Monday, December 09, 2013

The Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees,which has 340,000 members, recently sent a group of delegates to the West Bank. The resulting article in their monthly magazine is filled with anti-Israel (and antisemitic) propaganda.

Miff.no, a pro-Israel Norwegian website, reports that the article accuses Israel of "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing"  against Palestinian Arabs, It notes that the Arab population in the area has increased by a factor of ten in the past 100 years, and compares that to Norway's population which has only doubled in the same time period. If the Palestinian Arabs have suffered "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing," as the union claims, then what do you call what happened to Norwegians?



The article shows this photo and caption:

"At the very holy Ibrahim Mosque in the town of Hebron in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers restrict access for Palestinians."

Nothing about how this was a holy Jewish site before Islam existed. Nothing about the Jewish forefathers and mothers buried there. It is a very holy mosque, and Jews are restricting access (I suppose keeping out people with guns is "restricting access.")

The article also says, as fact, "Israeli settlers are known to poison wells." Thus we see the medieval blood libel of Jews poisoning wells has become accepted as truth in the 21st century.

(h/t Antisemitism-Europe blog)

Sunday, December 08, 2013

  • Sunday, December 08, 2013
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Ya Libnan:
Lebanon’s caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel revealed that extremist fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham are present on Lebanese soil, but that the organization is not yet established in the country.

“ISIS members are present in Lebanon. What is dangerous is if they form an organization on Lebanese territory ,” Charbel told NBN television on Sunday.
Charbels’s remarks come days after a man purporting to be a member of the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham threatened on Thursday, to kill Charbel in an audio tape.

“After minister Marwan Charbel said Wednesday that he wants us to remain in prison…we will sacrifice him, God willing,” the alleged Islamist said.

He also warned that “millions from our organization are coming to Lebanon this month of December , God willing.”

According to analysts Hezbollah’s role in Syria’s civil war changed the rules of the game. “Iraq-style” suicide bombers are coming our way and the double bombings that targeted the Iranian embassy in Beirut on Tuesday, November 19 was only the introduction.

The radical jihadis thus carried out their previous threats of converting Lebanon from an arena of “solidarity” to an arena of direct “jihad,” blaming the hostilities on Hezbollah because of its involvement in the fighting in Syria.

The sound of the blasts from the Iranian embassy attack had barely subsided when Sirajuddin Zureiqat, leader of the Lebanese branch of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Abdullah Azzam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the attack on Twitter, declaring the suicide bombers “two heroes of the Sunnis in Lebanon,” and dubbing the attack “the Iranian Embassy raid in Beirut.”

With this development an unknown branch of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades entered the limelight. In addition to the already known Ziad Jarrah Brigades, Zureiqat unveiled the Hussein bin Ali Brigades, warning, “Operations in Lebanon will continue, God willing, until two things are achieved: withdrawing the members of Iran’s Party [i.e. Hezbollah] from Syria, and releasing our prisoners from the prisons of oppression in Lebanon.”

Security sources revealed last month to the pro Hezbollah daily Al-Akhbar that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) recently made a decision to carry out suicide attacks against “Shiite targets” in Lebanon, pointing out that its list of targets also includes pro-Hezbollah Sunni figures.

The daily concluded in its report that ISIS, led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has declared war in Lebanon and that ISIS may have collaborated with the Abdullah Azzam Brigades to use it as a front only to claim responsibility, but ISIS has much better capabilities.
The good news is that all of these problems would disappear if only the US manages to pressure Israel and the PLO to reach a peace agreement.

At least that is what all the "experts" say.


  • Sunday, December 08, 2013
  • Elder of Ziyon
All from the Chicago (Jewish) Sentinel:

April 1, 1920:


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June 24, 1920:



October 7, 1920:




Things got much worse in 1921.


  • Sunday, December 08, 2013
  • Elder of Ziyon
From COGAT:

 Last Thursday (28.11.13) a party was held for Israeli and Palestinian children who underwent cardiac surgery and catheterization at the Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital. The party was held at the hospital and was organized by the "Heart for Peace" Foundation in coordination with the Civil Administration. Children and their families attended the day with the medical team that accompanied them along the way, representatives of the "Heart for Peace” Foundation, and Staff Health Officer of the Civil Administration, Ms. Dalia Bassa.

The children enjoyed a variety of activities and prizes such as face painting, puppet balloons made for them by the entertaining clown, a variety of creative activities and group games. After they enjoyed playing with each other, a lunch meal was held for all children and their families and medical staff. The day was designed to bring together Israeli and Palestinian families who were in constant touch during the children's treatment, and continue the regular monitoring of their children even when their health is excellent.

Later in the day, a meeting was held between Dalia Bassa and Ali Abohdr – a Palestinian Dalia knows through their joint work with the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Today, Ali is a grandfather to many grandchildren, one of whom was born with a heart defect and underwent three heart surgeries at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. "In my work at the Ministry of Health, I worked with Dalia many times to save lives," said Ali, "I am happy that when my grandson was in need of medical care, Dalia did everything to save his life and provide the best medical care.”

The "Heart for Peace" Foundation is a French non-profit organization that helps Palestinian children with congenital heart defects get the surgery that would otherwise be unavailable to them in the Palestinian Territories. The organization finances surgeries at the hospital and works in coordination with the Health Office in the Civil Administration. Thanks to their work, more than 530 Palestinian children underwent life saving heart surgery in recent years. At least once a week a Palestinian child receives heart surgery at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.

Let's work out the formula again:

Israel helping Arabs is good hasbara.

Hasbara is evil.

Therefore, Israel helping Arab kids is evil.

And if the kids end up not hating Israel, it is catastrophic.

