| The Alqasem family: a perfect example of Arab colonialists who pretend to be anticolonialistnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 21 Mar 04:45 AM One of th | | One of the people who tried to troll me recently is Karen Alqasem, an American whose daughter Lara who made headline a few years ago for being briefly blocked from studying at Hebrew University for her BDS activities. Her father is a raging antisemite, Karen supports murdering Jews and then tried to lecture me on morality. For fun, I looked at Karen's recent tweets, and this one caught my eye: Well, since she claims that the Al Qasem family has more history in the land than the Jews, I decided to look up their family tree.
Multiple accounts of their family history are most intriguing.
Of course, the Al Qasems don't originate in the Levant.
Everyone agrees that they began as a tribe...Read More |
From Ian: Toulouse and the birth of modern jihadism When two young men embellish a Toulouse FC replica shirt with the name of the city's most notorious mass murderer, is it just a sick and provocative gag, or evidence of sympathy for the killer's worldview? Earlier this month, the French courts decided it was "terrorism apologia" and handed out three and four-month sentences to two men who, posted a photo on Snapchat wearing a football shirt with the name of the delinquent jihadist, Mohammed Merah, across it, with the number seven — for the number he killed. Mohammed Merah began his rampage in Toulouse on March 11, 2012, first executing a French-Moroccan paratrooper who nobly refused an order to lie down. He struck again on March 15, firing on three soldiers in Montauban — two were killed and another left paralysed. The murdered soldiers were all of North African Muslim descent. Then, on March 19, Merah pulled up outside the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school. In the schoolyard, he gunned down a Rabbi before executing the man's three and five-year-old sons as they tried to crawl to safety. He then entered the school and grabbed an eight-year-old girl, at which point his gun jammed. Unperturbed, he swapped weapons and shot her. He filmed it all. After a manhunt and lengthy standoff, Merah was shot dead by police at his apartment. Even considering the usual moral squalor of jihadist violence, Merah's...Read More |
Ibrahim Abrash, writing in Palestinian news site Amad, says that Bezalel Smotrich is ignoring the Jewish Scripture when he says there were no such thing as the Palestinian people. Because look at the many times that the Torah mentions Philistines and the Land of the Philistines!
It's been a while since Palestinians claimed to be Philistines. It was a common claim at the UN in the 1940s, when the Syrian representative stated, "The Palestinian Arabs are the descendants of the same inhabitants of that country of forty centuries ago who fought in the first campaign which the Jews waged against Palestine in the fifteenth century before Christ. In the Bible, they are called the Philistines. After about the thirteenth century, they adopted the Arabic language, which was later replaced by the Syrian language, a language closely related to the former. These people have not changed. They are the same people who were living there then. They have been there for forty centuries--since prehistoric times."
(Note his backhanded way of saying that Palestine is really a part of Greater Syria.)
The claim that Palestinians were Syrians became less popular as the term...Read More |
Jordan complained that Bezalel Smotrich stood behind a map showing Jordan as part of the Jewish state under the original definition of Palestine before Sykes-Picot. They were quite insulted. So I looked at the Jordanian geography textbooks, and saw plenty of maps (not all of them) that erased Israel, like this one:
But this map in a seventh grade geography book from 2019 has nothing to do with reality. From left to right, the first one is captioned "1946."
The second one shows the 1947 UN partition plan that was never accepted by anyone, and the caption is "1949-1967."
The third shows the Green Line created in 1949, and is captioned "2008."
The key shows green as "Arab lands" and the white as "occupied lands."
According to this textbook, all of Israel is "occupied," and somehow in 1967 Israel occupied the lands it gained in 1948. (As far as I can tell, Israel isn't mentioned.)
If Jordan is going to complain about Smotrich's map, they should explain maps like these.
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From Ian: Ruthie Blum: The protest movement can't unravel the thread of Israel's unique tapestry Observers at home and abroad of the current crisis fear—or hope—that Israel is headed for a full-fledged civil war. Hearing members of Israel's military and other security forces join the fray by announcing their refusal to fulfill their duties causes them to consider this a real possibility; watching thousands of Israelis march to the beat of former prime ministers and defense officials calling on foreign governments to censure Netanyahu will do that. What the ill-wishers purposely obfuscate, and the pearl-clutchers don't take into account, is the way in which average citizens are going about their daily lives behind the lens of TV news cameras. This is certainly true of citizens who have little interest in and no clue about how the branches of government operate. But even activists are hard to discern at supermarket check-out lines and bus stops. On Thursday night, for instance, as the so-called "Day of Resistance" came to a close, every trendy restaurant, bar and nightclub in the White City was packed to the brim with millennials eating, drinking and making merry. When I pointed this out to a friend, she quipped: "All that demonstrating must have made them hungry and thirsty." It's unclear, though, whether this particular crowd—munching happily on shrimp and pork...Read More |
The Palestinian Safa news agency is alarmed. In conjunction with the escalation of the Israeli attacks on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, an extremist Jewish organization affiliated with the alleged "Temple groups" launched tourist "guided tours" for English-speaking intruders, in order to introduce them to the mosque, as the "Temple", in a dangerous precedent that is the first of its kind. The "Beyadenu" organization, or what is known as "The Temple Mount in Our Hands", launched its first guided tour inside Al-Aqsa, in cooperation with the "Return to the Temple Mount" organization, which announced that this tour will be organized monthly for the English-speaking community in order to "connect with the Temple Mount." . The occupation seeks, behind these "tourist tours", to perpetuate the Jewish presence in Al-Aqsa Mosque, falsify and Judaize Arab and Islamic history in it, as well as impose spatial and temporal division. The Waqf categorically rejects these dangerous measures, which affect the sanctity of Al-Aqsa, saying: "Extremists are waging a new war on Al-Aqsa, with the aim of brainwashing its visitors...Read More |
From Times of Israel: Far-right lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich said Sunday that the Palestinian people were "an invention" from the past century and that people like himself and his grandparents were the "real Palestinians." Speaking in Paris... Smotrich said there was "no such thing as Palestinians because there's no such thing as the Palestinian people," a comment that was met with applause and cheers from attendees, as seen in a video from the event posted online. "Do you know who are the Palestinians?" asked the head of the ultranationalist Religious Zionism party and Israel's finance minister. "I'm Palestinian," he said, also mentioning his grandmother who was born in the northern Israeli town of Metula 100 years ago, and his grandfather, a 13th-generation Jerusalemite as the "real Palestinians." We've discussed this topic many times before, and Smotrich is correct. Palestinian identity is a response to Zionism. Palestinian "culture" is a modern invention, and one that is explicitly...Read More |
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