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Saturday, October 29, 2016

10/29 Links: Papyrus Speaks Louder Than UNESCO; China, Israel, and a return to the cloverleaf world

From Ian: Muslim Imperialism Reaches the United Nations UNESCO has joined forces with Islamic State. The fundamentalists now have a new weapon: resolutions passed by servile international bodies. An earlier delay and the opposition of UNESCO's chief, Irina Bokova, had raised hopes that this act of jihadist, barbaric, unjust, and, frankly, arrogant supremacism might be voted down. It was not. Now a new lie was given the sanction of the world's largest...

10/28 Links Pt2: BDS thugs attack Israeli speaker at University College London

From Ian: Douglas Murray: The New Anti-Racist Racists There is a trait campaigning groups have that is well known. Once they have achieved their objective, they continue. Usually it is because there are people with salaries at stake, pensions, perks and more. Suddenly the SPLC seemed to spy a new fascism. The SPLC saw this new fascism in people who objected to people flying planes into skyscrapers, decapitating journalists and aid workers and...

Roger Cohen writes in the New York Times about how awful Israel is for its policy of "occupation": There is agreement on very little in the fractious Holy Land, but on one issue there is near unanimity these days: A two-state resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is more distant than ever, so unimaginable that it appears little more than an illusion sustained...

From Palestinian Media Watch: The Palestinian Authority often assures its people that among its top priorities is the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israel - most of whom are convicted for terrorist crimes including murder. Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat recently reiterated this, terming actions of terrorist prisoners as "acts of heroism", and stating that Palestinians...

10/28 Links Pt1: Phillips: Palestinians step up the jihad of the lie; Glick: Checkmating Obama

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Palestinians step up the jihad of the lie The claim that Britain gave a Palestinian country to the Jews is a lie. On July 24 1922, the League of Nations unanimously gave its recognition to “the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.” As a result, it gave Britain a mandate to settle the Jews there as of right. In 1917 the Arabs...

The New York Times reports: The leaders of the two main Palestinian factions met on Thursday in the latest attempt to reconcile after a nine-year schism that has divided their people and complicated efforts to negotiate peace with Israel. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, run by the Fatah faction, met in Qatar with Khaled Meshal, the political...

EoZTV: Interview of scholar Manfred Gerstenfeld, part 1

In July, I interviewed antisemitism expert and prolific author Manfred Gerstenfeld in his Jerusalem home. Here is part 1 of the interview where he gives an overview of the three main stages of antisemitism over the past 2000 years. We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate today to help get the message out and to help defend Israe...

Official "moderate" Fatah logo, complete with weapons, hand grenade and map of all of Israel Fatah is planning to hold its Seventh Congress sometime next month. These rare meetings are very important because Fatah is what dominates the PLO, which the Palestinian Authority answers to. So who controls Fatah controls the Palestinians. During the Sixth Congress in 2009,...

Possibly the first film of the Kotel, and other Jerusalem scenes, 1911 (update)

I saw this as part of a 1963 documentary on Jerusalem directed by David Perlow. It is an interview with a cinematographer who filmed scenes from Jerusalem in 1911, including the Kotel. (h/t Mike) UPDATE: Entire film here. (h/t EoL) We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate today to help get the message out and to help defend Israe...

10/27 Links Pt2: Collier: The Jew, the Zionist and antisemitism at the House of Lords; Balfour 100 years later

From Ian: Abraham Bell & Eugene Kontorovich: Palestine, Uti Possidetis Juris, and the Borders of Israel Israel’s borders and territorial scope are a source of seemingly endless debate. Remarkably, despite the intensity of the debates, little attention has been paid to the relevance of the doctrine of uti possidetis juris to resolving legal aspects of the border dispute. Uti possidetis juris is widely acknowledged as the doctrine of customary...

Yesterday was one of the more sickening scenes at the House of Lords: "If anybody is antisemitic, it's the Israelis themselves"; panel applauds; hard to believe, but this happened this week at House of Lords pic.twitter.com/L8v4cARnK8 — Yiftah Curiel (@yiftahc) October 26, 2016 When Sussex Friends of Israel posted this on Facebook, they wrote: WATCH-Member of audience...