| Holocaust denial in a Jordanian newspaper (bonus: a famous pre-Holocaust essay)noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 18 May 04:45 AM Al Majd is a Jordanian | | Al Majd is a Jordanian opposition online news site which espouses a Nasserist philosophy. On Wednesday it published a Holocaust denial article.
Former PLO official Ghazi Hussein first claims that Zionist Jews were happy with Hitler's rise to power, One of his "proofs" is a claim that Robert Weltsch, who was the editor of Germany's Jüdische Rundschau, said nice things about Hitler in an April 1933 editorial.
The truth is quite the opposite, as we will see below. Hussein twists Weltsch's words that even the most assimilated Jews who turned their backs on everything Jewish in an attempt to avoid antisemitism are still persecuted, so being ashamed of their Jewishness holds no advantage over pride.
Hussein then goes on to claim that the Wannsee Conference, where the Final Solution of the genocide of European Jewry was decided, was really only about deporting Jews to Palestine and elsewhere, and not about killing them:
He then says that Jews have been the ones behind real genocides, like when Joshua Bin Nun exterminated the "Arab Palestinian people."
Finally, he claims that the Mufti begged Hitler to stop sending Jews to Palestine but Hitler refused and kept sending them, because he opposed the Mufti and didn't want to upset Britain and the Zionists...Read More |
From Ian: Bret Stephens: At 75, Israel Has Plenty to Celebrate It helps to remember the circumstances in which the country was born. Israel is a post-colonial state. It started its national life dirt-poor. Its peer group of countries includes Syria, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and North and South Korea. These states came into being with many of the same core problems: hostile neighbors, unsettled borders, deep poverty, restive ethnic and religious minorities and other unresolved dilemmas from their independence struggles. As with Israel, many of those problems still dog most of those states. The Koreas don't have a settled border. India and Pakistan have painful memories of forced population transfers. Those who think the Palestinian issue is unique should consider the situation of Kashmiris in India, Tamils in Sri Lanka, or Kurds in Syria. But if Israelis haven't settled the conflict with the Palestinians and other neighbors, neither have they allowed themselves to be consumed by it. Israel is not a country that defines itself in terms of what it's against, what it's not, or who has done what to it. There is also an affirmative vision of Israeli identity, centered on the ideal of a renovated and renewed Jewish civilization within which its citizens can find prosperity, a sense of purpose and relative security. It's easy to take for granted how fully that vision has been...Read More |
Gazan rocket attacks may not seem to kill many Jews, with notable, tragic exceptions such as 4-year-old Daniel Tragerman, 16-year-old
Daniel Viflic, and most recently, 80-year-old Inga Avramyan. But Gazan terror
rockets may be killing Jews in other, more insidious ways. Since 2012, for
example, researchers have known that rocket attacks are a significant risk
factor for preterm delivery (PTD), the leading cause of infant mortality among
Jewish Israelis. In effect, one might say that rockets are killing Israeli Jews
even before they are born. Wainstock, PhD, School of Public Health; Faculty of Health
Sciences Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, has done groundbreaking work
on the effect of rocket attacks on pregnancy outcomes for women in Southern Israel. I reached out to
Wainstock who sent me the 2012 study,
"cast lead" a risk factor for preterm deliveries?, along with three related studies that she, personally led. Pregnancy and Delivery Outcomes: Operation Cast Lead In the 2012 study, pregnancy and delivery outcomes of women
who gave birth during Operation Cast Lead are compared to those of women who
gave birth during the same time period of 1 and 2 years before and after the
war. Women exposed to the stress of the military campaign were found to have
significantly more preterm deliveries at gestational age 32...Read More |
From The Guardian: New York's state assembly is to consider legislation to stop registered charities from sending tens of millions of dollars a year to fund illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. State assembly member, Zohran Mamdani, has introduced the "Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence" act to prohibit tax-deductible donations from being used to expel Palestinians from their land and other activities widely regarded as war crimes under the Geneva conventions. The United Nations security council has called Israeli settlement construction "a flagrant violation under international law". "This legislation makes it clear that New York will no longer effectively subsidise war crimes and the flouting of international law," Mamdani told the Guardian. "What we have is a number of New York state-registered charities that are sending at least $60m a year to Israeli settlement organisations which then use that funding to continue the history of expulsion and dispossession of Palestinians in the occupied territories that has been going on for decades." The Guardian, naturally, does not research the history of anti-Israel rhetoric and slanders that Zohran Mamdani has been responsible for. See...Read More |
From Ian: Arsen Ostrovsky: A Holiday of Hate Celebrated by the UN Today, the only "catastrophe" is that 75 years later, whereas Israel has made peace with most of her immediate Arab neighbors—and those beyond with the Abraham Accords—the Palestinian leadership is still seeking the Jewish state's annihilation. And it's all under the cover of the United Nations. Instead of celebrating 75 years of Israel's independence and rebirth, in which the UN played such an instrumental role, it abominably chose to hold an event calling the creation of its sole Jewish member state "a catastrophe," doing so merely days after Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group rained down almost 1,500 rockets on Israel. This is, of course, not the first time that the United Nations has welcomed a Holocaust denier, having done so previously with former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and more recently, with the current Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. Although many nations showed principled leadership and refused to dignify this Nakba Day hate-fest with their attendance, the room at the UN was still full, and included participation from some European nations, such as France, Spain, and Luxembourg, as well as senior UN officials, including UN Under-Secretary Rosemary DiCarlo and UNRWA Commissioner-General Phillipe Lazzarini. Most sickeningly, Abbas' Holocaust distorting speech, rooted in historical revisionism and...Read More |
This column by Ahmed Al-Sarraf was published in Kuwait's liberal Al Qabas newspaper, and it was republished in Al Arabiya:
I remembered the Kuwaiti proverb, "We satiated them with insults... They satiated us with jokes"! It means that we cursed our enemies, but they beat us up! I remembered it while reading passages from one of the textbooks, which are taught in our schools, and which clearly show that whoever sets educational curricula is either completely detached from reality, or that he lives in a fantasy world steeped in aspirations that are difficult to achieve. From reading three or four pages of a textbook, we find that the greatest concern of the nation, which the educators, who wrote the books, would like to focus on is the enmity of the Jews and their elimination, and this is indeed confusing, as the number of Arabs is 400 million, and above them is a billion Muslims, and it is inconceivable that it is Are all of these with this "mental" humility and desire to eliminate a country of 6 or 7 million? There is no doubt that there is a defect in the matter, and if the Ministry of Education allowed school students to be taught the subject of critical thinking, then the students themselves would have shown the...Read More |
Today is the 26th of Iyar on the Jewish calendar, which is the Hebrew anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender in World War II. Several years ago, this day was established as a new holiday, the Day of Salvation and Liberation. There have been various events in Europe and Israel to mark the day in recent years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin added a political message in his press release congratulating Jews for this year's event. Today, in Russia and other countries, the 26th of Iyar, the Day of Salvation and Liberation, is solemnly celebrated. This date occupies a special place in the Jewish religious calendar, serving to preserve the memory of the unprecedented feat of the soldiers of the Red Army and the armies of the allied countries in the anti-Hitler coalition, who crushed Nazism and saved the Jewish and other peoples from the threat of total annihilation. Both we and future generations must sacredly keep the historical truth about the Second World War, understand what destructive consequences any connivance with nationalism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia leads to. It is with the direct followers of Nazism that our fighters and commanders are fighting today in...Read More |
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