10 Saturday Jan 2015
The French have not yet grasped the reality that radical Islamic terror rooted in the Middle East, but nurtured by misguided politics on their own soil, may begin by targeting free speech, authority as personified by the fallen policemen and women, and Jews but, as with all totalitarian ideologies, it eventually targets everyone who do not bend to their will.
http://israeltheviewfromhere.blogspot.co.il/2015/01/january-9-2015-was-kristallnacht-for.html – 1/10/2015.
24 Wednesday Dec 2014
I’m more often associating anti-Semitism with pagan revival under the cover of “national socialist” movements that repeatedly prove fascist, i.e., the hate of the Jews links to criminal impulses that would propel cults of personality. The leaders of such movements use more codified programs to leverage those impulses for their own narcissistic aggrandizement abetted by plunder. It wouldn’t be so promoted if it didn’t work not only against the Jews but those poisoned by the same in relation to their own subjugation by those claiming to have their interests at heart. Putin, who early in life had older Jewish caretakers and teachers, would seem to block this idea, but the Russian history plus some of the ploys used in Crimea would fit, and then one might move on to Assad, Khamenei, Jobbik in Hungary and Orban’s own pursuit of absolute authority, and then also Erdogan, who every time he panics plays the familiar cards. We tend to confront anti-Semitism as a bad attitude, and it is that, but to the piratical, it’s a useful and reliable old tool.
Related on BackChannels: “Rhetorical Objects — Anti- Anti-Semitism”, April 20, 2014.
Reduced to the simplest structural statement: constituencies invest in beliefs and attitudes; narcissistic leaders then manipulate the same to create and control the image of the world in which their people live, and while doing that, they make out like the bandits that they are.
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18 Thursday Dec 2014
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This perpetual festering wound, nurtured by the UN through the actions of UNRWA gives the anti-Semites in our world a legitimacy that has been missing since the end of WWII. Seventy years after the Christian world, not just the Nazis, colluded in the murder of 6 million Jews and the disbursement of millions of others, the “down-trodden Palestinians” are the justification for the contempt of the United Church of Canada, the Presbyterian Church in the USA, the European leaders toward Israel and their desire to agree to the demands of people who want the death of Israel.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/permanent-palestinian-refugee-status-and-a-post-modern-holocaust/#ixzz3MGrwknlX – 12/18/2014.
08 Monday Dec 2014
Each malign leadership personality — Assad, Erdogan, Khamenei, Orban, Mobarak, Morsi, Putin, Yanukovych, etc. — makes himself also an independent actor in his own right as well as one bickering or cooperating with fellow dictators in the context of pursuing or sustaining “political absolutism”, i.e., themselves as the sole power of their feudal estates. In place of a decent politics, which cannot be had with any playing out this kind of script in personality (all are emperors), come only a limited practical politics — carrots, sticks, and horse swaps.
Internally, “patronage” fits in infantilization and dependency inducing behavior that is itself a part of a defeating spectrum of controls – blackmail, intimidation, incarceration, and murder on one hand, and kind approvals of the powerful, financial patronage, sweet and seductive lying — which in the dark mirrors of the evil includes the promotion of anti-Semitic libel and promise of violence against the Jews — on the other. All such leaders regardless of “nominal affiliation”: thieves. They mask what they really do — and what they are really all about (power over others without limit) — beneath their various banners, but they are also much the same person.
To be fair, Putin, who has been pro-Semitic in public, and whose state has some relations with Israel, should not be considered anti-Semitic despite the inherent anti-Semitic legacies of the old Soviet communism and the Russian Orthodox Church or portions of the same (untangling Russian history after what the Soviets did to it, lol, at least according to Pacepa and Rychlak, will take some time — in the meantime, I feel like I’ve just glimpsed a conciliatory Russian Orthodox Church by way of first encounter with a few voices associated with it).
As I type (and gather from the web as I do), this article may have some clues as to how modern new modern Russians may be as Putin continues on a revanchist neo-feudal path:
Benevitch, Gregory. “The Jewish Question in the Russian Orthodox Church.”
Some wake up knowing we are all “in it” together.
