Update: Max Blumenthal crossed posted this video and story on The Huffington Post. Even though HuffPo promoted it this morning over their Twitter feed, it has been taken down without explanation. We'll post more as we get the details.
Max Blumenthal writes:
On May 27, journalist Jesse Rosenfeld and I set out on the streets of Tel Aviv to probe the political opinions of young local residents. We started the day filming at Tel Aviv University, where a group of Jewish and Palestinian Israeli students gathered to protest a proposed law that would criminalize public observance of the Nakba, or the mass expulsion and killing of Palestinians by Zionist militias in 1948. There, we interviewed Palestinian Israeli students about the rising climate of repression, then spoke to another group of students who gathered nearby to heckle their Arab classmates and demand their deportation. A few hundred meters away, two genial business students expressed support for the so-called Nakba law, remarking to us, “If you want to keep democracy, you can’t let people protest against the independence of the country.”
That evening, Jesse and I took our camera to central Tel Aviv, where thousands were taking part in the annual all-night festival known as White Night. Some revelers took an intermission from the partying to express to us their hatred for the Iranian people. And a group of teenagers launched into a virtually unprompted diatribe against Barack Obama, referring to him as a Nazi, a Muslim, and a “Cushi,” which is Hebrew slang for “nigger.” When questioned about the source of his opinions, one teenager proudly declared himself a “gezan,” or a racist.
This video, entitled “Feeling the Hate in Tel Aviv,” is the sequel to a piece the Israeli blogger Joseph Dana and I released in June called “Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem.” That video, which featured a cast of mostly American Jews in Jerusalem leveling racist vitriol at Obama, stirred immediate controversy, prompting the Huffington Post to remove it on the grounds that it was not “newsworthy.” As the “not newsworthy” video began climbing towards 400,000 hits on YouTube, and before YouTube and Vimeo banned it without explanation and without offering me any legal recourse, the Israeli media weighed in. (“Feeling the Hate” has been reposted here).
Benjamin Hartman, a young correspondent for Ha’aretz who had moved to Israel from his hometown of Austin, Texas, wrote that my video was “circling the internet at a critical velocity on a mission to humiliate the Jewish people.” Hartman concluded that I was “speaking to the wrong crowd at the wrong time of night,” a meme that would comprise the key talking point for bloggers and organized Jewish groups (including the Israeli chapter of Democrats Abroad) seeking to discredit and ultimately suppress the video.
Hartman then offered me advice on where to find the right crowd, and at which time of night they might be on their best behavior:
“I hope Blumenthal films his next segment in Tel Aviv, though the results would probably be far less salacious. On a balcony in Florentin, he would ask the drum circle what they think of Obama and through the purple haze would hear only praise for the president, before being forced to listen to a 30-minute account of a recent trip to Nepal.”
Unbeknownst to Hartman, who only attempted to interview me days after publishing his review and then published a piece questioning whether I had been “fueling anti-Semitism,” I had already filmed my next segment in Tel Aviv. (And I had already spent an evening, sans camera, with an Israeli hippie on a balcony in Florentin, though he told me through the purple haze that the Palestinian people do not exist and should be immediately transferred to Jordan).
Now that I have released my footage from Tel Aviv, I wonder what Hartman and other, even more insecure critics of my first “Feeling the Hate” video will do to ensure that the sequel does not “humiliate the Jewish people.” Will they rely on the same old hasbara?
Can they still claim that clean-cut students at Tel Aviv University were “the wrong crowd?” Was filming during the afternoon, or during the evening at an officially sanctioned festival still “the wrong time?” And could I have heard similarly racist opinions in “an American college town,” as Hartman suggested? Perhaps for my next video I should ask frat brothers at South Dakota University if they would like their Native American classmates to be jailed for three years for observing the massacre of Wounded Knee. Or I could ask Anglo students at the University of Texas, located in Hartman’s hometown, if they want the US government to round up every single Latino student on campus -- especially those who are US citizens -- and deport them to somewhere south of the border. Call me an idealist, but for some reason I don’t think this project would go anywhere.
