More Palestinian Authority libel

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Deconstructing intelligence as a requirement for membership in the Palestinian Authority. Via PMW: Israel’s supernatural rats chase away Jerusalem’s Arabs. The Palestinian Authority has come up with yet another wild accusation about Israel. Two PA newspapers – one directly controlled by the office of PA President Mahmoud Abbas – are accusing Israel of releasing rats with supernatural qualities to chase away the Arab residents of Jerusalem. According to the PA papers, the Israeli-Jerusalem rat is: 1. Immune to rat poison;2. Aggressive and larger than usual;3. Unafraid of cats and able to scare them away;4. Highly fertile — female rat gives

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Anti-Israeli Agenda Borders on Sacrilege

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From Anti-Israeli Agenda Borders on Sacrilege: Last weekend, Old South Church hosted a conference sponsored by North American Friends of Sabeel entitled “The Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine-Israel” and headlined by Episcopal Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Two days of nonstop bashing of Israel, portrayed as a colonialist oppressor. Palestinian national aspirations were celebrated; Jewish national aspirations were ignored, if not denigrated. The endless wars waged by Arabs seeking to wipe out the Jewish state were characterized as aggressive wars provoked by Israel. There was no mention of suicide bombings, except possibly to justify them as understandable expressions of rage. What distresses me

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Adalah, ICAHD, and Other Political NGOs Promoted in University of Denver GSIS / Hebrew University “Human Rights” Program

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Via NGO Monitor: The Minerva Center for Human Rights, a program based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is arranging a number of summer courses for advanced students at the prestigious Graduate School for International Studies at the University of Denver.[1] While some of these courses include qualified academics and focus on serious research issues, others which offer internships are based on partisan political positions promoted by NGOs with no academic foundations. The “Internship with Israeli and Palestinian Human Rights Organizations” includes the participation of B’Tselem, Machsom Watch, ICAHD, and Adalah. As documented in detail by NGO Monitor, officials from

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Using statistics to lie about discrimination

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How Ha’aretz and ‘Sikkuy: The Association for the Advancement of Civic Equality in Israel’ lie to mangle statistics. An excerpt from Steven Plaut via The Jewish Press: Mark Twain once said there are three sorts of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Of the last group, the worst are ‘advocacy statistics’. These are fabrications by advocacy groups that invent ‘statistics’ to advance political agendas. There are lots of these around, and they’re familiar to all of us. They range from the supposed ten percent of humans who are homosexual, to the make-pretend numbers of Iraqi civilians who supposedly died in

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The enemy within: Balad MK to speak at Israel Apartheid Week in Canada

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Propaganda posing as scholarship. From Ha’aretz: MK Jamal Zakhalka (Balad) intends to participate in aninternational conference in Montreal entitled IsraeliApartheid Week, Army Radio reported on Tuesday. The Israeli Arab parliamentarian is currently making his way to Canada from Britain. Jewish students will hold a counter-demonstration at Montreal campuses wearing blue-and-white shirts and will hold support rallies for Israel. Israeli Apartheid Week is a week-long series of eventsheld for the third year concurrently across various North American and European campuses. The event is organized by the Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights. Event organizers describe Israel as a”settler-colonial state” in the mold

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