Granma/Abuela Hillary Panders to Latino Voters

Scary

"Here you go, Dearie. Take a bite out of this apple from Dear old Abuelita."

Even by politician standards, Hillary Clinton is the tackiest and phoniest person to ever come down the pike. Now, in an effort to win over Latino voters, she is attempting to transform herself not just into a grandmother figure, but as a good old abuela. Apparently, Latino voters see right through it.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2015/12/23/notmiabuela-clinton-compares-herself-to-latina-grandmas-twitter-responds-with/?intcmp=hplnws

Too bad more voters have yet to see Hillary for what she truly is.

Trump and the 9-11 Cheering

Hat tip Creeping Sharia


Among the many things Donald Trump has said that have caused an uproar, he has claimed to have seen televised images of thousands of people  (Muslims) cheering 9-11 in New Jersey on that fateful day. True or not true?

Without getting into the minutia of Trump's day-to-day comments (a daunting task), I can say that I recall hearing news reports about some Muslims cheering 9-11 from across the river in New Jersey-but not by the thousands. The below posting by Creeping Sharia (via NJ Advance Media) explores what really happened on that day.

https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2015/12/22/report-some-jersey-city-muslims-did-celebrate-911/


So it appears there were some pockets of Muslims who gathered on the rooftops to watch and cheer the horrific event across the river in New York. Certainly not in the numbers that Trump describes. However, we do know that large numbers of people were in the streets of Gaza and the West Bank to cheer and pass out candy in the traditional Palestinian style of celebration.

In addition, the Norwegian writer who goes by the nom de plume, Fjordman, was studying Arabic in Cairo when 9-11 happened. He was so appalled at seeing Egyptians celebrating that he left and evolved into a critic of Islam who lives under the dual threat of being murdered by jihadists and prosecuted by his own government for what he writes.

Trump may not have gotten his facts straight and his memory may be faulty, but make no mistake: There was some celebrating on 9-11.

Cornell's Winter Holiday Regulations

Hat tip Campus Reform



Trees and snowflakes are Consistent with Cornell's Commitment to Diversity and Inclusiveness

Angels, mistletoe, stars on trees, crosses, or Stars of David are not Consistent with Cornell's Commitment to Diversity and Inclusiveness


For years, I have labeled the University of California at Santa Cruz as "America's Wackiest University". However, given numerous events at Cornell this year, UCSC's title may be in jeopardy. Campus Reform came across this notice from Cornell as part of their Fire Safety Guidelines for Holiday Decorations. Aside from fire issues, the guidelines become ludicrous when it comes to "being inclusive".

https://sp.ehs.cornell.edu/fps/fire-code-compliance/Documents/FCC_Fire_Safety_Guidelines_for_Holidays_Decorations.pdf

GUIDELINES FOR INCLUSIVE SEASONAL DISPLAYS Winter Holiday Displays/Decorations that are Consistent with Cornell’s Commitment to Diversity and the University Assembly Guidelines:  Snowflakes  Trees (in accordance with Fire Safety Guidelines) decorated with snowflakes and other non-religious symbols Winter Holiday Displays/Decorations that are Consistent with University Assembly Guidelines But Should be Basis of Dialogue Within Unit or Living Area  Trees decorated with bows, garland and lights (in accordance with Fire Safety Guidelines)  Wreaths with bows (in accordance with Fire Safety Guidelines)  Combination of snowflakes, (in accordance with Fire Safety Guidelines), Santa Claus figure, and dreidel 

Holly Winter Holiday Displays/Decorations that are NOT Consistent with Either University Assembly Guidelines or the University’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusiveness  Nativity scene  Menorah  Angels  Mistletoe  Stars at the top of trees  Crosses  Star of David
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First of all, somebody needs to inform Cornell of just what we are celebrating this winter and which holidays we are celebrating (Christmas, Hanukkah and New Years last I checked). We are not celebrating or having holidays because it is winter and/or snowing. 

But it is truly heartening to know that it is OK to display a snowflake at Cornell.

Is Frosty the Snowman OK?

Hatem Bazian and the So-Called "Islamophobia Industry"

Hatem Bazian



UC Berkeley professor Hatem Bazian is in the middle of organizing his 7th annual Islamophobia conference to be held at UCB next April. A similar event was held in Paris of all places last December. (What could be more ironic?). Every year, Bazian assembles a group of like-minded academics who try to figure out why there is so much anti-Islamic feeling in the world. In fact, Bazian has created his own entity at UCB-something called the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Center. It sounds impressive, but it only occupies a broom closet cum teacher's office in room 638 in Barrows Hall.

