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Żart niech się żartem odciska, a przed fejkami uczmy bronić się za młodu

Żart niech się żartem odciska, a przed fejkami uczmy bronić się za młodu

Andrzej Koraszewski


Sąd w Poznaniu nakazał wszystkim mediom (niezależnie od ich linii generalnej) redukcję przymiotników o co najmniej połowę. Kilka gazet przeprowadziło już program pilotażowy, który pokazuje, że znaczna część personelu piszącego nie nadaje się do pracy w nowych warunkach i ta pozornie tylko techniczna rewolucja groziłaby dramatycznym kryzysem polskich mediów. Niektórzy wykładowcy dziennikarstwa uważają, że jest to zamach ze strony sądu na wolność słowa.

Wypowiedział się w tej sprawie minister Zbigniew Ziobro, którego zdaniem tego rodzaju nakaz stanowiłyby nadmierną polityzację sądów i wyraził nadzieję, że sąd wyższej instancji unieważni ten wyrok. Stanisław Michalkiewicz napisał na łamach „Odrzeczy.pl”, że poznański sąd wprowadza w Polsce żydowskie porządki i że on z pewnością nigdy się do takich poleceń nie zastosuje. Posłanka, a zarazem dziennikarka, Joanna Lichocka napisała na swoim koncie Twittera, że opozycja niedługo zacznie cenzurować mowę ciała, dodając w kolejnych tweetach, że już wcześniej sąd jej niewinne przetarcie oka środkowym palcem przetłumaczył na ukraiński.

Najpoważniejszy niepokój wyraziło stowarzyszenie psychologów. Zrzeszeni w tym stowarzyszeniu naukowcy stwierdzili, że tego rodzaju regulacja naraża całą grupę zawodową na poważny stres, depresje, a nawet ryzyko samobójstw.

Głos zabrała również Kaja Godek pisząc, że opozycja podjęła próbę zamachu stanu i pozbawienia ludzi możliwości dzielenia się swoimi sądami, o brudnych, zdradzieckich, zakłamanych, nieuczciwych i skrajnie lewackich czynach przeciwników katolickiej moralności.

Nie zgodził się z tym stwierdzeniem pan Janusz Dyskalkulia, główny sygnatariusz pozwu do sądu złożonego w imieniu Stowarzyszenia Obywateli Niepospolitych, podkreślając, że wyrok dotyczy zarówno dziennikarzy mediów opozycyjnych, jak i mediów wspierających Polską Zjednoczoną Prawicę Religijną, bowiem wszystkie media nadmiarem przymiotników obrażają zarówno uczucia, jak i inteligencję polskiego społeczeństwa i są wyrazem dziennikarstwa antysemiotycznego, w którym znaki przestają cokolwiek znaczyć.

To oświadczenie wywołało gniewną reakcję kurator Barbary Nowak, która stwierdziła, że:

„Dziś w Polsce jest sprawa, która może połączyć przynajmniej część prawicy i lewicy, sprawa adopcji samego serca polskiej mowy, jej przymiotników, tej części mowy, która służy nam do komunikacji, do informowania, co o sobie myślimy i co całym sercem czujemy. Zamiast trudu wyrażania naszych najgłębszych uczuć, zostalibyśmy skazani na suche i nieludzkie fakty. Uważam, że powinniśmy wejść na drogę sądową przeciwko zdrajcom, szkalującym społeczeństwo i oszczerczo pomawiającym nasz katolicki naród o jakiś antysemiotyzm. Tacy ludzie powinni zostać pozbawieni obywatelstwa i wydaleni z kraju. Nie ma i nie może być zgody na deptanie narodowych tradycji i niszczenie ducha naszej mowy”.

Oświadczenie Episkopatu Polski daje do zrozumienia, że jest to sprawa, która ma na celu ułatwienie dalszego oczerniania świętego Jana Pawła II i wszyscy wierni powinni się stanowczo temu przeciwstawić.

Po tym oświadczeniu pracownicy stacji benzynowych koncernu Orlen ogłosili strajk przeciw ograniczaniu wolności słowa i w obronie Konstytucji, co zaniepokoiło prezydenta, który postanowił w tej sytuacji zmienić zdjęcie na swoim profilu.

