Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievences.

"Extending freedom also means disrupting the evil of anti-Semitism," Bush told thousands of cheering supporters packed into a sports arena usually used by the Florida Panthers professional ice hockey team.

"Today, I signed the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004. This law commits the government to keep a record of anti-Semitic acts throughout the world, and also a record of responses to those acts," he said.

Here is a list of beliefs or activities the U.S. government now considers anti-Semitic:
1. Any assertion “that the Jewish community controls government, the media, international business and the financial world” is anti-Semitic
2. “Strong anti-Israel sentiment”
3. “Virulent criticism” of Israel’s leaders, past or present is anti-Semitic. According to the State Department, anti-Semitism occurs when a swastika is portrayed in a cartoon decrying the behavior of a past or present Zionist leader. Thus, a cartoon that includes a swastika to criticize Ariel Sharon’s brutal 2002 invasion of the West Bank, raining “hell-fire” missiles on hapless Palestinian men, women and children, is anti-Semitic. Similarly, when the word “Zionazi” is used to describe Sharon’s saturation bombing in Lebanon in 1982 (killing 17,500 innocent refugees)
4. Criticism of the Jewish religion or its religious leaders or literature (especially the Talmud and Kabala)
5. Criticism of the U.S government and Congress for being under undue influence by the Jewish-Zionist community (including AIPAC) is anti-Semitic.
6. Criticism of the Jewish-Zionist community for promoting globalism (the “New World Order”)
7. Blaming Jewish leaders and their followers for inciting the Roman crucifixion of Christ is anti-Semitic.
8. Diminishing the “six million” figure of Holocaust victims is anti-Semitic.
9. Calling Israel a “racist” state is anti-Semitic.
10. Asserting that there exists a “Zionist Conspiracy” is anti-Semitic.
11. Claming the Jews and their leaders created the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia are anti-Semitic.
12. Making “derogatory statements about Jewish persons” is anti-Semitic.
13. Denying spiritually disobedient Jews the biblical right to re-occupy Palestine
14. Alleging that Mossad was behind 9/11 attacks is also anti-Semitic.

This ignores that some of these if not all these criticism regarding Jewish matters are true. Ernst Zundel is a Holocaust revisionist. He does not believe that the Nazi’s murdered six million Jews largely by gassing. He asserts that untold numbers of Jews in German internment camps, especially in the last years of the war, died not in gas chambers, but as a result of massive, well-documented typhus epidemics, which also killed countless Poles, Gypsies, Russians, etc. Yet in Canada, thanks to ADL, it is a "hate crime" to lesson to any degree the six million figure of Holocaust dead, or that most of them died in gas chambers. Such diminishment is anti-Semitism, a "hate crime" punishable by harsh fines and imprisonment. Several years ago Zundel was deported from his home in Tennessee back to Canada to spend more than two years in solitary confinement in a Canadian prison. He was then deported back to his native Germany where he remains in prison. Canadian authorities held him as being a terrorist threat. It may end up being that way in the U.S if the Department of Anti-Semitism twist the definitions anti-Semitism.

If the pastor of St. Brigid Church in Gdansk Poland spoke the words that the Jews killed Jesus he would be considered anti-Semitic according to the US State Department, that would also have to include the New Testament in the bible. That would have to then include a Bible-believing Christian!

Does this chip away from religious freedom of Christians? I believe it is a step in the wrong direction. This is a belief of Christians, and we all have freedom of speech?

Orhan Pamuk who was the talented Turkish novelist, was facing three years in prison for acknowledging that the Turks committed genocide against the Armenian people. Admission of the genocide, which took place during World War I and wiped out an estimated 1.5 million people, is a speech crime in Turkey, akin to denial of the Jewish ‘Holocaust’ in the West. I am not sure what happened with this case as of right now.

Below I am just going to post some stories I think you might be interested in.

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