I reported that Independent Arabia, the Arabic version of the British Independent, published an article with the headline "Jewish pressure groups and their influence on global decision-making." It included a large excerpt of a study by the Arab Gulf Center for Studies and Research, "The hidden Jewish empire and the plan to control the world," which is filled with antisemitism and lies.
The author of the Indy Arabia article is a Lebanese writer named Sawsan Mhanna. The antisemitic part of the article was its main point - she quoted it extensively in her tweet promoting the article, including its bogus statistic that Jews have double or triple the wealth of all Arab countries combined.
The article also claimed that Judaism isn't even a religion, but a secretive organization like the Masons or Templars that illicitly plan to take over the world.
After reading my post, Adam Levick of CAMERA-UK complained about this article to the managing editor of the British Independent.
Lahav Harkov of the Jerusalem Post asked the State Department whether the US will attend the Durban IV conference in September, which seemed a distinct possibility after the Biden administration mentioned the upcoming 20th anniversary of the antisemitic "UN World Conference Against Racism" in a joint statement led by the US at the UN Human Rights Council.
The US will keep up its policy of not participating in events commemorating the 2001 Durban Declaration, which singled out Israel as racist, a State Department spokesperson told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
“The United States will not attend or participate in any events commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action or the World Conference on Racism, which preceded it,” the spokesperson stated.
The State Department spokesperson said that the US “remains deeply committed to combating antisemitism at home and abroad. Furthermore, the United States stands with Israel and has always shared its concerns over the Durban process’s anti-Israel sentiment, use as a forum for antisemitism and freedom of expression issues.”
The spokesperson responded to a query from the Post about the March 2021 UN Human Rights Council Joint Statement on Countering Racism and Racial Discrimination, initiated by the US.
The State Department spokesperson said that the joint statement “includes a brief reference to the fact that the Durban conference happened 20 years ago and in no way reflects a change in our position regarding the problematic portions of the document or the process that led to its creation.”
Harkov contacted the State Department after reading my article about the UNHRC joint statement. She also quoted it in the piece.
The joint statement remains problematic, because it definitely gives Durban I legitimacy, and mentioning it was not necessary for the letter. Moreover, mentioning Durban ensured that Israel could not join the 156 signatories to the letter, which meant that the US did something to isolate Israel on the world stage. So there are still some unanswered questions.
It would also have been much better for the State Department to have issued the statement distancing itself from Durban IV publicly, rather than from an anonymous spokesperson.
Nevertheless, it is good to see this statement, and that the Biden Administration won't do what many feared, in the name of "anti-racism." Which was what the original Durban conference was supposed to be about, anyway.
I wasn't the first person to notice the US joint letter mentioning Durban. That was Anne Bayefsky, of Human Rights Voices.
Since then, CNN changed the paragraph and added links:
An estimated 6 million Jewish people were killed in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Also killed were hundreds of thousands of Roma people and people with mental or physical disabilities.
“Murdered” would be a better and more accurate term than “killed,” although this is much better than the passive “died.”
It is still inaccurate – CNN does not know the difference between concentration camps and extermination camps, and does not account for the huge number of Jews that were killed outside those camps.
But, hey, baby steps. Why assume one of the most influential news sources should get it right the second time?
ViacomCBS condemns bigotry of any kind and we categorically denounce all forms of anti-Semitism. We have spoken with Nick Cannon about an episode of his podcast ‘Cannon’s Class’ on YouTube, which promoted hateful speech and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. While we support ongoing education and dialogue in the fight against bigotry, we are deeply troubled that Nick has failed to acknowledge or apologize for perpetuating anti-Semitism, and we are terminating our relationship with him. We are committed to doing better in our response to incidents of anti-Semitism, racism, and bigotry. ViacomCBS will have further announcements on our efforts to combat hate of all kinds.
While I am not happy with cancel culture, from Viacom/CBS’ point of view it is too toxic to be associated with a bigot.
