A friend just contacted me to send Jewish New Year greetings (and I should take this opportunity to wish Shana Tova to all JWN readers who would appreciate the greeting, too. I hope the next 12 months are good ones for all JWN readers.)
My friend also told me that she has been put on something called the S.H.I.T. list— which stands for Self-Hating and/or Israel-Threatening Jews.
It turns out this is a magnificent list of some 7,000 or so Jewish people from around the world who have expressed open criticisms of the policies of one or more governments of Israel. Many of my Jewish friends are on it, it turns out… Scrolling through it indicated to me just how widely criticism of Israeli government policy has been expressed among Jewish people worldwide.
How come I never heard of it before? Here, you can learn about such people as (quite randomly):
Al Kagen… a professor of library administration at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, [who] has been active in the movement to get that institution to divest from investing funds in the Israel, as well as with firms that do business with the Jewish state, or
Holly Kosisky, who (shockingly!)… “signed a petition calling for Israel to remove its security wall so that PLO Arab sharpshooters and bus bombers can more easily murder Jews.”
…I’m sure you get the drift. Some of these people are principled leaders in the struggle for human equality in the Holy Land… Others have merely “signed a petition against the Wall”.
In case you want to know more about the organization that keeps this list, Masada 2000, you can go to its home-page, which is graced at the very top by a quote from the late Meir Kahane and then spends most of that page explaining to readers why There has never been a civilization or a nation referred to as “Palestine” (bolded in the original.)
Read here about the organization’s truly scary Solution(s) to the Israeli-“Palestinian” Conflict:
Or you can contact the folks to at the website to send on the names of any Jewish people you know who should be included on the S.H.I.T. list. (“You will remain anonymous.”)
But there’s something else about this site that’s even more intriguing…. Many of the people on the S.H.I.T. list only have their names listed. Others have hyperlinks to their email addresses– I suppose, to make it easier for the Kahanists who created the site to send hate-mail to them.
Around 10% of the names listed have their jobs or place of residence identified, and a little description of their supposedly “Israel-threatening” activities. Many of these descriptions have some extremely sarcastic “editorial comment” attached: “Lady, you should feel embarrassed and inferior but mostly ashamed of yourself! ” (Or this, for Noam Chomsky: ” In other words, Chomsky is a thoroughly despicable human being.”)
But sometimes, the sarcasm and nastiness in these listings take on a distinctly feminophobic and even faintly pornographic coloration. I was a little puzzled by this. Then I found a link to this truly disgusting page on the M2000 site. It’s quite a long page, so keep on scrolling down. [Warning: this page reportedly includes sound, too.]
You will see, respectively:
* a female sexual-pleasuring object in the image of Yasser Arafat,
* an “endorsement” for this product from a supposedly satisfied customer (presumably one of the women on the S.H.I.T. list?)
* a list of the different “designs” in which this product is available, including “The Monster Mohammed”, etc etc, then–
* a poster-type display with photos, that is titled A few leftist chicks in need of a good reaming — these ones, again, taken from the S.H.I.T. list .
This stuff is revolting. It’s a rampant call to woman-hatred, the physical abuse of women, and the demeaning of all women who attempt to enter the public discourse.
In this latter respect, I can recall some of the terrible cartoons that were published by the genocidaires in Rwanda, in the lead-up to the genocide, in which lewd sexual suggestions were made about the (generally pro-coexistence) female Hutu prime minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana. The pro-genocidaire publications ran cartoon after cartoon after cartoon of this genre in those weeks…. And then, as one of the first acts during the genocide, the genocidal militias stormed Ms. Uwilingiyimana’s home, took her out, and subjected her to the most grotesque forms of sexual mutilation (in front of her children) before finally they killed her.
The people who run this Masada2000 website should take down this page immediately… Spewing hate in the way they do on their other pages is bad enough. But spewing hate with an incitement to rape is, I think, even worse.