GiliGold/VAD_KnessetCorpus huggingface dataset:
קולט אביטל: It is not a manipulation of the system.
קולט אביטל: It is a …
קולט אביטל: that the American democracy which demands one thing of its citizens and that’s involvement.
קולט אביטל: The Europeans don’t have it.
קולט אביטל: No other country has a parallel system of lobbying, which has led to a lot of the distortions and misrepresentations that I want to talk about.
קולט אביטל: On the other hand we have to recognize that we do face an  implacable enemy with their extremist ideology not unlike the one we faced seventy years ago and R…
קולט אביטל: Rich and Bernard Lewis have done an extensive analysis where they parallel the two and show how these ideologies are shared, both the same nature and goals, which is to wipe out the Jewish state, the Jewish people, but also Bahais, Hindus, Christians, everybody and even Moslems who don’t agree with them.
קולט אביטל: And it is to engage in global war that rallies and exploits millions of people.
קולט אביטל: It also has state sponsors.
קולט אביטל: That does change the nature of the enemy that we confront.
קולט אביטל: We also a world where apathy and indifference still abound.
קולט אביטל: Look ,  as perfect examples of that.
קולט אביטל: Also the big lie still works when it comes to  and Jews.
קולט אביטל: The difference is that it took Hitler months and even years to spread the big lie, today it is spread in seconds with Al Jazeera and Al …
קולט אביטל: We saw what happened during the Lebanon War.
קולט אביטל: The 950 pictures that had to be taken out of the …
קולט אביטל: archives because they were distorted and faked.
קולט אביטל: The story about the ambulances that take pictures that ran in the New York Times and in media across the world.
קולט אביטל: More than fifty percent of the news accounts in  blamed  for plotting the war.
קולט אביטל: Eighty five percent of the BBC broadcasts the same thing.
קולט אביטל: The very fact that the American media also fell victim to a lot of the lies and distortions and misrepresentations.
קולט אביטל: The difference between the Islamists and the Nazis, the Nazis tried to hide their crimes, the Islamists advertise them.
קולט אביטל: But when we look at their goals and the dangers that we face, I  think, that while analogies are dangerous and not necessarily always relevant, certainly not in the detail, one has to look at – for the purpose that I said before, which is learning the lessons of our failures in the thirties and earlier and from the things that worked and what was successful in mobilizing people.
קולט אביטל: Hitler also used the intellectuals to justify his greatest ideology.
קולט אביטל: That is another lesson we have to learn in terms of how elements of the academy are being subverted today.
קולט אביטל: We see the same scapegoating, the resulting resurgence and anti-Semitism and the failure of governments to effectively root it out.
קולט אביטל: The difference is it is not state sponsored terrorism.
קולט אביטל: But when it takes the French government three weeks to admit that Kalimi was a victim of an anti-Semitic crime, or this young woman who was recently attacked.
קולט אביטל: It took them days to acknowledge.
קולט אביטל: We see a sixty percent increase according to recent reports in  and  and other countries of anti-Semitism that the chief rabbis of , ,  all gave warning that Jews shouldn’t wear obvious symbols.
קולט אביטל: The chief rabbi of  talked about this phenomenon of anti-Semitism, let alone the statistics that really do reflect a sharp increase in anti-Semitism.
קולט אביטל: And the fact is that the vast number of anti-Semitic attacks go unreported.
קולט אביטל: Those that are reported, the vast number, more than ninety percent go unprosecuted.
קולט אביטל: There are no arrests and there are no convictions.
קולט אביטל: There was an inter parliamentary committee in Britain of non-Jews that recently reported on the situation there, both in terms of the attack, but most importantly, I think, in terms of the failure of government to act against those who perpetrate these crimes.
קולט אביטל: One of these things, I hope the Global Forum here and others, will do is to really to create a worldwide registry of anti-Semitism to encourage people to report anti-Semitic attacks.
קולט אביטל: Police don’t want to report it because then they get involved in all sorts of hate crime laws, whether in , in  or elsewhere.
קולט אביטל: People are reluctant out of fear to report these incidents.
קולט אביטל: It is a mistake because if we don’t have the accurate documentation we can’t have an accurate response.
קולט אביטל: So I think that this is one of the agendas.
קולט אביטל: When Bernard Lewis recently gave an interview he said that he is more worried today than he was in 1941 – remember, he is          93 years old – about the outcome of the situation and went on to assess the conditions then and the conditions now.
