SEE MY NEWEST EXPOSE' ON ANNA BALTZER AND THE VIDEO

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12942

HAMAS BEGINS TO FREE ISMers KILLERS. REDUCES LIFE SENTENCE TO 15 YEARS

HAMAS KILLERS OF ISM ACTIVIST VITTORIO ARRIGONI GET SENTENCES REDUCED FROM LIFE TO 15 YEARS BY GAZA MILIATRY COURT.

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA

THERE'S NOTHING MORE STUPID THAN AN ISM ACTIVIST. THESE LITTLE TWERPS RUN AROUND CHANTING VERBIAGE ABOUT "RESISTANCE" AND
HUMAN RIGHTS AS THEY CHAMPION CUTTHROATS FROM TOTALITARIAN REGIMES LIKE HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH.

ARRIGONI WAS BEATEN AND HANGED BY THE GREAT PALESTINIAN REVOLUTION HE SO LOVINGLY SUPPORTED. HIS KILLERS' LAWYER COMPLAINED THE LIFE SENTENCE WAS REDUCED TO ONLY 15 YEARS WHEN IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN TEN.

ODDS ARE THEY WILL BE FREED ON GOOD BEHAVIOR BY 2015.

TO TRISTAN ANDERSON, RACHEL CORRIE, TOM HURNDALL AND ANY OF THE OTHER ISM MORONS WHO DIED OR FACE INJURY FOR THEIR TIRELESS EFFORTS TO SUPPORT ARAB TERRORISTS AND MURDERERS, WE HOLD UP VITTORIO'S JUSTICE AS PROOF YOU ARE ALL FOOLS.

 

HIS TATOO READS IN ARABIC "RESISTANCE"

 

IT WAS GREAT FUN WHILE IT LASTED AGAINST THE JEWS

 

ARRIGONI ONCE SAID HE WAS LIVING AND SUPPORTING THE HAMAS BECAUSE HIS GRANDFATHER WAS A PARTISAN AGAINST THE NAZIS.

NEVER MIND THAT THE HAMAS-A LATER PART OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD THAT WERE NAZI ALLIES DURING WORLD WAR II-

ARE NAZI SUPPORTERS.

 

 

LEE KAPLAN ON TV ABOUT CAMPUSES, ANNA BALTZER

LEE KAPLAN DISCUSSES CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM AND THE ANNA BALTZER
HOAX TOUR IN AN INTERVIEW WITH ALLEN WEST ON PJ TV:

AN OPEN CHALLENGE LETTER TO ANNA BALTZER(OR IS IT PILLER? OR IS IT NARDIE? OR IS IT ISHKABIBBLE?)

New update on Anna Baltzer here:

http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/7700

AN OPEN CHALLENGE LETTER TO ANNA BALTZER (OR IS IT PILLER? OR IS IT NARDIE? OR IS IT ISHKABIBBBLE?)

For those of you following my work exposing the International Solidarity Movement
you may have seen the brouhaha about my latest article about Anna Baltzer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. If you scroll down to my past articles about
Anna here on my blog, you can learn more about her. To brief those not in the know,
I wrote an article where I said Anna lied about having a Fulbright Scholarship and attending Birthright, tales she uses to pose as the Jew who wants to bring down Israel for Hamas.

Well, it turns out she had her real name as Anna Piller instead of Baltzer on the Fulbright website where it mentioned she was given some funds to be a TA (teaching assistant) to teach English in an English language program at a Turkish university,
and may have even been at Birthright (I'm still waiting for proof), but under a completeley different name, Anna Piller. It was already established she never went on Brithright as Anna Baltzer per the Birthright Program. Anna did not get and is not a Fulbright Scholars who receive scholarships to either attend school to get a degree, do specific research or a dissertation. Because of this difference, Anna's name still does not appear on the Fulbright Scholars list on the Fulbright website under either name, Baltzer of Piller. So she lied about being a Fulbright Scholar, exaggerating her connections to Fulbright. This hoax was perpetrated by anarchist Daniel Sierdaski who wrote my editors and told them she was.

Needless to say, the ISM trolls on the Internet are crowing about the fact she did have some connection to Fulbright in her background and that that somehow disproves all the pro-terrorist activities I've proven about the ISM over the last ten years and that she is a serial liar. The article in question was pulled by one panicky publisher who was afraid of a lawsuit over a minor issue that the anti-Israel trolls tried to make into a major issue--and succeeded. Anna Baltzer herself never sent any letters, I guess leaving the threats up to the ISM cultists to do it for her. The rest of the information about how Anna lies in the articles in question were true to the T, though. Anna just finished last week telling an audience at Oxford yet another lie that Israel is the same as apartheid 1980's South Africa. She went to Belgium on February 4th to tell assorted atrocity lies about Israel to further spur anti-Semitism in Europe among Christians there.

Anyway, I thought I'd write Anna Baltzer an OPEN LETTER here on my blog and those ISM trolls out there who are living on the Internet for her can, and I am sure will, show it to her. I hope the ISM trolls and my followers will disseminate this far and wide:

AN OPEN LETTER CHALLENGE TO ANNA BALTZER (sic)

Ms. Baltzer (or is it Piller? Nardi?):

It has come to my attention that even though the Fulbright websites and staff advised me there was no Anna Baltzer who obtained a Fulbright scholarship in 2003 as your Wikpedia entry said you did at the time I wrote my article about your going to Oxford (which I understand is now changed saying you are also known as Anna Piller), why do you permit all the public relations articles put out by the ISM for you to say "Anna Baltzer received a Fulbright Scholarship"? In fact, why do you even need to use a false name?

