Thursday, March 23, 2023
- Thursday, March 23, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- Albawaba, antisemitism, Arab media antisemitism, conspiracy theories, jew hatred, media silence, MSNBC, SyndiGate
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
- Tuesday, March 21, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- antisemitism, IHRA, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, statistics, twitter
New research from CASM Technology and ISD has found a major and sustained spike in antisemitic posts on Twitter since the company’s takeover by Elon Musk on October 27, 2022. Powered by the award-winning digital analysis technology Beam– and based on a powerful hate speech detection methodology combining over twenty leading machine-learning models– researchers found that the volume of English-language antisemitic Tweets more than doubled in the period following Musk’s takeover. In total, analysts detected 325,739 English-language antisemitic Tweets in the 9 months from June 2022 to February 2023, with the weekly average number of antisemitic Tweets increasing by 106% (from 6,204 to 12,762), when comparing the period before and after Musk’s acquisition.There is a lot in the 32-page report, and its methodology appears to be largely sound. (I think if they would use my definition of antisemitism rather than the IHRA Working Definition, they might find it to be more accurate.)
We identified a significant surge of new accounts posting plausibly antisemitic content. 3,855 such accounts were created between Oct 27 and Nov 6, an increase of 223% compared to the 11 days (the equivalent timespan) leading up to Oct 27.To me, this indicates that much of the antisemitism on social media is not simply unintentional or naïve antisemitism. People go out of their way to not only post antisemitic content but to create new accounts dedicated to hate.
Sunday, March 12, 2023
- Sunday, March 12, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- 2023 terror, antisemitism, blame Israel, blame Jews, border controls, child soldier, civilian casualties, double standards, IDF, media bias, statistics, The Laws of Armed Conflict, twitter, UK, USA
92.5% of Palestinians killed this year were members of terror groups or actively involved in attacks
Shortly before 3 a.m. on July 19, 2016, American Special Operations forces bombed what they believed were three ISIS “staging areas” on the outskirts of Tokhar, a riverside hamlet in northern Syria. They reported 85 fighters killed. In fact, they hit houses far from the front line, where farmers, their families and other local people sought nighttime sanctuary from bombing and gunfire. More than 120 villagers were killed.
Do you remember reading about this incident, or the dozens of others that were uncovered in that story using Pentagon records? No, the story disappeared from the news media radar in no time.
Now, imagine the tsunami of coverage from multiple news outlets, the UN resolutions and condemnations from every nation on the planet, that would result if Israel killed 120 civilians in an air strike and claimed it was a successful strike on dozens of fighters.
That is not just a double standard. That is treating Israel as uniquely evil and ignoring far, far worse things done by "the good guys."
And that is the entire point. Israel's critics do not want you to know this context when they accuse Israel of war crimes. They do not want you to see how Israel compares to other armies. They never make 3D models of US bombing of wedding parties.
There is only one possible explanation for putting Israel under an electron microscope for doing an amazing job targeting terrorists while virtually ignoring the horrible mistakes that every other professional western army does. It isn't "concern over taxpayer dollars" or "humanitarian concerns" or any of the dozens of other excuses used to justify this obsession with how Israel fights terror. None of the Western armies who wantonly bombed dozens of innocents had to worry about an immediate threat of someone slipping through a porous border and attacking their own citizens who live only a few kilometers away.
The only explanation is antisemitism.
Maybe not the explicit, neo-Nazi kind, but this crazed obsession with finding everything wrong with Israel defending itself from real, imminent threats while ignoring everyday Palestinian terror cannot be logically explained any other way except to say that a Jewish state is assumed to be automatically criminal the way Jews have lived under that assumption for thousands of years.
The truly remarkable thing is that the IDF, like the Jews throughout history, don't respond by saying that they might as well act the way they are being accused of acting. Instead, they continue to improve their methods and work towards a 100% record of only killing those who are actively trying to kill them first. (In attacks on Iranian targets in Syria, they are very close to that 100%.)
The IDF is truly the most moral army in the world. It isn't even close.
