The Right To Destroy Jewish History

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Part 2

Normally I would ignore this stupidity, but the PhD in his name made me look at his profile.



This moron is a professor?

Sure enough, he is a part-time professor at American Military University and full-time professor at Indian River State College in Florida.

I looked up some of his publications, and didn't see anything particularly offensive. However, Shelby recently wrote a book about US policy in the Middle East during the Johnson administration and it took me seconds to find both his bias and his sloppiness with facts when it comes to Israel:



The 1947 partition plan gave the Negev to the Jewish state, not the Arabs. And the Arabs didn't reject partition because of the distribution of land - they rejected the idea of a Jewish state on any borders, as they made quite clear in all their public statements at the time.

This is propaganda to minimize Arab intolerance, not history.

So we know that Alex Shelby, who is of Palestinian ancestry, is a poor researcher and that his tweet to me showed he has an antisemitic double standard. But is he really an antisemite?

This pair of tweets, from April 2022 and April 2023, show clearly Shelby's blatant disregard for honesty and consistency as well as his antisemitism.






The first tweet is just sloppy - Byzantines built a church on the site.

But Shelby changes his theory about the Temples that he admits existed in 2022 and then in 2023 claims not only that there is no evidence that they existed, and that Jews "abandoned" it for "over 3000 years."

A history professor claims, against all evidence from the Bible to Josephus to hundreds of First and Second Temple artifacts found there to the different sections of the Temple Mount itself that testify to the dates of its building and expansions, that there is "no empirical evidence" that is ever existed?

That's merely enough to entirely discredit any credentials he has as a historian. But he goes beyond that, claiming that Jews "abandoned" their holiest spot, when for 2000 (not 3000) years we have been praying three times daily towards that exact spot for the restoral of the Temple

No, these are not simple mistakes. This is not a simple example of lying about history This is an attack on Jews today, meant to offend Jews today, about our history and prayers, our art and poetry, all centered on Jerusalem, Zion and the restoration of the Temple. And the earlier tweet about the Temple proves that Shelby knows he is lying but his desire to attack Jews overwhelms his desire to write anything accurate about history.

This is what makes him an antisemite. And Indian River State College as well as American Military University should carefully consider whether they want to employ someone who is so filled with hate that he is willing to lie about history just to offend Jews.

They should at least wonder what other lies he is telling his students.

A Florida history professor outs himself as incompetent about history - and as an antisemite

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In a June 15 column entitled: “To exist without existing: The Palestinian injustice,” Voices Editor Reyam Jamaleddine all but accuses Jews of illegally expropriating Palestinian land based on European Holocaust guilt and religious fundamentalism.

Jamaleddine opens her column by writing that “after Hitler’s tragic take over of Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 40s, the Jewish people of Europe suffered one of history’s worst genocides. After decades of enduring this anti-semitism (sic), Jewish people decided on Zionism…As a means of rectifying this situation, they were given the land of Palestine…”

This assertion is blatantly false, both for recent and historical reasons. Modern Zionism as a political movement did not begin following the Holocaust, but decades before with Theodor Herzl’s writings and political advocacy. The First Zionist Congress was held in 1897, two generations before the Holocaust.

More importantly, while Zionism as a modern political movement began in the late 1800s, Zionism was hardly invented by Theodor Herzl. Zionism, which was the Jewish People’s movement of self-determination in their historic homeland, was the continuation of a two-thousand-year struggle following the Roman Empire’s sacking of Jerusalem and exile of the majority of the Jewish population living in Judea (the land of Israel) at the time, in the first century CE.

Equally important, the Jewish People were not “given the land of Palestine” by anyone, nor was it doled out as a consolation prize for the Holocaust. In 1922 – about 20 years before the Holocaust – the League of Nations, the predecessor to the United Nations (UN), formally granted the United Kingdom the right (or mandate) to administer Palestine, and called for the reconstitution of a Jewish homeland in the land of Israel.

Prior to this, there had never been any sovereign state of Palestine, only a land controlled by successive powers, and which was home to a diverse population, including Jews and Arabs, and which gave the concept of a Jewish homeland additional basis in international law. In 1947, the United Nations formally adopted the Partition Plan for Palestine, which recommended separate Jewish and Arab states, as well as an international zone for Jerusalem. This was accepted by the Jewish delegation but rejected by the Arab delegation.

Following Israel’s proclamation of independence in 1948, it was invaded by neighbouring Arab states, who attempted to destroy the Jewish State.

