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Chart of the day: The power of propaganda


From Gallup, proof that the one well-financed campaign of propaganda and intimidation is working quite well [except in some places]:

Those darn Jewish antisemites strike again


First, the story. From Deutsche Welle: Israeli police have arrested three ultra-Orthodox Jews for spraying hate speech on the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. The men apparently admitted they had defaced the site as well as two army memorials. … Continue reading

Another assassination: Is the Smirker smiling?


Rick Santorum must be smiling today. Or smirking, since that seems to be his standard expression. Back in October, during a campaign stop in Greenville, South Carolina, the Republican presidential candidate declared “On occasion scientists working on the nuclear program … Continue reading

The fine art of nurturing a climate of villification


From Gerardo Joffe, president of Facts and Logic About the Middle East, sent in December 2002 [PDF] [emphasis added]: Those who believe that only a small group of Muslims — the “Islamists” are involved in this hatred are simply uninformed … Continue reading

Police call up esnl about false flag death threats


Just had a very interesting call from Berkeley Police Detective David Marble, asking if I knew anything about letters being sent to Dear Abby in Los Angeles purporting to be from local uber-Zionist John Gertz and containing death threats directed … Continue reading

3 cheers for Yale! Kills its 3-D program!


One of the most pernicious acts of political subversion in recent years has been the equation of legitimate criticism of Israel policies with antisemitism, employing the smarmy 3-D strategy of Natan Sharansky. According to Sharansky, a hard-right Likkudnik, anything that … Continue reading

Bushies ordered CIA to target influential blogger


In a plot reminiscent of the darkest days of the Nixon/Kissinger regime’s COINTELPROs and Operation Chaos, the Bush administration ordered an intelligence operation aimed at influential blogger Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of … Continue reading

Israel: Palestinian state would deligitimize us


Time for another 3-D post here at esnl. The three Ds in question are the tripartite tool created by Likkud Party strategist Natan Sharansky to spin any criticism of Israel into an act of antisemitism. As Jim Sinkinson, one of … Continue reading

Demonizing Israel’s critics proves a bankrupt ploy


Some semantic antics Back in 1966, when esnl landed his first daily newspaper job at the Las Vegas Review-Journal and became the first reporter with a beat to cover the city’s black population, he turned repeatedly for information to a … Continue reading

The question nobody will answer: Israeli nukes


To treat Israel with a double standard, we are told repeatedly, is antisemitism. By that criterion, key figures in American government are clearly antisemitic. As vlogger Sam Husseini shows in this remarkable collection of taped confrontations with folks high in … Continue reading

Israel’s Clout: The Onion, British union fire back


We’ve witnessed first hand the power of “The Lobby,” the well-organized campaign of Ziocons to silence any criticism of the Israeli government and its treatment of Palestinians. So we had to laugh at a deft bit of satire posted by … Continue reading

U.S. vows to defeat resolution on settlements


As the theft of Palestinian land on the West Bank continues, the United States has vowed to defeat a United Nations Security Council resolution that would declare the illegal Zionist settlements illegal. The resolution is sponsored by more than 120 … Continue reading

A modest excursion in 3D thinking. . .


The three Ds, as we’ve mentioned before, are the official standard by which militant Zionists contend we are to judge words and actions as antisemitic. The Gold Standard of Antisemitism™ was devised by right-wing Israeli politician Nathan Sharansky, and was … Continue reading

The Great WikiLeaks 3-D Pile-on continues


You have to wonder why the Anti-Defamation League hasn’t weighed on on the side of Julian Assange. After all, following the maxims of Nathan Sharansky, the ADL seeks to counter folks engaged in employing delegitimization, double standards, and demonization of … Continue reading

‘Antisemite,’ ‘Holocaust Denier,’ the new ‘Nigger’?


A comment just posted on a blog entry about the virulent attack on Jewish peace activists in Berkeley Monday night stooped to a new low, denouncing yours truly as a “Holocaust denier.” Obviously the fellow in question has never visited … Continue reading

More demonizing deligitimation from the Ziocons


November 9 is a date of profound resonance in Germany history, marking the day of Adolf Hitler’s aborted 1923 coup and the day 15 years later when, as Chancellor, Hitler ordered the Kristallnacht pogrom. So it was natural that when … Continue reading

More proof of U.S. antisemitism: Israeli nukes


Jim Sinkinson, the PR mogul who flacks for Israel when he’s not running his own media empire, wrote a letter telling Berkeley Daily Planet readers that the paper was antisemitic, in part, because it maintained a double standard in criticisms … Continue reading

Semantic watch: Terrorists or ‘romantic figures’?


As Paul Woodward observes at War in Context, it all depends on who’s doing the killing. For one New York Times reporter, yesterday’s terrorists — the folks who blew up the King David Hotel and booby-trapped the bodies of slain … Continue reading

Opposing Israeli policies is not antisemitism


While Israel was founded on the basis of terrorism [Stern Gang anyone?] and expropriation —just as, ensl notes, was the case of the U.S. — the American Jewish community remained for two decades ambivalent about their new “homeland.” Back in … Continue reading

Ad hominem, angry, and in livid 3D


Israel. No other word seems to conjure up more political vitriol here in Berkeley. The folks who’ve managed the shutdown of the Berkeley Daily Planet’s presses take instant offense at any criticism of Israel, and are quick to tar those … Continue reading