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US Zionists Pass An "Anti-Semitism" Bill Designed to Intimidate & Censor Critics of Israel

by Anti-Zionist activist
Zionism must be outed for the racism it is. It has NO PLACE in American politics.
WHO has waged a near-century-long world-wide political, media and propaganda war to dehumanize, demonize, slander, and engender racism, religious and political hatred and discrimination against the indigenous Muslim, Secular and Christian Palestinians in Historic Palestine ????

WHO has --continues to-- slaughter, assassinate, murder, dispossess, displace, terrorize and impoverish, imprison and torture without charge or trial,  abuse and kill (with impunity) men, women and children  - even the unborn - of a powerless and defenseless civilian population on their own land???

WHO  has  "co-religionists" on school campuses across the U.S., and "Friends" in High Places,  vigilant to suppress all forms of exposure of the truth about the state terrorism, the Arab victims, and the progress of the genocide being perpetrated in Occupied Palestine????

WHAT nuclear super power is using its vast array of  hi-tech and space-age weaponry to methodically obliterate the viability and existence of a native population from their homeland through the use of  incomprehensible inhumanity and cruelty?????

WHAT other Military and Political Super Power and so-called "CHRISTIANS" support, encourage and help finance this methodical campaign of STATE TERRORISM and GENOCIDE of the Palestinian population of Historic Palestine??????

NO WONDER THE PERPETRATORS AND SUPPORTERS OF ALL OF THE ABOVE NEED THE
(LANTOS BILL) HAMMER OF A RACIST AND UNRESTRAINABLE SUPER POWER TO PROTECT THEM
FROM EXPOSURE, CRITICISM, CENSURE, SANCTIONS, RESTRAINING ACTIONS BY THE
DECENT PEOPLES AND NATIONS OF THE WORLD WHO DO NOT SUPPORT THEIR GREED,
LUST FOR POWER AND LAND, THEIR INHUMANITY, RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY, AND RACIST
WAR OF ANNIHILATION.
jjb
 
Congress Passes Lantos’ Anti-Semitism Bill

06:40 Oct 12, '04 / 27 Tishrei 5765
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=70246


(IsraelNN.com) Both houses of Congress have unanimously passed legislation requiring the U.S. to monitor anti-Semitism around the world, despite the State Department’s opposition.

The bill, known as the Global Anti-Semitism Awareness Act (H.R. 4230), was introduced by Congressman Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), in response to the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe and the Middle East. Lantos is the only Holocaust survivor serving in the Congress. The bill requires the State Department to compile an annual report on anti-Semitism around the world, and establishes an office within the department to focus on the issue.

The State Department at first stalled the bill, by arguing that Lantos’ proposal would “extend exclusive status to one religious or ethnic group.” But the legislation moved forward in recent weeks after the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and former Congressman Stephen Solarz organized more than 100 prominent Americans to sign a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell, protesting the State Department’s position.

As the San Francisco Chronicle reported: “One key to advancing Lantos’ bill may have been the surprise intervention of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. The Pennsylvania-based organization, named for a historian who has written about the West's response to the Holocaust, organized an open letter to Powell signed by 104 prominent Americans. They included former Republican vice presidential nominee Jack Kemp, former United Nations ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, ex-CIA director James Woolsey and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills. ‘I was delighted and totally surprised by this bipartisan, multi-faith group,’ said Lantos.”

The letter was signed by prominent Americans from across the spectrum of the religious, political, academic and entertainment worlds. In addition to Kemp and Kirkpatrick, the signatories included former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, singers Janis Ian and Peter Himmelman, comedian David Brenner, former State Department Legal Advisor Abraham Sofaer, writers Cynthia Ozick and Thane Rosenbaum, and leaders of four top Christian religious seminaries: the Union Theological Seminary, Yale Divinity School, Drew Theological Seminary and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary.

Wyman Institute director Dr. Rafael Medoff praised Congressman Lantos for his “vision, courage, and determination in overcoming the State Department’s obstacles and achieving this crucial step in the battle against anti-Semitism.”
 

Anti-Semitism office planned at State Department


By Nicholas Kralev
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


http://washingtontimes.com/world/20041014-121528-8981r.htm



President Bush plans to sign a bill passed by both houses of Congress that would establish a State Department office to monitor anti-Semitism around the world, despite the department´s strong objection, administration officials said yesterday.
    "The bill is expected to arrive at the White House on Thursday and the president intends to sign it," one official said.
    The House and Senate, acting shortly before the Nov. 2 election, passed the Global Anti-Semitism Awareness Act late last week.

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WHAT WE REALLY NEED IS A "GLOBAL ANTI-ZIONISM AWARENESS ACT" AND THAT IS A FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by We need a Global Zionism Awareness Act!
What I actually meant to say is...

WHAT WE REALLY NEED IS A "GLOBAL ZIONISM AWARENESS ACT", AND THAT IS A FACT.

Got it?

