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JIHAD JEOPARDY: Part-time model’s career at risk over anti-semitic campaign
Incendiary letter writer Raya Rusho’s career as a part-time model and show biz extra has been jeopardised by her public displays of Israel bashing and Jew hating according to industry insiders.
“Racists aren’t chic,” one fashion industry observer explained to VEXNEWS. “This sort of thing is very corrosive to her brand. It’s just nasty,” they said on condition of anonymity.
VEXNEWS reported on Friday that the “Green architecture” enthusiast had been caught claiming in The Age newspaper that she had an “open mind” on the Middle East but that Israel was all bad all the time. VEXNEWS investigators discovered that Rusho had previously gleefully predicted the fall of “the Jews” and of Israel on a BBC website. This gave rise to the conclusion that – in the defence of jihad – she was willing to bend the truth just a little.
She wrote: “The Israelis have gained enough power and money to prey on those weaker than them. It’s only a matter of time before the Jews lose that power and money and they are left to fend for themselves. With this they’ll have a taste of their own medicine…”
WHY THIS MATTERS
Too many still buy hateful ancient anti-semitic propaganda about the Jewish people possessing vast money and power, in some vast international conspiracy. These blood lies were at the heart of Hitler’s Holocaust. Like all racial generalisations, they say a lot more about those propagating them than those they are describing. Â
From the struggling immigrants from Africa and Russia who are building new lives in freedom in Israel to the battlers in Orthodox Jewish families in East St Kilda with big families and big problems, any scrutiny of vicious conspiracy theories about the Jewish people easily yields the complex truth of a people who have endured immeasurable suffering and bigotry for centuries, with the normal mix of triumph and disaster experienced by everyone else (excluding pogroms and the Holocaust which we’d submit were uniquely dreadful). Â Israel’s own story is similarly complex and equally a victory over incredible adversity, in a land with next to no natural resources other than the ingenuity, determination and passion of its people, surrounded by neighbours sworn to their destruction and much of the world that stands idly by or worse.
That such vile prejudice comes so easily from the keyboard of a young woman clearly blessed and privileged with a bright future ahead of her is all the more confronting and distressing.  Indeed, Ms Rusho declares herself to be “sexy” and “friendly” in her model’s profile. You don’t have to an uneducated, old, male fat slob to be an anti-semite. It’s not a comforting thought for those of us who vow “Never again.”
Rusho came rushing to her own defence yesterday, admitting the comments were her own but saying they didn’t make her an anti-semite because semites including Arabs too. She seemed particularly distressed at the publication of photographs of her drinking alcohol and outside known terror targets.Â
Despite conceding the veracity of our entire story, she still threatened to sue us for “Slander and Defamation”. Clearly no rocket scientist or legal scholar, we assume she meant libel and while we’d celebrate the chance to bring further attention to her moronic views and to explore the truth of our political comment, we doubt she’ll have the cojones to proceed.
Click here to see more of Raya Rusho’s portfolio. If a career in modelling is now out of the question in Australia, perhaps Hamas might try to lighten up its missile-toting terror image with a “Face of Jihad” campaign.
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While Private Greg Sher died serving his country, this ingrate University student attacks Jews and hopes for their fall.
Shame on her.
Where’s her Hijab? Burkah? Disgusting. Wouldn’t get away slutting yourself like that in any modern Islamic country like Iran or Afghanistan. Stoned to death would be her fate.
I have always liked Muslimesses.
Her arse is pretty big.
Talk about two-faced! Rusho bags western society in favour of Islamic fanaticism that demands women show only their eyes (and then from behind a veil) and yet there she is prancing around like some wannabe catwalk model showing plenty of skin.
Grow up girlie.
Hey anonymous: her arse is by no means large and its size is by no means relevant to the story.
I like big butts. The offer of the ride home or on the way home is back on
Oh great, so not only a sexist but a sexual harrasser to boot. Shame a (mostly) good political blog gets hijacked by predatory wankers
Anyone here know Andrews address?
considering that hamas controlled Al-Aqsa tv accidently broadcast a polish porn channel into the gaza strip recently, perhaps such a move for Rusho isn’t so far-fetched
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/195771.php
(Not safe for work)
Leave her alone she made a very fair and valid point and she is a very nice and attractive young lady.
