Sunday, August 27, 2023

08/27 Links: Israelophobia is the one hatred that polite society embraces; Israeli and Libyan FMs talk normalization; Palestinian: ‘our parents always trusted Israeli leaders more than our own’

From Ian:

The EU Usurps Power from Democracies and Bestows It Upon Itself
This is Part 5 of a 10-part series exposing the underreported joint European and Palestinian program to bypass international law and establish a de facto Palestinian state on Israeli land.

While the European Union Parliament is generally considered a great seat of power, in fact, as a member, James Carver did not have the ability to initiate legislation.

He explains that it is actually the purview of the EU Commission to initiate laws, which only then go before Parliament, where they are chewed over by the different political groups until a consensus is reached.

Unlike parliamentarians, who are elected by individual states, the commissioners are appointed. As such, their loyalty lies with the EU over its member states.

An ideologically driven entity that arrogantly revels in the belief that it has the moral right to usurp power from democracies and bestow it upon itself, passing legislation that overrides national laws, the EU has swallowed the Palestinian narrative hook, line and sinker.

And, according to Carver, the Palestinian lobby is more successful than it is given credit for. Noisy and well-organized, its members are vociferous compared to the far calmer and more reflective Israeli advocates.

Attempted legal action against the EU on the basis of its undermining of the Oslo Accords is met with the claim that its funding for the Palestinian Authority merely amounts to “humanitarian aid” and that the EU has full “diplomatic immunity.”

But Carver argues that this defense is invalid because the Vienna Convention stipulates that diplomats may only be granted immunity if they do not interfere in the internal affairs of the state, which the EU is actively doing by seizing land that is universally recognized as being under Israeli jurisdiction. By hiding behind its credentials, the EU is also disregarding the principle of non-intervention, a foundational element of the UN charter.

The Europeans appear to want it both ways, on the one hand paying lip service to the Oslo Accords to criticize Israel, while on the other hand actively helping the PA ignore the terms of Oslo.

The discord between behavior and proclaimed intention renders any commitment to peace groundless. And the irony of the Europeans peddling ad nauseam condemnation of Israel for its expropriation of Palestinian land when they themselves are helping the Palestinians expropriate land is lost on the public at large.
Jake Wallis Simons: Israelophobia is the one hatred that polite society embraces
What’s with Israelophobia? From one point of view, the Jewish state shouldn’t matter very much. Accounting for just a quarter of 1 per cent of the Middle East, its area is the size of Wales, with a population the size of London.

Despite all the controversies, it is the only liberal democracy in the region. It’s not particularly violent; in its 75-year history, its conflicts with the Arab world have claimed 86,000 lives. The 2003 Iraq invasion killed 600,000 people in three years.

It is not a bad place to live. Its health system is excellent, its economy thriving. It is ranked above Britain and the United States for freedom of expression and, according to the UN, is the fourth happiest country in the world, behind only Finland, Denmark and Iceland.

Yet there is not one Israel but two. As the American novelist Saul Bellow observed, the Israel of facts is “territorially insignificant”. The second, however, is “as broad as all history and perhaps as deep as sleep”. This is where the fever-dream of Israelophobia takes hold.

However secular Western society becomes, it remains steeped in Christianity. The Bible elevated the Jewish land to the Holy Land, the Jewish city to the Holy City and a Jewish prophet to the Son of God; yet the Chosen People were blamed for killing Christ. This fetishisation and demonisation of Jews lies at the very foundation of our civilisation.

In the Middle Ages, Jews were accused of murdering Christian children to drink their blood; last month, a BBC presenter was forced to apologise after remarking that Israel was “happy to kill children”. As the novelist Howard Jacobson put it, Israelophobia is “the old hatred decanted into new bottles”.

Like the anti-Semitism of previous centuries, the bigotry is based on conspiracy theories and falsehoods. Israel is accused of pulling the strings of politicians, finance and the media.

The country is labelled “white supremacist”, despite being at least 60 per cent non-white. It is blamed for “genocide”, even though the Palestinian population has grown five-fold since its birth. There are no concentration camps or execution pits in the Jewish state.

It is accused of “apartheid” when its national football team contains more Arabs than Jews. Although it is the Middle East’s only democracy – the only country in the region to protect the rights of women and minorities – it is routinely compared to the Nazis.
Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Iran Will Keep Taking Hostages If the Money Keeps Flowing
Six billion dollars is an awfully large amount of money. It could cover a hell of a lot of arms shipped to Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Ansarullah. It could cover the salaries of thousands of Basij and IRGC militiamen, with additional bonuses for torturing, raping, and beating protesters. And it could keep the children of regime officials in overseas property and luxury goods for many lifetimes.

