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Disgusting and Horrific! Israeli Minister Claimed Fascism Part of Israeli Identity
This really shows how twisted and vile Netanyahu and his coalition are. Yesterday the Jewish anti-Fascist, anti-Zionist activist Tony Greenstein, put up a piece about how he'd been contacted by an Israeli academic, Avraham Oz. Mr Oz is professor of Theatre at Haifa University and a long-standing supporter of the Israeli left. The professor was appealing for funding for the Alfa Theatre in Haifa. It is in danger of losing its state funding following allegations made by an informer, Shai Glick, to the government. Netanyahu's vile administration is not only determined to expropriate and eventually expel the indigenous Arabs, but also to silence and harass dissenting voices in Israel. I gather from previous posts that it has launched attacks intended to stifle criticism and reporting of atrocities and other crimes against humanity from groups like Breaking the Silence, a veterans' organisation, and the Israeli human rights organisation, B'Tselem. Regev has been part of this campaign in her capacity as Israeli Culture Minister. Last year she attempted to pass a 'Cultural Loyalty' bill, which would have denied funding to any work that did not respect the symbols of the state of Israel, viewed Independence Day as a day of mourning, or incited violence and terrorism. Tony points out that this would mean that any play about the Palestinian Nakba – their term for massacres and ethnic cleansing against them that was an integral part of the foundation of Israel as an independent state, would lose its state funding. And such a play may even face banning altogether.
It's the kind of cultural repression found in Communism and Fascism. And what is truly sickening is that Regev actually said that she was proud to be a 'Fascist', and that Fascism was an integral part of Israeli culture! She also made a speech in 2002 declaring Sudanese immigrants to be a 'cancer' in Israel's body. Not surprisingly, her critics produced mock images of her in Nazi uniform, which is anti-Semitic under the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, and Regev herself got upset.
Tony puts her remarks into context with the Zionists' policy of allying themselves with real gentile anti-Semites in order to encourage the foundation of a Jewish state and Jewish immigration to it. He shows this went as far back as Chaim Herzog, who wrote that the Jews had been too hard on groups like the British Brothers' League, which had campaigned against Jewish immigration to Britain in the early 20th century.
He also quotes Jewish authorities on the rabbinical condemnation of tell-tales like Glick. I've used similar quotes in some of my pieces attacking groups like the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism and the Gnasherjew troll army, who go through people's social media posts looking for material they can use to accuse them falsely of being anti-Semites.
http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2019/11/israels-kulturkampf-culture-minister.html
Anti-Labour Jewish groups launch fact-free attack on Jeremy Corbyn
But it's Regev's comments applauding Fascism that utterly astonish me. I can only imagine the disgust and horror it must have caused self-respecting Jews everywhere, and indeed anyone, who had ever lost people in the struggle against Fascism. A Jewish philosopher described the ultra-nationalist ideology of the Israeli state as 'Judaeonazism'. Obviously it's a highly controversial term, but when ministers like Regev describe themselves as 'Fascists' and claim that Fascism is part of Israeli national identity, then it's entirely justified. Buddy Hell in post about Zionism a few years ago at Guy Debord's Cat described how one of the early Jewish settler groups in the 1920s were the Maximalist Legalists, who wanted to create a Fascist state similar to Mussolini's in Italy. Regev's comments about Fascism, consciously or not, hark back to them.
And now I see Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has decided to spout lies against Corbyn once again, accusing him of having not done enough against anti-Semitism.
The Labour leader certainly has and more than enough, as some of those allegations, such as those against Mike, Tony, Marc Wadsworth, Jackie Walker, Martin Odoni, Ken Livingstone and so on were unfounded and malicious. They were a cynical attempt to smear and purge decent anti-racists from the party as part of a wider campaign to oust Corbyn. Since Mirvis opened his mouth, and his mendacious splutterings were published in the Times, a number of left-wing bloggers have put on the Net the countless instances where Corbyn and his party have supported Jews against discrimination and racism.
See: https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2019/11/26/heres-the-real-reason-chief-rabbi-mirvis-attacked-jeremy-corbyn-and-labour-hes-a-tory-and-a-racist-it-seems/
And Mirvis and his predecessor, Jonathan Sacks, also have questions to answer themselves about racism and bigotry.
A year or so ago, Sacks led a contingent of British Jews to participate in the March of the Flags. That's when the Israeli equivalent of Nazi boot-boys parade through the Muslim part of Jerusalem waving Israeli flags, banging on doors and vandalising property. Sacks had been asked not to go, but he still went. And I also remember the anger he caused when he declared that Reform Jews were 'enemies of the faith' – which is the language of religious persecution. Mirvis and the Board also turned up to the mass demonstrations against Corbyn a few years ago, when they tried smearing him as an anti-Semite because he had not fully adopted the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism. That's the definition that's been criticised by Kenneth Stern, who formulated it, as chilling reasonable, genuine criticism of Israel.
There's absolutely no substance to Mirvis' recent sputterings. It's just more noise from a Tory, writing in the Tory press, and an arch-Zionist afraid of reasonable criticisms against Israel.
Like what is the country doing appointing a self-identified Fascist as its Culture Minister?
Now I realise that Regev may have made her comments well before Mirvis became Chief Rabbi, but you have to wonder what his reaction to Regev's words were. He is, after all, a friend of Netanyahu's as well as Boris Johnson, and while British Jews aren't responsible for what the Israelis do, the Chief Rabbinate and Board of Deputies have shown themselves to be staunch Zionists. So it has to be asked of them how they saw Regev's statement and what they did, as supporters of Israeli, to protest against it.
My guess is that Mirvis and the Board did nothing. They're quite content to let Israel behave like a Fascist state, and Israeli ministers call themselves Fascists, so long as it isn't reported and they aren't criticised for it.
And David Rosenberg, another Jewish anti-Fascist and critic of Israel, published a post in which he recalled how, when he was growing up in '70s and '80s, the Board tried to stop Jews from joining the marches then against the NF and BNP by groups like the Anti-Nazi League. Or go to meetings and concerts by organisations like Rock Against Racism. The Board claimed it was to stop them being exposed to anti-Zionist propaganda, but others suspected that there was more than a little of real racism against other minorities there as well.
And that's why they hate Corbyn: because he is a genuine opponent of racism and anti-Semitism, while they just want to stop criticism of Israel.
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RT's Afshin Rattansi Talking to Gaza Health Minister Dr Basem Naim
This was posted on May 14th, a day before the Israeli's massacred 60 Gaza Palestinians for trying to break through the fence into Israel, and it adds some very relevant pieces of back ground detail.
It's from RT's 'Going Underground' show, where Rattansi interviews various guests. This year is the 70th anniversary of the birth of Israel, called by Palestinians the Nakba, or 'Catastrophe', because it led to the destruction of their country and its communities. 400 Arab villages were razed by the Israelis in 1948, and countless villagers massacred up and down the country by Israeli troopers, even those bringing them rice as a peace overture, or seeking refuge in mosques.
To mark this, the Palestinians had organised a 'March for Return', which has been going on since April 30th. This is clearly part of the demand that the Palestinians should be allowed to move out of their refugee camps, and, presumably, return from their exile abroad to their old homes in what is now Israel. Israel definitely does not want to do this, as it has been pursuing a policy of ethnic cleansing since the first Zionist settlers arrived in the early 20th century. It refuses to let Palestinian exiles return because this would upset the demographic character of Israel as the Jewish state.
He also attacks Trump's decision to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, pointing out that it is a contested city, and should be the Palestinian capital. He also describes the squalid conditions in Gaza itself, which is deliberately starved of water and electricity by Israel, and indeed the water supplies have been fouled by Israel consumption and water projects. The beach is also heavily polluted – up to 97 per cent if covered with sewage, again from Israel. There economy is also deliberately stifled by Israel. And naturally, he is firmly opposed to the visit to Israel scheduled for later by Prince William.
Rattansi tries to tackle him on Syria, trying to get him to admit that Hamas forces there have been fighting against ISIS and al-Qaeda. Basem refuses to admit this, and just repeats the line that Palestinians are peaceful people dedicated to cooperation.
