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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

FBI hate crimes statistics against Jews have just turned meaningless

From CBS News:The FBI released its 2021 hate crime statistics, but the data falls short of providing a complete picture of targeted violence in the U.S. Despite rising concerns about targeted violence and domestic terrorism, less than two-thirds of law enforcement agencies reported data on hate crimes to the FBI, last year, marking a significant drop-off. Agency participation...

Terror groups deliberately operated from vicinity of Gaza power plant

During the Gaza war in 2014, media reported that Israel bombed the Gaza power plant, multiple times. For example, this Daily Beast article said "on Tuesday {June 22], the Israelis hit the Gaza power plant." JJ Goldberg of The Forward also said, on June 23, that Israel bombed the power plant. And then, on July 29, many media outlets reported that Israel targeted and destroyed...

The Gaza target that Israel didn't hit

People are up in arms over Israel's largely symbolic airstrikes in northern Gaza yesterday - a reported 50 strikes that resulted in one minor injury. Amnesty, for example, tweeted: The IDF hit 50 separate locations in Gaza after 1 rocket was fired into #Israel. https://t.co/OaeP32pys5 — Amnesty Israel (@AmnestyIsrael) August 22, 2016 Most of the bombs, however, hit completely...

One of George Soros' grantees engages in Holocaust denial

A great catch from the Tayara Herzl blog based on a story I posted earlier: Holocaust-denying articles have been popping up on El Badil, an Egyptian news site. But, as Elder of Ziyon notes: Part one denies that Jews are a people altogether, claims that Ashkenazic Jews are Khazars, Part two says that the Jews use the myth of being called “the chosen people” to manipulate...

Macmillan geography textbook filled with anti-Israel lies: "Jews were first modern terrorists," Palestinian terror justified (updated)

Here are the first paragraphs of a section on terrorism written in the textbook World Regional Geography (with Subregions), 4th edition by Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher, Alex Pulsipher, and Conrad M. Goodwin, published by Macmillan: This section seems to be gone from the 6th edition. Seriously? The first modern terrorist attack in the Middle East was done by...

In a largely good article, the NYT can't resist throwing in some anti-Israel lies

Diaa Hadid in the New York Times has written some surprisingly good articles in recent weeks. Earlier this week she wrote one about how Israeli doctors, through the Save a Child's Heart program, saved the life of an Afghan boy in Pakistan with a heart defect. I've written about SACH in the past and even visited them. It is a great organization that is happy to help whenever...

Palestinians agree: they have little or no freedom of expression. What does this mean for the media and NGOs?

Here is another major finding from the recent JMCC poll I mentioned earlier also didn't get any attention in the media either. The survey asked, "There has been a debate recently on the issue of freedom of expression in the Palestinian society. In your opinion to what extent is the freedom of expression permissible in the PA-controlled territories?" The answers are telling....

Another Olympic-sized lie

Mondoweiss pretends to do some reporting: Last month we interviewed Mary al Atrash, a 22-year-old swimmer from Beit Sahour in the West Bank who was part of the largest delegation Palestine has ever sent to the Olympic Games. She told us about her difficulties to train in a swimming pool that does not match the Olympic standards, and explained that although she technically...

Do Palestinians ban athletes from training in Israel? Reuters seems to be saying that.

I continued my Twitter conversation with Reuters' Luke Baker about the Palestinian swimmer story. He said that I was wrong in my assertion that Reuters blamed Israel for her being unable to train in Jerusalem, because the actual Reuters quote said "Use of superior Israeli facilities and training partners in nearby Jerusalem where there are several Olympic-sized pools and...

Once again, Palestinian leaders try to start a religious war

Mahmoud Abbas has said many times, including in front of the EU, "I assure you that we are not in favor turning the political conflict into a religious conflict." Other PA officials parrot that line in English to Western audiences as well. In Arabic, things are a bit different. The entire "knife intifada" from last autumn was sparked by Abbas calling on his people to use...

World Vision defense of Hamas member rings hollow

As has been reported, Israel arrested a senior member of the Christian charity World Vision on charges of diverting tens of millions of dollars meant to help Gaza civilians towards Hamas terrorists. Israel has been careful so far not to blame World Vision itself, implying that the actions of Mohammad El Halabi were done without the knowledge of the organization. But World...

Reuters lies about Palestinian Olympics swimmer (corrected)

From Reuters: Palestinian swimmer Mary al-Atrash can't wait to make a splash at the Rio Olympics in August... The 22-year-old university graduate's preparations have been hampered because she does not have an Olympic-sized pool to train in. There are none in the Palestinian territories and she has to settle for a 25-meter pool. Use of superior Israeli facilities and training...

VIDEO: Palestinian father tells IDF soldiers to shoot his toddler son (UPDATES)

I put subtitles on this video that has been going around. I'm not sure when it was originally shot. It reveals the depths of immorality in parts of Palestinian Arab society as a father urges soldiers to kill his son, whom he is demanding to throw stones. The father clearly wants his son to be killed on video, with his Palestinian flag. He wants to create another Mohammed...

Mahmoud Abbas forges agreement with war criminal Omar al-Bashir

Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, is the only sitting head of state to be indicted by the International Criminal Court, on five counts of crimes against humanity (murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture and rape.) This week, the government of Mahmoud Abbas, in its weekly cabinet meeting, announced: The Council welcomed the agreement between Mr. President,...

Law professor Peter Margulies has written a detailed explanation, based on his own interviews with relevant Israeli officials, on the quality of IDF investigations of incidents that occur during war. He concludes that the IDF is doing quite a good job at maintaining the independence and quality of investigations, which is opposite of the constant charges hurled at Israel by...