Survivors' Lawsuit Seeks 40 Billion from U.S. for Not Bombing Auschwitz.
[Jewish] Forward, April 6, 2001
"In a bizarre addition to the Holocaust-related suits now winding their way through the courts, two German-Jewish survivors of the Auschwitz death camp are suing the American government for its failure to bomb the camp. The plaintiffs in the class-action suit, Kurt Julius Goldstein, 87, and Peter Gingold, 85, are asking for $40 billion in compensation for survivors and the descendants of the Jews killed in Auschwitz in the closing months of World War II. They claim that a decision to bomb the camp would have rescued some 400,000 Hungarian Jews who were deported there in 1944 and 1945 ... In the past few years, Jewish survivors have filed numerous lawsuits against Swiss banks, German companies and other European entities and governments, leading to several multi-billion-dollar settlements. Recently, however, the focus has been shifting toward America's role in the Nazi atrocities and their aftermath. A lawsuit, since dropped, was filed against IBM alleging that its German subsidiary colluded with the Nazi regime. The Auschwitz bombing suit, despite its remote chances of success, is creating a sense of unease among Jewish organizations. The $40 billion sought in compensation is also raising eyebrows."

Busted! World News Daily. May 25, 2001
"The tragedy is the Holocaust industy. There are thousands of Holocaust professionals -- professors, museum curators, moviemakers, foundation fundraisers, book writers, television producers -- most of whom never experienced the Holocaust, but are making good money off of it and backs of those who suffered it ... According to a documents in a class-action lawsuit ... ICHEIC [the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims] has spent 10 times ($30 million) more on administrative costs -- including salaries, luxury hotel bills, and newspaper ads -- than the $3 million it paid out to survivors."

Southern Poverty Law Center,
Guide Star Pages (The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations)
"Financial Info: Fiscal Year: 2000. Assets: $147,441,903. Income: $32,520,416 ... Chief Executive: Mr. Joseph J. Levin, Jr." (President and Chairman of the Board).
[What about the Southern Poverty Law Center, famed fighter for the impoverished and African-American rights, especially in the South? It is based in Montgomery, Alabama, and in 1996 the local Montgomery Advertiser printed an embarrassing expose about the Center. The salary, noted the paper, for SPLC president and CEO (as well as SPLC co-founder) Joseph Levin was $137,798 a year. Not bad for a fighter on behalf of those mired in poverty. The Center's Legal Director, Richard Cohen, made $151,420. But that's not all. The Advertiser further noted that "One thing remains a constant at the nation's wealthiest civil rights charity, the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center: All the top-paid, top-level management jobs are held by whites." [What percentage Jews?] [RICHARDSON, SANDEE. CIVIL RIGHTS CHARITY CONTINUES TO HAVE WHITES IN TOP-PAYING JOBS. ASHVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES/MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER, 8-29-96, p. D7] In SPLC's 25-year history "no black person has held a top-level management position, and only one black staffer has ever been among the top five paid positions." In SPLC's team of five lawyers, one was African-American. [RICHARDSON, S., 8-29-96, p. D7] The next year, an editorial writer, Rose Sanders, expressed outrage that the SPLC publicly condemned Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam (a hero in large parts of the Black community) as a racist. She pointed out the hypocrisy of the charge, noting that "Joseph Levin says he is not a bigot, but how does he explain the bigotry evidenced by the employment practices at the Poverty Law Center? An example of the Center's racial prejudice is illustrated by its racial tolerance program. The program did not have a single black employee. No black person helped shape or design the program." [SANDERS, ROSE. CENTER'S CONDEMNATION UNJUST, THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER., 9-22-97, p. 7A]

A Tale of Intrigue, Feuds, Hollywood Tycoons. Toronto Star, July 8, 2001
"Emilie Schindler weighs maybe 70 pounds. She is old, sick and a long way from the World War II era in which she and her husband, Oskar Schindler, saved more than 1,300 Jews from Nazi death camps. And yet, around this tiny, frail woman, confined to a wheelchair and totally dependent upon others, hangs a web of intrigue involving lawsuits, missing bank deposits, bitterness among Holocaust survivors and literary squabbles. At heart, it seems to be pretty much about money. People's names have been smeared, including Hollywood director Steven Spielberg. His 1993 Academy Award-winning film, Schindler's List, popularized the story of the German industrialist who made a list to save Jewish slave labourers from the gas chambers of the Third Reich ... Emilie is 93 now. Once she was Oskar's gorgeous wife, who stood by through all his mistresses and spoke proudly of their wartime legacy after he died, at age 66, in 1974. Since then, her life has taken a dreadful turn and, at this moment, she languishes in a German hospital, drugged, and appearing to be under the complete control of one Erika Rosenberg. Over the past decade, Rosenberg, 50, an Argentine writer who has made a literary career out of the Schindlers, has played an increasingly central role in Emilie's life, whittling down her contact with former friends and supporters and taking charge of her affairs."

IRS: No Taxes on Holocausts Payments,
Washington Post [from Associated Press], August 30, 2001
"A small piece of this year's tax cut law ensures that payments related to the Holocaust are not subject to the income tax ... The 10-year, $1.35 trillion tax cut signed into law in June by President Bush says that no income taxes are due on Holocaust restitution payments made by European governments and industry. The provision applies to payments after Jan. 1, 2000, made to Holocaust victims, their heirs and their estates. 'This is an important symbolic act by the U.S. government on behalf of Holocaust survivors,' said Rabbi Israel Miller, president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which is overseeing distribution of payments from Germany ... Exempting the payments from U.S. income tax will reduce federal revenue by an estimated $31 million over the next decade."

Gilbert Teacher: Fired for 'Jewishness?',
Arizona Republic, April 5, 2002
"Gilbert school officials say Michelle Moore interactions with staff have been problematic. But the Highland Junior High English teacher believes her contract is not being renewed because she spooned a little too much of her 'Jewishness' into the curriculum for the administration's liking. Four members of the district's governing board voted Thursday night for Moore's ouster at the end of the school year while one member abstained. Moore, 58, said she has yet to be provided with examples of non-compliance. School officials had no comment. She said she began to feel the heat while teaching a Holocaust unit. 'I think they (staff) felt, as I was told, I probably put too much of my Jewishness into it,'Moore said ... Moore said she plans to file a lawsuit against the district and may lodge a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission."

Panhandle Students Get Realistic Holocaust Experience,
tbo.com (Tampa Bay, FL), May 1, 2002
"The children looked at the German sign 'Arbeit Macht Frei' - 'Work Makes One Free' - while strains of Wagner filled the air. 'You there, eyes down! No talking, or no food,' a teacher shouted Tuesday as sixth-grade students, all volunteers, silently ate dry bread and watery potato soup, washed down with diluted coffee, at a mock concentration camp soup kitchen. State law requires teaching children about the Nazi persecution of Jews and others during the Holocaust. The lunchtime activity is only one way that requirement is being met at Pryor Middle School in this Florida Panhandle. Teacher Sonnie Durrett, who serves on the Fort Walton Beach Holocaust Remembrance Committee, organized the lesson with help from some parents and another committee member, Bonnie London, of Temple Beth Shalom. Durrett wore a striped prisoner's uniform for added realism, but students playing the roles of Holocaust survivors had a hard time stifling nervous giggles. Food was taken away from those unable to stay in character. 'I think it is just so awesome that our kids are learning about this in this way,' said parent Robin Aldredge, who helped ladle soup. 'With what's going on in the world now, it's important for us to show them what hatred does, how people are treated just because they are different.' Her son Scott didn't like the soup - he called it 'nasty' - nor being yelled at, but he now has at least a small idea of how the prisoners felt. Krista Eubanks said she will never read another book or watch another movie about the Holocaust without identifying more closely with the characters. The Okaloosa County school district normally teaches the subject by studying such works as 'The Diary of Anne Frank' or through social studies and history classes. The soup kitchen activity was conducted here once several years ago and Durrett revived the idea. She is a leading figure in Holocaust education locally and has attended training seminars at Florida State University and the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C."

Holocaust survivors sue US government for heirlooms spirited out of Hungary on 'Gold Train',
Jerusalem Post, October 12, 2002
"Today, [Holocaust survivor Irene Mermelstein] wants to know what happened to the relics of her family's past. For the answer, she and a group of Hungarian Holocaust survivors are suing an unlikely defendant: the US government ... Ronald Zweig, who teaches history at Tel Aviv University, disputes the lawsuit's claims in his book, 'The Gold Train: The Destruction of the Jews and the Looting of Hungary.' 'I think they're suing the wrong government,' Zweig said. According to Zweig, the real treasure stolen from the Hungarian Jews was gold jewelry melted down and sent in trucks to Austria, where it was buried by Hungarian soldiers and discovered by French troops. Zweig, whose research influenced the commission, said it was eventually returned to the Hungarian government, by then Communist."

Court OKs Holocaust Suit vs. U.S.,
New York Post, February 28, 2003
"A federal judge has cleared the way for thousands of Holocaust survivors to collect treasure stolen from them in the final days of World War II that was later confiscated by the U.S. Army. U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz [Jewish?] this week threw out the Army's bid to get her to dismiss a class-action lawsuit brought by Hungarian Jews. The government had argued that the class-action claims are too old, but Seitz told the Justice Department's attorney to produce an inventory of what was taken. 'Your superiors are dragging their feet,' she said. 'Their conduct is unacceptable.'"

French encyclopedia ordered to remove offensive Holocaust passage,
Jerusalem Post, November 6, 2002
"A French court on Wednesday ordered the publishers of France's leading reference book to remove from its next edition a revisionist historian's claim that the figure of 6 million deaths during the Holocaust was grossly exaggerated. Five French Jewish groups had launched the legal action against the encylopedia-like reference guide, Quid, saying the passage violated a French law that makes it illegal to publish revisionist theories. The Jewish groups demanded that Quid publishers retract the 300,000 copies of its 2003 edition, which had already been sent to stores. Judge Marie-Therese Feydau refused to grant the request, but ordered the publishers to remove the offensive passage from its 2004 edition as well as from its Internet site ... In a section on World War II extermination camps, the book says that the official number of deaths at Auschwitz-Birkenau was 1.2 million. However, it adds that 'other figures have circulated,' and cites one by a revisionist historian, Robert Faurisson, who claims that 150,000 people died at the camp, of which 100,000 were Jews. The Quid, a single volume 2,000-paged reference guide, is known in France as the book that holds the answers to all questions."

French Editor Jailed For “Questioning” Holocaust. Plantin, editor of Akribeia magazine was fined and jailed for questioning Holocaust,
By Hadi Yahmad, Islam Online, June 26, 2003
"An appeals court on Wednesday, June 25, upheld the six-month prison sentence of an editor who published works that called into question the scope of the Jewish Holocaust. Jean Plantin, editor of a magazine called Akribeia, the Greek word for "exactitude", was fined and given the sentence by a Lyon court for “doubting the occurrence of some crimes against humanity”, when it was "discovered" that Plantin had been awarded a Masters’ degree by the University of Lyon for a thesis which, in fact, denied the Holocaust. The lawyer for publisher Jean Plantin said he will appeal the decision to a higher court. A lower court found Plantin guilty in June 2000 and gave him a six-month suspended sentence for publishing materials challenging some aspects of the Holocaust, including the use of gas chambers to kill vast numbers of Jews during the war. The court also ordered Plantin to stop his activities. But prosecutors say Plantin continued to publish similar works, thus violating a condition of his suspended sentence ... On 13 January 1999, Plantin was arrested at his home and taken to a police station in Lyon, France where, for 24 hours, he was subjected to ignominious treatment. Then, back at his house, he saw his two computers and the disks containing his archives seized by French police, who also turned his collection of books and documents upside down, said The Campaign for Radical Truth in History website. Some journalists then set about launching "the Plantin affair", revealing that Jean Plantin had in 1990 obtained a master's degree in history for his paper entitled, "Paul Rassinier (1906-1967), socialiste, pacifiste et révisionniste" ("Socialist, Pacifist and Revisionist"). In the following year he earned the prestigious "diplôme d'études approfondies" ("diploma of advanced studies", known as the "DEA"), with his thesis, "Les Epidémies de typhus dans les camps de concentration nazis" ("The Typhus Epidemics in the Nazi Concentration Camps"). Neither of the two works exhibited a revisionist character. But suddenly, in 1999, certain organizations, particularly Jewish ones, have made it known that they consider that fact to be immaterial and that two professors who supervised J. Plantin's work, were guilty of revisionism (of "negationism", as they derisively term it), the website said. At first, the professors who were implicated, Régis Ladous and Yves Lequin, protested their good faith. Fallen prey to panic, both dodged their responsibilities. R. Ladous, for his part, went so far as to say that, if he had graded Plantin's thesis as "Très bien" (very good), it was only to show his scorn for a job which, in his eyes, was, it seems, "grotesque", it added. Then, the professors spontaneously tendered their resignations from their posts as overseers of the "DEA" studies program. These resignations were immediately accepted by the presidents of their respective universities. The judges of the Lyon court were to deliberate for five weeks before handing down their verdict of guilty. The computers and archives on disks seized at his house have been apparently permanently confiscated."

Who chooses the righteous gentiles? Court enters row about non-Jews honoured for Holocaust heroism,
Guardian (UK), November 14, 2002
"The Avenue of the Righteous records 19,141 names of gentiles who risked their lives to save Jews from Hitler's murderers ... But this week the Israeli courts waded into the process of selecting who to include on the list of righteous gentiles at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem amid a campaign to add two Germans - one of them a convicted war criminal who was at the centre of a recent Hollywood film - and to strike off a Ukrainian who Jewish survivors say has no place among heroes. The court case centres on Yad Vashem's refusal to proclaim a German Protestant minister, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a righteous gentile. The lawsuit was brought by the world body of reform Jews which claims that Bonhoeffer publicly criticised the Nazis and helped save Jews by sending them to Switzerland, ostensibly as spies for Germany, before he was arrested and executed in 1945 ... Yad Vashem's refusal to make public the information and discussions on which it selects righteous gentiles has prompted unusual legal challenges that threaten to taint the image of the organisation responsible for preserving the memory of the Jewish people's darkest hours. This week, a judge ruled that the memorial council is accountable to the Israeli public and that it must open its files under the country's freedom of information law ... Yad Vashem is facing a second, potentially more embarrassing lawsuit, to strip someone of their place among righteous gentiles. Stefan Wrzemczuk submitted his own application for recognition on the grounds that when he was a child he helped his mother lead Jews from Ludmir ghetto - then in Ukraine, now in Poland - to the protection of partisans in the surrounding forests. After Wrzemczuk had his name added to the wall of Righteous Among the Nations he emigrated to Israel in 1995 and received a regular government stipend. Four years ago, a group of Ludmir survivors denounced the story as a fabrication."

[www.michelthomas.org]
Survivor fights L.A. Times in mock trial to clear his name,
Jewish Bulletin, April 11, 2003
"Michel Thomas barely escaped deportation to Auschwitz, fought in the French Resistance and captured the 'Hangman of Dachau.' But he has failed to get his day in court. In October 2001, Thomas filed a libel suit against the Los Angeles Times, alleging the newspaper defamed him and his accomplishments. The suit was dismissed, and appeals denied. In an attempt to achieve restitution, Thomas, 89, made his case before U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall last Friday, in a mock trial co-sponsored by the university's schools of law and journalism. It was an effort to reclaim his honor and good name, both of which Thomas felt were lost in the April 2001 Times article, 'Larger than Life,' by Roy Rivenburg. Thomas, who grew up in Germany and France and lost his family in the Holocaust, came trom New York to attend the trial. After the war he resided for many years in Los Angeles ... In his suit, Thomas alleged that the Times cast doubt on his accomplishments during World War II -- among them his presence at the liberation of Dachau, his discovery of 10 million Nazi Party membership cards and his service as an agent in the U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) ... Martha Goldstein, the Times' vice president of communications, indicated Monday that the university had not invited the Times to participate."

Furor Over Warning On Jewish 'Olympics.'
New York Post [posted at freerepublic.com], June 21, 2001
"New York lawmakers are demanding the firing of a U.S. State Department official who praised an American basketball coach for not participating in Israel's version of the Olympics next month, the Post has learned. In an e-mail obtained by the Post, Dale McElhattan, a security officer at the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem, hailed Clemson University basketball coach Larry Shyatt for deciding last Friday to withdraw from the international competition, known as the Maccabiah Games. 'I applaud your courage in declining to take part in the Mac Games here,' McElhattan wrote earlier this week in an e-mail that was forwarded to many members of the team. 'Your decision is responsible," he said, adding it showed a 'high level of character and sound judgment.'"

Author accused of anti-Semitism. Critics compare book to Mein Kampf, say it could encourage racists,
Prague Post (Czech Republic), February 26, 2003
"Last summer, the Supreme Court ruled that the publication of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf could not be banned. Now, a new book that some have decried as anti-Semitic has sparked a new legal battle. Within two weeks of the mid-February release of Petr Bakalar's Taboos in Social Sciences, a lawsuit was filed to halt the book's publication. Critics have denounced the work as racist propaganda. 'It seems to be more dangerous than the publication of Hitler's Mein Kampf,' said Tomas Jelinek, chairman of the Prague Jewish Community. He said the book could become a manual for Czech racists and anti-Semites.The 300-page book, which is presented as scholarly research with about 400 footnotes, describes theories purporting that levels of human intelligence are based on race and ethnicity. The book 'tries to bring new arguments about the influence of the Jews in the world and about the role of Jews in undermining the role of Christian societies,' Jelinek said. 'As a citizen of the Czech Republic, I found many arguments in the book outrageous, and I don't understand the scientific methodology of the book,' he added. 'What was it that he wanted to prove? What was it that he wanted to say?' Brisk sales Olomouc-based publishing house Votobia printed 4,500 copies. It does not plan to translate the book for sale in other countries. Within one week, 4,000 copies were sold. 'The book is dangerous because it appears as scientific work. And its form corresponds to it,' said Prague sociologist Tomas Kamin, who filed a lawsuit against Bakalar. The lawsuit is based on paragraph 260 of the penal code. The paragraph states: 'Someone who supports or promotes a movement that explicitly aids the suppression of the rights of man or promotes ethnic, religious, nationalist or class hatred against some person will be punished by one to five years in prison.' 'The author has only chosen quotations from specific sources so that they correspond to his objective. And his goal, in my view, is to present racist and anti-Semitic views,' Kamin said. Bakalar, 33, rejects the racist label ... Petr Jungling, owner of Votobia, said he anticipated the negative responses. 'I read it and, of course, I don't agree that it is racist,' he said. Since its publication, the book has received positive feedback, Jungling said ... 'The motivation of many endeavors is boredom, and I was bored by the conventional psychological authorities and the political correctness,' [Bakalar] said. 'Political correctness and science cannot go together.'"

French Groups Appeal Yahoo's Win,
Washington Post (from the Associated Press), December 5, 2001
"Two French groups are appealing the recent federal court decision that held Yahoo! Inc. did not have to remove Nazi memorabilia from its site to comply with a ruling in France. Attorneys for the League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism and the Union of Jewish Students contended in their appeal filed Tuesday with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Yahoo should not be shielded from French law by the First Amendment. The French groups sued Yahoo last year for letting Nazi collectibles be sold on its auction pages. French law bars the display or sale of racist material. A French judge ordered Yahoo to prevent French users from seeing the material, despite Yahoo's objections that the order would be technically impossible to carry out. The judge said Yahoo would be fined about $13,000 for each day it did not comply."