If Hartman chooses to review the sequel, I hope he will explain how he has so stringently avoided any exposure to the crude racism, bellicose nationalism and anti-democratic sentiments I heard expressed on a daily basis by young, seemingly cosmopolitan Jewish Israelis during the month I spent living in the so-called “bubble city” of Tel Aviv. Or perhaps Hartman has been exposed to it, but believes racism in Tel Aviv must be concealed from the goyim to avoid tribal humiliation. Harvard University Yiddish literature professor Ruth Wisse has promoted this mentality, telling a group of young Jewish journalists in 2007 that they should not act as independent-minded critics but rather as “soldiers” for Israel, “armed with pens instead of Uzis," as Eric Alterman recalled.
Gershom Gorenberg, the writer American opinion pages so often turn to for a supposedly progressive Israeli perspective, attacked “Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem” as “an argument for old media,” claiming the video did not pass journalistic muster because I didn’t interview enough “real” Israelis.
Have I now met Gorenberg’s threshold for Israeli interview subjects? If Gorenberg, who recently took to the pages of the neocon Weekly Standard to pontificate on “The Missing Mahatma in Palestine," has any further advice on improving my reporting chops, I hope he will help readers locate the Israeli MLK as well. He can start with the Tel Aviv U student who confuses Martin Luther King with Rodney King, then proceeds to mock his optimistic philosophy.
Uncomfortable as is may be for many to confront, Israeli resentment of Arabs, minorities and designated foreign enemies ranging from the Iranian people to Barack Obama is not a phenomenon exclusive to the denizens of fanatical settlements in the West Bank. The trend now hovers well above the surface in the mainstream of Israeli society, including throughout Tel Aviv. It is reflected most apparently in the almost total national support for Israel’s brutal, maximalist war on the civilian population of the Gaza Strip in December 2008-January 2009, the subsequent election of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the ascent of Avigdor Lieberman and his proto-fascist Yisrael Beiteynu party.
It is also reflected in unreported daily indignities against members of the country’s Arab population, like the detention and interrogation I witnessed in the Florentin district of two Palestinian Israeli men by Tel Aviv police officers. Their crime, I learned, was speaking Arabic on a city bus. “The police are always on my dick,” one of the men told me after he was released. “But that’s what it’s like being Palestinian in Tel Aviv, so I’ve gotten used to it.”
The proposed bills that have flooded the Knesset since the election which seek to criminalize the speech of Palestinian Israelis and demand they make loyalty oaths under threat of deportation, along with the constant raids and repressive actions by Israeli authorities against anti-occupation activists, reveal a country careening rapidly and perhaps irrevocably towards authoritarianism. Just as Hamas reflects the genuine national aspirations of Palestinians, the far-right coalition government of Israel embodies the mood of Israeli society. This is not a momentary aberration.
“I don’t think there is a qualitative change [in Israeli society], I think there’s a deepening of trends,” former Knesset member and New Israel Fund President Naomi Chazan told me. “One day it’s the Arabs, the next day it’s going to be the secular people, the next day it’s going to be women. You know where the repression starts but you have no idea where it ends.”
Blumenthal is author of the forthcoming Republican Gomorrah.
Correction to video. Blumenthal: "We have reviewed footage of the Tel Aviv U student identified as a 'Jewish-Druze Israeli.' He describes himself over and over (and quite defensively) as a Jew while several of his friends identify him as a Jew with mixed Druze heritage. While it is very rare for Jews and the Druze to intermarry in Israel, the description by the student and his friends accounts for the student's designation, one that some commenters have challenged."
"Arabs have lived in Israel even before 1967." Actually they lived in Israel before Israel was even created. Jaffa was the main Palestinian town before Israel destroyed it. Of course, Arabs are NOT free to wander wherever they like in Israel, unless they want to get lynched. The reason Jews don't wander around in Arab shopping malls is because there aren't any.
As the Palestinian spiritual and political leader abbeted the Nazis in the commision of the Holocaust, and as every historian of note considers the 1948 war a civil war, before the entry of 7 additional Arab armies. You actually have to know history before you spew.
Indeed Tommy, Jake represents the very worst elements of Zionism. In fact, I have a suspicious that he is just an anti Semite, posing as an Israeli to make Israelis look bad. Shame on you Jake. You perverted anti Semite.
dude i am pretty sure it was 129% of the population
And the water was turned off because???? Or isn't that important? Just had to get off a bit of antisemitic bullshit to make your day?