Cash-for-hostages deals encourage regimes like Iran’s to view innocent human lives as commodities that can be bought and traded for profit. Over the decades, the Islamic Republic has refined its hostage-taking business model into an extortion racket that is one of its most powerful foreign-policy levers. As long as countries like the United States are willing to acquiesce to its insatiable demands for ever-increasing sums of ransom, we can expect Iran to commodify a seemingly endless supply of hostages.

International cooperation is clearly necessary if Iran’s behaviour is to be curtailed in any systematic way. The Islamic Republic now targets the citizens of a wide array of Western nations; our governments should be on the same page as to how to respond when a citizen is taken, so that the approach of one country does not inadvertently undermine another’s. But even in the absence of such a multilateral accord, the United States can adopt a much stronger response than it has done.

Financial payments, regardless of where the funds come from, provide an incentive for hostage-taking, and as such they are fundamentally at odds with the U.S. government’s responsibility to ensure the security of its citizens. They are also a slap in the face to the brave people of Iran, many of whom are in the streets, risking their life to denounce the regime in the name of freedom, democracy, and gender equality—values that America professes to hold dear. The U.S. government should be no less steadfast in refusing to pay state-backed hostage-takers like the IRGC (a proscribed terrorist organisation) than it is when the Islamic State (also a proscribed terrorist organisation) or another non-state actor captures an American.

The U.S. government needs to understand that Iran’s regime views conciliatory measures, such as declining to enforce sanctions, not as friendly gestures to smooth the path to negotiation, but as signals of weakness. Instead the United States should come up with a firm, punitive response to any further Iranian hostage-taking and announce this policy publicly, leaving the Islamic Republic no doubt as to America’s determination to follow through. Punishing and wide-ranging sanctions should be on the table, as should a crackdown on assets and visas for the family members of top regime officials, many thousands of whom live or study in the West. Such an approach could be modeled on the successful campaign targeting Russia’s oligarchs that followed the invasion of Ukraine. The United States should also press allied countries to follow its lead in listing the IRGC as a terrorist organisation.


Would Judicial Reforms in Israel Open Up the Israeli Military to Charges of War Crimes?
The judicial reforms being discussed in Israel do not change or impact the independence and willingness of the Israeli investigative and prosecutorial bodies to investigate and prosecute potential offenders.

Attempts to link Israel’s proposed judicial reform and the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s principle of complementarity would appear to indicate a lack of understanding of both the provisions of the (ICC) Statute and the proposed reform.

The jurisdiction of the ICC is limited to the most heinous offenses carried out as part of a widespread and systematic attack on a civilian population. Since Israel has no such policy, the proposed legal system reforms are irrelevant to the ICC proceedings.

The jurisdiction of the ICC is also limited by the “Complementarity Principle,” which means that states, rather than the ICC, have priority in proceeding with cases within their jurisdiction. This principle means that the Court will complement, but not supersede, national jurisdiction and will only assume jurisdiction if a state is “unwilling or unable to carry out the investigation or prosecution.”

Since the proposed legal reforms will not affect or diminish the independence, ability, and willingness of Israel’s investigative or prosecutorial services to carry out investigations and prosecute potential offenders, the proposed judicial reforms are also irrelevant to the complementarity clause of the ICC.
When the US refuses to say ‘Palestinian’, the condemnation is irrelevant
Biden administration officials are usually outspoken and explicit when talking about the Palestinian Arabs. But there is one situation in which they seem to have great difficulty uttering the word “Palestinian.” Can you guess when that might be?

Shai Nigreker and his son Aviad Nir last week committed the crime of washing their car while Jewish. It happened in the Palestinian Authority town of Huwara. The two men weren’t “settlers.” They weren’t “occupying” anybody. They’re from the coastal city of Ashdod, 25 miles south of Tel Aviv. But as they stood outside the Huwara car wash, minding their own business, a Palestinian Arab terrorist walked up to them and murdered them in cold blood.

The father and son were doing exactly what the State Department and the Jewish left always urge Israeli Jews to do: engage in ordinary social and economic interactions with Palestinian Arabs. The critics accuse Israelis of not wanting to “get to know” Arabs. They insist that if Israelis would just spend more face-to-face time with Arabs, they would see that coexistence is possible.