Not satisfied to rewrite modern history and Zionism, next Jamaleddine’s attempted to frame Israel as being based on theocracy as a basis for its alleged theft of Palestinian land, writing that “Should we all call God and ask him who owns the land? Maybe if we keep ringing him he will pick up and tell us! What an obscure claim — funny. The Jews and the whites have been depending on the silent words of the divine to assist in the ultimate thievery — the robbery of identity.”

Israel’s legitimacy derives from its extensive legal and historical rights to the land, not based on religion. The Jewish People have inhabited the land of Israel for thousands of years, possess contemporary legal title, have widespread international recognition, and have had sovereign nation-status on the land in question. If Jamaleddine denies all these details, then on what basis can she possibly claim that the Palestinians – but not the Jews – have a right to self-determination?

Jamaleddine repeatedly refers, not to Israel being illegitimate, but the Jewish presence itself, later writing that “The Jewish person lives in the same sand dune in the same confines as the Oriental, yet they live a lavishly peaceful and secure life. They are technologically advanced and have mighty armies to defend the land they stole—the Palestinians defend their stolen land with sticks and stone.”

While there can be a reasoned debate over the origins of the Palestinians, there is no doubt whatsoever that the Jewish People, with their three thousand years of uninterrupted history, did not steal the land from any Palestinians, who indisputably came later.


(full article online)

University of Calgary Student Newspaper Accuses Jews Of “The Ultimate Thievery”

While there remain many elements of disagreement between Israel and the Palestinians which remain as obstacles to any final status

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Part 2

Normally I would ignore this stupidity, but the PhD in his name made me look at his profile.



This moron is a professor?

Sure enough, he is a part-time professor at American Military University and full-time professor at Indian River State College in Florida.

I looked up some of his publications, and didn't see anything particularly offensive. However, Shelby recently wrote a book about US policy in the Middle East during the Johnson administration and it took me seconds to find both his bias and his sloppiness with facts when it comes to Israel:



The 1947 partition plan gave the Negev to the Jewish state, not the Arabs. And the Arabs didn't reject partition because of the distribution of land - they rejected the idea of a Jewish state on any borders, as they made quite clear in all their public statements at the time.

This is propaganda to minimize Arab intolerance, not history.

So we know that Alex Shelby, who is of Palestinian ancestry, is a poor researcher and that his tweet to me showed he has an antisemitic double standard. But is he really an antisemite?

This pair of tweets, from April 2022 and April 2023, show clearly Shelby's blatant disregard for honesty and consistency as well as his antisemitism.






The first tweet is just sloppy - Byzantines built a church on the site.

But Shelby changes his theory about the Temples that he admits existed in 2022 and then in 2023 claims not only that there is no evidence that they existed, and that Jews "abandoned" it for "over 3000 years."

A history professor claims, against all evidence from the Bible to Josephus to hundreds of First and Second Temple artifacts found there to the different sections of the Temple Mount itself that testify to the dates of its building and expansions, that there is "no empirical evidence" that is ever existed?

That's merely enough to entirely discredit any credentials he has as a historian. But he goes beyond that, claiming that Jews "abandoned" their holiest spot, when for 2000 (not 3000) years we have been praying three times daily towards that exact spot for the restoral of the Temple

No, these are not simple mistakes. This is not a simple example of lying about history This is an attack on Jews today, meant to offend Jews today, about our history and prayers, our art and poetry, all centered on Jerusalem, Zion and the restoration of the Temple. And the earlier tweet about the Temple proves that Shelby knows he is lying but his desire to attack Jews overwhelms his desire to write anything accurate about history.

This is what makes him an antisemite. And Indian River State College as well as American Military University should carefully consider whether they want to employ someone who is so filled with hate that he is willing to lie about history just to offend Jews.

They should at least wonder what other lies he is telling his students.

A Florida history professor outs himself as incompetent about history - and as an antisemite

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“Few places in Jerusalem speak of the larger conflict being waged over the city more than the apartment of 68-year-old Nora Ghaith-Sub Laban,” avers the Associated Press’ Isabel DeBre today (“As a lengthy legal battle ends, a Palestinian family braces for eviction from Jerusalem home“).

Whether or not that is true, what is plainly apparent is that the Associated Press’ repeated failure to accurately cover the Sub Laban story speaks of a larger problem plaguing media coverage of Israeli-Palestinian affairs.

