Who Are The Palestinians " III "

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Dana Rizek | A Soul's Odyssey | Album 'Letters to Palestine'​

 

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Ever heard the music of the Palestinian National Orchestra?​

 

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سيمفونية الشتات​

 

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Lara delivers strong speech on Gaza Genocide at STWC Rally in London on 12/2/23​

 

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Ultimate Frisbee in Palestine | Edge of Sports​

 

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How did we reach a point where so many Western leftists see Hamas as a ‘progressive’ movement? Its terrorist slaughter of 1,200 Israelis and others on 7 October is already being downplayed or forgotten entirely. Meanwhile, few mention Hamas’s intolerance towards political opposition, its curtailment of women’s rights, its criminalisation of homosexuality or its persecution of Christians. Human-rights campaigner Peter Tatchell was even barred from the anti-Israel march in London on Armistice Day for a placard that criticised Hamas.

Then there’s the fact that genocidal anti-Semitism is a core part of Hamas’s doctrine. Islamists, including Hamas, see themselves as locked in a cosmic struggle against ‘Jewish evil’. This is a key theme in Hamas’s 1988 covenant – a document it has never rescinded. The 7 October pogrom, and Hamas’s promise to repeat the massacre again and again, is entirely consistent with this anti-Semitic outlook.

Yet, despite all this, opinion polls suggest that many Westerners, particularly young adults, are sympathetic towards Hamas. A Harvard / Harris poll conducted within just two weeks of the 7 October attack suggested that 48 per cent of 18- to 24-year-old Americans side more with Hamas than Israel in the conflict. Polls like this should be treated with caution, but it’s still a shocking finding.

How Islamism destroyed the Palestinian movement

Hamas has killed off any prospect of self-determination.

www.spiked-online.com

 

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The last time we saw him, Pallywood crisis actor “Mr FAFO” Saleh Aljafarawi, he was in excruciating pain after supposedly getting shrapnel pieces in his hand, sustained in an IDF attack – leaving his dreams of table tennis greatness in tatters.

Of course, many of us smelled a rat – his acting left a lot to be desired, and he was somehow able to drive a car with the injured hand.

I can now confirm that it was, indeed, an act.

Mr FAFO must think his audience have the memory of hamsters, because he has uploaded to Instagram a video to his stories, showing him using the same hand freely, devoid of pain and any sling!

Full of shrapnel? Nope. Full of sh*t? Hell yeah.

Mr FAFO's Miraculous Recovery

The last time we saw him, Pallywood crisis actor “Mr FAFO”, he was in excruciating pain after supposedly getting shrapnel pieces in his hand

www.israellycool.com

 

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She Survived an Airstrike That Killed Her Family in Gaza​

 

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Palestinian bravery in the face of Israeli quadcopters​

 

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Who was Edward Said? He was one of the leading founders of postcolonial studies, an academic discipline which, simply put, seeks to discredit Western scholars’ writings about non-Western societies – because they’re tainted by racism and imperialism, naturally – and to blame the failings of those non-Western societies, whatever they may be, on the malevolent Western powers that once upon a time so cruelly colonized them. The goal of all this was simple: to demonize the West – and exalt the rest.

Said, author of Orientalism (1978), never saw a non-Western society whose worst attributes he couldn’t excuse, lie about, or ignore. But, as the son of a Palestinian Christian father and a Lebanese Christian mother, he was especially preoccupied with Arabs and Islam. For many years Said, who identified as a Palestinian-American, even claimed – in numerous essays, interviews, reference books, and a BBC documentary – to have been brought up in Jerusalem and fled from there to Cairo with his family when he was twelve; in fact, as a 1999 Commentary article by Justus Reid Weiner revealed, Said was raised in Cairo and only spent brief periods in Jerusalem.

Indeed, the Jerusalem house in which he claimed to have grown up, and in which “the great Jewish philosopher Martin Buber lived” after the Saids were supposedly forced to leave for Cairo (“Buber of course was a great apostle of coexistence between Arabs and Jews, but he didn’t mind living in an Arab house whose inhabitants had been displaced”), belonged in fact to Said’s aunt – and it was she who evicted the Bubers, not the other way around. Far from being a poor child refugee, Said was the son of a rich Cairo businessman who sent him to an elite prep school in Massachusetts and then to Princeton and Harvard.

Weiner wasn’t alone in exposing Said’s deceptions. In a 1982 article for the New York Review of Books, Bernard Lewis, the longtime dean of Islamic Studies, punched innumerable holes in Said’s arguments. Orientalism, Said contended, was principally a project of former imperial powers – Britain and France. In fact, Lewis pointed out, the historical study of Arabic and other Eastern cultures originally “had its main centers in Germany and neighboring countries,” none of which had ever been colonial powers in north Africa or south Asia. Lewis proceeded to make a devastating case that Said, in his treatments of Islam and of Western coverage thereof, exhibited a “disdain of facts” and betrayed “surprising gaps” in his knowledge of Islam and Arabic.


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Merchant of Lies | Frontpage Mag

He died 20 years ago, but after October 7, Edward Said is bigger than ever.

www.frontpagemag.com

 

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Teaching the War on Terror in Today's Classrooms: Challenges and Practices​

 

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Palestinian man returning with bread for family finds them all killed by Israeli air strike​

 

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Palestine before 1948​