Glover, Klein and Fonda on Israel at TIFF; Carter sells peanuts. Such creativity.

From The National Post.

Artists, authors sign letter protesting Israeli spotlight at TIFF

Mark Medley, National Post Published: Thursday, September 03, 2009

Actor Danny Glover is one of more than 50 people have added their name to what’s being called The Toronto Declaration, a letter condemning the Toronto Film Festival's complicity in "the Israeli propaganda machine.” ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images Actor Danny Glover is one of more than 50 people have added their name to what’s being called The Toronto Declaration, a letter condemning the Toronto Film Festival’s complicity in “the Israeli …

TORONTO — The signatories of a new letter accusing the Toronto International Film Festival of becoming “complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine” run the gamut from an Oscar-winning actress to a rabble-rousing author to a Talking Head.

More than 50 people have added their name to what’s being called The Toronto Declaration, including musician David Byrne, actors Danny Glover and Jane Fonda, and author Alice Walker.

The letter, drafted by a committee that includes Canadian writer Naomi Klein and Israeli filmmaker Udi Aloni, is the latest move in a controversy that began when Canadian director John Greyson withdrew his short documentary, Covered, from the festival last week. The veteran filmmaker is protesting the festival’s inaugural City to City Spotlight on Tel Aviv, a 10-movie program that TIFF’s website promises will “explore the evolving urban experience while presenting the best documentary and fiction films from and about a selected city.” This year is Tel Aviv’s 100th anniversary.

Greyson penned an open letter to festival co-directors Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey, as well as to Noah Cowan, artistic director of the under-construction Bell Lightbox, blasting the initiative.

The declaration states that while the signatories are not protesting the individual filmmakers participating in the program and do not seek to exclude Israeli films from the festival, “in the wake of this year’s brutal assault on Gaza, we object to the use of such an important international festival in staging a propaganda campaign on behalf of what South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and UN General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann have all characterized as an apartheid regime.” Continue Reading →

31 minute film on hate speech on campus USA

This video is really only about 31 one minutes and then it repeats.

Link: Hate Speech on Campus 09c

Bombing mastermind appointed to Iran’s parliament

From The Guardian U.K.

Iran appoints bombing suspect as defence minister

General Ahmad Vahidi wanted by Interpol in connection with attack on Jewish centre in Argentina that killed 85

General Ahmad Vahidi delivers a speech to the Iranian parliament.General Ahmad Vahidi delivers a speech to the Iranian parliament after being nominated as defence minister. Photograph: Vahid Salemi/AP

The Iranian parliament has approved the controversial nomination for defence secretary of a man wanted in connection with the murder of 85 people at a Jewish centre in Argentina. Continue Reading →

For a literate people, Jews may want to learn to read ‘wall writing.’

After subtitling this video I may have had the darkest insight I have ever had. Millions of Jewish and other people died in Nazi concentration camps partially because of a refusal, perhaps, to read that writing on the wall, writing now again all over Europe’s walls, in bold Arabic script.

From Hoek Van Holland: Translation by V.H. and project organized by the good Barron at Gates of Vienna.

This was a party sponsored by government. A dance and community event. The governments reaction to the violence and shooting of a person by police was to promise never to hold any event like this again.

Civilization takes another major hit.

For a good description of this event, Please visit Gates of Vienna. Much more information there. There has to be a word for what Holland is these days. In the video below, you can clearly see the plain clothes police shoot their way out of this awful situation.

Israel: UN witholding details of Iran’s nuclear program

Very much looking forward to reading Stratfor.com’s report on this. I think Stratfor missed the boat on this by such a wide margin, it may be a deal breaker on my subscription.

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From Haaretz.com:

The Foreign Ministry on Saturday issued a statement accusing the International Atomic Energy Agency of not publishing information gathered against Iran’s nuclear energy program.

