Re: הכנסת ס"ת שארית ישראל - hachnasat sefer torah to Bet Hakneset Shearit Yisrael Sderot

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Israel Kaplan can honestly say that he shares in the pain of his brethren.  May we all be equally zocheh and learn from his example.

Israel, Thank you so much for sharing.  Yasher Koach!

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Israel Kaplan <israelkaplan@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear Family & Friends   On the eighth day of Shevat, corresponding to February 2nd, 2009, a Sefer Torah entered into the Shearit Yisrael Shul in Sderot.  The Shearit Yisrael Kehilla is one of the few ashkenaz shuls in Sderot and has a mix of young and old, many immigrants and Israeli born Jews.   Several month earlier I was approached by members of the kehilla to help them locate a Torah as the Sifrei Torah they had were either on loan or were posul beyond repair.  So after giving it much thought I decided that the right thing to do was to donate one to this shul.   The dedication was not in memory of our family members but rather to honor the Jews of Sderot who have shown our enemies, both near and far that it will take much more than  the intimidation of Kassam rockets and the recklessness of the ruling Israeli governments to remove these Holy Jews from their homes.      The event was planned for between Mincha & Maariv and when I showed up at this very modest shul with Alon Davidi of Maateh L'bitchon Sderot, recorded music started to play and the chaverim of the shul drew us into the dancing immediately.   Throughout the dancing with the Sifrei Torah, I kept thinking of what brings me to this place, why me, why Sderot, why this shul?  Later in the evening the answers became clear when we sat down to the seudah in order to give shevach v'hodaah (praise and thanks to hashem) that he brought us to this moment of great joy(as seen in these pictures).   One regret was that my wife, children and grandchildren who live in Israel were not with me during this hachnasat Hasefer but due to timing, work and school it would have been difficult, however we hope in the future to involve them in similar acts of chesed.   At a point in the suedah a number of Rabbanim stood and said beautiful divrei torah which encapsulated a myriad of aspects related to why we all came together.      So, at the end of the divrei torah an announcement is made asking me to address the kehillah hakdosha and only then did it dawn on me that I am speaking to an entirely hebrew speaking group.   Ashamedly my hebrew is not all that good but having little choice stood up and thus began my debut of giving a drasha in hebrew for the next 10-15 minutes.    I have often heard Rabbanim say throughout my life that whenever you are looking for connectivity to a happening open up the chumash and there you will find it, in front of your nose.    I firstly asked for mechilah from those that were gathered, that my hebrew is rough and that I will need their help to get me through this.   I then brought to their attention my thoughts of why me why Sderot, why this shul.   I opened up the Chumash to parshat Shmot perek alef, posuk zayin.   Yosef has died and the Jewish people were fruitful and became strong and the land became filled with Jews.   So what we see here is that while Yosef was alive and leadership exsisted and protected, the Jewish people were safe and secure and despite the fact that they grew and became many there were no assurances that there safety and security was guaranteed as the following suggests (v'yakam melech chadash).   From this point I turn to Shmot Perek bet posuk yud alef.  Moshe Rabbainu grows up and went out to his brothers and the posuk says that he observed their burdens(v'yar b'sivlosam).  I remarked that Moshe grew up not only grew up physically but also matured in his sensitivity to the plight of his brothers and identified as one of them.   Moshe sees an Egyptian beating a Jew and with very little hesitation acts quickly and decisively, wrong or right and kills the Egyptian.   My comment being that this is the first time we see that a man has taken notice of the suffering of the Jews.   Only later in Shmot perek bet posuk kof daled does hashem state that he hears their crying and moaning and great suffering.  Then again perek gimel posuk zayin does hashem begin to discuss with Moshe that he, Hashem has seen the suffering of his people thus begins the process of Hashem's intervention from suffering, slavery to redemption and freedom.      One should attempt to draw the lessons of life and behavior from the acts of Moshe Rabbainu who long before he knew about the powers of Hashem took it upon himself to help his fellow Jews.   Moshe was brought up as a Prince, isolated from the streets of Egypt where his brothers were going through unimaginable suffering and yet he was unable to live with himself knowing that while this is going on I am enjoying myself in a palatial existence.    It would appear that the message that I am attempting to give is that Hashem will not come into the picture unless he sees how we sacrifice for the sake of our fellow Jews first.  Other examples that Moshe displays are at the time of Golden Calf when Hashem has had it with the Jewish People and declares he will destroy the Jews at which point Moshe shows again his devotion and responds to G-d to wipe his name out from the Torah.   And yet another example of faith & emunah is when Moshe is castigated by G-d prior to the splitting of the sea and with no compassion asks Moshe why are you crying to me "did I not tell you what to do" at which time he tells  Moshe, "Now when Israel is in distress, is no time for lengthy prayer.  Bringing examples such as these could be called a blueprint on how and when to act when segments of the Jewish people are in trouble.     Another famous line that I have heard from Rabbanim throughout my life time is when you have reached IM"H your 120th and you go to for judgement will they ask you why were you not more like Moshe Rabbainu and the answer is no they will ask you why were you not more like yourself, why did you squander the great potential that you had?   Why did not you not hear the calling out of your brothers when they needed you the most?  I pray that most of us won't be asked this question.    Without greater elaboration I asked the gathering if they understood what I was trying to say.   My closing remarks were regarding the yet to be decided elections and who would lead Eretz Yisrael and Am Yisrael into the coming frightening years.  Again I borrowed some parallels from our mesorah.   When we come close to the month of Tishrei, we begin to do some soul searching and often become a bit queezy about transgressions, sins of ommission, innocent and not so innocent comments made to our fellow man.   The coming elections in Israel can be looked at by many political personalities of coming clean as it were with the Jewish people.   How refreshing would it be if someone stands up in front of the viewing public and says I made a terrible, terrible mistake.  I voted for the expulsion of the Jews from Gush Katif, I was carried away to a low place by personal greed.  I watched in the last 3 years how so many families have been destroyed with very few of us politicians coming to their aid.   I watched as the Kassam rockets rained down on the homes and people in Sderot for the last few years and I did so little to help.   Oh, I am so ashamed of what I have done.   I have no right to ask this of you the people of Israel who voted me into power, but I need your forgiveness.   Are there politicians of this calibre who are able to show their human side, I responded, very, very doubtful.   Politicians in Israel are unable to admit to making mistakes lest those who oppose them use the apology as being less than perfect and unable to serve.   Only politicians who make no mistakes are able to serve and the rest, well the rest are not part of the ruling class.   I suggested to the small gathering that far be it from myself to make predictions on the political future of Eretz Yisrael, but that until a new bread of political leadership religous or non-religous are voted into power those that are being recycled today will continue to challenge us for many years to come.   I thanked everyone for the z'chus and merit of sharing my feelings with the Jews of Sderot and left the evening elevated and richer for this experience. May we all share in similar experineces throughout our lives.   Thank you Izzy Kaplan           ----- Sent:  ----- Sent:   חה . I am

