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Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Palestinian "experts" explain Shavuot as a pagan holiday now celebrated to provoke Muslims

Felesteen reports that some Jewish groups are asking Israel to allow them to visit the Temple Mount on Friday, which is the holiday of Shavuot. On normal Fridays the Temple Mount is off-limits to Jews and the chances seem pretty low that they would be successful, but that request is causing alarm to the Palestinian Arabs who demand the holy site be Judenrein all the time.

The Hamas-linked newspaper then asked "experts" what Shavuot is about, anyway.

And we then see some epic Palsplaining.

Fakhri Abu Diab, who is a popular pundit in Palestinian media, said "the occupation uses religious occasions as a pretext, to try to exclude Muslims from the mosque, and they want to prove a false narrative, in an attempt to find a link between the Jewish holidays and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, so that the world is brainwashed with a false history."

He said that the "Talmudists" claim Shavuot is the day the Torah was revealed, pointing out that “this biblical holiday has nothing to do with Al-Aqsa Mosque and has no spatial connection with it, and they claim that the Torah was in a place called the Holy of Holies, inside the Temple, to prove their entitlement to Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to provoke the feelings of Muslims."

Abu Diab then noted that Shavuot is a harvest festival, and "the Talmudics eat only vegetables and dried fruits, cheese and dairy products on this day."

He added that "the settlers are trying during this day to enter the area wearing priestly clothing, claiming that the priests were taking crops and milk on this day, following the revelation of the Torah inside the Temple Mount."

"The intensification of the raids, under the pretext of celebrating religious occasions, is a plan to get the Jerusalem Arab and Islamic street accustomed to these incursions and the Jewish presence in Al-Aqsa Mosque, and it is part of an attempt to impose rituals, agenda, and biblical narratives on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque," he asserted.

Abu Diab continued, "This holiday is derived from paganism and the Roman civilization that existed thousands of years ago,"

Hey, he's the expert!

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Palestinians demanding the world pressure Israel to release a sadistic murderer from prison (update)

The Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs has started a major diplomatic initiative to pressure Israel to release Walid Daqqa, a prisoner who has cancer.

Their diplomats worldwide have been instructed to contact international bodies, especially the International Red Cross, to claim that Daqqa is the victim of "deliberate medical negligence" and is suffering greatly.

The do not mention why he is in prison.

Moshe Tamam hy"d

On August 6th, 1984, 19 year old soldier Moshe Tamam was hitchhiking home for a weekend leave to spend time with his family in Netanya. He first visited his girlfriend in Tiberias, and then took the bus towards Tel Aviv. At the Beit Leed Junction he got off and hitched a ride with four Israeli-Arabs from Baka El Garbiya.

These Israeli Arabs were members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine who had been tasked with kidnapping an Israeli soldier to smuggle to Syria for a prisoner exchange.

For two days, Moshe Tamam was held in a house on the outskirts of Baka El Garbiya. When the terrorists realized that they could not get him across the border into Syria, they decided to kill him.

First they gouged out Moshe’s eyes, and then they mutilated him by cutting off parts of his body starting with his sexual organs. Finally, they shot him in the chest, and dumped his body in an olive grove near Jenin. Moshe’s mutilated body was discovered on August 10th. The DFLP immediately claimed responsibility for the heinous murder.

Daqqa is a hero and a celebrity to Palestinians. Palestinian NGO Al Haq describes him as an "writer, activist, intellectual, and political prisoner."

Daqqa is an Israeli citizen, from Baqa Al-Gharbiya, which Al Haq calls a "Palestinian city."

He has written about how the "torture" in Israeli prisons is worse than places like Tazmamart, Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo: "In Israeli prisons you face a harder form of torture, because it is 'civilised'; it turns your own senses and mind into tools of daily torture, quietly creeping without any club, without making any noise… the state of losing the ability to interpret reality, the feeling of impotence and the loss of initiative."

In other words, it is a normal prison. There is no torture, there is only the loss of freedom, which is the entire point of prison.

And his own life disproves his slanders. Since Daqqa has been in prison, he has graduated with two degrees and he has written books. He also reportedly smuggled out his sperm to the wife he married while in prison and she gave birth.

The monster who tortured and sadistically murdered Moshe Tamam in Baqa Al-Gharbiya claims to be an "authority" on how Israel tortures its prisoners - by not torturing them.

This disgusting piece of garbage was transferred to an Israeli hospital yesterday.

UPDATE (4/9/2024): The mutilation accusation has not been verified.

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Cape Town Jewish community directly threatened by Muslim group

"People Against Gangsterism and Drugs," PAGAD, started in the 1990s as a primarily Muslim group meant to help the government fight the illegal drug trade in Cape Town, South Africa. Soon, though, they became vigilantes, widely believed to be responsible for a series of bombings and assassinations through the decade - including bombing synagogues. They were eventually labeled a terrorist organization by the South African government.

PAGAD kept a low profile for a couple of decades, but they have re-emerged - and their main targets seem to have changed from drug dealers to Jews.

They just issued this press release (excerpts)

People Against Gangsterism & Drugs, Sunday, 21 May 2023
PRESS RELEASE:
PAGAD support the UCT Palestine Solidarity Forum...

We, PAGAD, recognize the growing threat of the Zionist community in South Africa and, more specifically, in Cape Town. We are astutely aware that Zionist organizations are becoming increasingly vocal in their celebration of a terrorist, apartheid regime.

Recently, our intelligence sector has actively been investigating the Zionist network in South Africa. We reveal that they, like in the Ukraine, are setting up a 'Little Israel' in Cape Town. Zionist criminals who served in the Israeli army (IDF) are roaming our streets freely, in contravention of the law. They have established a paramilitary-type organization called the CSO (Community Security Organisation), and even a medical unit. There is also an active illegal soldier recruitment programme, that is facilitated and organized at the Israel Centre in Hatfield Road, Cape Town.

