| Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar get their Israel news from a site linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamasnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 06 May 04:30 | | On Wednesday, both Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib linked to articles in Middle East Eye in their tweets.
Tlaib, saying Israel was guilty of apartheid, linked to an article quoting a Palestinian who claims his lands were torched by Jews the previous night.
Omar linked to a completely different article about Sheikh Jarrah.
This is notable because Middle East Eye is not exactly an objective news source. It is a pro-terrorist site.
And it is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
Michael Rubin wrote in 2017:
Delving into the details of MEE, however, show that it acts far less as a traditional journalistic outlet and far more as an English-language front for Qatari-supported groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. British corporate records, for example, show that Jamal Awn Jamal Bessasso, a former official for both Al Jazeera in Qatar and the Hamas-affiliated al-Quds TV in Lebanon, owns and operates MEE through M.E.E. Ltd. ... The Hamas links run as deep. A former official of Interpal, a...Read More |
Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal Forty-five people attending a festival to celebrate the holiday of Lag b'Omer at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on Mt. Meron were crushed to death last weekend, in a catastrophic but totally predictable stampede which – one official of a first-responders group said – had only been prevented by annual miracles. This year there was no miracle. The facilities at the site were woefully inadequate to support even a tenth of the 100,000 people that showed up, an agreement to limit the number was ignored due to political pressure, and what had been predicted occurred.
The site had not been improved over the years despite many reports from various bodies including the police and the mevaker hamedina, an independent official who oversees the operations of the government and reports to the Knesset, which is required by law to respond and if needed, act on them. Why has nothing been done? Because the site, which is officially under control of the government, in practice "belongs" to several Haredi ["ultra-Orthodox"] sects, who object to changes proposed by any of the others, and even more to outsiders telling them what they can do. They have depended on the protection of Hashem, based on the principle that nothing bad can happen to someone who is in the process of performing a mitzvah, an idea which ignores the fact that Hashem gave his human creations brains and expects them to be used. The authorities, who recently forced an acquaintance of mine...Read More |
From Ian: Clifford D. May: Human Rights Watch crosses the line with latest attack on Israel HRW appears to believe that Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have a right to demand citizenship from a state whose destruction they seek. No such right exists anywhere on earth, and for Israelis to grant it would be suicidal. The Kohelet Policy Forum, an Israeli think tank, has issued a detailed response to HRW. It deserves to be read in its entirety. I have space here to highlight only a few points. Apartheid, it points out, is not "a grab bag of policies that HRW happens to disagree with." Apartheid implies "the physical separation — apartness — of people based on a legislated racial hierarchy." As noted above, that's not the situation in Israel. There are no racial distinctions in Israeli law. Nor are Jews and Palestinians two distinct racial groups. Israelis are, in fact, multiracial, with more than half coming from families who are indigenous to the Middle East and never left the Middle East. Can one find instances of bias, bigotry or discrimination in Israel? In which nations is that not the case? The answer is none which is why "no country since the end of South African apartheid has ever received the distinction." Not China, where Uighurs and Tibetans face egregious persecution; not the Islamic Republic of Iran which severely oppresses Bahais; not Pakistan...Read More |
It all began with a private message: "Arabs are passing out sweets on Twitter to celebrate the death of Jews in Meron." There was a link to a tweet. More than 20 settlers were killed and more than 200 injured in an accident in northern occupied Palestine pic.twitter.com/RrPjixqb1n — Ali (@allushiii_new) April 29, 2021 Screenshot, because as we bloggers like to say: "If you don't take a screenshot it didn't happen." I went to Twitter to take a closer look. I didn't want to engage the guy, so I decided to retweet with a comment. It was my way of making a statement: Let the world see how these evil people rejoice when Jews are killed. Let the world see how even those Jews who live in cities inside the green line are reviled as "settlers." And let the world see the way even Hassidic Jews who do not typically consider themselves "Zionist" are lumped together with the others. To them, even Hassidim who live in cities are "settlers." They celebrate the death of Jews, irrespective of where they live. https://t.co/SnpAfPGw8u — (((Varda Epstein))) (@VardaEpstein) April 30, 2021 Screenshot, or it didn't happen. Because it's not about Zionists or occupation or even settlers. It's about JEWS. Frankly, they hate us...Read More |
