JEW CONSPIRACY HALTS BOOK DISTRIBUTION

Self-styled Middle East expert Antony Loewenstein's twaddle seems to be everywhere of late. This has not stopped frequent Loewenstein blog commenter Glenn Condell claiming a Jew-led conspiracy to silence the fearless author:

Antony, I have just come back from a shopping expedition to Bondi, one of Australia’s foremost Jewish suburbs and I can tell you it appears to be an Ant-free zone. Tried Dymocks, A & R and (ugh) Borders. None had My Israel Question though some said they did have a few which they’ve sold. More on order of course, any day now it seems. Am I being tinhatted about this or is there scope for industry shenanigans? They’re probably just clueless but nothing would surprise me.

With Jews controlling the government, controlling the book stores is a snap.

Update: According to Loewenstein, high profile Jews are simultaneously all powerful (in controlling Australia's foreign policy) yet impotent (in failing to silence dissenting views):

Once again, the leadership of the Jewish community prove utterly irrelevant beyond their parochial little patch.

Go explore his archives; they're a hoot.

Update II: Here's Loewenstein on bullying by Australia's sinister Jews:

In Australia, the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) is the prime instigator of slander and intimidation against anyone who dares challenge the hawkish Zionist agenda in the US, Australia or Israel.

Thus, Loewenstein is one brave bloke for challenging this sinister cabal, right? Not according to Loewenstein:

Generally speaking, Zionist criticism is about as effective as being slapped across the head with a wet lettuce leaf.

Jeez, all that money and power and Australia's Jews can't even intimidate one guy. Pathetic.

Update III: A couple of weeks back on Lateline Loewenstein reiterated his claim of apartheid-like Jewish-only roads in Israel. When challenged on this by Ted Lapkin, who said there were indeed Israeli-only roads but no Jewish-only roads, Loewenstein refused to back down. Loewenstein recanted in a later article, however:

How are Australia’s interests served by the uncritical support for a state that builds roads only Israelis are allowed to use and which isolates Palestinians inside walls, military cordons and their own towns.

Way to fearlessly hold your position, Ant.

Update IV: Loewenstein's "moderate" public larvatus hasn't helped his book achieve stratospheric sales figures so he's trying to generate a bit of controversy at his blog by endorsing the views of George Galloway. You know, the view that Hezbollah are really nothing more than misunderstood freedom fighters tired of being bullied by mean old Israel:

George Galloway reveals some home truths about the Middle East to an unsuspecting Sky News audience.

The link is to Galloway's recent interview on Sky News in which he fields the trademark Galloway shouted-offence-is-the-best-form-of-defence rant.

It's in a later post, however, that Loewenstein stoops to a new attention seeking low in stating that Israel is using the Holocaust to justify the intentional killing of civilians:

Why does the Israeli air-force kill civilians?

It’s the Holocaust, stupid.

Here's an excerpt that puts the linked item in perspective – an Israeli air force colonel is being interviewed:

COLONEL A: I encourage my people to talk about their feelings, and we talk about the consequences of the thing that we... now, the case of Qana, for example, I personally. when I saw on the television, those photos of children and old people, I felt like it's hurting myself, like it's hurting... I immediately thought about my kids.

But I felt the same when I saw the guys from Haifa, and from... that were buried under the building two nights ago. We are often those civilians.

DAVID HARDAKER: Let me just ask, you've had to stop yourself there from almost crying. Why... is that what you have to do in real life?

COLONEL A: No, I don't know why you think that I had to stop myself from crying.

DAVID HARDAKER: Well, you certainly looked like it.

COLONEL A: Okay. No, we are professional pilots, okay? But we are human. I want to tell you something. My mother, she is a Holocaust survivor. She was born in Poland and she lost all her family in the Holocaust. She was a child.

So I understand my mission. And in other times in history, we didn't have military power to protect our people.

Now, Nasrallah and Ahmadinejad are saying, all over the world, that their purpose is to eliminate the state of Israel. This is their purpose.

So when your enemy has a purpose to eliminate your country, it's very clear to you that you are protecting first and foremost, your own people. This is your mission.

At least Ant got the title of the post right: Why we do what we do. To make sure history doesn't repeat.

Update V: Frequent commenter and Loewenstein defender Addamo_01 reacts to the notion Hezbollah has genocidal goals:

Genocidal goals? Where did you read that you moron? They are a resiatance movement who specialise in kicking IDF arse.

He also has an interesting take on the faked Reuters photographs coming out of Lebanon:

It is clear this whole storm in a tea cup is a plant, designed to discredit and censor the images comming out fo Lebanon that were ruining Israel’s image. The maniulatino of those pictures was so bad that it was almost begging to be picked up on.

Just a typical mossad type operation. Worked well. Now the IDF can do what it does best, do back to killing children and no one will be there to report it.

Like my dear departed Pappy always used to say, "Be careful who you hang out with; if you hang out with idiots, eveyone will think you're an idiot too". The older I get, the smarter that man was.