Is AIPAC in Violation of Federal Election Law?
Renee Parsons
What newcomer to the US House of Representatives, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mn) may not have fully realized is that her critique of Israel influence on American politics would open a door that has previously been hermetically sealed as the third rail of American politics.
With its influence carefully concealed behind decades of deceptions, lies and ruthless intimidation and representing a mere 2.1% of the population spread across nine states, AIPAC and its supporters are like any school yard bully when confronted with a higher ethical authority. They throw down the race card, an archaic accusation of anti-semitism intended to play on a misguided empathy that is no longer effective when confronted with words that speak truth to power.
Rep. Omar first came to our attention during a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting with an elegant takedown of convicted felon and neo-con purveyor of brutal atrocities Elliot Abrams who sorely deserved to be humiliated. Abrams is currently President Trump’s point man on plotting future military action in Venezuela.
From there, the controversies around Rep. Omar have whirled with comments purported to be anti-Semitic such as:
“Israel has hypnotized the world; may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel”
Before that uproar had died down, she added:
I want to talk about political influence in this country that says it is ok for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country. Why is it ok for me to talk about the influence of the NRA, the fossil fuel industry or Big Pharma and not talk about a powerful lobbying group that is influencing policy?”
Bullies in American politics since 1948, the outrage, the denials and the hypocrisy came fast and furious with the usual anti-Semitic card being played and the ‘dual loyalty’ defense as if any one ethnicity or organization is entitled to special accommodating consideration by virtue of ….what exactly?
Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fl) responded with a question to Omar that “Jews have dual loyalty and can’t be patriotic members in the country in which they live?”
As an elected Member of the US House of Representatives, Rep. Deutch has an official, legal Constitutional responsibility that his sole and unquestionable loyalty is to the United States. Mr. Deutch’s ‘..in the country in which they live’ is dismissive and a less than overwhelming commitment to the land of one’s birth which happens to be his employer.
Of special concern is whether any AIPAC Congressional supporters possess a security clearance. If so, that clearance, where appropriate, needs to be revoked immediately and if those supporters cannot solely represent the United States with the utmost devotion and independence, they should resign.
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathon Greenblatt explained on March 4th that “Sometimes referred to as the dual loyalty charge, it alleges that Jews should be suspected of being disloyal neighbors or citizens because their true allegiance is to their co-religionists around the world or to a secret and immoral jewish agenda.”
Mr. Greenblatt takes it even further by contradicting himself in eschewing the dual loyalty meme and then confessing that ‘their true allegiance’ is to another country.
Meanwhile, on March 3rd, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) tweeted that “No member of Congress is asked to swear allegiance to another country. Throughout history, Jews have been accused of dual loyalty, leading to discrimination and violence.”
It is alleged that to raise the issue of dual loyalty is anti-semitic yet both Rep. Deutch and Mr. Greenblatt admit it as all three raised the dual loyalty issue independently as if believing there is an entitlement right to dual loyalty to another country. They do not have that right any more than I have a right to claim dual loyalty to Scotland.
As a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and its Oversight and Investigations subcommittee, Rep. Omar is not only correct but, in fact, is obliged to act as an elected Member of the House to question the double standard of exactly who is a loyal, true blue American for discussion and debate especially in the context of Article 6 of the United States Constitution known as the Oath Clause:
The Senators and Representatives and the members of several state legislatures and all executive and judicial officers, both of the US and of the several states shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution…”
While the Founding Fathers did not specify in Article VI that any elected member of Congress should not ‘be bound…’ to another country, any Court in the land will validate that Constitutional intent was that loyalty ‘be bound by oath or affirmation’ solely to the United States.
According to Supreme Court Associate Justice Joseph Story (1812-1845) that those sworn in were “conscientiously bound to refrain from all acts inconsistent”. During the American Revolution, General George Washington required all officers to subscribe to an oath renouncing any allegiance to King George III and pledging their fidelity to the United States.
In other words, under Article 6 there is no allowance for dual loyalty which would have been considered treasonous in the country’s earliest days and some would consider it treasonous today.
Thankfully, not a shrinking violet when it comes to politics, Rep. Omar responded with “I should not be expected to have allegiance/pledge support to a foreign country in order to serve my country in Congress.”
In other words, Rep. Omar is confirming that she has been approached to pledge support since AIPAC’s demand that every single Member of Congress sign a loyalty statement to Israel has been privately reported and is common knowledge although the MSM pretend to be unaware.
