ADL To Use AI to Combat “Antisemitism”

May 25, 2023 by Genie

ADL will partner with the Interparliamentary Task Force to Combat Online Antisemitism for an effort to address the challenges and opportunities presented by the use of AI and other new technologies. WTF?

New York, NY, May 25, 2023 – ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the release of the first-ever comprehensive U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism and announced commitments to support the White House in its execution.

ADL also welcomed the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism as part of the plan.

“As the U.S. Jewish community is experiencing antisemitism at levels not seen in generations, we deeply appreciate that the White House has stepped up and delivered this significant, comprehensive strategy,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO.

“It’s particularly notable that this approach recognizes that antisemitism is not about politics – it’s about principles.

We are pleased that this strategy comprehensively addresses hate and antisemitism on campus, online, and from extremists on both the far-right and the far-left.”

ADL actively assisted in the development of the White House strategy, contributing more than 30 distinct policy recommendations.

ADL also organized grassroots advocates to urge Congress and the Biden Administration to develop a unified national strategy to monitor and combat antisemitism.

The foundations for these policies were set in part by ADL’s COMBAT Plan, a proposed set of government initiatives to fight antisemitism, which ADL originally released in June 2022.

The COMBAT Plan articulated several of the key policies that were ultimately included in the White House strategy, such as efforts around education, community safety, hate crimes, and online hate.

In remarks at ADL’s National Leadership Summit in May, Ambassador Susan E. Rice, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, noted that in developing this strategy, “I reviewed closely ADL’s recommendations and found them to be helpful, creative, and smart.”

In conjunction with the White House strategy, ADL is committing to strengthen cross-community engagements to fight antisemitism, including initiatives to convene community dialogues with diverse partners to build mutual understanding, and to combat antisemitism on college and university campuses.

ADL will also support Jewish Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) in the government and private sector to promote a diverse and inclusive workplace where Jewish employees can be their authentic selves.

Finally, ADL will partner with the Interparliamentary Task Force to Combat Online Antisemitism for an effort to address the challenges and opportunities presented by the use of AI and other new technologies.

This strategy comes amid real concern about antisemitism among the American Jewish community.

In January, ADL released topline survey findings showing the highest percentage of respondents harboring extensive antisemitic prejudice in decades.

Antisemitic incidents also surged to historic levels in 2022, with a total of 3,697 incidents reported across the United States, an increase of 36 percent compared to 2021.

Today’s announcement comes after several productive collaborations between ADL and the White House.

Last September, the Biden Administration brought together diverse communities to stand together against violent extremism at the historic United We Stand summit, which came about after ADL partnered with several leading anti-hate organizations to call for such an event.

And in June 2021, the Biden Administration released the first-ever National Strategy to Counter Domestic Terrorism, incorporating recommendations from ADL’s PROTECT Plan.

Two US fighter jets terrorize Iranian passenger airliner over Syria

July 28, 2020 by Genie

Bibi Wants Big War Before US Elections

Could War With Iran Be an October Surprise? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/could-war-with-iran-be-an-october-surprise.html

In this July 23, 2006 file photo, an Israeli F-16 warplane takes off for a mission in Lebanon from an air force base in southern Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Two U.S. fighter jets came close to an Iranian passenger plane over Syrian airspace causing the pilot to change altitude quickly to avoid collision, which injured several passengers, the official IRIB news agency reported on Thursday.

The agency initially reported a single Israeli jet had come near the plane but later quoted the pilot as saying there were two jets which identified themselves as American.

The pilot of the passenger plane contacted the jet pilots to warn them about keeping a safe distance and the jet pilots identified themselves as American, IRIB reported.

Video posted by the agency showed a single jet from the window of the plane and comments from a passenger who had blood on his face.

The Iranian plane, belonging to Mahan Air, was heading from Tehran to Beirut and landed safely in Beirut, an airport source told Reuters.

An Israeli military spokesman had no immediate comment and there was no immediate comment from the U.S. military.

Israel and the United States have long accused Mahan Air of ferrying weapons for Iranian-linked guerrillas in Syria and elsewhere.

One passenger in the IRIB report described how his head had hit the roof of the plane during the change in altitude and video also showed an elderly passenger sprawled on the floor.

All of the passengers came off the plane and only some had minor injuries, the head of the Beirut airport told Reuters.

