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Free Arabs : Benchemsi accusé de relayer le discours des conservateurs américains
http://www.yabiladi.com/articles/details/17368/free-arabs-benchemsi-accuse-relayer.html

Ahmed Benchemsi est attaqué sur tous les fronts. Alors que l’ancien directeur de publication de l’hebdomadaire d’opposition marocain Tel Quel est poursuivi pour diffamation par Mounir Majidi, secrétaire particulier du roi Mohamed VI, à Paris, il est accusé, au même moment, d’être devenu le fer de lance arabe de l’islamophobie et du soutien américain à Israël. Le journaliste Max Blumenthal, ancien d’Al Akhbar, dans un article publié sur Electronic Intifada le 7 mai, associe l’AIC (American Islamic Congress) et Free Arabs, site d’information co-fondé par Ahmed Réda Benchemsi. Le 9 mai, « l’enfant terrible de la presse marocaine » a répliqué sur Free Arabs.

2012 11 22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuvrVwrqTDo#t=53s

Cette vidéo que j’ai trouvée sur le site Al-Akhbar English a été insérée par Amal Saad Ghorayeb. Cette vidéo a été réalisée le 3 juin 2009 soit à l’époque quelques jours avant son « fameux discours du Caire ».

Il s’agit de jeunes israéliens donnant leur avis sur Barack Obama.

On « appréciera particulièrement » le passage à la 53ème seconde : « White Power fuck the niggers » ...je vous laisse le soin de traduire...

Voilà pour quel pays roule Obama et comment il est rétribué.

Autre perle à 1min 37 s lorsqu’une jeune israélienne se présentant comme diplômée en sciences politiques et à la question « connaissez-vous Benyamin Nethanyahou ? » cette dernière a répondu « Who is Benyamin Yahoo ? » : je vous jure, c’est pas une blague. Attention Chef d’oeuvre !!!!

Sam Bacile, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. Et les sionistes dans tout ça ? « Mounadil al Djazaïri
http://mounadil.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/sam-bacile-nakoula-basseley-nakoula-et-les-sionistes-dans-tout-c

Les sionistes auraient cependant tort de se croire disculpés dans cette affaire. Car si comme le souligne Max Blumenthal, le fait que Sam Bacile se soit présenté comme un ressortissant sioniste qui a pu collecter 5 millions de dollars auprès d’une centaine de bailleurs de fonds juifs a des relents de protocoles des Sages de Sion, il n’en reste pas moins que :

Malheureusement, la longue histoire de promotion et de financement de la propagande islamophobe aux Etats Unis par Israël et les ultra sionistes, a fait que la déclaration remarquée de Bacile sonnait vrai.

Personnellement, je considère non seulement que ça sonne vrai, mais que c’est vrai même si la question des montants alloués reste posée.

Il suffit en effet de se pencher sur les gens qui gravitent dans la même orbite que Nakoula Basseley Nakoula dont la première caractéristique est sans doute une bêtise insondable.

Cet entourage est signalé par un certain nombre d’organes de presse français qui se gardent cependant d’aller au fond des choses.

Inside the strange Hollywood scam that spread chaos across the Middle East | Max Blumenthal | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/13/egypt-libya-hollywood-film?fb=optOut

Produced and promoted by a strange collection of rightwing Christian evangelicals and exiled Egyptian Copts, the trailer was created with the intention of both destabilizing post-Mubarak Egypt and roiling the US presidential election. As a consultant for the film named Steve Klein said: “We went into this knowing this was probably going to happen.”

U.S. journalist attacks Lebanon-based news site for pro-Assad slant
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/06/22/221982.html

Max Blumenthal publicly announced that he would no longer contribute to Al Akhbar English, accusing the news site of “defending the Syrian regime behind the cover of leftist ideology,” in a blog entry he wrote on his own website on Wednesday.

The journalist referred to “pro-regime op-eds” recently published on the site and writers who have “thrown their weight behind [Syrian President Bashar] al-Assad’s campaign of brutality.”

