| Presbyterian Church USA redefines "slavery" to say Palestinians are slaves to Jewsnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 13 Feb 05:45 AM On Martin Luther Ki | | On Martin Luther King Jr. day, Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA, offended all decent humans by saying Israeli Jews are slave owners and Palestinians are their slaves: The continued occupation in Palestine/Israel is 21st-century slavery and should be abolished immediately. Given the history of Jewish humble beginnings and persecution, there should be no ambiguity as to the ethical, moral, and dehumanizing marginalization and enslavement of other human beings. The United States of America must be a major influencer of calling this injustice both immoral and intolerable. I would also hope that the Jewish community in the United States would influence the call to join the U.S. government in ending the immoral enslavement. Dr. King continuously preached a Gospel of justice, so that all people could live in dignity. He didn't say it was "like slavery" or "comparable to slavery." This idiot said it is slavery. And to add to the antisemitism, he called on the Jews who obviously control America to tell the government to stop this "slavery." On January 22, after criticism, he doubled down: While my reference to these injustices as "slavery" may seem extreme to many and, of course, offensive to most Israelis, no one...Read More |
From Ian: It's Time to Give Arab Countries Their Due for Normalizing Relations With Israel To their credit, Arab rulers are telegraphing that benefits to peace extend to people rather than being confined to governments. Last September, upon entering the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, I was required to show my US passport, which specifies my place of birth as "Israel." The Arab guard, wearing the traditional kandura and keffiyeh, broke into a broad smile after checking my documents and warmly addressed my family and me in Hebrew with a hearty welcome, "bruchim habaim." Throughout our stay, open displays of Judaism were greeted by Emiratis with a greater, not lesser, degree of friendliness and warmth. When describing these experiences, I sometimes hear the retort that the rarity of antisemitism in the UAE is a result of strict anti-blasphemy laws. While it is true that any act of hatred or intolerance towards any religion in the UAE is punishable by a five-year jail term or strict fines, another reason for the propagation of religious tolerance is due to a traditional reverence upheld by Arab culture. As Robert Nicholson, Director of the Philos Project, explains of Arab society, "the expectation isn't to hide one's faith, but to profess it openly while affirming the role that religion plays in political life." Validating Nicholson's point is an awareness...Read More |
From the Wall Street Journal: When Yaakov Baruch, a member of majority-Muslim Indonesia's tiny Jewish community, set out to build a Holocaust museum in his country, he wanted it to stand as a symbol against genocide and bigotry. He reached out to Yad Vashem, the main Holocaust museum in Israel, for images and other exhibition material illustrating Nazi horrors against European Jews. Late last month, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, he hosted an opening ceremony that was attended by the German ambassador to Indonesia. The museum—a modest single-story structure in the lakeside town of Tondano on Indonesia's Sulawesi island—now faces calls for its closure. A number of Muslim clerics and Islamist politicians have argued it has no place in Indonesia, which, like many predominantly Muslim nations, doesn't have diplomatic relations with Israel. By focusing on historical wrongs against Jews, they say, it distracts from Israel's present-day treatment of Palestinians. A major Indonesian television network, tvOne, hosted a 90-minute prime-time debate this past week titled, "Fuss Over the Jewish Museum." The program featured conservative Muslim figures, one of whom used dehumanizing and inflammatory language and called the Holocaust a giant hoax. Mr. Baruch, also on the program, pushed back. ...In the days after the Holocaust museum's Jan. 27 opening, senior...Read More |
From Ian: Gil Troy: Jew-Hatred in America: Not as Bad as Jews Think, Not as Good as it Could Be Although Zionists hoped that establishing Israel in 1948 would eliminate antisemitism, the Arab-Israeli conflict unleashed new waves of Jew-hatred. Professor Judea Pearl calls this Zionophobia, noting that the vicious, irrational hatred against Israel and Zionists is as illegitimate as the vicious, irrational hatred against the Jews underlying it. Clearly not every Muslim is antisemitic, and not every Palestinian is antisemitic, but there are many haters, often wearing keffiyehs as their symbol, who clump together Islamism, pro-Palestinianism, anti-Zionism, and antisemitism. The most publicized antisemitic violence in America this past year represents this second strain. Particularly worrying were the Palestinian protesters who turned violent during the Israel-Gaza conflict in May, beating Jewish sushi diners in Los Angeles, pummeling a Jewish cyclist in Times Square, and pelting a Miami family with garbage, rape threats, and curses, including "Free Palestine, f--- you Jew, die Jew." There seem to be far fewer antisemitic Jihadists, like the Texas hostage-taker—or like the Seattle Jewish Federation shooter in 2006, who killed one and injured five, while berating "the Jews" for supporting Israel. Such Jihadists threaten all Americans. Still, 86 percent of Jews surveyed...Read More |
