From 1867 to 1974, various cities of the United States had unsightly beggar ordinances, retroactively named ugly laws.[1] These laws targeted poor people and disabled people. For instance, in San Francisco a law of 1867 deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, to expose himself or herself to public view."[2][1] Exceptions to public exposure were acceptable only if the people were subjects of demonstration, to illustrate the separation of disabled from nondisabled and their need for reformation.[3]: 47

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Daniel Pasmanik (1869–1930) […] recalled his irritation upon hearing of the Russian soldiers’ delight when they were informed of Nicholas II’s overthrow. The soldiers expected that they would be able to return home, but as Pasmanik wrote in April 1917, Russia’s redemption required the removal of German militarism.⁴⁶

His view accorded with the Kadet policy to continue the war, a view that Bolshevik “defeatism” attacked. He attended a meeting of the city duma (congress) of Yalta following the February Revolution, where he claimed that no revolution would be realistic in peasant Russia, but attendees at the meeting were opposed to his idea.

After the meeting, he became more convinced that conscientious intellectuals’ lack of “monarchist energy” and “aim and solid will” to defeat demagoguery allowed the devastating situation of Russia.⁴⁷ He also tried to organize officers privately, though their “passivity” prevented him from succeeding.⁴⁸

Pasmanik considered the Bolshevik idea of the proletarian dictatorship to be narrow-minded and concerned only with proletarian interests. Furthermore, as a supporter of unfettered cultural creation, he suspected that the “uncultured” nature of the Bolsheviks would lead to Russia’s moral degeneration.

Though he emphasized that Zionism would not aim to preserve a specific culture and thus was reluctant to discuss Jewish culture per se, in the period after 1917 he often used the terms cultural or uncultured. Although he did not define it, his use of the term cultural suggested something civilized and Westernized. As I will note when I return to this issue later, he held a strong conviction that becoming “cultural” would change a barbaric human nature into a sophisticated one with a broad, statewide perspective.⁴⁹

In his Counterrevolutionary Diary (1923),⁵⁰ Pasmanik wrote about his motivation to serve the White resistance in these terms: “I am a determined opponent of all the revolutions following the war. For each was born not of the joy of creation but of defeat, that is, it was born of statewide attrition and cultural degeneration. […] In every respect, postrevolutionary Russia is losing the wealth that old Russia had.”

He defined the Russian Revolution as “an inevitable catastrophe under existing conditions, under the fully relaxed, obsolete bureaucracy, short-sighted obstinacy of the tsar, exhaustion of the front, feeble intelligentsia, lack of strong individuality, and uncultured masses.” Though seemingly inevitable, he wrote that “the revolt of the slaves will never lay the foundation for progress.”⁵¹

His suspicion of the Bolsheviks’ “anarchist” stance, which he believed would hamper any cultural creation, predated the October Revolution. His articles in Ialtinskii golos, the Kadet daily [that] he edited, depicted the Bolsheviks as belonging to a crime ring and their tactics as demagogic.⁵² Correspondence from Burtsev reveals that he accused Bolshevik activists of having participated in espionage for Germany.⁵³

[…]

In 1920, he began editing the Russian Whites’ daily Obshchee delo with Burtsev in Paris. In September 1919 he had already contributed his first article to the newspaper, entitled “The Jewish Question in Russia.” He admitted that in theory the Bolsheviks should not be involved in pogroms, whereas the White Army led by Alexander Kolchak and Anton Denikin was antagonistic toward Jews and its victory would trigger pogroms.

But Pasmanik went on to stress that despite a general tendency to avoid violence, the Bolsheviks nevertheless demolished the economic life of the Jewish middle class. Moreover, in actuality, although Bolshevik rule rarely caused pogroms, once it was overthrown unprecedented, brutal pogroms occurred because radical members of the Bolsheviks, such as the commissars, included Jews.

Interestingly enough, Pasmanik noted that his close observation of Denikin’s activity did not find any pogroms in the area under Denikin’s rule. Pasmanik explained this as follows:

The unit of General Denikin entertained the ideal of gosudarstvennost’ [statehood], under which the harmonious unity of the classes, peoples, and religious groups would be achieved. Such a cultural concept of gosudarstvennost’ firmly contradicts anti-Jewish pogroms. Therefore, despite the antisemitic tendency of these and other officers or soldiers, his army as a whole did not allow pogroms, which, at last analysis, cast seeds of dissociation throughout the state.⁶²

In his own understanding, then, Pasmanik was never involved with anti-Jewish personalities and never betrayed his Jewish nationalism.