Wednesday, March 08, 2023
- Wednesday, March 08, 2023
- Varda Meyers Epstein (Judean Rose)
- antisemitism, Judean Rose, Opinion, Poland, Varda
One day after the Netanyahu government issued a statement
claiming that Israel and Poland had reached an agreement over the resumption of
Israeli youth trips to Poland, Poland denied that any such agreement had been
reached. The trips were suspended a year ago due to a dispute
over security arrangements. Israeli students are accompanied on these trips
by armed security guards from the Shin Bet. Poland, however, says
that Israel’s insistence on providing its own Israeli security for the students
is a slap in the face to Poland, making it look like a hateful, antisemitic
country.
Here is the Israeli press release on the supposed agreement
between Israel and Poland:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Comments on Resumption of Youth Trips to Poland
After a prolonged stalemate in Israeli-Polish relations, and pursuant to contacts and a round of talks led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, together with Minister of Foreign Affairs Eli Cohen and Education Minister Yoav Kisch, a solution was found today (Tuesday, 7 March 2023), to the crisis that prevented the arrival of youth trips to Poland.
Prime Minister Netanyahu:
"After a wasted year, we are returning the youth trips to Poland. There are many ways to study the lessons of the Holocaust but the best is with one's own eyes. I welcome our success in the resumption of our pupils' trips to Poland in order to study the horrors of the Holocaust from up close.
I thank Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and Education Minister Yoav Kisch for their contributions to the effort. 'Know from whence you came and where you are going.’"
Three years after the halt to the arrival of youth trips to Poland, and pursuant to the contacts led by Prime Minister Netanyahu with the Polish government, the almost to-year stalemate in bilateral relations has ended; the sides have agreed on the resumption of Israeli youth trips.
Pursuant to the round of talks between the two countries led by Prime Minister Netanyahu with his Polish counterpart, and to the talks held by Minister of Foreign Affairs Cohen with the Polish Foreign Minister approximately one month ago, in the framework of which he sought to move forward on a solution for the resumption of the trips to Poland, a representative of the Polish Foreign Ministry announced today that Poland views positively the resumption in the arrival of youth trips to Poland and recognizes their importance to continued progress in bilateral ties.
This morning, however, Tovah Lazaroff, who is no fan of the
Netanyahu government wrote:
“Poland denied that Israeli high school trips to visit the
concentration camps in Poland are set to resume after a one-year suspension,
one day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Office announced the return
of the trips.”
Lazaroff offers no source for her assertion of Polish
denial. What is the truth of the matter? Did
Israel and Poland reach an agreement regarding the Israeli student trips? And
what is the real reason for what still looks like a stalemate? Is it really
about security? Or something else.
Łukasz Jasina, spokesperson for the Polish Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, tweeted a link to the MFA statement on the affair, an
embarrassing slap in the face to Israel/Netanyahu, and likely the source for
Lazaroff’s claim.
Statement on the state of arrangements regarding the return of trips of organized groups of Israeli youth to Poland https://t.co/uZl5ShHffY
— Łukasz Jasina (@RzecznikMSZ) March 8, 2023
From the statement:
Although a final agreement has not been reached yet, during talks held in recent days through diplomatic channels we have been observing a convergence of positions, giving hope that a comprehensive agreement on the visits of organized groups of Israeli youth to Poland can be signed between Poland and Israel in the near future.
Poland is sensitive to accusations of
antisemitism, hence the passing of a 2018 Polish law penalizing public speech
attributing responsibility for the Holocaust to Poland or the Polish nation. The
passing of the law appears however to only underscore the idea that Poland is
antisemitic, but doesn’t want to be seen as such. Why else shut down free
speech on the subject of where blame for the Holocaust rightly lies? To
paraphrase Hamlet, Poland “doth protest too much, methinks.”
Back when the Polish law denying complicity in the Holocaust
was passed, I argued that parents
of Israeli teens should not be sending their children to that country to visit.
