MUSLIM LOVE FOR ADOLF HITLER
“God Bless Hitler” per Muslims
Mein Kampf in Gaza—and Beyond
In more recent years, Hitler’s manifesto has continued to enjoy considerable popularity in the Arab world.
Jewish Journal
November 25, 2023
What’s Mein Kampf doing in Gaza?
Israeli
President Isaac Herzog has revealed that an Arabic-language copy of
Adolf Hitler’s notorious manifesto of antisemitism and militarism was
found in a Gaza apartment that Hamas was using as a base of operations.
The terrorist who was studying it wrote notes in the margins.
Sixty-seven
years ago, another Israeli leader announced the discovery of copies of
Mein Kampf in the possession of a different enemy. On December 5, 1956,
Golda Meir, then foreign minister of Israel, spoke before the General
Assembly of the United Nations to explain why her country had been
compelled to launch a pre-emptive strike against Egypt a week earlier.
Her remarks included a surprising reference to Hitler’s book.
Ever
since Israel’s War of Independence concluded in 1948, Egypt had been
preparing its next attempt to destroy the Jewish State, Meir explained.
There had been constant attacks by terrorists based in
Egyptian-occupied Gaza, relentless economic warfare (an early version
of the BDS movement), and a massive arms deal between Egypt and the
Soviet Union. “For eight years,” she said, “Israel has had no respite
from hostile acts and loudly proclaimed threats of destruction.” The
Egyptians left Israel no choice but to strike first, or face
annihilation.
Foreign
Minister Meir saw a connection between the Holocaust and Egypt’s
aggression. “The concept of annihilating Israel is a legacy of Hitler’s
war against the Jewish people,” Meir said. “It is no mere coincidence
that the soldiers of [Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel] Nasser had an
Arabic translation of Mein Kampf in their knapsacks.”
Hitler
wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle) while in prison after his failed coup,
the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. With its numerous references to internal
German controversies and domestic policy matters, the book might not
seem to have any natural appeal to non-Germans. But after Hitler’s rise
to power in 1933, Mein Kampf attracted widespread international
attention, both from those who feared him and those who admired him.
The
book’s extreme antisemitism and advocacy of German territorial
expansion attracted sympathetic interest in the Arab world. Extracts
appeared in the Arabic press in Iraq and Lebanon in 1934. Unauthorized
translations were published in Egypt in 1937 and Palestine in 1938.
According to a Jewish Telegraphic Agency report at the time, the editor
of the Palestinian edition “carefully purged the passage in which the
Arabs are graded fourteenth on the racial scale.”
As
part of the deNazification process implemented in Germany by the Allies
after World War II, the Nazi Party was banned, public display of the
swastika was prohibited, and the printing of Nazi literature, including
Mein Kampf, was outlawed. It was only due to a legal technicality—the
expiration of the book’s copyright—that as of 2016, selling or
purchasing Mein Kampf is no longer a crime in Germany.
The
question of the copyright to Mein Kampf set off a curious legal battle
in the United States in 1939 involving Alan Cranston, the future U.S.
senator. Cranston, who was fluent in German and had visited Germany in
1936 as a journalist, noticed that the American edition, published by
Houghton Mifflin, omitted the most extreme and violent passages from
the original edition.
Determined
to expose the real Hitler to the American public, Cranston set to work
preparing a condensed tabloid edition that highlighted the omitted
sections. One of Cranton’s secretaries misunderstood the nature of the
project and reported to the Anti-Defamation League that Cranston was
preparing Nazi propaganda. After realizing what Cranston actually was
doing, ADL staffer Benjamin Epstein assisted him with the research.
Cranston
called it a “Reader’s Digest-like version” of Mein Kampf. Priced
at just ten cents, the tabloid sold 500,000 copies in ten days,
according to Cranston. While Houghton Mifflin was paying Hitler
royalties from sales of its sanitized version of Mein Kampf, the
Cranston edition carried a blurb which read “Not 1 cent of royalty to
Hitler,” and pledged to send the profits to refugees fleeing the Nazis.
“Fritz Kuhn’s American Nazis threw stink bombs at newsstands selling it
in Yorkville and St. Louis,” Cranston biographer Eleanor Fowle wrote.
Houghton
Mifflin sued Cranston for copyright infringement. Cranston’s novel
legal defense (recounted in my forthcoming book, Whistleblowers: Four
Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust to America) was unsuccessful; he was
ordered to halt publication and destroy all existing copies of his
edition of Mein Kampf.
In
more recent years, Hitler’s manifesto has continued to enjoy
considerable popularity in the Arab world. In 1982, Israeli troops
found numerous Arabic-language copies of Mein Kampf in PLO strongholds
that they overran in Lebanon. In 1999, the French news agency AFP
reported that it was a bestseller in the Palestinian
Authority-controlled territories, according to sales figures compiled
by the most popular bookstore in Ramallah, the PA capital.
Although
it is now nearly a century old, the fiery message of Mein Kampf
evidently still appeals to those who share at least some of the
sentiments of its author.
Amid Gaza
fighting, Pakistani actress quotes Hitler about killing Jews
Venna Malik
later deletes tweet that said: ‘I would have killed all the Jews of the world …
but I kept some to show the world why I killed them’
Times of
Israel
12 May 2021
Veena Malik,
an actress who has starred in over a dozen Pakistani and Bollywood films and
shows, tweeted a series of incendiary remarks about the ongoing Israel-Gaza
conflict, including a quote she attributed to Adolf Hitler about killing Jews.
“I would have
killed all the Jews of the world … but I kept some to show the world why I
killed them,” Malik tweeted Tuesday.
She also
tweeted “#IronDome is doomed” with a laughing emoji,
referencing Israel’s missile defense system, which Palestinian terrorists in
Gaza have been trying to overwhelm with massive rocket barrages.
By Wednesday
afternoon, all of the tweets were gone from her account. The only remaining one
about the conflict was a retweet of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan urging
the “international community” to “take immediate action to protect the Palestinian
people and their rights.”
Malik, 37, a
former comedian and sex symbol, has won honors from Pakistani awards shows for
her acting performances over the past two decades.
At least five
civilians — four Israeli, one Indian — have been killed by rockets and an
Israeli soldier was killed in an anti-tank missile attack along the border.
According to
the Strip’s Hamas-run health ministry, 65 Palestinians have died since Monday
night, including 16 minors, and 365 have been wounded. The IDF said more than
half of those killed were members of terror groups involved in the fighting and
that some, including several of the children, were killed by errant rockets
fired from Gaza that fell short of the border and landed inside the Strip, not
by Israeli strikes.
Hamas
initiated the conflict, firing over 1,300 rockets at Israeli cities, in the
wake of weeks of Palestinian protests in Jerusalem during Ramadan and violent
clashes between police and Muslim worshipers on the Temple Mount that left hundreds injured.
