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Israel continued on its declining path of morbidity figures after 903 coronavirus cases were registered in 24 hours, new data released by the Health Ministry Monday night showed. The number of COVID-19 patients in serious condition decreased as well, from 673 on Sunday to 632 on Monday. The country’s death toll rose to 2,260 after 14 people died since midnight, according to the ministry. Of 29,597 active cases, 246 individuals are currently on
Israeli model May Tager, poses with Dubai- resident model Anastasia, in Dubai, UAE, Sept. 8, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Christopher Pike.
Hospital staff at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov), BY REUTERS Abu Dhabi to Ben-Gurion Interna- region and the entire world the Tel Aviv, Israel, Sept. 21, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Ronen Zvulun. & ALGEMEINER STAFF tional Airport near Tel Aviv. benefit of having friendly, peaceful They were given a red carpet and normal exchanges.” artificial respirators, 180 patients are in moderate condition, In an historic first visit by a Gulf welcome by Israeli Prime Minister The UAE and fellow Gulf state and 26,134 either have mild symptoms or no symptoms. Arab nation, a United Arab Emirates Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Bahrain in September became the The test positive ratio remained unchanged from the delegation arrived in Israel on Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and first Arab states in a quarter of a day prior, with 3.5% of 27,300 screening tests testing positive. Tuesday to cement the normaliza- Finance Minister Israel Katz. century to sign deals to establish In light of these encouraging figures, Israel’s pandemic tion deal signed last month. “We are making history in formal ties with Israel. czar Prof. Ronni Gamzu recommended lifting three cities, US Treasury Secretary Steven a way that will stand for genera- The deals, brokered by US designated “red” for having high morbidity rates, from Mnuchin and other American tions,” Netanyahu said. President Donald Trump, were lockdown mode: Rekhasim, Modi’in Illit, and Beitar Illit. officials accompanied the delega- “I think that the visit of such forged largely over shared fears of tion on Etihad Airways plane from a high-level delegation from the Iran and Washington and its allies UAE… will show our peoples, the Continued on Page A3
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of Communication, Culture and Media Studies. additional context — either in the text or The op-ed, timed to the 25th anniversary the presentation — that could have helped IRA STOLL of the event, tells the story of the behind- readers place Senator Cotton’s views within BOSTON the-scenes role played in the march by Cora a larger framework of debate.” Where is the Masters Barry, the wife of Washington, D.C., “additional context” about the Million Man Mayor Marion Barry. “The Million Man March March or its leader? It’s absent, other than is a case study in how even in the most patri- in the tweets of former Times editorial page A former editor and writer for the New archal spaces, women have powered history,” employee Weiss. York Times editorial page, Bari Weiss, is Hopkinson writes. In addition, the editor who replaced Louis Farrakhan during his Fourth of July ad- faulting the Times for publishing an op-ed The October 16, 1995 march drew what Bennet, at least on an interim basis, Kathleen dress “The Criterion” on Revolt TV. Photo: Screenshot. piece glorifying Louis Farrakhan’s Million authorities said were approximately 400,000 Kingsbury, told staffers when she took over: Man March and failing to provide context people. It featured a two-and-a-half-hour “Anyone who sees any piece of opinion Said the editorial, “Mr. Trump doesn’t just mock about Farrakhan’s antisemitism. address by Farrakhan, a notorious antisemite. journalism, headlines, social posts, photos his enemies. He demonizes and dehumanizes “Today the New York Times ran an oped I covered the event for the Forward and — you name it — that gives you the slightest them.” The same could be said of Farrakhan, about the Million Man March and Louis reported, “In the rows of concession stands pause, please call or text me immediately.” but when he does it, the Times headline writers Farrakhan. If you read the oped and knew leased by march organizers, one vendor is That policy, as it’s been implemented, gives cheer him on for his “great feat.” nothing about Farrakhan, you would think he selling ‘Chosen People From the Caucasus: even the most junior staffers the power to halt If the Times wants to add context to the was a gentleman,” Weiss tweeted. “When The Jewish Origins, Delusional Deceptions and the publication of an opinion piece by marking latest article, there’s no shortage of material Times ran the infamous anti-Semitic cartoon, Historical Role in the Slave Trade, Genocide it with a “red flag” in the paper’s editorial from the newspaper’s own archives. the issue was not that editors were hardened and Cultural Colonization,’ by Michael system. Did the article headlining Farrakhan’s There is “Black Demagogues and Pseudo- anti-Semites. It’s that they didn’t even *notice* Bradley. Nearby, between tables hawking “great feat” and ignoring his antisemitism not Scholars,” by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1992). it. This shouldn’t surprise. It’s part of a world- ‘O.J.’s Free’ T-shirts, salesmen display copies trigger even “the slightest pause” at the Times There is “White Supremacists Voice view in which Jew hate does not count.” Her of ‘The Jews and Their Lies,’ by Martin Luther. editorial page? As Weiss puts it, “they didn’t Support of Farrakhan,” from the paper’s news reference was to an April 2019 cartoon that Young men in red bow ties sell ‘The Secret even *notice* it.” columns (1985). the Times eventually said it was “deeply sorry” Relationship Between Blacks and Jews.’” CNN anchor Jake Tapper retweeted There is A.M. Rosenthal’s post-march for and acknowledged was antisemitic. Weiss is correct to point out that Weiss and noted, “The late great John Lewis column from 1995, which said, “The The op-ed piece appears in theNew York Jew-hatred is a Times blind spot. The previous didn’t participate in the Million Man March demagogues and dictators always reveal Times under the headline “Behind the Million Times editorial page editor, James Bennet, because Farrakhan had made comments that themselves. They must, to attract the core of Woman March.” It is subheadlined, “Behind was ousted after publishing an op-ed from were ‘divisive and bigoted.’” the vicious, around whom they build their every great feat in the public record lies an Senator Tom Cotton calling on President Elsewhere in the Times opinion section power. The Nation of Islam’s program states untold story of the unsung foot soldiers.” It is Trump to “Send in the Troops” to quell rioting over this past weekend was an editorial its goal: the creation of a separate black nation written by Natalie Hopkinson, an associate and looting. In that case, a Times editors’ note denouncing President Trump for “toxic professor in Howard University’s Department confessed, “we failed to offer appropriate rhetoric” and “vile language” and “crude insults.” Continued on Page A3 Should the BBC Be Sympathizing With the Sbarro Monster?
