The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
The American Inquisition
by Caroline Glick
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liar-Clinton Asks to Be Judged by Her Record
— So Be It
Nate Jackson: On Wednesday night, voters got a pre-debate look at the dueling foreign policy and national security visions of Donald Trump and liar-Hillary Clinton. As for Trump, his lack of experience in government might play to his advantage in this election — ironic given liar-Clinton's constant harping on her experience. After all, she blustered, "I'm asking to be judged on the totality of my record." So, speaking of liar-Hillary's record, let's focus on some of her whoppers, at least two of which she characterized last night as "mistakes."
Email
Facing repeated questions about her email scandal from both host Matt Lauer and members of the audience, liar-Clinton was visibly irritated. She repeated her lie that nothing she sent or received was marked "classified," "top secret," or "secret." But she also conceded that "it was a mistake to have a personal account. ... I make no excuses." It was only a "mistake" in her mind because she got caught. And she's done nothing but make excuses.
As if to highlight that point, a retired naval officer asked her, "Had I communicated this information not following prescribed protocols, I would have been prosecuted and imprisoned. Secretary liar-Clinton, how can you expect those such as myself who were and are entrusted with America's most sensitive information to have any confidence in your leadership as president when you clearly corrupted our national security?"
The double standard is palpable. One Marine sent one email to save lives. liar-Hillary deleted thousands of emails to conceal an event that cost lives. Which one is being reprimanded?
Iraq and ISIL
"I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake," liar-Clinton argued. "And I have said that my voting to give President [George W.] Bush that authority was, from my perspective, my mistake." Later, she asserted, "I will also be as careful as I can in making the most significant decisions any president and commander and chief can make about sending our men and women into harm's way."
liar-Clinton and many other Democrats made an extensive case for the war in Iraq before the 2003 invasion, based on the available evidence and intelligence. Those same Democrats changed positions due primarily to perceived political advantage in the 2004 election. In 2007, Harry dinky-Reid even went so far as to declare the war "lost" while our troops were still fighting it and the successful surge was just beginning. liar-Clinton and her cohorts were anything but "careful" when Patriots in uniform were actually in harm's way. She can make theoretical promises now, but she betrayed our troops when it mattered.
As for fighting the Islamic State going forward, she promised, "We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again and we are not putting ground troops into Syria."
There are already 5,000 troops in Iraq. She and Barack nObama just don't want you to know that.
Libya
Finally, on her disastrous record in Libya — intervening to overthrow Moammar Gadhafi and sending Libya into a chaotic spiral that yielded Benghazi — liar-Clinton had the gall to say, "We did not lose a single American in that action. And I think taking action was the right decision. Not taking it and permitting there to be an ongoing civil war in Libya would've been as dangerous and threatening as what we are now seeing in Syria."
Where to begin. We suppose by observing that Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were unavailable for comment. No, the four dead in Benghazi weren't killed "in that action" against Gadhafi, but they were murdered because of that action, which sowed chaos in that nation and allowed a new base of operations for the Islamic State. Gadhafi was not a good guy, but he had begun to cooperate with the U.S. after seeing what happened to Saddam Hussein. liar-Clinton rewarded him with a death sentence. It's also not the first time liar-Clinton has made the boneheaded assertion about not losing "a single American." She said the same thing in March.
Bottom line: Is liar-Hillary Clinton, based on her own record as she insists she be judged, really the person we want as commander in chief for the next four years? ~The Patriot Post
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liar-Clinton Announces, 'It's Over, Period'!
Mark Alexander: In a slow-pitch softball interview with her adoring fan, ABC's David Muir, liar-Hillary Clinton announced this week that there is no need to ask any more questions about her motives for concealing her communication. She declared that because the FBI released some notes from their interview with her, she's "happy it's over."
In my column, "liar-Clinton the 'Congenital Liar,'" I covered the most damning evidence from those heavily redacted FBI files about liar-Clinton's effort to conceal all of her official communications while secretary of state. Only in liar-Clinton's warped universe could the release of this information mean "it's over, period."
