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Ça c’est excellent : l’émission humoristique américaine Saturday Night Live avait un sketch de six minutes parodiant l’invraisemblable focalisation de l’audition de Chuck Hagel devant le Sénat américain sur la seule « sécurité » d’Israël.

Du coup… l’Anti-Defamation League accuse le sketch de « possible » promotion de l’antisémitisme, au motif que le sketch pourrait suggérer, auprès de spectateurs influençables, qu’il y aurait un lobby israélien très puissant aux États-Unis (admire comment je te me conditionnelle tout ça).

L’accusation de l’ADL est d’autant plus savoureuse que le sketch n’a finalement pas été diffusé à la télévision. Hum… #wag_the_dog

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/11/snl-lands-in-hot-water-with-anti-defamation-league-over-hagel-sketch.

“[T]here inevitably will be those who say, ‘Yeah, it’s funny, but there’s some truth to all of this,’” Foxman wrote in a letter Monday to SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels. “And for a smaller minority among those individuals, elements of the skit could play into the worst kind of ideas, even reinforcing pernicious notions of Jewish control of government in the vein of those routinely espoused by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites by suggesting that U.S. officials would even engage in public sex acts if asked to do so by Israel.”

Impossible de voir le sketch sur le site de la NBC si on n’est pas aux États-Unis. Mais il est reproduit dans cet article du Daily Beast.

Un rapport d’Amnesty sur la situation des Aborigènes d’Australie

Amnesty’s Damning Report on the Treatment of Australian Indigenous Communities

http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations-a-states/emerging-states--claims-to-autonomy-and-independence/indigenous-peoples/50531-amnestys-damning-report-on-the-treatment-of-australian-indigenou

Amnesty’s Damning Report on the Treatment of Australian Indigenous Communities

August 9th marks the seventeenth commemoration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, which aims to encourage the preservation and revitalization of Indigenous cultures. On August 8th Amnesty International released a report condemning, in particular, the Australian Governments’ policies on Indigenous Peoples. The report accused the Government of abandoning Aboriginal people and forcing them away from their traditional homelands. Claire Mallinson - National Director of Amnesty in Australia - commented that the Government used “paperclips and policy” rather than “bulldozers and violence”, but that the threat was no less pernicious. Amnesty calls for greater inclusion and participation by Indigenous Australians, a sentiment echoed by the UN day promoting worldwide Indigenous recognition.

#peuplespremiers #peuplesautochtones #australie #aborigènes #droitshumains

Galliano’s Jewish lawyer - YNet
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-4039804,00.html

The Galliano affair is not the first media saga Zerbib has been involved in. In 2000, he was involved in the case of the 13 Jews who were arrested in Iran over suspicions they spied for Israel, and in 2007 he worked together with another lawyer to free Bulgarian nurses from a Libyan prison after claims they infected children with HIV.
 
In 2008, he was part of efforts to release captive soldier Gilad Shalit from Hamas captivity – a job he says he did voluntarily.

Et :
Jewish group forgives Galliano - Ynet
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4038963,00.html

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) holds no grudge against former Christian Dior fashion designer John Galliano after he owned up and apologized for anti-Semitic remarks he made in a Parisian cafe.

“We look forward to working with him to move forward in helping to repair the damage so that he can contribute once again toward the fight against prejudice, intolerance and discrimination,” Abraham H. Foxman, ADL’s national director, is quoted as saying by European Jewish Press.

M’enfin quand même, Abraham, ce type s’est fait filmer en train de dire à une femme qu’elle et ses semblables devraient être morts, et que sa mère et ses ancêtres auraient dû être gazés. Qu’est-ce qu’il te faut ? Pour toi, le livre de John Mearsheimer et Stephen Walt est antisémite, mais pas un type qui dit aimer Hitler sur vidéo ?

Je ne sais pas pourquoi, mais je m’attends à ce que, à la suite de sa cure de désintoxication, Galliano soit invité à un « voyage de sensibilisation » en Israël, dont il reviendra en expliquant à quel point il a été impressionné par la culture de ce grand et beau pays.

Ou alors, faire un disque avec Amy Winehouse.