I have recently responded to an article that Richard Silverstein has recently written for “mass consumption.”  I implore you to denounce this hateful fraudster!  My response is below:

It is sad for me to see someone like Mr. Silverstein being given any kind of forum to express his distorted view of the Jewish world, which stems from a dysfunctional Jewish identity.  Whenever he writes these formal pieces, he purposely tones down his own “lunacy” in order to appear normal/sane to a wider audience.  Don’t be fooled, he is no more Jewish than Ahmadinejad is.   I’ve read a substantial amount of his personal postings and it must be understood that he is a hater of Israel and must not be interpreted to be a “peace activist” of any sort (which is a charade).  It would be more productive for him and his readers if he simply made “tsuvah” (repented).

Professor Steven Plaut heads IsraCampus which is  ”Monitoring Israel’s Academic Fifth Column.” 

Isracampus at www.isracampus.org.il is the main watchdog group in Israel that documents, monitors and exposes the activities of Israel’s “academic fifth column,” meaning the radical anti-Israel academics employed as faculty members in the Israeli university system.

Modeled in part on “Campus Watch” in North America, ISRACAMPUS monitors and exposes the anti-Israel (and sometimes anti-Semitic) political activities, writings, and pronouncements of Israel’s far-leftist academic extremists.  Israeli universities contain hundreds of faculty members who are active in promoting boycotts of Israel, in organizing army soldiers for mutiny and refusal to serve, in promoting law breaking, and in collaborating with anti-Israel groups attempting to delegitimize Israel as a fascist, terrorist, racist, apartheid entity.  Students, professors, donors, alumni, journalists and others participate in ISRACAMPUS and help it gather materials.

Until ISRACAMPUS came upon the scene, few in Israel and fewer still outside Israel were aware of the anti-Israel activities of these Israeli academic radicals.  That is now changing.  The past few years, when there were numerous attempts to adopt boycott of Israel resolutions in the UK, Canada, in the US, and elsewhere, it was ISRACAMPUS that exposed the fact that most of these resolutions have Israeli academic initiators and sponsors, faculty members who draw salaries paid for by the Israeli taxpayer, calling on anti-Semites all over the world to boycott Israel.  The Israeli media and the Jewish press around the world are increasingly discussing and reporting about the shenanigans of “Israel’s Academic Fifth Column.”

Israeli academic institutions have been misused in recent years as platforms for radical anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic propagandizing, often by tenured radicals with embarrassing academic records and dubious research credentials.  These include Israeli faculty denouncing their own country in the foreign press as “genocidal” and supposedly perpetrating Nazi-like war crimes, professors who publish articles proclaiming Israel a fascist apartheid state engaged in “state terrorism,” lecturers who endorse Arab terrorism against Jews, applaud the Hizbollah, and call for Israel to be dismantled entirely.

While its web site has been in operation for only a relatively short period, the impact of ISRACAMPUS is already being widely felt.  A growing number of reports are appearing in the mainstream media about Israel’s academic extremists, “New Historians,” and “Post-Zionists.”

ISRACAMPUS is the best way to “keep Israeli universities honest,” and to ensure that their faculty engage in research and educating, rather than in Israel-bashing, sedition, and anti-Zionist political propagandizing.

And ISRACAMPUS needs your help to stay in operation!

Monday, January 02, 2012

Report: Silverstein persona non grata in Israel?

Here is an organization in Israel trying to refute some of the enemies within.

I recently wrote to a friend and spiritual/political adversary.  He being a staunch liberal, humanist, and secular Zionist, I wrote to him the following, for the purpose of rousing him:

The light of the menorah represents our triumph over the culture of Yavan, ancient Greece, and its world view.