There is no way that Fox can continue having Cannon as host of The Masked Singer after Viacom/CBS already fired him. It is not s good look to appear to be more tolerant of antisemitism than another network.
That leaves Los Angeles radio station Power 106, where Cannon has a daily radio show. That show probably provides a decent chunk of the station’s revenue and firing him would be very expensive. It will be interesting to see how they handle this, but you can be sure they are not too happy about this.
Cannon had just been profiled Tuesday by Fast Company in a fawning piece that was written before they became aware of his racism. That article details Cannon’s other shows and businesses.
Nick Cannon has guided his career with a modest goal in mind: “to become the most powerful man in media.”
Judging by his current résumé, he seems to be on track.
In addition to hosting and executive producing Fox’s The Masked Singer, MTV’s Wild ‘n Out, and E!’s newest show, Celebrity Call Center, Cannon also launched two nationally syndicated radio shows this year on top of his #1 show on Power 106, Nick Cannon Mornings.
Of course, the above doesn’t include his film and music career that spans two decades—not to mention his businesses outside of media, which include a Los Angeles-based vegan soul food restaurant he launched this year, and his line of headphones that have generated more than $80 million in revenue.
It’s an already dizzying track record, but Cannon is about to add what he hopes will become the crown jewel of his empire to tie it all together: his nationally syndicated daytime talk show Nick Cannon premiering in September.
E! is owned by NBC Universal., so Celebrity Call Center seems to be in danger as well.
Cannon’s his headphone business is probably safe, and the poor victim of the Rothschild plot against him will have to survive on the millions that he makes a year from that.
On Sunday, I noted (on a tip by WC) that a director and Oscar nominee Elia Suleiman said he wished to "drown Israel" but since he couldn't, his films are meant to accomplish the same "resistance" in a different way.
Tomer Ilan noticed that the Israeli Education Ministry lists his films as "recommended" in the official high school curriculum for Cinema.
This seems to have gotten the attention of B'Tslamo, a pro-Israel NGO. Makor Rishon reports today that B'Tsalmo's Shai Glick appealed to the Minister of Education Rafi Peretz to remove any films by Suleiman from the curriculum, and he did.
As far as I know, EoZ was the first to publicize this - I couldn't find any articles in Hebrew media about Suleiman's hate.
This is the third time this week that EoZ has helped with "tikkun olam," so to speak, where my posts led to actions.
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In September, Haaretz' Gideon Levy and Alex Levac wrote an article saying that Israel was uprooting "hundreds" of olive trees, right before harvest!
Levac took a photo of one of them. Note the caption.
Regavim told me the entire story was bogus, and the trees that were uprooted were acacia saligna (coojong.)The acacias are a pest plant, hat spread quickly, planted by Palestinians for a land grab.
Who was telling the truth?
I asked Twitter what kind of tree was in the photo - taken by one of the authors. Everyone agreed it wasn't an olive tree, and some agreed it was acacia. I wrote up how Haaretz appears to be lying.
I just noticed that Haaretz corrected the caption, and even added a correction for the photo caption. But the article still claims that hundreds of olive trees were destroyed by Israel.
If one of the authors doesn't know what an olive tree looks like, why should we believe them about the other trees destroyed? No Palestinian news site showed photos of hundreds of destroyed olive trees.
Haaretz was caught in a lie, but only admitted the bare minimum it could.
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The White House said on Tuesday that the white supremacist website TruNews was not credentialed to cover press events at the Executive Mansion — hours after two members of Congress sent a letter to President Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff urging him “to condemn the antisemitic comments by TruNews founder and host Rick Wiles and deny TruNews any future access to the White House.”
In their letter on Tuesday to Mick Mulvaney, Reps. Ted Deutch (D-FL) and Elaine Luria (D-VA) asserted that, “Shockingly, published reports suggest that TruNews has participated at press events at the White House, including on Sept. 26, 2018, when President Trump took a question from TruNews during a press conference.”
