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April 27, 2009 | 12:43 pm

Santa Barbara professor compared Israelis to Nazis

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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Parallel images from UCSB professor William Robinson

I’ve never heard students complain of anti-Israel sentiments at UC Santa Barbara. That’s the reputation of UC Irvine and, to a lesser extent, Berkeley. But I just received an e-mail, which included a link to the video seen after the jump, forwarding an e-mail from William I. Robinson, a USCB sociology professor. The contents of that e-mail, which Robinson reportedly sent to students on Martin Luther King Day and ran under the heading “Parallel images of Nazis and Israelis,” included 42 side-by-side photos (like the one at left) that have made Robinson the focus of an academic investigation.

Here’s a portion of what he allegedly wrote:

I am forwarding some horrific, parallel images of Nazi atrocities against the Jews and Israeli atrocities against thePalestinians.  Perhaps the most frightening are not those providing a graphic depiction of the carnage but that which shows Israeli children writing “with love” on a bomb that will tear apart Palestinian children.

Gaza is Israel’s Warsaw - a vast concentration camp that confined and blockaded Palestinians, subjecting them to the slow death of malnutrition, disease and despair, nearly two years before their subjection to the quick death of Israeli bombs.  We are witness to a slow-motion process of genocide (Websters: “the systematic killing of, or a program of action intended to destroy, a whole national or ethnic group”), a process whose objective is not so much to physically eliminate each and every Palestinian than to eliminate the Palestinians as a people in any meaningful sense of the notion of people-hood.

Comparing Israelis to Nazis is nothing new. Criticism of Israel’s onslaught, particularly its intensity, on Gaza was arguably deserving. But the Zio-Nazi association is a strawman, typically reserved for rhetorical extremists, the Arab press and British MPs who lost family in the Holocaust.

According to KEYT, Robinson claims the complaint, initiated by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the two students who contacted the L.A.-based human-rights and Jewish-defense organization, is an attack on his academic freedom.

Robinson may have a point there. Tenure and academic freedom provide professors with a lot of latitude—less so for Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill than Kevin “The Foremost Anti-Semitic Thinker” MacDonald. And far worse things were said by professors at a UCLA symposium in January. As a refresher, here is what Tom Tugend reported then:

The final speaker was UCLA English literature professor Saree Makdisi, who stated that when Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza in 2005, the continuing blockade “made Gaza a prison and [Israel] threw away the keys.” He added that it was Israel’s “premeditated state policy” to kill Gazans and stunt the growth of their children.

While the four professorial talks were delivered and received quietly, interrupted only occasionally by applause, emotions escalated during the closing question-and-answer session.

Most of the questioners were adults, well beyond student age, and their softball questions about control of Washington by the Jewish lobby and how to divest from Israel were easily fielded by the speakers.

The mood changed when a few pro-Israel attendees got their chance, according to audience members. When Eric Golub asked Hajjar whether she would consider as prosecutable crimes Hamas’ murder of Fatah rivals, the use of civilians as human shields and recruitment of suicide bombers, the professor responded, “If you think I favor suicide bombings, then you have that Zionist hat on your head screwed on way too tight.”

Hajjar later retracted her comment, but her initial response was met by audience cheers and chants of “Zionism is racism,” “Zionism is Nazism,” “Free, Free Palestine” and “F…, f… Israel.”

Although there were no threats of violence and a policeman was at hand, when the meeting concluded, some members of the audience engaged pro-Israel students with further cries of “f… you.”

Shirley Eshaghian, a psychology senior and president of Bruins for Israel, said she left the symposium shaken.

“I never felt so unsafe on campus,” she said. “People were shouting, and I had this horrible feeling that I, as a Jew, was being attacked; that I was being called a Nazi.”

Offensive? Of course. Appalling? I’d say so. Anti-Semitic? Um ... yeah. But also, absent threats of violence, generally permissible on campus.

I can’t imagine the circumstances under which Robinson would be reprimanded by UCSB’s academic senate. I also have to wonder if this was a one-time affair sparked by Israel’s war in Gaza or if anti-Semitic sentiments have repeatedly manifest themselves in course lectures on Latin American history.

I’ve emailed Robinson for comment but have yet to hear back.

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Freedom in general is something to be earned at the price of vigilance against its abuse. Academic freedom in particular must be earned at the price of a commitment to truth and justice. Those Nazis had universities and professors and students and professionals too, and those universities and professors and students and professionals were the very first to throw their Jewish colleagues overboard, stripping them of credentials and respect and jobs and - academic freedom. The very first. Nobody like William I. Robinson has the right to criticize those Nazi academics in light of this kind of evil in action.

And let nobody get excited about academic freedom who does not support the teaching of Intelligent Design (even as one of several theories).

Comment by Ben Plonie on 4/27/09 at 1:07 pm

I don’t see anything wrong with the approach that this professor took.  It is the duty of our educators to challenge our beliefs and force us to think critically and engage in an open dialogue about course topics.  As an American, I have no problem criticizing United States government policies and actions.  Similarly, Jews should have no problem criticizing Israeli policies.  Blind support of a government’s policies, not just Israel’s, but any government, completely undermines democratic ideals and political freedom.  I hope this “academic investigation” ends well for Professor Robinson.

Comment by Serene on 4/27/09 at 8:00 pm

How can you help?  Send an email to UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang. Tell him that hate speech is not free speech, and that intimidation and indoctrination have no place in academic discourse.

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  (Names and positions follow)
  * Martin Scharlemann, Academic Senate Charges Officer
  * Gene Lucas, Executive Vice-Chancellor
  * Melvin Oliver, Dean of Social Sciences
  * Susan J. Mazer, Chair, AS Committee on Committees
  * Joel Michaelson, Chair, Academic Senate
  * Sarah Fenstermaker, Chair, AS Privilege and Tenure Committee
  * Alison Butler, Chair, AS Committee on Academic Personnel
  * Vickie Scott, Chair, AS Committee on Faculty Welfare and Academic Freedom
  * Helen Callus, Member, AS Committee on Faculty Welfare and Academic Freedom
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  * Sven Spieker, Member, AS Committee on Faculty Welfare and Academic Freedom
  * Susanne Stemmer, Member, AS Committee on Faculty Welfare and Academic Freedom
  * Jenn E. Caselle, AS Committee on Faculty Welfare and Academic Freedom
  * Kostas Goulias, Member, AS Committee on Faculty Welfare and Academic Freedom
  * Paul E. Amar, UC Academic Freedom Representative
  * Stephanie Smagala, member, AS Charges Advisory Committee
  * Aaron Ettenberg, AS Charges Advisory Committee
  * Hua Lee, AS Charges Advisory Commitee
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  * Helen Henry, Chair, University of California Committee on Academic Freedom

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Comment by Dusty on 4/27/09 at 8:24 pm

After visiting Gaza, I see why the occupying country, Israel, has blocked it off to journalists. If Prof. Robinson is compelled to suggest students consider the similarities in the photo examples, which by the way, are human rights abuses, too bad this is considered “hateful” by some. Hitler was not challenged until too late. What is excuse of the educator if he/she does not question of the morality of this present situation??

