| Ben and Jerry's Anuradha Mittal spreads antisemitic slander - while saying she's the victimnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 01 Aug 04:45 AM Anuradha M | | Anuradha Mittal tweeted that she has been receiving hate mail for her role in promoting BDS as the head of Ben and Jerry's board of directors. She published this vile email she received: As far as I can tell, there is no such rabbi in Williamsburg, which is there that zip-code is. The language doesn't sound at all like anything any rabbi, from Williamsburg or anywhere else, would write.
Yet from among the hate emails she says to have received, Mittal chose to publicize this one - leaving the "rabbi's" name in.
She could have made her point with blacking out the name and email address - anyone who cares about the possibility that an email is meant to discredit a real person would do that. Yet she chose to highlight and publicize this email and include the allegation that a rabbi was sending this anti-Hindu hate to her.
Which, of course, stokes antisemitism - as can be seen in the responses.
As a public person, it seems farfetched she could not have figured out that no one would send this sort of email under their own name.
I am not doubting that she received abusive emails, and I am not justifying them at all. But her choice to publicize this one and include the fake name indicates that she wanted the world to know that she is being attacked by a "rabbi", someone who represents Jews, and by extension that Jews are horrible people...Read More |
From Ian: Mixed judo team wins bronze, 2nd medal for Israel at Tokyo Olympics Israel's mixed team in judo won a bronze medal at the Olympics on Saturday, the nation's second medal at the Tokyo games. The team scored a victory over their Russian opponents in the consolation round of an event that is being held for the first time this year. In the battle for bronze, Israeli judoka Gili Sharir lost to Madina Taimazova, giving a 1:0 lead to the Russians. However Sagi Muki took his bout against Mikhail Igolnikov, bringing the Israelis level at 1:1. Next up was Raz Hershko who beat Aleksandra Babintseva to take the Israelis ahead 2:1, before Peter Paltchik took the score to 3:1. A final victory for Timna Nelson-Levy gave Israel a 4:1 win and a spot on the podium. Muki said the whole team had given everything they had to win the medal. "Everyone here gave their heart and soul, and together we did it," he said. After a week of losses for Israel's judokas, Paltchik said that the team had finally come together on Saturday. "Everyone had a week that was very disappointing on a personal level, but something about this special day led to everyone giving a little more for the team, and that's what made the difference," he said of the victory. "We were eulogized too soon." The biggest winners and losers in the Tokyo...Read More |
From Ian: NYPost Editorial: Sorry, Ben & Jerry: You're on the wrong side of history along with all who boycott Israel "Imagine Whirled Peace," a John Lennon tribute flavor, is as close as Ben & Jerry's get to promoting actual world peace — and the founders' claim that halting business in the West Bank puts the company on the "right side of history" is beyond bunk. Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield wrote a New York Times op-ed in defense of the company's move to ban sales in what it called "the Occupied Palestinian Territory," on top of stating earlier that it was "brave." Mayor Bill de Blasio actually got it right: "You cannot have peace if you undermine the economic reality and create division." Building a functional Palestinian state requires building a functional Palestinian economy, which means boosting commerce of all kinds on the West Bank — even when the customers are Jews, it means jobs for Palestinians. All the boycotting and divestment simply leaves Palestinians more distraught — and more prone to buy the hate-propaganda of their anti-democratic, anti-liberal rulers, who pretend that Israel can somehow be eliminated or at least turned into a majority-Arab state. Neither of which is going to happen. In fact, the future is in the Abraham Accords — the multiple Arab-Israel peace agreements aiming at mutual prosperity, which were reached...Read More |
Shibley Telhami at the Brookings Institution has released another poll that shows that loaded questions can prompt the anti-Israel responses he wants. Only a few questions were published but their wording shows the bias of the pollsters: Q67. Several members of Congress suggested withholding possible sale of arms to Israel, after its bombings of Gaza resulted in the death of over 250 people, mostly civilians, during intense fighting that also saw 12 Israelis, mostly civilians, killed by Hamas rockets.
In general, do you support linking American arms supplies to Israel to Israel's actions toward
Palestinians? The question starts off implying that the Congressional desire to withhold sales of arms to Israel is far more widespread than it is. The point is to make the subject primed to want to agree with what the experts in Congress believe. The fighting is described as Israel massively bombing Gaza civilians for no reason. Israel's bombing is mentioned before Hamas rockets, making the people surveyed think that Israel started the fighting. The "scorecard" (>250-12) is designed to make it look like Israel's response was disproportionate. The "more than...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The invisible victims of jihadi violence The death of Ruth Pearl at the age of 85 reminds us once again of the unspeakable horror that was visited upon Ruth and her family, and which served as a particularly dreadful wake-up call for the Western world. In January 2002 her son, the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, was kidnapped by Al-Qaeda and beheaded nine days later. Ruth, an electrical engineer, and her husband Judea, a professor of computer science and statistics, formed the Daniel Pearl Foundation, which brings together people from different cultures through musical events, lectures, journalism fellowships and other activities. Ruth's immediate family members, who survived the 1941 "Farhud" pogrom in Baghdad in which 180 Jews were killed and hundreds more injured, were part of the subsequent mass exodus of Jews to Israel in 1951. Shortly afterwards, Ruth's brother died fighting in the Israel Defense Forces. Such a family background in the Jewish experience of persecution and self-defense meant that when Daniel Pearl said into Al-Qaeda's video camera just before he was slaughtered, "My father is Jewish. My mother is Jewish. I am Jewish," this had a resonance which would have escaped his murderer. That vile individual, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, told the FBI he believed that killing a Jew would make for powerful propaganda and incite his fellow jihadis. For Al-Qaeda...Read More |
Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch tweeted: 600 academics, artists and intellectuals from 45 countries issue a public declaration calling on the Israeli government to dismantle its regime of apartheid.The declaration actually now has over 1000 signatories. On its main page they highlight only the most prominent signers, to show how seemingly important people agree that Israel is an unparalleled evil empire, or whatever they are accusing Israel of today.
One of the signers they chose to highlight is Richard Falk.
Richard Falk was asked to resign from Human Rights Watch itself in 2012 after it was revealed that he entertained 9/11 conspiracy theories, posted antisemitic cartoons, compared Israel multiple times to Nazi Germany and Palestinian suffering to the Holocaust, excused and justified terrorism against Jews and Americans (suggesting, for example, that the US was ultimately responsible for the Boston Marathon terror attack), and acted as an apologist fo rtyerror groups saying that their actions were legal.
Another was former Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters, who has proven himself to be an antisemite who...Read More |
The Jerusalem Post reports: US President Joe Biden decided to nominate Deborah Lipstadt as the next US Ambassador to Combat and Monitor Antisemitism. Lipstadt, Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University, was the founding director of the Institute for Jewish Studies. She is currently on the boards of The Jewish Forward Advisory Committee and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and serves as a judge for the Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature. During the Bill Clinton administration, she served in several roles at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is an author of eight books, including The Eichmann Trial; Holocaust: An American Understanding; Antisemitism: Here and Now; and Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945. By any measure, Professor Lipstadt is an expert on antisemitism. The most important question is whether she agrees that much of modern antisemitism is manifested as anti-Zionism - and on that point, she seems unequivocal. In her 2019 book, "Antisemitism: Here and Now," she wrote, "The negation of Jewish nationhood is a form of anti-Semitism, if not in intent, then certainly in effect." In a...Read More |
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