| Iran upset when Muslims admit the Holocaust happened (update)noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 07 Jul 04:45 AM Iran's Ahl al-Bayt News Agency (ABNA), a | | Iran's Ahl al-Bayt News Agency (ABNA), a Shiite news site whose views mimic that of Iran's leadership, reports that Saudi authorities designated Muhammad bin Abdul-Karim al-Issa, Secretary-General of the Muslim World League, to perform the sermon and prayer on the Day of Arafa at the Namirah Mosque in Mecca for Hajj this year.
This is upsetting to the Iranians.
Why? It is noteworthy that Al-Issa visited the so-called "Jewish genocide camp" in Poland, "Auschwitz", in conjunction with the commemoration of the "Holocaust". The "Israel in Arabic" account, affiliated with the Israeli enemy's Foreign Ministry, had published a video clip of Al-Issa as he "leads a delegation, to pray in Auschwitz, in sympathy for the dead Jews. " The photo accompanying the article shows Al-Issa accepting a plaque from a Jew. The word Israel or Zionist does not appear in this article. Iran's problem with al-Issa is that he showed sympathy for millions of dead Jews.
Remember that next time Iran and its useful idiot supporters claim that Iran isn't antisemitic, merely anti-Israel. It is pretty obvious that to Iran, there is no difference between the two...Read More |
From Ian: Eugene Kontorovich: Boycotting Israel Isn't Free Speech The idea that anti-BDS laws violate free speech has been embraced by progressives, and by Democratic lawmakers wary of anti-Israel primary challengers, as a way of fighting for BDS while claiming not to support it. Meanwhile, Axios reported last October that Ben & Jerry's founders were stumped when asked why they were boycotting Israel alone. The company broadly condemns what it views as injustices around the world, including "systemic racism" in America. Axios's Alexi McCammond asked Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield: "You guys are big proponents of voting rights. Why do you still sell ice cream in Georgia? Texas—abortion bans. Why are you still selling there?" "I don't know," Mr. Cohen replied. "It's an interesting question. I don't know what that would accomplish. We're working on those issues, of voting rights. . . . I think you ask a really good question. And I think I'd have to sit down and think about it for a bit." She pressed him on the abortion question and he said: "By that reasoning, we should not sell any ice cream anywhere. I've got issues with what's being done in almost every state and country." Which leaves the question: Why boycott only Israel? Unilever is the second major company in recent...Read More |
What is it about Jews building homes that gets under peoples' skin? We know what they claim. They say that building homes for Jews in disputed territory is an "obstacle to peace." That, however, is an obvious lie. The real reason the world does not want Jews to build homes in Israel is Jew-hatred: antisemitism. How do we know that the "obstacle to peace" mantra is a lie providing cover for hate? We know this because of history and precedent. The 600 homes of the Jews of Yamitproved no obstacle to peace with Egypt. The 2,530 homes in Gush Katif and the 270 residences in Samaria did not stand in the way of the great Gaza giveaway. And the 450,000 Jews in Judea and Samaria did not stop Oslo and local Arab autonomy. Despite the thousands of homes built to shelter Jews in their holy, indigenous territory, Egypt still received the gift of Sinai, while the UNRWA "refugees" were given de facto states in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Construction, even of Jewish homes in ancient Jewish land, did not prevent any of this from happening. Where Jewish homes once stood, today there are no Jews. These areas have been ethnically cleansed of any Jewish presence, with the exception of a handful of captives held by Gaza in the years since 2005...Read More |
Mounir Chafiq (born 1936) is a Palestinian politician and is described as an intellectual. His books include Islam in Struggle for Civilization (1992) and Islam and the Challenges of the Contemporary World (1995.) He is coordinator of the Islamic Nationalist Congress.
