people engaged in an eternal struggle with evil.&#8221;</p>
<p>Definitely words to heed.</p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>. </b></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf" target="_blank"><b>Subscribe</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to Frontpage&#8217;s TV show, <i>The Glazov Gang</i>, and </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>LIKE</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> it on </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>Facebook.</b></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/fern-sidman/the-new-anti-semitism-comes-of-age-a-decade-later/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Ivory Tower’s Nazification of Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/richard-l-cravatts/the-ivory-towers-nazification-of-israel/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-ivory-towers-nazification-of-israel</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/richard-l-cravatts/the-ivory-towers-nazification-of-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2014 05:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard L. Cravatts]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Semitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apartheid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nazi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestinian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=245327</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Left's lethal narrative. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/israeli-flag-turned-swastika-4453720158_3f639a1ea52.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245328" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/israeli-flag-turned-swastika-4453720158_3f639a1ea52-450x299.jpg" alt="israeli-flag-turned-swastika-4453720158_3f639a1ea52" width="343" height="228" /></a>“What if the Jews themselves were Nazis?” mused French philosopher, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Jank%C3%A9l%C3%A9vitch"><span style="color: #ed2324;">Vladimir Jankélévitch</span></a> in 1986. “That would be great. We would no longer have to feel sorry for them; they would have deserved what they got.”</p>
<p>The recasting of Israelis, and, by extension, Jews as Nazis has, in fact, taken place, just as Jankélévitch envisioned. This summer’s Israeli incursion, Operation Protective Edge, provided anti-Semites and loathers of the Jewish state with resurgent justifications for assigning the epithet of Nazi on the Jews yet another time, together with oft-heard accusations of “crimes against humanity, “massacres,” genocide,” and, according to recent comments by Turkey’s prime minister <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan"><span style="color: #ed2324;">Tayyip Erdoğan</span></a>, in their treatment of the Palestinians, Israel has demonstrated that “. . . their barbarism has surpassed even Hitler’s.”</p>
<p>The Nazification of Israelis—and by extension Jews—is both breathtaking in its moral inversion and cruel in the way it makes the actual victims of the Third Reich’s horrors a modern-day reincarnation of that same barbarity. It is, in the words of Boston University’s Richard Landes, “moral sadism,” a salient example of Holocaust inversion that is at once ahistorical, disingenuous, and grotesque in its moral and factual inaccuracy.</p>
<p>In reflecting on the current trend he perceived in the burgeoning of anti-Israelism around the world, Canadian Member of Parliament, Irwin Cotler, once <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Making-the-world-Judenstaatrein"><span style="color: #ed2324;">observed</span></a> that conventional strains of anti-Semitism had been masked, so that those who directed enmity towards Jews were now able to transfer that opprobrium to the Jew of nations, Israel. How had they effected that? According to Cotler, they did so by redefining Israel as the most glaring example of those human predations, what he called “the embodiment of all evil” of the Twentieth Century: apartheid and Nazism. He defined the process of grafting this opprobrium on Israel as “ideological anti-Semitism,” one which “involves the characterization of Israel not only as an apartheid state—and one that must be dismantled as part of the struggle against racism—but as a Nazi one.”</p>
<p>Most important for the anti-Israel cause, Cotler contended, once Israel had been tarred with the libels of racism and Nazism, the Jewish state had been made an international outlaw, a pariah, losing its moral right to even exist—exactly, of course, what its foes have consistently sought. “These very labels of Zionism and Israel as ‘racist, apartheid and Nazi’ supply the criminal indictment,” said Cotler. “No further debate is required. The conviction that this triple racism warrants the dismantling of Israel as a moral obligation has been secured. For who would deny that a ‘racist, apartheid, Nazi’ state should not have any right to exist today?”</p>
<p>What is more troubling is that the characterization of the Israeli as Nazi is a trope now promulgated by Western elites and so-called intellectuals, including a broad contingent of academics who are complicit in, and in fact intellectual enablers of, the campaign to defame Israel by Nazifying its people and accusing Jews again as being the world’s moral and existential enemies as demonstrated by their oppression and brutality toward the long-suffering Palestinians. Thus, campus anti-Israel hate-fests sponsored by radical student groups have such repellant names as “Holocaust in the Holy Land,” “Israel: The Politics of Genocide,” or “Israel: The Fourth Reich,” creating a clear, though mendacious, linkage between Nazism and Zionism.</p>
<p>One of the early academic voices to have assigned the Nazi epithet to Israel was heard in a November 2000 speech by Francis A. Boyle, a law professor at the University of Illinois and one of the principal promoters of the global Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. In that speech, Boyle made the exact linkage to which Cotler alluded, conflating Israel’s alleged racism with apartheid-like behavior and suggesting, even more ominously, that the ongoing “genocide” against the Palestinians had parallels with the Nazi’s own heinous offenses. “The paradigmatic example of a crime against humanity is what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jewish People,” Boyle <a href="http://www.mediamonitors.net/francis7.html"><span style="color: #ed2324;">said</span></a>. “This is where the concept of crime against humanity was formulated and came from. And this is what the U.N. Human Rights Commission is now saying that Israel is doing to the Palestinian People. A crime against humanity.”</p>
<p>That same trope is repeated and reinforced by other academics, such as Richard Falk, professor emeritus of International Law and Policy at Princeton University and the UN’s former, preposterously-titled “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,” who wondered aloud if it was “an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity?” on the part of Israel, and then quickly answered his own question by saying, “I think not.”</p>
<p>In the morally-defective pantheon of the academic defamers of Israel, perhaps no single individual has emerged as the paradigmatic libeler, the most vitriolic and widely-followed character in an inglorious retinue as <a href="http://normanfinkelstein.com/"><span style="color: #ed2324;">Norman Finkelstein</span></a>, late of DePaul University. Finkelstein has loudly and notoriously pronounced his extreme views on the Middle East, not to mention his loathing of what he has called the Holocaust “industry,” something he has called an “outright extortion racket;” in fact, he blames Jews themselves for anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, has pure political intentions and passively yearns for truces and safe borders, according to Mr. Finkelstein, while the invidious state of Israel, fearing moderate Arab foes who will force it into peace, is obdurate, conniving, and bellicose. In fact, Finkelstein <a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/interviews_norman-finkelstein-israel-is-committing-a-holocaust-in-gaza_164483.html"><span style="color: #ed2324;">suggested</span></a>, Israel is collectively going mad, while everyone else in the rational world yearns for Middle Eastern peace:<b> “</b>I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. . . In the first week of the massacres, there were reports in the Israeli press that Israel did not want to put all its ground forces in Gaza because it was preparing attacks on Iran. Then there were reports it was planning attacks on Lebanon. It is a lunatic state.”</p>
<p>If Finkelstein lives in an academic netherworld of political fantasies, conspiracies, and intellectually-imbecilic distortions of history and fact, his spiritual mentor, MIT’s professor emeritus of linguistics <a href="http://www.chomsky.info/"><span style="color: #ed2324;">Noam Chomsky</span></a>, has inhabited a similar ideological sphere, but has become an even more widely-known, eagerly-followed creature of the Israel-hating, America-hating Left.</p>
<p>While he is happy to, and regularly does, ignore the murder of Jews by Palestinians, Chomsky never hesitates to point to the perfidy of Israel, and its barbarous assault on their Arab neighbors who, in his socialist fantasies, wish for nothing more than to live in peace. He draws the perverse parallel between Israelis and Nazis so frequently in his writings that, to paraphrase the wry Professor Edward Alexander, he would be rendered nearly speechless if he was unable to use the epithet of Nazi against Israel in every sentence he utters. The rogue state of “Israel has tried killing, beating, gassing, mass arrests, deportation, destruction of houses, curfews and other forms of harsh collective punishment,” Chomsky <a href="http://www.chomsky.info/articles/198807--.htm"><span style="color: #ed2324;">wrote</span></a>, and yet, even in the face of this hideous, Nazi-like behavior by Israel, “nothing has succeeded in enforcing obedience or eliciting a violent response.”</p>
<p>In January of 2009, a tenured sociology professor, William I. Robinson, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, sent an odious email to the 80 students in his “Sociology 130SG: The Sociology of Globalization” course with the explicit message that Israelis are the new Nazis.  Under the heading “Parallel images of Nazis and Israelis,” the email displayed a photo-collage of 42 side-by-side, grisly photographs meant to suggest an historical equivalence between Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in its occupation of Gaza and the Third Reich’s subjugation of the Warsaw Ghetto and its treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. Robinson sent the email without supplying any context for it, nor did it seemingly have any specific relevance to or connection with the course’s content.</p>
<p>At Columbia University’s department of Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS), an academic division with a long history of anti-Israel, anti-American bias and politicized scholarship, Joseph Massad, an associate professor of modern Arab politics, regularly espouses his loathing of Israel in fringe, anti-Semitic publications like <i>Counterpunch</i> and <i>The Electronic Intifada, </i>or in the Arab press, and never misses an opportunity to denigrate the Jewish state as a racist, colonial enterprise, a moral stain on the world without any semblance of legitimacy. In his perfervid imagination, Israelis, as he never tires as mentioning, have become the new Nazis and the Palestinians the Jews. “As Palestinians are murdered and injured in the thousands,” he <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/gaza-ghetto-uprising/7919"><span style="color: #ed2324;">wrote</span></a> after Operation Cast Lead in January of 2009 when Israel was defending itself against some 6000 rockets attacks from Gaza, “world powers are cheering on . . , and it even happened during World War II as the Nazi genocide was proceeding.” Perversely likening the barbaric aggression of Hamas from within Gaza to the efforts of Warsaw Jews to repel imminent extermination by the Nazis, Massad obscenely suggested that “The Gaza Ghetto Uprising will mark both the latest chapter in Palestinian resistance to colonialism and the latest Israeli colonial brutality in a region whose peoples will never accept the legitimacy of a racist European colonial settlement in their midst.”</p>
<p>It is Israel&#8217;s actions alone―that and the support of the United States―which are the root cause of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and the Jewish state’s behavior is murderous, unethical, and brutal, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison&#8217;s Jennifer Loewenstein, Associate Director of the Middle East Studies Program. Israel, she <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/31/a-legacy-of-two-martyrs/"><span style="color: #ed2324;">wrote</span></a>, “speaks with a viper’s tongue over the multiple amputee of Palestine whose head shall soon be severed from its body in the name of justice, peace and security,” and “Israel has made its view known again and again in the strongest possible language, the language of military might, of threats, intimidation, harassment, defamation and degradation.”<b> </b></p>
<p>This summer, while the Gaza incursion was raging, Dr. Julio Pino, associate professor of history at Kent State University, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/ohio-professor-says-israel-spiritual-heir-to-nazism/"><span style="color: #ed2324;">published</span></a> a vitriolic open letter in which he chastised the “academic friends of Israel” who have “chosen to openly work for and brag about academic collaboration with a regime that is the spiritual heir to Nazism . . . I curse you more than the Israelis,” he told his academic colleagues, “for while The Chosen drain the blood of innocents without apologies you hide behind the mask of academic objectivity, nobility of research and the reward of teaching to foreign youth . . . Lest you think this is a personal attack I swear it applies equally to all who engage in collaboration with fascism, and we both know the fate of collaborators. In the same manner, only with more zeal, than you have sworn to the Jewish State I pledge to you, and every friend and stooge of Zionism.”</p>
<p>Occasionally, when an academic makes public his loathing of the Jewish state, and continues to demonize and libel Israel beyond the bounds of what would be considered acceptable scholarly discourse, there are consequences—though rarely. This summer, for instance, Steven Salaita, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Israels-Dead-Soul-Steven-Salaita/dp/1439906386"><span style="color: #ed2324;">author of <i>Israel’s Dead Soul</i></span></a> and perennial critic of Zionism, had an employment offer from the University of Illinois withdrawn once the school’s president was made aware of some of Salaita’s virulent Twitter posts about Israel.  During the widely-criticized Gaza incursion, Salaita <a href="https://twitter.com/stevesalaita/status/490683700116738048"><span style="color: #ed2324;">tweeted</span></a> that “At this point, if Netanyahu appeared on TV with a necklace made from the teeth of Palestinian children, would anybody be surprised?” He also blamed anti-Semitism on Jews themselves, as many anti-Semites do, by asserting that Israel’s behavior causes the hatred of Jews, that “By eagerly conflating Jewishness and Israel, Zionists are partly responsible when people say antisemitic shit in response to Israeli terror.”</p>
<p>As grotesque and distorted as these calumnies against Israel are, as perverse and inaccurate the comparisons drawn between Nazism and Zionism and between Nazis and Israelis are, and as wildly hateful these libels are to the point of being, as defined by the State Department’s own working definition, anti-Semitic in nature—the branding of Israel as the Nazi of nations by these academics serves to reinforce, and give credibility to, similar hatreds and biases expressed outside the university walls.</p>
<p>This is a lethal narrative because when it is believed the world naturally asks itself, as Cotler warned: if Israel is a Nazi-like, apartheid regime, standing in opposition to everything for which the civilized community of nations stands, who <i>cannot </i>hold Israel accountable and judge it harshly for its transgressions? That against all historical evidence and the force of reason the calumny against Israel that it is a murderous, sadistic, and genocidal regime has been successfully promoted and continues to gain traction indicates that Israel’s academic defamers have been successful in inverting history as part of the modern day incarnation of the world’s oldest hatred.</p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>. </b></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf" target="_blank"><b>Subscribe</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to Frontpage&#8217;s TV show, <i>The Glazov Gang</i>, and </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>LIKE</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> it on </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>Facebook.</b></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/richard-l-cravatts/the-ivory-towers-nazification-of-israel/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>534</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Why Zionism Is Moral &amp; Just</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/why-zionism-is-moral-just/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-zionism-is-moral-just</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/why-zionism-is-moral-just/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2014 04:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerusalem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Settlements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ze’ev Jabotinsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=242864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether Joseph or Simon or Ivan or Achmed agree or not.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/western-wall.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242865" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/western-wall-450x291.jpg" alt="ISRAEL-RELIGION/WOMEN" width="315" height="204" /></a>History repeats itself when it comes to Jews and Israel – President Obama remains more concerned about Jews building homes in Jerusalem than radical Muslims. Yet, the Jewish State continues to grow and thrive.</p>
<p>There’s a Zionist leader named <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/04/01/ze%E2%80%99ev-jabotinskys-answer-to-hypocrisy/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Ze’ev Jabotinsky </span></a>who passed away in 1940, yet is considered the forefather of today’s nationalist politicians, including Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, whose late father was Jabotinsky’s personal secretary.</p>
<p>As Jabotinsky said, “We hold that Zionism is moral and just. And since it is moral and just, justice must be done, no matter whether Joseph or Simon or Ivan or Achmed agree with it or not.” Similarly as Jabotinsky wrote in his epic “Ethics Of The Iron Wall”:</p>
<blockquote><p>Human society is based on reciprocity. If you remove reciprocity, justice becomes a lie. A person walking somewhere on a street has the right to live only because and only to the extent that he acknowledges my right to live. But, if he wishes to kill me, to my mind he forfeits his right to exist – and this also applies to nations. Otherwise, the world would become a racing area for vicious predators, where not only the weakest would be devoured, but the best.</p></blockquote>
<p>And while Israel wants peace, Israel knows the importance of a strong arm and standing strong against her enemies, yet:</p>
