All The News Anti-Israel Posters Will Not Read Or Discuss 2

[Sixties Fan]

(We all know why, don't we? )

The United Nations once again marked the “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” on November 29, with a day of speeches and “cultural events” at the organization’s New York headquarters.

Billed as an “opportunity for the international community to focus its attention on the question of Palestine,” the date marks 74 years since the UN passed resolution 181, the partition of the British-ruled Mandate for Palestine to create a Jewish state and an Arab state, with Jerusalem under international control.

It was a plan that drew support from world powers including the United States, the Soviet Union, France, and Belgium. It was also accepted by the majority of Jews.

However, the Arab side resolutely rejected any kind of compromise that would see the establishment of a Jewish state. Instead, it launched a wave of attacks against the Jewish population — and soon, a war of annihilation to destroy Israel, and push all of its Jewish residents into the sea.


Over the course of the following seven decades, the Palestinian leadership has maintained this combative approach to its Jewish neighbors, rebuffing every single peace overture that has ever been made, while simultaneously claiming to be systematically denied any chance at self-determination.

(full article online)

Why Does the United Nations Celebrate Palestinian Terrorism and Rejectionism? - Algemeiner.com

The United Nations once again marked the “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” on November 29, with a day of speeches and “cultural events” at the organization’s New York headquarters. Billed as an “opportunity for the international community to focus its attention on the...

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[Sixties Fan]

One month after publishing a fawning profile about a Gaza professor and apparent “champion of Hebrew poetry,” Refaat Alareer, The New York Times has issued an astonishing editor’s note that effectively retracts the entire piece.

The article by the NYT’s Jerusalem Bureau Chief Patrick Kingsley, In Gaza, a Contentious Palestinian Professor Calmly Teaches Israeli Poetry, lavished praise on Alareer for teaching the works of celebrated Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, as well as commending him for encouraging his students to “empathize” with Jewish characters in certain texts.

However, on December 14, an addendum was attached to the article, stating that editors have now “reviewed additional information that is at odds with the article’s portrayal of Refaat Alareer,” and concluded that the “article did not accurately reflect Mr. Alareer’s views on Israeli poetry or how he teaches it.”

In addition, the note asserts:

In the class witnessed by a Times reporter, Mr. Alareer taught a poem by the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, which he called ‘beautiful,’ saying it underscored the ‘shared humanity’ of Israelis and Palestinians. He said he admired how it showed that Jerusalem is a place ‘where we all come together, regardless of religion and faith.’
However, in a video of a class from 2019, he called the same poem ‘horrible’ and ‘dangerous,’ saying that although it was aesthetically beautiful, it ‘brainwashes’ readers by presenting the Israelis ‘as innocent.’ He also discussed a second Israeli poem, by Tuvya Ruebner, which he called ‘dangerous,’ adding ‘this kind of poetry is in part to blame for the ethnic cleansing and destruction of Palestine.’

At the time, HonestReporting called on The New York Times and other outlets to stop allowing avid Jew-haters like Alareer to misinform their readerships.
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One day after the publication of Kingsley’s piece last month, HonestReporting again asked why Alareer’s history of antisemitism did not preclude him from being written about in such admiring terms. In a November 17 piece, The New York Times Publishes Glowing Profile on Notorious Anti-Israel Terror Apologist, HonestReporting urged readers to register a complaint with The New York Times editorial board.

HonestReporting also named Alareer in a petition launched on November 16 that called on the NYT (and the BBC) to stop giving a platform to anti-Israel terrorism apologists and those who espouse such bigoted rhetoric. Since it went live, the petition has garnered 4,000 signatures.

On November 23, media-watch organization CAMERA highlighted the existence of a 2019 video of Alareer giving a lecture in which he offers completely different views on Israeli literature compared to those witnessed by Kingsley.

The New York Times’ 267-word correction has now been detailed in full by numerous international media outlets, many of which have also highlighted HonestReporting’s work in exposing Alareer (see here, here and here).

(full article online)

Following Backlash, NYT Effectively Retracts Entire Article About Antisemitic Gaza Professor | HonestReporting

One month after publishing a fawning profile about a Gaza professor and apparent "champion of Hebrew poetry," Refaat Alareer, The New York Times has

honestreporting.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

As a Jewish teenager who is active online, I can say that there is rarely any positive Jewish representation in the media.

From blatantly antisemitic characters on television shows, to promoting outdated stereotypes, it’s difficult for young Jews to feel heard. And when Jewish stories do appear in traditional media outlets — such as this Teen Vogue op-ed — it’s almost always about Jews criticizing Israel. This, despite the fact that most Jews feel Israel is a vital part of their Jewish identity, and that most Jewish teenagers only want to see peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

It seems as if the editors of these publications have a political agenda they’re trying to promote, and are taking advantage of young Jewish writers to do so.

