Nederland oorverdovend stil over antisemitisme

 

Onderstaande aanklacht tegen Nederland is geheel terecht, maar ik heb wel de indruk dat politiek en media een klein beetje aan het wakker worden zijn. Laat, erg laat, rijkelijk laat en schandalig laat, maar beter laat dan nooit.

 

Een land dat het belagen en demoniseren van de eigen burgers goedpraat door dit een 'begrijpelijke reactie' te noemen op wat een ander land doet, verliest elk recht om andere landen op de vingers te tikken.

 

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Den Haag is oorverdovend stil over antisemitisme

http://www.israned.com/2010/06/den-haag-is-oorverdovend-stil-over.html

Eerder gepubliceerd in de opiniesectie van de Volkskrant

Een samenleving die toelaat dat een hele groep burgers wordt gedwongen zich te verbergen, op straffe van uitschelden of erger, ondergraaft zichzelf

Prima idee van kamerlid Ahmed Marcouch om antisemitische scheldpartijen op straat flink te gaan aanpakken, desnoods met 'lokjoden'. Naast lessen over de holocaust is dit één van de maatregelen die het aantal scheldpartijen kan verminderen: daders lopen dan het risico onmiddellijk te worden ingerekend.

Over tijd
Het is hoog tijd dat er maatregelen worden getroffen, eigenlijk over tijd. Het Simon Wiesenthal Centrum drong onlangs bij de EU aan op  'ingrijpen in de oplaaiende epidemie van antisemitische uitingen in Nederland'. Dit is tekenend voor de situatie, al heeft het Centrum het in zoverre mis, dat het geen oplaaiende epidemie in Nederland is. Het is een slopend proces waartegen CIDI al tien jaar waarschuwt.

In 1999 signaleerde CIDI voor het eerst in de jaarlijkse monitor antisemitisme dat 'zichtbare' Joden vaak lastig werden gevallen op straat: 'Een Joodse inwoner van Amsterdam-Zuid meldt dat hij regelmatig door kinderen uit de buurt wordt uitgescholden voor Jood. De politie is op de hoogte.' En: 'Een Joodse jongen wordt lastig gevallen in een discotheek in Oude Wetering. Als hij naar buiten gaat, wordt hij in elkaar geslagen. De daders roepen daarbij 'Jood, Jood'.' In de aangifte wordt niet opgenomen dat er sprake is van antisemitisme.

In 2000, na een opmerkelijk aantal van zulke incidenten, waarschuwt CIDI: 'Er lijkt sprake te zijn van een gewenningsproces, dat verband zou kunnen houden met de mate waarin de politie optreedt en grenzen stelt aan wat maatschappelijk aanvaardbaar wordt gevonden. (..) de politie is soms niet genegen om aangifte op te nemen. Dat kan zelfs zo ver gaan, dat een politiebeambte een slachtoffer van een antisemitische scheldpartij meedeelt dat pas aangifte gedaan kan worden indien de dader bekend is.'

Zichtbare Joden
In 2001 – het aantal meldingen van lastig vallen van 'zichtbare Joden' was weer gestegen - begint de Monitor zo: 'Uit de geringe maatschappelijke reactie op de uitingen van antisemitisme moet geconcludeerd worden, dat er binnen de samenleving een gewenningsproces is opgetreden.'

De monitor memoreert 'het gemak waarmee antisemitisme geuit wordt, de bedreigingen tegen Joden, en de onvoldoende reactie van regering, justitie en politie' en zegt: 'In de meeste CIDI-rapportages over antisemitisme hebben wij aanbevelingen gedaan dat politie en justitie strenger dienen op te treden tegen antisemitisme.

Deze zijn vrijwel nooit op een consistente wijze opgevolgd. Het is nu hoog tijd.'

Intussen werden 'bij de synagogen in de Lekstraat en Amsterdam-West de synagoge-bezoekers bijna wekelijks lastig gevallen door Marokkanen tussen de 15 en 40 jaar. Zij schelden hen uit voor 'vuile rot-Joden'.' Soms werden de bezoekers bedreigd met messen en bekogeld met stenen en andere voorwerpen. Monitor: 'Soms worden slachtoffers van antisemitische incidenten zo murw dat ze deze niet meer melden.'

Scheldpartijen
Zo ging het door, jaar na jaar. Ook in perioden waarin het aantal meldingen in het algemeen daalde, bleven de scheldpartijen. Ze bleven bijna zonder uitzondering onbestraft. Er is nooit consistent naar een antwoord gezocht. Er is lafhartig weggekeken. Zelfs zodanig dat de politie in Amsterdam plotseling geen cijfers meer gaf over het aantal aangiften van antisemitisme. Mogelijk zou het beeld te negatief worden. Hoe kan er nog iemand verbaasd zijn dat nog maar weinig Joden zich met keppel op straat wagen?

Een samenleving die toelaat dat een hele groep burgers wordt gedwongen zich te verbergen, op straffe van uitschelden of erger, ondergraaft zichzelf. Dat schaadt niet alleen die ene belaagde groep. Een 'beschaving' die niet in staat of bereid is belaagde groepen tegen hun medeburgers te beschermen, verspeelt elk recht zich zo te noemen. Een land dat het belagen en demoniseren van de eigen burgers goedpraat door dit een 'begrijpelijke reactie' te noemen op wat een ander land doet, verliest elk recht om andere landen op de vingers te tikken.

Stilte
De stilte die volgde op de hartstochtelijke oproep van Ahmed Marcouch en de documentaire van de Joodse Omroep, die bevestigde wat we al zo lang wisten, is oorverdovend. De kabinetsformatie alleen kan hiervoor geen reden zijn. Veel politici lijken het te hebben opgegeven de problemen echt aan te pakken.

Zo polderen we maar door, tot het te laat is en het opgeheven vingertje waarop we stilletjes altijd trots waren, internationaal wordt weggehoond. Weggehoond omdat we in Nederland niet in staat zijn gebleken alle inwoners, van welke afkomst ook, te beschermen. En omdat onze samenleving steeds meer verscheurd raakt door etnische tegenstellingen.

 

Elise Friedmann is researcher antisemitisme bij CIDI

 

 

Gaza: Hamas blijft bezoek Rode Kruis aan Gilad Shalit weigeren

 

"One of our main achievements is that we have been able to visit nearly everyone detained in connection to this conflict, with the exception of Gilad Shalit," Pierre Dorbes, deputy head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Israel and the Occupied Territories, told Haaretz on Tuesday, adding that he felt talks to free Shalit are deadlocked.

 

Nu Israel de Gaza blokkade heeft versoepeld zou een tegengebaar van de EU, de VS en de VN wel op zijn plaats zijn: maak van de vrijlating van Shalit een breekpunt, dreig met sancties tegen Hamas als het geen bezoek van het Rode Kruis toelaat, vraag bemiddelaars als Egypte er bij Hamas op aan te dringen dat het zijn standpunt herziet, etc.

 

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Hamas: We won't let Red Cross visit Shalit

Latest update 11:06 23.06.10

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/hamas-we-won-t-let-red-cross-visit-shalit-1.297859

Hamas official says visitation denied for fear it might lead Israel to try to free abducted IDF soldier in military operation.

By Haaretz Service and The Associated Press

 

 

Hamas has rejected the latest request from the International Red Cross to visit abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, Israel Radio reported on Wednesday.

Hamas denied the request for fear that the visit might lead Israel to try to free Shalit in a military operation, according to Hamas lawmaker Yehia Moussa, who told a Hamas newspaper that the Red Cross did not take the military reality in the Middle East into account when it made the request.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said it has approached Hamas a number of times to allow its representatives to visit the kidnapped soldier in Gaza, only to be denied time after time.

"One of our main achievements is that we have been able to visit nearly everyone detained in connection to this conflict, with the exception of Gilad Shalit," Pierre Dorbes, deputy head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Israel and the Occupied Territories, told Haaretz on Tuesday, adding that he felt talks to free Shalit are deadlocked.

