| Popular Egyptian newspaper celebrates an Egyptian for his antisemitismnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 17 Nov 05:45 AM Youm7 (Seventh Day,) a popular | |  |
Youm7 (Seventh Day,) a popular Egyptian newspaper, has an article about Aziz Eid, the "pioneer of Arab theatre," who directed and starred in a number of popular plays in the first half of the 20th century.
The focus of the article is on how much he hated Jews.
It offers several anecdotes.
Once, Aziz Eid visited Palestine and stayed in a hotel called "Palestine Pension." On the next day, when he learned by chance that the owner of the hotel was a Jew, Eid threw his bags out of the window while saying: "I didn't know that I slept in a criminal house!"
Another time that Eid traveled to Palestine with his troupe and he arrived in Jaffa, a mixed city. He posted a sign on the theatre he was to perform in saying, "Entry is restricted to Arabs only." According to the story, local Jews considered this sign a challenge and attacked the theater causing a riot and the police were called. When Eid found that the police that came to the theater was led by a Jewish officer, he refused to give his statement except to an Arab officer in the police department.
Yet another time Eid brought an antisemitic play to Palestine, with a main character...Read More |
From Ian: It Is a Tree of Life Review of 'Squirrel Hill' by Mark Oppenheimer
SQUIRREL HILL is a book for Jews (and Gentiles) everywhere, but it is particularly a book for those of us who grew up Jewish in Pittsburgh. (The house where I grew up is a 15-minute walk from Tree of Life, although we were members of the larger Reform synagogue, Temple Sinai.) Fellow residents, both former and current, will recognize many of the places and names; at one point in the book I paused, read aloud a passage Oppenheimer transcribed from a Jewish journalist's recounting of her work with the city's liberal Chevra Kadisha, and then told my wife that I had had a crush on said writer for most of elementary school. In that regard, Squirrel Hill showed me how unusual the neighborhood was as a place to grow up. Being raised Jewish in Pittsburgh is a bit like how Oppenheimer's podcast co-host Liel Leibovitz recently described being Jewish in Israel: "You are Jewish by osmosis. You just open the window and breathe in a lot of Jew." It offers what Oppenheimer describes as "an idyllic Jewish life in a modern urban shtetl"—so if the dream of being fully Jewish and fully American is possible anywhere, it's there. But it is all too easy—in Squirrel Hill, and in modern liberal Jewish life—for Jewish identity to stop being a choice, for it to become something that happens to us but to which we do...Read More |
By RealJerusalemStreets I hesitated. At first, I said to myself--no way. The fiction I really like to read would be a good murder mystery. However, a novel based in 1943-1944 - and in Auschwitz? Unsettling as the concept was, the author and publisher, Tom Hogan, and his bio piqued my curiosity. Hogan grew up in a German village with his US military family after World War II. As an eight-year-old, he visited Dachau with his family. He wondered how many of his neighbors knew about and participated in the Holocaust. Hogan taught at Santa Clara University after graduating from Harvard with an MA in Biblical Archeology and developed curricula in Holocaust Studies for college and high school. Along with survivors' testimonies, he presented the Shoah to US audiences. Hogan left teaching in the 1980s, to join a growing company as its first creative director. Perhaps you may have heard of Oracle? Next, his venture capital company launched over 50 startups and he co-authored The Ultimate Startup Guide. After leaving the tech world, Hogan returned to teaching Holocaust and Genocide Studies at UC Santa Cruz before he retired and began to write fiction. Hogan's Heroes was the name of the American sitcom popular from 1965-1971, where during World War II, the inmates of the prisoner-of-war camp, the fictional Stalag 13, did their best to sabotage the German effort. Their escapades led to humorous results involving Col. Klink and Sargent Shultz, and these Nazis were portrayed as bumbling...Read More |
Egyptian daily economic newspaper Al Mal News has an article about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion that shows the current state of antisemitism among the more enlightened Egyptians.
