Read the whole piece HERE (Norway, Israel and the Jews)
The author of the light verse below, Helge Vladimir Tiller was born in 1941, lives in Oslo, and is a regular contributor to Dagsavisen, Norway’s leading left wing daily, commonly regarded as the mouthpiece of the Norwegian Labor party.
There is an ugly holy cow
Some place in the Middle East
The cow’s name is Israel
No guarantee for peace
She is so big and ugly and fat
eating ever more
do not care for other’s rights
has no idea of common sense
taking every opportunity
thirst for what is yours
rushing over lands and fields
a self-declared matriarch
with demonic appetite
oh-brrr
A cow which gores
the cow sees herself as sacred
yet is megalomaniac
lying there, masticating
burping political absurdity
one day the race shall be over
probably it shall find it’s grave
at the bottom of the Dead sea
people will wonder
was it murder
No, it was mad cow disease.
Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Monday, 8 August 2011
Famous French luggage maker DELSEY excludes Israel from its Website
Similar situation with Nivea in Germany: Nivea website excludes Israel, includes "Palestine Territories"
A reader left this message on Philosémitisme:
"Hi, I came across a similar situation with the international Website of the French luggage-maker Delsey (http://www.delsey.com/stores/). After lodging a complaint and some adverse publicity, Israel was reintegrated (I believe I still have the e-mail with their apologies). It now seems that it was not enough because I have just checked their site and yet again Israel does not feature on their country list. [...]"
Indeed, the famous French luggage creator Delsey sells its products in Israel (Delsey Israel/Facebook) but Israel is not on their list, which has many countries among which ... Sudan, Libya, la Syria, Saudi Arabia etc (screenshots below). In spite of our reader's complaint, Delsey who had put the State of Israel on their country list and offered apologies, has (probably under commercial pressure by you know which "lobby") removed it again. Should we conclude that Delsey does not have a dealer in Israël but has one in a failed State like Sudan?
You can contact them (US/Canada offices): delseyusa@delseyluggage.net
A reader left this message on Philosémitisme:
"Hi, I came across a similar situation with the international Website of the French luggage-maker Delsey (http://www.delsey.com/stores/). After lodging a complaint and some adverse publicity, Israel was reintegrated (I believe I still have the e-mail with their apologies). It now seems that it was not enough because I have just checked their site and yet again Israel does not feature on their country list. [...]"
Indeed, the famous French luggage creator Delsey sells its products in Israel (Delsey Israel/Facebook) but Israel is not on their list, which has many countries among which ... Sudan, Libya, la Syria, Saudi Arabia etc (screenshots below). In spite of our reader's complaint, Delsey who had put the State of Israel on their country list and offered apologies, has (probably under commercial pressure by you know which "lobby") removed it again. Should we conclude that Delsey does not have a dealer in Israël but has one in a failed State like Sudan?
You can contact them (US/Canada offices): delseyusa@delseyluggage.net
Thursday, 4 August 2011
Mecca Cola: Anti-American and Anti-Zionist soda comes to Belgium
For Mathlouthi, "Zionism is a racist anti-Arab ideology" and Yasser Arafat and the PLO have committed a grave error by accepting the existence of the State of Israel.
Belgian satirical newspaper UBU-PAN reports that a French businessman Tawfik Mathlouthi has acquired Spontin which produces and sells water and lemonades, and fruit syrups and specializes in the setting out of bottle of water, syrups, and lemonades. The new owner was described in 2003 by a French left wing magazine as "an agitator and a wheeler dealer who stirs up the passion of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hatred". This helps explain why so many citizens feel so worried and disenfrachised by what is going on in Europe.
Economics of terror: FRENCH ENTREPRENEUR USES COLA TO BATTLE ISRAEL AND UNITED STATES - COPERNIC SUMMARY:
PARIS, Feb. 12, 2003 (JTA) --- The latest weapon in the battle against American imperialism and Zionist colonialism may bear a resemblance to Coke, but its political message may leave a sour taste for some.
Since last September, Tunisian-born entrepreneur Tawfik Mathlouthi has already produced more than 3 million bottles of his Mecca Cola from a little bottling and manufacturing plant in the Paris suburbs.