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Related:
According to Oleg Usenkov, press secretary of the Sophia association of Russian Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land, there are about 70,000-100,000 Russian Orthodox Israelis, and perhaps “the real figures are even higher.”1The number is significant, as the “Greek Orthodox Patriarchy of Jerusalem was informed by the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption that approximately 10 percent of the total Aliya from the former Soviet Union are of the Christian Orthodox faith.”2 This makes the Orthodox Church by far the largest among the past several decades of Israeli immigrants.3 It is also the largest among Palestinian Christians, of whom there are about 400,000 worldwide, and through whom it traces itself to the first Christian community.4
Smith, Hal. “Is the Orthodox Church ‘Supersessionist'”? Orthodoxy Today, October 17, 2013.
Even while positioning Russia as anti-western, Putin nonetheless and recently laid out toward the end of his most recent Federation speech a familiar western cant:
Transcribed:
Dear colleagues, health care, education, social support, social security must become issues of true public good, true public value. They need to serve our entire society.
We cannot imitate education.
We cannot imitate health care or social security.
We cannot imitate caring for people.
We need to learn to respect ourselves.
We need to look at this important notion such as reputation and that reputation of a specific hospital, school, institution, or social office is a building stone in the overall reputation of our country . . . .”
If that ain’t modern and “western” — how about civilized? — what is?
The World Wide Web is the largest lens and mirror ever devised for having a look at other cultures and nations and for seeing how one’s own culture and nation looks in return.
The combines of old communist and fascist puppet masters should not fare well online, but as regards gravitational effects on “information space” and “intellectual resources” worldwide, some are trying like mad to get the world and have the world back as they would wish it to be.
As a guy with a library — and a “19th Century Modern” attitude — I’ve much enjoyed looking over the palaces of the obscenely enriched by politics, but one might look forward to an other than revolutionary reversion to rule of law and redistribution of wealth as capital driven back down to the floors of economies where cash is needed and a new engineering may come into view on a global stage.
The age of creating and sustaining breathtaking deceits?
Let it end.
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30 Sunday Nov 2014
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Gaza Suzerain, Journalism
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In these circles, in my experience, a distaste for Israel has come to be something between an acceptable prejudice and a prerequisite for entry. I don’t mean a critical approach to Israeli policies or to the ham-fisted government currently in charge in this country, but a belief that to some extent the Jews of Israel are a symbol of the world’s ills, particularly those connected to nationalism, militarism, colonialism, and racism—an idea quickly becoming one of the central elements of the “progressive” Western zeitgeist, spreading from the European left to American college campuses and intellectuals, including journalists.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/ – 11/30/2014.
When it comes to Israel (and the “Joooooos”), manipulation may lay on the other side of conformance.
Related:
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/12/01/israeli-watchdog-ngo-monitor-censored-by-ap-and-other-major-outlets/ – 12/1/2014.
Pacepa, Ion Mihai and Rychlak, Ronald J. Disinformation. Washington, D.C.: WND Books, 2013.
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28 Friday Nov 2014
Posted in Anti-Semitism
If this ruling is allowed to stand, it will be open season on anyone who campaigns against anti-Semitism — any Jewish group, any pro-Israel group, even anyone who criticizes radical Islam. It is a national gag order, which will have the effect of silencing and punishing critics of anti-Semitism.
This ruling doesn’t just affect my rights. It’s a setback for freedom for everyone.
http://www.ezralevant.com/ive-lost-my-lawsuit-but-im-going-to-appeal-heres-why/ – 11/28/2014.
27 Thursday Nov 2014
Posted in A Little Wisdom, Anti-Semitism, Gaza, Political Psychology, Politics
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Anti-Semitic inversions mask theft, internally as well as externally.
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26 Wednesday Nov 2014
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Politics, United States of America
The looters are criminals operating under the cover of a political cause, which is not unlike what kleptocrats are doing when they promote anti-Semitism throughout their states. There’s plunder in sight, dead ahead!
The facts of the matter:
“For more than three months, the grand jury — made up of seven men and five women, nine white and three black — heard evidence into the shooting. They met 25 times and heard from 60 witnesses, McCulloch said. They considered charges ranging from first-degree murder to involuntary manslaughter. In a criminal trial, jurors must decide a crime has been committed beyond a reasonable doubt. But here, those jurors needed only to feel there was probable cause that Wilson had committed a crime.”
