Debbie Schlussel: EXCLUSIVE: Jewish Women's Federation Tells Invited Terrorism Speaker She Can't Answer Khalidi Questions; The Self-Destruction of American Jewry
Why did a Jewish women's group risk its tax-exempt status by telling its invited speaker she was not allowed to answer questions about Barack Obama buddy, Rashid Khalidi?
There's an old Jewish fable of a Jewish community in a city called Helm or Chelm. The people there are extremely stupid, and those they've chosen to lead them are even more idiotic. They're known, sarcastically, as "The Wise Men of Chelm."
Well, based on lots of rightfully angry phone calls I've received since yesterday, I think we just found our modern day "Wise Women of Chelm," the Women's Department of the Jewish Federation of Detroit--dominated by Obama supporters. Yesterday, they held their "Woman 2 Woman" fundraiser at which the minimum ticket in is a $365 donation.
They refused to allow their invited fundraiser speaker, terrorism expert Rita Katz, to answer questions from the audience about Barack Obama bud, Palestinian anti-Semite and Israel hater, Arafat advisor Rashid Khalidi. Katz told the audience that she was told by her Jewish women Federation hosts and employees that she was not to answer questions about Khalidi because "it's political."
I know Rita--author of "The Terrorist Hunter"--whose father was assassinated by Saddam Hussein for being Jewish. She was born in Iraq and fled with her family to Israel. And I know that were she not suddenly censored by her fellow Jewish females on the eve of the election, she would have told the truth about Rashid Khalidi. Sadly, though, even if she had, it wouldn't have changed a single mind in the community of the blind, deaf, and dumb that is Jewish America on this election day.
This organization is the women's division of the Jewish Federation of Detroit, a group of self-appointed Jewish liberals who unfortunately decide how money is spent in the Jewish community and throughout Detroit, who purport to speak for me as a Jewish-American Detroiter, and who continue to reach out to and pander to "former" Islamic terrorists and Hezbollah members. These dumbasses--with their $400 million-plus endowment--funded a tour for Detroit Black kids of the anti-Israel Arab American National Museum and they funded an initiative to help increase Muslim immigration here and remove barriers to it. Those are just a couple of their myriad absurdly offensive expenditures.
It's a good thing this women's division of obnoxious dummies (who, through their behavior, help breed anti-Semitism) wasn't around in 1940. I can only imagine a speaker telling the women's group that she is not allowed to answer questions about Goebbels, Himmler, or Dr. Mengele, because "it's political."
And don't think that's a stretch. This progesterone-injected group of Hebrew Obama crones would likely be the kapos in the camps in those days. Or they'd be the ones who said,
Don't worry, they're just taking us away for a short weekend. In no time, we'll be back at our homes.
Except, in those days, many of those Jews really didn't know what was happening or what the Nazis were doing. Today, Jews have been sent almost two years of loud broadcasts and telegrams about Rev. Wright, Rashid Khalidi, Louis Farrakhan, and Ali Abunimah. Yet, they choose to ignore them. Also, in those days, the kapos--the Jews who helped the Nazis and turned in other Jews, both in and outside the camps--were in the minority of European Jewry, an infinitesimal fraction of a fraction. Today, the kapos for Obama dominate American Jewry, and I and my compatriots are in the minority.
The line the Jewish Women's Federation told Rita Katz to give--that she can't talk about Khalidi because "it's political"--is actually the real politics here. It's official: the Jewish Federation is an arm of Team Obama. And for this political move, Federation stands to risk its 501(c)(3) charitable status. Politics are a no-no, and restraining a speaker to help the Obama election is political activity. I've heard from several people who want to complain to the IRS and have the status revoked.
The Detroit Jewish News--the "Bible" for these Idiot-owitzes--predictably endorsed Barack Obama. As with everything this insult to birdcage liner does, it would be too much to expect a paper with the name Jewish in its title to actually do something to support the Jews and their interests. Jewish News owner, Arthur Horwitz (whom some more appropriately call, Arthur "Whore-witz"), is in a commercial partnership with Osama Siblani, whose newspaper is funded by Hezbollah, whose brother is an Al-Manar (Hezbollah TV) exec, who called Hezbollah "the martyrs" and "freedom fighters", and who was identified by a Kuwaiti newspaper as one of Hezbollah's key American agents.
Recently, the Arab American News ran one of the most vile, anti-Semitic "Jews Are Rich and Get Special Treatment" articles. The Jewish News denounced it. But that was just smoke and mirrors, since Whore-witz is in bed with the Arab American News and, like a jilted lover, keeps coming back for more. It's not just embarrassing. It's disgusting and dangerous to the survival of the Jews in the Detroit area and the rest of America.
