A few months back I blogged about how a reader of the “progressive” news site Media With Conscience (MWC) complained about the publication of cartoons by Ben Heine (who took part in the infamous 2006 Tehran Holocaust cartoon contest). Predictably, these complaints were dismissed by the site’s editors for the usual reasons (suppressing creative expression, confusing anti-zionism with anti-semitism)
Well, now an article at MWC attacking “Jewish hate groups” features this cartoon, depicting an ADL boot kicking over a Church. I was curious about the origins of the cartoon, and discovered that it orginally appeared on the neo-Nazi site, rense.com. It’s an illustration accompanying articles denouncing hate crime legislation that will allegedly lead to the “creation of a vast Orwellian anti-hate bureaucracy and police state with the ADL lurking behind the scenes to seize and silence the politically incorrect anywhere in America. From a supreme position of power over all federal and local law enforcement, the ADL will be able to enforce its twisted definition that ‘hate’ means bias against federally protected groups, particularly Jews and homosexuals. All Bible-believing Christians will become ‘haters.’”
Yep, Media With Conscience…Can you feel the love?
Honestly, I don’t see what’s so “progressive” about this website. They seem obsessed with the “evil” Zionists, and while I have my own problems with the ADL (I wish they were focused more on their historic mission against anti-semitism in the U.S., and less on Israel), they are hardly a “hate group.” I wonder if the people running this site are starting to get so crazy on Israel that they’re beginning to think that the radical right isn’t so bad when it comes to condemning the Zionists/Jews.
“Where is injustice and oppression, that become the center or universe”
Media With Conscience
Sorry
That should read: “”Where is injustice and oppression, that become the center of universe”
I thought you might be interested in this (they are all a big family):
Jesus, Ben Heine, Mary Sparrowdancer and Jeff Rense (1 Oct. 2007)
Among the galaxy of Israel/Zionist bashers, Ben Heine, the Belgian cartoonist who took part in the infamous Teheran Holocaust cartoon contest – while pretending to have been misguided by the organisers – is totally committed to the Cause. He has been posting on his website virulently anti-Israel articles by Mary Sparrowdancer, who is the author of “The Gospel of Judas, Barbelo and Long-Kept Secrets, Revelations from this ancient, supressed [sic] Gospel indicate Jesus was NOT an Emissary of the old War God of the Old Testament. He is the opponent”.
Through her articles Ben Heine surreptitiously and cleverly directs the reader to Jeff Rense’s revisionist/negationist site. Here is a sample of what is on offer: Ilya Ehrenberg – The Man Who Invented The ‘Six Million’; The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (18 articles); Zundel – Prisoner of Zionism; Jewish Dominance of US/World Pornography Industry; The Twenty Victories of Revisionism, by Robert Faurisson, etc.
WIKIPEDIA: “Jeff Rense is an American conspiracy theorist and radio talk-show host of the Jeff Rense Program… Rense’s radio program and website, Rense.com cover subjects such as UFO reporting, paranormal phenomena, conspiracy theories, tracking of new diseases & possible resultant pandemics, environmental concerns … A recurring subject … is a general mistrust of the establishment, and the theory that the attacks on the New York World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 were orchestrated by Zionist Neoconservative elements within the US Government, the CIA and the Israeli Mossad.”
Mary Sparrowdancer: “Mary is a writer of science, health, philosophy and the politics coloring all of it. She has extensive training in clinical laboratory sciences, including bacteriology, microscopic evaluation, pathology studies, hematology, and electroencephalography – and in veterinary and wildlife sciences, including ornithology. She has personally provided humane care for over 20,000 wild birds and wild animals. Her studies, research and writing have been ongoing for more than 30 years. Mary’s focus is now primarily upon the health, safety and wellbeing of humanity, as well as an instrument drafted to help ensure human wellbeing: The Constitution.”
“Mary Sparrowdancer was ordained to speak about the compassionate, human rights teachings of Jesus in 1988. She was then asked to begin speaking in 1989.” “She is a follower of the teachings of Jesus, i.e., human rights and civil liberties, and she was ordained in 1988. She is not a “Christian,” because Christianity is based upon the teachings of Paul, the only self-declared apostle who was never selected as a disciple by Jesus. (Hence, beware of Paul’s teachings in Romans 13, suggesting we “submit to authority.”)”
