| Liberal Jewish organizations reluctant to call out Sunrise DC's antisemitismnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 22 Oct 04:57 AM JTA reported on Wednesday | | JTA reported on Wednesday: The Washington D.C. branch of a national climate action group turned down a role at a voting rights rally because a "number of Zionist organizations" will be taking part. "Given our commitment to racial justice, self-governance and indigenous sovereignty, we oppose Zionism and any state that enforces its ideology," Sunrise DC said in a statement it posted Tuesday on Twitter. The group named the National Council of Jewish Women, the Reform movement's Religious Action Center and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs as groups supporting Israel, which Sunrise DC called a "colonial project." All three Jewish groups cited by Sunrise DC have long-established records of pro-Israel advocacy but have in recent years devoted much of their focus on domestic issues. The three groups all back the two-state outcome; NCJW and the Reform movement's RAC have sister groups in Israel that advocate for the rights of minorities and for women. Reaction was swift from both the Zionist and anti-Zionist sides. One other Sunrise group, based at George Washington University, responded forcefully and succinctly: Sunrise GW unequivocally condemns the Sunrise DC hub's statement this week calling for the removal of 3 Jewish organizations from the Declaration for...Read More |
From Ian: Climate group refuses to rally with 'Zionist organizations' The Washington, DC chapter of US climate action group Sunrise Movement is being accused of antisemitism for turning down a role in a voting rights rally taking place this Saturday over the participation of "Zionist organizations." "Given our commitment to racial justice, self-governance and indigenous sovereignty, we oppose Zionism and any state that enforces its ideology," Sunrise DC said in a statement it posted Tuesday on Twitter. The group named the National Council of Jewish Women, the Reform movement's Religious Action Center and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs as groups supporting Israel, which it calls a "colonial project." The Freedom to Vote Relay and Rally is a bike ride from West Virginia to Washington, DC in support of voting reform legislation in the US Congress. The participants of the ride will be greeted by demonstrators in the nation's capital. Sunrise DC called for Declaration for American Democracy, one of the main organizers of the rally, to remove the pro-Israel Jewish groups from the coalition it put together. The refusal to take part in this event because Jewish organizations are participating is unfortunate & wrong, & I am disappointed by this decision. This type of action is unhelpful and counterproductive, & takes needed attention away...Read More |
I came up with this after reading the zillionth hot woke take that the US should fund an Iron Dome for Hamas. * * * * * *
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Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Haifa, October 24, 1947 - An Arab resident of this mixed-ethnicity city in the north of Palestine feels such a powerful, protective attachment to his place of birth and upbringing that he will soon run away rather than defend it from usurpers, and will instead allow different usurpers to attempt conquest, sources close to the man announced today. Amr Habash, 22, prepared this week to move out of Haifa in advance of an anticipated offensive by Syrian and Lebanese soldiers and irregular militia troops who will try to push the Jews into the sea or otherwise slaughter them. Habash, who helps run his family's fishing enterprise, has voiced such love for his ancestral homeland that he has never once referred to it as distinct political entity, and plans to spend however long necessary in areas already under foreign Arab rule until he can return to the city and live under either the same or different foreign Arab rule, depending on how the war goes. "Amr just loves this place to pieces," acknowledged his uncle Faisal. "I can just tell that his bond with the land is so strong, he would rather skedaddle to Beirut or Damascus than stand and fight the Jews for possession of it. Not everyone feels as he does, even though we can all sense the trouble ahead." The...Read More |
From Ian: Amb. Alan Baker: US Consulate in Jerusalem: The Bottom Line The May 2018 proclamation by the U.S. formally recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel established a new bilateral legal situation that replaced the former policy of non-recognition, whereby the U.S. acknowledged the application of Israeli law in Jerusalem. The 2018 proclamation rendered the existence of an independent U.S. consulate in Jerusalem serving the Palestinian administration as redundant and incompatible with official U.S. policy. The mutually accepted consular relationship between Israel and the U.S. is based on the 1963 Vienna Convention of Consular Relations. Article 4 of this convention determines that consular posts may only be established in the territory of the receiving state with that state's consent. Similarly, Articles 7 and 8 of the convention require that the exercise of consular functions vis-a-vis or on behalf of another state requires specific approval. Opening a U.S. consulate in Jerusalem to serve the Palestinians, without Israel's prior consent and sanction, would be a flagrant breach of Article 4 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. In Article IX (5) of the 1995 Israel-PLO Interim Agreement (Oslo 2), the parties agreed that the Palestinian Authority will not have powers and responsibilities in the sphere of foreign relations. The same article provides for the possible...Read More |
On Tuesday, Israeli doctors performed a major 8-hour surgery to remove a tumor from the lung of a murderer. Here's how Palestinian media covered the story: Today, Thursday, the lawyer of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority, Karim Ajwa, said that the doctors of the Israeli Barzilai Hospital performed a surgery for the prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid the day before yesterday, to remove a tumor from the left lung, and cut 10 cm from it due to damage to it. Ajwa added, in a press statement, that the operation of the captive Abu Hamid took more than 8 hours, and began at half past seven in the morning last Tuesday and ended after three thirty in the afternoon, by making a small hole in the beginning in the left side of the chest, and then a larger hole in order to remove the damaged part of the lung, and its surroundings, and the mass was sent to the laboratory for examination and knowledge of its nature. He stressed that Abu Hamid suffers from aches and pains at the site of the operation, and from difficulty and shortness of breath, as an industrial tube was placed to help him breathe, pointing out that he is expected to stay in the hospital between one week to ten days, and that his medical condition still needs close follow-up and ongoing care. The commission confirmed that what Abu Hamid is subjected to is part of the systematic policy of medical negligence, which hundreds of sick prisoners suffer from. Israeli doctors just...Read More |
Palestinian media are reporting on an apparent audit done on the Palestinian Authority budget by an anti-corruption commission.
It is unclear what the actual source of the findings are, it translates as the "Global Anti-Corruption Code" which doesn't sound like the official Palestinian body to investigate corruption, the "Palestine Anti-Corruption Commission."
Whoever they are, the findings are worth looking at. They are consistent with previously published information.
The commission said: Corruption in the Palestinian Authority is deeply entrenched. Just to illustrate by a few examples: Between 2008 and 2012 alone, more than $2.3 billion in development aid funds provided by the European Union to the Palestinian Authority were misappropriated. In 2017, the PA spent huge sums on shell companies and projects, including a non-existent airline, and instead of developing welfare programs to distribute social services or development aid funds to Palestinians, the PA allocates funds to pay salaries to security officers and government officials. Senior PA officials establish foundations, non...Read More |
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