This adds a bit more information to explain the powerful reaction by the Palestinians to Trump's movement of the embassy. This was always going to be intensely controversial to a persecuted and exiled people, who look on the Holy City as their own. But the fact that this occurred in what they remember as the anniversary of their country's destruction and their persecuting, ethnic cleansing and massacre, which they were commemorating with a march demanding their return to their homes, also explains why so many massed at the fence between Gaza and Israel.
As for Palestinians being a peaceful people, the PLO has carried out terrorist atrocities. Israel has regularly denounced Hamas, the governing faction in Gaza, as a terrorist organisation, but I've read others claim that Israeli policy has left them no choice. The Israeli state ignores Palestinian moderates, and does not seem to respond except through the threat of violence. When this occurs, they refuse to concede to Palestinian demands because they don't talk to terrorists. I've also come across conspiracy theories, which consider that Hamas is itself a creation of the Israelis.
As for Hamas fighting ISIS and al-Qaeda in Palestine, I'm actually with them on that one. Hamas are also Islamists, but ISIS and al-Qaeda are terrorists. Daesh are responsible for the destruction of antiquities and priceless ancient artifacts and monuments, including mosques and other Islamic buildings, all over the Middle East and North Africa. They have also murdered moderate Muslims, Sufis, Shi'a, and other forms of Islam that don't conform to their own twisted ideas. And this is quite apart from their persecution of non-Muslims, like Christians and Yezidis, and their re-imposition of sex-slavery for the Yezidi women they have captured. They are an affront to human civilisation, and it is an abomination that the Americans have been backing them as part of the proxy war against Assad in Syria. Daesh should be fought against and the movement wiped from the Earth.
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The Young Turks Condemn Comments Celebrating Persecution of Palestinians
This is a video from the American left-wing news show, The Young Turks, in which main man Cenk Uygur comments on the appalling views of American Conservatives on the Israeli state's persecution of the Palestinians. One of them remarked on American television about how wonderful and transparent Israeli democracy was. He thought it was the most democratic country in the world. He also praised Israeli walls. These were great too, unless you believed that Palestinians were people.
He was referring to the wall built by the Israelis, to keep the Palestinians the Israelis expelled from their ancestral homes out. The Israelis have been trying to expel all of the Palestinians from Israel and the occupied territories ever since the Nakba at the birth of Israel. They have also refused to readmit Palestinians, who fled the massacres committed by the Israel forces at the time, for purely racist reasons. They have said quite openly that they weren't going to allow them to return as this would upset the ethnic composition of Israel as a Jewish state.
Uygur then comes to the comment of Ben Shapiro, a very young Republican political commentator, who for some reason they revere as some kind of great intellectual. Shapiro tweeted that Israelis like to build, while Palestinians prefer to bomb and live in sewage. Uygur makes the point that the reason the Palestinians live in squalor is because they don't control their economy and the Israeli state is forcing these conditions upon them. He also point out that with this, the Republicans are demonising the Palestinians, just as the Nazis demonised the Jews. And it's done for the same reason: to make their genocide easier.
He also acknowledges that Arabs and Palestinians also demonise Jews and Israelis, and he's very firmly against that as well. They're all human beings, and the only proper solution to this is a two-state solution. He also praises the 'If Not Now' movement, which demonstrated against the murder of the protesters yesterday. This is made up of young Jews and rabbinical college students.
But there was one person, who was pleased with the murder of the protesters: Anne Coulter. She tweeted that Israeli soldiers had killed 28 protesters (the total number is 59), before asking 'Can we do that?'
She was referring to Trump's plans to build a wall to keep the Mexicans out. Uygur argues passionately that if the Israelis get away with shooting the Palestinian protesters caged in Gaza, then it'll encourage Trump to believe he can shoot Mexicans trying to enter the US. Because just as the Israeli state demonises the Palestinians as terrorists, so the Trump and the Republicans claim that Mexicans are rapists, drug abusers and members of criminal gangs like MS-13.
And if that happens, you can also bet it'll have a knock-on effect over this said of the pond. We'll have the islamopobes and anti-immigration lobby over here claiming that we need to have the right to shoot illegal immigrants for the same reason.
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Vox Political: Shami Chakrabarti Wants to Convict Livingstone Without Evidence. Perhaps She Should Step Down?
On Sunday, Mike posted up a piece commenting on Shami Chakrabarti's statement on the Beeb's Sunday Politics that she did not believe that there was any reason for Livingstone to remain in the Labour party. Chakrabarti is the Labour party's Shadow Attorney General, and the author of the report into racism and anti-Semitism in the Labour party. Livingstone was accused a year or so ago of bringing the Labour party into dispute by making entirely accurate statements about Adolf Hitler and the Nazis initially cooperating with the Zionists to send German Jews to Palestine. The Nazis even sent one of their members to the nascent Jewish settlements, and struck a medal in commemoration.
There is no question that this is all historical fact. The brief period of cooperation between the Nazis and Zionists is called the Haavara Agreement, and is documented on the website of the international Holocaust museum in Israel. Tony Greenstein, another Labour member falsely accused of anti-Semitism and expelled, has provided extensive documentation of it on his site, including reproduction of the Zionist newspapers, like the Judischer Rundschau, which heartily supported the Nazi regime and urged Jewish Germans to 'wear their yellow stars with pride'.
Mike states in his article that Livingstone has made several dubious statements about the relationship between the Nazis and Zionists since then, but these are not what Chakrabarti is referring to. He also states that as a lawyer, Chakrabarti should know that under British law, you are innocent until proven guilty. Livingstone has not been tried yet. His case is due to be examined in three month's time.
According to the Groaniad's article, Chakrabarti went on to say
"she would have to "look at the rationale" before deciding how to respond, when asked if she would step down from the frontbench, but said she found it "very difficult to see that any rational decision-maker in the light of what has happened in the last two years could find a place for Mr Livingstone in our party at this moment"."
Mike makes the point that this is part of a wider campaign to destabilise Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party by claiming that the party has been full of anti-Semites since he took over its leadership. This is entirely false. Corbyn is not an anti-Semite, and neither are very many of the people, who've been accused of it. Many of them are decent people, who are sincerely anti-racist. As I've pointed out over and over again, very many of the victims of these smears and libels are Jews, who have suffered genuine anti-Semitic abuse and assault. Even more shameful is the fact that a number of these people are the children of the very fortunate few, who managed to survive the Holocaust. This to me clearly shows how utterly wicked these libels are.
Anti-Semitism has actually fallen in the Labour party since Corbyn took power. And the real crime of the people falsely accused of it, is that they have criticised Israel or supported the Palestinians. Those making these smears are the Israel lobby and the Blairites in the Labour party. They are repeated by the Tories and the right-wing media.
Mike makes the point that it is these villains, who Chakrabarti should be demanding to be investigated, not Livingstone.
Instead, she seems to feel that Livingstone's membership would, in Mike's words, attract far too much criticism to the Labour party. And so she is trying to appease them.
This is profoundly and utterly wrong. You cannot appease bullies.
The expulsion of genuinely decent people from the Labour party on these trumped up charges has taught the Israel lobby and its collaborators that they can continue smearing people with impunity. Throwing Livingstone to them will only serve as further proof that their vile tactics are successful, and that they can continue until Corbyn himself is removed, or left without significant allies.
It is also extremely dangerous to real history, as it shows that politicians can rewrite it completely and erase embarrassing episodes that nevertheless happened. Just like the Nazis try to deny the Holocaust, because it brings shame and hatred upon them, the Israeli state has been trying to suppress the truth of their own massacre, persecution and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. They attempt to suppress any mention of it through smearing those who do as anti-Semites. And their attempts to suppress the reality of the Israeli state's persecution of the Palestinians also has real consequences. It's how the Israeli state and its soldiers believe they can get away with the mass murder of Palestinian protesters yesterday with only the flimsiest of excuses: that they were put up to it by Hamas, and are a militant terrorist threat to Israel. The Israel lobby, including the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism and Labour Friends of Israel believe that if they hide the evidence of the Nakba and ongoing persecution and injustice through accusations of anti-Semitism, this will lead the British public to believe their lies and propaganda spuriously justifying their continued persecution.
