Thursday, April 28, 2022

  • Thursday, April 28, 2022
  • Elder of Ziyon
In August, 1943, small items appeared in some American newspapers indicating that, by the way, 3,000,000 Jews had been murdered so far during the war.


The 300 page report by the Institute for Jewish Affairs was remarkably detailed, indicating that the news of the Holocaust was getting out - but no one besides Jews cared to listen.

Titled "Hitler's Ten Year War on the Jews," it goes through every country and every region in Nazi-occupied Europe and describes what happened to the people there.

It even includes counts of deaths and deportations by country as of 1943.

The New York Times reproduced this table in their one column article on this report - on page 7.

The report authors knew about gas chambers too, although not the details nor the extent of their use:
From an eyewitness who had been in Treblinka B, known throughout Poland as the “slaughterhouse,” has come a detailed account accompanied by a map. The camp of Treblinka B, which lies conveniently close to a railroad siding that receives transports directly from Warsaw, is the main extermination center where most of the Jews of Warsaw, and many from other ghettos have been murdered. When the victims arrived, they were told that they were in a quarantine distribution center for labor camps. On this excuse, they were ordered to undress for disinfection. They then were driven to the death house, a concrete windowless structure containing several chambers lined with steam pipes. Women and children first, the Germans ordered. The floors are wet, slippery; the victims fall, and others pile in on top of them. When the chambers have been packed to capacity, they are hermetically sealed, and the hot steam is released through the pipe-vents.
In short, no one can claim that the West was ignorant about the genocide of Europe's Jews. The media and the politicians knew very well. They chose not to do anything, or to portray the Jews pleading for help as exaggerating.

Jews cannot rely on others for their safety.





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Wednesday, April 27, 2022

From Ian:

Dani Dayan: We're all obligated to remember the victims of the Holocaust
"Dear Berthe, this is already the fourth day. I am on the train car now. I hope, my child, that you will be able to live as a free person, even though, for now, you are without your parents. I'm traveling in the confidence that you will grow up to be a good, healthy, and smart girl. I hope to see you again soon, your father." These were the final words Aaron Livrente wrote to his daughter in March 1943, before throwing the letter from the train that had departed the Drancy internment camp in France for the Majdanek death camp in Poland, where he was murdered.

This year, the central focus of Holocaust Remembrance Day is the transport of Jews during the Holocaust. Within the framework of the "Final Solution," the Nazis and their collaborators uprooted millions of Jews from their homes and sent them to their deaths on trains destined for the death camps, ghettos, and concentration camps.

These deportations tore exiled Jews from the world of the humane, robbing them eternally of all they had known. This systematic operation was a historic event that destroyed Jewish communities – most of them entirely. The crowdedness and lack of basic conditions on the train cars were insufferable. Many found their deaths on these tortuous journeys. Some attempted to pass information to their loved ones in various ways, writing letters on pieces of paper they threw from the cars in the hopes they would somehow be found and delivered.

Others tried escaping by jumping from the trains. Few survived; many more died or were caught and turned in to the Germans by locals.

For many Jews, the deportations marked the beginning of the end. Every boy or girl, grandmother or grandfather, woman or man on those train cars – was a human being. A human being with names, desires, and aspirations.
Ruthie Blum: What do we mean when we say, 'never again'?
For one thing, most Israelis are too concerned with their personal safety in the face of shootings, stabbings, car-rammings, and Molotov cocktails to worry about the purity of their souls and adherence to an unrealistic "rules of engagement" doctrine.

For another, the very real possibility of a nuclear Islamic Republic is both looming and concrete, with Iranian forces and proxies stationed along Israel's borders.

Israelis are aware as well that Tehran is among those fanning the violent fervor of young Arabs desecrating their cherished Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem by spreading the lie that Israeli forces are "storming" and "defiling" it.

Such pressing security threats, with no end in sight, help to explain the results of a poll released this week by the Pnima movement. According to the survey, conducted by Direct Polls, nearly half of the Israeli public, 47%, fears another Holocaust against the Jews.

To be sure, this level of existential anxiety may be misplaced or a function of general dread on the part of a certain slice of society. Still, given the steep rise in global Jew-hatred, coupled with the spike in terrorism against Israelis and the P5+1 countries' desperation to return to a deal that fills Iran's coffers and guarantees its ayatollah-led regime an arsenal of atomic bombs, it's not completely irrational. It's especially understandable when explicit calls for the extermination of the Jews have become so commonplace inside Israel and abroad.

Nevertheless, doomsday scenarios are not constructive. They certainly aren't conducive to a "never again" mindset or outcome, both of which require internal resolve and military might.

The same applies to those Israelis who opt to learn the wrong lessons from the Holocaust. Embracing the bogus comparison between Hitler's "final solution" and other conflicts is as ill-fated as believing that a repeat performance is inevitable. And even entertaining the idea that the Jewish state is on some kind of slippery slope to Nazism – when it's forced to defend itself against the terrorists in its midst and beyond its shores – is immoral.

These are the messages that should be going through our heads when we stand in silence on Thursday morning for the two-minute sirens that will sound everywhere in the country. Reminding ourselves of their value is the least we can do to honor the dead, pay tribute to the survivors, and mean it when we say "never again."
What have we really learned from Yom Ha’Shoah?
In my mind, Yom Ha’Shoah is not a day for crying… it’s a day for learning… which is permitted during the month of Nissan. Just 12 days before Yom Ha’Shoah – at the seder table – we sang “Ve’hee sheh’amda”. Did you pay attention to those words, especially the line that says; “In every generation they stand ready to destroy us…”??? Sadly, most Jews forget and think that all of the bad days are behind them. Nazis in Europe… who would have imagined? Hamas in Israel? Not possible. Skinheads in America? Not here. Pogroms in Paris? Maybe a long time ago. Therefore, Yom Ha’Shoah comes along to teach, to remind, to educate and to wake up a sleeping nation.

Even in Israel, a major wake-up call is needed. People tend to think that the bad guys are just in Gaza but the last month saw an unfortunate wave of terror from Arabs who lived in Jenin, Jerusalem and even Israeli-Arab citizens from cities near Hadera and Netanya. We had terror attacks from Bedouin Arabs (but I thought they just live in tents and take care of their sheep?) and also from religious Arabs celebrating their holy festival (no comment). There was terror in Hebron but also in Bnei Brak and Tel Aviv… and yes, during Pesach there were missiles fired from Gaza into Sderot.