His response was:

let the sun shine into your heart and get out of the dark ages. That’s exactly the fight of the Palestinians. to fight western culture of the jews in their homeland. what do you want from me asshole? so palestine is derived from your book of fairy tales. so what? because the palestinians are not an ancient people they don’t have rights? do you seriously pit the right of a people above human rights? that’s the prove that you are a fascist! this is exactly what the nazis did. and this is what you and your ilk are trying to do. but this is nothing new. it is as old as your shit book. because judaism is the source of fascism. collective punishment, blood and soil, racial supremacy and what else. you are a fucking moron. just leave me alone. and sit on the bumper of the bus, so you don’t have to sit next to a woman. because women are inherently bad for man. I forgot. woman was made from the rib of adam. your god is a pervert and so are you.

Likewise, my response is:

Speaking of the Dark Ages, isn’t that when people would keep dogs to use them as napkins?  Sounds a lot like minhag Tel Aviv!  The Western culture of the Jews?  You mean the Hellenism that they brought from Europe?  The one that led to their demise in Europe?

With regards to the Nazis, wasn’t changing the Torah one of the first things they did when they took office?  They claimed that a Jew was not just someone with a Jewish mother, rather someone with a Jewish father or even with a single Jewish grandparent.  How is that different than the Haskalah?  It isn’t…

Judaism is the source of fascism?  How did Judaism begin?  Abraham started Judaism by rebelling against the secular tyrant Nimrod.  Ironically, today it is fashionable for pin-headed secular Israelis to call themselves “Nimrod!”

Haven’t observant Jews gone though about 150 years of collective punishment?  Having aggressive know-nothing leftist professors telling the world what it’s like to be an Israeli?  Telling the world about the Holocaust when they, in reality, hate Judaism as much (if not more) than the Nazis?  How about the majority of Jews in the Exile who proclaim to the Gentile world how Jewish they are, yet turn around and defend the most heinous criminals, promoting policies that are immoral and anti-Torah?  How about secular Israelis who ridicule Torah Jews and turn around and tell everyone how Israeli they are?  Some don’t even realize that the I.D.F. is kept afloat by the American tax payer.  How about the tyranny of the spoiled Hellenized “intellectuals” who dictate though the media how the rest of us are supposed to think?

Is Israel a democracy?  Huh!  How about the Jews of Arab countries, who are the ethnic majority, who have been sitting on the bench for some 70 years while their assimilated European counterparts have a tyrannical monopoly over the only Jewish country (besides New York) in the world.  Meanwhile, while running this tyrannical monopoly, they tell the rest of the world how democratic and Israeli they are (because Jewish is now an old-fashioned term)!  It is the clever collective punishment of the minority over the majority.

And he responded:

Asshole, your book started the whole idea of collective punishment. Not once not twice but many times. your book endorses genocide. in the name of your almighty allah. And how tolerant you religious people are. if someone does not believe what you believe he is a self hating jew. fuck you and your jewishness. which I really start to hate. that does not mean that i hate myself. i just hate your self rightousness. we are the chosen among the chosen. we can’t keep our dick in the pants, that why we need gender segragation. why don’t you all go back in your fucking ghettos and fuck your head on the wall and start wailing.

what is an asshole like you doing studying physics. that’s hellenistic! has nothing to do with judaism. the world exists only some 6000 years. not longer. all science is nonsense only the thora is right!!!

what about the palestinians? the are not a people you say. they are. perhaps they were not. the state of israel has created them. read up in a dictionary what a people means. you put the right of the people above human rights. that’s why you don’t grant the palestinians their rights. you justify antisemitism. because the goy as a people had the same right to say to the jew to get lost. but your rabbid rabbies did not let the jews go back, you assholes told them to wait for the fucking massiah. that’s why the jews suffered all the time. and now almost 2000 years later everything has changed and the palestinians have to suffer.

listen asshole, why don’t you just go back where you came from and leave us alone. Just leave me alone. don’t ever call me or send me an sms or e-mail. i don’t need an idiot like you to tell me how wrong i live my live. fuck off!!!!! i block you on facebook and skype. go to your rabbies!!!!!!1

Dear Friends,

As you all know, Hanukkah begins tonight! Below, please find halakhot and guidelines for the practical observance of Hanukkah in accordance with our tradition. From my family to yours, best wishes for a happy, healthy and meaningful holiday!

