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<ref>[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/205008 South Africans against 'Israel apartheid' slur]. '''Israel Collective' organization asked Black South Africans to comment on one of the most common anti-Israel accusations.'' Ari Soffer, INN, Dec 16 , 2015.
<ref>[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/205008 South Africans against 'Israel apartheid' slur]. '''Israel Collective' organization asked Black South Africans to comment on one of the most common anti-Israel accusations.'' Ari Soffer, INN, Dec 16 , 2015.
''"As a Black person to actually find the truth, is like: you've taken something so painful for Black Africans, and misrepresenting it either for publicity, or for directing hate, and then repackaging it and saying it's apartheid? Not cool."</ref><ref>[http://www.wranter.com/2012/02/28/israeli-apartheid-is-a-slur-that-does-no-one-any-good/ ‘Israeli apartheid’ is a slur that does no one any good], February 28, 2012, wRanter</ref><ref name=akehurst2022>Luke Akehurst, [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/amnestys-apartheid-slur-is-an-attack-on-jewish-self-determination/ Amnesty’s apartheid slur is an attack on Jewish self-determination]", at ''TOI'', Jan 31, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://michaeleasson.com/the-middle-east/2021-israel-and-the-apartheid-slur/ (2021) Israel and the Apartheid Slur], Michael Easson, Sep 8, 2021.</ref><ref name=inn-5jan2022>[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319888 Apartheid slurs against Israel - lies, lies, and more lies], ''Israel National News'', Jan 5, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/false-linkage-zionism-colonialism The false linkage of Zionism and colonialism], CJN, September 7, 2010 . ''Linking Zionism with colonialism – much like accusing Israel of apartheid-like practices – is often central to any discourse that seeks to demonize, dehumanize and delegitimize the Jewish state and those who support it. In the same way that the Israel apartheid slur needs to be deconstructed, so too should the Zionism as colonialism falsehood be addressed''.</ref><ref>[https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/calling-israel-an-apartheid-state-is-both-racist-and-a-lie/ Calling Israel an apartheid state is both racist and a lie] Karen Harradine and Paul T Horgan, Conservative Wonan, July 16, 2019</ref><ref>[https://www.cfi.org.uk/news.php?article=488 Israel and the Human Rights Distortion] Christian Friends of Israel, Apr 28, 2021</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22apartheid+slur%22+-wikipedia+-nyt&oq=%22apartheid+slur%22+-wikipedia+-nyt google]</ref> canard<ref>[https://www.aish.com/jw/me/Shattering-the-Apartheid-Canard.html Shattering the Apartheid Canard], S. Simmons, Aish, Jan 18. 2021.
''"As a Black person to actually find the truth, is like: you've taken something so painful for Black Africans, and misrepresenting it either for publicity, or for directing hate, and then repackaging it and saying it's apartheid? Not cool."</ref><ref>[http://www.wranter.com/2012/02/28/israeli-apartheid-is-a-slur-that-does-no-one-any-good/ ‘Israeli apartheid’ is a slur that does no one any good], February 28, 2012, wRanter</ref><ref name=akehurst2022>Luke Akehurst, [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/amnestys-apartheid-slur-is-an-attack-on-jewish-self-determination/ Amnesty’s apartheid slur is an attack on Jewish self-determination]", at ''TOI'', Jan 31, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://michaeleasson.com/the-middle-east/2021-israel-and-the-apartheid-slur/ (2021) Israel and the Apartheid Slur], Michael Easson, Sep 8, 2021.</ref><ref name=inn-5jan2022>[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319888 Apartheid slurs against Israel - lies, lies, and more lies], ''Israel National News'', Jan 5, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/false-linkage-zionism-colonialism The false linkage of Zionism and colonialism], CJN, September 7, 2010 . ''Linking Zionism with colonialism – much like accusing Israel of apartheid-like practices – is often central to any discourse that seeks to demonize, dehumanize and delegitimize the Jewish state and those who support it. In the same way that the Israel apartheid slur needs to be deconstructed, so too should the Zionism as colonialism falsehood be addressed''.</ref><ref>[https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/calling-israel-an-apartheid-state-is-both-racist-and-a-lie/ Calling Israel an apartheid state is both racist and a lie] Karen Harradine and Paul T Horgan, Conservative Wonan, July 16, 2019</ref><ref>[https://www.cfi.org.uk/news.php?article=488 Israel and the Human Rights Distortion] Christian Friends of Israel, Apr 28, 2021</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22apartheid+slur%22+-wikipedia+-nyt&oq=%22apartheid+slur%22+-wikipedia+-nyt google]</ref> canard<ref>[https://www.aish.com/jw/me/Shattering-the-Apartheid-Canard.html Shattering the Apartheid Canard], S. Simmons, Aish, Jan 18. 2021.
''It’s time to call out the anti-Semitism and hypocrisy...''</ref><ref>[https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/apartheid-canard-does-not-wash/ Apartheid canard does not wash], TOI, Allan Wolman, Jan 21, 2021</ref> poisonous myth,<ref>[https://www.ngo-monitor.org/the_poisonous_myth_of_israeli_apartheid/ The poisonous myth of 'Israeli apartheid'] NGO Monitor. February 17, 2008
''It’s time to call out the anti-Semitism and hypocrisy...''</ref><ref>[https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/apartheid-canard-does-not-wash/ Apartheid canard does not wash], TOI, Allan Wolman, Jan 21, 2021</ref><ref>[https://www.meforum.org/3299/war-against-jews The war against the Jews :: Middle East Forum], Efraim Karsh, Israel Affairs.
July 2012, pp. 319-343.
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The Apartheid Canard
Another malignant anti-Israel slander that has become a commonplace over the past few decades compares the Jewish state to apartheid South Africa. Invented by the PLO in the early 1960s, this canard quickly struck roots not only among Arabs and their Third World allies but also among many educated Westerners, such as Nobel Prize laureates Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, and Mairead Corrigan-Maguire. And the message could not be clearer: Just as the South African regime was emasculated, so its Zionist counterpart has to be destroyed.
