From On the 40th Anniversary of His Assassination: Robert Kennedy’s 1948 Reports from Palestine by Lenny Ben-David: In April 1948, one month before Israel declared independence, Robert Kennedy, then 22, traveled to Palestine to report on the conflict for the Boston Post. His four dispatches from the scene were published in June 1948. The newspaper closed in 1956, and for decades the reports were virtually forgotten. “Unfortunately for [the Jews, Jerusalem’s water] reservoir is situated in the mountains and it and the whole pipeline are controlled by the Arabs. The British would not let them cut the water off until
Read More +The United Nations’ continues to guarantee that it remains a cesspool of Muslim ethnocentrism and Jew hatred. Via NY Sun: UN diplomats said Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni’s candidacy to become director-general of UNESCO may now be doomed, after he told the Egyptian parliament that if any Israeli books were found in Egyptian libraries, he would burn them. Such a statement is “couched in the language and actions of Nazi ‘Minister of Culture’ Josef Goebbels,” the director for international relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Shimon Samuels, said in a letter. “An aspirant book-burner, who threatens to wield culture as
Read More +From Former Indonesian President Describes Lynching of Jews in Iraq via DailyAlert: Abdurrahman Wahid, 67, the former Indonesian president and a leading Muslim scholar, revealed the root of his understanding of the risks and perils of Jewish existence. Wahid was a student at Baghdad University in 1966, earning his keep as a secretary at a textile importer, when he befriended the firm’s elderly accountant, an Iraqi Jew he remembers only by his family name, Ramin. In 1968, the Iraqi government effectively had come under the control of Saddam Hussein, who at that time was deputy to the president, Ahmad Hassan
Read More +From Anti-Semitism among Palestinian Authority Academics: PA efforts to delegitimize Israel are evident throughout Palestinian society and involve television, schoolbooks, and culture, incorporating hate messages and the denial of Israel’s right to exist. Academics including professors, religious scholars, teachers, and schoolbook authors are all participating. Palestinian academics, recognizing the futility of attempting to erase the documented history of the Jews, literally stole the identity of the Jews by identifying ancient Hebrews as both Arabs and Muslims and denying their connection to today’s Jews in Israel. Many PA academics teach that the killing of Jews by Muslims is a precondition of
Read More +From Anti-Semitic Hate Speech in the Name of Islam: Farfur, the cartoon character on Hamas’ children’s television program, is a carbon copy of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse. But the Hamas version does something that Mickey would never do: He entertains children while propagating the murder of Jews. Farfur’s appearances are typical of Hamas’ anti-Semitic propaganda, which the organization also exports to Germany via satellite, hoping to breed new generations of fanatical anti-Semites and suicide bombers. According to a 2007 study by the German Interior Ministry on the worldviews of “Muslims in Germany,” “anti-Semitic attitudes were found among young Muslims far
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Deconstructing the mythology of Islam’s historical love for the Jews. From Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism: The Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism by Andrew Bostom refutes the claim that Islam, unlike Christianity, had not entertained a systematic persecution of the Jews, with a well-tailored survey of the theological, historical and juridical origins of Islamic anti-Semitism. A trove of anti-Jewish stereotypes that have become the Sharia-based uncontested “truth” about the People of the Book are invariably cited in sermons during Friday prayers, thus assuring their universal diffusion among Muslim constituents and the constant poisoning of the souls of young and adult Muslims alike,
Read More +Durban II is the next UN “anti-racism” conference – certain to be a global platform for antisemitism and the demonization of Israel. Planning for the 2009 hatefest is already underway. Here are two more videos from Eye On The UN. The first is of the Libyan Chairperson, Najat Al-Hajjaji, silencing criticism of efforts to redefine antisemitism at Durban II. Click here to watch video. The next video is of the Algerian representative; watch as he (inadvertently) confirms the attempt to redefine antisemitism at Durban II. Click here to watch video.
Read More +From Palestinian Media Watch: Hamas rabbit to children: “I’ll finish off the Jews and eat them!” by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook. Click here to watch the video: Using charming children’s characters to teach hate and violence Farfur (Mickey Mouse) was beaten to death by an israeli policeman Nahul the Bee died when the Israeli “siege” of Gaza prevented him from reaching a hospital Now there’s a new character for Tomorrow’s Pioneers, Assud the Rabbit A girl asks the Hamas rabbit: “Why is your name ‘Assud’ [“lion”], since you are a rabbit?” Assud, the rabbit: “A rabbit is a [term]
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