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Scarlett Johansson slammed by Pink Floyd's Rogers Waters because of Israel



by Ali Abunimah               Electronic Intifada

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has fiercely criticized Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson over her decision to endorse SodaStream, an Israeli company that operates a factory in an illegal colony in the occupied West Bank.
Waters writes that in his previous encounters with Johansson, the actress struck him as a “young woman of strength and integrity who believed in truth, human rights, and the law and love.”
Now, the rock legend says that Johansson’s decision to quit her role with the charity Oxfam in order to represent occupation profiteer SodaStream “is such an act of intellectual, political, and civil about face, that we, all those of us who care about the downtrodden, the oppressed, the occupied, the second class, will find it hard to rationalize.”
He has also written privately to Johansson and to musician Neil Young urging them to respect the Palestinian call for the cultural and economic boycott of Israel.
The Canadian-born Young faces growing calls to cancel a scheduled performance in Tel Aviv this summer.
Waters – who has been an outspoken supporter of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS)– made the statements in a note he posted on his Facebook page.
Here’s Waters’ note in full:
In the past days I have written privately to Neil Young (once) and to Scarlett Johanson (a couple of times). Those letters will remain private.   
Sadly, I have received no reply from either. 
And so I write this note on my Facebook page somewhat in bewilderment.
Neil? I shall ponder all of this long and hard. We don’t really know each other, but, you were always one of my heroes, I am confused.
Scarlett? Ah, Scarlett. I met Scarlett a year or so ago, I think it was at a Cream reunion concert at MSG. She was then, as I recall, fiercely anti Neocon, passionately disgusted by Blackwater (Dick Cheney’s private army in Iraq), you could have been forgiven for thinking that here was a young woman of strength and integrity who believed in truth, human rights, and the law and love. I confess I was somewhat smitten. There’s no fool like an old fool. A few years down the line, Scarlett’s choice of SodaStream over Oxfam is such an act of intellectual, political, and civil about face, that we, all those of us who care about the downtrodden, the oppressed, the occupied, the second class, will find it hard to rationalize.
I would like to ask that younger Scarlett a question or two. Scarlett, just for one example, are you aware that the Israeli government has razed to the ground a Bedouin village in the Negev desert in Southern Israel 63 times, the last time being on the 26th of December 2013. This village is the home to Bedouin. The Bedouin are, of course, Israeli citizens with full rights of citizenship. Well, not quite full rights, because in “Democratic” Israel there are fifty laws that discriminate against non Jewish citizens.
I am not going to attempt to list, either those laws (they are on the statute book in the Knesset for all to research) or all the other grave human rights abuses of Israeli domestic and foreign policy. I would run out of space. But, to return to my friend Scarlett Johansson.
Scarlett, I have read your reposts and excuses, in them you claim that the Palestinian workers in the factory have equal pay, benefits and “Equal rights.” Really? Equal Rights? Do they?
Do they have the right to vote? 
Do they have access to the roads? 
Can they travel to their work place without waiting for hours to pass through the occupying forces control barriers? 
Do they have clean drinking water?
Do they have sanitation? 
Do they have citizenship? 
Do they have the right not to have the standard issue kicking in their door in the middle of the night and taking their children away? 
Do they have the right to appeal against arbitrary and indefinite imprisonment? 
Do they have the right to re-occupy the property and homes they owned before 1948? 
Do they have the right to an ordinary, decent human family life? 
Do they have the right to self determination? 
Do they have the right to continue to develop a cultural life that is ancient and profound?
If these questions put you in a quandary I can answer them for you. The answer is, NO, they do not. 
The workers in The SodaStream Factory do not have any of these rights.
So, what are the “equal rights” of which you speak?
Scarlett, you are undeniably cute, but if you think SodaStream is building bridges towards peace you are also undeniably not paying attention.
Love R.
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About Ali Abunimah
Ali AbunimahCo-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine, forthcoming from Haymarket Books in March 2014.

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Without Context There Is No Truth

ISRAELI CINEMA; HOLLYWOOD STYLE


This film, like many before it about the conflict, is guilty of the sins of distortion and concealment: the context is missing, as if it weren’t there. The film is meant to depict complexity – the misery of the collaborator; the humanity of the agent – but in reality, the film paints a picture without context, and without context there is no truth.
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‘Bethlehem’ is yet another Israeli propaganda film

Before lavishing praise on co-director Yuval Adler, critics should stop to consider his film’s message: the Israelis are the good guys, the Arabs the bad guys.