Well, that’s just what Shai and Aviad did. They ran errands in Huwara. They spent their money in Palestinian shops. They had conversations with Arab residents. They took their car to the car wash.

The attack could not have been premeditated, since the killer had no way of knowing that the two men would be at the Huwara car wash that day. This means that the murderer was doing something else when somebody told him that Jews were spotted nearby. So, he walked over to see for himself.

Think about that for a moment. The Palestinian Authority’s level of anti-Jewish incitement is so intense, and terrorists are permitted to operate so freely in PA-governed Huwara, that on a random day, when two Jews were spotted at a car wash, there happened to be a random Palestinian terrorist nearby, he happened to be carrying a loaded gun, and he was ready, on a moment’s notice, to murder two unarmed civilians.

The killer didn’t even need a getaway car. According to media reports, “he fled on foot.” He was so confident that the residents of Huwara wouldn’t oppose him, and so sure that there would be no PA policemen nearby who might interfere, that he just walked away.
In first-ever meeting, Israeli and Libyan FMs talk normalization
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush in Rome last week to discuss the possibility of normalizing ties, the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem revealed on Sunday.

During the first-ever meeting between representatives of the two countries, Cohen offered humanitarian help to the conflict-wrecked North African nation and discussed efforts to preserve the heritage of Libyan Jewry.

Israeli officials established contact with Libya’s unity government several months ago.

“The historic meeting with the Libyan foreign minister, Najla Mangoush, is the first step in the relationship between Israel and Libya,” Cohen said in a statement, explaining that “given Libya’s size and strategic location, relations are of great importance and have huge potential for the State of Israel.

“I thank the Italian foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, for hosting the historic meeting in Rome,” added Cohen. “We are working with a series of countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia with the aim of expanding the circle of peace and the normalization of Israel.”

Torn by a bloody civil war since a NATO-supported rebellion removed dictator Muammar Gaddafi from power in 2011, Libya has been divided between rival governments for more than a decade.

Mangoush represents the U.N.-backed unity government in Tripoli, which also enjoys support from large swaths of the international community.

The regional circle of peace is expanding.
In a first, Israeli and Libyan foreign ministers meet in Italy
Israeli and Libyan foreign ministers meet in Italy in a historic breakthrough. Qatar Prime Minister says they are not at war with Israel, although it's funding of terrorist organizations. Former Ambassador Avi Pazner joins i24NEWS Correspondent Guy Azriel to discuss the ever changing reality of the Middle East.


Papua New Guinea to open Jerusalem embassy next week, Israeli official says
Papua New Guinea is set to open its embassy in Jerusalem next week during a visit to Israel by Prime Minister James Marape, according to an Israeli official.

The inauguration of the embassy will take place on September 5, according to Channel 14, which first reported on the development, without citing sources.

The Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the report, but an Israeli official told The Times of Israel that the “details are not mistaken.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Marape on the day of the ceremony, the Prime Minister’s Office said.

In February, the Foreign Ministry announced that Port Moresby would be making the move, after Foreign Minister Eli Cohen spoke with his Papua New Guinean counterpart, Justin Tkachenko.

News of Papua New Guinea’s embassy opening comes on the heels of two similar announcements from other countries. On Friday, Sierra Leone said that it would open an embassy in Jerusalem.

Paraguay announced the week before that it would reopen its embassy in the Israeli capital too.


Arab Israeli activist says he was assaulted at UAE airport over pro-Israel advocacy
A prominent pro-Israel activist said he and his family were attacked Saturday while boarding a flight in Dubai, by fellow Arab Israelis opposed to his advocacy.

According to Yoseph Haddad, his party was physically and verbally assaulted by “several people from my community” as they got on the plane to Ben Gurion Airport, resulting in an injury to his mother’s arm that required a bandage. He accused the group of “attacking us only because of who I am, my views and my work for the State of Israel.”

“I want all the attackers and the rest of those who think they will stop me through violence and intimidation to know that despite you I will continue with all my strength,” Haddad wrote in a post on his social media accounts.

“You will not stop me and you are only causing me to continue to get stronger and stronger,” he added.

Haddad, who said he and his family were back in Israel, also thanked Emirati authorities and Israeli diplomats in the United Arab Emirates “for all the concern.”

There were no reports of arrests in connection to the incident.

Haddad is the CEO of the organization Together Vouch for Each Other, which works to connect the Arab community to Israeli society. He has blogged for The Times of Israel.