Wake up, my brothers and sisters! Wake up NOW!!! Yom Ha’Shoah is not just the day to remember the past… it’s a day to focus on the present and the future. The enemy is alive and well and we must unite in our efforts to defeat it, sooner than later.

Therefore, on this 27th of Nissan – and the days after it as well – help strengthen the Jewish nation in any way you can. If your area of expertise is davening, then daven that Hashem pour His wrath upon those nations who oppress us (another line from the Haggadah…). If your specialty is learning then dedicate your Torah study to the IDF fighters on the front lines fighting Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, Iran and all of our enemies.

And finally, on this day, decide that enough is enough and you – and your family - are joining the fight yourselves. Make the commitment, if you are not here already, that your future is in Eretz Yisrael to build, settle and defend the Land of Israel as long as Hashem gives you strength. Trust me that, according to all opinions, that is a Yom Ha’Shoah worth commemorating, even in the month of Nissan.

They call it the Nakba, the disaster, pretending they were expelled. We call it a lot of people turning tail.  Whatever you call it, it happened after the nascent State of Israel was attacked by multiple Arab nations, just for declaring independence from British rule.

The vast majority of Arab residents left Israel of their own volition. No one forced them out of their homes. They could have stayed. But they didn’t.

Why did the Arabs flee? For one things, the leaders of the invading Arab armies told them to leave. In effect, the Arabs who fled at the behest of Arab heads of state, were told that they should get out of the way while they made short shrift of the Jews and pushed them into the sea. Then, they intimated, the Arab residents who fled could return to their homes, free of Jews forever, while enjoying the spoils left behind by a presumably exterminated people.

History, however, proved these leaders, and the runners who listened to them, wrong. Little Israel/David defeated Goliath, in the form of the multitude of soldiers who poured into the new Jewish State from five separate Arab countries to murder Jews and take their land. It may have been a Nakba/Disaster, but it was a disaster of their own making (the idjits). Not only because they lost, but because they became political pawns in perpetuity, kept in refugee camps by their own people—but the losers—blaming it on Israel.

On the bright side, the Arabist world of antisemites, took their side and called them “refugees,” changing the definition of that word forever, but only for those who ran away from Israel in 1948. That meant they could get lots of money and stuff from UNRWA, and be lamented by the media and other entities and people biased against Jews and their indigenous land rights. They also inflated the number of “refugees” so the situation looked far worse than it was, and so more people could claim hereditary rights to land that was never theirs in the first place.

It’s all one big sack of lies. Expulsion? Nonsense. The kind of nonsense that froufrou psychopathic self-hating Israelis just love to trumpet. From the Im Tirtzu booklet "Nakba Nonsense" (Erez Tadmor, Erel Segal):

Teddy Katz, a graduate student from Haifa University, wrote an MA thesis entitled "The Tantura Massacre." Katz determined that the soldiers of the Alexandroni Brigade had perpetrated a massacre on approximately 200 unarmed men who had resided in the village of Tantura. Veterans of the brigade sued Katz for having published a libel, and in a compromise agreement it was determined that Katz would retract his accusation and would publish an apology in the press. Katz signed the agreement and the press release, but soon went back on his word and submitted a petition to the Supreme Court that was eventually rejected. It was discovered that Katz had distorted and completely modified witness accounts he had collected from the villagers. The archives which had documented the battle, the comparison of the alleged numbers of casualties with the number of residents of the village and a book which had been written by one of the villagers all proved that Katz's thesis had been false. Apparently, until Katz had appeared, not even the residents of the village had claimed that a massacre had taken place there. Haifa University had no other choice but to disqualify the thesis.

Do not delude yourself in thinking that this was just one false claim in a sea of truth. The Nakba is rather, a lie cut from whole synthetic cloth. There was no ethnic cleansing, they could have stayed and lived in peace.

But the lies have flowed for decade, from one mouth to the next to the entire world, all of them telling lies about Israel. More from "Nakba Nonsense":

One of the most prominent stories concerns the case of Haifa. In 1948 the second-largest Arab community in the country resided in Haifa; the largest Arab community resided in Jaffa. Haifa was the home of the Arab elite and leadership classes of the northern part of the country and before the war erupted counted 62,500 Arab inhabitants. At the end of the war no more than a few thousand remained. No less than a tenth of the Arab refugees who had left the country in the years 1947-1949 originated from Haifa.

One of [Efraim] Karsh's most interesting findings is that although the fighting in Haifa reached its peak on April 21-22, 1948, the mass desertion of Arabs from the city had already begun in October 1947, a month prior to the UN Resolution of November 29th that had prompted the start of the war. A British intelligence brief dated October 23, 1947 reveals that the city's most prominent families realized that the confrontation was imminent and began to evacuate their families to the Arab countries.

On November 21, a week before the UN vote, there were already reports about a wave of evacuations, and two weeks after the war began there were reports of a mass evacuation of 15,000-20,000 of the city's Arabs. The evacuation created mass hysteria among the remaining inhabitants. Business owners sold their property and moved their enterprises to Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. At the same time, the city was filled by a stream of volunteer combatants from Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.

The Arab leadership of Haifa was slack and passive and it quickly lost control of both the local armed gangs and the fighters who had come from outside the country. The desertion of a third of the city's Arabs before the fighting had even begun led the Haifa Arab National Committee to ask Arab governments to arrange appropriate shelter for refugees from the city. In March, the city's Arab Committee had already called for an orderly evacuation of the women and children. An Egyptian ship was leased to assist in the evacuation. When the Haganah arrived in the city on April 21, 1948 only about half of the city's inhabitants remained.

On April 22, as Haganah forces approached the city's marketplace, thousands fled in a mass panic. At this stage we get a glimpse of the astonishing picture of what actually transpired throughout the entire war. We see the truth of the big Nakba lie. The leadership of those Arabs who had remained in the city urgently appealed to Haifa’s British military commander, Major General Stockwell, and requested him to arrange an immediate truce with the Jewish forces. The Haganah submitted its terms for the truce and the Arab Committee requested 24 hours before responding. When they returned to the negotiations, the Arab Committee announced that they were not in control of the military elements and guerrilla forces in the city and that, even if they did have control over them, they would not be in a position to sign the truce. They therefore requested the British Commander to provide assistance for an orderly evacuation of the city's population.