We urge our government to prosecute these South African recruits serving in the IDF, killing our children.. Just like we have continually offered our support to the Metro Police force in assisting with the drug and gangsterism problem, today we offer our support to arrest Zionist criminals too. All the evidence were presented to the Prosecuting Authority to show that these Zionists are contravening the Foreign Military Assistance Act; yet the lack of action by the authority shows the public that the Western Cape Government is indeed complicit in the harboring of criminals. This complicity is likely to lead members of the public to take matters into their own hands — by making citizen's arrests of those people who serves in the IDF, commits crimes in Palestine, then return to South Africa and other countries. Private criminal prosecutions could also follow thereafter.

...'Israeli' citizens, with their dual citizenship, are ready to flee Palestine when eventually required to do so; and regards Cape Town as their safe haven. The axis of resistance in South Africa, hereby, sends a clear warning that we will not allow criminals to settle in our affluent areas and occupy our businesses, schools and universities.

This statement is merely a warning. We are closely monitoring the Zionist establishments and organizations operating in South Africa. We have confidence in the organizations and individuals based on truth and justice who are leading the solidarity campaign, and we offer our full support in decentralizing the struggle against Satanic Zionist 'Israel'. ...
...
We urge the international community not to support businesses or organisations that fund relationships (whether it be sports, cultural, economic, political, social, etc) with Satanic Zionist 'Israel'. Furthermore, we ask the Muslim Community to withdraw their Halaal Certification from those organisations who supports Satanic Zionist 'Israel'.

Finally, we salute our allies nationally and internationally, our leaders in the various structures, our donors, and the soldiers on the ground fighting for a South Africa - free from the vices of the Zionist world order (one being gangsterism and drugs).
Sincerely,
The People Against Gangsterism & Drugs

This "anti-Zionist" organization is clearly targeting Jews. The Community Security Organization is meant to protect synagogues, schools and events from attack, and Israel or Zionism isn't even mentioned on the Cape Town branch webpage. South African Jews who served in the IDF are doing nothing illegal when they visit home. They are demanding that Muslims to take away Halal certification from Jewish-owned businesses, since how would they know that businesses are "Zionist"?

And there is little doubt that anyone who says that gangsterism and drugs are th "vices of the Zionist World Order" is quite obviously attacking Jews with age-old tropes. No one is fooled by the term "Zionist World Order."

Only a couple of weeks ago, PAGAD held a protest outside the Jewish high school. And last week they proudly displayed a terrorist Hamas flag at another protest.

Also recently, Cape Town "anti-Zionists" were heard chanting, "One Zionist - One Bullet," a clear death threat to the South African Jewish community.

These are direct threats against the Cape Town Jewish community. And no one seems to care, because when antisemites call themselves "anti-Zionist" too many people regard it as a "get out of jail free" card.

(h/t Steve)

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05/22 Links Pt2: Seeking Jerusalem; Poland cannot silence Noa Kirel, or any Israelis, about the Holocaust; Amanpour Apologizes for ‘Shootout’ Comment after HonestReporting campaign

From Ian:

Seeking Jerusalem

The prophets command that the Jewish People constantly seek Jerusalem. "This is Zion, whose welfare is sought by none" laments Jeremiah (30:17). "From here we learn the obligation of 'derisha', of seeking the welfare of Jerusalem," teaches the Talmud.

Even today, as fortunate guardians of the restored capital of the Jewish people under Israeli sovereignty, there is a great deal of "derisha," seeking, to be done.

Firstly, Israelis and Jews everywhere must pay more attention to Jerusalem. To be more involved, to care, to build and develop, never to take for granted. To visit. An astonishingly sad fifty percent of young Israelis visit the national capital for their first time only when drafted into the IDF!

Outside of the primary schools and the Bnei Akiva Religious-Zionist youth movement not too many Israelis last week took note of Jerusalem Day, missing an opportunity to step forward and rediscover Israel's historic national lodestone.

It is time to make Jerusalem Day a formal civic holiday, like Independence Day.

"Derisha" also means imposition of a moral obligation, the requirement to live up to a certain heavenly standard that is implicit in the city of peace. "For Zion shall be redeemed in justice, and her returnees in charity – this is what God seeks of you" (Isaiah 1:27).

It must be asked: Are Israelis/Jews sensitive enough in Jerusalem to the plight of the poor, the unemployed, the orphan, the battered woman, the new immigrant, and the minority resident? Is Israel's justice system sufficiently suffused with knowledge of Jewish values alongside democratic norms?

Seeking Jerusalem also means ruling the city wisely. This involves curbing the activities of radical Islamic and hostile nationalist forces in Jerusalem, investing significantly to generously advance and integrate the eastern (mostly Arab) sectors of the city, expanding the geographical boundaries of the city to build at least 100,000 new homes for young couples, expanding the business base of the city, and cleaning it up.

Lahav Harkov: Poland cannot silence Noa Kirel, or any Israelis, about the Holocaust

Instead of confronting this complexity, that while millions of non-Jewish Poles were killed in World War II and over 7,000 Poles are recognized as saving Jews there were still Polish collaborators with the Nazis and Poles who inflicted violence upon Jews in their midst, the Polish government wants to censor anyone who talks about it. Their bullying campaign includes pop singers, historians - like Jan Grabowski, who faces legal battles in Poland - and journalists.

The suppression and elision of pertinent historic details about the Holocaust is a form of Holocaust denial, even if Jablonski is not comfortable with the assertion. In fact, he responded to that assertion, made by this reporter on Twitter, by taking his Holocaust distortion even further, claiming that talking about the role of Poles in the Holocaust is “outrageous theories that Jews are somehow self-responsible for the Holocaust - because some Jewish individuals also collaborated.” No, the argument is not that Poles killed themselves; the argument is that large numbers of them took part in killing the Jews in their midst.

Never go full Mahmoud Abbas if you don’t want to be accused of Holocaust denial.

What Warsaw doesn’t seem to realize is that, while the government may want to get diplomatic relations on track, and there is nothing wrong with that in theory, Cohen did not sign a censorship agreement.

Jablonski tweeted that he is optimistic that relations with Israel and Poland and Jews and Poland will grow stronger. That can only be the case if he does not seek to silence Israelis and Jews. Israelis are not ignorant or uneducated about the Holocaust and they’re not going to stop talking about what happened to our relatives in Poland, whether by the hand of the Nazis, which is statistically more likely to be the case, or by Poles, before, during or after Nazi occupation.