What a lovely example. Abu Gosh, a town that it dominated by commandos, much tot eh dissatisfaction of the villagers,. It reminds me of the quote from Moshe Dayan when he said: "…the situation today resembles the complex relationship between a Bedouin man and the girl he kidnaps against his will…You Palestinians, as a nation, don't want us today, but we'll change your attitude by forcing our presence on you." You will "live like dogs, and whoever will leave, will leave," while we take what we want.
Sorry to break it to you Reality, but when you say "we", don't confuse the voices in your head for real people.
Don't forget striking all of Iran's "holiest sites", in the words of National Security Advisor Uzi Arad — indeed, "everything and anything of value… everything together." I suppose that's an expression of the solidarity between the "people" of Israel and the "people" of Iran as well, according to Jake?
This should have been broken down into separate videos. The best way to get Americans to turn on Jews and Israel is to make a video solely dedicated to Jewish people voicing their concerns about Obama. The part about Iran probably doesn't make much difference because people in the US share Israelis concerns on Iran. Also The part about the university protest should be yet another separate video targeted to people that have already "drank the kool aid" as it were, radical leftists.
This should have been broken down into separate videos. The best way to get Americans to turn on Jews and Israel is to make a video solely dedicated to Jewish people voicing their concerns about Obama. The part about Iran probably doesn't make much difference because people in the US share Israelis concerns on Iran. Also The part about the university protest should be yet another separate video targeted to people that have already "drank the kool aid" as it were, radical leftists.
I have been an adult for forty years, and have interacted with a wide variety of social groups across the U.S. and Europe. In that time, I have encountered only one genuine antisemite, an Italian writer. The goy whispers that are imagined by those who are feverishly indoctrinated in the Jewish-American summer camps simply do not exist. In contrast, I am very sorry to say, I have only heard two genuinely racist comments made in private conversation in the last 20 years. One occasion involved a Jewish man, who said nasty and insulting things about the Swedes among whom he grew up in the Midwest. Another was at a small dinner party, by a visiting Jewish Israeli with an advanced degree, who told me I should avoid American-Iranian doctors, because Iranians are bad people.
Since it's a well documented fact tht the Zionists collaborated with the Nazis and shared many of the same racist, anti-assimilationist tendencies…
I'm pretty sure you're a liar and a moron: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=123195...
Wasn't he appointed by the British?
The Mufti did nothing to abet the Nazis in the commission of the Holocaust beyond spouting verbal excrement. In fact, the Palestinians ignored his calls for johadagainst the British because they had already been promised independence by the British. The Stern gang were financed by Nazi affiliated sympathizers in their quest to drive out the British. So yes, it helps if you know your hknow history before you spew. Evidently, you don't know much bluebeard .
Great video, but I've been thinking a lot about what makes a democratic nation, and while free speech is the cornerstone of our democracy, it's not written in the constitution of a lot of democracies (for example, Canada, England – which has no constitution, like Israel, Germany, etc.) In fact a lot of European countries selectively single out certain speech as illegal (Holocaust denial, e.g.). Israel is not a democracy, since it has democratic representation for only a portion of the population, and has institutionalized laws giving non-Jews fewer rights than Jews. But denial of free speech is not a reason for its lack of democracy.
Wow, Max that was even more unprofessionally done than your Jerusalem video. Starting with the faux 60's era folk song, continuing with your oh so sly prodding, your pretended lack of understanding of Hebrew, the insipid editing. Ironic that a man who obviously doesn't have the skill to produce a Bar Mitzvah video now seeks to make his name producing a video attempting to 'shine a light' said Bar Mitzvahs. I'm not sure if Youtube et al will reject this attempt for the obvious breach of journalistic ethics (i know, i know, you're not a journalist) or for the rank amateurishness.
Actually it's a blog, with entries and posts. Very orderly. Much like the one we're responding to. But since you've set out to trash me and my site, go ahead.
thanks for bearing witness to this max. the rationalized sober racism is even more repulsive than the drunken testosterone strain of part I
That's like going to the U.S. to do a film about abortion, and filming an intelligent, liberal professor from Columbia, and putting him up against some white trash from Alabama. or like putting a candidate like biden up against palin. you're right, its a slam dunk. but that is pretty much all we had to work with. thanks for the analogy btw, it was spot on. You should have gone to Ramallah as well and asked some passers-by about Israelis, I don't know if you'd feel comfortable with the answers. why? do you think they would have been drunk? or not smart and articulate ?
