Edward Adler, the publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times in candor and chutzpah suggested that Israel assassinate the President of the United States to serve its war agenda against Iran. He states matter-of-factly in the article that Israels highest inner circles have certainly considered the operation. In 2009 I wrote an article for DavidDuke.com that stated that the biggest Zionist danger would be an assassination of Obama, which would propel their agenda and put the final nails in the coffin of American freedom. Now this Jewish extremist editor proves that my concerns were completely justified. This video is the ultimate expose' of Zionist treachery and treason against America.
January 31, 2012
Les attaques antisémites qui ont terrorisé Brooklyn étaient l’oeuvre d’un militant juif sioniste qui voulait « entretenir la pression »
Rien n’a changé, depuis l’incendie du Reichstag. Les fascistes, qu’ils soient nazi ou juifs, utilisent toujours le mensonge pour faire croire que leurs peurs sont réelles… et quand il s’agit de démoniser les Arabes, les juifs racistes sont les champions. On attend de voir ce que va dire la communauté à propos de Haddad, ou bien le communiqué de la Anti Defamation League, toujours si prompte à crier au loup et à faire taire les voix pro-Palestiniennes…
Jewish man gets caught red handed spraying anti-Jewish hate messages in New York
Robert Fisk: The present stands no chance against the past
And Benjamin Netanyahu has been boasting that he was right about Egypt and Tunisia and Libya. He did not welcome their supposedly democratic revolutions last year – and who, he has been asking, blames him now for his silence? And the Israeli Prime Minister's silence, I notice, continues over Syria. Save for the accusation that the Assad regime was involved in the attempt by Palestinian refugees to cross the border via Golan last year – Netanyahu must be right about that – and a passing comment in June that "the young people of Syria deserve a better future", that's it. Israel, the beacon of democracy in the Middle East, has nothing more to say. more>>
What did you see in Auschwitz?
by Hubert Prolongeau
“Maybe a package tour would be more convenient..."
"... You’re right, it would take less time.” They are a couple in their fifties with an attentive way of speaking to each other. Stopping over in Cracow in the course of their holiday, they do not want to miss out on the one item that is at the top of the region’s to do list: a visit to Auschwitz, which is 60 kilometres from the city.
The employee at the tourist office politely provides the required information. Every year he sees thousands of couples like this: people with only three days to visit the region who want to see “the camp.” Today Auschwitz has more visitors than the splendid city of Cracow, for which it has almost become the leading attraction.
Tourists travelling to the city face a constant hail of solicitations: even at the airport, the taxi drivers offer to take you directly to the camp. Tour operators propose day trips: a total of three hours on the bus, and two hours at the site for an all-in fee of 100 zlotys, the equivalent of 20 euros. “Auschwitz is the tour that is most in demand, especially from foreigners,” says Tomas Stanek, the manager of Cracow City Tours. Last year, 1.3 million people visited the camp. more>>
January 30, 2012
Mabrouk, ya Masr?
I used to live in Bab El Louq and loved every dilapidated inch of it. Birds filled the mango tree outside my window, chattering like mad and occasionally, astonishingly, perforating their chatter with a second or two of perfect silence before starting up again. I used to fantasize about how downtown would be with more trees and open space, some basic repairs, a coat of paint, less garbage. I pictured it ‘before’ and after’; a cosmetic makeover was all I wanted back then. Sadat had just been assassinated, Mubarak had inherited the presidency, was building a metro and an Opera House. Things might have gone well, or so we hoped, setting aside an unarticulated unease while getting on with the business of life.
On January 25, 2012 I toured my neighborhood, asking myself what it all meant: these decades, this ‘revolution’, the endless throngs of young people with whom I shared the pitted streets. Rain had left pond-sized puddles. Barbed wire coils trapped free-blowing garbage; the shattered windows of smoke-blackened buildings reflected a cloudy sky. My neighborhood had never looked more scarred and neglected.
The cafes were crowded. The mood complacently festive, the midan predictably packed, mostly with day-trippers making noise and bumping into one another, content to occupy a public space, stop traffic, take pictures of themselves in a sea of others like them, as if to say: see how many — if nothing else — we are!