In addition, former Representative Cynthia McKinney who served twelve years in the House of Representatives related her experience with the pro Israel lobby when she supported the Palestinan people, refused to support military policy as it would benefit Israel or sign the AIPAC loyalty pledge. Instead, her Congressional District boundaries were realigned and she earned a primary opponent who ultimately defeated her.
AIPAC’s stated purpose is to lobby Congress on issues and legislation related to Israel but that they ‘do not rate or endorse candidates for election or appointed office or directly contribute’ to a campaign. Who do they think they are kidding? AIPAC dodges registering with the FEC by the use of shell organizations and by requiring its members to join its Congressional Club and donate to the campaigns of certain members of Congress in order to receive exclusive membership benefits. They also annually sponsor free round trip visits to Israel for Members of Congress otherwise known as junkets.
It is a curiosity that AIPAC, the American Israel Political Affairs Committee alleges that it is not a political action committee even as it provided $3.5 million in campaign contributions in 2018. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, AIPAC has not registered its financial activities with the Federal Election Commission as if they have special entitlement.
The backstory is that in 1990, a unanimous FEC decision cleared AIPAC from charges of coordinating campaign contributions with 27 other pro Israel PACs since acting in collusion is barred by Federal law. Despite ‘similarities in campaign contributions’ and an overlap of membership and shared officers, FEC General Counsel Lawrence Noble reached a finding of ‘insufficient evidence’ to require AIPAC to adhere to US election law.
To date, AIPAC is not registered with the FEC as a Political Action Committee nor is it registered with the Department of Justice as a foreign agent representing the interests of a foreign country.
Renee Parsons has been a member of the ACLU’s Florida State Board of Directors and president of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter. She has been an elected public official in Colorado, an environmental lobbyist at Friends of the Earth and staff member of the US House of Representatives in Washington DC. She can be found on Twitter @reneedove31.
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Another outbreak of “anti Semitism.” People are opposing another £50 million (or is it £50 billion) “holocaust memorial” in Westminster. Soon we’ll have one of these on every street corner and every Tuesday will be a “holocaust memorial day” dedicated to the six gazillion.
Wha’bart der holocaust visited upon Vietnam, Irak, Yugoslavia, Haiti…and ad infinitum?
WHERE are we to erect their memorials?
“Is AIPAC in Violation of Federal Election Law?”
We have entered the era where the Federal Election Law is perhaps in violation of AIPAC rules and objectives … therefore Federal Election Law should be amended to make AIPAC happy.
And while we’re at it, the US constitution is probably anti-semetic for not proclaiming “Israel First”!
Spotonjon!
This ‘dual loyalty’ question has come up before when John F. Kennedy was elected President. He was a Catholic and he had to make it very plain that his first and only responsibility was to the Constitution, not Rome. So the question isn’t exclusively for Jewish people, its for anyone. The problem with AIPAC is that its so open, so blatant — imagine the reaction of the US public if Rome demanded (secular) influence over US legislators.
Ultimately all this is a demonstration of why its a very bad idea to mix religion with national identity. Quite apart from it being discriminatory it sets the stage for endless conflict about who’s religion, which sect and so on.
In what sense isn’t ‘nation’ a religion? Does it join you with your fellows to something greater than yourself – ostensibly tangible with borders and territory, invoked by various symbols as an identity in shared purpose? There are many different perspectives on the idea of ‘nation’ that focus on different things. All bound up with self identity. Conflicts of interest arise from split allegiance and this can be within families, institutions and governments. Priority of allegiance – in what is first in our life, mind, word and deed, is the key fact from which all else follows. Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and all else shall be added you. To thine own self be true and it follows…thou canst be false to none. However it is worded, this choice or acceptance is the most intimate honesty or foundation from which we live, or, is an evasion of intimacy… Read more »
Being in violation of ANY US law is what their politicians now practise in earnest.
The Constitution? … Not very comfortable toilet paper.
The Law? … A nice career for lawyers.
Systemic Corruption? … You bet.
Washington should be banished to Mars.
“With its influence carefully concealed behind decades of deceptions, lies and ruthless intimidation and representing a mere 2.1% of the population spread across nine states, AIPAC and its supporters”
Uh, what? Not all AIPAC supporters are Jewish and not all Jews are AIPAC supporters.
You’re no ally of Ilhan Omar with this nonsense.
Yeah, well……..know’t ar mean, loike?
“People sometimes refer to Israel as an ally. . .Israel is not an ally. One becomes an ally through a treaty of alliance, and allies take special pains to try to co-ordinate their policies as much as possible. I don’t think the Israelis have ever wanted that kind of obligation. They prefer to take their chances on going their own way and expecting Jewish support in this country to force the United States to go along.” Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the second longest serving Secretary of State in the history of the country.
