Thursday, August 05, 2021
- Thursday, August 05, 2021
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", Ahmed Majdalani, Al Bireh, anti-normalization, BDS, BDSFail, EcoPeace ME, Israel, jew hatred, Jordan, Nada Majdalani, Palestinian
Tuesday, July 06, 2021
- Tuesday, July 06, 2021
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", AGPS, media silence, No Jews No News, Syria, The Action Group for Palestinians in Syria
Syrian security forces have tightened military grip around Deraa and its outskirts, south of Syria.Local sources told AGPS that all access roads to the city centre have been blocked except for the Sajneh road, where three military checkpoints have been pitched.Palestinian refugees have expressed concerns over a new wave of forced military conscription and arbitrary manhunts in the area.
A former commander of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in the al-Lajat area told Enab Baladi that Russia’s mediation through its affiliate 8th Brigade had allowed the return of displaced families from the villages of al-Shayyah, al-Shomara, al-Modawara, and Alali to their homes.He added that the residents of those areas had been displaced since 2018 in the villages of Hauran, and their areas were controlled by the 9th Division and Hezbollah-affiliated forces.He pointed out that residents took the return decision after Russia guaranteed them that the Syrian regime’s security apparatus would not arrest them.
Sunday, June 20, 2021
- Sunday, June 20, 2021
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", blame Israel, COVID-19, HRW, ken roth, New York Times, NGO silence, NYT, vaccination
An Israeli official, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak publicly, said that the initial batch of doses would expire at the start of July and said that would give enough time for Palestinian health workers to administer them.The official added that the authority had been aware of the vaccines’ expiry date before agreeing to their delivery, and said the authority had scrapped the deal only because it had been criticized by Palestinians for agreeing to receive vaccines perceived to be of poor quality.The official also said that none of the remaining doses would have been delivered less than two weeks before their expiry date.
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
- Tuesday, June 15, 2021
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", Al-Aqsa Mosque, antisemitism, Day of Rage, intolerance, jew hatred, new york city, storming Al-Aqsa, Temple Mount
Sunday, May 30, 2021
- Sunday, May 30, 2021
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", Al Qassam Brigades, family values, gaslighting, gaza, Hamada Alareer, hamas, kill jews, New York Times, NYT, op-ed, Operation Guardian of the Walls, Refaat Alareer, supporting terror
In 2014, during the last war, Israel killed my brother Hamada; it destroyed my apartment when it brought down the family home that housed 40 people. It killed my wife’s grandfather, her brother, her sister and her sister’s three kids.
I just gave $64 to Friends of the IDF, one dollar for every kid in the @nytimes front page that (despite denials) paints Israel as a child killing entity.The IDF does more to save children's lives on BOTH sides than any media, NGO or "pro-Palestinian" group ever has - or will.
My point, which was clear, is that the IDF saves more Gaza kids' lives while defending Israeli kids than the New York Times, or PCHR, or Amnesty, or any of the others whodemonize Israel - combined.
Monday, May 24, 2021
- Monday, May 24, 2021
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", Al Awada, antisemitism, jew hatred, Joseph Borgen, media silence, NYPD Hate Crimes, Peter Beinart, Samidoun, The Palestine Freedom Fund, Waseem Awawdeh
⚠️Thursday May 20th, approx. 6:44 PM, at 1604 Broadway, a male, 29, wearing a yarmulke, was assaulted by a group of males who, knocked him down, punched, kicked and pepper sprayed him and hit him with crutches, while making anti-Semitic statements. Know them? ☎️1-800-577-TIPS pic.twitter.com/NDgmJ79MHt
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) May 22, 2021
The Palestine Freedom Fund works to support bail and legal expenses for Palestinian organizers, activists for Palestine and community members targeted for persecution.As a first initiative, we are fundraising for bail/legal support funds for Palestinian youth arrested at New York City demonstrations for Palestine on Thursday, May 20, 2021.
Monday, May 03, 2021
- Monday, May 03, 2021
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", apartheid lies, BDS, boycott, pinkwashing, Sheik Jarrah, SJW, women's rights
Expose Israeli Apartheid:Targeted Sanctions [against Israel]Apartheid Free Zones in your community "as spaces free of racism, sexism, discrimination"Corporate Complicity (pressure on companies with branches in Israel)Racial and Indigenous Justice: Support Indigenous-led and Black-led struggles for racial justice...Environmental and climate justiceWomen’s struggles: "justice in Palestine is a feminist issue"Ethical City Councils: "Promote an intersectional motion in your local council..."Faith Communities & Tourism: "respect the Palestinian call for ethical tourism/pilgrimage."Cultural Boycott of IsraelAcademic Boycott of IsraelStudent Activism: Organize intersectional campaigns...Sports Boycott: Join the global campaign to boycott Puma...LGBTQI+ Rights: "Unmask and counter Israel’s agenda of pinkwashing..."Donate to BDS: BDS needs support from people of conscience everywhere...