In 2015, the leading news service depicted the Sub Laban’s real estate saga as a story of Israeli dispossession and displacement of Palestinians. “They (Israelis) are trying to uproot us from Jerusalem, they are stealing the houses, the trees and the stones of the city,” AP’s Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh quoted Nora Sub Laban at the time.

Initially, the 2015 article did not contain a single word about the family’s failure to return to the rented home following lengthy renovations completed in 2001, an absence which jeopardized their status as “protected tenants.” Only after CAMERA contacted editors did AP add a paragraph about the court’s critical finding that the family did not reside in the home for years after 2001, which was the determining factor in the court’s ruling against the Sub Labans’ claim.

At the time, research by CAMERA’s Gideon Shaviv revealed:

The magistrate court (34656-11-10) in a decision upheld by the district court (28083-12-14) found that the family had not returned to the apartment in 2001. According to the court from 2001-2010 (when the property was transferred to the trust) the family did not live in the apartment. From 2010 until 2014, they had only “pretended” to live in the apartment. This decision was based on the following evidence:

• Despite the claims of the family that they lived in the apartment, electricity and water bills for the property during this period showed virtually no usage and went largely unpaid. Ahmed Sub-Laban’s parents gave contradictory explanations for the lack of water use (ranging from refraining from washing the floors, to claims that the water was connected to a neighbor’s infrastructure.)
• A (Jewish) neighbor living in the apartment opposite testified that no one had lived in the Sub-Laban’s apartment during the years in question.
• The store (part of the property) was for many years unlocked, and its door was broken.
• A phone was only installed in 2010.
• The Sub-Labans didn’t call any witnesses to testify that they were living in the apartment despite the fact that many neighbors and family members could have theoretically been called.

Additionally, a private investigator testified that he had interviewed neighbors and none of them knew the Sub-Labans.
The court found in 2014 that the Sub-Labans have been living with their extended family in another apartment for 30 years, since 1984. The article references the period of 1984 to 2001, stating “Throughout this period, the family rented an apartment elsewhere in the city.” But it does not mention that the family continued to live elsewhere for more than a dozen additional years.

A significant CAMERA-prompted 2016 New York Times editor’s note addressing, in part, the Sub Laban case, stated:


(full article online)

AP's Substandard Coverage: The Sub Laban Real Estate Saga

AP claims that the Sub Laban family lived 'for seven decades' in their rental home, completely ignoring the Jerusalem court's key finding that the

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[Editor’s Note: In March, CAMERA helped expose an offensive and factually inaccurate display on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that was set up on the grounds of the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). Some illustrative examples of just how poorly researched the display was:

• It claimed that the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the 1922 Mandate for Palestine were the same document;
• It suggested that there are still Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip; and
• It claimed Israel used self-defense as an excuse to “impose attacks on Palestinians” during Israel’s War of Independence (in which Israel was invaded by surrounding Arab armies immediately upon declaring independence).

The display, which was sponsored by the university’s “Social Justice and Equity Centers” (SJEC), was subsequently taken down, and reports indicate that the SJEC program is being shut down.

The following letter was written by CAMERA’s David M. Litman in response to a petition relating to these events, in which false accusations were made against CAMERA. The letter was sent to the leadership of BMCC as well as the signatories of the petition itself.]



To: BMCC President Anthony Munroe, Dean of Student Affairs Michael Hutmaker, and Vice President of Student Affairs Marva Craig

I’m writing today in response to the “Stop the Censorship: Save the SJEC!” petition. As a Senior Research Analyst at CAMERA, one of the organizations disapprovingly named in the petition, I wish to correct the record and to propose a constructive path forward.

The petition authors suggest that “complaints by Pro-Israel and Pro-Zionist” groups caused the shuttering of the BMCC Social Justice and Equity Center (SJEC) following an offensive and factually inaccurate display the center sponsored on the topic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to the petition, CAMERA has “regularly used [its] influence and intimidation tactics to shut down discussions and criticisms of Israel’s many crimes against the Palestinian people.”

To the contrary, CAMERA encouraged morediscussion of the topic. The March 17 article I wrote on the display concluded with the words: “If BMCC and the SJEC are truly committed to supporting historically marginalized groups then they must ‘disavow this incendiary and defamatory rhetoric against Jewish students the SJEC propagated on campus,’ in the words of CAMERA on Campus, and work to correct the record.”