Hamas’ military wing. The Israeli forces to emulate her. She has been video-taped the arrested her in 2001. She was accused of smiling contentedly upon learning that she FRRIMET ROTH Algemeiner Journal participating in the bombing operation. had murdered more children than she had JERUSALEM She was sentenced to 16 life sentences that presumed. (USPS 927800) is published weekly add up to 1,584 years. She and her husband It is this monster that the BBC has singled (except for the week of Passover were released in a deal that included 1,047 out for empathy. and Succos) [in reality, 1,027] Palestinian prisoners… The BBC has embraced Tamimi Despite my American heritage, I’ve Subscription rate $40 per year In 2013 [in reality, in 2017] she was put on without once reminding its listeners why always equated the BBC, more than any of the wanted terrorists list of the US Depart- she is newsworthy. Her “accomplishment” Algemeiner Journal its competitors, with authoritative, reliable ment of Justice [in reality the FBI] due to her is ignored. My Malki, her friend, Michal who 208 E 51st Street, Suite 185 reporting. involvement in the deaths of Americans… stood beside her on line for a pizza, and all the So I was blindsided to learn that BBC New York, N.Y. 10022 The Jordanian authorities have rejected other innocent victims of Tamimi’s hatred and Arabic championed the cause of my daugh- America’s extradition requests. bloodthirst, did not even warrant a mention. Periodicals Postage ter’s murderer. This proud terrorist, Ahlam Tamimi, Often, in such cases, wronged parties Paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. It has posted a video titled “BBC_ confessed to murdering not only my precious demand an apology. But I don’t want one. I and at additional mailing offices Trending – A radio station cut off a phone call 15-year-old daughter Malki but seven other understand that the BBC did not inadvertently with Ahlam Tamimi because of her appeal to POSTMASTER: children and babies and eight innocent adults commit this outrage. It didn’t “misspeak” or King of Jordan during a live broadcast.” as well. She also left a sixteenth victim, a young “overlook” anything. Avoiding any mention Send address changes to So the BBC rushed to the rescue of the mother, in a permanent vegetative state. of the oceans of grief and separation Tamimi Algemeiner Journal woman who was cut off by a talk show. On the And unlike many other vicious mass has inflicted on us was deliberate. An apology video clip, BBC staff “reached out to Ahlam” P.O. Box 250746 murderers, this one has not only refused would be insincere and worthless. (their words), providing her a platform for an Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225 -3023 to express remorse; she has boasted of her I only hope that the BBC’s condoning of aborted “appeal to the King.” “accomplishment” and has urged others the murder of innocent Jews will be widely Here it is: publicized and condemned. Let your voice be heard! I, Jordanian citizen, Ahlam Tamimi, Frimet Roth is a freelance turn once again to his Majesty King Abdullah [email protected] writer in Jerusalem. Her daughter II in order to be united with my husband Malki was murdered at the age of Nizar Tamimi on the blessed land of Jordan. 15 in the 2001 Sbarro restaurant It is my right to be beside my husband. To advertise in bombing. With her husband Arnold In its background profile, the BBC the new Algemeiner she founded the Malki Foundation describes Tamimi this way: (www.malkifoundation.org) in e-mail: [email protected] The Jordanian prisoner (who) has their daughter’s name. It provides returned to the headlines following the concrete support for Israeli families or call expulsion of her husband, Nizar Tamimi… of all faiths who care at home for a She was born in Zarqa in Jordan to Pales- 718-771-0400 special-needs child. tinian parents in 1980 and was the first US-wanted Hamas terrorist Ahlam Tamimi. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. woman who joined the Al-Qassam Brigades, www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2020 A3 World News. Group Rallies Against French Police Arrest Cuomo, De Blasio Over Pro-Hamas Activist in New COVID Restrictions Connection With Paris Directed at Jews Beheading
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Over the weekend, he announced that he ordered the ban of a Jewish wedding that was set to take place in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg that was reportedly expected to draw up to 10,000 people. The wedding, which had been scheduled for Monday, was for the grandchild of Satmar Grand Rabbi New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in New York City, New York, March 24, 2020. Zalman Leib Teitlebaum. Photo: Reuters / Mike Segar / File. “You can get married; you just can’t have 1,000 people at your wedding. You get the Lawfare Project and supporter of End Jew same result at the end of the day,” said the Hatred, a grassroots antisemitism movement. governor. “Singling out New York Jews for blame in the Several New York Orthodox Jewish coronavirus spread is unconscionable and leaders have filed a federal lawsuit against discriminatory. Statements like these are Cuomo, claiming that his restrictions are exactly why we are marching today.” violating their religious and civil liberties. Several dozen protestors appeared to Protestors in the Place de la Republique in Paris following the brutal murder of school teacher Supporters of a grassroots group seeking to turn out for the rally on Thursday, which Samuel Paty. Photo: Panoramic / Reuters. end antisemitism held a rally outside of the New started at the Public Library and ended at humiliated in front of their classmates.” He York Public Library last Thursday to express Cuomo’s office, where they attempted to BY BEN COHEN then demanded the immediate suspension of their dismay with recent comments and actions deliver a letter to the governor to enforce One of France’s most vocal Islamists Paty, whom he referred to as “this thug.” by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New COVID-19 regulations more equally and was taken into police custody on Sunday in Sefrioui is well-known to French intel- York City Mayor Bill de Blasio that have been apologize to the Jewish community. connection with the horrific murder of a high ligence, whose agents have monitored his perceived as targeting the Jewish community. Jewish leaders and groups, specifically school teacher in broad daylight at the end of statements and activities for nearly 20 years, “Governor Cuomo and Mayor de the ultra-Orthodox community, have sharply last week. according to Bernard Godard, an expert on Blasio’s continued attacks against the Jewish criticized the two leaders for their enforce- Abdelhakim Sefrioui, 61, had played a Islam and former adviser to France’s Interior community are outrageous. Never in my life ment of coronavirus restrictions amid a spike prominent role in organizing protests against Ministry, in an interview with the news outlet . did I think I would see this type of blatant in cases. In recent weeks, Cuomo has ordered Samuel Paty — a 47-year-old teacher of history In 2011, the imam of the Parisian Jew-hatred from our public officials,” said limits on worship within so-called “red zones” and geography at a suburban Paris school suburb of Drancy, Hassen Chalghoumi, was Brooke Goldstein, executive director of The or areas with a cluster of new infections. who showed his students a set of controversial placed under police protection after Sefrioui cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a denounced him as a “pawn of the Zionists.” Continued from Page A2 objectives — self-help, respect, training, jobs, classroom discussion on freedom of speech. Chalghoumi told that Sefrioui was Glorifies bringing a “community” together and making On Friday afternoon, Paty was attacked “dangerous because he seduces the youth.” within America. Somehow the apologists it powerful. That was part of Hitler’s message. as he walked home from school by a knife- “He is more dangerous than [Islamist and rationalizers of the demonstration never Sorry, Adolf, it happens I won’t be in wielding assailant who stabbed him in the academic] Tariq Ramadan because he seduces mentioned that. The danger is not simply Munich for your march, but I support the head and then decapitated him with a dagger- the base, the parents,” Chalghoumi stated. what the Nation of Islam is able to achieve purpose?… To march with Louis Farrakhan shaped blade. Much of Sefrioui’s activism has revolved about separation. It is the damage it does in Washington is to strengthen a man who Eyewitnesses reported that the killer — around solidarity with the Palestinians, meanwhile to the American dream of racial leads a crusade against whites and for reseg- an 18-year-old refugee from Chechnya named expressed through virulent anti-Zionism and unity and to American life, day by day. All its regation, to march with his goon squads, to Abdoullakh Anzonov — shouted the words antisemitism. In 2006, he campaigned on propaganda and racial spewings are devised march with anti-Semites. “Allahu akbar” (“God is great”) as he slaugh- behalf of the presidential campaign of the to divide, separate, resegregate.” What has happened to the Times over tered Paty.Anzonov was later shot dead by comedian Dieudonné — who was recently Or, my personal favorite, A.M. Rosenthal’s the intervening 25 years? Rosenthal would be police after he fired on approaching officers banned across a host of social media platforms pre-march column from 1995, headlined, “The rolling in his grave. with a handgun. Investigators discovered that for his denial of the Holocaust denial and his Swamp of Hatred”: Ira Stoll was managing editor of The Anzonov had sent a photo of Paty’s decapi- crude antisemitism. Like every demagogue, Mr. Farrakhan Forward and North American editor of The tated head to French President Emmanuel In 2014, as head of a collective of presents a list of shiny “purposes” as among his Jerusalem Post. Macron on Twitter, with a message declaring pro-Palestinian organizations named in that he had “taken revenge on the one who honor of the late Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Continued from Page A1 concerns, Israeli organizers said. insulted the Prophet Muhammad.” Yassin, Sefrioui was a key organizer of demon- Making History “This is an historical moment for the UAE In the days leading up to his murder, Paty strations in Paris against Israel’s incursion have said they would foster regional peace country and Israel and we are looking forward had been the target of protests from some into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, furiously and stability. But they have prompted anger to salaam (peace) … in the region,” one of the Muslim parents at the school in Conflans- asserting at one rally that the coastal enclave from the Palestinians. Etihad pilots could be heard saying in a video Sainte-Honorine, a northwestern suburb of was “the worst concentration camp mankind Wasel Abu Youssef, a member of the posted on Twitter by US Middle East envoy Paris, after he showed students cartoons of has ever known.” Executive Committee of the Palestine Libera- Ari Berkowitz. Muhammad believed by many Muslims to be Sefrioui is a member of the Council tion Organization, described Tuesday’s UAE Berkowitz and Mnuchin accompanied blasphemous. of French Imams and speaks in its name, visit as “shameful.” the Emirati delegation, which was led by One of the parents sought the backing although the secretary-general of that organi- “The bilateral agreements that were Economy Minister Abdullah bin Touq al-Mari of Abdelhakim Sefrioui — a Moroccan-born zation openly disputed his right to do so in announced today and the delegations that and Minister of State for Financial Affairs Islamist described by one prominent French interviews with the French media over the come and go, all of that offers the occupa- Obaid Humaid