Comical Politics

The Problem With the Supreme Court is That This is Probably True

The Press Is Wrong on Masterpiece Cakeshop. The Baker Lost..

Bakery owner Jack Phillips got the decision he wanted, but the next time he turns away a same-sex couple, he will lose his case.

How England Had Died.

Remember all  great ideas, like free speech and free press, die when they meet Islam.  It is now happening to America's mother country, or it is already dead, and will happen to America soon.

Unlike the judge who delivered his 13-month sentence, I watched Tommy Robinson's entire Facebook Live stream on the Muslim grooming gangs trial outside Leeds Crown Court.  It is a little over an hour long and very enlightening....

The U.K. versus free speech.

The cowardice of American Jewish academia

The cowardice of American Jewish academia.

Three weeks ago, Professor Alan Dershowitz gave a speech at the University of California-Berkeley in which he laid out......

When South Africa Kills Jews

It is ironic that this is the face of a Jew killer which most Jews worked to make free.  I think it would be nice if she just died.  It is funny, if not comical, that South Africa is now the leading Jew killing nation in the world.  Go for it.  We Jews will show them that we can kill South Africans as well as we saved them.  Is that not always the case for Jews?

http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/politics-and-military/politics/israel-to-reprimand-south-africas-envoy-over-ministers-remarks-27142?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Netanyahu+tells+Putin+Israel+is+against+Iran+keeping+forces+in+Syria++and+more+news+from+JerusalemOnline&utm_campaign=EveningNewsletter+-+Recurring

 

FBI Comical Pursuit of Islam

The FBI is becoming a big joke to Americans. They finally arrested the wife, Muslim, of the Muslim shooter in Orlando. But they still cannot face reality that it is Muslims. 

Now we find out that the Florida airport shooter was a Muslim too. Cannot be reality must be coincidence according to the FBI.

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Jewish faculty on US campuses paying a heavy price for standing up for Israel - Diaspora - Jerusalem Post

Jewish faculty on US campuses paying a heavy price for standing up for Israel Profs on the frontlinesDemocrats, Republicans rebuke White House for stance on Israel boycotts40 Columbia University professors sign BDS petition

'The Jerusalem Report' looks at the academicians being bruised and battered by BDS on campuses across America. Zeina Ashrawi, of the Students for Justice in Palestine Society of George Mason University, participates in an anti-Israel rally in Washington, DC. (photo credit:JIM WATSON / AFP)

“SOMEONE MUST have been telling lies about Josef K., because he had done nothing wrong, but one day he was arrested.”So begins Franz Kafka’s novel, “The Trial,” which sums up the dread felt by Doron Ben-Atar, an American history professor at New York’s Fordham University in the spring of 2014 when he was accused of some vague misdeed that had to do with his strong stand against the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

It began with an emotional faculty meeting to discuss the American Studies Association’s resolution to boycott Israeli universities, the first academic group to vote for a ban. Some US universities severed ties with ASA, and Ben-Atar urged Fordham to do the same. The Israeli-born professor further stated that he would resign from the Fordham branch of the association if it did not break with ASA and would fight it until it did. For that statement, Ben-Atar was charged with a spurious Title IX violation (a US federal law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex) and had to defend his reputation in a Kafkaesque process in which he was never shown anything in writing nor told what he had done wrong. He says that, according to the university official in charge of the investigation, the fact that he had retained a lawyer was proof of his guilt.Eventually, he learned that the charge against him was religious discrimination – ironic, given that he was protesting anti- Semitism. The charge was later dismissed. “I will pay, for the rest of my life, the price for standing up for Israel. I am a tenured professor, but I will never become a candidate for an endowed chair, the next step in my career, now that I’m outed as a troublemaker,” he tells The Jerusalem Report in a telephone interview.  “Please understand that I paid no significant personal price. I am an Israeli, two meters tall, I’m not afraid to say what I think. But the reality is that those who are not as fortunate as I am need to be very careful because their careers could be destroyed.