They have to be stopped, confronted and defeated. Those falsely smeared as anti-Semites should be readmitted to the party. Those smearing them should be investigated and tried in their turn for bringing the party into disrepute. And there should be real consequences for those outside the Labour party responsible for propagating the smears, like the Board and the CAA.
And if Shami Chakrabarti is not prepared to stand up for innocent people in this, like Red Ken, perhaps she should leave the front bench.
For Mike's article, go to: https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2018/05/13/if-chakrabarti-would-convict-livingstone-without-evidence-then-perhaps-she-should-quit-labours-front-bench/#comments
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What You Won't See on the News: Trump Arming Nazi Azov Battalion in Ukraine
This is another piece of brilliant journalism, of the type that the lamestream media are trying to suppress as 'fake news' from the internet. This piece comes from The Real News Network, in which host Aaron Mate talks to Max Blumenthal about the Trump administration arming real neo-Nazis in the Ukraine, and Poland's criminalisation of references to 'Polish death camps'.
The Azov Battalion are a paramilitary militia, which grew out of the Patriot party. Their ideological leader is a street demagogue called Andrei Baletsky, and they are now part of his Social National Party. Whose names tells you exactly what they are – Nazis. Just like Hitler's squad of murderous goons called themselves 'National Socialist'. The group stands for 'upholding the honour of the White race'. They at against race-mixing, and see themselves as part of the vanguard in the Ukraine in what they term a 'reconquista' – a reconquest of the White countries of Europe.
These thugs emerged in the Donbass in the east of Ukraine, fighting the pro-Russian separatists after the Maidan Revolution. The Russian and Russian-speaking separatists wished to secede as their language would not be recognised by the new, nationalist government. They have very strong support from the interior minister, and have been incorporated into the Ukrainian state national security apparatus. More recently, an special corps of the Battalion have been installed in the capital, Kiev, 'to keep order'. They have begun to throw their weight around, and have disrupted a council meeting. Blumenthal states that this amounts to a coup against the current Ukrainian premier, Poroshenko. For some reason that Blumenthal doesn't understand, Poroshenko's position is weak, and he's been attacked by the pro-Western politicos and activists.
The promotion of the Azov Battalion as a part of Ukrainian state security has alarmed the Jewish community in Ukraine, as well as severely normal Ukrainians. The campaigner against anti-Semitism, Ephraim Zurov, has commented that Ukraine seems to have a greater number of statues to Jew killers than any other country. This includes the nationalist hero, Stepan Bandera, who was a Nazi collaborator in the Holocaust. Blumenthal describes with disgust the way Stepan Bandera boulevard leads to Baba Yar. This was the site of one of the most infamous massacres of Jews in the former Soviet Union during the Nazi occupation. It's the subject of a poem of the same name by one of the great Soviet writers commemorating the atrocity and its victims.
And, like the Polish senate, the Ukrainian government has also passed legislation banning any ascription of the Nazi atrocities and persecution of the Jews to Ukrainians. As Blumenthal states, this is to wipe out of history the huge amount of collaboration with the Nazis in Poland and Ukraine.
Blumenthal notes the various liberal commenters, who assured us all that the Maidan revolution wasn't full of Fascists. It was, and Blumenthal describes it as a right-wing coup.
And America is funding them. Trump has sent a shipment of grenade launchers to the Battalion, as well as US army personnel to train their troops. These troopers have been photographed wearing the Battalion's uniform, which includes the Nazi Wolfsangel, a badge, whose lettering is very much in the style of the SS badge. There have been attempts by Congress to stop the supply of arms and military aid. Legislation specifically prohibiting the supply of arms to the Azov Battalion has been tabled, only to be pushed back for debate later. And while this occurred, Trump sent a consignment of rocket launchers from the arms manufacturer Raytheon over there. Blumenthal also wonders what else the US is funding. The Battalion's corps, sent in to keep the people of Kiev down, has 600 members. Supplying them with coats alone costs $1.6 million. So he wonders just who's paying for that.
And the Azov Battalion aren't just a threat to Ukraine, but to other European countries. Blumenthal makes the point that they're like ISIS and al-Qaeda in that they attract foreign fighters. One of these was a French Nazi, Montot, who took back with him a vast cache of arms which he was going to use to attack a soccer match and bomb synagogues.
As for the Polish government outlawing any connection between their country and the Holocaust, Blumenthal and Mate state that this has drawn criticism from a number of countries, including Israel. But last year Israel also signed a memorandum of understanding with Poland, which recognised the country's need to distance itself from the crimes of the Nazi era. And Poland has been a very strong supporter of Israel. They've signed a deal to purchase $14 million of arms from an Israeli arms manufacturer. Blumenthal here makes the point that Israel has a long history of collaborating with anti-Semites, including the Nazis during the Holocaust. He also states that the Nazis right in Poland and the Israeli government have the same ideology. Just as the Poles are trying to cover up their complicity in the Holocaust, so the Israeli are trying to cover up their perpetration of the Nakba, the Palestinian term for their ethnic cleansing.
This is very definitely not something you're going to read in the Times or any of the other mainstream papers. Remember when we were all told that the 'Orange Revolution' was pro-democracy, and was a spontaneous uprising by Ukrainians against their pro-Russia president? It was a pack of lies. The Revolution was organised by the CIA, the US state department, and the National Endowment for Democracy, which has been the NGO to which the US has outsourced is coups and changes of regime since the CIA got a bad reputation for it all during the 1970s. The whole affair was overseen by Obama and his secretary of state, Victoria Nuland.
But the media keeps repeating the lie, including Ian Hislop's mighty organ, Private Eye. They've published several pieces in their 'Letter from' column from Ukraine, presenting the Revolution very much as the Ukrainian people fighting off evil pro-Putin oligarchs. The opposite is true. The Maidan Revolution was set up and controlled by pro-Western oligarchs and politicos, as a coup against their elected president.
The media's unqualified acceptance of the lie that the new government isn't at all Fascist is now so gross, that the long term critic of America foreign policy, William Blum, in the latest issue of his Anti-Empire Report has commented that the Nazis could walk down Kiev's main street in full Nazi uniform, and the media would still tell us all there were no Nazis there.
It also shows how craven and mendacious the mainstream press and media is over here. While the Sunset Times, the Heil, Scum and Jewish Chronicle have libelled Mike and other decent anti-racists as anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers, manufacturing lies and smears against them because they had the audacity to talk about Israel's own crimes against humanity and collaboration with the Nazis, they are silent on the real Fascist and Nazis seizing power in eastern Europe.
Or perhaps that's the point. The Tories, Blairites and Israel lobby are terrified of Corbyn and his supporters, not because they're anti-Semitic – they aren't, and they know it – but because they represent genuine socialism and a commitment to real social justice for the Palestinians. In fact, Steve Pollard, the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, appeared in the page of the Guardian to deny that the Polish government was full of anti-Semites, because the current president is 'a good friend to Israel'. Thus showing once again that the pro-Israel lobby will collaborate with real anti-Semites when it serves them. And so they have to be destroyed. But it also serves as a distraction from the way America is supplying and funding real Nazis in eastern Europe.
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The Empire Files on the Foundation of Israel and Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians
This is part of a longer piece from The Empire Files, no. 37, presented by Abby Martin, formerly of RT and now, I think, a presenter with Telesur English. This tells the story of the shrinking of Palestine from the foundation of the early Zionist settlements to the carnage of the foundation of Israel in 1948. It's a grim, ugly picture of organised, imperialist brutality, meted out by people Albert Einstein and other western Jewish critics compared to the Nazis and the Fascists, a view also held by one of the Israelis' own army officers.
It's entitled The Untold History of Palestine and Israel, and Martin states that this is the history that is not taught in schools. She and her team had been there filming the Israeli occupation of the West Bank for two weeks. It's a brutal occupation that is funded by the US taxpayer to the tune of $30 billion in aid. But Israel is presented to Americans through the images of 'Birthright Tours', which show Israel as a fun-loving, peaceful land threatened by militant Muslims.