al-Tayer, according to a UAE Muslim leader as “dangerous” — at a meeting weekend. tion a strength to escalate its aggression and Foreign Ministry spokeswoman. with school officials. “Sefrioui does not have the right to speak its crimes against the Palestinian people and The US officials had on Sunday joined On Thursday — the day before Paty’s on our behalf,” Daw Meskine of the Council of increases its intransigence and arrogance,” he an Israeli delegation to Bahrain for a signing killing — Sefrioui arrived at the school, where French Imams stated, when asked about the said from the West Bank city of Ramallah. ceremony to formalize ties. he filmed an interview with a female Muslim harassment of Paty. “It is a personal initiative, In the Gaza Strip, Hazem Qassem, a Israel and the UAE have already signed student, who claimed that Paty had told her she which in no way commits the council.” spokesman for the Islamist group Hamas, several commercial deals since mid-August, might want to “leave the class,” before showing Further raids on the homes of suspected said: “Such a visit will only encourage the when they first announced they would estab- students an image of a “naked man” who Islamists by French police were reported on occupation to pursue the gradual annexation lish full relations. supposedly represented Muhammad. After Monday, while the government announced of West Bank lands.” Israeli officials said the two sides were meeting with members of the school manage- an investigation into 51 different Muslim The five-hour visit would be restricted to expected to sign a mutual visa-exemption ment, Sefrioui issued a statement asserting organizations and associations. the airport near Tel Aviv, due to coronavirus agreement — Israel‘s first with an Arab country. that Muslim children “had been attacked and A4 | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2020 World News. Sudanese Strains Surface as US Pressure Triggers Debate on Israel
BY REUTERS & ALGEMEINER STAFF US pressure on Sudan to normalize ties with former adversary Israel has stirred public debate on a topic that was long taboo, exposing splits that could complicate any swift settlement of a deal. An agreement between Sudan and Israel may have edged closer on Monday when A Sudanese protester holds a national flag, in Silhouettes of laptop users are seen next to a screen projection of the Facebook logo. Khartoum, Sudan June 5, 2019. Photo: Reuters / Dado Ruvic / Illustration / File. US President Donald Trump signaled that Photo: Reuters / Stringer. Washington would remove Khartoum from its Need for time list of state sponsors of terrorism. “It is not possible for an entire people Facebook Unveils Tel Aviv- Military figures leading Sudan’s political to be forced to normalize in a week or two,” transition have appeared open to normalizing acting Finance Minister Hiba Mohamed Ali Developed Instagram Lite ties, but civilian groups including left-wing told Sudanese TV on Monday. and Islamist politicians are more reluctant. “If it is our wish to normalize relations A technocratic government has so far with Israel, we must give a suitable chance for rebuffed US advances aimed at pushing ence to users on all network types and when the issue to be studied in detail.” BY ALLON SINAI/CTech Sudan to follow the lead of the United Arab bandwidth is at a minimum. Despite apparent support from Burhan, Emirates and Bahrain, both of which signed “We have started testing the new version who met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- Facebook unveiled on Tuesday its latest agreements to establish formal ties with Israel of Instagram Lite for Android with a small yahu in Uganda in February, and his military lightweight application, announcing it was at the White House last month. group of users and so far, the feedback has deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who testing a new version of Instagram Lite, an app Khartoum’s caution reflects concerns that been very positive,” said Michelle Lourie, recently praised Israel’s economic development, for Android that was developed in Tel Aviv. such a major foreign policy move at a time of Product Manager, Instagram Lite. a rapid move to normalize ties could fracture the Facebook Lite was launched in 2015, targeting deep economic crisis could upset the delicate Covid-19 lockdowns around the world civilian coalition they share power with. developing markets and designed to work in balance between military and civilian factions, presented another challenge for Facebook’s “Our view of the Zionist entity remained areas with limited internet connections. It and even put the government at risk, two senior development teams, but Gal Zellermayer, fixed — that it is a racist entity hostile to all is currently available in over 100 countries Sudanese government sources said. Software Engineering Manager, Instagram national liberation movements,” said Sadiq and Facebook plans to use a similar rollout “Taking a historic decision over relations Lite, said they managed to improvise around Farouk, a Communist Party leader from the for Instagram Lite. The app, which is less with Israel requires a situation of economic the difficulties. coalition that backs the government. than 2MB compared to the 32MB required and political stability in the country,” said one “Covid-19 forced us to work from home Hamdok has said he is not authorized to for the full version, was designed to offer the of the sources. and presented additional challenges and this decide on ties with Israel. “With this position, core features of the app for Android and was “After the lifting of US sanctions, Sudan was significant as things that we were used to Hamdok wants to avoid any decision that already made available for testing in South- could discuss dialogue about normalization doing previously, like opening a physical war might lead to a split in the ruling coalition that east Asia last month, with countries in Africa with Israel and its benefits to Sudan, according room ahead of the launch of a new application, supports the government,” said Fath Alrahman and then India next in line. to Sudan’s interests.” could no longer be done,” Zellermayer said in Ahmed of Khartoum’s Al-Neelain University. The development of the app was co-led Sudan, which historically has been a conference call on Tuesday. “We created a Recognizing Israel could also trigger a by Facebook’s R&D hub in Tel Aviv, one of staunchly opposed to Israel, is 18 months virtual war room and did all the brainstorming backlash from Islamist factions loyal to Bashir the largest strategic engineering hubs for into a political transition after autocrat Omar remotely. Secondly, until the pandemic, we that have sought to discredit the transition. Facebook globally. al-Bashir was forced from power following relied on in-person meetings to do our user Still, people have been able to signal “Instagram Lite builds on the work we popular protests. research; this is where we meet with groups support for establishing ties publicly for the did for Facebook Lite in Tel Aviv. We took The government faces spiraling infla- of people who test our apps and ask them first time. many of the lessons learned and technologies tion of more than 200% and has struggled to questions about their experience. We had to A former member of parliament, developed while we were creating Facebook provide basic commodities and services. The move these meetings virtually too and it was Abulgasem Bartum, says he is planning a Lite and applied them to Instagram Lite, coronavirus pandemic and severe flooding difficult not being able to sit next to a person private trip with 40 Sudanese businesspeople, together with our basic premise to leave no have added to its woes. and ask them to show you what issues they sportspeople, and cultural figures to Israel as a one behind,” said Tzach Hadar, Director of Removal from the terrorism list — once have or what they like about the app. confidence-building measure next month. Product Management for Lite interfaces and Khartoum sets aside $335 million it agreed to “We used proven technological princi- In Jerusalem, Zvi Hauser, chairman of Tel Aviv tech site lead. “With Instagram Lite pay to US victims of militant attacks and their ples in the development after seeing that this the Israeli parliament’s Foreign Affairs and people around the world will enjoy a high- families — could help ease economic pain, technology works with Facebook Lite,” added Defense Committee, told public broadcaster quality Instagram experience, no matter what partly by unlocking international financing Zellermayer. “We took the same principles Kan Israel could help the region with science device or network they are using.” and debt relief. and adapted them to Instagram Lite. Modern and technology and he hoped Sudan joined With a significant proportion of people Washington has offered Sudan devel- applications are usually tens of MB large, but the “wave” of recognition. in emerging markets not having access to opment and humanitarian help, US and Instagram Lite is less than 2MB. We basically Some younger Sudanese, less wedded high-speed Wi-Fi internet, they are left to rely Gulf-based sources said in September, after took most of our code and moved it from the to the Palestinian cause than their parents or on their mobile connection which typically US officials and military head General Abdel phone to our server farms. This saves a lot of grandparents, say they could also back the move. doesn’t go above 2G/3G. Instagram Lite was Fattah al-Burhan discussed the issue of Israel memory and processing resources that were “I have no objection to Sudan having built to bring a reliable Instagram experi- in September. previously required from the phone.” normal relations with Israel if this is in the But while the United States has been interest of the country,” said Ahmed Ibrahim, lobbying hard for Sudan to normalize with Israel a 30-year-old telecommunications company just as it finalizes Khartoum’s removal from the employee. San Diego Cops Arrest 14-Year-Old list, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok “We want jobs, health, education and a has argued the two issues should not be linked. Boy for Antisemitic Assault on Rabbi better life … Sudan should take care of itself.” been targeted by a group of teens, including “It doesn’t just impact the target, but its the alleged assailant, for a few weeks before a message to the whole community that says, BY ALGEMEINER STAFF ground as he walked to synagogue with his the attack. They had been heckled and a car ‘We don’t want you here,” Gillies noted. “That father for Shabbat services. window was broken, he said. is the double impact of the hate crime.” A San Diego teenage boy was arrested by Halevy explained that the teen had Even before the attack on Halevy, the police last Friday in connection with a violent ridden past him on a bike, and then abruptly Anti-Defamation League’s regional director assault on a rabbi in the University City neigh- turned and punched him in the face. After had highlighted the problems faced by the borhood the previous weekend. regaling the rabbi with insults and a reference synagogue. The 14-year-old was booked into Juvenile to “white power,” he rode off laughing, Halevy “We don’t want to be dismissive and say Hall on battery and hate crime charges, San told The San Diego Union-Tribune. it was just kids,” the ADL’s Tammy Gillies said. Diego Police Lt. Shawn Takeuchi said. On “I was shocked, stunned, and hurt, but “We have to take hate and any hate incident the previous Saturday, Oct. 10, the teen was was grateful that my father was unharmed,” very seriously.” alleged to have punched Rabbi Yonatan the rabbi recalled. Following the assault on the rabbi, Gillies Rabbi Yonatan Halevy of Congregation Shiviti in Halevy of the Shiviti Congregation to the Halevy said that the synagogue had labeled it a “message crime.” San Diego. Photo: Handout. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2020 A5 U.S. News.