In excerpts from the ABC interview, most of her responses are classified "L" for "Lie," so instead of redactions, I have annotated them for clarity.
liar-CLINTON: "What I did has raised questions for people, and I deeply regret that. [She regrets getting caught.] And that's why I said there's no excuses. [All she has done for 18 months is make excuses.] I took responsibility a year ago. [No she didn't.] I take responsibility today. [No she doesn't.] I made a mistake. I've apologized for it. [Not really.] And I'm just happy it's over, because that's, you know, the end of what's been, you know, a very difficult period. [It's not over.]"
MUIR: "When Americans hear [about your effort to erase servers and destroy smart phones], do you think that feeds into what the FBI director said about you, that you were 'extremely careless' with your emails?"
liar-CLINTON: "Well, I hope not, because I take classification very seriously. [Apparently not.] Always have, ever since I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee some years ago. [Apparently not.] And what I want people to understand is really two things. I take responsibility. I have learned that trying to explain what happened made it sound to some people like I was trying to excuse it. [Again, because all she has done for 18 months is make excuses.] There are no excuses. I take responsibility, I made a mistake, I've apologized and obviously I wish I could do differently what happened. [Again, now that you got caught.] ... I take classification seriously and I think the record shows that I have. [Actually, not.]"
Muir asked a few more easy questions about the FBI file.
liar-CLINTON: "I'm glad that the FBI has released this material. [No she's not.] Our campaign called for them to release it. [No they did not.] Because we didn't want selective cherry-picking and leaks coming from Republicans on the Hill. [It's all a "vast right wing conspiracy."] We wanted people to be able to see it and at the end of all of their investigation the FBI concluded there was no basis for any further action. [Based on the limited information from the interview — in which liar-Clinton was not under oath.]"
MUIR: "The director also thought you were extremely careless. Do you agree with him?"
liar-CLINTON: "Well, I respectfully disagree..."
Does this interview sound like somebody "taking responsibility" or more like a parole hearing for somebody fishing for a pardon? Maybe she's practicing...
For the record, here's Title 18 USC §2071: "Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally — (a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record ... filed or deposited with ... any public office ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. (b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record ... willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and SHALL FORFEIT HIS OFFICE AND BE DISQUALIFIED FROM HOLDING ANY OFFICE UNDER THE UNITED STATES."
Of course, within hours of the FBI interview with liar-Clinton, Director James Comey determined there was no evidence of concealment or criminal intent. What alternate universe does he inhabit? ~The Patriot Post
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Western Publishers Submit to Islam
by Giulio Meotti
by Giulio Meotti
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ When Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses came out in 1989, Viking Penguin, the British and American publisher of the novel, was subjected to daily Islamist harassment... As Daniel Pipes wrote, the London office resembled "an armed camp," with police protection, metal detectors and escorts for visitors. In Viking's New York offices, dogs sniffed packages and the place was designated a "sensitive location". Many bookshops were attacked and many even refused to sell the book. Viking spent about $3 million on security measures in 1989, the fatal year for Western freedom of expression. Nonetheless, Viking never flinched. It was a miracle that the novel finally came out. Other publishers, however, faltered. Since then, the situation has only gotten worse. Most Western publishers are now faltering. That is the meaning of the new Hamed Abdel-Samad affair... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8907/islam-publishers-censorship
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liar-Hillary Has ‘MEDICAL EPISODE’ During
9/11 Ceremony – RUSHED Out
{clashdaily.com} ~ liar-Hillary’s health: Not an issue? WRONG! She can’t hide it after THIS!... Democratic presidential nominee liar-Hillary Rodham Clinton reportedly fainted on the way to her van after she abruptly left the 9/11 memorial ceremony at Ground Zero of the attack on the 15th anniversary, having to be helped into her vehicle by a protective detail. liar-Clinton, who was here and only about 20 feet away from Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump, was listening along with Trump to the reading of the names lost in the terror attacks on this tragic day 15 years ago. Trump appeared at the ceremony around 8:20 a.m. receiving applause when he arrived, while liar-Clinton arrived shortly before the first bell rang at 8:46 a.m. which is a citywide moment of silence in observance of time the first plane struck the North Tower. Shortly before 9:37 a.m.–the time marked for a moment of silence in observance of the flight that struck the Pentagon down just outside Washington, D.C.–liar-Clinton was seen leaving the ceremony with her press corps in tow. liar-Clinton was leaving through a back entrance, quietly... http://clashdaily.com/2016/09/breaking-hillary-medical-episode-911-ceremony-rushed/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=219217&utm_keyword=major1&utm_content=9835110&utm_source=Email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:9835110&utm_campaign=BREAKING:%20Hillary%20Has%20%E2%80%98MEDICAL%20EPISODE%E2%80%99%20During%209/11%20Ceremony%20%E2%80%93%20RUSHED%20Out.
