Norman Finkelstein - The Coming Breakup of American Zionism

[KingMamba]

Jews hear these words for over 3000 years. All vanishers are gone and Jews still here.

@ResurgentIran see this is the problem, these "Israelis" think that their racist and xenophobic nation state represents Jews as a whole which is why he could not understand what you wrote.

 

[500]

Back to the hear and now.

Israel doesn't have too many friends, and it's aggressive forms of what it regards as defence, I believe will prove to be the root cause of it's undoing, IF it continues like this.

25 years ago Israel was not recognized by Russia, East Europe, India, China. Today we have excellent relations with all these. Nearly half of worlds population.

I didnt say Jews will vanish. I said racist Israel as an apartheid state will vanish, just like the white rule of apartheid South Africa vanished.

You perfectly know what will happen to Jews in case Israel will vanish. But you are coward to say direcly that u dream about genocide.

70 years ago our enemies were best soldiers and best engineers in the world. Today our enemies are miserable creatures who can only blow up buses with civilians and beat protesting student girls.

As we talk your criminal regime slaughters Palestinians once again:

 

[KingMamba]

@Hazzy997

Do the Palestinians you talk with in Gaza equate all Jews with Israelis?

 

[atatwolf]

The funny thing is they can't call him an anti Semite because Norman is Jewish himself and his ancestors experienced the holocaust.

This is the Achilles heal of the eternal international Jewry. There shouldn't be double standard or license to kill reserved for Isreali. Other than that I don't think Israel will stop existing. They should stay since the arab leadership during ww1 agreed on that when they kicked out ottomans out of the levant with the help of the Anglo Saxons.

Israel is just ruled by bad people but I like most Jews I met. Very pleasant people. I never met those Orthodox Jews. I heard they are very rude.

 

[Falcon29]

@Hazzy997

Do the Palestinians you talk with in Gaza equate all Jews with Israelis?

Absolutely not, there is even a interview with the Hamas military commander that Israel assasinated that stated this.

People confuse the terms palestinains and Israelis refer to each other. They usually refer to each other as Arabs or Jews. This doesn't mean all Arabs or all Jews this is just the way they communicate.

 

[BATMAN]

@AUz Before i comment on the subject... I'm not a fan of Mr. Zakir which you mentioned, hence your reference to him had no positive effect on me.

Next, i would like to state that people/nations who deny holocost, are actors of low quality.

I cannot comment on the man in OP, as i came to know of him only today, reason.... my focus is always Pakistan.

Palestinian issue has indeed been spilled out of political to humanitarian, due to the actors from both sides.
We shall understand, criminals and friends of devil are in every society, they fake, as Jews, Muslims, Christians, Seculars, etc. etc.

I believe, politics should be dealt with a systematic and honest approach. I do not agree to the launch of Hizb Ullah, which actually lead to unscaleable divide and furthering of humanitarian crisis.
Hizb Ullah, share major credited for the non political solution thus far, never will they ever allow any effort of third parties, to bore fruit.
How it will end eventually, is hinted in Islamic traditions, which i do not need to repeat.

 

[Juice]

The Jews will make sure to take America down the toilet if they ever oppose American Zionism, there are already many signs of decay in America just look at the economy . The Jews have already sent American jobs to china while also sending Americans to die for Israeli interest wars in the Mideast like Iraq.

I know....our horrible economy....it is only number one in the world. Maybe we can fix it and become ???

 

[FaujHistorian]

Israel is here to stay and for a long long time.

And so are most of the countries in the region.

 

[AUz]

I know....our horrible economy....it is only number one in the world. Maybe we can fix it and become ???

hehehe...

Hillary2016!

Btw, U.S debt is like near $17 trillion...thats not good.

 

[FaujHistorian]

hehehe...

Hillary2016!

Btw, U.S debt is like near $17 trillion...thats not good.

And they owe these trillions to Palestinians? hahahahah

Just failed to see the connection. That's all.

 

[AUz]

And they owe these trillions to Palestinians? hahahahah

Just failed to see the connection. That's all.

haha..I was playing with him by writing "Hillary2016"

I actually agree with his post to which I responded...