By Gideon Levy
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From the movie 'Bethlehem’
From the movie ‘Bethlehem.’ Photo by Vered Adir
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Yuval Adler is a talented director, but he has made an outrageous film. “Bethlehem,” his debut feature, has garnered acclaim and prizes – a critics’ award in Venice, first prize at the Haifa Film Festival, six Ophir Awards (Israel’s national film awards) and high praise from The New York Times.
Along with his writing partner Ali Wakad, Adler created a very well-made action movie. He also created (another) Israeli propaganda film. Before everyone starts to praise him, they should pay heed to his messages – the overt, but, especially, the covert ones – and not just the direction, acting, editing and impressive attention to detail. But the plethora of details makes it so you can’t see the forest for the trees, and it’s the same poison forest. Or should we say enchanted sea – the Israelis are the good guys, the Arabs the bad guys.
This film, like many before it about the conflict, is guilty of the sins of distortion and concealment: the context is missing, as if it weren’t there. The film is meant to depict complexity – the misery of the collaborator; the humanity of the agent – but in reality, the film paints a picture without context, and without context there is no truth.
“Let’s make a movie that won’t deal with the political conflict,” Adler said to Wakad, according to an interview he gave to Mike Dagan in Haaretz’s magazine (September 28). But Adler’s refusal to make a “political movie” is deceit and sleight of hand. It is in itself a political statement unlike any other. Adler did not make a film about the Sicilian Mafia, but rather a film about the intifada, which has a political context that he deliberately ignores. This blurring is the movie’s powerful, outrageous statement.
What is the film about? [Warning: Spoilers] Violent, power-hungry intifada fighters, motivated by greed, and in conflict with one another; cynical, corrupt, lying Palestinian Authority figures; and European donation money going to terror, of course. There is not a single word about what they’re fighting against, what they are dying for. There’s no occupation, no oppression, only a Mafia, which this time speaks Arabic. Against it stands the Shin Bet security service, pure of heart, and its merciful agent with the support of his wife and secretary (which the Palestinians don’t have, of course). The agent always takes care of his pet informant, lying to save his life, until the latter rises up to kill him by shooting him and bashing his skull in, ungrateful wretch that he is. The Israelis will love this. They already do. All of the images they teach about are in this film. Black and white, with 50 shades of gray that just need to be accounted for – the collaborator.
Adler’s avoidance of the issue is abominable. An Israeli who makes an action movie about the intifada without taking a stand is a coward. He knows the subject will attract viewers at film festivals abroad, but at the same time doesn’t want to anger Israeli viewers.
It is impossible to make a movie about the intifada without revealing what motivated it. Adler, educated in philosophy, made an excellent gangster film, a spaghetti Western, but like a true Western movie, to hell with the historical truth. Of course such a film can be enjoyable, but in the 21st century it’s no longer possible to buy a story that paints the cowboys as good and the Indians as bad. That’s “Bethlehem” as well: the good, the bad, and the ugly. The Shin Bet agent, the collaborating terrorist, no Clint Eastwood, but with covert propaganda, which is worse than the overt kind.
In Bethlehem, the city, I met many armed and wanted men during the intifada. Some of them perhaps even fit the stereotypes presented in this film, but there were many others as well, who sacrificed their lives during their just struggle for freedom. None of them appear in “Bethlehem,” the film.
I’ve also met Shin Bet agents and heard about their exploits, and they certainly don’t look or sound like Razi from the film. Where’s the evil, torture, blackmail and lies? Adler acknowledges a few Shin Bet agents at the end of the movie; the Shin Bet should be grateful for this free promotional film. Adler chose to paint a one-dimensional picture, which will once again pat the Israelis on the back. Hey, look how right you are. Hey, look how they victimize you. Hey, look how hopeless the situation is. Go see “Bethlehem” and you’ll understand why.
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Madonna Pay then what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is God's to God.

                                                
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Two non-profit groups linked to pop star Madonna are also under investigation, the Los Angeles Times reported. Madonna helped put the center on the map when she became an adherent of Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism.

GOD FEARING TAX EVADERS

LA Kabbalah Centre probed by IRS

LOS ANGELES, -- The Kabbalah Centre of Los Angeles acknowledged Friday it is being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service.
Two non-profit groups linked to pop star Madonna are also under investigation, the Los Angeles Times reported. Madonna helped put the center on the map when she became an adherent of Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism.
The center was founded several decades ago by Philip Berg and his wife, Karen, and they still run it with their sons. Sources told the Times the IRS is investigating whether the Berg family is profiting from tax-exempt donations.
Kabbalah has also attracted Ashton Kutcher and Gwyneth Paltrow, and the center's assets may now be more than $260 million, the Times said.
The center said it and a related group, Spirituality for Kids, have received subpoenas.
"The Centre and SFK intend to work closely with the IRS and the government, and are in the process of providing responsive information to the subpoenas," a statement said.
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Do The Jews Own Hollywood And The Media?

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Texe Marrs

Do the Zionist Jews own Hollywood and the media? Are they using the media to mold and shape American opinion by constantly injecting Zionist propaganda and bias into news programs, movies, television shows, even children’s cartoons and entertainment?

The answer is so blatantly “Yes!” that you wouldn’t think these questions are even worth pursuing. But recently, the untoward comments of a patriot talk show host made me stop and rethink it. Are there people out there-even in the Patriot Movement-who really are that much in the dark, who deny Jewish influence in the media?

Recently, when a caller to a talk show on the Genesis Radio Network suggested that the Jews control the media, the host went wild. He raged on and on, playing the race card. He branded the surprised caller and others like him who are weary of Zionist influence “Nazis” and “anti-Semites.” Angrily, he denied Jewish involvement in any conspiracies and ridiculed those who had the audacity to suggest that Jews run Hollywood or the media. Then, in a real fit of spewed venom, the talk show host demanded that the caller and all others who believe like him should go out and hang themselves to promote population reduction.

As if that wasn’t hateful enough, the pro-Zionist host then stated that all the “Nazis and Anti-Semites” who opposed Zionism and the Jews should plug in an electric toaster, hold it to their naked bodies, jump into a bathtub filled with water, and have a party.” In other words, kill themselves.

Quite a rampage by the supposedly “patriot” talk show host. And all because the poor caller had dared to propose undue Jewish influence over the media.