Not because of the security issue, though I agree that Israel should be allowed
to use its own people for this purpose, but because I don’t believe in supporting
the economy of a country I see as absolutely antisemitic, law or no law:
This year, when it came time for my son, the youngest of 12 children, to register for the class trip for Poland, I was ready. I sat Asher down for a talk and explained that he wasn’t going, that even if we had the money for such a trip, even if the school were to give him a full scholarship, he wasn’t going. I wasn’t going to allow my son to become a source of income for a country of antisemites . . . why, of all countries, should the Jewish State be propping up Poland’s economy with these trips that have become a rite of passage for Israeli high school students? We’re talking some 30,000 children, spending at the very least, a few thousand shekels each for this “privilege.”
At the same time, I acknowledged the fact that many see the
trip as a valuable tool for teaching the Holocaust:
What of the people who say the experience of visiting Poland is moving, and a good way to teach the Holocaust?
I say hogwash. I never traveled there and I have an acute understanding of the Holocaust and so do my children. In fact, I’d say that boycotting the place is every bit as powerful a teacher as going there.
I still believe today that we don’t need to send kids to Poland to
make them “feel” the horrors of the Holocaust. And I still believe that Poland
is antisemitic to the bone. In fact, the very day that Netanyahu claimed an
agreement with Poland had been reached, the Algemeiner
reported that the National Bank of Poland will be issuing a special
commemorative coin honoring a Polish antisemite:
Poland’s National Bank has announced that it will issue a special silver coin commemorating a leading figure in the post-war anti-communist underground who was accused of murdering Jews in the country’s Podhale region . . .
. . . Several historians have charged that Kuraś was responsible for the murder of dozens of Jews in the Podhale region during his struggle against the communists. In his book “Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz,” Prof. Jan Gross of Princeton University described Kuraś as as “legendary outlaw in the mountainous region of Podhale, where he battled the regime by killing Jews who were fleeing Poland by one of the Brikha exit routes.”
Gross specified that Kuraś had recorded the murder of Jews in his diary, citing the killing of twelve Jews near the village of Kroscienko on May 6, 1944.
A separate article by Karolina Panz — a Polish historian based in the town of Nowy Targ, where Kuraś was active — concluded that during 1945-47, “the number of Jewish victims exceeded thirty, including children from Jewish orphanages. Among the perpetrators of those acts of terror were partisans from the group commanded by Józef Kuraś ‘Ogień’ – one of the most important symbols of anti-communist resistance.”
Poland’s leading anti-racist organization condemned the coin’s issuance as another example of the Polish state lionizing wartime figures with established records of antisemitism.
The Algemeiner
quotes a response from Rafal Pankowski, executive director of the “Never Again”
Association:
“Since the publication of Jan Gross’s groundbreaking books in the 2000s, Poland made a lot of progress as a democratic nation in dealing with the legacy of antisemitism – but over the last years much of that progress has been reversed and a far-right nationalist outlook on Polish history has prevailed in many institutions . . . This is one more instance of a glorification of a notorious antisemitic figure by an important state institution.”
It is obvious that Polish antisemitism is alive and well. Why
then does Israel seem so desperate to reach an agreement to prop up the Polish
economy with high school trips? Why does Israel want its children to think of
Poland as a hospitable country that has learned its lesson, when quite clearly,
it has not.
One might argue that Netanyahu has failed to see the true meaning of the quote he used in his statement to the press: “Know from whence you came and where you are going.”
That quote, from Ethics of the Fathers,
was used by Netanyahu to suggest that high school trips to Poland are a form of
experiential learning: that only by traveling to the land of Auschwitz can one
come to understand what happened there. But one could just as easily interpret
that quote as a cautionary tale or warning: Know when you go there that Poland
was and still is an antisemitic
country, even as it makes it illegal to discuss that fact. Know that Poland is
a place where the soil is soaked with Jewish blood. Know that Poland, even now,
issues commemorative coins honoring as heroes those who murdered Jews. Know
that if you go and spend your hard-earned shekels to support Poland and the
Polish people, you betray the memory of the millions of Jews who were sent there,
not by choice for a learning experience, but to be gassed and burned, their
generations to come, ended forever.
UPDATE: After I contacted her on Twitter, Tovah Lazaroff commendably updated her piece to reflect that her source is the Polish Foreign Ministry.
