"Israel ensures freedom of worship for all"
The bank-controlling "Greedy Jew" syndrome is not new. Slogans such as "Zionists control Wall Street", "Hitler's Bankers Wall St." or "Humanity versus the Rothschilds" heard and/or read at the Occupy Wall Street gathering and other "Occupy 'Your Home Town'" around the nation are nothing but a repackaging of an old anti-Semitic libel.
In our postmodern global community of political correctness, what happens in Europe has a tendency to quickly duplicate itself in America and it is usually not a contribution that would benefit our quickly atrophying Western civilization. This is the case for the latest French educational reform.
The new manuals used by the French educational system for the 2011-2012 school year, preparing last year high school students for their exit exam "Baccalaureat", will look different this year. Adjustments are not necessarily bad and even needed at times, as, to reprise an old Dylan song: " The times they are A-changin". But there are words that are better left untouched. Words that have become part of history and thus have acquired a meaning that sets them apart from other words and even possibly from the original meaning applied to them.
One such word is the word Shoah! Read More
Almost entirely under the news radar, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has voted to deem a geographically undefined ‘Palestine’ worthy of becoming a full member state, on the basis of its supposedly rich cultural heritage. This vote, which passed by an overwhelming majority against the will of the United States, triggers a law that requires the US to defund UNESCO on the basis that, any organization supporting the PLO must be cut off financially. As a result, the hammer has fallen on UNESCO. Read More
OK, that title got you reading, so what I really mean is “Stop (with the) Apartheid (rhetoric already)!”. This morning I counter-demonstrated against a group protesting against Israel, and they had “Apartheid” boldly on display. Now, I admit I can be a stickler for words (I am, after all, an author and blogger), maybe even a little OC about them at times. But my thing with “apartheid” is not nitpicking. This is strategic rhetoric designed to invalidate Israel as a Jewish state. Read More