Sweden:
Antisemitism report states that Muslim students have ‘craze for Hitler’
FEB 26,
2021 11:00 AM
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
Jihad Watch
Finally, a
truthful report out of globalist Sweden, a country that has become practically unrecognizable
since it become the model of suicidal immigration policies. A report on
antisemitism in schools in the city of Malmö, which has a massive Muslim
population, has made the claim that much of the hatred toward Jewish students
comes from students of Arab and Middle Eastern backgrounds. As Robert Spencer
has explained:
The Jews in
the Qur’an are called the strongest of all people in enmity
toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to
Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64);
they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his
commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth
and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and
rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving
preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87);
wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when
others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s
beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161);
slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the
prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their
promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing
sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed
into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and
more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against
them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).
Even German
Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted to
the fact that antisemitism has come back to Germany from “refugees or people of
Arab origin.” The same thing is happening in France.
“Report
reveals anti-Semitism in Malmö’s schools: ‘It was Arab students who had a craze
for Hitler,'” translated from “Rapport avslöjar antisemitismen på Malmös skolor: ‘Det var ju arabiska elever
som hade en vurm för Hitler,'” Nyheter Idag, February 22,
2021:
MALMÖ A recent
report shows that hatred of Jewish students mainly comes from peers from the
Middle East. The Jewish students are held responsible for Israel’s policy in
the Israel-Palestine conflict. Linking the Israel-Palestine conflict with
Malmö’s Jews is something that top Social Democrat politicians have done in the
past.
– It would
prevent this if the Jewish community distanced itself from Israel’s actions in
Gaza. That would help a lot, I think.
The words are
from Jamal El-Hajs, a current Member of Parliament
for the Social Democrats, at a demonstration in 2010, in an interview with Skånska Dagbladet. At the same demonstration, he called for
a boycott of Israeli goods and praised party colleague Ilmar
Reepalu’s “courage.” Reepalu
has on several occasions been in trouble for statements about Jews and Israel,
including when he questioned whether a tennis match between Sweden and Israel
should be played in Malmö.
A new report
now shows that the Israel-Palestine conflict is central to anti-Semitism in
Malmö’s schools. The report also shows that it is not only students – especially
Arab students with a background in the Middle East and above all with links to
Palestinian territories – but also school staff who are anti-Semites.
“From a couple
of the informants also come specific stories about anti-Semitic jargon in the
staff group,” writes the report’s author Mirjam Katzin, a researcher at Lund University. Katzin is also elected representative of the Left Party in
Malmö.
Katzin’s report consists partly of an interview section
where she interviewed school staff and Jewish children and young people aged
10–20 and partly of a questionnaire that was sent out. The goal was for all
school staff in compulsory school and upper secondary school to take part in
the survey.
Katzin states that she encountered unexpected
opposition – only 27 of 63 principals in primary school forwarded the survey to
their staff.
According to
the report, there is an informal list of schools in the Jewish community in
Malmö where Jewish students cannot go.
“Jews stay
away from certain schools because they do not feel safe going to certain
schools. There is a list of schools that are okay for Jews and not. Actually,
all high schools are blacklisted except a few, it’s just that. You know that
this with Israel / Palestine – you will get shit for it at the other schools,
it’s such a shame that it should be like that,” says a student.
The report
contains several quotes from the interviewees that point to how Arab students
openly use anti-Semitic jargon.
“[…] Many
people can, when you talk to them and discuss and so on, be reachable. But some
people are deeply committed. So, a Jew in Malmö is the enemy. All Jews are the
great enemy,” says another school staffer.
UK
Labor official fired after posting Hitler 'was the greatest man in history'
The episode is the latest in a
string of anti-Semitic incidences involving Labor party members.
The Jerusalem Post
April
11, 2016
A UK Labor official was suspended on Sunday after she allegedly wrote
anti-Semitic messages onto social media including one post which stated Hitler
was "the greatest man in history," according to the Daily Mail.
Lutton borough Labor Councillor
Aysegul Gurbuz, 20, was fired from the Labor party after it was
revealed that between 2011 to 2014 she had written numerous disparaging
comments about Jews.
The posts were discovered by Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, which describes
itself as volunteer-based grassroots charity "dedicated to exposing and
countering anti-Semitism," according to the group's Facebook page.
Another tweet written in 2013 states: "The Jews are so powerful in the US
it’s disgusting," while another opined that she hoped Iran would
"wipe Israel off the map" with a nuclear weapon.
Gurbuz, however, denies that she was responsible for
the anti-Semitic statements, claiming her sister may have been responsible for
them, the Daily Mail added.
"It was a joint account I had with my sister so I don’t know if she’s gone
out and tweeted that, but I’m absolutely appalled right now," Gurbuz said in response to the controversy.
"Where I live we’ve got very good cohesion with
the Jewish community... I’m absolutely shocked," she added.
After the social media messages came to light, a Labor spokesperson announced Gurbuz's immediate suspension "pending an
investigation.’
The episode is the latest in a string of anti-Semitic incidences involving
Labor party members.
On March 15, former Labor parliamentarian candidate Vicky Kirby was suspended
(for the second time) due to tweets stating that Jews have “big noses” and
“slaughter the oppressed.”
Her comments resurfaced after she was made a local vice chair of the party.
In addition, former Lord Mayor of Bradford Khadim Hussain said he was quitting
the party after it was revealed that he shared a post that stated that the
British educational system "only tells you about Anne Frank and the six
million Zionists that were killed by Hitler.”
Another incident came as Gerry Downing was readmitted into the Labor party
after publicly stating last year it was time Britain answer the "Jewish
Question." He was subsequently suspended once again in late February.
While Oxford Labor Union Club co-Chairmen Alex
Chambers resigned from the campus group earlier this year after claiming the
university organization had “some kind of problem with Jews.”
In a post on Facebook, Alex Chalmers explained that his decision was made in
light of the Oxford University Labor Club’s decision to endorse Israel
Apartheid Week on campus, stating that “the attitudes of certain members of the
club towards certain disadvantaged groups was becoming poisonous."
Labor party chairmen, Jeremy Corbyn, has denied that anti-Semitism was a
pervasive problem within his faction, and said that the Labor has been
unequivocal in its condemnation of racism in any form.
"[Since] I became leader I’ve absolutely
condemned anti-Semitism, I’ve condemned Islamophobia, I’ve condemned any form
of racism anywhere in our society," Corbyn told Sky News in a March
interview.
"It is absolutely something I totally passionately believe in and I’m
disappointed that Lord Levy has made these remarks," he added.
The far-leftist himself has been dogged by allegations of anti-Semitism, and in
the past has called terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah
"friends."
Labor Party candidate in London’s mayoral race, Sadiq Khan, said last Tuesday
that he is “embarrassed” and “sorrowful” about his party’s failure to take on
anti-Semitism.
Why Did so Many Wanted Nazis Convert to Islam?
November 06, 2013
Israel National News
There are Nazi grafts in Arab-Islamic
terrorism.
