Dec. 10, 2012

What is called The Damascus Affair was the disappearance and suspected murder in 1840 of a Christian Priest, said to have been killed while in the Jewish Quarter for his blood to be used in the approaching Passover celebration. The accused men were declared innocent after a delegation of high-level European Jews, headed by Sir Moses Montefiore, traveled to the capital of the Ottoman Empire  to negotiate with the Pasha.  Following this major “blood libel” event, international-minded Jews considered how to organize for the protection of the Jewish reputation world-wide. One result was the Alliance Israelite Universelle, founded in 1860 by Adolphe Cremieux who was also a member of the above-mentioned delegation. This new sense of, and felt-need for, solidarity gave rise to the modern Jewish Press, a mass of new institutions and organizations all aimed at serving the “Jewish community,” and the emergence of a written plan, a version of which we know as the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.

Image: Symbol of the Alliance Israelite Universelle on door of “Mikveh Israel’ school. The hands clasping indicate the “helping hand” that Jews should offer to one another, no matter where they are. Enlarge

Nov. 26, 2012

Carolyn Yeager discusses her articles at Elie Wiesel Cons The World that call for an email and phone campaign to the New York office of the Associated Press.  According to Carolyn, reporter Verena Dobnik’s offhand mention that Elie Wiesel showed her his tattoo has to be a lie and therefore puts the AP in a difficult position of condoning journalistic fraud. Other topics covered:

• Elie Wiesel on Barack Obama, Bibi Netanyahu,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Bernie Madoff, the Internet and the first Jewish President in America;
• Elie’s son, Elisha, now 41, is a partner at Goldman, Sachs & Co! Pictured right: Elisha, 14, as his father is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Could that be a smirk on Elisha’s face?
• Jewish financial swindler Nicholas Levene cheated investors out of millions, jailed for 13 years;
• B’nai B’rith International terminated it’s pension plan in order to “pay its bills” and “stay in business;” all pension payments taken over by U.S. government agency;
• B’nai B’rith president, former treasurer, indicted on federal tax fraud charges;
• European Jews lobby to get special security funding from the European Union, in addition to individual national governments;
• Pedophile Jimmy Savile big friend of Israel; described as a philosemite;
• Anti-Jewish sentiment rises again in Venezuela; Wiesenthal Center compares it to “Hitler’s Kristallnacht;”
• Where does it end?  When we succeed in making people aware that Jewish abuse of our tolerance cannot continue.