Iraqi-Jewish expats to seek compensation for assets left behind,
By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz (Israel), May 16, 2003
"In the wake of the war in Iraq, Iraqi Jews residing in the United States and Europe are weighing the possibility of filing class-action suits demanding compensation in lieu of property and assets that they were forced to leave behind. Prominent members of the Jewish community in New York report that since the end of the war, they have seen a wave of requests from Iraqi Jews seeking an organized appeal for compensation for property and assets confiscated by the Baghdad regime when they left the country in the 1950s. The requests have begun to come in at an increased rate recently to the main New York offices of the World Jewish Congress. The WJC is the organization that led the international campaign against Swiss banks and achieved a global agreement under which compensation was paid out to relatives of holders of dormant bank accounts who perished during the Holocaust. WJC director Dr. Avi Becker said Thursday that an Iraqi-Jewish lawyer from San Francisco had informed him that she intended to file a class-action suit and demand compensation for property and assets that had been in her family's possession and had been confiscated by the Iraqi government in 1951. She will be seeking the compensation from Iraqi funds currently frozen in the U.S. As a result of the plethora of requests, a conference has been scheduled in London next month to discuss the issue of 'the property of the Iraqi Jewish refugees' ... The matter of compensation for the Jews who formerly lived in Iraq will also be discussed at a session of the executive of the WJC [World Jewish Congress], due to be held next week in Jerusalem. The meeting is expected to be attended by Jewish delegates from the U.S. and Europe. The organization was treating the issue with 'much caution,' the WJC's Becker told Haaretz. 'The Congress will not deal with the matter without close coordination with the government of Israel,' he said."

[The New Totalitarianism in western democracies. Criticize Jews? Get fined $30,000]
Lawyer targeted by hateful Web site awarded $30,000,
by Adam Grachnik, June 19, 2003
"An Ottawa lawyer who became the target of a hate crime after he led the charge to shut down an anti-Semitic Web site was awarded $30,000 by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal last month, the Citizen has learned. Richard Warman, an Ottawa lawyer, tried to have www.patriotsonguard.org removed from the Internet because he believed the anti-Semitic content was 'over the line.' He send a note to the Internet service provider that hosted the site and in April 2001 it was pulled. Yet, weeks later, the site resurfaced and Mr. Warman became the target of the Web site, which was controlled by Fred Kyburz of Alberta. Mr. Warman filed complaints against Mr. Kyburz with the Canadian Human Rights Commission alleging hateful content on the site and personal attacks against him. Last month, the tribunal ruled on the case. 'In the tribunal's view, there can be no doubt that the messages contained on the Patriots on Guard Web site are likely to expose Jews generally to hatred and contempt,' the 29-page report from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal stated. In March 2001, Mr. Warman, who has been campaigning against hate on the Internet, became aware of the site and notified the Internet service provider. The site was shut down for several days in April. But a few weeks later it was back up on a different provider. Responding to the initiative taken by Mr. Warman, Mr. Kyburz shifted his focus. 'You are an anti-Semite since your ilk have the blood of thousands of Jews on your hands as well as the blood of millions of white people. You are an anti-Semite, anti-white and anti-right ... I have warned you idiots of my intent to expose your communistic Zionist agenda,' Mr. Kyburz e-mailed to Mr. Warman. The missive was highlighted in the tribunal's report. In its ruling the tribunal stated: 'There can be no doubt that Mr. Kyburz both retaliated and threatened to retaliate against Mr. Warman for having filed his Section 13 human rights complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission ... He said Canada has been aggressive in challenging hate sites. Mr. Warman said it took almost two years for the decision to come down because the tribunal was waiting for the decision on Ernst Zundel. In January 2002, the Canadian Human Rights Commission tribunal forced Mr. Zundel, a Holocaust denier, to shut down the site, saying it vilified Jewish people as 'liars, cheats, criminals and thugs.' There were additions made to the Canadian Human Rights Act when Bill C-36 was passed in Dec. 2001, which made the prohibition against spreading repeated hate messages by telephonic communications to include all telecommunications technologies. Mr. Warman said the amending of Bill C-36: 'Spells out that the Canadian Human Rights Commission includes the Internet. 'This is something that should have been done a long time ago," he added."

The Chutzpah Man Vs. The Den of Thieves,
Columbia Journalism Review, Jan/Feb 1992
"One of the first lessons young reporters learn from a city desk is that in a run-of-the-mill crime story the race or ethnic group of the people involved is not 'relevant,' not to be included. Yet to censor ethnic elements in an ambitious piece, one that tries to include a sense of context and personal background, can be to succumb to a kind of racial prudishness ... .Into this terrain of real and perceived ethnic slurs now rides Alan M. Dershowitz, the famous lawyer, in defense of Michael Milken, his equally well-known client, who pleaded guilty to six felony charges in 1990. Milken, the former junk-bond king, sits in a California prison awaiting developments on more than 100 civil suits filed against him and on his motion to reduce his ten-year sentence. Milken's rise and fall, of course, was one of the biggest news stories of the 1990s. The latest book on those Gordon Gekko years is Den of Thieves, by Pulitzer Prize-winner James B. Stewart, now the front-page editor of The Wall Street Journal. Den of Thieves traces how a number of traders like Milken got greedy, and it goes beyond what he admitted in his plea bargain with the government. Dershowitz is an author, too, most recently of Chutzpah, a call for members of his generation of American Jews to demand first-class status in a mostly Christian nation, and to assert themselves more forcefully against subtle anti-Semitism. And Dershowitz has employed a Chutzpah defense of Milken, attacking Den of Thieves on two levels ... [One] line of attack -- a charge of anti-Semitic stereotyping -- was deployed in a section of the full-page 'Open Letter' in the Times."

Lawmaker Criticized By Jewish Colleagues for Remarks,
TBO (Tampa Bay) [from Associated Press], April 24, 2002
"A Panhandle lawmaker is being criticized by Jewish colleagues and the American Jewish Congress for remarks he made during a battle over religious rights language he wants inserted into the state's school code. Rep. Jerry Melvin, R-Fort Walton Beach, criticized Jewish senators for 'raising mortal heck' over language that would let students pray in school, distribute religious literature and talk about religion as they would politics. 'You thought we had shot them - every one - or lined them up against the damn wall,' Melvin told Gannett Regional Newspapers in Florida about objections raised by Jewish lawmakers over the language. A special session called to approve the school code ended without an agreement when the Senate wouldn't pass the rewrite because of the religious-freedoms language, which Melvin refused to remove during negotiations with senators. Melvin's comments angered Jewish lawmakers and prompted the American Jewish Congress to demand Melvin apologize or be censured. The group said the comments were 'anti-Semitic' and 'bigoted.' Sen. Ron Klein, who is Jewish, said he is considering asking House Speaker Tom Feeney to strip Melvin from his position as chairman of the House Lifelong Learning Council. 'He has a tremendous amount of responsibility in that position. He needs to be called to task for that. It's blatant anti-Semitism,' said Klein, D-Boca Raton. Paul Breitner, a Miami lawyer and president of the Southeast Region of the American Jewish Congress, said it was not just Jews who opposed the religious rights language. 'The opposition came from a variety of quarters, however Rep. Melvin chose to single out Jews in the way that bigots and anti-Semites usually do,' he said."

St. Cloud State Settles Antisemitism Suit,
Star-Tribune (Minnesota), December 4, 2002
"St. Cloud State University will create a Jewish Studies and Resource Center and require anti-Semitism training for all faculty members under a lawsuit settlement announced this afternoon. The suit, which alleged a pattern of anti-Semitism and retaliation at the university, was filed in October 2001 by professors Geoffrey Tabakin and Laurinda Stryker, former professor Arie Zmora and student Robbi Hoy. Under the settlement, Zmora will receive $165,000, Stryker $80,000 and a paid educational leave for the current academic year, and Tabakin $20,000 and a job reassignment for two semesters. An additional $50,000 was set aside for Jewish faculty and staff members and anyone who filed a complaint that they suffered retaliation for opposing anti-Semitism. Another $265,000 will go for plaintiffs' attorney fees."

$10 million award upheld in feud. ADL likely to appeal ruling in couple's defamation lawsuit,
by Karen Abbott, Rocky Mountain News, April 23, 2003
"A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a jury's $10 million award to a former Evergreen couple denounced as anti-Semites by the Anti-Defamation League after their Jewish neighbors secretly recorded their telephone conversations. The 2-1 ruling by a panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals likely will be appealed by the ADL, which faces spending a fourth of its annual budget to pay the award to William and Dorothy 'Dee' Quigley. The ruling also increases the worries of other advocacy groups and lawyers who help them. The nationally publicized case drew three friend-of-the-court briefs in support of the ADL from other groups and lawyers, contending the danger of huge legal liabilities threatened their ability to work for good causes. The Quigleys sued the ADL and the then-director of its Denver office, Saul Rosenthal, for defamation, violations of federal wiretap law and invasion of privacy. The 10th Circuit panel threw out the invasion of privacy claims Tuesday, but left other claims and the jury's total damages award intact. The Quigleys' attorney, Jay Horowitz, said the ruling may not end the legal dispute. 'The Quigleys have been involved in difficult and extraordinarily expensive litigation for the preceding 8 ½ years,' he said. 'They are extremely gratified by the United States Court of Appeals decision. They are aware, however, that proceedings may continue. For that reason, they must restrict their comments, other than to say that they are committed to continue this battle as long as it takes, and to vindicate their name, their reputation and their rights of privacy' ... The Quigleys' Jewish neighbors, Mitchell and Candice Aronson, consulted the ADL in 1994 after overhearing the Quigleys' telephone remarks on their Radio Shack police scanner. They said they heard the Quigleys discuss a campaign to drive them from the neighborhood with Nazi scare tactics: tossing lampshades and soap on their lawn; putting pictures of Holocaust ovens on their house; dousing an Aronson child with flammable liquid. The Aronsons were advised to record the conversations. Based on the recordings, they sued the Quigleys in federal court; Jefferson County prosecutors charged the Quigleys with hate crimes; and Rosenthal denounced the Quigleys as anti-Semites in a press conference. The Quigleys got death threats and hate mail, including a box of dog feces. Their own Catholic priest denounced them from the pulpit. Later, everyone found out that the recordings became illegal just five days after they began, when President Bill Clinton signed a new federal wiretap restriction into law. The hate charges were dropped, and Jefferson County paid the Quigleys $75,000 after prosecutors concluded Dee Quigley's remarks to a friend were only in jest. Two lawyers on the ADL's volunteer board, who had advised the Aronsons, paid the Quigleys $350,000 to settle a lawsuit. The Quigleys and Aronsons dropped their legal attacks on each other, and neither family paid the other anything. The Aronsons divorced. The Quigleys now live in another state."

Dalyell remarks on Jewish cabal may face scrutiny by watchdog,
By Benedict Brogan, Telegraph (UK), May 5, 2003
"Tam Dalyell, Labour's most senior MP, faces being referred to the Commission for Racial Equality over remarks he made to an American magazine which suggested Tony Blair was unduly influenced by Jewish figures in his inner circle. Prof Eric Moonman, a former Labour MP and current president of the Zionist Alliance, said he had consulted lawyers about comments published yesterday that he described as 'highly inflammatory'. Mr Dalyell, MP for Linlithgow and Father of the House, was alleged to have accused the Prime Minister of 'being unduly influenced by a cabal of Jewish advisers'. The remark, which was not a direct quote but claimed to describe his attitude, appeared in the current issue of Vanity Fair magazine in an article to mark Mr Blair's 50th birthday. Mr Moonman who is a former senior vice-president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, described himself as a long-standing friend of Mr Dalyell but said his views were unacceptable. 'It's the sort of insidious thing I would expect to see in a poorly produced BNP pamphlet,' he said. 'It is bad enough for an MP to start to use this language but it is much worse when he is Father of the House. If he were to point out a cabal of black people, he would be referred to the CRE.' Mr Moonman said he did not believe Mr Dalyell was anti-Semitic. But he added: 'This sort of language is quite wrong and ultimately will do him a great deal of harm. We will look very closely at what he says in the future. I have taken advice from several lawyers and will have further consultations on whether there is a case for a referral to the CRE. I believe there is' ... Mr Dalyell, an opponent of the war against Iraq, is said to have identified Lord Levy, the Prime Minister's special envoy to the Middle East, Mr [Jack] Straw [Foreign Secretary] and Peter Mandelson, whose father was Jewish. He denied he was anti-Semitic. 'I am fully aware that one is treading on cut glass on this issue and no one wants to be accused of anti-Semitism, but, if it is a question of launching an assault on Syria or Iran . . . then one has to be candid,' he said. Last night Mr Dalyell said he was worried Mr Blair was being 'led up the garden path on a Likudnic-Sharon agenda', a reference to Ariel Sharon, the hard-line Israeli prime minister and his Likud party. He said he only used the word "cabal" in reference to figures in the Bush administration. 'The cabal I referred to was in the US. That is the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs,' he said."

Exclusive Q & A With Steven Silbiger, Author Of The Jewish Phenomenon (Part I),
Black Electorate, January 29, 2003
"Steven Silbiger had already sold 200,000 copies of his classic, The Ten-Day MBA. But that success did not fully prepare him for the reaction he received for his follow-up effort, The Jewish Phenomenon, wherein he broached the 'taboo' subject of Jewish success and wealth, disproportionate in terms of the community's relatively small population size - in America and throughout the world. The back cover of The Jewish Phenomenon gets right to the heart of the matter promising to answer why : 1) Jews make up only 2% of the total U.S. population, yet 45% of the top 40 of the Forbes 400 richest Americans are Jewish 2) One-third of all American multimillionaires are Jewish 3) The percentage of Jewish households with income greater than $50,000 is double that of non-Jews while on the other hand, the percentage of Jewish households with income less than $20,000 is half that of non-Jews 4) 20% of professors at leading universities are Jewish 5) 40% of partners in leading New York and Washington D.C. law firms are Jewish and 25% percent of all American Nobel Prize winners are Jewish. The subject has been so 'off-limits' that Mr. Silbiger was greeted with scheduled media appearances cancelled; and journalists and editors who knew him from his first effort (which has now sold 300,000 copies) informing him that they could not write about his book or publicize it in reviews because it was just too controversial. National Public Radio (NPR) even canceled a scheduled show featuring Mr. Silbiger and Black conservative intellectual John McWhorter out of fear that a discussion involving The Jewish Phenomenon would alienate NPR's numerous Jewish benefactors ... Steven Silbiger: Sure, the people who have read the book enjoy the book, it is very useful but within the media there has been an almost silence about the book because they would rather the book not create any discussion. A lot of the book reviewers and people in the main press don't want to cover the book because the subject of Jewish success in America is more controversial than anything else. Because the idea is that if you publicize Jewish success and the reasons for it, then it will bring additional anti-Semitism to the Jewish community. I have spoken to Jewish groups, B'nai B'rith, Haddasah - many Jewish groups, and the book has been universally well-received when presented but book reviewers and other opinion leaders would rather not deal with the subject because their downside is much greater than the upside for covering the book. I wouldn't mind negative reviews. But they'd rather not review it at all because of how powerful the message is in this book. From people who have read it that aren't Jewish; African-Americans; Latinos and such; they find the book very enlightening - they didn't know Jews. They knew about anti-Semitism."

Anglo American hit by apartheid lawsuit,
Yahoo!News, April 4, 2003
"The world's second largest mining company, Anglo American Plc, and its diamond business De Beers were hit on Friday by a lawsuit seeking up to $6.1 billion in damages for victims of apartheid. The long-threatened case on behalf of hundreds of thousands of black people outraged some analysts who said it smacked of opportunism and could be a big blow to foreign investment in the country. Friday's filing by U.S. lawyer Ed Fagan is the first to target a big South African company for apartheid wrongs and sparked fear in the market of similar suits against other local firms. Shares in Anglo skidded nearly four percent, pulling the wider market down, even though Anglo rejected the law suits. Fagan is scheduled to announce details on Saturday of a class action against South African oil-from-coal producer Sasol and U.S. construction firm Fluor International ... 'Those companies (Anglo and De Beers) were engaged in some of the most horrific crimes against humanity,' the maverick lawyer told Reuters in South Africa. 'If they want to come to the table, tell them to bring $3.1-6.1 billion, and then there is something to talk about,' he added ... Fagan said the suits were being filed in New York and Nevada against the mining giant and its diamond business. Anglo owns 45 percent of the world's largest gem group. The Oppenheimer mining dynasty and the Botswana government own the rest of De Beers. Fagan made his name with a successful claim against Swiss banks that held onto deposits of Jews killed in the Holocaust. He has said the $100 billion paid to victims of Germany's World War Two operations should serve as a guideline for apartheid claims. He is seeking damages from Swiss and American banks, accusing them of propping up the sanctions-hit apartheid regime in the 1980s, by giving billions of dollars in loans ... At its height within South Africa, Anglo boasted holdings in about 600 companies and its founders, the Oppenheimers, became one of South Africa's wealthiest firms."

Fleeced in Florida. Orlando Sentinel [at pulitzer.org], April 1, 1999
"There are ways to get rich feeding off the finincial woes of those who have little. It's interesting to note who shares in the feast. Who's making money off the poor? Steve McKenzie for one. He owns a company called National Cash Advance, based in Cleveland, Tenn ... His company advances money to people who need a little cash to get by until payday ... But payday advances aren't the only way to get rich taking money from people who have far too little to lose already. There also are title loans that can wrest from their pockets whatever money is left. Title lenders typically lend a small portion of a car's worth and charge 22 percent a month in interest and fees. When a borrower falls behind in payments -- as often happens -- the lenders are quick to repossess and sell the car, usually keeping any excess profit. The giant of the industry is Title Loans of America Inc., based in Atlanta. Yet the principal owner is Alvin Malnik, a multimillionaire lawyer from Boca Raton. Mr. Malnik was reputed for many years to work for the late Meyer Lansky, financier to the mob -- an allegation Mr. Malnik denies. Whatever his background, he's prospering. By contrast, the people who patronize these businesses often live modestly, some even in homeless shelters. And when the high-rate lenders share their ill-gotten wealth, it is not with the unfortunate but with lobbyists and lawmakers who protect these companies' interests. They hire men such as Robert Levy. He represents the Florida Check Cashers Association, many of whose members offer payday advances."

Unconventional Wisdom. Student's lawsuit shows lack of class,
By Tanya Barrientos, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 3, 2003
"There's a saying that everything we need to know we learned in kindergarten. Blair Hornstine of Moorestown must not have been paying attention the day her class learned about playing well with others. Not that it kept her from doing well in school. On paper, the 18-year-old Moorestown High School senior looks like every parent's dream. Her grades are top-notch. Her SAT scores fall a few points short of perfection. She's won numerous national, city, county and school district accolades for her academic achievements. With her older brother, Adam, she founded a volunteer organization that helps the underprivileged. And she and Adam got a 2001 Presidential Service Award from the White House applauding their success. That same year, she was picked to carry the Olympic torch along Broad Street. On paper, Blair seems like the perfect antidote for the average underachieving, monosyllabic, television-loving, won't-even-make-the-bed teen. She has a medical condition that leaves her too fatigued to attend all her classes at school. And yet, she still got accepted to Harvard University. Yep - on paper, she's a darling. But, in the flesh, Little Miss Perfect is a petty crybaby. She and her legal-minded parents (her father is Camden County Judge Louis Hornstine) are spitting mad because Blair might have to share the valedictorian spotlight with some other student at graduation. The superintendent wants to name co-valedictorians, because he believes the school's weighted grading system (and a reduced class schedule) gave Blair an unfair advantage. Two other students with near-perfect grades were required to take on-campus classes such as physical education (which is weighted less in the grade-point-average calculations). And that made it impossible for them to achieve a GPA as high as Blair's, the superintendent claims. The Hornstines have made it into a federal case. Literally. They've filed a discrimination lawsuit asking for $2.7 million in damages. (Which these days is probably just enough to cover books and board and tuition at Harvard.) Can someone please explain what life lesson Blair's parents want her to learn from this? That the girl who already has everything should throw a temper tantrum when things don't go her way? That overcoming a disability and making it to the top is only worth celebrating if you're up there alone? That even though life isn't fair, hiring a slick lawyer is? ... Whatever happens now, Blair Hornstine of the graduating class of 2003 will not be remembered as the school valedictorian. Nor as the exceptionally smart, hard-working and talented girl that she undoubtedly is. She will be forever recalled as the sulky, churlish child who took her pomp and circumstance ...

