| Russia declares 1973 "anti-Zionist" film "extremist" (video)noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 10 Nov 05:45 AM From BBC Russian: The Russian Ministry o | | From BBC Russian: The Russian Ministry of Justice has included in the list of extremist materials the Soviet propaganda film "Secret and Explicit. Aims and Deeds of the Zionists." The film was shot in the 1970s on the wave of "anti-Zionism" in the USSR, but it never made it to the wide screen because of the fears of the Soviet authorities. The decision to ban the film was made by the Syktyvkar City Court in July this year, but it was only on November 8 that it was officially included in the list of extremist materials. The documentary black and white tape was released in 1973 by the Central Documentary Film Studio. [T]he script for the film was approved at the highest level - in the international department of the Central Committee of the CPSU, a whole group of reputable consultants from the USSR Academy of Sciences, the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the KGB were assigned to work on the picture. The filmmakers were even allowed to travel to Europe to collect material. The well-known historian of the Soviet era Yevgeny Dobrenko wrote: "This film was the Soviet version of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion ," so odious and wild even by Soviet standards that it was assessed as anti-Semitic and banned even by the KGB and the Central Committee." I found a version of the film where it appears that someone added clips from the 1990s (Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak). But it seems to include the original complete film...Read More |
From Ian: Why we haven't solved antisemitism yet November 9, 1938, anti-Jewish demonstrations broke out across Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland region of then-Czechoslovakia. Over the next 48 hours, about 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses, homes and schools were destroyed. Ninety-one Jews were murdered, with another 30,000 Jewish men arrested and sent to concentration camps. The Jews were officially blamed for their own victimization and German Jews were fined one billion reichsmarks (today that would be worth over $7 billion) for the riot that rose up against them. Kristallnacht ("The Night of Broken Glass"), the night when anti-Jewish rhetoric turned into state-sanctioned action that would culminate with the Holocaust, was over eighty years ago, yet Jews all over the world are still living with the reality – and the increasing prevalence – of violence against them for the sole reason of who they are. The United States is unique in the world for recognizing the moral responsibility to respond to the rise in antisemitism. Yet President Joe Biden's nominee to The Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt, has still not gotten her confirmation hearing. The reason: political rancor over determining the country's self-proclaimed identity. The "Jewish question" was first asked in the 19th and 20th centuries as countries began...Read More |
The PA cabinet held its weekly meeting on Monday in Ramallah, with the usual mix of making decisions too trivial for dictator Mahmoud Abbas to make himself, plus symbolic announcements. They included: - Noting that Monday, November 15, is Independence Declaration Day. - Approval of the nomination of the board of directors of the National School of Administration. - Allocating 8 million shekels for emergencies in the winter season. - Demanding companies and factories to use solar energy on their roofs, similar to public institutions. - Recommending to Abbas to join the World Trade Organization, Amnesty International and the Organization for the Protection of Property Rights. - Commemorating the anniversary of Yasir Arafat's death on November 11. But one decision seemed to be intended to provoke Israel: the announcement that their next meeting would be held in Jerusalem, which Israel would not allow. It turns out that this is symbolic, too. They said that the next meeting will be held in the headquarters of the PA's Jerusalem Governorate, which is in Al-Ram - outside Jerusalem's municipal borders. Al Ram is divided between Area B and C. Perhaps Al Ram would be an appropriate place...Read More |
From Ian: Emily Schrader: Claims of Israel bulldozing Palestinian graves are libel Palestinian factions issued a statement promising "bloodshed" of the "Zionists" over the incident, and the Palestinian Authority news agency WAFA claimed that "dozens" of bodies had been dug up by Israel, another unsubstantiated claim. Adding fuel to the fire, figures such as the head of the Committee for the Care of Islamic Cemeteries in Jerusalem, Mustafa Abu Zahra, claimed that Israel was "covering the cemetery with dirt." These false claims led to riots near the construction site throughout the week, which included violent attacks and rock throwing against Israeli police, as well as antisemitic calls to violence, with Palestinian crowds chanting "Khaybar khaybar ya yahud...," a reference to when the army of Muhammad massacred the Jews in Khaybar. Instead of investigating the issue thoroughly, social media spread the news of graves being "bulldozed" like wildfire in the West as well, thanks largely to celebrities such as Hadid, who shared false information about the Nababta case on her Instagram story to her 46 million followers. Similarly, her father, real estate mogul Mohamed Hadid, accused Israel of "not respecting the dead," in a post that garnered over 42,000 likes. Turkish news sources and Middle East Eye also shared stories with inaccurate information about the events...Read More |
At the UN's Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, there were lots of people protesting...Israel. They all knew that Israel was guilty of climate crimes, although they disagreed as to which ones. We've shown before that somehow Israel is guilty of violating every single social justice issue - which is ironic because Israel is in the forefront for fighting for every social justice issue and Palestinians either are apathetic or openly hostile to those same issues. For climate, Palestinians support burning tires to pollute the air and burning Israeli forests and farms. They waste enormous amounts of water while claiming they don't have enough. While Palestinian flags could be seen at the Women's March in Chicago... ...Palestinian government officials have denounced equal rights for women and the right to abortions. While pro-LGBTQ marchers protest Israel... ... gays in the Palestinian Authority are in fear for their lives of being "honor killed" or beaten and 93% say society should not accept homosexuality. Sex between men is a...Read More |
Human Rights Watch has dug up another angle to tar Israel with the label "apartheid," and it is just as false and scurrilous as all its others. Sari Bashi, special advisor to HRW, a wrote this article in The New Arab that HRW republished on its own site: In an October 27 ruling, the Supreme Court denied tax-exempt status to an Israeli-registered group running a school in the West Bank because the school educates Palestinian, not Israeli, children. The precedent-setting decision imposes financial burdens on civil society groups providing services to Palestinians, including groups that step in to fulfill responsibilities that the Israeli government, the occupying power in the West Bank and Gaza, has flouted. The court's ruling means that Israeli-registered groups operating in the West Bank will get tax breaks if they provide services to Jewish Israelis living in unlawful settlements, but not if they provide services to Palestinians living under military occupation in the same territory. These are the facts that arise from the court ruling: For the past three decades, the Society of Islamic Sciences and Cultural Committee has run schools in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including in East Jerusalem. The Society submits regular reports to the Israeli...Read More |
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