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Bomber Command 'saved the lives of civilians' (05/13/10) by Jay Knott

"Bomber Command also played a vital role in saving the lives of civilians".

http://www.theygaveeverything.co.uk

 
Humorless German Warncke (05/13/10...) by Jay Knott
Here is an article by a German, Ersun Warncke, taking the uncontroversial position of criticising a. Hitler, and b. Pacifica Forum http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may112010/pacifica-forum-ew.php Salem News is...
where at? (05/07/10) by snottknows

uploaded to youtube or anythign?
Arundhati Roy criticizes Mahatma Ghandi on Indian TV (04/29/10) by Jay Knott
She has to worry about being lynched by right-wing nationalists. If someone criticizes Saint Martin Luther King in America, it's the opposite. ...
Who's in Denial? A Critique of Tim Wise's "White Like Me" (04/28/10...) by Jay Knott
White Like Me - reflections on race from a privileged son Tim Wise, Soft Skull Press, Brooklyn, 2008 I previously reviewed 'Words That Wound' as part of my ongoing attempt to understand the curious blind spot which American...


Anti-racism and black crime in Britain by Jay Knott:  An investigation has found that Afro-Carribean men are dispropor tionately represented - by orders of magnitude - in violent street crime in the UK. This statistic in itself does not prove anything more than it says. An o...


To Kill A Mockingbird, anti-semitism, white guilt and the South by Jay Knott:  This post has a tenuous relationship to its parent post: it's about a classic novel about racism in the South. It's the fiftieth anniversary of To Kill A Mockingbird, the canonical novel about racism in the Deep South. Whereas...


More on 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Jay Knott:  A British TV program on the 50th anniversary of To Kill A Mockingbird liberally applied white guilt and spoiled the subsequent showing of the great 1962 movie of the novel, uncritically allowing the F hrer of the Southern...

Beyond Patriarchy Convergence, University of Oregon, May 14-16, Eugene (04/27/10) by Jay Knott
Coming up: a free sex-positive radical feminist gathering for people of all genders. "Patriarchy is a system of domination which privileges masculinity and enforces strict, exclusive, and unequal gender roles, and which ...
Cutting out the Mittelman - reply to a Jewish anarchist (04/23/10...) by Jay Knott
An article on Indymedia informs us of the protest against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee at the Mittelman Center in Portland, and the tension between this protest and a meeting of Anti-Racist Action: I am also...


AIPAC, ARA and Apartheid by Jay Knott:  This has been a hectic weekend, what with Anti-Racist Action, Palestinian Hip-Hop, and the American Israel Affairs Committee for Apartheid annual dinner at the Mittelman Center. I protested with my comrades, and a self-righteous...

Katyn, Truth and Propaganda (04/16/10...) by Jay Knott
Here is a good article about the recent air crash which killed Poland's political leadership in Russia, on their way to commemorate the massacre of the Polish officers at Katyn in 1940. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/20...
Haaretz and the Holocaust (04/14/10) by Jay Knott
Haaretz is Israel's leading liberal newspaper. It often reveals war crimes and criticizes chutzpah. The following article, though, is a glaring example of the peculiar blindness of Zionism. It argues that white guilt has been one...


The Chancellor, the Pope, and the Holocaust by Jay Knott:  According to this story http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8625543.stm 'Angela Merkel called on Pope Benedict to "clarify unambiguously that there can be no denial" that the Nazis killed six million Jews.' Raul Hilberg must be...

Children who form no racial stereotypes found (04/12/10) by Jay Knott
The good news is that children who form no racial stereotypes have been found. The bad news is, they have a serious mental deficiency which leads them to be too friendly to strangers. Nature magazine daren't derive the idea that...
Fear-mongering for the government (04/02/10...) by Jay Knott
Remember the hysteria about 'militias' during Bill Clinton's reign? His Attorney General was Janet Reno. She is not as nice as she looks. Her FBI murdered eighty people at the Waco HQ of an extreme religious sect. Then the FBI...
Hate crimes, fake and real (04/01/10...) by Jay Knott
The 'Jewish Review' of March 15, 2010 has a story about a swastika found painted inside the campus of Portland's prestigious Reed College. The article does not even consider that it might be a fake hate crime, painted by an...
Long sentences for London men convicted for protesting Gaza massacre (03/31/10) by Jay Knott

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2010/02/446331.html
Is the tide beginning to turn? (03/26/10...) by Jay Knott
The news has been full of 'the worst crisis in relations with Israel for thirty years'. Obama and his VP have publicly snubbed Israeli politicians. Britain expelled an Israeli diplomat. US hawks say the government must rein in...


A reply by debbie_m:  Why is it anti-semitic to criticize Israel, but not any other country or people ? What is anti-semitic about criticizing Israel's belligerent and arrogant behaviour towards its neighbours a defenseless people? feature=email...