Lawyer Mohamed Bakri starts off saying that the Protocols have been alleged to be forgeries, but that isn't the important thing. The important thing is that they accurately reflect how the Jews have been controlling the world. It is very important for understanding the seriousness of the document, realizing the dimensions of this plan to rule the world, with the most important methodologies; Anarchy and libertarianism, economic wars, gradually changing the morals of states, tyranny and modern progress, methodologies of control, world wars, controlling the awareness of the masses, corrupting education, spreading atheism and sick literature, controlling the press, entertainment, destroying religion and its men, and flooding countries with debts. ...Dr. Abdel-Wahhab El-Mesiri asserts that Zionism promotes it with the aim to "spread terror into the hearts of Muslims and Arabs by exaggerating the power of the Jews, in order to win the psychological war before they enter the battlefield" to be able to "distort the cognitive map of Arabs and Muslims." The debate is not about their falsification or forgery, but the existence of a kind of continuous...Read More |
From Ian: Seth Frantzman: Israel at the Dubai Air Show symbolizes new Middle East This growing regional partnering has ramifications that go beyond specific defense deals or even joint training. It's about a consensus that views stability and moderation as key pillars of foreign policy. This is in contrast to the policy of countries like Iran and Turkey that prefer confrontation in the region. That is why wherever Iran has a role there is poverty, chaos and civil conflict. In Lebanon and Iraq, people – including Iraq's prime minister – are targeted for assassination by Iran's proxies. Meanwhile, Ankara has played an aggressive and threatening role in places like Syria and Libya, often heating up conflicts, rather than turning down the tensions. However, the emerging consensus between Israel and the UAE is not all-inclusive. The US, for instance, ostensibly opposes the UAE's outreach to Damascus. For Israel, hopefully, Syria will dial back the Iranian role there. Reports say that the Assad regime may have been nonplussed by an IRGC-backed attack on the US Tanf garrison. That could also be a talking point in regional media. What is clear is that there are a lot more meetings coming between Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain and the UAE and their partners in Asia and the West. While Israel's role at the Dubai Air Show can be seen through specific deals and companies...Read More |
Al Jazeera reports: Israeli forces have shot dead a 26-year-old man in the northern occupied West Bank city of Tubas after a confrontation broke out during a raid early on Tuesday, Palestinian medics said. The man was identified as Saddam Hussein Bani Odeh, from the village of Tammoun – about 5km (3 miles) south of Tubas city. A bullet fired by an Israeli soldier at the entrance to the city penetrated his shoulder, heart, and left lung, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Al Mayadeen helpfully adds: Palestinian sources for Al Mayadeen have confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces were under no threat. The IDF disputes that: "During the operation, shots were fired at the soldiers and an explosive device was thrown at them from a moving car. The soldiers returned fire at the suspicious vehicle," the military said. So, innocent victim or terrorist? Luckily, we have...Read More |
Times of Israel reports:
Israel will push for more international aid to the Palestinians at a conference of donor countries in Norway this week, Regional Cooperation Minister Issawi Frej told The Times of Israel on Monday. "During our meetings in the coming days, our message to donor countries will be to provide more aid to the Palestinians. The neglect over the past years has created a financial crisis that threatens not just the Palestinian Authority, but the region as a whole," Frej said in a phone call. Foreign assistance to the PA has plummeted over the past year. According to publicly available filings, Ramallah received $480 million in foreign budget aid between January and September 2019. Over the same period in 2021, it received just $32.75 million in budget support. It adds: Israel confiscated NIS 600 million from taxes it collects on Ramallah's behalf in July. Under a 2018 Israeli law, Israel regularly confiscates money from the revenues to penalize Ramallah for its policy of paying stipends to Palestinian security prisoners held in Israel, and the families of Palestinians killed during violent confrontations with Israeli forces — including those who committed terror attacks against Israelis. These two parts of the Israeli policy are contradictory. What good is withholding tax revenues when Israel is also encouraging other countries to...Read More |
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