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- Egyptian newspaper publishes TWO articles saying Jews drink gentile blood on Passover
- Tuesday Links Part 2
- How fanatic are Palestinian Muslims? Pew survey says - VERY.
- Not a single denunciation of terror attack in Arabic
- Tuesday Links Part 1
- Let's visit the bright college students of Israel's neighbors
- "The Jews use sorcery against Iran"
- The Jew that Sheikh Qaradawi couldn't stand to be near
- "Moderate" Fatah behind terrorist murder in Tapuach Junction
Egyptian newspaper publishes TWO articles saying Jews drink gentile blood on Passover Posted: 30 Apr 2013 08:04 PM PDT Egypt's Misrelgdida ("New Egypt") newspaper features not one but two articles on Tuesday that promote the libel that Jews drink Christian - and Muslim - blood on Passover. The first one is written by a Palestinian Arab, Mennat al-Sayed. He gives a "history" of Passover blood rituals that, he claims, continues, at least in some form, to this day against Arabs. In the past, al-Sayed says says, Christian neighbors of Jews were scared of the holiday because they were worried if they would travel they would be abducted and ritually slaughtered for their blood. Jews would hunt for Christian babies who never tasted wine and stab them to death in a ceremony in the synagogue, after which they would distribute the blood to drink four cups of "wine" during the Passover seder, while singing and dancing with their families. Today, the writer goes on, the Jews are keeping this tradition by killing every single Palestinian in cold blood. Al Sayed says that the Jews' habits haven't changed and they continue to slaughter Arabs in every possible gruesome manner. He concludes by saying that Jews continue to (symbolically) eat food made from Palestinian Arab blood cooked with the flames of their suffering. The second article is written more as a set of interesting facts about Jews and Passover. Written by Amr Abdel Rahman, the managing editor of the paper, it is entitled "When the Jews drank the blood of Egyptians on Passover." Recently Jews celebrated their important Passover holiday, and this feast - for those who do not know - includes bloody and exciting rituals, and the most exciting of these rituals were probably still practiced secretly in Egypt by some members of the Jewish community ...It appears that the Muslim versions of the medieval blood libel are even more lurid and sickening than the Christian versions were centuries ago. And this one can be published on the Internet, instantly, to immediately create the next generation of antisemites who believe what they read in the newspaper. This comes on the heels of the Miftah NGO publishing a similar screed in Arabic last month. Miftah has refused to publish an Arabic language apology for that article, ensuring that Arabic speakers continue to believe the most disgusting lies about Jews and contrary to its stated goals of peace and harmony. The Misrelgdida newspaper describes itself by saying "We believe in credibility and transparency and strive to symbolize the new Egypt..The truth is the basis of our profession, and we believe in humanity and compassion, and that justice is the basis of our humanity, and believe in the future as long as we are alive." Enlightened, progressive Westerners know that this is nothing to worry about. They know that all Arab antisemitism will go away if Israel just makes more concessions, and it isn't really antisemitism anyway but a sophisticated form of anti-Zionism, which is admirable. Jews get so touchy when they are accused of ritually slaughtering Christians and drinking their blood, don't they? |
Posted: 30 Apr 2013 05:30 PM PDT From Ian: New Research Sheds Light on Nazi Influence in Arab World The Mufti was the most prominent Arab figure to support the Nazis, but he was not alone. "My research tracks the effort by the Germans, Italians, and Japanese to spread their propaganda and influence in Palestine and various Arab countries," said Dr. Cohen, who was born and raised in Beirut and immigrated to Israel in 1995. "They worked hard at it and, to a significant extent, they succeeded." Cohen has been combing through Arabic-language Nazi and Axis leaflets and radio broadcasts that were collected and analyzed by Haganah intelligence in the 1930s and 1940s.Barry Rubin: The Region: The situation is looking better What often seems to be the world's most slandered and reviled country is doing quite well.New Book Details Backlash Against "Zionism is Racism" Resolution Daniel Patrick Moynihan blasted the United Nations resolution in a moment in history that made waves for more than just one moment.Let the French Pay for UNESCO There's no reason to waive U.S. laws to bankroll a wasteful, anti-American U.N. agency. If UNESCO's officials, in their lavish Paris