At the height of Hamas' 11-day rocket-firing campaign against Israel in May, the @NYTimes printed a guest essay by Refaat Alareer @itranslate123, a man with a history of indisputably antisemitic tweets.
Alareer has blamed *Jews* for the murder of hundreds of thousands of their own at the hands of the Nazis.
And he has openly admitted to committing acts of violence. Not exactly a voice for non-violence and reconciliation.
1. Hebron is the second holiest city in Judaism. For hundreds of years, Jews were banned from entering their second-holiest site, the Cave of the Patriarchs. Under Israeli rule, Muslims and Jews have *equal* access.
2. A blatant lie. The site is divided into Jewish and Muslim prayer areas. For ten days each year, Muslims are given access to the entire complex. For ten days significant in the Jewish calendar year, Jews are given full access.
3. Accessing other countries is not a God-given right. It is a privilege. May the day soon come when peace prevails and people on both sides can travel unimpeded. Until then, security measures remain in place.
Today marks 21 years since Tuvia Grossman, the bloodied "Palestinian," appeared in the media, leading to the creation of HonestReporting.
On Sep 30, 2000, The @nytimes@AP and others published a photo of a bloodied young man seen below a club-wielding Israeli policeman.
The caption read, “An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount”, and the pose suggested that the Israeli policeman was responsible for the injuries of the “Palestinian” man in the foreground.
In reality, the man was not a Palestinian Arab at all, but a Jewish American yeshiva student named Tuvia Grossman. Grossman had been pulled from a taxi in Jerusalem by a mob of Arabs and severely beaten.
This @CNN "fast facts" page on Judaism totally omits any reference to the Jewish homeland until after WWI, makes it seem as if the State of Israel was only formed in response to the war and the Holocaust.
It wasn't.
The Land of Israel is *central* to Judaism.
According to Jewish tradition, all of creation began in Jerusalem.
Abraham, Issac and Jacob all passed through the city.
Kings David and Solomon built the Jewish temples there.
The Land of Israel is subject to numerous biblical laws, observed by religious Jews to this day.
One of the best known is the Shmita, which takes place every seven years. For an entire year, the lie must rest and lay fallow.
According to the data revealed by German daily @welt, #Hamas is sitting atop a secret foreign investment portfolio worth in excess of $500M.
Clemens Wergin, Die Welt’s chief correspondent, noted that “The balance sheet also contains coded references about 49 Million US Dollars that went from the portfolio into Hamas’ coffers, an estimated 40% of which went to military/terror expenses.”
According to the @WorldBank, that sum would be enough to repair all physical damage incurred during the war as well as compensate for the resulting economic losses.