Like all major Jewish organizations in America, Agudath Israel holds: “Finally, in the area of immigration, Agudath Israel urges that American borders continue to be open to Jewish and other refugees who seek to come to the United States after escaping from oppressive political environments. The United States is a nation of immigrants and has long been distinguished by its generosity toward refugees from all across the globe. It is essential that such generosity continue to be maintained in today’s era of international volatility. Agudath Israel accordingly opposes any efforts to impose caps or quotas on refugees seeking safe haven in the United States. Agudath Israel further supports the provision of welfare benefits to needy non-citizen immigrants.”
Ilana Mercer writes: Steve Sailer seconds Mercer on the “path to mutual respect” between the neoconservative and Zionist faction, on the one hand, and the American conservative (and paleolibertarian) faction, on the other hand. As Steve puts it:
The path to mutual respect is to insist upon reciprocity. The most reasonable bargain would be for conservatives to demand of neoconservatives that in return for American support for Zionism, Zionists must publicly support America deploying the same immigration policies as Israel currently enjoys.
The Mercer version (April 29, 2011) urged Israelis to recognize Americans’ right to deny a “global right of return to the US for the citizens of the world”:
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I find it appalling that Jewish groups around the Western world push for hate speech laws but never seek to apply these laws to their own tradition, which has some anti-Gentile animus. If you are a Jew and you want to censor hate speech, you should first demand that your own group start censoring the Torah, the Talmud and the ongoing rabbinic tradition. If you are unwilling to apply your anti-hate speech legislation first to your own group, you should not seek to apply it to other groups.
JTA: SYDNEY, Australia – Jewish community leaders welcomed the Australian government’s decision to scrap plans to repeal parts of the nation’s race-hate laws
Prime Minister Tony Abbott had pledged to dilute sections of the Racial Discrimination Act in a bid to safeguard freedom of speech, but when the government asked for community consultation, it received a chorus of condemnation, led by the Jewish community.
On Tuesday, Abbott announced the government’s plans are “off the table.”
“Leadership is about preserving national unity on the essentials and that is why I have taken this position,” Abbott told reporters in Canberra. “I’m a passionate supporter of free speech and if we were starting from scratch with section 18c we wouldn’t have words such as ‘offend’ and ‘insult’ in the legislation,” he said. “But we aren’t starting from scratch.”
During the debate, Attorney-General George Brandis infamously stated in parliament that Australians “have a right to be bigots,” a comment widely criticized within the Jewish community.
Jewish leaders have previously used section 18c of the law to litigate successfully against Holocaust deniers, anti-Semites and religious extremists, and lobbied heavily against the government’s proposed changes.
Peter Wertheim, executive director of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, said Tuesday:
“The Prime Minister has made a wise decision. The extraordinarily large number of written submissions received by the federal government opposing its proposed changes indicate that most Australians understand that racial vilification laws are a necessary last resort for the targets of race hate to defend themselves.”
Wertheim added: “Although we were disturbed by the possibility of our legal protections being diminished, the extended public debate about the legislation has had a salutary educative effect in the wider community, and this can only be for the good in the long term.”
While the Liberal government is staunchly pro-Israel, this issue – now neutralized – was the one bone of contention with the Jewish community.
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Report: Meta-analyses of sex differences in physical aggression to heterosexual partners and in its physical consequences are reported. Women were slightly more likely (d = –.05) than men to use one or more acts of physical aggression and to use such acts more frequently. Men were more likely (d = .15) to inflict an injury, and overall, 62% of those injured by a partner were women. The findings partially support previous claims that different methods of measurement produce conflicting results, but there was also evidence that the sample was an important moderator of effect size. Continuous models showed that younger aged dating samples and a lower proportion of physically aggressive males predicted effect sizes in the female direction. Analyses were limited by the available database, which is biased toward young dating samples in the United States. Wider variations are discussed in terms of two conflicting norms about physical aggression to partners that operate to different degrees in different cultures.
