“What is legal about Tel Aviv?” asked the Israeli anti-Zionist radical Miko Peled on November 16 at the annual conference of Washington, DC’s Israel-hating Palestine Center before a room filled with over 40 equally implacable listeners. Such extreme presentations demonstrated the hollowness of any peace process with a Palestinian movement that unrelentingly rejects a Jewish state of Israel.
Peled pleased a radical audience that included the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta rabbi Yisrael Dovid Weiss, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) activist Shelley Cohen-Fudge, and Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) editor Delinda Henley. Israel’s native son Peled stated that he actually “was born and raised in Palestine” and abandoned his Israeli allegiance in a “journey from the sphere of the oppressor to the sphere of the oppressed.” Meanwhile, he declared that “most Israelis have no connection with the Holocaust,” an amazingly cavalier treatment of a genocide that haunts all Jewish memories globally, regardless of their personal proximity to this horror.
Peled’s slander of the Jewish national homeland as an imperial implant led to his scathing conclusion that “Zionism is incompatible with peace” and the “rights of the indigenous people of Palestine.” His fellow conference speaker Zena Agha similarly damned Zionism as an “ethno-religious ideology which holds a supremacist structural organization of society, which all people are incumbent to oppose,” like “fighting white supremacy.” With breathtaking intellectual cultural appropriation, the Electric Intifada’s Palestinian-American editor Ali Abunimah also completely rejected the idea that “Zionism has to do with Judaism.”
Abunimah derided Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Miami native Ron Dermer, as “Ambassador for Miami,” while a slide presentation via Skype by Salman Abu Sitta likewise maligned Israeli Jews as foreign “immigrants/settlers.” “Like the whites of South Africa, we don’t belong there; we are not native to the place,” but rather are a “result of settler-colonialism and racism and the ethnic cleansing and genocide,” Peled said of Israeli Jews like himself. “We cannot in good conscience call that place Israel,” he astonishingly declared, for this term is “legitimizing this brutal, racist apartheid ideology and regime, because there is no part of Palestine that is not occupied.”
Accordingly, the conference speakers expressed almost unanimous disdain for the most commonly accepted Israeli-Palestinian conflict settlement proposal. Peled rejected the “ridiculous notion of a two-state solution” that would create a Palestinian state alongside Israel, and instead fantasized about Jews living harmoniously amidst Muslim-majority populations. Islamic supremacism, including antisemitism, under which non-Muslim minorities have historically suffered, make ludicrous his envisioned “single democracy over all of Palestine . . . where people just live in peace and there is tolerance.”
Agha concurred that the “two-state solution is all but null,” while Abunimah was even more strident. “Stop this sterile discourse of a Palestinian state and two-state solution, and peace process and all of this kind of nonsense,” he stated. “Our peace plan” means the “end of Zionist colonialism.”
The address by Josh Ruebner from the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) showed how extreme Palestinian visions of an independent state could be, with his rejection of Israeli security concerns restricting Palestinian sovereignty. He denounced a past “charade of negotiations” and “fig leaf of a dialogue” between Israelis and Palestinians, in which a Palestinian “state-minus” defined all American peace plans under numerous presidents. “The plan was always for the Palestinian entity not to be a sovereign state, not to have an army, not to have an independent foreign policy; not to have any control over its borders, its airspace, its sea-lanes.”
Rather than appreciate the necessity of such concessions, Lamis Deek from the Islamist Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) celebrated Palestinian terrorism in her address via Skype. Befitting CAIR’s Hamas origins, she began her remarks by “honoring our fallen heroes” among Gaza’s Hamas jihadists. These terrorists, in the “purest form of love, a not-self-interested love, gave their lives to protect the two million people in Gaza” against the “Israeli colonizing project for ethnic cleansing.” Noting that “our struggle is discursive as much as it is military or solidarity,” she wanted to “normalize and elevate the Palestinian resistance.”
By contrast, Abunimah condemned Israeli self-defense against Palestinians terrorists in the Gaza Strip who attempted to breach Israel’s security barrier during the recent March of Return. Israel is “using snipers to murder children in cold blood,” according to his propaganda. The Israel-hating former CNN journalist Jim Clancy concurred that Israel is committing “in broad daylight right in front of our eyes in Gaza . . . blatant war crimes.” He additionally ranted that American recognition of Israel’s capital Jerusalem showed that “U.S. foreign policy is up for sale.”
