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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Erdogan starting to pressure Hamas in Turkey

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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New study: Higher education is correlated with higher antisemitism

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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04/26 Links Pt1: Palestinian Authority Spends 33 Times More per capita on Terror Stipends than on Health Services; The San Remo Conference gave Arabs and Jews independence, the Arabs said no

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.

Arab antisemitism just keeps on coming, and keeps getting worse

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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From AP, January 15, 2013:

A religious decree issued by Iran's supreme leader banning nuclear weapons is binding for the Iranian government, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, suggesting that the edict should end the debate over whether Tehran is pursuing atomic arms.

Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said the West must understand the significance of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's edict for Iran: "There is nothing higher than the exalted supreme leader's fatwa to define the framework for our activities in the nuclear field."

"When the highest jurisprudent and authority in the country's leadership issues a fatwa, this will be binding for all of us to follow," he added.

US leaders have referred multiple times to a supposed fatwa issued by Iran's Supreme Leader against the production and use of nuclear weapons.

President Obama said in a speech to the UN nine months later, "the Supreme Leader has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons, and President Rouhani has just recently reiterated that the Islamic Republic will never develop a nuclear weapon."

In 2015, Secretary of State John Kerry referred to this supposed fatwa, emphasizing that the US gives it "great respect:"

As you all know, Iran says it doesn’t want a nuclear weapon, and that is a very welcome statement that the Supreme Leader has, in fact, incorporated into a fatwa. And we have great respect – great respect – for the religious importance of a fatwa.

Hilary Clinton had also referred to it when she was Secretary of State.

Israeli intelligence has already proven that Iran has been developing nuclear weapons well after this fictional fatwa was issued. But it appears that the world that is anxious to get any deal with Iran doesn't like to be reminded of Israeli intel, judging it as somehow tainted and not objective because Israel would be the main target of any Iranian nukes.

But now we have someone who is a bit harder to dismiss, former Iranian MP Ali Motahari, confirming that Iran always intended to build a nuclear bomb:

Despite Iran's insistence that its nuclear activity is for peaceful purposes only, former Iranian MP Ali Motahari revealed on Sunday that Iran "from the very beginning" aimed to make a nuclear bomb, in an interview with the Iran Student Correspondents Association.
"From the very beginning, when we entered the nuclear activity, our goal was to build a bomb and strengthen the deterrent forces, but we could not maintain the secrecy of this issue, and the secret reports were revealed by a group of hypocrites," he said.

But when asked about the fatwa, Motahari engages in some revisionist history:

The former MP stressed, however, that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is now of the opinion that producing nuclear weapons is forbidden. The ISCA interviewer also referenced an earlier comment by Motahari that Tehran can still make a nuclear bomb, despite Khamenei's fatwa (Islamic religious decree) against such weapons, because the fatwa only forbids the use of a bomb, not the creation of one.

Really? Because nearly every reference to this fatwa specifically includes the production of nuclear weapons. This is from an archived version of Iran's nuclear energy website:

Ayatollah Khomeini’s successor as Iran’s Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has also pronounced a fatwa forbidding the production, stockpiling and use of weapons of mass destruction, and specifically nuclear arms. He first issued the fatwa in October 2003 but has reiterated it several times ever since in an effort to underline the high significance of the issue.

On November 5th 2004, in a Friday prayers sermon, Ayatollah Khamenei is quoted as having said: “No sir, we are not seeking to have nuclear weapons,” and added that to “manufacture, possess or use them, that all poses a problem. I have expressed my religious convictions about this, and everyone knows it.”

Similarly, the Iranian government told the IAEA in a 2005 meeting:

The Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued the Fatwa that the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons are forbidden under Islam and that the Islamic Republic of Iran shall never acquire these weapons.

Apologists for Iran have generally been ignoring the fatwa in recent years as new evidence came to light showing that their "respect" for Khamenei's fatwa was quite misplaced. But expect them, when pressed, to start to pretend that the fatwa was only against the use of nuclear weapons, not their production.

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The Arab Canadians Lawyers Association is planning to release a paper on May 9 where they will define what they call "anti-Palestinian racism."

According to the ACLA, “Anti-Palestinian racism operates to silence the Palestinian experience and expressions of solidarity with Palestinians, including characterizing those who defend Palestinians and are critical of Israel’s policies or conduct as antisemitic.”

First of all, no one - and I mean no one - tries to "silence expressions of solidarity against Palestinians." It is a straw man. The people who style themselves as "pro-Palestinian" invariably cross the line into a seething hatred for Jewish nationalism and often against Jews themselves, and that is what Jews oppose.