Profesor Miodek uspakaja zaniepokojonych – nie, słowo k…. nie jest przymiotnikiem.

Dobrzyń, 1 kwietnia 2023 r.


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UKRAINE BACKS ANTISEMITISM AT THE UN WHILE PRESSURING ISRAEL FOR ARMS

UKRAINE BACKS ANTISEMITISM AT THE UN WHILE PRESSURING ISRAEL FOR ARMS

Jonathan Tobin


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Credit: President.gov.ua via Wikimedia Commons.

Zelenskyy’s two-faced stand illustrates both his own hypocrisy and how the world body acts as a toxic cesspool of hate.

(JNS) It was just another day at the United Nations. But, instead of its usual business being simply more evidence of the way the virus of anti-Semitism has injected itself into just about everything that within its purview, it recently supplied us with an additional insight. A vote in one of the General Assembly’s committees provided proof that the idealization of the embattled government of Ukraine is somewhat disconnected from reality.

The world body’s Special Political and Decolonization Committee convened on Friday to debate whether the G.A. should ask the International Court of Justice to provide an opinion on the “legal status of the occupation.”

This was a reference to Israel’s presence in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, with the ludicrous inclusion of Gaza, where no Jew has lived since 2005.

The endeavor was part of the strategy that the Palestinian Authority has been implementing since it torpedoed a peace initiative during the Barack Obama presidency.

It was another Palestinian effort aimed at delegitimizing Israel in much the same manner that the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry has done. The point is to weaponize the institutions of the international community to brand Israel a pariah “apartheid state,” and then to use the court at The Hague to implement sanctions on it.

The U.N. is widely and rightly disparaged in both the United States and Israel as a source of incitement against the West and a perversion of its founders’ intent in the aftermath of World War II. But it is also generally dismissed as a meaningless talking shop with no connection to reality.

In this sense, both Americans and Israelis tend to underestimate the damage that the Palestinian campaign to use international law to isolate the Jewish state can do once its bureaucratic apparatus is put to work on behalf of this anti-Zionist and antisemitic cause.

Just as important, it creates a diplomatic playing field in which the antisemitic invective is normalized to the point that it’s hard for nations to refuse to join in with the mob and take a courageous stand beside Israel.

This is where Ukraine comes in.

For the last several months, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been spending a disproportionate amount of time and effort trying to pressure Israel into sending his country arms to help it repel a Russian invasion.

Israel has condemned the illegal attack, sent Ukraine large amounts of humanitarian aid and taken in refugees. It has also shared intelligence with its military about the drones that Iran has sold to Russia. But it refuses to supply Zelenskyy with weapons for a number of good reasons.

Moscow, which has forces in Syria, has allowed neighboring Israel to act against Iranian and other terrorist forces there with impunity. Furthermore, there is still a large Jewish population in Russia that is now, in effect, hostage to the authoritarian whims of President Vladimir Putin.

But Ukraine and its many noisy supporters throughout the world have dismissed Israel’s justified concerns about being dragged into a war in which it has no direct interest, and treated it as if it were uniquely cynical for its refusal to do Kyiv’s bidding.

The fact that Ukraine was caught up in Democratic Party attempts to impeach former President Donald Trump is part of the reason its cause is viewed with special favor. By the same token, though Putin is a despicable tyrant, the fact that many Americans still believe the big lie that it stole the 2016 presidential election for Trump has revived a spirit of hatred for Russia that is reminiscent of right-wingers during the depths of the Cold War.

Part of their justification rests on depicting Ukraine as a citadel of Western democracy.

Ukraine has bravely defended itself against Russian aggression, and for that its forces deserve the world’s sympathy and admiration. But, as is the case with other post-Soviet republics in the region, its corruption runs deep.

Though its people clearly deserve the right to the self-determination that Russia wishes to deny, in practice, Zelenskyy’s government isn’t any more tolerant of dissent than Putin’s.

Others have revived old arguments about Russia’s being a deadly menace to the NATO alliance—as if the Berlin Wall were still standing and the massive armies of the now-defunct Warsaw Pact remained on the alert in East Germany, ready to invade Western Europe on Moscow’s orders. The fact that the diminished militaries of the Russian Federation have been easily defeated in Ukraine doesn’t seem to stop people from speaking as if it were the Soviet Union at the height of its evil powers.

