By Debbie Schlussel

James Wright Foley, beheaded yesterday in an ISIS/ISIL/IS video, is a lot like Daniel Pearl. Like Pearl, he thought he knew better than the rest of us–that these Muslims were decent guys who would be nice to you if only you were nice to them. And like Daniel Pearl, who championed the causes of the most extremist Muslims–Islamic terrorists–in his “reporting,” Foley was beheaded and slaughtered like a halal dinner. Foley wasn’t new to this game, either, and should have known better because this almost happened to him before.

THIS. IS. ISLAM. . . .

This wasn’t the first time he was kidnapped by his Muslim buddies, whose extremism he championed. And not the first time they killed a fellow pro-jihad journalist in his midst. In 2011, Foley was kidnapped and nearly executed by other Islamic terrorists he championed against Qaddafi in Libya. He was kept in captivity by them for 44 days, and at least one other journalist–a photographer–was executed by them. Yet, he continued to champion their cause anyway. Because, again, he “knew better” than logic would dictate. You’d think that after being imprisoned and nearly killed by Muslim “freedom fighters,” he’d face the music and go home. But, no, he found a new group of even more brutal Mohammedan “liberal democrats” who finally finished him off.

Foley, like most of the other “journalists” who went to Syria, was there to champion the cause of the Syrian rebels. He wanted American taxpayers and NATO to finance, arm, and train them against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, the same thing Foley championed in Libya (and how did that turn out?). He, like Obama, McCain, Romney, and Paul Ryan, wanted us to side with these guys, insisting that the Free Syrian Army–a very tiny part of the Syrian rebel amalgam–was “moderate” and that by giving them arms, money, and training, we would impose HAMAS/Hezbo-style “democracy” on Syria, instead of keeping these people with the brutal dictator that most Muslims really need in spite of–and because of–themselves. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I’ll be on KABC 790 AM Los Angeles, this afternoon, at 1:05 p.m. Pacific Time to discuss the ISIS/ISIL/The Islamic State beheading of American journalist James Wright Foley. The show I will be on is “Mid-Day LA,” hosted by John Phillips and Jillian Barberie. Listen live here at the appointed time.

Also, don’t forget to listen to me every Friday morning on “The Pat Campbell Show” on KFAQ 1170 AM Tulsa at 7:35 am Eastern and on “The Mike Church Show” on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 after 8:05 am Eastern. I do my movie reviews on both, as well as some discussion of current political issues and pop culture topics. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

You may have heard about the “Holocaust survivor” who was arrested while marching with the rioting protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, Monday. But Hedy Epstein–also a well known anti-Israel, self-hating Jew who tried to be on the HAMAS flotilla–is a fake. She “survived the Holocaust” as much as Harry Truman did because she was, unfortunately, spirited away from Germany in the kindertransport and spent the years of the Holocaust in the safety of England and never saw the insides of a concentration camp. Not even close.

At age 90, Epstein is Exhibit #855,297,543 of the Billy Joel “Only the Good Die Young” corollary.

This is What Ugly Looks Like . . .

Monday afternoon, when a friend called to ask me if I heard about “the 90-year-old Holocaust survivor” arrested in Ferguson, my response was, “Wait, is her name Hedy?” When my friend responded that her name was, indeed, Hedy, I explained to him who she is.

Though Hedy Epstein was never a Holocaust survivor, she constantly walks all over the dead bodies of the six million Jews who perished, as a platform for her far-left, self-hating, anti-Semitic, whack job politics. And usually those politics are openly anti-Israel and pro-HAMAS. Epstein is part of the terrorist group ISM (International Solidarity Movement), which was caught giving shelter to Islamic Jihad terrorists. ISM also gave shelter and a place to stay to British Al-Qaeda terrorists the night before they blew up Mike’s Bar in Tel Aviv. Epstein traveled to the West Bank to help ISM in its terrorist activities, and she should be permanently behind bars just for that. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

You may have seen the Reuters or AFP articles about an Israeli Jewish woman who married a Palestinian Muslim Arab (the anti-Israel Matt Drudge blasted the headline on his eponymous Drudge Report site). The media coverage on this–there are articles on every major news site–is replete with usual, robotic narrative descriptions of “right wing Jews” who protested and other negative descriptions regarding the Jewish reactions. The woman is an idiot–much like the stupid White (and Black) women who marry these men in America. But here’s what the article didn’t tell you:

1) The wedding happened in Rishon LeTzion, Israel, where it was allowed to take place peacefully and with absolutely no violence. How many weddings between a Jewish man and a Muslim woman would take place in Gaza City or Ramallah with the bridge and groom living to tell about it?

