| It never makes the news,. but Arabs throw about 100 firebombs at Jews every monthnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 19 Jan 05:30 AM Palestinian media qu | | Palestinian media quote Israel's Kan network saying that an Israeli bus driver was injured on Tuesday evening when a Molotov cocktail was thrown at her near the village of Al-Tur in Jerusalem. There are an average of three such Molotov cocktail attacks every day in Israel, but since most of them do not result in serious injury, no one seems to care. Even though they are firebombs. According to the Shin Bet, there were 124 firebombs in October, 94 in November and 107 in December. Also in December were 11 pipe bombs, 6 cases of small arms fire, 2 car rammings and 5 stabbings. Palestinians try to kill Jews every single day. Just because Israel has gotten better at minimizing casualties doesn't mean that the terrorists aren't still trying. * * * * * *
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From Ian: Emily Schrader: BDS is a colonialist movement It's no news that the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) movement is deeply problematic. To its very foundations, it is enormously hypocritical and largely ineffective. In the few instances it actually was successful, it was deeply damaging to the livelihoods of Palestinians and the targets of the campaigns, such as the musicians and artists participating in the recent Sydney Festival. While the movement self-identifies as a progressive human rights cause which is non-violent, in fact, its goals, as stated by co-founder Omar Barghouti, are to destroy the State of Israel. The movement has also given cover to terrorist organizations to carry out their activities and fundraising under the name of a non-violent social movement. In interviews over the years, Barghouti has admitted increasingly more of what both he and the BDS actually stand for – and it's nothing progressive. In an interview this month with French network Paroles D'Honneur, Barghouti reiterated that BDS is unequivocally against any form of "normalization" – meaning it is against the existence of the State of Israel altogether. "We will not accept it [Israel] as a normal part of the region, of Arab culture," he explained. More interestingly, however, Barghouti explained at length how BDS has been successful in unifying Palestinians against colonialism and demanding the right of return – adding that...Read More |
By Daled Amos Raisi said the general [Qassem Soleimani] never feared the US even as he was fully aware of its military power, "and believed from the depths of his soul that America can't do a damn thing against us."
Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi, quoted in Aljazeera Soleimani's admitted underestimation of the ability, and willingness, of the US to terminate him might be matched by the overestimation of just how popular Soleimani himself was during his life -- and now that he is dead. Iran, of course, insists that the general was a hero beloved by his country and has declared its commitment to seeing Trump and others in his former administration brought to justice. Back in 2020 and then each year on the anniversary of Soleimani's death on January 3, Iran turns to Interpol with a request to issue a "red notice" that would make it possible for local law enforcement in the US to arrest Trump on Iran's behalf. Red notices, however, cannot force an arrest nor an extradition -- and besides, according to their policy Interpol does not get involved in issues of a political or military nature. Iran has not stopped there. It has also called on both the UN General Assembly and the Security Council to issue resolutions against the US...Read More |
From Ian: Watchdog Sues Biden Admin Over Funding for Palestinian Government A watchdog group is suing the Biden administration for refusing to turn over internal documents that could show it violated a bipartisan law banning the federal government from sending money to the Palestinian government until it stops using these funds to pay terrorists. Protect the Public's Trust (PPT), a watchdog group comprised of former government officials, is accusing the State Department of stonewalling its Freedom of Information Act request for all internal documents and communications related to the administration's decision last year to unfreeze U.S. aid to the Palestinian government. Taxpayer funds for the Palestinian Authority were stopped under former president Donald Trump due to that government's ongoing support for terrorism. The lawsuit, a copy of which was exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, says the State Department sat on PPT's FOIA request for more than 240 days, well past the statutory period in which federal agencies like the State Department must provide the requested information. The State Department says it will not be able to turn over the relevant information until at least Dec. 16. The information in question could show the Biden administration resumed Palestinian aid in violation of a law known as the Taylor Force Act, a 2018 bipartisan...Read More |
Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner - the Warner Brothers
Rolling Stone covers the controversy around the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures erasing Jews out of the history of Hollywood. On Sept. 25, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures held its opening gala with a starry guest list that included Lady Gaga, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman, Queen Latifah, Patty Jenkins, Tiffany Haddish, Kristen Stewart, and Jurnee Smollet. ..... Donors and influential Academy members, many of whom already had received private tours, were outraged that Hollywood's origin story — wherein a group of mostly Jewish émigrés fled persecution in their home countries to create what would become a multibillion-dollar, American-led industry — was conspicuously absent. Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, who was on hand for the gala, was immediately struck by the lapse. "I would've hoped that any honest historical assessment of the motion picture industry — its origins, its development, its growth — would include the role that Jews played in building the industry from the ground up," he says. "As I walked through, I literally turned to the person I was there with and said to him, 'Where are the Jews?' The omission was glaring." That sentiment is being echoed from Hollywood's C-suites to the halls of academia. "It's sort of like building a museum dedicated to Renaissance painting...Read More |
Malik Faisal Akram, the Texas synagogue terrorist, lived in Blackburn, England. How many other potential jihadists might be there?
Studies have shown that Muslims in Britain are far more antisemitic than the larger population. Only 32% of British Muslims have a positive view towards Jews, as opposed to 74% of the entire British population.
What about extremist antisemitic attitudes? A 2017 study shows that 8% of British Muslims believe the Holocaust is a myth, as opposed to about 2% of the general British population.
Akram identified as a Deobandi Muslim, one of the most extreme Islamist groups in Britain. He is also a member of Tablighi Jamaat, an extremist Muslim movement popular in Pakistan.
11% of all British Muslims identify as Salafis, Barelvi or Deobandi Muslims, the three most extreme groups there. This roughly tracks with the percentage of British Muslims, 13%, who said that in at least some circumstances, Muslims who leave the religion should get the death penalty. As of 2017, 30.9% of all residents in Blackburn were Muslim - about 46,000. Blackburn has the second highest population...Read More |
This week is the third annual #ShukranDruze week, when we thank the Druze community in Israel for their outstanding and essential contributions to society.
The Druze community is said to descend from the Biblical Yitro (Jethro) and the annual thanksgiving coincides with then Jews read his story in the weekly Torah portion.
The DruzeVets website summarizes how important the Druze community has been to Israel:
Valiant. Loyal. Fearless. They defend Israel daily – they deserve our thanks. The Druze of Israel are a tiny yet fiercely loyal minority who serve with pride and dignity and have sacrificed 505 of their brethren in the defense of Israel – with over 1,500 wounded. Out of a community of just 120,000 those are huge, unfortunate, and very telling numbers. Most of Israel's friends around the globe do not know about the Druze community and its special relationship with the State of Israel. This recognition is long overdue, and it is the reason for the creation of the Global Week of Hakarat Hatov – #ShukranDruze. Since even before the modern State of Israel was established, members of the Druze community have been serving proudly alongside Jews as soldiers, as first responders, and in all of the other arms of Israel's security establishment. In 2014, when Jews were being massacred during their prayers at a synagogue in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood, it was an off-duty Druze police officer who ran in to stop the terrorist.
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