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Outrage over disgusting 'cripple Stephen Hawking' jokes after he joins boycott of Israel | World | News | Daily Express

Sat, 11 May 2013 15:20:41 +0100

Outrage over disgusting 'cripple Stephen Hawking' jokes after he joins boycott of Israel | World | News | Daily Express:

priceofliberty:

WORLD renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has faced a barrage of vile abuse today from people furious over his boycott of Israel.

“The anti-Semite Stephen Hawking can’t even wipe his own a**,” one sick user posted.

“He should die already!,” another said, while one user said Professor Hawking – widely considered one of the most intelligent men in the world today – is “also crippled in the head.”

“Someone should release the hand brake when he’s on a hill,” another vile post read.

we-wretched-shall-rise: well that’s adorable.

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:55:34 +0100

we-wretched-shall-rise:

well that’s adorable.

In 2013, Bibi once again is lecturing on the...

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:00:46 +0100

In 2013, Bibi once again is lecturing on the accidental/involuntary discharge of the Zionists EXCEPTIONALLY large Nuclear Arsenal as disclosed by Vanunu. Netanyahu draws Red-Lines around the area of Palestine when all human life has CEASED. Most ROADRUNNER Zionists escaped back to wherever else they held duel-citizenship primarily the US/France/Britain. They’ll return again claiming ownership in another 2,000 years AGAIN blaming the VICTIMS!. Loony Tunes Bibi is still playing the same old tune despite the holocaust/Nakba he has caused in the Middle East again. “That’s all Folks! We’re all #UCKED!” …rjh

Many of the ‘civilized’ are former Refuseniks, the...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 06:08:00 +0100

Many of the ‘civilized’ are former Refuseniks, the criminal dregs of Soviet prisons, The USSR released the worst criminals to satisfy Reagan’s detente, just as Castro released his criminals to Florida. More are the legacy of Pollard’s treachery, bought on the blood of many thousands of executed CIA agents. Most were never inside a synagogue in their lives. It didn’t matter as they got free Arab land and counteracted the growing Palestinian population despite the expulsions and killing. Today these squatters dictate all politics in Israel. All political courage died with Rabin execution!

The ‘SAVAGE’ Natives of the Americas were a far more noble that the disease carrying scum from the ‘old’ countries.
The Arabs were civilized when the Zionist tribe were bouncing from one state to another with citizenship very low on their priority list. NOWHERE were they trust and flight was their default option. Hence no loyalty gene. As has always been the case, they’ll be the first to scarper when the going gets tough leaving the Yanks to fight their battles. Meanwhile the US earns the ire of all right-thinking persons in the World! Only a fool would keep asking “Why do they hate?” …rjh

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Many of the ‘civilized’ are the Refuseniks, the...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:24:00 +0100

Many of the ‘civilized’ are the Refuseniks, the dregs of Soviet prisons. Like Castro did, the Soviets released the worst criminals to satisfy Reagan’s detente. Most were never inside a synagogue in their lives. It didn’t matter as they got free Arab land and counteracted the growing Palestinian population despite the expulsions and killing. Today these squatters dictate all politics in Israel. All political courage died with Rabin!
The SAVAGE of the Americas was a far more noble person that the disease carrying scum from the ‘old’ countries.
The Arabs were civilized when the Zionist tribe were bouncing from one state to another with citizenship very low on their priority list.
As has always been the case, they’ll be the first to scarper when the going gets tough leaving the Yank to fight their battles. …rjh

palestiiinee:

Because the civilized men are those who point their guns at Palestinian children, and teach their kids to sign rockets that say “from Israel, with love” #racism #freepalestine #truth #supporthumanity #defeatzionism (Taken with Instagram)

Seth Morrison writes in the Forward about his decision to...

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:55:04 +0000

Seth Morrison writes in the Forward about his decision to resign from the Jewish National Fund board, and sever all ties with the organization, over the eviction of the Sumarin family in Silwan:

This fall, a subsidiary of the Israeli branch of JNF launched eviction proceedings against the Sumarin family, who live in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem. Under Israel’s controversial “Absentee Property Law,” the state may reclaim homes whose owners were not present in 1967, when Israel took control of East Jerusalem. In the case of the Sumarin family, the children of the original owner, Musa Sumarin, were declared absentees after his death even though there were other family members living in the home at the time. In 1991, the Israeli government took the step of transferring the property to the JNF subsidiary.