<blockquote><p>Everything connected with war is “evil” and “good” does not exist at all. When you fire at the enemy do not lie to yourself and do not imagine that you are shooting at the “guilty”… [I]f at that time we would have begun to calculate what was preferable – the result would have been simple: if you want to be “good” allow yourself to be killed and forego all that you made it your aim to defend: home, country, freedom, hope. The Romans used to say: “always choose the lesser of two evils. When you are faced with a situation where the exertion of force prevails, only one question may be presented: “which is worse?”</p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #323333;">Amidst criticism that Israel faces world pressure, and should sacrifice to comply with “world leaders,” <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/israel-revolt/torossian-zeev-jabotinsky-had-it-right-justice-must-be-done"><span style="color: #800d00;">Ze’ev Jabotinsky</span></a> wrote a clear answer in &#8220;The Story of The Jewish Legion&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Everybody is wrong and you alone are right?” No doubt this question springs by itself to the reader’s lips and mind. It is customary to answer this with apologetic phrases to the effect that I fully respect public opinion that I bow to it, that I was glad to make concessions….All this is unnecessary, and all this is untrue. You cannot believe in anything in the world, if you admit even once that perhaps your opponents are right, and not you. This is not the way to do things. There is but one truth in the world, and it is all yours. If you are not sure of it, stay at home; but if you are sure, don’t look back, and it will be your way.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>As Jabotinsky said in 1940, “Life is not always logical.”</p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>. </b></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf" target="_blank"><b>Subscribe</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to Frontpage&#8217;s TV show, <i>The Glazov Gang</i>, and </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>LIKE</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> it on </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>Facebook.</b></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/why-zionism-is-moral-just/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Prayer for 5775</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/caroline-glick/a-prayer-for-5775/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-prayer-for-5775</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/caroline-glick/a-prayer-for-5775/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jewish community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Hillel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rosh hashana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=241633</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My hope for the American Jewish community this Rosh Hashana. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/rosh-hashanah338.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241644" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/rosh-hashanah338-440x350.jpg" alt="rosh-hashanah338" width="299" height="238" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/A-prayer-for-5775-376221">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Despite the dangers mounting all around us, as we approach Rosh Hashana 5775, for Jews in Israel, in many ways things have never been better.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On Sunday night, President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke at the 10th-anniversary celebration marking the founding of the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his remarks, Rivlin described the impact of what he referred to as the “revolution” Menachem Begin led in Israeli society.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Through his victory in the 1977 Knesset elections, which marked the end of the Labor Party’s monopoly on power, Rivlin explained, Begin began the process of expanding the definition of what it means to be an Israeli. Until Begin rose to the premiership, entire sectors of society, Mizrahim from Arab countries, new olim, religious Zionists and haredim had been shunned by the establishment.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Begin changed that.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Begin opened the doors to everyone, facilitating their entry into society on their own terms, transforming Israel from a melting pot, where everyone was supposed to aspire to become a member of the in-group, into a multicultural society, where all expressions of Israeli-ism were welcome.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The goal of Begin’s revolution was to develop Israel into an open, dynamic and inclusive society. Begin ushered in its first phase – inclusion. He didn’t live to see the next phase, that of integration. In the first phase, the spurned sectors Begin embraced defined themselves more by what distinguished them from other Israelis than by what united them with their fellow Israelis.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today, Rivlin explained, we are in the next phase of Begin’s revolution as we see the integration of more and more Israelis into a new, dynamic, inclusive model of Israeli-ism. This is a model based on what unites us, rather than what drives us apart.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his remarks, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu also highlighted the sense of national unity that increasingly defines the Israeli experience. Netanyahu dwelled on its foundations – the shared Jewish heritage and values that form the basis of Israeli society.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Both men marveled at how far Israel has come in this direction over the past decade and a half by recalling the uncertain beginning of the Begin Heritage Center when, during Netanyahu’s first tenure as prime minister, the Knesset passed a law mandating its formation.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">At the time, Israeli society was suffering from an unprecedented level of polarization.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Many Labor members responded to Begin’s rise to power by turning to the radical Left. In 1993, with the inauguration of the so-called peace process with the PLO, the Labor Party transformed itself from the party that encompassed the national ethos into one that undermined it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The ethos that Labor had developed in its years in power was one of collective security and shared fate. The peace process, predicated as it was on Israeli culpability for the Arab world’s rejection of the Jewish state, subverted the national ethos. After all, if Israel itself was responsible for the absence of peace, and until 1993, Israel’s strategic posture was based on activist defense, then Israel’s strategic posture, and the social understandings it was rooted in, were responsible for Arab hatred and aggression, and therefore they had to be rejected.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">After Netanyahu defeated Labor leader Shimon Peres in the 1996 elections, Labor and its partners rooted their strategy for returning to power on exploiting the sectoral identities cultivated by Begin in order to turn Israelis against one another.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The results of the 1999 elections demonstrated the strategy’s success. Likud and Labor – the big tent parties – were vastly weakened as sectoral parties rose in power and influence, reflecting the unraveling of society’s sense of shared destiny.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This disintegration, together with the so-called peace process’s subversion of the national ethos of collective security, brought about a situation where when the PLO rejected statehood and peace at Camp David in 2000 and Yasser Arafat turned to jihad, Israeli society was weaker than it had been since the early 1950s.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It took the efforts of Israelis from all walks of life, and from all sectors of society, who read the writing on the wall, to forge a new national ethos. The new Israeli ethos is built not only on security and shared fate, but on the far firmer foundation of a shared Jewish heritage.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Unlike what Israel’s many detractors claim, there is nothing fanatical about Jewish heritage.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To the contrary, being loyal to that heritage means not only that Jews of all walks of life can feel at home in Israel, but that Israel’s non-Jewish citizens can integrate into Israeli society without having to surrender their unique cultural and religious identities.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It is this new sense of national identity and purpose that enabled Israeli society to stand as one through the disasters we absorbed this summer. And as Netanyahu emphasized on Sunday evening, it is this inclusive unity, that Menachem Begin did so much to facilitate, that forms the basis of Israel’s ability to survive in a regional and international environment that grow more dangerous and hostile by the day.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Israelis work to maintain our unity while embracing our diversity, American Jews find themselves divided and increasingly polarized across ideological and social lines. While what unites American Jews is more significant than what divides them, many key groups appear to have lost sight of this basic truth.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Radical groups that reflect the views of almost no significant American Jewish constituency, have jumped in to fill the void. And owing to the absence of a clear, strong message from key components of the community, they are making headway in their goal of unraveling and disempowering the Jewish community of America.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Consider the organized opposition to the Metropolitan Opera of New York’s decision to produce the harshly anti-Semitic opera The Death of Klinghoffer.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On Monday some 3,000 people attended the mass rally to protest the prestigious opera house’s decision to produce the opera that demonizes Jews and glorifies Palestinian terrorists. It was an impressive turnout. This is particularly true because very few of the major Jewish organizations agreed to participate in the protest. The American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Federation of New York and the Jewish Council on Public Affairs were particularly conspicuous in their absence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It’s not that all these groups think that the Met’s decision to mainstream hatred of Jews, dehumanization of Jews and delegitimization of the Jewish state is acceptable.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In a press release published on September 19, the AJC for instance excoriated the Met’s decision to produce the opera and highlighted the anti-Semitic positions of the opera’s composer and librettist.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">AJC Executive Director David Harris said, “Today, with increasingly virulent anti-Western, anti-American, anti-Semitic, and anti-Israel terrorism, all reminiscent of the cruelty perpetrated against Leon Klinghoffer, we should not rationalize or humanize acts of terrorism or terrorists.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But then, at the end of the press release, Harris turned his guns on the Jews who organized the protest against the opera, which he refused to join.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Harris said, “We call upon all who are planning to protest the Klinghoffer opera to do so with civility, so that the focus of public criticism may remain, as it should, on the opera’s totally inappropriate and insensitive messages.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Harris’s position regarding the opera is substantively indistinguishable from the positions of the 52 organizations that sponsored and participated in the protest. Those included StandWithUs, the Zionist Organization of America, CAMERA, Americans for a Safe Israel, JCCWatch, Endowment for Middle East Truth, several major synagogues and Jewish day schools, and the Catholic League, among many others. None of these organizations gave anyone the slightest reason to believe that they would do anything but focus on the anti-Semitic, pro-terror message underlying the opera.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So why did Harris treat them like irresponsible children who cannot be trusted? And why, given the commonality of views, and his own concerns, did he not ensure that the message would be effectively delivered, by delivering himself, as a participant in the rally?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By standing on the sidelines and drawing distinctions between the supposedly responsible AJC and the supposedly irresponsible organizations that participated, Harris weakened the campaign to fight anti-Semitism. Not only was this an irresponsible thing to do, it was deeply destructive, not least because it expanded the polarization of the Jewish community.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Peter Gelb, the Met’s director, is Jewish. And many defenders of the decision to produce The Death of Klinghoffer have argued that Gelb’s Judaism makes it unacceptable to point out that by producing an anti-Semitic opera, the Met is mainstreaming anti-Jewish bigotry.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But the sad fact is that a growing number of radical Jews, who reject the very notion that Jews have rights, including the right to support Israel and defend the Jewish state, are filling the void left by the Jewish leadership establishment that would rather attack activists whose agenda they share than cooperate with them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For instance, next month, Harvard will host the first national meeting of “Open Hillel.” Jewish anti-Zionist luminaries including Haaretz columnist Peter Beinart, BDS champion Judith Butler and Rebecca Vilkomerson, the executive director of the Jewish anti-Zionist group Jewish Voices for Peace, will lead the discussions.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Open Hillel’s goal is to deny Jewish students on US campuses the right to defend Jewish rights.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Open Hillel emerged in recent years in protest against Hillel’s insistence that anti-Israel groups not operate under the umbrella of the national Jewish student organization.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Open Hillel claims that Jews, as distinct from every other group, have no right to insist that their rights be defended by a Jewish organization formed to do just that.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">An apt analogy would be an African-American group that supported the restoration of Jim Crow laws demanding to be embraced by the Black Student Organization, and insisting that any claim that they should be denied the legitimacy of the black community is an act of academic and social ostracism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Many Jewish organizations, first and foremost those who participated in the protest against the Met on Monday afternoon, are devoting massive efforts to counter the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda being disseminated on university campuses by groups like these.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But the overriding sense, cultivated by the Jewish leadership that treats unapologetic defenders of Jewish rights as suspect and undesirable, is that the Jewish community as a whole is uninterested in confronting and combating the haters.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In Israel, as traditional elites failed in the 1990s, new forces emerged to take up the charge of rebuilding Israeli society. Their success paved the way for the unity of Israeli society that today enables Israel to stand fast against a rising tide of military and diplomatic threats.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It is my fervent prayer for 5775 that the American Jewish community will take a lesson from Israeli society, and unify against the growing forces of anti-Jewish bigotry. May they embrace our shared Jewish heritage and stand with one another to secure the rights and freedom of the Jewish people in the coming year and into the future.</span></p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>. </b></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf" target="_blank"><b>Subscribe</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to Frontpage&#8217;s TV show, <i>The Glazov Gang</i>, and </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>LIKE</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> it on </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>Facebook.</b></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/caroline-glick/a-prayer-for-5775/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Liberal Zionism Isn&#8217;t Dead, Liberalism Is</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/liberal-zionism-isnt-dead-liberalism-is/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=liberal-zionism-isnt-dead-liberalism-is</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/liberal-zionism-isnt-dead-liberalism-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2014 14:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antony Lerman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=239393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Liberalism has been thoroughly cannibalized by the left.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/yawn-2-1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-239394" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/yawn-2-1.jpg" alt="yawn-2-1" width="360" height="240" /></a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s another year and another war, which means it&#8217;s time for the mainstream media to run more essays on the death of Liberal Zionism which has been declared dead during every previous war.</p>
<p>Sensitive souls are taking to the pages to bemoan how Israel fighting terrorists violates their sense of morality.</p>
<p>Liberal Zionism isn&#8217;t dead. Liberalism is.</p>
<p>Liberalism has been thoroughly cannibalized by the left. It is thoroughly dominated by an instinctive Third World Nationalism and a distaste for Israel is part of the package. The left has a long history of hating Israel. It&#8217;s not a New Anti-Semitism, but a very old one, as even a cursory look at some of the rhetoric from the earlier part of the last century reveals.</p>
<p>The sensitive souls complaining about the peril that Liberal Zionism is neither liberals nor Zionists. They&#8217;re generic leftists whose pro-Israel bio is a package of nasty reporting dating back decades or work for some Jewish organization, not for love but for money, and some family history of Zionism.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the same story over and over again.</p>
<p>Proclaiming the death of Liberal Zionism is just more leftist spin in its campaign against Israel. It assumes that if the proclamation is made often enough and loudly enough then it will become a self-fulling prophecy and anyone who combines the two will realize that supporting Hamas is the right thing to do.</p>
<p>Case in point is Antony Lerman&#8217;s crazed rant in the Sunday Times which begins by trying to sound reasonable and then devolves into something that sounds like a cross between a Marxist professor on acid and Norman Finkelstein.</p>
<p>We start out with &#8220;Liberal Zionists are at a crossroads&#8221; and then come to&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>The only Zionism of any consequence today is xenophobic and exclusionary, a Jewish ethno-nationalism inspired by religious messianism. It is carrying out an open-ended project of national self-realization to be achieved through colonization and purification of the tribe.</p></blockquote>
<p>That probably sounded better in the original Russian. Or was it the original German? I have trouble keeping track. Is this a personal vendetta? Do Hamas terrorists defecate in tunnels?</p>
<blockquote><p>I used my position at the think tank to raise questions about Israel’s political path and to initiate a community-wide debate about these issues. Naïve? Probably. I was vilified by the right-wing Jewish establishment, labeled a “self-hating Jew” and faced public calls for me to be sacked. This just confirmed what I already knew about the myopia of Jewish leadership and the intolerance of many British Zionist activists.</p></blockquote>
<p>That probably sounded better when it was being shrieked by a mad scientist holding on to a large lever. &#8220;The fools! They mocked me in the 92th Street Y! They laughed at me in London! But now I&#8217;ll show them all!&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>Today, neither the destruction wreaked in Gaza nor the disgraceful antics of the anti-democratic forces that are setting Israel’s political agenda have produced a decisive shift in Jewish Diaspora opinion.</p></blockquote>
<p>In summary, Liberal Zionism is dead&#8230; but most Jews are Liberal Zionists.</p>