Sincerely Yours,
Rabbi Maroof

                                         אור יעקב                                                 
                                           קיצור הלכות חנוכה                                             
          Essential Laws of Hanukkah
 by Rabbi J. Maroof

1. This year, Hanukkah begins on Tuesday Evening, December 20th and ends on Wednesday Evening, December 28th. The last candle lighting will be Tuesday evening, December 27th.

2. Lighting Hanukkah candles is one of the most beloved mitsvot of our tradition. One should be careful to light the Hanukkah menorah, or Hanukiyah, every one of the eight nights of the holiday.

3. The Sephardic custom is to have only one Hanukiyah per household, even for a very large family. Ashkenazim typically have a separate Hanukiyah for each member of the family.

4. On the first night, two candles are used. One should be placed to the far right of the Hanukiyah. The other serves as the shamash, the “helper candle”, and should be placed in the special location designated for it.

5. Each night, another candle is added to the Hanukiyah. The candles should be placed in the Hanukiyah from right to left. However, when lighting the Hanukiyah, we proceed from left to right, beginning with the candle that was most recently added.

6. On the first night of Hanukkah, three blessings are recited before lighting the candles – Asher Qiddeshanu Bemitsvotav Vetsivanu Lehadliq ner Hanukkah, She-asa nissim, and Sheheheyanu.. On the remaining nights, only two blessings are recited, because Sheheheyanu is omitted.

7. After the candles have been lit, we read the paragraph Hanerot Halalu, as well as a chapter of Tehillim that is printed in the Siddur. Some have the custom of singing Maoz Tsur as well.

8. The best time to light the Hanukkah candles is generally at nightfall, from fifteen minutes to a half hour after sundown.  If one cannot light at that time, one may do so at any point during the night, provided that members of the household are still awake at that time to view the candles.

9. One who is travelling during Hanukkah does not need to light any candles as long as one’s family will be lighting candles at home. However, a person who normally lives alone and is travelling during Hanukkah still has an obligation to light candles.  If staying in a hotel, he or she must light the Hanukiyah there. If staying with Jewish relatives or friends who are lighting candles themselves, one must “join in” with the family by contributing a quarter toward the cost of the oil or candles and thereby acquiring a share in the mitsvah.

10. One who attends a Hanukkah gathering and participates in a Hanukkah candle lighting in a synagogue, restaurant or friend’s home does not fulfill the mitzvah through this participation. One must light Hanukkah candles in one’s home or in the place one plans to sleep that night, as detailed in Law #9.

11. On Friday afternoon, Hanukkah candles must be lit before Shabbat candles. On Saturday night, the candles cannot be lit until after Shabbat ends and Havdalah is recited.

12. One cannot, under any circumstances, light Hanukkah candles once Shabbat has started. To light candles on Friday night after sundown would be a desecration of Shabbat and not a mitsvah at all.

13. Hanukkah candles should burn for a minimum of a half hour. On Friday nights, when we light them especially early, it is preferable to use larger candles that will burn for at least an hour and a half.

14. If the candles become extinguished, even if a half hour has not yet elapsed, it is not necessary to relight them.

15. Our custom is that women should not do any household work as long as the candles are burning.

16. Throughout Hanukkah, we include a full Hallel and a special Torah reading in the morning service. Please join us for prayers during the holiday!

What is Palestine?
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought”
“Israel Hayom” newsletter, December 16, 2011
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1022

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the geographic term “Palestine” was predominantly associated – from biblical times until the 1948 establishment of Israel- with the Jewish people, Jewish history and Jewish geography. It was the crux of Jewish national aspirations, the Jewish Homeland.

