Video & artikel: Durban III

Ann Bayefsky’s Eye on the UN har produceret denne video, som blev uploadet på YouTube den 29. august 2011:

Israel & UN Double-Standards: Durban III @ New York City

www.durbanwatch.com

The United Nations Charter promises that the organization’s central principle is the equality of all men and women and of all nations large and small. The United Nations Durban Declaration and Durban conferences treat Israel differently than all other nations. The United Nations has violated that trust.

 

Bayefsky nævner Danmark. Vi er i dårligt selskab:

Durban III: An Anti-Israel Forum Takes Shape

Sep 8, 2011 • By Anne Bayefsky

At the U.N. in New York, diplomats have been putting the finishing touches on a new “anti-racism” declaration set to be adopted by over a hundred world leaders at the annual opening of the General Assembly. The declaration will be the culmination of the one-day summit on September 22, known as “Durban III,” after the original 2001 racist “anti-racism” debacle held in Durban, South Africa. To date, nine states, including the U.S., Israel and Canada, have decided to boycott Durban III, and with two weeks to go, the question is whether more democratic states will follow their lead in light of the dangerous manifesto now before them.

On September 22, the U.N. General Assembly will feature speeches from the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay – a major supporter of Durban III – and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is poised to deliver his usual anti-Semitic tirade under the General Assembly’s banner. Along with these speeches, get ready for a major assault on human rights: The Durban Declaration charges Israel – and only Israel, among 192 U.N. nations – with racism. The declaration is a reincarnation of the “Zionism is racism” libel, and it is about to be catapulted to new heights if Pillay, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and willing collaborators in the developing world’s G-77 get their way.

Mere HER i The Weekly Standard.

Opdatering 10. sepember 2011 – Anne Bayefsky har en opfølgning i The National Review Online:

• Anti-Israel Durban Declaration Reaffirmed

Andre kilder: Snapshots,

Video: Multikulturen fungerer ikke i England

John Cleese har igen udtalt kritik af multikulturen, – denne gang i et australsk interview hos ABC. John Cleese siger blandt andet – fra The Daily Mail:

The comic was asked what he thought about British culture and the recent London riots during an interview on 7.30, a television show in Australia, where he is currently on a stand-up tour.

He replied: ‘I’m not sure what’s going on in Britain. Or, let me say this – I don’t know what’s going on in London, because London is no longer an English city.

‘That’s how we got the Olympics.

‘They said we were the  most cosmopolitan city on Earth. But it doesn’t feel English.

‘I had a Californian friend come over two months ago, walk down the King’s Road and say, “Where are all the English people?”

‘I mean, I love having different cultures around. But when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you’re left thinking, “Well, what’s going on?”‘

Man kan se hele interviewet i denne video:

John Cleese Interview

John Cleese is interviewed on ABC TV August 2011

Jødehadet i England er skræmmende. Man må håbe, at englændere med jødisk tro forstår alvoren og forlader landet meget hurtigt. Nu går den ikke længere. Endnu en video:

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra concert disrupted by protest

Thursday’s BBC Proms performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall was interrupted by protests by the pro-Palestinian group BDS London. A live broadcast of the concert on BBC Radio 3 was taken off air because of ‘sustained audience disturbance’. The performance continued after the demonstrators left the venue

Stephen Pollard fra The Telegraph har forstået, hvad det drejer sig om:

A Proms protest with a whiff of Weimar about it

The demonstration at the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra BBC Proms concert was against Jews, not the Israeli state

By Stephen Pollard – 02 Sep 2011

Until Thursday night, nothing in the history of Proms broadcasts had forced a concert off air. Certainly not the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. On the very night the tanks moved into Prague, the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich was at the Proms with the USSR Symphony Orchestra. And he was performing, with intense poignancy, the Czech composer Dvorak’s cello concerto. I have a cherished recording of the concert. The audience was rapt and not a word was uttered.

When Chinese performers grace the Proms with their presence, there is not a word of protest about their government’s abuses of human rights. Nor should there be. They are musicians, not politicians.

Mere HER i The Telegraph.

Andre kilder: Uriasposten, Snaphanen, Digital Spy, Power Line, Verum Serum, News Track India, The Jerusalem Post, BBC, Slipped Disc,

Daniel Greenfield!

No Settlement in Sight

February 22, 2011 – Daniel Greenfield

During a week in which half the Middle-East was in flames, the diplomatic chatter over a UN condemnation of Israel’s so-called “settlements” showed just how irrelevant Western diplomacy is to the real issues in the region. The riots in Bahrain, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Iran were not about a few Jewish villages on one side of a line on a map that has been redrawn half a dozen times in the 20th century. The trouble with the Muslim world does not lie in the vineyards of the Judean Hills, the glass factories of Ariel, the academies of the revived Maccabean town of Modi’in Illit, the solar panel plants of Nazareth Illit, the dairies of Carmel or the fruit orchards of Gush Etzion.

