| International Association of Judges meeting in Tel Aviv todaynoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 18 Sep 04:45 AM The International Association of Judges | | The International Association of Judges is holding its 64th annual meeting starting today in Tel Aviv.
Besides the lectures, there will be excursions to Jerusalem, Masada and the Dead Sea.
As the welcome video says, they ask the jurists that are visiting to "judge with your own eyes."
One country that won't be there is Algeria. Their National Union of Judges announced that they will boycott the meeting: The National Union of Judges announced the boycott of an annual meeting of the International Association of Judges due to its being held in the occupied Palestinian territories. After receiving an invitation from the International Association of Judges to participate in the annual meeting to be organized in Tel Aviv in the occupied territories, the Algerian organization formally informed the President of the Federation and the African Group of Judges Unions of its boycott of this event, explaining in its statement that the boycott decision came out of its belief in the principles of justice and human rights, and in line with Algeria's official and popular position on the Palestinian...Read More |
From Ian: Jonathan Tobin: America's Holocaust failure through the lens of 21st-century politics The film asks whether Americans will respond to future catastrophes with more concern. But while such pious sentiments seem appropriate, they are also entirely beside the point. We already know how Americans act when confronted with other genocides. In the case of Rwanda, they did nothing. The same is true with respect to the horrors being visited on the Uyghur people in Western China by the Chinese Communist Party regime in Beijing right now. Genocide is, of course, globally very different. Those being perpetrated outside of the context of a world war in which the murderers are also bent on conquest are bound to be treated less seriously, and that is why no one in the West lifts a finger when mass murders happen in places like Africa or central Asia, where no strategic interests are in play and few journalists are present. As historian Deborah Lipstadt, the current State Department Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, correctly notes in the film, Nazi Germany largely achieved many of its goals with respect to the Jews. As the late historian Lucy Dawidowicz wrote in her classic work, The War Against the Jews, the German war waged on the Jews was entirely separate from the one they were fighting against the Allies. They won the former while losing the latter...Read More |
From Ian: JPost Editorial: Abraham Accords stronger than ever, two years later This week marked the second anniversary of the Abraham Accords, under which Israel signed normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which were later extended to Morocco. Skeptics at the time noted that Israel had not been at war with these Arab Muslim states and downplayed the idea that the accords – reached under the Trump administration and Netanyahu government – could be called "peace treaties." But their importance should not be underestimated. The Abraham Accords marked a strategic diplomatic shift for Israel and the region and the relationships with the countries has flourished beyond even optimistic expectations. As the UAE minister of state for foreign trade Thani Al Zeyoudi wrote in an opinion piece in yesterday's Jerusalem Post, "It was a moment that changed the course of history. On the bright, sunlit morning of September 15, 2020, when Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, foreign minister of the UAE; Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu; and Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani, foreign minister of Bahrain, held aloft signed copies of the Abraham Accords in front of the White House, it signaled not simply the end of 48 years of hostility and distrust but the beginning of a new political and economic era for our region. "In establishing full diplomatic relations, the UAE, Bahrain and Israel had chosen prosperity...Read More |
Today I tweeted this meme: Some Jew-hating idiot responded that today's Jews have nothing to do with the Jews of Jesus' time, and gave as proof "'EDOM IS IN MODERN JEWRY.' The Jewish Ency. 1925 Ed., Vol. 5, Pg. 41."
This was new to me, so, for fun, I looked this up. And this quote is all over antisemitic websites, I even saw a video about it on "GoyimTV."
They are claiming that the Jewish Encyclopedia says that Jews are really descendants of Edom (Esau.)
So I looked up page 41 of volume 5 of the 1925 Jewish Encyclopedia. It really is the entry on Edom, although it doesn't say at all what they claim it says. What it does say is that during the Hashmonean era, some of the Edomites (Idumeans) were forcibly converted to Judaism by John Hycranus I (which is the only case of forced conversion to Judaism in recorded history.)
The Idumeans did become enthusiastic members of the religion - King Herod was Idumean. They were obviously still a minority among Jews. (There is an interesting halachic issue mentioned in the article about whether Edomites were allowed to join the Jewish people, but that is a separate matter.)
