The Right To Destroy Jewish History

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The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement about supposed Israeli "Judaizing" of the city of Jerusalem.

One of the accusations is that Israeli actions in Jerusalem "give the impression to any visitor that it is a Jewish biblical city featuring continuous [Jewish] presence and Jewish heritage."

Well, yeah. Because it is. For some 3000 years. Except for some very brief time periods where Jews were specifically expelled because of their cultural and religious ties to Jerusalem, as they were ethnically cleansed from the Old City for a mere 19 years in 1948.

This statement reveals more than it intends. Because rather than Jews trying to Judaize Jerusalem - a city that has been the Jewish capital and center of Jewish existence since King David - the Palestinians are trying to separate Jews and Judaism from Jerusalem.

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Palestinian government accuses Israel of pretending Jerusalem has been a Jewish city since Biblical times ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

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[ The Holocaust never happened, Auchswitz never existed, so on and so forth ]

One of the protesters told her that Auschwitz never existed. Nobody on the train stood up in her defense, according to JTA.

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French woman confronts anti-Semitic protesters in Paris

 

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For years, the Palestinian Authority and Fatah have presented Jesus as a Palestinian, as part of its fabricating an ancient Palestinian history.

This year was no exception. On the occasion of Christmas, a top Fatah official spoke of Jesus as "the first Palestinian" and "'Christmas is one of the permanent Palestinian symbols."

In their historical revision, the PA and Fatah ignore that Jesus was a Jew ("Judean") according to Christian tradition and that the Roman Empire changed the name of the land Judea into "Palestine" only a hundred years after Jesus lived. In spite of the dishonesty, senior PA and Fatah leaders have consistently presented Jesus and his mother Mary as Palestinians and Jesus as "the first Palestinian Martyr," and the first Palestinian refugee, as documented by Palestinian Media Watch.

The following is a statement from PLO Executive Committee member and Fatah Central Committee member Azzam Al-Ahmad yesterday at Khan Al-Ahmar, a site where Palestinian Bedouins have illegally erected buildings and dwellings.

"The lighting of the Christmas tree each year has many meanings in Palestine... Christmas is one of the permanent Palestinian symbols, and the whole world follows Mass in Bethlehem...
The children of Khan Al-Ahmar are happy about the lighting of this tree, as it is the symbol of the first Palestinian, Jesus, peace be upon him. We, the members of the Palestinian people, are celebrating Christmas together with everyone in the land of Palestine...'

The same false claims about Jesus were repeated by Secretary-General of the National Initiative [and PA Parliament member] Mustafa Barghouti:

"Jesus, who was born on this land, was a Palestinian and defeated his suffering."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 20, 2018]

A few among the many examples of PA and Fatah leaders calling Jesus a Palestinian include:

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stated that: "We celebrate the birth of Jesus, a Palestinian messenger of love, justice and peace." [WAFA, Dec. 22, 2014]

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Christmas is a "Palestinian symbol" and "Jesus was the first Palestinian," says senior Fatah leader - PMW Bulletins

 

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  At Jerusalem's Bible Lands Museum ahead of the December 30 Finds Gone Astray exhibit, six incantation bowls, three with a Jewish Aramaic inscription, three in Syrian Aramaic, which originate from southern Mesopotamia and date to the 5th–7th centuries CE. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Artifacts stolen and smuggled in the West Bank now on display in Jerusalem

 

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Egypt remains riled up at the article written by Fatima Naoot on December 10 that blames the nation for expelling its Jews.

Historians, politicians and journalists are falling over themselves to "prove" that when tens of thousands of Jews left the country in the 1950s and 1960s, they all left voluntarily or were spies. But Egypt loved its Jews.

This is a lie. Under Nasser, Egypt systematically reduced and eliminated the rights of Jews.

Here is a small part of M. M. Laskier, , Egyptian Jewry under the Nasser regime, 1956–70, published in Middle Eastern Studies, 1995. These sections only deal with expulsions in 1956.
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" But the 1956 Law did not stop at these stipulations. It went on to impose special disabilities expressly upon Jews alone. Article 1 further stipulated that: Neither Zionists nor those against whom a judgement has been handed down for crimes of disloyalty to the country or for treason, shall be covered by this provision.
To make the intent of this provision clear beyond doubt, Article 1 added that:
No request for the delivery of a certificate of Egyptian nationality will be accepted from persons known as
Zionists .. ."