Rabbi Dee Considering $1.3 Billion Lawsuit Against CNN Over Amanpour Terror Coverage

Rabbi Leo Dee, whose wife and two daughters were murdered in a terror attack, is considering a $1.3 billion lawsuit against CNN over their international anchor Christiane Amanpour describing the terror attack as a “shootout.”

Dee made the announcement via video during a May 21 event at The Carlebach Shul in New York titled, “Antisemitism: Is There No Solution?” as part of the third annual Yoav Boteach Memorial Lecture series, in honor of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s late father. Dee was speaking alongside Boteach, Elisha Wiesel, chairman of the board of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, and Rabbi Naftali Citron. Media watchdog HonestReporting had reported that Amanpour had said during an April 10 interview with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, “We have a young 15-year-old Palestinian boy who’s been shot and killed by security — Israeli security forces. We also have the mother of two sisters, Israeli British sisters. They were — they were killed in a shootout, and now the mother has died of her injury — injuries.”

“A shootout is two sides firing at each other,” HonestReporting tweeted on May 11. “A mother & her two daughters were shot at close range by Palestinian terrorists. @amanpour, you owe a grieving family an apology.”

During the event, which was livestreamed on Boteach’s Facebook and Instagram pages, Dee showed attendees an email he received from Amanpour where she apologized to him, claiming she “misspoke.” Amanpour also offered her condolences and said there was no “ill intent” on her part. Dee responded with a lengthy email saying he did not accept her apology because she spread false information to millions of people and asked her to apologize publicly; he claimed to have received no reply from her.

“It’s funny, CNN will correct the misspelling of someone’s name publicly, as will The New York Times, but CNN won’t correct this,” Boteach told the Journal.

Dee then claimed to have received a call from CNN Jerusalem Bureau Chief Richard Allen Greene separately apologizing for Amanpour’s error. Dee asked Greene if he understood the difference between his family being murdered by Palestinian terrorists and Israeli forces neutralizing the threat of Palestinian terrorists. Dee alleged that Greene replied, “I am not in a position to make a judgment” due to his position as a journalist. Dee had previously been interviewed by CNN on-air in April, and the segment ended with CNN London Bureau Anchor Christina MacFarlane saying, “Just as we heard Rabbi Dee’s story, coming up we’ll hear similar stories from Palestinians.” Dee excoriated CNN for drawing a false “moral equivalency,” telling The Jewish Chronicle at the time: “There is no equivalent on the Israeli side. I don’t know of any Israeli terrorist who has murdered Palestinians in cold blood in almost 30 years.”

SUCCESS: Amanpour Apologizes for ‘Shootout’ Comment after HonestReporting campaign

CNN’s top anchor Christiane Amanpour issued a public apology on her show on Monday for calling the murders of an Israeli mother and her daughters a “shootout,” following a 10-day campaign by HonestReporting that made waves around the world.

“On April 10, I referred to the murders of an Israeli family: Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee, the wife and daughters of Rabbi Leo Dee,” Amanpour said. “I misspoke and said they were killed in a ‘shootout’ instead of a shooting. I have written to Rabbi Leo Dee to apologize and make sure that he knows that we apologize for any further pain that may have caused him.”

On May 11, HonestReporting exposed an offensive throwaway comment by Amanpour during an interview with the Palestinian prime minister on her show the previous month.

According to Amanpour:
We have a young 15-year-old Palestinian boy who’s been shot and killed by security — Israeli security forces. We also have the mother of two sisters, Israeli British sisters. They were — they were killed in a shootout, and now the mother has died of her injury — injuries.

HonestReporting’s tweet calling for an apology, which included video footage of Amanpour saying that Lucy Dee and her daughters Maia and Rina “were killed in shootout,” has reached nearly a million views.

Upon seeing our expose, Lucy’s widower, Rabbi Leo Dee, issued a statement exclusively to HonestReporting, echoing our call for an immediate apology. That tweet has racked up a further 137,000 views, indicating significant public outrage at Amanpour and CNN.

HonestReporting contacted CNN to demand a public apology.

A spokesperson for CNN subsequently informed us that Amanpour had written privately to Rabbi Dee, who confirmed to us that he had, indeed, received an email expressing heartfelt condolences and apologizing for the pain that her words had caused.

SUCCESS: Following our campaign for a public apology, @CNN’s @amanpour says live on air: “I have written to Rabbi Leo Dee to apologize and make sure that he knows that we apologize for any further pain that may have caused him.”

See the full story here: https://t.co/ppmGQL5927 pic.twitter.com/PxWeyB0id0
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 22, 2023

On Monday, the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that an “extraordinary” meeting of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation will be held on Wednesday.

The topic? "To discuss the Israeli attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque."

In English, that means that Israel allows Jews to roam respectfully, quietly and freely on the perimeter of the holy site.

The statement indicated that the meeting comes "at the request of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the State of Palestine."

The ministry stated that it will be held at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 24.

The "extraordinary" meeting will be for the executive committee of the organization.

Those Jews just keep acting like they aren't second-class citizens, meekly following Arab and Muslim dictates. This is unacceptable!

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Last week, at the UN, PA president Mahmoud Abbas said that there were no historic Jewish ties to the Temple Mount, falsely claiming that Israeli archaeologists keep looking but cannot find any evidence.

This was an ad-lib; it was not in his prepared speech. One could perhaps dismiss that as a rant of an 87 year old man on the verge of senility. Certainly the world media didn't bother to even report on this absurd claim.

But the much younger, Western-educated prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Mohammad Shtayyeh, has outdone Abbas at his weekly cabinet meeting today.

In his opening statement, Shtayyeh - who has a doctorate in economics from the University of Sussex - said, "the Israeli occupation's sovereignty over Jerusalem is alleged, and its narrative is forged, not based on history, antiquities, or any scientific or objective input."

The holy city is mentioned hundreds of times in Hebrew scriptures, and thousands of times more in Jewish prayers, poems and rabbinic literature. Jerusalem is one of the central components of Judaism. And, yes, the scientific and historic evidence for Jews living in Jerusalem and for the Temple being on the Temple Mount are overwhelming and irrefutable.