Comment by Kathy Elliott on 4/28/09 at 12:36 pm

How disgusting that people refuse to see the truth, and only look at what is presented in a biased fashion.

Here’s what I sent to the chancellor:

It’s bad enough that one of your professors would drag his personal politics
into the classroom - but to LIE while he’s doing it? If you do not fire William
Robinson, you will disgrace yourselves, especially as an institution of higher
learning, forever.

[end quote]

Comment by Susan on 4/28/09 at 1:39 pm

Historical comparisons are useful tools for clarifying facts and drawing out the tenets of universal morality. If people behave in ways or support behaviors analogous to those past violent regimes, then they inspire the comparison. Too bad this is not in itself a deterrent to such behavior.

Comment by Andrew on 4/28/09 at 3:34 pm

I agree with Andrew 4-28 4:34pm, Kathy Elliott 4-28 1:36pm and Serene 4-27 9pm.        The tremendous imbalance of power between Palestinians and Israel, with the fifth most powerful military on Earth, wouldn’t be relevant if Israel treated Palestinians as humans with equal worth and equal legal rights as Jews, but Israel doesn’t do this.  Not only does it indoctrinate its majority Jewish youth, nearly all compelled to “serve” in the Israeli Defense Forces, to feel fine about abusing, harassing, even arbitrarily detaining, locking up, torturing and killing Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, they’ve even justified openly assassinating legally elected members of the Palestinian Legislative Council simply because they are members of the majority political party—Hamas—which was victorious in 2006 in the only truly democratic elections in an Arab nation (not yet a state because Israel’s ethnic cleansing policy demands preventing statehood for Palestinians ever happening).      The Hamas victory led to Israeli and U.S. collective punishment against the entire population of Gaza, 1.4 million people, half of them children, a blockade which Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu declared an unconscionable humanitarian disaster.  Mandela, Tutu and other South Africans have said—and this is relevant to defense of Professor Robinson’s fairly objective observations, rather than mere (so-called “hate speech”) “opinion”—Israel’s “separation barrier” (found illegal by a 14 to 1 vote of the International Court of Justice in 2004) and over 600 checkpoints in the West Bank have made life worse for Palestinians than what black South Africans suffered under the white “apartheid” regime of South Africa.          It is a demonstrable fact, not mere opinion, that Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since Israel’s 1967 invasion, have suffered many human rights violations quite analogous to what Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto suffered—including being called “terrorists” for “smuggling” small arms into what the Nazis called “the territories” (such as Warsaw’s fenced-in Jewish “ghetto”) to defend themselves against their immoral, illegal occupiers.        Too many Americans have failed to question reporting on “the Palestine-Israel conflict” by our mainstream media and have ended up swallowing the anti-Arab prejudice manufactured largely by “the Israel Lobby” (see the book with this title by Walt and Mearsheimer, especially if you think you could disprove its carefully reasoned and scholastically documented argument).  Many Christians like myself grew up believing Jews had a right to a homeland free from racist, or religionist/ethnocentric, discrimination, and we were taught Israel was that homeland.  Highly esteemed Israeli historians, from rightwing zionist Benny Morris to leftist Ilan Pappe, however, agree that “ethnic cleansing,” as defined in the recent conviction of Slobodan Milosevic, was precisely the method openly adopted by zionists like David Ben-Gurion and fellow zealots for “Eretz Israel” to take Palestine away from the Palestinians for European Jews.  The venomous rhetoric of people attacking Professor Robinson is either ignorant of historic facts, neatly duped by what (son of Holocaust victims) Norman Finkelstein brilliantly dissected as “the Holocaust Industry”, or they are conscious members of the ideologically consistent “interest group” advocating for “Israeli security” as a pretext for further ethnic cleansing of the Middle East for a Greater Israel that ideally would include parts of Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt and, perhaps, even Iran.  The political Zionists (to distinguish them from religious zionists) are very patient and defined by the vision, which requires an almighty military and long-term planning, including calculated strategy of taunting weaker foes until they strike out and then bulldozing them out of existence.  I challenge any to disprove these assertions, since I can back them up with quotes from all the great generals and prime ministers of Israel since its establishment as a state 62 years ago.

Comment by steve greaves on 4/28/09 at 4:42 pm

Steve Greaves
I don’t care what quotes (phony and otherwise) you may produce to back up your crappola. The bottom line is that Israel is Palestine, but Palestine is not Israel. The land know to the Jews as Israel and to non-Jews as Palestine is the land of the Jews, and not of any non-Jews including Arabs. The specific assumptions or agendas or ideologies of any particular political or military or academic figures cannot change that fact. The Arabs of Palestine including those of Trans-Jordan (Eastern Palestine) with the most trivial exceptions are recent migrants and squatters. Therefore, the suffering of their illegal selves and children results from their trespassing and threatening the legitimate Jewish owners and sovereigns of the land.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 4/28/09 at 8:16 pm

It’s ridiculous to say jewish students are “under siege” because they are among everyone who received an email. The only one who is under siege is the professor, who’s free speech rights are being trampled by bigoted individuals determined to conduct a witch-hunt into his legal activities. The youTube video manipulating the truth and saying the student is “under siege” is sheer manipulation of the facts.

Comment by eugin on 4/30/09 at 8:40 pm

You neglect to acknowledge that students are under siege because the professor is in an authority relationship with students and holds the power of penalizing their records, damaging their academic success and careers, similar to other kinds of abuse cases by authority figures. Students have no practical recourse against such abuse and the dangerous influence and incitement on the part of such abusers.