Meanwhile, Shalit's grandfather, Zvi Shalit, met with Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem Tuesday. Following the meeting, which was also attended by top Shalit negotiator Haggai Hadas as well as Netanyahu's military secretary, Brig. Gen. Yohanan Locker, the 85-year-old told Haaretz that the meeting was strained and fraught with disagreements.

The elder Shalit had to wait for three hours before Netanyahu was able to see him, as the prime minister's schedule shifted around the budget votes.

"I spoke [to Netanyahu] as a human being and as a grandfather who wants to see his grandson return home after four years [in captivity]. I told Netanyahu the conduct over this matter was not satisfactory and he said that yes, it was," he added.

Although Netanyahu did not issue a statement about the content of the meeting, nor did he allow photographers to be present, his office did comment Tuesday on the three-hour delay in the meeting.

Next week, the Shalits are hoping to join thousands of supporters, including supermodel Bar Refaeli and dozens of other local celebrities, on a cross-country march for Gilad's release.

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is holding a special concert near the Gaza border — conducted by renowned conductor Zubin Mehta — to call for Shalit's release.

Shalit's parents have pledged to camp outside the prime minister's residence until their son is freed from captivity.

Liat Collins: Wie komt op voor de vrijheid van de Gazanen?

 

When I mentioned to friends and colleagues my "think roses not guns" idea regarding the ships, it raised a smile, but, with more vessels on the way, I still think it's worth considering. I suggested Israel physically block the boats so that it would be the so-called peace seekers who'd have to ram Israeli ships rather than the Israelis "attacking" them. And then, instead of sending soldiers rappelling down onto the decks – where it was clear that they would not be met with hugs – I proposed that Israel bombard them with pamphlets informing them about Hamas-dominated life in Gaza, the missile attacks on Sderot and the South and the fate of Gilad Schalit. And I suggested we should drop quantities of roses on the participants. Bloodshed would be limited to the occasional prick (you can interpret that any way you like) while the cameras would have a decent image to spread around the world – not more warlike Israeli soldiers. Roses – the sweet smell of non-defeat.

 

Een geweldig idee, al zou het door de media als bewijs van de sluwe Israelische propagandamachine worden neergezet, en zou het niet doorlaten van de hulp als crimineel worden bestempeld door de diverse Israel veroordelende lichamen.

 

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My Word: Free thinking
By LIAT COLLINS
06/06/2010  
It's not Israel that is curtailing freedom in Gaza.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=177583

I have decided to join the Free Gaza movement. My first goal is to make sure that every last Israeli soldier leaves Gaza. Well, admittedly there is only one IDF soldier there, but it has been proving very hard to get Gilad Schalit out. If we can persuade Hamas to release Schalit four years after it abducted him, Gaza will be free of an Israeli military presence. This won't be easy, especially because even the human rights activists willing to risk their lives to reach Gaza weren't prepared to ask that Schalit be allowed to meet with Red Cross officials or receive a care package from his family.

 

Next, I want the women of Gaza to feel free. I'm not known for either my feminism or my dress sense but I can see that a state in which Hamas heavies are forcing schoolgirls to cover up cannot be healthy.

 

Again, I might be fighting a losing battle: Almost lost among the media coverage of the May 31 flotilla affair – with its nine fatalities – was an item on the five brave women journalists who quit Al Jazeera rather than give in to the Qatar-based network's demands that they wear head scarves and forgo makeup.

 

Also, it is clear to me (although not apparently to the flotilla's participants) that parents should be free to choose which summer camp their kids attend. Last month, masked gunmen torched the premises of a UN-run summer camp in Gaza and left behind three bullets and a note threatening to kill top UN aid officials unless they cancel activities for some 250,000 Gaza children. Hamas runs its own summer camps, which seem to stress militancy for boys and modesty for girls but are a little lacking in the arts and crafts department.

 

I used to have contacts in Gaza, but they were associated with Fatah rather than Hamas and they've disappeared: At least one escaped to the West Bank when Hamas took over; those who remain are wary of being openly in touch with Israeli journalists (modestly dressed female or otherwise). That could be because Hamas has a history of executing people it suspects of links with the Zionists. OK, on a good day, they might settle for "kneecapping."

 

IN FACT it strikes me that while the nearly 700 participants of the now-famous flotilla were struggling to get into Gaza – unwilling to accept Israel's offer to pass on their humanitarian aid instead of them delivering it personally – thousands of Gazans would do almost anything to get out. And it's not because of the Israeli-Egyptian blockade: It's because Hamastan does not give a damn about human rights and is not a nice place to live.

 

Although it might be all right if you're not a woman and belong to the right family. Ahead of the flotilla's departure, the Israel Government Press Office released details of the other side of life in the Strip. Like many journalists, I found the tone patronizing but couldn't help but be intrigued by the information that Gaza recently opened an Olympic-size swimming pool.

 

Since I'm involved in the struggle to keep open Jerusalem's only Olympic-size pool (under threat by real-estate developers), I'm wondering if I can pick up some tips on nonviolent ways to handle the campaign. When I say "nonviolent," that means I rule out the use of guns, knives, baseball bats and Molotov cocktails – which I admit is a little limiting in view of the methods used by the "peace lovers" aboard the Mavi Marmara.

 

I actually feel sorry for some of the flotilla's participants. The pure-hearted, naive pro-peace camp was taken for a ride by the Islamic anti-Israel organizers and ended up in the same boat, as it were, or at least the same flotilla. But the growing red-green alliance (in which the far Left has joined with the Islamists) is a strange one, and I'm not surprised the result is a dirty brown.

 

Incidentally, Hamas is now keeping the "humanitarian aid" from entering Gaza from Israel – so much for the desperate Gazans.

 

I DON'T BLAME the navy for what Post editor-in-chief David Horovitz summed up as the "flotilla fiasco." There is something extraordinarily pathetic in the way the naval commandos – trained for war but told they'd be facing peaceniks – boarded the ships armed with paint guns. The government – led by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak – ordered an operation which Israel could not win. Undoubtedly they were influenced by the famous (and successful) operations of their younger days: liberating the hijacked Sabena plane, for example. But not all real war is fought on the ground, at sea or in the skies any more. It's waged in cyberspace and the world media.

 

When I mentioned to friends and colleagues my "think roses not guns" idea regarding the ships, it raised a smile, but, with more vessels on the way, I still think it's worth considering. I suggested Israel physically block the boats so that it would be the so-called peace seekers who'd have to ram Israeli ships rather than the Israelis "attacking" them. And then, instead of sending soldiers rappelling down onto the decks – where it was clear that they would not be met with hugs – I proposed that Israel bombard them with pamphlets informing them about Hamas-dominated life in Gaza, the missile attacks on Sderot and the South and the fate of Gilad Schalit. And I suggested we should drop quantities of roses on the participants. Bloodshed would be limited to the occasional prick (you can interpret that any way you like) while the cameras would have a decent image to spread around the world – not more warlike Israeli soldiers. Roses – the sweet smell of non-defeat.

 

I doubt it would have persuaded many on the ships to change their opinions of Israelis, but it would have prevented the sickening waves of international condemnation screened on Israeli TV alongside the footage of soldiers being beaten, stabbed and in at least one case thrown from the deck of the Mavi Marmara by the ostensibly nonviolent protesters.

 

On a visit to Dublin a few years ago, I participated in a literary pub crawl. Irish peace supporters on the next boats might be warned that they can't drink alcohol in public in Gaza.

 

During a visit to Istanbul in 2004, a year after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power, life seemed easygoing: Turkey had just won the Eurovision Song Contest, the nightclubs were pulsating, the cultural life was thriving.

 

Turks – and the rest of the world – might wonder about the implications of Erdogan choosing to ally himself firmly with the likes of Hamas, Syria and Iran. When the country goes to the polls again next year, voters should consider whether they want the sort of freedom they were enjoying when Erdogan first came to power or the type of Islamist restrictions and repression the prime minister's allies prefer.

 

Meanwhile in Israel, a free people is making the most of life – albeit under a high security alert. Tel Aviv is holding a beer festival; Jerusalem is celebrating the 49th Israel Festival; Sderot (missiles notwithstanding) is the venue of its annual international film festival; and Hebrew Book Week events are taking place across the country. So it's not all bad news.

