| The irony in a "BDS victory"noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 30 Apr 04:45 AM According to the Felesteen news site and many other Palestinian sites: C | | According to the Felesteen news site and many other Palestinian sites: Cyprus International University canceled a lecture that was supposed to be given by a lecturer from the Rubin (or Rabin?) Institute for Studies, in the Israeli occupation entity. This came after pressure from students in solidarity with the Palestinian cause, who organized a demonstration on the university campus, in front of the hall in which he was to lecture on the topic of "Jewish Victims in the Arab-Israeli Conflict." The sit-down demanded the university administration to cancel the lecture and expel the Israeli speaker, while the International Academic Campaign Against Occupation and Apartheid and the Campaign for Palestine sent hundreds of letters to the university asking it to cancel the lecture. I couldn't confirm this story outside Palestinian media, which says the lecturer's name is Erez Shishani. But there is a huge irony here. Cyprus International University is in Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus. While it has many international students, the Turkish students there are illegal settlers - forced to go there by the Turkish government, as the...Read More |
From Ian: How a UN definition threatens Israel A Palestinian refugee is given different conditions according to UNRWA. The definition begins with a typical classification, "persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict." In addition to this, any descendants of male refugees can also be classified as a refugee. Refugee status is passed through paternal lineage, if a person's father was a refugee, they are considered one as well even if that person has never stepped foot in the land of Israel. This unique classification, which is not present in any other definition of a refugee, has led to the significant number of Palestinian refugees. The UNRWA definition of a Palestinian refugee has been the topic of much controversy within the Middle East. This definition is not recognized by Israel as they do not consider it to be an accurate classification. At present, Israel has been condemned significantly more times by the UN than any other country. Although Israel is the only true democracy in the Middle East, they have been the target of more condemnations than Russia, which is currently in a decade-long war with Ukraine, North Korea, a dictatorship, and many other countries with poor human rights. Since its creation, the UN has targeted Israel and continues to do...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The antisemitism that drives identity politics The left's dogma of "intersectionality" holds that groups are defined by power and powerlessness. People of color are said to be powerless because they are oppressed by the West, which is powerful. The West is said to be powerful because it is capitalist, and is therefore deemed innately exploitative and rapacious. Because the West is a historically white culture, white people are themselves deemed innately exploitative and rapacious and can never be victims of black people. Moreover, like Marx himself, such leftists believe that the Jews control capitalism and manipulate all the levers of global power in their own interests to the disadvantage of everyone else. So, to them, it follows that Jews are innately exploitative and rapacious. They are therefore deemed guilty of "white privilege" even when they are dark-skinned and they can never be victims, only victimizers. This is why the "intersectional" left treats Israel with such obsessional hysteria, unremittingly presenting Israeli self-defense as aggression. Israel, which defends itself through military strength, is the antisemites' nightmare of Jewish power on steroids. Of course, this is old-style antisemitism sitting bang smack at the heart of the identity politics that currently drives the left. It is therefore beyond troubling that the Democratic Party...Read More |
Writing in pan-Arab Elaph newspaper, columnist Saleh Al Qallab - a former Jordanian Minister of Culture and Information - spins a bizarre interpretation of Israeli President Isaac Herzog's Memorial Day Speech.
After the minutes of silence accompanying the sirens, Herzog said, I ask myself, I ask us: what other country in the world has such a special sound? It is the sound of pain and of hope, of grief, and of pride. It is the sound of the State of Israel." A sound that calls on us to pause for a moment, to lock in the sanctity, to remember and to connect — together. This year, in the grips of these days of discord, this sound is more powerful, more searing, more pained and more painful than ever." This year, more than ever before, this sound calls on us, in the heart of the stillness that cries out: all of us, together! Their sacrifice has not been in vain; it shall not have been in vain. Qallab latched onto Herzog's mentioning that the sound was painful, and built a crazed theory that this means that Herzog and all Israelis are abandoning Zionism. When Herzog says at an official ceremony in Al-Quds Al-Sharif that the sirens in this year are more painful than any other time, which means, and this is certainly understood by the majority of Israelis, that the moment of departure...Read More |
From MEMRI: In an address at the Al-Aqsa Mosque posted on the Aqsa Call YouTube channel on April 14, 2023, Palestinian Islamic scholar Issam Amira said that Palestinians are no more Canaanite than Egyptians are Pharaonic. Rather, he said that the Palestinians are Muslims, and had had no rights whatsoever prior to the advent of Islam. He added that when late PLO leader Yasser Arafat referred to the Palestinian people as a (Canaanite) "nation of giants," he was cursing and humiliating his own people. Isaam Amira: "The people of Palestine have no historical right to Palestine. They have no right that dates back 2,000, 3,000, or 4,000 years. "The right of the Canaanites to Palestine is equal to the pharaohs' right to Egypt. Is it conceivable that any Muslim in Egypt would say: 'I am Pharaonic and proud of it?' Well, it's the same if a Muslim in Palestine says: 'I am a Canaanite and proud of it.' To hell with your Canaanite identity and with his Pharaonic identity. "People, our history is simple and it is not ancient. Our history dates back only 1,440 years. 1,440 years ago we had no rights of any kind. Absolutely none.