One of a dozen men bellowing into microphones shouted hoarsely: We are now a million and a half! People cheered. An Egyptian idiosyncrasy: inflating the numbers, bending facts to suit the occasion. I fervently wished that like those birds in my old mango tree, everyone would suddenly, by some foreordained signal, just collectively shut up. A moment of shared silence to reflect on how we got here, indeed, to determine where, on the map of human possibilities, we actually stood. continued>>
2012 Annual Dorothy Gardner Adler State of Anti-Semitism Lecture
Monday, February 13th — 7:00pm
Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
695 Park Avenue at 68th Street, New York, NY
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The annual State of Anti-Semitism lecture is endowed in perpetuity by Simon Wiesenthal Center Trustee Allen Adler in memory of his mother Dorothy Gardner Adler
Museum of Tolerance New York
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MSNBC highlights Israeli abuse, shows soldier driving trailer over Palestinian body
Featured in MSNBC's "The Week in Pictures" is a photograph of a Palestinian man screaming in agony as an Israeli soldier drives a tractor-hitched trailer over his legs.
It’s a heartbreaking photograph, and the stone cold and carefree attitudes of the soldiers surrounding the man literally adds insult to injury. But first, a backstory: In the West Bank village of Al-Dirat near Al-Khalil, a group of Palestinian construction workers prepared the equipment and materials necessary to begin the construction of a new home. Soon after, a half-dozen or so Israeli soldiers appeared at the scene and ordered the workers to cease construction. continued>>
Egypt's Feminist Union Undergoing Reincarnation
By Jessica Gray
CAIRO, Egypt (WOMENSENEWS)--Grassroots organizations have been flowering in Egypt's first post-revolutionary year and at least one is coming back to life.
The Egyptian Feminist Union, first founded in 1923, was shuttered just shy of 30 years later by the onset of Egyptian military rule. Now, after registering as a nonprofit a month ago, it is ramping up to give women the voice they've been lacking for so long, organizers say.
"We have to defend whatever rights we have and we have to go forward to equality and equity," says Hoda Badran, chair of the group, which represents a collection of nongovernmental organizations tackling women's issues in every governorate. "Women should have a say if any public issue or decision has to be made." continued>>
CAIRO, Egypt (WOMENSENEWS)--Grassroots organizations have been flowering in Egypt's first post-revolutionary year and at least one is coming back to life.
The Egyptian Feminist Union, first founded in 1923, was shuttered just shy of 30 years later by the onset of Egyptian military rule. Now, after registering as a nonprofit a month ago, it is ramping up to give women the voice they've been lacking for so long, organizers say.
"We have to defend whatever rights we have and we have to go forward to equality and equity," says Hoda Badran, chair of the group, which represents a collection of nongovernmental organizations tackling women's issues in every governorate. "Women should have a say if any public issue or decision has to be made." continued>>
God rules all in 2012 Israel, even the state
By Gideon Levy
God exists. Eighty percent of Israeli Jews can't be wrong. And it is precisely for that reason we must say: God protect us from the results of the poll (conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute's Guttman Center for Surveys and the Avi Chai Foundation ). While it is conceivably possible to deal with that burning, wholesale belief in the divine, what do we do with the "You chose us" part? Seventy percent of respondents said they also believed Jews are the Chosen People - and that frightening parameter is only on the rise.
You have to give it to the pollsters. They let the cat out of the bag. To paraphrase the Haaretz advertising slogan from the 1990s - Israel: Not what you thought. Not what the world thought, not what Israelis imagine themselves to think. Israeli society isn't secular, it isn't liberal and it isn't enlightened. Were they permitted to respond freely, it's doubtful that 80 percent of Iranians would say they believed in God; it's doubtful there is any other free nation on the planet, with the possible exception of the Americans, that would produce the same results. But there surely is no other nation on the planet that is so secure in its arrogant certainty that it was selected from all the other nations and raised above them. continued>>
EGYPTE: Le blogueur égyptien Maïkel Nabil raconte les conditions de sa déten...