“While Private Greg Sher died serving his country, this ingrate University student attacks Jews and hopes for their fall.”
And the lefty newspaper ‘The Age’ loves it. Not good :(
Just because the majority of Jewish Women are very unattractice with their ugly big noses!!
Israel is not western society.
Did we confirm she lives in [deleted]
Please wipe your bums with Yahweh’s writings.
Where’s her burkah?
Dad tells me that the Jews are not nice people.
Sometimes Dad is a bit silly.
Andrew’s snark is hilarious, but I don’t think many of these comments are helpful to the collective intelligence of the human race.
Go you sheila!
She could do with losing 5 kilos.
When is the mainstream media going to pick up on this story?
Surely the Oz would love this?
Like the rest of us, the mainstream media are sick death of the evil Jews and their constant carping, and whingeing.
They are always falsely and deceitfully claiming victim status.
Like the rest of us, the mainstream media are sick death of the evil Jews and their constant carping, and whingeing.
B..b..b..ut, “Fair Go” surely you believe the Jeeews control the media.
You’ve completely contradicted yourself.
Witness the epic failure of another dumbfuck antisemite.
I never said ‘Jews’ control the media.
They are too busy pedalling “lies” and making large sums of money from questionable business dealings.
Obviously Daniel you have reading challenges, you have hairy palms or an intellectual disability if you are claiming I wrote that.
I wouldn’t mind introducing Little Fatty to Raya.
Fair go!
What sort of bike do Jews ride while “pedalling” their lies?
Is it a putschbike maybe?
Anti-Semetism is one thing, but using phosphorus bombs is simply inhumane.
Wow, “Fair Go”, it’s great how you give “the Jews” a “fair go” by calling them evil. No antisemitism there, right?
As for these questionable business dealings, perhaps you’d care to elaborate?
You are a bald-faced, dirty, stinking antisemite.
Andrew Landeryou, it all comes down to belief doesn’t it? You have a belief that you are right, and you will kill for your belief (if not in reality, then use your blog to attempt to destroy Miss Rusho’s career) or encourage others to so do. All religious zealots have done the same all through time. Jews. Christians. Muslims. All have killed and incited others to kill because they believe they are right and every one else is wrong!.
And what is most obscene, do it in the name of God!
Killing, not based on a fact that is irrefutable, but on a belief.
You believe something about Miss Rusho; you even suggest that she is anti-Semitic, not based on what she has written, but on what YOU believe and therefore you can condemn her. She states that she can no longer remain unbiased. She has taken a position. Nevertheless, she is now attacked her self. If she were truly anti Semitic she wouldn’t take a position, because Semites (according to the Macquarie Dictionary) “… supposedly descended from the House of Shem, eldest son of Noah†include Hebrews, Arabs and Assyrians. To be truly anti-Semitic therefore would be against Israelis AND Palestinians. Bet you didn’t know that!
What is true however, is that there is ongoing distortion of the facts in all media (and I hesitate to call this page media).
Fact 1: Hamas was a democratically elected government on Jan 26 2006.
Fact 2: Israel and other countries blockade Gaza, preventing movement of goods into or out of the territory.
Gaza is isolated because the people of Gaza had the temerity to elect a government that would remove the previously corrupt regime, and they hoped would stand up for their rights to exists as an independent people. Because the Israelis didn’t want this government that they didn’t like, they stopped all trade, and humanitarian movements into and out of the territory. So Gazan’s use what ever they have been brought up with to try to change what they have. They are trying to break out of their jail!
Through this action lets call Gaza what it has become. The Jews have created a Concentration Camp in Palestine, just like the Germans did to them. The only thing missing are the cattle tracks and the gas chambers, to transport them somewhere else. But hang on; the Israelis don’t have to transport them anywhere, they can bomb them where they are an exterminate them that way. Sadly, history repeats, and the wronged are now do more of the same.