I have learned that the action on the Sumarin home is not an isolated case. JNF has gained ownership of other Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem and, in many instances, then transferred these properties through its subsidiaries to Elad, a settler organization whose purpose is to “Judaize” East Jerusalem.

In my eyes, the expulsion of the Sumarin family is a violation of human rights. But it is also part of the systematic transfer of Palestinian property to ideological settlers who wish to put facts on the ground that hinder a lasting peace agreement.

A few days before the proposed eviction, Rabbis for Human Rights - North America, in partnership with its counterpart in Israel, asked American Jews to write to the CEO of JNF requesting that he stop the eviction. More than 1,300 people responded. I believe that, like me, these writers felt deeply betrayed that the organization many of us have supported since our childhood would act in such unjust ways.

JNF’s initial response was to deny any involvement in the eviction. When legal papers that name a subsidiary of JNF as the initiator of the proceedings became public, the organization decided to postpone the eviction.

I hope that JNF will decide to cancel this eviction for good, and to refrain from pursuing additional such evictions. But I felt I had to resign now because senior people at JNF made clear to me that they still plan to get the Sumarin family out and transfer the property to Elad.

I have always supported Israel through organizations like JNF because I believe that the Jewish people have the right to a secure, democratic and peaceful homeland in Israel. And I strongly believe that the Palestinian people have the right to a secure, democratic and peaceful homeland in a neighboring Palestinian state. By supporting right-wing settlers in “Judaizing” Palestinian neighborhoods, JNF makes this vision harder to achieve. I fear that such actions endanger Israel’s future as a secure and democratic state.

thepalestineyoudontknow: Commemorating the anniversary of the...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:42:56 +0000

thepalestineyoudontknow:

Commemorating the anniversary of the First Intifada

Twenty four years ago, on December 8, 1987 a revolution began. The revolution began in Gaza, it was the First Intifada or the stones Intifada ( because Palestinians used stones as their only weapon ). After 39 years of Israeli occupation Palestinian resistance exploded in full force.

Boycotts, demonstrations, tax refusal, all of these were the strategies of the Intifada. Over one thousand Palestinians would be killed by Israel during the Intifada;over one hundred thousand Palestinians would go to prison during the course of the Intifada. For six years the Intifada burned, Palestinians were united in a massive nationwide campaign of popular resistance.

read more about on a later post .

Progressive Israel: An ambassador smeared

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:22:19 +0000

Progressive Israel: An ambassador smeared:

progressiveisrael:

Obama’s man in Belgium faces calls for his firing after factual remarks on Israel and anti-Semitism

The U.S. ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, is facing an intense campaign by hard-line pro-Israel voices in the U.S. who want him fired over remarks he made about anti-Semitism late last month.

Obama’s man in Belgium faces calls for his firing after factual remarks on Israel and anti-Semitism

The U.S. ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, is facing an intense campaign by hard-line pro-Israel voices in the U.S. who want him fired over remarks he made about anti-Semitism late last month.

Gutman, an Obama fundraiser turned ambassador, as well as a Jew and child of a Holocaust survivor, was addressing a Brussels conference devoted to combating anti-Semitism in Europe last month when he launched into a discussion of the relationship between the Israel-Palestine conflict and tensions between Muslims and Jews.

The first thing to note about the Gutman affair – which has now prompted Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, as well as pundits at Commentary and elsewhere to call for his firing – is that the initial reaction was based on a woefully inaccurate account of his remarks.

Gutman was paraphrased by the Israeli news outlet Ynet as saying, “A distinction should be made between traditional anti-Semitism, which should be condemned, and Muslim hatred for Jews, which stems from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.” The clear suggestion is that Gutman was engaging in apologetics for certain forms of Jew hatred.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz then put that line in quotation marks even though no such words had passed Gutman’s lips. In fact, a reading of his real remarks shows that he explicitly repudiated the idea that any anti-Semitism should be tolerated, rather than condemned.

