John R. Houk
© April 23, 2019
I find it quite disturbing and extremely sad that there
exists people in America who claim patriotism yet express racist statements
indicating Jew-Hatred and Anti-Israel sentiments.
These so-called Patriots will lump all Jews monolithically
as something repugnant because people of Jewish heritage have been or
(startlingly) currently are supportive of Left-Wing ideology too often to the
point of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Communism.
In case you didn’t realize it, lumping Communist-oriented
Jews are representative of all Judaism is like lumping all Americans with
Communism because many people of a Western Civilization heritage (yet
non-Jewish) embraced atheistic Communism. Western Christians such as Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin (born as Vladimir
Ilyich Ulyanov)
abandoned their faith and heritage to embrace a violent-revolution concept like Communism.
Sure, people of a Jewish heritage devoted themselves to
Communism, for the most part these Communist devotees abandoned their faith and
heritage in the same fashion as the Communists who abandoned their Christian
heritage. The attributed inventor of modern Communism in Karl Marx
is an example. Another example of abandoning his heritage to embrace Communism is Mao Zedong
(aka Mao Tse-tung).
For people looking for a form of Leftist Utopianism,
Communism is the antidote regardless of heritage and religion. Ultimately the
Communist antidote seeks to transform society enforced by a government even if it
means massive murders for society to forget their past heritage.
Those Americans calling themselves Patriots yet hate Jews
are unwittingly aligning themselves with Leftist Utopianism which would lead to
Communism. To be clear, Communism eradicates Liberty and Freedom as the Leftist
ideology seeks to make people the Natural Rights endowed by Nature’s God.
This brings me to the Pro-Israel organization that
non-Jewish Leftists; self-loathing Leftist Jews and Muslim Apologists love to
hate – the Canary
Mission. I have posted twice on the Canary Mission HERE and HERE. If you are a Jew-Hater
that erroneously describes oneself as a Patriot, I pray the Canary Mission
exposes your racism.
JRH 4/23/19
Your generosity is always appreciated:
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IN DEFENSE OF CANARY MISSION
The courageous group exposing the campus Israel/Jew-hating industry
becomes a target.
April 22, 2019
Jews have had a long history of engaging in wars with
enemies who fight by rules that Jews find abhorrent. Rather than fight by those
rules, Jews have held themselves to more humane standards. While this is
morally admirable, it’s not always martially effective.
On his way to establishing control over the Arabian
Peninsula, Mohammed’s armies fought and conquered the Jewish tribes that had
lived there for centuries. Jews of the Nadir tribe, living around Medina,
wouldn’t fight on the Sabbath. Even during wartime, due to a biblical
injunction, they refused to cut down their enemy’s fruit trees. Mohammed had no
such qualms. He had his soldiers cut down the Nadir’s date palms on which they
depended for food and for trade. And he did it on the Sabbath. The Nadir
surrendered and were exiled.
Israel has been battling the terrorists of Hamas ever since
abandoning Gaza in a futile attempt at peaceful coexistence. The IDF is the
most moral army in the world and fights as hard at avoiding civilian casualties
as they do at fighting against Hamas. Hamas works hard at creating civilian
casualties, its favorites being Gazan children that their media allies can
blame Israel for. And so this war drags on.
On university campuses throughout North America, Israel and
Jewish students are vilified and harassed by BDS supporters including Students
for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and their allies. Campus Jews think this is an
ideological disagreement. Jewish students don’t understand that BDS and SJP are
fighting a war, and so they continue the custom of fighting by different rules.
Jewish students see BDS and SJP as organizations that they can debate in order
to sway the larger student population.
Meanwhile, BDS
proponents, in this endless war against the Jews, use every
anti-Semitic/anti-Israel lie they can muster. They use theater, public
demonstrations, and displays designed to demonize Israel. They crush dissent by
protesting and shouting down pro-Israel speakers. They demand free speech
rights, but deny them to campus Israel supporters. They feel emboldened enough
to tweet messages like,
“Hitler should have killed the Jews when he had the chance that dog” and “What
do you call a flyin Jew?..... Smoke.”