To the best of our knowledge, this was the first instance in the history of law where the concept of Zionism was applied in a nationality statute as a criterion of citizenship and as an indirect basis for denaturalization. Since the law furnished no definition whatsoever of the term 'Zionist', it was obvious that the Egyptian authorities could apply this provision at will to any person of the Jewish faith.

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Egypt denies mistreating Jews in the 50s and 60s. They are lying. ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

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[ Oi va voi !! ]

Later, the article continues:

"In St. Luke’s Gospel, Mary and Joseph travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem during her pregnancy. Bethlehem was a tiny village, Strauss said, too small to support an inn. The couple probably stopped at the house of a relative, or a relative’s friend.

Palestinian homes commonly had sleeping quarters upstairs, with ground floor space for domesticated creatures."

The homes of Mary and Joseph’s relatives, or relatives’ friends, were not “Palestinian.” They were Judean. During the time of Joseph and Mary, the region in which Bethlehem is located was known, including by its inhabitants, as Judaea (per the Latin spelling) and not Palestine.

As The New York Times noted in a June 20, 2008 correction, Romans renamed the region “Palaestina” some 100 years after Jesus died:


"The Malula Journal article on April 22, about efforts in the village of Malula, Syria, and two neighboring villages to preserve Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus, referred incorrectly to the name of the region where Jesus spent most of his time. It was Galilee — not Palestine, which derives from the word Palestina, the name that Roman conquerors gave to the region more than 100 years after Jesus’s death. The error was pointed out by a reader in an e-mail message on Monday."

The Los Angeles Times has likewise previously published a correction on the identical point. The Times’ Sept. 28, 2011 correction states:

" “Ben-Hur”: A Sept. 26 Calendar section article about a new DVD and Blu-ray release of the 1959 film “Ben-Hur” described the title character, played by Charlton Heston, as a Palestinian nobleman.
The character Ben-Hur was a Jew from Judea who lived long before the place now known as Palestine was given that name."


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San Diego Union-Tribune's 'Christmyth': Jesus' Relatives Were Palestinian

 

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A catastrophic 1985 earthquake that killed thousands of people in Mexico City and destroyed the (back-then) Jewish neighborhoods of Roma and Condesa also left the archives of the Ashkenazi community in a state of complete disarray, stashed away in makeshift boxes in the damp and dark basement of the Nidje Israel synagogue, colloquially known as Acapulco 70 for its street address. In the early 1990s, Alicia Gojman de Backal, a history professor at the National University of Mexico, decided to make sense of this archival nightmare.

The result was Generations of Jews in Mexicoa seven-tome encyclopedic history of the Ashkenazi community in Mexico published in 1993 and the birth of Mexico City’s Jewish Documentation Center, which will reopen this week in its new home in the historical Rodfe Sedek synagogue.


New Jewish Documentation Center, Containing 100 Years of Jewish Life in Mexico City, Opens This Week

 

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I've seen many such articles astonished at the chutzpah that the usurping Jews have to demand compensation from innocent Arabs.

It is no surprise that the Arabs, who routinely deny the Holocaust, who deny their historic antisemitism and who deny any Jewish connection to the land of Israel, would also deny that they ever did anything to force the Jews to leave their countries.

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Arabs engaging in "Jewish ethnic cleansing denial" ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

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Academic Distorts History on Anniversary of Gaza Operation | HonestReporting

 

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Once Again, Arabs Deny Ethnically Cleansing Jews

 

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According to an Egyptian newspaper, the Rothschild family knew of these unimaginable riches worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and that was the reason that they forced the British government to issue the Balfour Declaration to Lord Rothschild.

The writer of the paper takes pains to say that ordinary Jews, and even ordinary Israelis, don't necessarily know about this - even though, we are told, they are really Khazars and not Jews. But the Zionist leaders manipulated the media and the Jews in order to make it appear that Jews always wanted to return to Israel even though that is complete fiction made up "more than fifty years ago." It was all to cover up the Rothschild's greed for Dead Sea riches.

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Egyptian paper says Rothschilds stole billions in Dead Sea gold and minerals ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

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Arabia

Judaism

The most well-known monotheists were the Hebrews, although the Persians and the Medes had also developed monotheism. Judaism is one of the oldest monotheistic religions.

A thriving community of Jewish tribes existed in pre-Islamic Arabia and included both sedentary and nomadic communities. Jews migrated into Arabia starting Roman times. Arabian Jews spoke Arabic as well as Hebrew and Aramaic and had contact with Jewish religious centers in Babylonia and Palestine. The Yemeni Himyarites converted to Judaism in the 4th century, and some of the Kindah, a tribe in central Arabia who were the Himyarites’ vassals, were also converted in the 4th/5th century.

