ISRAELI Opinion. Tradition. SECURITY THE LIE OF WHEN FIRM PALESTINIAN WEAKNESS BECOMES RAISES ‘REFUGEES’ STRENGTH $30 MILLION A2. A10. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2018 | 28 NISSAN 5778 VOL. XLVI NO. 2351 Absurd: Syrian As Trump Meets With Emir, Jewish Regime to Chair UN Groups Emphasize Conference on Qatar’s Support Disarmament for Hamas BY BEN COHEN As US President Donald Trump hosted Qatar’s Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Al Th ani at the White House on Tuesday, American Jewish leaders cautioned that any warming of relations between Washington, DC and Doha should not overlook the emirate’s ongoing fi nancial support for Pales- tinian terrorism, along with its promotion of virulently anti-Israel and antisemitic propaganda. “Th e President should hold Qatar accountable for the destabilizing role it is currently playing in the Middle East,” Children in the Syrian town of Douma, following a toxic gas attack, April 7, 2018. Photo: White Helmets via Reuters. A Hamas military drill in the Gaza Strip in March 2018. Photo: Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa. BY BEN COHEN breathe and foaming at the mouth. global chemical and nuclear Th e Geneva-based NGO UN weapons disarmament will be like Betty Ehrenberg, the Executive Director of World Jewish Th e Syrian regime is to Watch said on Monday that it was putting a serial rapist in charge of Congress’s North American section, told Th e Algemeiner. preside over a UN conference on calling on ambassadors from the a women’s shelter,” Hillel Neuer Ehrenberg highlighted the role played by the Qatari disarmament next month, despite US, the EU and other democracies — executive director of UN Watch broadcaster, Al Jazeera, in “providing platforms to those its consistent use of chemical to walk out of the UN’s Confer- — declared in a statement. who justify terrorist attacks against Israelis and American weapons during a seven-year- ence on Disarmament in Geneva Neuer said his organization soldiers.” A similar concern was expressed by David old civil war — most recently on during the four weeks when the was urging the UN “to understand Weinberg – the Anti-Defamation League’s Washington Saturday, when at least 42 people, Syrian regime’s envoy, Hussam that at a time when Syria is gassing Representative for International Aff airs – who pointed out including many children, were Edin Aala, serves as president of its own men, women, and children that Qatar’s “state TV and state-controlled Grand Mosque killed in a suspected toxic gas the conference. to death, to see Syria heading the attack on the town of Douma that “Having the Syrian regime world body that is supposed to Continued on Page A3 left many victims struggling to of Bashar al-Assad preside over Continued on Page A3 Seventy ShabbatCalendar Parshat SHEMINI Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting Shabbat Begins: 7:15pm | Shabbat Ends: 8:16pm פרשת שמיני Years of Sacrifi ce P.O.B. 250746, Brooklyn, NY 11225-3203 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 page A8 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2018 Th e Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2018 Opinion. The Lie of Palestinian ‘Refugees’ The underlying narrative for this unprec- formed into all the news edented generosity is clearly articulated by that fit theTimes ‘ narra- JEROLD AUERBACH The Palestinian Right to Return Coalition: tive of Israeli blame for BOSTON “Zionist policy sought to create an exclu- Palestinian suffering. sive homeland for Jews in Palestine,” already Long opposed to the very inhabited by “an indigenous population idea of Jewish statehood, with a history stretching back thousands the Times had — and As Israel approaches its 70th anniversary of years”[sic]. Jewish “terrorist groups … occasionally still has — of independence, the time has come to finally destroyed villages and slaughtered entire trouble coping with the resolve the Palestinian refugee problem. By Palestinian families” in pursuit of their reality of Israel as the only that, I mean the real one — and not the fake aim “to annihilate the Palestinian popula- flourishing democracy in news incessantly circulated by Palestin- tion.” Committed to a “systematic policy of the Middle East. ians, their left-wing allies and UNRWA (the ethnic dispossession and elimination,” Israel As for the actual organization that nourishes itself on the ever- “forcibly evicted 737,166 Palestinians from number of Palestinian Palestinian students raise their hands in an UNRWA-run school. growing population of invented refugees.) their homes and land.” refugees from the war Photo: UN / Shareef Sarhan. UNRWA — the United Nations Relief and Consequently — and preposterously forced on Israel by its Works Administration — was established in — the Coalition claims that there are “about Arab neighbors, the most Both states can live in peace with one another 1949 for the worthy cause of assisting Pales- 7.2 million Palestinian refugees worldwide.” reliable source is historian Efraim Karsh’s and cooperate for the welfare of their inhabit- tinian