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Israel haters have created "Raven Mission," obviously an attempt to counter Canary Mission, where they look for any statements that they can twist into making Jews look like bigots.

I looked at one of their posts, and it shows their level of dishonesty.

They claim that John Strauss, professor of economics at the University of Southern California, advocated for genocide of Palestinians:
John Strauss, Professor of economics at the University of Southern California was caught on video speaking on Palestinians in Gaza "Every one of them should be killed, and I hope they all are".
They show a video where he says that but they don't show who he is talking about.
Sure enough, the full video shows that he is referring to Hamas only. He said, "People are ignorant. Hamas are murderers. That's all they are. Everyone should be killed, and I hope they are killed.”



Strauss was suspended from campus because of this lie. Raven Mission, and its parent organization Stop Zionist Hate, is knowingly lying about what he said.

While there are of course Zionists who say things that are unacceptable, this example shows that, unlike Canary Mission which goes out of its way to show full context for every one of its entries, the "Raven Mission" exists only to slander.



 

The ICJ is where lies crash into truth


One of the most bizarre aspects of reading media and social media since October 7 is that the anti-Israel side lives in a completely different world as the real world. They look at the same facts yet interpret them consistently in the most antisemitic ways possible.

It is unclear how much of their rhetoric is malicious and how much is what they honestly think.

Even during the current sessions before the ICJ, each side listens to the same arguments and comes out with diametrically opposed interpretations and conclusions.

It should be obvious to anyone watching the sessions that the South African case was a large set of cherry-picked "evidence" that was stripped of all context. The Israeli side is showing that they were deliberately ignoring most of the facts, as well as every fact that contradicts their case.

Israel's lead lawyer is the expert who literally wrote the most definitive book on international law, Malcolm Shaw. He summarized how South Africa's case was distorted and malicious.


But the other side is dismissive:




The question is whether the ICJ jurists themselves are just as partisan as the two sides are.

The promise of the ICJ is to be as objective as possible and to evaluate the evidence honestly. This is where, in an ideal world, the lies should be exposed. Unfortunately, ICJ judges have been shown to generally follow the politics of their home country more than independent judgment.

This is more a referendum on the ICJ itself. If they rule for South Africa's case in any way, it will show that the ICJ itself has failed in its mission.



 
The other day I caught up with a December 1 article whose blunt truth-telling put it a long distance away from Døving’s pro-Islam propaganda. The article notes that, according to a recent NRK poll, 82% of the approximately 1500 Jews currently living in Norway say “that experiences after the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel…have made them consider whether Norway is a safe country for Jews”; over 88% say that since October 7 “they have become more careful” about displaying symbols of their faith; nearly 83% “have refrained from saying that they are Jewish to avoid unpleasant experiences,” and 65% “have experienced expressions of anti-Semitism aimed directly at themselves or their loved ones.”

And who exactly has expressed this anti-Semitism? The group least cited by Norwegian Jews as expressing bigotry toward them, numbering slightly above 5%, is right-wingers. Leftist anti-Semitism is much more common, at 48%. And the group most cited as expressing Jew-hatred, at 63%, is – who else? – Muslims.

That article’s refreshing frankness about Muslim anti-Semitism marks it as precisely the kind of item you should expect to find at the website of a place that calls itself a Holocaust Center. But no; the article was written by Rita Karlsen of Norway’s Human Rights Service (HRS) and published at that organization’s website. Interestingly, HRS’s rigorous research into the lives and views of Norwegian Muslims – an activity that began precisely because the women who founded HRS were seriously concerned about the domestic abuse suffered by Muslim women in Norway – has been smeared in several of Døving’s publications as an expression of sheer bigotry.

In her article, Karlsen notes that when asked about NRK’s poll results concerning Muslim anti-Semitism, the Holocaust Center’s senior researcher, Vibeke Moe – who has compiled the Center’s “last two surveys of anti-Semitism in Norway” – responded by saying that “[f]indings concerning ‘perpetrators’…must be interpreted with caution.” To be sure, Moe acknowledged that anti-Semitism is “widespread among Muslims in Norway, but attitudes are complex and the picture is complex. It is important that concern about negative attitudes in certain environments is handled in a way that does not create a basis for new generalizations and more hatred.”

Meaning what? Meaning let’s talk about anti-Semitism – but not Muslim anti-Semitism. Never, ever, ever. Yes, the Holocaust Center’s researchers are fully aware of just how virulent Muslim anti-Semitism is; but as far as they’re concerned, it’s vitally important to stick to the PC line that Muslims are always and only victims of bigotry, never bigots themselves.

