| Depraved society: Palestinians celebrate "the journalist who preferred the gun to the camera"noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 20 Jan 05:45 AM Last wee | | Last week, a 21 year old Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades gunman named Ahmed Abu Junaid was killed while shooting at IDF soldiers in Balata.
The Palestinian preference for terrorism over peace can be seen from this article in Safa News celebrating his death: Only one year separated Ahmed Abu Junaid from graduating from university and obtaining a journalism certificate to join his fellow journalists, but he preferred to carry a gun instead of a camera in order to obtain the highest degrees. Abu Junaid, 21, was martyred hours after he was critically wounded, in an armed clash with Israeli special forces that stormed Balata camp, east of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, at dawn on the eleventh of January. Ahmed's mother, who attended his funeral and showed a great deal of patience and perseverance, did not hide her pain at his separation...Read More |
From Ian: The Wages of Online Antisemitism When it comes to social media, the reality is: if it enrages, it engages. Stigmatizing content attracts a high degree of attention and is widely circulated because it elicits a visceral reaction and triggers emotions such as contempt and disgust. Those who subscribe to extremist and fringe beliefs will be exposed to increasingly more radical content as they follow a rabbit-hole of increasingly radical content fed to them by recommendation algorithms. This isn't accidental. Eliciting outrage drives user engagement, which in turn drives profits. This helps explain why so little has been done to mitigate the explosion of online hatred impacting vulnerable communities. It simply doesn't pay. Yet, the propagation of conspiracy theories and online outrage threatens to undermine many of the American values we cherish, including the duty to protect minorities, the right to speak freely, and the ability to seek truth and acquire knowledge. Some believe that interventions designed to keep people safe from online-instigated violence will interfere with the right to freedom of expression. These voices confuse freedom of speech with "freedom of reach." Purveyors of hate have no right to be handed an ever-louder megaphone to disseminate their messages of intolerance and bigotry. There is enormous power in having a wealth of information, connectivity, and entertainment...Read More |
Based on the Ken Roth debacle, where Harvard reversed course after complaints about "academic freedom,".... * * * * * * 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 |
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Jerusalem, January 19 - A far-right element within Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's governing coalition announced today that it will use its power to limit the capacity of homosexual men to accurately judge the orientation of other men, in a move set to spark further controversy over the party's demonstrated hostility toward some liberal ideals of the Western World. Minister of Public Safety Itamar Ben-G'vir's Otzma Yehudit - "Jewish Power" - Party, which garnered enough votes this past November to play the role of kingmaker in the current Likud-led coalition, told reporters and supporters today that the ministers, deputy ministers, and other elected representatives in the party will use their influence and decisions-making authority to jam gaydar throughout Israel in an effort to curtail what party officials called the "plague of immorality that has infected our nation and undermined its health." Ben-G'vir vowed to exercise his ministerial authority over law enforcement to pursue the initiative, and to use the government's existential dependence on his party's lawmakers to extract policy concessions on the matter from, for example, Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi of Likud. "We set the agenda of this government," Ben-G'vir boasted to the group. "It's past time this country...Read More |
From Ian: 'Multilateral Terrorism': Israel Envoy Accuses Palestinians of War Against Israel; US Urges Temple Mount to be 'Neutral Space' Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Gilad Erdan on Wednesday accused Palestinian leadership of obstructing the peace process by waging a "jihad war of multilateral terrorism" meant to "destroy the Jewish state." Speaking before the UN's Security Council, Erdan's remarks also addressed the Palestinians' role in the passage of a UN General Assembly plenary resolution asking the International Court of Justice to issue an advisory opinion on the "occupied" Palestinian territories. "One of the weapons that they use in this jihad war is the manipulation and abuse of international bodies," Erdan said. "They weaponize these bodies in order to force Israel into surrendering to their demands," he added, charging that the Palestinians are leveraging anti-Israel bias in the United Nations to impose on Israel multilateral actions that reflect exclusively their narratives and policy preferences. Erdan also criticized the Palestinians for classifying deaths of terrorists as civilian deaths, creating the perception that Israel indiscriminately kills Palestinians, and denounced the UN for passing "more resolutions targeting Israel than the rest of the world combined." Palestinian...Read More |
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From the US Army website:
African Lion 2023 is U.S. Africa Command's largest, premier, joint, annual exercise hosted by Morocco, Djibouti, Ghana, Senegal and Tunisia, between May 15 and July 18, 2023. More than 10,000 participants from 20 nations and NATO train together with a focus on enhancing readiness for U.S. and partner nation forces. AL23 is a joint all-domain, multi-component, and multinational exercise, employing a full array of mission capabilities with the goal to strengthen interoperability among participants and set the theater for strategic access. In last year's exercises, Israel sent two "observers" who appear to have participated fully. Possibly the lack of outrage in Arab media last year was because they were characterized as mere observers.
However, Arab media is reporting that Israel's participation is planned to be much more extensive this year - which puts Tunisia into a bind.
Tunisia is proud to be one of the main partners with the US in these exercises, but it is facing domestic...Read More |
Former Human Rights Watch director Ken Roth was interviewed on NPR and continued his jihad of falsely accusing Harvard University of denying him a fellowship because of rich donors objecting to his "criticism of Israel."
ROTH: ...the Carr Center called me up and sheepishly had to admit that the dean had vetoed my fellowship because of my criticism of Israel....Apparently, what they objected to in my case was that I'm not partial. I'm an impartial critic of Israeli repression. And that seems to have been the stigma that the Israeli government didn't like, that its supporters didn't like. And that was why my fellowship was vetoed.
FADEL: What does this say about freedom of academic expression on campus? This is an Ivy League campus in the United States. ROTH: This would suggest that Harvard is allowing donors to compromise intellectual independence at the university. The original Michael Massing article in The Nation - which was itself biased and filled with baseless allegations - did not say that the Carr Center told Roth he was rejected for "criticism of Israel" but because Roth had an "'anti-Israel bias'; Roth's tweets on Israel were of particular concern...Read More |
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