Brendon O'Connell's YouTube channel

[high_treason]

I support Brendon, even if I may differ with him on some very minor issues. He is a brave soul who actually stoodup to the Jews and their subversion and is paying the price, it is not only his fight but it is our fight. I believe we should promote his case more often, from my end I will try and help as much as I can since he could be you or me in the few coming years. If you want an update he has a videos uploaded since his court appearence. He maybe facing a jail term of 5 years we should organize a strong movement even if we disagree with him, we all agree on the same message.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrBrendonoconnell33

[Ognir]

What's the latest on the case?

[ehpg]

A Compilation of Brendon O'Connell Claims How one man can serve to discredit justice-seeking anti-Zionists, diminish the reputation of truth tellers, provoke conflict between anti-Zionists and anti-Judaics, tarnish Christianity, and hinder those who expose real conspiracies.

[Ognir]

Saw that one already, so there isn't much *new* news on him

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

It is beyond me how a backstabber can expect help from the ones he backstabs.

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Time will tell with Brendon, his connection to Eric H. makes me still wonder . . .
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The Brendon O'Connell's trial coming soon (Australia) - Jews : Race or Religion ?

Since the Statute provides no legal definition of whether or not Jews are a race, the question is an issue of fact, not law, and therefore a defendant so charged ought to be entitled to have the issue of fact determined by a jury, if that is his choice, and not a judge or other non-jury form of hearing.

Christopher Jon Bjerknes

[youtube:1qt6kirr]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yep5yLJG0i4[/youtube]1qt6kirr]


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by Fredrick Toeben

1. On 11 December 2009 Fredrick Töben visited Perth to observe in the District Court a call-over in the Matter of Director of Public Prosecution - DPP, Western Australia, and Brendon O'Connell.
2. The matter is important because Mr O'Connell is accused by the state of racially vilifying Jews, and so it must be clarified whether the Jews are a race, a religion or both, or anything else. The DPP has taken up this complaint laid by a young Jew in Perth who felt harassed by O'Connell.
3. If the court finds being a Jew is a racial matter, then this brings in the National Socialist definition that a Jew is a race, something that speaks against the facts, though the ethnic category would support the facts that some Jews make up an ethnic category, for example the Ashkenazi-Khazars and the Sephardics.
4. While visiting Israel during the 1970s Töben met Chinese and Indian Jews, and in Africa during the early 1980s he met African Jews.
5. He thus concludes that the Jew is a religion and not a race.
6. Problems may emerge when the definition is tested in the Perth District Court because there will be claims made that being Jewish is a matter of one's mindset.
7. There is legal strength in this argument because Australians of European descent have claimed they identify with the Aboriginal people and thus, for example, in matters of social security purposes they claim to be indigenous, which courts have accepted as legitimate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yep5yLJG0i4
http://www.youtube.com/user/FredrickToben



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By Christopher Jon Bjerknes
Though there are certainly weighty historically important questions which will be judged in the case of Brendon O'Connell, his first concern should be to preserve his liberty and win his case. Any defendant should be raising legal issues in his defense and not simply hope to win because he is morally and factually correct. If convicted, a defendant may have waived those rights he did not assert prior to and during trial, and the appeals courts may refuse to consider any issues raised for the first time in post-conviction process. It is important, therefore, for any defendant to vigorously defend himself at the pretrail and trial stage of the prosecution, and throughout the process and assert all of his rights, and not get caught up in the drama and emotion which may blind him to the legal issues which can free him and which can help preserve all of our fundamental rights as human beings against the encroachments of the State.



If the information Toeben presents is correct, then the law which the State seeks to enforce against Brendon O'Connell is fatally defective on its face.



If the determination of whether or not the Jews constitute a race is made after the alleged act of vilifying the Jews occurs, then such a determination, however made, and whether made by a judge or a jury, or some other form of hearing, is made ex post facto and therefore is unenforceable against a defendant who had no prior notice of what conduct is proscribed by law.



The very act of conducting a hearing to determine whether or not Jews are a race demonstrates that the Statute failed to provide sufficient notice to the public of what conduct is proscribed by law, and therefore the Statute is unenforceable and must be struck down.



Since the Statute provides no legal definition of whether or not Jews are a race, the question is an issue of fact, not law, and therefore a defendant so charged ought to be entitled to have the issue of fact determined by a jury, if that is his choice, and not a judge or other non-jury form of hearing. I know nothing about Australian law. It might be that a defendant will have waived his right to have the issue determined by the jury at trial if he fails to assert that right pretrial and instead agrees to have the issue determined by a judge without objecting and taking exception to the violation of his fundamental due process rights. I do not know if the Australian courts honor a defendant's fundamental right to have issues of fact determined by a jury of his peers, as opposed to by a judge who in America is only entitled to determine issues of the law if that is the defendant's choice. This is a very important point to consider and one which the appeals courts may refuse to consider if it is not raised at the pretrial stage.



(1) There is a substantial argument to be made that there are no distinct human races, and therefore any accusation of racial vilification does not, and cannot state an offense and can therefore be dismissed pretrial. (2) This argument can be made in addition to the argument that the Jews are so genetically diverse that they cannot constitute any homogenous and unique biological category, much less constitute a specific race. (3) Beyond this is the argument that the Jews are followers of the Jewish religion, not an homogenous and unique racial biological category. A Jew may become a non-Jew by changing his religion without changing his genes. A non-Jew may become a Jew by conversion and belief. Though such a convert may believe that he is racially superior based on his incorporation through his beliefs into the "chosen people", science provides no evidence that his genes have changed, much less blended with those of a mythological homogenous and unique Jewish genotype which nowhere exists. These are three separate issues and should be heard separately at different hearings or by a jury.



Once again, since the law has not made any such definitions, these are questions of fact best left to the determination of a jury which is more likely to be sympathetic to the defendant's position than the State's by virtue of the fact that a judge is a member of the State. Any defendant should consider whether or not it is in his best interests to raise issues of: fact versus law, jury versus judge; and raise objections and take exceptions should the courts deny his right to have these issues of fact determined by a jury of his peers.



I once again caution O'Connell to use his head, not his heart, to defend his liberty, and his backside, and not martyr himself out of emotion and knowledge that he is in the right. He needs proper legal counsel who defend all of his rights and he needs to assert those rights and make proper and effective legal arguments as well as historical, religious and political arguments. The press, the public and the courts will take a strong interest in well stated legal arguments.

http://jewishracism.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... endon.html

http://brendonoconnell.blogspot.com/

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[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Update:
Monday, May 31, 2010
Brendon O'Connell Gagged Again
After having been informed that he was free to upload video material to the Internet so long as any such material was not related to his ongoing court case, Brendon O'Connell was arrested and temporary incarcerated last weekend for supposedly "breaching" this bail condition. After appearing before Perth Magistrates Court last Monday, the original bail condition whereby Brendon is forbidden from uploading any material whatsoever to the Internet was re-invoked and will remain in place until the conclusion of his trial in August.

The supposed "breach" of Brendon's bail condition occurred after he had uploaded the video below to his YouTube account. Viewers can decide for themselves whether or not Brendon's arrest, temporary incarceration and subsequent gagging was justified.

[youtube:47azumwi]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB2x2H-YZaA[/youtube]47azumwi]

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Is It Possible To Gather SERIOUS Donations To Fly "Expert Witnesses" Out?

This is not a call for $10 and $50 donations. It is a call for a major player to provide the resources needed to fly AVAILABLE "Expert Witnesses" to Western Astralia.

At the moment - the State of Western Australia is only willing to pay for up to 2 "expert witnesses" to attend court via video link. There are up to 19 people willing to give expert testimony and expert "lay" testimony on Mr Brendon O'Connell's behalf. Several are "locked in" and many others have given positive feedback.

Those people will not be mentioned here at this time. They are major players in their particular field and have direct experiences of the subject in question. Some are the who's who of their particular area.

