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5/9/2009

The End of Free Speech? Criminalizing Criticism of Israel

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Read this powerful essay by Paul
Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan
administration. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good
Intentions. He speaks about the
alarming decline of free speech in the Western World. I believe that the reason
I face difficulties in the Czech Republic is solely because I have been one of
the most effective critics of Jewish extremism. — Dr. David
Duke

The End of Free Speech?

Criminalizing Criticism of Israel

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

On October 16, 2004, President George W. Bush signed
the Israel Lobby’s bill, the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act.  This
legislation requires the US Department of State to monitor anti-semitism world
wide.

To monitor anti-semitism, it has to be
defined.  What is the definition?  Basically, as defined by the Israel
Lobby and Abe Foxman, it boils down to any criticism of Israel or Jews.

Rahm Israel Emanuel hasn’t been mopping floors at
the White House.
As soon as he gets the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009
passed, it will become a crime for any American to tell the truth about Israel’s
treatment of Palestinians and theft of their lands.

It will be a crime for Christians to acknowledge the
New Testament’s account of Jews demanding the crucifixion of Jesus.

It will be

a crime to report the extraordinary influence of the
Israel Lobby on the White House and Congress, such as the AIPAC-written
resolutions praising Israel for its war crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza
that were endorsed by 100 per cent  of the US Senate and 99 per cent
of the House of Representatives, while the rest of the world condemned Israel
for its barbarity.

It will be a crime to doubt the Holocaust.

It will become a crime to note the disproportionate
representation of Jews in the media, finance, and foreign policy.

In other words, it means the end of free speech,
free inquiry, and the First Amendment to the Constitution. Any facts or truths
that cast aspersion upon Israel will simply be banned.

Given the hubris of the US government, which leads
Washington to apply US law to every country and organization, what will happen
to the International Red Cross, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights,
and the various human rights organizations that have demanded investigations of
Israel’s military assault on Gaza’s civilian population?  Will they all be
arrested for the hate crime of “excessive” criticism of Israel?

This is a serious question.

A recent UN report, which is yet to be released in
its entirety, blames Israel for the deaths and injuries that occurred within the
United Nations premises in Gaza.  The Israeli government has responded by
charging that the UN report is “tendentious, patently biased,”  which puts
the UN report into the State Department’s category of excessive criticism and
strong anti-Israel sentiment.

Israel is getting away with its blatant use of the
American government to silence its critics despite the fact that the Israeli
press and Israeli soldiers have exposed the Israeli atrocities in Gaza and the
premeditated murder of women and children urged upon the Israeli invaders by
rabbis.  These acts are clearly war crimes.

It was the Israeli press that published the pictures
of the Israeli soldiers’ T-shirts that  indicate that the willful murder of
women and children is now the culture of the Israeli army.  The T-shirts
are horrific expressions of barbarity.  For example, one shows a pregnant
Palestinian woman with a crosshairs over her stomach and the slogan, “One shot,
two kills.”  These T-shirts are an indication that Israel’s policy toward
the Palestinians is one of extermination.

It has been true for years that the most potent
criticism of Israel’s mistreatment of the Palestinians comes from the Israeli
press and Israeli peace groups.  For example, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz
and Jeff Halper of ICAHD have shown a moral conscience that apparently does not
exist in the Western democracies where Israel’s crimes are covered up and even
praised.

Will the American hate crime bill be applied to
Haaretz and Jeff Halper?  Will American commentators who say nothing
themselves but simply report what Haaretz and Halper have said be arrested for
“spreading hatred of Israel, an anti-semitic act”?

Many Americans have been brainwashed by the
propaganda that Palestinians are terrorists who threaten innocent Israel.
These Americans will see the censorship as merely part of the necessary war on
terror.  They will accept the demonization of fellow citizens who report
unpalatable facts about Israel and agree that such people should be punished for
aiding and abetting terrorists.

A massive push is underway to criminalize criticism
of Israel.  American university professors have fallen victim to the well
organized attempt to eliminate all criticism of Israel.  Norman Finkelstein
was denied tenure at a Catholic university because of the power of the Israel
Lobby.  Now the Israel Lobby is after University of California  (at
Santa Barbara,) professor Wiliam Robinson.  Robinson’s
crime:  his course on global affairs included some reading assignments
critical of Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

The Israel Lobby apparently succeeded in convincing
the Obama Justice (sic) Department that it is anti-semitic to accuse two Jewish
AIPAC officials, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, of spying.  The Israel
Lobby succeeded in getting their trial delayed for four years, and now Attorney
General Eric Holder has dropped charges.  Yet, Larry Franklin, the DOD
official accused of giving secret material to Rosen and Weissman, is serving 12
years and 7 months in prison.

The absurdity is extraordinary.  The two
Israeli agents are not guilty of receiving secrets, but the American official is
guilty of giving secrets to them!  If there is no spy in the story, how was
Franklin convicted of giving secrets to a spy?

Criminalizing criticism of Israel destroys any hope
of America having an independent foreign policy in the Middle East that serves
American rather than Israeli interests.  It eliminates  any prospect
of Americans escaping from their enculturation with Israeli propaganda.

To keep American minds captive, the Lobby is working
to ban as anti-semitic any truth or disagreeable fact that pertains to
Israel.  It is permissible to criticize every other country in the world,
but it is anti-semitic to criticize Israel, and anti-semitism will soon be a
universal hate-crime in the Western world.

Most of Europe has already criminalized doubting the
Holocaust.  It is a crime even to confirm that it happened but to conclude
that less than 6 million Jews were murdered.

Why is the Holocaust  a subject that is off
limits to examination? How could a case buttressed by hard facts possibly be
endangered by kooks and anti-semitics?  Surely the case doesn’t need to be
protected by thought control.

Imprisoning people for doubts is the antithesis of
modernity.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He is coauthor of The
Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: [email-masked]

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