As with the Nazi slander, the apartheid charge is not only false but the complete inverse of the truth. Whether in its South African form or elsewhere, such as the US south until the late 1960s, apartheid was a comprehensive and discriminatory system of racial segregation, on the basis of ethnicity, comprising all walks of life—from schooling, to public transportation, to social activities and services, to medical care. None of this has ever been applied to Israel. Not only have its religious and ethnic minorities been free and equal citizens of the Jewish state, but from the beginning of the Zionist enterprise in the early twentieth century, well before the establishment of Israel, Arabs had been leaving their places of residence en masse and flocking to Jewish towns and cities in search of a better life. In the words of a 1937 report by a British commission of enquiry headed by Lord Peel:
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The general beneficent effect of Jewish immigration on Arab welfare is illustrated by the fact that the increase in the Arab population is most marked in urban areas affected by Jewish development. A comparison of the Census returns in 1922 and 1931 shows that, six years ago, the increase percent in Haifa was 86, in Jaffa 62, in Jerusalem 37, while in purely Arab towns such as Nablus and Hebron it was only 7, and at Gaza there was a decrease of 2 percent.</i>
Indeed, from the very beginning, the Zionist movement had always assumed that there would be a substantial Arab minority in the future Jewish state, and the general conviction was that they would participate on an equal footing "throughout all sectors of the country's public life," in the words of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the founding father of the branch of Zionism that was the forebear of today's Likud party.
In 1934, Jabotinsky presided over the drafting of a constitution for Jewish Palestine. According to its provisions, Arabs and Jews were to share both the prerogatives and the duties of statehood, notably including military and civil service; Hebrew and Arabic were to enjoy the same legal standing; and "in every cabinet where the prime minister is a Jew, the vice-premiership shall be offered to an Arab and vice versa." Echoing this vision, David Ben-Gurion told the leadership of his own (Mapai) party in 1947 that the non-Jews in the Jewish state "will be equal citizens; equal in everything without any exception; that is, the state will be their state as well."
Committees laying the groundwork for the nascent state discussed in detail the establishment of an Arabic-language press, the improvement of health, the incorporation of Arab officials into the government, the integration of Arabs within the police and the ministry of education, and Arab-Jewish cultural and intellectual interaction. Even military plans for rebuffing an anticipated pan-Arab invasion in the late 1940s were predicated, in the explicit instructions of the commander-in-chief of the Hagana, on the "acknowledgement of the full rights, needs, and freedom of the Arabs in the Hebrew state without any discrimination, and a desire for coexistence on the basis of mutual freedom and dignity."
The same principle was enshrined in Israel's Declaration of Independence, issued on May 14, 1948. The new state undertook to "uphold absolute social and political equality of rights for all its citizens, without distinction of religion, race, or sex." In particular, Arab citizens were urged "to take part in the building of the state on the basis of full and equal citizenship and on the basis of appropriate representation in all its institutions, provisional and permanent." While the declaration lacked constitutional status, its principles were taken as guidelines for governmental behavior; over the years, they would gain legal authority through supreme-court decisions and acts of the Knesset (parliament).
As a result, Israeli Arabs have enjoyed full equality before the law and have been endowed with the full spectrum of democratic rights—including the right to vote for and serve in all state institutions. (From the first, Arabs have been members of the Knesset.) From the designation of Arabic as an official language, to the recognition of non-Jewish religious holidays as legal resting days for their respective communities, to the granting of educational, cultural, judicial, and religious autonomy, Arabs in Israel may well enjoy more formal prerogatives than ethnic minorities anywhere in the democratic world.
Over the years, the Israeli Arabs have made astounding social and economic progress. Far from lagging behind, their rate of development has often surpassed that of the Jewish sector with the result that the gap between the two communities has steadily narrowed. Mortality rates, for example, have fallen by nearly two-thirds over the last decades while life expectancy of Israeli Arab males has risen from age seventy (in 1970) to 76.3 today. Not only does the latter figure compare favorably with the Middle East's average of sixty-eight, but the average Israeli Arab male can expect to live substantially longer than many of his white European counterparts.
No less remarkable have been the advances in education. Since Israel's founding, while the Arab population has grown eightfold, the number of Arab schoolchildren has multiplied by a factor of 35. If, in 1960, the average Israeli Arab spent one year in school, today the figure is over eleven years; over the same period, adult illiteracy rates have dropped from 52 to 6.2% (3.5% among women younger than forty-five). This not only places Israeli Arabs miles ahead of their brothers in the Arab world—in Morocco illiteracy is at 69%, in Egypt at 61%, in Syria at 44%—but reflects a pace of improvement nearly double that of the Jewish sector.
Still more dramatic has been the story in higher education where the numbers of Arab graduates multiplied fifteen times between 1961 and 2001. Thirty years ago, a mere 4% of Arab teachers held academic degrees; by 2000, the figure had vaulted to 47%.
Standard of living? In the late 1940s, following the flight of its more affluent classes and the breakdown of economic relations with neighboring Arab states, the Arab minority in Israel was left largely impoverished. As they became increasingly incorporated into local economic life, Arabs experienced a steep rise in earnings and a visible improvement in their material circumstances. By 2002, 86% of Arab households—more Arab households than Jewish ones—occupied dwellings of three or more rooms. Contrary to the standard image of cramped neighborhoods and acute land shortages, population density in Arab localities is substantially lower on average than in equivalent Jewish locales.
As for income statistics, it is undeniable that, on average, Israeli Arabs still earn less than Jews. But to what is this attributable? For one thing, the average Muslim in Israel is ten years younger than his Jewish counterpart; all over the world, younger people earn less. Then, too, fewer Arab women enter the labor market than do Jewish women. The salience of these and other factors—family size, level of schooling, cultural tradition, and so forth—may be judged by looking at segments of Israeli Jewish society like the ultra-Orthodox or residents of development towns (localities established during the 1950s and 1960s to absorb the fresh waves of Jewish immigration, especially from Arab countries), whose income levels more closely resemble those in the Arab sector. In 1997, for instance, when the average monthly salary in Arab Nazareth was 4,450 shekels, the equivalent figure for mostly Jewish Upper Nazareth was 4,780 shekels. During the late 1990s, the unemployment rate in Israel's Arab sector was consistently lower than in Jewish development towns.