קולט אביטל: I think it is comparable of many factors that come together.
קולט אביטל: You have the combination of traditional anti-Semitism, the new Islamist incitement and anti-Semitism, the anti-Zionism, anti-Americanism, anti-globalization – all come together to create this very dangerous cocktail.
קולט אביטל: We know in the Hagadda it says, בכל דור ודור עומדים עלינו לכלותנו – in every generation enemies arise that seek to destroy us.
קולט אביטל: It uses the present tense.
קולט אביטל: It doesn’t say, they rose to destroy them.
קולט אביטל: It says they arise to destroy us, to remind us that we have to be aware of the challenges in every generation.
קולט אביטל: One rabbi adds, is it really true that in every generation?
קולט אביטל: There must have been one generation where they didn’t have it.
קולט אביטל: He said, you have to look at the next paragraph in the Hagaddah, which is צא ולמד – where it talked about לבן  בקש לעקר את הכל.
קולט אביטל: That Lavan wanted to destroy everything, that Yaakov Avinu, that Jacob was living in relative good circumstances.
קולט אביטל: He built up big plots, he became wealthy.
קולט אביטל: He lived there a quiet life even though he had to work for each of us wives and had to stay another seven years, and another years, but he had a relatively good life.
קולט אביטל: He said, that’s the lesson, that because all of this time Lavan was really plotting against him.
קולט אביטל: That we should not be looking at periods of quiescence as necessary evidence that the dangers aren’t there.
קולט אביטל: Too often we look at that as an excuse not to act and not to face the reality.
קולט אביטל: Reality I want to talk about particularly today is what I think is happening in  with the poisoning of the elite against  and against Jews.
קולט אביטל: Seventy years ago the world said they wanted it Judenrein but the Nazis and others, their allies wanted the world Judenrein.
קולט אביטל: Today they said they want it Judenstadtrein.
קולט אביטל: That is not politically correct to say that you want to eliminate the Jews, but it is okay to say you want to eliminate the Jewish state.
קולט אביטל: I trace this to what happened at the Durban Conference in 1999 where we saw the blueprint laid out that is being implemented today.
קולט אביטל: It said then that they wanted to rid of the Zionist apartheid state in the twenty first century just as they got rid of the South African apartheid state in the twentieth century.
קולט אביטל: If you look at the lines and messages, the things that were drawn there you see how it translates, whether it is apartheid, isolation, divestment, demonization, delegitimization, silencing the supporters of .
קולט אביטל: All of these things were part of the blueprint that they laid out then.
קולט אביטל: We didn’t take it seriously enough in terms of the aftermath.
קולט אביטל: At the time of the conference of course everybody was excited.
קולט אביטל: But really one has to look at how it is being implemented, whether it’s on path…
קולט אביטל: once the academia is inside.
קולט אביטל: When we look at the British model, not the French model, but the British model, where we saw how the elitist society, academically, culturally, intellectually have been slowly poisoned against .
קולט אביטל: Today public opinion polls show support for  between fifteen and seventeen percent, never more than 19%.
קולט אביטל: We see the boycotts by the Union of Journalists by the other academic groups, the doctors now, all of them joining into these different kinds of attack, attempting to isolate .
קולט אביטל: When you talk about finding speakers on the campuses in   you know how difficult it is.
קולט אביטל: I was invited last week to do the Dohar debate which were held by BBC, held this time at the Oxford Union.
קולט אביטל: The theme was this house believes that the pro-Israel lobby has successfully squasheed criticism of .
קולט אביטל: Then they invited Norman Finkelstein to be on the other side.
קולט אביטל: Of course I refused to appear with him.
קולט אביטל: But the very fact that you start with that assumption.
קולט אביטל: Again, this is something that unites  and the diaspora community because the goal is the same.
קולט אביטל: They translate and you see the transformation of what the ultimate goal is, that you can’t attack Jews per se.
קולט אביטל: You attack the corporate entity that represents the Jewish people, which is the State of Israel.
קולט אביטל: This creates a common front for us that we have to address and utilize our resources more and more effectively because it is not just there.
קולט אביטל: I believe what is happening in  is what’s happening in the .
קולט אביטל: We see increasingly the poisoning of the elite in American society.
קולט אביטל: The United States Commission on Civil Rights had a special taskforce dealing with the campuses.