 

And at least Israel has united the global village like nothing else, with perhaps the exception of the World Cup. Too bad we know what it's like to be the ball.

 

The writer is the editor of The International Jerusalem Post. liat@jpost.com

 

Palestijnse kinderen bezingen het martelaarschap

We berichtten er al eerder over, maar het heeft nu ook de Haaretz gehaald. Of het ook in de Nederlandse media zal doordringen is natuurlijk nogal twijfelachtig.

 

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New hit song for Palestinian children: When we die as martyrs
'Birds of Paradise' produces song in which children welcome death to regain Palestine.
By Haaretz Service

http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/new-hit-song-for-palestinian-children-when-we-die-as-martyrs-1.297731

Latest update 11:34 23.06.10

 

 

An Arabic children's choir has been racking up views all over the world with the new YouTube hit "when we die as martyrs, we will go to heaven."

 

The song was apparently recorded by the Jordanian-owned production company and television channel "birds of Paradise."

 

According to The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), one of the world's most comprehensive data centers on radical Islamic terrorist groups, the song is a hit on Arabic and worldwide websites and the children's choir performing it fast is becoming one of the most popular children's groups in the Arab world.

 

In the video clip, which can be viewed on the popular video sharing site YouTube, a young brown-eyed girl sings in front of what seems to be a group of children in pre-school the lyrics "Without Palestine, what does childhood mean?"

 

YouTube has already received dozens of spin-offs and remakes of the video, some of which depict Arabic children mimicking the lyrics while others show Jihadists using it as background music.

 

Journalist Fawzia Nasir al-Naeem wrote in the Saudi Arabian newspaper Al-Jazirah that "[Birds of Paradise] is one of the most widely distributed children's song groups in the Arab world, and it seems to have crossed the ocean to Canada and Britain."

 

She added that the group represents a new wave in Jihadist youth indoctrination, as it is child-friendly, as opposed to previous Jihadist programs.

 

 

Boottocht voor bevrijding Gilad Shalit

Het is tijd voor een grote vloot om de ontvoerde Israelische soldaat Gilad Shalit te bevrijden. Verwacht niet dat de Hamas pas met scherp gaat schieten nadat zes van hun mensen gewond op de grond liggen en verwacht ook niet dat ze de gewonden van jouw kant in hun ziekenhuizen zullen behandelen. Verwacht verder geen internationale steun, geen media hype, geen veroordelingen van Hamas door de VN, de EU, en talloze andere landen en instanties. Het is, kortom, wat ondankbaarder dan 'vredesactivist' zijn voor de 'Free Gaza Movement'.

 

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Conference of Presidents

of Major American Jewish Organizations

URGENT URGENT

We are setting sail to Free Gilad Shalit.  Arrangements have been finalized for the departures, Thursday, June 24^th, 2010 at noon from Pier 40, located at Houston Street and the West Side Highway.  Please arrive promptly at 11:30am. Advance registrations are essential. 

Drinks will be available for purchase on the boats.  The boats are large and can accommodate significant numbers of people so you are welcome to bring members and family including children.  Signs will be provided but you are invited to bring your own with your organizational logo. 

Again, if you know of people with any size craft including sail boats who can join us as we sail on the East River to the United Nations please contact the Conference of Presidents office immediately at 212-318-6111.

Please confirm your participation by completing this electronic form

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGdpSzRvNnVLbVlUbjhTWHVYeVYwRGc6MQ

Please join us for this very special demonstration on behalf of Gilad Shalit.

Kritiek Turkije op Israel meer dan hypocriet

 

Dat Turkije tonnen boter op zijn hoofd heeft, wisten we natuurlijk al, maar onderstaand bericht maakt dat nog eens goed duidelijk. Turkije had met haar grote rol in de Gaza vloot bewust op de confrontatie aangestuurd, en het op die manier provoceren van een bevriende natie is hoogst ongepast. Je zou het zelfs als inmenging van Turkije in het conflict van Israel met Hamas kunnen zien.

 

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While criticizing Israel, Turkey kills Kurds

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=21363

Many in the international community, including mainstream media outlets, have labeled Turkey's reaction to Israel's interception of a so-called "aid" flotilla to the Gaza Strip a few weeks ago as exaggerated. The latest news out of Turkey reveals that the criticism against Israel is also highly hypocritical.

Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdogan blasted Israel over the deaths of nine activists aboard one of the flotilla ships after they attacked the Israeli boarding party. He accused Israel of crimes against humanity, and has led the international charge for an investigation and sanctions against the Jewish state. Erdogan's government has decided to downgrade relations with Israel over the incident.

Since the flotilla raid, Turkey has engaged in its own "war on terror" with little or no attention from the international community, and certainly no calls for independent commissions of inquiry.

On the same day as the flotilla raid, Kurdish rebels attacked a Turkish naval base, killing 12 soldiers. Last week, Erdogan's government responded with air strikes on Kurdish positions in northern Iraq that killed 120 people, including a 7-year-old girl.

There were no condemnations of Turkey for using "disproportionate" force, and no UN Security Council meetings regarding the latest flare-up of a 26-year conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people.

Some 30 million Kurds live in adjoining portions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. Together, these areas make up Kurdistan, the ancient homeland of the Kurdish people, a distinct ethnic group without a country of their own.

For decades, Turkey has oppressed its Kurdish minority of 14 million people by forbidding the use of the Kurdish language and other symbols of national identity in state schools and government institutions. A Kurdish parliamentarian, Layla Zana, was expelled from parliament in 1994 and imprisoned a year later for daring to utter a single sentence in Kurdish from the podium.

 

Haaretz: Nederlandse politie undercover als Haredi joden om antisemieten te vangen?

 

We hebben de Haaretz weer eens gehaald, en dat is meestal geen goed teken. Het positieve nieuws is dat er om een of andere reden eindelijk aandacht lijkt te zijn voor het groeiende antisemitisme, en het feit dat Joden niet meer met een keppel over straat kunnen en synagoges onherkenbaar (en streng beveiligd) moeten zijn. Gisteren besteedde Netwerk er aandacht aan, en vorige week had de NRC er een artikel over. Het probleem lijkt dus eindelijk serieus te worden genomen. De volgende vraag is wat eraan te doen. Hopelijk wordt het niet geheel losgezongen van de doorgedraaide kritiek op Israel en de delegitimatiecampagne tegen haar, en laat men het niet bij een paar projecten die Marokkanen moeten leren dat niet alle Joden wrede zionisten zijn en niet alle Joden achter Israel staan. Het gaat er immers juist om dat ze leren dat een Jood het volste recht heeft achter Israel te staan en daar openlijk voor uit te komen.

 

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http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/are-dutch-police-going-undercover-as-haredi-jews-1.297244

Are Dutch police going undercover as Haredi Jews?
Initiative for undercover cops to dress as ultra-Orthodox comes in wake of frequent attacks against Jews by Moroccan immigrants.

By Cnaan Liphshiz

 

 

Dutch police may employ undercover agents disguised as religious Jews to expose and arrest violent anti-Semites, a police spokesperson said last week.

The initiative was first proposed by a Dutch Muslim legislator in response to reports of frequent attacks against Jews by Moroccan immigrants. Prominent figures from the country's Jewish community said they supported the plan.

Over the past few years, Dutch politicians have been debating the use of undercover police officers posing as gay couples as a means to draw out serial perpetrators of attacks against gays, from the Muslim community and from the general population.

 

In a radio interview on Wednesday for Radio BNR, Ahmed Marcouch – a Moroccan-born member of Labor who immigrated to Holland when he was 10 – said: "I say send fake Jews to arrest the attackers. Everything must be done to keep this phenomenon from growing. It seems like small incidents, but this is serious."

 

The Center for Information and Documentation Israel, an influential nongovernmental watchdog on anti-Semitism, announced on Thursday that it supported the initiative. "It has become common for Jews to hide their skull-caps on the street," said Ronny Naftaniel, who heads the center, known in Holland by its initials, CIDI. He added that Marchouch's "liberal views have cost him in the past the support of voters from the Moroccan community."

