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simon wiesenthal centre appeal

rabbi mervin hier | 01.04.2004 18:34 | Anti-racism

in this article the simon wiesenthal centre ask for help to fight atnisemitism


PASSOVER GREETINGS FROM RABBI MARVIN HIER

Rabbi Marvin Hier
As we approach Passover, the Festival of Freedom, I can tell you this has been a very difficult year for Jews and for the State of Israel.

We are still confronted with the fact that the instruments of the United Nations are always used against Israel, but not once in its entire history has the United Nations ever condemned an Islamic terrorist organization like Hamas, Islamic Jihad, al Aqsa Brigades by name in wave after wave of suicide bombing attacks on Israeli civilians.

Can you believe that the International Court of Justice, which has never convened to condemn Islamic terrorists and suicide bombings, did convene to rule on whether Israel has the right to defend herself from terrorism, by erecting a security wall?

Can you believe that the mastermind of Hamas terrorist activities, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin who had never been condemned by the United Nations for the terrorism he unleashed that resulted in the murder and maiming of thousands of innocent women and children, was memorialized by a UN Human Rights Commission resolution which condemns Israel for assassinating him?

Can you believe that the Palestinian leaders called Yassin one of the great leaders of their people, that the flags were flown at half-mast in the Palestinian territories and that Arafat called for three days of public mourning for him?

What would have happened if following the murder of Meyer Kahane, (who had been banished from the Knesset for his extremist views), the State of Israel would have announced three days of public mourning? Every country in the world would have resoundingly condemned Israel. But for Sheik Yassin, the arch terrorist, antisemite and murderer of Jews, only eulogies, compassion and understanding.



On March 27 2004, "Eleftherotypia" ran this
cartoon: The Woman on the left asks: "Why did
the Jewish Government kill a religious leader?" The
man answers: "They were practicing for Easter."
And meanwhile in Europe, horrible antisemitic cartoons, like the one published in a Greek newspaper poison attitudes towards Israel and the Jewish people. It is this dangerous double standard and hypocrisy that the Simon Wiesenthal Center is fighting on the frontlines, in Brussels, in New York and in Geneva.

We cannot carry on this fight alone. We need your financial support and help. As we celebrate Passover together with our families and thank G-d for the freedoms we enjoy, take a moment to remember what Simon Wiesenthal said, "Freedom is not a gift from heaven, we must fight for it every day." Help us carry on that fight by sending in a contribution to support the work of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.




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Zionism fuels anti-Semitism

02.04.2004 00:55

If you are interested in ending anti-semitism then a good place to start is to smash the zionist state which in the name of all Jewish people is committing the worst attrocities and institutionalised racism the world has seen since the nazis.

observer


In detail

02.04.2004 13:28

In Detail:

"We are still confronted with the fact that the instruments of the United Nations are always used against Israel, but not once in its entire history has the United Nations ever condemned an Islamic terrorist organization like Hamas, Islamic Jihad, al Aqsa Brigades by name in wave after wave of suicide bombing attacks on Israeli civilians."

The Un has condemned attacks by "Islamic terrorist organisations" against Israel, but hasn't mentioned them by names. Given that the aforementioned "Islamic terrorist organisations" have killed only 1/3 the number of people as the Israeli Army of Occupation (and a smaller percentage of them civilians), the UN seems to have the right priority.


"Can you believe that the International Court of Justice, which has never convened to condemn Islamic terrorists and suicide bombings, did convene to rule on whether Israel has the right to defend herself from terrorism, by erecting a security wall?"

The International Court of Justice, as the name suggests, deals with International Law and so can judge upon legality of the building of Israel's so-called "security wall". Terrorist attacks are already illegal. The court's job is to issue judgments, not condemnations. The so-called "security wall" is nothing of the sort, it doesn't run along the border of the Occupied Territories (which it would if necessary for security) But cuts deeply into it, surrounding most Palestinian cities and in effect turning them into Ghettoes. The Nazis built a similar wall in Warsaw.

"Can you believe that the mastermind of Hamas terrorist activities, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin who had never been condemned by the United Nations for the terrorism he unleashed that resulted in the murder and maiming of thousands of innocent women and children, was memorialized by a UN Human Rights Commission resolution which condemns Israel for assassinating him?"

See the first answer for UN condemnation of Yassin. Assassination is illegal under international law and the UN resolution was reflecting that

"Can you believe that the Palestinian leaders called Yassin one of the great leaders of their people, that the flags were flown at half-mast in the Palestinian territories and that Arafat called for three days of public mourning for him?

What would have happened if following the murder of Meyer Kahane, (who had been banished from the Knesset for his extremist views), the State of Israel would have announced three days of public mourning? Every country in the world would have resoundingly condemned Israel. But for Sheik Yassin, the arch terrorist, antisemite and murderer of Jews, only eulogies, compassion and understanding."

For a similar event, when Baruch Goldman gumnned down 30 Palestinians at prayer in a Mosque and was then killed himself, Israeli settler organisations publicly mourned him and erected a memorial to him. Condemnation of Israel was muted, to say the least.

