SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL EXPOSED - VIDEO

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Shocking video: the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival - Exposed
This two-part short film about the 2009 SF Jewish Film Festival speaks more eloquently than a 100 blog posts about what is wrong with the Film Festival and how important it is that organized Jewish community act to ensure that something like this never happens again under Federation auspices.

http://sfjffwatch.blogspot.com/2009/09/shocking-video-san-francisco-jewish.html

...perhaps the most obscene is the treatment of the sole pro-Israel questioner, who was jeered, manhandled and bullied as he tried to, as some are fond of saying, speak truth to power.

PIBB - The first month

It has scarce been a month since we started Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers, and already I am receiving hate-mail.
This proves beyond any doubt that we are making a difference.


Yasher koach, guys!

In particular, I wish to mention Snooky B. Wong, author of:
http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2009/09/saeb-erekat-smoking-crack.html
And:
http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2009/09/sheikh-salam-hozeil-rihgteousness-is.html


And Steffy 周, who wrote:
http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2009/09/bay-area-women-in-black-insane-heathens.html
And:
http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2009/09/hamas-are-heirs-of-opportunist-mohammad.html
As well as:
http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2009/08/ann-coulter-comes-out-of-closet.html


As well as Grant Patel:
http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2009/09/j-street-court-jews-to-president.html
And:
http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2009/08/us-state-department-jerusalem-is.html


Plus, for their excellent in-depth reportage on the Wallach sisters (Darlene and Donna Wallach, encovened in San Jose), Dusty and News Service.

These posts:
http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-about-darlene-and-donna-in-san.html
And:
http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2009/09/darlene-wallach-up-close-and-personal.html

Dusty, you know far too much about Donna and Darlene - are they patients of yours? If not, they should be.


And of course the Snark-o-riffic deliciousness from Friar Yid (not Shlita):
http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2009/08/gazas-newest-boy-band.html
Key quote: "Latest reports indicate that JAA is presently looking for a new frontman, preferably someone who both plays bass and is bulletproof."

How true, how true. ;-D
We are ALL looking for someone who plays bass and is bulletproof.


Sofar everything has been both pointed and informative. Good writing from Gland 'X', Fuzzy Pink Fedora, News Servic, The back of the hill, anarcho~Zionist, Friar Yid (not Shlita), Dusty, ViciousKitty.
Keep up the good work, all of you.

A drink is what I need

This town was once much nicer. Oh, it is still a beautiful place to live, but in the last twenty years it has become a social wasteland. One cannot have a decent conversation with the average Berkeleyite.
Pretentiousness about food and politics has replaced the open-mindedness of the late sixties and early seventies, and a repulsive stodgy "we know everything better than you" quality has infected the discourse. Dare not disagree, lest the burgers of Berkeley gang up on you for not meeting THEIR definition of political or culinary correctness.


The University library remains one of the best in the world. This is due to the worthwhile books in several languages still being in brand-new condition, despite being decades old - neither students nor most of the faculty ever veer far into unknown territory. The ageless literature beckons, and responds with a grateful cracking sound when finally opened. The first visitor in years! Oh happy day!


A majority of the people in this burg quite likely have a copy of Remembrance of Things Past, The Bell Jar, and Israel: Peace not Apartheid. Or treasure on elderly copy of something by Tom Robins or Alice Wlaker.
The air of preciousness and sincerity is stifling.
But the view is splendid.

Say no to Swedish Meatballs!

Coming up this week: a calm and rational protest at the Swedish Consulate.

Where: 120 Montgomery Street (at Sutter), San Francisco
When: Wednesday September 2, 5-6 PM


See this post:
http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2009/08/protest-at-swedish-consulatedemand.html


Why: Because the Swedish Government decided to stand behind the mock-journalist Donald Bostrom, who alleged, without even a shred of evidence, that Israeli soldiers were kidnapping and killing Palestinians in order to harvest organs to be used for transplantation.

For a good backgrounder:
http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2009/08/blood-libels-and-swedish-self.html

QUOTE:
"As documented in the Jerusalem Post, Bostrom freely admits that he has no evidence whatsoever to back up this blood libel, but indicted that it is up to Israelis to prove innocence in this matter. When the Swedish Ambassador to Israel rightfully condemned this hate speech hiding behind the curtain of "free speech", she was condemned back home in Sweden where some members of the government urged her recall.The government of Sweden has refused to condemn the blood libel, on grounds of "freedom of the press." Yet Sweden apparently has no problems censoring free speech when it is militant Muslims who are upset—in 2006, the Swedish Foreign Minister shut down a website displaying cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed."
End quote.