Their statement astounded their interlocutors. The mayor of the city, Shabtai Levy, who had for years maintained personal friendships with some of the Arab notables, begged them to reconsider saying that they were ”committing a cruel crime against their own people”. Yaacov Salomon, the Haganah liaison in the negotiations gave his word on behalf of the regional commander that the Arabs who remained in the city would be allowed to live in peace and would enjoy equal rights, saying that the leadership of the Jewish community was interested in continuing to maintain harmonious relations in the city. The British Major-General Stockwell told the Arabs in an agitated tone: ”You have made a foolish decision. Think it over, as you'll regret it afterward. You must accept the conditions of the Jews. They are fair enough. … After all, it was you who began the fighting, and the Jews have won.”

The following day, the Arabs again met with Stockwell to discuss the practicalities of the upcoming evacuation. They requested eighty trucks a day and assistance for food and other provisions; only a few of the city’s thousands of Arab inhabitants were interested in staying behind. Even after the Arabs' announcement, the Haganah forces informed Arab residents in a variety of ways, including radio and leaflet distribution, that they had no intention of harming them. During Passover, the Haganah even instructed bakeries to bake bread for the Arabs who remained in the city. The British Police Commander noted in a letter that “Every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay and carry on with their normal lives.”

Similar reports appear in the documents of the American and British consulates, as well as in the archives of the Haganah. The British continued to beseech the Arab leadership to reconsider its decision, but the response was always given: “We will not sign … All is already lost, and it does not matter if everyone is killed so long as we do not sign the document.”

The Arabs have since argued that the terms they were offered were humiliating, but the real reason can be found in the documents of the time. Karsh has revealed that many Arabs were warned that if they returned to their homes they would be denounced as traitors who deserved to die. The Arab Emergency Committee, which consisted of prominent Arab leaders, warned a large group of Arabs from Wadi Nisnas who were about to return to their homes that the Jews would not spare anyone and that even women and children would be murdered. To this was added a promise to the remaining Arab residents that the evacuation to a safe haven would be orderly.

As Karsh writes, the significance of all of this cannot be overstated. The fact of the matter is that the massive evacuation of the Arabs of Haifa was carried out and managed by the official local representatives of the Higher Arab Committee. ”The only question is whether those representatives did what they did on their own, or under specific instructions from above,” notes Karsh.

Throughout the negotiations between the Arab Committee and the Haganah, the former sought to receive authorization from the Higher Arab Committee and the Arab League to sign the compromise agreement. Again and again, the Committee received negative answers and was instructed to evacuate immediately. When they protested the decision, they were told that Arab forces were expected to invade within days and that consequently a vast number of casualties were foreseen. Further, they were told that they would be held responsible for any deaths among the Arabs who remain in the city.

In addition, members of Haifa's Arab Committee testified that they had been warned by the Higher Arab Committee that if they signed the agreement they would be subject to the death penalty at the hands of their own people, with the reference being mainly to the Mufti Al Husseini and his men. On April 25, 1948, the American consulate reported that local leaders taking orders from the Mufti were urging the residents to evacuate. Sir Alan Cunningham, the British High Commissioner of Palestine, said: ”British authorities in Haifa have formed the impression that total evacuation is being urged on the Haifa Arabs from higher Arab quarters and that the townsfolk themselves are against it.”

A Yemenite family walking through the desert to a reception camp set up by the American Joint Distribution Committee near Aden (Copyright: Israel National Photo Archive)

Of the wild inflation of the number of Arabs who left, Tadmor and Segal say:

In contrast to the 560,000 Arab refugees from the War of Independence, most of who left without having seen a single Israeli soldier, between 800,000 and 900,000 Jews fled Arab countries. To restate those numbers, for every displaced Arab, one and half Jews were forcibly evicted from their homes. While the Arabs in Israel participated in the military conflict in which they sought to eliminate the Jewish presence in Israel, the Arabs in Arab countries repeatedly massacred Jews without any provocation or military excuse, but simply because they were Jewish. Thanks only to the establishment of the State of Israel, these Jews had somewhere to flee . . .

. . . The Palestinian refugees paid the price for their leaders’ declarations of war and destruction, yet despite the passage of 60 years, they are still stewing in their own juices and wallowing in self-pity. Why? Political motives. So long as the goal of their rehabilitation is not met, the purpose of preserving their refugee status is the elimination of the Jewish State by the right of return. The Jewish property that was expropriated or left behind in Arab countries is worth considerably more than the Arab property left behind in Israel. Economist Sidney Zabludoff, estimates that the value of the Arab property is 3.9 billion dollars, compared with the value of the Jewish property which calculated to be 6 billion dollars (according to 2007 values).

Operation "Magic Carpet"- Jews from Yemen in an airplane on their way to Israel (Copyright: Beit Hatfutsot)

Select quotes from “Palestinian Refugees, Invited to leave in 1948” from Eretz Yisroel add additional proof that the “Nakba” was a disaster of Arab making:

The people are in great need of a "myth" to fill their consciousness and imagination....

-- Musa Alami, 1948

Since 1948 Arab leaders have approached the Palestine problem in an irresponsible manner.... they have used the Palestine people for selfish political purposes. This is ridiculous and, I could say, even criminal.

-- King Hussein of Jordan, 1960

Since 1948 it is we who demanded the return of the refugees...  while it is we who made them leave.... We brought disaster upon ... Arab refugees, by inviting them and bringing pressure to bear upon them to leave.... We have rendered them dispossessed.... We have accustomed them to begging.... We have participated in lowering their moral and social level.... Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson, and throwing bombs upon ... men, women and children-all this in the service of political purposes.

-- Khaled Al-Azm, Syria's Prime Minister after the 1948 war

The nations of Western Europe condemned Israel's position despite their guarantee of her security.... They understood that ... their dependence upon sources of energy precluded their allowing themselves to incur Arab wrath.
-- Al-Haytham Al-Ayubi, Arab Palestinian military strategist, 1974

For years we have lived together in our city, Haifa.... Do not fear: Do not destroy your homes with your own hands ... do not bring upon yourself tragedy by unnecessary evacuation and self-imposed burdens.... But in this city, yours and ours, Haifa, the gates are open for work, for life, and for peace for you and your families."

--Jewish Haifa Workers' Council appeal to the Arab residents of Haifa [See Official British Police Report ]

The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront to the United Nations, and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders do not give a damn whether Arab refugees live or die.

-- 1958, Former Director of UNRWA Ralph Galloway, 1958, while in Jordan.

It must not be forgotten that the Arab Higher Committee encouraged the refugees to flee from their homes in Jaffa, Haifa and Jerusalem, and that certain leaders . . . make political capital out of their miserable situation.