Blumenthal wrote that Al Akhbar English had recently featured “an attack on Arab Third Wayers (supporters of the anti-imperialist, anti-authoritarian political tendency)” in a recent opinion piece, which he deemed to be in line with the “Syrian regime’s long record of exploiting the Palestinian struggle to advance its narrow self-interests.”

Excellent billet de l’Electronic Intifada sur le Assadwashing israélien: Pointing to Syria to divert attention from Israel’s crimes
http://electronicintifada.net/content/pointing-syria-divert-attention-israels-crimes/11192

Thus, according to Zionist logic, pro-Palestinian activists’ raison d’être must be disguised anti-Semitism unless they are protesting every single injustice in the world simultaneously, and even then, their motives are questionable. Palestinians, uniquely, are asked to carry this burden. The earnest college students who are praised for taking part in development missions in Africa are rarely told, for example, that they should go home and solve America’s deep problems of poverty, inequality and violence, before they show concern elsewhere.

Israel’s bogus case for bombing Gaza obscures political motives | Max Blumenthal (Al Akhbar English)
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/5046

In the last two days, Israeli forces have killed at least 15 residents of the Gaza Strip and wounded over 30. Among the dead are two young boys (see here and here), while the wounded included a reporter from the Ma’an News Agency and his pregnant wife. Militant factions in Gaza have responded to the Israeli assault by launching several homemade rockets at Southern Israel, leaving two injured and no one dead. (...) Source: Al Akhbar English

Excellent billet de Max Blumenthal pour le Akhbar : Israel’s bogus case for bombing Gaza obscures political motives
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/5046

Netanyahu had hoped to secure a solid commitment from Obama to authorize an attack on Iran, or to at least support an Israeli strike in the near future. Instead, he was rebuked, with Obama condemning Netanyahu’s “loose talk of war” and warning him not to strike Iran. […]

Almost as soon as he limped back to Jerusalem in frustration, Netanyahu gathered with his generals to gin up a case for pounding Gaza. The Gaza Strip, with its warehoused population of stateless refugees, would serve as their punching bag and pressure release valve. They could not have their war on Iran — not yet, at least — but they could assault Palestinians in Gaza without fear of repercussions from Washington.

US Congress promises Iranian people strangulation and catastrophe - Max Blumenthal
http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/gadfly/us-congress-promises-iranian-people-strangulation-and-catastrophe

A co-sponsor of the Swift sanctions, Republican Senator Mark Kirk, has been the largest single recipient of AIPAC-related donations in Congress. Kirk’s desire to collectively punish the Iranian people for anything their government might or might not have done is unconcealed. In an October 2011 appearance on a Chicago-area radio show, Kirk spent his time harumphing over a transparently trumped up Iranian government terror plot. But the host interrupted the senator with an important question: “Are you really going after the government of the country, or are you taking food out of the mouths of the citizens?‘”

Kirk’s reply neatly encapsulated the sadistic consensus in Washington: “It’s okay to take the food out of the mouths of the citizens from a government that’s plotting an attack directly on American soil.”

Il y a 3 ans aujourd’hui: Pro-Israel Rally Attended by Big-Time NY Dems Descends into Calls for ’Wiping Out’ Palestinians
http://www.alternet.org/story/119372

January 11, an estimated 10,000 people rallied in front of the Israeli consulate in midtown New York in support of Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FABqq_jjRRo

Je n’avais pas encore eu le temps de regarder l’interview de Max Blumenthal sur Future TV. Voilà qui est fait.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Q_ePHGHc4

D’où vient le « mouvement anti-shariah » ?

David Yerushalmi, the Man Behind the Anti-Shariah Movement - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/us/31shariah.html

In fact, it is the product of an orchestrated drive that began five years ago in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in the office of a little-known lawyer, David Yerushalmi, a 56-year-old Hasidic Jew with a history of controversial statements about race, immigration and Islam. Despite his lack of formal training in Islamic law, Mr. Yerushalmi has come to exercise a striking influence over American public discourse about Shariah.

