12/14 Links Pt2: UNIFIL Deters EU from Banning Hezbollah; Corbyn to use his power to harm Israel; Aboriginals Stood with Jews Against the Nazis

From Ian:

Evelyn Gordon: UNIFIL Deters EU from Banning Hezbollah

To be fair, expecting UNIFIL to stop Hezbollah was never realistic. As a senior Israeli official acknowledged this week, few countries would be willing to contribute troops to a mission that actually involved fighting Hezbollah.

What’s inexcusable, however, is that UNIFIL has never even reported any of Hezbollah’s activities to mobilize international action against the organization. On the contrary, whenever Israel complains, UNIFIL insists it has seen no sign of hostile activity.

This might even be true because UNIFIL has learned not to look anywhere Hezbollah doesn’t want it to look. Back in 2010, after a French unit made the mistake of actually trying to do its job by conducting searches and using sniffer dogs, Lebanese “civilians” clashed with UNIFIL troops, seized their weapons and threw stones at them until UNIFIL’s commander forbade such searches. Today, the UN confines itself to meaningless statements about how “allegations of illegal arms transfers … warrant serious concern” and would violate Resolution 1701, but they are “not in a position to substantiate them independently.”

And even when turning a blind eye becomes impossible—like when Israel took UNIFIL officers on a guided tour of the cross-border tunnels—the organization is careful never to blame Hezbollah. As the blogger Elder of Ziyon reported last week, UNIFIL’s press statement about the tunnels didn’t accuse anyone of responsibility; it never mentioned Hezbollah at all. In fact, the post continued, “the UNIFIL website has not mentioned the word ‘Hezbollah’ or ‘Hizbollah’ since the 2006 war!

In contrast, UNIFIL has no problem making accusations against Israel. The same November report that couldn’t “substantiate” Hezbollah’s arms transfers declared that UNIFIL had recorded 550 Israeli violations of Lebanon’s airspace and demanded their “immediate cessation.

Caroline Glick: Corbyn to use his power to harm Israel - be ready

For instance, immediately after the September 11 attacks, then-British prime minister Tony Blair flew to Washington. He was the first foreign leader to meet with then-president George W. Bush. Blair’s visit had a singular impact on US policy toward Israel at the dawn of the US war against Islamic terrorism. Thanks almost entirely to Blair’s lobbying, Bush agreed to exempt Palestinian terrorism against Israel from his general rebuke. Blair convinced Bush that Palestinian jihadists who waged a terrorist war against Israel were not as objectionable as al-Qaeda jihadists were. The consequences of Blair’s efforts are still being felt – as the victims of this week’s Palestinian terrorist attacks make clear.

A prime minister, Corbyn will have a profound impact on the balance of forces in today’s Democratic Party. There can be little doubt that his rise will empower radical, extreme Israel haters in the party at the expense of more moderate forces. If a prime minister Corbyn is met in Washington by a Democratic president, his influence on US-Israel ties will be profoundly damaging.

Liberal American philosopher Michael Waltzer has argued that leftist foreign policy in the US stems more from attitudes and prejudices than from a significant, rational view of the world. There are two main twitches that underpin the foreign policy of the American Left: anti-Americanism and support for empowering international institutions at America’s expense.

Given Corbyn’s oft-stated intention to unleash the UN against Israel, Israel can expect for the UN to become even more peripatetic and hostile in its anti-Israel operations in the era of a Corbyn government. Britain, a permanent, veto-wielding member of the Security Council is liable to submit draft resolutions condemning Israel on a regular basis. Other UN institutions from UNESCO to UNICEF to the World Court can be expected to intensify their operations against Israel on multiple fronts. And if a Democratic president serves parallel to Corbyn, the implications for Israel are liable to be disastrous.

On Wednesday, May responded to Corbyn’s attacks against her for her handling of Brexit by saying, “The biggest threat to the UK is not Brexit, it is a Corbyn government.”

It’s possible that enough British voters agree with her to ensure that the Conservatives will win the next elections. But it is possible that they won’t.

Israel cannot wait to find out. Israel needs to act now to prepare itself for the day after a Corbyn government is formed. Because without a doubt, Corbyn intends to use his power to harm Israel. And as the prime minister of Britain, he will have significant means to achieve his goal.

