Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: Balfour

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Monday, April 10, 2023

A short catalogue of Arab intolerance of Jews in Palestine before both Zionism and the Balfour Declaration

I have recently seen this article used as proof that Muslims, Christians and Jews celebrated each others' holidays in Jerusalem before Zionism:The Jawhariyyeh diaries invite the reader to share a world of ceremonial syncretism and cultural hybridity that is difficult to trace in today‘s prevailing atmosphere of ethnic exclusivity and religious fundamentalism. It was a pre-nationalist...

Encyclopedia Britannica, 1902, recognized that Zionism was a historic part of Judaism

From the 1902 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica:Less than a decade after the term was coined, the writer - Lucien Wolf - recognized clearly that modern Zionism was a direct "lineal heir" to the longtime Jewish attachment to the Land of Israel since the Jewish nation's first exile.Today's scholars find such an idea anathema, because it would mean that the Jews have a historic...

11/12 Links: Lapid slams UN after pro-PLO measure advances, calls move 'prize for terrorist organizations'; To anti-Zionists, Ben Gvir is not a problem, he is an opportunity

From Ian: Lapid slams UN, calls pro-Palestinian vote 'prize for terrorist organizations' Israel lambasted the United Nations on Saturday after a key committee approved a draft resolution Friday calling on the International Court of Justice to urgently issue its opinion on the legal consequences of supposedly denying the Palestinian people the right to self-determination as...

11/07 Links Pt1: The Palestinian rejection of Israel’s right to exist; Netanyahu victory paves way for Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine; Lies and unapologetic antisemitism from the UN CoI.

From Ian: PMW: The Palestinian rejection of Israel’s right to exist The Palestinian objection to the 1917 Balfour Declaration is one of the most explicit expressions of the Palestinian rejection of Israel’s right to exist. This year, as in previous years, the Palestinian Authority and its leaders marked the historical event with a barrage of statements condemning the declaration,...

11/02 Links Pt2: The Holocaust Is Not Your Metaphor; The Balfour bogeyman; AOC’s ‘obsession’ with Israel is ‘shameful’; LA Council Passes IHRA Definition of Antisemitism

From Ian: The Stories She Never Told My mother loved to talk politics, real estate, and cooking. She’d happily offer intelligent insights on nearly any subject except one: her own life. With stops in prewar Hungary, Auschwitz, the Sorbonne, Mexico, and finally Manhattan, my mother’s life was extraordinary, but she kept it to herself. I hated that, but I knew why. So tender-hearted...

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,...

Scratch Palestinian history, reveal antisemitism

The PLO tweeted:As with everything else in Palestinian history, look beneath the surface and find antisemitism.The Catholic Advance wrote about this conference:Moslems and Christians - but no Jews. The Palestinians claim that Jews at the time were an equal minority but Jews were not invited to supposedly Palestinian nationalist conferences.And notice that the resolutions are...

Nazi-level Jew-hate in Jordanian news site op-ed

Sawaleif is a Jordanian news site. It isn't hugely popular but it has over 30,000 Facebook followers and covers mainstream news, if a bit tabloid-like. And, like many Jordanian news sites, it expresses antisemitism frequently and shamelessly.But this op-ed by Bassam Al Yassin, published Monday, hits Der Stürmer levels.Jordanians hate Jews the mostThe Jew is the epitome...

A crazed - and typical - Arab history of Zionism

This is very, very typical and mainstream Palestinian fantasy of history and the Israeli Jewish mindset. From Sawalief (Jordan):Giving from those who do not own to those who do not deserve the Balfour Promise , the British Foreign Minister in 1917 AD sought to rid Britain of the evil, malice and deceit of the Jews by establishing a home for them away from Europe...

The UN Commission of Inquiry says Israel's legal basis is UNGA 181. That is not true at all. (But they are lying for an anti-Israel reason.)

UN investigator Miloon Kothari gave a half-hearted, obviously insincere apology for his statements from over a week ago that the "Jewish lobby" controlled social media and his questioning of Israel's legality altogether, saying "I would go as far as to raise the question as why are they [Israel] even a member of the United Nations." His response to that was, I also...

Herzl, Uganda and the "First" Balfour Declaration (Daled Amos)

History records that Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, came before the Sixth Zionist Congress on August 26, 1903, and presented the "Uganda Plan," suggesting that Jews accept a place other than then-Palestine as their national home. It was voted down. Not surprisingly, there is more to the story. Theodor Herzl; photo by Carl Pietzer. Public domain In his...

Zionist Jews created modern Israel, not Balfour

The Balfour Declaration was in important document symbolically, but it was merely a step on the way of modern Jewish self-determination. It was preceded and succeeded by some amazing Zionist diplomatic accomplishments in the international arena. (The Martin Kramer essay from June is a must-read.) When Great Britain essentially abrogated the intent of Balfour (and the League of Nations) with the Peel Commission and the White Paper, the Zionist Jews...

Independent's Donald Macintyre writes the dumbest Balfour article yet - for Haaretz

Haaretz, apparently thinking it cannot find enough Israel haters on its staff, has a guest op-ed from Donald Macintyre who used to cover Gaza for The Independent: Mahmoud al-Bahtiti, who has been fixing car and truck engines in Gaza City for the past 50 years didn’t vote in the 2006 Palestinian elections because he trusted neither Fatah nor Hamas. But on Britain,...