Gays the New "Chosen People"?

So says this individual:

“I can’t imagine a world in which I was born gay and wasn’t completely proud, to the point of arrogance. It’s like you are the REAL chosen people. You’re smarter, funnier, warmer, kinder, more capable of emotional intelligence, more stylish, and just straight-up more incredible than anybody else on this planet.”

You know, as a Jew my feelings are really hurt by such an assertion. I'd be tempted to turn this alleged funny person into the "human rights" cops--that is, if I didn't loathe our so-called "human rights" system, and if I didn't know that in the pecking order of victimhood a Lesbian chick trumps a Jewish one every time. ;)

"The Cursed Elixir of Political Dysfunction -- Oil"

Oh, brother! Harper Derangement Syndrome, anyone?

"The Next Time U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Visits Ramallah, Will He Actually Violate U.S. Law to Make Sure There are No Jews Among His Entourage Lest He Upset His Palestinian Hosts?"

Good question.

"Nations Swinging Away at the Obama Pinata"

Well, whadya know? There really is such a thing.

"Ku Klux Klanners 4 Israel"?

Lefty Webzine Slate illustrates its flagrant anti-Israel bias thusly:

Portugal's "Baby Bust" Shows Prescience of Mark Steyn's Warnings Re EU Demographics

Things are so dire in Portugal that the locals are disinclined to procreate, a situation Mark Steyn warned about (and was criticized for) in America Alone.

John Bolton for President!

Halevai (Yiddish for "I should live so long"/"yes, please"), as my late Bubby might have said.

Derisory Islamic Group Mocks Murder of Infidels by Taking on Name of Bombs (IEDs) Used to Kill Them

This is what passes for humour in certain extremist precincts:

Hate preacher Anjem Choudary is backing a new Muslim group accused of using its name to ridicule British soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. 

The Islamic Emergency Defence is already being shortened to IED, which also stands for the Improvised Explosive Devices used to kill or maim soldiers abroad.
Anjem Choudary, who said Drummer Lee Rigby 'will burn in hellfire' after he was executed on a Woolwich street a month ago, has an advisory role with the group. 

The new organisation says it has been set up to stop 'violent hooligans willing to inflict large scale carnage on innocent Muslims'.  

They have also set up an emergency hotline for Muslims to call them instead of the police so incidents can be 'dealt with in a swift and Islamic manner'. 

Their website adds: 'Our aim is to build a national network of Muslim volunteers who are ready and able to protect and defend any Muslim from verbal and physical abuse. 

'Muslims should not be afraid to protect themselves or their brothers and sisters from acts of violence or hooliganism, because it is totally rational, sensible and above all: Islamic'...

Reality Check: David Solway Explains Why a New "Progressive" Muslim Group Is Doomed to Fail

One can applaud those who seek to bring about the equivalent of a Reformation in Islam. At the same time, though, one must be realistic, as Solway is when he says that such efforts are unlikely to make much (or even any) headway:

What these “moderates” or enlightened Muslims are proposing, however laudable, has little to do with mainstream Islam, whose fundamental scriptures cannot be rewritten on pain of apostasy and execution. Any scrupulous reading of the Koran and the attendant canonical and jurisprudential literature should make it amply clear that injunctions to slaughter, conquest, oppression and domination are inscribed in the faith. No attempt at what is euphemistically called “re-interpretation” or “contextualizing” can be expected to gain even modest traction in the larger Muslim world.

Then, too, Islam has had many "reformations"--Wahhabism, Khomeinism, Muslim Brotherhoodism--and each time it "reforms" by looking backwards, at the supposedly better earlier days of Islam's founder and his first few successors.

Kerry Thinks His "Face" Will Effect a Breakthrough Between Israel and Palestinians

The man has an ego the size of Dar al Islam:

Jerusalem Post – WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State John Kerry will head back to the region this week in his latest drive to renew peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, hoping that his strategy of putting in personal face time with leaders on both sides will finally produce results.

Has he looked in the mirror lately? He ain't that purty.

My song for the SCOTUS:

Frankly, John, your lack of modesty reveals to them
Self-appraisal of the most delusional kind.
And if I add your punim doesn't much appeal to them
It's not 'cuz your face looks like your behind.

You've got all the qualities of Mrs. C.
Looking at her face did not make them agree.

Don't love your scarecrow face,
Your wary, scarecrow face.
Though you're the SCOTUS,
Please don't quote us,
You've got a lot of audacity, you see.
You fill the air with smoke.
Your M.O. is a joke.
Though you're no Machiavelli
Your "face" time's a disgrace,
Your wary, scarecrow face...

QuAIA's Zionhass Is Okey-Dokey in Bernie's "Delicatebalanceland"

For one brief moment--'twas but a nanosecond, really--I thought an ex-Big Deal Jew had come over to the "dark side" (i.e. had seen the light) of free speech (h/t BCF):

Surely the delicate balance of free speech vs. hate speech is something both extremes of the spectrum must agree are worth embracing. From municipal pronouncements to human rights experts, many have opined on QuAIA’s use of the term “apartheid.” The conclusion reached is that it may be offensive, even obscene and hateful, but it simply does not meet the legal test of hate promotion."

Alas, this is not, as it may appear at first glance, an endorsement of free expression. It is, rather, an endorsement of the idea that certain designated victim groups, for example, the LGBTXYZ crowd, are allowed to hate others, but no one is allowed to hate them. Thus, it has become perfectly acceptable in "Delicatebalanceland," our national dystopian theme park, to hate--really full on, meets-the-legal-definition-of-hate hate--Christians (especially Catholics) and "Zionists." Which results in the cognitive contortions on display in the statement quoted above. QuAIA, because it is "queer," can spew Zionhass, an acceptable form of hatred (and the Jew-hate of our time), and can do so in a publicly-funded parade. However, it could not spew old-fangled "anti-Semitism"--that is, hatred aimed at Jewry qua Jewry--because Jews are still seen as a victim group (though, admittedly, we're near the bottom of the list these days, well below Muslims, Aboriginals, black people and those with disabilities). And you would never see, say, Ku Klux Klanners Against Israeli Apartheid being allowed to march in the Pride parade because, while their cause in this instance may be socially acceptable, they themselves are not.

 

In other words, the "delicate balance" and "the conclusion" that QuAIA's Zionhass "does not meet the legal test of hate promotion" is a load of codswallop that only those of the Leftish persuasion (a group that's even more tribal and insular than Jewry) could ever swallow.

 

Welcome to "Delicatebalanceland." Come for the scary rides; stay for the even scarier Zionhass.