By the same token, the same voices eager to escalate the war in Ukraine, rather than work for a settlement, dismiss the possibility that Russia would use its one truly scary asset—nuclear weapons—and flirt with what even President Joe Biden has characterized as the possibility of “Armageddon.”

Still, Ukraine’s pleas for Israeli help would be more reasonable if Kyiv were actually a friend of the Jewish state. Let’s ignore his lies about Ukrainians standing with Jews during the Holocaust, as opposed to what they actually did, which was to aid the Nazis in their slaughter.

Let’s set aside, as well, the fact that Ukrainian nationalism, historically, has been closely connected to antisemitism. Instead, let’s just focus on the attitude of the modern Ukrainian republic, and specifically Zelenskyy’s government, toward Israel.

This brings us to last week’s U.N. vote—98 nations in favor, 17 opposed and 52 abstentions—for referral to the International Court of Justice.

The 17 “nos” consisted of Israel, Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Liberia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and the United States.

Among those voting in favor was Ukraine.

This is, of course, far from the first time that Ukraine has sided with the mob of haters at the U.N. attacking Israel. It has consistently done so since becoming independent 30 years ago, including just last month, when it  joined others in a demand that Israel unilaterally renounce its right to nuclear weapons.

One would think that, at a time when it is seeking help from Israel, Ukraine might at least abstain on votes aimed at isolating and destroying the Jewish state. But such is the hypocrisy and arrogance of the Zelenskyy government that it had no compunction about both voting against Israel and simultaneously trying to strong-arm it into handing over its most valued and scarce weapons, integral to its self-defense, like Iron Dome batteries.

This says a lot about how off base many of those who speak as if Ukraine were a Jeffersonian democracy and a bastion of decency are while trying to persuade American taxpayers to go on funding a war, which has no end in sight, to the tune of tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars.

But it is also a reminder of how the U.N.’s toxic environment acts to enable the worst instincts of so many governments around the world. It allows those with foul motives, tainted by antisemitism, to work together under the false banner of human rights.

Rather than ignore or downplay it, Israelis should be taking the U.N. threat seriously. And Americans should be working to defund the body, rather than supporting, facilitating and standing aloof from its worst excesses, as the Biden administration continues to do.


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Who will be first to actively court Christian Zionist Israelis? – opinion

Who will be first to actively court Christian Zionist Israelis? – opinion

CALEV MYERS


Israeli Christians may be a relatively small percentage of Israeli citizens yet they share common values and have a close strategic alliance with the vast majority of Zionists in the world.
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MIGHT YOAZ Hendel be the first Israeli politician not only to reach out to Christian Zionists outside of the country but to those here in Israel? / (photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/FLASH90)

It took months of hundreds of thousands of citizens demonstrating in the streets several times a week in order to finally convince Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to temporarily freeze the legislative blitz that led the Likud and its current coalition partners to pass legal reforms.

By sharp contrast, it took barely four days of friendly concerns expressed by the international evangelical Christian community in order to convince Netanyahu to kill and bury a bill tabled by ultra-religious MK Moshe Gafni to criminalize all forms of talking about one’s religious beliefs with fellow Israelis of a different faith.

How is that possible? Why was it easier for Netanyahu’s evangelical friends to get through to him than entire military units of Israeli patriots who passionately risk their lives in the voluntary service of our nation?

The answer to this enigma is actually quite simple. Netanyahu is aware, probably more than any other Israeli politician, of an indisputable fact: the vast majority of Zionists around the world are not Jewish.

Most Zionists around the world are Evangelical Christians

The 600 million evangelical Christians around the world – men and women who passionately believe in the Bible and see modern Israel as a miraculous fulfillment of Hebrew prophecy – have become an indispensable asset to Israel’s international relations.

THE HISTORIC Abraham Accords, signed in 2020, have already led to rapid growth in trade and cooperation in a wide range of areas from investment and innovation to food security and health. (credit: TOM BRENNER/REUTERS)

None of the diplomatic achievements of which Netanyahu is most proud of, including the signing of the Abraham Accords, the moving of the US Embassy to Jerusalem, as well as the implementation of crippling sanctions that impeded Iran’s nuclear aspirations during the previous US Administration, would have been possible without the active support of devout evangelical Christians, such as vice president Mike Pence, secretary of state Mike Pompeo and UN ambassador Nikki Haley advising then-president Donald Trump to implement such policies.