I was watching a youtube video of a Yemeni Jewish dance and the comments in Arabic were completely anti-Semitic, stating that the Jews weren't real Yeminis and that they were Zionists, that the women were whores. please provide the link. The economy in Israel is really awful 1/3 of Israeli children go hunger, the welfare state has been almost destroyed israel spend more money on defense per capita than any country in the world. maybe they should consider diverting some of it. re the welfare state, i hear the ultra orthodox encourage having a dozen kids and get supported by the state. What you are seeing is a cycle of anti-Semitism fueling racism, extremism fueling extremism. What you are seeing is a cycle of extreme zionism fueling racist extremismis fueling anti-Semitism.
has anyone read israeli uncensored news?. now here is some diseased stuff.. I would support any strong retribution, however illegal. Hanging the terrorist’s entire extended family – great. Skinning them, burning alive – great. The world would scream, but the exceedingly harsh measure will discourage many terrorists. House demolitions, they are wrong.
you mean Israeli interests, not Jewish interests. It's an important distinction for when Americans start freaking out about their empty wallets and follow the dots to Zionists.
Artificial Zionism artificially separated the peoples of Palestine. It's just one more shame of Zionism.
I agree with you there, Israelis, and If I was a Jew I would be REAL public about it! In fact I would wear a sign on my back!
too bad I agree with your enemies, Michael. Your buddies are trespassers. Any grievance you have in regard to the Arab world should be addressed in an Arab court. That way yous would be more inclined to conduct yourselves properly. And let the persecuted foreign Jews immigrate somewhere else, go ride on some other shumcks back for a change!
Most of these kids have already done army service. They are the footsoldiers of the occupation. Everyone they know serves. The Palestinians don't because they don't tend to agree with Zionist supremacy. I didn't see any Orthodox in the video. Next video could be Max interviewing the secular Israelis on how they hate the Orthodox. These people man and woman the checkpoints. They are the ones who ask the Palestinians to play violins and deliver their babies in the dirt. Of course they are racist. And bears also shit in the woods. You can't force feed the Holocaust and Masada to kids for their entire education. You can't force them to spend 3 years abusing basic human rights in an army which is attempting to rewrite international law one dunam at a time and then expect them to be sensitive multiculturalists. Garbage in, garbage out.
what a nut. Sure glad you are not here representing Christians or Muslims!
confused Druze….LOL
Hebrew is a huge and mostly unmentioned factor in Israeli racism. Most of the non elite don't speak any other language. See the Mizrahi person in the video who didn't have the racist vocab in english. So you have 5.5 million people with no linguistic connection to the outside world speaking a language that was reinvented for the purposes of colonisation. Many of the language's memes come from the army. Most Israelis probably don't even realise. whne that is all you know how can you know?
It was not my intention to trash your site. All I asked for was a link and you got snarky so I gave a little back.
Actually, the US and israel concerns regarding Iran diverge substantially, because we in the US do not really believe that Iran is on its way to acquire a nuclear weapon. It is strictly israel that's been beating the war drums on this issue – and what voices you hear in the US professing grave "alarm" about Iran are the neocon and zionist friends. Check the NIE report – ONLY Israel (+aipac friends) were so eager to discredit it. Ditto baradei whi should know more than any Israeli. For the Americans negotiations with Iran are clearly in the country's best interests, given the US positions in Iraq and afganistan, and the need to cool things with the Russians. Every arrow points in the direction of negotiations. But I would go even further – it may well be a good idea for the US to allow Iran to make progress in weaponizing themselves. Who else can be a counterpoint to Israel in the middle east? and don't think for a moment that American intelligence agencies are not worried about Israel and its arsenal of nuclear weaponry. Who said we can trust Israel in the long run? when the country seems to be taking a sharp turn to the right, does the world really want Lieberman's or shas' finger on the red button? Right now it seems that Iranians are in the process of carving out a future government for themselves. America's interests are best served by letting events take their natural course over there. Just because israel has a silly beef with hezbollah does not mean the entire world needs to pay homage to their paranoia,
Arab Jewish Tensions High in Beersheeba: http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097411.html Housing Minister: Spread of Arab population must be stopped link to haaretz.com
….because as Charlene explained, the Jewish swimming pools were in danger of running dry. Can't have that can we? Dry swimming pools means the destruction of Israel and pointing it out is anti Semitic, yes.
well pointed out Dana, Not only did the 2007 NIE state there was no evidence of a nuclear weapons program, but Dennis Blair testifies 2 months ago before the Senate that those conclusions are still supported by all 16 US intel agencies. In any case, Tzipi Livni said that Israel could live with a nuclear armed Iran, a sentiment apparently shared by the majority of Israelis.