Jewish students, who because they are at college to get an
education, are at a terrible disadvantage facing paid BDS activists, who are on
campus to demonize Israel as part of a long-term strategy to bring down the
Jewish state and return Jews to their Sharia approved roles as “dhimmis.” While
Jewish students have formed grass-root organizations to fight BDS, BDS groups,
including SJP,
are the
American arms of Hamas and are well trained and well funded by
Hamas.
The main Hamas to SJP conduit has been American
Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a group founded by U of C Berkeley
professor, Hatem
Bazian. AMP’s board membership includes various anti-Israel
activists, terror supporters, and former members of the Holy
Land Foundation, an organization that was shut down in 2009 after a
lengthy FBI terrorism investigation and federal trial.
In addition, Omar Barghouti, founder
of the BDS movement, who was denied entry into the U.S. in April 2019, has
extensive terrorist connections. A group he co-founded, the Palestinian
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions National Committee (BNC)
receives support from a who’s who of terrorist organizations that not only
includes Hamas, but also: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,
Palestine Liberation, Front, Palestinians Islamic Jihad, and many others.
Barghouti’s father, Marwan Barghouti, along with Yassir
Arafat, was a
founder of the PLO, which Omar Barghouti states, “was very
much a part of our family . . .” The elder Barghouti also ran the terrorist
Tanzim force and founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. One does not engage in
reasoned debate with these people.
Recently, groups like Zionist Organization of America,
StandWithUs, and the Lawfare Project, have begun steering more resources into
training and supporting beleaguered Israel advocates. These adult organizations
have gained experience over the years of struggle and have begun fighting back
more aggressively, going so far as bringing lawsuits against some of the most
unfriendly-to-Jews universities.
Even with this outside help, Jewish students still refuse to
go all out. They still insist on holding back even as they themselves on some
campuses are wary of looking too Jewish by wearing a kippah or other noticeably
Jewish outerwear, lest they be harassed. Like the IDF, they insist on fighting
with one (or more) hand(s) behind their backs.
Three years ago, a new anti-BDS group, calling themselves “Canary Mission,” entered the fray.
They take their name from the recognition that Jews are the “canary in the coal
mine,” the first to face irrational discrimination when societies enter into
periods of increased bigotry and self-destruction. Their motto is, “If you’re
racist, the world should know it.” Their members remain anonymous. They work at
exposing campus anti-Semites, including students and professors, on the Left
and on the Right. And they use the anti-Semites’ own words from their own
social media posts to do it. They’ve created an online database full of
anti-Semitic and anti-Israel tweets and Facebook rants, and dedicated pages
listing personal and organizational ties to
Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and other terrorist groups.
The Middle East
Studies Association, an organization that backed a University of
Michigan professor in his refusal
to write a recommendation for a Jewish student to study in
Israel, has a page on its website dedicated to “exposing”
Canary Mission. They claim that Canary Mission’s “profiles are filled with
falsehoods, misrepresentations and errors,” but provide no examples. They
misrepresent Canary Mission’s “political agenda” and denounce its members as
being “extremists.” Without a trace of irony, they accuse Canary Mission of
seeking to “silence free and open campus discussion of, and teaching about, the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Canary Mission is lumped with organizations like
CAMERA, Honest Reporting, StandWithUs, and other pro-Israel and media watchdog
organizations that MESA falsely associates with a “rise of Islamophobia.”
The Electronic Intifada has posted Steven
Salaita’s diatribe, “A guide to surviving Canary Mission,” from
which we learn about “Zionist thuggery,” “messianic compulsions of
settler-colonization,” and facilitation of “sexist, racist and homophobic
abuse.” His advice is, don’t talk to Zionists. Recall that Salaita had a
University of Illinois job offer rescinded after some of his vicious
anti-Israel tweets came to light.
Mondoweiss calls
Canary Mission “a settler-colonial scam, an ethnonationalist
slur, and a malicious, well-funded, underground machine set to destroy the
lives and careers of real people.” People exposed by Canary Mission are
referred to as “Palestinian human rights advocates” who are smeared by Canary
Mission, but again, no “real people” examples are offered.
