Comments on: A Strategy for reversing the tide of anti-Israeli bigotry http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/a-strategy-for-reversing-the-tide-of-anti-israeli-bigotry/ Think Tank Blog: The online repository of articles on anti-Zionism and civilisational decline by analyst Robin Shepherd Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:38:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: elixelx http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/a-strategy-for-reversing-the-tide-of-anti-israeli-bigotry/#comment-1904 elixelx Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:33:06 +0000 http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/?p=2125#comment-1904 Last word on this thread: 1) I live in Spain, Gabor, but I'm not Spanish! I'm a Jew born in India, and I'm the last Jew in Elx. There is a 1st. century CE synagogue just been discovered outside Elx, so maybe I'm the first Jew back in Elx in 518 years! BTW the weather here is phenomenal, 300days of sunshine a year, guaranteed. 2)Eddie and Robman: Yes, the Muslims regard El Andalus part of their "Caliphate"; and it is there, centred on Granada, five hours away by bus from Elx, that most of the pro-Muslim demondtrations take place, usually attended by thousands of THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS who are disgusted with the crushing Christianity of their fathers (there have been two in Elx in the last two years on May 1st., now called "Palestinian Solidarity Day". I will be going to the next one, hidden camera in hair!) . You would think they would know better, given the near 800 years of Muslim dominance over their forefathers, but the disillusionment of the young in this country is epic. In dress, music, culture they are aping in their own ways the Afro-American experience in America, digging up their roots and finding they like what they see, so long as it is "different". More and more women in Granada, not just Muslim women, are using headscarves; in Elx there are even one or two full- face veils, and there has been an explosion of kebab shops opening to replace the traditional Spanish restaurants. So, yes, the young in Spain seem determined to repeat the Dhimmi acts of the past when the MOZARABE (mixed Muslim/Christian) culture was rife! Once again, I insist, ALL THIS is driven by THE YOUNG! The older people, who lived under Franco, are very very wary of the Muslims whom they regard as beggars, thieves and despoilers! What the Alamo was to the US, Melilla is to Spain! I have posted two or three music/cartoon videos on u-tube, but can't seem to find the link! 3)Finally, Gabor, may I recommend the work of Pilar Rahola, a leftist Spanish journalist from Barcelona, to show you that there are still some "still small voices" breaking through the incessant anti-Israel, anti-Jewish chatter of the MSM in this country! Last word on this thread:
1) I live in Spain, Gabor, but I’m not Spanish! I’m a Jew born in India, and I’m the last Jew in Elx. There is a 1st. century CE synagogue just been discovered outside Elx, so maybe I’m the first Jew back in Elx in 518 years! BTW the weather here is phenomenal, 300days of sunshine a year, guaranteed.
2)Eddie and Robman: Yes, the Muslims regard El Andalus part of their “Caliphate”; and it is there, centred on Granada, five hours away by bus from Elx, that most of the pro-Muslim demondtrations take place, usually attended by thousands of THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS who are disgusted with the crushing Christianity of their fathers (there have been two in Elx in the last two years on May 1st., now called “Palestinian Solidarity Day”. I will be going to the next one, hidden camera in hair!) . You would think they would know better, given the near 800 years of Muslim dominance over their forefathers, but the disillusionment of the young in this country is epic. In dress, music, culture they are aping in their own ways the Afro-American experience in America, digging up their roots and finding they like what they see, so long as it is “different”. More and more women in Granada, not just Muslim women, are using headscarves; in Elx there are even one or two full- face veils, and there has been an explosion of kebab shops opening to replace the traditional Spanish restaurants. So, yes, the young in Spain seem determined to repeat the Dhimmi acts of the past when the MOZARABE (mixed Muslim/Christian) culture was rife! Once again, I insist, ALL THIS is driven by THE YOUNG! The older people, who lived under Franco, are very very wary of the Muslims whom they regard as beggars, thieves and despoilers! What the Alamo was to the US, Melilla is to Spain! I have posted two or three music/cartoon videos on u-tube, but can’t seem to find the link!
3)Finally, Gabor, may I recommend the work of Pilar Rahola, a leftist Spanish journalist from Barcelona, to show you that there are still some “still small voices” breaking through the incessant anti-Israel, anti-Jewish chatter of the MSM in this country!