On the other hand, the professor might have made a case by promoting his views privately on his own time. I say might because other cases of perversion and depravity have been found just cause for termination.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 4/30/09 at 9:05 pm

This professor abused his position by using the class email list to broadcast his political views to the class.  The images were not designed to get the students to think - they were designed to draw a specific and odious conclusion. 

Can you put a copy of the full course outline and syllabus?  Was the material incorporated into the course itself?  Can a copy of the email be posted.

Afterall - since the goal of the email was to get people to think lets think about the sociology of the classroom and the effect of juxtaposing unqualified imagery.

Comment by D. Price on 5/01/09 at 8:56 am

It is revealing that some who comment against the professor attack him, not the ideas he is presenting. Could it be these ideas ring true? Can we not discuss these ideas? I think he was very brave. Look at how Jimmy Carter and Walt Mearsheimer and Stephan Walt were treated; appallingly. The students are not “under siege”. The professor is. Seems to me this is (another) case of attacking the messenger.

Comment by Kath on 5/01/09 at 1:50 pm

Actually Kath, I don’t know the professor from a hole in the wall, and have only attacked his ideas which are absurdly easy to attack. You are putting the cart before the horse, or the liar before the lie as it were.

None of these people were attacked ad hominem other than on the basis of their false and misleading information and theses. People who do that of course are liars and hypocrites, possibly corrupt and evil and insane and traitorous, but not on a standalone basis. Jimmy Carter in particular said that he wrote his book to stimulate debate, and then declined to debate the issue. Here’s a message: Jimmy Carter has gotten hundreds of millions of dollars from Arab oil kingdoms for a so-called institute and library and trust. This is the truth; don’t shoot the messenger, now! If the professor is a cowardly lying unethical and abusive weasel, that is a truth that you should not try to suppress.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 5/01/09 at 2:58 pm

It sounds like you are saying he should never have brought anyone’s attention to potential similarities between the treatment of the Palestinians in Gaza by Israel and the treatment of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and Communists by the Third Reich? Are they analogous? Name calling is not confronting ideas.

Comment by Kath on 5/01/09 at 4:34 pm

to ben bolonie: as usual, Zionist first - truth seeker never. I suggest if you want to be an educated Zionist, you may want to read your predecessors, i.e. ahad hamm, theodore herzl, and jabotinski - they were all aware of the NATIVE ARAB POPULATIONS!!! oops! Yeah, and its very well documented, and the ink is dry, so hot it may burn through….
Typical of you zealots :“dont confuse me with the facts”!

Comment by marce on 5/01/09 at 11:47 pm

to Steve Greaves: can you throw out a few of the quotes you refer to at the end of your comment above? Thanks.

Comment by Kath on 5/02/09 at 8:34 am

Kath
No, I’m just saying that he shouldn’t be a coward and a liar. Until recently in historic terms, a professor was in principle someone committed to truth and integrity. The Israeli military is the most ethical in the history of the world, and utilizes the most advanced techniques and technology to minimize harm to civilians, in spite of the use by the savage Arab death cult controlling Gaza using them as human shields to an unprecedented degree. The information is easy to obtain to anyone looking for it. A professor with his credentials and resources has no excuse disseminating propaganda crafted to engage the masses of clods.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 5/02/09 at 7:42 pm

Marce,
You don’t know what you are talking about. The Hertzl material is bogus, Ahad ‘Hamm’ was a secular socialist ideologue with no interest in a Jewish state at all and no qualms at spinning the truth to his agenda, and Jabotinsky lived when the British had spent decades preventing Jews from living in Palestine and encouraging Arabs to move in.

There is no such thing as a NATIVE ARAB POPULATION in Jewish Palestine. Arabs are foreign to Palestine, and never had a state, a capitol, a government, a currency, or a recipe for falafel native to Palestine. They never built a city there except for Ramallah. The only constant element of the population of Palestine was the Jewish one, the other residents of Palestine changed many times. There were very few Arabs or anyone else in Palestine before it became politically and logistically feasible for the Zionists to organize rebuilding projects in Palestine. This was necessary because the land which was wealthy and highly developed under the Jews had largely become a dust bowl devoid even of trees. Arabs began to move into Palestine from surrounding areas in response to Zionist investment of blood, sweat and money, and even after the British vigorously impeded and sabotaged the Zionists for thirty years owned only three percent of the arable land against the Jews’ six percent (the rest being state lands and empty like the deserts and mountains).

Comment by Ben Plonie on 5/02/09 at 8:01 pm

No Arabs on the land? Jewish humanist Martin Buber: “Only an internal revolution can have the power to heal our people of their murderous sickness of causeless hatred…It is bound to bring complete ruin upon us. Only then will the old and young in our land realize how great was our responsibility to those miserable Arab refugees in whose towns we have settled Jews who were brought from afar; whose homes we have inherited, whose fields we now sow and harvest; the fruits of whose gardens and vineyards we gather, and in whose cities that we robbed we put up houses of education, charity, and prayer, while we babble and rave about being the ‘People of the Book’ and the ‘light of the nations.’”
Now that archives are now available, it is time to see what the Israeli historians are writing—Pappe, Sand,
Davis even Morris…

Comment by Kathy Ellliot on 5/02/09 at 8:47 pm

Unfortunately for you, it seems that the antiZionists cannot agree on who allegedly originated this quote, Buber or Chofshi. And the quote does not exist anywhere except among Arab, radical left-wing and Nazi wbsites. So sorry.

In any case, Buber cannot be used as a reference on this topic. In spite of the catch-all ‘Zionist’ label he wore, he opposed a Jewish state in Palestine in preference to a Jewish-Arab state, with Jews being in the minority. His vision for Israel was to be a model of whatever airheaded notions of humanism he was promoting at the time. After the founding of Israel he was still trying to advocate Israel dissolving itself into some larger regional entity that would of course have the same goal of keeping the Jews as a minority. If you can’t see the proof of the folly of those proposals in 2009, it is not possible to explain it.

Pappe is not a historian but a rabid anti-Israel activist. Morris has backed off from his youthful blunders. I don’t know the others and don’t care.

Since you are into historical quotes, here is one from Zuhair Mohsen (ate Military Department head
of the PLO and member of its Executive
Council) in Dutch daily Trouw, March 1977:
“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism.
For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.”