I don’t mean to single out the Holocaust Center for criticism in this regard. Plenty of these institutions that latch onto the Holocaust as a front for their progressive-minded swill operate in more or less the same way. Take another Norwegian body, The Archive (Arkivet), which is situated in the old Gestapo headquarters in Kristiansand and which describes itself as a “peace and human rights center” and as “an important place of remembrance for what happened here during the Second World War.” Outside the entrance to The Archive is a “memorial boat” whose hull bears the names of “162 men and women from Agder” – the region in which Kristiansand is located – who “lost their lives in German captivity during the Second World War”; inside the building is a “memorial corridor” where you can read “the names of 3,545 people from Agder who were held captive during the war.”

Every January for many years, The Archive has held an event called Holocaust Day. This year, however, the people who run it apparently decided that the word Holocaust isn’t as useful to them now as it was in years past. “Because of everything that is happening in the Middle East and because many people – for various reasons – find the terms difficult to keep apart,” read an announcement posted at the website of The Archive, “this year we have chosen to call the event ‘A Day to Commemorate Human Dignity’ instead of ‘Holocaust Day.’” Why? Because “as a peace and human rights center…we want as many people as possible to feel included.”

The announcement went on: “The world is fragile, the times we live in are demanding. It is challenging to talk and teach about the Holocaust when the Middle East is bleeding, and people are suffering and losing their lives at a pace and scale not seen since World War II.”

Nonsense. As Conrad Myrland of the estimable Norwegian organization With Israel for Peace (Med Israel for fred, or MIFF) pointed out in reporting on this absurd announcement on January 8, there have been a good many wars during the post-World War II era “that have had far higher death tolls per month than the war between Israel and Hamas after 7 October 2023.”

But back to The Archive’s announcement: “The Holocaust is an important part of history and will continue to be central to this year’s commemoration. But we will also ask ‘What about Gaza?’ under the theme ‘Second Genocide.’” So Gaza-centric, indeed, were the plans for “A Day to Commemorate Human Dignity” that The Archive planned to include a performance by Palestinian dancers.

But as Myrland commented – The Archive (and the leftist party line) to the contrary – Israel’s defensive war against Hamas “is not a genocide.” Myrland also wondered whether anyone at The Archive has heard that “[t]he first religious and political leader of the Palestinians, Haj Amin al Husseini, was an ardent ally of the Nazis, and in a very concrete way the Palestinian front is the last active front of the Second World War.” Or whether they realize that Hamas’s 1988 charter “is clearly inspired by classic European anti-Semitism, combined with Islamist dreams of genocide against the Jews.”

This time around, I can close with good news. A few hours after Myrland drew attention to The Archive’s announcement – on which, unsurprisingly, the mainstream national media chose not to report – it magically disappeared from The Archive’s website. The next day, the Archive’s director, Kristine Storesletten Sødal, was quoted in the regional newspaper Fædrelandsvennen as saying that the announcement had not been “quality assured” and that its wording was “unfortunate.”

In fact, Sødal’s message seemed to boil down to the claim that the announcement had been posted entirely by mistake; the Archive, she insisted, had never had any plans whatsoever to do away with, or change the name of, Holocaust Day. “That,” she assured the newspaper, “would be unthinkable.”

Lies, obviously – pathetic lies about a colossally ill-informed decision that must have caused a massive, Bud Light-scale blowback. Well, it’s good to know that enough Norwegians were outraged by The Archive’s announcement to make Sødal and her colleagues do a lickety-split U-turn. But what a meager victory! If only these institutions could be cleaned out entirely, like the Augean stables, and their employees replaced with real scholars and decent souls. But I assume that’s too much to ask.

(full article online)


 
Britain’s interior minister on Monday announced a ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir, a militant Islamist organization that has long been in the sights of the UK authorities for its violently antisemitic rhetoric and enthusiastic support of terrorist groups including Hamas.

“Hizb ut-Tahrir is an antisemitic organization that actively promotes and encourages terrorism, including praising and celebrating the appalling Oct. 7 attacks [by Hamas terrorists in Israel],” British Home Secretary James Cleverly told parliament on Monday.

“Proscribing this terrorist group will ensure that anyone who belongs to and invites support for them will face consequences. It will curb Hizb ut-Tahrir’s ability to operate as it currently does,” Cleverly said.