 

During the first month of 2009, the center documented 98 anti-Semitic incidents, which almost equaled the total of such attacks in 2008. Holland's chief rabbi, Binyamin Jacobs, told Haaretz he recently witnessed unidentified persons who tried to disrupt a memorial service for Jews murdered in the Holocaust by shouting Nazi slogans.

 

"The new initiative is the expression of desperation about the failure of Dutch police to make progress with regard to the widespread and aggressive anti-Semitism among Muslims in Amsterdam – a heritage left behind by Amsterdam's former mayor, Job Cohen," said Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, a Dutch-Israeli researcher of anti-Semitism and chairman of the Board of Fellows of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

 

Marcouch entered parliament as candidate 15 on Labor's list under the party's chairman, Job Cohen. Marcouch told Haaretz that he believed the best way to fight anti-Semitism among Muslim immigrants was by putting greater emphasis on Holocaust studies in schools with many immigrant pupils.

 

"Hate and anti-Semitism is sometimes can be addressed together through education," explained Marcouch, a leading member in the Jewish-Moroccan Network of Amsterdam – a forum which CIDI and Cohen helped create in 2006 to promote dialog between the two communities.

 

"It is in the family that one needs to be alert, and to eliminate anti-Semitism," Marcouch added. "And the way to do this is through education about what hatred of the other can lead to. Strong police intervention is important because no one must suffer violence, but in parallel we need to inform children so they don't harbor anti-Semitic feelings."

 

 

Antisemitische Libanese zakenman sponsort nieuwe 'Free Gaza' boot met vrouwen aan boord

 

Meanwhile, Yasser Kashlak, a Syrian businessman of Palestinian descent who heads the "Free Palestine Organization" and is funding this boat, as well as another that is to carry journalists and parliamentarians, said over the weekend on Hizbullah's al-Manar television station that he was more and more optimistic that one day these same boats would take "Europe's refuse [the Jews] that came to my homeland back to their homelands.

"Gilad Schalit should go back to Paris and those murderers go back to Poland, and after that we will chase them until the ends of the earth to bring them to justice for their acts of slaughter from Deir Yassin until today." Kashlak, a fervent Hizbullah supporter, called Israel a "rabid dog sent to the region to frighten the Arabs. He said he had a message for Israelis: 'Get on the ships we are sending you and go back to your lands. Don't let the moderate Arab leaders delude you, [you] cannot make peace with us. Our children will return to Palestine, you have no reason for coexistence. Even if our leaders will sign a peace agreement, we will not sign.'" He said the boat carrying journalists and parliamentarians will carry 12 former American diplomats as well..

 

Dit behoeft verder geen commentaar. Wie nu nog gelooft dat de "Free Gaza Organization" vrede wil gelooft waarschijnlijk ook nog steeds in Sinterklaas, kaboutertjes en marsmannetjes.

 

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The Jerusalem Post
Women are the 'secret weapon'
By HERB KEINON AND TOVAH LAZAROFF
06/20/2010 02:34
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=178935


Organizer of flotilla: "thieving enemy" won't use arms against women.

Women are "the new secret weapon" in use against the "thieving enemy," said Samar Alhaj, the woman leading the Lebanese boat that is scheduled to try to break the naval blockade on Gaza in an interview with a regional Israeli Arabic-language radio station in Nazareth. The Israeli government has linked the boat to Hizbullah "

Asked on Radio A-Shams by Zohair Bahloul why the ship, Mariam, would only be carrying women, she said, "We are women in order not to give the thieving enemy an excuse to use arms against the ship." She said the ship would be carrying cancer medication for children, and women suffering from breast cancer and cancer of the uterus due to "chemical bombs" dropped on Gaza by Israel.

Alhaj is the wife of an officer in the Lebanese security service who was jailed for four years for alleged involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Alhaj and her husband met with Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah on May 22.

Speaking of Israel, she said, "the entity that was not defeated will be defeated by women that will come on the boat. Our weapon is cancer medication.

We don't have scud missiles or any other missiles, and you will see what they will do to us."

Alhaj said that the boat will have some 50 women, "more Christians than Muslims," and will be coming from Lebanon, the US, France, Britain, Japan, Kuwait and Egypt.

Bahloul, who said it was a great honor to talk to such an "impressive woman," ended the interview by saying "Allah should watch over you and grant you success."

Meanwhile, Yasser Kashlak, a Syrian businessman of Palestinian descent who heads the "Free Palestine Organization" and is funding this boat, as well as another that is to carry journalists and parliamentarians, said over the weekend on Hizbullah's al-Manar television station that he was more and more optimistic that one day these same boats would take "Europe's refuse [the Jews] that came to my homeland back to their homelands.

"Gilad Schalit should go back to Paris and those murderers go back to Poland, and after that we will chase them until the ends of the earth to bring them to justice for their acts of slaughter from Deir Yassin until today." Kashlak, a fervent Hizbullah supporter, called Israel a "rabid dog sent to the region to frighten the Arabs. He said he had a message for Israelis: 'Get on the ships we are sending you and go back to your lands. Don't let the moderate Arab leaders delude you, [you] cannot make peace with us. Our children will return to Palestine, you have no reason for coexistence. Even if our leaders will sign a peace agreement, we will not sign.'" He said the boat carrying journalists and parliamentarians will carry 12 former American diplomats as well..

Israel will use all means necessary to stop the boats

Israel, meanwhile, has threatened to use all means necessary to stop the boats from Lebanon from breaking Gaza's naval blockade as its diplomats appealed to the international community to prevent the ships from setting sail.

On Friday Israel's ambassador to the UN Gabriela Shalev sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in which she said Israel has a right to use "all necessary means" to stop these vessels.

"Israel calls upon the international community to exercise its influence in order to prevent these boats from departing and to discourage their nations from taking part in such action," she wrote.

These vessels could escalate tensions and affect peace and security in the region, she said.

Given the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, which controls Gaza, the declared intentions of the ships to break the blockade, and their departure from Lebanon which "remains in a state of hostility with Israel," she said, "Israel reserves its right under international law to use all necessary means to prevent these ships from violating the existing naval blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip."

Shalev said the true intentions of the organizers of the flotilla from Lebanon remain "dubious," noting that they have been quoted in the media saying they wish to be shahids or martyrs. She also cited "a possible link" between the organizers and "the terrorist group Hizbullah" based in Lebanon and said "Israel cannot exclude the possibility that terrorists or arms will be smuggled on board the ships in question.

"In view of these circumstances, Israel calls upon the government of Lebanon to demonstrate responsibility and to prevent these boats from departing to the Gaza Strip," she said.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday that ambassadors had been asked to send a very clear message to the Foreign Ministries in their host countries that since the Lebanese flotilla was coming from an enemy country, they would be treated as if they were hostile.

On Wednesday Foreign Ministry Director-General Yossi Gal convened a meeting with international ambassadors stationed here and gave them that same message.

Ayalon: Next flotilla will unveil the true nature of such initiatives

On Thursday Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told the French Foreign Affairs Committee that the flotilla emanating from Lebanon or Iran will unveil the true nature of such initiatives.

"If there was a mask of humanitarianism on previous flotillas, the mask has been removed completely from these boats, which are carrying representatives of Hizbullah and Iran," Ayalon said.

Israel closed Gaza's land crossings to all but humanitarian goods and imposed a naval blockade on the area in 2007 after Hamas violently overran Gaza. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had rejected calls to lift the naval blockade, insisting it prevents missile attacks on Israel. But under intense international pressure following the flotilla raid, which resulted in the deaths of eight Turkish activists and a Turkish-American, the security cabinet on Thursday announced it would take a number of measures to increase the flow of goods by land into Gaza.

It has said it will allow all foods and some desperately needed construction materials into Gaza. The security cabinet is expected to meet again this week to discuss ways to execute Thursday's decision.

The UN chief said he is "encouraged" that Israel is reviewing its Gaza policy and recently decided to allow more goods into the Palestinian territory.

"Nevertheless, much more is required to really meet the needs of the people," Ban said. "I continue to call for a fundamental change in the policies that apply to Gaza."

