Annual gala of Zionist Organization of America, featuring Sheldon Adelson, breaks into wild applause over far-right views and the prospect of a Republican president.
NEW YORK – The United States should not accept any Syrian refugees, Zionist Organization of America president Mort Klein told attendees at a gala banquet here Sunday night, adding that many of them hate Jews and Israel. In addition, he said, parents and siblings of terrorists should be deported unless they publicly condemn, in Hebrew and Arabic, the acts of their family member. Klein was speaking to an audience of more than 1,000 people at the 2015 Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award Dinner, held at Manhattan’s Grand Hyatt hotel.
“Don’t bring these refugees here. Treat as pariahs all those who promote radical Islam. … We must crush radical Islam as we crushed Nazism,” Klein said.
Attendees greeted both of Klein’s proposals with wild applause. It was one of several moments of right-wing ideology met by popular — though perhaps, given the $700 per person ticket price, not populist — acclaim.
“I don’t even know the legalities of it,” Klein told Haaretz after the dinner, of the deportation proposal. “I am so frustrated by the horror, the terror almost every day. The streets of Israel are empty, stores are 80 percent down in sales, people aren’t going to the Kotel. This is terrible. We can’t allow them to destroy Israel’s society,” he said, adding that ZOA’s board had not yet approved his idea but he expected it to do so at a meeting later this week. “These are extraordinary times and we need extraordinary measures.”
At the event, which was billed as “ZOA’s Superstar Gala,” actor Jon Voight received the Dr. Miriam & Sheldon Adelson Defender of Israel Award and Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer was given the ZOA’s Dr. Bob Shillman Award for Outstanding Diplomacy.
Dermer, in his remarks, called on world governments to wage war against militant Islam and castigated them for not coming to Israel’s defense during the current round of terrorist attacks. “In the past few weeks, 19 Israelis have been killed and some 200 have been wounded in terror attacks. … But rather than support Israel … we hear outrageous statements about a cycle of violence and the need for both sides to act with restraint.”
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Back in the 1930s and ’40s, the fear was of Nazi and Communist infiltrators sneaking in along with the refugees rather than the ISIS militants or Mexican criminals that some fear today.
JTA – They were called “so-called” refugees, told they were alien to American culture and warned against as potential enemies of the United States.
This heated anti-refugee rhetoric in America was directed against Jews trying to flee Europe, not Mexicans or Syrians. Back in the 1930s and ’40s, the fear was of Nazi and Communist infiltrators sneaking in along with the refugees rather than the ISIS militants or Mexican criminals that some fear today.
Here’s a snapshot of what Americans were saying about Jews as they sought to escape Hitler’s Nazi vise for refuge in the United States.
‘Try to keep them out’
In 1938, when Hitler’s threat to Jews in Germany already was apparent, America still was emerging from the Great Depression, and xenophobia and anti-Semitism were commonplace. In a July 1938 poll, 67 percent of Americans told Fortune magazine that America should try to keep out altogether German, Austrian and other political refugees, and another 18 percent said America should allow them in but without increasing immigration quotas.
In another 1938 poll, cited in the book “Jews in the Mind of America,” some 75 percent of respondents said they opposed increasing the number of German Jews allowed to resettle in the United States.
In January 1939, 61 percent of Americans told Gallup they opposed the settlement of 10,000 refugee children, “most of them Jewish,” in the United States.
In May that year, 12 percent of Americans said they would support a widespread campaign against Jews in the United States and another 8 percent said they would be sympathetic to one, according to the book “FDR and the Jews.” By June 1944, the number had risen to 43 percent of Americans who said they would support a campaign against the Jews or would be sympathetic to one. Polls cited in “Jews in the Mind of America” showed 24 percent of Americans believed Jews were “a menace to America.”
At the same time, however, 70 percent of Americans said in an April 1944 poll commissioned by the White House that they supported creating temporary safe haven camps in the United States where war refugees could stay until the war’s end. Only one such camp was set up, at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York; 982 refugees were placed there in August 1944.
‘A Jewish empire’
Representative Jacob Thorkelson, a Montana Republican, said Jewish migrants are part of an “invisible government” tied to the “communistic Jew” and to “Jewish international financiers.”
Senator Robert Reynolds, a North Carolina Democrat, said Jews are “systematically building a Jewish empire in this country.”
“Let Europe take care of its own people,” he said. “We cannot care for our own, to say nothing of importing more to care for.”
Reynolds told Life magazine he merely wanted “our own fine boys and lovely girls to have all the jobs in this wonderful country,” according to TheIntercept.com.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt himself warned that Jewish refugees might be Nazi spies, coerced to do the Reich’s bidding with threats against relatives back home. At a news conference, Roosevelt explained how refugees – “especially Jewish refugees” – might be forced into service for the Nazis with the threat that if they declined, they would be told, “We are frightfully sorry, but your old father and mother will be taken out and shot.”
Similar warnings against Nazis disguised as refugees appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Reader’s Digest and American Magazine, according to Reason.com.
The numbers
America did not take specific action to help Jewish refugees until January 1944, when Roosevelt, conceding to pressure from members of his own government and American Jews, established the War Refugee Board to help rescue Jews in Europe.
Until then, several thousand Jewish refugees had gained admittance into the United States under the German-Austrian quota from 1938 to 1941, which wasn’t limited to Jews. But for most of Roosevelt’s presidency, the U.S. quota for immigrants from Germany went less than 25 percent filled, according to the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. In all, more than 190,000 quota places from Germany and Axis-occupied countries sat unused during the Holocaust.
In 1938, just two weeks after the Kristallnacht pogrom, the U.S. interior secretary floated the idea of settling refugees in Alaska, and soon his office began researching the possibility. In March 1940, Senator Robert Wagner of New York and Representative Frank Havenner of California proposed bills to resettle 10,000 war refugees in the remote territory who wouldn’t count toward America’s immigration quotas. But the idea ran into opponents in Congress who expressed concerns that “these foreigners cannot be assimilated in Alaska, and will constitute a threat to our American civilization.”