New York Times photographer posted support for terrorism on Instagram

A Pulitzer-nominated New York Times photographer posted support for terrorism on his social media, i24NEWS has discovered.

Wissam Nassar posted pictures of the suspected terrorists behind the Barkan Industrial Estate and Ofra shooting attacks on Instagram, adding the text: “A sad morning that carries with it pride with the martyrs, and honor in resistance. ‘If you lost the way, follow the martyrs’.”

The Palestinian Gaza-based photographer uploaded it as a “story”, meaning it was deleted after 24 hours.

Palestinians Salih Omar Barghouti and Ashraf Walid Suleiman Na’alwa were killed in IDF manhunts on the night of 12 December. Barghouti was suspected of being part of a terror cell that committed the drive-by shooting outside the West Bank settlement of Ofra on the night of 9 December. The cell injured seven people, shooting a seven-months pregnant woman in the stomach—and forcing doctors to prematurely deliver the baby, who died three days later.

Na’alwa had been on the run for two months since the 7 October Barkan Industrial Estate attack, in which he shot dead two Israeli coworkers: 29-year-old Kim Levengrond-Yehezkel, whom he handcuffed before killing, and 35-year-old Ziv Hajbi.

Islamist terror group Hamas took responsibility for both attacks. Its armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said: “From the heroic Barkan operation to the Ofra operation, the Qassam Brigades are undertaking a new battle.”

Wissam Nassar’s work has been featured in Time Magazine and The New York Times, which used his photographs inside Gaza in articles on the “Great March of Return” protests and riots.

Why Anti-Zionism Is Malign

To the Editor:

Re “Anti-Zionism Isn’t the Same as Anti-Semitism,” by Michelle Goldberg (column, nytimes.com, Dec. 7):

If anti-Zionism isn’t a form of anti-Semitism, what is? To deny the Jewish people, of all the peoples on earth, the right to self-determination surely is discriminatory, all the more so 71 years after the United Nations General Assembly voted to recommend the creation of a “Jewish” state. And if the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (B.D.S.) movement isn’t another form of anti-Semitism, what is?

To single out Israel, the only liberal democracy in the Middle East, for demonization and isolation, while ignoring egregious human rights violators aplenty, once again smacks of anti-Jewish hatred. After all, the very same B.D.S. movement does not even focus on the mistreatment of Palestinians in the Arab world, including the thousands killed and imprisoned in the Syrian carnage, the many professional fields closed to Palestinians in Lebanon, or the internecine wars between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. If Israel is not involved, the B.D.S. movement has no interest.

Nor does it take into account the many efforts by Israel to forge a peace deal with the Palestinians, beginning 70 years ago, only to be spurned time and again.

Criticize Israeli policies? Sure. It’s done every day in Israel itself by the media, nongovernment groups, and in the Knesset. But that’s a far cry from treating Israel differently from any other country in the world, which is at the core of the anti-Zionist and B.D.S. outlook.

David Harris
New York
The writer is chief executive of the American Jewish Committee.

Keynote Address of Hillel Neuer at the 5th Deutscher Israel Kongress

"What would the founders of human rights at the UN, Eleanor Roosevelt & René Cassin, think if they were alive today & saw what became of their creation?"

Listen to podcast: UN Watch's Hillel Neuer interviewed on what's wrong with the UN Human Rights Council—and how to fix it. On @NGOMonitor's latest episode of Human Rights and Hot Coffee, also featuring their Legal Advisor Anne Herzberg. https://t.co/Ef5Oke535o
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) December 13, 2018

A Shameful Jewish Silence at the U.N.

“Do not stand idly by” is a popular mantra of Jewish activists who fight injustice. Whether the injustice is genocide in Sudan or child migrants separated from their parents or Israel undermining its democracy, these activists know how to make themselves heard.

But last week, when it came time to condemn terrorism in a high-profile vote, Jewish activists fell largely silent.

There were no online petitions or demonstrations in front of the United Nations in support of a resolution to denounce the terrorist group Hamas. As expected, the General Assembly rejected a U.S.-sponsored resolution that called for an end to violence, encouraged intra-Palestinian reconciliation, and condemned terrorism.

