All The News Anti-Israel Posters Will Not Read Or Discuss 2

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This article in Jordan's Ammon News by Dr. Monther al-Hiwarat betrays an interesting fatalism about how Israel won over the Western world, bea the Arab world militarily and now is infiltrating the Arab world psychologically.

Arab media rarely betrays insecurity in English, and even in Arabic articles like this are rare because it is a source of shame.

The Abraham Accords has created a huge despair among people who pretended to be allies of Palestinians.

And yet, I have still to see an article that recommends that Palestinians accept that they will not achieve their maximalist goals and try to compromise for once. The reason is simple: the goal was never to help Palestinians gain a state but to use them as a means to destroy the Jewish state. And since no one cares about the Palestinians, they prefer to keep them stateless rather than find a real solution.

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Jordanian site explains Israel's hypnotizing strategy in the Arab world

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To her comment about Tiktok removing her proposal for a definition of Holocaust denial, yet allowing antisemitic comments to run rampant, I have another instance of liberal media being very tolerant of antisemitism yet blocking attempts to quash it: I signed up for a course on “How to Combat Antisemitism” and Facebook did not allow the educational organization hosting it to advertise it on their site.

One only has to look at the way liberal sites allows antisemites to spew their venom while blocking Jews’ attempts to quash it - along with some of the liberals on this very forum - to realize that leftists allow antisemites to advance bigotry against Jews while SAYING they are fighting bigotry against blacks.

 

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As has been the case in previous years (see related articles below), the Israel-related content produced by the BBC throughout 2021 often included contributions or information sourced from non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

Frequently portrayed by the BBC as ‘human rights groups’, those inherently agenda-driven organisations make no claim to provide unbiased information and are obviously not committed to the BBC’s editorial standards.

When political agendas and journalism meet, questions obviously arise concerning accuracy, impartiality and reliability. One of the few safeguards in place comes in the form of the section titled ‘Contributors’ Affiliations’ in the BBC editorial guidelines on impartiality which, since their overhaul in July 2019, states:

“4.3.12 We should not automatically assume that contributors from other organisations (such as academics, journalists, researchers and representatives of charities and think-tanks) are unbiased. Appropriate information about their affiliations, funding and particular viewpoints should be made available to the audience, when relevant to the context.” [emphasis added]

Nevertheless, throughout 2021 we once again documented numerous examples of that editorial guideline having been ignored in Middle East-related content sourced in one way or another from political NGOs and their representatives.

One of the topics most vigorously promoted by the BBC in 2021 was a campaign to pressure Israel to vaccinate residents of the areas under the control of the Palestinian Authority or Hamas. That campaign began in late 2020 just as Israel began vaccinating its own citizens against the Coronavirus and it was initiated by a group of political NGOs, some of which have a record of lawfare campaigns against Israel, including B’tselem, Amnesty International Israel, Gisha, Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights, Adalah, Al Mezan and the PCHR.

The BBC enthusiastically amplified that campaign by what it termed “human rights groups” from the beginning of the year.

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PROMOTED AND QUOTED: THE BBC’S PREFERRED NGO CONTRIBUTORS IN 2021

As has been the case in previous years (see related articles below), the Israel-related content produced by the BBC throughout 2021 often included contributions

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Recent events have highlighted a disturbing trend among some of the most extremist neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups: looking to Islamist terror organizations as a model and inspiration. This became noticeablewith the August 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and with the Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) killing of U.S. soldiers there. It continued with the 20th anniversary of 9/11, when groups, including some Proud Boys affiliates, celebrated the attacks.

During the November 2021 Unite the Right rally trial, in which the jury awarded over $26 million in damages, defendant Matthew Heimbach, who at the time of the rally was leader of the neo-Nazi and white supremacist Traditionalist Worker Party and an early promoter of the neo-Nazi-jihadi bromance, was called to the stand, where he made news by joking about Hitler. Known for years as a fervent supporter of the designated anti-U.S. terrorist organizations Hizbullah and Hamas, he said in 2017 that he had modeled his organization's recruitment approach after them.

This follows the widespread support other neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups expressed for Hamas and Hizbullah during the May 2021 Gaza conflict; they remain some of their most vocal fans online and continue to post content lauding them. Another recent example highlighting the global aspect of this bromance, French extremist nationalist and presidential candidate Yvan Benedetti, leader of the "Les Nationalistes" movement, enthusiastically endorsed Hizbullah numerous times on his Telegram channel.

While countless media reports and research papers have discussed many aspects of the last Gaza conflict, a new disturbing phenomenon has been documented and exposed extremists' support for Palestinian terrorist entities and their cause. The Gaza events gave these seemingly opposing groups an opportunity to connect, communicate, and influence each other. These extremists – who are desperate for publicity – will not be named here.

