Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
Andrew Pessin, Ellen Horowitz, Kweansmom, Richard Landes
Monday, December 27, 2021Elder of Ziyon
The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba will no longer allow Palestinian shoppers to make purchases on AliExpress.com, according to a text message that many buyers received from the company on Monday.
The reason for the move is that the Palestinian Authority's mail services refuse to handle packages that have the word Israel in the address. Many Palestinians do not know this and write Israel rather than Palestine as the destination country, according to N12.
Some Palestinians address deliveries to themselves saying "Israel," and - in the bizarre logic of the Palestinian leadership - they must be punished by not getting the goods they paid for!
Gee, the Palestinian Authority really cares about the people who live under its control.
The thing is, this is normal for the PA.
The PA could have worked with Israel to get Covid-19 vaccines, but they refused - because, Israel.
The PA tried to forbid Palestinians from shopping at convenient and affordable Israeli supermarkets in the territories - because, Israel.
The PA rejected a state multiple times - because, Israel.
I would be very surprised if Israel would refuse to deliver a package with the proper postal code addressed to someone in "Lydda, Palestine." Because post office delivery services are not the place to play stupid political games.
Any real leader would instinctively know that.
But the entire purpose of the Palestinian Authority was never to provide a safe place for Palestinian Arabs to live. It was never to serve the people. The raison d'etre of the PA is to be a means to destroy the Jewish state. Hating Israel and the Jews is more important than helping their own people.
The Palestinian Authority proves, every day, with its own actions, that it cannot and should not ever be responsible for the lives of the people it pretends to lead.
At this time of year-end recollections, we cannot forget that antisemitism has reached historic levels this year, including attacks on Jews in the streets of Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Southern Florida. But the year has not been entirely bleak. There has been good news. The fight against antisemitism is also surging. For those who seek silver linings in the dark clouds that gather, here are 10 positives from 2021.Telegraph ($): Israel Is the Best Thing to Happen to Christians in the Holy Land for Centuries
1. Surveys Document the Growing Problem
I know, this sounds like bad news. The Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, Hillel International and my own Louis D. Brandeis Center published reports confirming that antisemitism is spiking and that Jewish Americans often feel the need to hide their identity for fear of attack. But the fact that we’re now doing better research is positive. We now know, for example, that two thirds of American Jews have encountered antisemitism over the past five years. (And we can wonder where the other third have been hiding.) Such data spurs action.
2. European Commission establishes antisemitism strategy
In January, the European Commission published a Handbook for using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s crucial Working Definition of Antisemitism. This important publication demonstrated both the IHRA definition’s widespread international support, despite persistent naysayers, and its practical usefulness. The Commission followed up later in the year, announcing its first-ever official strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life. One can only hope that the United States will also one day develop a national strategy.
3. Biden administration embraces IHRA working definition
In February, State Department official Kara McDonald announced the Biden administration’s support for the “invaluable” IHRA definition and its “real-world examples,” similar to the support that the definition has received from the last few administrations. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed that the administration “enthusiastically embraces” the definition. The White House followed up with an important if barely noticed provision in its Spring 2021 Unified Agenda, committing the US Education Department to codifying former president Donald Trump’s Executive Order on Combating Antisemitism. In other words, the Biden administration is committed not only to embracing IHRA but also to implementing it.
Every year at Christmas, some Christian prelate warns of the fate of Christians in the Holy Land. This year it was Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Anglican Archbishop of Jerusalem Hosam Naoum.
But the state of Israel is the best thing to happen to Christians and other minorities in over a thousand years: a revolution for freedom against religious empire, a refuge for Jews, and a model of multi-ethnic pluralism at the same time. To the Archbishops' credit, they acknowledge that "In Israel, the overall number of Christians has risen," yet fail to note that this is the first time in 13 centuries that such a thing has happened.
There are, in fact, two Christian communities in the Holy Land: a large and prosperous Arabic-speaking population in Israel, where 182,000 live as citizens, mainly in the Galilee; and a smaller group of 50,000 Christian Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. The real crisis is here, under Palestinian rule. Data from a study by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research show that 2/3 of Christians in the Palestinian territories worry about rising Islamic sentiment, which drives economic hardship, emigration and decline.