As for Birthright, at this writing I'm waiting to hear back to see if they hosted an Anna Piller in 2000, this query based on a similar confusion to that above. ISM activists frequently use false identities to do their work against Israel, even obtaining multiple passports to get back there after deportation. Is that why you have the false name Anna Baltzer?

Do you use the name Anna Baltzer because you have a criminal conviction on your record from 1997 under the name Anna Piller? And what was that conviction for, pray tell?

Finally, there's the issue of your grandparents who allegedly were Holocaust survivors.
In my article, I mention I could find no record of Baltzers who were listed as Holocaust survivors from the death camps. I found only one woman named Baltzer who did perish during the Shoah. I imagine she'd object to you using her name.
In my earlier articles and the ones about you at Oxford, I mentioned Hedy Epstein, the phony "Holocaust survivor" of the ISM who I learned was never in the death camps and spent the entire war in the safey of England as a child. Hedy, as an adult after the war belonged to pro-Stalinist groups that were anti-Zionist (Stalin was actually planning a new pogrom when he died) and that she even supported Pol Pot. The liars in the ISM tried parading her out at divestment events hoping audiences would think a victim of the Nazi death camps even was against the Jewish state. You know, the same idea behind an anti-Semite like yourself claiming she is attacking the Jewish people in the name of Arab irredentists, revanchist idealogues like Hamas so that non-Jews and (other suckers) will not see your program as promoting hatred for the Jews.

What are the names of your grandparents who are "Holocaust survivors" and what death camps did they survive? Surely you'd want this information made public to bolster your credentials. Do you have the tattooed numbers from their arms to facilitate an accurate search? You mentioned once you were born in Switzerland. Did your grandparents spend the war there? I await a reply.

How much do you earn as the head of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation?
My research tells me that ISM coordinators like you are paid $60,000 a year from the the likes of the PLO. With all your world travel, etc. I'd imagine you must be paid far more. Do you mind telling the world your income for this sinecure you have as the Jew
who works to deport other Jews from their homes and supports terrorist groups that calls for killing them? You are also involved with Medea Benjamin's Code Pink and Global Exchange, that wonderful group that sent $600,000 to the Iraqi resistance in aid
while US marines were dying and losing limbs during the Battle for Fallujah. I'm curious how much it costs to buy a pretty "Jewish" girl (are you really even Jewish?)
to serve as a mouthpiece for destroying the Jews in the Middle East first and stir anti-Semitism in colleges, meeting halls and most of all in Christian churches. Can you divulge this information? It migh shed light on your epiphany and statements you are promoting Jewish values by supporting and lying for Jew-killers like Hamas.

Finally, can you answer these three questions below, though I already know the answers:

Have you read the Hamas Charter and its calls to annihilate all the Jews in the world as well as Israel as a religious obligation to God and do you agree with it? In other words,
will you condemn Hamas as a terrorist group?

Does Israel have a right to exist as it is, the Jewish national homeland? (You apparenly refused to answer this earlier on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart which was an obvious "no". I suppose you couldn't risk your sinecure from the Arabs who pay you by saying that Israel has any right to exist.)

For what crime were you convicted in 1997 when you were about 18 years old? Was it serious? Was it for fraud? For what were you convicted back then? Is that why you began using aliases?

The only persons I know who use aliases are criminals and celebrities. Was it the former that became the reason "Anna Baltzer" was coined? Or the latter, so you could become famous as the Jew for another Jewish Holocaust? Curious minds want to know. I note this article from 2006 that says Anna Baltzer is your real name and Piller the alias. Why did you change it?

http://www.independentcollegian.com/news/author-shares-stories-of-palestine-1.1325967#.UQnNaqXAdBM

Don't worry. It's been screen captured.

Feel free to comment here on my blog.

Anyone wanting to read more about Hedy Epstein see this:

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=26399

BELOW IS THE ARTICLE HACKED INTO ABOUT ANNA BALTZER AT THE BERKELEY SABEEL CONFERENCE

THIS ARTICLE BELOW WAS LINKED TO FROM ANNA BALTZER'S WIKIPEDIA PAGE BUT NOW WHEN SOMEONE CLICKS THE LINK IT SAYS PAGE NOT FOUND. I AM REPRINTING IT HERE. READERS WHO KNOW WIKIPEDIA EDITORS SHOULD CONTACT THEM AND ASK THEM TO CHANGE THE LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF BALTZER'S WIKIPEDIA PAGE
THAT REFERS TO THIS ARTICLE TO THE USED NOW. BE SURE TO READ MY OPEN CHALLENGE LETTER TO ANNA BALTZER TWO ARTICLES BACK.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Anna Baltzer at the Berkeley Sabeel Conference

I'd never seen Anna Baltzer in action though I'd read about her. At the Sabeel Conference at St. John the Workers Church in Berkeley Ms. Baltzer gave a presentation in the main hall.