In 135 AD, Judaea was renamed “Palestina,” by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, following the suppression of the Jewish uprising, in order to eradicate Jewish nationhood and to uproot the inherent Jewish attachment to the Land of Israel.  Similarly, Jerusalem was renamed “Aelia Capitolina,” in honor of Aelius Hadrian and the Roman Capitol, in an attempt to obliterate Jewish association with the spiritual and physical core of Judaism.

Since 1949, and increasingly since 1967, the term “Palestine” has been employed, by Israel’s enemies, in order to delegitimize the existence of the Jewish State.  In April 1950, Judea and Samaria were renamed “the West Bank”, by the Jordanian occupation, in order to assert Jordanian rule, and expunge Jewish connection to the cradle of Jewish history. Until 1950, all official Ottoman, British and prior records referred to “Judea and Samaria” and not to the “West Bank.”

“Palestine” is a derivative of the Hebrew term “Plishtim” (invaders), the Biblical name of the Philistines, non-Semites from the Greek islands and from Phoenicia, who migrated in the 12th century BCE to Pleshet, along the Mediterranean. The term “Palestine” was established, in the 5^th century BC, by the Greek historian, Herodotus, and adopted in 135 AD, by the Roman Empire, in an attempt to erase “Judaea” from human memory.

According to Prof. Bernard Lewis, the icon of Mid-East historians (International History Review, January, 1980), “the earliest attempts at a territorial definition of the country later known as Palestine are in the Bible.”   In its attempts to devastate Jewish national aspirations, the Roman Empire attached Palestine to the province of Syria.  In 400 AD, Palestine was split into Palestina Prima – with its capital in Caesarea – and Palestina Secunda – with its capital in Bethshean, further diminishing the stature of Jerusalem.

Prof. Lewis notes that the 7^th century Arab conquest of Palestine perpetuated the neglect of Jerusalem, while elevating the status of Lydda, Ramla and Tiberias. “In the early medieval Arabic usage, Filastin [Palestine] and Urdunn [Jordan] were sub-districts forming part of the greater geographical entity known as Syria…. Under Roman, Byzantine and Islamic rule, Palestine was politically submerged.  It reappeared only under the Crusaders…. the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem….

“Under the successors of Saladin, and still more under the Mamluks, the country was redistributed in new territorial units … with its capital in Damascus…. After the Ottoman conquest in 1516-17, the country was divided into Ottoman administrative districts… subject to the authority of the Governor-General of Damascus….

“[The term Palestine] was no longer used by Muslims, for whom it had never meant more than an administrative sub-district and it had been forgotten even in that limited sense….

“With the British conquest in 1917-18, Palestine became the official name of a definite territory for the first time since the early Middle Ages…. Palestine at this moment included both banks of the Jordan…. On November 29, 1947, the General Assembly of the UN adopted a [non-binding] resolution approving the partition of mandatory Palestine into three components: a Jewish state, an Arab state and an international zone…. [The Arab] rejected the partition resolution and went to war to prevent its implementation…. The Palestine entity, formally established and defined by Britain, was formally abolished in 1948 with the termination of the Mandate.” 

The Land of Israel (Palestine) has played a critical role in Jewish history, religion, nationalism, culture, language and personal and communal relationships, compared with the marginal role played by Palestine in Arab and Muslim history. Hence, the moral high ground for mandating the establishment of a Jewish State by the 1917 Balfour Declaration (on both sides of the Jordan River) and the 1922 League of Nations’ British Mandate for Palestine (from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean).  Article 80 of the UN Charter upholds the “Mandate for Palestine,” which has not been overruled until today.

The fact that most Arab towns and villages in Judea and Samaria have retained their original Biblical Jewish names, highlights Jewish roots in the Land of Israel (Palestine).  For example, Bethlehem, Hebron, A-Dura is Biblical Adora’yim, A-Ram is Haramah, Anata is Anatot, Batir is Beitar, Beit-Hur is Beit Horon, Beitin is Bethel, Mukhmas is Mikhmash, Seilun is Shilo, Tequa’ is Teqoah, etc.