קולט אביטל: I brought – because people always question whether these things are legitimate and how they are translated.
קולט אביטל: They had the Commission on Civil Rights launch a special web site talking of trying to contribute to ending campus anti-Semitism because their finding was so harsh.
קולט אביטל: They talk about that anti-Semitic bigotry is no less morally deplorable when camouflaged as anti Israelism or anti-Zionism.
קולט אביטל: Substantial evidence suggests that many university departments of middle east studies provided one sided highly polemical academic presentations of summaries  with legitimate debate, rebate legitimate debates concerning .
קולט אביטל: It gives judgment of how to react to anti-Semitic incidents because of the concern that they found on the campuses.
קולט אביטל: I can tell you that when I travel around now, I appeared at the  recently, and students came up to me afterwards and started telling me the difficulties they encounter in the classroom.
קולט אביטל: But more shocking the next day when I got calls from two faculty members, tenured members, who told me that they are being forced out of their departments because they are too pro .
קולט אביטל: The same thing is happening on campuses across the  where you have the poisoning of the elite.
קולט אביטל: The reason it doesn’t become obviously, I believe, that this is like a cancer that operates quietly amongst this elitist society and only becomes visible when it is too late, when the damage has already been done.
קולט אביטל: When it starts to trickle down and impacts public opinion, public policy.
קולט אביטל: American’s support for  in the  is more than seventy percent today.
קולט אביטל: It is at an all time record high.
קולט אביטל: I think the biggest mistake we can make is to take it for granted.
קולט אביטל: One of the ways that we take it for granted is failing to take into account these developments.
קולט אביטל: When John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt published their paper six, eight months ago, the professor from Harvard and from the  of  – I am sure you are all familiar with it and I don’t have to go through it – but it was an 82 page creed against .
קולט אביטל: They could not get it published in an American magazine.
קולט אביטל: They went to six, or seven supposedly, and it wasn’t because the pro-Israel lobby squelched them.
קולט אביטל: We didn’t even know about it.
קולט אביטל: It was because it was …, it was of no value.
קולט אביטל: 41 pages of footnotes, not one of them an original one.
קולט אביטל: Every quote from an Israeli leader came from the hate web site.
קולט אביטל: Nobody serious would have judged this paper.
קולט אביטל: It was full of historical inaccuracies.
קולט אביטל: So they went to the London Review of Books which naturally published it.
קולט אביטל: It has a long history of publishing these anti-Israel things.
קולט אביטל: But now they got the largest contract ever given to a Harvard professor to publish a book in September.
קולט אביטל: They got $750,000 advance.
קולט אביטל: They couldn’t publish an article six months ago, or eight months ago, but today that one of the largest publishers has given them this huge advance to publish a book in .
קולט אביטל: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux in the  is going to publish their book.
קולט אביטל: September – it’s going to be a 320 page diatribe against the Jewish people and one has to look at their speech – they are invited to campuses across the country.
קולט אביטל: What they say, their message has become more and more vile as they have appeared.
קולט אביטל: I know that a log of the organizations monitor them and see this activity.
קולט אביטל: But I think what’s important here is to take al the pictures of the puzzle and when you see them come together it becomes a much clearer picture.
קולט אביטל: Jimmy Carter’s nationwide tours should not be dismissed.
קולט אביטל: The fact that he uses the word apartheid goes back to what I said about the …
קולט אביטל: relatedness.
קולט אביטל: It is not  because there is one central source directing all of this.
קולט אביטל: You usually have a con…
קולט אביטל: of many factors coming together.
קולט אביטל: I could give you dozens of examples.
קולט אביטל: Jimmy Carter appeared two weeks ago at the .
קולט אביטל: Six thousand people came to hear him.
קולט אביטל: He said, I chose this of the hundred invitations I now have from campuses because you have an early primary, can influence who the president will be.
קולט אביטל: It is time not to elect a knee jerk supporter of .
קולט אביטל: I was last week at a speech in .
קולט אביטל: On my way to  for the JPTT I was in the airport early and I went to the bookstore.
קולט אביטל: The three books most prominently displayed were Noam Chansky, Creed against  and two Jimmy Carter books.
קולט אביטל: The one on apartheid in .
קולט אביטל: But I looked at the old ones and the same anti-Israel stuff appeared.