In France, Mathlouthi's message is reflected in a slogan that appears on each bottle, “Don’t drink like an idiot. Drink with commitment.”
The slogan was softened for English-speaking drinkers by Mecca Cola’s marketing experts to read, “Be engaged, drink.”
Purchasers of the product are reminded that 10 percent of the profits go to Palestinian causes, although Mathlouthi is reticent about specifying the names of the organizations he supports.
For Mathlouthi, "Zionism is a racist anti-Arab ideology" and Yasser Arafat and the PLO have committed a grave error by accepting the existence of the State of Israel.
Belgian satirical newspaper UBU-PAN reports that a French businessman Tawfik Mathlouthi has acquired Spontin which produces and sells water and lemonades, and fruit syrups and specializes in the setting out of bottle of water, syrups, and lemonades. The new owner was described in 2003 by a French left wing magazine as "an agitator and a wheeler dealer who stirs up the passion of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hatred". This helps explain why so many citizens feel so worried and disenfrachised by what is going on in Europe.
Economics of terror: FRENCH ENTREPRENEUR USES COLA TO BATTLE ISRAEL AND UNITED STATES - COPERNIC SUMMARY:
PARIS, Feb. 12, 2003 (JTA) --- The latest weapon in the battle against American imperialism and Zionist colonialism may bear a resemblance to Coke, but its political message may leave a sour taste for some.
Since last September, Tunisian-born entrepreneur Tawfik Mathlouthi has already produced more than 3 million bottles of his Mecca Cola from a little bottling and manufacturing plant in the Paris suburbs.
In France, Mathlouthi's message is reflected in a slogan that appears on each bottle, “Don’t drink like an idiot. Drink with commitment.”
The slogan was softened for English-speaking drinkers by Mecca Cola’s marketing experts to read, “Be engaged, drink.”
Purchasers of the product are reminded that 10 percent of the profits go to Palestinian causes, although Mathlouthi is reticent about specifying the names of the organizations he supports.
For Mathlouthi, "Zionism is a racist anti-Arab ideology" and Yasser Arafat and the PLO have committed a grave error by accepting the existence of the State of Israel.
Sunday, 31 July 2011
Berlin still has not pulled out of ‘anti-Israel’ Durban III
“Germany’s behavior toward the UN’s Durban III conference raises serious questions about its commitment to combat modern anti-Semitism. As an event which will commemorate the hatefest held in Durban in 2001, and its Durban Declaration, which singles out only one country on Earth – the Jewish state – it is shocking that Germany has not refused unequivocally to withdraw in solidarity with Israel, the United States, Canada, Italy and other European nations.” Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro College Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute.
Source: JPost by Benjamin Weinthal
Germany’s Foreign Ministry is moving forward with preparations for the September Durban III anti-racism conference in New York City, a UN-sponsored event that presumably will single out Israel for attacks, as have previous “Durban” events.
In addition, speaking last week in the UN Security Council, a German Foreign Ministry undersecretary blasted Israel for its construction of settlements in the West Bank.
When asked if Germany planned to participate in Durban III, a German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman told The Jerusalem Post on Friday that the federal government “will decide on its participation in the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the international racism conference in light of the ongoing preparatory negotiations.” The spokeswoman added that the German government was “against racism and all other forms of discrimination. In the context of the international racism conference, [Germany] works to ensure that no individual countries are separately pilloried.”
Last April, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel sought to repair relations that had been strained by Berlin’s criticism of the way Israel has been addressing the Middle East peace process. There were also reports of heated exchanges between the two leaders.
Source: JPost by Benjamin Weinthal
Germany’s Foreign Ministry is moving forward with preparations for the September Durban III anti-racism conference in New York City, a UN-sponsored event that presumably will single out Israel for attacks, as have previous “Durban” events.
In addition, speaking last week in the UN Security Council, a German Foreign Ministry undersecretary blasted Israel for its construction of settlements in the West Bank.