]]> By: Gábor Fränkl http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/a-strategy-for-reversing-the-tide-of-anti-israeli-bigotry/#comment-1898 Gábor Fränkl Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:53:31 +0000 http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/?p=2125#comment-1898 You have some "sense of humor" "elixelx". I understand the placename incorporated into your name "Elx" (this is in Catalan at the vey edge of historic Catalan-spaking part of Spain, "Elche" in traditioal Catilian Spanish) just shows us - as a reminder - the immense and un-ueberable HYPOCRISY which is part and parcel of your (?) country, Spain. Your country's history is if I may point it out to you is soooo bloodied, so sordid and tragic that I don't think a Spaniard, ANY Spaniard for that matter, can have the cheeck to tell a word about Israel or Israeli behavior. I really have not much time to engage in a dialogue with you on all facets of your history and its consequences and lessons, but just allow me to say to you this. Spain's moral hypocrisy is so absurd, so mind-boggling and your country's overall morality is ultimately so untenable that Spain makes quite a good comedian of itself collectively as a nation. You have some “sense of humor” “elixelx”. I understand the placename incorporated into your name “Elx” (this is in Catalan at the vey edge of historic Catalan-spaking part of Spain, “Elche” in traditioal Catilian Spanish) just shows us - as a reminder - the immense and un-ueberable HYPOCRISY which is part and parcel of your (?) country, Spain. Your country’s history is if I may point it out to you is soooo bloodied, so sordid and tragic that I don’t think a Spaniard, ANY Spaniard for that matter, can have the cheeck to tell a word about Israel or Israeli behavior. I really have not much time to engage in a dialogue with you on all facets of your history and its consequences and lessons, but just allow me to say to you this. Spain’s moral hypocrisy is so absurd, so mind-boggling and your country’s overall morality is ultimately so untenable that Spain makes quite a good comedian of itself collectively as a nation.

]]> By: Eddie http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/a-strategy-for-reversing-the-tide-of-anti-israeli-bigotry/#comment-1869 Eddie Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:27:05 +0000 http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/?p=2125#comment-1869 elixelx, I'll leave haunting pal-e-SWINIAN war rallies to you. Please post your video responses to YouTube. Your videos will help put a stake in the heart of islamofascism. Is it true that Muslims wish to reconquer Spain, or as they call it Al-Andalus? After 9/11, I take "death to america" seriously. I respond with "Death to Mecca/Makka". elixelx, I’ll leave haunting pal-e-SWINIAN war rallies to you.

Please post your video responses to YouTube. Your videos will help put a stake in the heart of islamofascism.

Is it true that Muslims wish to reconquer Spain, or as they call it Al-Andalus?

After 9/11, I take “death to america” seriously. I respond with “Death to Mecca/Makka”.

]]> By: Robman http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/a-strategy-for-reversing-the-tide-of-anti-israeli-bigotry/#comment-1868 Robman Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:33:59 +0000 http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/?p=2125#comment-1868 elixeix, Got you. If you had mentioned the bit about replies and U-tube in your original post, I'd have got you the first time around. Bear in mind, we are so used to outrageous crap, that irony disguised as the same is hard to detect after a while. elixeix,

Got you. If you had mentioned the bit about replies and U-tube in your original post, I’d have got you the first time around.

Bear in mind, we are so used to outrageous crap, that irony disguised as the same is hard to detect after a while.