At the top of the most wanted list of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center there is a man who today would be one hundred years old. His
name is Alois Brunner and he is responsible for the deaths of over 130,000
Jews. The Nazi hunters still place him in Syria, where he was last seen in
2001, protected by the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
Brunner was one of the most zealous ideologues
and officials of the “Final Solution”, the plan for the extermination of the
Jews. The idea haunted him to the point that in 1985 he said to the German
magazine Bunte: “I regret that I didn’t finish the
job”.
When the United Arab Republic of Syria was
formed, Dr. Brunner took up residence at 7 George Haddad, in the embassy
district of Damascus. In 1961, the year that Adolf Eichmann was captured by the
Israelis in Buenos Aires, Brunner received a bomb-letter, probably from the
Mossad and lost an eye.
Brunner, a personal friend of Hafez el Assad,
took part in the construction of Syria's secret services on the model of the
Gestapo.
In November 1967, the neo-Nazi organization
Bund Heimattreuer Jugend published
in Esslingen Hegensberg, West Germany, the obituary
of Karl van Kynast: “Lieutenant (res.) of the
Bundeswehr, Captain in the army of the United Arab Republic, he felt at the
Suez Canal on 12 September, 1967”.
Brunner is, in fact, only the best known of a
number of Nazi officials who participated in the construction of of the Islamic regimes and who died in those lands after
converting to Islam.
This alliance between the Nazi swastika and the
Islamic Koran is well explained in a 1942 article written by Johann von Leers,
the best known of Nazi converts to Islam. Published in the newspaper “Die Judenfrage”, the article presented Judaism and Islam in
terms of Hegel’s thesis and antithesis: “The hostility of Muhammad towards the
Jews had a consequence: the Oriental Jews were totally paralyzed. If the rest
of the world had adopted a similar policy, we would not have the ‘Jewish
question’. Islam has made an eternal service to the world by preventing the
conquest of Arabia by the Jews”.
One of the leaders of the “Jewish Affairs” in
Galicia, Altern Erich, converted to Islam and took the name of “Ali Bella” in
Egypt, where he trained Palestinian terrorists.
Leopold Gleim was known through his original
name as a head of the Gestapo in Poland, but became “Ali al- Nahar” at the
service of the Egyptian dictator Nasser.
Oskar Dirlewanger,
after killing tens of thousands of Jews in the Ukraine, became the bodyguard of
the Egyptian dictator. Dr. Heinrich Willerman, famous
for some of the most atrocious experiments at Dachau, and directed the
terrorist “Camp Samarra” in Egypt.
After having “liquidated” the Warsaw ghetto,
Kurt Baurnann joined the Ministry of War in Cairo and
trained the Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The head of the Gestapo in Düsseldorf, Joachim Daemling, went to work at the Egyptian prison system.
Even François Genoud,
the famous banker of Nazism, testamentary heir of Adolf Hitler and Joseph
Goebbels, used the war treasure of the Reich to finance the Arab- Muslim
anti-Jewish causes, and in 1959, gave birth to “International Association of
Friends of the Arab World”.
Walter Rauff, who
invented the “gas vans” which killed at 97,000 Jews during the Holocaust, in
1948 tortured Jews in Damascus.
Boeckler Wilhelm became “Abd al
Karim”, the SS Wilhelm Berner instructed Palestinian terrorists, the SS Gruppenführer Alois Moser became “Hassan Sulayman”.
In Cairo lived Hans Eisele, “Dr. Eisele”, who
in Dachau became notorious for torturing prisoners with injections of cyanide.
Even Otto Skorzeny, the SS commander who freed
Mussolini from his prison on the Gran Sasso, lived in
Cairo, where he perfected the Intelligence Services of Nasser's regime.
Among the collaborators of Skorzeny
there was also an official of the Goebbels Ministry of Propaganda, Franz Buensch, an “expert on the Jewish problem” who had worked
with Adolf Eichmann on the “Final Solution” and had also written a book
entitled “Sexual Habits of the Jews”, perhaps the most repugnant document
produced by the Nazis.
In the Egyptian capital there was another
infamous doctor, Aribert Heim, “Dr. Tod”, Dr. Death, so named because of the
cruelty of his experiments in the camps of Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and
Mauthausen. Heim converted to Islam under the name of “Tarek Hussein Farid”. He
sported an Islamic beard, he went to the al Azhar mosque every morning and read the Koran in the German
translation.
The collaborator of Goebbels, Johann von Leers,
was solemnly received in Cairo by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al
Husseini: “We thank you for having fought against the powers of darkness
incarnated by world Jewry”. After converting to Islam, Von Leers assumed the
name of “Omar Amin von Leers” and in Cairo occupied many posts in the administration
of Nasser.
When Tom Cruise in 2008 produced the movie
“Valkyrie”, Major Otto Ernst Remer, who in the film has the face of Thomas Kretschmann, was portrayed as a key figure in the bloody suppression
of the conspiracy that tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler. In 1993, an Egyptian
newspaper interviewed Remer, who hailed the Khomeini revolution, said that the
gas chambers were “lies” and who compared the defeat of Nazi Germany to that of
the Palestinian Arabs, “both victims of the Jews, both suffered under
occupation”.
And how to forget that neo-Nazis helped Yasser
Arafat in 1972's Munich massacre?
This is not an exotic, distant story, it sheds
a dramatic light on the existential war between political Islam and the Jews.
While reading these and other stories of Nazi
officials who fought for Islam, I am reminded of the project of the Mufti of
Jerusalem, Haji Amin al Hussein, who planned to install a gas chamber and a
crematorium near Nablus/Shechem. That is the real “occupation”, that of a
genocidal and totalitarian ideology at war with the Jews in their own land.
A Birkenau in the desert. A Mauthausen which
would have liked to set foot on Mount Zion.
Arabs Fly Nazi Flag Near Road
The flag was hung high above the highway
between Halhoul and the Etzion Bloc.
By Arutz Sheva
First Publish: 10/19/2013
For at least the second time in five months, Arab residents of Beit Umar in the
Palestinian Authority (PA) have placed a Nazi flag over a major thoroughfare
where Jews pass in their vehicles.
Beit Umar is located a half hour south of
Jerusalem, between Halhoul and the Etzion Bloc, not
far from Hevron.
Soldiers from the Haruv
battalion in Kfir Regiment tried to take down the
flag Saturday, but encountered difficulty because it was placed very high up.
A similar event took place at Beit Umar in May,
when hundreds of residents of Gush Etzion who drove down Highway 60 were
astounded to see an oversized Nazi flag flying next to a mosque in the Arab town.
In a recent key speech, Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu quoted numerous historical sources showing that the leader of the
Palestinian Arabs in the first half of the 20th century, Mufti Hajj Amin
Al-Husseini, was “one of the initiators of the Holocaust of the Jews of
Europe,” and that he was constantly encouraging the Nazi leadership to
annihilate the Jews, throughout the war. He cited evidence that the Mufti even
visited the gas chambers at Auschwitz with Adolf Eichmann.
