| 1920: Jewish women elected in Palestine Assembly of Representatives - and Arab women see what equal rights looks likenoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 0 | | We know from recent surveys that Palestinians, for all they hate about Israel, they admire it as a strong democracy. 68% of Palestinians describe Israeli democracy as good or very good.
This sort of influence is indirect, but important. The Palestinians might not be implementing real democracy, but they know that they are falling short.
A similar effect was reported in Palestine in 1920, as the Arab women saw that the Jewish Assembly of Representatives held elections - the first free elections ever held in Palestine - and Jewish women could not only vote, but they could run for office as well. And this caused the Arab women to think about equality. I found this article in a number of newspapers; this specific one is from the Dodge City Journal for July 8, 1920. It is bigoted against Arabs, but it points to something that is rarely studied: the psychological effects of a liberal Jewish population on the Arabs in Palestine. ARAB WOMEN DEMAND THEIR PLACE IN WORLD Newspaper accounts some time ago prophesied the gradual disappearance from Palestine of the picturesque water vendor, for thousands of years a familiar characteristic of the landscape of the Holy Land. The reasons advanced for the elimination of this graceful Arab woman, who glides along-with an earthen jug balanced so carelessly on her veiled head, were that improvements made in the water...Read More |
The media is filled with stories about Hisham Abu Hawash, the Palestinian hunger striker who is reportedly near death as he insists to be released from administrative detention.Arab members of Knesset are visiting him. Rashida Tlaib is calling for his release. Islamic Jihad is threatening war if he dies. Nobody is talking about his record, though. While the reasons for his current detention have not been released, he has a long track record of terror - and the media is not reporting about his past attacks, which certainly have relevance today. He is no innocent lamb. His current detention is to stop a planned attack, but the details are confidential. Israel's Channel 14 did the research. In 2002 he assisted other terrorists by spying on IDF movements and letting them know the details. He also helped find hiding spots for another terrorist. In 2004, he obtained a rifle and hid it until a planned attack. The attack came later in 2004 as he tried to fire on IDF jeeps, but his gun malfunctioned and he was caught. He received a 56 month prison sentence for that. One can assume that after his...Read More |
From Ian: Palestine Action: How and why they have crossed the line into antisemitism. Finally — the blood libel, "Israel's love for blood"
This is the clincher, which makes it pretty clear that this is no normal "activism". Which other countries, during protests, have been accused of having a "love for blood"? I challenge you to Google it, the answer is: none (except for Israel of course) This is vehemence on a scale that goes far beyond normal hatred. It is the kind of hatred whipped up against the Jews by Nazi Germany in the late 1930's. The last video I discuss is the one featuring Sarah Wilkinson, talking about why she is an activist against Elbit. In her words, Israel doesn't mearly cause deaths during a war with a determined enemy, it "slaughters Palstinian civillians" Behind the doors of an innocuous looking office door in Shenstone, the evil Zionists design "some of the most hidious weapons in the world", which are "responsible for the death of hundreds of thoudanss of men women and children" The number of Palestinian "people" Israel has "slaughtered" seems astronomical — even by the standards of its neighbours, who do far worse. Then comes the accusation that Palestinians are used as "Guinea pigs", conjuring up images of animals in cages, having goodness knowns what awful experiments performed on them . As a person, whose identity...Read More |
Daily Nous, a philosophy news blog, writes: Have Jews insinuated themselves into positions of power and influence in politics and culture because they are innately gifted with higher IQs, or is it also because they are ethnocentric and hypocritical networkers good at using non-Jews in their self-serving mission of "transforming America contrary to white interests"? Race science and/or conspiracy theory? This—pardon the editorializing—outrageous question is currently under discussion in the pages of the academic philosophy journal Philosophia. Welcome to 2022. January 1st saw the online publication of "The 'Default Hypothesis' Fails to Explain Jewish Influence" by Kevin MacDonald, who is described on Wikipedia as an "anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist, white supremacist, and retired professor of evolutionary psychology." MacDonald's 32-page article is a response to a piece by Nathan Cofnas, "The Anti-Jewish Narrative," that Philosophia published last February, and which is one of a series of pieces in which Cofnas critiques McDonald. Both MacDonald and Cofnas are preoccupied with the question: "Did Jews create liberal multiculturalism to advance their ethnic interests?" (Cofnas, p.1332). The summary may be a bit unfair to Cofnas. Let's backtrack a bit. Kevin MacDonald is described in Wikipedia as "an American antisemitic conspiracy theorist, white supremacist,and retired professor...Read More |
Ahead of New Year's Day 1922, a laundry service in Milwaukee wished its customers a happy new year. In the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. I don't think this is the kind of "reputation" the laundry would have wanted.
