| Palestinian newspaper defends the Mufti's collaboration with Nazisnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 16 Nov 05:45 AM Mark Regev wrote an article in the | | Mark Regev wrote an article in the Jerusalem Post on November 11, marking the anniversary of the British victory at El Alamein, Egypt in 1942. He says that had the British lost that battle, the Nazis would have overrun Palestine and all the Jews there would have been murdered - because the Palestinian Arabs would have become willing collaborators with the Nazis. Regev brings proof by noting the well-documented antisemitism and Nazi collaboration of the infamous Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin Husseini, whom Palestinians still revere, as well as the adamant Palestinian Arab opposition to allowing Jews in mortal danger to immigrate to Palestine. Palestinian writer Amani Qurum is very upset at Regev, saying that his article is filled with lies.
Writing in Al Quds, Qurum is angry at Regev for his "fierce and repeated attack on Hajj Amin al-Husseini, may God have mercy on him, accusing him of anti-Semitism and cooperating with the Germans and support for what is known as the final solution to the Jews and genocide and help in the killing of a million and a half Jews and pressure on Britain to close the gates of Palestine in front of...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Cracks in the bulwarks of decency Why are The Critic and the Spectator rehashing inane anti-Israel malice? Two things stand out from this. The first is not just the number of errors in these articles, but their eye-watering dislocation from easily ascertainable reality and factual evidence. The second is that this malicious propaganda aimed at destroying Israel's right to exist is the hallmark of elements on the left, which trade on both ignorance and ideological obsession. Both the Spectator and The Critic are supposed to stand against all that by providing intelligent and informed writing that elevates public discourse. Yet with these two pieces, they have joined the ranks of those who instead are corrupting public discourse and closing the western mind against truth and decency. What on earth were these two editors thinking by publishing them? They appear to have seen nothing wrong with them. Perhaps they thought — if they thought anything at all about them — that they were merely "a point of view" just like any other? A controversy on which these editors need not have an opinion, since all they have to do is hold the ring in suitably Socratic editorial fashion? Valid contributions to public debate? But these lies, distortions and malicious libels against Israel are not valid contributions to public debate. They are part of a strategy to demonise, delegitimise...Read More |
After seeing another idiotic tweet about how Israel is stealing Palestinian cuisine (and, no, shakshuka is in no way Palestinian) I wondered what it would be like if Jews were as insecure about their food inventions as Arabs seem to be.
Think about Kariot.
Kariot is an Israeli cereal that placed chocolate or nougat inside a pillow-shaped grain cereal. (Kariot means "pillows.")
It was created in Israel in 1994. A very similar cereal was introduced in the US by Kellogg's as Krave in 2012 after success in Europe. Kellogg's has stolen an Israeli food!
Nowhere in their literature do they mention the origin of their cereal. One would think it is ...American! (Or British!)
Cultural appropriation! Disrespect for Israeli culture! Theft of sugary breakfast innovations!
Imagine how utterly stupid that would sound. No one would take it seriously. But there have been hundreds of articles decrying Israelis putting their own twist on foods like falafel and shakshuka, using the term "Israeli salad," freaking out over their popularizing hummus worldwide with the brand name Sabra.
Food, like language, moves and morphs as it goes through different cultures and geographies. No one owns it. Jews would be amused if Palestinians claimed Bissli or matzah or sabich as their own. And if they make a sabich that is better than the Israeli version, or if they want to make a new Palestinian food that uses cherry tomatoes, great.
Yemenis don't accuse Saudis of stealing their foods, nor do Turks get upset...Read More |
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In Gaza Conflict 2021: Hamas, Israel and Eleven Days of War, Jonathan Schanzer provides what the mainstream media avoided during reporting on the May conflict: Context.
Schanzer, who is senior vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, has written a short but essential book that describes not only the mini-war itself, but also why it was inevitable and why the next one cannot be avoided.