The statement alleges that an IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear energy program released on Friday “does not reflect the entirety of the information the IAEA holds on Iran’s efforts to advance their military program, nor their continued efforts to conceal and deceive and their refusal to cooperate with the IAEA and the international community.”

According to the statement, Israel expects the international community “to quickly take significance steps to cancel Iran’s nuclear weapons program.”

The Foreign Ministry statement comes ahead of next month’s annual IAEA committee meeting in Vienna and a special UN Security Council meeting to discuss Iran’s nuclear program.

The statement also accuses Iran of “foot-dragging” and continuing to ignore IAEA questions about its nuclear program and “continues to avoid adhering to Security Council demands to stop enriching uranium.” Continue Reading →

NGO: Academic should quit Cast Lead inquiry

U.N Watch does it’s usual excellent job of cathing the absurd and the biased. I doubt at this point anyone would be surprised that The U.N. would appoint someone who openly denies Israel the right to defend itself against rocket attacks to a commission to determine the legality of events in operation Cast Lead.

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Analysis and Commentary from UN Watch in Geneva
August 24, 2009 — Issue 200


UN Watch today sent a request to UN Human Rights Council President Alex van Meuwen, asking him to take action within seven days, if necessary, on its motion to disqualify Prof. Christine Chinkin from the council’s inquiry on Gaza on grounds of bias. Today’s Jerusalem Post features the following report on the UN Watch legal brief.
NGO: Academic should quit Cast Lead inquiry

Jonny Paul, correspondent in LONDON
Jerusalem Post
August 24, 2009

A European non-government organization has called on the UN to remove a British academic from its recent inquiry into alleged human rights violations in Gaza, over statements made rejecting Israel’s right to self-defense against rocket attacks.

Geneva-based UN Watch submitted a 28-page legal brief to the UN last week calling on the UN fact-finding mission to disqualify London School of Economics law professor Christine Chinkin over prior statements she made that bring her impartiality in question. Click here for PDF of UN Watch legal brief Continue Reading →

Donald Boström rapes baby dolphins on crack.

I have no idea if Donald Boström rapes baby dolphins on crack actually. But I do know according to his own rules, its up to him to prove he does not. From the Jpost on the accusations of organ stealing of Palestinians by Jews:

“The article’s author Donald Boström freely admits that he has no evidence of any of his allegations but says it is up to Jews and Israelis to prove themselves innocent. An interesting if not entirely original twist – Jews are guilty until they prove themselves innocent. The basic tenets of democracy do not appear to be familiar to either Boström or Aftonbladet.”

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Crack dealing baby dolphin raper of Sweden. Swedes are all Dolphin rapers.

So, by Donald’s own logic, and turn around being fair play I think we all should have a shot at him. If it is up to the accused to prove an allegation false, (something that a first week student of logic would know is impossible and illogical, ever try proving there is no god?) Then lets see what we can make stick against Donny over there. I will send a Larry Curly and Moe T shirt to the person with the best accusation.

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Don after a trip to the Stockholm Aquarium. had enough Dolphin 'tail' for today Donald?

Iran ‘minister’ on Interpol list

Vahidi nom. Iran def. min.BBC NEWS…Iran’s defence minister-designate is on an Interpol “wanted” list over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina, the agency has confirmed.

It says it has had a “red notice” for Ahmad Vahidi since 2007 over the Buenos Aires attack that killed 85 people.

Interpol uses red notices to inform its 187 member countries that an arrest warrant has been issued for an individual by a judicial authority.

Israel and Argentina have expressed concern over Mr Vahidi’s nomination.

“This is yet another of [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad’s actions that prove he is a person you cannot deal with,” Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Andy David told Bloomberg.

“It’s significant, this nomination, but no surprising,” Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman told the Associated Press.

“Iran has always protected terrorists, giving them government posts, but I think never one as high as this one,” he said.

Tehran rejected the criticism as a “Zionist plot”.

Iranian lawmakers still have to confirm the 21-member cabinet proposed on Wednesday by Mr Ahmadinejad – the declared winner of June’s disputed presidential elections.