Neo-Nazis and white supremacists shared online a great deal of content expressing this solidarity, along with hatred for Jews and Israel, and, most disturbingly, support for these views taken from Nazism – including admiration for Hitler. Their aim was to set the stage for future collaboration – a new strategy for attacking Jews worldwide – and they seized the opening provided by the conflict to jump on the bandwagon of virulent antisemitism and Israel-hatred.

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Neo-Nazis Look To Forge Bromance With Jihadis

Recent events have highlighted a disturbing trend among some of the most extremist neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups: looking to Islamist terror organizations as a model and inspiration. This became noticeable with the August 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and with the Islamic State...

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A large explosion rocked southern Lebanon early Thursday morning, local Lebanese media reported, adding that there were no casualties.

The cause of the blast, between the villages of Deir a-Zahrani and Khomin a-Fuqa, was not immediately clear.

Videos posted to social media showed a huge fireball rising into the night sky. The area is a stronghold of the Hezbollah terror group.

Large explosion reported in Hezbollah storage site in south Lebanon, cause unknown

Local media reports no casualties, while news outlets linked to terror group ignore incident; last month, 12 people were killed in a blast at a local Hamas weapons depot

www.timesofisrael.com

 

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ACT NOW! Demand Amazon Stop Selling Nazi Propaganda Videos | United with Israel

Some films were removed after backlash from Americans Against Antisemitism, but many are still available.

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Jewish Insider/Circuit News has a really great profile of U.S. Army General Miguel Correa, a Catholic Puerto Rican who worked on and coined the term "Abraham Accords." It is a must-read.

Correa has had a most interesting life. When he was a teen his family lived in Kuwait where he learned Arabic and made friends with the Kuwaitis. His understanding of the Arab world helped a great deal when the US was brokering the agreements between Israel and the UAE.

Here, he describes what he learned about Israel at his high school:

Correa completed eighth and ninth grades at the American School of Kuwait, which catered to the kids of diplomats and wealthy Kuwaitis. It was there that Correa learned Arabic and studied Islam, and it was also the first time he learned about Israel. Sort of.

”You spent the first three or four days of every single semester taking your textbook, and you’d have a teacher at the front, and there was a Ministry of Education [directive] that would mandate what parts of your book you had to take out,” Correa recalled. Armed with a pair of scissors and a marker, he went through his textbooks, looking for offensive language and imagery. Any depictions of the Prophet Muhammad were cut out. Maps that showed the State of Israel were colored over in dark permanent marker.

“Anything to do with Israel,” he said, “you markered it, or you cut the whole page out if it was trying to explain something from the Western way.”

The “Western way” as it related to Israel meant describing the country as anything but an illegitimate Zionist entity occupying Palestinian land. “It was 100% one-sided, in that it was genocide, that the Israelis pushed out the Palestinians, period,” said Correa.

“You’re a little kid, and so you think anything the government says, it’s law, it’s perfect,” he explained.

The Americans and others who send their kids to the American School of Kuwait (ASK) would naturally expect an education on par with an American school. That was the entire purpose of the school, as its website says, its goal is "giving our students the highest standards of American education in Kuwait."

Moreover, ASK is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, which accredits thousands of American schools and about 100 foreign schools like ASK.

Which means that any school accredited by MSA may censor textbooks.

It sounds like this is something that is simply accepted because it is the local law. But accepting censorship is unacceptable, and the MSA should have policies about that. I didn't see any on their site.

In other words, a major accrediting organization that is itself recognized by the US Department of Education as a reliable authority allows textbooks to be censored for political reasons.

Does anyone think that ASK has changed a thing since the 1980s?

Isn't it a problem that schools that allow censorship can be accredited?

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The first school assignment in the American School of Kuwait: Black out Israel from the maps

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Towards the end of the piece, Jansen gives a brief summary of the political situation in the Gaza Strip:

However, since Hamas seized power there in 2007, Gaza has been isolated, besieged and blockaded by Israel and shunned by Abbas.”

There is no mention that Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by the European Union – a political bloc that Ireland is a member of – which is one of the reasons that it is “isolated,” or that, like Israel, Egypt has also blockaded the coastal enclave for security purposes. Neither is any detail given as to why such measures are necessary: Hamas has repeatedly vowed to exterminate the Jewish state; amassed huge firepower thanks to generous donations from Iran, and has indiscriminately fired rockets at Israel.

In the recent May conflict, for example, the Islamist terror group fired more than 3,000 projectiles at civilian-populated towns and cities, while it is believed to be hoarding approximately 30,000 rockets, which its fighters have a tendency to store underneath schools and hospitals.

But instead of including these salient details, Jansen’s 550-word article reimagines history. And by sanitizing Abbas’ rejection of coexistence with Israel, The Irish Times perpetuates a narrative that effectively normalizes acts of terrorism.