"And meanwhile in Europe, horrible antisemitic cartoons, like the one published in a Greek newspaper poison attitudes towards Israel and the Jewish people. It is this dangerous double standard and hypocrisy that the Simon Wiesenthal Center is fighting on the frontlines, in Brussels, in New York and in Geneva.

We cannot carry on this fight alone. We need your financial support and help. As we celebrate Passover together with our families and thank G-d for the freedoms we enjoy, take a moment to remember what Simon Wiesenthal said, "Freedom is not a gift from heaven, we must fight for it every day." Help us carry on that fight by sending in a contribution to support the work of the Simon Wiesenthal Center."

The cartoon, whilst perhaps offensive, was only arguably anti-Semitic. The Wiesenthal centre, by misrepresenting anti-Israeli acts as anti-Semitic (e.g. they count criticism of Ariel Sharon, specifically calling him a butcher and war criminal, as anti-Semitism) add to the anti-Semitism they claim to oppose. For if they represent anti-Israeli acts as anti-Semitism, they make a link that others - the far right, for example - will use.

People who oppose Israel should distinguish between being anti-Israeli (or anti-Zionist) and being anti-Semitic. The Wiesenthal centre, by making no such distinction, only hinders this and increases anti-Semitism.

anti-Zionist


Simon Wiesenthal Center backs Nazi-linked Schwarzenegger (after his $5m bung)

04.04.2004 00:52

Schwarzenegger's Nazi and New World Order Links Revealed

Most Americans think of Arnold Schwarzenegger as a charismatic bodybuilder who became a famous Hollywood actor and then married into the Kennedy clan. Just beneath the surface of Arnold's façade lies an intricate web of evil including Nazi war criminals, occult rituals, a Rothschild rendezvous, a friendship with once head of the UN and known Nazi, Kurt Waldheim, Warren Buffett (the oracle of Omaha) and many others.

Total Hypocrisy

The head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Rabbi Marvin Hier has defended Schwarzenegger saying that Arnold had no connection to Nazis. Of course the fact that Arnold has tithed a percentage of every film he has starred in (reportedly over 5 million dollars) in the last eighteen years to the Simon Wiesenthal Center does a lot to explain why the Simon Wiesenthal Center gave him their highest award (The National Leadership Award) in 1997.

The facts speak for themselves. Arnold's father, Gustav Schwarzenegger volunteered to join the Austrian Nazi party when it was still illegal to do so in 1938. His father went on to be the Police Chief in the town of Thal bei Graz where Arnold grew up.

The media has skillfully focused on his father and away from all the real Nazi connections and said "Arnold can't help what his daddy did." But what they don't tell you about is that Arnold is a self proclaimed follower of Kurt Waldheim. Kurt Waldheim was a favorite of the United Nations and served as Secretary General from 1972 to1982. When Waldheim ran for the Presidency of Austria in 1986, Arnold was Waldheim's biggest supporter and campaigned across Austria. He was even featured on campaign posters.

During Waldheim's campaign it emerged that he had been a wanted war criminal for atrocities he had commanded as an officer in the dreaded Nazi SS. Waldheim had written and approved posters and leaflets that read among many things, "enough of the Jewish war, kill the Jews, come over.”

Later the whole world learned that the United Nations had known all along that Kurt Waldheim was a Nazi and a wanted war criminal and helped cover it up. This makes perfect sense: anyone with a command and control background fits in well with the UN.

The Waldheim story that broke in 1986 was a sensation and dominated news cycles for months. In the midst of the fire storm Arnold Schwarzenegger stood up at his wedding with Maria Shriver in front of a crowd of east coast blue bloods and said, "My friends don't want me to mention Kurt's name because of all the recent Nazi stuff and the UN controversy, but I love him and Marie does too, and so thank you, Kurt."

Arnold continues to be friends with Waldheim and in 1998 was photographed with him at the Austrian Parliament. After Arnold's father died, his mother married the Head of the Austrian Parliament, who himself was a Colonel in the SS. Arnold reportedly calls him Uncle. While filming the documentary "Pumping Iron," Arnold told reporters he admired Adolf Hitler and other dictators.

While the Simon Wiesenthal Center is defending Arnold, they are busy waging a smear campaign against Mel Gibson for producing a biblically accurate reenactment of the last day of Christ's life, in his new movie, The Passion. The ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center have demanded Gibson re-edit the film, threatening to boycott its release and are claiming that the film has already generated hatred, despite the fact that only a few thousand people have seen it in private screenings.

This is one of the New World Orders favorite tactics. So be aware that next time you hear of someone being labeled a promoter of hate that the majority of the time such labels are issued by the establishment in an attempt to suppress any movement seeking freedom.

 http://www.infowars.com/print/nwo/exclusive_arnold.htm

gerald
- Homepage: http://www.infowars.com/print/nwo/exclusive_arnold.htm


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