During World War II, a tiny organization called the "League of American-Arab Committees for Democracy" started a letter writing campaign to members of Congress to demand that they don't back a Jewish state. The letter deplored the persecution of Jews in Europe, bu the idea of them moving to safety in the Land of Israel was apparently worse to their moral sensitivities. "[We] can never countenance such a miscarriage of justice as the rape of Palestine by a group of people claiming that their ancestors once occupied the country some thousands of years ago," it said. The letter added, "It is decidedly contrary to the best interest of the United States to deliberately antagonize some sixty million Arabs and two hundred and fifty million Moslems by permitting political Zionism to consummate its audacious ambition in Palestine." In a bizarre revision of history, the letter concluded by saying the Palestinian Arabs have "contributed far more than their share towards the rehabilitation of Jewish refugees from Europe, since they have already accepted more than half a million of them in a country about the size of Vermont." No, they opposed every single Jew fleeing persecution and pressured England to sentence millions to death. The League had a...Read More |
From Ian: Biden to UAE crown prince: Israel normalization of 'strategic importance' US President Joe Biden spoke by phone with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed al Nahyan on Tuesday, in his first call with the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates since entering the White House in January. During the call, Biden hailed the Trump-era normalization of ties between Israel and the United Aarab Emirates, according to a White House statement. "They discussed regional and global challenges, including Afghanistan, the nuclear and regional dimensions of the threat posed by Iran, as well as the common quest for de-escalation and peace in the Middle Peace," the statement said. "In that regard, the president underlined the strategic importance of the normalization of relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel. He expressed his full support for strengthening and expanding these arrangements," the White House said. The Biden administration has told Congress it will move ahead with a massive arms deal to the UAE, including advanced F-35 aircraft, that was signed in the wake of Israel's normalization deal with the Gulf nation, congressional aides told Reuters last month. In January, the new administration put a temporary hold on several major foreign arms sales initiated by former US president Donald Trump, including the deal to provide 50 F-35 advanced fighter...Read More |
At first, this story in NG Misr looked like it was a rare Arabic language story that is sympathetic about the Holocaust, describing the amazing Irena Sendler, the Polish woman who saved many Jewish children during the Holocaust (and who is supposed to be the subject of a movie starring Gal Gadot.) However, the author, Moawia Elzahaby, finishes the article with Holocaust denial.
In the story he wrote sentences like, "She was able to save the lives of thousands of Jews from Hitler's alleged Holocaust." and "According to what the Jews and those who sympathize with them propagate, Irena put children in suitcases and took them out of the besieged Jewish quarters/neighborhoods."
His true colors really come out at the end, though: At the end of the war and the fall of Nazism, the Jews began to search for proof and evidence that the Nazi Holocaust happened to them. The story of the Polish nurse was one of those stories that they began to propagate and revere. Today Hollywood produces a huge film that tells a story the events of which are closer to fiction than to reality. The film does not need many artistic touches...Read More |
This year, Iran's annual hatefest called Quds Day this Friday is only online because of the pandemic. Ahead of that holiday, which was created as a response to Jerusalem Day, Iranian media - which is all government approved - is proving quite definitively that its problem isn't with Zionism, but with Jews.
The headline of this Al Alam TV article says that the Arabs in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem are threatened by "the fangs of jungle monsters" - their woke term for Jews.
A lengthy article at PressTV (English) goes over a twisted history of Israel and features an interview with Lebanese academic Denijal Jegic, a frequent contributor to Al Jazeera. This expert confidently tells us that...Read More |
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