| The latest Pegasus story shows yet again the double standards applied to Israelnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 19 Apr 04:45 AM The New York Times pub | |  |
The New York Times published an investigative report into how Mexico has been using the powerful spyware tool Pegasus against its political opponents.
Pegasus is a tool. Like a hammer, a gun or a woodchipper, it can be used legally or illegally.
But its Israeli origins have made people make it sound like Israel is more responsible for its illegal use than the people who are actually using it illegally.
As the NYT notes, Pegasus helped bring down El Chapo, and the Mexican authorities have been using it to take down other major Mexican drug cartels. This is the intended use of the spyware, and in all probability it is still being used for that purpose in Mexico.
But the Mexican government has also been using it in illegal ways using it to spy on political opponentsand other human rights abuses.
NSO Group is a business. While Israel's Defense Ministry must approve any exports of spyware, refusing to sell it to a country that uses it for both valid and invalid purpose is not a clear cut decision - refusal could create an international incident. It would be the exact equivalent of the US not allowing Mexico to buy any firearms from American manufacturers.
In fact, weapons from the US have not only been linked to...Read More |
From Ian: Herzog urges Israelis to set disputes aside in 'sacred days' honoring survivors "I appeal to you, citizens of Israel, with a simple prayer: Let us leave these sacred days, which begin tonight and end on Independence Day, above all dispute," said Israeli President Isaac Herzog. "Let us all come together, as always, in partnership, in grief, in remembrance." Herzog spoke at the state opening ceremony for Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2023 at Yad Vashem on April 17. He referred to the time, culminating with Israel's 75th Independence Day next week, as one of "majesty, mercy and truth," during which "we can truly hear the heartbeats of an entire nation, standing before their 'Days of Awe.' " He cited many of the Nazi atrocities, including the aim to create a museum in France of the extinct and inferior Jewish race. "My sisters and brothers, with human courage and divine assistance, the Allies overcame the forces of tyranny," he said. "With human courage and Divine assistance, spirit triumphed; the spirit of our people, who raised themselves up with scarred wings from the gruesome depths of the Holocaust. It was this spirit that triumphed." Seventy-five years ago, there was a "miracle" of rebirth and of light triumphing over darkness, said Herzog, calling Holocaust survivors heroes of resurrection who "serve us as a source of inspiration...Read More |
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noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 18 Apr 04:21 PM * * * * * * 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 |
I just found this newsreel of Jerusalem that was created in May, 1967. Here is the section showing the Temple Mount being visited by some dignitaries, and the empty Western Wall. Notice that even then, the large number of weeds outside the Dome of the Rock, indicating that there were never big crowds there as there are today under Jewish sovereignty. And then there is the Kotel, with its narrow sidewalk in front of it, completely empty. That is the "status quo" that Palestinians want to return to. * * * * * * 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 |
From Ian: JPost Editorial: Holocaust Remembrance Day: Finding new ways to never forget In recent years, several individuals and groups have developed unique means of ensuring that we do not forget those who have been lost. Memory in the Living Room (Zikaron Basalon) is a longstanding tradition in which individual Holocaust survivors address up to 50 people – some of whom have never met a Holocaust survivor – in private living rooms or community centers, telling their personal stories from the Holocaust. The project has been around for several years, and while it continues to draw audiences across Israel and around the world, young people require other approaches. Hasdei Naomi, an association that gives aid to Holocaust survivors, organized a hackathon that brought intelligence officer cadets and MKs together to develop special technologies that could help preserve Holocaust survivor Tovah Feder's story. The cadets managed to turn Feder's story into a WhatsApp conversation that is based on advanced artificial intelligence. The goal, the organization said, was to develop an educational initiative that would "speak to the younger generation in its language." In another initiative, the Israel Police has, in recent years, begun adopting Holocaust survivors. Members of Jerusalem's Border Police units sit down with survivors at least twice a month throughout the year, pushing toward ongoing communication and building connections...Read More |
The fight to undermine the IHRA definition of antisemitism continues. This battle has been brought to the UN, where HRW and other self-proclaimed human rights groups insist that this particular definition of antisemitism is unfair because it puts a damper on free speech by holding those who demonize Israel and hold it to a double standard to account. Specifically, these groups claim the IHRA definition muzzles the free expression of "Palestinian rights" by preventing those kinds of "criticism" of Israeli government policies. This attempt to claim to condemn hatred of Jews on the one hand while protecting outright demonization of Israel on the other is not something new. And it did not start with BDS. An article in i24News quotes Ramin Parham, an Iranian writer living in France, who traces this attempt to differentiate between hatred of Jews and hatred of Israel to the Iranian regime and its propaganda: Parham points out that the strategy of disassociating hatred of Israel from hatred of Jews is distinct from anti-Semitism was not invented by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS) or the radical left, but was developed by the fathers of the Islamic revolution...Read More |
Yom HaShoah is not only about remembrance, but about ensuring that such atrocities will never again happen. Yet we are seeing the groundwork for it happening in front of our eyes.
Nazi antisemitism did not only rely on racism against individual Jews as untermenschen. They also railed against Jews as a nation. And their propaganda against the nation of "Judah" bears a chilling resemblance to the anti-Israel rhetoric that is becoming mainstream today. From United Press, December 1938: Is this any different from current accusations that the "Israel Lobby" controls America? The "Judah" terminology was used in the earliest days of the Nazi regime. And some of those exactly mirror the anti-Israel rhetoric of today. In 1933, Hitler partially justified boycotting Jews - by accusing "Judah" of racism against Germans! (Dayton Daily News, 31 Mar 1933): There is no difference between saying "Judah is racist" and "Zionism is racism." The modern antisemites may pretend they are anti-Nazi, but they sure mimic Nazi rhetoric. One of the early Nazi slogans, which was enthusiastically taken up by Western antisemites, was "Perish Judah." It spread quickly from 1935 in Berlin: ...to 1936 in London: The British Fascists used the "Perish Judah" phrase so much that they began marking Jewish houses and shops with the initials "P.J." to encourage others to smash the marked doors and windows as...Read More |
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