"The Mufti is still a greatly admired
figure in the Palestinian national movement," said Netanyahu. "These
are the weeds that need to be uprooted," he said. "The root of the
conflict is the deep resistance among a hard core of Palestinians to the right
of the Jewish people to its own state in Israel."
Hitler Honored in Upscale Instanbul
Mall
Turkey is now not only openly hostile to the
Jewish State, but also to the Jewish people.
By: Lori Lowenthal Marcus
Published: January 15th, 2013
Jewish Press
People who have been paying attention know that relations between Israel and
Turkey have been eroding, but not many realize that Turkey is now not only
openly hostile to the Jewish State, but also to the Jewish people.
On Friday, January 11, a Turkish citizen took a picture to show exactly how
belligerent Turkey has become. The picture is of a huge poster with the
words, “Who Would You Like to Meet if You Could?” and the last name, and only
photograph, is of Adolf Hitler. The other choices include Suleiman I,
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Napolean Bonaparte, the
Beatles, Elvis Presley, Vladimir Lenin, Boris Yeltsin, Leonardo Da Vinci,
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Jackson. But only Hitler warranted a
picture, a huge one at that.
According to Ege Berk Korkut,
an active Turkish writer and blogger, the sign was placed in the Sapphire Mall
by the owners, a group of Turkish businessmen who are devoted to Erdogan. Korkut explained to The Jewish Press that the Sapphire is
an ultra-upscale mall in Levent, the wealthiest
neighborhood in Istanbul. The Sapphire building is one of the tallest buildings
in Europe.
Korkut said that while a few people have complained
about the banner – and the management has refused to remove it – most shoppers
just glance at it and continue shopping. Ho-hum, nothing startling or
even mildly interesting about a huge photograph of Adolf Hitler hanging in the
Turkish equivalent of Via Bellagio in Las Vegas or The Shops at Columbus Circle
in New York City.
And it is not only Israel and the Jews towards which Turkey has turned its
back.
The Iranian Ambassador to Turkey, Bahman Hussein Pour, discussed the close and
ever-increasing Iranian-Turkish relations in an article in the January 14
MehrNews.com, an Iranian news agency.
Hussein Pour pointed out that while Western countries, “especially the U.S.,”
have been pressuring Turkey to reduce economic relations with Iran,
“Iran-Turkey trade volume exceeds $21b this year for the first time.” The
Iranian Ambassador concluded that Turkish-Iranian relations are irreversible.
In addition to the trade relations between the two countries which has more
than quadrupled since 2008, Hussein Pour also explained that “more than 15
Turkish provinces have become sister provinces with Iranian ones.”
The timing of the statements is important, as many had predicted that relations
between the neighboring nations would deteriorate over the violence in Syria,
which also shares a border with Turkey. Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan has
repeatedly called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, while Iran
is the principle backer of the Assad regime.
Nevertheless, Iran has benefited greatly from Turkey’s import of Iranian oil,
and Turkey has prospered from millions of Iranian tourists. In a move
that benefits both countries, hundreds of Turkish movies have been filmed in
northern Iran.
This cozy relationship has developed despite the very public love letters
President Barack Obama sent to Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan. Middle
East analyst Barry Rubin wrote a telling piece in the spring about the
one-sided relationship between Obama and Erdogan. In addition to recounting
Obama’s amorous actions towards the leader of Turkey who has turned that giant
ship away from the West and into the harbor of the Islamist world, Rubin
pointed out that in 2010 Erdogan made a “deal with Iran that sabotaged the
delicate U.S. drive to toughen anti-Iran sanctions.” And despite that
blow to U.S. policy and insult to Obama, the U.S. president gave Turkey a
waiver on implementing the Iranian sanctions. Rubin called it
“remarkable,” others might call it alarming.
With a huge flattering photograph of Hitler hanging in the fanciest mall in
Istanbul, and Erdogan inching towards BFF status with Ahmadinejad, perhaps it
is time for this administration to rethink putting daylight between the U.S.
and Israel, and instead start putting it between the U.S. and Turkey.
The New Nazis
22 MARCH 2012 04:40
DANIEL GREENFIELD
There was a time when Jewish children were hunted down and killed in France.
Their killers believed themselves to be members of a superior group that was
destined to rule the world and enslave or exterminate members of inferior
groups. The cowardice and appeasement of the French authorities allowed them to
operate freely, to kill Jews and launch attacks on other countries.
What was then is now again. The occupying army doesn't wear uniforms, it wears keffiyahs. It doesn't speak German, it speaks Arabic. It
doesn't believe that it is superior for reasons of race as much as for reasons
of religion. It does not view all others as Untermenschen,
but as infidels. It looks forward not to a thousand year
Reich, but to a thousand year Caliphate.
Mohammed Merah did not chase down a
French-Jewish seven year old girl, put a gun to her
head and pull the trigger because he came from an economically depressed area
or any of the other media spin. He was only doing what Muslims had been doing
to non-Muslims for over a thousand years. He didn't do what he did because he
was "radicalized", he did it because he became a fully committed
Muslim.
It won't end with taking down one man and it
won't end with Jewish children. When your ideology believes that it is in a
zero-sum struggle with the rest of the world and that membership means that you
are a superior breed of human being because you worship the Fuhrer or Allah,
then it won't stop. It won't ever stop. Not until the figurehead is toppled,
the creed is humiliated and the supermen are shown to be cowards, neurotics,
pedophiles, insecure men dressing up their weaknesses in power fantasies.
Between all the non-stop coverage, the
expressions of grief, the political pandering, no one is stating the obvious. France
has been occupied all over again. Once again the
occupation has been carried out with the consent of the authorities who have
decided that cowardice is the only way. Vichy France has become Vichy Europe,
Vichy America, Vichy Australia, where the blatant appeasement is disguised as
honor, treason is portrayed as responsible leadership and collaboration in the
mass murder of your own people is never acknowledged as such.
It's not Neo-Nazis that are the threat to Jews
today. It's the new Nazis and the old Nazis who were rounding up Jews into
ghettos and murdering their children long before a thousand years before
Hitler. The Neos are pathetically longing for the return of a genocidal state
that isn't coming back, while the Muslims are actually working to bring back
their genocidal state. They are doing it in Egypt, in Libya, in Pakistan and in
England, France and Spain.
Muslims have hated Jews before the telephone,
the telegraph, the steam engine, gunpowder, movable type and paper currency.
And now surrounded by smartphones, credit cards and jet planes, they still hate
them. That simple undeniable fact is denied by government, in every university
and in every center of culture. And every one of those deniers has blood on his
hands.
Not only the blood of the Jewish children
murdered by Mohammed Merah. Not only the blood of Jews murdered by Muslims in
France. But the blood of all those who have been killed by Muslim immigrants,
no matter of what generation, in the name of Islam.