I just want to say thank-you and hope you're skin is thick enough to take the flak.
'As the “not newsworthy” video began climbing towards 400,000 hits on YouTube, and before YouTube and Vimeo banned it without explanation and without offering me any legal recourse, the Israeli media weighed in.' well, thats significant, and worthy of its own youtube video…it confirms the control exerted by zionist jews on all forms of media.
'Hartman concluded that I was “speaking to the wrong crowd at the wrong time of night,” a meme that would comprise the key talking point for bloggers and organized Jewish groups ' translation: jews arent racists…wel some arent, but he cant deny that some are…And whenj you look at the IOF and the government, it looks like racism is heavily institutionalised..dn not by the 'wrong crowd'
jewish liberal prof: 'I was on the web just last night and I was watching a youtube video of a Yemeni Jewish dance and the comments in Arabic were completely anti-Semitic, stating that the Jews weren't real Yeminis and that they were Zionists, that the women were whores' this liberal uses a typical liberal tactic…they also do it. But are the yemenis bulldozing jewish houses, or keepiin them waiting at checkpoints? South Africa is a leader in the Boycott Israel movement and calling for the replacement of Israel with a secular Palestinian state' good idea…but not bound to be popular the wrong or right crowd in israel or US. '
Dana wrote: "But I would go even further – it may well be a good idea for the US to allow Iran to make progress in weaponizing themselves…." I don't know about that Dana; even just simply from the idea that whenever any potential U.S. opponent gets The Bomb it increases the chances to at least *some* degree that some day the U.S. may have to use our Bombs on them. That's not in our interest ever I don't think if its at all avoidable, right? Seems to me the best route in terms of U.S. interests is having an utterly nuke-free Middle East in a verifiable inspection regime, which if I'm not mistaken there is a huge amount of support for in the arab countries over there and which Iran may well even agree to but which is something Israel has staunchly rejected. Of course sooner or later as others get the Bomb Israel's strategic calculation may shift, but for right now its clear stance is that it isn't really against a nuke-armed Middle East; it's only against any country other than *itself* having nukes in the ME. Has been okay so far, and you have to admit Israel as been responsible in its possession of its nukes, but times are changing aren't they? And given same it seems to me U.S. interests argue that we ought to be pushing for a nuke-free ME now. Including Pakistan, meaning that India too would have to give way as well which it very well might easily agree to if Pakistan agreed. I.e., somewhat along the lines of what you wrote at least, maybe the *threat* of Iran becoming nuke capable can in fact be turned into a real opportunity.
And if he was Jewish, the IDF would have completely denied it.
link?
An Arab-Israeli is no occupied by anyone and only oppressed because of there brethren who continue to commit terror attacks and won't recognize the reality of Israel.
Michelle, that mentality will keep getting your Palestinian friends killed. Israel is reality, quit trying to refute reality. Once Jewish Arabs are allowed back in their homelands I might consider feeling sorry for the Pals, but until then screw you all, keep living in filth, you created it yourself, you could end it in a second: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_A...
so you are saying the British fought along side the Jews of Palestine? for a history buff you should really try removing your head from your arse…..
Thanks for the video. I've only watched half of it but it seems so odd. I was taught about all six major religions (as everyone is) and no-one blinked twice. It was natural, like it was natural to have friends of all major religions and of different races. In the video, everyone makes a big deal about it, both the Arabs and the Jews. Even the part when they went to a Mosque, so what? The celebrations at Hannukah – Muslim ( and Hindu, Jewish and Sikh) children, all over Britain, take part in nativity plays at Christmas and no-one cared. It seems like a lot needs to be done before there's real reconciliation.
dipshit: they supported the operation, the article said nothing about supporting the innocent deaths it created. it sure as hell stopped the rocket fire didn't it? I thought this was a no spin zone…
20% of the Knesset are from Arab parties. And those in the WB and Gaza are under occupation, since when did an occupied ppl get to vote?