1st VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVKVJctkvBc
1st VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVKVJctkvBc
2nd VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9QuDUheUYk
3rd VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTqqWULFToo
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Democrats block Zika funding to
get an nObamacare bailout
by Michael F. Cannon
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Republicans and Democrats are squabbling over funding to combat the spread of the Zika virus. President nObama wants Congress to appropriate $2 billion in emergency spending... Republicans have moved a bill that appropriates $1.1 billion. Democrats object that Republicans would fund the bill partly by cutting a $543 million of defunct nObamacare funding whose purpose has evaporated. Why would Democrats fiercely protect a completely unnecessary appropriation? A good guess is that they hope to use it after election day to bail out the crony-capitalist insurers fleeing nObamacare's health-insurance exchanges. An exodus of insurers from nObamacare has evidently left one in three counties, one in six enrollees, and now seven states with only one carrier in the Exchange. Tennessee's insurance commissioner says that state's exchange is "very near collapse." Other Exchanges could collapse soon...
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Judge Jeanine Is Not Deplorable – liar-Hillary
Is A Despicable Treasonous Criminal
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro doesn’t appreciate the labels that the corrupt America-hating witch vying for the office of president has applied to her and many of the rest of us... The judge gives her partial credit for an apology, but barely, as it was also primarily another attack on Trump and his supporters and one that took her seventeen hours to roll out. Judge Jeanine plays a clip of liar-Clinton describing how half of Trump supporters could be placed into what she calls “the basket of deplorables.” It’s a big basket, able to hold at present one fourth of the population and growing steadily. liar-Clinton said her basket was a container for the racists, sexists, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.” That’s one fourth of the population of this country and we are supposedly irredeemable in the eyes of the Great liar-Clinton. Judge Pirro doesn’t find herself to be deplorable, but since liar-Clinton started it, she’s removing her gloves and giving her a most public dress down and tongue lashing. Judge Jeanine says, “liar-Hillary, you bow to and take money from countries who throw gays off buildings. You take money for your so-called charity from countries that don’t allow women to drive. A so-called feminist who supports countries that force women to cover every part of their bodies but their eyeballs. And you want to call us Islamophobes? She calls liar-Clinton the “Queen of Black Lives Matter” as she chastises Cliar-linton for daring to call us racists.”... http://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-deplorable-clinton-despicable/
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nObama Claims Defending US On 9/11 Anniversary
As He’ Sets Us Up For Disaster
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The beginning portion of this video had to be cut off. Listening to this phony anti-American subversive talking about the people who died on September 11th, 2001 is just too much to stomach... He’s using the same familiar language where he puts every victim into every role that he uses whenever he’s propagandizing upon an event where a large number of people lost their lives. The “sons and daughters, husbands and wives, neighbors, colleagues and friends” routine. It’s the usual, the same predictable, worn-out shtick used in San Bernardino, Orlando and everywhere else. Of course it includes a defense of “all religions,” code for “don’t blame the Islamists.” This piece of trash is setting us up for much worse, so for him to sit there and pretend to be in any way unhappy that three thousand Americans were killed and less than ecstatic with the associated symbolic triumph of his radical ideology over the Great Satan that occupies the future home of his caliphate is insulting and offensive... http://rickwells.us/obama-claims-defending-us-911-disaster/
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The Post-World War II Era Is Over. What Now?
