A RESPONSE TO GERALD A. GERASH, LA GREEN PARTY, RE OAKLAND "ANTI-SEMITISM" CONFERENCE
by Joseph Anderson,
Berkeley, CA

Will the Green Party become Zionist-occupied territory too?

Gerald A. Gerash - LA Green Party, Gay Activist, Slimey Attorney, Michael Lerner shill, Zionist Propagandist; Santa Monica, CA

post from:

"Zionist Menu: Red Herring of 'Left Anti-Semitism' - Only $125!"
by Aaron S. Friday, Aug. 20, 2004

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1692493_comment.php#1693096

See:

"Gerald Gerash: SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE ARCH-ZIONIST!"

(a response to Gerald A. Gerash re the Oakland anti-Semitism Conference)

- by Joseph Anderson

(For Gerald's originating post, go here: "Joseph Andersn",
by Gerald A. Gerash, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004 at 9:41 PM.)

(also see: "A PERSONAL REPORT-BACK FROM THE OAKLAND "ANTI-SEMITISM" CONFERENCE"
- by Joseph Anderson Monday, Aug. 23, 2004
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1692778_comment.php#1693106)


"Gerald Gerash: SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE ARCH-ZIONIST!"
by Joseph Anderson, Berkeley, CA Thursday, Aug. 26, 2004 at 7:24 AM:


Once again, we have the sheer irony -- the chutzpah -- of a *ZIONIST* Jew -- here Gerald A. Gerash -- complaining about anti-Jewish racism, as well as trying to claim that *Jews* are being *oppressed* in the *UNITED STATES*!!

Let's review again what Jeffrey Blanfort (Jewish) said above:

* JEWS NOT HISTORY'S ONLY -- OR ALWAYS WORST -- VICTIMS
by Jeffrey Blankfort (posted by JA) Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004 at 8:49 AM.

* an excuse to dispossess the Palestinians of their native land
by Jeffrey Blankfort (posted by JA) Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004 at 8:49 AM.

"The fact that some people are anti-Jewish for one reason ot another [ANTI-SEMITISM] DOES NOT [AUTOMATICALLY] TRANSLATE INTO *OPPRESSION* OF JEWS unless those people are in a position to act on it and desire to do so. THERE IS NOT THE SLIGHTEST EVIDENCE OF THIS [OPPRESSION OF JEWS TODAY] IN US SOCIETY. ...The notion that Jews are the most oppressed people in the world is ludicrous. Obsessed with their own "victimization", maybe, which is used as an excuse to dispossess the Palestinians..." [(caps, by JA.)]


GG: "I also had a conversation with him [JA]."

If you can call it that.


GG: "His statements were sloganeering of rigid politcal postions with no room for any kind of rational dialogue."

Translation: 'I couldn't get JA to budge on accepting on the European-initiated, settler-colonialist, racist ideology of political/nationalist Zionism.' -- JUST LIKE THE ANTI-ZIONIST *JEWISH* AUTHOR (AARON S.) OF THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE ABOVE WOULDN'T BUDGE.

(GEE, EVEN ANTI-ZIONIST *JEWS* ARE AFRAID TO USE THEIR FULL NAME!)


GG: "He made it be known in every workshop I was in that there is no anti-Semitism on the Left."

OPEN EMAIL TO OAKLAND "ANTI-SEMITISM" CONFERENCE! - by Joseph Anderson
by JA Saturday, Aug. 21, 2004 at 1:22 PM:

< As an African American I can say this as a matter of fact, while still opposing incidents of real anti-Semitism, which do exists, and exposing real anti-Semites, which I have done. >

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1692588.php


GG: "As such it was an unashamed attack against the conference itself."

Jeffrey Blankfort -- *Jewish* -- said that if he had attended the conference, he probably would have disrupted it.

OPEN LETTERS TO OAKLAND "ANTI-SEMITISM" CONFERENCE! - by Jeffrey Blankfort:

"But rest assured, I will not be attending such a conference."

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1692542_comment.php#1692589


GG: "HIs [JA's] presence was essentially obstructionist, although people were polite and let him speak and, viewing him like a fitful, buzing fly..."

Whereas I can assure everyone that Gerald A. Gerash is an absolute paragon of equanimity and diplomacy -- a true British Oxfordian gentleman.


GG: "to find ways to struggle against anti-Semitism and its various manifestations on the Left."

Note:

OPEN LETTERS TO OAKLAND "ANTI-SEMITISM" CONFERENCE! - by Jim Harris:

"...the way anti-Semitism is used to fight any questioning of U.S.Israeli policy. It does not address, for example, the fact that large, established organizations such as the ADL are quite openly advocating policies that are viciously anti-Arab, and yet calls itself a fighter against anti-Semitism. It is in this context that you say that there is “a prevalence of unchallenged anti-Semitism on the Left"? I just confess to being mystified by your apparent position. Despite claims that this conference is opposed to all forms of racism, there is a workshop that says that all must embrace Zionism, a political movement that has dispossessed millions of their land, homes, and their dignity."

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1692542_comment.php#1692589


And, NOTE the very title of the original article above -- written by a Jew:

"ZIONIST MENU: RED HERRING OF "LEFT ANTI-SEMITISM" -- ONLY $125!"
- by Aaron S.

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1692493.php


GG: "his comments revealed an anitpathy to the Jewish people such as denying our right to self-determination..."

At the conference I said that this PR euphemistically-defined ideology of Zionism as merely "Jewish self-determination" would be like Aryan Supremacy being euphemistically defined as merely "Loving your brothers": there's a lot more in the small print.