Baltzer is drop dead gorgeous and looks like a movie star, but she is also proof that beauty is only skin deep. Her presentation on behalf of the International Women's Peace Service was so dishonest and deliberately manipulative of an audience that it reveals an ugliness below the surface appearance of this woman. Innuendos, half-truths, manipulated photos and constant misrepresentations were the order of the day for her presentation, and most annoying was her voicing "I am a Jewish-American" to lend credence to her pro-PLO propaganda spiel; here was a Jewish woman content to lie by omitting facts and giving credence to hearsay to aid in the dispossession of and encourage attacks on Jews in Israel.

First, let me say the International Women's Peace Service is a communist organization that grew out of the communist-inspired International Women's League for Peace and Freedom in the 1920s and 30's. Back here in California, the IWPS tours schools, damning Israel in the eyes of schoolchildren just like Baltzer does and is led by another Jewess-communist named Kate Raphael. It's not particularly Jewish to be a communist whack job, but if one is, then it's useful to cite one's ancestry of Judaism that was long abandoned for the god of Marxism to attack the Jews in Israel and those who support them. Israel was founded and built by more than one Marxist who grew up during the Cold War, and the Soviet Union once supported the creation of the Jewish state because of the socialist nature of so many Zionist groups. The Torah teaches that every Jew is responsible for every other Jew, a form of socialism that has a beneficial group-think on the Jewish community.

But what frequently happens is it gets perverted among secular Jews who decide that Marxism is the way to go. They become about as Jewish as a ham sandwich, but nevertheless use their Jewish ancestry to lend credibility to attacking Jewish interests like Israel as they fall into the communist party platform that is anti-Israel. As the Soviet Union later aligned with the Arabs, Marxist groups like the IWPS became increasingly "anti-Zionist" (anti-Jew). Writer Paul Bogdaner has posited that "Martin Luther’s program of terrorizing Jews originated with a Jewish convert, Johannes Pfefferkorn; and that the myth of the Jewish world-conspiracy, which culminated in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, was assiduously promoted by a Russian Jewish author, Jacob Brafmann. We suspected that as the Pfefferkorns and the Brafmanns departed from the stage, the Finkelsteins and the Chomskys made their entrance."

As for the "peace" theme of the IWPS, Writer Bruce Bawer has explained that "use of the word 'peace' to legitimize totalitarianism is an old Communist tradition. In August 1939, when the Nazis and Soviets signed their nonaggression pact, the same Western Stalinists who had been calling for war against Germany did an about-face and began to praise peace. (After Hitler invaded Russia, the Stalinists reversed themselves again, demanding that the West help Stalin crush the Third Reich.) The peace talk, in short, was really about sympathizing with Communism, not peace. And it continued after the war, when Stalin’s Western supporters whitewashed his monstrous regime and denounced anti-Communists as warmongering crypto-fascists. 'Peace conferences' and 'friendship committees' drew hordes of liberal dupes, who didn’t grasp that their new 'friends' were not ordinary Russians but the jailers of ordinary Russians—and that the committees were about not 'friendship' but deception, exploitation, and espionage."

I'll write more about IWPS later and particularly Hannah Mermelstein, a member who for some reason the Israeli security services just can't stop from entering Israel to try and destroy it.

But back to Anna Baltzer's presentation.

Baltzer immediately claimed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was not about religion, but land. In other words, the Arabs, particularly the Muslims, have nothing against Jews per se, but their land is being stolen by them. This was the first lie. The settlements that Baltzer showed photos of were built on public Jordanian land after 1967. It's one of the deceptive lies of the ISM (as a front for the PLO) to claim that Jews just marched in and grabbed private Palestinian homes and property.

It's always fascinated me how in America we accept the right of anyone who can legally purchase his own property to live where he pleases. This was the basis of our Civil Rights Movement. But when the Arabs claim that land is only for Arabs or Muslims, the radical left rushes in to agree with them.

In any event, Baltzer pointed to a settlement and said "Only Jews can live there." This was the second lie of her presentation and it was deliberate, a variation on the Blood Libel stories (which Baltzer improved on later as we shall see).

What Baltzer should have said was only Israeli citizens can live there. Christians, Druze, Muslims with Israeli citizenship can live in those communities. Were the Palestinian Authority to arrest terrorists and stop killing Israelis, mainly Jews,
those communities might then become open to all Palestinian citizens in a viable Palestinian state. But for now, they are under the control of Israel for security reasons, and rightly so.

Baltzer commented about the land around the settlement in the photo and claimed it belonged to Palestinians. This was the third lie. The land belonged to the settlement. But to these ISM creeps, all land, trees, produce (olives) and just about anything a Palestinian tells them is theirs and not the Jews'; it all belongs to Palestinians.

Baltzer accurately explained the difference between economic settlers and the religious ones. Economic settlers moved to the West Bank for affordable housing whereas the religious came to resettle the Biblical land of Israel. But in true
radical socialist propagandistic form, Baltzer suggested that the economic settlers were only the oppressed in Israel,that is, the poor, the black Jews from Ethiopia, etc. In fact, Israel is so tiny that this is not true. Many people elect to live in the West Bank or east Jerusalem who are not impoverished but want a nicer home. Efrat is like Mission Viejo in California and only a 30 minute drive from Jerusalem (if you don't get shot by Arab terrorists on the way).