by R. R. Reno
{mosaicmagazine.com} ~ Yoram Hazony is right: the Brexit vote in Britain is a sign that the post-World War II era has come to an end. Another sign, this time in the United States, is the failure of the conservative establishment to prevent Donald Trump’s capture of the Republican nomination... still another sign is the unpopularity of liar-Hillary Clinton. All in all, the right-left contest that defined the postwar decades is being eclipsed by a politics in which establishment powers coalesce to fend off anti-establishment challengers. In this new contest, a central and divisive issue is certain to be the role and future of the nation, Hazony’s main subject. Will we enter into the bright uplands of a prosperous, globalized fusion of civilizations managed by experts and guided by the high ideals of human rights? Or will we return to the dark days of xenophobic nationalism, war, and death camps?... http://mosaicmagazine.com/response/2016/09/the-post-world-war-ii-era-is-over-what-now/
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The crystal clear strategy of North Korea
by Nicholas Eberstadt
{aei.org} ~ As the world’s most completely closed society, there are many things about North Korea that we cannot know. For good or ill, though, the DPRK’s nuclear strategy is crystal clear... for Pyongyang has been doggedly pursing this very same game plan singlemindedly, for decades on end. It’s really very simple: North Korea is methodically and deliberately preparing to fight and win a limited nuclear war in the Korean peninsula against the USA and her allies. No: this is not Dr. Strangelove stuff. The North Korean leadership is not planning to join the Eternal President Great Leader Kim Il Sung in heaven. If things go their way, North Korea’s rulers will be safe and sound before, during, and after the confrontation they are preparing for...
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Did the Pentagon lie to Congress?
by Michael Rubin
{aei.org} ~ The Pentagon continues to reduce forces at Lajes Field in the Azores, a strategic archipelago in the mid-Atlantic. A year ago, the base was already a ghost town... After US taxpayers had spent millions of dollars on housing, schools, and other critical infrastructure, most laid vacant. Dinner at the base restaurant was like a scene from “The Shining.” The decision to withdraw forces from Lajes is curious, not only because the United States has pressed the base into service during every major crisis since World War II, but also because the Chinese are salivating at the opportunity to fill the void and establish themselves in the Atlantic Ocean should White House politicians and Pentagon strategists actually go through with their plans to abandon the field. That the United States closed the Naval Air Station Keflavik in Iceland a decade ago against the backdrop of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s augmentation of Russia’s nuclear submarines and their growing aggressiveness in the North Atlantic only makes the Pentagon’s apparent decision to walk away from the Azores even more perplexing, given its logistical importance in anti-submarine warfare... http://www.aei.org/publication/did-the-pentagon-lie-to-congress/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=091216
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nObama admin attacks Netanyahu
for objecting to ethnic cleansing of Jews
by William A. Jacobson
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ The other day we reported on Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s video in which he pointed out that advocating the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”) is hardly a path to peace... Ethnic Cleansing of Jews For Peace is Absurd: Netanyahu was factually correct on the goals of the Palestinian leadership, and not only from Hamas: And there is every reason to believe that ethnic cleansing is the goal. After all, that’s what the Jordanian’s did in the West Bank after the 1949 armistice, prior to Israel retaking the area in 1967. The small Jewish section of Hebron, reestablished after the 1929 Arab pogrom killed dozens and drove out the Jews, regularly is termed “illegal” (it’s not) and that Jews have no right to live there... http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/09/obama-admin-attacks-netanyahu-for-objecting-to-ethnic-cleansing-of-jews-seriously/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
Democrats Close to Replacing
liar-Hillary-Emergency Meeting to be
Held-Who Will Be Their Choice?
