The Counterpunch Crowd and their Genocidal Bedfellows

Al-Ahram is the largest of the government-controlled dailies in Egypt and has a long history of running medieval anti-Semitic blood libels and primitive "Der Sturmer" style attacks against Jews. So naturally, it is undoubtedly the medium of choice read by Counterpunch columnists, or at least the ones who are not fluent enough to read German leaflets from the 1930s. A few days back the wonderful Aaron Klein ran a column in World News Daily on the abominable genocidal bigotry in Egypt's leading daily.

For example, an April 18 article in Egypt's government sponsored Al-Akhbar daily lamented "the bogus historical rights of Jews in Palestine," claiming the foundation of the state of Israel was based on "fabrications and lies that have their source in the Old Testament and in the Talmud [including] the lies of Israel and world Jewry about the number of Jews exterminated by Nazi Germany," according to a translation provided by Israel's Center for Special Studies. Al-Ahram has also run pieces praising the anti-Semitic czarist forgery "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", always popular among nazis and Holocaust Deniers and Saudi princes hosted at the White House.

Aaron Klein is also one of the few columnists around to make the point we suggested needed making, in the "Toiletgate" media debacle, concerning the anger of Moslems at imaginary desecration of the Koran but the indifference of the Moslem world to desecration by Moslems of holy objects and buildings of other religions.

Now it turns out that there are oodles of columnists at al-Ahram who are shared and featured on Counterpunch, the anti-Semitic, pro-terror, anti-American web magazine run by Alexander Cockburn, who despises America but just not enough to give up his perqs and go back to his rainy native Britain.

Al-Ahram co-runs some of the same columns that appear in Counterpunch. When pro-terror "professor" Shahid Alam of Northeastern University wrote an article calling for an academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions, it appeared in both Counterpunch and al-Ahram. Edward Said used to publish the same column in both al-Ahram and Counterpunch. Mega-moonbat Lawrence Davidson has also done the al-Ahram-Counterpunch two-step. Ditto for Omar Barghouti and Steve Niva (a faculty member at Evergreen State College whence Rachel Corrie was dispatched to her death). You would be hard pressed to find a Counterpunch article by neofascist anti-Semite Paul de Rooij that does NOT cite al-Ahram!

In a few cases, columns written by Israeli far-Left anti-Semites, like Ilan Pappe and Neve Gordon, have appeared in BOTH al-Ahram and Counterpunch. Al-Ahram has praised Cockburn himself, especially for his anti-Jew pieces. It also likes Cockburn's moonbat brothers, Patrick and Andrew, almost as venomous as Alex. Many of the Counterpunch regulars cite al-Ahram favorably and often.

"The filthy lies published in Egypt's media just expose Egypt, which received billions in American aid, for what it is – a supporter of terrorism and a distributor of vicious, dangerous anti-Israel propaganda," Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told WorldNetDaily. The same words apply to Counterpunch and the Cockburns.