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Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Another unreported story: The Palestinian Authority gives essentially no legal protections against modern slavery

The Global Slavery Index for 2023 has been released, where it rates every country for how well they combat modern slavery, which includes all kinds of forced labor and forced marriage. It details the horrors of the kafala system, where Arab employers import workers from poor African and Asian nations and then control their lives. It does not rate the West Bank or...

White supremacists trying to inflame Black-Jewish tensions with "slavery" flyers

Several times a week, antisemitic flyers are distributed in different parts of the country. This report from Fox in Atlanta this week describes a fairly typical event. The flyers typically mention the Goyim Defense League or GoyimTV, a white supremacist group that has been in the forefront of the wave of flyers as well as offensive signs on overpasses.The formula for the...

Were the Afro-Palestinians slaves?

Last week one of the most famous black Palestinians, Fatima Bernawi - who was imprisoned for trying to explode a bomb in a Jerusalem movie theater - died. She was buried in a large ceremony in Gaza.Most articles about "Afro-Palestinians" say a version of this legend of how they arrived:Devout Muslims, Africans from countries such as Chad, Sudan, Nigeria and Senegal, trekked...

Racism in the Arab world

19th-century engraving depicting an Arab slave-trading caravan transporting black African slaves across the Sahara. (Wikipedia) In June, Yasmine El Geressi wrote an article in Majalla that is the best I’ve seen in describing Arab racism against Black people, a topic that Western “anti-racists” studiously ignore. Excerpts: Anti-blackness is deeply embedded within Arab...

"Pro-Palestinian" activists don't care about Palestinian racism

Here is one of the postponed/canceled events for "Israel Apartheid Week" at Lancaster University: Notice that the theme of the event was supposed to be "United Against Racism." Which is funny, because the intended speaker has written about racism - Arab racism against black Palestinians. On his Facebook page, in Arabic, he wrote last month: About three years ago,...

Arab Racism: The story the Left ignores

Here's a story about racism that was published three days ago, but that was ignored in the major leftist websites. Wonder why? From The Economist: THE multilingual, fashion-conscious residents of Beirut, Lebanon’s capital, fancy their city to be cosmopolitan. But not everyone is welcome. Black people and foreigners from Asia and elsewhere in the third world who make up the bulk of migrant workers are often turned away from the city’s smarter venues....