It’s worth quoting Gutman at length. He did make a distinction between anti-Semitisms, referring to the risk of “oversimplifying and of lumping together diverse phenomena.”

He then described what might be called classical anti-Semitism:

There is and has long been some amount of anti-Semitism, of hatred and violence against Jews, from a small sector of the population who hate others who may be different or perceived to be different, largely for the sake of hating. Those anti-Semites are people who hate not only Jews, but Muslims, gays, gypsies, and likely any who can be described as minorities or different. That hatred is of course pernicious and it must be combated. We can never take our eye off it or just dismiss it as fringe elements or the work of crazy people, because we have seen in the past how it can foment and grow.

This type of anti-Semitism, he said, rears its head from time to time, but does not appear to be growing.

But there is another phenomenon, Gutman argued, that is on the rise.

It is the problem within Europe of tension, hatred and sometimes even violence between some members of Muslim communities or Arab immigrant groups and Jews. It is a tension and perhaps hatred largely born of and reflecting the tension between Israel, the Palestinian Territories and neighboring Arab states in the Middle East over the continuing Israeli-Palestinian problem.

Then – contrary to the right-wing portrayals of his remarks, such as Romney’s description of them as “rationalizing and downplaying anti-Semitism” – Gutman explicitly called this phenomenon unacceptable:

It too is a serious problem. It too must be discussed and solutions explored. No Jewish student – and no Muslim student or student of any heritage or religion – should ever feel intimidated on a University campus for their heritage or religion leading to academic leaders quitting in protest. No high school or grammar school Jewish student – and no Muslim high school or grammar school student or student of any heritage or religion – should be beaten up over their heritage or religion.

But this second problem is in my opinion different in many respects than the classic bigotry – hatred against those who are different and against minorities generally — the type of anti-Semitism that I discussed above. It is more complex and requiring much more thought and analysis. This second form of what is labeled “growing anti-Semitism” produces strange phenomena and results.

He then goes on to explore how this problem might be addressed, including by a resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

The core point that has so many pundits on the right upset is the link between the Israel-Palestine conflict and anti-Semitism. On this, Adam Serwer at Mother Jones makes the crucial point: “Gutman’s suggestion that anti-Semitism would subside if a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be reached isn’t the same as saying Israelis or Jews are ‘responsible’ for anti-Semitism.”

As it turns out, there is rigorous research that backs up Gutman’s point — that of, in his words, “tension, hatred and sometimes even violence between some members of Muslim communities or Arab immigrant groups and Jews … largely born of and reflecting the tension between Israel, the Palestinian Territories and neighboring Arab states in the Middle East over the continuing Israeli-Palestinian problem.”

The Community Service Trust is a thoroughly mainstream British organization that specializes in the study of anti-Semitism and providing security for Jews. The group publishes an annual survey on anti-Semitic incidents in the U.K., and its most recent study (.pdf) would seem to vindicate Gutman.

It notes what happened after the IDF killed nine pro-Palestinian activists on a flotilla to break the Gaza blockade in May 2010:

The only significant trigger event in 2010 occurred when Israeli forces boarded a flotilla of ships bearing pro-Palestinian activists who were trying to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza; nine activists were killed during the subsequent on-board clashes. Reactions to this episode led to a monthly total of 81 antisemitic incidents in the UK in June 2010, compared to 49 in June 2009, when there was no comparable trigger event.

And it also discusses the number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2009, the year of the Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza:

The record total [of anti-Semitic incidents] in 2009 was triggered by reactions to the Gaza conflict in January of that year, which led to record numbers of incidents in January and February 2009.

Those two points show a correlation between flare-ups in the Middle East and anti-Semitism. But what about causation?

The report explores this complicated question:

Clearly, it would not be acceptable to define all anti-Israel activity as antisemitic; but it cannot be ignored that much contemporary antisemitism takes place in the context of, or is motivated by, extreme feelings over the Israel/Palestine issue. Drawing out these distinctions, and deciding on where the dividing lines lie, is one of the most difficult areas of CST’s work in recording and analysing hate crime.

This point by Community Service Trust echoes Gutman’s sentiments almost exactly. And it shows the Gutman affair is more about driving a particular narrative about tensions between the Obama administration and Israel than it is about any supposedly controversial remarks.