But more insidiously, the ACLA is saying that non-Palestinians can be the victims of "anti-Palestinian racism" - based not on national origin or ethnicity or race, but purely on their political opinions!

So they are not only defining certain treatment of Palestinians themselves as racist, but also pointing out that anti-Zionists who are practicing antisemitism is also part of anti-Palestinian racism. Anyone can be a victim of anti-Palestinian racism - based purely on their political beliefs.

That is a breathtaking expansion of the word "racism."

Up until now, those who tried to declare Israel guilty of racism depended on an ICERD definition that they take out of context that discrimination based on "national origin" is also racism. Palestinians themselves are not a race. They define themselves as part of the Arab people, even though many of them can trace their ancestry not only to the Arabian peninsula but also to traditionally non-Arab areas including Turkey and Kurdistan. They do not have a single national origin. Israel treats Arab citizens differently from Arab non-citizens, which proves that race has nothing to do with this. Palestinians and their supporters of all races together are certainly not a race. Perhaps realizing this, the ACLA decided to expand the definition of race to absurd lengths. So they now say that members of a political group can be victims of racism - and the only reason they redefine racism is to call Zionists racists.

Why is calling anti-Zionists antisemitic "racist" but calling Zionists racists cannot be antisemitism?

By saying that criticism of political positions is racism, this means that the ACLA will have to admit that people who discriminate against Zionists are racists as well! Zionism is no less a defined group of people as anti-Zionists are.

If those who call anti-Zionists antisemitic are racist, then you must also say that those who call Zionism "racism" are racist as well.

It is an absurd redefinition that has only one purpose: to tar any Zionist as a racist. And - by their definition - calling people haters is itself an act of hate.

No doubt they would argue that the case of Palestinians is different than any other, and there are unique reasons why political Zionists are by definition racist but political anti-Zionists are by definition oppressed victims of racism. Yet those double standards are yet more proof that they are themselves bigots.

Thanks, Arab Canadian Lawyers Association! By your rules, you are a bunch of racists.

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When the video doesn't fit the propaganda, Palestinians change the caption to MAKE it fit

Palestine Today posted this video last week that it says shows "New batches of settlers storm the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque."

The video shows religious Jews praying at Lion's Gate, one of the gates to the Old City, 200 meters away from the Temple Mount.

Similarly, it posted this video that is says shows "The window of the Al-Qibli prayer hall in Al-Aqsa set on fire due to the occupation's throwing of bombs."

No, it is a Molotov cocktail prepared inside the "holy" mosque that prematurely got set on fire, and then they threw it.

Yes, Palestinians started a fire in a mosque on the Temple Mount.

People assume that captions are accurate, so they believe what the captions say they are looking at.

There are a lot of ways to lie. Palestinians have discovered all of them.

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On Saturday, Palestinian prime minister Muhammad Shtayyeh spoke to the Palestinian Businessmen Association. In attendance were also government ministers.

His words make it pretty clear that the Palestinians have never accepted Israel's existence.

Shtayyeh said, "Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent statements that Palestine is not an occupied land but a disputed land, and this statement was adopted by all previous Israeli governments. We responded to him that Palestine belongs to the Palestinians and this occupied land will be liberated. The historical right is ours, Jerusalem is ours, and Palestine is ours."

He also compared Palestinian terrorism to Ukraine, saying, "The world uses double standards, as it sees in Ukraine heroism and Palestine as terrorism. "

Yeah, well, no one in Ukraine is attacking Russians sitting in coffee shops.

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EoZ 4/25: New State Department Report Admits Iran May Be Hiding Nuclear Activities, Abbas sent condolences to family of Tel Aviv terrorist

Ian is under the weather, so I will post a couple of things I saw around...

New State Department Report Admits Iran May Be Hiding Nuclear Activities

The Biden administration has “serious concerns” about “possible undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran,” according to an annual report the State Department released on Tuesday. The administration’s admission that Tehran continues to stonewall inspectors and conceal its nuclear activities shows why it would be a serious mistake to revive a weaker version of the 2015 nuclear deal, whose verification and enforcement mechanisms were already deficient.

87 Groups To U.S. Dept. Education: Middle East Studies Programs Boycotting Israel Shouldn’t Get Federal Funds

On April 20, 2022, in the aftermath of the Middle East Studies Association’s endorsement of an academic boycott against Israel, 87 organizations (including Legal Insurrection Foundation) sent a joint letter organized by The AMCHA Initiative to the U.S. Secretary of Education asking the federal government not to fund Middle East studies programs boycotting Israel.