Since Bazian has already issued his Call For Papers, it seems he has submitted his own treatise, if you will, for the conference. It is entitled, "The Islamophobia Industry and the Demonization of Palestine-Implications for American Studies". In reading it, I can only conclude that the thesis is a thinly-disguised assignment of blame on Jews for the rise in Islamophobia. (No, the terrorism, persecution of religious minorities, beheadings, ISIS, etc have nothing to do with Islamophobia.)

http://www.hatembazian.com/content/the-islamophobia-industry-and-the-demonization-of-palestine-implications-for-american-studies/

First of all, if Islamophobia (a term recently invented by Islamists in trying to equate any criticism of Islam with anti-black racism and other forms of irrational hate) is an industry, then Bazian is the leading industrialist of our time, for it is he who has created the industry.

More importantly, however, let us examine how he assigns blame for the fact that a lot of people in the world are afraid of Muslims, Islam, and the ideology it represents.

“I do maintain that pro-Israel groups in the United States are the primary funders, producers, organizers, and distributors of Islamophobic content, which is dominating political and public discourses in Western societies.”

"While work on Islamophobia in the media, US Empire, and restrictions imposed on Muslims is already under way, one critical blind spot in research is the explicit link between pro-Israeli groups and organizations and the effort at demonization and otherization of Islam and Muslims in the United States and Europe with a focus on maintaining and consolidating support for Israel."

US Empire? Do we have colonies? But I digress. The point here is that while Bazian avoids the words Jew or Jewish (He does reference a speech Daniel Pipes made to the American Jewish Congress), he does resort to the code language we all understand. He is apparently blaming Jews for spreading anti-Muslim feeling and trying to suppress anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian voices in academia. Never mind the fact that it is the pro-Palestinian groups that dominate the discourse on almost all campuses across the country as they attack Israel non-stop. Never mind the fact that groups like Students for Justice in Palestine (which Bazian co-founded) routinely use Brown Shirt tactics of bullying, disruption, and intimidation to shut down pro-Israel speech on campus. Never mind the fact that this agitation has led to a rise in anti-Semitic tension on numerous college campuses-most notably at the University of California, which is engaged in trying to come up with a statement of principles on intolerance that specifically addresses the problem of Jew hatred.

And Europe? Bazian dares to accuse "pro-Israel groups" in Europe of contributing to a hostile environment for Muslims on the Continent? Never mind the fact that Muslim immigrants in Europe have created such a hostile atmosphere for Jews in places like France, Holland, Sweden, Norway and other countries that Jews are emigrating by the thousands. Never mind the deadly attacks against Jews in Brussels, Toulouse and Paris. Never mind the fact that there have been no such attacks by Jews against Muslims in Europe. Bazian is turning truth on its head.

We continue. In the below segment, Bazian is attacking Pam Geller and her organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI).

"Another Islamophobic and more inflammatory set of AFDI ads showed The Islamophobia Industry and the Demonization of Palestine | 1059 Haj Amin al-Husseini, the pre-1948 Palestinian leader, sitting next to Adolf Hitler. According to AFDI, this new Islamophobic ad was in response to a campaign by American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) that called for cutting US aid to Israel.7 The AFDI ads are part of a larger campaign aimed at vilifying Islam and Muslims that is promoted by pro-Israel and pro-Zionist producers of Islamophobia. The ads make explicit and immediate connections between Islamophobic rhetoric directed at Islam and Muslims and the centrality of Israel as an essential element in the open-ended “War on Terror,” thus constructing Palestinians ontologically as archetypal terrorists in order to maintain uncritical US support for the Zionist state." 

As far as Geller is concerned, while she is Jewish and strongly supports Israel, her main focus is fighting the spread of Islamism in the US and the West. As for Haj Amin al-Husseini, there is much more to this man than just sitting next to Hitler, which even Charles Lindburgh was guilty of. Husseini, who was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem,  lived in Berlin during World War 2 as Hitler's guest and ally. From there, he sent radio broadcasts to the Middle East urging his followers to drive the Jews out of Arab lands. (This was prior to the creation of Israel, mind you.) Husseini even helped form a Bosnian Muslim SS unit to fight alongside the Germans. He was a Jew-hating war criminal who was eventually allowed by the French to return to the Middle East (no doubt to avoid charges of Islamophobia or whatever they called it back then.) No doubt present-day Islamists are shy about discussing this evil figure.