Christmas offers an opportunity to thank Israel for safeguarding Christianity. If the Church of England wants a Christian renaissance in the Near East, it should extend a hand of friendship to the only country where that project is still viable.
Monday, December 27, 2021Elder of Ziyon
[O]ne recent morning, the three-story fairground was packed with 1,500 Palestinian youths, mostly boys, on an outing from four schools in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem. Seemingly oblivious to the geopolitics, the middle schoolers screeched in fear and delight as they plunged down the sky tower and hurtled around the extreme 360-degree Looper ride.“Most of the parents want their children to have fun more than anything else,” said Imad Karain, the trip organizer from one of the schools.Mr. Karain said he had received no complaints, though he did acknowledge some uneasiness about being in a settlement. Of the parents he said: “Politics doesn’t interest them so much. We want to live in peace and bring up our children in peace. We believe in coexistence and negotiations to solve the problem.”“Enough of war and violence,” chimed in Muhammad Baidun, an English teacher.The next day, Magic Kass was booked by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys’ yeshiva. And when the gates opened to the public in the late afternoon, the line was a mix of the religious and the secular, Jews and Arabs.Maale Adumim and Park Israel currently provide jobs for about 5,000 Palestinians and a similar number of Jews, including cleaning and maintenance staff and managers.
As the builders of an Israeli theme park try to hide that it's located in a war-crime settlement, West Bank residents see it as "an example of the two-tier legal system in the occupied territory that critics increasingly describe as a kind of apartheid."
They are hiding the gigantic theme park? A place where Arabs and Jews mingle and work together is "apartheid?" A place that provides thousands of jobs for Palestinians is a" war crime"?
Antisemitism rots your brain.
PA school kids taught that the Balfour Declaration is:
“The filthiest colonialist promise in human history”
“the ugliest historical injustice”
“Palestine is ours and will not be a homeland of the Jews”
“We will give our children’s blood” to undo Balfour Declaration, says Fatah official in Gaza
Girl from Fatah calls Balfour “a traitor of humanity,” vows to “fight… with the blood of Martyrs” to erase Israel
The Balfour Declaration was “a declaration of war against Palestine” – editorial in official PA daily
The Balfour Declaration helped Europeans realize two goals: “Get rid of the Jewish problem in Europe” and “ensure their colonialist interests in the Near East and Far East” – columnist in official PA daily
Fatah: “The Balfour Promise was and will remain the most shocking crime in modern human history” whose goal was “to empty the land of Palestine of its people” and “build a military apparatus” so that the Jews “would fulfill a role for the global colonialist system”
Former Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer this week defended his government's positions that encouraged the United States to leave the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, and supported Israel's current position that the US must leave a military option on the table and signal that Iran cannot develop nuclear weapons.Experts View Iran's Advance toward Nuclear Weapons
Speaking on Tuesday in a Zoom seminar held by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), in conversation with JINSA President and CEO Michael Makovsky, the former envoy said he stands by his previously expressed stance that US withdrawal from the deal (also known as the JCPOA) under the Trump administration was the single-most important decision that any president had made for Israel's national security.
While that decision didn't end the Iranian threat, it was a "critical means to an end" because the JCPOA provided a legal framework for Iran to achieve nuclear status once the deal's provisions ended, rather than block it entirely, he said.
"Because what the deal did is it put restrictions on Iran's nuclear program for a limited number of years, and those restrictions would be automatically removed," said Dermer, who served as ambassador from 2013-2021 before joining JINSA as a non-resident distinguished fellow at the JINSA Gemunder Center. "And contrary to what many people believe, the nuclear deal did not freeze Iran's program."
Under the accord, Dermer explained, Iran "was allowed to do research and development on more and more advanced centrifuges. So, the nuclear deal with Iran enabled Iran to advance their nuclear program, under the imprimatur of the international community – essentially gave a kosher stamp to Iran moving on a path not just on one bomb but to an entire nuclear arsenal."
Makovsky said that Iran is getting very close to a nuclear bomb, having enriched Uranium to 90% – one of the red lines that those discussing Iran were hoping would not be reached.
Dermer noted that even according to former President Barack Obama, whose administration helped negotiate the agreement, when the deal's provisions were scheduled to sunset, Iran would have had a breakout time of zero.
