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#CIA #Torture and the Myth of Never Again: The Persecution of John Kiriakou!
Torture and the Myth of Never Again: The Persecution of John Kiriakou ~ Peter Van Buren Thursday December 11, 2014, FIREDOGLAKE.
No one except John Kiriakou is being held accountable for America's torture policy. And John Kiriakou didn't torture anyone, he just blew the whistle on it.
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away
The United States sanctioned acts of torture by the Central Intelligence Agency and others. The acts took place in secret prisons ("black sites") against persons detained indefinitely without trial. They were described in detail and explicitly authorized in a series of secret torture memosdrafted by John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and Steven Bradbury, senior lawyers in the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel. (Office of Legal Counsel attorneys technically answer directly to the DOJ, which is supposed to be independent from the White House, but obviously was not in this case.) Not one of those men, or their Justice Department bosses, has been held accountable for their actions.
Some tortured prisoners were killed by the CIA. Attorney General Eric Holder announced recently that no one would be held accountable for those murders either. "Based on the fully developed factual record concerning the two deaths," he said, "the Department has declined prosecution because the admissible evidence would not be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt."
Jose Rodriguez, a senior CIA official, admitted destroying videotapes of potentially admissible evidence, showing the torture of captives by operatives of the U.S. government at a secret prison thought to be located at a Vietnam-War-era airbase in Thailand. He was not held accountable for deep-sixing this evidence, nor for his role in the torture of human beings.
John Kiriakou Alone
The one man in the whole archipelago of America's secret horrors who went to jail is former CIA officer John Kiriakou. Of the untold numbers of men and women involved in the whole nightmare show of those years, only one.
And of course, he didn't torture anyone.
The charges against Kiriakou alleged that in answering questions from reporters about suspicions that the CIA tortured detainees in its custody, he violated the Espionage Act, once an obscure World War I-era law that aimed at punishing Americans who gave aid to the enemy. It was passed in 1917 and has been the subject of much judicial and Congressional doubt ever since. Kiriakou is one of six government whistleblowers who have been charged under the Act by the Obama administration. From 1917 until Obama came into office, only three people had ever charged in this way.
The Obama Justice Department claimed the former CIA officer "disclosed classified information to journalists, including the name of a covert CIA officer and information revealing the role of another CIA employee in classified activities."
The charges resulted from a CIA investigation. That investigation was triggered by a filing in January 2009 on behalf of detainees at Guantanamo that contained classified information the defense had not been given through government channels, and by the discovery in the spring of 2009 of photographs of alleged CIA employees among the legal materials of some detainees at Guantanamo. According to onedescription, Kiriakou gave several interviews about the CIA in 2008. Court documents charge that he provided names of covert Agency officials to a journalist, who allegedly in turn passed them on to a Guantanamo legal team. The team sought to have detainees identify specific CIA officials who participated in their renditions and torture. Kiriakou was accused of providing the identities of CIA officers that may have allowed names to be linked to photographs.
The real "offense" in the eyes of the Obama administration was quite different. In 2007, Kiriakou became a whistleblower. He went on record as the first (albeit by then, former) CIA official to confirm the use of waterboarding of al-Qaeda prisoners as an interrogation technique, and then to condemn it as torture. He specifically mentioned the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah in that secret prison in Thailand. Kiriakou also ran afoul of the CIA over efforts to clear for publication a book he had written about the Agency's counterterrorism work.
If Kiriakou had actually tortured someone himself, even to death, there is no possibility that he would be in trouble. In the national security state that rules the roost in Washington, talking out of turn about a crime has become the only possible crime.
Facing decades away from his family and young children, Kiriakou agreed to a plea bargain and is still in prison serving a 30-month sentence.
For years it was the policy of the United States of America to torture and abuse its enemies or, in some cases, simply suspected enemies. It has remained a U.S. policy, even under the Obama administration, to employ "extraordinary rendition" — that is, the sending of captured terror suspects to the jails of countries that are known for torture and abuse, an outsourcing of what we no longer want to do.
Techniques that the U.S. hanged men for at Nuremburg and in post-war Japan were employed and declared lawful. To embark on such a program with the oversight of the Bush administration, learned men and women had to have long discussions, with staffers running in and out of rooms with snippets of research to buttress the justifications being so laboriously developed. The CIA undoubtedly used some cumbersome bureaucratic process to hire contractors for its torture staff. The old manuals needed to beupdated, psychiatrists consulted, military survival experts interviewed, training classes set up.