The ACLU's Most Important Supreme Court Victories,
lectlaw.com

Poland Examines Media Bribe Allegation,
WIBC (Indiana) (from Associated Press), January 7, 2002
"Prosecutors questioned a newspaper editor Monday about published allegations that a leading film producer sought a $17.5 million bribe to lobby the government for more media-friendly laws. The allegations against Lew Rywin were carried last month by the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. It reported he approached its chief editor with the offer last July, claiming he represented Prime Minister Leszek Miller. Rywin, 57, is one of Poland's most prominent media entrepreneurs. His company, Heritage Films, co-produced Steven Spielberg's 'Schindler's List,' which won a 1993 Academy Award for best film. 'The Pianist, [by fellow Jewish filmmaker Roman Polanski] which featured Rywin as an actor, won the Palme d'Or top prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival. Rywin has refused to comment on the bribery allegation ... Warsaw prosecutors began their investigation Monday by questioning Gazeta chief editor Adam Michnik [also Jewish], a communist-era dissident and leading critic of a proposed measure to change to media laws. Private media have protested the bill, saying it would strengthen the monopoly of state television with restrictions on private ownership of television and radio stations."

[Charles Hurwitz, a United Jewish Appeal-Federation official, is the majority stockholder in Maxxam]
Logging Pollution Damages North Coast Watersheds,
Environment News Service, January 29, 2003
"Accelerated logging has polluted some 85 percent of the waters in California's North Coast region, uprooted protected redwoods and damaged private property, but state officials continue to permit logging companies to avoid complying with environmental regulations. California environmentalists are fighting back with lawsuits, and activists continue to take to the trees in a desperate attempt to save ancient redwoods and their surrounding ecosystems ... The controversy over the management of the North Coast forests has deep roots. In 1985, Maxxam, a Texas based corporation, succeeded in a $900 million hostile takeover of Pacific Lumber, a company with local ties stretching back to the 1850s. Maxxam kept the Pacific Lumber name, but tripled the rate of its logging operations. A chorus of protests soon followed, as activists took to the streets and to the trees, appealing to the public and the logging industry to protect many of the world's last redwood forests. The result of these protests came 10 years later, with the Headwaters Forest deal between the federal government and Pacific Lumber. At the heart of the deal was the exchange of $480 million in public money for some 7,500 acres of ancient redwoods, which is called the Headwaters Forest. Although it included a 50 year ban on logging within some additional 7,000 acres, it allowed Pacific Lumber to bypass many logging restrictions on much of its land, including protections for endangered species and limits on the rate of logging. The company owns some 210,000 acres in Humboldt County. It is nearly four years later and many local activists are clearly not happy with the consequences."

American Legal System Is Corrupt Beyond Recognition, Judge Tells Harvard Law School,
MassNews, March 7, 2003
"The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition, Judge Edith Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, told the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School on February 28. She said that the question of what is morally right is routinely sacrificed to what is politically expedient. The change has come because legal philosophy has descended to nihilism ... 'The first 100 years of American lawyers were trained on Blackstone, who wrote that: 'The law of nature … dictated by God himself … is binding … in all counties and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all force and all their authority … from this original.' The Framers created a government of limited power with this understanding of the rule of law - that it was dependent on transcendent religious obligation,' said Jones. She said that the business about all of the Founding Fathers being deists is 'just wrong,' or 'way overblown.' She says they believed in 'faith and reason,' and this did not lead to intolerance. 'This is not a prescription for intolerance or narrow sectarianism,' she continued, 'for unalienable rights were given by God to all our fellow citizens. Having lost sight of the moral and religious foundations of the rule of law, we are vulnerable to the destruction of our freedom, our equality before the law and our self-respect. ... The legal aristocracy have shed their professional independence for the temptations and materialism associated with becoming businessmen. Because law has become a self-avowed business, pressure mounts to give clients the advice they want to hear, to pander to the clients' goal through deft manipulation of the law. … While the business mentality produces certain benefits, like occasional competition to charge clients lower fees, other adverse effects include advertising and shameless self-promotion. The legal system has also been wounded by lawyers who themselves no longer respect the rule of law. The judge quoted Kenneth Starr as saying, 'It is decidedly unchristian to win at any cost,' and added that most lawyers agree with him. However, 'An increasingly visible and vocal number apparently believe that the strategic use of anger and incivility will achieve their aims. Others seem uninhibited about making misstatements to the court or their opponents or destroying or falsifying evidence,' she claimed. 'When lawyers cannot be trusted to observe the fair processes essential to maintaining the rule of law, how can we expect the public to respect the process?"

Jewish group banned from Concordia University,
CBC, Dec 6, 2002
"There's more conflict at Montreal's Concordia University. The Jewish group Hillel has been suspended by the student union for handing out pamphlets at an information table. The student council says those pamphlets violate Canadian law. Hillel says the pamphlets were recruitment propaganda for the Mahal faction of the Israeli Defence Forces. It's a volunteer service that enlists non-Israelis to fight on the country's behalf. Co-president Noah Joseph says an intern placed the pamphlets on the table for two hours. But the Concordia Student Union (CSU) says they contravene Canada's Foreign Enlistment Act because armed forces from other countries are not allowed to recruit in Canada. Joseph says Hillel lawyers are looking into the allegations. But he believes there's another reason his group has been targeted by the student union. 'The CSU is not going after us over one issue. They've been trying to get us for a while and they've found something with which they can pounce on us,' said Joseph. CSU spokesman Ralph Lee says that's not the case ... Lee says the suspension means Hillel's funding is frozen and it is not allowed to set up any information tables."

U.S. Mogul Czech-Mated. Variety, January 22, 2001
"When an American billionaire picks a $500 million fight with a small European country, whom would you put your money on? Ronald Lauder, scion of the Estee Lauder empire and chairman of Central European Media Enterprises, will launch a personal lawsuit March 5 in London against the Czech Republic for half a billion dollars in damages ... He is alleging the Czech government colluded with his former partner, Vladimir Zelezny [also Jewish, and "one of the wealthiest men in the Czech Republic"], in the hijacking of TV Nova, the hugely successful private web launched by CME back in 1994 ... From the Czech government's point of view, it's a test of their power to shape their own media destiny in the face of multinational corporate interests ... It's widely believed that Zelezny also covertly manages Prima TV, Nova's main commercial rival."

The Secret History of Television Corporate power, patent law, and lone inventors,
Reason, November 2002
"Here’s a story for you. Inspiration strikes a Mormon farmboy, the improbably named Philo T. Farnsworth, as he plows a potato field in Idaho. Armed with his new insight, he moves to L.A., finds investors and assistants, and on a shoestring invents television. A corporate giant tries to steal his creation, and a long, expensive legal fight ensues. Farnsworth wins the battle but loses the war, successfully defending his claim to the patent but nonetheless watching most of the credit -- and most of the profits -- accrue to the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and its self-aggrandizing chief, [Jewish mogul of RCA and NBC] David Sarnoff. Farnsworth spends his last years chasing the dream of nuclear fusion, then dies poor, depressed, and virtually forgotten. It’s not a bad tale. Drain out the melodrama and sprinkle in some nuance, and you’ll find it’s actually true. The saga of Philo Farnsworth may have a special resonance in the dot-bust era, as battles rage over intellectual property and corporate turpitude dominates the headlines. Or perhaps it’s just a coincidence that two books about Farnsworth have been published this year: Evan Schwartz’s The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television (HarperCollins) and Daniel Stashower’s The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television (Broadway)."

TakeBacktheMedia.com Gets the Savage Treatment: Wife of Web site Co-Founder Slapped with Lawsuit, Buzzflash, June 3, 2003
"A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW In an exclusive first interview with BuzzFlash.Com and BartCop.Com, Mike Stinson, co-founder of the watchdog web site, TakeBacktheMedia.com, reveals why his wife and other websites are being sued by Michael Savage. BUZZFLASH/BARTCOP: Who is Michael Savage suing and why? TAKE BACK THE MEDIA: My wife, Julie Sigwart, was named in a lawsuit by Talk Radio Network (TRN) which was served to her on May 20th in person at our home. Talk Radio Network (regarding the Michael Savage radio show) makes allegations in the lawsuit which are not attributed to her but to our popular website called Take Back the Media -- which has garnered 32 million hits since its inception in January of 2003 ... You can read the legal suit papers at Take Back the Media.com. We've linked them there from another site being sued, Savagestupidity.com. Also named in the suit is michaelsavagesucks.com. They're good folks there and need help on this as well -- this is an attack against free speech on the Web and we need to fight this TOGETHER folks! TRN is making a lot of claims between all the sites and they've lumped us all in together. Basically they are claiming these three websites have cost them an advertising contract (Culligan Co). It's nonsense and obvious harassment to intimidate and chill free speech on the web. It's utterly without merit ... BUZZFLASH/BARTCOP: Michael Savage is the kind of right wing "shock celebrity pundit" who only survives because of publicity. Is this a publicity stunt on his part? After all, he changed his last name to "savage," one can hypothesize, to help sell his demented brand of right wing ranting? TAKE BACK THE MEDIA: Oh yeah, he changed his name to "savage" from WEINER -- now I'm not sure how that's pronounced. It's either WEENER or WHINER, anyone know? The question you pose here is the answer (as usual BuzzFlash is ON the money). We do believe this is a publicity stunt because his ratings are in the crapper."

Michael Chertoff: Ashcroft's Top Gremlin Spreading Mischief from DoJ to the Federal Bench,
By ELAINE CASSEL, CounterPunch, June 11, 2003
"It never ends-the [John] Ashcroft watch. It only gets worse, and more frightening. But now I have a new gremlin to watch, someone who is as intent on undermining the law and Constitution as Ashcroft. I am referring to the man behind the criminal prosecution of terrorists, Michael Chertoff. Chertoff, former chief of the Justice Department's criminal division, and a scary looking guy if ever there was one, has been elevated to the level of Court of Appeals judge--the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, whose jurisdiction includes Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. What's so scary about Michael? Well, besides having no judicial experience and being a right-ring radical who does not believe in the Constitution and wants to rewrite federal law and rules of procedure on an ad hoc, case by case basis, as it suits him, nothing I guess. A good place to look for Chertoff's legal philosophy is in the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui , now taking place in the Eastern District of Virginia. Chertoff is not the prosecutor of course, Paul McNulty of the Eastern District is. But Chertoff is McNulty's boss and he is calling the shots. So Chertoff argued the government's case in the super secret hearing before the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals last week. The government is trying to block trial judge Leonie Brinkema's ruling that Moussaoui and his lawyers have access to the government's star witnesses against him. The government has refused and appealed. Judge Brinkema, who still believes in the Constitution, rightly ruled that to deny Moussaoui that access is a blatant violation of the Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses. Brinkema indicates that she will not be a party to making exceptions to the Constitution on a case-by-case basis. She, in effect, suggests that maybe Justice better take Moussaoui to Guantanamo and try him there in secret, in the military tribunals they set up. Easy there to not only try him, but convict him, and execute him . So why is the government insisting on keeping him in federal court? I have the answer, and it lies in Chertoff. Chertoff's goal, I believe, and the goal of Ashcroft and Bush in supporting this prosecution in federal court, is to subject federal trials, as they see fit, to ad hoc exemptions of whatever laws (be they constitutional, criminal code, or rules of procedure) that will suit their purposes. Their grand scheme is to ultimately cripple and dismantle the federal courts as we know them, one brick at a time. Support for this theory of mine includes their prosecution of attorney Lynne Stewart, for, in effect, zealously representing her client; rules created by Ashcroft that subject attorneys and their clients to surveillance, be they under secret wiretaps issues by the secret FISA court or monitoring of all contacts in prison settings. These procedures came about by fiat from Ashcroft. They make any attorney who represents someone charged with an act of "terrorism" (and a terrorist crime is one defined by Bush and Ashcroft-that is an ad hoc determination, as well). The Moussaoui case has many examples of legal changes. Moussaoui and even his attorneys (!) cannot receive all documents related to the case, because of 'national security' interests. Witnesses may appear in court behind screens (!) so that they cannot be seen. And, the Fourth Circuit hearing last week was closed-closed-for the first time in history. Under Ashcroft we have had secret warrants (or no warrants), secret hearings denying bail, secret trials, and now secret appellate court arguments. Next, we can expect the Supreme Court to be closed, can't we? ... The absurd arguments contrary to the letter and spirit of all that not only the Constitution, but current federal law provides, is appalling and shameful. Chertoff will be making those arguments for the government when they appear before his court (and if you think that appellate judges don't make arguments, you did not hear Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist make Bush's arguments for his attorney, not Solicitor General Ted Olson. And you have not read the rulings of the Fourth Circuit when it denied an American citizen, Yasir Hamdi, the right to see a lawyer. He is locked up in some military brig. He has not been charged with a crime and has been in custody for close to a year. The opinion was a political treatise, not a legal argument. And the treatise-opinion supported the government's argument that courts step back and not conduct meaningful judicial review or, heaven forbid, overrule the government in a time of 'war.' And that treatise said that the 'war' on terror will only be over when the President says it is over, and that the "front" of the war may change from time to time ... As bad for the law and Constitution as many of Bush's judicial appointees are, Chertoff has been the architect of prosecutions in the 'war on terror.' And he may have big changes in mind for you, me, the courts, and the Constitution."

The Emergence of Jewish Law in Postmodernist Legal Theory,
by Suzanne Last Stone, Harvard Law School

Privilege Before the Law,
By Paul Craig Roberts, VDare [Originally published in The American Conservative 2-24-03],
"How did we end up with racial quotas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act expressly forbids them? It was primarily the work of one man, an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) bureaucrat named Alfred Blumrosen, now a Rutgers University law professor. Blumrosen’s thoroughgoing and illegal rewrite of the Civil Rights Act was accepted by the Supreme Court in Griggs v. Duke Power (1971) ... Neither the clear statutory language of the act and the amendments nor the act’s unambiguous legislative history could prevent Blumrosen and the Burger Court from standing the Civil Rights Act on its head. Blumrosen ignored the act and its statutory prohibition against regulatory interpretation. He bet that he could get away with rewriting the act because of the courts’ deference to the regulatory agency. Blumrosen redefined discrimination to be statistical disparity or under-utilization of blacks. If an employer’s work force contained a smaller percentage of blacks than blacks comprised of the local population, the company was discriminating. Anything that had disparate impact, such as employment tests, Blumrosen declared to be discriminatory. Having eliminated intent, he was able to shift the act’s focus from specific discrimination against individuals and initiate agency proceedings against employers even in the absence of complaints of discrimination ... Blumrosen’s rewrite of the Civil Rights Act required employers to adopt racial quotas in order to avoid federal lawsuits. Private employment and promotion quotas are held to be legal because of the fiction that they are 'voluntarily adopted' and not required by federal statute. They are required, of course, to avoid federal lawsuits. Blumrosen’s redefinition of discrimination created 'reverse discrimination.' Whites lose opportunities for racial reasons alone."

Jewish Law Comes to D.C.,
by James D. Besser, Jewish Week, June 12, 2003
"What does the Talmud have to say about legal and moral controversies in modern America? Plenty, according to the creators of the new Washington-based National Institute for Judaic Law, which opened with a lavish Supreme Court dinner last month. Some Orthodox activists say they can’t figure out exactly the point of the whole thing. But Noson Gurary, a Lubavitch rabbi who came up with the idea and won backing from some top Jewish legal experts, harbors no doubts. 'It will be an eye opener for judges, scholars and law students,' he told The Jewish Week. 'Before you know where you’re going, you have to know where you came from. And Jewish law is the basis of our legal system in America.' Gurary said that the idea for the institute came in an exchange of letters in which Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the most conservative Justices, expressed his 'fascination with Jewish law.' 'And as a teacher of Judaic studies, I began to see the excitement of students who were being exposed to Jewish law for the first time, who now had a better understanding of where Western law come from,' Gurary said ... The Buffalo rabbi is a relative unknown in the Jewish world. Not so some of the participants in the new project, including Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, former U.S. Solicitor General Seth Waxman and top constitutional lawyer Nathan Lewin and his law-partner/daughter, Alyza. Alyza Lewin noted that 'the idea is to make Jewish law accessible to the public — to jurists, legal scholars, the press, anybody.'”

Tenafly loses appeal in Jewish rights case,
Star-Ledger (NJ), June 24, 2003
"The U.S. Supreme Court announced yesterday that it won't hear the Tenafly eruv case, a victory for the Orthodox Jewish community in the upscale Bergen County town where they have sought to preserve the symbolic religious district. The high court's announcement means a federal appeals court decision remains in place, which holds that officials in Tenafly discriminated against the Jewish group by refusing to let them place plastic strips on utility poles to mark boundaries of their eruv, or symbolic district. Proponents of the eruv said they hope the high court's decision not to hear the case will help bring closure to the three-year battle with the town. Eruvs are a symbolic area -- marked off by wire, thread, or, in Tenafly, unobtrusive plastic strips called "lechis" -- within which many Orthodox Jews feel they can do physical tasks otherwise banned on the Sabbath, such as pushing a baby carriage. The controversial case weighed constitutional issues of separation of church and state, religious freedom and free speech, and could have implications for any future battles over similar religious districts in other states. "It is a significant precedent for other courts who are going to analyze the issue," said Robert Sugarman, an attorney for the Tenafly Eruv Association. "The appeals court came to the conclusion that in this particular case the denial of the eruv was a denial of the First Amendment rights of the plaintiff." The ruling that stands, set by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, also has nationwide ramifications because the court held that the approval of an eruv is not a violation of the Establishment clause of the Constitution, Sugarman said. The Philadelphia court rejected the borough's argument that allowing the Orthodox community to attach unobtrusive plastic strips to poles to form an eruv constituted an improper government endorsement of religion. The court said the eruv, which has remained intact pending the legal proceedings, is not a religious symbol, but a religious accommodation. "It's invisible to the eye, and it doesn't infringe on anybody's religious or constitutional rights," said Sherry Kirschenbaum, associate director of the NJ region of the Anti -Defamation League, which filed a friendly brief in the case ... Tenafly's eruv is one of hundreds across the country. Within the enclosure, Orthodox Jews, like Gottlieb, are able to carry objects outside their home on the Sabbath ... Tenafly's Orthodox community put up the plastic strips for the eruv in 2000 without the council's knowledge after obtaining permission from Verizon and Cablevision, the two utilities that maintain the poles. After discovering the strips, the borough council voted unanimously to order them removed. The Orthodox community sued in federal court, losing an initial round before gaining a decision in its favor from the appeals court in Philadelphia."

[The Jewish Thought Police Panel takes form:]
Defense deputy gets authority for military tribunals,
by Barbara Starr, CNN, June 24, 2003
"U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has delegated his role as 'appointing authority' for military commissions to his deputy, according to Pentagon officials. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld signed a delegation last weekend putting Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz in authority over the tribunals that will try al Qaeda and Taliban suspects, the officials said. Under an order that President Bush issued in November 2001, military tribunals can be used to try non-citizens accused of terrorist acts. Individuals brought before the tribunals would have no right to a jury trial, no right to confront their accusers and no right to judicial review of trial procedures or sentences, which could include death. Wolfowitz will exercise key powers in the commission process. After the chief military prosecutor drafts charges against a detainee, Wolfowitz will have the authority to approve those charges and send the detainee to trial. As appointing authority, he also will select military officers to sit on commissions. If commission members cannot resolve matters related to procedures, motions or facts, Wolfowitz will make the final decision. The Pentagon's Office of General Counsel and chief prosecutor are reviewing information known as 'reasons to believe' a detainee might be subject to a commission, Pentagon officials said."

