| Israel haters trying to pressure the US to free people who gave Hamas millions of dollarsnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 18 Dec 05:45 AM Lately, anti | | Lately, anti-Israel groups like Samidoun, Within Our Lifetime and others have started a campaign to pressure the US to free three prisoners who were convicted of sending millions of dollars to Hamas terrorists in the Holy Land Foundation case: The lies are egregious. Since many people do not recall the case from the 2000s, here is a refresher on exactly what these people did and why they are in prison.
These are excerpts from a press release from the Department of Justice, May 27, 2009. that described the details of the case: Today, in federal court in Dallas, U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis sentenced the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) and five of its leaders following their convictions by a federal jury in November 2008 on charges of providing material support to Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization. HLF was incorporated by Shukri Abu Baker, Mohammad El-Mezain, and Ghassan Elashi. Mufid Abdulqader and Abdulrahman Odeh worked as fund raisers. Together, with others, they provided material support to the Hamas movement. Shukri Abu Baker, 50, of Garland, Texas, was sentenced to a total of 65 years in prison. He was convicted...Read More |
Electronic Intifada trumpets: The legal dispute between Ben & Jerry's and its parent company Unilever has ended in a bit of a fudge. But as a result, the ice cream maker can say that it is standing by its July 2021 decision to end all business in Israel so as not to be complicit in Israel's illegal colonization of occupied Palestinian land. That being the case, the outcome can be seen as a win for supporters of Palestinian rights. As usually is the case with Israel-haters, they are lying.
When Unilever said that it would sell its Ben & Jerry's business in Israel to an Israeli company back in June, its own Ben & Jerry's subsidiary sued its parent company stop the sale altogether and to not allow anyone to sell ice cream with their name in Israel and the West Bank.
This settlement is a loss for Ben & Jerry's - as the Israeli company says in its press release: Avi Zinger, issued the following statement in response to the settlement reached today by Unilever and Ben & Jerry's: "I am pleased that the litigation between Unilever and the independent Board of Ben & Jerry...Read More |
From Ian: The Palestinian issue is about supremacy, not justice Palestinian apologists try to explain it away as budding nationalism and anger at the demographic changes, but this happened all over the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)—it was far from confined to the Holy Land. In Iraq, the notorious Farhud in 1941 saw Iraqis kill at least 180 Jews, wound over 2,000 and ransack the homes and properties of thousands. In Egypt, attacks on Jews in Cairo occurred in 1938 and 1945. The racist treatment intensified to a crescendo of violence against Jews as Israel was established—attacks on Jews were the norm, their properties were confiscated, and many were arrested or detained in camps. Around nine hundred thousand Jews were thus forced to migrate and leave most of their property behind. Second-class residents indeed. Why is this about racism and privilege and not mere discord between nations? First, it was widespread and commonplace throughout the MENA region; there was not a single Arab or Middle Eastern country that didn't see its Jewish community decimated and abused—in the same way that no state in the American Confederacy treated blacks as nothing but slaves, and less than whites, after the civil war. Second, the rejection of the right of Jews to self-determination in their ancient homeland is pervasive. The notion of Zionism, the national movement of the Jewish people, is described...Read More |
From Ian: Liberals, Progressives, Wokeness and Israel Putting all this together, what the JILV survey powerfully documents is a troubling phenomenon that has pervaded the larger American political system today: namely political sorting. In its most basic form, political sorting, which is often confused with polarization, is a fairly new phenomenon and is where ideological and attitudinal positions no longer vary but are expected to align to particular liberal or conservative attitudes. The result today is that Democrats are more uniformly left-leaning and Republicans are more uniformly right-leaning than they were decades ago. Both the left and the right promote packages of ideas and attitudes that must be adopted wholesale if one is not to fall into disfavor. Today, dissent and divergence become almost impossible if one is to avoid adverse social consequences and possibly real professional ramifications as well. And for macro-political development, as Democrats are more habitually liberal and Republicans become more conservative, compromise and bipartisanship becomes harder to achieve. This is exactly what is happening with respect to Israel and ideology and represents an existential threat to the Jewish community and American support for Israel as well. The recent uproar at Berkeley Law School is a case in point. Nine student groups at the law school banded together...Read More |
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noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 16 Dec 02:20 PM * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More |
From Ian: Seth Mandel: The survivor: Benjamin Netanyahu on securing the future of Israel and the Western alliance On Nov. 1, Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party won Israel's general elections, likely returning Netanyahu to the post of prime minister for the third nonconsecutive time. He is already Israel's longest-serving premier, having spent over a decade in office before his ouster in 2021. He spent his year in the opposition, in part writing his autobiography, Bibi: My Story. In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner, Netanyahu talked about his life and career and what comes next for Israel and the wider world. The following has been condensed for clarity. WASHINGTON EXAMINER MAGAZINE: Prime minister, a big part of what I learned from your autobiography is the background to how you formed your worldview, how you see the world ideologically, philosophically. And the chapters that really bring that to life are the chapters where you talk about your father, Benzion Netanyahu. Most people know him as a celebrated historian, but he was also an important Zionist activist, and he worked with Vladimir Jabotinsky, the great Zionist leader. And the crux of that seems to be your approach toward convincing the public of the justice of Israel's cause and rallying support for Israel and the Jewish people and the strategy to do that. BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: Well, you...Read More |
This morning, some 70,000 Muslims are reported to have visited the Temple Mount - a much higher number than a normal Friday, when between 40,000 and 50,000 typically come during winter months.
Thousands more visited the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, spilling into the streets. Why so many? Because of Chanukah! All week, there have been calls in Arabic media for Muslims to visit the Al Aqsa Mosque en masse because Jewish groups are asking Jews to visit the Mount on Chanukah, since the miracle of the oil happened there. Which means that tens of thousands of Muslims came not because they wanted to worship there, but in order to express Jew-hatred ahead of Chanukah. If it wasn't for a Jewish holiday, they wouldn't be there. The preacher at the mosque, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein...Read More |
There has been a lot of coverage of UNHRC Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese's antisemitic posts on social media, including one post where she said, "America and Europe, one of them subjugated by the Jewish lobby, and the other by the sense of guilt about the Holocaust, remain on the sidelines and continue to condemn the oppressed — the Palestinians — who defend themselves with the only means they have." But in that same post, Albanese also engaged in a blood libel - falsely accusing Israel of killing a baby.
She wrote (translated): Meanwhile, Gaza needs help, medicine, food, water. Everything we can give is a small but essential help to save more innocent lives. Like that of little Shayman, who after being born by her dying mother due to bombings, was rescued and kept in an incubator by medical staff in Gaza. The miracle of his life went off when Israel bombed Gaza's only power supply source, and the Shayman's incubator stopped working. I cannot find any mention of any child dying from an incubator losing power in 2014. Human Rights Watch wrote about the effects of Israel's...Read More |
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