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From the Roxbury mosque, to Northeastern University, to the Newton Public Schools, instead of confronting the new threats facing today’s Jewish world, the Boston Jewish establishment seeks to demonize anybody that will.

By Dovid Margolin

In an effort to stay relevant and powerful in an increasingly different world than the one they grew up in, Jewish establishment leaders in Boston have developed a distinct pattern of response. When anyone with a dissenting opinion raises the alarm on an issue that the establishment feels uncomfortable discussing – such as Left-wing anti-Semitism and Islamic extremism – they smear them. They try to shut down discussion by saying that opinions opposing their own are not valid and cannot be tolerated.

One notable leader of the opposition is Dr. Charles Jacobs. Instead of engaging with him, the Jewish establishment labels him and his supporters McCarthy-ites and Islamophobes.

And then, just when they figure out that Jacobs was right, the establishment embraces his battles, stepping onto the field at exactly the right moment before ultimately claiming victory for themselves. It’s a brilliant tactic, but one that will serve the establishment’s purposes only for so long.

A Pattern Revealed

When Charles Jacobs wrote an op-ed in the Boston Jewish Advocate in 2010 questioning the wisdom of Rabbi Eric Gurvis’ embrace of Bilal Kaleem of the Muslim American Society, seventy Massachusetts Reform rabbis signed a letter condemning him, and smearing him with the brush of Islamophobia. They called upon him to “discontinue his destructive campaign against Boston’s Muslim community, which is based on innuendo, half-truths and unproven conspiracy theories.”

Federal prosecutors had by then called Kaleem’s Muslim American Society an overt front for the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim American Society is also the parent organization of the Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Roxbury – where extremist speakers regularly appeared, and whose trustee for 8 years was Yusuf al Qaardawi, the spiritual head of the Muslim Brotherhood – as well as the Islamic Society of Cambridge mosque, a mosque regularly attended by the Boston Marathon bombers. So much for unproven conspiracy theories.

In 2012 Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT), the organization that Jacobs heads, called attention through a series of videos to the viciously anti-Semitic and anti-Israel activities of a number of professors and student organizations at Northeastern University in Boston. Holocaust Awareness Week at Northeastern, created to ensure that future generations not forget about the Holocaust, had been hijacked and transformed into a week-long Israel bashing event where Israel was routinely compared to Nazi Germany and featured speakers such as the notorious Norman Finkelstein, author of The Holocaust Industry.

A second video documented the radical Muslim activity taking place at Northeastern University. On tape was the university’s Muslim chaplain, Imam Abdullah Faaruuq, also a Muslim American Society associate, calling upon congregants at a Brighton mosque to “take up the gun and the sword” in the service of Allah and to support convicted terrorist Aafia Siddiqui.

A third video showed Northeastern’s Professor Denis Sullivan lauding the Hamas terror organization’s kindergartens and healthcare, and Northeastern economics professor Shahid Alam telling students that they “should laugh away accusations of anti-Semitism” and wear them as a badge of pride. Students spoke on tape, some with their faces and voices altered to avoid retribution, about the atmosphere of fear that any pro-Israel student faced on campus and in classrooms.

And yet at the time, the leadership of the Boston Jewish community, organizations that had been founded to stop the defamation of Jews in the public sphere – such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) – did nothing, attempting only to pressure Jacobs and his allies to lay-off of Northeastern University. “Don’t make this a public fight,” they told him.

“We called up Northeastern administrators and asked them, ‘do you know about Imam Faaruuq?'” explains Jacobs in an interview with the Jewish Russian Telegraph. “The university lawyers called us back and asked us to see the raw footage, which we sent them.

“A day later Imam Faaruuq’s bio was erased from Northeastern’s website. He was dismissed from his post – the first time I can recall a university Imam being dismissed.”

As more and more damning information regarding Northeastern came out, the tide of public opinion turned, as did the approach of the Boston Jewish establishment. Gone were the furtive phone calls to Jacobs and his allies to stand down from their campaign against Northeastern, and in came the establishment to negotiate a victory instead. On November 11, 2013, the ADL and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP) issued a joint statement:

“Over the past several years, students and faculty at Northeastern University have raised concerns regarding what they have described as virulent and intimidating anti-Israelism, or even anti-Semitism, on campus. Over the past year we have worked closely with officials at Northeastern regarding those concerns.

. Anti-Semitism posing as anti-Israelism is indeed a significant problem on certain campuses. At the same time, academic freedom and the right of free expression are vital to any academic setting. We applaud Northeastern for its statement to faculty and for the work it is doing to promote an atmosphere premised on civility and respect.”

