| Orthodox Patriarchate complains about Israeli police presence on Holy Saturday. Let's see how it was in 1932.noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 27 Apr 04 | | The Orthodox Patriarchate issued a statement condemning the Israeli police for limiting visitors to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Holy Saturday: The Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem condemned the practices of the Israeli police in the Old City of Jerusalem during the Holy Fire Saturday celebrations. The Patriarchate said in a statement that the police, deprived thousands of Christians of their natural right to worship freely, through military checkpoints it had deployed in the vicinity of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the form of security cordons, all the way from the gates of the old city leading to the church. These barriers prevented worshipers and those celebrating the feast from reaching the church of the Holy Sepulchre. So let's look at how the ceremony was done ninety years ago, and the role of the police at that time, from the Enquirer and Evening News of Battle Creek, MI, March 27, 1932: There were lots of police around Jerusalem in 1932 for Easter week. No one complained that their presence, or their job to maintain order and peace, was violating anyone's religious rights. And, just like this year, police presence was partially a response to recent violent Muslim riots.
What about worshipping freely at the Church on Holy Saturday? Not, not exactly freely - it used to cost a lot of money to...Read More |
From Ian: David Collier: Under attack from the conspiracy theories of the Guardian newspaper The Guardian Kirchgaessner phone call We spoke on Friday evening (Friday evening is always a good time for a journalist to call someone Jewish). I informed her that I consider the Guardian a hostile newspaper. This cut through any need for unnecessary pretence and she got straight to the point. She wanted to suggest that my Amnesty report had been funded by NSO in order to 'retaliate' for the Amnesty investigation into NSO. In my head I was falling off my chair in hysterics at the thought that my hand-to-mouth research has ever been seriously 'funded' by anyone. The call ended with Kirchgaessner arguing about dates, in a strange (and exceedingly silly) attempt to protect her thesis – because she needed to convince herself that my interest in Amnesty only came about after Amnesty's interest in NSO. \*sigh\*. Does anyone not know about Amnesty's blood libel over Jenin in 2002? One of my closest activist friends, Richard Millett, was even physically threatened by Amnesty's anti-Israel obsessive Kristyan Benedict at an event in 2011. I have a decades-long list of complaints. Kirchgaessner is obviously totally ignorant of the subject she is trying to build a conspiracy around. During the call Kirchgaessner went on to tell me two other things of interest. One, is that she is friendly with (and she used the words...Read More |
Ma'an reports: Ankara began putting pressure on the Hamas leadership, by not allowing a number of its cadres to return to Turkey after traveling on organizational missions, and refraining from granting visas to other cadres to hold meetings with the movement's leadership in Istanbul. This necessitated a meeting between a delegation from the movement and the Turkish authorities, last February, during which the Hamas delegates heard clear talk about changes due to great pressures on Ankara in the economic field, and forcing it to make adjustments to the mechanism of building its international and regional relations, which may affect the way it exists. movement in Turkey. According to an informed source, quoted by the Lebanese news, the Turkish side did not talk about fundamental changes according to which it would ask the movement's leadership to leave Turkey, but rather returned to an agreement that obligated the movement not to carry out any political activity that threatens the stability of Turkey, or any kind of security and military actions inside Turkey or from its territory. In addition, the Turkish side, which "turned a blind eye" a lot to some "parallel activities," talked about "data it received from international security agencies, including Israel, that talk about military activity by members of the Hamas movement in Turkey." The Turks attached their words to an executive decision according to which "the entry...Read More |
From a Twitter thread by Jay P. Greene: The peer-reviewed journal, Antisemitism Studies, just published research by @AlbertxCheng, @iskingsb, and me finding that antisemitism is much more common among people with higher educational attainment. Our result that antisemitism is worse among people with more advanced degrees is contrary to the conventional wisdom (and some past research) that the problem is concentrated among people with low education levels. Past research directly asked people how they felt about Jews or whether they agreed with antisemitic statements. "Better" educated people are more likely to understand what they are being asked and sophisticated enough to give socially desirable but false answers. We developed a new way to measure antisemitism based on the application of double standards that avoids this social desirability bias. For example, half of the sample was asked about the military banning Jews from wearing kippot, other half about Sikhs wearing turbans. The principle of the military banning religious headgear is the same, so people should give the same answer regardless of whether they were presented with Jewish or Sikh version of the question. Highly educated people were much more likely to favor restricting religious headgear when shown the Jewish example than when shown Sikh example. The same pattern was observed across several...Read More |
From Ian: PMW: Palestinian Authority Spends 33 Times More per capita on Terror Stipends than on Health Services Analysis of the PA's expenditures in 2021 shows that, per capita, it spends 33 times more paying terror rewards than it spends on health services for the Palestinian population. It spends 11 times more paying terror rewards than it spends on education of Palestinian children, and twice as much as it spends on benefits for needy Palestinians. In 2021 the PA spent $193 million on terrorist prisoners and released terrorists and another $78 million, at least, on wounded terrorists and the families of dead terrorists. These sums were paid to 5,000 prisoners, 12,000 released prisoners and 40,000 families of dead terrorists.Palestinians fear UNRWA may take first steps to end refugee servicesThe United Nations Relief and Works Agency might allow other UN agencies to help service Palestinian refugees for the first time in its 73-year history, in a move that has angered the Palestinians who fear that it's the first step in UNRWA's dissolution. UNRWA "bears a political title that embodies the international responsibility towards the Palestinian refugees and their plight," a Palestine Liberation Organization official stated on Sunday. "Preserving UNRWA means preserving the right of refugees to return [to their homes] and [receive] compensation in accordance with...Read More |
I have not seen this level of blatant antisemitism from Arab officials and media in a long time. Jordan's Al Sabeel newspaper has an op-ed (republished on other news sites) on how to keep calm in Jerusalem: Calm will only return on two conditions: that no Palestinian is prevented from entering Al-Aqsa at any time from anywhere in Palestine; And not to allow any Jew from entering it at any time. It quotes a Jordanian ministerial statement that "called on the occupation to return the situation in Al-Aqsa Mosque to what it was before the year 2000 and close the Mughrabi Gate through which settlers carry out their daily incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Meanwhile, the Sheikh of Al Azhar in Egypt rejected out of hand the suggestion that he meet with rabbis.
Egyptian newspaper Al Majd has this headline: "The number of...Read More |
From AP, January 15, 2013: A religious decree issued by Iran's supreme leader banning nuclear weapons is binding for the Iranian government, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, suggesting that the edict should end the debate over whether Tehran is pursuing atomic arms. Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said the West must understand the significance of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's edict for Iran: "There is nothing higher than the exalted supreme leader's fatwa to define the framework for our activities in the nuclear field." "When the highest jurisprudent and authority in the country's leadership issues a fatwa, this will be binding for all of us to follow," he added. US leaders have referred multiple times to a supposed fatwa issued by Iran's Supreme Leader against the production and use of nuclear weapons.
President Obama said in a speech to the UN nine months later, "the Supreme Leader has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons, and President Rouhani has just recently reiterated that the Islamic Republic will never develop a nuclear weapon."
In 2015, Secretary of State John Kerry referred to this supposed fatwa, emphasizing that the US gives it...Read More |
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