I continue to stand behind this call. In the famous words of Justice Louis Brandeis: “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” The display contained deeply offensive descriptions of the Jewish state, including denying Jewish indigeneity, running contrary to the SJEC’s supposed mission of “supporting, empowering, and celebrating” historically marginalized groups. It also contained numerous basic factual errors and misleading claims. Unfortunately, despite my efforts to reach out and speak with the SJEC by phone to work together to address these errors and offensive descriptions, I received no response.

Nonetheless, I still resolutely believe that the most constructive way forward is to stimulate moreconversation. I do not seek to interfere with any decisions regarding the fate of the SJEC, the shuttering of which I understand was motivated by financial considerations anyway. Rather, I urge you to enable an opportunity to correct the errors, to educate your students, and to stimulate open and informed conversations on the topic. This, I firmly believe, would be the best answer to addressing the falsehoods and fallacies the SJEC regretfully promoted.

(full article online)

CAMERA Letter: A Path Forward After a Libelous University Display

In March, CAMERA helped expose a wildly inaccurate and offensive display at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Now CAMERA responds to even more

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What a disgrace to the Arab world...

 

[Sixties Fan]

What a disgrace to the Arab world...

At least they are confessing that the Patriarchs are not their ancestors.

Ishmael for sure was not the father of the Arab people.

 

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In its brief report on a recent archaeological discovery in Gaza, Reuters not only reported the facts but also uncritically provided a platform for inane Palestinian historical revisionism.

Detailing the unearthing of 125 Roman-era tombs near a building site, including a rare find of two sarcophagi made from lead, both Reuters’ report and accompanying video also aired the statements of two Gaza-based authorities who hijacked this exciting archaeology news by unabashedly trying to connect this ancient discovery to the modern-day Palestinians.




Fadel Al-A’utul, of the prestigious French School of Biblical and Archaeological Research, claimed that this find “proves to the world about the existence of Palestinian culture and heritage.”

Likewise, Jamal Abu Reida, the General-Director of the Hamas-run Antiquities Ministry, asserted that:

The cemetery is important because it deepens Palestinian roots on this land and that it dates back to thousands of years and it refutes the Zionist allegations. It refutes Israeli claims that Palestine is a land without people and that its people are without land. The existence of this cemetery…signifies stability and ongoing habitation.

However, the fly in the ointment for both Al-A’utul and Abu Reida’s claims is that these tombs predate the Palestinians and are entirely unrelated to Gaza’s current inhabitants.

According to a 2014 historical survey in Haaretz, the Gaza of Roman times was inhabited by a diverse population of Jews, Greeks, Romans, Philistines, Egyptians, Persians and Bedouin.

Notice who’s missing?

The Palestinians didn’t reside in Roman Gaza because there weren’t any Palestinians yet.

The Palestinians claim to trace their heritage back to the Muslim Arab conquest of the region in 637 C.E., hundreds of years after these ancient tombs would have been sealed.

By ludicrously alleging that these tombs are evidence for 2000 years of Palestinian history and that they also serve as a refutation of long-standing Jewish ties to the region, Al-A’utul and Abu Reida are not only distorting history in the service of modern-day politics but are also calling into question the integrity of any academic archaeological work that is conducted in the Hamas-administered coastal enclave.

Ancient Lies, Modern Politics: Palestinian Historical Revisionism​

The claim that these Roman-era tombs are somehow proof of a continuous Palestinian existence in the region for thousands of years is but the latest in a long line of Palestinian attempts at historical revisionism.

Since the early 1920s, it has become common for Palestinian nationalists to claim that, despite the enormous amount of archaeological evidence proving otherwise, the Jewish people have no ties to this region. Along similar lines, they also claim that the Palestinians are the true descendants of the ancient peoples who once inhabited this land.

Even though this claim has been widely debunked (including by, of all people, a Hamas official), it hasn’t stopped past and present Palestinian leaders like Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas and Saeb Erekat from spreading it at home and around the world.

Ultimately, the purpose of this disinformation is to delegitimize Israel and to justify the Palestinians’ claim to sole ownership of the land.

When Reuters publishes such claims without a rejoinder, they are not only aiding in the spread of falsehoods, they are also serving as a valuable tool in the ongoing Palestinian propaganda war against Zionism and the Jewish state.

Reuters Parrots Palestinian Historical Revisionism in Archaeology Report | Honest Reporting

In its brief report on a recent archaeological discovery in Gaza, Reuters not only reported the facts but also uncritically provided a platform for inane

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[ Continuing the Muslim education of its people that other people's lands are Muslim lands ]

Alarmingly, an opinion column recently published in The Muse, the student newspaper of Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, described Israel’s declaration of independence in 1948 as an “occupation of Palestinian land,” which fundamentally denies the Jewish state’s right to exist.