Denying a Jewish connection to Judaism is to deny Judaism itself, and it profoundly antisemitic.

And this is the official policy and talking point of the Palestinian leadership.

This proves, yet again, that the fundamental tenet of Palestinianism is antisemitism. The Palestinian claim to the land, and especially to Jerusalem but also to Judea and Samaria, is based on denying, denigrating and marginalizing millennia of Jewish history and belief.

This isn't Islam. Muslims freely admitted the connection of Jews to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount before Zionism. This is a new historical revisionism - Jerusalem denial - that is particular to Palestinians and those who support the Palestinian positions.

Trying to rip Jerusalem out of Jewish belief and history is a denial of Judaism itself. And Shtayyeh has proven that mainstream Palestinian nationalism is nothing less than old fashioned Jew-hatred dressed up in modern clothing.

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05/22 Links Pt1: The Real Threat to Al-Aqsa Mosque is From Muslims, Not Jews; Do the Europeans know or care where their aid to the PA goes?; Iran infiltrated the Arab League

From Ian:

Bassam Tawil: The Real Threat to Al-Aqsa Mosque is From Muslims, Not Jews

If anyone has been desecrating al-Aqsa Mosque, it is Muslims who have been rioting and using rocks and fireworks to attack police officers and Jewish visitors. Muslim rioters -- not peaceful Jewish visitors -- are the real threat to the sanctity of the mosque.

Israeli authorities have clarified that the route of the "flag parade" absolutely does not include entry into any mosque.

Assurances by the Israeli authorities, however, have not stopped Palestinians and other Muslims from spreading fake news and libels against Jews.

Iran's terror proxies Hezbollah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have also used the celebrations in Jerusalem to spread the libel that Jews are planning to "desecrate" al-Aqsa Mosque.

As far as Hamas and other Palestinians are concerned, the very presence of Jews at their holy site and in Israel is supposedly a "provocation."

Hamas and several terror groups in the Gaza Strip, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad, also repeated the lie that "al-Aqsa Mosque is in danger."

When the terror groups talk about "resistance," they are referring to the need for terrorism against Israel, including firing rockets from the Gaza Strip, and attacks by stabbing, shooting and car-ramming.

"The people of Palestine have no historical rights to Palestine. They have no right that dates back 2,000, 3,000, or 4,000 years. The right of the Canaanites to Palestine is equal to the pharaohs' right to Egypt. Is it conceivable that any Muslim in Egypt would say: 'I am Pharaonic and proud of it?' Well, it is the same if a Muslim in Palestine said, 'I am a Canaanite and proud of it.' To hell with your Canaanite identity and to his Pharaonic identity. People, our history is simple and it is not ancient. It must not be said that the Palestinians have Canaanite roots. Our history dates back only 1,440 years.... The only thing you are allowed to say is: Oh Palestinians, you are Muslims." — Issam Amira, Palestinian Islamic scholar, al-Aqsa Mosque, April14, 2023

The Honest Truth about Hazards to Holy Sites

All too often, critics have charged the Jewish state with limiting Palestinians’ freedom of worship, specifically at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque. However, an honest examination of the facts and relevant international law reveals that the Palestinians are guilty of the very thing they accuse Israel of.

In this piece, we will examine some of the restrictions and threats facing Jewish worship at holy sites and archeological digs in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Temple Mount (Jerusalem)
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City is Judaism’s holiest site — a fact that is beyond dispute. According to oral tradition, as well as mystical sources, the Mount contains the Foundation Stone from where God created the world. The Midrash and Jerusalem Talmud furthermore state that Adam, the first man, was formed from the dust of the plateau. Then Cain, Abel and Noah brought offerings on the same mountain. In Genesis 22, the Jewish patriarch Abraham is commanded to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah, identified as another name for the site.

Later, King David purchased the threshing floor from Araunah the Jebusite (II Samuel 24:24, I Chronicles 21:22-30) in order to construct an altar. His son Solomon established the First Temple, the focal point of Jewish worship, around 950 BCE, with the Holy of Holies and its Ark of the Covenant placed on the Foundation Stone. Although the Temple is now in ruins, the religious status of Judaism’s holiest place never changed. The Jewish sage Maimonides (1138-1204), in his magnum opus Mishneh Torah, concludes that “a person must hold [the site] in awe, as one would regard it when it [the Temple] was standing.”

Nowadays, Jewish tours of the Temple Mount are subject to many constraints. The current state of affairs governing the compound goes back to 1967, when Israel captured eastern Jerusalem from Jordan. Days after the war, defense minister Moshe Dayan met with Islamic leaders in the city. Under informal agreements that are enforced to this day, non-Muslims are only allowed to visit the Temple Mount during certain hours of the day, walk along a narrow police-enforced path, and may not pray there. Furthermore, due to incessant Palestinian violence, Israel is often forced to close the Temple Mount for Jews during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

PMW: Do the Europeans know or care where their aid to the PA goes?

According to a recent European Union report, “Since 2008, the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland have provided over 14 billion dollars in official development assistance to the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinians.”

As part of the continued aid, the EU recently finalized a new 296 million euro aid package for the PA and the Palestinians for 2023. In the press release following the ceremony announcing the newest EU aid package to the PA, the EU noted:
“To that end 114.2 million EUR will support the Palestinian Authority in the payments of the salaries and pensions of civil servants, the social allowances to vulnerable families and the referrals to the East Jerusalem Hospitals.”

[Website of the Office of the European Union Representative
(West Bank and Gaza Strip, UNRWA), Feb. 2, 2023]

Since a considerable amount of the EU aid to the PA is spent on paying the “salaries and pensions” of the PA civil servants and on the backdrop of the PA teachers strike that has continued on since February 5th, Palestinian Media Watch decided to zoom in on the subject of the PA salaries to its civil servants since 2016.

The results of the examination shows a huge difference between the sum the PA reports to the world that it paid its civil servants and the sum PMW calculated to be the actual PA expenditure based on the PA’s own published labor reports.

PMW’s findings indicate, that in most years, there is a substantial difference between the PA reports - some years over a billion shekels – a sum which is even greater than the aid the PA received from the EU in that year.

