It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking’s Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more – Howard Jacobson | Engage - the anti-racist campaign against antisemitism

' Why is Israel alone of all offending countries to be boycotted? Perhaps because it's that offending country which also just happens to be Jewish?'

More here http://engageonline.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/its-official-thanks-to-stephen-hawkings-israel-boycott-anti-semitism-is-no-more-howard-jacobson/

Some Friday evening Penny from Big Bang Theory

I'm still behind with my Big Bang Theory watching but here's an image from the recent episode, 'The Tenure Turbulence', that I haven't seen but looks well worth watching... Penny's gravity defying bosom.

Now that's gravity defying and rather impressive.

Fatah's Drive Against "Normalization" :: Gatestone Institute

'... how can there ever be a peace process when any Palestinian who meets with an Israeli is immediately denounced as a traitor? It is worth noting that most of these denunciations are coming from the "moderate" Fatah, and not from Hamas.'

File under PA hypocrisy.

More here http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3719/fatah-israel-normalization

No shit Sherlock

Report in papers that using a mobile phone raises blood pressure...

No shit Sherlock

What is 'The Special One' planning?

Nicely done but what does Arsene Wenger sound so much like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Time for some Joy Division

I love this track from the first Joy Division album 'Unknown Pleasures'.

For a real insight into Ian Cutis, you must watch the film 'Control', it's seriously moving.

An interesting insight into Jordanian views on how serious shooting unarmed schoolgirls is. They were Jewish so that might colour their opinion.

'Last month, 110 Jordanian parliament members signed a petition calling for the release of Ahmad Daqamseh, a Jordanian soldier who gunned down a group of Israeli schoolgirls on a field trip to the "Isle of Peace" border area of Naharayim in 1997, killing seven.'

Context here http://www.timesofisrael.com/jordan-mulling-diplomatic-and-legal-measures-against-israel/

Patriotism and the English 'intellectual'

"England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box. All through the critical years many left-wingers were chipping away at English morale, trying to spread an outlook that was sometimes squashily pacifist, sometimes violently pro-Russian, but always anti-British."

George Orwell, 1941.

BBC institutionally pro Labour?

Following the appointment of Labour's James Purnell, BBC are now to appoint Ian Katz deputy editor of The Guardian as editor of Newsnight.

Don't the BBC bosses care about looking biased? Or is it that they know they can't be stopped?

It seems that the Newsnight line on Israel and the Palestinians won't be changing either; read this from 2001 if you can stomach it.

Dambusters: Flypast To Mark Raid Anniversary

Real heroes commemorated today.
http://news.sky.com/story/1091537/dambusters-flypast-to-mark-raid-anniversary

Tweet from Harriet Sherwood (@harrietsherwood)

Harriet Sherwood (@harrietsherwood) tweeted at 6:24 AM on Thu, May 16, 2013:
Brilliant story + pic - how not-so-fast food (KFC!) reaches Gaza from Egypt via tunnels in four-hour delivery service http://t.co/xHi1U58Drh
(https://twitter.com/harrietsherwood/status/334902129586237440)

I wonder if it has struck Ms Sherwood that Egypt is blockading Gaza? I wonder if Ms Sherwood thinks that Egypt's blockade is illegal? Maybe Ms Sherwood blames Israel for this as well.

Maybe Harriet Sherwood prefers not to think about Middle East matters, it's easier for her that way.

What is the tattoo on Penny's right buttock?

Sheldon said he saw the Chinese character for 'soup' on Penny's right buttock, Penny said it was the character for 'courage', who's correct?

So which is on Penny's right buttock?

Remember Sheldon's made mistakes with Chinese languages before, he went into the Chinese restaurant to complain about the food. "Oxen are in my bed! Many, many oxen!"

Come on Penny/Kaley Cuoco put us out of our misery...


If you don't watch Big Bang Theory then this probably makes no sense.

UNWRA proud to support the aim of destroying Israel

From Palestinian Media Watch:

At the official launch of two German-funded UNRWA projects in southern Lebanon, Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon, Ann Dismorr, posed with a map that erases the State of Israel and presents all of it as "Palestine."

The map includes both the Palestinian Authority areas as well as all of Israel. Above the map is the Palestinian flag and the inscription "Arab Palestine." The text at the bottom of the map also says "Palestine." The neighboring countries Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are all named on the map as is the Mediterranean Sea. Israel is not mentioned or designated anywhere. Several places and cities, both in Israel and from the Palestinian Authority, are included on the map of "Palestine": The Negev desert, Be'er Sheva, Rafah (Gaza), Hebron, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Acre, Tiberias and the Dead Sea.