Answer: NONE. On the day that hell freezes over and that happens, then that will actually merit a news story. In fact, Muslims and Islam do NOT allow a Muslim woman to marry out of the faith. And we all know of the many honor killings that Muslim fathers, brothers, and mothers commit against their daughters merely for dating non-Muslim men in the West. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

The Ferguson, Missouri store Michael Brown robbed likely financed Palestinian Islamic terrorism and was used as a front to illegally transfer funds to entities in the Palestinian Authority. The store sold stolen cigarettes (and other contraband), often a scheme by American Muslims to finance HAMAS and Hezbollah.

When I learned that the market Michael Brown robbed was called “Ferguson Market & Liquor,” the name rang a bell. And one of my twitter followers (follow me on Twitter) reminded me that I’d written about its owners’ 2008 indictment for laundering money to and financing of Palestinian Islamic “entities” after an FBI Terrorism Task Force investigation, using the store as a front for that operation. They later pleaded guilty to the scheme. Here’s a flashback:

Fourteen people have been indicted on charges of using convenience stores to trade in stolen goods and contraband cigarettes, sending the profits to groups in the Palestinian territories. Five stores were raided Tuesday as part of an alleged racketeering organization and at least nine people were arrested, authorities said. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force was involved in the investigation. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

One absolutely bloated dud plus one decent movie among the new releases at theaters this weekend. “Let’s Be Cops” was not screened for critics, probably because it’s a bomb.

* “The Expendables 3“: More like, “Dead Men Walking.” Don’t Expendable your money on this. I warned you when Sylvester Stallone made the first “The Expendables” (read my review), and I warned you again when he made “The Expendables 2” (read my review). Now, consider this my warning on steroids: Don’t. Go. See. This. Horrible. “Movie.” By the way, it also stars Jew-hating racist Mel Gibson, another great reason not to buy a ticket. At least Gibson is playing an evil villain, so he’s not really acting–just playing himself.

This bloated movie stars several action heroes from ’80s and ’90s films, all of whom look every one of their 100 years, even though some of them are only in their 70s and 60s. Harrison Ford looks like someone just plucked him from the nursing home. Ditto for Arnold Schwarzenegger with a bad hair-dye job. But in this movie, Stallone also recruits a new gang of younger action wannabe stars to set the table for the movie you were dying to see next . . . “The Expendables 4.” The movie is packed with action and entirely boring. I could not wait for it to end and to leave the theater. And I say that as a fan of ’80s action hero movies. This is an insult to those. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

A funny thing happened on “pure, innocent victim of racism” Michael Brown’s way to visit granny: he robbed a store. Will HAMAS CAIR and anti-Israel Muslims apologize for their non-stop campaign this week to paint the Ferguson shooting as “raaaacism!” and Israel’s fault? Nope. Now, that we know better, they have egg on their face. And, yet, they continue to serve up this phony scrambled egg story.

So, now, after nearly a week of riots led by race pimps, we know that the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missousi is not the “evil racist White police” story we’ve been hit over the head repeatedly with. We know that Michael Brown engaged in robbery, and we know that he was confronted with it by the officer who shot him. We also know that Michael Brown ain’t the nice, innocent, good guy we were told repeatedly he was, as if it were the gospel.

Yet, before waiting for any details to come out and before knowing anything about this, the unindicted HAMAS co-conspirator, CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) spent all week urging imams to use racism and the Ferguson shooting as themes in their sermons–you know, so Blacks will think Muslims are “down wit da struggle,” instead of members of the religion that sold them into slavery and continues to enslave them all over the world, today; and the religion whose members refer to them as “abed” and “abeed”–singular and plural for “slave,” but actually the Arabic/Islamic N-word. Also, in the Ferguson race riot protests, there were Muslim flags that sprouted among the protesters. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Tariq Farid, the Muslim CEO and founder of Edible Arrangements refuses to condemn HAMAS, Hezbollah, and ISIS. In an exclusive e-mail exchange with Farid and his personal media liaison, DebbieSchlussel.com asked Mr. Farid to specifically condemn HAMAS, Hezbollah, and ISIS, and he refused to do so. The e-mail exchange is posted below.

Two years ago, DebbieSchlussel.com broke the story on Tariq Farid, CEO of the fruit basket company, his brother, Kamran, also a high-ranking official of the company, and their proud and open support for HAMAS and Islamic extremism, through their donations and their foundation. This summer, the deceptively-named, far-left Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has been working overtime along with mainstream Jewish media to whitewash the Farids and Edible Arrangements, claiming my article is false, even though they have not refuted a single one of the many well-documented facts I published. My article about Edible Arrangements and the Farids is absolutely true, they’ve never demanded I retract a thing, and even though they are normally litigious (they are even suing some of their neighbors), they won’t dare sue me. I’ve been told that the Farids have made a large donation to ADL in exchange for the whitewash, and while the deceptive Farids claim they did not donate, the ADL has refused to answer my questions about Farid and/or Edible Arrangements’ donations to the ADL.