Unlike most analysis that was in the mainstream media, Schanzer points out the events that preceded the fighting. The Palestinian Authority had announced elections for March and then, after it was apparent that Hamas would win, canceled them. Hamas took advantage of Palestinian disappointment at being let down yet again by Mahmoud Abbas and positioned itself as the real leader of the people, taking advantage of the Sheikh Jarrah unrest to pretend to "defend Jerusalem" by shooting rockets at Israel. Yet, he notes, Hamas had been preparing for this war for weeks before Sheikh Jarrah.
As with the visit by Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount in 2000, the machinery for attacking Jews was already prepared and in place, just waiting for an excuse to trigger. The "spark" is not the reason for these wars, they are excuses that the media is too happy to use to blame Israeli actions for Palestinian attacks.
The book travels back and forth from the events of May to how we got there. He describes the founding of Hamas during the first intifada and how the PLO leaders, then exiled...Read More |
From Ian: JPost Editorial: UNRWA doesn't need more funding, it needs to be shut down UNRWA was founded in 1949 to provide what was meant to be a temporary solution until the "Palestinian refugee problem" was sorted out. Most other refugees are cared for by the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees and, unlike the Palestinians, their status is not passed on to future generations. The Palestinians, on the other hand, have their own agency and have been granted perpetual refugee status. According to UNRWA, Palestinian refugees are not just people who fled from the nascent Jewish state during the 1948 War of Independence and have yet to be resettled, but they include descendants of those refugees. Someone born this week, during the UNRWA donor meeting, can be considered a refugee of a war that occurred more than seven decades ago. There is some irony in Jordan being the sponsor of the meeting given that the majority of the Jordanian population is Palestinian and many meet the UNRWA definition of being "refugees," despite having Jordanian citizenship. UNRWA has not solved the "refugee problem." On the contrary, it has created a bigger one than ever before. While some 726,000 Arabs originally fell under the agency's auspices in 1949, the number more than 70 years later now stands at 5.7 million – almost eight times as many. In other words, it has added to the refugee...Read More |
Mohammed Shtayyeh, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, is considered a moderate. He is looked upon as someone the West can deal with.
He received a Western education, getting his PhD from the University of Sussex in Brighton. He does not have a history of being involved in terror attacks. He has published books and has written at least one op-ed in the New York Times. He was received with respect in his latest trip to Europe this month.
And it just so happens that he is an antisemite.
This week's Palestinian cabinet meeting was in Al-Ram, just outside Jerusalem's municipal borders. During the meeting, Shtayyeh spoke about Jerusalem: We are on the outskirts of the eternal capital, the jewel in the crown, the point where heaven and earth meet, the flower of all cities, the object of longing of the hearts of the Muslim and Christian Believers who come to it to pray in the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to walk on the Via Dolorosa in order to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which witnessed the signing of the Pact of Umar, in which the Caliph Umar pledged to the people of Iliya (the Arab version of Aelia Capitolina/Jerusalem) that no Muslim would pray in their church. "Iliya Al-Quds" has Canaanite, Roman, Islamic, and Christians antiquities and is theirs alone, and no one else has any traces in it. Denying Jewish history, and deliberately denying the historic importance of Jerusalem to Jews, is antisemitism. Before...Read More |
Rabbi Yehuda Gerami, chief rabbi of Iran, has been touring the US for the past couple of weeks, meeting with other rabbis and speaking in shuls.
The rabbi gave a speech at the Chabad of Northern Virginia last night where he essentially admitted that antisemitism in Iran is institutional and official.
Rabbi Gerami has publicly slammed Israel in Iranian media and voiced support for the worst of Iran's terror leaders, drawing condemnation from other Jews, and his speech broadly implied that he has no choice. Iran's chief rabbi said on Sunday evening that the country's Jewish community feared physical attacks from some Muslim neighbors in the wake of the January 2020 killing of Iranian al-Quds Force commander General Qassem Soleimani by the United States. "The situation was very sensitive," said Rabbi Yehuda Gerami, speaking at Chabad of Northern Virginia in Fairfax, Virginia. "We felt that sensitivity, not from the government, from the people. They talked about revenge." Gerami said that he decided to condemn the strike publicly on the news and to pay his condolences to Soleimani's...Read More |
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