“Over the years, the U.N. has voted to condemn Israel over 500 times . . . and not one single resolution condemning Hamas,” U.S. ambassador Nikki Haley said in response. “That, more than anything else, is a condemnation of the United Nations itself.”

To add insult to injury, as David May wrote in National Review Online (NRO), “The U.N. indicated that Jews’ praying at the Western Wall is more worthy of condemnation than Hamas’s lobbing rockets indiscriminately at Israeli civilians,” as the General Assembly passed another resolution calling for “an end to ‘Israel’s occupation . . . including of East Jerusalem,’ the location of Judaism’s holiest shrine.”

The fact that the U.N. is a cesspool of anti-Israel sentiment, virtually immune to any activism, is no reason not to protest. When the cause is worth it, Jewish activists have no problem fighting against the odds.

We saw them do just that a few months ago when eight Jewish organizations — T’ruah (the rabbinic call for human rights), the New Israel Fund, J-Street, Ameinu, Americans for Peace Now, the National Council of Jewish Women, Partners for Progressive Israel and the Union for Reform Judaism — rose up to protest Israel’s new Nation-State law. (h/t IsaacStorm)

David Singer: United Nations, Egypt and Jordan Could Scuttle Trump’s Peace Plan

President Trump’s long-awaited peace plan to end the Arab-Jewish conflict – slated for release by the end of January 2019 – could be indefinitely shelved.

This possibility has emerged following the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) failing to pass an American-sponsored resolution A/73/L.42 (“Resolution”) – condemning Hamas and other militant organisations in Gaza for indiscriminate attacks on Israel’s civilian population.

Protecting all civilian populations from the ravages of conflict and war was turned on its head when the Resolution failed to attract a two-thirds majority vote demanded by UN Arab-member states – rather than a simple majority argued for by America which was lost by a narrow margin of three votes.

The Resolution had sought to condemn Hamas – whose Covenant calls for the destruction of Israel – for the first time since Hamas was created in 1987.

The Resolution served as a barometer to measure whether 134 of the 193 UN members comprising the Group of 77 would be prepared to support one pro-Israel humanitarian resolution being passed to break the cycle of over 700 UNGA anti-Israel resolutions their voting bloc had always guaranteed.

Only 35 possessed the moral integrity to break ranks and support the Resolution, 32 abstained and 15 did not vote.

The bad and good about the U.N. vote on Hamas

Israel’s flourishing relationship with the world is a topic Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loves to talk about, and a presentation he gives over and over and over at conferences, to groups, and with visiting dignitaries.

He did it again on Wednesday evening, at the annual end-of-the-year reception the Government Press Organization holds in his presence for foreign journalists, held this year at the Shalva National Center in Jerusalem.

After Bat-El Papua gave an inspirational presentation on growing up as a person of short stature, after Miri Mesika sang four songs, and a band from Shalva – an organization dedicated to the care and inclusion of persons with disabilities – lifted the spirits with a rendition of “Hallelujah,” Netanyahu came out and spoke once again about how Israel’s ties with the world are booming.

Accompanied by one slide of the Middle East showing Iran and Islamic State’s penetration, another map showing countries with which Israel has signed agreements, and a third with a graph highlighting the percentage of global cybersecurity investment in Israel, Netanyahu discussed how the world’s thirst for security and technology has led country after country to Israel’s door.

Netanyahu said he has traveled to Africa three times in two years, Japan has increased its investment in Israel enormously, and numerous Middle East countries – the cherry on top – all want cooperation with the Jewish state.

And it’s all true. But what he left out is that some of those countries that benefit so heavily from Israel’s security intelligence, arms and technology still are unable to cast their votes for Israel in key votes in international forums.

Eugene Kontorovich: Interview on Pakistani Indus News Network

On Pakistan's Indus News network, I discuss Israel's use of force at the Gaza fence, and the broader issue of the Israeli-Arab conflict.

