| An angry Twitter thread to @Amnesty @AmnestyUSA, serial liars and Jew-haters. noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 03 Feb 05:45 AM I don't use the word "a | | I don't use the word "antisemitic" loosely, but in the case of Amnesty International, it really fits.
Amnesty USA has spent the past two days posting a huge number of tweets to justify the "apartheid" report, which did not get a wonderful reception in the US.
In one thread, AmnestyUSA claimed that the organization treats all countries equally: Amnesty International is committed to researching and documenting human rights abuses wherever they occur. We have issued reports on crimes against humanity committed by authorities in countries around the world, from China to Sudan to Saudi Arabia. In 2017, Amnesty International released conclusive evidence that authorities in Myanmar are committing apartheid against the Rohingya. Our sole mandate is to document and expose human rights violations wherever we find them and to issue recommendations that will remedy and end them. As someone who has followed Amnesty's antisemitism for years, I sort of lost it.
Here is my response, fixing types because I was so angry: Why you are full of crap:
1. Oh, great, you also accused Myanmar of apartheid. So you are comparing Israel with a country that engaged in mass rapes and genocide. AND NO ONE ELSE is given the title "apartheid.". Not even China with Uighurs. Not Darfuris in Sudan. You are comparing Jews with the worst abusers ever. Drop dead.
2. You have OBSESSED over Israel. You spent untold time and money just to attack travel companies who don't discriminate against Jews in Judea and Samaria...Read More |
From Ian: Twenty years after Daniel Pearl's death, the fight for justice continues Twenty years after his death at the hands of terrorists, the fight for justice for journalist Daniel Pearl continues, with the United States urging Pakistan to keep his kidnappers behind bars while his killer awaits a 9/11 trial at Guantanamo Bay . Pearl, a 38-year-old Jewish American known as "Danny" to friends and family, was in Karachi after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, investigating Pakistani terrorist groups on behalf of the Wall Street Journal. He was following leads on al Qaeda and Richard Reid, the British-born "Shoe Bomber" accused of trying to blow up an American Airlines flight in December 2001 when he was abducted. Just over a week later, Pearl was beheaded on video by al Qaeda operatives on Feb. 1, 2002. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the terrorist found guilty in Pakistan for the kidnapping-for-ransom and murder of Pearl, had his conviction overturned in 2020 by a Pakistani court, though he has remained imprisoned as legal proceedings continue. "The United States remains deeply concerned by the developments in the case of those involved in Daniel Pearl's kidnapping and murder," a State Department spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. "We continue to expect the Pakistani government to ensure that justice is served and that...Read More |
The Slabodka Yeshiva in Hebron, circa 1929
This submission in itself should not be understood as an endorsement of the "Commission of Inquiry," including its mandate. I would like to offer information regarding the "underlying root causes of recurrent tensions, instability and protraction of conflict in and between the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel; as well as systematic discrimination and repression based on national, ethnic, racial or religious identity." My name is Varda Meyers Epstein and I would like to tell you about my husband's cousin, Jacob (Yaacov) Wexler, who was murdered in the 1929 Hebron Massacre because of his religious identity as a Jew. Jacob (Yaacov) Wexler circa 1929 Jackie, as he was known, grew up in Chicago, where he was a promising student at the Hebrew Theological College. During a family visit to British Mandate Palestine, 16-year-old Jackie begged to stay in order to study at the famed Slabodka Yeshiva (seminary) in Hebron. Jackie's father Richard, after being reassured by American students already at the seminary that Jackie would be safe and well taken care of, consented to allow his son to stay and fully immerse himself in his Torah studies. During his time at the yeshiva, Jackie was happy. In a letter to his parents he praised the yeshiva and his life in the Land of Israel. "I've never experienced happiness my whole life as in Simchat Torah\* in Hebron," he wrote. In August of 1929, the Mufti of Jerusalem...Read More |
Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal I still follow the rabbi of the largest (Reform) synagogue in the small California city where I lived before returning to Israel some 8 years ago. Yesterday, I saw that he wrote on his Facebook page that he and his institution, and I presume others of good will, "stand together," against racial, religious, and anti-LGBTQ+ hatred, and "against all those who seek to divide us...all those who make people into 'others.'" He wrote this in response to a news report that several historically black colleges had received bomb threats for the past two days. I don't mean to suggest that he is insincere about deploring various forms of prejudice, but could there be an emptier gesture? I was tempted to suggest that if he really wanted to take action, he should send a busload of congregants to the nearest historically black college where they could spend the day checking dumpsters and bus shelters for bombs, as I recall doing during my army reserve duty. Meanwhile, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), in a perversion of its name and mandate, has established what Amb. Alan Baker calls "a permanent inquisition" against the State of Israel. With a large staff and budget, this "Commission of Inquiry" will proceed to demonize and delegitimize the one Jewish state. Even for the UN, such a one-sided "inquiry" is unprecedented, and its outcome will be used...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The Amnesty International hate group Amnesty International has produced a report that claims Israel is an "apartheid" state. This follows similar diatribes by other NGOs obsessively promoting the delegitimisation and destruction of Israel. Their strategy is to shift from their usual fare of false allegations about Israel's oppression of the Palestinian Arabs in the disputed territories to false allegations about Israel's oppression of Israel's Arab citizens. Libelling Israel as an "apartheid state" is the unconscionable agenda of the UN Human Rights Council commission of inquiry, about which I wrote here, which is working hand-in-glove with NGOs in a veritable axis of evil determined to bring about Israel's destruction. The accusation of Israeli apartheid is risible, and anyone with a functioning brain can see at a glance that Amnesty has produced a report as ludicrous as it is malevolent. It's ludicrous to claim apartheid is enforced against the Palestinian Arabs living in the disputed territories of the "West Bank" — because they aren't even citizens of Israel. It's ludicrous to claim apartheid is enforced against Israel's Arab citizens because they have full civil and religious rights. An Arab Islamist party, for heaven's sake, holds the balance of power in Israel's ruling coalition. An Arab judge sent a previous Israeli president to jail. Amnesty falsely...Read More |
Daoud Omar Daoud writes in Ammon News (Amman, Jordan) about how the apartheid accusation has been going.
One side comment reveals the actual hope of many in the Arab world: Describing Israel as an "apartheid regime" carries within it political connotations and a project for solving the Palestinian issue. And if this system is dismantled, the rule will pass to the people of Palestine. Yet the Jewish settlers will remain where they are, which will be a disappointment for everyone who longs to see Palestine return completely to its owners. They don't hate Jews because of Israel. They hate Israel because of Jews. * * * * * *
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When the announcement about normalization between Israel and the UAE went public in 2020, some prominent Arab commentators in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere started to publicly denounce the Palestinian leadership with the slogan "Palestine is not my cause."
It became a popular hashtag. The phrase keeps popping up in op-eds, such as this one during the May Gaza war.
Today, there is an op-ed by Dr. Mustafa Youssef Al-Ledawi in Palestine Today who claims that the phrase represents only a tiny minority, but it must be fought against. It clearly has made serious inroads in Arab thinking.
Al-Ledawi summarizes how things have changed in the Arab world and their complaints against Palestinians: We must admit that the climate has changed, and that the policies that prevailed in the past have changed, and the Palestinian...Read More |
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