For the record, (and from Israeli sources);
In the 2005 Intifada Palestinians killed 197; Israelis 52: Almost 4 Palestinians to 1 Israeli
In the 2006 Intifada Palestinians killed 662; Israelis 29; Almost 23:1
In the 2007 Intifada Palestinians killed 383; Israelis 13; Just over 29:1
In the 2008 Intifada not all the numbers are collated, but to September; Palestinians killed 434 Israelis: 31 14:1
See http://mideastweb.org/second_intifada_timeline-2005.htm
Israel sees that the only way out is to continue bombing, whether it is Gaza or Lebanon, to continue to oppress, rather than win the hearts and minds. This issue isn’t going away anytime soon, and your petty remarks reflect the hard line that will ensure that Israel will continue to live in war. A country whose origin was in terrorism is fated to live with terrorism until it faces it’s own beginnings.
I still think that Palestine should have its own state, and there will be no peace in the region until this happens. All religions are a bunch of crap and prey on the weak and feebile minded
using phosphorus bombs is simply inhumane.
As opposed to, say, strapping your intellectually disabled teenager with a bomb-belt, filled with nails, and sending him to blow up other schoolkids?
Those people, are of course the target of Israeli bomb-runs, but thanks for your lecture.
There are many people that don’t support Israel’s current campaign or many of it’s previous actions. Unfortunately any time their dissaproval is raised they are branded antisemetic.
Murray,
You believe something about Miss Rusho; you even suggest that she is anti-Semitic, not based on what she has written
Rubbish. Andrew’s assessment was based entirely on what she wrote. Not in The Age though, but on the BBC’s website. Allow me to quote it for you, as you apparently missed it the first three times:
Any questions? The issue in relation to the Age, was simply her completely dishonest (though not of itself antisemitic) claim to be unbiased, when she is anything but.
Thanks for cutting and pasting a whole lot of other drivel though.
Are you capable of thinking for yourself? Or do you believe that you will somehow convince people of your specious argument by posting lots of irrelevant statistics.
I say irrelevant, because the number of Palestinians killed, is not of itself an indicator of who is wrong and who is right.
A lot more Germans were killed than Americans at the end of WWII. Were the Nazis therefore the victims?
The figures you quote, include (for example) Palestinians who died blowing themselves up. They also include Palestinians who died while shooting at Israeli civilians.
Are we actually meant to feel sorry for them? Is that your point?
The undeniable fact is, were the Palestinians to stop trying to murder Jews tomorrow, the Palestinian death-count would be zero (except for those killed by other Arabs – a massive problem of which you hear very little).
The amount of money pledged to the Palestinians is such they could be the wealthiest Arabs in the region, if they so choose.
However, instead of building any form of worthwhile society, they choose instead to continue to attack Israel, and encourage their five year old children to die for Allah. They can only blame themselves. Of course it’s far easier to blame the Jews.
An utter lie.
I’m calling you an idiot, and a liar. Not an antisemite. Happy?
Murray has written a lengthy and error filled comment. I won’t respond to all of it as it repeats erroneous assertions made by Ms Rusho earlier. He/she hasn’t read or comprehended previous responses. To avoid use of profanity, I’ll ignore the ridiculous and obscene comparison Murray makes between Israel and the Nazis.
But I urge all those who think Israel is defending itself against nothing to check out this Twitter feed QassamCount
In 2008, over three thousand Hamas missiles hit Israel.
Those missiles can reach as many as one million Israelis. The fact the country has taken incredible precautions to protect its citizens doesn’t alter the fact of Hamas’s murderous intentions one bit.
No democratic government could fail to take action against this persistent terrorist campaign.
The regime in Gaza responsible for this – led by Hamas – is not only sworn to Israel’s destruction but to the Jewish people as well.
How elements of “progressive” politics has been seduced or conned by this extreme racist and misogynist group can only be attributed to their blind opposition of Israel’s ally, the United States.
Hamas’s leaders have denied the Holocaust ever happened, they call Jews “”apes, pigs, mice, and lizards” in official publications, they brutally suppress internal critics, attempt to silence free press in Gaza and instruct even the youngest kids that dying as “martyrs” in suicide bombing attacks is a noble thing to do.
In Gaza, the Hamas regime allows “honour killings” of women who offend the men who purport to own them like property, fails to support the education of women, allows forced marriages, treats women – in legal terms – as minors who require the signature of their male master on forms and contracts.
