A three-day expo held in the Scottish Parliament Building at the end of April promoted «Israel’s Contribution to Medicine, Science and Technology» Outside the entrance pro-Palestinian protestors flaunted biased slogans denouncing Israel’s achievements.
MPS Ken MacIntosh fights Jew-hate in Scottland.
Week end comment
My Mike Adams
The exhibition had previously been seen in Glasgow during the 60th Anniversary of the State of Israel. Last week’s expo in Edinburgh was organised by the Scottish Friends of Israel, and sponsored by Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) Ken MacIntosh.
Commenting on his motivation for doing so, MacIntosh said: «We have a lot of negative views on Israel that are not helpful, many are poisonous and damaging. Rather than responding to the rhetoric, I thought it would be better to show a positive side of Israel and acknowledge the huge contribution it has made».
Sofiah MacLeod of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) initiated a petition and tried banning the exhibition which would, according to her, implicate all Scots “in a whitewashing of Israeli crimes”. Patrick Harvie MSP forwarded a parliamentary motion on the grounds that the exhibition would give the impression that the parliament condones the record of the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians. Both petition and motion were overruled by the vast majority of MSPs.
The exhibition also seemed to vex other players in Scottish society. A group of 12 Scottish doctors including one Dr. Muhammad al-Ashqar from Edinburgh, and one Dr. Ali Syed from Glasgow signed an open letter petition with precisely the same wording as that of the SPSC. Demands for cancelling the exhibition were also backed by the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) which passed an emergency motion at its recent annual meeting in Dundee. On a side note, the STUC also reaffirmed last year’s complete boycott of Israel which earned itself the dubious honour of leading the way for Trade Union boycotts of Israel in other countries.
So how can a presentation of Israeli inventiveness and ingenuity upset so many people? It is obviously a severe case of hysterical and irrational fear or hatred of Israel, in a word, Israelophobia. The expo itself simply highlighted scientific and technological innovation that Israel has been instrumental in introducing, such as technology used in mobile phones and computers, as well as medical research in physics and stem cell research. Scottish Friends of Israel underscored the fact that they have no “direct or indirect interaction with the Israeli government” and the exhibition did “not attempt to deliver any political message whatsoever” serving only “to draw attention to the remarkable achievements of the medical and scientific community of Israel”.
Because of the controversy, members of the public were prevented from visiting the exhibition unless accompanied by their MSP, while the pro-Palestinian lobby occupied the area outside the parliament building accosting passers-by with their hate messages equating Israeli technology with death and destruction.
I see it only pertinent to pose the following question: What kinds of achievements, technological or otherwise, do the proud people of Palestine (read: Arabs occupying Judea, Samaria and Gaza) have to show for themselves? Aught, as the Scots would say. The only thing that springs to mind is a Nobel laureate who made hardcore terrorism look like a walk in the park.
This last outbreak of anti-everything Israeli reminds me of a “Life of Brian”-quote: “But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
Here are some Israeli firsts in the field of communications that have benefitted the Scots and their Palestinian Arab friends, as well as everyone “connected” in the world today.
1981: Technology enabling two calls on the same phone line.
1986: Integration of voice, fax and call processing functions into a single system.
1995: The Internet Phone (IP).
1996: Instant messaging services (“chatting”)
1997: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) which enables voice, picture and data to be transmitted via the Internet.
2000: Utilisation of VoIP in recording technology.
2005: Single channel data transmission (“base band”) IP for EDGE solutions, for both handsets and base-stations.
2006: Mobile WiMax compliant ASIC which provides fixed and fully mobile internet access.
If Scottish doctors began boycotting Israel’s medical expertise they would have to stop treating breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and many other medical conditions. Calling all physicians: It’s time to check up on where your life-saving drugs come from.
The Israelis have made technological leaps and bounds despite 62 years of continual Palestinian Arab insurgency, and the effects of eight wars with neighbouring Arab states that all would see the Israelis and the Jewish state wiped off the map.
Author of “The Israel Test”, George Gilder says it quite succinctly when he asserts that Israelis now form “the vanguard of human achievement”. In commerce, in medicine, in science, in technology and indeed, as a matter of circumstance, in military strength, Israel has forged one of the most creative societies on Earth. It is crude envy of Israel’s success, Mr. Gilder says, that explains contemporary anti-Semitism: “At the heart of anti-Semitism is resentment of Jewish achievement”.
According to Mr. Gilder, Israel “concentrates the genius of the Jews”, so that any showcasing of that genius abroad is likely to agitate all types of reactionaries, including miserly and mean-spirited Scottish politicians and other votaries of the all-inclusive condemnation of Israel.
Great Writeup!!
I always wondered “why is there so much hatred for Israel by its neighbors and other nations as well”?
There was this answer I could come up with – “Jealousy and Envy” – These two elements then boil into anger like the fiery volcano. Result: Anger is like burning down one’s own house to find a rat… need I say more?
In addition to Mile’s article, I would like to include the following from newsletter: http://www.bethgoyim.org
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JEWS AND MUSLIMS
The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world’s population.