Working with a cadre of conservative public-policy institutes and former military and intelligence officials, Mr. Yerushalmi has written privately financed reports, filed lawsuits against the government and drafted the model legislation that recently swept through the country — all with the effect of casting Shariah as one of the greatest threats to American freedom since the cold war.

Déjà en mars dernier, un article de Mother Jones présentait le gugusse :
Meet the White Supremacist Leading the GOP’s Anti-Sharia Crusade | Mother Jones
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/david-yerushalmi-sharia-ban-tennessee

Yerushalmi, a lawyer, is the founder of the Society of Americans for National Existence (SANE), which has been called a “hate group” by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). His draft legislation served as the foundation for the Tennessee bill, and at least half a dozen other anti-Islam measures—including two bills that were signed into law last year in Louisiana and Tennessee.

Ces articles sont vraiment très intéressants mais... parviennent à ne jamais citer Israël. Voici ce qu’on peut pourtant lire dans une biographie du bonhomme :

IASPS Staff
http://www.iasps.org/dybio.htm

From the Institute’s founding, Yerushalmi took a leading role as a substantial financial contributor, in addition to serving on the Board of Trustees for over a decade and as Chairman for more than five years.  In 1991, teaming up with the Institute’s policy experts, Yerushalmi was instrumental in establishing the Israel Export Development Co., Ltd., as an entrepreneurial policy tool to initiate radical free market reforms in Israel.  Working along side fellow board members and shareholders such as Robert Tishman, Jerry Speyer, Larry Silverstein, Lawrence Tisch, Eugene Grant and Sy Syms, Yerushalmi was appointed  the company’s CEO and Chairman.

Over a two-year period, Yerushalmi built an international sales force for marketing free zones and knowledge parks in Israel and around the world, successfully attracting $750 million in financial commitments and identifying over 20,000 high-technology jobs for Israelis.  In addition, he successfuly headed an international lobbying effort to persuade the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israel’s entrenched statist institutions and politicians to enact the revolutionary Israeli Free Processing Zones Law.  (The Zone “story” can be found throughout this web site.)  As a result of his work on the Israeli free zone project, Yerushalmi has also provided select services for free zone projects in Hungary, the Republic of Chuvashia, and the Baltic States.

Les deux articles (y compris dans le très « mainstream » et pas du tout pro-arabe New York Times) sont donc intéressants, puisqu’ils identifient clairement la source de la campagne islamophobe « Anti-Sharia » aux États-Unis : ils révèlent qu’il ne s’agit donc pas d’une idéologie spontanée, mais bien d’un thème construit et promu, dont la source est ici clairement nommée.

Là où ces deux articles échouent, en revanche, c’est à signaler que l’individu qui est derrière ce nouveau grand combat islamophobe est directement lié à Israël. À ce sujet, à nouveau, il faut relire l’enquête de Max Blumenthal sur l’origine des réseaux islamophobes aux États-Unis :
http://seenthis.net/messages/28980

(En signalant clairement que Yerushalmi, activiste islamophobe, est juif, mais en occultant ses liens avec Israël, on peut considérer que ces deux articles font en pratique la promotion de l’antisémitisme.)

Après les événements d’Oslo, je pense qu’il est urgent de relire l’enquête menée par Max Blumenthal il y a plus de six mois. Parce que l’idéologie haineuse et paranoïaque du meurtrier n’est pas tombée du ciel, elle a été façonnée et sa promotion a été soutenue financièrement.

J’avais référencé cette enquête à l’époque ici :
http://seenthis.net/messages/6496

#Max_Blumenthal expose l’influence directe des réseaux israéliens dans la montée des thèmes et des politiciens hystériquement islamophobes aux #États-Unis. Je crois que c’est un article très important.

