Thursday, August 12, 2010

What are neo-Nazis saying about Jews today?

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Coffinman wrote:

The subject of Ritual Murder has always been one that
the Jewish Money Power, which controls this country
as well as most others, has taken all possible steps to
suppress. The reason is that Ritual Murder was the
dynamite which finally blew the Jew out of England
in 1290, out of Spain in 1492, and out of Germany in
our time. The Jews know it; and I know it too!

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

DNA proves Jews are "pure" Israelites OOPS there goes another … anti-Jewish claim

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0610/jewish_genetics.php3

Jewish World Review

By Thomas H. Maugh II

Genetic study scientifically disproves bizarre notion gaining ground in pro-jihadist circles


http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | (MCT) Jews of European descent living on opposite sides of the globe are more closely related to each other than they are to their fellow countrymen, according to the largest study ever conducted of what it means genetically to be Jewish. Ashkenazim, the primary group descended from European Jews, are all as closely related as fourth or fifth cousins would be, the study found.

"Jews really are different from their non-Jewish neighbors," said Dr. Harry Ostrer, a geneticist at the New York University Langone Medical Center, senior author of the new study appearing in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

They are not different enough to be considered a separate race as some experts have argued, he added, but definitely are a "distinct population" — the result, presumably, of cultural separation during thousands of years.

The study, which was conducted primarily to further medical knowledge of genetic diseases, rejected a highly controversial idea that Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazars in eastern Europe who converted to Judaism — an idea that has recently been used in an attempt to discredit the idea that Jews belong in Israel because it is their historic homeland.

The study shows that there is "clearly a shared genetic common ancestry among geographically diverse populations consistent with oral tradition and culture ... and that traces back to the Middle East," said geneticist Sarah A. Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania. "Jews have assimilated to some extent, but they clearly retain their common ancestry."

Added Joe Berkofsky, a spokesman for the Jewish Federations of North America, "This finding in a way underscores what Jewish Federations believe and act upon through our central mission, which is to care for and protect Jews around the world, no matter where they are."

Although the study sheds light on Jewish history — providing new information about the separation between North African and European Jews 2,500 years ago and the near extinction of European Jews in the Middle Ages — its major goal is to identify genes for many diseases that are more common in Jewish groups, such as breast cancer, Gaucher disease and Tay-Sachs.

The higher incidence of those diseases among "Abraham's children" will allow scientists to more readily find genes that cause the illnesses and then extend that knowledge to the general population, said geneticist Gil Atzmon of Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, first author of the paper.

The study examined 237 Jewish individuals from seven regions of the world, comparing them to 418 non-Jewish people from the same regions. All the Jewish subjects had all four grandparents from the same population.

The researchers studied about 160,000 sites across the entire genome, providing a great deal more information about the population than has ever been available.

Previous studies had found similar results by looking at smaller numbers of people and considering only blood groups, mitochondrial DNA (a type of DNA passed down by mothers) or Y chromosomes (passed down by fathers).

The Jewish people, according to archaeologists, originated in Babylon and Persia between the fourth and sixth centuries before the Common Era. The modern-day Jews most closely related to that original population are the Jews in Iran, Iraq and Syria, whose closest non-Jewish relatives are the Druze, Bedouins and Arabs of Gaza, the study found.

Sometime in that period, the Middle Eastern and European Jews diverged and the European branch began actively proselytizing for converts.

At the height of the Roman Empire, about 10 percent of the empire's population was Jewish, although the bulk of them were converts. Some Khazar were also incorporated during this period.

"That explains why so many European and Syrian Jews have blue eyes and blond hair," Ostrer says. It also explains another of the team's findings — that the population most closely related genetically to European Jews are Italians.

The data also show what the researchers call a "bottleneck" in the Jewish population during the Middle Ages. The population of European Jews shrunk below 50,000 during that period because of disease, prejudice, anti-Semitic edicts and the Crusades, Atzmon said.

Afterwards, however, an easing of restrictions led to what is known as the "demographic miracle," in which the Jewish population rose twice as fast as that of other Europeans, reaching more than 5 million by the 19th century.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

"Poor," "starving" Gazans collect antique cars with WEALTH in Palestine

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2010/07/poor-starving-gazans-collect-antique.html


Sunday, July 04, 2010
Poor, starving Gazans collect antique cars

This article is noteworthy because it drips with bias. Note what I have highlighted from al-AP:

In this besieged land where every bumpy road quickly reaches a dead end of fences and walls, vintage car collecting is not exactly a typical hobby.

