This photo is briskly doing the rounds, but we are nonetheless obliged to reproduce it here.
More from Jennifer Lipman at the Jewish Chronicle, as well as this excellent piece by Reason’s Michael Moynihan.
Does Julian Assange’s association with a Holocaust denier make him even less palatable than he already is? Will his relationship with Israel Shamir - the Borat lookalike standing, in proper Satanic fashion, behind the flaxen-haired crusader - lead the Jemima Khans and Bianca Jaggers and Vaughn Smiths of the concerned celebs coterie to rethink their support for Assange? I’m skeptical. And if they turn to another prominent Assange supporter, Ken Loach, for advice, he’ll just tell them antisemitism is “understandable” anyway.
This BBC World Service documentary about the persistence of the longest hatred comes highly recommended. Many friends of (and occasional contributors to) this blog are featured, among them Anthony Julius, Mark Gardner and David Hirsh.
Voltaire - anti-Semite that he was - should be alive today to mock the hypocrisy of the new high priests calling anathema on the heads of Jews in Israel.
So says Denis Macshane in a searing op-ed which marks “Buycott Israel” day. For what it’s worth, my personal view is that you should buy Israeli goods because they are worth buying - but as long as there’s a BDS campaign, initiatives like this one can play a valuable role. If you’re in the United States, visit here for shopping tips.
Z Word contributor Karl Pfeifer draws my attention to this important article by Yale Professor Eva S. Balogh. It’s about a demonstration organized by neo-fascist Jobbik Party at the Budapest statue of Count Mihály Károlyi, the democratically-elected leader of Hungary after World War One, and a much-detested figure on the far right.
Continue reading ‘Jobbik’s Anti-Zionist Antisemitism’
Is Iran’s government sponsoring an Internet site that extols the German Nazis, their history and achievements, including the antisemitism that the current Iranian regime also supports? Or is it merely permitting one to operate in a highly censored communications’ system?Here are the facts. There is a discussion group site entitled IranNazi that has an Iranian internet URL. It is written in Persian and seems to have begun on August 24. All the material on the site is pro-Nazi and features pictures of Adolph Hitler, the swastika, and goose-stepping German soldiers. There is an English-language part as well.
Read more from Barry Rubin here.
Curious about the whois details? Here they are:
Continue reading ‘The Nazi Website Registered in Iran’
This article by Winston Pickett was originally published in the UK Jewish Chronicle.
Now that the latest terror threat has been neutralized - with a little help from the Saudis - we’ve entered the predictable post mortem phase. This is the political scrum in which government, security, intelligence and law enforcement authorities scramble to apportion blame and devise strategies to keep air travel safe.
Continue reading ‘Jews, not Israel, are the Islamists’ Target’
A brief coda to this post. Enric González is the correspondent of El País in Jerusalem and he has just posted some rather dull (Islamophobia exists too you know!) reflections on antisemitism on his blog. What interests me here is how the post begins:
Continue reading ‘The Power of Jewish Interests In Spain’
The Casa Sefarad-Israel is a state-sponsored body in Spain which aims to increase awareness in that country of its Sephardic heritage and Jewish culture in general and to improve ties between Spain and Israel. It has just released the results of a survey it commissioned on attitudes towards Jews in Spain.
Continue reading ‘New Research on Attitudes To Jews in Spain’
Jonathon Narvey of The Propagandist has written a compelling, if sadly nauseating, series on the effort by Adbusters - a Vancouver-based alternative media network - to associate the State of Israel with the crimes of Nazi Germany through a photo essay comparing Gaza with the Warsaw Ghetto. Sounds like that would win some awards in Tehran, at least. Read Jonathon here, here and then here.
This article is crossposted from the website of the Quebec-Israel Committee.
The Boycott-Israel conference that ended Sunday in Montreal was supposed to show the growing momentum for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. With barely 100 activists attending the closing plenary Sunday afternoon at UQAM, it is clear that the BDS movement has no noticeable traction or support in Quebec.
Continue reading ‘Crushing Defeat for BDS conference in Montreal’
1. In a discussion over at Engage in which he offers arguments in support of a boycott of Israel and only Israel, Ran Greenstein says,
Third, any diminishing of the capacity of the Israeli state to continue with its exclusionary and abusive practices is a blow against anti-semitism, because it relieves Jews of the burden of having to pay a price for Israeli policies they do not support and have nothing to do with them.
Continue reading ‘Gurvitz-Goldman, Greenstein And Good Jews’
El País is a leading liberal and progressive newspaper in the Spanish, Roman Catholic and Democratic Kingdom of Spain. It has long campaigned to put an end to Jewish self-determination and today’s contribution to that campaign comes in the form of an op-ed from M. Á. Bastenier, one of its most senior journalists.
Continue reading ‘The Latest From The Spanish, Roman Catholic And Democratic Kingdom Of Spain’
My Gurvitz-Goldman and Gurvitz posts generated a lot of debate but they’ve now slipped off the first page of the blog so readers would be unlikely to see two valuable comments that arrived last night from Judy. You can follow the links to see them where she submitted them or just read the extracts I copy below. If anyone has anything further to contribute would they please do so here rather than on the original comment threads.
Continue reading ‘Gurvitz and Goldman: A Coda’
There’s a school of thought, if I may so dignify it, that holds that there’s nothing racist or fundamentally objectionable about anti-Zionism because opposing Zionism just means being opposed to a political system. The collapse of the Soviet Union is often proferred in this context as an example of one political system being replaced by another. “So what’s the problem?” they say, “After Zionism is defeated all the people currently resident in what is now Israel and the Palestinian Territories will be able to live together in peace and equality”.
Continue reading ‘Ahmadinejad: An Honest Anti-Zionist’