Government allocations to Arab municipalities have grown steadily over the past forty years and are now on a par with, if not higher than, subsidies to the Jewish sector. By the mid-1990s, Arab municipalities were receiving about a quarter of all such allocations, well above the "share" of Arabs in Israel's overall population. In numerous cases, contributions to Arab municipal budgets substantially exceed contributions to equivalently situated Jewish locales: in 1996, for instance, relative disbursements to the Arab town of Tamra were three times higher than to the Jewish town of Yahud; nearly three times higher to (Arab) Abu Snan than to (Jewish) Even Yehuda; twice as high to (Arab) Iksal as to (Jewish) Azur.
The city of Haifa, to give a prominent example, was a model of Arab-Jewish coexistence with the two communities living side by side in peace and harmony. And while this idyllic coexistence was cruelly shattered by the 1948 war, when most of the city's Arab residents were driven to exile by their national leadership despite pleas by their Jewish neighbors not to do so, those who stayed behind were incorporated into the fabric of the nascent Jewish state as equal citizens.
With the subsequent growth of their numbers, owing to a higher natural increase and migration from rural and peripheral areas, the Haifa Arabs have regained their focal role, and the pre-1948 coexistence has been restored. Jews and Arabs live together, study together, belong to the same clubs, ride the same buses, shop in the same malls, and eat in the same restaurants. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that when on October 4, 2003, Hanadi Jaradat, a 29-year-old lawyer from Jenin, blew herself up in a bustling Haifa restaurant on a peaceful Saturday afternoon, murdering twenty-one people and wounding another sixty, the establishment chosen for the heinous crime was of joint Arab-Jewish ownership, and the victims—both Jews and Arabs.
Indeed, the occasional suggestions to redraw Israel's borders, in the framework of a comprehensive peace settlement, so as to allow predominantly Arab frontier areas to be included in the prospective Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, have invariably been rejected by the Israeli Arabs, who would rather remain citizens of the Jewish state than join their bothers in a newly created state. Even the residents of the territories, for all their criticism and grievances, have consistently ranked Israel among the most admired democracies in the world, in stark contrast to their scathing opinion of Arab regimes, including their own Palestinian Authority. As late as 2011, most of surveyed Palestinians in east Jerusalem, who are entitled to Israeli social benefits and are free to travel across Israel's pre-1967 borders, said that they would rather become citizens of the Jewish state than citizens of a new Palestinian one.
So much for Israel's supposed apartheid.</font></blockquote></ref> poisonous myth,<ref>[https://www.ngo-monitor.org/the_poisonous_myth_of_israeli_apartheid/ The poisonous myth of 'Israeli apartheid'] NGO Monitor. February 17, 2008
[This article was posted in the National Post, February 14, 2008.
[This article was posted in the National Post, February 14, 2008.
([http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=306670])</ref> to delegetimize and demonize<ref name=talia>Prof. Talia Einhorn, "[https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/israel-is-not-and-will-never-be-an-apartheid-state/ Israel is not and will never be an 'apartheid state']", ''ILH'', June 23, 2020.
([http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=306670])</ref> to delegetimize and demonize<ref name=talia>Prof. Talia Einhorn, "[https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/israel-is-not-and-will-never-be-an-apartheid-state/ Israel is not and will never be an 'apartheid state']", ''ILH'', June 23, 2020.
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==Non-apartheid Israel VS real apartheid in Arab-Muslim world==
==Non-apartheid Israel VS real apartheid in Arab-Muslim world==
Before, during and after Shukairy's slur, Israel's stand against racial discrimination has been consistent.<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/dav/1965/12/03/01/article/17 Davar - דבר, 3 December 1965].
Before, during and after Shukairy's slur, Israel's stand against racial discrimination has been consistent.<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/dav/1965/12/03/01/article/17 Davar - דבר, 3 December 1965].
'נציג ישראל מזכיר העמדה העקבית נגד אפליה.'
'נציג ישראל מזכיר העמדה העקבית נגד אפליה.'
מאת שלמה שפיר
מאת שלמה שפיר
''Op-ed: A state with complete academic freedom, with Arab ministers and MKs, a state that fosters Arab professors, doctors, pharmacists and teachers, can’t be called an ‘apartheid state,’ unless it’s by ignorant or evil people. And the last person who can throw this accusation at Israel is a dictator like Erdoğan who has been cracking down on freedom of speech and the free press in his own country.... Any intelligent person can immediately see that the only country in the Middle East where Arabs enjoy full rights and a proper life is Israel''</ref>
''Op-ed: A state with complete academic freedom, with Arab ministers and MKs, a state that fosters Arab professors, doctors, pharmacists and teachers, can’t be called an ‘apartheid state,’ unless it’s by ignorant or evil people. And the last person who can throw this accusation at Israel is a dictator like Erdoğan who has been cracking down on freedom of speech and the free press in his own country.... Any intelligent person can immediately see that the only country in the Middle East where Arabs enjoy full rights and a proper life is Israel''</ref>
''Do you even know what apartheid means? A state with complete academic freedom, with Arab ministers and MKs, a state that fosters Arab professors, doctors, pharmacists and teachers, can’t be called an ‘apartheid state,’ unless it’s by ignorant or evil people.''
''Do you even know what apartheid means? A state with complete academic freedom, with Arab ministers and MKs, a state that fosters Arab professors, doctors, pharmacists and teachers, can’t be called an ‘apartheid state,’ unless it’s by ignorant or evil people.''
In 2016, reporter asked:<ref>Channel 7 - Hillel Meir.
[https://m.facebook.com/arutz7/photos/a.453355991354471/1161276917229038/?type=3 Aug 2, 2016].<blockquote>
— Hillel Meir
So this is what apartheid looks like?
Speaker: Jamal Zahalka.
Chairman of the meeting: Ahmad Tibi.
Knesset Deputy Secretary: Nazem Bader.</blockquote></ref><blockquote>So this is what apartheid looks like?
Speaker: Jamal Zahalka.
Chairman of the meeting: Ahmad Tibi.
Knesset Deputy Secretary: Nazem Bader.