Q: For countries like Saudi Arabia that US Envoy Carr: 1.7 Million sponsor antisemitic content directed at American universities, should eliminating that problem be a contingency for normal- Antisemitic Posts on Facebook, ization with Israel? A: From the first days of my appointment Twitter So Far in 2020 to the role of special envoy and in fact my first public speech, I’ve talked about antise- mitic curricula in the Arab world and how US Special Envoy for Monitoring and Com- important of a policy priority this is for me. bating Anti-Semitism Elan Carr, New Jersey Elan Carr has served as US special envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism since When children are indoctrinated in hate, first on July 23, 2019. Photo: Zack DiGregorio/Office of US Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.). February 2019. of all, it’s an appalling injustice. It amounts to Previously, he was a deputy district attorney in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s child abuse. But also it does intergenerational cula, and how Jews and Israel are treated, office. He was also a judge advocate in the American military’s judicial system, prosecuting damage that’s so difficult to undo, so this is enemy combatants before Iraqi judges at the Central Criminal Court. He also served as the inter- and how Jewish history in the Arab world is something I have stressed, that I have worked treated, which is an issue of deep, personal national president of Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi). on, and that I will continue to work on as long Carr, 51, a Republican, unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2014 against Democratic Rep. significance to me. as I’m in this role. This is a critically important Q: What was your reaction to the Ted Lieu of California. issue. Given the changes in the Middle East, I He and his wife, Dahlia, have three children. Council on Foreign Relations recently think Arab states are now more willing than hosting a Zoom event with Iranian Foreign JNS talked with Carr by phone on Oct. 15. The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. ever before to give a fresh look at their curri- Q: Does the federal government have an obligation to go after Big Tech for aiding and Continued on Page A9 abetting antisemitism and anti-Zionism? A: Obviously, a portion of online antisemitism rises to the level of crime, and, of course, that should be addressed and addressed aggressively. But the vast majority of online hate is protected by the First Amendment, so the govern- ment can’t go after protected speech nor should it. Q: Would a free-market approach be best to combat antisemitism and anti-Zionism on social media sites? A: Competition is always a good thing, and certainly, the government has expressed that view specifically in the context of the social media platforms. At the end of the day, you’ve got some bad actors who are spouting hate on the Internet. One can decide to regulate this or that platform, but at the end of the day, we’ve got to go to the source of the problem. The source of the problem is people hold despi- cable views. The First Amendment protects despicable views, but it doesn’t mean we can’t condemn them or call them out. I think that is absolutely critical. One of the things I think is fundamentally important is that the social media platforms adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism. They haven’t done that yet. We’ve encouraged it publicly and privately. We will continue to push them to do that publicly or privately because I think it’s incredibly important. You can’t confront a threat unless you define the threat. We have a widely accepted vehicle that defines that threat. The State Department uses the IHRA definition. US President [Donald] Trump issued an executive order that employs the definition for the federal government at large. I think the social media platforms ought to adopt it and use it as a tool. This is a tool not of censorship, but a tool of educa- tion. We want to deal with the haters by meeting their speech with, first of all, condemnation, and second of all, education. Q: Which platforms specifically aren’t willing to combat antisemitism? A: I don’t want to name names. Obviously, there’s a deep web. We focus a lot on social media and rightfully so. On Twitter and Facebook alone, 1.7 million antisemitic posts were made in the first eight months of this year. I was shocked by the kind of things that are said openly and notoriously on these fringe deep-web platforms, so I absolutely think there’s a very, very big problem. This is just raw hate that is being spewed, and it’s dangerous. There are real effects to this. Q: What do the Abraham Accords mean for the fight against antisemitism? Could it help diminish antisemi- tism in the Arab world? A: The Abraham Accords are a game-changer for the Middle East and mark a sea change not only in Arab-Israel relations, but yes, in terms of the global fight against antisem- itism. A lot of antisemitism in the world today is expressed in terms of Israel hatred—the delegitimization and demoni- zation of the Jewish state, and the denial of participation in economic intercourse and ordinary relations with other countries. For the UAE and Bahrain to not only normalize relations with Israel, but to do it in the manner in which they’ve done it—a full embrace, and enthusiastic and affec- tionate embrace of the Jewish state—is historic, profoundly important and world-changing. I think while this doesn’t spell the end of the BDS movement or the end of antisemi- tism, it is an enormous loss for the antisemites of the world who want to continue to exclude Jews and demonize them. I had the privilege of attending the signing. It was incredibly emotional. A senior member of an Arab delega- tion came up to me and say, “We’re going to do great things together. This is not going to be a cold peace. This is going to be a warm peace. This is going to be a real friendship.” You’re going to see more Arab states normalizing relations with Israel. This is an incredible time we’re living in. A6 | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2020 Opinion.
“Then I come to my house,” he related, “my foyer is always full of people — Jews and Celebrating the Coronavirus Heroes non-Jews, important people and not, judges and policemen, people who love me and people who hate me, a mixture of people, all of whom have been waiting for me to come seen her work day and night to ensure the entity that should be eradicated without trace? An enemy that preys specifically on home.” He takes a few minutes to eat “the only best possible treatment and medicines make meal I take in 24 hours. Then I go out to heal SHMULEY BOTEACH their way to the many strangers who reached the elderly and most vulnerable. That is the ENGELWOOD coronavirus. So why hasn’t God wiped it out? them, write them prescriptions and instruc- out to her in crisis. tions for treating their problems. Patients go With an illness that’s treated on a minute- I wish I could ask Him. I would protest to my Creator that the pandemic is an abomi- in and out until nightfall, and sometimes — I to-minute basis, it makes a difference that key swear to you by the Torah — it is two hours medications are delivered on time. In a situa- nation to his own glory, and that people For too many, 2020 has been a horrible into the night before they are all gone.” He tion where a wrong medical turn can spell who love life are being alienated from faith year filled with pain, disease, and heart- describes having to treat patients “while lying disaster for a patient, it’s equally essential for and belief as they see this disgusting disease break. The coronavirus has killed more than down on my back from exhaustion.” By the expert advice to be available to those with no spread without respite. a million people the world over — 20% in the time it’s all over, Maimonides explains, “I am idea what to do. I’ve witnessed people without But God has not consulted me on the US alone. It has shut down schools and shuls, so weak, I cannot even talk anymore.” access to either of these saved in their hour of coronavirus. So, all we can do for now is restaurants and parks, movie theaters and Miri walks this noble path pioneered by need by Miri, working tirelessly to ensure they adhere to His commandments to feed the museums, and made a ghost town of places Maimonides for Jewish activist-physicians. get both, then inquiring regularly about their hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick, and like mid-town Manhattan. And it’s made us all It’s been a tough year for me personally, condition. comfort the bereaved. In observing Miri’s more paranoid, weary of strangers, afraid to beginning with the loss of my father in Los Then it became more personal. incessant efforts to save even the lives of hug our own grandchildren. Angeles and continuing through the agony My own brother Chaim, older than me by complete strangers, one sees the world’s But often the darkest times produce the of my brother’s illness — but ending, thank just a year and the sibling with whom I shared foremost Jewish philanthropist, along with greatest heroes. Since this week celebrates a God, in the triumph of his recovery, the birth a room as a child, got sick with COVID-19 her husband Sheldon, carrying out the highest big birthday for global philanthropist Miriam of a grandchild named after my father, and the and was hospitalized. Miri sprang into action, ideals of ancient Jewish values and tradition. Adelson, it behooves me to publicly recognize wedding of our daughter Rochel Leah, God calling his doctors daily to ensure he had all Nearly a millennia ago, Maimonides was her efforts during the coronavirus. willing this week. I owe a giant thank you to the medications necessary. She did not do this his generation’s most accomplished practitioner For years, I have born witness to Miriam’s the heroes like Miri — and the other physi- because he was the brother of a friend. She of medicine. He served as the personal physi- tireless charitable efforts, both as a champion cians and first responders — who are getting had done the same for countless, unnamed cian to Sultan Saladin, one of history’s greatest of the Jewish people and as a physician. us through a time of crisis like no other. others. Thank God my brother recovered. Muslim conquerors, and published medical Anyone who has visited Miri’s clinics in Las Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, “America’s A fundamental Jewish belief maintains guides consulted throughout the world. Vegas and Tel Aviv knows how deeply she Rabbi,” whom The Washington Post calls that when God is hidden, it’s up to us to stand Explaining to his friend and translator, cares about people. I’ve also seen her cut whole “the most famous Rabbi in America,” is the in for Him. I have no idea why God is allowing Rabbi Shmuel Ibn Tibbon, why he wouldn’t hours from an overflowing schedule to sit with author of The Israel Warrior, Judaism for the spread of this awful virus. What could God have time for a visit, he describes spending hours Jewish students fighting for Israel on campus. Everyone, and Renewal: The Seven Central be thinking? every day attending to the medical needs of the During the pandemic, I’ve seen a whole Values of the Jewish Faith. Follow him on In the Torah, God commands the Jewish Sultan, his officers, and the royal family. His real new side to Miri’s dedication to humanity. I’ve Twitter and Instagram @RabbiShmuley. people to wipe out Amalek. And what is this work, however, began when he got home.