I think that's the way the Israel-haters' logic goes, whether it is explicit or not.
From Ian:

Days After Defending Star of David Pig, Roger Waters Laments ‘Power’ of ‘Jewish Lobby,’ Compares Israeli Policy to Nazis
Asked why he was the only high profile celebrity to have joined the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, Waters explained that it was because people fear “the Jewish lobby.”
“This has been a very hard sell particularly where I live in the United States of America,” he said. “The Jewish lobby is extraordinary powerful here and particularly in the industry that I work in, the music industry and in rock’n roll as they say. I promise you, naming no names, I’ve spoken to people who are terrified that if they stand shoulder to shoulder with me they are going to get f*****.”
Accusing Israel of all manner of heinous crimes, Waters went on to draw parallels between Israeli policy and Nazi genocide.
“The situation in Israel/Palestine, with the occupation, the ethnic cleansing and the systematic racist apartheid Israeli regime is unacceptable,” he said.
EU Supports Economic Activity in Moroccan Occupied Territories
Recently, the head of the International action division in the legal Forum for Israel, Adv. and Ambassador (Ret.) Alan Baker and Prof. Eugene Kontorovich, member of the international action division, approached Dame Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and the Foreign Ministers of the European Union.
According to them, the consent of the EU to exploit fishing resources in the sea in front of the area occupied by Morocco in Western Sahara raises serious questions about the conduct of the Union. The letter claims that “there is a blatant contradiction between the principles according to which the EU operates in the areas of Judea and Samaria, as opposed to their policy in the areas occupied by Morocco in Western Sahara.”
Jihad Jenny pushes for talks with terrorists
Nonetheless Tonge wants Hamas back at the table, not just with the Palestinian Authority, but with Western powers too. Make no mistake, this is like inviting Osama Bin Laden around for tea.
She asks in a written parliamnetary question today:
Baroness Tonge: to ask Her Majesty’s Government what recent discussions they have held with other European countries about opening dialogue with Hamas; and what steps they will take to promote dialogue between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
Ah yes, let us put British taxpayers’ money to work “promoting dialogue” between a terrorist faction and a corrupt cabal of double-speakers!
Richard Millett: The Lancet, MAP and Sir Iain Chalmers’ “interesting figure” of Six Million
Chalmers: “Let me ask you a question. I was asked to write a commentary for The Lancet after the Cast Lead attack. I ended it by saying a self-defined Jewish state now controls the lives of almost as many non-Jews as it does of Jews. What will that Jewish state do with the six million, it is an interesting figure, the six million non-Jews whose lives it controls? You answer that question.”
Me: “Why is six million an interesting figure?”
Chalmers: “Well, actually it is the same number of Jews that were killed by the Nazis.”
Me: “Whats your point?”
Chalmers: Six million is a lot of people. How will the Jewish state deal with the non-Jews whose lives it controls?
EU regrets hosting rabbi accused of Holocaust denial
Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Friedman attended a conference on Arab-European dialogue held last month at the seat of the European Parliament in Brussels. Friedman, who lives in Antwerp, is perhaps best known for attending a conference in Tehran in 2006 organized by then Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad featuring Holocaust deniers.
According to The Guardian, Friedman said there that only 1 million Jews died in the Holocaust. The Bloomberg news agency reported that he had said the Holocaust was “successful fiction.”
Bennett: Any peace agreement that excludes Hamas is ‘a joke’
“I’m for an agreement,” he told Israel Radio from Australia, where he is on an official visit, “but a real one that doesn’t harm our interests.”
“Maybe I missed the news and Hamas in Gaza recognized Israel and stopped firing rockets,” he added sarcastically. Peace talks that did not include the leaders of Gaza were “a joke,” Bennett insisted.
Obama: Judea and Samaria Must Not be 'Gaza 2'
Obama warned that in the event of a final agreement between Israel and the PA, there would be a "transition period" to ensure that Judea and Samaria does not become a security threat akin to Hamas-ruled Gaza. He said that the PA would have to accept such a transition period.
"This transition period requires some restraint on the part of the Palestinians as well. They don't get everything they want on day one," he said, according to the AFP news agency.
"The Israeli people can't expect a replica of Gaza in the West Bank," Obama added. "That is unacceptable."
Ya'alon: We have no partner for two-state solution
Speaking at the Globes Business Conference in Tel Aviv, the defense minister said, "As someone who supported [the] Oslo [Peace Process], I'm learning that on the other side we have no partner for two states for two people."
"There is no one on the other side, and hasn't been since the dawn of Zionism, a leadership that is prepared to recognize our right to exist as a nation-state for the Jewish nation, and to recognize an agreement as the end of the conflict and the end to demands. We won't talk about an inch, about a millimeter of territory, if we don't see that we have a partner who talks about recognition, about the end of the conflict, and about giving up the right of return. We will not implement the doctrine of stages," he added.
Akunis: If Kerry is Optimistic, Then We Must Be Very Worried
Earlier Friday, US Secretary of State John Kerry had expressed hopes about the talks, declaring that "we are closer than we have been in years to bringing about the peace and the prosperity and the security that all of the people of this region deserve."
The MK was skeptical about the development. "We must ask: what progress? Is progress nothing but a separate word for 'withdrawal'? So let's focus on just one issue we dealt with this weekend: 'The security arrangements in the Jordan Valley'," he stated.
Germany selling Israel two guided missile destroyers
Within the framework of the deal, Germany will reportedly supply Israel with two guided missile destroyers, each valued at one billion euros.
The destroyers will be used to protect Israel’s gas pipelines.
In April, Der Spiegel reported that Israel may sell technologically advanced attack drones to the German military.
Islamic Movement Leader: Temple Mount for Muslims Only
Sheikh Kamal Khatib, who holds the position of the "deputy head of the Islamic Movement inside Palestine (Israel)," warned of a possible internal conflict with "the Israeli occupation" and threatened a "huge eruption" if Israel intervened on the Temple Mount ("Al Aqsa") and continued, according to him, to bother the Muslims praying there.
In an interview with the Al-Quds news agency quoted on the al-Aqsa website, Khatib lashed out at Israeli police forces, who intervened Friday after Muslims rioted at the Mount and began throwing rocks. The Sheikh insisted that the police, rather than preventing more unrest, were part of a wide-scale Israeli agenda to prevent worshipers from being comfortable at the site.
Son of Greek Orthodox priest who supports IDF enlistment attacked in Nazareth
Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon (Likud) spoke with Father Nadaf, who said that the suspect is an Arab Hadash activist. Danon later spoke with Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, demanding an end to incitement from Arab Knesset members.
“Words become deeds; the incitement of Arab Knesset members must stop,” Danon said. “The situation where Father Nadaf, his family, and Christians who want to serve in the IDF live in fear and suffer from attacks and harassment is unacceptable and tough action needs to be taken against the instigators and perpetrators alike.”
‘Palestine’s first online sex shop’
A 30-year-old Ramallah-based Palestinian-American entrepreneur has launched a pornography-free online sex shop aimed at encouraging marital intimacy. The venture hopes to attract customers across the Arab world, the Guradian reported Friday.
The man behind the plan, Ashraf Alkiswani, sought approval from religious leaders in Ramallah before embarking on the ambitious business project.
Obama takes aim at Israeli positions on Iran
President Obama sharply criticized as not viable several Israeli government postures on talks with Iran, but asserted that the military option remained on the table should those negotiations fail.
In a wide-ranging talk with Haim Saban, the entertainment mogul who funds the annual Saban Forum in Washington, Obama took aim at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims that increased pressure during the interim talks would extract greater concessions from Iran, and anticipated a final deal that would grant Iran some uranium enrichment capabilities.
Iran forging ahead with uranium enrichment technology
Iran is moving ahead with testing more efficient uranium enrichment technology, a spokesman for its atomic energy agency said on Saturday, in news that may concern world powers who last month agreed a deal to curb Tehran's atomic activities.
Spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi was quoted by state news agency IRNA as saying that initial testing on a new generation of more sophisticated centrifuges had been completed, underlining Iran's determination to keep refining uranium in what it says is work to make fuel for a planned network of nuclear power plants.
Congress to Obama: Cancel Iran deal
Congressional opposition to the recently announced nuclear accord with Iran reached a critical tipping point this week as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle publicly lambasted the deal while pushing for tighter economic sanctions on Tehran.
As the details of an interim nuclear deal reached last month in Geneva become clear, Congressional opposition has grown, leaving the White House to sell a deal that even its allies have dubbed as worrisome.
Iran reports “evil dystopian robots”
Iranian news can be pretty eccentric. But nobody expected this. What is shown below was reported as news in the semi-official Iranian Fars News and was copy-pasted from a satirical article by technology website TechCrunch about a new robot that can do Rubik’s Cubes entitled “Dystopian War Robots that will harvest us for our organs”. Iranian journalists saw this and apparently saw with it an opportunity to take a stab at the innovations of the Great Satan, republishing the article without the satire in the lifestyle section and even took credit for writing it. With this, Iranian Farce News Agency is even less credible than yesterday. Which says a lot.
PillCam maker Given Imaging sold for $860 million
A huge shakeup in the medical device field as Ireland’s Covidien acquires Israeli camera-in-a-pill maker Given Imaging for a reported $860 million. The companies announced today (December 8, 2013) a definitive agreement under which Covidien will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Given Imaging for $30.00 per share in cash.
Given Imaging is world renowned for its non-invasive technology that detects disorders in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Known as PillCam, the camera-in-a-pill device is ingested by patients and allows physicians to visualize the esophagus, colon, and areas of the small intestine. The PillCam is seen as the alternative answer to traditional colonoscopies.
Israel makes rare appearance at G8 forum with blueprint for tackling diabetes
Israel on Thursday made a rare official appearance at a G8 forum, a group representing the world’s eight largest economies, as the leaders of an Israeli social finance group presented an innovative blueprint for tackling type-2 diabetes to the G8 Taskforce on Social Impact Investment.
The group, Social Finance Israel, developed an outline for preventing the disease using Social Impact Bonds, investment instruments that seek to produce socially favorable outcomes while providing investors a return. In doing so, they hope to attract private funds to a social sphere normally dominated by philanthropic dollars.
Bennett: Israel to Aid Large Islamic Country in Agriculture
Trade and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett announced during a trip to Indonesia that Israel will be providing agricultural assistance to a large Islamic country which has no ties to Israel, according to a report in Makor Rishon.
At the international trade conference, Bennett spoke with Foreign Ministers from dozens of countries including Islamic countries with no ties to Israel.
The goal of many of the discussions was to see how Israeli expertise can be used to assist these countries in increasing their agricultural yields and feed their populations, as well as increasing economic cooperation in general.
  • Sunday, December 08, 2013
  • Elder of Ziyon
Isn't the new pragmatic Iran wonderful?