<p>Everyone can meet back again in two years to write the same editorial about the death of Liberal Zionism.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/liberal-zionism-isnt-dead-liberalism-is/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Vladimir Jabotinsky: The Burning Crusade of a Stateless Wanderer</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/janet-tassel/vladimir-jabotinsky-the-burning-crusade-of-a-stateless-wanderer/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=vladimir-jabotinsky-the-burning-crusade-of-a-stateless-wanderer</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/janet-tassel/vladimir-jabotinsky-the-burning-crusade-of-a-stateless-wanderer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 04:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Tassel]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillel Halkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vladimir Jabotinsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=226441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hillel Halkin's new biography of Zionism's most pivotal and polarizing figure.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Jabotinsky.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-226445" alt="Jabotinsky" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Jabotinsky.jpg" width="203" height="300" /></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Amazingly, the last biography of Vladimir Jabotinsky in English appeared close to twenty years ago: <i>Lone Wolf, </i>a two-volume doorstop by Shmuel Katz (1996), which at almost 2,000 pages, deserves its reputation as &#8220;compendious.&#8221; Now, in a new biography, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jabotinsky-A-Life-Jewish-Lives/dp/0300136625"><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Jabotinsky: A Life</span></i></a>, Hillel Halkin has done the impossible: He has gracefully condensed the story of this complex tragic figure into a page-turner that is at once concise and a rattling good read.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Jabotinsky, known principally as Zionism&#8217;s most polarizing and bellicose crusader, was also a cultured, indeed aristocratic, polymath— multingual, a prolific journalist, lawyer, translator of Poe and Dante, playwright, poet, playwright and author. (His novel <i>Samson the Nazarite</i> (1926) was later made into a Cecil  B. DeMille movie with Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature.) That he may also have been a lover of women seems probable, given his early bohemian life in Rome and elsewhere, and his lifetime of traveling so much without his wife. Not that he embodied <i>le beau ideal</i>; indeed, though a fastidious dresser, he was small and rather &#8220;froggy&#8221; around the eyes, in Halkin&#8217;s words.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">How a protean genius of Jabotinsky&#8217;s talents and superhuman energy arises among &#8220;normal&#8221; people is always a mystery, but Halkin suggests that the place of his childhood—Odessa, &#8220;carefree, contented Odessa,&#8221; Jabotinsky called it&#8212;may provide some clues. Born there in 1880, he left for the bohemian life abroad when he was only 17, and &#8220;said a last goodbye to it before World War I,&#8221; but &#8220;a part of him always remained there,&#8221; this intoxicating, cosmopolitan city where he studied, worked as a young journalist, and played the rascal as a boy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Odessa, Halkin writes, was the only large Russian city in which Jews were not barred.  A city with no established Jewish institutions, the thousands of Jews who flocked there  were thus &#8220;less traditional and less subject to rabbinical influence&#8221; than other Jewish communities. A sophisticated, international city, Odessa&#8217;s lingua franca was for a time Italian before yielding to Russian. It was in Russian that Jabotinksy was raised, and his widowed mother kept a minimally observant home, perhaps engendering his lifelong laxity in Jewish ritual and his dedicated secularism.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">But at the same time Odessa attracted some of the most influential Hebrew, Yiddish—and Zionist thinkers of the age: think Ahad Ha&#8217;Am, Bialik, Tchernichovsky, and Meir Dizengoff, future mayor of Tel Aviv.  And as to writers of fiction, consider among others Mendele Mocher Seforim and Sholem Alecheim.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">This &#8220;vibrant Jewish cultural life,&#8221; says Halkin, of course had to affect the intellectually voracious young Jabotinsky. &#8220;Only in Odessa could an Eastern European Jew feel both deeply Jewish and totally at ease among non-Jews,&#8221; mixing in &#8220;truly neutral spaces.&#8221; Perhaps that is why &#8220;to other Eastern European Zionist leaders of his generation like Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion, Jabotinsky [seemed] a kind of half-breed. The Weizmanns and Ben-Gurions were products of the shtetl,&#8221; reared in Yiddish, educated at <i>heder. &#8220;</i>Their world was divided into Jews and non-Jews, the latter viewed as alien and hostile.&#8221; Jabotinsky, wrote Weizmann later, had something &#8220;not at all Jewish&#8221; about him. The traditional suspicion of <i>Ostjuden </i>toward their more acculturated brothers (and vice versa) would color Jabotinsky&#8217;s relations with his fellow Zionists all his life.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Nothing would be harder to imagine than Ben-Gurion, say, taking off at the age of 17, as did Jabotinsky, without even waiting to receive his diploma, and decamping, a newly hired young correspondent for an Odessa newspaper, to become a law student, writer,  and all-around hell-raiser in Bern and then, for three years, in his beloved Rome. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Rome was the real thing.  It was the beating heart of a country that had been freed in a long struggle for independence led by the intrepid figure of Garibaldi, whose Italian nationalism was tempered by a democratic humanism, and it left Jabotinsky with a lifelong vision of what a decent, free, and pleasurable society could be  like—the society he was to want for another former and future people of the Mediterranean: his own. </span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Then, in June 1901, Jabotinsky returned to Odessa, thinking it would be a vacation, but when he was offered a substantial job as a columnist at <i>Odesskaya Novosti,  </i>he moved back<i>.</i> Writing under the pen name &#8220;Altalena,&#8221; Italian for &#8220;see-saw,&#8221; he found himself a celebrity, with newsboys crying, &#8220;Extra! Read Altalena today!&#8221; and with a reserved seat at the theater with his name in bronze letters. He also became known as an anti-Marxist, an anti-collectivist, a celebrator of individual freedom, and therefore an anarchist, which is why the Tsarist police ransacked his belongings and hauled him off to jail&#8211; his first, though hardly his last, arrest.<i> </i></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Though Jabotinsky over the years had thought about his Judaism, and had nourished a pseudo-romantic attachment to Zion (while experiencing revulsion at the sight of actual Jews &#8220;with their queer dress and manners, living in poverty and seeming abjectness&#8221;), it wasn&#8217;t until his return from Rome that his interest became serious.  Halkin tells of his meeting at the opera with a young Zionist activist named Saltzman, during which Saltzman offered to lend Jabotinsky the writings of, among others, Theodor Herzl.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Interest in a Jewish state soon became less an abstract concept for Jabotinsky. The Russian skies were turning blood-red. A regime &#8220;threatened by a revolutionary movement in which Jews were disproportionately represented was seeking to divert public anger into anti-Semitic channels with the help of the pulpit and the press. Russian Jewry was targeted as the subversive rule of all evil; <i>bey zhidov, spasai Rossiyu,</i> &#8216;beat the Jews and save Russia,&#8217; became a popular slogan.&#8221; Pogroms became more common. Even in Odessa, wrote Jabotinsky in his novel <i>The Five, </i>&#8220;it became uncomfortable.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">&#8220;Ever since his return to Odessa,&#8221; writes Halkin, &#8220;he had been laboring to reconcile a belief in the radical freedom of the self with the increasingly powerful pull of Jewish nationalism.&#8221; This was &#8220;the central paradox of his life—that of a partisan of the right, even the obligation, to be one&#8217;s own self who nevertheless chose to dedicate this self to a people and ultimately to create a political movement that demanded from its followers an iron discipline….&#8221; The deeper debate about Jabotinsky, says Halkin, starts here.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Then, on April 6, 1903, came the infamous Kishinev pogrom, inspiring Chaim Bialik&#8217;s great Hebrew poem, &#8220;In the City of Slaughter,&#8221; which Jabotinsky translated into Russian, reaching a larger audience than Bialik&#8217;s original. What both Bialik and Jabotinsky took away from this massacre above all was the indignity of Jewish fear, passivity, and cowardice, the shame of Jewish men hiding under beds while their women were raped  and killed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">After Kishinev, Jabotinsky began crusading for the establishment of a Jewish self-defense force, and immediately threw himself into the effort. Jabotinsky&#8217;s &#8220;belief in Jewish activism in Russia no less than in Palestine,&#8221; the call for Jews &#8220;to take their destiny into their own hands,&#8221; marked his formal conversion to militant Zionism.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">His growing fame led to his being invited to the Sixth Zionist Congress in Basel in 1903. It was here that Theodor Herzl unveiled his Uganda Plan, an issue that Halkin admirably summarizes. Despite Jabotinsky&#8217;s esteem of Herzl, the Uganda Plan was completely unacceptable to him: &#8220;Zionism,&#8221; he wrote, &#8220;leads only to Palestine.&#8221; Jabotinsky was by now a full-time, passionate Zionist. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Alas, this meant being a passionate pilgrim. Having married his Odessan sweetheart Ania in 1907, he soon left on his frenetic crisscrossing of the world, from Turkey to Egypt,  from Spain to Africa, from England to America that would take the rest of his life, augmented by his stint during World War I as a war correspondent. &#8220;The next time I marry,&#8221; remarked Ania, &#8220;it won&#8217;t be to a Zionist—they&#8217;re never at home.&#8221; He traveled with a &#8220;Nansen passport,&#8221; a document for stateless persons. His only state, he insisted, would be Palestine. How fascinating, and tragic, then, is the irony that eventually—in 1930—Jabotinsky was banished by the British from ever returning to Palestine.  Even more interesting is the fact that Jabotinsky was—at least outwardly—unperturbed. In Halkin&#8217;s telling, the real, versus the concept of, Palestine, seemed to exert upon him little emotional pull.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Readers will find in Halkin&#8217;s book a lucid explanation of Zabotinsky&#8217;s alienation from Ben-Gurion and his socialist Labor Zionists, leading to charges of fascism directed at Jabotinsky. Halkin also includes the famous &#8220;omelette summit,&#8221; the 1934 meeting between the two giants in London, which resulted in a cordial, if tentative, modus vivendi. But to many readers, perhaps the most absorbing aspect of Zabotinsky&#8217;s muscular form of Zionism was his focus on Jewish militarism. Which brings Halkin to arguably the most compelling figure in the book, apart from Jabotinsky himself—the handsome, one-armed decorated veteran, Yosef Trumpeldor. The concept of a fighting  Jewish legion was one Trumpeldor enthusiastically shared with Jabotinsky.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">From this historic meeting arose such milestones in the history of Zionism as Trumpeldor&#8217;s Zion Mule Corps, and Jabotinsky&#8217;s own debut as a soldier in the London 38th Battalion—800 &#8220;East End tailors&#8221; and a rabbi—in which Jabotinsky saw duty as a second lieutenant in Palestine. The 38th was the result of Jabotinsky&#8217;s unflagging one-man campaign of twisting British arms, pulling strings, negotiations, arguments, and speeches. Ultimately, the 38th was joined by a 39th and a 40th, and Jabotinsky could write that this was &#8220;the Jewish legion I had dreamed of and sacrificed so much for.&#8221; He compared it to a &#8220;fairytale.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Then, in April 1920, the Jewish legion having been demobilized by the British, Arab riots broke out in Jerusalem. Jabotinsky&#8217;s experience as an officer with combat experience led him to be chosen by former legionnaires as leader of a new group, &#8220;the defense,&#8221; or <i>ha-</i></span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">haganah. </span></i>The British, unwilling to fire on the rioters, accordingly threw nineteen of the new group, plus Jabotinsky, into the old Turkish prison in Acre. Early in the summer,  as Halkin writes, the prisoners were pardoned, and Jabotinsky &#8220;emerged from the episode a national hero.&#8221;</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Somewhat later, Jabotinsky broke with the Zionist left, &#8220;among whom are the most bitter opponents of anything having to do with the sword and the gun,&#8221; and founded his own youth movement, which he called Betar, a Hebrew acronym for B&#8217;rit Trumpeldor.  He was to refer to Betar as a firmly disciplined &#8220;machine,&#8221; but one that was &#8220;cultivated, ceremonious, and gracious.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">It was at a Betar summer camp in the Catskills that Jabotinsky died of a heart attack in August 1940, two months before his 60th birthday.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>.   </b></p>
<p><a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf"><b>Subscribe</b></a><strong> to Frontpage&#8217;s TV show, <i>The Glazov Gang</i>, and </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang"><b>LIKE</b></a><strong> it on </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang"><b>Facebook.</b></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/janet-tassel/vladimir-jabotinsky-the-burning-crusade-of-a-stateless-wanderer/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Ze’ev Jabotinsky and the Belgium Terror Attack</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/zeev-jabotinsky-and-the-belgium-terror-attack/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=zeev-jabotinsky-and-the-belgium-terror-attack</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/zeev-jabotinsky-and-the-belgium-terror-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 04:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Semitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belgium Terror Attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hatred]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=226303</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reflections on the necessity of a sharp and unpleasant confrontation.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/kj.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226308" alt="kj" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/kj.jpg" width="356" height="200" /></a>An Israeli married couple in their 50s from Tel Aviv, touring Belgium, were shot to death on Sunday in an anti-Semitic attack. And, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rightfully noted, the attack is the result of &#8220;incessant incitement against Israel by different elements in the Middle East and Europe itself.&#8221; He affirmed: &#8220;There are elements in Europe that rush to condemn the construction of a flat in Jerusalem but who do not rush to condemn, or offer only a weak condemnation of the murder of Jews here or in Europe itself.&#8221;</p>
<p>Shamefully, Israel seeks only to live, and Muslim terrorists continue to kill innocent people.</p>
<p>And this terror attack is a repeat of past and recent history. In 2005, when Britain suffered a sharp rise in anti-Semitic attacks, the Israeli government pointed to anti-Israeli media coverage as the culprit. The Diaspora Affairs cabinet member at the time, Natan Sharansky, stated, “years of hostile reporting and commentary about Israel…is now spilling into the streets.” A Sharansky adviser commented, “You can’t brainwash people for four years that Israel is an illegitimate country and that Israelis are like the Nazis and that Israelis are monsters and expect that nothing will happen to Jews.”</p>
<p>For every action there is a reaction.</p>
<p>When the world rampages against a Jewish State, what is the surprise that there are attacks against Jewish people? Today, however, unlike in years past, there is a Jewish state that protects Jewish rights all over the world.  And a state which remembers <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/04/01/ze%E2%80%99ev-jabotinskys-answer-to-hypocrisy/" target="_blank"> Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky</a>, who said:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>We were not created in order to teach morals and manners to our enemies. Let them learn these things for themselves. We want to hit back at anybody who harms us. Whoever does not repay a blow by a blow is also incapable of repaying a good deed in kind. The Latin proverb says &#8220;of two evils choose the lesser.&#8221; When we are in a position where – through no fault of our own – physical force dominates, only one question can be asked: what is worse? To continue watching Jews being killed and the conviction grows that our lives are cheap, and among the whole world that we are spineless? &#8230; [T]he blackest of all characteristics is the tradition of the cheapness of Jewish blood, on the shedding of which there is no prohibition and for which you do not pay.</i></p>
<p><i>The Jew is everywhere in reach; he can be pointed out at any street corner; and he can be insulted or assaulted with only the minimum of risk, or with none at all. &#8230; [O]ne permanent assignment that is entrusted to each of us, old and young, men and women, educated and ignorant, as a group and as individuals; this assignment is the defense of our people&#8217;s honor &#8230;. It is always aimed at us, and we must respond. We must end this abuse of ourselves, at all costs. And it is very easy. They spit in our faces without fear, &#8220;in passing,&#8221; for no reason – not because our insulters are blessed with courage and want to pick a fight with us, but because this pleasure is so cheap for them: they will spit at us and go on their way, and nothing will happen. We must accustom them to the thought that from now on this pleasure will come at a hefty cost. A new commandment must enter our hearts: that even where there is only one Jew, the word &#8220;Zhid&#8217;&#8221;must not be heard without response.</i></p>
<p><i>Wise people will come and try to dissuade us &#8211; But it is not our purpose to win in every single incident. Our objective – to create about us the belief that a slur on our national feelings is no longer what it once was, a small diversion free of cost – but will rather, with an absolute certainty and a mathematical precision, result in a sharp and unpleasant confrontation.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Unfortunately, anti-Semitism continues – and a Jewish State is needed to continue to be strong.<i> </i></p>
<p><i></i>As<a href="http://digitaljournal.com/blog/15730" target="_blank"> Ze’ev Jabotinsky</a> noted: “It is not the anti-Semitism of men; it is, above all, the anti-Semitism of things, the inherent xenophobia of the body social or the body economic under which we suffer.”</p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>.   </b></p>
<p><a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf"><b>Subscribe</b></a><strong> to Frontpage&#8217;s TV show, <i>The Glazov Gang</i>, and </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang"><b>LIKE</b></a><strong> it on </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang"><b>Facebook.</b></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/zeev-jabotinsky-and-the-belgium-terror-attack/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Chloé Simone Valdary on Her Passionate Defense of Israel — on The Glazov Gang</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/chloe-simone-valdary-on-her-passionate-defense-of-israel-on-the-glazov-gang/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=chloe-simone-valdary-on-her-passionate-defense-of-israel-on-the-glazov-gang</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/chloe-simone-valdary-on-her-passionate-defense-of-israel-on-the-glazov-gang/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2014 04:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frontpagemag.com]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Glazov Gang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chloé Simone Valdary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jewish state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racist attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=224196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An African-American Zionist discusses her love of the Jewish state — and the Left’s vicious and racist attacks on her. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Chloe-Simone-Valdary1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224564" alt="Chloe-Simone-Valdary" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Chloe-Simone-Valdary1-450x278.jpg" width="360" height="222" /></a><strong>[<a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf">Subscribe</a> to <i>The Glazov Gang</i> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang">LIKE</a> it on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang">Facebook</a>.]</strong></p>