-- Near East Arabic Radio, April 3, 1948

The “Nakba,” in short, is a propaganda tool. An effective one, at that. Not long ago, a distant cousin of my husband’s, contacted me on Twitter. When he googled the family, my name came up, because I am a writer. So he DM’d me and for a while, we had a nice time getting to know each other.

When I mentioned the new acquaintance to my husband, he looked him up and saw that his Jewish relative had married a non-Jew and the man I was direct messaging with, was their son. He was a doctor, so at least that particular Jewish DNA got passed along. But when we got on the topic of Israel, our conversation took a sudden awful turn.

We got into a debate, something I do not like to do. But I went along with it, because hey! He’s family. An unknown genealogy-style relative, but family nonetheless. I gave him facts, and supported them with excellent, factual sources. But as it goes with any debate where one side is playing dirty, that side impugns the source, since they have no facts to support their own side. They have no facts because their own side is, in matter of fact, insupportable.

The weapon said relative wielded to impugn my sources, was none other than the “Nakba.” “The link you sent me literally doesn't even mention the word "Nakba" in an article supposedly fact-checking whether or not Israeli land is "stolen," but you tell me it's unbiased,” he said.

Our correspondence continued on in that vein for a short time, and then he blocked me.

Because why listen to the truth when you can damn the Jews?

Even when you yourself are Zera Yehudi.*

Yemenite Jews awaiting airlift to Israel, Aden, 1949 (Copyright: Israel National Photo Archive)


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*of Jewish seed

UPDATE: A reader reached out to Elder, stating that Teddy Katz had been right about Tantura, citing a Times of Israel piece about new research that led to a documentary suggesting the massacre in fact occurred. I haven't seen the documentary, but the TOI piece cites notorious anti-Israel Israeli academic Ilan Pappe as backing the massacre assertions (as he did when Katz first came out with his thesis). That already casts doubts on these "new" claims.

I googled *Teddy Katz Tantura* and up came a gazillion articles from every known anti-Israel website, for example Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, and Haaretz, boasting of new "proof" that there was a massacre in Tantura. A lot of Arab media websites had also written up the allegations in the documentary. I remain unpersuaded. 



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  • Wednesday, April 27, 2022
  • Elder of Ziyon


From i24News:

Tel Aviv University on Tuesday announced a new academic collaboration with three Turkish institutions amid warming diplomatic ties between Jerusalem and Ankara. 

The academic initiative is with Koç, Özyeğin and Sabancı.

"Every year TAU welcomes thousands of Muslim and Christian students from Israel and around the world, and we will be delighted to extend this collaboration to leading universities in Turkey as well. Academia is a bridge between nations, and a key to economic and social growth everywhere."

According to the statement, the academic heads said that without the breakthrough in diplomatic relations, the academic partnership would not have been possible.
It doesn't look like the BDSers have noticed this, or perhaps they are trying hard to ignore it. Because when Turkish universities say drop dead to BDS, that is a pretty serious blow to the Israel haters.




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From Ian:

Tampa Palestinian Islamic Jihad School Gala
It has been a long and convoluted journey for the American Youth Academy (AYA), from its jihadist beginnings, as an alleged fundraising site for a brutal Palestinian terrorist group, to today with its brand new building and facilities. Given AYA’s radical history, it is amazing that it continues to exist and with impunity. Yet, earlier this month – 20 years later – the school has celebrated in style, along with a number of government and law enforcement officials to help give it the veneer of normalcy and legitimacy. The celebrants have seemingly ignored the school’s violent legacy.

AYA was incorporated under the name Islamic Academy of Florida (IAF), in August 1992. The school was the brainchild of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) co-founder and then-North American leader Sami Amin al-Arian. Al-Arian had used Temple Terrace, Florida, a suburb of Tampa Bay, to create a PIJ network, consisting of the school, a mosque (which is adjacent to AYA), a charity, the Islamic Concern Project (ICP), and a think tank, the World and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE).

The mosque, the Islamic Community of Tampa (ICT), also goes by the name Masjid al-Qassam, named for one of the main inspirations for PIJ, Palestinian militant icon Izz ad-Din al-Qassam. The mosque property is owned by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), a group that was named by the US Justice Department, in 2007 and 2008, a co-conspirator in the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. NAIT currently uses the school as its mailing address.

On the morning of February 20, 2003, al-Arian, Hatem Naji Fariz, Sameeh Taha Hammoudeh and Ghassan Zayed Ballut were arrested and charged by the FBI with racketeering, conspiracy to kill and maim persons abroad, and conspiracy to provide material support and resources to terrorists, amongst other things.

IAF was cited in the indictment, according to which, “The members of the conspiracy would and did use the WISE, ICP, and IAF offices as the North American base of support for the PIJ and to raise funds and provide support for the PIJ and their operatives in the Middle East, in order to assist its engagement in, and promotion of, violent attacks designed to thwart the Middle East Peace Process.”

Florida legislators voiced concern that IAF had been named by the US government as part of a terrorist enterprise, and in July 2003, IAF was dropped from Florida’s state voucher program, a taxpayer funded plan that pays portions of eligible private school tuitions. The school lost roughly $350,000 in vouchers. As a result, the Islamic Academy of Florida changed its name, the following year, to the American Youth Academy – a patriotic-sounding title – using an eagle as a mascot.

On April 1, 2022, AYA held a gala to raise money for and commemorate the new AYA building, the result of AYA’s recent expansion project. The event was no April Fool’s joke, as it raised over $4 million for the school.
Where the 'dual loyalty' accusation actually applies
Take Joint List Party leader Ayman Odeh, for instance. In a video message earlier this month that he delivered from the Old City of Jerusalem's Damascus Gate, a riot hotspot, Odeh called on Arab-Israeli youth not to serve in the police or other security forces, which "are humiliating our people, humiliating our families and humiliating all those who come to pray at the Al-Aqsa mosque."

He then urged those already enlisted in the "occupation forces" to "throw the weapons back in their face and to tell them that 'our place is not with you. We will not be part of the injustice and crime.'"

His reference to the "occupation" is an expression of loyalty with the peace-rejectionist Palestinians who mourn the nakba, the "catastrophe" of Israel's establishment in 1948. They make no bones about their intention to "liberate Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea," a mantra about eliminating the Jewish state in its entirety.

"Dual loyalty," then, isn't exactly the problem of Odeh and his ilk; treason would be a better term for it.

Anti-Israel organizations abroad certainly fit the "dual-loyalty" bill, however. After all, protesters waving Palestinian flags in New York to promote "resistance by any means necessary" and a "globalization of the intifada" are letting their true affinity show. And it's not to Western civilization.
Bundestag president arrives in Israel ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day
Bundestag president Bärbel Bas was greeted by Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy on Wednesday at a special welcoming ceremony at the Knesset.