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The malicious lies didn't seem to stop even as Israeli government in June, 2021 includes: An Islamic party in the coalition, an Arab minister, 2 Arab deputy chairmen, and 3 Arab committee chairmen, and ''"Apartheid in Israel" has never looked more ridiculous.''<ref>@YosephHaddad tweeted:
The malicious lies didn't seem to stop even as Israeli government in June, 2021 includes: An Islamic party in the coalition, an Arab minister, 2 Arab deputy chairmen, and 3 Arab committee chairmen, and ''"Apartheid in Israel" has never looked more ridiculous.''<ref>@YosephHaddad tweeted:
I have a serious issues w/ the MKs from Arab society but in the new gov, they will be the strongest evidence against “apartheid.” An Islamic party in the coalition, a minister, 2 deputy chairmen, and 3 committee chairmen, "Apartheid in Israel" has never looked more ridiculous. [https://mobile.twitter.com/YosephHaddad/status/1404006075356045313 Jun 13, 2021]</ref> Classic irony: an Arab elected official<ref>[https://lphinfo.com/le-journaliste-arabe-sioniste-pourfend-la-deputee-aida-touma-suleiman/ Le journaliste arabe sioniste pourfend la députée Aïda Touma-Suleiman], S. Blum, LPH INFO, June 23, 2021</ref> Aida Touma-Suleiman (at the 8th conference of the Hadash party, Aida Tuma with other Arabs sang about 3 Arab Muslim "Palestinians" who took part in the [[1929 Hebron massacre]],<ref>[Journalist] Ishay Fridman @IshayFridman
I have a serious issues w/ the MKs from Arab society but in the new gov, they will be the strongest evidence against “apartheid.” An Islamic party in the coalition, a minister, 2 deputy chairmen, and 3 committee chairmen, "Apartheid in Israel" has never looked more ridiculous. [https://mobile.twitter.com/YosephHaddad/status/1404006075356045313 Jun 13, 2021]</ref> Classic irony: an Arab elected official<ref>[https://lphinfo.com/le-journaliste-arabe-sioniste-pourfend-la-deputee-aida-touma-suleiman/ Le journaliste arabe sioniste pourfend la députée Aïda Touma-Suleiman], S. Blum, LPH INFO, June 23, 2021</ref> Aida Touma-Suleiman (at the 8th conference of the Hadash party, Aida Tuma with other Arabs sang about 3 Arab Muslim "Palestinians" who took part in the [[1929 Hebron massacre]],<ref>[Journalist] Ishay Fridman @IshayFridman
Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/IshayFridman/status/1273857622744186885 Jun 19, 2020]):<blockquote>
Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/IshayFridman/status/1273857622744186885 Jun 19, 2020]):<blockquote>
At the 8th conference of the Hadash party, MKs and senior activists sang the song ("A funeral came from Acre prison") which tells about the heroism and moral character of the three. "They have become a symbol and role model from one end of the country to the other," MK (Mohammad) Barakeh and the current MK @AidaTuma sang at the time about 3 Palestinians who took part in the 1929 massacre.</blockquote></ref> which targeted pious religious Jews non-Zionists;<ref>Gavron, D. (2008). Holy Land Mosaic: Stories of Cooperation and Coexistence Between Israelis and Palestinians. United States: Rowman & Littlefield. [https://books.google.com/books?id=l-rPdMvSxscC&pg=PA91 p. 91].<blockquote>An outstanding example is the Hebron massacre of 1929. On the negative side is the fact that the sixty - seven victims were non - Zionist religious Jews who had lived in peace with their Arab neighbors for centuries.</blockquote></ref><ref>Caplan, N. (2011). The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories. Germany: Wiley. [https://books.google.com/books?id=JyAgn_dD43cC&pg=PT80]
At the 8th conference of the Hadash party, MKs and senior activists sang the song ("A funeral came from Acre prison") which tells about the heroism and moral character of the three. "They have become a symbol and role model from one end of the country to the other," MK (Mohammad) Barakeh and the current MK @AidaTuma sang at the time about 3 Palestinians who took part in the 1929 massacre.</blockquote></ref> which targeted pious religious Jews non-Zionists;<ref>Gavron, D. (2008). Holy Land Mosaic: Stories of Cooperation and Coexistence Between Israelis and Palestinians. United States: Rowman & Littlefield. [https://books.google.com/books?id=l-rPdMvSxscC&pg=PA91 p. 91].<blockquote>An outstanding example is the Hebron massacre of 1929. On the negative side is the fact that the sixty - seven victims were non - Zionist religious Jews who had lived in peace with their Arab neighbors for centuries.</blockquote></ref><ref>Caplan, N. (2011). The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories. Germany: Wiley. [https://books.google.com/books?id=JyAgn_dD43cC&pg=PT80]
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....including savage attacks on the long-established, non-Zionist, ultra-orthodox Jewish communities living in Hebron and Safed...</blockquote></ref><ref>Laqueur, W. (2008). The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day. United States: Oxford University Press, USA. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8GHc5xtXD5UC&pg=PA196 196].<blockquote>anti-Zionism turned increasingly into hostility againstall Jews. This manifested itselfearly on in physical attacks—for instance, the massacre of the old non-Zionist Hebron Jewish community in 1929; the Baghdad-Farhud pogrom of June 1941 in which hundreds were killed; attacks in Constantine, Algeria, in 1934; and the Tripoli, Libya, massacres in 1945 and 1948 in which many scores perished.</blockquote></ref> in Mar, 2020, this Arab MK Suleiman was accused of racism and lying, spreading libels;<ref>[https://www.inn.co.il/news/430227 Naftali Bennett to MK Touma Suleiman: "You are a liar, antisemitic and...]", Channel 7, Mar 13, 2020.<br><i>
....including savage attacks on the long-established, non-Zionist, ultra-orthodox Jewish communities living in Hebron and Safed...</blockquote></ref><ref>Laqueur, W. (2008). The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day. United States: Oxford University Press, USA. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8GHc5xtXD5UC&pg=PA196 196].<blockquote>anti-Zionism turned increasingly into hostility againstall Jews. This manifested itselfearly on in physical attacks—for instance, the massacre of the old non-Zionist Hebron Jewish community in 1929; the Baghdad-Farhud pogrom of June 1941 in which hundreds were killed; attacks in Constantine, Algeria, in 1934; and the Tripoli, Libya, massacres in 1945 and 1948 in which many scores perished.</blockquote></ref> in Mar, 2020, this Arab MK Suleiman was accused of racism and lying, spreading libels;<ref>[https://www.inn.co.il/news/430227 Naftali Bennett to MK Touma Suleiman: "You are a liar, antisemitic and...]", Channel 7, Mar 13, 2020.<br><i>
The defense minister attacked MK Thomas Suleiman, who claimed that the IDF was spraying Palestinians with unidentified material. "It is unbelievable that Boogie and Gantz are ready to form a government with you."
