St Andrews student sentenced for racist offence

A student who racially abused a Jewish student at St Andrews University has been sentenced to 150 hours of community service and orderd to pay £300 compensation.

Azzam Pasha

THE HEART AND ROOT OF
THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE

"We are already on the frontiers and that all the millions the Jews had spent on land and economic development will be easy booty, for it would be a simple matter to throw Jews into the Mediterranean.... Brothers, Arabs of Palestine leave your land, homes and property and stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states, lest the guns of the invading Arab armies mow them down."

Azzam Pasha (beloved uncle and mentor to Yasser Arafat)
The Secretary-General of the Arab League, , assured the Arab peoples that the occupation of Palestine and Tel Aviv would be as simple as "a military promenade,"said Habib Issa in the New York Lebanese paper,
Al Hoda (June 8, 1951).

Dundee City Council on June 13, 2011 is scheduled to debate a motion critical of Israel. Believing that councillors will want to be informed regarding the basis for the censure and judge its merits according to established fact, Scottish Friends of Israel have forwarded the following memorandum on the motion to all councillors: (cont'd..)

No Smoke Without Fire

News media have lit a fire under West Dunbartonshire Council (WDC) and Dundee City Council (DCC) with allegations of anti-Semitic undertones to the Councils' motions on a boycott of goods and services emanating from (and only from) Israel. WDC and DCC may have track records of responding in similar fashion to humanitarian issues from around the world but they are imperceptible.

Have you heard….?

US President Barak Obama and Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have had, to use a term beloved by their critics, ‘disproportionate’ media coverage of their recent speeches concerning the unrest throughout the Middle East and North Africa in general and the Arab-Israeli conflict in particular, and rightly so.

Offensive & In Bad Taste Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC), the extremist, anti-Israel fringe group, has shown its true colours once more.

CAMERA Letter in USA Today: Case Against Israel Built on Faulty Argument

At the heart of commentary writer George Bisharat's piece "Israeli raid 'illegal,' its acts 'unconscionable' " is misleading propaganda. Bisharat slanders Israel as trying to "impose itself by force on an entire region that rejects its claims to ethnic supremacy" and as being "a state committed to privileging Jews, implanted ... in a country with a majority Palestinian population" that "can only be sustained by violence"
(USATODAY.com, June 4).

However, Israel was established on a sliver of British Mandatory Palestine. There was no pre-existing Palestinian Arab country. The mandate, confirmed by the League of Nations and reaffirmed by the United Nations, facilitated re-establishment of the Jewish people in their ancient homeland. Jewish immigration and economic development attracted Arab migration into what would become Israel. That migration and Arab massacres of Jews led Britain to bar further Jewish return. This accounted for the "Palestinian majority" in 1948. ..(full article)

[Editor's note: the above article is dedicated to all those anti-Israel, pro Palestinian Solidarity socialist fools and 21st century capos who deign to educate us]

History of the Jews under Muslim rule

Aside the regions of Israel and Judea Jews have lived in the Middle East at least since the Babylonian Captivity (597 BCE), about 2,600 years ago.
After the expansion of Arab and other Muslims into the Middle East from the Arabian Peninsula, Jews, along with Christians and Zoroastrians, typically had the legal status of dhimmi. As such, they were entitled to limited rights but fewer than those of Muslims. ..cont

Goldstone Report Implicitly Validated by the New York Times

Yet another deceiving New York Times report about Israel misleads about the legitimacy and credibility of the Goldstone report, implying that Israel's military court has validated it, when in fact the reverse is true.

World’s unions reject boycotts, embrace Israeli-Palestinian cooperation

..When Saddam murders his own people it's not a story, because it's in the Arab-Muslim family. But when a small band of Israeli Jews kills Muslims it sparks rage — a rage that must come from Muslims having to confront the gap between their self-perception as Muslims and the reality of the Muslim world...

..The Muslim world needs to take an honest look at this rage. Look what it has done to Palestinian society — where the flower of Palestinian youth now celebrate suicide against Jews as a source of dignity. That is so bad.

Thomas L. Friedman: The core of Muslim rage

SUCCESS: BBC Apologises for Al-Dura Inaccuracy

One HR subscriber shows that it is possible to take on the BBC and secures an apology for claims that the IDF killed Muhammad al-Dura.

The Western way of war

By CAROLINE GLICK

Hamas is making ground again

The Economist
As pressure mounts on Israel to lift the siege, Hamas gains.

BBC Mid-East report 'confidential'

BBC Commemorates Palestinian Nakba With a Bit of Fakery and Propaganda

Recently exhibited at Holyrood, the Scottish Parliament

The remarkable achievements of the Medical, Scientific and Technological community of Israel from which both developing and advanced countries are benefiting...click to view

Israel Blockade Is Both Legal And Rational

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

In World War II, with full international legality, the U.S. blockaded Germany and Japan. And during the October 1962 missile crisis, we blockaded ("quarantined") Cuba. Yet Israel is accused of international criminality for doing precisely what John Kennedy did: impose a naval blockade to prevent a hostile state from acquiring lethal weaponry...more

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