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S.F. store removes ‘Dirty Jew’ sunflower seeds from shelves

A store in San Francisco has been recently caught selling sunflower seeds with the following packaging:

The text on the left reads “Shalom from Israel,” and on the right is a slang phrase roughly translating as “spit them out everywhere”. Not to mention the picture of the scheming Jew. The product is manufactured in the former Soviet union, and is imported into the States by an Iranian based company (surprise?). Pissed off yet? Well here’s the real shocker: the store owners are reportedly Jewish Russians who apparently didn’t realize the nature of the product and are shocked! How do you order, unpack and stock a product with such a disgusting package and not notice?

Apparently this product was also found in New York markets and Canadian retail stores last year. It’s disgusting that we live in a world where such a thing could even exist.

See two reports on the incident here and here.

Hamas calls for liberation of Tel Aviv

But the left will go on believing the blatant lie that all they want is the ’67 borders.

Following are excerpts from a children’s program on Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV, featuring the martyrdom of TV bunny Assud. The program aired on January 2, 2009.

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“We should teach our children that we have a land to which we must return: Jaffa, Acre, Haifa, and Tel Aviv. We will return to all these cities, Allah willing. [...]

For those of you who don’t know, Tel Aviv was created by Jews. It did not exist before the early Zionists settled the land. There is no way Palestinians could return there.

Check out memri for the entire chilling transcript.

British Middle East Expert: ‘F— the Jews’

I pulled this from littlegreenfootballs:

An antisemitic meltdown by a high-ranking British diplomat has led to his arrest.

A high-ranking diplomat at the Foreign Office has been arrested after allegations that he launched a foul-mouthed anti-Semitic tirade.

Middle East expert Rowan Laxton, 47, was watching TV reports of the Israeli attack on Gaza as he used an exercise bike in a gym. Stunned staff and gym members allegedly heard him shout: ‘F**king Israelis, f**king Jews’. It is alleged he also said Israeli soldiers should be ‘wiped off the face of the earth’. His rant reportedly continued even after he was approached by other gym users.

After a complaint was made to police, Mr Laxton was arrested for inciting religious hatred through threatening words and behaviour and bailed until late next month. The maximum penalty for inciting religious hatred is a seven-year prison term or a fine or both.

I’m not sure which is more disgusting — this antisemitic rant by a British diplomat, or the fact that in Britain you can be imprisoned for seven years because you said some words.

Canadian government moving to change the landscape of free speech in Canada

From today’s Globe and Mail:

OTTAWA — The controversial section of the Canadian Human Rights Act governing hate speech comes under scrutiny today when federal politicians decide whether to debate the limits it places on freedom of expression.

Brian Storseth, a Conservative MP, has asked the Commons justice committee to review Section 13 of the act, which contains provisions that deal with hate messages. Mr. Storseth also wants the committee to review the mandate of the commission itself.

He told the committee last week that “concerns have been raised regarding the investigative techniques of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the interpretation and application of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.”

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The issue of whether the commission should be permitted to investigate alleged incidents of hate speech has prompted passionate responses from those on both sides of the debate.

The federal Conservatives voted at a party convention in November to support an end to Section 13, which deals specifically with hate messages spread by telephone or the Internet. It was a decision that was roundly applauded by conservative bloggers.

In a high-profile report on the matter released in November, University of Windsor law professor Richard Moon urged the commission to get out of the business of trying to censor hate speech.

Prof. Moon argued that freedom of expression trumps overbroad minority-rights laws and that any policing of hate messages should be handled under the Criminal Code, which prohibits willfully inciting hatred.

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Proponents of Section 13 argue that hate speech should remain under the umbrella of human-rights legislation. The Canadian Jewish Congress, for instance, expressed disappointment in Prof. Moon’s position, saying the Jewish community knows how devastating hate propaganda can be.

I’m not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, unfettered freedom of speech allows people to spew anti-semitic hatred and holocaust denying libels. But on the other hand, it allows people to speak out against the crimes committed in the name of Islam without getting into trouble. Where should you draw the line? I’m on the fence here.

Taliban beheads Polish geologist in pakistan, Poland pledges to ‘punish’ executioners

The Times of London reports:

Poland today promised to track down and “punish” Taleban terrorists who beheaded an engineer in Pakistan’s lawless North West Frontier Province.

Piotr Stanczak, a geologist, was kidnapped four months ago while working in Attock district, close to North West Frontier Province, which is infested with Taleban.

Minutes before his murder on Friday night, he was shown appealing to the Polish government not to send troops to neighbouring Afghanistan.

In a video, released yesterday, a statement was shown by the Taleban saying that other foreign nationals in their custody would be executed soon if the Pakistani government did not release some 60 detainees held by the military.

The insurgents are holding at least four foreigners, including a Chinese engineer, plus Afghan and Iranian diplomats.

Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish Foreign Minister, this morning said that the video had been authenticated as genuine and promised that Poland would try to bring the perpetrators of the killing to justice.

