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- Egypt pulls funding for dwindling Jewish community
- Arab review of Bibi's book: "As dangerous as Mein Kampf"
- Wednesday Links Part 2
- Turkish Armenian sentenced to jail for blasphemy - for anti-hate speech article
- HRW official and journalists call IDF liars in private Facebook group
- The New Antisemitism (Israel Channel 2)
- Wednesday Links Part 1
- SUV filled with missiles explodes in Sinai, killing driver
- Hamas security told to uphold "standards of manliness"
- Elder gets results! The Economist partially corrects their story, while standing by it
| Egypt pulls funding for dwindling Jewish community Posted: 22 May 2013 11:00 PM PDT An official in Egypt's Ministry of Social Affairs has stated that the small annual stipend that Egypt had been spending on the tiny Jewish community has been eliminated in the newest budget. Suad Makki, head of the Central Department for Financial and Administrative Affairs, told a meeting of the Commission on Human Rights of the Shura Council that the Egyptian government had been paying some $14,000 to the Jewish community almost every year since 1988. After the death earlier this year of Carmen Weinstein, the head of the community, Makki says that there is no longer a liaison. Egypt has an estimated 20 remaining Jews, all elderly women, according to the report. Weinstein was officially succeeded by Magda Haroun, and it is unclear why she is not continuing Weinstein's role, or if the cash-strapped Egyptian government is using Weinstein's death as an excuse.           |
| Arab review of Bibi's book: "As dangerous as Mein Kampf" Posted: 22 May 2013 06:00 PM PDT I am not sure why a Yemen newspaper decided to review Binyamin Netanyahu's 2000 book, A Durable Peace: Israel and its Place Among the Nations, but the review is most revealing. The reviewer says that the book is filled with "lies and slander as well as hatred and contempt for all that is Arab." This book does not less dangerous than the book Mein Kampf, Hitler's book, or The Jewish State by Herzl ... Netanyahu in this book turns historical facts upside down and manipulates geography and history, using excerpts from the lies of the Zionists or scraps of papers of history or words amputated from the mouths of historians to give a historical and legal right in what he calls the Land of Israel to be a national home for the Jews. This is a good reminder that Bibi's book is still a very good read. See this somewhat related post from 2008.      |
| Posted: 22 May 2013 03:30 PM PDT From Ian: Throw Away That Rusty Key Palestinians are not "red indians" and Israelis are not colonialists. Quite the opposite. We Jews of the Middle East and North Africa are indigenous—predating Islam in Palestine, and the region, by 1,000 years. Israel is not only the "largest and most successful refugee camp" in the region, but the authentic expression of a native Middle Eastern people.Palestinian Fairytales It is only really due to the persistence of Richard Landes and Phillipe Karsenty and a few others that fought tooth and nail that we are at the stage we are today, and that the Israeli Government has investigated and officially denounced the incident as fake.Fisking Rachel Shabi: How Dare the Israelis Suggest Palestinians Lied! There is perhaps no society on earth with as dark a history of promoting a child death cult, sacrificing its children, encouraging its children to seek death, praising those who die, than the Palestinians. Any serious investigation here will not go well for the Palestinians, who systematically, indeed ghoulishly exploit the children whose deaths they cause.Israel's UN envoy: Palestinian 'hatred' threatens talks Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, accused Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian Authority's chief negotiator, of lies and incitement, after Erekat said Israel's policies were worse than those of apartheid-era South Africa.Jewish Group Blasts 'Electro-Intifada' for Sports Boycott Calls "The ideological forebearers of today's racists, in Nazi Germany had 'ethnically cleansed' sports, as blatantly demonstrated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics."Google inflames Gush Etzion residents by situating them in 'Palestine' Resident of Gush Etzion settlement calls Google's apparent decision to redirect its areas' web users to Palestinian handle "simply outrageous" • Rights group: It's unfortunate Google says Judea and Samaria residents belong to the Palestinian Authority.Meg Ryan's Publicist: Ryan Didn't Boycott Israel But in an email to CAMERA, Stephen Huvane, a founder of Slate PR and Meg Ryan's publicist, said "That report is untrue. Meg Ryan never participated in any boycott against Israel." In a follow up email, CAMERA asked Mr. Huvane: "Had she scheduled a 2010 trip to Israel to participate in the Jerusalem Film Festival? If so, what was the cause for the cancellation?"Detroit Leaders Should Have Spurned, Not Embraced, Farrakhan During his speech to the congregation at The Fellowship Chapel in Detroit, Farrakhan spewed hateful anti-Semitic