Sunday, May 02, 2021
- Sunday, May 02, 2021
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", Fakhri Abu Diab, hyperbole, IMEMC, International Middle East Media Center, NGO lies, PalArab lies, Palestinian propaganda, Sheik Jarrah
Israel is planning to build and establish more than 540 colonialist units in the area, and is currently building 54 units, in addition to the ongoing efforts to link them with the Police Command in Sheikh Jarrah and the French Hill settlement in addition to the Hebrew University, as part of the so-called “Jerusalem Belt” colonialist plan linking the colonies with different Palestinian areas in al-‘Isawiya, Rad al-‘Amoud, Wadi ar-Rababa and many other areas, and aim at connecting East Jerusalem with West Jerusalem with this belt of illegal colonies after displacing the indigenous Palestinians.The Israeli colonialist plan, which is intended to be implemented in phases through many years, was put forth by the government, the Jerusalem City council, the Israel Antiquities Authority and various colonialist organizations in Israel and other counties [sic], and has a budget of 537 Billion Israeli Shekels.
Thursday, April 22, 2021
- Thursday, April 22, 2021
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", cartoon of the day, humor
Monday, March 08, 2021
- Monday, March 08, 2021
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", family values, gender equality, honor killing, Hypocrisy, International Women's Day, Islamic values, NGO silence, violence against women
- 35% of Palestinian men say that men who kill their female relatives for "honor" reasons should not go to jail.
- 47% of Palestinian men say that female relatives who "act or dress" in ways that they disapprove deserve to be punished.
- 17% of Palestinian men admitted to have engaged in physical violence against their female partners, 21% of women say they have been hit by their husbands.
- 80% of Palestinian men say "A man should have the final word about decisions in the home."
- 34% of them say "There are times when a woman deserves to be beaten."
- 63% of men say "A woman should tolerate violence to keep the family together."
Thursday, February 18, 2021
- Thursday, February 18, 2021
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", blame Israel, COVID-19, nepotism, NGO lies, NGO silence, PalArab lies, Palestinian Authority
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
- Wednesday, February 10, 2021
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", Abraham Accords, anti-Israel, Embassy, ICC, Jerusalem, normalization, Noura Erakat, op-ed, Palestinian Authority, Rutgers, zero-sum
From the start, the "pro-Palestinian" movement has not been pro-Palestinian at all. It has been anti-Israel. And its supporters, no matter how educated or articulate, are so consumed with hate for the Jewish state that they literally cannot tell the difference between the two concepts.
Noura Erakat, the "human rights attorney" and assistant professor at Rutgers University, wrote an op-ed for NBC News that crystallizes this basic fact - and thereby reveals a major reason why the Palestinians have remained stuck in limbo for so long.
Notwithstanding several early steps that distinguish him from his predecessor, President Joe Biden promises to continue [Trump’s] legacy. It’s true that the new administration intends to reinstate critical U.S. humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugees and will reopen the PLO mission office in Washington, D.C. Just Monday, it announced that it will rejoin the U.N. Human Rights Council, from which the Trump administration withdrew mostly in protest of its scrutiny of Israel.
But none of these policies, welcome though they are, will challenge the oppressive status quo sustained by the United States. Worse still, the Biden administration will uphold several of the Trump administration’s most damning precedents.
These examples are most revealing:
The new secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has made clear that the administration will not move the U.S. Embassy from Jerusalem back to Tel Aviv; it will maintain, and celebrate, Israel’s normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan without ensuring a single enduring concession for the Palestinians; and it will continue to provide Israel with unconditional military support in the amount of $3.8 billion annually — a precedent established by Biden’s former boss, President Barack Obama.
Late last week, the Biden administration also expressed “serious concerns” over the International Criminal Court’s effort to exercise jurisdiction over Israeli officials to prosecute them for war crimes, and is even considering maintaining the Trump administration’s sanctions on the court’s leading personnel.
She brings three examples of what she considers anti-Palestinian policies: keeping the embassy in Jerusalem, supporting peace between Israel and Arab states, and maintaining military aid that gets spent in the US.
None of these policies hurt Palestinians. None of them affect Palestinian lives at all, except for Gaza terrorists who want to murder Israeli civilians with rockets. None of them are speedbumps towards a Palestinian state.
They do support Israel as a sovereign nation – which this “human rights lawyer” considers “damning.”
