I now wear this badge with Honor
and encourage all others to do the same.
BTW: My Dog-Tags say American Baptist.
Posted on 07/06/2006 8:35:07 PM PDT by Esther Ruth
Open Anti-Semitism in San Francisco by Lee Kaplan Jul 06, '06 / 10 Tammuz 5766
Although I'd written about it many times, and read about it in second-hand reports, I never actually heard it said with my own two ears. After all, this was America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where religious intolerance might exist in closed circles, but which was generally not openly voiced in public except by fringe hate groups like the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. Palestinian supporters in America team up with those groups against Jews, but don't like to admit it. They couch their rhetoric with talk of Zionists, but how they really love Jews.
It's not that I was unaware it happens, because at the second annual conference of the International Solidarity Movement in Michigan - where Sami Al-Arian, the US head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, was guest of honor before being convicted of terrorism charges - the Arabs and their activist allies were screaming in Arabic "Itbakh Al-Yahood!" Freely translated into English, it means, "Kill the Jews!"
The ISM activists, and their anarchist/communist buddies that make up a world-wide PLO support and propaganda mechanism, like to use deceptive language. People who act as human shields and supporters for terrorists thus call themselves "peace activists", but the anti-Israel crowd gathered in front of the Israeli consulate in San Francisco on July 3rd could not hide their true opinions.
They chanted in Arabic "Through blood we will redeem you, Oh Palestine!" You can only begin to imagine the din of screaming and threats emanating from the pro-PLO crowd.
When the first few Jews showed up to counter-demonstrate, three of the Palestinian demonstrators assaulted one of them and tore up his sign. Later, an elderly woman had her Israeli flag stolen from her by a young Arab. The woman was at a loss for what to do, but after I got her to tell the police, two officers chased the perpetrator and retrieved her flag. A sign in the Palestinian crowd read "Israel has 9,000 hostages" in reference to the one Israeli soldier now in Arab hands that Hamas refuses to release. The fundamental difference, of course, is those 9,000 in Israel are mostly convicted murderers.
I took a bullhorn and began my own chanting: "USA! Israel! USA! Israel! USA! Israel!"
But most of the few Jews who were there in support of Israel just stood there, shmoozing.
The cops kept us apart, or rather I should say protected the Israel supporters, from the the Arabs and their allies from International ANSWER.
One elderly woman on the other side screamed at us that she was the only real Jew, not us, then kept giving us the finger and telling us how we were "gonna take it up the a--!" They were an impressive bunch as they hurled threats and waved their bloody-fisted flags. There had to be at nearly 100 of them.
As our crowd began to diminish, I took a bullhorn and then started speaking to the cars slowly passing by and anyone who would listen: "Do you see their flags?" I asked. "They show fists of dripping blood!"
I continued, "We have American flags here. Do you see any American flags among that group over there?" Even some of the cops raised their eyebrows. "Those are the people who cut off heads! Those are the people who support the Iraqi resistance that kills American soldiers! Those are the supporters of Saddam Hussein! Those are the supporters of Osama Bin Laden and Islamic fascism!"
The din from the other side subsided a little. They clearly could not figure out how to respond, because everything I had said was true. They began to try and hide the flags with bloody fists. Some objected and tried to display them again, but their colleagues made them hide the flags again.
"Why are you hiding your flags that drip blood?" I continued, "You see no American flags over there because they hate America and they support those who kill our soldiers! They support those who cut off heads! They support Saddam Hussein!"
The ones in charge of their loudspeaker put their heads together. What to do? Finally, they turned up the volume and began shouting. "Itbakh Al-Yahood! Itbakh Al-Yahood!"
Welcome to 1930s Berlin on a contemporary San Francisco street. And hear, O Israel, America may not always be here for you like you think it will. They may have hidden their flags showing the red fists dripping with blood, but they showed their true colors:
"Itbakh Al-Yahood!" - Wipe the Jews from the face of the Earth!
Aw pleezzzzzzzzzzz, I was a Jew growing up in da Bronx and the 2nd to last white family to move out.
WE Jews are the only whit n... on the planet.
Even the LIEbs we help hate us.
But I'll tell you one thing, I love being a Jewish REP, it Fs the S out of everyone!~}
With the leftists demanding the Jews to give back all the land and weapons they captured from their attackers.
"The din from the other side subsided a little. They clearly could not figure out how to respond, because everything I had said was true. They began to try and hide the flags with bloody fists. Some objected and tried to display them again, but their colleagues made them hide the flags again."
Truth can be a powerful weapon.
Is it possible to contact the DA to ask him to file charges against the scum?
Don't even think about that; we're not going to miss the the fun ..
The ISM, Rachel Corrie's group.
After the murder of Eliyahu Asheri, they condemned Israel for the "execution of palestinians."
I live in NYC, I've seen, firsthand so-called "anti-war protests" where they burned not only the American flag but also the flag of Israel.
Rare is the day when an anti-war protest takes place, and an American and Israeli flag is not burned.
What bothers me, is that the media will sometimes show the American flag getting torched, but not show these same protesters burning the Flag of Israel, as if these nazi's are not somehow anti-semetic.
Keep in mind that some of these leftists have professed views of sending the jewish people to Madagascar, which was originally a Nazi idea, untill the leadership felt it could get away with and be better of just doing a holocoust.
Over the years there have been a number of FRisco FReeps where we have had the beheaders come after us. One march and rally in particular was on a specifically pro-Islamist theme. We were FReeping on the steps of City Hall when the marchers arrived at the corner of Civic Center Plaza for their hate rally. As soon as they saw our American flags their vanguard completely twigged and came charging toward us en masse. There were a few cops there to keep others separated from us (we have always had good support from and relations with SFPD) but the numbers and intensity of their charge completely spooked the boys in blue. The got an officer inside City Hall to open the doors (it was closed as it was a weekend) and faster than you could say "Durka, durka, jihad!" we were all safely inside with the doors shut behind us. It was an utterly comical scene. Under the rotunda just behind us a couple of Chinese-American families were celebrating a wedding, as we dozen or so FReepers quietly huddled by the glass doors looking out. Just on the other side of the glass were the backs of the boys in blue arrayed across and protecting the entryway and just over their shoulders we could see the contorted faces of jihad howling their hatred at we who were so impertinent as to stand on the steps of San Francisco's City Hall displaying that foul symbol of iniquity, Old Glory. Helluva town, FRiends, helluva town.
Good job freeping them. I'm proud of you. A good old-fashioned "Never Again" sign would be a nice answer to their wicked chants.
Never forget!
http://www.jpfo.org
I appreciate your sentiments, but your post is barely legible.
Regarding the king of Norway and the star, snopes says not so.
http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/denmark.htm
However, it wouldn't be a bad idea if protesters wore it. Then again, it might be too subtle against people with bloody flags and kill slogans.
There are people who hate God's people everywhere, my spiritual cousin.
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