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WALLABIES flanker David Pocock stressed homophobia is akin to racism and “not acceptable” in sport after twice reporting homophobic slurs by Waratahs players to the referee in NSW’s victory over the Brumbies…
In the final stages of a heated match between the two rivals, Pocock approached referee Craig Joubert in the 67th and 72nd minutes and expressed his concerns about homophobic slurs being made by Waratahs players…
Pocock, who is an outspoken advocate on marriage equality and social justice, said last night he wasn’t attempting to single out any Waratahs players but merely drawing a line in the sand.
When I grew up at Avondale College in Australia, we had to make three homophobic slurs before we could have breckie.
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Shalom Pollack writes: It was a very embarrassing day for the pollsters and the media talking heads. No one predicted anything close to what actually happened on election night, March 17,2015. It will be studied and referred to by analysts for a long time to come.
Since elections were announced three months ago, the media, academia and entertainment class pooled their efforts to unseat their hated nemesis. prime minister Netanyahu. It was simply and unabashedly a “just not Bibi” campaign.
President Obama sent his trusted advisers and lots of tax payer money to oil the anti Bibi machine. Thousands were hired to knock on doors to get out the “just not Bibi” vote.
The Israeli Arab population ( lately they prefer to be called “Palestinians”) were their key target. This year, for the first time, three Arab parties consolidated to form the “Joint List”. The ardent “volunteers” urged the Arabs to get out and vote as the “United List” would hopefully block a right wing/Bibi coalition..
I must say, like many right wing voters, I was really concerned that the atmosphere created by the opinion maker elites would indeed grease the wheels for an Arab/Left government. Israelis were fed by the “elites” three months of doom and despair and the personal dehumanization of Bibi and his wife. Now, I am not a blind fan of Bibi but, hey, if Obama and the Left/Arabs want to destroy him, he must be doing something right.
When it looked like a sure victory for the Arabs/Left was just hours away, Bibi yelled “Gevald!”. Hours before the polls closed, he warned that the Arabs were storming the polls in droves. In a moment of urgency, the politically correct mask came off. The Jewish, if not the Israeli state was in real danger. Apparently this revelation was enough of a wake up call for lots of now very concerned Jews.
So, what was predicted as a clear Left lead over the Likud, turned out to be the opposite. Thelikud surged ahead of the left despite Obama’s advisers and money. There is an old Yiddish expression,”der mentch tracht und Gott lacht”(Man plans and God laughs). The wisest of men, King Solomon wrote in Proverbs: The hearts of kings are in the Hand of God” . In 1996 when Shimon Peres called early elections and ran against Netanyahu,a similar thing happened. The Arab/Left bloc was, according to the experts, supposed to beat Bibi hands down. After their early victory announcement Peres and Israel woke the next morning up to a slim Bibi victory.
When a stunned Peres was asked, “who lost this election? he answered, “The Israelis”. He was then asked , “and who won”? He answered, “the Jews”. Is there anything more revealing in this honest expression of a stunned loser?
Rabbi Philip Lefkowitz writes: The issue of why the press does not explore the elements within Islam that give rise to terrorism and beheading was brought to the fore recently by conservative commentator Bernie Goldberg. He stated that were he to have been a reporter in the time of the Spanish Inquisition, he would have written extensively on what elements in Roman Catholicism give rise to the barbarism of the Catholic clergy.
Let me hasten to add, when one speaks of barbarism exhibited by a religious community, when considering torture and horrid means of inflicting death upon another in the name of religion, I would suggest that Torquemada could give lessons to ISIS on the subject.
His answer to this dilemma, the rationale for the media not to inquire, was the general left of center view held by most reporters, that Muslims have been the recipients of cruelty and discrimination visited upon them by Western civilization and therefore they have to be pitied for their suffering, which somewhat justifies the actions of the more militant elements of that religion.
I wholeheartedly disagree with Bernie. That which ultimately fortifies the barbarism of both Christianity and Islam against each other and the Jewish people in particular is a singular foundational element of their theology which they share – they are both “universal churches” – both faiths believe they are the true word of G-d to the exclusion of all other religions. It is this commonality of belief which must be addressed, one which Christendom in all its manifestations refuses to admit. Even the most left-wing of the media, is not willing to take on this reality, that of asking the Christian world to take a good look into the face of the Muslim terrorist and realize that behind that scarf is their own face.