The defense minister attacked MK Thomas Suleiman, who claimed that the IDF was spraying Palestinians with unidentified material. "It is unbelievable that Boogie and Gantz are ready to form a government with you."
*Pastor Kenneth Meshoe:<ref name=mastevens>Michael A. Stevens, [https://insidesources.com/author/michael-a-stevens/ Israel Is Not an Apartheid State], Inside Sources, May 18, 2022.<blockquote>
*Pastor Kenneth Meshoe:<ref name=mastevens>Michael A. Stevens, [https://insidesources.com/author/michael-a-stevens/ Israel Is Not an Apartheid State], Inside Sources, May 18, 2022.<blockquote>
The latest playbook of the rabid anti-Israel crowd is to smear the Jewish state with the slur: "apartheid." This ugly lie has been uttered with increasing force recently and it underlies such abominations as the Amnesty International report; the recent commission of inquiry set up by the U.N. Human Rights Council; the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement; and others.
The latest playbook of the rabid anti-Israel crowd is to smear the Jewish state with the slur: "apartheid." This ugly lie has been uttered with increasing force recently and it underlies such abominations as the Amnesty International report; the recent commission of inquiry set up by the U.N. Human Rights Council; the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement; and others.
Ironically — but perhaps not accidentally — this renewed campaign of hostility comes at a time of unprecedented success and prosperity for Israel as a state, and a time of hopeful developments for the prospects of peace in the Middle East. Israel, despite its small population of only 8 million, is an international powerhouse in high tech and innovation. It has drawn investment from Asia, Europe and the United States, including from many of the world’s leading companies.
Ironically — but perhaps not accidentally — this renewed campaign of hostility comes at a time of unprecedented success and prosperity for Israel as a state, and a time of hopeful developments for the prospects of peace in the Middle East. Israel, despite its small population of only 8 million, is an international powerhouse in high tech and innovation. It has drawn investment from Asia, Europe and the United States, including from many of the world’s leading companies.
And the Abraham Accords — the establishment of diplomatic, cultural and commercial relations between Israel and several Arab states — have brought hope of a better and peaceful future to Israelis and Arabs throughout the Middle East.
And the Abraham Accords — the establishment of diplomatic, cultural and commercial relations between Israel and several Arab states — have brought hope of a better and peaceful future to Israelis and Arabs throughout the Middle East.
The increased use of the apartheid slur against Israel is the last gasp of a desperate, nihilistic, backward-looking mob that is frustrated by the strong standing of Israel in the world today. Anyone truly concerned about the welfare and future of the Palestinian people should be looking for ways to encourage them to negotiate in good faith with Israel and to move toward joining the increasing circle of peace. The apartheid slander will not weaken Israel and will not benefit the Palestinians in any way.
The increased use of the apartheid slur against Israel is the last gasp of a desperate, nihilistic, backward-looking mob that is frustrated by the strong standing of Israel in the world today. Anyone truly concerned about the welfare and future of the Palestinian people should be looking for ways to encourage them to negotiate in good faith with Israel and to move toward joining the increasing circle of peace. The apartheid slander will not weaken Israel and will not benefit the Palestinians in any way.
Certainly, the attempt to link Israel with racism is not a new phenomenon. In 1975, the United Nations infamously passed a resolution officially branding Zionism — the national liberation movement of the Jewish people — as a “form of racism.” It bore the ugly hallmark of anti-Semitism, as condemnation and delegitimization of Israel became a new iteration of the age-old hatred of the Jewish people. The resolution was officially repealed in 1991.
Certainly, the attempt to link Israel with racism is not a new phenomenon. In 1975, the United Nations infamously passed a resolution officially branding Zionism — the national liberation movement of the Jewish people — as a “form of racism.” It bore the ugly hallmark of anti-Semitism, as condemnation and delegitimization of Israel became a new iteration of the age-old hatred of the Jewish people. The resolution was officially repealed in 1991.
Unfortunately, three institutions within the United Nations — the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Human Rights Practices, the Division for Palestinian Rights and the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People — continue to spread the lie that Israel is a unique and evil practitioner of racism. The Durban Conference of 2001 further enhanced this contemptible trend. That event brought out rabid anti-Semitic hatred against Israel so vehement that it shocked even mainstream, well-meaning critics of Israel. It is truly a shame that the important and legitimate worldwide fight against racism has been undermined and hijacked by these Israel-hating extremists.
Unfortunately, three institutions within the United Nations — the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Human Rights Practices, the Division for Palestinian Rights and the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People — continue to spread the lie that Israel is a unique and evil practitioner of racism. The Durban Conference of 2001 further enhanced this contemptible trend. That event brought out rabid anti-Semitic hatred against Israel so vehement that it shocked even mainstream, well-meaning critics of Israel. It is truly a shame that the important and legitimate worldwide fight against racism has been undermined and hijacked by these Israel-hating extremists.
The accusation of apartheid is, however, absurd and obscene. Arab citizens of Israel have full rights under Israeli law, including the right to vote. No fewer than 13 Arab citizens of Israel serve in the Knesset today, most in parties that are openly and harshly critical of Israeli policies (including a party that is a member of the current government coalition).
The accusation of apartheid is, however, absurd and obscene. Arab citizens of Israel have full rights under Israeli law, including the right to vote. No fewer than 13 Arab citizens of Israel serve in the Knesset today, most in parties that are openly and harshly critical of Israeli policies (including a party that is a member of the current government coalition).
In Israel today, there is a Muslim Arab judge serving on Israel’s highest court. Sixteen percent of university students are Arabs. Seventeen percent of doctors in Israeli hospitals and 48 percent of pharmacists are Arab-Israelis. What kind of apartheid state is that?
In Israel today, there is a Muslim Arab judge serving on Israel’s highest court. Sixteen percent of university students are Arabs. Seventeen percent of doctors in Israeli hospitals and 48 percent of pharmacists are Arab-Israelis. What kind of apartheid state is that?
Clearly, those who would accuse Israel of the crime of apartheid are either guilty of wholesale ignorance or are purposely spreading a lie. But the cheap and improper use of the term “apartheid” devalues it and insults he true historic victims of apartheid in South Africa.
