September 2015 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Another UNRWA teacher posts antisemitic cartoon

Emad Sbeihat works as a teacher for UNRWA in Jordan. He loves the idea of unity - that is, unity between the terror groups from Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah. This peaceful UNRWA teacher has lots of photos of guns, too. . He also likes cartoons that portray Jews as frightened, sidelocked Haredim fearful of rockets: No doubt this is all consistent with the vaunted...

09/30 Links Pt2: Abbas threatens to stop abiding by Oslo Accords; The Advent of Pallywood

From Ian: Abbas: Palestine a state under occupation, no longer bound by Oslo accords Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that the PA would cease to abide by agreements signed with Israel, including the 1993 Oslo accords, claiming Israel had shown that it, too, was no longer committed to them. “So long as Israel refuses to commit to the agreements signed with us, cease settlement construction and release prisoners, Israel...

"Jews destroyed Iraqi antiquities in revenge for Babylonian exile"

From MEMRI: Iraqi historian and archaeologist Ali Al-Nashmi said that there was an international Jewish mafia that aimed to acquire Iraqi antiquities. Walid Al-As'ad, director of Palmyra Museum, said that the Jews wanted "to destroy the city [of Palmyra] and wipe it off the face of the Earth," in order to erase the memory of their Babylonian exile. Walid's father, Khaled Al-As'ad, was killed in August by ISIS militants. He had served as director...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Amman, Jordan, September 30 - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees will upgrade its teacher training to facilitate an enhanced curriculum that, in addition to its core antisemitism component, will now include mathematics,...

09/30 Links Pt1: Terrified Jewish Children Hounded by Muslim Mob; IAEA at Parchin – a farce in 3 acts

From Ian: Watch: Terrified Jewish Children Hounded by Muslim Mob A hassidic child cries, clinging to his father's hand as an angry mob hounds them, hurling anti-Semitic abuse. Scenes not from Europe in the early twentieth century, but from the streets of Jerusalem's Old City on Sukkot, 2015. Muslims in the holy city have been rioting for more than two weeks now, clashing with police and attacking Jewish residents. Several people have been injured...

Thousands of Jews at Kotel "desecrating Buraq square" according to Palestinians

Today, thousands of Jews are flocking to the Kotel (Western Wall) in Jerusalem to participate in the semi-annual Birkat Kohanim ceremony as well as a "Hakhel" ceremony that occurs once every seven years. Palestinian news outlet Safa.ps headlines their article about this as "Tens of thousands of Jews and rabbis desecrate Buraq Square." The article says that thousands of "settlers" are "flocking to Buraq Square to participate in Talmudic rituals." Egypt's...

Saeb Erekat is upset at President Obama for not mentioning Palestinians once in his UN speech: Secretary-General of the PLO’s Executive Committee Saeb Erekat Monday expressed his disappointment in US President Barack Obama for ignoring the Palestinian question during his speech before the UN General Assembly on Wednesday. The PLO official wondered if President Obama believes...

Did Muslims set fire to Al Aqsa on Sunday?

An interesting video has emerged showing what appears to be flames flickering inside the Al Aqsa Mosque where rioters had barricaded themselves on Sunday: The Arabic news reports on this blame Israeli forces for the fire. But as we have seen, the rioters inside the "third holiest place in Islam" routinely shoot firebombs and fireworks. In this video you can see some of them launching fireworks from outside the mosque before they barricaded themselves...

Old Daph’s plea to the Australian Jewish press: “Give it a rest already!” The cringe-worthy slavering over new prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, I mean, on the grounds that he’s let it be known that he thinks he might quite possibly have maternal Jewish roots. This nauseating hero worship seems to have had its genesis with this over the top article http://www.jewishnews.net.au/menachem-mendel-turnbull/32186, which...

Pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel? Saudi Arabia refuses to play soccer in West Bank

From AFP: Palestinian football's governing body has said it is "impossible" to accept FIFA's decision that it must play a 2018 World Cup qualifier against Saudi Arabia on neutral territory. The fixture, set for October 13, had been scheduled to take place in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, but Saudi Arabia on September 23 demanded that it be played on neutral ground. The...

09/29 Links: The festering swamp of anti-Zionism; Dershowitz: Obama 'Committing a Crime' with Iran Deal

From Ian: David Collier: The festering swamp of anti-Zionism In theory it is possible to be an anti-Zionist and not be antisemitic. At its core, Zionism is simply the belief of the right of Jewish people to be independent. Strict opposition to Zionism could come therefore, from people who are anti-nationalists; ‘one-worlders’ who see borders and nation states as arcane unwanted relics with no place in the coming ‘golden age’. Back in the real world,...