Exact percentages are difficult to come are some elements in the Democratic Party by, but according to a February 2015 PA who argue that if they win the White House, Palestinians Choose Guns Ministry of Finance report, “budget alloca- full US funding to the PA should be resumed. tions to the security services in Palestine’s The reality of how the PA chooses to spend its Over Butter 2014 general budget amounted to 28%” of the money, however, offers a sober reminder of total budget. And that figure might actually what a terrible mistake it would be to resume have been even higher. Hassan Khreisheh, the old, failed policy of throwing American vice president of the PA’s Legislative Council, taxpayer dollars down that black hole known of the five hospitals in predominantly Arab told the Arab media outlet Al-Monitor last as the PA bank account. neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem. year that “the security expenditures are much Stephen M. Flatow is a vice president of STEPHEN M.FLATOW/ But no, Erekat insisted on being taken higher, reaching 35% of the public budget.” the Religious Zionists of America, an attorney to Hadassah Hospital in the Jerusalem neigh- Another big chunk of the PA’s annual in New Jersey, and the father of Alisa Flatow, JNS.ORG borhood of Ein Kerem. And the kind folks at budget is used to pay imprisoned terror- who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Hadassah took him in, despite all the Jewish ists and the families of dead terrorists. Even Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. His book blood on his hands from all those years of The Washington Post, which is strongly A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Sure, it’s ironic that a Palestinian leader terrorist attacks perpetrated by the organi- sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, has Iranian Terror is now available on Kindle. who accused Israel of spreading the corona- zation of which he was, and is, a senior acknowledged that in 2017, the PA paid $160 virus has checked himself into an Israeli representative. million to terrorists in Israeli prisons, and hospital now that he is afflicted with it. But the I’m sure that was a wise decision by another $183 million to terrorists’ families. implications of this episode are much more Erekat, from a medical point of view. No doubt That’s a total investment of $343 million in the significant than another chuckle over Pales- any Israeli hospital is better equipped than PA’s “pay to slay” terror program. tinian hypocrisy. any of the PA’s hospitals. If you have COVID- Imagine how many Palestinian Arab lives This week’s two-face is Saeb Erekat, 19, Jerusalem (or Tel Aviv or Haifa) is the place might have been saved if the PA had spent even the secretary-general of the PLO execu- to go, not Ramallah. But the question is: Why? part of that money on medicine and equipment tive committee. He has served as the PLO’s It’s not because Israel prohibits the PA to combat the coronavirus. Why, even Saeb Palestinians burn pictures during a protest representative in various negotiations, and as from training doctors. It doesn’t. And it’s not Erekat might agree to be treated in a PA hospital. against Bahrain’s move to normalize relations Yasser Arafat’s spokesman to the foreign news because some Israeli blockade prevents The issue is important because there with Israel, September 12, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/ Ibraheem Abu Mustafa. media. Among the blood libels that Erekat the PA from importing medical equipment. has spread against Israel was his loudly publi- There’s no such blockade. cized claim in 2002 that Israel “massacred” Rather, it’s because the PA prefers to spend more than 500 Palestinian Arabs in Jenin. The its money on guns, not butter. Or in this case — American Muslims for actual number was 53, and they were terror- guns and terrorists’ salaries, not ventilators. ists who were killed in battle. The PA has one of the largest per-capita A more recent anti-Israel slander from security forces in the world. The Palestinian Palestine Pushes Erekat was his announcement, in the official Shehab News Agency reported last year that Palestinian Authority (PA) newspaper the PA has “65,000 troops” — that is, policemen Debunked Israeli Police Al-Hayat Al-Jadida on March 20, that Israelis and various “security” units that function as a de were “spitting on Palestinian cars and property facto army. The PA spent more than $1 billion on in order to transfer the corona disease to them” those forces in 2018, according to Shehab. Exchange Narrative (translation by Palestinian Media Watch). What in the world does the PA need When Erekat himself came down with 65,000 troops for? It’s not like the PA has the disease last week, he had many Pales- ever fought any wars, or is threatened by any tinian Arab hospitals from which to choose. but it sure is disturbing. Blindfolded Pales- country in the region. According to the Oslo tinian detainees appear next to an image of He could have opted to be treated at the Accords, the PA’s security forces are supposed STEVEN EMERSON American police in riot gear. hospital closest to his home, which is the to apprehend terrorists, but they have never Jericho Government Hospital. Or he could WASHINGTON In the video posted to its Facebook taken that obligation seriously, which is why page on Wednesday, American Muslims for have gone to one of the 15 hospitals in other the Israeli army has to keep going into PA PA-occupied areas, such as the “Martyr Yasser Palestine (AMP) claimed that programs that areas to capture the terrorists whom the PA take American police leaders to Israel “only Arafat Government Hospital” in Salfit. Or one security forces leave untouched. The video is just over two minutes long, Continued on Page A7 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2020 A7 Opinion.
Continued from Page A6 repeatedly to meet with counterparts there and Debunked knows many other police exchange alumni. Saeb Erekat: Why Israel exacerbate US law enforcement officials’ None has returned saying, “Man, you’re not disproportionate use of force, especially going to believe what we learned about crowd Chose to Aid an Ailing Enemy against people of color.” control or you’re not going to believe what we “Participants’ pre-existing notions of learned about new interrogation techniques.” militarized security were reinforced by the Rather, Dekmar said, “It’s how the Israeli Israeli officials who teach the methods of mass police, under extremely difficult circum- surveillance, racial profiling, violent repression stances, [have] a respect for human rights of protests, infiltration of communities, and the and civil rights, the accountability system that JONATHAN S. TOBIN militarization of border security,” a narrator says. includes the courts and how they do a very It’s an extension of an ongoing campaign good job under difficult circumstances.” JNS.org to connect the training programs to American When the AMP video claims that the police violence, in hopes of persuading local programs “exacerbate US law enforcement governments to prohibit their law enforce- officials’ disproportionate use of force, especially against people of color,” the video It’s the kind of story that drives a lot ment agencies from participating. The AMP shows a New York Police Department car of friends of Israel nuts. One of its chief Palestinian Authority (PA) chief negotiator video ends by directing viewers to a website Saeb Erekat, Jan. 30, 2019. called “Deadly Exchange,” run by the anti- rolling into a crowd of protesters. opponents, Palestinian Liberation Organiza- Photo: Reuters / Mohamad Torokman. Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). But real-life experiences from two retired tion senior leader Saeb Erekat, recently fell ill JVP did not start the campaign to end police chiefs who participated in Israeli police with COVID-19. Faced with the decision as to of PA leader Mahmoud Abbas and his corrupt police exchanges in Israel, but it became one exchanges debunk the AMP claim. where to be treated, it was only natural that Fatah Party. There is a fair amount of security of the effort’s leaders in 2017 when it launched George Turner’s tenure as Atlanta police instead of going to a Palestinian hospital or coordination going on that is partly aimed at a concerted campaign under the banner chief included protests tied to the Occupy Wall even one in neighboring Jordan, he chose to reducing Palestinian attacks on Israelis, yet “Deadly Exchange.” Street and Black Lives Matter movements. A go to Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. also focused on keeping Abbas alive against threats from his Hamas rivals. The campaign, and its reliance on unsub- CNN report from 2011 showed that Turner’s This is, after all, the same person who stantiated allegations and antisemitic roots, officers did not use tear gas or any excessive spent his career lying about Israel, and Doing favors for Palestinian leaders is part of this uneasy relationship, so it’s hardly were the subject of a two-part investigation force in finding a middle ground between smearing it as a nation of oppressors and published last week by the Investigative people’s rights to protest and maintaining order. war criminals. He’s part of a government surprising that Israel would reserve a bed at Hadassah for the use of a person who has Project on Terrorism (IPT). In Olympia, Washington, police chief that spends far more on paying salaries and The investigation led to two major Ronnie Roberts advocated on behalf of pensions to terrorists and their families than done so much to hurt the Jewish state. But the real reason goes far deeper findings: environmental protesters opposed to fracking on hospitals. Indeed, in March of this year, he 1. Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) spent nearly sand being shipped through Olympia’s port. actually went so far as to falsely allege that than that. As much as Israel is depicted as a three years promoting “Deadly Exchange,” In all the years of casting interaction Israelis were spitting on Palestinian cars so as with Israelis as a cause for American police modern-day Sparta — a militarized state that saying the police trainings in Israel led to spread the coronavirus to them. And though excesses, neither JVP nor AMP nor anyone is dominated and governed by its security to “extrajudicial executions, shoot-to-kill he has served as the Palestinian Authority else has produced a whistleblower to contra- establishment — Jewish values still play a policies, police murders…” The organiza- (PA)’s chief peace negotiator, he’s spent his tion quietly scrubbed that language from dict the chiefs’ accounts. And while JVP still crucial part in its decision-making. Being a tenure in that position working to make peace the Deadly Exchange website in June, calls the program “Deadly Exchange,” there is Jewish state necessarily involves consider- negotiations impossible, swearing that he will issuing an “update” which cautioned that not one example of anyone being harmed as a ations that a purely utilitarian approach to life never recognize Israel as a Jewish state and “Suggesting that Israel is the start or source result of the police programs. would reject. end the ongoing conflict. of American police violence or racism shifts Hawkins pointed to a general tendency Much like Netanyahu’s highly contro- However, when faced with the question the blame from the United States to Israel. to “repeat what others say without any versial decision to trade more than 1,000 of the best place in the region to seek help, … It also furthers an antisemitic ideology.” evidence, or their own experience from what Israel was the obvious answer. convicted Palestinian terrorists, including 2. Critics like JVP, AMP, and others offer no they’ve seen or what they’ve heard. Without One of the region’s pre-eminent health- many with blood on their hands, for the evidence to support their allegations. any personal experience, they empathize with care facilities, Hadassah and its doctors took freedom of a kidnapped young soldier, Israeli Rather, they make emotional appeals, someone else’s story. Which is good. It’s okay him in. The odds may be against the seriously leaders often wind up doing things that juxtaposing images of Israeli police in to empathize. But when you repeat it without ill Erekat, who has already had a lung trans- objectively make little sense. The Gilad Shalit tactical gear with similarly outfitted understanding, or without true facts, we plant and a heart attack, surviving the illness. prisoner exchange let murderers of children American cops. The IPT interviewed four see a lot on social media right now in which But if he were to have a chance anywhere, it walk free; however, the obligation to redeem police chiefs — two active and two retired people are just retweeting false information, would be at Hadassah. a captive took precedence and rather than — who said they saw none of the horrors or sharing information without the full story.” The better question is: Why would Israel, suffer politically for the decision, Netanyahu described by JVP or AMP. It is important to consider the overall which has been on the receiving end of his was applauded by voters even as security JVP’s update is an indirect acknowl- objective held by the police exchange vitriol, slanders, and worse, open its doors to experts deplored the precedent he had set. edgement that the campaign was rooted in a program critics. Erekat and do what it could to save him? By the same token, the generally hyperbolic, antisemitic smear. And our inves- JVP members “unequivocally oppose Some Israelis and friends of the Jewish tough-minded premier likely felt that it was tigation showed how rhetoric falsely linking Zionism.” The organization includes Omar state can’t understand it. They see this willing- impossible for him to refuse a humanitarian Israeli police training to American police killing Barghouti, the father of the antisemitic ness to help even enemies as a particular request, even from a bitter foe. black people has been repeated by Israel- Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) form of weakness. They cite the passage It’s doubtful that any other country would bashers like Linda Sarsour, Marc Lamont Hill, movement, on a “Deadly Exchange” advisory from the Midrash of the sages that says, “He be so generous to an enemy, yet somehow, the and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. board. Barghouti openly admits that he who becomes compassionate to the cruel notion that Israel would turn away a person Despite its new disclaimer, JVP has not opposes “a Jewish state in any part of Pales- will ultimately become cruel to the compas- in need is inconceivable. Unlike the English acknowledged its own role pushing the kind tine. No Palestinian — rational Palestinian, sionate” as a good reason to turn Erekat down. common-law tradition, there is a specific of antisemitic rhetoric it now warns against. not a sell-out Palestinian — will ever accept a Others think that it was wrong of the Jewish obligation to help others rather than to Despite engaging in rhetoric it now says Jewish state in Palestine.” government of Prime Minister Benjamin stand by watching their plight. “provides fodder for those racist and antise- AMP “unequivocally supports the right of return” for Palestinians, something which Netanyahu not to exact concessions from Israel isn’t perfect, but it is often unfairly mitic tropes,” it wants people to believe the would end Israel’s existence as a Jewish the Palestinians in exchange for what may judged by a double standard about its conduct rest of the campaign is grounded in truth. homeland by flooding it with Palestinian well be the best chance of saving Erekat’s life. towards enemies that is not applied to any other That’s simply not the case. The IPT spoke with police exchange “refugees” who are generations removed from And it wasn’t just right-wingers saying that. democracy at war. Though it is far more scrupu- organizers and participants. Each said the any relative who actually lived in Israel or the Michal Cotler-Wunsh, a moderate member lous about trying to avoid hurting civilians when programs contained no hands-on training of Palestinian territories. of the Knesset from the Blue and White it fights its foes, it is continually blamed for any any kind. And rather than pushing a message We get it. They hate Israel and can’t tolerate Party, asserted that prior to admitting him, casualties in ways that others are not. of oppression, the chiefs said the programs anything that acknowledges its existence or Israel should have gotten the PA to agree to Like the peace offers that Erekat and emphasized the importance of good commu- contributions to the world. Just come out and reciprocal humanitarian gestures, such as his comrades have repeatedly rejected, no one will give Israel credit for its unilateral nity relations, of making sure disparate say it. It would at least be honest and not a returning the bodies of slain Israeli soldiers community voices are heard. perpetuation of this fact-free narrative. being held by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza humanitarianism. But it’s entirely natural, if also frustrating, that Netanyahu would help “So I knew my experience was nothing To see part 1 of the IPT investigation, Strip or freeing an Ethiopian-Israeli and an even close to what [critics] were trying to which focuses on JVP’s false narrative, click Israeli Arab who wandered over the border to a Palestinian leader in need even when we know that if the shoe were on the other foot, portray or what they’ve said was the purpose here. To see part 2, and hear directly from the that terrorist enclave. of the training, the executive level leader- police chiefs and organizers, click here. That sounds only fair; still, the supposedly Israel’s foes would not do the same. The instinctual application of traditional ship training,” Fayetteville, North Carolina Steven Emerson is Executive Director of hardline government led by Netanyahu didn’t The Investigative Project on Terrorism (www. Jewish values by the Jewish state’s secular police chief Gina V. Hawkins said. “Definitely, try to extract such concessions or at least didn’t none of the information in regards to any investigativeproject.org). He is the author try very hard to do so quietly. Why not? government should not surprise anyone. or co-author of eight books on the Middle Even when it will not advance Israel’s cause, type of policing that’s against any type of One pragmatic answer is that for all demographics, because that, one, would go East, terrorism, and national security, as behaving decently to those who would not well as the producer of two award-winning of the antagonism between Israel and the totally against my beliefs, and totally against PA, in addition to the latter’s refusal to make reciprocate such a gesture is still the default documentaries and the author of thousands position of any government of the Jewish state. the beliefs of law enforcement, the profes- of investigative exposes on Islamist groups in peace, the day-to-day working relationship sional law enforcement that we know.” Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of the US, terrorist plots, and the corruption of between them continues. Contrary to the LaGrange, Georgia chief Louis Dekmar, JNS-Jewish News Syndicate. Follow him on government agencies. incessant talk about the occupation, almost a past president of the International Associa- Twitter @jonathans_tobin. Research Analyst Teri Blumenfeld all Palestinians live under the dictatorial rule tion of Chiefs of Police, has traveled to Israel contributed to this report. A8 | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2020 Impressions.