Clearly, those who would accuse Israel of the crime of apartheid are either guilty of wholesale ignorance or are purposely spreading a lie. But the cheap and improper use of the term “apartheid” devalues it and insults he true historic victims of apartheid in South Africa.
Pastor Kenneth Meshoe, a South African member of Parliament, a great friend of Israel, puts it this way: "Those who know what real apartheid is, as I know, know that there is nothing in Israel that looks like apartheid … it is inaccurate and it is malicious."
Pastor Kenneth Meshoe, a South African member of Parliament, a great friend of Israel, puts it this way: "Those who know what real apartheid is, as I know, know that there is nothing in Israel that looks like apartheid … it is inaccurate and it is malicious."
The report also discussed IMPACT-se's critique of the Georg Eckert Institute (GEI) report on Palestinian Authority textbooks, "which ambiguously classify the curriculum as promoting UNESCO standards, despite overtly anti-Semitic content," IMPACT-se said in a statement on Tuesday.
The report also discussed IMPACT-se's critique of the Georg Eckert Institute (GEI) report on Palestinian Authority textbooks, "which ambiguously classify the curriculum as promoting UNESCO standards, despite overtly anti-Semitic content," IMPACT-se said in a statement on Tuesday.
IMPACT-se is quoted by the State Department as stating that the GEI report includes "omissions, obfuscations and even apologetics for Jew-hate and violence," and that, in fact, "the P.A. curriculum moved further from meeting UNESCO standards and that the newly published textbooks were found to be more radical than those previously published," according to the organization.
IMPACT-se is quoted by the State Department as stating that the GEI report includes "omissions, obfuscations and even apologetics for Jew-hate and violence," and that, in fact, "the P.A. curriculum moved further from meeting UNESCO standards and that the newly published textbooks were found to be more radical than those previously published," according to the organization.
The State Department’s 2021 "Report on International Religious Freedom,”?" published last week, featured four of IMPACT-se’s country curriculum reports from last year. The State Department report is used to inform U.S. policy and to promote global religious freedom.
The State Department’s 2021 "Report on International Religious Freedom,”?" published last week, featured four of IMPACT-se’s country curriculum reports from last year. The State Department report is used to inform U.S. policy and to promote global religious freedom.
It also cites IMPACT-se reports on significant changes in Saudi Arabian textbooks, such as the removal of content "forbidding friendships with Jews and Christians," the presentation of Jews and Christians as "infidels … enemies of God," as well as claims that the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount was "fabricated [sic]..."
It also cites IMPACT-se reports on significant changes in Saudi Arabian textbooks, such as the removal of content "forbidding friendships with Jews and Christians," the presentation of Jews and Christians as "infidels … enemies of God," as well as claims that the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount was "fabricated [sic]..."
The State Department’s section on Qatar cites IMPACT-se’s June and December reports on the Gulf country, directly quoting the conclusion that the country “still ha[s] a long way to go when it comes to removing hateful content and consistently teaching tolerance … yet the improvements that have occurred over the last two academic years in Qatar are still a pleasant surprise.”
The State Department’s section on Qatar cites IMPACT-se’s June and December reports on the Gulf country, directly quoting the conclusion that the country “still ha[s] a long way to go when it comes to removing hateful content and consistently teaching tolerance … yet the improvements that have occurred over the last two academic years in Qatar are still a pleasant surprise.”
IMPACT-se’s first report on the Yemeni curriculum is cited in the State Department’s Report, reaffirming "disturbing assessments," said the organization. The report quotes IMPACT-se finding that the Yemeni curriculum serves as a "blueprint for radicalization, and would incite violence and hate."</blockquote></ref>
IMPACT-se’s first report on the Yemeni curriculum is cited in the State Department’s Report, reaffirming "disturbing assessments," said the organization. The report quotes IMPACT-se finding that the Yemeni curriculum serves as a "blueprint for radicalization, and would incite violence and hate."</blockquote></ref>
*At the [[UN]], in 2022:<ref name=unwatch-10mar2022/><blockquote>
*At the [[UN]], in 2022:<ref name=unwatch-10mar2022/><blockquote>
The report documents how the Palestinian Authority enforces a system of apartheid to ensure that every inch of territory under its control is strictly judenrein (free of Jews) by punishing Palestinian land sales to Jews with the death penalty, and by inciting the murder of Jews through financial rewards to terrorists.</blockquote>
The report documents how the Palestinian Authority enforces a system of apartheid to ensure that every inch of territory under its control is strictly judenrein (free of Jews) by punishing Palestinian land sales to Jews with the death penalty, and by inciting the murder of Jews through financial rewards to terrorists.</blockquote>
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"Rhetoric by Palestinian terrorist groups included expressions of anti-Semitism, as did sermons by many Muslim religious leaders. Most Palestinian religious leaders rejected the right of Israel to exist. Hamas's al-Aqsa television station carried shows for preschoolers extolling hatred of Jews and suicide bombings."</blockquote>
"Rhetoric by Palestinian terrorist groups included expressions of anti-Semitism, as did sermons by many Muslim religious leaders. Most Palestinian religious leaders rejected the right of Israel to exist. Hamas's al-Aqsa television station carried shows for preschoolers extolling hatred of Jews and suicide bombings."</blockquote>
*Author published in 2014 interaction with Arab "Palestinians":<ref>Schwarz, Christoph H.. Adoleszenz in einem palästinensischen Flüchtlingscamp: Generationenverhältnisse, Möglichkeitsräume und das Narrativ der Rückkehr. Germany: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2014. [https://books.google.com/books?id=hh89BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA434 p. 433-4].
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[Samir fragte mich nach meiner Meinung über Hitler. Da ich nicht wusste, wie ich reagieren sollte, schwieg ich und schüttelte lediglich den Kopf. Er fuhr erklärend fort: „Here many people like Hitler", und zeigte mir noch ein Bild von Hitler auf seinem Handy. „Some ideas Ilike, some I don't. I don't like the symbol", womit er offensichtlich das Hakenkreuz meinte.
Ich fragte in dieser Situation nicht weiter, und sie zeigten mir weitere Fotos auf ihrem Computer, meist von Arafat: als Kind, als junger Kämpfer...]
Samir asked me my opinion of Hitler. Not knowing how to react, I said nothing and just shook my head.