Hearing the actual taped broadcast of this unbelievable tirade by a pro-Zionist advocate confirmed my resolve to inform good folks once again of the truly dictatorial grip that Zionist Jews have on the media. The best way to do this is not to rage and spew venom, but simply to present the facts, to document the truth of Jewish control of the media.

What Do Knowledgeable Jews Say?

How about going to top Jews in the media themselves and see what they say? Take Joel Stein, for example, columnist for the Los Angeles Times newspaper and regular contributor to Time magazine. In his column in the LA Times (Dec. 19, 2008), Stein says that Americans who think the Jews do not control Hollywood and the media are just plain “dumb.”

“Jews totally run Hollywood.” Stein proudly admits. He then goes on to provide a long, long list of Hollywood/media chieftains-all Jews!-to prove his point. On his list: Fox News President Peter Chernin; Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey; Walt Disney CEO Robert Igor; Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton; Warner Brothers Chairman Barry Meyer; CBS CEO Leslie Moonves; MGM Chairman Harry Sloan; and NBC/Universal Studios CEO Jeff Zucker.

That’s just the top brass at the studios. Then there are the actors and entertainers-predominantly Jews, from Barbara Streisand and Gwyneth Paltrow to Tom Hanks and Ben Afleck. JewJewand Jew again. As Stein wryly remarks, even the head of the Actors’ Union, the Screen Actors Guild, Alan Rosenberg, is a Jew.

“The Jews are so dominant,” writes Stein, “I had to scour the trades to come up with six Gentiles in high positions at entertainment companies.” “But lo and behold,” Stein says, “even one of that six, AMC President Charles Collier, turned out to be a Jew!”

“As a proud Jew,” says Joel Stein, “I want America to know of our accomplishment. Yes, we control Hollywood.”

ADL’s Foxman Admits Jewish Control

Stein says he then called Abe Foxman, Chairman of the Jewish ADL, to ask him, why don’t more Jews just come out and boast at this great accomplishment? Foxman responded by admitting that yes, it’s true that most of the top execs “happen to be Jewish.” In fact, Foxman told Stein, “all eight major film studios are run by men who happen to be Jewish.”

Ben Stein (no relation to Joel), the well-known Jewish actor, economic commentator and writer, when asked “Do Jews run Hollywood?” stared blankly at the questioner, then retorted, “You bet they do-and what of it?” Shahar Ilan, writing in haaretz.com, the internet division of Israel’s top daily newspaper, commented, “The Jews do control the American media. This is very clear, and claiming otherwise is an insult to common knowledge.”

Neal Gabler, also a Jew and a noted media researcher, wrote an entire book outlining Jewish control of Hollywood. It was entitled, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. But to really see how the Jews, in their own publications and press, view the reality of Jewish control of the media, all one has to do is take a look at a recent issue of the Jewish Daily Forward, which featured an article entitled, “Billionaire Boychiks Battle for Media Empire.”

Billionaire Jews Battle for Media

This fascinating, look-see article discussed how the Jews had for decades owned the media and now were competing; that is, vying, to buy one of America’s most powerful media companies, Tribune Company, which owns 23 television stations, a baseball team, and many major newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.

“However, it turns out,” gloated the Jewish mag, “we’ll have a Jew in charge of the (LA) Times, which was once one of old Los Angeles’ most famous WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) institutions. What a great day for old LA Jews”

The publication noted that among the Jewish billionaires (”boychiks”) vying for the Tribune media empire is “Liberal, Jewish, media mogul David Geffen.”

And who, pray tell, is the current owner of the Tribune Company? Why, that would be Jewish billionaire Sam Zell. Zell is a major donor to Israeli, Zionist and Jewish causes. His own rabbi proudly reports that Zell is “a committed Zionist, a generous supporter of Israel, and a member in good standing of the synagogue.”

Asked who his own favorite newspaper columnists were, Zell quickly answered, “Charles Krauthammer, Thomas Friedman, and David Brooks.” Surprise! The trio are all ardent Zionist whack-jobs who clamor over each other demanding the U.S. attack Iran, provide billions more in foreign aid to favored nation Israel, and so forth.

Local Newspapers Owned by Foreign Agents

So powerful is the Jewish control over the media that Nathanael Kapner, a rare Jew who converted to Christianity and now is adept at reporting these things, asserts that no longer can we trust our local daily newspaper. “Zionist Jews have taken over the ‘local newspaper’ in America,” Kapner writes. Indeed he explains that there basically is no local newspaper anymore, because, “Most local newspapers are owned by companies controlled by Zionists whose offices are hundreds of miles away.”

Kapner provides manifold evidence of Zionists’ dominating control of the media at all levels. The Newhouse Empire of the Jewish brothers Samuel, Donald, and Theodore Newhouse, Kapner says, “illustrates the insatiable appetite for opinion control:”

“Today, the Newhouse Empire owns 40 local newspapers across the U.S.A. These include the Newark Star Ledger, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Portland Oregonian, and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.”

Then, there are the vast array of magazines run by the Jewish Newhouse family-including the New Yorker, Vogue, Golf Digest, Glamour, Gentleman’s Quarterly (GQ), and the massively circulated newspaper insert, Parade magazine.

Jewish Media Spew Out Pro-Zionist Propaganda

The fact that Zionists control virtually every media outlet in America is no doubt why the American citizenry hears only one version of events in the Middle East-the pro-Jew, pro-Israeli side. This led Dr. Kevin MacDonald, professor at California State University, to write:

“In the contemporary world, organized American Jewish lobbying groups and deeply committed Jews in the media are behind the pro-Israel U.S. foreign policy that is leading to war against virtually the entire Arab world.”