The Devil We Don't Know
sent by Elie Mangoubi
Human rights activist Nonie Darwish assesses the potential for freedom to succeed following the recent revolutions in the Middle East. The powerful wave of uprisings has fueled both hope and trepidation in the region and around the world as the ultimate fate – and fallout – of the Arab Spring continue to hang in the balance. more>>Egyptians move to reclaim streets through graffiti
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January 29, 2012
'A Muslim Suicide': Literature in the tradition of Islamic art
The title of Bensalem Himmich's 2008 novel, "Haza al-Andalusi!" ("This Andalusian!"), is as subdued in Arabic as it is attention-grabbing in English. In translation, it becomes "A Muslim Suicide," a title that sprawls across the book's cover in bright block letters.
But this new title, translator Roger Allen explains, is not a betrayal of the author's intentions. In fact, it hews very closely to the author's original wishes. According to Allen's afterword, Himmich had wanted to call the book "Al-Intihar bi-Jiwar al-Ka'aba" ("Suicide Beside the Ka'aba") for the way his protagonist reportedly died in AD 1269. continued>>
Egypte, un an après
Un an après le début de la révolution égyptienne, la contestation se poursuit. Cette fois, ce n'est pas pour demander la chute du régime, celui de Hosni Moubarak est tombé le 11 février dernier, mais pour que les promesses d'ouverture, de justice sociale, de liberté d'expression et de lutte contre l'impunité soient enfin réalisées.
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US lobbyists end contracts with Egypt
WASHINGTON: Lobbyists representing the Egyptian government in Washington have ended their contracts with their client following a raid by Egyptian authorities on several US nonprofit organizations, The New York Times reported late Saturday.
The newspaper said the move came after Egyptian authorities slapped a travel ban on several US citizens working for non-governmental organizations, preventing them from leaving the country.
The International Republican Institute, whose Egypt director Sam LaHood — the son of US Secretary for Transportation Ray LaHood — was among those banned from travel, according to Egyptian officials.
The ban was issued following the orders of the prosecutor general. more>>
The newspaper said the move came after Egyptian authorities slapped a travel ban on several US citizens working for non-governmental organizations, preventing them from leaving the country.
The International Republican Institute, whose Egypt director Sam LaHood — the son of US Secretary for Transportation Ray LaHood — was among those banned from travel, according to Egyptian officials.
The ban was issued following the orders of the prosecutor general. more>>
Facebook réunit des jumelles séparées... 30 ans après !
Tout a commencé par un message de Facebook reçu par Lin Backlund, 28 ans : il émanait d'une certaine Emilie Falk, qui prétendait être sa soeur jumelle. Croyant à une plaisanterie, il commence par l'ignorer. Puis, intriguée, elle finit par en parler à sa mère adoptive.
C'est ainsi qu'elle apprend qu'au moment de son adoption, en Indonésie, son père et sa mère ont eu connaissance de l'existence d'une soeur jumelle, adoptée un mois plus tôt par une autre famille suédoise. Les deux familles finissent par organiser une rencontre, qui s'avère peu convaincante : les papiers d'adoption ne sont pas clairs sur le réel lien fraternel entre les deux filles, qui ne se ressemblent en plus pas du tout. Les liens sont alors rompus. suite>>
C'est ainsi qu'elle apprend qu'au moment de son adoption, en Indonésie, son père et sa mère ont eu connaissance de l'existence d'une soeur jumelle, adoptée un mois plus tôt par une autre famille suédoise. Les deux familles finissent par organiser une rencontre, qui s'avère peu convaincante : les papiers d'adoption ne sont pas clairs sur le réel lien fraternel entre les deux filles, qui ne se ressemblent en plus pas du tout. Les liens sont alors rompus. suite>>
Caricature antisémite
La caricature dans le quotidien de gauche Il Manifesto décrit Fiamma Nirenstein comme un monstre, comme "Fiamma Frankenstein", portant sur ses vêtements des boutons de la campagne, une Maguen David et un symbole fasciste. Nirenstein, une journaliste, est candidate du Parti de la Liberté du Peuple du centre-gauche pour les élections du mois prochain. en savoir plus>>
Pourquoi Israël félicite l'Egypte pour son Parlement ?
Israël a félicité jeudi l’Egypte pour ses efforts vers "la liberté, la démocratie et le développement économique", à l’occasion de la séance inaugurale il y a trois jours de la nouvelle Assemblée à majorité islamiste.
