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Remember Marc Garlasco?

Back in 2009, I discovered that Garlasco, a Human Rights Watch researcher who wrote that organization's typically one-sided anti-Israel reports, was an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia.

He was forced to resign after it was discovered that he had written things like "The leather SS jacket makes my blood go cold it is so COOL!"

Now, NPR is rehabilitating him, interviewing him as an "expert" in a story about how Israel supposedly cannot be trusted to investigate itself in the Shien Abu Akleh killing:

ESTRIN: Israel is similar to other militaries, which tend to protect their own when they ask troops to risk their lives for their country, says former Pentagon official Marc Garlasco, who has investigated war crimes around the world.

MARC GARLASCO: Militaries in particular have a very poor record of investigating themselves. It doesn't matter if we're talking about Israel or the United States, Myanmar. When organizations investigate themselves, they tend to either exonerate their personnel, or they'll go after the lowest-hanging fruit, and we very rarely see any kind of justice.

If so, why did the IDF immediately identify a possible weapon that could have killed Abu Akleh? Why didn't it do what the Palestinians did and insist that the other side must have killed her?

The NPR piece is a typical example of choosing the narrative first and then finding an "expert" to support the already chosen outcome. In this case, they chose someone who used to use the nickname "Flak88" after a German anti-tank weapon that also happens to include the "88" dog-whistle that neo-Nazis use as a shorthand for "Heil Hitler" (H being the 8th letter of the alphabet.)

And someone who not only collects Nazi memorabilia, but wears modern sweatshirts celebrating Nazi-era medals.

NPR rehabilitates disgraced HRW researcher (and Nazi memorabilia fan) Marc Garlasco

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Ice Cube, whose real name is O'Shea Jackson, has in his songs referred to a Jewish music producer as a "white Jew" and "cracker" and Asian shopkeepers as "little Chinese motherfucker." He is also an admirer of Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who has called Jews wicked and compared them to "termites."

Now, Ice Cube will lead the NFL's "economic equity" program to spur partnerships with black–owned businesses. The partnership is through the rapper's Contract With Black America Institute, which supports reparations and affirmative action for secondary schools and colleges.

The move comes as the NFL faces intense criticism over its handling of race issues. Former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores earlier this year sued the league and three of its teams for alleged racial discrimination. Social justice activists have criticized the NFL for failing to hire more black head coaches.

Ice Cube has an extensive history of anti-Semitic, anti-white, and anti-Asian rhetoric. He came under fire in 2020 for a series of social media posts with anti-Semitic tropes and for praising Farrakhan.

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Ice Cube at the time denied allegations of anti-Semitism, but the scandal renewed scrutiny of songs from earlier in his career that urge violence against Asians and Jewish music executive Jerry Heller.

In the track "No Vaseline" from the 1991 album Death Certificate, Ice Cube called Heller a "white Jew" and "cracker."

"Get rid of that devil real simple. Put a bullet in his temple," he rapped.

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Flag on the Play: NFL Taps Anti-Semitic Rapper To Lead Social Justice Initiative - Washington Free Beacon

The face of the NFL's newest social justice initiative is an anti-Semitic rapper who in his songs has called for violence against Jews and Asians.

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Jewish junior footballers aged seven have been taunted by children on opposing teams with hissing sounds meant to evoke the gas chambers.

The disturbing practice has emerged as former cabinet minister Theresa Villiers urges the football authorities to enforce the same “zero tolerance” on antisemitism in the professional and amateur game that is rightly applied to other forms of racism.

In a parliamentary debate on antisemitism in football last week, Labour MP for Bury South Christian Wakeford said: “Even at grassroots and junior football, I have heard local reports from Maccabi of their Jewish players – some only seven years of age – being hissed at by players on the opposite side, replicating the noise of the gas chambers. I am sure that we can all agree that is truly shameful, shocking and abhorrent.”