It – and other ultra-conservative regimes in the Middle East – is nothing less than the face of evil in the modern world.
They have nothing in common with our inner urban left other than shrieking “Death to America” on occasion.
Simply, you can’t win the hearts and minds of a regime like that who – if given half the chance – would unleash a second Holocaust on Israel.
All Israel can do is the best it can to defend itself and hope it can find partners in peace in Gaza and among the Palestinian people.
The people of Israel and Palestinians deserve to live in peace.
They both deserve better than Hamas.
Israel deserves to be taught a lesson and it is to be Iran gets of it arse and does it once and for all.
Well said VEXNEWS. Murray has no idea.
And, I believe Murray is probably Miss Rusho under another name since “Murray” just cut and pasted slabs of her other garbage that she posted on here the other day, especially the bit about “Semites”.
Anon, I assure you that Iran is going to learn the lesson for its continual provocation of Israel. The Iranians could just do nothing right now and nothing will happen, yet Ahmadinejad and a whole lot of other people like yourself want Israel to be destroyed. The fact that you want Israel to be destroyed is sick and the fact that you can’t see this within yourself is even worse. You’re a man truly blinded by your hatred for Jews.
Andrew, can you confirm rumours that Ms Rusho’s [deleted] is still in tact to avoid stoning?
Andrew,
If you weren’t a broken, failed business man, you would be getting sued.
As it stands you’ll carry on being a pathetic little man, attacking people based on your own biased and uneducated views.
I feel really sorry for Andrew as you will most likely die a lonely and bitter man. Whereas Rusho will have forgetten about you and your utter ignorance, most likely by the end of the week.
Sued for what? Exposing an anti-semite. I thank VexNews for calling out a lying humbug for what it is.
She protests too much I reckon.
If she sues – and I still can’t figure – what she’s complaining about – she could well face prosecution of her own for racial vilification against the Jewish community.
At least the legal process would cause all of her emails about Israel to be brought into the public eye and for her to face cross-examination about her hatreds.
Hows the fatty Rusho’s legal threat going? I cant wait !
Has she breached Melbourne University’s own statutes by conducting her anti-semitic campaign. Perhaps she used University resources to denigrate Israel?
How’s the law suit going sweetie?
Where’s your whiffling wordsmith warrior to defend your honour today?
This porker has being telling Porkies. How many here would pork her if they had a chance?
Jews are troublemakers always have been and sadly always will be. The majority of Australians are fed up with their constant carping, and whingeing.
U reckon hers [deleted]
16.33 is anti-semitic. It is disgraceful that anti-semitism still exists in this country. Many Australians died fighting in World War 2 against Nazism. Let us remember just that.
It’s this simple. If Hamas stopped shooting rockets, there would be peace. If Israel stopped bombing there would still be terror and war.
Some of the comments here could have come out of Hitler’s Germany in World War Two. You people are evil.
Susie, I wish the world was as simple as you see it.
It is that simple.
Put another way though, if Israel disappeared altogether, tomorrow, do you think Muslims would all of a sudden stop killing non-Muslims in dozens of countries worldwide?
Of course not.
What is happening in Israel is but a single front in a global war by Islamists against non-Muslims.
When a Muslim beheads a Buddhist in the South of Thailand, I assure you it’s nothing to do with Israel, but a violent cult which aspires to death.
That people are so cynically preoccupied with the world’s only Jewish state, doesn’t change that one bit.
Jews are the evil ones and I hate each of one of them.
They are sheer vermin.
Put a sock in it Raya
Hey “Fair Go”, I bet you’ve got many Jewish friends, don’t you? You’d be a pleasure to be around.
You Jews can’t handle the truth and facts. Raya was just stating the bleeding obvious.
Please don’t stop talking about me.
I have spent years trying to understand the root cause of the conflict in the Middle-East and it has little to do with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Indeed if it was, the Muslim ‘brothers’ of the Palestinians would have stepped up to the plate and not have refused access to the displaced Palestinians (whether forced or voluntarily [please check the repeated statements of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in 1948 to immediately leave]) to other Arab lands including Jordan who share the same ethnic heritage.