 

[qamar1990]

Jews hear these words for over 3000 years. All vanishers are gone and Jews still here.

No that's bs don't lie to your self lol.
Nobody banished Jews , Jews left.
Jews were sent back to this place with help of super powers.
Jews remain their with help help of superpowers.
Do you know where you stand in the world with out the great ole us of a behind your skinny asses

 

[FaujHistorian]

No that's bs don't lie to your self lol.
Nobody banished Jews , Jews left.
Jews were sent back to this place with help of super powers.
Jews remain their with help help of superpowers.
Do you know where you stand in the world with out the great ole us of a behind your skinny asses

Another Pakistani settled in the USA, and yet spreading Islamist and neo-Nazi propaganda.l

Afsos, sud afsos,.

 

[al-Hasani]

Once again Zionism inspired hate crimes on the rise in the USA.

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Murtaza Hussain
Murtaza Hussain is a Toronto-based writer and analyst focused on issues related to Middle Eastern politics.

Anti-Muslim violence spiralling out of control in America
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Sen was pushed to death by a woman who "hated Muslims", as anti-Muslim bigotry in the US sinks to violent new depths.

Last Modified: 31 Dec 2012 11:54

Egyptian-American activist Mona Eltahawy was arrested for attempting to cover an anti-Muslim ad in the subway [AP]

On the evening of December 27, an Indian immigrant to America named Sunando Sen was pushed by a stranger onto the subway tracks in New York City and struck and killed by an oncoming train. Sen had called New York home for years, and after years of hard work and struggle had recently managed to achieve his lifelong goal of opening a small business of his own, a copy shop in Upper Manhattan.

His roommate, MD Khan expressed shock at the death of his friend, a soft spoken man who liked to stay up late watching comedy shows and listening to music: "He was so nice, gentle and quiet… It's broken my heart."

The following day, the NYPD announced the arrest of Erika Menendez, a 31-year-old woman who had been spotted on security footage fleeing the scene after Sen had been pushed. Upon being detained and taken to a 112th Precinct police station for questioning, Menendez confessed to Sen's murder and revealed as her motivation a desire to commit violence against Muslims. As she told detectives:

"I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims… Ever since 2001 when they put down the Twin Towers, I've been beating them up."

Sunando Sen was not a Muslim, but as a brown-skinned foreigner living in the United States, he was targeted and killed in an act of hate which is the by-product of an ongoing campaign of bigotry and demonisation against Muslims living in America.

Muslim-Americans, as well as Hindus, Sikhs and others who purportedly "look Muslim" have beenhumiliated, assaulted and in many cases murdered by individuals often galvanised to violence by politicians and media figures who have enthusiastically engaged in public hatemongering against the Muslim community in the country.

Anti-Muslim violence increases

The 9/11 attacks precipitated a surge in hate crimes, but even as the events themselves recede further into history, the level of hatred and violence directed at Muslim communities is paradoxically increasing. Within the past month, in New York alone, police have suspected racial hatred as being the motive behind several crimes.


'Hate crime' on cards for Iraqi woman killed in US
This includes a string of murders specifically targetingMiddle Eastern storekeepers in Brooklyn, the last of whom, a 78-year old Iranian immigrant named Rahmatollah Vahidipour, was shot to death while closing his boutique and whose lifeless body was then dragged to a backroom and covered over with merchandise from his store.

Within the same week as Vahidipour's murder another Muslim man was viciously beaten by two men who preceded their attack by asking him whether he was "a Hindu or a Muslim", while another man was stabbed several times outside of a mosque in a random attack by an assailant who screamed "I'm going to kill you Muslim", while repeatedly plunging a knife into his victims' body.

Far from being aberrations, these incidents are in line with national statistics which show anti-Muslim violence in America nearing record highs, a trend which comes in tandem with highly public campaigns against mosque construction as well as fear-mongering by politicians and media figures regarding alleged plots by Muslim-Americans to override the constitution and impose Islamic law on the country.

