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Apr 22, 2011
All.: Ursula Haverbeck bientôt en prison?
Ursula Haverback in prison soon?
In Germany Ursula Haverbeck, 81, called the "Great Lady" by German revisionists, directed an organization, "Collegium Humanum", that was outlawed in 2008. On 6 Oct. 2010 she was sentenced, by the Munich trial court, to six months in prison, suspended, and a fine of 1,000 euros, for incitement to racial hatred and for having, in a pamphlet, denied the Jewish Holocaust.
She appealed to the federal court which, just yesterday 20 April, rejected her appeal. The site we have indicated in the link begins its article with these words: "Ursula Haverbeck, 81, will have to go to prison".
This "Great Lady" was present at the 26 March demonstration in front of Brandenburg prison where the revisionist lawyer Horst Mahler is incarcerated and, in a powerful speech, she accused Germany of exercising an "inadmissible political justice" and violating the Basic Law (which serves as the constitution).
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En Allemagne, Ursula Haverbeck, 81 ans, appelée par les révisionnistes
allemands la "Grande Dame", dirigeait une association, "Collegium Humanum",
qui fut interdite en 2008 (voy. n/message du 14/05/08 intitulé "Allemagne:
Interdiction de deux organisations"); le 6 octobre 2010 elle était condamnée
par le Tribunal de grande instance de Munich à 6 mois de prison avec sursis
et une amende de 1.000 euros pour incitation à la haine raciale et pour
avoir, dans une brochure, nié l'Holocauste des juifs (n/message du
10/10/2010 intitulé "All.: Ursula Haverbeck condamnée").
Elle avait fait appel devant la Cour fédérale qui, hier 20 avril, vient de
rejeter la demande de révision du jugement. Le site que nous indiquons
ci-dessus commence son article avec ces mots: "Ursula Haverbeck, 81 ans,
devra aller en prison"...
Cette "grande dame" avait été présente à la manifestation du 26 mars qui
avait eu lieu devant les portes de la prison de Brandenburg où est enfermé
l'avocat révisionniste Horst Mahler et, dans un discours musclé, elle avait
accusé l'Allemagne d'exercer une "justice politique inadmissible" et
"d'enfreindre la Loi fondamentale" [= qui tient lieu de constitution].
Fun Stuff to Read And Tell:
Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper
...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel.
Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/03/carter-sued-5-million-attacking-israel-book/?utm_source=Raw+Story+Daily+Update&utm_campaign=87b410eb61-2_3_112_3_2011&utm_medium=email
"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Michael Santomauro, March 23, 2011
Peace.
Michael Santomauro
@ 917-974-6367
What sort of TRUTH is it that crushes the freedom to seek the truth?
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Israel on its toes on social media
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2011/04/19/rebecca-l-stein/the-other-wall/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3309&hq_e=el&hq_m=797159&hq_l=9&hq_v=de8c60a2f6
London Review of Books
The Other Wall
Rebecca L. Stein 19 April 2011
Tags: facebook | internet | israel
It has become commonplace to describe the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt as Facebook or Twitter revolutions; and almost as commonplace to respond that the role of social media in popular insurgencies has been exaggerated. Less attention, however, has been paid to states' use of these technologies as PR and counterinsurgency tools.
Look at Israel, for instance. Over the last few years, a growing number of Israeli ministries and other state institutions have taken up Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and YouTube to disseminate the official line and to manage Israel's international reputation, particularly during times of military confrontation. For Israel, there is a proud contrast here with its Arab neighbours, which have tended to see the internet as a dangerous vehicle of popular insurgency, to be repressed rather than harnessed. In the past year alone, Israeli budgets for social media work have increased dramatically. The learning curve has been steep and uneven, as senior officials are quick to admit, while the long-term political effects of the project remain to be seen: it's too early to say what their impact will be on Israeli relations with neighbouring Arab countries, on international perceptions of the Israeli regime, or on the lives of Palestinians living under occupation.