Videotapes were made of the torture sessions and no doubt DVDs full of real horror were reviewed back at headquarters.
Torture techniques were even reportedly demonstrated to top officials inside the White House. Individual torturers who were considered particularly effective were no doubt identified, probably rewarded, and sent on to new secret sites to harm more people.
America just didn't wake up one day and start slapping around some Islamic punk. These were not the torture equivalents of rogue cops. A system, a mechanism, was created. That we now can only speculate about many of the details involved and the extent of all this is a tribute to the thousands who continue to remain silent about what they did, saw, heard about, or were associated with. Many of them work now at the same organizations, remaining a part of the same contracting firms, the CIA, and the military. Our torturers.
What is it that allows all those people to remain silent? How many are simply scared, watched what happening to John Kiriakou and thought: not me, I'm not sticking my neck out to see it get chopped off.They're almost pathetically forgivable, even if they are placing their own self-interest above that of their country.
But what about the others, the ones who remain silent about what they did or saw or aided and abetted in some fashion because they still think it was the right thing to do? The ones who will do it again when another frightened president asks them to? Or even the ones who enjoyed doing it?
The same Department of Justice that hunted down the one man who spoke against torture from the inside still maintains a special unit, 60 years after the end of WWII, dedicated to hunting down the last few at-large Nazis. They do that under the rubric of "never again." The truth is that same team needs to be turned loose on our national security state. Otherwise, until we have a full accounting of what was done in our names by our government, the pieces are all in place for it to happen again. There, if you want to know, is the real horror.
Peter Van Buren writes about current events at blog. His book,Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99Percent, is available now from Amazon.
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PFLP: On the anniversary of the notorious Balfour Declaration, the Zionist entity remains illegitimate!
Posted on 3 November 2014 by truthaholics
PFLP: On the anniversary of the notorious Balfour Declaration, the Zionist entity remains illegitimate ~ PFLP.
On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Alfred Balfour delivered a treacherous stab in the back to the Palestinian Arab people, through a letter sent to Lord Lionel Rothschild, expressing the support of the British state for the establishment of a "Jewish national home" in Palestine. This promise marked the stamp of approval on the Zionist project in Palestine and its work to impel the migration of Jews from various countries of the world in order to constitute Zionist military forces, supported with various types of modern weapons, who proceeded to commit massacres as a prelude to the establishment of the Israeli state on the ruins of our homes and lands and the displacement of our people in the region and around the world in 1948.
This historic crime, in which the British colonial state gave away what it was not its to give, continues to be a stain on the British state and global imperialism. The Palestinian people will not forget and will not forgive, over successive generations, the great crime committed against them.
The Palestinian people swiftly rejected this declaration on a popular level. Immmediately upon its announcement, Palestinians engaged in fierce clashes with the British occupation and the Zionists, refusing the dismantlement and destruction of their homeland, Palestine, and giving their lives in order to prevent the dispossession of Palestinian land and giving it to the Zionists. The Palestinian people took action from the outset, boldly acting with a firm commitment to the justice of their cause and the right to defend their land from this scheme. The magnitude of the crimes committed were severe and massive, leading to the establishment of the Zionist entity and the escalation of the conflict that continues until this moment.
We in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, after 97 years of this treacherous colonialist promise, are confident in the ability of the Palestinian people to continue their resistance in order to undo the effects of this heinous crime and defeat the Zionist project in Palestine, no matter how long the struggle continues. We emphasize the following points:
1. Britain bears direct responsibility for this heinous crime committed against the Palestinian people. The imperialist British state is firmly in the camp that is hostile to the Palestinian people, and must not only apologize to the Palestinian people for this crime but atone for it by ensuring the return of the Palestinian people to their land, and the return of the Palestinian land and rights to their rightful owners.
2. There is growing global solidarity with the Palestinian cause, especially in Britain, which is evidenced in the recent vote of the British House of Commons in response to the pressure of the movement. The solidarity movement must escalate the pressure on the British state in order to end the historical injustice against our people and stop supporting the Zionist entity on all levels.
3. The battle with the Zionist criminal enemy and with global imperialism requires a struggle against racism and colonialism on the Arab level. Once again, we reaffirm that this entity is a Zionist-Arab conflict and should not be limited to our people, fighting in isolation from their Arab sisters and brothers.
