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The Middle East unites against the terrorism perpetrated by #Hamas. We stand with the people of both #Gazaand #Israel. The misinformation spread by the Muslim Brotherhood cannot deceive us; we now have access to information through various tools.
@lalshareef and I shared this viewpoint at the University of South Florida, where I witnessed and heard from Jewish students facing racism and antisemitism on American university campuses. These students reported extremist individuals, who fled from terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq to the USA, gained citizenship, and began supporting ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Hamas.

 

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October 7, 2023 was a DAY OF INSPIRATION for islamo nazis---
something like public beheadings and stonings

 

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I expect most anti-Israel voices to be idiotic, just as I expect more antisemites to be idiots.

But especially since October 7, we have seen lots of academics making arguments against Israel that violate basic logical fallacies. One would think that educated people, especially those who teach students, would be embarrassed to say these arguments out loud.

From a master list of logical fallacies found at the University of Texas- El Paso website:

1. Token Endorsement fallacy: "We cannot be antisemitic because we have some Jews who agree with us."

2.Affective fallacy: "I feel Israel is wrong, so it must be true."

3. Alternative Truth fallacy: "Palestinians have their narrative and it is just as valid as any other."

4. Appeal to Closure fallacy: "Israel must concede land because otherwise the conflict will never end."

5. Appeal to Heaven fallacy: "The Hadith says that the last hour won't come before the Muslims would fight the Jews and the Muslims will kill them."

6. Appeal to Pity fallacy: "Palestinians are weaker than Israel so we must support them.." "Palestinians are suffering so they must be right."

7. Appeal to Tradition fallacy: "Jews prospered in the Diaspora and therefore they should properly stay there."

8. Appeasement fallacy: "Divest from Israeli companies and the student protesters will stop destroying the campus."

9. Argument from Consequences fallacy: "Israel cannot possibly have any legal right to the West Bank because then Palestinians will have nowhere to go."

10. Argument from Incredulity fallacy: "We are supposed to believe that Jews have rights in the land because the God of the Bible says so?"

11. Argument from Inertia fallacy: "Jews weren't allowed to pray on the Temple Mount for centuries so we must keep the status quo."

12. Argument from Motives (reverse) fallacy: "Too many Palestinian men beat their wives and children, but it is understandable because they live under occupation."

13. Argumentum ad Baculum: "We can silence Zionist voices by bullying them and anyone who wants to listen to them."

14. Hyperbole Bias: "Israel has wreaked more destruction on Gaza than any war in history." "Israelis are worse than Nazis."

15. Bandwagon Fallacy: "We are on the right side of history!" "Most young people now support Palestinians."

There are lots more where these come from. This will probably be a four or five part series.

Logical fallacies that Israel haters use, part 1

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May is Jewish American Heritage Month, and New York City public schools have lots of material to teach kids about Jews.

Looking at their list of recommended books, I do not see any that mentions or appears to take place in Israel.

(vide list online)

I understand that this is meant to focus on Jewish Americans, but there are books about the Holocaust and others that take place in vaguely European Shtetl-type settings.

I remember as a child I had a book published in 1964 called Eli Lives in Israel, which is long out of print. And it appears that outside of Jewish publishing houses, the number of books that treat Jews as normal people living in Israel is very small.

This has been noticed by others. There is an unofficial boycott on publishing Israel-themed books, both for kids and in novels for adults.

One reason appears to be that publishers don't want to deal with the anti-Israel crowd.

Then there was Haley Neil, a new Jewish young-adult novelist, who reportedly felt compelled to rewrite her first novel, debuting in February (2021). Why? Hostile critics left 1-star reviews on Goodreads, because the story was rumored to take place on a Birthright trip to Israel, a popular tour for young Jews to reconnect with their heritage. Bloomsbury’s director of publicity for children’s books emailed the Washington Examiner, “We don’t comment on specific changes made in the editorial process,” before adding, “It’s worth noting that early commentors were not responding to any draft of the book, as it was not released.”

So even though nearly half of the Jews in the world live in Israel, kids don't know this - or they only see the Jews as aggressive soldiers through the distorted lens of Palestinians, who publish lots of children's stories that all include subtle or not-subtle anti-Israel components.

The message is clear: Jews in Israel must be treated like monsters, or ignored altogether. They do not have their own lives independent of the conflict, their own hopes and dreams and struggles like kids worldwide.

This is the kind of antisemitism that Jews have to live through that is accepted by the enlightened world of book publishers, teachers and public school systems.

Where are the children's books about Jewish life in Israel for Jewish American Heritage Month?

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BDS is not just 20 years old. It is as old as is islam ---like 14 centuries. ---
It was meant to be a STARVATION SIEGE which is THE technique that dates
back to "al nabi" and got carried along with the GLORIOUS AGE of islamic
conquest until the present day. ----In OUT TIME (well---at least early in my long life) ---in the 1970s muslims murdered 1.5 Biafran (christian) children
in Biafra----they starved at least a million hindu kids in East Pakistan to death---as they fled the children were dropping dead in their tracks and WEST PAKISTAN blocked all aid. Historically---both the jews and zoroastrians were
starved out of Iraq and floated over to Bombay (mumbai) where there is still
the remnant of that community----and of course---the comprehensive genocide of non muslims in what is today Saudi arabia. Today Hamas is starving the people of Gaza who do not like Hamas and as a tool for WORLD
"consumption" <<< no pun intended Did I mention the Starvation siege of
Jerusalem circa 1947?

 

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