The map was presented at the launch of an UNRWA project to improve the water supply network and rehabilitate shelters in the Rashidieh Camp, and was a gift from the "Palestinian Women's Union," the Palestinian news site pn-news.net reported.

There's more including an explanation of the significance of the pattern on that bag at Elder of Ziyon

Ed Miliband political and economic genius

On 24 July 2012 the BBC reported approvingly:

'Labour leader Ed Miliband has declared the political "tide is turning" against the economics of austerity, after a meeting in Paris with French President Francois Hollande.

He said he and Mr Hollande agreed that Europe needed a "different way forward" to deal with the debt crisis.

...


Mr Miliband held a half-hour meeting with the French president, a fellow centre-left leader, at the Elysee Palace, saying afterwards: "The points of agreement we have were around the fact that the tide is turning against an austerity approach, that there needs to be a different way forward found.

"What President Hollande is seeking to do in France and what he is seeking to do in leading the debate in Europe is find that different way forward.

"We are in agreement in seeking that new way that needs to be found and I think can be found."'

Today the BBC report somewhat less cheerfully that:

'Official figures show France has entered its second recession in four years after the economy shrank by 0.2% in the first quarter of the year.

Its economy shrank by the same amount in the last quarter of 2012. A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

France has record unemployment and low business and consumer confidence.

...

France entered its worst recession since World War II in 2009. Although it was thought to have been in recession in 2012, these figures have now been revised to show only one quarter of negative growth.

The news comes on the first anniversary of Francois Hollande being sworn in as president.

Earlier this month, the European Commission warned that France would enter recession this year and said the eurozone's economy would shrink by 0.4%.

...

In France, the rate of unemployment is running at 10.6% and is forecast to rise further next year.

Its deficit is also expected to rise sharply, the commission says, to 3.9% of GDP - well above the EU deficit target of 3%.

But French unemployment is below the eurozone average, which was 11.4% in 2012 and is expected to hit an average of 12.2% this year. In both Greece and Spain, it is expected to peak at 27%.

The German growth figure was far weaker than expected. Economists had expected to see growth of 0.3%'

So in 2012 Ed Miliband supported Mr Hollande's policies as a way out of the economic crisis and as being better than George Osborne's so called austerity plan. How about now that France has gone back into recession whilst the UK has not? Perhaps the BBC could ask Ed Miliband or the unusually shy Ed Balls that question, perhaps not!

The one hundred and fiftieth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

This week's award is presented to the Electoral Commission for their conclusion as reported by the Docklands and East London Advertiser that:

'In its latest research, it found “strongly held views” that electoral fraud is more likely to be committed by, or in support of, candidates standing in areas with significant South Asian communities, specifically those with roots in parts of Pakistan or Bangladesh. Tower Hamlets has a large Bangladeshi population.'

No shit, Sherlocks.

No Jewish event can be commemorated without comparing Israel's treatment of the Palestinians with the Nazis' treatment of the Jews - well not by Lynne Jones (@lynnejones_exMP)

Tomorrow is the 70th anniversary of the end of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the largest revolt against the Nazis extermination of the Jews during the Second World War. The revolt was put down but not before 13,000 Jews were killed in the ghetto during the uprising of which around 6,000 were burnt alive or died from smoke inhalation. Once the revolt was ended the remaining 50,000 residents were mostly shipped to concentration and extermination camps, in particular Treblinka.

Jürgen Stroop's internal SS daily report for written on 16 May 1943, stated:

"180 Jews, bandits and sub-humans, were destroyed. The former Jewish quarter of Warsaw is no longer in existence. The large-scale action was terminated at 20:15 hours by blowing up the Warsaw Synagogue. ... Total number of Jews dealt with 56,065, including both Jews caught and Jews whose extermination can be proved. ... Apart from 8 buildings (police barracks, hospital, and accommodations for housing working-parties) the former Ghetto is completely destroyed. Only the dividing walls are left standing where no explosions were carried out."

Why do I bring this matter up today? First because it's an important anniversary but second because Lynne Jones used this anniversary for one of her customary anti-Israel Tweets:

Subtlety is not really her string point is it, mind you neither is understanding of the reality of the Israel / Palestinian conflict.

