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

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Moscow back in the 1960-70ss funded and supported Palestinian national movement, as a mean to undermine Israel, the US' main ally in the Middle East. Now, some try to draw parallels between Palestinian and Ukrainian resistance. Among the main differences, the former was funded by Moscow while the latter is against Moscow.

Ironically, many in Israel (especially on the right side of political spectrum, let's remember Bibi as an example) support ties and cooperation with Russia as a guarantee of Israel's security. I wonder whether it takes long for Israel to switch the sides again.

 

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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."

(full article online)

Canadian Arab lawyers create a ridiculous definition of "anti-Palestinian racism"

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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."

(full article online)

Canadian Arab lawyers create a ridiculous definition of "anti-Palestinian racism"

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

elderofziyon.blogspot.com

First of all, no one - and I mean no one - tries to "silence expressions of solidarity against Palestinians."

PALESTINIAN STUDENTS EXCEPTION TO FREE SPEECH Pt one​

 

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PALESTINIAN STUDENTS EXCEPTION TO FREE SPEECH Pt one​

This is like Russia complaining that the West is not giving it free rein to bomb Ukraine and murder Ukrainians, while it continues to do so.

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“Palestinian terrorists from Lebanon tried to ignite another arena,” Maj. Gen. Amir Baram, commander of the IDF’s Northern Command, said in a speech at a ceremony in northern Israel.

“Only less than 48 hours ago we came across a Palestinian terror attempt to violate our daily routine, from Lebanon,” Baram continued.

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Senior Israeli Commander Says Palestinians Behind Lebanon Rocket - Algemeiner.com

i24 News – The head of the Israeli army's northern command on Tuesday said that Palestinians were behind a rocket fired from Lebanon earlier in the week. The projectile was launched in the overnight hours between Sunday and Monday, landing in an open area near Kibbutz Matsuva. It prompted a...

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It has long been known that the Guardian newspaper has lost the plot. It is not just anti-Israel obsessive (see examples 1,2,3,4,5). 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.

Initial contact​

On Thursday I was contacted via my website by Stephanie Kirchgaessner from the Guardian. She asked if I was available to speak to her about the 2019 report I wrote on Amnesty International:



This was a fascinating approach. I consider the Guardian ‘hostile’ to the west, the UK, the US, liberal thinking, free speech, Jews, Israel, and Zionism, so it is odd they would contact me about anything. When I wrote the report – a 200-page detailed investigation of Amnesty’s anti-Israel bias that was supported with almost 600 footnotes – the Guardian completely ignored it. Kirchgaessner is also based in the US, and I am a simple lad from Essex.

My response​

The problem my detractors have when they take me on, is that there is nothing more to me than I have made publicly available. I am just a Jewish guy from the outskirts of London with a keyboard, a ‘particular set of skills’, and a fetish for outing antisemites. I have absolutely nothing to hide. Which means that when I am contacted by a journalist, I am able to talk freely about anything that is related explicitly to me.

Yes, I know that what I say can be twisted and so on – but there can be no meat to anything they put together. Which is why my research has been respectfully covered by everyone from the BBC to the Times and the only outlets that do run hit pieces on me are those such as the Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss and so on. I am a target only for lying antisemitic rags.

I gave Kirchgaessner my number and awaited her call.

Due Diligence​

As always I did a little ‘due diligence’ before the call. I read that Stephanie Kirchgaessner spent fourteen years at the FT before joining the Guardian in late 2014. She is the Guardian’s ‘US investigations correspondent’. I found nothing of note about her on media watchdog sites such as ‘CAMERA‘ and ‘Honest Reporting‘. I did learn that she has been a lead in the investigation into the PEGASUS spyware and the Israeli company behind it – NSO.

NSO did provide a link, however tenuous. Kirchgaessner is deeply involved in the investigations into PEGASUS and so is Amnesty International. But surely, nobody would be so insane that they would link me to NSO? It would take a dark conspiratorial mindset to tie an independent fighter against antisemitism in London, to a hi-tech spyware company in Israel. This is in the ‘David Miller’ sphere of conspiratorial nonsense (Miller is a sacked Bristol University academic who loves to draw massive web-diagrams about ‘Zionist’ money, influence and power). Surely, I thought to myself, the Guardian do not swim in the same sewer as the real haters. Oh, how wrong can someone be!

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.

(full article online)

Under attack from the conspiracy theories of the Guardian newspaper

The Guardian have joined Electronic Intifada in trying to build global antisemitic conspiracy theories. They picked on the wrong Jew.

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Political Zionists like Theodor Herzl were concerned with the plight of Jews in Europe and across the world; they sought a safe haven for Jews who were being persecuted and murdered. They never envisioned oppressing anyone — but hoped Jews could live in peace with their neighbors.

After Herzl first defined political Zionism, it branched off into numerous different ideologies. These included Labor Zionism, which sought to blend Zionism with socialism. Religious Zionism saw the rebirth of the State of Israel as part of the process of bringing about the messianic era. Another branch, cultural Zionism, emphasized creating a new national culture for Jews, such as learning the revived language of Hebrew.

When the Israeli Declaration of Independence was penned, the founders of the state swore that it would “ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education, and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions, and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.”

While Israel is certainly not a perfect nation, it has usually lived up to these principles; and when it hasn’t, it has tried to do better.

