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More evidence why the UN is a nothing more than a Muslim cesspool:

A United Nations General Assembly committee on Friday furthered the transformation of the UN Human Rights Council from anything resembling a body concerned with global human rights to one that focuses solely on condemning the Jewish state.

By a vote of 167 to 7, UN Watch reported that the committee approved a package altering the procedural mechanisms of the Human Rights Council in the following ways:

The Council will no longer retain or hear from country monitors or experts reporting specifically on rights abuses in Cuba or Belarus;

The remaining 10 country monitors, who report on abuses in countries such as Sudan and North Korea, are now in a “review process” pending the termination of their services;

New guidelines have been implemented that make it next to impossible to pass a resolution condemning any nation by name;

Israel is the exception to all the above rules, and is now under permanent indictment and will feature as a special agenda item any and every time the council meets.

Destruction under the guise of Humanitarian Assistance brought to you by some of the she-pigs at ISM. Greta Berlin must be so happy. From INN:

Jewish-owned vineyards in Samaria were once again destroyed by leftist “humanitarian groups” Friday. This time some were caught in the act and arrested.

Shortly after residents of Dolev, located north of Jerusalem, discovered Friday that a local synagogue had been burned to the ground overnight, they saw that 3,000 plants in nearby vineyards had been destroyed. This is the third case of major agricultural vandalism in the region in recent months.

Vines were torn from the ground, and expensive irrigation equipment was damaged. The Jewish locals saw a group of foreign activists and Arabs heading toward an additional Jewish agricultural plot and alerted the police and IDF. The group fled, but three female activists from the United Kingdom were slower and were caught by police.

The three British women who were apprehended by police are accused of responsibility for the destruction Friday. Police also have evidence, however, that the women were part of the group that destroyed farm equipment in the nearby town of Neria in an earlier incident as well.

The women are activists with the International Solidarity Movement, a militantly anti-Zionist group that seeks to enable provocative actions against the IDF and Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria, under the assumption that their foreign citizenship will raise the threshold on the response of security forces. The lines between ISM and local terrorist groups are quite blurry. In the past, British terrorists even carried out a suicide bombing after being embedded in an ISM cell.

Most of the vandals also take part in clashes with the IDF near the Arab village of Bilin. The militants were recently handed a victory by the Supreme Court, which ordered the IDF to move the security fence in the area of the weekly protests.

The International Solidarity Movement, founded in August 2001 by Adam Shapiro, Huwaida Arraf, Ghassan Andoni, and George Rishmawi, describes itself as “a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.” Though professing a commitment to nonviolence, ISM members openly advocate the “liberation” of Palestinians “by any means necessary,” including “legitimate armed struggle.” Led by Palestinians working closely with American recruiters, ISM invites American volunteers to travel to the Palestinian territories and disrupt the actions of the Israeli Defense Force, which is engaged in anti-terror operations in the region.

An excerpt from the widely heralded Victor Davis Hanson’s Looking for scapegoat, world again turns to Jews :

Who recently said: “These Jews started 19 Crusades. The 19th was World War (1). Why? Only to build Israel.”

Some holdover Nazi?

Hardly. It was former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan of Turkey, a NATO ally. He went on to claim that the Jews — whom he refers to as “bacteria” — controlled China, India and Japan, and ran the United States.

Who alleged: “The Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs.”

A conspiracy nut?

Actually, it was former Democratic U.S. Sen. James Abourezk of South Dakota. He denounced Israel on a Hezbollah-owned television station, adding: “I marveled at the Hezbollah resistance to Israel. . . . It was a marvel of organization, of courage and bravery.”

And finally, who claimed at a United Nations-sponsored conference that democratic Israel was “much worse” than the former apartheid South Africa, and that it “undermines the international community’s reaction to global warming”?

A radical environmentalist wacko?

Again, no. It was Clare Short, a member of the British parliament. She was a secretary for international development under Prime Minister Tony Blair.

A new virulent strain of the old anti-Semitism is spreading worldwide. This hate — of a magnitude not seen in over 70 years — is not just espoused by Iran’s loony president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or radical jihadists.

The latest anti-Semitism is also now mouthed by world leaders and sophisticated politicians and academics. Their loathing often masquerades as “anti-Zionism” or “legitimate” criticism of Israel. But the venom exclusively reserved for the Jewish state betrays their existential hatred.