But the nomination of Mr Vahidi is another sign of Mr Ahmadinejad’s defiance of the West, the BBC’s Caroline Hawley says.

‘Key participant’

Interpol says that Mr Vahidi has been on its “red notice” list since November 2007.

The move to publish the notice for Mr Vahidi – along with five other people – followed a request by the Argentine authorities.

Mr Vahidi – who was deputy defence minister during Mr Ahmadinejad’s first term in office – is accused of involvement in the bombing of the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires.

It was the worst attack on a Jewish target outside Israel since World War II.

Mr Nisman said that Mr Vahidi, who led a unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard known as the Quds Force at the time of the attack, was accused of “being a key participant in the planning and of having made the decision to go ahead with the attack” against the AMIA.

“It has been demonstrated that Vahidi participated in and approved of the decision to attack AMIA during the meeting in Iraq on 14 August 1993”, the prosecutor said.

Iran on Friday rejected Argentina’s allegations.

“How come they didn’t bring it up in the past?” President Ahmadinejad’s press adviser, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, told the AFP.

“Mr Vahidi was a deputy defence minister and this is very senior political position. Therefore it seems that this is a new trick being planned and is basically a Zionist plot,” he added.

Interpol says it uses “red notices” – or international-wanted persons alerts – to inform its members that an arrest warrant has been issued for an individual by a judicial authorities.

Interpol says that the individuals concerned are wanted by national jurisdictions and Interpol’s role is to assist national police.

It stresses that its notices are not international warrants.

Hamas defence against Al Queda termed a ‘massacre.’ Film on French TV at 11:00

From MAANNEWS by way of The Religion of Peace. I bet French TV is lining up to buy the Al Queda version of these events. Or the Hamas version. Either way, the irony is enjoyable. Hamas now knows the sting of it’s own tactics. They are accused of collaborating with the Jews here. Hamas is the organization that hangs people if they sell land to Jews.

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A Hamas security officer in Gaza

Hamas security personell

Bethlehem – Ma’an – Websites linked to Al-Qaeda criticized Hamas’ operation against the Salafi group Jund Ansar Allah (Soldiers for God) in the Gaza Strip on Friday, accusing the de facto government of “abdicating from Islam,” CNN Arabic reported on Wednesday night.

The unnamed websites, which the report said were closely affiliated with Al-Qaeda, urged the group’s followers to take action against Hamas. They specifically called on Osama Bin Laden and his assistant Ayman Al-Zawahiri.

A statement on the website from unnamed sources, groups expressed condolences for the death of Sheikh Abdul Latif Moussa, the leader of Jund Ansar Allah. Moussa lead hundreds of supporters to a Rafah mosque on Friday and declared the area an “Islamic emirate.” Hamas-allied fe facto government police and members of Hamas’ armed wing said they were forced to react to the group when shots were fired in a civilian area. Clashes broke out culminating in 24 dead including six government officers, six civilians including two young girls, and 12 Jund Ansar Allah gunmen.

The Al-Qaeda groups’ statement called Moussa a “martyr,” saying he was killed by “the bullets and the rockets of Hamas government.” Hamas sources said the ultra-Islamist leader detonated explosives that were strapped to his body.

The statement linked the Hamas action, termed a “massacre” against Jund Ansar Allah, with clashes that took place last summer between Hamas police and members of another radical group, the Army of Islam, in the Ash-Shyjayyiah area of Gaza City.

Hamas was further accused of working against Islamic groups and “Serving the Jews who occupy Palestine, and the Christians who fight against Iraq, Afghanistan Somalia and Chechnya.”

Swedish blood libel variant. From Tundra Tabloids.

Tundra Tabloids seems to have the best work on this issue. When one adds up a few things that seems to be happening now in the world, the picture is certainly bleak for any western standards of evidence or attempt at objectivity in reporting. Certainly bleak if you can be identified as Jewish. It would appear that methodological thought itself is under attack in favor of political correctness and fairly primitive games of imbued significance.