Judges dismiss lawsuits against Wall St banks,
By Joshua Chaffin and David Wells, Financial Times, July 1, 2003
"Merrill Lynch and three other big Wall Street investment banks won what may be a pivotal legal victory on Tuesday when judges dismissed lawsuits claiming that their stock analysts were to blame for millions of dollars in investor losses after the market bubble burst. In often scathing tone, judge Milton Pollack said investors failed to prove that Merrill and its chief internet analyst, Henry Blodget, intended to defraud investors when they published positive recommendations on two internet companies, 24/7 Real Media and Interliant. Mr Pollack instead accused the investors of being "high-risk speculators" who decided to join a "freewheeling casino that lured thousands obsessed with the fantasy of Olympian riches." The decision came as another judge, Harold Baer, dismissed a similar class action lawsuit against Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston regarding their positive recommendations on Covad, a telecommunications company. The rulings could set a precedent for a mountain of investor lawsuits filed against Wall Street firms after a probe by securities regulators found that Mr Blodget and other celebrated analysts often touted stocks to help their firms win more investment banking business."

[Here we have the quintessential Jewish hypocrisy. Both Jewish Supreme Court Justices (Ginsburg and Breyer) voted in favor of Affirmative Action. If a genuine multi-ethnic, multicultural balance is what these people truly desire (and not merely personal AND Jewish collective influence), one -- or both -- of the Jewish justices should step down. 2 of the current 9 Supreme Court Justices are Jewish. That's 22%. Jews are 2.5% of the American population. These two Jewish justices are clearly hindering a fair balance of multicultural power with their OWN grasp on power. This is the Jewish paradigm. If then the disadvantaged are to be promoted by points for "race," then the EMPOWERED should logically be DISempowered on the same terms.]
Affirmative Action Upheld by Split Court,
By ANNE GEARAN, Yahoo! (Associated Press), June 23, 2003
"In its most significant statement about race in a generation, a divided Supreme Court allowed the nation's colleges and universities to select students based in part on race, ruling Monday that diverse classrooms mold good citizens and strong leaders. The court emphasized that race cannot be the overriding factor, but a majority acknowledged a broad social value from affirmative action — in encouraging all races to learn and work together. 'In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity,' Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (news - web sites) wrote for the 5-4 majority. At issue was whether admissions policies that give one racial group an edge unconstitutionally discriminate against other groups. In two decisions involving the University of Michigan, the court underscored that racial quotas are unconstitutional but left room for the nation's public universities — and by extension other public and private institutions — to seek ways to take race into account ... Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer joined her endorsement of a program in place at the University of Michigan's law school. The law school uses an inexact admissions formula that gives extra consideration to blacks, Hispanics and to applicants from other groups the school says have historically suffered from discrimination. The program has produced minority enrollment of between 12 percent and 20 percent over the past decade. There is no fixed target, the school said."

FROM A JTR CONTRIBUTOR: Quotes about Jews/the legal profession in America; from the book "Jews and Money: The Myths and the Reality," by Gerald Krefetz; from Ticknor and Fields, New Haven/New York, 1982, hardcover.

"Law is something of a Jewish calling, in a sense, the house specialty." [page 185].

In the field of law, Jews make up "nearly 10 times the representation that might be expected." [page 185].

"Perhaps there is still another important aspect that draws Jews to the legal profession. Iconoclasm is an old Jewish characteristic -- indeed it may be the primary Jewish trait. The breaking of idols started with Abraham and Moses and has continued in this day in the secular world with Marx, Freud and Einstein. The idols these days are the ideas, concepts, ideologies, traditions, and customs that are inflexible and unfeeling. So it comes as no surprise to find Jewish lawyers on the cutting edge of change and reform." [page 188].

"'The field of personal injury really expanded in the forties and fifties,' said Greenberg. 'A dozen or so lawyers developed this area of law, and most of them were Jewish.'" [quoting a Jewish lawyer] [page 193].

[Given that Israel has stolen Palestinian lands, this story is obscene:]
Israel Claims 'Lost Property' In Arab Countries. The Jews are seeking ‘compensation’,
Islam Online, August 17, 2003
"In a bid seen as trying to get a bigger slice of the grand Iraqi cake, Israel has drawn up a file on Jewish property and money allegedly left by Jewish immigrants in Arab countries, particularly Iraq. The Israeli justice ministry spokesman said that the government would ask Jews in Israel and all over the world within the few coming days to present information on their purported belongings in Iraq, the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said Saturday, August 16. Israeli sources put at $10 billion the value of the so-called Jewish property in Iraq alone, noting that Israel expects the would-be Iraqi oil minister return these money calmly and without any media fuss. One of the Jews whose family used to live in Iraq has estimated the value of Jewish property there at a mind-boggling $20 billion, the PIC said. Quoting former Israeli energy minister Moshe Shahal, of an Iraqi origin, the center said that negotiations between Tel Aviv and Washington over this issue are underway, disclosing that a secret agreement was currently being drafted over the alleged Jewish property in Iraq ... Prof. Ehuda Shinhab, professor of sociology in Tel Aviv University, has dismissed as "evil and immoral" the Israeli attempt to compare between immigration of Arab Jews to the Zionist state and Palestinian forced evacuation in 1948. He affirmed that the Palestinians’ mass exodus in 1948 was enforced by Zionist forces that later razed to the ground their villages while Jews leaving the Arab countries and heading to "Israel" had done that with their own free will. Shahal expects that Jews would be compensated He said that thousands of Jews of Iraqi origin, who live in Northern America and Europe, have already filled in applications to restore their alleged property, noting that Jews living in the U.S. states of Los Angeles and Boston are set to file lawsuits to demand substantial compensations from Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon."

Embattled Valedictorian Settles Suit,
ABC (Philadelphia), August 19, 2003
"A Moorestown teen who sued to be her high school's sole valedictorian settles a lawsuit with the town's school board. Blair Hornstine sued the school for $2.7 million after the Moorestown Board of Education sought to revise the school's valedictorian policy to allow for more than one student to hold the top honor. Hornstine, who sought to be the only valedictorian in the class of 2003, remains valedictorian, but will get only $15,000 from the litigation. The school district and its insurance carriers agreed to pay $60,000 to settle the case. Of that, $45,000 will go to Hornstine's lawyers, according to the settlement. "It is time for the board and our community to move forward in the interests of all students," school board President Cyndy Wulfsberg said in a statement. "The board appreciated the concern and support expressed by the community during the last several months, and looks forward to the upcoming school year." Hornstine's lawyer, Edwin J. Jacobs, did not immediately return a phone call to The Associated Press for comment Tuesday evening. Hornstine graduated in June from highly regarded Moorestown High School with near-perfect grades and a near-perfect SAT score. She had garnered attention from President Bush, among others, for her good works in the community. Hornstine attracted national media attention after she sued the public school system in May claiming she should be the only valedictorian in her graduating class. She was the target of an online petition signed by hundreds, a brouhaha at Harvard, the scorn of talk-radio hosts and, her family said, the subject of death threats. Hornstine suffers from an immune deficiency, and during her last two years of high school, spent most of her school days at home and was exempted from classes such as physical education. Though she had the highest grades in her class, the school administration wanted her to share the valedictorian title with another student. In May, a federal judge ruled that it would be discriminatory for the school district to change its valedictorian policy. The matter of damages was scheduled to be heard before a judge later this week before the settlement was struck. As part of the agreement, the school district agreed not to appeal the earlier ruling. Hornstine skipped her graduation ceremony to escape the media attention, but ended up in the public eye again when she admitted she had misattributed sources of material she used in essay contests and student columns for the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill. The writings appeared to borrow themes, structures and, in several cases, verbatim passages from sources ranging from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and a presidential proclamation to a professional foreign affairs analysis. Moorestown school officials were reviewing Hornstine's academic writings as well. The Harvard Crimson reported last month that Hornstine's admission offer from Harvard had been rescinded because of the plagiarism discovery. Neither Hornstine's lawyers nor university officials would comment, but none denied the report."

[Jews are outraged when they get a taste of their own medicine.]
Egyptian Plans To Sue Jews Over Exodus Gold,
By MAX GROSS, [Jewish] Forward, AUGUST 22, 2003
"A prominent Egyptian legal scholar is preparing a lawsuit against Jews around the world over gold allegedly stolen in biblical times during the Jewish exodus from Egypt. Nabil Hilmy, dean of the faculty of law at Egypt's Zagazig University, announced his plan in the Egyptian government weekly, Al-Ahram Al-Arabi, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute [known as MEMRI]a group that specializes in translating articles in the Arab media. Hilmy reportedly told Al-Ahram that if the story of the exodus is to be believed, Jews fleeing Egypt "stole from the Pharaonic Egyptians gold, jewelry, cooking utensils, silver ornaments, clothing, and more, leaving Egypt in the middle of the night with all this wealth, which today is priceless." Calling the alleged heist the "greatest fraud history has ever known," Hilmy said that he and a number of Egyptian jurists will sue "the Jews of the world" for these lost treasures, the value of which Hilmy estimates in the trillions of dollars. "If we assume that the weight of what was stolen was one ton," Hilmy said, its worth "doubled every 20 years, even if annual interest is only 5%... hence after 1,000 years it would be worth 1,125,898,240 million tons... This is for one stolen ton. The stolen gold is estimated at 300 tons, and it was not stolen for 1,000 years, but for 5,758 years, by the Jewish reckoning. Therefore, the debt is very large." Hilmy said that he and Gamil Yaken, the vice president of the Egyptian community in Switzerland, had "set up a legal team to prepare the necessary legal confrontation aimed at restoring what the Jews stole a long time ago, to which the statute of limitations cannot possibly apply." Hilmy said that while the defendants would not be able to repay the debt in full, Jews around the world, particularly Israelis,should pay their fair share: "There may be a compromise solution. The debt can be rescheduled over 1,000 years, with the addition of the cumulative interest during that period." MEMRI's report has already created a tremendous splash in Israel, according to the organization's president, Yigal Carmon, who oversaw the translation of Hilmy's interview from Al-Ahram. ... Hilmy did not specify where he planned to file suit, but should the case ever reach a courtroom, Alan Dershowitz a Harvard Law professor and author of "The Case For Israel" (Wiley) told the Forward, "I'd be happy to defend the Jews." Calling Hilmy a "clown" who "obviously knows [only] a little bit of law," Dershowitz said that the scholar's "ridiculous" suit invites a countersuit from the Jews over reparations for their enslavement in Egypt. Such a countersuit, Dershowitz said, could also be calculated in the trillions of dollars and would expose the oppressive life the Jews led under Egyptian slavery. Not that Dershowitz believes that Hilmy's case will ever be heard in court: "There's no court that would be open to a lawsuit like that," he said. "Maybe an Islamic court with an elbow, a foot and an ass on the scale."

[Given Jewish and Israeli propensity to sue everyone and everything in site, this new suit seems to level the playing field. Interest over thousands of years ought to be -- what ? A few trillion dollars?]
Jews sued for 'stealing' gold in Exodus Egyptians to seek compensation for 'tons' allegedly taken,
World Net Daily, August 22, 2003
"As attorneys and politicians grapple over the validity of slave reparations, a group of Egyptians have trumped the debate with a claim against Jews that dates back thousands of years. Dr. Nabil Hilmi, a dean at the University of Al-Zaqaziq, said Egyptian expatriates in Switzerland are mounting a massive lawsuit against "all Jews around the world" that seeks compensation for "tons" of gold they claim was stolen during the Jews' exodus out of the country. Hilmi described the suit in an interview with the Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram Al-Arabi. "Since the Jews make various demands of the Arabs and the world, and claim rights that they base on historical and religious sources, a group of Egyptians in Switzerland has opened the case of the so-called 'great exodus of the Jews from Pharaonic Egypt.' At that time, they stole from the Pharaonic Egyptians gold, jewelry, cooking utensils, silver ornaments, clothing, and more, leaving Egypt in the middle of the night with all this wealth, which today is priceless," Hilmi told the paper, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute. Claiming the alleged theft was documented in Exodus, Chapter 35, verses 12 through 36 in the Torah, Hilmi described how a convoy of 600,000 Jews trailed by a long line of donkeys loaded with the stolen goods – including 300,000 kg of gold – crossed the desert in the heart of Sinai, in an attempt to confuse Pharaoh's army. "The Egyptian Pharaoh was surprised one day to discover thousands of Egyptian women crying under the palace balcony, asking for help and complaining that the Jews stole their clothing and jewels, in the greatest collective fraud history has ever known," the MEMRI translation quotes Hilmi as saying. "The thieves stole everything imaginable' ... Hilmi estimates the nominal value of the 300 tons of gold purportedly stolen 5,758 years ago would be astronomically large. He figures the value doubled every 20 years and conservatively tacks on 5 percent interest. Hilmi said a legal team will file the lawsuit after the calculation of the compensation is completed. "If [the alleged theft] is for the purpose of borrowing, legally it has a temporary dimension, not a permanent dimension, and therefore they must return [the gold], with interest, to its owners," he said. "On the other hand, if the Jews took the goods from the Egyptians not for the purpose of borrowing it but to keep them for themselves, by legal norms this is theft, and therefore they must return the stolen goods to their owners, in addition to the interest for its use over the entire period of the theft."

Student suing Wesleyan over ‘cross burning’ charge,
BY JIM HICKEY, Middletown Press, August 30, 2003
"Representatives for a Wesleyan student suspended earlier this summer for allegedly burning a cross in front of his dorm have filed a lawsuit against the university, seeking an emergency restraining order that would allow him to begin classes next week. An attorney for Robert E. Cohen, a resident of Media, Pa., filed the suit against the university earlier this week on the grounds that Cohen’s suspension was "unwarranted" and largely a rush to judgment on the part of school administrators. The suit was filed by attorney Gerard Schrom in the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County, Pa., and claims that Cohen merely burned a small fire near his dorm on May 14 to celebrate the end of final exams. There were no racial overtones to the act, the suit claims. Cohen had initially burned a bundle of unneeded notes and examination books, but was looking for more things to burn in order to keep the fire going. He kept running back and forth to his dorm room, and eventually grabbed some discarded wood waiting to be taken out with the trash in the hallway. The discarded wood was a part of an art project shaped in the form of a cross, and belonged to an African-American art student. The suit claims that Cohen threw the bundle of wood onto the fire in a "non-vertical manner," and was joined by a number of other students who gathered to watch the fire burn. When a campus security officer approached, the students dispersed, and Cohen managed to avoid the officer by running back into Foss 5. According to the official incident report, Cohen later jumped out of an exterior window from someone else’s down room to escape from the officer. However, security officers were able to identify Cohen by his long hair, and questioned him in his room the next day ... All the students who know Robert at Wesleyan, including the African American woman who had discarded the wood, agree there has never been any evidence of prejudice on his part." But that art student, Tia Clinton, did issue a statement to university officials that she was deeply offended by the cross burning incident. But, according to Schrom, she did not know the details of the incident at the time, and did know that Cohen had started the fire. Clinton’s statements were then incorporated into a series of e-mails that were reportedly circulated all over campus, both to students and faculty, that contained pictures taken of the burning cross. Those e-mails, Schrom claimed, slandered his client, and essentially tried and convicted Cohen in the court of public opinion even before the incident went before the Student Judicial Board. One of the e-mails was sent out by Dean Freddye Hill just one day after the burning, and says that many members of the university community had expressed outrage about the incident, and viewed it as a "terrorist threat against oppressed people."

Lawyer sues white advocacy group. Says reputation hurt after being branded enemy of free speech,
by Tony Lofaro, The Ottawa Citizen, September 03, 2003
"An Ottawa lawyer is taking a London, Ont., white supremacist group to court for libel over comments on its Web site. Richard Warman, a lawyer at the Canadian Human Rights Commission, is suing The Northern Alliance and its leader after the group's Web site branded Mr. Warman "an enemy of free speech" and "a misguided witch hunter" and associated him with communism. The group, founded in 1997, advertises itself as "an advocacy group devoted to promoting freedom of speech and expression" and to "promoting the advancement of the rights of Canadians of European descent." Mr. Warman said he is taking the group to court because he believes they defamed him and because his reputation as a lawyer is at stake. "The Northern Alliance published material that I considered to be defamatory over the past couple of months," he said. Mr. Warman was awarded $30,000 in June by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal for his role in shutting down another Web site he believed was anti-Semitic and contained material that was 'over the line' ... Jason Ouwendyk, a spokes-man for Northern Alliance, said Mr. Warman was branded an enemy of free speech on the Web site because of his past litigious behaviour. "Mr. Warman has engaged in litigious activity where he goes around suing certain Web sites. He works for the Canadian Human Rights Commission, which in and of itself is a body that has devoted itself partially to restricting free speech," he said. "He's suing us for libel for calling him an enemy of free speech, so in effect, he's trying to censor what we're saying. He's a public figure, he's run for the Green Party and he works in a governmental office."

CHASE CASE AWARD VOIDED,
By DAREH GREGORIAN, New York Post, September 10, 2003
"A federal appeals court yesterday threw out a judge's $92 million award to several banks because the jurist had failed to disclose that he owned stock in one of the institutions. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial before a new judge in the case of Chase and four other banks against Affiliated FM Insurance, because the judge who presided over the 1997 trial, Milton Pollack, failed to disclose that he owned $250,000 worth of Chase stock. "It took a lot of guts for the court to apply this retroactively," said Affiliated lawyer Dan Levitt, noting that Pollack is a very highly regarded and powerful judge and that the trial took place six years ago."

[Law is not about morality, nor justice. Law is the expression of power by the powerful over the powerless, the rich over the poor, the "haves" over the "have-nots." In a just world, brutal racist "terrorist" Israel would have been sued thousands of times by relatives of murdered innocent Palestinians to Jewish state bankruptcy.]
Iran Ordered to Pay $400M to Bomb Victims,
Newsday, September 15, 2003
"A federal judge has ruled that the Iranian government must pay more than $400 million in damages to eight Americans injured in a 1997 suicide bombing in Jerusalem. U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina said the attack at a crowded pedestrian mall was carried out by members of the radical Islamic group Hamas. Urbina said evidence shows the organization receives training, money and operational support from Iran. Powerful explosive devices loaded with nails, screws, pieces of glass and chemical poisons killed five people and wounded nearly 200 in the Sept. 4, 1997, attack. The lawsuit is among dozens filed against Iran under a 1996 U.S. law that allows Americans to sue nations that sponsor terrorism for damages suffered in terrorist acts. The Iranian government has not responded formally to any of the lawsuits. In the Jerusalem bombing decision, issued Wednesday, Urbina awarded nearly $110 million in compensatory damages, which compensates for actual harm, to the eight Americans directly injured in the attack and $13.5 million in compensatory damages for emotional suffering to four family members of the victims. He also awarded $300 million in punitive damages to be shared among victims. Victims of foreign terrorism who win judgments against Iran are allowed to collect a portion of their compensatory damages from the U.S. government. Frozen Iranian assets in the United States serve as collateral for the payments."