A New Blow to Iran’s Forgotten Jews
BY RAFAEL MEDOFF daughter of Sidney Bernstein, who was number of worthy projects that the group has assigned by the British Ministry of Informa- in the works, although there is no mention of Isn’t there something incongruous about tion in the spring of 1945 to make a film any plan to document the plight of Iran’s Jews. a human rights organization providing a documenting the atrocities in Nazi death That’s a pity, because according to the most platform to a journalist who has whitewashed camps — until politics interfered. recent State Department report on the subject, human rights abuses? Bernstein hired Alfred Hitchcock as his the persecution of Iranian Jewry continues Next week, an online event organized by supervising director. They and their crew unabated. the human rights group “3 Generations” will went into the liberated camps that spring and The 9,000-15,000 Jews remaining in Iran feature New York Times op-ed columnist Roger summer, filming the piles of unburied corpses, “face societal discrimination and harass- Cohen, who sparked an international furor in the emaciated survivors, and all the other ment,” the report says. They cannot serve in the 2009 when he visited Iran and announced that horrific evidence of the Holocaust. Some of the judiciary, the security services, or various other the oppressed Jews there were not really so footage was used in postwar trials of Nazi war professions. They “may not engage in public oppressed after all. criminals. religious expression.” Jewish schools must have Cohen’s assertion that Iranian Jews were But just before the film was completed, Muslim principals, must remain open on the “living, working, and worshiping in relative the British authorities shelved it. His Majes- Jewish Sabbath, and must have their curricula tranquility” was met with scorn across the political spectrum. Jeffrey Goldberg, in The Atlantic, called him “credulous.” The Anti-Defamation League charged Cohen with viewing Iran through “dangerous rose- colored lenses.” J.J. Goldberg, in The Forward, characterized Cohen as “simply naive, and dangerously so.” In subsequent writings and remarks, Cohen not only doubled down on his denial of Iran’s antisemitic persecution, but also heaped praise on the ruling authorities for treating him “with such consistent warmth.” That prompted caustic comments recalling notorious instances in history which other dictators wined and dined gullible foreign journalists. That year’s annual State Department report on international religious freedom presented a very different picture from the one Cohen had painted. Iran’s 25,000 Jews were the victims of “officially sanctioned discrimina- PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff introducing a segment on Nov. 27, 2018, about tion, particularly in the areas of employment, Jews inside Iran, which garnered criticism of whitewashing the Islamic Republic’s hatred education, and housing,” according to the 2009 of Israel. Photo: Screenshot. report. The ruling regime “limited the distribu- tion of Hebrew texts, particularly non-religious ty’s Government had decided upon a policy and textbooks approved by the authorities. texts, making it difficult to teach the language.” of “encouraging” and “stimulating” friendly Iranian government officials “employ antise- In addition, “There was a rise in officially relations with postwar Germany, Bernstein mitic rhetoric in official statements and sanctioned antisemitic propaganda involving and Hitchcock were abruptly informed in sanction it in media outlets, publications, official statements, media outlets, publications, September 1945. An “atrocity film” might make and books,” “government-sponsored rallies and books.” for bad feelings. According to some reports, the continued to include chants of ‘Death to Cohen tried — not very persuasively British were also concerned that the film might Israel,’” and “local newspapers carried editorial — to politicize the controversy. He claimed increase sympathy for creating a Jewish state cartoons that were antisemitic.” that allegations of Iranian Jewish suffering in Palestine, something London was resisting. All of which makes the upcoming appear- were conjured up by his political foes. “The It all came full circle 60 years later, ance by Roger Cohen at the “3 Generations” hawks’ case against Iran depends on a vision when Ms. Wells, Bernstein’s daughter, met event more than a little ironic: An unrepen- of an apocalyptic regime” that is “frenziedly photojournalist Brian Steidle, who had just tant denier of anti-Jewish persecution will be antisemitic,” Cohen asserted. Yet it was Barack returned from Darfur. Steidle described how featured by an organization whose creation Obama’s State Department that was portraying State Department officials had pressed him was inspired by the suppression of a film about Iran as frenziedly antisemitic. It seemed to stop circulating his photos of the genocide anti-Jewish persecution. One wonders what Cohen was using Iran’s Jews to advance his there; they feared Steidle was undermining Sidney Bernstein would have thought about own agenda, which was to soften Iran’s inter- US-Sudanese relations. Moved by what she this turn of events. national image in order to encourage Western saw as the “overt parallels” between Steidle’s Dr. Rafael Medoff is director of the David rapprochement with the ayatollahs. experience and her father’s, Wells produced an S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in The troubling phenomenon of political award-winning documentary about the Darfur Washington DC, and author of more than interests trumping human rights is something slaughter, and established the “3 Generations” 20 books about the Holocaust and Jewish with which the leaders of “3 Generations” are group to create and promote other human history. all too familiar. rights films. 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and instead went on to murder his Talmud. It is stated explicitly in the Continued from Page A9 brother. If God speaks and people book of Ezekiel. This is what God No Longer Righteousness is not do not listen, how can we criticise says to the Prophet: when the latter took over Kuwait Noah for not speaking when all the “Son of man, I am sending in 1990. The Saudis are also angry Leadership evidence suggests that they would you to the Israelites, to a rebellious because the Palestinians violated not have listened to him anyway? nation that has rebelled against Me; the Mecca Agreement of February The Talmud raises this very they and their ancestors have been 2007, which was supposed to put question in a different context, in revolt against Me to this very day. an end to the rift between Fatah and Jewish people. in another lawless age: the years The people to whom I am sending Hamas. (Hamas is an offshoot of the Noah was a good man in a bad Muslim Brotherhood, the Saudis’ JONATHAN SACKS leading to the Babylonian conquest you are obstinate and stubborn. age. But his influence on the life nemesis.) They are also incensed LONDON and the destruction of the First Say to them, ‘This is what the Sover- of his contemporaries was, appar- Temple, another lawless age: eign Lord says.’ And whether they that the Palestinians are willing to ently, non-existent. That is implicit Aha b. R. Hanina said: Never listen or fail to listen—for they are accept aid from Iran. in God’s statement, “You alone did a favourable word go forth a rebellious people—they will know Meanwhile, deep processes are The praise accorded to Noah have I found righteous in this whole from the mouth of the Holy One, that a Prophet has been among at work. The younger generation of is unparalleled in Tanach. He was, generation” (Gen. 7:1). It is implicit blessed be He, of which He retracted them.” (Ezek. 2:3-5) Arabs did not experience the “Pales- says the Torah, “a righteous man, also in the fact that only Noah for evil, except the following, God is telling the Prophet to tinian nakba” and it is not part of their perfect in his generations; Noah and his family, together with the where it is written, “And the Lord speak, regardless of whether people historical memory. The “Arab Spring,” which precipitated the collapse of walked with God.” No such praise is animals, were saved. It is reason- said unto him: Go through the will listen. regimes and economies and the rise given to Abraham or Moses or any able to assume that these two facts midst of the city, through the midst So, one way of reading the story of the Islamic State, threw millions of of the Prophets. The only person in – Noah’s righteousness and his of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon of Noah is as an example of lack Arabs into great distress and mass the Bible who comes close is Job, lack of influence on his contempo- the foreheads of the men that sigh of leadership. Noah was righteous emigration for a life of refugee status, described as “blameless and upright raries – are intimately related. Noah and cry for all the abominations but not a leader. He was a good poverty, and suffering far from home. preserved his virtue by separating man who had no influence on his that are being done in the midst The Palestinians’ belief that those thereof” (Ezek. 9:4). environment. There are, to be sure, Arabs should fight for the “liberation The Holy One, blessed be He, other ways of reading the story, but of Palestine” is not uppermost among said to Gabriel, “Go and set a this seems to me the most straight- their concerns. mark of ink on the foreheads of forward. If so, then Noah is the third As for Palestinian conduct, the righteous, that the destroying case in a series of failures of respon- here is an interesting case. One of angels may have no power over sibility. As we saw last week, Adam Israel’s harshest critics is Jamal Rian, them; and a mark of blood upon and Eve failed to take personal the brain behind Al Jazeera and its the foreheads of the wicked, that responsibility for their actions (“It main newscaster. He was born in the destroying angels may have wasn’t me”). Cain refused to take Tulkarem, moved to Jordan, and power over them.” Said the Attri- moral responsibility (“Am I my became a prominent activist in the bute of Justice before the Holy One, brother’s keeper?”). Noah failed the Muslim Brotherhood. It was recently blessed be He, “Sovereign of the test of collective responsibility. revealed that Rian’s father was a land Universe! How are these different This way of interpreting the dealer who, before Israel’s establish- from those?” story, if correct, entails a strong ment, sold sizable tracts of land to “Those are completelyconclusion. We know that Judaism the Jews. What Arab wants to be a (tam ve-yashar); he feared God himself from his environment. That righteous men, while these are involves collective responsibility, “sucker” and fight Israel to liberate and shunned evil” (Job 1:1). Noah is how, in a world gone mad, he completely wicked,” He replied. for it teaches Kol Yisrael arevim ze for Jamal Rian the lands his father is in fact the only individual that stayed sane. “Sovereign of the Universe!” said bazeh (“All Israel are responsible sold to Jews, a transaction that did the Tanach describes as righteous The famous debate among Justice, “They had the power to for one another” Shavuot 39a). not exactly harm his son financially? (tzaddik). the Sages as to whether the phrase protest but did not.” But it may be that simply being Another factor that works Yet the Noah we see at the end “perfect in his generations” (Gen. Said God, “Had they human also involves collective against the Palestinian ethos is the of his life is not the person we saw at 6:9) is praise or criticism may well be protested, they would not have responsibility. Not only are Jews huge increase in the use of social the beginning. After the Flood: related to this. Some said that “perfect heeded them.” responsible for one another. So media. Today, any Arab can see the Noah, a man of the soil, in his generations” means that he “Sovereign of the Universe!” are we all, regardless of our faith truth about Israel without needing to proceeded to plant a vineyard. was perfect only relative to the low said Justice, “This was revealed to or religious