TO THOSE WHO THINK ALL JEWS ARE PRO-ISRAEL & ZIONISTS

By Israel Shamir
3-6-04

Wendy Campbell is a film-maker from California, and a familiar face: her powerful essays already appeared on this list and elsewhere. Today we offer her provocative and biting description of her visit to the city where the main street is called Yitzshak Rabin Boulevard. No, it is not Tel Aviv, but Miami.

But first, an announcement: Wendy made a new documentary called "NETUREI KARTA: JEWS AGAINST ZIONISM" and it will be screened on April 14 at 7:30 pm at La Pena Cultural Center at 1305 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. Wendy describes her film as an "interview with the engaging Rabbi Weiss of the Ultra Orthodox Jewish group called Neturei Karta (which means "Guardians of the City" in the ancient Aramaic language), which was formed in the 1930's before Israel was created in 1948, to protest the new movement called Zionism. Rabbi Weiss, who is based just north of New York City, explains why his worldwide organization believes that Zionism is the exact opposite of Judaism and why they pray for the peaceful dismantling of the Zionist state of Israel.

Mainstream media has always ignored the activism of the Neturei Karta and other anti-Zionism groups, so this film may be somewhat shocking, but very enlightening, for many people who have always thought that all Jews are pro-Israel and Zionists. Rabbi Weiss provides a fascinating and concise history of Judaism and how Zionism has been aggressively seeking to transform it, revealing their intimidation tactics and falsehoods. He explains how the only way that true peace can be achieved is through achieving justice for the Palestinian people, by apologizing for having oppressed them AND FOR STEALING THEIR LAND. He advocates making amends with them by providing reparations and allowing them equal rights.

According to Rabbi Weiss, Zionism is blatant racism and against true Jewish values. He asserts that Judaism is a religion, but Zionism has attempted to replace religion with nationalism. For more information about Neturei Karta, please visit <http://www.nkusa.org/>www.nkusa.org.

For more information on film-maker Wendy Campbell's previous documentary, "Truth: Exposing Israeli Apartheid", please visit <http://www.exposingisraeliapartheid.com/>www.exposingisraeliapartheid.com.

Miami, Florida: Zionist Occupied Territory?
By Wendy Campbell

Recently, my boyfriend and I decided to take a trip to South Beach Miami along with a couple days down in Key West, just for fun. These days, as anti-war and anti-Zionism activists, with a special interest in resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict which is fueled by US tax dollars, we tend to see everything through highly politicized lenses.

Of course, we both know that Florida has a large population of American Jews, but we were surprised with the "Zionization" of Florida, as well as the mention by people on two separate occasions in Key West, who didn't even know about our politics, of Israeli money-laundering that is going on there. Israel is the largest producer of the rave party drug Ecstasy, and apparently the Israeli druglords also collude with South American drug dealers. The Israeli drug dealers are said to launder money through their cheesy tourist trap tee-shirt shops that line the lower end of Duval Street in Key West, the last island of the Florida Keys. Since this activity seems to be common knowledge, maybe there is some collusion with local authorities as well.

THE DEFINITION OF ZIONISM ...At any rate, please allow me to explain my definition of "Zionism". Zionism is a racist ideology that allows for Jews from anywhere in the world to go to Israel-Palestine to claim superior rights to the land and government there at the expense of the indigenous non-Jewish Palestinians. It can be argued that Zionist Jews expect certain privileges above and beyond the average citizen in any country they live. By the way, not all Jews are Zionists, and not all American Jews think of Israel as their homeland. Many American Jews, I'm sure, if not most, think of themselves as Americans first and foremost. Many American Jews, I'm sure, accept their fellow Americans as equals regardless of their religion, race, ethnicity or gender. However, only Jews enjoy completely equal rights in Israel, where it is not a true secular democracy even for Jews, in that only marriages between Jews are acknowledged as legal in Israel, for just one example. Furthermore, all non-Jews are marginalized in Israel.

Zionist American Jews are the chauvinistic Jews who commonly believe in innate, irreducible differences from others and their own cultural-religious superiority to gentiles, or non-Jews. This attitude apparently enables them to justify Israel's national campaign of blatant ethnic cleansing against the non-Jewish Palestinians at worst as per "hard Zionists" or at the very least, complete segregation as per the apartheid two-state solution favored by "soft Zionists".