As a matter of interest, 18 days after I posted this to show Lynne Jones that Hamas did indeed regularly 
speak hatred against Jews, Lynne Jones has not yet managed to provide a response. Why?

Howard Bloom on The Boston Bombing - Was the cause poverty or oppression?

Again and again sensible, logical people point out the truth but the majority of the west's governments and media are too blind or deaf to listen. They prefer to believe that Islam is 'the religion of peace' and that the West is always to blame.

The Palestinians view of Israel per Pew's latest market research

So we are told that the Palestinians want to live in peace alongside Israel but Pew's market research shows that only 14% of those in the Palestinian Territories think that there is a way for Israel and the Palestinian Territories to coexist peacefully and that 45% support armed struggle as the best way to achieve statehood with another 22% supporting armed struggle along with non-violent and negotiations.

It's strange that the BBC and many western politicians keep telling us that the Palestinians want peace and that Israel's actions are the main obstacles to peace, when the Palestinians have been saying the opposite to pollsters for years. In a 2007 poll, 77% Palestinian respondents said “the rights and needs of the Palestinian people cannot be taken care of as long as the state of Israel exists.” In a 2011 poll, 61% of Palestinians said they saw a two-state solution only as a stepping-stone to Israel’s ultimate eradication.

To give the Palestinians their due, they don't hide their aspirations, it's idiot Western journalists and politicians who should know better, unless their real aim is also the destruction of Israel.

Peter Mandelson and immigration

Lord Mandelson said:

‘In 2004 when as a Labour government, we were not only welcoming people to come into this country to work, we were sending out search parties for people and encouraging them, in some cases, to take up work in this country.’

Remember that between 1997 and 2010, net migration to Britain totalled more than 2.2 million, that's more than twice the population of Birmingham.
Also remember that the annual net immigration figure quadrupled under Labour from 48,000 people in 1997 to 198,000 by 2009.

It was Andrew Neather who let the cat out of the bag when he revealed why the Labour government deliberately opened "up the UK to mass migration" - It was at least in part due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and "rub the Right's nose in diversity".

Remember that in this piece I reported the very senior civil servant who said ‘When I was at the Treasury, I argued for the most open door possible to immigration [because] I saw it as my job to maximise global welfare not national welfare.’

Also remember this about the effect of immigration on jobs.

'The myth peddled by Blair's acolytes – that high levels of immigration generated significant economic benefits for the existing UK population – was demolished in 2008 by a House of Lords select committee. It concluded: "We do not support the general claims that net immigration is indispensable to fill labour and skills shortages. Such claims are analytically weak and provide insufficient reason for promoting net immigration." Reinforcing this point, the government's Migration Advisory Committee recently confirmed that immigrants do "displace" some British workers – ie, take their jobs, most likely those at the bottom end of the pay ladder.' 

Nobody should let any Labour  spokesman get away with any comments on immigration, when in power they deliberately engineered a massive rise in immigration, a rise they didn't control because they didn't want to control it. Now as British cities are increasingly split into mono-cultural ghettos and inter-race tensions rise, we are simply reaping the fruits of Labour's policies.


As an aside here's a brief summary of the numbers of people who immigrated to the UK through history:
Hugenots - 40,000-50,000 in 17th century
Indians - 80,000 pre First World War
Africans - Around 15,000 pre First World War
Germans - Around 50,000 pre First World War
East European Jews - 120,000 pre First World War and maybe another 25,000 pre Second World War
Others fleeing Nazi Europe - 50,0000

Let's compare that with immigration post 1997.
Total net migration to the UK rose sharply from 1998 onwards, with levels being above 150,000 in all but one year since 1999. That's 150,000 a year but that's net of Brits leaving the UK.  So an average of 150,000 net is equivalent to half of the immigration to this country across 300 years. Remember that the next time you're told that we've always had immigration into the UK. Also remember that when you hear David Cameron hailing as a success cutting net immigration to under 100,000 a year.

Well done Danny Baker

The Sony radio awards were presented last night and I am pleased to report that Danny Baker won gold in the Best Entertainment Programme section for his 5Live show:

The Danny Baker Show

WINNER: GOLD

Danny Baker - Presenter
Lynsey Hipgrave - Co-presenter
Clare Davison - Producer

Campbell Davison Media for BBC Radio 5 live

What the Judges Said

"Danny expertly sews the whole program together with the flair and palpable enthusiasm of someone who oozes with a love and desire to be on the radio." 