The names of Chamberlain, Petain and Quisling
have become eternally infamous because they stand for appeasement and
collaboration. But then what do we make of the names Blair, Sarkozy and
Stoltenberg? What have the latter done differently from their predecessors? The
left likes to pretend that its collaboration with Islam is moral, while the
collaboration with Nazism was immoral. It's a distinction without a difference.
Does it really matter whether the men murdering
children in the name of their Fuhrer call him Adolf or Mohammed? Does it matter
whether they call themselves Hans or Mohammed? Does it matter whether their
fantasies of superiority are based on bad science or bad religion? What matters
is the end result. A foreign enemy controls your cities, murders at will and
takes your future for his own.
The Tolouse Massacre
did not come out of the blue, it follows decades of Muslim violence in France--
a Kristalnacht that has been going on year after
year. It will not stop here. Not while there are five million Muslim in France,
some of whom are bound to pick up the Koran and take it seriously. The
"radical" clerics that Mohammed Merah listened to did not innovate a
new religion, there has never been any basis to the teachings of the so-called
radicals other than the Koran. The only book more popular in the Muslim world
than Mein Kampf.
"O Muslims, O Servant of Allah, there is a
Jew behind me, come and kill him." That is what Muslims look forward to in
their end times. Rocks and trees that tell them where the Jews are so that the fat
faithful servants of Allah don't have to spend too much time and energy
searching for their victims. Mohammed Merah did not have any trees or rocks to
tell him where to find Jews to kill. But he had a compliant French state which
tolerated a known Jihadist to the detriment of his victims.
The question, as always, after every act of
Muslim terror is how many more must die? How many? Because the killing will
continue. It has gone on for over a thousand years. It is not about to stop
now. Muslim leaders who condemn these acts do it for tactical reasons, not
moral ones. They don't believe it's wrong to kill rebellious non-Muslims...
unless the act rebounds against non-Muslims.
The difference between the "radicals"
and the "moderates" is that the radicals want to engage in genocide
even while they are a minority, while the moderates want to wait until they are
a majority. The radicals are satisfied with killing a few Hindus, Christians,
Jews, here and there. The moderates want to wait and kill millions. Neither are
our allies. Both are our murderers.
There is no peaceful way forward here. Carving
up Czechoslovakia, Cyprus or Israel will not sate the blood lust of people
whose egos are fed by hate, who treat every concession as proof of their own
superiority, who love nothing so much as for others to fear them. There is no
peace to be had with a creed that defines peace exclusively in terms of its own
dominance over others.
Islam, like Nazism, is a disease of the soul, a
twin sense of superiority and victimhood possessed by the angry corner dwellers
of the world, who are certain that they would rule if only it wasn't for all
the others holding them back. To understand a Nazi or a Muslim, you don't need
to learn their creeds, just stare into the eyes of a wife beater, a pedophile
or any bully and you will see that same smirk which easily transforms into
outrage, the arrogant tone that turns unctuous when it is set back on its
heels, the flickering eyes that are always looking at what they can't have.
You don't need to read the Koran to understand
Mohammed Merah, you can just as easily understand the Koran by reading about
what Mohammed Merah did. Nothing much has changed in all the centuries, except
that Mohammed Merah didn't get to rape the girl he murdered, because the French
state was still functional enough to keep him on the run. The day will however
come when it won't be and then the peoples of the free world will learn what
true Muslim terror really is, as the peoples of Africa and Asia, as the many
other religions of the Middle East, including the Jews learned, in the day of
the original Mohammed.
There is nothing extraordinary about what
Mohammed Merah did. You may think that there is, but that is because you are a
citizen of the free world and you have become used to that rare thing known as
civilized behavior. But when your nations opened their borders to people who
consider your infidel lands, the Dar Al-Harb, the
House of the Sword, then civilization gets its throat cut, it gets chased down
at a school, has a gun put to its head and the trigger gets pulled.
Killing children is not a shocking act in the
Middle East, except when CNN points its cameras the right way. Parents routinely
kill their own children for minor offenses that would hardly get an American
child grounded. When they move to America or Canada, they kill their children
there too and we considerately look away. If they do that to their children,
why do you think they will have any more mercy on yours?
There is no point in holding Mohammed Merah
accountable for what he did, just as there was no point in bringing Nazi
leaders to trial for crimes against humanity. Mohammed recognizes no form of
law other than the law of Islam, just as the Nazis recognized no other form of
humanity than their own. There is no common moral or legal system that we share
with Islam. Equality before the law, the cornerstone of our system, is so much
noise in the windy corridors of the mosque. How can the Subhuman be equal to
the Aryan, how can the Infidel be equal to the Muslim?
Mohammed Merah is a mad dog and should be
treated as what he is. Accountability is for those who share our moral system.
It is for our own leaders who continue perpetuating the macabre myth of a
religion of peace, even while attending the funerals of tis victims.
Accountability is for the Petains, the Chamberlains
and the Quislings who have led us into this hole and keep waving in more Mohammeds to come and join the party.
The old Nazis marched in at the head of an
army. The new Nazis bought a plane ticket. The old Nazis had to get by the
French Armed Forces and the Royal Air Force. The new Nazis are welcomed in and
anyone who says a word otherwise faces trials and jail sentences. The old Nazis
deported Jews to camps. The new Nazis kill them right in the cities. And the
killing will not stop until the Muslim occupation of Europe comes to an end.
The ‘Oldest Hatred’
It didn’t get that way without an ability to adapt.
By Mark Steyn
In Toronto, anti-Israel demonstrators yell “You
are the brothers of pigs!”, and a protester complains to his interviewer that
“Hitler didn’t do a good job.”
In Fort Lauderdale, Palestinian supporters
sneer at Jews, “You need a big oven, that’s what you need!”
In Amsterdam, the crowd shouts, “Hamas, Hamas!
Jews to the gas!”
In Paris, the state-owned TV network France-2
broadcasts film of dozens of dead Palestinians killed in an Israeli air raid on
New Year’s Day. The channel subsequently admits that, in fact, the footage is
not from January 1st 2009 but from 2005, and, while the corpses are certainly
Palestinian, they were killed when a truck loaded with Hamas
explosives detonated prematurely while leaving the Jabaliya refugee camp in
another of those unfortunate work-related accidents to which Gaza is sadly
prone. Conceding that the Palestinians supposedly killed by Israel were, alas,
killed by Hamas, France-2 says the footage was broadcast “accidentally.”
In Toulouse, a synagogue is firebombed; in
Bordeaux, two kosher butchers are attacked; at the Auber RER train station, a
Jewish man is savagely assaulted by 20 youths taunting, “Palestine will kill
the Jews;” in Villiers-le-Bel, a Jewish schoolgirl is brutally beaten by a gang
jeering, “Jews must die.”
