UN Targets World Union for Progressive Judaism

From UN Targets World Union for Progressive Judaism:

More than 3,000 non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, are officially accredited by the UN, entitling these groups to enter UN premises, get access to meetings and decision-makers, and speak at UN bodies like the Human Rights Council. However, on Tuesday, the UN Committee on Non-governmental Organizations is poised to revoke these basic access rights from the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ), which represents more than 1.7 million reform, progressive, liberal and reconstructionist Jews all over the world. The WUPJ offers a rare but tenacious voice that confronts Islamic human rights abuses at the UN at every turn.

Bureaucrats at the UN trace the problem back to a Jan. 24, 2008, session of the Human Rights Council. As the council conducted its predetermined witch hunt against Israel, WUPJ representative David Littman referred to Hamas' genocidal charter. He began three times, quoting the charter's words that "Israel will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it," and calling upon the council to invoke the Genocide Convention.

Each time, the council president interrupted and warned him to "focus on the issue." Littman stood his ground: "The issue is what Hamas and the government in Gaza wishes to do to Israel." Bang, bang, bang went the gavel. Stymied, Littman recalled his Shakespeare and said: "There is a general malaise in the air. A feeling that something is rotten in the state of this council." Those words were "disrespectful" to the Human Rights Council, the diplomats from the Muslim world declared.

Don't tell me Muslims aren't fascist

From Italian Book Fair's Plans to Honor Israel Lead to Protests:

The selection of Israel as guest of honor at this spring’s International Book Fair in Turin has set off a furious debate among Italian, Israeli and Arab authors and intellectuals, including calls to boycott the event, Italy’s largest annual gathering of the publishing world.

Those opposed to the decision say that offering such an honor at a fair opening in May, when Israel will celebrate its 60th anniversary as a nation, is to ignore its policies toward Palestinians.

“A prestigious event like the book fair can’t pretend it doesn’t know what’s happening in that part of the Middle East,” said Vincenzo Chieppa, a local leader of the Italian Communist Party, who was one of the first to raise objections to the selection of Israel.

Subsequent calls to boycott the fair — coming both from extreme-left-wing Italian political activists and prominent Italian and Arab intellectuals and authors — have prompted a wave of newspaper articles, some raising concerns about censorship and others extolling the need to place art above politics.

On Tuesday, for instance, a small group of protesters associated with a local pro-Palestinian group stormed the book fair offices in Turin, demanding that the invitation to Israel be rescinded.

Haveil Havalim #150 is up today

Haveli Havilim #150 is up today at Soccer Dad. As always, there are some great posts from all around the JBlogosphere, but I especially want to bring your attention to this collection of Abuse of Power posts, that articulate how, under Olmert's fascist government, Israel has morphed into a dictatorship, where no Jew is safe from speaking out against the Israeli government.

Bloggers beware. From Soccer Dad:

A contributor at Mystical Paths Blog & Emunah Paths Podcasts is called in for interrogation and INTIMIDATION ! ! !.

Shiloh Musings writes about some teenagers who found themselves in the Wrong Place, Wrong Time.

The (not) Forgotten Prisoners of Zion presents The (not) Forgotten Prisoners of Zion: Daughters Of Zion, saying, "Two posts in one regarding the plight of a group of teen aged girls in thrown into the Israeli prison system."

Israel Matzav notes some awfully convenient timing in Just a coincidence? Lieberman's daughter interrogated.

treppenwitz writes about those who are curiously silent in ... but when they came for me it was too late. Elsewhere on the web, you may read about more episodes of censorship and imprisonment, here.

1389 blog just published posts about censorship, freedom of expression, freedom of speech as well:

Ezra Levant Takes Down Canadian Human Rights Commission

Statement from Foehammer: Experiencing difficulties beyond my control

Foehammer's Anvil blog taken down by LunarPages

Words fail me: Belarus jails publisher over Muhammad cartoons

Links to recorded webcasts from threatened British blogger Lionheart(see comments regarding Lionheart's responses to accusations from LGF).

Muslims are winning the war on terror, everyone. Prepare to be muzzled prior to being beheaded.