I have junior faculty colleagues who are afraid to be identified with anyone associated with Israel.”Andrew Pessin, a Connecticut College philosophy professor, read about Ben- Atar’s ordeal, sympathized, but moved on with the daily grind of teaching philosophy to undergraduates and being a father of three small children. It wasn’t until he, himself, was targeted on his campus by pro-Palestinian students that he reached out to Ben-Atar.Convinced they are part of a wider phenomenon,

Pessin and Ben-Atar are collaborating on a book of essays contributed by academicians bruised and battered by BDS.Prof. Denise Nussbaum, chair of the sociology department at Mt. San Jacinto College in California, refuses to set foot on campus, and teaches online from home since being ostracized and labeled an Islamophobe. Nussbaum had complained to the college’s Amnesty International club about their choice of speaker, a known Israel-hater, Miko Peled, an Israeli Jew. The complicated Middle East conflict should be presented in a balanced and scholarly manner, she argued, and signed her e-mail “Proud Zionist and Jew.” The club’s Iranian-born faculty adviser, associate math professor Shahla Razavi launched a campaign against Nussbaum accusing her of stifling free speech.“I received hateful text messages, phone calls and comments when I walked across the campus every day,” she tells The Report. At a large faculty meeting several months later, an associate professor of history, Gary Vargas, assaulted Nussbaum grabbing her by the arm; no one came to her assistance, she says. Nussbaum is suing the college’s Governing Board for $9.5 million for a long line of charges, including assault and “intentional infliction of emotional distress.  ”To add insult to injury, says Nussbaum, the college had hired an attorney to defend Vargas. “I had to stop going to campus, because I had such anxiety I would pull over at the side of the road,” says Nussbaum.

Prof. Corinne E. Blackmer of Southern Connecticut State University had a large map of Israel on her office door. In March 2008, someone ripped it to shreds and threw it on the floor. Shortly afterwards someone left a swastika on her car. The college police decided it was a hate crime because she is gay rather than because she is Jewish. The English and Judaic Studies professor now teaches a class on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “The more Israel is hated, the more I love her,” she tells The Report. “Since that time, I became more active in defending Israel.”Two Jewish professors at Wheelock College in Massachusetts have recently filed federal workplace discrimination complaints against the school alleging they were subjected to anti-Semitic discrimination that damaged their reputation and careers.

Professors Eric Silverman and Gail Dines allege that they were harassed after speaking out about a lack of Jewish perspective on campus, according to copies of the complaints filed with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.Many of these cases never reach the mainstream media.“I didn’t have a strong sense of how pervasive this is,” Pessin tells The Report. “These are very personal wounds when you are attacked on your own campus. It rattles you. A lot of people tell us how uncomfortable they feel to continue at their campus. I have not set foot on my campus since this happened to me. ”

IF BEN-Atar felt like a protagonist in a Kafka novel, Pessin feels more like Alfred Dreyfus, the French-Jewish officer falsely accused of treason. Pessin fell victim to a coordinated digital lynch by pro-Palestinian students that hinged on a deliberate misinterpretation of his words.“I was incredibly naïve,” he says. “I believed long after the evidence suggested otherwise that these were normal college students of good will and no ulterior agenda.”The story begins with a Facebook post Pessin penned denouncing Hamas in August 2014 during the IDF’s Operation Protective Edge and comparing Israel’s blockade on Hamas to someone keeping a “rabid pit bull chained in a cage.” The context of the post made it clear Pessin referred to the Hamas terrorism and not to Palestinians in general.Indeed, the post was one of a series of 17 he wrote during the war – the other 16 of which all explicitly named Hamas.Seven months later, in a coordinated attack, three editorials accusing Pessin of racism and promoting Palestinian genocide appeared in the Connecticut College student newspaper taking his comment out of context.They were written by a Muslim student active in Students for Justice in Palestine and three others majoring in the college’s Global Islamic Studies program. The student paper published the comments without giving Pessin an opportunity to respond.He had previously clarified via email to the Muslim student that his post referred to Hamas and not Palestinians in general. He apologized, deleted it and thought that was the end of the matter.“What happened to Andy is terrible,” says Ben-Atar.”  He is a well-respected scholar and they turned him into Public Enemy No. 1.

”Pessin became the center of a campaign of vilification with various academic departments and even the university president falling in lockstep, denouncing Pessin’s alleged “hateful” rhetoric. An online petition calling on administrators in this small, private liberal arts college to condemn Pessin’s “racism” was started by the student paper editor – the same one who had not given Pessin a chance to respond.The college president canceled classes for a day about a month later when racist graffiti against blacks was found on campus and called for a mandatory campus-wide forum on racism in which Pessin’s name was brought up and his few defenders were jeered. A Palestinian flag was draped on a banister near Pessin’s office and he received death threats.“The entire campus exploded,” says Pessin.“Not a single person contacted me to ask what the post was about, and apparently no one bothered to read the 16 other posts in the series, which made it clear what the post was about and which I left up on Facebook until the death threats started coming.  It was so devastating; I was minutes away from a nervous breakdown.“What pulled me back from the edge was when people outside campus started reaching out to me, hundreds of emails from Jews around the world.  A petition on my behalf was circulated with 10,000 signatures. I saw how important it is, not just psychologically, but also for the cause. When you’re being attacked, you can feel very alone. When you see there are thousands of virtual soldiers ready to support you, I started to feel strong to fight back and to reach out to any other individual to help them. It made me even more committed to Jewish and Israel advocacy.