The column entitled: “From Palestine to Newfoundland: A Journey of Cultural Resilience,” by Fayez Almadhoun, was ostensibly a first-person narrative of Almadhoun’s family and their journey from the Middle East to Canada, but in reality, it was a broadside attack on Israel’s legitimacy.

Early in his column, Almadhoun wrote that “The wide range of individuals that live outside of Palestine, termed ‘diaspora,’ is characterized by the displacement of the Palestinian people from their ancestral homeland in the wake of the 1948 occupation of Palestinian land, known as the Nakba.”

With a single sentence, Almadhoun not only turned history on its head, but has also attempted to gut Israel’s very legitimacy and its right to exist, even though he never mentions Israel’s name once in his column.

In 1948, Israel declared its independence from the United Kingdom, which had administered the land for more than 30 years at the behest of the international community, but the newly-formed State of Israel did not grow out of a vacuum, either legally or historically.

The year prior, the United Nations voted to recognize the partition of the British Mandate for Palestine, into two states: an Arab one, and a Jewish one. That partition was drawn up by a special United Nations committee, and was accepted by Jewish representatives, but rejected by Arab representatives, who refused to accept the legitimacy of a Jewish nation-state. Almost immediately after Israel was declared a state by its founders in May, 1948, neighbouring Arab countries declared war on it.

But that was not the genesis of Israel’s legal basis. In 1920, representatives from international powers gathered in San Remo, Italy, and formally recognized Israel’s right to be reconstituted over the entirety of the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.

Still, in the late 1940s, representatives from the Zionist movement accepted a lesser offer, seeing that even part of the Jewish People’s ancestral land, was better than nothing at all.

But according to Almadhoun’s retelling, Israel grew out of seemingly nothing at all, when in fact, the country’s genesis stretches back for three thousand years of Jewish history in the land.

Consequently, when Almadhoun referred to Israel’s independence in 1948 as kickstarting the “occupation of Palestinian land,” he is not only erasing Israel’s extensive legal rights to the land, but also to the Jewish People’s three millennia of undisputed presence there.

While Almadhoun’s column doesn’t mention Israel directly, his inference is clear that the “the displacement of the Palestinian people” in 1948 was due to Israel’s rebirth that year. But such a claim would be a dramatic skewing of the historical record. When Israel’s Arab neighbours declared war on the newly reborn Jewish State in 1948, they clearly did not expect to lose, and in advance of their presumed victory, Arab leaders inside pre-state Israel actively encouragedmembers of the region’s Arab population to flee their advance in order to hasten Israel’s imminent demise and to avoid collateral damage.

Had the Arab delegates to the United Nations in 1947 accepted the presence of a Jewish State, there could have been a Palestinian state for more than seven decades. Instead, to this day, Palestinian leaders have never ceased to reject Israel’s right to exist, robbing their own people of self-determination.

Almadhoun’s column laments the “denial of nationhood” faced by Palestinians, he evidently fails to see his own active involvement in denying Israel’s legitimacy, and as such, it’s very right to exist.

And while Almadhoun is free to tell the story of his family and their experiences, he wildly veers off course and instead actively falsifies history to claim that Israel is built upon an illegal seizure of Palestinian land, when in truth, it was created with the full backing of international law, and atop three thousand years of Jewish history.

Until pro-Palestinian advocates can acknowledge Israel’s history and legitimacy, they will continue to do disservice to the very people on whose behalf they claim to advocate.

Newfoundland Student Newspaper Columnist Calls Israel’s 1948 Independence An “Occupation Of Palestinian Land,” Denying The Jewish State’s Right To Exist

Alarmingly, an opinion column recently published in The Muse, the student newspaper of Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, described

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The UN’s History of the ‘Question of Palestine’ Omits Every Palestinian Attack on Jews - Algemeiner.com

The UN has a webpage where it shows a timeline on the "Question of Palestine." It is extremely biased. It starts with "1885 -- The term 'Zionism' first coined by the Viennese writer, Nathan Birnbaum." There is no mention of Jewish history in the region for thousands of years. No mention of...

