Supporter Of Israel Like Elizabeth Taylor

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             
                       

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was 2 years older than myself (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) died at 79,  was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s.

Where are supporters of Israel like Elizabeth Taylor was?  Taylor was raised as a Christian Scientist and converted to Judaism (Reform Branch) in 1959. Although two of her husbands – Mike Todd and Eddie Fisher – were Jewish, Taylor stated that she did not convert because of them, and had wanted to do so "for a long time", and that there was "comfort and dignity and hope for me in this ancient religion that [has] survived for four thousand years.  I feel as if I have been a Jew all my life." Walker believed that Taylor was influenced in her decision by her godfather, Victor Cazalet, and her mother, who were active supporters of Zionism during her childhood.

Following her conversion, Taylor became an active supporter of Jewish and Zionist causes. In 1959, she purchased $100,000 worth of Israeli bonds, which led to her films being banned by Arab countries throughout the Middle East and Africa. She was also barred from entering Egypt to film Cleopatra in 1962, but the ban was lifted two years later after the Egyptian officials deemed that the film brought positive publicity for the country. In addition to purchasing bonds, Taylor helped to raise money for organizations such as the Jewish National Fund, and sat on the board of trustees of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Taylor also advocated for the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel, cancelled a visit to the USSR because of its condemnation of Israel due to the Six-Day War, and signed a letter protesting the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 of 1975. In 1976, she offered herself as a replacement hostage after more than 100 Israeli civilians were taken hostage in the Entebbe skyjacking. She had a small role in the television film made about the incident, Victory at Entebbe (1976), and narrated Genocide (1981), an Academy Award-winning documentary about the Holocaust.

Taylor's health increasingly declined during the last two decades of her life and she rarely attended public events after 1996. Taylor had serious bouts of pneumonia in 1990 and 2000, two hip replacement surgeries in the mid-1990s, a surgery for a benign brain tumor in 1997, and successful treatment for skin cancer in 2002. She used a wheelchair due to her back problems and was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2004. She died of the illness aged 79 on March 23, 2011, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, six weeks after being hospitalized. Her funeral took place the following day at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. The service was a private Jewish ceremony presided by Rabbi Jerome Cutler. At Taylor's request, the ceremony began 15 minutes behind schedule, as, according to her representative, "She even wanted to be late for her own funeral." She was entombed in the cemetery's Great Mausoleum.

Richard Burton as Mark Antony with Taylor as Cleopatra in Cleopatra (1963)  During her prime in the 1950s and 1960s, Elizabeth Taylor was widely regarded as the most beautiful woman in the world, often cited as a "miracle of construction" due to her rare violet eyes, thick lashes, and high-contrast features. She was frequently voted the most beautiful woman in lists and polls.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor

Why Is Portland's Nicholas Kristof Against Israel's IDF With Lies?

 Nadene Goldfoor                                                

                 Nicholas Donabet Kristof, born April 27, 1959-age 67 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Born in Chicago, Kristof was raised in Yamhill, Oregon, the son of two professors at nearby Portland State University.

 Ladis K.D. Kristof  (born Władysław Krzysztofowicz; 1918-2010) taught Political Science and his wife Jane Kristof taught Art History at Portland State University. Journalist Nicholas Kristof's ancestors were an Armenian family (originally named Hachikian) who adopted the Polish surname after moving to what is now Ukraine.  Ladis joined the faculty in 1971 and officially retired in 1989, though he continued teaching occasional courses well into his 80s. Focus: Internationally renowned scholar known for his work in geopolitics, Russian affairs, and the nature of frontiers and boundaries. He was also a Fulbright Scholar and a co-founder of the Portland chapter of Amnesty International.  Jane taught at the university for decades before retiring as a professor emerita.   (This is my alma mater !)  

After graduating from Harvard University, where Nicholas wrote for The Harvard Crimson. Nicholas Kristof graduated from Harvard College in 1981. Although he finished his degree in just three years and completed the requirements with the Class of 1981, he later formally switched his class affiliation to 1982.

