In this new feature, I expose those who decide to clog my inbox with their bile.

Received last Tuesday:

From: Aaiah <aaiah.ibrahim@hotmail.com>
To: israellycool@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:37 PM
Subject: Contact Form Results
Aaiah () wrote:
Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem,
You are a propoganda and hate website that is targeting all Arabs; Palestinians,Egyptians, everyone in hopes of creating a bad image for us. However, you do know that the state of “israel” is simply a short-lived period of time. read your torah, youll find out that Palestine will be returned to us shortly, and you KNOW that for a fact. Keep up with your efforts on this site, because it’s useless. ALLAH will free Palestine. Just like He freed Egypt, Libya, and all the other Arab countries, and just like He will free Syria.

Doesn’t exactly sound like someone wanting a peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict, unless that involves Israel being obliterated.

The hatemonger in question seems to have sent the mail from Canada..

..although they have some affiliation with Sterling Carriages Vintage Limousines, which seems to be located in North Carolina.

They also seem to be a hatemongerette, judging by their Facebook profile, and perhaps a member of the Coalition of Muslim Women – Kitchener-Waterloo.

If anyone else has any information on this individual, feel free to send via the Contact form.

In the meantime, this post will hopefully be relatively high up in the Google search results.

That sound was Alanis Morissette shooting herself in the head.

Update: Here is more on this “opponent of antisemitism.”

Now it has emerged that West Wing actor Joshua Malina has been sent the first page of Mel’s screenplay.

Imagine my shock when a friend who works at Warner Bros. secretly e-mailed me the first page of Mel’s screenplay for his film. I had misjudged! If the movie’s opening is any indication, Gibson’s approach is balanced, historically accurate and celebratory of Jewish bravery during trying times.

Heh.

And by “Zionist regime” they clearly mean Jews.

Organizers of the 30th Fajr International Film Festival will be holding the second conference on “Hollywoodism and Cinema” to review the influence of the Zionist regime on Hollywood.

Over 40 foreign experts and cinema critics are invited to attend the second edition of the conference running from February 2 to 4, Culture Ministry official Gholamreza Montazemi said in a press conference held here on Monday. The names of the guests will be announced later.

The Foreign guests invited to the conference, which is being held on the sidelines of Fajr festival, are due to discuss the impact of Hollywood in the world of cinema and how to resist this impact, Montazemi added.

Cinema of Hollywood is trying to promote the idea of conciliation between Satan and man, this is while Iranian cinema is the cinema of awakening, he said at the conference.

“This conference is trying to tell Iranian cineastes and cinematic experts that cinema is related to the events happening around us and what we are actually living with.

“Western experts are criticizing the influence of the Zionists on Hollywood. Iran has been acting as the source of this inspiration and has shown resistance against this system, and we can see this among the American and European experts as well,” Montazemi added.

Iranian experts are asked to attend this conference to exchange views with the foreign participants, he said.

He continued that several topics are to be discussed at the conference including the world awakening, the influence of Hollywood on public opinion, the destruction of family and humane values, and how to fight against this influence.

Here are some examples of Iranian cinema as a “cinema of awakening.”

Funny, because I wouldn’t have thought “awakening” was the correct A-word.

Update: Look who’s on the speakers’ list:

A seminar on Islamic Awakening is also to be held on the sideline, in which experts are to discuss the issue of Islamic Awakening.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s sister-in-law Lauren Booth, who has converted into Islam, is expected to attend the Islamic Awakening seminar.

I hear vile antisemite David Duke is also a fan (http://www.davidduke.com/general/mccain-panders-to-jewish-voters_4980.html).

It’s good to see all those days sitting at home demonizing Israel is really paying off!

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I would like to take you all back to the remarks of the father of singer Katy Perry, which I posted yesterday.

“You know how to make the Jew jealous? Have some money, honey. You go to LA and they own all the Rolex and diamond places. Walk down a part of LA where we live and it is so rich it smells. You ever smell rich? They are all Jews, hallelujah. Amen.”

What do you think when you see those remarks?

a) He is promoting the antisemitic canard that Jews are all rich and love money

b) He was praying for business owners. He was talking about being blessed in life: G-d wants you to be blessed and have G-d’s favor on your life, like the Jews are blessed. He wants you to be so blessed that you can even make the Jews jealous.

If you answered a), you are normal.

If you answered b), you are pastor Paul Endrei (or have been hanging out with him way too much).

The Rev. Keith Hudson, father of pop megastar Katy Perry, spoke at Church on the Rise in Westlake on Thurs, Jan. 5, and made comments stereotyping Jews that the church’s pastor Paul Endrei said were taken out of context.

Endrei confirmed that Hudson told attendees, “You know how to make the Jew jealous? Have some money, honey. You go to L.A., and they own all the Rolex and diamond places. Walk down a part of L.A. where we live and it is so rich it smells. You ever smell rich? They are all Jews, hallelujah. Amen.”