”In the aftermath, the college gave Pessin a three-semester sabbatical, and he is scheduled to return to Connecticut College in the fall of 2017.“The damage can never be repaired,” he says. “Friendships and relationships are permanently destroyed. I don’t believe I can ever respect more than a handful of people on that campus.”The plan to silence Pessin has backfired, however.With time on his hands, Pessin, the author of several popular books on philosophy, is channeling his energies to battle BDS on several fronts, including a weekly newsletter, articles for a Jewish newspaper and helping other academicians.Another plan that backfired was the campaign to silence Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, a lecturer at University of California, Santa Cruz. After being the subject of “a wellplanned, well-orchestrated and well-funded campaign of harassment to make an example of me,” in her words, Rossman-Benjamin stepped up her efforts to speak out on behalf of Jewish students through her work with AMCHA Initiative, a non-profit organization devoted to investigating, documenting and combating campus anti- Semitism, which she co-founded in 2012.In 2009, Rossman-Benjamin, who taught Hebrew and Jewish studies, filed a 32-page complaint with the US Department of Education’s office of Civil Rights alleging a hostile environment for Jewish students on her campus.“I gave so many examples of instances in the classroom where professors used academic freedom to promote their own anti-Israel agenda, an intellectual and emotional harassment of Jewish students,” says Rossman-Benjamin. It took two years, but in March 2011, a federal investigation of her complaint was launched only to later be dismissed due to intense lobbying by pro-Palestinian groups, she says.“Their argument was that, by virtue of us complaining of anti-Semitism, we are creating a hostile environment for Arab Muslim students. It’s Orwellian. The hypocrisy is breathtaking and they get away with it,” she relates to The Report.Rossman-Benjamin gained a reputation as someone willing to stand up for Jewish students and paid the price. “They wanted to make an example of me because they knew I’m high profile, not only as a faculty member, but also because I spoke nationally on the subject.If they could demonize me, they could use me as an object lesson. If you speak out against us, this is what we will do to you.”As in the Pessin case, her enemies conducted an archaeological dig to find something they could use against her. They came across a two-minute YouTube clip of a talk she had given at a Boston synagogue in the summer of 2012 in which she stated that some members of pro-Palestine student groups were foreign students who came from Arab countries where anti-Semitism is endemic.

Some of the groups, she said, have ties to international terror groups.“They made it seem that I had said this to students in my classroom and started a petition with the video clip calling on the president of the University of California to condemn me for racism and Islamophobia,” says Rossman-Benjamin.  “They got people from all over the world to sign but that wasn’t enough. They took pictures of Muslim students with a description ‘I am not a terrorist but Hebrew professor Benjamin says I am.’ They made fliers and put them all over campus. This is my campus. I walk through this campus every day. Then they put up more than a dozen YouTube testimonials.”The campaign then expanded to other California campuses.

“I had cause to be fearful for my personal safety,” says Rossman-Benjamin, who since the incident and after 17 years of teaching is now on leave for several years of her own volition.Several professors in litigation with their universities declined to be interviewed by The Report.The American Center for Law and Justice, which is representing some of them, stated: “The ACLJ is concerned about the recent upswing in actions against Jewish students and professors on our nation’s university campuses. We are in the process of assisting several faculty members dealing with discriminatory and harassing conduct – both by anti-Jewish/pro-BDS student organizations and by university administrators – based on nothing more than their Jewish ethnicity and/or their protected pro-Israel speech.”Much of the antisemitism against Jewish faculty is subtle and nuanced, and does not make headlines or reach the courtroom.

“It’s part of contemporary academic life,” Kenneth Waltzer, professor emeritus of Jewish studies at Michigan State University, tells The Report. “Junior faculty members have to stick their head in like a turtle and not be open about their politics because they are coming up for tenure.”Waltzer and Mark Yudof, former president of the University of California, recently founded the Academic Engagement Network, which enlists faculty members on campuses throughout the US as allies in the battle against BDS. More than 200 have enrolled so far, and Waltzer and Yudof hope to form a nucleus of pro-Israel faculty on each campus.It has been surprisingly easy to recruit faculty, even in the sciences, law and medicine, says Waltzer. “Especially the older tenured faculty has reached their fill with stuff. A number of people said they have been waiting for this and say, ‘I’m fed up, we have to do something.’” Although there is consensus about the significance of the problem, there is disagreement about whether BDS is a passing fad or here to stay.