The thing about "The Jewish News": It's not Jewish, and it's not news. As my late father once wrote Horwitz:
I would like to propose an alternative prayer, which I shall reverently call "A prayer for the Jewish News.""May the Jewish News be granted the wisdom to realize the silliness of some of its ultra-liberal positions and how much damage they could cause to the Jewish community."
Tomorrow, the Detroit Jewish Federation is hosting Detroit News Editorial Page Editor Nolan Finley as a paid speaker. But Finley is the editor who invited anti-Semite and Hezbollah agent Imam Mohammed Ali Elahi to have a regular column on his editorial page, in which he constantly rants against the Jews and Israel. Elahi said the Jews committed 9/11 and was spiritual leader of Ayatollah Khomeini's Navy in Iran. He was sent here by Iran and Hezbollah to shore up extremism in the Detroit Shi'ite community. Yes, Nolan Finley achieved a first: the first operative of Hezbollah and Iran to have a regular column in a major newspaper. And the Jewish community in Detroit licks his tuchus for doing so. Mazel Tov.
While most Orthodox Jews are overwhelmingly for McCain--and a Harvard University study says that in the Tricentennial, 2076, only Orthodox Jews will be left in Judaism--even some of these of my fellow co-religionists display their ad absurdum ability to be myopic. A couple of close relatives of mine had their names in a "Jews for Change" add. Yes, there will be change, but not the kind that's in any Jew's--any American's--interest in the least.
Then, there is my distant cousin Katie Schlussel of Brandeis University (whom I don't know and with whom I've exchanged a couple of e-mails in the past). Here's what she told the campus newspaper of her school that was home to commie attempted-murderer Angela Davis:
Israel is important to Katie Schlussel '10.Schlussel, president of Brandeis Orthodox Organization, cast her vote for Barack Obama (D.-Ill.) . . . .
Schlussel explained that she feels confident in Obama's goals for the Middle East, even if McCain does seem to be the better man for the task considering his significant foreign policy experience and political track record of support for Israel.
This is why I think college students should be ineligible to vote.
Again, this isn't representative of Orthodox Jewry, which is 95% for McCain. In places like New York, less so; in places like Michigan, almost 100%.
Every time I think the Jews can't do anything worse to screw themselves, I'm disappointed because this insanity keeps escalating.
I'm glad my beloved late father isn't around to see this total implosion and self-destruction of the Jewish people. Unfortunately, he saw quite enough already. And right now, he's turning over in his grave.
The proverbial saying that "The Jews are the canary in the coal mine" is no longer valid, at least not here in America. America's Jews are the idiots in the coal mine. The dead bodies who committed suicide in the coal mine.
Oh, and by the way, it doesn't help much that Republican Jewish Coalition dictator-for-life Matt Brooks is paying himself over $500K per year and instead of campaigning to Jews spent his time paying the cash entry fee for the World Series of Poker. Instead of growing the Jewish vote, he's been growing his rapidly increasing fat ass, using RJC money to live high on the hog, fly first class, stay at fancy hotels, and eat the finest shrimp.
In Judaism, we believe that G-d helps those who help themselves. Since my fellow co-religionists certainly aren't meeting that requirement, I'm hoping G-d doesn't distribute collective punishment.
It's a good thing America is still a Christian country and that evangelical and Baptist Christians--and many other similarly smart and moral Americans--support Israel and my right to exist as a Jew here in this country. My own people won't save me, but--with the help of G-d--Christian Americans will protect me from them and their complete stupidity.
I hope.
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Call the Jewish Women's Federation and ask them why they silenced information on Rashid Khalidi and why they engage in censorship:
(248) 642-4260, ext. 183. I also suggest you contact the Jewish Federation, it's parent, at the same number, but not that extension--ask for the operator.