David Collier: Miko Peled, outside of his bubble, is a deflated (lying) buffoon

Last night I went to see a debate at Kings College London between Miko Peled and Raphi Bloom. It has been arranged by the Libertarian Society. I had been in two minds as to whether or not the decision by Raphi Bloom of North West Friends of Israel to debate Miko Peled was the correct one. Sometimes you give legitimacy to the illegitimate simply through recognition or sharing a platform. However, the debate provided recorded evidence of why it should have gone ahead. To *anybody* in that room not already sold to one side, there was one clear winner. And it wasn’t Miko Peled. The full video of the event is available on the Sussex Friends of Israel page.

There is a reason that people like Miko Peled avoid debates. At no point during the ninety minutes last night did Peled respond to a question with the truth. His style works in a room where challenge is shouted down. In a place where if someone dares to contradict him, his thugs in the room will scream in defence. Outside of that bubble, Miko Peled is vulnerable and deflated.

Miko Peled opened by saying ‘there was not going to be a dialogue’ and it took him about a minute before he threw in the accusation of a ‘Genocide’ that was being carried out by a ‘vicious Apartheid regime’. A sentence later he declared Zionism a racist ideology that uses ‘extreme means of violence’ against ‘innocent civilians‘. He went on to state Zionism should not be tolerated any more than the KKK should be.

These are Miko Peled’s opening remarks. This is no different to the string of abuse he pushes everywhere he speaks. If you look at Miko Peled video’s, you’ll see the same messaging repeated. This is ordinary stuff. However, it wasn’t going to be an ordinary evening.

David Collier: Hamas Lies and propaganda: From Gaza to the world in less than a minute

On November 11, there was a ‘botched’ Israeli special forces raid near Khan Yunis in Gaza. We cannot know exactly what the mission intended, but Nour Baraka, a regional commander of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (military wing of Hamas) was one of those killed in the exchange of fire. Following the Israeli operation, Hamas fired over 460 rockets at Israel in twenty-five hours.

When situations such as this arise, the Hamas propaganda machine moves from ‘normal mode’ to ‘overdrive’. Hamas have a firm control over the Gaza Strip and it would be logical to assume that includes a grip over the messages that escape from it.

When the news first broke, rumours began to fly about kidnapped Israeli soldiers, there were Hamas statements and images of Israeli army helicopters arriving at an Israeli hospital. It took about two-three hours for the story to settle. These two posts were made within a few minutes of each other. Al-Jazeera posted on 11 Nov at 22:30, Robert Inlakesh beat them by twelve minutes, posting at 22:18. Both these screenshots were taken within an hour of the post being made.

The Inlakesh video spread at twice the rate of the Al-Jazeera one. That ratio continued and eventually the Inlakesh ‘exposure’ was shared over 1100 times. Al Jazeera barely made it past 500. Inlakesh had 214 shares in fifty-five minutes.

He writes for conspiracy ‘news’ sites such as 21st Century Wire and the American Herald Tribune. Inlakesh often pushes a conspiratorial tone:

This isn’t about Inlakesh (who is not in Gaza), but the issue of his Gaza post highlights a key problem. Conspiracy news travels fast, lightning fast. As anti-Israel activists create internet bubbles around themselves, the notion of media conspiracy is often high on the agenda. Main news organisations are ignored and then ‘banned from sight’ as attention. Even more ‘friendly’ sources such as Al Jazeera are spurned in favour of those who tell the ‘real news’. People like Inlakesh.

Key Participant at Center of Women’s March Story Confirms Anti-Jewish Incident

Fendlay continued: “I personally am committed to, this is why I show up in the movement, and I’m all about holding whiteness accountable—regardless of the religion of the white person.”

“I know what took place, and others have shared the story of what happened,” Wruble said to Tablet, speaking openly about the meeting for the first time since it happened more than two years ago. “These personal insults are painful, and given that I have been fighting for justice and equality for my entire life it saddens me greatly, but we’ve got marches to plan and a movement to build. I hope we can all move on from these conversations and focus on the work ahead.”

Asked about Tablet’s report that Mallory or Perez had asserted Jews were leaders in the slave trade—a regular drumbeat of Louis Farrakhan’s—Fendlay said she “never heard anything said about that in everything that I have ever experienced working with these women. It doesn’t even make sense.” In a tweet last month, Fendlay wrote: “White people are to blame for the suffering of African Americans. Those white people have been all different faiths & they justified themselves, it’s certainly not their religions’ fault. The Jews who participated in the slave trade were abetting many anti-Semites in the South.”