I wonder if the 'pinheaded weasels' who sacked Danny Baker from BBC Radio London, and thus caused so many people to have less cheerful and intelligent afternoons, regret their decision.

The same Danny Baker show also picked up a Bronze in the Speech Radio Broadcaster of the Year section:

Danny Baker

WINNER: BRONZE

Danny Baker - Presenter
Lynsey Hipgrave - Co-presenter
Clare Davison - Producer

Campbell Davison Media for BBC Radio 5 live

What the Judges Said

"This broadcaster inspires absolute devotion from listeners for good reason, and the judges admired his ability to transform everyday situations into gloriously surreal radio – always taking the audience with him. Unique. Original. Inventive. Constantly surprising. This entry was a joy to listen to."

Media links to the Barack Obama administration - "It's a family matter" (part 2)

Does this graphic make it easier to understand why the US media is so soft on investigating Barack Obama especially re Benghazi?

No family links with the BBC, that I know of, so we'll have to put the BBC's unwavering support down to love.

Media links to the Barack Obama administration - "It's a family matter"

Thanks to mrctv for the video.

BBC News - I do... for now. UK Muslims revive temporary marriages

The BBC report approvingly of sharia compliant for Shia Muslims anyway, temporary marriages.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22354201

Not so popular amongst Sunni Muslims...

A Premiership team to take on the PFA team of the year

This is the PFA team of the year.
David de Gea (Manchester United)
Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City)
Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham)
Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United)
Leighton Baines (Everton)
Michael Carrick (Manchester United)
Juan Mata (Chelsea)
Gareth Bale (Tottenham)
Eden Hazard (Chelsea)
Luis Suárez (Liverpool)
Robin van Persie (Manchester United)

That team is a nice 4-4-2, with the option to play 4-1-3-2

Here's a team that I think could give them a decent match:
Pter Cech (Chelsea)
Patrice Evra (Manchester United)
Matija Nastasic (Manchester City)
Per Mertersacker (Arsenal)
Branislav Ivanovic (Chelsea)

Frank Lampard (Chelsea)
Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
Santi Cazorla (Arsenal)
Theo Walcott (Arsenal)
Maraoune Fellaini (Everton)
Daniel Sturidge (Liverpool)

My problem was up front where the number of in-form strikers during this season has been small, it was a toss up between Benteke and Sturridge and I went with Sturridge as I feel he would fit the rest of the team better in a 4-5-1 system.


What do you think? Could my team be competitive?

Do you see how it works now?

Even the BBC report that:

'The US Internal Revenue Service has apologised for improperly subjecting conservative political groups to extra scrutiny, a tax official said.

In the 2012 campaign season, groups applying for tax-exempt status with the words "Tea Party" or "patriot" in their names were singled out, the IRS said.

The agency asked some for donor lists, in violation of its own policy.

...

The words "Tea Party" and "patriot" were added to a list of red flags without the approval of senior management.

That's how the left operate, outside of the rules and line manager approval, anything to destroy the right.

'

The Benghazi hearings

What happened in Benghazi is becoming more clear every day and it reflects terribly upon Barack Obama's administration. For this reason the BBC are desperately trying to minimise their coverage of this story., When was the last time you heard a detailed report on the BBC News? The BBC's US & Canada news page currently looks like this

Do you see the report hiding as the seventh most important story?

And when you read that report what do you learn?

'Official talking points about an attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, were edited by the state department to remove references to terrorism, a US television network has reported.

The revelation by ABC News contradicts earlier White House comments that the memo was mostly developed by the CIA.

...

The controversy stems in large part from an appearance on Sunday chat shows soon after the attacks by Susan Rice, the US Ambassador to the UN, who said the attack had grown out of an anti-US protest.

Other officials have said they knew at the time it was an organised, armed assault, possibly by an Islamist militant group.

According to ABC News, as the dust settled in Libya the state department offered input on the talking points memo to be distributed to Congress and to Ms Rice.

The state department wanted to remove a reference to earlier CIA warnings about terror threats in Benghazi and excise the mention of Ansar al-Sharia, a group linked to al-Qaeda, ABC News reported.

State department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in an email to intelligence and White House officials obtained by the ABC that the reference should be dropped because it "could be abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the state department for not paying attention to warnings", the network reports.

In November, White House press secretary Jay Carney said the information given to the public in the wake of the attack had been supplied by the intelligence community.