Tehillim for 3 Yeshiva Boys on Trial in Japan Yaakov Yosef ben [son of] Raizel, Yoel Zev ben Mirel Risa Chava, and Yosef ben Ita Rivka.

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Please say Tehillim for Yaakov Yosef ben [son of] Raizel, Yoel Zev ben Mirel Risa Chava, and Yosef ben Ita Rivka.

Three Yeshiva Boys on Trial in Japan

by Hillel Fendel

The trial of one of three Israeli yeshiva boys charged with smuggling drugs into Japan – inside a suitcase a "friend" asked them to take for him – has begun, and the other two are to begin within weeks.

Efforts to give the three legal aid, financial help and prayers have been stepped up in Jewish communities around the world.

The story began last April when the three Chassidic yeshiva boys from Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, all under age 20 and one under age 18, were asked to transport some antiques from Holland to Japan. The three were part of an "acts of charity club," and the friend who asked them for the favor, offered them $1,000 each, and assured them that everything was legal, was the coordinator of their group. They therefore suspected nothing.

Once in Amsterdam, they were given the "antiques" – concealed inside false-bottomed suitcases. Told that this was a precaution against theft, they once again suspected nothing, and flew on to Tokyo. In Japan, the false bottoms were quickly detected and broken into by customs officials – who found there not antiques, but $3.6 million worth of Ecstasy pills.

The boy's ensuing detention period has been "very difficult, to say the least," sources close to the case say.  Japan is known for its no-nonsense approach to drug-trafficking and other crimes, and in view of the severity of the charges, the boys have been separated from each other, grilled by interrogators, and forced to subsist on vegetables, fish and the like – so as not to eat non-kosher food. 