A Rare Peek Inside The Gaza Terror Tunnels

March 28, 2019 by Genie

Gaza is home to many of the 1948 Palestinians who were massacred, terrorized out of their homes, off their lands by the invading European Ashkenazim horde. Herded into Gaza Palestinians have never left and are the front line of Palestinian resistance. Phase: No. of destroyed/depopulated localities Nov. 1947 – Mar. 1948 30 ,600*1,159. 4Apr. – 13 May 1948(Tiberias, Jaffa, Haifa, Safed, etc.)

More accurately,, the Palestinians are the front line to imperialist Zionist terror which, because people in America thought the Palestinians didn’t matter, the Zionists have now infested our own government and choosing anti-American policies for us. See AIPAC 2019

New York Times Lies That Hamas Has Been Firing Rockets at Israel

Apr 19, 2018 Foreign Policy

The New York Times claims that, until the demonstrations began in Gaza last month, Hamas had been firing “a fairly steady tempo” of rockets at Israel. In fact, it had been firing none.

In March , fourteen peaceful demonstrators were killed and hundreds wounded when Israeli soldiers fired across the border fence at unarmed Palestinians in Gaza.

The day of the crime, New York Times reported that, although the protests were “billed as the start of a peaceful, six-week sit-in”, Palestinian protesters had “quickly turned violent”. The Times added, “But as some began hurling stones, tossing Molotov cocktails and rolling burning tires at the fence, the Israelis responded with tear gas and gunfire.”

Three days later, the editorial board of the Times acknowledged that the claim that Palestinians were “hurling stones, tossing Molotov cocktails and rolling burning tires at the fence” was the “Israeli version of events”.

In other words, the Times tacitly acknowledged that it had presented the Israeli propaganda version — in which the violence was instigated by the Palestinians — as though truthful.

By contrast, as Human Rights Watch noted, “the Israeli government presented no evidence that rock-throwing and other violence by some demonstrators seriously threatened Israeli soldiers across the border fence.”

Rather, “The high number of deaths and injuries was the foreseeable consequence of granting soldiers leeway to use lethal force outside of life-threatening situations in violation of international norms, coupled with the longstanding culture of impunity within the Israeli army for serious abuses.”

The Times hasn’t been faring any better with its reporting on Gaza since. In fact, it gets worse.

In an article published as “News Analysis” on April 15, David M. Halbfinger wrote in the Times about Hamas’s attitude toward such non-violent resistance. Under the headline “Hamas Sees Gaza Protests as Peaceful — and as a ‘Deadly Weapon’“, he characterizes Hamas as presenting a mixed message, supporting peaceful protests while routinely engaging in violence. He writes:

To its rockets Israel had responded with the Iron Dome antimissile system. To its tunnels Israel was answering with a $2 billion reinforced-concrete wall buried deep underground. And on Sunday, Israel said it had uncovered and destroyed the longest operational tunnel yet from Gaza.

It was no surprise, then, that after a grass-roots idea for a peaceful, long-lasting protest along the Gaza fence started gaining widespread support, Hamas brought a halt to what had been a fairly steady tempo of rocket launches into Israel and threw its considerable organizational might behind the demonstrations.

That is a lie.

Hamas had not been routinely launching rockets into Israel until the protests began.

Hamas had not been firing rockets into Israel at all.

Not in the days prior. Not in the weeks prior. Not in the months prior. Not even in the years prior.

According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), 25 rockets fired from Gaza struck Israel in 2015, and 15 rockets in 2016. The IDF itself identified none of those rockets as having been fired by Hamas.

In 2017, according to the IDF, 35 rockets and mortars were fired at Israel from Gaza. Most of them, about 30, had been fired in the very last month of the year, after US President Donald Trump on December 6 said Jerusalem was Israel’s capital (even though East Jerusalem is under international law “occupied Palestinian territory”, and for the US to move its embassy there would be illegal). About half of them landed inside Gaza.

The IDF also acknowledged that these rockets were not being fired by Hamas. Rather, as the Israeli daily Haaretz reported, the IDF attributed the attacks to “the desire by Islamic Jihad and other Salafi organizations to thwart the planned reconciliation between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas”, as well as Islamic Jihad’s “desire to avenge Israels destruction of a cross-border attack tunnel in October that killed 12 of the organizations operatives.”

See, Hamas has actually long been trying to suppress the very rocket attacks the New York Times would have you believe it was responsible for routinely until the Gaza protests. Hamas and the Salafi groups firing these rockets are actually at odds with each other. Of course, Israel holds Hamas responsible for any rocket attacks — even though it knows that Hamas isn’t the one doing it. This has been the situation for quite a long time. Every serious observer knows this. Halbfinger is the Times‘ Jerusalem Bureau Chief. He cannot not know this.

