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- Post Chanukah anti-semitism from Iran and Gaza
- 12/05 Links Pt2: Ending academic prejudice against Israel, NY councilor blames Jewish landlords for Knockout game.
- The Bedouin plan (ElderToon)
- Radio Canada ombudsman admits anti-Israel bias
- 12/05 Links Pt1: Pallywood: How Palestinians turn stone throwers into victims, Hamas Calls for 3rd Intifada
- "Sharia the source of all legislation" in Libya
- PA arrests prominent businessman who insulted Abbas
- "Human rights organizations" ignoring Rafah crossing
- IDF helps arrange day trips for Palestinian Arab kids with cancer
| Post Chanukah anti-semitism from Iran and Gaza Posted: 05 Dec 2013 06:16 PM PST Iran's PressTV reported last month: An exhibition of various forms of art created by the Iranian artists has kicked off in the Gaza Strip in Palestine, Press TV has reported.The video that accompanies the story shows some of the art. For example, I sort of like this one:  But at 0:18 of the video, next to a subtle painting of a chalk Arabic hopscotch board with blood artfully splashed on it, we can see about half of what looks like an intriguing piece of seasonal antisemitism:  I can't find the original online, so I don't quite know what the "candles" are. Missiles? Baby bottles being burned? The poster can also be seen in the background during an interview at 0:30. Whatever it is, it once again proves that Iran and Hamas claims to be only against Zionism are quite bogus.           | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 05 Dec 2013 03:00 PM PST From Ian: Top Clinton Associate Ducks Questions at Anti-Israel Book Event The Clinton Global Initiative and a spokesperson for Bill Clinton did not respond to emailed requests for comment about Blumenthal's role at the foundation.J Street Activists Defame Former IDF Spokesperson What was not included in that op-ed is that the J Street U leader asking the question was Eli Philip, and that Philip and his J Street U colleagues were not just "not calm," they were repeatedly disruptive and rude. But even more importantly, at least as a matter of honesty, is that Philip arrived more than an hour after Raz's talk began. He missed entirely the groundwork of information already laid by Raz, which was the prelude to the statement Philip found so offensive.Bennett in Indonesia: Trade missions closed in western Europe to open new ones in Asia Bennett was the first Israeli minister in 13 years to visit Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country. Shimon Peres visited there briefly in 2000 as minister of regional cooperation.Israeli minister on rare official visit to Turkey Environmental Protection Minister Amir Peretz landed in Turkey on Wednesday night, launching the first official visit of an Israeli minister to the country since bilateral ties nosedived in the wake of a deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara ship in 2010.United Church of Canada Launches BDS Campaign The United Church of Canada, the country's largest Protestant denomination, this week launched its "Unsettling Goods" campaign to boycott three Israeli companies, Ahava, Keter Plastics and SodaStream, all of which have factories in Judea and Samaria.Narrowing Academic Freedom, Discriminating against Israeli Nationals The boycott proponents writing in the Journal of Academic Freedom, including great and respected historian Joan Scott, hold out a starkly radical and genuinely narrowing view for universities that dialogue in the global academy should be open only to those who agree on what are right beliefs and identify themselves with a specific political agenda, that of postcolonial progressives. They do so by seeking to set up a method of exclusion that is discriminatory based on nationality, and which, since these folks no doubt would include Israeli Arabs but exclude Israeli Jews, is also racist. They seek to narrow, not broaden, the conversation, and they seek to bar from contact with American faculty and students and university communities Israeli academics and journalists who have special expertise to share. It would be horrific if anyone in the AAUP or on American campuses were listening to them at all.Ending academic prejudice against Israel Moreover, the boycotters fail to recognize that Israeli academics do not necessarily agree with the political decisions of their government, and that they may share some of the views of the boycotters about the Palestinians.StandWithUs Statement About the Anti-Israel Incidents at SFSU Unfortunately, these incidents expose the extremism, irrationality, and menace that often underlie anti-Israel activities on our campuses. Pro-Israel students feel targeted and threatened. This is unacceptable, just as it would be if blacks, Hispanics, gays, or other minorities were targeted and bullied.Canned Palestinian Children Meat It has to be understood that the Nazis were also idealists and that it is no coincidence that among Hitler's greatest fans were German college students who