The announcement, however, did little to quell the global outcry over the deadly raid. Israel maintains its soldiers acted in self-defense.

Ban told reporters that he has been trying to arrange the "prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation conforming to international standards" that the UN Security Council called on June 1.

He said Israel's own investigation into the flotilla raid – a public commission with two international observers – "is important" but won't have "international credibility," which is why he is continuing to urge the Israeli government to agree to an international panel under a third party "in which both Turkey and Israel would actively participate." Pressed on why he didn't just go ahead and appoint an international commission, the secretary- general explained that without Israel's "full cooperation it would be extremely difficult to have a full and credible investigation, and that is why even if it may take time, I'm discussing this matter with the Israeli government."

AP contributed to this report.

Kinderhit in de Arabische wereld: 'sterf voor Palestina'

Nieuwe hit in de Arabische wereld...

 

De tekst van het liedje, bijna geheel door kinderen gezongen:

 

Als we als martelaren sterven gaan we naar de hemel

Nee, zeg niet dat we jong zijn

Dit leven heeft ons in volwassenen veranderd

Wat betekent onze jeugd zonder Palestina?

Zelfs als ze ons de hele wereld zouden geven, zullen we haar niet vergeten, nee nee

Mijn land en bloed zijn voor haar

 

Volwassenen: kinderen, jullie hebben je religieuze plicht vervuld

Er is geen god dan Allah

En de martlaar is Allah's favoriet

Je hebt ons de betekenis van mannelijkheid geleerd

 

Allen: Zelfs als ze ons de hele wereld zouden geven etc.

Wat betekent onze jeugd zonder Palestina?

 

Meisje alleen: Oh Allah, jouw genade zal me steunen

oh vitale en standvastige god

genadige der genadigen

oh nobele der nobelen

oh Allah bescherm de islam en de moslims

 

Ander kind:

red de kinderen van Palestina

oh Allah neem wraak voor ons

oh Allah hoor onze gebeden

 

Allen: Zelfs als ze ons de hele wereld zouden geven etc.

Mijn land en bloed zijn voor haar

Wat betekent onze jeugd zonder Palestina?

 

(Voor de video klik op de link van onderstaand artikel)

 

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Birds of Paradise" – Martyrdom Recruitment as Children's Entertainment

IPT News
June 19, 2009

http://www.investigativeproject.org/1072/birds-of-paradise-martyrdom-recruitment-as

The little girl's dark brown eyes look heavenward as she sings,

When we seek martyrdom, we go to heaven.

You tell us we're small, but from this way of life we have become big.

Without Palestine, what does childhood mean?

This is not a song from Hamas television in Gaza, nor is it a Hizballah anthem. "When We Seek Martyrdom" is the latest hit from a production house called Birds of Paradise. It is racking up millions of hits on Arabic and worldwide websites. Birds of Paradise, which appears to be based in Jordan, is quickly becoming one of the most popular children's groups in the Arab world.

My country and my blood are like its sands

Without Palestine, what does childhood mean?

Youtube, has dozens of editions and edits of the video, ranging from Arab parents having their children parrot the lyrics to Jihadists using it as background music in terrorist videos. "[Birds of Paradise] is one of the most widely distributed children's songs group in the Arab world, and it seems to have crossed the ocean to Canada and Britain," wrote journalist Fawzia Nasir al-Naeem in the Saudi Arabian newspaper, Al-Jazirah.

"Birds of Paradise" represents a new wave in Jihadist youth indoctrination. It is far more professional, better edited, and presented in a much more kid-friendly style than previous Jihadist children's programming. The themes are easily digestible even for toddlers. Child actors portray Israeli soldiers, all wearing yarmulkes, who ruthlessly gun down other children shown playing and dancing. Minutes later, the kids exact revenge and kill the soldiers.

"When We Seek Martyrdom" encourages children not simply to throw rocks, but to carry out militant attacks and to ambush Jews. It even broadcasts clips of the children carrying out practice attacks. Violence is not only the answer for children, but it is framed in a cute, kid-friendly way.

This material has not gone unnoticed in the Arab world, where despite its popularity it is beginning to sound alarms. Saudi writer Fawzia Nasir al-Naeem expressed her concerns about the video:

"It encourages the use of arms, killing, explosives, shedding blood and terrorism with all its synonyms. Our children parrot what they hear, and it enters their minds. This data is filed away, and over time it ripens into beliefs and principles which they believe in whenever the intensity is strong, so that when the dream is achieved, an explosive belt is put on, and he begins to proclaim the Jihad, which Allah revealed as his mandate…So, mother, open your half closed eyes to the bitter reality. Look at those who share with you in educating your children, and divert them from the right path. Lose the "Birds of Paradise" and other birds you and your sons are the 'firewood of hell.'"

The Effect of Training Preschoolers in Hate

The message of the video is directed at toddlers up to elementary school ages, the precise period of a child's life where they tend to copy educational materials as mental facts. Kids of these ages cannot process issues which contain subtleties and nuances. Thus, the material imprints itself into their memory as a part of 'what is normal,' said child psychologist Joan Lachkar. "Smaller children cannot organize the data of experience into concrete and abstract categories, as opposed to older children who possess abstract thought and wider varieties of mental decision making. This video is particularly dangerous in the shame/honor system of the martyrdom ideology, because it represses the child's ability for freedom of thought, individuality, and creative thinking," Lackhar said. "This society is teaching its youngest children that peace is linked to the destruction of non-believers and that violence is an acceptable and even preferred method of self-expression."

The psychological effects of such encouragement are profound, even in at an age where the complexities of the message are not fully grasped, Lachkar said.

"Children in the 'martyrdom culture' become robotic and clone-like, so much so that they are compelled not to express genuine emotions or any sense of vulnerability," she said. If they do so, they are shamed and punished. On the other hand, if they conform to the cultural standards set for them, they believe that they are good and that they will be loved." This system of violence becomes self-reinforcing and it is more difficult to break the hate which is connected to the children's earliest childhood memories.

A New Wave of Martyrdom Education

This is not an isolated video from the Birds of Paradise group, but rather part of a consistent pattern of encouraging violence. In another video, Muhammad Bashaar, the adult encouraging children in the "When We Seek Martyrdom" video, gives his own tribute to "resistance" in Gaza. His video features adults carrying out terror attacks on Israelis and a teenager throwing a Molotov Cocktail into an Israeli military position, setting it on fire. He prays for success from Allah and chants, "Victorious, as promised by Allah, we will have, we will have victory!"

These videos also link children and teenagers to more sophisticated discussions of Jihad, religious hatred, and related themes. Several of the "Birds of Paradise" videos on Youtube have links to children's pages, which contain more radical material. One of the links includes pictures of dead babies with the title of the song "When We Seek Martyrdom." Another contains a poster of the author's son, wearing a Hamas headband. In these chat rooms, young Jihadists can link up with like-minded children, creating networks of radicalized youth.

The popularity of "Birds of Paradise" children's media company suggests a disturbing trend in the Muslim world. Beyond the borders of the Palestinian territories, which already exhibit the symptoms of a "martyrdom society," there is an increasing export of children's radicalism. Caution flags are being raised in Saudi Arabia, where journalist Fawzia Nasir al-Naeem wrote, "By Allah I have heard the children's songs which they have chanted on the Birds of Paradise screen, and our children have repeated them until my head felt numb."

http://www.investigativeproject.org:80/1072/birds-of-paradise-martyrdom-recruitment-as

 

 

Officiële Israëlische aankondiging over versoepeling blokkade Gazastrook

 

Het haalde geloof ik alle kranten hier, maar werd niet altijd juist weergegeven: sommigen kopten dat de hele blokkade van de Gazastrook is opgeheven, anderen dat het onmiddelijk inging. De lijst van verboden goederen is men echter nog aan het opstellen, en de zeeblokkade blijft zeker van kracht, want Israel wil kunnen controleren dat er geen wapens worden gesmokkeld.