For her part, Wruble is hoping to move on. “Any activity people engage in is poised to be influenced by conscious and unconscious biases. We all have them,” she said. “I, too, want to fight the systems that uphold white and male privilege. But right now we are being pitted against one another, and I’m seeing conservatives use the controversies to undermine the women’s march movement as a whole. I refuse to let that happen. I am a proud culturally Jewish progressive and intend to work with progressives everywhere to fight back against the bad policies that, frankly, white men have been imposing on all of us. That has to be our priority moving forward.”

Amid the fallout from the @tabletmag expose, Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory are staying true to their ideals. Here they are, meeting with Bishop Swan of @COGICIsLive, who says "European Jews... are not the Jews of the Bible." pic.twitter.com/uDJnjrswXL
— John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) December 13, 2018

Wow. On Nov. 29th, Planned Parenthood’s @DrLeanaWen equivocated on @PPFA joining @WomensMarch again. Then the devastating @TabletMag article on anti-Semitism of Women’s March leaders came out — and PP responds by saying they proudly stand by Women’s March.https://t.co/FKtvAKbF4T pic.twitter.com/zlMdcegu1H
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) December 13, 2018

Facing rogue faculty action, all 10 U. California Chancellors reaffirm opposition to academic boycott of Israel

In recent posts we have discussed how anti-Israel faculty at some universities and colleges have gone rogue.

Knowing that their institutions reject the academic boycott of Israel, these faculty members impose the boycott on students to deprive students of educational opportunities to study on approved programs in Israel.

This is unethical conduct which exploits faculty power over students to impose faculty political preferences. Faculty who themselves don’t wish to interact with Israelis are free to do so, but they are not free to deprive students of participation in university approved educational opportunities.

The AMCHA Initiative recently launched an outreach to the 250 university and college presidents who opposed the 2013 academic boycott passed by the American Studies Association. The list used by AMCHA is a list compiled by Legal Insurrection in late 2013 and early 2014 as a result of our reader crowdsourcing project.

[Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, AMCHA Initiative, at UC Regents Meeting 2016]
We covered the recent effort in ALERT – University Presidents called upon to prevent rogue faculty from implementing Academic Boycott of Israel.

That effort has paid quick dividends. The Chancellors from 10 University of California campuses just reaffirmed their opposition to the academic boycott of Israel, in the following statement:
As chancellors of the University of California campuses, we write to reaffirm our longstanding opposition to an academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions and/or individual scholars. Our commitment to continued engagement and partnership with Israeli, as well as Palestinian colleagues, colleges, and universities is unwavering. We believe a boycott of this sort poses a direct and serious threat to the academic freedom of our students and faculty, as well as the unfettered exchange of ideas and perspectives on our campuses, including debate and discourse regarding conflicts in the Middle East.

Jews on Campus Shouldn't Have to Play the Politics of Permission

Since the inception of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, Jewish people have voiced how the popularized phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” threatens their security as a people.

It has been 13 years since the BDS movement was created, yet the phrase and all the rhetoric surrounding it has not escaped our discourse surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most recently, former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill was fired from the company Nov. 29 after a videotaped speech he gave to the United Nations the day before went viral where he invoked the contentious phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

Particularly through my college experiences as a Jewish American, I am coming to see that many liberals just do not really care to understand or sympathize with the Jewish struggle for liberation, independence and self-determination. Our story and history are often too easily simplified to align with narratives of Western colonization due to the mass emigration waves of Jewish refugees from Europe, as well as the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere, to Palestine during the mid to late 20th century. It is indescribably frustrating and isolating to identify with an underdog narrative as a people who fought for liberation after thousands of years of being stateless.

Jewish people are constantly told our history and identity are illegitimate. Whether at the Chicago Dyke March in 2017 or conversations surrounding the upcoming Women’s March in 2019, it has been made increasingly clear that in order for Jewish Americans to be welcomed past the gates of these movements, we have to denounce our narratives and hide our heritage. And I am not interested in the politics of permission.