Palestine was originally a province of the Ottoman Empire. During Ottoman rule, it had a population of 500,000 people. 75 per cent of these were Muslims, 20 per cent Christian, and 5 per cent Jewish. Nearly all of them were Arabs. Its cities were centres of intellectual culture and art, drawing visitors and scholars from across the Middle East. Even before it had borders, Palestine constituted a distinct, recognisable nation through its peoples shared customs and culture.
Martin explains that the Zionist movement began in the late 19th century as a reaction to the anti-Semitic violence and pogroms, which broke out in eastern Europe. She correctly states that Zionism was the belief in an exclusively Jewish state. I make this point here, because Nazis used the term incorrectly to mean their stupid and imaginary Jewish conspiracies to enslave gentiles. The Zionists were at this point only a small minority within the Jewish people. Most Jews wanted to stop to anti-Semitism in their own countries. This is illustrated with an article from the New York Times about Jewish Ukrainians organising to stop anti-Semitism in Ukraine. Many Jews resisted leaving Europe on the grounds that this would be giving in to the anti-Semites.
Zionism became a fervent movement under its Theodor Herzl, who claimed to be its father. Herzl was an Austrian atheist. He first considered homelands in Argentina and Uganda, before finally deciding on creating a Greater Israel in the Middle East. As shown on a map, this would include not just Palestine, but also the whole of Jordan and Lebanon, and parts of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and a tiny section of Turkey. Herzl spent his time travelling around the West trying to gather support and sponsorship for his scheme. He wrote to the Duke of Baden, for his aid, saying
If it is God's will that we return to our historic fatherland, we should like to do so as representatives of western civilisation and bring cleanliness, order and well-established customs, … to this plague-ridden, blighted corner of the Orient.
The Zionists promised to make Palestine a vanguard against barbarism, which meant that it would be an extension of western military power, and 'build highways of the civilised peoples', which meant trade for western millionaires. Their slogan was 'A land without a people for a people without a land'. But the Zionists were all too aware that the land already had a people, and were determined to cleanse them. Another Zionist leader, Israel Zangwill, said
Palestine is not so much occupied by Arabs as overrun by them.
From the first the Zionists planned on the expulsion of the indigenous peoples. Much of the country was semi-feudal, with tenant farmers labouring for absentee landlords away in the cities of Jordan or Syria. From 1892 onwards the Zionists began purchasing this land. In many cases the new, Jewish owners evicted the original inhabitants. Jews, Christians and Muslims had lived in peace and harmony in the region for thousands of years, but these purchases and expulsions resulted in immediate conflict.
New opportunities for the further expansion of the Jewish settlements arose during World War I. The Zionists were aware that the Russians, British and French were planning to carve up the region. The infamous Syke-Picot agreement divided the Middle East between the French and British. Britain was given control of Palestine by the League of Nations. The British government, composed of lords, then issued the Balfour Declaration, which pronounced the British government's support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The British Mandate resulted in riots in Jerusalem by the indigenous Palestinians, who naturally resented having their homeland given away without their consultation.
Again, the Zionist settlers were planning the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. In 1924 the US envoy stated
The Zionists look forward to a practically complete dispossession of the present non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine.
At this point, settlers comprised 10 per cent of the population. But this was already producing a refugee crisis. This section of the film shows a picture of rally of Palestinian refugees in Syria from 1929. Already there were 50,000 of such people, thrown out of their homes. As more land was purchased, and people evicted, David Ben Gurion, the future prime minister and mascot of Ben Gurion airport, declared
We were not just working. We were conquering, conquering, conquering land. We were conquistadors.
From 1920 to 1939 the settler population rose from ten to thirty per cent. Ben Gurion himself laid out the settlers' plans for ethnic cleansing:
We must expel the Arabs and take their places.
This policy naturally produced a rise in clashes between the Palestinians and the Zionist settlers. In 1936 the Palestinians launched a general strike against British rule. This was initially peaceful, until the British declared martial law, and recruited Zionist settlers to attack dissidents and Arab villages. This provoked the strike to become an armed uprising. The British in response embarked on a policy of blowing up Arab homes. 200 were destroyed in the Arab village of Yaffa. The rebellion was eventually crushed three years later in 1939. The death toll was 5,000 Palestinians against 300 settlers and 250 British soldiers. The Zionists formed their own armed forces, which were later used in the war of independence. These comprised the Hagana, the official force recognised by the British authorities, and various unofficial militias, the largest of which was the Irgun. These militias began by attacking the Palestinians, before moving on to British soldiers. It was the Irgun which bombed the Kind David Hotel, killing 91 people, including 17 Jews. This was so popular that one of the militias' leaders, Menachem Begin, later became president of Israel.
Abroad, many Jews were far less impressed. Albert Einstein and a group of other Jews wrote a letter to the New York Times condemning Begin's movement. They wrote that it was
A political party closely akin in its organisation, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties.
But the Zionists continued with their plans for the country's ethnic cleansing. Joseph Weitz, the head of the Jewish National Fund, wrote in 1940
There is no room for both people in this country … and there is no way besides transferring the Arabs from here to neighbouring countries, to transfer them all.
… We must not leave a single village, a single tribe.
The terror created by the Holocaust with its six million Jewish dead, along with the mass murder of other peoples, political prisoners and gays, propelled Zionism from the political fringe to a mass movement. In 1947 the British turned Mandated Palestine over to the UN. This finally gave in to 70 years of Zionist campaigning, creating the state of Israel. The new state was given 70 per cent of the area's land. Palestine was divided into three zones. However, the new Israel still had a population that was forty per cent Arab. This was a situation that the Israeli founders and leaders were determined to remove. Ben Gurion announced that
There can be no stable and strong Jewish state so long as it has a Jewish majority of 60 per cent.
In 1948 the tensions culminated in a full-blown war, during which the Israelis launched Plan Dalet for the mass terrorisation, murder and expulsion of the Palestinian people. This was the Nakba, the Palestinian term for the destruction of their homeland, a word which means, 'disaster' or 'catastrophe' in Arabic.
This section of the film describes some of the massacres that were committed, and the atrocities perpetrated against innocent civilians. One of the villages targeted for extermination was Deir Yassin, where there had been no terrorist attacks committed against the settlers. Israeli soldiers murdered nearly the entire population, raping the women before butchering them. One survivor described seeing his entire family lined up to be shot, including his mother, who was breastfeeding a baby. 200 people were murdered. A Red Cross official stated
Here the cleaning up had been done with machine guns, then hand grenades. It had been finished with knives.
!2 days after this, the Zionists attacked and massacred the people of Haifa. At the same time the Israelis broadcast radio messages intended to terrorise the Arabs. These included recordings of women wailing, and the message 'Flee for your lives. The Jews are using poison gas and nuclear weapons.' In Abu Shusha, the Palestinians who remained in their homes were raped, then hacked to death with axes. Those who tried to flee were shot on sight. 110 people were killed. At al-Dawayima 450 were killed, with a further 250 missing. In another village, the mosque was bombed, killing the 80 people, who had sought refuge within it. The remaining villagers were rounded up in the town square and shot, leaving a further 70 dead. In Lydda the Zionists massacred around 250-500 people, 250 of which were killed in about half an hour. This was supposedly in response to gun shots being fired from the local mosque. John Bagehot-Howe, a British army officer, commented
It would be an exaggeration to claim that great numbers were massacred. But just enough were killed, or roughly handled, to make sure all the civilian population took flight.
A senior Zionist officer, Joseph Imani, saw Palestinians shot after they came out of their homes waving white flags and carrying food. He said
Where did they come by such a measure of cruelty, like Nazis. Is there no more humane way of expelling the inhabitants than such methods?
During this period 800,000 Palestinians fled their homes, comprising 80 per cent of the Palestinian population of Israel. 500 villages were razed to the ground.
