Another blogger has asked me to post a link regarding Dutch news giving a slanted view of the recent Israeli actions in Gaza. The facts show that the NOS ("Nederlandse Omroep Stichting") deliberately distorted the news and ommitted crucial details, thus making Israel seem heavy-handed and vicious, with neither cause nor valid reason for waging war on Hamas.
Hell, this probably also describes the BBC and several other news organizations. Painting everything black and white is so much easier than providing balance, and it is much simpler to always make Israel the bad guy.
LINKS
English excerpts of report:
http://zionism-israel.com/israel_news/2009/02/israels-gaza-war-in-dutch-state-funded.html
Dutch original: http://www.israelfacts.eu/03c1989ac60b34213/03c1989af207bce14/index.html#03c1989bb4009a304
The facts speak for themselves. And it isn't surprising, in light of such biased reportage, that being Jewish in Europe is more exciting than ever before.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Gaza Gaza Gaza, I made you out of clay...
Horrible four weeks. Miss Thang was no help either. Spent all her spare time humping either Jesus or Trog. In between frying tofu scramble.
And, apparently, I am a dog. And a whore. And a Fascist warmongering Nazi racist killer of infants, flowers, happy faces, and sheep.
Or at least that's what the talk is on the streets of San Francisco. "Ya kalb yahoodi" (oh Jewish dog), "Falasteen baladna wa al Yahood kalabna" (Palestine is our country, the Jews are our dogs), "ala maut al Yahood" (to death with the Jews), "yitbakh al Yahood" (massacre the Jews), and similar lovely slogans.
Plus: "Israel is a fascist state", "Palestine will be free from the river to the sea" (oh yeah, what about the six million jooz who live there?), and "down down Israel", and "Jew = Murderer". Plus graffiti equating Jews with child-killers, Christ killers, and various unmentionables.
Charming, just charming.
We're supposed to make peace with you people??!!!?
Can I just say that I can't stand Arabs for the moment? Can I just say that young Arab men are the most unpleasant thing on the planet at present? Can I just say that dammit after the frightful displays of vicious bitchy Jew hatred at EVERY SINGLE PROTEST, and even just on the street or elsewhere, even the liberals of the Bay Area are unbearable?
Can I just say that I would really like to kick the hateful old bags from Bay Area Women in Black in the nutsacks?
Actually, why am I asking? First amendment, babies - same thing that allows you to stand right next to Arab racists and bigots who are yelling kill da jooooz in Arabic. Yes, you know what it means. You know darn well what they're saying. You know what they would really want to do. Don't deny it, you chickens.
And yet, you stand there. With that stupid "aren't I a tolerant meaningful saint" expression all over your flacid moronic faces. Or is that a feeling of near-orgasmic brain-thrill? The proximity of pure dumb anger, raging machismo, and fluttery snap of black and white jihad-rags exciting you?
Yes you. I hope the menopausal hot-flashes don't stop even years after you've dried up and gone sexless. You are the most hatefilled bunch of self-satisfied fake intellectuals and crypto-fascists on the planet.
Screw you, left coast liberal idiots. And screw the mangy camels you rode in on. Your mothers all get knocked up by bikers.
And, apparently, I am a dog. And a whore. And a Fascist warmongering Nazi racist killer of infants, flowers, happy faces, and sheep.
Or at least that's what the talk is on the streets of San Francisco. "Ya kalb yahoodi" (oh Jewish dog), "Falasteen baladna wa al Yahood kalabna" (Palestine is our country, the Jews are our dogs), "ala maut al Yahood" (to death with the Jews), "yitbakh al Yahood" (massacre the Jews), and similar lovely slogans.
Plus: "Israel is a fascist state", "Palestine will be free from the river to the sea" (oh yeah, what about the six million jooz who live there?), and "down down Israel", and "Jew = Murderer". Plus graffiti equating Jews with child-killers, Christ killers, and various unmentionables.
Charming, just charming.
We're supposed to make peace with you people??!!!?
Can I just say that I can't stand Arabs for the moment? Can I just say that young Arab men are the most unpleasant thing on the planet at present? Can I just say that dammit after the frightful displays of vicious bitchy Jew hatred at EVERY SINGLE PROTEST, and even just on the street or elsewhere, even the liberals of the Bay Area are unbearable?
Can I just say that I would really like to kick the hateful old bags from Bay Area Women in Black in the nutsacks?
Actually, why am I asking? First amendment, babies - same thing that allows you to stand right next to Arab racists and bigots who are yelling kill da jooooz in Arabic. Yes, you know what it means. You know darn well what they're saying. You know what they would really want to do. Don't deny it, you chickens.