“Mary Sparrowdancer is the author of The Love Song, about the Messiah who is now walking among us. He is an interesting fellow who showed up exactly as predicted, 40 years after the creation of the state of Israel. He announces nothing about himself, he is not affiliated with any religion on earth, and he only becomes a Messiah if one accepts his terms of peace. He is not a “failed messiah.” We failed by not accepting his terms the last time.”
Articles by Mary Sparrowdancer on the websites of Jeff Rense and Ben Heine (illustrated by Heine):
The Invisible Holocaust
G Is For Genocide W Is For War
Can You Spare A Used Tent? – “The Holy Land was never meant to be desecrated with apartheid walls, electric fences, barbed wire, and hundreds of miserable checkpoints.”
Palestine: Zionist Starvation Plan
Give Palestine back to the Palestinian Semites. Free Palestine
Israel Conducts Military Training Exercises On Palestinians – “Palestinians represent the oppressed all over the world. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
http://philosemitism.blogspot.com/search?q=rense (to see the pictures)
The extreme left and right have merged along with islamists, to fight their common Jewish enemy. I can’t even tell the difference anymore between the radical right and the radical left.
Apparently some extreme left are sometimes able to see the antisemites among them:
http://www.phdn.org/antisem/antision/shamir.html
———- Forwarded message
From: MWC. News
Date: Oct 17, 2007 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: “Progressive” Website Posts Neo-Nazi Cartoon
To: Michael Pugliese
How do you know where did the photo originally appear?
What is about the photo that could give one impression of racism?
Welcome to Internet.
You have the same photo in your blog now, should we assume you are neo-Nazi?
On 10/17/07, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> Well, now an article at MWC attacking “Jewish hate groups” features
> this cartoon, depicting an ADL boot kicking over a Church. I was
> curious about the origins of the cartoon, and discovered that it
> orginally appeared on the neo-Nazi site, rense.com.
> at rhat url igave you,
> http://judeosphere.blogspot.com/2007/10/progressive-website-posts-neo-nazi.html
>
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> On 10/16/07, MWC. News wrote:
> > What Jeff Rense has anything to do with MWC News?
> >
> > On 10/16/07, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> > > ———- Forwarded message ———-
> > > From: Michael Pugliese
> > > Date: Oct 16, 2007 11:20 AM
> > > Subject: “Progressive” Website Posts Neo-Nazi Cartoon
> > >
> > >
> > > Via http://judeosphere.blogspot.com/2007/10/progressive-website-posts-neo-nazi.html
> > > Um, tell the managing editor of http://mwcnews.net/HomePage
> > > that Jeff Rense, is a explicit supporter of Ernst Zundel, the Neo-Nazi
> > > Holocaust Denialist, Lyndon LaRouche and other kooks on the far right.
> > > And that cartoon, is from the Rev. Ted Pike, I think. Pike is a
> > > “Christian Identity” supporter,. Chip Berlet, Frederick Clarkson, Dave
> > > Neiwert and Michael Barkun have written much on those “Christian”
> > > neo-fascists.
> > > http://www.publiceye.org/rightist/rudolph.html#ci
> > > Barkun, Michael. 1994. Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of
> > > the Christian Identity Movement. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North
> > > Carolina Press.
> > >
> > > Barkun, Michael. 1997. “Racist Apocalypse: Millennialism on the Far
> > > Right.” The Year 2000: Essays on the End, ed. Charles B. Strozier and
> > > Michael Flynn. New York: New York University Press.
> > >
> > > Berlet, Chip, and Matthew N. Lyons. 2000. Right-Wing Populism in
> > > America: Too Close for Comfort. New York: Guilford.
> > >
> > >
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> > > Michael Pugliese
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> > >
> > > –
> > > Michael Pugliese
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> > –
> > Shahram Vahdany
> > Managing Editorial
> > Media With Conscience
> > 2685 Victoria Dr.
> > Vancouver B.C
> > V5N-4L3
> > Canada
> > Phone: 778-329-8867
> > web ; http://www.mwcnews.net
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> Michael Pugliese
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Shahram Vahdany
Managing Editorial
Media With Conscience
2685 Victoria Dr.
Vancouver B.C
V5N-4L3
Canada
Phone: 778-329-8867
E-mail: ShahramVahdany@mwcnews.net
web ; http://www.mwcnews.net
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Michael Pugliese
The link to the cartoon on mwc seems to no longer be working. Would you happen to have the new link? Thanks.