This Zionist bias and propaganda spin by the Jewish-owned American media is not new. As far back as 1978, the noted Jewish political writer Alfred Lillienthal, in his revealing book, The Zionist Connection, stated:

“The most effective component of Jewish connection is probably that of media control. It is well known that American opinion molders have long been largely influenced by a handful of powerful newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the St. Louis-Post Dispatch (All Jewish Families).”

To further illustrate the breadth of Jewish media control, we note that Jewish magnate Arthur Sulzberger’s media empire today includes not only the New York Times (which, in Stalin’s day, systematically covered up the genocidal crimes of Jewish commissars in Communist U.S.S.R), but also the Boston Globe, the Lexington Dispatch (NC), the Gainesville Sun (FL), the Ocala Star Banner (FL), the Tuscaloosa News (AL), the Spartansburg Herald Journal (SC), and the Santa Barbara News Press (CA). Each of the newspapers Lillienthal mentioned back in 1978, in turn, owned and still owns dozens of others. So tainted is the news because of this that almost every newspaper in America endorsed President George Bush’s radically pro-Israel policies in the Middle East, including Israel’s savage butchery of Lebanon and Palestine.

There can be no doubt. It is easy for us to document the massive dominance over the media by evil Jewish shills who are continually hostile to pure American interests while, everyday, unabashedly spewing out reams of misleading Zionist propaganda. Time magazine, Newsweek, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX-and many, many more are all owned or run by Jews and operated solely to further the aims of the traitorous, anti-American, ever-growing Zionist World Empire.

All America is in the Grip of the Hidden, Red Iron Fist of Zionism

Of course, the media, even as important as it is to our culture, is only a bit piece of the whole that is now, regrettably, under the big thumbs of the Jewish Zionist elite. Our educational establishment, Wall Street, the banks, the Federal Reserve, our Congress, the White House (just consider Rahm Emanuel, the Zionist Israeli freak who is Obama’s White House Chief of Staff), and our judiciary-each and every one is infiltrated by Zionist radicals who put Israel and their own “Chosen People” first, to the detriment of everything sacred to honest, God-fearing, hard-working Americans.

So, the next time you hear some ignorant rube on talk radio or elsewhere shoving the race card in your face and ranting and raving about “Nazis” and “anti-Semites” who “claim” the Jews control the media, why don’t you just reach out and turn that radio dial to another place. And please, don’t forget to also let the radio network and station manager know of your displeasure.

The fact is that the dishonest Zionist shills out there promoting Zionist lies, drivel, and nonsense truly deserve our contempt.

The Truth is Precious

As for Texe Marrs and Power of Prophecy, we have long pledged ourselves to telling you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. And part of that truth, simply put, is this: That yes, absolutely, Zionist Jews do own and control Hollywood and the media. So beware of their lies and deceit. The truth is precious. Let us work together to protect and nurture it.

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Hollywood’s most misunderstood genre deserves its own award category

Greg Felton

The Academy Awards ceremony bears little resemblance to the relatively modest affair that began it all on May 16, 1929, in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel . Then, a mere nine categories were honoured. Now, scores of awards are given out in categories unthinkable at a time before “talkies” and colour film.Most of these new categories are in what might be called “movie science,” areas like special effects, animation and computer graphics. The other side of movie-making, the artistic side, has understandably suffered as a result; the more money that gets blown on artificial acting, the less money there is to invest in real acting, and that includes intelligent, meaningful scripts.

Small wonder, then, that the vast majority of new movies falling off the Hollywood assembly line are bastardizations of great movies, simple-minded sex farces, torture/revenge spectacles, and pointless comic book fantasies, but let’s leave that trenchant observation for another day.

I am using this column to ask the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create a new Oscar category to honour an overlooked genre, one that actually thrives in our intellectually stunted culture. I am, of course, referring to the holocaust. Thus far, the academy has lumped holocaust and holocaust-themed movies in with others of a given genre—drama, comedy, romantic comedy, thriller, documentary, war epic, etc.—but this practice does a disservice to all films.

For example, a “normal movie” can be enjoyed for its own sake and evaluated solely on its artistic merits. They can be pure escapist entertainment; others also convey important political or moral truths. Besides being a superb action movie, The Matrix is a masterful parable of the fundamental question of Cartesian philosophy—“does reality exist, or is it merely an illusion in the mind of a superior being?” Enemy of the State (1998) is a timely warning that nobody is safe from harassment and terrorism from the U.S. police state.

Like these and other movies, a holocaust movie is larger than the sum of its cinematic parts, but instead of conveying a political or moral truth, it conveys a political or moral illusion. As such, it is manipulative, not instructive, and therefore a work of propaganda, not honest movie-making.

First of all. the holocaust genre is artistically and morally exhausted. Everything that could be said about the Nazi persecution of Jews from a zionist perspective has been said ad nauseam. More than 180 films on the subject have been made in the U.S., almost all since the end of the 1967 war, yet studios still pump them out as if World War II ended yesterday.

Nazi Germany collapsed in 1945, but you’d swear Hitler was still alive given the never-ending supply of holocaust movies.
Hollywood Holocaust Industry

Rather than allow this didactic dishonesty to debase the Oscars further, all Nazi holocaust and holocaust-related movies must be designated as propaganda and disqualified from movie award categories. Instead, a new category, the Leni Riefenstahl Awards, should be created to give these films the respect they deserve.

