Britain Needs To Apologize To The Jews for What They Did During The Mandate, More Than To The Arabs (Tomer Ilan)

By Tomer Ilan   Recently, there’s a wave of demands from Palestinian Arabs to the United Kingdom to apologize for alleged abuses during the British Mandate period. Munib al-Masri, a rich Palestinian businessman submitted a dossier of evidence alleging abuses by the British between 1917 and 1948. Masri is planning to present the file to the UK government later this...

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Tomer Ilan gets results! Business Insider fixes claim that Al Qaeda never attacked Israel

Business Insider wrote an article about  Israel's assassination of an Al Qaeda official in Tehran. Originally it said:EoZ contributor Tomer Ilan noticed the highlighted statement - it is incorrect.He wrote to BI informing them that Al Qaeda did attack Israelis with a 2008 attack on the Israeli embassy in Mauritania and 2002 Mombasa attacks against...

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Contrary to Some Academics’ Claims, the UN does NOT Legitimize Terrorism (Tomer Ilan)

By Tomer Ilan Some of Israel’s opponents justify Palestinian terrorism by claiming that “Palestinians have a legal right to armed struggle”. Supporters of terrorism often cite Resolution 3314 passed by the UNGA in 1974, adopting the Definition of Aggression Article 7: “Nothing in this Definition, and in particular article 3, could in any way prejudice the right to self-determination, freedom and independence, as derived from the Charter, of peoples...

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How English Wikipedia Parrots the Arab Narrative of 1948 (Tomer Ilan)

Guest post by Tomer Ilan: Wikipedia is an extremely powerful tool that has a huge influence on billions of people. It is the 4th most popular website (excluding China) with 18 billion page views per month. For many, it is the only encyclopedia they ever use and the main or sole source of information. Although Wikipedia operates in 285 different languages, English Wikipedia is the most influential, by far. On top of the huge...

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The Myth that “Israel Created HAMAS” (Tomer Ilan)

From Tomer Ilan: Lately, HAMAS has been facing allegations of brutal oppression, arbitrary arrest and torture against their own people even from anti-Israel NGOs such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. When faced with these allegations, Israel-haters’ turn to one of their favorite conspiracy theories - “Israel created HAMAS” – and try to use it blame Israel for HAMAS wrongdoings. This theory is pushed by the PLO, blaming Israel...

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Road 4370 is not an "apartheid road" - Palestinians (with permits) can use both roads as can Israelis (Tomer Ilan)

From Tomer Ilan: Road 4370 was opened last week east of Jerusalem. Many news outlets have called it an "apartheid road" including Haaretz. Times of Israel and Ynetnews have also misreported it, as did many international news outlets. JNS has debunked the apartheid accusation but incorrectly states that the road "separates vehicles of Israeli...

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Johannesburg agrees to name a street after PFLP terrorist Leila Khaled

From the Sandton (South Africa) Chronicle: The Joburg City Council on 29 November adopted a motion to rename Sandton Drive after Leila Khaled. Martin Williams, Ward 90 councillor, posted a statement on the Ward 90 Facebook group that read, “… The DA were outnumbered when the EFF and ANC voted together. “As an affected ward councillor, I undertake to ensure adherence...

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Pallywood in Middle East Monitor

From Middle East Monitor: Israel settlers dump sewage on Palestinian school in Qalqiliya Israeli settlers dumped their sewage on a Palestinian school in the northern occupied West Bank district of Qalqilia yesterday. The Azzun Beit Amin School playground was flooded with sewage for the second time in two months as a result of the settlers’ actions. Principal Alaa Marabeh...

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