Stephanie deleon - Week 8 journal entry lyrics

10/7/13 Fars, the Iranian news agency, gave Michelle a nice, new, respectable dress using Photoshop – a dress that covered her chest and shoulders in accordance with Iranian restrictions on images of the female body. Perhaps they really were offended by Michelle's bulging biceps, or perhaps it was a small revenge for her handing the Oscar to the "anti-Iranian" film produced by the "Zionist" company Warner Brothers – an objection voiced by many official outlets in Iran. 10/8/13 The film Zero Dark Thirty was also criticised and described as "outcla**ing Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda", and for good measure a commentator in Tehran added: "These movies are weapons of ma** destruction against humanity." In addition, the New York Times reported that 130 foreign guests had been brought to Tehran by the government to discuss the fact that "Hollywood is not a normal industry" but a "conspiracy by capitalism and Zionism". 10/9/13 It would be nice if we could all raise our eyebrows and dismiss such anti-Semitic rants as the ramblings of impotent fundamentalists, but in the light of the growing power of Iran, its funding and support of terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, and the worrying rise of anti-Semitism worldwide, we would do well to sit up and listen. Last week it was reported that there had been a 58 per cent rise in anti-Semitic attacks in France and a 30 per cent rise in Belgium; 2012 was the third worst year on record for anti-Semitic attacks in the UK. These figures are mirrored worldwide as anti-Semitic political parties gain ground during these austere times. 10/10/13 Here in Ireland of course, as has recently been indignantly pointed out in the wake of the 'Caherciveen scandal' we are not anti-Semitic at all. Just anti-Israel. So that's all right then. When Sarah Honig wrote about the anti-Semitic ramblings she heard from a few schoolchildren in Co Kerry, she was immediately vilified as a liar and propagandist. As Honig later wrote: "Apart from two follow-ups which I initiated, the news reporting was astoundingly uniform. . . Simplistic, one-sided news accounts of what was presented as my attack on virtually the entire Irish nation bordered on the hysterical." 10/11/13 Well yes, the responses to Honig's piece were a little astonishing. They included such gems (published on Irish newspaper websites) as: "The state of Israel is the most racist state on the planet"; "They (Israelis) have been playing the 'anti-Semitic card' to justify their greed for Lebens-raum"; "Typical Israeli overreaction to everything – play the Jewish card" and "Screaming anti-Semitism is the most powerful Israeli weapon used in their colonisation of the Middle East" and many, many more in similar vein (these are the polite ones).