You mean, Gerald, the belief that Jews -- *whenever* they were born and *wherever* they live -- have a natural, superior, automatic, unequivocal, divine, "God-given" right to most or all the land in Palestine?

The Palestinian are an indigenous people engaged in an anti-settler-colonial struggle against largely European Jewish oppression. Zionist Jews call resistance to that oppression "anti-Semitism". Zionist Jews don't get -- no one gets -- their so-called "self-determination" at the expense, dispossession, subjugation and brutal oppression of another people.

Let's examine this, euphemistically put, "self-determination" more closely:


ZIONISM IGNORES PLIGHT OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE - by Joseph Anderson:

"...to Zionists, this "self-determination" means pursuing an exclusively (or exclusionary) Jewish state. This is a state where the non-Jewish indigenous people (Muslims, Christians and others) are reduced to worse than second-class citizens, forced into apartheid-style lands or expelled. Also, [the] once "ancient" Jewish presence justification is an argument that is literally worse than medieval! To suggest that protesters who oppose that semi-racial ideology are anti-Semitic is an old, standard smear tactic. This falsely equates Judaism with Zionism—an ideology rejected by many Jews."

http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=10435


Now let's see what some *Jews* (including a former Israeli -- besides the Israeli who spoke of blatant Israeli racism at the conference) have to say:

OPEN LETTERS TO OAKLAND "ANTI-SEMITISM" CONFERENCE! - by Jim Harris:

"...Zionism, a political movement that has dispossessed *MILLIONS* of their land, homes, and their dignity." As well as has brutally killed many many thousands of indigenous Palestinians.

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1692542_comment.php#1692589


HOLY SHIT! - by Rebecca Kahlenberg:

"Jews have endured a lot of suffering and it is lamentable that they should endure more. But how can I side with my people when they bomb entire villages of Palestinian civilians in retaliation for the murder of two Israeli soldiers? Is this righteous? Furthermore, how can I feel comfortable taking sides at all when I know that the American media suppress information about the racism of Israelis against Arabs? [NPR] refused to air a story about Israeli settlements in the West Bank because the Jewish settlers interviewed for the story expressed the opinion that the Arabs were "less than human." ...The wrongs of the Holocaust were hardly righted by stealing land from Arabs and giving it to Jews. This fighting is supposed to have something to do with God, but I see no God here. This is about land.... Jewish people are quick to point out global anti-Semitism, but the behavior of the Israelis merely makes it easier to hate Jews." -- Oct 19, 2000

http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=3589


COUNTER-OPINION IS RIDDEN WITH FALSEHOODS - by Jeff Strahl:

"I grew up in Tel Aviv, near the old Arab city of Yaffo, which in the late 50s was still looking like a battlefield. During the conflict, Arab dwellings were blown up with the goal of driving them out, and flee in panic they did. Moshe Dayan , at one time the head of Israel's armed forces, admitted in an April 1969 speech that every Jewish settlement in Israel had been built on top of a former Arab village or town. In 1967, land confiscations, water diversions, and armed repression, either by the army, police or para-militaries, were extended to the West Bank and Gaza District, which have been occupied illegaly to this day. The only other society which resembles current Israel is indeed apartheid in South Africa."

http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=3603


REFLECTIONS ON ZIONISM FROM A DISSIDENT JEW - by Tim Wise:

"Although one can argue with the claim made by some that Zionism and racism are synonymous -- especially given the amorphous definition of "race" which makes such a position forever and always a matter of semantics -- it is difficult to deny that Zionism, in practice if not theory, amounts to ethnic chauvinism, colonial ethnocentrism, and national oppression. ..."Anti-Semite" will be the other label offered me, despite the fact that Zionism has led to the oppression of Semitic peoples -- namely the mostly Semitic Palestinians... The only logic to Zionism then, seemed to be the "logic" of raw power: that of the settler, or colonizer. ...Nearly 800,000 Palestinians would be displaced so as to allow for the creation of Israel: around 600,000 of whom, according to internal documents of the Israeli Defense Force, were expelled forcibly from their homes. ...The head of the Jewish Agency's colonization department stated: "there is no room for both peoples together in this country. There is no other way than to transfer the Arabs from here to neighboring countries, to transfer all of them: not one village, not one tribe, should be left." ...That most Jews have never examined the founding principles of this ideology to which they cleave is unfortunate. For if they were to do so, they might be shocked at how anti-Jewish Zionism really is. Time and again, Zionists have even collaborated with open Jew-haters for the sake of political power. ...Far from resisting Nazi genocide, some Zionists collaborated with it. ...Later, Israeli Zionists would again make alliances with anti-Jewish extremists. ...Indeed, the argument that Zionism is racism finds some support in statements of Zionists themselves... Years later, David Ben-Gurion acknowledged that Israeli leader Menachem Begin could be branded racist, but that doing so would require one to "put on trial the entire Zionist movement, which is founded on the principle of a purely Jewish entity in Palestine." ...Surely it is not for this ignoble end, that six million died."

http://www.mediamonitors.net/timwise1.html


THE JEWS OF PALESTINE, 1938 - by M.K. Gandhi:

"What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. ...Surely it [ZIONISM] would be A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY."

http://www.moqawama.org/v_zionis/v_doc/jews.htm


-- Had enough Gerald?