I never said there were NO Arabs on the land. There are Arabs in Jersey City and Detroit too, but Jersey City and Detroit are not sovereign Arab territories. However the Jews never left or gave up their claim to sovereignty in Palestine, and it was the Arabs who dispossed the Jews and not the Romans.

This is from a wonderful website with tons of documented information on the topic, happy surfing!
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel/presence.html

Comment by Ben Plonie on 5/02/09 at 10:20 pm

A college professor would be remiss in his/her duties were s/he to fail to challenge students to engage controversial issues (such as how our tax dollars are spent), so they can learn to try to out-reason arguments put forward by those with whom they might disagree.  My best teachers invited my rational disagreement as a coach invites an athlete to improve speed, endurance, strength, coordination with workouts.  S/He would also be remiss to call “facts” the prevailing views about those facts (such as all Jews are perpetual victims of “the Holocaust,” and that Israelis somehow are exempt from international rules of conduct all other nations must adhere to).  A professor would be remiss also were s/he to withhold discussion of what professional “best practices” have determined to be the documented historical facts.  Robinson is guilty of neither sin of unprofessionalism.  We also need full facts of his case, which have NOT been provided on this thread, whose initiating article is inherently biased against the professor.

  In this light I’d like to respond to recent missives on this thread.
  I’ve been asked (Comment by Kath on 5/02/09 at 9:34 am) to provide quotations of Israel’s founders, aka political Zionists (folks intent on turning traditional Palestine into an exclusively Jewish empire Zionists like to call “Eretz Israel”), relevant to my defense of Professor Robinson against recent false and libelous charges that he lacks integrity as a scholar and college teacher.  These charges are advanced by people who are at best ill-informed but more likely intellectually lazy and, far worse, calculatedly dishonest. 

  Such “Zealots for Zion” (to borrow the title of a 1992 book on Israel’s illegal West Bank settlements by the brilliant, alas late, journalist for The Village Voice, Robert I. Friedman) are people for whom criticism of Israel constitutes treason worse than a President’s violating the U.S. Constitution.  They are people who seem to sincerely believe they have Israel’s best interests at heart, despite the fact that Israel’s greatest novelists, Amos Oz and David Grossman, as Friedman notes (p. xxvii), “steadfastly have catalogued the sins of occupation and the collateral damage it does to Israel’s soul.”  Many Jews – Tanya Reinhart, Noam Chomsky, Avi Shlaim, Joel Kovel, Jeff Halper, Norman Finkelstein, Ilan Pappe, Avraham Burg, Idith Zertal, Akiva Eldar, Jacqueline Rose, and Anne Karpf, Brian Klug, Barbara Rosenbaum and Eyal Weizman (and other signatories of the Independent Jewish Voices “Declaration” and 2008 anthology, A Time to Speak Out) have fiercely, eloquently and with great soul-searching courage, challenged Israel’s anti-Arab discrimination against Palestinians inside Israel and in the post-1967 Occupied Territories, and the millions of Palestinians in the diaspora whose ancestors Israel forced into refugee camps in neighboring Arab countries when establishing the state of Israel in 1948 via David Ben-Gurion’s explicit “tactics of terror” and with a morally-politically compromised United Nations’s help, after an anti-Semitic Europe had failed to prevent Hitler’s “Final Solution”.

  (FYI, Jews do not own the word “holocaust.”  My The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: New College Edition (William Morris, Editor; Houghton-Mifflin, 1980) offers these three definitions:  “sacrificial offering that is consumed entirely by flames; burnt offering”; “any widespread destruction” (synonym “disaster”), and “great or total destruction by fire; a conflagration.”  Thus, what Israel perpetrated against thousands of civilians in Gaza in 22 days last winter could reasonably be called “a holocaust” for those victims of its vicious offensive – and it was an offensive, planned well before the June 2008 truce, according to IDF Generals’ testimony in the Israeli and UK press in January 2009.)

  Before providing some quotes, I’d like to chastise Mr. “Ben Plonie” for being disingenuous, rude, and intellectually lazy and inept for making ad hominem libels on this thread against Prof. Robinson and providing zero documentation for his claims, which of course he couldn’t do since they were all spurious.

  Here are a few quotations, documented facts, that lend credibility to Professor Robinson’s claim about troubling analogs between the Nazi occupation of Poland (part of what Nazi mass murderer Herr Goebbels in his published diaries (see The Jewish Library online) referred to as “the Territories”) with its “racist” segregative, enforced enclosure of the Jews in Warsaw (creating the “Warsaw Ghetto”), and the Israeli government’s equally “racist” ghettoization, starvation, arbitrary imprisonment, torture and criminalization of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.  There are many, many more such quotes from Dayan, Ben-Gurion and others (See Pappe’s footnotes.)

  Leo Motzkin, liberal Zionist, in 1917, told fellow Zionists, many far more hateful toward Arabs than he:  “Our thought is that the colonization of Palestine has to go in two directions:  Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel and the resettlement of the Arabs of Eretz Israel in areas outside the country.  The transfer of so many Arabs may seem at first unacceptable economically, but is nonetheless practical.  It does not require too much money to resettle a Palestinian village on another land.”
  David Ben-Gurion commented on the proposed Peel Commission Partition plan as follows in 1937:  “We must EXPEL ARABS and take their places .... and, if we have to use force-not to dispossess the Arabs of the Negev and Transjordan, but to guarantee our own right to settle in those places-then we have force at our disposal.” (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 66).  And while addressing the Zionist executive, he again emphasized the tactical nature of his support for partition and his assumption that:  “. . . after the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the [Jewish] state, we shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of the Palestine” (emphasis added). (See The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities, by Simha Flapan, p. 22; read the “one review” on Amazon.com and read other reviews by this very capable reviewer.)
  Joseph Weitz, the head of Jewish Agency’s Colonization Department, stated in 1940:  “between ourselves it must be clear that there is no room for both peoples (Israelis and Palestinians) together in this country. There is no other way than to transfer Arabs from here to neighboring countries …all of them. Not one village, not one tribe should be left.” (A Solution to The Refugee Problem by Joseph Weitz, Davar, September 29, 1967, originally from “My Diary and Letters to the Children” Massada, 1965, III, p. 293)
  Moshe Dayan stated in an oration at the funeral of an Israeli farmer killed by a Palestinian Arab in April 1956:  “Let us not today fling accusation at the murderers. What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.”
  Moshe Dayan addressing the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Haifa (as quoted in Ha’aretz, 4 April 1969):  “Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist, not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushu’a in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.”
  David Ben Gurion, the first Israeli Prime Minister: “We must expel Arabs and take their place” (Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press 1985); “We must do everything to insure they (the Palestinians) never do return. The old will die and the young will forget,” and “The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate.  The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill… from the Nile to the Euphrates.”