They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1988 – Najib Mahfooz
Peace:
1978 – Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1990 – Elias James Corey
1994 – Yaser Arafat:
1999 – Ahmed Zewai
Economics:
(zero)
Physics:
(zero)
Medicine:
1960 – Peter Brian Medawar
1998 – Ferid Mourad
TOTAL: 7 SEVEN
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The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; only FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world’s population.
They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1910 – Paul Heyse
1927 – Henri Bergson
1958 – Boris Pasternak
1966 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 – Nelly Sachs
1976 – Saul Bellow
1978 – Isaac Bashevis Si nger
1981 – Elias Canetti
1987 – Joseph Brodsky
1991 – Nadine Gordimer World
Peace:
1911 – Alfred Fried
1911 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 – Rene Cassin
1973 – Henry Kissinger
1978 – Menachem Begin
1986 – Elie Wiesel
1994 – Shimon Peres
1994 – Yitzhak Rabin
Physics:
1905 – Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 – Henri Moissan
1907 – Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 – Gabriel Lippmann
1910 – Otto Wallach
1915 – Richard Willstaetter
1918 – Fritz Haber
1921 – Albert Einstein
1922 – Niels Bohr
1925 – James Franck
1925 – Gustav Hertz
1943 – Gustav Stern
1943 – George Charles de Hevesy
1944 – Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 – Felix Bloch
1954 – Max Born
1958 – Igor Tamm
1959 – Emilio Segre
1960 – Donald A. Glaser
1961 – Robert Hofstadter
1961 – Melvin Calvin
1962 – Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 – Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 – Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 – Julian Schwinger
1969 – Murray Gell-Mann
1971 – Dennis Gabor
1972 – William Howard Stein
1973 – Brian David Josephson
1975 – Ben jamin Mottleson
1976 – Burton Richter
1977 – Ilya Prigogine
1978 – Arno Allan Penzias
1978 – Peter L Kapitza
1979 – Stephen Weinberg
1979 – Sheldon Glashow
1979 – Herbert Charles Brown
1980 – Paul Berg
1980 – Walter Gilbert
1981 – Roald Hoffmann
1982 – Aaron Klug
1985 – Albert A. Hauptman
1985 – Jerome Karle
1986 – Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 – Robert Huber
1988 – Leon Lederman
1988 – Melvin Schwartz
1988 – Jack Steinberger
1989 – Si dney Altman
1990 – Jerome Friedman
1992 – Rudolph Marc us
1995 – Martin Perl
2000 – Alan J. Heeger
Economics:
1970 – Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 – Si mon Kuznets
1972 – Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 – Leonid Kantorovich
1976 – Milton Friedman
1978 – Herbert A. Si mon
1980 – Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 – Franco Modigliani
1987 – Robert M. Solow
1990 – Harry Mark owitz
1990 – Merton Miller
1992 – Gary Becker
1993 – Robert Fogel
Medicine:
1908 – Elie Metchnikoff
1908 – Paul Erlich
1914 – Robert Barany
1922 – Otto Meyerhof
1930 – Karl Landsteiner
1931 – Otto Warburg
1936 – Otto Loewi
1944 – Joseph Erlanger
1944 – Herb ert Spencer Gasser
1945 – Ernst Boris Chain
1946 – Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 – Tadeus Reichstein
1952 – Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 – Hans Krebs
1953 – Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 – Joshua Lederberg
1959 – Arthur Kornberg
1964 – Konrad Bloch
1965 – Francois Jacob
1965 – Andre Lwoff
1967 – George Wald
1968 – Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 – Salvador Luria
1970 – Julius Axelrod
1970 – Si r Bernard Katz
1972 – Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 – Howard Martin Temin
1976 – Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 – Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 – Daniel Nathans
1980 – Baruj Ben Acerraf
1984 – Cesar Milstein
1985 – Michael Stuart Brown
1985 – Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 – Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 – Gertrude Elion
1989 – Harold Varmus
1991 – Erwin Neher
1991 – Bert Sakmann
1993 – Richard J. Roberts
1993 – Phillip Sharp
1994 – Alfred Gilman
1995 – Edward B. Lewis
1996- Lu Rose Iacovino
TOTAL: 129!
The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims! The Jews don’t hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants. There is NOT one single Jew that has destroyed a church. There is NOT a single Jew that protests by killing people.
The Jews don’t traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.
Perhaps the world’s Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.
Muslims must ask ‘what can they do for humankind’ before they demand that humankind respects them!!
Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel’s part, the following two sentences really say it all:
‘If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence.
If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel ‘. Benjamin Netanyahu
General Eisenhower Warned Us
It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.
He did this because he said in words to this effect:
‘Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some b******* will get up and say that this never happened’
Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it ‘offends’ the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet.. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.
This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the, 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were ‘murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated’ while the German people looked the other way!
Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be ‘a myth,’ it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.
How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center ‘NEVER HAPPENED’ because it offends some Muslim in the United States ?
MAY YHWH BLESS & PROTECT ISRAEL & ALL JEWISH PEOPLE. AMEN.