~by E.D. Kain

Harry’s place has this to say:

Harry’s Place may be removed (or rather have it’s DNS disabled) after a ‘complaint’ to the company that our domain name is registered with.

We assume after threats were made on the weekend that this ‘complaint’ originates from Jenna Delich or her supporters. Though we have not yet seen the complaint submitted, we assume it runs along the lines that pointing out that Ms Delich linked to the website of a known neo-Nazi figure and former Ku Klux Klan leader is defamatory. …

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

U.S. financial assistance to Israel can be a contentious topic, even when discussing foreign policy issues using accurate information. Very often, opponents of Israel use wildly exaggerated, even fabricated “facts and figures” and extremely hyperbolic language to disparage the Jewish State — even claiming the U.S. has been pushed to the verge of bankruptcy by supporting Israel. The obfuscations about U.S. aid to Israel have been bothering me for a very long time, so I decided to research the numbers myself and compare my findings to the figures advanced by hysterical critics of Israel.

For example, an anti-Semitic publication, which so innocently calls itself the “Washington Report on Middle East Affairs” (WRMEA), claims that American taxpayers have paid “$3 Trillion” for supporting Israel. WRMEA tries to blame Israel for 1) rising oil prices, 2) the cost of both Iraq wars, 3) and American job losses, and has published articles with Protocols-of-the-Elders-of Zion-style headlines like “Israel has had in place a shadow government in Washington” and “Will the State Department Remain Israeli-Occupied Territory?”

Here I’ll show how exaggerations by groups like WRMEA are not even close to reflecting reality.

Bare with me as I run the numbers and document my findings.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Try as he may, Barack Obama has not separated himself from his controversial pastor of 20 years, Jeremiah Wright, whom he calls an “uncle.” Obama has been too weak and indecisive in chiding Wright; he also has waited too long to censure his “uncle.” Obama’s claims that he didn’t know about Wright’s offensive beliefs are ridiculous. Obama has been attending Wright’s church for 20 years. All I can conclude is that: 1) Obama agrees with Wright’s beliefs, 2) Obama doesn’t object to Wright’s beliefs, and/or 3) it was politically expedient for Obama to keep quiet about Wright only until recently, when the public found out what has been going on. After digesting Rev. Wright’s latest offensive outburst, it seems that the pastor actually supports the notion of “separate but equal” (Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896), which is confusing and ludicrous, as it goes against the basic tenets of the whole civil rights movement. Here’s Wright from his speech to the NAACP on Sunday:

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Yeah, all us dumb, racist Midwestern (white?) folk — according to Barack Obama:

… “You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them,” Obama, an Illinois senator, said.

“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” he said. …

Talk about painting with a broad stroke. Does Harvard-educated Obama even know the folk he is stereotyping? Ad this to my long list of concerns about Obama, like his “spiritual” advisers…

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

The Absolut Vodka company recently ran an ad campaign which re-drew the map of North America, showing California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, and Texas as re-conquered by Mexico. The Absolut ad’s sentiments coincide with radical Latino groups who expouse “anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, homophobia and other expressions of hatred.” Absolut has apologized for its ridiculous ad, but too little, too late. Vote with your wallet — buy SKYY Vodka, made in the USA:

… In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ended the Mexican-America War (1846-1848). With the signing of this treaty, the United States gained control of what was to become the Golden West, including California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and parts of Colorado and New Mexico. Today, SKYY® Vodka, the number-one vodka produced in the United States, spoke out against suggestions by Absolut® Vodka to disregard that treaty, as well as the joining of Texas to the Union in 1845, as depicted in Absolut’s recent advertising.

“Like SKYY Vodka, the residents of states like California, Texas and Arizona are exceptionally proud of the fact that they are from the United States of America,” said Dave Karraker, SKYY Vodka. “To imply that they might be interested in changing their mailing addresses, as our competitor seems to be suggesting in their advertising, is a bit presumptuous.” …

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

So now, “THE Absolut vodka company has apologised for an advertising campaign depicting the south-western United States as part of Mexico…” This “depiction” is the same sentiment advocated by the Nation of Aztlan, which “calls for the United States to return ‘Aztlan’ territory - Aztlan being the mythic homeland of the Mexican people, or Aztecs, which according to legend is found in the American Southwest or Northern Mexico. The group’s nationalist message is blurred by frequent appeals anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, homophobia and other expressions of hatred.” Isn’t that special? Absolut sure has a strange (offensive? hateful?) — idea of its target audience. Here’s an example of the Absolut campaign imagery:

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Senator Barack Obama “seeks spiritual counsel from” Rev. James T. Meeks, a racist and homophobe. Some would say this is a personal thing for Obama (even though I find the relationship troubling). But Meeks has been actively involved in Obama’s political activities, and is now involved in Obama’s presidential bid:

… James Meeks, who will serve as an Obama delegate at the 2008 Democratic convention in Denver, is a long-time political ally to the democratic frontrunner.

When Obama ran for the U.S. Senate in 2003, he frequently campaigned at Salem Baptist Church while Rev. Meeks appeared in television ads supporting the Illinois senator’s campaign. Later, according to the same Chicago Sun Times article, on the night after he won the Democratic primary, Sen. Obama attended bible study at Meeks’ church ‘for prayer’ and ‘to say thank you.’

