| Palestinian campers posing with AK-47s in camp - in front of poster of Mahmoud Abbas.noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 29 Jul 04:30 AM Mahmoud Abbas' F | | Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization sponsored a day camp for children in Hebron, called "The Buds of Construction and Liberation camp."
One of the first activities was for each camper - many appearing to be as young as 9 - to pose in front of a poster of Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas.
With an AK-47.
This isn't a Hamas or Islamic Jihad camp. This is Fatah, Israel's supposed peace partners.
There are hundreds of photos of kids in this pose on the Fatah Hebron Facebook page. In case you weren't certain that these are meant to recruit kids to be terrorists, here is a poster from the camp, showing the children with masked militants. (h/t PMW) * * * * * * 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: Half of All Jews Now Live in Israel and That Is a Source of Strength A hundred years ago, in 1922, there were 14,400,000 Jews in the world. The centers of Judaism outside the U.S. were in central and eastern Europe - Berlin, Warsaw and Budapest. There seemed grounds for optimism. In 1922 the League of Nations awarded Britain the Palestine British mandate, which confirmed the legitimacy of Britain's promise in the Balfour Declaration of 1917 of a national home for the Jews. "The wandering Jews will at last have a home," the London Times declared in April 1920. By 1939, the world Jewish population had increased to 17 million. But Jews on the Continent faced a precarious future with the spread of anti-Semitism and the rise of Hitler. Many sought to emigrate, but most countries closed their doors. And in 1939 the British government in its White Paper severely limited immigration into the national home, proposing to end it entirely. In Chaim Weizmann's words, the world was now divided between countries in which Jews were not allowed to live and countries which they were not allowed to enter. By 1945, after the Holocaust the world's Jewish population had fallen to 11 million. Today it is just over 15 million. Jews have not made up the losses of the Holocaust. Between 1939 and 2022, by contrast, the population of the world has increased...Read More |
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Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Jerusalem, July 28 - Party leaders, campaign consultants, and aspiring legislators continued this week to prepare for parliamentary elections later this year, with some of the largest parties settling on the one message they must convey to voters, but one that they fear might not resonate with the electorate in a way that generates inspiration, a shared sense of purpose, or a compelling reason to vote for them in particular: just don't vote Binyamin Netanyahu back into the premiership. The Knesset voted to disperse last month, triggering new elections scheduled for November 1. That contest brings back to prominence many of the phenomena that characterized the other four contests in the last five years. Chief among those phenomena, political rivals of Netanyahu failing to develop positive platforms of their own, to the point that the essence of several different parties' campaign messages have focused in the main on bringing down the man who has dominated Israeli politics for thirteen years, and not on any vision for Israel's future that differentiates each party from any other. Polls show a familiar deadlock between the "will sit in a government under Bibi" and "will not sit in a government under Bibi" factions, neither of which can muster a parliamentary...Read More |
From Ian: Jerusalem Slams UN Official Who Questioned Israel's Membership, Railed at 'Jewish Lobby' The Israeli Mission to the United Nations (UN) in Geneva has expressed outrage following a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) investigator's comments about the undue influence of a so-called "Jewish lobby" on media, and whether Israel should be a member of the body at all. "We are very disheartened by the social media that is controlled largely by whether it's the Jewish lobby or it's the specific NGOs. A lot of money is being thrown in to trying to discredit us," Miloon Kothari — a member of the UNHRC's "International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel (COI)" — said on the latest episode of The Mondoweiss Podcast. Formed by the UNHRC after the 2021 hostilities between Israel and Hamas, the COI was tasked with issuing annual reports on any human rights abuses committed during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It has previously drawn scrutiny from Israeli and US officials for its unusually broad, open-ended focus. "One of our mandates is to look at the role of both humanitarian law, human rights law, criminal law," Kothari continued. "And on all three counts, Israel is in systematic violation of all the legislation. And in fact, I mean, I would go as far as to raise the question...Read More |
From Times of Israel: An alleged Israeli spy network made up of five individuals has been arrested in Iran, an Iranian media outlet claimed Thursday, the second such group detention announced within a week. The semi-official Iranian Labour News Agency said the five suspects were the leader of the cell and four associates, all of whom were "affiliated with the Israeli regime" and had allegedly been in contact with the head of Israel's Mossad. The report said Iran claimed the alleged spies had told the chief of the Israeli spy agency that they would "collect information from important and vital areas." Maybe they caught some spies and maybe they didn't. But you can be certain that whoever Iran arrested was not in direct contact with the head of the Mossad! That is not how any organization works, let alone an intelligence operation! And if the absurd story was true, Iranian spy agencies are idiots, because they could use these spies to directly send misinformation to the head of Israel's Mossad! That is a lot more valuable than exposing them. This alone is enough to make one think that the entire story is fabricated. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424...Read More |
I came across this 2021 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Kubin et al: "Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts." People believe that facts are essential for earning the respect of political adversaries, but our research shows that this belief is wrong. We find that sharing personal experiences about a political issue—especially experiences involving harm—help to foster respect via increased perceptions of rationality. This research provides a straightforward pathway for increasing moral understanding and decreasing political intolerance. ....In moral and political disagreements, everyday people treat subjective experiences as truer than objective facts.The paper makes the assumption of goodwill; if you want to convince someone of the truth of your position, enhance your facts with personal experience. The authors suggest that narratives can increase political tolerance.
But it doesn't consider how malicious people weaponize this knowledge in order to lead people away from the facts to begin with - and how propagandists can use this to increase intolerance.
A commentary on the paper in PNAS does touch on this: The power that story has over facts to capture the imagination and create respect for an individual's position is easily exploited. ...Narratives are easily weaponized by propagandists...Read More |
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