Sima Shine - head of the Iran program at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and former head of the research and evaluation division at the Mossad - explained earlier this month that Israel is faced with three main issues with regard to Iran: the nuclear program; the fact that Iran is close to Israel's borders in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza; and Iranian cyberattacks against Israeli infrastructure and civilian entities. "The closer Iran gets to a nuclear weapon, the more temptation there is to get there," she added.
Elliott Abrams, former U.S. special representative for Iran, said, "We see the behavior of Iran in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and Yemen. All of this is undertaken without nuclear weapons. One therefore must ask oneself: What would Iranian behavior be like if it felt safer because it had a nuclear weapon?"
He noted that it would be "destabilizing and terribly undermining of U.S. leadership and credibility if all of these pledges and promises by American presidents over the years turn out to be hollow, and it turns out they can be defied by Iran with no impact or reaction on the part of the United States."
The world order "is largely based on the credibility of the U.S., and if that credibility disappears, we have a whole different world....An Iranian nuclear weapon, in the teeth of the American pledge 'this will never be permitted to happen,' would really do damage to America's interests throughout the world."
Monday, December 27, 2021Elder of ZiyonGhassan Daghlas |
| Joseph's Tomb in the early 1900s |
On Friday evening, security forces prevented angry youths from burning Joseph's Tomb in the city of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.Local sources reported that an angry march started at night in front of Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, with the participation of dozens of young men, and headed towards Joseph's tomb in the Balata Al-Balad area, in an attempt to burn it in response to the escalating attacks by settlers.The sources stated that reinforcements from the security services arrived at the site of Joseph's tomb and spread around it, preventing the march from approaching it, and confrontations erupted between them and the march participants.
For the second time in the past few days, Palestinians attempted to set fire to Joseph's Tomb in Nablus. Palestinian Authority security forces fired tear gas to disperse the attackers.
— Khaled Abu Toameh (@KhaledAbuToameh) December 26, 2021
Ghassan Dahglas, who is in charge of the settlement file in the northern West Bank, confirms that the place is "a shrine, not a tomb, and not for the Prophet of God Joseph, peace be upon him, as the occupation claims."Dahglas denies that there is a tomb in the first place, and says that the Israelis came in 2011 with large stones carried by trucks, and put them down in the place, and later claimed that it was the grave, and he tells Al Jazeera Net, "This is Palestinian-documented," and adds that "all of this is taught by their children to preserve it for future generations and adopt the forged story."
Calling Jews liars and thieves for trying to claim a Muslim site as their own? Nah, nothing antisemitic about that!
There is nothing remarkable in the present structure. It is surrounded by a common -built stone wall, six feet high and thirty -eight inches thick , plastered on the inside with mortar. The space within the wall measures nine feet and five inches, from north to south ; and nine feet and thirteen inches from east to west. The corners nearly answer to the cardinal points. The doorway is in the northern side ; and opposite to it in the southern wall is a place for prayer, looking towards Mount Gerizim , and marked by a niche in the wall, over which are two slabs of stone, with defaced Hebrew writing upon them : similar niches are in the south -west and north- west corners, The tomb itself is built diagonally across the floor, and not parallel to the walls, as is usual, with the head towards the door, and the feet towards the south - west. It is built of common stone, plastered over with mortar. It measures seven feet two inches long, three feet six inches high , and three feet ten inches wide at the floor, but narrowing as it rises, and at the top terminating in a ridge. There are, also, two pillars built of stone and plastered over, in the same style as the tomb itself — one standing at the head and the other at the foot - having cavities on their tops, to hold the incense burnt by the worshippers who visit the place. The larger of the two measures nearly four feet in height, and three feet in circumference. The walls on the southern side of the tomb are scribbled over with names of Samaritans, Jews, and Mohammedans, written in their different languages.
Monday, December 27, 2021Elder of Ziyon
Israel is planning to ease a series of restrictions currently in place on the Gaza Strip, aiming to alleviate some of the territory’s economic woes and prompt the population to pressure the Hamas terror group to keep the calm, according to a report Sunday morning.Among the moves allegedly being weighed is increasing the number of work permits for Gazans in Israel and allowing some dual-use materials to enter. in coordination with the UN. which will ensure they are used for civilian purposes rather than terror, the Haaretz daily reported, citing unnamed security sources.
