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- Norway press council declares that vile cartoon is not antisemitic
- 9/30 Links Pt2: Story of the Jews - Last Episode, Kurdish Festival in Jerusalem, More EU Hypocrisy
- A new entry in the PalArab propaganda dictionary
- World's oldest Siddur discovered
- Follow up on anti-Israel propaganda in Irish schools
- 9/30 Links Pt1: Arab Colonialism, ICJ Bias, The Phantom Fatwa, 5 Star Hotel Opens in Ramallah.
- The EoZ Peace Plan
- Arabs again promise UNRWA funds that they'll never pay
- The EU is funding illegal settlers! (Illegal Turkish settlers, that is.)
| Norway press council declares that vile cartoon is not antisemitic Posted: 30 Sep 2013 05:00 PM PDT Last May, I reported on a disgusting cartoon published in Norway's Dagbladet. Here is my translated version:  As I noted then, this cartoon was clearly aimed at the tiny Jewish community in Norway: Only Jews routinely circumcise boys when they are infants. (Some Muslims will have doctors circumcise boys in the hospital soon after birth, but not in their homes.) Only religious Jews are associated with black hats and beards.Now the Press Council of Norway has declared that the vile cartoon is not antisemitic. PFU Secretariat pointed out in its proposal to the opinion that in the Norwegian media hass a tradition of caricature with very wide latitude, and those who feel wronged or violated should not have a veto over what can be published.I would still love to know why the artist would say that he chose to depict the people attacking the child as members of the tiny Jewish community rather than the far more numerous Muslim community. We know the reason, of course - the Jews aren't going to threaten to murder him, unlike Muslims. So it is far safer to characterize Judaism as a bloodthirsty religion than to worry about ruffling Islam's feathers. Over time, incidents like these ensure that there would be real hatred against Jews in Europe. This specific cartoon could be explained away, of course, but the cumulative effect means that Jews will be perceived as barbarians in Norwegian media. (h/t Ian and IsraelWhat)           |
| 9/30 Links Pt2: Story of the Jews - Last Episode, Kurdish Festival in Jerusalem, More EU Hypocrisy Posted: 30 Sep 2013 03:00 PM PDT From Ian: 'Israeli Apartheid? I Know What Apartheid Really Is' After participating in a two-day conference held in Jerusalem last week, Reverend Kenneth Meshoe, a member of the Parliament of South Africa and founder of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), vocalized why calling Israel an apartheid state actually "minimizes the pain of apartheid."Daphne Anson: "Christian Palestinianism ... The Inverted Mirror Image Of Christian Zionism" Below is a very disturbing insight into the malicious phenomenon dubbed "Christian Palestinianism" as exposed by Dr Paul Wilkinson, of Hazel Grove Gospel Church in Stockport, Cheshire and author of For Zion's Sake: Christian Zionism and the Role of John Nelson Darby. In this talk a couple of years ago (but no less valuable for that) he demonstrates the political revisionism, replacement theology, and repugnant teachings of organisations like Sabeel that promote a movement in which "The Holocaust is resented, not remembered," that ignores the violence to which Israel is subject, and that aims to portray Jesus not as what he was, a Jew from Judea, but as a "Palestinian born under occupation".Muslim scholar: 'I refuse to let Islam fall captive to the Islamists' There is such a thing as a different kind of Islam. Dr. Qanta Ahmed, a student of pluralistic Islam, is a British physician specializing in sleep disorders. She is also an author, a newspaper columnist and an associate professor of medicine at the State University of New York. Her paper on "The psychological manipulation of Islam in the service of terror focusing on the cultural phenomenon of suicide bombing," made her the first physician and first Muslim woman to be selected as a 2010 Templeton-Cambridge Fellow in Journalism at the University of Cambridge.Europe wouldn't allow it, why should Israel? More importantly, even without legislation, there is no country that allows foreign donations for radical political NGOs that undermine the country's founding ethos. There is not one country in Europe that dreams of funding one of the bodies in Germany dealing with the rights of refugees from central Europe. And of course, there is not one European country that would deliver money to an NGO in the Czech Republic or in Poland promoting the German right of return (if such an organization existed).European MPs: Why We Support Israel Three members of the European Union parliament who were in Jerusalem last week for the Israel Allies Caucuses spoke to Arutz Sheva about why they support Israel.Barry