I guess not. Here's where Zionists do their usual thing of resorting to patent lying. But, first let's see what Tim Wise (anti-racist, anti-Zionist Jewish activist, essayist, and public lecturer) has to say about this in general:

FRAUD FIT FOR A KING: ISRAEL, ZIONISM, AND THE MISUSE OF MLK - by Tim Wise:

"But of course, the kinds of folks who push an ideology that required the expulsion of three-quarters-of-a-million Palestinians from their lands, and then lied about it, claiming there had been no such persons to begin with (as with Golda Meir’s infamous quip), can’t be expected to place a very high premium on truth."

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2003-01/20wise.cfm


This is what Zionists have to do when they are put into a moral, analytical, intellectual, and historical corner: they have to resort to **LYING**!

GG: "maintaining the position that the Jewish people do not constitute a nation and therefore Israel lacks any basis for nationhood."

I said that there was a difference between constituting a nation -- a concept that means different things to different people (like "the African American Nation", "the Nation of Islam", or even "the Hip-Hop Nation" or "the Grunge Nation" or even Janet Jackson's anti-racist multicultural "Rhythm Nation") -- and a having nation-state. But the political analysis of nation vs. nation-state was *way* over the head of Gerald.

Israel is the last Euro-settler-colonialist apartheid state of its kind in the entire world (apartheid South Africa was the second to last) -- where hundreds of thousands or eventually millions of Europeans came from a far away continent or thousands of miles to set up an apartheid state in a non-European land.

Moreso, Israel defines itself as "the nation of all Jews in the world", rather than the nation of all its citizens. I mean, Italy doesn't define itself as "the nation of all ethnic Italians in the world"; Sweden doesn't define itself as "the nation of all ethnic Swedes in the world": they define themselves as the nation of all their citizens. Moreover one is "Italian" or "Swede", whether one is ethnic Italian, ethnic Swedish, Black, Asian, Arab, Latino, whatever! Whereas in Israel, one's citizenship status is defined by ethnicity or religion.

GG: "Unabashedly, he quoted admiringly, the rabid anti-Jewish racist, Louis Farrakan to the mainly Jewish attendees."

'Surrre'. Actually, I noted the sad irony that Zionist Jews and Louis Farrakhan use the very same parallel arguments:

(1) Zionism is premised on the Jewish Zionist assertion that non-Jewish whites will forever be inveterate, inalterable, 'genetic' anti-Jewish racists. And, therefore, Jews will need a separatist, politically and ethnically self-defined, "Jewish state" within Palestine. As one Zionist Jew put it at the conference: "Anti-Semitism is the *air* that everybody (non-Jews) breathe!" This idea is justified by Zionist interpretation of Jewish religious cosmology, on "ancient Jewish scripture", and ordained "by God".

(2) Nation of Islam doctrine was (at least once) premised on the so-called American "Black Muslim" assertion that whites (non-Jewish and Jewish) will forever be inveterate, inalterable, 'genetic' anti-Black racists. And, therefore, Black-Americans will need a separatist, politically and ethnically self-defined, "Black-American state" within the U.S.. (Black-Americans can't form one in Africa because we don't know where exactly in Africa we're from -- though that was once done with equally disasterous results to this day, in Liberia, as has occurred in Israel, to this day.) This idea is justified by Nation of Islam cosmology, on "ancient Black scripture", and ordained "by God".

But, of course, Zionist Jews don't like people making uncomfortable (im)moral, analytical, and CLEAR historical parallels to doctrines of belief and systems of practice that have already been absolutely morally rejected by the socially evolved world.

Now, since I don't accept NOI cosmology, the patriarchal NOI social beliefs, or the conservative capitalist NOI political agenda as an answer for Black America, then how could I speak "admiringly" of Louis Farrakhan? But, I do recognize that he was created by white -- including Jewish -- anti-black racism. And so once did Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun Magazine, in a commentary in Time Magazine.


THE REAL CRISIS IS SELFISHNESS - by Michael Lerner:

"I can't stand the hypocrisy coming from some in the Jewish world who for decades have used the Holocaust and the history of our very real oppression as an excuse to deny our own racism."

Time Magazine, February 28, 1994
(Sorry, no URL's existed back then for Time Magazine. Maybe there's an online archive going back that far now.)

Lerner pointed out that the same Jews in politics that advocate or perpetrate cutting funding for things like educational programs for Black kids, then hypocritically complain that, due to such hopelessness in American society, those very same Black kids might turn to the Nation of Islam for help. Lerner also talked about Jewish hypocrisy in greatly magnifying the membership population in the NOI, which he pointed out might constitute some 20,000 Blacks, at best, out of a nation of some 30 *MILLION* Blacks!

I pointed out that while Zionist Jews justify their own claims by *EXACTLY* the same parallel assertions, they believe that Louis Farrakhan's claim is proof *positive* of his pathological, absolutely insane racism! But then, Zionist narcissism is such that they believe that the universal rules of socially evolved, bi-/multicultural societies don't apply to them/Israel. I.e., they believe in the usual white 'racial'/ethnic double standards.


GG: Gerald's ' Tearful Teacher Story' ...[not quite as good as 'the land without a people' story]

Again, *NO SPECIFICS* -- no specific arguments, quotes, of mine to which Gerald wants to construct a counter-argument -- just broad, vague accusations.

Why isn't she writing here for herself. She's supposed to be a teacher. Can't *SHE* construct a counter-argument and write her *own* post? (Assuming your 'tearful teacher story' is even true at all.)

You know this recourse to *attempted* character assassination is Standard Operating Procedure for Zionist Jews. This is the recourse Zionists use when they actually have no valid intellectual arguments that they can actually use to defend their position -- which, as Malcolm X said, "has no intellectual or moral basis in history".

