CiF Watch
28 February '11
http://cifwatch.com/2011/02/28/chilling-applause-line-at-j-st-conference-hatred-of-israel-as-progressive-jewish-politics/
H/T Israel Matzav
If you want to get a glimpse into the mind of many who align themselves with the group J Street, go to the 4:40 mark of this video and listen to the applause during journalist Mona Eltahawy’s chilling justification of Egyptians’ hatred of Israel.
Please keep in mind while watching this that, per a 2010 Pew Global Survey, anti-Semitism (no not merely Israel hatred) is nearly universal in Egyptian society, with a staggering 95% of those surveyed expressing animosity towards Jews.
That a journalist would fan the flames of hatred even further is bad enough, but please remember that Ms. Eltahawy’s remarks, and subsequent applause – simply dripping with contempt for the Jewish state – took place at a major conference for an organization which describes itself as pro-Israel.
I’d like someone to explain to me why, during the course of Eltahawy’s diatribe against Israel, there doesn’t appear to have been even one hoot, jeer, or protest from this progressive and supposedly independent thinking crowd.
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Through all the layers upon layers of lies, demagoguery and deliberate forgetfulness, though all the deceits and obfuscations of that speech, there is one "smoking gun" or "Freudian slip" here.
ReplyDeleteAt 11:26, she says "dictators," while her hands put that word in “air quotes."
She'd just spent about 10 minutes telling us what brutal dictators they were. Why does she put this word in quotes all of a sudden?
Perhaps it is because for years and years she had been telling everyone just the opposite, so much so that her hands got into the habit of air-quoting the word "dictators" whenever she talked about anyone other than the prime-minister of Israel. And now, her hands acted on the old habit and betrayed her.
Reminds me of the old fable about the turtle and the scorpion.