| NPR rehabilitates disgraced HRW researcher (and Nazi memorabilia fan) Marc Garlasconoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 03 Jul 04:45 AM Remember Marc Garl | | Remember Marc Garlasco? Back in 2009, I discovered that Garlasco, a Human Rights Watch researcher who wrote that organization's typically one-sided anti-Israel reports, was an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia.
He was forced to resign after it was discovered that he had written things like "The leather SS jacket makes my blood go cold it is so COOL!"
Now, NPR is rehabilitating him, interviewing him as an "expert" in a story about how Israel supposedly cannot be trusted to investigate itself in the Shien Abu Akleh killing: ESTRIN: Israel is similar to other militaries, which tend to protect their own when they ask troops to risk their lives for their country, says former Pentagon official Marc Garlasco, who has investigated war crimes around the world. MARC GARLASCO: Militaries in particular have a very poor record of investigating themselves. It doesn't matter if we're talking about Israel or the United States, Myanmar. When organizations investigate themselves, they tend to either exonerate their personnel, or they'll go after the lowest-hanging fruit, and we very rarely see any kind of justice. If so, why did the IDF immediately identify a possible weapon that could have killed...Read More |
From Ian: 'Let my people know': An excerpt on the Abraham Accords As senior adviser to the US ambassador to Israel and special envoy for the Abraham Accords, Aryeh Lightstone was in the room for nearly every major discussion and decision involving Middle East policy. He was tasked with the most complex and sensitive component of the Abraham Accords: turning them into practical action and doing it quickly – during a pandemic, no less. In addition, Lightstone led the Abraham Accords Business Summit and the Abraham Fund, and served as the key contact between Israel and the other Abraham Accords nations. Below is an excerpt from his book, published last month, Let My People Know: The incredible story of Middle East peace and what lies ahead. The Phone Call
By August 2020, I was in and out of the Prime Minister's Office with great frequency, relaying messages from Jared Kushner, Avi Berkowitz, or Ambassador David Friedman, or just making sure that there was a personal connection while David was in the States. I still got a thrill every time my phone rang with "Unknown" calling, which more likely than not was the Prime Minister's Office. Several times I drove or was driven more than two hours in heavy traffic from Ra'anana to Jerusalem, only to be told that David had just called and spoken to the prime minister, or that Avi and Ron Dermer had called in together. I took it in stride, in the philosophy I had learned from...Read More |
From Ian: BDS Puts Jews and Israel Under Attack One of the most significant and sinister BDS developments in recent memory occurred in June with the release of the 'Mapping Project,' which created a literal diagram of Boston area Jewish institutions and entities purportedly involved in "local institutional support for the colonization of Palestine and harms that we see as linked, such as policing, US imperialism, and displacement/ethnic cleansing." The map, which was endorsed by the Boston BDS movement and by Jewish Voice for Peace, includes 483 entities such as schools, synagogues, communal groups, NGOs and philanthropists, as well as an immense range of public and private institutions, from major corporations like Apple and General Dynamics to local police departments and firms. The map goes far beyond the usual BDS emphasis on multinational corporations, universities, and police departments by accusing unexceptional entities of unique evil thanks to connections with Zionism. One example is the Jewish Teen Foundation of Boston that "hosts events for Boston area teenagers which promote and normalize Israel's ongoing colonial subjugation of Palestinians and theft of Palestinian land and resources." Another, the Kleinfelder Northeast construction and design firm, is accused of providing services to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and proposing to construct a prison for the...Read More |
Every Friday, one sees two contradictory narratives in Palestinian media. One says how Israel limits the number of people visiting Al Aqsa Mosque. The other says how many people went there to pray. Today some 55,000 Muslims visited the site to worship there (and probably play some soccer.) That's a sold out football stadium of people. And just like at sports and concert venues, Israeli police check the crowds for weapons.
But no one writes articles after every sporting event and major concert about how intrusive the guards were.
Only on the Temple Mount. * * * * * * 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 |
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Human Rights Watch issued a press release describing how Hamas and the Palestinian Authority engage in torturing prisoners that haven't been charged with any crime.
As of this writing, I cannot find a single Palestinian news site covering this story.
Israeli Arab sites have the story. Pan Arab news sites have it. But Palestinian media - nothing.