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri scoffed at the US officials’ war rhetoric against Tehran, and underlined that the interests of the US and the Zionist regime are within the reach of Iran’s weapons and military equipment.

“The Iranian nation considers as jokes the remarks by the US President (Barack Obama) and Defense Secretary (Chuck Hagel) that the military option (against Iran) is on the table,” Jazayeri said on the sidelines of a meeting with the Armed Forces’ cultural and media directors in Tehran on Sunday.

He stressed the Iranian Armed Forces’ military power and defensive capabilities, and said, “At present, many of the US and Zionists’ interests are within the reach of Iran’s military power, and Tehran has made its decision long ago to confront the aggressors.”
The very model of flexibility, moderation and nuance.

  • Sunday, December 08, 2013
  • Elder of Ziyon
Al Watan Voice is a  Palestinian Arab news site. Its op-ed section routinely publishes the most vicious antisemitic tropes, with no objections that I have ever seen.

Here is today's example, written by Hanan Mustafa Akhamis, who has a Ph.D. in the history of international relations and foreign policy.

Her main argument is that Judaism isn't really monotheistic.

The Jewish religion is not a monotheistic religion - it is the religion of priestly - as the priests are the ones who interpret the Bible through their own fantasies and perceptions, plus fiction written by Jews during the Babylonian captivity...The nepotism among the Jews and the function of the priests have made it a religion of heredity akin to idolatry with the leaders (the Sanhedrin) - a key role in Jewish religious and social and political life in the period following the return of the Jews from Babylonian captivity as they claim - I think that the Babylonian captivity is a myth fabricated by the Jews to control the Arab world - and the belief that they are God's chosen people and especially with regard to the trial of Jesus Christ peace be upon him.

