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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

05/18 Links Pt2: Why does UNESCO Insist On Rewriting Israel’s History?; Palestinian Museum of Non-History

From Ian: Alan M. Dershowitz: A Visit to the Old and New Hells of Europe Provides a Reminder of Israel's Importance I just returned from a week-long journey through Hell! It began with a visit to the Auschwitz and Birkenau death camps in Poland, as a participant of the March of the Living, following a conference commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg Laws and...

PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat writes in Wafa: It is time for Israelis to confront reality: when the Zionists came to Palestine, there were another people living here. Over 100 years ago, a Zionist mission was sent to Palestine and their report acknowledged this fact: "The bride is beautiful but she is married to another man." And this: soon plans to displace Palestine's population...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Paris, May 18 - French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Marc Ayrault announced today that his country would postpone the Middle East peace conference originally scheduled for the end of this month, to allow for the manufacture and delivery...

05/18 Links Pt1: The Anti-Israel Poisoning Starts Young; The ‘peace process’ did not fail — the Palestinian Authority did

From Ian: Victory, not 'disaster' When the Palestinians speak about the "Nakba" and present themselves as victims and the Jewish Independence War as "ethnic cleansing," it's important to remember these facts. There is no doubt that they experienced a disaster. Losing a war is a disaster. When it is an all-out war, the disaster of losing is experienced in kind. But they are 100 percent responsible for their disaster, and they have only themselves...

The official Fatah Facebook page has a tribute to the 1972 Lod Airport Massacre, where three members of the Japanese Red Army recruited by the PFLP-EO attacked Lod airport, killing 26 people and injuring 80 others. Their post says "44 years since the Lod Airport operation (26 dead and 80 wounded) .. a thousand greetings to the Japanese warrior comrade Kozo Okamoto, champion...

I mentioned that Majida el-Roumy, the popular Lebanese singer who openly expresses antisemitic views, is no longer the Goodwill Ambassador for the UN's FAO. But her concert this week is sponsored by some brands that might not want to be associated with Jew-hatred. Orange's CEO famously expressed his desire to get out of the Israeli market, and soon after did exactly...

Video of Jews dancing in Morocco's airport goes viral

From Morocco World News: In a scene that speaks volumes of Morocco’s openness, tolerance, cross-cultural understanding and peace in face of difference, a group of Jews arrive at Casablanca Mohammed VI airport singing and dancing their ritualistic Talmudic dance as an expression of their gratitude for Morocco. The scene, which can rarely happen across the Middle East...

From Ian: Caroline Glick: Hillel’s moment of truth Two wars today are being waged against Jewish students on American university campuses. One is substantive, the other is institutional. The plight of the Jews at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island is emblematic of both. The purpose of the substantive war is to deny Jews their freedom as Jews. As the guarantor of...

I received this response to my inquiry from the UN FAO about Majida el-Roumi, their singer who harbors antisemitic opinions: Dear Elder, Thank you for contacting us. Please note that, as of July 2015, Mrs El Roumi is no longer an FAO Goodwill Ambassador and her comments do not reflect FAO’s values and principles. Regards, FAO Goodwill Ambassadors team This may or may...

Playwright Samah As I reported on my own blog on 7 April (http://daphneanson.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/in-australia-schoolkids-study.html) “the play City by the Sea, by poet, writer and activist Samah Sabawi, a Gaza-born (1967) Australian/Canadian, is now on the 2016 playlist for school students taking the Victorian Certificate of Education [the school-leaving...

05/17 Links Pt1: The French peace initiative is doomed to fail; Iran's Soft War Against America

From Ian: Time to Leave UNESCO - Again UNESCO's poisonous, fraudulent resolution is not only biased: it is negationist. All traces of Jewish presence in Jerusalem and Judea in ancient times are eliminated at the stroke of a pen. Only six countries voted to reject the resolution: the United States, Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. France, Spain, Sweden, Slovenia accepted the text and voted yes. The resolution...

From Tunisie Numerique: Security reinforcements arrived Monday in Djerba, in anticipation of the annual [Jewish Lag B'Omer] pilgrimage to the Djerba which runs from May 25 to 26. Extensive security arrangements have been made to the main point of access to the island and on different roads leading to the tourist area and the Jewish quarter and synagogue. The same protections...

From Al Arabiya: Mounis Hammouda and Hisham Shaban were stranded in Honduras, penniless after being ripped off by a smuggler who was supposed to get them to Mexico so that they could arrive at their final destination, the United States. The Palestinian men had traveled across the world to escape bloodshed and torture in their homeland, and desperately phoned a friend...

Arutz-7: Dozens of leading rabbis on Sunday evening took part in a special "Emergency Conference for the Security of the Nation of Israel in the Holy Land," where they spoke about the scourge of the current Arab terror wave that has claimed 34 victims' lives since last September. "Every Arab terrorist who goes out from his home with an intention to harm Jews loses the right...

05/16 Links Pt2: Phyllis Chesler: "Anti-racists" and feminists demonize only Israel; Greens’ anti-Israel propaganda funded by taxpayers

From Ian: David Collier: Antisemitism and terrorism supported by the NUT The first story to tell is that I had trouble getting in to an event and was eventually evicted. As someone who does nothing but *REPORT* on events, I find this truly disturbing. It is something that needs to be addressed urgently by both the PSC and the National Union of Teachers (NUT). I was a Jew who was simply thrown of the NUT HQ. As anyone who attends functions on the...