In addition to these long-standing Israel-hating sites,
there is now, “Against Canary
Mission.” In addition to slamming Canary Mission, this site also
houses rehabilitative counter-profiles on people previously profiled by Canary
Mission. These profiles are much shorter and contain much less detail. They are
much friendlier. There is also an option for “activists” to write their own
profile. To be fair, I could not find that option on the Canary Mission
website.
The legal director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee has accused Canary Mission of using “dirty
tactics.”
Blowback from groups like the Middle East Studies
Association and these other Israel hating websites are predictable. The fact
that these sites are so offended by Canary Mission and so eager to slander and
discredit it, tells us that Canary Mission is effective and that the campus
Israel/Jew haters and terror supporters are afraid of being revealed as the
hateful bigots they are.
Unfortunately, Canary Mission is so effective that it is
also scaring the Jewish students who have been subjected to the bullying
tactics of the people Canary Mission has profiled. And the Jewish students, in
their panic at possibly being labeled as “racist” or “Islamophobic,” are siding
with their enemies against Canary Mission.
In April and
again in October 2016,
the David Horowitz Freedom Center, using information provided by Canary
Mission, put posters up on the U of C Berkeley campus, showing Students for
Justice in Palestine’s links to Hamas. In addition, names were named. The
posters were denounced by campus SJP members as “hate
speech.” An attorney with Palestine Legal criticized the university
“for allegedly
creating a hateful environment for SJP.” This is the same campus
that employs Professor Hatem Bazian,
who has a deservedly long Canary Mission page documenting his founding of AMP
and co-creating SJP. This is in addition to Bazian’s fund raising activities
for a Hamas-linked charity and his unabashed promotion of anti-Semitism.
Besides being Hatem Bazian’s home campus, U of C Berkeley is
also infamous for hosting a course calling for the destruction
of Israel. It’s the university where Rachel
Beyda was almost denied a student government leadership
position because she is Jewish. Even so, the president
of the Jewish Student Union condemned the posters, stating, “.
. . This does not allow us to have any room for conversation from the
pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian side.”
When the posters also appeared at San Francisco State
University, which is currently being sued for discriminating against Jewish
students, an advisor
to the General Union of Palestine Students stated, “This is
very racist, it is Islamophobic.” San Francisco’s Hillel executive director
condemned the “offensive messages.”
At UC Davis, Aggies for Israel allied themselves with
student groups including the Muslim Student Association (another Muslim Brotherhood front
group, many of whose leaders graduated to terrorism), to pass
a resolution, part of which accuses Canary Mission, again without
irony, of creating “a toxic atmosphere of fear and paranoia among fellow
students, thus infringing upon students’ ability to freely express their
opinions.”
At the University of Michigan, a pro-BDS resolution was
recently passed on its eleventh try. Part of the blame was laid at the feet of
Canary Mission. BDS proponents, who were savvy enough to play on Jewish
students’ insistence on fair play, pulled out their victim card, expressing
worry about future repercussions due to Canary Mission’s “blacklist” and
“McCarthyite tactics.” In return Jewish student organizations rolled over,
submitting to a secret ballot, thereby allowing anti-Israel/anti-Semitic
student government officials to escape responsibility for their anti-Israel
vote. The Jewish students lost because they allowed BDS to set the rules and
control the battle.
Following the vote, two
students wrote a letter, which was signed by several universities’
Hillel Governing/Executive Boards and pro-Israel organizations, rejecting
Canary Mission. “We view much of the rhetoric employed to villainize these
individuals as hateful and, in some case, Islamophobic and racist. In addition,
Canary Mission’s wide scope wrongfully equates supporting a BDS resolution with
some of the most virulent expressions of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel rhetoric
and activity. . . we expect credible Jewish and pro-Israel communal
organizations to help us combat anti-Semitism . . . in a diplomatic manner that
seeks to protect our community rather than shaming the other side anonymously.”
One would expect SJP members to condemn the coverage of
their terrorist ties. When Jewish students and Jewish organizations side with
SJP because they want to combat anti-Semitism in a diplomatic manner and not
shame the other side’s vile ethnic hatred, it’s clear that the Jewish students
do not understand the nature of the enemy or the enormity of this fight.
