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ein Gespenst geht um in Europa. Manch ein bedeutender Mensch soll es schon zu Gesicht bekommen haben. Wolfgang Benz etwa, dessen Vorurteilsforschung von den „Studies in Prejudice“ der Kritischen Theorie ungefähr so viel Ahnung hat wie er selbst von der Nazi-Karriere seines Doktorvaters Karl Bosl. Auch Kay Sokolowsky hat das Gespenst erblickt und ihm gleich ein ganzes Buch gewidmet. Und zur Abwehr des geheimnisvollen Wesens, das immer dann, wenn man glaubt, es fassen zu können, enthuscht, wurden bereits die ersten universitären Institute gegründet, deren Mitarbeiter nicht nur gar nicht mal so schlecht bezahlte Doktorandenstellen abgreifen konnten, sondern sich für diese Huld mit intellektuellem Wagemut und heldischer Zivilcourage bedanken.

Das Gespenst, das sie bekämpfen, ist selbstverständlich die Islamophobie. [ Weiterlesen in Prodomo]

Zunehmender Hass auf Juden führt in der schwedischen Stadt Malmö dazu, dass immer mehr Juden aus der Stadt flüchten, so auch die 86-jährige KZ-Überlebende Judith Popinski. Sie macht dafür Muslime verantwortlich, die jüdische Schweden bedrohen, weiter wurden mehrfach jüdische Friedhöfe geschändet.

Shortnews.de, 21.2.2010

È sempre la stessa cosa: c’è chi dà la colpa al mercato, chi preferisce darla alle agenzie, chi recentemente anche allo Stato ecc., ma pochi sono i traduttori che si chiedono se le tariffe generalmente basse e la bassa qualità delle traduzioni offerte dal mercato italiano potrebbero forse dipendere anche un po’ dalla propria leggerezza (a volte anche nella propria lingua madre).

Cosa importa se in un contratto in un punto dove si parla di penali dimentico un “non” (si tratta di milioni? embè? non sono mica miei quei soldi…), oppure se in un altro testo ho trovato un’espressione che non ho mai letto o sentito prima, ma visto che ho passato poco tempo nel paese dalla cui lingua traduco e non avevo tempo e non volevo nemmeno fare brutta figura domandando al cliente, ho tirato un po’ ad indovinare, tanto la probabilità era alta che l’autore del testo volesse dire esattamente quello che poi ho un po’ inventato?…

Qui non si fanno queste cose! E se sospettate che una traduzione appena ricevuta possa non essere del tutto a posto, ci siamo noi.  Attualmente con “tariffa start” da € 0,027 (revisione con testo originale) e da € 0,02 (solo proofreading con attenzione allo stile). Cliccate sul banner per sapere di più!

… solamente buone traduzioni.

La dolorosa verità è che l’obiettivo di Obama non è mai stato quello di impedire che Teheran si procuri l’arma nucleare. Tutta la sua strategia delle “sanzioni-se-il-coinvolgimento-fallisce” non è altro che un espediente. L’amministrazione Obama non ha mai avuto l’intenzione di imporre sanzioni pungenti sull’Iran. Come un autorevole funzionario dell’amministrazione ha detto al New York Times, lo scopo dei discorsi sulle sanzioni è quello di persuadere gli iraniani a negoziare. Nelle sue parole: “Si tratta di riportarli ai negoziati, poiché il vero scopo è quello di evitare la guerra.”

Capito? Per quanto concerne Obama, un Iran con armi atomiche non è la preoccupazione principale. La preoccupazione principale è che Israele potrebbe usare la forza per impedire che Teheran si procuri armi nucleari.*

Difendersi, cioè.