Leni Riefenstahl
Riefenstahl, for those who may not know, was a great 20th-century German filmmaker. Her 1935 film Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will), a sympathetic treatment of the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, was recognized at the time as a great work of cinematic art. It won the gold medal in Venice in 1935 and the gold medal at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937.

Riefenstahl’s subsequent film, on the 1936 Berlin Olympics, was also highly praised: 1937, Gold Medal (Paris); 1938, World’s Best Film (Venice); 1939, The Olympic Award (International Olympic Committee); 1956, classified as one of the world’s 10 best films.

After the war, Triumph des Willens was (rightly) denounced as a work of propaganda and Riefenstahl’s reputation never recovered. My point is that even propaganda can be good art. In that spirit, I nominate The Reader for the inaugural Leni Riefenstahl Award for Excellence in Propaganda.


The Reader

Summary, from imdb.com
The Reader opens in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens.

Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from The Odyssey, Huck Finn and The Lady with the Little Dog. Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life—this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives. The Reader is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another.


Director:
Stephen Daldry

Writers (WGA):
David Hare (screenplay)
Bernhard Schlink (book)

Lead Actors:
Ralph Fiennes (Michael Berg)
Kate Winslet (Hanna Schmitz)

Oscar Nominations 5 Another 7 wins and 19 nominations

To begin, author Bernhard Schlink wanted to examine what it means to love someone who committed an atrocity. He could have set his tragic love affair against any moral crisis he wanted, but his choice of the war crimes trial of five female Nazi prison guards places both his novel and the movie in the category of zionist propaganda. The great propaganda moment comes near the end when the crime in question is revealed at the trial. Two points are of particular note.

Law vs. Morality
Based on their written account of the event, the women are charged with failing to open the locked door of a building during a fire, thereby causing the death of 300 women and children prisoners trapped inside—all save one woman and her daughter.

A law professor, who brought five students to see the trial, explains that what the women did was legal according to the law at the time. Student Michael Berg rejects this sanguine attitude: “You keep telling us to think like lawyers but they are guilty... What is there to understand?”

Berg is meant to represent the voice of humanity and righteous indignation. For him, what the women did was a crime because they were morally responsible for the lives of the prisoners and they failed in their responsibility. Legalistic tap-dancing around what was or was not acceptable cannot make the crime any less punishable. For this scene—and the film itself— to have integrity, the position of moral righteousness must remain constant. It doesn’t.

Because The Reader came out during Israel’s bombardment of Gaza one month ago the entire trial is rendered banal. The professor is absolutely correct: there is nothing surprising or condemnatory about what the women did because the same corrupt morality that made it legally acceptable then is again acceptable now.

During the bombardment of Gaza, Israel forced 110 Palestinians, half of them children, to take shelter in a house in Zeitun, a suburb of Gaza City. The next day Israel deliberately bombarded the house for 34 hours, killing 30 and wounding 18. The youngest victim was five months old. There is no trial scheduled to try these war criminals.

In fact, the Jews who committed the Zeitun atrocity were greater criminals. The guards did not actually attack the house. Theirs was a crime of omission; Israel’s is a crime of commission.

The only reason to make this movie, much less write the book, is to breathe life into Hitler's ghost so we don't notice the living Hitlers in Israel. The guards in The Reader were not put on trial for allowing innocent people to die; they were tried for allowing Jews to die. The effect is to propagandize the Jew-as-victim myth and make the audience believe that it’s a political reality.

Collective Guilt
The second propaganda point is the common theme of all Germans sharing responsibility for the holocaust. One of the law students says of Hanna Schmitz, one of the guards: “I’d shoot her myself; I’d shoot them all.”

In contrast, fellow student Michael Berg is downcast throughout the trial because Hanna is his former lover, and he knows she is innocent because she is illiterate. She could not have written the incriminating report as the other defendants claimed.

Against the lies of the other guards, though, Hanna would not defend herself for fear of admitting her handicap. Berg, who could have saved Hanna, did not speak up because he feared his classmates' contempt, and he wanted to distance himself from the crime.

The audience is shown both bloodlust and cowardice, yet they are supposed to identify with the professor’s detached, rational respect for the law: “If people like you don’t learn from people like me, then what the hell is the point of anything?” Indeed, what is the point”

The idea that justice for these Nazi guards should be fair and rational is hard to take seriously given that Jews in Israel are visiting a collective punishment, a holocaust, on Palestinians, and many Jews are sabotaging attempts to bring the criminals to justice. Moreover, if one accepts that Israel is a law unto itself and commits collective punishment as a matter of national policy, could the professor’s rational detachment be invoked in the defence of any Israeli war criminals that might face trial?

Regardless of how much attention one pays to the relationship between Michael and Hanna, the holocaust is the focus. Without it, there would be no book or movie. The holocaust defines for all time our moral frame of reference: the past is real; the present is an illusion; Jews are eternal victims.

The legalistic culture and the oppressor/victim relationship described in The Reader are antiquated, so the decision to use them, in preference to meaningful, real-life examples, renders the book and movie preposterous, manipulative, and dishonest.

For the abovementioned reasons and the high quality of the movie’s production, The Reader would be a worthy recipient of the inaugural Leni Riefenstahl Award for Excellence in Propaganda.


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The Zionists get away with murder is because they can.

No surprise here, but the details are interesting. Add to them the Rupert Murdoch world media empire and no wonder myths are perpetuated as truths.


http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion
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From the Los Angeles Times

Opinion

How Jewish is Hollywood?

