Palestinian government institution DENOUNCES equal rights for women and abortion (EoZ)
Dec. 20, 2019 The Supreme Fatwa Council, the decision making body of the Palestinian Fatwa House which was created by Yasir Arafat as an official Palestinian institution in 1994, has announced that it does not accept the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The Council said that it cannot accept any […]
Read More →BDS, 1956: Arab firms tried to boycott “Jewish businesses” worldwide (EoZ)
Dec. 17, 2019 Today’s BDS movement is a direct descendant of the Arab boycott of the 1950s and 60s against Israel. Then, as now, the boycott isn’t against Israel, but Jews. No boycott list today includes Israeli Arab companies but only Jewish owned businesses in Israel. The Arab League in 1956 was a bit cruder. They had […]
Read More →The Crisis of Violence in Israeli Arab Society By Dr. Edy Cohen
Oct. 29, 2019 BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,328, October 29, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Arab politicians blame the Israeli establishment for the rampaging violence in Israeli Arab society, but ignore the underlying problems in their own sociopolitical culture that foster that violence. The Joint Arab List, which became the Knesset’s third-largest faction in the recent elections, […]
Read More →Summaries of 3 articles on violence in the Arab world, by Daily Alert, with links
Oct. 4, 2019 The Arab World Can’t Blame All of Its Problems on the West – Hussain Abdul-Hussain In August, a Palestinian woman, Israa Ghrayeb, 21, was beaten to death. Three of her male relatives have since been charged with her murder. Her apparent “crime” was to post a video of herself having dinner with her […]
Read More →In first, Saudi envoy in Washington sends Rosh Hashanah greeting to US Jews
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Read More →Palestinians Are Tired of Being the Only Refugees Denied the Right to Resettlement – Evelyn Gordon (JNS via Daily Alert)
Sept. 12, 2019 Palestinians Are Tired of Being the Only Refugees Denied the Right to Resettlement – Evelyn Gordon Hundreds of Palestinian refugees demonstrated outside the Canadian Embassy in Beirut on Sept. 5 to request asylum in Canada or the EU, the second such protest in the last month. After more than 70 years, Palestinians are […]
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