All this week, the havoc at the United Nations' Anti-Racism Conference in Durban, South Africa was dominating the news. CNN ran one of its quick Internet polls on August 29, 2001, asking: "Should the U.S. participate in the U.N. conference on racism if conference documents condemn Israel?"
Yes 58% 1306 votes No 42% 941 votes
Total: 2247 votes
''It was awful,'' Keith Landy, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, told The Canadian Press from Durban. ''The conference has been hijacked by certain interest groups and the atmosphere has become oppressive and anti-Semitic.''
A coalition of Jewish groups had called a news conference to complain about harassment and discrimination, but before the groups could complete their presentation, Arab activists became unruly, shouting, singing and pushing in front of the speakers. The news conference was aborted in haste.
For his part, Frank Dimant, executive vice-president of B'nai Brith Canada said in a press release: ''The events of the last few days shame and dishonour the United Nations. ... It is very difficult to respect UN decisions relating to Israel when its silence on Jewish human rights issues is so complete that a UN conference is allowed to degenerate into such a blatantly anti-Semitic circus.''
It is no secret to the sparrows on the roof that Israel has consistently refused to act on or honor UN resolutions demanding that Israel return to its pre-1967 borders, stop the settlements in the occupied areas etc. The US has seen fit to protect Israel through numerous vetos. No wonder there is anger.
``The level of antagonism and downright hatred is pervasive,'' Landy said in a telephone interview from Durban. "We would not have come if we had known the extent to which the conference has been taken over by this agenda.''
Landy objected to "offensive material", including a T-shirt with a swastika superimposed on a Star of David, and a booklet of caricatures depicting Jews with hook noses and fangs dripping blood.
A proverb comes to mind, of course: He who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind!
May we assume the love affair with things Israeli or Jewish is over?
What do we have here? Israel itself calls these areas "occupied areas" and troops serving there as "occupation forces"!
That news was all over the place! Later reports, however, quickly modified that statement, claiming that the sentence had been taken out of context. Supposedly Robinson merely said in response to an anti-semitic cartoon. "When I see something like this, I am a Jew."
Now rumors are flying every which way! Is she or isn't she? Perhaps only her hairdresser knows for sure!
Let's not forget: This is the very same B.C. multi-cult minister who managed to get herself into a fix a few months back by fabricating some politically expedient, non-existent Ku Klux Klan cross burnings to artificially create a "racist" danger in her province.
The local police and media said such cross burnings never took place. To this day, Fry hasn't explained herself - and we aren't left to guess what might have been her motive.
Klusener tells us that U.N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan, did some symbolic fingershaking at Israel on Friday, admonishing the bandit statelet to "stop using the Holocaust as a reason to continue ... policies of occupation, displacement, and extra-judicial killings of Palestinians."
Hastily he added that "the ultimate abomination - the Holocaust - should never be forgotten or diminished". Now here is one smart politician for you. Will the Pavlovian reflex be enough to assure his re-election as UN Secretary General? Not likely.
"The survival of anti-Semitism," intoned Sacks, "has made it the most successful ideology of the 20th century." Sacks calls anti-semitism "the world's oldest hatred" and claims, not too surprisingly, that it has "...resurfaced within the UN".
That 'anti-semitism' could be directly related to Jewish-Israeli behavior in Israel against the Palestinians - and in the Diaspora in bludgeoning governments into forking over billions and billions in extorted reparations - never occurs to Rabbi Sack or to his tribal brethren.
For his part, Sacks stated he would not endorse the conference with his presence "...until the equation of Zionism with racism, denigration of the Holocaust and the singling out of Israel for condemnation is removed from the draft.''
Raoul Wallenberg, a somewhat murky Swede who, it is claimed, tried to save Swedish Jews during World War II from incarceration by getting them phony Swedish passports or visas, finally received his very own memorial monument.
Wallenberg allegedly helped thousands of Jews escape deportation by moving them to Hungary - before he mysteriously vanished. He has long been eulogized by folks with high stakes in the Holocaust myth.
However, less than 24 hours after the monument was formally inaugurated, it was spray painted by unnamed vandals. Police stated that they had no clues as to who might have done this.
A few days ago, German newspapers reported that Palestinian textbooks, partly paid for by Germany and the European Union, called for the destruction of Israel and described Jews as "deceitful" and "disloyal."
Germany had planned to contribute DM92 million ($43 million) to the kitty to boost UN efforts in the Palestinian region, but then let it be know that money is in jeopardy.
Organizers let it be known that they "... do not want the vibrant past and the present to be overwhelmed by the Nazi massacre of 6 million Jews under Hitler."
What vibrant past? Whose vibrant past? :)
Nyiszli's notes turned into a book after 1945 in Communist Hungary. It was referred to at that time as a "novel". (Like Schindler's List!) So here we have one more film based on a novel by a Jewish novelist with a Marxist background!
The title includes chapter headings like "These Jews who run our lives" and "The Jews' Inferiority Complex." Government prosecutors have sternly announced they are investigating the matter.
"The extreme-right is more self-confident, more offensive and better organized than ever," Thierse said in a recent interview with Die Zeit weekly.
"The collapse of communism created a kind of vacuum which is being filled with all sorts of ideas," said Rafal Pankowski, a board member of "Never Again", a Polish anti-hate group.
What kind of ideas? That Zionism is racism? That the persecuted of yesterday have become the persecutors of today?
The ecstasy issue is on the agenda because Israel is a major port of origin for huge shipments of the drug into the United States. In July, the NYPD busted two Israelis trying to deal $40 million worth of the drug.
Never missing a beat, Israeli officials will take Kerik to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.
This is revealing! So a top cop, whose police force represents more men than the armies of Switzerland or Denmark, has to wine and dine with the Prime Minister to stop Israel's illicit export of drugs?
Do they fly to Colombia and do the same there with the prime minister - or do they go straight for the crooks? What does this story tell the world?
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres immediately chastised his Finnish counterpart, stating: "The statement is shocking and outrageous, not only to every Israeli and every Jew, but also to every enlightened person in the world."
Once again Peres, totally incapable of seeing other people's viewpoint, is denying the very reality staring him in the face in Palestine - a reality created by his very own government's policies!
"Israel is America's staunchest ally and friend in the Middle East" - isn't that the oft-repeated mantra by Israel's Fifth Column in the US?
One ZGram reader writes: "At least a tiny portion of the annual $3 billion in US aid to Israel will be returned. however circuitously..." don't be so sure. It might well land in yet another Jewish lawyer's pockets!
Koran scholars say that there is no such passage in their Holy Book - that the Koran is not about having sex with virgins in heaven.
Knight-Ridder, the agency that broke the story, heard "60 Minutes" officials "explain" they could not explain how the distorted translation occurred.
Yeshiva University classics professor Louis Feldman has announced that the Coliseum may have been "built with Jewish loot" from the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 AD.
Expect another reparations bonanza. How much could the Temple be worth in today's money? Plus interest?
"Here is a piece of news from Denmark that may be of interest to your readers. A revival of the medieval debate about the existence of universals can soon be expected. The Holocaust is 'the most well-documented' genocide ever, celebrated historian Otto Ruhl stated.
"But a profound philosophical/theological problems remains, and its solution is the topic of a conference for all Danish high-school teachers.
"The question that will be discussed on Oct. 2 2001 is: 'Is the Holocaust unique or universal? Or - why not - both?'"
Just when you said there was relief from Holocaustomania around the corner!