American Zionist Jews tend to think of Israel as their homeland, and to perceive America as the "cash cow" and military vessel for achieving Zionist hegemony as well as convenient place to live where they can enjoy prosperity, freedom and protection from the strife that occurs in Israel because of Zionism. Zionists in America espouse universalistic, democratic principles for Americans while trying to cover up Nazi-like campaigns in Israel against the Palestinians. U.S. policies now reflect this abhorrent double standard in the so-called "war on terrorism" in Iraq which is being waged on Israel's behalf.

Zionists also push and often succeed for Jewish supremacy in many areas of American politics, media and culture to serve their narrow interests, often at the expense of non-Jewish Americans. American Zionist Jews tend to place their first loyalty to Israel, over and above any loyalty to America.We congratulate American Jews who possess the moral clarity to denounce Zionism loudly and clearly, and invite all others to do so as well.

ZIONIZED MIAMI AND THE MEDIA...Back to the subject matter at hand. Is Miami, Florida, Zionist-occupied territory? There were many things that we observed that led us to believe it is. And we wonder, is the rest of America going to follow suit? We hope not. For instance, most of the newspapers we looked at seemed to be by, for and about Jews. The fact is that Miami is a highly diverse and multi-cultural city, with a strong presence of Americans that come from many backgrounds: Cuban, South American, European and African. As a side-note, we met many Argentinians, who appear to be the latest new wave of immigrants. Of course, we weren't sure who were actually American citizens, but obviously many people in Miami are indeed American citizens. Why is it that such a culturally diverse city seems to have media so dominated by those who are Jewish? This could also be said about American media at large, however it is not always quite so blatantly noticeable. In Israel, from what I understand, the liberal newspaper the Ha'aretz employs no Gentile (non-Jewish) writers! In other words, in any place that has been "Zionized", the non-Jews tend to be dispossessed and marginalized, and otherwise subjugated to various degrees.

JEWISH DISCRIMINATION AGAINST CHRISTIANS... Here is a very telling front-page story of the Jan. 29 issue of the Miami newspaper the Sun Post. A woman by the name of Sondra Snowdon has been on a hunger strike to protest the fact that her town would not allow any Christmas decorations to be displayed other than a Christmas tree yet many Jewish decorations for Hanukkah were allowed, such as the menorah and the Star of David. She and another woman from another community who has also been experiencing the same kind of discrimination against the display of Christmas decorations are considering taking civil action. As per the article, Councilman Robert Yaffe said the council should make a "better effort to embrace the celebrations of all members of the community." Now isn't that a fact!

It seems obvious that Zionist Jews have a propensity for cultural competitiveness and even discriminate against non-Jews, including Christians, and most obviously Muslims. By the way, Hanukkah is a minor holiday in the Jewish religion, yet it has been elevated by Zionist Jews in order to compete and even at times to dominate over the most holy day for Christians, the holiday of Christmas, a time that is now simply referred to "The Holidays".

Zionist Jews relentlessly seek to promote programs to educate Americans about their version of the Holocaust, which by the way, claimed many non-Jewish victims including the ones who gave their lives to end the war although this is not emphasized by Zionists. As they seek to bring Jewish culture to mainstream America, Zionists often display insensitivity if not hostility towards others' religions, including Christianity, as well as others' nationalities, in particular for example, Germans, Austrians and all Arabs. Jewish Dominance On Street Signs...

THE TABOO AGAINST CRITICIZING ISRAEL AND THE BEHAVIOR OF ZIONIST JEWS...This all fits into the pattern of the strong taboo against speaking about Jews at all in connection with anything negative, no matter how justified. Holocaust lore has created a potent taboo against criticizing specifically Jewish political actions. In today's "post Holocaust" environment, Jews are to be viewed either in a uniformly positive light or as victims. This surely benefits Israel's ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing against the non-Jews in Palestine-Israel, not to mention their privileged status here. The fear of the smear of "anti-Semitism" is deliberately intended to diminish all legitimate protest against Zionism and its crimes. Expect to see still more Holocaust Museums, Holocaust classes in both public and private Christian schools, movies, cartoons, artifacts, etc. coming soon to a neighborhood near you!

The repetition is essential in order to constantly attempt to justify Israel's on-going ethnic cleansing campaign which now includes the building of the monumental Apartheid Wall, which also illegally separates more Palestinians from their land, another example of under-reporting of Israel's wrong-doings. The logic that follows, is if the Jews are portrayed as always innocent of any wrongful behavior, then the only reason one could be anti-Jew or more accurately, anti-Zionism, is because of some irrational hatred, and never because of their lawless behavior. However this attempt to protect Jews from "scapegoating" or more accurately from holding Zionist Jews and Israel accountable for their behavior, is in fact directly allowing Zionist Jews to continue breaking international law with impunity.