Tory former Northern Ireland secretary Ms Villiers told the JC: “I found that incredibly disturbing. To have young children inflicting that on each other is horrifying.” She suggested that many referees would be unaware of what the hissing meant. The answer, she added, was “to improve referee training at all levels of the game, so that they will realise what’s happening and put a stop to it”.

Ms Villiers, the MP for Chipping Barnet, is calling for a clampdown on anti-Jewish bullying involving clubs, police and prosecutors.

She told the JC: “As in other spheres, antisemitism is taken less seriously in football than other forms of racism.

“Some action is already being taken, but there has to be more.

“Clubs and the footballing authorities need to make it clearer that this kind of behaviour will not be tolerated and they must take action quicker, while the police must be readier to make arrests.

“And when people are found guilty, clubs should ban the perpetrators from their grounds, even if they are season ticket holders. Such people should not be welcome at games.”

She told the JC that well as banning supporters guilty of antisemitic acts from grounds and training referees to recognise and deal with the problem, football authorities must do their utmost to educate fans, players and officials.

Her proposals were endorsed by Jonathan Metliss, a longstanding campaigner against football antisemitism and the chairman of Action Against Discrimination (AAD), who held lengthy discussions with Ms Villiers before the debate in Westminster Hall.


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https://www.thejc.com/news/news/jewish-footballers-aged-seven-taunted-by-opponents-with-'gas-chamber'-hissing-sounds-sVCBx8UlmBNIYYB1pOEWz

 

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A Mayfield Heights business owner’s video posted on TikTok and espousing that a Jewish elite controls the world has been condemned by the chair of the community relations committee of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland.

Gregg Levine told the Cleveland Jewish News on June 30 that “this is vile, disgusting and dangerous antisemitism right here in our own community, where many of us live and work and shop.”

He said the video was “especially concerning as it is so easily and falsely spread on social media,” he wrote. “Twitter, Tic Tok (sic) and other forms of social media make the spewing of this hatred, this blatant antisemitism grow exponentially.”

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In a separate video on TikTok, the woman, whose account name is jennyrosep13, said she was raised Catholic, which she described as “culty.”

However, “She’s claiming she’s Jewish, as many antisemites do once they are exposed,” Rez said. “That’s not an uncommon practice.”

Rez said StopAntisemitism took an interest in the video because of her audience of 69,000 viewers.

“So this is very concerning that when you and I and the average citizen takes a look at (it), whether we laugh or we laugh in disgust, and we say this is completely false,” Rez said. “She’s influencing young minds again, because the average user is under 25. On TikTok with this antisemitic nonsense.”

The woman established a backup account under the name Jennyrosespace13. In a video at that account, she said, “This page is for when I’m not able to go live on my main account, when I’m being shadow-banned like I am currently, when my videos aren’t doing too well and all that.”

No one returned a telephone call from Jenny Rose Luxury Hair Salon on June 30.

Levine, who is a member of the Cleveland Jewish Publication Company Board of Directors, addressed the issue in light of the growing number of antisemitic incidents documented in recent months and years.

“We continue to see growing antisemitism around the world, in our country and sadly in our own community,” Levine wrote. “It is unacceptable and just plain heartbreaking that so many in our community are scared to be Jewish in 2022. It is critical to call out these conspiracy theories, to fight antisemitism and all forms of hatred as soon as they are discovered.”


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Mayfield Heights hairdresser’s antisemitic video condemned

A Mayfield Heights business owner’s video posted on TikTok and espousing that a Jewish elite controls the world has been condemned by the chair of the community relations committee of

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Jewish cemetery in Winnipeg, Canada, finds 70 tombstones toppled to ground

According to Gustavo Zentner, president of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg, “you would be hard-pressed to find a Jewish person in Winnipeg who doesn’t have a friend or relative buried there.”

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In April, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Dan Crenshaw sponsored a bipartisan resolution calling for the US to declare infertility as a disease and to fund research to combat infertility.

The resolution says, "Blacks, Hispanics, Ashkenazi Jews, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, East Asians, Indians and Pakistanis from the Punjab region, and persons of Caribbean, Mediterranean, French Canadian, or Middle Eastern ancestry suffer from disproportionately higher rates of certain diseases and gynecological, endocrine, and autoimmune disorders, that may contribute to higher rates of infertility among these populations."


