| CAIR's defense of Zahra Billoo's antisemitism: "Some of our best friends are Jews!"noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 12 Dec 05:45 AM I reported earlier | | I reported earlier this month that Zahra Billoo, executive-director of the San Francisco Bay Area branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA), spoke in a panel session at an American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) convention where she spouted antisemitism, calling synagogues and Jewish institutions the "enemy" of Muslims. We need to pay attention to the Anti-Defamation League. We need to pay attention to the Jewish Federation. We need to pay attention to the Zionist synagogues. We need to pay attention to the Hillel chapters on our campuses, because just because they are your friends today, doesn't mean that they have your back when it comes to human rights. So oppose the vehement fascist, but oppose the polite Zionist too. They are not your friends... I am not going to sugarcoat that, they are your enemies. There are organizations and infrastructures out there who are working to harm you. Make no mistake of it. They would sell you down the line if they could, and they very often do behind your back. This caused quite an uproar, with even the Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL condemning Billoo's statements and demanding a condemnation from CAIR. But instead of condemning Billoo, CAIR says...Read More |
From Ian: Palestinian Authority Textbooks 'Encouraging Violence' Found on Teenage Girl When Arrested for Jerusalem Stabbing A 14-year-old Palestinian girl suspected of stabbing a woman in Jerusalem on Wednesday was carrying a number of Palestinian Authority textbooks with messages of violent incitement when she was caught, an Israeli watchdog revealed Thursday. Police said they arrested the teenager at her school shortly after she stabbed 26-year-old Moriah Cohen — her family's neighbor in the flashpoint neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah — while the victim was walking with her five children. IMPACT-se, an Israeli nonprofit that reviews educational materials used by the PA, said that the girl carried books containing a number of "violent" materials in a school bag when arrested. These included a lesson on reading comprehension describing a terror attack on Israeli civilians as a "barbecue party," a statistics lesson using a frequency table that featured the numbers of "martyrs" killed by Israel, and a social studies text portraying armed resistance as "natural" and "legitimate." "It is hard to imagine a more tragic metaphor for the brazen antisemitism and encouragement to violence in the Palestinian curriculum, than a 14-year-old Palestinian girl stabbing a visibly Jewish woman while carrying the Palestinian Authority's...Read More |
I always thought that while the King James Bible had its political motives, that its scholarship was pretty good. But recently I noticed that the word "פְּלָ֑שֶׁת", which occurs eight times in the Hebrew scriptures, has three different translations in KJV.
Four times it is translated as "Philistia." Three times as "Palestina." And once as "Palestine." It seems that the many translators of KJV didn't have a good editor to keep consistency between them.
But even in the entire King James, there is no mention of "Palestinians," only "Philistines." * * * * * *
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From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Double standard of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia An assumption of just such moral equivalence was on display in the BBC report of the London bus attack. Even if its journalists genuinely thought they heard an anti-Muslim slur on the video, they nevertheless recklessly failed to verify such an explosive claim before transmitting it. Their reasoning became clear from an interview with one of the journalists involved, who said that his team "thought it important to reflect there was abuse going both ways." In other words, they thought they needed to demonstrate a notion of balance. Yet it is only where an anti-Semitic attack is concerned that the BBC seems to think balance involves diminishing the significance of the attack by suggesting that its victims were morally culpable in some way. Moreover, the BBC report involved a further double standard—for it described the visibly anti-Semitic attack as merely "allegations," while the alleged anti-Muslim smear was presented as fact. The West in general has a problem with acknowledging anti-Semitism. There are various reasons for this. Unable to cope with the fact that the Holocaust took place in the epicenter of high European culture, the West tries to bury the persistent evidence that much of it still has an innate prejudice against the Jewish people. Although the anti-Semitic far-right exists, much of today's anti-Semitism comes from the...Read More |
I've been posting lots of memes besides cartoons on Twitter and on Instagram. Here are some from recent weeks: * * * * * *
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From Ian: Dore Gold: Expansionist Iran is the Pearl Harbor of the Middle East This past Tuesday, America and its allies commemorated 80 years since the attack by Imperial Japan on the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. At that time, Japan was carving out its "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." To secure the emerging Japanese Empire, Tokyo expanded its armed forces and its navy in particular, focusing its efforts on Manchuria, Southeast Asia, Indonesia and the Philippines. The key to securing its positions in Asia was knocking out the US military presence in the Pacific and making itself the uncontested hegemonial power in Asia. The dominant diplomatic doctrine in the late 1930s in the US was isolationism, undoubtedly encouraging Tokyo to conclude that to force an American retreat was feasible even with just six aircraft carriers in the Japanese Navy. The Japanese command envisioned that the strike on Pearl Harbor would undermine America's self-confidence to a point from which it could not recover. It is important to review this history today as the Islamic Republic of Iran seeks to evict the US military from the Middle East and assert Iranian hegemony over the entire region. Indeed, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared during Friday prayers on January 17, 2020, that the real punishment for America is "expelling them from the...Read More |
Today, Hamas celebrated its 34th anniversary, and tens of thousands of Gazans gathered for a pro-Hamas rally. Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar praised the terror attacks against Jews in Jerusalem, promised that not an inch of land can be compromised on, and told Great Britain, "We are a national Islamic liberation movement whose duty is to liberate its homeland and its people from occupation. If that is terrorism, then yes, we are terrorists." Meanwhile, 50,000 Muslims went to the Temple Mount this morning. If you think this was just to worship, think again. The worshipers came out of the Al-Aqsa Mosque chanting slogans for Al-Aqsa and Al-Quds in front of the Israeli police. Palestine Today writes, "It is noteworthy that hundreds of people performed the dawn prayer in the premises of Al-Aqsa Mosque in response to calls from Jerusalem institutions; In response to the massive incursions carried out by extremist settlers that accompanied the days of the...Read More |
Palestinians are celebrating the UN passing 6 anti-Israel resolutions yesterday by lopsided margins.
These are in addition to three others passed last week. The Palestinian representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour, thanked the international community for their "tremendous support in favor of the Palestinian cause and its resolutions." UN Watch has been keeping a database on UN resolutions since 2015. Here is my updated chart using their data of the number of General Assembly resolutions condemning specific countries in that time period. Outside the seven countries shown here, the UN has not condemned anyone else in that time period.
The UN is a joke, illustrated in one diagram. * * * * * *
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