by Dave Hodges
{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ Reporter David Shuster posted to his Twitter feed on Sunday evening that operatives in the Democratic Party have told him an emergency meeting by the Democratic National Committee is being considered to replace presidential nominee... liar-Hillary Clinton on the heels of her case of pneumonia allegedly causing her to collapse Sunday morning at the 9-11 commemoration at the sight of the downed Twin Towers in New York City. Both the Democrats and the Republicans have policies related to the presidential ticket with regard to last minute replacements. However, the two major political parties do not have the final word on a last minute replacement. Congress is the ultimate decision maker with regard to a change the election date under Article II of the United States Constitution. Article II allows Congress to set dates for the selection of presidential electors and when the members of the electoral college will actually vote...
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The American Inquisition
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ The cancer of Jew hatred has taken over the body of US academia.
This week we caught a glimpse of the advanced state of the disease in an email sent by a Syracuse University professor to an Israeli filmmaker in June.
As The Atlantic reported, on June 24, Syracuse professor Gail Hamner disinvited Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dotan from screening his film at the university’s film festival, scheduled for March 2017.
Hamner’s decision had nothing to do with the quality of Dotan’s work. She admitted as much, writing, “Obviously, my decision here has nothing to do with you or your work.”
Dotan was disinvited because he is Israeli and because the title of his film, The Settlers, does not make it immediately apparent whether he reviles the half million Israeli Jews who live in Judea and Samaria sufficiently.
Hamner explained, “My SU colleagues, on hearing about my attempt to secure your presentation at our upcoming film festival, have warned me that the BDS faction on campus will make matters very unpleasant for you and for me if you come.”
She then elaborated on the harm his participation would cause her, personally.
“My film colleague... who granted me affiliated faculty status in the film and screen studies program and who supported my proposal to the Humanities Council for this conference, told me point blank that if I have not myself seen your film and cannot myself vouch for it to the council, I will lose credibility with a number of film and women/ gender studies colleagues. Sadly, I have not had the chance to see your film and can only vouch for it through my friend and through published reviews.”
Hamner added, “I feel caught in an ideological matrix and by my own egoic needs to sustain certain institutional affiliations.”
Hamner’s letter to Dotan provides us with a rare opportunity to see something that people generally go to great lengths to hide. Hamner demonstrated how boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activists have enmeshed Jew hatred into the fabric of academic life in America.
The BDS movement is qualitatively different from all other groups that operate on campuses today.
Unlike even the most radical, fringe groups, the BDS movement isn’t seeking to advance or protect the rights of anyone. All it works to accomplish is the obliteration of Jewish rights, and indeed of Jewish existence in Israel.
Like Hamas and Iran, BDS activists seek the annihilation of the Jewish state. Like Hamas and Iran, the BDS movement does not strive to bring peace or to protect the rights of anyone. Rather, like Iran and Hamas, the goal of the BDS movement is the genocide of the largest Jewish population in the world and the annihilation of the only Jewish state in the world.
Bullying is the BDS movement’s preferred tactic.
They bully faculty, administrators and students into becoming anti-Semitic by harassing, ostracizing and persecuting everyone who refuses to actively promote Jew hatred.
To force everyone into line, BDS groups have adopted two complementary tactics. First, they try to banish Israeli Jews entirely from their campuses by bullying their institutions into adopting and implementing anti-Israel boycotts.
Second, they enforce partial bans on Israeli Jews by requiring Israeli and non-Israeli Jews to behave in manners no one would never think of requiring of Israeli Arabs, or Italians or Japanese for that matter.
BDS activists achieve both aims by bullying non-activists into enforcing their anti-Semitic positions – as Hamner did when she disinvited Dotan.