A Jordanian writer thinks that this is evidence that Jews have taken over the US government.

At the end of a screed attacking Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt, Mohamed Kharroub writes:

There is a strange and provocative bill that reveals the depth of the Zionist penetration into the American political fabric. Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Schultz, who is Jewish, presented a new bill to Congress on 4/29/2022 for Congress to finance research and awareness-raising related to the prevalence of infertility among white/Ashkenazi Jews in Israel.

The draft resolution states that “that the United States Government has a responsibility to help examine, create, and implement solutions to address and alleviate the problems associated with the disease." It is a project that, as usual, has been supported by Jewish/American organizations , which supports Congress funding research and education on infertility rates among Jews/Ashkenazis in Israel...

Do not be surprised that we will wake up one day soon to an American decision to include all white-only Israeli Jews with the US government/free health insurance for life.

Needless to say, the bill doesn't mention Israel once. It mentions Jews fewer times than it mentions Hispanics and American Indians. Dan Crenshaw is not Jewish.

Yet to paranoid antisemitic Jordanians, it is proof positive that Jews are forcing Congress to provide health care to "white" Israelis.

This is the level of paranoid antisemitism that is mainstream in much of the Arab world.

Congressional resolution on infertility cited as proof that Jews control America

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The Israeli passengers, who were traveling back home, said they made several attempts to find Israel on the list, but to no avail.

"We tried to find Israel and complete the check-in in advance, but we just couldn't find it," the passengers told Israel Hayom. "We didn't really understand why, and we checked a few times and Israel wasn't on the list, but Palestine was, which is crazy."

Unable to find Israel on the list, the passengers arrived at the airport without prior check-in.

"Because of that, we were seated at different seats than we were originally assigned," they said. "But that is not too bad, what is terrible is that all countries of the world are on the list, like Iran and Iraq, but Israel isn't.

A few weeks ago, Transavia informed its passengers traveling moments before boarding the plane that the country did not allow its place to land at Ben-Gurion International Airport. Left stranded, the travelers attempted to find alternative ways of getting home, although most were stuck in Paris for several days.

The Israeli Embassy in France, the Foreign Ministry, and the Administration of Border Crossings, Population and Immigration said they were unfamiliar with any such limit.

A few days later, the airline announced that it had experienced technical difficulties and apologized for the inconvenience.

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https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/07/04/travelers-shocked-over-dutch-airlines-exclusion-of-israel-on-list-of-countries/

 

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In “Artists Under Fire” (Lioncrest, 2022), author and activist Lana Melman lays out clearly and succinctly just how big a threat BDS and its cultural boycott of Israel have become — not only to Israel, and not even only to Jews worldwide, but to the flourishing of the arts everywhere.

As Melman writes, “The BDS campaign against Israel seeks to use the celebrity of artists as a tool to destroy Israel and stir up hate against Jews worldwide … They want international artists to shun performances in Israel and international venues to rescind invitations to Israeli artists. Their rhetoric reeks of classic antisemitic tropes, demonizes Israel, and is stirring up Jew-hatred worldwide.”

Part of the problem, the author explains, is the general acceptance of the BDS movement’s self-defensive argument that it is not anti-Jewish, but “merely” anti-Israel — a protest against the country’s politics, not its people.

Melman isn’t buying it. “We are told antizionism is about Israel, but in fact, it is an attack on Jews — and many Jews either do not see that or are bullied into not accepting what they see,” she writes. “Antizionism is antisemitism. It traffics in modern-day blood libel (the false allegation that Jews murder Christians during their rituals) and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories about money and power. It demonizes Israel and creates an environment that makes Jew-hatred more acceptable worldwide. And it singles out the Jewish homeland for criticism and reproach disproportionate to its errors.”

Just how dangerous this is, and how much damage BDS has already done, turns out to be worse than you might think.