This was a disgusting crime against humanity. I hope the world will begin to wake up and realize that terrorism is not a Jewish-only or America-only issue. We need a united front against these savages.

Venezuela Synagogue attack suspects held, including 7 police officers

BBC reports:

Eleven people – including seven police officers – have been arrested over the ransacking of a synagogue in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.

Armed men broke into the building last week and daubed slogans including “Jews get out” on the walls before destroying religious objects.

Critics of President Hugo Chavez have accused him of stoking anti-Semitism by pursuing anti-Israeli foreign policies.

But Mr Chavez condemned the attack and promised to find those responsible.

At least one of those arrested was reported to be a security guard working at the synagogue.

Very scary stuff. Let’s hope that if guilty, these suspects, especially the police officers, don’t just get a slap on the wrist.

Sudan being rewarded for genocide

The Washington Post reports:

UNITED NATIONS — In the coming weeks, judges from the International Criminal Court will decide whether to issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges of genocide and other war crimes in a military campaign that has led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Darfur since 2003. But Bashir’s government is hardly being treated like an international pariah.

African Union leaders last week backed Sudan’s appeal to have the warrant suspended, with some portraying the court as unfairly targeting African states. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met with Bashir in Ethiopia last week and sought his assurances that international peacekeepers and aid workers would not be attacked if charges were filed.

Even the Obama administration, which has vowed to increase pressure on Khartoum to stem the bloodshed in Darfur, has reached out to Sudan. Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, invited Sudan’s U.N. ambassador, Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad, on Wednesday to a reception for senior African diplomats at her official residence at the Waldorf-Astoria. She also has scheduled a meeting with the Sudanese envoy this week.

Indeed, Sudan’s diplomatic standing has hardly been diminished by the allegations. Last month, an influential bloc of developing nations known as the Group of 77 and China selected Sudan as its chairman for 2009. That post will make Khartoum the developing world’s champion in negotiations with the West on a broad variety of issues, including climate change, the U.N. budget and the global financial crisis.

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The violence in Darfur began in February 2003, when two rebel groups launched an attack against Sudan’s Islamist government, targeting a series of police stations. In response, Bashir orchestrated a genocidal counterinsurgency campaign that targeted the region’s black African Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa tribes, according to Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the ICC’s chief prosecutor. As many as 450,000 people have died from disease and violence in the conflict, and more than 2.7 million more have been driven from their homes.

Sudan commits genocide, and is then appointed chairman of  an international bloc and has its representative invited to a cushy reception at an upscale New York hotel? Is that how punishments are meted out these days? And can someone explain to me why the UN Secretary General has to give Bashir advanced notice that he is going to arrest him, essentially asking for permission?

I realize this is a very delicate issue with millions of lives at stake and it’s horrible. But all this ridiculous politics is clearly not saving any lives. What the people of Sudan need from the world is real concrete action,  not more meetings and meaningless resolutions. You cannot talk a genocidal maniac out of committing genocide. This needs more media coverage, and more international outrage. And I’ll admit, I need to start doing something about this. How are we letting this happen?

The world is backwards: Germany first place in world’s most liked poll, Israel second last

A BBC poll that asked people which countries had the most positive and negative influences on the world found Germany on top, and Israel at the bottom. I’m no psychologist, but does that not just scream out that the world really does have some sort of demented Holocaust-guilt syndrome and that they want to rationalize why they let it happen and vindicate Germany of any wrongdoings?

You’ll also see that my home country scored second, just under Germany. I’m torn: one of my parents comes from the second worst country, and one comes from the second best. What does that make me?

Canada has the second-most positive influence on the world, according to a BBC poll released Friday.

The poll, which questioned more than 13,000 people from 26 countries on how they felt about 16 states, concluded that only Germany had a better rating than Canada among the global public.

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China and Russia both saw declining favourability, while Iran,Israel, and Pakistan rounded out those considered to have the most negative influences on the world.

(full story available here)

Double Standard Alert: UN ‘demands’ that Hamas release stolen aid, suspends further aid shipments

Let me get this straight. The UN is allowed to suspend aid shipments, but when Israel does so because of legitimate security concerns, they get condemned, criticized and demonized?

GAZA CITY (AFP) — The United Nations was on Saturday awaiting the promised return of hundreds of tonnes of food aid for Gaza “mistakenly” seized by Hamas, as the Islamists insisted the crisis is over.

But UNRWA, the main agency for Palestinian refugees, said the incident will not be considered “over” until all 200 tonnes of rice and flour have been returned and Hamas has guaranteed the situation will not be repeated.

In the wake of the incident, the UN agency suspended all imports of aid into the Gaza Strip.

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“The Secretary General demands that Hamas immediately release the UNRWA consignment of humanitarian goods it seized today, in the second such incident this week,” Ban’s spokeswoman Michele Montas said on Friday.

(full article here)

I’m sure Hamas is terrified of the consequences of not returning the aid. Afterall, Ban demanded it.