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Normalizing Terrorism? Irish Times Reimagines Mahmoud Abbas as Man of Peace, Israel as Obstacle to Two-State Solution | HonestReporting

The Irish Times has reported on Mahmoud Abbas beginning an unprecedented 17th year in office this week as president of the Palestinian Authority -- a

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Good example of how the world works when it does not come to Israel

 

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The entrance to Amerikahaus in Munich is illuminated with a tribute to David Berger, one of eleven Israeli athletes murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the Olympic Games in the city in 1972. Photo: Amerikahaus, Munich
The city of Munich has held the first of 150 events this year that will commemorate the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games there fifty years ago.

On Thursday, a visual installation in memory of one of the murdered athletes, David Berger, illuminated the facade of the Amerikahaus, an institution in Munich that works to enhance transatlantic relations.

German City of Munich Launches Year-Long Tribute to Israeli Athletes Murdered by Palestinian Terrorists at 1972 Olympics - Algemeiner.com

The city of Munich has held the first of 150 events this year that will commemorate the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games there fifty years ago. On Thursday, a visual installation in memory of one of the murdered athletes, David Berger, illuminated the facade of the Amerikahaus...

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Yes, they really want to throw the Jews into the sea

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Negev crisis: Seeing the forest for the trees - editorial

On the one hand, Israel has every right to exert its sovereignty within its territory. On the other, Bedouins see the tree-planting on land they use for farming as part of a campaign to expel them.

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The PA uses many euphemisms and terms to refer to terrorists, and they are applying two of them to Jesus. The first is Fida’i, literally “self-sacrificing fighter.” For example, terrorist Ashraf Na’alwa, who brought a rifle to work, tied up a young mother of a 15-month-old, and then murdered her and another coworker, was called by Fatah: “The heroic Fida’i.” Fatah official Rawhi Fattouh applied this status to Jesus: “Jesus the first Palestinian Fida’i.”

The second term is Shahid - Islamic “Martyr” – the word the PA uses for every terrorist killed during his/her attack, including suicide bombers. Senior Fatah leader Tawfiq Tirawi applied both terms to Jesus: “The first Fida’i and the first Martyr, the messiah Jesus.”

Ironically, the PA and Fatah do not intend to insult Jesus’ memory or Christian tradition by turning Jesus into a terrorist. Palestinian leaders actually believe that terrorists, murderers of Israelis, and Islamic “Martyrs”, are the “most honorable.” PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas praises them regularly and puts them on the highest pedestal: “We view the Martyrs and prisoners (i.e., terrorists) as stars in the sky of the Palestinian people and they have priority in everything.” [Official PA TV, July 24, 2018]

So by calling Jesus a Palestinian terrorist the PA/Fatah actually intend to honor him.

In the following chart examples on the left are terms Palestinians have used to honor Jesus and, on the right, the same terms used to honor terrorist murderers:

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Palestinians reinvent Jesus in their own image - as a terrorist | PMW Analysis

After turning Jesus into a Palestinian, the PA wanted to honor him the only way they know how: They declared him fighter (i.e., a terrorist) and an Islamic Martyr - the people who Palestinians see as the “most honorable”

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In 2017, a census was taken that showed that the number of Palestinians in Lebanon was 174,422.

UNRWA says that over 479,000 Palestinian "refugees" are registered with UNRWA in Lebanon.

Which means that most of those "refugees" left Lebanon - but UNRWA still counts them.

Now, The National notes that the numbers are diminishing further:

In the past two years, Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have been migrating at significantly higher rates in search of better work opportunities and a better standard of living.

Lebanon’s economic situation tightens its grasp on citizens and foreigners alike, said Abdelnaser Elayi, project manager at the inter-ministerial Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee.

“Before 2020, we would usually see about 6,000 to 8,000 Palestinians leave the country without returning, per year," Mr Elayi told The National

“Now, those figures are closer to 10,000 to 12,000. That is an increase by at least 30 per cent.”

If his numbers are right, that means that about 40,000 Palestinians have left since the census!

While between 30-50,000 Palestinians fled from Syria to Lebanon with the Syrian civil war, most of those would have been counted in the 2017 census and many cannot stay long because they have to renew their visas every three months.

This means that there may be as few as 135,000 Palestinians in Lebanon. As many as 70% of those counted by UNRWA aren't there.

No one can blame Lebanese Palestinians for wanting to leave. They are treated horribly, they cannot become citizens even after 73 years of residence, their camps are hellholes and they are not allowed to build or expand housing, and they suffer real apartheid with Lebanese laws drafted specifically aimed at them. Now with Lebanon's economy in dire straits, they are the low rung of a very rickety ladder.

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Palestinians fleeing Lebanon,but UNRWA keeps counting them for their funding

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The difference between the PA and Hamas

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The "flood libel" returns for this year's rainy season in Gaza

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