For example, in 2022, according to the PA’s budget performance reports, the PA claimed to have paid its civil servants a cumulative sum of 8,114,105,436 shekels. However, according to the PA’s labor reports, the actual sum the PA paid to its civil servants was closer to 6,881,372,495 shekels, leaving a difference of 1,232,732,941 shekels or €302,374,788.

Since the EU is providing substantial aid to the PA, and wants to know exactly where every euro is spent, the question that the EU accountants/economists should be asking themselves is where is that aid money really going?

NGO Monitor: NGO Monitor Letter to the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) Regarding an Event with Al Mezan and Save the Children

Dear Members of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI),

We write to you to express our concern over DROI’s scheduled May 22 “Exchange of views on the situation of children in Gaza,” featuring Save the Children’s local country director Jason Lee and Al-Mezan Director-General Issam Younis. Based on detailed evidence, committee members should be alarmed by the obvious false claims, omissions and distortions that will likely characterize the presentations. Al-Mezan: Cooperation with Terrorist Organizations

Al-Mezan has collaborated and given platform to EU-designated terrorist organizations, including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). It also is a leader in the campaign for the indictment of Israelis by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

On March 18, 2023, Nafez al-Madhoun – an Al-Mezan board member participated in “Jurists Confronting the Occupier,” a legal event organized by the Hamas-affiliated International Center for Law Studies. Speakers included Hamas political bureau members Mahmoud Al-Zahar and Musa Abu Marzouq, as well as Hamas Palestinian Legislative Council member Mohammed Faraj Al-Ghoul.

Madhoun served as Director General of the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Legislative Council, from at least 2010 through at least June 2022.
Nafez al-Madhoun (2nd from left) participating in an October 2010 Hamas workshop alongside Hamas spokesperson Taher al-Nunu (far right), Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar (2nd from right), and senior Hamas official Mohammad al-Ghoul (center)

Revealing his rejection of Israel’s legitimacy, in an October 2010 workshop, al-Madhoun demanded to “take steps to start discussing what is the legality of this entity [Israel]…pointing to the illegality of the Israeli entity, even in respect to decisions by the UN…This entity, by its nature, is temporary…It does not have a territory nor sovereignty, and its existence is contrary to international law decisions…It is forbidden that anyone forgive even an inch of Palestine to the occupation…”

Similarly, on April 9, 2015 Al-Mezan, hosted a conference in Gaza about the opportunities for prosecuting Israelis presented by Palestinian ascendancy to the ICC. The event featured Hamas, PIJ, and PFLP representatives. Younis addressed the participants.

According to Al-Mezan, the conference dedicated a panel to “The Vision of the Palestinian Factions,” featuring Hamas’ Khalil Al-Hayya, Islamic Jihad’s Khaled Al-Batsh, and the PFLP’s Saleh Nasser. Al-Mezan’s description of the session included these organizational affiliations.

By Daled Amos

Why haven't CNN and Christiane Amanpour apologized for their obvious misstatement of fact from May 11?

A mother and her 2 daughters were gunned down by Palestinian terrorists on April 7. Even granted the squeamishness of the media when it comes to calling out Palestinian terrorism by name, Amanpour's report was outright shocking when she referred to the attack on unarmed women as a "shootout" --

pic.twitter.com/PQUPTfHx5R
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 11, 2023

This takes blaming both sides to a whole new level.

And it is even more cringe-worthy considering the pat on the back that Amanpour gave herself in 2016:

I learned that as a journalist I could not be morally equivalent and nor could I present false factual equivalence. I insist on being truthful, not neutral.

Truthful, not neutral. pic.twitter.com/gJgNwFyvWf
— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) October 13, 2016

The odd thing is that despite this boast, Amanpour did in fact publicly apologize for her bias in November 2020, after she used a reference to the Holocaust to attack Donald Trump. She started off with a reference to the anniversary of Kristallnacht:

It was the Nazis’ warning shot across the bow of our human civilization that led to genocide against a whole identity and, in that tower of burning books, it led to an attack on fact, knowledge, history and proof.

After four years of a modern-day assault on those same values by Donald Trump, the Biden-Harris team pledges a return to norms, including the truth.

But, in this case, the reaction against Amanpour's outrageous comparison led to a public retraction:

We can only hope that the pressure applied again by these organizations and by the Israeli government will again produce an apology by Amanpour.

Why is it taking so long, especially considering the obvious inaccuracy in calling the murder of unarmed women a shootout?

One reason might be that CNN themselves compounded the error and face the possibility of having to retract a second biased report on the cable network.

On April 10, CNN correspondent Frederik Pleitgen described the attack during Isa Soares Tonight in an even more convoluted way :

But earlier in the West Bank, there was a shooting incident where a car received a bullet shot, or gunshots, with the family in it. It was a mother and her two daughters, and the two daughters were killed in that crash. [emphasis added]

Journalism at CNN has deteriorated so badly that beyond blaming guns instead of the terrorists who fire them, now the bullets are blamed. Or perhaps the car that "received" the bullets is at fault? Then the death of the mother and her 2 daughters is blamed on the crash, despite the fact that the terrorists fired into the car after the crash in order to make sure their victims were dead. And of course, there is no mention of Palestinian terrorists.

Still, this would be a good opportunity for CNN to follow through on their declared goal to be less partisan, as reported in June of last year:

CNN's new boss, Chris Licht, is evaluating whether personalities and programming that grew polarizing during the Trump era can adapt to the network's new priority to be less partisan...

Details: Licht wants to give personalities that may appear polarizing a chance to prove they're willing to uphold the network's values so that they don't tarnish CNN's journalism brand.

Of course, Licht has in mind drawing Republicans back to the network. He is not overly concerned with how Israel views CNN. But if the pressure on CNN to fix an undeniable error can be maintained, CNN may see it to its advantage to have Amanpour apologize.

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Jewish Voice for Peace writes on their Facebook page:

“The Zionist argument to justify Israel’s present occupation of Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.” - Malcom X [sic]
This weekend, we are happy to celebrate prolific civil rights leader and Anti-Zionist, Malcom X [sic], on what would have been his 98th birthday. His last visit to Palestine in 1964 further highlighted the parallels between the plights of Black Americans and Palestinians, inspiring him to write an impassioned letter to the Egyptian Gazette entitled On Zionist Logic. In it, he declared his staunch support for the Palestinian struggle, equating Zionism with colonialism and urging African leaders to rally in support of Palestinians’ quest for freedom.