<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Chloé Simone Valdary</strong>, a Junior at the University of New Orleans and founder of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AlliesofIsraelUNO">Allies of Israel Association</a>. She is a conservative and an African-American Zionist.</p>
<p><strong>[<a href="https://www.facebook.com/AlliesofIsraelUNO">LIKE</a> <em>Allies of Israel</em> on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AlliesofIsraelUNO">Facebook</a>]</strong></p>
<p>Our guest discussed her passionate defense of Israel, <strong></strong>the vicious and racist attacks on her by the Left, the Jews&#8217; contribution to the world, and much, much more.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t miss it!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6MpppJA_dDI" height="315" width="500" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Don&#8217;t miss Frontpage&#8217;s second episode this week with <b>Dr. Mordechai Kedar</b>,  the director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Islam (under formation) at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.<strong></strong></p>
<p>He joined the show to discuss<b><em> The &#8220;Good Koran&#8221; vs. the &#8220;Radical Koran,&#8221; </em></b>analyzing<em></em> the phenomenon of Jihad-Denial and the reluctance of many to recognize the true threat we face.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NsPNG_Jmjrs" height="315" width="500" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p><b>To watch previous <i>Glazov Gang</i> episodes, </b><a href="http://jamieglazov.com/"><b>Click Here</b></a><b>.</b></p>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jamie.glazov"><b>LIKE</b></a><b> Jamie Glazov’s </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jamie.glazov"><b>Fan Page</b></a><b> on Facebook.</b></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/chloe-simone-valdary-on-her-passionate-defense-of-israel-on-the-glazov-gang/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Iran &amp; David Duke Salute Presbyterian Church USA</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ryan-mauro/iran-david-duke-salute-presbyterian-church-usa/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=iran-david-duke-salute-presbyterian-church-usa</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ryan-mauro/iran-david-duke-salute-presbyterian-church-usa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2014 05:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Semitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Duke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=219512</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Christian anti-Semites launch attack on Zionism. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/PCUSAlogo.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-219514" alt="PCUSAlogo" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/PCUSAlogo.gif" width="243" height="244" /></a>If the Iranian state media and former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/02/13/former-kkk-grand-wizard-david-duke-and-irans-press-tv-praise-presbytarian-church-usas-anti-israel-report/%20">salute</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> your church’s work, your church is doing something wrong. The Presbyterian Church (USA) has published a new pamphlet that makes the case against Zionism and therefore, the premise behind Israel’s existence.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Presbyterian Church (USA) has formidable influence. Its </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.pcusa.org/%20">website</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> says it has over 2 million members and 10,000 congregations in the United States. The church’s Israel-Palestine Mission network published the pamphlet, titled </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwiXD-AERPCvTTFrVmNEVElmWDQ/edit"><i>Zionism Unsettled: A Congregational Study Guide</i></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. It says: </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“It examines the role of Jewish and Christian forms of Zionism in providing theological and ideological ‘cover’ for the takeover of Palestinian land, and the domination and dispossession of the Palestinian people during the past one and a quarter centuries.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It also criticizes its own church for having a hymn book with a section titled, “God’s Covenant with Israel.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Yes, the Bible tells us of God’s activity in covenanting with Israel, but it was ancient Israel, not the modern political state,” page 66 of the study guide says.</span></p>
<p>David Duke <a href="http://davidduke.com/new-publication-main-presbyterian-church-us-calls-zionism-jewish-supremacism/%20">wrote</a> on his blog that the literature is a “major breakthrough” and took credit for coining the term “Jewish Supremacism” to define Zionism.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Iranian state Press TV </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/02/12/350410/zionism-destroying-palestinians-jews/%20">gloats</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that it “describes Zionism as the single reason behind the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” and “argues that most Jews reject Zionism and choose to live outside the Israeli-occupied Palestinian lands, depicting Jewish life inside the Islamic Republic of Iran as ‘alive and well.’”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Indeed, that is a direct quote from page 41 of the pamphlet. It also states that Jews in the Middle East have a “history of largely harmonious integration in their host countries” but Israel is to blame for their current persecution.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Sadly, this model of coexistence was destabilized by the regional penetration of Zionism beginning in the late 19</span><sup style="line-height: 1.5em;">th</sup><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> century,” the pamphlet teaches.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The study guide is also a call to action. Page 58 endorses another publication, </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Kairos Palestine</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and its preaching that Christians are obligated to stand up to Israel. It reads:</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“It is a call to use all nonviolent means available to stop the injustice and oppression perpetrated under the mantle of Zionism by the government of Israel against the Palestinian people. It is a call to do everything we can to end Israel’s occupation of Palestine and implement the requirement of international law so that the God-given human dignity can be restored to the Palestinian people, and justice will be done.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">An example of the activism the Church encourages is divestment from Israel. On February 9, its Committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.pcusa.org/news/2014/2/7/presbyterian-mission-agency-board-sends-mrti-recom/%20">recommended</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> divestment from Hewlett-Packard, Caterpillar and Motorola Solutions for their business with the Israeli military. Last year, its General Assembly </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Thankfully, Presbyterian Church (USA) does not represent all Presbyterians. Some are </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Presbyterians-push-back-against-church-groups-anti-Zionist-study-guide-341910">offended</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by the biased document. For example, the president of Auburn Theological Seminary, Rev. Katharine Rhodes Henderson, said the pamphlet “purports to be about love but it actually expresses demonization, distortion and imbalance.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Church is reacting to the controversy with carefully-worded deception.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.pcusa.org/news/2014/2/13/presbyterian-church-us-remains-committed-peace-isr/%20">February 13 statement</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> describes the Israel-Palestine Mission Network as an “independent group,” even though the Church admits it created it in 2004. It also clarifies, “The IPMN booklet was neither paid for nor published by the Presbyterian Church (USA).”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Israel-Palestine Mission Network technically funded and printed the document, but it is still a branch of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The Church is hoping that we confuse its division of labor for independence. If you go to the Israel-Palestine Mission Network </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.israelpalestinemissionnetwork.org/main/%20">website</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the header explicitly states that it is “of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ethan Felson, Vice President of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jta.org/2014/02/18/news-opinion/united-states/presbyterians-push-back-against-church-groups-anti-zionist-study-guide">debunks</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the Church’s excuse by noting that the Israel-Palestine Mission Network isn’t even registered separately and its donations go through the Church.</span></p>
<p>“They charter IPMN, they speak to IPMN, they speak at the IPMN annual conference, they recommend people get involved in IPMN, they take contributions to IPMN and when they’re challenged, then they say it does not speak for the church,” Felson said.</p>
<p>The Presbyterian Church (USA) apparently believes slandering Israel is necessary for productive Christian-Muslim relations. A look at its interfaith allies shows where this perspective is emanating from.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/american-christians-shocking-support-islamists">came to the defense</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> of the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/islamic-society-north-america-isna">Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/muslim-public-affairs-council-mpac">Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/huma-abedin-associate-editor-islamist-journal">Huma Abedin</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> when five members of Congress brought attention to their records and Islamist links. The Church is also a member of the ISNA-allied </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/islamists-mobilize-non-muslims-against-anti-foreign-law-ban">Shoulder-to-Shoulder</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> interfaith coalition.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Last year, when the Presbyterian Church (USA) began updating its study on Christian-Muslim relations, it had </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/presbyterian-church-partners-islamists">Islamist advisors</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. The Presbyterian Mission Agency, an agency of the Church, has </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/interfaith/interfaith-links/%20">&#8220;interfaith links of interest&#8221;</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> on its website that includes ISNA, MPAC, the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/council-islamic-relations-cair">Council on American-Islamic Relations</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and  </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/islamic-circle-north-america-icna">Islamic Circle of North America</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Church also </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/new-york-times-whitewashes-islamist-zaytuna-college">published</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a book warning Christians about the “rise of Islamophobia,” reinforcing the narrative of the Islamists who use the term to slander their opponents. The book also gave favorable coverage to the radical Imam Zaid Shakir and the school he founded, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/zaytuna-college">Zaytuna College.</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">2 Thessalonians 3:6 tells Christians to “keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.” The Presbyterian Church (USA) needs to think of that scripture as it reads about its Islamist allies and the glee of Iran and David Duke.</span></p>
<p><em>The <a href="http://www.theird.org/">Institute on Religion and Democracy</a> contributed to this article.</em></p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>. </b></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ryan-mauro/iran-david-duke-salute-presbyterian-church-usa/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>105</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Glorifying Fringe Jewish Extremists at the NY Times</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/glorifying-fringe-jewish-extremists-at-the-ny-times/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=glorifying-fringe-jewish-extremists-at-the-ny-times</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/glorifying-fringe-jewish-extremists-at-the-ny-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 05:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-Zionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boycott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neturei Karta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=219107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How vital is it to provide a prominent platform to religious anti-Israel Jews?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/03israel_n070424.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-219108" alt="03israel_n070424" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/03israel_n070424-450x333.jpg" width="315" height="233" /></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The New York Times continues to go out of its way to glorify Jewish extremists who represent a </span>minuscule<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> portion of world Jewry, yet command high-profile media coverage. In the latest absurdity, this weekend, the New York Times ran a 1,300-word polemic entitled </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/us/a-conflict-of-faith-devoted-to-jewish-observance-but-at-odds-with-israel.html?_r=1">“<i>A Conflict of Faith: Devoted to Jewish Observance, but at Odds With Israel”</i></a><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">about observant Jews</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">who oppose the State of Israel.  (There’s about as many traditional Jews who oppose Israel’s existence as there are Black KKK Members, or GOP voters who support communism.)</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While a rational person may question why readers of one of the world’s most circulated newspapers would have any interest in such an obscure topic, a more educated person may surmise that multiple Jewish reporters of the NY Times endorse the extreme viewpoints espoused in the article. There can be no other reason to explain such a topic being covered.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As one who travels often and has met tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews in countless synagogues across the world, I must say I have never encountered in any synagogue Jews </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">opposed </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">to the State of Israel.  This weekend, I attended a weekend retreat with thousands of Orthodox Jews – and while there was much debate on many issues, amazingly, not a single one voiced such a viewpoint.  Nor have I ever heard a single Orthodox Jews endorse a boycott against Israel.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Of course, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Ronn-Torossian/e/B005DOQIPO">as an author</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.algemeiner.com/author/ronn-torossian/">contributor to multiple Jewish newspapers</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> who travels quite often I have never seen dancing lesbian Chinese midgets, or pigs whom can fly, but indeed such things may exist. Other than the quackadoo extremists of the Neturei Karta, the positions the NY Times detail are not one which a single Orthodox, or even conservative synagogue in the world would embrace.  Think its extreme?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A person like Charles H. Manekin who says he was pleased that there was an academic boycott of Israel and is “&#8217;sympathetic&#8217; to B.D.S., as the global movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel,” is the very definition of a person whom Lenin spoke about when he said that those who work against their own people’s best interests in support of their enemies are “useful idiots.” Then there is Stefan Krieger who is proud that he “will not rise in synagogue for the traditional prayer for the state of Israel.” Kreiger’s position as a donor </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://issuu.com/newisraelfund/docs/nif_2012_ar/32">to the extremist New Israel Fund</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> wasn’t detailed as he said, “I think nationalism and religion together are toxic.”</span></p>
<p>The New Israel Fund’s associate director has said she believes in 100 years Israel would be majority Arab and that the disappearance of a Jewish state would not be the tragedy that Israelis fear since it would become more democratic<b>. </b>Dangerous people for anyone who supports peace in the Middle East.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Then there is Rabbi Alissa Wise</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">who works for the</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), which the liberal ADL describes as an anti-Israel organization and says use “its Jewish identity to shield the anti-Israel movement from allegations of anti-Semitism and provide it with a greater degree of legitimacy and credibility.” ADL says the group exploits its so-called “Jewish nature,” yet their ideology is nothing but a complete rejection of Israel.” Another source is Daniel Boyarin of the University of California, Berkeley.  He is so extreme that the liberal American Jewish Committee condemned him.  In an essay entitled “&#8221;Progressive&#8221; Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism,” Alvin H. Rosenfeld says Boyarin lacks &#8220;lucid thinking&#8221; and is biased for making an analogy between the Holocaust and the Israeli government&#8217;s conduct toward the Palestinians.</span></p>