While many in the Jewish community hailed Nostra Atatae issued by Pope Paul VI on October 28, 1965 as a new beginning for Catholic-Jewish relations, this document never stepped back from Catholicism’s belief in Replacement Theology- the Church is the new Jewish People. “True, the Jewish authorities and those who followed their lead pressed for the death of Christ ;(13) still, what happened in His passion cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today. Although the Church is the new people of God, the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures. All should see to it, then, that in catechetical work or in the preaching of the word of God they do not teach anything that does not conform to the truth of the Gospel and the spirit of Christ.”
As for Islam, an honest expositor of Islam, a former attorney in the United Kingdom, Anjem Choudary, has continuously given voice to the true belief of Islam as a universal church. “Look, at the end of the day innocent people—when we say ‘innocent people’ we mean Muslims—as far as non-Muslims are concerned they have not accepted Islam and as far as we are concerned that is a crime against God.
What we are left to consider then is, why Christians no longer resort to torture and murder in propagating their faith, relying upon missionary efforts instead, while Islam continues to do so. The answer would seem to be the difference between Western society and the societies of the Middle East.
The Washington Post reports: Broken pieces of rail have already appeared. Streetcar doors scrape against platforms. Switches that guide 35-ton vehicles from one stretch of track to another occasionally don’t work.
In a new assessment released Friday, outside experts found “no fatal flaws” in the District’s fledgling streetcar system. But there are flaws, and many are serious.
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J. Philippe Rushton gave this talk at the 1998 American Renaissance conference. He discussed the Bnai Menashe, a group in Indian who claim to be Jews and have the Right of Return to Israel.
ROSENBAUM: The 500 Bene Menashe in Kiryat Arba have cast aside most of their old rituals, and taken on a more mainstream approach to Judaism. They dress much like the other orthodox Jewish settlers; women in long skirts, and men in skullcaps, known as a kippahs. But Rabbi Gangte says the community still struggles to find acceptance in Israel.
GANGTE: Every time we go somewhere new we have to deal with a lot of silly and stupid questions ‘Where are you from, Indonesia? Thailand? Are you Jewish? Why do you have that kippah? Do you know what being Jewish is? Are you a convert? Are you related to Bruce Lee?’ It’s crazy.
ROSENBAUM: He says there’s growing resentment in the community.
GANGTE: When you come here people view you on a different spectrum, as someone trying to escape their poverty in India, so it hurts us a lot, and there’s a lot of anger among my community. A lot of people try to suppress that and on Yom Kippur it really comes out, when you ask for forgiveness and atone for your sins. A lot of people do remember these things.
ROSENBAUM: There are about 1,400 Bene Menashe Jews in Israel and most of them live on settlements. They’ve come under fire from politicians who want to return the occupied territories to the Palestinians.
GANGTE: The settlers offered us to live here because they’re often looking to strengthen their settlements. That’s one of the reasons. The second reason is economically it makes more sense, because it’s much cheaper to live out here. The Indian rupee is not very strong, so even if we come with a lot of money, when we convert it into Israeli shekels we only get about one tenth of what we had. So most of us can’t afford to live in the big cities.
ROSENBAUM: About 7,000 Bnei Menashe still in India want to settle in Israel. The government acknowledges that they’re of Jewish descent, but it doesn’t class them as Jewish. This means that they can’t become Israelis under the right of return law, which give citizenship to anyone who can prove they’re Jewish.
Most of the Bene Menashe in Israel have got around the problem by converting formally to Judaism. Yair Lotjem, who works as a cleaner in Kiryat Arba, hopes Israel’s government will help the Bnei Menashe to immigrate.
LOTJEM: I still have family in India and one of the main reasons I’m still working is so that I can bring them over here. I want to bring them over here even if the government can’t help me. The community here is lobbying to bring to Bene Menashe. I hope it succeeds.
Phil Rushton: “If 1.5 million Indians [Bnai Menashe] decide to go to Israel, this would provide a major problem of absorption. Lost Tribes are now springing up in South Africa, Ethiopia and many other places because Israel’s standard of living is rising to the levels of other European peoples and third world peoples want to come in.”