Pat Buchanan, Columnist, long time Washington insider and former candidate for the Presidential nomination for the Republican party: “The U.S. Congress is “Israeli-occupied territory.
Occupiers, as the Palestinian people can testify, have only the best interests of the Occupier at heart.”
There is good reason to be suspicious when only one on a long list of similar organizations is targeted — particularly by those who oppose the right of Israel to exist (in spite of the odds). There is good reason to be suspicious of that opposition when their allegations are contradicted by the facts. Understandably, US liberals oppose the right wing ideology of Israel’s government (a separate issue from the nation’s right to exist) — yet they do not oppose the extreme right wing governments of the Arab countries. It simply became fashionable to target Israel every time they resist the demands of our own government, to be a useful clone of the US.. Disregard the fact that the lion’s share of US (monetary and military) aid goes to those countries that seek the destruction of the Jewish nation, toward establishing a 100% Arab Mideast. Never mind that Jews are… Read more »
Not much truth in that post either. But it’s cool to lie to the goyim, no?
Can’t find fault in yer argument: least not from a Christian, “human” or post- Old Testament point of view. Well said, Cock! Whaddya think of the Shakespeare’s profiling yer Yid persona in Merchant o’ Venedig?
Nobody is into Shaky? Eddie l of England (1209) and Phil the Fair of France (1306) were “racsts”? Jesus threw’em arta der Temple..and woss der meanin’ o’ der Alhambra Decree?
Only 2 shills abart the place? And unedicated at thart!
Which countries seek the destruction of Israel? Egypt and Jordan, which Israel has peace treaties with? The Gulf Arabs, who Israel has back door relations with? Jews are indigenous to Palestine? Really? The early Jewish colonisers were indigenous to Poland and Russia. They were as indigenous to Palestine as I am. The Arab lobby has Congress by the throat? What Arab lobby? Utterly delusional, irrational Zionist rubbish.
No other organisation comes remotely near the complete stranglehold of AIPAC over US political life and media. That is why it is “targeted”, ie noticed. It is the elephant in the room that can no longer be ignored. If this stranglehold was exercised by Cambodia, or Nepal, or Tunisia, or Botswana, they would be “targeted.” But they don’t. So they aren’t. US teachers are not required to swear an oath of loyalty to Cambodia on pain of dismissal. It is not illegal to criticise Nepal, on pain of 20 years’ imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.. Tunisia has not just been given another $38 billion, to add to hundreds of billions in tribute already extorted America does not wage endless multi trillion dollar wars for Botswana every time its president visits Washington and snaps his fingers. , People oppose the right of the racist apartheid regime of Israel to exist, just… Read more »
Mark, you should muse (and report) on the mechanisms which have brought about this kettle of fish! ‘Cos dunnit schmell (to high heavern)?
“The oil companies are an irrelevance, a smokescreen for Zionist machinations and Zionist domination.” Well, the means to deceive a man is through what they want to believe. Self-specialness, exclusive privilege above the common lot – or law – along with a sense of wealth and power that remains with them while they remain loyal. Wealth can therefore be used as leverage or power to buy or distort or set up agenda by which lawful or due process is leveraged or effectively usurped. The saying is that birds of a feather flock together, and the mafia-minded seek monopolistic control of needs, goods or services, so as to not only ‘tax’ or extract protection money but as a mindshare of captive revenue stream or farm. A key part of all this is that we are hackable or deceived through a ‘fallen human nature’ that is in some sense of the same… Read more »
“Never mind that Jews are indigenous to that bit of land (some 1% of the region), historically called Palestine, restored and renamed Israel in 1948.”
And day after day Israel continues to carry out its genocide (initially under the terrorist Jewish group’s Plan Dalet) against the original inhabitants of this area of land claiming that their God it to them. I note that newcomers to Israel might have to prove their Jewish ancestry by a DNA test. The expected DNA is Khazarian not semetic.
Haltonbart, why did Jaysus throw’em arta der temple? Or is that just a pernicious, anti-semitic, racist misrepresentation of historical fact? And why did Eddie der First ban’em from England in 1290 (as did Phil der Fair, King of France in1309). And Diddeycoy Cromwell got cash from Amsterdam to lett’em back in in the 1690’s.
Deluded nonsense! “Israel” is genocidal, rogue state, founded and maintained by terrorism. It exists on stolen Palestinian land and has NO right to exist.
