| Tunisian university demotes professor for attending Paris conference with Israelisnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 18 Apr 04:45 AM Last week, I report | |
Last week, I reported (in an English-language exclusive) that Tunisians were upset at some of their scholars planning to attend a Paris conference called "The Jews and the law in Tunisia From protectorate to independence (1881-1956) - Between historical progress and religious resilience."
The reason? Because some Israelis are giving talks.
Last Monday, a protest took place in front of the headquarters of Tunisia's Ministry of Higher Education, expressing the protesters' rejection of "academic normalization with Israel." They called on authorities to criminalize normalization, and others denouncing the "normalizers" with the Jewish state. One of the participants in the conference is a former dean and distinguished professor at La Manouba University, Habib Kazdaghli. The Scientific Council of the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities of that university held an extraordinary session to strip Kazdaghli of his "distinguished " professor status because of is supposed "normalization." Professors, academics and intellectuals in France...Read More |
From Ian: Dani Dayan: The power of human spirit The central theme of Holocaust Remembrance Day this year is "Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust: Marking 80 Years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising." Resistance encompasses a wide range of actions and, contrary to popular belief, does not necessarily involve taking up arms. Jewish resistance during the Holocaust could be a Shabbat Kiddush, staging a play in the ghetto, or even applying a little rouge to the cheeks – any action, simple or complex, that preserved the human spirit in the face of the Nazi German extermination plan that sought to destroy the Jewish people and its culture. Eighty years later, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising remains a symbol. It was a popular insurrection: While the fighters of the Jewish Fighting Organization and the Jewish Military Union fought the Nazis in the streets of the ghetto, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto barricaded themselves in bunkers and fought for their lives for a whole long month. Many perished in the flames and smoke of the Nazi siege. News of the uprising spread quickly and reached the free world; it became a symbol of the battle of the few against the many, a symbol of the freedom and power of the human spirit. During the Holocaust, there were other uprisings in the camps and ghettos, while thousands of Jewish partisans fought in the forests of Eastern Europe and were a significant force in the battle...Read More |
Here is a sample of newspaper articles that show that the scope of the Holocaust was quite well known in 1942 - but newspapers hardly ever put the stories of mass murder on the front pages. Boston Globe, September 19, 1942, page 2: Kansas City Times, October 23, 1942, bottom of page 3: Great Falls Tribune, November 25, 1942, page 4: Daily Telegraph, December 4, 1942, page 5: Liverpool Echo, December 19, 1942, page 3: I found exactly one front page story about the Holocaust (looking for the words "Massacre" and "Jews") in hundreds of newspapers from 1939-1943 (outside of Jewish newspapers.) * * * * * * 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 |
The number six million is simply unimaginable. But there is something that you can do to make the Shoah feel a lot more personal to you.
If you are Jewish, or have a Jewish last name, you can search the Yad Vashem Shoah Victims Database and look for someone with a name identical, or similar to, yours. Chances are very high that anyone's Hebrew name will generate a match, or several. To give an example, I searched for David Schwimmer, the actor from "Friends." Even though it is not exactly a common name, there were dozens of matches with various variants of the name.
Find your own doppelganger. For most victims, the details are sparse but you can usually find out their birthdates, their relatives' names and where they lived.
It is even more emotional to enter in the name of a loved one and see the people with that name that were murdered. You may be the only living being who cares about or remembers those specific people. So many entire families were wiped out by the Germans that there are many victims who have no living relatives.
Light a candle for them. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it...Read More |
From Ian: Seth Frantzman: What articles on Israel's 'one-state reality' get wrong A recent article at Foreign Affairs argued that Israel and the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are living under a 'one-state reality' and that 'it is time to give up on the two-state solution.' This argument has been gaining traction among some human rights groups and commentators over the past few years, though the overall theory advocating for one state does go back many decades, to the last century. What is the premise behind Israel's 'one-state reality'? The premise behind it is that Israeli rule has gone on for so long that the two-state solution seems too far-fetched; "one state" is what exists now. But the argument is predicated on a basic flaw thematic of all the proposals: Those advocating "one state" claim that Israel continues to occupy the Gaza Strip to portray Israel as controlling millions of Palestinians who are denied rights in Israel – this completely ignores the fact that Gaza is run by Hamas and that there is little to no evidence that Palestinians, under Palestinian Authority or Hamas, want to be integrated into Israel. The bait and switch of the "one state" story are to force Israel to re-invade Gaza, control it and extend Israeli rule back into Palestinian cities, despite decades in which Palestinians governed cities in Gaza and the West Bank themselves. It's unclear why anyone thinks this would work...Read More |
AP wrote about the Palestinian teacher's strike a couple of weeks ago. Palestinian public schools in the West Bank have been closed since Feb. 5 in one of the longest teachers' strikes in recent memory against the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority. Teachers' demands for a pay raise have escalated into a protest movement that has vexed the increasingly autocratic Palestinian self-rule government as it plunges deeper into an economic crisis. The self-rule government, limping along as it struggles with an economic slowdown and soaring debt, argues it cannot afford to pay all its employees. Earlier this year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government further crippled the authority when it decided to deduct an additional 50 million shekels (over $14 million) each month from the tax revenues it collects on the Palestinians' behalf, among other punitive measures. "We are facing dangers from declining donor support and an enemy that denies our existence and perpetuates our financial crisis with unfair cuts," said government spokesman Ibrahim Melhem. "We have done everything we can." Middle East Monitor reports that the EU has expressed concern: The European Union (EU) called for an immediate solution on Friday...Read More |
In 2001, Barbara Perry wrote a book called "In the Name of Hate: Understanding Hate Crimes." Chapter 7, "Permission to Hate: Ethnoviolence and the State" says: [H]ate-motivated violence can flourish only in an enabling environment. In the United States, such an environment historically has been conditioned by the activity-and inactivity-of the state. State practices, policy, and rhetoric often have provided the formal framework within which hate crime-as an informal mechanism of control-emerges. Practices within the state-at an individual and institutional level-that stigmatize, demonize, or marginalize traditionally oppressed groups legitimate the mistreatment of these same groups on the streets. This chapter examines the ways in which state rhetoric, policy, and practice provide the context for violence against minorities.She brings examples of how political figures, by invoking or dog-whistling tropes against oppressed groups, enable hate crimes against the same groups.
The theory seems to have merit. After all, when bigotry is normalized, then the environment is riper for people who want to act in a bigoted way. They don't feel like they are outliers and they believe that there would be fewer consequences for their actions. There was a...Read More |
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