headquarters, need the money, why not tell them to go lobby the French? France was among the member states that voted in 2011 to admit the Palestinians. The Gauls' dues cover a mere 6.1 percent of UNESCO's core budget, or about $20 million, compared with the 22 percent the U.S. was paying. Surely, if France appreciates UNESCO's contributions to world peace (and French jobs) so much, the Quai d'Orsay could scrounge up a few more euros?Debunking the 'Palestinians as Native Americans' Myth In one anti-Israel protest outside of Nablus, Palestinians even dressed up like Native Americans in order to make a political point.BBC documentary 'Israel: Facing The Future' tries to break the mould Whilst the programme does have its inaccuracies, all in all it is clear that – for once – a genuine effort was made to present an objective, well-rounded picture of a complex subject and that a good deal of background research must have gone into making the documentary. Although the cameraman is not named on the relevant page of the BBC website, the film includes some stunning shots, often peppered with good humour.At last moment, BBC drops documentary on Jewish exile The BBC's last-minute decision to drop a documentary that questions the extent of the Jewish exile after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE was a mixture of "incompetence," "political naivete" and "lack of courage," the Israeli filmmaker behind the project has charged.Hungarian Jewish leader beaten at soccer match The head of Hungary's Raoul Wallenberg Association said he was beaten at a soccer match in Budapest.Suspicion grows that Boston bombers were behind 2011 murders The families of three Boston-area men gruesomely murdered in 2011 have steadfastly declined to speak to the press even as suspicion has taken root that the men, two of them Jewish, were murdered by alleged Boston bomber and Islamist radical Tamerlan Tsarnaev.Israel Hi-Tech Firm Helped Capture Boston Bombers Surveillance cameras were not enough to catch the Boston Marathon terrorists. The Israeli-based BriefCam firm "collapsed" an hour of video and focused on suspicious objects – and people.As queen abdicates, Israelis like the Dutch very much Israelis consider the Netherlands the second-friendliest country in Europe, according to a new survey published ahead of the occasion of the investiture of a new Dutch king on Tuesday. |
How fanatic are Palestinian Muslims? Pew survey says - VERY. Posted: 30 Apr 2013 02:04 PM PDT Select results from a new Pew survey of Muslims worldwide show that Palestinian Muslims are among the most religiously conservative and intolerant of all Muslim-majority countries. Many of the questions showed that Palestinian Muslims rated behind only Afghanistan, Iraq and sometimes a handful of others in their levels of fanaticism. Here are some of the survey questions with how Palestinian Muslims answered: Please tell me if you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree, or completely disagree with this statement: Members of your religion have a duty to try and convert others to your religious faith.Those who claim that a Palestinian Arab state would be secular and democratic state are fooling themselves. Those who pretend that a "one state solution" would respect the rights of a Jewish minority are knowingly lying. |
Not a single denunciation of terror attack in Arabic Posted: 30 Apr 2013 12:30 PM PDT When Israel haters need to find an easy "proof" that Jews and Zionists are racists, they go to Facebook or YouTube or any other uncensored comment forum and find some convenient anti-Arab or anti-Muslim bigot to quote. It is a lazy way to pretend to make a point, because every group has some idiots so the existence of idiots is used to generalize about the entire group. They ignore the denunciations of the bigots on those same forums, because that would ruin their thesis. Of course, these "progressives" are engaging in stereotyping, and obvious dishonesty, which is a major crime when anyone else does it, but that doesn't matter to them. They pretend they are revealing a "higher truth," which is pretty much how they justify their own bigotry. But in the aftermath of this morning's terror attack, and most* others, there is something striking about the Arab comments on various venues. They are unanimously supportive of killing Israeli civilians. I cannot find a single naysayer, a single person who says that killing a father of five standing at a bus stop is wrong. On the contrary, they will often try to justify it as a "right" or as if it is an obligation under international law. Hundreds of Palestinians on the Fatah Facebook page are cheering the attack. (Palestinian Media Watch has more.) Every single person who identifies as "Palestinian" on Ma'an's English comment page is equally happy. (The