In fact, Malcolm X said that, "European colonialism is the perpetration that tries to make the wolf (the Europeans) look like the lamb, and the lamb (the non-European indigenous people) look like the wolf!"

(Even this week on PBS-TV, a Zionist Jew -- of course they are never identified as Zionist -- *pathetically* tried to accuse another guest of being "anti-Semitic" when the other guest mentioned interest ties between U.S. the war on Iraq and Israel. But, fortunately the other guest had the backbone to challenge the Zionist and asked, "Are you seriously trying to call me anti-Semitic?", to which the Zionist then backed off. You see, even on mainstream TV, people are finally getting mighty tired of the ole "anti-Semite" slur being promiscuously slung around by Zionist Jews. It's slung around so much that it's starting to lose its sting. Now people practically laugh! You Zionists have cried "Wolf!" too many times.)

Instead of Zionists saying, this is exactly what Mr. Anderson said in his argument -- quote -- and this is my rebuttal to that argument, Zionists *HAVE NO* intellectual or moral arguments that will stand the test of logical or moral consistency, especially with what Jews rightfully demand anywhere else in the world: absolutely equal national, civil, and legal rights for ALL people, regardless of ethnicity, race, or religion -- *EXCEPT* in Israel-Palestine.

Gerald even resorted to LYING (as one anti-Zionist Jew at the conference noted) ABOUT MARTIN LUTHER KING (supposedly supporting or opposing -- whichever position was favorable to Israel -- some UN resolution about Zionism, a resolution that didn't even exist during the time of King's life, but came about 7 years after he died!), so why would Gerald not lie about me! These Zionists are morally *pathetic* in more ways than one.

Gerald has, *NO SPECIFICS* -- no specific arguments, quotes, of mine to which he wants to *try* to construct a counter-argument -- just broad, vague accusations and ad hominem name-calling.

Well, AN AD HOMINEM ATTACK IS NOT A LOGICAL COUNTER-ARGUMENT. BUT, IT'S A HELLUVA LOT EASIER WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE ONE, ISN'T IT!?

But, since you want to take that route, I've got a *bulletin* for *YOU*!: you were one of the two Jews that another Jew, a woman, called "AN *ASSHOLE*"! -- for your hyper-aggressive, don't-let-anyone-finish-a-single-sentence-that-you-disagree-with style! -- even from another Jew who just doesn't happen to share your rabid Zionist opinion, and even after someone has let you speak.

GG: "Anderson is a racist anti-Semite, as I saw and heard him that weekend and now read more of what he says. ...Anderson, I will not respond to anything you might write. ...It will go unanswered by me."


*** BIG SURPRISE !!! ***


NOW, WHY DON'T YOU GO TAKE ON SOME OF THE ANTI-ZINOIST *JEWS* HERE, LIKE JEFFREY BLANKFORT, JIM HARRIS, OR AARON S.?

OR IS IT HARDER TO *CALL* **THEM** "ANTI-SEMITIC"?

HIS INITIALS SAY IT ALL!!: GAG!

You can stick a fork in him - Gerald A Gerash: he's *done* now!
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(Also see: "Response to Russell Simmons Op-Ed re Blacks & anti-Semitism: An Educational Commentary"
http://pub12.ezboard.com/fpoliticalpalacefrm21.showMessage?topicID=198.topic)

JOSEPH ANDERSON, HAS HIV - AIDS AND HAS REFUSED TO TAKE HIS RETRO-VIRAL DRUGS. HIS DEMENTIA HAS BEEN GETTING MORE EXTREME BY THE DAY. HE NEEDS A NURSE TO HELP HIM TO THE TOILET. HIS FACE AND HIS TONGUE ARE COVERED WITH HIDEOUS LESIONS. PERHAPS THIS IS WHY HE HAS TURNED INTO SUCH A SICKENING SHIT BAG LIAR OR MAYBE HE WAS LIKE THIS BEFORE HE GOT AIDS AND THE AIDS DEMENTIA JUST LOWERED THE BARRIERS OF HIS HIDDEN AGENDAS...here is a picture of Joseph with one of his posters at a recent demonstration.....

The above post, "JOSEPH ANDERSON IS HIV POSITIVE AND HAS AIDS DEMENTIA", is a grossly and sick anti-gay comment.

Regarding the false evidence picture above, a LIE by the poster (Author: "JOSEPH HIV POSITIVE") falsely claiming that it is Joseph Anderson (he's NOT JA) holding a sign -- in fact, it is a picture of the Zionist poster himself holding the sign and *claiming* to be JA (or whomever else he *wants* to claim to be) -- it's worth saying again from my original article:

Here's where ZIONISTS do their usual thing of resorting to patent lying [it's what they do]. But, first let's see what Tim Wise (anti-racist, anti-Zionist Jewish activist, essayist, and public lecturer) has to say about this in general:

FRAUD FIT FOR A KING: ISRAEL, ZIONISM, AND THE MISUSE OF MLK - by Tim Wise:

"But of course, the kinds of folks who push an ideology that required the expulsion of three-quarters-of-a-million Palestinians from their lands, and then lied about it, claiming there had been no such persons to begin with (as with Golda Meir’s infamous quip), can’t be expected to place a very high premium on truth."

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2003-01/20wise.cfm

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(Since Gerald Gerash is gay, I'm wondering if he has anything to say -- if anything at all -- about such disgusting homophobic remarks made by the rabid anti-gay Zionist poster?)