During Jewish holidays such as Hanukkah, which celebrates a victory against oppression, we should focus on how much our people have overcome. I would love to see articles in non-Jewish media that celebrate this feat, or even on how to make the best latkes, but those pieces never seem to get any attention. It’s only articles attacking Israel that do — like the Teen Vogue piece, which merely used Hanukkah as a way to attack the Jewish state.

(full article and op ed online)

‘Teen Vogue’ Uses Hanukkah and Grandparents to Demonize Israel Again - Algemeiner.com

As a Jewish teenager who is active online, I can say that there is rarely any positive Jewish representation in the media. From blatantly antisemitic characters on television shows, to promoting outdated stereotypes, it's difficult for young Jews to feel heard. And when Jewish stories do appear...

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[surada]

Jews were denied the right to return to Gaza from 1920 to 1967.

Jews were denied the right to return to TransJordan from 1925 to reside, till today.

Jews were denied the right to return to Hebron from 1929 till 1967

Jews were denied to return to Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter, Judea and Samaria from 1948 till 1967


Do you have any more crocodile tears to shed?

Jews were a tiny minority from the 1st century until the 1930s.. and those people weren't Europeans or Russians.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Jews were a tiny minority from the 1st century until the 1930s.. and those people weren't Europeans or Russians.

Violins. I hear violins

Counting sheep will not make the Jews NOT the indigenous people of the land.

Berbers and Copts, just like Yazidis, Assyrians, Kurds and others are still, and always will be the indigenous people of those lands no matter how many thousands of Arabs moved there.

 

[rylah]

Jews were a tiny minority from the 1st century until the 1930s.. and those people weren't Europeans or Russians.

Such an imperialist argument.

Do you think Arab supremacists have a title to the entire Middle East,
because after their conquest, some proud minorities were practically enslaved for sticking around?

 

[surada]

Such an imperialist argument.

Do you think Arab supremacists have a title to the entire Middle East,
because after their conquest, some proud minorities were practically enslaved for sticking around?

I think they have always lived there.. for thousands or years .. They aren't immigrants.. How much of their countries do you think you are entitled to?

What minorities are you talking about? They were Arabic speaking people who shared Arab culture.

 

[Sixties Fan]

I think they have always lived there.. for thousands or years .. They aren't immigrants.. How much of their countries do you think you are entitled to?

What minorities are you talking about? They were Arabic speaking people who shared Arab culture.

You think? That they have lived there, the Arabs, for thousands of years?

How?

You have not shown one proof of it.

Living in any part of Ancient Canaan does not make ANY Arab indigenous of that area, any more than they are indigenous of all the areas where any tribe of them, or individuals or families may have moved to in any part of Asia, Africa or Europe.

Arabs do not have countries anywhere else but in the Peninsula called Arabia. Anywhere else they are invaders, conquerers, colonizers who took over someone else's land and nearly destroyed the indigenous people and cultures of those lands.

 

[Sixties Fan]

The president of Ukraine on Wednesday hailed the State of Israel as “an example” for his country during a wide-ranging speech to Jewish and international leaders.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky compared Ukraine’s struggle for independence with that waged by Israel in his address to the third annual Kyiv Jewish Forum on Wednesday. The virtual forum is marking thirty years of diplomatic relations between Ukraine and the Jewish state.

Speaking as 70,000 Russian troops massed on Ukraine’s borders, sparking global fears of an imminent invasion, Zelensky told the forum that Ukrainians and Jews were bonded by similar historical experiences.

“We know what it’s like not to have our own state,” Zelensky said. “We know what it means to defend one’s own state and land with weapons in hand, at the cost of our own lives. Both Ukrainians and Jews value freedom, and they work equally for the future of our states to become to our liking, and not the future which others want for us. Israel is often an example for Ukraine.”

(full article online)

Ukraine President Zelensky Hails Israel in Speech to Jewish Forum Amid Escalating Tensions With Russia - Algemeiner.com

The president of Ukraine on Wednesday hailed the State of Israel as "an example" for his country during a wide-ranging speech to Jewish and international leaders. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky compared Ukraine's struggle for independence with that waged by Israel in his address to the...

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[Sixties Fan]

While I agree that the vast majority of Arab citizens of Israel are “ordinary law-abiding citizens who hate violence,” I disagree that the comments of Fleischman, Magal, and Smotrich were inappropriate. There is a real issue with the Arabs of Israel – leaving aside the Arabs of Judea/Samaria and Gaza – which is not going away, and can’t be made to go away by telling the Jews not to be “racist.”

What is the issue? First, it has nothing to do with “race,” and accusations of “racism” do not illuminate the problem. In a nutshell the conflict is a national one, over the historical question of to whom the Land of Israel belongs, and over who gets to determine the character of the state that is established here.

