| A Palestinian teen transforms from an innocent child victim to a hero shahid in Palestinian medianoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 18 Nov 05:45 AM When | | When the initial report came out of an attempted stabbing in Jerusalem by a 16 year old boy, Arab media reported it as another child victim of Israeli aggression. Then the videos were released, showing that the teen indeed tried to murder the two police officers and they reacted appropriately. And photos of his knife, which was clearly not for kitchen use: And the teen's last posts on social media, asking forgiveness from his friends: So the Palestinian narrative turned on a dime from "innocent victim of Israeli bullets" to "brave mujahid shahid." And the NGOs that pretend to "defend Palestinian children" will never say a word against a child throwing away his life for a chance to injure Jews.
Defense for Children International - Palestine tweeted about the youth's death and said that they will send out an update as soon as they find out details.
DCI-P has been linked to the PFLP terror organization, and the PFLP celebrated the attack a couple of hours later. Which means that DCI-P will never issue a statement against a culture...Read More |
From Ian: New York Times Video Depicts Israeli Soldiers Winning Pizza Coupons by Shooting Palestinians for 'Fun' The New York Times is out with another anti-Israel video — this one accusing Israeli soldiers of shooting Palestinians for "fun," and drunk Israelis on Purim throwing bottles at a Palestinian baby. Israeli soldiers were rewarded with coupons for pizza if they shot a Palestinian, the video alleges. The video also depicts Jewish children chanting "slaughter the Arabs." A Times opinion newsletter promoting the film is headlined "A Rare Look at Israeli Soldiers in the West Bank City of Hebron." The "senior commissioning editor for Op-Docs," Christine Kecher, who joined the Times this year with no apparent previous newsroom experience, writes, "We hope it will resonate with you the way it has with audiences around the world." The Times didn't commission this film, which, as the newsletter explains, has already been created and shown elsewhere, and debuted in Amsterdam nearly a year ago. But the Times is hosting the 22 and a half minute "Mission Hebron" movie on the New York Times website and promoting it on the Times homepage under the headline, "I Asked Fellow Ex-Israeli Soldiers to Tell Me Their Stories." The Times is depicting it as Israeli self-criticism: "Director Rona Segal learned filmmaking the Israeli army...Read More |
Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal In 1981, Menachem Begin presented what he thought were the most important lessons to be learned from the Holocaust. Many people remember the first lesson, "if an enemy of our people says he seeks to destroy us, believe him," and Israel's leaders seem to have taken this to heart, with respect to Iran at least. But what about Begin's fourth lesson? Jewish dignity and honor must be protected in all circumstances. The seeds of Jewish destruction lie in passively enabling the enemy to humiliate us. Only when the enemy succeeds in turning the spirit of the Jew into dust and ashes in life, can he turn the Jew into dust and ashes in death. During the Holocaust it was after the enemy had humiliated the Jews, trampled them underfoot, divided them, deceived them, afflicted them, drove brother against brother, only then could he lead them, almost without resistance, to the gates of Auschwitz. Therefore, at all times and whatever the cost, safeguard the dignity and honor of the Jewish people. This, unfortunately, seems to have been ignored by the leadership of the Jewish state for the last several decades. Over and over, when the Jewish people, their state, or its institutions like its army or police, are humiliated, deceived, or treated as sub-human, our policy is to take the "pragmatic" course, wipe off the spittle of our enemies, and pretend that nothing serious...Read More |
Kof-K, the kashrut agency that certifies Ben & Jerry's ice cream, is mulling over the idea of not renewing its contract with the ice cream company when its current agreement ends in 2022. The Jerusalem Post, on getting wind of the story, was quick to issue an op-ed censuring the Kof-K for what it deems to be the politicization of kashrut. This is, however, a grave mischaracterization of the decision now before the kashrut agency. There is nothing wrong with the Kof-K seeing out its contract until the end of the year—which it fully intends to do—and then leaving it to Ben & Jerry's to find a new kashrut certification agency should it so choose. The Kof-K, like any other business, has the right to refuse service as long as the refusal is not due to discrimination. There is no doubt that the Kof-K does not like Ben & Jerry's selective, antisemitic boycott of specific sectors of the Jewish population of Israel (which is, in fact, politicization of ice cream) and as a result, prefers not to do business with the ice cream company. In other words, it is not the Kof-K that would be acting in a discriminatory manner should it not renew its contract, but it is Ben & Jerry's that is guilty of discrimination for refusing to sell ice cream to...Read More |
From Ian: Biden's Middle East Dilemma Its determination to reenter the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was left unmentioned, but it was hard not to notice that the revival of negotiations with the still more vicious theocracy in Tehran coincided with renewed public scapegoating of the House of Saud. If the Obama administration had acquiesced to the Saudi intervention in Yemen in 2015 to ease Riyadh's panic over the nuclear deal, the restoration of the deal seems to provide the regional policy framework for the Biden team's approach to relations with Saudi Arabia—this time, by freezing out the "murderous maniac" crown prince in order to "put human rights back at the center of our foreign policy." And indeed, as president, Biden has refused to engage directly with MBS, who he's said has "very little social redeeming value." He released an intelligence report in February that claimed (but did not demonstrate) that the Khashoggi murder was approved by the crown prince. He has held offensive weapons sales to the kingdom in suspension, reduced U.S. support for Saudi operations in Yemen, and withdrawn missile defense systems from Saudi soil, even as Houthi rockets and Iranian drones menace Saudi cities and oil facilities. His "foreign policy initiative" is backed by feverish legislative activity, too: Pending in the 117th Congress are no less than 10 bills meant to hit the Saudis in general, and...Read More |
Al-Omah, a pan-Arab news site meant to cover the entire Islamic ummah, has an article by Dr.. Walid Abdel Hai about using Jewish humor to understand Jews and Israel, noting how sociologists analyze jokes to gain further understandings in society all the time.
He gathered a decent collection of Jewish jokes to show how Jews think. Some of the jokes are funny. Some don't appear to be jokes by Jews at all. But either way, his analyses of Jewish attributes based on the jokes are hilariously antisemitic and clueless. Joke #1: ISIS arrested three journalists: an American, a British citizen, and an Israeli. ISIS asked each what his last request was before his execution. The American said, "I want a hamburger," so they gave him his request. The British man said, "Red wine," and they gave it to him. As for the Israeli, he requested that ISIS kick him hard on his ass, so the ISIS members did so. The Israeli fell to the ground, pulled out a pistol he was hiding in his clothes, and shot and killed the ISIS terrorist. The two other journalists asked him "Why you didn't kill him from the beginning?" The Israeli answered: "So that you don't say in your newspapers that I started the aggression."
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What did the author think this teaches about Jews? "Making a pretext...Read More |
The Democratic Socialists of America released this statement: The National Political Committee is aware of the trip that DSA member and Congressman Jamaal Bowman took to Israel this week, and has received letters from various DSA chapters and members about the situation. DSA unapologetically stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their ongoing struggle for liberation. Our platform proudly states continued support for and involvement with the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and efforts to eliminate U.S. military aid to Israel, while resisting the "normalization" of relationships between the Israeli government and other governments. The NPC is treating this as its highest priority right now; to work with the DSA BDS & Palestine Solidarity Working Group and the Congressman's local chapters to address this directly with Representative Bowman. We will be meeting with him in the next few days. We will update the members as soon as possible following that meeting. What exactly did Bowman do? He visited Israel and met with officials there in a trip organized by J-Street, which endorsed him in the last election. He tweeted about Kristallnacht without mentioning Jews. He visited Yad Vashem and...Read More |
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