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The festivities are over, the fancy costumes and masks are put away for another year and it is time to take note of the real world again.
Having drowned out Haman’s name during the Megillah reading and some having drowned themselves in alcoholic euphoria it will no doubt come as a severe shock for many who thought that the Amaleks of this world have been vanquished, to learn that in actuality this is not the case.
Instead of the Amalekite curse having been eradicated the sobering reality is unfortunately that the threats against us have resurfaced. The worrying aspect is that hate and nefarious plots against Jews and Israel are now at a level not seen since the end of the Shoah years. It is true that we are on the whole more aware of the dangers that unbridled delegitimization can trigger yet it is tragic that far too many, Jews and non-Jews alike, are still oblivious to the threats or even worse, sometimes complicit in their spread.
I am often accused of unnecessary fear-mongering and exaggerating the forces arraigned against us. All I can say is look around at what is happening with eyes wide open and ears finely tuned and you cannot escape the reality of what is erupting worldwide.
The first line of defence against complacency and denial is knowledge and awareness. These attributes alas are in short supply with far too many preferring to tune out and instead living in their local bubbles, deliberately cut off from the mayhem raging elsewhere. As we have learnt to our dire cost in the past, pretending that it may be someone else’s problem alone will not prevent the contagion from spreading and eventually infecting hitherto apparent safe-havens.
Post-Purim, it is now time to get down to brass tacks and take a serious look at what is brewing out there.
Jewish anti-defamation groups have issued their various 2021 reports and without exception, they all show a huge increase in hate incidents against Jews whether it be verbal or physical. Whether it is Europe, North America or Australia the proof is incontrovertible that something is rotten. Passionate speeches and political posturing aside, when Jewish students no longer feel safe at universities, when academics target Israel supporters and violence becomes the norm, you know that no amount of rhetoric will help. Hiding your identity and hoping that a low profile will save you from the attention of the haters is a losing proposition. Even worse, joining the Israel defamers may buy you a temporary reprieve but sooner rather than later they will catch up with you.
Beware of politicians who spout words of righteous indignation and then do nothing to back up their promises. Empty slogans need to be loudly called out for the hypocrisy they represent. In the absence of Holocaust education as a compulsory component of the history education curriculum in high schools and toothless laws against anti-Jewish incitement those who burble “never again” should be held to account.
In other words, apart from concrete steps to physically protect individuals and communal buildings a much more vigorous reaction must be undertaken to challenge double standards and meaningless slogans.
Concurrently with the upsurge in threats against individual Jews we are witnessing a ramping up of attempts to smear and ultimately exclude the restored homeland of the Jewish People from the family of nations.
The same methods of slanders, lies, intimidation and baseless bias are being employed. We need to expose and loudly challenge these attempts to boycott, delegitimize and sanction us.
Instead of apologizing for our miraculous resurrection from genocidal attempts of annihilation, we should be responding in a more robust and assertive manner.
There is a myriad of situations which need our urgent attention. Instead of remaining “shtum” we should be shouting from the rooftops and exposing blatant behaviour.
The PLO has renounced all agreements with Israel and stated that “we have entered a path of resistance in all its forms.” Any so called agreements with a terrorist group was a fatal mistake to begin with made by hallucinatory leftist politicians. Now that the PLO which is the major partner of the PA, our mythical peace partner, has officially embraced terror tactics, where is our forthright response? We should be updating all those foreign ministries who still burble “two States for two People living in peace and security.” Instead there is nary a whisper.
Conspiracy plots are standard fare for those who target us. It has always been that way and unfortunately their continual repetition encourages the haters with dire results. The worst part is that we react, if at all, far too late and usually after the damage has been done. Take the latest which in actual fact is as old as the Arab/Muslim opposition to the return of the Jews to their Land.
The Mufti of Jerusalem, a PA appointee, announced that “the Jews will be storming the Al Aqsa Mosque during Purim.” For good measure he also accused Mike Pence, the former US Vice President, of “storming the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron” during his recent visit there. As a bonus the Mufti asserted for the umpteenth time that the Cave of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, now excised from any Jewish connection and converted into a Mosque, is a site solely reserved for Muslim worship.
These claims by the notorious Mufti Husseini served as a basis for past riots and murder of Jews in 1929 and are fertile fodder for the Palestinian Arab and other Islamic masses today. Instead of exposing these potent lies we let them fester and therefore it is no surprise when enraged mobs having swallowed them, cause lethal mayhem. I am certain that nobody in Wellington, Canberra, London, Paris or Washington (or anywhere else) has a clue or even cares about this. What I do know however is that when the inevitable violence occurs Israel will be blamed. Why are we silent bystanders in the face of this hypocrisy?