A poll finds more Americans disagree with the statement that 'Jews control Hollywood.' But here's one Jew who doesn't.
Joel Stein

December 19, 2008

I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe "the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews," down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood.

How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah.

The person they were yelling at in that ad was SAG President Alan Rosenberg (take a guess). The scathing rebuttal to the ad was written by entertainment super-agent Ari Emanuel (Jew with Israeli parents) on the Huffington Post, which is owned by Arianna Huffington (not Jewish and has never worked in Hollywood.)

The Jews are so dominant, I had to scour the trades to come up with six Gentiles in high positions at entertainment companies. When I called them to talk about their incredible advancement, five of them refused to talk to me, apparently out of fear of insulting Jews. The sixth, AMC President Charlie Collier, turned out to be Jewish.

As a proud Jew, I want America to know about our accomplishment. Yes, we control Hollywood. Without us, you'd be flipping between "The 700 Club" and "Davey and Goliath" on TV all day.

So I've taken it upon myself to re-convince America that Jews run Hollywood by launching a public relations campaign, because that's what we do best. I'm weighing several slogans, including: "Hollywood: More Jewish than ever!"; "Hollywood: From the people who brought you the Bible"; and "Hollywood: If you enjoy TV and movies, then you probably like Jews after all."

I called ADL Chairman Abe Foxman, who was in Santiago, Chile, where, he told me to my dismay, he was not hunting Nazis. He dismissed my whole proposition, saying that the number of people who think Jews run Hollywood is still too high. The ADL poll, he pointed out, showed that 59% of Americans think Hollywood execs "do not share the religious and moral values of most Americans," and 43% think the entertainment industry is waging an organized campaign to "weaken the influence of religious values in this country."

That's a sinister canard, Foxman said. "It means they think Jews

meet at Canter's Deli on Friday mornings to decide what's best for the Jews." Foxman's argument made me rethink: I have to eat at Canter's more often.

"That's a very dangerous phrase, 'Jews control Hollywood.' What is true is that there are a lot of Jews in Hollywood," he said. Instead of "control," Foxman would prefer people say that many executives in the industry "happen to be Jewish," as in "all eight major film studios are run by men who happen to be Jewish."

But Foxman said he is proud of the accomplishments of American Jews. "I think Jews are disproportionately represented in the creative industry. They're disproportionate as lawyers and probably medicine here as well," he said. He argues that this does not mean that Jews make pro-Jewish movies any more than they do pro-Jewish surgery. Though other countries, I've noticed, aren't so big on circumcision.

I appreciate Foxman's concerns. And maybe my life spent in a New Jersey-New York/Bay Area-L.A. pro-Semitic cocoon has left me naive. But I don't care if Americans think we're running the news media, Hollywood, Wall Street or the government. I just care that we get to keep running them.

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Charities and celebs seek distance from controversial Israeli settlement-builder

For charity & stars, new book Hollywood Pinups tainted by diamond mogul Lev Leviev

Charities and celebs seek distance from controversial Israeli settlement-builder

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New York, NY, October 27, 2008 – The October 28 release of the celebrity portrait book Hollywood Pinups by photographer Timothy White is being marred by controversy, as a charity and stars distance themselves from Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev who provided the jewelry worn by stars in the book. Oxfam America is named in the book as recipient of White's book sales proceeds, and on the page immediately before, Leviev is thanked for his "support and contribution" to the book. In response, Oxfam America, which had renounced Leviev in January, has again decried Leviev's settlement construction and diamond mining practices, and announced that it will be informing others of "the deliberate strategy of Leviev Diamonds to connect itself with unwitting charities and celebrities." In June, UNICEF renounced all connections with Leviev.

Eighteen of twenty-three celebrity women in the book wore Leviev's diamonds. The New York rights coalition Adalah-NY has contacted many - Susan Sarandon, Tea Leoni, Felicity Huffman, Vanessa Williams, Kate Hudson, Kate Walsh, Molly Sims, Mary-Kate Olsen, and Gina Gershon - and asked them to renounce all connections with Leviev.

Nicole Caruso, a Vice President in New York for WKT Public Relations, which represents Tea Leoni, Kate Walsh, Felicity Huffman, Mary-Kate Olsen, and Melissa George, told a representative of Adalah-NY on Friday by phone that WKT had informed Leviev's representatives that they cannot use the names of the stars represented by their firm. Adalah-NY also notes that a photo of Oxfam "Ambassador" Kristin Davis wearing Leviev's jewelry has been removed from Leviev's website. Susan Sarandon, who was previously embroiled in controversy after attending the opening of Leviev's New York jewelry store despite a protest, wrote the book's foreward, but did not wear Leviev's diamonds in her photo in Hollywood Pinups.

Lubna Ka'aabneh of Adalah-NY explained, "We don't believe that the stars who wore Leviev's diamonds knew that the diamonds were tainted by human rights violations in Palestine and Angola. Now that they do, we expect them to follow Oxfam and UNICEF's lead, by forbidding Leviev from using their names and photos." In a related development, after contacts from Adalah-NY, Leviev was removed from the list of previously announced sponsors of the Children's Diabetes Foundation's (CDF) star-studded Carousel of Hope Ball held last Saturday in Beverly Hills. CDF said this did not represent a judgement on the merits of Adalah-NY's claims about Leviev (see related press release).