As for the AFDI ads, all I can say is that if the shoe fits, wear it. Ever since the late 1960s, Palestinians have distinguished themselves with their international campaign of terrorism. What bothers people like Bazian is the knowledge that in spite of their best efforts, the overwhelming majority of Americans support Israel and recognize that Israel's enemies are our enemies as well.

Then there is this jewel:

"Historically, US academics for the most part have kept a distance from anything pertaining to Israel out of fear that they will be targeted and face erroneous charges of anti-Semitism. Those who venture to deal with the Palestine–Israel conflict outside the pro-Israel accepted parameters are an exception rather than the norm, and most academics stay clear of the subject altogether. Cases like that of Joseph Massad at Columbia University, Steven Salaita at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and Rabab Abdulhadi at San Francisco State University illustrate the consequences of writing and speaking about Palestine in the US academy."

Simply stated, this is an example of the bully crying foul when someone calls him a bully. As I have stated, it is the pro-Palestinian forces that dominate the discourse in academia. Israel has few supporters on the university campus. As for Massad, is he not still employed at Columbia, where he is lionized by the left? Salaita lost out on a job offer at the University of Illinois when he expressed a desire "that all the settlers go missing." This was in the wake of the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank whose bodies were later found after they were murdered. Abdulhadi is still at San Francisco State University, but drew criticism after some of the students she was mentoring displayed images that supported the murder of Israeli soldiers. Last seen, Abdulhadi skipped out on a presentation at UC Irvine in May (most likely when she learned that this writer was going to be present with his video camera and intended to ask her a question or two.)

"The 2001 attacks introduced a shift in US foreign policy and introduced a more muscular and military interventionist approach toward the Arab and Muslim world with the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq as well as a robust US military presence in over thirty new countries.14 The coinciding of the 9/11 attacks with the start of the second Palestinian Intifada presented a golden opportunity for a strong cadre of neoconservatives connected to the American Enterprise Institute to push for a more decisively pro-Israeli stand in the Bush administration.15 The top tier of the Bush administration adopted a neoconservative line of thinking.16 The neoconservatives in the administration were committed to Israel’s defense and opposed to territorial compromise with the Palestinians; several had participated in drafting the “Clean Break” strategy in 1998."

Neo-Conservatives. Code language for conservative Jewish hawks like Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and others. If you would like a taste of what the term "Neo-Conservative" is used for, I take you to a Jew-hating website called, "Huge Questions".  (* I am not suggesting any link between the above site and Bazian.)

"This communication strategy made it possible for Israel to become more connected to US policy formations in fighting the War on Terror. More precisely, Israel’s know-how on fighting Palestinian “terrorism” was peddled and packaged as the best and most successful approach to dealing with a fomented Islamic threat. Overnight, Israel became the model for such a strategy with the emergence of numerous Israel-linked corporate outfits offering training services and counterterrorism strategies that helped consolidate the stereotypical image of the Arab, Muslim, and most definitely Palestinian terrorist across the United States, as joint terrorism task forces and intelligence agencies adopted wholesale the Israeli security framework and thus Israeli communication strategy, with many taking up training courses or visiting Israel with a distinctive and hostile view of Arabs and Muslims upon their return."

And how have the Israelis become such experts in terrorism and security matters? Because ever since the creation of Israel, they have had to defend themselves against terrorist attacks against innocent civilians by Palestinians. Of course, they have become the experts that others could learn from. Practice makes perfect.

"In addition, several key Islamophobic figures became regular guests at universities, including a select group of Muslims connected and funded by the same Islamophobic industry.21 The result is that Islam and Muslims are studied in the academy as an inferior and terrorist “other” in need of interventions and remedies. Furthermore, the ever-present link to the questions or concerns of Israel-affiliated scholars dominate the framing of Islam and Muslims in the US academy, with a constant litmus test applied to individual scholars on Israel and Palestine, as the latest case of Salaita firing illustrates this point clearly."