Annie, c'mon there is nothing Israeli about that blog and to call it news is just ridiculous. That would be like me citing the KKK website and saying its news from America.
No the Yeminis are just murdering their religious leaders and squandering once vibrant Jewish population, just like in every other Arab country.
The last time the Gazans got to vote and excercise their democratic right, Israel puniched them for voting the wrong way.
Gosh, Max Blumenthal has discovered that in a country at war for sixty years, its possible to find people who say unkind things about the other side. Astonishing revelation.
I'm not sure how far to go with the distinction. It isn't just Zionists who have forced Israel and Jewish interests on the nation over the last 60+ years. It isn't just Zionists who abuse the holocaust for their own needs, or use the term anti-Semite as a dishonest political weapon. Are most of the Jewish reporters on NPR (or in the MSM and on the fringes) rabid Zionists or progressive Jews? I'm sure that they would call themselves progressives, but there is no use in making the distinction. It seems that even the anti-Zionist Jews would have us involved in some sort of solution for Israel, as if any solution is divorced from Zionism. Israel is largely a Jewish fixation. cont…
I guess he was feeling right at home in Tel Aviv :D Senior KKK member arrested in Tel Aviv Jul. 13, 2009 Yaakov Lappin , THE JERUSALEM POST A high-ranking white supremacist on the run from US federal authorities was arrested on Monday night in a south Tel Aviv hideout. 33-year-old Micky Louis Mayon, one of America's 100 Most Wanted criminals, and a member of the Ku Klux Klan, was arrested in a Florentine apartment by the National Immigration Authority's newly formed Oz enforcement unit. Mayon is wanted in the US on charges of racist assaults, setting fire to vehicles belonging to federal agents, and a host of violence incidents. The Oz unit was acting on intelligence relayed by Interpol, which informed authorities here that Mayon had entered Israel illegally. He is said to have moved apartments often in order to evade police, but his efforts proved fruitless on Monday when a delicate operation by the Oz unit saw officers break into his hideout and arrest him. Oz unit members have the powers of a police officer but can only use them in cases of illegal entry into the country. Mayon was the subject of an American arrest operation in November 2007, but officers soon realized he had flown to Israel on a one-way ticket. Earlier that year, he reportedly fired his gun in the air repeatedly after being involved in an argument with an African-American. US authorities have described him as a dangerous fugitive. Oz Unit head Tziki Sela said Mayon was surprised to be arrested, but cooperated with the officers. He has been transferred to a Holon jail facility, where he underwent an immigration hearing. He was then taken to an Israel Prison Authority jail facility. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=124644...
Few people have a problem talking of right-wing Christian, or Christian Zionist, politics and wildly inflating the numbers or influence in order to claim that either group is driving issues such as Middle East policy. But pointing out that there is Jewish political influence that drives Israel or other policies is out of bounds? We can dance around the issue by talking about the "meritocracy" or of outings of gays in the Jewish community due to opinions on what should be done in Israel, but we can't name the name the problem. Israel is a side issue. Jewish influence in the U.S., and the ethnic identity politics and attachments that go along with the influence are the problem.
Jake the snake, if you read the piece, you will see that this video was about Max demonstrating that Hartman's claim that the Jerusalem crowd were an aberration is easily falsified. Other places have their problems with racism, that's for sure, but Israel is unique among the countries it identifies with in that contemptuous and patronizing attitudes are encouraged and sanctioned by the ruling regime that shuns and disenfranchises millions and confiscates from them whatever it fancies. One of the things that needs to happen if matters are to be resolved is to look at where we are now, and Max is doing a much better job of that than the "legitimate" media. Good work, Max.
I live in Alabama. I'd like for you to come down here and help me look for the white trash in my neighborhood. And what makes the professor from Columbia's opinion more valid than mine? Pretty shitty way to illustrate an example on being objective, wouldn't you say?
yoni…jewish right? every arab country has seen what the wannabe only jewish country is doing…creating a jews-only land and squandering its arab population. nice….
Since when did "Jaywalking" pass as journalism?