While I was not the one who discovered the "Jew Coup" episode of TruNews, it had been on the Right Wing Watch website for a couple of days before I started my campaign to make sure TruNews does not cover any White House events going forward.
My tweets about the offensive site received thousands of retweets and "likes." Soon the Israeli and Jewish media picked up on it, and from there it slowly made it to The Independent (UK) and a Bari Weiss op-ed in the New York Times.
It seems highly unlikely that the White House will invite these Jew-hating pigs to events any more.
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Right Wing Watch continues to follow and report on the reprehensible organization. Last week it reported that TruNews is considered a church by the IRS and therefore does not have to report on its sources of funding. This is a giant loophole that needs to be closed. The "Flowing Streams" church it claims to be part of doesn't even have a website or a Facebook page, and TruNews describes the church as "a media-centric religious organization that is a pioneer in Christian digital media content production and distribution. TRUNEWS is the church’s flagship program."
Meaning, it is a media organization masquerading as a church.
It is hard to believe that there are any congregants, since the church's address is difficult to find. I found an old address but TruNews claims they bought a building on a ten acre lot, again without revealing its address. There are no social media photos of any sermons or events. The entire idea that this is a church is a scam.
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On Tuesday, I reported that the online and cable music station provider Stingray Music had been advertising a station called "Alternative Dance (W/O Israeli Station)".
Although they didn't answer my initial query about this, when I published the post they responded back (to a blog aggregator tweeter):
Hi,
Thank you for bringing this technical glitch to our attention! Rest assured that our music curators adapt the content of the channels to local markets: this display error will be fixed within the next few hours!
Indeed, the offensive language has been removed, and I thank Stingray Music for acting so quickly.
Their explanation still seems a little sour. They seem to be saying that their curators will create a station for some local markets (presumably Arab countries, but maybe more) that specifically exclude Israeli artists. The "technical glitch" was in exposing the station title to the countries that don't demand that Israeli music be censored out.
If that is true, it might make sense economically but it is a quite cowardly position to take.
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A Zionist is a follower of Zionism, a movement that created and supports Israel as the official state for Jewish people in Palestine. The term can be a neutral, positive, or offensive term for a Jewish Israeli nationalist.
Its basic definition is flawed to begin with by defining the area that Jews have wanted to live for millennia by the name it was given by the Romans to erase Jewish history there: "Palestine."
The second sentence of the definition is also simply wrong: many Zionists are not Jews.
A dictionary should note that the word is used as an epithet by some. But Dictionary.com goes way beyond that, using only negative examples of the word, and misrepresenting them as well.
Its "related words" box has absolutely nothing to do with Zionism, and except for the Ten Commandments, they are all offensive.
Things get much worse.
Every example of its use comes from rabid haters of Israel.
The first comes from some random tweeter who refers to the "zionist apartheid regime" - who on Earth would choose that as a representative example?
The third is a photo of a tiny Jewish anti-Zionist sect.
And it doesn't end there. The illustration of "Zionism" used in its discussion of the origin of the word is the notorious Map That Lies, credited to anti-Zionist site Mondoweiss:
WTF?? The lying map has zero to do with Zionism and everything to do with anti-Zionist and antisemitic propaganda.
And even this section is inaccurate:
Zionist activism continued into the 20th century. The word Zionist became so closely associated with Jewish politics that antisemites weaponized up the term. The 1903 Protocols of the Elders of Zion, for instance, notoriously fear-mongered a Jewish state in Palestine as just the first step toward their masterplan of world domination.
The Protocols forgery had nothing to do with Zionism. It was pure antisemitism.
It then goes on to say that many people use Zionist pejoratively, and gives even more examples!
Not once does it mention that anti-Zionism is often a cover for antisemitism, which is in fact how it is used most of the time nowadays.
There is not a single example of using the word Zionist in a positive way. Not one. The people who coined the term don't get to define it.
