article on the Italian "Blacklisted Jewish Academics" Scandal

[mary <humdrum2 at libero.it>]

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2008/02/miguel-martinez-looking-for-king-of.html

Miguel Martinez - Looking for the King of Copy and Paste

Translated by Ernesto Páramo. Revised by author

Two days after the FARC guerrillas delivered two kidnapped
parliamentarians to president Chávez of Venezuela, the Spanish newspaper
El Pais followed by many other mass media outlets everywhere, was
determined to confuse its readership and nip in the bud all reports of a
significant news item which could have given us hope for the future. This
event was, however, against their political editorial line, so they
replaced it with a pseudo-report entitled " Are Hugo Chávez and
Naomi Campbell engaged?"

In Italy, the press behaved in a similar fashion. Israel managed to
snatch the role of guest of honour at the Turin Book Fair away from
Egypt, to whom the event had been solemnly promised: thus, in the
sixtieth anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, two of the three great
publishing events (Turin and Paris) are both dedicated to Israel this
year (Frankfurt was dedicated to Israel in 2005). Repubblica, the
leading Italian daily close to the centre-left, replied by devoting its
front page and two full pages inside to a weird and unknown blog which
had copied a list of signatories to a pro-Israel petition that had been
in the public domain for months: La Repubblica pretended that the
appearance of this list on the blog was a clear sign of a dangerous
anti-Semitic revival.

A great pair of mill stones used as daily communion wafers for the
readers of "centre-left".
Note from the Spanish translator Juan Vivanco

In Italy there are probably at least half a million, perhaps a million
blogs.

Because of inevitable statistical constraints, we have to assume that a
small proportion of these blogs – which still could amount to something
like 10.000 - are written by mad people.

Now, “Mad“ is a strictly scientific term, which does not refer to the
contents, but to a series of unequivocal psychoelectronic indicators. For
example, the random use of capital letters (known as CapsLock
syndrome).

Among these mad characters, there is one that likes to be known as KING
SHAULOS II, and up to yesterday, His Majesty had a blog covered with
banners reading “ NO TO TURKEY IN EUROPE ”. Actually he does not use
random capital letters: he uses nothing but capital letters.

And he proclaims to be the only sovereign of THE CHRISTIAN WEST, clearly
under “JESUS VINCIT-REGNAT-IMPERAT IN LISBON AND IN SAINT PETERSBURG,
THERE IS ONLY ONE KING – THE KING OF KINGS”.

On the pages of his blog we can also see the image of the Three Kings,
and more significantly, a True Portrait of His Majesty SHAULOS in
person:

The blog is also full of useful advice:
“THE INSTANT THAT SYNCHRONIZES THE PRESENT IS THE WILL OF GOD, KING
SHAULOS II”

His political program is very clear:

ELECTIONS:
“LET'S ADOPT ISRAELI ELECTORAL LAW –
LET'S PRESERVE THE ITALIAN CHARACTER OF DEMOCRACY,
LET'S PREVENT THE CONTAMINATION OF ITALIAN IDENTITY BY ISLAM AND
JUDAISM”

In short, he is as twisted as the late Oriana Fallaci, with the
difference that he adds Judaism to his pet hates (…).

I have seen the King's blog a couple of times, and it has given me some
cheerful laughs (I know, we should not laugh at mad people, but I have
never claimed to be politically correct).

However, this morning I saw him again.

On the front page of

Repubblica. Plus, they dedicated the whole of pages 10 and 11 to
him.
Just a question… how much would it cost a run of the mill blogger to buy
all that newspaper space?

The headlines are simply fantastic:
Black list of Jews “return to fascism”
On the Net, the black list of Jewish teachers
Amato [ Interior Minister]: An offense against the law and against
civilization
The blog closed, the hunt is on for the author. "We will get
him”
Public derision, just as during fascism
Memory must be studied at University to put a stop to hate
Too dangerous a climate, according to the University's point of
view.
Code name H5N1, a year of poison sown in the internet
The alarm of the Department of the Interior …Anti-Semitism is reborn in
Italy in this way

As you get your breath back, let's try to understand exactly what His
Majesty did. First, what is all that about a “Jews black list”?

Very simple. It is the list of signatories of an appeal “against
anti-Semitism ” that has been in the public domain for a long time.
If you read the petition, you will see that it has nothing to do with
anti-Semitism, and everything to do with the State of Israel (yes, the
usual, "those who fight on behalf of the native Palestinians
population are anti-Semitic”).

So public was the petition that the promoters bought space in the
newspaper Corriere della Sera to publish it, on 14th May
2005.
The space was not bought by the Neonazi International but by “Luzzato
Amos, President of the Union of Jewish Italian Communities”. This means,
that those on the list paid to publish their full names in a newspaper
that sells a million copies a day, if my memory serves me right.

Three months ago (15.11.2007) [1] His Majesty King Shaulos II, with a
simple copy and paste job, took the list from a
Jewish
web-page and put it on his blog (ten readers a day?) with this
presentation:

“THIS IS A LIST OF THE JEWISH UNIVERSITY PROFESORS WHO DECLARE OPENLY
THEIR SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL”

A piece of nonsense, since the majority of the professors on the list are
right wing extremists, racial segregation fanatics and genocide
apologists, they are anything, but Jewish.

On the other hand, no one has said that Shaulos II was a wise
king.

As it happens, he did not compile the “black list” himself.

The supposedly black-listed put it together themselves (…).

However, now His Majesty King Shaulos II will have to face the Jewish
community who call him “ a cancer that can propagate and affect anyone ”,
the Chancellor of Rome's University says “ it is an unacceptable act of
intolerance ”, the Chancellor of the other Roman university of Tor
Vergata, Alessandro Agro, calls for the King to be jailed (being a King,
I suppose to be guillottined). ” And also, he will have to face the whole
Italian people, as Walter Veltroni, leader of the centre-left (and the
enemy and scourge of gypsies) assures us.
Ready for the fight, the Minister of the University said his whole
ministry would “pursue charges in court against the the authors of the
list”.

The authors of the list, let us not forget, are Amos Luzzato and the
Corriere della Sera.

Soon, Shaulos II will have to face scores of accusations from all the
interested parties. The newspaper La Repubblica assures us that
the professors are going to take him to court for libel.

Let’s see. The blogger has said (erroneously) that all those on the list
are Jewish and (correctly) that they are all apologists of
Israel.

Wonder which of the two statements they will sue him for.

Note:
[1] In other words, both I and those “included on the black list ” have
had time to find that the list existed. After all, something called
Google exists.
This means these people kept silent until the scandal of how Israel stole
from Egypt the place of honor at the Turin Book Fair blew up in their
faces.
(
see the document in Italian).

Source:

http://kelebek.splinder.com/post/15873818/ Original article published
on 9th February, 2008
About the author Miguel Martínez and Ernesto Páramo are members of
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