Baltzer then discussed the Security Fence (that the ISM loves to call the "Apartheid Wall"). Of course she doesn't mention the Fence became necessary because the Palestinian Authority refused to arrest or prosecute terrorists who murder Jews
(and still never has) despite their agreement to do so in the Oslo Accords. There hasn't been a bus bombing in Israel for two years since the Fence went up. The answer is simple; stop killing Israelis and the Fence will come down, it's mostly portable anyway. Baltzer relied on lying by omission throughout the presentation.

By the way, Baltzer kept reciting the trope of "occupation." Would she object to a Security Fence if it was on the 1949 Green Line? Probably so, because she wanted people to think she considers only the West Bank and Gaza "occupied" when in fact she means all of Israel.

I had to laugh when Baltzer showed a photograph of two cars with different colored license plates. She explained that somehow this reflected an apartheid situation
because the different colored plates for Israeli nationals (not just Jews) and Palestinian Arabs were "visible from far away to the checkpoints." In fact, it was the PA that demanded the different colored license plates, not the Israeli government, because it was demanded as a matter of sovereignty. But her audience would never know this.

Baltzer showed a staged photograph of a "bypass road" with another highway excavation site in the foreground. The manipulation of images was obvious.
She was honest at one point admitting Palestinians who are not Israelis can use the bypass roads after completing a security background check; the roads were created to stop Jews from being murdered on the highways. Somehow this was a terrible thing to her.

But Baltzer's theatrics really shone in discussing the checkpoints. I've been to Israel and checkpoints rarely take more than ten minutes unless a terrorist attack is being thwarted. Baltzer showed a line of Palestinian workers waiting to enter Israel. You can see such lines at our own airports. She implied this was part of the great suffering of the Palestinians due to those nasty Israelis having checkpoints to stop terrorists who kill Jew and Arab alike.

She got the audience of Christian anti-Semites, dried up 60's Berkeley radicals and the uninformed to emit a gasp when she told them a tale of a pregnant Palestinian woman who was taken by ambulance to one of the checkpoints that are normally open to traffic from 7 am to 7 pm. According to Baltzer, they arrived at the checkpoint before 7 am and the Israeli soldiers told the woman's family that despite her giving birth they could not let her through until 7 am. "They kept saying, 'We are just following orders. Just following orders,'" she announced, in a deliberate reference to Nazi army apologists over the Holocaust.

She went on to say the woman gave birth to twins in the ambulance, and after more waiting for hours, finally allowed to proceed at 7 am but both preemies died before she reached the hospital.

After her speech, I approached Baltzer. "Can you give me the name, the checkpoint,
the date and tell me what the IDF investigation of the incident showed?" I asked her.
"I didn't know the IDF investigates such things," she replied. "It's hard to imagine nobody complained, and the Arabs would never miss a sound bite like Israeli soldiers letting two babies die in the press, so there would have been an investigation," I told her.

Pressing on, I asked Baltzer for the woman's name. "Lamis," she said. But she could not give me a last name. "The village?" I pressed on. "Deir Balut," she said, but she could not provide a date. "It's in my book," she said, conveniently on sale in the church's vestibule. She grabbed a copy of Witness in Palestine, her "book" chronicling Israeli abuses and "apartheid." "I can't find the date, but I think it was the day before the date of this chapter," she said, being specific. "Were you there when this happened? Did you interview any of the soldiers?" I asked.

"No" she replied.

"So in other words somebody whose last name you don't know or remember told you this happened and it's listed as fact in your book?"

She drifted away into the crowd.

I should point out the last photo in her manipulated scenes at this event. Baltzer displayed a photo of a Palestinian teenager on a hill throwing a rock at some Israeli police officers at the bottom of the hill who were peacefully standing next to their vehicles. "I don't want to seem to be promoting violence," she said. "But this boy is in his village on his land and the Israeli police have no right to be there." She continued, "If someone broke into your home and invaded it, wouldn't you pick up a lamp and throw it at them to protect your home?" In other scenes where she claimed they showed Palestinians "nonviolently" protesting the "occupation," the Hamas flag was clearly visible in the rear. Hamas in its charter openly advocates the annihilation of Israel's Jews.

So much for the theme of nonviolence at this Sabeel event. Baltzer's remarks were little more than an excuse, a justification, for terrorism while trying to lie about phony Israeli atrocities. It was manipulated tripe, but the audience still gave her a standing ovation.

It was sick to see and hear in a House of Worship, of all places.

ISM AND BALTZER GANG INTERFERE WITH MY BLOG ON WIKIPEDIA

Below is another article I did about Anna Baltzer back in 2007. The ISM and Anna's pals who control her Wikipedia page apparently did something so the link to where the article was at my blog now says page cannot be found. I am reprinting the article here for all to see and notifying Google and blogspot of the tampering. Any of you out there who edit Wikipedia should notify the editors.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

MORE ON ANNA BALTZER, THE ISM'S EVA BRAUN

Steven Stotsky at CAMERA has written an excellent review of the ISM/s Eve Braun, Anna Baltzer who tours American churchs and campuses on behalf of Hamas terrorists for the little commies in the IWPS. Anna says she's not a communist so we ahve to assume she's jsut a lying opportunist who has a nice sinecure. What's amazing is how a woman with such a low IQ can make a good living touring with a propaganda campaign such as hers with a straight face, telling everyone she is a "peace activist" while concluding her presentations always jsutifying terrorism and war against Israel. Anna also likes to say she's an "eyewitness" to Israeli abuses that apparently only scenarios given her by Lamis Andoni for her to repeat. Lamis Andoni is the daughter of the PFLP apparatchik Ghassan Andoni who helped found the ISM and recruit little Jewish wannabe communist revolutionaries to run around for the totalitarian Arabs.
Anna, have you no shame? Apparently not.

