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A new documentary by US film-maker Mark Levin explores post 9/11 anti-Semitism. One French viewer isn’t convinced:
Dorith Bensala, a member of the audience, thought the film lacked objectivity. “The cameraman is Jewish, all the Jews in the film are good Jews. The others are portrayed as baddies. The main goal of the film is to say that the Jews do not control the world, that the Protocols of Zion are wrong. The film is totally prejudiced.”
Equal time for the Protocols, please! And is it too much to ask for a non-Jew cameraman? Let’s not be totally prejudiced!
M’Sieu Le Croqueur can always order the entire miniseries Egyptian State Television aired. Or he could put on his own production of Marlowe’s “The Jew of Malta.” Maybe he could even get an EU grant…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 12 31 at 02:53 PM • permalinkShe’s lucky no Jew in the audience drank her blood in observance of Passover.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2005 12 31 at 02:57 PM • permalinkDorith Bensala has had such an “open mind” that her brain has fallen out.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 12 31 at 02:59 PM • permalinkIs this the same Mark Levin, whose sarcastic wit has frequently graced both Sean Hannity’s and Rush Limbaugh’s radio shows? Or he Marc Levin, a different person altogether? The article spells it both ways.
Get off the phone, you big dope!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 12 31 at 04:40 PM • permalinkDoes she have a position on the Al Dura Affair?
Or is she just posturing when it suits her?It’s about time a program of this nature was made!
Anti-Semitism hasn’t just been on the rise since 9/11, but first came to my attention when the Camp David talks broke down in 2000, and was probably simmering well before that! However since public broadcasters are notoriously biased and GUTLESS..not a Theo Van Gogh among them…we’re unlikely to see Mr. Levin’s efforts on our TV screens anytime soon.
If all this lefty bullshit were true about marginalised, vilified groups running amok, torching cars, viciously assaulting people, one would expect the perpetrators of these acts to be JEWISH youth, especially in good, old Europe, where anti-Semitism has been a tradition for centuries, and where they NEVER learn!!Didn’t Mary Mapes first break the story of the Protocols? Or was it Clifford Irving?
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2005 12 31 at 09:53 PM • permalinkActually, Barrie, I bought a copy of Mein Kampf back in college, nearly thirty years ago. I wanted to try getting into Hitler’s mind, to understand why he thought the way he did.
Other than that he was sheer evil, I still have no explanation how a human being could believe, and act as he did. I don’t recommend reading the complete book unless you are looking for a deeper understanding (which in my case still eludes me), and at times it’s like wallowing in a sewer.
However, an annotated edition, with non-laudatory commentary, might be a worthwhile project. Something that tied the book into its historical context, specifically providing details on precisely how Hitler worked towards his grotesque vision, and most importantly how he persuaded others to join in, would be a valuable counter to the kinds of asinine moral relativism and historical denial we find on the left. And yes, we do find it on the far right as well, but there it’s marginalized and shunned.
I recall the discussion I had some years ago about “censorship” in the US. My interlocutor was astounded at my statement that Marx, Lenin, Mao, and Hitler were all readily available in mainstream bookstores and could be openly read by anyone (I should have mentioned David Irving and Noam Chomsky as well). I never did hear back from him after he said he was going to prove they were suppressed. He must still be looking for some place that will lock him up for asking (as far as I know he is not currently at UMass, if you were wondering).
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 01 01 at 01:22 AM • permalinkLevin’s film has provoked some interesting responses - interesting mostly because of what they say about the reviewers. It’s frankly not all that good - Levin is a red diaper baby, the son of a leftist filmmaker, and the film’s great blind spot is his utter inability to acknowledge that the people he loathes the most in the world - George W. Bush, Republicans, conservatives in general - are the least anti-Semitic right now; the neo-con program is, in fact, frankly Zionist.
There’s a strange hiccup when he’s forced to acknowledge that the greatest fresh eruption of anti-Semitism happening right now is among his “people” - progressives, leftist activists, the anti-war crowd. He then goes out and talks to some neo-Nazis, to get himself and his audience back on comfortable territory. (Look! Over here! Horrible Nazis!)
The most revealing scene is when he and his father revisit the neighbourhood where the older man grew up, and his father erupts into some fairly embarassing anti-Catholicism, secular variety. He can’t, of course, acknowledge it for what it is - simple, ignorant bigotry, from a man who’d probably tell you he’s been fighting bigotry his whole life.
I expected a lot more from Levin’s film, and it certainly didn’t deliver.
Posted by rick mcginnis on 2006 01 01 at 02:20 AM • permalinkRecently a Jordanian Satellite TV station broadcast the Syrian produced series Al-Shatas [The Diaspora ] during Ramadan.
