Posted on 11/17/2023 4:40:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The Wednesday essay, titled "The March for Israel Was a Hate Rally," and penned by The Nation's sports editor Dave Zirin, begins by calling the roughly 290,000 strong rally's crowd likely "inflated," despite the author having seen a "massive turnout."
Organizers claimed 290,000 people attended the rally, with an additional 250,000 watching via live stream, making it the largest pro-Israel gathering in American history.
Describing it as a "political event like nothing I've seen in two decades of covering rallies in this town," Zirin claims the "incessant calls to keep bombing Gaza" made the event a "celebration not just of war but of war crimes."
Slamming former Trump administration U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman for his "joy" over the large showing, he insists that "watching the leadership of the Democratic Party -- Chuck Schumer [D-NY], Hakeem Jeffries [D-NY] -- join in the revelry just hours before Israel Defense Forces captured Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital," and amid "another round of killing civilians and targeting journalists trying to show these horrors to the world," was stomach-turning.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
[snip] The Los Angeles Times has continued the media's practice of referring to the pro-terror groups "Jewish Voice for Peace" and "IfNotNow" as if they are actually "Jewish" organizations in any meaningful sense, when both groups support Palestinian terror.
The latest example: an article about a demonstration in Hollywood in which these groups blocked an intersection in an illegal protest that shut down traffic in the area. They demanded a "ceasefire" in Gaza -- something no mainstream Jewish group backs.
As Breitbart News recently explained, "Jewish Voice for Peace" has honored a convicted Palestinian terrorist as its keynote speaker; recently failed to condemn Hamas terror; and openly opposes the Abraham Accords, an actual peace process.
IfNotNow targets Jewish organizations and tries to force them to oppose Israel. It even infiltrates Jewish summer camps. In 2018, its members recited a memorial prayer for Palestinians killed at the Gaza fence -- almost all of whom were Hamas members.
There was an actual Jewish protest in Los Angeles in October in solidarity with Israel. Thousands of Jews, from left and right, attended this legal and peaceful demonstration, which included a march and a rally in support of Israel and against terror.
In addition, nearly 300,000 Jews -- again, from every part of the political spectrum -- attended the largest pro-Israel rally in history this week in Washington, DC. Speakers who suggested a ceasefire were booed; those who supported one were cheered.
Americans in general also oppose a ceasefire. In a recent poll, two-thirds of Americans agreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that there should not be a ceasefire until the Hamas terror organization is completely defeated.
Hamas broke the existing ceasefire agreement in its murderous October 7 attack, which killed at least 1200 Israelis, most of them civilians, and wounded thousands more, taking more than 200 hostage to Gaza, including children, infants, and the elderly. [/snip]
- L.A. Times Refers to Pro-terror Groups as 'Jewish' in Coverage of Ceasefire Protest
Joel B. Pollak | November 16, 2023 | Breitbart
Remember Finnish court battle over use of Bible passages because they were “hate speech.”?
Story:
A former Finnish interior minister has gone on trial for hate speech against gay people, following comments which she says were based on the Bible.
Prosecutors accuse Paivi Rasanen of making derogatory comments on three occasions, including in a 2019 tweet showing verses from the Bible.
The case is being seen as a test of whether personal religious beliefs can justify controversial language.
Announcing the charges in April last year, Finland’s state prosecutor said Ms Rasanen had made comments likely to cause intolerance, contempt and hatred towards homosexuals.
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After court costs, time spent in court for two trials and the ongoing danger to freedom of the accused:
Two Finnish Christian leaders have beaten hate speech charges filed against them for the second time. Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen – a 62-year-old medical doctor and grandmother of seven – and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola were again found not guilty of hate speech by a court of appeals in Helsinki.
I hate genocidal anti-semitic terrorists.
I guess that makes me a hater.
The Nation’s writer’s submission guidelines begins with:
We are a weekly journal of left/liberal opinion.
RE: I hate genocidal anti-semitic terrorists.
I guess that makes me a hater.
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Old Get Smart lines:
Dr.Stueben : I’m the president of the Psychologist Society For Mental Health and Adjustment Through Fulfillment.
Maxwell Smart : What kind of an organization is that?
Stueben : We’re a hate group.
Maxwell Smart : A hate group?
Stueben : Oh, in the sense that we cure hate and fear. We hate hate. Hate it.
Thanks.
Wonder if the mudslinging washed off. Many people can’t shake the slanders once they were publicized in the media. Front page for attacks; page 4-D for retraction and apology.
Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies. Psalm 139
This, from Zirin, a Jew: evangelical Christians who support Israel, self-styled Christian Zionists, and Donald Trump, who has a Jewish son-in-law and grandchildren, are anti-semites. It must be the syphilis talking. About what I would expect from the sports editor of “The Nation.”
On an Orthodox Christian forum, I read comments from Russian and Arab Christians attacking Israel in much the same ways Zirin does, and worse. I guess they would be okay by him.
How annoying.
Everyone wants to slap a “label” (racist, bigot, homophobe, propagandist, misogynist/sexist) on those that oppose them today.
It’s getting old. It only makes those using this form of name calling look bad.
How annoying.
Everyone wants to slap a “label” (racist, bigot, homophobe, propagandist, misogynist/sexist) on those that oppose them today.
It’s getting old. It only makes those using this form of name calling look bad.
Zirin is a kappo
The media Leftists will always side with the enemies of America.
Biden wants to replace both Putin and Netanyahu. I don’t think the US has the power to replace so many heads of state.
(” bigot, homophobe, propagandist, misogynist/sexist)”
+ Semiteophobe?
/massive eyeroll
Pretty much any leftist will, aamof.
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