[Pipes' article in question is here.]
UO professor sues authors of column,
By Bill Bishop, The Register-Guard (Oregon), September 16, 2003
"A University of Oregon sociology professor is claiming defamation and seeking $1.1 million from the authors of a column published in the New York Post last year that labeled him as anti-Semitic and listed him among six "left-wing extremists" who "indoctrinate students" through their teaching. Adjunct professor Douglas Card names as defendants Daniel Pipes, a Middle East scholar and controversial Bush administration appointee to the U.S. Institute of Peace, and Pipes' research assistant, Jonathan Schanzer, a specialist in radical Islamic movements. The June 25, 2002, op-ed piece remains in publication on the Web site of Campus Watch, a group Pipes formed through his Philadelphia think tank, Middle East Forum, to monitor and critique the teaching of Middle East issues. The column, titled "Extremists on Campus," accuses Card of describing Israel as "a terrorist state" and Israelis as "baby killers" in his course. The column also claims that Card insists that his students agree in a final exam with his view that Israel "stole land." The column claims that "leftist activism that too often passes for Middle East scholarship" creates a wave of "verbal and physical attacks" on campuses and cites four examples - none at the UO. In his lawsuit, Card says Pipes and Schanzer are wrong about how he teaches and their column is false and defamatory. The suit, filed by Eugene lawyer David Force, says Pipes and Schanzer refused to retract their statements after Card provided proof they were wrong. Card also claims Pipes and Schanzer tried to force him to provide names of his students and contents of his class examinations in violation of UO policy ... [I]n a letter to the editor of Jewish Review in Portland last year, Pipes and Schanzer stood behind their article. They said it was based on a complaint by one student, who got an A in Card's class. They also said character references Card collected from local Jewish leaders were "irrelevant" to their criticism. Pipes, an outspoken critic of radical Islamic groups who espouse violence, drew criticism in the U.S. Senate after President Bush nominated him to one of eight seats on the U.S. Institute of Peace. Critics delayed his confirmation to investigate whether Pipes is anti-Muslim. However, Bush used his presidential power to appoint Pipes without Senate confirmation during the August recess."

[Is it a stereotype that Jews sue, sue, sue, sue, sue, sue, sue? Jews are suing the U.S. army (for not bombing Auschwitz), Iran (for sponsoring "terrorists"), the U.S. Holocaust Commission (which gets reparations from what's now virtually antiquity), and on and on. Almost like satire, but this story below is real. Two American-born ISRAELIS want the U.S. government to bend to their will: "We Jews dumped America for the Jewish nation and now we have a DEMAND for you." Is there no end to this?]
State Dept. Sued Over Refusal To Acknowledge ‘Jerusalem, Israel’,
By Yaakov Kenner, Jewish Press, September 17, 2003
"Ari and Naomi Zivotofsky, parents of 11-month old Jerusalem-born Menachem Binyamin, want their son’s passport to list Israel as his place of birth, something the United States State Department refuses to do. And so the American-born couple, who live in Beit Shemesh, Israel, are suing. The Zivotofskys filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Washington this week against the State Department, challenging the agency’s long-standing refusal to acknowledge Jerusalem as being part of Israel. The lawsuit, in which the Zivotofskys are being represented by Nathan Lewin and Alyza Lewin of the Washington law firm of Lewin & Lewin, is the first case arising under the recently enacted Israeli Capital Recognition Act, sponsored by Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-Queens & Brooklyn). It seeks a court order directing the State Department to register the Zivotofsky baby’s place of birth as “Jerusalem, Israel.” Although passports routinely recite both the city and country of birth, the State Department, consistent with U.S. policy, routinely omits any reference to “Israel” when Jerusalem is the city of birth."

[Alan Dershowitz is a consistent apologist for racist Israel and its formal policy of state murder. The great "civil rights" lawyer and defender of famous criminals via legal loopholes sees legitimacy in discussing the possibility of Israel's murder of a world leader. Is it legal to murder Arafat? If a "terrorist," Dershowitz says yes. But, alas, there's more that counts in his moral universe: murder in the Jewish name is maybe bad public relations. ]
Should Arafat finally be assassinated?,
By Alan Dershowitz, Jewish World Review, September 18, 2003
"It now seems clear that Israel will persist in its policy of targeting for assassination terrorist leaders it cannot arrest or otherwise disable or disarm. Two fundamental questions are raised by this practice. The first is: Is this tactic legal under international law? The second is: Even if legal, is it wise as a matter of policy? As to the first question, there can be absolutely no doubt of the legality of Israel's policy of targeting Hamas leaders for assassination ... When Israel recently went after Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the head of Hamas, it deliberately used a 500-pound bomb in order to minimize collateral damage. As a result, its legitimate target escaped with minor injuries. Had Israel not cared about collateral damage, it could easily have used a multi-ton bomb, which would have assured Sheik Yassin's death, but also increased the likelihood of killing more innocent bystanders. Precisely how much collateral damage is too much is a matter of degree, but international law does not condemn the targeting of combatants unless the number of innocents killed in the process is completely out of proportion to the importance of the military objective ... It is a Hamas policy of terrorism against innocent civilians to which Israel responds by targeting guilty murderers that it is unable to arrest. These actions are in no way morally (or legally) equivalent, as the International Red Cross has mistakenly stated. I believe that targeted assassination should only be used as a last recourse, when there is no opportunity to arrest or apprehend a murderer, when a terrorist leader is involved in planning or approving on-going murderous activities, and when the assassination can be done without undue risk to innocent bystanders. Proportionality is the key to any military action, and targeted assassination should be judged under that rubric. Under any reasonable standard, Israeli policy with regard to the targeted assassinations of "ticking-bomb terrorists" does not deserve the kind of condemnation it is receiving, especially in comparison with other nations and groups whose legal actions are far less proportionate to the dangers they face."

[Finkelstein hangs Israel-apologist/propagandist/fraudster Alan Dershowitz out to dry. Note: Dershowitz was one of the prominent lawyer hucksters in the O.J. Simpson case.]
Scholar Norman Finkelstein Calls Professor Alan Dershowitz's New Book On Israel a "Hoax",
Democracy Now, September 24, 2003
"On MSNBC’s Scarborough Country on Sept. 8 2003, renowned appellate lawyer, Harvard Law professor and author Alan Dershowitz says: “I will give $10,000 to the PLO…if you can find a historical fact in my book that you can prove to be false.” The book Dershowitz refers to is his latest work The Case For Israel. Today author and professor Norman Finkelstein takes him on and charges that Dershowitz makes numerous factual errors in his book. Dershowitz denies the charges. Finkelstein teaches at DePaul University and is the author of four books including The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering ... TRANSCRIPT ... AMY GOODMAN: Why don't we start with you laying out the thesis of your latest book The Case for Israel. ALAN DERSHOWITZ: I wanted to write a progressive liberal case for the and the two-state solution, which I think that most Israelis favor and have favored for a long time. ... NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: ... I'm interesting in the facts. I was asked to come in and discuss his new book. I went home, purchased one copy, in fact I purchased two copies. I read the book very carefully. I did what someone serious does with a book. I read the text, I went through the footnotes. I went through it very carefully. There's only one conclusion one can reach having read the book. This is a scholarly judgment, not an ad homonym. Mr. Dershowitz has concocted a fraud. In fact Mr. Dershowitz has concocted a fraud which amazingly in large parts, he plagiarized from another fraud. I found that pretty shocking, shocking coming from a Harvard professor. I find it shocking coming from any professor. ALAN DERSHOWITZ: We have to cut off I just want to warn everybody here that although I'm not a litigious person when you make allegations . . . NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: I'm proceeded to . . . ALAN DERSHOWITZ: When you make allegations of plagiarism that's a . . . It has great legal implications. And I can't obviously sit quietly by and . . . NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: I agree. Well that's Let's look at the evidence. ALAN DERSHOWITZ: . . . of plagiarism . . . NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: Let's look at the evidence. In the first two chapters of your book you extensively reproduce all of Joan Peters' pages in her book. I read it carefully ... NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: Serious material. Let's start. Number one, I'm going to first deal with just concrete facts which are not particularly controversial, which can easily be confirmed. On page 80 of your book you write, according to Benny Morris between . . . AMY GOODMAN: Benny Morris is an Israeli historian. NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: I have a copy of his book here, which I'll hold up. 2,000 to 3,000 Palestinians were made refugees during the second stage of the flight. Here is the book. Page 256, do you read what the sentence says. ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Let me read you what I say, in some areas Arab ... NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: Read the next sentence [in Morris' book] . Morris estimates in your book I have right in front of me. Next sentence. ALAN DERSHOWITZ: That between 2,000 and 3,000 Arabs fled their homes. NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: Can you please what Mr. Morris wrote. ALAN DERSHOWITZ: You're talking about . . . NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: Please read what he wrote. ALAN DERSHOWITZ: If I have the whole book I will find for you if you want to take time. Norm Finkelstein if you want the . . . AMY GOODMAN: I'm looking at page 256 of Morris book. NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: Phase two now same one as you. You're talking about . . . AMY GOODMAN: About 2,000 to 3,000 Arabs fled their homes. NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: The difference between 2,000 and 3,000 and 200,000 and 300,000. You could check this many times, Mr. Dershowitz ... ALAN DERSHOWITZ: We're talking about a variety of . . . NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: It is not the O.J. trial. This is not the O.J. trial. We're not going to play a game. AMY GOODMAN: Is your point that you're citing that Norm Finkelstein is in Alan Dershowitz's book he says 2,000 to 3,000. NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: It's 200,000 to 300,000."

[The "Holocaust Industry" (as Norman Finkelstein calls it) is absurd. Here we have the inevitable lawsuit as Jews at the money table begin to attack each other, as well as the institution that's supposed to dish them reparations.]
LA lawsuit attacks international Holocaust commission,
by ROBERT JABLON, San Francisco Chronicle, September 26, 2003
"Two Holocaust survivors have filed a lawsuit against the international commission that is supposed to help Nazi victims collect on insurance policies, claiming it is conspiring with an Italian insurance company to reduce payouts to victims. The state court lawsuit alleges the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims has worked to deny decades-old claims. The suit filed Thursday claims unfair business practices by the commission, which was formed five years ago to resolve claims by survivors and their heirs. European insurers have been sued for refusing to honor many pre-World War II life insurance policies because there was no documentation of the policyholders' deaths. "Of course, the Nazis weren't issuing much paperwork when they were murdering Jews by the millions," said Harvey Rosenfield, a consumer advocate on insurance issues who helped file the suit. In the suit, Manny Steinberg, 78, of West Hills, and Jack Brauns, 79, a retired surgeon living in Covina, accuse the commission of conspiring with Italian insurance giant Assicurazioni Generali to reduce the firm's potential payout to Holocaust victims from $1 billion to a mere $100 million. The insurer also is facing about 20 federal lawsuits ... Roman Kent, a commissioner and survivor of Auschwitz and other death camps, said he was insulted by the allegations. "This is an awful statement and, to the best of my knowledge, it is absolutely not true and it is groundless," he said in a telephone interview from New York. "It is inconceivable to me that I would ever work against the interests of the survivors."

Trade Center Developer Suffers Setback in Insurance Dispute,
Focal Point Publications (from New York Times), September 26, 2003
"In a setback for World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein, a federal appeals court Friday refused to find that the two-plane attack on the World Trade Center means he can collect insurance twice, saying a jury can decide. And the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the findings of a judge who decided that contracts for three of 22 companies insuring the trade center complex make it clear that the terrorism represented one occurrence for them, not two. For the rest of the companies, a jury will have to decide the issue after hearing evidence about the legal documents each signed with Silverstein Properties, and what was understood at the time. "In any event, we are not called upon here to decide whether there was one occurrence or two in this case," the court wrote. "To be sure, a jury could find two occurrences in this case ... or it could find that the terrorist attack, although manifested in two separate airplane crashes, was a single, continuous, planned event causing a continuum of damage that resulted in the total destruction of the WTC, and thus, was a single occurrence," it added. The ruling ended Silverstein's quest for a quick legal victory by getting the appeals court to declare that state law required the terrorism to be viewed as two occurrences, thus letting it collect $7 billion rather than $3.5 billion ... Swiss Reinsurance Ltd., the company responsible for 22 percent of the coverage under the trade center's multilayer policy, will be among those going to trial. It asserts that Silverstein cannot recover more than $3.5 billion because it considers the terrorism one event ... Howard J. Rubenstein, a spokesman for Silverstein, acknowledged in a statement that Silverstein had hoped the appeals court would rule that there were two occurrences. He added, "We are fully confident that a jury hearing all of the evidence will reject the insurers' attempts to avoid paying for the cost of rebuilding the World Trade Center."

Author accused of anti-Semitism. Critics compare book to Mein Kampf, say it could encourage racists,
by Mindy Kay Bricker, Prague Post, February 26, 2003
"Last summer, the Supreme Court ruled that the publication of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf could not be banned. Now, a new book that some have decried as anti-Semitic has sparked a new legal battle. Within two weeks of the mid-February release of Petr Bakalar's Taboos in Social Sciences, a lawsuit was filed to halt the book's publication. Critics have denounced the work as racist propaganda. "It seems to be more dangerous than the publication of Hitler's Mein Kampf," said Tomas Jelinek, chairman of the Prague Jewish Community. He said the book could become a manual for Czech racists and anti-Semites. The 300-page book, which is presented as scholarly research with about 400 footnotes, describes theories purporting that levels of human intelligence are based on race and ethnicity. The book "tries to bring new arguments about the influence of the Jews in the world and about the role of Jews in undermining the role of Christian societies," Jelinek said. "As a citizen of the Czech Republic, I found many arguments in the book outrageous, and I don't understand the scientific methodology of the book," he added. "What was it that he wanted to prove? What was it that he wanted to say?" Brisk sales Olomouc-based publishing house Votobia printed 4,500 copies. It does not plan to translate the book for sale in other countries. Within one week, 4,000 copies were sold. "The book is dangerous because it appears as scientific work. And its form corresponds to it," said Prague sociologist Tomas Kamin, who filed a lawsuit against Bakalar. The lawsuit is based on paragraph 260 of the penal code. The paragraph states: "Someone who supports or promotes a movement that explicitly aids the suppression of the rights of man or promotes ethnic, religious, nationalist or class hatred against some person will be punished by one to five years in prison." "The author has only chosen quotations from specific sources so that they correspond to his objective. And his goal, in my view, is to present racist and anti-Semitic views," Kamin said."

Student sues university over grade,
Interest Alert (froim UPI), October 15, 2003
"A former Northwestern University student is suing a professor who he alleges changed his B-plus grade to a F, preventing him from graduating. Anton Rozenbaum wants the university to restore his grade, remove any record of academic dishonesty and award him his degree in biology, the Chicago Tribune reported. He's also seeking about $50,000 in damages. Rozenbaum said he met with Erik Sontheimer, an assistant biochemistry professor, to discuss the exam months after it had been graded. During the discussion, Rozenbaum said he took notes on the exam paper and that as a result Sontheimer claimed he was attempting to change his answers to get a better grade, according to court papers. Sontheimer told the Tribune, "I'm totally confident this will all work out fine for us in the end." Scott Warner, assistant general counsel for Northwestern, said the university will "vigorously defend" itself against the allegations."

[The omnipresence of Jews in national news: two Jewish lawyers in the wings for the accused sniper murderer, trying to get him off the hook.]
Sniper Suspect Tries to Make His Case,
"After winning the right to defend himself on Monday, sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad said nothing about the Washington-area shootings in his opening statement except to deny involvement. "I had nothing to do with these crimes," he told the jury. Muhammad fired his defense team, who will serve only as standby counsel in the death penalty case. Just last week, the older sniper suspect told the judge that he was satisfied with his attorneys ... He is charged in the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers (search), a 53-year-old Vietnam veteran who was gunned down outside a northern Virginia gas station last October. He was the seventh victim in a three-week shooting spree that left 10 people dead in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. ... In granting Muhammad's request to represent himself, Circuit Judge LeRoy F. Millette Jr. told the jury that defense attorneys Peter Greenspun and Jonathan Shapiro would be there only to assist Muhammad."

[Insofar as the hypocritical Jewish groups have bamboozled U.S. taxpayers for tens of billions of dollars in behalf of Israeli racism, and Jewish American businesses pour money into the "terrorist" Jewish state left and right all the time, this prospective lawsuit is morally criminal. The state of Israel is a massive "terrorist" monolith. And the whole "sue" scenario is apparently yet another Jewish in-house game. Both Aaron Back and Peter Edelman of the attacked Ford Foundation appear to be Jewish names.]
Jewish group considers legal action following revelations about Ford funding,
By Edwin Black, Jewish Telegraphic Agrency, October 21, 2003
"In the wake of revelations that the Ford Foundation is spending millions to fund organizations engaged in anti-Israel agitation, the American Jewish Congress is considering legal action against the Ford Foundation or relevant government agencies to enforce charitable financing laws. "Congress should examine the tax-exempt status of organizations such as Ford Foundation," AJCongress´ executive director, Neil Goldstein, said in a news release. The AJCongress statement cited the JTA series "Funding Hate," which documents the Ford Foundation´s extensive funding of radical Palestinian non-governmental organizations, or NGOs. "The purpose of the tax-exemption cannot be to finance terrorists and terror-related activities," Goldstein said. No evidence has emerged linking Ford´s grant making to terrorists, although one of several Ford-funded Palestinian Web sites, www.palestinereport.org, linked directly to the Web sites of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other groups on the State Department´s list of Palestinian terrorist groups. Within hours of the publication of JTA´s four-part series, www.palestinereport.org removed both the links to terrorist groups and its section "From Revolution to Revolution," both of which were cited in the JTA investigation. "We have only begun to look at the implications raised by this series," said AJCongress´ general counsel, Marc Stern. Stern said he was studying the possibility of filing a lawsuit. "Was this funding in compliance with the government anti-terrorism regulations?" "A more important set of issues," Stern pointed out, is that the Ford Foundation board "represents a fairly small sliver of American society. Yet they control huge monies, huge prestige and engage in protected action which does not represent the American consensus. They refuse to answer questions, they are not accountable to anyone but themselves — and all this raises important issues of public policy. Those issues are raised in spades." Stern said his group was still "down the road before making up our minds, but we are examining the possibility of filing a lawsuit against Ford or the government to enforce relevant laws. We are examining that right now" ... The Ford-NIF partnership calls for the newly created "donor-advised" peace and social justice fund to be overseen by Aaron Back, Ford´s program officer for Israel, who just left the foundation to become a consultant to the NIF-Ford partnership. Asked if NIF would be a conduit for Ford´s designated recipients that have engaged in anti-Israel activity, NIF board president Peter Edelman said, "No, because the grants will be made under our supervision and we will only approve grants to organizations that are not opposed to the State of Israel as a democratic Jewish state" ... We are a fervently pro-Israel organization," Edelman said. "We will be giving money to groups who are Israeli and which are seeking a Jewish democratic Israel."

Carly's flat note: I'm a billionaire, get me out ...,
Jewish Chronicle (UK, paper copy), October 3, 2003, p. 36
"[Singer Carly Simon] wants to buy an apartment at New York's prestigious Dakota Building , where she would be rubbing shoulders with Lauren Bacall and Yoko Ono ... The lawyer acting for the owners said her application had been rejected because she had been 'rude and disrespectful during her personal interview' ... Carly is now suing the apartment owners -- and apparently, nobody does it better."