How bad has the NYT coverage of Israel been? (CAMERA)

Libeling Israel: ‘The New York Times’ is at it again

In her April 16 New York Times article on Israel’s response to the deadly terror wave the country has suffered in recent weeks, Jerusalem correspondent Raja Abdulrahim fails to mention that the majority of the Palestinians killed by Israeli forces were members of terrorist groups.

The article, titled, “‘We’re Exhausted’: Palestinians Decry Israeli Raids as Collective Punishment,” decries the Israeli “killings” of Palestinians “in response” to terror attacks that claimed the lives of 14 Israelis.

Given that the terrorists’ local obituaries include pictures of them in uniform or carrying weapons, this omission raises troubling questions.

The unholy alliance of Israel haters

Israel has been subjected to a wave of terror over the past three weeks and social-media mourners are nowhere to be seen. You’ll be searching a long time – forever – to find a blacked-out square on Instagram or an Israeli flag in the Twitter bio of a member of the great and good. Many people I’ve mentioned the terror wave to hadn’t even heard of it.

Joint List chief: From political partner to terror apologist

While hailing himself as a man of peace, Ayman Odeh's call to Arab police officers to lay down their arms and fight 'Israeli occupiers' proves he is nothing but another extremist who will eventually fade away.

Death threat to Jews chanted openly at rallies across the UK

Crowds in anti-Israel protests in the United Kingdom have repeatedly chanted Arabic death threats to Jews while police do nothing, a JC investigation has revealed. UK’s Jewish community leaders say the police do not wish to enforce the law even as protesters shout out clear death threats at demonstrations against Israel across the UK.

Demonization Blueprints: Soviet Conspiracist Antizionism in Contemporary Left-Wing Discourse by Izabella Tabarovsky

Contemporary left-wing antizionist discourse reproduces with stunning fidelity some of the central tropes of Soviet antizionist propaganda, which demonized Israel and Zionism. The article explores the background of these tropes, looks at the biographies of the rightwing Soviet ideologues who developed them, and examines the mechanisms through which they reached the West. The article concludes that these tropes are inextricably linked to antisemitic conspiracy theory, containing seeds of anti-Jewish violence that we ignore at our own peril.

Where the ‘dual loyalty’ accusation actually applies

Their allegiance isn’t to the state in which they live and in whose parliament their representatives serve, but rather to various radical Muslim groups. Even many members of Israel’s Knesset—not to mention its governing coalition—belong in this category.

Muna El-Kurd: Jews are Zionist Dogs, and ‘Palestine’ Should Be Ethnically Cleansed of Them

“There is no left-wing! It is all right-wing, it is all settlers, and it is all Zionist dogs. If someone wants to be in solidarity with me, he should get out of Palestine, [then] be in solidarity with me.” (Translated by CAMERA Arabic)

This statement, at best, is an open call for “Palestine” to be ethnically cleansed of Jews. This would include all of Israel, considering that she openly declares that “Palestine” is from “its sea to its river.” Considering that polls show that as many as 95% of American Jews have favorable views of Israel, the embodiment of Zionism, it seems Muna has some rather dehumanizing terminology for diaspora Jews, too. Referring to Jews as “dogs” is a common antisemitic term, particularly among Palestinians and even among antisemites at the United Nations. Chants of “Jews are our dogs” are heard fairly regularly at demonstrations. No matter what way you slice it, Muna’s words are deplorable and overtly bigoted.

Abbas sent condolences to family of Tel Aviv terrorist who murdered 3

The terrorist who murdered 3 Israelis at a bar in Tel Aviv and another Palestinian who shot at Israeli forces were both “defending the land of Palestine and the people’s honor” according to the Fatah Movement, which added that their terror was “for the sake of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

This message was delivered by Jenin District Governor Akram Rajoub when he conveyed condolences on behalf of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to the families of the two terrorist “Martyrs”: murderer Ra’ad Hazem and shooter Ahmed Al-Sa’adi.

What Russian TV Wouldn’t Let Me Say (About Putin and the Holocaust)

Under attack from the conspiracy theories of the Guardian newspaper (David Collier)

It has long been known that the Guardian newspaper has lost the plot. It is not just anti-Israel obsessive. The Guardian jumped down the rabbit hole of ‘woke’ ideology and today provides oxygen for every toxic hard-left movement that exists. But the Guardian also runs smear campaigns to undermine those who oppose its friends. How do I know this for sure? Because they just tried to pull that stunt with me.