Rubin: The region: How the far Left controls campuses What was he talking about? Jews? He explained that he had just come from a meeting where it had been made clear that the university had a problem: It was getting Arab money, but on the secret condition that while it was for teaching about the Middle East, none of it could be used to teach about Israel. The purpose of the meeting had been how to solve this problem. The solution? Simple: They would call the institution to be created the "Center for Contemporary Arab Studies." It was explicitly expressed that this was how the problem would be dealt with.Jewish Group Takes California State University Trustees to Task Over Anti-Israel Professor AMCHA Initiative, a national organization fighting anti-Semitism on college campuses, is taking the Board of Trustees of California State University to task over a CSU-Northridge mathematics professor's use of the school's name and resources to promote the boycott of Israel.Camera: Personifying C-SPAN's Tolerance of Anti-Israel, Anti-Jewish Callers The record, clearly shown by video clips and transcripts at C-SPAN Watch, proves that Washington Journal routinely accepts callers' anti-Jewish racism and anti-Israel defamation including blaming Jews for problems throughout the world. No other ethnic or religious group has been subjected to such continuous and virulent defamation on the network. Israel is the only country defamed on a regular basis by a cadre of determined, indulged callers who are rarely challenged by hosts or guests.What makes US-Israeli intelligence co-operation exceptional? Simply put, it takes a rather large journalistic leap to assert that the NSA is routinely sending unminimized information about U.S. citizens to Israel without any protection measures.Will Norway's New Government Crack Down on Anti-Semitism? Earlier this month, conservative candidates in Norway won landslide elections, deposing the Labour party majority that has ruled for nearly a decade. Many are hopeful that the new government will address social intolerance in Norway, including the rampant anti-Semitism affecting a population of nearly 2,000 Jews. French Comedian: 'One Can be Jewish and Not be Completely Disgusting' (VIDEO) New York based French Jewish artist, activist and Algemeiner blogger Ron Agam said that "These incendiary remarks are the culmination of an attitude often found in French media where Jews are often demonized for their support of Israel."Chinese billionaire to fund joint China-Technion program The richest man in Asia is giving $130 million to the Technion to build a research center in China. Li Ka Shing, estimated to be worth some $31 billion – and, according to Forbes, the world's eighth-richest man – is funding the joint project between the Technion and Shantou University, located in Guangdong Province.Cultural pride, and unlikely guests, at Kurdish Jewish festival Muslim visitors travel from Syria and Iraq to join their brethren at the annual Saharane celebration in Jerusalem "The Kurdish people you know are in four lands, and you go to Israel, a country like Israel — a powerful country, a big country — and you see Kurdish people there, and they are powerful, it makes you very very happy. I thought I will go and see old people, but I saw young people dancing, singing, it was really great."First Egyptian Righteous Among the Nations honored The Berlin-trained Dr. Mohamed Helmy is credited with saving 21-year-old Anna Boros Gutman and her family, whom he helped starting in 1942.Denmark marks 70th anniversary of rescue of Jews A ceremony has been held in Denmark to mark the 70th anniversary of the evacuation of 7,300 Jews during World War II to prevent their deportation to a Nazi concentration camp.The Story of the Jews Episode 5/5 - Return      |
| A new entry in the PalArab propaganda dictionary Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT It is no secret that a major weapon used by the Palestinian Arabs has been to co-opt the English language and use phrases like "illegal occupation" or "West Bank" or "historic Palestine" or "1967 borders" that become mainstream even when they are inaccurate or nonsensical. It is also no secret that they have used this weapon to great effect to subtly brainwash the world towards a false narrative and history. The official PA news agency, WAFA, has used a new phrase dozens of times since last year. They now almost invariably refer to Jews peacefully visiting the Temple Mount as...."Jewish fanatics." From today's WAFA press release: Israeli fanatics resumed Monday provocative tours of the yards of al-Aqsa Mosque, an Islamic holy place, in Jerusalem's Old City, said witnesses.Last week: The clashes that have occurred almost daily in al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and provoked by