[JTR contributor comment: "Unable to make progress via U.S. law, this lawyer, concerned with "human rights," suggests the Supreme Court take into account international laws. I found this on Counterpunch of all places: but the original article, with links to the decisions, is here: The author, Noah Leavitt, an attorney, is the Advocacy Director for the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs At their website, they describe themselves thusly: The Jewish Council on Urban Affairs combats poverty, racism and anti-Semitism in partnership with Chicago’s diverse communities. Guided by prophetic Jewish principles, JCUA pursues social and economic justice for Chicago's most vulnerable neighborhoods by promoting a vision of empowering communities from within." One of the subtexts here: America should start echoing the laws of Israel. Say, how to treat "terrorists?" And are we looking at a future World Court that forbids "racism," i.e., critical attack of the numerous frauds and exploitations of the international Jewish community?]
Legal Globalization Why U.S. Courts Should Be Able to Consider the Decisions Of Foreign Courts and International Bodies,
By NOAH LEAVITT, CounterPunch, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2003
"What would happen if American lawyers began to cite decisions from courts in other countries, and from international courts? Would it enhance our judicial system - or bring chaos? Even asking this question makes many lawyers nervous. After all, many have long assumed that federal, state and local law comprise the totality of our legal system. However, I will argue that utilizing law from jurisdictions outside our borders is not only possible, but also may, in the near future, become a highly significant legal development. Indeed, this past weekend, October 11-12, several hundred attorneys gathered in Atlanta to discuss this very subject, at a conference organized by the ACLU. There, several high ranking members of the judiciary - including the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - spoke to the group. While they had very different views on the subject, the judges tended to agree that, at a minimum, they would like more education about international and foreign law. That is because they seek to better understand these arguments when attorneys raise them in their courts, as they increasingly have been doing. The Supreme Court Is Looking Toward International and Foreign Law The reality is that American attorneys are already beginning to practice this type of legal advocacy - and they are often doing so with the Supreme Court's and some lower courts' blessing. Immigration lawyers in Illinois are citing decisions of the International Court of Justice and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Criminal defense lawyers in Michigan are citing decisions of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. And especially last Term, Supreme Court advocates referred to foreign and international sources, and found the Court receptive. Indeed, last Term the Court favorably cited international and foreign law in three landmark decisions - and not in dissents, but rather in majority opinions or concurrence ... In their important concurrence, Justices Ginsburg and Breyer implied that U.S. laws that agree with their international equivalents are more likely to be upheld by the Court than those that disagree. The two Justices stated that "[t]he Court's observation that race-conscious programs 'must have a logical end point'… accords with the international understanding of the office of affirmative action." They noted that the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, ratified by the United States in 1994, endorses "'special and concrete measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of certain racial groups or individuals belonging to them, for the purpose of guaranteeing them the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.'

ZOA Files Lawsuit Demanding Enforcement Of U.S. Law,
Zionist Organization of America, October 30, 2003
"The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)'s Center for Law and Justice has filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Washington, D.C. on behalf of an American couple living in Israel, contending that Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and the State Department are violating federal law by refusing to recognize their infant son's birthplace as Jerusalem, Israel. At present, a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem has only the word "Jerusalem," with no country listed, stamped on his passport as his or her place of birth. In 2002, Congress passed a statute providing that United States citizens born in Jerusalem can choose to have "Israel" listed as their country of birth on their passports, registrations of birth, and other documents. President Bush signed the statute into law on September 30, 2002. The language of the statute is clear and mandates that the Secretary of State must make the listing on request. State Department officials have refused to comply with the law, citing U.S. policy concerns about the still-to-be-negotiated status of Jerusalem. When Jocelyn and Dr. Dan Odenheimer applied for a passport and a registration of birth for their infant son Ephraim at the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem, they specifically requested that the documents list his birthplace as "Jerusalem, Israel." Their request was refused; the documents listed only Jerusalem as Ephraim's birthplace, with no reference to a country. When the error was brought to the attention of a consular officer, he refused to give his name and said, "Write whatever you want. Tel Aviv is Jerusalem, Jerusalem is Tel Aviv. I think you should write Jerusalem, U.S.A. That's the truth." The ZOA's suit on behalf of the Odenheimers alleges discrimination by the State Department against Israeli Americans in violation of the U.S. Constitution, and seeks to compel the State Department to comply with the law."

Warman on the Warpath. Threatens to sue CAFE,
Canadian Association for Free Expression
"Well, it wasn't long in coming. Ottawa bureaucrat and censor at the Canadian Human Rights Commission, Richard Warman has a very thin skin. In his private and public capacities, he writes to ISPs to try to get them to stop service to political websites (Fred Kyburz, for one) he doesn't like. He writes to libraries to demand that they pull copies of a book (David Icke's CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX) which he doesn't like. He drags dissident websites (Kyburz and others) before Canadian Human Rights Tribunals. He writes to meeting halls to demand that they cancel bookings for speakers he disapproves off (Tom Kennedy, Dave Lindsay). Yet, let someone call this man an enemy of free speech, and he goes ballistic, with threats of libel suits. He pulled this same intimidation technique a little while ago when the Northern Alliance had the temerity on its website to call him an enemy of freedom. Last weekend, in a meeting of enemies of free speech on the Internet, Warman was asked by a member of the audience about such websites as the Heritage Front and B.C. White Pride, which he hadn't mentioned in his talk. He said: "They just move to a U.S. server, but, mark my words, their time is coming!" I ask, as I did in our press conference, Wednesday in the Parliamentary Press Gallery: What gives this public servant the right to threaten the free expression of political opinions by his fellow Canadians."

[We like this Chicago Tribune title. It's not PC. And it's blunt. It doesn't say "some" Jews are suing the United States, nor the usual qualifier"Zionists." It says "Jews" are suing America. In other words, if you're an American taxpayer, Jews are suing you in further pressing the trigger of their half-century-old Holocaust dollar-bill Suction Weapon. Rest assured, unless you say "Enough!," there will still be "Jews" 200 years from now trying to squeeze money out of American (!) pockets for the cause of Jewish Victimhood. We think the best title might be "Jews Hold Americans Hostage Over Holocaust Slot Machine" or "Jews Forget How to Turn Off Holocaust Faucet."]
Jews Sue U.S. Over World War II Plunder,
Chicago Tribune, November 9, 2003

[Jewry's lawsuit and "hate crime" scams here have gone berserk, actually imploding. Hey, jail the rabbi. He's obviously an "anti-Semite!" Maybe the Israel-aholic Jewish reporter who he kicked can get a few million bucks out of this. Whiplash! Whiplash! But, in turn, yes, calling a rabbi a "kapo" is surely a "hate crime." Of course! Check your legal notepad. A "hate crime" is anything having to do with a Jew. So, does a Jewish "anti-Semite" and a Jewish "hate crime" perpetrator cancel each other out? Perhaps we need to consult Alice in Wonderland.]
Community Divided Over Hillel Rabbi,
by Marc Ballon, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, Novemmber 14, 2003
"The UCLA Hillel rabbi who allegedly lost his temper and kicked a freelance journalist who called him a derogatory name could be required to undergo anger management training, counseling or worse for his reported actions. On Dec. 1, Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller and Rachel Neuwirth will meet separately with a city attorney hearing officer in Los Angeles to try to sort through the facts of his reported physical assault on her. Afterward, the hearing officer will mete out the appropriate punishment to Seidler-Feller, if merited, said Eric Moses, the city attorney’s director of public relations. It is possible the hearing officer could recommend that criminal charges be brought against Seidler-Feller. Robert Esensten, Neuwirth’s lawyer, said that’s exactly what he wants. The city attorney has so far opted not to pursue them because witnesses have given conflicting testimony, making it difficult to obtain a jury conviction, Moses said. Esensten said that Neuwirth has suffered emotionally and physically from the alleged attack, including bruising and soreness throughout her body. She plans to file a civil suit soon, he said, although he would not say when. At the hearing, Seidler-Feller’s attorney Donald Etra said he would propose that "both sides shake hands and make peace." Etra also said Seidler-Feller was "sorry that there was an incident and that anybody took offense." Etra said Seidler-Feller does not want to have Neuwirth prosecuted for having committed a hate crime by calling the rabbi a kapo. (Kapo is a pejorative term for the Jews who collaborated with Nazis in concentration camps during World War II.) Legal experts question whether such an act meets the definition of a hate crime. The only police report filed to date involves Seidler-Feller’s alleged actions, Moses said. "This is simply spin trying to divert the attention away from the batterer, aggressor and wrongdoer," Esensten said. "You don’t need to go to the yeshiva to know that men don’t hit women." This affair has divided the community, primarily along partisan lines. Many dovish Jews critical of the Sharon government have come to the rabbi’s defense and point to his long service in the community. Jews more distrustful of the Arab world and the value of interfaith dialogue promoted by Seidler-Feller have called for his ouster. Either way, "the debate has become about ideology, which it shouldn’t be," said Dr. Steven Teitelbaum, president of the American Jewish Congress (AJCongress) Pacific Southwest Region. His colleague, Gary Ratner, said he thinks Hillel should demand Seidler-Feller’s resignation or fire him ... Seidler-Feller allegedly attacked reporter Neuwirth on Oct. 21, when the two encountered each other outside UCLA’s Royce Hall after an Alan Dershowitz speech. The pair started arguing after Neuwirth overheard the rabbi inviting a group of protesting pro-Palestinian activists to a Hillel-sponsored event featuring Sari Nusseibeh, the Palestinian representative for Jerusalem. Nusseibeh has been accused of advising Saddam Hussein to launch Scud missiles toward Israel’s population centers to kill the maximum number of civilians. In the midst of Seidler-Feller and Neuwirth’s heated exchange, Seidler-Feller allegedly grabbed the mother of two and former player on the Israeli national basketball team. Then he allegedly pushed and kicked Neuwirth. Whether she called him a kapo before or after the reported assault is also in dispute. After four onlookers separated them, Seidler-Feller tried to charge Neuwirth, said Ross Neihaus, the president of Bruins for Israel, the pro-Israel student group at UCLA, who said he helped restrain the rabbi. Neihaus told The Journal that the rabbi has been under pressure in recent years because of attacks on his political views and the challenge of raising millions for Hillel’s new building. Neihaus said he respects the rabbi, but thinks Seidler-Feller should voluntarily take up to a one-year sabbatical and issue a public apology for his actions."

[Yet another Jew suing the U.S. government. Will we not soon be fielding lawsuits over Jewish losses during the Crusades?]
Holocaust victim seeks reparations from the U.S. Lawsuit claims soldiers looted Jewish valuables,
by Ron Grossman, Baltimore Sun (from Chicago Tribune), November 16, 2003
"Six decades later, Veronika Baum is rendered almost speechless with rage by recounting what happened during the final days of World War II. "How could they do such a thing?" said Baum, 72, who lives on New York's Upper West Side. Born into a well-to-do Budapest family, she saw her parents sent to concentration camps and their property confiscated, like that of other Jews, by Hitler's Hungarian allies. Now she has gone to court seeking compensation in one of a series of lawsuits filed in recent years by Holocaust survivors. But Baum's case is different; she isn't suing the Germans or Hungarians. She is going after the U.S. government. Baum and her fellow plaintiffs allege that what the Hungarian fascists stole from them was subsequently plundered by American soldiers. Their attorneys say it was an episode of looting on a large scale that was hushed up at the time and that Washington has tried to keep a lid on ever since. Baum discovered the final chapter in the saga of her family's property only last year. Last week, her attorney provided a federal court with new details about the case. Baum's father perished in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; her mother came back from the Ravensbruck camp with typhus; Baum, who was confined to the Budapest ghetto, was emaciated when the fighting ended. The family was left penniless, so even a small fraction of their prewar wealth would have eased their hardships, said Baum, who immigrated to the United States in 1956. What she didn't know then was that, at the end of the war and with the Russian army closing in on them, Hungarian officials loaded railroad car after railroad car with crates of valuables - gold, silver, furs, works of art - taken from the country's Jews. Then they made a run for it on what came to be known as the Gold Train. U.S. soldiers intercepted the Gold Train in Austria in 1945. Rejecting the pleas of Hungary's postwar government and Hungarian-Jewish survivors that the property be returned, American officials proclaimed the train's contents "unidentifiable." Some U.S. soldiers interpreted that decision as an invitation to help themselves, with the scavenging beginning at the very top of the chain of command, documents show."

[James Woolsey is a disgusting sycophant for Israel who recently called for the U.S. to install a "King" in Iraq. And would anyone in their right mind trust a former head of the CIA to tell the truth about anything? "People hate Jews" because "they invented law?" This man needs help. World Net Daily is also the online vehicle of Christian Joseph Farah, a well-known -- albeit rare -- Arab sychophant for Zionism and its destruction of the Palestinian people. Supporting racist Israel and Judeocentrism is an enormous cash cow, and Woolsey and Farah are at the front of the train.]
Woolsey: Hatred of Jews threatening rule of law. Ex-CIA director says Europe's elite drawing '1st breath of totalitarianism',
World Net Daily, November 28, 2003
"Former CIA director James Woolsey is taking on Europe's media and cultural elite, saying they've drawn ''the first breath of totalitarianism'' due to their growing resentment of Jews. The agency's director under the Clinton administration, Woolsey made the comments during a speech to a predominantly Jewish audience at York University in Toronto. According to the National Post, Woolsey said Jews are history's great champions of the rule of law, so much so that they have come to embody it. He said anti-Semitism threatens the rule of law and intolerance of Jews is a first step toward dictatorial rule – a hallmark of the world's most oppressive societies. "Once anti-Semitism raises its head, the rest of us who don't want to live with a foot on the back of our necks are likely to be the next targets," Woolsey said. "So once you begin to dabble with the idea that you want to bully people, that you want to order them around, that you want them to do what you say, you very frequently start to drift into anti-Semitism," he said. "I think that is what is happening in some of the cultural elites in Europe." He said Jews have always promoted the primacy of the law over the leader, as evidenced by their dietary restrictions and dress. ''People hate Jews to very much the degree that they have come to realize that this notion of the rule of law is something that came to the world something between three and four millennia ago in the Sinai desert. The idea that the government is above the ruler, and that rulers, whether it's King David or anyone else, are to be held to account by the people, by great prophets, by whomever – that notion essentially came out of the Sinai desert,'' Woolsey said."

[Jewish Dual Moral Standard: Case 9,254, 3443. Most of the property of modern Israel has been stolen, or coerced, from Palestinians. If the legal premises of the following story in Germany were applied to the Jewish state in a parallel application of "justice," Israel would evaporate as a nation overnight. When will the International Tribunal put Jewish land theft in the Middle East on trial and when will the world look at Jewry as someting other than victims only?]
Jewish Family Wins Landmark Legal Battle,
Deutsche Welle (Germany), November 27, 2003
"In what proved to be one of Germany's most contentious litigations concerning the restitution of Jewish property, a family of German Jews has won a key ruling. The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig ordered that authorities return a property near Berlin to the heirs of a Jewish family, on the grounds that it was sold under pressure from the Nazis 67 years ago. Wolfgang Ewer, the lawyer for the Jewish association that brought the case before the courts, described the ruling as "a positive contribution to overcoming, in judicial terms, Germany's darkest chapter". A legal precedent The landmark judgement comes a month after the Federal Administrative Court ruled that the Jewish Claims Conference could still win compensation for Jewish property seized by the Nazis despite the expiration of a December 31, 1992 deadline for claims by original Jewish owners and their heirs. The ruling sets a new legal precedent and clears the way for some 705 further claims in connection with the Sabersky estate being heard simultaneously by a lower court in Potsdam ... Voluntary or forced emigration? The court overturned earlier rulings which had rejected a claim pertaining to the 200-acre estate in Teltow-Seehof, Brandenburg, brought on behalf of the descendants of Max and Albert Sabersky, who emigrated to the U.S. in 1938. It said previous rulings had not considered the conditions under which the land was sold and the role played by the Nazi dictatorship in the sale. In 1933, the Sabersky family had agreed with local authorities to divide the property they'd owned since 1870 into some 1,000 plots, which were then sold off over the next seven years. The Sabersky heirs made a restitution claim in 1990, offering to sell the property back to the current owners at a reasonable price. Some 200 agreed, but the remaining 705 argued that there was no proof that the Saberskys had sold the estate under duress during the Third Reich and had in fact planned the sale prior to 1933."

Citing 1st Amendment, N.Y. Court Dismisses 'Chained Wife' Appeal,
FORWARD, November 28, 2003
"Reasserting the constitutional right of ecclesiastical tribunals to operate free of governmental oversight, a New York court has dismissed a lawsuit against several rabbis alleging defamation and bribery in the course of an Orthodox divorce proceeding. The case, which has received intense media coverage in recent years, was brought by Helen Chayie Sieger, a member of the Bobov chasidic sect in Brooklyn. She sued the rabbis handling her divorce proceeding after they issued a rare rabbinic injunction, known as a heter meah rabonim, which released her husband from their marriage without her consent and allowed him to take another wife. Sieger alleged that her husband, Chaim Sieger, bribed the rabbis in exchange for their issuance of the heter, and that the resulting document defamed her by wrongfully accusing her of breaking numerous rabbinic laws, effectively branding her as irreligious. The New York ruling has been hailed by several key Orthodox organizations, including the Orthodox Union and Agudath Israel of America, which argued that the secular courts have no role to play in monitoring rabbinic tribunals. Chayie Sieger, backed by Orthodox women's rights activists, counters that in this case and others, the First Amendment is being used to protect corruption in rabbinic divorce courts to which the community has turned a "blind eye" ... Sieger's supporters argued while the majority opinion had dismissed the bribery allegations, the justices had failed to address some of the key evidence in the case. In particular, they noted, the rabbis had been unable to produce the 100 clergymen's signatures required for a heter. The defendants say they threw out the signatures after receiving them and subsequently forgot the names. In the end, however, the main grounds for dismissal, even in the majority opinion, were constitutional ... Rabbi J. David Bleich, a professor of law at Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University in New York, used stronger words in approving the decision. "She had no business being in the Supreme Court even if she was right," Bleich said. "The claims of bribery would have been better taken to a rabbinic court." Sieger says she would never have taken this case to the secular courts if she had any other option within the rabbinic legal system."

[Jew to Jew, transcontinentally. Saying Israeli law is the "finest" is like saying dried scum is a diamond. Or maybe this little story is intended as a test for Comedy Central?]
British chief justice praises Supreme Court here as `finest',
By Baruch Kra, Haaretz (Israel), December 2, 2003
"Lord Harry Woolf, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, in Israel today for a lecture at the Hebrew University, recently told the Anglo-Israel Association that Israel's Supreme Court is one of the best in the world. He said, "If you ask me which of the supreme courts in the world is the finest, I would happily say that the Israeli court was a candidate for that title." He praised the justices of the Supreme Court, singling out Court President Justice Aharon Barak's verdicts and opinions, saying they were proof that parliamentary democracy cannot exist without concern for human rights and protection of them. Woolf said protection of human rights, Arab and Jewish alike, has become a hallmark of the Israeli Supreme Court."

Families await judge's approval of $100 million Menorah Gardens funeral settlement,
By Diane C. Lade and Peter Franceschina, Sun-Sentinel, December 4 2003
"Some of the families who are suing the world's largest funeral services company, saying workers buried their loved ones in the wrong plots and emptied graves to make room for new bodies, will be in a Broward County courtroom today as the terms of a $100 million settlement agreement are read. It's the beginning of the end of a two-year class-action lawsuit, which grew to 1,500 families, against Service Corporation International, the Houston-based owner of the Menorah Gardens funeral home chain and Riverside-Gordon Memorial Chapels. But for those whose relatives are buried in Menorah's two South Florida cemeteries, this week will bring pain, anguish and doubt about whether they are directly involved in the lawsuit. "You should not have to bury your parents twice. Once was enough," said Myra Stone of Boca Raton, one of the first 12 cases in the class action that the plaintiffs' attorneys were going to take to court. Managers at Menorah's cemetery west of West Palm Beach broke up a vault and tossed the remains of former Air Force Col. Hymen Cohen into the woods in order to bury Stone's mother, Frances Gold, the suit said. Stone said she disinterred her mother and father earlier this year and moved them to another section of the cemetery, which is owned by her temple. ... Residents of Broward and Palm Beach counties are involved in the Broward class-action suit, as Menorah has cemeteries in both areas. A separate lawsuit representing 60 families who broke away from the Broward group was filed in Palm Beach County last year and has yet to head into court."