The rest of the article is more of the same, complaining that a definition of antisemitism that includes demonizing the Jewish state’s very existence is somehow anti-Palestinian.
Erakat is so filled with hate for Israel that she literally cannot tell the difference between “pro-Israel” and “anti-Palestinian,” nor the difference between “pro-Palestinian” and “anti-Israel.” She fully subscribes to a zero-sum mentality that what is good for Israel is automatically bad for Palestinians – and, worse, that nothing can be considered good for Palestinians unless it is also bad for Israel.
The UAE and Bahrain (and to an extent Morocco and Sudan) have abandoned the zero-sum mentality. No one can call them “anti-Palestinian” although the Gulf Arabs are justifiably critical of the current Palestinian leaderships. They see Israel not as an enemy but as a partner that can help them thrive; not as a open Jewish wound in the Arab Middle East but as a permanent feature that improves the region and that can lift up Arab states. Instead of zero-sum, they seek a win-win. The zero-sum mentality that they maintained for so many decades did not help them – or the Palestinians – one bit.
The zero-sum mindset is childish and counterproductive. If there is one lasting change from the Abraham Accords, it is that this puerile way of thinking is finally on the wane in the Middle East.
As long as the Palestinians – including their Western “defenders” – cannot grasp that basic concept, they will never get anywhere.
Monday, October 19, 2020
- Monday, October 19, 2020
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", Carlos Latuff, media silence, NGO silence, tsunami of lies, work accident
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
- Wednesday, October 14, 2020
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", gaza, Islamic Jihad, media silence, NGO silence, Palestinian society, PIJ
Friday, October 02, 2020
- Friday, October 02, 2020
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", 2006, blame Israel, dictatorship, elections, media silence, Mike Pompeo, Munir al-Jaghoub, Palestinian Authority, PLO
Thursday, October 01, 2020
- Thursday, October 01, 2020
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", 2014, Abu Mazen, gaza, Mahmoud Abbas, media bias, media silence, NGO silence, Operation Protective Edge, reconstruction, UN, United Nations
Sunday, September 27, 2020
- Sunday, September 27, 2020
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", Abraham Accords, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, anti-Zionist not antisemitic, AOC, far left, impossible peace, Jewish State, Peace Now, Yitzak Rabin
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
- Wednesday, September 16, 2020
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", 1970s, anti-normalization, blame Israel, Can't have nice things, Christian Science Monitor, Egypt, Libya, PLO, refugees, Syria, unrwa
Numerous efforts have been made to resettle [Palestinian] refugees, but all have failed. In 1950, long before the territories came under Israeli control, UNRWA suggested moving 150,000 of them to Libya, but Egypt objected. In 1951, UNRWA vetoed a plan to move 50,000 Palestinian refugees from the Gaza Strip to Northern Sinai when Egypt refused permission to use the Nile waters to irrigate proposed agricultural settlements. In 1952, Syria rejected UNRWA's initiative to resettle 85,000 refugees in camps in that country. In 1959, UNRWA reported that of the $250 million fund for rehabilitation created in 1950 to provide homes and jobs for the refugees outside of the camps, only $7 million had been spent.In the early 1970s, Israel initiated what it called the "build your own home" program. A half a dunam of land outside the camps (equal to about an eighth of an acre) was given to Palestinians who then financed the purchase of building materials and, usually with friends, erected a home. Israel provided the infrastructure: sewers, schools, etc. More than 11,000 camp dwellers were resettled into 10 different neighborhoods before the PLO, using intimidation tactics, ended the program.Israeli authorities say that if people were able to stand up to the PLO and if it had the funds to invest in the infrastructure, within eight years every camp resident could own a single-dwelling home in a clean and uncongested neighborhood.
Friday, September 04, 2020
- Friday, September 04, 2020
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", Ahlam Tamimi, Ashrawi, glorifying terror, Jordan, Leila Khaled, PFLP, Rasmea Odeh, Rina Shnerb, Sbarro Pizza, SFSU, supporting terror, terror victims
Palestinian women have also participated in the resistance. As the conflict grew more intense and young men were recruited to carry out military operations against Israeli targets, several young women also decided to join the ranks of the resistance movement. In January 2002, 28-year-old nurse Wafa Idrees, detonated a bomb in Jerusalem’s Jaffa Street, killing one Israeli and injuring 150 others. She was also killed in the blast.This marked the beginning of a string of Palestinian women dedicated to sacrificing their lives for the cause. Over the next two years, seven other women carried out similar operations, the most deadly of which was carried out by Hanadi Jaradat, a 29-year-old attorney from Jenin. Hanadi detonated explosives strapped to her body in a busy Haifa restaurant, killing 19 Israelis and injuring 50 others.