| Saudi-American academic couldn't visit the Al Aqsa Mosque because of Palestinian hatenoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 22 Feb 05:45 AM Najat Al-Saeed i | | Najat Al-Saeed is a Saudi-American independent academic researcher who teaches in Dubai and writes for Israel Hayom. Earlier this month she tweeted details about her trip to Israel, causing much discussion in Arab media. Now she has written about her experiences during her short trip to Israel for Al-Hurra. It was virtually all positive.
The one slight discomfort that she felt came not from Israelis - but from Palestinians.
Ever since the Abraham Accords, Palestinian Muslims on the Temple Mount have been harassing and intimidating any Muslim with a Gulf accent who wants to visit Al Aqsa Mosque.
Here is how Najat describes her visit to Jerusalem and the third holiest site in Islam: My impression before my visit to Jerusalem was that it is a small and religious city, but I was surprised that it is larger than I expected, and it is not only a religious city, but also a contemporary city. I saw the religious side of the city I saw when I visited the Old City of Jerusalem with the wonderful tour guide, Shaked Berry, who coordinated with Sharaka (an NGO that supports peace between Israel and Gulf stets) and I saw a true incarnation of the...Read More |
From Ian: Jewish history is under attack This was illustrated when in the same week as Whoopi's comments, Amnesty International published a report claiming that Israel is an apartheid state. The report, which is chock full of lies, doesn't once mention Palestinian terror or Israeli security considerations, nor does it recognize the Jewish people's right to self-determination in their ancient homeland. Amnesty made sure to omit these facts to ensure that the world perceives Israel as a colonialist, apartheid state so that it can legitimize BDS and attacks against Israel. Even more disturbing, an increasing number of Jews have fallen prey to this false narrative. Jewish progressive organizations like IfNotNow, J Street, and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) promote a revisionist history that denies the Jewish people's indigeneity to Israel and perceives Zionists as white colonialists. They don't even recognize their own history. In George Orwell's dystopian fictional society of 1984, he says, "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." Let's be clear about the Jewish story - the Jewish people are not victims. We are a people that thrived despite the persecution and oppression we have faced. We are a resilient nation that loves life, a people rooted in faith and traditions. We cannot allow the haters to erase our history and take control of our heritage of...Read More |
Hamas official Issam Al-Dalis revealed on Monday that a plan to help Gazans economically. Part of the plan includes negotiating (indirectly) with Israel to provide an additional 30,000 work permits for Gazans to work in Israel. Palestinians and their allies tell the world how awful the Jews are and how they want everyone to boycott Israel, but at the same time even Hamas wants Gazans to have jobs with the hated enemy that supposedly wantonly kills Arabs.
In the end, even Hamas and Fatah don't believe their own propaganda. But credulous Westerners do, which is the intent all along. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon!...Read More |
From Ian: Amnesty's Israel chief criticizes group's report accusing Israel of apartheid The executive director of Amnesty International Israel has sharply criticized the umbrella international organization over its report earlier this month that accused Israel of practicing apartheid against the Palestinians, saying the document is not helping the situation, and may even be making things worse. In an interview with Zman Yisrael, The Times of Israel's Hebrew-language sister site, Molly Malekar aired her grievances over the report, which was rejected by Israel and has also divided her own organization. She described the accusation that Israel engages in apartheid, as well as other elements of the Amnesty report, as a "punch to the gut." According to Malekar, many others who campaign for Palestinian rights, both in Israel and in the West Bank, feel the same way. Amnesty's report, released February 1 at a press conference in Jerusalem's Bab A-Zahara neighborhood, found that Israel applies a form of apartheid against Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and around the world, and, most significantly and controversially, against Arab Israelis. Malekar said that what bothered her most was not the claim that Israel engages in apartheid according to international law, about which, she said, there is a "serious debate." Rather, she said, Amnesty, as an organization...Read More |
Bongani Masuku
In 2009, Bongani Masuku, the international relations spokesperson of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) issued this statement: Bongani says hi to you all as we struggle to liberate Palestine from the racists, fascists and zionists who belong to the era of their Friend Hitler! We must not apologise, every Zionist must be made to drink the bitter medicine they are feeding our brothers and sisters in Palestine. We must target them, expose them and doo all that (sic) is needed to subject them to perpetual suffering until they withdraw from the land of others and stop their savage attacks on human dignity Despite the fact that Masuku didn't mention Jews and used the tired formula of saying "Zionist" as a proxy for Jews, the South Africa Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) complained about the obvious antisemitism in his statement.
They first complained to the SA Human Rights Commission, which agreed that the statement was antisemitic. The SAHRC found Masuku's statements to have been of "an extreme nature that advocate and imply that the Jewish and Israeli community are to be despised, scorned, ridiculed and thus subjecting them to ill-treatment on the basis of their religious affiliation", and therefore they are "offensive and unpalatable to society".
They then got an equivalent ruling from the Equality Court, which ordered...Read More |
Last year I came up with my own definition of antisemitism that I believe is simple and more accurate than any of the ones that others have come up with.
Antisemitism is
hostility toward,
denigration of
malicious lies about or
discrimination against
Jews
as individual Jews,
as a people,
as a religion,
as an ethnic group or
as a nation (i.e., Israel.)It occurs to me that this is more than just a definition: this is a taxonomy for categorizing different types of antisemitism.
There are twenty permutations here between column A and column B. Any antisemitic incident should be able to be categorized as at least one from each column.
Let's put letters in each column: So, for example, the popular Arab claim that there are no Jewish archaeological artifacts in Jerusalem is a malicious lie about Jews as a people and a nation. We can call that AS-LPN. Not allowing Jews in hotels in the early 1900s was discrimination against Jews as an ethnic group, AS-AE. The myth of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is hostility towards and malicious lies about Jews as a people, religion, ethnic group and nation, so it is an AS-HLPREN.
Amnesty International's recent "apartheid" report is filled with malicious lies and discrimination against Jews as a nation, AS-LAN.
Nazi Germany included everything in both columns: AS-HDLAIPREN.
Ilhan Omar's statement that Zionist money controlling Congress...Read More |
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