THE NEED TO DEMAND EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL, EVERYWHERE, NOW...It is time for all Americans of all races, religions and ethnicities, including non-Zionist Jews, to stop being timid or blackmailed into allowing a separate political or moral standard for Zionist Jews and the Jewish state of Israel. No topic should be taboo, unless it is pure hate-mongering, something which anyone of any religion is capable of, but which must be avoided. No one people's suffering is any more important than any other people's suffering. "Never again" coined by arch Zionist racist Meir Kahane, should mean never again should there be a holocaust or any persecution of any people because of their race, religion, ethnicity or gender, either here in America, or in Israel-Palestine or anywhere in the world, especially any country that receives American tax dollars. There must be no double standards allowed for anyone. All people and all countries must abide by International Law, or else be held accountable for their crimes against humanity in a recognized international court of law. It is time to address the Palestine-Israel conflict in a completely truthful manner, and demand that the Palestinians be allowed the same human rights as the Israelis.

Using the formula which dismantled apartheid in South Africa, similarly Israel must be pressured by all people of conscience to transform into a true secular democracy with equal rights for all regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender. Firstly, a Truth and Reconciliation Committee must be set up, and the suffering of the Palestinian people due to Zionism must be fully and truthfully acknowledged by the world, and most especially by Israel. Then steps must be taken to create a true secular democratic government that guarantees equal rights for all to replace the current racist, Zionist government in Israel which favors only Jews. Additionally, all Palestinians must be compensated for their losses, including all the Palestinian refugees who must be allowed to claim their inalienable right to return to Palestine-Israel. This is their right according to UN Resolutions, International Law and world opinion. The U.S. and all the nations of the UN should participate in accomplishing this. Once this is accomplished, and it can be done if enough people demand it and work for it, then this will allow a new era of peace and good will to emerge throughout the world, rather than endless war.

THE STUMBLING BLOCK

By Israel Shamir
3-7-04

In the Return of the King, the Oscar-studded film based on the Tolkien's fantasy, there is a touching and inspiring moment: at the lowest ebb of struggle, when the Sauron hordes pour in through the breached gates of Gondor, horns announce the arrival of the relieving force. Rohan is coming, and the looting Orks retreat from the City in disarray.

Such a rescue force came to the embattled people of the Middle East in the unexpected form of a film. This inspired creation of Mel Gibson broke THE DANGEROUS AND IMMORAL ALLIANCE BETWEEN DEVOUT AMERICAN CHRISTIANS AND THEIR JEWISH (ZIONIST) SHEPHERDS. Mel Gibson and his Passion of Christ may well have advanced the cause of justice and peace in Palestine more than we could possibly dream of. Incidentally, he succeeded in undermining THE MOST DANGEROUS HERESY IN THE LONG HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: THE RIGHT-WING EVANGELICAL'S INFATUATION WITH JEWS AND ZIONISM. Now it is the time to recognise this victory and enjoy its fruits.

The Jewish establishment and its willing subjects carried out a perilous policy of encouraging the Clash of Civilisations, embodied in ideological and US military warfare against the Third World. For this reason, they promoted the concept of a Judaeo-Christian, Civilisation at war with the Muslims, with the Red-Brown, Russians, with the French and with traditional societies and forces. Mel Gibson and his powerful film opened the Second Front of this great struggle within the powerbase of the enemy -- in the US -- by exposing the lie at the very foundation of the Judaeo-Christian myth.

AS ST. PAUL PROPHESIED, CHRIST TURNED OUT TO BE THE "STUMBLING BLOCK" FOR THE JEWISH ADVANCE. The Jewish leaders thought they secured the US, and that they could safely proceed with this war elsewhere. Their second target was Islam, THE MIDDLE EAST THEIR BATTLEGROUND, and the trophy was to be the holiest shrine of Islam in Jerusalem: the Dome of the Rock, with the blazing golden letters inscribed by the Umayyad Caliphs that proclaim "Blessed is Jesus Christ, Blessed is the Day of His Nativity, and Blessed is the Day of His Resurrection.

Zionists formed an alliance with the misled Christian Conservatives, and the US troops took over Iraq and Afghanistan, while supporting the Israeli offensive against the native Palestinians IN THE HOLY LAND. (Where is the place of My rest...Isaiah 66:1). Then came Mel Gibson, and their alliance fell apart. THUS, CHRIST INDEED WAS OUR SECRET WEAPON AGAINST THE ZIONIST TAKEOVER. I felt it for long time; ever since on Easter 2001 I referred to His Passion in context of Palestinian suffering, just to be immediately frozen out by mainstream Jewish pro-peace groups. LET US RAISE THE BANNER OF CHRIST, FOR IT CAUSES SPLIT AMONG OUR ADVERSARIES.

