- The paragraph was short and based on information from
NASA and the Israeli's Space Agency. It dealt with the role of Israeli
astronaut, Ilon Ramon, one of the crew of the ill-fated Columbia shuttle.
-
- This is what I wrote in that paragraph:
-
- "Astronaut Ilon Ramon was conducting secret experiments
on the Columbia to discover new ways to beat Saddam's threat to use biological
and chemical weapons against Israel. For most of his 16 days on board the
Columbia, he had been using cameras linked directly to the Israeli Space
Agency to study desert dust and wind-drifts emanating from the deserts
of Iraq."
-
- In a splurge of rage, the New York based Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith, through its "Anti-Semitism-International"
- a newsletter rant on the Internet - accused me of being an "anti-Israel
author", and one of those who used "the Space Shuttle Columbia
disaster for their own purposes, anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers and Israel
bashers promoting warped conspiracy theories".
-
- Abraham H Foreman, the Anti-Defamation League's National
Director even managed to include me in his all-sweeping diatribe that "even
in times of tragedy for the American people, the anti-Semites and hatemongers
never let up".
-
- There is much, much more, of this demented hysteria in
Anti-Semitism-International.
-
- In over 50 years of being a published writer, I have
never met such a vicious smear. It's all the more incredible for when I
first reported from Israel, since the Suez Crisis of 1956, I have been
repeatedly praised for my balanced reporting about that country.
-
- I co-authored the Academy Award multi-nominated "VOYAGE
OF THE DAMNED", a saga of Jewish courage. I arranged for the Holocaust
Museum in Washington DC to receive all the research material on this saga.
I have lectured widely to Israeli congregations about the pernicious anti-Semitism
now rife. I write for a UK newspaper, the Sunday Express, owned by a powerful
Jew. I have a huge network of Jewish correspondents and contacts, many
of them highly placed in Israel. Would all these good people continue to
help me if they thought I was "anti-Israel" or anti-Semitic?
-
- That is what makes outlandish, vicious and dangerous
labelling by the League so serious, because if they can label me an anti-Semite,
then who else can they damage at the whim of the likes of Mr Foreman? People
who cannot reply to their ridiculous accusations.
-
- The reality is that, what it espouses to defend - free
speech - the League sets out to stifle it. I had asked them to print a
simple apology. My request was ignored. Hence this article. It will, as
usual, be widely circulated.
-
- It is time that somebody stood up to the bully-boy tactics
of the Anti-Defamation League. It is rich and powerful and operates from
its exclusive address at 823 United Nations Plaza. It has been around a
long time, since 1913. Its stated aim is "fighting anti-Semitism through
programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudices and bigotry".
-
- Noble aims. No one can criticise them. But even so much
as dare to ask for the right of reply in their "Anti-Semitism-International"
- as I did over its offensive linking of my name with anti-Semitism - and
you are brushed aside.
-
- When I protested, I received a somewhat bizarre email
from the League's "Corporate Counsel", Jill Kahn Meltzer.
-
- She is, of course, a lawyer. And the truth does not always
sit easy with attorneys - whoever they are. She writes:
-
- "ADL has not accused you of anti-Semitism. As the
press release and the story notes, the conspiracy theories about the shuttle
have been circulated by anti-Semites."
-
- I wrote the story, and it has been clearly linked as
part of the League's attack on anti-Semites. The truth is that in doing
so the League has defamed me - because there's nothing in my story that
can be remotely called anti-Semitic or anti-Israeli.
-
- But there is more from Ms Meltzer.
-
- "While you are within your rights to criticise Israel
and theorise about nefarious missions and practices it engages in, it is
ADL's right to comment on those writings."
-
- Hold it right there, Ms Meltzer. Where is there any criticism
about "nefarious missions and practices" in the paragraphs used
in Anti-Semitism-International to brand me as an "anti-Semite"
and "anti-Israel"?
-
- Comment is fair. But to use the language your organisation
chose is - dare I say it - more in keeping with the smear tactics we all
abhorred: those of Josef Goebbels and his fellow Nazis.
-
- I suppose saying that makes me pro-Nazi in the eyes of
the League!
-
- For some time now I have been aware of the ways the League
pounced on those less rich and powerful. It has its followers in all levels
of the media: in publishing, in radio and in television.
