Resistance to Israel's cruelty and human rights violation is showing up in many parts of the globe, some of it in ways that ought to serve as a warning.
For instance, Al-Ahram Weekly of May 2, 2001 reports that
"EGYPT'S top music censor has claimed to have put the vitriol in the chart-topping song "I Hate Israel", which has swept across the country.
"Madkour Thabet, whose office of song censorship within the highly secretive Arts Censorship Bureau has the power to ban tapes deemed politically or morally offensive, said he persuaded the songwriters to toughen the original lyrics, which originally read 'I don't like Israel'.
He explained: "We didn't actually order that the lyrics be changed or provide the exact words, but we recommended that they be changed to better express the common feeling of the Arabic people."
Shaaban Abdel-Rahim, the singer, is said to have become an overnight sensation.
According to a Ha'aretz report of May 18, 2001,
"Local officials of Joerg Haider's right-wing Freedom Party walked out of a lecture hall Thursday evening when a visiting Jewish U.S. philosopher condemned xenophobia and racism in Austria.
In Russia, there is increasing resentment about the Jewish influence and enforcement of political correctness. For the third time, Russia's Duma (lower house) rejected a motion condemning anti-Semitism and fascism in the country in a vote of 219 versus 73. The motion would have needed 226 votes to pass. (The Lobby called that a narrow defeat...)
The Russians are a feisty lot. A few weeks ago, several deputies refused to stand up and observe a one-minute silence on Holocaust memorial day. Ironically, Russia is now seen by many in the West as one of the freest and intellectually most independent countries in Europe.
Another report by AFP. dated May 19, 2001, states that regarding Israel's conduct in the Middle East, verified by the Mitchell Report,
"...the European Union is shedding its traditional caution on Middle East affairs and speaking -- more than ever -- with a common voice."
A diplomat in Brussels commented: "What's new is that countries that used to avoid criticizing Israel, like the Netherlands or Denmark, have joined the others in saying, 'That's enough'."
"Only Germany -- for obvious historic reasons -- is keeping a low profile," he added.
Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh endorsed the Mitchell Commission's call for an immediate halt to what she called "illegal" Jewish settlements.
To his own detriment, Stockwell Day, who at first passed himself off as Canada's Savior of the Right with his Canadian Alliance Party, wasted no time in doing the requisite kneefall before the Holocaust Lobby by weaseling in a speech to the Canadian Jewish Congress that Israel had seized "the moral high ground" in the Mideast conflict. While he was at it, he blamed the Palestinians for premeditated acts of terrorism.
Incensed representatives of Canada's Muslim and Arab communities demanded Saturday that he resign. Munir El- Kassem, a representative of the Canadian Islamic Conference, accused him of spreading hatred against Palestinians, an actionable criminal offense in that country punishable by up to 2 years in jail.
"He is not fit to be the leader of the opposition," El-Kassem said in a briefing by Canada's Muslim and Arab communities in London, Ontario. "A national leader is expected to unite all segments of society, not to instigate racial hatred and intolerance."
El-Kassem's call for Day's resignation was echoed by Atif Kubursi, president of the National Council of Arab-Canada Relations.
"Mr. Day is not entitled to foment strife amongst communities. He is not entitled to build his faltering leadership on a maligned people," Kubursi said.
In Israel, the controversy about Hitler's favorite composer, Richard Wagner and his opera, "Die Walküre", is still raging. The Berlin Staatskapelle orchestra, headed by its music director, one Daniel Barenboim, finds itself under the tried- and-true method of economic blackmail. The Knesset has issued a rare appeal to the organizers "to scrap it or lose a hefty government subsidy".
Wailed Mr. Barenboim: "Wagner was not responsible for the Holocaust!"
The much-discussed (and feared by the Holocaust Lobby) Jordanian Writers Forum, postponed twice while under the censorship gun by the authorities, took place after all on May 13 - to loud acclaim, much media attention and hundreds of visitors. (The Lobby lied in several reports that there were only four . . . )
The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal center insisted on calling it "a Holocaust Deniers' conference" and vociferously condemned it. The center's associate dean, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, called the Forum "yet another step in a systematic effort under way in the Arab world to deconstruct Jewish history."
In an article containing exactly 666 (!) words, the Canadian Jewish News announced that "(t)he departure from Canada of Holocaust denier and Nazi apologist Ernst Zundel marks a significant victory in the battle against racism." Paul Lungen, one of its writers, summed up the feelings of his compatriots:
"Zundel's move to a friendlier climate south of the border recognizes that Canada is inhospitable ground for Holocaust deniers..."
