| Ken Roth's jihad is yet another choreographed anti-Zionist campaignnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 15 Jan 05:45 AM The timing of the current torrent | |  |
The timing of the current torrent of articles and posts about Harvard's Kennedy School denying a fellowship to Ken Roth is most curious.
According to the initial article that started this all off in The Nation, Roth was denied his fellowship in the end of July 2022.
It took nearly six months for this news to hit the media.
What happened during those six months? Why didn't Roth lash out at the time - why was he silent for so long?
The answer can be seen in his history at Human Rights Watch.
HRW would issue many reports about human rights abuses worldwide. But only a subset of them would be turned into media events - with much longer reports, behind-the-scenes partnerships with other organizations, embargoed reports to be released on specific days to coincide with their splashy press conferences, and lining up sympathetic reporters and media outlets to publish their articles at the times that would maximize the impact of the campaign.
A large proportion of these campaigns would be against Israel. Relatively minor issues with questionable human rights dimensions, such as the fact that Booking.com and AirBnB listed Jewish-owned properties in the territories, would be promoted far more than actual deadly attacks in Syria or elsewhere.
In short, Ken Roth has a lot...Read More |
From Ian: Israel must prepare for collapse of Palestinian Authority After months of tension and violence between Israel and the Palestinians, a new political reality is threatening to push the Palestinian Authority (PA) to the brink of collapse. Both sides have been warning of an impending collapse for some time now. While these warnings are not new, circumstances have changed and may pose a significant threat to the stability of the already fragile Palestinian entity. "Such threats have been heard for years, but have yet to materialize," said Dr. Nimrod Goren, president of Mitvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies and senior fellow for Israeli Affairs at the Middle East Institute. "Therefore, people might not believe them anymore and become indifferent toward dramatic events that may be looming." The PA was established in 1994 and is controlled by the Fatah Party after a split from Hamas in 2007. Led by President Mahmoud Abbas, the PA has full control of West Bank territory referred to as Area A and partial civil control over areas B and C, in which Israel maintains most of the control. Hamas controls the Gaza Strip. Over time, Abbas' power has eroded. A policy led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has consistently weakened the PA while strengthening Hamas in Gaza. Abbas' legitimacy among the Palestinian people gradually decreased. His continuous postponement of elections in the PA has significantly...Read More |
From Ian: Ruthie Blum: Amnesty International's latest excuse to accuse Israel of 'apartheid' Protests against new government bolster Amnesty and its friends
Israeli demonstrations in which participants compare the new government to the rise of the Third Reich do Amnesty and ilk proud, particularly when Palestinian flags dot the scenery. Those in attendance may profess to be protesting Team Netanyahu's judicial-reform plan and other policies, but what they're actually doing is discrediting the essence of the country. This was evident a few weeks ago at a conference in Damascus, organized by the Hamas-affiliated Al-Quds International Institute. According to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the event brought together Syria-based Palestinian activists and Iranian dignitaries to discuss Israel's demise. One noteworthy speech reported on by MEMRI was that of Syrian researcher Shadi Diab. He presented "data" on the "demographic problem facing the [Israeli] entity, and its failure to achieve harmony among its [Jewish] residents, who immigrated [to it] from different parts of the world and have different identities, cultures and languages, different circumstances and widely differing goals." This "entity," he argued, "never managed to achieve a consensus among these sectors, who came from all over the world, and this disparity is evident in the struggle and fierce competition that currently prevail in the...Read More |
The assertion that Arabs are only anti-Zionist, not antisemitic, often has its challenges.
The leader of the Houthi Ansar Allah movement in Yemen, Abd al-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, gave a speech for the Muslim version of International Women's Day.
Al Houthi said, "the global Zionist-Jewish lobby seeks by targeting women to target the structure of society and dismantle the bonds of human society and the family," explaining that the demonic, corrupting Jews target women to corrupt them and seeks to turn them into a tool to corrupt society. And he explained that the Jews seek to spread corruption more than ever before, and they use all means and capabilities for that. So, anti-Zionist or antisemitic? It's a real conundrum. * * * * * * 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: At the United Nations, Israel is 'the Jew Among the Nations' Approximately half of the council's country-specific condemnations have targeted Israel. Nine out of its 35 special sessions have focused on the Jewish state. The UNHRC created a blacklist to deter investment in territories controlled by Israel, something it has not done for any other disputed territory. And the UNHRC maintains a special rapporteur devoted to uncovering supposed Israeli abuses. The list goes on. Special rapporteurs are expected to demonstrate "impartiality" and not "hold any views or opinions that could prejudice" their work. Nevertheless, like flies to manure, this special rapporteur position has attracted individuals with histories of anti-Israel activism — and even antisemitism. In 2008, then rapporteur John Dugard justified Palestinian terrorism as the "inevitable consequence" of Israeli actions. His successor, Richard Falk, likened Israel's treatment of the Palestinians to the Holocaust. Falk's antisemitism was so pronounced that the United Kingdom condemned him on three separate occasions. Current special rapporteur Francesca Albanese is embroiled in her own antisemitism controversy. Last month, Albanese's 2014 remarks describing the United States as "subjugated by the Jewish lobby" drew widespread condemnation, including by top US officials. In a separate post from that...Read More |
Anti-Zionists like the extremist, fringe Neturei Karta sect because they share the ir desire to destroy Israel and the embrace terrorists. But the real reason they love them is because they use them as evidence that they are not antisemitic - after all, they like some Jews!
It's a stupid game, but it is one that both sides can play.
From Times of Israel: Police on Thursday said officers arrested a man who entered the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank earlier this week along with two other members of the fringe anti-Zionist, ultra-Orthodox sect Neturei Karta, and met with Palestinians from local terror groups. Elhanan Lax, 38, from the central city of Petah Tikva, was detained on suspicion of "supporting and associating with a terror group" and illegally entering Area A of the West Bank, where Jenin is located. Israeli citizens are barred from entering Area A, as it is under the Palestinian Authority's civilian and security control under the Oslo Accords. The three men were filmed meeting with prominent Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group officials as well as families of terrorist attackers on Monday. Police said they are seeking to arrest the other two men. The trio could face lengthy prison spells if convicted of supporting terror. Hold on - I thought that Israel was all about Jewish supremacy! About anti-Palestinian racism! How could...Read More |
The ADL has released a report, "Antisemitic Attitudes in America," that is making headines today becasue it indicates that antisemitic attitudes in the US are increasing dramatically. Over three-quarters of Americans (85 percent) believe at least one anti-Jewish trope, as opposed to 61 percent found in 2019. Twenty percent of Americans believe six or more tropes, which is significantly more than the 11 percent that ADL found in 2019 and is the highest level measured in decades. Many Americans believe in Israel-oriented antisemitic positions – from 40 percent who at least slightly believe that Israel treats Palestinians like Nazis treated the Jews, to 18 percent who are uncomfortable spending time with a person who supports Israel. There is a nearly 40 percent correlation between belief in anti-Jewish tropes and anti-Israel belief, meaning that a substantial number of people who believe anti-Jewish tropes also have negative attitudes toward Israel. This is the first of a series of reports by the ADL based on this survey; a future report will compare antisemitic and anti-Israel opinions across the political and ideological spectrum. So while the overlap of anti-Israel and antisemitic attitudes would initially appear to show that Leftist anti-Zionism is correlated with antisemitism, we cannot make that conclusion, since traditional antisemites generally also hate Israel (as much...Read More |
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