 

Andere onjuistheden in de berichtgeving: sommige kranten meldden dat er al ruim 40 jaar zeer weinig goederen Gaza binnen worden gelaten, anderen beweerden dat de blokkade al uit 2005 of 2006 stamde, terwijl die -zeker in haar huidige aard en omvang- begon na de bloedige machtovername van Hamas in de zomer van 2007. Zo waren er nog wel meer 'vertekeningen' in de berichtgeving, zoals dat veel ernstig zieke Gazanen niet voor medische behandeling de strook konden verlaten (vele duizenden mensen per jaar worden in Israel behandeld), dat de bevolking zou worden 'uitgehongerd' enz. En last but not least, dat de 'Free Gaza' flottielje een humanitaire missie zou hebben uitgevoerd...

 

Wouter

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Prime Minister's Office - Statement

Following the Israeli Security Cabinet Meeting   (June 20^th 2010)

Israel's policy is to protect its citizens against terror, rocket and other attacks from Gaza.   In seeking to keep weapons and war materiel out of Gaza while liberalizing the system by which civilian goods enter Gaza, the Government of Israel has decided to implement the following steps as quickly as possible:

1.     Publish a list of items not permitted into Gaza that is limited to weapons and war materiel, including problematic dual-use items.  All items not on this list will be permitted to enter Gaza.

2.      Enable and expand the inflow of dual-use construction materials for approved PA-authorized projects (schools, health facilities, water, sanitation, etc.) that are under international supervision and for housing projects such as the U.N. housing development being completed at Khan Yunis.  Israel intends to accelerate the approval of such projects in accordance with accepted mechanisms and procedures.

3.      Expand operations at the existing operating land crossings, thereby enabling the processing of a significantly greater volume of goods through the crossings and the expansion of economic activity. 

4.      Add substantial capacity at the existing operating land crossings and, as more processing capacity becomes necessary and when security concerns are fully addressed, open additional land crossings.

5.      Streamline the policy of permitting the entry and exit of people for humanitarian and medical reasons and that of employees of international aid organizations that are recognized by the GOI.  As conditions improve, Israel will consider additional ways to facilitate the movement of people to and from Gaza. 

6.   Israel will continue to facilitate the expeditious inspection and delivery of goods bound for Gaza through the port of Ashdod. 

Israel welcomes cooperation and coordination with its international and regional partners in implementing this policy and will continue to discuss with them additional ways to advance this policy.

The current security regime for Gaza will be maintained.  Israel reiterates that along with the U.S., EU and others, it considers Hamas a terrorist organization.  The international community must insist on a strict adherence to the Quartet principles regarding Hamas.

Hamas took over Gaza and turned it into a hostile territory from which Hamas prepares and carries out attacks against Israel and its citizens.  The Israel Defense Forces will continue to prevent the flow into and out of Gaza of terrorist operatives, weapons, war material and dual use items which enhance the military capability of Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza.   Israel calls on the international community to stop the smuggling of weapons and war materials into Gaza.

Gilad Shalit is approaching four years in captivity.  The international community should join Israel in strongly condemning those who hold him captive and in redoubling their efforts to secure his immediate release.

 

Leonard Cohen of Elvis Costello: waarom sommige pop-artiesten Israel boycotten

 

Paul McCartney werd in 2008 zelfs met de dood bedreigd door radikale islamisten als hij in Israel zou optreden.

 

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The  Jerusalem Post
Leonard vs. Elvis: Who's our man?
By CHARLEY J. LEVINE
06/16/2010 22:01

Though few lost sleep when Elvis Costello or the Pixies caved to anti-Israel pressure,their decisions merit a second glance.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=178660

Though few lost sleep when Elvis Costello or the Pixies cravenly caved to anti-Israel pressure and cancelled their scheduled appearances in Tel Aviv, their decisions merit a second glance in light of future boycott threats yet to be wielded against other artists. Not only did they disappoint loyal fans and break formal contracts, but the precedent set and message conveyed were immoral, mean-spirited and just plain wimpy.

Leonard Cohen, on the other hand, came and gave what was acclaimed the best concert in Israel of the year this past fall. Stars like Madonna and Phil Collins have come in recent years and Elton John, who has already appeared here twice in the past, is scheduled to play Ramat Gan on Thursday night. What makes some icons turn up to perform while others brazenly renege on their commitments? I can answer that question from the inside at least insofar as the Leonard Cohen visit is concerned.

It is instructive to understand the dynamics of "cultural boycott," since this is one predictable and time-tested dagger in the arsenal of Israel-bashers worldwide.

COHEN WAS not a typical case. Following an extended stint in a Buddhist monastery in California and larcenous loss of much of his life-earned fortune by white collar "friends," he actually decided to circumnavigate the planet in a quixotic effort to replenish his coffers, probably not something many 70-year-olds would elect to do. In short: His concert tour was both necessary and somewhat removed from current trends, since he had removed himself from that scene for some time.

It was only natural to add Israel to his itinerary. Jewish thought envelopes much of his poetry and some of his best known songs ("Hallelujah," "Who by Fire"), and he rushed to perform for the IDF during the Yom Kippur War. Moreover, he has a large, fervently committed fan base here.

I was somewhat surprised by my first conversation with the concert tour's top organizers. Rather than discussing the routine who-what-how of media interest in his upcoming concert at the Ramat Gan Stadium, the conversation bore an entirely different tenor.

Here the model was raised that has been and will continue to face top performers whenever Israel pops up as a possible performance venue. The organizers had barely announced the likelihood of Cohen's touring Israel when Israel bashers immediately orchestrated a drumbeat of "boycott Israel or else!" Internet protests spread and veiled threats of disruptions at other concerts were shamelessly raised as leverage in the campaign.

The Cohen people were understandably concerned.

The poet-musician wanted to conduct a positive, successful tour – and who needed the injection of politics, Middle Eastern cacophony and threats. Who needed keffiyeh-wearing street demonstrators outside of concert halls, or disruptions within them, in Berlin or London? Such concerns undoubtedly weighed in on the decisions of Elvis Costello and the Pixies (15,000 people planned to attend the group's performance here). A Pixies statement averred, "The decision was not reached easily, and we'd like to extend our deepest apologies to the fans, but events beyond all our control have conspired against us."

They, as did Cohen, faced the same threats – yet why did some surrender while others stood firm? EVERY TOP artist thinking about playing here must realize in advance that the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel will put him or her clearly into its propaganda sights, as it's done since 2004. The artists will be called all manner of names under the sun and will face threats and slander if they do not instantly cancel their scheduled appearance in Zion.

The Cohen folks were not necessarily impressed most by my calls to morality. How dare they give in to proterrorist coercion? How dare they consider betraying tens of thousands of lifelong loyal fans here? But I clearly remember they sat up and listened attentively when I fell back on one specific example: "If Paul McCartney actually ignored death threats along with the boycott pressures to play in Israel – as he did in September 2008 – then how could Leonard Cohen possibly do anything other than follow in Sir Paul's principled footsteps?" That rhetorical question led to a request for my firm to prepare an unusual research document entitled "Sir Paul McCartney's Israel Concert," which delved in detail into the nature of the threats and to the astute manner in which Paul ignored and overrode the boycott threats, concluding in a 40,000 sellout crowd and $6 million in income generated. The puffed up boycott shouters were shown to be nothing more than shadow boxers filled with hot air.

I understand that Leonard Cohen reviewed my analysis and drew his own conclusions. Later we advised on the theme of this special appearance which took on a charitable character in support of Israel-Arab reconciliation, elevating it to still a higher plane.

Hopefully, other top performers will hearken to Leonard Cohen's vision and values. His concert here demonstrated, truly, "I'm Your Man."

And Cohen's Priestly Blessing to his audience, in Hebrew, at the conclusion of the concert – days before Yom Kippur – was no less meaningful for those attending than the hours of sublime music that preceded it.

 

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The writer is a public relations expert based in Jerusalem.

Mokum geen veilige haven meer voor Joden met keppel

 

Onbegrip van Joden voor de onverschillige houding van veel politici tegenover het groeiende antisemitisme.