Bas will take part in events marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Knesset this week.

“The lessons of the Holocaust require us to never tolerate the emergence and spread of antisemitism,” Bas said. “Germany’s responsibility has not come to an end. We stand with Israel.”

She was invited by Levy, who tearfully addressed the Bundestag in Berlin in January on the day when the Holocaust is commemorated in Europe.

“Your participation in the Knesset’s ceremonies marking Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day is a significant and meaningful expression of the special connection between our countries, the historical responsibility Germany has taken for the crimes of the Holocaust, and Germany’s commitment to the security of the State of Israel,” Levy told Bas.

It will be the first time a senior German official participates in the Knesset’s Holocaust memorial events.

On Wednesday morning, Levy and Bas toured the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum together. The climax of her visit to the Knesset is expected to take place Thursday, when she will participate in the national Unto Every Person There is a Name ceremony, in which the names of Holocaust victims are read aloud at the Knesset on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The theme of this year’s event is Transports to Extinction: The Deportation of the Jews during the Holocaust.
  • Wednesday, April 27, 2022
  • Elder of Ziyon


The Arab Parliament, which is part of the League of Arab States, issued an empty statement of support for UNRWA:

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Arab Parliament affirmed its absolute support for UNRWA to continue to play its role in providing basic and necessary services to Palestinian refugees, as it is the only mechanism that carries out this important humanitarian responsibility to improve the conditions of Palestinians in the Palestinian territories.

It pointed out the importance of providing the necessary support to UNRWA, especially with the financial conditions it faces, and the negative repercussions of the Corona pandemic, with the aim of maintaining the continuation of its work as required.

The Arab Parliament called on the international community to assume its responsibilities towards the Palestinian refugees, through aid and funding, to enable UNRWA to continue its work...
Of the nearly $1.2 billion pledged to UNRWA in 2021, less than 4% came from Arab states. (And some of that may never be paid!) 

It is easier to demand that the world provide Palestinians with free food, education and medical care for ever than to actually write a check to UNRWA.

The Arab Parliament is just another hypocritical organization. 



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Tonight is Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. 

The usual reasons given for this day are so that we won't forget the evils of antisemitism, and we solemnly pledge "never again."

Unfortunately, much of the world already has forgotten the lessons and support the rights of those who want to see it repeated.

Today's antisemites who style themselves as being merely "anti-Zionist" or "pro-Palestinian" say that they have learned the lessons of the Holocaust, so much so that they can give instruction to the Jewish state as to how it hasn't learned those lessons. They strenuously deny being antisemitic, and they have lots of "proof:" they have Jewish friends, they have Jewish members, they have seders, they are acting according to Jewish morality, they quote "Justice, Justice thou shalt pursue." 

And for the most part, the world that claims to be horrified by the Holocaust believes their denial of being motivated by Jew-hatred.

But they aren't the only ones who have denied being antisemitic.

This 1990 Canadian news story shows that a neo-Nazi skinhead also denied hating Jews:


He didn't hate Jews. He just didn't want them around anymore.

The Soviet Union also denied hating Jews. Soviets were only anti-Zionist, and they defined “international Zionism” as a “shock detachment of imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism" that happened to be led by the "Jewish bourgeoisie." 

Nazis denied discriminating against Jews as well. In the run-up to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, they claimed that they would allow any Jewish athletes to compete. The only problem was that sports clubs in Germany didn't allow Jews, and they didn't want to interfere with their decisions.

And one couldn't expect Germany to support Jewish sports clubs, because they were...Zionist! 

"It is hardly fair to expect that state support be given to purely Jewish organizations, which, being composed almost exclusively of Zionists, are even today in sharp political conflict with the government," said Hans Von Tschammer und Osten, the German minister of sport.

Like the Soviets, the Nazis were merely anti-Zionist, not anti-Jewish!

Father Charles Coughlin amassed a huge radio audience in the 1930s and emphasized that Jews were behind the Communist revolution. He published a magazine, Social Justice, which serialized the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. But he denied being antisemitic as well. (NYT, November 28, 1938)


Henry Ford, who also published the Protocols, strenuously denied having any negative feelings towards Jews as well. He only pointed out how Jews were behind all wars and the Jew is "the money maniac." (NYT, October 29, 1922):



It turns out that of you take them at their word, there are no antisemites at all. Palestinians don't hate Jews, they just want to ensure Jews have no political power. Louis Farrakhan isn't antisemitic, he's just pointing out that most Jews belong to the Synagogue of Satan - but not all of them.The Arab nations didn't hate Jews, they say that all their Jews left voluntarily after listening to Zionist lies. 

Most of these can point to Jews who support them and who agree that they are not antisemitic, only misunderstood.

By the same token, Haman didn't hate Jews, he was just concerned that they have different laws than the rest of Persia. Pharaoh didn't hate Jews, he was just concerned about a fifth column in ancient Egypt.

It is easy to laugh at the denials of antisemites from decades or centuries past; their lies are transparent. Yet today, a large percentage of people are more than willing to accept the current denials of antisemitism from the anti-Israel crowd, as if their current excuses for singling out most Jews have any more validity than those of the antisemites of the past. 

It isn't only today that antisemites dress up their hate in the garb of nationalism, or social justice, or morality, or science, or protecting the interests of "victims" of Jewish actions. 

They've always done it. 




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  • Wednesday, April 27, 2022
  • Elder of Ziyon
The Orthodox Patriarchate issued a statement condemning the Israeli police for limiting visitors to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Holy Saturday:

The Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem condemned the practices of the Israeli police in the Old City of Jerusalem during the Holy Fire Saturday celebrations.

The Patriarchate said in a statement that the police, deprived thousands of Christians of their natural right to worship freely, through military checkpoints it had deployed in the vicinity of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the form of security cordons, all the way from the gates of the old city leading to the church. These barriers prevented worshipers and those celebrating the feast from reaching the church of the Holy Sepulchre.
So let's look at how the ceremony was done ninety years ago, and the role of the police at that time, from the Enquirer and Evening News of Battle Creek, MI, March 27, 1932:



There were lots of police around Jerusalem in 1932 for Easter week. 



No one complained that their presence, or their job to maintain order and peace, was violating anyone's religious rights. And, just like this year, police presence was partially a response to recent violent Muslim riots.

What about worshipping freely at the Church on Holy Saturday? Not, not exactly freely - it used to cost a lot of money to get a seat.

