| Rashida Tlaib promotes a terrorist charitynoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 01 Sep 04:45 AM Rashida Tlaib, faux humanitarian, retweeted an appeal to se | | Rashida Tlaib, faux humanitarian, retweeted an appeal to send money to a charity called Baitulmaal.org, supposedly to help Lebanese people get their basic needs.
Alma, the northern Israel think tank, researched Baitulmaal, because there is a charity with that name associated with Hezbollah.
This isn't that charity - but it is just as bad.
Its current director, Mazen Mukhtar, once said "suicide bombings are an effective way to attack the enemy and continue Jihad." A 2004 article in the Washington Post notes that Mukhtar had previously run a website aimed at raising funds for the Afghan Taliban and the Chechen Mujahidin. He has also lectured on behalf of Hamas.
More: "Baitulmaal" supports an organization called UFA (Unlimited Friends Association for Social Development) based in Gaza. This association has close ties to senior Hamas figures and supports the families of so-called "martyrs." This association publicly declares that it helps "Baitulmaal" distribute its donations to the families of the "martyrs" and the Palestinian people. Meaning it directly funds terrorists' families. The UFA has published on Facebook pure Jew-hatred: "We will ask Allah to release...Read More |
From Ian: Survey: Nearly All Jewish Students and Alumni Cite Campus Antisemitism as a 'Problem,' With Half Saying It's 'Getting Worse' Virtually all Jewish university students and alumni now feel that antisemitism on college campuses is a problem, according to a survey released on Monday by Alums for Campus Fairness (ACF), with nearly half of respondents saying that the issue is worsening. The survey of 312 enrolled students and 194 alumni of varying Jewish affiliations revealed a "shocking growth of antisemitism," ACF claimed. 95% of respondents said that antisemitism was a problem on their current or former campus, with three-fourths characterizing it as a "very serious" problem. Nearly 80% of survey respondents reported experiencing or hearing first-hand accounts of antisemitic hate speech; 69% avoided certain places, situations, and events for fear of being outed as a Jew, and 47% believe antisemitism on college campuses is getting worse. ACF Executive Director Avi D. Gordon called on universities to support Jewish students and "rid their alma maters of hate." "These finding illuminate the troubling reality on U.S. campuses — antisemitism is increasingly a pernicious threat, with Jewish students under siege," he said. "Today's universities take great pains to embrace and protect students from all...Read More |
Ed Asnerdied this week, aged 91, and while our politics were miles apart, his passing was not without impact on this writer. Ed's father, you see, was from Eisiskes, Lithuania, some thirty miles away from Vasilishki, the shtetl where my maternal grandfather was born. Back then, Vashilishok, as the Jews called it, was part of Lithuania, and now it is not. It's funny to think that Eishyshok (as the Jews called it) and Vashilishok are no longer in the same country. But the latter changed hands 7 times between the two world wars with the result that Vashilishok is now in Belarus. The fact that both towns were once in the same district of Lida meant that there was a great deal of interaction between the residents. So much so that when I began to research my mother's maiden name, KOPELMAN, I was directed to a big fat coffee table book called There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok, by Yaffa Eliach. I was told that therein I would find stories and references to the Kopelman family, and I hastened to procure a copy (I really need to replace it—the book went missing during a move between apartments, to my great distress). This comprehensive history of the town of Eisiskes and its environs gave me a profound shock. Growing up, my late father had made sure to educate me on the Holocaust and the cruelty of the German people...Read More |
Fathi Al-Balawi Secondary School for Boys was re-opened after it suffered damage during the May Gaza war. It was said to have been "subjected to bombing and destruction by the Israeli war machine."
Here is what it looks like now: Here is the damage it sustained in May: I don't have any photos of the inside damage to see if the "spray pattern" of shrapnel characteristic of Gaza rockets can be seen, but this looks like it came from a fairly small rocket. Given that Israel doesn't aim airstrikes at schools unless there is clear evidence of a military target there, and when they do target something or someone they will use a much larger explosive than this, I believe that this school was hit by a rocket that came from one of the Gaza terror groups, one of hundreds that fell short in Gaza. * * * * * *
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From Ian: Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Joe Biden is deaf, dumb and blind to the chaos the US has unleashed In the eyes of the Taliban, the Afghans who worked with the Nato-backed Afghan government and those who worked in any capacity with US armed forces are traitors. The Taliban have already begun the work of retribution. Other jihadi and tribal groups in Afghanistan will be glad to lend a hand. We've seen this throughout history. Think back to the French-Algerian war in the mid-20th century. There was a group of French citizens living in Algeria, the pieds-noirs, who supported the French in the war. There was another group of Algerian Muslims who supported the French too, known as the harkis. When war broke out, both groups were viewed as enemy collaborators by the Algerian Front de Libération nationale. When the French withdrew, thousands of pieds-noirs and harkis managed to escape to France, but those left behind were hunted down and forced to face the Algerian nationals alone. In 2012, then French president Nicolas Sarkozy acknowledged that "France should have protected the harkis from history, it did not do so." The US has, itself, been in parallel situations. The Montagnards, a mountainous ethnic group from Vietnam, faced brutal reprisals for working with US Special Forces during the Vietnam War. After the war, many Montagnards fled to Cambodia, as the victorious North Vietnamese...Read More |
This week, the League of Arab States Permanent Arab Human Rights Committee is holding its 48th semi-annual regular session.
What do you think is the top priority of the various human rights representatives of the 22 member states? Abuse of women and laws (like polygamy and inheritance laws) that ensure second class status for women? The laws that many Arab states have against criticizing the government? Going after free speech of citizens on social media?
Obviously, no. The top item on the agenda is "Israeli violations and racist practices in the occupied Arab territories" - coincidentally, the one thing they cannot possibly do anything about and the one thing they can all agree upon.
Speaking of coincidences, condemning Israel also happened to be the top agenda item at the 47th, 46th and...Read More |
From JNS: A public library system in Philadelphia is promising to make operational changes after drawing criticism for what some community members are considering an effort to indoctrinate children and parents against Israel through books, videos and resource links that show a biased pro-Palestinian agenda. The 55 branches of the library system had individual Facebook pages where librarians would often post book suggestions and readings for children and their caretakers. The concerning posts first began during the 11-day conflict between Israel and the Hamas terror group that runs the Gaza Strip in May, when a children's librarian at the FLP's Lillian Marrero branch posted a video on its official Facebook page of her reading the illustrated children's book, Baba, What Does My Name Mean? A Journey to Palestine by Rifk Ebeid, as an act of solidarity with the Palestinian people. The librarian, Kayla Hoskinson, in a series of videos she calls "Storytime with Kayla," introduces the books she is about to read. Hoskinson tells viewers of a video posted on May 18 that that week's program is going to be more of a discussion and review, as well as a sharing of additional resources on the subject. Hoskinson says that it is important to bring attention to the book because "we all see that the children in our lives do see and hear what is happening in the...Read More |
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