But Hudson’s remarks were meant to be complimentary, Endrei said.

“He was praying for business owners … he was talking about being blessed in life,” he said. “What (Hudson) said was, ‘God wants you to be blessed and have God’s favor on your life, like the Jews are blessed. He wants you to be so blessed that you can even make the Jews jealous,’ which was inappropriate.

“You might say that with your friend or whatever, but it was inappropriate,” Endrei said. “If he would’ve just said, ‘Hey, God wants you to be blessed,’ it would’ve been fine. He went too far.”

Endrei called Hudson’s remarks “stupid” and reiterated that “the idea of praying for prosperity is fine, but we felt like that was inappropriate.”

Endrei said Church on the Rise was one of the most pro-Jewish churches in the Cleveland area and hoped people wouldn’t view his ministry negatively in light of Hudson’s comments.

“I just took 42 people to Israel and had a wonderful time,” he said. “We pray for Jerusalem’s peace. We’re 100% backing the Jewish people and their struggles to maintain their land that we feel like God gave to them from the time of Abraham. If I should be criticized, honestly, it would be to be too pro-Jewish. That’s why it’s so funny the way the cards got played in this particular situation.”

I’d submit this is not a case of the “cards being played” a particular way, but rather a joker trying to bluff us.

Update: After I wrote the above, I noticed* that Perry’s parents had themselves commented.

But when the Blaze questioned Keith and his wife, Mary, in an exclusive interview, they offered up a very different explanation, calling the media’s depiction of the sermon “so out of context.”

During a phone call Monday afternoon, Keith said that the media have been inundating him with phone calls.

“I’m not anti-Semitic,” Keith explained. ”We have lots of Jewish friends. We’ve supported Jewish orphanages…The Hudsons do not mean any harm.”

Rather than a “sick blast” or a “rant,” he explained that the comments were said in jest and that there was certainly no harm meant by them. “I was joking. I have said this for years – I’ve said it in other churches before,” he continued.

Just before the comments were made, Keith said that he was talking about and praying for small business owners — mainly individuals who were self-employed. “I was talking about how God wants people to prosper and to be a blessing,” he explains. “God wants to bless you so you can be a blessing.”

It was after speaking and praying for these business owners that he made the joking comments about Jewish wealth. Quips about Judaism and wealth are widely regarded as pejorative and have been known to cause offense. But it’s the context that the Hudsons say is missing from media reports about the incident.

Mary went on to explain that the family has given thousands of dollars to Jewish charities and that they have supported Pastor John Hagee and Christians & Jews United for Israel.

Additionally, the husband and wife duo said that they have preached with Messianic Jewish leaders. According to Mary, her family may even have Jewish roots. ”We love the Jewish people,” she reiterated.

“I think where I erred was in using the word ‘Jews,’” Keith said, acknowledging the fact that some may see the word as offensive (though he maintains that he had no ill will in using the term). “I should have used the word ‘Jewish’ instead.”

In an interview with the Blaze, Pastor Phil Tammy Hotsenpiller (an expert in spreading faith in Hollywood whom we have profiled in the past), a close friend of the Hudson family, flatly rejected the notion that they are anti-Semitic.

“I would say it’s absolutely false,” Hotsenpiller said of the media’s anti-Jewish charges. “They’re some of the most pro-Israel people I know on the planet. There‘s rarely a conversation we have that doesn’t talk about blessing Israel [and] praying for Israel…”

The Blaze also interviewed David Schneier, a lawyer and a rabbi at the Messianic Initiative. When we told Schneier about the anti-Semitic allegations, he was surprised, as the Hudsons have worked with him in the past.

“Anyone who says anything like that — they don’t know them. Its nonsense,” he said. “I know them personally. They’ve attended conferences with the Messianic Congregation. They have never appeared to be and are not anti-Semitic. Period.”

Hmm.

On one hand “Some of my best friends are Jewish” and “Antisemitic remarks? Heck, I’ve been making similar remarks for years” aren’t the best defences to accusations of antisemitism. Neither is supporting Messianics. And talking in the third person is never a good idea.

On the other hand, giving money to Jewish orphanages and charities makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

So the question remains..

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* I should have noticed it earlier since Zionist Shark mentioned it

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Katy Perry insists that her parents don’t speak for her after the fundamental Christians delivered a shocking sermon putting down Jews and praising their daughter’s recent divorce for bringing more followers to their church.

After news broke of her parents’ harsh words in church on Sunday, Katy tweeted, “NO ONE speaks for me. Not a blog, magazine, ‘close source’ or my family.”

According to The Sun newspaper, Katy’s father Keith Hudson told his congregation at the Church on the Rise in Ohio:

“You know how to make the Jew jealous? Have some money, honey. You go to LA and they own all the Rolex and diamond places. Walk down a part of LA where we live and it is so rich it smells. You ever smell rich? They are all Jews, hallelujah. Amen.”