Ever since ten Arab nations lost a war to Israel over six days in the spring of 1967, too many diplomats have acted as if it were its responsibility to fix the Muslim world. In 1973, Israel was set up to lose a war in order to bolster Muslim self-esteem. But Israel still won and while its people buried more of their dead this time around, Muslim self-esteem did not noticeably improve. In the early 90′s, Israel was pressured into providing an autonomous territory for Islamo-Marxist thugs who had been trained and equipped by its neighbors to carry out terrorist attacks on its citizens. And year after year, for almost two decades, Israel has been held responsible for all the problems in the region because it has been unable to achieve a lasting peace with the terrorists.

Mere HER hos Sultan Knish. Kan også læses her hos Right Side News eller her hos Eurasia Review. Arutz Sheva her.

Durban III truer forude

U.N. Pours Salt in America’s Wounds

By Anne Bayefsky – November 24, 2010

Just when we were beginning to get into the holiday spirit, the United Nations decided that Durban III is coming to town.

Late yesterday, the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted a resolution which launches another global “anti-racism” hatefest. It is intended to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the debacle held in Durban, South Africa in 2001. But this time, the UN has outdone itself: the celebration of a notorious prescription for intolerance, closely linked to Islamic extremism, is now scheduled for New York City just days after the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

Like the Ground Zero mosque architects, the UN has decided to pour salt in the wounds of still grieving Americans. The crowds at Durban I held high their signs reading: “For the liberation of Quds, machine-guns based upon faith and Islam must be used,” and “The martyr’s blood irrigates the tree of revolution in Palestine.” The obvious connection between hate and terror, or incitement to violence and violence itself, is either irrelevant to the UN or part of the plan.

Mere i FoxNews HER.

Børnetallet falder

America’s One-Child Policy

What China imposed on its population, we’re adopting voluntarily.

Sep 27, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 02 • By Jonathan V. Last

For the last several months, Chinese officials have been floating the idea of relaxing the country’s famed “One-Child” policy. One-Child has long been admired in the West by environmentalists, anti-population doomsayers, and some of our sillier professional wise men. In Hot, Flat, and Crowded (2008), for instance, Tom Friedman lauded the policy for saving China from “a population calamity.” What Friedman and others fail to understand is that China is built upon a crumbling demographic base. One-Child may or may not have “saved” China from overpopulation, but it has certainly created a demographic catastrophe.

Between 1950 and 1970, the average Chinese woman had roughly six children during her lifetime. Beginning in 1970, the Chinese government began urging a course of “late, long, few,” and in a decade the fertility rate dropped from 5.9 to 2.1. But that wasn’t enough for the government. In 1979, they instituted the One-Child policy—which is more complicated than it sounds.

Mere HER i The Weekly Standard.

Bruce Bawer: Støt Israel!

Standing with Israel

Last Thursday in Rome, a mass gathering featuring speeches by politicians, writers, artists, and other major figures from around Europe was held in Rome. The aim: to express united support for the State of Israel in a time when that nation is increasingly under threat. In anticipation of this unique event, the newspaper “Il Foglio” featured articles by five international supports of the initiative. Among them was this piece by Bruce Bawer, here presented in the original English. 

By Bruce Bawer – October 12, 2010
 
When I picture the Western world today – what used to be called the Free World – I envision it in three unequal regions.
 
The first and largest region consists of the United States and Canada, plus Australia and New Zealand.  At its heart is the United States, whose Declaration of Independence gave birth to modern liberty.  Of the three regions, this is the one that feels safest, most distant from the threat of Islamism.  It is also the region where the people tend to be the most ignorant about what we are up against.

Mere hos Human Righs Service HER.

Opdatering:

‘For the Truth, for Israel’

By Melanie Phillips – 15 October 2010

The obsessive Israel-hatred now coursing through so much of the western world needs to be fought with the greatest possible urgency and strength.

This unprecedented campaign of demonisation and delegitimisation against a democratic country essential to the defence of the west is not merely an offence against decency. It does not merely threaten the security and existence of Israel. It is also undermining the civilised values by which the west defines itself.

Mere HER på Melanie Phillips blog.

Vestlig civilisation under pres

Meget flot artikelserie her af Daniel Pipes:

“Rushdie-reglerne” når til Florida

af Daniel Pipes

The Washington Times – September 21, 2010

Oprindelig engelsk tekst: “Rushdie Rules” Reach Florida
Oversat af Mette Thomsen

Lad mig slå det fast, pastor Terry Jones’ plan om at afbrænde kopier af Koranen i sin kirke i Gainesville, Florida, var en afskyelig handling, som passer ind i en hæslig tradition. Når det er sagt, så skal to andre punkter fremhæves: At indkøbe bøger og derefter brænde dem er en fuldkommen lovlig handling i USA. For det andet lagde David Petraeus, Robert Gates, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton og Barack Obama udelukkende pres på Jones for at få ham til at afbryde handlingen, fordi de frygtede muslimsk vold mod amerikanere, såfremt han fremturede. Og faktisk, trods Mr. Jones’ aflysning af koran-afbrændingen, så var der 5 afghanere og 14 i Kashmir som døde under protesterne mod hans planer.