Fears That It Will Get Worse
Held in conditions that are diametrically opposed to the culture and sheltered conditions in which they grew up, they are likely to face even more difficult conditions for untold years in Japanese prison if convicted. Japan and Israel do not have a mutual extradition treaty.

Actively helping out in procuring legal help and visitors are Rabbinical Court Judge Chaim Yosef Dovid Weiss of Antwerp, Belgium; Attorney Mordechai Tzivin of Israel, who deals in international law and specializes in cases of Israelis incarcerated overseas; Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Yaakov Bleich; and Rabbi Aron Nezri of London. In addition, Japanese lawyers have been hired to defend the boys – and they recently flew to Israel to see first-hand the environment of trust and kindness in which their clients grew up. 

Points in Their Favor
The sources say that though criminal cases in Japan almost never end in acquittal, the boys' exemplary behaviour, as well as extenuating circumstances as they were carrying out their "crime," have been noted. For one thing, all three have passed lie-detector tests showing that they were unwittingly taken advantage of by someone they trusted, and that they did not know what they were carrying. In addition, their behaviour before and during their trip to Japan indicated that they felt not at all self-conscious or secretive about their intentions.  

"Their incarceration in Japan is very difficult," one source emphasized, "physically, emotionally, and legally – and it can get intolerably worse if they are convicted."  The boys spend whatever hours they have studying Torah and praying, and try to fulfil whatever Torah precepts they can. Rabbi Nezri said that one of them told him, "No matter how much you think you understand what emunah [faith in G-d] is, you can't really know what it means until you're in my position."

Prayers
The families ask for prayers for their sons: Yaakov Yosef ben [son of] Raizel, Yoel Zev ben Mirel Risa Chava, and Yosef ben Ita Rivka.

A letter from one of them, Yaakov Yosef, several months ago, was replete with words of inspiration and faith. He wrote that he did not want to write about his personal situation, "because this is not the time, and especially since I didn't want to break you too much, for there are things that are above nature, and they happen every single day, without exaggeration." 

He also noted that he had "received letters from people we don't know, because all Israel is responsible one for another; 'Who is like Your nation Israel!'... and just as you [plural] wish to know about our reception of your letters, so too and even more I want to know how you [will accept] this letter, to which I have dedicated more than a week... and also, I saw your letter only a month after you sent it, and who knows how long it will be before you receive this.  I will sign off here, with G-d's help... saying, 'Even if I walk in the valley of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me, Your staff and rod will comfort me.'"

Re: Hoenlein: AMERICAN ISRAELI ACTION COALITION - Please protest!

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Dear Barbara, amv"sh

Malcolm Hoenlein is a dynamic speaker who mesmerizes his audience.  He wears a Kipa, is knowledgeable and quotes Tanach.  Yet as Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations he has been a major force in promoting a 2 State Solution and is a master politician. 

Unless people attend this event in Jerusalem in order to protest his continuous involvement in pushing Oslo, Annapolis and President Bush's Roadmap then why honor him with a mesmerized respectful audience? Malcolm Hoenlein has misguided the major Jewish organizations and hundreds of thousands of Jews, if not millions, into accepting the lie that a working  relationship with Fatah proves our willingness to work for the advancement of peace and security. 

He has yet to proclaim the Jews exclusive entitlement  of the Land of Israel based on G-D's Covenant with the Jewish people and does not publicly discredits Fatah's claim to the Land. By this silence he perpetuates the lie that we, the settlers, are the occupiers and that Fatah has legitimate claim to Judea and Samaria.

Malcolm Hoenlein is the number one expert on antisemitism. Therefore if antisemitism would decline, then Malcolm Hoenlein would be underemployed. 

We all know that there are charismatic dentists who are unethical.  They won't tell you to floss or brush your teeth. Or maybe they will. But they will create problems in your teeth when there weren't any before and you as a layman haven't a clue.  Are they professional?  No question about it!  They know how to fix your teeth better than any other dentist. So not only won't you know that this dentist created your problems, you will come out of his office depending on him and showering praises upon him believing that he is the most capable fantastic dentist alive.

There are auto mechanics that are unethical.  They fix your car in such a way they you will have to come back to them for major repairs.  As a layman you haven't a clue. After all, the knowledgeable auto mechanic, he's the professional. He has fixed problem after problem like no other mechanic has done.  He teaches all the other auto mechanics and is well regarded and respected.
 
