Hateful Residue of UC San Diego Anti-Israel Week

This month, UC San Diego held their week of anti-Israel events week following that of UC Irvine. As a result, a petition letter has been sent to the UCSD administration complaining of anti-Semitism directed at Jewish students as a result of these annual events.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LetterToUCSDChancellor

Such is the case on many of the UC campuses. It has been clear for some time now that Chancellor Fox and Vice Chancellor Rue (are they still there?) have different standards when it comes to hate directed at students. As I have written often, in the past couple of years, that campus has seen more than its share of racially-tinged incidents. When some dopey students held an off-campus party called the "Compton Cookout", featuring spoofs on inner city black lifestyles, followed soon by the discovery of a green rope tied in a noose in the library, the campus was turned upside down in an effort to ensure African-American students at UCSD that they were, indeed, welcome.  Yet, both incidents are swathed in mystery as to who was responsible, and the Black Student Union swiftly followed up with a list of demands of the administration in terms of hiring, admissions and facilities for African-Americans. Yet, soon afterward, when David Horowitz spoke at UCSD, a female member of the Muslim Student Association told Horowitz that she agreed with the call of the head of Hezbollah in Lebanon that all Jews should gather in Israel so that the job of hunting them down would be easier. What was the response to that? The student issued a "clarifying" statement and the school issued a statement closing the case.

No big deal.

Now comes this. It's bad enough that a bunch of student groups in the name of solidarity with students "of color" co-sponsor this sordid week of indoctrination and lies about Israel, which result in Jewish students being stigmatized. What is unforgivable is that university departments are involved. That means basically that the University of California at San Diego puts its stamp of approval on the thesis and purpose of the event.

What is sorely needed is some new leadership at UCSD, and some new leadership in the UC President's Office.

About That Planned Parenthood Scandal

"You want to rob the bank? Please fill out this form, Sir?"


Where was James O'Keefe? Well, I guess they couldn't send him in as a pregnant woman could they?  However, a woman posing as a pregnant er, woman went into a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas and said she wanted an ultrasound to see what sex her fetus was and if it was a girl, she wanted to schedule and abortion. And just like those women in the ACORN offices, the gal behind the counter never blinked an eye and proceeded to give her advice.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/30/house-debates-bill-to-ban-sex-selective-abortions/

Here is my question:

Planned Parenthood says they fired the girl and gave everyone else in the office remedial training.

Planned Parenthood also states that the video is edited and a "hoax".

So my question is why did Planned Parenthood fire the employee and give remedial training to everyone else in the office if the video is an edited "hoax"?

But the stretch of the day has to be from Ms Miriam Yeung who said this...

"Miriam Yeung, director of The National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, worries that the proposed law would also subject Asian-American women seeking abortions to inappropriate screening because of the stereotype that male children are preferred in Asian families. 

"The decisions of Asian-American women, in particular, would be extra scrutinized," she said."

Yes. And that would be discrimination, wouldn't it?

Is it not strange that feminists don't see the obvious gender discrimination against females that gender-based abortions represent? And yes, the overwhelming majority of gender-based abortions involve female fetuses. I am confident that Ms. Yeung has heard of a place called China.

By the way, Planned Parenthood today endorsed Barack Obama for re-election.

Another Diplomatic Flap: "Polish Death Camps"

That's the phrase President Obama used while recognizing a Polish war hero who reported the presence of death camps in Poland during World War II. The remark has been noted in Poland, and they are none too happy with it.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/30/white-house-says-obama-misspoke-after-poles-demand-apology-over-polish-death/?test=latestnews

To be clear, Poland was occupied by the Germans when the death camps were constructed during the war. Aside from the most infamous, Auschwitz, other camps were set up in Poland with the express purpose of exterminating people. They were Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanek, Chelmo and Belzec. They were either located in the area annexed by Germany or the so-called General Governement, occupied by the Germans and run by Hans Frank (executed at Nuremberg as a war criminal).

The distinction is sensitive for the Poles. That is not to say that Polish history doesn't have its own historical issues with anti-Semitism. Many surviving Jews were killed in Poland after the war ended.

Is this an innocent semantic mistake by Obama, or does he suffer from a lack of knowledge about world history?