One top rated mainstream academic from outside of Australia - expert in his field - will give "expert testimony" on Mr Brendon O'Connell's behalf via video link but is available to fly if resources were available.

Again, this is NOT a request for $10 and $50 donations. It is a request for a major player or major players, to fund the requisite air fares to the upcoming trial due first half of 2011 for those approved for testimony who are available to travel.

Time is short. A window is open. There is nothing to lose except a few digits of a bank balance that cannot be taken with you when you die in exchange for this unique oppurtunity.

Please contact Mark Glenn of "The Ugly Truth" web site and pod cast to express your interest in this matter.

http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/

http://brendonoconnell.blogspot.com/

[Panoptimist]

Cliffs?

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

If I had the money, I would help out.

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

[googlevid:3rcy621d]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=182423138094287597[/googlevid:3rcy621d]

Kay Griggs

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Does anyone know how to embed google videos?

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I don't know if this is the WHOLE interview, the real one must be at least 7 or 8 hours, be sure on the time so you don't miss a thing.


Playlist (switch automatically) - 1 of 30 Kay Griggs Full Interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-fNOW5E ... F&index=21


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[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Anyone know how much dough O'Connell needs to fly in these experts?

[Ognir]

I was thinking about this guy the other day and have to ask, if he could go back in time,  would he have done the same thing?

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

This is the "America" O'Connell met on Libertyforum before he started acting irrational:

http://www.scribd.com/full/27030888?access_key=key-1j4spzm3e3qycij8ck7i

America admitted to being partial to Freemasonry and Brendon was warned to avoid her (him, it, them).

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2009, 08:58:59 am »
Good point OldTimes...

We have an interesting history on this board.

Originally there were a core group of pro-zionists who infiltrated this board from other places,  mainly the old Liberty Forum.  We called them the "Orange Crew" and dealt with them properly until they were finally banished.

There have been a couple (gelignite) that were polite enough to continue to survive on this board, but most of the usurpers were ran off....(sealed in a barrel and thrown overboard)  if I remember the label correctly.

Then, the fight turned from the enemy, to differences amongst us, past the known accepted enemy of thew zionist.  

Most everyone here agrees that the actions of the modern zionist jews are an evil to be fought in this world and we post and discuss accordingly.

After a time,  some of the more radical bipolar members felt the need to employ a witchhunt to ferret out any more hiding crypto jews on this board and began to randomly accuse others of being jews (as we are seeing with this walt disney fruitcake)  As the sane members choose to ignore the psychotic outbursts, much more was said and done to "Prove" the enemy amongst us.  It really got silly for awhile until finally the core of the problem was banned here and moved onto the AWE board where they carried on.

A former member here Inri, was personally responsible for inciting Brendon into an unchecked rage against everyone who didn't sign on with him regardless of the facts in the case.

This is an Excellent venue for spreading truth and there are alot of intelligent informed posters who are happy to help with information as needed.

Effendis words on Brendan:

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    You are a tool if you think for one minute that crazy fuckball has done anything but harm the cause.
    Along with his idiot team America and Inri, the fucking psycho trio has done more to turn people off and away from the truth then they ever have in regards to spreading truth.


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    'Get REAL skunky, brendan's a fucking nut job that does your noble crusade much more harm than good.
    birds of a feather I guess'......



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    You punk ass Christians are way too busy sucking circumcised cock!!

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    'Well obviously you have no capacity to think then, if you had bothered to observe his psychosis a couple of months back, there would be no question in your mind.  I've known him for YEARS here there and everywhere, he used to be my friend until he went fucking psychotic 3 months ago and attacked me for no reason with a vengeance, accusing ME of being a punk ass jew.  Now he HAS been removed from the team of the faithful.'


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    When brendon took photo's of my friends off the web and photo-shopped them around with skunk styled "jew noses", that was WAY the fuck over the line of decency,  and he deserves whatever little men in white coats come his way.



Ive had 1000 posts Effendi,
Ive had disagreements with a few here, just over minor issues and Ive outed perhaps 2 Jews.
So Put it in your Kosher pipe.
You call me paranoid, but I call myself Paranormal, as I deal with the Khazars regularly.

You want to be some Kosher savior riding off on a white horse, wearing a Yamalka in place of a cowboy hat but it aint happening, Schlomo. You belong in Madagascar with the rest..
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"I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting."
-Nahum Goldmann, Ex-President of the World Jewish Congress

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Noticed that Youtube has pulled another half dozen videos related to O'Connell.

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

http://vimeo.com/22416040

[Yo Mama]

What a bunch of mental patients.   :crazy:

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Anyone got an update on O'Connell's appeal?

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

13 August 2011
Australia's Repression Of BDS Movement Coordinated With Israel




In the largest show of support for the Palestinian-initiated boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign so far in Australia, more than 350 persons marched on 29 July in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle — and in opposition to an attempt by Victorian Police to criminalize Palestine solidarity activism in Melbourne.

A month earlier, on 1 July, a similar, peaceful BDS action involving 120 persons was brutally attacked by the Victorian Police. Nineteen individuals were arrested.

Charged with "trespassing" and "besetting," those arrested are now facing fines of up to AUD $30,000 (approximately US $32,300). The 1 July action, organized by the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, had sought to highlight the complicity of two Israeli companies, Jericho and Max Brenner Chocolate, with Israel's occupation and apartheid policies. The action was the fourth protest against both companies since December 2010.

Jericho, located in Melbourne Central Shopping Centre and other shopping centers around the city, produces cosmetics made from minerals exploited from the Dead Sea. While Jericho and other Israeli companies — such as Ahava, also a target of BDS campaigns — profit from the Dead Sea, Palestinians are regularly denied access by Israel's military checkpoints, exclusion zones and Israeli-only roads.

Max Brenner Chocolate, the other Israeli company subject to BDS protests in Melbourne, is owned by the Strauss Group — one of Israel's largest food and beverage companies. On its website, the Strauss Group emphasizes its support for the Israeli military, providing care packages, sports and recreational equipment, books and games for soldiers.

Strauss boasts support for the Golani and Givati Brigades, which were heavily involved in Israel's military assault on the Gaza Strip in the Winter of 2008-09, which resulted in the killing of approximately 1,400 Palestinians, the majority civilians, including approximately 350 children. While Strauss has removed information about their support for the Golani and Givati brigades from their English language website, information about the company's support for both brigades remains on their Hebrew language site.

BDS repression coordinated with Israeli government

Trade union and community representatives spoke at the rally on 29 July before the crowd marched through the city. In spite of repeated threats of mass arrests by Victoria Police — and the deployment of police horses in one of the shopping centers — the protest marched into both the Melbourne Central and Queen Victoria centers, staging peaceful sit-ins in front of the Max Brenner stores located within.
Two day earlier, on 27 July, the Victorian police confirmed during a bail variation hearing at the Magistrates' Court of Victoria (local District Court) for some of the activists arrested on 1 July that a decision had been made to arrest the protesters before the demonstration. This decision was made after discussions with Zionist organizations, the Victorian government, shopping center managements and state and national management of Max Brenner.

In April, the Australian Jewish News (AJN) reported that the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) had made representations to the Victorian police. According to the AJN, JCCV president John Searle had "called on the police to stamp down harder on aggressive protesters" ("Police questioned as protests turn violent," 15 April 2011). Similar calls for a government and police crackdown on BDS protests against Max Brenner in Sydney were made in June by former AJN journalist Walt Secord, who is now a member of the NSW State Parliament ("Police called to action on BDS," 24 June 2011).

On July 29, the same day as the BDS action against Max Brenner in Melbourne the Australian Jewish News carried a "debate" piece between Vic Alhadeff, the CEO of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, and Ted Lapkin, a former staffer with the key pro-Israeli lobby group in Australia, the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council. The piece reveals that the various calls for police and government crackdown on BDS activism was part of a "nationally coordinated strategy" developed with and backed by the Israeli Foreign Ministry ("BDS: To protest or not to protest?").