AIAC clearly has a political agenda and if you read their statement of principles, Judea and Samaria are disregarded and by omission, expendable. This non statement is a political statement!  It is definitely a political stand that has been the public position of the major Jewish Organizations in America such as Agudath Yisroel of America, or the OU and even the Young Israel who never publicly protested Annapolis or spoke out against a Palestinian State! By this they bring "unity and consensus"?

The statement of principles of AIAC are deliberately vague.  The work of a true politician.

As a Jewish people we must unite around our Torah. We must not be afraid to speak out for our Torah and against a Palestinian State based on our entitlement. If AIAC truly wants unity that will last it must focus on the Torah and G-d's Covenant with the Jewish people. 

Only then AIAC will become a non-political, non-partisan, issue-oriented NGO based on our heritage and not politics. 

My fear is that if AIAC is successful in effectively recruiting and activating the more than 250,000 expatriate American citizens in Israel in order to create a united voice that will be heard by the governments and people of the United States and Israel on issues that pertain to the continued safety and security of Israel and the Jewish people worldwide, they will send the wrong message for the Jewish People and for the world! 

Why is Jeff Daube involved?

Will AIAC invite Nadia Matar to speak?  How about Gershon Mesika? Their message is more consistent with our Jewish Heritage than is Malcolm Hoenlein's.

Robin
 

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Barbara Sommer <sommer_1_98@yahoo.com> wrote:

AIAC: AMERICAN ISRAELI ACTION COALITION

AIAC Co-Sponsors Presentation by Malcolm Hoenlein Saturday Night, February 21/28 Shevat AIAC: American Israeli Action Coalition Co-Sponsors Motzaei Shabbat Mevorchim Social Evening and Lecture at the Jerusalem Great Synagogoue 56 King George Street. 8:15 PM (doors open at 7:30) Speaker: Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice-Chairman of The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Topic: "After the Elections: What Does the Future Hold?" Admission is free. # # # AIAC is a non-political, non-partisan, issue-oriented NGO, which is devoted to effectively recruiting and activating the more than 250,000 expatriate American citizens in Israel in order to create a united voice that will be heard by the governments and people of the United States and Israel on issues that pertain to the continued safety and security of Israel and the Jewish people worldwide. www.aiacoalition.org AIAC POB 7440 Jerusalem 94262

fwd: Hell Arrives in Britain

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Dear Family and Friends, Dati or Secular, amv"sh

I usually do not send emails out that are so disturbing and alarming. If the rise of antisemitism is happening in Britain, then Canada and America have reason to worry.... 

How to effectively combat antisemitism?

It is my opinion that there is a strong correlation between Am Yisroel's longing and desire for Eretz Yisroel and to keep the commandments of the Torah in Eretz Yisroel,  with the rise and fall of Antisemitism. 

Yawn, "Yeah right" you say and then off you go on to your next email. This one is getting too long and too wordy.. What has this to do with the Hell in Britain?

But I beg you to continue reading.

All religous Jews agree that  Torah observance can only reach is full capacity within the Land of Israel and with our Beit Hamikdash. 

Yawn again. This is nothing new.

The religious and the secular don't like to talk about this practically and as relevant.

On to the next email...this ones not saying anything...too much musar (rebuke..)

The religious say that they believe that Eretz Yisroel belongs to us but act as if its an ellusive dream for the future.  They go around their daily lives as if the events taking place in Israel and the world are of no reflection or consequence as to the way they are observing the commandments of the Torah Not talking Lashon Hara and davening harder are emphasized among other select commandments and typically satisfy the religious requirements of observance of the Torah commandments.

Keeping the Land itself is of no major consequence.  The typical religious Jew will sit on the side watching, perhaps in dismay, as events unfold and as the political parties that represent them make deals with those that wish to give away Eretz Yisroel, 

The secular Zionists too have abandoned the Land. When we talk about the observance of Torah commandments, the secular are terrified of religious coercion. When we talk of observing commandments they perhaps are afraid that they will be forced to dress in a certain way and their lifestyle will be cramped because of not being able to turn on lights on Shabbos or travel.

These are some of the misconceptions of the religious Jew and the secular Jew! 