The Arab world certainly never stepped up to the plate when it came to financial aid either given it is the Europeans, Americans and Israelis who provide more aid to the Palestinians than their Muslim ‘brothers’. Damn those Western Zionist for their aid money to buy more rockets form Iran.
I think readers can safely assume for every one statement by an Arab Foreign Minister condemning the Israeli incursions into Gaza (if it were a Holocaust as some zealous commentators have reported Israel would simply have launched one nuclear weapon and spare itself any more Israeli deaths)there are two phone calls of support to their counterparts in Tel Aviv.
I would never have thought I would attribute the former Malaysian Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir to providing a reason – albeit convoluted and steeped in his typical racism – to the source of the conflict but here goes:
“Jews survived 2, 000 years of pogroms not by hitting back but by thinking. They invented and successfully promoted socialism, communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so that they may enjoy equal rights with others. With these, they gained control of the most powerful countries and they, this tiny community, have become a world power. In contrast, Muslims had been disunited and they should emulate the example of the Jews in the use of political and economic tactics instead of violence.”
I did place a caveat on Mahathir’s comments before quoting them. The comments are spiced up with a dash of conspiracy theory mixed with some good ol’ fashioned anti-semitism about ‘world control’ and the like. Kudos to a guy playing to his base. But cut through the Arab Street diatribe and you get to the source of the problem as acknowledged by a former leader of one of the more successful Muslim nations – jealousy and a total inability by the Arab world to understand why them? Why the poverty and gross inequalities of the Arab world with his oil rich lands compared to the glistening skyscrapers of Israel with no natural resources? How can it be when the Jews, who have suffered so much more, have somehow not only remained a united ethnic and religious community over 5000 years but have in fact moved from strength to strength?
Understanding the cause of the conflict in the Middle-East requires more than an examination of Israel’s military incursions; it requires an Arab world to start asking itself the tough questions and not attribute every problem to the West.
Are you hearing yourselves? You are comdemning Raya for having an opinion. However, most comments I have read contain opinions which exactly like Raya’s, except are pro-Israel. How is this any different? It may offend people with other opinions, though you don’t seem to care. You call Raya a racist and supporter of terrorism, though look at yourselves first.
I think the meaning of freedom of speech has been lost on you people. Am I going to be labelled a racist now because I generalised and said “you people”.
Well I have news for you: in this situation, some believe that Hamas are the terrorists, some beleive Israel government are the terrorists, and some believe both are just as bad as the other. Who is right? I doubt anyone can comment because you will never know the complete story on both sides of the situation, neither have you been in either Israel or Gaza’s shoes.
Nonetheless, everyone thinks their opinion counts. Sorry to break it to you: it doesn’t. I doubt anyone who writes on this wall are actually doing something to promote peace. So best to keep your opinion to yourselves than discriminate against a girl for having an opinion.
Oh puh-lease. Rusho is the one writing about the fall of the Jews on websites. That’s not a legitimate opinion however you want to spin it. I don’t agree with VexNew’s approach all the time but one this I think they’ve been spot on. If she can’t back up her big racist talk she might seriously consider shutting the f*ck up.
precious
Rusho is the precious little drama queen. Get over yourself.
Dear Anon “Rusho bags western society in favour of Islamic fanaticism that demands women show only their eyes (and then from behind a veil) and yet there she is prancing around like some wannabe catwalk model showing plenty of skin”
Where exactly, besides in Andrews article” does Raya favour Islamic fanaticism? I happen to know raya, and wont hide the fact that I do, and I know that she is in fact from a CHRISTIAN family.
Also, Andrew “we assume she meant libel and while we’d celebrate the chance to bring further attention to her moronic views and to explore the truth of our political comment, we doubt she’ll have the cojones to proceed”
Dear Anon “Rusho bags western society in favour of Islamic fanaticism that demands women show only their eyes (and then from behind a veil) and yet there she is prancing around like some wannabe catwalk model showing plenty of skin”
Where exactly, besides in article” does Raya favour Islamic fanaticism? I happen to know raya, and wont hide the fact that I do, and I know that she is in fact from a CHRISTIAN family.
Also, “we assume she meant libel and while we’d celebrate the chance to bring further attention to her moronic views and to explore the truth of our political comment, we doubt she’ll have the cojones to proceed”