And yet, you stand there. With that stupid "aren't I a tolerant meaningful saint" expression all over your flacid moronic faces. Or is that a feeling of near-orgasmic brain-thrill? The proximity of pure dumb anger, raging machismo, and fluttery snap of black and white jihad-rags exciting you?
Yes you. I hope the menopausal hot-flashes don't stop even years after you've dried up and gone sexless. You are the most hatefilled bunch of self-satisfied fake intellectuals and crypto-fascists on the planet.
Screw you, left coast liberal idiots. And screw the mangy camels you rode in on. Your mothers all get knocked up by bikers.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Lousy Chinese food, bad jokes - and Jesus!
Yep, that spells Christmas. It WOULD have been okay if it hadn't been so friggin vegetarian. One of the other tables was fressing the best looking roast duck I have ever seen. And that, clearly, made the horrid comedy routines sparkle. No one can be unhappy with a mouth full of sweet savoury grease.
Which, naturally, brings us to Chanuka, and my roommate's determination to NEVER have anything tasty in the house. As far as food is concerned, that is. Some of her studmuffins have been VERY tasty looking (and possibly even mots with atrocious judgement).
But no latkes. No sufganiot. No fried anything. I'm going through deep fat withdrawal.
Of course, SHE had a turkey for Christmas. I cannot even begin to comprehend what she sees in Jesus. Yes, you heard me, last night's loverboy was a Latino named Hay-zooz! And I can now honestly say that I've had absolutely the most unjewishy of Christmasses ever!
The three of us went out for the usual dreary "we aren't part of this whole celebration because one of us is a ho, one of us is a heathen, and one of us is just a dipshit" kungpao comedy. And because ONE of us is a vegetarian, none of us got to eat any meat. So just dish up the green crud and bad jokes, and we'll pretend we're happy. Hay-zooz smiled like an idiot through the entire thing. He didn't get a single one of the gags, but that's okay, that wasn't what he needed to get anyhow. Olé, as they say.
THANG didn't come home last night, so I actually got to sleep early. But tonight, she's back!
At least I've got my own bottle of Bourbon in my room, and can drown out THANG's second unholy night. I think he's the Greek fellow from two months ago. He reeks of cheep aftershave.
Oh no, it's his second coming!!!!!
Right! at! this! very! moment!
Sweet cheeses!
Which, naturally, brings us to Chanuka, and my roommate's determination to NEVER have anything tasty in the house. As far as food is concerned, that is. Some of her studmuffins have been VERY tasty looking (and possibly even mots with atrocious judgement).
But no latkes. No sufganiot. No fried anything. I'm going through deep fat withdrawal.
Of course, SHE had a turkey for Christmas. I cannot even begin to comprehend what she sees in Jesus. Yes, you heard me, last night's loverboy was a Latino named Hay-zooz! And I can now honestly say that I've had absolutely the most unjewishy of Christmasses ever!
The three of us went out for the usual dreary "we aren't part of this whole celebration because one of us is a ho, one of us is a heathen, and one of us is just a dipshit" kungpao comedy. And because ONE of us is a vegetarian, none of us got to eat any meat. So just dish up the green crud and bad jokes, and we'll pretend we're happy. Hay-zooz smiled like an idiot through the entire thing. He didn't get a single one of the gags, but that's okay, that wasn't what he needed to get anyhow. Olé, as they say.
THANG didn't come home last night, so I actually got to sleep early. But tonight, she's back!
At least I've got my own bottle of Bourbon in my room, and can drown out THANG's second unholy night. I think he's the Greek fellow from two months ago. He reeks of cheep aftershave.
Oh no, it's his second coming!!!!!
Right! at! this! very! moment!
Sweet cheeses!
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Rowdy and rutting
The three weeks since thanksgiving have sucked, just sucked! For one thing, Yossi and I are over! And I don't want to talk about it!
AND my dad keeps asking me if I've met any nice men! Next thing you know he'll be signing me up for j-date!
I so do NOT need to talk to some accented noodge who wants to know my breast size! Or wether I wear a snood! Dad should be happy if he gets ANY son-in-law, ever. I'm more likely to marry a Chinese Jewelry store owner before I find a nice Jewish man at this rate.
Of course, that ain't a problem for my oversexed roommate. She just keeps bring home her hundred and ninety pounds of hamburger, or her big side of pork, or her horny venison, or her...... you get the picture. Her sexlife is like NASA - several fiery launches, and a few good explosions. It just makes me sick. Every night for the past ten days I've come home, and she and whatever flavor of day she's chewing on have been humping like rutting elephants. With loud trumpetting, crashes, and shaking floors. I've been cleaning surfaces in this apartment like crazy, yet I fear I'll never get the reek of randy out of it. And I dare not sit on the couch anymore. Good thing she keeps her door closed most of the time.
AND my dad keeps asking me if I've met any nice men! Next thing you know he'll be signing me up for j-date!