And even with the tickets, the church was overcrowded and dangerous.

And guess who enforced limits on who can enter the Church? That's right - the police!


Later on, the writer says that the smoke from the candles lit by the fire nearly suffocated him in the poorly-ventilated church, further indication that by today's standards, it was overcrowded and dangerous. Allowing unlimited attendees, as the Church now demands, is irresponsible.

Israeli police this year did not act very differently than the Palestine police did in 1932. It is certain that similar restrictions were in place every year, although there was more concern this year in Israel after the Meron disaster. 

Why would the Christian leaders bitterly complain when Israeli police are keeping security in a sensitive area, limiting the number of people entering the Church, just like the police did in 1932? Moreover, why are they not supporting and working with the police to guarantee everyone's safety and maximize the number of people who can safely attend? 

The answer is obvious. The church in Jerusalem is - and always has been - antisemitic. It still considers Jews to be Christ-killers. When Jews do anything, even things that they are obligated to do to maintain order, the Church wants to accuse Jews of criminal behavior. 

The British police could do no wrong; the Israeli police can do no right. 





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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

From Ian:

David Collier: Under attack from the conspiracy theories of the Guardian newspaper
The Guardian Kirchgaessner phone call

We spoke on Friday evening (Friday evening is always a good time for a journalist to call someone Jewish). I informed her that I consider the Guardian a hostile newspaper. This cut through any need for unnecessary pretence and she got straight to the point. She wanted to suggest that my Amnesty report had been funded by NSO in order to ‘retaliate’ for the Amnesty investigation into NSO.

In my head I was falling off my chair in hysterics at the thought that my hand-to-mouth research has ever been seriously ‘funded’ by anyone.

The call ended with Kirchgaessner arguing about dates, in a strange (and exceedingly silly) attempt to protect her thesis – because she needed to convince herself that my interest in Amnesty only came about after Amnesty’s interest in NSO. *sigh*. Does anyone not know about Amnesty’s blood libel over Jenin in 2002? One of my closest activist friends, Richard Millett, was even physically threatened by Amnesty’s anti-Israel obsessive Kristyan Benedict at an event in 2011. I have a decades-long list of complaints. Kirchgaessner is obviously totally ignorant of the subject she is trying to build a conspiracy around.

During the call Kirchgaessner went on to tell me two other things of interest. One, is that she is friendly with (and she used the words ‘full disclosure’ as she told me this) – Agnès Callamard, the Secretary General at Amnesty. The other nugget was that the idea that my report was somehow an NSO funded attack – was also part of Amnesty’s own considerations.

This means that following discussions with her friends at Amnesty over my report – a Guardian journalist came hunting in order to try to discredit my report by linking my motivations in fighting antisemitism to NSO money.

Wow.
Holocaust Inversion: Unmasking the False Comparisons of Palestinians to the Holocaust
I.F. Stone, a Zionist advocate and left-wing political journalist of the 1940s, describes a particularly horrifying account of how several Nazi collaborators who were part of pro-Nazi Arab military units arrived in Palestine to battle the newly founded Jewish state. About the Arab refugees who fled from the fighting, Stone states, “While the Arab guerrillas were moving in, the Arab civilian population was moving out.” It is ironic that Shabtai Levy, the mayor of Haifa, pleaded with Arab leaders to remain in their homes. They told Levy that the Arab Higher Committee, chaired by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi collaborator Haj Amin al-Husseini, ordered them to leave.

Referring to the “Nakba,” anti-Zionists falsely claim that over 700,000 Palestinians have been displaced from their homes since the establishment of the Jewish state. But as stated above, that distorts the history and also ignores the similar number of Jews who were expelled from Arab lands just for the crime of being Jewish, and were forced to come to Israel.

Furthermore, the Palestinian population has grown significantly since 1948. Anyone with a modicum of critical reasoning ability can see that the claim of ethnic cleansing or genocide against the Palestinians is just absurd.

In 2020, the Arab population in Israel comprised 1.96 million people, or 21.1% of the population, compared with 20.2 percent in 2008. Since 1960, the Palestinian population has increased by 2.65% every year. Palestinians who have Israeli citizenship also have the same rights as all Israelis, and serve in the Knesset, the Supreme Court, the IDF, and every facet of public and private life.

Somehow, Jews were never afforded any of those privileges by the Nazis.

Despite this factual evidence, antisemitic groups like SJP, have made it common practice to fabricate facts about the Holocaust on social media, and even to harass Holocaust survivors.

Furthermore, in examining Palestinian leadership during World War II, it is distressing to learn that the Palestinians collaborated with the Nazis.

Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, participated in Hitler’s vision to annihilate the Jewish people. He encouraged Muslim recruits to join the SS regiments in the Balkans, promoted Nazi propaganda in the Arab world, and even toured death camps in Europe and met with Adolf Hitler.
Emily Schrader: Genocide Awareness Month: Public responsibility to build a better future
The battle for recognition of the Armenian genocide has been ongoing for decades. Only 33 countries have formally recognized the Armenian Genocide and sadly Israel is not one of them.

Between 1-1.5 million ethnic Armenian Christians were systematically murdered by the Ottoman Turks in the Armenian Genocide, which began in April 1915. In the aftermath, Turkey, which is the modern descendant of the Ottoman Turks, has gone to great lengths to deny the genocide and refuse to take responsibility, much less make reparations. It has been the policy of every Turkish government to deny the genocide and in some cases to punish Turks who do publicly recognize it. Further, Turkey has destroyed evidence of genocidal crimes and threatened diplomatic crises with other sovereign nations who do recognize the Armenian Genocide.

When the US Congress and president finally recognized the Armenian genocide in 2021, Turkey strongly condemned the action and threatened relations with both the US and NATO. Turkish officials called the announcement of recognition by President Joe Biden outrageous and stated there would be reactions of different forms and kinds and degrees in coming days and months. Similarly, in 2010, when the issue arose with Sweden and the US recognizing the genocide, Turkey threatened to expel 100,000 Armenians in Turkey in retaliation.

Turkey has repeatedly threatened Israel and the fragile diplomatic relations between the two, over the issue of the Armenian genocide, which is in part the reason for Israel’s continued and embarrassing moral failure to recognize the genocide formally. Yet, how are we in Israel, or globally, expected to educate about genocide and prevent further atrocities when political considerations prevent us from even acknowledging what happened?

Some things should rise above politics, and genocide recognition is one of them. Genocide should not be used to score political points nor to promote antisemitic policies (as Iran does), nor should it be used to bully the world due to security and diplomatic considerations as Turkey is doing.