‘I say this Kleenex is holy. Its the Holy Kleenex of Antioch!’ If you do not treat it as I say you must, you have committed a blaspheme and you must be punished to death.’

The instinct to ask what makes it holy and why it deserves reverence seems to be fading from the worlds cultures leaving us all with dhimmitude of one form or another, at the mercy of whoever has the raw numbers to make politicians kowtow to their irrational rules and customs. Please read the article below, taken verbatim from Tundra Tabloids:

Eeyore for Vlad.

Swedish Liberal-Right Outraged Over Aftonbladet’s Jewish Blood Libel Article…….

The SDP Affiliated paper
Shows its true colors

Not all Swedes are pleased with the Aftonbladet’s recent display of anti-Semitism under the guise of criticism of Israel. The Tundra Tabloids’ Swedish source for the recent information, Reinhard, says that the Swedish blogosphere, and some of the media, are busy justifiably raking the Aftonbladet over the coals for it role in proving that, as Barry Rubin puts it: “Antisemitism Is Anti-Zionism and Is Now Acceptable.”

The Swedish paper Svenska Dagbladet, in one of its own blogs, mentions a press release issued by the Swedish Embassy in Israel, that distances the government and the Swedish people from the offensive article published in the Aftonbladet:

Swedish Embassy in Israel has today sent out a press release that points out that Aftonbladet’s culture page does not speak for all Swedes. It is strange that the Swedish Government through the embassy marks its rejection and meddles in what a Swedish newspaper chooses to publish. In Sweden, as in Israel, there is freedom of expression. And given that Israel is a tolerant and open society it is difficult to imagine that the article would provoke the same type of reactions that Muhammed cartoon made in the Arab world, is why the press release is really quite unnecessary. But it is still worth reading.

On August 17 the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published an article about alleged organ handling in Israel. “The article in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet is as shocking and appalling to us Swedes, as it is to Israeli citizens. We share the dismay expressed by Israeli government representatives, media and the Israeli public. This Embassy cannot but clearly distance itself from it.

“Just as in Israel, freedom of the press prevails in Sweden,” concluded the statement. “However, freedom of the press and freedom of expression are freedoms which carry a certain responsibility. It falls on the editor-in-chief of any given newspaper.”

Elisabet Borsiin Bonnier, Ambassador

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Muslims attempt to deny any connection between Jerusalem and Jews.

This is such an egregious lie it will likely work. Just FYI, the term ‘Wailing Wall’ was coined by Christians who saw the religious Jews dipping in prayer at the properly named ‘Western Wall’ of the original temple of the old testament and as it appeared to them as if they where crying and lamenting due to the dipping. bowing and praying, they called it the ‘Wailing Wall’ and it stuck. So its funny that these Muslims accuse the Jews of calling it that to somehow make it Jewish.
H/T GAR

Dutch university fires Islamic scholar Ramadan

In the spirit of Taqyyia. [Lying to non Muslims for the advancement of Islam.]

The Jerusalem Post… A Dutch university fired Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan on Tuesday for hosting a show on Iran’s state television, which the school said could be seen as endorsing the regime.

Ramadan – known as a reformist who condemns terrorism, seeks to modernize sharia law and urges Muslims living in Europe to integrate – has recently been criticized in the Dutch press for allegedly voicing more conservative views for Muslim audiences than he does in the West.

Both the City of Rotterdam and Erasmus University dismissed Ramadan from his positions as “integration adviser” and professor, saying his program “Islam & Life” airing on Iran’s Press TV is “irreconcilable” with his duties in Rotterdam.

Ramadan “continued to participate in this program even after the elections in Iran, when authorities there hard-handedly stifled the freedom of expression,” Rotterdam and the university said in a joint statement.

Bill Warner speaks on CFRA 580 Ottawa

Link: Bill Warner CFRA aug 16 09-desktop