Informed sources stated that the resistance factions informed the concerned mediators, especially the Egyptian mediator, of their rejection of any Israeli solutions or proposals represented in a formal easing of the restrictions imposed on the Strip.In turn, the spokesman for the Islamic Jihad Movement, Tariq Ezz El-Din, said: "The Israeli talk about alleged easing will not deceive the resistance factions, and it will not be a substitute for lifting the siege, nor will it succeed in absorbing the anger of the resistance."
The Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" affirmed that the choice of comprehensive resistance, primarily armed resistance, and igniting the intifada in the face of the occupation, is the way to extract our rights, liberate our land, and defend our people, our principles, our sanctities and our prisoners, and it is capable of deterring the occupier, curbing his aggression, and stopping his crimes.
Gazans know who wants peace and who wants them to be under constant war.
Monday, December 27, 2021Elder of Ziyon
Sunday, December 26, 2021Elder of Ziyon(I've been working on my book, and this is a chapter I drafted this morning.)
Prominent anti-Zionists continually cross the line into
antisemitism, with little or no repercussions to their careers.
Former Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters was interviewed by Hamas-affiliated Shehab News Agency in 2020. During the interview he essentially quoted Nazi literature:
Sheldon Adelson, who is the puppet master pulling the strings of Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, and what's his name... The Ambassador [to Israel], Greenberg [sic] I think his name is. Sheldon Adelson is the puppet master pulling all of the strings. And Sheldon Adelson is a right-wing fascist racist bigot who doesn't understand the first thing about the idea that human beings might have rights. Sheldon Adelson believes that only Jews - only Jewish people - are completely human. … everybody else on Earth is there to serve them. Sheldon Adelson believe this. I'm not saying Jewish people believe this. I am saying that he does, and he is pulling the strings. [1]
There are no quotes by Sheldon Adelson that remotely
resemble what Waters is saying this “puppet-master” believed. However, similar
quotes abound all over neo-Nazi websites referring to Jews altogether. Waters,
knowing Adelson was a religious Jew, connected the fake antisemitic Talmud
quotes that are all over the Internet with every religious Jew, and Adelson –
as a “puppet-master” – was the most dangerous religious Jew.
Another example that was eagerly seized upon by the
anti-Zionist crowd was the “Deadly Exchange” campaign. Started around 2015, it
claimed that police exchange and training programs between local police departments
in the United States and Israel led to US police brutality that they learned
from their Israeli counterparts.
The charge is obviously and provably false. The training that
US police received in Israel was not on riot control techniques or anything
else to do with subduing people; the programs emphasized intelligence
gathering, counterintelligence techniques, border security, mechanisms to delay
terrorists on their way to a target such as checkpoints, site security for
terror targets like restaurants, shopping malls, preventing bombings, securing
airports and border crossings and performing mass rescue operations. [2]
But those facts don’t stop anti-Israel propagandists and heroes of the Left
like Rania Khalek and The Nation’s Dave Zirin from asserting that Israel
teaches US police “the arts of suppression.”[3]
The accusation veers into pure antisemitism because it
assumes that somehow local US police departments have no autonomy or agency of
their own. If, as they falsely claim, Israeli police taught them how to place a
knee on a suspect’s neck or other potentially fatal techniques, that would mean
that the local US police were somehow brainwashed into putting these techniques
into their own procedure manuals. It is another variant of the Jewish puppet-master
who bends the gentiles into doing its nefarious will.
Even Jewish Voice for Peace, which spent years pushing the “Deadly Exchange” lies, did an about-face when it enlarged its focus from purely anti-Israel activism into more general social justice issues. It quietly admitted that blaming US police brutality on Israel was, yes, antisemitic and the exact same thing that the alt-Right racists do:
Making connections between the U.S. and Israel without context can do harm Highlighting these police exchange programs without enough context or depth can end up harming our movements for justice. Suggesting that Israel is the start or source of American police violence or racism shifts the blame from the United States to Israel. This obscures the fundamental responsibility and nature of the U.S., and harms Black people and Black-led struggle. It also furthers an antisemitic ideology. White supremacists look for any opportunity to glorify and advance American anti-Black racism, and any chance to frame Jews as secretly controlling and manipulating the world. Taking police exchanges out of context provides fodder for those racist and antisemitic tropes.[4]
Tropes that JVP heartily encouraged only a couple of years
before, blaming US police brutality on Israel.[5]
Another example of how Zionists are the secret puppet-master
of hapless, defenseless gentiles comes from the United Nations.
