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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By Phyllis Chesler

PHYLLIS CHESLER’ S PREPARED REMARKS 1/15/08

(I will write up the press conference which took place at the American Jewish Congress later.)

You may also see the press conference on U Tube:
http://youtube.com/profile?user=AJCongress

Recently, in the pages of the New York Times, Gloria Steinem wrote that we should not hold the only female Presidential candidate to a higher and different standard than we hold male politicians; when we do, Gloria explained, that’s sexism. From 1972 on, I have been explaining to Gloria and to other Ms. feminists that we should not hold the only Jewish state to a higher or different standard than we hold all other nations states; when we do, it is called racism or Jew-hatred or anti-Semitism.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Will our beloved media follow this story or selectively ignore it? Should voters know about such tidbits — at least have a chance to decide for themselves? It seems that Barack Obama’s church adores Louis Farrakhan, a racist, homophobe, and anti-Semite, who has called Judaism a “gutter religion.” From the AC:

… When Obama announced his candidacy for president, his background entered the fray. Though it appears that he is not held to task on his religious affiliations by the mainstream media, it does re-surface. Let’s explore some recent events that may shed light on Obama’s veiled religious affiliation.

In December 2007, the Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) bestowed its highest social achievement award upon Louis Farrakhan, the head of the Nation of Islam. This was facilitated through the church’s publication Trumpet Magazine and presented at their end of the year awards gala. The award dubbed the Lifetime Achievement “Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Trumpet” Award is named after the head pastor that married Barack and Michele Obama nee Robinson. …

Also note that:

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To: njdc “at” njdc.org, nynjdc “at” njdc.org
From: Bill Levinson
Posted to IsraPundit and other blogs

The National Jewish Democratic Council has rightly challenged Ron Paul’s acceptance of $500 from former Ku Klux Klansman Don Black, the proprietor of “White Pride World Wide” Stormfront.org. While the Paul campaign states that this merely takes $500 from Black’s pocket without buying him anything from the Paul campaign, it does buy him some something: publicity. It is a matter of record, as shown by our screenshot of our message to Ron Paul, that this has been pointed out to him. Furthermore, it is a matter of record that we have asked the Paul campaign to disown and repudiate the Ron Paul for President banner ads that are running at Stormfront.org.

It is also a matter of record that we asked the National Jewish Democratic Council to state a position on Hillary Clinton’s, Barack Obama’s, and John Edwards’ promotion and empowerment of the prominent racist and anti-Semite Al Sharpton. So far, this request has gone unacknowledged and unanswered.

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by Bill Levinson

Barack Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe recently circulated the following complaint:

In an increasingly desperate effort to slow Senator Clinton’s slide, the focus of the Clinton campaign has moved from Barack Obama’s kindergarten years to his teenage years.

On Wednesday, their top advisor in New Hampshire tried to recycle old news by smearing Barack for experimenting with drugs as a young man — something Barack candidly wrote about years ago in his memoir and has since talked about with young people in an effort to teach them the lessons he learned from his mistakes.

Mr. Obama’s ongoing appearances with the prominent racist and anti-Semite Al Sharpton, however, say far more about his character than anything the Clinton campaign can possibly dig up or even fabricate out of whole cloth.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

… Not surprisingly, though citing his [Hitler’s] victories and ‘bitter’ fall in great detail, the Holocaust is not mentioned… This is consistent with Palestinian education in general which erases the Holocaust from history. …

This from Israel’s “partner” for peace, the Palestinian Authority, which “was part of the official Palestinian Authority-run radio’s Ramadan quiz - rebroadcast this past week…” From IsraelNN.com:

A Palestinian Authority radio contest featured a laudatory biography of Adolf Hitler replete with his military victories, heroism and no mention of the Holocaust.

“His golden year was 1940, when his armies invaded Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Holland, and Belgium and defeated France…By mid 1942, his country controlled the largest land area in Europe…He refused to surrender and continued to fight for two more years, but, his bitter end came in the spring of 1945 when he took his own life…Who is he?” was the question broadcast as a Voice of Palestine radio contest on November 27. …

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by Asaf Romirowsky and Jonathan Spyer*

For Israelis the United Nations is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they are fully aware of the anti-Israel sentiment that the United Nations perpetuates, but on the other hand they want to be part of it and to have their voices heard. This stance is understandable. But it produces positions which sometimes directly contradict Israel’s clear interest.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Once again, we see how easy it is for the Muslim world to get whipped up into a frenzy of hatred over nothing (a teddy bear?). Do we need further proof of the prevailing attitude of hatred that exists in much of Islam — especially when thousands of people tell us that they’re intolerant (or when we see Iraq’s Sunnis and Shiites, both Muslim groups, kill each other by the thousands)? From the AP:

Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, rallied Friday in a central square and demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear “Muhammad.” …

They [the protestors] called for Gibbons’ execution, saying, “No tolerance: Execution,” and “Kill her, kill her by firing squad.” …

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Buddha was The Prince of Peace (for good reason if you’ve read, for example, the Dhammapada). Islamists feel threatened by Buddha? Here we go again:

… In northwest Pakistan’s Swat valley, armed Islamist militants recently attacked one of the oldest and most important sculptures of Buddhist art. Dating from around the beginning of the Christian era, and carved into a 130-foot-high rock, the seated image of the Buddha was second in importance in South Asia only to the Bamiyan Buddhas.

This, moreover, was the second attack in less than a month. Murtaza Razvi has pointed out that the image that was attacked was not in a remote area. In fact, it was next to the central road that runs through the valley.

Despite repeated requests by Pakistani archeologists to the local authorities to protect the seated Buddha and other sites, especially after the first attack, no action was taken. In fact, militants were able to carry out their work — drilling holes in the rock, filling them with explosives, and detonating them — in broad daylight. …

I thought Pakistani President Musharraf was getting tough on extremism…

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by Bill Levinson

We are not qualified to give legal advice, but we encourage any University of Delaware student who has been made “uncomfortable” by the university’s mandatory “diversity” program to consult one. As reported by World Net Daily:

A mandatory University of Delaware program requires residence hall students to acknowledge that “all whites are racist” and offers them “treatment” for any incorrect attitudes regarding class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality they might hold upon entering the school, according to a civil rights group. …

According to university materials, RAs are instructed to ask students during one-on-one sessions questions such as: “When did you discover your sexual identity?” “When were you first made aware of your race?” and “Who taught you a lesson in regard to some sort of diversity awarness? What was the lesson?”

“Students who express discomfort with this type of questioning often meet with disapproval from their RAs, who write reports on these one-on-one sessions and deliver these reports to their superiors. One student identified in a write-up as an RA’s ‘worst’ one-on-one session was a young woman who stated that she was tired of having ‘diversity shoved down her throat,’” FIRE said.

This particular student responded to the question, “When did you discover your sexual identity?” with the terse: “That is none of your damn business,” FIRE said.

Again, we are not qualified to give legal advice, but here is what the U.S. Government (Equal Opportunity Employment Commission) says:

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