I don’t look at the Irish Indymedia site very often but I had time to have a glance at it today and what did I come across but this little gem, an education in itself about the mindset of some pro-Palestinian activists and not only in Ireland.
Archive for August, 2009
“The next time the terms apartheid or oppression are used with reference to the Middle East, one must remember the intolerable conditions of Palestinians in most of the Arab countries,” writes Khaled Abu Toameh. He says:
Writing in the execrable Counterpunch, Gilad Atzmon, along with an apparently “adorable” friend of his, dreams of being taken hostage:
This is a guest post by Andre Oboler.
My new report into Facebook and Holocaust denial has just been published. The report provides in-depth background and then delves into the reasons why Holocaust denial is hate speech, why counter speech is in this case not an option, and why Facebook as a private company does indeed have both the right and a moral obligation to remove this hateful content.
Continue reading ‘Holocaust Denial: Yes Facebook, it is Hate Speech’
“Anti-Zionist facts and anti-Zionist fictions are impossible to define to everyone’s satisfaction. Given the labyrinthine history of Jews, Muslims, Christians, antisemitism, Zionism, Europe and the Middle East, everyone has their own version of fact and fiction, history and myth, persecution and resistance.”
Read the rest from Mark Gardner, here.
Seth Freedman is a regular in the role of Acceptable Jew at The Guardian’s CiF website. In this piece he looks at the controversy surrounding the allegations of organ harvesting fom dead Palestinians leveled at the IDF in a Swedish newspaper. He concludes that it’s all Israel’s fault, naturally.
Continue reading ‘The Swedish Scandal: Freedman Blames Bad Jews’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now likely to weigh in on the Swedish government’s refusal to condemn the article published in the daily Aftonbladet alleging - without a shred of what proper journalists would define as evidence - that IDF troops “harvested” the organs of Palestinians.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has just appointed Ahmad Vahidi as Iran’s new defense minister. He is one of the Iranians being sought by the Argentine authorities on suspicion of involvement in the 1994 AMIA massacre in Buenos Aires and he is the subject an Interpol Red Notice, for all practical purposes an international arrest warrant.
Continue reading ‘Iran Thumbs Its Nose at Argentina and AMIA Victims’
Osvaldo Bayer is concerned that the Jews don’t appeared to have learned anything from their history.
But there are also those people who have tragic experience of persecutions, such as the Jews, who have laws that lead to humans being humiliated. It’s well known that the State of Israel doesn’t recognize marriages between Jews and non-Jews. [… ] It has thus become fashionable for Jews who want to marry a non-Jew to go to Cyprus to do it. Quite an industry has built up on the island to allow non-Jews and Jews to get married. According to Jewish law only those born of Jewish mothers are regarded as Jewish.
I’ve written about Argentine poet and anti-Israel whack job Juan Gelman for this blog here. Readers may be interested in this piece I wrote elsewhere about his latest kowtow to a tyranny.
From the Egyptian writer and academic researcher of Islamic Affairs, Dr. Sayed Mahmoud El Qemany, who is being exposed to incitements to assassinate him.
In the context of my academic research and practical work I have been able to provide an important set of motion in the stagnant Egyptian situation.
This is a guest post by Hawkeye.
For those of you that are familiar with the Guardian’s ˜Comment is Free, you’ll know that it has become the meeting place ˜above the line“ of Jewish anti-Zionists of the likes of Anthony Lerman and Richard Silverstein, supporters of the one-state solution such as Ali Abunimah and Khaled Diab, leaders and spokespeople for Hamas such as Khalid Mishaal and Azzam Tamimi and proponents of the ˜Israel is an apartheid state” lie such as Ben White. Only yesterday CiF readers were exposed to the toxic views of CiF regular, Seth Freedman, who incredulously denied the deeply antisemitic nature of the Aftonbladet blood libel article.
This is a guest post by Micky.
Among the more shocking silences in the wake of Saturday’s hateful attack upon a Tel Aviv gay center is that of American Jewish organizations who claim to be dedicated to human rights and dignity and Israel’s safety.
The Progressive Commentariat and the Palestinians
Many commentators who argue in favor of the Palestinian cause base themselves on an assumption which they never voice and which, perhaps, they are not entirely conscious. That assumption is that Israelis are morally superior to Palestinians and, in political terms, more intelligent than them. There follow a couple of examples of what I mean.
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