 

Hieronder een boos bericht van Israned naar aanleiding van een reportage gisteren van de Joodse Omroep over het toegenomen antisemitisme in Amsterdam. Juist Amsterdam, waar al eeuwelang de meeste Joden in Nederland wonen, de stad die zij mede hebben gevormd en gekleurd, die zij hun eigen naam hebben gegeven en die zo dikwijls een Joodse burgemeester had, is steeds onveiliger aan het worden voor als zodanig herkenbare Joden.

 

RP

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De keppel, de bedreiging en de verborgen camera

http://www.israned.com/2010/06/de-keppel-de-bedreiging-en-de-verborgen.html

 

Deze morgen 12.00 uur zendt de Joodse Omroep een reportage uit waarbij met de verborgen camera het antisemitisme in uitgerekend Amsterdam is vastgelegd. Amsterdam, de stad die vroeger het Jeruzalem van het Noorden werd genoemd oftewel Mokum. Een woord uit het Jiddisch dat veilige haven betekent. Die veilige haven is er in Mokum voor Joodse Amsterdammers niet meer wanneer zij hun religie willen uitdragen.

Met twee Joodse scholieren en een volwassene die alledrie een keppel dragen neemt een reportageteam de proef op de som in willekeurige buurten in Amsterdam. Groepjes jongeren brengen de Hitlergroet en schelden de wandelaars uit. Onverbloemde agressie en antisemitisme vallen hen ten deel.

Dat is wat Joden in Mokum overkomt. Uitgedragen door de nieuwe bruinhemden is een Gotspe. Een gotspe die moet worden voorkomen met het lokjodenplan van Marcouch. Het is een grove schande. Zoals gewoonlijk zwijgt de landelijke politiek verder. Stel je voor dat je de confrontatie durft aan te gaan. Ik heb nog niet één van de landelijke politieke kopstukken gehoord hoe deze ontoelaatbare agressie tegen een weerloze minderheid te stoppen. Wanneer de maatschappij er voor iedereen is,  dan zou je zeggen dat de Joodse Nederlanders daar ook deel vanuit maken. Door de landelijke stilte blijkt dit anders te zijn. De Joden zijn weer vogelvrij en Nederland kijkt de andere kant op. Misschien is het een beter idee dat de Nederlandse Joodse gemeenschap Aliya maakt. Van de Nederlandse politiek hoeven ze geen bescherming te verwachten tegen dat losgeslagen tuig dat kutmarokkaan heet.

 

 

Wereld Zionisten Congres wil tweestatenoplossing en bevriezing nederzettingen

Dit bericht zal als een grote verrassing komen bij antizionisten, volgens wie alle zionisten hoorntjes en een staart hebben en Palestijnen eten bij het ontbijt. In werkelijkheid is de zionistische beweging in meerderheid gematigd, steunt een tweestatenoplossing en wil niet over een ander volk heersen. De winst van rechts in Israel komt vooral doordat de Oslo Akkoorden uitmondden in de tweede intifada, en de terugtrekking uit Gaza leidde tot de machtsovername van Hamas en duizenden Qassams. Velen geloven niet meer dat concessies aan de Palestijnen de vrede dichterbij brengen, en daar maken de regligieuze fanaten, die aan terrein winnen in Israel, dankbaar gebruik van.

 

Uit onderstaand bericht wordt niet duidelijk hoe men over Jeruzalem denkt. Het lijkt mij onwaarschijnlijk dat men ook daar een nederzettingenstop voorstaat. Delen van wat nu 'Oost-Jeruzalem' heet waren immers Joods voor 1948, en hier liggen voor Joden belangrijke plaatsen zoals de klaagmuur en de olijfberg.

 

RP

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Zionist Congress calls for settlement freeze

June 17, 2010
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/06/17/2739668/zionist-congress-calls-for-settlement-freeze

 

(JTA) -- The World Zionist Congress passed a resolution endorsing a two-state solution and a West Bank settlement freeze.

 

The vote in Jerusalem came a day after some opponents of the resolution walked out of a meeting of the 36th Congress' settlement committee. Following the walkout, the remainder of the meeting was chaired by Hadar Susskind, the vice president of policy and strategy at J Street, which favors U.S. pressure on Israel toward a two-state solution.

 

The resolution endorses a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calls on the Israeli government to extend its freeze on Jewish settlement building in the West Bank and calls on Israel to stabilize ties with the United States.

 

After the resolution was passed by the full congress, resolution opponents protested by mounting the stage and singing "Hatikvah," Israel's national anthem.

 

The World Zionist Congress elects the officers and ostensibly sets policy for the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Israel.

 

 

VN correspondentenbond toont film Gaza flottielje zonder weerwoord Israel

 

"Offering UN media facilities to screen video produced by a one-sided activist while actively preventing a member state of the United Nations an opportunity to respond in real time is severely unethical," she wrote. "Your decision to ban the Permanent Mission of Israel from offering any feedback or comment during the aforementioned screening ensured that the reporters invited to the event would be offered only part of the story."

 

De VN onpartijdig, zoals mensen als Martijn van Dam volhouden? Laat me niet lachen. Het is ondenkbaar dat VN-faciliteiten op een dergelijke manier worden gebruikt voor propaganda tegen een VN lidstaat, behalve Israel. Het is onverdedigbaar dat Israel niet de mogelijkheid krijgt haar kant van de zaak te presenteren, en de eenzijdige en onjuiste weergave die de documentaire van de activist geeft, tegen te spreken.

 

RP

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Haaretz /   Latest update 21:04 17.06.10

VIDEO / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXcCtqFu-Fc

UN screening of 'one-sided' Gaza flotilla film spurs Israeli complaint

Israel's mission to the UN prevented from responding to screening of documentary film by one of the activists aboard the Mavi Marmara.

By Shlomo Shamir
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/video-un-screening-of-one-sided-gaza-flotilla-film-spurs-israeli-complaint-1.296861

 

Israel on Thursday issued an official complaint against the president of the United Nations Correspondents Association for deliberately barring Israel from responding to the public screening of a documentary film on the events of the recent Gaza-bound aid flotilla, made by one of the activists.

On May 31, Israeli navy commandos boarded one of the ships in the flotilla, the Turkish Mavi Marmara, and were physically assaulted by the activists aboard. A clash ensued resulting in the deaths of nine activists and dozens of injuries.

The president of the UN Correspondents Association, Giampaolo Pioli, organized an event several days ago during which a documentary film by one of the Mavi Marmara activists was screened. In the invitation sent to all the foreign correspondents in New York Pioli wrote that he was inviting them to the debut of a film depicting the "Israeli attack on human rights activists."

The spokeswoman for the Israeli delegation to the UN asked to take part in the event and present scenes from a film prepared by the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson's Unit especially for the UN delegation.

At first, the president of the association agreed, but two hours before the start of the event he announced that he was canceling the screening of the Israeli film, offering to air the IDF film at a later date, and at a different location.

In the complaint, which Israel distributed to foreign correspondents in New York on Thursday, spokeswoman Mirit Cohen wrote that "I write this letter of complaint to officially protest your mishandling of the events."

"Offering UN media facilities to screen video produced by a one-sided activist while actively preventing a member state of the United Nations an opportunity to respond in real time is severely unethical," she wrote. "Your decision to ban the Permanent Mission of Israel from offering any feedback or comment during the aforementioned screening ensured that the reporters invited to the event would be offered only part of the story."

"Furthermore," she added, "the fact that you cancelled the participation of the Permanent Mission of Israel only two hours prior to the commencement of the screening raises grave doubts as to the reasons behind this decision."

In conclusion, Cohen demanded an official apology.

 

Opiniepeiling: Obama's populariteit in moslimwereld flink gedaald

 

Obama's kritische houding tegenover Israel lijkt hem niet populairder te maken in de islamitische en Arabische wereld. Integendeel, het percentage mensen dat positief staat tegenover zijn acties wat betreft het Midden-Oosten is in een aantal anden, waaronder Egypte, Turkije en Pakistan verder gedaald. Naar de reden hiervan is het gissen.