But in a first-ever show here, Gaza's small cadre of antique auto aficionados unveiled their classic roadsters this week and brought back memories of a time when Gazans weren't hemmed in by impenetrable borders.

Most of the 30 cars on display in a Gaza City parking lot date from the late 30s to the late 70s, and were purchased in Egypt — a previous ruler of Gaza — or in Israel, which captured the strip from Egypt in the 1967 Mideast War. They've weathered the elements since — along with two Palestinian uprisings and a recent war with Israel.

Import routes have been closed since 2007, when Israel imposed a blockade on Gaza following the Islamic militant group Hamas' takeover of the tiny Mediterranean coastal territory. With nearly everything banned except essential humanitarian supplies, spare parts couldn't come in either.

Gaza's collectors brought in what they could through illegal tunnels connecting the strip to Egypt, but were also forced to do a lot of mixing and matching, said Mahfouz Kabariti, the show's organizer.

For the record, Gazans have been restricted from entering Israel since they perpetrated terror attacks in the late '90's and the 'blockade' was largely a response to the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit in June 2006.

But it seems that al-AP will believe anything....

Friday, July 9, 2010

What siege in Gaza? Living Large by Scamming World Community

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4427.htm

July 2, 2010 Special Dispatch No.3077

Egyptian Columnist: 'What Siege Are They Talking About?'; 'The Egyptian People.... [Should] Pray to Allah to Smite Them With [Such a] Siege'

In his column in the Egyptian daily Rooz Al-Yousuf, dated June 29, 2010, Muhammad Hamadi gave statistics from a Hamas website showing that despite all the talk of a siege on the Gaza Strip, and in contrast to claims that Egypt has a role in starving the Palestinian people there, so many goods are streaming into Gaza that supply is greater than demand – and that as a result, produce, poultry, and beef are cheaper there than in Egypt.

He concluded that life under siege in Gaza is easier than it is in Egypt, where the people would love such a siege.

The following are translated excerpts from the article:

Hamas Has "Turned to Resistance Online and In the Media"

"After the [Hamas] movement abandoned the real resistance and turned to resistance online and in the media, one of Hamas's many websites published an important report comparing prices of goods and produce in Egypt and in Gaza.

"The report states: A kilo of watermelon in Gaza costs less than one Egyptian lira, while in Egypt it costs over two lira; a kilo of tomatoes in Gaza costs less than half a lira, while in Egypt it costs 1.5 lira; a kilo of potatoes in Gaza costs half a lira, while in Egypt it costs two lira; a kilo of onions in Gaza is one lira, while in Egypt a kilo of onions is 1.5 lira; a kilo of garlic in Gaza is 10 lira, while in Egypt it is 15 lira.

"A kilo of chicken in Egypt is 20 lira, and in Gaza it goes for only 10 lira. The average price of a kilo of beef in Egypt is 60 lira – while in besieged Gaza it goes for five lira. A tray of eggs in Egypt is 19 lira, while in Gaza it is only 10 lira."

"What Siege Are They Talking About?"

"This comparison of prices between Egypt and Gaza, which has been under siege for three years, as they say, shows that life under siege is cheaper, more convenient, and easier...

"So what siege are they talking about? Does the siege cause prices to drop? And how are goods flowing into Gaza despite the siege? ...

"These questions are not being raised [here] in expectation of an answer from Hamas, but they are directed at all Hamas supporters in Egypt who see nothing wrong with accusing their own country of betraying the Palestinian cause and of starving the helpless Palestinian people with the oppressive siege on Gaza.

"If this is what it's like in Gaza under siege, then the Egyptian people, who have been burned by the fire of prices and who peel off part of their limited income to save the besieged Gaza residents, [should] pray to Allah to smite them with [such a] siege, if the seige will lead to lower prices and make it possible for every common citizen to buy eggs, meat, and poultry like the Gaza residents do."

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Is anti-semitism still happening today?

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Coffinman wrote:
The jew bankers started the war.
And Germany suffered.
And the jews are still sucking German blood.


On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Jude wrote:
Hitler went against Jews because at that time they tried to take over the full economy of Germany. Check the statistics.


On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:31 AM, alan B'Stard M P wrote:
at least the KKK don't lie and deceive about a blood lie and earn money from tragedy
A


On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Coffinman wrote:
No, the three jew-spawned religions are all rotten


On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Coffinman wrote:
Dismantle the jewish state.


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Coffinman wrote:
The jew bankers started the war.
And Germany suffered.
And the jews are still sucking German blood.