OK Debbie but... by Jay Knott:  ...you did say the record of Israel and its American Jewish friends is "one that justifies every shred of anti-Semitism that ever was". You surely don't mean that - for example, you don't think Israel's crimes today justify Klaus...


My answer by debbie_m:  In a June 2007 article "Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust", Falk compared some Israeli policies with regard to the Palestinians to the Nazi Germany record of collective punishment. Identifying himself as a Jewish American,...

From the Sharpeville Massacre to the murder of Terre`Blanche (03/20/10...) by Jay Knott
In case anyone forgets, this story about Sharpeville in 1960 explains why black South Africans may get a little worked up from time to time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8578549.stm However, singing 'Shoot the Boer' and...
Ethnic identity and war (03/20/10) by Jay Knott
If, has been fairly convincingly argued by Frank Salter, there is a genetic basis to human ethnic identity, this by no means means it's a good thing. Descriptive does not equal prescriptive. (PDF file) http://www.mankind...
Soft Stalinism at the University of Oregon (03/18/10...) by Jay Knott
The old authoritarian, patriarchal, workerist left has disappeared. Today, individuals with the desire to tell others what they can say and think are attracted to a softer, more feminine, anarchist style of politics. They...


Correction by Jay Knott:  This message says the Breaking Bigotry group 'eschews violence': http://pacificaforum.org/soft-stalinism-at-the-university-of-oregon But they sometimes forget that they are the 'soft' Stalinists: http://pacificaforum.o...


What is 'Bigotry' anyway? by Jay Knott:  It's not just dumb girls on Facebook who throw the word 'bigot' around http://pacificaforum.org/soft-stalinism-at-the-university-of-oregon. The idea that ordinary people questioning immigration are 'bigots' is common throughout...


One more thing about 'Bigotry' by Jay Knott:  If you classify the set of ideas you strongly disagree with as 'bigotry' which has to be 'confronted' rather than politely disagreed with, you reject the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. 'Breaking Bigotry' people...

Do the Pacifica Forum's opponents support killing Palestinian kids? (03/09/10...) by Jay Knott

http://campusintifada.com/widget/LP_V_W.html
The Southern Poverty Law Center - why is it still taken seriously? (03/04/10...) by Jay Knott
The SPLC is "a respected advocate of tolerance, equal treatment, and civil rights" according to http://www.uoregon.edu/~uosenate/dirsen090/US090-14.html Oregon University academic senate But the $PLC's claims of hate crimes and...






Yet another Indymedia article critical of the $PLC! by Jay Knott: 

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2010/04/398934.shtml

This one is better. The other one has lasted six weeks so far.



Gardian says 'US facing surge in rightwing extremists and militias' by Jay Knott:  The Guardian is Britain's leading liberal broadsheet, but its not usually as moronic as Indymedia. However on this occasion it dropped the ball, or some other sporting analogy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/04...



If you thought freedom of expression was under siege at U of Oregon... (03/03/10...) by Jay Knott
...try UC San Diego: http://battlehate.ucsd.edu/ - hat-tip - Oregon C...




Looks like yet another fake hate crime... by Jay Knott:  As a minority student,,," http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-03-02/local-county-news/student-who-hung-noose-apologizes-in-letter "A student has come forward and admitted responsibility for this morning http:...





Obituary for a holocaust survivor (03/01/10) by Jay Knott
We hear quite a bit about survivors of German war crimes, but when a survivor of Allied atrocities dies, this fact often goes unmentioned. This is an exception - an obituary for Susan Schumann, born in Berlin, died in Oregon at...


It's not just the Nazi holocaust people are falsely accused of denying by Jay Knott:  A Marxist magazine once claimed journalists had falsely alleged they'd seen people starving in a Serbian concentration camp during the Yugoslav war, by using a misleading photograph. Here, one of the journalists tries to defend...


Another holocaust treated differently from 'the' Holocaust by Jay Knott:  Recently, the left/Islamist prime minister of Turkey walked out of a meeting with Israel's Prime Minister, calling him a war criminal, and quoting Gilad Atzmon, who enjoyed fifteen minutes of fame. For decades, the two countries...

I am very proud of the Pacifica Forum for refusing to be silenced (02/28/10) by thruthescrim
The leadership of Pacifica Forum has shown an awesom sommittment to free speech. I came upon VALDAS ANELAUSKAS recently on google video where there is a lecture about the Frankfurt School. It impressed me so much I started to try...


Holocaust Denial in Australia by Jay Knott:  Fredrick T ben denies, or underestimates, the Nazi Holocaust ben Keith Windschuttle denies, or underestimates, the genocide of the Tasmanian Aborigines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_Aborigines Only T...