This is the history that you will mostly definitely not find taught in schools, as Abby Martin says. Nor will you see it covered on the mainstream news, whether in the US or over here, by the BBC. Lobster has remarked on the way the Beeb 'ties itself in knots' trying to tell itself that it is not biased towards Israel, while being biased towards Israel. And that monster and apologist for mass murder, Mark Regev, the Israeli ambassador, would scream blue murder if anyone in the mainstream media dared to do so, or called those responsible for these atrocities what they are – butchers and mass murderers. As Einstein and the other Jewish critics said, the Zionists responsible for such atrocities and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians are very much like the Nazis and Fascists. But Regev will scream that you're an anti-Semite or 'self-hating', if you're Jewish, if you dare to mention this.
But we do need to be aware of these atrocities, if we are to understand the paranoid mindset of the Muslim radicals in Britain today. Kalim Saddiqui, a vile bigot, who was one of those responsible for the hate campaign against Salman Rushdie in the 1980s and 1990s, was filmed at his mosque by the Beeb telling his congregation that
British society is a monstrous killing machine, and killing Muslims comes very easily to them.
When the documentary team challenged him on this, he tried to bluff his way out of it by blustering about how Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses had been published as part of a propaganda campaign to prepare for a 'holocaust of Muslims'. It's a risible, stupid slander. But to some Muslims, it has a terrible verisimilitude. Many mosques do cover the atrocities committed against Muslims in Palestine and elsewhere around the world in their equivalent of Christian parish magazines. They're acutely aware of campaigns of terror against their co-religionists. Hence such hysterical claims over here. But these atrocities are deliberately kept hidden from us, so that Islamic terrorism can appear as completely irrational, and Muslims presented as violent terrorists and butchers, killing for the sake of it. That is, admittedly, true to a certain extent of Daesh and al-Qaeda, though even with these cases there is more to it than simply that. If there is ever to be a just peace in the Middle East, we need to know about the real history of the region, how it has been conquered and its people brutalised by western imperialism and the rapacity of multinational corporations. Not only do we need to defeat the Islamists, we also need to defeat the thugs, genocides and corporate despoilers in our own societies.
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Young Anti-Zionist Jews Talk about their Beliefs and Activism
I've blogged several times in my pieces attacking Binyamin Netanyahu, the Likud party and the Israel lobby, and the anti-Semitism smears against Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour centre-left, that there are many very courageous Jews and Israelis, who are also strongly opposed to Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. This is another video I found on YouTube. It's for an organisation, Young, Left and Jewish, and has the organisation's website address at the end. In it, anti-Zionist Jewish young people describe their beliefs and activities to oppose and make people aware of the persecution of the Arabs.
One Jewish young woman describes how the trips to Israel provided by the Jewish organisations are designed to inculcate support for Israel, even going so far, if they can, to encourage Jews to immigrate there. Another young woman begins her story by telling a bit of her own family history. She is descended from two Holocaust survivors and a Nazi officer, and so is connected to both sides of the Holocaust. She shows a family photograph album, with photos of her parents and grandparents, including the tattoo of the number the Nazis' had placed on the arms of their victims. She then describes how, on a trip to Israel, she and her friends encountered a group of Arab Israelis. She and they sat down to talk, and they discovered that they had much in common through their experiences of persecution, the Jews from the Nazis and the Arabs from the Israelis. She states that this is causing immense pain and outrage, and that this will continue for decades to come. Intercut with this bit is historical footage of Jews being herded into the cattle trucks to the death camps. Another young woman describes how she and her friends put on a play by Jews, for Jews, to explore and explain about the persecution of the Palestinians by the Israeli state. Yet another young woman tells how she heckled Ariel Sharon in order to tell 'truth to power'.
In my posts about this issue, I've described the fierce hostility those Jews, who do campaign on the behalf of the Palestinians face from the Zionist establishment. Just as anti-Zionist gentiles are smeared as anti-Semites, Jews are accused of being self-hating, or 'not proper Jews'. Or worse. Another young woman in this video talks about going to a Zionist meeting to hand round pamphlets and flyers about the Israeli occupation of Palestine. She describes how she and others like her are accused of being 'self-hating', or because they oppose Israel, they must somehow be in favour of terrorism or Yasser Arafat. She describes how she was cursed and spat at, with women she describes as looking like typical Ashkenazi (Eastern European Jewish) grandmothers raising their middle finger to her. One woman even turned away and covered her child's eyes.
One Rabbi, R. Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun magazine, states that he has received death threat for his opinions.
The video is accompanied by a couple of pieces of traditional Jewish song.
I was particularly struck by the young woman, who found a common thread of experience through her family's suffering under the Holocaust, and the Arab Israelis' persecution by the Israeli state. The Palestinians refer to the destruction of their country as the Nakba, which means the 'disaster' or 'catastrophe'. Amos Oz in his book, The Israelis, describes how just as the Israelis attempt to recover the history of the numerous Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust, so the Palestinians similarly attempt to document and trace their communities, which have been exterminated by the Israelis.
He also includes in his book accounts and statements by Israeli soldiers of their mixed feelings, including guilt and sorrow, at seeing Arabs forced off their lands and from their property. Several of them felt that it could easily have been them made to depart from their homes by an overwhelming power. It struck me that these feelings, like those of the young woman in this video, came from the collective Jewish experience of being repeatedly under attack, and forced to move on through violence, including armed force. The Holocaust is the best known, and most extreme and horrific of this, but just one example in the long persecution of the Jewish people. And some soldiers – unfortunately, not all – were bound to have profound misgivings when they found themselves ordered to do precisely the same thing to others.
Opposition to Israel and its systematic persecution of its indigenous population isn't a simple case of anti-Semitism and Jewish self-hatred. it is a response by principled women and men to the persecution of yet another people by a colonial settler state. Very many of those who support the Palestinians against the likes of Netanyahu are sincere anti-racists, including Jews, who feel that this persecution runs counter to the teachings of their own religion. I put up a video a few days ago of a mass meeting of Orthodox Jews in New York to protest against the state of Israel and the conscription of Yeshiva students into the armed forces. One of the rabbis speaking declared that Israel was sinning by turning the Jews, a peaceful people, into a militaristic nation. He called this 'the hands of Esau'. Oz in the Israelis also claims that the Jewish and Israeli peoples are not militaristic, giving a Yiddish word for militarism. This, translated into English, literally means, 'the silly games of gentiles'.
Unfortunately, Israel is a highly militarised society, which has had the ethnic cleansing of the original people of Palestine as its goal from the start. If there is to be a just peace, and genuine reconciliation between Israelis and Arabs in the Middle East, it will be done by principled people like those in this video.
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The Origin of the Fear of a Muslim Holocaust in Nazi Propaganda
Yesterday I put up a piece about Paul Berman's book, The Flight of the Intellectuals, which argues that the modern Islamist movements – al-Qaeda, but also Hamas, and the Islamic Republic of the Ayatollah Khomeini, ultimately have their origins in the writings of Hassan al-Banna and the Muslim Brotherhood. The book also describes the role of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj al-Husseini, in translating Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda into the Muslim and Arab worlds. Al-Husseini claimed, despite the evidence of the very limited dimensions of the Jewish state at the time, that the Jews were planning to wipe out Islam and the Arabs, and to turn all the Arab countries in the Middle East into homelands for themselves and Black Americans. He therefore urged, and organised, a genocidal war against Jews, commanding his audience to kill the Jews and their children before the Jews killed them.
It's vile, poisonous stuff from someone, who played an enthusiastic part in the Holocaust of European Jews, as well as massacres of those in Palestine. His fear-mongering of a Jewish superstate goes far beyond the Nakba, or 'disaster, catastrophe', the term Palestinians have given to the eradication of their communities and their displacement at the establishment of Israe. Looking through al-Husseini's rhetoric also makes sense of the claims of a similar genocide made by one British Muslim firebrand in the 1990s.
This was Kalim Saddiqui, who was one of the Muslim leaders involved in stirring up hatred against Salman Rushdie over the Satanic Verses. In the early 1990s the Beeb screened a documentary on the problems afflicting the Islamic community in Britain. These problems included poor academic performance, unemployment and the consequent feelings of disenfranchisement and alienation. They filmed Siddiqui preaching in his mosque. He told the assembled worshippers that 'British society is a gigantic killing machine, and killing Muslims comes very easily to them.' I'm aware of the racism and violence many Muslims have to face, not least from the Stormtroopers of the Far Right, like the BNP, and their successors, the English Defence League. But this went far beyond a complaint about racism to a bigoted, racist statement about non-Muslims Brits.