affiliations. So, at any rely exclusively on his government’s When he drank some of its wine, he standard then prevailing. Had he You, but was it revealed to them?” rate, Maimonides argued, though propaganda outlets for information. became drunk and lay uncovered lived in the generation of Abraham, (Shabbat 55a) Nahmanides disagreed. Automatic translation allows him or inside his tent. Ham, the father of they said, he would have been insig- According to this passage, even The Hassidim had a simple her to “read” Hebrew websites even Canaan, saw his father naked and nificant. Others said the opposite: the righteous in Jerusalem were way of making this point. They if he does not understand a word of Hebrew. This makes it much harder told his two brothers outside. But if in a wicked generation Noah was punished at the time of the destruc- called Noah a tzaddik in peltz, “a for the Palestinians to keep selling Shem and Japheth took a garment righteous, how much greater he tion of the Temple because they righteous man in a fur coat.” There “the problem” the way it used to. and laid it across their shoulders; would have been in a generation with did not protest the actions of their are essentially two ways of keeping Indeed, many Arabs now intention- then they walked in backward and role models like Abraham. contemporaries. God objects to the warm on a cold night. You can wear ally misspell “the problem” in a way covered their father’s naked body. The argument, it seems to claim of Justice: Why punish them a thick coat, or you can light a fire. that expresses contempt for it. Their faces were turned the other me, turns on whether Noah’s isola- for their failure to protest when it Wear a coat and you warm only The Arab world of 2020 differs way so that they would not see tion was part of his character, or was clear that had they done so, no yourself. Light a fire and you can from that of 2000 in many ways. It their father naked. (Gen. 9:20-23) whether it was merely the neces- one would have listened? Justice warm others too. We are supposed is not the delusional “new Middle The man of God has become sary tactic in that time and place. If replies: This may be clear to you or to light a fire. East” envisaged by Shimon Peres a man of the soil. The upright man he were naturally a loner, he would to the angels – meaning, this may Noah was a good man who was but its complete opposite: a region has become a drunkard. The man not have gained by the presence be clear in hindsight – but at the not a leader. Was he, after the Flood, that is violent, fractured, rife with of heroes like Abraham. He would clothed in virtue now lies naked. time, no human could have been haunted by guilt? Did he think of failed states, and afflicted with mass have been impervious to influence, The man who saved his family from sure that their words would have no the lives he might have saved if killing. But these unfortunate devel- whether for good or bad. If he was the Flood is now so undignified that impact. Justice asks: How can you only he had spoken out, whether to opments work in Israel’s favor. True, not a loner by nature but merely by two of his sons are ashamed to look be sure you will fail if you never try? his contemporaries or to God? We there is still hatred among Arabs for at him. This is a tale of decline. Why? circumstance, then in another age The Talmud notes that God cannot be sure. The text is sugges- Jews and the Jewish state that must Noah is the classic case of he would have sought out kindred reluctantly agreed with Justice. tive but not conclusive. be acknowledged and contended someone who is righteous, but who spirits and become greater still. Hence the strong principle: when It seems, though, that the with, and there are still hundreds of is not a leader. In a disastrous age, Yet what exactly was Noah bad things are happening in society, Torah sets a high standard for the thousands of rockets surrounding when all has been corrupted, when supposed to do? How could he when corruption, violence and moral life. It is not enough to be and threatening Israel. Neverthe- the world is filled with violence, have been an influence for good in injustice prevail, it is our duty to righteous if that means turning our less, the trend is clear. when even God Himself – in the a society bent on evil? Was he really register a protest, even if it seems backs on a society that is guilty of The peace and normalization most poignant line in the whole meant to speak in an age when likely that it will have no effect. wrongdoing. We must take a stand. between Israel and the UAE and Torah – “regretted that He had made no one would listen? Sometimes Why? Because that is what moral We must protest. We must register Bahrain signifies the collapse of the man on earth, and was pained to people do not listen even to the integrity demands. Silence may be dissent even if the probability of old theories, enabling the Jewish His very core,” Noah alone justifies voice of God Himself. We had an taken as acceptance. And besides, changing minds is small. That is state to be accepted as a member, God’s faith in humanity, the faith example of this just two chapters we can never be sure that no one because the moral life is a life we not an enemy, in the “right” coalition. that led Him to create humankind earlier, when God warned Cain of will listen. Morality demands that share with others. We are, in some Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai in the first place. That is an immense the danger of his violent feelings we ignore probability and focus on sense, responsible for the society of Kedar is a senior research associate achievement, and nothing should toward Abel – “’Why are you so possibility. Perhaps someone will which we are a part. It is not enough at the Begin-Sadat Center for detract from it. Noah is, after all, the furious? Why are you depressed?… take notice and change their ways – to be good. We must encourage Strategic Studies. man through whom God makes a sin is crouching at the door. It lusts and that “perhaps” is enough. others to be good. There are times A version of this article was covenant with all humanity. Noah is after you, but you can dominate it” This idea did not suddenly when each of us must lead. originally published by Makor to humanity what Abraham is to the (Gen. 4:6-7). Yet Cain did not listen, appear for the first time in the Shabbat Shalom Rishon and the BESA Center. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2020 A11 Social.
More Than 6-in-10 Arab News Poll Respondents Think Gal Gadot a Good Choice to Play Cleopatra
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The cover of the illustrated book ‘I am Anne Frank.’
New Children’s Book Highlights Gal Gadot’s casting as ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra created a Twitter storm last week, but the announcement left a surprising population largely Heroism of Anne Frank unmoved. More than 70 percent of respondents to an Arab News Twitter poll said they had “no problem” with the idea of Gadot – an Israeli star, who was the third- BY GARY SHAPIRO present and had a lock to protect it from being opened, highest paid actress in Hollywood in 2020 – playing recounts her experience living in hiding. A film lover, she the role. decorated her walls with pictures of movie stars from a We can all aspire to be heroes. collection of her magazines that her father surprised her That is the lesson of an illustrated book series that by taking along. recounts contributions that a wide range of individuals Part of the book opens with showing how Frank likes have made in the world. to play hide-and-seek, as well as ice skate. Meltzer said Sonia Sotomayor, Billie Jean King, Albert Einstein, young readers see how “this little girl is just like them.” Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, Helen Keller, George Over one million people annually visit the annex Washington and Benjamin Franklin are among the in Holland where she and her family went into hiding. 22 short illustrated biographies so far in the series for One brief character in the book “I am Anne Frank” said, children from kindergarten through about fourth grade. “By remembering and telling Anne’s story we make sure “The series has grown because we’re in an age nothing like this ever happens again.” where people are starved for heroes,” Brad Meltzer, the Meltzer said Anne Frank believed that people are Gal Gadot. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. writer and creator of the series, told The Algemeiner. truly good at heart. He said, “Our kids need that message Few books in the series are more poignant than especially today.” one about the young Jewish girl Anne Frank. She went Many of the Twitterati complained bitterly that What was the origin of the book? Meltzer recalled, into hiding with her family from 1942 to 1944 during the it was an affront to select an Israeli actress to play the “I walked into my editor’s office and said I’d like to do a German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Egyptian queen, who famously had a torrid marriage children’s book about the Holocaust, I thought she was The family tried unsuccessfully to leave the Nether- with Roman general and politician Mark Antony. going to kick me out of there. To her credit, she said, ‘I lands for the United States. As Jewish persecution However, the idea that Cleopatra was an Arab was think it’s the exact right time.’” increased, the family hid in rooms in a secret annex behind quickly debunked, she was in fact of Greek descent – Meltzer contacted the US Holocaust Memorial a bookcase in the building where Anne’s father worked. and a clear majority – 61 percent of respondents – said Museum, who put him in touch with a historian. The This new illustrated book, titled “I am Anne Frank” “Yes” to the question: “Do you think Israeli actress Gal author likewise contacted the Anne Frank Center for draws upon words from Frank’s own “The Diary of a Gadot is suitable for the rule of Cleopatra.”A further 12 Mutual Respect located in Atlanta to get advice with Young Girl” in which she recounts her thoughts and percent said to wait and see before deciding, while 27 dealing with a subject of such sensitivity. feelings during this clandestine episode of her life. Her percent firmly answered,”No.” “There’s a fine line between educating and scaring,” diary, translated into 70 languages, became one of the The news site’s editors seemed caught out by the Meltzer noted. most well-known books in the world. results of the poll, headlining the article, “Shockingly, He added, “The book teaches children about “The book ‘I am Anne Frank’ has been without most Arab News readers in favor of Israeli actress Gal kindness, compassion and character. Our kids need question the most important book I’ve ever worked on,” Gadot as Cleopatra,” according to The Jerusalem Post. hope right now. There’s no better hero to teach that than said Meltzer. While some on Twitter debated ancient geopoli- Anne Frank.” Christopher Eliopoulos is the illustrator of the tics, others turned to more present-day commentary, Meltzer emphasized, “I want my own kids to know series. arguing that the casting and timing of the movie were that even in the darkest places you can still find light. It’s Regarding the secret annex, Frank noted, “It may announced in the wake of the Abraham Accords a vital lesson for all of us.” be damp and lopsided, but there’s probably not a more between Israel and the two Gulf neighbors United “The book ‘I am Anne Frank’ enables you to have comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all Arab Emirates and Bahrain. conversations with your kids that become really rewarding,” of Holland.” he said. “For our kids, the world is a scary place right now. In late 1944, Anne Frank and her sister were There’s so much to worry about now. It’s nice to put a little deported to Auschwitz and then to Bergen-Belsen, hope back into the universe,” Meltzer said. where they perished. The conclusion of the book goes, “Throughout your The diary, which Frank received as a birthday life, you’ll find people who need help. Be a helper.” www.algemeiner.com Attention Not-For-Profit Organizations
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