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Palestinians upset at Armenian church leasing out land to an Jew. Not Israeli - Jew.noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 05 Oct 04:45 AM I think this is t Like   Tweet   Palestinians upset at Armenian church leasing out land to an Jew. Not Israeli - Jew. noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 05 Oct 04:45 AM I think this is the area in question. Al Monitor reported last month: The current religious leader of the Armenians [in Jerusalem] and his real estate director are now embroiled in a row with the Palestinian leadership for leasing hitherto unused sensitive land next to the Jewish Quarter initially to the Israeli municipality for a parking lot. The 10-year lease that required the Israelis to spend $2 million to clear rubble in order to prepare the parking lot is now said to have become a 99-year lease to Jewish Australian businessman Danny Rubenstein, to convert it into a luxurious hotel that the patriarchate has admitted to and said it "will bring in a stream of hundreds of thousands of dollars that will provide financial stability for the cash-strapped church. Palestinians are very upset...Read More 10/04 Links Pt2: Why anti-Zionism and antisemitism are inextricably linked; Kamala Harris' silence vs Sarah Silverman's noise; The Associated Press war of words against Israel noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 04 Oct 05:00 PM From Ian: Why anti-Zionism and antisemitism are inextricably linked Since 2014, we have seen a dramatic shift regarding the discourse around Israel. In a nation that celebrates free speech, almost any conversation is encouraged. But when that conversation borders on incitement and causes Jews to feel unsafe, then there is a serious problem. The US State Department upholds the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's working definition of antisemitism, which posits that it can and does entail attempts to delegitimize Israel. As for both Jews and non-Jews who want to criticize Israel and flinch every time they are accused of being antisemitic or a self-hating Jew, I would say this: We can have a whole discussion about the standards that Israel is held up to, as well as its policies. However, Israel is held to a different standard than any other country in the world when defending its citizens. A misguided and simplified narrative that looks at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a powerful aggressor and an innocent underdog fails to understand that there are two sides to this complex situation, with people across Israel's border in the Middle East all too often committed to the country's demise. Moreover, an obsessed and myopic view on what the one Jewish state in the world does or does not do? That is antisemitic. No matter what political affiliation we have...Read More Iranian media doesn't scare Israel as much as it thinks noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 04 Oct 03:00 PM Wikipedia says: The Arba'een Pilgrimage, or the Arba'een Walk, is the world's largest annual public gathering. It is held at Karbala, Iraq at the end of the 40-day mourning period following Ashura, the religious ritual for the commemoration of martyrdom of the grandson of Prophet Mohammad and the third Shia Muslim Imam, Husayn ibn Ali...The number of participants in the annual pilgrimage reached 25 million or more by 2016. On the routes of the pilgrimage, food, accommodation and other services are provided for free by volunteers.That would be a great opportunity to do some propaganda, right? Millions of people passing by can see what you have to say. Some Iraqis decided to put up signs and drinking stations that say "No to Normalization." Here are the photos published in Iranian media: It doesn't look like there was much of a crowd. * * * * * * ...Read More Another Palestinian leader spouting antisemitism that the West will ignore noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 04 Oct 01:00 PM Earlier today I quoted an article by a former PFLP leader who later became a senior advisor to Yasir Arafat who claimed that rich Jews controlled US defense contractors and gave their technology to Israel for free, where somehow Israel took credit for them after threatening them....it made no sense but it is unquestionably antisemitic. Here's another antisemitic article published this past weekend from a former Palestinian political leader, Dr. Ghazi Husain, currently legal advisor and head of administration in the Political Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Damascus. You don't have to go far into the article to see Husain fall down the rabbit hole of Nazi-style antisemitism: Is it possible to normalize and coexist with the biblical and Talmudic teachings, with the Zionist ideology and with the economic Greater Israel as the leader and center of the new Middle East? Is it possible to coexist between the Arabs and "Israel"?... Is it possible to coexist with the racist and terrorist Jewish settler colonialism and the hegemony of Israel and America? The facts and events since the crystallization of Zionism as an ideology and a global political movement whose backbone is Jewish settler colonialism from the Nile to the Euphrates, and the secret decisions of the First Zionist Congress...Read More 10/04 Links Pt1: Iran tried to kill Israeli businessman in Cyprus; What's behind the obsession with U.S. Aid to Israel?; Before meeting Meretz ministers, Abbas called parents of Palestinian attackers noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 04 Oct 11:00 AM From Ian: Iran tried to kill Israeli businessman in Cyprus - Bennett spokesman Iran was behind the attempt on Israeli billionaire Teddy Sagi's life last week, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's spokesman Matan Sidi said Monday. "Contrary to some of what was published [Sunday] night in connection to the incident in Cyprus, I ask to clarify, in the name of security officials, that this was a terrorist attack by Iran against Israeli businesspeople living in Cyprus," he said. "This was not a criminal incident, and the businessman Teddy Sagi was not the target of the attack," Sidi said. The Iranian Embassy in Nicosia said the claims were baseless. Sidi's comments came after conflicting reports about whether the assassination attempt was a terrorist attack or the result of a business dispute between Sagi and Russian businessmen. Sagi indicated that Iran was responsible for the attack. The attempted murder was "another act of aggression by Iran aimed at Israeli targets," Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Monday. "Iran continues to be a global and regional threat and a challenge to Israel, and we will continue to act to defend our citizens and the security of the State of Israel everywhere and against every threat," he said at a Blue and White faction meeting. Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said: "Israeli businesspeople will continue to travel the world. They need to be careful...Read More HRW's @KenRoth has used the word "apartheid" to describe Israel 129 times this year - and never any other country. Yes, this is antisemitism. noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 04 Oct 09:00 AM The head of Human Rights Watch, Ken Roth, used the word "apartheid" to describe Israel 18 times in 2019, compared to 5 times for Myanmar and once for China. In 2020, Roth used the term "apartheid" to describe Israel 22 times, Myanmar 3 times, and China once. In 2021, Roth has used the term to refer to Israel 129 times - and has not referred to any other nation with that appellation even once since the his first use of that term in January. The "apartheid" claim is ludicrous. Beyond that, Roth's obsession with painting Israel exclusively with that term this year means that Human Rights Watch has decided that only Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid - giving Myanmar and China a pass in 2021. HRW's definition of "apartheid," when applied to Israel, means little more than "discrimination" - something that pretty much every nation on Earth is guilty of in some way. Even though Muslims in many European nations suffer discriminatory laws that Israel doesn't have. Even though Palestinians suffer...Read More Iraqi law prohibits Zionism - formerly punishable by death, now life imprisonment noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 04 Oct 07:00 AM When a group of Iraqis gathered in a conference in Erbil calling for Iraq to normalize relations with Israel, many Iraqi antisemites noted that such a call is against Iraqi law to justify the warrants for the participants' arrests. Indeed, Iraq does have such a law. The Third Edition of the 1969 Iraqi Penal Code, Article 201 states: Any person who promotes or acclaims Zionist principles including freemasonry or who associates himself with, Zionist organizations or assists them by giving material or moral support or works in any way towards the realization of Zionist objectives is punishable by death. In 2003, Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 7, Section 3(1) suspended the entire 1969 penal code. But on March 14, 2010, the code was reinstated and amended with nearly all death penalty crimes - including this one - reduced to life imprisonment. Human Rights Watch does not mention this law in its annual report on Iraqi human rights violations. * * * * * * ...Read More    ©2021 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company