Settling every inch of the land in the historic Land of Israel
Earlier this year, Israelis celebrated the 75th birthday of the State of Israel on land that they once governed for close to a millennium, during the times of the First and Second Temples. It’s hard to miss the irony of celebrating three-quarters of a century when it can be argued that the Jewish people have had a continuous presence in Israel for thousands of years. Eretz Israel, the “Land of Israel” has always been the Jewish people’s historic homeland – in fact, in the Bible, Jews are called Israelites, named after the land from which they stem.

At Zionism’s inception, a debate almost brought the movement down. Joseph Chamberlain, the secretary of state for the Colonies of the British Empire, proposed creating a Jewish State in Uganda, a portion of Africa under British control. The idea had merit since the father of Zionism Theodor Herzl was primarily focused on saving European Jewry from rising antisemitism. The Uganda Scheme, as it became known, would have provided refuge for the Jews of Europe from Europe’s antisemites.

However, it was rejected by early Zionists, and “Eretz Yisrael or bust” became the driving force. Unlike the United States, a nation built on values and ideas, but not centered around a land, the State of Israel is built around a land.

Americans and Israelis have much in common because they share many values, especially those of “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” But Israelis and Americans differ in that while American values can transplanted anywhere on Earth, the Jewish people couldn’t have established a true state anywhere but in the Land of Israel. The Jewish people’s connection to the land is not because it happens to be where we landed when running for our lives, but because it is where we originated thousands of years ago.

Had the Jewish State been established in Argentina, Uganda, or Madagascar, it would have been an artificial state. The Jewish people would’ve been foreigners even in their own country. The Land of Israel is the only true land of the Jewish people.
Ben-Gvir isn't being racist: West Bank security is paramount
US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken “have been clear that both Israelis and Palestinians deserve to enjoy equal measures of freedom and security,” the spokesperson stated.

There doesn’t seem to be any argument over the right of people not to be arbitrarily killed or targeted in hate crimes – and that in order to achieve that, it means that security sometimes trumps some unrestricted freedom of travel – whether at a checkpoint or a metal detector at an airport. That’s a fact for everyone since 9/11 in the West as well.

Heightened security in the West Bank also saves Palestinian lives. It’s not only zero-sum for Jews to travel, but not Arabs. It also saves Palestinian civilians from being in the crossfire or turning into endless victims of endless war.

Although the vast majority of Palestinians are not terrorists, those in their midst whose life goal is to murder Israelis are the ones who created the reality that all have to live with now.

You can blame it on the “occupation” or on the totally weak and ineffectual Palestinian Authority, but the reality is – until a political solution emerges for this area coveted by two peoples – that the safety of Israeli lives does take precedence over the unlimited freedom of access for Palestinians.

It’s unfortunate, but it’s not a racist sentiment. What Ben-Gvir said was offensive less because of its content – which has been official Israeli policy for decades – but more because of who said it: a minister who seems to have no regard for anyone besides Jewish Israelis and would probably like even more restrictions be put on the Palestinian residents of the West Bank.

Regardless of his ideology or motives, I’ll still keep telling visitors that I really believe that Israel would like nothing better than to demolish the security barriers and dismantle the checkpoints. But until that’s possible – if that ever comes – I’m thankful every day that they exist.


Netanyahu warns Hamas chief who threatened ‘regional war’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday responded to a senior Hamas official’s threat of a “regional war” should Israel resume targeted killings in the wake of a series of deadly terrorist attacks in Judea and Samaria.

Saleh al-Arouri—currently based in Lebanon and Hamas’s top commander in Judea and Samaria—raised the threat of war in an interview on Friday with Al Mayadeen, a pro-Hezbollah Lebanese paper.

“The leaders of the occupation government, with their extremist policies, will cause an all-out war in the region,” said al-Arouri. “Some in the Cabinet are considering actions such as taking control of Al-Aqsa mosque [i.e., the Temple Mount] and dividing it, along with assassinations, knowing that this would lead to a regional war. If we reach the point of an all-out confrontation, Israel will face an unprecedented defeat in its history, and we are confident of that.”

At the start of Sunday’s weekly Cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said that he had heard al-Arouri’s “arrogant words” spoken “from his hiding place in Lebanon.

“He knows very well why he and his friends are in hiding places,” the premier added.

Palestinians indicated that Arab countries have already warned Hamas of Israel’s intentions, cautioning the organization about the possible targeting of high-ranking officials both within the Gaza Strip and abroad.

