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by Douglas Murray
• May 1, 2016 at 5:00 am
- Within a week,
Britain's Labour party leadership was forced to suspend one of its
newest MPs and one of its oldest grandees -- and both for the same
reason.
- Labour party
leader Jeremy Corbyn and Ken Livingstone both say that they condemn
anti-Semitism. They always tend to add that they also condemn
"Islamophobia and all other forms of racism," a disclaimer
that always seems a deliberate attempt to hide a hatred of Jews
under the skirts of any and all criticism of Islam. What is most
fascinating is that all the while they are saying this, they stoke
the very thing they claim to condemn.
- They pretend
that the Jewish state does such things for no reason. There is no
mention of the thousands of rockets that Hamas and other Islamist
groups rain down on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The comment turns a
highly-targeted set of retaliatory strikes by Israel against Hamas
in the Gaza Strip into a "brutal" attack "on the
Palestinians" as a whole. While mentioning those death-tolls,
Livingstone has no interest in explaining that the State of Israel
builds bunkers for its citizens to shelter in, while Hamas uses
Palestinians as human shields and useful dead bodies for the
television cameras, to help Hamas appear as an aggrieved
"victim."
- It is the
narrative of the "left" on Israel that is causing the
resurgence of anti-Semitism. It is not coming from nowhere. It is
coming from them. If the left wants to deal with it, they first have
to deal with themselves.
In 2009, Jeremy Corbyn (left, posing before a
Hezbollah flag) said: "It will be my pleasure and my honour to host
an event in Parliament where our friends from Hezbollah will be speaking.
I also invited friends from Hamas to come and speak as well."
Pictured in the middle is Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Pictured at
right is Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Every time anyone thinks Britain's Labour party has reached a new
low of anti-Semitism, entirely new depths seems to open. In September, I
wrote here about how the election of Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of
the Labour party constituted a "mainstreaming" of racism in the
UK. Although Mr. Corbyn claims he does not have any tolerance for any
hatred of anyone, he is a man who has spent his political life cosying up
to anti-Semites and terrorist groups that express genocidal intent
against the Jewish people. He has worked closely with Holocaust deniers,
praised anti-Semitic extremists and described Hamas and Hezbollah as his
friends.
by Raymond Ibrahim
• May 1, 2016 at 4:30 am
- "Why are
your bishops silent on a threat that is yours today as well? Because
the bishops are, like you, raised in political correctness. But
Jesus was never politically correct, he was politically just! The
responsibility of a bishop is to teach, to use his influence to
transmit truth." — Jean-Clément Jeanbart, the Melkite Greek
Catholic archbishop of Aleppo, Syria.
- Federal
authorities arrested Khalil Abu-Rayyan of Dearborn Heights,
Michigan, an ISIS supporter who had planned to carry out an attack
on a 6,000-member Detroit church. Abu-Rayyan allegedly had guns and
a large knife, and told an undercover FBI agent that he "tried
to shoot up a church one day ... If I can't do jihad in the Middle
East, I would do my jihad over here. ... It is my dream to behead
someone."
- In Pakistan, a
disabled Christian man sentenced to death for blasphemy said that he
was forced into admitting to the charges in order to stop his wife
from being tortured... Emmanuel and his wife were found guilty of
insulting the Muslim prophet Muhammad in text messages to a local
imam in 2013, and sentenced to death. The conviction came despite
the fact that the poor Christian couple are illiterate.
In Columbus, Ohio, Mohamed Barry, a Muslim man of
Somali background, attacked several people with a machete at Nazareth
Restaurant -- a business owned by a pro-Israel Arab Christian. Police
later shot and killed Barry when he lunged at them with a machete and
knife.
As opposed to their Western counterparts, Christian leaders who live
in the Middle East continued expressing their frustration at the West's
indifference and worse. Jean-Clément Jeanbart, the Melkite Greek Catholic
archbishop of Aleppo, during an interview, asked "Why are your bishops
silent on a threat that is yours today as well? Because the bishops are,
like you, raised in political correctness. But Jesus was never
politically correct, he was politically just! The responsibility of a
bishop is to teach, to use his influence to transmit truth. Why are your
bishops afraid of speaking? Of course they would be criticized, but that
would give them a chance to defend themselves, and to defend this truth.
You must remember that silence often means consent."
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