The Malcolm X article On Zionist Logic, from September 1964, is a clear example of classic antisemitism.

Its first two sentences prove it:

The Zionist armies that now occupy Palestine claim their ancient Jewish prophets predicted that in the "last days of this world" their own God would raise them up a "messiah" who would lead them to their promised land, and they would set up their own "divine" government in this newly-gained land, this "divine" government would enable them to "rule all other nations with a rod of iron."

If the Israeli Zionists believe their present occupation of Arab Palestine is the fulfillment of predictions made by their Jewish prophets, then they also religiously believe that Israel must fulfill its "divine" mission to rule all other nations with a rod of irons, which only means a different form of iron-like rule, more firmly entrenched even, than that of the former European Colonial Powers.

First of all, Zionists never claimed that the messianic age had begun or that their government was divine. That is an insane interpretation of Zionism that has nothing to do with reality.

But the other astounding thing about this section is that there is no verse in Hebrew Scripture that remotely claims that the Jews will "rule all other nations with a rod of iron." Malcolm X made that up. He created that quote to claim that the Jews are planning to make everyone in the world their slaves. Yet that fake quote is the key to his criticism! He even ends off the essay with "Where is their Messiah?" as he demolishes his own straw man.

If that isn't antisemitic enough, there's more.

On Zionist Logic creates a number of full-blown antisemitic conspiracy theories, claiming that Israel's offers of economic aid and technical assistance to African nations is simply a new form of imperialism and colonialism of Africa that he calls "dollarism." He further inverts history by saying that Israeli aggression forces Arab nations to spend their money on weapons instead of helping their own people, so Israel can claim that they are backwards nations and offer itself up as a model to Africa.

The number one weapon of 20th century imperialism is zionist dollarism, and one of the main bases for this weapon is Zionist Israel. The ever-scheming European imperialists wisely placed Israel where she could geographically divide the Arab world, infiltrate and sow the seed of dissension among African leaders and also divide the Africans against the Asians.

This is a warmed over version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion:

We will surround our government by a whole host of economists. That is the reason why science of economy is the principal subject taught to the Jews. We will be surrounded by thousands of bankers, traders, and, what is still more important, by millionaires, because in reality everything will be decided by money.

We set at variance with one another all personal and national interests of the Gentiles, by promulgating religious and tribal prejudices among them, for nearly twenty centuries.

... This policy will also help us to sow dissensions amongst all parties, to dissolve all collective powers, and to discourage all individual initiative, which might in any way hinder our schemes.

According to this paper, Malcolm X was very familiar with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and was in fact the one who introduced them into the Nation of Islam in the 1950s where it remains an important source of their Jew-hatred.

The underlying theme for these theories is that Zionists/Jews have unlimited funds to implement these plans of dividing and destroying the world, even though Israel in 1964 was not exactly an economic juggernaut.

Malcolm X was lying about the Torah, lying about Zionism, and spinning antisemitic conspiracy theories that come straight out of early 20th century Russia.

Jewish Voice for Peace, by endorsing this article, proves beyond a doubt that it is actively antisemitic.

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The Lebanese remain insane about anything remotely Zionist

A funny thing happened in Lebanon.

A large Star of David - with a dove of peace! -was seen in the port in Tyre.

Someone saw it and went insane, ripping it all apart.

But it turns out it was a prop for an anti-Israel event for Lebanon's "Resistance and Liberation Day" held every May 25. Probably Hezbollah or another group planned to use that Star of David as a centerpiece in a huge explosion or something that would symbolize the destruction of Israel and would make Lebanese cheer.

And one guy ruined all the fun!

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The Egyptian handball coach named "Hitler"

Here's an interesting sports story out of Egypt.

The Zamalek handball team won the African Cub, defeating the Al Ahly team. The coach says that he used psychology to defeat the other team, praising how wonderful they were before the match and that his team has many problems.

The coach is now bragging that he tricked them like "the Jews" do all the time.

What is the coach's name?

Ahmed Ramadan Hitler.

His brother, who plays professional handball as well, is Muhammad Ramadan Hitler. Their father was a professor, Ramadan Muhammad Hitler.

Cairo Scene noted in 2014:

In everyday life, the name of the former dictator [Hitler] is adorned everywhere, from store signs to street corners, antisemitism is found on TV channels, in cafes and in even among supposedly educated, liberal Egyptian homes. It doesn't take long on the streets of Cairo to before you find a copy of Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler's book outlining his ideological framework, which lead to the the slaughter of six million Jews during the second world war.

The vile text is rarely seen in public in other parts of the world. However, Egyptian booksellers, including the Zamalek branch of a well-known bookstore, believe that the text is so popular among Egyptians that it must be kept on prominent display.

The article notes the links between the Muslim Brotherhood and Nazi Germany, and shows how that admiration remains.

Hamas and Al Qaeda have their roots in the Muslim Brotherhood.

Egyptians aren't the only Arabs to have chosen to adopt the name of Nazi leaders. A Palestinian terrorist who went on a hunger strike in 2021 is named Ghadanfar Eichmann Abu Atwan, and his father is Eichmann Abu Atwan.

(h/t Ibn Boutros)

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05/21 Links: The ‘Nakba’ narrative is nonsense; Netanyahu calls out Abbas lies about Jewish history in Jerusalem; The whitewashing of Mahmoud Abbas

From Ian:

The ‘Nakba’ narrative is nonsense

In the years since Israel’s rebirth in 1948 a narrative has taken root, a story of well-armed and financed Jewish immigrants overrunning peaceful Palestinian villages, brutally expelling Palestinians from home and country. This narrative is summed up in the Arabic word “nakba,” or catastrophe.

In contrast, Israelis view their War of Independence as a battle of the few against the many, a battle forced on a beleaguered Jewish community by Palestinian militias and five invading Arab armies.