Data for this year isn’t so easily obtained. But according to the list compiled at Wikipedia, there were six rockets fired in January and five or more in February. According to the list compiled by the Jewish Virtual Library, there were four rockets in January and one in February.

Pointing out the low number of rocket attacks is not to trivialize their seriousness. Indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilian population centers are a war crime. The point is that the Times‘ claim that there had been “a fairly steady tempo” of rocket attacks until the Gaza protests started last month is at best misleading. And the Times‘ insinuation that rockets that have been fired were fired by Hamas is also maliciously false.

Compare the Times‘ claim with the acknowledgment from Michael Kaplow writing last week in the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle that “Hamas has not fired a rocket in 14 months”.

I would challenge Kaplow even to support his implication that Hamas fourteen months ago was responsible for firing rockets at Israel; but regardless, it puts the lie to the Times‘ claim that Hamas had been steadily raining down rockets on Israel until the demonstrations began last month.

The falseness of the Times‘ claim also goes to the broader propaganda purpose of the article. What the Times won’t tell you is that, actually, it is Israel that has routinely violated its ceasefire agreements with Hamas — including the ceasefires in place prior to its major operations “Cast Lead” (2008-2009), “Pillar of Defense” (2012), and “Protective Edge” (2014).

Hamas has also since 2005 expressed its acceptance of a Palestinian state alongside Israel within the 1949 armistice lines (a.k.a. the 1967 lines or “Green Line”).

And there is a great deal more about Hamas, and the Israel-Palestine conflict in general, that the Times does not disclose to its readers. This kind of information isn’t reported — and lies like the above are reported — because the media fulfill the self-designated purpose of manufacturing consent for the US policy of supporting Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians.

Jeremy R. Hammond Apr 19, 2018

‘Put the refugees to bed’: Why Israel wants to kill UNRWA

July 1, 2018 by Genie

I read this comment to the article: ” Approximately equal number of Jews were expelled from Arab countries as Palestinians from Israel.”
My answer: Zionism came in and seduced the Jews in Arab countries, when not able to seduce it terrorized them into fleeing to Israel, pretending this was a safe zone, when it was Israel who terrorized them in the first place. Once the Arab Jews ‘escaped’ terror or made their willing journey to “Israel” the European white Jewish rulers gave them low status, sterilized the women, stole babies and experimented on them- The Jews of Libya and When Israeli Doctors Killed Tens of Thousands of Arab Jewish Children

After Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel, Netanyahu has set his sights on another strategic prize – the end of the refugee issue means the end of the Palestinian right of return.

In January, Netanyahu declared that UNRWA aims to perpetuate “the narrative of the so-called ‘right of return’, with the aim of eliminating the State of Israel, and therefore, UNRWA must pass from this world.” Netanyahu declared his strategic objective was to put the Palestinian right of return “to bed”.

In Trump and his national security adviser, John Bolton, the Israeli prime minister believes he has the perfect opportunity to do so.

No refugees, no problem

Standing in his way is UNWRA, a UN agency set up specifically to deal with Palestinian refugees. It is a target not merely because it provides Palestinians with a high standard of education, but because, in Israel’s eyes, it allows the descendants of first-generation refugees to maintain their refugee status in their host countries. It wants UNWRA to hand over its responsibility the UNHCR.

These statements have shot the plight of five million Palestinians refugees that lay dormant for decades, to the forefront of the Palestinian campaign. Four years ago, Land Day, when Palestinians revive their right of return by staging symbolic marches towards their former villages, was a one-day affair.

Thousands gathered in Arraba, Northern Israel; Sawawil, a Bedouin village in the Negev; and a few dozen in Jabaliya in Gaza. There were all of 70 demonstrators outside the Damascus Gate in East Jerusalem, and by evening it was all over.

The two demonstrations so far this month have involved tens of thousands. Thirty one Palestinians have been killed and hundreds injured by snipers stationed on the border fence with Gaza to enforce the no-go zone. Protest camps have sprung up 700 metres from the border fence. There is no sign of the protest dying down, and we are still weeks away from the anniversary of the Nakba in May.

The Israeli Army was at first blindsided by the sight of 30,000 unarmed protesters marching towards the border fence. In a tweet captured by B’Tselem before being deleted, the Israeli army said they knew “where every bullet landed”. 773 Palestinians were shot that day with live fire.

A history of war crimes

The history of this conflict is littered with war crimes. The difference this time is that senior Israeli ministers not only feel that they have nothing to apologise for, they actively rejoiced in the killings.