Chomsky Lite: Anna Baltzer Joins anti-Israel Campaigns
By Steven Stotsky of CAMERA

Extreme anti-Israel groups often feature like-minded Jewish individuals in their campaigns, events and writings. These voices provide a public relations fig leaf for organizations singling out the Jewish state for one-sided condemnation. The logic, obviously, is that if Jews themselves are leveling harsh criticism at Israel, the organization’s own assault must have merit. But what actually counts in statements about Israel, the Palestinians or any other topic are the facts of the issue – not the ethnicity, religion or personal psychology of the speaker.

Anna Baltzer is one such Jewish defamer, a relative newcomer who tours US campuses, churches and community venues denigrating Israel with baseless and propagandistic allegations. Her personal story has a familiar ring; she claims to have been raised on the Zionist dream but says "vacations" in Iran, Syria and Lebanon and an extended visit to the West Bank opened her eyes and transformed her into a determined opponent of "the occupation." Those well versed in the history and contemporary reality of the conflict will recognize in Baltzer’s presentation a re-packaged version of standard accusations against the Zionist state.

Equally predictable are her anecdotal descriptions of Palestinian hardship and alleged Zionist brutality. Likewise familiar is Baltzer’s invoking of her Jewish roots and grandparents lost to the Holocaust to establish her supposed moral authenticity.

But family aside, Baltzer’s ideological roots are firmly planted in the anti-Zionist movement. An acolyte of deceased Israeli radical, Tanya Reinhardt and Noam Chomsky, she is affiliated with the International Women’s Peace Service (IWPS), a group closely associated with the International Solidarity Movement. Her political message closely reflects the official Palestinian line claiming Israel is a foreign occupier guilty of ethnic cleansing and that the wrongs done to the Arabs can only be righted by reverting back to a mythological pre-Zionist Palestinian land.

False claims about land ownership

1) Baltzer builds her argument against Israel on key historical falsehoods. In a tactic of propaganda, she repeatedly asserts the falsehood that the West Bank and much of Israel itself belonged to the Palestinians as though it were commonly accepted truth. She claims Jewish settlements on the West Bank are illegal according to international law and the land "belongs to the Palestinians, [and is] internationally recognized as Palestinian land." None of this is true; in reality, UN Security Council Resolution 242 (and official United States policy) characterizes the West Bank and Gaza as disputed territories subject to negotiation. Many recognized legal experts (including Professors Julius Stone and Eugene Rostow) argue that the settlements are legal, irrespective of any political view about the advisability of building or removing them.

2) Baltzer perpetuates the falsehood that all land not already under Jewish ownership prior to 1948 belongs to the Palestinians. A series of maps on her Web site depict the annexation of Palestinian land by Jews. A map labeled 1947 shows eight percent under Jewish ownership, and incorrectly assigns the remaining 92 percent to the Palestinians. But most of the territory she assigns to the Palestinians was state-owned property under Turkish and subsequent British and Jordanian governments. In 1967, when Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza in the context of a defensive war, state land came under the sovereignty of Israel, which is how it remains until a "final status" settlement is achieved.

3) Baltzer further confuses the land issue in alleging Israeli Arabs are discriminated against because they are barred from owning most of the land. In reality, within Israel itself, only 6.5 percent of the land is privately owned and although Arabs constitute 20 percent of the population they own roughly half of that private property. They have equal access to the remaining roughly 80 percent of land that is government-owned state land. In practice and under new court rulings Arabs also have access to JNF land which accounts for the remaining 14 percent.

4) Baltzer makes other bizarre claims about land in Israel. In her blog she quotes Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, whom she identifies as a former member of the Palestine National Council, who states,

78% of [Jewish Israelis] live in 14% of Israel. The remaining 22% of [Jewish Israelis] live in 86% of Israel's area, which is Palestinian land ...only 200,000 Jews exploit 17,325 sq. km, which is the home and heritage of 5,248,180 refugees, crammed in camps and denied the right to return home. (April 30, 2007)
This absurd assertion denies Jews the right to 86 percent of the land within their own internationally recognized borders. Tellingly, her repetition of Dr. Sitta’s claims suggests she sees nothing wrong with reducing Israel into densely populated "bantustans;" precisely what she accuses Israel of doing to the Palestinians.