*) Caroline Glick, Sarah Palin’s friendship, JPOST.com, 12/2/2010 (traduzione dall’inglese: Ralph Raschen)

The Al-Quds Underground is an unconventional arts festival in the Old City of Jerusalem that was held on the first week of November with more than 150 performances including music, storytelling, theatre and dance. But when Gil Zohar, a reporter for The Jerusalem Post, showed up at the Damascus Gate to attend the show, to which he had received an invitation, he was asked by Jamal Gosch, the director of the a-Nuzha Hakawati Theater, where he lived. Zohar answered Jerusalem, in Arabic. When Jamal heard Gil’s accent, he was told that Israelis were not welcome.

Sherri Mandell (read more here)

Vorbemerkung des Posters: Dieses Blog steht auch ausgewählten Menschen, Institutionen und Sachen zur Verfügung, die dringend wichtige Mitteilungen “loswerden” müssen bzw. wollen und denen auf die Schnelle keine anderweitige Veröffentlichungs- oder Versandmöglichkeit zur Verfügung steht. In diesem (ersten derartigen) Fall fühlen wir uns besonders geehrt dadurch, dass uns das folgende Schreiben der Wertarbeit von Clemens Heni an Othmar Kaufmann (Potsdam) von der Wertarbeit Clemens Henis persönlich zur Veröffentlichung überantwortet wurde.

Sehr geehrter Herr Kaufmann!

Soeben habe ich in Ihrem Blog “Von den einzigwahren Freunden Israels”, genauer gesagt, da, Folgendes gelesen:

Ich bitte die Wertarbeit von Clemens Heni, deutscher Muttersprachler und Post-Doctoral Researcher an der Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), YALE University, in Ruhe zu studieren.

und Sie haben wirklich Glück, dass Ihre Message mich so früh erreicht hat, denn ich sitze dieser Tage selten am Computer! Allerdings, wenn ich am Computer sitze, surfe ich gern und intensiv von Blog zu Blog, und das habe ich auch diesmal getan… und so bin ich auch recht bald auf Ihre an mich gerichtete Bitte gestoßen. Meine Schwäche, ausgerechnet als Wertarbeit von Clemens Heni dauernd im Internet herum zu surfen, statt in Ruhe zu studieren – in der Tat habe ich mich eben durchaus ein wenig ertappt gefühlt -, hat also in diesem Fall auch etwas Gutes gehabt… Read the rest of this entry �

Isn’t it something the way the same names that helped dismantle Yugoslavia and Serbia seem to be resurfacing to dismantle Israel? All the names that fingered Serbia as it dealt with terror are giving Israel the same trouble. They and their credibility and careers could have been demolished, these people stopped in their tracks, if anyone gave a damn about Western machinations in the Balkans. Instead they’re coming back to haunt more than just the Serbs.

Julia Gorin, October 27th, 2009

For those still unable to imagine how EU “democracy” would work after the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty by all EU states, which probably will not be states anymore afterward, because it will be sufficient that the politically dominant ideological cliques of what is left of them flock together in order to determine parts of the politics of the smaller (and often better) entities, MEP and German “anti-authoritarian” Daniel Cohn-Bendit has already given an exemplary representation of how it will look and feel – in the Castle of Prague during last December. The following is an excerpt from an account on that performance published by the British Telegraph:

I happen to know the splendid room in which the meeting took place, because I sat there myself with President Klaus in 2005, when he had arranged for a history of the EU I had co-authored to be published in Czech. As Cohn-Bendit was aware, the only flag that flies over the castle is the presidential standard (though the “ring of stars” is much in evidence elsewhere in Prague, flown outside every government ministry).

As described to me by someone present, President Klaus greeted the MEPs with his usual genial courtesy. Whatever his own views, he assured them, his countrymen would conduct their presidency in fully “communautaire” fashion. Cohn-Bendit then staged his ambush. Brusquely plonking down his EU flag., which he observed sarcastically was so much in evidence around the palace, he warned that the Czechs would be expected to put through the EU’s “climate change package” without interference. Read the rest of this entry �

Not long before the father of my mother died, despite being already heavily enfeebled he was still strong enough to convey his probably last important “political insight” to me, after my mother had finally managed to drag me to his home to pay him a visit.  It was in the period of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and of the German “reunification”, when from his sick bed he informed me of a historical mistake he and his Volksgenossen had made, stating in a relatively conciliatory tone that “we should not have been that rough with the Russians,” in order to add just one breath later: “But as to the Jews, we should have killed all of them.” As if the Germans themselves had decided to stop it at a certain point, and had not been stopped by, among others, the Red Army.