Joe, ole bean – are yew bein’ antiseminal? You read Shakespeare?
Why is it so difficult to find out who in government holds citizenship of a foreign country? Isn’t disclosure required?
Tangentially on topic because French President Micron works for Rothsrhild, as do most U$ politicians. But only in France are the People vigorously protesting. Ramin Mazaheri in The Saker is quite funny on their 16th week:
“As a journalist who has covered every medium- to major-sized protest movement in France in the last decade (and the small ones, i.e. pro-Palestine, anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, etc.), I have come to deeply resent and fear the Yellow Vests.
What a damned long workout they impose on us! They are marching 10-15km every Saturday, with zero consideration for TV journalists who have to carry equipment. Furthermore, why on earth do they march so damned fast?! If Guinness keeps this record, the Yellow Vests must take the crown for “protester km/h”.
This is surely the legacy of the constant police attacks during the first six weeks – you can’t hit what you can’t catch.”
https://thesaker.is/yellow-vest-week-in-review-march-16-to-be-the-biggest-march-in-months/
These Yellow Vests invented various ways to bypass “Big Brother” even with CCTV etc.! No leaders, fast marches, shawls etc. Chinese, Americans, British etc. citizens take notice of the ever revolutionary French: your Dragon has weak spots too.
“They throw down the race card, an archaic accusation of anti-semitism intended to play on a misguided empathy that is no longer effective when confronted with words that speak truth to power.”
Perfect. That sums up the whole strategy.
I am reminded about Tommy Smother’s dilemma when he fell into a vat of chocolate. Puzzled as to what to do, he decided to yell Fire! Fire!
When asked why , he replied, “because no one would come if I yelled “chocolate”!
Those who see anti-semitism in all dialogue, take note.
The people of Syria revolted against Assad’s repressive dictatorship 8 years ago today, demanding a more just and free government. Peace loving people around the world stand in solidarity with them in this struggle! Ilhan Omar (yesterday) It’s not hard to get stuff like this right. So what is going on with people like Omar? There is a ‘false consciousness’ on the Left about Israel, AIPAC and the issues that branch out from them. Even relatively radical anti-war voices like Caitlin Johnstone re-confirm in their writing the dogma that Israel is best understood as a client state and an outpost of American Empire. ‘What we call Israel is functionally just the Middle Eastern disruption wing of this empire. The people in control of this alliance place no special value on Israel beyond its usefulness in advancing plutocratic agendas in the Middle East.’ she writes. To see any value in exploring… Read more »
The comment suggests that the USA is the dog and Israel merely the tail (and AIPAC just the hairs on the end of the tail?). Comments by Netanyahu and others – and Israel’s behaviour – suggest otherwise. A requirement to swear allegiance to Israel suggests this is the tail wagging the dog and not vice versa. The essential question – not just for the USA – is: how does Israel continually get away with its land theft, its 70-year long appalling treatment of Palestinians amounting to genocide, its wholly illegal bombing of Syria amounting to war crimes etc., etc., (not forgetting its complicity in the WTC and Pentagon attacks) – and whether and how an end can be brought to these crimes, and to the corrupting and wholly disproportionate influence of a group which constitutes such a minute portion of the electorates of many countries? Nonetheless, I am grateful to… Read more »
Perhaps Omar is Muslim Sisterhood or WSWS? These organizations are anti-Syritic.
It might be just prejudice on her part. I’ve spoken to a lot of moslems and it’s surprising how much visceral hatred they (Sunni moslems) express for the Shias. This seems to be general, and of course it has been exploited by outside colonisers and exploiters and Zionists dating right back to the Crusades.
A-Pac or No-Pac: Jesus threw’em art’a der temple fer usury, Edward l threw’em arta England in 1290 (as did Phil der Fair in 1309 of what became La Grande Nation) Shakespeare profiled the Jewish persona in the character of Shylock…….and why is it said (and common knowledge) that nobody actually likes der Jews? In support of which, consider this fact: in the Federal Republic all Jewish Kindergarten/nursery schools enjoy ACTUAL full-time police protection! Now what does that tellyas?
In passing: Who listens to Pink Floyd?
Who are the “3” deniers? Smells of dual loyalty……aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh
I’m a millennial with a serious appreciation of Pink Floyd: “On the turning away, from the pale and downtrodden…” And Roger Waters rocks in truth!
Personally, i do think the Israeli Zionists are US stooges in the ME, their immense power comes from all the dirty deeds they’ve done for the West, particularly the US. They know where the bodies are buried and the West shells out to prevent them being dug up.