5) Her recapitulation of the events surrounding Israel’s founding are standard revisionist mythology. She recounts how "the militant Zionist Irgun and Stern Gang systematically murdered more than 100 men, women, and children in Deir Yassin" and describes it as "part of a carefully planned and orchestrated process that would induce the flight of 70% of the native population to make way for an ethnically Jewish state." (Anna’s blog: April 30, 2007)

And in her DVD, "Life in Occupied Palestine," she asserts:

The majority of the people living on the land the UN designated for a Jewish state were not Jewish. Zionist forces expelled 750,000 Palestinians from their homes.
The charge of an orchestrated plan and process to expel Palestinians has been thoroughly refuted by serious scholars. Professors Efraim Karsh and Benny Morris, for instance, both reject the charge of an orchestrated expulsion, and conclude the overwhelming majority of Arabs who fled did so in the context of war – one launched by Arab armies and militias against the fledgling Jewish state. Their scholarship is supported by the admissions of Arab officials that the Arab population was urged to flee by its own leadership. According to various UN commission reports, between 472,000 and 726,000 Arabs fled the territory that became Israel. Only a small fraction of these were physically uprooted by Jewish forces, in most cases to insure critical roadways remained open during open hostilities.

Demonizing Zionism and defaming Israelis


1) Predictably, Baltzer casts Zionism as a racist movement. She describes a Zionist as "someone who supports the idea of an exclusively Jewish state." This is a baseless distortion of mainstream Zionism. Israel is a democratic state that protects the rights of all its citizens to freely and openly practice their religions. According to Freedom House, an organization that rates political, religious and civic freedoms around the world, Israel is the only nation in the Middle East to be rated as "Free." Most of the region’s states were given the lowest rating of "Not Free." (See the Middle East portion of the Freedom House Map of Freedom reproduced on the left)
One is left to wonder how Baltzer’s "vacations" in Iran and Syria, nations controlled by repressive regimes that restrict speech, assembly and the rights of minority groups, somehow convinced her that Israel was the region’s most serious human rights violator.


2) Her account of the fighting in Jenin in April 2002 repeats the most outrageous propaganda disseminated by the Palestinian Authority in the days immediately after the Israeli incursion. She writes in her blog on November 24, 2003:

Jenin has a reputation for fighting back. Locals say that in April of 2002, it took 12,000 Israeli troops 8 days to capture one small section of the city because so many people fought to the death...
... Soldiers bulldozed homes indiscriminately, without regard to whether any civilians were still inside...

Israel used bulldozers to minimize soldier casualties, but no one knows how many Palestinians died in the attack... Shortly afterward, Israel announced 46 casualties, less than a quarter of their original estimates. Israeli soldiers’ and Palestinian civilians’ testimonies of unarmed men being executed and bodies being crushed suggest that this number is wildly inaccurate. Still, Israel maintains that a massacre never happened at all, and without access to the bodies, nobody can prove that those who went missing were actually killed.
At the time she wrote this entry, even HRW and Amnesty International, as well as the UN — all fierce critics of Israel — had repudiated claims that a massacre had occurred, counting 52 to 57 Palestinian dead along with 23 Israeli soldiers. Most of the Palestinian fatalities were identified as combatants. The relatively low Palestinian toll after eight days along with the uncharacteristically high toll of Israeli soldiers contradicts Baltzer’s narrative. Israel could have limited its own casualties by resorting to artillery and aerial bombardment, but in order to minimize Arab civilian casualties, went in on the ground and suffered notable losses.

3) She criticizes Israel’s security barrier, "the wall" in her terminology, but avoids any discussion of why it was built. Even Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Abdallah Shalah acknowledged the effectiveness of the barrier, stating:
"… For example, they built a separation fence in the West Bank . We do not deny that it limits the ability of the resistance to arrive deep within [Israeli territory] to carry out suicide bombing attacks, but the resistance has not surrendered or become helpless, and is looking for other ways to cope with the requirements of every stage [of the intifada]…" (Al-Sharq, March 23, 2008 ).
As an advocate of non-violence, she betrays no ambivalence in her opposition to the barrier despite the fact that it has saved both Israeli and Palestinian lives by reducing opportunities for violence to occur. Baltzer’s determined opposition to the barrier suggests that promoting the political agenda of "resistance" supercedes any concern for preserving Israeli or Palestinian lives.

Baltzer’s radicalism and ties to Islamic extremists

1) Baltzer’s rhetoric and writing are a window on the emerging nexus between the far-left and the Islamic extremists of Hamas. This is exemplified by her association with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a radical group whose members sheltered two British-born terrorists prior to their carrying out a suicide bombing of an Israeli nightclub in 2003 and who today are working on behalf of Hamas to undermine Western efforts to isolate that radical Islamic organization in Gaza.

In her blog, she reveals her participation in ISM strategy sessions and coordination with its activists. ISM’s claims to adhere to a non-violent creed are contradicted by the praise its co-founder, Huwaida Arraf, expressed for suicide bombers:

Nonviolent resistance is no less noble than carrying out a suicide operation... The Palestinian resistance must take on a variety of characteristics — both nonviolent and violent. But most importantly it must develop a strategy involving both aspects...
2) The relative calm in the West Bank since 2005 and on-going tenuous efforts by responsible governments to foster cooperation between the Abbas government and the Israeli government have reduced opportunities for extremists to instigate "resistance" activities in these areas. Professional agitators like Baltzer have thus migrated to more extreme opponents of compromise, like Hamas in Gaza. In 2007, she wrote:

Recently, perhaps the most paralyzing features of Israel's continued control over Gaza ... is the US and Israeli-led economic embargo against the Palestinian government since Hamas' victory last year....the United States, Europe, and Israel ... say they will only return the Palestinians' lifelines if Hamas agrees to three conditions: (1) renouncing violence, (2) accepting previous agreements, and (3) recognizing Israel. These conditions sound reasonable enough, but are painfully ironic for anyone living on the ground here. True, Hamas has not sworn off violence once and for all, but neither has Israel! In the past year, Palestinians have killed 27 Israelis, most of them soldiers. During that same period of time, Israelis have killed 583 Palestinian civilians (suicide bombers, fighters or others targeted for assassination are not included). Hamas has held fairly consistently to a unilateral ceasefire since January 2005, when they announced their transition from armed struggle to political struggle... Hamas says it reserves the right to resist violently, but has stopped attacking Israelis. Israel claims that all it wants is peace, yet the daily invasions and assassinations continue.

And finally, the last and crucial condition is that Hamas must recognize Israel. The question is, what exactly is meant by "Israel"?... Israel has an artificial Jewish majority that was created and is maintained through various forms of ethnic cleansing. Israel's very existence as a Jewish state is conditional upon the dispossession and either expulsion or bantustanization of the indigenous Palestinian population...
Hamas too has indicated that it would consider peace if Israel withdrew to its internationally recognized 1967 borders leaving Palestinians with just 22% of their historic homeland, but Israel says full withdrawal is out of the question. It is Israel who has yet to recognize Palestine's right to exist, not the other way around. (April 7, 2007)
Baltzer here adheres closely to Hamas’s narrative of the conflict. These excerpts from a lengthy blog entry are riddled with deceptive manipulation of terms. For instance, while Hamas accepts temporary truces it firmly rejects the right of the Jewish state to exist and refuses to disavow armed struggle. Recently, when an interviewer asked Hamas political chief, Khaled Meshal if Hamas could ever accept Israel. He answered,

No, the question of recognition is out. I have already said we would be able to sign a truce. There are other formulas, but we have already stated that recognition is not among them. (Euronews, July 11, 2008)
Nor has Hamas stopped trying to attack Israel despite Baltzer’s nonsensical claim that Hamas has adhered to the 2005 ceasefire. From January through August 2008 alone, 1087 rockets and 1218 mortar shells were fired on Israel from Hamas-controlled Gaza and Hamas has taken credit for a number of terrorist incidents inside Israel since 2005.

Her statistics on Palestinian casualties are misleading. Through careful cross-checking of Palestinian sources, CAMERA has demonstrated that the groups Baltzer relies upon for her figures play games with how they classify terrorists and militants as civilians or non-combatants. For example, the pro-Palestinian Israeli group B’Tselem categorizes known terrorists killed in Israeli air strikes as non-combatants so long as they were not carrying out an attack at the time of their demise. Another CAMERA study combed through the weekly reports of the Gaza-based monitoring group Palestinian Committee for Human Rights (PCHR) and calculated 58 percent of all Palestinian fatalities between April 2006 and April 2008 were identified as militants, resistance activists or members of Palestinian security forces by this partisan group. Israeli tallies indicate that the overwhelming majority of Palestinian fatalities are militants and terrorists.

Curiously Baltzer’s blog falls silent between April 29, 2005 and Jan 26, 2007, a time during which the main news focused on Israel’s decision to withdraw from Gaza and the chaotic results within Gaza afterward, including intensified internecine fighting between Hamas and Fatah.
In 2007, in the midst of an extended period of relative calm between Israelis and Palestinians on the West Bank, she exclaimed in her blog:

Injustice is unsustainable. It cannot be normalized, because there will always be resistance. The third intifada will come...If the third intifada does not succeed, there will be a fourth. And then a fifth… As many as it takes, until justice is served. (April 29, 2007)
Although Baltzer’s organization IWPS proclaims in its mission statement that it is "non-aligned and non-partisan and does not 'take sides' but supports any individual, group or organization who resist the Military Occupation of the West Bank in a nonviolent manner," she implicitly condones violence by urging endless intifadas. Surely she knows that Palestinian and Israeli blood would inevitably flow during the next and any subsequent intifadas.

Like others who have preceded her as roving agitators against the Zionist state, Baltzer feeds off the continuing conflict. Her agenda promotes resentment and holds out to Palestinians the unrealistic hope of reversing a century of Jewish growth and development of the land. This can only push prospects for a peaceful coexistence further away. With continuing attempts to forge a more cooperative and calm atmosphere in the West Bank, it is no surprise that Baltzer and others who share her agenda increasingly align their views and actions with the most determined opponents of compromise, like Hamas.

AN OPEN CHALLENGE LETTER TO ANNA BALTZER (OR IS IT PILLER? OR IS IT NARDIE? OR IS IT ISHKABIBBBLE?)

For those of you following my work exposing the International Solidarity Movement
you may have seen the brouhaha about my latest article about Anna Baltzer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. If you scroll down to my past articles about
Anna here on my blog, you can learn more about her. To brief those not in the know,
I wrote an article where I said Anna lied about having a Fulbright and attending Birthright, tales she uses to pose as the Jew who wants to bring down Israel for Hamas.
Well, it turns out she did get a grant from Fulbright and may have even been at Birthright (still waiting for proof), but under a completeley different name, Anna Piller.