When asked if Germany planned to participate in Durban III, a German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman told The Jerusalem Post on Friday that the federal government “will decide on its participation in the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the international racism conference in light of the ongoing preparatory negotiations.” The spokeswoman added that the German government was “against racism and all other forms of discrimination. In the context of the international racism conference, [Germany] works to ensure that no individual countries are separately pilloried.”
Last April, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel sought to repair relations that had been strained by Berlin’s criticism of the way Israel has been addressing the Middle East peace process. There were also reports of heated exchanges between the two leaders.
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Europeans exporting hatred of Israel to South Africa
"The tribunal coordinator, former Belgian senator Pierre Galand, said the tribunal would compare Israel to apartheid South Africa, putting questions to the Jewish state about crimes against humanity."
The anti-Israel kangaroo court is the idea of a radical anti-Zionist Belgian Pierre Galand who says that Israel is a "rogue state" (for more on his anti-Israel militancy click HERE). Among the "tribunal" patrons there is another Belgian, François Houtart, a priest, former professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and Israel hater, who was accused of having molested a young boy from his family: "In 2009, Houtart signed the Appeal for the removal of Hamas from the EU terror list and he became instrumental in the Russell Tribunal against the state of Israel. In 2010, a cousin of Houtart (female) filed an anonymous complaint to the Adriaenssens commission that her brother was sexually abused by Houtart, while he stayed at their house. The priest admits having inappropriately touched his cousin twice around 1970." The cousin decided to come forward when she heard that his supporter were working to nominate him for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. See also: Francois Houtart, Belgian Activist Priest, Admits Sexual Abuse. This fact doesn't seem to embarrass the "tribunal" crowd.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (JTA) -- Ten years after the notorious U.N. anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa, that devolved into an Israel-bashing frenzy, anti-Zionist forces are mobilizing again to hold another anti-Israel conference in South Africa. This time, Israel will be on trial.
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine -- a standing organization that held two tribunals against Israel last year in Barcelona and London -- has been called for Nov . 5-6 in Cape Town “to probe whether the treatment of Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories meets the criteria of the United Nations convention against the crime of apartheid.”
The South African Zionist Federation has called the event, which is to involve prominent South Africans and already is making national headlines here, “an irrelevant talk shop.”
“Despite its name, the Russell Tribunal is not an impartial, accountable judicial body,” a vice chairman of the South African Zionist Federation, Ben Swartz, told JTA. “Rather it is a loose association of lobbyists pushing a narrow, one-sided political agenda, in this case the delegitimization of the State of Israel.”
He called it “a pointless political smear campaign by a self-appointed group of anti-Israel activists.”
But because of the attention it is receiving in South Africa, the tribunal is likely to be a damaging public relations exercise against Israel. The event has won several key endorsements in the country, including from South Africa’s leading federation of trade unions, the ruling African National Congress party, the South African Communist Party, and Zackie Achmat, the AIDS activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
While the tribunal said it invited Israel, Dov Segev-Steinberg, the Israeli ambassador to South Africa, denied the claim.
Ben Levitas, another vice chairman of the South African Zionist Federation, told JTA that the Jewish community has expressed great concern about the tribunal.
“This is not a court that reflects public opinion," Levitas said. "They have been very selective in their choice of witnesses.”
The anti-Israel kangaroo court is the idea of a radical anti-Zionist Belgian Pierre Galand who says that Israel is a "rogue state" (for more on his anti-Israel militancy click HERE). Among the "tribunal" patrons there is another Belgian, François Houtart, a priest, former professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and Israel hater, who was accused of having molested a young boy from his family: "In 2009, Houtart signed the Appeal for the removal of Hamas from the EU terror list and he became instrumental in the Russell Tribunal against the state of Israel. In 2010, a cousin of Houtart (female) filed an anonymous complaint to the Adriaenssens commission that her brother was sexually abused by Houtart, while he stayed at their house. The priest admits having inappropriately touched his cousin twice around 1970." The cousin decided to come forward when she heard that his supporter were working to nominate him for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. See also: Francois Houtart, Belgian Activist Priest, Admits Sexual Abuse. This fact doesn't seem to embarrass the "tribunal" crowd.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (JTA) -- Ten years after the notorious U.N. anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa, that devolved into an Israel-bashing frenzy, anti-Zionist forces are mobilizing again to hold another anti-Israel conference in South Africa. This time, Israel will be on trial.
