Why hasn’t POTUS Trump not visited Jerusalem first before heading to Riyadh to give his DRIVE THEM OUT speech? Well, Trump would have risked entry into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia if he had a visa stamp from Israel.
23 May 2017 @ 7:41 am.
Last modified May 23, 2017.
… and nobody seems to condemn but most applaud. The new Der Spiegel cover pictures a faceless, ranting POTUS having severed Lady Liberty’s head and proclaiming AMERICA FIRST. In December 2015, after having called for a Muslim ban to the United States, The New York Daily News had already pictured Trump in a cartoon, beheading the Statue of Liberty and quoting from anti-Nazi theologian Martin Niemöller’s poem Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten (“First they came”).
Americans need to take Trump by his words. The first two weeks do not represent actions of a naughty child with ADHS. All what happened had been openly announced during an excruciating election campaign when he lost the popular vote to an extremely unpopular competitor. Dark forces pull the strings. Who’s not alerted?
5 February 2017 @ 5:32 pm.
Last modified February 5, 2017.
When Halle’s (Germany) Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Social Anthropology had invited Norman Finkelstein for a public lecture on freedom of expression in academia (see description below) and hosting a closed workshop on his new book project, Gaza – an Inquest Into its Martyrdom, they had certainly not expected an uproar. After all, the controversial, averted scholar on the Israel-Palestinian conflict had calmed down in recent years albeit never been silenced. Quite the opposite. Finkelstein is a prolific writer, in his own words a “forensic author”, who constantly corrects much of the powerful propaganda about the 70 years’ ordeal of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank which is created and spread by many Zionists. For that he is still attacked, and Israel has banned the Jewish son of survivors of the Warsaw ghetto, Auschwitz and Majdanek extermination camps, i.e. the holocaust, from entering the country. Now, the workshop is over. As Finkelstein reported,
The workshop lasted five hours. It was normal, just as if I were anywhere else in the world. Hopefully, it will herald the new normal in Germany, which would be good for Truth, good for Justice, and good for Palestine.
The MPI had early on posted a statement on its webpage with a later addendum, explaining why the workshop was internal. Halle’s obscure Antifa movement and the small Jewish community in the tiny university city in former Eastern Germany had organized a couple of demonstrations outside the complex. But what is important to note is that the event sparked international furor, in particular in Jewish news outlets. In particular remarkable is an article in The Jerusalem Post where retired Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz had been asked for statements. Dershowitz claims that,
“Finkelstein is not a scholar. He is a polemicist who misuses sources and violates accepted standards of academic integrity.
“That is why he was fired (or not renewed) at universities at which he taught. It would be scandalous for the [Max] Planck Institute to lend its academic imprimatur to so non-academic a person.
“Let me add that the Planck would never seriously consider inviting an anti-Palestinian polemicist with a comparable lack of academic standing. He is invited because of his anti-Israel and borderline antisemitic polemics, not despite them.”
Thus smearing not only Finkelstein but also the MPI in Halle.
A yelling press secretary, Sean Spicer, a former public affairs officer of the US Navy reserve, bawled the press at the White House yesterday and forcefully tried to set the record straight: his boss’ inauguration was attended by more people than ever. No questions allowed.
The New York Times and the The Washington Post fact-checked his claims of size of the audience on the National Mall and subway ridership and proved incorrect figures.
22 January 2017 @ 6:36 pm
Last modified January 22, 2017.
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