Arguing against any Zionist-organized BDS "counter" protest, Alhadeff writes: "It is important for the community to be aware that our response to BDS forms part of [a] coordinated national strategy. Furthermore, this strategy is endorsed by counterparts abroad and Israel's Foreign Ministry."

Alhadeff outlined this coordinated national strategy in response to BDS, stating that it "included, but is not limited to, engagement with civil society and politicians, patronage of boycotted outlets, cooperation with police, shop owners and center managers and exposure of the motives behind the BDS movement." According to Alhadeff, Zionist policy in response to BDS should be one which seeks to "speak softly" but to also carry "a suggestion of a big stick."

Activism leadership targeted

During cross-examination by Robert Stary, the lawyer representing the activists, Michael Beattie, an operational support inspector with the the Victorian Police, conceded that both Melbourne Central and Queen Victoria shopping centers were "public places" and that neither center prior to 1 July had sought any civil injunctions to prevent entry to the public places inside.

The cross-examination by Stary also revealed that the main reason that police had decided to criminalize the actions against the Israeli companies was because they had been well-organized, coordinated and effective.

Victorian Police acknowledged that the demonstrations had been peaceful, that solidarity activists hadn't damaged property and there was no record of police or any member of the public being injured.

According to the testimony given by Inspector Beattie, the police had specifically sought to target the leadership of the protests, in particular those activists the police perceived as "operating a command and control function," in order to diminish the possibility of well-coordinated demonstrations — and to ensure "no protesters go to property and disrupt targeted business or additional businesses."

According to Inspector Beattie, "the protesters had their own way" for too long and a "decision [was] made to draw a line in the sand and make arrests." Another police officer, Senior Sargent Andrew Falconer, also gave testimony at the court hearing and acknowledged that police infiltrators had been sent to pro-Palestine solidarity meetings in order to monitor the activity of BDS activists.

In a statement issued after their arrests, the nineteen activists noted that "the attack on the peaceful BDS action in Melbourne highlights increasing attempts to criminalize BDS and Palestine solidarity activism internationally. Currently in the US, France and Greece, hundreds of pro-Palestine activists are facing criminal charges for nonviolently standing up for Palestinian human rights" ("Support the Boycott Israel 19 Defence Campaign").

James Crafti, one of the activists arrested, told The Electronic Intifada that "the attempt by Israel and governments around the world to criminalize pro-Palestinian and BDS activism ignores the fact that the real criminal activity is being carried out by the Israeli state."

"Since its founding in 1948, Israel has sought to ethnically cleanse the indigenous Palestinian people through war, occupation and apartheid practices. Israel regularly engages in collective punishment, arbitrary arrests, extra-judicial assassinations and the demolition of Palestinian homes and civil infrastructure, all of which are illegal under international law," he added.

Crafti noted that while the Victorian and Australian governments sought to criminalize support for Palestine self-determination, they refused to hold Israel accountable for its human rights abuses, war crimes and apartheid policies.

All of the arrested activists who spoke to The Electronic Intifada said the police attack on the protest also highlighted the increasing repression of civil liberties and freedom of speech by the Victorian (conservative) Baillieu government.

One Palestine solidarity activist, Sue Bolton, who has been charged with "besetting" (obstructing or hindering the right to enter, use or leave a premise), asserted that the police reaction to the action on 1 July was "over the top."

"There were massive numbers of police, well over a hundred, not counting those behind the scenes in the loading docks," she said.

According to Bolton, the Queen Victoria Centre loading docks had been cleared of delivery trucks, allowing the police to set up a processing unit and bring in prison transport trucks to be used as holding cells for those arrested.

Bolton described how police had sought to "kettle" the demonstration by corralling protesters and physically pushing them into a smaller and smaller area. According to Bolton, this resulted in a number of protesters being injured and crushed when the police had surrounded and violently pushed protesters from all sides.

Similar tactics have been used by police forces in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Finland and Denmark. The use of kettling by police in the UK against student protesters in November 2010 has led to legal challenges and the calling for a ban on the use of the tactic in the British High Court and the European Court of Human Rights.

Damian Ridgwell, another Palestine solidarity protester arrested on 1 July, told The Electronic Intifada that he had been standing away from the peaceful picket, speaking on a megaphone when three policemen grabbed him.

"I was dragged behind police lines," Ridgwell said. "Once they grabbed me and started dragging me, I went limp and dropped to the ground ... As I was being carried through the corridors of the loading dock, I lost consciousness because one of the police had me in a choke hold. I am not sure how long I was out, probably a few minutes. I woke up on the loading dock floor and heard the police saying I was 'out.'"

Ridgwell, who was charged with trespassing, said "while it is outrageous we were arrested for peacefully demonstrating, our arrests have to be seen in the context of the Australia government's support for Israel and its continued theft of Palestinian land ... it's important we don't let the police intimidate protests like this. It is important to keep going with the protests and to keep supporting BDS."

Australian government's support of Israeli apartheid

Successive Australian governments, including the current Gillard government, have long supported Israel's colonial and apartheid policies.

Current Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard signaled her uncritical support for Israel when she was still deputy Prime Minster of Australia. During the early days of Israel's bombing of Gaza in the winter of 2008-09, she blamed Palestinians for Israel's all-out assault, saying that Hamas must "renounce violence" and that Israel had the "right to defend itself."

During a visit to Israel In 2009, Gillard was thanked by Israeli government minister Isaac Herzog for standing "almost alone on the world stage in support of Israel's right to defend itself" ("Israel to Gillard: thanks for standing by us," The Age, 24 June 2009).

The arrested activists noted that in June, the Baillieu government had established a new 42-member riot squad — and the attack on the 1 July protest was the first time it had been used in any significant way.

According to James Crafti, "the Victorian government thinks it can easily get away with attacking a pro-Palestine action because they think they can label us anti-Semitic." Crafti, who is Jewish, said that the police and those opposed to the BDS actions, however, "underestimate the sympathy towards both Palestine and the [Palestine solidarity] movement in the broader community."

"The amount of force used by the police and the response of the political elite to our protests, particularly the fact that the Australian Foreign Minister [and former Australian Prime Minister] Kevin Rudd felt the need to go a few days after our protest to Max Brenner as a public relations stunt is a sign of the pro-Israeli forces' desperation," he added.

The eleven activists succeeded in changing the original bail conditions preventing them from entering either shopping center (which also host medical clinics and a major train station) until the end of their case, to a lesser restriction of being prohibited from being within fifty meters of Max Brenner in both centers. However, Stary said he was still "anxious about the criminalization of dissent."

"The police should not be used to protect the interests of an international commercial company," he said.

Building on the success of 29 July, Melbourne activists will continue to campaign in support of Palestinian rights and oppose the criminalization of Palestine solidarity activism. The next Melbourne BDS action is scheduled for 9 September, the same week those arrested will plead not guilty to the charges against them. The defense campaign in support of the arrested activists has gained wide attention, with well-known public figures such as filmmaker John Pilger, author Norman Finkelstein and radical thinker Noam Chomsky supporting the campaign.

In a media release issued immediately following the success of the 29 July BDS action, Melbourne activists said the Victorian Police "thought that by attacking the BDS demonstration they would put an end to our movement. They were wrong ... [we will] not be silenced" ("BDS returns to Max Brenner in spite of police intimidation," 5 August 2011).

Kim Bullimore has lived and worked in the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. She is a member of the Melbourne Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid and a co-organizer of the first national Australian BDS conference, which took place in Melbourne in October 2010. Kim writes regularly on the Palestine-Israel conflict for the Australian newspaper, Direct Action. She has a blog at livefromoccupiedpalestine.blogspot.com.

Source: http://brendonoconnell.blogspot.com/201 ... ement.html

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Should O'Connell have called in Kevin MacDonald to testify at his trial?