Zionism is RACISM and this FACT must NOT be ignored!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Sefarad
The thug above this post.
by smear job
Actually the post above at "2:59 PM" is probably by a Zionist intending to smear the original poster. I've seen this time and time again where zionists come and post something like "kill all the ..." and use the name of someone they want to slander.

This is just a smear job.

Unfortunately, people often believe it and are often unwilling to believe that the poster could actually doing this for an agenda.
by sorry charley
Fascist/racist propaganda, whether posted by fascists or zionists (or some combination) is not permitted on the site.
by disgusted
Singling out one ethnic group out for special protection is no different than singling out one ethnic group for persecution. Either way, one ethnic group is singled out. That's racist by definition.
This is really a case of the fox in the hen house. The grandson of a Nazi collaborator, George Bush, signed this publicity stunt to get Jewish votes in Florida, where he is campaigning. All accounts of this worthless bill do not indicate any enforcement of any kind; just documentation. Bush is of course an outright anti-Semite, as all fascists are by definition. Also on the anti-Semite list are all Zionists, as Zionists are fascist collaborators, historically having collaborated with the Nazis, and now with fascist USA to promote US oil profits in the Middle East while perpetrating genocide of the Palestinian Arab (Semites too) people and theft of Palestinian land.

Zionists are Jewish fascists, no different from their Christian fascist friends like George Bush and his whole worthless fascist government.

One should note that San Francisco-San Mateo congressperson Tom Lantos is a Democrat, helping to re-select Republican George Bush.

To get a good picture of what we are dealing with, I urge everyone to read Michael Ruppert's outstanding expose on the 9/11 hoax, Crossing the Rubicon. His documentation and his presentation are outstanding. He spills the beans on both Democrats and Republicans and treats Israel as the capitalist junior partner to US imperialism that it is. Every page is a precious gem, and it is well worth your time to read all 600 pages plus the 900 footnotes and the Appendix, which includes Operation Northwoods, the 1962 plan of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to have an American plane blown up, among other things, and blame it on Cuba so as to have a pretext to invade Cuba.

The antidote to all these despicable people and their insulting publicity stunts is a labor movement to put an end to the private profit system and establish a planned economy where labor shares the wealth we create as equitably as possible with everyone.
by Sefarad
I have heard that the candidates want to atract the vote of every kind of people.
What is it wrong about trying to get the vote of the Jews?
Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush, slammed the current president's handling of foreign policy in an interview published this week in The Financial Times, saying that the current President Bush is "mesmerized" by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

"Sharon just has him wrapped around his little finger," Scowcroft said. "I think the president is mesmerized." He added: "When there is a suicide attack, Sharon calls the president and says, 'I'm on the front line of terrorism,' and the president says, 'Yes, you are ...' He [Sharon] has been nothing but trouble."

Although Bush has been supportive of Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, Scowcroft said he warned U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice that this is a ruse to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state, an interpretation validated by the recent interview with Sharon's key adviser Dov Weissglas, who bragged of his close relationship with the woman he calls "Condi."

"When I first heard Sharon was getting out of Gaza," Scowcroft said, "I was having dinner with Condi and she said: 'At least that's good news,' " Scowcroft recounted. "And I said: 'That's terrible news.... Sharon will say: 'I want to get out of Gaza, finish the wall [the Israeli security barrier] and say I'm done.'"

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, asked about Scowcroft's remarks on Fox TV's "Your World," said that "I have the greatest respect for Brent Scowcroft" but that Bush had gotten Sharon to attend a summit in 2003 with the Palestinian prime minister, and that Sharon has said he is committed to the U.S.-backed peace plan known as the road map.

"Whatever reluctance Mr. Sharon had, he was there," Powell said. "And ever since, he has reaffirmed his commitment, notwithstanding statements by others," an apparent reference to the remarks of Weissglas.

http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El4248&enZone=Diplomacy&enVersion=0
by Melanie
This is racism against ANYBODY who is NOT Jewish.

All decent people (Jew and Non-Jew) need to oppose this!
by JA
ANOTHER BILL GIVING THE GOVERNMENT EVEN *GREATER* POWERS TO *SPY* ON AND *HARASS* DISSENT!!

I GUESS THIS BILL COULD ACTUALLY BE CALLED "THE ZIONIST JEWISH PATRIOT ACT".

THIS TIME IN BEHALF OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL: MORE ISRAELIFICATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETY.
by Sefarad
Then do you think it would be better to deprive the American Jews of the right to vote?
After all, I know somebody who consider them to be foreigners.
by hello!!
I disagree with almost everything you post about Israel but you usually seem like a sane person. Arguing with those you disagree with may change minds and arguing with crazies so the world can recognize them as crazies also makes sense. But just look at JA's posts. One has to question the sanity of somene who feels the need to argue back. When you are in the city do you get in debates with people on street corners who are talking to themselves?
by Sefarad
And why do you disagree? I state facts and I base my opinions on that facts.
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