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Friday, July 14, 2023

Abbas' visit to Jenin was either a success or a failure, depending on which media you read

On Wednesday, PA president Mahmoud Abbas visited Jenin for the first time in over a decade.The visit was widely viewed as a belated attempt to assert that the PA is in control of the area, which no one really believes.Hamas media says:During his visit to Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, the President of the Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, showed disregard for meeting popular...

Pointing out the hypocrisy of Muslims celebrating the murder of three IDF soldiers

Edy Cohen is an Israeli that Arabs love to hate.An expert on Arab affairs, he tweets acerbic Arabic points to his large (half-million strong) Arab audience, who are offended but can't resist reading what he has to say next. He makes Israel's case in the Arab world in a straightforward, non-apologetic manner.This weekend he tweeted about the murder of three Israeli soldiers...

Arabic language media deliberately hiding the truth of the PFLP-GC "work accident" that killed 5

This morning, there was a large explosion in a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command location in the Bekaa region in southern Lebanon, near the Syrian border.The PFLP-GC immediately issued a press release saying that this was an IDF airstrike.Arabic-language media spread the word about the Israeli aggreesion.Since then, two things happened:- The IDF...

It had to happen: Arab media links "Team Jorge" group to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Over the past week, there's been a blockbuster journalistic scoop revealing the existence of an Israeli hacking team that was influencing elections and other world events. The Guardian summarizes:A team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media has been exposed...

Palestinians vs. Uyghurs: The Arab world embracing China proves its antisemitism

This week, Chinese president Xi Jinping is in Saudi Arabia for a Saudi-Chinese summit, a China-Arab summit and a China-GCC summit. He met with 14 Arab leaders, including Mahmoud Abbas. I've seen some Western media urge the Arab leaders to bring up the persecution of Muslim Uyghurs with Xi. But the topic has been completely missing from Arabic language media...

9 protesters outside Jerusalem UK consulate against Balfour Declaration. 10 articles about them.

Today, a group of Palestinians protested outside the British Consulate in Jerusalem to mark the 105th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.They attempted to present a lengthy letter of protest, demanding an apology and compensation from the British. The consulate refused to accept the letter so they placed it on the grate of the front door.I count nine protesters.Sama News,...

Jordanian poll finds citizens are deeply unhappy with the government and their own neighbors - but they think Israel is the biggest threat

The Center for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan issued a survey of Jordanians this month, and the results are not good for the government.Only 33% trust the current government and think that it can assume its responsibilities. Only 29% are optimistic about the government, with 71% disagreeing. Only 17% have confidence in Parliament and 12% in political parties.80%...

Arabs still claiming to have won the Yom Kippur War

It's October, and Arab media are talking about their "victory" in the Yom Kippur War 49 years ago. There is no doubt that the beginning of the war was disastrous for Israel, and the repercussions of that failure were felt for years. But somehow the Arab media never mentions the position of the Israeli forces at the time of the final ceasefire:1. The IDF surrounded...

Jews' very existence is offensive to Jordanian antisemite columnist

Last week we exposed the Nazi-level antisemitism of Jordanian news site Sawaleif and its writer Bassem Yassin.He continues with that theme this week, where he discusses the Jordanian conspiracy theory that Jews intend to take over Petra in Jordan: “God’s Chosen” people believe that God did not create anyone but them, and that God gave us our necks to be their slaves,...

Data point: Palestinian media calls terror victims "settlers," Arab media calls them "Jews" (or "Israelis")

Palestinian media, whether Hamas or not, consistently refers to the victims of the terror attack in Jerusalem this past weekend as "settlers."The rest of the Arab world, however, has been referring to them as Jews or Israelis. This may seem like a minor matter, but up until recently the nomenclature would be consistent - the Arab world would follow how Palestinians spun...

Algerian newspaper fantasizes about five scenarios on how Israel can get destroyed

Algerian, Syrian and Iraqi newspapers have remained as resolutely antisemitic and anti-Israel over the years even as some other Arab countries have somewhat moderated their views.This article in Algeria's Echorouk Online is a fever dream on how Israel can get destroyed, which is sort of an obsession in Algeria (Morocco's normalization treaty with Israel is driving them insane.) The...

Arabs love Haaretz article saying Jews should go back into exile

Earlier this week, Haaretz published an op-ed by B. Michael which I still cannot tell if it is parody or not. Excerpts:I’m a proud exilic Jew. I’m an internationalist and a cosmopolitan. I’m also devoid of any relationship to my geographic birthplace, and “land” to me is just the dirt in which food grows and people are buried. It doesn’t have a single milligram of sanctity,...

Palestinians think Jewish holidays are just an excuse for Jews to make their lives difficult for no reason

There is a phrase that is seen often in Palestinian Arabic media, especially around this time of year: "Under the pretext of Jewish holidays."Ma'an wrote on Monday, "The Israeli occupation forces, on Monday evening, restricted Jerusalemites, especially those residing in and around the Old City, under the pretext of the Jewish holidays and to facilitate the settlers' storming...