| Palestinian media censor story of gay man kidnapped, beheadednoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 07 Oct 04:45 AM Times of Israel reports: A gay Palestin | | Times of Israel reports: A gay Palestinian man living under asylum in Israel was murdered and beheaded Wednesday in the West Bank city of Hebron. The unnamed suspect, who was arrested by Palestinian Authority police near the scene of the crime soon after committing it, recorded the act in a video that he uploaded to social media before his capture. The victim was 25-year-old Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh, who according to reports on Ynet and Channel 12 had been living in Israel for the past two years as an asylum-seeker after authorities acknowledged his life would be in danger if he returned to Palestinian territory. It was not immediately clear how or why the young man ended up in Hebron. Friends of Abu Murkhiyeh in Israel alleged he was likely kidnapped to the West Bank before his murder, though it was not clear that they had evidence of this. Rita Petrenko, founder of Al-Bayt Al-Mukhtalif, a non-profit organization for the empowerment of the Arab LGBT community, said that she had helped to arrange for Abu Murkhiyeh's asylum papers in preparation for his eventual resettlement in Canada and that he'd actively participated in LGBT discussion groups. Describing the young man as "hard-working and intelligent," Petrenko regretted that he had not been transferred to safety in Canada before his life was brutally taken from him. Now, here is...Read More |
From Ian: Phantom Fantasia in the Middle East Decades of impeccable PR and global gullibility have enabled many to bizarrely believe there once was an Arab nation called Palestine, with the people in it known as Palestinians. Yet there never has been an Arab nation-state called Palestine. At the time of Israel's founding, in 1948, the word Palestinian did not describe a distinct Arab people. In fact, the word, created by the ancient Romans, referred to Jews. Jews have been living continuously in what is today Israel since the time of the Jewish patriarchs of the Old Testament. Palestine is more an idea than an actual place, the magical thinking of a country that never existed. Hocus-pocus political history. Palestinian inclusion within the vortex of intersectional grievances is laughable given how Sharia-observant Palestinians, especially in Gaza, feel about women, gays, the transgender, cultural and academic freedom, religious diversity, free speech, and the rule of law. Palestinian rejection of five separate offers of statehood since 1947 is never mentioned. Nothing was stolen from the Palestinians. They are stateless because they never had a state - not because they were denied one, or had one taken away. Indeed, it's not at all clear whether they actually want one. For a people with no national currency, political history, sustained leadership, defined borders, or even a gross national product aside...Read More |
"Litvaks!" commented a friend on Facebook in response to a meme I'd posted making fun of people with no sense of humor. "Watch it, Galitz," I shot back, and then neither of us ever said another word about it. There was no need. I knew he must have been mortified at his unintended gaffe, and knew also, that it was not his intention to insult me. In fact, he meant it as a compliment. A Litvak was one of the worst things he could imagine and he never imagined, therefore, that I could be one. I actually felt bad for him because who hasn't made a similar faux pas—really stepped in it—in a social context? Friends look the other way when stuff like this happens, and that's what we are, my Galicianer friend and I, despite the Gefilte Fish Line that divides our ancestors into those who liked their food sweet (his), and those who decidedly, did not (mine)! This was not the first time that someone had assumed I could not possibly be one of those (gadzooks!) Litvaks. Once, during an important negotiation, the man sitting across from me said, "Let's not be one of those Litvaks who fight over the price of every leg of every chair and table," words which caused me to kick my negotiating partner under the table—in the shin—hard. That's okay. Because as I am sure you well know, these things work both ways. For example, when I first became aware at the...Read More |
I was looking at the Amnesty YouTube channel, and saw one video that was quite anomalous. It was a 2019 video, attempting to be snarky, attacking TripAdvisor for including Jewish-owned destinations in Judea and Samaria.
I couldn't find any other video on the site on any other topic that attempted to have that same sarcastic tone. And it didn't do a very good job. But it illustrates how, for Amnesty, Israel is uniquely evil - only Israel is treated that way. Only for Israel do they spend the money to try to reach audiences that might make their videos go viral.