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Via NGO Monitor:

The Minerva Center for Human Rights, a program based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is arranging a number of summer courses for advanced students at the prestigious Graduate School for International Studies at the University of Denver.[1]

While some of these courses include qualified academics and focus on serious research issues, others which offer internships are based on partisan political positions promoted by NGOs with no academic foundations. The “Internship with Israeli and Palestinian Human Rights Organizations” includes the participation of B’Tselem, Machsom Watch, ICAHD, and Adalah.

As documented in detail by NGO Monitor, officials from ICAHD frequently refer to Israel using terms such as “apartheid”, actively support academic boycotts, and participate in conferences and campaigns that promote a radical pro-Palestinian position. Seth Freedman of the Guardian (UK) wrote: “Jeff Halper, the man behind ICAHD, is a far more sinister figure in terms of the damage he does to the chances of rapprochement between the moderates in Israel and those on the Palestinian side of the divide. A supporter of the one-state solution – in other words, the total elimination of Israel in its current form – Halper travels the world promoting his message of ‘Israeli apartheid’ and calling for heavy sanctions to be implemented against the Jewish State.”

Similarly, Adalah is very active in anti-Israel activities in the United Nations, such as a July 2006 document sent to member states asking them to convene an emergency session to condemn Israel’s construction of the security barrier. This submission, designed to promote sanctions and boycotts, erroneously refers to the ICJ advisory opinion as a “ruling” against the “wall” and omits any mention of the barrier’s role in preventing terrorist attacks.

Machsom Watch is also a partisan political organization, openly declaring its positions and objectives, and many of its media reports and claims have been shown to be inaccurate, unverifiable or false. Claims that security measures “are employed by Israelis for the sole purpose of preventing the free passage of Palestinian residents between their villages and towns” absurdly erase the context of mass terror.

B’stelem, one of the most visible and powerful Israeli NGOs, (funded by European governments, Church groups and other sources), acknowledges its political objectives. Detailed analyses have shown that these objectives result in distorted reports, particularly regarding Palestinian casualties which fail to distinguish between civilians and those involved in terrorism. In response to a May 2007 publication co-authored by B’tselem, the Israeli Ministry of Justice (MOJ) issued a nine page letter detailing the questionable methodology and lack of verifiable sources. The letter notes that the report is “fraught with mistakes, groundless claims and inaccuracies.”

Such one-sided political campaigning by unaccountable private organizations based on false or unverifiable claims is antithetical to academic norms and standards of conduct.

Furthermore, the exploitation of the rhetoric of human rights to promote particular and discriminatory agendas[2] further degrades these important universal norms. NGO Monitor urges the heads of the Minerva Center, its funding organizations[3], the Hebrew University, and the University of Denver GSIS to appoint an independent committee to review this and similar activities.

Endnotes:

1. http://www.du.edu/gsis/programs/jerusalem/
This program is offered under the auspices of CORD (Center on Rights Development) at Denver University, and conducted during the summer in Jerusalem. “Open to all University of Denver undergraduate and graduate students, the 8-week program immerses participants in the political dynamics and human rights issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

2. On 28 September 2007, the heads of the University and College Union (UK) published a statement noting that calls for boycotts of Israeli institutions are “unlawful” and might be found to violate anti-discrimination legislation.

3. Funders include The Minerva Foundation and The Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany), The Ford Foundation and The New Israel Fund, The United States Institute of Peace, The European Commission, and others. http://law.mscc.huji.ac.il/law1/minerva/english/supporters.htm

Muslim identity politics – and Jew-hatred – are once again the motivation in the stabbing of a rabbi by a German of Afghan origin. From Ha’aretz:

Police arrested a German of Afghan origin in the stabbing of a rabbi in Frankfurt last week, prosecutors said Friday.

The 22-year-old man was arrested Thursday night and admitted to stabbing the rabbi, Zalman Gurevitch, Frankfurt prosecutors said in a statement. The man is being investigated on suspicion of attempted manslaughter and dangerous bodily harm.

Police have said an anti-Semitic insult preceded the stabbing September 7. Gurevitch has been recovering in a hospital.

The attack prompted concern and condemnation from local politicians and Jewish groups. According to the rabbi, the assailant said, “I’ll kill you, you (expletive) Jew,” prosecutors say.

However, prosecutors said the suspect – whose name they did not release – denies having either any intention of killing the rabbi and any anti-Semitic motive.

The Frankfurt-born German citizen, whose parents come from Afghanistan, maintains that he greeted the rabbi with the words “salaam aleikum,” or peace upon you. In their statement, they said that there was then an exchange of words which ended in a physical confrontation.