These actions are a clear violation not only of the civil rights of Israeli and non-Israeli Jews. They are also an indisputable violation of the civil rights of all students, administrators and faculty at US universities. They deny everyone the right to hear viewpoints and receive knowledge from Israeli Jews and so limit the academic freedom of everyone.
BDS is a postmodern version of the pure, unrefined Jew hatred of Medieval Europe. Five hundred years ago, the only Jews permitted to enter the public square were Christians. Jews were rejected, ostracized, expelled and killed unless they could enthusiastically and soulfully recite the catechisms.
On university campuses throughout the US today, Jews – Israeli and non-Israeli – are ostracized, silenced, harassed and humiliated unless they enthusiastically, soulfully and contritely declare their support for the annihilation of the Jewish state.
Non-Jews who do not require them to do so are similarly ostracized and otherwise punished.
Case in point is the fate of Milan Chatterjee.
Chatterjee is an Indian-American law student and a Hindu. Last year he was elected president of UCLA’s Graduate Students’ Association. Last week he announced his resignation from the post and his transfer to New York University Law School to complete his degree.
In a letter to UCLA chancellor Gene Block, Chatterjee explained that his decision was the result of relentless attacks, harassment and bullying he has suffered at the hands of BDS activists and their enablers in Block’s administration.
Chatterjee wrote Block: “Your administration has not only allowed BDS organizations and student activists to freely engage in intimidation of students who do not support the BDS agenda, but has decided to affirmatively engage in discriminatory practices of its own against those same students.
“Whether you choose to acknowledge it or not, the fact is that the UCLA campus has become a hostile and unsafe environment for students, Jewish students and non-Jewish, who choose not to support the BDS movement, let alone support the State of Israel.”
Chatterjee got on the wrong side of UCLA’s anti-Semitism enforcers in November 2015 when he adopted a student government policy of strict neutrality on BDS.
Under his leadership, the graduate council would neither support nor oppose BDS. To this end, he allocated funds for a “Diversity Caucus,” with the stipulation that the caucus remain neutral on BDS.
It was for his refusal to actively endorse BDS – rather than any action to oppose BDS – that Chatterjee became a target for the BDS mob. They submitted a bid to impeach him based on frivolous claims.
To its shame, rather than stand by Chatterjee, the administration joined the mob. Chatterjee was censured by the university and subjected to disciplinary proceedings. UCLA’s administration claimed that he had “violated university policy” for refusing to fund BDS groups.
Following Chatterjee’s decision to transfer to NYU, Kenneth Marcus, president of the Louis Brandeis Center, which supported Chatterjee throughout his year of anti-Semitic persecution, issued a statement. Marcus noted, “It is disgraceful that anti-Israel extremists have managed to drive out this courageous and conscientious student leader for failing to capitulate to the demands of the anti-Semitic BDS movement. The Milan Chatterjee affair reflects the insidiousness of the anti-Israel movement’s new strategy, which is to suppress pro-Israel advocacy and intimidate not only Jewish pro-Israel students but anyone who remains neutral.”
Back at Syracuse, the ironic aspect of Hamner’s disinvitation of Dotan is that Dotan actually recites the catechism both personally and in his film. His only mistake was that he failed to make his convictions clear in the title of his movie.
The university administration was embarrassed by the publication of Hamner’s statement. As a result, last Friday Syracuse University provost Michelle Wheatley issued a mass email stating that Dotan had been reinvited to the conference and that Hamner had apologized for her letter.
The most notable aspect of Wheatley’s letter is that it contained no commitment to investigate her allegations of anti-Semitic intimidation on the part of faculty and student BDS goons. It contained no commitment to purge bigoted intimidation from campus or invite Israelis with Zionist views to speak at Syracuse or participate in university events. It contained no mention of any plans to discipline Hamner for engaging in bigoted actions.
Rather, it simply reinvited Dotan, whose anti-Israel credentials were belatedly sorted out.
