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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

EoZTV: #HasbyAwards Part 10: Father Naddaf and Leora Eisenberg

The final section of the Hasby Awards.

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EoZTV: Hasby Awards part 7: Best Satire (plus The Speech That Wasn't Given)

In this part, Not Anti-Semitic presents the award for Best Satire to our own PreOccupied Territory.

PreOccupied Territory's David did not get a chance to say everything he wanted to, so he sent me the speech he wanted to give:

Thank you. Wow. Thank you, Elder.

(Pause, turn)

If that is your real name.

(Look around).

Nice echo chamber you've got here. Is that Ben Rhodes there in the back?

No, PreOccupied Territory is not my real name. My name is David.

There is a whole list of people to thank for making this award possible, but we'll get to them by and by. We run the risk of running overtime on the acceptance speech and having the network pan the cameras away and turn the microphones off, but that's acceptable collateral damage. First I want to share with you a few of my favorite moments from the last couple of years doing this.

The first one is about two years ago, when a prominent Swedish politician tweeted an article of mine thinking it was serious, and then deleted the tweet. I have to give a shoutout to an Israellycool contributor named Judge Dan for that one, since he suggested the premise of the article: that Israel had issued a travel advisory for Sweden and other countries that had seen some terrorism. Former Prime Minister, and until a few months prior, Foreign Minister, Carl Bildt took it at face value, calling the advisory "a bit of an overreaction." But not as much of an overreaction as hastily deleting an embarrassing tweet that was screen-captured by a bunch of people and soon turned into a Times of Israel news story. That was fun.

Then there's the similar phenomenon of Palestinians and their supporters not getting the irony. I watch the number of Likes the page attracts on Facebook after a particularly successful post, such as the one about UNESCO declaring the World Trade Center an Islamic Heritage Site because thirteen Muslims were martyred on the planes that crashed there on 9/11. I could almost hear the cries of, "Yeah!" "That's right!" "Finally they get it!" as the number of shares spiked and I got a few more followers. They never last, but it's fun to watch how long it takes for the penny to drop, those folks to realize they're being mocked, and the count to go down again.

The last couple of moments happened right here. One was when I introduced myself to someone as the clown behind PreOccupied Territory, and he soon told me his favorite article - which also happens to be a favorite of mine: Two-State Solution Coffin Now Made Entirely Of Nails. I wrote that more than two years ago, and it was so gratifying to have someone else remember it.

The other was not a single moment, but the collective reactions from so many of you here, offering praise, acknowledgement, and various forms of encouragement. It can be a slog. I enjoy the creative process most of the time, and I push myself to come up with ten or eleven separate stories every week. But while I remember every single one of my successes, the duds far outnumber the hits - and it's especially frustrating to have something I pour my heart and soul into be relegated to obscurity. Two retweets. A couple of Facebook Likes. Then oblivion. So to come here and have my work be acknowledged, and appreciated by people who do seem to make a difference does wonders for my morale.

Of course I do what I consider my best work when awful thing are happening, so is that a good development?

But on to the thank-yous. There's a short list of people who deserve mention here, and it's not only them, but they also serve as stand-ins for all the people associated with them, who are also part of the story. I'll cite three of them by name and thus conclude.

Max Blumenthal, Ali Abunimah, and Richard Silverstein, thank you. Without you, what I do would not be nearly as necessary, possible, or as much fun.

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EoZTV: Hasby Awards Part 6: Best Watchdog

As we resume our posting of each of the speeches given at the Hasby Awards on July 3....

Radio host Yishai Fleisher speaks about UNESCO as the "legitimate arm of jihad" and introduces NGO Monitor as the winner of Best Watchdog. Shaun Sacks of NGO Monitor speaks about his journey from the IDF to help fight the haters of Israel and he mentions how effective his organization has been recently.

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EoZTV: #HasbyAwards part 5: Eugene Kontorovich presents Best Commentator award to Evelyn Gordon

World renowned legal expert Eugene Kontorovich starts with a comedy routine about the Hasbys and the Elders' superhero identities, but then talks about how the anti-Israel narrative is meant not to be descriptive but self-fulfilling and how people like Evelyn Gordon effectively fight the propaganda.

Evelyn talks about the importance of restating the obvious, over and over again, and how hasbara also helps even pro-Israel activists.

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#HasbyAwards part 3: Hen Mazzig (StandWithUs) presents "Best Activist Organization" to My Truth

As we continue to show the great talks that the presenters and awardees gave at the Hasby Awards, here is Hen Mazzig of StandWithUs talking about his experiences speaking to college campuses. He presents the Best Activist Organization Hasby award to Elan Miller of MyTruth, which counters the lies of Breaking the Silence.

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EoZTV: Hasby Awards, part 1: Yisrael Medad and Kay Wilson

Here is Part 1 of last night's Hasby Awards ceremony in Jerusalem at Honest Reporting's rooftop venue. I welcome the crowd and introduce Yisrael Medad, who then hands the Best Article award to Kay Wilson.

Medad speaks about the importance of unifying disparate pro-Israel voices and then comments on Kay's award-winning article, saying that it is appropriate to be enraged at the outrageous and that lesson seems to be lost.

Kay refers to her harrowing experience of almost being killed by terrorists, but ultimately gives an uplifting message to the community.