A 2005 UN report on violence against women said,
Women with husbands explained that the dire economic situation and the pressures of the occupation have made men more violent because they have lost their ability to provide and protect - two essential elements of manhood in a traditional patriarchal society. As men become stripped of their manhood, women become the shock absorbers of the crises as targets of domestic violence.[6]
This blaming Israel for Palestinian men beating their wives
has been echoed by then-High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay in 2014[7]
and again in 2015. [8]
This might not be direct “puppetry” but the message being
hammered home is that Israel is responsible for domestic abuse of Palestinian women.
This is doubly bigoted: it echoes the theme of Jewish control over non-Jews,
and it infantilizes Palestinian Arabs as not being responsible for their own
lives.
Those two themes are accepted as truth in countless other
ways. Arab terrorism is Israel’s fault, Arab intransigence is Israel’s fault, the
lack of vaccines in the territories is Israel’s fault even when the Palestinian
leaders explicitly say they don’t want Israel’s help. Israel has all the responsibility
and Palestinians have none. What is that if not an echo of the traditional antisemitic
themes of Jewish control over the “goyim”?
[1] “Musician
Roger Waters On Hamas-Affiliated News Agency: Crazy Puppet Master Adelson Has
Donald Trump's Tiny Little Prick In His Pocket; Israelis Teach U.S. Police How
To Murder Blacks,” MEMRI-TV, June 20, 2020
[2]
See “Idiots
blame Israel for – Baltimore!”, Elder of Ziyon, May 7, 2015.
[3] See
“’The
Nation’ sportswriter blames Israel for US police brutality,” Elder of Ziyon,
July 28, 2015
[4] DeadlyExchange.org,
retrieved June 28, 2020
[5] “Israel
Security Forces Are Training American Cops Despite History Of Rights Abuses –
The Intercept,” Deadly Exchange, September 25, 2017
[6] “Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Yakin Ertürk,” E/CN.4/2005/72/Add.4, 2 February 2005
[7] “Report of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of Human Rights Council
resolutions S-9/1 and S-1,” ns A/HRC/25, January 13, 2014
[8] “Situation
of and assistance to Palestinian women: Report of the Secretary-General,” E/CN.6/2016/6,
December 22, 2015
By and large, Israelis intuitively understand that the BDS movement—with its aim to kill Jews, and eliminate the Jewish State, its demonization and double standards against Israel, and its tacit, if not explicit, support for violence and terrorism against Israelis and its Jewish and non-Jewish supporters—is inherently antisemitic.
It’s well past time that Israeli leaders caught up to the reality that antisemitism is present and a clear danger in Israel and those killing innocent Israelis in Israel and worldwide are acting on antisemitic motives.
Given BDS’s irrefutable antisemitic and violent nature, it is deeply alarming that Israeli leaders are soft-pedaling the antisemitic menace that BDS is. The war against Israel, for which BDS essentially serves as the public relations arm, is part and parcel of global antisemitism. Jews in the Diaspora and Israel are both targets in this campaign.
We must stand together against BDS and all forms of antisemitism. The war against Israel is rooted in antisemitism, and we must no longer inaccurately diminish the conflict as some kind of intercommunal, territorial struggle. Rejection of a sovereign Jewish presence in Israel, which BDS promotes, is antisemitic.
I call on Israeli Jews to forthrightly recognize the antisemitic war that has been unjustly thrusted upon them, as well as past and future generations, for so many decades, and stand together with their Jewish brethren in the Diaspora who are also under assault.
They must also demand that their leaders directly identify and combat this antisemitic menace and not dilute this real and present danger, which all too regularly kills and maims Jews in Israel and worldwide. Together, we can prevail against this evil.