I’ve written enough about the competing narratives and I don’t want to go into them here. Obviously I believe that the existence of the Jewish state as the nation-state of the Jewish people is justified. That implies that Jews get to choose the flag, the national anthem, and other symbols of the state. And more practically, they can also choose immigration and citizenship policies that will lead to a continued Jewish majority.

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The Arabs – and I think this includes virtually all Arab citizens of Israel – vehemently reject this, because in their historical narrative, they are the owners, and the Jews “stole” the land from them. Statements to this effect are regularly made by Arab members of the Knesset. So while most Arabs do not take part in violent attacks on Jews and Jewish property as happened in May, the idea that we can prevent such occurrences by “mak[ing] Arab citizens feel that they belong” is fantasy. They will not “belong” unless they are given ownership, and we are not going to do that.

Asking the Arabs to give up their narrative is a fool’s errand, and it would be wrong to try to brainwash them with our version of history, even if as a matter of fact it is correct. And if Israel’s Jews should give up their Zionism – as some on the Left would like – then the Jewish state will have failed, and will soon disappear into the mass of Arab states surrounding it.

What we should say to our Arab citizens is something like this: this is a Jewish state and you are a national and religious minority in it. You have all the civil and political rights of any citizen and will not be discriminated against. This is a free society with a free-market economy where you can live better than in any other country in the region. We will treat you with respect, and we appreciate your contribution to Israeli cultural and economic life.

But we insist that you do not try to subvert our state, help its enemies, or engage in insurrections. There are many other states in the world; some of them are defined as Arab-Muslim states, and some are “states of their citizens.” If you can’t accept the minority status that is available here, then go somewhere else.

(full article online)

A Message to our Arab Citizens (Vic Rosenthal)

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

elderofziyon.blogspot.com

 

[P F Tinmore]

While I agree that the vast majority of Arab citizens of Israel are “ordinary law-abiding citizens who hate violence,” I disagree that the comments of Fleischman, Magal, and Smotrich were inappropriate. There is a real issue with the Arabs of Israel – leaving aside the Arabs of Judea/Samaria and Gaza – which is not going away, and can’t be made to go away by telling the Jews not to be “racist.”

What is the issue? First, it has nothing to do with “race,” and accusations of “racism” do not illuminate the problem. In a nutshell the conflict is a national one, over the historical question of to whom the Land of Israel belongs, and over who gets to determine the character of the state that is established here.

I’ve written enough about the competing narratives and I don’t want to go into them here. Obviously I believe that the existence of the Jewish state as the nation-state of the Jewish people is justified. That implies that Jews get to choose the flag, the national anthem, and other symbols of the state. And more practically, they can also choose immigration and citizenship policies that will lead to a continued Jewish majority.

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The Arabs – and I think this includes virtually all Arab citizens of Israel – vehemently reject this, because in their historical narrative, they are the owners, and the Jews “stole” the land from them. Statements to this effect are regularly made by Arab members of the Knesset. So while most Arabs do not take part in violent attacks on Jews and Jewish property as happened in May, the idea that we can prevent such occurrences by “mak[ing] Arab citizens feel that they belong” is fantasy. They will not “belong” unless they are given ownership, and we are not going to do that.

Asking the Arabs to give up their narrative is a fool’s errand, and it would be wrong to try to brainwash them with our version of history, even if as a matter of fact it is correct. And if Israel’s Jews should give up their Zionism – as some on the Left would like – then the Jewish state will have failed, and will soon disappear into the mass of Arab states surrounding it.

What we should say to our Arab citizens is something like this: this is a Jewish state and you are a national and religious minority in it. You have all the civil and political rights of any citizen and will not be discriminated against. This is a free society with a free-market economy where you can live better than in any other country in the region. We will treat you with respect, and we appreciate your contribution to Israeli cultural and economic life.

But we insist that you do not try to subvert our state, help its enemies, or engage in insurrections. There are many other states in the world; some of them are defined as Arab-Muslim states, and some are “states of their citizens.” If you can’t accept the minority status that is available here, then go somewhere else.

(full article online)

A Message to our Arab Citizens (Vic Rosenthal)

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

elderofziyon.blogspot.com

The Arabs – and I think this includes virtually all Arab citizens of Israel – vehemently reject this, because in their historical narrative, they are the owners, and the Jews “stole” the land from them.

This is what history and facts on the ground tell us.

Can you refute this?

Of course not. This will be one if my many. many unanswered questions.

 

[Sixties Fan]

This is what history and facts on the ground tell us.

Can you refute this?

Of course not. This will be one if my many. many unanswered questions.

That is the Arab narrative, a narrative born out of having lost 3 wars to their despised Jews.

