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The Committee for Truth and Justice
Seeking Justice Through Truth |
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ALERT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An Anti-Semite is appearing at UWM on Thursday February 24. The exact information is below.
We also list below an article describing this person and what she will likely present.
We also below list a series of facts that you can use to confront and refute her with at the event.
We hope you can all make it to the event, Israel and Jews need to be defended on campus. Our children go to UWM and UWM is packed with anti-Semites and anti-Zionists. The groups supporting this anti-Semite use her to support their BDS campaigns and the BDS movement is doing great harm to Israel.
A few suggestions for Thursday evening:
1. Get yourself very knowledgeable of one issue. You cannot know it all in a short time, but you can get knowledgeable about one issue.
2. Organize with friends so that each person prepares for a different issue so that as a group you can cover many of the issues.
3. Usually monologues are not allowed but you can say anything you want with the following question: "Are you aware that..."
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Here is the offensive anti-Semitic event.
"Life in Occupied Palestine" by Anna Baltzer
Thursday February 24th @ 7
PM
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
UWM Union - Fireside Lounge
2200
E. Kenwood Blvd.
Free and open to the public.
CTJ
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January 25, 2010
by Steven Stotsky
Anna Baltzer - Jewish Defamer of Israel
In 1505, a Moravian Jew named Joseph Pfefferkorn denounced his faith and undertook a campaign to get the Talmud banned by claiming it blasphemed Christianity. Pfefferkorn was unschooled and a criminal, but that didn't stop the Dominicans in Cologne, who at the time were eager to cast aspersions on the Jews, from employing him. They recognized the value of a Jew accusing other Jews.
The practice of finding Jews to bear false witness against other Jews has been repeated in many venues. Today, in America, some mainline Protestant churches have eagerly adopted this practice in an effort to demonize Israel. In November 2009, the Wyoming Presbyterian church in Milburn, New Jersey invited Jewish anti-Israel activist Anna Baltzer to speak and present her slide show alleging Israeli crimes against the Palestinians.
Baltzer is an acolyte of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a group that recruits naive Westerners to interfere with Israeli anti-terror operations. Its founders have spoken approvingly of suicide bombings. Baltzer boasts a busy schedule of speaking engagements at churches, universities and even an appearance on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Her message consists mostly of rehashed accusations against Israel made by Palestinian speakers. But Baltzer uses her Jewish heritage to accrue credibility before predominantly non-Jewish audiences who often fail to see through her deception.
In her appearance at the Presbyterian church, Baltzer told the audience that they were responsible for alleged Israeli transgressions on the West Bank because "if the Israeli government does it, in fact its really U.S. taxpayers doing it." Settlers carry U.S-made weapons, she said. Her attempt to conflate the privately owned small arms of Israeli citizens with American support for Israel's national defense is typical of her deceptiveness.
Baltzer's core message is to delegitimize Israel. She foists upon her audience absurd claims, like her assertion that the Arab armies who invaded the Jewish state the day after its founding were merely reacting to Israel's expulsion of 350,000 Palestinians from their homes. Aside from sanitizing the stated Arab intention to eliminate Israel, she also misrepresents the impetus behind Palestinian flight. Noted historian Efraim Karsh demolished the myth of Palestinian expulsion. His book, Fabricating Israeli History documents how most Palestinian flight was stoked by their own leadership.Baltzer analogizes Israel's treatment of the Palestinians with South African apartheid, contending
that the reason there is no Palestinian Nelson Mandela is that Palestinians are not allowed to organize because Israel jails potential leaders.
In reality, most Palestinians sitting in Israeli jails are tied to terrorist acts against Israelis. In her zeal, Baltzer can't even get Mandela's story right. In fact, the famed South African leader spent much of his adult life sitting in a South African jail. Despite claiming to be a peace activist, Baltzer is an apologist for Hamas, whose founding charter invokes Islamic doctrine to sanctify killing Jews. The most Baltzer can admit to, though, is that Hamas is "more aggressive [than the secular Palestinian group, Fatah]." Proclaiming that it has agreed to a long-term ceasefire if Israel will withdraw to its recognized borders, Baltzer conceals Hamas's repeated affirmation it
will never accept Israel's right to exist.
Baltzer mocks Israel's attempts to protect its population and displays a contempt for the lives of Palestinians too. She urges on the Palestinians to launch further intifadas, knowing all too well the bloodshed that would occur. She decries Israel's decision to build the "Wall," rhetorically asking, "does segregation bring peace?" The facts are 'clear. In the year prior to the decision to build the security barrier, 452 Israelis were murdered by Palestinian terrorists, mostly in suicide bombings. Since the building of the barrier, that figure has gone down by more than 90 percent and in 2009 there were no successful suicide bombings in Israel.
Baltzer promotes blood libels against Israel.In her talk at the Wyoming Church an attendee challenged her as to why she published on her blog for months a false story spread by one of her colleagues accusing Israeli soldiers of shooting several Palestinian children in front of their mother. Baltzer retorted that she removed the story prior to appearance on the Daily Show in October upon learning it was false. She added that although this case turned out not to be true, "I don't think its hateful to hold a nation accountable for targeting civilians." So while admitting one story was a lie, she continues to promote another unsubstantiated accusation.
The question is why, given such extreme and baseless attacks, churches, like the Wyoming Presbyterian church, invite her to speak. According to a community newspaper's account of the event, when an audience member questioned why the church repeatedly invited speakers with an anti-Israel message — but none to present the other side — a church member
responded, "... any time you want to put together such a meeting, the minister reports to us." Interim Pastor, Lou Kilgore added, "I'll make the same offer."