This is a reference site on the Internet, and Google uses it as an authoritative source. If this is how it defines Zionism, then if Dictionary.com has any integrity at all, people should be fired for politicizing a dictionary entry to incite hate.
(h/t Mitchell Bard)
UPDATE: Dictionary.com got rid of the offensive examples and changed the definition. The entry isn't perfect but it is much better.
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Last week I broke the story of how National Geographic said that the Oslo Accords were meant for Israel to "return" land to Palestinians, even though no Palestinian entity or people ever had control of that land to begin with. Honest Reporting contacted them and the story was corrected.
CAMERA contacted them and they issued a speedy correction:
Also last week I also reported on a bizarre conspiracy theory in a Canadian Arab newspaper involving Jewish Freemasons building the Titanic in order to kill three (Jewish) businessmen who were on its voyage because they were against the idea of the Federal Reserve, controlled by Jews. The editor of the paper that published this was running for office in Ottawa.
A Canadian journalist saw this and made a couple of calls to ensure that the editor would not be chosen to represent anyone:
Nice fast work by National Council @CPC_HQ. Medhat Oweida will *not* be the party's candidate in Mississauga Streetsville, no way, no how. Confirmed. pic.twitter.com/nvU0SmqFu4
Also, the article itself has been removed from the site (you can see it archived here.)
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Here's a case where social media works beautifully.
On Sunday morning, I wrote an article about an antisemitic series published in an Egyptian paper that included Holocaust denial. I noted that the series was being republished by the Palestinian media outlet Wattan TV.
The Tayara Herzl blog noticed my report and pointed out that Wattan TV was one of the Palestinian media outlets that are funded by George Soros, as revealed by the recent DCLeaks incident.
Later that afternoon, I reported on the findings from that blog.
On Monday, Tablet informed [Soros' organization] OSF that Wattan was distributing these anti-Semitic articles and asked the organization for comment. Soon after, the pieces were taken down from Wattan’s website, although no correction or apology was posted to educate misled readers. This morning, OSF issued the following statement condemning Wattan and promising better oversight in the future, though it did not withdraw funding:
The Open Society Foundations unequivocally condemn the anti-Semitic content published on Wattan News that promotes dangerous falsehoods about the Holocaust. We are shocked and disappointed that Wattan News, an organization we fund and one that has played an important role in contributing to informed debate on Israel and Palestine, would allow such deplorable content to appear on its website. The Open Society Foundations support Israeli and Palestinian civil society groups that defend democracy and human rights, and we firmly believe this work must be based on respectful, informed, and fact-based dialogue on all sides. Wattan News has informed us that they have removed the offending content which appeared in a column for outside contributors and are putting in place procedures to ensure that such a serious lapse in editorial oversight will not take place again.
Oddly, few mainstream media outlets have reported on the contents of the Soros leak, even as similar hacking dumps from groups like Wikileaks have received regular press write-ups. The Wattan News incident suggests that this neglect is a mistake—that there may be much more that is worth investigating in the leak’s contents, and that the public interest is ill-served by ignoring them.
I could not find the OSF statement anywhere on its website, so its statement was not exactly publicized outside the Tablet article. And, as Rosenberg notes, Wattan didn't apologize or explain its decision to publish the articles; it simply removed them because it didn't want to upset its embarrassed grantor.
Still, it shows that bloggers and writers can work together to make an impact, even if the guilty parties are more interested in minimizing damage rather than fixing the underlying problems.
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On Friday, I wrote about how the New York Times caved to Israel-haters like Glenn Greenwald, Salon magazine and later Mondoweiss who accused it of "pro-Israel bias" because it put the word "occupation" in scare quotes here:
Two of the senator’s appointees to the party’s platform drafting committee, Cornel West and James Zogby, on Wednesday denounced Israel’s "occupation" of the West Bank and Gaza and said they believed that rank-and-file Democrats no longer hewed to the party’s staunch support of the Israeli government.
