| 75 years ago: Jews in Arab countries in grave dangernoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 11 Dec 05:45 AM Continuing looking at the newspapers from 75 year | | Continuing looking at the newspapers from 75 years ago in the wake of the UN Partition vote. From the Manchester Guardian, December 10, 1947: From the Palestine Post, December 11, 1947: Commentary magazine summarized the pogrom in Aden a few months later: In the riots that broke out suddenly last December 2 after the decision of the United Nations in favor of partition in Palestine, and following an appeal of the Arab League for a three-day strike of protest in all Arab countries, over eighty Jews were killed and as many seriously wounded. Fourteen Jewish houses were burnt to the ground, and many more were looted. Of one hundred and seventy Jewish shops and stores, over a hundred were burnt or looted and the two Jewish schools were burnt out. It is alleged that the greatest part of the casualties was caused by the military force, the Aden Protectorate Levies, which were called in by the civil authority when the police were unable to deal with the mob. The Aden Levies are composed of Arab tribesmen with British and Arab officers. It was apparently asking too much for them to take firm action against Arab looters attacking Jewish houses and shops. They soon turned to take an active part themselves in the looting and shooting of Jews. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at...Read More |
From Ian: Eighty years since Tunisian Jews were rounded up by the Nazis December 9 1942 marked a turning point in the fortunes of the Jews of Tunisia. The Germans occupied the country the previous month, and 5,000 Jewish males were marched off to forced labour camps. There was little that the Jewish community could do to resist this colossal force. France 24 commemorates 80 years since the first round-up: Moncef Bey: signed every antisemitic decree
On December 9, 1942, when Tunisia had been occupied for a month by the Germans, 3,000 Jewish men over the age of 18 were ordered to do forced labour, but only 120 men showed up. The occupier then ordered a round-up. Nearly 5,000 Jews were sent to forced labor in camps where they suffered ill-treatment. "While the chief of SS rants, I mentally take stock of the situation, " recalled community leader Paul Ghez." We feel very small before the colossal force which has been unleashed. I look to my right at the pitiful group of gloomy and silent prisoners. I can make out the beard of the rabbi, I see a child shivering with fear." On December 9, 1942, Paul Guez, head of the Jewish community in Tunis, turned out to be quite powerless. While the German occupier conducted the round-up in the Tunisian capital, the Jews could not put up any resistance. Nearly 5,000 Jews were sent to forced labor camps. This date marks...Read More |
From Ian: The Toxic Stew of Anti-Semitism Jew haters use the code words of "Zionists" and "Zionism" to condemn Israel, when what they're really voicing is their hatred of Jews and Judaism. Thinly-disguised hatred of Israel has helped to fuel anti-Semitism, to the point where many synagogues now arrange to have police officers on duty outside their places of worship during the high holidays. It's become a necessary precaution, given that Jews were once again the most targeted religious group for hate crimes in Canada last year, according to Statistics Canada data. To pretend that hatred of Jews isn't linked to hatred of Israel is absurd. As the late British Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, head of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, wrote, this is just the latest example of how anti-Semitism survives by mutating over time. Today, with human rights the paradigm, Israel is falsely accused of being the world's worst human rights violator - including at the UN General Assembly - which every year passes more resolutions condemning Israel than all other nations on earth, combined. Selectively holding Israel to a higher standard of moral behavior than any other country is anti-Semitism.Jonathan Tobin: Can J Street still get away with pretending to be 'pro-Israel'?In order to be...Read More |
