After years of praising Islam, Prince Charles finally admitted that Christians were being persecuted in the Middle East: “It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are, increasingly, being deliberately attacked by fundamentalist Islamist militants. Christianity was, literally, born in the Middle …
Read More »A miracle and an outrage in Washington
Written by CAROLINE B. GLICK Restoring the Iraqi Jewish archive to its Israeli owners would be tantamount to recognizing that the cause of the Arab world’s conflict with Israel is Arab anti-Semitism. If you happen to be in Washington, DC, between now and January, you can see a piece of …
Read More »Abbas in Christmas message: Jesus was ‘Palestinian messenger’
Here we go again with the “Jesus was a Palestinian” nonsense. As Mike Lumish writes Arabs didn’t arrive until the 7th Century CE in Eretz Israel. Even supposing that isn’t a given, how on earth could he be a ‘Palestinian’? It all started with the creation of a fictitious ‘Palestinian …
Read More »Iranian Presidential Adviser: Without Deal, We would have attacked Israel
An Iranian political analyst claimed last week that if a deal between Iran and the West over Iran’s nuclear program had not been reached in Geneva, Iran would have annihilated Israel. The comments by Mohammad Sadeq Al-Hosseini, a former political advisor to Iranian President Khatami, aired on Syrian News TV …
Read More »Hezbollah holds Israel responsible for Tuesday’s car blast !!
Members of Hezbollah blamed Israel for Tuesday’s blast in a remote region of the Bekaa Valley controlled by the Shiite movement. Kamel Rifai, a Hezbollah politician, said Israel had used Muslim Takfiris, or infidels, to prepare the explosion, claims echoed by a senior Hezbollah-affiliated minister. “There is no doubt that …
Read More »Quote of Note: Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi (1937)
Between 1936 and 1939 the Arabs of the British Mandate of Jerusalem went on a rampage that became known as the “Arab revolt.” The Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin el-Husseini, cried to the heavens that the Jews were destroying the al-Aqsa Mosque and agitated his easily agitated people into bloody rampages that lasted for …
Read More »2000 year old Jobar synagogue plundered by Al-Qaeda rebels, blamed on “Zionist Commandos”
Please see an update of this item here: https://jewsdownunder.com/2014/05/30/jobars-syrias-oldest-synagogue-destroyed-assad/ The Zionist intelligence agency has succeeded in robbing various precious items from the synagogue located in Jobar neighborhood, north-east of the Syrian capital, Syria Truth website reported. The Zionist agents were assisted by the Jordanian Kingdom, Turkish militias, the so-called “Free …
Read More »Palestine – European Union Embroiled In Financial Scandal
Written by David Singer who is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International – an organisation calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the …
Read More »From the Desk of Dr Ron Weiser AM – Dec 2013
The end of the year approaches and many issues will of course continue into 2014 and beyond but here are two areas to watch and then a personal reflection on Nelson Mandela. Iran – it is too late to now bemoan the deal that world leaders have made with Iran. What …
Read More »Muslim Finds Islam, Not Israel, Ruining Temple Mount
Writing for the Gatestone Institute, Palestinian academic Mudar Zahran discovers that it is local Islamic authorities, and not Israel, who are threatening the future of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. In a recent visit to Jerusalem, where I visited and prayed at Al-Aqsa, it occurred to me that perhaps we, the Arabs …
Read More »Arlene in Israel – Obama on His Face
Before we get to Obama, who makes me (as most of you) terribly tired, I would like to address other topics.I have been wanting for some time to write about the issue of Bedouin settlement in the Negev, which has sparked enormous controversy and been used as a weapon against …
Read More »SFSU Responds to Arab Calls for Violence Against Jews
San Francisco State University (SFSU) president, Les Wong, has responded for the second time to criticisms that calling for the murder of Jews is perhaps something less than educative. And for the second time he refuses to address the central issue, which is a call to violence against Jews by the General …
Read More »Bedouin settlement, are we missing the point?
This Op-ed, was published in the Jerusalem Post on 9/12/2013. Ari is the International Relations Director of Regavim. Recently a day of rage in Israel was initiated to protest the Begin Plan, the Governments’ proposal to accommodate Bedouin settlement in the Negev. DEMONSTRATORS AGAINST Prawer-Begin plan outside Knesset, May 28, …
Read More »Screeching for Jewish Blood at San Francisco State University
I find it fairly remarkable that my alma mater, San Francisco State University (SFSU), funds a student organization that calls for the killing of Jews. The great irony, of course, is that SFSU is among the foremost universities in the United States dedicated to social justice and human rights, which is …
Read More »New Israel Fund “Stirring the Pot”
From Ma’ariv by Ben-Dror Yemini who is a senior journalist with the Hebrew only daily Ma’ariv. He lectures about the spread and impact of anti-Israel propaganda. It has been posted as a request. There is no URL. I was told it was an op-ed in Ma’ariv so this would …
Read More »Has Israel lost the Negev?
Among the Bedouin community, Israeli laws barring polygamy amount to no more than rumors, and no one has ever even heard of the building code • The Bedouin have all but taken over the Negev and turned it into a neighboring country. Emily Amrousi Lavish villas alongside traditional tents: …
Read More »I Love This Blade…
What are we to make of the fact that a student leader at San Francisco State University feels comfortable holding up a blade on a social media page calling for the murder of Jews in Israel? Much like SFSU President, Les Wong, I am not sure just what to make of this story, …
Read More »Canned Palestinian Children Meat
I arrived at San Francisco State University in the fall of 1996. It is getting to be a rather long time, now, but in those days the school just bubbled with politics in a way that I thought was exceedingly positive. The Caesar Chavez Student Center was always abuzz with …
Read More »Jews in Judaea
Jews building housing for themselves in our traditional home is considered a crime not just by the often violently racist local Arabs, but by their allies in the west. The tidbit below was written by AFP, whatever that is, and published by Y-Net: Israeli authorities have given the go-ahead for the …
Read More »Gaza knee deep in “s**t” – literally
Apologies here. This is the nearest I have ever come to using the ‘s’ word. There was no other choice, besides the fact in this instance, it is the perfect word choice. reports here: Gaza in Deep Sewage, under Egyptian Siege Raw sewage floods Gaza City neighborhood, and 13 more …
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