Honor-Killing Fugitive May be Driving a Cab in NY

The next time you get a rude cab driver in New York, you might want to take a close look at his face. According to this Fox News report, it could be the guy pictured above.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/29/alleged-honor-killing-suspect-yaser-said-could-be-hiding-in-plain-sight-as-new/

Conservative writer Phyllis Chesler, who writes often about these kinds of "problems", thinks the Mom should be arrested.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/30/arrest-mother-as-accomplice-in-texas-honor-killing/

Syrian Honorary Consul Finally Resigns

Hazem Chehabi, the Syrian honorary consul in Orange County and Chair of the UC Irvine Foundation has finally resign his former position. Chehabi, who has been the subject of several critical posts here and the subject of numerous student protests at UCI going back to last year, gave as his reason, the recent slaughter in Houla, Syria.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/05/syrian-diplomat-in-california-defects-from-assad-regime.html?dlvrit=99665

I think a couple of comments are in order. First, I doubt if "defect" is the proper word. Chehabi is an American citizen. As such, his position with the Syrian government was "honorary", a position filled by local residents when a country does not have the resources to establish consulates throughout a country as big as the US. Thus, I would also not describe him as one of Syria's highest-ranking diplomats in the US.

Second, while Chehabi's resignation is welcome and the right thing to do, it comes much later than it should have. Was it the slaughter in Houla that was the tipping point? Why not the slaughters in other towns going back to last year? This has been going on for over a year now.

For many months now, protesters have been saying that Chehabi had to choose between one of his positions. His continued presence with the UCI Foundation was becoming a bigger embarrassment for the university as the deaths in Syria continued to mount. I can only speculate as to whether the university pushed him to make his decision.

At any rate, it is a welcome decision, belated as it is.

The Obama "Hit List": So What?

I'm not so sure I can get all worked up about this New York Times report that President Obama personally signs off on who gets targeted in these drone attacks during those staff meetings.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/29/white-house-defends-drone-attacks-kill-list/?test=latestnews

It is true, I suppose, that killing the bad guys with these drones is cutting down on the number of prisoners we can capture and waterboard, er, interrogate. That leads to less intelligence. Maybe, we are just getting war-weary and questioning whether we are still killing off the enemy or just nation-building in places like Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. As for the latter, I am ready to tell that country to go pound sand, cut off all aid, and make a public display of building a strategic partnership with India as Charles Krauthammer suggests.

But back tio Obama. While, we may not want to see too much control coming out of the White House on combat decisions, a'la LBJ and Viet Nam, there are legitimate geo-political concerns when it comes to sending drones into Pakistan. (It doesn't take Henry Kissinger to figure that out.)

So, for  now, I'm OK with it. You may proceed, Mr President.....with certain reservations, of course......

"Eric, who do you think we should target next?"

CAIR LA Head to Be Delegate to Democrat Convention

Hat tip Squid and Family Security Matters


Hussam Ayloush (l) with Muslim Brotherhood cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi
(Photo LA Times and Family Security Matters)


This report from Family Security matters should tell you all you need to know about the direction of the Democrat party. Hussam Ayloush, who is the head of CAIR in Southern California, has been selected to be a delegate at the Democrat convention.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/cair-official-elected-delegate-to-democrat-convention?f=must_reads

CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) is an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation trial, which involved Islamic charities in the US funneling money to terrorist organizations like Hamas in the Middle East. This organization is a creation of the Muslim Brotherhood and supports Hamas, no matter how much they deny it.

Last year, when I and several other people protested at The Grove in  Anaheim at the Orange County Human Relations Commission event which gave an award to local imam Muzammil Siddiqi, Ayloush was present. He made it a point to walk from the convention center entrance to where we were standing at an intersection and proceeded to take pictures of us with his cell phone-then tried to verbally antagonize us until Tom Trento of The United West turned on his own camera and took him on telling him he (Ayloush) represented a "despicable organization" (CAIR). At that point, one of Ayloush's horse holders came across the street to lead him away. Ayloush knew he was over-matched and walked off.

As for Ayloush's links to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, if the FSM link isn't enough to disgust you, try this link to hear some of Mr Qaradawi's past statements about Jews and fighting infidels.

http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2010/05/words-of-yusuf-al-qaradawi.html

Al Qaradawi-Ayloush-CAIR-and now the Democrat National Convention.

In Honor of Israel's Recent Birthday: The Women of IDF

Hat tip to Miggie

On the occasion of Israel's recent birthday, they produced this video showing some of their female warriors. I am pleased to post it here.





What a clear distinction. Young women putting on the uniform of their country and fighting against the barbarians of Hamas and Hizbollah, who take their own women and send them forth as suicide bombers to kill innocent men, women and children.

And you wonder who is right in this conflict?

On the Treadmill With MSNBC

Tom Brokaw would be rolling in his grave-if he were dead.


One thing that's for sure when I get on the treadmill in the afternoon and tune in to the Obama News Network, also known as NBC or MSNBC, is that I'm going to get a lot of laughs and material for another blog post.