For nearly eight years, US President Barack nObama’s Justice Department has refused to investigate the flagrant civil rights violations carried out by BDS activists, groups and their faculty and administration allies and enablers. So there is no reason to think that any federal investigation will be conducted any time soon.
Rather, we can expect anti-Jewish prejudice to become ever stronger and more brazen. We can expect Israeli Jews to be shunned to greater and greater degrees and for pro-Israel students, faculty and administrators – Jewish and non-Jewish – to become less and less free to voice their views.
And we can expect the US higher education system to speed up its slide into moral dystopia and intellectual corruption.
This week we caught a glimpse of the advanced state of the disease in an email sent by a Syracuse University professor to an Israeli filmmaker in June.
As The Atlantic reported, on June 24, Syracuse professor Gail Hamner disinvited Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dotan from screening his film at the university’s film festival, scheduled for March 2017.
Hamner’s decision had nothing to do with the quality of Dotan’s work. She admitted as much, writing, “Obviously, my decision here has nothing to do with you or your work.”
Dotan was disinvited because he is Israeli and because the title of his film, The Settlers, does not make it immediately apparent whether he reviles the half million Israeli Jews who live in Judea and Samaria sufficiently.
Hamner explained, “My SU colleagues, on hearing about my attempt to secure your presentation at our upcoming film festival, have warned me that the BDS faction on campus will make matters very unpleasant for you and for me if you come.”
She then elaborated on the harm his participation would cause her, personally.
“My film colleague... who granted me affiliated faculty status in the film and screen studies program and who supported my proposal to the Humanities Council for this conference, told me point blank that if I have not myself seen your film and cannot myself vouch for it to the council, I will lose credibility with a number of film and women/ gender studies colleagues. Sadly, I have not had the chance to see your film and can only vouch for it through my friend and through published reviews.”
Hamner added, “I feel caught in an ideological matrix and by my own egoic needs to sustain certain institutional affiliations.”
Hamner’s letter to Dotan provides us with a rare opportunity to see something that people generally go to great lengths to hide. Hamner demonstrated how boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activists have enmeshed Jew hatred into the fabric of academic life in America.
The BDS movement is qualitatively different from all other groups that operate on campuses today.
Unlike even the most radical, fringe groups, the BDS movement isn’t seeking to advance or protect the rights of anyone. All it works to accomplish is the obliteration of Jewish rights, and indeed of Jewish existence in Israel.
Like Hamas and Iran, BDS activists seek the annihilation of the Jewish state. Like Hamas and Iran, the BDS movement does not strive to bring peace or to protect the rights of anyone. Rather, like Iran and Hamas, the goal of the BDS movement is the genocide of the largest Jewish population in the world and the annihilation of the only Jewish state in the world.
Bullying is the BDS movement’s preferred tactic.
They bully faculty, administrators and students into becoming anti-Semitic by harassing, ostracizing and persecuting everyone who refuses to actively promote Jew hatred.
To force everyone into line, BDS groups have adopted two complementary tactics. First, they try to banish Israeli Jews entirely from their campuses by bullying their institutions into adopting and implementing anti-Israel boycotts.
Second, they enforce partial bans on Israeli Jews by requiring Israeli and non-Israeli Jews to behave in manners no one would never think of requiring of Israeli Arabs, or Italians or Japanese for that matter.
BDS activists achieve both aims by bullying non-activists into enforcing their anti-Semitic positions – as Hamner did when she disinvited Dotan.
These actions are a clear violation not only of the civil rights of Israeli and non-Israeli Jews. They are also an indisputable violation of the civil rights of all students, administrators and faculty at US universities. They deny everyone the right to hear viewpoints and receive knowledge from Israeli Jews and so limit the academic freedom of everyone.
BDS is a postmodern version of the pure, unrefined Jew hatred of Medieval Europe. Five hundred years ago, the only Jews permitted to enter the public square were Christians. Jews were rejected, ostracized, expelled and killed unless they could enthusiastically and soulfully recite the catechisms.
