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Al-Jazeera runs then deletes anti-Semitic screed by Columbia Univ. Prof. Joseph Massad

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Posted by    Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 1:03pm

Massad is just the tip of the anti-Israel academic iceberg

Joseph Massad is an anti-Israeli Columbia University Professor.

Massad recently wrote a post at Al-Jazeera, which we wrote about at College Insurrection, Columbia Professor’s ‘Anti-Jewish Screed’ Draws Fire.

The post was The Last of the Semites:

Twitter - @AJEnglish - Last of the Semites

The core allegations are that Zionists cooperated with the Nazis, that the result of the Holocaust was that only Zionist Jews survived while non-Zionist Jews were exterminated, and that the West seeking to compel the Arabs to accept Israel is the fulfillment of this Nazis-Zionist collusion:

…  It is this shared goal of expelling Jews from Europe as a separate unassimilable race that created the affinity between Nazis and Zionists all along.

While the majority of Jews continued to resist the anti-Semitic basis of Zionism and its alliances with anti-Semites, the Nazi genocide not only killed 90 percent of European Jews, but in the process also killed the majority of Jewish enemies of Zionism who died precisely because they refused to heed the Zionist call of abandoning their countries and homes.

After the War, the horror at the Jewish holocaust did not stop European countries from supporting the anti-Semitic programme of Zionism. On the contrary, these countries shared with the Nazis a predilection for Zionism. They only opposed Nazism’s genocidal programme. European countries, along with the United States, refused to take in hundreds of thousands of Jewish survivors of the holocaust. In fact, these countries voted against a UN resolution introduced by the Arab states in 1947 calling on them to take in the Jewish survivors, yet these same countries would be the ones who would support the United Nations  Partition Plan of November 1947  to create a Jewish State in Palestine to which these unwanted Jewish refugees could be expelled.

The creation of Israel, Massad continued, not only was a fulfillment of the Nazi-Zionist common goals, but also required the elevation of...

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On #Benghazi, question may be “What did Obama do, and when did he do it?”

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Posted by    Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 10:47am

There is a desperate attempt to dismiss Benghazi as a big nothing.

Based on what we know already, there is a lot of “there there” showing that there we multiple levels of defalcation before, during and after the killing of our Ambassador.

But there are numerous open questions.

Where was Obama?  What was he doing, particularly the night of the attack as it was in progress?

None of the emails released address that, because they start at a later date.  All we have are vague statements that Obama was in touch with people.  Contrast that to photos from the Situation Room during the Bin Laden operation.

(h/t @MichelleMalkin for video)(transcript here)

This question is important, including for the reasons explained by Andy McCarthy, The 10 P.M. Phone Call:

‘What would you be focusing on in the Benghazi investigation?” I spent many years in the investigation biz, so it’s only natural that I’ve been asked that question a lot lately….

So if I were investigating Benghazi, I’d be homing in on that 10 p.m. phone call. That’s the one between President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — the one that’s gotten close to zero attention….

Even in the conservative press, it has become received wisdom that President Obama was AWOL on the night of September 11, after first being informed by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in the late afternoon, that the State Department facility in Benghazi was under attack. You hear it again and again: While Americans were under attack, the commander-in-chief checked out, leaving subordinates to deal with the crisis while he got his beauty sleep in preparation for a fundraising campaign trip to Vegas.

That is not true . . . and the truth, as we’ve come to expect with Obama, is almost surely worse. There is good reason to believe that while Americans were still fighting for their lives in Benghazi, while no military efforts were being made to rescue them, and while those desperately trying to rescue them were being told to stand down, the president was busy shaping the “blame the video” narrative to which his administration clung in the aftermath.

In the case of Benghazi, the question may not be “What did he know and when did he know it?”

The important question, which the administration is carefully avoiding, is “What did Obama do, and when did he do it?”

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Are conservatives getting scroogled at Google News?

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Posted by    Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 8:45am

As most Legal Insurrection readers are avid news consumers, I bet many wonder why there are so many “low information voters”.

Perhaps Google is to blame. Take a look at their top news stories when I checked yesterday:

Top Stories Google2

Now, compare this to Bing News and its top stories:

Top Stories Bing

IRS scandal – check
. International news of importance – check. If you want a serious-minded, pro-American information homepage and search venue, why not go with Bing? They even have a translator now!

Hey Google, here’s a little something in Klingon!