The scare quotes were entirely appropriate, I pointed out, because Gaza cannot be considered occupied by any reasonable interpretation of international law. (I could argue about Judea and Samaria as well, but one has to choose one's battles.)
After I wrote my critique of the NYT's silent removal of the scare quotes, it removed the words "and Gaza" from the article and added a correction:
This is still a cop-out. West and Zogby clearly said that Gaza was occupied as fact, and the New York Times decided that the record should show that they wouldn't say anything like that by calling inclusion of Gaza an "editing error."
Moreover, the Times didn't come close to explaining how fanatically anti-Israel these two are. It mentioned that West considers Netanyahu to be a "war criminal," which is something that New York Times apparently feels is a defensible position. But it didn't mention that West has called President Obama a war criminalas well for US support of Israel, something that most Democrats would not quite agree with and which starkly indicates how extreme Sanders' picks are. (West also said "There is no doubt that Gaza is not just a 'kind of' concentration camp, it is the hood on steroids.")
To say that the New York Times is pro-Israel based on this article is the height of absurdity, but the haters know that when they loudly complain about things that are accurate like the NYT's original reporting, they create an impression in the newsroom that "both sides are against our coverage so we must be doing something right."
(h/t Simon)
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On Friday, I wrote about a French medical advice site that erased Israel from the map and said that travel to Israel was less safe than Syria.
EoZ readers wrote to the site to complain, and Alyssa Cohen Kaplan received this reply:
There is no willingness on our part to take a position for or against anyone . Some of our country sheets certainly require revision . We have company. Thank you for pointing out some inconsistencies.
They changed the maps for both Israel and "Palestine" to this one:
It is a start.
I don't know if anyone wrote to them from the stories about the topic in The New Antisemite and Dreuz.Info but since Alyssa received the reply, it looks like we did get results.
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Last month I noted that the official US visa website took pains not to mention the name "Israel", mentioning that they have offices in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem but without saying the name of the country those cities were in nor showing its flag.
The information reached the State Department where they said that the site was outsourced to a private company and did not reflect official policy. But of course no outsourcer should put something on a website that the US would not agree with.
The site has now been modified to include the word "Israel" and the Israeli flag instead of "Tel Aviv,"
But Jerusalem is still not a part of Israel on this page but the State Department has never accepted that it is.
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US Cultural Attaché David Edginton at the opening ceremony of Riyadh Book Fair
Matt Lee of AP asked State Department spokesperson Mark Toner about the antisemitic booth at the Riyadh International Book Fair that I reported on Monday.
The State Department was ready with some talking points and materials, meaning that either Matt had told them ahead of time that the question was coming...or they read EoZ.
Here is the video of the exchange. I added some photos illustrating the offensive booth and the US participation at the fair.
Toner downplayed US statements supporting the fair and he made it look like the US merely had a booth, without saying that officials participated in the ceremonies as honored guests.
The real question is whether the US will attend next year's even without assurances that the Saudis would ban all hate materials. Only last December the US was part of the Jeddah Book Fair in Saudi Arabia which also included hate materials. And we've seen similar displays in books fairs in Cairo, the UAE and Casablanca.
