| Guess who is accused of stealing Palestinian land? noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 16 Jun 04:45 AM The Palestinian Authority news agency Wafa has an | | The Palestinian Authority news agency Wafa has an article claiming that Hamas is stealing land in Gaza from its proper owners.
According to the story, Hamas continually seizes thousands of dunums of land by force of arms in Gaza.
It turns around and gives some of this land either to its own members, or to employees in lieu of paying salaries. It has evicted hundreds of families from their homes, including some who were allotted land back when Egypt controlled Gaza. An investigative report by journalist Muhammad Othman, published in 2021, revealed that Hamas seized 42 dunams of land belonging to Al-Azhar University in Gaza and gave it to "others ." According to Othman's investigation, Hamas granted some to Hamas sports clubs and other plots of land totaling about 8 dunums for the benefit of the Young Muslim Women Association of Hamas . Hamas regularly send notices to residents telling them to evict, because the land belongs to the government, as it scours ol records looking for an excuse to steal their land. One journalist tweeted sarcastically, "[Hamas] is looking through the old books...it wants the right of lands from the days of the Egyptians...soon they get to the lands from the days of the Ottomans, and eventually they will claim Canaanite land records as well." ــــ * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at...Read More |
From Ian: We must stop sweeping woke antisemitism under the rug How effectively is the Jewish establishment confronting intolerance?
In a recent editorial, Morton Klein and Elizabeth Berney of the Zionist Organization of America criticized the ADL's latest report on radical violence, "Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2021," arguing that it focused on white supremacism but downplayed threats from minority extremists. Similarly, critics of the secular liberal establishment lament its tendency to understate progressive bigotry and excess. Indeed, politics seems to set the tone for those communal leaders who appear restrained when social justice warriors target Jews and their institutions, leftist professors malign Israel on college campuses, or progressives promote global conspiracy theories on their social media platforms. This begs the question of whether cultural survival is possible when Jewish identity is conflated with partisan politics. Or whether invoking tradition in name while equating it with modern progressive values – many of which contravene traditional Judaism – will instead facilitate assimilation. Those who believe political progressivism is synonymous with Jewish prophetic tradition are just as misinformed as evangelicals who claim Jews can only be "completed" by accepting Christianity. Neither view has any foundation in Jewish Scripture or tradition.
The more confounding question is whether...Read More |
Who killed Abu Akleh is an important question for some, and not at all for others, but no matter how you feel about the question, the answer lies with the bullet the PA does not want you to see. Some of those who want the answer to the question of who killed Abu Akleh may be desperate to prove Israel's innocence or guilt. Others don't care to know the answer at all, as long as they can smear the Jews. A third, likely much smaller group includes Elder of Ziyon, host of this column, who cares only to find the definitive truth, no matter where it leads. For the rest of us, however, there is no question of who killed Abu Akleh. There's a bullet. The PA won't allow Israel to examine it. Case closed. It's really very simple: if they won't show us the bullet, Israel's not guilty. End of story. That works for me, but it doesn't work for everyone. Some of us need to see what is, and not what isn't. The truth is more important than a cynical surmise. At one point convinced that IDF gunfire was responsible for the Al Jazeera reporter's death, for example, Elder laid out his reasoning, concluding with these words: "I hope that I can also always be on the side of the truth tellers." This is an admirable goal for an honest blogger swimming against a tide of anti-Israel hate. The fact, however...Read More |
Shatha Hanaysha is the woman who was next to Shireen Abu Akleh when she was shot.She has insisted that Israel targeted Abu Akleh deliberately, and has been telling all news media that story.
But she was involved in another shooting incident, in Jenin, only a few months ago.
Hanaysha, who works for the site UltraPal, had been covering clan clashes and "security chaos" in Jenin, where people wantonly shoot weapons all the time. She apparently upset someone with her reporting and they shot her car.
It was a death threat from the "shebab" of Jenin. The Palestinian Media Forum denounced the shooting, saying it was "an attempt to deliver a message of threat and intimidation to her, for her coverage of the issues of lawlessness, family problems and the chaos of arms in Jenin Governorate on more than one occasion." The Human Rights Institutions Association also condemned the shooting, saying that journalists are being targeted for their reporting. By Palestinians. At the same time that the world is reporting Hanaysha's lies that Israel...Read More |
From Ian: Richard Goldberg: The UN continues Israel-bashing after Biden promised to stop it When the Biden administration last year reversed its predecessor's decision to abandon the UN Human Rights Council, Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged his team would use diplomatic engagement to stop its focus on delegitimizing Israel. That promise remains unfulfilled — and the administration stands on the verge of complicity in UN-sponsored anti-Semitism. If US diplomats can't put an end to the council's anti-Semitic circus in Geneva this month, Congress should put an end to US participation in the council. After Hamas terrorists rained down thousands of rockets on Israeli civilians last year, forcing the democratically elected Israeli government to respond militarily to defend its citizens, the Human Rights Council voted to establish a commission of inquiry into Israel. It has a mandate not just to compile alleged human-rights abuses but to concoct a body of so-called evidence to buttress broader anti-Semitic efforts to label racist the very notion of a Jewish state. Why does the mandate rise to the level of anti-Semitism? It meets the criteria of the US State Department-adopted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's working definition. The alliance cites two prime examples of modern anti-Semitism: "claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist...Read More |
Here's another academic paper that is purely meant to smear Israel but hides behind a pretense of objectivity: Vaccine apartheid and settler colonial sovereign violence: from Palestine to the colonial global economy This article examines the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine both in Palestine and globally through a decolonial lens. In dominant Euro-American discourse, the invention, production, and distribution of the vaccine is largely judged as an indicator of sophisticated and advanced health care systems and economies. The underlying premise being that the advanced, wealthy, and capable nation-states have endogenously earned the position of power and prosperity. The world's poor nation-states are posited as the recipients of charity from these rich states only after the latter have sufficiently inoculated themselves. The entire discourse turns the question of vaccines into a series of technical questions about capabilities, facilities, infrastructure, economic purchasing power, and so on. Concealed in this discourse is a settler colonial foundation – an aspiration towards omnipresent and absolute power – which not only creates the contrast between Palestinians and Israelis, rich and poor, colonizer and colonized, but also seals a forcefully imposed settler colonial contract in which colonizing populations ensure their ability to inoculate themselves by debilitating...Read More |
A week ago I wrote a letter of complaint to Bellingcat about flaws in their investigation of the death of Shireen Abu Akleh using their published procedures. Their site said, "We will acknowledge your complaint by e-mail or in writing within 7 calendar days and will normally respond to your complaint with a final decision letter within 21 calendar days. If we uphold your complaint, we will tell you the remedial actions we have taken."
I dutifully waited the seven calendar days and received no acknowledgement.
When I went back to their website, I discovered something amazing. The complaint procedure which has been displayed on their website since at least March 2019 had been removed within 24 hours of me filing a complaint against them last week.
(As of this writing, they have not yet removed that complaint procedure from their Russian language page.)
Bellingcat boasts, "With staff and contributors in more than 20 countries around the world, we operate in a unique field where advanced technology, forensic research, journalism, investigations, transparency and accountability come together." This incident casts doubt on whether they themselves are transparent or accountable.
Bellingcat has done some fantastic work. I went into this process in the...Read More |
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