Waltzer believes it will run its course and peter out. “I think there is a sell-by date sticker on it, but I’m not sure how close we are to that,” he says.Rossman-Benjamin, however, worries it will get worse. “Right now, it’s bad but it’s going to get far worse to the point where there will be real physical violence on campus. In my opinion, that day is not far away,” she says, worrying mostly about the students.

“The clear and present danger is not only for the safety of Jewish students, but also for their souls,” she says. “It is difficult to be Jewish and they have to turn off their identity in the critical years when students form their identities. And some go over to the other side. We are losing a whole generation of Jewish students to this conflict.”

via www.jpost.com

House condemns Israel boycott movement

House condemns Israel boycott movement : Politics.  This has been a while coming; but, it is a good thing it finally did.  Thank you Representative Bill Fine and the State of Indiana.

BDS has been the biggest promoter of Antisemitism and Jew Hatred that has occurred since the German attack on Jews in the 1930s and 1940s.  When will Congress act?  It is probably too afraid of Muslims and their reaction. 

The one item that needs to be stated.  Most of the BDS movement is on university campuses.  Purdue University is no exception and it led the nation in the FBI's measurement of hate crimes.

Nonetheless, it continues to boycott Israel.  It is against Purdue University policy to have, and it therefore does not, any contractual activity with Israel, in any way.  This started before Mitch Daniels became president; but although he was informed of this anti-Jewish policy he has continued the Purdue boycott of Israel.

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Betrayal: ‘Proud’ Dad Portman Flips the Meaning of State Support of Marriage

To either support his own guilt feelings or to accommodate the gay marriage lobby or because of pressure from his son and/or his wife Republican Congressman Rob Portman has turned the meaning of marriage and libertarianism on its head.  See the following confused explanation of his new stance:

Proud’ Dad Portman Flips to Support Gay Son on Same-Sex Marriage.

I cannot claim to know what is going on in Portman's head; but, I can evaluate what he says publicly and the policy stand he takes.  The libertarian position can only be defined as one where the state has nothing to do with marriage.  It would be fine and justifiable if he had taken that position and said that he had "re-thought" the question now that his son is at Yale and gay that state policy should say nothing about marriage.  Here he would be saying that government should get out of any recognition of, or any involvement with, marriage.  That would not be a stand for "gay marriage" or any definition of marriage.  It would be saying that people should be allowed to live as they want and with whom they want to and it is not the state's business.

But, Portman does make it the state's business.

If the state is going to recognize marriage, from a conservative point of view (and a libertarian one), it can only be because the state recognizes some overwhelming state, or societal interest.  These interests must at least be in the area of survival and/or national, i.e. state, security.   Nothing here would lead someone, under any circumstance, to support "gay marriage."  And neither can Representative Portman.

The state has for a long time recognized marriage as exclusively between one man and one women because of long standing historical and religious reasons.  Today under this theory it would be legitimate to exclude "gay marriage" under conservative concepts; but not under libertarian ones.  Libertarian concepts would at best say that there is no place for the state to be in the marriage definition business.  There are many, many definitions of marriage.  Why would one or two take precedence over all the rest? 

This is Portman's betrayal and the lie presented by his son.  It is also the lie which most gay activist present.

The only, and I mean only, reason that the state can justify in having an interest in marriage is national suicide as it relates to national security.  There is nothing in being a conservative or a libertarian that requires an individual or a society to commit suicide.  Therefore the one and sole state interest in marriage is the consequence of that coupling, which is more children.  Only the increase in fertility, i.e. new babies, justifies and explains the state's interest in marriage.  Under these principles, there would be greater justification for polygamy than there is from gay marriage.  (All states have a greater justification for polygamy than gay marriage; although, there are other social problems with polygamy.)

All these couplings have minimal advantage or no advantage to fertility: gay marriage, bestiality, general fetishes, co-habitation, marriage to inanimate objects, etc.  As a consequence, the state cannot and should not have anything to say, as far as policy, about these.

Portman, understandably as a bereaved father, has turned state policy on its head when it comes to gay marriage.  He not only betrayed his principles; he also stood the conservative and libertarian cause on its head.  There is no reason for him to continue in politics representing conservative/libertarian ideas.

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Merry Christmas: Christianity 'close to extinction' in Middle East

At this time of the year, I want to wish all my Christian friends and supporters the best of hope and peace during this Holy Day season and may you all have a happy and joyous Christmas season.  I want all of you to think about what will really have consequences for Christians in the many future Holy seasons to come.  