He said at the time: "The White House and the state department have made clear that the single adjustment that was made to those talking points by either of those two institutions were changing the word 'consulate' to 'diplomatic facility' because 'consulate' was inaccurate."

On Wednesday, a US diplomat in Libya during the attacks gave the first public account of the incident, in a Congressional hearing.

Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of mission in Tripoli, expressed frustration with the lack of military response to the incident, telling lawmakers he believed a second attack would have been deterred by a swift reaction.

The Pentagon has said it could not have done anything to assist the besieged Americans.

And Mr Hicks criticised an official review of the attack, saying it focused too much on low-ranking officials.

That probe, led by former Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Pickering and Adm Mike Mullen, singled out the diplomatic security and near eastern affairs bureaus for criticism.
It said "systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels" in those teams led to a "security posture that was inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place".

In congressional hearings in January, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took responsibility for the security failures at the compound.

Some analysts say that Mrs Clinton, who has been cited as a possible Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, could be haunted by the incident if she chooses to run.'

That last line helps to explain why the BBC are minimising coverage of this story, they want to protect Hillary Clinton from too much negative publicity. Just as they minimised negative coverage at the tome of the Benghazi attack in order to reduce damage to Barack Obama's re-election campaign.

Be under no illusion that the BBC is an unbiased news organisation it is a campaigning body.


Meanwhile elsewhere in the media, here's Judge Jeanine Pirro letting rip at Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and letting everybody know what really happened.

Elsewhere HotAir report what David Petraeus had to say at the time of the attacks. He was then the Director of the CIA but was forced to resign in a personal scandal shortly thereafter.


This is a major news story but the BBC will continue to minimise coverage of it as they consider supporting Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the US Democratic Party more important than reporting the truth.

Iran’s Ahmadinejad could face 74 lashes over election ‘violation’ - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page

'Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may face punishment if charged with breaking electoral rules, the country's electoral watchdog said.' 

More here http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2013/05/13/Iran-s-Ahmadinejad-could-face-74-lashes-over-election-violation-.html

It's hard not to laugh...

Extremist Islamist leaders preaching to UK students, says study - Telegraph

'Extremist Islamist leaders preached to crowds of students at almost 200 official events at universities including Cambridge in the past year, a study has revealed.

A total of 180 events promoted by union-affiliated societies had talks given by people who had "a history of extreme or intolerant views", according to a study of external speakers at 21 universities, which also included University College London and Birmingham.

More than a quarter of those public talks held by Islamic societies in the year until March are thought to have had segregated seating for male and female students.'

More here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10052872/Extremist-Islamist-leaders-preaching-to-UK-students-says-study.html


And you wonder why so many students at British universities are so brainwashed against Israel?

The lies we tell ourselves about moderate Islam - 'religion of peace?

'On April 30, the Pew Research Center issued the results of a wide-ranging survey, "The World's Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society," which entailed more than 38,000 face-to-face interviews conducted in over 80 languages with Muslims on four continents.
Among the more chilling findings – and there are plenty – relate to the question of support for suicide bombings. It turns out that 40 percent of Palestinians, 29% of Egyptians and 15% of Jordanians say they believe suicide bombings and other attacks targeting civilians are justified to defend Islam.
...
... out of Egypt's population of 82.5 million, a whopping 24 million think it is OK to strap explosives to one's chest and detonate them in a crowd of innocent people. If even 1% of these Egyptians are willing to actually carry out such an attack, it would mean there are a potential 240,000 suicide bombers in the Nile state alone.

And the problem is not confined to the Middle East.

According to Pew, nearly 1 in 5 Malaysians, 1 in 4 Bangladeshis and 1 in 7 Pakistanis also endorse suicide attacks. That translates into 5 million Malaysians, 37 million Bangladeshis and 23 million Pakistanis who see nothing wrong with suicide bombings.'

More here http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/the-lies-we-tell-ourselves-about-moderate-islam/

Don't confuse lamb and goat

The Sunday Times reports that 'goat has been found in place of lamb in processed food'.

My view: getting goat instead of lamb, how lucky can you be...

The PFA Team of the Year

In case you, like me, missed the team of the year announcement:
David de Gea (Manchester United)
Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City)
Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham)
Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United)
Leighton Baines (Everton)
Michael Carrick (Manchester United)
Juan Mata (Chelsea)
Gareth Bale (Tottenham)
Eden Hazard (Chelsea)
Luis Suárez (Liverpool)
Robin van Persie (Manchester United)

Hard to disagree with many of these apart from De Gea as goalkeeper, what about Reina?