It is reported that Syrian volunteers, undoubtedly encouraged by Assad’s wholehearted support of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, are flocking to take part in the battles raging there. As far as I am concerned the more that fight there and are subsequently killed, the better. That leaves a few less terrorists to carry out attacks against Israelis. Seriously though, has anyone heard howls of protest from the Foreign Ministries of the world’s democracies? These silent Governments are the same ones which demand Israel hand back the Golan to the murderous regime of Assad so that he can once again threaten the lives of Israelis. Our spokespeople should be creating hell over this instead of lapsing into diplomatic silence.
Last but by no means least, post-Purim has presented us with two glaring examples of how alienated individuals can twist the facts to suit their own self-loathing ideologies.
Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP) which if its aims were ever achieved would ensure the demise of the Jewish State has accused Israel of accepting Ukrainian refugees “to further ethnic cleansing.” Furthermore they claim that “settling the refugees on land illegally occupied prevents 7 million Palestinian refugees from returning.” As an added bonus, in case anyone does not get the message, they assert that “aliyah requires displacement of Palestinians and that the Ukrainians will become settlers in a settler colonial apartheid state.”
There you have it in a nutshell. All the conspiracies and lies rolled into one and neatly packaged for international consumption. What’s more, as these claims emanate from an ostensibly “Jewish” group they must be Kosher Mehadrin.
The second example comes from none other than Peter Beinart who now joins the US Executive Director of Amnesty International divorcing themselves from the necessity of a Jewish return to Zion and sovereignty. He pontificated in the Guardian (as reported by Honest Reporting) : “the USA should no longer provide Israel with military aid because doing so would make Ukraine, Taiwan and every other weaker nation bordered by a rapacious neighbour more vulnerable.” Once again smearing Israel as rapacious is guaranteed to reinforce the negative and utterly false stereotyping which already pervades the fetid minds of Israel haters and the immoral majority of the UN.
As this YouTube video demonstrates, Peter Beinart and the New Israel Fund are apparently buddies.
With friends like these who needs enemies?
The bottom line is whether we pretend that lies and threats against us, individually as Jews in Galut or collectively as Jews in our sovereign nation, are just harmless posturing or whether they represent something far more sinister.
One would hope that having ignored warning signals in the past we now realize that threats against us are best tackled before they become reality.
By
David Bedein
Research: Dr. Arnon Groiss
Palestinian Authority Schoolbooks used by UNRWA, convey a clear message: The PA , working under the aegis the PLO, show that the PA rejects any two state solution: The PA won’t recognize Israel.
Preface: the US Ambassador to Israel, Thomas Nides, Ambassador to Israel, declared on March 15, 2022, during a zoom call with Americans for Peace Now that Israel blocks the two state solution when it ads homes to Efrat in Judea and to Ramat Shlomo in Jerusalem.
Who really blocks the two state solution?
Look no further than the PA, which will not recognize Israel.
The Palestinian Authority schoolbooks, including those in UNRWA use, feature three fundamentals of non recognition of Israel, while maintaining an active war against the Jewish state; :
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Israel’s Jewish citizens are considered foreign colonialists:
“We will think and discuss: I will compare the tragedy of the Indians, America’s original inhabitants, to the tragedy of the Palestinian people.”
(Social Studies, Grade 8, Part 2 (2020) p. 34)
“The city of Jerusalem was known as ‘Jebus’ after the Arab Jebusites who built it 5000 years ago. When the Romans occupied it they named it ‘Aelia’. Later on it came to be known as ‘Al-Quds’ or ‘Bayt al-Maqdis’, after the Muslims had conquered it at the hands of Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab in 637 CE…”
(Geography and Modern and Contemporary History of Palestine, Grade 10, Part 1 (2020) p. 43)
“Chart 2: Matrix of Accomplishment Levels [The chart is read from right to left]
Subject Tested/ Good (3) Satisfactory (2) Unsatisfactory (1)
Accomplishment
Level
– – – – – – – – – – – –
– – – – – – – – – – – –
Clarifying the [The student] [The student] [The student]
Zionist gangs’ connected correctly defined correctly
goal of massacre accurately the connected the the Zionist gangs’
perpetration perpetration of thinking of goal of
Zionist massacres the Zionist gangs perpetrating
to the Jewish to their massacres
religious thinking perpetration
of massacres
(Teacher’s Guide, Geography and Modern and Contemporary History of Palestine, Grade 10 (2018) p. 164. Emphasis added)
I swear! I shall sacrifice my blood
In order to water the land of the noble ones
And remove the usurper [Israel] from my country
And exterminate the defeated remnants of the foreigners
O, land of Al-Aqsa and the holy site [haram], O, cradle of pride and nobility
Patience, patience, for victory is ours and dawn is peeping out of darkness”
(Our Beautiful Language, Grade 3, Part 2 (2019) p. 66. Emphasis added)
Note
This poem has been replaced in the 2020 edition of this textbook by another one with no expressions of extermination, probably as a result of our criticism.