4. The escalation of the Zionist attacks on the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza, in the occupied city of Jerusalem, and on our prisoners in Israeli jails, cannot terrorize our people, and will not kill the Palestinian will of steadfastness and resistance. The resistance will continue in various forms until the achievement of its objectives.
5. There is a need to build national unity and reconciliation, and expedite the call for the provisional Palestinian leadership to meet and carry out their responsibilities and to rebuild the Palestinian institutions on the basis of proportional representation and a national vision with the participation of all forces in democratic elections, and the formulation of a national strategy based on adhering to constants and unity in order to confront the racist Zionist entity.
6. We draw lessons from the experience of 21 years of abhorrent, absurd negotiations, which have only proven clear failure, and the alternative of going to the United Nations for the implementation of all of the rights of our people without negotiations. It is important to join all national organizations and it is particularly imperative to join the International Criminal Court without further delay to prosecute the occupation for its crimes against the Palestinian people.
7. We must escalate the pressure to end the suffering of our people, who confront siege and aggression, as a national collective responsibility. We reaffirm that our first priority to mitigate the Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip in the reconstruction is lifting the siege and opening all crossings immediately, and we call for a national committee to monitor the subject of reconstruction to protect it from Zionist involvement and intervention.
Finally, after 97 years of this racist declaration, we reaffirm that the Zionist entity remains an illegitimate and false entity, and we hold our firm conviction that it will be defeated, uprooted and dismantled. This requires us to strengthen our militant role, support the steadfastness of our people, and harness all of our energies to confront the Zionist entity.
We promise our people to remain on the road of struggle until the defeat of the occupation on every inch of our land.
Posted in World	| Tagged Arab, barack obama, benjamin netanyahu, Cairo, current-events, Damascus, European Union, Gaza, human-rights, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Jews, Liberty, Zionism	| 1 Reply
Wag the dog: Kerry calls Netanyahu to apologize for official's 'chickenshit' comment!
Kerry calls Netanyahu to apologize for official's 'chickenshit' comment ~ RT.
US Secretary of State John Kerry phoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday to apologize for the remarks of an anonymous senior government official who called the PM "chickeshit."
Kerry and Netanyahu had a "good conversation" that included a discussion of ways to improve relations between US and Israeli leaders, American officials told the Times of Israel. The two men also discussed other regional issues, including efforts to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions.
"The thing about Bibi [Netanyahu] is, he's a chickenshit," a senior Obama administration official told the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, who published the quote in an article Tuesday on the "crisis in US-Israeli relations."
"The good thing about Netanyahu is that he's scared to launch wars. The bad thing about him is that he won't do anything to reach an accommodation with the Palestinians or with the Sunni Arab states," the anonymous source continued.
The White House and Kerry quickly moved to distance themselves from the quotes.
The president's press secretary, Josh Earnest, said the anonymous official's remarks do not reflect the US position or President Barack Obama's views.
"We condemn anybody who uses language such as was used in this article. That does not reflect the president, it does not reflect me," Kerry said at the Sixth Annual Washington Ideas Forum on Thursday."It is disgraceful, unacceptable, damaging, and I think neither President Obama nor I – I've never heard that word around me in the White House or anywhere – I don't know who these anonymous people are who keep getting quoted in things. But they make life much more difficult, and we are proud of what we have done to help Israel through a very difficult time."
On Wednesday, Netanyahu made the unusual move of responding directly to the quotes, using them to his political advantage, according to Newsweek. Israeli leaders do not usually acknowledge comments made anonymously.
"Our supreme interests, chiefly the security and unity of Jerusalem, are not the main concern of those anonymous officials who attack us and me personally, as the assault on me comes only because I defend the State of Israel," Netanyahu said while opening a memorial ceremony in parliament for an Israeli cabinet minister assassinated by a Palestinian in 2001.
"Despite all of the attacks I suffer, I will continue to defend our country. I will continue to defend the citizens of Israel," he added.
Regardless of the crassness of the comments in the Atlantic, many Israelis agree with the characterization of the country's leader, as he is considered to be one of the most risk-averse Israeli prime ministers in history, Newsweek reported.