From the official Palestinian Wafa news agency on Wednesday: The Palestinian Central Council (PCC) affirmed this evening the suspension of the recognition of the State of Israel until it recognizes the State of Palestine on the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and halts settlement activity, and affirmed the cessation of security coordination in all its forms. Hmmm, this sounds familiar. Oh yes, from October 2018: A top Palestinian body authorised the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to suspend recognition of Israel and stop security coordination with Tel Aviv. The Palestinian Central Council (PCC) – a body of the PLO – said the suspensions should be in place until Israel recognises the Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, Palestine's official Wafa news agency reported. Similarly, in 2015, with hilarious explanatory text: Leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) have called for ending security coordination with Israel. The PLO's Central Council (PCC), the second-highest Palestinian decision-making body, took the decision on Thursday in the light of rising tensions with Israel. Launched under the...Read More |
From Ian: MK Mansour Abbas: Israel is not an apartheid state Ra'am Party leader MK Mansour Abbas rejected the claim that the state of Israel was guilty of the crime of apartheid within its sovereign borders. "I would not call it apartheid," he said during a virtual talk he gave at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on Thursday. He pointed out the obvious, that he led an Israeli-Arab party that was a member of the government's coalition. "I am within the coalition," he said, adding that the option exists for Israeli-Arabs to also be ministers in the government. He was quizzed about the issue during his talk, in light of Amnesty International's report last month which accused Israel of the crime of apartheid both within sovereign Israel and within the West Bank and Gaza. Human Rights Watch and the Israeli NGO B'Tselem have made similar claims. Abbas was asked if he felt the term apartheid aptly described the relationship between Arabs and Jews within sovereign Israel. Mansour said that the was not a fan of exploring the situation from the broad macro level such as apartheid or racism, but preferred instead to take a hands-on approach to solve discrimination at the micro-level. Such accusations, he said, do not help resolve the issues. Caroline Glick: The ayatollahs' men in WashingtonFormer...Read More |
How can a child trapped in a well bring out the latent antisemitism of Egyptian officials?
Syed Qassem Al-Masry, former assistant foreign minister of Egypt, writes in Shorouk News that Israel is upset at the show of concern and grief that the Arab world had as a five year old child, Rayan, was trapped in a well in Morocco.
He brings no evidence for this charge, but he does create a bizarre narrative. Since the inception of Israel, and even since the emergence of the Zionist movement, Israel has been striving to become part of the region. But how can it achieve this when the region is called "the Arab world?" It is necessary to put aside this concept and search for a new concept for the region that includes Israel. Studies began to be published about the many nationalities inhabiting the region; The Kurds and Turkmens in Syria and Iraq, the many peoples and ethnicities that make up Lebanon, the Berbers in the Maghreb countries, and the many African ethnicities in Sudan and Mauritania. As for the countries of the Horn of Africa that joined the Arab League, not all Arab criteria apply to them, the first of which is language.. Therefore, naming the region "the Arab world" is a misleading designation [to Israel.] Israel was not satisfied with only the studies, but started to implement it, so it put forward a new name for the region, which is "MENA" which is the first...Read More |
I've been picking out random pages of the Amnesty report to see if I can find a lie or deception on every page of Amnesty's latest "apartheid" report.
I spun the wheel of the random number generator chose Page 191 is my next target. Here is the beginning of that page: Stone quarrying is Palestinians' largest export industry, but Israel's control of the OPT has restricted Palestinian access to these resources. In addition, Israel has refused to grant permits for new Palestinian quarries or to renew existing licences.[1047] Meanwhile, Israel carries out quarrying activities in the OPT, in contravention of the law of occupation. That sentence seems to say that Israel refuses to grant permits to any new Palestinian quarries or renew their licenses as it takes over the quarries. Footnote 1047 adds a crucial piece of information:
[T]he Israeli Civil Administrations fail[ed] to renew or grant new permits for Palestinian quarries in Area C since 1994.
Israel isn't restricting quarrying in the areas that Palestinians control - at all. Nor can it, under the terms of the Oslo Accords. Amnesty is giving the impression of "occupation" when Israel allows full freedom for Palestinians to self...Read More |
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