Letter to Secretary General of the UN Mr. Antònio Guterres. "According to UNRWA, there are now over 5 million Palestinian refugees, the only people whose refugee status is passed on to the next generation with its own agency,
By not following UNHCR’s refugee resettlement standards. UNRWA now employs more than 30,000 people and has a billion-dollar budget annually, where more than 58% of the money goes to education.
With this data alone, we can already conclude that UNRWA and the Palestinian people have a differentiated international status, as no other people have as many economic and political resources as the international community.
On December 20, 2021. Mr. António Guterres, UN Secretary General, visited an UNRWA refugee camp in Tripoli, Lebanon. During the meeting, participants, including President Michel Aoun, reaffirmed their commitment to “openness, tolerance and coexistence”.
It is noteworthy that the Secretary is aware of the questionable fate of donations to UNRWA, financing of chaos and terrorism at the expense of quality education for refugees.
The camps that should provide refugees with quality of life and provide for their resettlement instead perpetuate their life of despair in refugee camps which have been “temporary” since 1949
In UNRWA schools across the Middle East, the doctrine taught is that the best way to honor the Palestinian cause is bloodshed. UNRWA has gigantic power, not only economic and political, but also influence, its structure has become a factory of extremists and terrorists who grow up believing in an ideal world where evil is represented by Jews and Israel.
9. U.N. Human Rights Council Ends Yemen Investigation After Saudi Pressurehttps://t.co/HWlk5iBwQO pic.twitter.com/ovHtD1WFKR
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 26, 2021
The 1942 animated film “Bambi” has charmed generations and has cemented its status as a cinema classic. However, the tale has a darker origin, dating to the antisemitism of 1920s Austria.
A new translation is looking to showcase the original text as a parable foreshadowing the fate of Jews in the Holocaust, The Guardian reported Saturday. Departing from the somewhat sanitized version audiences are familiar with, the new text is aiming to make clear the political and societal undertones that informed the original version.
The new edition will be published by Princeton University Press and released in the US on January 18, 2022, translated by Jack Zipes, a professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, and illustrated by Alenka Sottler.
Felix Salten, a rabbi’s grandson born in Austria-Hungry in 1869, wrote the iconic and poignant tale of the fawn bereaved of his mother by hunters in 1922, under the title “Bambi: A Life in the Woods.”
Salten was a product of the cultural blossoming in the capital of the Austro-Hungarian empire around the turn of the 20th century, a prolific writer who moved in the same circles as the likes of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
But beneath the trappings of prestige and privilege that were afforded Salten, a dark undercurrent of antisemitism was sweeping through Austria, a trend that he picked up on and that informed his writing while he was putting together this work.
“The darker side of ‘Bambi’ has always been there,” Zipes told The Guardian. “But what happens to Bambi at the end of the novel has been concealed, to a certain extent, by the Disney corporation taking over the book and making it into a pathetic, almost stupid film about a prince and a bourgeois family.”
Sunday, December 26, 2021Elder of Ziyon
I'm sure there is a rational reason that the death of 100 Palestinian civilians during a war where the terrorists hide among innocents generates huge protests worldwide....
— Elder of Ziyon 🇮🇱 (@elderofziyon) May 23, 2021
... but those protesters were nowhere to be found when 3500 Palestinians were killed by Syria.
Here's a colorized photo of Renée Dangoor, the first Miss Iraq, who won in 1947. She was Jewish. pic.twitter.com/QJPs8L5BZw
— Elder of Ziyon 🇮🇱 (@elderofziyon) June 8, 2021
Our sincerest apologies. pic.twitter.com/fkXDRQUGmO
— Elder of Ziyon 🇮🇱 (@elderofziyon) November 1, 2021
Ever wonder what the Middle East would look like if Israel lost in 1948?
— Elder of Ziyon 🇮🇱 (@elderofziyon) January 18, 2021
The borders might not be exact, but one thing is for sure - there still would never have been a Palestinian state.
And no one would be screaming for one, either. pic.twitter.com/93SZEO26LQ
Another item from my vault... pic.twitter.com/JGy05nVuWD
— Elder of Ziyon 🇮🇱 (@elderofziyon) November 25, 2021
Today is #JewishRefugeeDay.