I so do NOT need to talk to some accented noodge who wants to know my breast size! Or wether I wear a snood! Dad should be happy if he gets ANY son-in-law, ever. I'm more likely to marry a Chinese Jewelry store owner before I find a nice Jewish man at this rate.
Of course, that ain't a problem for my oversexed roommate. She just keeps bring home her hundred and ninety pounds of hamburger, or her big side of pork, or her horny venison, or her...... you get the picture. Her sexlife is like NASA - several fiery launches, and a few good explosions. It just makes me sick. Every night for the past ten days I've come home, and she and whatever flavor of day she's chewing on have been humping like rutting elephants. With loud trumpetting, crashes, and shaking floors. I've been cleaning surfaces in this apartment like crazy, yet I fear I'll never get the reek of randy out of it. And I dare not sit on the couch anymore. Good thing she keeps her door closed most of the time.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Nastiness at the Hilton
Went to the Hilton yesterday to see what a pro-Israel demonstration in San Francisco looks like. And, disappointingly, it looks very much like an anti-Israel demonstration. There were times when I couldn't tell the sides apart.
One side held signs that were anti-Israel, the other said things that no pro-Israel person should ever (!) frikkin say.
One man, who looked like an evil leprechaun, screamed at the Arabs that they should all go back where they came from, they weren't wanted here, no one liked them, and they were sacrileging his ancestral land because he was one sixty-seventh or some crazy percentage native American.
Oh shut up, you tedious old bitchboy.
That wasn't much of a demonstration, unless we needed lessons in acting stupid.
And we are all from somewhere else.
The pro-Israel group was mostly to the right of the hotel entrance, near Mason Street, the pro-Palestinian side was to the left of the entrance, near Taylor Street. The police stood smiling in the center of the entrance getting shouted at by both sides.
The rowdies of both camps fluttered about across the street, yelling at each other. Expressing hate is not supportive of either position. I wish the people with the Israeli and American flags had just let the other side do that. I'm sure they would've done it very well.
One side held signs that were anti-Israel, the other said things that no pro-Israel person should ever (!) frikkin say.
One man, who looked like an evil leprechaun, screamed at the Arabs that they should all go back where they came from, they weren't wanted here, no one liked them, and they were sacrileging his ancestral land because he was one sixty-seventh or some crazy percentage native American.
Oh shut up, you tedious old bitchboy.
That wasn't much of a demonstration, unless we needed lessons in acting stupid.
And we are all from somewhere else.
The pro-Israel group was mostly to the right of the hotel entrance, near Mason Street, the pro-Palestinian side was to the left of the entrance, near Taylor Street. The police stood smiling in the center of the entrance getting shouted at by both sides.
The rowdies of both camps fluttered about across the street, yelling at each other. Expressing hate is not supportive of either position. I wish the people with the Israeli and American flags had just let the other side do that. I'm sure they would've done it very well.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Seriously frustrated bitch
Debbie Schlussel also weighed in on the death of Dan Kliman, in a blog-post captioned: "What Happened to Dan Kliman?: Another Innocent American Victim of Islam Thrown Down Elevator Shaft".
To which I will not link!
Entirely without evidence or doubt, Debbie wishes to assert that Dan Kliman was thrown down the elevator shaft by Jihadis because he was gay, Jewish, pro-Israel, and American.
Well, I did not read her blog much before this happened. Now I have read far too much of her blog. And I wish never to read that pathetic excuse for blogging again.
One can very well be a Zionist without being a moron or a bigot, but she attempts to disprove that in every poison-laden page.
She hates. She hates Muslims, she hates Gentiles, she hates blacks, she hates Mexicans, she hates Arabs, she hates gays, she hates liberals, she hates educated people.
She hates hates hates! everybody! except one person.
And by hating all of those, seemingly without any distinction other than the amount of lava she pours over them in her blog, she clearly and primarily hates Jews. If there were awards for embodying A SHANDAH FIR DI GOYIM, ms. Schlussel would win every year. A more paskudne paskudnitza would be hard to find. Truly. And I mean that in utmost sincerity - Debbie Schlussel stands out, in a field filled with rancidly rotten contenders for the throne of bile.
And so of course, with all the tolerance and forgivingness I can muster, I have to suspect that Debbie Schlussel is either the result of an amateurishly botched gender-change operation, or an undercover radical activist planted to discredit Jews. Because in addition to being a shandah fir di goyim, she is an embarassment for women and conservatives.
To which I will not link!
Entirely without evidence or doubt, Debbie wishes to assert that Dan Kliman was thrown down the elevator shaft by Jihadis because he was gay, Jewish, pro-Israel, and American.
Well, I did not read her blog much before this happened. Now I have read far too much of her blog. And I wish never to read that pathetic excuse for blogging again.
