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from the must-read RBO : Former New York Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat who campaigned for President Obama in 2008, yesterday slammed the U.S. leader’s recent treatment of Israel as “outrageous” and “hostile,” declaring he is “close” to “getting off the Obama train.” Koch’s sentiments are significant. The former politician has long been an indicator of American Jewish sentiment regarding U.S. presidents and Israel. His statements may serve as a signal that some American Jews are moving away from the Obama administration. Koch was speaking in a radio interview with WND senior reporter Aaron Klein, who hosts an investigative program on New York’s WABC 770 AM. The former mayor took issue with the Obama administration’s diplomatic row with Israel last month after a Jerusalem municipality announced the construction of 1,600 new homes in the neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, an already existing Jerusalem Jewish community. That announcement came during a visit to the region by Vice President Joe Biden...

by Aaron Klein Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers, a close associate for years of President Obama, is one of 431 academics to sign a petition calling for divestment, boycott and sanctions against Israel. "As educators and scholars of conscience in the United States, we fully support this call," reads the online petition by an organization calling itself the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel . "We urge our colleagues, nationally, regionally, and internationally, to stand up against Israel's ongoing scholasticide and to support the non-violent call for academic boycott, disinvestment, and sanctions," states the petition. The petition claims Israel persistently violates international law and carries out "illegal" discriminatory policies comparable to apartheid in South Africa. The text fails to note that about 20 percent of Israel's population consists of Arabs who have democratic rights as citizens, including full representat...

by Abe Selig Growing harassment of Jewish students on college campuses across Britain, the US and Canada has prompted the Simon Wiesenthal Center to announce plans for an international effort to counter the phenomenon. The whole idea of the campaign is "to debunk the mythology of the anti-Israel forces," Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the center's associate dean, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. The campaign will include a so-called "iCAN" ad to run in student newspapers during this year's Israel Apartheid Week (which starts on Sunday), in which protesters worldwide will attempt to compare the Jewish state with the former racist regime in South Africa. The ad, which features two aluminum cans connected together by a string, asks where modern society would be if it boycotted Israeli technology. "Committed to boycotting Israel?" the ad asks. "Be Zion-free - do not use cellphones, voicemail, AIM and ICQ instant messaging, Google (which runs on Israel...

Israel calls it as it TRULY IS!!! HOORAY! Israel says will boycott U.N. forum on racism Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Wednesday that Israel had made a final decision not to participate in a U.N. forum on racism and urged other countries to boycott what she termed an "anti-Israel tribunal." The United Nations said it regretted the decision. The World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, to be held in Geneva in April, is a follow-up to a 2001 summit in Durban, South Africa on the same issues. Israel and the United States walked out of the first conference in protest over draft texts branding Israel as a racist and apartheid state -- language that was later dropped. In a speech to visiting U.S. Jewish leaders, Livni said she announced last February that Israel would not participate in the 2009 meeting unless it was clear it would not be used "as a platform for further anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic" activity. She s...

A few more tidbits on Obama... The following is from Trinity United Church of Christ’s official bulletin of July 8, 2007 Islam has as many manifestations as Christianity and Judaism, but most Americans are only fed a media diet on Islam as it relates to the “war on terror” and the Palestinian muslim problem in the “state” of Israel. -- Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A Wright, Jr. Senior Pastor FOR THOSE ON AN AGGREGATOR CLICK HERE TO SEE THIS IMPORTANT VIDEO Arab-American Activist Says Obama Hiding Anti-Israel Stance by Gil Ronen Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama is currently hiding his anti-Israel views in order to get elected, according to a well-known anti-Israel activist. The activist, Ali Abunimah, claimed to know Obama well and to have met him on numerous occasions at pro-Palestinian events in Chicago. In an article he penned for the anti-Israeli website Electronic Intifada, Abunimah wrote: "The last time I spoke to Obama was in the winter of 2004 at a ...

by Jeff Gold On May 14th Mr. Obama visited Michigan and spoke to a group of 20 local leaders, but decided to give a special private audience to the head of the Islamic Center of America Imam Hassan Qazwini. For Obama to be chatting in a one-on-one with Qazwini, is equivalent to meeting with Ayatollah Khomeini’s, and Hezbollahs’ representative in America! Qazwini is an Iraqi born cleric of exceptional religious pedigree and runs America’s largest Mosque, in Detroit Michigan. Widely understood to be a moderate reformist, Qazwini claims to be a proud American while incessantly harping-on about being a proud (?) Victim of American Islamophobia. To his credit, he enjoys the endorsement of George Bush in the past, and is widely seen as a “progressive” scholar, but as with all things Muslim and Western, he is far from any “progressivism” in the common sense of the word. When dealing with Islam, the West has to search under rocks to find anything remotely “moderate.” Being a “moderate” in th...

I am just SICKENED about what's going on in politics and the upcoming presidential election. I can NOT vote for Barack Obama. Everyone jumps on Hillary's every gaffe but Obama is given a pass on every single LIE he's told. McCain? He's got ZERO credibility with me... as you can see in earlier posts on this blog. Anyone who knows me and has known me for a while knows that there's one thing I can not abide - one thing I hate - LIARS. And those who lie to my face and don't expect me to check the facts? Don't even think about it. And here's the FIRST BIG LIE he told - in HIS OWN WORDS - back in 2004 Barack Obama is a Liar If you're on an aggregator - click here for this MUST SEE Video Barack Obama: Liar, Hypocrite, Narcissist Selma got Obama born - LIAR , Obama was born in 1961 - Selma had no effect on Obama's birth, as Selma was in 1965. Obama's Father was a Goat Herder - LIAR , he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to wo...

Barack Obama's Middle East Expert By Ed Lasky The idea of this guy as President? Scares me! Like giving a baby a loaded gun. Barack Obama's real thinking about Israel and the Middle East continues to be an enigma. The words he chose in an address to AIPAC create a different impression than the composition of his foreign policy advisory team. Several advisors have evidenced a history of suspicion and worse toward Israel. One of his advisors in particular, Robert Malley, clearly warrants attention, as does the reasoning that led him to being chosen by Barack Obama. A little family history may be in order to understand the genesis of Robert Malley's views. Normally, one should be reluctant in exploring a person's family background -- after all, who would want to be held responsible for the sins of one's father? However, when close relatives share a strong current of ideological affinity, and when a father has a commanding persona, it behooves a researcher to inquire ...

Vilifying Jews By Ruthie Blum Likening anti-Semitism to pollution, Manfred Gerstenfeld makes a distinction between that "which comes out of a chimney and spreads over a huge area," and that "which comes from the exhaust pipes of millions of cars, each one contributing its little bit." The former, he says, was characteristic of the Nazi era - with its "boss," Adolf Hitler, as the central smokestack the world over. The latter, he claims, describes today's post-modern form of the phenomenon: global, but fragmented, with no single leader or source - and primarily aimed at the Jewish state. The academic area Gerstenfeld - chairman of the Board of Fellows of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) - has spent the last few years researching is one he feels has been given short shrift precisely among those most immediately and directly threatened by it. It is what he sees as the gradual mushrooming of anti-Israel bias on campuses across the world, culmi...