]]> By: elixelx http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/a-strategy-for-reversing-the-tide-of-anti-israeli-bigotry/#comment-1857 elixelx Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:25:18 +0000 http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/?p=2125#comment-1857 You didn't read my original post or my reply to Eddie, did you, Robman? When you go to a rally where the Arabs/Muslims/Palestinians/Dhimmis are speaking, and you ask them outrageous questions, they give outrageous answers--just as you did! In answering my questions as though you were them you have shown the world the mind of impenitent killers! Thanks for that! As for you, Eddie--again I agree with you 100%. What we have to do is show this cruel, murderous face to the world, and what better way to do that than by asking outrageou questions and making outrageous suggestions at their rallies. That was my entire point in my first post, and one you and Robman seem to have totally misunderstood. When I've been to Palestinian rallies here in Spain--and believe me they get far more outrageous than you will EVER see--I try to ask one question only, and it usually gets the mad, psychotic, wild-eyed response I am trying to get...and that question is... WHEN WE DEFEAT THE JEWS IN ISRAEL, SHOULD WE THROW ALL THE LIVING ONES INTO THE SEA LIKE ABU NIDAL DID TO LEON KLINGHOFFER, OR SHOULD WE MAKE A BIG KORBAN AND SLIT ALL THEIR THROATS LIKE KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED DID TO DANIEL PEARL? (FOLLOW UP) SHOULD WE KILL THEIR WOMEN AND CHILDREN TOO, OR TAKE THEM FOR WHORES AND SLAVES?! So, wise up you two! Go to their rallies! Ask them some of the questions I outlined in my original post! Film their replies! Post them on U-Tube! That's the way we defeat these madmen--by showing them to be despicable, outrageous killers-in-waiting to be scorned and laughed at while they talk; to be fought against and killed when they act! One final word: How often have you seen mobs baying "Death to America!", "Death to Israel!", "Death to the Jews!" at Iranian rallies held by Ahmadinejad? Fine, so during the last election campaign A'jad handed out POTATOES to his supporters. IMMEDIATLY the opposition candidate, Moussavi, started screaming "Death to Potatoes!" My Iranian friend, Gholam explained: Whenever Iranians don't like something, no matter how small, they shout "Death to (fill in your pet peeve)". If you have a stone in your shoe you have options "Death to stones!" "Death to Gravel!" "Death to shoes!" "Death to Pain!". You see how ridiculous it becomes, how petty, how small, how insignificant it becomes, when you give them a mile and they make it an inch!"Death to Potatoes!" indeed. That's comedy gold! How seriously will you EVER be able to take "Death to America!" again now that you've heard "Death to Potatoes" issuing from the same lips? And that's the intention behind my original questions: to provoke answers so far beyond common sense and reason that there is no going back. If you think that doesn't work come up with your own strategy! "Death to strategies!" "Death to Irony!" "Death to hints and allegations!" You didn’t read my original post or my reply to Eddie, did you, Robman?
When you go to a rally where the Arabs/Muslims/Palestinians/Dhimmis are speaking, and you ask them outrageous questions, they give outrageous answers–just as you did! In answering my questions as though you were them you have shown the world the mind of impenitent killers! Thanks for that!
As for you, Eddie–again I agree with you 100%. What we have to do is show this cruel, murderous face to the world, and what better way to do that than by asking outrageou questions and making outrageous suggestions at their rallies.
That was my entire point in my first post, and one you and Robman seem to have totally misunderstood.
When I’ve been to Palestinian rallies here in Spain–and believe me they get far more outrageous than you will EVER see–I try to ask one question only, and it usually gets the mad, psychotic, wild-eyed response I am trying to get…and that question is…
WHEN WE DEFEAT THE JEWS IN ISRAEL, SHOULD WE THROW ALL THE LIVING ONES INTO THE SEA LIKE ABU NIDAL DID TO LEON KLINGHOFFER, OR SHOULD WE MAKE A BIG KORBAN AND SLIT ALL THEIR THROATS LIKE KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED DID TO DANIEL PEARL? (FOLLOW UP) SHOULD WE KILL THEIR WOMEN AND CHILDREN TOO, OR TAKE THEM FOR WHORES AND SLAVES?!
So, wise up you two! Go to their rallies! Ask them some of the questions I outlined in my original post! Film their replies! Post them on U-Tube! That’s the way we defeat these madmen–by showing them to be despicable, outrageous killers-in-waiting to be scorned and laughed at while they talk; to be fought against and killed when they act!
One final word: How often have you seen mobs baying “Death to America!”, “Death to Israel!”, “Death to the Jews!” at Iranian rallies held by Ahmadinejad? Fine, so during the last election campaign A’jad handed out POTATOES to his supporters. IMMEDIATLY the opposition candidate, Moussavi, started screaming “Death to Potatoes!”
My Iranian friend, Gholam explained: Whenever Iranians don’t like something, no matter how small, they shout “Death to (fill in your pet peeve)”. If you have a stone in your shoe you have options “Death to stones!” “Death to Gravel!” “Death to shoes!” “Death to Pain!”. You see how ridiculous it becomes, how petty, how small, how insignificant it becomes, when you give them a mile and they make it an inch!”Death to Potatoes!” indeed. That’s comedy gold!
How seriously will you EVER be able to take “Death to America!” again now that you’ve heard “Death to Potatoes” issuing from the same lips?
And that’s the intention behind my original questions: to provoke answers so far beyond common sense and reason that there is no going back.
If you think that doesn’t work come up with your own strategy!
“Death to strategies!” “Death to Irony!” “Death to hints and allegations!”

