| Why did the Muslims put a menorah on their coins? Could be to symbolize Islamic supremacy.noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 22 Dec 05:45 AM Back in 201 | | Back in 2013, I wrote an article about a curious phenomenon: some early Muslim coins, minted mostly in Jerusalem, featured a menorah. The earliest such coins were clearly copied from older Judean coins that featured the Temple menorah, with a seven branched menorah clearly visible. Here's an astonishing example that also includes a six pointed star on the other side, although Muslims also used that star in various motifs. But soon they morphed to a different styled menorah, although the menorah was still associated with Jerusalem.
This one says on the obverse, "Aliya, Madinet Bayit al-Maqdis" - meaning Aelia Capitolina, the Roman name for Jerusalem, and "City of the Holy Temple."
There were two main differences between the original Jewish style menorah and the one that Muslims started putting on their coins. The Jewish representations of menorahs during the Byzantine period on medals and mosaics had seven branches and a three legged base: The new Muslim "menorahs," though, while still associated with Jerusalem, changed the base to 2 legs, the number of branches to 5, and they put a line across the top of the menorah. At the time, some Muslim coins used "visual puns" where a different picture would be seen upside down than right side up. Back in 2013, I mentioned...Read More |
From Ian: JPost Editorial: Contemporary antisemitism should be taught in schools While Mann commended the "great strides" made in promoting greater awareness of genocide, he said antisemitism "can take many forms" and "it is not enough to teach about the Holocaust." As Klein pointed out, Mann's latest recommendations follow significant progress that has been said to have been made in recent years in combating antisemitism in the UK and worldwide, resulting from two landmark reports published by the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism in 2006 and 2015. One reason for the new report, supported by valued input from stakeholders across the country, was to identify what more needs to be done. "If this scale of incidence among young people is not tackled, then we are storing up potentially serious problems for the future as well as for the present," Mann wrote. Among the recommendations made by Mann is that school leadership teams should be offered guidance from the government on how to deal with incidents of antisemitic hate. This should include how to report incidents that did not happen at school but involved either the targeting of students or students as perpetrators. A British government spokesperson said in response to the report: "Antisemitism, as with all forms of bullying and hatred, is abhorrent and has no place in our education system. The atrocities of the Holocaust are a compulsory part...Read More |
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From the December 21, 1947 Palestine Post, a report that the Arab League decided to forcibly conscript Jews or consider them the enemy. And at the same time, more threats against the Jews of Aden (Yemen) materialized: "Anti-zionism" or classic antisemitism? * * * * * * 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: Victims of Terrorism Sue Biden Admin for Sending Taxpayer Aid to Palestinians Victims of Palestinian terror attacks are suing the Biden administration for awarding nearly half a billion dollars in U.S. taxpayer funds to the Palestinian government, which allegedly uses these funds to pay convicted terrorists and their families. The lawsuit, filed in federal court on Tuesday by American victims of Palestinian terror attacks and Rep. Ronny Jackson (R., Texas), alleges the Biden administration is in violation of federal law for resuming U.S. aid to the Palestinian government, according to a copy of the lawsuit exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The Trump administration froze these funds due to the Palestinian government's financial support for terrorists as part of a program known as pay-to-slay. The plaintiffs, led in the suit by the America First Legal Foundation, a watchdog group composed of lawyers, are asking the court to halt the Biden administration's Palestinian aid program over charges it is sustaining the pay-to-slay program in violation of a 2018 law known as the Taylor Force Act. That law—named after an American who was killed in 2016 by a Palestinian terrorist—bars all U.S. payments to the Palestinian government until it halts the terrorist payment program. The State Department, which is named as a defendant...Read More |
Orient News reports: Last Sunday, we published a documented report on the Assad regime's confiscation of Palestinian property in Al-Hajar Al-Aswad and Palestine camps as part of a general plan to establish a sectarian Shiite southern suburb similar to that of Hezbollah in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The documented report referred to the confiscation of Palestinian property under flimsy pretexts, including the failure of one of the homeowners to pay a sum of one million Syrian pounds, equivalent to approximately $200, as a fine. It must be noted that the Assad-Iranian sectarian scheme is still in its early infancy, and the new step came after the courts affiliated with the regime in the past made mock charges against the Palestinians to confiscate their property, as the matter sparked widespread reactions and protests, so the regime resorted to another path that appears to be apparently civil, penal, procedural, far removed from politics, hidden as much as possible from the media and the limelight, and of course without following the legal administrative procedures as they are in an authoritarian regime that does not originally establish the judiciary and justice. The report goes on to say that the Palestinian factions are not saying a word about this. The Palestinian Authority and Fatah want to stay on the good side of Iran which is part of this scheme. One potential roadblock is that the Palestinian camps - which...Read More |
Happy Chanukah! Another secular year is almost over, and this website continues to positively influence the conversation around Israel. I'm so grateful that I have so many readers and followers who turn to EoZ to learn the truth about Israel and the Middle East. This includes many people who are themselves top leaders and writers, and this is a source of pride. This year I finally published my first book, and it has received fantastic reviews. It is one of the few books on Amazon to have nothing but 5 star ratings. I hope in the coming year to publish a book with the best of my cartoons. I am also working on an audio version of my book, if there is enough interest. I've been quoted in the media numerou times. News sites that have mentioned or quoted me include Algemeiner, the Jewish Press, The Washington Free Beacon, The Jerusalem Post, the Daily Campus, Israel Today, Camera-UK, Mena Watch (German), Guiame (Portuguese), and Israel Heute (German). My Instagram site where I repost my graphics is growing, as are my Twitter followers. I spoke at the prestigious ISGAP conference about my definition of antisemitism. The subsequent...Read More |
A mass murderer as an icon for human rights? For Palestinians and their supporters, there is no contradiction. Nasser Abu Hmeid, the terrorist who died of lung cancer yesterday, is now the number one cause for the Palestinian Authority.
He had murdered seven Israelis - and five Palestinian "collaborators." But since he was a member of Fatah, the Palestinian Authority is in the forefront of mourning him.
The PA held a massive rally in Ramallah protesting his "assassination." The Ministry of Education is forcing schools to hold assemblies supporting his terror career. Their official school radio dedicated this morning to talking about how Israel mistreats prisoners. Here is a heartwarming scene of a child on his father's shoulders, surrounded by the Palestinian and Fatah flags, with a (toy?) gun, supporting the murderer: Given all this, it is understandable that Israel has not released his body, since that would spark violence. But now they are trying to make that sound like a human rights issue as well: the Palestinian National Council called the decision "fascist:"
This fascist decision of a country whose parliament ratifies laws that qualify criminals to hold ministerial portfolios is a flagrant violation of the most basic international and humanitarian laws and norms...Read More |
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