On Thursday, left-leaning paper Haaretz published a political cartoon that depicted Netanyahu flying a plane labeled "Israel" into New York City's Twin Towers, which is flying the American flag. Cartoonist Amos Biderman offered no caption to explain the drawing.
In a phone interview with the Times of Israel, Biderman explained that the cartoon implied Netanyahu was leading to "a disaster in Israel-US relations on the scale of 9/11," pointing to the prime minister's"arrogance" and unchecked settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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| Israeli court says nuclear hero Mordechai Vanunu must remain a virtual prisoner!
Israeli court says nuclear hero Mordechai Vanunu must remain a virtual prisoner ~ Redress Information & Analysis.
As we predicted, Israel's Supreme Court has dismissed a request by nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu to leave Israel.
Vanunu, who served 18 years in prison for telling the world the truth about Israel's nuclear secrets, was released from prison in 2004, but he is prohibited from leaving the apartheid state, visiting the occupied West Bank or approaching foreign embassies and speaking with foreign nationals. He also is not permitted to communicate with others online.
Mordechai Vanunu: Israeli Supreme Court rules must remain imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto.
On 25 December Vanunu told a Supreme Court hearing that he wanted to leave the supremacist Jewish state. "I don't want to live in Israel," he said, adding that he is often subjected to harassment by the Israeli public whenever he is recognized.
However, on 29 December Supreme Court Justice Asher Grunis denied Vanunu's appeal, stating:
The restrictions are intended to prevent future dissemination of classified material. In recent years the court has examined the necessity of the restrictions several times, and each time has been convinced that they are necessary for state security. The evidence shown here, including the covert evidence, indicates that the plaintiff is still a source of classified information, and is not hesitant to disseminate the information.
Reacting to the ruling, Vanunu wrote: "No justice in Israel democracy. The Supreme Court, by its Chief Justice Grunis, rejected my appeal to be free from Israel state, after 27 years in Israel prison."
He told the writer Eileen Fleming: "All the secrets I had were published in 1989 in an important book, by [Nuclear Physicist] Frank Barnaby, The Invisible Bomb: Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East.
In 1986, Barnaby was hired by the the Sunday Times to vet Vanunu's story and he testified at Vanunu's closed door trial:
I found Vanunu very straightforward about his motives for violating Israel's secrecy laws he explained to me that he believed that both the Israeli and the world public had the right to know about the information he passed on. He seemed to me to be acting ideologically.
Israel's political leaders have, he said, consistently lied about Israel's nuclear-weapons programme and he found this unacceptable in a democracy. The knowledge that Vanunu had about Israel's nuclear weapons, about the operations at Dimona, and about security at Dimona could not be of any use to anyone today. He left Dimona in October 1985.
Keeping Vanunu in chains in the Jews-only state, prohibited from travelling or talking to foreigners, has nothing to do with Israel' security. It is about vengeance, pure and simple – Old Testament style.
So, please help keep Vanunu's case alive by signing this petition, calling on the media to seek and report the truth about Israel's nuclear deceptions and Vanunu's nearly 10-year struggle for his right to be free from Israel.
| Remember Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's heroic nuclear whistleblower! (truthaholics.wordpress.com)
| Remember Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's heroic nuclear whistleblower! (warcrimesinternational.wordpress.com)
Court Decides: Mordechai Vanunu Must Stay in Israel (israelnationalnews.com)
Israeli court says nuclear hero Mordechai Vanunu must remain a virtual prisoner (therebel.org)
Supreme Court denies Vanunu's request to leave Israel (jta.org)
Supreme Court denies Vanunu's request to leave Israel (nuclear-news.net)
Remember Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's heroic nuclear whistleblower (gilad.co.uk)
Remember Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's heroic nuclear whistleblower (chasvoice.blogspot.com)
Posted in World	| Tagged Asher Grunis, Dimona, Frank Barnaby, Israel, Jews, Mordechai Vanunu, Supreme Court, Supreme Court of Israel, West Bank	| 2 Replies
| Remember Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's heroic nuclear whistleblower!
Remember Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's heroic nuclear whistleblower ~ Redress Information & Analysis.
He should have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, he spent 18 years in solitary confinement.
He should be celebrated internationally as a man who has sacrificed his freedom for the truth and for the wellbeing of humanity. Instead, he has been stripped of his right to travel and prohibited from talking to foreigners.
Mordechai Vanunu: still fighting for his freedom, 27 years on.
