| A Saudi columnist grudgingly praises Israel and discusses the "Edy Cohen Phenomenon"noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 27 Jun 04:45 AM A columnist for a | | A columnist for a newspaper in Mecca writes about Israel's accomplishments - and ties them to Edy Cohen, the prolific Israeli Arabic tweeter whose writings are avidly followed by a huge Arab audience. Over twenty years ago, we had a teacher of Canadian nationality who gained our trust easily and we all loved him, and because of this trust, he was able to enter my brain and bring me down from my ivory edifice in order to teach me the difference between the truth and what people want to be true. We were in a discussion about the Arab-Israeli conflict, and he was very frank, so he told me: You are amazing! You love Saddam and he sent missiles to you, and you hate Israel and it did nothing to you!! I said yes it is a matter of principle, how dare you compare the two? I was struck by the extent of astonishment in his eyes as he muttered, "poor thing, he thinks the universe revolves around him," and then said to me: "You are the victim of decades of strange information and flimsy justifications, no doubt you grew up knowing that everyone wanted to kill you. "Listen to me well son!! If the Americans and the Israelis wanted...Read More |
From Ian: How to Combat Anti-Semitism Analyzing the White House's newly released strategy for countering anti-Semitism, and maintaining "an appropriate skepticism of government programs and their tendencies to create unwanted and unintended consequences," Tevi Troy looks for concrete policies that would in fact make American Jews safer and more secure. First and foremost, Washington should stop exacerbating the problem: [T]he American government does not intentionally target Jews, and even tries to combat anti-Semitism. Yet several government-funded programs could be subsidizing anti-Semitism anyway. Many if not most of these funds are given to anti-Semitic individuals and programs in educational institutions, including anti-Semitic professors, extremist anti-Israel speakers invited to campus, and public universities that form hostile environments for Jewish students. Title VI of the Higher Education Act provides funds to anti-Israel Middle East Studies programs, academic departments that have issued extremist anti-Israel statements, and public institutions that pay membership dues to the virulently anti-Israel Middle Eastern Studies Association. At the K-12 level, federal funds may go to public schools that assign textbooks containing anti-Semitic materials, encourage anti-Jewish attitudes through ethnic studies or anti-Israel programs, or pay for anti-Semitic critical-race-theory...Read More |
The more you dig into UNRWA's own website, the sketchier it looks. UNRWA has a population dashboard showing statistics of those it gives services to (much more than their already wildly inflated "registered refugee" count.)
It shows the size of families that it helps. And some of them are unusually large.
As of the first quarter of this year, UNRWA supports 1642 families of size 15-19, 167 sized 20-24, 36 sized 25-29 and 4 with over 30 members. The number of mega-families supported, with more than 14 members, has skyrocketed since 2020, going up an astonishing 17%, from 1585 to 1851! The number of families from 10-14 members also went up a great deal, by 14%. At the same time the number of "refugees" only went up by 4.5%.
So what's going on?
There is an outside possibility that there are a few families with over 25 members, because UNRWA allowed men with multiple wives to register. And if the patriarch is a "refugee" then his wives and children are all considered "refugees" as well.