To their credit, the Beeb tried to tackle Siddiqui about this. His response was that it was part of his defence of Islam against the forces, of which Rushdie's book was a part. He then claimed that the Satanic Verses was simply part of a 'Holocaust of Muslims' that was being prepared. It's rubbish, of course, but such fears do now unfortunately have a certain verisimilitude now that Trump is demanding a halt to Muslim immigration, and the registration of those already in America. Against this, it needs to be noted that there are other Americans on the streets, including not just Muslim Americans, but also members of the traditional White and Black communities and Jews demonstrating against Trump's poison. Several Jewish organisations were so horrified by Trump's plans, which were so close to what they experienced during the Third Reich, that they organised demonstrations against the tousle-haired Nazi in 17 cities across the US. Siddiqui also made the comments at the time of the Bosnian War, when the Serbs were committing massacres against Bosnian Muslims. That might partly explain Siddiqui's vile rant.
But mostly it seems to me now that Siddiqui had absorbed the conspiracy theories and the rhetoric of genocide against Muslims shoved out by the Grand Mufti as part of his pro-Nazi campaign. In which case, the roots of Islamism and Islamist terrorism in Britain go back at least two decades. Siddiqui and the other preachers of hate prepared a paranoid, intensely hostile mindset within the audiences, which may have made some susceptible to the teachings and propaganda of al-Qaeda and now ISIS later on.
Siddiqui and his fellows, like Anjem Chaudhury, do not represent all Muslims in Britain by any means. They're extremely controversial, and there have been demonstrations against them as bigots, who pervert the message of Islam, by liberal Muslims. There are a number of books and Muslim organisations, like Imams Online, which exist to tackle the Islamism and hate they promote. If you go over to the anti-racist organisation's Hope Not Hate site, there are also numerous articles on events that have been organised around the country to bring Muslims and non-Muslims together, with pictures of Muslim imams talking and laughing with Christian vicars, and members of the other faiths. Siddiqui's rhetoric is part of the Nazi distortion of Islam, and doesn't represent the whole of the 'umma or its history.
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Soriano sues French magazine which called him a 'spook'.
Jonathan Ames, Legal Editor
Saturday November 21 2020, 12.01am, The Times
Walter Soriano is suing the French magazine Le Point
EDDIE MULHOLLAND
A former Israeli intelligence officer who runs a London consultancy has been portrayed in the High Court as the alleged "right-hand man of oligarchs".
Walter Soriano, 52, is claimed to have clients including allies of President Putin. He is suing Le Point, a French magazine, over an article that, he said, called him a "dangerous and unscrupulous secret agent" with close connections to President Trump and the Russian secret service.
Mr Soriano told the court that the article said he "knowingly uses illegal and offensive information-gathering techniques". In an interim ruling yesterday, Mr Justice Nicol backed the magazine's publishers after lawyers argued that the article said there were "grounds to investigate" claims against Mr Soriano, not that he was "guilty of the matters

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Accused Philadelphia mob boss Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino — whose trial was slated to start today in Manhattan Federal Court — remains in Florida recuperating from a heart ailment. Merlino went to a Boca Raton hospital emergency room suffering from "chest pains and coronary spasms and shortness of breath," one of his lawyers said. Merlino, 55, has reportedly survived more than a dozen attempted hits and beat three murder raps. The gangster's doctor said Merlino is on medication and needs to be under "close observation". Hospital tests had "abnormal" results and "revealed two 'significant' blockages" said Merlino's attorney Edwin Jacobs.
Merlino was supposed to be tried with Genovese capo Eugene "Rooster" Onofrio, who has also got a health related delay. Last month, the presiding judge separated the cases because of Onofrio's "need for medical treatment." The trial of 75-year-old Onofrio is now "adjourned indefinitely" court papers say.


Psychopathology of Everyday Life is a 1901 work by Sigmund Freud, based on his researches into slips and parapraxes from 1897 onwards, - one which became perhaps the best-known of all his writings.
Jacques Lacan considered it one of the three key texts for an understanding of the unconscious, alongside The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious. Sometimes called the Mistake Book, the work became one of the scientific classics of the 20th century. Through its stress on what Freud called "switch words" and "verbal bridges", it is considered important not only for psychopathology but also for modern linguistics, semantics, and philosophy.


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We Are The In Crowd | Greene Street Club; Greensboro, NC
Photo by Caitlyn Willard
Format ImagePosted on April 20, 2014 September 12, 2017 Author Lucy Out Loud StaffCategories UncategorizedTags caitlyn willard, greene street club, greensboro, jordan eckes, nc, reunion tour, tay jardine, we are the in crowdLeave a comment on
Show Review: The Reunion Tour 3/28
The Reunion Tour Featuring:
State Champs
William Beckett
We Are The In Crowd
The Reunion Tour hit the Greene Street Club on Friday, March 28th, in Greensboro, NC. Before doors even opened, there was already a long line of fans eagerly awaiting the music filled night ahead of them. This tour is We Are the In Crowd's first time headlining in the US and it has been a successful one so far.
Candy Hearts started off the night to a slightly slow start. They received a quiet welcome to the stage from the audience, perhaps because they were the least well known of the bands on tour. Lead vocalist, Mariel Loveland seemed a bit nervous for the first few songs of their set, but eventually she began to loosen up and the crowd did too. For the last song of their set they asked for the audience to sing a line from the chorus and they cheerfully sang along until the end.
Next up was State Champs, a pop punk band from Albany, NY. The energy was brought as soon as they hit the stage. Vocalist, Derek Discanio, immediately asked the crowd to move up closer as soon as he arrived to the stage. Discanio has an incredible voice that blends perfectly with the high energy instrumentals from the rest of the band. The band has an amazing stage presence and are constantly moving around the stage and interacting with fans in the crowd. Throughout their set fans were singing along to the words, but it was fan favorites, "Remedy", and closing song, "Elevated", that really sent the energy in the room to the next level.
Set It Off was next on the bill and having seen them on multiple occasions I knew they were going to be one of my favorite acts of the night. Their set began with a slew of theatrics, including black hoodies, red masks and a voice over of a storyteller explaining what the show was going to entail. Frontman, Cody Carson, continued the theatrical story of a romance gone wrong, telling a little more of the story between each song. My favorite part about Set It Off's live performances is that they leave no member of the crowd unattended. Each member of the band was singing and making eye contact with fans throughout their set. Carson reached into the crowd multiple times, stood on crowd's hands and crowd surfed, putting huge smiles on fan's faces. My only complaint would be that their set was too short and I wanted to see more.
The lights began to dim and the sound of Eminem's "My Name Is" started to play with an overdub of William Beckett's voice saying "Hi, my name is, William Beckett". It's clear that Beckett wanted his set to be a fun and enjoyable one. Beckett also showed a soft side, he is a great story teller and shared stories of bullying and struggles and encouraged people to keep their heads up and to keep looking forward. Beckett invited Carson back on the stage to perform a song and claimed that they would be performing "a new song that they just wrote that day". They then began to break out into Katy Perry's hit song, "Dark Horse", much to the amusement of the audience. Beckett ended his set with, "About a Girl", one of his hits from his former band, The Academy Is…. This got the crowd very excited and ended his performance on a high note.
Finally, after all the energizing performances from the opening acts, it was time for the headliners, We Are the In Crowd. The band began with their new hit, "The Best Thing (That Never Happened)", off their recently released album, Weird Kids. This instantly got the crowd energized and excited for the rest of the show. Vocalists, Tay Jardine and Jordan Eckes' voices bounced off each other beautifully and you can tell that based on the fun interactions with all members of the band on stage that there is great chemistry in this group. Midway through their set, WATIC slowed things down to play, "Windows in Heaven", a personal song about Jardine's late father. You could tell by the emotion in her voice that this song is very special to her. WATIC continued playing a mix of new and old songs throughout the rest of the night, which included fan favorites, "Kiss Me Again" and their finale song, "Rumor Mill". The night ended well and I believe WATIC are going on to do great things.