]]> By: Robman http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/a-strategy-for-reversing-the-tide-of-anti-israeli-bigotry/#comment-1853 Robman Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:31:43 +0000 http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/?p=2125#comment-1853 "elixeix": I'll answer your "questions": 1) If you did it all year long, then the general public would have more time to see how absurd your positions are. Maybe you have "all year" for such activities...is this what you are paid to do? Harass people like us on sites like these? Say "hi" to your Saudi sugar daddy for me. And be sure to send us a postcard when you finally grow up and get a real job (I know, I know...bashing Israel is a good gig, and it sure beats working....at least as long as the petrodollars hold out). 2) But you already have the uniforms! I've seen footage of your kids in Gaza and elsewhere as young as four dressed up in toy suicide vests! Your "children" would not be "under siege" if your cowardly "fighters" didn't hide behind them! Stop teaching hate, and just maybe there would be peace, and you wouldn't be under siege anymore! 3) A brilliant idea! As soon as the Jews of Canada start firing rockets into Canadian neighborhoods, blowing themselves up in your cafes, and investing all of their resources into creating hate and mayhem, then such measures should be taken forthwith! 4) "Giving birth in unsanitary conditions"...hmmmm. Um, where is all the hundreds of millions of aid you are getting every year from the EU, the US, etc., going? Even according to a recent report by the BBC (hardly a friend of Israel), some 144 trucks A DAY go from Israel into Gaza with humanitarian aid. Israel even provides you with electricity. Imagine if such standards were applied to NATO in Afghanistan, that we'd have to provide electricity to Taliban-held areas and we'd have to provide humanitrian aid to the areas they control. Again, if you didn't use every iota of resources that came into your hands to promote hate and death, MAYBE your women could give birth in nicer clinics. But of course, it is easier to blame everything on the Zionists..... You sound like a German circa 1944 complaining about the effects of allied bombing. 'They are destroying our cities....our children are suffering...the hospitals are overwhelmed with casualties' Kind of conveniently leaving out the part about how YOU STARTED THE F****** WAR! And FINALLY...No, every Jew is not an Israeli. Sadly, there is a significant minority of Jews who are so steeped in the "ghetto mentality" that they are simply afraid to stand up for themselves. But rest assured, pal, that MOST Jews DO support Israel. And we have a lot of friends among non-Jews; after all, the enemy Israel fights in Gaza is not much different than the one NATO fights in Afghanistan. We will work tirelessly to make sure that the general public is aware of this elemental fact, and as this occurs, the credibility of your nonsense genocidal movement that masquerades as a worthy "cause" will wither and die. In the end, your indignant moral self-righteousness is nothing but a big fraud. Yasser Arafat himself traveled to Hanoi in the late 1960s to learn tactics for defeating a materially more powerful foe, tactics which were successfully used against the U.S. in Vietnam. But the U.S. could come home after losing that war; Israel has no choice but to win, and she will. You and your people are only pawns who are being sacrificed on the altar of Moslem bigotry and bloody-mindedness. The attitude towards Israel of the Arabs and Moslems of SW Asia is really no more enlightened than racist whites in the pre-civil rights U.S. who'd form lynch mobs to evict a black family that moved into a white neighborhood. Wake and realize this, "elixeix", or keep dying like cannon fodder in the face of the Israelis who are simply defending their homeland. It is your choice. “elixeix”:

I’ll answer your “questions”:

1)
If you did it all year long, then the general public would have more time to see how absurd your positions are. Maybe you have “all year” for such activities…is this what you are paid to do? Harass people like us on sites like these? Say “hi” to your Saudi sugar daddy for me. And be sure to send us a postcard when you finally grow up and get a real job (I know, I know…bashing Israel is a good gig, and it sure beats working….at least as long as the petrodollars hold out).

2) But you already have the uniforms! I’ve seen footage of your kids in Gaza and elsewhere as young as four dressed up in toy suicide vests! Your “children” would not be “under siege” if your cowardly “fighters” didn’t hide behind them! Stop teaching hate, and just maybe there would be peace, and you wouldn’t be under siege anymore!

3) A brilliant idea! As soon as the Jews of Canada start firing rockets into Canadian neighborhoods, blowing themselves up in your cafes, and investing all of their resources into creating hate and mayhem, then such measures should be taken forthwith!

4) “Giving birth in unsanitary conditions”…hmmmm. Um, where is all the hundreds of millions of aid you are getting every year from the EU, the US, etc., going? Even according to a recent report by the BBC (hardly a friend of Israel), some 144 trucks A DAY go from Israel into Gaza with humanitarian aid. Israel even provides you with electricity. Imagine if such standards were applied to NATO in Afghanistan, that we’d have to provide electricity to Taliban-held areas and we’d have to provide humanitrian aid to the areas they control. Again, if you didn’t use every iota of resources that came into your hands to promote hate and death, MAYBE your women could give birth in nicer clinics. But of course, it is easier to blame everything on the Zionists…..

