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From JTA, February 4, 1952:

Maj. Gen. G.L. Nold, Deputy Chief of Army Engineers, told the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee that the Army considers it undesirable to hire American Jews to work on bases in North Africa because Jewish construction workers might offend the Arabs.

For this reason, some 20,000 unemployed construction men in New York were by-passed for such jobs in Morocco and elsewhere. The New York State Employment Service said it would not screen out Jews, while officials in Minnesota cooperated with the Army’s request, Gen. Nold said.

A month later, the Secretary of the Army clarified matters - but they ended up being more muddied:
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The Arab boycott was of Jews, not Zionists. It tried to get people who didn't hate Jews to change their behavior to adhere to the boycott for economic reasons.

Sounds exactly like BDS.

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70 years ago: When the US Army didn't hire Jewish contractors to avoid offending Arabs

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

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Flights between the United Arab Emirates and Israel will continue for at least another month as the countries negotiate and work through their disagreements, JNS has confirmed.

On Tuesday, as Israeli Tourism Minister Yoel Razvozov signed a historic tourism agreement in Dubai, Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli arranged for the current security arrangements for Tel Aviv-Dubai flights to be extended for around another month, to enable both sides to agree on the permanent system.

(full article online)

Israel Extends Security Deadline on UAE Flights, Signs Historic Tourism Agreement - Algemeiner.com

JNS.org - Flights between the United Arab Emirates and Israel will continue for at least another month as the countries negotiate and work through their disagreements, JNS has confirmed. On Tuesday, as Israeli Tourism Minister Yoel Razvozov signed a historic tourism agreement in Dubai...

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WRONG as they had no farms being itinerant squatters, barely 1% of the Palestinians worked the land as it was too costly for them to do so.

Were you ever in Palestine before the 67 war, or are you just making things up?

 

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Were you ever in Palestine before the 67 war, or are you just making things up?

You are seriously so bored that you went back to a Page 1 post?

Here is the answer as to what Palestine was like before 1917, during Ottoman Empire.

Land Ownership in Palestine, 1880–1948 | survival

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The rest I will be posting in the Thread at the top. The Newer.......creation of Israel......
because this is not the thread to discuss this.

You may have been in Saudi Arabia during the 1950s, but you were not in Palestine then, or during the Ottoman Empire period.

A bit of research would tell how the Arabs were treated by the Turks during all of those centuries.

 

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Of course I was there. Our

You are seriously so bored that you went back to a Page 1 post?

Here is the answer as to what Palestine was like before 1917, during Ottoman Empire.

Land Ownership in Palestine, 1880–1948 | survival

lessons.myjli.com

The rest I will be posting in the Thread at the top. The Newer.......creation of Israel......
because this is not the thread to discuss this.

You may have been in Saudi Arabia during the 1950s, but you were not in Palestine then, or during the Ottoman Empire period.

A bit of research would tell how the Arabs were treated by the Turks during all of those centuries.

Sunday school had cheap excursions to Jordan, the west bank and east Jerusalem every April.

 

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Of course I was there. Our
Sunday school had cheap excursions to Jordan, the west bank and east Jerusalem every April.

All during the time Jordan controlled Judea, Samaria and the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem after expelling all Jews after the 1948 war. Just as they had done in 1925 in TransJordan.

Still, you were not there before the 1950s, or during the Ottoman Empire period as I pointed out.

Read from that site and learn what Arabs owned, how they lived, or were treated during Ottoman control.

 

[surada]

All during the time Jordan controlled Judea, Samaria and the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem after expelling all Jews after the 1948 war. Just as they had done in 1925 in TransJordan.

Still, you were not there before the 1950s, or during the Ottoman Empire period as I pointed out.

Read from that site and learn what Arabs owned, how they lived, or were treated during Ottoman control.

The ottomans neglected Palestine and let each group basically govern themselves. Jews were just a tiny minority.

 

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The ottomans neglected Palestine and let each group basically govern themselves. Jews were just a tiny minority.

You have not read the article.
Come back when you do.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

The ottomans neglected Palestine and let each group basically govern themselves. Jews were just a tiny minority.

And then they were a larger minority. And now they're the majority.

 

[Sixties Fan]

This continues our series examining rising antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses (see here, here, here, here and here).

If one needed any further evidence of the widespread antisemitism and anti-Israel hostility on college campuses in the United States, you would only have to look at the University of Chicago’s response to a recent Instagram post by the UChicago Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

The January 27 multi-slide upload – witlessly titled, “Don’t take sh*tty Zionist classes,” in perhaps not the most ringing endorsement of the educational standards at a college where fees trend upwards of $50,000 – warns the student body that said courses “serve as vehicles to spread Zionist propaganda.”

Calling on students to show their support for the “Palestinian movement by boycotting classes on Israel or those taught by Israeli fellows,” the SJP claims that attending such lessons is tantamount to “participating in a propaganda campaign that creates complicity in the continuation of Israel’s occupation of Palestine.”

It continues:

Many courses which proclaim to be about aspects of ‘Israeli culture’ make no mention of Palestine or Palestinians, preferring the term ‘Arab minority’ at most. There is no mention of the fact that Israel is an apartheid state. Israel’s history is framed as a conflict between two equals in an effort to legitimize its existence to uninformed students. None of the course descriptions acknowledge the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing which reached its peak in 1948 but continues to this day, and that served as the foundation for the establishment of the Israeli state. Instead they use the deceitful and propagandistic term ‘1948 Arab-Israeli war’.”