The US election cycle also saw Muslims used as convenient targets for politicians seeking office, with one example being incumbent Illinois House of Representatives Republican Joe Walsh who told a cheering crowd at a campaign rally that "Muslims are here trying to kill Americans everyday", before making a baseless and highly incendiary claim that radical Islam had "infiltrated" the Chicago suburbs and that Muslims there were planning an attack that would "make 9/11 look like child's play".

While working the crowd into hysterics was a convenient campaign strategy for Walsh, just days later the Muslim community experienced the consequences of his rhetoric. A man opened fire on an Illinois mosque while it was packed with hundreds of congregants for Ramadan. The next day, another mosquewas hit with an acid bomb thrown at a window while worshippers had gathered for night services.

Despite these attacks against Illinois Muslims in the wake of his statements, Walsh steadfastly refused to apologise for his rhetoric demonising the Muslim-Americans and instead doubled-down on his blanket accusations against them, a reflection of the mainstream acceptability of anti-Muslim rhetoric by political figures in the US today.

Indeed the use of Muslims as a punching bag by opportunistic politicians seeking a minority group to scapegoat has become a regular feature of American political life which shows no signs of abating, despite the "trickle-down" effect by which this bigotry is now manifesting itself in real violence against innocent Muslim-Americans on a regular basis.

Behind this hatemongering lies a deep cynicism, as leading anti-Muslim politicians such as Newt Gingrich who have warned of "stealth jihad" and other nefarious plots by Muslims in America were within recent years helping facilitate Sharia-compliant finance programmes in the country and who maintained notably cordial relations with prominent Muslim leaders.

Political hatemongering

With Muslim-bashing becoming politically fashionable in recent years, politicians such as Gingrich have markedly changed their tune and it has been to the detriment of Muslim-Americans, as well as to the general level of social cohesion and tolerance in the country.


In addition to political hatemongering, the past several years have seen a highly organised and well-funded group of anti-Muslim activists who have been sponsoring campaigns targeting Muslims across the country.

Leading figures in this movement such as Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have led a crusade to vilify Muslims throughout the country and to exclude them from public life through campaigns of smears and hate-mongering which have cast Muslim-Americans as an insidious fifth column within the country.

Their views have gotten considerable popular attention, and thanks to a documented network of funders and media associates they have managed to bring their message to people across the United States.

In the past few months, a major controversy erupted when Geller's anti-Muslim organisation sponsored the placement of Islamophobic advertisements at major subway stations in New York as well as in other cities across the country.

Some advertisements depicted pictures of the 9/11 attacks with verses from the Quran superimposed, while others called Muslims "savages" and implored people to "fight Jihad". While the campaign has been challenged by many liberal commentators, including one infamous incident in which Egyptian-American activist Mona Eltahawy was arrested for attempting to cover a sign with pink spray paint, they continue to run across the country and to spread a message of indiscriminate, vitriolic hatred towards Muslim-Americans in a manner unlikely to be tolerated were it to pertain to any other minority group.

While correlation does not necessarily imply causation, the question must be asked - what effect do advertisements such as these have on the psyches' of people such as Erika Menendez? Was Sunando Sen, a law-abiding, hardworking immigrant who had given his life to achieving the American dream and who was pushed to his death by a woman who "hated Muslims" a direct victim of this campaign of bigotry? That he lost his life on the same subway system which for months has played host to hateful, incendiary advertisements such as Geller's is a tragic irony but is in many ways the natural result of a national culture of anti-Muslim bigotry that has become mainstream in both politics and popular culture.

The sad, inescapable truth is that Sen will likely not be the last victim of the accelerating phenomena of violence against Muslims in the United States - the only question today is how far into the darkness America must travel before it decides to take a stand against it.

Murtaza Hussain is a Toronto-based writer and analyst focused on issues related to Middle Eastern politics.

Follow him on Twitter: @MazMHussain

The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.

Anti-Muslim violence spiralling out of control in America - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

@Hazzy997 do you know why this thread was removed from the ME section? Very strange.

 

[Fukuoka]

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