The Great Islamophobic Crusade - Max Blumenthal
►http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/19/opinion/main7166626.shtml

Little of recent American Islamophobia (with a strong emphasis on the “phobia”) is sheer happenstance.  Years before Tea Party shock troops massed for angry protests outside the proposed site of an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan, representatives of the Israel lobby and the Jewish-American establishment launched a campaign against pro-Palestinian campus activism that would prove a seedbed for everything to come. That campaign quickly — and perhaps predictably — morphed into a series of crusades against mosques and Islamic schools which, in turn, attracted an assortment of shady but exceptionally energetic militants into the network’s ranks.

Besides providing the initial energy for the Islamophobic crusade, conservative elements from within the pro-Israel lobby bankrolled the network’s apparatus, enabling it to influence the national debate. One philanthropist in particular has provided the beneficence to propel the campaign ahead. He is a little-known Los Angeles-area software security entrepreneur named Aubrey Chernick, who operates out of a security consulting firm blandly named the National Center for Crisis and Continuity Coordination. A former trustee of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, which has served as a think tank for the American Israel Policy Action Committee (AIPAC), a frontline lobbying group for Israel, Chernick is said to be worth $750 million.

Chernick’s fortune is puny compared to that of the billionaire Koch Brothers, extraction industry titans who fund Tea Party-related groups like Americans for Prosperity, and it is dwarfed by the financial empire of Haim Saban, the Israeli-American media baron who is one of the largest private donors to the Democratic party and recently matched $9 million raised for the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces in a single night. However, by injecting his money into a small but influential constellation of groups and individuals with a narrow agenda, Chernick has had a considerable impact.

Through the Fairbrook Foundation, a private entity he and his wife Joyce control, Chernick has provided funding to groups ranging from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and CAMERA, a right-wing, pro-Israel, media-watchdog outfit, to violent Israeli settlers living on Palestinian lands and figures like the pseudo-academic author Robert Spencer, who is largely responsible for popularizing conspiracy theories about the coming conquest of the West by Muslim fanatics seeking to establish a worldwide caliphate. Together, these groups spread hysteria about Muslims into Middle American communities where immigrants from the Middle East have recently settled, and they watched with glee as likely Republican presidential frontrunners from Mike Huckabee to Sarah Palin promoted their cause and parroted their tropes. Perhaps the only thing more surprising than the increasingly widespread appeal of Islamophobia is that, just a few years ago, the phenomenon was confined to a few college campuses and an inner city neighborhood, and that it seemed like a fleeting fad that would soon pass from the American political landscape.

She also benefited from close alliances with leading Islamophobes from Europe. Among Geller’s allies was Andrew Gravers, a Danish activist who formed the group Stop the Islamicization of Europe, and gave it the unusually blunt motto: “Racism is the lowest form of human stupidity, but Islamophobia is the height of common sense.” Gravers’ group inspired Geller’s own U.S.-based outfit, Stop the Islamicization of America, which she formed with her friend Robert Spencer, a pseudo-scholar from Great Britain whose bestselling books, including The Truth About Muhammad, Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion, prompted former advisor to President Richard Nixon and Muslim activist Robert Crane to call him, “the principal leader… in the new academic field of Muslim bashing.” (According to the website Politico, almost $1 million in donations from Chernick has been steered to Spencer’s Jihad Watch group through David Horowitz’s Freedom Center.)

Inspiration from Israel

It was evident from the involvement of figures like Gravers and Spencer that the Islamophobic network in the United States represented a trans-Atlantic expansion of simmering resentment in Europe.  There, the far-right was storming to victories in parliamentary elections across the continent in part by appealing to the simmering anti-Muslim sentiments of voters in rural and working-class communities. The extent of the collaboration between European and American Islamophobes has only continued to grow with Geller, Spencer, and even Gingrich standing beside Europe’s most prominent anti-Muslim figure, Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, at a rally against Cordoba House.  In the meantime, Geller was issuing statements of support for the English Defense League, a band of unreconstructed neo-Nazis and former members of the whites-only British National Party who intimidate Muslims in the streets of cities like Birmingham and London.