-
- Others who work in those areas have told me of their
fear of the League. How it can black-list a book, mobilise an onslaught
against a columnist, use its powerful connections in Washington to crush
opposition.
-
- But until recently, I had no idea just how powerful it
could be. The first hint came when I published "Seeds of Fire"
(Dandelion Books), a non-fiction book which dealt with the relationship
between Israel and China and the role of Mossad in the United States. The
book drew favourable reviews from distinguished critics. Carol Adler, my
feisty publisher based in Phoenix Arizona, felt optimistic that the book
would continue to sell in big numbers.
-
- But suddenly, though she could not prove it, she felt
the heat. Barnes & Noble, America's largest bookseller, withdrew its
support for the book. Why? Because it had just announced it was going to
collaborate with the stated aims of the League.
-
- Seeds of Fire became among the first victims of what
I regard as a pogrom against the truth. Carol Adler had lined up a major
promotion to build upon the reviews. Suddenly she found that radio and
TV appearances were cancelled on national shows.
-
- Now what makes this doubly disturbing is that Seeds of
Fire was preceded by another book of mine, "Gideon's Spies".
Published by St Martin's Press (New York), it is a detailed account of
Mossad. It became a successful documentary for Britain's Channel-4. It
has been published, so far, in 55 countries. It is a book that carries
the imprimatur of Meir Amit, the former director-general of Mossad. He
states: "Thomas tells it like it was - like it is". The book's
jacket is peppered with similar accolades.
-
- I do not know at what stage the League became aware of
it, but aware they did become. And, despite Mr Amit's unstinted praise,
League hatchetmen in the media set to work. The normal standards of reviewing
were shunted aside; the charge was that I was an anti-Semite for daring
to have shown that Mossad was less than infallible!
-
- So the way was paved for the assault on Seeds of Fire.
It is still selling on the Internet - though Carol Adler has indicated
she is still having difficulties in collecting my royalties!
-
- But still the League was not satisfied. Last year, I
co-published (with Martin Dillon) "Robert Maxwell: Israel's Super
Spy" (Carroll & Graf, New York).
-
- Maxwell, a media tycoon and crook on a grand scale, as
well as being a Mossad "asset" was a staunch supporter of the
League.
-
- The result was that the League mounted a disgraceful
attempt to bury the book.
-
- Newspapers that support the League - The New York Times
among them - either refused to review the book or used it, yes, you've
got it, to accuse Dillon and myself of anti-Semitism. When we protested
about one such scabrous attack in The Washington Post, it refused to publish
our letter. When we challenged Alan Derschowitz - the lawyer who helped
to defend O J Simpson - on misreporting the facts in his "review",
we were again refused the right of reply.
-
- That said, I must also add that The Times of London,
Britain's Daily Mail and Daily Mirror showed they will stand up to the
League by devoting considerable space to the book. So far, the book is
in its sixth UK printing and doing well in the US.
-
- But what I complain of about the League is this. No matter
how favourably I have handled Israel in the past, the slightest criticism
brings down a garbage-can of attacks in its newsletter.
-
- In these dangerous times, their Anti-Semitism-International
commits what Jews call a blood libel by linking my name and writings with
the foul words of Abu Hamza al-Masri, an Islamic Fundamentalist.
-
- If it is to continue to make such irresponsible links,
then it will demean its aims even further.
-
- There is only one way to make the League know how my
hundreds of thousands of readers of Globe-Intel.net feel about their baseless
accusations.
-
- It is to make your view known. Why not spare a moment
and sent an email to jill.meltzer@adl.org and let me know if she responds.
If you feel like calling her, here is the number (212) 885 7734. Of if
you care to fax her, the number is (212) 953 9691. But try and spare the
time to express your feelings.
-
- It will be another step in stopping the smears and misrepresentations
that are not needed in these troubled times.
-
-
-
- Comment
-
- From Robert H. Countess, PhD
- boblbpinc@earthlink.net
- 4-15-3
-
- Dear Ms. Meltzer:
-
- Perhaps you ought to be advised that the ADL [and its
secret lodge parent] is the foremost terror organization operating in the
USA at the present time and, as such, ought to be investigated by the US
Justice Dept and the FBI and the Homeland Security agency.
-
- In addition, the ADL is a racist organization well known
for USING a few Black faces as receptionists and washroom cleaners at various
offices [particularly at the office on/near DuPont Circle in DC.