Even so - they were considered Jews living in what would...Read More |
This week was the wedding of the Chabad rabbi of the UAE Levi Duchman to Leah Hadad. Khaleej Times reports: It was pure joy and excitement in the UAE capital as guests from all around the world attended the first ever wedding of a rabbi in the country. The rabbi to the UAE, Rabbi Levi Duchman, married Lea Hadad of Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday, September 14, at a magnificent ceremony held at the Hilton Yas Hotel. 1,500 guests from around the world attended the wedding – the largest Jewish event in the Arabian Gulf in recent history – including prominent rabbis and dignitaries. More than 20 ambassadors, including those from Japan, South Korea and Finland, were also in attendance. Yemen news site 26 September was not happy: It is a dance of shame about normalization at a huge wedding ceremony for the chief rabbinic in Abu Dhabi, in a new dedication to the shame of publicizing normalization between the Emirates and the Zionist entity ...Leaked wedding videos showed very intimate relations between the Jewish attendees and Emirati officials. The event, which coincides with the second anniversary of the Abraham Accords, highlighted the growing openness of Jewish life in the Emirates. Until 2020, the country's Jewish community preserved the privacy of its traditions and services. But recently...Read More |
From Ian: Ruthie Blum: IDF purity of arms and Palestinian Authority bloodlust WITHOUT SKIPPING a beat, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf told reporters in a phone briefing on Wednesday that "the security conditions on the West Bank do concern us greatly, but they also concern Israel and they also concern the Palestinian Authority." Never mind that the PA is at fault for those conditions, which make a mockery of the rules of Israeli engagement that place heroes like Falah in extra peril. "Our part in this is to ensure that, to the greatest degree possible, security cooperation is robust and continuing," she said, adding incomprehensibly, "but those other things are done around and outside that security cooperation that sustains it." She went on to spew the same old platitude, proven time and again to be totally false, about how improving "economic conditions" in the West Bank and Gaza "can help and sustain improvement in security conditions." Not a word about PA and Hamas terrorism. Perhaps Lapid and Gantz didn't mind so much, since they tend to agree with her overall assessment. They also must be patting themselves on the back for responding so forcefully about the IDF doctrine that Foggy Bottom slightly eased up on its criticism. Ironically, it did so before Falah was killed, through US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides and State Department spokesman Ned Price. "Israel is a sovereign...Read More |
Times of Israel reports: The head of a yeshiva in the southern West Bank settlement of Carmel said Friday that he was leading a study session when one of his students was struck in a suspected terror shooting. The 18-year-old was moderately wounded in the attack Thursday night and taken to the hospital for treatment. Israeli security forces launched a manhunt in the area after the assailant fled. Speaking with Kan public radio, Rabbi Natan Ofner of Yeshiva Reuta said his pupil was now listed as lightly hurt and was due to undergo surgery to remove shrapnel. Palestinian terror groups are falling over themselves to praise the heroism of someone shooting through a yeshiva window, hoping to kill Jews. The People's Republic affirmed that this heroic operation comes in fulfillment of the blood of the martyrs of our people and a victory for the suffering of the prisoners,...The People's Republic stressed that this process confirms the extension of the resistance act, and proves...Read More |
J-Street, the self-styled "pro-Israel, pro-peace" organization, is definitely anti-truth.
An email sent out to the J-Street mailing list signed by their deputy Israel director, Eve Lifson, says: Almost every day, my fellow Israelis are sent to guard wrecking crews. Young soldiers have to tell children and their parents that bulldozers have come for their family home. They hold back distraught relatives as jackhammers tear into bedrooms, kitchens and living rooms. It's not the vision of defending our homeland that most young Israelis had in mind. The truth? Demolishing family homes to make way for settlements has nothing to do with Israel's security, and everything to do with the right-wing's efforts to entrench permanent control over occupied land. The idea that Israel demolishes Palestinian homes in order to build Jewish communities in their place is rampant among anti-Israel social media activists, but it is a lie. Jewish communities are not built anywhere near existing Arab communities. (The only exception is Hebron, where Jews lived way before Arabs did, and which J-Street wants to ethnically cleanse today just as it was in 1929.) There are only two reasons why Arab homes are demolished nowadays. Either...Read More |
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