This seemingly receptive response actually does not redress the real problem. When the church leadership provides a forum for biased, anti-Israel voices without regard for the validity of the allegations made and the misinformation spread, it hardly seems reasonable — or practical — to expect the Jewish community to bear the responsibility for monitoring the speakers who appear at the church and supplying alternatives. A better, possible route to follow would be for church leaders to communicate ahead of time with
knowledgeable Jewish leaders and clergy about speakers who might be invited to comment on Israel but who are unknown to the church. If it's obvious a speaker has a record of inflammatory,false accusations against Israel, the church may choose to look elsewhere or, at least, balance the program with an additional speaker.
Any church seeking to enlighten its congregation and community about the contentious Arab-Israeli conflict will do precisely the opposite in sponsoring a presentation by Anna Baltzer but there are others who can shed light on the issues — and with a bit of effort church leaders can enlist them. |
The Hamas Charter (excerpts)
Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).
Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts. It is a step that inevitably should be followed by other steps. The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah's victory is realised.
"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim).
There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.
Arab countries surrounding Israel are asked to open their borders before the fighters from among the Arab and Islamic nations so that they could consolidate their efforts with those of their Muslim brethren in Palestine.
After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.
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PLO –
Fatah-Abbas Charter
Article 15: The liberation of Palestine, from an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi) duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and imperialist aggression against the Arab
homeland, and aims at the liquidation of the Zionist presence in Palestine.
Article 19: The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage of time
Article 20: …Claims of historical or religious ties of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history and the true conception of what constitutes statehood.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement organically associated with international imperialism and antagonistic to all action for liberation and to progressive movements in the world. It is racist and fanatic in its nature, aggressive, expansionist, and colonial in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is the instrument of the Zionist movement, and geographical base for world imperialism placed strategically in the midst of the Arab homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab nation for liberation, unity, and progress. Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis peace in the Middle East and the whole world.
Article 23: The demand of security and peace, as well as the demand of right and justice, require all states to consider Zionism an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its existence, and to ban its operations, in order that friendly relations among peoples may be preserved, and the loyalty of citizens to their respective homelands safeguarded.
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Refugees: words from the time
"The Arab streets are curiously deserted…following the poor example of the moneyed class, there has been an exodus from Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa"—London Times, May 5th, 1948
"The Arab civilians panicked and fled ignominiously. Villages were frequently abandoned before they were threatened by the progress of war"—General John Glubb, August 12th, 1948
"The Arab Exodus was not caused by the actual battle but the exaggerated description spread by the Arab leaders to incite them…For the flight and fall of the villages it is our leaders who are responsible because of their dissemination of rumors…they instilled fear and terror in the hearts of the Arabs, until they fled leaving their homes…"—
Jordanian paper Al Urdun, April 9, 1953
"It is we who have demanded the return of refugees, while it is we who made them leave. We brought disaster upon a million Arab refugees by…bringing pressure on them to leave"—
Khaled al-Azm, Syrian Prime Minister, 1973 memoirs
"The Arab armies entered Palestine... But instead they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland, imposed upon them a political blockade and threw them in prisons similar to the ghettos" —Maahmoud Abbas, March 1976, Falastin al-Tharwara
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Official British Police Report Regarding Jews' Appeal to Arabs for peace (4/26/1948).
“An appeal has been made to the Arabs by the Jews to reopen their shops and businesses in order to relieve the difficulties of feeding the Arab population. Evacuation was still going on yesterday and several trips were made by 'Z' craft to Acre. Roads too, were crowded with people leaving Haifa with all their belongings. At a meeting yesterday afternoon Arab leaders reiterated their determination to evacuate the entire Arab population and they have been given the loan of ten 3-ton military trucks as from this morning to assist the evacuation. “
(A.J. Bidmead.) SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE
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“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is a means for continuing our struggle against Israel…In reality there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political reasons do we speak about the existence of a Palestinian people… to oppose Zionism. The moment we reclaim our right to all our Palestine we will unite Palestine and Jordan.”— PLO Executive Committee Member, Zahir Muhse.
Trouw (Amsterdam newspaper), interview in 1977
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PLO Charter Changes Dependent on Jewish Occupation
PLO Charter of 1964
Article 24: "(The PLO) does not exercise any regional sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom or in the Gaza Strip".
1967: Israel wins 6-Day War and occupies West Bank and Gaza
PLO Charter of 1968
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty, self-determination, human dignity, and in the right of all peoples to exercise
them.
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Feisal Hussein, King of Iraq and Syria agreed to Jewish National Home according to British Mandate in 1918; mindful of the racial kinship and ancient bonds existing between the Arabs and the Jewish people, and realizing that the surest means of working out the consummation of their national aspirations is through the closest possible collaboration in the development of the Arab State and Palestine, and being desirous further of confirming the good understanding which exists between them, have agreed upon the following:
ARTICLE I : The Arab State and Palestine in all their relations and undertakings shall be controlled by the most cordial goodwill and understanding and to this end Arab and Jewish duly accredited agents shall be established and maintained in the respective territories.
ARTICLE II : Immediately following the completion of the deliberations of the Peace Conference, the definite boundaries between the Arab State and Palestine shall be determined by a Commission to be agreed upon by the parties hereto.
ARTICLE IV: All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale, and as quickly as possible to settle Jewish immigrants upon the land through closer settlement and intensive cultivation of the soil.
ARTICLE VIII: The parties hereto agree to act in complete accord and harmony on all matters embraced herein before the Peace congress.
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Excerpts from the Israeli Declaration of Independence (14 May 1948):
“In the midst of wanton aggression, we yet call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, with full and equal citizenship and due representation in its bodies and institutions - provisional or permanent.”
“We offer peace and unity to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Jewish nation for the common good of all.”
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Saving Lives: Israel's anti-terrorist fence - Answers to Questions (click here)
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