I contacted the Jewish Women's Federation asking for comment, and they, predictably, did not return my calls. In any event, here is a list of the organization's officers. Since these chalushes tzatzkes feel no shame in censoring Rita about Khalidi, I'm sure they won't mind a nice little mention here. If you know any of them, give them hell:
Board of Directors
President
Susie Citrin
Campaign Chair
Marcie Orley
Education Vice Presidents
Norma Dorman, Jodi Goodman, Barbara Horowitz, and Leah Ann Kleinfeldt
Corresponding Secretary
Pam Lippitt
Recording Secretary
Gail Mayer
Designates to Federation's Board of Governors
Joan Chernoff Epstein and Leah Trosch
By-Laws Chair
Karen Alpiner
Members-at-Large
Lori Garon and Jennifer Silverman
Women's Endowment Chair
Kathleen Wilson Fink
Strategic Planning Chair
Linda Lee
Nominating Committee Chair
Susie Pappas
Lisa Lis
Jewish Women's Foundation Chair
Past Presidents
Helen S. August**
Penny B. Blumenstein
Marlene Borman
Tillie Brandwine**
Ann Daniels**
Dora Erlich**
Clara Frank**
Paula Glazier
Carolyn K. Greenberg
Nancy E. Grosfeld
Diane D. Hauser**
Shirley Harris
Bernice Hopp**
Esther Jones**
Jennie Jones**
Dorothy Karbel**
Sharon Hart
Doreen Hermelin
Edythe Jackier
Diane Klein
Linda Z. Klein
Ellen S. Labes
Beverly Liss
Barbara Marcuse**
Dulcie B. Rosenfeld
Susie Pappas
Sandra R. Schwartz
Frieda Stollman**
Jane F. Sherman
Edie N. Slotkin
Shelby Tauber
Josephine Weiner**
Elected Members
Karen Alpiner
Deborah Balkin
Sue Birnholtz
Stacy Brodsky
Heidi Budaj
Shannon Dickstein
Norma Dorman
Sharon Eisenshtadt
Judy Elson
Joan Chernoff Epstein
Kathleen Wilson Fink
Linda Finkel
Elyse Foltyn
Margot Gardner
Barbara Giles
Jodi Goodman
Laura Gorosh
Fran Hack
Betsy Heuer
Barbara Horowitz
Gina H. Horowitz
Lilly Jacobson
Barbara Kappy
Judy Kepes
Sherri Ketai
Leah Ann Kleinfeldt
Nancy Kleinfeldt
Anessa Kramer
Jodie Krasnick
Sarah Krasnick
Dottie Levitsky
Pamela B. Lippitt
Lisa I. Lis
Deena Lockman
Roberta Madorsky
Cheryl Margolis
Jeanne Maxbauer
Gail K. Mayer
Anita Naftaly
Patti L Nemer
Fran Newman
Terri Farber Roth
Amy L. Schlussel [DS: married to my first cousin]
Judi Schram
Arlene Selik
Abbe B. Sherbin
Mindy Soble
Julie Sosin
Phyllis Subar
Suzi Terebelo
Carolyn Tisdale
Malka Torgow
Leah Trosch
Judy Verona
Barbara Zaltz
Appointed Members
Amy Berlin
Lisa Brody
Lisa Bronstein
Molly Chernow
Suzan Curhan
Lori Garon
Jenny Glass
Julie Goldstein
Debbie Lippitt
Beth Lutz
Cheryl Margolis
Jill Menuck
Patti Phillips
Michele Rosenblum
Jennifer Siegel
Jennifer Silverman
Karen Simmons
Nancy Stone
Sheri Wagner
Jodi Weinfeld
Marjorie Yaker
Advisory Service Council
Doris G. August
Barbara Berry
Roz Blanck
Barbara Bloom
Joyce Z. Blum
Paulette Borin
Ruth K. Broder
Harriet Colman
Barbara S. Cook
Kim Dickstein
Dolores Farber
Marcy Feldman
Carol Weintraub Fogel
Nancy Glass Kanat
Fran Gold
Marilyn Goldberg
Rose Rita Goldman
Reva Kogan Grace
Micki Grossman
Cheryl Guyer
Margot Halperin
Jan Hauser
Susie Jacob
Nancy Jacobson
Sybil Jones
Marian Kantor
Diane F. Keene
Margie Krasnick
Sally Krugel
Marjorie Kurzmann
Sissi Lapides
Linda Lee
Terran Leemis
Sharon B. Lipton
Renee Mahler
Florine Mark
Susan Marwil
Ilene Nemer
Dee dee Perlman
Beverly Peterman
Meryl C. Podolsky
Rosalie N. Rosen
Marta Rosenthal
Roz Schiff
Sheri T. Schiff
Janice Schwartz
Selma S. Schwartz
Joyce Sherman
Helen Shevin
Baylee Shulman
Evelyn Silverman
Donna Slatkin
Leah Snider
Jessie Stern
Barbara Stollman
Barbara Tukel
Jeannie Weiner
Trudy Weiss
Melba Winer
Beryl Winkelman
Linda Zlotoff
Helen Zuckerman
**Deceased
Posted by Debbie on November 4, 2008 11:27 AM to Debbie Schlussel