Google, qaparHa’

Truly, Bing is to Goggle what Fox News is to MSNBC.

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black·board (/ˈblakˌbôrd/) insurrection

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Posted by    Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 7:00am

Take the fight to them every place you can.

From SGLawrence, taken in Woodstock, NY (not actually the place where the Woodstock concert was held, that was in Bethel):

Hi Professor Jacobson. While in Woodstock, N.Y. this past week, I came across a large Chalkboard that invites members of the public to fill in the blank after the words ” Before I die I want to….”

Someone had written “slap Mitt Romney” so I decided to get creative and instead of erasing the thought, I edited it to say “Before I die I want to slap Mitt Romney and tell him he was right to criticize Obama for attacking the 1st Amendment over Benghazi.”

@SGLawrence

Sign - Woodstock NY - slap Romney

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Saturday Night Card Game (Chris Matthews evolves from race card to WTF card on Obama-gates)

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Posted by    Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 8:00pm

It started with the usual defense, it’s all about racism (h/t Hot Air)

But wait, maybe ….

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Maybe there really is a problem there… (h/t Hot Air)

Heads exploding … WTF is going on at the White House?

Evolution is real!

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Obama’s 2nd term is unhappy in its own way, so who cares if the scandals are “Watergate”

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Posted by    Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 5:42pm

I’m with Tolstoy.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina:

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

Benghazi-gate.  IRS-target-gate.  AP-Phone Records-gate.

Whether or not the various scandals are “Watergate” is a mistaken way of looking at the scandals, because we should not expect any presidency to be unhappy in the way other presidencies...

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Was Celia Roady, who asked the planted question, a victim of the IRS?

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Posted by    Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 2:47pm

At congressional hearings yesterday, it was revealed that the IRS planted a question at an ABA meeting in order to give Lois Lerner of the IRS the opportunity to get ahead of the pending Inspector General Report and make it seem as if the IRS had voluntarily disclosed the targeting of Tea...

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Tea Party IRS Protests May 21

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Posted by    Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 12:47pm

Forwarded to me by a reader.

Sounds like a good idea to me. (details and locations at the link)

On behalf of Tea Party, P...

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Elizabeth Warren’s low-information student loan spear

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Posted by    Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 11:30am

You remember Upworthy, the epitome of low-information in support of Obama and progressives, Upworthy — or, How we are losing the internet to lowest of low information young liberals.

They have maps which demonstrate The high cost of low information voters.

I need to stop checking in there, because they have stuff like this:

How...

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Ed Markey’s passive aggressive campaign

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Posted by    Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 10:05am

Democratic Congressman Ed Markey apparently is hoping that being super-liberal in Massachusetts is enough to defeat Republican Gabriel Gomez in the Special Election … and granted, it might be.

So Markey is in hiding:

While Republican Gabriel E. Gomez held nine public events this week, his Democratic rival, Edward J. Markey, held none, sparking...

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“Two chickens, three goats and a rabbit” Week at College Insurrection

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Posted by    Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 8:30am

This week college campuses looked relatively sane compared to Washington, D.C.

I emphasize “relatively.”

Six Degrees of Separation:

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(not hoping for it, just noticing)

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Posted by    Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 7:00am

What does it take to get the IRS’s attention?

(Do you really want to know?)

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Stand up and cheer these House Republicans

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Posted by    Friday, May 17, 2013 at 9:05pm

Some good stuff today.

I actually was proud of the job the House Republicans did given the time constraints. They had some fight in them. Hopefully they will keep it up for 3 1/2 more years. Every. Single. Day.

I posted some videos at the earlier Live post, including Kevin...

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Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Financial Times in Group’s Latest Attack on News Outlets

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Posted by    Friday, May 17, 2013 at 7:45pm

Another news organization has fallen victim to the group of hackers known as the Syrian Electronic Army.

The Financial Times was hacked Friday, according to a notice posted by the outlet.

The Financial Times has become the latest news outlet to be hacked by supporters of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, following a...

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Questioner initially denied IRS Q&A was set up

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Posted by    Friday, May 17, 2013 at 6:45pm

At congressional hearings today, it was revealed that IRS planted question at ABA mtg disclosing targeting of conservatives via communications between Celia Roady, a tax lawyer who asked the question, and Lois Lerner of the IRS who was on an ABA panel.  Roady has a deep background in tax exempt issues and...

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