Israel can try to sink American warships without consequence. They can run extensive spy rings on mainland US territory without consequence. They can get special access to 5eyes surveillance, unlike anyone else outside that anglophone circle. They have a stranglehold on American politics in terms of funding and lobbying pressure. They have many supporters in the cultural industries and publishing which actively seek to shape the debate on international affairs.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/israels-stranglehold-on-american-politics/
https://theintercept.com/2014/08/04/cash-weapons-surveillance/
For too many though, AIPAC ‘is nothing fundamentally to do with Jewish politics’, and Israel is definitely the tail wagged by the dog.
As long as you forget about all that other stuff, everything is fine.
the tail wagging the dog and not vice versa
What an absolute disgrace. America’s elected representatives, grovelling at the feet of their MASTER…..
I would contend that this is a case of: “The plot thickens” – no more, no less. ‘Cept for the fact that the Pallys (despite the terms of the Balfour deal) have to pay the price in bludd! Long live Pink Floyd!
You see, I think that second italicized statement is true. I think capitalistic civilization has produced an ethnocentric exceptionalist elite whose ethnicity is their own. Call it a global supra-society or dominium that exists “offshore”. They owe no allegiance to any particular nation state, race or ethno-religious group. Any allegiance is purely a marriage of convenience. Essentially, they tax-farm all of us. You never actually stated what you think. I mean, essentially, we have lost all control …all of us. Even the power elite – as can be imputed from their massive spending on means of control – no longer feel in control. Otherwise, why spend valuable profit on others when you can hoard it yourself? We, all inclusively, the powerful and the weak, master and slave, have lost touch with the intensity and immediacy of experience. Symbolic, iconic, material, or representative forms of experience are an increasingly pale imitation… Read more »
I have a certain degree of empathy for Israel in it’s dicy existence surrounded by declared enermies. They need all the support they can get if they are to survive usurping the land of the Palestians – engineered of course by good old Great Britain in its dying years. So what to do? Certainly the apartheid nature of the Israeli government precludes it from international support on humanitarian grounds alone, just as the world vilified the South African regime. But this wouldn’t offer a similar solution this time. America and the West need Israel to prosper if they are to maintain their influence in the middle east so we are left with a conundrum. I favour two states, one for Israel and one for Palestine, but is there enough land area within the borders? Clearly coexistence doesn’t work as witnessed by the latest Gaza episode. “Intractable” is a good word… Read more »
Eddie the First of England banned yer Jews from England in 1290; Philip the Fair banned the Jew from France in 1306; Shakespeare profiles the Jewish persona in the character of Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice”. AndJesus threw’em arta der Temple….is all this recorded, historical fact? And me’n Roger Waters cry……
https://deutsch.rt.com/live/85835-live-gelbwesten-protestieren-18-woche-in-folge-paris/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=push_notifications&utm_campaign=push_notifications
King Edward 1 banned (i.e. had expelled) all Jews from England in 1290.
Will Shakespeare profiled the Jew in the persona of Shylock, in “The Merchant of Venice” in 1590.
What does this tell us?
And what has all this to do with Pink Floyd, he asks?
Newcomer to the US House of Representatives, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mn) represents District 60B, which includes part of northeast Minneapolis – with a big Somali presence.
Contrast her to another ex-Somali woman who made it to representative (in the Netherlands), Ayaan Hirsi Ali and left to the US mostly for safety from Holland!
While IIhan defends Islam’s incompatibility with Western culture, Ayaan criticizes her old Muslim culture.
Who gets most Western MSM support? IIhan of course, as Arab oil money potential and dollar support is much bigger than a few handfuls of Shekels. Islamic misogyny, anti gayness or freedom of speech be damned, the oily dollar rules.
“Who gets most Western MSM support?”
Are you kidding? Hirsi Ali has had vast amounts of support both from institutions and the media-she’s in Holland by choice. The only danger she faced in north America was that of being crushed by fans, autograph hunters and islamophobes asking for her to repeat her critiques of the faith she had, as she had every right to do, rejected.
How short the public memory is.
Is AIPAC in breach of election law? Of course it is, but so what? The Chosen People are above all laws, national, international and anything others. Laws don’t apply to them. Just to the stupid goyim. Like no US aid is supposed to go to any state with nuclear weapons in breach of the NPT. So the Chosen People are in breach of this law as well and should receive no aid until they comply with the NPT. But so what? Laws only apply to the stupid goyim. Adelson just tells all the 30 shekel whores he has in his pocket to pretend not to notice and carry on paying all the hundreds of billions in tribute and giving all the free weapons to the Chosen People. The NPT only applies to countries like Iran and DPRK. You have to understand these double standards if you want to be a… Read more »
Oooooooooooooooh, yew are awful, Marky! Possibly a Pink Floyd fan an’all by all accounts! Well done, Cocker!
