| Before Israel was reborn, every Friday was Tisha B'Av for Jerusalem's Jewsnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 18 Jul 12:00 AM Ahead of Tisha B'Av, I look | | Ahead of Tisha B'Av, I looked up some 19th century accounts of Christians who visited the Kotel, or the "Jews Wailing Place" as they called it.
Every Friday, Jews of Jerusalem would come to mourn at the Wall for the destruction of Jerusalem. Every Friday was more emotionally wrenching for these Jews than Tisha B'Av is for most of us today.
This account even says that Jews recited Kinot (elegies) every Friday:
From Toward the Sunrise: Being Sketches of Travel in Europe & the East, by Hugh Johnston · 1881: A very touching and sadly suggestive scene is the wailing of the Jews when, from week to week, these poor, despised, down-trodden people gather to sigh, and mourn , and sob over the ruins of their temple. The Jews' Wailing Place is a little quadrangular area, about one hundred feet long and thirty feet wide, an exposed part of the outer western wall of the Haram , between the gates of the Chain and of the Strangers. It is a fragment of the old wall of the Temple, as shown by the five courses of large bevelled stones, and here on Friday afternoons the Jews gather together to weep over the ruins of the Holy City, and mourn for their " holy and beautiful house " defiled by infidels. There are old Jews with black caps and dingy dress, sitting on the ground, reading out of old, greasy books ; and Jewesses, draped in their white izars, sitting in sorrow , their cheeks bathed in tears...Read More |
From Ian: Yisrael Medad: Jabotinsky, Arabs and the Jewish homeland To reach that stage, Jabotinsky wrote that the Jews in the Mandate territory required a wall. Was that wall, a la Podeh, one of a separation of populations? One of apartheid? One of suppression? No. He explained, "The only way to obtain such an agreement is the iron wall, which is to say a strong power in Palestine that is not amenable to any Arab pressure." Jabotinsky's Iron Wall was part of a defensive mechanism that would convince Arabs engaged in a terrorist campaign that they would fail. A century later, they have not yet surrendered their campaign of violence, negation and rejection of Jewish national identity. Jabotinsky's outlook on the Arabs in Mandate Palestine was based on his early promotion, from 1906, on behalf of national rights of minorities in Europe's multi-ethnic empires. His dissertation was on Karl Renner's concept of national cultural autonomy. His 1929 poem, Two Banks has the Jordan, contains the line, "There the son of Arabia, of Nazareth and my son will find fulfillment". In a 1930 essay, he wrote, "He can produce documentary evidence of always having been a staunch adherent of the binational, even the multi-national state idea." Gil Rubin, in his 2019 study, notes that Jabotinsky, despite writing in 1937, "From a Jewish perspective it [population transfers] is a crime," did consider...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The challenge of reconciling Christians and Jews Even in godless Britain, progressive Christians have played a hugely disproportionate role in feeding the new antisemitism through the influence of the Church England itself, Christian non-governmental organizations, and other Christian institutions. Shouldn't the Church of England be atoning for all this rather than an event that took place seven centuries ago? The poisonous combination of Christian theology and the social-justice agenda is now making inroads even among America's bedrock Christian supporters. Earlier this year, a survey by the University of North Carolina at Pembroke revealed a sharp drop in support for Israel among young American evangelicals. Asked whom they supported in the "Israeli-Palestinian dispute," just 33.6% said Israel, 24.3% said the Palestinians and 42.2% said neither side. In a similar survey in 2018, 69% said they sided with Israel, 5.6% said with the Palestinians and 25.7% said they did not take either side. Supporting Palestinianism enables these young evangelicals to appear cool to their secular peers. The twist is that Palestinian "replacement theology" enables them also to tell themselves that they are still loyal Christian believers. Only now, they believe the ludicrous fiction that Jesus was a Palestinian, and its grotesque spin-off that the Israelis are crucifying...Read More |
Quds News tweeted a video of Jews walking and singing as they walked up the wooden ramp to visit the Temple Mount, with the absurd caption that they were "storming Al Aqsa:"
230 Israeli settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyards under the protection of Israeli occupation forces and performed provocative tours, today.#FreePalestine pic.twitter.com/ffQ9QbZ0eR — Quds News Network (@QudsNen) July 14, 2021 Even though we've seen this terminology countless times, for some reason people noticed this one and hundreds commented on the absurdity of calling this "storming." More Jews than usual visit the Temple Mount ahead of Tisha B'Av, the fast day that commemorates the destruction of the Temples, which is on Sunday. * * * * * *