It'd be hard to come up with a better Premiership team or even one that could be competitive, have a go and I'll post my suggested team tomorrow.

Welcome to London

Isn't it disgusting how Israel dominates the Middle East

The map that the BBC won't show.

Ed Miliband says an EU referendum is 'wrong' - Telegraph

"Our national interest lies in staying in the European Union and working for the changes that will make it work better for Britain" 

Ed Miliband just doesn't understand what the EU is for and what its aims are. Odd because they are clearly stated.

More here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/10050367/Ed-Miliband-says-an-EU-referendum-is-wrong.html

What really happened in Benghazi and do the State Department memos hold the answers?

If you rely upon the BBC for your news then this sory will mean next to nothing as the Obama-loving BBC just don't cover this story.

So read this from Fox News and then this link to some MSNBC coverage. When even MSNBC are asking questions of the Obamamessiah's administration's story then you know something's up.

A Friday Night Rule 5 Music Video - Definitely NSFW

This video by Robin Thicke ft. T.I., Pharrell for 'Blurred Lines' has been receiving quite a lot of admiring looks, and you can see why.



So how about a look at the alternative uncensored (for which you can read topless) version?

OK but only because you've been very good this week...


Aren't I good to you?

Ken Livingstone, do you still think that Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi is "one of the most authoritative Muslim scholars in the world today" who "has done most to combat socially regressive interpretations of Islam on issues like women's rights and relations with other religions"?

I see that Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the man who Ken Livingstone defended and described as "one of the most authoritative Muslim scholars in the world today" who "has done most to combat socially regressive interpretations of Islam on issues like women's rights and relations with other religions"? has been at it again.

This time the delightful Qaradawi opined whilst in Gaza that "This land has never once been a Jewish land. Palestine is for the Arab Islamic nation,"

Factually incorrect but what do you expect from a man who has previously called for the death penalty for apostates


and describes homosexuality as 'a crime' for which people should be punished?

Sheikh al-Qaradawi also said the following in a speech by aired on Al-Jazeera on 30 January 2009.

"Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them – even though they exaggerated this issue – he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers."

What do you have to say about your 'progressive' Islamist now Ken?

Do you still stand by this defence of Sheikh al-Qaradawi?



Seriously Ken Livingstone sickens me and I rejoice every day that he is no longer Mayor of London.

You can read more about Sheikh al-Qaradawi here. Maybe Ken Livingstone should look up the word of Taqqiya.

The moderate Palestinian Authority and the BBC's refusal to report their genocidal wishes

Palestinian Media Watch reported on Wednesday that Senior PA official Jibril Rajoub had said that: "I swear that if we had a nuke, we'd have used it this very morning"
Something worth reporting by the BBC? Would the BBC have reported an Israeli MK for saying similar?

Here's the context of the above quote:

'The following is the translation of senior PA official Jibril Rajoub's interview, in which he swears that the PA would use nuclear weapons against Israel, if it possessed them:

Lebanese TV host: "The American [John Kerry] came to the PA. They are talking about reviving negotiations, about getting back to the table with the Israelis... Will you go back to the negotiations game?"

Jibril Rajoub: "There is no going back to negotiations unless the source of authority is the international resolutions, with a time frame and with the freezing of all unilateral Israeli steps: Jerusalem, the fence, settlements and prisoners."

Host: "You've heard Israel's refusal."

Jibril Rajoub: "That doesn't matter. Listen. We as yet don't have a nuke, but I swear that if we had a nuke, we'd have used it this very morning." 

[Al-Mayadeen TV (Lebanon), April 30, 2013]

I've taken the BBC to task previously over its eagerness to report any less than pleasant comments made by obscure Israeli rabbis whilst ignoring the regular genocidal threats made by senior Palestinian religious and political leaders.

Freedom of speech under Islam

'A Nepali teacher who taught chemistry at Qatar Academy  has been jailed in Doha on felony charges for insulting Islam.'

Do read the whole article here http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/09/qatar-jails-a-nepali-teacher-on-charges-of-insulting-islam/

The reality of Palestinian peace proposals - Partners in Peace?

'The Israeli side, which included representatives from right and left, tried to understand the Palestinians' vision of the end of the strife– "Let's talk business." The Israelis delved to understand how we can end the age-old, painful conflict. What red lines are they willing to be flexible on? What resolution will satisfy their aspirations? Where do they envision the future borders of the Palestinian State which they so crave?