Deposition of Kevin MacDonald in defense of David Irving
(July 27, 1999)

I. I, KEVIN MACDONALD, Professor of Psychology at California State University-Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 90840-0901 USA, will say as follows:-

2. I have a Ph. D. in Biobehavioral Sciences from the University of Connecticut. I have published six books (including two edited books) and over 30 academic papers In the area of evolutionary approaches to human, behavior., particularly in the field of evolutionary psychology and the application of evolutionary psychology to understanding ethnic conflict in history (e.g., Social and Personality Development: An Evolutionary Synthesis. New York: Plenum, 1988). I am editor of the journal Population and Environment; published by Human Sciences Press, a division of Kluwer Academic Publishers. This journal deals with issues related to the interface between environmental issues and human population, including issues of ethnic conflict. I am also Secretary/Archivist and member of the Executive Board of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, the main academic organization dealing with the application of evolutionary biology to the study of human affairs.

3. Since 1993 I have been involved in extending the evolutionary paradigm to the study of Judaism. This project has resulted in three books:

A People That Shalt Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionar Strategy (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1994; 302 pp.) delineates key aspects of Judaism within an evolutionary theory of groups. The basic proposal is that Judaism can be interpreted as a set of ideological structures and behaviors that have resulted in the following features: (i) the segregation of the Jewish gene pool from surrounding gentile societies; (2) resource and reproductive competition with gentile host societies; (3) high levels of within-group cooperation and altruism among Jews; and (4) eugenic efforts directed at producing high intelligence, high investment parenting, and commitment to group, rather than individual, goals.

Separation and Its Discontents.- Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1998; 325 pp.) develops an evolutionary theory of anti-Semitism. The basic thesis is that Judaism must be conceptualized as a group strategy characterized by cultural and genetic segregation from gentile societies combined with resource competition and conflicts of interest with segments of gentile societies. This cultural and genetic separatism combined with resource competition and other conflicts of interest tend to result in division and hatred within the society. A major theme of this volume is that intellectual defenses of Judaism and of Jewish theories of anti-Semitism have throughout its history played a critical role in maintaining Judaism as a group evolutionary strategy. The book discusses tactics Jewish groups have used over the centuries to combat anti-Semitism. Particularly important are discussions of Jewish self-interest, deception, and self-deception in the areas of Jewish historiography, Jewish personal identity, and Jewish conceptualizations, of their ingroup and its relations with outgroups.

The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movemencs (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1998; 376 pp.) Ethnic conflict is a recurrent theme throughout the first two volumes, and that theme again takes center stage in this work. However, whereas in the previous works ethnic conflict consisted mainly of recounting the oftentimes bloody dynamics of Jewish-gentile conflict over the broad expanse of historical time, the focus here shifts to a single century and to several very influential intellectual and political movements that have been spearheaded by people who strongfy identified as Jews and who viewed their involvement in these movements as serving Jewish interests. Individual chapters discuss the Boasian school of anthropology, psychoanalysis, leftist political ideology and behavior, the Frankfurt School of Social Research, and the New York Intellectuals. An important thesis is that all of these movements may be seen as attempts to alter Western societies in a manner that would end anti-Semitism and provide for Jewish group continuity either in an overt or in a semii-cryptic manner.

4. The main point of my testimony is that the attacks made on David Irving by Deborah Lipstadt and Jewish organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League should be viewed in the long-term context of Jewish-gentile interactions. As indicated by the summaries of my books, my training as an evolutionist as well as the evidence compiled by historians leads me to conceptualize Judaism as self-interested groups whose interests often conflict with segments of the gentile community. Anti-Jewish attitudes and behavior have been a pervasive feature of the Jewish experience since the beginnings of the Diaspora well over 2000 years ago. While anti-Semitic attitudes and behavior have undoubtedly often been colored by myths and fantasies about Jews, there is a great deal of anti-Jewish writing that reflects the reality of between-group competition exactly as expected by an evolutionist. Particularly important have been the themes of separatism-the fact that Jewish groups have typically existed as recognizably distinct groups and have been unwilling to assimilate either culturally or via marriage to the wider society, the theme of economic, political, and cultural domination, and the theme of disloyalty.

5. Because anti-Jewish attitudes and behavior have been such a common response to Jews as a Diaspora group, Jewish groups have developed a wide variety of strategies to cope with their enemies. Separation and Its Discontents discusses a great many of these strategies, including a very long history of apologia dating to the ancient world. In the last century there have been a great many intellectual activities, most notably many examples of Jewish historiography which present Jews and Judaism in a positive light and thcir enemies in a negative light, often with little regard for historical accuracy. Most importantly for the situation of David Irving, Jewish groups have engaged in a wide range of political activities to further their interests. In general, Jews have been active agents rather than passive martyrs; they have been highly flexible strategizers in the political arena. The effectiveness of Jewish strategizing has been facillitated by several key features of Judaism as group evolutionary strategy-particularly that the IQ of Ashkenazi Jews is at least one standard deviation above the Caucasian mean. In all historical eras, Jews as a group have been highly organized, highly intelligent, and politically astute, and they have been able to command a high level of fhancial, political, and intellectual resources in pursuing their group goals.

6. For example, Jews engaged in a very wide range of activities to combat anti-Semitism in Germany in the period from 1870 to 1914, including the formation of self-defense committees, lobbying the government, utilizing and influencing the legal system (e.g., taking advantage of libel and slander laws to force anti-Jewish organizations into bankruptcy), writing apologias and tracts for distribution to the masses of gentile Germans, and funding organizations opposed to anti-Semitism composed mainly of sympathetic gentiles. Jewish organizations commissioned writings in opposition to "scientific anti-Semitism," as exemplified by academically respectable publications that portrayed Judaism in negative terms. Academic works were monitored for such material, and Jewish organizations sometimes succeeded in banning offending books and getting publishers to alter offensive passages. The result was to render such ideas academically and intellectually disreputable.

7. A theme of anti-Jewish writing in the contemporary U. S. has been that Jewish organizations have used their power to make the discussion of Jewish interests off limits. Individuals who have made remarks critical of Jews have been forced to make public apologies and suffered professional difficulties as a result. Quite often the opinions in question are quite reasonable-statements that are empirically verifiable and the sort of thing that might be said about.other groups or members of other groups. For example, media critic William Cash (1994), writing for the British magazine The Spectator, described the Jewish media elite as "culturally nihilist," suggesting that he believed Jewish media influence reflects Jewish lack of concern for traditional cultural values. Kevin Myers, a columnist for the British Sunday Telegraph (January 5, 1997) wrote that 'we should really be able to discuss Jews and their Jewishness, their virtues or their vices, as one can any other identifiable group, without being called anti-Semitic. Frankness does not feed anti-Semitism; secrecy, however, does. the silence of sympathetic discretion can easily be misunderstood as a conspiracy. It is time to be frank about Jews."' Myers goes on to note that The Spectator was accused of anti-Semitism when it published the article by William Cash (1994) referred to above. Myers emphasized the point that Cash's offense was that he had written that the cultural leaders of the United States were Jews whose Jewishness; remained beyond public discussion.

8. Cash stated that there is a double standard in which a Jewish writers like Neal Gabler is able to refer to a "Jewish cabal" while his own use of the phrase is described as anti-Semitic. He also noted that while movies regularly portray negative stereotypes of other ethnic groups, Cash's description of Jews as "fiercely competitive" was regarded as anti-Semitic. As another example, Marlon Brando repeated statements originally made in 1979 on a nationally 'televised interview program to the effect that "Hollywood is run by Jews- It's owned by Jews." The focus of the complaint was that Hollywood regularly portrays negative stereotypes of other ethnic groups but not of Jews. Brando's remarks were viewed as anti-Semitic by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) and the Jewish Defense League (Los Angeles Times, April 9, 1996, F4).