Again, that's a bunch of bolshoi. Pro-Israel speakers come to give presentations on campus at the risk of being shouted down by the pro-Palestinian bullies. In addition, pro-Israel speakers on campus are far outnumbered by the anti-Israel speakers and their non-stop seminars, panels, teach-ins and what-have-you.

"Israel’s communications strategy also includes high-quality documentaries aimed at constructing threats posed by US-based Muslim groups. These documentaries included a sophisticated and systematic attempt at establishing a “link” between international terrorist groups and American Muslim organizations in a strategy intended to remove any distinctions between these groups to justify Israel’s actions against the Palestinians. This strategy is intended to tarnish Muslim organizations and put them on the defensive and exclude them from policy discussions, as seen in the attacks on CAIR, American Muslim Alliance, Muslim American Society, and American Muslims for Palestine. These documentaries made constant references to Palestinian violence." 

Really? Are these Israeli documentaries responsible for the 2007 Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas, in which Islamic charities were exposed as having sent money to organizations like Hamas? CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in that trial, which resulted in convictions and long prison terms. In addition, a document, "Explanatory Memorandum", was uncovered during an FBI raid and introduced in the above trial that spelled out the responsibilities of North American Muslims to work to destroy the rotten house of America.* CAIR itself is a creation of the Muslim Brotherhood as revealed by an FBI wiretap at a hotel meeting in Philadelphia during the 1990s-one year before CAIR was formally created.

None of that came from any Israeli documentary.

"In a recent article analyzing a host of survey results since 2001, Charles Kurzman concludes that the data illustrate how “American attitudes toward Muslim Americans have grown more negative” and that “a growing segment of the . . . population is willing to express negative views about Muslim Americans in recent years.”28 More alarmingly, the data show that the percentage of Americans responding unfavorably to Muslims in general has steadily increased since 2006. The survey results raise important questions about the causes for such a shift, the forces behind it, and how best to reverse it in the future. Indeed, the alarming data reflect the success of the Islamophobia industry and its massive investment in demonizing Muslims as a launching pad for pro-Israel groups from which to maintain US unconditional support for Israel." 

So the rise in Islamophobia is connected to pro-Israel groups in order to maintain US support for Israel. What about terrorism, ISIS, persecution of religious minorities in Muslim-majority lands? Nothing.

"Academe should take the lead in exploring the entanglement of the pro-Israel groups and organizations in Islamophobia content production. Scholars in American studies should centralize research and teaching about Islamophobia because of the impact it has in normalizing racist discourses in society. I urge American studies scholars to be at the forefront and earnestly embrace Islamophobia studies with intersectionality and connectedness to all struggles for social justice while also affirming the centrality of Palestine’s narrative in the field. In this regard, the forum on Palestine in American studies can play a vital role in collaboratively addressing the Islamophobia crisis with regular panels at the annual conference and regional academic workshops on how to teach and counter it on campus and community levels through partnerships with the American Cultures Community Engaged Scholarship. Lastly, American studies scholars should build robust academic relations with Palestinian universities, foster exchange programs, and proactively seek to centralize Palestinian narratives in the conversation and expose Israel’s role in promoting a racist and hostile campus and civil society environments that seek to limit academic freedom and speech while hiding behind distortions about BDS, Palestine, Islam, Muslims and the “War on Terror.”32 Notes 1. The term American and America are used in this essay to denote." 

Talk about building an empire. The founder of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Center is trying to build this into something that would be considered a major field of academic study-Islamophobia. 

Hatem Bazian is a man with two agendas: One is to complain about Islamophobia and make it a serious field of study.  Second is to demonize Israel. How convenient that he tries to link the two. In other words, Israel and its supporters are responsible for the rise in anti-Muslim feeling. Using clever code words like "Neo-Conservative" and "Pro-Israel groups", Bazian essentially lays the blame at the feet of Jews. Forget about terror, beheadings, persecution of other religions, ISIS, Al Qaeda and talk of Islam dominating the world. Why would anyone become Islamophobic over that?

Of course, this is the same man who once (on videotape) called for an intifada in the US. He has also been accused of telling a college audience to count the Jewish names on the campus buildings. In addition, he is also accused of having quoted that cuddly little hadith that tells of the Day of Judgement when the Jew will hide behind the trees and bushes, which in turn will call out to the Muslim, "Oh Muslim. There is a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him." In May 2010, I tried to pin Bazian down on those statements when he spoke at UC Irvine. He dodged all over the place and never did give me a straight answer. 