He continued to explain: "Here many people like Hitler" and showed me a picture of Hitler on his mobile phone. "Some ideas I like, some I don't. I don't like the symbol”, by which he obviously meant the swastika.
I didn't ask any more questions about this situation and they showed me more photos on their computer, mostly of Arafat: as a child, as a young fighter...</blockquote></ref><blockquote>Samir asked me my opinion of Hitler. Not knowing how to react, I said nothing and just shook my head.
He continued to explain: "Here many people like Hitler" and showed me a picture of Hitler on his mobile phone.</blockquote>
*A noted Orientalist, conducting a poll in Arabic, in 2019: "If Adolf Hitler was alive today and was tried, what do you think is the sentence that the leader of the German Third Reich deserves...??" - most found him "innocent."<ref>Daniel Pen Tweeted (Feb 2, 2019):<blockquote>
This answer should be published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs worldwide. A poll published by Edy Cohen in Arabic on Twitter. About 1,500 voters so far. 80 percent of them would have pardoned Adolf Hitler in an imaginary scenario in which he was alive and on trial. The Arab world is neo-Nazi in the full sense of the word.</blockquote>
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إيدي كوهين אדי כהן (@EdyCohen) Tweeted:<blockquote>
If Adolf Hitler was alive today and was tried, what do you think is the sentence that the leader of the German Third Reich deserves..??
execution
22.6%
innocence
77.4%
8,894 votes
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Final results
10:16 AM Feb 2, 2019.
[لو كان أدولف هتلر على قيد الحياة اليوم .. وتمت محاكمته ، ما هو برأيكم الحكم الذي يستحقه زعيم الرايخ الثالث الألماني .. ?؟
22.6% اعدام
77.4 براءة]
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Hoekstra pointed out that Germany, the US and the UK rejected the report, as well, and said that calling Israel an apartheid state does not help resolve the conflict and reach a two-state solution.</blockquote>
Hoekstra pointed out that Germany, the US and the UK rejected the report, as well, and said that calling Israel an apartheid state does not help resolve the conflict and reach a two-state solution.</blockquote>
Rejected also by Arab Party leaders in Israel <ref>[https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/731617.shtml Mansour Abbas rejects the claim that Israel is apartheid], ''Rotter'', Feb 11, 2022.</ref> and by Arab minister of radical left wing Meretz Party.<ref>[https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/733975.shtml Minister (Issawi) Frej to foreign journalists: "I am an Arab minister in the government, Israel is not an apartheid state"], ''Rotter'', Mar 2, 2022.</ref>
Rejected also by Arab Party leaders in Israel <ref>[https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/731617.shtml Mansour Abbas rejects the claim that Israel is apartheid], ''Rotter'', Feb 11, 2022.</ref> and by Arab minister of radical left wing Meretz Party.<ref>[https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/733975.shtml Minister (Issawi) Frej to foreign journalists: "I am an Arab minister in the government, Israel is not an apartheid state"], ''Rotter'', Mar 2, 2022.</ref>
==Pillay==
==Navi Pillay==
When infamous virulently anti-Israel Navi Pillay, jumped on the opportunity to smear Istael under a mask of "investigating"<ref>Today Lazaroff, [https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-696436 NGO: Pillay is biased against Israel, must be ousted from UNHRC probe], ''Jerusalem Post, Feb 14, 2022</ref><ref name=ngom>[https://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/anti-israel-bias-and-ngo-links-of-unhrcs-gaza-committee-of-inquiry-members/ Anti-Israel Bias and NGO Links of UNHRC’s Gaza Commission of Inquiry Members], Ngo Monitor, February 22, 2022.</ref> (and Miloon Kothari Who lied for example on Al Jazeera in 2011<ref name=ngom/>) Her "report" was condemned by 22 nations.<ref>Utanar Eichner, [https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk11o9ysf5 U.S. condemns UN Human Rights Council over anti-Israel bias], ''Ynet'', June 13, 2022.<blockquote>Washington joined by 21 other countries in call to end disproportionate attention dedicated to Israel by humans rights body after release of report accusing Jerusalem of perpetuating conflict with Palestinians.</blockquote></ref>
When infamous virulently anti-Israel Navi Pillay, jumped on the opportunity to smear Istael under a mask of "investigating"<ref>Today Lazaroff, [https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-696436 NGO: Pillay is biased against Israel, must be ousted from UNHRC probe], ''Jerusalem Post, Feb 14, 2022</ref><ref name=ngom>[https://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/anti-israel-bias-and-ngo-links-of-unhrcs-gaza-committee-of-inquiry-members/ Anti-Israel Bias and NGO Links of UNHRC’s Gaza Commission of Inquiry Members], Ngo Monitor, February 22, 2022.</ref> (and Miloon Kothari - who already lied for example on Al Jazeera in 2011<ref name=ngom/>) Her "report" was condemned by 22 nations.<ref>Utanar Eichner, [https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk11o9ysf5 U.S. condemns UN Human Rights Council over anti-Israel bias], ''Ynet'', June 13, 2022.<blockquote>Washington joined by 21 other countries in call to end disproportionate attention dedicated to Israel by humans rights body after release of report accusing Jerusalem of perpetuating conflict with Palestinians.</blockquote></ref>
Some black South Africans who were victims of the original, South-African brand of apartheid were incensed at her charge and that 'Nelson Mandela Would Not Approve' on the smear "report."<ref>Ben Cohen, [https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/06/10/nelson-mandela-would-not-approve-south-africans-denounce-un-report-on-palestinians/ ‘Nelson Mandela Would Not Approve’: South Africans Denounce UN Report on Palestinians], ''Algemeiner'', June 10, 2022.
Some black South Africans who were victims of the original, South-African brand of apartheid were incensed at her charge and that 'Nelson Mandela Would Not Approve' on the smear "report."<ref>Ben Cohen, [https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/06/10/nelson-mandela-would-not-approve-south-africans-denounce-un-report-on-palestinians/ ‘Nelson Mandela Would Not Approve’: South Africans Denounce UN Report on Palestinians], ''Algemeiner'', June 10, 2022.