Israeli police measures against Arab worshippers and tours by Jewish fanatics continued to dominate the front page headlines in the three Palestinian Arabic dailies on Thursday.The earliest use of that phrase to describe devout Jews who want to respectfully visit their holiest site that I found was from April 2012, when they transitioned from calling the Jewish visitors "settlers" into calling them "fanatics." In Arabic, they still refer to them as "settlers," which is equally inaccurate. The obvious reason for their choice of the word "fanatic" in English is to deflect the idea that Jews have basic human rights to practice their religion. By any reasonable yardstick, Jews should have an (at least) equal rights to visit the Temple Mount as Muslims do. Palestinian Arab leaders, who have perverted the entire field of human rights into something grotesque to serve their own selfish interests, are very sensitive to how that same weapon can be used against them. So they are subtly trying to equate Jews who are peacefully visiting their holiest site with Al Qaeda-type fanatics, implying that these Jews are violent and unstable. As we've seen in countless videos of Muslims throwing rocks and debris from inside their own "third holiest site," the truth would reveal something quite different. This use of the phrase is meant to make the West comfortable with the idea of denying Jews their own human rights. Has Human Rights Watch ever asserted the right of Jews to ascend the Temple Mount? No. In fact, the phrase "Temple Mount " is completely absent from their site; but they refer to Ariel Sharon's visit to the site as if he visited the "Al Aqsa Mosque" - which he didn't - and they called that "provocative." There's another victory for the Arabs who twist language to eliminate Jewish human rights. So here we see the birth of another example of how Palestinian Arabs will create and endlessly repeat lying phrases to brainwash the West. So far, they have a very good track record. This is just one more attempt.      |
| World's oldest Siddur discovered Posted: 30 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT From TheBlaze: Hobby Lobby President Steve Green isn't just the head of a popular craft chain. He and his family also own, oversee and operate "The Green Collection," one of the world's largest collections of rare biblical texts and artifacts (there are over 40,000 ancient relics and texts). A recent discovery within this fascinating compilation is making headlines this week, as it is believed to be the oldest Jewish prayer book ever found.The Forward adds that it appears to be a Sabbath prayerbook with the addition of 100 benedictions that should be said every day. Frustratingly, the Green Collection did not release any photos of the text of the siddur itself, instead giving out three separate photos of the outside (slightly translucent) cover.  While the Babylonian pointing system is archaic, the text itself would be easily readable to any modern Hebrew reader, so this purposeful hiding of even a single page of the text from the world smacks of hubris. We will have to wait for late 2014 or early 2015 for the Green Collection to publish its research. The current oldest Siddur manuscript known is that of R' Saadiah Gaon which is at Oxford, from the late 9th century. I could not find any images of that siddur online either. (h/t Yerushalimey)      |
| Follow up on anti-Israel propaganda in Irish schools Posted: 30 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT Received via email, people you can write to in order to protest the apparent inclusion of anti-Israel propaganda in Irish school curricula that I mentioned recently: It has been extremely difficult to establish who is actually funding this booklet but it seems, the booklet was funded by the Education for Reconcillation,which is a project run by the CDVEC (now CDETB) who received the money through PEACE III who get their funding from the EU (h/t Irish4Israel)      |
| 9/30 Links Pt1: Arab Colonialism, ICJ Bias, The Phantom Fatwa, 5 Star Hotel Opens in Ramallah. Posted: 30 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT From Ian: Israel, Colonialism, and the Arab World Moroccan-born Bensoussan, who made his name as a Holocaust historian, argues that the Jews have been colonised thrice over.Oslo Accords Debated at Los Angeles Conference Middle East Forum President Daniel Pipes said at the "Oslo @ Twenty" conference, organized by the American Freedom Alliance, that Israel's key mistake is indicated by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's statement, "One does not make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemy."Grand Park Hotel Celebrates Being First Five-Star Hotel in Palestine The headquarters of the Grand Park hotel in Ramallah celebrated its