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		<title>Western Indifference to the Palestinian Culture of Hate</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/palestinian.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247450" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/palestinian-450x331.png" alt="palestinian" width="381" height="280" /></a>A shockingly, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/al-aqsa-speaker-the-slaughter-of-the-jews-is-near/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">disturbing video</span></a> has recently surfaced exposing the true and pernicious face of Palestinian extremism and xenophobia. The video, made available by Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) shows a bearded sheikh giving what appears to be an impromptu sermon on the Jews. (After all, what else is there to talk about?) The venue is the Al-Aqsa Mosque, considered by those who practice the “religion of peace” to be their third holiest site after Mecca and Medina.</p>
<p>The speech itself is filled with gut-wrenching anti-Semitism, the kind that would even make the editors of the <i>New York Times</i> blush. The sheikh describes how the Jews possess the vilest of traits, how they were responsible for killing the “prophets,” how they attempted to assassinate Muhammad, how their time for “slaughter is near,” how they will be slaughtered “without mercy,” and of course there’s the perfunctory, “Jews are apes and pigs” thing.</p>
<p>Interestingly, the speaker doesn’t mention the longing for Palestinian statehood or independence. Instead, he talks of the establishment of the “Islamic Caliphate.” “Oh Allah’” he states, “Hasten the establishment of the State of the Islamic Caliphate,” and further rants, “Oh Allah hasten the pledge of allegiance to the Muslim Caliph.” He spews forth the latter statement three times to chants of “Amen!” from the large, approving crowd congregating around him.</p>
<p>These comments, which would register horror and revulsion in the West (at least in some quarters) are almost banal among Palestinians. In fact, a <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/preacher-at-al-aqsa-hails-islamic-state-mujahideen/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">similar video</span></a> featuring a different speaker some days earlier at the same venue, conveyed identical sentiment, expressing admiration for the Islamic State and calling for murder of Jews and annihilation of America.</p>
<p>Guttural anti-Semitism is <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=ctdnu84bc2fbc4e114ef4ae2dabe819a7afe1#bookmark=http://global100.adl.org/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">ingrained and interwoven</span></a> in the fabric of Palestinian society. Despite their minuscule numbers, 78% of Palestinians believe that Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars while a whopping 88% believe that Jews control the global media and still more believe that Jews wield too much power in the business world.</p>
<p>Much of the blame for this can be placed squarely on the doorstep of Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, which subjects the Palestinian population to a <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/jihad-in-jerusalem-1416356018"><span style="color: #0433ff;">steady diet of hate-filled, Judeophobic rhetoric</span></a> through state-controlled media and educational institutions. It is so well entrenched that the process of deprogramming, if it were ever attempted, would take generations to reverse.</p>
<p>Some of the blame however, rests with the Obama administration and the European Union, which continues to fund the Palestinian Authority with an endless supply of taxpayer money without demanding any form of accountability. Western money is openly used to fund the Palestinian Authority’s hate apparatus with money flowing into institutions that propagate anti-Semitism and <a href="http://palwatch.org/STORAGE/special%20reports/4_reports_PA_salaries_to_terrorists_Feb_13_2013.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">encourage terrorism</span></a>.</p>
<p>Some Western media outlets are also culpable in perpetuating the Palestinian culture of hate. The <i>New York Times </i>for example has frequently and diligently covered so-called “price tag” vandalism attacks; a practice universally condemned by nearly all Israelis and vigorously prosecuted by Israeli authorities but rarely, if ever, covers the type of venomous hate speech witnessed in the above-noted videos.</p>
