For years I have been claiming in postings, blog entries and articles that the ex-Chief Justice of Israel, Aharon Barak (not related to Ehud) is an anti-democratic anti-Israel leftist extremist moonbat. Barak was the leading proponent in Israel of the anti-democratic doctrine of “judicial activism,” which should be called judicial tyranny, under which non-elected judges make up laws and dictate governmental policy about just about everything. Barak also insisted that anyone who happens to sit on the Israeli Supreme Court should issue rulings based on “enlightened opinion,” which means whatever Aharon Barak personally thinks in any given week, and that those same sitting judges should perpetually select other judges by themselves to sit on the Supreme Court and other courts, regardless of what the Israeli voter wants.

When I would slap around Barak in my postings, many people objected that I was showing disrespect to Israel’s Chief Justice, and was exaggerating his anti-democratic tendencies. Last week Barak had the kindness to step forward and prove that I was correct, and in fact showed I was underestimating his political biases and dislike for democracy. Read more >

The Koran teaches that Muhammad was the perfect man, a role model for every believer to emulate. This is not some long forgotten abstraction that has been interpreted and re-interpreted for modern times. Pius Muslims in the twenty first century, as true believers have throughout the ages, follow this basic tenet of Islam. The problem is that, notwithstanding Obama’s apologetics, Allah’s lone prophet shared neither the Laws of Moses nor the compassion of Jesus. He raped and pillaged. He slaughtered and beheaded. He married and consummated sexual relations with a child. Then he recited Koranic Surahs teaching that his god had sanctioned all these vile acts. Read more >

I happen to be one of those people who think that death does not get someone off the hook for having dabbled in anti-Semitism. With the whole world of pop and preadolescence in shock over the death of singer Michael Jackson, it behooves us to remind you all that Mikey also was prone to outbursts of anti-Semitism. This was many years before the reports that he was getting interested in Islam and building a mosque in Bahrain. (I am sure his interest in Islam was as genuine and deep as the interest by Madonna and Roseanne Barr in ka-BBBAAAALLLL-la – as they mispronounce it.) Read more >

Prime Minister Moussavi and the First Supreme Leader Khomeni

We haven’t written about events in Iran because we could not understand what the fuss was all about. The Butcher of Beirut vs. the Hitler of Our Time, and we are supposed to choose sides?

In all the excitement, highly respected Conservative bloggers lost their bearings. Stars like Michelle Malkin started posting in support of the “green revolution” led by Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who in the 80s arranged the attack on the US Marine barracks in Beirut and is widely known to be the founder of Hezbollah.

Bloggers pined for Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the first Ayatollah to come out in favor of nuking the Jews, to tip the scales in favor of the Butcher and his minions in their struggle to wrestle control from Hitler and his thugs. How one group of militant Shia Islamists would be better than another group of militant Shia Islamists is beyond us.

Of course, when the enemy has to expend energy suppressing uprisings in the rear it is a good thing by definition. Hopefully, fighting  each other will keep the Ayatollahs busy. So here is to chaos in the Islamic Republic of Iran! May the Supreme Leader and the Supreme Leader wannabe both suffer the fate they so richly deserve, in hell. What color should we display for that? Red?

Debbie Schlussel got it right and has been posting furiously on the subject. Read more >

Now, here’s a real conundrum. To march or not to march? We have been invited to march with Kulanu in the Toronto annual Gay Pride Parade.

On the one hand they are marching in support of Israel. On the other hand, the Gay community is a bunch of not too bright wusses.

Gays from “Palestine” routinely seek sanctuary in Israel, yet everywhere their brethren march with the Jew-haters. Under Sharia, the Islamists would cut every Gay throat to the last man, woman or thing in a Mecca minute, yet the Gays support Hamas. What is wrong with these people?

Show your Jewish Pride and March with Kulanu Toronto!

March in Solidarity with Kulanu Toronto in This Year’s Gay Pride Parade!