coronation as the first "Five-Star" hotel in Palestine. The celebration was attended by Rula Maay'a, the Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Musa Hadid, the Mayor of Ramallah, the hotel's Chairman Loay Qawas, and its General Director, Mohammad Zamlat. There was also a crowd of businessmen and representatives from many institutions.'ICJ treatment of Israel biased, as seen in Syria' The American attorney had previously voiced his opinion that Syrian President Bashar Assad should be taken to court. He said actions carried out by Assad over the past two years "are war crimes and crimes against humanity and the Syrian regime must be held accountable."Israel is Invited To Help Destroy WMD In Syria However - one of Syria's most immediate neighbours - Israel - is not a member of the London Eleven and is vitally interested in the Security Council taking steps to collect and destroy such weapons.Peres: I Doubt Assad Ever Read Anne Frank's Diary President Shimon Peres, on a visit to the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam, compared on Sunday the gassing of millions of Jews during the Holocaust to the use of chemical weapons in Syria.MEMRI: The U.S. Administration Swallows The Lie About Khamenei's 'Fatwa' Against Nuclear Arms In his address to the U.N. General Assembly (September 24, 2013), U.S. President Barack Obama stated: "The Supreme Leader has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons." In fact, such a fatwa was never issued by Supreme Leader Khamenei and does not exist; neither the Iranian regime nor anybody else can present it.Isi Leibler: President Obama and Israel: Looming confrontations The US and Europe are desperate for a face-saving situation to avoid confrontation with the Iranians.Iran Knows What the West Forgot: Charm is Cheap In this way, Ahmadinejad's revolting persona and style made it that much easier for his successor to succeed at playing the "good cop" in any negotiations. And it is actually Iran's hardline supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on Iranian policy, so the Rouhani theatrics are ultimately meaningless anyway. While the country's dictator recently said that Iran can show "heroic flexibility," he's not actually beholden to anyone, so he can easily change his mind after buying another 6-12 months of nuclear enrichment time by "negotiating" with the West through Rouhani. To resolve a crisis that could otherwise end up as a massive regional war in the near future, Iran must: 1) stop all nuclear enrichment, 2) dismantle the illicit underground nuclear facility near Qom and the second-generation centrifuges in Natanz, 3) remove all enriched material from Iranian territory, and 4) stop the construction of the heavy water reactor in Arak.Anne Bayefsky: Rouhani Gives Obama Cover to Delay and Dither Notwithstanding years of stymieing International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, and lying about the existence of nuclear facilities, he assured his audience: "Iran's nuclear program… pursue[s] exclusively peaceful purposes." The proof? "Nuclear weapons…contradict our religious and ethical convictions." "Ethical" convictions like sponsoring terrorism, training chemical weapons enthusiasts, and questioning the Holocaust.'Trust, but verify' in Persian Under the circumstances, before agreeing to lessen economic sanctions, the US and other nations must insist on verifiable, concrete steps that do not just delay Iran's breakout date by a few months or a year but that effectively shut down the nuclear weapon program.Rice: Sanctions stay until Iran proves it isn't seeking a bomb "Obviously, we and others in the international community have every reason to be skeptical of that and we need to test it, and any agreement must be fully verifiable and enforceable," said Rice in an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria.Israel and Others in Mideast View Overtures of U.S. and Iran With Suspicion Saudi Arabia and other gulf states view Iran as a regional nemesis whose nuclear program is only one element of a broader effort to project power. The rivalry is made more bitter by the sectarian dimension and competition over supplying oil to the world. The Saudi leadership has long been uneasy with Mr. Obama's handling of the Arab uprisings that began in 2011, which it sees as a threat to the regional order. The president's overtures to Iran add to a growing impatience and exasperation among Arabs in the gulf over Washington's retreat from threats to strike Syria, whose civil war is viewed as a proxy for the larger sectarian and strategic battle unfolding across the region.UAE Condemning Iranian Occupation of its Territories While the United Arab Emirates has welcomed the refreshing stance of Iran's president Hassan Rouhani, it has called upon the