One can very well be a Zionist without being a moron or a bigot, but she attempts to disprove that in every poison-laden page.
She hates. She hates Muslims, she hates Gentiles, she hates blacks, she hates Mexicans, she hates Arabs, she hates gays, she hates liberals, she hates educated people.
She hates hates hates! everybody! except one person.
And by hating all of those, seemingly without any distinction other than the amount of lava she pours over them in her blog, she clearly and primarily hates Jews. If there were awards for embodying A SHANDAH FIR DI GOYIM, ms. Schlussel would win every year. A more paskudne paskudnitza would be hard to find. Truly. And I mean that in utmost sincerity - Debbie Schlussel stands out, in a field filled with rancidly rotten contenders for the throne of bile.
And so of course, with all the tolerance and forgivingness I can muster, I have to suspect that Debbie Schlussel is either the result of an amateurishly botched gender-change operation, or an undercover radical activist planted to discredit Jews. Because in addition to being a shandah fir di goyim, she is an embarassment for women and conservatives.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Possibly a murder - Daniel J. Kliman
One of the pro-Israel activists in the san Francisco Bay Area has been found dead. And it looks very suspicious.
http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2008/12/boruch-dayan-ha-emes.html
From that blog:
Daniel J. Kliman was found dead yesterday at the bottom of an elevator shaft in the building where he was taking Arabic classes. He is believed to have fallen down the elevator shaft on Tuesday evening 11/25/08.There were no classes last week. There were very few people in the building at the time. The defective elevator was "secure".It is still unclear how this happened.
The blogowner of that site (at the back of the hill) also put his suspicions in the comments:
At this point, several members of our group have doubts about it being an accident.The reasons for doubting that it was entirely accidental are as follows:
*Dan was known to the other side, his picture was posted on several sites identifying him as a Zionist "conspirator" and one of the lead-activists in the Bay Area.
*He had received several death-threats over the years - he was known by name and address.
*The pro-Palestinian side has not infrequently either used violence or threatened to do so - Dan was assaulted several times.
*The building where he was found was where he was taking Arabic classes; there were NO classes that week.
*Several members of the other side also take Arabic classes - that is one of the few schools in the area where Arabic is taught, and there is a constantly changing roster of Israel-haters studying Arabic there.
*The defective elevator had been secured so no one could enter it.
Well. This is perfectly horrid news, and I do not doubt for A MOMENT that foul play was involved. After what the students for justice in Palestine have been doing at U. C. Berkeley, and what with the vicious hatred of Israel which is so common here, anything at all is possible. So a Jew studying Arabic must have absolutely seemed like a spy to the pro-Palestinians who would take Arabic classes. Their paranoid hatred probably took over at the moment they found him alone, or they could've planned to do it all along, and just waited for the perfect opportunity.
http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2008/12/boruch-dayan-ha-emes.html
From that blog:
Daniel J. Kliman was found dead yesterday at the bottom of an elevator shaft in the building where he was taking Arabic classes. He is believed to have fallen down the elevator shaft on Tuesday evening 11/25/08.There were no classes last week. There were very few people in the building at the time. The defective elevator was "secure".It is still unclear how this happened.
The blogowner of that site (at the back of the hill) also put his suspicions in the comments:
At this point, several members of our group have doubts about it being an accident.The reasons for doubting that it was entirely accidental are as follows:
*Dan was known to the other side, his picture was posted on several sites identifying him as a Zionist "conspirator" and one of the lead-activists in the Bay Area.
*He had received several death-threats over the years - he was known by name and address.
*The pro-Palestinian side has not infrequently either used violence or threatened to do so - Dan was assaulted several times.
*The building where he was found was where he was taking Arabic classes; there were NO classes that week.
*Several members of the other side also take Arabic classes - that is one of the few schools in the area where Arabic is taught, and there is a constantly changing roster of Israel-haters studying Arabic there.
*The defective elevator had been secured so no one could enter it.
Well. This is perfectly horrid news, and I do not doubt for A MOMENT that foul play was involved. After what the students for justice in Palestine have been doing at U. C. Berkeley, and what with the vicious hatred of Israel which is so common here, anything at all is possible. So a Jew studying Arabic must have absolutely seemed like a spy to the pro-Palestinians who would take Arabic classes. Their paranoid hatred probably took over at the moment they found him alone, or they could've planned to do it all along, and just waited for the perfect opportunity.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Worst frickin Thanksgiving ever!
First off, I cannot understand how someone with such a taste for redmeat in her bedroom could want tofurky on her plate. Surely she would understand the wholesomeness of REAL MEAT?!?
And why did she invite all three of the men she's done everything BUT sleep with for the last few months? Did she think they had sooooo much in common they would naturally get along?