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Jordan's "Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs" issues another antisemitic statement: "Zionists created the Temple myth"​

The Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs is a quasi-governmental Jordanian organization, with many members who are also ministers of the Jordanian government, whose purpose is "working to raise awareness of the importance of the issue of Jerusalem and not to separate it from its Arab and Islamic dimension, expose the Judaization and daily Israeli violations it is subjected to, and increase efforts working to stabilize Jerusalemites, support their steadfastness and publicize their suffering."

It issues a multi-page daily bulletin on supposed Israeli "violations" of the city - like Jews strolling on the Temple Mount.

Its latest accusations are particularly ludicrous - and antisemitic.

As reported in the official Jordanian news agency Petra:

The Israeli occupation exploits many occasions and events as a climate to conduct Talmudic rituals, incursions and attacks against Islamic and Christian sanctities in Palestine, and Jerusalem in particular.

Abdullah Kanaan, Secretary-General of the Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs, says that the Israeli occupation is trying to take advantage of the month of August (Av) in a systematic and deliberate process, which includes Israeli measures to create an alleged history and culture through a dramatic industry that shows the Jews as victims to win the positions of the superpowers and sympathize with public opinion towards them.

He said to the Jordan News Agency (Petra) "The Jews claim that on Av 9, 586 BC, the alleged temple was destroyed, and the Jews were taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, and that on Av 9, 70 AD, the alleged temple was destroyed again by Titus the Roman, and on August 8 1877 AD, the Jews established the first settlement north of Jaffa, and it was called Petah Tikva, and in August 1897 AD, the First Zionist Congress was held, which transformed Zionist thought into a political movement seeking to establish a national home for the Jews in historical Palestine."

He continues, “On August 21, 1969 AD, the Zionist Dennis Rohan burned parts of the Al-Qibli Mosque, and in August 1979 AD, an extremist group (Gush Emunim) planned to destroy the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, but it failed. On August 3, 2011 AD, the Knesset discussed the project to build a cable car to link the western and eastern parts of Jerusalem with the aim of changing the historical identity of the city and facilitating the transportation of settlers. to occupied cities."

And he goes on to say: "These are maliciously invented occasions to consolidate the legend of the Temple and the Promised Land."

He called for educating the world public opinion through all the media about the seriousness of the so-called sad month of Av for the Jews, and stressing thatit is a Talmudic, political, settlement month that has nothing to do with historical facts that confirm the absence of the alleged temple or any archaeological evidence that supports Zionist myths in historical Palestine.

This committee, whose entire purpose is to deny any Jewish ties to Jerusalem, is respected and has been quoted by the UN.

Temple denial and the claim that there is no proof of the Temples is ludicrous and antisemitic. As I've mentioned before, the entire Temple Mount was built by Jews, in sections, from the time of the Biblical kings to the Hasmonean extensions to the Herodian extensions. These extensions with their differing characteristics can be seen from the Eastern Wall of the Mount.

The entire Temple Mount is proof of the Jewish Temples and Biblical history!




It is bad enough that Jordanian media spouts pure antisemitism every day. Just this past weekend one writerquoted 18th century antisemitic philosophers to "prove" that Jews are selfish, greedy, ugly, and their consciousness is that of animals.

But this is an official Jordanian organization, whose members are in the government, and which was established by the Jordanian royal family. They deny even Islamic sources that prove the deep connection of Jews to Jerusalem and the existence of the Temples, and Islamic tradition admits that the Dome of the Rock was purposely built on the site of the Temples in order replace them.

Their Jew-hatred runs so deep that they are willing to discard even their own historians.

Accusing Jews of inventing a new history for Jerusalem is a perfect example of Arab psychological projection.

Jordan's "Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs" issues another antisemitic statement: "Zionists created the Temple myth"

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A feast at the Temple Mount will do...

 

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The untold story of Jews expelled from Iraq

A new book sheds light on the scheme to make Jews flee, which was arranged by the Iraqis themselves, under the leadership of then-prime minister and notable antisemite, al-Said, currying favors from Hitler

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StandWithUs strongly condemns the August 24, 2023 hate speech by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas before the Fatah Central Committee that recently came to light. In his speech Abbas rationalized the Nazi genocide against six million Jews by claiming Hitler “fought” the Jews not because of antisemitism but due the “Jewish role in society, which had to do with usury, money.” He also repeated a debunked theory, favored by white supremacists and Arab nationalists alike, that Ashkenazi Jews are descendants of a medieval Turkic tribe called the Khazars and therefore have no legitimate claims to the land of Israel.