international community to urge Iran to respond to repeated calls for a just settlement of the islands dispute between the two countries, either through direct, serious negotiations or by referral to the International Court of Justice.Palestinian students riot at Gaza border crossing Hundreds of agitated Palestinian students set to study abroad stormed a barrier gate at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on Sunday after being denied entry to the Sinai Peninsula and forced to wait at the border terminal for several days.Gunman kill 3 Egyptian officers in Sinai, militants post video The Egyptian army says Gaza-based militants take part in attacks over the border and accuses Hamas of doing too little to secure the area, allegations it denies.Lebanon Encroaches on Israel's Offshore Border Official Israeli sources told the newspaper that Lebanon is about to award offshore oil and gas exploration licenses in areas that encroach on Israel's exclusive economic zone (EEZ).      |
| Posted: 30 Sep 2013 07:00 AM PDT The reason that Israeli Jews don't trust the Palestinian Arabs is self-evident to everyone with eyes: because the PLO has have reneged on agreements in the past, such as Oslo II. They launched a terror war as a response to failed negotiations. The very first promise that Yasir Arafat made in the 1993 exchange of letters with Yitzhak Rabin, where he stated "the PLO renounces the use of terrorism and other acts of violence and will assume responsibility over all PLO elements and personnel in order to assure their compliance, prevent violations and discipline violators" was proven a sham. Even today the terrorist offshoot of Fatah, the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, is still around and still bragging of its terrorist bona fides. The PA has done little in the intervening years to make Israelis feel that the PLO/PA could ever be trusted again. In Article 5 of Annex 1 of the Interim Agreement of 1995, known as Oslo II, the PA promised to provide security as well as free access for Jews to visit the holy sites in Area A, namely Joseph's Tomb and the Shalom Al Yisrael synagogue in Jericho. The PA never lived up to these promises either, and the only way Jews can visit these holy sites today are with scheduled monthly visits coordinated with the IDF under heavy security. There are still violent incidents reported at each site. My peace plan is very simple. Have the PA adhere to its own signed agreements relative to these two sites - just for starters. This means that the PA would ensure normal daily access to the holy sites in Area A. They would assure that all Jews who visit are safe and feel safe. This also means that they would have to educate their people in Nablus and Jericho that (just as they insist to the West) they have no problem with Jews, but only with Zionism. Therefore, their people should show respect to those who want to visit and pray at their own holy sites. This would involve a major publicity campaign that would result in a situation where anyone who wants to throw rocks and firebombs at the Jews would be shamed, stopped and reported by their own people. It means that kids would be taught that they must respect Jews as much as they should respect Muslims and Christians. Jewish tourists to those areas would feel free to visit nearby stores and shops safely. The way things were before the first intifada. If this would happen - if Palestinian Arabs would act according not only to their signed agreements but also according to their own words when they speak to Western media as far as respecting Judaism and Jews - it would cause a major shift in how Israelis think. It might take a couple of years but when coexistence returns, so would trust. With trust would come the desire for peace. And with the desire for peace would be a flexibility on the part of Israelis that has not been seen in decades. It would be driven by Israeli Jews, not by Americans cajoling both sides towards an illusory "peace." It all comes down to trust. Of course, as long as EU-funded NGOs, PA TV and other media, PA politicians and pundits are working overtime against an atmosphere of trust, this is impossible. But the single most effective thing that the Arabs could do, if they were interested in real peace, would be to work to re-establish trust. Without that, everything else is doomed. Israeli reciprocity is a given; after all, isn't that what Israeli Jews want more than anything else, to have normal relations with their neighbors? On the other hand, any agreement signed without trust is worse than worthless. It is telling that the existing efforts from Oslo I to the Roadmap all were predicated on confidence building measures before peace could occur - and that basic prerequisite seems to have been dropped by the current round