| Francesca Albanese once again proves how utterly unsuitable she is as US Special Rapporteurnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 27 Jan 05:45 AM Earlier th | | Earlier this week, Francesca Albanese - the UN Special Rapporteur for the territories - tweeted out a call for issues she should write reports about. I responded asking her to write about Palestinian terror groups recruiting children. Of course she didn't answer. But in a way, she did. Shortly thereafter, Albanese tweeted "As I took office 8m ago, I committed to making children & youth a priority for my mandate," then calling on Israel to release a Ahmed Mansara who, at 13, had stabbed and critically injured a 13-year old Israeli boy on a bicycle outside a candy shop.
Clearly, she doesn't consider the human rights of Jewish children to be under her mandate.
But she doesn't seem to care about many Palestinian children, either.
Joe Truzman, of Foundation for Defense of Democracies, unearthed a video made last summer from Jenin. It shows masked terrorist going around the city, followed eagerly by children. Sometimes the terrorists give the children guns. During a parade, the terrorists - and teenagers - are firing into the air in...Read More |
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. I searched for the word "Jews" in newspapers from 80 years ago today, and saw many versions of this story: * * * * * * 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: Israel Was Created to Ensure the Survival of the Jewish People Critics refer to some of the newly ascendant parties in the Israeli government as "hypernationalist and Jewish supremacist." If by these epithets they mean that their members and supporters care more for Jews - their national family - than they do for the enemies of the Jews; that they are hell-bent on putting a stop to the weekly slaughter of innocent Jewish civilians by Arab terrorists; and that they believe that the Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish People, and oppose the erection of a jihadist Palestinian polity controlled by Hamas, then this is just classical Zionism. Ben-Gurion would affix his signature to these propositions. We, whose children and grandchildren will, God willing, grow up here in Israel, want peace more than anybody. We believe, as has many an Israeli strategist hailing from both sides of the political-ideological divide, that peace will come only if we are strong, and only if we are insistent on our rights to this land. In addition, we have noted that when Yair Lapid was at the helm, he came up with no better or more humane ideas for dealing with the conflict than any of his predecessors. The State of Israel was created, and continues to exist, for one purpose: to ensure the survival and prosperity of the Jewish People. Unless we keep present in our minds our...Read More |
This fundraising email from J-Street is kind of amazing on a number of levels. Israel is in the midst of a major political struggle. On one side, those fighting to protect Israel's founding ideals of democracy, equality and justice. On the other, the new hardline Netanyahu government, bent on centralizing power, circumventing the courts and cementing permanent occupation in the West Bank. ...The government's radical plan was drawn up by the Kohelet Forum, an increasingly powerful right-wing, pro-settlement think tank that's funded largely by two right-wing American billionaires. They've been called "the brains of the Israeli right wing" and helped draft the problematic "Nation-State Law" -- which according to Netanyahu made Israel "the national state, not of all its citizens, but only of the Jewish people." They were also behind Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo's tenuous legal argument claiming that Israeli settlements in occupied territory do not violate international law. The group is funded by two Republican Jewish-American billionaires from Pennsylvania who have also helped fund the campaigns of MAGA extremists like Lauren Boebert. They hope that GOP-style policies and values can come to dominate Israeli society.... We might not have right-wing billionaires backing our work, but we do have thousands of supporters like you. Can you chip in $18, $54, $90 -- or any other amount -- to help us fight back? Their...Read More |