9. These claims regarding Hollywood are empirically verifiable claims, but the response of major Jewish organizations has been to label the claims "anti-Semitic" and attempt to ruin the careers of the people involved. Both Cash and Brando have apologized for their remarks and, as part of their apologies, visited the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (Forward, April :z6, 1996). (Cash's apology occurred some two years after publication of his remarks.) The Forward article suggests that Cash has had trouble publishing his work in the wake of the incident. Moreover, the same issue of Forward reported that the publisher of Cash's comments, Dominic Lawson, editor of the London Spectaror, was prevented from publishing an article on the birth of his Down Syndrome daughter in The New Republic when Martin Peretz, the owner, and Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor, complained about Lawson's publishing Cash's article. There is abundant evidence that Peretz strongly identifies as a Jew and for his unabashed policy of slanting his journal toward positions favorable to Israel.

10. Similarly, Noam Chomsky, the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguist, describes his experience with the ADL:

 

In the United States a rather effective system of intimidation has been developed to silence critique. -. . . Take the Anti-Defamation League. . . . It's actually an organization devoted to trying to defame and intimidate and silence people who criticize current Israeli policies, whatever they may be. For example, I myself, through a leak in the new England office of the Anti-Defamation League, was able to obtain a copy of my file there. It's 150 pages, just like an FBI file, [consisting of] interoffice memos warning that I'm going to show up here and there, surveillance of talks that I give, comments and alleged transcripts of talks [T]his material has been circulated (and] ... would be sent to some local group which would use it to extract defamatory material which would then be circulated, usually in unsigned pamphlets outside the place where I'd be speaking.... If there's any comment in the press which they regard as insufficiently subservient to the party line, there'll be a flood of letters, delegations, protests, threats to withdraw advertising, etc. The politicians of course are directly subjected to this, and they are also subjected to substantial financial penalties if they don't go along . . . This totally one-sided pressure and this, by now, very effective system of vilification, lying, defamation, and judicious use of funds in the political system . . . has created a highly biased approach to the whole matter. (Chomsky 1988, 642-3)

11 . Consider also the comments of columnist Joseph Sobran, who was forced out of his position as columnist at National Review for remarks critical of Israel:

The full story of (Pat Buchanan's 1996 presidential] campaign is impossible to tell as long as it's taboo to discuss Jewish interests as freely as we discuss those of the Christian Right. Talking about American politics without mentioning the Jews is a lirde like talking about the NBA without mentioning the Chicago Bulls. Not that the Jews are all-powerful, let alone all bad. But they are successful, and therefore powerful enough: and their power is unique in being off-limits to normal criticism even when ifs highly visible. They themselves behave as if their success were a guilty secret, and they panic, and resort to accusations, as soon their Jewishness, their virtues or their vices, as one can any other identifiable group, without being called anti-Semitic. Frankness does not feed anti-Semitism; secrecy, however, does. T'he silence of sympathetic discretion can easily be misunderstood as a conspiracy. It is time to be frank about Jews.'-' Myers goes on to notc: that The Spectaror was accused of anti-Semitism when it published the article by Williara Cash (1994) referred to above. Myers emphasized the point that Cash's offense was that he had written that the cultural leaders of the United States were Jews whose Jewishness remained beyond public discussion.

8. Cash stated that there is a double standard in which a Jewish writer like Neal Gabler is able to refer to a "Jewish cabal" while his own use of the phrase is described as anti-Semitic. He also noted that while movies regularly portraynegative stereotypes of other ethnic groups, Cash's description of Jews as '~fiercely competitive" was regarded as anti-Scmitic. As another example, Marlon Brando repeated statements originally made in 1979 on a nationally *televised interview program to the effect that "'Hollywood is run by Jews. It's owned by Jews." The focus of the complaint was that Hollywood regularly portrays negative stereotypes of other ethnic groups but not of Jews. Brando's remarks were viewed as andSemitic by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADQ and the Jewish Defense League (Ios Angeles Times, April 9, 1996, F4).

9. These claims regarding Hollywood are empirically verifiable claims, but the response of major Jewish organizations has been to label the claims "anti-Semitic" and attempt to ruin the careers of the people involved. BoEh Cash and Brando have apologized for their remarks and, as part of their apologies, visited the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (Forward, April :z6, 1996). (Cash's apology occurred some two years after publication of his remarks.) The Forward article suggests that Cash has had trouble publishing his work in the wake of the incident. Moreover, the same issue of Forward reported that the publisher of Cash's comments, Dominic Lawson, editor of the London Specraror, was prevented from publishing an article on the birth of his Down Syndrome daughter in The New Republic when Martin Peretz, the owner, and Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor, complained about Lawsons publishing Cash's article. There is abundant evidence that Peretz strongly identifies as a Jew and for his unabashed policy of slanting his jourrial toward positions favorable to Israel.

10. Similariy, Noam Chomsky, the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguist, describes his experience with the ADL:

In the United States a rather effective system of intimidation has been developed to silence critique. Take the Anti-Defamation League. . . . It's actually an organization devoted to trying to defame and intimidate and silence people who criticize current Israeli policies, whatever they may be. For example, I myself, through a leak in the new England office of the AntiDefamation League, was able to obtain a copy of my file there. It's 150 pages, just like an FBI file, [consisting of] interoffice memos warning that I'm going to show up here and there, surveillance of talk,, that I give, comments and alleged transcripts of talk . . . [T]his material has been circulated [and] ... would be sent to some local group which would use it to extract defamatory material which would then be circulated, usually in unsigned pamphlets outside the place where I'd be speaking.... If there's any comment in the press which they regard as insufficiently subservient to the party line, there'll be a flood of letters, delegations, protests, threats to withdraw advertising, etc. The politicians of course are directly subjected to this, and they are also subjected to substantial financial penalties if they don't go along... This totally one-sided pressure and this, by now, very effective system of vilification, lying, defamation, and judiocious use of funds in the political system... has created a highly biased approach to the whole matter. (Chomsky 1988, 642-3)

11. Consider also the comments of columnist Joseph Sobran, who was forced out of his position as coluinnist at National Review for remarks critical of Israel:

The full story of (Pat Buchanan's r996 presidential] campaign is impossible to tell as long as it's taboo to discuss Jewish interests as freely as we discuss those of the Christian Right. Talking about American politics without mentioning the Jews is a little like talking about the NBA without mentioning the Chicago Bulls. Not that the Jews are all-powerful, let alone all bad. But they are successful, and therefore powerful enough: and their power is unique in being off-limits to normal criticism even when it's highly visible. They themselves behave as if their success were a guilty secret, and they panic, and resort to accusations, as soon as the subject is raised. Jewish control of the major media in the media age makes the enforced silence both paradoxical and paralyzing. Survival in public life requires that you know all about it, but never refer to it. A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you. It's a phenomenal display not of wickedness, really, but of fierce ethnocentrism, a sort of furtive racial superpatriotism. (Sobran 1996, 3).

12. It is my view that the campaign to suppress the publication of David Irving's biography of Goebbels (Washington Post, April 4, 1996) is another example of these tactics. After an article by editorial columnist Frank Rich condemning the book appeared in the New York Times (April 3, 1996), the ADL successfully pressured St. Martin's Press to rescind publication despite the fact that this book, relying on previously unknown diaries of its subject, is a major scholarly achievement-an indispensable work for those writing on the history of the Third Reich. Deborah Lipstadt's work contributes to this atmosphere of suppression-particularly her statement that Irving is not a historian. Quite simply, it is widely acknowledged among professional historians such as Gordon Craig, A.J.P. Taylor, and Hugh Trevor-Roper that David Irving is a brilliant researcher and a compelling writer. His work is required reading for serious students of the Third Reich and World War II.