In one of the most infamous incidents involving Jewish refugees, the SS St. Louis, a ship loaded with Jews fleeing the Nazis, sailed to the waters off of Florida in 1939, its passengers begging Roosevelt to enter the country. But Roosevelt said no, and the ship – once close enough for passengers to see the lights of Miami – returned to Europe. Nearly half its passengers would perish at the hands of the Nazis.
Even after World War II, Jewish refugees and displaced persons who wanted to resettle to the United States faced tight restrictions. Overall immigration to the U.S. did not increase after the Holocaust, but in an effort to bypass congressional inaction and help war refugees, President Harry Truman ordered that existing immigration quotas be filled by displaced persons. Under the provisions of the Truman Directive, some 22,950 DPs came to the United States between late 1945 and 1947; two-thirds were Jewish.
In 1948, Congress loosened immigration restrictions to allow 400,000 DPs into the United States. Most of those spots went to Christians, however; only about 20 percent, or 80,000, were Jews.
In all, 137,450 Jewish refugees had settled in the United States by 1952, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
By comparison, more than four years into Syria’s civil war, America has accepted about 1,500 Syrian refugees.
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JTA: More than 1,000 US rabbis have signed a letter calling on elected officials to welcome refugees.
The letter, sponsored by HIAS, the lead Jewish body dealing with immigration issues, said the rabbis are “alarmed to see so many politicians declaring their opposition to welcoming refugees.”
Rabbis in 46 states as well as Washington, DC, are among the signers. A condensed version of the letter and the full list of rabbis who signed on to it will appear in the print editions of Politico and the daily Forward on Thursday.
“Since its founding, the United States has offered refuge and protection to the world’s most vulnerable,” the letter says. “Time and time again, those refugees were Jews. Whether they were fleeing pogroms in Tzarist Russia, the horrors of the Holocaust or persecution in Soviet Russia or Iran, our relatives and friends found safety on these shores.
“Last month’s heartbreaking attacks in Paris and Beirut are being cited as reasons to deny entry to people who are themselves victims of terror. And in those comments, we, as Jewish leaders, see one of the darker moments of our history repeating itself,” the letter continues, citing the US turning away the SS St. Louis in 1939, sending some 900 Jews back to Europe; many were killed by the Nazis.
The letter urges elected officials to support legislation to resettle refugees and oppose any measures that would “actually or effectively halt resettlement or prohibit or restrict funding for any groups of refugees.”
COMMENTS POSTED:
* Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg: I believe there is a big difference between European Jews before and during World War II — who were not just caught in a war zone, but were being actively persecuted — and Syrian-Muslims. These young Syrian Muslim men, who make up the vast majority of the would-be refugees, should be fighting for their country. These young men from Syria — and in many cases young women — should be trained to be the boots on the ground against, first, ISIS, and then Assad. They are caught in a war zone. They are not being persecuted for who they are.
The story of Syrian Christians (and, in fact, all Middle Eastern Christians) is quite different. Their plight is much more similar to that of the European Jews in World War II. These Christians are being actively persecuted and killed and would probably not be accepted into a Muslim army fighting ISIS and/or Assad. Middle Eastern Christians merit refugee status.
I think a strong argument could be made for forming a 21st century version of the Kindertransport for Syrian Muslim children under the age of 12. That way they could be given safe haven until they can be reunited with their parents in a (hopefully) safe and sane Syria.
On a similar note, discussion on immigration into the U.S. has, by and large, neglected a very important issue: demographics. The U.S. is not replacing its population. The birthrate is dropping precipitously. If this is to remain a Judeo-Christian country, we must strongly re-think any opposition to Latino immigration. These people from Central and South America are a strong Christian (predominantly Catholic) church-going community —and we need them and their children if the Judeo-Christian ethic in the U.S. is to be maintained.
To all my facebook friends and supporters:
I need your help. While Rabbis and clergy are busy supporting Syrian refugees coming in to America without assurances by the FBI that they are not threats, I am fighting them knowing in my heart that Americans will be killed if this is not done correctly. No one can tell me that there is no connections between what happened in California and Syrian indoctrination. IN addition I sent material re my being threatened by a former student at Rutgers. Nothing has been done by the university, the Jewish newspapers, or the local Rabbis
* Absolutely, or force Muslims countries to take them,they will be much happier where they share religion and language.
* These clowns and their handlers are trying to drive Jews away from Judaism.
* Hopefully the Rabbis who have spoken will lead and follow their words and take a refugee family into their own home and set an example of their belief in their words.
* Sooooo…..perhaps these 1000 rabbis want to check their history. The linkage and comparison between THESE refugees and those from WWII are different worlds altogether! The Jews etc were not bent on the destruction of their new host country. Here, we have already.seen the affects of terrorists coming in under the.guise of ”refugees.” Witness Paris…
* What is wrong with these rabbis? Have they gone all insane? Who are they? Does anyone have a list of names and denominations?
* Homicidal maniacs were not seeded throughout the population of Jews who went to the death camps. There is no comparison. Misplaced pity is a crime. There are scores of Muslim nations to send these people. Many filthy rich.
* For the sake of the rest of us Jews, gather up these crazy rabbis and ship them to Syria.
* These idiotic rabbis, most likely from Reform movements have a wish to turn American cities to the European cities where the Jews are no longer safe. HIAS is selling out for few dollars they can earn upon sponsoring the Muslim refugees.
* These rabbis are speaking only for the lost souls within the misguided American Jewish communities who live in the la la land.
* As a reform Jew from south I am disgusted with these rabbis wanting these muslim fanatics to settle in the u.s.a.they are all wolves in sheep’s clothes.
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From Wiesenthal.com: “The Simon Wiesenthal Center welcomes the release of Jonathan Pollard and wisheshim and his wife well as he spends his first Sabbath in freedom in three decades. We are sorry that Jonathan’s parents did not live to see this day. The SWC publicly supported the release of Mr. Pollard for many years, on humanitarian grounds, and Center officials met with him while he was incarcerated in Illinois and later in North Carolina. We wish him well and hope he will soon be able to go to Israel.”
