| Algerian judoka retires after 10-year suspension for refusing to compete with Israelis, says he'd love to join Hamas as a terroristnoreply@blogger.co | | Archysport reports: Algerian judoka Fathi Noureen announced his retirement two months after being banned from all official competitions for 10 years by the International Judo Federation after Noreen chose to boycott his Israeli opponent. Algerian judoka Fathi Norine has announced his retirement from the sport, two months after being banned from competition after withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympics, where he faced an Israeli competitor. International Judo Federation Noreen and its trainer Ammar Benikhlef were banned from all official competitions for 10 years in September after choosing to boycott their Israeli opponent at the July Olympics in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. "I decided to retire after the decision to suspend myself for 10 years," he said in a music video. "I know that the international federations have always colluded with Zionist terrorism, especially the International Judo Federation, and perhaps the best proof is that my sentence has remained the same even after an appeal was filed. He had more to say to...Read More |
From Ian: Amb. Alan Baker: Does a Palestinian "Right of Return" Exist in International Law? On Nov. 9, 2021, the Fourth (Special Political) Committee of the UN General Assembly adopted by a 160-1 vote a draft resolution on Palestinian refugees. The U.S. abstained, although all previous administrations, apart from the Obama administration, had voted against this resolution. In 1999, the U.S. representative (representing the Clinton administration) stated, "This delegation could not support unbalanced resolutions which attempted to prejudge the outcome of negotiations; lasting peace would come from agreements reached among the parties themselves, not from any action taken by the Committee." The international media pounced on the latest change in the U.S. voting pattern, erroneously claiming that it signified "support by the Biden administration for a right of return for Palestinian refugees to sovereign Israel." In fact, the U.S. vote-change signifies no such thing, and the resolution does not mention any right of return for Palestinian refugees. Several international legal and political documents try to tackle the question of return of refugees, but they do not establish any right of return for Palestinian refugees. UN General Assembly Resolution 194 states that "refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so...Read More |
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US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield tweeted on Saturday, "This week, I had the chance to meet with civil society leaders in Ramallah. I was inspired by their work to advance democracy, human rights, and economic opportunity for the Palestinian people. We support Palestinian NGOs' role monitoring human rights abuses wherever they occur."
This statement was interpreted as a rebuke to Israel for declaring six organizations as terrorist.
But there is more to this story.
According to an anonymous State Department official, Thomas-Greenfield did not plan to meet with any of the NGOs Israel says are linked to terror, as reported by Al Quds Al-Arabi. As a result, 70 Palestinian NGOs boycotted Thomas-Greenfield and said they would refuse to meet with her, calling any such meetings "normalization."
That means that if Thomas-Greenfield did meet with anyone, she has to keep it a secret - because the same Palestinian "human rights" community that she extolled would be most unhappy with anyone who felt it was important to speak to the US.
As we've seen with Arab boycotts since at least the 1930s, when anyone defies them, the consequences are not pretty.
So we have a huge irony where Linda Thomas-Greenfield is praising organizations that are either threatening other NGOs for not toeing the Palestinian line of hate, or those who cannot work freely in the oppressive...Read More |
From Ian: Jpost Editoiral: There is only one face to the terror group Hamas Hamas used the terrorist two-step for years, pretending it had an "armed" wing and a "political" wing. Many terrorist groups used this privileged stance in the 20th century, which enabled governments often to host the "political wing" while pretending not to work with the "armed wing." The illogic behind this policy is that it gave terrorist groups more privileges than countries or mafias. While a country can't pretend that its "armed wing" commits crimes against humanity while its government has no connection to it, and a mafia can't pretend its boss is not connected to the "criminal wing," when it came to terrorist groups, they could always use this pretense. Often this pretense of legality was used solely regarding Israel. That means terrorist groups that targeted the West, such as al-Qaeda or ISIS, didn't have a fictional division under the law between the "armed wing" and the "political wing." Only with groups that killed Jews and Israelis was this the case. Many of these groups, including Iranian-backed terrorists, have targeted Jews and Jewish institutions in Europe, the Middle East, Turkey and South America. Thanks to the British efforts, the fiction behind Hamas's "political" and "military" wings has been revealed, and the curtain pulled back. The United States, Canada, the European...Read More |
There have been a number of articles in Arabic media lately warning about the dangers of a supposed new religion, the "Abrahamic religion," that seeks to combine Islam, Christianity and Judaism into one religion.
The commentators believe that this supposed religion is a Trojan horse to destroy Islam.
Apparently, since the Abraham Accords stress the common roots of Islam, Christianity and Judaism, some Muslims are alarmed that the accords are an attempt to impose Judaism - the original Abrahamic religion - on the region. The Grand Imam, Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, spoke recently about this Abrahamic religion. Al-Tayeb attacked the "new religion", describing it as "dreams of pigs". He said these calls seem to aspire to "mix Christianity, Judaism and Islam into one religion upon which people will gather, and rid them of the burdens of conflicts." The Grand Imam asked whether the purpose of the call was "the believers in religions cooperate on their common and noble human values, or if the purpose was to create a new religion that has no colour, taste or smell." Tayeb warned, "It appears on the surface to be a call for human meeting and the elimination of the causes of disputes and conflicts. In fact, it is a call to confiscate freedom of belief and freedom of belief and choice." Jordanian writer Dr. Labib Kamhawi sees a...Read More |
A new survey by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics indicates that most of the current Palestinian judges are sexist. 66% of the regular judges in the West Bank said that there are enough female judges. According to the UN, in 2018 only 18% of the judges in Palestinian courts were female. If you assume that all of the women in the survey did not think that 18% is enough, that means that 82% of the male judges are sexist. Similarly, 58% of sharia judges felt there were enough female sharia judges. As of 2019, there were three female sharia judges out of 245 total. To be sure, the Palestinian Authority is ahead of most Arab countries in this regard - most do not have any female sharia judges and a smaller percentage of regular female judges. However, there is a bigger story here.
There is almost certainly a higher percentage of NGO workers in the West Bank than anywhere else in the world. Leftist Westerners love to work there - they can party in Tel Aviv and commute to their jobs in Ramallah where they can write extensive papers on how awful Israel is.
These NGOs and the ecosystem that they are in show very little interest in researching or publishing anything that is not anti-Israel. When a Palestinian woman does become a sharia judge, she is rightly celebrated - a documentary about...Read More |
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