The article goes on to say that Jews got monotheism from the Arabs. She then goes on to say that Amalek was Arab, and the Jews were ordered to slaughter all the Amalekite Arabs by their God, and they commemorate the massacre by - yes - slaughtering the children of non-Jews on Passover and drinking their blood.

It covers all the bases of antisemitism. And of course, Western NGOs all agree that antisemitism is bad. Yet none of them can seem to find anything to say about endemic Arab antisemitism.



  • Sunday, December 08, 2013
  • Elder of Ziyon
The Gaza energy authority this morning announced that Egypt has completely cut the flow of electricity into Gaza, in numerous Arabic media reports.

The Gaza energy authority urged citizens to stop using air conditioners or electric heaters, and to try to only use electricity for lighting.

Gaza usually has three sources of electricity. Israel provides 125 megawatts of power directly through electric lines, the Gaza power plant provides 80 MW and Egypt directly provides about 17 MW.

Since Egypt curtailed the tunnel trade to Gaza and Hamas refused to pay market prices for fuel, allowing the power plant to shut down on November 1, the amount of electric power available for Gaza went down from about 222 MW to 142 MW. Now that amount has been further reduced by another 12%, and Israel is now the only party providing power to Gaza.

Yet Israel is also virtually the only party being blamed for fuel shortages into Gaza by UNRWA, Amnesty, Hamas (in English), European NGOs, Arab media and of course the usual anti-Israel idiots

This news has not yet been reported in English anywhere. If Israel cannot be blamed, the media and the NGOs lose interest very quickly. Then, when the real story is obscured by inattentiveness, they will come back and blame Israel anyway.

One new example is this Al Arabiya article about a funny Gaza spoof of the Jean Claude Van Damme's famous commercial for Volvo:


While the commercial doesn't seem to blame Israel (Gazans know the truth), Al Arabiya  does blame Israel for the fuel crisis - based on information from 2006!

UPDATE: The Gaza electric authority now denies this story, saying that there was a technical glitch that stopped the flow of electricity temporarily and it has been fixed.

Saturday, December 07, 2013

From Ian:

Caroline Glick: The politics of subversion
Facing these undeniable facts, Kerry and his supporters have two main challenges. First they need to present themselves as credible actors.
And second they have to give Israel reason to trust the Palestinians. If Israel trusts the US, then it can consider allowing the US to defend it from foreign aggression. If the Palestinians are real peace partners, then Israel can surrender its ability to defend itself more easily, because it will face a benign neighbor along its indefensible border.
Unfortunately, Israel cannot trust the US. Kerry and the Obama administration as a whole lost all credibility when they negotiated the deal with Iran last month.
Barry Rubin: Are Sunni Arabs More Afraid of Israel than Iran?
I'm surprised that the following coincidence was not connected to Purim. Once again an Iranian tyrant is threatening countries in the region, and it isn't just Jews that are worried. In an absolutely remarkable historical event, President Shimon Peres delivered a speech to 29 representatives from Arab and Islamic states via satellite. Do not kid yourself; this would not have happened if the Egyptians, Saudis, and others hadn't thought that the U.S. had sold out the Sunni Arabs.
Saudi Arabia – Israel’s New BFF?
What Israel and Saudi Arabia do share, however, is a strong convergence of interests at this moment in time around each country’s core national security issue. An often overlooked fact is that the Saudi leadership is generally pragmatic, and the Kingdom is essentially what could be called a “status quo power”. Yes, the Saudi Arabia is dominated by the fundamentalist Wahabi strain of Islam, but the overriding objective of the ruling House of Saud is the preservation of the House of Saud. And while the Saudis would never acknowledge this publicly, right now they (wisely) perceive the Israelis and themselves as simpatico when it comes to Iran.
Iran Refuses to Recognize Israel at U.N.
The UNGA meeting was held to mark a procedural—and typically uneventful—vote in which nations meet to approve the credentials of various U.N. member states.
While Iran, like every other nation, voted in favor of the measure, its representative sought to explain that its support should not be interpreted as recognition of Israel.
“We would like to reiterate my government’s position that our support for this document should be in no way be considered as the recognition of the Israeli regime,” Iran’s representative said. “I wish my statement in this regard to be recorded and registered in the final recording of this meeting.”
Iran was the only member state to offer an on-the-record statement regarding the vote.
HuffPo: Why I Am Opposed to an Academic Boycott of Israel
Finally, it is unclear just what conditions need to be met in order for the boycott to be lifted, as the ASA itself has noted. Perhaps the best clues to finding out the terms of boycott can be found on the BDS website.
Or, perhaps not. The first stated goal of the BDS movement is the return of Arab lands. In the original boycott call issued in 2005, that goal was written as: "Ending [Israel's] occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall." However, a different version of the BDS call reads: "Ending [Israel's] occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967 and dismantling the Wall."
Those two versions of the boycott's primary goal are significantly different. The original call can be interpreted to mean that BDS wants to go back to conditions prior to the creation of the state of Israel.
Mark Rice Professor and chair of the Department of American Studies, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York
BBC’s Connolly exploits Mandela’s death for political campaigning
Likewise, Kevin Connolly revealingly refrains from making the accusation that Britain, France and Belgium “helped to prolong the apartheid regime’s rule”: BBC audiences are led to believe that only Israel belongs in that category.
Connolly’s suggestion that “the co-operation extended into Israel sharing nuclear weapons technology” is also apparently based on the Guardian’s speculative accusations dating back to 2010. Readers can learn more about the flimsy nature of that paper’s insinuations from work done on the subject by CiF Watch here and here and further information (including the BBC’s own questioning of the Guardian story at the time) is available here.
Syria's Assad calls Mandela's life a lesson to tyrants
The Syrian presidency added its voice to the chorus with a statement on its Facebook page on Friday, calling the South African statesman "an inspiration in the values of love and human brotherhood."
"His history of struggle has become an inspiration to all the vulnerable peoples of the world, in the expectation that oppressors and aggressors will learn the lesson that in the end it is they who are the losers," the statement said.
Comparing BBC coverage of Arafat ‘poisoned’ vs ‘not poisoned’ stories
As readers no doubt recall, in the forty-eight hours between November 6th and 8th the BBC News website featured thirteen different items on the subject of the publication of the Swiss report which was interpreted as supporting the theory that Yasser Arafat died as a result of poisoning.
Explosion on Israeli-Syrian border was aimed at IDF patrol
A blast that took place on the Israeli-Syrian border on Friday evening was caused by explosives intended to target the IDF unit that was patrolling the border, the IDF said Saturday.
The explosives were placed on the eastern, or Syrian, side of the border fence.
The attack marked the first deliberate effort since the Syrian civil war began to target an Israeli patrol at the border with explosives.
Poll: Israeli-PA Conflict Talks Won’t Lead to Deal, 87.5% of Israelis Say
A vast majority of Israeli Jews—87.5 percent—believe the current Israeli-Palestinian Authority conflict negotiations will not lead to a peace agreement, according to a new Israel Hayom poll that coincided with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s latest visit to the region.
The poll, conducted by New Wave Research, found that only 6 percent of Israeli Jews think the negotiations will lead to a deal. The respondents were a random pool of 500 Jewish Hebrew-speaking Israelis over the age of 18.
Palestinians fire three rockets at Israel
Three Kassam rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israeli territory on Saturday afternoon, all landing in open Gazan territory, Army Radio reported.
There were no reports of injuries or damage.
Jordan wins Saudi seat on UN Security Council
The UN General Assembly elected Jordan to the Security Council on Friday to replace Saudi Arabia, which had rejected the seat in an unprecedented act to protest the council’s failure to end the Syrian and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.
Arab countries chose Jordan as a replacement, and Asian nations endorsed it to take the traditional Arab seat on the UN’s most powerful body. It received 178 “yes” votes in the election.
Iranian students chant for release of political prisoners during Rouhani speech
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was greeted with calls for the release of jailed opposition leaders during an address to university students in Tehran on Saturday, AFP reported.
The so-called moderate Rouhani responded to the chants at Shahid Beheshti University by stating that his government "is committed to the promises it has made to the people, but we need to create internal consensus to achieve the objectives."
All Syrian chemical weapons munitions destroyed
The international chemical weapons watchdog announced Friday it has verified the destruction of all of Syria’s unfilled munitions — another milestone along the road to eradicating President Bashar Assad’s chemical weapons program by mid-2014.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in a statement that its experts in Syria also have verified the destruction of parts of buildings at weapons production facilities.
The latest destruction work was near the city of Homs. The OPCW said the sites had been inaccessible due to security reasons.
Austrian Mayor resigns over call for journalists to be hanged like Jews
The resignation of conservative mayor Karl Simlinger on Friday ended an alleged racism and anti-Semitism scandal over crude statements targeting asylum seekers, Jews and journalists.
Simlinger, who has served as the mayor of the small town of Gföhl since 1997, said the last thing he wanted to do was to “injure people.” The mayor allegedly said during a city council meeting on Tuesday,“I don’t give a shit about asylum seekers, but the journalists are to be blamed. They should be hanged; they are like the Jews.”
OECD Lauds Israel’s Economic Growth
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Thursday praised Israel’s economic growth in 2013 and predicted that its economy will continue to grow in 2014 and 2015 at a rate that exceeds growth projections for the OECD’s other 33 member nations, Israel Hayom reported.
“Israel’s output growth remains relatively strong, unemployment is at historically low levels, its high-tech sector continues to attract international admiration, and new off-shore gas fields have come on stream,” the OECD said in the executive summary of its 2013 Israel Economic Survey.
Israel’s Mobli Takes On Instagram in the Battle for Picture Posting
Globes said that Instagram retaliated this week, moving to block access to its services by users of Mobli, the up-start Israeli competitor that received a major investment from Mexican telecoms billionaire Carlos Slim in November.
“Although there is no real competition between the companies in terms of scale – Mobli has 12 million users compared with Instagram’s 150 million users – it seems that the latter feels threatened. It therefore decided to block Mobli users from downloading pictures from Instagram to Mobli at the press of a button, basically banning access to the applications programmable interface (API),” Globes wrote.
‘Companies with Israel ties added $6.2 b. to Mass. economy’
Companies with connections to Israel contributed $6.2 billion to the Massachusetts economy last year, a new study found.
The study, released on Thursday, was conducted by the consulting firm Stax and supported by Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston. It found that, when accounting for other business spending, the full economic impact of companies with Israel ties contribute $11.9 to the state economy. Revenues from this sector are growing three times as fast as the overall state economy.
Israeli firm’s 4G chips find a home in Verizon tablet
US mobile service provider Verizon has chosen Israeli mobile technology company Altair Semiconductors to provide 4G chips for its new tablet, culminating a working relationship going back years and enabling Verizon to sell its device markedly more cheaply than competing products.
Altair’s FourGee-3100/6202 chipset is running in Verizon’s LTE-enabled Ellipsis 7 tablet, the first-ever device marketed under Verizon Wireless’s own brand.
Israel Daily Picture: The Search for New Sources of Vintage Pictures of the Holy Land
The adjacent picture, although scratched and dark, is a beautiful landscape scene of the area between the Jerusalem train station and Jaffa Gate.
Below it is a slide of the same picture from the Library of Congress' mint collection of pictures from the Holy Land. The initials P.Z. on the bottom left of the picture indicates that it was produced by at the Photochrom and Photoglob company in Zurich in the mid-1890s. According to the Library of Congress, photochrom prints are "ink-based images produced through the direct photographic transfer of an original negative on litho and chromographic printing plates.
  • Saturday, December 07, 2013
  • Elder of Ziyon
Did you think this graphic of mine was satire?