The Land is necessary for Torah observance and Torah does not cramp ones lifestyle.

Therefore, To effectively fight antisemitism we must agree on these basic points:

1. The Torah is the blueprint for each and every Jew and a model for the entire world.

2.  Eretz Yisroel is the birthright of the Jewish Nation and the laws and precepts of the Torah must be observed in the Land.

Once these two fundamental premises are engraved in our mindset we will act differently

No stone will be unturned to make sure that the land remains in Jewish hands protected and secure and  to see the relationship between the Jewish People and the Land as holy and sanctified as with a holy marriage. 

This means no talk of reciprocity or of other responsible partners..

 I believe that when the Jews clearly claim our entitlement of the Land of Israel, reject in principle and in action the formation of a Palestinian State because Eretz Yisroel is our birthright and because only Am Yisroel have the mandate to keep the commandments in the Land, than the forces of antisemitism will dissipate.

Therefore, rather than turn our energies into fighting a monster that is too great for us, we must put all our energies into creating the facts on the ground, such as political reform in Israel and in uniting in proclaiming our Divine Inheritance and acting to do whatever we can to secure and protect this Divine gift of ours. 

If after taking these steps the forces of evil continue to grow and the forces of antisemitism seems to be on an all time high, we must remember what happened in Egypt.  We must stand firm in our belief in the Torah and in Hakadosh Baruch Hu and be like the generation coming out of Egypt who cried out to Hashem and were worthy of seeing miraculous miracles.  G-d says I will fight for you and you will be Silent. (Anochi Alacheim Lachem Veatem Tacharishu!)

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From: hanna jaffa erez <hannajaffa@rogers.com>
Date: Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Subject: Fw: Hell Arrives in Britain
To: Robin Ticker <faigerayzel@gmail.com>

 

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From: Media Action Shirley Anne

To: 'Media Action Shirley Anne'

Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 2:34 AM

Subject: Hell Arrives in Britain

Dear Friends,

 

This article by Melanie Phillips reinforces our need to take a close look at what is happening with Canadian universities – already many of our students state that they have to deal with intimidation when going to class. What is happening in British universities could happen here in Ontario if the administrations at many of our universities continue to turn a blind eye to the behavior of some students which contravenes the university's Code of Behavior. It's time that we started to look at this issue YERY seriously.

 

Shirley Anne Haber

The Media Action Group

info@mediaactiongroup.com

 

The jihad against Britain's Jews

Friday, 6th February 2009   Melanie Phillips

I am hearing ever more alarming accounts of the deepening attrition against British Jews in the wake of the incitement against Israel provoked by the war in Gaza. In addition to the record number of attacks upon Jewish individuals and institutions and murderous incitement displayed on the anti-Israel demonstrations and riots as reported by the Community Security Trust, Jewish parents report that their children – some as young as eight – are now running a gauntlet of attack from their Muslim classmates at school who accuse them of 'killing Palestinian children'. Comments by adults about 'Jews controlling all the money/the media/the BBC' (yes, really! All because it allowed Israel's spokesman to put the case for Israel from time to time) are now commonplace in both private and public discourse. Today's Jewish Chronicle reports that a 12 year-old Birmingham schoolgirl was terrorised by a mob of 20 youths chanting 'Kill all Jews' and 'Death to Jews' on her way home from school last week:

She said: 'One of my friends said an Asian girl from the year above asked her why she was talking to me because I am Jewish. I asked the girl in a friendly manner if she had a problem with me being Jewish. She said "yeah, I do". I managed to punch her before she hit me but then she grabbed me by the hair and swung me around shouting "f****** Jews, I hate Jews". But then another Asian girl rounded up a whole gang. They were all in school uniform and they came running towards me shouting "death to Jews" and "kill all Jews."'

A reader has sent me the following account of what happened to him when, travelling on the Tube in London, he started to read a copy of The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz:

After a time, I became aware that a man sitting diagonally in front of me near the doors at the end of the carriage was looking a bit agitated and had a disgruntled expression on his face. However, he didn't meet my eye, so I thought nothing more of it and continued reading as before...When the train reached St Paul's, the man I had noticed stood up to get off. But instead of leaving by the end doors, he made to pass me. In the process of doing so, he deliberately shoved into me and made to crush me against the side of the carriage and the passengers sitting behind me. Despite already knowing exactly what had actuated this behaviour, I asked the question anyway - and received the following response: 'You shouldn't be reading that, you f***ing [indecipherable].'...The whole confrontation had taken place in the time it took for the tube doors to wheeze open and shut.