קולט אביטל: Michael Oren told me that he went back and read the last ten books that Jimmy Carter wrote and they all have this anti-Israel stuff that is just now concentrated.
קולט אביטל: And because he couldn’t publish it before.
קולט אביטל: People wouldn’t have tolerated it.
קולט אביטל: Today it has become palatable.
קולט אביטל: What was marginally acceptable on the fringes is today increasingly acceptable in the mainstream.
קולט אביטל: When Barbara …
קולט אביטל: wrote the piece about the dinner party she attended in  and the French ambassador made a comment about , that your little country – but that’s true.
קולט אביטל: People were shocked, but not the elite.
קולט אביטל: I can tell you I get calls almost every day from people telling me of occurrences not only on campuses but in board rooms, at elite  gatherings, at social events, the fact that the Foreign Policy Association could hold a conference a world without .
קולט אביטל: It would have been unthinkable a year ago.
קולט אביטל: They did a survey that showed that more than sixty percent of the foreign policy elite that they addressed think that Jews have too much power and the Jewish lobby has too much influence in all of the other …
קולט אביטל: By the way, interestingly, the students of these people did not share those views.
קולט אביטל: But the foreign policy elite did.
קולט אביטל: I think that Jimmy Carter being invited to campuses across the country and said he only use apartheid to stir debate.
קולט אביטל: In the middle page 189 that it’s not apartheid, then he said, yes, it is.
קולט אביטל: Now he has gotten to the point where it is apartheid.
קולט אביטל: It is    worse than apartheid.
קולט אביטל: It’s an apartheid plot, it’s an apartheid this and apartheid that.
קולט אביטל: But the fact is that he gets invited to campuses and he said I wanted to stir debate but he won’t debate.
קולט אביטל: He refuses to debate anybody and insists all the questions have to be submitted in advance.
קולט אביטל: Because he knows, he couldn’t justify his assertions and his contentions.
קולט אביטל: As we see, unfortunately, in the American elitists, so many of these distortions and which is why, looking back at history is so important.
קולט אביטל: It’s not that criticism of  makes one an anti-Semite.
קולט אביטל: Clearly, you can criticize  legitimately on a lot of grounds and not be an anti-Semite, or everybody in this building would be anti-Semites if that were the case.
קולט אביטל: But there is a difference between holding  even to a higher standard than to a double standard and the devious legitimization is demonization.
קולט אביטל: This campaign’s purpose is to silence the supporters of .
קולט אביטל: They created successfully a dilemma for us.
קולט אביטל: That if you speak out, they say you see the Zionists squelch any criticism.
קולט אביטל: If you don’t speak out they say everybody agrees with us.
קולט אביטל: I can tell you, and I talked to my colleagues about it, it worked.
קולט אביטל: It does have an intimidating influence.
קולט אביטל: You saw the New York Times write a piece about the American Jewish Committee publications.
קולט אביטל: Totally unjustified.
קולט אביטל: Would they write a front page story over a perfectly legitimate assessment and analysis other than to try and squelch the point of view that if you don’t adopt the extremist view of  you are outside the fold.
קולט אביטל: I can tell you, academics tell you, every campus I visit about the occurrences that takes place there.
קולט אביטל: When Ridder is writing a book about how the Jews are not only blamed for the  war, which is generally accepted, and you see …
קולט אביטל: …
קולט אביטל: and Wesley Clark talked about the  money people being responsible for it.
קולט אביטל: These are all code words.
קולט אביטל: Each one in and of itself is not so significant, but when you put it all together and begin to look at the cumulative effect that this has, that’s why it doesn’t appear so obvious.
קולט אביטל: Because it’s not a massive assault.
קולט אביטל: It’s not French anti-Semitism that we have – street demonstrations and they attack a synagogue.
קולט אביטל: This is something that’s more pernicious, I believe, and in the long term more dangerous.
קולט אביטל: The outcome of this battle is going to be for generations.
קולט אביטל: That the poisoning of the elite is not something that you are going to turn around.
קולט אביטל: That the next generation that is being trained is going to one that will not accept the views that their parents and the grandparents had and the broad support that we have enjoyed.
קולט אביטל: Look at the New York Times ads that have run, that are so outrageous.
קולט אביטל: They would not write in this way on any other ethnic group or state.
קולט אביטל: They are sponsored by the Council of National Interest, traditionally anti-Israel and I would even say an anti-Semitic group lead by Findley and McCarthy.