Actually, real Israel-hating "academics" say exactly this. From Inside Higher Ed:

Curtis Marez, president of the association and a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California at San Diego, was quoted as saying: "The boycott is the best way to protect and expand academic freedom and access to education."
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The deranged hate that some people have against Israel, that causes such an obvious disconnect from reality,  can only be compared to one other historical deranged hatred. For good reason. Because any way you slice it, the illogical hatred against the Jewish state we see today is a straight line descendant of historic bigotry against the Jews as a group. The proud, self-declared anti-semites of the late 1800s and first half of the 1900s offered lots of academic-sounding arguments as well to put a scholarly facade on their bigotry.

The American Association of University Professors wrote an open letter to the ASA saying why academic boycotts are hypocritical. But you won't find a copy of it on the ASA website or Facebook page. Some issues are apparently so important that it would be dangerous to expose people to another point of view. The ASA must think that its members simply cannot be trusted with hearing both sides of a story.

(h/t DM)

Friday, December 06, 2013

From Ian:

Nelson Mandela and Zionism
This latter point is important because there is a widespread misapprehension that Mandela was an opponent of Zionism and Israel. In part, that’s because a mischievous letter linking Israel with apartheid, purportedly written by Mandela, went viral on the Internet (in fact, the real author was a Palestinian activist named Arjan el Fassed, who later claimed that his fabrication nevertheless reflected Mandela’s true feelings.) Yet it’s also true that, in the Cold War conditions of the time, the ANC’s main allies alongside the Soviets were Arab and third-world dictators like Ahmed Ben Bella in Algeria and Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt. The confusion is further stirred by the enthusiasm of some of Mandela’s comrades, like Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to share the South African franchise on the word “apartheid” with the Palestinians.
But those activists who want to make the Palestinian cause the 21st-century equivalent of the movement that opposed South African apartheid in the 20th century will—assuming they conform to basic standards of honesty—find it very difficult to invoke Mandela as support. Mandela’s memoirs are full of positive references to Jews and even Israel. He recalls that he learned about guerilla warfare not from Fidel Castro, but from Arthur Goldreich, a South African Jew who fought with the Palmach during Israel’s War of Independence. He relates the anecdote that the only airline willing to fly his friend, Walter Sisulu, to Europe without a passport was Israel’s own El Al. And the ultimate smoking gun—the equation of Israel’s democracy with apartheid—doesn’t exist.
Jewish Groups Mourn Death of Nelson Mandela
Jewish organizations have joined the global community in mourning Mandela. “Nelson Mandela will be long remembered as one of the greatest figures of his generation and one of the most inspirational and effective freedom-fighting figures in modern history,” Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, said in a statement.
“During the years of his trials and tribulations, the Jewish community of South Africa supported him, and when he sought freedom Mandela returned the friendship and appreciation,” Foxman added.
Divest This! A modest proposal to the American Studies Association
For in 2007, as a response to a proposed academic boycott from the major academic union in the UK (which was soon rescinded – of course), over a hundred US college presidents declared that for purposes of any academic boycott that their institutions should be considered Israeli universities and also boycotted.
Now this list includes schools like Tufts, the University of Minnesota, Rutgers, the University of Florida, Berkeley, the University of Connecticut, the University of Michigan, the University of Washington, San Francisco State, Wesleyan, Perdue, and Columbia – all colleges where members of the ASA Academic and Community Activism Caucus (the group that forced the boycott motion on the organization) are currently employed. In other words, the very people who insist that their entire field distance itself from Israeli institutions are now drawing paychecks from colleges and universities that declared themselves (in a declaration that was never rescinded) Israeli institutions of learning.
So the “scholars” driving the boycott within the ASA are now in a position to demonstrate their commitment to the cause by resigning en mass before spending another hour continuing as scabs to the very boycott they initiated. No doubt severing their ties to their current employers might cause some professional hardship, but such suffering is as nothing compared to the plight of the people they claim to be fighting for.
Having Boycotted Israel, American Academics Must Now Boycott Themselves
Let’s assume—and we’ve no reason to assume otherwise—that the ASA’s council members are sincere in their outrage, that they believe—as they state repeatedly in their statement—that U.S. financial and military support for Israel is a key engine of the occupation, and that they wish to stand strong against American and Israeli colonialism alike. If they truly believe all that, why not start at home? A bit of morbid math, for example, will reveal that Israel has killed, according to Israeli human rights organization B’Tzelem, 6,722 Palestinians between September of 2000 and October of 2013, while in Iraq alone, the United States Army may have claimed the lives of more than half a million civilians. It’s hardly an anomaly: even America’s fiercest defenders have to admit that while striving to live up to its promise as earth’s last best hope, this great nation has, on occasion, succumbed to greed, bloodlust, bigotry, and other serious ills. If the ASA is boycotting colonial powers, then it must boycott America, too—a move that would have even greater symbolic effect, since it would be done by an American organization of scholars employed by American universities and dedicated to American studies.
ASA’s Anti-Israel Gesture Politics
Consider the Executive Committee. Five of its six members had endorsed the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) as of May 2013. Those members are Curtis Marez, the outgoing president of ASA, Lisa Duggan, the incoming president, Karen Leong, who was among the proposers of a similar boycott by the Association for Asian American Studies, Nikhil Pal Singh, member of a scholar’s delegation that has called for a boycott, and Chandan Reddy. Four of the six signed a 2009 letter to then president-elect Obama, describing Israel as the perpetrator of “one of the most massive, ethnocidal atrocities of modern times.”
The National Council is only a little more balanced. Ten of the eighteen members who voted on the resolution had endorsed the USACBI as of May 2013 and seven signed the 2009 letter to Obama. One other Council member is part of a Queer Solidarity with Palestine effort to promote a boycott. One, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, is a member of the USACBI’s advisory board, and another, Sunaiana Maira, is part of the USACBI’s (I’m not making this up!) “Organizing Collective.”
As far as I know, not one member of the Council has been on record as raising a question about, much less opposing, a boycott. It is therefore hard to believe that a diversity of perspectives were needed “to aid the National Council in its discussions and decision-making.”
Maybe it’s time to reconsider the tax-exempt status of academic boycotters
The ASA is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization. The anti-Israel boycott arguably exceeds ASA’s legal purpose used to obtain that tax exempt status:
At a time when support among Americans for Israel is at all time highs, the people of this country have the right not to subsidize the boycott of Israel through tax preferences. Tax exempt organizations can boycott Israel all they want, but they should have to do so on their own dime.
Maybe it’s time to give academic boycotters a taste of their own medicine, as unfortunate as such a result would be. They brought the war against Israel into their organizations, and should live with the consequence.