Notably missing was any mention of APT or the Zionist Organization of America, whose legal director Susan Tuchman created a shocking report based on interviews she had done with dozens of students about their experience with anti-Semitic and anti-Israel professors at Northeastern. To the uninitiated, the ones who deserved credit for any changes put in place at Northeastern were the ones who for so long had fought to silence any criticism of the school – the leaders of the Boston Jewish establishment.

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Newton Public Schools

White-washing Newton

The campaign to discover exactly what was being taught in Newton Public Schools and who had authorized it has recently run a similar course. Two years ago Newton parent Tony Pagliuso was asked by his daughter whether it was true that Arab women were being killed in Israeli jails by the hundreds, as she had read in The Arab World Studies Notebook. Horrified by the specter of his children being taught anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic lies in his city’s public school system, Pagliuso went to the school to find out what was going on. The school promptly dismissed his complaints.

As the story gained publicity, more parents and students began coming forward with disturbing allegations of anti-Israel propaganda being taught in Newton schools. At school committee meetings, the committee was confronted by parents and concerned Newton citizens with some of the materials being used in the curriculum. The board responded by stone walling and accusing the parents of “McCarthy-ite” tactics.

In fact, one of the materials used, The Arab World Studies Notebook, was described in a 2007 report by the American Jewish Committee as “a text that appears largely designed to advance the anti-Israel and propagandistic views of the Notebook’s sponsors, the Middle East Policy Council (MEPC) and Arab World and Islamic Resources (AWAIR), to an audience of teachers who may not have the resources and knowledge to assess this text critically.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/29/beres-iran-and-palestine-pose-collaborative-threat/#ixzz2pR8QkFB3  The Palestinian Authority, already raised by the U.N. General Assembly to the status of a “nonmember observer state,” will seek full sovereignty. Whether or not this final push to statehood will take place in collaboration with Hamas, or on an altogether discrete track, the result will inevitably be injurious to Israel. Significantly, although generally […]

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/01/execution_north_korea-style.html

If a report in a Chinese newspaper closely connected to the North Korean regime is to be believed, Kim Jong-un had his uncle (and former mentor) executed by stripping him naked and putting him in a cage with a hundred and twenty dogs that had been starved for three days. Felicity Morse of the UK Independent reports:

Kim Jong-un’s uncle was killed after being stripped naked and fed to a pack of hungry dogs, according to reports in a Chinese state-backed newspaper.

North Korea have already described Jang Song Thaek as “despicable human scum, worse than a dog,” but these reports, appearing in Hong Kong’s Wen Wei Po newspaper, suggest he may have met his end in the jaws of dogs.

The account describes how Jang Song Thaek and five of his aides were stripped naked and fed to 120 hungry hounds, who had been starved for three days. The whole process lasted an hour, and as they were eaten hundreds of officials watched.

Honestly, this reads like fiction, something Borat would say in his next movie. And North Korea is known for exaggeration. But it cannot be ruled out. Either way, it reveals that the third generation heir to the world’s first hereditary communist dynasty is a monster. A monster with nuclear weapons at his beck and call.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/dangerous_times_the_new_york_times_goes_the_full_pravda.html Every thoughtful person knows the NY Times peddles shameless whoppers every single day, just as Pravda did in Soviet Moscow — “pravda” meaning “the truth” in Russian.   In the good old USSR you didn’t read Pravda for the truth.   You read it for the daily Communist Party Line, which bore no relationship to the […]

  http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | (MCT) Earlier this year, one of the mainstream media networks was planning to do a special on my retirement from neurosurgery. They recorded a lecture I gave at my medical school, as well as one given at a high school in Detroit. They also accompanied me to my old stomping grounds, where […]

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/367540/print

A viral video making the rounds in December bore the very descriptive title “Ten Germans Try to Say the Word ‘Squirrel’” — and nobody seemed to think that it was racist or xenophobic, even though our Teutonic friends were being held up as figures of fun for something that is deeply embedded in their culture. Indeed, the Germans seemed to be as much amused as anybody else. The phenomenon is nothing new to students of linguistics: Not every phoneme exists in every language, and it is extraordinarily difficult for adults to process phonemes that are not part of their linguistic patrimony. Anglophone adults learning Sanskrit have a desperately hard time with the difference between aspirated and non-aspirated “d” sounds, just as somebody who had been raised hearing nothing but Japanese would find it difficult or impossible to distinguish between “r” and “l” sounds in English. Native speakers of non-tonal languages have a rough time with Chinese. Welsh, Romanian, and Dutch all contain sounds that are famous for being unpronounceable by the Anglophone. A “burro” is an ass, and a “burrow” is a hole in the ground, but your typical English-speaking person can’t tell one from the other.