-
- Time has come for the masses of American citizens [=
those without dual loyalty to the foreign and criminal nation of Israel]
to discard their fear of being targeted by the infamous ADL and its pervert
director Foxman and to speak out and write boldly about the ADL.
-
- MOSSAD loves ADL members as occasional sayanim [= Hebrew
for volunteers plural masculine form] to help out with safe houses and
other needed support when engaged in Jonathan Pollard like spying on the
USA and its citizens.
-
- If the ADL and B'nai B'rith were closed down today and
its leaders charged, tried, imprisoned-or deported to the outlaw nation
of 'Eretz Yisrael-the masses of US citizens [= those without a dual loyalty
to Israel] could rest a bit easier during both day and night.
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Robert H. Countess, PhD
- Ancient Greek
-
-
-
- Reply and Response
-
- From Robert H. Countess
- boblbpinc@earthlink.net
- 4-19-3
-
- What the hell do you have a Ph.D. in...ignorance? Or,
does it simply stand > for 'post hole digger'
-
- Reply:
-
- Dear Ms. Meltzer:
-
- 1) Your response displays a fundamental lack of intellectual
acuity and emotional stability, but I will try to offer a brief comment
or two.
-
- 2) Your inability to spell a key term, "anti semEtic"
-- if I may be allowed to capitalize the misspelling -- is an egregious
error and may well point to even more egregious [e from Latin preposition
OUT OF; and greg- stem also from Latin, a herd] poverty on your part so
that I might suggest that you are severely intellectually-challenged, shall
we say, in order to be gracious?
-
- BTW, I like the adjective "egregious" since
by it I signal that animal who sticks up his/her head above the rest so
as to be seen while the herd in general is NOT seen. In this fashion,
you have raised your nescient and ignorant head above the masses of nescient
and ignorant heads around you.
-
- 3) My Ph.D.? I do indeed like the effort at humor--"piled
higher and deeper." Shows you have not spent all your life in Israel
on a socialistic Judeo-Bolshevist Kibbutz [with the Hebrew plural being
an -im added].
-
- Sorry to disappoint you, but I took the degree at a real
university in a really difficult field wherein I spent years learning to
read an ancient Indo-European language -- a non-Semitic tongue (please
note: Semitic spelled properly here) -- and acquiring the ability to conjugate
the verb luo in its 457 forms in various moods and tenses and participles
and infinitives and voices, along with learning the 5,594 vocab entry forms
of the GNT, and even a foray into Homeric Greek, Classical, and a little
Byzantine.
-
- Add to all that, travel to some 40 countries with three
visits to "that shitty little country of Israel"--as an esteemed
French ambassadorial type styled it last year!--and over a hundred published
articles in journals and magazines and several book projects. Golly, shucks,
gee whiz, Ms. Schmeltzer, put all my degrees [four of them] along with
my professional accomplishments and standing with $.27 cents at McDonald's
and you can get a small cup of Senior Coffee any morning of the week--even
on Sabbath morning when you OUGHT to be in synagogue, but since you are
probably like most Jews, that is, an atheist or agnostic and hence a pagan
re: the God of Father Abraham, you probably are sitting before your PC
writing ignorant responses and misspelling "anti-semitic" so
as to display your utter arrogance and ignorance.
-
- In closing, hope you have a nice Easter Saturday since
tomorrow, Christians will have a really big day to celebrate: Jesus' Resurrection
and victory over death after your people's high priestly and Pharisaical
and Sadducee-ical and scribal types condemned Him in a Judeo-Bolshevist
show trial that put Him on a Roman cross.
-
- With the annual Easter activities calling up in your
troubled and guilty mind images of your dismal people's sinful and rebellious
and criminal and immoral history, I can understand why you have a nauseous
and noxious mind this week. If I were guilt-ridden, I guess I might behave
badly and rudely also.
-
- But, I don't have to since I am free and happy and quite
satisfied with life.
-
- Perhaps this time next year you will become converted
to born again Christian-hood and understand what it means to be "in
Christ."
-
- Sure hope so.
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Bob
-
- --
- Robert H. Countess, Ph.D.
- Ancient Greek
- email: boblbpinc@earthlink.net
- 28755 Sagewood Circle
- Toney, AL 35773 USA
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