refugees dislocated due to a war that As they inevitably grow in number with the Palestine Betrayed (2010). Extensively ants.” Instead, the Arab High Committee, led was initiated by Arab states against Israel. birth of (non-refugee) babies to (non-refugee) researched in British and Israeli archives, by Haj Amin al-Husseini, chose war. Pales- UNRWA’s dependents were defined as families, their inflated numbers can only Karsh concluded that actual Palestinian tinian displacement was the consequence. “persons whose regular place of residence increase over time. refugees numbered between 583,000-609,000. Fast forward seven decades. It is estimated was Palestine during the period from 1 June The problem with this plaintive narrative Anyone can trace the sorrowful town-by-town that 99% of UNRWA’s currently designated 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home of perpetual suffering (based on inexorable Palestinian exodus of 1947-48 that he meticu- Palestinian “refugees” are, in fact, only descen- and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 refugee inflation) is that it is blatant falsity. lously documented. dants of actual refugees. That leaves some conflict” waged by Arab states to annihilate Yet, this myth has managed to attract devoted Had Palestinian leaders been willing to 30,000 as bona-fide refugees — the same Israel. The largest UN agency, UNRWA is adherents. accept the November 1947 United Nations number of people that UNRWA employs. It is now an employment organization for a staff Take, for example, The New York Times. resolution calling for the partition of Palestine well past time for the United States (and even of 30,000 — the overwhelming majority of Its first editorial on the plight of Palestinian into two independent states — one Jewish and The New York Times) to dissociate itself from whom are Palestinians. Between 2010-2016, refugees (11/9/52) cited 850,000. Two one Arab — Palestinian refugees could have the world’s longest swindle. the United States was the organization’s most years later, Cyrus Sulzberger, the publisher’s returned to their own sovereign state — in Jerold S. Auerbach is author of the generous benefactor, providing upwards of $3 nephew, referred to 900,000 (1/31/55).The Palestine. It would have ended the conflict. forthcoming “Print to Fit: The New York million annually — before finally recognizing number subsequently peaked at 925,000 As future Israeli Prime Minister Golda Times, Zionism and Israel (1896-2016),” the scam and cutting its monthly contribu- (4/2/57). Along the way, the Times‘ mantra Meyerson (Meir) told Israeli celebrants: “Our to be published this summer by Academic tions in half. of “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” was trans- hands are extended in peace to our neighbors. Studies Press. On Zionism, Progressives Take a Page Out of the Socialist Playbook tive obsession with a caricature of Zionism, or Party — across Russia, as well as in Czechoslo- the whether you believe that this same caricature vakia, East Germany, Poland and other Warsaw Algemeiner Journal BEN COHEN/JNS.ORG is hard-wired into the left’s worldview. Pact countries. NEW YORK At the heart of the spectacle in Stalin’s In the West, while many centrist social (USPS 927800) is published weekly dacha was contempt — not just for Zinoviev democrats have been among the greatest (except for the week of Passover as a supposed “traitor,” but also as the embodi- friends of Israel and the Jewish people, the and Succos) ment of the feeble, ingratiating Jew who will remainder of the left largely incorporated Subscription rate $40 per year There is a tragic account of the last say or do anything to preserve himself. This ideological hostilities reminiscent of the Algemeiner Journal moments of Grigori Zinoviev, the veteran antisemitic stereotype long predated the Soviet regime. When the “New Left” emerged period of Communist rule, of course, but its in the 1960s, its libertarian suspicions of the 508 Montgomery Street Russian Bolshevik leader of Jewish descent persistence was entirely in keeping with a repressive Soviet society didn’t prevent the Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225-3023 who was executed by Stalin in 1936. According to the historian Donald Rayfield, on the journey revolutionary program that regarded any adoption of a demonized view of Zionism Periodicals Postage from his prison cell to the execution cellar, expression of Jewish identity — whether straight out of the Soviet playbook; some Paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. the broken Zinoviev “clung to the boots of his religious, secular, cultural or national — as of the movement’s graduates (in Germany, and at additional mailing offices guards and was taken down by stretcher.” “counter-revolutionary.” ironically) were even recruited by Palestinian “This scene,” Rayfield continues in his That is essentially why the Jewish terrorist groups to organize attacks on Jewish POSTMASTER: book on Stalin’s crimes, “was re-enacted encounter with socialism in most of its forms and Israeli targets.