The source should be there now . .
— Tovah Lazaroff (@tovahlazaroff) March 8, 2023
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Sunday, March 05, 2023
- Sunday, March 05, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- Amad, antisemitism, Aziz Mohammed Balousha, blame Jews, intolerance, jew hatred, Muslim antisemitism, Muslim intolerance, op-ed
For those who wreak havoc on the earth in the Holy City, and in its Al-Aqsa Mosque, from desecration and almost daily raids, and to Judaize the landmarks of the Holy City and the first two qiblahs, and in historical Palestine, by killing, demolishing, and terrorizing children, women, and the elderly...Those who make lies and lie to God, violated the covenants, and on top of that, they tried to kill the Chosen Prophet - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family and companions - several times, but God - blessed and exalted - saved him and preserved him.They have nothing in their dictionary except crime and bloodshed. They are the ones who killed the Prophet of God, Zacharias,....And they killed Ezekiel, peace be upon him, and the Jews tried to kill Jesus Christ , peace be upon him, but God lifted him up and saved him from their plot, and many, many others, so only the Jews were killed by the prophets of God, and whenever they made a covenant, a group of them rejected it, and it is their nature to break the covenants, betrayal, and distort the words, Their hearts are hard as stones and devoid of mercy, and they are creative in igniting strife and wars.The Jews, gentlemen!!!!
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Thursday, March 02, 2023
- Thursday, March 02, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- Amnesty, antisemitism, collective punishment, double standards, ethnic cleansing, Human Rights, Hypocrisy, jew hatred, NGO lies
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
- Tuesday, February 28, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- 50 Holocausts, antisemitism, Arab antisemitism, Arab History of Zionism, blame Jews, conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial, Holocaust inversion, media silence, Mustafa Youssef Al-Lidawi
They ask the countries and peoples of the world to recognize the massacres they were subjected to during the Second World War, and they hold the international community responsible for the consequences of the Holocaust, in which they claim that “millions of Jews” were exterminated unjustly and aggressively, and they force them to apologize to them and compensate them, and they blackmail and embarrass regimes and rulers, and put pressure on peoples and organizations ....The Israelis weep over what befell them, claim injustice for what befell them, punish anyone who denies the Holocaust or questions it and refuses to recognize it, declare war on him, prosecute him, harass him, expel him, strip him of all his characteristics and deprive him of his most basic rights, and consider silence about it a crime, and many European thinkers and historians suffered from their intellectual terror and racial tyranny, some of whom were afraid, retreated and cowardly, and narrated their story and accepted it, while those who insisted on their position were punished and exiled, and were expelled from their jobs and deprived of their rights.
What the Israeli occupation is doing in occupied Palestine, against its people, their land and sanctities, and their homes and properties, is greater than the crime of the "Holocaust" with which they cracked the heads of the world, and forced them to express permanent remorse and regret because of it, and perhaps they plan every day to commit more of these crimes.
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Sunday, February 26, 2023
- Sunday, February 26, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- Alice Walker, Amnesty, antisemitism, denying antisemitism, HRW, Jeremy Corbyn, jew hatred, jimmy carter, Martin Luther, Roald Dahl, roger waters, Southern 1873, Voltaire
Friday, February 24, 2023
- Friday, February 24, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- antisemitism, cartoon of the day, Day of Hate, Day of Rage, humor, jew hatred, Palestinian antisemitism, right-wing antisemitism
Law enforcement and Jewish groups in the US are urging vigilance ahead of an antisemitic “national day of hate” planned by white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups for Saturday.The white supremacists have called for followers to distribute antisemitic messaging with banners, stickers, fliers and graffiti. There are no known threats of violence and a Jewish security group said it did not expect widespread participation.“Take a stand, and expose the international clique of parasitic vermin that infest our nation,” said a statement attributed to the hate groups. “Make your voices heard loud and clear, that the one true enemy of the American people is the Jew.”
