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Fatah official: Israel infected Palestinians with Covid-19noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 21 Dec 05:45 AM Palestinian Media Watch translated a column Like   Tweet   Fatah official: Israel infected Palestinians with Covid-19 noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 21 Dec 05:45 AM Palestinian Media Watch translated a column in the official PA newspaper Al Hayat al-Jadida, by Muwaffaq Matar. Matar is a member of Fatah's Revolutionary Council and a regular columnist for the official newspaper. On November 21, he wrote: It would not be an exaggeration if we say that the racist occupation government has worked to export the 'COVID-19' (Coronavirus) epidemic to us, after our institutions succeeded in limiting and reducing the scope of its spread, as [Israel] used the virus as a new weapon to weaken the scope of economic life to the lowest point, and to leave it in an almost fateful dependency on its economy! Jews purposefully infecting non-Jews just so they become richer? Nah, nothing antisemitic about that. It is worth repeating that the outrageous part isn't that some idiot writes something racist. It isn't even outrageous that the editors of the newspaper have no problem publishing bigotry. The outrageous part is that this pure Jew-hatred is published every day, and there is no Palestinian media that disagrees. There is no debate in Palestinian media about this - Jews are evil, and that is accepted as fact. People who claim they want peace are curiously unconcerned about this. * * * * * * ...Read More 12/20 Links Pt2: Jews Were Massacred in 1948 Too, So Why Dwell Only on the Nakba?; DC 3rd graders made to reenact Holocaust 'because Jews ruined Christmas' noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 20 Dec 06:00 PM From Ian: We need you to take back Israel's story - opinion "Why is Israel carrying out apartheid against the Palestinians?" I am sure you have encountered a statement that resembles this question plenty of times. Often when Israel supporters are presented with this sort of question, they find themselves unsure of the best way to answer. So they remain silent. But the problem is that this silence creates a vacuum that raging antisemites fill with attacks on Jews at an LA restaurant, on a Jewish man walking down a street in Manhattan, and numerous BDS resolutions on college campuses. If Israel's detractors continue to fill the space left by our silence then things can get worse. UK lawyer Trevor Asserson once said that his greatest fear is that, "the democracies of the West and in particular America will get to such a pitch in terms of their attitudes towards Israel that it is simply politically not viable to be seen in any way to be supporting Israel." If this happens, Asserson warned, "we are finished." And while many Israel advocacy groups work non-stop to promote the truth, it's often the one-on-one conversations that will change someone's mind. The anti-Israel haters are hell-bent on vilifying Zionism and ultimately destroying Israel through their false narrative and delegitimization campaign. We cannot afford to lose the battle for public support, and we need every...Read More Elder Comix: Countering Zionist propaganda noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 20 Dec 04:00 PM * * * * * * ...Read More Hague throws out dumb lawsuit against IDF leaders. It's almost a shame, because the "victims" were terrorists and human shields. noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 20 Dec 02:00 PM From Al Jazeera: Israeli Defence Minster Benny Gantz and another former senior military officer cannot be held liable in a case brought by a Palestinian Dutch man who lost six relatives in a 2014 air attack in Gaza, a Dutch appeals court ruled. Ismail Ziada's mother, three brothers, a sister-in-law, a young nephew and a friend were killed in the attack during Israel's 2014 offensive targeting Gaza. Universal jurisdiction allows countries to prosecute serious offences such as war crimes and torture regardless of where they were committed. Ziada's case was thrown out by a lower Dutch court in January 2020, which ruled that the principles of universal jurisdiction could be applied for individual criminal responsibility, but not in civil cases. The case against Gantz and former air force commander Amir Eshel could not proceed because the men have "functional immunity from jurisdiction", The Hague District Court ruled at the time. The Hague Court of Appeal said on Tuesday the lower court was right to rule that Gantz – who was a senior military officer at the time of the attack – and Eshel had immunity because they were carrying out Israeli government policies. "Dutch courts are not competent here to judge the claim. The [lower] court rightly decided that," The Hague Court of Appeal said. "High-ranking military personnel have carried out official policy of the state of Israel...Read More 12/20 Links Pt1: The world must stand behind Israel in fight against terrorism; UN funding Palestinian groups with terror ties; Chile's president-elect backs BDS, accuses Israel of 'genocide' noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 20 Dec 12:00 PM From Ian: JPost Editorial: The world must stand behind Israel in fight against terrorism Every successful attack encourages more, both as copy-cat attacks by so-called lone wolves and by organized terrorist cells. Every attack is an attempted murder. The terrorists do not set out to injure their victims but to kill them. There is an unfortunate tendency to dismiss terrorist attacks that take place over the Green Line as being about "settlements." Relating to the victims in terms of being settlers delegitimizes and even dehumanizes them. The victims in the recent upsurge of attacks were not targeted for being "settlers" but for being identifiably Jewish. For the terrorist organizations, all of Israel is considered a legitimate target and all Jewish Israelis are perceived as "settlers." What starts in Judea and Samaria does not end there. Terrorists attack where it is easiest for them. If it is easier for terrorists to throw rocks and Molotov cocktails at cars or open fire in a drive-by attack or ambush in Judea and Samaria, then that's where they will do it most often. However, it doesn't mean the rest of the country is not at risk. Indeed, jihadist attacks around the world have shown that nowhere is safe. There is no justification for terrorism, period. Not the economy, not the settlements, and not a peace process or the lack of one. It is morally repugnant...Read More Year end roundup - please donate to EoZ so we can accomplish even more! noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 20 Dec 10:00 AM As the year winds down, I want to express my appreciation for all the people who follow me and read Elder of Ziyon. I'm grateful that I have so many supporters and fans who are hungry to learn the truth about Israel and the Middle East. This year the number of Elder of Ziyon social media followers has gone past 50,000, and there are more joining every day. Many of EoZ followers and fans are influential. We are followed by major media, academic and political figures, authors and recognized experts. It is gratifying and humbling. The blog is doing well, but I have also been spending time on memes and tweets that have been shared widely. Every month, my tweets are seen by millions of people - and during the May fighting that number topped 8 million impressions a month! Tweets regularly gather hundreds of "Likes" and retweets. EoZ's influence extends beyond the blog and Twitter. EoZ has been published, linked and mentioned in plenty of other media. The Google News sites that have mentioned, quoted or republished EoZ in 2021 includes: JTA Jewish Journal Algemeiner Jewish Press Israel Today Breitbart Weekly Blitz Legal Insurrection Jewish News Gatestone Institute JNS BizPac review Mosaic Israellycool Cleveland Jewish News Honest Reporting I also started an Instagram site to be an easy place to find my infographics, memes, posters, and comics. I have finally started to gather my best articles and more in the hope of publishing...Read More Palestinian police have been arresting hundreds of political opponents in recent months noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 20 Dec 08:00 AM Palestine Today mentions, as an aside in a story about a Palestinian Authority political prisoner who was recently released, that in recent weeks PA security services have launched a massive campaign of arrests of activists, freed prisoners, intellectuals and writers, especially those with Hamas ties in the run up to Hamas' 34th anniversary celebrations this month. A group called Lawyers for Justice announced earlier this month that it had documented dozens of arrests of West Bank Palestinians and activists of various backgrounds because of their political beliefs. They said that the arrest campaigns started in October. The groups counts over 200 arrests and detentions since May. Most of these arrests took place without presenting an arrest or search warrant, and many of the arrests were violent, as were many of the detentions themselves. There is one major question that needs to be answered: Are the hundreds of journalists who cover the Palestinians thoroughly incompetent for not mentioning this story, or are they aware of it and decided that is wasn't worth reporting because it would damage the narrative of Palestinians being oppressed by Israel...Read More    ©2021 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company