| Of all the country-specific Amnesty sites, only two still have "Israeli Apartheid" as their top story 2.5 weeks later. @AmnestyUSA is one of them.nor | | Amnesty International spent a great deal of effort and money putting together their anti-Israel report this year, including videos, workshops, lessons and the 280-page report itself. For two weeks, the main Amnesty International site put links to the report "above the fold" in the most prominent area of its site. Then this week it started to show other topics, pushing the slurs against Israel to the #2 position. Similarly, other Amnesty sites have different priorities. Germany: France:
Spain:Canada:UK: There are only two local Amnesty sites that still consider the anti-Israel report their top story, which is a pretty good indication of obsessive anti-Zionism and therefore antisemitism. One is Ireland: And the other is.....Amnesty USA: Based on how much the AmnestyUSA site tweeted when the report came out - I counted about 80 tweets in one day - this is beyond obsession. This is crazed hate for Israel. And the only reason anyone has crazed hate for Israel is when they are trying to suppress their true crazed hate for Jews. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon!...Read More |
From Ian: Seth Mandel: Propaganda Exposed In April 1948, Deir Yassin was an Arab village of about a thousand residents. It was captured then by Jewish forces seeking to break the siege of Jerusalem during the war for Israel's independence. Most of the fighting was done by the underground soldiers of the Irgun and Lehi, with assistance from the Haganah, the official fighting force of the Jewish establishment. A truck-mounted loudspeaker blaring a warning for residents to flee the village fell into a trench that had been dug by villagers. The result was a bloody house-to-house battle with a high death toll. That much everyone agrees on. But how high was the death toll? How many of the Arabs killed were combatants? What were the circumstances under which they died? All that has been the subject of much dispute. Interestingly, the testimonies of the Jews and Arabs who were at Deir Yassin that day are consistent with each other. Meanwhile, a narrative was formed about Deir Yassin in the public imagination—one that portrays Jewish troops as rapists and child-murderers. That narrative was established by people far from the scene who were crafting post-battle propaganda. How to correct the record? That was the task Eliezer Tauber, an influential Middle East historian and former dean at Bar-Ilan University, set for himself. It was simple but ambitious: He would comb through...Read More |
I noted recently that Jamaal Bowman and dozens of other "progressive" members of Congress have decided not to endorse the Israel Relations Normalization Act of 2021.
The Israel haters are describing the act this way (from a JVP mailing:) Leave it to the U.S. government to say "peace" when it means "weapons sales." That is exactly what's happening with the Israel Relations Normalization Act of 2021, a bill encouraging more arms sales and shady political favors between authoritarian regimes while masquerading as "peace" and "diplomacy." This bill is essentially a green light to the Israeli government, saying: you don't have to end apartheid, ethnic cleansing, or the occupation against Palestinians. We'll still give you everything you want. As usual, they lie. But it is worth reading the text of the bill - specifically, the US policy to be affirmed within the bill - to see what the haters really oppose and what they support. The bill, HR 2748, says: It is the policy of the United States— (1) to expand and strengthen the Abraham Accords to encourage other nations to normalize relations with Israel and ensure that existing agreements reap tangible security and economic benefits for the citizens of those countries; (2) to develop and implement a regional strategy to encourage economic cooperation...Read More |
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Arab Israeli Voting, Enjoying Freedoms Unaware He's Victim Of Apartheid Fureidis, February 17 - A prominent resident of this predominantly-Arab town in northern Israel runs his business, engages in local and national politics, maintains active civic involvement, and benefits from liberties and security unavailable to the vast majority of his ethnic peers in the region and beyond, a situation that has concealed from him, his family, and his community that in fact they suffer under the repressive boot of a tyrannical Jewish-supremacist segregationist racist colonialist fascist regime hell-bent on ethnically cleansing him and his ilk from the land. Jamil Zoabi, 50, operates a construction-supply enterprise that he and his brothers established two decades ago, but that he now owns outright after having bought out his brothers' shares in 2010. The father of six and soon-to-be grandfather enjoys a comfortable lifestyle and participates in civic life as his time permits, focusing mostly on local municipal issues such as infrastructure, and advising a committee that works with the Ministry of Education to help maintain and enhance academic achievement in the coastal town of 13,000. The freedoms of assembly, the press, expression, and religion that Mr. Zoabi exercises...Read More |
From Ian: Why do Iran, 'progressives,' fear Israel, the Abraham Accords? IN CONTRADICTION to the sour and rejectionist remarks of the American "progressive" groups mentioned above, the Abraham Accords are not a Trump-tainted gimmick or a Netanyahu-stained end-run around the Palestinians. Rather, they are an authentic breakthrough for both peace and security in the Middle East; a transformation that evinces staying power and deepens by the day. To assert that only Trumpian razzle-dazzle and arms deals were the basis for the Abraham Accords, as do the partisan grouches mentioned above, is a complete misread of Emirati, Bahraini and Moroccan purposes in pursuit of peace with Israel. The leaders of the countries want to redefine the self-identity and global image of Arab Muslims by blending tradition with enlightenment, anchored in an admirable discourse of religious moderation and broad-mindedness. Affiliating with Israel fits perfectly into this agenda because this is exactly how they view Israel too – as a nation that successfully synthesizes strong ethnic and religious identity with modernity. Therefore, the Abraham Accords are deeply rooted in genuine ideological intentions (as well as urgent security realties) and are locked-in for the long term. Alas, for the hard-left and anti-Israel mob it is hard to exult in the Abraham Accords. It means swallowing the fact Israel is demonstrably a force for good, knowledge...Read More |
Kweansmom asked me to check out this photograph of a man bathing his kids in Gaza. I dug a little and found this article about the photo and photographer: In an interview with Independent Journal Review, [Emad] Nassar said he captured the shot on June 26, 2015, while he was taking pictures of the conflict in Gaza. He was walking around the apartment complex when he suddenly saw the family and snapped the photo. It was not staged. The only information he knows about the family in the photograph are the names of the people and how they're related; Salem Saoody, 30, daughter Layan (left), and his niece Shaymaa (right). OK, there are a few points right off the bat.
The photo was taken in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza, which was a Hamas stronghold during the 2014 war. Hamas purposefully didn't rebuild the area for well over a year as it would show it off to clueless Europeans about how evil Israel was to bomb Hamas targets purposefully placed in a residential area.
As we can see, photographers loved this neighborhood and continued to take staged photos over a year after the war. After all, the destruction was photogenic and served a wonderful propaganda purpose, even as tens of thousands of homes in other sections of Gaza were rebuilt.
Now, how likely is it...Read More |
Al Jazeera reports:
The Australian government has said it planned to list the whole of the Palestinian movement Hamas to its list of outlawed "terrorist" organisations. Australia had previously listed Hamas's al-Qassam Brigades military wing as a "terror" group in 2003, but the new designation which will come into force in April, will list the organisation in its entirety, including its political wing. "The views of Hamas and the violent extremist groups listed today are deeply disturbing, and there is no place in Australia for their hateful ideologies," said Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews. The designation will place restrictions on financing or providing other support to Hamas – with certain offences carrying a 25-year prison sentence. "It is vital that our laws target not only terrorist acts and terrorists, but also the organisations that plan, finance and carry out these acts," Andrews said. Hamas denounced the move on its website: The Islamic Resistance Movement " Hamas " deplored the Australian government's move to classify the movement as...Read More |
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