The banning order will come into force on Friday unless MPs decide to vote it down. Under its terms, certain offenses are punishable with up to 14 years in prison, while the group’s property and assets face seizure now that it is classified as a “terrorist” organization.

The impetus for the ban was a pro-Hamas rally which Hizb ut-Tahrir staged in London on Oct. 21, as thousands of protestors descended on the British capital to demonstrate their opposition to Israel. Antisemitic slogans and calls for jihad were on display, leading Cleverly’s predecessor as Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, to order a review of Hizb ut-Tahrir’s activities.

Previous British governments — including the administrations of former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and David Cameron — had investigated the possibility of banning Hizb ut-Tahrir but were told by government lawyers that the group had not violated any anti-terrorism legislation.

Hizb ut-Tahrir first emerged in Jordanian-occupied Jerusalem in 1952, formed by a Palestinian Muslim cleric, Muhammad Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani. Its ideology is based on an uncompromising struggle between Muslims and non-believers that places the duty of jihad — holy war — at its center and demands the submission of all non-believers to Islam.

The group’s focus on what it calls the “near enemy” — the current rulers of Arab and Islamic countries who are deemed to be corrupt — has led to it being banned in most Arab countries as well as Indonesia, the state with the world’s biggest Muslim population.

Active in more than 50 countries, Hizb ut-Tahrir launched a chapter in the UK in the early 1980s. Its current leader is Wahid Asif Shaida, who also goes by the name Abdul Wahid, a family doctor with a practice in north London.

After Shaida warmly praised Hamas during a television interview in December, the health authority where his practice is based expressed concern over his “distressing comments,” adding that it was recommending an investigation of him by the National Health Service (NHS).

In that interview, Shaida described Hamas as a “resistance organization,” praising the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom — in which more than 1,200 Israelis and foreigners were murdered and more than 200 kidnapped amid atrocities that included rape and mutilation — as “a very welcome punch on the nose of the enemy.”



 
A moment of silence was observed and then shouts of “free Palestine” rang out ahead of the Asian Cup game between Iran and the Palestinian soccer team on Sunday, while chants of “death to Israel” were heard during the game itself.

As the Israel-Hamas war reached the 100-day mark, both teams lined up in the center of the field at Education City Stadium and an announcement asked for silence “in memory of the lives tragically lost as a result of the ongoing situation in Palestine.”

A hush fell across the stadium in the city of Al-Rayyan in Qatar before the pro-Palestinian chants could be heard coming from members of the crowd

(full article online)


 
A moment of silence was observed and then shouts of “free Palestine” rang out ahead of the Asian Cup game between Iran and the Palestinian soccer team on Sunday, while chants of “death to Israel” were heard during the game itself.

As the Israel-Hamas war reached the 100-day mark, both teams lined up in the center of the field at Education City Stadium and an announcement asked for silence “in memory of the lives tragically lost as a result of the ongoing situation in Palestine.”

A hush fell across the stadium in the city of Al-Rayyan in Qatar before the pro-Palestinian chants could be heard coming from members of the crowd

(full article online)


Genocide isn’t war. It is a war crime.
 
[ How does one turn around the endless learning of hatred for Jews and Israel with every lie they hear about Jews and Israel? What is the answer? Not easy, it will never end, because some people choose to be against Jews and Israel BECAUSE of those lies ]

 

Arab media antisemitism is off the charts


I have never seen the sheer volume of antisemitism in Arab media as there is nowadays.

Here is the top picture in an article in an Arab cultural newspaper, part of a series on how Jews are portrayed in movies. I'm not even sure what point the author is trying to make, but the graphic artist is pretty clear was to how they want the reader to look at The Jew.



Or this article in Egypt's popular Al Masry al-Youm:

“ I learned about their roles in the extremist homosexual movement, the radical feminist movement, and the pornography industry, in addition to their excessive contribution to encouraging and making abortions available to non-Jews .”

“ I discovered their role in organized crime, the slave trade, the civil rights movement, and Freemasonry .”

“ I read about the hatred of those committed to the Babylonian Talmud for non-Jews, their complete lack of respect for Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, Christianity, and Christians in general, and the facts that Christ himself killed them .”

“ I learned about the (impudence) in their claim that the lives of nations are worth no more than the lives of barnyard animals, but they consider that the lives of Jews are closer to God Himself. There is nothing wrong with stealing from non-Jews or killing a Gentile, but the lives of Jews are sacred .”

“ I learned that they control the majority of wealth, the media, and academia, even though they constitute less than 2% of the population in the United States, and much less than that of humanity, which is 18 million out of 8 billion people .”