invective, referring to "Satanic Jews" and the "Synagogue of Satan" supposedly controlling major institutions. He expressed his love for President Barack Obama, but added that the president "surrounded himself with Satan...members of the Jewish community."Belgian party leader stepping down 'temporarily' over slur The leader of a small Belgian party said she would "temporarily step down" after stating that "a few Jewish families that monopolize the banking world" caused the financial crisis in Europe.Alleged NJ synagogue bombers plead not guilty Two New Jersey men accused of firebombing several synagogues in the state pleaded not guilty.A 'watch' that stops unnecessary heart attack deaths About half of all people at risk of death from heart attacks could gain the chance to live, once Israeli entrepreneur Leon Eisen's new Oxitone device goes to market in about 18 months.Brazil 2014 Fifa World Cup to be Protected by US Robots and Israeli Drones Brazilian police will be equipped with advanced facial recognition camera glasses which will enable them to capture 400 images per second.Exhibit opens on US Jews who helped refugees from Nazis 'An exhibition opens Tuesday at a museum in Lower Manhattan about efforts by American Jews to bring refugees to the US from Europe during the Nazi era.Comedy for Koby Returns for Tenth Run Proceeds from Comedy for Koby benefit The Koby Mandell Foundation, an organization founded in memory of Koby Mandell, a young teenager who was killed by terrorists while hiking with his friend, Yosef Ishran, near his home in 2001.      |
| Turkish Armenian sentenced to jail for blasphemy - for anti-hate speech article Posted: 22 May 2013 01:40 PM PDT From Hurriyet Daily News: Yes, in Turkey, defending free speech can be a hate crime. In his original blog post that got him in trouble Nişanyan also called out Muslim Jew-hatred, saying that Muslim preachers who say that the tiny number of Jews in the world are part of an "abhorrent race" and behind all the evils in the world are "vomiting nonsense" and this is a classic example of a hate crime. You wouldn't know that by reading the websites of Amnesty and Human Rights Watch. (h/t Gidon Shaviv)      |
| HRW official and journalists call IDF liars in private Facebook group Posted: 22 May 2013 12:05 PM PDT From The Washington Free Beacon: A "secret" Facebook group of foreign correspondents and human rights activists quickly devolved into an anti-Israel hate-fest on Tuesday following the release of a new Israeli government report that cleared the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of wrongdoing in the 2000 death of a Palestinian boy.So the anti-Israel media and "human rights" officials get all chummy and reinforce each others' lies, and they say that the IDF controls the media? (h/t Noah)      |
| The New Antisemitism (Israel Channel 2) Posted: 22 May 2013 11:10 AM PDT This video has been released with English subtitles: The Keshet documentary is a Canadian-Israeli co-production presented by Israeli anchorman Ya'akov Eilon. The binational cooperation enabled Canadian journalists to interview people that Israelis would not have had access to, such as Alex Linder, the owner and operator of the viciously anti-Semitic, white supremacist Vanguard News Network. (h/t Yoel)      |
| Posted: 22 May 2013 09:00 AM PDT From Ian: Inconceivable cruelty This division in the Arab world, be it geographic, cultural, ethnic or religious, is not the only thing to become abundantly clear since the Arab unrest erupted. The Arab Spring was supposed to prove that what is good for the West -- democracy -- is also good for the Arabs, but all we were left with were the chilling images of our neighbors' inconceivable cruelty. (h/t Yoel)IDF chief issues stern warning to Assad over rapidly heating border Damascus will 'bear consequences' of further gunfire, says Gantz, after cross-border shooting; tensions 'several times more explosive than they were this morning,' says top Israeli analystPalestinians busted for planning to kidnap Israelis According to the Shin Bet's statement, they planned on kidnapping an Israeli from one of the nearby agricultural plots, with the intention of murdering him and demanding the release of prisoners in return for his body.'11 Palestinians died under PA, Hamas detention' By Khaled Abu Toameh Eleven Palestinians have died in Palestinian Authority and Hamas detention centers during 2012, according to a report released Tuesday by the Palestinian Independent Commission For Human Rights.The Palestinian Textbook Fiasco "What I found isn't pretty. The report is not only flawed, but also dishonest. It systematically exaggerates the faults in Israeli textbooks and downplays those found in the Palestinians'. Its methodology tends to distort the raw data rather than analyze it, usually to the detriment of the Israeli education system. Put simply, it makes every possible effort to create the impression that Israeli and Palestinian attitudes toward each other are the same, even when this is demonstrably untrue—according to the study's own research data. It is no surprise that the State Department, which funded the study in its early phases, has endorsed neither the composition of the committee nor the report's findings."