Abunimah praised March of Return participants for “giving their lives for our rights,” namely a Palestinian “right of return” for millions of descendants of at most 750,000 Arab refugees from Israel’s 1948 independence war. The entry of these Arabs into Israel would demographically destroy the Jewish state and accomplish what past Arab armies and terrorists have failed to achieve. Nonetheless, the uncompromising Abunimah denounced the leftist American Jewish organization J Street as a “racist, Zionist organization that exists to oppose the Palestinian right of return.”
Agha called the Palestinian “inalienable right to return to their historic homeland” the “central pillar of Palestinian liberation,” while Palestine Center Executive Committee Chair Subhi Ali described this as “sacred” and “not negotiable.” Referring to some 850,000 Jews who fled the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the decades following Israel’s 1948 creation, Agha also bizarrely endorsed the “ability for Arab Jews to return to the land from which they came.” Jews “historically have lived very peacefully and under very prosperous conditions in their home countries” such as Iraq, she said in an exaggerated statement that ludicrously suggested Jews would endure the MENA region’s antisemitism again.
The Palestinian United Nations Permanent Observer, Riyad H. Mansour, also showed in his keynote address no inclination to abandon the Palestinian refugee “farce.” He praised the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Near East Refugees (UNRWA) as a “fantastic agency” and “model of success,” opposing American efforts to close this organization irredeemably dedicated to the “right of return.” In contrast, he smeared Israel’s recent nation-state law officially dedicated to preserving a Jewish national home as an “awful law, apartheid law.”
Mansour noted to applause that the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Central Council had recently endorsed the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. Along with his other statements, this BDS support rendered null his pro forma embrace of a “two-state solution.” Meanwhile Syracuse University Professor Osamah Khalil’s conspiracy-mongering suggestion that the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat had been “assassinated” did little to inspire confidence in negotiations with Palestinians.
Mansour and the other prominent Palestinian spokespersons at the Palestine Center conference clearly demonstrate the enduring Palestinian rejection of Israel’s Jewish state. Beyond the foreign policy realm, American domestic political leaders who praise CAIR or, like a possible presidential candidate Senator Cory Booker, claim ignorance when associating with the USCPR, must answer for abetting Israel-haters. Americans must clearly recognize their ally Israel’s enemies and seek their defeat.
revereridesagain says
Meanwhile, in Newton, Massachusetts, the dhimmitude gets ramped up another notch.
https://www.wcvb.com/article/high-school-teachers-threatened-over-middle-east-curriculum/25326618
Andy says
What a difference:
Quran
Surah 5:51
5:51 O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends: They are but friends to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.
The Holy Bible
King James Bible
Genesis 12:3
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
https://biblehub.com/genesis/12-3.htm
Robert Spencer – 3 Lessons of Jihad from History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBIrTcaqyIM
Bodega says
I find the whole idea of an indepentent nation of Palastinians so objectionable I am almost speechless and certainly have almost no strength in my fingers to type. There should be no groups called “Palestinians”. There certainly is not a history of such a government or self-identified people such as Palestinians. It was adopted to confer a mantle of legitimacy to the whole idea of a separate group of non-Jewish people so that there would be no threat to Israelites. By presenting articles such as this I truly believe legitimacy is added to the illegitimate Palestinian movement.
Never in the history of the world have a singular group been as stigmatized as the Jews. The stigmatization is due to ignorance pure and simple. And I think the whole idea has everything to do with the Jews making a fantastic nation out of sand in a desert of no distinction except for the fact that Jews and others Levantians has been on the very land for eons.
Tell me this, why would any identified group of people ever want, by choice, to live among a group of “other”people who delighted in killing them for “religious reasons”? Apparently the ‘Palestinian’ Arabs have never heard of the “Live and let Live” or “Do unto others as you would have do unto you”. I truly believe Mohammed was birthed on to the surface of the Earth to test our soul’s integrity.