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023
- Wednesday, February 22, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- "As-a-Jew", +972 Magazine, anti-Zionist Jews, antisemitism, Jewish antisemite, media bias, Yossi Gurvitz
It is impossible to imagine Israeli anti-occupation writing without thinking of Yossi Gurvitz. A relentless, fearless, incredibly knowledgeable, prolific, and sharp writer, Yossi passed away last week at the age of 53.....Yossi’s roots were as far from the left as one could imagine. He was born to a national-religious family and educated at Nehalim Yeshiva, an Orthodox boarding school...Yossi hated religious studies, and even more so the racism and nationalism he encountered at school, including among the rabbis. Gradually, he began to lose his faith. “I started devouring philosophy books,” he would later write: "By the time I started grade 11, I was Orthodox in name only. Earlier, I rejected Jewish law as racist; now I could no longer believe in a deity which was managing the world and interested in our lives … "
Friday, February 17, 2023
- Friday, February 17, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- antisemitism, ElderToons, ethnic cleansing, hamas, humor, kill jews, lost in translation, NGO lies
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
- Wednesday, February 15, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- antisemitism, Arab antisemitism, Edy Cohen, Kais Said, Mishleh Bitan, Tunisia
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 this idyllic refuge, where most of the Jewish residents observe the Sabbath.The event that shocked the Jewish community in Djerba took place on Tuesday of last week, when the police, accompanied by large forces of undercover officers, arrested a 60-year-old Jewish merchant named Mishleh Bitan. According to the authorities, he was accused of smuggling gold. The Jews of Djerba have been dealing in gold for generations and many of them own gold shops on the island.Police planned to apprehend the wife and son of the Jewish merchant, but dozens of Jews showed up to protect the family and physically prevented the arrest.In a conversation I had with a number of Jews in Djerba, it appears that every two or three weeks the police come to the neighborhood and try to harass them under the pretext of hunting smugglers. Sometimes they conduct searches and force the Jews to report their sales and tax statements. Other times the police show up for random inventory and often steal gold during the count. No one dares say a word because of the fear of further harassment.Life has turned upside down in recent years for these Jews. Everyone I spoke with expressed deep concerns and even disbelief at the harassment that has suddenly descended upon this ancient Jewish community.Police took Mishleh in a police car to the capital of Tunis, a journey of about seven hours. Then unexpectedly, and following pressure exerted by various parties both in Israel and in other countries, Mishleh was released after less than a day in detention.Another Jewish source told me: “We didn’t stay. We first of all prevented the arrest of the family’s mother and son. They wanted to arrest them to put pressure on Mishleh to make a confession. But we prevented that. For the whole day after the arrest, we sat and waited and closed the shops. In protest we put up signs saying ‘We will not be silent any longer.’”
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Thursday, February 09, 2023
- Thursday, February 09, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- antisemitism, Can't have nice things, Dan Easterman, David Mivasair, earthquake, Good news, IsraAID, Jewish antisemite, Palestinian propaganda, Turkey, Turkiye
Tuesday, February 07, 2023
- Tuesday, February 07, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- "As-a-Jew", 9/11, antisemitism, blame Jews, conspiracy theories, earthquake, Jews control the world, Maria Dubovikova, Syria, Turkey, Turkiye
Israel was boasting that it has elaborated the system for predicting earthquakes with 80% precision. A week ago, the Western embassies were closed in Turkey, and the Westerners were advised to leave the country ASAP due to the "terrorist attack threat."Today, Turkey and Syria are hit with an extremely strong earthquake.My guess is that Israel has informed its western counterparts about the upcoming earthquakes.The Western supremacists are caring exclusively about their own precious lives, giving a shit about those who are considered inferior to them, those third-rate Arabs and Turks. “There is no need to inform them about the threat. Let them die! Who cares!”How many lives would be saved, if people were aware of the upcoming threat.
If anybody — Israel, Western powers — was aware of the upcoming earthquake and didn’t urge Ankara and Damascus about it — that’s a crime.Bearing in mind “coincidence” of the earthquake in Iran and Israeli drone attack. Then the closure of the Western embassies and a call to Westerners to leave Turkey prior to the earthquake.These are the dots. Connect them your own way.
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