— Elder of Ziyon 🇮🇱 (@elderofziyon) November 30, 2021
This is what ethnic cleansing looks like. pic.twitter.com/oZdZ3CIN4N
Palestine is a magical place where whatever your favorite social justice issue is, it is at the center. pic.twitter.com/FSOmmPOyfx
— Elder of Ziyon 🇮🇱 (@elderofziyon) November 8, 2021
Not a speck of dust on the bassinet. Truly a miracle captured by a @nytimes photographer without the slightest staging done, because that would be unethical, and we know how ethical journalists are in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/1lORjseov9
— Elder of Ziyon 🇮🇱 (@elderofziyon) May 16, 2021
Sunday, December 26, 2021Elder of Ziyon
Sunday, December 26, 2021Elder of ZiyonA Palestinian who opened fire at Israeli troops on Wednesday evening near Ramallah was shot dead by the soldiers who returned fire.The man, identified by the Palestinian Health Ministry as 26-year-old Mohammed Issa Abbas, shot at the troops who had entered the outskirts of Ramallah by vehicle.The IDF said that troops had entered the city’s al-Bireh neighborhood to arrest a number of Palestinians who had approached the nearby Israeli settlement of Psagot. While it is unclear if Abbas was connected to the wanted suspects, he opened fire toward troops during the search.
Comprehending this age-old hatred and the implication for modern Jewish life is what gave me the tools and knowledge to be able to lead the online activism content for a Jewish organization in Israel, called Act-IL.Ireland: Still No Room at the Inn
It is crucial that more non-Jews actively seek to end Jew-hatred the same way that White people want to play a part in dismantling systemic racism and the same way that men want to fight against sexism and sexual assault against women. It’s not only that there are simply not enough Jews in the world to combat the amount of conspiracy theories, false information and hatred directed towards the Jewish people, it’s also the decent thing to do.
During the last escalation in May 2021 between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas, the necessity for non-Jewish allyship became alarmingly clear. Antisemitism worldwide (online and physical) rose to levels not seen for decades, in part because of non-factual and non-nuanced posts made by famous anti-Israel activists and “progressive” celebrities during the escalation.
Though anti-Israel activists know exactly what they are doing when they share lies and information without context, progressive celebrities most likely think that what they are sharing is important and truthful, that they take the moral high ground, when in reality they are doing the exact opposite. However, the lack of empathy and research behind their sharing of biased and non-nuanced posts shows just how little they understand about the connection between antisemitism and the delegitimization of Israel.
If this kind of activity continues and influencers, who have five times more followers than there are Jews in the entire world, do not involve themselves in actively learning about and combatting antisemitism, this current wave of left- and right-wing antisemitism will only become more concerning.
Non-Jewish allies can be a key factor to combatting this wave of antisemitism and more should be done to reach out and include them in the fight against hate.
Ostensibly, the BDS movement's goal is to shift world opinion to declare that Jewish settlements in the historically-named areas of Judea and Samaria are supposedly illegal seizures of Palestinian Arab land. In truth, the principal and outspoken objective of Palestinian organizers of the BDS movement is the destruction of Israel.
In Ireland, Jew-hatred does not well up from the general public but seems clearly driven from the top down. These Goebbels-like attacks on Israel include salvos from several Sinn Fein members of parliament. One of them, Martin Browne, represents Tipperary and claims, falsely, that Israel created ISIS. Another, Matt Carthy representing Cavan-Monahan, has stated that Israel is the worst human rights offender on earth -- presumably dwarfing China, North Korea, Venezuela and Iran.
There is understandably some sympathetic sentiment among the Irish people for the plight of Palestinians, as there is also among Israelis, saddened to see people suffer unnecessarily under a brutal and corrupt Palestinian leadership, which has full autonomy over much the territory under dispute. The Palestinians long ago agreed, in the Oslo Accords of 1993, to settle those disputes by direct negotiation, not by external fiat.
All Israelis -- about 20% of whom are Muslims, along with Christians and Druze -- have identical rights under the law. Israeli Arabs can vote, have political parties and prominent job opportunities, and are members of Israel's parliament. The one exception is that Arabs are not required to serve in the Israeli military; in the event of possible conflicts with Arab states, Israelis did not want brother fighting brother.
Even more shocking was that fully a third of Irish members of parliament of voted to expel Israeli diplomats from Ireland.
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