The Nazi party had adopted the swastika as its symbol only a year beforehand, and it was still used as an innocent decorative motif with no associations with genocide. But it is really jarring to see.
By Rosh Hashanah 1922, the swastika was dropped. ("Almost" dry?)
Here's what is that location today: General Rubber Company. * * * * * *
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From Ian: Abbas meets Gantz one day and bashes Israel the next Abbas has been around quite a while and obviously knew that his meeting with Gantz would trigger furious responses on the Palestinian street. Then why make the meeting public? Why not meet in secret? A secret meeting would likely have yielded the same results, and he would probably have received the same gestures from Gantz. The reason is that while the Gantz meeting might not have aided Abbas's sinking popularity among Palestinians, it helped him with the world. The US, EU, UN and various countries praised the meeting, signaling that they hoped this would build momentum for something bigger. Being seen as constructive could help Abbas build support for his never-ending effort to convene an international peace conference. For Abbas, therefore, the Gantz meeting served a purpose in giving the world what it wanted to see. He also surely realized that while the Gantz meeting would grab headlines, a speech in which he slammed Israel a couple of days later on New Year's Eve wouldn't garner much international attention. And while that assumption might be correct, Abbas again mistakenly chose to treat Israeli opinion as if it doesn't count, that it doesn't matter, something he has done repeatedly in the past. Abbas has never seemed to realize that any diplomatic process with Israel will need the backing of the Israeli people and that words like...Read More |
Israeli newspapers are reporting: Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh says that if Israel does not come to a prisoner accord with the terror group, it will kidnap more Israelis. "We have four prisoners, and if Israel is not convinced by that, then we will add to our stash," Haniyeh says in comments circulated in official Hamas media. So what's new? 2004: Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar, a member of the political leadership of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, confirmed that his movement is determined to free the Palestinian prisoners, through the kidnappings of Israeli soldiers. 2007: Yesterday, a Hamas official threatened to kidnap more Israeli soldiers to force the Israeli authorities to release Palestinian prisoners. 2010: The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) threatened to kidnap more Israeli soldiers if the international community did not intervene to solve the issue of Palestinian...Read More |
Here's another example of someone who would swear that he isn't antisemitic as he spouts classic antisemitic tropes.
Editor in Chief of Ma'an, Dr. Nasser Al-Lahham, writes first about how utterly evil and racist Zionist Jews are: Israel has entered the phase of apartheid and racial discrimination: politically, parliamentary, judicial, municipal, labor market, employment and security. And even in sports, tourism, hotels, apartment rentals, road networks, trains and airports. Israel sank as a whole in the quagmire of racial discrimination and there is no hope of saving any part of it from its inevitable fate. It has turned from an island of salvation for European Jews into an epidemic area that spreads viruses of racism and hatred throughout the world. So what's the next move for the evil Jews? I believe that Zionism is behind the aggravation of relations between Russia and Ukraine, leading to a war and the inevitable result of which is that Russia will occupy Ukraine in a matter of hours. The Zionist movement will accelerate the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Ukraine to Palestine. The Ukrainian Jews will be disposed of in the occupied West Bank and Syrian Golan settlements. So Zionists are secretly manipulating Russia and the Ukraine to fight each other in order to force Ukrainian Jews to immigrate to Israel and settle in "occupied" territory. Nah, nothing paranoid or antisemitic about that...Read More |
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