Al-Arouri “is currently considered an extremely important asset for the Iranians and therefore it should be estimated that his elimination abroad will lead to the ignition of an all-out campaign, certainly on the northern [i.e., Lebanese] front,” sources within the Gaza Strip said.

Against this backdrop, Hamas has taken protective measures, including evacuating critical sites in the Gaza Strip in anticipation of an imminent attack. Similarly, in Lebanon, Hamas has sounded the alert among its members.
Driving through terror: Teaching Israelis skills to survive highway attacks
Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria are lining up to take a driving course that teaches survival skills in the event of a terrorist attack on the road.

Courses began a month ago and 10 have been taught so far, with 24 additional communities requesting the course.

“In each community, we’ll teach it two to three times. We teach 20-to-25 people at a time,” said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, head of Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center, which sponsors the course.

Darshan-Leitner admits it’s a little off the beaten path for her group, which specializes in the legal battle against terrorism.

“Shurat HaDin usually fights terror after it happens, filing lawsuits against the perpetrators and their supporters. This time, we are trying to prevent and to fight terror before it happens,” she told JNS.

“But we cannot sit idly by when the terrorism is rising and escalating on the roads. And we decided to take it upon ourselves and to raise the funds and the resources for these courses.”

During the four-hour training session, participants drive through a simulated gauntlet of tennis balls, paintball guns, water balloons and burning tires.

While it may sound far removed from the rocks and real bullets that Jewish drivers in Judea and Samaria must contend with, Darshan-Leitner said the course, led by professionals, provides enough verisimilitude to get the point across.

“The tennis balls and water balloons imitate rocks. They feel and sound like rocks against the car. The paint gun sounds very similar to real guns. The burning tire on the road really is a burning tire,” she said.

The main goal is to get away. Participants learn they can drive over a burning tire and can continue even with a flat tire. “They put you through what feels like a real terror attack to give you confidence to push forward rather than stay back or refrain from driving,” she said.


Palestinian: ‘our parents always trusted Israeli leaders more than our own’
You might have heard of Quora – this is a website where anyone can pose any question (usually related to politics), and anyone who feels qualified to give an answer can do so. This particular question, by one Anne Frank, caught my eye: Are most Palestinian families originally from Palestine? A former schoolteacher named Muhammad Ibrahim Hussein, who lives on the West Bank, came up with this fascinating answer:

No. My ancestors originate from near the Iraqi / Jordanian border. While part of my family started settling in what used to be called British Mandate Palestine, other parts of my family moved east to Baghdad.

As children and young teenagers my paternal grandfather would tell me and my sister all kinds of lovely stories about his life, adventures, and businesses he used to own in Baghdad.

One recurring topic was the exodus of Iraq’s Jewish communities, which he always called a great national catastrophe and personal tragedy. Iraq’s Jewish communities were one of the main import / export trading backbones and so when these communities disappeared their excellent trading connections and business relationships disappeared with them as well, as did much of the wealth they had generated and that helped sustain much of Iraqi society.

This had the rather unfortunate side effect and consequence that many Arab companies, including my grandfather’s companies, slowly but surely went out of business, because they depended to a large extent on the excellent trade relationships Iraq’s Jewish communities had established and maintained for generations.

My grandfather never had a bad word to say about the Jewish families with whom he did business. In fact he always told us they were the most fair, reliable, and trustworthy business people one could hope to call ones friends.

To this very day my father and mother maintain that opinion and memory, because they are both old enough to remember Jordan’s iron fist occupation of the West Bank and every subsequent conflict since then.


Iran Says Uranium Enrichment Continues based on Domestic Law
Iran’s enrichment of uranium continues based on a framework established by the country’s parliament, nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami said on Sunday when asked about reports regarding Tehran slowing down its 60% enrichment.

“Our nuclear enrichment continues based on the strategic framework law,” Eslami said, referring to a related legislation.

Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Iran had significantly slowed the pace at which it was accumulating near-weapons-grade enriched uranium and diluted some of its stockpile, moves that could help ease tensions with the U.S. and revive broader talks over Iran’s nuclear work.

In 2020, Iran’s hardline parliament passed a law requiring the government to take measures such as stepping up uranium enrichment beyond the limit set under Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal if other parties did not fully comply with the deal.

After Washington ditched the deal in 2018 and reimposed sanctions, Tehran began to violate the nuclear curbs set out in the pact.
Iranian anti-government professors fired ahead of Mahsa Amini anniversary
A number of Iranian professors who expressed support for protesting students during the demonstrations that swept Iran after the killing of Mahsa Amini last year have been fired or suspended in the weeks leading up to the anniversary of Amini's death, according to reports by student unions and opposition-affiliated media.