This poem has been sung in class and outdoors in many schools. Following is a screenshot of the beginning of a YouTube clip by “the Group of Palestine’s Teachers”. The inscription here says: “The song of ‘The Land of the Noble Ones’, Grade 3 Elementary, Music by Rabi’ Abu Bakr”:
The link to this clip was found inaccessible on March 15, 2022 but we have an independent copy thereof: https://vimeo.com/390503872/
And see another link and its screenshot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5P7W860CTg
One cannot be sure that singing that poem has been stopped following its replacement in the schoolbook.
A new study released today by AMCHA Initiative, Faculty Academic Boycotters: Ground Zero for Campus Antisemitism, examined the unique contribution of faculty who support an academic boycott of Israel to the explosion of antisemitic activity on U.S. campuses from the onset of the Israel-Hamas War in May 2021 through the end of the school year. During this period, the incidence of campus antisemitism (455 incidents) was eight times higher than during the same 7-week period in 2020 (57 incidents), and fourteen times higher than in 2019 (32 incidents).
Much of the antisemitic activity was perpetrated by anti-Zionist students and student groups and included the harassment of Jewish and pro-Israel students, the promotion of BDS, and the use of anti-Zionist expression that demonized and delegitimized Israel or promoted its elimination as a Jewish state. However, individual faculty and academic departments also dramatically increased their anti-Zionist rhetoric and activism in the weeks following the onset of the Israel-Hamas war.
During this period, thousands of individual faculty members signed onto anti-Zionist statements that included calls for an academic boycott of Israel. Even more troubling were the wholly unprecedented anti-Zionist statements issued or endorsed by 160 academic departments at more than 120 U.S. colleges and universities, that contained rhetoric consistent with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, and, in the majority of cases, expressed support for BDS.
AMCHA’s study found that the presence and number of faculty supporters of academic BDS contributed to every measure of campus antisemitic activity during this period. In particular,
schools with five or more faculty academic boycotters were:
The study also found an extremely strong correlation between the number of faculty academic boycotters prior to the onset of the Israel-Hamas war and the surge of new faculty endorsers of academic BDS during May and June 2021, suggesting that faculty academic boycotters are successfully influencing their colleagues to embrace an academic boycott of Israel.
These results confirm and expand on AMCHA’s previous studies, providing further compelling evidence that faculty boycotters are indeed exploiting their university positions and departmental affiliations in order to bring their extramural anti-Zionist advocacy and activism onto campus, in ways that increase both student anti-Zionist activity and acts that target Jewish and pro-Israel students for harm.
As the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), which represents 3,000 primary purveyors of Israel-related courses and departmentally-sponsored events, is poised to endorse the BDS movement and its call for implementation of the US Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) guidelines, AMCHA’s latest findings about the significant contribution of faculty academic boycotters to campus antisemitism couldn’t be timelier. The study notes that what the MESA academics are about to endorse — USACBI’s rejection of the normalization of Israel in the academy — not only calls on its adherents to work towards boycotting educational programs in or about Israel and canceling or shutting down pro-Israel events and activities on campus, it also urges the censuring, denigration, protest and exclusion of pro-Israel individuals. These USACBI-encouraged actions are directly linked to behavior that harms Jewish and pro-Israel students and were the apparent motivation for the vast majority of incidents involving the harassment of Jewish and pro-Israel students that were considered in study.
AMCHA’s study emphasizes that in the absence of robust safeguards to prevent faculty from using their university positions and departmental affiliations to promote politically motivated advocacy and activism targeting Israel and its supporters, the problem will continue to grow at a rapid rate.
State and federal legislators responsible for ensuring that government monies given to institutions of higher education are used for educational purposes rather than political ones, such as the implementation of an academic boycott that intentionally subverts the educational process, are therefore urged to consider withholding funds from schools that permit faculty and departments to engage in such behavior.
The public, too, is urged to understand that unless and until colleges and universities establish safeguards against the politicization of educational spaces, their tax, tuition and donor dollars will continue to be used to promote an antisemitic academic boycott that incites enormous bigotry and threatens the safety and well-being of many students, and they are encouraged to act accordingly.
Click here to download the report: Faculty-Academic-Boycotters-Antisemitism-Report
As we’ve seen in the recent battles over the ever-shifting terms du jour sweeping the Western world, language matters.
The words we choose carry far more meaning than their literal descriptive power. Our language can reveal everything from our political leanings to the way we think about other people.
Amnesty International, the human rights group whose leader recently said Israel “shouldn’t exist as a Jewish state,” is blatantly promoting “Jew-hatred,” according to a group of influential rabbis.