 He studied Arabic in Egypt for the 1983–84 academic year at the American University in Cairo. He has a number of honorary degrees.  It looks to me like after Harvard he went to Egypt.  No, Nicholas Kristof has never served in the military. He was never a soldier.  He has no idea what our IDF has gone through since 1967.  His Arab plan gave up all that is important to be an Israeli.  It was impossible.  He spent his early years on a family farm in rural Oregon, took a gap year with the Future Farmers of America, and pursued his education at Harvard and as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford before building his career in journalism.

 Kristof intermittently interned at The Oregonian. My family had a subscription to the Oregonian for years.   He joined the staff of The New York Times in 1984.

What changed our Portland Professor, Nicholas Kristof,  to be such an anti-Semite with his  opinion column, who accused IDF soldiers and Israeli prison guards of systematic and brutal sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees.  Many of these detainees were Security Prisoners or those convicted or suspected of planning or carrying out attacks against Israelis.  

This was in such bad taste as to raise anti-Semitism throughout the world higher if possible.  Good grief !!  He is a  winner of two Pulitzer Prizes,  a regular CNN contributor and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. I ask how could the New York Times have the balls to do such a thing as to print this!  Prime minister and foreign minister say Israel will sue the American newspaper over what they call one of the most horrifying lies ever published against the country.

This fact may not be commonly known:  On October 27, 2021, Kristof officially announced he would run for governor as a Democrat.   A day later, on October 28, 2021, the Times published an essay by Kristof. 

In July 2021, research was conducted to establish his potential as a candidate for governor of Oregon in the 2022 Oregon gubernatorial election. In October 2021, Kristof left The New York Times after forming a political action committee for his potential candidacy, saying in a statement,

"Precisely because I have a great job, outstanding editors and the best readers, I may be an idiot to leave. But you all know how much I love Oregon, and how much I've been seared by the suffering of old friends there. So I've reluctantly concluded that I should try not only to expose problems but also see if I can fix them directly."  On January 6, 2022, Shemia Fagan, the Oregon Secretary of State, announced that Kristof was ineligible to run as he did not meet the state's residency requirements. Kristof challenged the decision in court but on February 17, the Oregon Supreme Court upheld the Secretary of State's ruling.  Shemia herself was in hot water over money later on.  Oh, OREGON!  

Kristof published several articles criticizing the missed opportunity of the "grand bargain", a proposal by Iran to normalize relations with the United States, implement procedures to assure the US it will not develop nuclear weapons, deny any monetary support to Palestinian resistance groups until they agree to stop targeting civilians, support the Arab Peace Initiative, and ensure full transparency to assuage any US concerns. In return, the Iranians demanded abolition of sanctions and a US statement that Iran does not belong in the so-called "Axis of Evil". In his columns, Kristof revealed the documents detailing the "grand bargain" proposal and argued that it was killed by hardliners in the Bush administration.

According to Kristof, that was an "appalling mistake" since "the Iranian proposal was promising and certainly should have been followed up. It seems diplomatic mismanagement of the highest order for the Bush administration to have rejected that process out of hand, and now to be instead beating the drums of war and considering air strikes on Iranian nuclear sites." Kristof further believes that even if the grand bargain is not currently feasible, there is still an option for what he calls a "mini-bargain", a more modest proposal for normalizing American-Iranian relations. 

So we know what side of the coin Kristof is for.  It's no wonder he's Johnny on the Spot to swallow such lies against Israel.  He has been against our tiny country all along.  Which part of his world caused such an attitude?  

Resource:

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2026/05/new-york-times-sued-by-israels-prime.html

The British Have a Musical, The Battle of Cable Street, In New York

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                   

Commemorative plaque at Dock Street, close to the Fascist's Tower Hill muster point. Tower Hill, Aldgate, Cable Street and other areas of the East End of London that took place in 1936.

The Battle of Cable Street was a series of clashes that took place at several locations in the East End of London  on Sunday 4 October 1936. The British Union of Fascists (BUF), led by Oswald Mosley, announced a march to celebrate the fourth anniversary of their organisation. The BUF had become increasingly anti-Semitic, so their decision to march through East London, then home to a large Jewish population, rather than close to its headquarters in Westminster, which was regarded as a deliberate provocation.