In Helsingborg, the congregation at a Swedish
synagogue takes shelter as a window is broken and burning cloths thrown in; in
Odense, principal Olav Nielsen announces that he will no longer admit Jewish
children to the local school after a Dane of Lebanese extraction goes to the
shopping mall and shoots two men working at the Dead Sea Products store; in
Brussels, a Molotov cocktail is hurled at a Belgian synagogue; in Antwerp, lit
rags are pushed through the mail flap of a Jewish home; and, across the
Channel, “youths” attempt to burn the Brondesbury
Park Synagogue.
In London, the police advise British Jews to
review their security procedures because of potential revenge attacks. The
Sun reports “fears” that “Islamic extremists” are drawing up a “hit list”
of prominent Jews, including the Foreign Secretary, Amy Winehouse’s record
producer, and the late Princess of Wales’s divorce lawyer. Meanwhile, The
Guardian reports that Islamic non-extremists from the British Muslim Forum,
the Islamic Foundation and other impeccably respectable “moderate” groups have
warned the government that the Israelis’ “disproportionate force” in Gaza risks
inflaming British Muslims, “reviving extremist groups,” and provoking “UK
terrorist attacks” — not against Amy Winehouse’s record producer and other
sinister members of the International Jewish Conspiracy but against targets of,
ah, more general interest.
Forget, for the moment, Gaza. Forget that the
Palestinian people are the most comprehensively wrecked people on the face of
the earth. For the past sixty years they have been entrusted to the care of the
United Nations, the Arab League, the PLO, Hamas and the “global community” —
and the results are pretty much what you’d expect. You would have to be very hardhearted
not to weep at the sight of dead Palestinian children, but you would also have
to accord a measure of blame to the Hamas officials who choose to use grade
schools as launch pads for Israeli-bound rockets, and to the UN refugee agency
that turns a blind eye to it. And, even if you don’t deplore Fatah and Hamas
for marinating their infants in a sick death cult in which martyrdom in the
course of Jew-killing is the greatest goal to which a citizen can aspire, any
fair-minded visitor to the West Bank or Gaza in the decade and a half in which
the “Palestinian Authority” has exercised sovereign powers roughly equivalent
to those of the nascent Irish Free State in 1922 would have to concede that the
Palestinian “nationalist movement” has a profound shortage of nationalists
interested in running a nation, or indeed capable of doing so. There is fault
on both sides, of course, and Israel has few good long-term options. But, if
this was a conventional ethno-nationalist dispute, it would have been over long
ago.
So, as I said, forget Gaza. And instead ponder
the reaction to Gaza in Scandinavia, France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and golly,
even Florida. As the delegitimization of Israel has metastasized, we are
assured that criticism of the Jewish state is not the same as anti-Semitism. We
are further assured that anti-Zionism is not the same as anti-Semitism, which
is a wee bit more of a stretch. Only Israel attracts an intellectually
respectable movement querying its very existence. For the purposes of
comparison, let’s take a state that came into existence at the exact same time
as the Zionist Entity, and involved far bloodier population displacements. I
happen to think the creation of Pakistan was the greatest failure of post-war
British imperial policy. But the fact is that Pakistan exists, and if I were to
launch a movement of anti-Pakism it would get pretty
short shrift.
But, even allowing for that, what has a
schoolgirl in Villiers-le-Bel to do with Israeli government policy? Just last
month terrorists attacked Bombay, seized hostages, tortured them, killed them,
and mutilated their bodies. The police intercepts of the phone conversations
between the terrorists and their controllers make for lively reading:
“Pakistan caller 1: ‘Kill all hostages,
except the two Muslims. Keep your phone switched on so that we can hear the
gunfire.’
“Mumbai terrorist 2: ‘We have three
foreigners, including women. From Singapore and China.’
“Pakistan caller 1: ‘Kill them.’
“(Voices of gunmen can be heard directing
hostages to stand in a line, and telling two Muslims to stand aside. Sound of
gunfire. Sound of cheering voices.)”
“Kill all hostages, except the two Muslims.”
Tough for those Singaporean women. Yet no mosques in Singapore have been
attacked. The large Hindu populations in London, Toronto, and Fort Lauderdale
have not shouted “Muslims must die!” or firebombed Halal butchers or attacked
hijab-clad schoolgirls. CAIR and other Muslim lobby groups’ eternal bleating
about “Islamophobia” is in inverse proportion to any examples of it. Meanwhile,
“moderate Muslims” in London warn the government: “I’m a peaceful fellow
myself, but I can’t speak for my excitable friends. Nice little G7 advanced
western democracy you got here. Shame if anything were to happen to it.”
But why worry about European Muslims? The
European political and media class essentially shares the same view of the
situation — to the point where state TV stations are broadcasting fake Israeli
“war crimes.” As I always say, the “oldest hatred” didn’t get that way without
an ability to adapt: Once upon a time on the Continent, Jews were hated as
rootless cosmopolitan figures who owed no national allegiance. So they became a conventional nation state, and now they’re
hated for that. And, if Hamas get their way and destroy the Jewish state, the
few who survive will be hated for something else. So it goes.
But Jew-hating has consequences for the
Jew-hater, too. A few years ago the poet Nizar Qabbani wrote an ode to the intifada:
O mad people of Gaza,
a thousand greetings to the mad
The age of political reason
has long departed
so teach us madness
You can just about understand why living in
Gaza would teach you madness. The enthusiastic adoption of the same pathologies
by mainstream Europe is even more deranged — and in the end will prove just as
self-destructive.
Europe Reimports
Jew Hatred
The mythical Arab Street now reaches deep into
Paris, London, Berlin and Madrid.
JANUARY 13, 2009
The Wall Street Journal
By DANIEL SCHWAMMENTHAL
Give Giancarlo
Desiderati credit for his unintellectual honesty.
While most left-wing detractors of Israel claim their animosity toward the
Jewish state has nothing to do with anti-Semitism, the head of a small Italian
union, Flaica-Uniti-Cub,
wasted no time with such sophism. Having long called for a boycott of Israeli
goods, Mr. Desiderati last week made the logical next
step. "Do not buy anything from businesses run by the Jewish
community," his group's Web site urged Italians.
Adolf Hitler talking to the Palestinian leader, the Grand Mufti Hajj Amin
al Husseini.
Jews around
Europe are increasingly under attack since Israel decided two weeks ago to
defend itself after years of rocket fire at its civilian population. There have
been arson attempts on synagogues in Britain, Belgium and Germany. Police last
week arrested Muslim protesters who wanted to enter the Jewish quarter in
Antwerp. Several Danish schools with large Muslim student bodies say they won't
enroll Jewish kids because they can't guarantee the children's safety. In
France, a group of teenagers attacked a 14-year-old girl last week, calling her
"dirty Jew" while kicking her.
At rallies in
Germany and the Netherlands over the past two weeks, protesters shouted,
"Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the Gas." In Amsterdam, Socialist lawmaker
Harry van Bommel and Greta Duisenberg, widow of the
first European Central Bank president, marched at the front of one such
"peace" demonstration. They didn't join in the background chorus
calling for another Holocaust. Instead, they chanted, "Intifada, Intifada,
Free Palestine." Mr. Van Bommel later insisted
this wasn't a call for Jewish blood but for "civil disobedience" -- a
laughable defense given that terrorists during the last intifada murdered more
than 1,000 Israelis.