The enemies of America include those who align themselves with its enemies.
It’s testament to the power of insisting upon your version of The Narrative over and over that easily looked-up facts about the traitor Jonathan Pollard can simply be ignored.
For example, rather than being an ethno-patriotic altruist who gave Israel 3,600 cubic feet of secret American documents out of sheer idealism, Pollard is an all-around terrible person as countless incidents in his life attest. Always has been. From his Wikipedia article:
Pollard grew up with what he called a “racial obligation” to Israel,[15] and made his first trip to Israel in 1970, as part of a science program visiting the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. While there, he was hospitalized after a fight with another student. One Weizmann scientist remembered Pollard as leaving behind “a reputation of being an unstable troublemaker, the worst case of this kind in the history of the summer camp”.[16]
… After completing high school, Pollard attended Stanford University, where he completed a degree in political science in 1976.[14] While there, he is remembered by several of his acquaintances as boasting that he was a dual citizen of the United States and Israel and claiming to work for the Mossad and to have attained the rank of colonel in the Israel Defense Forces. None of these claims were true.[17][18][19]
Pollard was turned down for the CIA job after taking a polygraph test in which he admitted to prolific illegal drug usage between 1974 and 1978. …The Navy asked for but was denied information from the CIA regarding Pollard, including the results of their pre-employment polygraph test showing Pollard’s excessive drug use.[23] …
Two months after Pollard was hired, the technical director of NOSIC, Richard Haver, requested that he be terminated.[23] This came after a conversation with the new hire in which Pollard offered to start a back-channel operation with the South African intelligence service and lied about his father’s involvement with the CIA.[23] Instead of terminating Pollard, Haver’s boss reassigned him to a Navy human intelligence (HUMINT) operation, … In the vetting process for this position, Pollard, it was later discovered, lied repeatedly: he denied illegal drug use, claimed his father had been a CIA operative, misrepresented his language abilities and his educational achievements, and claimed to have applied for a commission as officer in the Naval Reserve.[23] …
While transferring to his new job at TF-168, Pollard again initiated a meeting with someone far up the chain of command, this time with Admiral Sumner Shapiro, Commander, Naval Intelligence Command (CNIC) about an idea he had for TF-168 and South Africa. (The TF-168 group had passed on his ideas.) After the meeting, Shapiro immediately ordered that Pollard’s security clearances be revoked and that he be reassigned to a non-sensitive position. According to The Washington Post, Shapiro dismissed Pollard as a “kook”, saying later, “I wish the hell I’d fired him.”[24]
Because of the job transfer, Shapiro’s order to remove Pollard’s security clearances slipped through the cracks. However, Shapiro’s office followed up with a request to TF-168 that Pollard’s trustworthiness be investigated by the CIA. The CIA found Pollard to be a risk and recommended that he not be used in any intelligence collection operation. A subsequent polygraph test was inconclusive, although it did prompt Pollard to admit to making false statements to his superiors, prior drug use, and having unauthorized contacts with representatives of foreign governments.[25] The special agent administering the test felt that Pollard, who at times “began shouting and shaking and making gagging sounds as if he were going to vomit”, was feigning illness to invalidate the test, and recommended that he not be granted access to highly classified information.[25] Pollard was also required to be evaluated by a psychiatrist.[25]
Pollard’s clearance was reduced to Secret.[25] Pollard subsequently filed a grievance and threatened lawsuits to recover his SCI clearance, and subsequently began receiving excellent performance reviews.[26] In 1982, after the psychiatrist concluded Pollard had no mental illness, Pollard’s clearance was upgraded to SCI once again. In October 1984, after some reorganization of the Navy’s intelligence departments, Pollard applied for and was accepted into a position as an analyst for the Naval Intelligence Command.[citation needed]
Shortly after Pollard began working at NIC/TF-168, he met Aviem Sella, a combat veteran of the Israeli Air Force, at the time on leave from his position as a colonel to gain a master’s degree in computer science as a graduate student at New York University. Pollard told Sella that he worked for U.S. naval intelligence, detailed to him specific incidents where U.S. intelligence was withholding information from Israel, and offered himself as a spy. Though Sella had wondered whether Pollard was part of an FBI sting operation to recruit an Israeli, he ended up believing him. … Within a few days, in June 1984, Pollard started passing classified information to Sella and received, in exchange, $10,000 cash and a very expensive diamond and sapphire ring, which Pollard later used to propose marriage to his girlfriend Anne. He also agreed to receive $1,500 per month for further espionage.[28]
Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) investigator Ronald Olive has alleged that Pollard passed classified information to South Africa,[29] and attempted, through a third party, to sell classified information to Pakistan on multiple occasions.[30] Pollard also stole classified documents related to China on behalf of his wife, who used the information to advance her personal business-interests and kept them around the house, where investigating authorities discovered them when Pollard’s espionage activity came to light.[31][32][33]
During Pollard’s trial, the US government’s memorandum in aid of sentencing challenged “defendant’s claim that he was motivated by altruism rather than greed”, asserting that Pollard had “disclosed classified information in anticipation of financial gain” in other instances:
The government’s investigation has revealed that defendant provided to certain of his acquaintances U.S. classified documents which defendant obtained through U.S. Navy sources. The classified documents which defendant disclosed to two such acquaintances, both of whom are professional investment advisers, contained classified economic and political analyses which defendant believed would help his acquaintances render investment advice to their clients… Defendant acknowledged that, although he was not paid for his unauthorized disclosures of classified information to the above-mentioned acquaintances, he hoped to be rewarded ultimately through business opportunities that these individuals could arrange for defendant when he eventually left his position with the U.S. Navy. In fact, defendant was involved in an ongoing business venture with two of these acquaintances at the time he provided the classified information to them…[34]
During the course of the Pollard trial, Australian authorities reported the disclosure of classified American documents by Pollard to one of their own agents, a Royal Australian Navy officer who had been engaged in a personnel-exchange naval-liaison program between the U.S. and Australia.[35] The Australian officer, alarmed by Pollard’s repeated disclosure to him of data caveated No Foreign Access Allowed, reported the indiscretions to his chain of command, which in turn recalled him from his position in the U.S., fearing that the disclosures might be part of a “CIA ruse”.