He writes in Al-Binaa what Israel's goals are: Anyone who does not reach an absolute conviction that this entity [Israel] represents absolute hostility to Palestine and its people is mistaken, as he considers Palestine "the land of Israel", and its people, all its people, must be uprooted from it and completely Judaize it. Anyone who does not reach a certain conviction that this entity wants to tighten the Zionist control over all the Arab countries, based on the overwhelming military superiority over them, collectively and individually, is mistaken. Anyone who does not reach an absolute conviction that this entity wants to demolish the Al-Aqsa Mosque and build the alleged temple in its place, and denies any religious right of the Muslims of the world in Jerusalem and Palestine, because it is the "Land of Israel" and that the non-Jews on it are "strangers" and what is considered sacred Islamic mentioned in the Qur'an, or in Islamic history, is not sacred. Some of them are considered Jewish holy places, as they claim. It is not right for a member of the Third World, or the global left, or the free people...Read More |
From Ian: In Highland Park's Jewish Community, Few Are Untouched by Deadly Mass Shooting Bright Bowls was open for July 4 in Highland Park's main commercial district, and its owners, Lindsay and Matt Meltzer, were prepared for a busy day. Lindsay had left her job at the Jewish United Fund of Chicago to open her dream business, a vegetarian smoothie shop and wellness studio, in June 2020. This would be the first year since the pandemic began that her suburb would hold its annual Independence Day festivities, including a parade, and the Meltzers were eagerly anticipating lots of foot traffic. The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band began playing in the parade lineup, performing the joyful Jewish standard "Freylekhs fun der Khupe" (Happiness under the Chuppah). A parade observer, local Jewish entrepreneur Candice Crane, laughed and took pictures with her husband and two of her young children. "We were joking, 'Only in Highland Park does the Klezmer band come,'" Crane said. Then everything changed. "I was standing at the register, and all of a sudden, I see the Highland Park High School band running up the street," Lindsay Meltzer said. "The first thought I had was that there was an active shooter." Moments later, a police officer rode up on his bicycle and told everyone to get off the street. "We just opened our door," Lindsay said. "We have a basement...Read More |
Dalia Hatuqa is a well-regarded and award-winning Palestinian journalist, who has published in Time, the Washington Post, The Economist and elsewhere.
She wrote a Twitter thread yesterday about her frustrations at the delay of crossing the border between Jordan and Israel - blaming Israel for the delay.
There is currently a three hour wait at the Jordanian side of Allenby Bridge. Many of the people here are American citizens. Now tell me why the US is busy working on a visa waiver for Israel while we rot in literal hell at the border crossing Still waiting. Been here since 11. Just been told by the Jordanian side that the number system they have doesn't apply to people whose names are put on the list by a "minister" or someone "high up". Some guy just told me he didn't get a number and he already left for the Israeli side. Everyone is feeding off Palestinian misery and desperation. We pay $110 a person just to get on a shared bus to go through the bridge. And wait for three hours just so the Israelis can fuck with you. This is the quintessential Palestinian travel experience. To anyone following my bridge drama— I've finally made it home. What's supposed to take 3 hours max took me 7 hours. That's basically half way from Amman to Washington DC. I'm tired, hungry, thirsty but mostly angry and sad that this is what it takes to come home. I haven't tasted...Read More |
The official Palestinian Wafa news agency writes:
Israel is using withheld corpses of Palestinians for use in laboratories of medical schools in flagrant violation of human rights, today said Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh. "The (Israeli) occupation authorities are augmenting the pain of the families bereaved at the loss of their children by withholding the corpses of their children and using them in the laboratories of medical schools in Israeli universities in flagrant violation of human rights, values, principles and scientific ethics," said Shtayyeh in remarks at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting held in Ramallah. He called on universities around the world to boycott those Israeli universities involved in the withholding and the exploitation of the corpses of Palestinians killed by Israeli army gunfire in order to put pressure on the Israeli occupation authorities to show respect for the dead Palestinians and to immediately release the dozens of withheld corpses so that their families can bid them farewell in a manner that befits them and respect their feelings. This is fiction. And it is being repeated in media worldwide. Usually, Palestinian fantasies about Israel are based on a wild misreading of a tiny kernel of truth, and this is no exception. Israel withholds the bodies of Palestinian terrorists for various reasons, often to prevent violent riots at their funerals. The main site that the bodies...Read More |
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