The series opens with Baron Rothschild dying in what looks like a candle-lit well furnished secret cave, like something out of a Batman comic. He is surrounded by his sons. All non-Jews are the seeds of asses, they are told. Each is allocated a particular task. Keep Germany perennially at war, subvert and take control of the Catholic Church and so on. The ultimate goal is the unseen control of the world and all means to achieve this are mandated by God. Sex, drugs, murder, money, corruption, the use of “genius”.... Also they must establish a Jewish state in Palestine. The sons then take an oath on a Torah.
It does not get any better. In fact it gets worse. Much worse. In one scene the “Secret Jewish Government” plots the Holocaust as a means of provoking Jewish immigration to Palestine. In another the “Secret Jewish Government” decides to use its contacts and control over the US Administration to drop an atom bomb on Hiroshima. There is another scene in which a Jewish Agency official meets with Adolf Eichmann. The Jews are just like the Nazis proclaims the official. You believe you are superior to all other people. So do we.
In one scene a “Talmudic Court” pronounces the death penalty on a Jew. The victim is immediately executed by having molten lead poured down his throat, his ears sliced off and his throat cut. (It says a lot about the creators of this film that they have the imagination to come up with this sort of stuff). His wife who is present then faints.
Finally there is of course the old favourite in all its sickening glory. A young Christian boy, apparently befriended by one of the Jews is kidnapped. He is taken to a secret place by the Jews. Struggling and pleading for his life, he then has his throat cut and is bled in to a large bowl. The Jews are seen making matzo. Two Jews are shown hungrily eating the matzo while looking at each other with knowing eyes.
It is easy to dismiss this stuff as almost comical. In fact it is deeply concerning. The series has already been screened in Iran which will soon have nuclear weapons. Hezbellah TV has also broadcast it. In fact much of the Muslim world is awash with this muck and there is no question it has an impact. Europe too is once again alight with various forms of these theories. And of course much of the “left” has been infiltrated by this ugly filth in various shades. “Anti-zionism”, they call it.
And yet the subject of antisemitism in the Muslim world and Europe is almost taboo in the MSM. One documentary. Nothing in the newspapers. Even today you get people stupid enough to spit back that “Arabs are Semites so how can they be anti-Semites” piece of brainless doublethink horseshit at any mention of Arab or Muslim antisemitism.
Why? What is going on here? Surely the MSM anti-Israel bias is not so dominant that they are not even prepared to discuss the resurgence of antisemitism in its crudest forms? Or is it? Or what?
The lefties see Israel, and therefore the Jews by extension, as a hegemonic Western state allied with the US. Thus they hate it. They have been gravitating in this direction at least since 1967, when the USSR lurched further into antisemitism after the Six-Day War exposed their Arab clients as a bunch of incompetents. As the Commies went, so went the rest of the left, mostly.
There is also the Third-Worldism so popular on the left. Arabs are dark-skinned Third-Worlders, and therefore virtuous by definitiion. Israelis are white, supposedly (the actual origins of Israel’s Jews are of no interest to the lefties). Therefore Israel is bad, Arabs are good.
There is a tradition of antisemitism on the left going back to not long after its origins during the period of the French Revolution. With all the other elements of leftism collapsing around their ears, leftists have clung to that part. It’s one of the few parts of their ideology not yet overtly disproven by historical events.
Finally by winning wars and occupying land Israel has become the evil occupier. That the occupatrion was the result of successfully resisting a genocidal war started by the Arabs is irrelevant. That it continued due to the Arab refusal to make peace on any reasonable terms is irrelevant. The circumstances of the conflict are irrelevant. The Israelis were the occupiers, therefore they are bad. QED
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 01 02 at 12:15 AM • permalinkAnd now, as soon as the Gaza is handed back, we see the continuation of that never-ending plan for attacks against Israel, now to be with surface-to-air missiles smuggled in via Egypt. At the same time, the Palestinian Authority admits it has no authority, and the elections are shaping to be one man, one vote, one time - beneficiary: Hamas.
16 Barrie
What next, sympathetic intros and reprints for Mein Kampf? Not something to laugh about, folks.
It ain’t intrinsically funny, nope, but that don’t make it unworthy of mockery. And mockery works best when it’s funny.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 01 03 at 02:12 PM • permalink
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And how dare a Jewish Film Director make a film about anti-Semitism. This is just the type of tactical activity proposed in the Protocols Of Zion aimed at taking over the world. Yes, I know that the Protocols have been undeniably shown to be a forgery, but have you not heard of ‘fake but accurate’?