These sites are not occupied by the Jewish State.  They are the epitome of the Jewish moral high ground and Statehood in the Land of Israel, Palestine.

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I recently came across an essay that was written by Patrick Buchanan, “A Brief for Whitey.”  Although we don’t have age and family background in common, as a fellow Virginian who has taken a markedly different direction in life, I feel compelled to respond to his some of his statements.

After describing briefly the history of race relations in America, Buchanan says:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Firstly this is a disgusting, egregious statement.  Mr. Buchanan shows, for everyone to see, Christianity’s shameful roots in the murderous, lustful Roman Empire.  Kidnapping millions of people (with scores of people dying along the way), forcing them into decades of brutal servitude, and then proclaiming that you have “done them a favor” is absurd.  This is like a rapist who impregnates his victim and then declares that he has bestowed upon her a gift.

The heinous nature of these crimes coupled with the pathetic attempt at whitewashing them is the byproduct of a deviant culture and ethical system.  Many people who grew up as Christians or in a Christian culture are unaware of the fact that it is the Bible and its practitioners who are primarily to blame for this.

Christianity, from its very beginnings sought to undermine the core meaning of Jewish Scriptures.  The Torah, the Five Books of Moses which were given to Moses by God at Mount Sinai was given in Hebrew-the Holy Tongue and that which all of the prophets (along with Aramaic) spoke in.  The New Testament was written in Greek, which is associated with science, philosophy, art, and in particular, secularism (sometimes called Hellenism).  In fact, in pronouncing the word Bible in Hebrew, it sounds unmistakably familiar to the Hebrew word “bilbul” (as in the Tower of Babel)-which means confusion.  For the next two thousand years, with Jews having been displaced by Rome, the Bible has displaced the words of the prophets.

How exactly has the influence of Christianity perverted the words of the prophets?  The Talmud relates (Megila 9a):

This was on account of the incident related in connection with King Ptolemy, as it has been taught:  It is related of King Ptolemy that he brought together seventy-two elders and placed them in seventy-two [separate] rooms, without telling them why he had brought them together, and he went in to each one of them and said to him, translatefor me the Torah of Moses your master. God then prompted each one of them and they all conceived the same idea and wrote for him, God created in the beginning,…

In fact, the day of the 8th of Tevet (of the Hebrew calendar) was initially a fast day mourning the forced translation (a translation being an uprooting) of word of God in its original form.  This distortion of the original form of Scriptures foreshadowed the next two thousand years of Roman-Greek-Christian (Western) influence on the world.

There is no doubt as to why Jewish rabbinical commentators in the subsequent Roman exile have associated Christianity with the pig.  In order for an animal to be classified as kosher, it has to have two characteristics:  it must chew its cud and have split hooves.  A pig lies down and shows its hoofs-one of the necessarily characteristics.  However, the fact that it doesn’t chew its cud is hidden.  This behavior is likened to that of Esau, the twin brother of Jacob who would put on a show in front of his father Isaac in order to deceive him into thinking that he was a “kosher specimen.”  Esau, whose name in Hebrew means “done” because he refused to improve his behavior and character, would purposely ask “how to tithe salt or straw” as hypocritical pretense of piety.  Esau is associated with the evil side of reality (and Jacob good).  Esau’s flip flopping behavior was connected to the fact that he was an idolater, par excellence.  His behavior is so distained by God that it is written by the prophet Ovadia:

And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble, and they shall burn them and consume them; and none shall remain of the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken it.

and further in Malachi:

And I hated Esau, and laid waste his mountains and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

It is with this background that I would like to address the issue of the Christian Ten Commandments.  With regards to the commandment “Do not steal,” the primary commentator on the Torah, Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac (Rashi) explains (Exodus 20:13):

The verse speaks of one who kidnaps people, but the verse “You shall not steal” (Leviticus 19:11) speaks of one who steals money.  Or is it rather that this verse is about one who steals money and the verse below is about one who kidnaps?  You can say by way of clarification that a matter is learned from its context.  Just as each of the verses, “You shall not murder” and “You shall not commit adultery” discusses a matter for which people are liable to the court-imposed death penalty, so too, “You shall not steal,” which is juxtaposed with those verses, is a matter for which people are liable to the court-imposed death penalty.

