| The most progressive, liberal, Westernized Palestinians support murdering Jewsnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 02 Feb 05:45 AM Up until Friday night's | | Up until Friday night's terror attack in Jerusalem, Mahmoud Abbas usually condemned terror attacks like that - usually at the urging of the US. This time, he didn't.
And the Palestinian intelligentsia who are the face of Palestinians to the Western world got the memo.
Yesterday, we mentioned how angry Noura Erakat was that a TV producer wanted to interview her and ask her reaction to the attack. She refused, but helpfully explained on Twitter that she feels that celebrating the murder of Jews is normal human behavior, and justified the shooting of Jewish civilians as "resistance to apartheid."
Erakat, a lawyer and academic, is one of the most articulate, videogenic propagandists for the Palestinian cause - and she justified terror.
But she wasn't the only one.
At the BBC, Al-Shabaka's Yara Harawi was asked if she agrees that attacks on innocent Israelis makes peace more difficult. After ducking the question, Harawi said, "I reject the premise of the question." Meaning, she couldn't even admit that maybe murdering Israelis outside a synagogue is a bad idea for peace. Only Israelis are responsible for peace - i.e., by surrendering wholesale to Palestinian demands - while Palestinians should have the right to kill Jews without any consequence. Even more amazing was the answer of Husam Zomlot, head of Palestinian mission...Read More |
From Ian: NGO Monitor: Clear and Convincing: The Links between the PFLP and the European Government-funded NGO Network On October 22, 2021, Israel designated six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist entities due to their links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP): Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI-P), Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), Al-Haq, Addameer, Union of Palestinian Women's Committees (UPWC), and Bisan Center for Research and Development (Bisan). A seventh – Health Work Committee (HWC) – had been designated in January 2020. The PFLP itself is designated as a terrorist organization by a number of countries and bodies, including the US, EU, Israel, and Canada. Since then, the NGOs, donor governments, and allies in civil society and the UN have claimed they have not seen anything to justify the designations. The evidence presented in this report – compiled exclusively from open source materials – proves this narrative inadequate and inaccurate. Irrespective of the information possessed by the Israeli government and intelligence agencies and the criteria for designation, there is overwhelming, publicly available evidence that ties these NGOs and their leadership to the PFLP. On its own, this should have been enough of a reason for European governments not to fund and/or partner with the NGOs. Of particular note, we found:
The PFLP has issued statements of support...Read More |
Justice Potter Stewart knew it when he saw it.
Scare quotes, according to the Oxford Dictionary, are "quotation marks used around a word or phrase when they are not required, thereby eliciting attention or doubts." Perhaps nowhere is the use of scare quotes more galling than when used to justify Arab attacks on Jews. No one could possibly doubt that it is, in fact, a terror attack when an Arab shoots Jews dead in a Jerusalem synagogue on Shabbat. Yet despite this fact, a number of news reports placed the words "terror attack" in scare quotes, as if to cast doubts on the rightness of wrongness of the event. This malign and antisemitic practice of using scare quotes to excuse terror, is as common and familiar as terror itself. Sometimes there is a thin line between scare quotes and just plain old quotation marks. There are also times when the intent is subjective, as in this Twitter exchange from 2016: @epavard This is an actual quotation. These are not "scare quotes."
Did you actually read the story? — Matt Lee (@APDiploWriter) April 18, 2016 I thought it was clear just from the title: Israel police: Explosion on Jerusalem bus was a "terror attack." Seven years later, I still think those are scare quotes and I still don't think I need to read the article. But perhaps I am jaded. Associated Press writer Matt Lee thought...Read More |
Rabid Israel hater "Rabbi" David Mivasair tweets what he considers to be a "gotcha" for Zionists: I love this old menu on the wall of a Jewish deli in my hometown of Baltimore. It tells quite a story. "Buy Palestine Matzo" Anyone need to have that explained? I'm always amused when I see modern antisemites triumphantly bring pictures of old coins or stamps that say "Palestine" as if that means there was a state of Palestine before 1948. I mean, does Mivasair think that Jews in Baltimore considered buying matzoh from an Arab country a selling point? There were lots of Jews in Egypt, Iraq and Syria at the time - but no one in the US cared about buying their matzohs! "Palestine" was simply the English translation of "Eretz Yisrael" before 1948. But for those who really love to see the word "Palestine" used before 1948, here are some great examples: * * * * * * 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: So Long as Palestinians Celebrate Bloodshed, Peace Will Remain Out of Sight When, in 1998, a Palestinian was fatally stabbed in Jerusalem—apparently by an Israeli terrorist—the country's president visited the victim's widow and the Defense Ministry gave his family a six-figure compensatory payment, akin to the support given to Israeli victims of Palestinian terror. Last Friday, the victim's grandson murdered seven people leaving a Jerusalem synagogue. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, according to his spokesman Ned Price, hoped during his trip to Israel and Egypt this week that he could "put an end to the cycle of violence." Stephen Daisley observes:
On Friday night, in Jenin, Ramallah, Nablus, and east Jerusalem, Palestinians gathered to celebrate the synagogue murders. Crowds set off fireworks, started bonfires, fired their weapons into the air, honked car horns, and chanted. In Hebron they handed out sweets to children while in Gaza cries of "Allahu akbar" boomed from mosque loudspeakers. . . . Hand out enough candies and pastries every time an Israeli is murdered and you will teach your children that killing is sweet. The lesson will not go unlearned. Hello "cycle of violence," my old friend; I've come to talk with you again. Except, it's not true. It's not a cycle of violence. It's a choice of violence, a choice Palestinians...Read More |
Watanserb is a popular US-based Arab news site. They have a new, breathless story based on a tweet by Israel in the Gulf showing UAE's Chabad Rabbi Levi Duchman: The tweet prompted one of Watanserb's top stories: In the manner of "soft settlement," Jews residing in the United Arab Emirates continue to buy homes to live in, at a time when Israel is demolishing the homes of Palestinians in the occupied territories and the homes in Gaza. The "Israel in the Gulf" page, the mouthpiece of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, published on its Twitter account a picture of one of these houses. Rabbi Levi Duchman appeared next to a girl carrying a paper scroll, and wrote a comment saying: "Little by little, the number of Jewish homes is growing in the Emirates , the country of tolerance." ...In the past two years, since the so-called...Read More |
There was a very revealing thread by academic fraud Noura Erakat, who calls herself a "human rights lawyer:" Palestinians under siege, subject to killing by world's 11th most powerful army & deputized settlers but news producers want me to come on air to comment on Palestinians celebrating the killing of 9 Israeli settlers?
Why this pathology of Palestinians and apology for apartheid? Why exceptionalize this Palestinian expression when you know full well ANY human who lived under such devastating circumstances without an army or international protection would similarly respond to this operation?
It's the combination of absolute removal of context, together with dehumanization of Palestinians that makes media more interested in examining Palestinians as hateful, blood thirsty rather than absolutely emblematic of humanity.
Only in this context, are news media more concerned about sporadic Palestinian operations aimed at resistance to apartheid, than an Israeli government & society that has caged 2 mil Palestinians in Gaza, suffocates children with tear gas, shoots to kill over 1 Palestinian a day.
I shared this with the producer who rushed off the phone. Shocking.
We should be invited to comment on the situation and context, not to spend air time being a corrective and scrutinizing the segment itself. Erakat is angry that a TV producer wants to frame Palestinians as hateful and bloodthirsty - and then justifies...Read More |
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