Photos and written by Caitlyn Willard
Posted on April 14, 2014 Author Lucy Out Loud StaffCategories UncategorizedTags candy hearts, derek discanio, greene street club, greensboro, jordan eckes, review, Reviews, set it off, show reviews, state champs, tay jardine, the academy is, the reunion tour, we are the in crowd, william beckettLeave a comment on Show Review: The Reunion Tour 3/28
Review:: Weird Kids | We Are The In Crowd
As music fans, we can be very hard to please sometimes. We ask a lot from our favorite artists – we want progression, but we want them to stick to their roots. We want something huge and different, but we want it to sound like what we already know. We want things tailored directly to us, and we want it every ten months or so.
But, as fickle as we can be, we don't always need a masterpiece. In the end, we're just hoping to be entertained.
Poughkeepsie's We Are the In Crowd have a very solid reputation around these parts. They're a group that we've kept an eye on and have always wished the best for. (Note: if a band is from, like, a two-hour radius of where I live, I consider them "local." So, there's that). On their sophomore full-length Weird Kids, the group delivers a product that is three years in-the-making.
It doesn't take long for the album to show signs of the group's growth throughout their past few years. The multi-useful (more on this later) "Long Live the Kids" is a soft, powerful piano ballad that swells into massive, youthful grandeur while boasting an impressive vocal performance from Tay Jardine. "The Best Thing (That Never Happened)," Weird Kids' lead single, quickly follows, erupting past the album's booming introduction and diving into a quick, aggressive pop-punk attack. When Jardine takes hold of the string-laced "Don't You Worry" later, the track absolutely soars, volleying back and forth between a classical/pop split and a pop-punk sprint.
While Jardine's vocals may be as crisp as they've ever been, Jordan Eckes' contributions can't be ignored. The split vocal duties that we've grown to enjoy from We Are the In Crowd are present and in full force. The dual guitars of Eckes and Cameron Hurley tear into "Dreaming Out Loud," where the singers share the chorus rather than splitting vocal duties, harmonizing well and delivering solid performances from both. "Manners," which is thrown into the important third song slot, is what we love to get from this band – a captivating introduction, beautiful split vocals, and a huge chorus all result in an all-around success.
Lyrically, the album falls off a bit at times. The "all my exes live in Texas" line that leads into "Remember (To Forget You)" starts the song off on poor footing, but the group quickly recovers. Other than that, the record is very well-written. "Attention" is one of the catchiest songs, serving as a title track of sorts. Mike Ferri's basslines rumble along beneath the verses before Jardine belts a chorus of "I know the way I want to be / but I'm trapped in who I am. / The only thing that holds me back is not believing. / We are the only friends we have."
The group slows things down twice, with the exception of the introduction; once on "Come Back Home," and again on "Windows in Heaven," both of which (and especially the latter) are very vocally-carried. The first is a strong acoustic duet, while the second is dark and distant, unlike anything else on the record but still showcasing Jardine's talent. It's a chance for her voice to really shine, and she doesn't miss her mark.
I mentioned earlier how "Long Live the Kids" is multi-useful. I say this because it could have found a home as either the opener or the closer, much like how ending "Reflections" could handle either role. I'm not saying that the placement of either one is wrong, but in my opinion, "Long Live the Kids" works better as an opener than "Reflections" does as a closer (and vice versa).
There are plenty of reasons for the three-year gap between We Are the In Crowd albums, I'm sure – Warped Tour summers, rigorous writing, a handful of other tours, etc. etc. But mostly, this group has matured far beyond what a ≈ 36-month span would entail. Weird Kids is an album from a band that is where they are because of their fans. It tells us that it's okay to be a little bit off, a little bit out there. We're all just weird kids in the end.
01. Long Live The Kids
02. The Best Thing (That Never Happened)
03. Manners
04. Come Back Home
05. Attention
06. Dreaming Out Loud
07. Remember (To Forget You)
08. Don't You Worry
09. Windows In Heaven
10. Reflections
We Are the In Crowd are:
Taylor Jardine – Vocals, keyboards
Jordan Eckes – Guitar, vocals
Cameron Hurley – Guitar
Mike Ferri – Bass
Robert Chianelli – Drums
Written By: Eric Riley
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Better Luck Next Time – We Are The In Crowd
Loving this new song from their up-coming album, Best Intentions.
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Jordan(@JordanEckes) from We Are The In Crowd(@wearetheincrowd) loving out loud
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Just two days ago, Colorado's demon-hunting gay-exorcising state Rep. Gordon "Dr. Chaps" Klingenschmitt had his seat on House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee restored after having been stripped of it last month amid the controversy stemming from his statement that a brutal attack on a pregnant woman in the state was due to the "curse of God upon America" for legal abortion.
What was billed as a town hall meeting turned into a half-hour tease for Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt's announcement that he plans to run for a state Senate seat.
Klingenschmitt, R-Colorado Springs, went through a list of his accomplishments in the state Legislature Wednesday at the Airplane Restaurant. He also discussed his attempts to "fight for Republican principles" that didn't make it through the Democrat-controlled House. He took a small handful of questions limited to constituents in House District 15, teasing his "plans for 2016" along the way, before announcing he plans to run for Senate District 12.
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The WGBYC reviews EU Member States' actions under Regulation 812/2004, which lays down obligations on bycatch monitoring and mitigation of cetacean bycatch. It provides advice to ICES Advisory committee (ACOM) detailing to what extent these obligations are being met and on how the monitoring of protected species bycatch can be improved.
The WGBYC also looks at relevant bycatch mitigation measures and helps coordinate relevant experimental work. More recently the group has also focused on how protected species monitoring might be addressed under the Data Collection Framework (DCF). Portugal has been na annual participant in the meeting since 2012.
In this meeting particularly, issues regarding by-catch monitoring, by-catch estimates and mitigation works regarding interactions of protected species and fisheries, with the main focus on cetaceans, marine birds and elasmobranchs were discussed within the framework of the Regulation 812/2004 for each member state. Reports submited by each member state in 2018 with protected species by-catch information and monitoring schemes regarding 2017 were analysed. The output of the meeting will be a report that will be available publically in June 2019. From Portugal not only CCMAR was present, but also IPMA-Olhão was invited to present results on a mitigation study being conducted about the use of pingers in set nets off the coast of Quarteira.
Ana Marçalo, a CCMAR researcher is the Portuguese participant since 2012 of the WGBYC anual meeting. Last year, Ana invited the group in the name of CCMAR to hold the meeting in University of Algarve, Gambelas Campus, Faro, which was accepted immediately. For this year´s meeting, Jorge Gonçalves was invited to present projects held in the the Fisheries Biodiversity and Conservation Group, with the main focus on the project Mar2020-iNOVPESCA that is co-coordenated by Jorge and Ana and studies the interactions of cetaceans with coastal fisheries in the Algarve coast, promoting mitigation solutions to reduce the impact of the interactions, either reducing incidental by-catch of the cetaceans and lower economic losses to the fishermen.
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This Week's Best Paranormal News – January 11th, 2019
January 11, 2019 Mike Huberty	Leave a comment
It's Mike from See You On The Other Side, just going over some of the coolest news stories we saw this week. Let's cut to the chase…
https://nypost.com/2019/01/06/sonic-attacks-at-us-embassy-in-cuba-may-have-just-been-crickets/
'Sonic attacks' at US Embassy in Cuba may have just been crickets
The "sonic attacks" that afflicted diplomats at the US Embassy in Cuba could have just been the work of crickets, according to a report Sunday. So crickets are causing hearing damage now? I smell a coverup!