Today, Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistleblower, is almost forgotten. But he has not given up the fight for freedom.
Vanunu is appealing to the Israeli Supreme Court to set him free – free to leave Israel, the Times of Israelreports.
"I don't want to live in Israel," he told the court in English – he won't speak Hebrew while imprisoned inside the Jews-only state.
Vanunu, who converted to Christianity in the 1980s, told the court that he is often subjected to harassment by the Israeli public whenever he is recognized.
Blaming the media for wrecking his public image, Vanunu said he didn't see a future for himself in the apartheid state.
Vanunu compared his past actions to those of US National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
"Snowden is the best example of what I did 25 years ago – when the government breaks the law and tramples on human rights, people talk. That's what he did, he speaks for everyone, and that's what I did – I spoke for everyone."
Vanunu is prohibited from visiting foreign territories, including the occupied West Bank and embassies within Israel, and can only meet with foreign nationals after securing permission from security forces.
In 1986 Vanunu leaked details of Israel's military nuclear programme to The Sunday Times, blowing the cover off Israel's so-called "nuclear ambiguity".
It is unlikely that Vanunu's plea for freedom will be accepted. That is hardly surprising – the Jews-only state is a vengeful entity, Old Testament style.
But where are the international human rights warriors? We hear none speaking for Vanunu.
Their silence is not just deafening. It is criminal.
Remember Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's heroic nuclear whistleblower (redressonline.com)
Remember Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's heroic nuclear whistleblower (therebel.org)
any country could have exfiltrated him long ago, if it wanted to (niqnaq.wordpress.com)
Let me leave Israel, nuclear leaker Vanunu implores court (timesofisrael.com)
Mandela and Vanunu (counterpunch.org)
Israel claims nuclear whistle-blower Vanunu still a security threat (haaretz.com)
Mandela and Vanunu – Men of Courage (transcend.org)
Vanunu Petitions High Court to Allow Him to Leave Israel (nuclear-news.net)
The "Iran nuclear crisis" is over. The "Israel nuclear crisis" has officially begun (uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com)
Posted in World	| Tagged Edward Snowden, Israel, Jews, Mordechai Vanunu, nobel peace prize, Sunday Times, Vanunu, West Bank	| 6 Replies
| Squatters on Crack! First UK now Romania and Netherlands object!
Israel's isolation grows as it falls out with Romania and the Netherlands ~ Redress Information & Analysis.
It's been yet another bad week for Israel.
First, its loyal poodle Britain fired its first-ever warning shot, signalling that it may have just about had enough of the apartheid state's deceptions and violations of international law.
And now, the Zionist entity has got into a diplomatic row with Romania, which has told Tel Aviv that it will not allow Romanian construction workers to be employed in the illegal, Jews-only colonies in the occupied West Bank, Israel's military radio reported on 10 December.
Differences between the two countries centre on Romania's insistence that Israel guarantee that Romanian construction workers would not be employed on the Jewish colonies, which are considered illegal under international law.
As if this were not enough, the wrangle with Romania is Israel's second diplomatic row with a European Union country this week following a dispute with the Netherlands over a new security scanner to be installed on the Gaza border that Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was to have inaugurated on 1 December, the French news agency AFP reported.
The Dutch government had hoped the scanner would help increase the export of goods from Gaza to the West Bank, but Israeli officials accused the Dutch of trying to impose "political conditions".
Also on 1 December Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans refused to accept an Israeli military escort around Palestinian-administered areas of the West Bank city of Hebron.
And there's more to come. In January 2014 Israel can look forward to new EU guidelines coming into force, which ban the funding of projects linked to the Jews-only colonies in the occupied West Bank and the illegally annexed Arab East Jerusalem.
Israel's isolation grows as it falls out with Romania and the Netherlands (redressonline.com)
| Israel to build 829 new Jewish squatter homes on stolen Palestinian land! (truthaholics.wordpress.com)
| Israel to build 829 new Jewish squatter homes on stolen Palestinian land! (warcrimesinternational.wordpress.com)
Romania stops sending construction workers to Israel over settlements (haaretz.com)
Israel: New Dutch Container Scanner to Be Used on Exports to Europe, Not West Bank (haaretz.com)
Dutch PM cancels ceremony in dispute over cargo scanner for Gaza crossing (altahrir.wordpress.com)
Area C in West Bank to house Dutch projects (worldbulletin.net)
Israel to build 829 new Jewish squatter homes on stolen Palestinian land (redressonline.com)
Israel rejects request to install Dutch security scanner on Gaza border (worldbulletin.net)
Dutch water giant nixes projects with Israel's Mekorot (timesofisrael.com)
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| Racist ziolobby now claims colours are anti-Semitic!