As the empire implodes, more and more of its devious deeds and malfeasance will be exposed.
Sad that.
Questioning the loyalty of Jews to their home countries is supposedly an “anti semitic trope”. Really? Well….when I see AIPAC directing money to US political candidates NOT on the basis of what these candidates can do for the citizens of their congressional districts or states, or even the USA itself, but on what these candidates can do for Israel, a foreign country, then I reckon I am entitled to question their loyalty. When I see the Australia Israel Jewish Affairs Council and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry pressuring the Australian government to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a move that the Australian government’s diplomatic and military advisers have said is NOT in Australia’s interests, then I reckon I am entitled to question their loyalty. When I see young Jews serving in the Israeli army instead of the armies of their own countries, I reckon I am… Read more »
“Questioning the loyalty of Jews to their home countries is supposedly an “anti semitic trope”. Really?
Countries? there is only one mini Israel. You probably got mixed up with the dozens of Islamic states dotting the globe so let me rephrase it for you: Questioning the loyalty of Muslims to their home countries is supposedly an “Islamophobic trope”. Really?
Aren’t there more Jewish people in New York and Miami Beach than in Israel? Surely more in the US. I think the writer was using home countries in the sense of where their home might be.
And are you suggesting that there is a Muslim equivalent to AIPAC in terms of influence? And how many Congressman swear allegiance to Israel and how many are dual citizens of Israel? Versus all other Muslim countries. Do answer, as you are giving the impression that you do not wish to debate unless it gives you the opportunity to shout anti-semitism, which is wearing very thin, if you don’t mind me saying.
I wasn’t aware that teachers in America had to take loyalty oaths to Pakistan. I wasn’t aware that it was illegal to criticise Pakistan. I wasn’t aware that America was giving another $38 billion to Pakistan to add to all the hundreds of dollars of past tribute. I wasn’t aware that America was fighting one war after another for Pakistan whenever the President of Pakistan snaps his fingers.
Well I never, you learn something new every day.
I wasn’t aware of any of this – what is your source please?
Any suggestions as to why all Jewish nursery schools (kindergarten) in Deutschland have full-time (armed) police protection?
Because it is necessary?
Hi George, nice of you to pick up on the subject. Yer ordinary, run-of-the-mill German won’t even drive at 33mph in a 30mph area. But it is also true, that nobody REALLY likes the Jews (same in England). And a tellolisti job is much more likely to happen to a Türk or Arab immigrant. Consider: there is a certain method to the madness of relentlessly sticking the figure “6 million” in the face of the children and grand children of the German wartime generation. One thing it does do, is to keep the Deutschers down; guilt ridden. And, as you know – being proud of your heritage is not only deemed to be racism, and, consequently, frowned upon here – in the land of the heirs to the Heilige Römische Reich Deutscher Nationen – but equally so (increasingly) in Blighty. What interests me is: who is responsible for this “shift”… Read more »
Antonym You’re an idiot. Reference to home country self evidently refers to the country the person lives in. People of Jewish faith live in many countries and think of those countries as home. Hence the plural. these people are permitted to have divided loyalties, apparently, because Israel is so defenceless and vulnerable. No one else is permitted to do so because that is unpatriotic. Pointing to this dichotomy and calling it out as hypocrisy is not in any way anti Semitic even in the narrow sense that term has acquired.
Well the UK did have the Tebbit cricket test for loyalty to country. How do Jews fair in the European Song Contest?
The spectre of genocide from ‘others’ is part of maintaining a Jewish identity. The state of Israel is only part of the ‘expression’ of a Jewish identity. We can see that we all are manipulated by fear of calamity or enemies that may or may not have foundation and that false flags are associated with triggering compliance to supporting wars or crusading activism, or at least dis-incentivising open non-compliance. These are simply normal for war. And for many, war is simply normal – or held to be the nature of existence. As exemplified in Cloud Atlas; “there are those who are meat, and there are those who eat”. (It’s other theme is a recognition and alignment in transcendence or beauty). The belief that one’s very existence is threatened becomes a basis for justifying an exceptionalism of not being accountable to others who are not in such a situation and ‘ought… Read more »