THE HANDSTAND

OCTOBER 2007

doremus observes matters of interest:

Doremus Jessup, editor of the Fort Beulah The Daily Informer, in Sinclair Lewis' famous book "It Can't Happen Here", at its conclusion, "drove out saluted by the meadow larks, and onward all day, to a hidden cabin in the Northern Woods where quiet men awaited news of freedom.....still Doremus goes on, into the sunrise, for a Doremus Jessup can never die.

MORE THAN FOUR JEWS DIED ON SEPT.11TH 2001
www.september11victims.com/september11victims/ victims_list.htm

http://www.thejewishweek.com/bot....php3? artid=365
Here are JUST the -steins:

Daniel D. Bergstein, 38, Teaneck, N.J.
William Bernstein, 44, New York, N.Y.
Lisa Caren Weinstein Ehrlich, 36, New York, N.Y.
Brian Fredric Goldberg, 26, Union, N.J.
Michelle Herman Goldstein, 31, New York, N.Y.
Monica Goldstein, 25, New York, N.Y.
Steven Goldstein, 35, Princeton, N.J.
Eileen Marsha Greenstein, 52, Morris Plains, N.J.
Roberta Bernstein Heber, 60, New York, N.Y.
Martin Paul Michelstein, 57, Morristown, N.J.
Ronald Keith Milstein, 54, New York, N.Y.
Allan Shwartzstein, 37, Chappaqua, N.Y.
Craig A. Silverstein, 41, Wyckoff, N.J.
Steven Weinstein, 50, New York, N.Y.
Michael R. Wittenstein, 34, Hoboken, N.J.
Lisa Fenn Gordenstein, 41, Needham, Massachusetts


Based on the list of names, and biographical information compiled by The New York Times, and information from records at the Medical Examiner’s Office, there were at least 400 victims either confirmed or strongly likely to be Jewish. Many worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, the trading firm that lost more than 600 employees when the first plane crashed into the north tower.

There were Jewish employees at other World Trade Center firms including Marsh and McLennan and Aon, as well as three firefighters, and passengers on the four hijacked planes. According to the Israeli Consulate, seven Israeli citizens were killed on Sept. 11.


An American Study:

Jews Become Less Connected With, or Supportive of, Israel

Translated by:Adib S. Kawar

An American study published on Aug. 6th 2007 showed that Jews of the U.S.(Not committed to religious traditions), excluding Orthodox Jews, show an increasing tepidity if not partially disconnecting themselves from Israel, which is an inclination that they are not likely to retreat from.

The study also showed that American Jews are merging into American society, through marriages with others of different religious sects, and now have an inclination to consider Judaism as a religion rather than a race; this is a part of what is taking place.

Roger Benita, vice president of the “Andrea Charles Bronfman Charitable Society” that patronised this study said: “The situation with our parents’ generation was the important question. That is, " How to look at Israel? " But for the post 1976 generation the question became:” Why should we look towards Israel?”

The study also showed that, “Perhaps there is a change in feeling from connecting (with Israel); warmth is cooling down and indifference is changing to full detachment”.

The study discovered that only 48% of U.S. Jews below the age of 35 years shall consider the destruction of Israel as a personal tragedy for them, in comparison to 77% of those who are 65 years old or more. Beside that, there are only 54% of those 35 years old or less are “at ease with the existence of a Jewish state”, compared to 81% of those 65 years old or more. The percentage of support was higher among those that visited Israel, irrespective of age.

There are 6,000,000.— (six million) Jews in the U.S., and only 1/3 of them belong to a particular congregation. A Christian study showed that about 40% of U.S. Jews could be considered liberal, reformative ; 32% conservatives ; 8% are traditional (Orthodox).

 

Steven Cohn, of the Hebrew Union College, which participated in conducting this study found out that American Jews are generally: “Inclining more and more to the American idea as against what it used to mean for somebody to be a Jew… Basically, a religious identity”.