official PA Wafa news agency reports the incident as the police shooting and wounding a Palestinian Arab around the same time that a "settler" was stabbed to death.) Finding idiots on message boards where thousands of people gather is easy. But finding an Arab who is willing, on his own, to publicly condemn murdering a Jewish civilian is well-nigh impossible. That is a real story that can be gathered from reading message boards and Facebook. And it is a story that Western media will not touch with a ten foot pole. There is one exception I am aware of - the murder of the Fogel family in Itamar. While plenty of people praised the murderers as heroes, that was the one time I saw pushback on Arabic-language forums, since stabbing a baby was too much even for them. |
Posted: 30 Apr 2013 10:45 AM PDT From Ian: Netanyahu the 'Churchill of Our Times' for Iranian Threat, Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's warnings on the Iranian nuclear threat make him the "Churchill of our times," said Steinitz, who recalled that many world leaders ignored British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's warnings about German rearmament prior to World War II. Steinitz said Israel's situation now is similar in important ways to that of Britain before World War II, "despite all the differences."CAMERA: New Documentary Highlights NY Times' Holocaust Coverage Emily Harrold, a 22-year-old filmmaker, has produced an 18-minute documentary about the New York Times' failure to adequately cover the Holocaust. Inspired by Laurel Leff's book Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper, Reporting on The Times: The NY Times and the Holocaust was just screened at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival as well as the Nashville Film Festival.CIF Watch: Jewish "terrorists" vs Arab "fighters": An open letter to the Guardian's Richard Norton-Taylor The very characterization of Jews as "terrorists" and the Arabs as "fighters" when it was Arab terrorist violence that launched the 1947-48 war to start with reveals a deep prejudice that belies any semblance of objective reporting.The Cost of Inaction in Syria Sometimes the U.S. cannot choose the conflicts it enters; sometimes conflicts choose the U.S. and require American leadership to solve. The reality of what is happening in Syria requires more than passive support of a non-lethal nature. Despite Barack Obama's aversion to becoming involved in Syria, he will likely have no choice as the massacres continue. He set his own red line and as he said, "the world is watching." And so America's credibility is at stake in a region that continues to value the strong horse.'World's intelligence agencies know full well that Assad used chemical weapons' Top Israeli official says the evidence is indisputable; former Israeli defense minister claims weapons of mass destruction are already leaking to HezbollahTwo Missiles Target Russian Passenger Plane Over Syria: Report Unidentified assailants fired two land-to-air missiles at a Russian passenger plane carrying over 150 people when it flew over Syria on Monday, the Interfax news agency reported, citing an informed source in Moscow.Hamas slams Abbas announcement on unity gov't talks By Khaled Abu Toameh Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri denied that his movement was part of the consultations over the formation of a new government.Debunking Five Myths of Washington's Leverage in Egypt While Egyptians are creating a new order, pundits in Cairo and Washington choose to deny this reality and Egyptians' ability to create it. Some in Washington prefer to revel in the illusion of their own importance, threatening to cut off assistance to a country that they need perhaps more than it needs them.'Salon anti-Semitism' spreading in Germany, film festival head says Germany's worsening economic situation is strengthening the far-right, German actor Christian Berkel, co-patron of the Jewish Film Festival Berlin & Potsdam, told a local newspaper.Dustin Hoffman a No-Show, But Sent Love via Audio to Israel-Hater Dustin Hoffman was unable to attend their Gala, so the Muslim Public Affairs Council found another Jew to present the co-director of the anti-Israel propaganda film with their Media Award.Tata injects $5 million in technology, R&D at Tel Aviv University India-Israel collaboration to commercialize research in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, clean-tech, food security, the environment, engineering and software.Fosun Pharma pays $240m for Alma Lasers Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical, a leading healthcare company in China, has paid $240 million to acquire 95.6% shareholding of Israel's Alma Lasers, a leading manufacturer of laser, light-based, radiofrequency and ultrasound products with integrated product portfolios for aesthetic and medical applications. Also: Stop calling J-Street "pro-Israel" Is Israel really Pakistan's enemy? Israeli company plots moon launch (h/t Zvi) |