Manoman what a nasty horrid appaling holiday. Cranberry sauce out of a can was the least unappetizing thing about it. So of course I guarded the dish with the squiggly mess like a rabid dog. Tofu and gluten in several different prefabs are not a feast. Salad out of a bag may not be a good choice, but TRY not to insult the poor dead vegetables by chopping up process cheese with kitchen shears over them, please!
Bottle Italian. Yuck.
Canned peaches. Double yuck.
Undercooked yams (my fault, but oh well), and overcooked stringbeans (blame my mom). But anyhow triple and quadruple yuck.
The tattoo artist brought some kind of vegetarian couscous salad with pomegrantes. It looked repulsive, like her dyes had drained from the brand new demon face on her arm - I guess that would be the pomegranate - but had enough garlic to seem sexy.
Someone (!) brought vegetarian frankfurters in vegan mayonaise with pimentos. Toad barf, seriously.
Still, three meaty men (all of whom brought...., wait for it...., BEER!), three single women, plus K. and her compugeek boyfriend - it COULD've been a good evening........ If only K and her nerdface hadn't been so deeply in lust, and THANG had told two of the men to go home early. Go home. Just go home. You ain't getting ANY, go! Home! G'wan, scram!
I just wish she would make up her mind.
And why did she invite all three of the men she's done everything BUT sleep with for the last few months? Did she think they had sooooo much in common they would naturally get along?
Manoman what a nasty horrid appaling holiday. Cranberry sauce out of a can was the least unappetizing thing about it. So of course I guarded the dish with the squiggly mess like a rabid dog. Tofu and gluten in several different prefabs are not a feast. Salad out of a bag may not be a good choice, but TRY not to insult the poor dead vegetables by chopping up process cheese with kitchen shears over them, please!
Bottle Italian. Yuck.
Canned peaches. Double yuck.
Undercooked yams (my fault, but oh well), and overcooked stringbeans (blame my mom). But anyhow triple and quadruple yuck.
The tattoo artist brought some kind of vegetarian couscous salad with pomegrantes. It looked repulsive, like her dyes had drained from the brand new demon face on her arm - I guess that would be the pomegranate - but had enough garlic to seem sexy.
Someone (!) brought vegetarian frankfurters in vegan mayonaise with pimentos. Toad barf, seriously.
Still, three meaty men (all of whom brought...., wait for it...., BEER!), three single women, plus K. and her compugeek boyfriend - it COULD've been a good evening........ If only K and her nerdface hadn't been so deeply in lust, and THANG had told two of the men to go home early. Go home. Just go home. You ain't getting ANY, go! Home! G'wan, scram!
I just wish she would make up her mind.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Tikvah: victim of double standard at U.C.
J magazine's website shows a letter from two students at UC Berkeley.
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/36519/format/html/displaystory.html
It is an important piece, please circulate it to your friends.
Here it is:
Tikvah: victim of double standard at U.C.
By John E. Moghtader & Elodie Resseguie
Long a hotbed of anti-Israel activity, U.C. Berkeley has barely had a strong pro-Israel presence on campus. Until now, with Tikvah: Students for Israel, the Zionist student group at U.C. Berkeley.
We are the group that stepped up to protest when academics John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt visited Cal in October 2007 to hawk their book, a nefarious smear job titled "The Jewish Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy."
We were also there last month when the virulently anti-Israel academic Norman Finkelstein came to speak.
Before the lecture, we respectfully distributed our literature outside. Once inside, Finkelstein’s level of anti-Semitic vitriol prompted a walkout of Tikvah students and others not associated with our group. We shouted out our opinions while exiting, as the crowd hurled expletives at us. Finkelstein and his colleague then continued delivering their insulting lies.
As a result, the dean of students is now seeking to discipline Tikvah and individual students for an "offense" which in the past barely warranted mention when undertaken by student groups involved in anti-Israel activities.
For example, when Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes tried to speak on campus several years ago, he was shouted down by members of Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim Student Association. At the time the chancellor said, "Uncivil behavior, lamentable as it is, is not a crime, nor is it a violation of the Code of Student Conduct." No disciplinary action was taken against SJP or its members for that incident, nor when Nonie Darwish was likewise shouted down a year ago.
Only last week, SJP disrupted an innovative Zionist hip-hop concert on campus. Even though no Jewish students were involved in the physical altercation that ensued (contrary to what was reported in the school paper and what SJP claims), we wait to see how the university will deal with the assailants from SJP.
Other violations by SJP of the U.C. code of conduct — such as blocking of pedestrian traffic with demonstrations, the brandishing of fake firearms, physical harassment and intimidation of Jewish students — were presented to the dean of students but have been ignored.
What we see here is a double standard, one for the rest of campus and another for the Jews and those who actively support Israel.