 

Thus Steve Peimy, manager of “Society of Contemporary Life of American Jews”, a pro-Israel Jewish pressure group, found out that there is no relation between politics and the declining support of Israel; the retreat is due not to what many assume to be a result of the Hebrew state’s policy towards peace, or problems related to the religious plurality in the country.

“Reuters”Sept. 6th 2007 – www.assafir.com


Ex-Green Party candidate's Anti Zionist book is pulled
It Will Be Distributed in U.S.

By ELIZABETH GREEN
Staff Reporter of the Sun
September 12, 2007
http://www.nysun.com/article/62432
More evidence of US academia under Zionist Occupation. - Rw

The University of Michigan will reconsider its relationship with a London-based company that published a book denouncing Zionism, but it will not extend a temporary halt of the book's distribution, the
university's executive board announced yesterday.

Written by a professor of social studies at Bard College, Joel Kovel, "
Overcoming Zionism" advocates abolishing the state of Israel and replacing it with a single secular state with no ties to the Jewish people, Mr. Kovel said yesterday. Mr. Kovel, 71, a medical doctor and
Yale University graduate who lives in Woodstock, ran for a U.S. Senate seat in 1998 as the Green Party candidate and sought the party's presidential nomination in 2000.

"
Overcoming Zionism" was published by Pluto Press and distributed in America by the University of Michigan Press under a contract with Pluto. But after a group devoted to defending Israel, StandWithUs, denounced
the book as a "collection of anti- Israel propaganda, misquotes, and discredited news stories," the university press halted its distribution.

Mr. Kovel said he learned about the decision in an e-mail message saying shipping had been cut off because the book was "hate speech." The author of the message, provided to The New York Sun, could not be reached for
comment, and a spokeswoman for the University of Michigan, Kelly Cunningham, said she could not verify it.

Michigan's executive board voted unanimously to resume distribution yesterday after "both legal and value considerations,"the board said in a statement.

"While the Executive Board has deep reservations about '
Overcoming Zionism,' it would be a blow against free speech to remove the book from distribution on that basis," the statement read.

It continued, "As members of the University community dedicated to academic freedom and open debate among differing views, the Executive Board stands firmly for freedom of expression, and against even the
appearance of censorship."

The board also said the university press's contract with Pluto requires the university to distribute all of the publisher's books.

But the board also unanimously decided to reconsider the contract, saying " Pluto Press's decision to publish '
Overcoming Zionism' brings into question the viability of UM Press's distribution agreement with Pluto Press."

Mr. Kovel said "
Overcoming Zionism" compares Zionism to South African apartheid. "It's a state where one ethnic group dominates others," he said.

He called the temporary halt to his book's distribution "suppression."

Pluto Press, which has also published books by a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam Chomsky, could not be reached for comment last night,the board said in a statement.

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Whistleblower said...

Most people are are relying on the mainstream media to learn what is going on in the world. Most people rely on TV news and TV news is not telling them what they need to know. Most people don't hunt around the internet for vital information, most people aren't learning about Dr. ElBaradi's recent statements. Dr. ElBaradei is the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency and he recently said "we have not seen any undeclared facilities operating in Iran". Did you know Iran is permitted under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to have facilities for civilian nuclear power? It's their right. Here is something else the most people are not hearing from the mainstream media: The U.S. is in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Mainstream media is helping sell another illegal war. The way they do this is mainly by not reporting things or under-reporting things. So important facts don't reach the majority of people.
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None of the American tributes to tribal leader `Abdul-Sattar Abu Rishah mentioned this about him: that he was an enthusiastic client/champion of Saddam Husayn, and that he named his eldest son after Saddam.

anonymous comments...........

the US and Saudi media are now teaming with Saddamists. Saddamists are experts in anti-Iranian propaganda and racism.

There's no doubt that Zionists represent the most barbaric, murderous culture on the face of the earth. Their hands are covered with the blood of those they have slaughtered for the land they have stolen. Without the knee-jerk support of American racists, that pernicious ideology would have been crushed long ago. Hopefully, one day it shall be eradicated. Only then will there be peace.Mike
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/

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