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Hasby Award winner for Best Celebrity Tweeter

And the winner, in a close race, is...

(drumroll)

Mayim Bialik

Mayim Bialik is one of the stars in the Big Bang Theory and a very proud, religious Jew. She is an unapologetic supporter of Israel although it is not a major part of her Twitter feed. But this was a voters' choice award and she won, edging out Roseanne Barr.

Mazel tov!

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Hasby Award voting: Best Celebrity Tweeter for Israel

The Hasby Award for Best Celebrity Tweeter will be decided by popular vote only; I will not pick a winner.

During the week I hope to knock off most of the other categories as well. it is March, after all...

The nominees are:

Roseanne Barr
Josh Malina

Jenna Jameson

Mayim Bialik

Jon Voight

Here is where you can vote.

...

Who was the best celebrity pro-Israel tweeter in 2015?

Voting will end on Saturday night.

Hasby Award - Best Humor/Satire

The winner for the Best Humor/Satire site Hasby award is....

Vote for Best Satire/Humor Hasby Award!

The nominees for Hasby Award for Best Satire/Humor 2016 are:

PreOccupied Territory

Mideast Beast

Daily Freier

This Is Palestine
Judge Dan

survey service

Voting open until Sunday.

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Hasby Awards voting: Best Own Goal

For Super Bowl Sunday (please don't sue me NFL), what could be more appropriate than to open the voting for the Best Own Goal Hasy Award, given to the best example of an anti-Israel idiot making an even greater fool of him or herself.

The nominees are:

BDS fail for Matisyahu in Spain

Marsha Levine, horse expert

Roger Waters, Lifetime Achievement

William Schabas quits UNHRC commission

#AskHamas Twitter campaign

web survey

Voting will be allowed all week.

(Hopefully more polls will be coming soon, been busy...)

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Hasby Awards - Best Speech

The Hasby Award for Best Speech of 2015 goes to....

Vote for Hasby Award - Best Speech

The nominees for Best Speech Hasby award are:

The shocking words of this pro-Israel pastor

Bibi's UN speech - with 45 seconds of "deafening silence"

Matti Friedman's speech to BICOM dinner

Mayor Giuliani's speech at Iranian American Community of Arizona event

Ron Dermer at Israel Bonds event

Marco Rubio Speech on Obama's Assault on Israel
The Reason I'm an Israeli-Arab Diplomat Not a Palestinian Refugee - George Deek
Col. (ret.) Richard Kemp "The Amoral Revolution in Western Values, and its impact on Israel" (text)

Vote by Saturday night, January 30.

polls

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2016 Hasby Award Winners - Best Article

The Hasby Award for best article of 2015 goes to...

Vote for Best Video Hasby Award

The nominations for the Best Pro-Israel Video Hasby Awards are:

BEST PRO-ISRAEL VIDEO

"Why do you hate Israel?"

Israel: The world's most moral army

Lucy Aharish on the stabbing intifada

A special kind of hate (Pat Condell)

Top Ten Reasons Why Every Liberal Should Support Israel
Beyond Deception Strategy - Pierre Rehov
War Crimes in Gaza - Pierre Rehov

Bill Whittle: Terrorist Nation
Israel's Legal Founding - Alan Dershowitz
Who is Guilty of War Crimes in the Gaza War? - JCPA
KillStarter – Crowdfunding Iranian Terror (Shurat HaDin)
This Is how the Palestinians Raise their Children
Anti Israel Media Bias Much?

survey solution

The poll will close on Wednesday night.

The Hasby Award for Best Pro-Israel Article is being opened up for popular votes.

The nominees for Best Article are:

A Letter To Palestinian Supporters Tempted To Co-Opt Native American Struggles, Ryan Bellerose

It’s Not An Argument, Ryan Bellerose

History Matters ,Ryan Bellerose

Why I Am Pro-Palestinian Ryan Bellerose

The Palestinian Theft of Jewish Identity, Binyamin Arazi

The Rage Less Traveled, Kay Wilson

Calling BS on BDS - Apartheid Law vs. Israeli Law, Judean People's Front

The Biggest Mistakes Pro-Israel Advocates Make, series (Lex)

Is Israel a democracy? (Vic Rosenthal)

online polls

(I mistakenly placed a Barry Shaw book on this Articles list, please so not vote for that yet.)

Poll will close on Wednesday evening.

Hasby Award Winners - Best Young Defender of Israel

For the Best Young Defender of Israel award, I am awarding both the regular Hasby award and a Popular Vote award.

The winner of the Best Young Defender of Israel for 2016 is:

Vote for Hasby Award - Best Young Defender of Israel!

For this year's Hasby Awards, celebrating the best examples of pro-Israel advocacy of the year, we will have some categories voted on by EoZ readers.

The first category to be voted on is Best Young Defender of Israel. There are a lot of great nominees here, many of whom I was not previously familiar. Please check out these nominees' work and vote for the best based on their work in 2015, and follow them on their social media accounts.

Chloe Valdary

Daniel Mael

Sarah Bernamoff

Leora Noor Eisenberg

Alexandra Markus (Lex)

Emanuel Miller

Shay Alfasi

Voting will close on Sunday, January 17.

(Ryan Bellerose, Tomer Kornfeld and Kasim Hafeez requested to be withdrawn from the voting.)

web surveys

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