Professor Patrick McNally wrote that the Judeo-Nazis repeated the error of German Nazis; they became over-extended by opening the Second Front. They could not help: they attacked Gibson and the American Christians, though their support was necessary for the Middle East takeover.

Sidney Blumenthal, an American Zionist Jew and a former senior adviser to President Clinton, wrote in the Guardian: THE NEOCONS AND THE THEOCONS (conservative Christians) were bound together for different reasons: the neocons by foreign policy (read: support of Israel), the theocons by their continuing fundamentalist revolt against modernity (for modernity read: neo-liberalism). Enter Mel Gibson, sprinkling holy gasoline on the fires and blowing up the cultural contradictions of American conservatism.,[1] It frightened Jews, concludes Blumenthal, and therefore Bush must go.

In Israel, this understanding came first. Gershom Gorenberg wrote in the Jerusalem Report[2]: "Post-9/11, the "conflict of civilizations" is often taken for granted; it supposedly pits the "Judeo-Christian" world against Muslims. That mood, along with the Intifada, has fertilized an alliance twinning Israeli right-wingers and some U.S. Jewish leaders with conservative Christians. THE PASSION SHOULD SOBER PEOPLE UP. "By attacking The Passion, Jewish groups such as the Anti-Defamation League helped to publicize it. I don,t think they had a better option. To ignore a film in which Pilate is a softy and the Jews cry for Jesus, blood would be equivalent to pleading "no contest" to the West's oldest calumny. But the Passion affair underlines the absurdity of the romance between Jewish groups (including the ADL) and the Christian Right.

Gershom Gorenberg is right. THIS ALLIANCE OF CHRIST-LOVING AMERICAN CONSERVATIVES AND CHRIST-HATING JEWISH LEADERSHIP WAS ABSURD FROM THE BEGINNING. The Christians in the US, as elsewhere, belong to the traditional all-embracing faith of love to the poor and downtrodden. The Jewish establishment subscribes to the faith which is good for the rich and powerful Chosen People, whether Jews or godless Mammon worshippers. Their alliance was a peculiar quirk of history that brought mankind to the edge of the abyss.

As a last, bizarre stroke of this alliance, on March 5th, 2004, the Arab-bashing Pat Robertson appealed on his blasphemously-named Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), to the American Christians to join with Jews this year to celebrate the Festival of Purim. Those who answer his call will celebrate together with hundreds of followers and admirers of a fundamentalist American Jew, Baruch Goldstein, who slaughtered dozens of worshippers in the city of Abraham, Hebron on Purim in 1994. His burial place in Kiriyat Arba is the location for Purim celebrations for many Israeli Jews, reported a Jerusalem weekly Kol HaIr on March 5, 2004. It is probably the least-likely festival for a Christian to celebrate together with Jews. By his call, Robertson plainly presented his anti-Christian credentials. His enmity is not reserved for the Muslims only: Robertson also attacked Russia and accused this Christian nation of plotting the "gassing of Jews and Jewish children" which is a horrible blood libel against a country that has a Jewish Prime Minister. But his support for Zionist atrocities in Palestine would suffice for the viewers of Gibson's film to reject Robertson and his preaching of hate.

God knows, there are other Christian forces, and the enthusiastic welcome received by Gibson's film proves that they are the real majority. The Reverend Charles Carlson of www.whtt.org runs Project Straight Gate, which speaks against the war in Iraq and Palestine. On a recent pro-life demonstration they called upon their fellow-Americans to care about lives of Iraqi and Palestinian children as much as for the unborn children of America. Their signs read "Innocent Blood on Our Hands, Iraq - Gaza, and "Choose Peace, not War. They called upon "fellow Christ-followers to oppose successive slaughter in the Middle East. Americans are now among the victims of the war almost every day. But even when none of 'ours' are killed, they are being fashioned into assassins and brutal occupiers, which is not what most Christ-followers should desire for their children.[3]

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GIBSON'S FILM EXPRESSES FOREBODINGS OF THE SECOND COMING. It brings greater awakening into Christian hearts in the Lent; IT RESTORES THE ALMOST-FORGOTTEN TRADITION OF PASSION PLAYES; IT SEPARATES LAMBS FROM THE GOATS. Not only have Abe Foxman of ADL and Mervin Hier of Wiesenthal Centre exposed their hostility to Christ, but crypto-Zionist Michael Lerner of Tikkun sent his disciples to give away anti-Christian leaflets at the movie theatres. Lerner began as a peace-seeker, but soon turned out to be a Zionist Trojan horse in the peace camp.