Sun Tzu said, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you
need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the
enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know
neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
BDS proponents know their enemy, and they know how easy it
is to control Jewish students who are truly interested in fairness and decency,
with cries of “racism” and “Islamophobia.” Jewish students, who have grown up
in bubbles of comfort, don’t even know that they have an enemy. The
lesson from our Passover Haggadah that: “in each and every generation, they
rise up against us to destroy us” hasn’t been taken seriously. Students don’t
know enough Jewish history to understand that this is just the latest manifestation
of an ancient war against the Jews that began in Europe with the rise of
Christianity and in the Middle East with the rise of Islam. They really believe
it’s all about Israel, when Israel is just the latest excuse. They don’t
understand that they are pulling the wool over their own eyes and doing some of
SJP’s (and Hamas’) work for them.
Mohammed said, “War is deceit.” Deceit, implicit in campus
“apartheid walls,” die-ins, and mock checkpoints, is the strongest weapon in
the Israel-haters arsenal. Their second greatest weapon is Jewish students’
naiveté.
We know there is a double standard when it comes to Jews and
Israel. University officials are willing to overlook campus anti-Semitism if it
is masked as anti-Zionism. The anti-Semites have worked hard to create a false
separation between Judaism and Zionism in order to justify and promote their
hatred.
When a group of Wisconsin high school students stupidly
posed for a school photo giving a “seig heil” salute, there were calls for
their suspension. And, we
were told, “. . . the image could have far-reaching consequences
for the young men pictured there . . .” Meanwhile, Canary Mission has
screenshots of SJP members tweeting things like: “The world would be soooo much
better without jews man”, and “Lol let’s stuff some Jews in the oven.”
Shouldn’t these publicly posted sentiments have far-reaching consequences? Not
according to Jewish students. But just like Israel’s fight with Hamas, the
misguided insistence on fair play insures that this fight will continue long
after the current crop of students has graduated. And as long as these students
support Israel, they will always be denigrated. They will always be insulted as
bigots by real bigots.
Using Canary Mission’s information, Jewish university
students can take the offensive in order to hamper BDS efforts. If the BDS
movement were a white supremacist or neo-Nazi group, there would be no
reservations about using Canary Mission to expose them. This is a double
standard Jewish students are imposing on themselves.
It’s not McCarthyite or bigoted if they’re telling the truth.
Canary Mission recently posted a video in
which SJP members disrupt a UCLA Students Supporting Israel event and threaten
the speakers. SJP denied having anything to do with the disruption. But thanks
to advances in digital technology, the SJP bullies are highlighted in the video
along with screenshots of some of their troubling tweets. McCarthyism? No. This is revealing the truth and exposing SJP as not
only bullies, but also as liars. This is fighting back. [Blog Editor’s bold text] It is
aggressively taking the fight to the bigots on the public relations field where
Jews and Israel have been taking a beating due to their insistence on either
engaging in free and fair debate or not fighting back at all. Unlike the campus
Israel haters who depend on deception, it is the Jewish pro-Israel students who
have the truth on their side.
We know that a juicy, outrageous lie that gets one’s blood
boiling is easier to accept than a boring truth, especially if that lie is
about Jews or Israel. Exposing the bigoted hatred of the SJP liars and their
admiration for Hitler and Nazis, who, they mourn, should have finished the job,
would do a lot more for the campus pro-Israel cause than reasoned debate. In
that debate, lies carry the same weight as truth to students who don’t know
enough about Israel or its history to tell the difference. Anyone though, even
a brainwashed university student, can identify as anti-Semitic, a tweet that says,
“@BarackObama shut up about gay marriage and go kill all the Jews.” Display
enough of these detestable social media posts and expose enough links to
terrorism, and the true intentions of the posters would be undeniable, even as
they whine about being victims.
That would be a strong first step toward defeating and
shutting down the campus Israel/Jew-hating industry.
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Unwitting Embrace of Leftist Utopianism due
to Jew-Hatred
John R. Houk
© April 23, 2019
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