[…]

Pasmanik further lamented that although Russia was in need of a strong unifying force, how to achieve this was a matter of contention, with émigrés internally divided—the left calling for democracy and the right for reaction.

It was in this context that he expressed his belief in the merits of fascism, for it promised the strong leadership [that] he believed was necessary. Fascism in Italy was a historical necessity, Pasmanik contended, arguing that Mussolini had been successful not only because he enjoyed support from a variety of people but also because he was a cultured figure.

Pasmanik also indicated that because Mussolini was cultured, he never allowed robbery, pogroms, or lawlessness, although recent scholarship has proven that this was not the case with other fascists.⁸⁴

(Emphasis added. See Taro Tsurumi’s citations for examples of this Herzlian’s prominence. Contrary to what Pasmanik wrote, Benito Mussolini did not prevent antisemitic violence, not even when Pasmanik was still alive.)

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An official who helped the [Third Reich] frame the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws reinvented himself after World War II “as a spymaster, diplomat and kingmaker” and “played a key role” in the development of Israel’s nuclear program, according to a British newspaper report.

Hans Globke was a senior civil servant in the [Fascist]-era interior ministry and was centrally involved in the interpretation and implementation of the Nuremberg race laws, as well as contributing to the “Jewish code” that was enforced in Slovakia, the Times of London said.

When Hitler seized power, Globke “took responsibility for ‘questions of citizenship and race,'” and won praise from his bosses for his “positive attitude” to [Fascism], the Times of London reported. “In 1936, he wrote an infamous legal commentary on the Nuremberg race laws,” and his guidebook “became ubiquitous in Nazi Germany’s courtrooms,” offering “many harsh interpretations of the rules.”

He stipulated, for example, that “sex between Aryans and non-Aryans was a crime even if it took place outside Germany.” He also introduced the statute that “forced Jews to take the middle name Israel, if they were men, or Sara, if they were women, so that they would be easier to identify.”

When World War II began, he traveled through [Fascist]-occupied territories, “from France to Czechoslovakia, issuing further rulings on how to distinguish between Aryans and ‘lesser’ races.”

In 1941, according to the Times, he was involved in drafting “an ordinance that stripped Jews in the conquered nations of their statehood and allowed their possessions to be confiscated, regarded as one of the most important legal bases of the Holocaust.”

Yet, the Times noted, Globke managed to reinvent himself after the war, to the point where he “had a distinguished cast of anti-Nazis lining up to testify under oath that he had been an instrumental figure in the resistance against Hitler.”

In its story published earlier this month, the Times said documents it had discovered also show Globke had connections to the formation of Israel’s nuclear program and to the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust.

After World War II ended, Globke was seen by the West as more of a functionary in the [Fascist] government than a true loyalist or [Fascist] ideologue, the Times noted. He even appeared as a witness at the post-war Nuremberg trials.

Globke went on to serve as chief of staff and a trusted confidant to former conservative West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer, between 1953 and 1963, and was responsible for recruitment to the heart of the West German government.

His continued service in the West German government led him, in turn, to a well-connected position within the intelligence community.

This position and his connections were used to ensure Globke’s name did not come up in the 1961–1962 trial of Eichmann in Israel, and, with help from the CIA, to ensure his name was also kept out of documents related to the trial. “The Germans persuaded the White House to get the CIA to expunge all mention of Globke from a serialization of Eichmann’s memoirs in an American magazine,” The Times reported. More than that, Eichmann’s lawyer, Robert Servatius, who was also “a West German intelligence asset, cut Globke’s name and others out of his client’s final speech to the court.”

Months before the Eichmann trial, the Times reported, Globke had assisted Adenauer in beginning work on a secret deal to lend Israel today’s equivalent of £4 billion (about $5.5 billion) for a “development project” in the Negev desert.

