Internet:
The Jewish-ADL
Perspective
The Jewish "ADL" has developed a filter (ADL
HateFilter™) that blocks access to Radio Islam and to other Web
sites that contain "inappropriate" material!
STATEMENT OF THE
"ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE " (ADL) BEFORE THE US SENATE
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
SEPTEMBER 14,
1999
This
text is published
in
the US Senate´s
homepage
(http://judiciary.senate.gov/91499ad.htm):
Ahmed
Rami
"One
high-profile Arab Holocaust denier is Swedish-based Moroccan exile
Ahmed Rami, creator of the Radio Islam Web site. Once a lieutenant in
the Moroccan military, Rami reportedly played a leading role in a
failed 1972 coup d'Ètat and fled, gaining political asylum in
Sweden. In 1987, Rami began using a public access Swedish radio
station to broadcast Radio Islam, ostensibly a public relations
program for Sweden's Muslims but in fact a vehicle for unvarnished
anti-Semitism.
Rami has rationalized his
bigotry as support for Palestinian causes. While he has become a
source of embarrassment for serious Palestinian activists, Holocaust
deniers have unabashedly and enthusiastically associated with him.
Rami spoke at the 1992 IHR conference and has often been praised by
Ingrid Rimland, among others.
Off the air from 1993 to 1995,
Rami's program returned in 1996, the same year that he established
the Radio Islam Web site. From the start, Rami's site offered
visitors anti-Semitic material in English, French, German, Swedish
and Norwegian. Early versions of the site described the "so-called
'holocaust'" as a tool used by "Zionists" to win "sovereign rights to
oppress and vilify other people," namely Palestinians. These
"Zionists," according to Radio Islam, have a monopoly over
"information services in the West" and bribe Western politicians to
support them in their "Anti-Arab and anti-Moslem racism" and "hatred
against everything German."
Today, visitors to the Radio
Islam site are greeted with a statement that seems to deny Rami's
extremism: "No hate. No violence. Races? Only one Human race." Yet
his site has become even more bigoted than ever and demonstrates the
implicit connection between Holocaust denial and other forms of
anti-Semitism. Radio Islam promotes a myriad of anti-Semitic works in
addition to those of Holocaust deniers such as Robert Faurisson, Greg
Raven, John Ball, and Bradley Smith.
The Radio Islam site continues
to portray the Holocaust as part of a Jewish conspiracy to draw the
world's attention away from "the ongoing Zionist war waged against
the peoples of Palestine and the Middle East" and "Zionism's
totalitarian and racist backgrounds." To support this theory, it
provides numerous anti-Semitic texts that allege Jewish conspiracies
for political domination, such as The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion.
Expanding on the anti-Semitism
expressed by its denial of the Holocaust, Radio Islam equates "Jewish
Racism," envisioned as Jewish prejudice against Muslims, with "Jewish
'Religion,'" as outlined by the Talmud. Visitors to Radio Islam can
read "The Truth About The Talmud" by Michael A. Hoffman II and Alan
R. Critchley, which asserts that Jews are impelled, by religious law,
to mistreat and attempt to dominate non-Jews. The Nature of Zionism
by Vladimir Stepin, also available at the Radio Islam site, declares
that Zionism rests on three basic beliefs: that Jews are "God's
chosen people"; that all others are "merely two-legged animals
(goys)," and that "Jews have both the right and the obligation to
rule the world."
Furthermore, according to Radio
Islam, the Jews are not the "chosen people" for they are not
"'descendants' of the mythic Jews of the Bible." Rather, today's Jews
are "descended from Mongolians and other Asiatic peoples who had
adopted 'Judaism' as their 'religion' over 1,000 years ago and had
become know as 'Jews.'" Often advanced by Identity believers, this
theory alleges that most, if not all, Ashkenazic Jews descended from
the Khazars, an obscure Turkic people whose leaders converted to
Judaism in the eighth century. While Identity adherents employ this
theory in order to bolster their assertion that Anglo-Saxon whites
are actually the biblical Church of Israel, Rami uses it to
demonstrate that the ancestors of the Jews were not from Palestine,
implying that Israel has no right to exist.
What are Internet
"filters" and when is their use appropriate?
Filters are software that can
be installed along with a Web browser to block access to certain Web
sites that contain inappropriate or offensive material. Parents may
choose to install filters on their children's computers in order to
prevent them from viewing sites that contain pornography or other
problematic material. ADL has developed a filter (ADL
HateFilter™) that blocks access to Web sites that advocate
hatred, bigotry, or violence towards Jews or other groups on the
basis of their religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or
other immutable characteristics. HateFilter™, which can be
downloaded from ADL's Web site, contains a "redirect" feature which
offers users who try to access a blocked site the chance to link
directly to related ADL educational material. The voluntary use of
filtering software in private institutions or by parents in the home
does not violate the First Amendment because such use involves no
government action. There are also some commercially marketed filters
that focus on offensive words and phrases. Such filters, which are
not site-based, are designed primarily to screen out obscene and
pornographic material.
May public schools and public
libraries install filters on computer equipment available for public
use?
The use of filters by public
institutions, such as schools and libraries, has become a hotly
contested issue that remains unresolved. At least one Federal court
has ruled that a local library board may not require the use of
filtering software on all library Internet computer terminals. A
possible compromise for public libraries with multiple computers
would be to allow unrestricted Internet use for adults, but to
provide only supervised access for children.
Courts have not ruled on the
constitutionality of hate speech filters on public school library
computers. However, given the broad free speech rights afforded to
students by the First Amendment, it is unlikely that courts would
allow school libraries to require filters on all computers available
for student use."
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