“Numerous polls conducted in recent years have shown a direct correlation between antizionism and antisemitism, with large segments of the population echoing the false accusations circulated by BDS,” Melman explains in “Artists Under Fire.” “An Action and Protection League (APL) poll collected 500,000 data points from a total of 16,000 people in 16 EU countries from December 2019 to January 2020. One-fourth of those polled equated Israelis to Nazis and agreed that this justifies an international boycott of Israel — and 21 percent expressed their belief that “there is a secret Jewish network that influences political and economic affairs in the world.”

No wonder antisemitic attacks have grown worse and more frequent in most of Europe, as well as in the United States, in recent years.

Much of this antisemitism comes not, as many would expect, from neo-Nazis and extremists on the far right, but rather, from so-called “progressives” and “social justice warriors” on the left. It often attaches itself — ironically enough — to “wokeness,” a movement theoretically based on supporting the rights of minority groups.

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Artists Under Fire: The BDS War Against Celebrities, Jews, and Israel - Algemeiner.com

The announcement came just recently on social media: the folk band Big Thief would not be performing as scheduled in Tel Aviv. It was a complete reversal of the band's statement only a week earlier, when it announced its determination to "remain open" to views about Israel and the Boycott...

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Nazarian said that if the ADL had to pick one country on which to focus its efforts, “that would be the Islamic Republic of Iran.” She cited Tehran’s ongoing nuclear ambitions, its backing for terrorist groups across the Middle East such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, and its gruesome human rights record as the basis for concern about the regime’s future behavior — including its attempt to extend its “long arm” into Europe, Africa and Latin America.

She recalled that on a visit to Jerusalem in the wake of the May 2021 conflict in Gaza, then Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett had referred to an op-ed authored by the ADL that exposed “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s personal involvement in inciting antisemitism, remarking that a bigger push was needed on this front. Khamenei “has a specific ideological connection with the worst conspiracy theories to exist,” Nazarian argued. “We know, when a head of state has that kind of background, where it’s going to lead.”

Iran’s presence on social media platforms has led the ADL to reach out to the companies operating them, pointing to the profusion of antisemitic content that they permit, particularly in languages other than English. “It’s not enough to moderate content if it’s only in English,” Nazarian said. She added that the ADL had examined Iran’s social media output in Farsi, “to demonstrate the discrepancy.” Social media companies were “not paying attention to content in French, Arabic, Spanish, Farsi, Turkish and other languages,” she said. The ADL regularly conducts searches of core terms like “Jew” in 12 languages to determine, said Nazarian, “the proportion of the use of the word ‘Jew’ with a negative connotation, as opposed to an objective one.”

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‘Iran Is the Number One Sponsor of Antisemitism, Hands Down,’ Says Departing ADL Head of International Relations

ADL’s departing director of international affairs, Sharon Nazarian, is seen with Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz. Photo: ADL Five years …

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The folks at Amnesty USA are not shy about admitting that they are anti-Zionist. They just redefine it to mean "critical of Israel." But in reality it means that they oppose self-determination for the Jewish people. Which is pretty antisemitic.

The account consistently dismisses any pro-Israel viewpoint as a lie by definition - and accuse anyone who supports Israel of being trolls paid by the Israeli government. In one exchange, they wrote to a critic, "R u one of the paid trolls by #Israel? Wonder what a person's soul sells for nowadays." And "R u a paid troll perhaps?" And "Do you get paid to troll? How much do you make?"

They actually said that no one should believe a word that the Israeli government or pro-Israel people says:"Don't believe the 'hasbara' (propaganda) being spread by Israeli military and supporters. They always try to control the narrative so their statements should never be taken at face value."

They've never said this about the Palestinian Authority. Or Hamas. Only supporters of Israel are accused of being liars by definition.

Yet they insist that they aren't biased.

Judge for yourself.

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Amnesty USA's "Israel-Palestinian" Twitter account never condemns terrorism, rails against "hasbara," accuses pro-Israel tweeters of being "paid trolls"

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