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine -- a standing organization that held two tribunals against Israel last year in Barcelona and London -- has been called for Nov . 5-6 in Cape Town “to probe whether the treatment of Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories meets the criteria of the United Nations convention against the crime of apartheid.”
The South African Zionist Federation has called the event, which is to involve prominent South Africans and already is making national headlines here, “an irrelevant talk shop.”
“Despite its name, the Russell Tribunal is not an impartial, accountable judicial body,” a vice chairman of the South African Zionist Federation, Ben Swartz, told JTA. “Rather it is a loose association of lobbyists pushing a narrow, one-sided political agenda, in this case the delegitimization of the State of Israel.”
He called it “a pointless political smear campaign by a self-appointed group of anti-Israel activists.”
But because of the attention it is receiving in South Africa, the tribunal is likely to be a damaging public relations exercise against Israel. The event has won several key endorsements in the country, including from South Africa’s leading federation of trade unions, the ruling African National Congress party, the South African Communist Party, and Zackie Achmat, the AIDS activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
While the tribunal said it invited Israel, Dov Segev-Steinberg, the Israeli ambassador to South Africa, denied the claim.
Sunday, 24 July 2011
Norway carnage and Israel, by Manfred Gerstenfeld
"[...] It was clear from the beginning that Israel would somehow be drawn into the general debate on these terror attacks. The first reason is that there is an obsession in Norway with Israel, and its mentions in the media probably exceed those of, for instance, its giant neighbor Russia whose acts are far more relevant to Norway than those of remote and small Israel.
There were other reasons as well. Terror in a democracy and how to defend oneself against it is an issue that almost by nature draws in references to precedents from Israel. Additionally, the inefficient and slow reaction of the Norwegian police to the Utoya massacre can best be evaluated when one compares it to how Israel reacts to such events.
For South African priest Christian Zionism is the new heresy like apartheid
And there is a famous Belgian behind this... He is Pierre Galand, of the Free University of Brussels. The University of Brussels is on record as being the first university in Europe where a distinguished member resigned because of the piling up of antisemitic incidents and inflammatory anti-Jewish/Israel rhetoric by some academics (Prominent Belgian Jewish figure resigned from Brussels University Board to denounce anti-Semitic incidents).
"From the side of the churches it is important that we show our support for this tribunal. It is important because just as we declared apartheid a heresy, the new heresy we are facing today is Christian Zionism and because of Christian Zionism there is so much support coming particularly from Christians in the USA. There are many of us who say that "no, we cannot allow the Bible, Christianity and so on to be misused in this way"."
"Apartheid in Israel" was on all the press conference participants' lips.
NGO Monitor has a special report on Pierre Galand: "PIERRE GALAND (BELGIUM) USING POLITICAL NGOS TO PROMOTE DEMONIZATION AND; ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE UN AND THE EU" and an UPDATE (2004)
Pierre Galand, international co-ordinator of the Tribunal, is organising a session of the kangaroo court "Russell Tribunal on Palestine" in South Africa. South Africa was chosen because he accuses Israel of being an apartheid State. The "session" will take place in November in Cape Town and he has enlisted the support of two well-known Israel-bashers Desmond Tutu and John Dugar, as well as ... Winnie Mandela.
At the press conference, a priest Rev. Edwin Arrison, on behalf of Kairos (a viciously anti-Israel Christian group) said:
"From the side of the churches it is important that we show our support for this tribunal. It is important because just as we declared apartheid a heresy, the new heresy we are facing today is Christian Zionism and because of Christian Zionism there is so much support coming particularly from Christians in the USA. There are many of us who say that "no, we cannot allow the Bible, Christianity and so on to be misused in this way"."
"Apartheid in Israel" was on all the press conference participants' lips.
NGO Monitor has a special report on Pierre Galand: "PIERRE GALAND (BELGIUM) USING POLITICAL NGOS TO PROMOTE DEMONIZATION AND; ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE UN AND THE EU" and an UPDATE (2004)
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