Few Christians know the real meaning behind the verse above.  I believe it is because of these misinterpretations, blatant or not, that have caused so many people in history to have been unjustly harmed-and for people like Mr. Buchanan and others like him to be so misguided and callous in their assessment of these events in American history.

In light of the events concerning slavery in America, it is no wonder why American Jews helped to spear-head the Civil Rights Movement some 50 years ago.  After all, the Torah commands (Deuteronomy 16:20):

Justice, only justice shall you pursue, that you may live, and inherit the land which the Lord your God gives you.

What is the root cause of such barbarism?  The most significant Kabbalist in the past five hundred years, Isaac Luria, revealed in his “Book of Reincarnations” (Chapter 67) that “Jesus of Nazareth” who has been worshipped “as a god” for nearly two thousand years was in fact the reincarnation of Esau, the wicked idolatrous brother of Jacob.  Christendom, the inheritor of Rome’s bloody reins, has been under the influence of dualism.  Moreover, the belief that “Jesus of Nazareth” was in any way Divine, or was the Jewish Messiah prophesized about in Scriptures is the most long lasting and pernicious lie in human history.

So, what can be done about this?  The original intention of Scriptures, with regard to the Gentile world, was the “Noahide Laws.”  In fact, many of the founders of the United States of America had a concept of religion that was very close to the Noahide Laws.  For this reason, none of the major documents establishing the U.S.A. (the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, or the Pledge of Allegiance) mention Jesus-rather two of them mention the One and only God.

What are the Noahide Laws?  The United States Congress adopted a resolution (H.J.RES.104-March 26, 1991) stating, among other things:

Whereas Congress recognizes the historical tradition of ethical values and principles which are the basis of civilized society and upon which our great Nation was founded;

Whereas these ethical values and principles have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, when they were known as the Seven Noahide Laws;

Whereas without these ethical values and principles the edifice of civilization stands in serious peril of returning to chaos;

Whereas society is profoundly concerned with the recent weakening of these principles that has resulted in crises that beleaguer and threaten the fabric of civilized society;

These seven laws are:

Prohibition of Idolatry: You shall not have any idols before God.

Prohibition of Murder: You shall not murder.

Prohibition of Theft: You shall not steal.

Prohibition of Sexual immorality: You shall not commit any of a series of sexual prohibitions, which include adultery, certain forms of incest, homosexual behavior and bestiality.

Prohibition of Blasphemy: You shall not blaspheme God’s name.

Dietary Law: Do not eat flesh taken from an animal while it is still alive.

Requirement to have just Laws: Set up a governing body of law (e.g. Courts)

As a fellow Virginian (just as were the core founders of the U.S.A.), I feel it is incumbent upon Americans to take the lead in denouncing idolatry and violence as a means to an end.  Then, along with Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Wright, I will go down on my knees and thank the One and only God I am an American.

http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-a-brief-for-whitey-969

July 24, 2011

By Patrick J. Buchanan

How would he pull it off? I wondered.

How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people?

How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his venom about “the U.S. of K.K.K. America,” and howled, “God damn America!”

My hunch was right. Barack would turn the tables.

Yes, Barack agreed, Wright’s statements were “controversial,” and “divisive,” and “racially charged,” reflecting a “distorted view of America.”

But we must understand the man in full and the black experience out of which the Rev. Wright came: 350 years of slavery and segregation.

Barack then listed black grievances and informed us what white America must do to close the racial divide and heal the country.

The “white community,” said Barack, must start “acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination — and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past — are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds … .”

And what deeds must we perform to heal ourselves and our country?