'Racist, colonial, apartheid': Senior Netflix executive in anti-Israel tirade on Twitter

Hezbollah hopes to use Al-Aqsa tensions in Lebanese elections - analysis

Protocols: Exposing Modern Antisemitism: Book Review (Israellycool)

I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It is indispensable reading for Israel advocates and those who care about combating Jew hatred and hatred of Israel.

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Arabic language media doesn't even pretend not to be antisemitic any more

A couple of years ago, Arabic language media was a bit careful to avoid blatant antisemitism and couched hate for Jews behind opposing the "occupation."

But between the Abraham Accords and the constant incitement over the Temple Mount, that pretense has been falling away. They no longer hide their hate of Jews behind calling them "Zionists" or "occupiers."

Some examples from the past couple of days:

Ahmed Salama, in Jordan's Ammon News, writes, "Jews might think that an agreement here, a dance with an Arab there, and the lighting of a site with the Star of David means that Judaism has excelled and desecrated the nation of Muhammad....Our cousins, the sons of Jacob, are doing themselves in by humiliating the Palestinians and breaking into the sanctities of his sanctuary. This arrogance that the Jews are doing with all this arrogance and this obscenity has only one explanation, that the Jews cannot be a nation and a state..."

Fayez el-Fayez, writing in Al-Rai, says that Jews have been lying ever since the sons of Jacob lied to their father about the fate of Joseph. He continues on saying that "Jews do not hesitate to kill women and children."

Amin Mahmoud, in Rai al-Youm, writes, "The Zionists have continued to publish more of their historical claims, especially those related to mythology that is not recognized by any scientific evidence, such as their claim - for example - that there is a 'Jewish nation' that has existed throughout the ages and Jews have a shared historic past.... However, a simple reflection on these statements, especially the saying of the 'Jewish nation,' which claims that this nation 'has been waiting and looking to Zion for two thousand years to return to it' shows us that this saying can only be included among the biggest fakes in the record of human history. "

Also, in that same site, Abdel Hamid Fajr Salloum engages in Temple denial: "It must be emphasized that Al-Aqsa was not built over the (alleged) Temple of Solomon, and all documents and historical evidence refute this dialectic of the Jews."

Yasar Khasawneh in Rum Online approvingly quotes the Jordanian prime minister as saying, “We are with the Palestinian resistance against the Jews who desecrate Al-Aqsa Mosque."

An emergency meeting held by the League of Arab States in Amman called on Israel to prevent Jews from praying in Al-Aqsa Mosque, warning that this “represents a flagrant violation of the feelings of Muslims.”

Open antisemitism has returned to Arab media.

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Palestinian TV broadcasts desire to see all Jews - and their supporters - exterminated

Palestinian Media Watch has video of an imam, broadcasting a Ramadan prayer live from El-Bireh near Ramallah, wishing to see the extermination of "evil Jews."

Not only that, but anyone who supports them should be killed by merciful Allah as well.

Here's the video:

“Grant us victory over the infidels... Allah, delight us with the conquest and liberation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Allah, make us among the first to enter, the conquerors, the worshippers, and those calling out ‘Allahu Akbar’ inside [the mosque] to You, Master of the Universe. Allah, delight us with the extermination of the evil Jews, O Master of the Universe, and [the extermination] of their hypocritical supporters who have evil in their hearts.”

Once again, the real issue isn't that there is a Palestinian antisemite. It isn't even that the people in the mosque at the time didn't even raise an eyebrow at the desire for the genocide of all Jews and their supporters.

The real issue is that this antisemitism is so much a part of Palestinian culture that there are literally zero people who publicly oppose these examples. No op-eds, no letters to the editor, no "point/counterpoint" discussions on TV.

There never is.

Hating Jews and wishing for their extermination is not only mainstream but unopposed.

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How to create an anti-Israel story based on literally nothing

I noted yesterday that a Chicago anti-Israel activist claimed in a speech to a crowd that on Saturday, "Israeli police and military entered the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, during the Orthodox observance of the Holy Saturday of Easter weekend."

It isn't true.

Israeli police did some crowd control. This is hardly newsworthy. But Palestinians are trying to exaggerate everything Israeli security services do to make them look aeful.

One particularly absurd example comes from Ramallah News, in a headline that says, "WATCH: the occupation attacks the 'Holy Fire' Saturday celebrations in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre."

The video, from the official Wafa news agency, shows an utterly boring scene that looks like any security guards at any event with more than a few hundred people.

No pushing or shoving. No raised voices. Nothing. (There was one minor incident of shoving when dome pilgrims decided to break through the barricade.)