QUESTION: My question, which is semi-related to this, has to do – well, doesn’t have to do with the UN. It doesn’t – but it does have to do with the U.S. diplomatic mission in Saudi. MR TONER: Right. QUESTION: And this book fair. MR TONER: Right. QUESTION: I meant to ask about this yesterday, but we were running short of time. MR TONER: Yeah. QUESTION: So were you guys aware of the content of what was in all of the stalls at this book fair? And if so, why was that okay? MR TONER: So, first of all, this is a – actually, first of all, we condemn anti-Semitism in all of its forms, as well as any other hate speech. Second is representatives of the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh have participated in the International Riyadh Book Fair for multiple years as part of an effort to essentially distribute books to Saudi citizens that include books about democracy, tolerance, diversity, human rights, et cetera. The book fair itself is run by the Saudi Government’s Ministry of Culture and Information. So what I want to clearly state is we were just a participant. We weren’t aware that these books were going to be featured in this book fair. So we’re not a partner, we’re not a funder, we’re not a sponsor. We’re just simply a participant and we obviously, as I said, condemn any kind of anti-Semitic literature. QUESTION: Well, do you know if there was any complaint made to the organizers – to the Saudis about this? MR TONER: That I don’t know. You mean on our part? I don't know that. I’ll check. I mean, I just did, but -- QUESTION: Yeah. Or if you even regard this as something that is – well, yeah, but you -- MR TONER: Sure. No, I understand. I’m not trying to be facetious. QUESTION: You said you condemn it in general, but I mean -- MR TONER: Yeah. No, no, no. QUESTION: -- this has been – and I remember that -- MR TONER: Well, I get -- QUESTION: -- this has been a problem in the past -- MR TONER: But -- QUESTION: -- or an issue in the past. MR TONER: But – sorry, I don’t mean to cut you off. QUESTION: And as you say that you participated in this event for multiple years. I can remember this happening before. I mean, does – do you think that this is something that the U.S. Government, through the State Department, should make an issue of, make – take it to the Saudis? MR TONER: Well, I do. And I can say that – I can – just to further clarify, we condemn any anti-Semitic literature that may have been present at this event, as I said, just as we would broadly condemn any anti-Semitic literature or anti-Semitism in all its forms around the world. Again, I’m not aware of the history here. My understanding is that we were not aware that these books were going to be featured at the fair. And I can also check on whether we raised this directly, our concerns, with the Saudi Government. QUESTION: Thanks. MR TONER: Yep. QUESTION: Will you return to the fair next year? MR TONER: I think we would weigh this very heavily, considering this incident. QUESTION: Well, okay, but I mean, I – MR TONER: I mean, look, this is – yeah. QUESTION: I get that answer, but I can remember asking this question in previous years, because it seems to be something that happens like every single -- MR TONER: Was it last year? QUESTION: Yes. MR TONER: I’m not – sorry. QUESTION: I mean, it’s not something that has just popped up out of the blue. It seems to be -- MR TONER: No, I understand. I understand that. I would -- QUESTION: -- a recurrent theme here. MR TONER: Yeah. No, I understand that. Again, our intention – the embassy’s intention for participating in this was to use it as a venue to -- QUESTION: I -- do you believe, other than these books or this literature that you condemn that, in fact, the fair does bring books about democracy and pluralism and -- MR TONER: Well, sure, because we bring them. QUESTION: Oh, you bring them. MR TONER: I can’t speak to the broader -- QUESTION: What are the sales of that, I wonder. MR TONER: No, I really can’t speak to the broader content. I’d have to check on that as well. QUESTION: Do people buy them? MR TONER: I’d have to check on that as well. I mean, I think, yes. I mean, I – look, we wouldn’t do it if we weren’t – if it wasn’t a productive engagement with Saudi society. QUESTION: So that’s -- MR TONER: There was no return, frankly -- QUESTION: Right. MR TONER: -- to our investment of time, whatever. We probably wouldn’t do it, so – yeah. QUESTION: Okay. I don’t want to dwell on this, but when you say, “You bring those kinds of books,” does that mean that the embassy has its own stall that it’s also -- MR TONER: Well, we do have – that’s – again, we have participated in the Riyadh book fair -- QUESTION: Yeah, right. MR TONER: -- and I believe that includes -- QUESTION: So -- MR TONER: So we do have -- QUESTION: So you bring the books on, say -- MR TONER: We have a booth at the fair, sell a wide assortment of American books, biography, children books, other materials, study in the U.S., and we do pay a fee for just that space. QUESTION: Right. Guides to women’s rights; that kind of thing? MR TONER: I can imagine all those things. Matt, I – that’s all I got. QUESTION: Now, in terms of (inaudible) -- QUESTION: It would be interesting to – it would actually be interesting to see what kind of a sample of what it is that the U.S. -- MR TONER: We can try to get that for you. QUESTION: -- Embassy promotes -- MR TONER: We can try to get that for you. QUESTION: -- what kind of books they promote and so on. MR TONER: We can try to get that for you. QUESTION: Thank you.
