Just another anti-Semitic Palestinian “peace” organization: Elder of Ziyon outed Miftah, Hanan Ashrawi’s organization, for carrying an article about the Passover blood libel–and Miftah is now attacking him for having the gall to point it out. They took down the article, not because it accuses Jews of using Christian’s blood to make Passover matzoh–one of the oldest lies about Jews–but because they want to “avoid further misunderstanding”. Right. We misunderstood that they were a “peace” organization. And of course, U.S. tax dollars go to supporting this hatred.
Six months for clicking “Like” on FB: A Palestinian got six months in jail for the crime of criticizing a Palestinian leader. Oh, and there’s a Palestinian who will be spending a year in jail for criticizing Mahmoud Abbas. Not to worry, though–because of the international brouhaha, Abbas pardoned him.
The president’s legal adviser said that Mr. Abbas respected freedom of opinion and expression and that he had not personally filed a complaint against the journalist.
He’s for freedom of expression, but his PA carries laws with penalties for insulting Palestinian leaders. Uh-huh.
Journalists aren’t free there either, but don’t worry, Reporters Without Borders is too busy accusing Israel of the false charge of targeting journalists (down 20 points since last year) to worry about the Palestinians unfreedom (up 7! woo!).
But Islam is a religion of tolerance: The Religion of Tolerance burned and looted a 2,000-year-old synagogue in Damascus. I seriously doubt the UN will be concerned about it, though. They’ve never cared that the Jordanians destroyed dozens of synagogues when they held the western part of Jerusalem, or that synagogues throughout the world have been destroyed by Islamic terrorists and just plain Jew-haters. One of the young people I know once asked me why synagogues aren’t designed like churches, that it’s sometimes very hard to tell that a building is a synagogue. When I told him that it was not to draw attention to ourselves, he just said, “Oh.”