| Tiny, obscure Egyptian literary conference recommends against normalizing with Israelnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 03 Apr 04:45 AM Last week was th | | Last week was the twenty-second literary conference for the West and Central Delta Cultural Region of Egypt. This year, the conference was entitled "Soft Forces in Literary Discourse and Literature in the Region as a Model." About 25 people attended this tiny, regional conference. But at the end of the conference, the world was treated to the official statement and recommendations of the literati in the West and Central Delta Cultural Region of Egypt. As the news items breathlessly noted: The most important recommendations, which were delivered by the poet Ahmed Shalabi, Secretary-General of the Conference, in the presence of the great poet Masoud Shoman and Ahmed Darwish, President of the Territory, were as follows: not to normalize with the Zionist entity in form and content... Yes, that was the number one recommendation, among about five given...Read More |
From Ian: PA slammed by EU Committee for producing new antisemitic textbooks The European Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee passed a motion condemning the Palestinian Authority for creating new school textbooks containing violent and hateful material using funding provided by the EU. The motion is part of the union's annual budgetary procedure that examines exactly how European taxpayer funds have been spent on projects it carries out. This motion has effectively frozen EU funding to the PA during its deliberation, while funding conditionality is being examined. The motion was proposed by the left-leaning Renew Europe Party and supported by the centrist European People's Party. It demands that the Palestinian Authority be "closely scrutinized" and that the curriculum be modified "expeditiously." The EU "deplores that problematic and hateful material in Palestinian school textbooks has still not been removed and is concerned about the continued failure to act effectively against hate speech and violence in school textbooks and especially in the newly created study cards," the motion reads. The EU "requests, therefore, the Commission to closely scrutinize that the Palestinian Authority and relevant experts modify the curriculum expeditiously," it says.European blood libels continue, but now there's a solutionOnce again, the psychological...Read More |
From the official Palestinian Wafa news agency: Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh condemned the assassination of the three young men, Saeb Abhara, Khalil Tawalbeh, and Saif Abu Libda, at dawn today, Saturday, the first of the holy month of Ramadan, in Jenin. Shtayyeh described that crime and the previous killings that were committed outside the law as horrific crimes, the perpetrators of which must be held accountable before the International Criminal Court . Times of Israel describes the incident this way: Three members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group were killed and four Israeli troops injured during an arrest operation in the West Bank in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning. The gunfight broke out when terror suspects opened fire on an Israeli team from the Border Police's elite Yamam counter-terror unit that attempted to arrest them. The suspects appeared to have been on their way to carrying out an attack, Israeli authorities said. "Information was received of a terror squad on its way to commit an attack," police said, adding that the group was also involved in recent terror activities against Israeli security forces. The suspects had been under Shin Bet surveillance for several hours ahead of the shootout, and Israeli troops found firearms and grenades in their vehicle. Who's telling...Read More |
From Ian: Jake Wallis Simons: Anti-Semitism is alive and well in Britain's schools Latest figures reveal that anti-Semitism is soaring in Britain. February's Community Security Trust (CST) report shows that anti-Jewish hate crime hit an all-time high last year. The total level of incidents rose by 34 per cent to 2,255, the highest ever recorded. Jew-hate incidents were reported to every single police force bar one. The problem is particularly bad in education. Perhaps it is the dominance of 'woke' ideology, which seems to carry a dim view of Jews. Latest statistics from the CST disclose that anti-Semitism on campus rose by 59 per cent last year, reaching record levels. Like many Jewish people, at times like these, I find myself daydreaming about moving to Israel (I did it quite a lot before Jeremy Corbyn was dumped by the electorate). In Israel, ironically enough, daily anti-Semitism plays little part in most people's lives. Synagogues often have no security, even in Judea and Samaria. Yet in the last two weeks, a sudden spate of stabbing, shooting and car ramming attacks has claimed multiple lives in the country. It is too early to establish whether this is a wave of Isis-inspired violence or if it has been orchestrated by Iran over social media. There is evidence of both, but the trend has yet to become clear. Either way, Jew-hatred in Israel – as in France and other European...Read More |