<p>Harvard professor Ruth Wisse wrote, “the rapid demoralization of Jews in the face of anti-Zionism… shows the depth of the influence of the past, for many have yet to achieve the simple self-respect that has been eluding the Jews collectively since the dawn of modernity.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Useful idiots like those quoted desire a “humanity” that will divest the Jewish people of their humanity. To oppose Israel so vehemently is simply endangering Jews. There has never been a shortage of people or groups who harm Jews – and the most effective stick for beating Israel over the head is a Jewish or Israeli stick, who are allies of Jewish enemies.</span></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/glorifying-fringe-jewish-extremists-at-the-ny-times/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>So Long, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/majid-rafizadeh/so-long-mahmoud-ahmadinejad/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=so-long-mahmoud-ahmadinejad</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/majid-rafizadeh/so-long-mahmoud-ahmadinejad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 04:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Majid Rafizadeh]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Semitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hassan Rouhani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=198822</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A look back at the Iranian president's legacy of fanaticism and Jew hatred. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/iran12n-1-web.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-198823" alt="iran12n-1-web" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/iran12n-1-web-450x337.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>In less than a week, on August 3<sup>rd</sup>, the Iranian people will bid farewell to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who will be replaced by Hassan Rouhani, another regime-insider. The mainstream perception, and the argument supported by many analysts, is that next week will mark the end of Ahmadinejad’s political career. This argument is inaccurate due to the fact that the clerics and political figures in Iran’s gilded circle routinely continue their anti-Western, anti-U.S., and anti-Semitic statements and policies either through regime politics or behind the geopolitical and media scenes.</p>
<p>Ahmadinejad himself publicly stated that he does not intend to retire from politics after leaving office. As a result, Ahmadinejad and his anti-Semitic, incendiary, and inflammatory beliefs will continue to guide and shape Iran’s policies. In addition, according to the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmadinejad can even run for presidency again in four years and win the votes of the hardliners, Basij, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, and the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Furthermore, president-elect Hassan Rouhani – an insider and founding father of Iran’s repressive theocratic regime who is well-known for being a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” – will continue Ahmadinejad’s policies.</p>
<p>Yet, it is crucial to reflect on Ahmadinejad’s eight years in office and presidential legacy, as some of Ahmadinejad’s most incendiary, anti-Semitic, inflammatory and provocative policies are a strong representation of the beliefs, policies, and political stance of the Iranian regime:</p>
<ul>
<li>The most outrageous, history-defying, and anti-Semitic announcement was publicly released during Ahmadinejad’s speech in Tehran. In reference to his argument that the Holocaust did not occur, Ahmadinejad explained, “They [Western governments and Israel] launched the myth of the Holocaust. They lied, they put on a show and then they support the Jews. The pretext for establishing the Zionist regime is a lie … a lie which relies on an unreliable claim, a mythical claim, and the occupation of Palestine has nothing to do with the Holocaust.&#8221;</li>
<li>The second belief includes an insult to the American people and those families who lost their loved ones in the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Ahmadinejad repeatedly declared that the American government orchestrated the attacks to kill its own people. In one of the speeches to the United Nations in September 2010, Ahmadinejad stated, “Some segments within the American government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy and its grips on the Middle East in order to save the Zionist regime… The majority of the American people, as well as most nations and politicians around the world, agree with this view.&#8221;</li>
<li>The next anti-Semitic belief includes the repeated threats of wiping Tel Aviv off the world map. In a speech to the World Without Zionism student conference in Tehran, October 2005, Ahmadinejad stated, &#8220;Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation&#8217;s fury.&#8221; In other statements and comments to reporters in Tehran, April 2006, he further stated, &#8220;We say that this fake regime [Israel] cannot logically continue to live … Open the doors [of Europe] and let the Jews go back to their own countries.&#8221; In addition, in his comments on Israel’s 60th anniversary celebration, May 2008, Ahmadinejad stated, “Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken.&#8221;</li>
<li>Ahmadinejad also reiterated the Iranian regime’s policy of creating and utilizing suicide bombers. In his comments during a visit to a training camp, April 2007, Ahmadinejad stated that &#8220;Iran can recruit hundreds of suicide bombers a day. Suicide is an invincible weapon. Suicide bombers in this land showed us the way, and they enlighten our future.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>The list of Ahmadinejad’s anti-Semitic, incendiary, and Islamist remarks and beliefs go on. However, there are also domestic repressive policies. In addition to the aforementioned foreign policies, Ahmadinejad strengthened the power of the Basij, Iran’s militia organization, the intelligence Etela’at, the “moral” police, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps by passing more rigid, constraining, and Sharia-based laws. Freedom of speech, press, and assembly were completely confined under Ahmadinejad’s eight years of presidency. The number of political prisoners exponentially increased, more journalists and activists were arrested, the extent of torture, rape, discrimination and executions heightened (according to Human Rights Watch), and oppositional newspapers were shut down.</p>
<p>Ahmadinejad is also notorious for his denial of human rights – such as when he denied that a gay population existed in Iran – turning him into one of the most ridiculed presidents of his time. In a speech at Columbia University in New York, September 2007, Ahmadinejad claimed, &#8220;In Iran, we don&#8217;t have homosexuals like in your country … In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s told you that we have this.&#8221;</p>
<p>The crucial point is that – although some liberals would argue that the aforementioned beliefs are only limited to Iran’s hardliners – these ideologies are strongly held across the Islamic Republic of Iran’s political spectrum, including by moderates, reformists, and centrists. Any political figure or party that wishes to survive in Iran’s theocratic politics and any political party or figure that is allowed to hold positions in Iran has already proved their loyalty to and support for the regime’s fundamental anti-American, anti-Semitic, and Sharia law-based beliefs.</p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank">Click here</a>.</strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/majid-rafizadeh/so-long-mahmoud-ahmadinejad/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Columbia Prof: WWII-Era Zionists Colluded with Nazis</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/salomon-benzimra/columbia-prof-wwii-era-zionists-colluded-with-nazis/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=columbia-prof-wwii-era-zionists-colluded-with-nazis</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/salomon-benzimra/columbia-prof-wwii-era-zionists-colluded-with-nazis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 04:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Salomon Benzimra]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Semitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nazism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=190093</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prestigious university faculty member unleashes his hate.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/5631469502_4bb576195b_z.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-190317" alt="5631469502_4bb576195b_z" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/5631469502_4bb576195b_z-450x298.jpg" width="270" height="179" /></a>&#8220;There are some ideas so stupid that only an intellectual could believe them&#8221; (George Orwell)</i></p>
<p>Columbia University Professor Joseph Massad is blind to reality.  His virulent anti-Zionist streak leads him to the most laughable constructs:  In <i>“<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/05/201351275829430527.html">The last of the Semites</a>,”</i> Massad wants us to believe that the Zionist effort to remove the Jews from Europe in the 1930s and 1940s (to save them from imminent extermination) is undistinguishable from Nazi anti-Semitism! (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Update</span>: Al-Jazeera just pulled Massad’s article from their website, as announced <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/al-jazeera-management-orders-joseph-massad-article-pulled-act-pro-israel">here</a> on May 19, 2013).</p>
<p>Two parties can be ferociously opposed to each other’s ideologies and yet unite temporarily to pursue a common strategic objective.  If Massad is not aware of this reality, he should revisit WWII and extend his ludicrous parallels between the Zionists and the Nazis to the British-American Allies who pursued the same military objective as the Soviets, while they despised Stalin’s ideology.  Is this too hard for Massad to comprehend?</p>
<p>It is clear that the sole purpose of Massad’s article is to delegitimize Israel.  This tiresome propaganda – driven primarily by envy, and buttressed by bankrupt Marxist dogmas and their unholy alliance with radical Islam – has been peddled over and over again to little or no effect.  Now, Massad tries a new thread, plucked out of ludicrous fantasies, without the slightest corroborating facts and with omissions galore not to disturb his narrative.</p>
<p>And so we read one enormity after another in Massad 4,000-word article:</p>
<ul>
<li>The ancestral connection of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel was concocted by the Protestant Reformation;</li>
<li>Most Jews were opposed to Zionism, up to the 1940s;</li>
<li>Lord Balfour was an anti-Semite;</li>
<li>The Nazis and the Zionists showed <i>“ideological similitude”</i>;</li>
<li>The totalitarianism inherent in Nazism and Communism was mere U.S. propaganda;</li>
<li>The (derisively called) <i>“Judeo-Christian civilisation” </i>was the product of European and American white supremacy, now turned against Arabs and Muslims;</li>
<li>The current relations between Germany and Israel are a continuation of past Nazi policies;</li>
<li>Israel and Zionism were not the victims of Nazis because <i>“[the Nazis] killed the majority of Jewish enemies of Zionism”</i>;</li>
<li>The Palestinians are the only remaining <i>“Semites”</i> and the last remaining bastion against anti-Semitism;</li>
<li>The Jews <i>“have nothing to do with Palestine”</i>;</li>
<li>The Zionist project is aggressive, colonialist, imperialist and tainted by <i>“racial discrimination”</i>;</li>
<li>The Jews had their <i>“nations”</i> in Europe before they <i>“forcibly settled the land of another people”</i>;</li>
<li>Israel’s claim of being the land of the Jewish people is <i>“the most anti-Semitic claim of all.”</i></li>
</ul>
<p>And what is the main voice that Massad quotes to support his narrative? Yasser Arafat, in his speech at the UN in November 1974!  In the wake of multiple <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson's_Field_hijackings">plane hijackings</a>, the massacre at the <a href="http://global-directions.com/Articles/Peace%20and%20Conflict/MunichMassacre1972.pdf">Munich Olympics</a> and the murder of school children in <a href="http://www.zionism-israel.com/dic/Maalot_Massacre.htm">Ma’alot</a> – acts of terror committed by the PLO and its affiliates – Arafat delivered his infamous speech at the UN.  This was the first time a terrorist leader was welcomed and applauded at the General Assembly. He rehashed all the Marxist buzzwords (aggression, imperialism, colonialism, racism, etc.) that he diligently learned from his KGB handlers to attack Israelis and Zionists, which he branded “terrorists [and] war criminals”.  This is the kind of inversion of reality that Massad embraces in his fantasy world of historical revisionism.</p>
<p>Furthermore, in his desperate attempt to deny the Jewish people their national aspirations in their ancestral land, Massad declares that <i>“the Palestinians have always insisted that the homelands of European Jews were their European countries and not Palestine.”</i> Quite an authoritative source! This blatant theft of identity from the Jewish people, which is still condoned with impunity in many quarters, is specifically hailed as an undisputed truth in Article 20 of the <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/plocov.asp#art20">PLO National Charter (1968)</a>.</p>
<p>It must be hard for anyone to be proven wrong after a lifetime spent in defending a losing cause.  The burning envy generated by Israel’s survival, progress and astonishing accomplishments against all odds in just a few decades must reduce its detractors to resort to claims of victimhood and self-righteousness, no matter how baseless.  Massad does not hesitate to escalate the accusations directed against Zionism to ever more ridiculous levels:  Now, the Zionists are the real Nazis and the Palestinians are the last remaining fighters against anti-Semitism!  Considering the growing anti-Jewish indoctrination of Palestinian school children and the hateful admonitions contained in the <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp">Hamas Charter</a>, Massad’s ludicrous claims are nothing but a thinly veiled burst of Freudian projection.</p>
<p>The unusual insistence on race-related notions in Massad’s article (no less than 18 instances) betrays an obsession dear to the anti-Israel crowd.  Launched at the UN General Assembly in 1975 (<a href="http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/r30.htm">Resolution 3379</a>), the slanderous accusation equating Zionism – the legitimate national movement of the Jewish people – to racism is a reflection of the speech Arafat delivered at the UN a year earlier, and is now raised again by Massad <i>(“European Jews &#8230; became the elements of settler colonialism intimately allied to racial discrimination”),</i> even though this infamous resolution was rescinded in 1991.  But anti-Jewish hatred never seems to go away.  The “Zionism = racism” slander was revived at the Durban Conference in 2001, to give Massad and his fellow travelers a new lease on a life of hatred.</p>
<p>Massad cannot admit that the Jews have returned to <i>their</i> ancestral land and that the <i>reconstitution</i> of the Jewish State was enshrined in international law in 1920.  This incontrovertible truth would blow his narrative to pieces and would deprive him of his raging outbursts against Israel, Zionism and the Jewish people.</p>
<p>I know it’s next to impossible to have a diehard propagandist acknowledge factual evidence, but can one still hope that a professor of Intellectual History at Columbia University is not totally impervious to established historical and legal facts?  In his latest article, Massad offers only a crude sophistry that may be welcomed as profound insight by many among the biased Middle East academics who are, often wilfully, disconnected from factual reality.</p>
<p><strong>Salomon Benzimra is the co-founder of <i><a href="http://www.cilr.org/">Canadians for Israel’s Legal Rights</a>.</i><a href="http://www.cilr.org"><br />
</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank">Click here</a>.</strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/salomon-benzimra/columbia-prof-wwii-era-zionists-colluded-with-nazis/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Turkey: Zionism, Like Fascism, a &#8216;Crime Against Humanity&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-klein/turkey-zionism-like-fascism-a-crime-against-humanity/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=turkey-zionism-like-fascism-a-crime-against-humanity</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-klein/turkey-zionism-like-fascism-a-crime-against-humanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime against humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fascism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tayyip erdogan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=179452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The UN's alliance of bigots.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-klein/turkey-zionism-like-fascism-a-crime-against-humanity/tayyip-erdogan-libya/" rel="attachment wp-att-179462"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-179462" title="tayyip-erdogan-libya" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/tayyip-erdogan-libya.jpg" alt="" width="264" height="198" /></a>The United Nations &#8220;Alliance of Civilizations,&#8221; co-founded by Turkey and Spain, has an annual budget of approximately four million U.S. dollars.  It just completed its Fifth Global Forum this past week in Vienna. The ostensible theme of the lavish two-day gathering was “Responsible Leadership in Dialogue and Diversity.”</p>
<p>According to its appropriately named &#8220;Vienna Declaration,&#8221; the forum was aimed, among other things, at an informed debate on how responsible leadership can make a difference in promoting and protecting full enjoyment of the right to freedom of religion and belief in &#8220;a context of religious pluralism&#8221; and &#8220;greater diversity.&#8221;</p>
<p>Outlining his vision to make the Alliance of Civilizations more active in addressing acute inter-ethnic and inter-religious tensions, the High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations, Nassir Al-Nasser of Qatar, stated, “We will strive to use the tools at our disposal in the difficult settings around the world.  We will not shy away from them.”</p>
<p>How noble.  Unfortunately, the Alliance of Civilizations&#8217; lavish global forum turned at times into a perversion of its stated mission.  The Emir of Qatar H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, for example, used his speech to complain about “an increase in the manifestations of misunderstanding about Islam and the Islamic civilisation in addition to the Muslims’ suffering from marginalisation, discrimination and hatred in many parts of the globe.”  The Emir called &#8220;the Palestinian cause&#8221; the &#8220;last colonial issue in history.&#8221;</p>
<p>Where, in the interest of inter-faith tolerance and dialogue, was the Emir&#8217;s acknowledgment of manifestations of misunderstanding about Christianity, Judaism and other faiths in the Muslim world, where non-Muslims suffer from marginalization, discrimination and hatred? Where is his call for good faith dialogue towards reaching a viable two-state Palestinian Israeli solution and rejection of the call by Hamas &#8211; whom the Emir visited in Gaza late last year -  to destroy the entire Jewish state?</p>
<p>Irresponsible, bigoted leadership was also on display at the Alliance of Civilizations forum.</p>
<p>Exhibit A was a speech delivered on February 27th by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. His hateful remarks equated Zionism with fascism and, curiously enough, with anti-Semitism. He labeled each of these &#8220;isms,&#8221; starting with Zionism, as &#8220;a crime against humanity” and said that Islamophobia belongs in the same crime against humanity category.</p>
<p>Sadly, UN Secretary General  Ban Ki-moon &#8211; who was present on the stage &#8211; remained silent. I asked his spokesperson whether &#8220;the Secretary General has any comment on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan&#8217;s inclusion of Zionism as &#8216;a crime against humanity&#8217; during his speech at the Fifth Alliance of Civilizations Forum.” His response was no comment at this time, but that he would let me know if there is any change. Don&#8217;t hold your breath.</p>
<p>Ban Ki-moon&#8217;s silence is reminiscent of his decision to remain in the room during the Durban II Review Conference in 2009 (the official name of the 2009 United Nations World Conference Against Racism) when Iranian President Ahmadinejad opened the conference with an outrageous attack on Israel, which he called the most racist country in the world. At least on that occasion, the Secretary General did condemn Ahmadinijad’s speech after the fact, calling it “unacceptable,” a “very disturbing experience” and “destructive.” So far, he has not done the same with regard to Erdoğan&#8217;s inclusion of Zionism as &#8220;a crime against humanity&#8221; in his Alliance of Civilizations speech.</p>