קולט אביטל: The depictions of Jews in those cartoons are horrific, they are Goebbels like and yet the New York Times has now run six full page ads like in the weekend review section.
קולט אביטל: it is because we also have allowed that to raise the bar on what we are prepared to tolerate.
קולט אביטל: If it is a mistake that we have to be able to respond and thank god we have organizations that do work on this.
קולט אביטל: The answer when there is a serious event like in  or the LA airport.
קולט אביטל: You know they now call it sudden jehobs syndrome.
קולט אביטל: It is always an isolated individual.
קולט אביטל: It is not connected to anything until later on.
קולט אביטל: We always find that there is a connection to something.
קולט אביטל: In prison, in , in some training of some Imam that influenced them.
קולט אביטל: Jews were killed.
קולט אביטל: A Jew was killed in .
קולט אביטל: A Jew was killed in , a Jew was called in .
קולט אביטל: It is not irrelevant incidents.
קולט אביטל: All of these are reflected of what I think is this growing problem.
קולט אביטל: I think we are going to face a real challenge frankly with the AIPAC trial that’s coming up.
קולט אביטל: It is a disgrace that two loyal Americans are being put on trial for doing nothing different than thousands of reporters do every day.
קולט אביטל: The American government invested millions of dollars for seven years following these people, trying to wait till they could get something and that gets the thinnest piece of a charge, not even substantiated.
קולט אביטל: You remember original it was espionage and spying and all those words which they now dropped.
קולט אביטל: All those words are dropped.
קולט אביטל: The judge keeps excoriating the prosecution, if you read the comments that have been made.
קולט אביטל: I hope, god willing, they will be released.
קולט אביטל: But you can be sure that this is going to become a circus for the anti-Israel people to show that the American government has to prosecute Americans about what they were doing.
קולט אביטל: We have, I think, to look back.
קולט אביטל: The reason why we should look back in the thirties is not because we dwell on the zoros of the past.
קולט אביטל: If Jews look back in order to look forward, Jews look back to learn the lessons to spare future generations those trials and tribulations.
קולט אביטל: That’s why the word for history is sefira, not really history.
קולט אביטל: Sefira is not a static process where you remember in advance like Napoleon’s , or the American Revolution.
קולט אביטל: Sefira is a dynamic process where you try to assess all the factors that led to something and all the things that derive from it.
קולט אביטל: The Jews can’t look at history by isolating a particular event because you lose the perspective.
קולט אביטל: It is one of the problems that western democracies and the governments that they have is that they have this.
קולט אביטל: They lose perspective.
קולט אביטל: They don’t have a content in which to view things.
קולט אביטל: The sefira enables us to look through the chaos and perceive the dangers.
קולט אביטל: That’s why the Europeans are making the same mistakes of following the policy of appeasement and accommodation which only leads to greater problems.
קולט אביטל: Winston Churchill said if peace means feeding the alligator in the hope they’ll eat you last.
קולט אביטל: is being – this is not our subject today  - so it is for another time.
קולט אביטל: But we in terms of  have to take this new reality.
קולט אביטל: I think it requires of us then to look together at what steps can be taken and how we can -  which is why I started off by proposing  that this be a joint and common effort.
קולט אביטל: Because today the distinction between , the Jewish state and the Jewish people is nil.
קולט אביטל: It is just a cover.
קולט אביטל: We know that those who want to destroy Jews and are anti-Israel, the study shows that it links very quickly into anti-Semitism.
קולט אביטל: I also think that we have to look much more at  which, I think, is going to become a real challenge for us in the coming years and will again require all of us to be involved.
קולט אביטל: The joint task for us to look at steps that we can take, how we get into the electronic media.
קולט אביטל: How do we begin to get into the twenty first century in dealing with it.
קולט אביטל: We  complain about the propaganda we face and how the big lie spreads because they have Al Jazeera and Al …
קולט אביטל: We have nothing.
קולט אביטל: We do not have one station in  under Jewish auspices.
קולט אביטל: We don’t have the capacity to go to the two places where the people are, which is at the end of the compute  screen and the end of the television screen.
קולט אביטל: We have to look at our kids much more.
קולט אביטל: Again, this is a common responsibility of  and the diaspora communities.
קולט אביטל: We  have ignored our children and younger and younger children.