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What a sick, twisted society Palestinians grow up innoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 27 Mar 04:45 AM There was a ceremony Sunday afternoon at the Al A Like   Tweet   What a sick, twisted society Palestinians grow up in noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 27 Mar 04:45 AM There was a ceremony Sunday afternoon at the Al Aqsa University in Gaza, honoring female students, organized by the Islamic League there. Islamists giving honor to outstanding female students - sounds very woke, right? One of the speakers at the ceremony was Walid Al-Qatati, a member of the political bureau of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group. Here is how he complimented the woman scholars. he said that Islamic Jihad believes that "writing with a pen equals pressing the trigger of a gun, reading from a book is equivalent to igniting the fuse of a missile, and advancing one's studies is like nearing martyrdom." The only way such a twisted message makes sense is if the young women have already internalized the message the the ultimate yardstick by which all other achievements are measured is dying while trying to kill Jews. A student who achieves great intellectual heights is only comparable to an illiterate teen with a gun who is killed while shooting at Jewish civilians. Studying and writing for years is equated with the brainwashed...Read More More "Apartheid:" Israel helps free Israeli Arab anti-Zionist activist from UAE prison noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 26 Mar 02:30 PM From Times of Israel: An Israeli woman was released from prison in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday night and was flown back to Israel early Sunday, after UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan granted her amnesty as a personal gesture to President Isaac Herzog. Fidaa Kiwan was serving life in prison for drug smuggling. She was originally sentenced to death in April 2022, but the Abu Dhabi Federal Appeal Court canceled the punishment and sentenced her to life behind bars in July. Kiwan, a 44-year-old Haifa resident who owns a photography studio, reportedly came to Dubai for work at the invitation of a Palestinian acquaintance. She was arrested a short while later, on March 17, 2021, after a search of her apartment turned up the drugs. She claimed that the cocaine was not hers. World Israel News fills in some details: Kiwan, a staunch anti-Zionist, previously made headlines in 2010 for refusing to serve a uniformed IDF soldier in a café she once owned. The café eventually closed. According to Hebrew language media reports, her brother, a one-time employee of public broadcasting station Kan, trashed a room at his workplace in which Israeli flags were displayed. After her Kiwan's arrest in Dubai, she initially resisted help from Israeli officials...Read More 03/26 Links: Jewish leaders say only 16% of European nations have lived up to pledges to fight antisemitism; The Israeli defense minister's shameful retreat noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 26 Mar 12:00 PM From Ian: Jewish leaders say only 16% of European nations have lived up to pledges to fight antisemitism A year and a half after representatives of 37 European nations made commitments to combat antisemitism, only 16% of European Jewish leaders said they felt their countries had fully implemented those promises, a report released by the World Jewish Congress revealed on Tuesday. The pledges were made at the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism in October 2021, during which "states committed to supporting many initiatives dealing with combating antisemitism, fostering Jewish life, and promoting Holocaust remembrance." Just under half of the "Jewish leaders and professionals" surveyed, or 49%, said that their governments have at least partially implemented the plans they committed to during the Swedish forum. "We have seen too many times throughout history that people will come together, say all the right things, make the right commitments, but fall short on the follow-through," WJC President Ronald Lauder said in a statement. "The truly hard work is the actual implementation of good ideas." According to a report released by the Swedish government in February, "60 delegations made around 150 pledges in relation to the Forum themes and related areas." The pledges included everything from improving...Read More A 1900 essay on the dangers of partisanship noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 26 Mar 10:00 AM Here is an editorial in the magazine "Civic and Social Problems," April 1, 1900: Partisanship is narrow minded unreasonable adherence to a party or faction. That is its general significance. The man who clings to a party because it has a certain name, is, in these days, justly counted small minded and unthinking. He is not only unthinking and unprogressive. he is a dangerous man. There is no class in this country so dangerous as the partisan class. The partisan is the man who follows and fights for his party, "right or wrong." What safety has liberty in any land dominated by men of that stamp? Knaves and tyrants are wont to gain their ends by covertly substituting for partisanship the sacred name of patriotism. "Our country right or wrong", is as vicious as my "party right or wrong." What wars and endless infamies may not a people be led into under such a satanic slogan. And yet there is such a thing as proper partisanship. There is what may be called partisanship for a principle. Such partisanship is the emphatic need of our time. We need men who are honest enough and brave enough to rally around a cause that is just and to stand together for that cause till it be won. Give such men a party name if you will, but when the principle is gained the party Ind the name should vanish together. While it lives the principle should rule the party. If the name and organization be...Read More Palestinians who eat publicly during Ramadan can go to prison noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 26 Mar 07:00 AM There has been a kerfuffle in Israel over a proposed law that would allow Israeli hospitals latitude to ban visitors from bringing items that are not kosher for Passover into their facilities during the seven day holiday. It plays out in the media as a typical battle between the religious and the secular in Israel on basic rights, of religious coercion versus freedom of religion, even though the number of hospitals that are likely to post guards to check visitor bags for chametz is probably roughly zero. But meanwhile, Palestinian laws are quite explicitly coercive against Christians and non-practicing Muslims. And no one seems too concerned about them. Article 274 of Penal Code 16, originally Jordanian law from 1960, impose a fine and imprisonment of one month for any Palestinian who publicly eats during Ramadan: "Whoever publicly breaks the fast during Ramadan shall be punished with imprisonment up to one month or a fine of up to fifteen dinars...Read More    ©2023 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company