Let's visit the bright college students of Israel's neighbors Posted: 30 Apr 2013 08:59 AM PDT The best and the brightest of Jordan: Four people died and over 30 were injured on Monday in clashes that erupted between students at Al Hussein Bin Talal University in the southern governorate of Ma'an.There were riots in Egypt's Al Azhar University as well, but for a different reason - food poisoning. According to the health ministry, 131 people were admitted to hospital after eating at the university dormitory.The entire Arab world is a tinderbox, and anything can set it off. |
"The Jews use sorcery against Iran" Posted: 30 Apr 2013 07:10 AM PDT I love it when posts write themselves: An Iranian regime official and a website close to the regime have recently accused the Jews of engaging in sorcery and of employing it against Iran.Now you can understand how Jews managed to train squirrels to infiltrate and spy on Iran - we use our powers of sorcery to speak to the squirrels! Sort of like Parseltongue, but with a completely different accent. Iran's earthquakes? All we have to do is point our magic wands at the general direction of Iran and say "Persae terraemotus!" Do you think that it was Stuxnet that slowed down Iran's nuclear weapons program? No, it was the famous Kabbalistic spell, "Exploratio centrifugus!" And when I need material like this for the blog, I simply use the famous curse "Missa stultitiae!" As far as the charge that we can influence God's decisions, well, we have a secret Talmudic method for that too. |
The Jew that Sheikh Qaradawi couldn't stand to be near Posted: 30 Apr 2013 05:30 AM PDT I noted last week that Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, influential Muslim preacher and terror supporter, refused to attend the 10th annual Doha Conference for Interfaith Dialogue" because he did not want to share the stage with Jews, who he blames for "usurping Palestine." So who is the Jew who he snubbed? Apparently, the only Jew to attend this conference - and he has attended it for years - is Reuven Firestone, a left wing reform rabbi, professor of medieval Judaism and Islam at Hebrew Union College, and founder and co-director of the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement. He has written books about Judaism for Muslims and about Islam for Jews. In 2007, Firestone was invited to give a lecture at Ain Shams University but he ended up causing an uproar when it was revealed that he was Jewish - and a rabbi, to boot. The furore has caused ripples beyond academia, with 20 parliamentary members quick to jump on the bandwagon and demand that the speaker of the People's Assembly summon members of the parliament's Educational Committee for an urgent meeting to determine who is responsible for the convening of such seminars.His book about Judaism for Muslims (available online in Arabic for free) also came under withering attack in major Arab media, aghast that a different perspective is available where Muslims might accidentally read it. Firestone is as pro-Islam as it is possible for a non-Muslim to be, but his very existence is threatening to many Muslims - because he is a Jew. He wrote a paper about "contextualizing" anti-semitism in Islam. I don't have access to the full text, although in the first page extract you can see that he admits that there is plenty of Jew-hatred in Egypt, where he lived for a time. I would love to know how this specific brand of hate can be "contextualized." But no matter how he can find excuses for Islamic Jew-hatred, it will never make the haters like him one bit more. By the way, the anti-semite Qaradawi plans to visit his Gaza fans on May 8. |
"Moderate" Fatah behind terrorist murder in Tapuach Junction Posted: 30 Apr 2013 02:37 AM PDT From YNet: A 31-year-old Israeli man was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist Tuesday morning at a bus stop at the Tapuach Junction in the northern West Bank. The victim was identified as Evyatar Borovsky, a father of five from the settlement of Yitzhar.Palestine Today identifies the terrorist as named Abu Salam Salam - or "Peace Peace," which might ironically be his nom de guerre. Ma'an arabic says his name is Salam Asaad Mohammed Zaal. On the Ma'an English website - representing the most educated, secular Palestinian Arabs - the death is being celebrated by commenters and the victim is being called a criminal. Apparently, a checkpoint 30 meters away from the attack was removed recently, and the area has been the scene of other attempted attacks in recent weeks and days - which most people don't hear about. |
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