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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
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