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New Israel Fund Pays for Pseudo-Poll Showing that Israelis Support "Apartheid"

That's because the NIF is what might be called a pseudo-Zionist organization.

Former Obama Voter Sings

What do you get when you vote for O?
A guy who exists in a leftist bubble.
That's gonna pose a lotta trouble.
I'll never vote for O again,
I'll never vote for O again.

What do you get when you swoon for O?
A leg that'll go all a-tingle.
Besotted tots'll sing his jingle.
I'll never vote for O again.
I'll never vote for O again.

Don't tell me how he's really cool
'Cuz I've been there, now I feel the fool.
Kited the debt, the debt that's killin'.
That is why I'm no longer willin'.

What do you get with a POTUS O?
You get a fiasco like Benghazi.
Then he par-tays with Beyoncé.  
I'll never vote for O again.
I'll never vote for O again.

Obama and Romney Similar, Both "Decent"? No Way, Kay

I can't account for Jonathan Kay's seeing "fundamental similarities" between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, two men who, in worldview, character and demonstrable competence could not be more different; might it be Jon's occasionally donned blinkers/rose coloured specs, perhaps? As for Kay's contention that both men are "decent": I can think of a lot of ways to describe the C-in-C who hung Americans out to dry (and die) on American soil (as the Benghazi consulate was) rather than intervene and possibly upset the Libyans (and in the process torpedo his own carefully-crafted and entirely fictitious scenario about Al Qaeda being defunct post-Osama hit). "Decent" isn't one of them.

Update: "Poser" (also "poseur"). Works for me.

He's a Huge Believer in the Nanny State Micromanaging People's Lives and He's Endorsed Obama Again. So In What Sense Exactly Is Mayor Bloomberg a Republican?

Strangest looking Republican I've ever seen.

Wahhabis Reap What They Sow, i.e. Mayhem, Death and Destruction

For some years now, the powers-that-be in Saudi Arabia (who are known to be egregiously corrupt) have banked on the idea that, as long as they bankroll radical Islam outside their country (footing the bill for mosques, madrassahs and Islamist organizations far and wide), they would be spared from hardened jihadis blowing things up in Saudi environs.

Another misbegotten theory bites the dust.

Everything Copacetic for Israel and Jewry? What Ape 'n' Hogwash!

Pace the muddled thinking behind the Shalom Hartman Institutes's iEngage project, which is premised on the Candide-like delusion that, for Israel and Diaspora Jewry, all is mostly for the best in a world largely devoid of pathological Jew-hate (as if!), here's a still small voice of sanity. In conversation with The Jewish Voice, filmmaker Gloria Greenfield elucidates the themes of her new documentary which deals with the very real and present danger of global Judenhass:

JV: The film opens with Holocaust historian and author Elie Wiesel issuing a frightening warning about the proliferation of anti-Semitism. He states that he thought that Jew hatred had made its final exit from the annals of history after the Holocaust. While making this film, did you come to the conclusion that “Judeophobia” is endemic to the Jewish experience?
Gloria Greenfield: Judeophobia has nothing to do with the nature of Jews. Rather, as Ruth Wisse brilliantly articulates in her analysis of the pointed finger, Judeophobia has everything to do with the political needs of those who forged Jew-hatred as a political tool; they need this politics of accusation, grievance, and scapegoating. In my interview with Wisse in August 2010, she warned that “it is high time that people really begin to look at anti-Semitism in terms of its political function and consider the role that it plays in the politics of its users – whether they are autocrats or totalitarian oppressors, or whether they are religious radicals or secular radicals – look at the role that Jew-bating plays in their political scheme.”

There's a good reason why Ruth Wisse, the  Harvard prof who wrote  Jews and Power, one of the brainiest and most thought-provoking tomes of our time, is not associated with the Hartman Institute. It's because, unlike the hand-wringing iEngagers, she believes American Jews who care about Israel should vote for Romney. Baldly stated, that view would no doubt give Donniel Hartman and his fellow deep thinkers the vapours, and perhaps even induce a bout or two of apoplexy.



Update: I propose this as the iEngage theme song:

 

On second thought, the music is far too sublime for so picayune a project.

The Dictator in Da House for Halloween

 

 

 



The Natural Consequence of Obama's Cairo Speech--Sharia in Egypt

Thanks for the Islamic totalitarianism, Barry (who, of course, is not, I repeat, not, a Muslim, but whose first name--Barack--is the same as the prophet Muhammad's wingèd steed, and who during his four years in office has often behaved like a horse's patoot).

ANC Zionhass a Toxic "Gift" From the Commies?

Ever wonder why the South African government and dizzy Des Tutu are too-too obsessed with the fiction of "Israeli apartheid," an obsession which often sees 'em raving a la classically zany Jew-haters? Ben Cohen of Contentions has a go at explaining it:

It was, in fact, the Soviet Union that established the analogy, by linking the Palestinian and black South African struggles in its propaganda. Those readers who can bear to revisit UN General Assembly Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism, should note the awkwardly-worded observation that,

“…the racist regime in occupied Palestine and the racist regime in Zimbabwe and South Africa have a common imperialist origin, forming a whole and having the same racist structure and being organically linked in their policy aimed at repression of the dignity and integrity of the human being.”

The ANC, which always oriented itself to the Soviet bloc and still maintains a close relationship with the unapologetically Stalinist South African Communist Party, has not discarded this Soviet ideological baggage. That commitment, far more than any distinctive insights generated by the experience of living with apartheid in its South African homeland, explains why the country’s leaders are so willing to downplay the historic sufferings of their own people in order to batter Israel with the language of racism. 

Cohen adds this zinger re others who are fixated on the "Israeli apartheid" canard:

And it perhaps also explains why the BDS movement has failed in its bid to become a mass campaign with real impact. Instead, it has resigned itself to being a forum for assorted extreme leftists to pile moral opprobrium on Zionism and Israel. That is, when they are not paying tribute to Fidel Castro as a “revolutionary icon in the fight for freedom and equality.”

If you hate Israel and love Fidel, your moral compass and worldview are both seriously out of whack.

A Chacun Sons Gout (and A. Coyne Has Some Mighty Dubious Gout)

The NatPo's Andrew Coyne writes re a Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show sans a studio audience:

It was painful at times, but it also added a certain intensity. Host and guest really listened to each other, rather than constantly winking to the audience. As Seth Meyers, one of Fallon’s guests, put it, it was “like watching Charlie Rose, if he had a band, and everyone was high.” I don’t know about you, but that’s a show I’d like to see.

You would? Frankly, that's a show I'd avoid like the plague.