  Menachim Begin, another Israeli Prime Minister, described the Palestinians as “beasts walking on two legs” (speech to the Knesset quoted in Amnon Kapeliok’s “Begin and the Beasts”; New Statesman, June 25, 1982).

  Michael Ben-Yair, former Attorney General, Israel, in Ha’aretz daily (3/3/2002):  “The Six-Day War was forced upon us; however, the war’s seventh day, which began on June 12, 1967 and has continued to this day, is the product of our choice. We enthusiastically chose to become a colonial society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupied territories, engaging in theft and finding justification for all these activities. Passionately desiring to keep the occupied territories, we developed two judicial systems: one - progressive, liberal - in Israel; and the other - cruel, injurious - in the occupied territories. In effect, we established an apartheid regime in the occupied territories immediately following their capture. That oppressive regime exists to this day. . . . . The Six-Day War’s seventh day has transformed us from a just society into an unjust one, prepared to expand its control atop another nation’s ruins. The discarding of our moral foundation has hurt us as a society. .” [ http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=136433 ]
  For more quotes of Israel’s founding fathers showing irrefutably the consistent “ethnic cleansing” agenda of Israel from its inception, including its strategy of delaying tactics and manufactured pretexts for violence with baiting harassments and public relations diversions, see Michael Neumann’s The Case Against Israel (a far more respectable piece of scholarship than Alan Dershowitz’s The Case for Israel).  Ilan Pappe’s The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine is required reading for anybody daring to claim concern for or a desire to be knowledgeable about Israel and its struggle between militarist expansionism and peaceful coexistence with its Arab neighbors and the Palestinians.  Tom Segev’s 1967, Benny Morris’ 1948, Eric Hazan’s little Notes on the Occupation: Palestinian Lives, Abu Abunimah’s One Country, Tanya Reinhart’s Israel/Palestine, and for a general overview of the U.S. role in Israeli oppression and militarism in the Middle East, Noam Chomsky’s What We Say Goes.

Comment by Steve Greaves on 5/03/09 at 1:59 am

Comment to Ben
According Prof Lawrence Davidson, in The Zionist Attack on Jewish Values, Buber wrote the above quote in the January-February 1961 issue of the Hebrew magazine.

Comment by Kathy Elliott on 5/03/09 at 2:18 am

Greaves: Before I engage your “...intellectually lazy and, far worse, calculatedly dishonest” library of concoctions, let’s see how honest an anti-Jew you are. The Ben-Gurion quote “We must expel Arabs and take their place” as you surely must know in the original text reads “And then we will have to use force… without hesitation though only when we have no choice. We do not wish and do not need to expel Arabs and take their place…” Isn’t that right?

Comment by Alice Rage on 5/03/09 at 5:21 pm

Thanks, Alice. I haven’t had time to grade Steve Greave’s paper and probably won’t till tomorrow night. Context is all, and he is merely pasting together a pile of irrelevant garbage or making them irrelevant by his presentation.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 5/04/09 at 3:58 am

Steve, thanks. Fascinating reading.
Alice - where did you get the Ben-Gurion quote about “We must expel Arabs ...”? Thanks.

Comment by Kath on 5/04/09 at 6:48 am

Ben Gurion’s quote from 1937 (Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press 1985) “We must EXPEL ARABS and take their places”  is a mandate to ethnic cleanse the Palestinians from their land…that is the critical point—whether his entire comment is included… or not is irrelevant.

Comment by Kathy Elliott on 5/04/09 at 10:44 am

From “Fabricating Israeli History” by Efraim Karsh and Benny Morris who finally looked at the original document after relying on secondary sources and other purposeful deceptions.

Elliot: Of course it’s relevant.  Are you unable to read and comprehend that the quote has been altered to make it mean something that is unsupported by the original source and complete context?

You see folks, the anti-Jew is so invested in his perverted weltanschauung that teacup full of Israelis surrounded by a sea of blood thirsty barbarians screaming “Imshi al Yehud!” and “Itbach al Yehud!” and “Al mawt al Yahud!” become the enemies of civilization. If the anti-Jew had a shred of humanity he would look at

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2042.htm

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2058.htm

and a light would enter his distorted mind and challenge the disease therein. But anti-Jew fever is so powerful and he will choose to regard its poison rather than the truth thrust before his eyes. And, thus, he drones on “ethnic cleansing”, “ethnic cleansing”, “ethnic cleansing”...

Comment by Alice Rage on 5/04/09 at 12:11 pm

Ahad Ha-am (the pen name of the famous Jewish moralist Asher Ginzberg), noted as early as1891 that Zionist settlers in Palestine have “an inclination to despotism. They treat the Arabs with hostility and cruelty, deprive them of their rights, offend them without cause, and even boast of these deeds; and no one among us opposes this despicable and dangerous inclination.” He warned that such behavior stemmed from the political orientation of the Zionist movement which could only end up morally corrupting the Jewish people.

Unlike Chaim Weizmann, who famously desired that the Jews become a nation like all other nations, Ha-am (who was dedicated to Jewish cultural revival in Palestine) believed that the return to Zion was worthwhile only if the Jews did not become like other nations. By 1913 Ha-am knew this was not to be, and he completely rejected the nature of Zionism as it was evolving. “If this be the ‘Messiah,’” he wrote, “I do not wish to see his coming.” In effect, critics like Ha-am were making a distinction between Judaism, with its moral values and cultural richness, and the ethnocentric, tribal Zionism that was now coming into being.