But there is also a good chance that families simply do not tell UNRWA when family members die. Why would they? UNRWA doesn't check, as far as I can tell - they seem to ask people to register deaths on the honor system using an app. Palestinians...Read More |
This story was written as an appendix to "AN INFORMATION, CONCERNING The Present STATE OF THE JEWISH NATION IN EƲROPE and JƲDEA," probably written by Henry Jessey of England in 1658. The state of the Jews at Jerusalem hath been many hundred years of
late such, as that they ever lived of the supply and Contributions from their
brethren abroad; because the place doth yield but little occasion for them
to maintain themselves: and besides those that betake themselves thither, are
either Old men or Women, only to do penitency and lay down their bones
near the Sepulchers of their fore-fathers: or of younger men that for respect to
the holiness of the place (as supposing God to be nearer there, and that all
prayers must needs ascend that way into heaven) come thither, there to ply
devotion and penitency for the sins of themselves and the whole Nation: and
therefore cannot attend any trading, but all their time is taken up with praying,
reading and hearing Sermons; as also with fastings and watchings and the like
penitential Exercises: which intent and endeavours their Brethren abroad
amongst the Nations well knowing, and with all desiring to keep (as it were)
possession, or at least a footing in Jerusalem, and to shew their holiness till
a full restitution come...Read More |
From Ian: Anne Bayefsky: Shocking UN 'inquiry' promotes terror On the morning of June 20, a U.N. Commission of Inquiry greenlighted Palestinian terror. That afternoon, Palestinian terrorists killed more Jews. Hamas praised its operatives. Congressional inaction has left U.S. taxpayers paying the U.N. inquiry's bills. The members of the inquiry—more accurately an inquisition—were presenting a report to the current session of the U.N.'s top human rights body, the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The call for Palestinians to "resist" came from inquisition member Miloon Kothari. Kothari analogized Israeli self-defense to Russian aggression and said that Ukraine and "Palestine" should be "dealt with" in the same way. In his words, "International law uphold[s] correctly the rights of Ukrainians to resist and we would like to see the same standards being applied to the case in Israel and Palestine." Hamas, for its part, had "welcomed the decision" to create the inquisition on May 27, 2021. At the same time, Hamas called its own actions "legitimate resistance" and urged "immediate steps to punish" Israel. Hamas even issued a statement in response to the inquisition's first report to the Council in June 2022, saying, "The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas welcomes the report issued by the international commission of inquiry formed by the U.N. Human Rights Council" in response to Israeli "crimes." The...Read More |
The latest poll from the Washington Institute of Lebanese people shows that while they still hate Israel (and probably Jews,) they are not fans of Iran,. either. The poll, taken in April, shows that more Lebanese classify Iran as their enemy than any other Arab country. Even the Shiites of Lebanon are ambivalent about Iran. Among these Shia respondents, only 58% classify Iran as primarily a friend of the country. Meanwhile, a quarter see Iran as either an enemy or a competitor. In the case of Sunni and Christian respondents, those who see Iran as an enemy jumps to 66% and 83% respectively. Notably, the proportion of Lebanese overall who see Iran as an enemy is effectively the same proportion as in Saudi Arabia or the UAE—and a larger proportion than in Egypt, Jordan, or Kuwait. Just 18% of Lebanese overall characterize Iran as first and foremost a 'friend.' Also notable was that 54% of Lebanese Sunnis disagree that "a major American or Israeli military strike on Iran would be too dangerous, and a bad idea for our country."
The poll also noted: The vast majority of Lebanese remain staunchly opposed to relations with Israel, either in the case of humanitarian aid or economic ties. And in contrast to those in the Gulf, a large proportion of Lebanese...Read More |
Haaretz reports: A Reform synagogue in the southern U.S. state of Georgia hasn't experienced an antisemitic incident in its nearly 165-year history – until this weekend, when it was one of two congregations targeted by a neo-Nazi hate group. "This is a congregation has been around since 1859," said Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar, the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Israel in Macon, Georgia, in a phone conversation with Haaretz. ... On Friday morning, she said, members of the congregation living in the nearby city of Warner Robins found antisemitic flyers outside their homes. They had been distributed by an organization called the Goyim Defense League, a white supremacist hate group active mainly on social media. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the GDL's main objective is "to cast aspersions on Jews and spread antisemitic myths and conspiracy theories." Later in the day, 15 members of the hate group held a demonstration outside the synagogue, where they had hung a life-sized doll in effigy from a street sign, wrapped in a rainbow flag, with a kippa on its head. According to Bahar, at least one of the demonstrators was wearing a t-shirt with a Nazi insignia on it and another had an Israeli flag tied around his foot. Police arrived at the scene not long thereafter and arrested GDL leader Jon Minadeo II on charges of disorderly conduct and public disturbance after he continued shouting obscenities through a bullhorn despite being ordered to stop. He was released the following...Read More |
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