Question: “How do you explain the dysgenic practice of our own kind? How can people behave in such a suicidal manner?”
Rushton: “We have evolved to follow the leader. We want to be liked and we don’t want to be disliked. We live in social groups. We’re a social animal. We learn many of our social attitudes. We want to do what is good and right and we don’t really know always what is good and right. So we look at people who are genetically similar to ourselves, people who look like Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton…the TV anchorman… We look at these people and say, there’s somebody who looks like me and he’s telling me such and such. That’s powerful. It’s difficult for us to tell our leaders, that’s BS. That’s nonsense.
“When we also hear from the other sources of importance, the media, the pulpit, the schools, our peer group, the same story, it is difficult to say no. For the majority of people, what is right and wrong is what their neighbors are doing.”
“If Hitler comes to power and says go to wars, then Germans being good followers, all go to war. If the leaders say, practice democracy and let many immigrants in, then the Germans, being good followers, practice democracy and let the foreigners in.”
“The Japanese are doing half of what we’re doing. They’re not having any children. China had a one-child policy. They are not behaving in a simple socio-biological maximizing process of having trillions of children and taking over the world.”
“These pathological ideas come and go.”
David Duke: “Do you have any ideas on how to trigger that ethnic identification?”
Rushton: “Joseph Goebbels had complete control of the media in Germany and the German birth rate shot up and German nationalism shot up and ethnic solidarity increased and out-group hatred increased. The reason was because of the images displayed. If you saw today on television, which I am sure you will not, lots and lots of nice blue-eyed blonde babies being born and women who had lots of these babies being happy having babies and wanting to stay at home and not to work, then you would increase the number of women who would want to have babies and stay at home. If the media showed attractive people standing up to drive the drug dealers out of their neighborhood and to not care what race they were, then I think many more people in suburban neighborhoods would rally together to drive out the alien drug dealers. And so what you see on TV portrayed by role models who look like you… Advertisers know this. Politicians know this. If you are running for Congress, you get black workers to go knock on black neighborhoods. You get Hispanic voters to knock on Hispanic doors… We know the ethnic person you are interacting helps sell the product. People trust someone who looks like their cousin more than someone who looks different, on average.”
On another topic, Rushton says: “As to why the Palestinian people are fighting and why they are having so many children, I don’t think it has anything to do with evolutionary selection pressures quite so much as the kind of social learning… All of live in a peer group… What they think is what’s important.”
“The difference between German Protestants and Italian Catholics is the peer groups… Italians still live in peer groups where being an Italian and a Catholic is still important to the family while to German Protestants, it is not even important to the grandparents.”
On another topic, Rushton said: “Why do men rape the women of out-groups? Evolution. Ducks do it. Chimpanzees do it. If you can kill the males of the rival group and impregnate their female, you will replicate your genes more effectively. Rape is an evolved strategy.”
Chaim Amalek writes: Speaking of images on advertising and its power, whites will never even begin to recover their bearings until they understand the power of collective action, e.g., begin boycotting the sponsors of programs that offend them, either through the content of the programs or the ads being run. Corporate America has a deep dread of the White Boycott and will do anything to crush it, but in the end will yield. Because they value money above all other things. GOYIM! In these words I am the Jewish Prometheus, providing you Goyim with the gift of political fire.
GOYIM! Be intelligent about how you use this gift or you will get burned. Target ads that seek to mock or diminish Fathers and Fatherhood and you accomplish much without showing your hand.
Whenever I try to give advice to a goy on how to survive in a multicultural world, I feel as though I am lecturing to small children who have yet to learn to read. Perhaps what the gentile needs is to have this explained in terms that his debased self can understand: comic books, video games, pornography.
It may be that the goy just does not have the brainpower to figure these things out on his own.
“My greatest thrill is that Netanyahu was able to pull off a feat that in my opinion was not only good for the morale of Israel and the security of Israel, but finally put Obama in his place,” said Rabbi Shoham.
What is the American president’s place? As the servant of Israel?
He said that he saw Israel was becoming more isolated internationally, but that he was not terribly troubled by it because of what he said was a basic Jewish principle: “Being more or less in control of your own self, your own country, or your own being is much more important than being loved by others.”
"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
