| A short history of Mahmoud Abbas' clear and explicit antisemitismnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 17 Aug 04:30 AM On Tuesday, Mahmoud Abbas accused Is | |
On Tuesday, Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of perpetrating 50 "holocausts" on the Palestinians:
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas caused shock in Germany Tuesday when, standing beside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, he accused Israel of committing "holocausts" against Palestinians over the years.
Abbas was responding to a reporter's question about the upcoming anniversary of the Munich massacre half a century ago. Asked whether as Palestinian leader he planned to apologize to Israel and Germany for the attack ahead of the 50th anniversary, Abbas responded instead by citing allegations of atrocities committed by Israel since 1947. "If we want to go over the past, go ahead," Abbas, who was speaking Arabic, told the reporters. "I have 50 slaughters that Israel committed….50 massacres, 50 slaughters, 50 holocausts," he said, taking care to pronounce the final word in English. This antisemitism and Holocaust trivialization is hardly anomalous for Abbas. He has a long history of making unmistakably antisemitic statements - yet he is still considered a respected statesman who travels to Western capitals.
The fact that he spouted this hate while answering a question about apologizing for the Munich Olympic massacre of 1972 is telling, because...Read More |
From Ian: Amb. Alan Baker: False and Malicious Catchphrases and Buzzwords in the Israeli-Palestinian Context Over the years, states, leaders, international organizations, and the international and Israeli media have developed a tendency to endlessly repeat certain internationally recognizable catchphrases and buzzwords with the aim of dictating and influencing a distinct, partisan political narrative against Israel. This tendency is becoming a permanent phenomenon and increasingly obstructs any genuine attempt to achieve reconciliation between the Palestinian and Israeli peoples. The repetition of such phrases and terms in all and any discussion and reporting of events and developments in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is legally inaccurate and blatantly misleading. While such uses may emanate from ignorance as to the genuine meaning of such phrases and buzzwords and the actual facts and legal background of the various issues, it is more likely that they are deliberately intended to mislead the public. The following are several examples of such false, misleading, and malicious catchphrases and buzzwords. 5. "Settler Colonialism"
The use of this curious terminology by extreme left-wing and ostensibly progressive elements is nothing more than a shallow and dishonest attempt to manipulate international thinking. It is done by using outmoded, anarchistic...Read More |
Palestinian site Amad discusses a new song by anti-Israel folksinger David Rovics, celebrating British antisemites who broke into Elbit Systems and destroyed equipment.
I hadn't heard that name in years.
Back in 2010, I saw that Rovics had a series of really bad, barely sung songs that were rabidly anti-Israel and aligned with other "social justice" issues.
While Rovics has a song to praise the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, he seems to lose interest in Jews fighting when they actually win. Similarly, he has a song about how terrible it was for Jews and Muslims to be expelled from Christian Europe - but he says that Jews are European and Israelis are Nazis.
And while I am sure he would insist he is not in any way antisemitic...Read More |
This article was published in August, 1947 in the Edmonton Journal: Life Of Jews In Arab Lands
By Gerold Frank JERUSALEM - The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, now deliberating at Geneva, may ponder the true situation of Jews in Arab states—their treatment, discrimination against them, the entire suffocating framework in which the average Jew finds himself. Arab spokesmen. seeking to prove the idyllic status of a Jewish minority in the independent Arab Palestine they demand, are always ready to point out the general lack of anti-Jewish laws on the books in the Arab States. But there is a long step between statute and practice. The fact is that the lives of Jews in all Arab states range from generally unenviable to intolerable; from Egypt where the situation of Jews, many of whom are wealthy, is comparatively the best, to Yemen. a backward country where the Jews are the lowest of the low. It must be remembered that religion in the Middle East is a much more divisive factor than ,in the West, Religion is the basis of social mores: communities are religious communities. Fear, suspicion and hate have deep roots. Add to this the fact that Jews in Arab lands are mainly in commercial pursuits, vulnerable economically and subject to envy if successful; add also the nationalistic propaganda and anti-Zionist movements, and one better understands the Jewish plight. Take the roll-call of countries.
First, Iraq. Here is the largest Jewish population of any Arab state-130...Read More |
From Ian: JPost Editorial: Palestinian response to terror on Israelis shows why peace is impossible A nation, said John F. Kennedy in October 1963, just a month before he was assassinated, "reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers." How true, not only of nations, but also different societies, and segments within those societies. Whom do they honor? Whom do they lionize? So much can be learned about people by understanding who their heroes are. Are their heroes celebrities or scientists? Athletes or teachers? Multibillionaires or social workers? It is in this vein that The Jerusalem Post's lead headline on Monday was so terribly troubling and so dismally depressing: "Palestinian terror groups applaud Jerusalem attack, call for more 'heroic operations.'" A Palestinian terrorist goes on a shooting spree in the middle of the night in Jerusalem, wounding eight innocent people – including critically wounding an American Jewish woman in her 26th week of pregnancy who is shot in the stomach – and the reaction of a segment of Palestinian society is to term the operation "heroic," thereby coronating its perpetrator a hero. Why can't the conflict be solved? Those well-meaning people around the world who can't understand why the Israelis and Palestinians can't just find a way to solve their problems and move on already, need to look no further than that headline to understand...Read More |
By Daled Amos Even before being confirmed as Antisemitism Envoy this past March, Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt was outspoken on the weaponization of the Holocaust. In a 2011 interview with Haaretz, Lipstadt condemned what she called "Holocaust abuse" Renowned Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt says that American and Israeli politicians who invoke the Holocaust for contemporary political purposes are engaging in "Holocaust abuse", which is similar to "soft-core denial" of the Holocaust... "When you take these terrible moments in our history, and you use it for contemporary purposes, in order to fulfill your political objectives, you mangle history, you trample on it," she said. [emphasis added]Despite taking that stand, Lipstadt came to Biden's defense when, while on the campaign trail in 2020, he compared Trump with a Nazi: He's sort of like Goebbels. You say the lie long enough, keep repeating it, repeating it, repeating it, it becomes common knowledge. In that case, Lipstadt defended Biden: Goebbels was very successful at what he did, and I think the comparison by Vice President...Read More |
Antisemitic Arabs have been claiming that the Jews are planning to destroy Al Aqsa since the Mufti of Jerusalem made up that lie a century ago.
The latest version of the libel comes from a "secret five point plan" from Israel that Islamic Jihad's Palestine Today has allegedly uncovered.
The five points are: - Weakening the walls of Al-Aqsa, in preparation for their downfall or demolition, by emptying the land areas from below. - Continuation of the excavations under the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which weakens the walls of the mosque. - Impeding any attempt to restore the walls. - Causing stones to fall from Al-Aqsa Mosque and its walls. - The great danger that threatens Al-Aqsa and its walls at the present time, which threatens collapse all the time. All five points sound similar to me, but when it is presented as a five point plan, it sounds much more legitimate, like they found a document or something. Of course, the exact same charges that Israeli excavations are meant to weaken and destroy Al Aqsa have been claimed for decades as well.
So, why haven't the Jews destroyed Al Aqsa yet?
Must be because the brave Muslims have been "defending" it!
That is the narrative for over a hundred years - and I have yet to see...Read More |
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