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In this mailing:
- Alan M. Dershowitz: Double Standard
for Historical Revisionism
- Soeren Kern: UK: Landmark
First Conviction for Female Genital Mutilation
by Alan M. Dershowitz • February
6, 2019 at 5:00 am
- Henry Ford devoted
his life to two passions: making cars and demonizing Jews.
When Hitler said, "I regard Henry Ford as my
inspiration," he wasn't referring to his car
manufacturing. He was referring to Ford's anti-Semitic
ideology that eventuated in the genocide of six million Jews.
- Henry Ford does not
deserve to be honored. The question the good people of
Dearborn should ask themselves is: What would you do if the
performing arts center were named after Jefferson Davis? If
the answer is that you would remove Davis's name, then you
should remove Ford's.
- There cannot be
differences between how anti-Black, anti-gay, anti-women and
anti-Jewish practitioners of bigotry are treated. There must
be a single standard for historical revisionism.
Henry Ford
devoted his life to two passions: making cars and demonizing Jews.
Pictured: Henry Ford (left) and the May 22, 1920 cover of Ford's
anti-Semitic weekly periodical, The Dearborn Independent.
(Image sources: Ford - Keystone/Getty Images; Dearborn Independent
- Wikimedia Commons)
Imagine if an American city continued to celebrate a
prominent businessman who had published newspapers and books
advocating overt racism and racial discrimination against Black
people. Imagine if the Grand Wizard of the KKK had a picture of
this man in his office and credited him with inspiring him to kill
African Americans. Imagine statues and photographs commemorating
the life of such a bigot. Imagine if a performing arts center was
named after him and African American performers who wanted to
appear in the city had to walk into a building bearing the name of
this racist. The reaction would be immediate and uncompromising:
all glorification of this racist must stop; statues and pictures
must be removed; history must treat him as a pariah despite his
positive accomplishments as a businessman.
by Soeren Kern • February 6, 2019
at 4:00 am
- "Female genital
mutilation is a sickening, depraved form of child abuse and we
will do all we can to ensure all perpetrators are brought to
justice." — British Home Secretary Sajid Javid.
- "It is the
physical damage and emotional damage as well. It can be very,
very damaging. The person who should be protecting them in the
first place has usually arranged and facilitated it. How can
you rebuild that link to the person that should be protecting
you?" — Inspector Allen Davis, the Metropolitan Police
Service lead officer for FGM.
- "The grooming
gang cases are again one of the only near parallels. As a
number of official inquiries have revealed, in Rochdale,
Rotherham, Oxfordshire and a growing list of other places,
there must have been hundreds if not thousands of people who
were not perpetrators in the cases but who knew something was
going on. People who worked in social services, local police,
hotel owners and others... but decided to turn a blind eye...
But it had also become a local custom... There is something to
be grateful for in the Old Bailey prosecution this week,
certainly. But underneath it are deep questions which cannot
go unaddressed." — Douglas Murray, The Spectator.
In a
landmark ruling, a mother-of-three has become the first person in
Britain to be found guilty of female genital mutilation (FGM), a
practice that has been outlawed in the country for more than three
decades. Pictured: Part of an anti-FGM poster produced in the UK by
the Metropolitan Police, in conjunction with community
organizations.
Editor's Note: February 6 is International Day of
Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, a United
Nations-sponsored annual awareness day aimed at eradicating the practice.
In a landmark ruling, a mother-of-three has become
the first person in Britain to be found guilty of female genital
mutilation (FGM), a practice that has been outlawed in the country
for more than three decades.
Under British law, anyone found guilty of performing
FGM can be imprisoned for up to 14 years. It has been illegal in
Britain since 1985 under the Prohibition of Female Circumcision
Act, later amended in the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003.
The UK's Serious Crime Act defines FGM as involving
"procedures that include the partial or total removal of the
external female genital organs for non-medical reasons."
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