The “white community” must invest more money in black schools and communities, enforce civil rights laws, ensure fairness in the criminal justice system and provide this generation of blacks with “ladders of opportunity” that were “unavailable” to Barack’s and the Rev. Wright’s generations.

What is wrong with Barack’s prognosis and Barack’s cure?

Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit and a hundred other cities on, as Nixon put it, “everybody but the rioters themselves.”

Was “white racism” really responsible for those black men looting auto dealerships and liquor stories, and burning down their own communities, as Otto Kerner said — that liberal icon until the feds put him away for bribery.

Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.

Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.

This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ’60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.

Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks — with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas — to advance black applicants over white applicants.

Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.

We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?

Barack talks about new “ladders of opportunity” for blacks.

Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for “deserving” white kids.

Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America’s fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?

Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?

As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?

Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?

We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.

Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.

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There is a video circling around the Jewish world that I and many other find very disturbing. It is endorsed by The Jewish Voice for Peace. Not surprisingly, here is another secularist organization condemning Israel who uses its supposed Jewish roots as a weapon against Jews.
Here is the statement from their site:

We call for young Jews and allies nationwide to join in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and with our Palestinian siblings living under their own form of occupation. Let us stand up to the 1% in our own community – the powerful institutions that support Israel’s corporate-backed military control of the Palestinian people and act as the gatekeepers for our community.

Throughout history, Jews have been persecuted as the scapegoats for powerful financiers, thus bearing the brunt of economic hardship on multiple fronts. This collective memory instills us with the responsibility to speak out against corporate exploitation and human rights violations, such as the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, which has politically and economically disenfranchised over nine million people in the name of Jewish statehood.

The ongoing colonization of Palestine has concentrated wealth in the hands of the ultra-stratified Israeli elite, as well as multinational corporations like Caterpillar, Motorola, Elbit, Northrop Grumman, and Veolia. In the United States, over $33 billion in foreign aid has gone to sustaining Israel’s occupation— most of it going directly into the pockets of US-based arms-makers— instead of funding jobs, education, healthcare, and housing for the 99%.

We face a similar dilemma in our own Jewish institutions, which tend to be dominated by a handful of wealthy right-wing donors who fund their own interests, such as free trips to Israel, while urgent community needs go unmet.

The occupation of Palestine and stratification of our own Jewish community are consistent with the grievances of the Occupy Wall Street New York General Assembly’s “Declaration of Occupation.” It is time for us to reclaim our own community.

It’s time to occupy Jewish institutions that actively obstruct human rights for Palestinians, like AIPAC, the Jewish Federations, Birthright, the Jewish National Fund, Hillel, and the foundations of right-wing philanthropists, like the Schusterman Foundation, which impose ideological litmus tests on Jews who want to work in or with the Jewish community.

It’s time to occupy the offices and stores of the multinational corporations that profit off of human rights abuses in Palestine.

Join us and make your voices heard!

The most blaring thing about this piece is the constant use of the terms “Jewish” and “Palestinian.” Why is their approach a fraudulent one? Because the concept of “Jewish” is defined by the Tanach (Jewish Scriptures). It is this same source that defined the Land of Israel as belonging to the Jewish People. The association of the Land of Israel with “Palestine” was a fallacy invented by Rome in order to erase the Jewish connection with Land of Israel. This misguided organization uses that same falsification along with their own “Jewishness” (which is itself defined by the Torah) as a weapon against the State of Israel, Torah Judaism, and the very safety of Jews living in Israel.
What is the source behind their efforts? The idolatry of Jewish Hellenism. Just as the majority of Jews in the Maccabeean era were eager to conform to the culture of their gentile handlers, so too these modern-day Hellenists seek confirmation from those who would readily assimilate them into mainstream Western society. However, unbeknownst to them Muslims, both fundamentalist and not, aren’t fooled by this philosophical ass-kissing. Muslims everywhere will continue to campaign on behalf of their pseudo-nation “Palestine” while turn-coats claiming to be “proud Jews” continue to give ammunition to our enemies. I, for one am not proud that they are Jewish (even if they actually are).