| A fun Twitter thread with a human rights "expert" trying to defend Ken Rothnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 12 Jan 05:45 AM Sunjeev Bery is the Execut | |  |
Sunjeev Bery is the Executive Director at an NGO called Freedom Forward. He was advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at Amnesty International USA from 2011-2017. he's been interviewed on TV as some sort of expert.
For the past few days, Bery has been tirelessly tweeting his support for Ken Roth in the Kennedy School story - and going after Roth's critics.
Including me.
Which makes for some very entertaining reading.
Roth tweeted, "Harvard's Kennedy School says it 'welcomes new ideas—even unpopular and controversial ones." Its curriculum "encourages students and faculty to talk openly and effectively about difficult and highly charged issues.' Except for Israel, Dean Elmendorf?"
I responded to Roth, "Perhaps @Harvard @Kennedy_School has a policy against hiring obsessive liars? In 2014 I compiled a list of Ken Roth's Twitter lies over just a few months, and documented why they were wrong. He of course never corrected [any of] them. See for yourself," linking to a list of dozens of lies and distortions that Roth tweeted during and after the 2014 Gaza war.
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From Ian: Col Kemp: Jew-Hate at American Universities [The Amcha] report paints a stark picture of an increasing, intensifying and carefully coordinated campaign of attacks on Jewish identity at over 60% of the colleges and universities that are popular with Jews, including 2,000 incidents intended to harm Jewish students since 2015. [T]hese activists demand an end to Zionism, which... means just one thing: an end to the democratic State of Israel. This itself is antisemitism in any book and is spelt out as such in the US State Department definition of antisemitism. Despite expending so much energy against their fellow students, German Gentiles had plenty left for their Jewish professors. Unsatisfied with Nazi race regulations restricting Jewish faculty, students boycotted the classes of those who were exempt under the race laws and pressured university authorities to dismiss them. The result was that every Jewish professor who was still legally allowed to teach had resigned by 1935. The Amcha report characterises the situation on US campuses today as a crisis for American Jews. It is much more than that. It is a crisis for us all that one section of our student body is bullied, abused, intimidated and cast down by their fellow students and often abandoned by their professors and faculty authorities. It is high time for the federal government, under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, to withdraw...Read More |
"As weak as Netanyahu is, he must, at least this time, stand up and tell [MK Itamar Ben Gvir], 'You are not going to the Temple Mount.' People will die," said Lapid, and when he said it, I cringed. There are some things you just don't say. Of course, Ben Gvir didgo to the Temple Mount and no one died. But that doesn't make it any less a godawful disgusting thing to say out loud. Most people know better than to say such things. But for a Jew in particular to say such things is beyond the pale—especially for a Jew with power and a podium. Which may be the point. Lapid should never have been in power and now he isn't. All of Israel knows how the outgoing government got into bed with the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Raam Party in order to unseat Bibi. The outgoing government didn't care that their path to power was contrary to the will of the people, because the outgoing government didn't, and doesn't care about the Israeli people—it also doesn't understand them. In some circles, Israelis won't even whisper the word "cancer." Instead they refer to it as "hamachala" or "the disease." Saying it out loud is dangerous, like tempting Satan. So you go vague, nonspecific. A mother won't say, "Don't run out into the street—you could get hurt," but "someone could...Read More |
From the official Palestinian Wafa news agency: A Palestinian who was earlier shot and injured by Israeli soldiers in the south of the West Bank has died of his wounds, according to the Ministry of Health. It said the Civil Affairs Authority had informed it that Sanad Mohammad Samasra, 19, from the Hebron district town of Dahriyeh, who was critically injured when he was shot near the illegal settlement of Havat Yahuda, south of the city of Hebron, has died. Another senseless murder by the evil occupation.
Hamas tells the story a little differently: A young man was killed, this evening, Wednesday, after carrying out a heroic stabbing attack that injured a settler near the town of Samou, south of Hebron. The Ministry of Health announced the martyrdom of the young man, Sanad Muhammad Othman Samamreh, from Al-Dhahiriya, after he was shot by the Israeli occupation after carrying out a stabbing operation near the "Havat Yehuda" settlement, south of Hebron. Martyr Samamreh carried out a stabbing operation in the "Havat Yehuda" settlement, and inflicted several stab wounds on the head and neck of the settler, injuring him with moderate and serious injuries. The occupation soldiers shot Samamreh, who was critically wounded, and later announced his death. This is the usual pattern - the PA positions Palestinians as victims and don't mention why they may have been killed, while...Read More |
From Ian: Too Far Right—and Too Jewish : The Real Reasons for Europe's Demonization of Netanyahu In the liberal media and among the intelligentsia and the European political class there reigns an untroubled unanimity on the subject of Israel: it is no longer a democracy because its new government is of the Right. Too far to the right. I have no particular sympathy for Benjamin Netanyahu, but I must observe that the manner of his election was perfectly legitimate. Nor have I any sympathy—far from it—for the extremist Jewish parties that have entered into the government coalition, but they, too, were elected. Thus, I cannot see on what grounds the objecting Europeans allow themselves to denounce Israeli democracy. I am reminded of a famous proposal by Bertolt Brecht: "Since the people vote against the government, the people must be dissolved." As it happens, a majority of Israelis consider themselves represented in Netanyahu's new government, and the minority will take back power in a few more years. Such are the mechanics of universal suffrage. Therefore, before diabolizing Netanyahu, Europe's finest should ask themselves about his repeated electoral successes and record for longevity, both of which bring to mind Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel, and José María Aznar. The voters know what they're doing: under Netanyahu, Israelis have experienced their greatest security, and never has...Read More |
i24News reports: The United Arab Emirates Embassy in the United States has announced that the Holocaust will be taught in school curricula. According to the embassy, the content of the studies on Nazi Germany's genocidal murder of six million Jews during World War II will be developed in collaboration with Israel's official Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and will be included in the curriculum of primary and secondary school students. This news is upsetting Arab haters of Israel.
The UK-based Al Quds site didn't directly criticize it - but it framed it this way:Coinciding with the occupation's violation of the sanctity of the Holy Mosque, and the escalation of attacks and threats against the Palestinian people, the UAE announced the inclusion of Holocaust studies in the educational curricula within its schools...Hamas strongly condemned the announcement. Hezbollah's Deputy Secretary-General in Lebanon, Sheikh Naim Qassem...Read More |
The classic definition of chutzpah is someone murdering his parents and then throwing himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.
The EU has just hit that high standard: The European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarcic, said this weekend that Israel must pay reparations for structures it demolishes in the West Bank that were built with EU funding. Lenarcic's remarks were in response to 24 European Parliament members who contacted the commission following Israel's intention to demolish dozens of houses in the West Bank villages of the Masafer Yatta area that were built with financial aid from the European Union or its member states. "The European Union has repeatedly requested that Israel compensate for the loss of European taxpayers' money," members of parliament wrote to Lenarcic, adding that the commission itself confessed that its diplomatic requests to Israel were ineffective. Lenarcic responded that "in a number of incidents, Israel has been asked to return or compensate for assets financed by the Union that that were destroyed, dismantled, or confiscated," and that the European Union is continuing to work in this regard through a range of diplomatic and political channels. This is like demanding compensation from the police for confiscating...Read More |
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