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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

05/25 Links Pt1: Corbyn sponsored "Zionism is racism" conference; The Party’s Over for Pro-Israel Dems

From Ian: PMW: PA schools use plays to teach murder and hate Palestinian Authority education continues to poison Palestinian children with hate and terror promotion messages, even using cultural mediums like school plays. Palestinian Media Watch closely follows PA education and the messages transmitted to children and youth. A recent play at a PA high school for boys reinforced the PA libel that Israel fabricated the many recent stabbing attacks...

The Telegraph reported on Monday: The Palestinian militant group Hamas is to carry out a string of public executions in the Gaza strip, the patch of territory it controls. The executions were announced by Hamas’s attorney general in Gaza, Ismail Jaber. “Capital punishments will be implemented soon in Gaza,” he said. “I ask that they take place before a large crowd.” Thirteen...

In an article about the Temple Mount, the Times of Israel says "Jews believe the site was home to the first and second Jewish temples before being destroyed by the Babylonians and Romans, and thus revere it as the holiest site in Judaism." This is the sort of lazy writing that attempts to be even-handed and accurate yet fails. By saying that Jews merely "believe" that...

Abbas posing with released terrorist prisoners From Gulf News: Dozens of released Palestinian prisoners who had served decades in Israeli regime jails have not received their allowances for the past three years, said a senior Palestinian official. According to Eisa Qaraqei, who heads the PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, the Palestinian consensus government must...

05/24 Links Pt2: My First Hizb-ut-Tahrir Conference; Third UK Uni votes to Disaffiliate From NUS

From Ian: Dysfunctional Israeli leadership failing utterly in battle against BDS, state watchdog warns The Foreign Ministry has no overall strategy, lacks funds and is failing to achieve its goals in the battle against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel, a damning state comptroller’s report charged on Tuesday. State Comptroller Yosef Shapira’s...

Another amazing video by Ami Horowitz: Peace and love and bombing houses of worship, bro. My main question is whether any students told Ami to go to hell, and if so, how many compared to the ones on the video? It is entertaining and it is bad enough that any students say what they said, but are they the majority? (h/t Yenta) We have lots of ideas, but we need...

From Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign chief Mick Napier this past Saturday, a message on Facebook declaring, with regard to his group’s latest picket of a Barclays Bank branch in one of Scotland’s major cities: “Very good response from public today while pointing out Barclays' profiting from Israeli massacres via its investments in arms supplier Raytheon. The...

05/24 Links Pt1: Sanders Picks Two BDS Supporters For DNC Committee; PA glorifies murderer of Taylor Force

From Ian: From paying tuition to 'funding Hamas'? American Jewish filmmaker Ami Horowitz recently took to the lawns of Portland State University in an experiment, to quip at students and see how far he could draw out their anti-Israel, pro-BDS sentiment. Posing as a representative for a faux-organization dubbed "American Friends for Hamas," Horowitz set out to raise donations for the Hamas cause, explicitly stating that donated dollars would be...

From MEMRI: Egyptian political commentator Nabih Al-Wahsh accused Israel of downing EgyptAir Flight 804, and called for Egyptians and Arabs to kill any Israeli they come across and to mutilate his body. Al-Wahsh, a lawyer, filed a lawsuit with Egyptian courts four years ago in an attempt to abolish the Camp David Accords. Al-Asseema TV presenter tried to stop Al-Wahsh...

Mahmoud Abbas spoke at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul on Tursday, where he did what he does best - trying to hijack the summit to become yet another anti-Israel vehicle, and lying on a grand scale. Here is the beginning of his speech: We emphasize our support and our commitment to the responsibilities set out in the agenda of the Secretary-General for this...