In addition, the trans-Atlantic Islamophobic crusade has stretched into Israel, a country that has come to symbolize the network’s fight against the Muslim menace. As Geller told the New York Times’ Alan Feuer, Israel is “a very good guide because, like I said, in the war between the civilized man and the savage, you side with the civilized man.”

Rami Zurayk interviewé par Max Blumenthal, pour Electronic Intifada. Wow.
http://electronicintifada.net/content/interview-planning-nakba-day-movement-lebanon/10046

Every year the Nakba is commemorated and each year, the commemoration becomes more intense, not less. This year the demonstrations were inspired by the Arab Spring, a massive pacifistic resistance with no weapons and under only one flag — the Palestinian flag. So no factions, no PFLP, no Hamas, no Fatah, just everyone flying one flag and wearing white hats emblazoned with the flag. Like the demonstrations in Tahrir Square and throughout Tunisia, the Nakba Day demonstrators were audacious, tenacious and most of all, repetitive. Repetition is why Tahrir worked — you put your body on the line against repression. So that became our modality.

People arrived at the border in 1,000 buses. All in all, we counted 40,000 to 50,000 people. The Arab Spring is a revolution of the disenfranchised and desperate, and the Palestinians who live in Lebanon certainly fit that description. But what was remarkable about the Nakba Day demonstrations was that they also included rich Palestinians who were not from the camps — students from AUB (American University of Beirut) and Lebanese civil society.

Arabs live better in Israel than anywhere else, except not really
http://www.hybridstates.com/2011/05/arabs-live-better-in-israel-than-anywhere-else-except-not-really

But putting this aside for a moment, is it even true that Palestinian Arabs are better off than other Arabs?  In some ways, yes.  In many ways, no.  It is true, for example, that there is more protection for speech and media than in many highly repressive Arab countries.  But Palestinians are massively underrepresented in political institutions relative to other Arab countries with parliaments or democratic local governments (Arab parties hold at present only 14 out of 120 seats in the Knesset despite comprising over 20% of the population).  They hold fewer civil service jobs (only 6.1% of such jobs despite court rulings that this number must be increased).  This discrimination extends to the private sector as well.  Fewer Arab women in Israel work, due to discrimination, than even women in Saudi Arabia, that bastion of medievally strict gender segregation, and Oman.  The labor force participate rate of Arab women in Israel is less than half what it is in Morocco or Mauritania.

#palestine #israël

#Max_Blumenthal expose l’influence directe des réseaux israéliens dans la montée des thèmes et des politiciens hystériquement islamophobes aux #États-Unis. Je crois que c’est un article très important.

The Great Islamophobic Crusade - #CBS_News
►http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/19/opinion/main7166626.shtml

It reflects an aggressively pro-Israel sensibility, with its key figures venerating the Jewish state as a Middle Eastern Fort Apache on the front lines of the Global War on Terror and urging the U.S. and various European powers to emulate its heavy-handed methods.

Little of recent American Islamophobia (with a strong emphasis on the “phobia”) is sheer happenstance.  Years before Tea Party shock troops massed for angry protests outside the proposed site of an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan, representatives of the Israel lobby and the Jewish-American establishment launched a campaign against pro-Palestinian campus activism that would prove a seedbed for everything to come. That campaign quickly — and perhaps predictably — morphed into a series of crusades against mosques and Islamic schools which, in turn, attracted an assortment of shady but exceptionally energetic militants into the network’s ranks.

Besides providing the initial energy for the Islamophobic crusade, conservative elements from within the pro-Israel lobby bankrolled the network’s apparatus, enabling it to influence the national debate. One philanthropist in particular has provided the beneficence to propel the campaign ahead. He is a little-known Los Angeles-area software security entrepreneur named Aubrey Chernick, who operates out of a security consulting firm blandly named the National Center for Crisis and Continuity Coordination. A former trustee of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, which has served as a think tank for the American Israel Policy Action Committee (AIPAC), a frontline lobbying group for Israel, Chernick is said to be worth $750 million.

#Israël #islamophobie