End Holocaust denial. End genocide denial. Blindness to the past impedes building a better future.
  • Tuesday, April 26, 2022
  • Elder of Ziyon
Ma'an reports:

Ankara began putting pressure on the Hamas leadership, by not allowing a number of its cadres to return to Turkey after traveling on organizational missions, and refraining from granting visas to other cadres to hold meetings with the movement's leadership in Istanbul.

This necessitated a meeting between a delegation from the movement and the Turkish authorities, last February, during which the Hamas delegates heard clear talk about changes due to great pressures on Ankara in the economic field, and forcing it to make adjustments to the mechanism of building its international and regional relations, which may affect the way it exists. movement in Turkey.
 
According to an informed source, quoted by the Lebanese news, the Turkish side did not talk about fundamental changes according to which it would ask the movement’s leadership to leave Turkey, but rather returned to an agreement that obligated the movement not to carry out any political activity that threatens the stability of Turkey, or any kind of security and military actions inside Turkey or from its territory.

In addition, the Turkish side, which “turned a blind eye” a lot to some “parallel activities,” talked about “data it received from international security agencies, including Israel, that talk about military activity by members of the Hamas movement in Turkey.” The Turks attached their words to an executive decision according to which “the entry of persons related to military action to Turkish territory was prohibited."

This is of course not being done out of any ideological shift on Erdogan's part. He believes that aligning with Israel will help Turkey's economy so he's willing to engage in some realpolitik. 



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  • Tuesday, April 26, 2022
  • Elder of Ziyon
From a Twitter thread by Jay P. Greene:

The peer-reviewed journal, Antisemitism Studies, just published research by @AlbertxCheng, @iskingsb, and me finding that antisemitism is much more common among people with higher educational attainment.

Our result that antisemitism is worse among people with more advanced degrees is contrary to the conventional wisdom (and some past research) that the problem is concentrated among people with low education levels.

Past research directly asked people how they felt about Jews or whether they agreed with antisemitic statements. "Better" educated people are more likely to understand what they are being asked and sophisticated enough to give socially desirable but false answers. 

We developed a new way to measure antisemitism based on the application of double standards that avoids this social desirability bias. For example, half of the sample was asked about the military banning Jews from wearing kippot, other half about Sikhs wearing turbans. The principle of the military banning religious headgear is the same, so people should give the same answer regardless of whether they were presented with Jewish or Sikh version of the question. 

Highly educated people were much more likely to favor restricting religious headgear when shown the Jewish example than when shown Sikh example. The same pattern was observed across several different sets of double-standard questions. 

The implication of our finding is that antisemitism is not, as is commonly believed, primarily the result of ignorance and can best be addressed with education. Instead, antisemitism has to be understood for how it provides political and social benefits to its adherents. 

Understanding how the threat of antisemitism is coming more from highly-educated coastal elites than from lower-educated flyover country and is not largely a function of ignorance means that we must change how and where we combat antisemitism. 
 
An earlier version of our research can be found in @tabletmag without a paywall. 
The Tablet article detailed the double-standard questions that showed significant antisemitism in highly educated people versus those with less education. 

 The first item asks whether “the government should set minimum requirements for what is taught in private schools,” with Orthodox Jewish or Montessori schools given as the illustrating example. The second item asks whether “a person’s attachment to another country creates a conflict of interest when advocating in support of certain U.S. foreign policy positions,” with Israel or Mexico offered as illustrating examples. The third item asks whether “the U.S. military should be allowed to forbid” the wearing of religious headgear as part of the uniform, with a Jewish yarmulke or Sikh turban offered as illustrating examples. And the fourth item asks whether public gatherings during the pandemic “posed a threat to public health and should have been prevented,” with Orthodox Jewish funerals or Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests offered as illustrating examples.

The logic of these double-standard items is that the situations are comparable enough in the Jewish and non-Jewish examples that respondents should answer them similarly on average. Some people may favor more or less regulation of what is taught in private schools, be more or less concerned about dual-loyalty issues, more or less deferential to military uniform rules, and believe that public gatherings posed more or less of a threat to public health. Regardless of how subjects feel about each of these substantive issues, they should not, in the aggregate, answer them differently if they are shown Jewish or non-Jewish examples.
But they mostly did:

When asked whether “attachment to another country creates a conflict of interest,” respondents with a four-year degree and those with advanced degrees were respectively 7 and 13 percentage points more likely to express this concern when the attachment in question was to Israel rather than Mexico. People with advanced degrees were 12 percentage points more likely to support the military in prohibiting a Jewish yarmulke than in prohibiting a Sikh turban as part of the uniform. Those with four-year college degrees answer this question the same whether the example is Jewish or Sikh.

The overall sample was fairly concerned about public gatherings during the pandemic, with 61% supporting the prohibition of public gatherings, whether for an Orthodox Jewish funeral or for BLM protests. Those with a four-year degree were 11 percentage points more likely to oppose these public gatherings for Jewish funerals than for BLM protests. People with advanced degrees were 36 percentage points more likely to want Orthodox Jewish funerals prohibited than BLM protests.  
This is a brilliant, albeit imperfect, methodology to expose antisemitism among the so-called intelligentsia. An argument could be made that the 36 point gap in the last question is at least as much because the respondents didn't want to be considered racist by giving a hint of being against BLM protests - the same reasoning that makes the straight "do you think Jews are X" questions less likely to be answered in a bigoted way among the more educated.


Nevertheless, the Sikh head turban question proves the antisemitism of the educated respondents. By any measure, a turban is more likely to interfere with combat than a small yarmulka that would fit easily under a helmet or cap. 

Another question that could reveal overall group antisemitism could include a list of potential charities that people would be more likely to donate to, and compare how many would give to a Gazan family that lost their home from a Hamas "work accident" compared to a Gazan family that lost their home to an Israeli airstrike.

Or comparing whether they believe that Hagia Sophia should be open to Muslims only compared to whether the Temple Mount should be open to Muslims only.

Or whether Turkish citizens who live in Northern Cyprus must be forced to evacuate their homes compared to Jews in Judea and Samaria.

Or whether they would support special police task forces to protect Asians from attack in major cities compared to protecting religious Jews from attack.

There is no shortage of examples of double standards applied to Jews.

It is also notable that the correlation is with number of years in college, not with intelligence. Arguably, college environments foster antisemitism. 

I hope to see this methodology extended and refined. While it cannot show an absolute percentage of people who are antisemitic by its nature, it shows that the people who claim not to be antisemitic the most are often just the ones who hide it best.

