| 07/03 Links: Wounded Boston rabbi says stabbing attack was 'unequivocally' antisemitic; 'Squad' Falls Silent on Rabbi Stabbing in Bostonnoreply@blogg | | From Ian: Wounded Boston rabbi says stabbing attack was 'unequivocally' antisemitic A Boston rabbi who was stabbed multiple times on Thursday in a suspected hate crime said he believes "unequivocally" that the attack was antisemitic in nature and that the perpetrator meant to kill him. Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was speaking on the phone on the steps outside a Jewish day school in Boston's Brighton neighborhood at around 1 p.m. on Thursday, when he was approached by a suspect brandishing a gun and knife. The perpetrator drew the gun and told Noginski to take him to his car. When he tried to force him inside, Noginski started to flee and the suspect chased him and stabbed him several times. Noginski was taken to the hospital for treatment and was released on Friday. Police arrested Khaled Awad, 24, for the attack and charged him with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. "It hurts. I was stabbed eight times, mainly in the arm, some in the stomach [area]," Noginski told Channel 12 news on Friday from his home where he was recovering from his injuries. The attacker, he said, "tried to hurt me dozens of times. I thank God for this big miracle, thank God it ended this way." Police said the motive for the stabbing was unclear as the investigation is underway. District Attorney Rachael Rollins said at a vigil in support of Noginksi on Friday that her office has...Read More |
From Ian: David Harris: Ilhan Omar Has a Problem With Jews It's high time to address Rep. Omar's pattern of offensive commentary. Her party also needs to address Omar's selective outrage when it comes to her repeated assertions of moral authority. When the House of Representatives overwhelmingly adopted a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide, which resulted in the systematic murder of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkey a century ago, Omar opted out by voting "present." In other words, she was unwilling to acknowledge one of the greatest human tragedies of the 20th century. Why? Well, it seems, she has a soft spot for Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which also may explain why she refused to join the vast majority of her congressional colleagues in condemning the Turkish leader's consistently egregious human rights violations. And she's not exactly been outspoken, to say the least, when it comes to the decade-long tragedy in Syria, in which hundreds of thousands have been slain and millions exiled, or in Iran, where dissidents, gays, religious minorities, and feminists have been dealt with harshly on a daily basis. But there's one final irony to the Omar story. While she rails against those Jews in Congress as failing to be "partners in justice," it's actually Jews, both past and present, who have been among the most vocal and consistent supporters of some of...Read More |
From AFP: The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday dismissed a case brought by the widow and daughter of Yasser Arafat, who have claimed the iconic Palestinian leader's death was the result of poisoning. Suha El Kodwa Arafat and Zahwa El Kodwa Arafat, who are French citizens, filed their case with the Strasbourg-based European court in 2017 after French courts dismissed their claims. Arafat died at the Percy military hospital near Paris aged 75 in November 2004 after developing stomach pains while at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Many Palestinians accuse Israel of poisoning Arafat, a charge flatly denied by the Jewish state. But in 2012 his widow, Suha El Kodwa Arafat, said traces of the radioactive isotope polonium 210 had been found on his clothes, prompting a French lawsuit alleging his murder. After a series of analyses and witness interviews, a court in Nanterre, west of Paris, dismissed the case, a ruling upheld on appeal. Lawyers for Arafat's widow said the investigation had been "fundamentally biased" and accused the judges of closing the probe too quickly. Arafat's wife and daughter turned to the European court in 2017, saying they had been refused their right to a fair hearing, in particular a refusal of their request for an additional expert report on his death. In a unanimous decision, three judges said that after reviewing...Read More |
From Ian: The Case against 'Occupied Palestinian Territory' The Presidents of the European Union and South Africa made the common claim: Israel occupies Palestinian territory. They sought to stop the 'wrongful' labelling, 'Product of Israel' and substitute it with, 'Made in a settlement in the 'Occupied Palestinian Territories' (OPT) Martin Schulz, ex President of the EU, warned Israel that Europe will have its way. "There is enormous pressure, also in the European Parliament, to label products because a lot of my colleagues consider the settlements illegal. They think the rule should be that products coming from regions with an illegal status couldn't have normal access to the European market." Advocate for Israel
My Lord, the court will hear evidence that the real estate given the name, 'Occupied Palestinian Territory' (OPT) is not real. There are two hard reasons for that:
(1) War records turn up nothing to support the name.
(2) Law and statutes turn up nothing to support it. Evidence will be led that OPT reflects a political policy or aspiration. There really is no Palestinian territory to be occupied. Evidence will be led that the move to debar Israeli products made in the 'OPT' has everything to do with lobby groups and politics but nothing to do with informing and protecting the customer. To the contrary, the label would trick unwary customers. It would also cast suspicion on any product labelled...Read More |
Yesterday, in response to Gaza terror groups sending aerial firebombs to Israel, Israel bombed an empty Hamas arms research factory. The reactions from the Israel haters completely contradict each other, depending on the audience.
Serial liar CJ Werleman tweeted: (The Ramadan claim is laughable, by the way.)
The reactions assume that children are dying from these bombings, because that's how the media reports on Israel. But over in Gaza, Hamas' reaction to the bombing is completely different.
Instead of magnifying it into a crime against humanity, Hamas shrugged it off as a mere symbolic gesture. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum described the occupation's bombing of a resistance site at dawn as just for show. Barhoum said in a statement: "The bombing of one of the resistance sites in Gaza by the Israeli occupation is nothing but a showy reaction to placate its settlers and cover up its escalating crises." Unlike Werleman, Hamas admits that the target was a Hamas site. Unlike Werleman, Hamas says that the bombing is not a big deal at all.
Major war crime or meaningless fireworks? It all depends on what kind of propaganda you want to spread...Read More |
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People like to say there will be no peace until "occupation" ends. This is of course nonsense, since there wasn't peace before "occupation."
I noted yesterday a 1929 conference where Arab leaders said there would be no peace until the Balfour Declaration was rescinded.
Yet even that wouldn't go back enough in history to make the Palestinian Arabs happy.
In his opening speech to the "Refuting Israel's Narrative" conference I've been reporting on this week, Palestinian prime minister Mohamed Shtayyeh said something notable.
Shtayyeh said, "The colonization of Palestine did not begin with the Zionist movement, but 15 years before its establishment, as the first colony to be established was Petah Tikva, in 1882."
The land for Petah Tikva was purchased by religious Jews from two Jaffa landowners in 1878. The Ottomans allowed the purchase because the land was considered to be low quality. After initial setbacks and a malaria outbreak, the Jews drained the swamps and managed to build up the land, first as a farm and then as a city.
Even in its earliest days, Petah Tikva was...Read More |
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