| Man dresses up as a Jew in Egypt as a practical joke, and proves Egyptian antisemitismnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 19 Dec 05:51 AM The Egyptian ci | | The Egyptian city of Assiut (Asyut) has a reputation for miserliness. As a result, the people of Assiut have nickname, being known as the "Jews of Egypt." Because, cheap Jews, har-har. A man decided, as a practical joke, to dress up as a caricature of a rabbi and walk through the streets of Assiut to prove that the residents there are tolerant and really aren't like "Jews." Dressed up in a ridiculous hat a fake sidelocks, he walked around the streets, posing in front of Assiut's landmarks.
Cairo Live reports that the resulting photos caused anger on social media in Egypt.
The jokester defended himself, saying he only wanted to show how tolerant the people of Assiut really are, as he is one of them.
The photographer says that indeed the citizens of the town were not angry - it was the other Egyptians who got upset at seeing a "Jew" walking around their beloved nation.
But even the jokester did the video with the intention to prove that Assiut's residents weren't like miserly Jews, so there was plenty of antisemitism all around in this episode.
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From Ian: Rabbis: College Diversity Officers Promoting 'Irrational Hatred of Jews' A group of more than 2,000 rabbis is calling on all American universities to suspend their "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) programs due to their overwhelming anti-Israel and anti-Semitic bias. The Coalition for Jewish Values, an umbrella organization representing Orthodox rabbis, wants all DEI programs put on ice in light of a recent study that exposed how university staffers in these positions use their social media accounts to bash Israel and incite hatred of Jews. That study, conducted by the Heritage Foundation think tank, concluded that "rather than promoting diversity and inclusion, universities may be contributing to an increase in anti-Jewish hatred by expanding DEI staff and power," the Washington Free Beacon reported last week. "Repeatedly accusing the Jewish state of Israel of 'genocide,' 'apartheid,' and other fictitious crimes while praising China, a country that is putting Muslims in internment camps, indicates an irrational hatred of Jews and not a concern for human rights," Coalition for Jewish Values managing director Rabbi Yaakov Menken said in a statement provided to the Free Beacon. The Heritage Foundation researchers reviewed the Twitter feeds of 741 DEI officials at 65 different U.S. universities to determine their attitudes on Israel and China. They...Read More |
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Palestinians are still seething over the photo of the Philippines' contestant for Miss Universe making stuffed grape leaves dish in Israel and captioning it "Day in the life of a Bedouin."
A very angry article in Arab America said that Israelis were taking credit for Palestinian culture.
Imagine what their headline would be if the Miss Universe contestants were only exposed to Jewish culture. They would be talking about Israel erasing Arab culture!
The fact is that some 20% of Israelis are Arab and their culture is part of Israeli culture no less than that of Mizrahi, Russian or Ethiopian Jews.
Now the official Palestinian news agency Wafa is quoting an Arab Israeli restaurant manager as saying that stuffed grape leaves made by the pageant contestants was Palestinian (and that there is no such thing as Israeli cuisine.)
No, stuffed grape leaves is not Palestinian.
There is disagreement over where it originated, but the best guesses are Greece, Persia or Egypt. I don't see any source that claims this is a Palestinian food.
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From Ian: Meir Y. Soloveichik: What Zionism Owes Yavneh On Hanukkah, as part of the country-wide celebration, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) opened to the public a Jewish town excavated from the earth. Yavneh was where the Sanhedrin, the supreme religious and judicial body of rabbinic Judaism, took up residence in 70 C.E. Talmudic tradition accords the credit for the Sanhedrin's survival to the sage Yohanan ben Zakkai, who fled Jerusalem before it fell. Today, an entire home has been uncovered in Yavneh, a home that clearly belonged to Jews who kept kosher and followed the Levitical laws of ritual purity. It may have been the domicile of a Sanhedrin member. Nearby, a cemetery may well bear the bodies of some of the most important rabbis in Jewish history. All of Jewish ritual from the destruction of the Second Temple to the present has been defined by what ben Zakkai and his Sanhedrin ordained in Yavneh. It is, after Jerusalem, the most influential site in the history of Jewish law. Now Yavneh's significance is being celebrated and highlighted by Israeli archeologists. The excavators informed the media that the town represents "a direct voice from the past, from the period when the Jewish leadership salvaged the remaining fragments from the fall of the Temple, went into exile in Yavneh, and set about re-establishing the Jewish people there." Simultaneously the IAA is staging...Read More |
From Ian: Ukraine recognizes Jerusalem as capital of Israel Ukraine recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's "one and only capital" and will open a branch of its embassy in the capital in the upcoming year, Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk said on Thursday. Korniychuk's announcement came at the Kyiv Jewish Forum, an event marking 30 years of Israel-Ukraine ties, which was attended by Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze'ev Elkin, who grew up in Ukraine. Elkin is also the housing and construction minister. The embassy branch in Jerusalem would be responsible for promoting bilateral trade and technological ties and will be inaugurated during a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Israel next year. The aim of the annual Kyiv Jewish Forum – which was held online this year due to coronavirus restrictions – is to foster dialogue among leaders from around the globe that will help bring about solutions to such challenges as antisemitism, the rise of the anti-Israel boycott movement, and the effects of the ongoing pandemic. Discussions also centered on pressing issues facing Jewish communities worldwide, and relations between Ukraine, Israel, and the global Jewish community. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky attended the online event, as well as Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Health Minister Viktor Liashko, in addition to Elkin, Diaspora...Read More |
Here's an unusually sane article in Egyptian media.
Well-known writer and editor Ibrahim Eissa confirmed that the Christian community in Iraq has been subjected to violent and racist attacks over the past years, noting that 4 million Iraqi Christians have left the country as a result of persecution. During his interview at the Cairo Talk program, Eissa said that there is real fear for the disappearance of Arab Christians and what it means for diversity in Arab societies, pointing out that the proportions and numbers of Christians in Lebanon and Syria have greatly decreased as a result of the control of Islamic leaders in most Arab countries. The journalist and Islamic thinker explained that Christians in Egypt were subjected to much sectarian strife as a result of the control of the Wahhabi Salafist movement over the country, pointing out that the exodus of the Jews from Egypt after 1956 made the country lose the civilized, internationalist character of which it was part. This is not a take that one sees often. Eissa has won freedom of expression...Read More |
Four mosques in Hebron have been closed by the government for Friday prayers today. Not the Israeli government, though. That would be Islamophobic!
No, the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Endowments in Hebron announced that the four mosques would be closed to encourage Muslims to all pray at the "Ibrahimi Mosque," the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
It announced the closure "in support of and strengthening the presence and endurance in the Holy Ibrahimi shrine and to counter repeated attacks."
When they say "attacks," they mean "Jews praying." Which means the official reason of closing these mosques is to promote antisemitism. However, commenters on Facebook understood that the official reason was not the real reason. If it was, the PA would have made this announcement when Israel's President Herzog lit the first Chanukah candle there. Or for any of a dozen other reasons before now. Why this week?
The real reason is because those mosques are Hamas strongholds! Hamas planned a demonstration today after prayers at one of those mosques to celebrate the 34th anniversary of its launch. The PA wanted to stop the Hamas rally, but admitting that is the goal would be divisive and look bad. So instead the PA chose to use as an excuse the only point of unity between virtually all Palestinians: hating Jews.
This one incident - the PA arbitrarily closing mosques, the official reason being antisemitism, and the...Read More |
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