Israel proclaims their love for Druze patriotism while simultaneously cutting off their water supply in their villages–Haaretz had an article on this recently.
yes..not wanting to lear arabic is linguistic racism and emphasises the cultural superiority as well
Screw feeling the hate in Tel Aviv, I'm feeling it in America. I wouldn't call the average Alabaman more of a bigot than the average Jew. When it comes to accepting differences and diversity, it seems to go in only one direction with these people, which is why I view multiculturalism and calls for diversity the shams that they are. And I would also like to know what is the enlightened approach to abortion! An abortion is a horible thing that shouldn't be taken lightly or talked about using slogans. I'm not totally against abortion, but anyone who treats the issue casually is a moron. And anyone who casually participates in the procedure has some soul searching to do. My guess is that your presumption is that the Alabaman is pro-life, and the Columbia professor is pro-abortion.
Yeah, just like that Nazi officer took care of the violence emanating out of the Warsaw Ghetto. Good systematic application of organized force resulted in an efficient solution to terminate annoying resistance to well-intentioned occupation.
Correct, you sanely realize those voices come from mechanical Zionists who've chosen to be flat characters rather three-dimensional people with empathy for all humans.
Look at a map of Iran, look at the US wars on the sides of its borders; consider the installment of the Shah back in the Iranian day; consider the US supported 8 year war by Iraq on Iran. Consider also all Israel's preemptive attacks on other nations in its neighborhood, and also the preemptive attacks specifically on Iraqi and Syrian nuclear facilities. Consider further the "bomb Iran" rhetoric that's been spewing out of influential US and Israeli leaders. Consider also that Iran signed the anti-nuclear international treaty and agreed to inspections, and further, that Israel has not done so. Does anyone doubt that Iran would agree to a nuclear-free zone over the entire MIddle East? Conversely is it even remotely fair to demand from Iran so much more than is demanded of Israel? Or the USA, for example? Remember the Cuban MIssile crisis? Under the historical and current circumstances I just suggested, who's being irrational here? When's the last time Iran went to war other than in self-defense? There's no record of Iran acting preemptively. Both the USA and Israel have done so–and the US doesn't even live in the region, except by funded proxy via Israel.
Not to mention all the economic sanctions that have been passed by the US congress targeting Iran.
Wow, norm, it appears to you Max learned his technique from all those exposes of KKK, skinhead, and neo-Nazi youth that have posed as documentaries in the USA for decades? Good to know.Thanks!
KKK is a reasonable analogy to Zionism in action through the hooded cloak of democratic Israel. Think about it, dear readers of this blog's comments. Not nearly as far-fetched as it at first blush seems.
I agree with your general point; I merely want to point out that Palestinians are not allowed to serve in the IDF; they are not eligible for conscription in the first place, whether or not their personal views on Zionism. This is for two basic reasons: Israel views them as a 5th column because it knows it stole their land and has not given them full civil rights, and Israel is aware that throughout recorded world history, beginning to now, once anyone serves in support of any military force, they have a sympathetic claim on being accorded full membership in the group, entity, or state so served.
Yes, we are watching this, brian. We are watching Google, YouTube, and Vimeo very closely, as they attempt to extend the MSM blackout to the internet a la China. And as we are watching the "hate speech" and "hate crime" legislation sitting in the US Senate, already passed by overwhelmingly by the US House, and as we are watching the congressional vetting of Obama's "empathetic" recommendation for the next life time seat on the US Supreme Court. BTW, today basic cable cut off coverage of this vetting. So average Americans, who can actually afford taking the time of from work, now need C-Span 3 in addition to basic cable's C-Span 1, to even follow the whole vetting… Considering the importance of the 9 in impacting our lives and those of our children, this sure says a lot about the reality of US democracy, which theoretically depends on full knowledge by responsible US citizens.
Yeah, in a country that has stolen and starved the natives for sixty years (actually since the 1880's), its possible to find people who say unkind things about the Jews. Astonishing revelation.
You obviously have no knowledge of law malum in say versus malum prohibitum. (SIC?) There's a huge difference between a trafffic sign violation and human rights violations. The ultimate issue is, do the Nuremberg Trials represent a humanistic accounting, or merely Might Makes Right? Hasbara addicts on this web site are in accord with Goering's conclusion. The issue devolves to, is this in the USA higher interests? The answer is, NO. Of course, the Zionists have a more bi-polar analysis. Goys are just instruments, cash cows and cannon fodder. They should feel lucky, they are tools of G-D's will!