Colors: the new-new anti-Semitism ~ Steven Salaita, electronicIntifada.net.
It was a sad moment when sources at Israel's foreign ministry pointed out a correlation that should have been obvious to any person of conscience.
When the Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, long suspected of anti-Semitic loyalties based on the dubious word "solidarity" (to say nothing of the more onerous "Irish"), tagged Israeli products with yellow stickers urging consumers to boycott them, the ministry rightly observed, "It is not by chance that the BDS [boycott divestment and sanctions] organization chose to express its protest with a yellow sticker—which is reminiscent of dark days of racism and incitement."
First Lady Michelle Obama in the White House kitchen with a conspicuously yellow Big Bird.
(Lawrence Jackson / White House Photo)
That so many of us failed to make the connection of a yellow sticker that has nothing to do with the Holocaust to the Holocaust illustrates the pervasiveness of anti-Semitism among local sticker-making shops, the IG Farben of the modern age. The Israeli government and its hate-fighting minions saved the day by once again affirming the importance of factual analysis.
Like an anachronistic settler colony, anti-Semitism flourishes in the least appropriate places. Now that an authority as credible as the Israeli government has exposed the color yellow as anti-Semitic, we must be on guard for rubber duckies, jaundice, corn, school buses, bumblebees, mustard (especially of the French variety), the sun, bananas, Big Bird, dandelions, number two pencils, lemonade, snowy fields where dogs roam, legal pads, butter, canaries, grapefruit, and even — as one Israeli diplomat suggested a few years ago — Asian people.
The new-new-new anti-Semitism
The discovery that yellow is anti-Semitic begs the question of which other colors conceal evil intentions. Let's investigate if any can be considered kosher:
Black: Hitler's wimpy little mustache was black. No black then.
Brown: most Palestinians are brown. Brown is out.
Pink: Eva Braun sometimes wore pink. All around the world, little girls proudly display their hatred of Israel with this infernal color.
Orange: the inventor of Fanta was a Nazi. Bye-bye, orange.
Green: the color of German uniforms during World War II. Green is a no-go.
Red: the background of the Nazi flag. We cannot compromise on red.
Gray: Nazi concentration camp prisoners wore gray. Away with gray!
Blue: the ideal eye color to Nazi eugenicists. Blue is therefore terribly offensive. (Unfortunately, we must immediately lobby Israel to change its flag from an anti-Semitic endorsement of eugenics to something more tasteful like a clean-pressed length of Saran Wrap).
White: Eichmann and Goebbels were white. Need I say more?
Purple: in Nazi concentration camps, Jehovah's Witnesses, not Jews, were required to wear purple. Purple is okay then.
Clearly, we have a serious problem. The new anti-Semitism was once any support of the PLO. Not long after, it was the refusal to condemn that bearded rapscallion, Arafat. Then it became acceptance of peace with Egypt. After that, it manifested itself in the perfidious desire for a Palestinian state. Later it evolved into sympathy for Palestinian children murdered during the second Intifada. Finally, it gave way to that hideous hate fad known asBDS.
The new-new-new-new-new-new-new anti-Semitism, however, may be the most vicious of all: color. Only a people as cunning as the Palestinians and their brainwashed supporters could have invented something so dastardly, so devious, so detestable, that it conceals anti-Semitism in the spectral sensitivities of the human eye. We are up against an insidious adversary, indeed.
As much as it might pain us to outlaw color (except for purple), we must act in the best interest of humanity and extinguish anti-Semitism wherever it exists. The Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign proved that those opposed to Jewish supremacy in Palestine are motivated by the nefarious desire to exterminate the Jews. We must create a world that is, despite Israel's alleged nuclear arsenal, safe for us to inhabit, one without hue or contrast, awash in semiotic paranoia, beholden to exaggeration, disseminating imaginary victimhood, and doggedly resistant to any form of justice.
After all, it would be a tragedy for the seriousness of anti-Semitism to be devalued.
Anti-Semitism 'on rise in Europe' (bbc.co.uk)
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