After the failed Israeli military campaign in Lebanon in 2006, a new body called the National Information Directorate was set up to manage media relations in times of military crisis. In January 2010, an Internet and New Media department was established in the prime minister's office, responsible for co-ordinating internet work across government branches and ministries with the aim of improving 'public relations advocacy'. By last August, the prime minister's office had launched its own YouTube, Twitter, Flickr and Facebook accounts, the last of them updated in Hebrew, English and Arabic. Two weeks ago, Binyamin Netanyahu became the third world leader, after Barack Obama and David Cameron, to be interviewed live on YouTube – this from a man famous for spurning the traditional news media, both domestic and international.
The Israel Defence Forces dates its involvement in social media from an experimental YouTube venture initiated by two young soldiers in the early days of the Israeli incursion into Gaza in 2008-9. Some of the videos uploaded by the IDF – including aerial footage of the assault and video blogs from spokespeople – were watched more than two million times. The IDF used YouTube for another sustained publicity campaign after the deadly raid on the relief flotilla last May. But the broad circulation of military-sponsored videos of the event did little to temper the fierce international condemnation of Israel's actions, strengthening the case for a more substantial state commitment to social media. The IDF's Twitter account, active since October 2009, is updated around the clock with official announcements; a Flickr photostream was launched six months ago. The IDF also gives frequent briefings to international bloggers, and has plans to embed bloggers on future military missions.
This odd hybrid of popular new media practices and more traditional modes of statecraft owes a lot to the 'digital diplomacy' practised in Washington, where 'government 2.0' has been pioneered. The head of the Israeli Internet and New Media department's first fact-finding trip last year was to meet with members of the White House and State Department new media teams. But 'there are no rules about how to bring the government into Facebook,' a senior staff member from the prime minister's office told me. 'We have to invent them.'
The shift away from an official military idiom towards the language of personalised informality hasn't been easy for the IDF. Facebook, with its high level of interactivity, is thought to present the best opportunity but also the biggest obstacle. The standard Facebook template, with a 'wall' which anyone can write on, is thought to be unfeasible, because of the barrage of comments expected from detractors. During the 2008-9 Gaza incursion, the IDF's YouTube channel was initially left open to comments: it was closed the next day. IDF programmers are currently at work on an alternative, more tightly controlled template. Questions posted to the Facebook wall by everyday users will be screened and approved in advance, and then answered by IDF spokesmen; from there, users will be invited to participate in an open discussion forum.
Officials admit to being overwhelmed and understaffed when it comes to social media: just one person monitors the Foreign Ministry's Arabic Facebook page, for example, and only during business hours. At the end of March, the Israeli Government Press Office took down its Facebook page two days after it launched, because it couldn't cope with the wall posts of 'anti-Israeli propagandists and hate spreaders': comments like 'Israel operates an entrenched system of racial apartheid' had been rampant, much to the confusion of loyal subscribers who called for more active monitoring. In the same week, however, the state scored a Facebook victory when the site agreed to remove a page entitled 'The Third Palestinian Intifada' in response to pressure from Israel's Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Ministry and heightened public anxiety about the ways that Facebook was providing a platform for anti-Israeli incitement.
It's still far from clear, however, how much control the state will be able to exert over Facebook and other social media sites. 'We cannot but be impressed,' the IDF spokesman Avi Benayahu recently said, 'at how Western technology harms regimes… One cell phone camera can harm a regime more than any intelligence operation can.' The regimes he had in mind were those toppled or threatened by popular uprisings in the Arab world. When I asked Israeli officials about the use of social media by anti-occupation activists, Jewish and Palestinian, on both sides of the Green Line, they didn't want to talk about it. And none of them noted the resonance between the metaphorical Facebook wall and the concrete Separation Wall, both of which represent attempts by the state to control the political playing field.
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Fun Stuff to Read And Tell:
Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper
...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel.
Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/03/carter-sued-5-million-attacking-israel-book/?utm_source=Raw+Story+Daily+Update&utm_campaign=87b410eb61-2_3_112_3_2011&utm_medium=email
"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Michael Santomauro, March 23, 2011
Peace.
Michael Santomauro
@ 917-974-6367
What sort of TRUTH is it that crushes the freedom to seek the truth?
