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EU to Pull Funding From ICHAD……?

EU Israel Peace Activists

EU to Pull Funding From ICHAD……?

By KGS16 years agoLeave a comment

If so, it would be a step in the right direction. Solomonia was the first to report on it, stating:

This is very positive news indeed. It appears, if the following email forwarded from the Al-Awda Media email list is correct, that ICAHD, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolition [and the existence of Israel] has not had its funding renewed by the EU. Jeff Halper may have lost his Euro meal-ticket. If true, this step is long overdue. The EU had no business funding a hostile entity like ICAHD.

Al-Awda (another group dedicated to dismantling the Jewish State) is attempting to pick up where the EU left off. The following message appeared on the Al-Awda Media list and contains all the details. Hassan Fouda, btw, was one of the presenters at the Wheels of Justice show in Andover last January ’07 (emphasis is mine):

Fwd: ICAHD-USA: Urgent Message from Jeff Halper Posted by: “hassan fouda” hfouda@[snip] hfouda Mon Sep 8, 2008 10:22 am (PDT)

ICAHD-USA wrote: Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:15:08 -0400 (EDT)From: ICAHD-USA To: hfouda@yahoo.comSubject: ICAHD-USA: Urgent Message from Jeff Halper
The S.S. Liberty arrives at port in Gaza

“What we’ve done shows that people can do what governments should have done. If people stand up against injustice, we can truly be the conscience of the world.” –Jeff Halper We write to you at this time to both CELEBRATE the historic voyage of 44 international activists to Gaza and, at the same time, inform you of some DIFFICULT NEWS about the future of ICAHD:

As you know, ICAHD Director Jeff Halper, our partner on numerous educational and Palestinian home rebuilding projects, was one of 44 activists from 17 nations who successfully sailed from Cyprus to Gaza aboard two fishing boats in defiance of Israel’s blockade. The group was met by 40,000 “joyous Gazans.” Jeff and the others brought with them 200 hearing aids; the main aim of the symbolic blockade-busting action was to publicize the plight of the people in this besieged territory.

As the only Israeli Jew on this historic challenge to Israel’s blockade, Jeff was arrested and spent the night in an Israeli jail upon his return, where he tells us he was protected from threatening Israeli right-wingers by his Palestinian cellmates.

(TT: Laughable, a peace activist career built on lies chews up his credibility)

He still faces possible indictment. In his latest communication, he describes how “reaching Gaza and leaving has created a free and regular channel between Gaza and the outside world. It has … forced the Israeli government to make a clear policy declaration that it is not occupying Gaza and therefore will not prevent the free movement of Palestinians in and out (at least by sea).”

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Unfortunately, right before this historic boat ride, ICAHD was informed that they had lost their funding from the European Union, funding essential to their operations. Here is an excerpt from Jeff Halper’s email to us:

We have just heard that our request for re-funding has been rejected, in high probability because of pressure brought to bear by right-wing Israeli neo-cons who have campaigned obsessively against our funding while threatening publicly to close us down.

So we now face a real crisis.

Excellent! My you and your anti-Israel buds face a long string of them. For those of you who do not know, Jeff Harper was the only Israeli loon that sailed with the ISM “floatilla” to Gaza last month. That he might have his funding pulled by the EU, which should have never funded his group in the first place, is pure irony and a joy. KGS

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There’s No Common Cultural Legacy For The Alt-Right

Still, is there something to it? Is there a common heritage that will cover El Greco and Hume and Dostoyevsky? Is there one that can include the Jacobites and the Jacobins? There is, but it is not racial, and white supremacists reject it because it rejects them. The unifying heritage of Europe is religious and philosophical. It is Jerusalem and Athens, in one famous formulation. Christian religion and Greek philosophy, filtered through Roman law and culture, are the foundation of European culture. The tensions, agreements, developments and settlements between these have shaped the Western world, and these roots of Western civilization are not congenial to white supremacy.

Christianity is universal in its message and Jewish in its origins. For centuries after its founding, Christianity’s center was the Mediterranean world, including Asia Minor and North Africa. Christianity has never been defined by race, and locally-grown racist heresies are only sustainable among those ignorant of Christianity’s teachings, origins and history.

Greek philosophy is likewise ill-suited to serve as a basis for white identity. It is either too universal (addressing the human condition in general) or too local—none of us live as citizens of an ancient Greek polis. Later philosophical developments in Europe, such as the philosophies of the Enlightenment, likewise tend to be too universal for white supremacists seeking a tribal identity. As for the scientific revolution that developed within Western culture (albeit with much borrowed from outside Europe), math doesn’t care what color someone is.

War is being waged against Western culture from within which is in essence a war against Christianity and its moral origins in the Hebrew Bible. By attacking these Biblical foundations in the name of reason and human rights, the culture warriors of secularism are sawing off the branch on which they sit. The only way to defend Western civilisation is to reaffirm and restore its Biblical foundations. My argument is a development of ideas I first explored in my 2012 book The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power.

We are living in an era which extols reason, science and human rights. These are said to be essential for progress, a civilised society and the betterment of humanity. Religion is said to be their antithesis, the source instead of superstitious mumbo-jumbo, oppression and backward-thinking.

Some of this hostility is being driven by the perceived threat from Islamic terrorism and the Islamisation of Western culture. However, this animus against religion has far deeper roots and can be traced back to what is considered the birthplace of Western reason, the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Actually, it goes back specifically to the French Enlightenment. In England and Scotland, the Enlightenment developed reason and political liberty within the framework of Biblical belief. In France, by contrast, anti-clericalism morphed into fundamental hostility to Christianity and to religion itself.

“Ecrasez l’infame,” said Voltaire (crush infamy) — the infamy to which he referred being not just the Church but Christianity, which he wanted to replace with the religion of reason, virtue and liberty, “drawn from the bosom of nature”.

Perfecting society

But this Enlightenment did not remove religion so much as pervert it. It took millenarian fantasies, the idea that the perfection of the world was at hand, and it secularised them. Instead of God producing heaven on earth, it would be mankind which would bring that about. Reason would create the perfect society and “progress” was the process by which utopia would be attained.

“I think that we should correct the vocabulary that we use, and call a spade a spade. It is all about Jihad, the Islamic effort to spread Islam globally”:

Terrorist attack – should be called Military Jihad.

Incitement – Media Jihad.

Al-Jazeera – Media Jihad Channel.

Imposing Sharia law – Judicial Jihad or Legislative Jihad.

Boycotting Israel (BDS) – Economic Jihad.

Emigration to EU and US – Emigration Jihad / Hijra Jihad.

Building mosques, Islamic education institutions – Cultural Jihad.

Halal food – Dietary Jihad.

Hijab or Niqab – Clothing Jihad.

Activity of MSA – Academic Jihad.

Activity of CAIR – Political Jihad / Public Jihad.

Collecting money for Islamic “charities” – Financial Jihad.

Political correctness – Submission to Jihad.

J Street, Peace Now, JVP and their likes – Jewish Useful Idiots who Serve Jihad.

Iran deal – Western Support for Nuclear Jihad.