Sunday, January 20, 2008

Anti-Israelism

There have been so many anti-Israel attacks recently that amount to anti-Semitism, that one loses count. Here are a few of the most prominent:
1. The Jimmy Carter Book: The former President who vented his anti-Israel animus in his book "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid," accuses Israel of being an apartheid state. Total nonsense, but millions of people have read it or heard about it.
2. Walt and Mearsheimer: Two misguided academics who in their articles and book entitled "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy " resurrect that old chestnut that the pro-Israel lobby in America (read Jewish lobby) controls US foreign policy. Sheer nonsense, but believed by many.
3. The Academic Boycott of Israeli universities: initiated in Britain by a group of pro-Palestinian academics including several Jews such as the Roses, who are communists. They found that targeting the leftist academic unions was their best path, but so far they have not suceeded mainly because the unions are afraid of litigation.
4. Ms Magazine: refused to accept an ad placed by the American Jewish Congress, inocuously showing three women who have reached high levels in Israeli Society, Dorit Beinish (Chief Justice), Tzipi Livni (FM) and Dalia Itzig (Knesset Speaker). Their excuse was that it was too political, but we all know this was another case of anti-Semitism masquerading as liberal anti-Israelism.
5. Arun Gandhi, grandson of the famed Mahatma Gandhi, in an article entitled "Jewish identity can't depend on violence" in the Washington Post (known for its pro-Palestinian bias), blamed most of the violence in the world on Israel and the Jews. So outrageous and anti-Semitic was this statement that he was forced to issue a retraction. This is another example of "liberal fascism." His grandfather famously advised European Jews to passively accept German persecution, that lead to the Holocaust.
All these, and many more, constitute a broad and continuing campaign to smear Jews and Israel. They do of course tend to support the violent actions of the Palestinians and the Iranian-supported Hizbollah in Lebanon, although professing nonviolence. For example, the BBC in a recent report on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, failed to mention that Israel takes the actions it does in response to a continuing rain of rockets (now at ca. 50 a day) from Gaza into the Negev. Somehow they fail to give this murderous violence against Israeli civilians any coverage or credibility. Nevertheless, contrary to Gandhi's assertion, we will use whatever violence is necessary to survive and defeat those who act against us.

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Blogger JewishJournal.com said...

Gandhi grandson resigns after criticism of anti-Semitic article
Judea Pearl goes straight to the chairman of the Washington Post
By Brad A. Greenberg, Senior Writer


The president of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the University of Rochester resigned Thursday amid criticism of a short opinion piece he wrote for The Washington Post online titled "Jewish Identity Can't Depend on Violence."

Penned by Arun Gandhi, the fifth grandson of Mohandas K. "Mahatma" Gandhi, the article was widely condemned. The essay was first posted on Jan. 7 on WashingtonPost.com's On Faith blog, a commentary consortium of some of the world's leading religious scholars. The blog's editors, Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham published an apology today (Jan 18).

"As 'On Faith' readers know, a post by Arun Gandhi on January 7 has produced an enormous response from readers who found Gandhi's initial remarks anti-Semitic and his subsequent apology insufficient," the apology states. "When we undertook this project over a year ago, we wrote that our goal was to shed light on a subject

Among the voices of protest was that of Judea Pearl, president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation. Pearl, an op-ed columnist for The Jewish Journal whose son was killed by Islamic extremists at least in part because he was Jewish, directed his protest to Donald Graham, chairman of The Washington Post Co., the text of which is reprinted on the blog.

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