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In January, an EoZTV report showed that the Negotiations Affairs Department of the PLO has a map on its front webpage that shows something other than they might have intended.
Instead of proving an ancient land called Palestine, the map actually proves that the Jews controlled Judea and Samaria!
The PLO seems to have been suitably embarrassed by this failed attempt to show a historic state of "Palestine" on their front page. They are planning to replace their page with something that looks like this:
The "ancient map of Palestine" is being replaced with a satellite image of the area.
Poor Saeb Erekat. Even his own propaganda proves that the Jewish nation has the only legitimate claim to the land.
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Yesterday I reported that a college textbook called "Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World" included the infamous "Map that Lies" propaganda poster as fact.
The McGraw-Hill Education book publisher said Wednesday that it would temporarily stop selling one of its college world politics textbooks so that it could review a previously discredited series of maps about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that was included in its pages.
In October, MSNBC apologized for airing the nearly identical four-map graphic, which it later called “completely wrong.”
The publisher’s decision came after pro-Israel blogger Elder of Ziyon reported Tuesday that the map series appeared on page 123 of McGraw-Hill’s college textbook “Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World.”
The graphic purports to show how Israel has taken Palestinian land over five decades.
“Pending a review, we are placing a hold on sales of the book,” Catherine Mathis, chief communications officer for McGraw-Hill Education, told TheBlaze via email in response to a request for comment.
I am quoted in the article.
“I was shocked and astonished to see this deceptive and false graphic being used in the textbook. Up until now, it had only been used in anti-Israel propaganda,” blogger Elder of Ziyon told TheBlaze via email. “The authors edited the graphic to make it even worse, referring to each successive panel as a ‘stage’ as if the Jews have been planning to dispossess Arabs for over seventy years.”
A search of college syllabi online shows that the book has been used in courses at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, University of Indianapolis, Western Illinois University, George Washington University School of Business and Marshall University.
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It is the end of the year and I am seeing lots of emails from professional pro-Israel sites listing their accomplishments for the year (and, of course, asking for money.)
So I thought I'd look back and see how my reporting has made a difference this year (including things that some others take credit for!)
Here are some ways that stories I broke ended up changing things for the better 2015:
An anti-Israel activist named Ariel Gold removed an embarrassing post where she claimed that Sabra Hummus was named after the Sabra and Shatila massacre (done by Christian Phalangists.)
I noted that the Israeli Gisha NGO that is supposedly supporting free movement of Arabs from Gaza never said anything bad about Hamas' limitations on freedom of movement. Immediately after, they started to report on Hamas.
After I reported out that the Imperial War Museum referred to the Jewish Brigade as "terrorists," they corrected it.
The College Board corrected material that said that Jerusalem was a city in "Palestine" after I pointed it out.
After a year of pointing out how UNRWA teachers are pushing hate on Facebook, UNRWA admitted it and sent out a note to its employees to stop being so obvious about their hate.
None of these could have happened without you. I find the information, but I need my readers to act on it - to tweet and email and shame the offenders. And many of these stories came from reader tips.
So we did make a difference in 2015.
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We have seen UNRWA claim to be acting against incitement by its teachers on Facebook and other social media that I discovered and that was publicized by UN Watch.
I did notice that it is more difficult to find antisemitic and terror-supporting posts by UNRWA teachers in the past week or so.
Now I found an article that shows that UNRWA did indeed warn the teachers not to post hate.