Joseph,
I am disgusted by the hate and venom you have been spreading all over cyberspace. So everyone is wrong about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict except you? Russell Simmons is a deluded fool, and if only he listened to you, he would know who is "Right" in this complex and multi-faceted conflict.

I don't mind self-hating Jews, I have come to expect it after left-wing media (aka Pacifica Network) has adopted an only-pro-Palestinian-Anti-Israeli stance, but why can't you hate yourself a little more quitely? Why must you spread hatred so widely and forcefully down everyone else's throat?

You have no idea what you are talking about regarding Gerry Gerash. You have no idea what you are talking about regardin Israel and Palestine. How much time have you actually spent in Israel? How much time have you spent talking to Gerry? It is obvious there is no conciliation with you, and it is obvious there is no talking reasonably with you, you know it all already and will not bend in your statements. That's fine, everyone is entitled to their opinions. Just keep it to yourself in the future. There is more than enough hatred in the world without you fanning the flames with lies and misinformation.

Coby Skye: "Why must you spread hatred so widely and forcefully down everyone else's throat?"

Don't like it; don't read it.

Me thinks thou doth protest too much.

ZIONIST RABBI MARC SCHNEIER is the guy that hoodwinked hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons into signing some formal letter that SCNEIER himself, of course, wrote calling for Blacks to ally themselves with Jews -- NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND -- NOT EVEN RECIPROCALLY -- in an alliance against "anti-Semitism".

NO CALLS -- OF COURSE -- BY ZIONIST RABBI SCHNEIER FOR JEWS TO ALLY THEMSELVES WITH THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY, ANTI-BLACK/-LATINO RACIAL PROFILING, THE PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, SUBSTANDARD BLACK EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, OR THE SO-CALLED "WAR AGAINST DRUGS" (A WAR AGAINST THE BLACK COMMUNITY).

FORTUNATELY, THE LETTER DID NOT GO OVER VERY WELL AT ALL IN THE NATIONAL BLACK COMMUNITY -- ESPECIALLY SINCE SIMMONS TRIED TO MAKE *EXCUSES* FOR EMINEM'S RACIST SONG AGAINST A *BLACK* GIRLFRIEND (WHOMEVER *SHE* WAS!) THAT BROKE UP WITH EMINEN.

(Simmons must have had some, direct or indirect, financial connection with Eminem's label, publicist, agency or something.)


"Rabbi Marc Schneier: A Huckster and a Hoaxster: Another Zionist Liar"

Exerpts from:

"Fraud Fit For A King: Israel, Zionism, And The Misuse Of MLK"
- by Tim Wise

[E]ven with my cynic’s credentials established, the one thing I never expected anyone to do would be to just make up a quote from King; a quote that he simply never said, and claim that it came from a letter that he never wrote, and was published in a collection of his essays that never existed. Frankly, this level of deception is something special. The hoax of which I speak is one currently making the rounds on the Internet, which claims to prove King’s steadfast support for Zionism.

...In the item, entitled “Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend,” King proclaims that criticism of Zionism is tantamount to anti-Semitism, and likens those who criticize Jewish nationalism as manifested in Israel, to those who would seek to trample the rights of blacks. Heady stuff indeed, and 100% bullsh*t, as any amateur fact checker could ascertain were they so inclined. But of course, the kinds of folks who push an ideology that required the expulsion of three-quarters-of-a-million Palestinians from their lands, and then lied about it, claiming there had been no such persons to begin with (as with [the late Israeli Prime Minister] Golda Meir’s infamous quip ["There is no such thing as a Palestinian!" -- a form of rhetorical genocide: denying Palestinian Arabs even exist!]), can’t be expected to place a very high premium on truth.

...Though [Zionist leader Mark] Finkelstein only recited one line from King’s supposed “letter” on Zionism, he lifted it from the larger letter, which appears to have originated with * RABBI MARC SCHNEIER *, who quotes from it in his 1999 book, “Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Jewish Community.”

...The letter also was filled with grammatical errors that any halfway literate reader of King’s work should have known disqualified him from being its author, to wit: “Anti-Zionist is inherently anti Semitic, and ever will be so.” The treatise, it is claimed, was published on page 76 of the August, 1967 edition of Saturday Review, and supposedly can also be read in the collection of King’s work entitled, This I Believe: Selections from the Writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. That the claimants never mention the publisher of this collection should have been a clear tip-off that it might not be genuine, and indeed it isn’t. The book doesn’t exist. As for Saturday Review, there were four issues in August of 1967. Two of the four editions contained a page 76. One of the pages 76 contains classified ads and the other contained a review of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s album. No King letter anywhere.

Yet its lack of authenticity hasn’t prevented it from having a long shelf-life. Not only does it pop up in the * [RABBI MARC] * SCHNEIER book, but sections of it were read by the Anti-Defamation League’s Michael Salberg in testimony before a House Subcommittee in July of 2001, and all manner of pro-Israel groups (from traditional Zionists to right-wing Likudites, to Christians who support ingathering Jews to Israel so as to prompt Jesus’ return), have used the piece on their websites.

In truth, King appears never to have made any public comment about Zionism per se; and the only known statement he ever made on the topic, made privately to a handful of people, is a far cry from what he is purported to have said in the so-called “Letter to an Anti-Zionist friend.”