13. I suppose that the motivation for this campaign of suppression is because of Irving's involvement in disputes about the nature and extent of the Holocaust-that in the absence of such activity, Irving's biography of Goebbels would have been published without incident. However, I submit that Irving's other activities should not result in the suppression of Irving's historical research and the general denigration of his work that is apparent in Lipstadt's work. To be sure, Irving, like many historians, may indeed see events through a filter of personal political and intellectual convictions. This is a commonly acknowledged diffliculty that afflicts all of the social sciences, and Jewish social scientists have certainly not been immune from these tendencies. In my book Separation and Its Discontents, I devote much of a chapter to many examples of the historiography of Jewish history written by Jews-surely not exhaustive-in which there are clear apologetic tendencies tendencies to view the Jewish ingroup in a favorable manner and to pathologize anti-Semitism as irrational and completely unrelated to the actual behavior of Jews.

These works have been published by the most prestigious academic and commercial presses. Other commentators have noticed similar apologetic tendencies in Jewish historiography, including, most notably Albert Lindemann in his recent book Esau's Tears. Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997). Revealingly, Lindemann's examples of biased historical research include the work of Jewish Holocaust historians Lucy Dawidowicz and Daniel J. Goldhagen-a. clear indication that the area of Holocaust studies remains politically charged. Moreover, in The Culture of Critique I describe several highly influential intellectual movements (Boasian anthropology, Freudian psychoanalysis, the Frankfurt School of Social Research) that presented themselves as science but were strongly influenced the Jewish ethnic agendas of their founders, particularly combating anti-Semitism.

14. Intellectual blinders and political agendas are a fact of academic life. However, even were it to be proved that David Irving does indeed bring a certain set of biases to his work, even the most biased researchers may well contribute invaluable scholarship. Science emerges when the work of all investigators becomes part of the marketplace of ideas and when scholars are not vilified and their scholarship censored simply because their conclusions fly in the face of contemporary orthodoxy.

References

Casb, W. (1994). Kings of the deal. The Specraror (29 0ctober): 14-16.

Chomsky, N. (1988). Language and Politics. Black Rose Books: Montreal-New York.

Sobran, J. (1996). The Buchanan frenzy. Sobran's (.March): 3 4

signed .........

Kevin MacDonald
Professor of Psychology
California State University
Long Beach, Long Beach
CA 90840-0901 USA

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Brendon O'Connell's Ordeal

By Kevin MacDonald, Feb. 6 2011

Brendon O'Connell (here's his blog)  is a 40-year-old pro-Palestinian activist who is now serving a three-year prison sentence for violating Australian laws intended to suppress White concerns about the utopian multicultural future by restricting speech. His troubles began when he went to a protest at a store selling fruit from the occupied West Bank and got into a confrontation with a pro-Israel Chabadnik. O' Connell videotaped the confrontation (see here and here). The only physical contact comes at 3:41 of the second link, but it's difficult to see what's happening and, in any case, that incident was not part of the criminal proceedings. It's great video and definitely gives on a snapshot of Brendon's very outgoing, colorful personality.

As I write at the end of my brief, we need more people like him — people willing to be assertive and in-your-face about the outrages surrounding us. Most White Americans would rather munch on snack food while watching TV and then move away when the neighborhood gets overrun by non-Whites. They cower in fear at the thought of offending the powers that be. Of course, Brendon is living proof that those fears are well founded.

Brendon sought out my support for his case and I agreed to participate. The idea was to have me testify live via a video hookup. However, in the end, he decided not to use the brief I had written on his behalf and he dismissed his lawyer as well. Things did not go well at the trial (here's a newspaper account). The "victim" states that the three-year term "is not enough." Presumably nothing short of a death sentence would satisfy him.

n my brief, I decided not to simply defend everything that Brendon had written but to defend what I felt comfortable defending and to attempt to cast his statements as reasonable and understandable given his circumstances. He was an active blogger, and his blogs became part of the case against him. Brendon sent me a compendium of the blogs that were involved in the trial (see here [pdf]). Whatever else one may say about him, he is a very entertaining writer. My brief was therefore focused on the blogs.

Finally, readers should realize that O'Connell is not at all a White advocate and, as he wrote in an email, has "zero ties with 'neo-nazi' or other such groups." He describes himself as a Christian — "Catholic but with strong ties to the Russian Orthodox Christian Church." Interestingly, he writes that "If I was in Ireland I would most definitely be a White Nationalist of some type. However, I still feel a stranger in this land — 3 generations on — I cannot bring myself to feel I have a right to this land while my fellow Australians refuse to acknowledge the injustices done to the native people's. That being said...THANK GOD FOR THE BRITISH EMPIRE" (his emphasis). This relates to his political views: "My political bent is actually Monarchist/Constitutionalist with a great love for the British Empire and Parliamentary Democracy — Magna Carta, Common Law etc. ... The best description would be 'Conservative Liberal'."

Obviously, he feels very deeply the plight of the Palestinians, and sees an analogy between what the Australians did to the Aborigines with what the Isrealis are doing to the Palestinians. I think that that is his main emotional motivator.

Statement on Brendon O'Connell

I can easily see why Jews would be offended at some of the things that Brendon O'Connell has said and written. His statements and written work are filled with outrage, mainly focused on the behavior of the Israelis toward the Palestinians and the hypocrisy of Diaspora Jews who portray themselves as exemplifying moral virtue while supporting or at least turning a blind eye to the reality of ethnic cleansing and apartheid in Israel. My view as a psychologist is that people like Mr. O'Connell see this brutality and the hypocrisy. They become very angry and frustrated at their powerlessness to change things or even get a fair hearing in the media. They suffer all sorts of harassment that not only results in well-grounded fears for their personal safety and the safety of people close to them, but also threatens their ability to make a living. The resulting anger leads them at times to go beyond the evidence and to make accusations that are not true or are at least overly general. Mr. O'Connell also has a very blunt, street-fighter style that doubtless makes his statements offensive and unappealing to educated people. For example, in the video, he repeatedly calls his accuser "a racist, homicidal maniac." Nevertheless, a careful perusal of Mr. O'Connell's work shows that he is well-informed on the issues. Many of the links he uses are, in my view, entirely appropriate and show someone who has thought long and hard about these issues. And he is aware that whatever his sufferings, they pale in comparison to the suffering inflicted on the Middle East where, as he notes, "1500 Gazans are dead; 1 million plus Iraqis."

There is no question that some of his statements are unfounded. For example, his theory that Israelis were responsible for the murders at the Texas army base is not credible from anything I have read. His statement that Jews have "total domination of the planet" is the type of exaggeration typical of someone who is aware that Jews are indeed quite influential and powerful but goes beyond the available evidence. On the  other hand, despite such statements,  Mr. O'Connell is quite correct to call attention to the power of the Israel Lobby in the United States and how that affects what happens in the Middle East; see, for example, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. Another common failing of many people attempting to comprehend Jewish influence is to over-attribute Jewishness to people he sees as enemies. For example, he incorrectly claims that American leftist radical Bill Ayers is Jewish.

His alleged stated intent in a phone call to a Jewish day school that we would "finish off the kids" or his allegedly saying he wanted Jews "wiped out" are the sorts of thing that, if true (and, of course, he denies it) are completely unacceptable.

Further, Mr. O'Connell's use of the term "Holohoax" is needlessly offensive and is an example of the tendency to overattribute malevolence, resulting in misstatements of fact. On the other hand, his reference to "Holocaustianity" and "HolocaustTM" may be seen as a clever way of getting at the central role of the Holocaust as a cultural icon in the West analogous to a new religion brought about by Jewish activism. This is well-grounded in fact; see, e.g., Michael Novick's The Holocaust in American Life and Norman Finkelstein's The Holocaust Industry.

In addition, his claim that some Holocaust memoirs have been fabricated is certainly accurate (e.g., Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments, Shocken Books (US edition, 1996). And his claim that Simon Wiesenthal was a liar relies on an article from a reputable source, the Times (London), which begins: "His is reputation is built on sand. ... He was a liar — and a bad one at that." (See here.)  