As the issuance of the Balfour Declaration drew nearer other Jews voiced their worries. In England, on May 24, 1917, the Joint Foreign Committee of two Jewish organizations, The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Anglo-Jewish Association issued a statement which asserted, “the feature of the Zionist program objected to proposes to invest Jewish settlers in Palestine with special rights over others. This would prove a calamity to the whole Jewish people who hold that the principle of equal rights for all denominations is essential. The [Zionist program] is all the more inadmissable because…it might involve them in most bitter feuds with their neighbors of other races and religion.”  In the United States, a letter typical of the Jewish opposition to Zionism was sent by Henry Moskowitz to the New York Times on June 10, 1917. He wrote the following, “what are the serious moral dangers in this nationalistic point of view from the standpoint of the Jewish soul? Here are some of them: first, it is apt to breed racial egotism….the establishment of the Jewish state may coarsen the quality of Hebrew spirituality and result not in a pure but in an alloyed idealism.” A year later the debate over Zionism still went on in the American Jewish community and occasioned Rabbi Louis Grossman of the Plum Street Synagogue in Cincinnati to write to President Woodrow Wilson. He told Wilson, “...a considerable number of Jews condemn the misrepresentation and resent the campaign which is being conducted by the Zionists and the political complications into which they are dragging our faith and ideals….The Zionists may have alleged to you that Zionism is extra-religious…but there are Jews who differ from them and maintain with equal certainty that the Zionistic assertion is a violation of their religious sanctities, and they protest against the secularization of their faith.”

Comment by Gena Methuen on 5/04/09 at 12:15 pm

Follow Gena’s link to the “Hemp City of the Netherlands” and you find the natural ally of the Muslim barbarian. Tell me Methuen, did you lose your mind before you lost your country or vice versa?

Comment by Alice Rage on 5/04/09 at 12:26 pm

Ben:

I would, if I may, advise you that Greaves has been collecting this garbage adjunct to his adolescent compendium of porno; so, responding at length is like disputing sexually explicit material with Larry Flynt.

Comment by Alice Rage on 5/04/09 at 12:51 pm

Oh, this is too good! I’m going to wager that our Steve is none other than the Steve Greaves who was a part of the Free Gaza movement that recently sailed from Cyprus to Gaza. Here’s why:

“Steve Greaves… ...spent two weeks in Cyprus helping prepare the expedition. He said participants received numerous death threats, and experienced what may have been sabotage when navigational gear failed while the boats were en route.”

(From an unnamed source to shield poor Steve from more criminal Zionist death threats)

Is this you Gilligan Greaves? Oooh, did the eeeevil Jews sabotage your naviwavi? Maybe if you had noticed that your Arab guide was genuflecting towards Poughkeepsie five times a day, the Minnow wouldn’t have been late for the Gaza hummus hoedown.

I’m also going to bet that this is you:

“The World Trade Center massacre was a direct result of this fact of late capitalism that is no longer capitalism but e-mobile finance gangsterism. The massacre—3,000 plus Americans (measured against millions in Latin America, Asia, Africa?)—was a long time coming.”

Is this you Jeremiah Greaves? Were the 19 Arab barbarians who committed this atrocity really avenging “e-mobile finance gangsterism”? I’m impressed and genuinely want to hear more; so, come on down Greaves!

Comment by Alice Rage on 5/04/09 at 6:15 pm

Where have all the little trolls gone?

Comment by Alice Rage on 5/05/09 at 5:22 am

this thread is no longer on topic—it appears there are those who dont want to argue the issue but attack the
messengers.
btw -If Greaves did help the Free Gaza as it broke the Gaza blockade, (the first international boat in 41 yrs to enter Gaza’s port) more power to him.
The news reports today writes there is a large ship out of Italy with EU officials from different countries on its way to bring supplies to Gaza. If one looks at this blockade—and decades long occupation—as a incitement of conflict and cruel at the same time—this approach appears to be successful and nonviolent at the same time.  Part of the problem as to why the US stands alone with Israel on their unjust treatment of those they occupy is that news coverage in the states is censored. Not sure you will read much about this boat. An Amercian jounalist, a Jew, saw this bias and started tracking what was really going on from the news, web site:  If Americans Knew.

Comment by Kathy Elliott on 5/05/09 at 10:20 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2gWvVLsI8E

Comment by Courtney on 5/05/09 at 11:16 am

Kathy:

Of course it’s relevant because the issue is as bogus as the blogger. Greaves is clearly paranoid about Jews and if he believes that 9/11 was caused by American “e-mobile finance gangsterism”, it goes directly not only to his credibility but his sanity.  And, you still haven’t responded to my in any meaningful way to my debunking of Greaves’ Ben-Gurion quote.

I also posted two MEMRI videos that go to very heart of the issue.  Did you watch them? You see, Kathy, anti-Jews all have similar thought processes. One of the hallmarks of the anti-Jew is his tendentious ability to open the book and start reading at chapter three or four.  You aren’t at your Social Justice Center now and you don’t get to conveniently skip History or re-write it as with the Ben-Gurion letter or your buddy Courtney’s Pallywood offering.  Watch the videos that I previously posted and get a real education. 

Another tactic of the anti-Jew is to throw a whole pile of crap on the wall and see if any of it sticks. I’m not playing your idiot games. Again, watch the videos, digest the real Ben-Gurion quote and we’ll continue from there.

Comment by Alice Rage on 5/05/09 at 1:56 pm

You can’t pin these people down with facts, Alice. They just make accusations and innuendos like the Arabs do when they lob rockets. Then they do what the Arabs did in Gaza. When the Israelis came into Gaza, there were no brave shouting fighters with face masks and machine guns. They simply hid out and did not engage the Israelis militarily, and came out of their holes after the fact to brag about defeating them. And that’s what Kathy will do when you have gone elsewhere.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 5/06/09 at 3:07 am

Wow. That Egyptian cleric is filled with Rage & Bolonie. Keep up the name-calling. Peace out.

Comment by Kath on 5/06/09 at 10:16 am

Ben:

The comment above is typical of the responses that I have received on other occasions. Recently, on another blog, I was similarly dismissed and accused of being Islamophobic for bringing these videos to light. These trolls are constitutionally incapable of seeing what’s in front of their eyes and so invested in their worldview that I become the enemy, even worse than the real perps for just challenging them. So much for an “exchange of ideas”. Notice also that they won’t even consider that the Ben-Gurion quote that they tout is a fiction. Thus the fantasy ideologues of the Left have embraced evil again for the sake of their ideology.  The Soviets used to call them “useful idiots”.  I’m sure that the Muslim has an analog for those that drink the taqqiyah. 