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From CNBC: Google has parted ways with its VP of developer relations for Google Cloud, according to an internal email that employees said followed a contentious all-hands meeting about antisemitism. "I wanted to share that today is Amr Awadallah's last day at Google," Eyal Manor, Google Cloud vice president of engineering and product, wrote in the email to staff Thursday evening and viewed by CNBC. Awadallah, who was vice president of Developer Relations and joined the company in 2019, wrote a 10,000-word manifesto on LinkedIn in June about his previous antisemitism. It was titled "We Are One." "I hated the Jewish people, all the Jewish people"! and emphasis here is on the past tense," his manifesto began. "Yes, I was anti-Semitic, even though I am a Semite, as this term broadly refers to the peoples who speak Semitic languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew, among others." In interviews with CNBC, several employees described a contentious staff meeting on Wednesday, which touched on the manifesto. Awadallah, an Egyptian American who is well-known in the cloud industry, also posted his manifesto on YouTube and Twitter in attempts to decry antisemitism by recounting how he became enlightened after he "hated all Jews." In an awkward attempt to decry hate amid the Israel-Palestinian conflict, he listed all the Jews he knew who he said were good people. Employees...Read More |
From Ian: JPost Editorial: Tisha Be'av: Israel must end baseless hatred, rally together - editorial Tisha Be'av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, begins at sunset on Saturday, July 17. The 25-hour fast on which the Book of Lamentations is read marks a series of disasters in Jewish history, headed by the destruction of the First and Second Temples. Talmudic rabbis blamed these tragedies on what is called "sinat hinam" in Hebrew – baseless hatred. Sadly, it has again raised its ugly head, and we need to work together to quash it. Israeli society is beset by factionalism and polarization, distrust and a lack of compassion, inequality and selfishness. Baseless hatred is rife – too much of it. Here are just a few examples:
• As religious affairs correspondent Jeremy Sharon reported this week, an organization of religious-Zionist groups that calls itself the Joint Committee for Preserving the Holiness of the Western Wall is praying at the section reserved for non-Orthodox egalitarian prayer. Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai condemned the move as "baseless hatred," noting that the area is the only place non-Orthodox groups have to pray at the Kotel.
• As noted by Yochi Rappeport, the executive director of Women of the Wall, a group of ultra-Orthodox men expressed intense hatred toward women who gathered to usher in the month of Av on July 11, tearing...Read More |
Palestinian Media Watch reports that an "Israeli affairs expert" claimed on Palestinian Authority TV that according to Israeli law, Arabs are prohibited from polygamy - but Jewish men are allowed to marry more than one wife. PA TV "Israeli affairs expert" Fayez Abbas: "Another article in the [Israeli] paper Haaretz –says that in the Negev (i.e., in southern Israel) there are 6,680 cases of men who are married to more than one woman, and the [Israeli] police or attorney's office claim that they did not succeed in enforcing the anti-polygamy law. In Israel it is forbidden to marry more than one woman for Arabs, for Muslims only. The Jew can marry more than one woman according to the law in Israel (sic.), but the Arab cannot. [The Arab] is sentenced to an active prison term and the payment of heavy fines." [Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, July 4, 2021] This is of course absurd as Paragraph 176 of Israel's Penal Law, which prohibits polygamy, applies to everyone living in Israel, without exception. This is probably the way that the lists of "racist laws" that supposedly apply only to Jews and not to Arabs get compiled. * * * * * *
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Two Silwan properties were found to have been sold to Jews within the past month. On July 1, it was revealed that Walid Atout sold his apartment to Jews. He and his family fled because they could be killed for selling to Jews.
From the Silwan Information Center: About the property, the information center clarified that about a week ago, there was talk about selling it to unknown parties, so notables from the town of Silwan and members of local committees spoke with the owner of the property named Walid Atout, where he denied the sale, pointing out that he received an offer to sell it to Turkish authorities, but he did not do so. He remained at home with his family until Thursday morning. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center added that amid the investigations conducted by the committees and the competent authorities over the past few days, it was found that Atout sold his house to Ahmed Ighbaryeh from the Palestinian 1948 lands, who handed it over to a contractor for renovations, while Atout and his family of 5 members left the property without emptying its contents and without taking their personal belongings of clothes and other stuff, in order not to draw the attention of the neighboring residents, especially since the property is located inside one of the alleys of Wadi Hilweh neighborhood. The center added that competent authorities from Silwan had contacted the so-called "Ighbaryeh" on Thursday to find...Read More |
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