If, as is believed almost uniformly throughout the Arab world, Israel was born in original sin, if the Jews really did ransack placid Palestinian villages, murdering children in front of parents and parents in front of children and expelling whoever was left, then Palestinian hatred for Israel and Jews would be understandable, as would their fundamental refusal to really make peace with Israel.

Though this Palestinian narrative is credulously accepted by many Europeans and an increasing number of “progressive” Americans, it is nonetheless false, and contradicts basic historical facts. Israel was not born in sin—with a few justified exceptions there were no expulsions (for one of the justified expulsions, Lydda and Ramle, see here), nor was there any policy of harming innocents. On the contrary.

Thus, even as early as 1937, Israel’s founding father, David Ben-Gurion, wrote in a letter to his son Amos: “We do not wish and do not need to expel Arabs and take their places. All our aspiration is built on the assumption—proven throughout all our activity … that there is enough room in the country for ourselves and the Arabs.”

Ten years later, despite much violence and conflict, Ben-Gurion’s core beliefs about living in peace with the Arabs had not wavered. In a speech on Dec. 13, 1947, he said: “In our state there will be non-Jews as well—and all of them will be equal citizens; equal in everything without exception … The attitude of the Jewish state to its Arab citizens will be an important factor—though not the only one—in building good neighborly relations with the Arab states.”

Despite the Jewish community’s attempts to live peacefully with their neighbors, the primary leader of the Palestinians, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, chose to make common cause with the Nazis, declaring through his spokesman that the Arabs’ goal was “the elimination of the Jewish state.”

Netanyahu calls out Abbas lies about Jewish history in Jerusalem

The Jewish people have been in Jerusalem for thousands of years and will remain for thousands more, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, responding to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s recent claim that Israel is lying about its historic ties to the city.

“Abbas said days ago at the UN that the Jewish people has no connection to the Temple Mount and that east Jerusalem is part of the Palestinian Authority,” Netanyahu said. “Well, it should be brought to his attention that we are holding a special cabinet meeting in honor of Jerusalem at the foot of the Temple Mount that on which King Solomon built the First Temple of the Jewish people, and again, it should be brought to Abbas’s attention, the heart of the historic State of Israel, the City of David, was here 3,000 years ago.”

Netanyahu made the remarks in a cabinet meeting at the Western Wall Tunnels, honoring Jerusalem Day, celebrated last Thursday to mark Israel’s reunification of the city and liberation of the Old City in 1967. The cabinet approved a NIS 60 million budget increase for the Western Wall over the next five years, to upgrade infrastructure and encourage visits to the holy site, as well as archaeology and educational activities.

Abbas claimed at the UN event in honor of “Nakba Day,” marking the “catastrophe” of Israel’s establishment, that Israel “dug under al-Aqsa… they dug everywhere, and they could not find anything.”

“The ownership of al-Buraq Wall [the Western Wall] and al-Haram al-Sharif [Temple Mount] belongs exclusively and only to the Islamic Wakf alone,” he added.

The Temple Mount, is the holiest site in Judaism and the third-holiest to Muslims. Al-Aksa is the mosque on the Mount. The Western Wall is a retaining wall of the Mount, dating to the Second Temple.

The whitewashing of Mahmoud Abbas

Abbas isn’t just corrupt and a dictator, he is also an antisemite. His hatred of Jews stretches back at least to the late 1970s, when he studied for a doctorate at Moscow’s Institute of Oriental Studies. Abbas titled his doctoral thesis “The Connections Between Zionism and Nazism Between the Years 1933–1945.”

The doctorate claimed that Nazism and Zionism had much in common and that Nazis and Zionists collaborated. At the U.N. commemoration of the Nakba, Abbas stated that Jews lie just like Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. It would have been more accurate for him to say this about himself.

World leaders hoped Abbas was a moderate who would sign a deal with Israel and end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unfortunately, Abbas has done anything but. Even when he met with Israeli prime ministers, he was not serious about negotiating, and he has spent the last decade refusing to meet Israeli prime ministers at all.

Instead of putting down Hamas, Abbas has signed multiple deals with the terrorist organization. Most damning, Abbas has continued the P.A.’s “pay-to-slay” program that funds Palestinian terrorists and their families on a sliding scale based on the heinousness of their attacks.

Most surprisingly, instead of being shunned by the world—as a corrupt, antisemitic and terror-supporting dictator should be—Abbas has been embraced by world leaders. American presidents Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden have all met with and honored Abbas. Abbas is regularly given the podium of the U.N. Incredibly, he still receives billions of dollars in foreign aid for him to steal.

“Whitewashing” is a term used to describe glossing over crimes and immoral behavior by focusing on other aspects of the criminal. Ironically, many of Israel’s best policies, including providing medical treatment to people from around the world, sending help to natural disaster zones and providing equal rights to Israel’s most downtrodden citizens, are often besmirched as whitewashing.

This is ironic, because if there is whitewashing going on between the “river and the sea” it isn’t on Israel’s part. It’s the international community granting legitimacy to a corrupt Abbas and his Palestinian Authority when they are nothing but a crime syndicate.

Israel and Zionism stand for justice, pluralism and peace. From its inception, Zionism sought peaceful coexistence with its neighbors and Arabs living in the Jewish people’s homeland. Mahmoud Abbas embodies the exact opposite of every Zionist value.

Abbas’s war of instruction at the UN - opinion

Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels was quoted as saying: “During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.”

It is therefore highly ironic – and not a little instructive – that the President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas compared Israel and the Jewish people’s history to Goebbels.

Abbas has spent much, if not most of his professional life obsessed with the Nazis as a political and military tool in his aim to end the State of Israel as the national, ancestral and indigenous homeland of the Jewish people.

In his doctoral thesis from Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in Moscow in 1982, Abbas at the same time claimed that Jews helped perpetrate the Holocaust, and disputed the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Abbas' lifelong Holocaust obsession

He has never walked back these claims, and the thesis has been republished multiple times in various book forms, and still appears under Abbas’ list of publications on the official PA website.

It is this life-long obsession with the Holocaust, that led Abbas to even brazenly claim that Israel committed “50 holocausts” at a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin last year.

Abbas’ obsession with the Holocaust is part of a violent strategy to change a narrative and to put in its place a new one.