They couldn't or wouldn't ban the march but Jews and others told people to stay away.  

This is similar to the case in the USA where the Nazis decided to march through in order to provoke a Jewish neighborhood full of Holocaust refugees.  I am referring to  the landmark 1970s legal battle often known as the "Skokie Case". In 1977, the National Socialist Party of America (a neo-Nazi group) deliberately planned to march through Skokie, Illinois, a Chicago suburb that was home to tens of thousands of Jewish residents, including thousands of Holocaust survivors.

Back then in 1936 London, the Jews came out and fought with their allied friends, the Irish, against these Fascists.  Unable to clear a route through either Aldgate or Cable Street, and wishing to avoid continued disorder, the Police told Mosley his march through East London could not go ahead, but he was permitted to march to the West End instead. 

Very large numbers of people took part in the events, in part due to the good weather, but estimates of the numbers of participants vary enormously:

• Estimates of Fascist participants range from 2,000 to 3,000, up to 5,000. This included units of black-bloused female fascists, totalling around 400. The Fascists had a casualty dressing station at their Tower Hill assembly point.
• There were 6,000–10,000 policemen, including the whole of the Metropolitan Police Mounted Division. The police had wireless vans and a spotter plane sending updates on crowd numbers and movements to Philip Game's HQ, at Tower Hill.
• Estimates of the number of anti-fascist counter-demonstrators range from 100,000 to 250,000, 300,000, 310,000, and up to 500,000. The Independent Labour Party and Communists, like the Fascists, set up medical stations to treat their injured.

The ILP and Communists made statements celebrating the united response, in which East-Enders of all backgrounds — including Irish Catholics, Jews, dockers and Somali seamen — successfully resisted Mosley and his followers.

East London workers supported by all London in united action have barred the road to Mosley. Gentile, Jew, Catholic, Protestant, Labour and Communist, men, women and children determined that Fascism shall not pass here… East London workers have not only defeated Mosley, they have demonstrated that English people have no time for any sort of toleration for Fascism. East London has torn neutrality to shreds and given a lead to the whole Labour and democratic movement to move into action against Fascism.

  Smart move to actually show the result of Fascism -a teaching aid poster

Every five years there’s a big celebration of the Battle of Cable Street – the iconic clash in the 1930s between fascism and anti-fascism in Britain, which took place in East London.  That day – when the British state was determined to protect free speech and free movement for Oswald Mosley’s deeply antisemitic British Union of fascists – thousands of his foot-soldiers in jackboots and black uniforms were blocked from invading the most highly Jewish-populated East End streets by my favourite prevent strategy of them all: blockades, barricades, and masses of working-class activists working in unison across ethnic and religious divides.

Well now, jump to 2026.  A musical production is simply titled Cable Street. It dramatizes the historical 1936 Battle of Cable Street, when a coalition of 100,000 Jewish, Irish, and working-class protesters united in London to block a march by Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Written by Tim Gilvin and Alex Kanefsky, the production is currently making its American debut in New York.  It's even made our internet in announcement.  It's running through June 28, 2026.  What a way to introduce our children to history in fighting for the right path in our world.                                          

                                 Frank Collin of NSPA-Leader 1977-see his armband?  

                                                       

Francis Joseph Collin (born November 3, 1944), a convicted child molester in 1979,  is an American former political activist and Midwest coordinator with the American Nazi Party, later known as the National Socialist White People's Party. After being ousted for being partly Jewish (which he denied), in 1970, Collin founded the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA). In the late 1970s, his planned march in the predominantly Jewish suburb of Skokie, Illinois was challenged; the case ultimately reached the United States Supreme Court to correct procedural deficiencies.

This makes it even worse:  Collin was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, where he attended local schools. His father, Max Frank Collin, was born Max Simon Cohn in Munich, Germany, on August 23, 1913, the son of Jewish parents who were murdered in The Holocaust, and was a survivor of Dachau concentration camp. Frank's mother, Virginia Gertrude née Hardyman, was born in Chicago on August 18, 1920, and was Catholic.   Was that child influenced by his mother or not!!!  Max, survivor's son, must have been a hard to understand father being Frank was in denial of his Jewish inheritance. 