[Wow! The Thought Police is dipping with its Slapping Hand and Hammer even into Junior High School. Since children are well known to never insult anybody, these young girls should be hung by their tongues in a public square as an example for the rest of us, and then executed, don't you think?]
Schoolgirls face court over rabbi insult,
Expatica, December 5, 2003
"Two teenage schoolgirls in France are to be taken to court after a senior Jewish leader complained they had aimed racist insults at him in the street, court officials and the rabbi told AFP Friday. The girls, aged 14 and 15, allegedly said "die, dirty Jew" on Tuesday when they passed him, the rabbi, Elie Dahan, who is the Jewish religious leader for the northern city of Lille, said. Dahan lodged a police report and demanded the girls be taken to court. "They refused to apologise to me. Given the seriousness of what happened, I decided to start legal action," he said. A court official said the girls would appear before a children's tribunal for "insults of a racist character".

[Jewish fraudsters propagandize all the time. Israel's institutionalized policy of "preemptive strikes" aims to slaughter entire Palestinian neighborhoods in generic "collective punishment" actions at one time. Anyone defined as a POTENTIAL "terrorist" in Israel, whatever that means as they decide it, is toast. As is his family, and often his entire neighborhood.]
Capital Punishment: America vs. Israel,
By Irwin N. Graulich, MichNews, Dec 4, 2003
"Two Western moral democracies with polar opposite views on a very important issue. America, "land of the free and home of the brave" executes murderers. Israel, "the biblical founder of morality," allows murderers to live out their natural lives. Who is right and why? On this particular issue, Israel has forgotten its ethical foundations, influenced by the morally bankrupt European Union. Europe's "progressive" system has evolved to show compassion for people who take the lives of innocents in the most cruel manner. It is America virtually alone that has the temerity to stand up to the world with great moral judgment by executing individuals who murder our beautiful brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, husbands and wives. Where does America get such arrogance? From the bible of course. The only biblical/Torah law which is actually repeated in each of the 5 Books of Moses--Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy is capital punishment for murder. The idea that a Jewish nation might somehow imbibe these values seems a bit absurd to the Israeli elite. In this instance, America's Judeo-Christian ideals are more in keeping with what God had in mind. Unfortunately, Israel has fallen into the trap of the outdoor cafe philosophy crowd of the pseudo intellectual European left with its flawed logic and neurotic reasoning."

[Canada falls deeper into Judeocentric/Zionist clutches. Consider: Irwin Cotler is the new Canadian "Justice Minister." He is the former head of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Canada's major Jewish -- and pro-Israel -- propaganda group. That organization believes -- quite literally -- that by Canadian law it is a crime to even link to the Jewish Tribal Review. And how can anyone so vehemently committed to racist, apartheid Israel understand anything about "justice?"]
Cotler not afraid to speak his mind, Lawyer backed anti-terrorism bill. Says he'll promote human rights,
by TONDA MACCHARLES, Toronto Star, Dec. 13, 2003
"The first thing you need to know about the new Justice Minister Irwin Cotler — renowned human rights scholar and advocate — is he will speak his mind. The second thing you need to know about Cotler, the law professor, is that he loves lists. So the first thing on his list yesterday was to meet with his new justice officials, but not before he spoke his mind about his new job. And that's where things got interesting. Cotler, 63, told reporters he personally supports the marijuana decriminalization bill, a public inquiry into the Maher Arar case, and believes the same-sex marriage reference to the Supreme Court of Canada should be broadened to ask the high court to review all options including whether "civil unions" would meet the requirements of equality guaranteed in the Charter. "As a law professor my view was that in the context of a reference, then the broadest possible options should be put before the court to allow for the broadest possible discussion and debate, and to allow for the most comprehensive and informed advisory opinion" ... The appointment of Yale-educated Cotler, a Jewish Montrealer and a former head of the Canadian Jewish Congress, as the country's leading lawmaker is at once a thoughtful, daring move, yet perhaps a risky one. John Asfour, past president of the Canadian Arab Federation, said Cotler's pro-Israel comments could get in the way of his job as justice minister, reported Canadian Press. "Mr. Cotler and some of the Jewish lobby have supported (Israel) blindly," Asfour said in an interview ... Cotler's credibility as a human rights expert was a trump card in the push to persuade a suspicious Canadian public of the merits of the controversial new Anti-Terrorism Act, C-36."

Yeshiva University Countersues School In Rabbi Dispute,
By NACHA CATTAN, FORWARD, DECEMBER 12, 2003
"Yeshiva University, defending itself against a lawsuit by an Israeli religious academy with which it severed ties, is countersuing the Israeli school, alleging that it "utterly refused to protect" Y.U.'s exchange students from a rabbi affiliated with the academy. The Israeli school, Derech Etz Chaim yeshiva in Jerusalem, accused the university in a federal suit filed last spring of "disparagement" and breach of contract for severing ties based on allegedly false concerns about the school and the controversial rabbi, Matis Weinberg. The university's countersuit, filed in the same Manhattan federal court last month, claims that the Israeli school and its dean had fraudulently "misrepresented" their connection to Weinberg. According to Y.U.'s countersuit, the dean of the Israeli school, Rabbi Aharon Katz, was aware of at least two allegations of sexual misconduct made against Weinberg. The Y.U. countersuit claims that such allegations were brought to Katz's attention by a student who attended a yeshiva run by Weinberg in California more than 20 years ago and more recently by a student at Derech Etz Chaim. The Israeli school denied the accusations in a reply filed in court last month. The university severed ties last February to Derech Etz Chaim, which had been a participant in the Yeshiva University Israel Program. The university explained in a letter to parents that the decision was based on a "review" of the school's "educational standards and learning environment." The Jerusalem school charged in its complaint, dated May 30, that the university had "disparaged" the school by telling callers who asked about the severing of ties that Weinberg "was creating a 'cult-like atmosphere' at DEC" and "had been accused of engaging in inappropriate sexual conduct" with a student. The school said the charges against Weinberg were false and were "not properly investigated by Y.U." The suit also alleged that Yeshiva University defamed Katz by claiming he had prior knowledge of Weinberg's alleged history. In its countersuit, the university denies making either claim to the public at the time."

[David Irving is the guy who took the risk of taking on Deborah Lipstadt and the Jewish lobby via their legal playground in Great Britain. He lost. Irving is reviled by Jews all the time: there is virtually a world campaign against him. Here's his web site: http://www.fpp.co.uk You can decide for yourself what he stands for. Insofar as the Jewish Octopus is still aiming to strip him of everything down to his underwear and dig his grave for him, to call him a hate-filled "anti-Semite" may be an understatement.]
Lipstadt Demands Historian David Irving's Personal Possessions,
rense.com, December 24, 2003
"David Irving's London office confirms that a package arrived today (Christmas Eve) from Laura Tyler of Mishcon de Reya, attorneys acting for Deborah Lipstadt, containing an application by Deborah Lipstadt in the British High Court for the transfer to her of all Mr Irving's lifetime possessions, currently held by the British official Trustee after they were seized in his absence in May 2002. Lipstadt is a religious scholar at Atlanta's Emory University. Her lawyers want the new case heard on January 23, 2004. The Trustee, Baker Tilly, confirmed this independently in a separate message to Mr Irving this morning. Mr Irving is currently in the United States. In the two-page application Lipstadt claims the transfer to her of all Mr Irving's possessions, properties, and rights; attached to it is a lengthy listing of all the items claimed, a 150-page inventory of books, private diaries, microfilms, archives, and other possessions assembled by Mr Irving in a forty-year career of research and writing. It is not known how she or her lawyers obtained this detailed list. Mr Irving, who successfully completed a ten thousand mile road tour of US cities yesterday, said: "Nothing surprises people any more in this action. The hatred-filled traditional enemies of free speech are doing all they can to silence me and my writings, but they will not succeed. I have friends too." Lipstadt prevailed in a widely reported three-month libel action brought against her by Mr Irving in the High Court in January 2000, after she called him a "Holocaust denier". Her financial, backers (who included Steven Spielberg, Edgar Bronfman, the American Jewish Congress and others), and her co-defendants Penguin Books Ltd., poured eight million dollars into the London courtroom to pay witnesses, and to hire a team of conformist historians to support her defence. She is currently completing a book on the case, announced in the trade press under the title "My Struggle" ... As part of their pre-trial defence attempts to destabilise Mr Irving, a strategy of which Lipstadt boasted in talks in the Middle East, staff at the law firm Mishcon de Reya arranged for an anonymous hate-wreath to be sent to him on the funeral of his oldest daughter, a cripple, gloating over her death in September 1999. Her counsel Richard Rampton QC justified this hatred when cross-examining Mr Irving in the High Court libel action."

[Chutzpah Supreme. Jews seek to suck Iraq dry via another form of omnipresent "restitution." $$$$$$$, from all directions to the trans-world Jewish till. For what? For robbing Arabs in Palestine. World Jewry functions like a giant shake-down Mafia.
Iraq Restitution Gets Push. Israeli cabinet sets up ‘steering committee’ as groups here admit influencing administration now will be tough task,
by James D. Besser, Jewish Week, January 2, 2004
"Jewish groups here and abroad are pressing the Bush administration to make restitution for Jewish refugees a part of the process of building a new government for Iraq. This week the Israeli government also moved to ratchet up the restitution effort. On Sunday, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s cabinet set up a “steering committee” on the rights of Jews who fled Arab countries and to accelerate the collection of data that will be needed to file claims. That action came in the wake of a report in the Jerusalem Post that the Iraqi Governing Council may consider restitution for property confiscated under a 1951 law. “We are determined to return all the properties that were taken from the Iraqi Jews and all the others,” the Post quoted a senior source within the Iraqi Governing Council as saying. But even strong boosters of the restitution effort concede that the White House has other priorities right now as it faces ongoing violence and political chaos in that wrecked nation. The World Jewish Congress has discussed the issue with the Bush administration “in a preliminary way,” said Elan Steinberg, the group’s executive vice president. “But right now they have a full plate. We have to be honest with ourselves; there are so many other issues in creating a new Iraq.” Still, he said, the administration is “sympathetic” to concerns about compensation for the communal and personal property stolen when more than 100,000 Jews were forced to flee Iraq after the creation of the State of Israel."

[The world Jewish Shakedown continues. Where's the billions in reparations for "exiled" Palestinians?]
Exiled Jews file property claims,
By Inigo Gilmore, Washington Times (from LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH) January 11, 2004
"Exiled Jews are filing a multimillion-dollar compensation claim for property seized in Libya after Moammar Gadhafi signaled that he would consider making payments in his latest effort to end historic enmities. The case is being assembled by the Israel-based Organization for Libyan Jews and the country's Justice Ministry. Libyan Jewish leaders say that the confiscated homes, businesses, synagogues, cemeteries and community buildings are worth well in excess of $180 million. Jews also owned large tracts of land, which are estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars. Col. Gadhafi said that he was ready to compensate Libyan Jews for confiscated property while addressing his Popular Committee for Public Security and Justice last week, according to Al Bawaba, a leading pan-Arab news Web site, and other Arab press outlets. On Friday, families of 170 people killed in the 1989 bombing of a French UTA airliner — an incident blamed on six Libyans — signed a $170 million compensation deal with Tripoli in the country's latest attempt to mend relations with the West. "We want to organize a private delegation, without any politicians, to visit Gadhafi so we can push forward this process of compensation," said Yoram Abib, the chairman of the Union of Libyan Jews. Raffaello Fellah, a Libyan Jew who lost everything he owned when he left Libya in 1948, has met Col. Gadhafi on a number of occasions since 1993. "I believe Gadhafi is sincere about this and we should not underestimate his courage to take bold decisions," said Mr. Fellah, the co-chairman of the World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries. Jews in Libya formed one of the world's oldest Jewish communities, stretching back more than 2,500 years. By 1941, Jews accounted for a quarter of Tripoli's population, maintaining 44 synagogues before the German invasion. Between 1949 and 1951, however, more than 30,000 Jews left, mostly for Israel."

[This Shakedown will continue for the next three centuries, until someone says "Enough!"]
Los Angeles Times Reports Six New Holocaust Lawsuits,
U.S. Newswire, January 16, 2004
"Nearly six years after the first individual Holocaust insurance claim was filed against the Italian insurance company Assicurazioni Generali, six more Holocaust insurance claims were filed in Los Angeles Superior court on Thursday as reported in the Jan. 16, 2004 issue of the "Los Angeles Times." The suits claim that Generali wrote life insurance policies on thousands of victims of the Holocaust, but never paid the benefits to the survivors or their heirs. Attorney William Shernoff, of Claremont, Calif., who has spearheaded litigation on behalf of Holocaust survivors for the past six years, says, "These six plaintiffs seek not only the life insurance benefits, but other damages totaling millions of dollars due to Generali's bad faith in the handling of their Holocaust insurance claim," says Shernoff. Quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Holocaust survivor Jean Greenstein recalled the three life insurance policies issued to his father by Generali, "I know my father had three policies because he gave them to me, and I sewed them into my pants. But when I got caught," the Germans seized the documents, he said. Greenstein told the Times that Generali paid him $2,806.80 on one policy, but said the company officials told him they could not find the other two policies, which Greenstein believe were worth much more. The six survivors and families join 12 other survivor families, also represented by Shernoff, who have previously filed lawsuits against Generali and now have their cases pending in Federal Court in New York under Federal Judge Michael B. Mukasey. There are also three Holocaust class action suits alleging similar claims pending in New York with Judge Mukasey."

Bernard G. Segal: Living Greatly Within the Law,
University of Pensylvannia - Almanac, v. 45, no. 36
"Bernard G. Segal, an alumnus and trustee of the University who was one of America's most respected and renowned lawyers, died on June 1 at his home in Philadelphia, following a long illness. He was 89. A life trustee from 1954-77, Mr. Segal served for many years on the trustees executive board, and was a vital force in the University's handling of issues where institutional policy and public good converged ... Appellate advocacy was his forte and he was involved in nearly fifty cases before the Supreme Court of the United States ... Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter once called Segal "the lodestar of our profession" ... Mr. Segal was known as the nation's foremost advocate of merit selection of judges. In the mid 1950s he persuaded then Attorney General Herbert Brownell and President Eisenhower to submit to the American Bar Association Committee on the Federal Judiciary the names of all prospective federal judicial nominees, including the Supreme Court, for a report and recommendation on their qualifications. That practice has continued ever since, with Presidents very rarely appointing a Federal Judge found "Not Qualified" by the ABA Committee. Mr. Segal chaired that Committee for six years and continued his key role in judicial selection long after he relinquished his chairmanship. Deeply committed to civil rights, in the spring of 1963, as the civil rights revolution was heating up, Mr. Segal called Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and asked why the President was not marshalling lawyers to help the civil rights movement. Following up on Mr. Segal's suggestion, President Kennedy convened a meeting of 244 prominent lawyers suggested by Segal and established the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, with Mr. Segal as co-chairman. The Committee sent lawyers to defend civil rights workers in southern states and played a critical role in advancing civil rights, not only in the south, but in many northern cities as well. Mr. Segal's wife, Dr. Geraldine Segal, a civil rights scholar in her own right, worked closely with Mr. Segal in their civil rights activities. Mr. Segal also played a seminal role in furthering legal services for the poor, chairing the Advisory Committee on the National Legal Services Program under President Johnson's OEO program and enlisting lawyers throughout the nation to provide legal services to the indigent. In the course of his career, he carried out special assignments for four Presidents, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon."

[Jew to Jew hand(s)off. Judge Victoria Platzer is a member of the Jewish Museum of Florida. Maybe Judge Platzer is looking for a role in a Cohen movie?]
Death brings a fine, but no guilt finding A self-styled movie producer pleads no contest in a fatal hit-and-run, and the victim's family is left to wonder why the driver isn't a convicted felon,
BY MANNY GARCIA AND JASON GROTTO, Miami Herald, January 25, 2004
"Ira Marc Cohen got a pass on his first offense: running over Edwidge Calixte as she crossed Biscayne Boulevard. Police say the impact launched the Haitian visitor into the air and she landed on her head, killing her instantly. Cohen kept driving, police say, dumped his rental car in nearby Morningside, told friends that it had been stolen and went into hiding. But police say Cohen's alibi had holes: Officers found the rental car intact with the doors locked. Days later, when cops arrested Cohen, he was carrying his luggage and a set of keys to the rental. And there was an eyewitness: a Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation investigator who said she drove by as Cohen's car slammed into Calixte. Suzanne Lee said she remembered the 1998 case like it was yesterday. She identified Cohen from his driver's license photo. ''He had red hair,'' she said. ``I see this in my vision everyday of my life. I remember this case vividly. I know it was him because I got a unique angle to see him by the car.'' Prosecutors charged Cohen with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and possession of a controlled substance and marijuana, which he was carrying when police caught him ... Cohen, who lists a Miami Beach address, faced up to 22 months in state prison. But the state offered him two years probation, 100 community service hours and ordered him to pay the victim's family $2,000 for her funeral. Miami-Dade Judge Victoria Platzer withheld the finding of guilt after first asking the prosecutor if the victim's family or lawyers had approved the plea. ''It's your understanding that since you have spoken with the civil attorneys that they are in agreement with the plea?'' the judge asked. ''That's correct,'' a prosecutor said. But the civil lawyers said they were not consulted about the plea. ''The family was never notified about the plea. The state never contacted us,'' attorney Caroline Mitchell said. ``I thought the state could have done more with the case. He got away with murder, you could say.'' Investigator Lee learned of the outcome from The Herald. ''I'm surprised,'' she said. ``He left her there to die.'' Cohen, through his laywer, declined comment. But his attorney said Cohen accepted a plea to end the ordeal. Judge Platzer said she agreed to the deal so the budding movie producer could keep working."

World Court Refuses to Disqualify Judge,
By ARTHUR MAX, Las Vegas Sun, February 3, 2004
"The World Court rejected an Israeli request to disqualify an Egyptian judge from the tribunal, which will rule on the legality of the security barrier Israel is building in Palestinian territories, the court said Tuesday. Israel wanted Judge Nabil Elaraby to step down, citing his earlier job as legal adviser to the Egyptian government and what it described as a prejudicial newspaper interview in 2001. By a vote of 13-1, the court ruled on Friday that Elaraby would remain on the bench. Only the court is empowered to excuse one of its judges. The Hague-based panel has 15 judges; Elaraby didn't vote. The International Court of Justice, the highest U.N. judicial body, was asked in December by the General Assembly to give a nonbinding opinion on "the legal consequences" of the 440-mile complex of walls and fences on Palestinian land, some of which slice deeply into the West Bank. Israel says the barrier is meant to stop suicide bombers. The Palestinians say it is an attempt to redraw borders and has already disrupted tens of thousands of lives. As a government legal adviser, Elaraby sat across from the Israelis at the negotiating table on several occasions, dating back to the successful Camp David agreements in 1978 that led to the Egypt-Israel peace treaty. He was elected to the court in October 2001 for a nine-year term."