You sound like a German circa 1944 complaining about the effects of allied bombing. ‘They are destroying our cities….our children are suffering…the hospitals are overwhelmed with casualties’ Kind of conveniently leaving out the part about how YOU STARTED THE F****** WAR!

And FINALLY…No, every Jew is not an Israeli. Sadly, there is a significant minority of Jews who are so steeped in the “ghetto mentality” that they are simply afraid to stand up for themselves. But rest assured, pal, that MOST Jews DO support Israel. And we have a lot of friends among non-Jews; after all, the enemy Israel fights in Gaza is not much different than the one NATO fights in Afghanistan. We will work tirelessly to make sure that the general public is aware of this elemental fact, and as this occurs, the credibility of your nonsense genocidal movement that masquerades as a worthy “cause” will wither and die.

In the end, your indignant moral self-righteousness is nothing but a big fraud. Yasser Arafat himself traveled to Hanoi in the late 1960s to learn tactics for defeating a materially more powerful foe, tactics which were successfully used against the U.S. in Vietnam. But the U.S. could come home after losing that war; Israel has no choice but to win, and she will. You and your people are only pawns who are being sacrificed on the altar of Moslem bigotry and bloody-mindedness. The attitude towards Israel of the Arabs and Moslems of SW Asia is really no more enlightened than racist whites in the pre-civil rights U.S. who’d form lynch mobs to evict a black family that moved into a white neighborhood.

Wake and realize this, “elixeix”, or keep dying like cannon fodder in the face of the Israelis who are simply defending their homeland. It is your choice.

]]> By: Eddie http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/a-strategy-for-reversing-the-tide-of-anti-israeli-bigotry/#comment-1851 Eddie Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:27:08 +0000 http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/?p=2125#comment-1851 elixelx, If Israel and Jews were "the problem", then muslims and their 57 entities would be living in peace with their Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Bahai, Zoroastrian neighbors. Is that the case? Even you elixelx know that islamofascists are are War with people and cultures all over the World. Islamofascists are even at war with fellow muslims - ever see shiites and sunni blow each other up, blow up golden mosques? Islam and muslims have become a mortal threat to the entire world. Checkpoints are necessary at every airport in the World. To filter out suicidal, homicidal, islamofascists. There are 6 billion NON-muslims versus 1 billion muslims. Who do you think will prevail? Who do you think will lose Mecca/Makka, Qom, Medina? Who will have no place to Hajj to? Who has 60 years of expertise in the development of nuclear weapons versus an islamofascist entity that just recently acquired some basic weapons. elixelx, If Israel and Jews were “the problem”, then muslims and their 57 entities would be living in peace with their Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Bahai, Zoroastrian neighbors. Is that the case? Even you elixelx know that islamofascists are are War with people and cultures all over the World. Islamofascists are even at war with fellow muslims - ever see shiites and sunni blow each other up, blow up golden mosques? Islam and muslims have become a mortal threat to the entire world. Checkpoints are necessary at every airport in the World. To filter out suicidal, homicidal, islamofascists. There are 6 billion NON-muslims versus 1 billion muslims. Who do you think will prevail? Who do you think will lose Mecca/Makka, Qom, Medina? Who will have no place to Hajj to? Who has 60 years of expertise in the development of nuclear weapons versus an islamofascist entity that just recently acquired some basic weapons.

]]> By: elixelx http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/a-strategy-for-reversing-the-tide-of-anti-israeli-bigotry/#comment-1850 elixelx Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:05:53 +0000 http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/?p=2125#comment-1850 Eddie, you are absolutely correct! We should do each and every single one of the things you suggest, except in spades.... And yes, you are right again...they ARE all jihadis, thieves, liars, killers, torturers, terrorists, sodomites, catamites, buggerers and melon-lovers...I wish I had thought that before you pointed it out to me! We must Whack 'em where they live, whack 'em where they don't live...They must feel in their own flesh what they want others to feel! Of course, I'm just being sarcastic! Do you understand what that means? What a simplistic non-thinker you are, taking everything I said, just questions after all, to a logical conclusion and coming up with an absurdity! I will assume then, from your reasoning, that just because you once had an argument with your Dad, and were suckled by your Mom, that you are now Oedipus! Which totally explains your answer to me....! Eddie, you are absolutely correct! We should do each and every single one of the things you suggest, except in spades….
And yes, you are right again…they ARE all jihadis, thieves, liars, killers, torturers, terrorists, sodomites, catamites, buggerers and melon-lovers…I wish I had thought that before you pointed it out to me!
We must Whack ‘em where they live, whack ‘em where they don’t live…They must feel in their own flesh what they want others to feel!
Of course, I’m just being sarcastic! Do you understand what that means?
What a simplistic non-thinker you are, taking everything I said, just questions after all, to a logical conclusion and coming up with an absurdity!
I will assume then, from your reasoning, that just because you once had an argument with your Dad, and were suckled by your Mom, that you are now Oedipus!
Which totally explains your answer to me….!