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Apr 21, 2011
ROBERT FAURISSON: The Ten Commandments of the “Holocaust” Religion
http://robertfaurisson.blogspot.com/2011/04/ten-commandments-of-holocaust-religion.html
Fun Stuff to Read And Tell:
Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper
Link: http://www.forward.com/articles/4363/#ixzz1JT3oLPZy
...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel.
Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/03/carter-sued-5-million-attacking-israel-book/?utm_source=Raw+Story+Daily+Update&utm_campaign=87b410eb61-2_3_112_3_2011&utm_medium=email
"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Michael Santomauro, March 23, 2011
Peace.
Michael Santomauro
@ 917-974-6367
What sort of TRUTH is it that crushes the freedom to seek the truth?
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Ron Rosenbaum: When I lived upstairs from the Jewish Defense Organization, Hitler was a presence on the Lower East Side
http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/34179/mistaken-identity/
Fun Stuff to Read and Tell:
Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper
Link: http://www.forward.com/articles/4363/#ixzz1JT3oLPZy
...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel.
Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/03/carter-sued-5-million-attacking-israel-book/?utm_source=Raw+Story+Daily+Update&utm_campaign=87b410eb61-2_3_112_3_2011&utm_medium=email
"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Michael Santomauro, March 23, 2011.
Peace.
Michael Santomauro
@ 917-974-6367
What sort of TRUTH is it that crushes the freedom to seek the truth?
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Some Complaints of Campus Anti-Semitism Are Called Attempts at Censorship
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/some-complaints-of-campus-anti-semitism-are-called-attempts-at-censorship/32321?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Some Complaints of Campus Anti-Semitism Are Called Attempts at Censorship
April 20, 2011, 3:22 pm
Some recent complaints of anti-Semitic incidents on American college campuses do not involve actual discrimination but instead represent attempts "to silence anti-Israel discourse and speakers," argues a statement issued today by Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, and Kenneth Stern, the American Jewish Committee's point person on anti-Semitism and extremism. The statement, which cites recent complaints of anti-Semitism at Rutgers University and the University of California's Berkeley and Santa Cruz campuses, says it is "dangerous" to characterize anti-Israel remarks as ethnic discrimination, in violation of federal civil-rights laws. Doing so, it says, changes the campus debate "from one of exposing bigotry to one of protecting free speech, and the last thing pro-Israel advocates need is a reputation for censoring, rather than refuting, their opponents." The organizations and students who have brought the complaints have argued that the behavior they cite clearly crossed a line and created a hostile environment for Jewish students.
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Fun Stuff to Read and Tell:
Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper
...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel.
Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/03/carter-sued-5-million-attacking-israel-book/?utm_source=Raw+Story+Daily+Update&utm_campaign=87b410eb61-2_3_112_3_2011&utm_medium=email
"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Michael Santomauro, March 23, 2011.
Peace.
Michael Santomauro
@ 917-974-6367
What sort of TRUTH is it that crushes the freedom to seek the truth?
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Bahrain's Crackdown on Protest Extends to Academe, With Interrogations, Firings, and Expulsions
http://chronicle.com/article/Bahrains-Crackdown-Extends-to/127219/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Bahrain's Crackdown on Protest Extends to Academe, With Interrogations, Firings, and Expulsions
Courtesy of Jahromi family
Masaud Jahromi, who is on the faculty at Ahlia University, in Bahrain, was arrested on April 14, says his wife, Elham Shakeri, who is shown here with him and their son. He is one of a few academics in the country who have been detained and have lost contact with their families.
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By David L. Wheeler
The Bahraini government is conducting sweeping retributions against academics believed to have participated in recent pro-democracy protests, firing professors and administrators and expelling students.
At the University of Bahrain, the largest public institution in the kingdom, a committee of pro-government academics is questioning other academics about their participation in protests and their loyalty to the existing regime. A few professors have been detained, and have had no contact with family members or lawyers since.
"There is undoubtedly an atmosphere of intimidation and fear at colleges and universities in Bahrain," said Gwenn Okruhlik, a member of an academic-freedom committee for the Middle East Studies Association and a visiting scholar at Trinity University, in San Antonio, Tex., who has been compiling information about the situation.
