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    ADL'S DUBIOUS SURVEY

    Keghart.com
    Editorial, June 1, 2014

    Since its release earlier in May, the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL)
    preposterously named "The Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism"
    has drawn ridicule from a variety of sources for being unscientific
    and thus invalid.

    The jazzy-sounding "Global 100", which claimed that more than a quarter
    of the world's population is anti-Semitic, has been found wanting in
    proper methodology and on political grounds. Among the critics are
    author Norman Finkelstein (a child of Holocaust survivors) and Amira
    Haas, a leading columnist of the Israeli "Haaretz" newspaper. It has
    been also criticized as skewed to portray and to enforce Zionist
    ideology and agenda. Least of the survey's problem is that by
    interviewing just over 50,000 adults (102 countries in 96 languages),
    it claims there are more than one billion anti-Semites among us.

    The survey says 0.2% (!) of Laotians are anti-Semitic while that
    country's next-door neighbor (Vietnam) is 6% anti-Semitic. In the
    land of "Liberte, Fraternite, Egalite" some 37% of Frenchmen are
    anti-Semitic compared to a mere 21% in Portugal, a country with
    a long history of anti-Semitism. Haiti and the Dominican Republic
    share the tiny island of Hispaniola. While 26% of Haiti's population
    is anti-Semitic, that number amazingly balloons to 41% in next-door
    Dominican Republic, says the survey. For some mysterious reason,
    fully 33% of the citizens of Botswana, in the middle of nowhere, are
    anti-Semitic. Malaysia's percentage is 61%, compared to its neighbor
    Singapore's 16%. Greece is far more (69%) anti-Semitic than Israel's
    sworn enemy Iran (56%).

    In the Caucasus, Armenia gets the gold medal in the anti-Semitism
    (58%) competition, according to the inane survey. Azerbaijan's and
    Georgia's numbers are 37% and 32%. Thus Armenia is almost twice as
    anti-Semitic as Georgia, says Genocide-denying Abe Foxman's ADL.

    Extrapolated into population figures, there are 1,300,000 (count them)
    anti-Semites in Armenia. Who knew?

    In an scathing attack on the ADL, Finkelstein wrote: "Most every
    sane person has come to take anything the Anti-Defamation League
    utters with a dozen boulders of salt" adding that the organization
    is trying to cash in on the "ever-burgeoning anti-Semitism industry
    and still hopes to immunize Israel by labeling legitimate criticism
    of its policies as motivated by an irrational animus towards Jews."

    Peter Lyukimson's below article, which appeared in "Vestnik Kavkaza"
    (May 27), attacks the Armenian Cultural Society of Israel for accusing
    the Israeli government of inability to fight anti-Armenian sentiment
    in the country. Mr. Lyukinson also takes the ADL survey at face value.

    Despite residing in Israel, he doesn't seem to know that all Christian
    minorities of the Holy Land--including Armenians--have a very difficult
    time under Israeli Occupation.

    In YNETnews.com (May 30), Palestinian Farid Jubran addressed the
    difficulties Christians in Israel face. "A minority of a minority ,
    [it is] exposed to waves of hatred," he said and cited an Israeli
    member of the Knesset who tore the New Testament in the Knesset while
    uttering words of incitement. The firing of gunshots inside churches,
    the setting of fire in monasteries, the spray-painting of malicious
    graffiti on monastery walls, the slashing of Christians' car tires
    were other examples of anti-Christian acts in Israel, said Mr. Jubran.

    He also mentioned religious Jews spitting on monks, Jews shattering
    Christian gravestones, and death threats to bishops and to Christian
    community leaders. "The government stands by idly and utters a few
    words of condemnation...restricts the Churches' activities immensely
    by imposing a strict and discriminating regime of visas for Christian
    clerics. A priest who wishes to stay in Israel in order to serve in one
    of the Christians communities will be forced to undergo a humiliating
    via dolorosa on the part of the authorities until he receives the stay
    permit, if at all," wrote Mr. Jubran and pointed out that the nature,
    identity and autonomy of Christian schools are constantly undermined
    by the Israeli authorities.

    To neutralize the criticism of the Armenian Cultural Society's
    accusations against the Israeli authorities, Mr. Lyukimson luxuriates
    in spreading the anti-Armenian misinformation of the ADL survey. While
    it's irrational to claim that there's no anti-Semitism in Armenia,
    what little that exists is surely a result of Israel's execrable
    policies towards the Armenian people, rather than a racial or religious
    hostility.

    For years Israel has been selling sophisticated weapons and electronic
    gadgetry to Azerbaijan. The latter not only threatens Armenia on a
    regular basis but it frequently sends soldiers across the border to
    kill Armenians. Israeli soldiers also train the Azeri military.

    Israel refuses to recognize the Genocide of Armenians, although it
    should have been the first state to have recognized the vast tragedy
    which preceded the Holocaust by 25 year. Israel, through its lobby in
    the US, regularly throttles the passing of resolutions recognizing
    the Genocide. Putting politics ahead of morality, a state which was
    born out of the ashes of the Holocaust, does Turkey's dirty work in
    Washington with offensive eagerness and alacrity.

    Despite ADL's assertion that 37% of Azerbaijan is anti-Semitic, a few
    days ago Arye Gut, board member of the Azerbaijan-Israel International
    Association, said to the "Baku Post": "Azerbaijan is the most tolerant
    country in the world and a true model of intercivilizational and
    interreligious dialogue." And back in November, Gut said: "There has
    never been anti-Semitism in Azerbaijan." Whew.

    ADL mouthpiece Mr. Lyukimson should read about Russian Jews who,
    for decades, sought sanctuary from Soviet anti-Semitism in tolerant
    Armenia. He should also read about the frequent intermarriage between
    Soviet Armenians and Soviet Jews. The two nations found each other
    sympathetic. Meanwhile a discredited lobbying organization, with
    the misnomer that it fights defamation, is trying to sow hostility
    between the two nations.

    The ADL and Mr. Lyukimson are barking at the wrong tree.

    http://www.keghart.com/Editorial-ADL-Survey




    From: A. Papazian
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