Documents released to Gaby Weber, a German journalist, show that this money was intended for use in the Dimona nuclear research facility and reactor. Foreign news reports have said the facility is used to make nuclear weapons.

The Times report said a memorandum from the German foreign ministry at the time describes a meeting between German defense minister Franz-Josef Strauss and then-prime minister David Ben Gurion: “Ben Gurion addressed the production of atomic weapons. In the conversation, Ben Gurion explained that the chancellor had promised him Germany would take part in the development of the Negev desert.”

The report said the Germans appeared to have suspended the nuclear-related negotiations during the Eichmann trial. “In no event can we make any undertakings before the conclusion of the Eichmann trial,” a German foreign ministry document said.

The Times report did not say whether the talks were renewed after the trial, and nor did it specify whether the $5.5 billion loan money ended up being sent, though it said Globke “played a key role in Israel’s development of nuclear weapons.”

Globke was only one of the many, possibly thousands of Axis war criminals that the Herzlians covered up for military technology.

See also: Mossad intentionally hired Axis war criminal Walter Rauff

Image source is Freedom Archives: Jewish Alliance Against Zionism. I do not find an item page for the specific document. higher quality PDF

script for the event

According to 2024 essay by Hilton Obenzinger (who was one of the organizers), “To Fight Against Injustice is to be A Jew”: Jewish Alliance Against Zionism 1978-1982, linked from the source page, this flier was printed in 1976.

(Every blank is a different nation or nationality)

In 1972, three (1) _______ radicals smuggled (2) _______-made assault rifles in violin cases into an airport in (3) _______, where the security ignored them because they were on the lookout for (4) _______ threats. The radicals opened fire and 28 people were killed in the ensuing firefight, including two attackers.

The sole surviving radical plead guilty, saying, "It was my duty as a soldier of the revolution." He was given a life sentence, but was released in a prisoner exchange after 13 years. Upon release, he became the only person to ever claim political asylum in (5) ______, which does not have an extradition treaty with his home country (where he's still wanted). He is still alive, at 77, and resides there to this day, reportedly watching cartoons like Tom and Jerry.

In 2008, (6) _______ (ethnicity) families of victims of the attack sued the government of (7) _______ for allegedly supporting the attacks and (8) _______ ordered that country to pay $378 million to the families.

Points awarded for either getting correct guesses or coming up with something that feels more like a game of Mad Libs than the correct answers do. I'll be especially impressed if anyone guesses (1) correctly.

1. Japanese

2. Czech

3. Israel

4. Palestinian

5. Lebanon

6. Puerto Rican

7. DPRK

8. United States

The Japanese Red Army was wild

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dz%C5%8D_Okamoto

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2094256/%7B%7B

He also has a 2 hour video on the subject but I haven't seen it yet.

tweety linky

wiki linky

People may be familiar with the incarceration of Japanese Americans in vast relocation camps during WWII. But, most are unaware that the U.S. government also detained thousands of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants living across Latin America — and their native-born spouses and children — and deported them to the U.S.

Their ultimate goal? To exchange them for U.S. citizens captured by enemy countries during the war.

and was curious what is was about, there was a prominent USA flag next to it.

Am Yisrael Chai (Hebrew: עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי, pronounced [am jisʁaˈʔel χaj]; lit. 'The People of Israel Live') is a slogan of solidarity among Jews. It is used to express strength and unity, typically in the face of adversity, but also in moments of peace and prosperity. To this end, it has historically featured in Jewish music, literature, art, and politics.

The phrase gained popular use as the solidarity anthem of the United States movement Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry in the 1960s and 1970s. According to The Forward, the slogan ranks second as an "anthem of the Jewish people" behind only Hatikvah, the national anthem of the State of Israel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Struggle_for_Soviet_Jewry

The Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, also known by its acronym SSSJ, was founded in 1964 by Jacob Birnbaum to be a spearhead of the U.S. movement for rights of the Jews in the Soviet Union, particularly their right to emigrate to Israel.

His parents were Russian socialists who fled the Tsarist regime. He lectured at Harvard at age 12 before graduating at 16. Then he was persecuted for being a socialist and anti-WW1 protestor, withdrew from public life, and died prematurely while working menial jobs to fund his independent research.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops

-Stephen Jay Gould