Our tax dollars support the U.C. system, and Jewish donors are very prominent in supporting the U.C. campuses. It’s time for the Jewish community to become aware of what is happening at our university.
Meanwhile, Tikvah has a consistent record of positive, pro-Israel programming on campus. Until our inception a year ago, there was no substantive pro-Israel voice on campus. We changed that, attracting students of various religious and cultural backgrounds to our cause. We have collaborated with many off-campus groups, including the Israeli Consulate, Israel Peace Initiative, S.F.-based Jewish Community Relations Council, U.C. Berkeley Chabad, CAMERA, StandWithUs, JIMENA and more. Once again Jews walk with pride across Sproul Plaza.
We have also sponsored many successful events. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we took out ads in the student newspaper highlighting the civil rights leader’s strong support of the Jewish state. We have hosted lectures by Dennis Prager, Stanley Urman, Israeli Vice Consul Ishmael Khaldi (who spoke about being the highest-ranking Muslim in the Israeli foreign service) and others.
Last year we held two weeklong programs brimming with pro-Israel activities: Israel Peace and Diversity Week and Israel@60 Week (which included a widely attended on-campus Holocaust memorial on Yom HaShoah). We just finished our latest effort, Israel Liberation Week, and we have also been a positive influence on student government, with John Moghtader, a current senator in the Associated Students of the University of California, leading our group.
Regarding the Jewish Student Union and Berkeley Hillel, we must clarify misstatements that ran in j. Even though Tikvah is the largest and most active Jewish student group on campus, we have been allocated precisely zero dollars from the JSU this school year.
While the JSU and Berkeley Hillel remain silent, we are the ones on Sproul Plaza and around campus protesting the Finkelsteins of the world, educating students about Israel, organizing rallies and holding Holocaust memorials.
We were dumbfounded to find that Hillel is presuming to play some role in all this, as Tikvah has never been affiliated with Berkeley Hillel, nor have we ever received funds from them for any of our activities.
We are a grassroots student group. Our goal is to make sure Jewish students do not have to be subjected to a hostile anti-Israel, anti-Semitic environment on campus. That’s our bottom line.
John E. Moghtader, a third-year undergraduate at U.C. Berkeley, is an Associated Students of the University of California senator and president of Tikvah.
Elodie Resseguie is a fourth-year undergraduate at U.C. Berkeley and is on the Tikvah executive board. To learn more about Tikvah, e-mail tikvahsfi@gmail.com or visit tikvahsfi.blogspot.com.
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/36519/format/html/displaystory.html
It is an important piece, please circulate it to your friends.
Here it is:
Tikvah: victim of double standard at U.C.
By John E. Moghtader & Elodie Resseguie
Long a hotbed of anti-Israel activity, U.C. Berkeley has barely had a strong pro-Israel presence on campus. Until now, with Tikvah: Students for Israel, the Zionist student group at U.C. Berkeley.
We are the group that stepped up to protest when academics John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt visited Cal in October 2007 to hawk their book, a nefarious smear job titled "The Jewish Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy."
We were also there last month when the virulently anti-Israel academic Norman Finkelstein came to speak.
Before the lecture, we respectfully distributed our literature outside. Once inside, Finkelstein’s level of anti-Semitic vitriol prompted a walkout of Tikvah students and others not associated with our group. We shouted out our opinions while exiting, as the crowd hurled expletives at us. Finkelstein and his colleague then continued delivering their insulting lies.
As a result, the dean of students is now seeking to discipline Tikvah and individual students for an "offense" which in the past barely warranted mention when undertaken by student groups involved in anti-Israel activities.
For example, when Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes tried to speak on campus several years ago, he was shouted down by members of Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim Student Association. At the time the chancellor said, "Uncivil behavior, lamentable as it is, is not a crime, nor is it a violation of the Code of Student Conduct." No disciplinary action was taken against SJP or its members for that incident, nor when Nonie Darwish was likewise shouted down a year ago.
Only last week, SJP disrupted an innovative Zionist hip-hop concert on campus. Even though no Jewish students were involved in the physical altercation that ensued (contrary to what was reported in the school paper and what SJP claims), we wait to see how the university will deal with the assailants from SJP.
Other violations by SJP of the U.C. code of conduct — such as blocking of pedestrian traffic with demonstrations, the brandishing of fake firearms, physical harassment and intimidation of Jewish students — were presented to the dean of students but have been ignored.
What we see here is a double standard, one for the rest of campus and another for the Jews and those who actively support Israel.
Our tax dollars support the U.C. system, and Jewish donors are very prominent in supporting the U.C. campuses. It’s time for the Jewish community to become aware of what is happening at our university.