(h/t Ian)





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From Ian:

PMW: Palestinian Authority Spends 33 Times More per capita on Terror Stipends than on Health Services
Analysis of the PA's expenditures in 2021 shows that, per capita, it spends 33 times more paying terror rewards than it spends on health services for the Palestinian population.

It spends 11 times more paying terror rewards than it spends on education of Palestinian children, and twice as much as it spends on benefits for needy Palestinians.

In 2021 the PA spent $193 million on terrorist prisoners and released terrorists and another $78 million, at least, on wounded terrorists and the families of dead terrorists.

These sums were paid to 5,000 prisoners, 12,000 released prisoners and 40,000 families of dead terrorists.
Palestinians fear UNRWA may take first steps to end refugee services
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency might allow other UN agencies to help service Palestinian refugees for the first time in its 73-year history, in a move that has angered the Palestinians who fear that it’s the first step in UNRWA’s dissolution.

UNRWA “bears a political title that embodies the international responsibility towards the Palestinian refugees and their plight,” a Palestine Liberation Organization official stated on Sunday.

“Preserving UNRWA means preserving the right of refugees to return [to their homes] and [receive] compensation in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions, and maintaining UNRWA is an important stabilizing factor and a guaranteeing factor for a development process to achieve the sustainable development goals that must include Palestinian refugees.”

The “plot” against UNRWA will lead to instability in the entire region, claimed senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad official Ahmed al-Mudallal.

Right-wing politicians in both Israel and the United States have long said that UNRWA should be dissolved. They have argued that it creates a permanent growing class of Palestinian refugees that dooms any effort to resolve the conflict with Israel. In particular, they have advocated that Palestinian refugees be serviced by other local governments or other UN agencies including the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
David Singer: The San Remo Conference gave Arabs and Jews independence, the Arabs said no
The Jews were initially allotted all of Palestine at San Remo –117000km2 - the remaining 15% of these three liberated Turkish territories – within which the Jewish National Home was to be “reconstituted” after 3000 years.

However 78% of Palestine east of the Jordan River (Transjordan) was whittled away for Arab independence by the time the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine was promulgated in July 1922 - leaving Jewish self-determination to happen in just 3% of the territories dealt with at San Remo.

Transjordan (today called Jordan) became independent in 1946.

The British Government’s 1921 Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine recorded that hardly 700,000 people were living in Palestine west of the Jordan River– 560000 of whom were Moslems, 77000 Christians and 76000 Jews:

“a population much less than that of the province of Gallilee alone in the time of Christ * (*See Sir George Adam Smith "Historical Geography of the Holy Land", Chap. 20.)”.

About 350000 non-Jews lived in what was then called Palestine east of the Jordan River:

The San Remo Conference unanimously agreed that the civil and religious rights of these existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine were not to be prejudiced by San Remo’s decisions and that the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country were also not to be affected – guarantees that were expressly included in the terms of the Mandate for Palestine.

The Arabs have never accepted that the decisions simultaneously made in relation to Mesopotamia Syria and Palestine at San Remo in 1920 were part of a plan that by 1922 offered:
- The Arabs: independence in 97% of the liberated Ottoman territories.
- The Jews: independence in the remaining 3%

The Jewish-Arab conflict will remain unresolved whilst the Arabs remain in their 102 years-old state of denial.


The Caroline Glick Show Ep48 – Ambassador David Friedman shows how Trump’s “Sledgehammer” brought peace
In this special week’s episode of the Middle East News Hour, Caroline Glick is joined by Ambassador David Friedman, President Trump’s extraordinary ambassador to Israel. They discussed Friedman’s recently released memoir of service, Sledgehammer where he set out how Trump’s courageous break with 75 years of failed U.S. Middle East policies, starting with his decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, brought peace to the Middle East. Glick and Friedman also took an in-depth look at the American Jewish community’s self-destructive ignorance, how Israel must seize the reins of leadership of the Jewish people, grow up and fulfill its destiny, and how we mustn’t let the truths Friedman and Trump uncovered be lost in the left’s haste to bury Trump’s legacy through appeasement of America’s enemies.
  • Tuesday, April 26, 2022
  • Elder of Ziyon
I have not seen this level of blatant antisemitism from Arab officials and media in a long time.

Jordan's Al Sabeel newspaper has an op-ed (republished on other news sites) on how to keep calm in Jerusalem:

Calm will only return on two conditions: that no Palestinian is prevented from entering Al-Aqsa at any time from anywhere in Palestine; And not to allow any Jew from entering it at any time.
It quotes a Jordanian ministerial statement that "called on the occupation to return the situation in Al-Aqsa Mosque to what it was before the year 2000 and close the Mughrabi Gate through which settlers carry out their daily incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Meanwhile, the Sheikh of Al Azhar in Egypt rejected out of hand the suggestion that he meet with rabbis. 

Egyptian newspaper Al Majd has this headline: "The number of Jews in the world is 15 million evil people: only 7 million of them occupy Palestine and 6 million occupy the “Zionist” United States."



Rai al-Youm has an article that says that an unnamed (they) have been performing espionage and mass murder of civilians from the time of Joshua until today.

Ma'an offhandedly accuses Jews of murdering Jesus

There is a famous Yiddish story of a poor man who complains to the rabbi that his house is too small, and the rabbi asks him to fill it with farm animals for a while. After the animals are removed the man is happy that he has so much more room. This article, however, twists it into a tale of how Jews manipulate their enemies psychologically without doing anything concrete to help them.

And then there is this article in Al-Omah that is supposedly against normalization with Israel, but the examples of such normalization in the UAE include their hotels providing kosher food for visitors, plans for a Jewish neighborhood and sending Passover greetings. For good measure, it adds "Al-Aqsa Mosque must be liberated from the defilement, terror and arrogance of the Jews."

There's even more! Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa is the Egyptian minister of religious endowment (waqf). He came under attack on social media, because the ministry of waqf forbade night prayers in mosques this year because of COVID. People were upset and therefore called him the worst insult possible: they claimed he was a Jew. (A person who wanted to defend him considered calling one of his attackers the son of a Jewish mother, but decided that this was too harsh of an insult.)

All of this in only in the past 24 hours!

Arab media and officials used to at least pretend to be only anti-Zionist. They apparently have noticed that blatant Arab antisemitism is not noticed or cared about by the world, so they have returned to the old days before MEMRI and others who used to shame them into at least pretending to hide their hate of Jews. 

(h/t Ibn Boutros)




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