Bias at the "Association for Civil Rights in Israel"

by Steven Plaut

INN today carries a news report on yet another one-sided biased "report" coming out of the misnamed Association for Civil Rights in Israel or ACRI. The "Association" is for Civil Rights for everyone except Jews. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) is an anti-democratic extremist group that does not endorse free speech. ACRI, like B'tselem, Physicians for Human Rights and many other assorted splinter far-left, anti-Israel, pro-PLO groups in Israel, pretends it is nothing more than a neutral human rights watchdog but this is an Orwellian lie. (B'tselem by the way distributed a special brochure this week via Haaretz in which it claims to prove that Gaza is still "occupied" by Israel because Israel refuses to let the Hamas import weapons freely at the entrance points into the Gaza Strip.  Importing explosives - now THERE is a human right B'tselem can get all indignant over.)  Its latest "report" is a one-sided attack on the Jews in Hebron. As usual. the ACRI just can't seem to locate any acts of violence against Jews by Arabs. And self-defense is definitely not a civil right of Jews in the eyes of ACRI.

ACRI is an extremist anti-Israel group that only cares about "human rights" when "defending them" is part of delegitimizing Israel (such as in this case). It has never heard of a human right for Jews not to be murdered by terrorists.

Think I am exaggerating? The president of ACRI, Sami Michael, best known for romanticizing communism, was cited in Haaretz (Oct 21, 2004) as justifying Palestinian terror attacks against Jewish Israelis. Here are his words as quoted by Haaretz: 

Michael understands the Hamas members who are fighting these Jews, who stuck a wedge down their throats. In an interview published in the latest issue of New Horizons, a monthly on society and the state published by the Berl Katznelson Foundation, Michael rejects the definition of Hamas fighters as "terrorists."
"Imagine the feeling if I woke up tomorrow and saw this neighborhood, which we inhabit, forcibly conquered by the Syrians, and they established settlements here, and in order to go to the bus station, I needed permission from the Syrian army. How would I feel?" the author from Haifa asked. "If I fight them, I will be considered a terrorist. Why am I a terrorist? Why do we call Hezbollah or Hamasniks terrorists? Why? Because he fights on his own territory? Suddenly, aliens, occupiers, land on him and tell him: "Your house is ours. It's his land, he and his forefathers were born here, and the settlers say: We will never leave ... How would you respond to this?"

A few years back, I approached ACRI and offered them an opportunity to defend free speech in Israel and prove they support human rights for all, even for those who might disagree with their leftist extremist ideology. As you may know, I am being sued in a harassment SLAPP** "libel suit" by a leftist extremist lecturer at Ben-Gurion University because I dared to criticize his political opinions and his public political behavior. The lecturer in question (Neve Gordon) served, for example, as a human shield for Yasser Arafat while Arafat was hiding in his offices the murderers of an Israeli cabinet minister and other terrorists, all this in order to interfere illegally with an Israeli anti-terror military operation. The suit is clearly nothing more than an anti-democratic assault on free speech by a leftist extremist who thinks it is a crime to criticize him.

So, I contacted ACRI and asked them to take up my case and denounce the Ben-Gurion extremists' tactic of trying to use SLAPP litigation as a bludgeon to suppress free speech for non-leftists. There can be no clearer opportunity for those who value free speech as a human right to denounce such misuse of the courts as this case. I invited ACRI to help defeat this cynical move by the leftist extremist in question, Neve Gordon of the political science department at Ben-Gurion University. The liberal Prof. Alan Dershowitz that "Neve Gordon has gotten into bed with neo-Nazis, Holocaust justice deniers, and anti-Semites. He is a despicable example of a self-hating Jew and a self-hating Israeli."

In response, I got a peremptory refusal from a spokesperson for ACRI. They are not interested in defending free speech for Zionists.

** SLAPP stands for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. SLAPP suits are anti-democratic libel suits designed to suppress the free speech of one's critics.

Still Playing: Mickey Mouse for Jihad

by Jack Engelhard


Isn’t this child abuse?

Corruption of the young has reached a new high, or rather a new low, with Mickey Mouse serving as a recruiter for hatred and murder.

Get them hating while they’re young. Apparently, that’s the curriculum.

That’s also copyright infringement. Straight from Gaza, Hamas borrowed the image of this lovable Disney character to lure young Palestinian Arabs into murder and martyrdom. News of this program, that features “Mickey Mouse” proclaiming that it’s politically correct, even mandatory, to kill Christians and Jews, reached us a few days ago, but it’s been airing on Arab television for some time, as have textbooks with the same message.

If you caught the footage on our own news networks, as I did on CNN and Fox, you were amazed as I was that perversion has no limits. But why the big surprise when Osama bin Laden and Yasser Arafat and their disciples taught us to be ready for the worst in people. But will our kids be ready? They’d better be, for soon they’ll be facing another generation of jihadists.