According to 2018 data in Moment Magazine, approximately 70 percent of American Jews have an emotional attachment to Israel. Additionally, the majority of Jewish Americans who vote stand by liberal politics. So what does it say about intersectional liberal movements if the majority of Jewish Americans feel excluded, unwelcome and alienated from them?

Missing Context in AP Piece Masks IDF’s Humanity

Although the Gaza border protests-cum-riots have calmed down significantly over recent months, the Associated Press decided to commission a piece on Sunday discussing them.

Entitled, “In Gaza protests, Israeli troops aim for legs,” the piece claims that “Israeli snipers have targeted one part of the body more than any other — the legs.”

It’s revealing that the journalist, Todd Pitman, is Associated Press’ Asia Pacific correspondent. Working out of Bangkok, he’s thousands of miles away from the scene.
Conflation of Injury Types

The piece describes in great detail the toll paid by the protesters, documenting the numbers reported to have been treated at Gaza’s hospitals and field clinics as having reached “colossal proportions,” but fails to distinguish between those who suffered minor injuries such as scratches or tear gas inhalation from more serious wounds. And that’s if the numbers produced by the Hamas controlled Ministry of Health are believable to begin with.

In fact, if we take at face value the figure of 10,511 protesters to have received medical care and consider it’s in the context of the estimated 200,000 people to have taken part in the protests, a quick calculation shows that approximately 5% of protesters were classified as “injured” in some way or another. Of this 5%, a significant proportion were treated for tear gas inhalation. Hardly colossal proportions.

Haaretz Removes Erroneous Reference to “Illegal” Settlements

Following communication from CAMERA’s Israel office, Haaretz removed misleading terminology which falsely suggested that President George H.W. Bush regarded Israeli communities in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem as “illegal.” In his obituary last week for President George H.W. Bush, Haaretz’s Chemi Shalev discussed the controversies that arose between the late president and Israel, originally suggesting that the U.S. leader had considered Israeli settlements illegal:

Bush had angered Shamir and American Jews the year before when he blasted illegal Israeli settlements in “the West Bank and East Jerusalem”… (“Bush Sr. Was a Republican Realist Who Clashed With Israel While Saving the World,” in print on Dec. 2, and online here)

Shalev’s reference to “illegal Israeli settlements” was bizarre and misleading, given that the President had never designated them as such. Nor is it generally Haaretz practice to refer to settlements (aside from small outposts deemed illegal by the Israeli government) as “illegal.” Yet the characterization of the settlements as “illegal” was even more puzzling and problematic in the Hebrew version of Shalev’s article as it appeared within the quotation marks, as if Bush himself had actually referred at some point to “illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.”

Extensive searches do not term up any indication at all that president Bush called the settlements “illegal.” To the contrary, James Baker, Bush’s secretary of state, stated during a July 20, 1991 press conference in Jedah, Saudi Arabia:

Sweden’s Cycle of Anti-Semitism

Last year, three Arab men threw Molotov cocktails at a synagogue in the Swedish city of Gothenburg. While a court initially sentenced one of the perpetrators, a Palestinian born in Gaza, to two years in prison followed by deportation, a higher court recently overturned the deportation on the grounds that his record of anti-Semitism might make him a target of persecution by the Israeli government. This is but one example of a systemic, threefold problem, writes Manfred Gerstenfeld: Muslim immigrants attack Jews, leftist politicians refuse to do anything while fomenting hatred of Israel, and far-right parties, some of which are hostile to Jews, gain popularity:

[A]nti-Semitism in Sweden is not limited to Muslims and neo-Nazis. A recent scandal concerns the highly reputable hospital of Karolinska University, [which] annually awards the Nobel Prize in medicine. The Simon Wiesenthal Center wrote a complaint to the hospital’s dean when it became known that open anti-Semitism among the hospital’s senior physicians had been ignored by management for almost a year. There were also anti-Semitic comments posted on Facebook. . . .

