Zionist Conspiracy

1. Afterword on that "Compassion Kills" piece I posted: I had not been
aware of this when I wrote the article, but an event nearly identical to
the Gush Etzion "Thirty Five" massacre took place with US troops in
Afghanistan in June 2005, when a group of Navy SEALS were discovered on an
operation by three shepherds, one a boy. The US troops released them.
They notified the Taliban and all but one of the US troops were massacred.
Hat tip to Michael Ledeen.

This web site has more details:

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/06/marcus_luttrell.html

2. AB Yehoshua, from Israel's Literary Far Left, joins the call for the
US to rape Israel:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3498609,00.html

3. Oxford University holds a Nuremberg Rally:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1201367874283&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

4. Sderot Reality:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7717

5. The Slavery Industry:

http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2008/01/16/finkelstein_a_parallel.php

6. How about a Right of Return for these refugees?

http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=3471

7. Quick - let Purina know:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125045

8.
Israel Shahak, 'The Wicked Son'

http://www.jewishpress.com/displayContent_new.cfm?mode=a&sectionid=60&contentid=29056&contentName=The%20Wicked%20Son
The Wicked Son
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By:Jason Maoz, Senior Editor, The Jewish Press
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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When Dr. Israel Shahak died on July 2, 2001, the Monitor speculated
that he "presumably had ample opportunity by now to compare notes
with Hitler, Stalin and the other equally distinguished residents of his
new, supernaturally heated neighborhood."
In retrospect, that attempt at morbid humor at Shahak's expense was
probably out of place, because there was nothing at all funny about one of
the sickest characters Jewry's ever produced - and God knows we've
produced more than our share of sick ones.
It's a truism that you can tell a man by the company he keeps, and a
recent Google search on Jewish anti-Semitism revealed the company
that keeps Shahak. Six and a half years after his death, his legacy lives
on at countless neo-Nazi and anti-Israel websites, where his writings .
with titles like .The Jewish Laundry of Drug Money. and .Israel.s
Discriminatory Practices Are Rooted in Jewish Law. . are lavishly praised
and lovingly preserved.
To call Shahak a self-hating Jew would be too easy, too trite.
Besides, as the writer Sidney Zion observed to the Monitor several years
back, such Jews are rarely self-hating at all . to the
contrary, they love and adore themselves. It.s other Jews with whom they
have a problem.
Going by the large body of writing he left behind, one can
accurately describe Shahak as not just a hater of Israel but a hater of
Jews, with the exception of those who share his ultra left-wing,
militantly anti-religious, passionately pro-Palestinian mindset.
Shahak was a Polish Jew whose family was herded into the Warsaw
Ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland. He was sent to
Bergen-Belsen in 1943 and, upon his liberation two years later, made his
way to what was then British Mandate Palestine.
He went on to become a professor of organic chemistry (he taught at
Jerusalem.s Hebrew University for 25 years), but it was as a
so-called human rights activist that he made a name for himself.
This, however, was no garden variety bleeding-heart leftist. Shahak not
only came to despise Zionism and consider the establishment of the State
of Israel a criminal act; he also set out to expose what he considered the
depravities and hypocrisies of rabbinic Judaism . and to do so in as
public a manner as possible.
Because he downplayed Jewish suffering in favor of painting Jews and
Israelis as serial oppressors, Shahak had little patience with the notion
that the Holocaust had a profound impact on either the
Israeli psyche or Israeli policy-making. To him, Jews were
victimizers, not victims.
.These .Holocaust memories. are a fake,. he wrote in one of his
numerous essays popular with the shaved head and tattooed-swastika crowd.
In another article, he insisted that .racism and
discrimination pervade all walks of life in Israel.... We need to
recognize that in Israel the real issue is discrimination not only against
the Palestinians ... but against all non-Jews..
It was Shahak who helped popularize the now familiar equating of
Israelis with Nazis, declaring in one article that .the Jews of
Israel, along with most of the Jews of the world, are at present
undergoing a process of Nazification. and in yet another that any
Jew who .denies the Palestinians their humanity. is a .Jewish Nazi..
Just how twisted was Shahak? In his book Jewish History, Jewish
Religion, he portrayed the notorious Chmielnicki massacres as a
righteous rebellion by the downtrodden against their Jewish
oppressors, and complained that Jews choose to remember it instead as an
unprovoked anti-Jewish atrocity. Here.s how he put it:
.This typical peasant uprising against extreme oppression [italics
added] .... has remained emblazoned in the consciousness of east
European Jews to this very day . not, however, as a peasant
uprising, a revolt of the oppressed, of the real wretched of the
earth, nor even as a vengeance visited upon all the servants of the Polish
nobility, but as an act of gratuitous anti-Semitism directed against Jews
as such..
Shahak time and again came under fire for his habit of denigrating
Judaism by citing references and quoting sources taken wholly out of
context, and as far back as 1966 was exposed as an incorrigible liar by
the late Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits, the then-chief rabbi of the United
Kingdom, in an article in the Orthodox publication Tradition.
He was a dangerous mountebank and fraud, and the Passover Haggadah.s
wicked son personified.