The hysteria that dare not speak its name

Stephen

I can remember my father and his friend being shocked by the media coverage during the first intifada, "they actually hate us!" was their surprised and bewildered comment. How easily we post Holocaust Jews forget that this awful atmosphere of hatred has in fact been the norm for most of our history and it's only been the shock of the Holocaust that has created a pocket of calm for the past sixty years. Now that the post Holocaust honeymoon is coming to an end and that the events of sixty years ago are moving from living memory to become just another page in history it's really just back to business as usual.

Mark

Melanie; I am sickened to the point of outrage here right now. I've just seen Jeremy Bowen's piece that he did for the BBC, and he clearly is not performing like a professional journalist should. I've taken Journalism classes too and blind impartiality in any story was the emphasis; is Bowen a guy who started in the BBC tea rooms or is he a graduate of a Journalism school?
It's unbelievable that taxpayers in the UK are parading and demonstrating outside the Beeb offices to get their money back; are the British as apathetic as it seems? Please tell me it's not true.

JJS

I think this is the time we need to remember "never again" -- because unless we do (and do something about it) "never again" will have been an empty promise.

Dave M

"There have been attacks on synagogues in Toulouse, Toulon, Metz and Charleroi, on a Jewish school in Brussels, on cars and shops belonging to Jews in France, Brussels and Antwerp and on a teenage Jewish girl in Paris."

That's why Jews should never take it for granted that in the future a life in Europe would ever be as secure as living in Israel proper. Besides, it may well turn out to be the case that those so-called European liberals (who today support aspects of radical Islam) will one day themselves become victims of the said ideology. This is already taking place in Europe. In France there have already been threats made towards that country by radical Islamic groups who seek to overturn the former banning of veils and burkhas in schools. In Denmark and Holland there has also been a conflict between the values of democracy/liberty and the rising force of political Islam.

Spencer R. de Vere

There comes a point where the eagerness of the media to be "duped" into reporting anti-Israel attrocities ceases to be a result of "sloppy checking of information" - and becomes plain and simple spiteful, poisonous anti-Israel bias, if not anti-Jewish paranoia.

Jeremy Havardi

I went to the pro Israel demonstration outside the Israeli embassy in Kensington this evening. There was a wonderful and inspiring atmosphere, in contrast to the vile hate being spewed out the intimidating Islamist fanatics nearby.

The best we can do is make the case for Israeli actions and explain the context for the ongoing conflict. And above all, remind the extremists with their vicious, disgusting chants that the Jewish state is going nowhere. Not now, not next year, not the year after...

www.jeremyhavardi.com

Bob Bartlett

Melanie is right on the mark. I am constantly amazed that my many jewish american friends are overwhelmingly committed liberals and have no sense of the need to fight evil. Why is it that Christians have to support and fight for Israel and the Jews? I am really glad I became an American where it is still a virtue to fight for freedom. But Melanie is flashing a red light for us.

Archie

Well, Miss Phillips, my response to this depressing catalogue would have to be "My enemy's enemy is my friend" That is if they weren't already!

Adam

Melanie - The world has indeed gone mad.

The question has to be asked though, what were we thinking would be the outcome from 20yrs of unregulated immigration from totalitarian & fundamentalist Muslim countries to the west?

It's a disgrace that we have let these islamofascist sores fester in our lands in the name of failed multiculturalism, we are well and truly reaping what we have sown.

I hope when it is all said and done that socialist parties throughout the west remain unelectable for a generation.

Shame on them for destroying the very fabric of western culture in less than 20yrs.

Tina

Mark (January 7th, 2009 10:50pm), it never ends.

Last night (7th January) was just a constant conveyor belt of propaganda from our ‘news‘ channels. ITV News at 18.30 had newsreader Mark Austin asking a leading question to Shimon Peres with words along the lines of “the world looks on”.