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 1:49 AM, alan B'Stard M P wrote:

that jewish Boycott of germany ruined the german economy.

Turkey's Attacks on Kurds Excused; Israel's Self-Defense Condemned

Opinion: Israel Attacks and the World's Oldest Hatred

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Special to AOL News
(June 29) -- Anti-Semitism is the world's oldest hatred. Yet it was a prejudice that I thought the world was moving past. But clearly, with the endless vitriol shown toward Israel, it is alive and well.

What's that? Hatred of Israel is not motivated by anti-Semitism? Yeah, I thought so too. I was even naive enough to write column after column admonishing my fellow Jews not to jump to such simplistic conclusions.

Surely, hatred of Israel was due to the Jewish state being terrible at PR. Surely Israel, a lone democracy in a sea of tyranny, assumed that the justice of its cause was so self-evident as to require no explanation. A renewed PR effort was necessary.

Or maybe the endless and unjust criticism of Israel was simply a manifestation of the world's natural proclivity to champion the underdog. The Arabs, numbering in the hundreds of millions, have somehow successfully positioned themselves as being oppressed by 6 million Israeli Jews. All of this could account for why Israel, a thriving democracy where 1 million Israeli Arabs vote and have robust representation in the Israeli Knesset, is hated while its tyrannical, terrorist neighbors escape censure.

I now know that none of this is true, and that hatred of Israel is just another manifestation of the world's oldest hatred.

Believe me. It pains me to write this. It represents a fundamental defeat for my Jewish Universalist worldview. I believe with every fiber of my being that we are all God's children, part of an indivisible human family. That Arabs and Jews are equal before God and that we are all brothers. And the knowledge that I will never be fully included in that family due to a deep-seated hostility to my people is devastating beyond words.

But what else are we to conclude?

Why would British academics ban their Israeli counterparts and not, say, the Chinese, whose human rights abuses and slaughter of innocent civilians at Tiananmen Square took place before the whole world?

The Turks bomb Kurdish independence fighters on a regular basis and continue to deny their genocide of more than a million helpless Armenians. Yet their condemnation of Israel over the Gaza flotilla gains international currency.

Hugo Chavez brutally dismantles Venezuelan democracy, imprisons his political opponents, locks up judges and persecutes a free press that criticizes him. But his condemnation of a genocidal Israel is lauded by countries throughout the world.

And the U.N. censures Israel on a monthly basis while countries like Libya sit on its Human Rights Council. If that isn't rank anti-Semitism, then the word has no meaning.

Israel's obviously not perfect. Like any moral democracy fighting for its very life, it's going to make mistakes. But compared to Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia and so many other of its neighbors, it is positively angelic.

Disagree? Well, rather than engage in useless and endless debate, let's employ John F. Kennedy's famous argument delivered in the summer of 1963 in his memorable "ich bin ein Berliner" speech. Kennedy addressed the two world systems that were in mortal conflict: capitalism and communism. Each said their side was right. Each brought endless facts to make their case.

"There are many people in the world," Kennedy said, "who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the communist world. ... There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. ... And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere, We can work with the communists."

OK. A major dilemma. Two world systems each claiming to be righteous and asserting the other to be evil. How to adjudicate between them? Kennedy did so with memorable eloquence. "Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us."

I say the same thing to you. If Israel really is so terrible, if it's government is so evil, then let's put it to the Kennedy test. If all of Israel's most rabid critics were forced to choose to live either in Israel or under Hamas in Gaza, or under Assad in Syria, or under Ahmadinejad in Iran, or under Abdullah in Saudi Arabia or even in communist China, which would they choose?

In Israel, they would have the freedom to mercilessly assail their government on the radio, in print and in public squares. In any of these other countries, they would be locked up or killed midway through their inaugural speech. In Israel, if they were female or gay, they would enjoy absolutely full rights and equal protection under the law. In Iran or Saudi Arabia, if female they would be severely punished for not adhering to a certain dress code, and if openly gay, they would be lucky to escape with their lives.

Yet it is Israel that the world hates. Go figure.

Or perhaps there is no need. This kind of hatred has a long and cruel precedent. It comes in many guises. Today it targets
Israel, but at its root it's just good old-fashioned, unbridled, unapologetic Jew hatred.

Ecclesiastes had it right. There is nothing new under the sun.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach hosts "The Shmuley Show" on WABC, 77 AM, in New York City and is the author, most recently, of "Renewal: A Guide to the Values Filled Life." His website is www.shmuley.com. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.