[More context for this Jewish Corruption Network with an older article:]
Hynes Nabs a Judge
By Erik Engquist (As printed in the Courier Life Newspapers, May 5, 2003), Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn
"In another embarrassing blow to the Brooklyn judiciary, Supreme Court Judge Gerald Garson has been caught on video with his hand in the cookie jar by Brooklyn District Attorney Joe Hynes. Garson, who presides over divorce cases, allegedly accepted illegal gifts from the lawyers who appeared before him, and committed other misdeeds as well, Newsday reported on April 23. Garson's conversations were reportedly captured on tape in his robing room as part of a wider Hynes investigation. We'd heard about the impending indictment earlier in the day, along with every politically connected person in Brooklyn, as the wags burned up the phone lines. The news of Garson going down seemed to be met with glee in some quarters. Garson surrendered that night, along with a court clerk, court officer, and lawyer. More arrests were expected. The judge comes from one of Brooklyn's most politically connected families. He was for years the law partner of former Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden. His wife, Robin Garson, was elected to the Brooklyn Civil Court last year thanks to the Democratic machine, which now might want to distance itself from the family. And Gerald's cousin is Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Mike Garson, the husband of Sheepshead Bay district leader Laurie Garson. Another cousin is School Board 22 member Joel Garson, a former Assembly candidate. For all of these people, the name Garson has suddenly become a label of shame. Why would Gerald Garson, a septuagenarian earning $136,700 per year, have allegedly accepted free meals from attorneys appearing before him and up to $1,000 for giving an attorney a court appointment? "The level of stupidity," marveled one observer. "It is amazing." Indeed, Garson and his wife pull in over $260,000 between them. Even for Upper East Side residents, that's more than enough to get by. But the reason could be more than stupidity, or even greed. Garson might have come to believe that as a judge, he was entitled to goodies under the table. After all, when he was practicing law, he buttered up judges as well. According to the AP, as a private attorney in the 1970s, Garson was accused of putting up a state judge and his wife at Kutsher's Country Club, where they were registered under the name of Garson's law partner. Garson was also censured in 1984 for slipping gifts and gratuities to a Civil Court judge and his wife, according to court records ... Despite his failings, Garson was capable of courageous rulings, notably one in which he sided with a 22-year-old Orthodox Syrian woman whose ex-husband, from whom she'd fled after just four months and obtained a civil divorce, refused to give her a "get," a religious divorce, which would allow her to remarry in the Orthodox community. In April 2001 Garson ordered the recalcitrant husband to pay the woman $500 per week and give her 75 percent of the marital property. Suddenly, the husband was willing to grant the "get." The judge's landmark decision was cheered by the International Council of Jewish Women in its Human Rights Watch newsletter. Nobody's cheering Gerald Garson now. Meanwhile, Hynes's investigation of county courts could help him shed criticism that he plays favorites with friends of the Brooklyn Democratic organization. Not long ago, Hynes was paying Golden $125,000 a year to be his civic affairs director. Today he is prosecuting Golden's former law partner. Garson was also treasurer of the county organization when Golden was its chairman and continued in that role under Clarence Norman until the mid 1990s. Garson's wife's campaign was backed by County last year."

["Spin and distortion?" Jewish media, Jewish government, Jewish courts ... ]
HOLOCAUST JUDGE RIPS SWISS BANKS,
By KATI CORNELL SMITH, New York Post, February 21, 2004
"The federal judge overseeing payouts to Holocaust victims' heirs blasted Swiss banks for lying about their ties to the Nazis and "stonewalling" efforts to disburse a $1.25 billion settlement in a scathing order issued yesterday. Brooklyn federal Judge Edward Korman accused the banks of conducting "spin and distortion" by asserting their innocence in the genocide, despite having gone along with "widespread forced transfers" of Holocaust victims' assets to the Nazis. "These objections bring to mind the theory that, 'If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it,' " an exasperated Korman wrote. "The 'Big Lie' for the Swiss banks is that during the Nazi era and its wake, the banks never engaged in substantial wrongdoing." The judge's order also fingers the banks for covering up the forced transactions by destroying documents and withholding account information that would smooth the process of returning money to the victims' heirs. The banks forked out approximately $1.25 billion for Holocaust victims under a 1998 civil settlement, including $8 million for victims who had put their money in Swiss banks for safekeeping."

[The Quigley-Mel Gibson connection. Another setback in the usual Jewish Swarming. The Anti-Defamation League is a private secret Jewish police force and Smear Factory. It relies upon a totalitarian intimidation thuggery. A jury (We live in a democracy, remember?) decided the ADL smeared a non-Jewish couple (called them "anti-Semites") with no cause. Unrepentant, the ADL tried to ignore the jury ruling and get Supreme Court permission to slander anyone at all as an "anti-Semite" and get away with it, with no legal repercussions. Finally, the Jewish Thought Police has lost one. A big one for a nice $10 million. A few more cases like this of overzealous Jewish bigotry and fanaticism and maybe it'll break the ADL Bank. Then we can all have our freedom to say the "J" word back again. Coupled with a few more The Passion of the Christ-type attacks on Christians, the ADL could implode. Keep (dare we say it?) your fingers crossed.]
ADL must pay in Evergreen case. Denounced as anti-Semites, pair is owed millions,
By Karen Abbott, Rocky Mountain News, March 2, 2004
"The Anti-Defamation League must pay a former Evergreen couple it denounced as anti-Semites more than $10 million, after the U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review the lawsuit. "This is the end of the case," said Bruce DeBoskey, director of the league's Mountain States Region, which includes Colorado and Wyoming. Denver attorney Jay Horowitz, who won the case for William and Dorothy "Dee" Quigley, said the couple was "extraordinarily delighted" when he told them the news Monday. The widely publicized court battle drew friend-of-the-court briefs from a variety of national advocacy organizations worried that the danger of huge legal liabilities threatened their ability to work for good causes. "There were 15 other human rights organizations that filed briefs in support of our legal position," DeBoskey said. The U.S. Supreme Court did not explain why it declined to review the case. "We're all disappointed," DeBoskey said. "But as a practical matter, through the entire process, we have continued to serve the community." "We do remain committed to our fight against hatred and racism and bigotry and extremism and anti-Semitism," he said. The dispute that raged for nearly a decade through the federal courts began when the Quigleys' dog fought with a dog owned by their Jewish neighbors, Mitchell and Candice Aronson, in their upscale foothills neighborhood. The Aronsons called the ADL in 1994, after overhearing the Quigleys' telephone remarks on their Radio Shack police scanner. They said they heard the Quigleys discuss a campaign to drive them from the neighborhood with Nazi scare tactics, including tossing lampshades and soap on their lawn, putting pictures of Holocaust ovens on their house and dousing one of their children with flammable liquid. The Aronsons were advised to record the conversations. Based on the recordings, they sued the Quigleys in federal court, Jefferson County prosecutors charged the Quigleys with hate crimes, and Saul Rosenthal, then the ADL's regional director, denounced the Quigleys as anti-Semites in a news conference. The Quigleys got death threats and hate mail. Later, everyone found out that the recordings became illegal just five days after they began, when President Clinton signed a new wiretap restriction into federal law. The hate charges were dropped, and Jefferson County paid the Quigleys $75,000 after prosecutors concluded Dee Quigley's remarks to a friend were only in jest. Two lawyers on the ADL's volunteer board, who had advised the Aronsons, paid the Quigleys $350,000 to settle a lawsuit. The Quigleys and Aronsons dropped their legal attacks on one another, and neither family paid the other anything. The Aronsons divorced. The Quigleys moved to another state. But a federal jury found in 2000, after a four-week trial before Denver U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham, that the Anti-Defamation League had defamed the Quigleys. The jury awarded them $10.5 million. The ADL appealed, and the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that the jury's award stood. DeBoskey said the long legal proceedings allowed the ADL to set aside funds to pay the judgment if necessary. Some the money will come from insurance and some will come from other sources, including donors, but none will come from the ADL's operating budget, DeBoskey said. Horowitz estimated the judgment now totals more than $12.5 million, once interest is included. He said the Quigleys suffered greatly because they were branded as anti-Semites. William Quigley's career in the motion picture industry was virtually destroyed, Horowitz said. "They cannot express how life-altering the ADL's actions have been," Horowitz said. The Quigleys' children were affected because "they grew up during some of the most trying circumstances of this case," he said. At one point, the family hired bodyguards. They received a box of dog feces in the mail. Their own Catholic priest criticized them from the pulpit."

[Here you have the quintessential model: Jewish beliefs and actions create "anti-Semitism."]
Legal action urged against Mel Gibson film,
The Age (Australia), March 12, 2004
"A Jewish advocacy group has asked the US Justice Department to "utilise civil, criminal and federal hate crime laws" against Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ. The group, Messiah Truth Project, says the "anti-Semitic" tone of the movie has resulted in hate crimes against Jews, synagogues and Jewish cemeteries across the United States since its release on February 25. Three incidents involving anti-Semitic graffiti have been reported in New York in the past fortnight and a Los Angeles college was closed yesterday after a speaker's car was sprayed with graffiti while she addressed a forum on hate speech on Tuesday. Yesterday, the group's online petition had collected 195 signatures."

Zionism And The Politics Of Assassination. On Extra-judicial Executions,
By Mazin Qumsiyeh, Information Clearinghouse, March 22, 2004
"As the fourth strongest army in the world, Israel could have arrested the quadriplegic and partially blind spiritual elder of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). But history shows that such extrajudicial executions (200 so far) create instability and a cycle of revenge that is calculated to serve Zionist colonization efforts. Political Zionism started in 1845 with a British feasibility study for Jewish colonization in Palestine to further British interests in weakening the Ottoman Empire and establish connections to colonial holdings in India. The adoption of this political (as opposed to religious or cultural) Zionism by a small but very influential segment of Ashkenazi Jews in Europe was deemed crucial for success. Zionism remained marginal among Jews until it capitalized on the atrocities of WWII. Early advocates of Zionism did not shy away from using the term colonization to describe their activities or to describe the use of violence to achieve their goals because natives will always resist such efforts. This violence against native Palestinians started in 1917 when the Zionist Herbert Samuel was appointed as British high commissioner. He made it clear with violent action that the end result will be the creation of a Jewish state in a land that had less than 6% Jewish population. Most native Jews, including the Palestinian Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, were opposed to Zionism at the time. Before 1917 Palestinian Christians, Muslims, and Jews coexisted in relative harmony. Violence between 1917 and 1949 resulted in the establishment of a Jewish state and the ethnic cleansing of 530 Palestinian villages and towns. Israel rejected International law by adopting exclusionary laws that prevent refugees from returning while offering automatic citizenship to Jews (including converts) from anywhere in the world. Zionists expected resistance of Palestinian Christians and Muslims. 800,000 were made refugees by 1949 (now nearly 5 million including Yassin's family). Israeli leaders from Ben Gurion to Sharon have always used the 'Zionist response' to resistance: overwhelming violence and increased colonization. It was Zionist Jews who first to plant bombs in market places (1930s), first bomb civilian neighborhoods using aircraft (1947), first sent mail letter bombs (1940s), and first to hijack (1954) and shoot down (1973) civilian airplanes. As our biased mainstream US media keeps emphasizing, Palestinians also engaged in expected violent resistance. Violence is a symptom and was used to further colonization efforts whether in Palestine or in America (against Native Americans). It is not a coincidence that the major waves of expulsions of Palestinians occurred between October 1947 to January 1949 and in June 1967. It is not a coincidence that in the name of 'security', Israel destroyed over 3000 Palestinian homes rendering some 15,000 civilians homeless most in the most desirable land. The Apartheid wall being built with the excuse of the violence is not separating Israel from the occupied areas but is surrounding Palestinians in small cantons to starve them and force them to leave. Thus, Zionist leaders deem violence and escalation a sound strategy because, as the first Prime Minister of Israel admitted, peace would mean having to restore rights to native people. Israel's assassination of Sheikh Yassin was described as stupid (Gush Shalom), horrendous mistake (Yossi Beilin), contrary to International law (Amnesty International and the European Union), and a war crime (Israeli liberal leaders). I think such actions remove any doubt about the fact that political Zionism is incompatible with peace in the 21st century. As for us here, Israel's strong lobby in congress drained us of over $100 billion in direct aid and much more indirectly. It is responsible for the low standing of the US around the world."

[Here is the world the Jewish Lobby plans for us all: an endless cycle of murder and violence. Alan Dershowitz is in the vanguard of the New Immoral Order:]
Critics of Sheikh Yassin Killing Reveal Own Moral Blindness,
By ALAN DERSHOWITZ, Forward, March 26, 2004
"Israel's targeted killing of the wheelchair-bound head of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, predictably has drawn a hail of criticism from the international community. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw characterized the killing of Yassin as "unlawful"; the Vatican said it was "not justified in any state [run by] the rule of law" and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan declared the killing to be "contrary to international law." Even the United States, which initially refused to condemn the attack because its own policy favors targeted killings of top Al Qaeda leaders, succumbed to European pressure and criticized Israel. Critics who accuse Israel of acting unlawfully could not be more wrong. The killing of Sheikh Yassin was a moral and lawful instance of preemptive self-defense. Sheikh Yassin was a combatant under any reasonable definition of that term, and combatants — including leaders — are appropriate military targets during an ongoing war of the kind Hamas has declared against Israel. From his wheelchair, this blind bigot gave advance approval to acts of terrorism directed against Israeli civilians and Jews ... All killings committed in combat are extra-judicial killing, but if the target is a combatant like Yassin, the killing is perfectly lawful, especially if the alternative of arrest is not possible. This international condemnation of Israel sends a dangerous message to terrorists around the world: namely, that a democracy that targets a mass murderer who has sworn to continue his killing spree is to be condemned. These attacks on Israel's right to self-defense set a poor precedent — and not only for the Jewish state."

[Possible Intra-Jewish Litigation Festival?]
Jewish law group vote ends in violence,
By YAAKOV KATZ, Jerusalem Post, March 28, 2004
"The 12th Congress of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IAJLJ) ended Friday with the election of a new president for the organization. Attorney Alex Hertman, the sole nominee, was voted in as president, a move called by the Israeli Bar Association as "an illegal snatch." During the past week, head of the Israel Bar Association Dr. Shlomo Cohen made every possible effort to prevent the election of Hertman, a former contender for the head of the Bar. In an attempt to persuade delegates of the IAJLJ to vote against Hertman, Cohen sent a letter on Wednesday to members of the association calling for postponement of the elections by a year in order "to seek consensus on all outstanding issues." According to officials at the Bar, the proposal to postpone the elections was not even brought up at the Friday meeting, and that some 100 members of the Bar, claiming to be members of the IAJLJ, came to participate in the vote but were not allowed into the hall. Hertman told The Jerusalem Post that he was physically attacked by Cohen and that he is considering taking legal action. "There was nothing but sheer violence from Shlomo Cohen," Hertman said. "I had been sitting and hearing him throughout the whole session and when I came up to the podium he also came up, came to me, hit me with his hand and tried to grab the microphone. "I have been serving for the past eight years as the head of the Bar's ethics committee and have never seen such behavior. The president of the Israel Bar Association acts this way in front of dozens of lawyers. It is unacceptable," he said. The Bar said Hertman's accusations are false and it plans to take measures to correct what happened at the congress, which it deemed a "mishap." "The Bar Association plans to take measures in order to correct what happened at the congress and is considering legal action or the establishment of an alternative organization for Jewish lawyers," officials at the Bar told the Post. "It is sad and ludicrous that a man who failed in democratic elections to win the presidency of the Bar and tried to buy the presidency of the IAJLJ would make such baseless accusations."

[This is the way it works. The Jewish Lobby sues everyone, anyone, thereby creating a climate of fear and intimidation, encouraging all to self-censor lest they be forced to hassle against the enormous -- and dedicated -- wealth of the Jewish Lobby to ruin them. The Jewish Lobby FORBIDS public discussion about issues they labor to hide, even censoring critics born Jewish.]
Simon Wiesenthal Centre Testifies in Paris Libel Suit Against Norman Finkelstein,
Die Judische, March 26, 2004
"Norman Finkelstein, the American author of "The Holocaust Industry", and his publisher, are being sued under French law against libel. The French edition (based on the English-language original) is considered actionable and replete with Holocaust revisionism and incitement to antisemitism. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Director for International Liaison, Dr. Shimon Samuels, who three years ago publicly debated Finkelstein when the book was first published in London, presented the following testimony for today's Paris hearing: "'The Holocaust Industry' presents a great danger. Mr. Finkelstein's thesis is an extremist attack on Jews in general, and American Jews in particular, accusing them of exploiting the suffering of the Shoah as 'a pretext for their crimes in the context of the Middle-East conflict.' This thesis, so close to that of Roger Garaudy [a condemned French Holocaust denier and anti-Jewish hate-monger] today constitutes the principal credo of modern antisemitism. With particularly acute intellectual perversity, Finkelstein exploits his own Jewish antecedents in order to attack, as 'racist,' specific Jewish leaders, their organizations and the Jewish people. I am convinced that, as in the aforementioned Garaudy trial, only a judicial penalty will contain the damage wreaked by this particularly offensive libel."

[The World Jewish Money Machine, more than a half-century after World War II, and still going strong:]
Billion-dollar Holocaust lawsuit,
Townsville Bulletin, Arpil 2, 2004
"USING a musty Austrian bank vault as a backdrop, an American lawyer said he plans to file a $1.3 billion lawsuit on behalf of Holocaust victims whose artworks were stolen by the Nazis and sold off after World War II. New York-based attorney Edward D. Fagan said a new group calling itself the Association of Holocaust Victims for the Restitution of Artwork and Masterpieces would call on Austrian banks, the Austrian government and Sotheby's auction house to return paintings and other works allegedly sold without the permission of their original Jewish owners. A draft of the lawsuit handed out to reporters named Bank Austria/Creditanstalt, Landerbank and Erste Bank, but did not name the Austrian government or Sotheby's. Fagan said he would file the lawsuit in a US District Court in New York, but it was unclear whether the suit had been filed. Fagan contended that the missing artworks include paintings by Monet, Cezanne, Delacroix and other Impressionist masters. The plaintiffs, who were not identified by name, were said to include several dozen families, mostly Jews, from Austria, Belgium, France, Hungary, Germany, Israel, Poland, Switzerland, the United States and other countries. Fagan said lawsuit would accuse the banks, government and auction houses for "the systematic theft of great artwork, masterpieces and collections," and would seek between $130 million and $1.3 billion in damages if the artworks - valued at between $2.6 million and $6.52 million apiece - cannot be returned."

[Jews suffocate Palestinians, and steal bread off their tables, at every level. Only Jewish charities count. All others are "terrorism." Israel itself is a "terrorist" organization, but the world Jewsh Lobby is astoundingly powerful and they dictate the terms of discourse about the Middle East. If every Palestinian killed or maimed by Israeli "terrorism" got $116 million, the apartheid Jewish state would fold in a week.]
Charity's Request to Transfer Assets Is Opposed,
By STEPHANIE STROM, New York Times, April 16, 2004
"Lawyers representing the families of American victims of terrorism in Israel said on Thursday that they would strenuously oppose any transfer of assets from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Benevolence, a charity whose assets have been impounded because of accusations that it has ties to a terrorist organization. The foundation petitioned the Treasury Department this week for permission to send $50,000 to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, another charity. "Do our clients have priority in terms of claiming those assets? Absolutely," said David J. Strachman, a lawyer representing the family of Yaron and Efrat Ungar, who were killed in 1996 in a drive-by shooting in Israel attributed to terrorists. Of three charities whose assets were frozen because of government accusations of aiding terrorism, only the holy land group has much money left. Legal fees have consumed virtually all the assets of the two other charities, the Global Relief Foundation and the Benevolence International Foundation. The fight over the holy land foundation's remaining money is intensifying. In January, Ronald R. Lagueux, a federal district judge in Rhode Island, awarded relatives of the Ungars $116 million, citing the need to move quickly to recover assets from the foundation. Mr. Strachman and Nathan Lewin, a lawyer representing a couple whose son was killed in Israel by members of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, have already objected to the use of the frozen assets for legal expenses. They said they would fight the foundation's most recent request to disburse money. "I'm outraged that somebody is talking about taking these assets and giving them off to some charity when there were people who were killed as a result of terrorism and Congress has said those funds should go to victims of terror," Mr. Lewin said. The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, which Congress passed in 2002, allows people who have received judgments against a terrorist organization to receive damages out of any frozen assets of the organization or groups that support it. John Boyd, a lawyer representing the holy land foundation, said objections to the transfer were unfounded. "I think before anyone should be in any position to make any objection, they ought to come up with some evidence that the holy land foundation provided any support for Hamas in general or Hamas terrorist activities in particular, and there is nothing," he said. "The only evidence I've seen is completely bogus."

See also Law, Lawyers, Lawsuits, pt. 2