Times of Israel reports: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called President Isaac Herzog on Friday and "sharply condemned" the terror attacks that killed 11 Israelis over the last two weeks. "President Erdogan asked to send his condolences to the bereaved families who have lost their loved ones and wished a speedy recovery to the injured," a statement from Herzog's office quoted him as saying. "Both presidents emphasized that on the eve of the holidays of Ramadan, Passover and Easter there is a need for action to maintain calm in the whole region," the statement said. Hamas leadership has been, outside Gaza, concentrated in Qatar and Turkey. It is a major base of operations for the terror group. Funding and logistics of terror attacks have come from Hamas in Turkey. Is Turkey going to distance itself from Hamas, or it is trying to play both sides? Hamas was alarmed at President Herzog's visit, but I have not seen anything concrete that Turkey has done to weaken Hamas in that country. It would be a mistake to trust Erdogan. His desire to patch up relations with Israel is not based on liking Israel or disliking Hamas. Israel...Read More |
From Ian: Caroline Glick: The Negev Two-State Summit To block criticism of the nuclear deal the US is now concluding with the Iranians, Blinken's challenge this week was to neutralize the Israeli-Arab anti-Iran strategic alliance. And he used the two-state solution to achieve this goal. Before Blinken arrived at the Negev Summit Monday night, he held another summit in Ramallah with PLO chief and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. When he arrived in Sde Boker, Blinken used his meeting in Ramallah to make the Palestinians the main subject of conversation. Given the existential threat that Iran poses to the nations of the region, Blinken's efforts wouldn't have had a chance of success without Israeli support. Without a doubt, Blinken's greatest Israeli supporter is Defense Minister Benny Gantz. Gantz has been carrying out an independent foreign policy aligned completely with the administration's anti-Israel positions. Gantz's independent diplomatic forays have included meetings with Abbas and King Abdullah of Jordan. Media reports last week indicated Gantz was working to bring both men to the Negev Summit, a move that would have ended all talk of Iran. Gantz is not the only Israeli leader who has been ably assisting Blinken. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid also helped Blinken when they failed to defend Israel against Blinken's libelous statements about "settler violence...Read More |
The Nasserist Egyptian site Al Majd has a great example of psychological projection from Firas Hajj Muhammad, in an article named "Only Israel is responsible for the violence in Palestine." The ugliness of the Zionist occupation lies in the systematic hatred of the Arab and the Palestinians. The occupation policy and thinking is based on disrespect for everything that is non-Zionist and non-Jewish, Arab and non-Arab. A thought is based on human hatred and only recognizes them alone, and everyone is harnessed to serve them. It is a "neo-Nazi." Whoever contemplates the two, "Jewish Zionism" and Nazism, will find that they are very close in view of the other, so they are inhumane experiences, and as history cursed the Nazi experiment, it will curse the Zionist-Jewish experience, as it is a curse on the world and an uncontrollable evil. The real solution lies in removing this illegal and inhuman entity that is based only on enslaving and controlling the world. The problem with this occupation is that its leaders are devoid of all human responsibility and do not share with others and do not intersect with human beings in any of the general values, so they created for themselves values and standards that differ from the rest of the world...Read More |
Whistleblower Khaled Hassan
This is a bombshell report from TheJC (which does perhaps the best reporting of any Jewish newspaper): YouTube routinely ignored warnings from its own moderators to take down antisemitic videos, including some that inspired the Texas synagogue gunman, a whistleblower has told the JC. The refusal to delete the incendiary footage, which glorifies terrorism and brands Jews "agents of Satan", makes a mockery of the web giant's supposed commitment to safeguarding users, the whistleblower said. Former moderator Khaled Hassan, 31, who was employed to identify extremism in Arabic language videos until two months ago, accuses YouTube of "shirking its legal and moral responsibilities". In shocking testimony, the whistleblower reveals: - YouTube ignored warnings that specific videos would incite violence against Jews, just weeks before British terrorist Malik Faisal Akram watched the same clips and took four hostages at Beth Israel synagogue in Texas. - YouTube ignored requests to remove videos by Wagdy Ghoneim, a leading Egyptian jihadist who is banned in the UK, on the grounds that he was not on an internal watchlist of just 29 names. - Mr Hassan was told that when he wished to "flag" any video about the Middle East conflict, he should seek approval from a Palestinian colleague. - The whistleblower was moved to a more...Read More |
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