And we are sometimes bewildered at how the Muslim recruits the callow and disaffected among them to become terrorists when the parallel in our society has just left the room.

Comment by Alice Rage on 5/06/09 at 11:19 am

Abe Foxman is insisting UCSB doesn’t dare let anyone know the means of operation in keeping Gaza vacuum-packed.
  Israelies were shoe-horned-in by Britain into the position to maintain
according to Collins;

see google books:
O Jerusalem!
 
O Jerusalem!‎ - Page 89
by Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre - History - 1988 - 640 pages
fl^^H JERUSALEM: THE HOLY CITY AT A TRAGIC HOUR On May 28, 1948, after ten weeks
of violent fighting following the proclamation of the state of Israel, ...
Limited preview - About this book - Add to my library - More editions

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

So, its just more fall-away of the Brit Empire and its mutations.
I dont mean to be rude but Israel is known around town as, ‘The Mutation from Manchester’.
Shaftsbury, Palmerston’s step-dad
pushed the Christian myth of, ‘God will help those who help the Jews”.
Palmerston(who dispised Americans) put camps of Jews in Holy Land, 1826.

“Churchill’s Promised Land” is @ google books…excellent read.

So is
‘Truman and the Creation of Israel’ where on the Suez FDR was talking out both sides of his mouth
(aka “forked tongue”)

Nixon stepped up.

‘History of the Jews’ -Johnson

Comment by Gena Methuen on 5/14/09 at 12:36 pm

The only thing that I see more and more is how Israel continues to exterminate the Palestinians. It makes me sick, don’t let our media that is controlled by our government continue to brainwash you… 

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Comment by Eduardo on 5/14/09 at 8:51 pm

In Spite of the catch-all ‘Zionist’label he wore,he opposed a Jewish state in Palestine in preference to a Jewish-Arab state, with Jews being in the minority. His vision for Israel was to be a model of whatever airheaded notions of humanism he was promoting at the time.

It is a demonstrable fact, not mere opinion, that Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since Israel’s 1967 invasion, have suffered many human rights violations quite analogous to what Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto suffered—including being called “terrorists” for “smuggling” small arms into what the Nazis called “the territories” (such as Warsaw’s fenced-in Jewish “ghetto”) to defend themselves against their immoral, illegal occupiers.

Comment by Ethan on 1/16/10 at 12:33 am

How disappointing. I recall from another blog post that you seemed to have some sense and integrity. Oh, well. When it comes to Jews and Israel the mask always slips.

Calling your misconceptions ‘demonstrable fact’ is not the same as demonstrating a fact. In actual fact, it is even less than an opinion as it has no basis at all. Deconstructing the rest of your statement will take longer than the statement since every single term you use is a distortion. It is clear that you have not referred to the links and quotes I supplied earlier. In them, it is made clear as a demonstrable fact that the Jewish homeland has never been the homeland of another nation, in spite of the various foreign (non-Jewish) conquests and occupations.

The territory referred to by scholars as Palestine was nothing more than the land of ancient Israel, renamed so by Romans to erase its Jewish identity. Until 1964, the term Palestinian always referred to Jews, not Arabs. Palestine as understood by the entire world including the Arabs always included Gaza, the ‘West Bank’, the Golan, the area now called Southern Lebanon or Hizbollah-land, and most importantly Trans-Jordan extending up to the Euphrates River. That is because this was the extent of the Israelite kingdoms as outlined in the Bible. This was acknowledged by Turks and Arabs before the modern Zionist restoration, although they considered the Jews to be obsolete as a nation.

There are no historic Palestinian Arabs outside of the jargon of antisemites. There are no Arab Palestinian Territories outside of the ideology and jargon of antisemites. Therefore, Jewish settlement and residency in all parts of historic Jewish Palestine is legal and moral, and can not be considered ‘occupation’. Israeli response the illegal and immoral Arab shelling from their illegally and immorally occupied Jewish lands cannot be called an invasion. to See Ephraim Karsh, What Occupation? at http://www.palestinefacts.org/what_occupation.html

Comparing Jews and Israel to Nazis is a staple of haters. I wouldn’t want to be you looking in the mirror.

If you are looking for human-rights violations, look at the treatment of Jews in Arab and Muslim lands, now including their expulsion from those portions of Jewish Palestine occupied by Arabs.

It is true that Israel made a major mistake in not annexing all of Jewish Palestine through a failure of the imagination in dealing with the illegal Arab occupation. But you may peruse the online writings of Walid Shoebat, Brigitte Gabriel, Nonie Darwish, Faoud Ajami, Wafa Sultan, Irshad Manji, Joseph Farah, Khaled Abu Toameh etc. as well as Sheikh Palazzi to discover a world of Arab Zionism that you obviously do not know exists.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 1/16/10 at 10:12 pm

‘The Transfer Agreement’ - Edwin Black
Gentile Zionists..Hitler, Churchill…working with Jew Zionists forced European (Jews) into Palestine. There lies the problem for pre-Israel /non-Euro occupants of that region.

Comment by Gena Methuen on 1/23/10 at 8:19 pm

The Transfer Agreement is irrelevant. The ‘pre-Israel/non Euro occupants of that region” were few, transient or migratory, foreign to Palestine themselves and neither landowners nor sovereigns of the region.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 1/23/10 at 9:04 pm

Christopher Hill, ‘Liberty Against the Law’...the Brits be it in Ireland, Palestine, N. America etc never considered a land not cultivated as occupied. But for the sake of arguement what you last stated has you admiting Israel was/is Euro imperialism. In Aquavelvajad’s words, ‘Go back to Europe’.

Comment by Gena Methuen on 1/27/10 at 1:32 pm

Not at all. Go back and read some of my notes earlier in this thread and elsewhere. In them you would learn (apparently for the first time) that Arabs are a foreign and malign presence in the land. The origin of their flimsy claim to Palestine/Israel is the colonial Islamic Conquest in which they forced the indigenous Jews off their lands and villages and subjugated the Jews into forced labor. The Jews, sole survivors from your prehistoric times, however never relinquished their claim and are not dead yet. Jews from Europe and even more from Asia and Africa are the bearers of this eternal claim, regardless of the viewpoint or geopolitical agendas of the Brits. That status was universally recognized by the entire world (including the Arabs) before the turn of the last century; but it has remained true in times of recognition and non-recognition.