"A l’occasion de la séance inaugurale du Parlement égyptien, le 23 janvier, Israël adresse ses félicitations au peuple égyptien pour ses efforts pour parvenir à la liberté, la démocratie et au développement économique", a affirmé le ministère israélien des Affaires étrangères dans un communiqué. "Nous sommes confiants dans le fait que l’Egypte restera attachée à l’importance de la paix et la stabilité dans notre région", assure le ministère. suite>>
What is Ashkenazi identity?
Instead of embodying the Israeli success story, economist Shlomo Maoz stabbed it in the heart with his attack on the Ashkenazi establishment. The force of the blow stemmed from the fact that he himself was a "success story." A senior member of the Israeli elite (not because of his accent - which in our culture is used only for comic effect - but despite it ), Maoz, who was fired following his speech, not only refused to see himself as the rule but actually stressed that he was the exception.
In our "official" symbolism, the wound of the Mizrahim, or Jews of Middle Eastern descent, has almost healed. Any minute now, equality will arrive. The fact that both wealth and poverty reproduce themselves has nothing to do with this story, which always relies on partial statistics. The creators of these symbols - such as authors Sami Michael, A. B. Yehoshua and Eli Amir - always tell the same success story, in which the Mizrahi was raised from the pre-modern depths to the modern heights (and this is another reason why Shas, an ultra-Orthodox Mizrahi party, is like a red rag to a bull ). more>>
Obama reads Tantawi the Riot Act
CAIRO: Help me out here. Let’s read some news items together to prove I’m not completely mad. First a newsflash: Three PR gurus paid $4.3 million (plus expenses) to flack for SCAF in Washington DC dumped them after lawmakers harrumphed: Is there no shame in this town?
Update: Cairo says it did the dumping. Who’s pot calling who’s kettle black?
SCAF’s devil-may-care disregard for human rights is their undoing. No amount of pleading by a bevy of top brass hastily dispatched to the State Department and the Pentagon this week can save their skins. Or military aid.
It’s SCAF’s billion-dollar bungle. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want braided Egyptian scalps on the wall of the trophy room at Camp David.
Back to the papers. Leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood and their political party the FJP are opening channels of communication with some of former president Hosni Mubarak's cabinet ministers and the now defunct National Democratic Party to understand some files and to listen to those who ran the country (Al-Ahram).
According to independent sources, the paper says, talks have included delegating envoys to meet some of the former key ministers who have exited Egypt upon the end of the Mubarak regime and had never come back (sic) continued>>
Update: Cairo says it did the dumping. Who’s pot calling who’s kettle black?
SCAF’s devil-may-care disregard for human rights is their undoing. No amount of pleading by a bevy of top brass hastily dispatched to the State Department and the Pentagon this week can save their skins. Or military aid.
It’s SCAF’s billion-dollar bungle. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want braided Egyptian scalps on the wall of the trophy room at Camp David.
Back to the papers. Leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood and their political party the FJP are opening channels of communication with some of former president Hosni Mubarak's cabinet ministers and the now defunct National Democratic Party to understand some files and to listen to those who ran the country (Al-Ahram).
According to independent sources, the paper says, talks have included delegating envoys to meet some of the former key ministers who have exited Egypt upon the end of the Mubarak regime and had never come back (sic) continued>>
Israël : Tzipi Livni rencontre des étudiants iraniens opposants au régime.
La dirigeante de l’opposition centriste israélienne Tzipi Livni a rencontré samedi à Tel-Aviv une délégation de la Confédération des étudiants iraniens, des opposants au régime de Téhéran, a constaté un photographe de l’AFP. Cette délégation était dirigée par Amir Abbas Fakhravar, secrétaire général de la confédération, qui a affirmé être "heureux de se trouver en Israël, la seule démocratie de la région". Une des membres de la délégation a offert un ruban vert, un symbole de l’opposition iranienne, à Tzipi Livni. suite>>
Welcome to the fastest-growing Jewish community in the world: Germany
For 10-year-old Rafael Seligmann, leaving Israel for Germany in 1957 was a trauma, but for his parents it was a return to the homeland they had fled 20 years earlier. Today, Seligmann, 65, a successful journalist and novelist, is a firm believer in the rebirth of German-Jewish life, and has just launched a new quarterly, Jewish Voice from Germany, with the hope of helping the new generation of Jews there.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, right, and the publisher of the newspaper Jewish Voice from Germany, Rafael Seligmann, looking at a copy of the paper in Berlin last week. Photo by: ReutersSeligmann emerged in the German public consciousness in the 1970s through his articles in leading publications such as Der Spiegel, Bild, Die Welt and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He also published six novels - his first, "Rubenstein's Auction" (1988 ), was recognized as the first German novel written by a Jew after the Second World War. more>>
Family in Canada guilty of honor killings
(AP) KINGSTON, Ontario — A jury on Sunday found an Afghan father, his wife and their son guilty of killing three teenage sisters and a co-wife in what the judge described as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting from a "twisted concept of honor."