We were shocked to discover that not a single one of them spoke of a Palestinian State, or to be more precise, of a two-state solution.

They spoke of one state – their state. They spoke of ruling Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Akko, Haifa,and the pain of the Nakba [lit. the tragedy – the establishment of the State of Israel]. There was no future for them. Only the past."There is no legitimacy for Jews to live next to us" – this was their main message. "First, let them pay for what they perpetrated."

In the course of a dialogue which escalated to shouts, the Palestinians asked us not to refer to suicide bombers as "terrorists" because they don't consider them so. "So how do you call someone who dons a vest and blows himself up in a Tel Aviv shopping mall with the stated purpose of killing innocent civilians," I asked one of the participants.

"I have a 4-year-old at home," answered Samach from Abu Dis (near Jerusalem). "If God forbid something should happen to him, I will go and burn an entire Israeli city, if I can." All the other Palestinian participants nodded their heads in agreement to his harsh words.

"Three weeks ago, we gave birth to a son," answered Amichai, a religious, Jewish student from Jerusalem.
"If God forbid something should happen to him, I would find no comfort whatsoever in deaths of more people."'

More here http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/must-read-israeli-peacenik-meets.html

Arab and Muslim anti-semitism

'The Arab goal isn't human rights. They want to destroy the Jewish state and have Jews revert to the second-class status (at best) that they held in the Middle East for the past 1400 years. The idea that Jews aren't meekly submissive to their more numerous cousins is what causes this pure hate, not land disputes or "settlements."'

More here http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/why-are-human-rights-organizations.html

The BBC just can't help themselves

This morning there's an article on the BBC website entitled 'Cleveland abductions: Do white victims get more attention?'. Here's an extract:

'Charlton McIlwain, a professor at New York University and the author of Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in US Political Campaigns, defines the syndrome: "White women occupy a privileged role as violent crime victims in news media reporting."

In other words, the victim is white and middle class. Ideally, she is saved - by a white guy.

"Our victims are colour-coded," says McIlwain. A proper victim is one who looks like a journalist, he says.

"Research shows that in terms of crime victims, they are people who we view as being like us - like those who are covering the events or reading about them," he says.

"Our national ideal of who is vulnerable - and who holds victim status - are those who are white and female."'

Oddly the same theory does not hold when it comes to racialist murders in London. Compare the BBC's coverage of the murders of Stephen Lawrence and Kriss Donald. Stephen Lawrence was a black 19 year-old youth who was murdered by two white youths in 1993, Kriss Donald was a white 15 year-old boy who was murdered by a gang  of men of Pakistani descent in 2004.

Searching for Stephen Lawrence on the BBC news website reveals the following articles:
All Results (1,532) News (1,359) TV & Radio Programmes (93) Sport (32) TV & Radio Sites (16) Blogs (14) About the BBC (7) Local (archive) (4) Learning (2) Music (1) Elsewhere on the web (4)

Searching for Kriss Donald reveals this somewhat smaller list:
All Results (121) News (119) Blogs (1) TV & Radio Sites (1)

Stephen Lawrence received over twelve times the coverage as Kriss Donald.

I believe that a study of the prominence given to each report would show an even larger discrepancy, as whilst Stephen Lawrence's murder and the subsequent trials of those accused of his murder were headline news and Stephen Lawrence's family have been regular BBC heroic figures, I barely remember the BBC's coverage of the Kriss Donald murder.

So on the BBC do black victims of racially related murder get more attention than white victims?

The one hundred and forty ninth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

This week's award is awarded in the full knowledge that the recipient knew that the answer was obvious before they undertook the research. So the award is less about the recipient than publicising the report.

The Commentator reveals for the second year running that:

'the BBC has been shown to have an inherent Left-leaning bias through its newspaper procurement policy which has again displayed a tilt towards The Guardian newspaper.'

The BBC biased towards the left and full of Guardian readers - "No shit, Sherlock"


Here's some more:

'The news comes despite the continuing decline of the Guardian newspaper circulation amongst the general public. The paper, which openly declares its Left-wing editorial line, is one of the least read outlets in the United Kingdom, chalking up around 215,000 sales per day in 2012, compared with the Daily Telegraph's 518,000. 
Despite these statistics, the BBC continues to purchase more copies of The Guardian (68,307 copies) than both the Telegraph (57,763) and The Times (59,490) and manages to pick up 50,398 copies of The Independent over the course of a year, a paper which registered an average of just 75,802 sales per day so far this year, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.'