[...] "It must not be said that the Palestinians have Canaanite roots. We can go back to the words of Yasser Arafat who lost our cause. He referred to you as the [Canaanite] 'nation of giants.' "This is the first time I see a president who...Read More |
From Ian: "Foreign Aid" to Israel is bonanza for the US The U.S. does not give foreign aid to Israel — the U.S. makes an annual investment in Israel, giving US taxpayers a return of several hundred percent. While Israel is a grateful recipient of U.S. military systems, it also serves as a battle-tested, cost-effective laboratory for the U.S. defense and aerospace industries, (employing 3.5 million Americans). This enhances U.S. performance on the battlefield and the U.S. economy, national security and homeland security. Here are a few examples. In defense: The Israeli Air Force flies the U.S.'s Lockheed-Martin's F-16 and F-35 combat aircraft, providing both Lockheed-Martin and the U.S. Air Force with invaluable information on operations, maintenance and repairs, which is then used to manufacture a multitude of upgrades for next-generation aircraft. Just the F-16 itself has been improved by several hundred Israeli-driven upgrades, sparing Lockheed-Martin 10-20 years of research and developments, which amounts to billions of dollars. Israel is the Triple-A store for Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, G.D., Northrop Grumman, and many other U.S. defense and aerospace companies. This enhances the image of these companies abroad and multiplies their export markets, because other countries assume that if Israel — with its unique national security challenges — uses these companies' products, they must be of high quality...Read More |
Guest post by Tomer Ilan: ___________________________________________________ How
Zionists made the land bloom by eradicating malaria European Commission President
Ursula von der Leyen has come under attack from Israel-haters for saying the truth that Israel "literally made
the desert bloom." The Palestinian foreign
ministry condemned her, calling her statement a "racist trope". One of the ways the
Zionists made the land bloom is by draining swamps and eradicating malaria. A 1920 British map
shows the entire central and northern parts of the land infected with malaria,
with the most severely affected areas being valleys and coastal regions with a
high concentration of swamps. In 1921 British authorities reported that widespread
malaria "has decimated the
population" and is "an effective
bar to the development and settlement of large tracts of fertile lands" and that "much well-watered and
fertile land is at present lying waste on account of malaria". Just 20 years later,
the Zionist anti-malaria campaign changed everything. In 1941 the British Mandate
reported that 'In a number of
areas where intense endemic malaria had resulted in no population for
generations, recent antimalarial schemes have created large tracts of
cultivatable land' and that 'very large areas of what is recognised
by all as some of the most fertile...Read More |
Times of Israel reported yesterday: A Palestinian man attempted to carry out a car-ramming and stabbing attack in the West Bank on Thursday afternoon and was subsequently shot dead, the military and medics said. According to the Israel Defense Forces, the man drove onto the opposite lane on the Route 5 highway, and tried to ram his car into civilians and security forces at the Gitai Avisar Junction near the West Bank settlement of Ariel. The suspect then got out of his car while allegedly brandishing a knife, before being shot dead by troops. Video of the shooting shows clearly that Ahmed Yaqoub Taha came out of his car suddenly and lunged at the Israeli police officer. Israeli police also posted photos of the knife he had; unfortunately the videos aren't clear enough to see it. Taha was a member of the PA security forces, as have been numerous other terrorists in recent months.
The PA and Fatah are saying that he was an innocent victim, shot at point blank range for no reason. Hamas in English said the same thing. Hamas in Arabic, on the other hand...Read More |
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