Mere HER hos Daniel Pipes.

To årtiers Rushdie-regler

af Daniel Pipes – Commentary – Oktober 2010

Oprindelig engelsk tekst: Two Decades of the Rushdie Rules
Oversat af Mette Thomsen

Fra en roman af Salman Rushdie udgivet i 1989 til en amerikansk civil protest kaldet “Everyone Draw Muhammad Day” [Alle tegner Muhammed-dag] i 2010 har der udviklet sig et velkendt mønster. Det begynder, når vesterlændinge siger eller gør noget, som kritiserer islam. Islamisterne reagerer med ukvemsord og raseri, krav om tilbagetrækning, trusler om retssager og vold og faktisk voldsudøvelse. Til gengæld hakker og stammer vesterlændingene, kommer med udflugter og bøjer sig til sidst. Undervejs udløser hver eneste kontrovers en debat, som fokuserer på spørgsmålet om ytringsfrihed.

Jeg vil gerne påpege to ting vedrørende denne udvikling. For det første, at vesterlændinges ret til at diskutere, kritisere og direkte lave grin med islam og muslimer er blevet undergravet gennem årene. For det andet, at ytringsfriheden blot udgør en mindre side af problemet; der er noget langt mere dybtgående på spil – faktisk et afgørende spørgsmål i vor tid: vil vesterlændingene bevare deres egen historiske civilisation, konfronteret med angreb fra islamisterne, eller vil de vige for islamisk kultur og lovgivning og underkaste sig en form for andenklasses borgerstatus?

Mere HER på Daniel Pipes hjemmeside.

Daniel Pipes har skrevet endne opfølgning:

Nye udviklinger i brud på Rushdie-reglerne

af Daniel Pipes – 1. Oktober 2010

Oprindelig engelsk tekst: Late Breaking Rushdie-Rule Developments
Oversat af Mette Thomsen

Flere vigtige begivenheder har fundet sted, efter at min artikel, “To årtiers Rushdie-regler,” blev sendt ud til pressen,:

(1) Pastor Terry Jones fra Gainesville, Florida, havde planlagt at afbrænde i hundredvis af koraner den 11. sep., men bøjede sig siden for presset og aflyste afbrændingen. Da hans hensigt blev en international nyhed, førte det, i overensstemmelse med det sædvanlige mønster, til uroligheder og trusler i den muslimske verden og til mindst 18 døde (5 i Afghanistan, 13 i Kashmir). Presset af amerikanske regeringsembedsmænd gav Jones efter og brændte ingen koraner af.

Fortsætter HER på Daniel Pipes hjemmeside.

Audio: Ayaan Hirsi Ali – radio fra New Zealand

Fra programmet Saturday Morning with Kim Hill på Radio New Zealand National den 19. juni 2010:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Islam

Activist and author who was raised in northern Africa, escaped to the Netherlands, and helped found the AHA Foundation to protect and defend women in the West against militant Islam. (duration: 33′53″)

Ayaan Hirsi Ali bliver vist lidt træt af intervieweren tilsidst. Det kan jeg faktisk godt forstå. Åbner Windows Media Player HER.

Video: den hidtil bedste video med Mark Steyn

Og også den mest chokerende. Den er fra den 15. marts 2007, men jeg har ikke fundet den før nu. Den er lang, hvilket ikke er noget problem, når man først får den startet. Så bliver man klar over, at man er nødt til at følge det hele. Præsentationen kan man dog godt springe over. Varighed 1 time og 27 minutter.

Videoen er en del af en serie – første foredrag blev holdt den 14. marts 2007 og varer 1 time og 31 minutter. Men hvis man ikke har tid til det hele, vil jeg foreslå, at man går direkte til nummer 2 herunder – det er klart den bedste.

Strong Horse, Weak Horse: Power and Perception

“When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse,” said Osama bin Laden. A “strong horse” is perceived as such not by his power but by his willingness to use that power: America’s military capability is not in doubt; what is in doubt is America’s ability effectively to use that capability to enforce its interests in the world. More to the point, the precise forms of power needed in the 21^st century are precisely those from which America most recoils.  

After America: New Order and No Order

A defeat in Iraq – or the perception thereof – would damage American credibility around the world, perhaps fatally. The question then is what new powers arise in the vacuum? Talk of Chinese hegemony, an Islamic Caliphate, a pan-Continental social democratic Eutopia or a resurgent Russia are wishful thinking: the end of the American moment is more likely to be followed by a world without order.