The World's End

The third part of the ice cream and beer themed trilogy is coming... Following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, comes The World's end - complete with obligatory Simon Pegg fence jumping gag!

Today is V.E. Day

Today is V.E. Day, the day we celebrate the victory of the Allied powers over Nazi Germany which ended the Second World War. The history of the end of the Second World War: the fight for Berlin, the last days in Hitler's bunker and the subsequent chaos make for interesting study but the real sentiment should be relief that the war ended and sorrow for the millions of people (Jews and others) murdered by the German National Socialist Party lead Germany and for the other civilians and armed forces that died to free Europe from Nazi tyranny.

Unfortunately the end of the Second World War did not end tyranny. Instead it ushered in a period of Communist tyrannical rule in Eastern Europe that would last until 1989, some would argue longer. It must be remembered that not only did the Russian Communist rulers kill many more civilians than Nazi Germany, but also that the Russian Communists were willing allies of Nazi Germany right up until Germany invaded Russia. National Socialism in Germany and Communism in Russia started as bedfellows and might have remained so had Hitler not made a grievous error.

Why are these people so cross with Nigel Lawson? – Telegraph Blogs

It's important to know what's behind some of the attacks on Lord Lawson's call for the UK to leave the EU.
This Telegraph piece makes some good points, but don't forget the EU pensions and requirements... See previous blogposts.

Remember that EU pensions are paid on the understanding that the EU can remove this pension, if in the view of the Commission or the Luxembourg Court, they "fail to uphold the interests of the European Communities".

Also remember that (per Guido):

'The European Court of Justice has ruled that retired Eurocrats including the yacht-loving Lord Mandelson will be allowed to dodge tax on a huge scale. Brussels pensions are exempt from national taxes, meaning that the likes of Mandelson and Neil Kinnock only have to cough up 8% on their five-figure taxpayer-funded EU income. Am guessing the Euro-Judges will benefit from their ruling too. The decision to permit an official tax avoidance scheme for former EU officials comes as Brussels cracks down on tax dodging across the continent.'

Remind me which is the 'apartheid state'?

Israel

or Saudi Arabia

And which one the screaming idiots of the left complain about and which they don't.

From the BBC :

'Eight people - four Saudi nationals and four Tanzanians - have been arrested in connection with the bombing of a new Roman Catholic church in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha on Sunday.'

More Islamist terrorism against Christians and the culprits include more Saudi Arabian nationals, does anybody not realise what's going on in the world?

Now a Palestinian rock thrower has been killed by a thrown rock, will BBC & other anti Israel bodies stop reporting rock throwers as if a joke?

'A Palestinian Authority Arab who stoned cars in Samaria was killed by one of his own rocks, police have concluded. A Jewish man held in connection with the death has been released.

The Arab teenager hurled heavy stones at Israeli-owned vehicles along a Samaria highway last Tuesday evening. He managed to hit one car, which was driven by a resident of the nearby town of Emmanuel.

...

A final forensic report, released over the weekend, showed that the attacker was killed when a stone he threw hit the car driven by the man from Emmanuel. The stone hit the car's tire and bounced back at high speed, hitting the attacker and leaving him with a fatal head injury.'

The full story is here.

Elder of Ziyon: Outrageous BBC headline - and article - on Syria airstrikes

BBC mouthpiece for anti Israel sentiment AGAIN
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/outrageous-bbc-headline-and-article-on.html

Be very careful at Paddington Station

Seems a dangerous set of toilets to use...


Many thanks to Alex Masterley for the spot.

Fun football facts for Sunday

A big Premiership Sunday with Liverpool vs Everton and Manchester United vs Chelsea. It's a big betting day as well as of critical importance to the teams and managers.

Here's some fun facts that might help or surprise you.

Liverpool v Everton has seen more red cards than any other fixture in Barclays Premier League history - 20 of them.

Liverpool have scored nine goals in the two Premier League games Luis Suarez has missed this season - One man team?

The last six Manchester United vs Chelsea mstches in all competitions have produced 29 goals at an average of 4.8 goals per game - Not likely to be nil nil draw.

Manchester United have won just two of their last five league games - Still won the Premiership.

Manchester United are the only team not to concede a penalty in the Premier League this season and the only team not to receive a red card - Referee favourites?

Chelsea have scored 15 headed goals in the league this season, more than any other Premiership team - Team of short skillful players?