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Powerful Jewish Interests Kept Me From The Presidency Of This Synagogue By Kenneth Roth, former Director of Human Rights Watch New York, January 26 - It's happened again. Just weeks after America's premier educational and research institution bowed to pro-Israel donors and rescinded its offer to me of a position, now my local house of worship has acted in similarly corrupt fashion - it has submitted to a group of Jews opposed to my candidacy to lead the synagogue for the next two years. This phenomenon of Jews with money and a political agenda silencing critics of their pet Zionist project must end. Nothing in my history or campaign platform for the presidency of Temple Beit Khashoggi suggests that I would perform in a non-exemplary fashion in the position, just as, a few short weeks ago, I was blindsided by Harvard University's decision to back away from its invitation to me, at the behest of those who perceive my criticism of Israel as disqualifying. Disqualifying! Simply because they count my tweets about Israel vs. those about every other country? Because they claim to detect anti-Israel bias in my token, infrequent criticism of Israel's terrorist enemies that I wield as a shield against charges of tendentious reporting and analysis? They even go so far as to accuse me of fomenting...Read More |
From Ian: HRC Op-Ed In The Hill Times History Doesn't Support Giving Israel An 'Occupier' Label HRC's Op-Ed entitled: "History Doesn't Support Giving Israel An 'Occupier' Label" was published in The Hill Times on Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Israel, the nation-state of the Jewish people, is not an "occupier" of its own land and of its own eternal and undivided capital, Jerusalem. No UN resolution or political proclamation can distort these historical truths. Furthermore, Jews have historical ties to Judea and Samaria which dates back thousands of years. Israel strenuously disputes claims that it's an "occupier," citing pre-existing legal, ancestral, and biblical claims to lands it acquired in a war of self-defence in 1967 against pan-Arab armies seeking its destruction and as there was no recognized sovereign of these areas at the time. Jordan controlled the area now regarded as the "West Bank" from 1948-1967 following the War of Independence, which saw combined Arab armies try to wipe the nascent State of Israel off the map. Jordan didn't have rightful title to the land according to international law. Same equally applies for Egypt, which controlled the Gaza Strip from 1948-1967, unlawfully, and which Israel acquired in 1967, but from which, in 2005, it unilaterally disengaged, removing 21 settlements, 8,000 settlers, and its combined armed forces...Read More |
Turkey's Anadolu Agency reports: "Those who burn books will in the end burn people," Jewish and Muslim communities in Sweden have warned, quoting famous German Jewish author Heinrich Heine following recent burnings of the Muslim holy book, the Quran. In a reference to book burnings in Nazi Germany, the Official Council of Swedish Jewish Communities and the AMANAH Muslim Jewish Partnership of Trust said in a joint statement on Wednesday that book burning often indicates the beginning of the normalization of hatred towards a group in society. "Historically against Jews, now against Muslims," said the statement, warning that racists and extremists are once again "allowed to abuse democracy and Freedom of Speech in order to normalize hate against one of the religious minorities in Sweden, by burning Quran." Drawing attention to the intensified attacks on Jewish and Muslim people in the country, they expressed concern. There are two strange things about this story. One is that, while there is certainly plenty of right-wing antisemitism in Sweden, a great deal of it is fueled by the immigrant Muslim community there. I hope that behind the scenes of Jewish-Muslim cooperation against hate, the Jewish community is not sweeping Muslim antisemitism under the rug. The other is that I cannot find this story in any Swedish media. In...Read More |
In April 2002, Israel mounted a major military operation in Jenin that resulted in a pitched battle where 23 IDF soldiers and 52 Palestinians, mostly terrorists, were killed. But Palestinians and their supporters claimed that between 400-500 Palestinians had been killed - and for weeks, the world's media believed them with no skepticism, and assumed that Israeli denials were lies. There were wide reports of a "massacre." An Amnesty International "forensics expert" visited the camp and said "I must say that the evidence before us at the moment doesn't lead us to believe that the allegations are anything other than truthful and that therefore there are large numbers of civilian dead underneath these bulldozed and bombed ruins that we see."
Months later, the UN and human rights groups grudgingly admitted that there was no massacre.
Yet even though the PA had lied so egregiously, they paid no price. The media continued to report their lies as fact and to regard Israeli denials as lies.
The Palestinian Authority has learned that lesson well. Today, the IDF entered Jenin again, to stop an Islamic Jihad cell that was planning an imminent attack. As of this writing, it appears that the IDF killed eight terrorists and one civilian.
And like in 2002, the Palestinian Authority and media are again calling it a "massacre." Palestinian Presidential Spokesman Nabil...Read More |
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