The Hamas, MI6, BBC axis

by Melanie Phillips

In the past few days, the BBC appears to have turned itself into a mouth­piece for Hamas. From a steady pro­ces­sion of talk­ing heads has issued a stream of Arab pro­pa­ganda, along the lines that what has hap­pened in Gaza is an inevitable out­come of the Israeli/western col­lec­tive pun­ish­ment of Pales­tin­ian vot­ers for [...]

FTR #591 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Jere­miah Dug­gan, young British Jew mur­dered in Ger­many after trav­el­ing to Wies­baden to attend an event staged by the Schiller Institute.

FTR #583 Update on Islamic Fascism

Recorded Jan­u­ary 28, 2007
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Updat­ing the sub­ject of Islamic fas­cism, the pro­gram empha­sizes its oper­at­ing links with other, non-Islamic fas­cist ele­ments. Exem­pli­fy­ing this rela­tion­ship is the role of Kazbek Soob­zokov in a Mus­lim Broth­er­hood char­i­ta­ble orga­ni­za­tion called Islamic Relief World­wide. The son of Waf­fen SS offi­cer and CIA oper­a­tive Tscherim Soob­zokov, Kazbek is the Amer­i­can representative [...]

Sen. Boxer rescinds award to Islamic activist

The man rep­re­sents a group some con­tend is extrem­ist. Sup­port­ers say right-wingers are just try­ing to silence Amer­i­can Mus­lims.
by Ashraf Khalil­LOS ANGELES TIMES
Sen. Bar­bara Boxer has rescinded an award her office gave to a Sacra­mento Islamic activist after crit­i­cism that the group he rep­re­sents — the Coun­cil on American-Islamic Rela­tions — holds extrem­ist views and [...]

Flunking Our Future

by Mau­reen DowdTHE NEW YORK TIMES
The only sects that may be more sav­age than Shi­ites and Sun­nis are the Demo­c­ra­tic fem­i­nist law­mak­ers rep­re­sent­ing North­ern and South­ern Cal­i­for­nia.
After Nancy Pelosi and Jane Har­man had their final cat­fight about who would lead the House Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee, aptly enough at the Four Sea­sons’ hair salon in George­town, the new [...]

Argentina alleges Iran ordered attack

by Patrick J. McDon­nellLOS ANGELES TIMES
BUENOS AIRES — Argen­tine pros­e­cu­tors accused Tehran on Wednes­day of mas­ter­mind­ing the deadly bomb­ing of a Jew­ish cul­tural cen­ter here 12 years ago and were seek­ing the arrest of for­mer Iran­ian Pres­i­dent Hashemi Raf­san­jani and other for­mer offi­cials of the Islamic Repub­lic.
Argen­tine author­i­ties have long con­tended that Iran was involved [...]

FTR #571 Yer Momma Works for the Mossad—Fireside Chat II

Recorded Octo­ber 1, 2006
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Unlike most broad­casts, this pro­gram is intended pri­mar­ily for rhetor­i­cal pur­poses, not for the pur­poses of fac­tual doc­u­men­ta­tion. (Some sources for fur­ther research are sug­gested at the end of this descrip­tion.) High­light­ing the resur­gence of anti-Semitism, the show takes its title from the oft-heard ratio­nal­iza­tion that “the Mossad did it.” [The Mossad [...]

The New Anti-Semitism

by Vic­tor Davis Han­son
Hat­ing Jews, on racial as well as reli­gious grounds, is as old as the Roman destruc­tion of the Sec­ond Tem­ple in Jerusalem. Later in Europe, pogroms and the Holo­caust were the nat­ural devo­lu­tion of that ele­men­tal venom.
Anti-Semitism, after World War II, often avoided the burn­ing crosses and Nazi rant­ing. It often appeared as [...]

FTR #568 The Life and Times of Hasan Cengic

Recorded Sep­tem­ber 9, 2006
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NB: This stream con­tains both FTR #s 567 and 568 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast.
After George Bush stated that the United States was involved in a bat­tle against Islamic fas­cists, a rhetor­i­cal firestorm erupted, with peo­ple in the U.S. and abroad decry­ing Bush’s state­ment. There is an old expression—“even [...]

FTR #567 The Socialism of Fools

He Who Tells the Truth Gets Chased out of Nine Vil­lages, Part IV
Recorded Sep­tem­ber 9, 2006
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NB: This stream con­tains both FTR #s 567 and 568 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast.
A Euro­pean social critic termed anti-Semitism “the social­ism of fools.” In the wake of the Lebanon war, anti-Semitism has been more evi­dent than ever, [...]