(h/t Yerushalimey)Hamas textbooks to teach about 'liberation plans' By Khaled Abu Toameh Hamas has begun preparing new school textbooks that teach children about "plans to liberate Palestine and the legitimacy and various forms of resistance [against Israel]." Jamal Abu Hashem, advisor to the Hamas-controlled education ministry, said new books would be introduced as part of National Education Studies for grades 8-10.Gaza Students: Clean the World of Jews Hamas student group posts cartoon with 'Palestine' throwing Star of David in the trash.Move over Galloway: BBC Radio Ulster airs pro-Assad & anti-Israel propaganda The programme's guest who was provided with a BBC platform from which to engage in that diatribe was prolific anti-Israel campaigner, Vanunu fan, 'Global March to Jerusalem' supporter, 'Russell Tribunal on Palestine' "jury" member and former flotilla passenger Mairead Maguire. Host William Crawley – apparently rather over-awed by her status as a 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner – refrained from informing listeners about Maguire's rich history of anti-Israel activity before allowing her to launch into her largely unhindered propaganda rant.CAMERA: Official PA daily acknowledges Israel's Hadassah hospital's treatment of Palestinians The official PA daily reported on a visit by the PA Minister of Health, Hani Abdeen, to Israel's Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. The daily noted that 30% of the child patients in Hadassah are Palestinians and that the Israeli hospital is training "60 Palestinian medical interns and specialist physicians who will be returning to the [Palestinian] Authority areas to carry out their work." The hospital has a special program to train Palestinian doctors to treat cancer among children, reported the PA daily.PMW: PMW reports prompt debate in Danish Parliament about its funding of the PA Following Palestinian Media Watch's exposure of the Palestinian Authority's glorification of terrorists and payment of high salaries to security prisoners, including terrorists convicted of murder, debates have ensued in European Parliaments, among them Norway, the UK and Holland. Now, Denmark's financial aid to the PA is likewise being questioned in Danish Parliament.Seven security men kidnapped in Sinai freed Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the volatile Sinai Peninsula last week were freed by their captors Wednesday after successful mediation, the country's military spokesman said.Hamas shuts tunnels to keep kidnappers from sneaking in Hamas placed its forces along the border with Egypt on high alert Tuesday, in a bid to prevent the smuggling of seven abducted Egyptian soldiers into Gaza.Barry Rubin: Breaking News: It's Official, Iran's Presidential Election is A Sham The core of the problem is that there are three factions. Khamenei doesn't want two of the factions-- the super-hardliners and the reformists—to win but only the third group, his hardliners.MEMRI: British Islamist Anjem Choudary: We Reject Human Rights Leaders, Lies and Terror The Obama Administration's acts surpass even the maneuvers by President Richard Nixon, who used spies against political opponents while covering up for Arab terror.John Kerry Met With Father of 'Martyr' Killed During Mavi Marmara Ambush on Israeli Troops In April, Kerry drew criticism for comparing the families mourning their loved ones killed in the Boston Marathon bombing with the families of those killed on the Mavi Marmara after those aboard the boat attempted to lynch IDF troops who boarded their vessel for a routine inspection. Seven of those aboard the Mavi Marmara had expressed a desire to become "martyrs."      |
| SUV filled with missiles explodes in Sinai, killing driver Posted: 22 May 2013 07:38 AM PDT Al Ahram reports that a SUV loaded with missiles south of Rafah, near the border with Israel and Gaza, exploded yesterday. Apparently, a rocket inside the car ignited and caused a spectacular explosion, ripping the driver's body to shreds, according to the report. It is unclear whether these missiles were meant for Gaza terror groups or Sinai jihadists. Not that there is much of a difference. Some work accidents are better than others.      |
| Hamas security told to uphold "standards of manliness" Posted: 22 May 2013 06:00 AM PDT Great stuff: Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip have been instructed to uphold standards of manliness, Interior Minister Fathi Hammad said Tuesday.Hammad is referring to Hamas' practice since last year of arresting young men with "Western" pants and haircut styles that offend the Islamists. I wonder if the people who are attending the PalFest literature festival in Gaza next week are nervous. This doesn't sound very "manly" to me: Palestine Festival of Literature will host a cultural evening in one of Gaza's oldest houses. The evening will be a blend of music, Oud playing, Dabkah, in addition to poetry and prose readings by PalFest's guests and talented young writers. In fact, last year Hamas did disrupt that same festival, forcing it to move to Cairo. (h/t Adam L)      |