Had Pollard’s case gone to trial, one of the government’s major witnesses would have been a journalist named Kurt Lohbeck, who had a checkered past. He had served seven months in prison after being convicted of passing a bad check in New Mexico in 1977, but by 1985 he was under contract to the CBS Evening News. Lohbeck, who now lives in Albuquerque — (he received a full pardon from the governor of New Mexico two years ago), acknowledged in a telephone interview that he was prepared to testify, if necessary, about his involvement in Pollard’s unsuccessful efforts in 1985 to broker arms sales for the rebels in the Afghan war. At one meeting with a foreign diplomat, Lohbeck said, Pollard posed as a high-level C.I.A. operative. Lohbeck, who was then CBS’s main battlefield correspondent in the Afghan war, told me that Pollard had provided him, and thus CBS, with a large number of classified American documents concerning the war. He also told me that Pollard had never discussed Israel with him or indicated any special feelings for the state. “I never heard anything political from Jay,” Lohbeck added, “other than that he tried to portray himself as a Reaganite. Not a word about Israel. Jay’s sole interest was in making a lot of money.”
Lohbeck went on to say that he had also been prepared to testify, if asked, about Pollard’s drug use. “Jay used cocaine heavily, and had no compunction about doing it in public. He’d just lay it in lines on the table.” In 1985, Lohbeck made similar statements, government officials said, to the F.B.I.
Pollard, told by me of Lohbeck’s assertions, sent a response from a jail cell in North Carolina: “My relationship with Lohbeck is extremely complicated. I was never indicted for anything I did with him. Remember that.” ‘
Pollard reminds me vaguely of lobbyist-felon Jack Abramoff, except Pollard was out of control on cocaine instead of steroids.
In a sane world, Israel and many of its American supporters would cite Pollard’s all-around awfulness as evidence that he’s an anomaly, he’s totally unrepresentative. They would downplay the arguments that he did it for Israel and play up the evidence that he was a cokehound with delusions of being an international man of mystery.
Instead, the opposite happens.
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I think we should insist that all immigrants take pledges to reject anti-Semitism. In fact, make it mandatory for all citizens who want government benefits. In exchange, we’ll give them money, a kosher seal of approval (to help them get a good job) and a shot at appearing on American Idol and America’s Next Top Model or the equivalent.
Any Jew who praises Merkel for this declaration is a moron.
Chancellor is awarded Reform movement prize as ‘guarantor of basic democratic values and freedom of religion’
BERLIN — Refugees in Germany must unlearn the anti-Semitism fed to them in their home countries, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in accepting the German Reform movement’s top award.
Merkel on Wednesday was presented with the Abraham Geiger Prize, worth more than $10,000, for her commitment as “guarantor of basic democratic values and freedom of religion,” according to the award jury.
The German chancellor is donating the funds to the “Dialog Perspectives” program of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk, a foundation for talented Jewish students.
At Wednesday’s ceremony at Berlin’s Jewish Museum, Merkel, 61, said she shared the Jewish community’s humanitarian concerns and worries, wanting to help refugees fleeing ISIS, but also wanting to protect democracy at home. An estimated 800,000 refugees, most of them Muslim, will have sought asylum in Germany by the end of this year.
In order to be integrated, the asylum seekers “must respect our culture and learn our language,” Merkel said. They also must adhere to laws that protect equal rights for women and gays, and that reject anti-Semitism, she emphasized.
Admitting that there might be differences on how best to achieve integration, Merkel told her hosts: “If you express concerns about anti-Semitism, I will always be listening.”
Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, thanked Merkel for her “open ear to the concerns of the Jewish population, who fear possible anti-Semitism within the refugee population.”
Schuster stressed that Jews in Germany have a special empathy for refugees, having accepted and integrated more than 140,000 former Soviet Jews over the past 25 years.
The keynote speaker at the event was José Casanova, a top scholar in the the sociology of religion. Other speakers were Jewish Museum Director Peter Schaefer and Josef Joffe, publisher-editor of the German weekly Die Zeit. Presenting the award were Rabbi Walter Jacob of Pittsburgh, co-founder of the Abraham Geiger College rabbinical seminary in Potsdam, and the seminary’s rector, Rabbi Walter Homolka.
Three students supported by the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk also addressed Merkel briefly, thanking her for supporting Israel and Jewish life in Germany.
“We want to help shape the future of Germany,” said Olga Osadtschy, who immigrated to Germany from Kiev and studies in Basel, Switzerland.
Cantorial students and graduates from the Abraham Geiger College Jewish Institute of Cantorial Arts performed for the chancellor, who personally shook their hands, said a beaming Svetlana Kundish of Ukraine.
COMMENTS POSTED AT TOI:
* Good luck with that. More likely Antisemitsm will become much more mainstream as a result of her policies.
* One of the stupidest things Merkel has said and that’s saying a lot. Does she think refugees will actually admit being Antisemitic? If she wants to prevent Antisemitism perhaps she shouldn’t let Muslims and the rest of the Third World in.
* Be prepared to fight them in the streets Germany. An attack is imminent with a dumb phuck like this running the show.
* She is another stupid liberal that doesn’t get it. How do these idiots gain power?
* What does it mean, “refugees entering Germany must reject anti-Semitism”?
Germany is a free country. People who live in Germany can have their own opinions and don’t need anyone’s permission to form them.
If Germany lets in people with opinions Germany doesn’t like, too late. Once citizens of Germany they are free to believe in anything they want to. It was Germany’s time to think about it before granting them citizenship.
* Merkel lives in a bubble. She has no idea what she is bringing to Germany. It seems like the German people are letting her, like Obama, destroy their country from within.
* Thanks, Angela. Don’t tell it to the Jews. We already know.
What are you doing to tell this to the Muslims? What are you doing to educate Muslims and deprogram their anti-Semitism? Let’s hear your plans and programs.