Since that time, not only has Meeks himself served on Obama’s exploratory committee for the presidency and been listed on the Obama’s campaign website as one of the senator’s ‘influential black supporters’, but his church choir was called on to raise their voices in praise at a rally the night Obama announced his run for the White House back in 2007. …

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Revelations about Barack Obama’s role models keeps getting worse and worse. Today, we find that:

… Rev. Meeks has been described as someone in which Obama seeks spiritual counsel from…

In a 2006 sermon, Rev. Meeks stated, “We don’t have slave masters. We got mayors. But they still the same white people who are presiding over systems where black people are not able, or to be educated. You got some preachers that are house niggers. You got some elected officials that are house niggers. And rather than them trying to break this up, they gonna fight you to protect this white man.” He later defended that sermon during an interview with a Chicago CBS 2 reporter.

Not to mention Rev. Meeks homophobic ways are well noted. A 2007 newsletter from the Southern Poverty Law Center named Rev. Meeks one of the “10 leading black religious voices in the anti-gay movement.” …

Add Meeks to the likes of Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Ever thought about what the Arab media really thinks of Jews, Judaism, and Israel? Seeing is believing, from the ADL, below. These editorial cartoons were printed over the last few weeks by Arab papers in response to Israel’s self-defense against terrorist missile attacks. Hmmm… Israelis haven’t gone on any rampages of protest. Remember the Arab/Muslim furor over the much tamer cartoons of Mohammed?

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By Barry Rubin

Comparing contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis is increasingly commonplace.

–U.S. State Department report on antisemitism, 2007.

Let’s talk about the Nazis. There should have already been more than enough discussion about this in the more than half-century since Adolf Hitler’s bunker fell in 1945. There have been hundreds and thousands of books, articles, speeches, and so on about what is commonly known as the Holocaust.

But apparently it hasn’t been enough, or well enough understood.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Barack Obama only today felt the need to condemn “a sermon on the Sunday after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001″ in which his church’s pastor “suggested the United States brought on the [911] attacks?” Only today? Sounds like a lie to me. Oh, but wait, Obama “said [Pastor] Wright’s controversial statements first came to his attention at the beginning of his presidential campaign last year, and he condemned them.” Uh, huh. Obama’s church also adores Louis Farrakhan, a racist, homophobe, and anti-Semite, who has called Judaism a “gutter religion.” [1] Obama has been a member of this “church” for 20 years, and calls his America-hating pastor an “uncle.” This Trinity United Church of Christ, led by old uncle Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., declares itself to be “Unashamedly Black” with a philosophy based on “‘Black Power and Black Theology.” Is this identity- and race-based philosophy “liberal?” Is Obama a suitable presidential candidate for a country as diverse as the United States? Here’s what Obama’s “uncle” thinks of our nation:

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National Jewish Democratic Council asked to join in this protest

To: watchdog “at” barackobama.com, media “at” barackobama.com
cc: njdc “at” njdc.org, info “at” njdc.org
From: Bill Levinson [phone number given to Obama for America, NJDC]

We direct your attention to this New York Sun article:

Farrakhan Lauds Obama as ‘Hope’ of World
By Associated Press

February 25, 2008

In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam said yesterday that a presidential candidate, Senator Obama, is the “hope of the entire world” that America will change for the better. …

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by Bill Levinson

Speaker at federation event slammed for calling Obama an ‘anti-Semite’:

“Barack Obama is an anti-Semite,” said Gabriel, who founded the nonprofit organization American Congress for Truth following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. “No Jews should support him. Jews should vote for Hillary Clinton.”

We do not know whether Obama is an anti-Semite because we cannot read his mind, and we have not heard him say anything anti-Semitic. Aesop, however, told us long ago that birds of a feather flock together. If Obama does not wish to be taken for an anti-Semite (and racist), he should not surround himself with individuals like Al Sharpton, or anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic organizations like MoveOn.org. We also know that, when we complained to his campaign about his promotion of Sharpton, they responded with what is at best a patronizing brush-off if not a deliberate insult. On the other hand, we support McCain over Clinton, who also appeared with and promoted Sharpton.

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by Steven Shamrak

Throughout history, Jews have been blamed for almost everything. We were responsible for the Black Death during the Dark Ages. We were responsible for the exploitation of working classes by Capitalist society and spreading the ideals of Communism around the world. Jews were slave traders and were fighting against slavery; we are branded as imperialists and human rights activists; we destroyed the rule of the Tsar in Russia and created and obliterated, 70 years later, the Soviet Union. We are anarchists and socialists, hippies, gays and women’s rights activists, as well as neo-conservatives.

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By Canadian Coalition for Democracies

Ottawa, Canada - The Stephen Harper government has withdrawn its support for a UN anti-racism conference scheduled to take place next year in South Africa, according to a media release today from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

Jason Kenney, secretary of state for multiculturalism and Canadian identity, said today that the conference, like its predecessor in 2001, “has gone completely off the rails… Canada is interested in combating racism, not promoting it. We’ll attend any conference that is opposed to racism and intolerance, not those that actually promote racism and intolerance”.

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