    There was a protest of Nazis marching through in Skokie

Sadly, I see that no one remembers what happened to Jews of Skokie, Illinois when Nazis wanted to march in this Jewish neighborhood of Holocaust survivors.  Who spoke up or cared?  It shows that anti-Semitism had already made its presence known long ago .  In 1936, Skokie, Illinois, was a small, semi-rural village where antisemitism was present as a reflection of broader societal prejudices in the greater Chicago area. While the town itself did not experience organized, localized pogroms, it was a time when the pro-Nazi German-American Bund was actively operating in the region.  So by 1977 few stepped up to the plate;  Jews just sat in their homes remembering things we cannot imagine, frozen in time.  

The big discussion in the 70's was, did the Nazis have the right to march where they wanted-something about free speech or free marching!  Oy vey!!!!!  

The Supreme Court ruled 5–4, per curiam, granting certiorari and reversing and remanding the Illinois Supreme Court's denial to lift the lower court's injunction on the NSPA's march. The ruling dictated that when citizens assert that their speech is being restrained, the matter must be reviewed immediately by the judiciary. By requiring the state court to consider the neo-Nazis' appeal without delay, the Supreme Court decision allowed the National Socialist Party of America to march in Skokie, although they did not do so.

While Collin filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago for a violation of his First Amendment rights, he realized that his case would be delayed in the courts for far longer than he was willing to wait to begin marching again.

At first, the Skokie mayor and village council intended to allow the NSPA to demonstrate and intended to ignore them in order to afford the NSPA as little publicity as possible. The Jewish community found this tactic unacceptable and held meetings to discuss the matter. The mayor and the village council heard their concerns, and on April 27, 1977, ordered village attorney Harvey Schwartz to seek an injunction.

      Skokie mayor 1977 Brandon Johnson

In addition to filing an injunction, the village of Skokie passed three ordinances on May 2, 1977, in an attempt to prevent all future events similar to that which the NSPA wished to stage. One of the ordinances prohibited wearing military-style uniforms during demonstrations, and the two other ordinances prohibited the distribution of material containing hate speech and required a $350,000 insurance bond to hold a demonstration. These ordinances effectively prevented the NSPA from holding the event!!!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cable_Street#:~:text=The%20Battle%20of%20Cable%20Street,on%20Sunday%204%20October%201936.&text=Commemorative%20plaque%20at%20Dock%20Street,Fascist's%20Tower%20Hill%20muster%20point.

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New York Times Sued by Israel's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             

                Ramy Abdu, Hamas Affiliated Deviously Ramy Abdu is a Palestinian financial expert and human rights advocate who was born in the Gaza Strip. He is the founder and chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, established in 2011.   There are very few males in Gaza who don't belong to Hamas, if you want to know.  Children grow up with the goals of Hamas.  They will never admit this to an outsider;  they're not stupid. AI said: Estimates of Hamas's armed wing (the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades) in Gaza generally range between 20,000 and 40,000 fighters as of 2024-2025, according to various intelligence and media reports. While total population exceeds 2 million, the vast majority of males in Gaza are not combatants or official members of Hamas.  Sure.  It's like believing that China just wants to be USA's friend and would love to help us with the Strait of Hormuz.

Netanyahu, Sa’ar to sue New York Times over ‘one of 

most distorted lies’ against Israel

Prime minister and foreign minister say Israel will sue the American newspaper over what they call one of the most horrifying lies ever published against the country, after Pulitzer winner Nicholas Kristof alleged systematic sexual violence of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers and prison guards.

The decision follows an opinion column by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof, who accused IDF soldiers and Israeli prison guards of systematic and brutal sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees.  Many of these detainees were Security Prisoners or those convicted or suspected of planning or carrying out attacks against Israelis.  There are another type;  Administrative Detainees who are held without charges, often for an undetermined time, so far. It may be that in  the USA, they would be held for 24 hours and released, but here in Israel, where the state is dodging bomb attacks by such terrorists  that the USA never experience, it's a different proposition.  If people would stop stabbing and bombing Israelis there would be no Administrative detainees.

