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Thursday, August 10, 2023

The new wave of terror may be hurting the Palestinian economy

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics published its labor report for the second quarter, and it shows that the number of Palestinians working in Israel and the settlements increased to 164,000 from 153,000 in the first quarter.However, this is not the highest number for Palestinians working for Israelis. It reversed a year-long trend of fewer Palestinians working for...

Gazans die in boat disaster off Tunisia. Guess who Hamas blames?

In October, at least eight Palestinians died when their the boat they were on to try to enter Europe sank off the coast of Tunisia.Their bodies were returned to Gaza over the weekend and their funerals were held.Hazem Qassem, a spokesman for the Hamas movement, said, "We mourn the martyrs of the siege who were killed off the Tunisian coast, and we extend our sincere...

Survey shows antisemitism is widespread in the workplace, Jews are less likely to be hired

ResumeBuilders commissioned a survey of antisemitic attitudes of hiring managers and recruiters in the United States, and the results show that discrimination against Jews in the workplace is far more widespread than has been reported.Nearly one third of the respondents, 32%, said antisemitism is "common" or "very common" at their workplaces.Over a quarter of them, 26%, say...

The best insurance against a third intifada: 19% of Palestinian labor market employed by Israelis

The second quarter Palestinian labor statistics show that there are 903,000 Palestinians working in the West Bank and Gaza, 182,000 who work in Israel and 29,000 who work in the settlements.This means that 18.9% of Palestinians are employed directly by Israelis. This is, by far, the highest percentage of Palestinians working for Israelis in at least ten years, and possibly...

Jordanian Islamist party warns against Jordanians working in Eilat

The Islamic Action Front, the Jordanian political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, has warned of the "danger" of allowing hundreds of Jordanian youth to work in Eilat.They said that this normalization somehow poses a threat to Jordanian national security.The issued a statement that "rejects the attempts of the Zionist entity to infiltrate Jordanian society and pass the normalization...

Jordanian groups now try to get others to boycott jobs in Eilat

Ever notice how antisemitic boycotts are meant to make other people sacrifice things, but the organizers never have to do without anything important?Now, Jordanian antisemites are telling thousands of other Jordanians not to work in Israel, with good salaries and working conditions!The group "I Move to Support the Resistance and Counter Normalization" (these groups always...

The Sodastream irony

If you put together everything that every "pro-Palestinian "activist has ever done for actual, real Palestinians.... If you tally all the specific things that Omar Barghouti and Max Blumenthal and Philip Weiss and Ali Abuminah and Greta Berlin and Ben White and every single member of Free Gaza, Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada, the BDS Movement, Students for Justice in Palestine,...

More hypocrisy and lies from the BDS crowd. Pretty funny, actually.

Another day, another new initiative to boycott Israel: Activists are gearing up for a day of action on 9 February that will target Israeli agricultural export companies such as Mehadrin and Hadakalim over their role in Israeli settlements and the dispossession of Palestinian farmers. In a statement titled “Farming Injustice” released earlier this month, all major Palestinian agricultural organizations called for “the launching of worldwide campaigns...