This sort of thing is terribly distressing to Matthew Salesses, fiction editor at The Good Men Project, an online magazine, who published a hilariously self-parodic essay titled “Racism in the Classroom: When Even Our Names Are Not Our Own.” He began with this tale of pearl-clutching terror, his soul pierced by the unsettling childhood recollections of a classmate:

He described how, when he was a boy, he couldn’t figure out what a certain newscaster’s name was. The student complained that because the newscaster pronounced his name with a “Mexican” accent, he couldn’t understand it.

There are many possible explanations for this episode. But, racism?

Setting aside the sneer quotes around “Mexican” — as though there were no such thing as a Mexican accent — it is very likely that the boy complained that he could not understand the pronunciation of the broadcaster’s name not because he was a budding ethnolinguistic chauvinist but because he could not understand the pronunciation of the broadcaster’s name, any more than the typical English-speaking man walking the streets of Bakersfield can tell the शूर from the सुर. The story calls to mind a pained book chapter in which linguistic anthropologist Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer considers the famous Saturday Night Live skit in which a bunch of painfully correct Anglos in conversation with Jimmy Smits’s “Antonio Mendoza” use ever more lamely Hispanic-ish pronunciations of common English words and phrases — “Loh-HANG-ee-less” for Los Angeles, “kah-MAHRRR-oh” for the Chevy sports car, etc. Professor Ottenheimer writes that the skit expresses “the extreme ambivalence and complexity of ideologies about Spanish in the United States,” and she worries that under some interpretations Mr. Smits might be seen as “playing into the hands of anti-Spanish sentiment.” This discussion takes place under the heading “Mock Spanish: A Site for the Indexical Reproduction of Racism in American English.” Calvin and Hobbes takes a beating, too, when the racially insensitive stuffed tiger imagines himself as a fearsome potentate called “El Tigre Numero Uno.”

Nitpicking over which jihadists did what lets the Obama administration evade the real questions.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/367510/down-times-bengahzi-rabbit-hole-andrew-c-mccarthy

What was the commander-in-chief of the United States armed forces doing through the night of September 11, 2012, while he knew Americans were under jihadist siege in Libya? You won’t learn the answer to that question by reading the mini-book-length, six-“chapter” revisionist history of the Benghazi massacre cooked up by David D. Kirkpatrick and the New York Times.

The Times report is a labor of love in the service of President Obama and, in particular, the Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign ramp-up. Former secretary of state Clinton, of course, was a key architect of Obama’s Libya policy. She was also chiefly responsible for the protection of American personnel in that country, including our murdered ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens, and the three other Americans killed by Muslim terrorists — State Department technician Sean Smith and a pair of former Navy SEALs, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods. Still, the Times is banking on your not noticing that in its laborious 7,500 words, Kirkpatrick’s account utters the word “Clinton” exactly . . . wait for it . . . zero times.

The word “Obama” comes in for a mere six mentions, four of which are impersonal references to the current administration. The other two are telling, though fleeting.

IF ONLY WENDY DAVIS HAD BEEN THERE…

And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah; and he said: ‘When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, ye shall look upon the birthstool: if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.’ But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.

(Shemos/Exodus 1 15-17)
Gay Anti-Israel Buddhist Claims Pajama Boy Critics are Anti-Semitic

THE EXPERIMENT WAS A SUCCESS
Mogoeng Mogoeng was appointed by Nelson Mandela as a judge of the North West High Court. Then Jacob Zuma, the ANC’s president, appointed him Chief Justice. Zuma had been on trial for rape, so you could see why he wanted a rape friendly Chief Justice.In another case, Mogoeng wrote,

“One can safely assume that [the accused] must have been mindful of [the victim’s] tender age and was thus so careful as not to injure her private parts, except accidentally, when he penetrated her. That would explain why the child was neither sad nor crying when she returned from the shop, notwithstanding the rape. In addition to the tender approach that would explain the absence of serious injuries and the absence of serious bleeding, he bought her silence and cooperation with Simba chips and R30.” Meet South Africa’s “Child Rape” Friendly Chief Justice

Pro-Crime Liberal Politician Beaten Up by 2 Black Women over iPhone

WE MUST ENGAGE WITH AL QAEDA TO STOP AL QAEDA
“Alienating the Islamic Front puts the U.S. at risk of losing any leverage or influence within the armed opposition,” he said. “It’s not about whether they are good guys or bad guys. The Islamic Front is the only counterbalance to extremists in Syria. The U.S. must recognize that.”At this rate in a year we’ll be told that we have to support the Al Nusra Front as a counterbalance to ISIS. There are probably foreign policy experts out there already arguing that we should engage with the “moderate” elements in the Syrian Al Qaeda to counterbalance Al Qaeda in Iraq.