But I note that in ADL’s “denial” of my article, ADL writes, “Moreover, the company [Edible Arrangments] has clearly and unequivocally denounced terrorism, including those forms of terror used by Hamas.” Note they would NOT condemn HAMAS. That’s an obvious exercise in semantic subterfuge, because it clearly shows that neither the Farids nor their company will in fact denounce HAMAS, just “terrorism” (and in their minds HAMAS is not a terrorist group, the Israeli government is). That’s a not-so-clever and very transparent trick used by the usual suspect HAMAS front groups, including unindicted HAMAS co-conspirator CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), because they actually support HAMAS, Hezbollah, and ISIS, and don’t want to admit to it, nor do they want to be on record as specifically condemning the terrorist groups. And, now, the Farids do the same. I specifically asked the Farids and Edible Arrangments to condemn HAMAS, Hezbollah (which murdered hundreds of Americans), and ISIS. They refused.

From: Debbie Schlussel writedebbie@gmail.com
Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:03 PM
Subject: Press Inquiry/On Deadline . . .
To: media@edible.com

Hello:
I’m Debbie Schlussel, a freelance journalist, whose work has appeared in the Wall St. Journal, Jerusalem Post, New York Post, and so on. I’m on deadline for an article I’m writing about Edible Arrangements, the ADL, and Islamic extremism. My questions are as follows:
1) How much money did Edible Arrangements, its foundation, the Farid Brothers and/or any related parties donate to the ADL?

2) Will the Farid Brothers specifically condemn HAMAS, Hezbollah, and ISIS?

Thank you,
Debbie Schlussel

Their response from Anna Mariotti, personal media spokeswoman for Tariq Farid:

From: Anna Mariotti amariotti@edible.com
Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:00 PM
Subject: RE: Press Inquiry/On Deadline . . .
To: Debbie Schlussel writedebbie@gmail.com

Hi Ms. Schlussel:

Thanks for your inquiry. Please see below for answers to your questions:

Question 1 Answer:: Neither Edible Arrangements, the private charitable foundations of the owners, the Farid brothers or any related parties have donated to the Anti-Defamation League.

Question 2 Answer: The Farid brothers condemn ALL terrorism. [DS: Again, that was NOT the question. The question, which they would NOT answer, was: “Will the Farid Brothers specifically condemn HAMAS, Hezbollah, and ISIS?” Clearly, they will NOT.]

Best,

Anna

Anna Mariotti
Media Liaison

Edible Arrangements International
95 Barnes Road
Wallingford, CT 06492
United States of America

+1-203-774-8238

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From: Anna Mariotti
Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: Press Inquiry/On Deadline . . .
To: Debbie Schlussel writedebbie@gmail.com

Hi again,
I just wanted to ensure that you received the response to your inquiry. Would you mind confirming receipt?
Thanks again,
Anna

Anna Mariotti
Media Liaison to Tariq Farid, CEO
Edible Arrangements International
95 Barnes Road
Wallingford, CT 06492
United States of America
+1-203-774-8238

I confirmed my receipt. Again, note that this is at least the second time that the Farid brothers (Sunni Muslims from Pakistan) and Edible Arrangements refuse to condemn HAMAS (ADL’s semantics game shows they would not denounce HAMAS to ADL either), and now they won’t condemn Hezbollah or ISIS, either. Read the rest of this entry »

By “Sensationalist Pundit” Debbie Schlussel

Cosmopolitan Magazine–yes, that Cosmo Mag–attacked me this month. The August 2014 issue of the rag, er . . . “mag,” says I’m to blame for the conventional (and accurate) wisdom that women with tattoos over their rear ends are sluts. Ya mean someone actually thinks that isn’t true?

Longtime readers know I’ve written several posts on tattoos over the years, especially about tattoos on women. Some of my posts are about the sleazy “Tramp Stamps” a/k/a the “Official Marks of Skankdom.” In case you didn’t know, they’re the tattoos slutty women get over their butt-holes to tell the world: look at me, I’m easy! As I noted, a woman who is willing to allow someone to stab her repeatedly with a sharp needle for permanent graphics on her body is even less discerning in letting other foreign objects go in and out.

Amid typical Cosmo fare, such as, “HOT SEX Tonight: 24 Moves to Unleash Your Inner Bad Girl” and “COSMO’S SEX BUCKET LIST,” Cosmo writer Sara Stewart asks in her article, “Stop Calling It a Tramp Stamp“:

Am I a slut because I have a tattoo over my butt?

Um, yes.

She continues: Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

You may have seen the late Robin Williams’ name on lists of pro-Israel celebrities that have been published in the last several years and especially during the current Israeli defensive war against HAMAS. He’s on those lists because, in 2008, Williams appeared in a video with other celebs (including Tom Cruise, the great Jon Voight, Elle and Dakota Fanning, etc.) to wish Israel a Happy 60th Birthday. The video, below, was played on billboards in Times Square on Israel’s 60th Birthday in May 2008.

Watch the Video(turn down the volume to skip the silly background music, which was not part of the original video–Williams is on the video at about 48 seconds in): Read the rest of this entry »