On Wednesday, daily newspapers in Bahrain reported that, with the prime minister's authorization, the Ministry of Education was forming a committee to review the political activities of students with scholarships and to suspend the scholarships of students who have not been loyal to the government. In Britain, Bahraini students who attended sympathy protests there told The Guardian that their stipends and tuition payments have been stopped and that the government has contacted their families about their activities.
The firings of academics are part of a larger campaign of retribution in Bahrain, an archipelago whose main island is connected by a long causeway to Saudi Arabia, following a month of demonstrations in the capital city of Al Manamah. The protests ended on March 16 when security forces cleared demonstrators from an area known as the Pearl Roundabout. The campaign of retribution, human-rights activists say, is being focused by the Sunni Muslim-led government on the majority Shiite Muslim population, and many of the fired academics are Shiite.
Phone calls and an e-mail message to the Bahraini embassy in Washington were not returned. The embassy's Web page expresses pride in Bahraini higher education: "As Bahrain's investment grows, so too will opportunities for international investors to establish world-class academic and training facilities in the kingdom."
E-mails, text messages, and Facebook posts from those who have been fired and expelled provide details on the retributions. In an e-mail to colleagues and human-rights groups, Abdulla Alderazi, a lecturer at the University of Bahrain who is also the secretary general of the Bahrain Human Rights Society, wrote: "The University of Bahrain has just informed me that I have been stopped from lecturing today, 17th of April, 2011, until a final decision is taken by the UOB interrogation committee, which [it] seems will not be positive."
A student at a private university who has been expelled for pro-democracy comments on television said in an e-mail that he was about to graduate, and will now lose the $17,000 he has invested in his education.
Political Interrogations
Faculty members who have been questioned by the University of Bahrain committee said that their loyalty to the existing government was scrutinized: "First, I thought questions will be limited to what have happened in university," wrote one person, who requested that his identity be protected. "But it was about my political views." Questions focused on what political groups those being interviewed belonged to, what comments they had made in their Facebook accounts, what television channels they watched, and what protests they might have participated in. An attack made on the university on March 13 by a group of outsiders that included at least two police officers was used as a pretext for accusing protesters of vandalism, students who were at the scene of the attack said.
The exact number of those who have been fired or expelled is difficult to determine. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights, whose members largely operate on the Internet under the cloak of anonymity to avoid being arrested themselves, has said that 50 students have been expelled. At the Ministry of Education, 111 civil servants have been fired, and referred for legal action, although their job roles are not clear, according to Ms. Okruhlik. Those firings may have been in retribution for a call for a strike. A government news agency reported that 19 faculty members and 25 administrators were fired at the University of Bahrain. Bahrain state television reported that 120 students at the University of Bahrain were expelled and 10 suspended for a year, and the government's most recent statement, released on Tuesday, said that a total of 200 employees and students at the University of Bahrain had been punished.
The anti-Shiite retribution, said Joe Stork, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa Division, has taken a "sinister turn" in recent days with the government's bulldozing of Shiite mosques and community centers. On Monday, unidentified assailants hurled tear-gas grenades at the home of Nabeel Rajab, president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and its only member who openly identifies himself, who has helped to document the retribution against the academics. Checkpoints dot the island, police officers wear balaclava masks concealing their identity, and a late-evening curfew limits the restaurant and club activity that once drew customers from around the Gulf.
Many expelled students and family members of fired and detained faculty members are pleading for political pressure from the West. "My husband, Dr. Masaud Jahromi, chairman of the engineering department at Ahlia University, in Bahrain, was arrested at 2:30 a.m. on 14th April 2011; in a frightening manner," wrote Elham Shakeri in an e-mail. "Still after one week of his capture we are unaware of him and his health. We are really hopeless and defenseless these days."
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Fun Stuff to Read and Tell:
Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper
...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel.
Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/03/carter-sued-5-million-attacking-israel-book/?utm_source=Raw+Story+Daily+Update&utm_campaign=87b410eb61-2_3_112_3_2011&utm_medium=email
"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Michael Santomauro, March 23, 2011.
Peace.
Michael Santomauro
@ 917-974-6367
What sort of TRUTH is it that crushes the freedom to seek the truth?
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