On Saturday, a Telegram channel reportedly affiliated with student unions across Iran stated that two professors from the Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran, Dr. Hamideh Khademi and Dr. Amina Ali, were informed that their contract had been canceled over the phone. The two professors supported protesting students during the protests last year, according to the union.

A Telegram channel reportedly affiliated with a student union at the University of Tehran stated that at least seven professors had their courses removed from course listings without any warning.

According to the student union, the professors in question had been reprimanded before by the recruitment and selection board of the university and were critics of Abdolreza Seif, the head of the Faculty of Literature and Humanities and an advisor to the dean of Tehran University.

Additionally, on Saturday, Dr. Ali Sharifi Zarchi, a professor at Sharif University of Technology, announced in a post on the X platform that he had been dismissed from his position at the university.


Jewish NGOs campaign against Samidoun terror funding
An international coalition of Jewish and pro-Israel NGOs has urged U.S. payment provider Stripe to cut ties with an organization accused of sponsoring Palestinian terrorism.

The Arizona-based Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ) acts as a “fiscal sponsor” for Samidoun, a Palestinian organization with close ties with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group, the Designate Samidoun Alliance charged in a letter made public on Sunday.

“Based on our research, we believe that donations made to Samidoun through AfGJ’s platform have provided support to designated terror organizations and specific terrorist activities throughout the world,” states the missive, signed by 11 organizations including StandWithUs, NGO Monitor and the Zachor Legal Institute.

“Given that AfGJ uses Stripe to process donations in support of Samidoun, we respectfully urge you to take this information into consideration when reviewing their account for compliance with the rules and laws applicable to your company,” the coalition continued, adding that it had reported the company to the IRS and the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

A previous letter to Stripe from the Zachor Legal Institute went unanswered despite several other payment processors, including PayPal, having blocked AfGJ and Samidoun from using their services in recent years over the charity’s terrorist ties.

Then-Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz designated Samidoun a terrorist organization in February 2021 due to its links to the PFLP, which also is recognized as a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, Israel and the European Union.


Fatal Addiction Journalists Erase Terror Affiliations of Palestinians Killed By Israeli Forces
Like an unshakeable addiction, the impulse of mainstream journalists to conceal the terror affiliations of Palestinians killed by Israeli troops remains a persistent feature of reporting at major news outlets. The Associated Press and The New York Times were the lastest media outlets in recent days which simply couldn’t help themselves.

Concerning Ezzedin Kanan, a verified fighter in the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, AP’s headline yesterday obscured: “A Palestinian dies a month after being shot during an Israeli raid in the West Bank.” The first paragraph of the accompanying article by Nasser Nasser likewise omitted Kanan’s terror affiliation, reporting only: “The Palestinian news agency reported Saturday that a 20-year-old died of wounds a month after being shot during an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank.”

Not until the third paragraph does the story acknowledge:
An offshoot of the secular nationalist Fatah party, the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, claimed Kanan as one of its “fiercest fighters” and pledged to avenge his loss. Armed and masked militants flanked the mourning procession for Kanan as his body, wrapped in a Palestinian flag and adorned with a headband from the group, was carried through his home village of Jaba.

Associated Press captions from Kanan’s funeral yesterday also ignore that he was a confirmed combatant belonging to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a designated terror organization. The incomplete captions selectively report, referring to
Ezzedin Kanan, 20, who succumbed to his wounds sustained during an Israeli army operation last month, during his funeral in the West Bank city of Jenin, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. The July 3 raid was the most intense Israeli military operation in years in the West Bank, involving airstrikes and hundreds of ground troops, that left a wide swath of damage in its wake. Kanan’s death brings the death toll in the raid to 13. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

AP’s failure to adequately identify Kanan as a combatant was hardly the first such instance at the wire service in recent days. The news agency’s Aug. 22 headline, “A 17-year-old Palestinian is killed during an Israeli military raid in northern West Bank” (screenshot at left) concealed the reality that Othman Abu Kharaj was a fighter for Islamic Jihad’s al-Quds Brigades.
Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel: Booker T. Washington & Julius Ronsenwald: Ronsenwald Schools & Beyond
A generation before the civil rights movement and the iconic relationship between Dr. Martin Luther King and Rabbi Joshua Heschel there was the Black-Jewish synergy of Booker T. Washington & Julius Rosenwald. IBSI tells the story of how these men helped change the very course of American history.




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