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By: Head Jew, John Podhoretz
HATE FEST BY THE BAY
May 14, 2002
The San Francisco Bay area is the new France - and
that's not a compliment.
There's been a great deal of attention paid in recent weeks to the
horrifying outbreak of anti-Semitism in France. Far less attention has
been paid to an outbreak of anti-Semitism in Northern California that
seems to be spreading like the awful spiritual disease it is.
Since the start of the year, there have been 50 documented cases of
anti-Semitic acts in and around the Bay Area. That is more than three
times as many as in all of 2001, according to Jonathan Bernstein of the
Anti-Defamation League. He also reports that his office is the only one
of the ADL's 30 regional bureaus to note an increase in anti-Jewish
incidents.
There have been serious arson attempts on two synagogues. One temple,
in Berkeley, would have been destroyed had a neighbor not spotted the
fire on the roof. Another, in San Francisco, was pelted with Molotov
cocktails.
It's worse at the universities. A man wearing a Jewish ritual skullcap
was severely beaten on the campus of the University of California at
Berkeley. Students and faculty attending religious services at the
Berkeley Hillel, the Jewish meeting house, were pelted with rotten
eggs. The Hillel house itself has been defaced with graffiti.
The worst incident happened last week at San Francisco State University,
where there is clearly no division between anti-Israel political
sentiment and naked anti-Semitism. Demonstrations against Israel have
been a daily occurrence there for months, and the rhetoric on campus has
taken a literally medieval anti-Semitic turn.
Laurie Zoloth, a professor at San Francisco State University, put it
bluntly and powerfully in a widely circulated e-mail: 'I cannot fully
express what it feels like to have to walk across campus daily, past
posters of cans of soup with labels on them of drops of blood and dead
babies, labeled 'canned Palestinian children meat, slaughtered according
to Jewish rites.' '
That's the explicit return of the 'blood libel,' the foul accusation
leveled against the Jews of England in the 12th century that they were
killing Gentile babies and using their blood in religious rituals.
When such expressions of infamy are not challenged, fought and defeated,
those who voice them will only get more virulent. And that's what
happened on May 8.
In an account confirmed by other witnesses, Laurie Zoloth described the
disgusting denouement following a 'Peace in the Middle East' rally
sponsored by the SFSU Hillel.
A group of students, numbering around 50, had remained to chant
afternoon prayers. At that moment, 'Counter demonstrators poured into
the plaza, screaming at the Jews to 'Get out or we will kill you' and
Hitler did not finish the job.' I turned to the police and to every
administrator I could find and asked them to remove the counter
demonstrators from the plaza, to maintain the separation of 100 feet
that we had been promised. The police told me that they had been told
not to arrest anyone . . .
'The police could do nothing more than surround the Jewish students and
community members who were now trapped in a corner of the plaza, grouped
under the flags of Israel, while an angry, out of control mob, literally
chanting for our deaths, surrounded us. . . . There was no safe way
out of the Plaza. We had to be marched back to the Hillel House under
armed S.F. police guard, and we had to have a police guard remain
outside Hillel.'
Yesterday, following almost a week of silence, SFSU President Robert
Corrigan issued a statement about the incident. 'A small but terribly
destructive number of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, many of whom were
not SFSU students, abandoned themselves to intimidating behavior and
statements too hate-filled to repeat,' Corrigan wrote. 'That encounter
puts at risk all that we value and represent as a university community.'
That's true, but it's insufficient. Had Corrigan more directly
addressed the rise of anti-Semitism on his campus in the months
preceding the riot, it might have been forestalled altogether. 'Despite
the claims of some,' wrote Corrigan in an obvious effort to criticize
Laurie Zoloth, 'this is not an anti-Semitic campus.'
That's cold comfort to those Jewish students who have to endure being
told on a daily basis that Hitler didn't finish the job. 'The students
are so brave,' Laurie Zoloth told me, sighing. 'But they shouldn't have
to be brave.'
Note from the AZCowBoy:
Well folks, the IDF thug murderers may be getting Ben-Gurion 'hero's medals for the wanton killing of Palestinian civilian's--but it seems the Jews in America are disappointed that not 'all' the American people agree with this 1/2 acre of Zionist hell that grows expontentially to the murder and displacement of Palestinian's.
Let us pray that the people will rise against the AIPAC occupied US Congress and send a message to their congressmen in November that they are on the people's payroll and shouldn't be acting as agents for a foreign government--and if they insist--then perhaps they should be sent home and out of the beltway where they do so much harm to the nation by creating more and more unyielding enemies for America.
The Jew has outlived his welcome in America as he has done in countless nations of the world over the past 3,000 years in their long and sordid history, let us not delude ourselves.
The Holocaust, part II, is over Zionist pigs and you can put your faded photos of the camps and their victims away--once and forever!
TAC,
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