Chag Sukkot Sameach!

The holiday of Sukkot starts tonight and I will not be blogging until Tuesday night. (And next week the same thing happens again.) A couple of years ago I created a Sukkah decoration inspired by the artists of Safed, and I completely forgot about it until now. So feel free to print it and use it in your sukkah! Have a great holiday...

This series could go on forever... Nidal Abu Ghneim has taught at UNRWA schools in Jordan since 2002. On his Facebook page, he features this graphic: The map of British mandate Palestine and the AK-47 make up part of the number "67" for the number of years of Israel's existence. The caption says ""What was taken by force will only be regained by force. The 67th anniversary...

09/27 Links: Jews against Themselves; Israel's biggest fears are materializing; UN bias

From Ian: Jews against Themselves J Street is an organization that describes itself as “pro-Israel” and proclaims itself “devoted and committed to Israel’s future.” Yet, as Edward Alexander observes in an important new book, J Street “misses no opportunities to blacken Israel’s reputation and very few opportunities to encourage campaigns to delegitimize it.” And J Street is not alone. Similar Jewish organizations, some without J Street’s pretensions...

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, for those of you who may not know, is US representative to Florida’s 23rd congressional district and chair of the Democratic National Committee. This would make her not only among the most powerful Jewish women in the United States Congress, but among the most important people in national politics, period. Shmuley Boteach has a...

Amazing holiday message of peace from an Egyptian

From Egyptian peace activist Ahmed Meligy: (The music in the background is a very interesting version of a Hebrew song from Sabbath prayers, El Adon.) Meligy has a similar video created with terror victim Kay Wilson: There are surprisingly few views on YouTube of these videos. They need to be shared widely, and Egyptians like Meligy who support peace must be honored. Chag sameach! (h/t Yoel)...

The PLO's Negotiations Affairs Department recently issued a pamphlet supporting the right to "popular resistance." In that pamphlet, Saeb Erekat writes a short essay that begins this way: A few days after Israel occupied my hometown of Jericho in 1967, I was arrested by Israeli soldiers while writing graffiti:“down with the occupation, free Palestine.” This act of peaceful...

Egyptian Nour party chairman says Zionism is only about destroying Al Aqsa

Arab media is reporting that Dr. Younes Makhioun, Chairman of Egypt's Nour Party, has a new theory of what Zionism is all about. The salafist said that the Jews did not come to Palestine as a place to live, but they came using the doctrine of Zionism and biblical prophecy seeking to achieve control of Jerusalem, which the Zionists called the Promised Land, according to...

09/26 Links: Bassam Tawil: Palestinians: We Are the New Nazis; Seal Refutes Jewish History Deniers

From Ian: Bassam Tawil: Palestinians: We Are the New Nazis The campaign on social media against the singer and the TV show also provides proof of increasingly racist sentiments among our people. We automatically dismiss anyone wearing a kippa because we assume he is a "settler" who hates Arabs and Muslims. It is embarrassing to read many of the comments posted by Palestinian activists concerning the singer's religion and kippa. With such attitudes,...

09/25 Links Pt2: The ghost of the Grand Mufti lives on; When Israel Was One Large Refugee Camp

From Ian: The ghost of the Grand Mufti lives on The ghost of Haj Amin Al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who broadcast Nazi antisemitism into the Middle East from Germany during World War, II is alive and well. The ghost’s last known sighting was on a TV show hosted by Tamer Amin, a well-known and popular media personality in Egypt. I'd use the word "journalist", but very few people are going to mistake Amin for a responsible journalist. When...

Khaled Abu Walid Kadous is an UNRWA teacher in Nablus. Even though he lives in the area of British Mandate Palestine spends a lot of time posting about "return" to destroy Israel. And he is not talking about a peaceful process, either. He may be a wee bit biased. Which is supposedly grounds for disciplinary action by UNRWA, we are told. Riiiight. UPDATE:...

Amnesty says soldiers shouldn't shoot someone actively attacking them with a knife

A couple of days ago Israeli forces shot a woman at a checkpoint that they say was attacking them with a knife. "The perpetrator approached the checkpoint and the metal detector was activated, alerting the troops' suspicion," an army spokesman said in an accompanying statement. "Forces at the scene asked her to stop, at which point she approached the forces, disregarding the instructions and raising further suspicion. "Forces called for her to...