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FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - shows extreme disrespect towards Israeli Arabs noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 03 Oct 04:45 AM FAIR - Fairn Like   Tweet   FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - shows extreme disrespect towards Israeli Arabs noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 03 Oct 04:45 AM FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - issued a report by Nora Lester Murad that claims that books for toddlers and youngsters that introduce kids to Israel are pretty much racist against Palestinians, because - they aren't about Palestinians. However, Murad's critique exposes her own disdain for Arabs who live in Israel as well as her own hate for Israeli Jews. Even though the books aren't about Palestinians, and aren't meant to be, she says that they"erase" Palestinians. First, Murad claims that they erase through "appropriation:" Rah! Rah! Mujadara!, for example, is a 12-page board book for ages 1–4 that has an attractive tagline: "Everybody likes hummus, but that's just one of the great variety of foods found in Israel among its diverse cultures." There's a subtlety in that tagline that may be lost on some. While diversity is acknowledged, it is represented only within the Israeli sphere, without its own history and separate identity. This is a political position that jibes with Israel's intentional deployment of the term "Israeli Arabs" to refer to Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, whom Israel wants to incorporate as an Israeli minority, fragmenting them from the larger Palestinian community and from their national identity. To progressives, referring to someone in ways that they object...Read More Booking.com Following Airbnb into Political Dead Sea? (RealJerusalemStreets) noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 02 Oct 04:29 PM By Real Jerusalem Streets The reported news that Booking.com was to put a "warning" on Jewish-owned property rentals in Judea and Samaria listed on their website spurred a visit to the Dead Sea to see. Leaving Jerusalem for the half-hour drive to the northern part of the shrinking Dead Sea, it's hard to miss the Bedouin encampments which have multiplied in the desert along the road. The banks of the receding body of salt water are visible from an outlook at the Biankini Village Resort Dead Sea. For those like me who were unfamiliar with the name, and at first glance think of beach bikinis or burkinis, Angelo Levi Bianchini was an officer in the Italian Royal Navy. A street in Jerusalem near Hillel Street and the Italian Synagogue is named for the Zionist and Israel lover. But that story is for another time. I mention Bianchini because of the street where in 2001 a terrorist attempted to blow up the Biankini Pub, filled with nearly 200 young people drinking beer on a Friday night and celebrating 3 birthdays. Biankini Pub owner Dina Dagan realized something was wrong when a man from Ramallah walked into her business after she had seen on the news that Ramallah had been closed because of riots. He had indeed left a powerful explosive in a bag in the restroom. She was able to carry the bomb out to the street, get the police to believe her, and finally come and detonate the explosive, saving the lives of her patrons. The episode is material also for a powerful story. But I mention...Read More 10/02 Links: The importance of combating antisemitism on campus and educations; When does anti-Zionism become antisemitism? - Barbra Streisand, Twitter noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 02 Oct 12:00 PM From Ian: The importance of combating antisemitism on campus and educations On a sunny afternoon at Pembroke College, Oxford, I had the pleasure of interviewing Natan Sharansky, who is the former head of the Jewish Agency and the current president of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) on the importance of combating antisemitism on campuses and within academia. Sharansky sums up the common struggle of several, if not most, Jewish students on Western campuses today: "Many Jewish students on campus feel they have to choose between their connection to Israel and staying as an accepted part of student society." This choice that Mr. Sharansky proposed in his interview is the same one I had to make while completing my undergraduate degree in small-town Halifax, Nova Scotia. The same decision led to me working full-time towards combating antisemitism on university and college campuses. ISGAP's leadership management Under the leadership of ISGAP management, I had the pleasure of co-organizing two events over the summer. First, an international conference on Jew Hatred at Cambridge followed by a two-week Summer Institute for Curriculum Development in Critical Antisemitism Studies at Oxford. Throughout the events, I had the privilege of learning from some of the world's greatest scholars of antisemitism. The lectures covered a wide range of topics, from antisemitism in Southeast Asia to human...Read More Palestinians know their leaders are corrupt - but Western media keeps downplaying it noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 02 Oct 09:30 AM The full results of the latest PCPSR poll of Palestinians has been published, and it finds a consistent pattern. 86% of Palestinians say there is corruption in the Palestinian Authority and 73% say there is corruption in institutions under Hamas' control in the Gaza Strip. That is truly overwhelming majority - and it is a story that the Western media continuously downplays. After all, if the Palestinian leadership cannot be trusted to take care of their own people, how can anyone expect them to adhere to agreements with Israel? Another telling statistic: A majority of Palestinians under both Hamas and PA rule say that they cannot criticize their leaders without fear. 58% of West Bankers think people in the West Bank cannot criticize the PA without fear and 54% of Gazans say they cannot criticize Hamas without fear. Again, Western media will uncritically quote Palestinian media and citizens without mentioning that people are likely to self-censor to parrot what their corrupt leaders want them so say. This results in reporting on the region that is inherently inaccurate. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it...Read More Russia's annexation is illegal. Israel's are legal. Here's why. noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 02 Oct 07:00 AM Over the weekend, anti-Israel voices tried to claim that the international community was hypocritical by condemning Russia's illegal annexation of Ukrainian territory and not doing the same about Israel's annexation of the Golan and "East Jerusalem." Here is why Israel's annexations are legal, from a paper by Professor Eugene Kontorovich: (Italics his, bold emphasis mine.) Whatever the current status of an absolute prohibition on territorial change resulting from war, there was certainly no such blanket prohibition in 1967, when the territory came under Israeli control. At the time, international law only prohibited acquisition of force in illegal or aggressive wars. This is evident from the source of the prohibition in the UN Charter, post-Charter state practice, and the understandings of international jurists at the time. There is simply no precedent or authoritative source for forbidding defensive conquest in 1967. The U.N. Charter prohibits war for most purposes. When the use of force is illegal, it is natural to conclude that any territorial gains from such aggression cannot be recognized as well. Thus the illegality of conquest arises from the...Read More    ©2022 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company