Peres, good on him, interjected with something like, “you don’t represent ‘the world’, you represent a certain section of British opinion”. Yes, Mr Austin doesn’t seem to realise that he lives in some stupid media bubble. He doesn’t represent jack squit about me or my views (no, I’m not Jewish).

BBC 1 News at 22.00, Jeremy Bonehead (who else?) says something like “the Muslim world is especially outraged”. Really? Do you know what, Jeremy, I’m especially outraged, too. I’m outraged at the endless spinning by you and your colleagues on behalf of Hamas and every other Islamist group in the world, but what do people like me matter when the BBC has opinions to manipulate?

Oh, and also last night, Jeremy Paxman, who might as well be donning a Hamas insignia-imprinted headscarf this week, starts asking David Muppetbland on BBC2’s Newsnight about why Britain hasn’t condemned Israel’s action. Why the hell should they? Because the Islamist apologising mainstream media thinks it’s a good idea?

Foreign readers, please note, we’re being run by the fifth column here. This blog is an aberration to the diet of filth we’re served up by the mainstream media.

And that’s my night’s viewing. Just a constant stream of sanctimonious apologising for the Islamists by the two main British TV channels. And if I don’t want to pay for Mr Bonehead and Mr Paxspin via the BBC licence fee? A prison term awaits me. The fifth column have their boot right over my windpipe with the threat of prison if I don’t pay their propaganda poll tax. Welcome to the United Dhimmidom, the country where Islamic views trump everyone else’s.

PS. As usual, American Thinker gets it:

http://www.americanthinker.com/cartoons/?id=390

stanley Jerusalem

Sadly Adam, reversing the effects of 20 plus [more like 50 actually] years of 'liberalisation' cannot be reversed without much pain. In the words of Winston Churchill
"You can't rat and then rerat."

Gregory

There is a good article by Daniel Finkelstein in the Times (7 Jan) where he discusses the inability of the world to save the Jewish people, hence the necessity for Israel.

The trouble is he may have got it the wrong way round - the world is more interested in destroying the Jewish people and Israel has been firmly in its sights for some time.

This is the mass hallucination gripping the world - the hope that it will be a better place once they have gone. And almost impossible to reason against.

A powerful vision, but there will be tears.

Adam B.

Tina, couldn't agree more. It's the feeling of being powerless and disenfranchised by these media outlets which is so frustrating. We need to get organized and demonstrate outside the BBC. All I can recommend for now is joining the solidarity with Israel rally in London this Sunday from 10.30am in Trafalgar Square.

Dee Ranged

Tina

Excellent contribution.

We must have more!

gary

"In every age oppressors rise against us to crush our spirits and bring us low. From the hands of all these tyrants and conquerors, from the power of anything that hinders us from being His people, the Lord rescues and restores us."

Mark

Fear not Tina, we're in the same boat here in Canada with the CBC who are BBC wannabe's. I used to work for them as script assistant in the early nineties here in Montreal. You would not believe the waste of money compared to private broadcasters.
I wish I could be there on Sunday with you. I've been to England in '84 and last in '91, and I do remember that the Brit in the street did not seem to match what North Americans are exposed to on their local PBS tv service. There's a hell of a lot more going on in the British soul. Do not worry that all people here have the idea that Britain is no more, that simply is not true. You suffer the same ignominy that most developed nations with public broadcasters do; you are not represented at all, and have no voice even if you pay for it.
To Adam, carry on organizing for this coming Sunday, and the best of luck to you (us) all.

Michael

Guess its best to be whiter than white in this little game eh?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5480440.ece

phil

TINA WILL YOU MARRY ME :)? i HAVE FOUND A SOUL MATE XXX --------and those who cannot understand bowen -its easy his coopers y-fronts are too small ,concentrates the brain into a very small area -you can tell by his voice .haw haw had the same problem he ordered the wrong size before the war. so its not really his fault .somebody send him some Calvin Klein and he will be lovely.