Other than in the Jewish press, such incidents are barely being reported. Last week, for example, there was virtually no coverage of the violent demonstration organised by the Stop the War coalition which prevented the deputy commander of Israel's Gaza operation from speaking at London's Jewish student centre, Hillel House, when a crowd of about 60-80 students attempted to storm the building.

One of the most troubling developments is the way in which the universities have become an extension of the Middle East conflict, with a simulacrum of the aggression, intimidation and violence from which Israel is under attack by the Arabs being directed at Jewish students on British campuses, who now routinely run a gauntlet of intimidation and abuse from Arab and Muslim students. But even more worryingly, some universities are spinelessly choosing to give in to such bullying.

Throughout last week, after the cease-fire was declared in Gaza, there was a series of anti-Israel sit-ins and demonstrations organised by the STWC at some 17 universities: in London at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the London School of Economics, Queen Mary College and King's College, as well as at Bradford, Sheffield Hallam, Warwick, Leeds, Oxford, Cambridge, Sussex, Essex, Nottingham, Birmingham, Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan and Strathclyde. Some of these protests led to criminal damage and forced the universities to pay thousands of pounds to deal with the disruption, rearrange lectures, hire extra security guards and repair the damage.

The demonstrators took control of lecture halls and made a series of demands: that the universities should issue a statement condemning Israel's actions in Gaza; offer scholarships to Palestinian students; send surplus educational materials to help rebuild Gaza (presumably its Islamic University, said by Israel to be a fount of terror); dedicate some of their time to fund-raising for Gaza; and take no action against the demonstrators.

Some of these universities responded robustly to such disorder and intimidation. Manchester Metropolitan, Birmingham, Nottingham and, after some delay, Leeds and Cambridge reportedly refused to accept any of these demands.  At Nottingham and Sheffield Hallam, the demonstrators were forcibly evicted.

But the LSE, King's College London, SOAS, Bradford, Strathclyde and Oxford reportedly gave in to some or all of these demands. According to the JC, the LSE agreed to waive application fees for Gaza and West Bank students 'directly affected by the conflict', while Bradford

agreed to investigate the 'ethical background' of food and drink served on campus, and promised to 'explore the feasibility of a twinning link with the Islamic University of Gaza'.
 

Strathclyde agreed among other things to cancel a contract with an Israeli water-cooler company.  Oxford – which fined each demonstrator the princely sum of £20 – nevertheless started negotiations with them with indecent haste, and a mere few hours later had agreed to pretty well everything. In a craven letter to colleagues the Vice-Chancellor, John Hood, having stated that

unlawful action of this kind cannot be condoned

proceeded to reward it by giving the perpetrators what they had demanded.

The Oxford demonstrators also demanded that the title of the series of lectures on 'world peace' at Balliol, recently inaugurated by Israeli President Shimon Peres and named in his honour, be changed; the Senior Proctor, Professor Donald Fraser -- who oversees disciplinary matters and who recommended 'a relatively lenient course of action against the demonstrators '--  duly wrote to Balliol drawing its attention to the students' concerns.

Thus the trahison des clercs as they crumble in the face of criminality, violence and intimidation.

And so now at British universities --which should be the most protected of all environments for free discourse and inquiry -- British Jews no longer feel safe. At Nottingham, one such student said:

The sit-in has created an atmosphere where we do not feel comfortable going into shared buildings on campus.

At King's, another Jewish student said:

Someone from my course wrote 'kill the Jews' on my Facebook profile. Later he said he didn't know I was Jewish. In public someone said to me, 'I think all the Israelis are crazy and so are the f***ing Jews'.

And at Oxford, the JC reports:

One University Reader reportedly told a meeting that 'within five years, Oxford will be a Jew-free zone'

and a student wrote to Professor Fraser warning that

for Jewish students, the university and the city have developed a toxic atmosphere in which I and many others feel increasingly alienated and unwelcome.