In a few years they’ll be graduating into suicide bombers, these kiddies who’d been fed all that poison. They’ve already been “educated” and prepped and measured for their suicide belts. Pity our children and grandchildren, and beware of an upcoming generation that’s been taught to say – “Oh Jerusalem we are coming. Oh Jerusalem it is the time of death.”

Yes, they are coming, and coming as well to “liberate” all Christian lands in favor of Islam. One of my editors pointed out that this Mickey Mouse clone (named Farfur in this Palestinian Authority telecast) mimes the body language of Adolph Hitler. Reports that this program has been yanked proved false. See Arutz Sheva’s “Hamas Lied About Taking ‘Jihad Mickey’ Off PA TV.” The same report (about the lie) appeared in The New York Times.

We’re well beyond politics when this sort of Mickey Mouse programming can be aimed at children. We’re into depravity that questions our superiority above the snake. This can’t be evolution when even a portion of humanity is capable of such vileness. We’re going backwards.

Egypt, some time ago, ran its own hate-fest by way of a mini-series that updated “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” These telecasts were beamed all across the Arab world to keep the multitudes conditioned, in case the people should forget to hate and lapse into tolerance.

But all that was mostly for grownups. “Mickey Mouse” as propagandist, that’s for the kindergarten set.

Around here and in Israel we keep chanting “give peace a chance.” All right, but tell them, not us. What chances have we got for world peace, now or later, when THEIR ten commandments begin with Thou SHALT Kill? Where do we hide our kids when THEIR kids are nourished animosity along with their pabulum?

Yet another group of mostly homegrown terrorists were gathered up just the other day in New Jersey – and we wonder why?

There’s no mystery to any of this. It begins at home and at school and doubled-up on TV. That’s where we’re taught right from wrong.

Though some get it all backwards.

Khazarei:

by Steven Plaut

This week I published an article on how Neo-Nazis, Palestinian terrorists, and leftist anti-Semites are obsessed with the "Khazar Myth", holding that all Ashkenazi Jews are descendent from Khazar converts to Judaism over a millennium ago. It is a way to delegitimze Israel and Jews:

It is one of the great ironies of the 21st century that anti-Zionists and anti-Semites on both the Left and the Right, have returned to racialist arguments against Jews that most of us thought had died out after World War II. Nearly every anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi website denounces Zionists and Israelis as "Khazars." Web chat lists in which Jews defending Israel are dismissed as "Khazar usurpers" are too numerous to count. The racialism once again in vogue holds that Jews would only have legitimate claims to the right of self-determination in their homeland if they were appropriately Semitic from a racial point of view. Palestine is part of the Semitic racial lebensraum and those who do not possess the correct pure racial markings have no business being there. Racial purity is suddenly the new basis for national rights.

The "Institute for Historic Review" is a Holocaust Denial Neo-Nazi web site. Here it behaves as a wonderful member of the Axis of Evil, Nazis allied with Arab terrorists, banning together to promote the Khazar Myth:
Furthermore, the Jews of Ashkenazi extraction are descendants of the Khazars, a people of Turkish stock, who occupied an area between the Black and Caspian Seas, a territory now a part of the Soviet Union. The Khazars, originally pagans, had in 740 A.D. embraced Judaism and their descendants, while they may profess the Jewish faith today, cannot claim to be of the "seed of Abraham" and "heirs according to the Promise." The ancestors of those Jews who today immigrate to Palestine from Europe and the Americas and claim Palestine and beyond as their ancestral homeland, came not from Jordan but from the Volga, not from Canaan but from the Caucasus, and that genetically, they are more closely related to the Hun and Magyar than to the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Besides, religion does not confer heritage or property rights on people!

The writer, Hadawi, claims to be a Palestinian refugee. Sure, we believe him.

Finally, a Neo-Nazi "blogger" named Kurt Nimmo, who is an unemployed New Mexico conspiracy nut, a groupie of Holocaust Denier David Irving, and a regular on the Uruknet web site of exiled Iraqi Baathists, has called ME a Khazar: Plaut and his Ashkenazic buddies are actually descended from the Turkic Khazars in eastern Europe, although they like to pretend they are direct descendants of the ancient Hebrews, a Semitic people closer to the Palestinians than Plaut would ever admit. Plaut and his poseur settler friends are a far cry from the ancient Assyrians, Babylonians, Chaldeans, Arameans, Hebrews, and Arabs. They are more akin to English colonists attacking Pequot villages and killing innocent men, women, and children than I will ever be.

I would have no problem with finding a family connection to folks with Khazar lineage, especially if they are in a position to make me a cheap loan.