Needless to say, the ISM trolls on the Internet are crowing about the fact she did have these things in her background somehow disproves all the pro-terrorist activities
I've proven about the ISM over the last ten years and that she is a serial liar. The article in question was pulled by one panicky publisher who was afraid of a lawsuit over a minor error that the anti-Israel trolls tried to make into a major issue--and succeeded. Anna Baltzer herself never sent any letters, I guess leaving the threats up to the ISM cultists to do it for her. The rest of the articles in question were true to the T, though. Anna just finished telling an audience at Oxford yet another lie that Israel is the same as apartheid 1980's South Africa. She's going to Belgium on Monday to tell assorted atrocity lies about Israel  to further spur anti-Semitism in Europe.

Anyway, I thought I'd write Anna Baltzer an OPEN LETTER here on my blog and those ISM trolls out there who are living on the Internet for her can, and I am sure will, show it to her. I hope the ISM trolls and my followers will disseminate this far and wide:

                         AN OPEN LETTER CHALLENGE TO ANNA BALTZER (sic)

Ms. Baltzer (or is it Piller? Nardi?):

It has come to my attention that even though the Fulbright websites and staff advised me there was no Anna Baltzer who obtained a Fulbright scholarship in 2003 as your Wikpedia entry said you did at the time I wrote my article about your going to Oxford  (which I understand is now changed saying you are also known as Anna Piller), why do you permit all the public relations articles put out by the ISM for you to say "Anna Baltzer received a Fulbright Scholarship"?  In fact, why do you even need to use a false name?

As for Birthright, at this writing I'm waiting to hear back to see if they hosted an Anna Piller in 2000, this query based on a similar confusion to that above. ISM activists frequently use false identities to do their work against Israel, even obtaining multiple passports to get back there after deportation. Is that why you have the false name Anna Baltzer?

 Do you use the name Anna Baltzer because you have a criminal conviction on your record from 1997 under the name Anna Piller? And what was that conviction for, pray tell?

Finally, there's the issue of your grandparents who allegedly were Holocaust survivors.
In my article, I mention I could find no record of Baltzers who were listed as Holocaust survivors from the death camps. I found only one woman named Baltzer who did perish during the Shoah. I imagine she'd object to you using her name.
In my earlier articles and the ones about you at Oxford, I mentioned Hedy Epstein, the phony "Holocaust survivor" of the ISM who I learned was never in the death camps and spent the entire war in the safey of England as a child. Hedy, as an adult after the war belonged to pro-Stalinist groups that were anti-Zionist (Stalin was actually planning a new pogrom when he died) and that she even supported Pol Pot. The liars in the ISM tried parading her out at divestment events hoping audiences would think a victim of the Nazi death camps even was against the Jewish state. You know, the same idea behind an anti-Semite like yourself claiming she is attacking the Jewish people in the name of Arab irredentists, revanchist idealogues like Hamas so that non-Jews and (other suckers) will not see your program as promoting hatred for the Jews.

What are the names of your grandparents who are "Holocaust survivors" and what death camps did they survive? Surely you'd want this information made public to bolster your credentials. Do you have the tattooed numbers from their arms to facilitate an accurate search? I await a reply.

How much do you earn as the head of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation?
My research tells me that ISM coordinators like you are paid $60,000 a year from the the likes of the PLO. With all your world travel, etc. I'd imagine you must be paid far more. Do you mind telling the world your income for this sinecure you have as the Jew
who works to deport other Jews from their homes and supports terrorist groups that calls for killing them? You are also involved with Medea Benjamin's Code Pink and Global Exchange, that wonderful group that sent $600,000 to the Iraqi resistance in aid
while US marines were dying and losing limbs during the Battle for Fallujah.  I'm curious how much it costs to buy a pretty "Jewish" girl (are you really even Jewish?)
to serve as a mouthpiece for destroying the Jews in the Middle East first and stir anti-Semitism in colleges, meeting halls and most of all in Christian churches. Can you divulge this information? It migh shed light on your epiphany and statements you are promoting Jewish values by supporting and lying for Jew-killers like Hamas.

Finally, can you answer these three questions below, though I already know the answers:

Have you read the Hamas Charter and its calls to annihilate all the Jews in the world as well as Israel as a religious obligation to God and do you agree with it? In other words,
will you condemn Hamas as a terrorist group?

Does Israel have a right to exist as it is, the Jewish national homeland? (You apparenly refused to answer this earlier on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart which was an obvious "no". I suppose you couldn't risk your sinecure from the Arabs who pay you by saying that Israel has any right to exist.)

For what crime were you convicted in 1997 when you were about 18 years old? Was it serious? Was it for fraud? For what were you convicted back then?  Is that why you began using aliases?

The only persons I know who use aliases are criminals and celebrities. Was it the former  that became the reason "Anna Baltzer" was coined? Or the latter, so you could become famous as the Jew for another Jewish Holocaust? Curious minds want to know. I note this article from 2006 that says Anna Baltzer is your real name and Piller the alias. Why did you change it?

http://www.independentcollegian.com/news/author-shares-stories-of-palestine-1.1325967#.UQnNaqXAdBM

 

Don't worry. It's been screen captured.
 

Feel free to comment here on my blog.

Anyone wanting to read more about Hedy Epstein see this:

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=26399