* I have a much more straightforward idea. Germans must reject Merkel!
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Should we let the free market operate here? I see nothing wrong with people selling their body organs and I see nothing wrong with buying them. Well, OK, it does make me feel queasy.
More than a decade ago, I was once willing to give up part of my lung to help a friend who would otherwise die. I would not have gotten paid for it. My doctor advised against it. But I so wanted to look good and heroic and connected to my Jewish community that I was willing to do it.
Salon reports: The situation in Syria today is nothing short of catastrophic. More than half of the entire population has been displaced in a civil war now approaching its fifth year, and almost 4.3 million Syrian refugees are registered with the U.N. Millions are crowded into densely population refugee camps in neighboring Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon. Many live on the street, and few have access to basic resources or job prospects.
Traffickers have taken advantage of Syrian refugees’ desperation, in hopes of making money.
An Israeli man was arrested in Turkey today for organ trafficking. He came to Istanbul to try to convince impoverished Syrian refugees to sell their organs, in a story first reported by Turkey’s Doğan News Agency, and later by Israel’s YNet and Germany’s Deutsche Welle.
According to Turkish and Israeli media, he was making plans to perform illegal surgeries on struggling Syrian refugees in small Turkish hospitals.
The alleged trafficker was identified in the Turkish media as Boris Walker, but YNet reports that the man is likely Boris Wolfman, a wanted criminal who fled Israel after being indicted for organ trafficking.
Wolfman was wanted by Interpol, the international police organization, for past organ trafficking.
Patients illegally receiving an organ had to pay between €70,000 and €100,000, according to the indictment, whereas refugee organ donors received just tens of thousands of euros, resulting in tens of thousands of euros in profit for each transplant.
Previously, Wolfman was charged with organ trafficking and organizing illegal transplants in Kosovo, Azerbaijan, and Sri Lanka, in a series of alleged offenses committed between 2008 and 2014.
The organ trafficker had put ads in Russian newspapers to attract potential donors. YNet reported that Wolfman “did not explain to the donors about the physical and mental risks they face, denying them of the information they needed to make the decision.”
In Kosovo, organ donors were allegedly released without any medical supervision, explanation about needed medical treatments, or critical health advice. At least one teenage boy, who had his kidney removed, was paralyzed after not receiving proper treatment.
A Turkish court ruled Wolfman will be extradited back to Israel after a 40-day arrest period.
The black market for organs has been flourishing in the Middle East in the past few years, with the influx of millions of refugees. In 2013, Lebanese smugglers told Der Spiegel that, because of the desperation in which many refugees live, there are “more sellers than buyers.”
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Do you ever feel like the rabbi is talking to you when he gives a class or sermon? If so, do you feel guilty? Asking for a friend.
My friend converted to Orthodox Judaism but his thinking is not 100% in alignment with Torah. He likes to hang out with skeptical people and he likes to read skeptical texts. He’s afraid to form a strong personal connection with a rabbi because every time he’s done that, the rabbi has ended up feeling betrayed because my friend’s skepticism eventually gives him away.
Are non-Torah ideas poison?
I know many cynical Orthodox Jews. Many of their children become non-religious. Are you likely to transmit Orthodox Judaism across the generations if you are skeptical and cynical?
Many Orthodox Jews have no strong belief in Orthodox Judaism. They like the lifestyle, or they feel obliged to follow it, but they have no particular belief in the divine origins of Torah. I really enjoy these Jews. I love them. They’re rebels.
I love Orthodox Judaism and I love its critics (though I have particular love of some of its critics within Orthodox Judaism). I find the debate invigorating.
Is Hanukkah about cleansing ourselves of heretical ideas?
* The last time I was a volunteer shul security guard was about 20 years ago at a Conservative shul and I made the mistake of not letting into the sanctuary this angry lesbian during the rabbi’s sermon and she raised hell and the shul board decided to relieve me and the rabbi said I didn’t have to be such a Nazi. Live and learn.
Amalek: “No one likes a Torah Nazi.”
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From the Chateau: Although the subject of this post won’t be a surprise to those plugged into the Hatrix, it bears repeating, and hopefully I will have added some clarity to help dread pill newbs grope their way to illumination.
The overwhelming majority of the major media outlets are owned, operated, and staffed by equalist leftoids practiced in the art of sophistry and antiWhite propaganda. You can search on DuckDuckGo for the relevant data; it’s easy to find. A ballpark figure: 85-90% of journo grads are registered Democrats.
The media – aka the Hivemind – hasn’t always been this moodily affiliated. Maybe it leaned liberal sixty years ago, but that lean has turned into a pipeline funneling the entire industry into the dankest leftie sewage tank.
The public, though, hasn’t “progressed” nearly as far as the media has. The result is a growing disconnect between the media and the public; a disconnect that has widened so much that the media no longer feel any emotional resonance with the reading and viewing public they are supposed to serve. Worse, the leftoids running the media industrial complex feel a powerful antagonism to the public, which manifests as an unrepentant, almost giddy, compulsion to force feed the public whatever race creationist nonsense and lies the media wants the public to imbibe.
The two players have become, in all but battlefield bloodshed, mortal enemies. It isn’t simply a matter of distrust. Not anymore. It’s active and deliberate dissemination of false narratives by a fifth column to cow, humiliate, and brainwash an entire country of generally good-hearted and trusting people who are too inert to react with the needed megadose of antibody cynicism and righteous anger.
Will anything break this deadlock and rupture the antagonistic dynamic between media and public? From the year 2015 vantage point, it doesn’t seem so. Perhaps a cataclysmic event that threatens the survival of the nation will reorient the media-public relationship, but even then… I mean, 9/11 did nothing in this regard, and that was an attack on American soil that bested Pearl Harbor for visceral impact.
Another possible solution: the gradual dying off of Boomers. But Millennials appear to be even faggier than their Boomer grandparents. I don’t see an epic freshman class of realtalkers flooding Columbia Journalism School any time soon.
