| Peter Beinart flunks basic logic in pretending to prove that Zionists are antisemiticnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 14 Dec 05:45 AM Peter Beinart wr | | Peter Beinart writes in his Substack: The evidence suggests not only that anti-Zionism doesn't equal antisemitism but that while some anti-Zionists are indeed antisemites, Jew-hatred in the United States and Europe is more prevalent among supporters of the Jewish state. Let's look at his evidence: In the US, the data suggests that—contrary to what you hear from politicians and Jewish leaders—Zionists are probably more likely than anti-Zionists to hate Jews. Poll after poll shows that, in the US today, hostility to Israel is far greater on the left than the right. And while surveys generally ask for people's views on Israel, not Zionism, it stands to reason that if leftists are more likely to condemn Israel, they're more likely to oppose Zionism. Studies of antisemitism, however, suggest that it's far stronger on the American right. Earlier this year, the political scientists Eitan Hersh and Laura Royden asked Americans a series of questions traditionally used to measure antisemitic attitudes—for instance, "Jews in the United States have too much power" and "Jews are more loyal to Israel than to America." They found that, "While antisemitism in the U.S. is often written about through a "both sides" lens, our evidence — the first of its kind in testing hypotheses through experiments on a large representative sample — suggests the problem of antisemitism is much more serious on the right than...Read More |
From Ian: Don't be fooled. Zionism is an Indigenous rights movement and being anti-Zionist is antisemitic. On Oct. 26, the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education passed a resolution condemning antisemitism, as it's defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), and as requested by every synagogue and mainstream Jewish organization in San Diego. Since then, Israel-haters in San Diego have been wringing their virtual hands over the audacity of a school district to define antisemitism the way most Jews define it (in a state that over the previous five years saw a 40 percent increase in antisemitic hate crimes, and in a country where Jews are the targets of 60 percent of all faith-based hate crimes). Recognizing they can't simply say that they oppose such resolutions because Israel-haters want to exploit Jew-hatred in order to incite hatred against Israel (the world's only Jewish state and home to nearly half of the world's Jews), the Israel-haters wax apoplectic about how the IHRA definition "chills free speech" because it supposedly makes legitimate criticism of Israel antisemitic, is a tool for "weaponizing antisemitism," and will somehow increase anti-Arab or anti-Muslim hatred. I addressed why these claims are specious and themselves antisemitic...Read More |
The Algerian representative to an Organization of Islamic Cooperation meeting said that Israel is attempting to control the entire Middle East.
The speaker of the Algeria People's National Assembly (Lower House), Brahim Boughali, spoke Friday in Istanbul at the 16th Conference of the Union of Councils of Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
In his speech, he said, "Algeria calls on Islamic peoples for greater solidarity with the Palestinian people, while working to preserve their rights, gains, heritage and identity, and condemning policies aimed at empowering the Zionist entity from controlling and taking over the region through normalization or collusion."
You see, when Israel makes peace with Arab nations, it is not for peace. It is to take over!
Notice also the wording. He isn't directly accusing Israel of trying to take over the region - that is a given. He's upset that other Arab nations are empowering the Jews in their unlimited greed. He added, "We support the Palestinian people in their sacred struggle for liberation and dignity and for the sake of building their independent and sovereign state and its capital, Al-Quds Al-Sharif, as it was throughout its glorious history, a beacon of civilization, freedom, thought, and peaceful coexistence." Before Zionism, Jerusalem was a neglected backwater for the Muslim world, ignored by virtually all. But everyone is entitled to their own facts, right...Read More |
Shfa News, a Palestinian news network, conducted an opinion poll of Arabs in Jerusalem.
The sample included 1,200 Arab residents of Jerusalem who have an Israeli ID card.
Of the 1,200, 1,116 (93%) say they prefer that Israel retains control over the entire city. Only 84 people answered that they prefer to transfer political control to the Palestinian Authority.