McCain’s Fave Syria Lobbyist says US Must Support “Bad Guy” Islamic Front

MY GOODNESS, MY GUINESS

In 2001, there were less than 2000 Muslims in Ireland. Now there are nearly 50,000. By 2020, there will be an estimated 100,000. By 2043, Islam will be Ireland’s second largest religion.

This is the horrifying power of demographics. A few people in the door with a large birth rate become an occupying army in a short matter of time.

Irish media has reported that Dr. Ali Selim, a leader in the Irish Muslim Brotherhood, has made comments praising the concept of “martyrdom.”

Mr. Selim attracted a great deal of local media attention in September 2006 when he told a newspaper interviewer that, ideally, he would like to see Shariah law adopted in Ireland in the “event of a Muslim majority.”

Islam to Become Ireland’s 2nd Largest Religion

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CLIMATE DENIERS DENY THE CLIMATE
This summer, MainStream Last First attempted to bring attention to the threat of melting ice by crossing the Northwest Passage in a rowboat. The effort was dubbed as a voyage made possibly only by climate change. Instead it also ran up against the ice that wasn’t there.
The entry concluded: “Our message remains unaffected though, bringing awareness to the pressing issues of climate change in the arctic.”
In the spring, another Warmist expedition set out to cross Antarctica and “make a decisive contribution to our understanding of the effect of climate change upon the poles.” It lost its leader who came down with frostbite and whose evacuation was delayed by a blizzard.

AL SHARPTON’S TAX SITUATION EXPECTED TO IMPROVE DRAMATICALLY
Al Sharpton is celebrating Bill de Blasio’s appointment of Zachary W. Carter as the chief lawyer of the City of New York.
The announcement by Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio regarding the appointment of former Judge Zachary W. Carter as Corporation Counsel for the City of New York is an unprecedented and huge step for progress.
Facing an escalating federal probe into his charity’s finances, the Rev. Al Sharpton now has his own muscle: former Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Zachary Carter. Sharpton said Thursday he hired Carter – a respected ex-prosecutor – to represent him and his National Action Network because he thinks the probe has become politicized.
Sharpton and NAN owe several million dollars in back taxes, but Sharpton attributed the problem to a fire at his Harlem headquarters that destroyed many records.

IT’S DE BLASIO TIME
Another Imam identifies Askia as a former Nation of Islam member and the testimony summary states, “Contrary to plaintiff’s allegation, Imam Askia does not find NOI beliefs to be offensive. Imam Askia is well acquainted with Minister Louis Farrakhan and agrees with many of his teachings.”
The Nation of Islam’s official platform of beliefs include a rejection of integration (an ironic sentiment considering Bill de Blasio’s interracial marriage which the Nation of Islam is opposed to and once called for prohibiting) and claims of white racial inferiority calling white people “potential humans who haven’t evolved yet”.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/01/03/the-jewish-state-and-the-story-the-palestinians-hold-dear/

In her “Memo from Jerusalem” in theNew York Times, Jodi Rudoren asserts that “in recent weeks,” Benjamin Netanyahu has “catapulted to the fore” an issue “even more intractable than old ones like security and settlements: a demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state.” She reported it is now a “core issue” in the current negotiations and that “critics” say Netanyahu raised it as a poison pill:

The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has repeatedly said that the Palestinians will never agree to it, most recently in a letter to President Obama last month. The Palestinians … contend that recognizing Israel as a Jewish state would disenfranchise its 1.6 million Arab citizens, undercut the right of return for millions of Palestinian refugees and, most important, require a psychological rewriting of the story they hold dear about their longtime presence in the land.

The issue, however, was not recently “catapulted to the fore” by Netanyahu; it is an issue that long pre-dates him; and it goes to the heart of whether the “peace process” is about peace. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane, picking up the story with the internal 2007 Palestinian memorandum entitled “Strategy and Talking Points for Responding to the Precondition of Recognizing Israel as a ‘Jewish State’,” leaked in the “Palestine Papers.” The memo contained the following instruction for Palestinian negotiators:

We recommend that the Palestinian negotiators maintain their position not to recognize or otherwise characterize the state of Israel as “Jewish”. Any recognition of Israel within a treaty or agreement should be limited to recognizing it as a sovereign state. It should not recognize Israel as a “Jewish state”, “state for the Jewish people”, “homeland for the Jewish people” or any similar characterization.

The reasons in the memo did not include “the story [the Palestinians] hold dear about their longtime presence in the land.” Rather, the memo warned that “[r]ecognizing the Jewish state implies recognition of a Jewish people and recognition of its right to self-determination.” The Palestinians did not want to recognize a Jewish people, a Jewish state, a Jewish homeland, Jewish self-determination, or any Jewish demographic considerations.