Progressive Israel: Rockets: I agree with Farhaan on most of this, but...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:58:46 +0000

Progressive Israel: Rockets: I agree with Farhaan on most of this, but...:

progressiveisrael:

Not everything. See my comments and highlights below:

farhaaan:

I hope those idiots stop the rocket attacks on Israel. They are detrimental to all sides involved:

Compared to the number of Palestinians killed, the number of Israelis killed by rocket attack is microscopic¹ (10 in 10…

How Israel Can Stop Alienating American Jews

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:40:20 +0000

How Israel Can Stop Alienating American Jews:

youngcontrarian:

by Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg, December 6, 2011

The Obama administration seems to be arguing lately that the blame for stalled peace talks rests almost entirely with Israel. This clearly isn’t true. The Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas seems uninterested in even sharing its ideas for compromise with Israel. Yet this doesn’t excuse the Netanyahu government’s inability to curtail the settlements or the settlers, some of whom behave despicably toward their Palestinian neighbors. The occupation will come to an end only through direct negotiation. The West Bank settlers should, if nothing else, be brought under the rule of law, and be encouraged to come home.

Israelis, and their American supporters, often argue that Israel’s problem is one of public relations. It is, to some degree. The world holds Israel to a higher standard than any other country. But here’s a secret: American Jews hold Israel to a very high standard as well, and if Israel ceases to be a free and open country governed by the rule of law, American Jewish support for Israel will dissipate, with dramatic and unpleasant consequences.

Guardian: Ron Paul excluded from Republican Jewish Coalition...

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:29:26 +0000

Guardian: Ron Paul excluded from Republican Jewish Coalition forum

The Republican Jewish Coalition has barred Ron Paul, one of the party’s leading presidential contenders, from its forum for the candidates on Wednesday because of his “misguided and extreme views” on Israel.

Forum for Republican candidates bars Ron Paul, currently polling second in Iowa, for his ‘extreme’ views on Israel.

Guardian

Dec 4 2011

Paul, who consistently ranks among the favourites in polls of Republican primary voters despite strong libertarian views that have alienated many in his own party, has rankled Israel’s supporters by advocating an end to US aid to the Jewish state. He is also strongly opposed to military action against Iran’s nuclear programme and has drawn attention to Israel’s own atomic weapons which it does not officially acknowledge.

THE NAKED SHOOT/TRUTH! Barak, IDF Chief caught on tape joking...

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:13:00 +0000

THE NAKED SHOOT/TRUTH!

Barak, IDF Chief caught on tape joking about women, demand tape not be aired

Defense Minister and IDF Chief Benny Gantz joke about the controversial issue of women singing in the army; Gantz to Channel 2 reporter: If you air this, it will be your last piece.

By Haaretz

Gantz told the Army Radio reporter to shelf the recording, and threatened the Channel 2 reporter that if the footage airs it would be his last piece..

Yet despite the army chief’s warnings, the video was released. In it, Barak asks: “Who are the girls here? From the battalion or the brigade? Or from the division?” Gantz replied: “They sing during the break. During the break they start to sing.”

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Golani commander Ofek Buchris then said that “there is no problem for them to sing, solo, everything will be fine.” Barak said “there’s Dana from the minister’s communication here, she’s from a moshav, she can sing without uniform,” to which Buchris replied: “As long as she’s without uniform and with clothes it’s fine.”

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At that point Gantz turned to an Army Radio reporter and said: “Army Radio, this does not come out. Even it’s the scoop of your lifetime. It’s stays in your tape recorder.” He then told a Channel 2 reporter that if he airs the tape “it will be the last piece. It would be a shame if would be the last piece. Like the last war. I promise you it would be the last piece.”

ethnocracyphotos:

American voters.”The real movement for change does not...

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:25:51 +0000

American voters
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”The real movement for change does not need lazy, voting-is-everything Democrats who imagine that the exchange of power between Democrats and Republicans is more than the see-saw, baton-passing game that it is. Instead, it needs people willing to move beyond politics of the black box, to open the black box itself and to shatter the illusion that the selection of rulers amounts to anything but issuing a stamp of approval on one’s own subjection.

