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Monday, May 01, 2023

January 1920: Palestinian Arabs pledge to boycott Jews forever until either Zionism is eradicated - or until they all die

On January 16, 1920, prominent leaders of Nablus - both Muslim and Christian - met in a conference where they pledged, under oath:: (1) To boycott the Jews completely as n counter-measure against their covetous spirit toward this country. (2) To refuse them dwelling space in our district, and to binder their admittance thereto in every way. (3) To persevere In this...

For Once, the EU is Correct - Zionists Did Make the Desert Bloom (Tomer Ilan)

Guest post by Tomer Ilan:___________________________________________________How Zionists made the land bloom by eradicating malaria European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has come under attack from Israel-haters for saying the truth that Israel “literally made the desert bloom.” The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned her, calling her statement a “racist...

100 years ago: Mordecai Kaplan arguing for more traditional Judaism - in an interesting venue

I am not at all a fan of "Reconstructionist Judaism" and its founder Mordecai Kaplan. But he was a foe of Reform Judaism as well, and a hundred years ago he railed against it in a lecture in Brooklyn which has a lot of truth in it.From the Brooklyn Daily Times, November 28, 1922:KAPLAN SEES JEWS SEEKING NEW GODS "Let Us Not Become Too Worldly for Our Faith," Professor...

100 years ago or today? "Wave of prejudice against Jews and Negroes sweeping US"

From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, November 13, 1922:Then, as now, Jews and Blacks are the top targets of hate crimes.Then, as now, the hate is spread by propaganda - instead of traditional wartime propaganda, it is social media Right vs. Left propaganda.Then, as now, Jews are discriminated against in college admissions - then because they weren't white enough, now because they...

Britain Needs To Apologize To The Jews for What They Did During The Mandate, More Than To The Arabs (Tomer Ilan)

By Tomer Ilan Recently, there’s a wave of demands from Palestinian Arabs to the United Kingdom to apologize for alleged abuses during the British Mandate period. Munib al-Masri, a rich Palestinian businessman submitted a dossier of evidence alleging abuses by the British between 1917 and 1948. Masri is planning to present the file to the UK government later this...

100 years ago: When Harvard's president said that discrimination against Jews was GOOD for the Jews

In 1922, a Jew who graduated from harvard in 1900 wrote a letter to the president of the university Lawrence Lowell about newspaper reports that Harvard was limiting the number of Jews who would be accepted at the university.Lowell's response was that limiting the number of Jews at universities was good for Jews.The logic is convoluted and recognized at the time as being absurd,...

100 years ago: New York Jews fined for working on Sundays

The newspapers in Brooklyn in 1922, when reporting on all of the court cases, listed quite a few violations of the "Sabbath Laws," where it was forbidden to keep businesses open on Sunday.And a large percentage of the people fined were Jews.This happened throughout the decade; here's an article from 1925.Like some speed traps today, it looks like this was used as a revenue...

100 years of the antisemitic boycott movement

(From a Twitter thread)thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="elderofziyon" data-tweet="1548815225536790528" dir="auto" id="tweet_1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-top: 20px;">BDS in 1922.The American Israelite,...

Defending Israel's claim to Judea and Samaria in the House of Lords, 1994

Peter Thomas, known as Baron Thomas of Gwydir, was a British Conservative politician. He was the first Welshman to become Chairman of the Conservative Party, serving from 1970 to 1972, and the first Conservative to serve as Secretary of State for Wales, holding that office from 1970 to 1974This is the transcript of an address he made at the House of Lords on March 28, 1994:My...