The mendacious assertion that “ethnic cleansing” reached its peak in 1948 and continues to the present day is, of course, nonsense. As HonestReporting has evidenced, the population growth of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip tells an entirely different story.

Moreover, the reference to Israel’s birth year and the “Nakba” (the Arabic word for “catastrophe”) suggests SJP believes the very existence of the Jewish state is a crime and its creation was the original sin.

(full article online)

University of Chicago Condemns ‘Anti-Palestinian Bias’ in Response to SJP Post Urging Boycott of ‘Sh*tty Zionist Classes’ | HonestReporting

This continues our series examining rising antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses (see here, here, here, here and here). If one needed

honestreporting.com

 

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A Guardian article written by their former Jerusalem correspondent Chris McGreal (“Rightwing lobby group Alec driving laws to blacklist companies that boycott the oil industry”, Feb. 8) focused on a US lobby group called the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) that’s “driving a surge in new state laws to block boycotts of the oil industry”.

But, McGreal also pivots to Israel, claiming that versions of “laws drafted by Alec [have been] adopted in more than 30 states to block support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians”.

However, according to communication we had with legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich, professor of law at George Mason and head of the international law department at Kohelet Policy forum, and one of the foremost experts on anti-BDS laws, Alec was NOT in fact responsible for drafting that legislation.

McGreal also errs in the penultimate paragraph of the article, when he writes that the “anti-BDS legislation has faced legal challenges after residents of Dickinson, Texas, were required to sign pledges not to boycott Israel in order to receive hurricane damage relief”.

In fact, as was was widely reported at the time, that requirement, apparently included in error, was promptly removed by city council shortly after it went into effect.

(full article online)

Guardian corrects false claim about anti-BDS law

A Guardian article written by former Jerusalem correspondent Chris McGreal ("Rightwing lobby group Alec driving laws to blacklist companies that boycott the

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A Guardian article written by their former Jerusalem correspondent Chris McGreal (“Rightwing lobby group Alec driving laws to blacklist companies that boycott the oil industry”, Feb. 8) focused on a US lobby group called the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) that’s “driving a surge in new state laws to block boycotts of the oil industry”.

But, McGreal also pivots to Israel, claiming that versions of “laws drafted by Alec [have been] adopted in more than 30 states to block support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians”.

However, according to communication we had with legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich, professor of law at George Mason and head of the international law department at Kohelet Policy forum, and one of the foremost experts on anti-BDS laws, Alec was NOT in fact responsible for drafting that legislation.

McGreal also errs in the penultimate paragraph of the article, when he writes that the “anti-BDS legislation has faced legal challenges after residents of Dickinson, Texas, were required to sign pledges not to boycott Israel in order to receive hurricane damage relief”.

In fact, as was was widely reported at the time, that requirement, apparently included in error, was promptly removed by city council shortly after it went into effect.

(full article online)

Guardian corrects false claim about anti-BDS law

A Guardian article written by former Jerusalem correspondent Chris McGreal ("Rightwing lobby group Alec driving laws to blacklist companies that boycott the

camera-uk.org

Krystal and Saagar: Abby Martin WINS Anti-BDS Lawsuit Against Georgia​

Israel Gets Georgia to Strip Free Speech Rights (Again)​

 

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Krystal and Saagar: Abby Martin WINS Anti-BDS Lawsuit Against Georgia​

Israel Gets Georgia to Strip Free Speech Rights (Again)​

BDS = Free Hatred of Israel and of Jews

Hurray for Abby Martin's win against BDS

 

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• The Higher Court of Justice of Andalusia has rejected the appeal against the sentence that annuls the boycott against Israel.
• The ruling of the Higher Court of Justice of Andalusia completely rejects the appeal presented by the Provincial Council of Cordoba against the sentence that declared illegal the adherence of institution, with the votes of PSOE and IU, to the BDS campaign (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) against Israel. The Higher Court of Justice of Andalusia also sentences the City Hall to pay the costs of the legal process.
• ACOM sees reaffirmed its legal initiative against the BDS discriminatory movement that intends to use the Spanish public institutions to discriminate against the Jewish people and all who relate with it.
• This is the tenth decision emitted by a Spanish Higher Court of Justice confirming prior sentences against BDS following the legal initiative of ACOM.

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Spanish High Court condemns the boycott against Israel in Cordoba - ACOM

The Higher Court of Justice of Andalusia has rejected the appeal against the sentence that annuls the boycott against Israel. The ruling of the Higher Court of Justice of Andalusia completely rejects the appeal presented by the Provincial Council of Cordoba against the sentence that declared...

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Israeli officials and journalists Monday gushed over a video showing Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi walking across a Cairo convention hall to personally greet Israeli Energy Minister Karine Elharrar at a conference.

Sissi entered the large hall to fanfare, welcomed the convention’s guests, and then put down his mic to walk to the other side of the hall, where he spoke a few words with Elharrar.

Elharrar, who uses a wheelchair, received international attention after infamously being unable to enter the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow last year.

(full article online)

Israel swoons as Egypt’s Sissi gives Minister Elharrar a special summit welcome

Egyptian leader personally greets energy minister at opening of Egyptian Petroleum Show in Cairo; Bennett says gesture 'touched us all'

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The Israel Boycott | The Mehdi Hasan Show​

 

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This should be in the "brand Israel" thread.