| Book review: Can 'The Whole World' Be Wrong? by Richard Landesnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 22 Jan 05:45 AM Can "The Whole World" Be Wrong?: Lethal | |  |
Can "The Whole World" Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad, by Professor Richard Landes, is a hard but important book to read. Landes does no less than directly taking on the orthodoxy of the liberal world that regards Israel as one of the worst human rights violators, that regards supporting the Palestinian cause as the archetype of progressive values, that regards the West as Islamophobic and institutionally racist. He challenges the reader - what if everything you have read is wrong, and I am right?
The first part of the book goes into some detail on four episodes from the early 2000s.
It is no surprise that one of those episodes is the Al Dura affair, which Landes is one of the world's experts in. It was indeed the first blood libel of the new millenium, where the media unquestioningly accepted and promoted the idea that Israeli forces murdered the child Al Dura on TV and in cold blood. The French reporter, Charles Enderlin, who spread the libel wasn't there and he trusted the reporting of a Palestinian cameraman. Hours of footage from the same scene showed it was essentially a soundstage, where Palestinians were play-acting injuries. Yet almost no Western reporters questioned the story, as the Arab media ran the footage non-stop for days.
Occuring only two days after Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount in 2000, the incident inflamed the Palestinians and the...Read More |
From Ian: Jonathan Tobin: Harvard surrenders to the antisemites The willingness of The Boston Globe, The New York Times and other liberal outlets to skew their coverage on the issue by falsely describing Roth as a "critic" of Israel is equally depressing. Israel's government, like that of any other country, may be criticized for this or that policy. But those who label it an "apartheid state" and seek to haul it into international kangaroo-court tribunals are not "critics." Since they aim to deny to Jews that which they would not deny to anyone else—the right to self-determination, sovereignty in their ancient homeland and self-defense against terrorists bent on its annihilation—are practicing a form of discrimination that is rightly defined as antisemitism. That major publications believe such anti-Zionist incitement constitutes legitimate criticism is a sign of just how far mainstream journalism has gone in normalizing Jew-hatred. It's a function of the acceptance of false intersectional myths deeming Israel a "white" colonialist state that persecutes "black" Palestinians. Just as disturbing is the way that Roth and his supporters were able to make an issue of Harvard donors who had understandable qualms about his appointment. In a commendable, but rare, instance of the Anti-Defamation League calling a leftist antisemite to account, CEO Jonathan Greenblatt correctly accused the skewed coverage...Read More |
From Ian: Dore Gold: The Israeli-Palestinian fight for Jerusalem's history continues This past week, Haaretz ran jointly an article with the New York Times calling on Washington to refrain from building a new embassy in Jerusalem "on land stolen by Israel." The New York Times used a slightly more delicate title referring to the land in question as confiscated Palestinian land." The article was plastered on the front page of their joint publication. The author of this thesis was Professor Rashid Khalidi, a noted Palestinian academic at Columbia University. It quickly became evident what the author was trying to do. Khalidi's central argument in his writings is that Israel is a form of settler colonialism that fought against the authentic national movements in the land. In his article this week, he reminds readers that his family's roots in Jerusalem go back more than a thousand years. According to the website of the al-Khalidis, their lineage in Jerusalem can be traced back to the 14th and 15th centuries, though some tie the family to Khalid ibn al-Walid, the Muslim commander in Byzantine Syria. The Khalidis date back roughly to the time of Nachmanides (the Ramban), who re-established the Jewish community in Jerusalem after the Crusaders destroyed it, in 1099. The Jewish people have demonstrated a propensity to return to their historic homeland after disasters, like the Crusader conquests and even the Roman occupation...Read More |
From the Palestine Post, January 19, 1948: This is not just killing a Jew. This is taking delight in murder. This is a ritual. Not just stabbing him to death, but burning his body afterwards - they didn't want to merely murder but to quench a bloodlust of hate for Jews.