<p>&#8220;We remind secretary-general Ban Ki-moon that his predecessor Kofi Annan recognized that the UN&#8217;s 1975 Zionism-is-racism resolution was an expression of anti-Semitism, and he welcomed its repeal,&#8221; said the human rights organization UN Watch in its press release denouncing the speech. &#8220;Erdoğan &#8216;s misuse of this global podium to incite hatred, and his resort to Ahmandinejad-style pronouncements appealing to the lowest common denominator in the Muslim world will only strengthen the belief that his government is hewing to a confrontational stance, and fundamentally unwilling to end its four-year-old feud with Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Erdoğan would do well to finally apologize to the Armenians for Turkey&#8217;s own crime against humanity &#8211; its genocide perpetrated on the Armenian population in the early part of the twentieth century. The American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at the time, Henry Morganthau Sr., described the Turks&#8217; mass murders of the Armenians as a &#8220;death warrant to a whole race&#8221; and as “race extermination.”</p>
<p>But Erdoğan, who did not hesitate in branding Zionism as a crime against humanity, told President Obama last year that Turks “are tired” of hearing about the Armenian &#8220;problem.&#8221; And learning little from Turkey&#8217;s bloody past, his government is cracking down on the nearly 20 million-strong Kurdish minority in Turkey. Yet Erdoğan has the audacity to use the UN Alliance of Civilizations platform to brand the Jewish people&#8217;s expression of their right to self-determination in their historic homeland as a &#8220;crime against humanity.&#8221;  Palestinians could have exercised the same right on land of their own sixty-four years ago, an opportunity which they rejected. They still can, if they would only sit down and negotiate a two-state solution in good faith rather than play games at the UN and fire rockets at Israeli civilians.</p>
<p>Iran was represented at the forum by its Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.  He casted Iran, the world&#8217;s major state sponsor of global terrorism,  as the victim of terrorism.  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met with Salehi on the sidelines of the forum. To quote Iran&#8217;s news agency: &#8220;Referring to Iranˈs important role in promoting the dialogue among civilizations, the UN chief appreciated Salehi for attending the 5th United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Forum in Vienna.&#8221;</p>
<p>Was Salehi promoting constructive dialogue when he said in 2011 that “Palestine has, since the beginning, belonged to the Palestinians and we do not agree with partitioning Palestine under no circumstances [sic]?&#8221; He went on to say that Iran &#8220;will never recognize the Zionist regime [of Israel] and this has been the Islamic Republic’s position since the Islamic Revolution [in 1979] until now.”</p>
<p>Apparently, the Iranian leaders&#8217; threats to destroy the Jewish state, their funding and arming of Hezbollah and Hamas, and the regime&#8217;s brutal treatment of religious minorities within Iran don&#8217;t matter so long as Iran&#8217;s foreign minister shows up at the UN conference.</p>
<p>Whatever utopian goals some of its supporters may cherish, the Alliance of Civilizations is yet another in a long string of United Nations forums wasting money with false hopes, and easily manipulated for ends that are a perversion of their stated objectives.</p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank">Click here</a>.</strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-klein/turkey-zionism-like-fascism-a-crime-against-humanity/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The New ‘Zionists’</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/charles-bybelezer/the-new-zionists/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-new-zionists</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/charles-bybelezer/the-new-zionists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Bybelezer]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palestinians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Zionist Organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=174216</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Israelism rebranded. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/charles-bybelezer/the-new-zionists/showimage-ashx-6/" rel="attachment wp-att-174225"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-174225" title="ShowImage.ashx" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ShowImage.ashx_.jpg" alt="" width="266" height="200" /></a>An article recently written by David Breakstone, vice chairman of the World Zionist Organization (WZO), evidences the degree to which the founding principles of Zionism have been manipulated in a contemporary, concerted attempt to nullify the original meaning and purpose of the Jewish nationalist movement.</p>
<p>The title of the piece, “Beinart&#8217;s good old-fashioned Zionism,” is itself problematic, as it is difficult to conceptualize how Breakstone could label Peter Beinart, the fringe American author of <em>The Crisis of Zionism</em>, who advocates for a boycott of Israeli products manufactured across the Green Line, as a “good old-fashioned” Zionist.</p>
<p>In fact, “good old-fashioned” Zionists, from Theodor Herzl to Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky, promoted Jewish settlement throughout Palestine, a geographical region formerly under Ottoman rule encompassing all of the territory currently claimed by the Palestinians. If Herzl or Jabotinsky were alive today, it is unfathomable that either of them would do anything less than vehemently denounce any proposed Israeli boycott over the “occupation” of land they themselves envisioned as an integral component of the future Jewish state.</p>
<p>In a half-hearted attempt to reconcile this glaring paradox, Breakstone, towards the end of his article, finally does “take issue” with Beinart’s call for a boycott, though he makes certain to inform the reader that, “My rejection of Beinart’s prescription of how to heal that which ails Israeli society does not mean I reject his diagnosis of the disease.”</p>
<p>This “qualification” is grossly inadequate coming from a senior executive of an organization founded at the First Zionist Congress—convened by Herzl himself in 1897—and which, according to its website, maintains a commitment to “establishing for the Jewish people a legally assured home in <em>Eretz Yisrael</em>”; in the past by “promoting the settlement of Jewish farmers, artisans, and tradesmen in Palestine,” and presently through “settling the land.”</p>
<p>Therefore, to alleviate any possible confusion arising from Breakstone’s article, the following clarification is necessary: Peter Beinart is in reality a leading proponent of a “New Zionism,” the central tenet of which demands the creation of a Palestinian state, whereas “good old-fashioned Zionism” promoted the emergence, and then advocated for the rights of the Jewish state.</p>
<p>To convince people that they are “pro-Israel” when, in practice and effect, their platform advances pro-Palestinian positions, the New Zionists have undertaken, systematically, to chip away at the ideological foundations of the Jewish nationalist movement. This process of historical revisionism has resulted in the transformation of the definition of Zionism, such that today’s “real” Zionists are those, ostensibly, who promote Palestinian sovereignty on land previously allocated by the international community, at the behest of “good old fashioned” Zionists, to the Jewish People.</p>
<p>To “validate” this twisted logic, Beinart is dependent on people like Breakstone, who hold high-profile positions in organizations such as the WZO, to assure the public that the New Zionists are in fact “zealously concerned” about Israel, despite their anti-Israel tendencies. In this manner, the New Zionists gain “legitimacy,” while Zionism becomes “inclusive,” incorporating even those who promote damaging Israel economically.</p>
<p>In this New Zionist wonderland, devoid of historical and theoretical context, cause and effect have become subjective. This, in turn, has enabled Beinart’s thesis—that Israel’s demise will come about less “because Arab armies invade the West Bank than because Israel permanently occupies it”—to gain traction; when, in fact, Israel’s survival depends on its continued control over parts of the West Bank, as evidenced by the emergence of existential threats, in the form of Arab-Islamic terror enclaves, in the wake of previous withdrawals from Lebanon (Hezbollah), Gaza (Hamas) and increasingly in Sinai (al-Qaida-linked jihadist groups).</p>
<p>And herein resides the true appeal of the New Zionists: History is a blank slate. In their distorted paradigm, the millennia-long Jewish struggle for independence; the repeated subsequent attempts by Arabs, including Palestinians, to annihilate Israel; and ongoing Palestinian rejectionism and terrorism are minimized, if not discounted altogether. This allows Beinart to claim, as paraphrased by Breakstone, that “collectively [Jews] might yet avoid our own undoing” by withdrawing from the West Bank, even though historical precedent assures said territory would eventually be overrun by sworn enemies committed to bringing about “our undoing.”</p>
<p>This rejection of history, coupled with a fundamental misunderstanding of “good old-fashioned Zionism,” precludes the New Zionists from accurately “diagnosing” what “ails” Israel, particularly as regards its declining global status.</p>
<p>To begin with, Israel was not created so that the Jewish People’s destiny would become intimately intertwined with that of Arab Palestinians, but, rather, to reaffirm for the first time in 2000 years Jewish independence. This always has been, and forever will remain, Zionism’s guiding principle, from which the most obvious moral obligation stems: To advance and defend Jewish rights.</p>
<p>In this respect, Zionism does not mandate that Israel forge “peace” with the Palestinians in order to survive, but rather that the Jewish People extricate itself from the Palestinians in order to thrive as a distinct nation in its rightful land. Although present circumstance precludes this from being achieved in all of historical Palestine—as the mistakes of the previous generation have made this impractical—this can yet, and should include those parts of the West Bank essential to securing Israel’s citizenry. Once these vital territories, comprised primarily of Jews, are incorporated into Israel, the Palestinians should be left—even encouraged—to carve out in the remaining areas the autonomous statelet originally envisioned for them in the Oslo Accords.</p>
<p>In the absence of such “unilateralism,” Israel’s global standing will continue to deteriorate; not, as the New Zionists propose, because of a refusal to vacate for a fourth time in its brief history territory claimed by Arabs, but, rather, because the continuing failure of the Jewish People to assert its sovereign rights invites ongoing attacks.</p>
<p>This failure to assert independence is intimately connected to what Beinart describes as Israel’s ongoing “ethical collapse,” which he claims portends the Jewish state’s “physical collapse.” Ironically, Beinart is, in all likelihood, correct in his estimation that Israel is doomed “if [Jews] abandon the moral foundations of what it is that the Zionist movement set out to do.” The problem is that Beinart and his supporters have confused their own “morality” with that promoted by Israel’s founders.</p>
<p>If ever Israel did have a moral obligation to the Palestinians, in accordance with Zionist principles, the Jewish state fulfilled it by offering them comprehensive peace/statehood proposals in 2000 and 2008, respectively. That the Palestinians responded with terror absolves Israel from any further responsibility.</p>
<p>The Jewish state’s moral decay, therefore, is not predicated on the “occupation,” but rather on misguided policies of appeasement of Palestinian tyranny, which has jeopardized the security of Israel’s population.</p>
<p>Israel’s “ethical collapse” did not begin when it legally acquired territories gained in a defensive war in 1967, but, rather, when the Jewish state agreed to engage in a “peace process” with arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat, who at the time had been exiled by Lebanon to Tunis. This moral degeneration has continued for two decades in the form of unending concessions to the Palestinians—the so-called “bold sacrifices for peace” so admired by the New Zionists—which have resulted not in peace, but countless Jews maimed and killed by Palestinian “martyrs.”</p>
<p>This “ethical collapse,” in parallel to Israel’s decreasing international standing, accelerated significantly with the uprooting of Israeli citizens from Gaza in 2005, and accounts for why Hamas continues not only to terrorize Israelis, but also to rule over half of the Palestinian people, who, despite their alleged peaceful nature, democratically elected the terror group to represent them at the first opportunity. This ongoing “ethical collapse” is currently best exemplified by the incessant pandering to Arafat’s deputy-in-terror Mahmoud Abbas, whose Fatah party’s armed wing recently took credit for the indiscriminate launching of 560 rockets at Israeli civilian centers, as well as the Tel Aviv bus bombing, during Operation Pillar of Defense.</p>
<p>In the result, Israel’s “ethical collapse” began when the country shifted its focus towards promoting Palestinian sovereignty at the expense of its own legitimate rights of statehood; that is, precisely when the Israeli government progressively embraced the New Zionists’ doctrine.</p>
<p>Unless this ideology is rejected outright, the standing—and resolve—of the Jewish state will continue to erode, as will the continued purpose of its people, until reaching a critical moral decay; at which point, the New Zionists and pro-Palestinian sympathizers worldwide will have their way and Israel’s “physical collapse” will usher in “Palestine”—in the words of the Hamas terror organization, the most popular Palestinian faction—“from the Jordan River to Mediterranean Sea.”</p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank">Click here</a>.</strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/charles-bybelezer/the-new-zionists/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Death of Liberal Zionism</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/ronn-torossian/the-death-of-liberal-zionism/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-death-of-liberal-zionism</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/ronn-torossian/the-death-of-liberal-zionism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 04:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=171543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And the hopeful new generation rising up to replace it. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/ronn-torossian/the-death-of-liberal-zionism/peter-beinart-photo-by-center-for-american-progress-action-fund-via-flickr-com_-creative-commons-license-e1332501675669/" rel="attachment wp-att-171546"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-171546" title="Peter-Beinart.-Photo-by-Center-for-American-Progress-Action-Fund-via-flickr.com_.-Creative-Commons-License.-e1332501675669" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Peter-Beinart.-Photo-by-Center-for-American-Progress-Action-Fund-via-flickr.com_.-Creative-Commons-License.-e1332501675669.jpg" alt="" width="255" height="191" /></a>Liberal Zionism may indeed need a coffin. Proof of this is best seen through the microcosm of two young, passionate, eloquent, and outspoken Jews who were born in the early 1970s &#8212; in 2012, they have challenged conventional norms on Israel.</p>
<p>American journalist <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/03/18/peter-beinart-represents-zionism-like-a-black-kkk-member-represents-african-americans/">Peter Beinart</a> and Israeli politician Naftali Bennett are modern examples of two people who could not be further apart on their politics, nor on their influence. Beinart is an extremist liberal with fringe viewpoints and a small following; Bennett is a conventional conservative with a large and growing constituency.</p>
<p>Beinart’s book “The Crisis of Zionism” has been celebrated by the liberal media, yet the book has sold terribly. His argument that Jews are turned off because of the tension between liberalism and Zionism has been rejected by the Jewish community en masse.  Beinart continues to push a message of BDS (Boycott, Divestment &amp; Sanctions) as he stands with anti-Semites in advocating a boycott of those parts of Israel he deems to be “non-democratic.” While his fringe viewpoints are given widespread attention via the “Open Zion” blog at Newsweek/The Daily Beast his influence is restricted mainly to the media, as American Jewry has not accepted his viewpoints.  In Israel, the polls show the left being trounced in upcoming elections.</p>
<p>A 2012 UJA community survey found that 74% of all New York City’s Jewish children are Orthodox, and it shows that liberal Jews are having fewer children, and do not provide meaningful Jewish education.  They intermarry, assimilate and largely disappear as Jews.  Yet rather than deal with American Jewish assimilation which continues at upwards of 60 percent, Beinart says “the great American Jewish challenge of our age” is “saving liberal Zionism.” It is doubtful that Beinart can view the thriving Orthodox community as a breeding ground for liberal Zionism.</p>
<p>Israel, the “Start-Up Nation” that it has handily become and has brought so much to the world, certainly does not need an American Jew to save the failed policies of liberal Zionism. While Beinart foolishly claimed that “Jewish fortunes have radically changed,” he overlooked Hamas, Toulouse and the rampant hatred toward Jews throughout Europe.  That growing anti-Semitism has helped foment the increasingly right-wing philosophy of Zionism today.</p>
<p>Beinart was right about his concept of the “generational discord” which older Jewish leaders are unable to capture from the younger generations.  The new, young leader who has emerged is the furthest thing from liberal Zionism; religious Zionist <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/12/12/naftali-bennett-danny-danon-israels-rising-political-stars/">Naftali Bennett</a>.  He is a smart, eloquent 40 year old who formerly served as executive director of the settlement council. Bennett is a self-made multi-millionaire who leads the Jewish Home political party which is projected to be the third largest political party in the upcoming Israeli elections.</p>
<p>The face of success of Israel’s economic powerhouse, Bennett understands <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/">public relations</a> and digital media, is media savvy and concerned about the importance of world Jewry. A political conservative, he is the son of American immigrants to Israel and cognizant of the new leadership which Jews worldwide need. Even as Prime Minister Netanyahu is labeled as “conservative” by worldwide media, the Prime Minister’s biggest challenge is from Bennett, who served as his chief of staff and is to the right of Netanyahu politically.</p>
<p>In sharp contrast to Beinart, Bennett understands that Israel is a self-sufficient country, and not a banana republic of the United States or any other nation. Bennett advocates that Israel annex Judea and Samaria. As he says, the world already refuses to recognize Jerusalem or the Golan Heights as Israel, and yet life in Israel goes on. A strong and secure Israel is the Jewish priority, and not the ever-elusive “peace”  which Bennett deems impossible in this (and our children’s) generation.</p>
<p>Unlike foolish Beinart who believes if the world boycotts Israeli “settlements”  everything will be dandy, Bennett realistically understands that the obstacles to peace for the Arabs and radical Islamists who control the regions surrounding Israel, is not merely Judea and Samaria, but rather Jews and the presence of the entire State of Israel.  Zionism today doesn’t delineate that Jews need to be victims, and a proud, active people are increasingly representative of that fact.</p>