When those 84 people were asked about their willingness to give up their IDs in favor of a Palestinian Authority ID, they suddenly became more Zionist. 79 of them answered that they would refuse to give up the Israeli identity card they now hold and replace it with a Palestinian Authority ID.
Only 5 people answered that they are willing to give up their current Israeli ID.
That's 99.6% that prefer Israeli residence IDs over Palestinian citizenship.
This would be a surprising result for those who claim that Israel engages in ethnic cleansing of these very Arabs. Apparently they prefer "apartheid" to living in a Palestinian state. * * * * * *
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From Ian: Abraham Accords herald a new normal for Israel, Arab allies The Abraham Accords that Kushner championed made all of these things a real possibility for the first time since 1948. THE BIDEN administration was right to signal its support for the signed peace agreements between Israel and Arab countries. This, too, helped accelerate the momentum for peace. If the wave of peacemaking translates into tangible benefit for Arab youth, pan-Arab support for peace with Israel will only grow. We need a new regional order where Israel is a stakeholder and no longer a foreigner in its own region. This new regional order should not be seen as against anyone, but, rather, as beneficial to all. Also, this new regional order should be based on an updated joint assessment of threats, but also on how to generate opportunities that promote stability and future development. This time of year in America, it is common to pray for peace. Simply put, security and prosperity demand peace between people. The Biden administration should accordingly push for a broader effort at cultural reform with the potential to generate the popular support necessary to sustain a peace process. Doing so means urging and equipping Arab allies to roll back generations of rejectionist messaging in Arab establishment-owned media, mosques and schools. It means supporting the rising tide of bold...Read More |
At the American Muslims for Palestine conference in Chicago over Thanksgiving weekend, one of the speakers was Omar Suleiman, who has been praised as a new type of moderate Muslim leader - he even once gave the opening prayer at Congress.
Suleiman gave his vision of a future Palestine, one where Jews and Christians are not expelled, but dignified, under supposedly benevolent Muslim rule. Is Palestine a Muslim issue? It's a Muslim issue, but it's not just a Muslim issue. People will say well, you know, the Muslim vision for Palestine is one in which Jews do not exist, in which Christians do not exist, in which people are wiped out and oppressed. And I respond to them and I say have you not read about Umar Ibn Al-Khattab, entering into Palestine? That's my vision of Palestine. Umar Ibn Al-Khattab was offered to pray in the church and he says to the Patriarch, "Let me walk out of here, because if I pray here then some overzealous Muslims will come later on and say Umar Ibn Al-Khattab prayed here and they'll turn this into a masjid." And so out of his wisdom and sincerity he walked out and he prayed in a place that is today masjid Omar. My vision for Palestine is one that...doesn't exclude religious communities, doesn't white people out. My vision for Palestine is what Palestine was! It's not a false hypothetical situation in the future: it's one that existed! People dignified and held high! That's the Palestine...Read More |
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As we wrote earlier this month, there has been Arab anger at the Arab World Institute over their invitation of an Israeli singer at the Festival Arabofolies (Arab World Festival) in Paris, along with a major exhibition that featured Jewish history in the Arab world.
The BDS movement claimed that they were against the exhibit because it was created in cooperation with Israeli museums.
A new article criticizing the exhibition proves yet again that anti-Zionism is just an excuse to whitewash antisemitism.
The Arab World Institute had previously mounted exhibitions titled "Hajj, the pilgrimage in Makkah" in 2014 and the "Christians of the East, 2,000 years of history" in 2017. This "Jews of the Orient: a multi-millennial history" is the third of the trilogy. But mentioning that Jews had lived in the Arab world and built their own culture is too much for some Arabs, who never considered Jews to be part of their world.
Nizar Hussain Rashid, writing in Rai Al Youm, attacks the exhibition with thinly-veiled antisemitism, saying that the exhibit "emanates from the Israeli bosom" and showcases, somehow, Israeli theft of Arab culture.
He makes the ridiculous...Read More |
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