Meanwhile, Tikvah has a consistent record of positive, pro-Israel programming on campus. Until our inception a year ago, there was no substantive pro-Israel voice on campus. We changed that, attracting students of various religious and cultural backgrounds to our cause. We have collaborated with many off-campus groups, including the Israeli Consulate, Israel Peace Initiative, S.F.-based Jewish Community Relations Council, U.C. Berkeley Chabad, CAMERA, StandWithUs, JIMENA and more. Once again Jews walk with pride across Sproul Plaza.
We have also sponsored many successful events. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we took out ads in the student newspaper highlighting the civil rights leader’s strong support of the Jewish state. We have hosted lectures by Dennis Prager, Stanley Urman, Israeli Vice Consul Ishmael Khaldi (who spoke about being the highest-ranking Muslim in the Israeli foreign service) and others.
Last year we held two weeklong programs brimming with pro-Israel activities: Israel Peace and Diversity Week and Israel@60 Week (which included a widely attended on-campus Holocaust memorial on Yom HaShoah). We just finished our latest effort, Israel Liberation Week, and we have also been a positive influence on student government, with John Moghtader, a current senator in the Associated Students of the University of California, leading our group.
Regarding the Jewish Student Union and Berkeley Hillel, we must clarify misstatements that ran in j. Even though Tikvah is the largest and most active Jewish student group on campus, we have been allocated precisely zero dollars from the JSU this school year.
While the JSU and Berkeley Hillel remain silent, we are the ones on Sproul Plaza and around campus protesting the Finkelsteins of the world, educating students about Israel, organizing rallies and holding Holocaust memorials.
We were dumbfounded to find that Hillel is presuming to play some role in all this, as Tikvah has never been affiliated with Berkeley Hillel, nor have we ever received funds from them for any of our activities.
We are a grassroots student group. Our goal is to make sure Jewish students do not have to be subjected to a hostile anti-Israel, anti-Semitic environment on campus. That’s our bottom line.
John E. Moghtader, a third-year undergraduate at U.C. Berkeley, is an Associated Students of the University of California senator and president of Tikvah.
Elodie Resseguie is a fourth-year undergraduate at U.C. Berkeley and is on the Tikvah executive board. To learn more about Tikvah, e-mail tikvahsfi@gmail.com or visit tikvahsfi.blogspot.com.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
The banana house at the zoo
When I came home this evening I really wanted a cup of tea. So guess who was "using" the kitchen, with her BIG! BRAINDEAD! GORILLA!
Thank heavens they weren't actually tackling each other, but I really did NOT want to know that the Yeti is not a member of the tribe. As if that was even remotely possible!
Good thing I have enough sense of shame for all three of us, because miss Thang and the blender-dick don't have any at all. Not a drop.
I returned to the coffee shop and had tea on the house, then went to see Madagascar 2 with K. With her bomber jacket, piercings and tattoos, and my scowl, we made a lovely pair. Scary. But she giggles a lot. She isn't that way, if that's what you're thinking, she has a computer nerd male in her life.
It isn't a very good movie. Best part is Sasha Baron Cohen as the happily degenerate king Julien. Not enough of him, far too many zebras (like seeing upholstery moving across the screen, and very boring). The lions are nauseating.
It needs more penguins. Any movie can be improved by upping the penguin count.
Quickie review: save your money, buy beer instead.
Miss Thang and her ape were no longer in the kitchen when I got back. Just to be on the safe side I've wiped every surface there with glasscleaner several times. I hope the ammonia at least kills proteins, even if it doesn't fully remove them. Disgusting. Like living with a wild animal.
Thank heavens they weren't actually tackling each other, but I really did NOT want to know that the Yeti is not a member of the tribe. As if that was even remotely possible!
Good thing I have enough sense of shame for all three of us, because miss Thang and the blender-dick don't have any at all. Not a drop.
I returned to the coffee shop and had tea on the house, then went to see Madagascar 2 with K. With her bomber jacket, piercings and tattoos, and my scowl, we made a lovely pair. Scary. But she giggles a lot. She isn't that way, if that's what you're thinking, she has a computer nerd male in her life.
It isn't a very good movie. Best part is Sasha Baron Cohen as the happily degenerate king Julien. Not enough of him, far too many zebras (like seeing upholstery moving across the screen, and very boring). The lions are nauseating.
It needs more penguins. Any movie can be improved by upping the penguin count.
Quickie review: save your money, buy beer instead.
Miss Thang and her ape were no longer in the kitchen when I got back. Just to be on the safe side I've wiped every surface there with glasscleaner several times. I hope the ammonia at least kills proteins, even if it doesn't fully remove them. Disgusting. Like living with a wild animal.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Berkeley hates Israel
Horrible news out of Berkeley: Palestinians and alleged Palestinians in a violent confrontation with pro-Israel students last Thursday evening.