I think it will come down to a grassroots revolution that sweeps from power the antiracism antiWhite leftoid media juggernaut. They won’t go willingly, not even when their ad money dries up to pennies. Defunding the media might not fly, but defunding the universities will, and that’s where all this shitlibbery is birthed, nurtured, and spat upon an unsuspecting polity. Ending federal student loan programs and severing all financial ties between State and academia would go a ways to ideologically cleansing these foul pits of race cuckoldry and making room for sane administrators to restock their faculty with professors who aren’t possessed by the equalism demon.
Finally, there’s the problem of the Diversity™. No revolution to renew the corrupt leftoid media will succeed if Whites become heavily outnumbered by nonwhites. The math pwns all. Whatever honorable and civilized instincts Whites have that could be put to work reforming their dying, lying institutions will be stillborn if the dusky oort cloud rolls across America and monopolizes the franchise, eventually choking the living Constitution into a dead letter.
There are already signs of this happening. Support for the First Amendment is at an all-time low. Shitlibs are crowing about repealing the 2nd Amendment once Whites are racially cleansed into a voting minority in the country they and their ancestors created and built from the ground up. Free speech and gun rights… the biggies, and apparently just two more once-cherished principles that only Whites of a sterner disposition feel any urgency to uphold.
If the Founding Fathers could see the State of their Nation today, they would cry bitterly, and regret their revolutionary war, returning to England as fast as their sails could catch the wind. Sad, but true.
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From the Chateau: A photo of the San Bernardino female Muslim terrorist was finally released to the public, and, judging by her resemblance to Mohammed Atta of 9/11 infamy, it appears her husband, the primary shooter Syed “we’re Farooked” Farook, had a motive for prematurely releasing himself from this mortal coil: going home every evening to gaze upon his wife’s asiatic pulchritude.
The CH hypothesis that Farook’s limited sexual market options contributed to his Islamist terror attack is gaining some traction. Farook had to get a mail order bride… who looked like this. And that’s while living in a country side by side with cute White women. That’s gotta sting.
Tashfeen Malik, besides being ugly on the outside, was equally odious on the inside. A native Pakistani who grew up in Saudi Arabia (there’s that Saudi connection again), she pledged an allegiance to ISIS and was probably the nagging harridan force who radicalized her husband. Oh, and there’s this juicy detail,
Malik came to the U.S. on what is known as a “fiancé” visa, which allows an American fiancé to petition for his or her partner’s temporary entry before marriage. Malik received a Green Card this summer, U.S. officials said.
THANK YOU OPEN BORDERS NUTJOBS AND PRESIDENT BUTT FUCKING NAKED FOR YOUR RIGOROUS “VETTING” PROCESS. Fourteen dead Americans send their love to you. I’m sure if the dead could talk they would love to hear a little more of your faggot snark about “refugee widows and orphans”.
Six months ago, the couple had a baby daughter and named her according to a naming convention more common to Arab families, rather than in the typical Pakistani manner.
Anchor baby. CAN’T STUMP THE TRUMP.
Btw, CH also predicted that the media and/or government authorities would be slow to release the photo of the female Muslim attacker because there weren’t any photos of her without traditional mujahideen garb, which is an image that if made public would take a steaming dump on the shitlib narrative. From the article above,
The other noted that Malik was very soft-spoken and conservative — so much that Farook’s brothers never saw her face, due to the full burqa she always wore in public
WELP.
Why are these ingrates even here? HAS AMERICA GONE INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE?! We already have our Bonnie and Clydes; we don’t need to import an army of Bombi and Syeds.
They waited until Friday night (document dump window) to release the photo and immigration details of Farook’s wife.
Also an insanely corrupt FBI releases the perp apartment (operational headquarters for the cell) back to the landlord in 36 hours! Then the media is allowed entry en masse to utterly render the premises legally inadmissable in court.
The apartment was a bomb factory! The FBI announced the case was in fact terrorism midday and then immediately declared the apartment no longer a crime scene!
WAKE UP PEOPLE
White Americans should be so awake by now they’re woozy from insomnia.
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Shitlibs think they’re being clever contrasting number of (post-9/11) Muslim terror deaths to all other American mass shooting deaths. Unfortunately for them, shitlibs suffer from a bad case of Dunning-Clueless: so smug they don’t realize how callow they are. Proportional to their population share of the total US population, Muslims are bombing and shooting FAR above their weight. As another Sailer commenter spelled out,
Note the ridiculous supposition that Islamic terrorism is only responsible for 44% of domestic terrorist victims so its wrong to associate terrorism with Islam.
Muslims make up 1% of the US population and at 44% that’s an over-representation of 4,400%! Whether Islamic terrorism claims an absolute majority or not is besides the point.
Also non-Islamic terrorists are natives who we are stuck with. Muslim terrorists are immigrants or children of immigrants. We chose to bring these terrorists into our country.
And don’t forget all the foiled Muslim terror plots that, if left to execute unhindered, would further boost the kill rate of Muslim terror on US soil.
Bottom line: This is what happens when a nation is an amorphous “proposition” run by an adversarial, traitorous globocorp elite instead of a binding contract and divine expression of blood and soil native stock ruling the country for the benefit of their posterity.
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How thoroughly corrupt and antagonistic to White American interests are our institutions? It’s looking more and more like the answer is: IMPERIOUSLY CORRUPT.
Either way it is another mile marker along the path of divergence between the shadowy covert sides of Fedguv and the more open representatives of law and order in local law enforcement, as well as the people the government is supposed to honestly represent. It cannot bode well for the future of our union, as the apocalypse which threatens to destroy it approaches.
Glad to see I wasn’t the only one who thought that sensationalist media ransack of what is essentially an ISIS compound in San Bernardino hinted at something far more sinister going on within the ranks of federal law enforcement agencies.
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Steve Sailer writes: Islamic nutjobs in America are relatively few in number, but evidently have an impressive chip on their shoulders.
…inviting in the Muslim world’s violence is a policy decision, a policy decision that could have been avoided, and a policy decision that the ruling class very much doesn’t want to have openly debated.