In January, Adalah-NY informed Oxfam that Leviev was touting support for the organization. Oxfam responded by stating that it had not received support from Leviev, and that it does not accept support from individuals who violate international law. But Leviev's claims of links to Oxfam continued.

In an October 21 statement on Hollywood Pinups, Adrienne Smith, an Oxfam America spokesperson in Boston, explained, "At some point in the process, Leviev Diamonds offered to provide diamonds for some of the photo shoots, but Oxfam was not aware of this. Just a few weeks ago, Adalah-NY tipped us off to the fact that Leviev Diamonds were promoting their inclusion in the book and using this to claim to be Oxfam supporters… Oxfam reiterates our policy that we are not and never will be partners or beneficiaries of Leviev because of both his mining practices and his support of Israeli settlements on Occupied Palestinian Lands which is in contravention of International Law and a major obstacle in the road to peace… Oxfam is disturbed to find ourselves used in this way and we intend to be proactive in informing those in our community about the deliberate strategy of Leviev Diamonds to connect itself with unwitting charities and celebrities."

Leviev's LA-based PR firm BluPRint has a case study about Leviev on their website explaining their strategy of "engaging the Hollywood and celebrity community," and aiding "in Leviev's charity alliances and event partnerships to maximize the brand recognition and partnering opportunities in the US." Alexis Stern of Adalah-NY explained that, "The developments with CDF, Oxfam, UNICEF, and various stars signal the collapse of Leviev and BluPRint's cynical public relations strategy. No amount of deception, branding and PR can make a businesses' human rights abuses acceptable."

Leviev's companies Africa Israel and Leader have recently built homes in at least four Israeli settlements in the West Bank. In 2007, New York Magazine reported that Angolan security companies employed by Leviev were accused of torture, sexual abuse and even murdering Angolans. In Namibia Leviev recently fired 222 striking diamond polishers. And in Brooklyn and at the Apthorp in Manhattan, Leviev's construction of luxury apartments threatens to displace low- and moderate-income residents.

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60 Years of Apartheid Exposed

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Pictures from Last Saturday's Protest at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood

In Hollywood a grand celebration of 60 years of Israel's existence was marked at the prestigious Kodak Theater filled with entertainers and celebrities to push the message that Israel’s past and present should be honored. Even Steven Spielberg was invited.

That was the Hollywood fantasy. Outside over 40 demonstrators at the theater made it clear that this was a so-called ‘celebration’ attempting to hide the brutal and genocidal nature of the real history of Israel. “What about the massacres of children killed by Israel,” shouted Mazen Almoukdad, press spokesperson for the event and member of Al-Awda Right to Return Coalition, one of the organizations that sponsored the rally along with the Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid - Southern California, Free Palestine Alliance, International Action Center, National Council of Arab-Americans and the Palestinian American Women’s Association.

Participants included Bev Tang representing the international Filipino social justice organization BAYAN USA; Martha Rojas representing the May Day Unity Coalition, the immigrant rights organization responsible for security at the large May 1st rally; and Don White, member of CISPES-LA.

Speakers at the rally reminded participants going into the Kodak Theater about the role of Israel as the primary agent of U.S. imperialist interests in the region and maintaining an illegal occupation, violating international UN laws and practicing genocide and ethnic cleansing since 1948. One Black man passing by stopped when he heard one of the speakers make the connection between apartheid in South Africa and the struggle against Israeli apartheid. He then joined the rally. With constant chants of “60 Years of Occupation – 60 Years of Apartheid” and “From Iraq to Palestine Occupation is a Crime” ringing up and down Hollywood Boulevard the fantasy Zionists were trying to portray did not go unchallenged, turning into a headache for some participants and a wake-up call for others.

To attend or find out about the upcoming Sixth Annual Al-Awda convention this Friday to Sunday, May 16-18, go to www.al-awda.org.
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the fake "Moses" is dead..........Charlton Heston is dead

raja chemayel


"Moses" is dead
Hollywood shall miss him
once he crossed the Red Sea
thanks to the special-effects-technicians.
"Moses" is dead
He freed all the slaves
thanks to the Guild of Hollywood actors
"Moses" is dead
and before he died
he has broken all 10 commandments
1- he has stolen the Pharaoh's Gold
2- he has lied to his people
3- he has killed Egyptians and Canaanites
4- he has used God's name in vain ,
in many places and on many occasion and many wars
5- he has committed adultery and frequently
6- he has not honoured his (adoptive) Egyptian-Parents ,
on the contrary, he has even robbed them
7- he has worshipped many Gods ,
depending on his tactics and his needs.
8- he never loved nor cherished any of his neighbour
he even killed their sons.
9- he did nothing else than false discretion
and discrimination to all his neighbours
10- He worshipped statues,photos and photography's
So far for Charlton Heston , the fake "Moses"
but the real Moses never got inside the promised-land
while Charlton Heston was in Israel many times.....
but again ....Israel is not the Promised-Land !!
and Hollywood should not invent any Moses !
Eng. Moustafa Roosenbloom



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The City Los Angeles joins in Israel’s 60th anniversary of murder and mayhem

Have you ever been to LA?
Total blasphemy to
even suggest comparing this city to angels.
Case in point: Zionist controlled
Media have their Hollywood
corporate like whores
including Paula Abdul, Sylvester
Stallone and Jon Voight, participating Tuesday in a charity
and solidarity concert for Sderot in Beverly Hills.