Sources from UNRWA in Palestine for "al Araby" said that Israel monitors Agency staff accounts and documents any posts from them that are attacking the occupation forces, or attacking the Agency. They name names and their positions, thus UNRWA staff, especially teachers, have come under control by the State of the occupation on the one hand and the Agency on the other.
I'm not aware of any Israeli program to look for UNRWA incitement, only me and UN Watch, which means that UNRWA teachers think I control them!
Sami Mshasha, Arabic spokesperson for UNRWA, told Al Araby, "Everyone in the agency knows the concept of neutrality in all cases, and the employees must do their duties as fully as possible within specific parameters in order not to weaken its services to refugees."
UNRWA isn't telling teachers that antisemitism and supporting stabbing Jews is wrong. Just that it makes UNRWA look bad.
The teachers have called this a "harassment policy" which UNRWA decided to pursue, because the Palestinian teacher would feed their disciples in the spirit of the defense of the Palestinian territory and encourages them in any anti-Israeli attacks, in order to create a generation defending their land. There are now growing fears about control of teachers in their schools, that they are held accountable if they tell their students about violations of the occupation. This could threaten the future of thousands of teachers and workers in other sectors.
If I am understanding this paragraph correctly, it means that UNRWA teachers are known to routinely go outside the official curriculum and incite against Israel, and now they are upset that this might threaten their jobs.
The director of one of UNRWA schools west of Gaza City, who preferred anonymity, told Al Araby that he was "surprised that UNRWA management notified teachers not to publish any entries against the occupation, to keep their jobs and livelihood." This upsets him, pointing out that "it is natural thatthe teachers and staff at the agency express their solidarity with their country's territory and attack the occupation. Their country wa usurped and this must be taken into account." He adds that the teacher are leaders, and should enhance the values of belonging to a nation.
Showing that UNRWA employees cannot distinguish between expressing political positions and encouraging murdering Jews. I didn't bother to publicize political posts, or even posts that were upset at Israeli actions, real or not.
It should be noted that some of the most influential leaders of the Palestinian resistance were teachers in UNRWA schools who were able to perform their work without any restrictions on political freedom, and they are active politically.
There's a UNRWA accomplishment that the agency doesn't brag about on their website!.
Mohammed Mustafa (not his real name) is one of the teachers who received a warning from UNRWA management in the event that he continues his support of the current uprising, the issues of Jerusalem and attacking the occupation. His postings were documented and sent to the management of the Agency in Palestine. One of the posts said, "The Occupiers claim we are terrorists when we stab illegal settlers, and do not talk about the arson and murders committed by them." He said: "If it comes to this point that we cannot express any opinion, this would not work." From that moment, he did not express any position on any social networking site, describing himself as a "citizen living without feelings." Mustafa points out that this issue at present affects a large number of teachers, especially since they had received Agency warnings.
Despite the fact that social networking sites have served the Palestinian cause, we cannot turn a blind eye to their drawbacks . The occupation can monitor some activists and staff in various sectors, and keep track of most of their activities and their views on issues related to the occupation. According to sources from UNRWA for al-Araby, "An employee can express his position on an issue, according to his personal point of view; I do not mind it. But to associate it with his career in the Agency is not desirable and he may be held accountable for it. This is part of our labor contracts. "
It sure looks like my work has gotten results. Many of the people I exposed have taken out their association with UNRWA in their profiles, and others took their pages down altogether.
This article shows that rather than being a tiny number of teachers who violate UNRWA policies as was claimed, it is likely thousands of them, although not all on Facebook - but in the classroom itself.
The Israeli organization "Sons of Zion" monitors and tracks the number of UNRWA staff accounts, and says there is "incitement by the staff of international organizations in the Gaza Strip, and lack of respect for international conventions and processes." It has already filed a lawsuit against the agency, claiming that staff incites against Israel on behalf of the agency.
I have no idea who they are referring to here. I don't think it is me, since I never threatened a lawsuit, but I've never heard of this organization. But maybe it is me and they just badly mistranslated my posts.
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