4.15.2015
Holocaust scholar cancels prestigious Illinois lecture over Palestinian Steven Salaita firing
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/holocaust-scholar-cancels-prestigious-illinois-lecture-over-steven-salaita-firing
4.14.2015
Muslim girl. Got Accepted To All 8 Ivy League Schools, Plus A Few More
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/14/teen-ivy-league-schools_n_7064890.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063
SPDF Day 43: Immigrant Mothers in Detention Launch Second Hunger Strike Despite Retaliation
http://m.democracynow.org/web_exclusives/2493
***** SPDF Day. 43: I am headed to the emergency room. The bowel movement I just had was small but it was 100% blood......
SPDF Day. 43: I am headed to the emergency room. The bowel movement I just had was small but it was 100% blood. I am aware of no concern within me regarding my own health or even my life, only that of my tormented family that is Palestine. But I need two or three or four more weeks of this fast to be able to fully as I can express the utter urgency, the need for us all to devote our entire lives to stop this Holocaust, and now is too soon for some health problem to stop me. I considered waiting until tomorrow morning to go to my doctor at my clinic but I think that by going to the emergency room tonight there is a better possibility that whatever they are going to do they can do tonight so I can be back on Capitol Hill all day tomorrow as is my plan.
Chef ticketed, facing $2,000 fine for feeding homeless in San Antonio
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Chef-ticketed-facing-2-000-fine-for-feeding-6198766.php
SPDF Day 43: I am on day 43 of this fast. I had hoped that it would work out to take it to completion....
I am on day 43 of this fast. I had hoped that it would work out to take
it to completion. It has become clear to me that that may not be the
case. It is probably 30% yes, 70% no, at this point. I've written
several times on my blog the reason behind these probabilities. I expect
to go another 2 or 3 weeks, and decide then, tho, lol, the choice could
be taken out of my hands by body failure, but that is an
inconsequential price to pay given all that is at stake in the world.
Without another 2-3 weeks of this fast I'll not have made my full
statement. Yes, no one is listening, even the few that used to, a
little, but that is not my business. Mine is to speak the Truth, the
emergency, the absolute need to put and keep our lives TOTALLY in the
way of the unfolding Armageddon (Palestine, Eocide, American Fascism)
as fully and clearly and loudly and unequivocally as I see it. And this
I shall do.
SPDF Day 43: Report: Israel uprooted 700 trees in Nablus in March
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/18035-report-israel-uprooted-700-trees-in-nablus-in-march
International aid agencies call for sanctions on Israel over Gaza “stalemate”
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/international-aid-agencies-call-sanctions-israel-over-gaza-stalemate
“Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” ~ Eugene V. Debs
“Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” ~ Eugene V. Debs
SPDF Day 43: Noam Chomsky: America hates its poor Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky on our country's brutal class war -- and why it's ultimately so one-sided
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/01/noam_chomsky_america_hates_its_poor_partner/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
4.13.2015
SPDF Day 42: pic. article. Gunter Grass 1999 Nobel Prize - Literature 1927-2015, ""Israel doesn't just need to clear out of the occupied areas," he said at the time. "The appropriation of Palestinian territory and its Israeli settlements are also a criminal activity. That not only needs to be stopped -- it also needs to be reversed. Otherwise there will be no peace."
Palestinian territory and its Israeli settlements are also a criminal activity. That not only needs to be stopped -- it also needs to be reversed. Otherwise there will be no peace."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/nobel-laureate-guenter-grass-under-fire-for-israel-comments-a-825712.html
***** Disturbing quotes from some Zionists.... (1 of dozens) ""We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village." Moshe Dyan, March 19, 1969, speech at the Technion in Haifa, quoted in Ha'aretz, April 4, 1969."
Disturbing Quotes From
Leading ZionistsFrom Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_racism (Note - Wikipedia is 'considering removal' of this page as of 8-21-7)
8-21-7- There are some pretty choice quotes from shockingly honest Zionists.
- 1. "We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village." Moshe Dyan, March 19, 1969, speech at the Technion in Haifa, quoted in Ha'aretz, April 4, 1969.