of talks that seems aimed at an agreement being signed without that crucial component. Now, the question is - why aren't the EU, UN and US working towards such a self-evident requirement to establish a real state of trust? How could any shortcut plan possibly work without building trust, that basic prerequisite for peace? Abbas, in his talk to prominent American Jews, airily stated that "Jerusalem will be an open city. They can come and go freely." Really? Jews would be allowed to freely visit the Temple Mount and the Kotel the Mount of Olives, under Abbas' desired PA security control, without fear? When the PA cannot even make that promise today, one that they signed, for Area A? In the end, the fact that this EoZ peace plan is not tenable - that the PLO is demanding concessions without giving the Israelis any confidence that they would adhere to this foundational requirement - is really all the proof you need that real peace is impossible.      |
| Arabs again promise UNRWA funds that they'll never pay Posted: 30 Sep 2013 05:00 AM PDT From UNRWA, a September 26 press release: We, members of the League of Arab States and other supporters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), met today in New York under the chairmanship of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States to reassert our support for UNRWA's mandate in providing assistance and protection to Palestine refugees and to identify practical ways to strengthen that support.The Arab League has been promising to fund 7.8% of UNRWA's core budget since 1987? Forget that this amount ($50.7 million) would be less than Sweden gives UNRWA by itself. Forget what a joke it is for oil-rich Arab states, who continuously claim that the plight of Palestinian Arabs is their most important issue, bragging about pledging a mere 7.8% of the core budget (and no promises for the emergency funds UNRWA regularly demands, such as currently in Syria.) In fact, a glance at the 2013 budget shows that the members of the Arab League pledged not 7.8% of UNRWA's core budget this year - but 3.3%! (This document only shows government contributions, not individual NGOs and foundations.) So even the inadequate 7.8% promise is an empty lie. And traditionally the Arab states have paid far less than what they pledged!       |
| The EU is funding illegal settlers! (Illegal Turkish settlers, that is.) Posted: 30 Sep 2013 02:00 AM PDT From Wikipedia: The demographic character of Northern Cyprus changed after the Turkish invasion in 1974 and especially during the last 10–15 years. The TRNC census carried out in April 2006 showed that out of a total population of 256,644 in Northern Cyprus, 132,635, or 52%, were Turkish Cypriots in the sense that they were born in Cyprus of at least one Cyprus-born parent (for 120,007 of these both parents were Cyprus-born). In addition, 43,062 TRNC citizens (17%) had at least one non-Cypriot Turkish-born parent, 2,334 TRNC citizens (1%) had parents born in other countries, 70,525 residents (27%) had Turkish citizenship, and 8,088 (3%) were citizens of other countries (mainly UK, Bulgaria, and Iran). Based on these census data, it can be argued that 113,687 TRNC residents, or 44% of the population, are not Turkish Cypriots properly speaking, but are in fact "Turkish immigrants" or "Turkish settlers" from Anatolia. Alternative sources suggest that there are 146,122 Turkish settlers from Anatolia in TRNC (2007 figures) and that the Turkish Cypriots in Northern Cyprus are today outnumbered by the Turkish settlers, contrary to the picture presented by the 2006 TRNC census.So given that roughly half of the residents of northern Cyprus are illegal settlers, and the land is under illegal occupation by Turkey, certainly the EU would never consider investing in the illegal occupation, right? Not really. Here is a glossy brochure from the EU that brags about all of the projects it is proudly sponsoring there:  Nowhere in this brochure, nor in the 2006 EU resolution to help the Turkish Cypriots, is any distincton made between the natives and the illegal settlers - all of them benefit equally from the EU programs to help the environment, co-existence, farming, education, infrastructure and so forth. By any measure, the EU is funding the Turkish settlement enterprise. Eugene Kontorovich describes the hypocrisy in a JPost op-ed (in yesterday's linkdump) Under guidelines prepared earlier this summer, euros would not be allowed to go to Israeli entities located cross the Green Line – or to those that have any operations there. All Israeli entities applying for funding would have to submit a declaration that they do not have such operations.Hmmmm. One standard for Israel, another for everyone else. Sounds very familiar.      |
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