Zionists accepted an Arab state alongside Israel in 1948; the Palestinians and Arab states didn’t, and launched a war of extermination against the Jews there. That is the reason there is no Palestinian state today, along with the rejection of countless peace offers since, and numerous wars launched by the Palestinians and Arab states to destroy Israel, rather than live in peace with it. It was this violence and terrorism that forced Israel to be active in some of the disputed territories today.

It is wrong to say that Israel seeks to oppress Palestinians as a matter of national policy. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Zionism only concerns itself with establishing a sovereign Jewish state. Ask any Zionist today, and they will tell you why they are proud of Israel, and why they think Israel is important. They will speak of the Jewish people’s special bond, our history in the Levant, and how Israel has saved hundreds of thousands of Jews from persecution, and a possible future genocide.

The idea behind CAMERA on Campus’ “This is What a Zionist Looks Like” campaignis to show people how diverse Zionism is, and how Zionism is a positive movement that seeks to protect Jews, and all people in the region.

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Don’t Believe the Lies: Zionism Is a Movement of Peace - Algemeiner.com

One of the biggest lies ever told about Zionism is that the supposed subjugation or oppression of the Palestinians is somehow a central tenet of the movement. Jewish Voice for Peace -- an anti-Zionist organization with chapters at several universities -- posits that “the Zionism that took hold...

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Fortier quotes Sarah Abdelshamy, one of the protesters, who tells the newspaper “The attacks in al-Aqsa are just one example of many. The Nakba, which is the day of catastrophe, is every single day. The Zionist forces—the occupation forces—use any force necessary to oppress and dispossess Palestinians every single day.”

The article then explains that “Nakba” or Arabic for ‘catastrophe,’ refers to the “displacement of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Palestinians after the creation of Israel in 1948.”

Abdelshamy’s quote is rife with hateful disinformation. The only aggressive attacks taking place on the Temple Mount are at the hands of Palestinian extremists and rioters, not the Jerusalem police who entered the Al-Asqa Mosque to remove potentially deadly weapons.

The term ‘Nakba’ is a hateful phrase that serves to effectively erase the Jewish People’s three thousand years of history in their ancestral homeland. While it is true that in 1948, thousands of Arabs in Israel left the newly independent Jewish State, they left largely as a result of the Arab-led war of aggression against nascent Israel, and Arab leaders who encouraged Arabs to flee, expecting they would soon return after the Jewish State was destroyed.

It is perfectly legitimate to disagree with any – even all – Israeli policies. Israel, as a democratic state, guarantees this freedom of expression to all its citizens, regardless of religion. But giving space to voices who not only deny Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish State, and which is a de facto denial of the Jewish People’s indisputable historical connection to their own homeland, is little more than an incitement to hatred and certainly has no place being reported in The Link.

Another interviewee, a student and demonstration participant named Nabeel, was even more unapologetic in his assault on Israel’s right to exist.

“[The Canadian government doesn’t] even condemn Israel. See how quickly governments sanctioned Russia when it invaded Ukraine? It’s been 70 years [since the Israeli occupation],” The Link quotes him as saying.

It was 74 years ago that Israel, the nation-state of the Jewish People, gained independence from the United Kingdom after nearly two thousand years under a string of foreign occupiers. At the time, Israel was not in possession of eastern Jerusalem or Judea & Samaria (often called the West Bank), regions with three millennia of Jewish history.

Clearly, for some of the protesters in Montreal, Israel became a villain since the day of its independence, thus suggesting that its very existence is invalid.

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Concordia University Student Newspaper Whitewashes Anti-Israel Rally

In a recent article in The Link, Concordia University’s student newspaper, “Palestinian Montrealers protest Israeli police raids on al-Aqsa Mosque,” Zachary Fortier, one of the newspaper’s news editors, covered a recent anti-Israel rally in Montreal. If The Link decides that 100 anti-Israel...

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Father of convicted terrorist threatens father of slain soldier victim

Odeh Abu Jaudah, who faces separate accusations tied to the case, tells Boaz Kokia: 'We know where you live, you are murderers'; police later detain him over threats

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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.

Arab League Parliament demands UNRWA be funded - but they sure don't want to fund it themselves

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Bloomberg News has failed to correct two straight-forward errors in its Israel coverage. In her April 12 business story (“Israelis Rush for Gun Licenses After A Series of Fatal Shootings“), Gwen Ackerman errs about Israeli-Arabs, wrongly reporting that the population “mostly identify as Palestinian.” In fact, polling data shows that the opposite is true. They mostly don’t identify as Palestinians. A 2019 Israel Democracy Institute report found that only 13 percent of surveyed identify as Palestinian (“Jews and Arabs: Conditional Partnership“).


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Screenshot from IDI report


Other surveys have similar findings. For example, a 2017 study by Arik Rudnitzky and Itamar Radai found that only 8.9 percent of Israeli Arabs identify as “Palestinian in Israel/Palestinian citizen in Israel” and 15.4 percent identify as “Palestinian” (“Citizenship, Identity and Political Participation . . . ” p. 22).

A third study, conducted by Camille Fuchs of Tel Aviv University, found only 7 percent of non-Jewish people in Israel identify as Palestinian.

While CAMERA supplied this data to Bloomberg, the news outlet has yet to correct.

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Bloomberg Fails to Correct on Israeli Arabs, Army Service

Contrary to Bloomberg reporting, Israeli Arabs mostly don't identify as Palestinian and not all Israelis are required to complete military service. Does 'The Bloomberg

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