| 200 journalists on the record supporting lying about Israel. Why are they still employed?noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 10 Jun 04:45 AM A group of 2 | | A group of 200 journalists - including reporters for the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times - signed a letter demanding that news organizations be even more anti-Israel than they are.
The letter is almost outlandish in the number of lies and reckless disregard for facts: Finding truth and holding the powerful to account are core principles of journalism.
Yet for decades, our news industry has abandoned those values in coverage of Israel and Palestine. We have failed our audiences with a narrative that obscures the most fundamental aspects of the story: Israel's military occupation and its system of apartheid. For the sake of our readers and viewers — and the truth — we have a duty to change course immediately and end this decades-long journalistic malpractice. According to these people who supposedly care so much about "finding truth," Israel is guilty of apartheid - and anyone who disagrees is a Zionist fanatic. An Arab party is about to be part of the latest government. An Arab has been acting president of Israel. But counterexamples that disprove apartheid are not the "facts" that these jokers want to talk about. No, when they say "apartheid," they mean that they will twist the facts they can to support...Read More |
Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal Unless something very unexpected happens, Israel will finally get a government this coming Sunday. I'm conflicted. I voted for Naftali Bennett and I'm happy that he will be Prime Minister, albeit in rotation with Yair Lapid, of whom I am less fond. But many elements of the agreements that the eight parties that will be in the government have signed with each other are troubling. Although they have not been officially made public, a TV news program released what it said were the details. One of the provisions is said to be that any PM who serves eight years will have to take a four year hiatus before running again; and during this period he can't even run for the Knesset. I am in favor of limiting the term of the PM, but it can't be done in a retroactive way – that makes it a "personal" law aimed at one specific individual. And we know who that is. Another provision is that if the government falls as a result of a vote of no confidence, Naftali Bennett will not be permitted to be a minister in the succeeding government. Apparently this aims to prevent the scenario in which Netanyahu persuades some members of one of the ruling parties to vote against the government, bringing it down, and then Bennett jumps to join him in a right-wing government. These provisions require changes to the Basic Laws that serve Israel for a constitution...Read More |
From Ian: For American Jews, the honeymoon is over For the past few decades, America's Jewish community has been on a honeymoon of sorts. Jews have been a part of the United States since the 1776 War of Independence when approximately 2,000 Jews lived in the country. Jewish emigration to America began in the early 1800s, primarily to the South, to cities such as Charleston and Savannah, expanding in the 19th century to New York and elsewhere around the nation. The first mass emigration to the United States, however, took place during the last two decades of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th. Almost 3 million European Jews came to America during this period. There was discrimination aplenty, and the future of the Jews in this country was still unknown. Then came the establishment of the Jewish State of Israel in our ancestral homeland, followed by massive and miraculous military victories for the nascent Jewish state, which propelled Jewish pride and identity around the globe. Little by little, America's Jewish community found its place. Some of it was the result of changes to the law, and some the result of the change to the sociological landscape. In a way, we've always been a part of the fabric of American life. Unfortunately, we've also allowed this era to soften us as a people. We let our collective guard down. We began intellectualizing away our identity in an ill-fated...Read More |
The DFLP's National Resistance Brigades held a military parade in Gaza. Based on the photos they released, no one came out to watch them. * * * * * *
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Albawaba shares a colorized photo of Renée Rebecca Dangoor, the first Miss Iraq in 1947 - and a Jew. Dangoor was born in Shanghai where her father was doing business but she came from an illustrious Jewish family in Iraq; her grandfather was chief rabbi of Baghdad.
She won the very first Miss Iraq competition, and it does not appear that there were any more competitions until 1962.
She married her cousin, Dr. Naim Dangoor, who became a successful businessman in Iraq, first making windows and then becoming the first Coca Cola bottler in Iraq, as well as other industries.
But Iraq started to oppress its Jews, forcing the family to leave in 1959 to England, where Naim had studied engineering. He kept trying to keep his businesses in Iraq afloat but by 1963 the nation seized all his companies.
Naim rebuilt his life in England, becoming a very successful businessman and philanthropist. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in...Read More |
From Ian: Why Cutting off Aid to Hamas Is Insufficient Hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid is pouring in from around the world to rebuild Gaza after the recent war between Israel and over a dozen Palestinian terrorist groups. But rebuilding a territory that is controlled by Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, is complicated. American laws place conditions on the flow of funds. But it's not that simple. The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the UN agency tasked with aid distribution to the Palestinians, doesn't consider Gaza's violent extremist groups to be terrorist organizations. Not even Hamas. Despite this, donor countries promise to prevent the aid from going to terrorists. It's noteworthy that many of these donor countries—including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, have also designated Hamas entities under their terrorism laws. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the United States would "work with partners to ensure that Hamas does not benefit from these reconstruction efforts." UNRWA is one of those partners. It is currently slated to receive $150 million of U.S. taxpayer funds this year. Unless the State Department makes funding to UNRWA contingent on the agency's compliance with U.S. terrorist designations, U.S. taxpayer funds could flow to any one of the fifteen Palestinian terror groups that launched rockets indiscriminately...Read More |
On Sunday, there was a horrific attack in London, Ontario, where a man deliberately ran over a Muslim family, killing four of them and seriously injuring a fifth. Not much is known about the attacker. In a memorial service on Tuesday night, Munir El-Kassem, imam of the Islamic Centre of Southwest Ontario, outrageously blamed Israel for the attack, saying that the deaths are linked to "whatever is happening in Jerusalem and Gaza." The Muslim audience cheered this assertion.
B'nai Brith Canada tweeted, "Deeply disturbing to hear a speaker at tonight's vigil for the London hate attack victims claim that the tragedy is linked to 'whatever is happening in Jerusalem and Gaza.' Linking this horrible crime to Jews or Israel is an irresponsible and inflammatory act. Dr. Munir El-Kassem must retract his remarks. In times of tragedy, community leaders should be bringing us together, not dividing us."
Almost certainly the attacker is a white supremacist, who would happily have run over a Jewish family. There in fact was such an attack, luckily not fatal...Read More |
From the Peninsula Clarion: Seward City Council member Sharyl Seese issued a public statement of apology on Tuesday for comments she made during a council work session in which she referred to negotiating a price down as "Jew them down." The comments were made at the end of an almost two-hour work session during which the council discussed with city administration how to best spend $1 million given to the city by Norwegian Cruise Lines. City administration and the council agreed to reconvene with further details about using $500,000 for developer reimbursement and $500,000 to expand child care options in the city at a later date. It was to those figures that Seese said the city could continue to negotiate. "Maybe they can get other stuff to pay the difference to get the building and maybe we can Jew them down," Seese said. "You mean negotiate them down? Is that what you meant to say?" Seward Mayor Christy Terry asked. The comments were met with awkward laughter by some council members, while Seward Vice Mayor Tony Baclaan put his head in his hands. The work session was almost immediately adjourned after the comment was made. In the statement of apology issued Tuesday, Seese said she was "embarrassed" and "very sorry" for the comments. "Please accept my sincere apology for what I said last night during my comments at the work session," Seese wrote. "I would never...Read More |
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