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New @HRW report plays fast and loose with the definition of "apartheid" (part 2)noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 26 Apr 04:45 AM On Sunday we began ou Like   Tweet   New @HRW report plays fast and loose with the definition of "apartheid" (part 2) noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 26 Apr 04:45 AM On Sunday we began our look at Human Rights Watch's latest anti-Israel screed. The 223 page Human Rights Watch report that is being published Tuesday completely hinges on defining Israel as being guilty of apartheid. In order to do that, it has to become very creative in its definitions. It says, accurately: The Apartheid Convention defines the crime against humanity of apartheid as "inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them." The Rome Statute of the ICC adopts a similar definition: "inhumane acts…committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime." But HRW has a problem. Both definitions are very specific that the crime of apartheid depends on one racial group oppressing another, which means that the liberals of HRW are saying that Jews are a different racial group from other humans. That is a little problematic for those who know a little history of what happens when Jews are considered a distinct race. HRW therefore tries to fudge things: Both the Apartheid Convention and Rome Statute use the term "racial group," but neither defines it. The development of the Apartheid Convention...Read More HRW's new report, accusing Israel of apartheid, a perfect example of the new antisemitism noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 25 Apr 02:56 PM Human Rights Watch is releasing a new report on Tuesday that is over 220 pages long, all meant to demonize Israel. The report, called "A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution," tries to prove that Israel is guilty of apartheid - by both twisting what Israel does and what apartheid means. I'm only starting to go through it, but its intellectual dishonesty is stark and clear. Here's only one example, where HRW attacks the very reason for Israel's existence: The 1950 Law of Return, which guarantees Jews the right to immigrate to Israel and gain citizenship, defines "Jew" to include "a person who was born of a Jewish mother," embracing a descent-based, as opposed to a purely religious, classification. Of course, the Law of Return says "For the purposes of this Law, 'Jew' means a person who was born of a Jewish mother or has become converted to Judaism and who is not a member of another religion." In other words, the Law of Return is echoing the definition of a Jew in Jewish law. HRW, in its zeal to call Israelis racists, refers to the beginning of the definition but not the entire thing. Most significantly in demonstrating Israel's demographic goals is the 1950 Law of Return. It guarantees Jewish citizens of other countries the right to settle in Israel, and its 1952 Citizenship Law entitles them to citizenship. 96 The same Citizenship...Read More 04/25 Links: Protesters mass in France, Israel, UK to demand justice for Sarah Halimi; Palestinian factions call to escalate Jerusalem 'intifada'; Rashida Tlaib lies about Jerusalem riots noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 25 Apr 12:00 PM From Ian: Protesters mass in France, Israel, UK to demand justice for Sarah Halimi Protesters gathered in Paris, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and London on Sunday to demonstrate against the ruling of France's highest court that the killer of a Jewish woman in the French capital was not criminally responsible because he had smoked marijuana before the crime. Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman, was pushed out of the window of her Paris flat to her death in 2017 by neighbor Kobili Traore, who shouted "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great" in Arabic). But in a decision earlier this month, the Court of Cassation's Supreme Court of Appeals upheld rulings by lower tribunals that Traore cannot stand trial because he was too high on marijuana to be criminally responsible for his actions. Thousands of protesters, many of them Jewish, gathered in Paris to demand justice for Halimi. Under the banner of "Justice for Sarah Halimi," the rally at Trocadero Square overlooking the Eiffel Tower reflected the widespread indignation of many French Jews at the April 14 ruling by their country's highest court. It was held under tight security arrangements in a cordoned-off enclosure where the Jewish umbrella group CRIF played a video on a giant screen in which French Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia demanded another "trial of facts," even if it ends without sentencing of Traore. The rally...Read More Jews distribute food for poor Moroccans for Ramadan - and many Muslims are upset at this "humiliation" noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 25 Apr 10:00 AM A video is being shared showing members of a Jewish organization giving out food packages at a synagogue to a long line of destitute Moroccans for Ramadan, under police supervision. Most of the comments in YouTube are quite negative. While a smattering praise the Jews, most of the commenters say that they are ashamed that these people are taking charity from Jews and that the people accepting the aid are filled with shame and humiliation. Oh God, hunger and humiliation The culture of humiliation and begging of foreigners is entrenched among groups in society. The deadly person has made his people a prey for the people of Zion There is an old Algerian proverb that says: Shame is longer than life Lives perish, but shame is passed on to generations My Algerian brothers, as Muslims, we must send planes packed with Ramadan stands to our free Muslims fasting brothers in Morocco. So that Allah's enemies would not humiliate them. The themes of the critics are that Jews are not true Moroccans, and that their intent in handing out food is to shame and humiliate Muslims. It is interesting that accepting charity from Jews is utterly humiliating but accepting aid from UNRWA or the EU is not at all problematic for people who are supposedly so sensitive to shame. * * * * * *    ©2021 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company