It is a pity he is already dead, for were he still alive, he would probably be quite enthusiastic and feel confirmed regarding his views by the first result of the European-led “critical dialogue” with the Iranian islamists accomplished by EU “foreign and security policy chief” Javier Solana, thanks to which the Russians may now have a chance to prove even more than before that my grandfather’s late self-criticism, “in a way,” went in the “right” direction. Russia, in one way or another, might now help prepare even more than before a new large-scale mass-murder of Jews by “[shortening] Iran’s road to a nuclear weapon“. And if the Iranian anti-Semites will not accept anything anyway, at least, the Russians, together with Solana and Obama, Germany, France, the UK, China, will have helped the Iranian Holocaust-deniers buy some more precious time, strengthening them (and, for a while, the EU) “sustainably” against the U.S., the “big Satan” (Khomeini), by undermining even a few UN Security Council resolutions -  something that would probably have greatly satisfied my grandfather, too.

I think we need to get our heads around one thing. When Ahmadinejad says he will destroy Israel, he is not speaking rhetorically. He is speaking literally. Ahmadinejad and his bosses believe that first Al-Mahdi then Jesus will return to earth. Al-Mahdi is the Islamic messiah, and he’s number one. Jesus is his deputy. Then a Jihad will occur between the forces of good and evil. Little Satan-Israel, big Satan-US vs. the true believers. This will precede the Last Days. Jesus will slay Dajjal, marry, have children and proclaim Islam as the last word of God. This is Ahmadinejad’s living dream. The Americans and Europeans simply have no idea what they’re dealing with.

A comment to Shmuel Rosner, Cohens’ consensus: hard to believe in sanctions (spelling slightly corrected)

There is an interesting, very very sophisticated discussion, including some “good advice” for disturbers, at Wikipedia about how anti-Semitic mass-murderers may be characterized in Newspeak, given that terrorists may not exist, and, worse, anti-Semitic mass-murderers may not be called “freedom fighters” either [my bold, orthography not mine].

“Some people” here would include Hamas, no? Who have called for the destruction of the state of Israel and the etsablismeent of (all of ) Jerusalem as a Palestinian capital? IronDuke 00:20, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

On occasion, yes Hamas has said that, though they also have said they would accept a state within the Green line in exchange for a long term truce. [A judenrein state for themselves in lieu of the Jewish State? - RR] Im sure we could find a way to clarify the meaning of what it is they fight for. But that is discussion that is best kept separate from determining how, or whether, to include the word “terrorist”. nableezy – 00:37, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

we need to stick to the guideline here. per wp:terrorist, the note on this very talkpage says that words like terrorist and freedom fighter are “inherently non-neutral, so they should not be used as unqualified labels in the voice of the article. If a reliable source describes a person or group using one of these words, then the description must be attributed in the article text to its source, preferably by direct quotation, and always with a verifiable citation.” both views (terrorist and resistance) are notable but they need to be attributed.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Untwirl (talk • contribs) 02:37, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

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Up above a big military parade in Tehran on Tuesday, Sept. 22, as Iranian president declared Iran’s armed forces would “chop off the hands” of any power daring to attack his country, two air force jets collided in mid-air. One was Iran’s only airborne warning and control system (AWACS) for coordinating long-distance aerial operations, DEBKAfile’s military and Iranian sources disclose.

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Eye witnesses reported that the flaming planes landed on the mausoleum burial site of the Islamic revolution’s founder Ruhollah Khomeini, a national shrine. According to Western observers, no distress signals came from either cockpit indicating that the collision and explosions were sudden and fast.

Source: DEBKAfile, 22/9/2009