Een theorie is dat juist een zwakke houding je populariteit vermindert; De VS zouden minder serieus worden genomen als supermacht die in staat is zijn wil op te leggen. Begrip tonen voor de gevoelens van moslims en aan hun grieven tegemoet willen komen is één ding, je laten vernederen door leiders als Achmadinejad en niet adekwaat reageren wanneer een uitgestoken hand wordt geweigerd, daarmee oogst je in de Arabische wereld geen respect. De ongemeen harde kritiek die de VS tegenover Israel uitte, en het feit dat zij een bevriezing van de nederzettingen, ook in Oost Jeruzalem, voor elkaar heeft gekregen, weegt daar kennelijk niet tegenop, of zou dat beeld van zwakte zelfs kunnen versterken.

Sommige analisten zeggen dat het publiekelijk schofferen van je vrienden je in de Arabische wereld niet op respect komt te staan, zelfs als het een vijand van hun betreft. Je laat zo immers zien hoe je met je vrienden omgaat, en wat hen dus mogelijk ook te wachten staat. Nogmaals, het is allemaal speculatie, maar deze resultaten zijn zeker opmerkelijk te noemen.

 

RP

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Latest update 10:31 19.06.10

Poll: Obama's ranking in Muslim world slides over Mideast

http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/poll-obama-s-ranking-in-muslim-world-slides-over-mideast-1.297055?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.216%2C2.217%2C

By Haaretz Service

 

 

According to Pew Research Center global poll, Muslim world support of Obama drops drastically, most countries do not support military action against Iran.

Global public opinion of United States President Barack Obama's handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the lowest rated topic among all other global issues, according to a new poll.

 

The Pew Research Center poll collected data from more than 25,000 respondents in 22 countries, out of which only France, Nigeria and Kenya thought favorably of Obama's actions relating to the Middle East dispute.

 

This is in contrast to the general outcome of the poll which showed that Obama has maintained general popularity in Western countries, especially over his handling of the global economic crisis.

 

According to the Pew Global Attitudes surveys, the levels of confidence and approval in Egypt have fallen from 41 percent to 31 percent, the lowest rates marked in Egypt since 2006.

 

The same drop has been noted in Turkey, after the support was surprisingly low in 2009 already, and now slipped from 33 percent to 23 percent supporters, the poll indicated. In 2009 only 13 percent of Pakistani Muslims expressed confidence in Obama, yet this initially low number has dropped even further to only 8 percent this year.

 

Although the Muslim world generally favors Obama over former U.S. President George Bush, the significant drop is a concern to the U.S., especially in light of the continuing Iranian threat, the poll concluded.

 

Another worrying figure showed a rise in Egypt in support of the belief that suicide bombing is often justifiable, rising from 15 percent last year, to 20 percent in the 2010 poll.

 

Global opinion of the war in Afghanistan remained largely unpopular, however, as many as half of the countries polled were in favor of the U.S. activity relating to Iraq and Iran, the poll showed.

 

According to the poll there was widespread agreement opposing Iran's nuclear program, however, the U.S. was the only country likely to support military action as preemptive action against Iran's nuclear activity.

 

Most countries were favorable of Obama's climate change efforts.

 

Palestijnse opruiing in mei 2010 (PMW)

 

Hieronder een gedeelte uit een PMW rapport over ophitsing, ontkenning van Israels bestaansrecht, ontkenning van de Joodse geschiedenis, oproepen tot heilige oorlog en meer 'vredelievende en vertrouwenwekkende boodschappen van de gematigde Palestijnse Autoriteit en door haar gecontroleerde media. Dit alles is van de afgelopen maand, tijdens de indirecte vredesbesprekingen met Israel. De PA heeft Israel er meermaals van beschuldigd (en ook bij de Amerikanen geklaagd) het vertrouwen te hebben geschonden en geen vrede te willen. Laten we eens kijken hoe vredelievend en compromisbereid de zo gematigde PA werkelijk is:

 

 

PA continues to slander Israel, demonize and deny Israel's history in the land:

"The Israeli apartheid state, possessing no cultural heritage nor any collective symbol for a society born from the womb of the Zionist and Western imperialist attack, aspires and exerts efforts to appropriate and take over symbols and elements of the Palestinian national identity."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), May 19, 2010]

PATV News reporter demonizes Israel and its creation:

"While the world was raising its voice to judge the Nazis and putting up gallows to hang the criminals in Nuremberg, other criminals were spreading killing, destruction and expulsion in Palestine, before the eyes of the world. This is the free world – the world that could judge the criminals [in Nuremberg], but at the same time created out of the victim a future criminal, and released its reins, under the pretext of a guilt complex – a complex stimulated and invoked only when the victim was clearly Jewish or, later, Israeli."

[PA TV (Fatah), May 16, 2010]

 

Honoring terrorists as children sing to future war against Israel
PA TV program "Good Morning Jerusalem" dedicated a program to honoring female terrorist prisoner Sanaa Shehadeh, who is serving 3 life sentences for transporting a suicide terrorist to Jerusalem in 2002. Her two nieces dedicated a song of war to her:

Girl 1:

"I want to recite a song for you [female prisoner Sanaa Shehadeh]:
'What am I doing here while my enemy is on my ancestors' land?
I want to defend, I want to fight,
I want to carry a machine gun and a rifle.'"
Girls 1 and 2:
"'And tomorrow, when the war starts,
I won't care about you [my enemy], or about the West.
And tomorrow when the war starts,
I won't care about you [my enemy], or about the West.
And we shall strike Israel, we shall strike Israel,
And return you [to us], land of my ancestors;
And return you [to us], land of my ancestors.'"

[PA TV (Fatah), May 28, 2010

 

Ignoring the American leadership statements condemning the PA glorification of terror, the PA continues to honor terrorists by naming events after them. Worse still, Palestinian children were explicitly told that the naming of an event after the terrorist Abu Jihad is meant to make them see him as a role model:

"Yesterday evening the second Shahid (Martyr) Abu Jihad [football] tournament for children concluded at the Abu Dis [near Jerusalem] youth club; it is held annually under the auspices of Fatah...
Abu Halal (Fatah branch Secretary) spoke about the anniversary of the Martyrdom of the Shahid (Martyr) commander, Khalil Al-Wazir 'Abu Jihad,' and about his journey of struggle. He reminded our children that we shall follow the same path of Abu Jihad and Yasser Arafat."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 16, 2010]

Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir) - A founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat. Headed the PLO terror organization's military wing. Planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks, including the worst in Israeli history, the hijacking of a bus and killing of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.

Deputy Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee and former PA senior official, Jibril Rajoub, likewise glorified terror, comparing the value of "throwing a hand grenade" to "building a school."
Rajoub:

"Building a school and throwing a hand grenade, in my opinion, are resistance. I build the school in order to strengthen the reasons for my people's resolve, as one of several aspects of the resistance, and when there is a need to throw a grenade [or launch] a rocket, I'll do that as well out of my belief in the inevitable victory of my cause and its justness."

[PA TV (Fatah), May 12, 2010]

 

Conclusion
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said in the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Ops, on April 23, 2009:

"We will only work with a Palestinian Authority government that unambiguously and explicitly accepts the Quartet's principles:
a commitment to non-violence, recognition of Israel, and acceptance of previous agreements and obligations, including the Road Map." ["Phase I of Road Map: "All official Palestinian institutions end incitement against Israel."]

 

Fatah leader Abbas Zaki:

 

He called for "a gathering that will bring together the Fatah and Hamas leadership, under Mahmoud Abbas' … and added: 'We are in favor of anyone who defends the homeland and bears arms in order to defend it, because he supports the idea of Fatah and of the resistance. Likewise, we stand with anyone who comes out against the Zionist lobby and isolates Israel and puts it in a corner.'"

[Al-Rad (Jordan), May 22, 2010

 

PMW concludeert dan ook terecht:

Examining the Palestinian Authority leaders' statements, its education of youth, and its controlled media, it is clear that the Palestinian Authority has not complied with the conditions indicated by the Secretary of State nor has it fulfilled its commitment to "work against incitement of any sort."

In the first month since the start of the proximity talks, not only hasn't the PA "unambiguously and explicitly" accepted these conditions, but they have done the opposite; the Palestinian Authority has "unambiguously and explicitly" denied Israel's existence, incited to hatred, and glorified terror and violence.

 

RP

 

http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=2375