Read the following article to see what is the coming in the new year for many Christian communities whose only sin was being Christian and in Islamic countries.

Christianity 'close to extinction' in Middle East - Telegraph.

After so many years of down playing what is in fact being done to Christianity by Islam, is it not time for Christians and their supporters to stand up and say "no more?" 

All of Christianity and its leaders have been telling you to be good in charity and be good to your fellow man.  This is all a good thing, a very good thing.   Christmas Holy season does call for charity upon the Christian flock.

But, the tough charity is the one that has risks and many times negative consequences to the charity giver.  That is the charity promoting and protecting the existence of Christianity and free Christians in the lands of its origin, the Middle East.   If that fight is lost, how well does anyone really believe Christianity will survive?  Without a living history, which is what is being destroyed by Muslims, no religion can survive on "purified air" or "luft" as the Germans would refer to it.

It is now time for all G-d fearing people to make a stand against the end of Middle Eastern Christianity by Muslims so that they too can have a Merry Christmas for centuries.

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What if Chick-fil-A was Owned by Muslims? The Culture Wars are Real.

The culture wars are alive and well.  In spite of reams of articles and books attempting to argue otherwise, reality creeps in to show us how divided as a nation we remain.  The newness of this culture war is reflected by a complete divide between those who accept the values of America and those who do not.  Recent studies have further shown that as students graduate from high school there acceptance of the First Amendment and tolerance is extremely low.  What is threatening to our national values is that these same students, interviewed after completion of college, further reduce their tolerance in their support of free speech and freedom of conscience.

Yesterday was Chick-fil-A appreciation day.  Throughout the United States hundred of thousands of supporters came out to support the argument against gay marriage rights of the CEO of Chick-fil-A.  What he essentially said is that there is no place in America for marriage between the same gender.  It is an oxymoron.  This cultural division is not only reflected in this singular event; but also in all the opinion polls.  In addition, wherever it has been voted on, the majority of Americans have rejected "gay marriage."  What is important to understand is that Chick-fil-A's CEO and the majority of Americans reject marriage between people of the same gender; but, most of them DO NOT reject the extension of civil rights to gays.

BUT, what if the CEO of Chick-fil-A was a practicing Muslim?  First, he would have to agree with everything that the Christian CEO of Chick-fil-A said about "gay marriage" as being an affront to G-d.   But in Islam it is more than that.  To be an affront to G-d is a blasphemy that requires the punishment of death.  For Islam, under Sharia Law, the only answer to being gay is death.  The issue of "gay marriage" does not even arise in Islam because it lacks any basis in reality.   You cannot have a religious acceptance of what does not exist. 

For Muslims, the solution to the problem of "gayness" is the end of any civil rights, i.e. First Amendment rights, to those tainted individuals.  Christians can say, in the worst case, "hate the sin; but, love the sinner."  There is not comparable concept in Islam.   In Islam, as is practiced by law in ALL Islamic countries, to be gay is to be dead, either by law or by family -- the religion does not care.  This is a far cry from debating the issue of how is marriage to be defined. 

The sole "evil" that Chick-fil-A is accused of is not having a gay acceptable definition of marriage.  Chick-fil-A's understanding of marriage is supported by over half of all Americans -- nothing strange about it.  But, all Muslim CEO's belief must be that gays must be eradicated.  (From a theological point of view, there is probably some difference about how gays would be treated if one is a Muslim gay or an infidel gay.)  Nonetheless, the perspective of a Muslim CEO concerning gays remains death or castration.

The Shariah Law of Islam is not the central point.  The significance is the selective treatment by politicians in the United States of Christians as opposed to Muslims.   This hypocrisy is illustrated remarkably well by the mayors of Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, etc.  The liberal Democrats continues their hypocritical rejection of all things Christian and a love affair with all things Muslim. 

If one is going to have an issue with what a Christian head of a corporation believes and makes known publicly, then there is no basis whatsoever for allowing any business to be carried on by a Muslim who has any religious belief and practices.  When the Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, said "the values of Chick-fil-A's CEO are not Chicago's values," what does he say about all the Muslims running businesses and corporations in Chicago whose religion calls and demands the denial of all civil rights to gays?  Are these Chicago's values?  To be consistent, the Mayors and the Democratic Party needs to reject all practicing Muslims.  Or alternatively, have Muslims give up Sharia Law as being inherently un-American.

The liberal Democrats love affair with Islam will continue to America's detriment.  Christianity will continue to be denied and demonized by these same liberals.  The fight for factual honesty and the end of hypocrisy must be joined and fought by all who believe in the legitimacy of the First Amendment to the American Constitution.

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