The writer continues, saying: “They are behind the movement to legislate hate crimes that was formulated to silence anyone who might expose their agenda and try to shed light on it .”
Multiple articles like this are published every single day. And no one is talking about it.


 
Khaled Abdel Rahman Al-Awad, writing in Saudi newspaper Al Bilad Daily, asserts, "Zionists believe that other nations are inferior to the Jews and that they deserve to be exterminated and killed, and some of their officials have boldly stated this publicly."

His "proof" is really something:


This story that reveals this abhorrent racism: a Jew named Shaul Simonov left the Soviet Union heading to New York City when Menachem Begin was head of state for Zionism, specifically to the Brooklyn neighborhood where many Jews live without fear, surveillance, or contempt. Simonov felt proud when he saw his fellow citizens living in this Jewish neighborhood with freedom, reassurance, and prosperity.

He was reading the names of the shops on the street with pride, as they were written in English and Hebrew. But this joy and euphoria quickly disappeared when he was struck by a sign in English above a shop selling sandwiches with the words “No Jews allowed to enter” written on it in clear language. Shaul Simonov felt very angry because he did not expect this hateful racism that spoiled his happy moment, and he decided to enter this racist buffet.

He said to the shop owner: "I am Shaul Simonov, an immigrant from Odessa. I came just to get acquainted." The shop owner replied with a smile: "I am Moshe Levi Kaganovich, an immigrant from Ukraine. "

Saul was silent for a while, then exploded, saying: "So are you a Jew like us, and are you insulting your brothers and family? Why do you forbid them to eat and drink in this place?"
Moshe Levi Kaganovich interrupted him whispering: "Have you tasted my food? Did you see how we prepare food in this kitchen before you accused me of anti-Semitism? Come and see for yourself!"
Simonov felt very happy, as this food and drink were not appropriate for God's chosen people. This filth, fraud, and high prices are only suitable for non-Jewish infidels, or goyim, as they are called in Hebrew. Simonov blessed this noble act and left the store looking at that sign, smiling maliciously and devilishly.
It is pretty obvious that this never happened. It was probably a perversion of an old Jewish joke.
But it "proves" how evil Jews are to Saudi readers!



 
The U.S. and Britain killed a staggering number of German and Japanese civilians on the path to defeating the regimes that had started World War II - often known as the Good War. Events such as the bombings of Dresden or Tokyo, to say nothing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were far more indiscriminate than anything Israel stands accused of doing. But no serious person holds Franklin Roosevelt to be on a moral par with Adolf Hitler. What the Allies did were acts of war in the service of a lasting peace, not genocide in the service of a fanatical aim.

Reasonable people can argue that Israel has been excessive in its use of force, or deficient in its concern for Palestinian civilians. I disagree. But how curious that the discussion has turned to genocide because it's the behavior of the Jewish state that's in question. And how telling that the accusation is the same one that rabid bigots have been making for years: that the Jews are the real Nazis - guilty of humanity's worst crimes and deserving of its worst punishments.

A verdict against Israel at the International Court of Justice would signal that another international institution has adopted the moral outlook of antisemites.

(full article online)


 
Incredible letter written by a NON - Jewish Scottish professor to his students who voted to boycott Israel
Dr Denis MacEoin, a non-Jewish professor, to the motion put forward by The Edinburgh Student's Association to boycott all things Israeli

TO: The Committee Edinburgh University Student Association.

May I be permitted to say a few words to members of the EUSA? I am an Edinburgh graduate (MA 1975) who studied Persian, Arabic & Islamic History in Buccleuch Place under William Montgomery Watt & Laurence Elwell Sutton, 2 of Britain 's great Middle East experts in their day. I later went on to do a PhD at Cambridge & to teach Arabic & Islamic Studies at Newcastle University . Naturally, I am the author of several books & 100s of articles in this field.

I say all that to show that I am well informed in Middle Eastern affairs & that, for that reason, I am shocked & disheartened by the EUSA motion & vote.

I am shocked for a simple reason: there is not & has never been a system of apartheid in Israel .

That is not my opinion, that is fact that can be tested against reality by any Edinburgh student, should he or she choose to visit Israel to see for themselves. Let me spell this out, since I have the impression that those members of EUSA who voted for this motion are absolutely
clueless in matters concerning Israel, & that they are, in all likelihood, the victims of extremely biased propaganda coming from the anti-Israel lobby.