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A group of pro-Israel South Africans has invoked the figure of the late Nelson Mandela, the iconic leader of their country’s anti-apartheid struggle, in a forthright condemnation of the recent UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry (COI) report that blamed Israel’s “perpetual occupation” for the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.</blockquote></ref>
A group of pro-Israel South Africans has invoked the figure of the late Nelson Mandela, the iconic leader of their country’s anti-apartheid struggle, in a forthright condemnation of the recent UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry (COI) report that blamed Israel’s “perpetual occupation” for the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.</blockquote></ref>
In addition, during that very report work, what was exposed was the real apartheid - that on the Arab Palestinian side:<ref name=unwatch-10mar2022>[https://unwatch.org/palestinian-apartheid-exposed-at-u-n-inquiry/ Palestinian Apartheid Exposed at U.N. Inquiry], UN Watch, March 10, 2022.</ref> <blockquote>The report documents how the Palestinian Authority enforces a system of apartheid to ensure that every inch of territory under its control is strictly judenrein (free of Jews) by punishing Palestinian land sales to Jews with the death penalty, and by inciting the murder of Jews through financial rewards to terrorists.</blockquote>
In addition, during that very report work, what was exposed was the real apartheid - that on the Arab Palestinian side:<ref name=unwatch-10mar2022>[https://unwatch.org/palestinian-apartheid-exposed-at-u-n-inquiry/ Palestinian Apartheid Exposed at U.N. Inquiry], UN Watch, March 10, 2022.</ref> <blockquote>The report documents how the Palestinian Authority enforces a system of apartheid to ensure that every inch of territory under its control is strictly judenrein (free of Jews) by punishing Palestinian land sales to Jews with the death penalty, and by inciting the murder of Jews through financial rewards to terrorists.</blockquote>
==Miloon Kothari==
In the aforementioned 2022, Islamic [[Pakistan]] sponsored [[UNHRC]] inquiry targeting Israel, under Pillay & Miloon Kothari.<ref>Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer Tweeted:
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Bravo to the United Kingdom for calling out UNHRC commission of inquiry member Miloon Kothari for antisemitism. Make no mistake: when it comes to membership on the Pakistan-sponsored UNHRC inquiry targeting Israel, this kind of hatred is not a bug, it’s a feature.</blockquote>
[https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1552631685157634049 July 28, 2022].</ref><ref>
Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer Tweeted:<blockquote>
May 20, 2021—Pakistan FM says Jews have "deep pockets" & "they control media."
May 27, 2021—Pakistan sponsors UNHRC inquiry targeting Israel.
July 25, 2022—Miloon Kothari, member of the Pakistan-sponsored UNHRC inquiry, rants about "the Jewish Lobby."</blockquote>
[https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1553845432312373249 July 31, 2022]</ref>
In a July 2022 interview (with radical Anti-Israel<ref>[https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/anti-israel-and-antisemitic-activists-target-aipac-conference Anti-Israel and Antisemitic Activists Target AIPAC Conference], ''ADL'', 03.05.2020.<blockquote>
The vociferously anti-Israel news website Mondoweiss posted a cartoon by antisemitic cartoonist Carlos Latuff, who won second place in a 2006 Iranian contest for the "best" cartoon belittling or denying the Holocaust. Latuff’s 2020 cartoon depicts the U. S. working on behalf of Israel as a security officer for the “AiPAC [sic] hate fest..</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://camera-uk.org/2010/11/13/on-mondoweiss-progressive-jewish-enemies-of-israel-and-use-of-the-israel-nazi-analogy/ On Mondoweiss, "progressive" Jewish enemies of Israel, and use of the Israel-Nazi analogy], ''Camera'' UK, Nov 13, 2010.</ref> dreadful<ref>David Bernstein, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/04/mondoweiss-is-a-hate-site/ “Mondoweiss” is a hate site (UPDATED)], ''Washington Post'', May 4, 2015.</ref> ''Mondoweiss''), Miloon Kothari stated that "We are very disheartened by the social media that is controlled largely by – whether it is the Jewish lobby or specific NGOs, a lot of money is being thrown into trying to discredit us..."
<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220726220701/https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-713126 UN official: Social media largely controlled by Jewish lobby, NGOs], ''JPost'', 26 July 2022.</ref>
Kothari has been accused by the United States, Czechia, Germany, France, Canada, the United Kingdom, Israel, Canada, Australia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Austria, Hungry, Belgium, Italy<ref name=palwatch-2aug2022/> and the president of the UNHRC of making antisemitic remarks disputing Israel's right to exist and supporting antisemitic conspiracy theories about the "Jewish Lobby" controlling social media.<ref>Tovah Lazaroff, [https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-713501 UNHRC President: Jewish Lobby remark is reasonably considered antisemitic], ''JPost'', July 30, 2022 .</ref>
But the [[Palestinian Authority]] supported , Kothari's hate, as a pattern, it chose to side with Antisemitism and hate.
<ref name=palwatch-2aug2022>Itamar Marcus and Maurice Hirsch, Adv., [https://palwatch.org/page/31869 PA chooses to side with Antisemitism and hate], ''Palwatch'', Aug 2, 2022
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When the member of the recently established UN Human Rights Council "Commission of Inquiry," Miloon Kothari, expressed anti-Semitic hate speech and denial of Israel's right to be a UN member, 12 western democracies and the EU were quick to condemn him. Standing out in support of the hate speech was the Palestinian Authority, whose Foreign Ministry rushed to defend the Antisemitism and condemn Israel for condemning it.
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“The [PA] Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the attack of incitement and deception that [Israeli] occupation state transitional Prime Minister Yair Lapid carried out against the UN Human Rights Council investigative committee.”
[WAFA, official PA news agency, Aug. 1, 2022]
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The countries that condemned the anti-Semitic hate of Kothari included, the USA, the UK, Canada, France, Australia, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Hungry, Belgium and Italy.
Significantly, while the PA was adamant to criticize Israel’s condemnation of the Antisemitism, it was silent about all the other condemnations, not wanting to insult its donors.
Referring to that fact that Israel has predominantly ignored the openly biased agenda of the UN ...
The reason the PA was so quick to defend Kothari, is because the statements he made predominantly reflect similar statements made over the years by PA officials.
As Palestinian Media Watch has repeatedly shown, the PA constantly denies Israel’s right to exist and adopts the same anti-Semitic tropes.</blockquote></ref>
==Selective use of term: not in often preferential treatment to Arabs over Jews==
==Selective use of term: not in often preferential treatment to Arabs over Jews==