Further background here:
http://zionism-israel.com/israel_news/2009/08/video-and-petition-swedish-organ.html

Essential reading here:
http://zionism-israel.com/israel_news/2009/08/why-lieberman-took-on-sweden.html



BALLS!

The accusation of organ harvesting is of course little more than pro-Palestinian propaganda by a writer who stands infamous for an extremist anti-Jewish and anti-Israel point of view, printed in a feuilleton notorious for pandering to the lowest biases and preconceptions of its readers.

If Donald Bostrom cannot find news on his doorstep, or in his toilet, he will invent it. Reporter is a name for which he can but strive, a title which he scarce deserves.

And Aftonbladet, the gutter rag which printed his opinion piece (they themselves called it such, as if to excuse its dissemination), thrives on scandal, dead babies, raped farm animals, embarrassed celebrities, and other staples of newspapers at the kitty-box liner niveau of news media. It is, which surprises me, one of the most popular papers in Scandinavia. I would have thought that they were better than that over there. But apparently, not.

So, to indicate that civilized people do not consider racialist rumor-mongering, hate speech, and vile bigotry, the normal or natural content of news media, nor matters covered by freedom of the press and justifying the official defense that Donald Bostrom and Aftonbladet received, we will be outside the Swedish Consulate during rush hour Wednesday.


See you there. Please do not bring herring.
If you have a recipe for Swedish Meatballs that contains no Swedes, so much the better.

Formerly enemy territory, San Jose area now boasts a vibrant pro-Israel presence. A group of concerned citizens have organized to counter some of the blatant lies, anti-Semitism, and hatred which are standardly promoted by an organization calling itself the South Bay Mobilization.


From the j:

Pro-Israel group expands to S. Bay

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/39612/pro-israel-group-expands-to-s.-bay/

The staunchly pro-Israel local organization S.F. Voice for Israel has started a new chapter, South Bay Voice for Israel, which will operate across the Peninsula and points south. In addition, S.F. Voice for Israel has formally allied itself with StandWithUs, a national organization. According to spokesperson Mike Harris, the organization will now be called StandWithUs/S.F. Voice for Israel, though he says it will retain operational independence continue to work with local Jewish community institutions.
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Countering the Wallachites

As is well known, The South Bay Mobilization serves primarily as a mouth-piece for the Wallach sisters, Donna and Darlene Wallach, who have over the years become more and more Jew-hating and Arafat-loving. Donna Wallach, 57 years old, standardly refers to Tel Aviv as "occupied Palestine", kept company with Yasser Arafat, socializes with psychopaths (Ishmael Haniyeh, inter alia), and regularly participates in bizarre activities organized by Paul Larudee, Kate Rafael Bender, and other members of their cult.

She has a cat who is normal.


Both Darlene and Donna Wallach enthusiastically support Hamas and wish that organization every success in their effort to ethnically cleanse the Eastern Mediterranean of any trace of Jews and impose a theocratic dictatorship. Both sisters regularly give breathless speeches to others who more or less support the same goal, irrespective of creed or political affiliation - fascist, communist, wahabi, jihadi, or presbyterian.

They may also be available for children's parties - we haven't asked.


The recent Monday pro-Israel counterprotests in San Jose have particularly ired the Wallach twins, who thought they had that intersection all to themselves. Now that truth finally has a voice in San Jose, the sisters may just melt or spontaneously combust. See you again tomorrow, Donna and Darlene. Please dress more appropriately this time, and brush your teeth - especially if you are going to yell at people.

Also, dump the keffiyehs - those things are SO 2003!
Honest.... can't take you girls anywhere.

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Crossposted here: http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/ ===============================================

The cheery predictability of it all

Soon the students will return. This is not necessarily a blessing. Some of them add sparkle and pizzazz to this town, and disturb the comfortable self-satisfaction of the average Berkeleyite. Other, unfortunately, give vent to their innate Messiah complexes, and insist on saving the world.

Given that like the priggish middle-classes here, they too are staggeringly ignorant and undeep, you can imagine how unfortunate their involvements will be.

Each academic year brings with it new and increasingly unpleasant surprises.
I look forward to this fall with trepidation.

The official first post

My name is Chaim. And, as you can tell from the name of this blog, I live in Berkeley, California.
Which is both a blessing and a curse.
Nevertheless I shall continue to live here.
Given what the real-estate market is like, moving is entirely out of the question.
Peevishness and ire are always options, however.