But it is headline-worthy for Palestinians who want to create a story of Israeli evil, so the facts are secondary to the narrative.

Here's the really ironic part: Even if you claim that Israel is occupying Jerusalem, the security of the event is the responsibility of the occupying force!

Thousands of people want to jam into a tiny space to see this annual event, and it has been chaotic, dangerous and even deadly in the past, especially under Muslim rule. Here is the description from a AP dispatch datelined April 2, 1955:

Under international law, an occupier (and even more so a sovereign state) has a primary obligation to ensure public health and safety.

The 1907 Hague Regulations says that the occupier "shall take all the measures in his power to restore, and ensure, as far as possible, public order and safety." This is a primary responsibility. If Israel wouldn't bring police to maintain order at an event that could easily get out of hand in occupied territory, it would be violating international law!

But doing basic, polite and unobtrusive crowd control is being blown up into a huge violation of human rights.

The only reason for the crowd control to begin with is that Israel does not want a repeat of the disaster that happened last year in Meron when 45 Jews were trampled to death.

Israel-haters, though, want to see bloodshed - that they can blame on Israel. And if Israel prevents the bloodshed, then they blame Israel for maintaining order.

The lies and hypocrisy are obvious to anyone who isn't already invested in hating Israel.

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Scratch an "anti-Zionist," find an antisemite (Germany edition)

Some tweets from a German "anti-Zionist" rally show that many of the participants have a problem with...Jews.

Here, a reporter from Bilde who was being protected by police from the protesters is jeered as a "fucking Jew."

Bei antiisraelischen Protesten in Berlin schließt die Polizei gerade mehrere Journalisten (u. a. @JFDA_eV) von der Versammlung aus, nachdem diese von Teilnehmern bedrängt wurden. Unter "Scheiß Juden"-Rufen wird gerade der Journalist @peterjwilke weggeführt. #b2304 @BILD pic.twitter.com/OucoE0dTyD
— democ. (@democ_de) April 23, 2022

Journalists were also insulted as "dirty Jews."

https://t.co/ExDJ8vm67y
— democ. (@democ_de) April 23, 2022

Here, someone is called a "Drecksjude" - a Shit Jew. Also "Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews, the army of Mohammed will return." And chants in support of Qassam rockets aimed at Jewish civilians.

»Drecksjude« – antisemitische Parolen und Angriffe auf Journalisten bei antiisraelischen Demonstrationen in Berlin.
Teilnehmer skandierten: »Schlagt zu, oh Qassam, lasst die Zionisten nicht schlafen!« Die Stimmung auf den Versammlungen war extrem pressefeindlich. #b2304 [1/2] pic.twitter.com/rJPUjDQFmm
— democ. (@democ_de) April 24, 2022

What lovely people!

Multicultural Germany! The exact opposite of Nazi Germany - except, of course, for how they think about Jews.

Notice also that the anti-Zionists who swear up and down that they abhor antisemitism never say a negative word about things like this.

I'm blocked from most of the JVP idiots, but if you are not, challenge some of them to condemn this hate without adding a "but."

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Erdogan doubletalk in English and Arabic

As Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan tries to ingratiate himself with Israel and world Jewry, here's a story from 2020 that shows how he tries to gaslight the English speaking world.

He issued a statement justifying the conversion of the historic Hagia Sofia church, which was then a museum, into a mosque. He used the language of tolerance and openness and legal rights:

But his message in Arabic was much different in content and tone:

Reviving Aya Sofia is glad tidings regarding the return of the Al-Aqsa Mosque’s freedom.

Reviving Aya Sofia is a new beginning for Muslims all over the world on the way out from dark ages.

Reviving Aya Sofia does not only represent the return of hope for Muslims, but for all the wronged, oppressed, down-trodden, and exploited.

Reviving Aya Sofia is a greeting from the bottom of our hearts to all the cities that represent our civilization, starting with Bukhara, all the way to Andalusia.

Reopening the Aya Sofia – the will of Mehmed Fatih (Mehmed “the Conqueror”) – as a mosque, 70 years after the return of the call to prayer is a revival (resurrection) that was fulfilled belatedly.

This scene is the best answer to the disgusting attacks that target all our symbolic values all over the Islamic world.

Through all the steps that Turkey has taken lately, it affirms that it is active, not passive, in this time and place.

Allah willing, we will continue on this blessed path, without stopping, tirelessly and indefatigably, with all our resolve, sacrifice, and persistence, until we reach our goal.

And what goal might that be, if it includes Islamicizing Spain (Andalusia) and making the Temple Mount Judenrein again?

(h/t Ibn Boutros)

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