Bazian's latest missive is hardly surprising. Of course, it flies in the face of the FBI hate crime statistics going all the way back to 9-11, which show that when it comes to religious-based hate crimes, Muslims make up a small percentage of victims. By far, it is Jews who comprise the largest victim group.  Indeed, it is anti-Semitism which is the most serious case of bias and hate on college campuses, largely a result of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the resultant agitation against Israel on campus, which translates into a hostile environment for Jewish students-sometimes even in the classroom.

This is the real phobia that Bazian is feeding into. This piece makes it clear that he blames Jews for the rise in anti-Islamic sentiment while brushing over the true reasons that more and more non-Muslims are asking serious questions about Islam and the role its ideology plays in the horrors going on daily around the world-horrors that are committed in its very name.

When Hatem Bazian begins to address those issues, maybe I will begin to take him seriously as an academic.

* When first written, I stated incorrectly that CAIR was a recipient of that letter. CAIR was established a few years after the letter was sent.

Washington Post's Disgusting Cartoon Against Cruz

The Washington Post reached a new low this week in publishing a political cartoon showing Ted Cruz as an organ grinder and his two kids as trained monkeys.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/23/washington-post-pulls-cartoon-depicting-ted-cruzs-daughters-as-trained-monkeys.html?intcmp=hpbt1

Ann Telnaes should be ashamed of herself. Ditto for the newspaper Mark Levin refers to (with good reason) as the Washington Compost. This kind of imagery belongs in the same category as those Arab newspaper cartoons against Israel that hearken back to the days of Der Stuermer. No wonder Sean Hannity talks about the death of American journalism.

Can anyone recall conservative cartoonists drawing insulting images of the Obama children or Chelsea Clinton when her parents were in the White House? Of course not.

Fousesquawk Thriller: Who Killed Jeh Johnson?

Murder on the Metro




It was just another in what had been a long series of bad days for Jeh Johnson. Ever since he took over for Janet Napolitano as DHS director, it had been nothing but bad days.

So it was with this day. It was 3:30, and Jeh had just finished testifying on Capitol Hill. As usual. he was unable to answer most of the questions thrown at him by angry Republican members of Congress, as well as a few Democrats. A couple of Republicans had called him, "clueless", but he was used to that. It had sort of become his nickname: Clueless Jeh.

As he left the Capitol, he tried to remember the questions he was asked so he could Google them and try to get answers.

"Given the number of deportation orders issued by DHS and the number executed, how many subjects of deportation orders are still walking around the US?" He couldn't answer. He had no clue.

"Since Mr Clapper, the FBI and the military all admit there is no way to  adequately vet those Syrian refugees, isn't it a possibility that some could be ISIS terrorists-especially since they have stated they intend to infiltrate their men into the stream of refugees?"

"Gee, I suppose so," Jeh had responded. He knew the President wasn't going to like that answer.

Seemingly in shell shock, Johnson walked across the street to the Metro station and boarded the train that would take him back to his office where he would finish out the day searching Google and playing a few video games prior to heading home for another boring night watching his testimony re-runs on CSPAN. Plopping into an empty seat, Johnson stared straight ahead and spoke to nobody.

A few minutes later, a homeless man stumbled onto the train and took the empty space next to Jeh. Winter was closing in, and for the homeless man and others like him, the Metro trains were a convenient refuge where they could just take a seat and ride for hours in comfort.

As he sat down, the man looked at Johnson and said hello. Johnson didn't reply. He just stared straight ahead. An hour passed. Two hours. After a while, the homeless man figured he had circled the Metro line a couple of times, and yet, the man sitting next to him had not exited the train.

Strange.

Gathering up his his courage, the man grabbed Johnson by the arm and shook him.

"Are you OK, Buddy?"

Johnson slumped forward and crumpled to the floor.

Paramedics were called. They quickly loaded Johnson into an ambulance and took him to the hospital. It was no use, however.

Clueless Jeh was DOA.

An autopsy was performed. Cause of death could not be determined. Witnesses who were on the train were also interviewed. The seat where Johnson had been sitting was scoured with a fine tooth comb.

Clueless Jeh had left behind no clues.

Days passed, and still investigators were unable to determine how Johnson had died or who had been responsible. It was too suspicious that he had died minutes after taking such abuse from Congress. It was just too much of a coincidence.