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/09/repeating-fast-radio-bursts-from-deep-space-could-be-aliens
Mysterious fast radio bursts from deep space 'could be aliens'
Doesn't mean it's aliens, in fact, the guy that was all excited about Oumuamua being aliens, Avi Loeb, is the guy they're quoting here. Saw this on everyone's feeds this week, so I thought we should mention it.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8034586/near-death-experience-ski-accident-austria/
Skier who 'died for 20 MINS in avalanche saw afterlife before coming back'
Rhianna Shaw made the chilling decision to stop breathing, after an avalanche in St. Anton, Austria, fully encased her in snow.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6563611/Plane-debris-washed-beach-Madagascar-likely-came-MH370.html
Plane debris that washed up on a beach 'most likely' came from MH370
Remember when CNN was the MH370 Channel? I feel like this news should be a bigger deal. A report from the MH370 Safety Investigation Team said most of the debris recovered was from an aircraft and a floor panel found belonged to a Boeing 777, 'most likely MH370'.
http://themoscowtimes.com/news/russian-patriarch-warns-antichrist-will-control-humans-through-gadgets-64060
Russian Patriarch Warns 'Antichrist' Will Control Humans Through Gadgets
In an interview, Patriarch Kirill warned against "falling into slavery" to smartphones. Someone call Kirk Cameron before we all get "left behind"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1gaD5eFzbw
Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar
Speaking of the Anti-Christ, it's the man that was demonized in the 90s, Brian Warner AKA Marilyn Manson. Naming has band members half after super models and half after notorious killers, the man has never been accused of good taste. Is he still shocking? I dunno, but some of those songs are still excellent! Here's the title track of his breakthrough album.
If you missed our conversation earlier this week, we talked about the Lost Franklin Expedition, the Doomsday Clock, new horror films based on real-life ghost stories, and Britain's most famous UFO incident. You can listen to that episode right here.
New episode out late Monday night, so we'll see you on the other side of the weekend!
P.S. Hat tip to our Patreon, C.E. Martin for forwarding this hilarious cartoon. It's always nice to see the weird stuff enter the mainstream!
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93 – Missing Planes: From The Bermuda Triangle to MH370
May 24, 2016 Mike Huberty	1 Comment
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Before the wreckage of this last week's crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 ended the mystery surrounding what happened to the Airbus A320, cable news immediately jumped on the story. Missing planes are big business. Traveling in the modern age means flying, and flying means getting in a metal cylinder and hurling through the sky at hundreds of miles an hour. For myself, it's the surrender of control that makes it terrifying. Not that I know how to fly, but I'm at the mercy of the pilot, someone I don't usually even see. My life is in his or her hands, that's a lot of trust to place in someone that you don't know, only reassured by the fact that their lives are in their hands as well and whatever happens to me, happens to them. So that helps. And also knowing that your chances of dying in an airline crash are extraordinarily low, you've got a better chance of being struck by lightning or bitten by a shark than going down in a plane.
Amelia Earhart, female aviation pioneer, and the first famous case of a plane disappearance
Now what happened to EgyptAir 804 was probably terror-related (they were already in Cairo airspace when they just turned around for seemingly no reason), but since aviation has only been with us for a little over a hundred years, we have an excellent record of its history. Missing planes are news now because it happens so infrequently. And when it happens, when all the safeguards humans have created to protect themselves during air travel fail, then it's a big deal. But what if it's something more than just human or mechanical error, what if it's something paranormal in nature?
The actual Boeing 777 that carried flight 370 – picture by photographer Laurent Errera
The most recent flight to disappear was Malaysian Airlines Fight 370. Taking off in Kuala Lampur, the flight was supposed to land in Beijing, but never did and was said to have crashed somewhere in the Indian Ocean. The mystery behind that missing plane lasted for months until a piece of wreckage washed up on an island near Africa in the Indian Ocean.
Conspiracies abounded from Flight 370 from North Korea shooting it down to a CIA coverup to the plane being commandeered to land in Russia. Of course, 5% of people even believed that it had something to do with aliens or supernatural activity. Those people are my favorite. But reliable aviation experts and different authors have challenged the authenticity of the debris, saying it was planted. A new photo that showed up last week has made the veracity of the wreckage more likely, however, and as the public slowly loses interest in the flight, the final mystery might never be solved.
The Devil's Triangle
But the most famous place that planes have disappeared has to be the Bermuda Triangle. The three corners are Miami, Florida, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the island of Bermuda in the mid-Atlantic Ocean. Popularized by author Charles Berlitz in his 1974 book, The Bermuda Triangle.
The crew of Flight 19 (courtesy of Getty Images)
The most famous case of disappearing planes over the triangle comes from December 5, 1945. Flight 19 was a bombing training mission run by Lieutenant Charles Taylor, a flight veteran. Their compasses ended up not working, the planes got lost over the mid-Atlantic and five planes and 14 men were lost at sea and never found. Later, they sent out another plane (a flying boat) to go search for the missing planes. Those 13 men and that plane were never recovered either. 27 people lost in one day. Steven Spielberg would later use this in Close Encounters of The Third Kind as the planes are discovered in the desert and later their pilots are returned to Earth by peaceful alien captors.
Hey Flight 19, better late than never!
Berlitz found several incidents of missing planes over the Bermuda Triangle, particularly in the late 1940s (one case even happening on July 3rd 1947 – the date of Roswell! A topic that Berlitz also wrote a book on). By the late 1970s, the Bermuda Triangle was a well-known paranormal topic. When there was no concrete evidence as to why planes might go missing over the area, Berlitz wasn't ashamed of throwing in paranormal explanations (it was the 70s, man.) He even theorized that the sunken city of Atlantis had something to do with it!
Just as fast as the topic took off, though, the Coast Guard was trying to debunk it. They even have an entry about it in their official FAQ.
While there has been several movies to tackle the Bermuda Triangle directly (the most famous starring Hollywood royalty, John Huston) and The X-Files' episode "Triangle" as well as The Greatest American Hero's "Devil And The Deep Blue Sea" did investigations into the mysterious area, the most famous piece of pop culture with a missing plane took place in the Pacific Ocean and not the Bermuda Triangle. Oceanic Flight 815 left Sydney, Australia for Los Angeles in 2004 and was never found. That gave us LOST, a mid-Aughts cultural phenomenon that changed the way that we watch television.
The wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815
Serials, where one episode of the story leads into the next and need to be watched in sequence, was not very popular with television producers for a long time. Why? Because it made it so you had to see every episode in order to "get it". It was much easier to produce something where a viewer could casually come in and out and miss episodes. In the 1970s that made a lot of sense. When homes started getting VCRs in the 1980s that trend could change, but still people had trouble programming them (i.e., my parents).
In the 2000s, with the popularization of DVRs and a generation of people who were comfortable with the technology, you could finally create a series where you could trust that the episodes were watched in the correct sequence. You could create longer and more complicated storylines, like chapters in a novel. Whether LOST accomplished that during its six-season run is debatable, but it certainly popularized the story of a missing plane and the supernatural hijinks that happened around the survivors on a mystical island.
While LOST provided a happy ending for at least some of the passengers (SPOILERS!), unfortunately we cannot be certain about the real tales of missing flights. As we recorded and wrote this, Egyptian authorities still haven't found the full wreckage of flight 804, all of the human remains of Flight 370 are still nowhere to be seen, and of course, Flight 19 has been gone for well over half a century.
While The Bermuda Triangle might be bogus, the fear of flying has affected everyone from Isaac Asimov to John Madden (who always drives to football games across the country in a special RV.) The modern cable news obsession with missing planes only serves to heighten this fear and it almost makes me long for the days when the most sensationalist piece of television was In Search Of… something that never masqueraded as news.
This week's song was inspired by the tales of lost airmen and boat crews in the nefariously nicknamed, Devil's Triangle.
You see a light,
when you're in the deep,
just on the surface,
somewhere above your reach.
But you're too far, to be found.
If you wanna meet the Devil, you have to go down.
It's not a Kraken that will sink your Battleship
You could get snared by a Calypso and not even know when you've been whipped,
It's not the sharks who will devour when you drown,
It's the chicken of the sea that will pull you all the way down.
It might feel like it's a joyride,
heading toward Davy Jones.
But it's a doorway to the dark side,
that will leave you skull and bones.
It doesn't matter, Atlantean or Amazon,
your eyes stay open as you suffocate
gutted and gorged upon.
somewhere above your reach
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