[full article online]

StandWithUs Condemns Abbas’ Latest Hate Speech

LOS ANGELES, September 8, 2023 – StandWithUs strongly condemns the August 24, 2023 hate speech by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas before the Fatah Central Committee that recently came to light. In his speech Abbas rationalized the Nazi genocide against six million Jews by claiming...

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[ It is unfortunate that some people's minds choose to see something as black and white, as it is given to them, or shown to them by the Palestinian activists themselves, instead of doing the diligent work they often do about what happens in the USA. HOW do we change that? Does ANYONE in Israel or elsewhere have any ideas on how to get these and other reporters to talk to Israeli Arabs and others who are themselves protecting Israel and have chosen to never be part of any Palestinian State?

How to invite them, as others from South Africa and other places, to come to Israel and see Israel for what it really is, and what is really happening on the grounds in Israel, Judea, Samaria, and all of those people in Gaza who are endlessly FLEEING Gaza VIA Israel, never to return to Gaza?

They are reporters, why not be interested in listening and viewing both sides and THEN reporting? Is it being Muslims, and having a Muslim view of Israel, as in the case of two of them? ]
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In another example of a disinterest in accuracy, Velshi claimed that Israel has approved construction of “thousands of new settlements in the occupied territories.” Of course, no such thing happened. Israel approved the construction of new settlement houses in already existing settlements.

There were also false claims that illustrate how the host likes to speak confidently about matters he knows very little about. On the topic of settlements, Velshi charged that: “Israeli settlements in the West Bank are deemed illegal under international law, a finding that is notably ignored by Israel and its greatest military and financial supporter, the United States.” Whose finding? Who did the deeming? While some governments and political entities may make this argument, that does not make something “illegal under international law,” nor do their opinions count as “findings.” That’s simply not how international law works.

The long-winded monologue also contained erroneous and often contradictory statements about “apartheid” and “occupation.” Velshi began by declaring that Israel’s “occupation” is “illegal.” Assuming arguendo that the West Bank is “occupied,” military occupations are not illegal. In fact, there are entire treaties regulating how a military occupation is to be carried out, such as the Fourth Geneva Convention. Suffice it to say that writing entire laws on how to carry out an illegal activity would represent a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of “law.”

The laws on occupation recognize that during armed conflict, territory will change hands, and thus a certain set of regulations is necessary to govern how belligerents are to treat the people of the occupied territory pending the resolution of the conflict. Israel captured the territory during the Six Day War when it defended itself against surrounding Arab armies. Though Israel subsequently made numerous offers for peace and statehood (e.g., 2000, 2008), the Palestinian leadership has rejected them all. Consequently, Judea & Samaria have remained in Israel’s hands absent a final status agreement (as called for, for example, in UN Security Council resolution 242). Palestinian rejectionism does not magically render Israel’s occupation “illegal,” or else international law and decades of peace process consensus would be meaningless.

But herein lies Velshi’s ignorance or bad faith: he argues, in effect, that Israel cannot be a democracy because it does not give the Palestinians the right to vote in Israeli elections. It’s a claim that misses the entire point of the laws of occupation. It would be absurd to suggest that an occupied population must be granted the right to vote in the national elections of an occupying power. No one would seriously suggest that for the period in which the U.S. was an occupying power in Iraq that Iraqis had the right to vote in U.S. elections. Nor would one make the argument in relation to any of the other coalition members. Yet that is what Velshi’s argument implies.

To grant Palestinians the right to vote, Israel would have to annex the territory, an act which Velshi conveniently and inaccurately redefines as “totally controlling [territory] without offering its residents a vote.” Yet annexation is prohibited under the laws of occupation. Velshi’s fantasy version of “international law” simply puts Israel in a no-win situation.

Velshi is entitled to his opinions, even if they’re completely divorced from reality. But opinion show hosts need to base their views and rhetoric on factual reality should they desire to be considered anything more than just another angry demagogue. MSNBC viewers should ask themselves what value they’re being given if the talking heads at the network can’t be bothered with factual accuracy.


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MSNBC’s Velshi Invents the Facts to Bash Israel

Ali Velshi spent much of his Sunday morning weaving a narrative of an evil Jewish state, threading together outright lies with material omissions to

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Scholars and public figures, including Netanyahu, who mention that Husseini was a Nazi are attacked for “politicizing” or “distorting” Holocaust history. Yad Vashem has taken the revisionist side of this argument as well. A minority of Zionist scholars and intellectuals have insisted on maintaining allegiance to the historical record.