Gea says
“Palestinians were invented in 1964 by an Egyptian terrorist Yassir Arafat with the help of COmmnist USSR in order to get more money, sympathy and traction for his terrorists activities for the ONLY Jewish majority state created in 1948… All 56 corrupt dysfunctional and overpopulated Muslims occupied countries and had tried to destroy Israel ever since, but the worlst enemies are Jews who do not know history and hate their own people.
This ignorant self-hating moron Peleg, George Soros, Noam Chomsky and dumb American Jews who are still siding with “resistance” of the treasonous Democratic party, that was until recently led by a racist, antisemitic separatist Muslim from Minnesota, Keith Ellison, who is now Attorney General of Minnesota…He is also a friend of notorious racist, antisemitic, separatist Muslim of Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, with whom he went in 2013 and two other Congressional Black Caucus to meet with top dog of Iran. previous to 2015 Obama/Kerry nuke “deal” with genocidal ayatollahs of Iran, who want to “wipe Zionist entity” of the map of the world.
J-street Jews are also ignorant of history of Israel and KNOW nothing about Muslim delusional Jew hatred that started in 627 CE when Mohamed tricked Jews of Medina into treaty, only to break it and behead 900 Jewish men, looting their property and taking Jewish women and children into slavery, which is widely practiced among Muslims even today, as is beheading.
Jews that lived under Muslim rule, were allowed to life as second class citizens (dhimmis) who had to pay special protection tax (jizyya) to be left alive…sort like to Mafia…Islam itself is an IDEOLOGY of hate of ALL non-Muslims and particularly Jews, whom Mohamed envied and hated as he was a failure once his old boss and wife, Kadija, died and he went berserk, while Jews were successful traders in Arabia…
Shimon Perez made a monumental blunder by letting Egyptian terrorist Arafat to Gaza and West Bank where he organized intifada and frequent terrorist actions which continue. while Muslim occupied countries ar mostly JudenFrei, Israel has to put up with 23% of their population who are Muslims and a potential fifth column…
Let them all go for a permanent Hajj to Saudi Arabia which has 3 millions of empty beds in air-conditioned tents, and they import workers…let the Muslim “refugees” and all those from the West Bank, Gaza and Muslims of Israel (if they do not respect Israeli government) go and enjoy Islam in its site of origin in Mecca and Medina…
The Shiites can go to enjoy Islam under ayatollahs of Iran…AMEN!
ElderlyZionist says
Thanks for the detailed report on this conference. The enemies are on the attack, and we must meet them.
“The Palestinian United Nations Permanent Observer, Riyad H. Mansour…smeared Israel’s recent nation-state law officially dedicated to preserving a Jewish national home as an ‘awful law, apartheid law.’”
If you hate that law so much, Mr. Mansour, it must be a good law.
mortimer says
If there were a picture in the dictionary next to ‘Self-hating Jew’ it would be that of Miko Peled … a very confused, conflicted, psychiatric man.
And the Jews around the world ARE NOT ‘oppressed’.
Israel was created as place where Jews would not face constant discrimination.
Just as there is a Lithuania for Lithuanians, a Jewish state for Jews is a reasonable project.
mortimer says
Allah has promised Israel to the Jews — so says Sheikh Ahmad Adwan, a Muslim scholar living in Jordan, who declared on his Facebook page recently that “Palestine” doesn’t exist.
Blogger Elder of Ziyon translated Arab news sources that this Saturday reported on Adwan’s statements, in which he quotes the Koran saying Allah assigned Israel to the Jews until the Day of Judgement (Sura 5 Verse 21), and that Jews are the inheritors of Israel (Sura 26 Verse 59).
“I say to those who distort…the Koran: from where did you bring the name Palestine, you liars, you accursed, when Allah has already named it ‘The Holy Land’ and bequeathed it to the Children of Israel until the Day of Judgment,” argued Adwan. “There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ in the Koran.”
“Your demand for the Land of Israel is a falsehood and it constitutes an attack on the Koran, on the Jews and their land. Therefore you won’t succeed, and Allah will fail you and humiliate you, because Allah is the one who will protect them (i.e. the Jews),” warns Adwan.
The sheikh had more harsh words for the “Palestinians,” calling them “the killers of children, the elderly and women” in using them as human shields in order to falsely accuse the Jews of targeting them. He reports having seen the same tactic used by “Palestinians” against the Jordanian army in the 1970s.