There is evidence that Jewish converts in the Hejaz were regarded as Jews by other Jews and non-Jews alike, and sought advice from Babylonian rabbis on matters of attire and kosher food. In at least one case, it is known that an Arab tribe agreed to adopt Judaism as a condition for settling in a town dominated by Jewish inhabitants. Some Arab women in Yathrib/Medina are said to have vowed to make their child a Jew if the child survived, since they considered the Jews to be people “of knowledge and the book.” Historian Philip Hitti infers from proper names and agricultural vocabulary that the Jewish tribes of Yathrib consisted mostly of Judaized clans of Arabian and Aramaean origin.

Culture and Religion in Pre-Islamic Arabia | World Civilization

 

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Controversy is the bread and butter of radical left-wing anti-Israel groups. The key is to grab the headlines, whether it is by preventing pro-Israel speakers from speaking, attacking groups like Hillel and Birthright for an alleged lack of balance, or saying Kaddish for terrorists.

So it is really not all that surprising that often facts they claim to give are full of sloppiness and outright fabrications.

Take for instance Jewish Voice for Peace and their Jews From The Middle East Fact Sheet, which adopts both anti-Israel and pro-Arab narratives.

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Jewish Voice for Peace: Sloppy With Facts, But Adept With Fabrications (Daled Amos) ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

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Condemnation of alleged Israeli aggression has long been a standard talking point in the United Nations; that alone did not set off any alarms. What disturbed Israelis about the UNESCO resolution was that it made Jerusalem’s Holy Basin an exclusively Islamic prerogative. By only referring to the Temple Mount by its Arabic name “Al-Haram al-Sharif,” the resolution’s language severed ties between Judaism and the Temple Mount. The Western Wall was reduced to Al-Buraq Plaza — the place where Muhammad tethered his horse.

In the resolution, the Arabic name was only twice followed by the Western Wall’s Hebrew name; but when that happened, it was placed in quotation marks — a grammatical detail that Israelis took as direct belittling of Judaism’s linkage to the site.

The resolution made no mention of the Jewish temples that stood at the site for a thousand years, or the next 2,000 years of continuous Jewish attachment to Jerusalem. Only once did the drafters soften their bias by making a generalized reference to the importance of the Old City and its walls to “the three monotheistic religions.”

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Why the US and Israel Were Right to Leave UNESCO

 

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Holy Tongues.

Laurie Anderson was right: Language is a virus.

When we speak to each other, we aren’t just delivering information, dry and useful and unadorned. Instead, we infect each other: With ideas, with passions, with dislikes that run much deeper than anything rational could ever predict. That’s why, here on earth, words remain among the most sacred objects we still possess.

Today, we’ve three stories about holy tongues: One that celebrates a strange and enduring epic Yiddish poem about Jewish life in… Kentucky?; one that reanimates the wondrous Kabbalistic book that became one of modern Hebrew’s earliest best-sellers; and one that recalls a father who liked to bet and found numeric inspiration in the Bible.


Holy Tongues Archives - Tablet Magazine

 

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The following is one of the most bombastic quotes from the Amnesty report:

“The City of David National Park is already one of the most visited attractions in Israel. In 2017, it received 17.5% of all foreign visitors (some 630,000 people).205 Hundreds of thousands of Israelis also visit the site each year, including many groups of school children, students and soldiers, helping to entrench the settlers’ presence in the area. As with the other sites managed by settlers described above, Elad presents a distorted historical narrative of the area, emphasizing the Jewish people’s roots in the area while excluding those of Palestinian residents.”

Are they serious? The City of David is the ancient city of Jerusalem right outside the Old City walls. It is the place where the first Jewish Kingdom began, where King David sat and ruled over the Jews of Judea! That is where it all began, and yet Amnesty has written up that the Jews have no connection to the City of David!

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Amnesty International Goes Full Blown Antisemitic

 

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Episode 11: Amnesty International’s Campaign Denying Jewish History

 

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Preacher at Al-Aqsa Mosque: “Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque are subject to renewed danger… by erasing the characteristics of the holy city and changing its Islamic Arab identity, falsifying its history” - Jerusalem's Temple/Jewish history denied | PMW

 

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The latest Palestinian lie – "We are all Mary"

 

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Publisher which previously released textbooks accusing Israelis of ethnic cleansing prints new textbooks omitting Jewish ties to Jerusalem.

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Dutch textbook leaves out Jewish ties to Jerusalem