Usually, Hamas media would highlight any report against the PA, but since they are named too, they'd rather not create an opening for people to get upset at them. And the same goes for the media linked to the Palestinian Authority.
This sort of censorship is the every day reality in the Palestinian territories. News that makes leaders look bad is hidden from the news-consuming public. Of course, they can see the story at Al Jazeera - one of the most popular news sources for Palestinians - and then the people grumble on social media about how they have to look elsewhere to read the news.
HRW also felt obligated to claim that Israel tortures Palestinians, too. Because they literally never can release any report or research about Palestinians without mentioning that Israel is really the biggest problem. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Licking Ben &Jerry's There's an obvious analogy here with Israel. The Oslo Accords and the "peace process" undermined Israel's sovereignty, security and territorial integrity. The proposed Palestinian state would involve sacrificing land to which only the Jewish people has any legal, historical or moral claim. Those who support the Palestinian cause actually endorse paying in Israeli blood for the illusion of peace. This will remain a mirage unless it is based upon law, justice and the containment of Palestinian Arab imperialism. And yet the Foreign Office that Liz Truss leads continues to champion the Palestinian cause, promote the "peace process" and accuse Israel falsely of being in illegal occupation of Palestinian land. Russia's president Vladimir Putin and his supporters in the west invert reality over the war in Ukraine by claiming grotesquely that NATO is the aggressor and that Putin had no choice but to attack. Such mind-bending assertions that black is white were of course the standard brainwashing tactic of the former Soviet regime. It is no coincidence that this also characterises the Palestinian fantasy narrative, which was cooked up in the 1960s between the Palestinian terrorist leader Yasser Arafat and his allies in the Soviet Union. One person who really does get all this is the former American Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. In a passionate speech last...Read More |
In 2016, a lawsuit was filed by Bassem al-Tamimi and many others against a host of American Jews and companies, including Sheldon Adelson, Elliott Abrams, Fox News and the United States itself, alleging that they are supporting genocide against the Palestinian people. Recently, one of the plaintiffs - Abdul-Rahim Dib Dubar - filed his own motion for immediate partial summary judgment in the case.
His motion looks like it was copied and pasted a crazed antisemitic website - including all caps.
Here's one page of 30, but most of them look like this, with falsified quotes that have been debunked hundreds of times. He ties Israel to...January 6: He doesn't even pretend to be opposing "Zionists." He hates Jews, and submits insane fantasies.Dubar also suggests that the Covid-19 virus was created in Israeli labs in Nes Tziyona. He claims that Israeli rabbis issued an edict to rape Palestinian girls during combat. If you have any doubt as to Dubar's antisemitism, he (probably mis)quotes an article about Satmar Jews and how they have Jewish supremacy - not mentioning that Satmar Jews are anti-Zionist! And, for proof of Jewish evil, he quotes a Nazi: This unhinged antisemitic rant reveals the antisemitism behind the Palestinian cause. The plaintiff isn't even embarrassed at his ravings. Brainwashed, he submits the antisemitic...Read More |
Rabbi Allen Miller is a Reform rabbi who retired in 2006. Lately he has been a prolific writer for Eurasia Review, trying to find commonalities between Judaism, Christianity and Islam.I have no problem with such a quixotic quest. But in order to convince his audience, he adopts Muslim terminology and legends as fact. In one recent article, he notes the similarity between Hajj and the three annual pilgrimage festivals in the Torah, fixating for some reason on Sukkot. This isn't news - much of Muslim tradition is based on Jewish tradition. But his language is jarring for a rabbi: The Ka'ba is the original center of Hajj. Destroyed in the days of Noah, it was rebuilt by Prophets Abraham and his son Ishmael. After several centuries it was desecrated by later generations of idol worshippers. During the many centuries when the Ka'ba was desecrated, Prophet Solomon built a Temple as a center for Haj on the site where Prophet Abraham bound his son Isaac as an offering. ...Most of the many thousands of Jews from foreign lands outside the Land of Israel; and the tens of thousands of Jews from all over the Land of Israel outside the city of Jerusalem; who used to came each year to celebrate the week of Sukkot in Jerusalem at Bait ul-Muqaddas, the furthest sanctuary; ceased coming.
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For Muslims, the Furthest Sanctuary is located in Jerusalem. "Glory to He Who carried...Read More |
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