...And it is a tragedy that instead of King himself, we are burdened with charlatans like those at the ADL, or the Des Moines Jewish Federation, or RABBIs like MARC SCHNEIER who think nothing of speaking for the genuine article, in a voice not his own.

www.zmag.org/sustainers/c...20wise.cfm

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This is what Jeffrey Blankfort (see online), a veteran civil rights, anti-war, anti-apartheid, and anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian human rights Jewish-American activist has said in response to the Simmons-*RABBI SCHNEIER* Op-Ed piece:

“One expects the Dubyas of this world to abuse the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr., but it has become standard practice for Jewish community leaders, who were almost totally absent from the civil rights struggle, to do so.

“In that struggle, many Jews, mostly from the left and not affiliated with any of the phony organizations that [claim to] 'represent' the Jewish community, put their lives on the line in the South during the voter registration drives of the early ’60’s and two paid with their lives.

“For these hucksters of today to use King to promote Israel's continued oppression of the Palestinians -- which is the cause of anti-Jewish hostility -- while targeting any would-be Black leader that doesn't toady to their demands, such as Cynthia McKinney and Earl Hilliard, is nothing less than obscene.”

http://pub12.ezboard.com/fpoliticalpalacefrm21.showMessage?topicID=198.topic

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THERE'S YOUR RABBI MARCH SCHNEIEIR!

Someone tell Russell.

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*WHAT*!?: No comment from Gerald Gerash *YET* on his Zionist brethren's VICIOUS anti-gay remarks!?

I thought that Gerald, himself gay, was supposed to be an AIDS activist!?

I guess that *ANY* oppression is okay in the name of Zionism, huh Gerald?

WHAT GIVES, GERALD???

...are of Middle Eastern origin than European origin.

That doesn't quite support the assertion that Israel is a Euro-colonial outpost, now does it?

Most every country in the world is "etnically-defined." It's only "wrong" when that ethnicity is Jewish.

SO JOSEPH ARE YOU GOING TO POST THE RESULTS OF YOUR HIV TEST OR NOT? PRESUMABLY IF YOU DID NOT GET AIDS FROM SEX YOU GET IT FROM A TRANSFUSION, RIGHT? I MEAN YOU WOULDN'T USE A DIRTY NEEDLE, WOULD YOU?

XANA'S DRIVEL!: "More Israelis...

...are of Middle Eastern origin than European origin."


YEAH, I KNOW THAT BIT OF ZIONIST PR SLOGANEERING.

BUT THE *OVERWHELMING* MAJORITY OF *ALL* ISRAELI JEWS ARE ***NOT*** INDIGENOUS TO ***PALESTINE*** (WHICH ISRAEL IS ***IN***)!!!

(CAN YOU IMAGINE THE HYSTERIA OF WHITE-AMERICANS IF THE MEXICAN OR ASIAN INFLUX INTO THIS COUNTRY WAS MULTIPLIED BY *100*-FOLD!?

-- AND IF THE MEXICAN OR ASIAN IMMIGRANTS HAD THE INTENTION OF SETTING UP THEIR OWN NATION-STATE IN THE U.S.!?

WHY, PARTICULARLY WHITE-AMERICANS WOULD BE AFTER THEM *ALL* WITH GUNS!?

LOOK AT HOW WHITE-AMERICANS PANICED WHEN THE JAPANESE BOUGHT *PEBBLE BEACH GOLF COURSE*!!!)

FURTHERMORE, THE *EUROPEAN* ZIONIST INVADERS NEVER CONSULTED AND DIDN'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THEIR 'SWARTHY' BRETHREN.

WHY EVEN TODAY, MANY GERMAN ASHKENAZI JEWS LOOK DOWN UPON *BOTH* SLAVIC JEWS *AND* NON-EUROPEAN JEWS! -- AND *CERTAINLY* BLACK JEWS.

THE NON-EUROPEAN JEWS WERE BROUGHT IN AS HUMAN SHEILD BUFFER COMMUNITIES FOR AN EARLY EXPANDING ISRAEL,

THEY WERE -- THE ARAB JEWS -- OFTEN TERRORIST-*BOMBED* OUT OF THEIR ARAB HOME COUNTRIES (SCARED INTO LEAVING) BY EARLY ZIONIST TERRORISTS TRYING TO DRIVE THEM TO ISRAEL IN ORDER FOR ISRAEL TO DEVELOP A SLIM DEMOGRAPHIC MAJORITY OF JEWS,

THEY WERE OTHERWISE OFTEN *COERCED* TO LEAVE THEIR HOME ARAB COUNTRIES BY ISRAELI/PRE-ISRAELI ZIONISTS,

THEY WERE BROUGHT IN AS 'MANPOWER' FOR THE ISRAELI MILITARY,

OR THEY WERE OFTEN *FINALLY* -- AGAINST MUCH ISRAELI RESISTANCE -- AS WITH THE HIGHLY-DISCRIMINATED-AGAINST ETHIOPIAN JEWS -- BROUGHT IN AS 'WINDOW-DRESSING'.


MORE OF XANA'S DRIVEL!: "That doesn't quite support the assertion that Israel is a Euro-colonial outpost, now does it?"


**WRRRONNNGGG**, PEANUT BRAIN!:

ZIONISM WAS A *EUROPEAN*-CREATED NATIONALIST INVENTION. THE FIRST ZIONIST CONFERENCE TOOK PLACE IN THE LATE 1800'S IN *EUROPE*!! -- *LONG* BEFORE THE NAZIS EVER EXISTED!!

THE EUROPEAN ZIONISTS SOUGHT THE ORIGINAL SPONSORSHIP OF *BRITAIN*!!

(AN ANTI-SEMITE BY THE NAME OF LORD BALFOUR -- WHO WAS MORE THAN HAPPY TO TRY TO GET RID OF EUROPEAN JEWS, ESPECIALLY FROM COMING TO ENGLAND! 'YEAH, SEND THEM ALL OUT TO THE DESERT!')

