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Blind Hatred, British Bigot Sounds Off
Is this unbelievable?No, nothing is unbelievable when it involves the arrogance, presumption, dishonesty and vicious bigotry of the British chattering classes and their sycophants. What is the truth? British status-seekers, investors, and business hangers-on like this pompous knave Croke have been bought off with Arab money, it's that simple. This is especially true in any enterprise related to publishing, printing, or consumer products. Recycled oil loot is their life-blood and the whores who run them must bend over accordingly. You can't do business in the UK without being aware of this and it's high time non-dhimmified Brits made it a public issue. Unless Britain's media becomes more balanced, a hostile climate could worsen. Britain's Jewish Chronicle can make for sobering reading these days. At a time when fanatical hostility to the State of Israel and the related rebirth of anti-Semitism in Europe have become commonplace, the shock value of the latest cemetery desecration or the latest distortion of Israel's actions in the Middle East has become subject to the law of diminishing returns. The more we hear about it, the less it affects us. But last week's issue of that newspaper contains a story so appalling that it deserves to be heard by all. The author, Mark Scodie, relates the tale of how a 30-year-old Israeli woman, who wants to remain anonymous, was turned down for a job at a London-based Christmas decorations company called Gisela Graham. On rejecting the woman's application, the company's marketing director, Piers Croke, made a few comments in an e-mail to her about the reaction she was likely to elicit from potential recruiters by including on her resume' the fact that she had done two years military service in the Israeli army as a conscript. The following remarks attributed to Croke were quoted in the Jewish Chronicle: "The natural reaction of most educated Europeans to the information you provide is likely to be 'So it was she who guided those gunships to targeted assassinations and the murder of women and children with indiscriminate bombing and strafing of refugee camps.'" It is difficult to know what might qualify as "educated" in Croke's mind, but higher education used to involve elementary instruction in logic and rhetoric. Croke betrays a complete ingorance of these subjects by attempting to put words in the mouths of others and by arrogantly presuming to speak for an entire class. With this, be warned, Croke was merely warming up. "A sizable proportion [of Europeans and Americans] doubt the 'right' of Israel to exist. This has nothing to do with anti-Semitism. Nor is it racism - that is the kind of disgusting attitude which one might say is inherent in the idea of the State of Israel and, one might say, among a large section of believing Jews elsewhere, who regard the rest of us as inferior, unclean, and not chosen by God. What could be more racist than that?" One might say that an obvious strawman applied to "a large section of believing Jews elsewhere" is racist. One might also say that Croke is a pompous buffoon with a penchant for pretentious forms of expressions. Many of us have been disappointed at a rejection letter. But this surely sets something of a world record in the art of kicking someone when they are down. The case has been referred to Britain's Commission for Racial Equality, the official body charged with combating discrimination on ethnic, national, or religious grounds, and Croke and his company have apologized to the woman in question. But the broader point here is as obvious as it is alarming. An apology from this son of a bitch is no more acceptable than one from his predecessors, Goebbels and Streicher. Euro-bigot support and incitement are a crucial factor in Islamo-fascist terrorism all over the world. Follow their path, share their fate. The intellectual atmosphere in Britain has now become so hostile to Jews and Israel that the rantings one might usually expect from extremist political organizations have invaded the mainstream. In normal circumstances, after all, you would hope to be able to tell the difference between a job rejection letter from a respectable company and a tirade from a neo-Nazi fringe group. What is worse is that this case is no exception. Last year, Amit Dushvani, an Israeli biology student, had his PhD application turned down by Andrew Wilkie, professor of pathology at Oxford University, in the following terms: "I have a huge problem with the way the Israelis take the moral high ground from their appalling treatment in the Holocaust, and then inflict gross human rights abuses on the Palestinians because they wish to live in their own country." Prof. Wilkie, who was suspended but not fired, went on: "I am sure you are perfectly nice at a personal level, but no way would I take on somebody who has served in the Israeli army." In May of the same year a motion was proposed at a conference of the Association of University Teachers, a leading union for university professors, calling for a total academic boycott against Israel. The motion failed but was supported by one-third of the delegates. Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-10-01 |
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