Jake Lynch – BDS FAIL
Jake Lynch with legal action pending against him for his part in boycotting an Israeli academic, Dan Avnon of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem., now faced with this partnership with the Technion at the University where he is employed.
The New South Wales government has announced $300,000 over three years to fund a partnership between photonics researchers in Australia and Israel to develop a communications system that will speed up the next generation of computers.
New Blog: San Francisco State Unbecoming
On November 7, 2013 the General Union of Palestinian Studies at San Francisco State University set in motion a chain of events that served to highlight the intolerance, the bigotry and anti-semitism of their group. This site will be an archive of what transpired afterward.
Diplomat: Israeli Resolution at UN Cosponsored by Record 114 Countries Shows Weakening of Arab Bloc
The resolution calls for the empowering of youth, especially those living in rural areas, and building and strengthening agricultural cooperatives through investments in technology, sustainable production and marketing techniques. It also advocates increasing the participation of women and youth to dramatically reduce poverty, provide food and job security, and increasing access to information and communication technology and agriculture.
Ironically, Arab countries are among those that could benefit the most from Israeli agricultural technology, a point that Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations was sure to drive home in his remarks following the passing of the resolution.
“There is one group of nations standing in the way of us achieving consensus on this resolution, not surprisingly the Arab group,” Prosor said. “Ironically, few countries could benefit more from agricultural technologies than the Arab world. Across this region people are hungry for change and thirsty for progress, yet the Arab governments are stubbornly determined to put politics before people.
Austrian mayor: Journalists should be hanged like Jews
The mayor of the Austrian town of Gföhl said on Tuesday in city council meeting that journalists who reported on asylum seekers should be hanged like the Jews.
The Austrian news outlet Heute.at reported on Wednesday that Gföhl’s mayor Karl Simlinger expressed fury about asylum applicants who would be lodged in a planned complex.
Jewish Chronicle slams Clegg for “meaningless” Chanukah words
The Jewish Chronicle, Britain’s most widely read publication aimed that the Jewish community in Britain, has used its front page this week to slam British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg for his “meaningless” words over extremism, intolerance, and hatred.
Clegg, speaking at the Board of Deputies of British Jews Chanukah reception in the House of Commons earlier this week stated, “Expressions of intolerance, of extremism, of hatred, and sentiments of violence… must be countered through messages of tolerance, of resolve, of determination to stand up for the values of unity and respect”.
But Clegg’s comments were quickly rebuked as “meaningless” as he and has party have continuously failed to act over repeated anti-Semitic tweets from Lib Dem Member of Parliament David Ward.
London Mayor Boris Johnson Thanks Jewish Community for ‘Leading the World in Giving’ for ‘Hundreds of Years’
At a boisterous Channukah party in London’s Trafalgar Square last week, the city’s Mayor, Boris Johnson, who was photographed dancing with an over-sized dreidel, thanked the Jewish community for leading the world in the spirit of charitable giving, according to the UK’s Jewish News.
Speaking to a record crowd of 6,000 at an event called ‘Chanukah in the Square,’ organised by the Jewish Leadership Forum and Chabad, Johnson described London Jewry as “the greatest Jewish community” on Earth and said he was hopeful for an economic recovery in London, while calling for a simultaneous “boom in giving.”
‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ Approaching 50th Anniversary, is Strong as Ever
Worldwide performances of “Fiddler on the Roof” attest to its cultural power, as it evokes the yearning for tradition in a changing world. What is behind its staying power? According to Alisa Solomon, author of the new book “Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof,” it is the show’s balance between the universal and the particular.
Aquaponics – farming with a fishing rod
Moti Cohen is pioneering a new spin on an old method, in Israel. His approach is a combination of aquaculture (fish farming) and hydroponics (growing plants on water).
He’s building aquaponics farms and is consulting for agencies, such as the United Nations, on how to make aquafarms successful.
The idea is to create a circular farm that provides people with fish and plants to eat in a closed loop. The crops feed off the waste created by the fish, while the fish thrive on the oxygen made by the crops. Both become an important source of nutrients for the people –– with no waste, fertilizer or much water needed.
Big tech scrambles for Israeli firms
Executives say the uncertain environment the young Middle East nation faces has also played its part in developing a culture of adaptability and risk-taking.
"Since we live in such an unstructured environment where things change so rapidly, we have to learn to change, adjust, modify and adapt," said Asaf Peled, founder and CEO of Israel-based media company FTBpro.
The combination of factors has led Israel to become a global player, with U.S. firms and investors drawn to its innovative technology.
"The companies being founded in Israel are very relevant for what we are looking for in terms of networking, data centers, security and video," said Tal Slobodkin, senior manager of corporate development at Cisco Systems in Israel.
Cisco has made 11 acquisitions and invested in 22 start-ups in the country since 1998.
Israel’s Tower Semiconductor, Shanghai’s Integrated Circuit Consortium in Alliance
The agreement is the latest in deals between the Jewish state and the Chinese, who have long sought deeper ties to Israeli technology firms, capitalizing on opportunities to bring Israeli ingenuity to bear on the growing economy. As well as state visits and plans for freer trade, the Chinese are also funding Israeli university projects and technology incubators in Israel. And while some groups continue to stage boycotts of Israeli products, some economists see eager Chinese buyers as a partial solution.
Grammy-winning pianist to receive Israeli citizenship
Internal Affairs Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Minister of Immigration and Absorption Sofa Landver, and Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky are set to hand the world-famous musician and proud Israel advocate his Israeli identification card at the event.
Though Kissin, 42, has no plans to reside permanently in Israel, the Moscow native was granted approval by senior government officials for his citizenship request, which he filed for last year.
Norway Delegation: Israel Belongs to the Jews
Pastor Terje Ligerod, head of the Norwegian delegation of roughly 40 Christian leaders visiting Israel this week, told Arutz Sheva that his group came to ask forgiveness for Norway's antagonism towards Jews, and to pledge support for the Jewish state.
Ligerod noted "we believe we are called as a nation to be an ally and to support Israel, and we as leaders want to work for change in our country, and for a repentance among the Christians in our country, we want to support Israel."
Exclusive: 65 percent of new visitors leave Israel with better impression
A staggering 65 percent of first-time visitors from Britain to Israel have an improved impression of the country after seeing the state for themselves, a new survey has revealed, writes Justin Cohen.
The research, initiated by the Jewish News and conducted by easyJet among more than 500 passengers, also highlights the extent to which the media shapes British views of the Jewish state. Of the 529 first-time easyJet travellers to Israel, 57 percent reported having a ‘much’ or ‘slightly’ better impression on their return to the UK – rising to 65 percent among the 172 respondents who had never previously been at all.
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From Jordan's Petra news agency:
The Arab Group at the United Nations abstained from voting on an Israeli draft resolution aimed at ostensibly improving the development of sustainable agriculture technologies.