In returning, the Jews did not represent the various dominating tribes of the European, Asian or African locales of exile but only themselves. In a moment of political sanity, Israeli novelist Amos Oz glimsed the truth with the insight that in Europe, the natives would shout ‘Jews to Palestine’, while in Palestine the illegal Arab squatters would shout ‘Jews out of Palestine’, even those that had arrived on the vegetable truck five minutes earlier.

So to paraphrase you, ‘Go back to Arabia!’

who

Comment by Ben Plonie on 1/27/10 at 9:43 pm

indigenous Jews”...right, like you popped out of a rock.
I don’t recognize your prehistoric claim anymore than the American Indian should own Manhatten. Your fixation with Iran is just to keep the exterior-threat kettle boling so Euro-Jews wont be cast upon a ‘Levantine dunghill’ -Haggai Ram. And the Israeli call for foreigners to immigrate atop the non-Jew continues.
ps
The missile shield test out here in California failed yesterday. I’m still laughin’. All that moeny when drones are the way to go. Enjoy.

Comment by Gena Methuen on 2/01/10 at 1:26 pm

When Jimmuh Cahtuh told the great Menachem Begin that he did not recognize Jewish claims in Jerusalem, Begin told him “We do not recognize your non-recognition”. We need a man like that again. Your non-recognition is just as boring.

The illegal and colonialist Arab incursion, land grab and occupation of 632 AD occurred about twenty centuries into the establishment of Jewish sovereignty and continuous residency over the Holy Land. The Jews are the oldest living civilization in the world. How much more indigenous do you need?

Beyond that, there has been continuous Jewish habitation in the Holy Land throughout the rule of any and all foreign invading forces. In spite of Haggai Ram, whoever that is, Euro-Jews are exactly the same as Levantine Jews, Persian Jews, North African Jews, Italian Jews and all other Jews. But if your counting, there are more Levantine Jews in Israel than European Jews anyway. 

It should be noted that the Arabs retain their control of Arabia, as well as vast expanses of other conquests in which they oppress a hundred other indigenous populations, most notably the Copts, Maronites, Kurds, Marsh Arabs (who are not really Arabs) and Sudanese Animists. No, don’t apologize, most people who think they know it all don’t know these things.

I wouldn;t worry about the missile test. Israeli drones are the gold standard for that technology.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 2/01/10 at 7:42 pm

Haggai Ram teaches the history of the Middle East at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
Wrote, ‘IRANOPHOBIA’.
I wipe my azz with your occupation and sense of entitlement. And any war started by Israel will be brought to your cities, fold.
‘Gold standard’...what a laugh. Youre one loaded drone away from being a wonderer, again. Asher Ginzberg warned you.(see above text)

Comment by Gena Methuen on 2/04/10 at 12:33 pm

How do I do it? I can smell people like you a mile away. When confronted with simple facts and ideas your spool unwinds and you start to get crazy and threaten.

The Jews, God, the Torah and Israel are not going away. People like you are. Look if a Jew could live in Arabia (he can’t), he would accept that he is in the land of the Arabs. If a Jew could live in Vatican city (he can’t), he would accept that he is the land of the Christians. So if a non-Jew comes to the Holy Land, he has to accept that he is the land of the Jews. Simple. And Haggai Ram and Asher Ginzberg can go live elsewhere in protest, and I wish they would.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 2/05/10 at 4:48 am

Robinson lives to teach another day. Foxman loses again. Israel and Nazi Germany have simularities concerning ethnological pecking order, racial bias.
And I am not less of an American for stating so. The Holocaust isnt a blank check to kill Palestinians 100;1 using burning phospherous, or to harvest organs (which Israel coped to last month), or wrecking some poor bastard old lady’s olive trees. Asher is buried in Israel and Haggai aint goin’ nowhere, either.

Comment by GENA METHUEN on 2/06/10 at 10:50 pm

Au contraire. You are indeed less of an American for stating so. America is the first nation since Israel (not the modern political entity but the thirty three century old origin) founded upon transcendent principles and as a nation emerging from another. The founders were well aware of the Israelite connection; they considered making Hebrew the national language. These were educated men; unlike you or Robinson. John Adams -

“I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations ...

They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern.”

As an American, you should know that the United States as constituted came about because of Moslem aggression against America. America was formed by Articles of Confederation which did not provide a strong enough protection against the Barbary pirates of North Africa. When Jefferson and Adams asked Tripoli’s ambassador in 1785 by what right they were seizing American vessels and enslaving American captives, they were told that “it was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

It’s a big subject that should keep you busy for a while.

Some ten years later he wrote to a Jewish writer of a travel account “... I could find it in my heart to wish that you had been at the head of a hundred thousand Israelites . . . & marching with them into Judea & making a conquest of that country & restoring your nation to the dominion of it. For I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.” This long before Herzl was born.

Israel is not he land of the Jews because of the Holocaust, only an intellectual and academic baboon could state that. Israel is perhaps the only legitimate and credible nation in the world, if history is studied in detail. The concept of a non-Jewish Palestinian is a fraud, an imaginary construct, an unfunny joke. Truth be told. Nobody has any interest in killing Arabs who are deluded into thinking they have any national rights in the eternal Jewish homeland, but the wild and evil savagery with which they attack us makes it impossible not to kill at least some of them. Their best option would be to exercise their right of return to their ancestral homelands outside of Israel.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 2/07/10 at 3:03 pm

“For while the Zionists try to make the rest of the world believe that the national consciousness of the Jew finds its satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state, the Jews again slyly dupe the dumb goyim. It doesn’t even enter their heads to build up a Jewish state for the purpose of living there; all they want is a central organisation for their international world swindle, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other states: a haven for convicted scoundrels and a university for budding crooks.” [4]

Adolf Hitler, a father of modern Israel


> http://www.marxists.de/middleast/brenner/index.htm

Comment by Gena Methuen on 2/07/10 at 8:06 pm

You happen to be wrong, but the beauty of it is that it doesn’t even matter if you are right. If you 998 people out of a thousand are really worried that two Jews are going to beat you if you let them, then maybe you deserve to lose to the Jewish masters. And before you call me a bigot, remember that you said it, not me. Boooahaha! Incidentally, why do you imagine that it is not the Jew Robinson who is leading you to your doom?

Comment by Ben Plonie on 2/08/10 at 8:56 pm

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