This issue came to a head in 2019, when the left ran an all-out campaign to block the previous Netanyahu government’s plan to appoint former National Religious Party leader Effi Eitam to serve as Yad Vashem director.

In his first interview after taking up his position as director, Dayan weighed in on the issue. The Haaretzarticle ran on the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, under the headline, “We will be vigilant about the truth even if it doesn’t advance Israel’s interest.”

Dayan complained in the interview that since taking up his duties, he had been subjected to “a wild assault” from forces on the right who demanded that he post the photograph of Hitler with the Husseini in Yad Vashem’s museum.

“I won’t put this photograph up. I won’t cave to the pressures. Anyone who wants me to put it up doesn’t really care about the mufti’s role in the Holocaust, which was anyway limited. He’s interested in harming the Palestinians’ image today,” he said.

Dayan added, “The mufti was an antisemite, but even though I hold him in contempt, I won’t turn Yad Vashem into a tool that serves goals that aren’t connected directly to Holocaust research and remembrance.”

Dayan’s statement was absurd even by its own standards. As the premier Holocaust research center in the world, and Israel’s most important Holocaust museum, even if Husseini had but a “limited” role in the Holocaust, it is Yad Vashem’s duty to document and teach the public about that role.

And of course, Husseini’s role was expansive, not limited, which was why he was set to be tried as a Nazi war criminal in the Nuremberg tribunal. Moreover, his role had everything to do with the Palestinian national movement, and for that matter with the “Palestinian image.”

This brings us to the reason the Biden administration and the European Union are circling the wagons on Dayan. The Biden administration has two main pillars of its Middle East policy—hostility towards the Netanyahu government and unflinching support for the Palestinians. Any change in Yad Vashem’s policy of hiding Husseini’s role in the Holocaust, and its direct relationship to the Arab war against Israel, will discredit the administration’s adamant and unqualified support for the Palestinians.

As for the Europeans, in 2003, German historian Matthias Kuntzel explained their impetus for protecting the mufti in his book “Jihad and Jew Hatred: On the New Anti-Jewish War.” In it, Kuntzel wrote that the German left’s reflexive comparisons of Israel to the Nazis is related to the “German need for identification and projection.”

The Nazi analogy to Israel, he explained, fulfilled an “unconscious wish for unburdening” of the German past.

“Knowledge of the connection, embodied in the Mufti between the Palestinian national movement and National Socialism would complicate the identification with the Palestinians as well as the projection of the German policy of extermination onto Israel.”

And as a consequence, the Germans—and subsequently, the French, the British and everyone else, including the Israeli left—buried the history.

Abbas’s speech was nothing out of the ordinary. Nazi imagery and propaganda is a regular feature in all areas of Palestinian society. But it serves as a reminder of what is actually at stake with Dayan’s continued tenure at Yad Vashem. It also shows why it is vital that Kisch fire him.



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A Nazi Speech in Ramallah Tells a Much Larger Tale

The Israeli left, the European Union and the Biden administration have a shared interest in repressing the Nazi roots of Palestinian nationalism.

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[ The Right to destroy Jewish, Christian, Bronze Era history in order to call it Palestinian ]

President Mahmoud Abbas said in a statement that it “testifies to the authenticity and history of the Palestinian people,” adding that “the state of Palestine is committed to preserving this unique site for the benefit of mankind.”

There was no immediate comment from Israel.

Paris-based UNESCO began the World Heritage List in 1978. It includes a broad array of over 1,000 sites — from the Acropolis in Athens to the Great Wall of China — nominated by their respective nations.

Ahead of the vote, Likud MK Dan Illouz wrote on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, that he had written to UNESCO head Audrey Azoulay.

“Jericho is first and foremost a city of Biblical significance,” Illouz said.

“Blurring this fact is an insult to the millions of Jews and Christians all over the world,” he said in a statement.

“Such a decision would constitute a blatant interference by UNESCO in a conflict in which it is not its role to intervene,” Illouz charged. “It is our duty to stop the Palestinian Authority’s subversion, and insist on our right to our land.”


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UNESCO votes to list ruins near ancient Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine

Move likely to anger Israel, which withdrew from UN cultural body in 2019 over previous steps that Jerusalem said were designed to diminish the Jewish connection to the Holy Land

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Saudi Arabia condemns Israel after Jews 'storm' Temple Mount

Jews made the pilgrimage to the Temple Mount as part of Rosh Hashanah celebrations on Sunday evening accompanied by heavy security detail.

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