Beispiel MailOnline: Wie über Antisemitismus gelogen wird

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German translation of “Mailonline lies about Anti-Semitism,” by Flora.

Aus Opfertum erwächst Macht – aber was soll man machen, wenn es nicht genug Opfertum gibt, mit dem man hausieren gehen kann? Man muß es en gros fabrizieren! Genau das ist das Problem mit dem Antisemitismus – die Nachfrage übersteigt immer das Angebot. Folglich ist ein bißchen Trickserei nötig, um dem Mangel abzuhelfen. Zuerst benötigt man eine Sensation, mit der man das notwendige Aufsehen erregen kann. Dann muß man für die Darbietung eine Portion Augenwischerei zur Anwendung bringen. Und schließlich benötigt man noch ein ausreichend willfähriges Medium für die Verbreitung.

Geschwind ans Werk! Eine spritzige neue Opfertum-Geschichte soll wie echter Journalismus aus­sehen (jedenfalls, wenn man sie nicht zu genau betrachtet). Ein Beispiel gibt das neue Video, das die Londoner  MailOnline produziert hat, im Verein mit einer neuen Gruppe, die sich Campaign Against Anti-Semitism“ nennt, also „Kampagnen gegen Antisemitismus führen will. Diese Gruppe wurde bereits von der eigenen Gemeinde wegen ihrem leichtfertigen Umgang mit der Statistik stark kritisiert.

Laut MailOnline entschloß sich der „Britische Journalist Jonathan Kalmus“, in den Straßen von Manchester und Bradfort herumzuspazieren, wobei er eine Kippa – die jüdische Kopfbedeckung – trug, um zu beobachten, welche Reaktionen sich ergäben. Dieser Auftritt – der mit dem Etikett „exklusiv“ versehen wurde, als ob es sich um wirklichen Journalismus handele -, basiert nicht einmal auf einer neuen Idee. Der Artikel räumt ein, damit einen Streich zu wiederholen, der wenige Wochen zuvor schon in Paris gespielt worden war, als ein israelischer Journalist im Gefolge des Charlie Hebdo-Anschlags das gleiche Manöver absolvierte.

Wie vorauszusehen war, handelte sich Kalmus einigen Ärger ein, teils von seiten junger Pakistanis, teils von diversen nahöstlichen Gestalten. Kalmus macht daraus die übliche Geschichte über die weitverbreitete antisemitische Verfolgung. Die Netzseiten sozialer Medien und Dienste wie YouTube geben eine vorzügliche Bühne ab, um Opfertum-Mythen zu erzeugen, da sie auf lästige Anforde­rungen wie Ausgewogenheit, Nachprüfbarkeit, Korrektheit und sogar Tatsachen verzichten. Alles, was zählt, ist die emotionale Wirkung. Read more

Jihadi John

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The unmasking of the internet executioner known as Jihadi John has driven the British chattering classes into a frenzy of hand-wringing. What strange forces can have turned an ordinary London schoolboy into a depraved monster able to decapitate another human being?

His puzzled schoolteachers, parents, Mosque and the media have all wrestled  with various possible explanations. Apparently Mohammed Emwazi suffered bullying at school. His former head teacher said he was a misfit loner. Apparently he was never the same after hitting his head on a goalpost during a game of soccer.

A similar mystery surrounds the three east London schoolgirls who have taken it upon themselves to leave school and jet off to Syria to become “brides of ISIS”. The Spectator said that it must have been an online crush similar to a schoolgirl infatuation with Justin Bieber. Apparently 60 other Muslim girls have made the same journey.

All of these “British” school children were brought up on welfare in free housing, enjoyed free health care and free education in one of the most tolerant societies in the world. What on earth caused them to act in this way? Read more

The Justice Department’s Bogus Report

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Apropos Sam Dickson’s article on the Ferguson lynch mob, an article by John R. Lott, Jr. in the New York Daily News rounds out the story (“Ferguson Fakeout: The Justice Department’s Bogus Report“). After failing to nail Darren Wilson despite what were doubtless gargantuan efforts, Eric Holder’s department sought their pound of flesh anyway by writing a report condemning  the entire police department, with the predictable result that the police chief, Thomas Jackson, has resigned. Lott’s point is that the findings of the Justice Department report do not indicate discrimination, but may in fact result from differences in behavior. Analogously, everyone knows that Blacks are overrepresented in the NBA and the NFL, but no one complains that it’s because of anti-White racism.

Lott:

Addressing the nation from Selma, Ala., on Saturday, President Obama said that while racism may be “no longer endemic,” as it was 50 years ago, his Justice Department’s report on Ferguson shows that the “nation’s racial history still casts its long shadow upon us.”

