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Thursday, June 29, 2023

When the Mufti planned to build settlements on the West Bank

From The New York Times, September 17, 1951:BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 16— Haj Amin el Husseini, the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, and his Arab Higher Committee have started. a move to create a solid belt of Palestine Arab settlements around Israel and prevent-the moving of refugees away from Israel borders.This change of front has come with the present evident collapse of the. former...

Yasir Arafat Museum has a new exhibit on Jewish settlements

Today, the Yasir Arafat Museum opened up a new exhibition. What part of Palestinian history is it about?Silly. It is about how terrible Jews are.Dignitaries, including the Palestinian prime minister Muhammad Shtayyeh, crowded the space to see maps and text on the walls showing how Jews are taking over what they consider Palestinian land.Shtayyeh commented after his tour, ...

The progressive Israeli High Court is to the right of the "fascist" Israeli government

From Times of Israel:The High Court of Justice issued a sharp rebuke on Tuesday of the government’s recent request for yet another delay in the court’s order to evacuate the illegal Khan al-Ahmar Bedouin encampment in the West Bank.Justice Noam Sohlberg rejected the government’s request for a four-month extension for the submission of its position on the issue, and instead...

Apparently, the only unilateral moves opposed by the US and EU are those by Israel

In yesterday's State Department briefing there was this exchange between Said Arikat and spokesperson Ned Price:Q: The Arab press and the Israeli press are both reporting that Israel is planning a – like a – to accelerate the demolishing of – the demolition of Palestinian homes in Area C and in other areas. Do you have a comment on that?MR PRICE: Our comment on this is – remains...

01/24 Links Pt1: The continuing lie of the “Gaza blockade”; As Billions Flow to Jordan, US Remains Mum on Extradition of Palestinian Terrorist Ahlam Tamimi; Who will celebrate World Hijab Day this year?

From Ian: Palestinians are playing the long game on world stage – Israel could lose The United Nations General Assembly recently approved a resolution calling on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to render an opinion on whether the continuing Israeli occupation of the territories has become permanent, and in fact an annexation of the territories. In principle, the...

An analysis of Ken Roth's tweets prove his anti-Israel obsession and lack of credibility as a human rights expert

On Thursday I wrote about The Nation article claiming that Ken Roth, formerly head of Human Rights Watch, was unfairly passed over for a position at Harvard Kennedy School because of powerful Jews who didn't like his being a critic of Israel.The argument, as I showed then, was absurd. Even according to the article, "Roth’s tweets on Israel were of particular concern." Since...

Tom Nides: I Work Every Day to “Eliminate” Jews from Judea and Samaria (Judean Rose)

Imagine a Jew waking up each morning in his plush, temporary Jerusalem digs, drinking his chai latte, and saying to himself, “What immediate steps can I take today to make Judea Judenrein? Is there something I can do right now to block Israel’s use of the mountain aquifer that supplies half of Israel’s water? Who can I meet with during my 8-hour workday to ensure that Jerusalem...

Let's list the lies in Abbas' UN speech (part 1)

As he does every year, Mahmoud Abbas gave an anti-Israel speech to the UN. And as with every other one on record, it was filled with lies.Here are some of them, based on the official speech (he sometimes ad libs outside the speech, often betraying more antisemitism...)I speak to you on behalf of more than fourteen million Palestinian people, whose parents and grandparents...

Palestinians funding illegal settlements -- in Kurdistan

You know how Palestinians say that occupation and settlements are the worst human rights abuses in world history?It appears that they mean "only if done by Jews."From Kurdistan 24:A delegation of Kurds from Afrin visited the Palestinian Consul in Erbil, Nazmi Hazouri, and handed over a letter of protest of a Palestinian foundation building housing units for displaced Syrians...

Andy Levin's Views On Israel Matched The Israel-Haters He Looked To For Support (Daled Amos)

By Daled AmosRepresentative Andy Levin's defeat in the Democratic primaries has brought out his defenders, who staunchly defend his Jewish bonafides. Like Mehdi Hassan, for example:Because nothing establishes the unassailability of your position on Israel like being a synagogue president.Sheesh, indeed.If you do a search on Twitter, it seems that everyone knows that Levin...

The other Turkish occupation

Everyone knows about Turkeys' occupation of Northern Cyprus. But Turkey also occupied large swaths of territory in northern Syria, and the people who scream about the evil of Israeli "occupation" are silent.Not only that, but Turkey is threatening to invade Syria, and - again - the people who are upset about countries like Russia invading their neighbors seem to not have...

Know How to Answer, part 11B "Settlements are illegal"

Nearly six years ago I gave a lecture at Yeshiva University on how to answer anti-Israel arguments. Since the lecture was over an hour and twenty minutes, I decided to break it up into 20 sections, one each to answer one popular anti-Israel argument. Here is the second half of part 11, probably the longest clip. We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate today to help get the message...

Are Settlements an Obstacle to Peace? (Judean Rose)

Are Israeli settlements an obstacle to peace? Lots of people say so. Bulgaria’s Mladenov said it. The EU’s Mogherini said it. And the UN has said it again and again. By why would anyone think that Jews building homes stands in the way of a peace settlement? The homes of the 10,000 Jews the Israeli government expelled from Gaza in 2005 did not stand in the way of the...