Nazih Khatatba, general director and editor of Ontario-based Arabic newspaper Meshwar, writes in Wattan.net: I am a Palestinian Canadian journalist. Our newspaper, Mishwar, is published in Arabic and distributed in the Ontario region, especially Toronto. We have the right to attend any event, especially if it is related to Palestine and the Middle East. We are not anti-Semitic, and we have not spoken badly about Jews in Canada or other countries. Rather, we criticize the Israeli occupation policy and stand with the Palestinian people. Those who accuse us of "anti-Semitism" without evidence are themselves supporting and protecting the Israeli occupation that commits daily murders against Palestinians. He is especially upset at Honest Reporting Canada, which has exposed his and his newspaper's words publicly. So here are some of their highlights: Accusing Jews of dual loyalty: The vast majority of ambassadors and mediators the US administration sends to the Middle East are Zionists and hold Israeli citizenship, and they owe more loyalty to this entity [Israel] than the US itself, including the US envoy Amos Hochstein [who was assigned] to negotiate with Lebanon on the demarcation of the region's maritime borders and gas resources. He is not...Read More |
From Ian: A tale of two narratives At the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies a clash of two narratives. On the one hand the stirring, fact-based Zionist narrative, on the other, the openly conceded fabricated "Palestinian" narrative—which as one senior PLO official openly admitted "serves only tactical purposes", and whose sole purpose is to function as "a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel." Although enormous international efforts have been invested in futile endeavors to portray these two narratives as reconcilable, the truth is that they are inherently and incontrovertibly mutually exclusive. Either one of them will prevail, absolutely and exclusively, or the other will. The reason for this unfortunate impasse is—as is becoming ever clearer with the passage of time--that Palestinian-Arab enmity toward a Jewish state does not arise from anything the Jews, do, but from what the Jews are. This enmity, therefore, can only be dissipated if the Jews cease to be. Successive Israeli governments, cowered by left-leaning civil society elites, have refused to articulate this "inconvenient truth", and refrained from formulating policy that takes it adequately into account. Accordingly, they have perpetuated the myth that there is some fictional "middle ground", which, if found, would leave both sides not totally un-aggrieved ", but still tolerably satisfied enough to eschew violence.Melanie Phillips...Read More |
From Algemeiner: More than 200 artists have signed a statement pledging to boycott Finland's leading gallery of contemporary art because of its links with a Finnish-Israeli philanthropist, in a move denounced as "antisemitic" by the Bishop of Helsinki and other public figures. In the statement, the signatories pledged to "refuse to sell our labor and art" to the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki as long as it maintained links with the Zabludowicz Art Trust, an initiative of Chaim "Poju" Zabludowicz, a London-based billionaire who holds dual Finnish and Israeli citizenship. Responding to the statement on Thursday, Helsinki's Lutheran Bishop charged the artists with having adopted an antisemitic stance. "If an individual Jew is held responsible for the actions of the state of Israel, or if an individual Jew is prohibited from supporting Israel, or if Israel as a state is required to do something more than other democratic states, we are guilty of antisemitism," Bishop Teemu Laajasalo told Finland's Helsingin Sanomat news outlet. In a separate tweet, Laajasalo commented that "antisemitism has many faces. A neo-Nazi or an Islamist is identifiable. It is more difficult to recognize the Jew-hatred of the Academy or [among] culture workers." What, exactly, are the boycotters accusing Zabludowicz of...Read More |
This week, Chinese president Xi Jinping is in Saudi Arabia for a Saudi-Chinese summit, a China-Arab summit and a China-GCC summit.
He met with 14 Arab leaders, including Mahmoud Abbas.
I've seen some Western media urge the Arab leaders to bring up the persecution of Muslim Uyghurs with Xi. But the topic has been completely missing from Arabic language media (outside of Arabic language services of Western media.)
And, of course, there is no indication that any Arab Muslim leader has said a word to Xi about the topic.
This is causing no end of frustration to Uyghur human rights advocates. Dolkun Isa, president of the Munich, Germany-based World Uyghur Congress, or WUC, said China is not only committing genocide against the Uyghur Muslims, but also has declared war on Islam. "It is completely unacceptable that the leaders of the Muslim world will sit with China's dictator on the same stage and just talk about business and cooperation by turning a blind eye to China's attack on Islam," he told Radio Free Asia. Gheyyur Qurban, office director of WUC's Berlin office said countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran not only have remained silent on the Uyghur genocide, but also have supported the Chinese government's position, even at the U.N. at the...Read More |
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