On the other hand, they also prove how their obsession with Israel has nothing to do with the seriousness of the human rights abuses that they claim Israel is guilty of - because Amnesty would never attempt to make light of real human rights abuses in the same jokey way.
Anyway, this cartoon shows how "research" can be subverted: when the conclusions are decided before the research is done; everyone knows what the report will say and the researchers are tasked with reaching a specific conclusion ahead of time. That way they can only include the "evidence" that supports their thesis and ignore or downplay any counter-evidence. That's what Amnesty, HRW and other "human rights" NGOs do, all the time. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at...Read More |
From Ian: The Palestinian Authority cannot meet the most basic requirement for statehood The supreme test for a stable, sustainable and legitimate state is a monopoly on the use of force within the territories it controls. In the case of the P.A., this territory is currently composed of Areas A and B of Judea and Samaria—constituting around 40% of the area. The P.A. does not have the capability or willingness to confront the armed factions in these areas, never mind an expanded area provided for a Palestinian state. Moreover, the P.A. does not control an inch of the Gaza Strip, which is under the control of the terrorist entity Hamas, which sometimes appears to hate the P.A. and its chief Mahmoud Abbas even more than the Jews. According to Melanne Civic and Michael Miklaucic in their book Monopoly of Force, "While no state has an absolute monopoly of force, to be accountable for actions taken within its borders, a state must have at least a preponderance of force; it must be able to prevent hostile acts toward other states. This is a minimum assumption of effective sovereignty." The belief that the P.A. would be capable of this minimal level of sovereignty is wishful thinking. The current unrest in Judea and Samaria is a perfect example of the P.A.'s ineptitude. The cities of Jenin and Nablus in Area A and B are lawless spaces controlled by a toxic mixture...Read More |
The New York Post published on October 1: Brooklyn College — which was recently ripped for campus anti-Semitism — scheduled "implicit bias training" for staffers on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year when many of the faithful do not work. The training is mandated for those who serve on job search committees with one of the four Zoom sessions set for 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, the morning of Yom Kippur. "This biases the process against observant Jews and secular Jews who typically attend services on this one day of the year. Such Jews are afforded only three meeting opportunities, while all others are afforded four," one Jewish professor said. "That sounds like implicit bias to me. Imagine, if that was done to a group that is viewed as a disadvantaged minority." A Brooklyn College spokesman said an additional training session was being offered on Monday. "While classes are not held on Yom Kippur, the college is open on that day. In addition to these dates, staff or faculty can request an individual training session," said spokesman Richard Pietras. Is this antisemitic, or tone deaf, or not even an issue?
I am unclear whether the mandated training is to attend one of the sessions, or to attend all of them. If it is only to attend one session, and Jews still have a choice of three sessions (now four) )to attend, this does not sound like a problem at all to me - that choice...Read More |
A photo of Hosam Salem from his Facebook page
Yesterday, Gaza photojournalist Hosam Salem tweeted that his contract with the New York Times had been terminated. Here's his thread: After years of covering the Gaza Strip as a freelance photojournalist for the New York Times, I was informed via an abrupt phone call from the US outlet that they will no longer work with me in the future.
I began working with the newspaper in 2018, covering critical events in Gaza such as the weekly protests at the border fence with Israel, the investigation into the Israeli killing of field nurse Razan al-Najjar, and more recently, the May 2021 Israeli offensive on the Gaza strip
As I understood later, the decision was made based on a report prepared by a Dutch editor - who obtained Israeli citizenship two years ago - for a website called Honest Reporting.
The article, which the New York Times had based its decision for dismissing me, gives examples of posts I wrote on my social media accounts, namely Facebook, where I had expressed support for the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation...
... My aforementioned posts also spoke of the resilience of my people and those who were killed by the Israeli army - my cousin included - which Honest Reporting described as "Palestinian terrorists".
The editor later wrote an...Read More |
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