- The State of Israel was built after a movement called Zionism.The term Zionism first came to public attention as a result of the works of Viennese Jewish journalist Theodor Herzl, who argued in his 1896 book Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) that the best way of avoiding anti-Semitism in Europe was to create an independent Jewish state or national homeland. (He was originally thinking of Uganda or South America). The movement eventually culminated in establishing the State of Israel in 1948 in Palestine. Some 700,000 Palestinians became refugees and a similar number of Jews arrived in the new state. Since then, the term "Zionism" properly refers to supporters of the Israeli state.
- The term racism refers to discriminatory beliefs and practices that presume inherent and significant differences exist between different human races; that assume these traits can be measured on a scale of "superior" to "inferior"; and that can result in the social, political and economic advantage of one group in relation to others.
- In November 1975, the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 declared that "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination." In December 1991, the General Assembly rescinded this resolution through Resolution 4686. At the time, the Soviet Union, a major sponsor of the "Zionism is racism" doctrine (see Zionology), had completed its rapid collapse. Israel made revocation of resolution 3379 a condition of its participation in the Madrid Peace Conference.
- Some Racist statements by main Israeli and Zionist figures
- * "The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more".... Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000. Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000.
- * " (The Palestinians are) beasts walking on two legs." Menahim Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts". New Statesman, 25 June 1982.
- * "The Palestinians" would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls." " Isreali Prime Minister (at the time) in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988.
- * "When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle." Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983.
- * "How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to." Golda Maier, March 8, 1969.
- * "There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed." Golda Maier Israeli Prime Minister June 15, 1969.
- * "The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war." Israeli General Matityahu Peled, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972.
- * Ben Gurion also warned in 1948 : "We must do everything to insure they ( the Palestinians) never do return." Assuring his fellow Zionists that Palestinians will never come back to their homes. "The old will die and the young will forget."
- * "We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours." Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces - Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April 1983.
- * "We must do everything to ensure they (the Palestinian refugees) never do return" David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, quoted in Michael Bar Zohar's Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157.
- * "We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai." David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.
- * "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population." Israel Koenig, "The Koenig Memorandum."
- * "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... There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population." Moshe Dayan, address to the Technion, Haifa, reported in Haaretz, April 4, 1969.
- * "We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!'" Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.
- * Rabin's description of the conquest of Lydda, after the completion of Plan Dalet. "We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters" Uri Lubrani, PM Ben-Gurion's special adviser on Arab Affairs, 1960. From "The Arabs in Israel" by Sabri Jiryas.
- * "There are some who believe that the non-Jewish population, even in a high percentage, within our borders will be more effectively under our surveillance; and there are some who believe the contrary, i.e., that it is easier to carry out surveillance over the activities of a neighbor than over those of a tenant. [I] tend to support the latter view and have an additional argument:...the need to sustain the character of the state which will henceforth be Jewish...with a non-Jewish minority limited to 15 percent. I had already reached this fundamental position as early as 1940 [and] it is entered in my diary." Joseph Weitz, head of the Jewish Agency's Colonization Department. From Israel: an Apartheid State by Uri Davis, p.5.
- * "Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours... Everything we don't grab will go to them." Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.
- * "It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism,colonialization or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands." Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 July 1972.
- * "Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment... Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly." Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs of Palestine,Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry.
- * "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." -- Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994 (Source: N.Y. Times, Feb. 28, 1994, p. 1).
- * "We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether
you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard
it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive
powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world."
(Chaim Weizmann, Published in "Judische Rundschau," No. 4, 1920).
- Arie Dayan: "The Debate over Zionism and Racism: An Israeli View"; Haaretz, 27 December 1991; translated in Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3. (Spring, 1993), pp. 96-105.
- Michael Adams: "Israel's Treatment of the Arabs in the Occupied Territories"; Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2. (Winter, 1977), pp. 19-40.
- Janice J. Terry: "Zionist Attitudes toward Arabs; Journal of Palestine Studies", Vol. 6, No. 1. (Autumn, 1976), pp. 67-78.
- Roselle Tekiner: "Race and the Issue of National Identity in Israel"; International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1. (Feb., 1991), pp. 39-55.
- Right of return
- The Israeli law of the right of return which, despite Israel's otherwise restrictive immigration policies, grant every Jew in the world the right to settle in Israel. This is especially agitating for the Palestinian refugees, who were expeled from their lands that is modern Israel, but are denied their right to return.