EVANGELICALS IN the Trump administration were not advancing these pro-Israel initiatives to help Netanyahu per se. Rather, they were promoting these policies because they genuinely believed they were the right thing to do to strengthen Israel and the Jewish people, bolster US-Israeli relations and advance Arab-Israeli peace. And they were right.

Trump was already pro-Israel coming into office but because of strong Evangelical influence around him he had the political and moral support he needed to do more for Israel than any American president in history.

Compare this to the Biden Administration. Largely devoid of any pro-Israel evangelical influence around him, Biden – who openly says he loves Israel and is a Zionist – is doing very little to help Israel these days.

Who do Christians in Israel vote for?

That said, Israeli politics seem to have a strange disconnect when it comes to Christians. They love and court Christian Zionists who live outside of the country, recognizing that they are critically essential to Israel’s diplomatic influence, not to mention our thriving tourism industry and philanthropic giving to Israel and the Jewish people. Yet how many Israeli politicians love and court Israeli Christians?

On the contrary, Christian minorities within Israel have yet to find their voice in Israeli mainstream politics. The fact is that today there are at least 80,000 Israeli citizens who define themselves both as followers of Jesus and as Zionists. What’s more, these Israeli Christians tend to vote for secular right-wing and Center-Right parties.

This community includes a large portion of immigrants from the former USSR, those with a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother who identify as Christians. It also includes a small portion of the Arab Christian community (including the Arameans who volunteer for military service), as well as some 30,000 citizens who identify as Messianic Jews.

To the best of my knowledge, no political party with any chance of surpassing the threshold in Knesset elections has ever intentionally and consistently courted Israeli Christian minorities in their campaigns.

Why not? In hotly contested elections, every vote counts and the votes of Israeli Christians could prove critical to parties who show them respect and appeal to their concerns.

Consider the voting trends of Yad Hashmona, a small village nestled in the Judean Hills, just outside of Jerusalem, entirely made up of Christian minorities. In previous elections, the National Unity Party of Benny Gantz received approximately 26.67% of vote in Yad HaShmona, followed by Yesh Atid (20%), Yisrael Beytenu (19.17%) and then Likud (15%).

WHY DID so many Christian minorities within Israel vote for Benny Gantz rather than Netanyahu in the previous elections? For the same reason that hundreds of thousands of Israelis are currently demonstrating in the streets: Israeli Christians living as minorities in the land deeply value the democratic nature of the Jewish state that protects their human rights, civil rights and religious freedoms.

Like so many other Israelis, they are deeply concerned that the ultra-Orthodox parties, the Religious Zionist Party and the Otzma Yehudit party pose threats to their rights. What’s more, they view maintaining Israel’s robust and vibrant democracy – and the delicate balance of religion and state within our democratic system – as more essential to their immediate security and well-being than even looming international threats.

In this context, I found interesting a recent poll published by The Jerusalem Post showing that if a new right-wing liberal party (otherwise defined as “libertarian” or “neo-liberal”) were formed by Yoaz Hendel, the former communications minister, it would receive six mandates should elections be held today.

Hendel, who is perhaps most well-known for succeeding to upgrade Israel’s digital infrastructure by deploying optic fiber cables throughout the entire country, has also been a strong voice in the Zionist camp on behalf of equal rights and civil responsibilities. He has consistently expressed his opinion that all citizens, including the ultra-religious, should bear the burden of national service.

Might Hendel be the first Israeli politician not only to reach out to Christian Zionists outside of the country but to those right here in Israel? Should he choose to run and wish to increase his party’s electoral power from six to eight mandates in the next elections, he should consider reaching out directly, respectfully and consistently to the community of Christian minorities in Israel. Someone should.

Israeli Christians may be a relatively small percentage of Israeli citizens yet they share common values and have a close strategic alliance with the vast majority of Zionists in the world. And in Israel’s current political reality, every single mandate makes an enormous difference.


The writer is a senior partner at Yehuda Raveh & Co. Law Offices, where he manages their city center branch in Jerusalem and represents the vast majority of evangelical organizations active in Israel.


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