The President was determined to get to the bottom of it. He appointed his top advisers and best minds to come together as sort of a task force to get the answers. The group consisted of James Clapper, Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes, Josh Earnest, Martin Dempsey and Joe Biden, who acted as chair. In addition, it was felt that the group needed to look outside the usual investigative agencies to bring in a lead investigator with a proven track record of closing cases.

That man was former Justice Department Special Agent Dick Holder.

No other figure in Washington had the resume of Dick Holder. Prior to his retirement, Dick Holder had closed some of the most notorious cases in Beltway history; the Marc Rich case, the Fast and Furious scandal, not to mention the IRS case. If anybody could close this case, Dick Holder was the man.

So it came to pass that two weeks after Johnson was buried, a meeting was held at the White House involving all of the above-mentioned people. A few minutes after they convened, Dick Holder entered the room and took his seat with a confident swagger. Biden placed the investigative file in front of Dick Holder, who picked it up, leafed through a few pages in a casual manner and flipped it back on the desk.

"What about the homeless guy?" Dick Holder asked.

"He checked out," Earnest replied earnestly. "Turns out he was a registered Democrat. He voted for the President in the 2012 election-4 times, in fact. He is completely above suspicion."

At this point, Susan Rice chimed in.

"I heard there was a guy on board the train with a video camera. That might give us the motive. It had something to do with a video.Yeah. That's the ticket."

"Uh, he works for my office," Earnest said, his face turning a bit crimson. "I'll vouch for him."

"What about that arrow through his head? Think that might have had anything to do with it?" asked Rhodes.

"Of course not," said Clapper angrily. I've known Jeh for years. He had it for years. I have one too in case you haven't noticed."

Biden was getting exasperated. Pounding on the desk, he told the group, "The President wants answers, and he wants them fast. He's leaving on vacation to Hawaii tomorrow, and he wants to make a statement to the press before he leaves. This matter needs to be closed one way or the other."

Dick Holder stood up, walked to the window and turned to face the group.

"Then it is clear. Here are the facts: We know Johnson was grilled for hours before that Congressional subcommittee-mostly Republicans. There were no obvious wounds; the autopsy turned up nothing as far as heart attack, stroke, or lead poisoning, so there is only one conclusion."

Everyone in the group leaned forward in their seats and asked at the same time.

"What's that?"

"Workplace violence."

That was it. That was the ticket.

Joe Biden smiled. That meant everybody else at the table had to smile. The President would be satisfied. He could make his statement to the press, take off for Hawaii, and make his first tee time the following day.

"But," interrupted Dempsey, "We still don't have a perp."

Dick Holder smiled in amusement.

"We don't need one. With workplace violence, no perp is needed. It's the concept that matters."

It was thus settled. One by one, the people stood and shook Dick Holder's hand. Once again, he had stepped in and saved the day by closing another case.

Workplace violence. It was becoming a national epidemic. But that was not Dick Holder's problem. His job was done, and it was back to a comfortable retirement.

Vacation in Maldives? On Second Thought

Hat tip Shirley


Apparently, the Maldives is the vacation place in Germany. However, a  recent German news article may give Germans second thoughts about going to this "island paradise".


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=384_1450652090

I figure if the Maldives is contributing the highest percentage of ISIS volunteers, it's only a matter of time before some slaughter of Western tourists happens.

Let the sea swallow it up.

Anti-Israel Campus Bullies Complain of Being "Suppressed"

Hat tip Jihad Watch and Campus Watch

Recently, UCLA's highly politicized (anti-Israel) Center for Near East Studies held a day long propaganda fest against Israel. (What else is new on campus?) Even though their side totally dominates the discourse on campus, they typically complain about their voices being silenced by "American Zionists ".

Silenced? Well, the recent day-long event at UCLA was hardly silenced. Cinnamon Stillwell and Adelle Nazarian wrote a report.


http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/12/assault-on-academic-freedom-ucla-conference-blames-israel

This is typical. These people constantly complain that "American Zionists interests" (whoever they are) are suppressing their speech-even though they totally control the discourse. I got a taste of this the last time I was  at UCLA and listened to the moans and groans of CNES professor Susan Slyomovics.

