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Thursday, August 12, 2021

08/12 Links Pt1: Biden Admin Decision to Hide Info About Palestinian Terrorism From Congress Broke Law; HRW’s Inconsistency and Incoherence Continues; Abraham Accords, one year later

From Ian: Biden Admin Decision to Hide Info About Palestinian Terrorism From Congress Broke Law, Watchdog Says Biden administration officials may have broken the law when they erased information about the Palestinian government's terror incitement from a mandatory compliance report submitted to Congress in July, according to a legal watchdog group. The America First Legal...

The controversial demolition of the homes of Palestinian Arab terrorists is in the news again, following a terrorist attack in May: The Judea Military Court on Tuesday [August 3] convicted Muntasir Shalabi for the terror murder of 19-year-old Yehuda Guetta in a drive-by-shooting on May 2 at Tapuah junction. ...Shalabi, 44, was also convicted...

After every Gaza conflict, Human Rights Watch issues massive (and usually multiple) reports accusing Israel of war crimes - and then a perfunctory report saying, yes, Palestinian armed groups may have also committed war crimes by shooting thousands of rockets towards Israeli civilian centers.The May 2021 conflict is no exception. Human Rights Watch now has something that...

I read Palestinian news sites every day and see the crazy, funhouse mirror world that they live and think in.Today I saw something normal - which makes it extraordinary.The Association for Culture and Free Thought, in Khan Yunis, is organizing a summer camp for children in cooperation with the Research and Astronomy Center of Al-Aqsa University in Gaza called "Adventures in...

08/11 Links Pt2: Bret Stephens: The Cheap & Easy Sanctimony of Ben & Jerry; WaPo Finds a Way to Blame Trump for Rashida Tlaib’s Antisemitism; Building Israel’s Dust City

From Ian: Bret Stephens: The Cheap & Easy Sanctimony of Ben & Jerry The decision also called attention to the fact, unmentioned by Cohen and Greenfield, that the supposedly independent Ben & Jerry’s board that exists to handle its social mission was in no hurry to bless Unilever’s pledge to keep doing business in Israel. On the contrary: the Ben & Jerry’s...

(Judean Rose is taking off for several weeks.) Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal Jews have always been a minority in their temporary diasporic homes, and so they have usually been at the mercy of antisemites. If at a given time and place they are not actively persecuted, the possibility of persecution always remains, as European and even American Jews are rediscovering...

In June, UNRWA issued a press release:With no advanced warning, between 13 and 15 May 2021, the Israeli Air Force conducted strikes that caused damage to UNRWA installations, most notably to the UNRWA Zaitoun Preparatory Boys’ School “A” and Elementary Boys’ School “A”...The strike calls into question respect for the fundamental principle of inviolability. Thankfully, no displaced...

From Ian: ‘UNRWA is missing the point entirely’ UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer responded to UNRWA’s statement in which it announced a probe into alleged anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias by its staffers which was exposed in a UN Watch report. “UNRWA’s reply misses the point entirely. If the agency employs dozens of teachers and school principals who quote Hitler...

The Greek city of Kalamata hosted it s tenth annual Anti-Racist and Anti-Fascist Festival on July 24 and 25. Photos of the event show lots of socialist graphics and literature and perhaps 200 people in attendance.The first day of the festival had sessions on LGBTQ+, wind energy and Greek history. The second day featured the Palestinian envoy to Greece to give an anti-Israel...

The Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs issued a statement condemning Israel for doing...something..at the Cave of the Patriarchs, what they call the Ibrahimi Mosque. Nowhere in the entire press release does the ministry actually say what Israel is planning to do.The mentality of the racist colonialism dominates the government in the occupying state and its various...

Nabil Al-Jabri, who lives in Gaza, cannot find a job, and needs medicine for his son. He is a Hamas loyalist. He sent his kids to Hamas camp and shows off their souvenir trading-card style photos on his Facebook page.He's no sexist though - he allows his daughter to pose with weapons, too, as in this photo posted this week.As well as a son too young for the camp:One of...

08/10 Links Pt2: Diaspora minister: ‘We may lose US’ if liberal Jews continue backing BDS, BLM; The bride is beautiful: An irresistible anti-Zionist story; When Hitler’s Mufti Gave a Press Conference

From Ian: ‘We may lose US’ if liberal Jews continue backing BDS, BLM — Diaspora minister Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai warned last week that if liberal American Jews continue supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions and Black Lives Matter movements, Jerusalem may lose the support of the United States altogether. Making a guest appearance on the American...