<p>Hate crimes inspired by this type of pernicious speech are also routinely ignored. Highlighting this point is the <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/10/the_new_york_times_hear_no_evil_see_no_evil_speak_no_evil.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">disturbing case of Asher Palmer</span></a>, an American citizen who, along with his infant son was murdered when a rock thrown by a Palestinian crashed through the windshield of the car he was driving, hitting him flush in the face. The <i>New York Times</i> ignored the gruesome murders and only mentioned the incident in passing a few days later in the context of a reprisal “price tag” attack against a mosque. Under the unbelievably skewed editorial policies of the <i>New York Times</i>, it took an act of vandalism, ostensibly committed by Jews, to highlight the horrific murder of Asher Palmer and his infant son at the hands of Arabs.</p>
<p>The practice of ignoring such malevolence partly stems from the fact that the <i>New York Times</i> wishes to present a certain narrative at the expense of the facts and partly stems from a systematic inability of some Western media outlets to hold Arabs to a Western standard of decency and morality. Thus, Arab anti-Semitism, the same kind of anti-Semitism practiced in Europe some 75 years ago, is either ignored or attributed to mere cultural differences.</p>
<p>Indeed, the <i>New York Times</i> no longer even bothers to hide the fact that it engages in duplicitous double standards when it comes to reporting Palestinian-Arab racism and hate speech as evidenced from a <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/11/02/did-a-new-york-times-editor-admit-to-holding-palestinians-to-a-lower-standard-than-israelis/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">telling exchange</span></a> between New York Times’ opinion page staff editor, Matt Seaton and Tamar Sternthal, a director at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).</p>
<p>Rarely is the sort of vitriol witnessed in the videos expressed in English to Western audiences. Only the crassest among them publicly share their feelings about Jews, and the West for that matter. But behind closed doors it’s an entirely different story. Groups like MEMRI, CAMERA, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) and many others do an excellent job in exposing the malevolence hiding just beneath the surface. The problem is no one seems to care. No one cared 75 years ago either.</p>
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		<title>History as Propaganda</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>“This is not an Israeli-Palestinian debate,” Stanley Cohen, the director of the Scone Foundation, said. “It is [a conference] to honor the archivist profession.”</p>
<p>Cohen’s statement was half true: the event was not a “debate,” but only because there were no dissenting opinions to challenge keynote speaker <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6418">Rashid Khalidi’s</a> monologue portraying the Palestinians as powerless victims of an Israeli foe intent on destroying their historical records.</p>
<p>Cohen was speaking to an audience of approximately 150 people, mostly members of the general public and scholars of the Middle East, at the Scone Foundation’s “Archivist of the Year” award ceremony, held January 25 at the CUNY Graduate Center’s expansive auditorium in the heart of New York City.</p>
<p>The event was billed as an opportunity to honor the joint recipients of the seventh Archivist of the Year award, Yehoshua Freundlich of the Israeli Archives and Khader Salameh of the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library. <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=khalidi&amp;sa=Search#922">Khalidi</a>, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University and a <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1211">former spokesman for the PLO</a>, and <a href="http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/myers/">Professor David Myers</a>, the director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, were the event’s keynote speakers.</p>
<p>Cohen made clear from the start that he subscribed to the political biases of academia. He claimed that a previous recipient of the Archivist of the Year Award had been “shelved by the Defense Department” for opposing Operation Iraqi Freedom. “Archivists cannot oppose faith-based policies,” Cohen joked with his seemingly sympathetic audience.</p>
<p>Salameh’s and Freundlich’s speeches followed Cohen’s address. The two archivists were dispassionate, thoughtful, and apolitical in describing their work. Salameh demonstrated a fluent grasp of Hebrew when speaking to an Israeli during his presentation, and Freundlich talked about his determination to preserve documents related to Palestinian history.</p>
<p>The American academics proved decidedly less capable of keeping politics out of their speeches. Myers spoke first, stating before he began his address that, “self-critical research,” meaning criticism of the Palestinian narrative, was a “defining feature of [Khalidi’s] work”—a preposterous claim that could not withstand the evidence presented in Khalidi’s own words.</p>