The General Assembly approved by a recorded vote of 138 in favor to one against (Bolivia) and 34 abstentions, among which were the Arab states at the UN.

The representative of Saudi Arabia, speaking on behalf of the Arab Group, said there was no reason to present the draft resolution as its content had been covered by a resolution previously submitted by the G77 and China. The resolution did not take into account the needs of the developing countries, including technology transfer requirements, financing and the elimination of obstacles created by agricultural commodities. There were many resolutions that requested Israel to refrain from its practice of occupation which were ignored by the occupying power.
Normally resolutions like  these are adopted by consensus. The Arab bloc requested the vote even though there was an automatic majority just from the cosponsors.

113 countries co-sponsored the resolution, the most that ever co-sponsored an Israeli draft resolution:



1 Albania
2 Andorra
3 Angola
4 Antigua and Barbuda
5 Argentina
6 Armenia
7 Australia
8 Austria
9 Azerbaijan
10 Belarus
11 Belgium
12 Belize
13 Benin
14 Bosnia and Herzegovina
15 Brazil
16 Bulgaria
17 Burkina Faso
18 Burundi
19 Cameroon
20 Canada
21 Chad
22 Chile
23 Colombia
24 Costa Rica
25 Cote D'Ivoire
26 Croatia
27 Cyprus
28 Czech Republic
29 Denmark
30 Dominican Republic

31 El Salvador
32 Equatorial Guinea
33 Eritrea
34 Estonia
35 Ethiopia
36 Finland
37 France
38 Georgia
39 Germany
40 Ghana
41 Greece
42 Grenada
43 Guatemala
44 Guinea
45 Guinea-Bissau
46 Guyana
47 Haiti
48 Honduras
49 Hungary
50 Iceland
51 India
52 Ireland
53 Israel
54 Italy
55 Jamaica
56 Japan
57 Kazakhstan
58 Kenya
59 Latvia
60 Liechtenstein
61 Lithuania

62 Luxembourg
63 Madagascar
64 Malta
65 Marshall Islands
66 Mexico
67 Micronesia
68 Monaco
69 Mongolia
70 Montenegro
71 Mozambique
72 Nauru
73 Nepal
74 Netherlands
75 New Zealand
76 Nigeria
77 Norway
78 Palau
79 Panama
80 Papua New Guinea
81 Paraguay
82 Peru
83 Poland
84 Portugal
85 Republic of Korea
86 Republic of Moldova
87 Romania
88 Rwanda
89 Saint Kitts and Nevis
90 Saint-Lucia
91 Samoa

92 San Marino
93 Serbia
94 Seychelles
95 Sierra Leone
96 Slovakia
97 Slovenia
98 South Sudan
99 Spain
100 Sri Lanka
101 Suriname
102 Sweden
103 Switzerland
104 Tajikistan
105 The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
106 Togo
107 Uganda
108 Ukraine
109 United Kingdom
110 United Republic of Tanzania
111 United States
112 Uruguay
113 Zambia



As far as the supposed Arab objections to the resolution, I asked Simonne Levavi, an expert on the topic and member of Israel’s mission to the U.N., whether they made any sense:
The representative of Saudi Arabia, speaking on behalf of the Arab Group, said there was no reason to present the draft resolution because they claim agricultural technology is covered by another resolution submitted by the G77 and China, entitled 'Agriculture development and food security".

The truth is, that resolution was initiated after 2007, in an attempt to undermine the Israeli resolution. It is very general about agricultural technology and does not go into specifics.

The Arab Group also claimed that the resolution did not take into account the needs of developing countries, including technology transfer requirements. This claim is preposterous. The resolution clearly touches on the importance of supporting national efforts to foster utilization of local know-how and agricultural technologies in developing countries. It encourages international efforts to strengthen the capacity of developing countries to enhance the productivity and nutritional quality of food crops and animal products, to promote sustainable practices in pre-harvest and post-harvest agricultural activities and to enhance food security and nutrition-related programmes and policies that take into consideration the specific needs of women, young children and youth.

It was very clear that the Arab group was once again using this opportunity as a platform to demonize and delegitimize Israel.
Demanding a vote is unusual. Levavi told me that in the UN's economic and financial committee about 60 resolutions pass by consensus each year, with only about 4 that are submitted to a vote.

I also asked Levavi how this resolution could help Arab countries specifically:

The resolution on Agricultural Technology for Development focuses on capacity building, education and skills transfer – the essential building blocks of development. The vast potential of agricultural technology is proven through global initiatives already in place.

In recent years the people in the Arab World have been very vocal with their strong discontent with their social condition; people are hungry for change and thirsty for progress. Natural resources in most of these countries are abundant and highly unutilized; the possibilities are endless.
Last year Israel sponsored a resolution on entrepreneurship that had 97 co-sponsors and passed 131-31-11.

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