Notice also that the victim was not a "European invader." He came from Yemen, spoke Arabic - supposedly one of the Jews whom Arabs were not prejudiced against. But on the contrary, Menahem Manmuni was deliberately subject to mutilation because he was supposed to be a meek, weak dhimmi and didn't play the role assigned to him by Muslim supremacists.
The next day, other Jewish civilians were murdered as well. Here is an interesting Arab analysis of the future of a Jewish state in the region, and the Arab prediction that eventually, terror attacks will wear down the Jews. Which remains the strategy of Palestinian terror groups today, 75 years later, to the detriment of their own people. * * * * * * 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: Melanie Phillips: The unhinged reaction to the new Israeli government Progressive American rabbis and a number of Jewish philanthropists and organisations are now threatening to withdraw funding and support from Israel. Their arrogance is astounding. From their safe distance thousands of miles away, they have no understanding of the realities of life in Israel. What has brought this government to power is the deep desire by Israelis for a more robust defence of Jewish identity and security. Moreover, given the rapid disappearance of progressive diaspora Jewish communities through massive intermarriage and assimilation, it ill behoves liberal Jews to blame the Netanyahu government for breaking the link between Israel and the diaspora. It is these liberal Jews who are breaking the link with Judaism. Both in Israel and the diaspora, liberal Jews want Israel to be like any other country. They have a horror of Judaism's core principles because they have a horror of being different. But difference defines Judaism. And the western values for which they are screaming are currently destroying the west through the intolerant, illiberal and nihilistic agenda of identity politics. As Maghen wrote: "We know that unless we keep present in our minds our polity's Jewish nationalist raison d'être, and keep at bay those universalist, Western-based notions that are geared by definition to undermine...Read More |
In the wake of the Ken Roth Harvard fellowship episode, the anti-Israel crowd - led by Roth himself - has been pushing the meme that academia is anti-Palestinian and that pro-Palestinian academics must worry that their viewpoints will harm their careers.
And if anything that absurd lie has accelerated since Harvard caved!
Roth doubled down on the lie that Harvard originally caved to evil Zionist forces: Omar Shakir, the former BDS activist who is now a Human Rights Watch researcher, tweeted: Palestine Legal said: Is there even a shred of evidence that "pro-Palestinian" academics are being silenced?
The Middle East Scholar Barometer has serious methodological problems, but it is a decent measure of self-selecting academics who have strong opinions on the Middle East - and it shows that they are overwhelmingly anti-Israel. They support efforts to boycott Israel. 90% describe Israel even within the Green Line as "a democratic state with deep structural inequality (61%)" or "A state akin to apartheid (29%)."
Far more of them support...Read More |
If you are Jewish, it is really easy to get major media coverage in the Arab world.
Just dance.
A group of about ten Jews danced at Damascus Gate yesterday. This huge news was published by the UAE71 news site: On Thursday evening, a number of Israeli settlers stormed the "Damascus Gate" area in the center of occupied Jerusalem, raised the Israeli flag, and performed provocative dances. The witnesses indicated that "the Israeli police were present at the site to protect the settlers." In turn, the Palestinian Hamas movement considered the settlers' storming of Damascus Gate Square in Jerusalem "a dangerous step and playing with fire." "The occupation is escalating its attacks on Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem, and we are facing an unprecedented attack by the occupation on Al-Aqsa Mosque," said Hazem Qassem, the movement's spokesman, in a statement to the media. The occupation authorities are intensifying their efforts to Judaize Jerusalem and obliterate its Arab and Islamic identity. Meanwhile, last night, an Arab woman threw a bag full of garbage at a group of Jews in Jerusalem. Here's video (from Yedidya Epstien\*, who is pictured in the top photo): Assault seems a little more newsworthy and provocative to me than dancing, but the Israeli police on the scene didn't even arrest her - let alone there being any news coverage of the incident...Read More |
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