The suspect said that he felt physically inferior to the rabbi and so reached for his knife, they added. The weapon had a 7.6-centimeter (3-inch) blade.

Prosecutors said they tracked down the suspect after being tipped off to an Internet forum that contained details of the incident.

Spokeswoman Doris Moeller-Scheu said prosecutors and police had no information to suggest that he had a radical Islamic background. She said the attack appeared to have been spontaneous rather than planned.

Note: Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were Jewish. This was downplayed in media reports, but noted in academic circles. Received by email:
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Carolyn Goodman, the mother of one of three civil rights workers killed by the Ku Klux Klan in the “Mississippi Burning” case, died Friday. She was 91. Goodman, who lived to see a Klan leader convicted in her son’s death two years ago, died at her Manhattan home, her son Jonathan said.

Goodman’s son Andrew was killed on June 21, 1964, in central Mississippi’ s Neshoba County, along with fellow civil rights workers Michael Schwerner and James Chaney.

Chaney, a black Mississippian, and Schwerner and Goodman, white New Yorkers, had been looking into the torching of a black church and helping to register black voters during what was known as Freedom Summer. They were abducted, shot to death and buried in an earthen dam.

The slayings shocked the nation, helped spur passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and were dramatized in the 1988 movie “Mississippi Burning.”

Chaney’s mother, Fannie Lee Chaney, died May 22. Both women testified in the 2005 trial of 80-year-old Edgar Ray Killen, who was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to three consecutive 20-year prison terms.

Killen was the only person to ever face state murder charges in the case. Nineteen men, including Killen, were indicted on federal charges. Seven were convicted of violating the victims’ civil rights.

None served more than six years. Killen’s federal case ended with a hung jury after one juror said she couldn’t convict a preacher.

Carolyn Goodman was a psychologist who founded a program to help mothers leaving mental hospitals learn parenting skills. She set up the Andrew Goodman Foundation in 1966 to carry on her son’s legacy.

Survivors include her sons Jonathan and David.

Gee, I wonder what indigenous peoples these “palestinians” were going to kill. From IDF Finds 2,000 Bullets in Palestinian Car in West Bank:

Two Palestinians were arrested south of Nablus, Thursday afternoon. 2,000 handgun bullets were found in the Palestinians’ car.

Monkey see, monkey do. And all along I thought Muslims said Jews were apes and pigs. From Hamas TV’s Child Star Says She’s Ready for Martyrdom:

Inside the bustling new Hamas television headquarters, Saraa Barhoum, 11, the young star of Hamas television’s best-known children’s show, said she wants to be a doctor. If she can’t, she’d be proud to become a martyr. ”Of course,” Saraa said. ”It’s something to be proud of. Every Palestinian citizen hopes to be a martyr.” Saraa offers a jarring mix of innocent charm and militant rhetoric as the sweet face of ”Tomorrow’s Pioneers,” a weekly, hour-long Hamas television children’s show best known for bringing the world a militant Mickey Mouse look-alike and then having him killed off by an Israeli interrogator. During the show, Saraa fields calls from Palestinian children who warble songs about Islam, liberating Jerusalem and finding answers in the barrel of a machine gun.

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From Anti-Semitic attack against Jewish woman in Paris:

A 23-year-old Jewish woman was attacked in Paris this week by two masked men of African descent, who beat her up and uttered anti-Semitic slurs, the Jewish Agency reported Monday. Following the attack the young woman needed medical treatment. The local police launched an investigation into the incident.

The Jewish Agency further reported that another anti-Semitic incident took place in the French capital two weeks ago, when a young haredi man was battered by a cab driver. According to the report, the youth was on his way to the synagogue with his brother-in-law and nephew, when the driver began shouting anti-Semitic slurs at them.

Some 50 anti-Semitic incidents have taken place in France since the beginning of the year, the Jewish Agency said.

All the leftys are crooks, just like their role models Hillary “I can’t find my billing records” Clinton and Barack “shady land deals” Obama. Now blogger Jerome Armstrong, partner to the seething, bug-eyed Jew-hating and America-hating effeminate Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, has agreed to pay nearly $30,000 in fines in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations that Armstrong touted the stock of a software company, without disclosing that he was being paid to do so, the NY Times reports. Armstrong is the co-author of Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics, with Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of Daily Kos. He is also the founder of the Democratic activist site MyDD.com. Under the agreement, Armstrong neither denies nor admits to the allegations.

Click here for the litigation release.