Archive for the ‘'Palestine'’ Category

The far-left know all too well that the old adage ‘catch ‘em young’ is particularly applicable to marketing Jew hatred dressed up as ‘anti-Zionism’ to impressionable students, as their annual ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ propaganda exercise gears up:

LONDON – A filmmaker, anthropologist and economic researcher are among those headlining events marking what pro-Palestinian organisers have declared as “Israeli Apartheid Week” – and all three speakers are Israeli.

University campuses in more than 40 cities around the world are marking the week with lectures, films, multimedia events, cultural performances and demonstrations.

Since they were first launched in 2005, the events have become some of “the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar,” according to its organisers. Read the rest of this entry »

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The proxy Jihad unrest over housing in East Jerusalem we touched on briefly last summer shows no signs of letting up. As the report below from today’s Jerusalem Post shows, tensions are still high; and riots and fighting are almost daily occurrences.

But what you probably don’t know is who’s pulling the strings. And, as the recent (and unsurprisingly completely slanted) video from the BBC’s Panorama programme above illustrates, it’s extremely unlikely you’d get to find out if you relied on the mainstream media:

The Shuafat refugee camp was the scene of renewed rioting on Tuesday, a day after clashes between young Palestinian residents and security forces in the sprawling east Jerusalem neighbourhood left four police officers and a border policeman lightly injured.

No injuries were reported by police on Tuesday afternoon. However, nine Palestinians were arrested for throwing rocks at security forces during the renewed clashes, bringing the total number of arrests in Shuafat over the past two days to 34. Read the rest of this entry »

Disturbing, eye-opening documentary footage detailing the slow-motion annihilation of one of the world’s oldest Christian communities (hat tip to Claudia at the excellent Tea & Politics).

To a greater or lesser degree, this is what Christian communities suffer in virtually every Muslim country on the planet – but nowhere is Islamic supremacism brought into such sharp relief as when it occurs here – in the home of victimology. Show it to everyone you know.

Apparently, Muslims have taken to the streets of Jakarta today to protest at  Egypt’s efforts to assist Israel in the prevention of weapons smuggling via border tunnels:

More than 200 Indonesian Muslims protested in Jakarta Sunday against an underground wall being built to block a network of tunnels crossing Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip.

The demonstrators from the Voice of Palestine support group carried banners reading “Stop Building Steel Wall on Gaza” and chanted “Die America, Die Egypt” in front of the Egyptian embassy.

After years of ignoring the tunnel smuggling — which is used to bypass Israeli sanctions — Egypt began building the wall after falling out with Hamas, the Islamist movement which rules Gaza.

“We demand Egypt to remove the wall on humanitarian grounds. Erecting the wall will cause the Palestinians to suffer economically. Food supply will be affected,” the group’s coordinator, Hisyam Sulaiman, 42, told AFP.

The network, which Hamas has been accused of using to smuggle weapons into the territory, has withstood Israeli air strikes and Egyptian attempts to flood the tunnels with water and gas.

Citing national security, Egypt is now building an underground iron wall in a bid to tighten its Sinai border with the restive Palestinian territory.

The United States has voiced its support for the wall’s construction, saying it will stop arms smuggling.Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, with 234 million people, is a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause.

We can’t help wondering whether these Jakartans, apparently protesting ‘economic suffering’ (in an area that is one of the worlds largest recipients of foreign aid and donations), were the same Indonesian Muslims that conspire to have churches closed down enlisting the help of sympathetic bureucrats, or just go in and smash them up?

[Source: AFP]

Think again. Take a look at the picture above, showing decals of a van from Filistin Konvoyu, the Turkish contingent of Viva Palestina, the organisation that sends convoys of ‘humanitarian aid’ to Gaza- already one of the largest recipients of international aid on the planet. Nice catapult.

George Galloway, take a bow – you  must be so very proud.

As George Galloway and his band of Useful Idiots troll their way around the edges of Israel land the Red Sea today, trying to get into Gaza with their terrorist-supporting propaganda-driven Viva Palestina ‘aid’ campaign today, the ‘Palestinian’ media themselves have made a major slip.

The pictures referred to by the article below certainly give the lie to the image of Gaza painted by the Leftwing/Islamist alliance – and because of a supine, anti-Israel media, this is also the impression most ordinary people have been forced to form; due to the scarcity of opposing information. These two tiny slivers of land within a tiny country (Israel is barely itself the size of Wales) receive one of the highest levels of aid in the world.

The Arabic-language PalToday website, based in Gaza, recently posted pictures showing a world of plenty for residents, despite more than two years of reports that the area is suffering from a humanitarian crisis. However, its English website for foreign audiences showed a picture of misery, focusing on a girl who wanted her terrorist father freed by Israel.

The pictures on the Arabic-language site were posted for the Eid al Adha Muslim festival, which recalls the forefather Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son, who the Bible states was Isaac. The Muslim tradition substitutes Ishmael, father of the Arab peoples, for Isaac. IsraelNN has the full story.

An arrest warrant obtained by a group of far left and Jihadi-sympathising lawyers once again prevents a senior figure from a nation allied with Britain from visiting the country:

The Foreign Ministry on Tuesday called for an end to the “absurd situation” in which arrest warrants were being issued to Israeli officials over alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

“Only actions can put an end to this absurd situation, which would have seemed a comedy of errors were it not so serious,” said the Foreign Ministry, a day after it emerged that opposition leader Tzipi Livni had canceled her trip to Britain after a warrant was issued for her arrest. Read the rest of this entry »

A Hanukkah gift from the British government to the people of Israel. Enable and encourage boycott – then deny boycott. Fairly typical New Labour anti-Israel tactics, which should please (and was possibly initiated by) its leftist Union paymasters:

The government’s recommendation is not a legal requirement but does increase the prospects of a consumer boycott of products from those territories.

Israeli officials and settler leaders have criticised the decision.

Until now, food has been simply labelled “Produce of the West Bank”, but the new, voluntary guidance issued by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), says labels could give more precise information, like “Israeli settlement produce” or “Palestinian produce”, the Guardian reports. Read the rest of this entry »

The Brothers are at it (their long-ingrained anti-Semitism) again:

[The Scottish Trade Union Congress] asked fans of the Celtic Football Club to wave Palestinian flags during Wednesday’s match with the Israeli football team Hapoel Tel Aviv in the city of Glasgow.

British media said that the Scottish Trade Union Congress had asked Celtic supporters to “show solidarity with suffering Palestinians” at the Europa League game.

Celtic – whose fans often wave Irish flags because of their historic ties with Ireland and the Roman Catholic community – urged their supporters to ignore the call. Read the rest of this entry »

For those that ever wondered why Israel has stringent checkpoints (or have criticised her for having them), between herself and ‘Palestine’. WARNING – although not particularly graphic, the footage is nonetheless disturbing:

A video posted on the Youtube video sharing website shows a young Palestinian woman stabbing a security guard at the Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem.

The attack took place on October 25. A female terrorist in her 20s pulled out a knife she had been hiding in her clothes and stabbed one of the security guards at the checkpoint in his lower abdomen.

The two-minute video shows the guards checking the woman’s items in an x-ray machine. When shift their gaze from her for a moment, she seizes the opportunity to quickly pull out a knife and attack. Read the rest of this entry »