On the other side, Mark Bruzonsky of MER, a longtime friend of Palestine, condemned the Jewish establishment's attempt "to relentlessly crucify Gibson for trying to tell the story as he knows it, or rather as he believes it, [as] in itself a kind of intellectual and political blasphemy. Rather Gibson should be thanked for standing his ground, making his movie, telling his story, AND MAKING ALL OF US PONDER AND THINK AND FEEL...WHETHER JEW, CHRISTIAN, MUSLIM, BUDDHIST, ATHEIST...OR JUST PLAIN HUMAN. Our friend Gilad Atzmon published a strong essay supporting Gibson, while brave Jeff Blankfort of California wrote that it confirms the reality of Jewish control over Hollywood.

Indeed, this film unveiled the anti-Christian intentions of American Jewry. The New York Times reported that the chairmen of major studios said they would avoid working with Mr. Gibson because of The Passion of the Christ. One of them explained: "It doesn't matter what I say. It'll matter what I do. I will do something. I won't hire him. I won't support anything he's part of.[4] Because they run Hollywood it is not strange that America produces anti-Christian films seeping with hatred for the poor, downtrodden, un-Chosen people, be it American rednecks or Arabs, Russians or Latin Americans. The US newspapers, too, gave vast coverage to the hostile positions of Jews on the subject of Passion, showing an incredible bias well known to us friends of Palestine.

Their fear and loathing shows that this film can change America; and therefore it can change the world. American Christians can recognise the urgent need to free their media from the deadly grip of Christ's enemies. They can attune their policies towards Christ, share their worldly goods with the needy, return their sons from overseas wars, turn their mighty arms industry into ploughshare makers to feed the hungry; reject Mammon; promote spirituality and be a good neighbour to all nations of the Earth.

Let them remember: the Passion of Christ is not a millennia-old event: even today, as I write, IT IS THE FUNDS AND WEAPONS SENT BY THE US THAT ARE HELPING THE JEWS TO CRUCIFY PALESTINE. They besiege the Nativity town of Bethlehem and plot to destroy the Dome of the Rock with its benedictions of Christ. The horrors of the Passion presented by Mel Gibson are inflicted daily on the captive Palestinians. THEY ARE KILLED BY THE HUNDREDS, TORTURED BY THE THOUSANDS AND STARVED BY THE MILLIONS. PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT OR IGNORE THIS PERSECUTION WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO WASH THEIR HANDS OF THEIR BLOOD.

THE NEXT FEW MONTHS WILL SHOW WHETHER THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS CARE FOR CHRIST; whether they are an independent political power at all, or just an alibi-providing Gentile front for the Jewish policies; whether the only political swing possible in the US is that between pro-Likud Bush and pro-Labour Kerry. It is the time for Americans to regain their lost independence. BUT FOR THAT, THEY WILL NEED A MIRACLE

Guardian, March 4, 2004

The PaRDeS, a new long essay by Israel Shamir is available to donors or active contributors of this list just for asking. Send an email to Shamir@home.se with subject pardes, to receive the PDF file.

Responses to the PaRDeS:

From Nancy Horn, Pennsylvania:

Dear Israel Adam,
I am reeling, with horror at the subject matter and awe at what you have done with it, the depth and breadth not only of your knowledge but, far more important, your brilliance. While I adore the elegiac prose you cannot NOT use when describing Palestine, and had thought nothing could surpass Galilee Flowers, I think -- no, I KNOW -- you have done so with this one. You have not only seen with greater clarity and depth the very things we have noticed, you have explained their interconnectedness with this abhorrent whole.

My deepest congratulations to you on the production of a really superb, monumental treatment of our world and what ails us. Thank you, Shamir, for making sense of things. Nancy

From Hans Olav Brendberg, Norway:...PaRDeS is a tour de force through your main themes.

From Gerald Jugant, France... With the reading of PaRDeS, I feel the spirit of Simone Weil, but in a way even more conscious and obvious, you belong to the great tradition of the Jewish mystic teaching, the Cabbala. Undoubtedly you attempt to revive this very old, mainly lost, wisdom of humanity, who has as a base the golden age, the original paradise, the very old time of the man in harmony with nature and its own nature.