Harassment of critics of Israel is a well-known phenomenon likely to motivate more extreme statements and behavior by its victims. O'Connell links to a video of Alison Weir (see here) in which she was subjected to a phone message death threat. Ms. Weir is a very effective activist against the oppression of the Palestinians. She specializes in how the mainstream media systematically distorts the facts about what is going on in the Middle East. (This is her website.) I have absolute confidence in Weir's integrity and have often cited her work in my own writing. She is an honest leftist universalist—that is, she abhors ethnic hatred and longs for a world free of ethnic strife. She correctly sees that the Israelis have established a racialist, apartheid state bent on ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.

I therefore accept that it is common for critics of Israel to be harassed, and I take at face value Mr. O'Connell's claims that he and his friends have had to put up with death threats, "brake-line cutting, break ins, computer hacking" and "gang-stalking." I accept it as quite possibly true that in fact Mr. Mike Mazzone "directly threatened to rape, torture, 'gut', and hang by a 'meat hook', an American female friend of [O'Connell's]." This is the sort of thing that might lead anyone to extreme hostility toward his perceived enemies, even to the point of exaggerating or over-generalizing their negative traits and saying and doing things that he would not ordinarily do.

O'Connell's comments on Jewish influence are not fabricated out of thin air. For example, he links to an article in the Los Angeles Times by Jewish writer Joel Stein who concludes, "I don't care if Americans think we're running the news media, Hollywood, Wall Street or the government. I just care that we get to keep running them." (See here.) One can certainly sympathize with O'Connell's views when they are supported by a well-known and respected Jewish columnist writing in the mainstream media. In my opinion, an adequate account of Jewish influence would require a much longer and more detailed account. Much of my writing has attempted to assess Jewish influence in an honest and factually based manner (e.g., my book, The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in 20th-Century Intellectual and Political Movements). Jews do not have "total domination" but they are indeed influential in exactly the areas mentioned by Mr. O'Connell.

O'Connell's citation to a website that has detailed the role of the ADL in advancing hate-crime legislation in the U.S. is also entirely appropriate. Indeed, the ADL is quite proud of its preeminent role in enacting such laws at the state and federal level in America, and other Jewish organizations (e.g., the Board of Deputies of British Jews) have played the same function elsewhere—a point that I have noted in my writing (see, e.g., here). And, as Mr. O'Connell notes, it is well-known that the ADL in America has been actively involved in spying on and violating the civil rights of its perceived enemies.

Moreover, his statement that the "Middle East ... must be 'reshaped' for the jews [sic] benefit" reflects an accurate understanding of the actions of American neoconservatives who successfully lobbied for the war in Iraq and are now fomenting a war with Iran. The idea that American neoconservatives were a critical force in bringing about the war in Iraq is an entirely mainstream idea; see, for example, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy cited above. This is not to say that all Jews were in favor of the war in Iraq (far from it). But it is a legitimate statement of the influence on U.S. foreign policy of a group of strongly identified Jews with close ties to the Likud wing of Israeli politics.

On the other hand, I did not see any support for his claims that Jews dominate the Information Technology industry, including "the design and fabrication of computer chips, surveillance technology – data intercepts, voice recognition–internet security, database collation–storage, linking, analysis." His comments on the Sayanim are well-founded, but that's a far cry from making the case that, for example, Leon Wende has compromised the Australian military because of his loyalty to Israel.

A critical issue for Mr. O'Connell is whether Jews are correctly seen as an ethnic group. To begin, it should be noted that Jews have not had a consistent view on whether they want to be classified as a race or a religion. For example, in the United States in1909, Jews successfully lobbied Congress to reject a recommendation of the U.S. Census Bureau to have the category of 'Jew' for recording immigrants. For strategic reasons (e.g., avoiding classification as "Mongolian" and therefore not eligible for immigration), Jewish lobbyists insisted that Jews were a religion, not a race, despite heated arguments to the contrary in the U.S. Senate (See Eric Goldstein, "Contesting the categories: Jews and government racial classification in the United States," Jewish History, 19(1), 107–131). As Goldstein notes, "When contemporary readers encounter the term "race" as applied to the Jews, they normally understand it as a relic of nineteenth- and early-twentieth- century antisemitism. Despite its use by antisemites, however, the notion of a 'racial' Jewishness was often embraced by Jews living in Western societies in the period before World War II" (p. 81). "During the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s, rabbis and communal spokesmen had used racial discourse freely to describe themselves and their community. By the early twentieth century, however, many leading figures, like philanthropist Jacob H. Schiff and American Jewish Committee activist Louis Marshall, began to deny, at least publicly, the existence of a distinct Jewish racial identity" (p. 86).

However, as a result of the success of their lobbying campaign, Jews were categorized by Americans as a religion on a par with Protestantism and Catholicism rather than as a race on a par with Blacks and Whites. Jews actively sought and succeeded in being allowed to perform the functions of other religions at public events, such as leading prayers at Congressional sessions or other civic events along with mainstream Protestant sects and Catholics. As a result, the vast majority of Americans would say that Judaism is one of the three traditional American religions: Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish.

On the other hand, within the contemporary Australian context, it is clearly advantageous for Jews to be classified as an ethnic group because the hate crime laws are framed in terms of race and ethnicity, not religion. I am sure that if the organized Jewish community thought that it would benefit by rejecting a racial or ethnic classification, it would have no difficulty summoning arguments in favor, as they did in the United States, and at least some of them would be identical to those used by Mr. O' Connell.

The question of whether in fact Jews are properly considered an ethnic group is complex. My writing (e.g., my book, A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy) and more recent genetic studies have emphasized several points:

· Population genetic evidence clearly shows that there is an ethnic coherence to Judaism. Widely dispersed Jewish groups (e.g., Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews) are far more closely related to each other than to the peoples they have lived among since the beginning of the Jewish Diaspora.

· Jewish groups have been very concerned to severely limit the influx of non-Jewish genes. In traditional societies and in the more conservative and fundamentalist Jewish groups today, Jews who married non-Jews were forced to leave the Jewish community and their families were discriminated against within the Jewish community.

· Beginning in the 19th century, the Jewish concern with excluding and discriminating against people of non-Jewish ancestry has led to the perception by many that Jews, especially traditional Jews, are deeply concerned to retain their ethnic purity.

· Nevertheless, there are groups of people who are regarded as Jews despite rather tenuous ethnic connections to Judaism. The fact that conversion is possible within Judaism is a prime argument that has been used by Jews to defuse the idea that Jews are an ethnic group when such a move is seen to be in their strategic interest. In contemporary Israel, the Orthodox Jewish establishment has control over conversions. This ensures that conversions will be rare and difficult so that they do not threaten the ethnic integrity of Judiasm. However, in the Diaspora in Western countries, more liberal versions of Judaism are common, such as Reform Judaism. In these countries, conversions not recognized as valid by Orthodox Jews are common and these people are legitimately seen as Jews. Moreover, groups like the Lemda and Ethiopian Jews which resulted from mating between Jewish traders and local women are considered Jews despite a very large genetic admixture from non-Middle Eastern peoples.

· Mr. O'Connell's point about Ethiopian Jews is therefore well taken. On the other hand, the genetic evidence provides scant support for the Khazar hypothesis which Mr. O'Connell supports. Nevertheless, Mr. O'Connell cites a very respectable and influential source, Arthur Koestler's The Thirteenth Tribe, in support of his views, so they must be at least regarded as reasonable.