believed in their souls in the rightness of the cause. When students of Arab descent go onto American campuses, today, and rally against the Jews of the Middle East they are continuing a tradition of blood libel and hate they goes not only to the history of Nazi Germany, but to Muhammad, himself, in the 7th century.What is anti-Semitism? EU racism agency unable to define term Campaigners against anti-Semitism said the document is significant because alongside classical anti-Semitic behavior, it lists the vilification of Israel or Israelis, which some scholars call "new anti-Semitism." The definition lists "claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor" and drawing comparisons between Israel and Nazis as examples of anti-Semitism.A Frightening Portent for New York City There is a new City Council member from the neighborhood in Brooklyn called Crown Heights, which is ethnically the city's most interesting—a mix of blacks mostly of Caribbean origin and ultra-Orthodox Jews mostly from the Lubavitch Hasidic sect. Her name is Laurie Cumbo, and this week she decided to take to Facebook to express some thoughts about the recent spate of violent "knockout game" attacks in which passers-by find themselves being struck hard in the face by someone's fist for no reason. She reports that at a community meeting called to discuss the violence, she said this:Sydney: Two Assailants Named Over Anti-Semitic Attack"many African American/Caribbean residents expressed a genuine concern that as the Jewish community continues to grow, they would be pushed out by their Jewish landlords or by Jewish families looking to purchase homes. I relayed these sentiments at the forum not as an insult to the Jewish community, but rather to offer possible insight as to how young African American/Caribbean teens could conceivably commit a "hate crime" against a community that they know very little about."Her insight into why a thug would punch a 19 year-old Hasidic kid in the face in the middle of her district while his friends watched, in other words, boils down to Jewish money. Cumbo knows she is treading on delicate ground here, so she attempts to mitigate the damage: "I respect and appreciate the Jewish community's family values and unity that has led to strong political, economic and cultural gains." And then she went all in: "While I personally regard this level of tenacity, I also recognize that for others, the accomplishments of the Jewish community triggers feelings of resentment, and a sense that Jewish success is not also their success." (h/t Jewess) Spartaco Marciano Di Bella has pleaded not guilty to affray – an offense of fighting or terrorizing people in a public place – reported Australia's ABC news.Broadcom CEO's success recipe: Israeli start-ups and hockey When communications chip giant Broadcom needs to develop a new technology for its customers, it scours the world looking for start-ups, and often, according to Broadcom Chairman Henry Samueli, "we end up finding those companies in Israel." In fact, he said, "it's actually somewhat amazing — no matter what technology we need, there is usually an Israeli company already doing it, and they are often the best in the world at it."Yeshiva University researchers show radiation can kill HIV Typically, those suffering from AIDS, the incurable disease caused by the HIV virus, are treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), a cocktail of drugs that "keeps the virus from multiplying by killing the virus in the bloodstream" but doesn't flush out HIV because it can't "completely eliminate the HIV-infected cells in which the virus can replicate," YU's Albert Einstein College of Medicine said in a press release Tuesday.Begin Prize awarded to NGO Monitor The Menachem Begin Heritage Center awarded NGO Monitor the Begin Prize Wednesday night for "the organization's efforts exposing the political agenda and ideological bias of humanitarian organizations that use the discourse of human rights to discredit Israel and to undermine its position among the nations of the world."Gal Gadot is Hollywood's new Wonder Woman Israeli It girl Gal Gadot, AKA the hottie from "The Fast and the Furious," has a new title: Wonder Woman. She will play the Amazonian princess warrior in the new untitled Batman-Superman pic, Variety reported Wednesday night.World's largest menorah lights up Tel Aviv sky The eighth 'candle' was 'lit' Wednesday night on the World's Largest Menorah, lighting up the sky next to the Reading power station in north Tel Aviv.Morton's Hanukiya for IDF Soldiers 19th Century Photos of Jerusalem Now Digitized by New York Public Library The digitizing of vintage photographs continues in archives and libraries around the world. Last year the New York Public Library digitized its photographic collections and posted them online. The photos in the Library's Dorot Jewish Division include hundreds of 19th Century pictures of Jerusalem and Palestine.      | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Radio Canada ombudsman admits anti-Israel bias Posted: 05 Dec 2013 11:00 AM PST From the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (Canada): Radio-Canada's news department should "change its attitude towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," says the Ombudsman of the CBC's French-language service in his annual report released today, adding that there were" this year again, very real problems with the coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict with regards to the Palestinian question."Honest Reporting Canada, which was named along with three other pro-Israel groups in the ombudsman's report, translated some relevant passages from the French: There were thus, again this year, very real problems with the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.One interesting staistic in the report: On all other topics, the percentage of corrections after complaints hovers around 2%. For the Israel-Arab conflict, it is an astounding 16%. Considering how reticent the media is to ever issue a correction, this is quite high. It indicates not only that the bias is endemic but also that the Israel-supporters in Canada are documenting their complaints very well. A small victory but an important one. (h/t Manny)      | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 05 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST From Ian: NYT: U.S., Stepping Up Role, Will Present West Bank Security Proposal to Israel American officials plan to present the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, with detailed ideas about security arrangements on the West Bank under a possible peace agreement with the Palestinians, senior State Department officials said on Wednesday.Obama's Plan Won't Persuade Palestinians While lamenting his lack of military leverage over Israel, Erekat stated again that despite even the Obama administration's acceptance of the idea of territorial swaps that would accommodate Israeli settlement blocks, the PA's idea of a two-state solution remained the "1967 border." But aside from inflexibility on territory rooted in a desire to ethnically cleanse the West Bank and much of Jerusalem of hundreds of thousands of Jews and refusing to disavow the "right of return" for the descendants of the 1948 refugees, Erekat also signaled that any peace deal would not end the conflict: (h/t NormanF)Amman said to back Israeli demands on Jordan ValleyMr. Erekat told the diplomats that the Palestinians could never accede to Israel's demand that they recognize it as the nation-state of the Jewish people. "I cannot change my narrative," he said. "The essence of peace is not to convert each other's stories."Why is Erekat's stance so crucial? Jordan has been pushing the United States to support Israel's position that it needs to maintain a security presence in the Jordan Valley under any agreement with the Palestinians.Danny Danon: 'Tell Obama: No, We Can't' "Secretary Kerry is coming to Israel again. We cannot count how many times he came already. We welcome him to Israel but we should tell him very clearly – we will not sign an interim agreement that will put the lives of Israelis in danger.Erekat: Israel is trying to sabotage the peace process Prosor: Palestinians 'playing games' in peace talks'Arafat is still dead': Guardian 'mentions' French report that he was NOT poisoned The French report found that Arafat's death in 2004 was caused by the effects of "old age following a generalised infection", and ruled out the possibility that he was poisoned. In contrast to the paper's saturation coverage of the Swiss findings, Sherwood's latest story on the new report was not featured on the Guardian's home page, and was consigned to page 19 in the print edition of the paper.BBC amplifies Hizballah propaganda yet again Just a couple of weeks ago the BBC was amplifying Iranian propaganda on the subject of the terror attack on the Iranian embassy in Beirut – see here and here. In this article (as well as in a separate one) it now adds Hizballah propaganda to its cocktail of unfounded accusations surrounding that incident.More Pallywood: How Palestinians turn their stone throwers into victims In the past couple of weeks there have been an increasing number of incidents involving Palestinian stone throwers. In the worst case, two-year-old Avigail Ben Zion suffered a head injury after her mother's car was stoned in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood.Palestinian Terrorists Determined to Kidnap Israeli Soldiers Since the beginning of 2013, terrorists have attempted dozens of kidnapping attacks, and their motivation to abduct soldiers remains high. The goal of their efforts is clear: to trade IDF soldiers – captured dead or alive – for the release of Palestinian prisoners.Police nab 6 alleged accomplices in soldier's death Six suspects were arrested Wednesday in connection with the murder of IDF soldier Eden Atias three weeks ago, following a joint investigation by police and the Israel Security Agency.Dutch Parliament Approves Motion to