Criminalizing Criticism of Israel - The End of Free Speech »
Posted By hyperbola 7 months, 3 weeks ago in ReligionOn October 16, 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Israel Lobby’s bill, the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act. This legislation requires the US Department of State to monitor anti-semitism world wide.
To monitor anti-semitism, it has to be defined. What is the definition? Basically, as defined by the Israel Lobby and Abe Foxman, it boils down to any criticism of Israel or Jews.
Rahm Israel Emanuel hasn’t been mopping floors at the White House.
As soon as he gets the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 passed, it will become a crime for any American to tell the truth about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and theft of their lands.
It will be a crime to report the extraordinary influence of the Israel Lobby on the White House and Congress, such as the AIPAC-written resolutions praising Israel for its war crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza that were endorsed by 100 per cent of the US Senate and 99 per cent of the House of Representatives, while the rest of the world condemned Israel for its barbarity.
It will become a crime to note the disproportionate representation of Jews in the media, finance, and foreign policy.
In other words, it means the end of free speech, free inquiry, and the First Amendment to the Constitution. Any facts or truths that cast aspersion upon Israel will simply be banned.
Given the hubris of the US government, which leads Washington to apply US law to every country and organization, what will happen to the International Red Cross, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, and the various human rights organizations that have demanded investigations of Israel’s military assault on Gaza’s civilian population? Will they all be arrested for the hate crime of “excessive” criticism of Israel?
...Many Americans have been brainwashed by the propaganda that Palestinians are terrorists who threaten innocent Israel. These Americans will see the censorship as merely part of the necessary war on terror. They will accept the demonization of fellow citizens who report unpalatable facts about Israel and agree that such people should be punished for aiding and abetting terrorists.
A massive push is underway to criminalize criticism of Israel. American university professors have fallen victim to the well organized attempt to eliminate all criticism of Israel. Norman Finkelstein was denied tenure at a Catholic university because of the power of the Israel Lobby. Now the Israel Lobby is after University of California (at Santa Barbara,) professor Wiliam Robinson. Robinson’s crime: his course on global affairs included some reading assignments critical of Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
The Israel Lobby apparently succeeded in convincing the Obama Justice (sic) Department that it is anti-semitic to accuse two Jewish AIPAC officials, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, of spying. The Israel Lobby succeeded in getting their trial delayed for four years, and now Attorney General Eric Holder has dropped charges. Yet, Larry Franklin, the DOD official accused of giving secret material to Rosen and Weissman, is serving 12 years and 7 months in prison.
The absurdity is extraordinary. The two Israeli agents are not guilty of receiving secrets, but the American official is guilty of giving secrets to them! If there is no spy in the story, how was Franklin convicted of giving secrets to a spy?
Criminalizing criticism of Israel destroys any hope of America having an independent foreign policy in the Middle East that serves American rather than Israeli interests. It eliminates any prospect of Americans escaping from their enculturation with Israeli propaganda.
To keep American minds captive, the Lobby is working to ban as anti-semitic any truth or disagreeable fact that pertains to Israel. It is permissible to criticize every other country in the world, but it is anti-semitic to criticize Israel
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ur-land-is-my-land7 months, 3 weeks ago
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This Bill if passed is similar to "thought crime law" that currently is enforced in Europe. "Thought Crime Law" gives the European governments the right and empowers them to try and fine and jail any one who dares to disagree with the government version of holocaust. University preofessors, historians and researchers have gone to jail in Europe because in their speech they disagreed with the government version of holocaust.
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This shows that Zionism is not just a problem for Palestinians, it is aproblem that threatens the well being and free speech of the rest of the world, this simply shows that Zionism is a global threat to humanity and accepted civilized norm. This only proves again that Palestininas should be helped, armed by the rest of the world , by any one who still cares for humanity. The beast of Zionism has not stopped at desroying the lives of palestinians, it has spread its evil wings on European free speech and now we can hear the jaws, paws and claws of Zionism all over American life from its politics to finance to academia.
But maybe this Bill will galvanize and energize the Americans who care for America and it's tax payers rather than financing a genocide by these Jewish extremists and Zionist thugs and hopefully they will turn the table on these Zionist traitors who are sucking the life out of American poltics.-
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Justice4All7 months, 3 weeks ago
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This is really a catch 22. In Europe they banned hate speach to prevent the rise of another party like the Nazis. Books like Mein Kamph are banned. In a way it make sense although I am a firm believer in free speech.
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Now we have a proposed law in the US that bans criticism of Zionism. Exactly the opposite of what the Europeans want to accomplish. The Europeans are trying to stop the spread of racism and the proposal under Bush is trying to protect racism and zionism.
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pennyarcos7 months, 3 weeks ago
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The Bible says that those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed.
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There are two groups of palestinians: Hamas terrorists and Fatah moderates
See videos of Hamas and Fatah voicing their opinions at a rally at the capitol in Saint Paul, MN
http://www.minnesotansagainstterrorism.org/-
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Thinker227 months, 3 weeks ago
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>There are two groups of palestinians: Hamas terrorists and Fatah moderates.
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This is what the Fatah (moderates) Charter says:
Article 21:The Arab Palestinian people, expressing themselves by the armed Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions which are substitutes for the total liberation of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem, or its internationalization.
Article 2: Palestine, with the boundaries it had during the British Mandate, is an indivisible territorial unit.
Article 9:Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine. This it is the overall strategy, not merely a tactical phase.
Article 19: The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal...
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/plocov.asp
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