The first is to seek to change the nature and centrality of an event which he sees as ensuring the world’s sympathy in the late 1940s in favor of a Jewish State.

There is certainly some truth to the fact that coming so soon after the systematic annihilation of six million Jews, many nations felt both guilt and sympathy for helping to perpetrate this atrocity, or simply standing by and letting it happen. Others saw the moral justification of providing or returning national sovereignty to a people who could not defend themselves against genocide.

By belittling the numbers and scale, and claiming that it was somehow conducted with Jewish acquiescence, Abbas has attempted to place the blame on the victims.

When Arabs suggested a population exchange between their Jews and Palestinian Arab refugees

You know how "population transfer" is considered a major war crime nowadays? And how so many try to prove (and fail) that Zionist Jews planned to transfer Arabs from Palestine?

Here's a little piece of history that has been erased:

IRAQ FOR SHIFTING PEOPLE
Would Exchange 100,000 Jews for Palestine Refugees

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 15 — Nuri as-Said, Iraqi Premier, proposed to the United Nations Economic Mission to the Middle East during its brief visit to Baghdad yesterday that 100,000 Iraqi Jews out of some 160,000 to 180,000 be sent to Israel in exchange for 100,000 Palestine refugees, the mission spokesman revealed.

He indicated the refugees should be capable of performing the work of the Jews they would replace in Iraq society. The Jews would leave their property in Israel and take over the property in Israel of 100,000 Arabs.

Before 1949, mass transfer of populations were considered reasonable solutions to intractable problems between ethnic groups. Only with the Fourth Geneva Convention did involuntary transfers become a war crime.

This proposal was made after the Fourth Geneva Convention became international law. But no one had a problem when Iraq suggested this to the UN.

And it wasn't only Iraq.

Egypt also suggested such a population transfer to the UN Conciliation Commission for Palestine.

Egypt’s position on the refugee question was the one described in I.B.2 (b): They also did not seem to favour the absorption of the refugees by Transjordan and seemed to object to any attempt by Transjordan to assume the championship of Arab Palestinians. ... They mentioned the possibility of an exchange of Jews and Arabs.

In the end, there was such an exchange, albeit unofficial. A million Jews fled Arab countries where persecution became unbearable, and some 600,000 Palestinian Arabs ended up settling in Arab countries. But unlike the Jews who immediately became full citizens of Israel, the descendants of the Palestinian Arabs continue to remain stateless.

The only exception was Jordan, and as we see in the UN document referenced above, the other Arab nations opposed Jordan's naturalizing Palestinians as citizens. So much for being champions of the Palestinian Arabs!

Iraq did end up accommodating over 30,000 Palestinians who came in waves after 1948 and 1967. By most reports the Palestinians were treated well with the exception of not allowing them to become citizens, before the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Now the Palestinians are despised throughout Iraq, and most fled.

By any metric, the Arab world has treated Palestinians worse than Israel treated the Jewish refugees. Not only that, they have treated Palestinians worse that Israel has treated Palestinians.

And that's another piece of history that has been erased.

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This is Maria al-Hasani, whose father Eyad al-Hasani was head of Operations in the military wing of the Islamic Jihad before he was killed by Israel during Operation Shield and Arrow.

In the video, she says she is happy her father is a martyr, and says that the Jews will melt in hellfire, and Palestinians will kill them all.

I am Maria, and I am the daughter of Eyad al-Hasani, I love him very much, and I am very strong, more than all the Jews. The Jews are happy because they killed my father. They think that they are very pleased, but my father wanted (to die a martyr) and he got what he wanted. Now he is very happy in Paradise, and when you (Jews) will go to hell, you will melt (in the flames.) I don't fear you because you are cowards. If it wasn't for your advanced weapons it all would have been over with because you are a bunch of lowlifes. You don't even know the meaning of "Allah." We will pray in Al Aqsa, and my father is now a martyr. We will grow stronger and we will pray in Jerusalem. We will continue to bomb you and fight you until we liberate our lands, because this is our land and we must hold it. You will not stay here, and if you touch a single rock we will kill you!

Maria said very similar things in what appears to be an earlier, shorter video on TikTok where her handlers appear to prod her to hone her message.

She says again that she is proud of her father because he fought the Jews, he's in heaven while they are going to hell.

The person with the camera asks her if she wants him to upload the video and make her famous.

(h/t Abu Ali Express, Imshin)

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Newest Palestinian lie: The Jews created the quarters of Jerusalem's Old City, it is all really Muslim

The Safa news agency has a news flash:

"The Muslim Quarter, the Christian Quarter, the Jewish Quarter, and the Armenian Quarter” are all Hebrew names concocted by the Israeli occupation in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, claiming that there is a “Jewish heritage” in that holy spot, despite the fact that all its buildings and landmarks testify to its Arabism and Islamism.

Wow! Before 1967 there was no separate quarters in Jerusalem! This would be big news to Edward Robinson, who wrote in1841:

The inhabitants of Jerusalem dwell in separate quarters according to their religion,-Christian, Jewish, and Muhammedan. The Christian quarter extends along the upper or western part of the city, between the Latin convent at the N. W. corner, and the great Armenian convent in the S. W. including also the church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Jewish quarter occupies the northeastern part of Zion, and extends upwards so as to include the greater portion of the hill lying within the walls. The Muhammedans are in the middle and lower parts of the city.

And the all the landmarks of Jerusalem being Muslim and Arab would certainly surprise not only the Jews who lived there 2000 years ago, but also the Byzantine creator of the 6th century Madaba mosaic map which included depictions of various gates of the city as well as the Tower of David and Christian landmarks.

I found mention of the Jewish quarter in an article from the Times of London, October 26, 1818, that described how badly the Jews of Jerusalem were treated - demolishing the other popular Palestinian lie of how Jews were treated so well in Palestine before Zionism:

The Perthshire Advertiser, 12 Feb 1835, goes into more detail as to how miserably the Jews of Jerusalem were treated.

But even with all these deprivations, everyone knew that Jerusalem is still a Jewish city. The Kent and Essex Mercury (London), August 09, 1825, refers to Jerusalem as the Jews' capital.