The leaders know that it is not Palestinian land, never was, they think of it as Muslim land, nothing else. Otherwise they would not have dreamt of becoming part of Greater Syria before they lost the 1948 war.

All of your questions have been answered numerous times, you are just a hard head Jew hater who will never accept the answers.

 

[Hollie]

This is what history and facts on the ground tell us.

Can you refute this?

Of course not. This will be one if my many. many unanswered questions.

Indeed. One of the unanswered questions you refuse to address.

What sovereign Pally land was "stolen"?

 

[Sixties Fan]

If all people were Jews,
What would become of the world?
No corn would grow,
No plow would move through the fields,

No forester would tend the woods,
No miner would start his shift.
Jews don’t even like
To sail the seas.
The steamboat would never have been invented,
Nor would the train.
No dirigible would rise
Shining into the sky.
We wouldn’t have gunpowder,
Nor electric lights.
For the Jew can barter,
But he cannot invent.

... What can the Jew give,
He who has nothing,
Yet presumes to
Call himself “elect”?
Only the devil knows,
For the devil loves pride and arrogance.
Thank God there are still
People other than Jews on earth!

And now the "anti-Zionist" community, with books and songs and chants dedicated to hate..

Like the KKK, the modern haters used to pretend that their movement was not negative but positive. They pretended to be "pro-Palestinian." But that façade has faded as it became increasingly clear that these groups were doing nothing to help Palestinians and as their philosophy developed around the theme of hating Israel and everything it stands for. They only support Palestinian initiatives that align with that goal. (How many "pro-Palestinians" make solidarity visits to Lebanese or Jordanian UNRWA camps? It's very rare.)

Here is an entire book of "personal stories, history, poetry and art" that is based on a negative: "confronting Zionism." These people define themselves by what they hate. And now like their antisemitic forebears they are trying to use their hate as a springboard build an entire artistic community.

This idea of elevating antisemitism as anti-Israel art has been building for years. Belgium's poet laureate Charles Ducal and poet Alice Walker both wrote poems that compared Jews to Nazis under the guise of "anti-Zionism." So did the acclaimed play "Seven Jewish Children."

The modern haters are all strengthened by finding comrades who share their hate, and since they look at themselves as being cultured, they are now in the forefront of integrating hate into art.

(full article online)

Hating the Jewish state elevated into an art form

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

elderofziyon.blogspot.com

 

[P F Tinmore]

That is the Arab narrative, a narrative born out of having lost 3 wars to their despised Jews.

The leaders know that it is not Palestinian land, never was, they think of it as Muslim land, nothing else. Otherwise they would not have dreamt of becoming part of Greater Syria before they lost the 1948 war.

All of your questions have been answered numerous times, you are just a hard head Jew hater who will never accept the answers.

they lost the 1948 war.

You have been misinformed.

The "Arabs" did not lose the 1948 war.

Palestine was not a party to that war.

 

[Sixties Fan]

You have been misinformed.

The "Arabs" did not lose the 1948 war.

Palestine was not a party to that war.

Mandate for Palestine over.

Jordan got 78% of it in 1925, 1946.

Israel got the other 22% as per Mandate after it declared Independence.

Other Arabs, by rejecting a partition twice, in 1937 and 1947, got nothing because they wanted it all.

Actually, the "Palestinian Arabs" unlike the Palestinian Jews ended up with nothing because Egypt took Gaza and Jordan took Judea and Samaria and they refused to share with the "Palestinian Arabs"

Cry your crocodile tears

 

[Sixties Fan]

In 135 CE, after stamping out the province of Judea's second insurrection, the Romans renamed the province Syria Palaestina - Palestinian Syria - as a punishment, to obliterate the link between the Jews and the province. "Palaestina" referred to the Philistines, whose home base had been on the Mediterranean coast, but no nation has ever had that name.

Since biblical times, Palestine was understood to span the Jordan River. It was common to call the one bank Western Palestine and the other Eastern Palestine. According to the Bible, the Israelite tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Menasseh held land east of the Jordan River. Before World War I, no books described that river as Palestine's eastern boundary. In other words, the Jordan River did not bound Palestine; it bisected it.

(full article online)

The Forgotten History of the Term "Palestine" » Mosaic

The land to the east of the Mediterranean has gone by many names, all of them designed to make a political point.

mosaicmagazine.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

(Only way for Palestinians to achieve peace with Israel is to have leaders who want peace, and stop with the endless incitement and education to violence and the idea that their land was taken from them )

Time for Palestinians to stop just saying ‘no’

For most Arabs, former President Donald Trump will be remembered for ordering a ban on many Muslims entering the US and for undermining the peace process for Palestine. The reality is that Trump could not achieve peace between Israel and Palestine because the Palestinians never really tried to...

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