''The many years of efforts, of hounding Zundel, have finally paid off,'' said Keith Landy, chair of Canadian Jewish Congress' Ontario region, admitting to their tactics.
Warren Kinsella, spinmeister of "Web of Hate: Inside Canada's Far-Right Network," opined that this was ''great news...(Zundel is) one of the forces on the Internet. He's read by hundreds of thousands of people".
Now the Canadian Holocaust Lobby will have to spend millions of dollars to create another bogey man with their fear mongering against their own community to keep the shekels rolling.
An Associated Press release states that California, Illinois and Iowa have passed legislation to exempt Holocaust reparations from state taxes, and Ohio lawmakers are considering passing a similar bill as well. A bill to exempt the payments from federal income taxes has already been reintroduced in Congress.
It just proves that some people think that some folks are more equal than others.
Not knowing when to leave well enough alone, the Holocaust Lobby has launched another "atrocity exhibit", this time maligning German police employed in the Third Reich.
The exhibition, housed in a former police headquarters in the west German city of Münster, "is a condemnation of the thousands of regular police officers who willingly joined the Nazi war machine and the post-war German courts that failed to convict them," claims a Simon Wiesenthal release.
Tellingly, the report states that "(t)he organizers of the Münster exhibition have sought to avoid confrontation with today's police forces."
An internet activist listening to National Public Radio reported that she heard a telling interview by outgoing FBI Director Louis Freeh. When asked what he would like best to be remembered for, Freeh said that he wished to be remembered for requiring that FBI agents visit the Holocaust Museum. Amazing, the priorities of some public officials!
Infobeat, an Internet source, reports that:
"An international commission created to resolve Holocaust- era insurance disputes has reportedly spent more than $30 million on salaries, hotel bills and newspaper ads while distributing only $3 million to claimants."
The Los Angeles Times dug up some internal documents written by Commission vice chairman, Geoffrey E. Fitchew, which show that ". . . the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) is at risk of facing increasing criticism, focusing on the low proportion of our claimants who have received offers ...''
The commission is not regulated by any governmental agency and makes independent spending decisions. The Holocaust Gravy Train rolls on!
eBay.com, an internet auctioneering outfit, has in the past eagerly auctioned pictures of serial killers and even pieces of electric chairs. Now the company has agreed, following the example of buckling under to net censorship set by Yahoo, to refrain from auctioning off what is known as "Nazi memorabilia." Some World War II items have gone for as high as $10,000.
Lesser auctioneers and dealers don't mind eBay bowing out at all. "We will soon have a new category on our Web site titled 'Banned on eBay,' " said Paul Cross, an internet website owner of Pekin, Illinois. "While some people are content with watching such films or reading related books, others want a piece of the era or time when the actual historical event took place," Cross is quoted as saying.
The Canadian Human Rights Commission industry, reeking with corruption and partisanship, is said to be whistling out of its last hole.
According to various reports, among them the Toronto Globe and Mail of May 18, 2001, Chief Commissioner Michelle Falardeau-Ramsay told a press conference in Ottawa that her main thrust was "...to counter arguments that the commission should be abolished because it has lost its legitimacy."
Critics - among them Eddie Taylor, a senior lawyer at the commission who had a hand as Useful Idiot in pushing through that legal abomination that "truth is no defense", now suspended from his job and escorted under security guard from the Canadian Human Rights offices for having criticized his employer - have argued that the commission wasted public funds and has no "moral authority."
"It's devastating. They cannot take the high ground," said Eddie Taylor in the interview. "It needs to be overhauled completely. It's an abuse and a waste of taxpayers' money."
And so, what else is new? What did the Zundelists say for the last five years as they bore the brunt of that Special Interest Hit Squad?
And finally, this item is rather stunning, if you permit the pun.
Animal rights activists all over the world have long complained about the ritual knife slaughter of animals practiced by the Jewish rabbis. Under British law, all animals other than those selected for kosher slaughter must be pre-stunned before being killed.
The religious habit producing kosher meat is atrocious and requires the animal to be fully conscious while having its throat cut, ostensibly to have the panicky animal's body release large spurts of adrenaline to make the meat tender.
Now, the Board of Deputies of British Jews has agreed to "consider ways" of electronically stunning animals. Stunning would cause them to lose consciousness and thus not feel the pain.
According to this report, in an average month, 32,077 animals are ritually slaughtered for kosher meat. That's 384,924 cruelly treated animals a year in Britain alone!
That is some karmic debt, say those who believe that the universe leaves nothing unpunished.
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