| Palestinians in the UK warn about the "dangers" of interfaith dialogue - they normalize Israel!noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 19 Jun 04:45 AM The Pa | |  |
The Palestinian Forum in Britain, in cooperation with the European-Palestinian Communication Forum (Europal), organized a symposium in London on "How Interfaith Groups Are Being Used to Normalise Israeli Apartheid."
Zaher Birawi, head of the Palestinian Forum in Britain, said during his opening speech, "The aim of the symposium is to warn of the danger of the occupation state or the Israeli lobby institutions in Europe using this concept (of interfaith dialogue) as a means to normalize the practices of the apartheid state, or to infiltrate communities. It promotes the occupation's false narrative about the conflict, or is even an attempt to distance the Muslim community, its institutions and mosques from talking about the crimes of the occupying state against Jerusalem and the Israeli violations against the first two Qiblas and the third of the Two Holy Mosques. "
Birawi added: "We are certainly with the idea of coexistence, tolerance, and even cooperation between religions, but on the basis of respecting everyone's minds and rights, and not according to the model...Read More |
From Ian: Biden's Mideast peace problem? He lives in the past U.S. President Joe Biden's first visit to the Middle East next month will include stops in Israel and the West Bank. It is notable that in the White House press statement listing the issues Biden plans to raise with his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts, the word "peace" does not appear. This is not because Biden is uninterested in advancing peace between Israelis and Palestinians, as some media outlets have implied. On the contrary, Biden has taken a series of steps to elevate the Palestinian leadership over the last 17 months, including restoring the U.S. aid that former President Donald Trump halted. On June 9, just last week, the Biden administration opened a new "Office of Palestinian Affairs" in Jerusalem, three years after the Trump administration closed the Palestinian consulate in Jerusalem. The opening of the office is not only a reversal of Trump administration policy but also an explicit rejection of the Israeli government's opposition to the current administration's earlier plan to reopen the Palestinian consulate in Jerusalem. It is an ironic coincidence that, on the same day that the Biden administration announced its decision to open the Office of Palestinian Affairs, two Palestinians were indicted for their role in a deadly ax attack in the town of Elad in which they killed three Israelis and wounded several others. Biden's failures...Read More |
From Ian: Eugene Kontorovich: Israel, Armenia and Presbyterians The PCUSA is fully within its rights to support Armenian settlements. Nothing in international law requires boycotts or sanctions against such communities. It is understandable if, as Christians, the PCUSA's members are touched by the plight of one the most ancient churches in Christendom. It shouldn't be a crime for members of a particular ethnic group to live in part of its historic homeland, and surely the PCUSA would be scandalized if third parties boycotted Armenians for returning to Karabakh. Yet that is exactly what the PCUSA urges when it comes to the Jewish state. It has made Armenian nationalism a funding priority while treating Zionism as a horrible crime. The PCUSA is far from alone. As I have written in these pages, vocal critics of Jewish settlements in the Holy Land on the far left, such as Rep. Rashida Tlaib and senior officials at Human Rights Watch and CodePink, have been active supporters of Armenian settlements. The PCUSA says anti-Semitism doesn't drive its obsession with the Jewish state. Instead, it acts under pretense of upholding international law, which it claims Israel violates by allowing Jews to live in parts of the West Bank. Doubtless the PCUSA's role in supporting settlers in occupied territory will not lead it to disavow its Karabakh projects. Nor will...Read More |
Shabbat shalom
noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 17 Jun 01:00 PM Last minute travel before Shabbat which I never do. Life is always interesting. Consider this an open thread for the afternoon.
And here's what an artificial intelligence program came up with when I asked for a family Shabbat meal. Have a wonderful Shabbat! * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More |
From Ian: A New Diplomatic Era: 5 Days. 6 Countries. No Palestinians The Israeli prime minister cannot ignore the Palestinian issue, but Naftali Bennett made clear from day one to his coalition partners that he would maintain the status quo. Bennett resolved to rebuff any diplomatic contact with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. His view was that nothing good can come of such an initiative because there is no one to talk to and nothing to talk about. And Hamas, clearly, is a non-starter. Bennett later learned, to his surprise, the degree to which Arab states in the region had also given up on the Palestinians. "Everyone understands," a senior diplomatic source explained to me recently, "that there's nothing to do. The Palestinians are divided. Half went with terror and the other half with corruption. With whom do you negotiate?" But in Israel, it is also understood that for all the good that is happening, the momentum can only continue for only as long as there is calm on the ground. The violence at Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan and the spike in terror attacks in recent months could well change the equation and give rise to a sense of instability – both inside Israel and in regional relations. "This whole summit miracle took place when there was almost complete quiet on the security front," a senior Israeli source familiar with regional diplomatic developments...Read More |
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Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957) was the famed 20th century Greek writer whose novels included Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ.
In 1926 and 1927, he traveled to Palestine and wrote of his experiences.
He had a very telling conversation with a young Jewish woman where he - less than a decade before the rise of Nazism - claimed that Zionism was a disaster in the making because Jews belong in the diaspora, forever.
Even though he professed his love for Jews, he proved himself to be a racist and, in hindsight, his young adversary bested him.
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We walked along the broad, dusty road bordering the Valley of Josephat at the foot of the Mount of Olives. The tombstones on the Jewish graves, deeply imbedded in the ground, were drowned in the glaring noonday light. The little village of Gethsemane, just two paces ahead, was blotted out in darkness, so blinding was the brilliance of the sun. Unexpectedly, there among the graves, two camels filed silently by, one behind the other, their necks swaying slowly. For a moment their patient black eyes, with the long lashes, gazed at us gently and my heart lightened as I felt the presence of a warm living thing moving through this inhuman wilderness. Walking and breathing easily beside me in this furnace was a young Jewess, a teacher named Judith, who had come to show me a garden for Jewish children. She was about twenty years old, short...Read More |
Amnesty UK has an annual meeting where they vote on resolutions about various worldwide political issues. Nearly all of them pass with a huge majority, since they don't ask for funding - just vague commitments to "lobby" for the issue. In 2015, one seemingly routine resolution was put up for vote to condemn antisemitism in the UK and lobby the British government to do more to protect Jews from attacks, which had increased dramatically in the previous year. That was the only resolution that year that was defeated by the Amnesty-UK crowd. The excuse that Amnesty-UK used to justify not opposing antisemitism was "we can't campaign on everything." Compare that to a similar 2020 resolution saying "AIUK should campaign against practices which discriminate against Ahmadi Muslims." That one easily passed 748-116. Amnesty-UK has exhibited double standards against Jews on other occasions. They have a public space that they rent out to nearly all organizations who request it, and they have allowed virulent antisemites to use the space. But when a Jewish umbrella group representing many political opinions wanted to lease it...Read More |
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