The jury took 15 hours to find Mohammad Shafia, 58; his wife Tooba Yahya, 42; and their son Hamed, 21, each guilty of four counts of first-degree murder in a case that shocked and riveted Canadians from coast to coast. First-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.
After the verdict was read, the three defendants again declared their innocence in the killings of sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar 17, and Geeti, 13, as well as Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, Shafia's childless first wife in a polygamous marriage. more>>
Revolution through Arab Eyes - The Republic of Tahrir
It became the physical and symbolic heart of a revolution, but have Egyptians kept the spirit of Tahrir alive?
CrossTalk on Egypt: Wounded Revolution
What else should Egyptians do to ensure the Mubarak era is over? How to keep the revolutionary spirit alive? Will the newly elected parties fulfill their promises under SCAF? When will the Council transfer power to civilian rule? Will there be any reason for the military to stay in power? And why aren't the secular democratic parties as popular as the West would like them to be? Bradley Blakeman and David Faros analyze the events that changed the Middle East, a year on.
Tel Aviv voted world's Best Gay City and Israel's Tourism Ministry sees Gay Tourism rise sharply
New Winter 2012 issue of Sephardic Horizons
from Judith Roumani
To all subscribers to Sephardic Horizons: We hope you will enjoy the new Winter 2012 issue, which has just been posted. You can find it at
www.sephardichorizons.org .
Here is the table of contents:
Sephardic Horizons 2:1 Winter 2012 Articles
Leon Taranto, The Taranto-Capouya-Crespin Family History: A Microcosm
of Sephardic History: Part II, The Capouya-Crespin-Bonomo Families
Sasson Somekh , Arabic as a Jewish Language: Part II, The Judeo-
Arabic of the Cairo Geniza
Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer, Out of Smyrna
Nina Lichtenstein, Silent Exodus and Forgotten Voices: Sephardic Women
Writers in Postcolonial Discourse
Ronda Angel Arking, A Poem, Claiming Angels
In Ladino:
Rivka Abiry, "Tanto Va el Kantariko"
Book Reviews
Sasson Somekh and Deborah Starr, eds., Mongrels or Marvels: The
Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohat Kahanoff reviewed by Yael
Halevi-Wise
Roger Crowley, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of
Islam and the West , reviewed by Albert Garih
Enjoy your reading and please do write to us,
Judith Roumani
Editor
Sephardic Horizons
www.sephardichorizons.org .
Here is the table of contents:
Sephardic Horizons 2:1 Winter 2012 Articles
Leon Taranto, The Taranto-Capouya-Crespin Family History: A Microcosm
of Sephardic History: Part II, The Capouya-Crespin-Bonomo Families
Sasson Somekh , Arabic as a Jewish Language: Part II, The Judeo-
Arabic of the Cairo Geniza
Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer, Out of Smyrna
Nina Lichtenstein, Silent Exodus and Forgotten Voices: Sephardic Women
Writers in Postcolonial Discourse
Ronda Angel Arking, A Poem, Claiming Angels
In Ladino:
Rivka Abiry, "Tanto Va el Kantariko"
Book Reviews
Sasson Somekh and Deborah Starr, eds., Mongrels or Marvels: The
Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohat Kahanoff reviewed by Yael
Halevi-Wise
Roger Crowley, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of
Islam and the West , reviewed by Albert Garih
Enjoy your reading and please do write to us,
Judith Roumani
Editor
Sephardic Horizons
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