Most of the
anti-Jewish violence and protests in Europe come from immigrants. In what may
have been a Freudian recognition of the changing face of Europe, CNN two weeks
ago used footage of anti-Israeli protesters in London in a report about the
growing anger in the "Arab and Muslim world." The mythical Arab
Street now reaches deep into Paris, London, Berlin and Madrid.
After a
burning car was rammed into a gate outside a synagogue in Toulouse last week,
President Nicolas Sarkozy issued a statement that was as morally confused as
his judgment of Israel's Gaza offensive. Mr. Sarkozy, who condemned both Hamas
terror and Israel's attempt to stop it, also blurred the distinction between
the victims and perpetrators of anti-Semitism in France.
His country
"will not tolerate international tensions mutating into intercommunity
violence," he warned, suggesting that the violence in France comes not
only from French Muslims but Jews as well. Mr. Sarkozy's comments also suggest
that the fighting in Gaza is the cause for attacks on Jews in France -- that
is, that the Mideast conflict is fueling anti-Semitism in Europe. It is exactly
the other way around.
The rage
against the Jews that is exploding in Europe has been carefully nurtured; it is
not spontaneous sympathy for fellow Muslims in Gaza. How else to explain the
silence when Muslims in other conflicts, from Darfur to Chechnya, are being
killed?
The depth of
anti-Semitic propaganda in Palestinian and other Muslim societies is one of the
most underreported facts about the Middle East. It is this anti-Semitism that
predisposes Muslims in Europe to attack Jews and fuels the Mideast conflict.
The hatred predates Israel's creation. To illustrate this point: The Palestinian
leader during World War II, Hajj Amin al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem, conspired with Hitler to bring the Holocaust to Palestine. Luckily,
the British stopped the German troops in Africa. The Mufti spent the war years
in Berlin and was later indicted for war crimes but with the help of the Muslim
Brotherhood escaped to Egypt. Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim
Brotherhood.
Hamas and other
Islamists continue what the Mufti had helped to start: a blend of European
anti-Semitism and Islam-inspired Jew hatred. The rejection of Israel's right to
exist is what drives their attacks. The media, though, largely ignores Hamas's
ideology and its crimes of hiding its leaders and weapons among its own
civilian population, and demonizes Israel's attempt to protect its citizens.
Hamas and
other Islamists are not even trying to hide their ideology. Just read the Hamas
charter or check out Hamas TV, including children's programs, for a nauseating
dose of murderous anti-Semitism. Last week, the French broadcasting authorities
banned Hamas TV for inciting violence and hatred. Unfortunately, just like
Hezbollah TV, which is also banned in Europe for its anti-Semitic and jihadi
content, audiences here can still receive these programs due to Saudi Arabia's
Arabsat and Egyptian satellite provider Nilesat.
The Islamist
variation of Jew hatred is now being reimported to Europe. Muslims in Europe,
watching Hamas and Hezbollah TV with their satellite dishes, are being fed the
same diet of anti-Semitism and jihadi ideology that Palestinians and much of
the Middle East consume.
This brings a
unique challenge to the difficult integration of Muslims in Europe. When it
comes to issues like Shariah law and terrorism, one can expect a true
"clash of civilizations." There is no Western tradition that would
justify "honor killings." Anti-Semitism, on the other hand, is not
alien to Europe's culture -- to the contrary, the Continent once excelled at it
and many still share the feeling.
A Pew study
from September shows 25% of Germans and 20% of French are still affected by
this virus. In Spain, 46% have unfavorable views of Jews. Is there really no
connection between this statistic and the fact that the Spanish media and
government are among Europe's most hostile toward the Jewish state? Is it just
a coincidence that Europe's largest anti-Israel demonstration took place Sunday
in Spain, with more than 100,000 protesters?
A 2006 study
in the Journal of Conflict Resolution based on the survey in 10 European
countries suggests otherwise. Yale University's Edward H. Kaplan and Charles A.
Small found "that anti-Israel sentiment consistently predicts the
probability that an individual is anti-Semitic, with the likelihood of measured
anti-Semitism increasing with the extent of anti-Israel sentiment
observed."
With little
hope that the media coverage will become more balanced and the incitement of
the growing Muslim community will abate, the Jews in Europe are facing
uncertain times.
Court hears cleric's anti-Jewish
sermon
Items compiled from Tribune news services
Published January 15, 2006
LONDON, BRITAIN -- A Muslim cleric
accused in Britain of incitement to murder praised Adolf Hitler and
called for Jews to be destroyed in a videotaped sermon shown at his trial
Friday.
Egyptian-born Abu Hamza al-Masri faces life in prison
if convicted of inciting murder and stirring racial hatred in speeches recorded
for supporters.
Al-Masri, 47, has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The grainy, black-and-white footage was recorded in October 2000 at the Finsbury Park mosque, where the cleric was formerly head
preacher, prosecutor David Perry said.
Al-Masri said Muslims should ensure that Israel and
the Palestinian territories become "the biggest Jewish graveyard in the
world."
The First Terrorist People
FrontPageMagazine.com
January 26, 2006
The Palestinian Nazi Party has won the elections. This
is a party, Hamas, that calls for the obliteration of the Jewish state (in
so many words) and the killing of Jews because they are Jews (in so many
words), and cites the Koranic damnation of Jews and incitement to murder
Jews in justification. Hamas is a party of Islamic fanatics who are part
of the global jihad
against the
United States and the West, whose hero is Osama bin Laden. Hamas was the
biggest foreign supporter of Saddam Hussein. With this vote in record
numbers, the Palestinian people have joined en
masse the Axis of Evil. They are the self-declared enemies of Jews, of America
and of civilized values, and should be treated as such. The Palestinians have
declared with this vote they want no peace. They should be given none.
The defeated Fatah Party --
the "moderate" party -- is of course the creation of
the terrorist Yassir Arafat. Its
official charter calls for the destruction of Israel and
its leadership has been dedicated to terror since the the PLO was created by the dictator Nasser and the KGB
in 1964. Its leader Mahmoud Abbas is a Holocaust denier and the financier of
the kidnapping and execution of the Israeli Olympic team in Munich in 1972, and
Arafat's ally in terror for the duration since.
But then the father of Palestinian nationalism
himself is the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem al-Husseini a fanatical devotee of
Adolf Hitler who served the Nazi cause in Berlin during the Second World
War and infused Palestinian nationalism with the Jew-hatred that has
dominated it ever since.
The Palestinians are the first people in the
history of humanity to embrace terror and genocide as a way of life.
