| Palestinian Molotov cocktail attack goes wrong (video)noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 15 Sep 04:30 AM Roy Sharon, military correspondent at Kann News | | Roy Sharon, military correspondent at Kann News, tweeted this video of an attempted double Molotov cocktail attack near Migdal Oz: There were actually two attempts. The more spectacular one was the Arab with the light shirt lighting and hurling the firebomb towards an unseen target - possibly to start a forest fire. His own clothes ignite as he rushes back into the getaway car, seemingly unaware that he is on fire. His red-jacketed friend was driving with a tire as his companion. He rolls out the tire and pours gasoline on it, and tries to light it up as well, but without success. The entire operation is amateurish but the brave Palestinians are clearly afraid of getting caught. I particularly like how the getaway driver really wants to peel out and return to the village they came from before the arsonists can run back in and close their doors, and almost leaves the tire guy behind, but has to wait for traffic to allow the U-turn. * * * * * *
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Jewish Currents reports: REPRESENTATIVES ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, RASHIDA TLAIB, AND MARK POCAN are leading a renewed effort to prohibit the delivery of US-made bombs to Israel. The three progressive legislators submitted an amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would require the Biden administration to halt the export of Boeing-made Joint Direct Attack Munitions and Small Diameter Bombs to Israel for a year. The bombs were used by the Israeli Air Force to strike targets in Gaza during May's escalation in violence. JDAM "is a guidance tail kit that converts existing unguided free-fall bombs into accurate, adverse weather "smart" munitions. With the addition of a new tail section that contains an inertial navigational system and a global positioning system guidance control unit, JDAM improves the accuracy of unguided, general purpose bombs in any weather condition. The Small Diameter Bomb is a "250 lb precision-guided glide bomb that is intended to provide aircraft with the ability to carry a higher number of more accurate bombs. " If Israel does not have smart, accurate bombs, it...Read More |
From Ian: Time for both parties to repent for Nazi analogies Yet even worse was to come. The Jewish Democratic Council of America released an Internet video ad in which the Trump-Nazi analogy was directly made. It's hard to imagine a more inflammatory and deeply wrong-headed example of a group trying to exploit the Holocaust for political purposes. That's especially true because, whatever his other failings, Trump deserved credit both for changing policies to take action against anti-Semitism on college campuses as well as his historic support of Israel. This monstrous accusation was given a pass by leading liberal Jewish figures, including those who ought to have known better and who had in the past denounced those who did the same thing. Former ADL director Abe Foxman and Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt, who were likely thinking ahead to the competition to be the State Department Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Anti-Semitism in a Biden administration, both betrayed their principles and gave this outrageous slur their approval. In the end, Lipstadt was the one who was rewarded for doing so when she was nominated for the job by Biden. In a political culture where demonization of political foes is now universal, calling opponents horrible names is how both parties react to every controversy. The brazen hypocrisy of those who are all over Mandel but saw no problem...Read More |
A Jewish school in Baghdad, 1959
From Iraq's NRT TV: The National Security Adviser, Qassem Al-Araji, revealed Monday the number of Jews present in Baghdad, indicating that they are afraid to declare their Jewishness and claim that they are Christians. Al-Araji said, in a televised interview on NRT today (9/13), that "there are Jews in Iraq, but they fear for themselves and claim that they are Christians. They have pride in the country, although they can leave it (if they want)." He added that "there are 4 Jewish people in Baghdad, as well as in other provinces and also in the Kurdistan Region, but they feel fear in declaring their Jewishness, so they say they are Christians." He continued, "We must deal with the Iraqi citizen in terms of rights and duties, regardless of his or her nationality or religion." There were 150,000 Jews in Iraq in 1948. 90% of them emigrated after merciless persecution in the late 1940s. Nearly all the remaining Jews were forced out after 1967 as their property was confiscated and prominent members of the community were hanged as Iraqis celebrated. * * * * * *
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The Swedish government issued a statement on antisemitism that surprisingly doesn't completely adhere to the woke definition of the term.
Mostly, but not completely. The government website issued a statement "It is everyone's duty to stand up against anti-Semitism." It is signed by Stefan Löfven, who is the lame duck Prime Minister, as well as three other government ministers. Excerpts: Hatred of Jews is a poison in our society. Anti-Semitic hate crimes and incidents are becoming more common, both in Sweden and in the rest of the world. It's scary and requires us to act. Every form of racism must be fought. The Holocaust is the ultimate consequence of hatred of the Jews. We have a duty to ensure that the testimonies of the genocides committed by the Nazis and their allies are never lost. Concrete commitments are now needed. The government has set aside SEK 95 million in the 2022 budget bill for [fighting antisemitism.] Sweden will make the following commitments: -Preserve and carry on the memory of the Holocaust. -Promote education and research on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism and other forms of racism. -Fight racism - online and offline. -Promote Jewish life, strengthen the work for Roma inclusion and strengthen the security of civil society. This section, and others, really concentrate on the Holocaust and don't seem to look at Jews as being real people...Read More |
From Ian: Palestinians make anti-US statement on Durban as Greece, Slovenia, Slovakia boycott The Palestinian Authority slammed countries boycotting the upcoming Durban Conference anniversary event, with an emphasis on the US. Meanwhile, Greece, Slovakia and Slovenia confirmed they also would not be attending the event in New York on September 22, bringing the number of countries boycotting to 19. The 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, was marked with antisemitism and anti-Israel events. Israel was singled out for opprobrium as racist in the declaration released by UN member states participating, a declaration that accuses no other specific countries and that next week's conference is meant to reaffirm. The parallel NGO forum accused Israel of apartheid, and organizations taking part gave out copies of the antisemitic canard The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and materials saying Hitler was right. The Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry tweeted in a statement on Tuesday that it "strongly objects to inimical statements and tendentious attacks against the upcoming Durban Conference... Such iniquitous calls to boycott the conference display an alarming level of deficit in morality and expose a hypocritical approach. The State of Palestine calls on all states and international organizations to attend the conference and...Read More |
From "Jewish Voice for Peace - Philadelphia": PLEASE JOIN JVP PHILLY FOR A WORKSHOP WITH ROSZA DANIEL LANG/LEVITSKY EXPLORING CULTURAL WORK AS ORGANIZING, AND THE USES OF JEWISH CULTURAL TOOLS AND STRATEGIES IN OUR MOVEMENT. About the workshop Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) - Philly often works with Jewish culture and ritual elements. Why do we use cultural tools and resources in our organizing? How can we widen and deepen the ways we use the power and resonance of cultural organizing? What is "demo-dressing" and what are other ways of using cultural work in our movements? What kinds of diasporic Jewish cultural materials are available and how can we find them? What kinds of Jewish methods and approaches can we use to find and engage these materials? What is "ethnographic surrealism"? How can we apply this all to our work together? This makes it pretty clear - they freely admit that they don't care about Judaism. They exploit Judaism. * * * * * *
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There is a phrase that is seen often in Palestinian Arabic media, especially around this time of year: "Under the pretext of Jewish holidays." Ma'an wrote on Monday, "The Israeli occupation forces, on Monday evening, restricted Jerusalemites, especially those residing in and around the Old City, under the pretext of the Jewish holidays and to facilitate the settlers' storming of the Old City and the Al-Buraq Wall [Kotel]."
Al Wafd, Wafa and many others headlined, "On the pretext of Jewish holidays, Israel closes the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron to [Muslim] worshipers." Al Quds, last week: "Gaza: Israel's closure of commercial crossings under the pretext of Jewish holidays worsens...Read More |
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