Comments to Steve Sailer:
* Liberal journalists have become fond of pointing out that ISIS doesn’t want Syrian refugees to come to Europe or the US, so if we stop them from coming we are “helping ISIS.”
But why does ISIS want the refugees to stay in Syria? To recruit them as fighters. Because some of them are sympathetic to ISIS now(about 13% in polls), and even more can be radicalized later.
But the same propensity to radicalization that make them attractive to ISIS make them bad for us. And if they are going to become fighters, it is better to have them in Syria than in Paris or San Bernardino.
Liberals can’t make a good argument that the refugees are good for us, so they obfuscate the issue by bringing up if it is “good for ISIS.”
Ultimately ISIS doesn’t pose an existential threat to our survival. But immigration does.
* At its core, the liberal attitude towards immigration and promotion of multiculturalism is an expression of revulsion at what America is and was, and a refusal to acknowledge that the accomplishments of Western civilization (i.e. white people) dwarf that of everyone else. They think changing the demography of the country will make the country better or less sinful and will not in any way impact our quality of life and/or our cultural and scientific output. That’s not a bet I would place, but it’s one the left and an influential portion of the right is happy to make.
* The problem isn’t that Muslim terrorists are killing people wherever they are foolishly welcomed, but white folks talking about it. That’s the real crime. Which is why Hussein & Lynch aren’t talking about cracking down on Muslim terrorism, but instead about cracking down on Americans’ dangerous right to free speech.
This is the sort of thing the venal small-town sheriff does in the movies. Bruce Dern arresting the hooker for witnessing a gunfight and getting smacked around in Last Man Standing is a great example: “By the time the law showed up, I was long gone…but the sheriff didn’t let me down. He investigated the whole thing…then arrested the hooker.”
Islam is going to decapitate Leftism in the public square. It’s only a matter of time.
Yeah, we know Hussein’s not worried. He’s got Secret Service protection for life.
The woman who was linked to Pakistan’s most notorious Muslim extremists breezed through US immigration and then helped murder 14 Americans; Hussein says we’re giving a similarly rigorous screening to the tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Islamic State sympathizers he’s decided to allow into our country against popular opinion and without our permission. Oh, and his Attorney General is now declaring that she won’t tolerate any harsh language toward the Muslims. What could possibly go wrong?
* Muslims are just 1-2% of the US population, so per capita they’re way overachieving. They are to terrorism what the Jews are to punditry and Supreme Courtisanism.
Imagine what they could accomplish if they became 10%!
* They waited until Friday night (document dump window) to release the photo and immigration details of Farook’s wife.
Also an insanely corrupt FBI releases the perp apartment (operational headquarters for the cell) back to the landlord in 36 hours! Then the media is allowed entry en masse to utterly render the premises legally inadmissable in court.
The apartment was a bomb factory! The FBI announced the case was in fact terrorism midday and then immediately declared the apartment no longer a crime scene!
* Yes, Muslims are only around one percent of the United States population, and the reason we don’t have quite as much trouble with them as the Europeans do, according to the Fox News pundits, is that we assimilate them better.
So the reason France has so much trouble with Muslims is not that they’re ten percent of their population, but because they haven’t done a good job assimilating them.
I guess we’d have done a better job assimilating blacks too if they were only one percent of the population rather than 13 percent.
* Yeah, the crimes of Thornton, Roof, etc., they’re like somebody in your family getting murdered by somebody else in your family. A horrible thing, but it’s inevitable it’s going to happen now and then in somebody’s family.
In contrast, what are we up to now just from the absolutely tiny number of Chechens let in by the U.S. government either due to commission or omission: seven dead Americans because Uncle Ruslan used to be married to a CIA man’s daughter?
* I have to wonder how the elite media will wind up spinning Tashfeen Malik’s role in this terrorist act. She must put them in a real bind, because they want to defend unrestricted immigration at all costs; they present Islam as “a religion of peace,” despite evidence to the contrary; and they have propagandized us with this nonsense about the benign wonders of “strong women” for decades.
So here we have an immigrant Muslim woman who may have radicalized her American-born Muslim husband and turned him into a violent jihadist. And then she joined him on his shooting rampage knowing full well that they would both die and they never see their anchor baby grow up. When feminists and their enablers invented this “strong woman” fantasy, I don’t think they had women like Tashfeen in mind.
* I have a question for you and your readers. I know a young Muslim man (Pakistani immigrant, not a citizen) that I know to be violent and slightly unhinged. We dated in college a few years back and it ended very badly with death threats and abuse – I moved back to my parents’ house to get away from him. I filed a police report on his behavior but nothing ever came of it. He apparently tried to kill himself and ended up in a mental institution for awhile, but eventually got out, and now he lives and works in a major US city (that I am far away from). He is without a doubt the kind of person I could see becoming radicalized. Should I call the police department of his city and alert them to his presence? Is there any channel through which I could alert Homeland Security? Am I over-reacting? I have no idea what he is up to now, so I don’t know if he is still religious or crazy, but my gut feeling is that he’s still the same guy.
* The MSM are all for women in combat and Jane Jihadi steps up to make their dreams come true.
* We get a better class of Moslems than Europe does. Those that come here have generally been to college, whereas many of the Moslems in Europe came straight from the casbah.
* Immediately pull the tax exempt status of any mosque with a terror-linked attendee. The mosque can then undergo a 5 year surveillance investigation that would make proctologists jealous. After passing the 5 year investigation, the mosque can reapply for tax exempt status, but not a refund on the taxes paid. I mean, I would rather just shut down all mosques and boot out the immigrants but that ain’t going to happen.
* I was out with a friend the other night. He’s a straight, white guy, but politically pretty much the exact opposite of me. He’s one of those lefties who believes in absolute open borders (for us, of course; I presume he thinks colonialism was a horrific evil). When I suggest that will cause hundreds of millions of people to move here, he doesn’t seem to have a problem with it, even though he’s also an environmentalist.