That's what happened today catching the last half of Chris Matthews' dopey Hardball show and the first half of Al Sharpton's pathetically amateurish Politics Nation show. And the big breaking story of the day is.....

Mitt Romney attending a fund-raiser in Las Vegas today hosted by that despicable guy named Donald Trump. Don't get me wrong; I am no fan of The Donald, nor am I a birther. But my reaction to this news is-so what?

Well, according to Chrissie and REVEREND AL, the so what is the fact that Trump was on a binge last year demanding Obama produce his birth certificate. Trump never claimed that Obama wasn't born in the US; he just thought Obama should produce the birth certificate. Now he doubts the authenticity of the birth certificate. Big deal.

And what did Mitt Romney say to reporters when asked about this "brewing scandal"? It went something like this:

"I only have to get 50.1% of the vote. I may not agree with everything my supporters say, and my supporters may not agree with everything I say...."

"This is leadership?" asked the incredulous MSNBC mad-hatters?

If you are wondering what is missing here in this "discussion", let me fill in the blanks left by Chris and Al.

This.

That's right. Putting aside the ridiculous implication that Donald Trump is some kind of evil character nobody would want to be associated with, let's compare this to a couple of President Obama's "associations" and what kind of leadership he displayed when asked (rarely) by the media about things they had said and done.



Jeremiah Wright

"God Damn America"

Obama: "I sat in the pew of his church for 20 years, and I never heard anything like that."


Bill Ayres

Obama: "Just some guy who lived in the neighborhood."


That's leadership? No, that's lying.

All I can say, if you want to talk about associations, I'll take Trump over Wright and Ayres any day.

And then there was this gem from REVEREND AL:

He brought up the recent incident in which the evil Rush :Limbaugh referred to Sandra Fluke, who wanted her condoms to be covered by insurance, as a "slut" on the radio then used Romney's response that he would not use language like that as being incredibly weak. Well, perhaps, but REVEREND AL neglected to mention the time his fellow talking head Ed "Boom-Boom" Schultz called Laura Ingraham a "slut" on the radio. What did Obama, who personally called Fluke, have to say about that?

Nothing.

It's easy to shoot arrows at the other guy, but if you are going to ignore the same faults on the part of your own guy, it comes back to bite you on the you-know-what.

"Chris Matthews, you've got a weak show."


As for you, REVEREND AL, you don't even have a show.

Sharia4Holland's Threat Against Geert Wilders

Holland's Telegraaf, in reporting the conference of radical Islamists in Amsterdam this past week, speculates on the potential for violence on the part of Islam4Holland. At a speaking appearance this week on Dam Square in Amsterdam, one of the Islam4Holland speakers made a thinly-veiled threat against Geert Wilders ("Who we will deal with when Islam rules Holland"), as well as reminding listeners of the fate of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh (who had his throat slit in a city street after making a movie critical of Islam's treatment of women).

http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/12241282/___Risico_geweld_Sharia4Holland___.html

According to the article, the speaker of the above words on Sunday was detailed by police, but later released.

Also according to the article, a Justice minister has already raised the issue of whether the words spoken on Dam Square about Wilders and Van Gogh have already crossed the line. Of course, we are talking about Dutch law here, but since they have already prosecuted Wilders (unsuccessfully) for warning his countrymen about this clear threat, why not prosecute those who threaten people with death? Wilders must be thinking to himself, "I told you so", but, of course, if he says that publicly, he risks being prosecuted all over again.

That's Holland.

Chris Hayes Apologizes

Chris Hayes of MSNBC
Youthful indiscretion?


Add Chris Hayes to the MSNBC roll of honor of talk show hosts who have been suspended, fired, reprimanded, or, in Chris' case, just forced to apologize for outrageous comments on air.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/28/host-draws-vfw-rebuke-for-saying-uncomfortable-calling-fallen-soldiers-heroes/?test=lates

That's OK, Chris. We understand. Just another youthful indiscretion. I can't wait till you say something else stupid (probably on your next show).

US Expels Syrian Diplomat

Hazem Chehabi (r) receiving the UCI medal


Since that UN cease fire with UN observers has turned out so well in Syria, the US has decided to expel that country's top diplomat in retaliation. (Ninety people were killed Friday.)

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/29/us-expels-top-syrian-diplomat-from-washington-joins-other-nations-in-protest/

Meanwhile out here in Irvine, where UC Irvine just went through its annual contortions over Israel, the Syrian honorary consul Hatem Chehabi remains as the chair of the UC Irvine Foundation in spite of repeated protests.