Here is an example that centers around the above-mentioned UC Riverside professor David Lloyd. I had my own experience with him when he hosted BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti at UCR. His students, who made up most of the audience, were treated to a one-sided bashing of Israel by this imposter (Barghouti), who presents himself as a "human rights activist." When I asked (during the q and a) whether the UCR sponsors would bring in a pro-Israel speaker to give the students some degree of balance, Lloyd termed my question "preposterous".

Preposterous is universities not presenting all sides of a complicated issue. Preposterous is David Lloyd. Preposterous is CNES at UCLA.

"Cultural Appropriation" at Oberlin College (Food)

A food fight erupted at Oberlin College in Ohio last month. It seems that some students (mostly Asian or Asian-American) were not pleased at the campus cafeteria's attempt to serve Asian food. Not authentic, they claimed. (What else is new?) So now, we have a case of "cultural appropriation" to deal with-a micro-aggression, if you will.)

http://www.newsweek.com/oberlin-college-students-protest-culturally-appropriative-dining-hall-food-407466

First of all, at the risk of stereotyping (a micro-aggression in itself) , I am a little saddened to find that some Asian-American students are jumping on the political correctness bandwagon. At UC Irvine, where I teach part-time, about half of the student body is Asian-American. For the most part, they don't join in the silly reindeer games that go on. They are too busy studying and enjoying their campus experience with more traditional pursuits.

At any rate, as one who has lived and traveled extensively overseas, and as one who appreciates all kinds of foreign cuisines, I appreciate how hard is to get authentic food (and beer) outside of the country of origin. For example, if you happen to be in Europe, I do not recommend trying any Thai or Chinese restaurants even if you can find them. The same thing goes for the US. If you want really good Chinese food, I recommend Chinatown in San Francisco, Los Angeles or New York. Mexican food? East LA or Santa Ana, California. Authentic German beer? The only place I know is the Hofbrauhaus in Las Vegas. They ship it directly from the parent Hofbrauhaus in Munich in barrels. Having lived in Italy, I have yet to experience the real thing in any Italian restaurant in the US.

Matter of fact, we just returned from a week's vacation at a plush resort in Puerto Vallarta. (That's in Mexico for all you UC Santa Cruz  Community Studies and History of Consciousness majors.) One night the main dining room featured Asian night with Chinese and Japanese dishes. There were also two restaurants there that featured Continental fare. Too bad the poor students of Oberlin weren't there. They would have seen a true case of cultural appropriation gone horribly bad. (The Mexican food, on the other hand, was excellent.)

By the way: If you are an American traveling abroad, I don't recommend trying a hamburger. You will be very disappointed. You should not, however, complain you are a victim of cultural appropriation. You know where they will tell you to go.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: If you are in Ohio and expect authentic Chinese food, you are out of luck. But you are not a victim of anything.

Amin Odeh: Portrait of a Seattle "Civil Rights Leader"

Hat tip The Mike Report




Once upon a time, there was a man named Julius Streicher. One of the original Nazis, he was the district (Gauleiter) leader of Franconia and editor of Nuremberg's infamous anti-Semitic weekly, Der Stuermer. It featured cartoons by a character whose nom de plume was "Rips". His creations featured grossly stereotypical images of Jews sucking the blood out of Christians and preying on blonde German women. No figure in Nazi Germany, with the possible exception of Hitler himself, did as much to spread hate towards Jews as did Julius Streicher.

Julius Streicher                                                                        



After the war, Streicher was one of the major Nazi war criminals tried in Nuremberg. Ironically, he had been forced into retirement due to his excesses and spent most of the war years living quietly on his estate outside of Nuremberg. As far as I know, Streicher never killed anyone or even ordered the killing of anyone. He was not involved in the machinery of the Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews. Yet he was convicted on one count of crimes against humanity and was hanged. Even by Nazi standards, Streicher was a despicable creature.

Today, in Seattle, there is a man named Amin Odeh who is an anti-Israel activist. He takes his opposition to Israel to extreme lengths as seen by these images in which he traffics.

https://mikereport.wordpress.com/2015/12/21/seattle-human-rights-leader-spreads-hate-of-the-jewish-state/



I am not trying to say that Mr Odeh is equal to Julius Streicher. What I will say, however, is that nobody who traffics in these types of images and who makes such statements about Jews in general deserves to call himself a human rights activist.

And shame on these Christian and Jewish leaders in Seattle who lend their credibility to Odeh.