At a 1930 Comintern conference in Moscow, a resolution was passed calling for the creation of a Soviet-controlled “Soviet Negro Republic” among America’s Southern states. That’s correct — the Soviet Comintern, working through American communists, crafted plans to create a segregated “separate Negro state” in the South. The Soviet goal was to foment an African-American uprising within the South, which, in turn, would join with a workers’ uprising in the North. When the revolution was deemed ripe, the two forces would seize and reconstitute America as a Soviet sister state.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/08/communists_descend_on_ferguson.html – 8/22/2014.
As I write, the lead piece at People’s World, the flagship publication of CPUSA and the successor to the Soviet-funded and directed Daily Worker, is a promotion to rile up the American left for a Ferguson rally this weekend.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/10/communists_continue_to_agitate_on_ferguson.html – 10/9/2014: “What’s wrong is to see communists once again cynically exploiting prayer. These folks have always despised religion. And yet, they’ve also always exploited the religious.”
Hate is an American industry.
One hopes that it is a fringe industry and, in fact, driven by foreign agitation and domestic useful idiots. That makes it easier to more confidently (and rightly) wag the moralizing finger at a revanchist lawless Russian feudal estate pumping millions of dollars today into World Wide Web disinformation and local old line communist and poor-exploiting American agitprop.
However, a look up of the reflection that is The Occidental Observer may tell that the same appears to flourish as homegrown. Plainly, there is an extensive body of vicious xenophobic political thought left loose in America to promote ill will toward others on the basis of creed, race, or religion. Perhaps to the extent that either far left or right camps becomes active or growing, their reflections meet them in amplitude.
And yet, the Rev. Sharptons of the world flooded in, insisting, in effect, that Wilson was indeed guilty, and never mind the facts. (Even President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder encouraged resentment of the “injustice” perpetrated by a white police officer.)
These flame-throwers told folks to take the accusations against Wilson as fact and to protest until the day he was thrown in jail. Protest, you see, was essential — merely because a white cop had shot and killed a black teen. No other facts were needed.
http://nypost.com/2014/11/25/there-was-an-indictment-in-ferguson/ – 11/25/2014.
But, because I have lately lapsed into a clinically confirmed paranoia, instantly I wanted to know if the parading demonstrators wanted to attack Jews.
So, I watched. Sure enough, along came a chubby and disagreeable-looking young man holding a hand-made placard that said, “Ferguson = Gaza = Wounded Knee,” which I took to be an endorsement of the goals proclaimed by Hamas, the renowned anti-civil rights organization. And I continued to watch. But the young man appeared to be alone.
http://tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/187271/ferguson-on-the-hudson – 11/26/2014.
How then can we strike a balance between on the one hand reacting viscerally to the images from Ferguson, which point to the long and constantly replenished history of police assaults on black bodies, and the images of Israel’s murderous rampage in Gaza, an assault continuous with Israel’s history of oppression and persecution of an entire people, while on the other hand resisting drawing too quickly an immediate, provocative, but inexact parallel?
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/22/ferguson_and_gaza_the_definitive_study_of_how_they_are_and_are_not_similar/ – 8/22/2014.
The author delivers envenomed language in passing (” . . . Israel’s murderous rampage in Gaza . . . .”) with the confidence of a show trial’s jailer, judge, jury, and executioner.
We have so many dead black bodies in this country, Megyn, not because cops are shooting them, but because other black people are shooting them. And the left is selling a false narrative pretending that the opposite is true.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/25/jason-riley-on-ferguson-black-on-black-crime-issue-at-hand-its-not-about-the-cops-video/ – 11/25/2014.
Another reprehensible outcome, which shocked even those of us accustomed to battling anti-Israel sentiment and anti-Semitism, was that many anti-Israel activists drew parallels between the situation in Ferguson and that in Gaza, and co-opted the tragedy, joining demonstrations to push their own agenda. Sadly, the opinion that it was all part of a shared struggle gained some traction and was also shared by an NFL player recently on social media. I don’t expect that I must explain that there are absolutely no parallels between the two scenarios: Israel is not on trial, and it is especially not being put in the dock by people who seek its very destruction. These events, which have now been reinforced with a second lack of indictment in the death of Eric Garner in New York, do expose the shameless hijacking of the tragedies and struggles of other people to demonize Israel by so-called pro-Palestinian groups.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-hypocrisy-of-solidarity-gaza-to-ferguson/ – 12/15/2014 – Kasim Hafeez
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