AND ISRAEL WAS INDEED SPONSORED AS A *EURO*-COLONIAL OUTPOST.

THE SELLING OF THE ZIONIST CAMPAIGN -- BY THE *EUROPEAN* ZIONISTS THEMSELVES -- AND THE HISTORICAL MOTIVES OF THE WESTERN *EUROPEAN* POWERS WERE *CLEAR*!!

THE STATE OF ISRAEL GAINED ITS CRITICAL SUPPORT IN THE UN FROM THE *U.S.*!!

ISRAEL WAS GENERALLY SUPPORTED BY *EURO*-IMPERIALISTS!

THE LARGEST WAVES OF EARLY JEWS CAME FROM *EUROPE*!!

THE PEOPLE AT THE *TOP* WHO GENERALLY RUN THE PLACE IN ISRAEL ARE *EUROPEAN* JEWS!!

ALL THE PRIME MINISTERS OF ISRAEL WERE/ARE *EUROPEAN* JEWS!!

THE MOST IDEOLOGICAL, RABID ZIONIST JEWS IN ISRAEL ARE *EUROPEAN*-AMERICAN ARCH-ZIONIST JEWS FROM AMERICAN SUBURBS!!


XANA'S FINAL DRIVEL FOR THE AFTERNOON!: Most every country in the world is "etnically-defined." It's only "wrong" when that ethnicity is Jewish.

YEAH, SEE:

HEY, "XANAX"!!: WHAT A *STYOOOPID* REMARK OF YOURS!!
by JA, Monday, Aug. 30

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1692588_comment.php#1693539

NOW, ARE YOU TIRED O' YOUR INTELLECTUAL HEAD-WHOOPIN' FROM ME, XANA!?

OR, DO YA WANNA COME BACK FOR **MORE**!?

OH, I FORGOT!:

XANA'S DRIVEL!: "More Israelis...

...are of Middle Eastern origin than European origin."


YEAH, *NOW* SOME IN ISRAEL ARE ALSO COUNTING THE ISRAELI-BORN OFFSPRING OF EUROPEAN JEWS AS "MIDDLE EASTERN"!!

(LIKE, *NOW*, JOHN KERRY'S *WHITE* BILLIONAIRE HEIRESS WIFE IS, *LATELY*, CALLING HERSELF "AFRICAN AMERICAN" -- JUST LIKE *ME* -- BECAUSE SHE WAS BORN/RAISED IN AFRICA!!

OHHH!!!, THE SHEER DISCRIMINATION SHE MUST FACE AT THE MARTHA'S VINYARD AND NEWPORT YACHT CLUB!!)

Keep yelling.

It brings out the absurdity in your lies.

It's actually quite amusing to watch.

The Jews came HOME.

Just because the Romans ethnically-cleansed us and renamed the Land, and then the Arab squatters moved in---doesn't make it theirs anymore than the occupied USA belongs to YOU, "Anderson."

Deal with it.

(Now you trot out the Khazar myth.)

Xana's pathetic opening: "Keep yelling. "

Xana: "It brings out the absurdity in your lies."

BUT, LIKE OLE HIT-&-RUN 'ARTIST' GERALD GERASH..., XANA CAN'T SPECIFY WHICH ONE(S) AND CONSTRUCT A LOGICAL COMPOSED COUNTER-ARUGMENT!

-- BECAUSE SHE *DOESN'T* HAVE ONE!!!

Xana's pathetic comeback: "It's actually quite amusing to watch."

I'm sure *anything* would amuse you, Xana.

In fact, you're quite amusing yourself!

(Double entendre intended.)

--Joseph

More Xana drivel: "The Jews came HOME."

THE JEWS WERE *NOT* THE FIRST PEOPLE INTO PALESTINE!

MAYBE THEY SHOULD (BY YOUR REASONING) GO BACK TO AFRICA!!


More Xana drivel: "Just because the Romans ethnically-cleansed us and renamed the Land,"

THEN IT LOOKS LIKE YOUR BEEF IS WITH THE **ITALIANS**!!

HAHA!!


More Xana propaganda (where are you posing from -- Israel?): "and then the Arab squatters moved in---"

Yeah, now *WHERE* does the Old Testament say that the Hebrews came from? And *WHO* did the Hebrews conquer when they got there?


Xana (at least she keeps her IGNORANCE brief!): "doesn't make it theirs anymore than the occupied USA belongs to YOU, "Anderson." "

Xana especially likes to note/'punctuate' her utter ignorance with caps or a "gotcha" (as she did up on Indybay, the San Francisco Bay Area Indymedia).

IN CASE YOU FAILED TO NOTICE, O BRILLIANT XANA (are you a Jewish dominatrix?), "MY PEOPLE" CAME HERE IN CHAINS!!: AND SOME OF "YOUR PEOPLE" WERE THE MERCHANTS, INSURERS, AND FINANCIERS!!


Xana's final 'intellectual' comeback (her ace in the hole): "Deal with it."

XANA THANKFULLY I DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH YOUR SHEER *IGNORANCE* EVERY DAY!!

(Now you trot out the Khazar myth.)

WHY DON'T *YOU* EXPLAIN IT, XANA?


*OY VEY*!!