What the articles don't say is that Students for Justice in Palestine set a trap.
http://www.dailycal.org/article/103609/plans_made_in_effort_to_recall_asuc_senator
SJP wants to boot student senator Moghtader out of the student council and off the campus. Yaman Salahi, who is known for his personal vendettas and his lies, has targeted the pro-Israel students.
There is more to come, the Berkeley Pallies won't stop.
What disturbs me perhaps more than the attempt to silence the pro-Israel voice on campus is that they (SJP) want to allow electronic signatures on the recall petition. Any signature campaign on the UC campus is fraught with the possibility of fraud - how much more so an internet campaign by savy Arab-Americans? If this is allowed, the anti-Semites will have learned ONE MORE dirty trick. Cheats!
Really, these people make me so sick. And no one in the Bay Area seems to care about Israel. There is just loads of hate here.
I want to call Yossi, but it's too late at night. I so want someone to talk to!
What the articles don't say is that Students for Justice in Palestine set a trap.
http://www.dailycal.org/article/103609/plans_made_in_effort_to_recall_asuc_senator
SJP wants to boot student senator Moghtader out of the student council and off the campus. Yaman Salahi, who is known for his personal vendettas and his lies, has targeted the pro-Israel students.
There is more to come, the Berkeley Pallies won't stop.
What disturbs me perhaps more than the attempt to silence the pro-Israel voice on campus is that they (SJP) want to allow electronic signatures on the recall petition. Any signature campaign on the UC campus is fraught with the possibility of fraud - how much more so an internet campaign by savy Arab-Americans? If this is allowed, the anti-Semites will have learned ONE MORE dirty trick. Cheats!
Really, these people make me so sick. And no one in the Bay Area seems to care about Israel. There is just loads of hate here.
I want to call Yossi, but it's too late at night. I so want someone to talk to!
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Crash fumble clatter
I'm worried about him. This was supposed to be our third date, but it seemed more like a car-wreck. In addition to stuttering much more than usual, he also knocked over his water glass, spilt his co-cola, and stabbed himself in the cheek with the fork. Plus stumbling, and dropping his car keys.
Is this normal? I mean, I know he's clumsy when nervous or out in public, but IS THIS REALLY NORMAL?!?
On the plus side, we spent two hours in his car talking about the east-coast. At least we didn't talk about the pallies this time; after what happened in Berkeley last Thursday, I don't think I could've taken it. I'm so upset! And yes I know that the Jewish students were stupid not to tape everything that happened and take the names of all witnesses not likely to lie through their slimy green pro-Palestinian teeth, but still. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?! Running into a trap just isn't a good thing. What if the pro-Pallies had had bats or chains? Or knives?
But really, they should thrash those bigots sometime. Anybody walking across the Berkeley campus, even before this happened, could feel the hate when going by SJP activists. This is not a part of the world where you are safe wearing a star of David, and the area near the Berkeley campus is even riskier. West-Coast people are insane.
Well, not all of them. But lots.
Back to our date. He's got relatives in BP, of all places. And they're not even black hats. I would've thought maybe Massachusetts, or even New Jersey (shudder), but Boro Park?!?! Good heavens! He's planning to fly back for thksgvg, and will return the first week of December. I wish I could go home too, but even with both jobs, the money is tight. He'll e-mail and call me. I wonder if I should have him meet Abba? And is he maybe tooooo frum? Is that even possible in the Bay Area?
Still, he's very VERY sweet. We're going to a movie after next shabbat. He's a gentleman in the dark.
Is this normal? I mean, I know he's clumsy when nervous or out in public, but IS THIS REALLY NORMAL?!?
On the plus side, we spent two hours in his car talking about the east-coast. At least we didn't talk about the pallies this time; after what happened in Berkeley last Thursday, I don't think I could've taken it. I'm so upset! And yes I know that the Jewish students were stupid not to tape everything that happened and take the names of all witnesses not likely to lie through their slimy green pro-Palestinian teeth, but still. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?! Running into a trap just isn't a good thing. What if the pro-Pallies had had bats or chains? Or knives?
But really, they should thrash those bigots sometime. Anybody walking across the Berkeley campus, even before this happened, could feel the hate when going by SJP activists. This is not a part of the world where you are safe wearing a star of David, and the area near the Berkeley campus is even riskier. West-Coast people are insane.
Well, not all of them. But lots.
Back to our date. He's got relatives in BP, of all places. And they're not even black hats. I would've thought maybe Massachusetts, or even New Jersey (shudder), but Boro Park?!?! Good heavens! He's planning to fly back for thksgvg, and will return the first week of December. I wish I could go home too, but even with both jobs, the money is tight. He'll e-mail and call me. I wonder if I should have him meet Abba? And is he maybe tooooo frum? Is that even possible in the Bay Area?
Still, he's very VERY sweet. We're going to a movie after next shabbat. He's a gentleman in the dark.
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