Mr. O'Connell often refers to Jews as a "kult" and as "racist." Regarding "kult" he writes, "ALL of these doctrines revolve around this basic "promise" given to them by their god..."you (jews) shall rule from Jerusalem over the Goy (non jew) as masters and they as slaves." Now I understand that such statements are correctly seen as not accurately characterizing Judaism as a whole. Nevertheless, such sentiments are within the mainstream of contemporary Jewish thinking. For example, as widely reported (see for example, the article by the Jewish Telegraph Agency), Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the head Sephardic rabbi in Israel and spiritual head of the Shas political party, recently said in a sermon, "Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world; only to serve the People of Israel. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat."
Mr. O'Connell is being reasonable when he highlights similar statements by Jews within the mainstream because these statements are based on passages in the Old Testament and other canonical Jewish writing. Even though such attitudes may not reflect the opinion of most Jews, they form a component of the Jewish mainstream. Again, Rabbi Ovadia is a very central figure in Israeli religious and political circles. Attitudes like those of Rabbi Ovadia are particularly common in Israel which now has by far the most right-wing, expansionist government in its history—a government that has systematically oppressed the Palestinians and treated them as second class citizens.

Similarly, Mr. O'Connell writes, "What you saw in Gaza was the 'essence' of so called "judaism" [sic] – crush, destroy, maim and slaughter ALL who get in you're [sic] way" (emphasis in text). He further writes about his accuser Stanley Elliot "Keyser belonging to a long tradition of homicide, hatred and ethnic cleansing." In support, Mr. O'Connell refers to a document by an Israeli academic discussing the legitimacy of applying the concept of Amalek to the contemporary enemies of Israel. The Old Testament (1 Samuel 15:2-4)  states the appropriate behavior toward those designated as Amalek: "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." Indeed, the Old Testament contains numerous such passages. They would mean nothing except that they are an aspect of the ideology of a significant mainstream Jewish movement in the Diaspora and especially in Israel.

Again, such statements surely do not characterize Judaism in general. Nevertheless, they do characterize the attitudes of a significant proportion of mainstream ethnonationalist and religiously fundamentalist Jews, particularly among the settler movement that is on the front lines of creating an apartheid, racialist, and expansionist Israel. Just recently, as noted in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, 300 Israeli rabbis endorsed a "written religious ban on selling or renting homes, apartments, and lots to non-Jews, particularly Arabs" (see here). Indeed, Carroll Bogert, deputy executive director of Human Rights Watch recently noted that "Palestinians face systematic discrimination merely because of their race, ethnicity, and national origin, depriving them of electricity, water, schools, and access to roads, while nearby Jewish settlers enjoy all of these state-provided benefits. While Israeli settlements flourish, Palestinians under Israeli control live in a time warp — not just separate, not just unequal, but sometimes even pushed off their lands and out of their homes" (see here). Indeed, so powerful are the ethnonationalist and religious fundamentalist Jews within Israel that Gideon Levy, writing in Haaretz, has noted that there is no "meaningful political activity" by Israelis on the left able to challenge the ethnonationalist status quo (see here).

Because of the particular nature of these charges, Mr. O'Connell is quite reasonable to point to a video in which a former Israeli minister and activist on the left Shulamit Aloni notes that critics of Israel are routinely portrayed as anti-Semites. (See here). He is also quite reasonable in pointing to the fact that Israel was built on homicide and ethnic cleansing. No one would deny that the United States was built on ethnic cleansing of Native Americans. But the reality of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians both in 1948 and since 1967 on the West Bank and East Jerusalem is routinely greeted with charges of anti-Semitism.

Ethnonationalist and religiously fundamentalist Jews are the main force behind the current Israeli government and their influence is sure to grow in the future because they have by far the highest fertility of any Jewish group. Discussing the views of these Jews is therefore highly pertinent to understanding how very powerful groups entirely within the mainstream of the Israeli political spectrum see the Palestinians and how they conceptualize the project of settlement expansion and ethnic cleansing. To a considerable extent, their thinking is framed by the Old Testament where God gave the descendants of Abraham all the land from the Nile to the Euphrates, certainly including the presently contested areas of the West Bank. I gather that this is apparently the view of Stanley Elliot Keyser, one of Mr. O'Connell's accusers. Such an ideology is a recipe for continued Israeli expansionism and war with its neighbors.

Generalizing such beliefs to all Jews is certainly incorrect, and Mr. O'Connell is careful to deny that he has characterized all Jews as racist. However, ignoring the extent to which such beliefs are a prominent part of mainstream Jewish thinking with a very large influence on Israeli politics is also a gross oversimplification.

Mr. O'Connell emphasizes the connections his accusers have with Chabad Lubavitch and he characterizes this group as "racist" and one rabbi in particular as "racist homicidal." Mr. O'Connell is referring to an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz describing the views of Rabbi Manis Friedman who, when asked how to deal with Arabs, stated, "The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle)." If Israel acted in his manner, there would be "no civilian casualties, no children in the line of fire, no false sense of righteousness, in fact, no war." "I don't believe in Western morality. Living by Torah values will make us a light unto the nations who suffer defeat because of a disastrous morality of human invention." (See here.)

Again, I want to emphasize that such views are not typical of all Jews. Nevertheless, the Lubavitchers are a prominent part of the very mainstream ethnonationalist, religiously fundamentalist Jewish mainstream in Israel as well as the Diaspora. It is therefore noteworthy that Mr. O'Connell's accusers are openly identified with this group. Indeed, the Lubavitchers are well known to be very racist. Here is the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a putative Jewish messiah and the unquestioned leader of the group until his death in 1994, describing the difference between Jews and non-Jews:

We do not have a case of profound change in which a person is merely on a superior level. Rather we have a case of . . . a totally different species. . . . The body of a Jewish person is of a totally different quality from the body of [members] of all nations of the world . . . The difference of the inner quality [of the body] . . . is so great that the bodies would be considered as completely different species. This is the reason why the Talmud states that there is an halachic difference in attitude about the bodies of non-Jews [as opposed to the bodies of Jews]: "their bodies are in vain". . . . An even greater difference exists in regard to the soul. Two contrary types of soul exist, a non-Jewish soul comes from three satanic spheres, while the Jewish soul stems from holiness. (In I. Shahak and N. Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, pp. 59–60.)

One can readily understand Mr. O'Connell's attributions about this group. 'Racist' almost seems too mild a term.

Conclusion

Fundamentally, Brandon O'Connell is outraged by the brutality and aggression he sees being perpetrated in Israel against the Palestinians. He is outraged by the hypocrisy that he sees in so many Jews who are very much in favor of ethnic tolerance in the Diaspora while ignoring or facilitating apartheid and ethnic cleansing in Israel. I believe he performed his actions because he feels that is the only way that he will be heard.

Mr. O'Connell is accused of very serious crimes which carry the possibility of a long prison sentence that would effectively ruin his life. He should not be convicted if in fact many of statements are well-founded, as indeed they are. He should not be convicted when there is reasonable suspicion that he was subjected to harassment that would have the natural effect of hardening his attitudes and making him angry and frustrated, especially when it has proved impossible for him to get a fair hearing in the media. Such anger and frustration easily explain the instances where Mr. O'Connell has gone beyond the evidence in particular cases. And, as he would doubtless note, his transgressions amount to nothing compared to the crimes that are daily being committed against the Palestinians.

We need to keep voices like Brandon O'Connell in the public square because, quite literally, such voices have been completely shut out of the mainstream media.

Kevin MacDonald

Professor of Psychology

Department of Psychology

California State University–Long Beach

Long Beach, CA 90840-0901

Source: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/20 ... -oconnell/

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Any word on how Brendon is doing?

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Brendon's blog is gone.

Any word on when he will be released?

[LordLindsey]

I think that he has around 16 months to go.

Lindsey

NB:  This is what the jews want in EVERY nation, and we all know it.

[FrankDialogue]

I know Brendan a little bit..

He is a good man, but he fought the wrong fight at the wrong time.

I faxed the prison facility he was initially in, in order to send him some music CDs and harmless stuff to make the time easier for him, but got no responses...This was a prison or facility outside of Perth.

I then found out he was transferred...I don't know where he is at now, but there should be some info out there...If you find it, let me know, and I will try to contact the jailers, and maybe send a few bucks into his canteen fund...Brendan OK, he just got too wound up.

He'll be good once he gets out.