--Joseph

Cross-Reference:

Alexander Cockburn: "More recently Joe went to the 3-day conference on anti-Semitism in Oakland, and filed an interesting and often amusing report ":

COUNTERPUNCH — WEEKEND EDITION AUGUST 28 / 29, 2004

- edited by ALEXANDER COCKBURN & JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

http://www.counterpunch.com/cockburn08282004.html

"Anti-Blackism and 'Anti-Semitism': Notes from Joseph Anderson"
- by Alexander Cockburn


(also see "Konch" journal of literature, culture, & politics - www.ishmaelreedpub.com - Articles)

http://www.rense.com/general9/worst.htm

http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=172359
3-28-1


Rabbi Calls ADL Leader Jews' 'Worst Enemy'

Wednesday, 28 March 2001 18:54 (ET)
by Lou Marano

WASHINGTON (UPI) - Calling secular Judaism's preoccupation with victimhood "liberalism with a circumcision," an Orthodox rabbi has given the "Our Own Worst Enemy Award" to the head of the Anti-Defamation League. An ADL official has dismissed the characterization.

Rabbi Daniel Lapin is president of Toward Tradition, a group based in Mercer Island, Wa., that describes itself as "a coalition of Jews and Christians dedicated to fighting secular institutions that foster anti-Semitism, harm families, and jeopardize the future of America." The group bestowed the "award" upon ADL National Director Abraham Foxman on Wednesday.

"The award is given to a Jewish American who exemplifies those cultural forces that most endanger Jewish continuity, substituting unhealthy values for Judaism itself," Toward Tradition said. "Children thus grow up to dismiss Jewish identity as, for example, merely with an obsession with death and persecution, or as liberalism with a circumcision."

"I think Abe Foxman means well," Lapin said. "But he's deluded by liberalism, a worldview preoccupied by victimhood."

The rabbi called attention to Foxman's letter that appeared in the March 23 editions of the New York Times. In it, the ADL leader compared the newspaper ads by conservative activist David Horowitz -- who opposes monetary reparations to American blacks for being the descendants of slaves -- with Holocaust deniers.

"Put that together with Foxman's statement last week about the 'big eruption' of anti-Semitism in New York, and so on, and you get the picture of a guy who's not in close touch with reality," Lapin said.

The rabbi was referring to a March 21 New York Times story in which Foxman was quoted as saying: "Anti-Semitism is a disease, and we have seen a big eruption of that disease in New York." Foxman based his remark on an ADL survey that says anti-Semitic incidents rose by about 49 percent in New York City last year.

David Klinghofer, Toward Tradition's editorial director, questions the survey's validity. Many of the incidents recorded are not crimes, he said, but rather "anything anybody perceived as anti-Semitic." The ADL "gets paid (by contributors) according to how much anti-Semitism it finds," Klinghofer told United Press International Wednesday.

Toward Tradition said that Foxman's "tireless efforts" to convince American Jews that they are beset by "a phantom anti-Semitism," when their own experience suggests otherwise, "have helped to confirm many in the belief that being a Jew has to do mainly with being oppressed and hated."

The American Jewish Committee's annual study for 1999 reported that anti-Semitism is the main concern of 62 percent of American Jews, up 5 points from 1998. This belief pertains "notwithstanding the strength of democratic institutions and legal protections in the United States," AJC President Bruce M. Ramer said at the time.

The study, which was summarized in a June 9, 1999, story in the Washington Times, also revealed that American Jews give a low priority to religious observance and believe recalling the Holocaust is the key to being a Jew. In its story, the Times quoted Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, humanities professor at New York University, who believes Jews are "absolutely free and equal" in America.

"I deplore the survey results," Hertzberg said. "When you say: 'Remember, we have enemies,' it simply feeds a neurosis. I maintain that Jewish life is not fear, but affirmation."

Toward Tradition's National Director Yarden Weidenfeld also said that traditional Judaism, as taught by Lapin, celebrates life. Foxman's approach constitutes the real threat to American Jewry, Weidenfeld told UPI in a Wednesday phone interview, because young American Jews who associate their religion with death and misery are more likely to marry Gentile partners. The real danger is assimilation, Weidenfeld said.

ADL Assistant National Director Ken Jacobson dismissed Toward Tradition and its positions. "At some level, I might not want to dignify the comments," he said in a phone interview on Wednesday. "I don't really think that Rabbi Lapin and his organization represent anything significant in the Jewish community."

But Jacobson quickly overcame his reluctance. He denied that Foxman's letter likened Horowitz to Holocaust-deniers because Foxman did not assert that Horowitz denied the existence of slavery.

"We were concerned about the denigration of blacks and the slave experience that was implicit in the Horowitz message" opposing reparations, Jacobson told UPI. "It's only like ... the Holocaust denial theme in the sense that, in both issues, there are things that were offensive, and a newspaper isn't obligated under the First Amendment to print every ad."

Jacobson was referring to student editors of campus newspapers. Of course, the First Amendment constrains only government, not newspapers or advertisers. In response, Weidenfeld said the students' ignorance of the Constitution "is their problem" and has nothing to do with Holocaust denial.

Toward Tradition said it picked Foxman "from among other representatives of the Anti-Semitism Industry" because of his role in former president Clinton's pardon of fugitive tax evader Marc Rich.

Citing Friday's Newsweek report, the group said: "After the ADL received a $100,000 check from the Rich Foundation, Foxman wrote to Bill Clinton urging the pardon." In doing so, Foxman "joined other leading Jewish liberals who had benefited from the billionaire's largesse. The ensuing scandal was a comfort to true anti-Semites who say that Jews buy and sell justice," Toward Tradition said.

On Saturday, the New York Times reported that Foxman said the previous day that he was wrong to have lobbied for Rich.


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