Being anti-Israel is not in itself objectionable. But I'm not talking about ordinary criticism of Israel . I'm speaking
of a hatred that permits itself no boundaries in the lies & myths it pours out. Thus, Israel is repeatedly referred to as a "Nazi" state. In what sense is
this true, even as a metaphor? Where are the Israeli concentration camps? The einzatsgruppen? The SS? The Nuremberg Laws?
The Final Solution? None of these things nor anything remotely resembling them exists in Israel, precisely because the Jews, more than anyone on earth, understand what Nazism stood for.

It is claimed that there has been an Israeli Holocaust in Gaza (or elsewhere). Where? When?
No honest historian would treat that claim with anything but the contempt it deserves. But calling Jews Nazis and saying they have committed a Holocaust is as basic a way to subvert historical fact as anything I can think of.
Likewise apartheid. For apartheid to exist, there would have to be a situation that closely resembled how things were in South Africa under the apartheid regime. Unfortunately for those who believe this, a day in any part of Israel would be enough to show how ridiculous this is.
That a body of university students actually fell for this & voted on it is a sad comment on the state of modern education. The most obvious focus for apartheid would be the country's 20% Arab population. Under Israeli law, Arab Israelis have exactly the same rights as Jews
or anyone else; Muslims have the same rights as Jews or Christians; Baha'is, severely persecuted in Iran, flourish in Israel, where they have their world center; Ahmadi Muslims, severely persecuted in Pakistan & elsewhere, are kept safe by Israel;
the holy places of all religions are protected under a specific Israeli law. Arabs form 20% of the university population (an exact echo of their percentage in the general population).

In Iran , the Bahai's (the largest religious minority) are forbidden to study in any university
or to run their own universities: why aren't your members boycotting Iran ? Arabs in Israel can go anywhere they want, unlike blacks in apartheid South Africa . They use public transport, they eat in restaurants, they go to swimming pools, they use libraries, they go to cinemas
alongside Jews - something no blacks were able to do in South Africa .

Israeli hospitals not only treat Jews & Arabs, they also treat Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank.
On the same wards, in the same operating theatres.
In Israel , women have the same rights as men: there is no gender apartheid.

Gay men & women face no restrictions, and Palestinian gays often escape into Israel, knowing they may be killed at home.

It seems bizarre to me that LGBT groups call for a boycott of Israel
& say nothing about countries like Iran , where gay men are hanged or stoned to death. That illustrates a mindset that beggars belief.

Intelligent students thinking it's better to be silent about regimes that kill gay people, but good to condemn the only country in the
Middle East that rescues and protects gay people. Is that supposed to be a sick joke?

University is supposed to be about learning to use your brain, to think rationally, to examine evidence, to reach conclusions based on solid evidence, to compare sources, to weigh up one view
against one or more others. If the best Edinburgh can now produce are students who have no idea how to do any of these things then the future is bleak.

I do not object to well-documented criticism of Israel . I do object when supposedly intelligent people single the Jewish state
out above states that are horrific in their treatment of their populations. We are going through the biggest upheaval in the ME since the 7th & 8th centuries, & it's clear that Arabs & Iranians are rebelling against terrifying regimes that fight back by killing their own citizens
Israeli citizens, Jews & Arabs alike, do not rebel (though they are free to protest). Yet Edinburgh students mount no demonstrations & call for no boycotts against Libya , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Yemen , & Iran . They prefer to make false accusations against one of the world's
freest countries, the only country in the Middle East that has taken in Darfur refugees, the only country in the ME that gives refuge to gay men & women, the only country in the ME that protects the Bahai's.... Need I go on?

The imbalance is perceptible, & it sheds no credit on anyone who voted for this boycott. I ask you to show some common sense. Get information from the Israeli embassy. Ask for some speakers. Listen to more than one side.

Do not make your minds up until you have given a fair hearing to both parties. You have a duty to your students, & that is to protect them from one-sided argument.

They are not at university to be propagandized. & they are certainly not there to be tricked into anti-Semitism

by punishing one country among all the countries of the world, which happens to be the only Jewish state. If there had been a single Jewish state in the 1930's (which, sadly, there was not), don't you think Adolf Hitler would have decided to boycott it?

Your generation has a duty to ensure that the perennial racism of anti-Semitism never sets down roots among you. Today, however, there are clear signs that it has done so and is putting down more.
You have a chance to avert a very great evil, simply by using reason and a sense of fair play. Please tell me that this makes sense. I have given you some of the evidence.



 

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