“This is their habit and custom, their viciousness, their having hearts of stones towards their children, and their lying to public opinion, in order to get its support,” declared Adwan.
Adwan has previously said his support for the Jewish people “comes from my acknowledgment of their sovereignty on their land and my belief in the Koran, which told us and emphasized this in many places, like His (Allah’s) saying ”Oh People (i.e the Children of Israel), enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned unto you'” (Sura 5, Verse 21).
The Jews are a peaceful people according to Adwan, who says “if they are attacked, they defend themselves while causing as little damage to the attackers as possible. It is an honor for them that Allah has chosen them over the worlds – meaning over the people and the Jinns (spiritual creatures) until the Day of Judgment. …When Allah chose them, He didn’t do so out of politeness, and He wasn’t unjust other peoples, it is just that they (the Jews) deserved this.”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/177182#.Uwirq5ux4dV
somehistory says
The photo appears to show the haters holding a crystal ball, looking to the demons to help them see a way to destroy Israel.
If they could lie Israel to destruction, there would be no Israel. This conference should prove…again…that moslims have no intentions to make peace…with Israel or anyone else.
Walter Sieruk says
Those Muslim terror organizations be they jihad Islamic terror entities that are Sunni Islamic based as ISIS and al Qaeda or Shiite Islam base as Hezbollah an Hamas those jihad groups with Islamic agenda of destroying the State of Israel and replacing her with an Islamic “state” are all fated to fail ,as in lose to achieve their goal . This is because they are overruled by the God of the Bible . For He greatly favors Israel . As, for example, Psalm 135 : 4 reads “For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself. Israel for His special treasure.” [N.K.J.V.]
Furthermore, even though those jihadists who make up those ,just named above , jihad entities are ,no doubt , too ignorant to know it , they are still striving against the Will of God.
Therefore , that makes those Muslims who are also jihadists to be wicked.men Thus even if the members of Hezbollah and Hamas actually join together in a band that in a firm alliance with the jihadists members of al Qaeda and ISIS against the State of Israel they will not only still lose but lose hard , as in they will end up losing hard in bitter anguish .
For in the Bible in Proverbs 11:21. the reader is informed “Though they join forces ,the wicked will not go unpunished.”
FYI says
Mr Peled should ask his muslim friends to explain SAHIH MUSLIM #6985
{That’s islam’s plan for the future annihilation of the Jews..}
Had the “palestinians” really wanted peace,things would be different now.
Israel has a right to exist:it’s recent nation-state law is correct.
The Left who support the “palestine narrative should ask themselves where is the Left in islamic countries?
Religiously observant Jews,some muslims and any authentic Christians who read the OT prophecies will understand WHY Israel exists{Joel 3…}
The Left,the dhimmi secular Jews etc won’t get that at all.
Aussie Infidel says
The Jews immigrating to Israel from Russia and other European countries, are the descendants of those driven out of their homeland by the ancestors of the Muslims who now claim “all of Palestine” is theirs. And once again these belligerent anti-Zionists vow to annihilate the Jewish State and every last Jew “from the river to the Sea.”
But the reason Muslims are so fanatical is that they are commanded to hate and kill the Jews in their unholy scriptures.
“Allah has cursed them (the Jews) for their disbelief.” (Quran 4:46).
“Allah made the Jews leave their homes by terrorizing them so that you killed some and made many captive. And He made you inherit their lands, their homes, and their wealth. He gave you a country you had not traversed before.” (Quran 33:26).
“Indeed, we are disassociated from you and from whatever you worship other than Allah. We have denied you, and there has appeared between us and you animosity and hatred forever until you believe in Allah alone” (Quran 60:4).
“The Last Day [Judgement Day] will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. And if the Jews hide behind the rocks or trees, they will say, Oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the Gharqad tree would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Sahih Muslim 41:6985, Sahih Bukhari 4:56:791). This is often known as the ‘Genocide Hadith’.
“Muslims who fight and kill Jews will go straight to paradise and get a double reward [more virgins].” (Dawud vol 2 no 2482, 2489).
Muhammad said: “I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim.” (Sahih Muslim, Book 019, Number 4366)
These verses provide the primary motivation for the innate Muslim hatred of the Jews, and the continuation of the Israel-Palestine conflict.