Israel’s defence minister Avigdor Lieberman summed up his government’s attitude to the Palestinians of Gaza – and one suspects Palestinians in general – when he said: “There are no innocent people in Gaza. Everyone’s connected to Hamas, everyone gets a salary from Hamas and all the activists trying to challenge us and breach the border are Hamas military wing activists.”

When a video shot on 22 December by a sniper was screened on Channel 10, it evinced the same response. The video recorded one of the soldiers whooping in excitement as the Palestinian is shot : “Wow, what a video!… YES! That son of the bitch.”

Naftali Bennett, minister of education, told Ynet: “Since when do we judge a soldier according to the elegance of his speech? I prefer a cheerful soldier to a grieving father.”

The public security minister, Gilad Erdan, from Netanyahu’s Likud party, told Ynet: “I believe in the purity of the soldiers’ weapons and the ethics of combat. Hence, my principle is always to defend, indeed, soldiers who are on the battlefield.”

New form of protest

On the Palestinian side, there are new elements to this form of protest. Unlike the second or even the first intifadas, it has been so far wholly peaceful. No Israeli soldiers have been fired at, or indeed injured. Gaza’s arsenal of home-made weapons has been left at home.

It’s also leaderless. Hamas was initially reluctant to become involved, although it acknowledged that some of its members had been killed. Far from supporting the Gaza demonstrations, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president who faces isolation from Washington over his opposition to the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, has continued to refuse to pay the salaries of public workers in Gaza.

Palestinian school girls sit behind a flag of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) as they attend the Life and Hope festival at an UNRWA school in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah, near the border with Egypt (AFP)

Put another way, as tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are attempting, symbolically, to break the siege, Abbas is still reinforcing it. Neither Hamas nor Fatah have any bearing on what will happen next. This protest is genuinely popular.

The third element of the tactic at protesting is that it is infectious. If it continues, there will be a reaction in the West Bank. There are also talks in the Palestinian diaspora in Jordan about staging demonstrations at Israel’s border there.

By May, Israel could find itself in the situation in which it faces demonstrations on all its borders, which is why it wants to literally kill off this form of protest now.

The fourth element is that this action is a slap in the face for Israel’s Arab allies. Two months before Israel’s offensive, Abbas had been told in Riyadh by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that Palestinians would not get East Jerusalem as their capital and there would be no right of return for Palestinian refugees or their descendants.

Unintended consequences

The further Saudi Arabia, the Emiratis and Egypt attempt to bolster Israel and America’s plans for what Trump has called “the deal of the century”, the more they undermine the Palestinian cause and distance themselves from the very raw feelings of the Arab street.

One way or another, the unintended consequence of all of these stratagems to “put the refugees to bed” is that the refugee issue has regained its place centre stage of the conflict.

Kazim Ayesh spent 27 years as an UNWRA teacher in Jordan. He told me: “UNWRA is an international witness to the crimes against the Palestinian people. That is why they want to kill this witness and why they want to teach the next generation of Palestinians that Jerusalem is not the capital of Palestine and occupied Palestine is not your country.

“All Palestinians encourage their children to learn. They know it’s the only way to continue their lives and they go to the Gulf countries in their thousands. But for me as a teacher in UNWRA it is not about motivation.

“They have to learn to take back their rights. Their motivation is high. The camps will remain as a symbol of the refugee issue, whether or not you try to force the refugees out. We make sure they do not lose their Palestinian identity and that it is possible for them to plan to go back to their homeland.”

The horror of Zionism isn’t just confined to Palestine

March 9, 2018 by Genie

TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stressed Wed. that unity in the Islamic world must be bolstered to impede Zionism and terrorism across the region.

President Rouhani made the remark in the session of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, while inviting the entire Iranian nation to take part in Quds Day rallies.

“Quds Day is highly respected by Iranian people, all Muslims, and other nations around the world,” said Rouhani adding that the issue of Palestine and the Holy Quds is very important to the world.

“It has been 70 years now that the people of the region, especially the people of Palestine and the neighboring countries are suffering from aggression by the occupying Zionist regime,” Rouhani said, adding “the issue of Palestine can never be forgotten, despite all attempts by the Zionist regime.

“Today, the Zionists’ overt and covert intervention can be seen in almost every dispute among countries of the region,” the Iranian president said.

He went on to add, “terrorists who sustain injuries in the region, are sent to Zionist Regime’s hospitals for treatment. Terrorists are provided with arms and tasked with bombing the region to serve Israel’s interests. It is crystal clear that the Israeli regime is sponsor of terrorism in the region.”