Palestinian schools train kindergarteners and first graders to aspire to murder
innocent Jews by blowing themselves up alongside them, and then tell the
children that if they're lucky enough to have male genitalia they will go to
heaven and be rewarded with 72 virgins to attend their every
whim. Palestinian parents murder their own children by telling them
to kill Jewish children so that Allah can receive them. This is the
sickest culture on the face of the earth, and the fact that it is supported by
secular leftists in Europe and America reveals the terminal sickness, as
well, of those who crusade in the name of "social justice."
At the core of this sickness is a
hatred for the West and Israel for the crimes of being successful,
democratic and tolerant. And at the core of that sickness is self-hatred.
Self-hatred for the 1,000 year failure of Arab
Muslim culture to compete with the West and for the absolute bankruptcy of the
Palestinian cause -- despite billions and billions of dollars poured into the
West Bank and Gaza by Europe, Israel and the United States whose sole purpose
was to help this people consumed in their own emotional poisons. The money of
course was stolen in transit by their corrupt and homicidal leaders
who buried their loot in Swiss bank accounts or used it to buy
weapons of mass murder, and to spread destruction, which is the only
contribution that the Arabs of the Palestinian mandate have made to the world
since their national aspirations were first announced half a century ago.
David Horowitz is the author of numerous books including an autobiography, Radical Son, which has been described as “the first great autobiography of his generation,” and which chronicles his odyssey from radical activism to the current positions he holds. Among his other books are The Politics of Bad Faith and The Art of Political War. The Art of Political War was described by White House political strategist Karl Rove as “the perfect guide to winning on the political battlefield.” Horowitz’s latest book, Uncivil Wars, was published in January this year, and chronicles his crusade against intolerance and racial McCarthyism on college campuses last spring.
SWASTICKAS NOW APPEARING AT UC
IRVINE
By Daryl Temkin, Ph.D.
The
Israel Institute
The University of California at Irvine (UCI)
has become a center stage campus for anti-Israel and anti-Semitic speakers and
demonstrations. The Irvine campus is not unique; they are just a leading campus
which condones anti-Israel/anti-Semitic programming. Generally initiated by the
campus Muslim student organizations or by the faculty members of the liberal
arts departments, this kind of campus programming has been going on for a
number of years. This situation has created an understandable amount of anguish
and concern among Jewish students and it has even led to students choosing not
to attend UCI.
The anti-Semitic speakers have used the
"free speech" clause to justify their statements and it is simple for
them to assert that what they are saying is “true.” In their view, "Israel
and the Jews are the cause of the world's problems. The Muslims are just
responding to the problems that the Jews and Israel have caused." This
“logic” concludes that, "Muslims would not be forced to behave as they do
if Israel and the Jews would stop provoking them." This sounds similar to
the logic which claims that the rapist would not have to rape if women would
behave and dress differently. (On that note, this week, the Islamic world
announced that if a woman is not wearing the "burka" or full Islamic
covering, it would be considered her fault if she was raped or accosted.)
Recently, several swastikas were found
inscribed on the University of California's Irvine campus. Unfortunately, there
are swastikas found on many American university campuses as well as high
schools. The Jewish community is so used to this type of offensive occurrence
that a newly drawn swastika incident usually doesn't get much attention unless
the consequence reaches a significant level of outrage. This occurred several
weeks ago -- on the first day of Ramadan. On that day, two Los Angeles area
freeway overpasses were adorned with large swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans.
That event got some coverage but was rapidly squelched and little attention was
given to the fact that the incident just happened to coincide with the first
day of Ramadan.
Interestingly and ironically, the local Muslim
community leaders interpreted the appearance of these degrading emblems as
symbolic of Muslim unity with the Jewish community. Muslim spokespeople
presented the idea that, the swastikas appearing on the first day of Ramadan
was a symbol against both Jews and Muslims. We are certainly living in very
strange times.
In regards to the UCI event -- the newly
appearing swastikas at the University could have also gone unnoticed. However,
the UCI campus has been a hotbed for claims that anti-Zionism has nothing to do
with being anti-Semitic. Anti-Zionism is acceptable on the campus because
Muslims claim that it is not against all Jews, it's only against Zionist Jews.
However, the swastika symbol doesn't differentiate one Jew from another.
The anti-Israel Muslim speakers have learned to
emphasize that Muslims are only against Zionist Jews and that non-Zionist Jews
are acceptable. However, many of the Muslim speakers, while delivering their
passionate presentations often forget to state the cover up words that they are
supposed to say and end up hatefully lumping all Jews together. In regards to
the UCI situation, the swastika incident has been attributed to the activities
of the Muslim students.
Even in light of the above information, the UCI
swastika incident could have gone unnoticed. However, something very odd
occurred which took this event not only a step but perhaps a leap forward. The
following provides a brief background:
The Vice Chancellor of UCI, Manuel Gomez, has
been asked for the past years to take a more active role concerning the
anti-Semitic hate speech that has been fulminating on his campus. After student
and community organizations confronted the UCI administration with this issue,
Gomez's response was that “free speech” protects the speech rights of these
campus programs. "Free speech" protects "hate speech" –
unless the hate speech leads to violence; otherwise it
has to be allowed and tolerated.
The dream of concerned student and community
organizations was for the university administration to acknowledge that hate
speech is being promoted on its campus and even though freedom of speech is a
foundation of the American Constitution, the university faculty and
administration condemn or at least do not support the hate speech programs.
Complaints from UCI students continued and Jewish students reported their
discomfort and personal fears in the face of the frequent hate speech events.
The position of the administration was neutrality, which is better described as
silence, which ends up being a tacit support for the continued hate speech and
anti- Semitic programs on this campus.
The “leap” that occurred with the appearance of
the UCI swaztikas was an interview with the Vice
Chancellor. Mr. Gomez when questioned about the swaztikas
on his campus reverted to his discussion of free speech and hate speech. Except
this time, Mr. Gomez went a step further: He is quoted as stating that
"one person's hate speech is another person's education."
His statement inferred that hate speech is
subject to interpretation. If a person agrees with the hate speech, then that
person is learning from the hate speech position, and that can be regarded as
“education.” Just like, "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom
fighter."
At what point do we throw our hands up and
scream, "The University has lost its mind!"? Moral relativism which
has become a pillar of much of higher education has once again crossed the
line. Well recognized hate speech, swastikas on campus, and all the
anti-Western preaching are just to be regarded as "education". It's
simply one opinion versus another opinion.
When Vice Chancellor Gomez was asked for his
opinion, did he simply not know what to say or did he say what he meant to say?
Was it a "foot in mouth" moment or was it just the outcome of the
current university educational environment?
The UCI swastika incident was another
opportunity for Vice Chancellor Gomez to make a difference. He should have
articulated an educational standard for the University, its faculty, and its
student body. Instead, a very different educational standard than what might
have been expected was established.
For the sake of memory, once there was a time
that universities served to raise the standards of a society.
Dr. Temkin frequently
lectures on topics of Israel, Judaism and Jewish values, contempary
issues and their threats to Western civilization, as well as issues of concern
to Christians and Jews.