Amnesty International has been facing criticism since releasing a report last month that accused Israel of waging apartheid against Palestinians and demanded that Israeli officials face prosecution in international courts for these alleged crimes.
The Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research, focuses research on the Palestinian Authority
& UNRWA, both of which foster Jihad.
The PA and UNRWA inherit polices imposed on Palestinan Arabs by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. appointed by the British Mandate 100 years ago, the very official who inspired the Jihadist charter of the Arab League – at war with Israel since 1948- along with the PLO charter- founded in 1964 with the same genocidal purpose.
UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, created in the wake of the 1948 war, runs 59 “temporary” camps , dedicated to the “right of return” by force of arms, instead of encouraging Palestinian Arabs to get on with their lives.
According to the 2022 Passia Diary, www.Passia.org., 6.7 million descendants of Arab refugees from 1948 war now live under UNRWA auspices.
UNRWA maintains a $ 1.6 billion budget – 58% of funds allocated to a school system which indocrinates the “right of return”
The UN does not fund UNRWA.
UNRWA receives direct funding – with no strings attached- from 67 nations around the world.
Lead funders are Germany, the EU,the UK, Sweden, Japan and Switzerland.
The US was until recently the lead funder of UNRWA.
However, 20 years of investigations of incitement and irregularities of UNRWA conducted by the Bedein Center brought the US to place UNRWA allocations in escrow, until UNRWA can provide the American government and the US Congress with documentation that UNRWA has curtailed incitement and produced acceptable reports of full transparency,
To counter the PLO and UNRWA war with facts on the ground, the Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research dedicates investigations, movies and well-documented data on the core issues of Israeli-Arab relations, to provide insight into the complex reality of Israel for decision makers, journalists and the general public.
To that end, the Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research commissions top-flight journalists, film makers, academics and researchers to produce investigative reports and documentary movies on Israeli-Palestinian relations, the Palestinian Authority , the media and schools of the Palestinian Authority, Palestinian Authority security force and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA).
The Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research sponsors press conferences and briefings at the US Congress, the Bundestag, the Swedish Parliament, the UK Parliament, the Canadian Parliament, the Israel Knesset, the UN Correspondents Association and all venues which impact upon public opinion, decision makers and the media.
The Center calls attention to the humanitarian plight of the Palestinian refugees in UNRWA-administered refugee camps with suggested UNRWA policy of changes, to adopt standards of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) criteria used for refugee rehabilitation worldwide.
The UK branch of the Bedein Center will challenge the UK as an UNRWA donor nation to not grant funds to UNRWA without vigorous due diligence
March 14, 2022
The Hon. Diane Corner,
Consulate General of The United Kingdom of Great Britain
Your Excellency,
The Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research has discerned the presence of massive arms in UNRWA facilities.
This is demonstrated in several documentaries which the Bedein Center has produced in the last year alone.*
The Bedein Center asks one question of you as a diplomat from an UNRWA donor nation.
Will you, as an UNRWA donor nation, ask UNRWA to conduct an inspection of all facilities to remove lethal weapons?
The urgency of this message is that security sources indicate that violence may break out in UNRWA facilities at the end of March, which coincides with Land-Day on March 30th and the dawn of Ramadan on March 31st.
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“UNRWA Ignites Jerusalem” – Indoctrination of UNRWA population to challenge Jewish sovereignty in Jerusalem (2022)
Hamas’ “Islamic Bloc” in UNRWA schools in the Gaza strip (2022)
Hamas’ “Islamic Bloc” in UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip – Activities & Modus Operandi
“Fatah Day 2022” – Violent Riots in UNRWA Deheishe Refugee Camp (2022)
“UNRWA Child Soldier” – Summer Camp & Paramilitary Training of UNRWA students (2021)
“Terror of Return” – UNRWA Summer Camp Indoctrination (2018)
“UNRWA Goes to War” – Militarization of UNRWA (2014)
Introduction
The Palestinian Authority schoolbooks, including those ones in UNRWA use, feature 3 fundamentals in the context of the conflict:
1. De-legitimization of Israel’s existence and the Jews’ very presence in the country, including the denial of their history and the existence of any Jewish holy places there.
2. Demonization of both Israel and Jews, also religiously – with serious implications regarding the Jews’ image in the eyes of children who come from a traditional society.
3. The absence of call for peace with Israel. Instead, there is a call for a violent struggle for the liberation of the whole country, including pre-1967 Israel.
This struggle is given a religious color and terror is made an integral part thereof, with the accompanying meaning of encouraging the murder of Jews.
This paper focuses on the attitude of the Palestinian schoolbooks to Jews only. It does not elaborate on these books’ attitude to Israel as a state and to the methods of the war against it.
Click here to download full document Jews in Palestinian Authority Schoolbooks in UNRWA Use
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