Shame PA for Rewarding Terrorists The Dutch Parliament approved a motion that had been under discussion since 2011, calling on the government to pressure the Palestinian Authority to end its practice of offering financial incentives for killing Israelis in terror attacks.PMW: Released prisoner: "We'd chat, talk, eat, drink, joke and play" Israel recently released 52 of 104 imprisoned terrorists to accommodate the Palestinian Authority's precondition to return to negotiations. Palestinian Media Watch documented that the terrorists, who were all murderers, were received by the PA leadership as heroes. As part of its ongoing glorification of the terrorists, PA TV interviewed Asrar Samrin who was serving a life sentence for the murder of Israeli Tzvi Klein (Dec. 3, 1991). The murderer explained that "the first question all Israeli media ask every released prisoner is: 'Do you regret what you did or not?'" His answer was:Hamas Interior Minister Calls for Third Intifada and Declares: We Will Establish Islamic Caliphate"Through the great PA TV, I say to the Israelis: There is no Palestinian who did something for the homeland and his nation who will regret it. We don't regret what we did and we will not regret what we did." In a public address in Gaza on November 13, Hamas Minister of the Interior Fathi Hammad proclaimed: "We shall liberate our Al-Aqsa Mosque, and our cities and villages, as a prelude to the establishment of the future Islamic Caliphate." In the address, which was broadcast by the Hamas Al-Aqsa TV channel, Hammad called on Fatah to cease negotiations with Israel and declared: "We shall be coming with a third Intifada, an armed revolution, a Jihadi revolution," in which "Gaza and the West Bank will fuse together, along with our brothers within the 1948 borders... in order to uproot the Jews." Kissinger, Shultz: Under Iran Deal, Previously Illegal Activity is Accepted as Baseline For 10 years, U.N. resolutions and International Atomic Energy Agency directives called for a full halt to all of Iran's uranium enrichment and plutonium production, and unconditional compliance with nuclear inspections, but now, what "was previously condemned as illegal and illegitimate has effectively been recognized as a baseline," former U.S. Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz wrote in an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.Iran Arrests 16 for Helping 'Anti-Government Websites' The official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmad Ghorbani, a local prosecutor in Kerman in southeast Iran, as saying the 16 are facing charges of cooperating with Western and anti-Iran news networks.Former Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. and Former Intelligence Chief Prince Turki Al-Faisal to Obama: Wake Up, Sleepy One; U.S. and Saudi Arabia Experiencing Crisis of Confidence Despite Denials By Iranian Regime, Statements By Majlis Member And Reports In Iran Indicate Involvement Of Iranian Troops In Syria Fighting Recently, the Iranian media has published numerous reports about Iran's extensive military involvement in fighting for the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, including reports on funerals of Iranian troops killed there. Nevertheless, the Iranian regime is sticking to its story that it is not involved in any way in the fighting, and rejecting Arab and Western countries' accusations that it is doing so. The Arab countries' position was reflected in statements by Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal, whose country is Iran's leading critic on this issue, during a November 4, 2013 meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, where he demanded that Iran withdraw both Iranian and Hizbullah forces from Syria.IDF using life-saving new field treatment for Syrian war wounded He did reveal, however, that dozens of Syrians have been given a new life-saving treatment that the IDF has recently introduced into the medical corps but has yet to use on an Israeli soldier. Holding a glass bottle of freeze-dried plasma, he said that blood loss, within the first hour after injury, is the primary cause of death for soldiers in the field. Ordinary plasma, known as fresh frozen plasma, must be kept at a minimum of -25 degrees Celsius and is therefore only administered at hospitals with the appropriate freezers. The FDP, made by the German Red Cross, can be kept in a simple refrigerator or even at room temperature. Mixed with IV fluid, the powdered unit of plasma can be intravenously introduced to a patient within minutes.      | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Sharia the source of all legislation" in Libya Posted: 05 Dec 2013 07:30 AM PST And it was the "moderates" who pushed it through! Libya's national assembly voted on Wednesday to make Islamic law, or sharia, the source of all legislation, in an apparent bid by moderate Islamists to outflank ultra-conservative militants who have been gaining influence.So to head off the Islamists, the "moderates" decide to embrace Islamism. And we all know how easily ultra-militant jihadist hardliners are appeased by things like this. The constitutions of other Arab countries that are not yet Islamist would generally say something like Sharia is a main source of legislation, not the only source.      | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PA arrests prominent businessman who insulted Abbas Posted: 05 Dec 2013 05:40 AM PST From Khaled Abu Toameh at Gatestone: Palestinian businessmen planning to invest in the West Bank economy have once again been reminded of the challenges facing anyone who wants to do business with the Palestinian Authority.Once again, human rights NGOs are silent. They will sometimes mention that Fatah and Hamas police arrest members of the other group, but arrests because of insulting the president is not a problem. There is a bigger narrative, you see, and Israel is the real problem; everything else is just a distraction. (h/t Josh K)      | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Human rights organizations" ignoring Rafah crossing Posted: 05 Dec 2013 03:10 AM PST  The crossing, the only direct connection between Gazans and the Arab world, has been closed for seven days in a row and has been open only sporadically for months. Even when it is open, only a fraction of the daily passenger traffic allowed under the previous Egyptian regime has been allowed to trickle through in both directions. The average number of travelers allowed to cross in June averaged over 1800 people daily, but in November during the days Rafah was open the number of people allowed across averaged closer to 100 a day - in either direction. This includes patients who need to go to Egypt for medical reasons. This is far less than the number allowed to cross the Erez crossing into Israel. This is roughly a 95% reduction in the ability of Gazans to travel to Egypt. Here is a calendar of Rafah's status since the end of October: Rafah Closure Calendar October-December 2013
If you look at the websites of major human rights organizations and search for "Rafah," however, you will find very little. Amnesty International last mentioned Rafah in its annual report on Israel in May, before the regime change, and they used it to condemn Israel: More people were able to travel through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt than during previous years, despite continuing restrictions, but permits for travel to the West Bank remained rare and difficult to obtain, even for patients requiring urgent medical treatment. It is clearly an issue that Amnesty tracks - and there has been utter silence from them. Human Rights Watch similarly only briefly mentioned Rafah in their annual report on Israel in January, saying that Egypt was improving in that area. Since the coup - not a word. Notice also that when Egypt improves something, it is worth mentioning; when things get worse, it isn't. Which is the exact opposite of the case with Israel, which over the past couple of years has done numerous things to help ordinary Gazans - working with farmers to help them export crops, increasing exports of goods from Gaza, spending money to improve the Kerem Shalom crossing, and more. None of that is mentioned. Oxfam is the only major human rights NGO that has mentioned Rafah, very briefly, in the last paragraph or its report on Gaza a year after Cast Lead: The agency also called on the Government of Egypt to ensure that official crossings at Rafah are open for Palestinian people and goods.It does not elaborate on how Egypt has effectively closed Rafah during the year. From reading the material on these sites, no one would have any idea that Egypt has turned Gaza into a prison - the wording routinely used to describe Israel's actions in Gaza. The situation is clearly familiar to these organizations and they are deliberately ignoring it, while writing dozens of reports condemning Israel. Its reveals that the human rights of Gazans takes a back seat to condemning Israel, in the eyes of these NGOs. The bias could not be clearer.      | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IDF helps arrange day trips for Palestinian Arab kids with cancer Posted: 05 Dec 2013 12:00 AM PST From COGAT: Last Friday (22.11.13), Palestinian children with cancer were treated to a daylong outing with their families in Tel Aviv. The day was organized by the organization Salemetcom as well as the Staff Officers of the Health Department in the Civil Administration. The day provided the children with a brief respite, some time to forget about the treatments and hospital routine they go through every day. In order for these children to be provided with the best healthcare possible, their specialized oncology treatment in the Israeli hospital Hadassah Ein Kerem is coordinated between the Health Office of the Civil Administration and the Palestinian Authority Health Office.Salametcom appears to be run by Jerusalem Arabs, as far as I can tell. Good for them.      |
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