But he seemed almost visibly shaken by the San Bernardino massacre, especially coming as it did just on the heels of the Paris massacre. He said he could imagine it reaching a point where we all decided to stop letting Muslims into the country, and I didn’t sense that he would object to that.
Attitudes are changing, and fast. After the Paris shooting I had this ominous feeling that we would see several attacks in December, because it’s the holiday season. I’m not superstitious, so I’m not talking premonitions or anything – just that the rate of terrorist attacks all over the world seems to have spiked, and, from their perspective, attacks during Christmas and Hanukkah would be especially “victorious.”
* One “tiny group” I could name has faked assimilation in the U.S. and its elite has worked against the interests of the country’s formerly dominant white population.
* Syed was born in the US in 1987. He brought his wife here on a K-1 visa about two years ago. His dad, an immigrant, is or was at some point a truck driver, so he probably didn’t come here on an H-1B visa, though perhaps he did but failed at a STEM career.
Did Papa Farook come via chain migration, through a brother or sister? Did he come here illegally? Was he legalized via the 1986 amnesty? Syed’s parents appear to have both been immigrants, his wife was an immigrant, and his brother-in-law, Farhan Khan, who spoke at the press conference, is clearly an immigrant.
How much chain migration has the Farook family benefited from? They seem to be an example of how Muslims manage to multiply in the West before they ever even start multiplying in the biblical sense – by using and abusing immigration laws to bring more and more fellow Muslims into the country. A decade or so ago I remember reading a report that showed that a huge percentage of Turks in the Netherlands, perhaps an overwhelming majority, import their spouses from Turkey, using Western citizenship as a sort of asset to attract a spouse. Supposedly the Netherlands even enacted a law to slow that process down.
* There are three things which, seen together, pretty much guarantee it’s Muslim terrorists:
1) Multiple perps
2) A more or less random target, rather than a political one (abortion clinic, black church, federal building, etc.)
3) The use of bombs
Bombs require some degree of training to make. Left or right wing political terrorists don’t hate all Americans, just certain institutions. Right wing terrorists don’t plot with other right-wing terrorists because conservatives are overwhelmingly against political violence, so there just aren’t that many around. Most right-wing terrorists are loners. It isn’t just the number of Islamic terrorist attacks that proves how extremist Islam is – it’s the fact they feel so comfortable plotting with each other.
* The Palestinians could have had a deal, in 1999, with Clinton forcing the Israeli government to the table, and Arafat walked away and launched the intifada. The Palestinians don’t want peace. They want and need War with Israel, because otherwise there would be no money flowing in from the Gulf. The Palestinians could have had most though not all of the West Bank, Gaza, and shared sovereignty over parts of Jerusalem but that was not enough. So they chose war and got it, good and hard.
As for the rest, they were both corrupt and incompetent societies that attracted intervention by being both weak and aggressive. The Netherlands, Ireland, and Luxembourg are weak but not aggressive, the most they do is arcane corporate tax breaks for big companies. Libya stirred up African adventurism, and terrorism against the US and Europe, eventually Khadafi found himself without friends and with an incompetent military. Ditto Iraq, and the lunatics who run Iran have at least a competent military but keep picking fights: with the Sunni Gulf, with the US periodically, with Turkey and the neo-Ottoman Erdogan.
The US and the West is the least of the Islamic World’s worries. China is increasingly dependent on ME oil, which means they not us will be intervening to assure supply. The Chinese would happily slaughter most Muslims to get cheap oil and sleep soundly at night. They sold their own people poisoned baby milk after all.
Muslim society has failed, time and time again, to grasp real power: put religion in a box, where it does not interfere with daily business and scientific life; liberate women to be literate and productive inside and outside the home; get rid of polygamy; get rid of sexual segregation; get rid of male violence and tribalism; get rid of clans and castes; create a nation-state of honest, ably administered government and promote private industry and technology. Japan has done this, to some extent China and South Korea. None are particularly Western.
Muslim poverty and violence are not the result of say, America dropping two atomic bombs on them, but their own desire to be Muslim, that is polygamous, tribal, clannish, harshly patriarchal, with all the poverty, misery, and distrust that implies. Eventually some fully industrialized nation will simply annihilate them. Aggression plus weakness spells disaster in the end.
* B. Hussein Obama announced that something must be done about people such as Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik “falling victim” to malicious ideologies. His point is that Muslims are not responsible for their terrorism. They are infected by sometimes fatal ideological viruses over which they have no control.
“It is entirely possible that these two attackers were radicalized to commit this act of terror,” Obama said in his weekly radio address Saturday. “And if so, it would underscore a threat we’ve been focused on for years — the danger of people succumbing to violent extremist ideologies.” He added that the attacks show a need to “prevent people from falling victim to these hateful ideologies.”
As the story developed, the Surgeon General confirmed that becoming a terrorist is similar to catching a cold. As a result, the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department have recommended that Americans wear protective masks to prevent the spread of terrorism. As a preventive measure, DHS was has ordered 300 million masks.
However, as a more lasting measure, the Justice Department has suspended the First Amendment to protect public health. Henceforth, all written copies of the Koran will be confiscated and destroyed and all references to Islam will be censored from the Internet and social media. A Justice Department spokesperson said that they are confident that these measures will quickly get the ideological epidemic of Islamic extremism under control before more people succumb to the virus.
* We don’t have to imagine what will happen when Muslims reach 10% of the population, we just need to look at Europe and we know what will happen – except it will be worse. Unlike many of the commentators above who believe we are getting “better” Muslims than Europe, I do not believe this at all. We have merely gotten less Muslims. In fact, considering the death toll including 9/11, which was perpetrated by legal visitors who undoubtedly would have received green cards had they waited a bit, we have gotten far worse Muslims than Europe. Much worse. Islamic terror is not caused by poverty. In fact it seems to come from the middle and profession classes. Bin Laden was wealthy. The killers in San Bernadino were not poor at all – we are reminded in every article that “they were living the American Dream” (as if the dream is to murder your co-workers). Don’t look to our “exemplary” muslim population to produce Salk and Sabin, or even Bacharach and David. Islam is a horror show and we have brought it here.
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