| Predictable: HRW doesn't mention Neve Yaakov massacre until they can condemn Israel for something elsenoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 03 Feb 05:45 AM | | Human Rights Watch's website was silent on the Neve Yaakov massacre last Friday night.
Six days later, they do mention it - in the context of an article condemning Israel for sealing up the houses of the family of the murderer.
The pattern, which we often see in the media as well, is predictable. When Gaza groups shoot rockets, the media only condemns Israel's reaction. When a terrorist kills Jewish civilians, human rights groups wait as long as they can to create a context where Israel is the guilty party.
In this case, murdering civilians is on the same moral plane as sealing the house of a terrorist.
Look how HRW frames the attack in Neve Yaakov: Israeli authorities' actions to seal the family homes in the occupied West Bank of two Palestinians suspected of attacks against Israelis amount to collective punishment, a war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. This punitive measure, which Israeli authorities have said they will follow by demolishing the homes, comes amid a spike in violence that has cost the lives of 35 Palestinians and 6 Israelis since January 1, 2023. The violence has included Israeli army raids that unlawfully attack Palestinian cities and refugee camps, Palestinian attacks on Israelis, and attacks on Palestinians and their property by Israeli settlers, who rarely face punishment for these crimes. "Deliberate attacks on civilians are reprehensible crimes...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The entrenchment of Western Jew-hatred The demonization of Israel is the defining cause of the progressive left. As such, it has become the default narrative in all higher reaches of the culture. In America, where there is still a bedrock of public support for Israel, this poison has spread through the universities into the schools and infiltrated the Democratic Party. Unlike in Britain, however, the Democrats haven't even gotten to the Labour Party's stage of seeking to rid themselves publicly of this moral stain. The ousting of the Jew-bashing Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee was organized by the Republicans. The Democrats, who refused to take action against her when they governed the House, opposed the ouster, complaining that it was "revenge" for the Democrats' removal of two GOP representatives from committees during the previous session of Congress. Accordingly, the Democrats continue to sanitize Omar's egregious Jew-hatred. In 2019, she tweeted that U.S. support for Israel was "all about the Benjamins"—that is, hundred-dollar bills. In 2012, before she arrived in Congress, she claimed that "Israel has hypnotized the world" and added, "May Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel." Last weekend, Omar claimed on CNN that she was unaware that the word "hypnotized" and conspiracy...Read More |
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Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Ramallah, February 2 - A sophomore at Bir Zeit University closing in on the deadline to select a focus for his course of study toward a Bachelor's Degree admitted today he feels too torn to decide among the options available: engineering murder against Jews by joining Hamas; engineering murder against Jews by joining Palestinian Islamic Jihad, engineering murder against Jews by joining Fatah; or engineering murder against Jews by joining one of the smaller, more niche jihadist groups vying for glory in the Resistance against Zionism. Hamdi Halabi, 19, has already completed most of his core requirements plus a smattering of elective courses, and must now choose a major if he is to complete his degree in time - but the aspiring shahid acknowledged today that he hesitates to commit to any one course of training to kill Jews, for fear that he will regret his choice later when some other path he could have chosen proves more productive and likely to result in his achieving Palestinian immortality through the violent murder of Jews impudent enough to live proudly as sovereign Jews in the ancestral Jewish homeland, an affront that no Palestinian can take lying down. "I'm having a hard time, weighing the pros and cons of each," he confessed. "The safe bet would be Hamas or Fatah, because they...Read More |
From Ian: NGO Monitor: The Role of NGOs in Supporting the International Criminal Court (ICC) Investigation On December 20, 2019, then Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda announced that she intended to investigate alleged war crimes in the "State of Palestine" and filed a request with the Court's Pre-Trial Chamber to confirm her jurisdiction. On February 5, 2021, the Pre-Trial Chamber in a controversial 2-1 opinion confirmed the Prosecutor's jurisdiction. On March 3, 2021, Bensouda announced the launch of a formal investigation. This move is to a significant degree the product of consistent and heavy lobbying of the ICC for over a decade by non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Throughout, these NGOs have been central to promoting the Prosecutor's activities: lobbying the Court to accept the Palestinian Authority, filing complaints, representing "victims," and submitting briefs. Key NGOs include Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, FIDH (France), and Palestinian and Israeli NGOs. The European Union, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and other European governments have provided tens of millions of dollars to anti-Israel ICC campaigns and lobbying. In some instances, the European funding was explicitly earmarked for NGO activities vis-à-vis the ICC. According to the legal principle of "complementarity," the ICC is only authorized to investigate when a...Read More |
This is a Twitter thread from author and researcher Hussein Aboubakr Mansour that is a good follow-up to my earlier post on liberal Palestinians supporting terror. __________________________________________ Underneath the positions of pro-Palestinian progressive Westerners lies a conglomerate of presuppositions and assumptions that are rarely openly discussed or mentioned. One of such major presuppositions is that Palestinian terrorism, the indiscriminate murderous violence targeting mostly defenseless Jewish civilians, is a core part of the Palestinian identity and a normative Palestinian behavior to be expected. As such, this behavior can not be blamed on Palestinian society or institutions but on Israel and Israeli action, which controls the structure of power from which the Palestinian identity emerged. In this position, highly intelligent people discover the most troubling aspect of the conflict but only to dismiss it. This form of humanistic bigotry against the Palestinians came to justify their worst inclination and disregard the lives of Israeli Jews, ending up being one of the most dehumanizing positions towards Israelis and Palestinians. This position is not new but has become a core intellectual habit of the international left since the canonization...Read More |
An op-ed at the Harvard Crimson attempts to turn the Ken Roth episode into an excuse to block Israelis from teaching there. Because of academic freedom, of course.
Josh Wilcox, organizer for Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee, writes: It seems a couple points were absent from Dean Elmendorf's announcement. At no point did he address the elephant in the room: what scholars like Cornel R. West '74 have alleged as Harvard's complicity in silencing voices that call for Palestinian freedom. Similarly, HKS's track record of offering positions should make us skeptical of the sincerity of its mission statement. HKS has proudly lended [sic] its name to Amos Yadlin, a former general in the Israeli Air Force who participated in the brutal war on Lebanon in 1982. ...
Yadlin is only one of several questionable characters. As Harvard students, we cannot continue to let our University welcome agents of colonial violence while denying those who reject U.S.-backed Israeli apartheid. Who, exactly, has Harvard denied a position to because of their pro-Israel positions? The article mentions this as a fact three times - and the links show us that there is exactly one episode that they can point to.
And that episode is a lie. In 2021, Cornel West went on a campaign much like Ken Roth's in 2023. He went on multiple interviews claiming claimed that Harvard denied him tenure, and that the...Read More |
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