]]> By: Eddie http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/a-strategy-for-reversing-the-tide-of-anti-israeli-bigotry/#comment-1846 Eddie Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:40:40 +0000 http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/?p=2125#comment-1846 elixelx, there are "Muslims Only" cities in Saudi Arabia. Taking your thinking to the next step, there should be "Muslims Prohibited" cities. Right? It would be only fair. And since no churches are permitted in Saudi Arabia, Saudi funded mosques and madrassas in the West should be PROHIBITED, and dismantled until Saudi Arabia permits churches to be built and Christians permitted to wear crucifixes in public in SA. Right? elixelx, there is Gender Apartheid in Saudi Arabia, inhumane punishment like stonings to death for "honor", executions of gays in iran. Is every Muslim a shaheed, jihadi? Should the West treat Muslims as if they are all potential terrorists like the Christmas day underwear bomber, as bombers of Pan Am 103, as assassins, as thieves? elixelx, there are “Muslims Only” cities in Saudi Arabia. Taking your thinking to the next step, there should be “Muslims Prohibited” cities. Right? It would be only fair. And since no churches are permitted in Saudi Arabia, Saudi funded mosques and madrassas in the West should be PROHIBITED, and dismantled until Saudi Arabia permits churches to be built and Christians permitted to wear crucifixes in public in SA. Right? elixelx, there is Gender Apartheid in Saudi Arabia, inhumane punishment like stonings to death for “honor”, executions of gays in iran. Is every Muslim a shaheed, jihadi? Should the West treat Muslims as if they are all potential terrorists like the Christmas day underwear bomber, as bombers of Pan Am 103, as assassins, as thieves?

]]> By: Lynne T http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/a-strategy-for-reversing-the-tide-of-anti-israeli-bigotry/#comment-1845 Lynne T Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:54:45 +0000 http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/?p=2125#comment-1845 Journalist Abu Khalid Toameh, who makes appearances on US campuses to speak against events like "Israel Apartheid Week" says there is more hostility expressed towards Israel on western campuses than there is on campuses in Gaza and the West Bank. http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/11/what-does-pro-palestinian-really-mean.php http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/05/islam-today-1.php I believe there was a study conducted a year or so ago of attitudes towards Israel in African nations that found, regardless of whether the country was predominantly Muslim or Christian, that the average person in the street (as opposed to the government) was more sympathetic towards Israel than the Palestinians. (Indeed, there were Darfurians fleeing the state-sponsored Janjawid seeking refuge in Israel at the risk of being shot by Egyptian border police. I guess nobody managed to get news to them that Israel is an apartheid state.) The theory advanced for this lack of hostility towards Israel was due to the absence of anti-Zionist Israeli and Jewish academics like Ilan Pappe, Avi Shlaim, Norman Finkelstein teaching in the institutions of higher learning in those countries. Journalist Abu Khalid Toameh, who makes appearances on US campuses to speak against events like “Israel Apartheid Week” says there is more hostility expressed towards Israel on western campuses than there is on campuses in Gaza and the West Bank.
http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/11/what-does-pro-palestinian-really-mean.php
http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/05/islam-today-1.php

I believe there was a study conducted a year or so ago of attitudes towards Israel in African nations that found, regardless of whether the country was predominantly Muslim or Christian, that the average person in the street (as opposed to the government) was more sympathetic towards Israel than the Palestinians. (Indeed, there were Darfurians fleeing the state-sponsored Janjawid seeking refuge in Israel at the risk of being shot by Egyptian border police. I guess nobody managed to get news to them that Israel is an apartheid state.)

The theory advanced for this lack of hostility towards Israel was due to the absence of anti-Zionist Israeli and Jewish academics like Ilan Pappe, Avi Shlaim, Norman Finkelstein teaching in the institutions of higher learning in those countries.

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