<p>The next generation of Jewish leaders worldwide is made up of young people like Naftali Bennett, Knesset Deputy Speaker Danny Danon, and others who spread the important message of a strong Israel.  In America, liberal Judaism is withering away with its disappearing population, and authentic Judaism grows. While extremists like Beinart and his liberal ilk attract media attention, good old fashioned Zionism grows and thrives.</p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank">Click here</a>.</strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/ronn-torossian/the-death-of-liberal-zionism/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Israel Haters Invade Wheaton College</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/ryan-mauro/israel-haters-invade-wheaton-college/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=israel-haters-invade-wheaton-college</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/ryan-mauro/israel-haters-invade-wheaton-college/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[billy graham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palestinians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wheaton college]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=164728</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Site named after pro-Israel evangelist Billy Graham becomes scene of anti-Zionism.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/ryan-mauro/israel-haters-invade-wheaton-college/dscf7289-435x326/" rel="attachment wp-att-164729"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-164729" title="DSCF7289-435x326" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/DSCF7289-435x326.jpg" alt="" width="305" height="228" /></a>Evangelist Billy Graham <a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/18/billy-graham-buys-election-ads-after-romney-meeting/%20%20">told</a> Christians to base their vote on supporting Israel, yet anti-Israel activists held a <a href="http://www.emeu.net/ChicagoLand2012.html">&#8220;24 Hour Middle East Leadership Briefing&#8221;</a> at a center named after him at Wheaton College on November 8-9. The irony should serve as a reminder that evangelical support for Israel cannot be taken for granted and must be fought for. Evangelicals against Christian Zionism will make headway if they are ignored.</p>
<p>The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association worked with Wheaton College to open the Billy Graham Center in 1980. Graham <a href="http://www.wheaton.edu/BGC/About-Us">wanted</a> it to be a “world hub of inspiration, research, preaching and training” for the church’s mission of evangelism. If <a href="http://www.emeu.net/%20">Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding</a> (EMEU) has its way, this hub will also be a platform to undermine Christian support for Israel. The organization’s anti-Israel advocacy is so strong that one of its founders and current <a href="http://www.emeu.net/media/EMEU_Brochure.pdf">advisory board</a> member, Reverend Donald Wagner, is a featured speaker at American Muslims for Palestine’s (AMP) <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/ryan-mauro/destroy-israel-conference-comes-to-illinois/%20">annual conference</a> later this month. The AMP’s <a href="http://conference.ampalestine.org/index.php/speakers">list of speakers</a> includes at least 13 Islamists, most of whom are tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and have defended Hamas and acts of terrorism.</p>
<p>An email to the Billy Graham Center about the EMEU event was replied to by Lon Ellison, executive director of Billy Graham Center Ministries. Ellison explained that “We are not a politically associated organization” and that, though the event was held in the building, it is not sponsored by Billy Graham Center Programs/Ministries.  Indeed, EMEU’s website says it sponsored the event with Wheaton College’s Biblical and Theological Studies Department and Dr. Gary Burge, a professor at the college, was one of the speakers.</p>
<p>“While my understanding of EMEU is not exhaustive, the experience with them I have had suggests that their primary concern is the welfare of the Palestinian people. I have not sensed they are however, anti-Israel,” Ellison said.</p>
<p>A spokesperson for Billy Graham declined to comment.</p>
<p>EMEU openly fights against Christian Zionism. Its website, for example, promotes a book by <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2204">Norman Finkelstein</a> titled, “The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering.” In 2010, he gave a speech at the University of New York where he <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/32429">reportedly</a> urged Palestinians to not “concede” to Israel and to keep up “nonviolent resistance.” An <a href="http://www.christianzionism.org/article/wagner04.asp">article</a> by Wagner that appears on the <a href="http://www.ChristianZionism.org/">Institute for the Study of Christian Zionism</a> website argues that Christian Zionism is motivated by a “prediction of a bloody Battle of Armageddon in the Middle East.” The website lists EMEU as one of its “friends.”</p>
<p>“Politically, as we recognize that the theology shaped by this distorted view of scripture too easily morphs into a militaristic, anti-Palestinian, pro-expansionist ideology with negative consequences of all parties in the current conflict,” the Institute <a href="http://www.christianzionism.org/aboutN.asp">says.</a></p>
<p>Dr. Gary Burge, the aforementioned Wheaton College professor and speaker at the event, is a staunch opponent of Christian Zionism, arguing that it is motivated by a desire to trigger Armageddon. He <a href="http://www.christianzionism.org/Article/Burge02.pdf">writes</a>, “This is the crown jewel in Christian Zionism’s worldview. This is why Rev. [John] Hagee is willing to risk throwing the Middle East into nuclear war. The birth of Israel has now set the stage for the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ.”</p>
<p>His position on the legitimacy of the state of Israel is clear by the title of his book, “Whose Land? Whose Promise? What Christians Are Not Being Told About Israel and the Palestinians.” The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=118&amp;x_article=1372">describes</a> it as a “combustible mixture of misinformation and theologically justified hostility towards modern Israel.”</p>
<p>Another speaker was Dr. Mark Braverman, whose <a href="http://www.markbraverman.org/">website</a> links to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement and other anti-Israel websites. The forward to his 2010 book, “Fatal Embrace,” has a forward written by Walter Brueggemann. In it, he <a href="http://www.theird.org/page.aspx?pid=1359">says</a> that “the claim of exceptionalism…gives warrant for brutalizing policies carried out by the Israeli government that are destructive, self-destructive and finally irresponsible.” He says this exceptionalism also drives “religious-ideological support for American expansionist imperialism.”</p>
<p>EMEU is part of a broader Christian movement against Israel that Islamists appreciate. For example, on October 4, 15 Christian leaders <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/mark-d-tooley/anti-israel-christians-stir-further-controversy/%20">wrote a letter</a> to Congress suggesting that military aid to Israel be reconsidered because of its alleged violations of international law. American Muslims for Palestine <a href="http://www.ampalestine.org/index.php/newsroom/statements/397-amp-supports-clergy">thanked them for it</a>. Muslim Brotherhood affiliates in the U.S. also have a Christian coalition they can rely upon to <a href="http://www.radicalislam.org/analysis/american-christians-shocking-support-islamists">defend them.</a></p>
<p>The issue here is greater than the EMEU’s use of the Billy Graham Center building. There is a real struggle happening in the Christian community that can weaken one of Israel’s most stalwart bases of support.</p>
<p><em>This article was sponsored by the <a href="http://www.theird.org/">Institute on Religion and Democracy.</a></em></p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank">Click here</a>.</strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/ryan-mauro/israel-haters-invade-wheaton-college/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>122</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Obama Honors Radical Israel Hater</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/joseph-klein/obama-honors-radical-israel-hater/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=obama-honors-radical-israel-hater</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/joseph-klein/obama-honors-radical-israel-hater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 04:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agent of change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creepy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Sarsour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestinian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sharia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=163945</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[White House celebrates a terrorism apologist who calls Zionism "racism." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/joseph-klein/obama-honors-radical-israel-hater/linda-sarsour-007/" rel="attachment wp-att-163953"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-163953" title="Linda-Sarsour-007" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Linda-Sarsour-007.gif" alt="" width="315" height="234" /></a>&#8220;It’s the &#8216;People’s House,&#8221; said First Lady Michelle Obama. &#8220;It’s a place that is steeped in history, but it’s also a place where everyone should feel welcome. And that&#8217;s why my husband and I have made it our mission to open up the house to as many people as we can.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Obama administration kept its promise of an open Obama White House &#8211; for radical Islamists. The <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3777/a-red-carpet-for-radicals-at-the-white-house">Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has reported</a> on hundreds of White House meetings to which the Islamists have been invited.</p>
<p>&#8220;Court documents and other records have identified many of these visitors as belonging to groups serving as fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and other Islamic militant organizations,&#8221; the Investigative Project on Terrorism reported. It based its findings on an exhaustive analysis of millions of White House visitor log entries, which the IPT correlated with lists of officials of known radical Islamist groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). This group, said to be affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation, a jihadist charitable front group whose officials were convicted of funneling money to Hamas.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, as <a href="http://lubbockonline.com/editorial-columnists/2012-09-29/malkin-why-was-muslim-brotherhood-member-visiting-white-house">Michelle Malkin</a> reported, &#8220;White House officials welcomed a foreign delegation of the radical Sharia-enforcing Muslim Brotherhood from Egypt.&#8221;</p>
<p>One repeat visitor to the Obama White House is Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian Muslim American activist and a self-proclaimed “pure New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn.” Records confirm that Sarsour has been invited to at least seven White House meetings since April 2010.</p>
<p>Sarsour doesn&#8217;t just have an open door to the Obama White House. She was also honored by the White House last December as a “Champion of Change.”</p>
<p>The kind of change Sarsour champions is the end of the Jewish state of Israel.</p>
<p>Last week, according to IPT, Sarsour tweeted the Islamist demonization of Israel equating Zionism with “racism.” She posted <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaGNfKabwfQ&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;hd=1">links on her Twitter feed to an anti-Israel video</a> by a New York poet named Remroum, accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing and rejecting attempts at normalization between Israelis and Palestinians.</p>
<p>Sarsour did not deny what the IPT reported. Instead, <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour">she hid behind the label Islamophobia</a> to try and kill the messenger in one of her many tweets.</p>
<p>In another tweet, Sarsour claimed &#8220;white male privilege&#8221; has &#8220;oppressed&#8221; her.  In an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i24wcAJaTHA">interview</a> she linked Islamophobia, and what she called &#8220;racial profiling&#8221; of Muslim Americans, with slavery, &#8220;genocide&#8221; of Native Americans and oppression of African Americans and Latinos.</p>
<p>In yet another one of her tweets, Sarsour called for the repeal of the Patriot Act. She thinks the concern of Americans with the continuing Islamist terror threat is overblown. Indeed, she tweeted that the &#8220;<a href="http://mobile.twitter.com/lsarsour/status/200052719178883073?">Underwear bomber</a> was the #CIA all along. Why did I already know that?! Shame on us &#8211; scaring the American people.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wearing the badge of radicalism proudly, Sarsour also tweeted, &#8220;When did radical become a bad word?&#8221;</p>
<p>I have a feeling that the families of the victims of the 9/11 jihadist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon would have a good answer to Sarsour&#8217;s rhetorical question.</p>
<p>Sarsour serves the Obama administration&#8217;s purpose of whitewashing radical Islam.  For example, after claiming to be a feminist herself, she wrote on the blog <a href="http://www.hijabirevolution.blogspot.com/">Hijabi Revolution</a> that &#8220;Islam is a religion of feminists for feminists&#8230; Islam as a religion is built on many feminist principles around equality and economic empowerment of women.&#8221;</p>
<p>You read that correctly. This Obama White House guest &#8211; its &#8220;champion of change&#8221; &#8211; is spinning a make-believe story. In truth, Islamic law stipulates a gender-segregated, patriarchal society in which women are treated as inferior beings.</p>
<p>For example, a specific verse in the Koran (4:34) states that the husband is free to beat his wife if she is disobedient:</p>
<blockquote><p>Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you, take no further action against them. Surely God is high, supreme.</p></blockquote>
<p>Another specific verse in the Koran (2:282), describing financial transactions, states that two female witnesses are equal to one male witness.</p>
<p>The husband can divorce his wife at will, but the wife does not have that same option under Sharia law. The husband is also favored in cases of custody of the children after the early years of childhood are over.</p>
<p>To Islamists like Linda Sarsour and their admirers in the Obama administration, telling the truth about where Islamists really stand, based on their own documented statements, is hate speech.  To the contrary, it is simply presenting evidence &#8211; from their own words and from their sources of belief in Sharia law itself &#8211; of the radical and hateful nature of Islamic ideology.</p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank">Click here</a>.</strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/joseph-klein/obama-honors-radical-israel-hater/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>France&#8217;s Anti-Jewish Terrorism Epidemic</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/davidhornik/frances-anti-jewish-terrorism-epidemic/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=frances-anti-jewish-terrorism-epidemic</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/davidhornik/frances-anti-jewish-terrorism-epidemic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 04:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[P. David Hornik]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Semitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohamed Merah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=147800</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[European anti-Semitism rises to a level not seen since Nazi Germany. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/davidhornik/frances-anti-jewish-terrorism-epidemic/french_jews/" rel="attachment wp-att-147832"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-147832" title="French_jews" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/French_jews.gif" alt="" width="315" height="251" /></a>Last March, when the French Muslim terrorist Mohamed Merah murdered a teacher and three children at a French Jewish school in Toulouse, a media firestorm resulted. Things have not gotten easier for French Jews since then. As the <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/world/europe/in-france-jews-and-muslims-warn-of-anti-semitism.html?_r=2&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;">noted</a> this week, French Jews say anti-Semitic threats have in fact escalated since March, Merah’s act having stirred “empathy” and “emulation.”</p>
<p>Indeed, the main thing that appears to have prevented further catastrophes is good police work. On Saturday French police raided the Strasbourg apartment of a 33-year-old French Muslim named Jeremy Sidney and ended up killing him in a shootout. Sidney’s DNA had been found on a grenade that, in September, was thrown into a kosher supermarket in Sarcelles (near Paris), wounding a customer.</p>
<p>Sidney, it turns out, was born in Melun, France, got a two-year sentence for drug trafficking in 2008, and converted to Islam while in prison. And he was no isolated case. As part of the same far-reaching operation on Saturday, police arrested twelve other suspected Islamic terrorists in Paris, Tours, Strasbourg, and Cannes.</p>
<p>“All,” <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/06/world/europe/france-terror-operation/index.html">reports</a> CNN, “are being held on suspicion of…manufacturing deadly explosives, illegal possession of weapons and attempted homicide of police officers. Three of them have criminal records for drug trafficking, theft or violence….” AP <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/french-prosecutor-police-find-bomb-making-material-after-weekend-terror-arrests/2012/10/10/2be63cea-12b7-11e2-9a39-1f5a7f6fe945_story.html?wprss=rss_social-world-headline">says</a> all of them were, like Sidney, “French and recent converts to Islam.”</p>
<p>CNN also tells us: “Police seized a number of items such as ammunition, a list of ‘Israelite’ organizations in and around Paris, a publication produced by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, wills, computer equipment and 27,000 euros ($35,000) in cash….”</p>
<p>As part of the probe, on Wednesday police also <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4290675,00.html">found</a> bomb-making materials in an underground parking lot near Paris.</p>
<p>Israeli commentator Boaz Bismuth <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=2655">notes</a> that one of the cell members, Jan Ansako, “was addicted to fundamentalist websites and uploaded [to his own site] photos of dead Palestinian babies and a photograph of an Israeli soldier aiming his weapon…. ‘How can you not hate this cursed nation?’ he wrote.”</p>
<p>The above-quoted <em>New York Times</em> article reports that these suspects “were described in various news reports as admirers of Mr. Merah, and some of them even called his actions ‘the battle of Toulouse.’”</p>
<p>Bismuth adds: “Although Jews are not the only targets on this terror cell’s list, they appear at the top.”</p>
<p>A few things are worth pointing out here.</p>
<p>First, while terrorists like Merah and the rest are extreme manifestations, they are part of a much wider phenomenon. As Israeli historian Robert Wistrich <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/2.209/comparing-islamic-anti-semitism-to-nazi-germany-at-its-worst-1.4854">put it</a>: “The scale and extremism of the [anti-Semitic] literature and commentary available in Arab or Muslim newspapers, journals, magazines, caricatures, on Islamist websites, on the Middle Eastern radio and TV news, in documentaries, films, and educational materials, is comparable only to that of Nazi Germany at its worst.”</p>
<p>While this hate has been metastasizing from Arab and Muslim countries themselves to far-flung immigrant communities, especially in Europe, far more attention has been directed to scattered, minor, generally much less extreme anti-Muslim expressions in Western media, a certain YouTube video being the latest example. Meanwhile the tide of Jew-hatred flowing from Arab and Muslim countries is now powerful enough to “convert” originally non-Muslim Westerners and to pose a daily, murderous danger to Jews in France and elsewhere in Europe—while Westerners hasten to apologize to Muslims for what are no more than insults.</p>
<p>Second, while Muslim anti-Semitism is rooted in the Koran and predates the rise of modern Israel by fourteen centuries, Israel is today an obsessive focal point—as in the abovementioned case of the terror suspect with his photos of “dead Palestinian babies” and an armed Israeli soldier. For that terror suspect, though, the proper object of hate was “this cursed nation”—meaning not just Israeli Jews but all Jews, thereby giving the hate a genocidal scope in the strictest sense. Hence, French Jews—whatever their concern or lack of concern for Israel, “the Palestinians,” or the “two-state solution”—are part of “the nation” and potential targets for murder, whether children in a school or customers in a supermarket.</p>
