http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1722/anti_semitism_on_the_rise_in_the_uk A report published this week by the Community Security Trust (CST) shows that anti-Semitic incidents in the UK have risen in the months January- June 2012, compared with last year’s figures. In the first six months of this year, 513 potential incidents of anti-Semitism were reported to the CST; of which the CST deemed […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1715/liberal_democrat_delusions_on_israel_and_the_one_state_solution
Simon Hughes MP, a senior member of the Liberal Democrats, the junior partner in Britain’s coalition government, has become the latest public figure to endorse a thoroughly bigoted solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. In a recent interview with The Jewish Chronicle, he said: “We are near to the end of the opportunity of being able to get a peaceful two-state solution because of the extent of the settlements” and called instead for a Plan B.
His alternative plan is a “one state solution” covering Israel and the disputed territories. He believes that this alone can solve this most intractable of conflicts.
Now Hughes is no swivel-eyed fanatic. He does not come across as hysterically critical of Israel as John Pilger, Noam Chomsky or George Galloway do. His language is more measured than theirs and he will have considered his position very carefully.
But in some ways, this makes him more dangerous than the “frothing at the mouth” diehard left-wingers who write for the Morning Post or The Socialist Worker, for he has a veneer of respectability that they lack despite arguing for a formula that is every bit as dangerous as theirs.
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If You’re In Tel Aviv, Come To The Demo
Noah Pollak, Executive Director of the Emergency Committee for Israel, says:
“Over the past few weeks we’ve seen anti-American violence and hatred in front of U.S. embassies across the Middle East. In Israel, a different kind of demonstration will take place in front of the U.S. embassy – a pro-America rally.
Friends of the United States will gather on Tuesday, October 2nd at at 5PM in front of the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv (71 HaYarkon Street) to show solidarity and friendship with America. Please forward this email to your friends, join and share the Facebook page for the rally (see here), and encourage anyone who can to show up and wave the American flag in Israel.”
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Suppose there were a worldwide movement which openly proclaimed its goal of taking over in your country and every country with the purpose of imposing its system on every human beings on earth. Also suppose that this movement had carried out murders and terrorist attacks in your own country, that members of this group promoted violence while gaining political influence. Suppose also that is was highly unfashionable and politically incorrect to speak out against them.
I am not speaking of Islam here, but of Communism. The current wave of censorship and denial toward Islam is not a new development. It is rather a very old one. Islamophobia, like Red-Baiting, is a political term that serves the function of cutting off any discussion of the subject. It precludes any listing of the facts or debates on the issue, by declaring it to be off-limits. To raise the issue is to expose yourself as a bad person whose ideas are unacceptable for public distribution.
When George Orwell was struggling to find a publisher for Animal Farm, he was repeatedly turned down on the grounds that the book would offend the Soviet Union. One publisher wrote to Orwell that he had been dissuaded from publishing the book by an important official in the Ministry of Information (an agency that would become the Ministry of Truth in his novel, 1984) who had told him that publishing such a book would be ill-advised at this time. That official was, incidentally, a Soviet spy.
The publisher went on to say that the book might be acceptable if it applied generally to dictators, but not specifically to the USSR. Finally the publisher added, “It would be less offensive if the predominant caste in the fable were not pigs. I think the choice of pigs as the ruling caste will no doubt give offence to many people, and particularly to anyone who is a bit touchy, as undoubtedly the Russians are
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/09/rioting_muslims_torch_buddhist_temples_in_bangladesh.html It’s OK – a Buddhist insulted Islam so, of course, the Buddhists must pay. Reuters: Hundreds of Muslims in Bangladesh burned at least four Buddhist temples and 15 homes of Buddhists on Sunday after complaining that a Buddhist man had insulted Islam, police and residents said. Members of the Buddhist minority in the Cox’s […]
http://pjmedia.com/blog/red-lines-red-zones-and-green-lights/ Red lines “don’t lead to war; red lines prevent war.” Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to the UN should be evaluated in light of the new report issued this week by the Washington Institute on Near East Policy, authored by Patrick Clawson and David Makovsky and titled “Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout: U.S.-Israel Coordination.” At […]
http://pjmedia.com/blog/univision-breaks-new-details-of-obama-admins-fast-and-furious-cover-up/ The biggest, bloodiest scandal in U.S. presidential history? On Sunday night, Spanish-language station Univision— one of the only networks to provide critical coverage of President Obama’s failures in office [1] instead of cream-puff interviews — broke open the Fast and Furious investigation, revealing new evidence of weapons smuggling and displaying shocking new images of […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/housing-diminishing-returns-and-opportunity-cost The Fed’s policies of keeping interest rates at zero and buying mortgage-backed securities are intended, we’re assured, to bolster the housing market by making it cheaper for buyers to borrow money. With mortgage rates under 4% and a trillion (soon to be two) dollars of dodgy mortgages transferred from the banks’ tottering balance sheets […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-next-inheritance?f=puball What then will the next administration inherit from the current one? What does 2012 look like compared to 2008 in the foreign policy arena?The next administration will most definitely face the prospects of an Iranian nuclear weapon “sooner rather than later”. At the same time, the administration will find making the case for taking […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-vilification-of-freedom-of-speech Slate joined the tut-tut mob of dhimmified American pundits and commentators by endorsing the abridgement of the First Amendment, at the behest of thin-skinned, super-sensitive Muslims, in its September 25th article, “The Vile Anti-Muslim Video Shows That the U.S. Overvalues Free Speech.” Slate is proof that the Internet isn’t wholly a refuge from the […]
