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For example, Mayor Ken Livingstone, who ran for Mayor of London on a platform of anti-racism and anti-bigotry, started down the path of anti-Jewish racism and bigotry the day he blithely invited Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi (the Muslim Brotherhood-influenced Islamic jurist who has supported human bomb terrorism by the Palestinians and expressed murderous prejudice against Jews, gays and women) to London to preside over the annual meeting of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, and a conference on the hijab. Livingstone warmly embraced Qaradawi, praising him publicly as a noted scholar and respected authority within the modern Muslim community. Qaradawi, for his part, knew an opportunity when he saw it and proceeded to use his newfound star-power in the London political scene to pedal his particular brand of Islamic racism and bigotry as the next hip thing. Livingstone (or, Red Ken, as he's often called for his communist flirtations) bought into the radical Islamic rhetoric completely, resulting in Livingstone denouncing criticisms of Qaradawi's published (and vile) utterances as "a conspiracy by Jewish Zionists to make Islamists look bad" (as if they need any help in that department) -- the Muslim Public Affairs Committee, which describes Jews as "rats" on its website and is a staunch supporter of Qaradawi, Palestinian suicide bombers and Livingstone, states that Livingstone must be supported against "this vicious attack by our Zionist enemies… Ken Livingstone is a faithful and tireless friend of Muslims. And now the Zionists are closing in for the kill – what will Muslims do?"

What will Muslims do, indeed.

Melanie Phillips writes in Front Page Magazine that the real embarrassment of the Ken Livingstone affair is how "Britain's 280,000 Jews are now utterly disposable, to be traduced and abused to buy 1.8 million Muslim votes" as the British Left grovels before Muslim prejudice and Islamic terror to stay in power. She goes on to describe, on her own website, the new anti-Jew bias this way: "Instead of Jews being demonized, the Jewish state is demonised. Israel, the one democracy in the Middle East, is now viewed with a loathing that is never applied to Arab dictatorships . . . the very worst is automatically believed of people who normally tell the truth, while claims made by those who have told demonstrable lies are reported as proven fact . . . the result is that it seems the Jews alone are obliged not to defend themselves but to submit passively to mass murder."

The French paper, Le Monde, celebrated the new fashion of Jew-bashing with its 2002 article titled: "Israel-Palestine: The Cancer" . . . three guesses as to what they consider "the cancer": "One is hard pressed to imagine that a nation of fugitives, descended of the people persecuted longest in the history of humanity, having been subjected to the worst humiliations and the deepest contempt, should be able to transform itself in two generations into a dominating and self-assured people and, with the exception of an admirable minority, a contemptuous people taking satisfaction in humiliating others."

Whew -- that's a lot of bile to spit out of only one mouth, and perhaps that's why it took three French journalists to write the article. The three authors also go on to laughably state that the Palestinians have abandoned the PLO charter of the principal of eliminating Israel, while just today, it's been reported that Ahmad Jabari, a senior Hamas leader, declared "The jihad and the resistance are the only ways to liberate our homeland, not negotiations and agreements”; meanwhile, Egyptian authorities said they had uncovered a tunnel stashed with Hamas weapons on the southern Gaza border, and Palestinians are gleefully torching empty Jewish synagogues as the security situation in Israeli evacuated Gaza rapidly deteriorates, with six Gazans killed and 89 injured due to internal violence. But despite Le Monde's claims that the Palestinians have "abandoned" the PLO charter of eliminating Israel, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zehar insisted his group would not disarm: "We are not going to rest until we raise the flag of Islam over the minarets of Jerusalem."

It sounds more like stalking than abandonment.

The UK's The Guardian has equated Israel with al Qaeda, the Evening Standard equated Israel with the Taliban in Afghanistan, while Robert Fisk, the Independent's Middle East correspondent, stated that the White House has fallen into the hands of the Jews: "The Perles and the Wolfowitzes and the Cohens . . . (the) very sinister people hovering around Bush."

And with the increased web of media interconnectedness across the globe, the European anti-Israel / anti-Jew rhetoric has begun its seep into American media and American politics.

*****Next: "Those Darn Jews: Part 2"

OFF TOPIC:
Blame Bush! is on a roll. Check out his post-hurricane satire. "Bush Tours New Orleans, Hides 10,000 Bodies" and "What's Bush's Angle?" are classics.

STUPID PEOPLE TRICKS:
Chicago's City Council votes to withdraw all our troops from Iraq. Alderman Bernard Stone channels MoveOn.org: "Do you think we can make the citizens of Iraq accept democracy by having our troops killed in the roads?" he said. "We're not supporting our troops by having them killed."

Nice employment of emotion over reason, Mr. Stone. I'm sure Michael Moore has a spot for you in Fahrenheit 9/11 and 7/8ths . . .

One of the few voices of sanity on the council, Alderman James Balcer, voted against the resolution, saying he was demoralized by anti-war sentiment while serving as a Marine in Vietnam and didn't want the same thing to happen to today's military, no matter how caring and compassionate the terms in which the anti-war crowd frames their demands (there's also the niggling little matter of millions of Vietnamese perishing in forced marches or fleeing their country in rafts and small boats after Americans evacuated under pressure from the liberal American media and the anti-war organizations, not to mention the horrible treatment of U.S. servicemen by the anti-war citizenry upon their return to the U.S. -- because, you know, Vietnam was "an unjust war" and who cares about the natives, anyway?).

"I know everyone in this council wants our troops home," said Balcer. "But I can tell you this (resolution) does not help our troops, nor does it help the war on terror." He followed his "no" vote during the roll call with a loud "Semper Fi!"