Sorry: The Justice report doesn’t prove disparate treatment, let alone discrimination.

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Martha Stewart and the Ferguson Lynch Mob

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The New York Times states:

They were four words that became the national rallying cry of a new civil rights movement: “Hands up, don’t shoot.”

The slogan was embraced by members of Congress, recording artists and football players with the St. Louis Rams.

It inspired posters and songs, T-shirts and new advocacy groups, a powerful distillation of simmering anger over police violence and racial injustice in Ferguson and beyond.

But in its final report this week clearing the police officer, Darren Wilson, of civil rights violations in Mr. Brown’s death, the Justice Department said it may not have happened that way. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. cast doubt on the “hands up” account even as he described Ferguson as having a racially biased police department and justice system. (March 4, 2015: Ferguson Report Puts ‘Hands Up’ To Reality Test)

It is worth correcting from the get-go the statement that “it may not have happened that way.”

The spin doctors of the New York Times are clever but cleverness doesn’t make it so.  It did not happen that way. It isn’t a case that it may not have happened that way.

As journalists, Mr. & Ms. New York Times reporters, let’s try to speak plainly and in accordance with the facts.  It may be painful for the Times and its journalists with their agendas so firmly in place.  But it is the right thing to do.

The Times goes on to blandly quote the co-chair of and outfit calling itself “The Don’t Shoot Coalition” a Black person named Michael T. McPhearson:

“To me, he had his hands up,” said Michael T. McPhearson, co-chairman of the Don’t Shoot Coalition in St. Louis. “It doesn’t change it for me.”

Isn’t that nice?  The facts don’t matter to Mr. McPhearson.  He has the right to choose his own facts:  “to me” he had his hands up…” Read more

MailOnline lies about anti-Semitism

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Power flows from victimhood but what do you do when there is not enough victimhood to go around?  You have to manufacture it wholesale. That is the problem with anti-Semitism — demand always exceeds supply. So a certain sleight of hand is needed to make up the shortfall. First you need a stunt to create the necessary conditions.  Then you need to employ deceit  in its presentation. Finally you will need a suitably compliant media vehicle.

Presto! A spanking  new victimhood narrative which looks like real journalism if you don’t examine it too closely. So it is with the new video produced by London’s MailOnline in association with a new group called the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism which has already been much criticised by it’s own community for its flawed use of statistics.

According to the MailOnline, “British journalist Jonathan Kalmus” decided to walk around streets in Manchester and Bradford wearing a Jewish ‘kippah’ (head cover) to see what reaction he got. This stunt, marked “Exclusive” as if it was real journalism, is not even a new idea. The article admits that is following on from a similar prank only a few weeks ago in Paris when an Israeli journalist carried out the same exercise in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings. Read more

Jews and Moneylending: A Contemporary Case File, Part 3 of 3

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Part 1 of 3
Part 2 of 3

Conclusion

Josephus, the first-century Jewish “historian,” anticipated many of his co-ethnic apologists in Against Apion, his two-volume defense of Judaism. In it, Josephus contested the early reputation for Jewish economic unscrupulousness, arguing that robbery “is alien to us, as are wars for enrichment, since we delight not in merchandise or the world of trade.”

Two thousand years later, Abraham Foxman would write another blanket denial of reality in Jews and Money: Story of a Stereotype. Although only spending about 5% of the book even discussing the nature and impact of Jewish wealth (the remainder predictably advocating harsh restrictions on free speech), Foxman makes the ridiculous claim that “Jews are just another ethnic minority, with both winners and loser in the race for economic success.”[1] As a true reflection of the nature of Jewish economic activity through the ages, this clearly leaves a lot to be desired. Thus, although separated by two millennia, Josephus and Foxman both have the same basic exhortation: “Move along. Nothing to see here.”

But of course there is something to see here, and that “something” is the story of the Jewish quest for the “rainless crop” — for the money to be made from money, from coin-shavings, or from air. Time and again, as many of these people have admitted or even boasted, Jews have been at the forefront of innovations in debt. Loans for monarchs, knights and peasants in England. Credit for alcohol in deepest Russia. Expensive credit and the instalment plan for cheaply made goods in Germany. Pawnbroking in Chicago. The stated income loan across America. Online moneylending throughout the West. Online gambling around the globe. They pioneered and expanded these spheres of economic activity and they remain its largest beneficiaries. I’ve established with ease that those billionaires who sit at the very top are loyal to those of their own ethnicity and comparably heartless to the millions of their customers who aren’t members of their impeccably moral tribe and “Light unto the Nations.” Jewish financial conduct, as well as reactions to it from within the Jewish community, are rife with ethnocentric cooperation and the age-old practice of dual ethics. Read more

Islam out, demand PEGIDA UK

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