<p>For a religion comprising well over a billion people worldwide, and fifty-seven countries, to focus so much obsessive hate on a vastly smaller people is, to put it mildly, not something to take pride in. One would like to believe that, if the Islamic world could really see itself in a mirror, it would not like what it sees.</p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank">Click here</a>.</strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/davidhornik/frances-anti-jewish-terrorism-epidemic/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Reflections of a Diaspora Jew on Zionism, America and the Fate of the Jews</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/david-horowitz/reflections-of-a-diaspora-jew-on-zionism-america-and-the-fate-of-the-jews/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=reflections-of-a-diaspora-jew-on-zionism-america-and-the-fate-of-the-jews</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/david-horowitz/reflections-of-a-diaspora-jew-on-zionism-america-and-the-fate-of-the-jews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 04:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Horowitz]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Semitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Hecht Award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zionist organization of america]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=143008</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Supporters of freedom are all Zionists now.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/dh-speaking1.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-143126" title="dh-speaking1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/dh-speaking1.gif" alt="" width="375" height="259" /></a>Editors&#8217; note: In the following speech accepting the Ben Hecht Award for Outstanding Journalism from the Zionist Organization of America, David Horowitz notes that he wants everything that the Zionists want&#8211;a muscular Israel willing and able to defy the growing Jew hatred in the world; a Jewish State &#8220;armed to the teeth&#8221; and ready to use its military; an Israel augmented by the addition of its historical birthright of Judea and Samaria. Yet the paradox is that until now, Horowitz notes, he has never considered himself a Zionist in the sense that Theodor Herzl and other founders used that term. Herzl&#8217;s dream was that a Jewish homeland would &#8220;normalize&#8221; the Jewish people in the eyes of an historically hostile world, end their persecution, and &#8220;solve&#8221; the &#8220;Jewish problem.&#8221; Horowitz states that he always considered this possibility to be a &#8220;fairy tale&#8221; because of his understanding of the way envy and hatred operate on the international scene, especially with the advent of &#8220;Third Worldism.&#8221;  In addition to becoming a refuge, Israel also became a magnet for homocidal intentions. The events of 9/11 changed everything. Because of the rise of Islamism in the U.S.&#8211;especially influencing those who were once Israel&#8217;s strong defenders&#8211;as well as in the Middle East, Horowitz says that &#8220;supporters of freedom are all Zionists now.&#8221; Below is the text of the speech that Horowitz gave last night, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, in Philadelphia.<br />
</em></p>
<p>Let me begin by saying how honored I am to be invited to this podium by the Zionist Organization of America and Mort Klein, its courageous leader.  For decades Mort Klein and the ZOA have stood on the frontline defending the state of Israel and American Jews, and they are doing it now in what is certainly one of the darker periods for the Jewish people – darker all over the world – in our 5,000-year history. I applaud you for supporting Mort Klein and his team. I am touched by the recognition of an organization like this for the modest work I have done in behalf of Israel and the Jewish people.</p>
<p>Still, there is a paradox at the heart of this honor awarded me by the Zionist Organization of America, which will take me a moment to explain. It is true that I am widely attacked by anti-Semites and Jew-haters and the enemies of Israel as a Zionist &#8212; and an arch Zionist at that. I have been called variously a Zionist Jew, an “Israel Firster Zionist Jew,” “a rabid Zionist” (by Julian Assange no less), a “radical right-wing Zionist,” an “extreme Zionist,” an “extremist Zionist stalwart,” an “unrepentant Zionist,” an “ultra Zionist” and a “Zio-Nazi.”</p>
<p>Today, anti-Zionism is the cause of Jew-haters and anti-Semites the world over, and for Jews embarrassed by the fact that they <em>are</em> Jews and that others fear and despise them for that reason. Even the rare Jewish magazine of the left that is actually a supporter of Israel, is uncomfortable with the connotations of the Zionist label, and with what it means for Jews to defend themselves. In a recent unflattering profile, the <em>Tablet</em> magazine described me as touring the country “making the case for a <em>muscular</em> Zionism.”</p>
<p>I plead guilty to this charge. I plead guilty though I have never actually been a Zionist, or made a case for Zionism in the sense that Herzl and traditional Zionists understand it. Yes, I want muscular Jews and a muscular Israel. I want Jews proud of the extraordinary nation-state Jews created in 1948 out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. I want Jews who are armed, and Jews who will defend themselves with arms if necessary. Muscular in every way. Yes.</p>
<p>I want more than just <em>individual</em> Jews armed. I want a Jewish nation-state possessing in its arsenal the most advanced modern weapons available, a state that can be counted on to defend Jews from their global enemies, and particularly their enemies in the Muslim world who are legion and who have sworn our destruction, and who are openly planning to complete the job that Hitler started. I want a Jewish state, armed to the teeth, because Islamic Nazis, who are the storm troopers of a second Holocaust, are already mobilized, and because &#8212; as we discovered during the first Holocaust &#8212; there are not enough non-Jews in the world who are willing and prepared to defend us.</p>
<p>I am glad that Israel exists. I am glad that there is a country that will preserve Jewish culture, and be a model to the world of what Jews can do when they are given the chance. Today Israel is per capita the world’s leading scientific and technological innovator and contributor to human advancement. As a Jew I am proud of that.</p>
<p>I am also thrilled that in the creation of Israel Jews have regained their birthright. After 2,000 years of exile, the oldest surviving indigenous people in the world has won the right to some of its stolen homeland. I look forward to the day when Judea and Samaria, the historic centers of Judaism, become part of the Jewish homeland as well.</p>
<p>That homeland is now occupied by Palestinian Arabs who are at war with Israel, who have proclaimed their Jew-hatred to the world, and who have forfeited any right to the territories by conducting five unprovoked, armed aggressions against the Jewish state. The official policy of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is to make Jerusalem and the entire region of Palestine <em>Judenrein</em>. No other country in the world is expected to suffer such genocidal assaults without securing borders that are defensible, and Israel should not be expected to either.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, there is a paradox in this honor given to me, a Jew who has never been to Israel and who has never considered himself a Zionist in the sense that its founders intended. Theodor Herzl and his followers embraced the Zionist idea because they believed that the creation of a Jewish nation would provide a solution to the “Jewish Question” – the fact that Jews had been a homeless people for nearly two thousand years and were ghettoized and persecuted in the alien lands to which they were driven.</p>
<p>Herzl’s Zionist idea was grounded in the belief that the establishment of a Jewish state on Jewish land would finally “normalize” the Jewish people and end their persecution. The Zionist idea was that by including Jews among the nations, Jews would become ordinary, and like other peoples &#8212; that their inclusion would finally “solve” the Jewish problem. That was the meaning of Zionism as Herzl understood it, and indeed as it was understood until the Holocaust and the actual creation of the Jewish state.</p>
<p>But Herzl’s dream proved to be a fairy tale, as delusional in its way as the dreams of socialism, communism and progressivism, whose believers hoped would provide solutions to the conflicts and sufferings that blight our human state. All these isms took hold in the 19<sup>th</sup> Century, and became forms of modern faith. The traditional religions they supplanted had trusted in a Divinity for such a solution, but were forced into retreat before the advance of Darwinian theory and modern scientific developments. All the messianic visions of the modern age were driven by the desire for an earthly redemption that would resolve our human dilemmas and achieve what the heavenly redemption could no longer convincingly offer.<a title="" href="#_ftn1">[1]</a></p>
<p>Among these fantasies of a better world than the one we inherited, Zionism was the most conservative, and the most practical. The quests for a socially just future are based on no human reality but on the expectation of a human miracle, a transformation of who we are and what we have been into something wonderfully different. Zionism by contrast was based on the experience of actual peoples who had already taken their place among the nations. It was a quest for normality. Not for a world transformation but for an integration into the existing world of others.</p>
<p>But even this modest hope of the Jews has proved an impossible dream. It is true that half of Herzl’s goal has been realized, and in an astounding way. Yet its very realization has proved the hope that inspired it to be a folly. By all standards of civilization and modernity Israel should be admired and emulated by the rest of the world. Instead, the Jewish state is hated and is a pariah among the nations, just as Jews themselves are pariahs in most of the world outside America today.</p>
<p>Far from creating a refuge, Israel has become the focal point of all the genocidal intentions against the Jews, which have never been more overt or more global. Today Israel is the site of a Holocaust for which the Islamic world openly yearns, and which the rest of the world – with the possible exceptions of America and Canada &#8212; will not lift a finger to prevent.  This sobering reality has changed the meaning of Zionism, and has made it a more comfortable fit for me. Call it the Zionism of Survival.</p>
<p>In the household I grew up in, I was not brought up to be a Zionist because my parents were Marxist progressives who looked to a socialist future to provide an earthly salvation, and an end to the persecution of the Jews. My parents and their comrades believed that mankind’s conflicts would be resolved by a universal class whose revolution would abolish all nations and unite all peoples, and thus remove the distinctions that made them Jews.</p>
<p>My realization that this was not going to happen occurred through my relationship with a Marxist mentor named Isaac Deutscher. Deutscher had written a book called <em>The Non-Jewish Jew</em>, by which he meant Marxists like us – Jews who were of Judaism but not in it. By the time I came under his influence in the 1960s, he had become a defender of Israel and had been one since the Second World War. Deutscher viewed Israel as a “raft” state – a refuge that Jews could cling to after they had been shipwrecked in the storms that periodically engulfed them. The particular storm he was referring to was Hitler’s “Final Solution.”</p>
<p>During the interwar years, a debate had raged in Europe’s leftwing circles, which carried momentous consequences for those who participated in it. The debate was about how Jews should respond to the looming fascist threat. The Zionists were urging Jews to flee the continent and take refuge in the Palestine Mandate. Marxists like Deutscher argued that the Jews should stay in Europe and fight for the socialist revolution. But as Deutscher ruefully acknowledged later, the Jews who listened to the Zionists were still alive, while those who listened to Marxists like him were dead.</p>
<p>Under Deutscher’s influence, I became a quasi-Zionist, a believer in the raft state. Israel should exist and be defended until the socialist transformation abolished nation-states and solved the problem of the Jews once and for all.</p>
<p>Don’t think for a moment that this is some quaint Marxist delusion now consigned to the historical dustbin. The idea of a world without borders is alive and well in the international left and among liberals and progressives in America. It is the idea that animates the Democratic Party’s attacks on American sovereignty, and it is a vision whose intellectual leaders are Jews.</p>
<p>One of its canonical articles is called “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism” &#8212; <em>for</em> the latter and against the former. It was written by Harvard philosopher Martha Nussbaum.  According to Nussbaum, the cosmopolitan ideal which progressive people should aspire to is “the person whose primary allegiance is to the community of human beings in the entire world.” This attitude – that we are not Jews or Americans – but “citizens of the world” &#8212; explains why people on the left are so uncomfortable with &#8212; or simply hostile to &#8212; issues of national security and patriotism. It explains why progressive Jews can be indifferent to the survival of the Jewish state.</p>
<p>Even as I absorbed Deutscher’s lesson about the raft state, my belief in the progressive fantasy was rapidly eroding. I had begun to doubt the possibility of a redeemed future, a future fundamentally different from those with which we were historically familiar. As these doubts grew, they were changing my view of the unredeemed present. By the middle of the next decade I no longer believed in a new world order. This had immediate and profound consequences for my attitude towards Israel and my identity as a Jew, and as an American as well.</p>
<p>There was not going to be a future in which there were no longer nations or peoples in conflict; there was not going to be a future in which Jews would cease to be the objects of envy and resentment, and virulent hatred. There was not going to be a future in which a refuge – a raft state &#8212; was no longer useful.</p>
<p>Then came 9/11 and the Islamic attack on the World Trade Center. It was an event that made millions of people aware of the Islamist movement in the Muslim world and the fact that they were conducting a holy war against infidels in general, and Jews in particular. The incubator and leading force of this holy war is the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization founded by an admirer of Hitler and a godfather of the call to push the Jews of Palestine into the sea. Today, the spiritual leader of the Brotherhood is the Egyptian imam, Yusef al-Qaradawi, who has publicly prayed that the Muslim believers will finish the job that Hitler started.</p>
<p>Millions of Jews are in denial when it comes to the determination of Islamists to kill them. In part, this denial is psychological and familiar as when people face a prospect that is too terrible to contemplate. There are a billion and a half Muslims in the world today who worship a prophet who has told them that “the day of redemption will only come when Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, when the Jews hide behind the rocks and the trees, and the rocks and the trees cry out, ‘Oh Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him.’” For a billion and a half Muslims that is the word of God. Denial is one convenient way of dealing with this fact.</p>
<p>This particular death warrant for the Jews can be found on the official website of the University of Southern California, where it was placed by the Muslim Students Union, which is a front for the Muslim Brotherhood. When I asked a leader at the Wiesenthal Center to demand that this genocidal incitement be removed, his initial response was, “But it’s a religious statement.” Well, yes, but it is also a summons to kill the Jews. Such is the force of denial.</p>
<p>One of the chief instruments of the Muslim Brotherhood is the Muslim Students Association, which sponsors “Israeli Apartheid weeks” at universities across America and throughout the Western world calling for Israel’s destruction. Muslim Students Association members chant “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea” – that is from the eastern boundary of Israel to the western one. It is a call for the liquidation of the Jewish state <em>because</em> it is Jewish. Yet all across America, campus rabbis hold ecumenical dialogues with the Muslim Students Association, and defend it against its critics.</p>
<p>I have traveled to many universities to oppose these Jew-haters, and everywhere I go I am protested against and defamed by the Muslim Students Association and by their Jewish enablers. I have met with numerous campus rabbis and asked them to set conditions for their ecumenical outreach: first, that their Muslim counterparts desist from sponsoring Israeli Apartheid Weeks, and denounce those who conduct them; and second, that they only hold dialogues with people who publicly support the right of a Jewish state to exist in the Middle East.</p>
<p>For these efforts I have been attacked by Hillel rabbis at Yale, the University of North Carolina, the University of California Santa Barbara, and the University of Florida, and by Hillel student leaders at the University of Pennsylvania and other schools. For voicing these concerns, they have called me a bigot, a racist and an “Islamophobe,” which is a smear invented by the Muslim Brotherhood to silence its critics.</p>
<p>Last year I published a full-page ad in the <em>Yale Daily News</em> whose headline read: “The Palestinian Case Against Israel Is Based On A Genocidal Lie.” The genocidal lie is the claim that all of Israel – or any of Israel &#8212; is occupied Arab land. It is a claim used to justify all of the murderous acts committed against the Jews of Israel. In fact, Israel was created out of the ruins of the Turkish Empire, as were Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. The Turks are not Arabs, and Israel does not occupy any Arab land.</p>
<p>The Middle East conflict is not about land or a Palestinian state. It is a sixty-year war of aggression first by the Arab League and then by Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims to destroy the Jewish state and push the Jews into the sea. This war is now a religious war, an expression of Islamic Nazism.</p>
<p>To be perfectly clear, I am not referring to all Muslims as Nazis. I am referring to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic forces now ascendant in Egypt and the Middle East who are actively promoting a second genocide of the Jews, along with their supporters in America and their secular allies on the political left.</p>
<p>When my ad about the Palestinian lie appeared in the Yale paper, the Slifka Center, the focus of Jewish life on campus, was outraged. They were <em>not</em> outraged by the Palestinian lie but by my ad, which told the truth. They were outraged because the truth offended the Muslim Students Association with whom they wished to be friends. To counter my ad the Slifka Center published its own full- page statement<em>. </em>It affirmed the Slifka Center’s “respect” – and I quote their words – “for the Muslim Students Association, which does not spread hateful lies about Israel.”</p>
<p>The Slifka statement then attacked my ad as the purveyor of “hateful ideas,” which it said would “lead to tragic rifts between the Jewish and Muslim communities,” as though campuses across the country were not already reverberating to the chants of “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea,” or as though Muslim masses were not already chanting “death to the Israel” at the call of Hizbollah and Hamas and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Having made its commitments clear, the Slifka ad then invited students to an evening with the Ground Zero Mosque Imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, hosted by Slifka Center director James Ponet, the celebrity rabbi who officiated at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/david-horowitz/reflections-of-a-diaspora-jew-on-zionism-america-and-the-fate-of-the-jews/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>116</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

<!-- Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/

Object Caching 1430/1504 objects using disk
Content Delivery Network via cdn.frontpagemag.com

 Served from: www.frontpagemag.com @ 2014-12-31 03:10:19 by W3 Total Cache -->