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President of Arab World Institute rips BDS noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 09 Jan 11:30 PM We reported about some Arabs being upset at the "Jews of t Like   Tweet   President of Arab World Institute rips BDS noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 09 Jan 11:30 PM We reported about some Arabs being upset at the "Jews of the Orient" exhibit happening now at the Arab World Institute in Paris. A few of the exhibits are on loan from Israeli museums, and that is making some Arab artists and intellectuals freak out. BDS France organized a campaign to boycott the exhibit, and they got some fairly famous Arab figures to sign on, like Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, Moroccan director Farida Benlyazid, Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, former PLO official Hanan Ashrawi, and US academics Rashid Khalidi and Joseph Massad. In total they gathered 250 signatures of Arab intellectuals and entertainers. The petition said the Institute holding the exhibition "would betray its intellectual mission by adopting this normalizing approach - one of the worst forms of coercive use. and immoral art as a political tool to legitimize colonialism and oppression " On Sunday, the president of the Arab World Institute and former French Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, insulted the BDS open letter and its signatories...Read More Abbas' Fatah delegation visits, praises Syria noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 09 Jan 03:30 PM The Syrian Foreign Minister, Faisal Miqdad, met on Sunday with a delegation of Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party, who was led by Jibril Rajoub. Fatah official Ahmed Helles said that the delegation will pass on a message from Abbas to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, emphasizing how great their relationship is "and the desire of the Palestinian leadership to strengthen brotherly bonds between the Palestinian National Authority and the Syrian Arab Republic." Helles added that Palestinians supports Syria against Israeli airstrikes of arms en route to Hezbollah, saying they are "keen on Syria's stability and territorial integrity." Syria has killed over 3000 Palestinians in recent years. I guess calling for BDS against Syria is not on the table. * * * * * * ...Read More 01/09 Links: Biden administration remains 'deeply blind' to inherent flaws of UNRWA, say Mideast experts; Hoodlums, Jewish teens and the BBC; Democracy PA style noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 09 Jan 01:00 PM From Ian: Biden administration remains 'deeply blind' to inherent flaws of UNRWA, say Mideast experts Wilf said that no matter what the Americans seek to achieve with their funding, the Palestinian perception is more important. "The way that American and all Western funding of UNRWA is perceived by Palestinians—and again we have ample evidence of that in the book—is perceived as Western legitimacy for the idea that they are refugees, that the war of 1948 is not over and that it could one day be won to their cause of no Israel," she said. The money, she said, will serve as fuel for another generation of conflict despite America's good intentions. "I think one of the biggest problems of U.S. foreign policy and Western foreign policy is that they prioritize feeling good over doing good," said Wilf. "And that this is a classic case in point. They feel good about giving money, but they're actually doing something very bad. They're literally pouring money that translates into many more years of conflict." Yet Israeli governments, with the exception of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have not prominently opposed the funding of UNRWA. Wilf said that this is due to a mistaken notion among the Israeli security establishment that UNRWA is a stabilizing force. Yet, she pointed out, it's not a coincidence that the places where UNRWA is most active, such...Read More 90 years ago: A Jew is executed in Persia noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 09 Jan 11:00 AM From JTA, December 31, 1931: After being kept in prison for more than five years, Dr. Shmuel Yeheskel Haim, who was the Jewish representative in the (Medjlis) Persian Parliament, (The Jews are entitled under the Persian Constitution to have one Deputy in Parliament) has been executed this week, it is learned to-day, on a charge of having been implicated in a conspiracy against the life of the Shah. Deputy Haim was first arrested in May 1926; he was soon after released, but he was rearrested in October of the same year, and had been kept in prison till his execution now, in spite of repeated intervention made on his behalf by the Zionist Executive, who had in May 1926 appointed him on the nomination of the Zionists of Teheran as the representative of the Zionist Organisation in Persia in matters relating to Jewish immigration to Palestine. It was explained by competent Jewish personages in these places who had been in touch with Mr. Haim that he was an ardent Jewish politician, who had been constantly protecting as a Jew against the Government's persecution of the Persian Jews, and that he was also an active Zionist, and it was argued that it was probably more on account of his activities in these directions that he had been arrested. The Persian Jews contended that he was innocent of the crime with which he was charged, and that the Government...Read More When the utopian vision of a one-state socialist "Palestine" crashes into Palestinian Islamism noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 09 Jan 08:00 AM Both Western Leftists and Palestinian Arabs agree that they would love to see a single state from the river to the sea. Neither of them admit aloud how different their visions of such a state are. When speaking to Western audiences, the Left - whether they are Jews like Peter Beinart or prominent Palestinian Leftists like Leila Khaled - describe a socialist utopia where Jews would ostensibly be treated equally with Arabs under the law, but the state would be strictly secular. Palestinian Arabs, however, favor an Islamist state run by Sharia law. To them, the Palestinian Authority is too secular already. The last time Pew did a survey of Muslims worldwide, it found that 89% of Palestinians would want Islamic law - Sharia - to be the law of the land. This was the third highest in the world, behind only Afghanistan and Iraq. A vast majority of Palestinians would like to see corporal punishment for crimes like theft and stoning as a punishment for adultery. A majority would like their state to give the death penalty for those who leave Islam. Most Palestinians say that it is a bad thing that their current laws do not adhere closely to sharia law. There is nothing in common between these two views of what a single Palestine would be. The majority of Palestinians have no interest in the secular paradise that you see described in the pages of...Read More    ©2022 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company