Democrats who warn us that voting for a third party or refusing to vote for Obama is a vote for Republicans are advising us to follow them in voting for an incrementalism that continually improves BACKWARDS. We’ve had enough!”

~Michael Rectenwald

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Yes, think of the animals this Christmas. [Seeing that I’m...

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:08:00 +0000

Yes, think of the animals this Christmas.

[Seeing that I’m an atheist, why my Christmas interest?!

Well, I was born on Christmas Day in 1948.]

Thank you for the follow

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:24:35 +0000

No problem, friend of Palestine.

A Baboon Congress!A driver was stuck in a traffic jam on the...

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:42:47 +0000

A Baboon Congress!

A driver was stuck in a traffic jam on the highway outside Washington DC. Nothing was moving. Suddenly, a man knocks on the window.

The driver rolls down the window and asks, “What’s going on?”

“Terrorists have kidnapped Congress, and they’re asking for a $100 million dollar ransom. Otherwise, they’re going to douse them all in gasoline and set them on fire. We’re going from car to car, collecting donations.”

“How much is everyone giving, on average?” the driver asks.

The man replies, “Roughly a gallon.”

Ethnocracy democracy mix up again! . Abraham Foxman in the...

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:48:00 +0000

Ethnocracy democracy mix up again!

Abraham Foxman in the Huffington Post: Israel’s democracy is eroding

ADL chairman urges the right-wing in Israel to defend the country’s democratic values, rather than supporting proposal that stifle free expression and undermine the rights of minorities.

By Haaretz

Anti-Defamation League chairman Abraham Foxman is urging right-wing Israeli legislators to come out against their colleagues who he believes are endangering Israel both “internally” and “externally” with their recent wave of anti-democract proposals in Knesset.

“There are many reasons why the recent spate of domestic legislation in Israel — regarding non-governmental organizations, the media, Israel as a Jewish State, the Supreme Court — is disturbing,” Foxman wrote in an op-ed on the Huffington Post published Wednesday, entitled The Assault on Israel’s Vibrant Democracy.

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Ethnocracy is a form of government where representatives of a particular ethnic group hold a number of government posts disproportionately large to the percentage of the total population that the particular ethnic group(s) represents and use them to advance the position of their particular ethnic group(s) to the detriment of others.

The minority ethnic groups are systematically discriminated against by the state and may face repressions or violations of human rights at the hands of state organs. Ethnocracy can also be a political regime which is instituted on the basis of qualified rights to citizenship, and with ethnic affiliation (defined in terms of race, descent,religion, or language) as the distinguishing principle

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Right to Return The term right of return refers to a principle...

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:29:49 +0000

Right to Return

The term right of return refers to a principle of international law, codified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, giving any person the right to return to, and re-enter, his or her country of origin. This principle is sometimes reflected in special consideration in a country’s immigration laws (called “repatriation”) which facilitate or encourage the reunion of a diaspora.

Palestinian right of return

The Palestinian right of return is a political position or principle asserting that Palestinian refugees, both first-generation refugees and their descendants, have a right to return, and a right to the property they or their forebears left or which they were forced to leave in what is now Israel and the Palestinian territories (formerly part of the British Mandate of Palestine), as part of the 1948 Palestinian exodus, a result of the 1948 Palestine war and due to the 1967 Six-Day War.

Proponents of the right of return hold that it is a “sacred” right,^[3] as well as an inalienable and basic human right, whose applicability both generally and specifically to the Palestinians is protected under international law.^[4] This view holds that those who opt not to return or for whom return is not feasible, should receive compensation in lieu. Opponents of the right of return hold that there is no basis for it in international law, and that it is an unrealistic demand.^[5]

The government of Israel regards the claim as a Palestinian ambit claim, and does not view the admission of Palestinian refugees to their former homes in Israel as a right, but rather as a political claim to be resolved as part of a final peace settlement.^[6]^[7]

Other disputed aspects include the issue of the territorial unit to which Palestinian self-determination would attach, the context (whether primarily humanitarian or political) within which the right is being advanced, and the universality of the principles advocated or established to other (current and former) refugee situations.

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