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 →Secretary of State Pompeo Responds to Congressional Critics on Legality of West Bank Settlements (U.S. State Department via Daily Alert)
Dec. 17, 2019 Secretary of State Pompeo Responds to Congressional Critics on Legality of West Bank Settlements (U.S. State Department) U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday responded to a Congressional letter that criticized the administration’s position on the legality of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. “The State Department’s determination did not reverse […]
Read More →Arab hate literature of the 1950s shows the transition from blaming “Jews” to blaming “Zionists” (EoZ)
Dec. 16, 2019 Here is an excerpt from the Congressional Record, June 27, 1956, part of a very lengthy testimony about the Arab boycott of Israel and of Jews. What is especially interesting here is that the section on Arab anti-Jewish propaganda shows that there was a transition period between direct anti-Jewish statements and seeming “anti-Zionist” […]
Read More →An Egyptian-Born Muslim Zionist – Dudi Caspi (Israel Hayom via Daily Alert)
Dec. 13, 2019 An Egyptian-Born Muslim Zionist – Dudi CaspiEgyptian-born Muslim Hussein Aboubakr, 30, defines himself as a Zionist. His sympathy for Israel forced him out of Egypt and in the last seven years he has been living in Los Angeles. He said in an interview that he grew up to believe that Jews were the […]
Read More →Deconstructing the Nakba Myth: The Palestinian Aggressors Became the Victims – Prof. Shmuel Trigano (JCPA via Daily Alert)
Dec. 13, 2019 Deconstructing the Nakba Myth: The Palestinian Aggressors Became the Victims – Prof. Shmuel TriganoNakba Day (lit. “Day of Catastrophe”) has become the most actively performed ritual of the Palestinian myth. Hidden behind the exodus of the Arab population of Mandatory Palestine during the 1948 war, which this ritual commemorates, is the war of […]
Read More →Summaries of 2 articles by Daily Alert re: Recep Erdogan’s speech to the OIC
Dec. 10, 2019 Erdogan Bashes Israel, Calls on Muslims to Unite Against the West – Seth J. FrantzmanIn a speech to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed Israel and called for Islamic unity to confront the West and conspiracies against Islamic countries. (Jerusalem Post) See also Erdogan Accuses Israel of […]
Read More →FROM ISRAEL: “IT DOESN’T EXIST!!”, by Arlene Kushner (ArlenefromIsrael)
Dec. 8, 2019 On Friday, the US House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution supporting the “two state solution.” This caused considerable consternation among supporters of Israel. But, in fact, it is not terribly surprising: The House is controlled by the Democrats. And they are responding to the very appropriate and long-overdue November 18 […]
Read More →Losing the Semantic War on ‘Palestine’, by Mitchell Bard (Algemeiner)
Dec. 5, 2019 I have written before about the importance of semantics in the discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how frustrated many people are about losing various battles over nomenclature, such as references to the disputed territories as “occupied,” and “Judea and Samaria” as the West Bank. An arguably more important semantic battle regarding […]
Read More →Some hard questions about the Western European double standard against Israel, By ALAN DERSHOWITZ (J. Post)
Mar. 12, 2014 The time has come to point an accusing finger at Western European accusers who try to isolate Israel by imposing boycotts, divestments and sanctions. As so many Western European academics, artists and activists try to isolate Israel by imposing boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) only against the nation state of the Jewish […]
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