On university campuses throughout the US today, Jews – Israeli and non-Israeli – are ostracized, silenced, harassed and humiliated unless they enthusiastically, soulfully and contritely declare their support for the annihilation of the Jewish state.
Non-Jews who do not require them to do so are similarly ostracized and otherwise punished.
Case in point is the fate of Milan Chatterjee.
Chatterjee is an Indian-American law student and a Hindu. Last year he was elected president of UCLA’s Graduate Students’ Association. Last week he announced his resignation from the post and his transfer to New York University Law School to complete his degree.
In a letter to UCLA chancellor Gene Block, Chatterjee explained that his decision was the result of relentless attacks, harassment and bullying he has suffered at the hands of BDS activists and their enablers in Block’s administration.
Chatterjee wrote Block: “Your administration has not only allowed BDS organizations and student activists to freely engage in intimidation of students who do not support the BDS agenda, but has decided to affirmatively engage in discriminatory practices of its own against those same students.
“Whether you choose to acknowledge it or not, the fact is that the UCLA campus has become a hostile and unsafe environment for students, Jewish students and non-Jewish, who choose not to support the BDS movement, let alone support the State of Israel.”
Chatterjee got on the wrong side of UCLA’s anti-Semitism enforcers in November 2015 when he adopted a student government policy of strict neutrality on BDS.
Under his leadership, the graduate council would neither support nor oppose BDS. To this end, he allocated funds for a “Diversity Caucus,” with the stipulation that the caucus remain neutral on BDS.
It was for his refusal to actively endorse BDS – rather than any action to oppose BDS – that Chatterjee became a target for the BDS mob. They submitted a bid to impeach him based on frivolous claims.
To its shame, rather than stand by Chatterjee, the administration joined the mob. Chatterjee was censured by the university and subjected to disciplinary proceedings. UCLA’s administration claimed that he had “violated university policy” for refusing to fund BDS groups.
Following Chatterjee’s decision to transfer to NYU, Kenneth Marcus, president of the Louis Brandeis Center, which supported Chatterjee throughout his year of anti-Semitic persecution, issued a statement. Marcus noted, “It is disgraceful that anti-Israel extremists have managed to drive out this courageous and conscientious student leader for failing to capitulate to the demands of the anti-Semitic BDS movement. The Milan Chatterjee affair reflects the insidiousness of the anti-Israel movement’s new strategy, which is to suppress pro-Israel advocacy and intimidate not only Jewish pro-Israel students but anyone who remains neutral.”
Back at Syracuse, the ironic aspect of Hamner’s disinvitation of Dotan is that Dotan actually recites the catechism both personally and in his film. His only mistake was that he failed to make his convictions clear in the title of his movie.
The university administration was embarrassed by the publication of Hamner’s statement. As a result, last Friday Syracuse University provost Michelle Wheatley issued a mass email stating that Dotan had been reinvited to the conference and that Hamner had apologized for her letter.
The most notable aspect of Wheatley’s letter is that it contained no commitment to investigate her allegations of anti-Semitic intimidation on the part of faculty and student BDS goons. It contained no commitment to purge bigoted intimidation from campus or invite Israelis with Zionist views to speak at Syracuse or participate in university events. It contained no mention of any plans to discipline Hamner for engaging in bigoted actions.
Rather, it simply reinvited Dotan, whose anti-Israel credentials were belatedly sorted out.
For nearly eight years, US President Barack nObama’s Justice Department has refused to investigate the flagrant civil rights violations carried out by BDS activists, groups and their faculty and administration allies and enablers. So there is no reason to think that any federal investigation will be conducted any time soon.
Rather, we can expect anti-Jewish prejudice to become ever stronger and more brazen. We can expect Israeli Jews to be shunned to greater and greater degrees and for pro-Israel students, faculty and administrators – Jewish and non-Jewish – to become less and less free to voice their views.
And we can expect the US higher education system to speed up its slide into moral dystopia and intellectual corruption.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/glick-american-inquisition
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