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Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Because Tunisia complained, US State Department modifies post which implied Black Africans are indigenous

Last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave out the first annual Secretary’s Global Anti-Racism Champions Awards.  One of the awardees is Saadia Mosbah of Tunisia:Saadia Mosbah is a Tunisian activist who has dedicated her life to fighting racial discrimination and prejudice, as well as defending the rights of Black Tunisians.  In 2013, after several unsuccessful attempts...

Arabic article describes everyday antisemitism in Tunisian speech

Muslim and Jewish friends in shop in DjerbaRaseef22 is an Arabic language online magazine that centers on issues of human rights. Even a glance at its home page shows that it cares more deeply about real human rights in the Arab world than politicized Western NGOs do.It recently featured an article about how entrenched antisemitism is in how Tunisians speak - a topic that...

Tunisian researchers under attack for planning to attend Paris conference on Tunisian Jews

The Tunisian Jewish Historical Society (Paris) In collaboration with the French Center for Tunisian Judaism is sponsoring a conference in Paris next week, entitled "The Jews and the law in Tunisia From protectorate to independence (1881-1956) - Between historical progress and religious resilience."Some Tunisian researchers will be attending - but they are trying to hide their...

Saudi, Tunisia, Sudanese and Somali delegates meet in Israel for security conference

From i24 News:More than 20 guests from different Arab Gulf and African countries arrived in Israel on Wednesday for a historic visit to Jerusalem, where they will discuss a range of issues that pertain to regional links with the Jewish state. Among these guests, some of whom were from countries with which Israel does not have diplomatic relations, were representatives...

Increased harassment of Jewish merchants in Djerba, Tunisia

Edy Cohen writes in Israel Today:Tunisian Jews are again in the eye of the storm. The arrest of a local Jewish merchant has shaken the peace of the island community of Djerba that dates back to the times of King David.Today there are only about a thousand Jews left in Djerba, a quiet Mediterranean island just off the coast of Tunisia. There is almost no crime or politics on...

Will Tunisia withdraw from "African Lion" exercises because of Israeli participation?

From the US Army website:African Lion 2023 is U.S. Africa Command's largest, premier, joint, annual exercise hosted by Morocco, Djibouti, Ghana, Senegal and Tunisia, between May 15 and July 18, 2023. More than 10,000 participants from 20 nations and NATO train together with a focus on enhancing readiness for U.S. and partner nation forces. AL23 is a joint all-domain, multi-component,...

Arab people still overwhelmingly oppose recognizing Israel, but there is a silver lining

The Arab Opinion Index for 2022 has been released by the Doha Institute, and it shows that Arabs in the countries surveyed overwhelmingly oppose their countries recognizing Israel:Moroccans were the least opposed, but that is only 20% of those surveyed.Unfortunately, Bahrain and the UAE were not part of this survey.One other question where Israel is a prominent component was...

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...

A summary of the persecution of women in the Arab Middle East

Raseef22, a liberal Arab site with an English section, has a series of articles that describe how badly women are treated in Arab countries, today.Some excerpts.Do we have to be superheroes to be safe and protected? The answer is absolutely no. I'm not Superwoman, and I don't want to be her.I am an ordinary woman with simple dreams, like living in a safe world, and not being...

National Library of Tunisia stands up to antisemitic bigots

This week, The National Library of Tunisia sponsored an international symposium called "The Forgotten Languages of Tunisia," about works written by Tunisians in languages that are not widely studied in Tunisia nowadays, including Turkish, Berber, Hebrew and a flavor of Judeo-Arabic that is still spoken in Djerba.Because of the latter two languages, the symposium was interrupted...

Lebanese, Iraqis, Tunisians very upset when their leaders are reported in the same room as Israelis

The COP27 conference in Egypt has the usual comedy that we see at all major international conferences.Israeli delegates say that they met, or talked with, or were in the same room as Arab enemies, and the Arab delegates are forced to deny or downplay it, as best they can.In this case, as AP reports:Israel's environmental protection minister attended a regional meeting Tuesday...

11/08 Links Pt1: Israel Won’t Ever Be the Country of American Fantasies—Nor Should It Aspire to Be; US Backs IHRA Definition After UN Criticism; German institute holds ‘Shoah, Nakba’ event on date of Kristallnacht

From Ian: Israel Won’t Ever Be the Country of American Fantasies—Nor Should It Aspire to Be Following last week’s election, the veteran Middle East reporter Thomas Friedman authored a New York Times column under the headline “The Israel We Knew Is Gone,” full of dire predictions about what will befall the Jewish state now that its citizens have returned its longest-serving...

New Tunisian constitution calls for the destruction of Israel

A referendum on a new constitution for Tunisia was said to have easily passed, and this has now officially ended the hopes of the Arab Spring, as it has demolished all democratic reforms and has given its president sweeping, dictatorial powers.It also calls for the destruction of Israel.In the preamble, it says:We, the Tunisian people, reaffirm our belonging to the Arab nation...

The strange route of the first Royal Air Maroc flight from Casablanca to Tel Aviv

From AFP:Royal Air Maroc took off from Morocco’s economic capital Casablanca bound for Tel Aviv on Sunday, in the carrier’s first direct flight to the Jewish state since the two countries normalized ties in 2020.Aviation sources and local media sources said a Moroccan business delegation was on the inaugural flight, delayed by three months because of the COVID-19 pandemic.“Casablanca/Tel...

Tunisian Jews demand government inquiry into their ethnic cleansing

Representatives of the Jewish community in Tunisia are presenting a request to the Truth and Dignity Commission (Instance de Vérité et Dignité) to investigate institutional abuse of Jews in Tunisia from 1955 to 2013. The filing demands an investigation into "abuses and violations and other illegal acts suffered by the Tunisian citizens, whose only fault is that they are...

Jewish pilgrimages in Tunisia and Morocco end without incident

Over this past week, there were two major pilgrimages to Jewish shrines in Arab nations. The most famous one was to Tunisia, where hundreds of Jews went on an annual visit to the ancient synagogue in Djerba. It is the top story in The Arab Weekly, a beta site of what is apparently a new English-language newspaper: More than 2,000 pilgrims gathered at Africa’s...