Meanwhile, of course, as Sky's Tim Marshall pointed out the other day on his blog, the government of Sri Lanka is also attempting to eradicate terrorism by a military campaign in which, according to the UN, 'many civilians are being killed', thousands made homeless, hundreds of thousands trapped, and to which, as food shortages grow, the government refuses to allow access to journalists. Yet there are no sit-ins on campus against the Sri Lankans, no violent riots outside its High Commission, no calls to boycott Orange Pekoe tea. As Marshall observed:

And yet somehow the lives of the 1,300 Palestinians killed by the Israelis causes far more outrage, in certain quarters, than the 2 million dead in Congo, the tens of thousands of Iraqis killed by Sunni and Shia terrorists, or the growing number of Sri Lankan dead to add to the 70,000 killed over the past 25 years (far more than the number of Palestinians and Israelis killed in the same period).

Of course – because the protests in Britain have nothing to do with humanitarian concerns for the innocent. They are part of the jihad against the Jews – and those in the universities and other parts of the establishment who are capitulating to or even endorsing this are accomplices to a great evil that is now consuming British public life.

 

Accessed 7 February 2009, http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3329296/the-jihad-against-britains-jews.thtml

 

09-02-06, Melanie Phillips, "The jihad against Britain's Jews," spectator.co.uk, 6 February 2009, http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3329296/the-jihad-against-britains-jews.thtml  (accessed 7 February 2009).

Why I support National Union please read- INN: Arabs Told: Shape Up or Ship Out

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129800

Arabs Told: Shape Up or Ship Out
by Gil Ronen 

"We are a law abiding state and not only Jews have to respect the law, Arabs do too," the Ichud Leumi (National Union)'s leader Yaakov "Ketzaleh" Katz told Arabs Thursday in Wadi Ara, a valley densely populated by Arabs in northern Israel.

"The lawlessness in the Arab sector will end exactly five days from now, when we are elected into office," he vowed. "When we run the country, the situation will change. You've grown used to Barak and Livni's weakness, but the party is over."

"The October riots will not be repeated," Ketzaleh added, as a small crowd of Arabs from the city of Umm El-Fahm began to gather around the Knesset members and their supporters at the entrance to the city.

A small contingent of policemen, some of them from the special Yassam unit, pushed away some of the Arabs, but some of the locals got very close to the Ichud Leumi candidates and cursed them with various epithets. Knesset Member Uri Ariel was crowded by four or five Arabs but did not lose his cool and kept a determined grin on his face throughout. At the police's request, the Ichud Leumi convoy moved onward and stopped at Megiddo Junction, where they gave interviews to reporters from Jewish and Arabic media outlets.

Ketzaleh and MK Uri Ariel said that Arabs in Wadi Ara have built over 3,000 units illegally in recent years along Highway 65. They said it was time for Israel to begin demolishing illegally built Arab houses.

"In the State of Israel, there will no longer be a situation in which a Jew drives along the Wadi Ara road and the locals will shout 'Itbach al-Yahud' ['slaughter the Jews' – ed at him," Ketzaleh said. "This happened in Europe during the Holocaust but it will not happen in the State of Israel. The Arabs have 21 states in which they can build their houses and shout 'itbach' all day long," he said. "The Arabs are cowards and when they see the Jews behaving proudly they calm down very fast."

Humanitarian corridor to Venezuela

Number four on the Ichud Leumi list, Rabbi Dr. Michael Ben-Ari, told the Arabs listening to him that Israel would be willing to open a "humanitarian corridor" to Venezuela for Arabs wishing to leave. "It seems the Venezuelans and the Arabs get along well," he said, in a reference to recent statements and actions by Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. When an Arab interrupted him and protested that the Arabs want good neighborly relations with the Jews, Ben Ari reminded him of the Arabs who chanted "Ya Saddam, ya chabib, udrub udrub Tel Aviv" [Saddam the beloved, hit Tel Aviv when Scud missiles were falling in the 1991 Gulf War.

MK Ariel promised that Israel would settle tens of thousands of Jews in Katzir and Harish in the coming years, and Ketzaleh noted the strategic importance of Wadi Ara, which serves for transportation of IDF tanks and other heavy equipment between central Israel and the north.

The Ichud Leumi faction announced that it intends to imitate Peace Now and establish a body that will research, document, complain and publicize illegal building. Unlike Peace Now, which is interested solely with Jewish building, the new body will deal with Arab building. Illegal construction in the Arab sector creates an atmosphere of lawlessness, the faction's spokesman said, which encourages the creation of terror cells.