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Palestinians have political rights. Or they don't. Depends on what argument you want to make.noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 25 Oct 04:45 AM In The A Like   Tweet   Palestinians have political rights. Or they don't. Depends on what argument you want to make. noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 25 Oct 04:45 AM In The Atlantic, Susie Linfield writes, Israel is unusual in that it existed as an idea before it existed as a nation-state. Today, it is also unusual, even remarkable, for lacking internationally recognized borders—an indispensable marker of sovereignty—and for decades it has been depriving Palestinians in the occupied territories of political rights and freedom. Is that last phrase accurate? Do Palestinians have no political rights or freedom, and is Israel depriving them of those? At last count, out of 195 UN member states, 138 recognize the "State of Palestine." The Palestinian passport is recognized as a travel document in nearly every nation on Earth, with the curious exceptions of Georgia, Madagascar and Syria. Israel does control the borders as well as the population registry. But those don't affect the political rights of the 95% of Palestinians who live under Palestinian control. Palestinians are free to set up their own elections in areas under their control. They have representation in numerous UN and international bodies, as well as sporting events. They have a pavillion in the Dubai Expo. Palestinian leaders proudly publish news in their own media about...Read More Unethical Jordanian antiquities dealers fake old Jewish artifacts noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 24 Oct 02:30 PM Jordanian officials have, several times, accused Jewish visitors of visiting archaeological sites like Petra and burying fake Jewish artifacts there, in order to claim the land as Jewish some time in the future.This is all part of Jordanian paranoia, as the sites in question may be important to Jewish history but are generally not considered to be part of Biblical Judah. However, it appears that there is a grain of truth in the wild accusations. But it is not Jews who are faking the artifacts - but Jordanian dealers trying to rip off tourists. Al Ghad has an investigative report where they acted as tourists and befriended dealers who set up shop outside the archaeological tourist sites, eventually getting them to sell their most secret items that they hide from the casual shopper. The sellers regale potential customers with tales of how the artifacts - often coins, are Roman, Greek or Jewish, or they interest them in amulets or rocks carved with six-pointed stars or a depiction of the Temple menorah. The purchased items were brought to experts, and most of...Read More 10/24 Links: Is There Still Room for Zionist Jews on the American Left?; UK government pulls funding to Palestinian education; IAEA chief admits ability to monitor key Iranian nuclear site compromised noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 24 Oct 12:00 PM From Ian: Jonathan Tobin: Is There Still Room for Zionist Jews on the American Left? Though the Jewish groups it targeted were clearly shocked by the broadside, Sunrise DC's attack on Jews is hardly surprising. That's because they come straight from the same intersectional and critical race theory playbook that most on the left have now adopted as their political catechism. Despite being a pack of lies, the notion that all of Israel is a "colonial project" oppressing the supposedly indigenous black and brown people of "Palestine," where Jews are privileged white settlers, is in line with the ideological frame of reference used by many left-wing activists these days. Liberal Jews who are fine with applying that kind of rhetorical excess to their political opponents on the Israeli right are slowly realizing that their comrades in arms on American domestic issues make no such distinctions between "good" Israelis and Jews, and the supposedly "bad" ones. Once they get over their shock at this incident and the failure of their coalition partners to unequivocally condemn this latest outbreak of left-wing antisemitism, mainstream liberal Jewish groups will console themselves by saying that Sunrise DC is marginal and doesn't speak for most Democrats. To some extent, that will be true. The problem is that, as with "The Squad," it's clear that the growing influence of critical...Read More Arab media: Man sentenced for attacking Jews, synagogue, LGBTQ is jailed for "solidarity with Palestine" noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 24 Oct 10:00 AM Algemeiner reports: A 32-year-old man convicted by an Austrian court on Thursday for an assault on a Jewish communal leader told the hearing: "I don't hate all Jews — only those in Palestine." The unnamed man, a Syrian refugee who arrived in Austria in 2013, was sentenced to three years in a secure facility for mentally unstable prisoners. On Aug. 22, 2020, he attacked Elie Rosen, the president of the Jewish community in Graz, outside the city's synagogue with a wooden club. Identified through the synagogue's CCTV cameras, Rosen's assailant was subsequently linked by police in Graz to at least six other crimes — including the defacing of the Graz synagogue with the slogan "Free Palestine." Other buildings vandalized by Rosen's assailant included an LGBTQ community center in Graz. "He is characterized by a complete lack of repentance," Chief Inspector Fritz Grundnig said at the time. "He is filled with hatred of Israel, Jews, gays, lesbians and prostitutes." The public prosecutor told the court that the assailant remained convinced in his belief that Jews should be targeted for "slaughter" and banned from living in Austria. So how was this story headlined in El Dorar, a pan-Levant new site? That he was sentences "for his solidarity with Palestine!" The...Read More The terrorist PFLP's links to Palestinian NGOs are extensive noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 24 Oct 07:19 AM The news all weekend has been about the backlash against Israel declaring six specific Palestinian NGOs as having links to the terrorist PFLP organization. Israel and the US State Department clashed over the weekend after the Justice and Defense ministries on Friday declared that several leading Palestinian NGOs were arms of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. The ministries each issued documents classifying Addameer, Al Haq, Bisan Center, Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P), Union Of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) and the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees (UPWC), as branches of the PFLP, joining other NGOs who had previously also been designated as terrorist affiliates. The US State Department criticized the announcement on Friday in the most explicit admonition from the Biden administration since the new Israeli government was formed in June. The State of Israel itself has issued a detailed report, titled "Terrorists in Suits," documenting the extensive links between the PFLP and three of the organizations listed - Al Haq, Defense for Children International-Palestine, and Addameer. Some excerpts: There is no coincidence here. The PFLP is a Marxist organization that uses...Read More    ©2021 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company