<p>Khalidi began his speech by saying that the “statelessness” of the Palestinians is a “condition that manifests itself directly in the lack of Palestinian national archives.”  This proved a half-hearted attempt to make his digression into politics relevant to the subject of the ceremony.</p>
<p>While Myers had discussed how Israel’s leftist “<a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/New_Historians.html">New Historians</a>” challenged the alleged “myths” of Israelis’ “collective memory,” Khalidi sounded almost giddy when he stated, “the founders of the [Israeli] state would be turning in their graves [if they read what these historians wrote].”</p>
<p>Khalidi later made clear that Palestinians, unlike Israelis and Americans, are exempt from the obligation to challenge their national myths: “The collective memory of the Palestinians was perfectly clear,” Khalidi said of the precision of the Palestinian refugees’ recollection of their “expulsion” from the Jewish state.</p>
<p>He neglected to mention that even according to the controversial estimates of the New Historians, <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/refugees.html">at most a third of the Palestinian refugees</a> of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence were expelled; the rest left on their own accord, Palestinians’ “collective memory” to the contrary notwithstanding.</p>
<p>Khalidi claimed Palestinian archives were systematically destroyed by the Israelis, adding that this issue was “exacerbated by the destruction or desecration of religious and historical sites.” He later expanded on this claim: “These actions are often linked to efforts to deny the existence of Palestinians in Palestine.”</p>
<p>The only examples Khalidi offered of such Israeli actions were the bombing of Palestinian archives at a PLO building in Beirut during the <a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1678203/the_first_lebanon_war_arab_israeli.html">First Lebanon War</a> and the closing of the PLO’s Jerusalem headquarters and archives at the <a href="http://www.orienthouse.org/about/index.html">Orient House</a> during the Second Intifada. The intuitive reason for such actions—<a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/5.pdf">the PLO’s documented support for terrorism</a> and not a desire to “deny the existence of Palestinians”—was seemingly lost on Khalidi.</p>
<p>Given Khalidi’s abandonment of any pretense of discussing the work of the two archivists, Myers was clearly hesitant to challenge Khalidi’s assertions during the question and answer session. He further politicized the conference with a digression on how historians could use their trade to assist Palestinians who claimed to have lost property in Jerusalem. Myers neglected to discuss how historians could help redeem the <a href="http://info.jpost.com/C003/Supplements/Refugees/12-13.html">much more significant financial losses</a> of the approximately <a href="http://www.meforum.org/263/why-jews-fled-the-arab-countries">900,000 Jews who fled Arab lands</a>.</p>
<p>However, to his credit, Myers did argue for the “ameliorative role” of archives and their “possibility to craft a shared history [between Israelis and Palestinians].” Cohen had also claimed in <a href="http://www.newyorkhistoryblog.com/2010/01/palestinian-israeli-archivists-feted-as.html">a flier</a> for the conference that, “Open archives may very well be instruments to reduce divergence, expand mutual understanding and fruitful cooperation [between Israelis and Palestinians].&#8221;</p>
<p>Khalidi ended the awards ceremony on a decidedly less optimistic note. He discussed how Germany and France had fought wars for a century and a half and had to wait 60 years after those conflicts ended before they could establish a joint “peace” curriculum for their schools. He then concluded, “[A Palestinian State], I fear, is unlikely to see the light of day anytime soon, if ever.”</p>
<p>Khalidi’s politicization of an awards ceremony intended to honor the unsung heroes of the archivist profession was predictable to anyone familiar with his public lectures, which routinely politicize rather than analyze the contemporary Middle East. More disturbing was Myers’s and the audience’s complacent acceptance of his usurpation. The professionalism of the Israeli and Palestinian archivists stood in stark contrast to the unwillingness of the American academics to check their politics at the door. The honorees deserved better.</p>
<p><em>Brendan Goldman is a senior at New York University majoring in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, and an intern at the Middle East Forum. This essay was sponsored by </em><em><a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/">Campus Watch</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.meforum.org/">Middle East Forum</a>.</em></p>
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