Rouhani further maintained that disputes in the region and the Islamic world, such as disagreements between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Saudi Arabia, and Egypt and Turkey, are beneficial to Zionism and terrorism.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has helped the Iraqi nation in their fight against terrorism and we hope to see Mosul liberated in the near future and serve as a symbol of victory of regional countries against the terrorists’ plots,” he said.

Iran will not let terrorism to spread in the region, said Rouhani adding: “If the masters of terrorism decide to spread terrorist acts to the sacred land of Iran, they must know that the Islamic Republic of Iran will not let terrorists and their masters to do so”.

The president warned terrorists that Iran would not allow them to carry out their inhumane acts inside the Iranian terrorist, adding “combatting terrorism is a decision made by the entire Iranian nation. Acting against terrorist headquarters has been decided in the Supreme National Security Council and we have given our armed forces even more authority for countermeasure.”

He also said: “”We will not let terrorists to turn Iran into a battlefield. Their masters must know that Iran is different from other countries of the region,” Rouhani continued.

“The new US administration must know that the Iranian nation will neither remain silent not tolerate any intimidation and pressure, but rather it will respond adequately,” he warned.

Terrorism has been a term largely associated with ‘radical Islam’, and jihadist groups like al Qaeda and ISIS, in the latter part of the 20th and early 21st century, but that hasn’t always been the case.

In the early days of Israel, systematic violence and terror was prevalent as newly arriving Europeans clashed with indigenous Arabs. The catastrophic results of this unlikely encounter has permanently mired the region in a state of eternal conflict.

Few are aware about the actual roots of modern terrorism – pioneered and perfectly choreographed to attract maximum international attention and intimidation – by Zionist Jews – members of Menachem Begin‘s right-wing terrorist organization known as Irgun.

Their targets: British colonial citizens, assets and businesses in Palestine, and the native Palestinian population itself.

IRGUN TERROR: Jewish terror training camp in 1947 (photo: Archive of Jabotinsky Institute in Israel/CC BY 2.5)

Jewish terrorists at the time also invented the concept of the modern suicide bomber, when in Jerusalem in 1946, a female Jewish fundamentalist recruit, known as ‘The Girl in Red’, killed 12 innocents in the world’s first-ever terrorist suicide bomb attack.

In addition to carrying out violent terrorist bombings, the same Jewish gangs also ran various organized crime rackets, brutalizing communities. Clare Hollingworth, the Daily Telegraph and The Scotsman correspondent in Jerusalem in 1948, reported on the gangs while on assignment in West Jerusalem:

“Irgun is in fact rapidly becoming the ‘SS’ of the new state. There is also a strong ‘Gestapo’ – but no-one knows who is in it.”

‘The shopkeepers are afraid not so much of shells as of raids by Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Gang. These young toughs, who are beyond whatever law there is have cleaned out most private houses of the richer classes & started to prey upon the shopkeepers.”

They also collaborated with some of Europe’s worst regimes and movements. Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz, chronicled some of this in columnist and Israeli historian Tom Segev’s study of the Irgun Jewish terror units: “In the second half of 1940, a few members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) – the anti-British terrorist group sponsored by the Revisionists and known by its acronym Etzel, and to the British simply as the Irgun – made contact with representatives of Fascist Italy, offering to cooperate against the British.”^[65]

After terrorist gangs drove the British out of Palestine, and the native Palestinian population was killed off or driven out of what the newly arrived European Jewish terrorists organizations considered to be “their Israel”, terrorist leaders like Begin, David Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Shamir and others, were then elevated to national leadership positions in Israel.

“To the Israeli government, the periodic slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza is referred to as, “mowing the grass”, a chore that frequently needs repeating. But this violence is wearing on the world’s conscience, including moral objections from more and more Jews”, as observed by American journalist Lawrence Davidson.

Fast forward into the 21st century, and it seems that this region is still plagued with conflict, and the native Palestinian population living under the strict Israeli Apartheid regime, is being systematically ethnically cleansed, and in some cases, like we saw this past summer with the Israeli IDF army’s siege of Gaza – slaughtered en mass.

The hardened political shell which has facilitated the endless violence and constant conflict has been the same from the very beginning: Zionism, the radical belief that God has promised the Jewish people a pure Jewish State in Greater Israel, to be taken by any means.

There is a ray of hope on the horizon however. Younger generations in Israel are no longer enamoured with the radical mindset of their predecessors, and do not believe in the fundamentalist dogma of Zionism, and do not support state-sanctioned violence as before.