The Turkish leader who banned Jews from the Kotel in 1915

The American Jewish Yearbook for 1916 described several events about the Kotel that year, all of which were ascribed to Djemal Pasha, the military governor of Syria (which included Palestine) at that time.JUNE 11 1915. Djemal Pasha examines reports of various Zionist congresses and other Zionist literature, and warns Jewish colonists that despite their success in the past...

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Joseph Massad, lying again, claims that Zionism never claimed to be about Jewish rights

Columbia professor Joseph Massad is very upset that Jews are claiming the right to self-determination. If Jews indeed have the right to self-determination, then opposing that really is a form of antisemitism, and antisemites like Massad cannot admit to that.His normal method is to claim that Jews aren't a people, and that most Jews do not originate in the Middle...

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A brief history of Arab boycotts of Jews. (Not Zionists - Jews.)

I'm seeing some people on Twitter ask why boycotting Israel is considered antisemitic.One reason is that history shows that these boycotts are just a continuation of the boycotts that Arabs enacted against Jews in the decades before Israel was reborn.Here is a list of boycott actions of Arabs against Jews - not Zionists, but Jews - between 1891 and 1945. 1891: Arabs request...

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