Among the claims cited in the column were allegations of rape using dogs, metal rods and other forms of sexual violence. Kristof is accusing them of defaming Israeli soldiers and “perpetuating a blood libel about rape.” “They tried to create a false symmetry between the genocidal terrorists of Hamas and Israel’s valiant soldiers,” Netanyahu wrote. “Under my leadership, Israel will not be silent. We will fight these lies in the court of public opinion and in the court of law. Truth will prevail.”

Hamas, a terrorist organization

The move came a day after Israel’s Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry published a report saying one of the key sources used in Kristof’s column was Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a Geneva-based organization headed by Ramy Abdu, whom Israel has linked to Hamas.

"One of the NGO’s primary figures, founder and chairman Ramy Abdu, was the subject of an Israeli administrative detention order issued in 2020 under Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Law due to his alleged activities with “IPalestine,” an organization designated by Israel as affiliated with Hamas, according to the report published on May 13.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, while registered in Switzerland as a regional human rights organization, focuses overwhelmingly on anti-Israel advocacy, including documentation efforts, legal submissions to international bodies and media campaigns accusing Israel of war crimes and genocide, the report states.

The ministry said the organization provided “evidentiary infrastructure” to South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, including allegations related to mass graves and damage to Gaza’s healthcare system."

According to the ministry, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor presents itself as a regional human rights organization focused on the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, but in practice concentrates much of its work on harming Israel and its interests. The ministry said Abdu, Euro-Med’s founder and chairman, was the subject of an Israeli administrative seizure order signed in 2020 by then-Defense Minister Benny Gantz under counterterrorism legislation. The order, which expired in August 2022, was issued over Abdu’s role as a board member of IPalestine, which Israel designated as a Hamas-affiliated terrorist organization.

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Kristof’s column, published under the headline “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians,” alleged that sexual abuse had become a “standard operating procedure.” The column included graphic accounts of Palestinians whose genitals were allegedly pulled or beaten, men who allegedly underwent testicle amputations because of violence inflicted on them, and claims that detainees were raped with metal batons. Kristof said the column was based on interviews with 14 alleged victims.

I've been following all this since 2004. This is the usual attack by using what they have done to Israel by turning the story against themselves as the victim later. They found that victims get more empathy from the news. So much of what they cite happened to Israel on October 7, 2023 by such horrid attackers as Hamas. I'll never forget this one: (A girl was raped over and over in front of her family and it was so bad they broke her hips separating her legs, finally. )

Available on google is: In 2011 Abdu founded and became the chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.

Abdu was the assistant director and Palestine Office Manager for Council for European Palestinian Relations, and was on the board of trustees of the International platform of NGOs working for Palestine. In 2011 he was the media coordinator for the Freedom Flotilla II. He is a policy analyst with the Al-Shabaka, a Palestinian policy network. meaning in their words, 

We’re building a network 
for liberation.

Now, they didn't come out and say they were a Hamas organization, but if you know history, 1967 was a turning point, and the meeting in Africa decided the 3 No's.  Hamas wants to crush Israel and take over.  It took a while.  Hamas was founded in December 1987 in the Gaza Strip during the beginning of the first Palestinian Intifada (uprising). It emerged as an offshoot of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, established by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and other activists.

Hamas Ideology: Combines Palestinian nationalism with Islamic fundamentalism, aiming to

establish an Islamic state in

place of Israel.

Abdu sponsored the establishment of We Are Not Numbers in early 2015. Conceived by American journalist Pam Bailey and co-founded by journalist Ahmed Alnaouq under the umbrella of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, the project was launched for young adults in the Gaza Strip and designed both to help them share their narratives (and those of their people) in their own words with the Western (English-speaking) world to counter stereotypes about Palestinians.

It is truly a modern day blood libel. The saddest, and scariest, part of this is that millions of people around the world actually belief these lies. 

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