- The Article 11 of the UN General Assembly Resolution 194, "resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property...". Like many other resolutions by UN, Israel still refuse to comply with this resolution.
- Many opponents of Zionism declare that Zionism is racist, and compare its continuation to the reform of Germany's former 'Blood Laws', which had allowed ethnic Germans to claim citizenship, even if they were nationals of another country.
- Zionism Racism Against Some Jews
- Zionists hold that any person may choose to become a Jew, after meeting the necessary requirements, and enjoy all the benefits and responsibilities of membership. Since anyone can (i.e., regardless of race, ethnicity or nationality) both join the Jewish people and equally enjoy the benefits of membership, Zionists conclude that Zionism is anti-Racist among jews at least. Even this claim was challenged all over the history of Israel. The jews of Eastern origins (called Sephardim or Mizrahim) suffered from various kinds of racism by Ashkenazic Jews.
- The Jewishness of many jewish minorities in Israel (like the Ethiopian Jews, the Russian Jews and Indian Jews) has been always questioned by the religious authorities[1].
- In many Israeli settlements they refuse to accept Falasha jews and The Falasha rabbis privileges are not recognized in Israel[2] and the unemployment rate among them is at least three times the Israeli average[3].
- According to prof. Esther Herzog: The Falasha jews where brought to Israel to work in the inferior jobs... and they are considered as third class citizens (after the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim)[4].
- Falasha used to complain from the systematic racism against them everywhre in Israel because of their origin and black colour. In the last few years Falasha demonstrations erupted after the exposure of the scandal of throwing the blood donated by Falasha in the Israeli hospitals and medical clinics[5].
- The modern founder of Zionism Theodor Herzl once said:
- "It is essential that the sufferings of Jews. . . become worse. . . this will assist in realization of our plans. . .I have an excellent idea. . . I shall induce anti-semites to liquidate Jewish wealth. . . The anti-semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews. The anti-semites shall be our best friends".[6][7]
- UN resolutions
- Main articles: United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 and UN General Assembly Resolution 4686
- On November 10, 1975 the United Nations General Assembly adopted, by a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions), Resolution 3379, which stated that "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination."
- However, on 16 December 1991, it was rescinded by Resolution 4686, with a vote of 111 to 25 (with 13 abstentions). The resolution 4686 was acheived under a severe pressure from US and Israel. Israel made it a condition to participate in the Peace process in the Middle East.
The Clinton dynasty’s horrific legacy: How “tough-on-crime” politics built the world’s largest prison system Over the past two decades, the Clintons' version of the "War on Drugs" has inflicted needless suffering on millions
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/13/the_clinton_dynastys_horrific_legacy_how_tough_on_crime_politics_built_the_worlds_largest_prison/
SPDF Day 42: Life Rights group: Israeli settlers profit from Palestinian child labor Human Rights Watch say settlement farms, mostly in the Jordan Valley, employ children as young as 11, pay them low wages and subject them to dangerous working conditions.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.651544
Chris Hedges Print this item The Whoredom of the Left
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_whoredom_of_the_left_20150308
Darkness ahead for Israel. It has doomed its democracy.
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.vox.com/2015/4/13/8390387/israel-dark-future&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTOTQyMzIyNzc0NjA0MjU5NTM0OTIaZDNkN2RkNDhkODU2MWQxZDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNH9jd7m-GZKEiX4M9EKU5KU_hNGkw
SPPDF Day 42; Israel’s 51-day conflict with Gaza ended last summer, more than seven months ago. You would not believe it if you were there. Rubble and twisted metal still mark the remains of hospitals, schools and houses, as though the bombs had only just stopped falling.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2015/04/13/Gaza-another-conflict-looms-amongst-the-ruins-.html
SPDF Day 42: Our Coming Theocratic Hell: The Right’s “Religious Freedom” Push Is Just the BeginningReligion is far too dangerous to our liberties to be laughed off or mischaracterized as harmless.
http://www.alternet.org/belief/our-coming-theocratic-hell-rights-religious-freedom-push-just-beginning
SPDF Day 42: Why Is No One Talking About the GOP's Plan to Send Millions of Disabled Americans Into Poverty?
http://m.thenation.com/blog/198193-why-no-one-talking-about-gops-plan-send-millions-disabled-americans-poverty
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