| Elder gets results! The Economist partially corrects their story, while standing by it Posted: 22 May 2013 03:00 AM PDT The Economist finally corrected their online article where they had falsely written "So far this year, Israel's army has evicted almost 400 Palestinians from the West Bank and dismantled over 200 homes, the fastest rate for two years, according to the UN." The article now says, somewhat more accurately, "So far this year Israel's army has evicted almost 400 Palestinian West Bankers from their homes in Area C, the fastest rate for two years, says the UN, and has dismantled over 200 residential and work-related structures." The magazine wrote a response to some of you who complained, and this letter is masterful in its obfuscation. They do not admit that their original wording was incorrect: You take particular issue with the following sentence: "So far this year, Israel's army has evicted almost 400 Palestinians from the West Bank and dismantled over 200 homes, the fastest rate for two years, according to the UN."I will leave it to English majors to decide the merits of The Economist's "context" argument, and whether ordinary readers would interpret it as saying what they claim it says, and whether the only way anyone can see it otherwise is if they "misconstrue" it, and whether my own criticism was a deliberate misconstruing. But if we are to talk about "context," then the question is why, out of all the sentences of that article, the Economist decided to tweet that particular one when publicizing the article online - without any context? The offending tweet is still online, retweeted some 465 times context-free by others:  Moreover, the Economist response twists my other point that the statistics did not come from a UN report, but from anti-Israel NGOs. I wrote: Sure enough, I found the document that the Economist based this on. It is not a UN document, but rather written by an alphabet soup of anti-Israel NGOs, hosted on the UN website.I gave links to the only document I could find at the UN site that mentioned the number of homes demolished by May, and that document says explicitly: "As is" reference - not a United Nations document(The exact same report was also published, with the same byline, at the UN's ReliefWeb website,and is not authored by the UN.) Did the Economist find another document on the UN site that says how many Arabs were "evicted" and homes demolished? No: You allege the article was drawn from a report that we mislabel as coming from the UN, which our correspondent then embroidered. This was not the case. It was based on meticulous on-the-ground research and conversations with Bedouin and Palestinian farmers, Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers.The linked UN article is indeed about home demolitions, but it was written in January 2013. Obviously it doesn't say how many homes were demolished by May. But the Ecomonist's sentence, that they defend, says these statistics are "according to the UN." If there is another UN-authored article that gives those statistics, I would happily issue a correction. But as it stands, the Economist is the party that has made an incorrect statement, not me. Finally, The Economist defends their deliberate changing of the wording from the NGO report from "displaced" to "evicted": You also object to the word "evicted", preferring "displaced". I cannot see a good reason for this. To be evicted means to be displaced against your will. For the Palestinians referred to in the article, this was plainly the case. The writer made a conscious decision to change the wording to something more extreme than what the NGO report says. The NGO report uses a variant of the word "displaced" nine times, including the headline, and does not use the word "evicted" once - but the Economist decided to change it to a word that is more inflammatory, that - by the way - would also allow casual readers to "miscontrue" the meaning.. Strictly speaking, there is nothing wrong with the word itself, but that conscious choice to change the word indicates the bias by the writer, which was the main point I was trying to make, and this response by The Economist seems to buttress my argument more than to undermine it. They end off by saying: I trust that you can now see how this serious charge against our objectivity and integrity is based on a wilful misinterpretation. There was no "mistake". We do not "demonise" Israel. Your complaints, both regarding our intentions and the detail of our article, are unsubstantiated and completely unwarranted. I trust that you can see that this is anything but the case here. Despite the belated, condescending and misleading response, my main goal was to get The Economist to correct that offensive sentence that any casual reader would have interpreted as saying Israel evicted Palestinian Arabs from the West Bank - and that they did, kicking and screaming. (h/t Stephen)      |
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