| More Muslims are visiting Al Aqsa on a typical Friday under Jewish rule than ever visited under Muslim rule in history noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), | | It's Friday, which means that tens of thousands of Muslims will be visiting the Temple Mount as they do every Friday.
Here is what it looked like one Friday in October, when 50,000 Muslims visited to pray. .Muslim media typically reports 40,000-50,000 visiting every Friday. Even during COVID there were tens of thousands visiting every week when it was open.
As far as I can tell, more Muslims visit Judaism's holiest site, under Jewish rule, on a typical Friday than ever visited even on Muslim holidays under Muslim rule, in history.
I have looked for any photo or description estimating the number of Muslims that visited the holy site even during Muslim holidays, and while some descriptions mention "thousands" of worshippers, never have I seen anyone report "tens of of thousands" as the site sees every single week nowadays.
A letter from a British resident of Jerusalem in the November 23, 1937 Manchester Guardian disputes the claim that 10,000 Muslims carried the Mufti around the Temple Mount by pointing out that only perhaps once a year does the Haram esh Sharif attract that many Muslims: Only...Read More |
From Ian: How Israel Shaped Ruth Mayer And Her Hope For Her Homeland's Future Mayer got married in 1958 to her late husband, Arye, who immigrated to Israel at eight years old from Romania. Pogroms forced Arye's family out of their home. "They left their home with only two suitcases, and they were forced to leave on the side roads, and they were walking for days and days without food or water," Mayer said. "And then the Red Cross was taking orphan kids away from the war zone. So his parents declared that they were not their kids; they found them. So the kids went with the Red Cross." "They never knew if they would ever see their parents again." The Red Cross put Arye and his brother on a boat to the British Mandate for Palestine. But they were turned away. (In 1939, Britain began limiting immigration to Palestine following the 1936-39 Palestine Revolt against the British Mandate for the increase of Jewish immigration as Hitler rose to power.) According to Mayer, Arye's ship went to Italy, where he and his brother boarded another boat that went back to Palestine, and this time, they were allowed to enter the region. They were adopted by a man from a Kibbutz (a communal settlement in Israel, typically a farm) near Jerusalem. Arye and his brother served Israel as soldiers, volunteering for the Haganah, the Zionist paramilitary organization...Read More |
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Toronto, November 4 - Students and community figures devoted to fighting Zionism and anyone associated with the movement voiced a sense of letdown today upon discovering that this week's anniversary of a 1938 pogrom throughout the Third Reich against Jews, Jewish institutions, and Jewish-owned businesses involves commemoration in a subdued, somber manner, and not, as they had assumed, an occasion to try it again. Abu Bakr Jabareen, a spokesman for the Free Palestine Coalition at area university campuses and mosques, informed a shocked group of activists that their planned regimen of beatings, lynching, arson, vandalism, and violence targeting Jews, synagogues, Jewish schools, Jewish-owned shops and offices, and other identifiable elements of Jewry, will not in fact take place, because it turns out Kristallnacht has a mournful and didactic character, not a celebratory one. "We're all disappointed," acknowledged Jabareen, addressing volunteers from Students for Justice in Palestine, If Not Now, Jewish Voice for Peace, and assorted organizations advocating BDS. "I, too, thought that Kristallnacht called for what we've always envisioned we could do if we made the political decisions. But I found out just now that our reenactment of justice against suspected...Read More |
From Ian: Palestinians Admit: Only Destroying Israel Will Bring Peace As Palestinian Media Watch has shown, every year the PA and its institutions mark November 2nd with a comprehensive diatribe against the Balfour Declaration. This year, PA Chairman and President Mahmoud Abbas issued a new "presidential decree," ordering that the "national flag" be flown at half-mast on all the PA governmental buildings, including embassies and representative offices abroad. According to the official PA news agency Wafa, the aim of lowering the flag is to remind "the world in general and the United Kingdom in particular of the suffering of the Palestinian people and their rights to achieve independence, statehood and self-determination." Last year, the PA courts held a trial against the UK government demanding that it be held accountable for the declaration and its consequences. Unsurprisingly, the PA never mentions that prior to 1917, much of the Middle East and other regions were part of the Ottoman/Turkish Empire for 400 years. They never mention that an independent "State of Palestine" never existed. They similarly do not mention that the Balfour Declaration was not merely a British whim, but rather a decision adopted and ratified by the international community at the San Remo Conference in 1920. The PA also never mentions that the Balfour Declaration was then adopted by the...Read More |
From the BBC:
Europe's top human rights organisation has pulled posters from a campaign that promoted respect for Muslim women who choose to wear headscarves after provoking opposition in France. The Council of Europe released the images last week for a campaign against anti-Muslim discrimination. A slogan on one advert read: "Beauty is in diversity as freedom is in hijab". Several prominent French politicians condemned the message and argued the hijab did not represent freedom. But some Muslim women who wear headscarves said the reaction showed a lack of respect for diversity and the right to choose what to wear in France. France's youth minister, Sarah El Haïry, ... suggested the poster had encouraged women to wear headscarves. She said this message jarred with the secular values of France, which had expressed its disapproval of the campaign. It would be obvious to say that Israel is more tolerant than France, since France bans women wearing the hijab in many circumstances and Israel never does. However, this is a story about Europe altogether. One cannot even imagine such a campaign in Israel - because Jews don't discriminate against women in hijabs to begin with! Married religious Jewish women cover their hair, too. Muslim women with hijabs walk freely in Israel alongside Jews in restaurants, malls and cafes. Israel is truly diverse. A tolerance campaign like this one would be met with puzzlement. Europe...Read More |
The New York Times has announced that the newspaper has a new correspondent in Israel, Raja Abdulrahim: Delighted to announce that @RajaAbdulrahim is joining the @nytimes Jerusalem Bureau where she will roam widely, writing about Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, with a special focus on Palestinian affairs. — Michael Slackman (@meslackman) November 3, 2021
There is definitely justification for hiring a native Arabic-speaking journalist to add to the coverage of the region. However, newspapers should at least pretend to choose journalists who are objective.
Abdulrahim is not one of them. Not one of her tweets that mention Israel is positive about the country.
She regards Gaza as "little more than an open-air prison:"
She casts the IDF as immoral for having the same primary goal of every single army in the world - to protect its country's citizens: She fully accepts the lie that Jews cast every critic of Israel as antisemites, ignoring (in this case) Marc...Read More |
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