The concert, is entitled Live for Sderot which includes
performances by Ninet Tayeb (who ever the hell that is)
and will be attended by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

This event they say launches the celebrations in the
City of Hell for :

Israel’s 60th anniversary
of murder
and mayhem.

How lucky they are to have Sderot.
Another trump card like the holocaust card?
Oh poor Sderot while over a million and a half
people in Gaza are blocked off from
the rest of the world with
the rest of the population of Palestine suffering daily
along with the displaced Palestinians in limbo all over the globe.
Forgive me if I don't loose any sleep over Sderrot that has problems
that does not even come near to the problems faced by
the people of Palestine that started over 60 years ago.

The Zionist Media machine has gone all out -
They have 10 teenagers from Sderot
who will be the guest of
honour for the concert. They came from Israel with
q cards in hand ready to shed tears.

They are Exploit material for Israel
purposes of trying to win more support for
Israel's continued murder & ethnic cleansing.

Israeli so called Leadership Club (ILC) Chairman,
Eli Tene, surprised each of the teens with $100 in spending
money and a new iPod. The teens were also treated to a tour
of the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame,
as well as to dinner with Ninet Tayeb and Consul General of
Israel in Los Angeles Jacob Dayan.
(while the children of Palestine

especially in Gaza starve and hope they live another day)

The Highlight of the teens’ visit,
it is said to be the benefit
concert for Sderot to be held Tuesday night.
Paula Abdul is hosting the event
during which a videoclip entitled “Color red”,
which tells some tale of the Qassam-weary town,
will be screeened. They should also have people
watch occupation 101, then people there would
have something to talk about.

So there you have it: the
City of Los Angeles
being called the City of Angels for Sderot
by many in the Zionist Israel Camp.
My question is
Who's singing for Gaza?

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Leviev asks Academy Award stars to wear diamonds tainted by human rights abuses

Lev Leviev, the Israeli settlement builder and
diamond mogul who has been accused of supporting
human rights abuses in Angola, Burma, New York City
and Palestine, is lending his jewelry to some attendees of
the 80th annual Academy Awards this Sunday.
The jewelry loan was reported by Warner Brothers ExtraTV.
Leviev has made a concerted effort to associate himself and
his businesses with global elites, but a barrage of negative
publicity related to these rights abuses has tarnished
Leviev's image, suggesting that, as NY Jewish Week
wrote recently, "For Leviev, All that Glitters Isn't Gold."
Human rights campaigners from Adalah-NY have
pledged to contact Academy Award organizers and
attendees to voice their concerns over Leviev's involvement.

The annual Hollywood ceremony had been jeopardized
by a protracted strike of the Writers Guild, which had
been denied a share of revenue generated by their
work online. Ironically, Leviev himself has also been
at the center of labor disputes in New York City involving
unpaid wages. Workers at construction sites co-owned
by Leviev and Shaya Bolmelgreen in New York City
have filed suits over withheld wages, and, according
to the Laborers Union, have complained of dangerous
work conditions, allegedly resulting in accidents
and serious injuries.

Sadly, just one year after the film Blood Diamond was
nominated for five Oscars, there is a chance that
tainted Angolan diamonds that bypass the Kimberley
Process which aims to eliminate trade in "conflict
diamonds" will be worn by stars at the Academy
awards. According to the 2007 "Diamond Industry
Annual Review" for Angola produced by the watchdog
organization Partnership Africa Canada (PAC), "the
Angolan Kimberley System has no way of tracking"
more than 10% of Angola's "diamonds back to source."
As a result, there are "more than a million carats per
year exiting Angola… with the murkiest credentials."
Leviev, who buys, polishes and sells Angolan diamonds,
is directly involved in these failings. Furthermore,
private security companies employed by Leviev in the
mining districts in northeast Angola have been accused
by Angolan human rights monitor Rafael Marques of
"humiliation, whipping, torture, sexual abuse, and, in
some cases, assassinations." Leviev has close ties with
Angola's repressive and corrupt Dos Santos regime which
has failed to hold elections since 1992.

Leviev's companies have also built homes in at least five
Israeli settlements on Palestinian land in the Israeli-occupied
West Bank in violation of international law. The settlements
that Leviev has built seize vital resources and divide
Palestinian territories into isolated enclaves, destroying
hopes for the creation of a viable Palestinian state.

Leviev became involved in a flap with the international
charity Oxfam after the New York human rights
coalition Adalah-NY contacted Oxfam on January
8 following media reports that Oxfam had accepted
support from Leviev. In response, Oxfam stated
publicly that Leviev had never been an Oxfam
donor, nor would they accept donations from any
individual who constructs settlements in occupied
territory in contravention of international
humanitarian law. Twenty days after Adalah-NY
raised the issue, an article which claimed that Leviev
donated to Oxfam was finally removed from the
news site belonging to an organization of which
Leviev is the president.

After attending the gala opening of Leviev's first US
diamond store in Manhattan, actress Susan Sarandon
was approached by Israeli, Palestinian and US
human rights organizations urging her to cut ties
with the billionaire. An open letter sent to Sarandon
from the US-based Jewish Voice for Peace noted
Leviev's alleged misdeeds in Angola, Burma, and
New York, as well as in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories saying: "Leviev's strong support of the
settlements seriously compromises any efforts at
a just peace in the region. His efforts to expropriate
more lands from Palestinians, using both financial
and strong-arm tactics, greatly increase Palestinian
suffering. . . As Jews who yearn and work for a just
peace for Palestinians and Israelis, we implore you
to take a public stand against Leviev."
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