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Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Blaming Israel alone for Gaza mental health problems is just another kind of Jew-hatred. Here's why.

The Israeli Gisha NGO concentrates on freedom of movement of people and goods between Israel and the territories, and it issues reports and statistics to that end.It just released a graphics-heavy online report about the impact of Israel's closure of Gaza on the mental health of Gazans:In Their Words: Mental Health Professionals in Gaza on Treating the Effects of Closure“There’s...

Opposition to Ramon Airport plan proves the hypocrisy of "pro-Palestinian" groups

Here's yet another way to know that the biggest self-described supporters of Palestinians really don't give a damn about them.As we've been reporting, Israel is setting up a plan for Palestinians to be able to travel through Ramon Airport in the southern Negev. This will make it easier for most Palestinians to travel internationally. Assuming that the passengers...

Gisha NGO: Even when Egypt blockades Gaza, it is Israel's responsibility

It's always Israel's fault.For the third straight day, Egypt has closed the Rafah crossing, stranding thousands of people on both sides who want to cross the border. Egypt also closed the Salah a-Din Gate from where some truckloads of goods are sent.Egypt's sudden closure is largely assumed to be an expression of anger over Hamas organizing violent protests at a time...

Amnesty and other NGOs actually want Palestinians to die - as long as Israel will be blamed. (And they consider Palestinians to be too stupid to make their own decisions.)

A couple of weeks ago, a series of NGOs including the Amnesty, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, B'Tselem and even two Palestinian human rights organizations issued a press release demanding that Israel provide vaccines for Palestinians. They use poor arguments, most of which I debunked in last night's webcast, but one of them deserves more attention - because...

Gisha NGO blames Israel for Palestinian discrimination against women, its cofounder falsely claims Israel blocking vaccines to Palestinians

Gisha, an Israeli NGO ostensibly concerned with freedom of movement for Palestinians, proves again that its only purpose is to come up with new excuses to slander Israel, truth be damned.This month it released a report that claims that Israel is discriminating against women in its policy on allowing Gazans to travel. Every single example of this supposed discrimination is...

Israel has been expediting allowances of "dual use" items into Gaza for weeks - and no one reports it

Reporters and anti-Israel activists, trying to prove that Israel is not allowing needed medical aid into Gaza, have been referencing the list of "dual use" items that Israel's COGAT publishes. They misrepresent the list as a list of items banned from Gaza. But that was never true: it is a list of items that require special permission to enter Gaza (and, for many...

Unreported news: Israel reduced time for West Bank merchandise imports by 67%; lifts ban on tires into Gaza

When Israel makes life easier for Palestinians, it rarely makes the news. COGAT announced last week when describing a tour of Qalandiya crossing to a group of international visitors: The Civil Administration has advanced its “Door To Door” project throughout the West Bank this past year. Thanks to this unique project, Palestinian trucks can carry merchandise into Israel...

News you won't read anywhere else: Israel issued another 1200 work permits for Gazans in October

Buried in the middle of this factsheet from OCHA-OPT: We see: Israel has now issued 4,811 permits for Gaza workers to go into Israel. In September, the number was 3,592. One would think that the NGOs that constantly say that Israel do more to help open up Gaza would be very happy. But for some reason, nobody has heard of these 3000 or so new work permits since...

Anti-Israel NGO @Gisha_Access has "FAQ" on "Great Return March" without mentioning the word "Return"

The Israeli NGO Gisha, which is dedicated to helping Gazans have "freedom of movement," published a "Frequently Asked Questions" document about the weekly riots at the Gaza border. Here's how they describe their seven page document: What precipitated the current wave of protests in Gaza? To promote a better understanding of the situation in Gaza, one that...

Israeli NGO Gisha makes anti-Israel "Willy Wonka" cartoon

Gisha, the Israeli NGO that blames Israel for all of Gaza's problems, released last year a Palestinian version of the Willy Wonka story in which the child's dreams are almost crushed by the evil Israeli enemy. The idea that Palestinian infighting, Egyptian closure of Rafah or Hamas terrorism has anything to do with the reality in Gaza today is not to be seen or heard....

Palestinian Authority barring Gaza medical patients from treatment in Israel

Haaretz reports that over the past two months, the number of vouchers issued by the PA to allow Gazans to travel outside the sector for medical treatment has plummeted from over 2000 a month to a few dozen. Some 90% of the requests are being ignored. People with cancer and heart disease who had been treated in Israel cannot resume their treatments. Children who have...

Gisha NGO takes graph that makes Israel look good off their homepage

Gisha is an NGO I've mentioned before that pretends to be supporting freedom of movement for people in Gaza, but which nearly always lets Hamas off the hook for blocking that same freedom of movement that they say Israel is stopping. Yesterday, I happened to use a Gisha graph to illustrate the difference between how Israel has been improving freedom of movement to and from...

Anti-Israel NGO stats show opposite of what they claim

Gisha is an anti-Israel NGO that is dedicated to denouncing Israel for its restrictions on movement an materials to Gaza. They claim to be non-partisan but they will almost always ignore Hamas violations on freedom of movement from Gaza, concentrating on Israel. Gisha likes to gather statistics (although not from Israeli sources; they find Hamas and Arab sources more believable.)...

"Not a single house has been rebuilt in Gaza"

From the far-left NGO Gisha, last week: March 4, 2015: Gisha executive director, Eitan Diamond, was interviewed (Hebrew) yesterday on Guy Zohar’s program on Israeli radio station 103FM, where he talked about Gaza’s reconstruction: “Six months after the fighting, not a single house destroyed during the last round of hostilities has been rebuilt. As of January, Israel had imported...

Elder gets results (belated Gisha edition)

Another remarkable coincidence! Last month, I noted that Gisha, the Israeli NGO that pretends to care about freedom of movement of people and goods to and from Gaza, had never said anything bad about Hamas. This even though Hamas was routinely stymieing movement to and from Gaza, which is exactly what Gisha supposedly cares about. Specifically, I noted a widely reported...

Gisha NGO manages to avoid condemning Hamas again

I mentioned last month that the Gisha NGO, the "legal center for freedom of movement" which is well-funded by many European governments and organizations, goes out of its way to avoid condemning Hamas for its restrictions on freedom of movement into and out of Gaza. The last time it condemned Hamas for blocking Gazan;s movement, as far as I can tell, was in 2011. The many...

Gisha NGO curiously silent about Hamas violations of freedom of movement

Gisha is an Israel-based NGO that calls itself the "legal center for freedom of movement" concentrating on the rights of Gazans and goods to go in and out of Gaza. While it has a website, a blog and a Twitter account, somehow it missed this widely reported story: A group of 37 orphans from Gaza Strip were prevented from crossing into Israel Sunday after Hamas backtracked...