In response to the anti-Israel group (Queers Against Israel Apartheid – QuAIA) that is being allowed to participate in the Gay Pride Parade this year, you are asked to come out and support Kulanu Toronto, the only Jewish LGBT group, by marching with them in the parade. Regardless of whether you fully agree with the policies of the Israeli government, or whether you are gay or straight, you are encouraged to march. Bring your Israeli and Canadian flags, water bottles, hats, and sunscreen, and come line up with Kulanu members at 1pm at the corner of Bloor and Church St. (look for a Kulanu Toronto banner and Israeli flags) on Sunday, June 28^th. The march will go till 4pm. Let’s march together – B’yachad. Synagogue members (gay and straight) are welcome to march as a group with Kulanu. For more details and to sign up to march, please contact Justine Apple, Coordinator of Kulanu Toronto, at justela@hotmail.com.

B’nai Brith had a measured response. Read more >

Friends,

What’s in a word? While it is true that a “rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” as a writer, I believe that using the correct words are important. As George Orwell taught us, it is the difference between truth and lie, freedom and slavery.

And so, for years I complained about the euphemisms used by leftist journalists who couldn’t bring themselves to write the words “Islamic terrorist” when buses and Passover Seders blew up, even though that is who the perpetrators were.

They were called militants, or grieving brothers, or activists. You name it. Now it seems that the U.S. government is following suit, because fighting terror seems so politically incorrect these days. A great article from Susan M. Reyto, a lover of freedom, who survived horrific experiences in Communist Hungary. Go to the link and leave a comment. Naomi.  Read more >

The Jihad Sheikh with his minions at the University of Haifa

Well, things were already looking disgraceful and embarrassing enough for the University of Haifa, thanks to the approval of the heads of the university to allow the Jihad Sheikh, Raed Salah, the head of the Islamofascist movement among Israeli Moslems, to speak on campus this past week. The Jihad Sheikh there called for Arab students to become “shaheed martyrs,” code for suicide bombers. Moreover, the university had also given official instructions to the guards present to prevent Jewish students from entering the lecture hall in which the Jihad Sheikh was speaking. The Jewish student protesters present described the behavior of the guards, following university instructions, as the conducting of a “selection” (the name for the separation out of Jews done by the Germans). But then the university got itself in even deeper when it issued a statement that denied altogether that the Jewish students had been barred from entering the lecture hall or that the university officials had given any such instructions to the guards. Here is the statement in Hebrew. It says explicitly that Jews were NOT barred from entering. Read more >

We first heard it on the Hugh Hewitt radio show and found the link on Michelle Malkin’s Blog. It is possible to be pompous and ignorant at the same time. Senator Barbara Boxer, unlike Dr. Evil, does it gracelessly.

Jewish wedding ceremonies – joyous occasions, are marked by sorrow over the loss of Jerusalem. The groom recites a biblical verse from the Babylonian Exile: “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning,” and breaks a glass in commemoration of the destruction of the Temples.

Canaanite tribes were the first settlers in what was then appropriately named Canaan. In the second millennium BC, twelve Hebrew tribes, originating in Mesopotamia, settled in the land, establishing the Kingdom of Israel.

In 638 AD, Jerusalem was conquered by the Muslim Caliph Omar. In 691 AD, the Omaia Caliph Abed El-Malik built the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount. After this theft of a holy site Muslims started claiming that it belongs to them. Jews, of course, have been hoping for centuries that the stolen property would be returned. Read more >

The harsh reality is that Islam is on the rise, the West is rapidly declining and there are hardly any Jews left. With a Muslim in the White House and Europe having morphed into Eurabia, it is hard to see, short of divine intervention, how Israel can survive and prosper. Apparently, other than Israelis, some Evangelical Christians and perhaps a few American Jews, no one sees a need for a Jewish state in the Middle East. People who call for a two state solution are not necessarily calling for one of the two to be Jewish.

Naomi Ragen succinctly introduced Peggy Shapiro’s article as follows.

More and more, this “two state solution” mantra, has the whiff of “final solution” about it. The Palestinians have absolutely no intention of ever recognizing a Jewish State. Period.  If there are two states, one of them won’t be Israel. Read more >