| Palestinian officials claim Israeli ice cream will cause miscarriagesnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 16 Jul 04:45 AM The Palestinian Ministry of the | | The Palestinian Ministry of the Economy issued a warning for Palestinians not to buy Israeli ice cream because it has listeria: Ministry of National Economy Israeli ice cream contains Listeria monocytogenes which might lead to suppressing the immune system and miscarriages for pregnant women. Out teams made sure that our markets do not carry the Israeli product, and we invite you to use the national products that are of high quality and competitive.
There is a grain of truth in this announcement. The Israeli Buza ice cream shop chain announced that their own internal testing had identified a small amount of listeria.
They have four shops, two in Tel Aviv and two in the north. They apparently provide ice cream for other shops but they do not sell their ice cream in commercial packaging.
Buza ice cream would never have been carried in Palestinian stores.
In a normal consumer announcement, the government would specify the brand, the lot numbers, the expiration dates, and tell consumers to discard anything they already bought. The ministry is doing none of that.
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From Ian: No More Slogans The ADL is not alone in its failures; few of the other prestigious Jewish organizations headlining the No Fear coalition have done much better. But its performance is illustrative of the broader problem. On the eve of the rally, the ADL's CEO Jonathan Greenblatt admitted in a Newsweek column that "the left has an antisemitism problem." According to Greenblatt, "while extremism on the right has dominated the public conversation for much of the past five years … right now the challenge is also rising among certain elements of the far left." Greenblatt implies that this is a new and surprising phenomenon, but antisemitism found its most comfortable philosophical and political home on the left several years ago. President Obama's strategy of distancing the United States from Israel while bolstering Iran was accompanied by a deliberate demonization of the Israeli government and more than a few intimations that Jewish money and influence were responsible for the domestic unpopularity of the administration's nuclear deal. In response, Greenblatt himself spent years leading numerous witch hunts, using the ADL imprimatur to tar opponents of the Obama administration's Iran policy with the brush of antisemitism. Under the leadership of a partisan political operative, the ADL has been far more committed to the welfare of the Democratic Party than to...Read More |
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Babylon, July 15 - Officials and local leaders reacting to the arrival in Mesopotamia of the continuing waves of forced Jewish emigration from Judah took pains today to repeat their message of welcome to the refugees from Emperor Nebuchadnezzar's conquest of their land, stressing that the newcomers can look forward to thousands of years of contingent tolerance, sporadic attempts to destroy Jews, and discriminatory treatment by their host nations, be they the current, Neo-Babylonian Empire, or any number of successor regimes ruling various parts of the Jewish Diaspora. Crowds of Babylonians lined the roads of towns and cities across the region this week to greet Jewish refugees and those forced at swordpoint to leave their ancestral homeland, a massive population movement expected to continue for months, perhaps years, as Nebuchadnezzar's military mops up remaining Jewish resistance and determines whether to leave any Jews at all in Judah. The crowd called cries of welcome to the Jews, assuring the exiles that millennia of second-class status await them, during which the dominant powers will treat Jews as perpetual outsiders, at best tolerated and at worst, well, look what's happening right now. The current wave, estimated at several million, significantly...Read More |
From Ian: Israel Is Held to a Special Standard that Is So High It Can't Be Met It was during Operation Cast Lead in December 2008. The Israeli Embassy in Britain was surrounded by demonstrators, some of whom became violent. They climbed the fence, threw Molotov cocktails and rocks. Tension was running so high that Yuval Diskin, then-head of the Shin Bet security agency, which is in charge of security at Israel's embassies and consulates abroad, recommended closing all diplomatic missions to keep their staffs safe. Ron Prosor, who was serving as Israeli Ambassador to Britain at the time, rejected the idea. "No embassy will close on my watch and under my command," he told Diskin. "As far as I'm concerned, they can take the staff out in APCs," he added. The embassy continued to operate. A few days later, clad in a flak jacket, Prosor took part in a pro-Israel demonstration held by the local Jewish community. This story, which does not appear in Prosor's new book Undiplomatically Speaking (Yedioth Books, Hebrew, English translation scheduled for 2022) reflects the approach of one of Israel's outstanding diplomats of the past few decades: initiative, offense, standing up for Israel's national honor and battling for the justness of Israel's path on all fronts. It should be required reading for any Israeli who wants to understand what is happening to us in the international...Read More |
From Good Evening San Diego: Amid a rise in recent antisemitic crimes, Christian and Jewish groups from around San Diego will be rallying together against antisemitism on July 25 in El Cajon. Mayor of El Cajon Bill Wells joined KUSI's Logan Byrnes on Good Evening San Diego to discuss the event. Shield of David is organizing the event with a group of over 2,000 local Jewish community members, parents, business owners, and concerned citizens. At the end of this interview, Mayor Wells says that they expect as many as 5,000 people to attend. Why would this rally in a suburban San Diego town attract more people than the "No Fear" rally in Washington last Sunday? The reason is simple: this one is more concerned with all kinds of antisemitism than catering to those who deny the most prevalent kinds. It is obvious that the recent spike in antisemitism recorded in New York, Los Angeles and the United Kingdom is directly because of Israel haters attacking Jews. Yet the people that the No Fear rally wanted so badly to co-sponsor refuse to admit it. Which means that they really don't care about antisemitism. As this Shield of David organizers say, they are all about "combating discrimination and persecution of Jews anywhere." Which includes Israel. Because the message of this rally is straightforward, without caveats excusing certain...Read More |
Palestinian "resistance factions" condemned the opening of the UAE embassy in Israel, calling it a "great sin against the Palestinian people" and called the UAE "the head of evil." There has always been a division in the Arab world between leaders who can think clearly about their people's interests and the majority whose Jew-hatred overrides what's best for their people. In Avi Shlaim's 2008 biography of Jordan's King Hussein. he recounts an episode from Hussein's father King Abdullah I: One question that has continued to puzzle observers is: why did Abdullah disregard all the warnings and keep to his plan of Friday prayers in Jerusalem [the day he was assassinated]? One possible answer, which was long to remain a closely guarded secret, is that Abdullah had arranged to meet two Israeli officials in Jerusalem the next day, Saturday, 21 July 1951. The two officials were Reuven Shiloah and Moshe Sasson, who was continuing the negotiations for a peace treaty that his father, Elias, had begun. At one of their first meetings, Moshe Sasson asked Abdullah, "Why do you want to make peace with Israel?" The king replied, "I want to make peace with Israel not because I have become a Zionist or care for Israel's welfare but because it is in the interest...Read More |
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