7/15 Links Part 2: No Reports of Jewish Riots After Vile Khaybar Series Airs, Europe's Secret GONGO's

From Ian:

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NGO Monitor: Europe’s secret NGO wars: Who is anti-democratic?

When is a non-governmental organization (NGO) actually an arm of state power and interest, masquerading as a non-political do-good civil society group? For starters, this absurd category, known as a GONGO – a governmental non-governmental organization – applies to the dozens of Israeli and Palestinian advocacy groups that are funded primarily by the European Union, its member states, as well as Norway and Switzerland.
For Europe, NGO funding is a major form of promoting state interests, with goal of changing Israeli policy through the political activities of these organizations.

CIF Watch: No reports of Jewish riots after grossly antisemitic show begins airing on Arab TV

Though a prominent pro-Israel blogger, Elder of Ziyon, initiated a passionate campaign to draw attention to the series, the act of racist incitement has been ignored by major human rights organizations – characteristic of the silence by such self-described “humanitarian” groups in the face of poisonous anti-Jewish animus which is commonplace throughout Arab and Muslim countries.
Additionally, whilst the Guardian published over 100 reports and commentaries after the Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2005, and a similarly large volume of stories on the row last year over a brief trailer for an anti-Islamic film posted on YouTube called ‘Innocence of Muslims’, there has been nothing published at the Guardian or ‘Comment is Free’ about Khaybar.

Arab TV stations air anti-Semitic show over Ramadan

An anti-Semitic television series is being broadcast throughout the Arab world for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
“Khaiber,” which is being shown on the satellite network Dubai TV, the Algerian 3 station and Dream TV, dramatizes the battle between Muslims and the Jews of the town of Khaiber in Arabia and depicts Jews as the enemy of Islam.

BBC manipulation of public opinion

Neither the BBC nor B’tselem appear to be particularly interested in the fact that the parents of a child of five years and nine months old allowed him to be out on the streets alone throwing stones, or in the human rights of the people travelling along that road which those stones endangered. That, of course, is nothing new: the BBC systematically avoids reporting even the most serious stone-throwing attacks as well as other kinds of violence and terror activity in Judea & Samaria.

Muslim Extremists Force Jews From Temple Mount

Hundreds of Jews came to the Temple Mount Monday in honor of Tisha B'Av, the anniversary of the destruction of the two Jewish Temples by the Babylonian and Roman empires respectively.
But their visit was cut short as Muslim worshippers physically blocked them and appeared to be preparing a riot.

Outrage as Culprit in Hevron Massacre to Manage Holy Site

Taysir Abu Sneina, a terrorist who was involved in the murder of six Jews in Hevron on May 2, 1980, is the man whom the Palestinian Authority has appointed to manage the Muslim side of the Cave of Machpela (known in English as the Cave of the Patriarchs).
The Hatzala Yosh organization reported Sunday that Abu Sneina participated in the terror attack on the building known as Beit Hadassah, on May 2, 1980, in which six students from the Nir Yeshiva in Kiryat Arba were murdered.

Christians should not be classified as Arabs

Father Gabriel Nadaf, a Greek Orthodox priest from the area of Nazareth, continues to make headlines in the Israeli press for advocating a new alliance between local Jews and Christians in service to the State of Israel.
In an interview with Israeli website News1, Nadaf said that Christians are tired of living as dhimmis (second-class citizens) in the Muslim world, and are starting to understand that the Jewish state is their ticket out of that situation.

US lawmakers call for penalizing Argentina over Iran ties

Each letter cites Argentina’s recent improvement in relations with Iran, particularly its recent agreement with that country to resolve the issue of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center through a truth commission.
The bombing killed 85 people and wounded hundreds.
“We find it extremely troubling that Argentina would be aiding and abetting any process designed to allow Iranian senior officials to rewrite history and disavow the findings from extensive judicial investigations and indictment of senior officials for their role in the 1994 AMIA bombings,” said the July 10 letter to Kerry.

Thai university slammed for Hitler superhero mural

The Simon Wiesenthal Center condemned Thailand’s Chulalong University and its faculty Friday for displaying a mural depicting Adolf Hitler along with a group of superheroes on the wall of one of its buildings.
The huge mural, featuring Hitler prominently along with the likes of Superman and Batman, is outside the University’s Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts building. It has become something of an attraction in recent days with passersby getting their picture taken in front of it, some while performing a Nazi salute.

EU Awards BGU with Nat'l European Studies Center

The European Union has chosen Ben Gurion University to create Israel’s only National Jean Monnet Center of Excellence in European Studies.
It is the first time in history that an Israeli university has been honored with a National Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, named after one of the founders of the European Union.

Israeli Teens Win Medals at Global Computer Science Olympiad

Four Israeli teens won gold, silver and bronze medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics, held over the course of four days in Brisbane, Australia. Following its performance, Israel was ranked eighth in the world out of 80 participating teams.
The 25-year-old event highlighting the achievement of youths in computer science was initiated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), along with olympiads in mathematics, chemistry, physics and biology.

Israel’s National Library Exhibits 30 Ancient Koran Manuscripts to Celebrate Ramadan

Israel’s National Library has curated a special digital display of 30 rare Koran manuscripts that date from the 9th through the 19th centuries to mark the start last week of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The manuscripts are part of the NLI collection, which includes 2,400 manuscripts in the Arabic script, and over 100 manuscripts of the Koran.

In Barcelona, echoes of long-lost Jews

In the narrow alleys behind Barcelona Cathedral where the city’s Jewish community was centered in the mid-14th century, an English guide is showing a small group of American tourists the limited vestiges of Jewish life before the Inquisition.

Travel website ranks Yad Vashem among top museums

Yad Vashem was ranked fourth in the top 25 museums in the world by the travel website TripAdvisor.
Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial and museum, also was awarded the website’s 2013 Certificate of Excellence, given to sites that consistently receive outstanding traveler reviews.