[Sweden’s numerous] problems with immigrants have given rise to the growth of a right-wing populist party, the Sweden Democrats. In the September 2017 elections they received 17 percent of the vote, an unprecedented level of support. This party promotes the banning of nonmedical circumcision. While this measure is aimed primarily against Muslims, who vastly outnumber Jews [in the country], it introduces a new element into Swedish anti-Semitism

Sweden has also long led Western Europe in anti-Israelism. The country’s best-known postwar prime minister, the Social Democrat Olof Palme, was one of the very few leaders of a democratic country to compare Israel’s acts to those of the Nazis. The current foreign minister, Margot Wallstrom, also a Social Democrat, has asked for an investigation into the killing of terrorists by Israel. She hasn’t made any such request from other democratic countries where terrorists have been killed after attacks. . . .

In Germany, protesters chant "Adolf Hitler" and "Allah-O-Akbar" while giving the Nazi Salute as they wave the Palestinian flag. 'Tis the Season! pic.twitter.com/rCJAeCizOt
— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) December 13, 2018

Suspect accused of attacking 3 men wearing yarmulkes is NY sex offender

A suspect accused of attacking three men wearing yarmulkes in Miami Beach is a sex offender from New York, police said.

Miami Beach police said Leroy Jennings, 32, was arrested Thursday after he attacked the men with a rock at a kosher Dunkin' shop on West 41st Street.

Police said Jennings initially faced three counts of battery on a person 65 or older and one count of resisting arrest without violence. He now faces an additional charge of failure to register as a sex offender, as required by law in Florida.

Michael Lefkowitz, one of the victims, said he's "grateful to God" that he and his friends weren't seriously injured.

"People do acts of terrorism, hostile acts, randomly to random people," he told Local 10 News. "I just happened to be a statistic this morning."

Lefkowitz goes to the Dunkin' nearly every day with Paul Goldstein and Jack Levine before their Bible class.

IsraellyCool: “Apartheid” Fail: Israeli Arab Female Employment Surges

Israel: still failing at apartheid!

The employment rate of the Arab women in Israel surged almost 20 percent by the end of September, according to data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics on Sunday.

Compared with 128,000 in the second quarter of 2017, about 154,000 Arab women in Israel, or 40 percent of all Arab-Israeli women aged 25-64, were employed in the second and third quarter of 2018, just a step away from the 41-percent employment target set for 2020.

I can personally attest that when I go to the pharmacy in my hometown, the pharmacist is more often than not an Israeli Arab woman. And one of them even proudly wears a hijab.

But please lecture to me about apartheid in Israel.

IsraellyCool: Shehab News Proclaims “World’s Youngest Doctor” is Palestinian. She is Neither Palestinian nor World’s Youngest

Hamas-loving Palestinian news agency Shehab News declares the youngest physician in the world is a palestinian woman.

Try telling that to Mona herself. Her Facebook profile reveals she identifies as an Arab living in Israel.

Mona also shares a number of posts in Hebrew, including to this business which proudly shows Mona off.

There’s also the fact she is not the youngest doctor in the world. At 23, perhaps the youngest in Israel. Perhaps.

Either way, do not expect Shehab News to explain how if Israel is so evil, genocidal and apartheid, someone like Mona can thrive here

Aboriginals Stood with Jews Against the Nazis - We Have a Long History Together

In December 1938, an elderly Aboriginal activist led a small delegation from his home in the inner-western Melbourne suburb of Footscray to the steps of the city’s German consulate to protest the attacks on Jews in Nazi Germany that occurred less than a month earlier.

The attacks came to be known as Kristallnacht.

Until recently the protest march was little known. Over the past 15 years, it has been celebrated as a symbol of solidarity between Aboriginals and the Jewish diaspora. It was a big year for Yorta Yorta elder, William Cooper.
Can we handle the truth? Indigenous Australians depend on it

On 26 January 1938, Cooper assisted in organising the Day of Mourning protest for Aboriginal rights, which included a renewed call for Aboriginal representation in the federal parliament. It was a point Cooper had already made in a 1933 petition to the UK’s King George V.

The Day of Mourning protest is now generally regarded as the antecedent of Survival Day, Invasion Day, the increasingly popular Change the Date push, and the more radical Abolish Australia Day movement.

Cooper’s 1933 petition, containing 2,000 signatories, may be viewed as a 75-year precursor to the Statement from the Heart.

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