I’m guessing daddy would have also disapproved of Katy’s prayer for Israel.

UPDATE by Brian of London:

The Blaze actually rang her parents up and, not surprising really, it seems he was taken out of context and probably slandered.

Why the press is so desperate to hunt down Christian Jew hatred when Muslims pray 17 times a day for the death of all Jews, I’m not so sure.

Rather than a “sick blast” or a “rant,” he explained that the comments were said in jest and that there was certainly no harm meant by them. “I was joking. I have said this for years – I’ve said it in other churches before,” he continued.

Just before the comments were made, Keith said that he was talking about and praying for small business owners — mainly individuals who were self-employed. “I was talking about how God wants people to prosper and to be a blessing,” he explains. “God wants to bless you so you can be a blessing.”

The worst thing I can find in the piece is some minor mention of talking to Messianic Jews, but then I’ve also “talked” to Jews for Jesus though admittedly the conversation was one sided, short and fairly rude.

Lauren Booth

Yes, that’s Hitler Mein Kampf being advertised to Virgin’s Arabic customers. And in case you think the photo (source here) is photoshopped, here is a Bahraini blogger speaking of the same phenomenom in the Virgin Megastore in Bahrain.

Now apparently I’m really late to the party, because this issue was brought to Richard Branson’s attention at least as early as April. And while I am not sure when the above photo was taken, I have not seen any evidence of Branson acknowledging the issue nor acting on it, certainly not on his blog.

If you want to add to the chorus of voices asking Branson to do something about it (or at least let us know if something has already been done), here are a few places to start:

Richard Branson Twitter page

Virgin Megastore Middle East Twitter page

Virgin Megastore Facebook page

Pro-Palestinian activist Lauren Booth has launched a vitriolic attack on the Palestine Solidarity Campaign for dissociating itself from antisemitic musician Gilad Atzmon, saying the central office should be working “to end Zionism”.

Her comments highlight the internal divisions in the PSC, between the national body and its more radical branches. Last week, PSC director Sarah Colborne said the organisation had “no links with Atzmon and does not work with him.”

In response, Ms Booth, a recent convert to Islam and the half-sister of former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s wife Cherie, wrote on her blog: “Britain is witnessing the rise of a new wave of pro-Palestinian activists. They need an organisation that is fit for purpose. One that does not pander to the emotional whims of the Jewish, Zionist lobby.”

She added: “The PSC is …attempting to create a pro-Palestinian organisation that does not hurt Zionist sensibilities. Campaigns of appeasement to the Israeli lobby can never, ever, co-exist as part of a determined campaign to end Israel’s bloody and illegal occupation of Palestine. Let us be clear. A Palestine Solidarity Campaign should be working to END Zionism. Not ease it a little. Not work alongside it.”

Ms Booth, a presenter with Iranian-funded Press TV, praised Mr Atzmon’s new book, The Wandering Who? because it “pulls no punches, when asking to what degree the racist ideology – Zionism, when mixed with the Jewish sense of ‘Chosenness’ – is to blame for the existence of today’s apartheid Israel.”

She criticised blogger Anthony Cooper, who monitors PSC groups for instances of Holocaust denial and antisemitism. Mr Cooper said: “It’s encouraging that the PSC appears to have decided to take the problem of antisemitism seriously and is taking steps to dissociate itself from those who deal in hatred of Jews. They have a lot more to do but the early signs are promising”.

CST director of communications Mark Gardner commented: “This article is ugly and ridiculous, but very usefully illustrates how Gilad Atzmon’s emergence is forcing the anti-Israel movement to acknowledge its antisemitic demons; and then oppose them, or explicitly refuse to care.”

Jewish anti-Zionist and PSC activist Tony Greenstein called Ms Booth’s attack “venomous” and said it was “based on a core racist commitment.” He wrote on his blog: “PSC needs to take decisive action to root out, once and for all, those who evince sympathy for racism – of whatever description. Gilad Atzmon is deeply antisemitic. He subscribes to every myth and libel that has ever been written about Jews, from the world Jewish conspiracy theory, to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to the Holocaust itself. “

 This is entirely consistent with the comment left on this blog in her name.

Okay jerk offs
as you are so obsessed by the wish to have me as some self rejecting member of your supposed ‘Chosen Race’ let me once and for all put this idiocy about my mother’s ‘religion’ and background to rest.
My mother had a Jewish father who divorced her mother when she was little. She met him about three times and was raised in a secular Christian household. Thus when I was born rest assured no signs of any Judaism entered our world at all and my mother talked of Christ and God. The end. Now how about you lot try to address the really important questions; like your Occupation of Palestine, slaughter of children in Gaza in the name of the Jewish state and your tragic assertion at being ‘Chosen’ by God to rule over the rest of humanity. LOooool.

Update: In a recent talk delivered to a Muslim audience, Booth also confirmed how far from reality she is. Notice what she says about the BBC coverage of the Middle East conflict.