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In South Africa, Israel Falsely Accused of Withholding Coronavirus Information from Israeli Arabs

Mar 25, 2020 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

Israel-haters have accused that country of, among other crimes, of deliberately creating and spreading the coronavirus, in order to harm Muslims. It does not matter that the coronavirus first appeared in Wuhan China, nor that the two countries most affected so far have been China and Italy, neither a Muslim country. The latest charge, by BDSers in South Africa, is that the Israeli government has deliberately withheld information about the coronavirus from its Muslim citizens.

The story is here.

Anti-Zionist agitators in South Africa are pushing the false claim that Israel has not published Arabic-language guidelines for dealing with the coronavirus out of contempt for its Arab citizens — despite the fact that these materials, including a video in Arabic, are readily accessible on the Israeli Health Ministry’s website.

Writing in the Daily Maverick news outlet on Tuesday, Ronnie Kasrils — a leader of the BDS movement in South Africa and a veteran of the country’s Communist Party — alleged that coronavirus advice in Israel had only been issued in Hebrew, echoing similar claims made by BDS activists over the weekend.

“Israel by contrast only delivers its coronavirus advice in Hebrew, ignoring the Arab mother tongue of 20 percent of Palestinians living within the Zionist state,” Kasrils asserted.

Among those responding to Kasril’s falsehood was the South African Zionist Federation, in a tweet that accused Kasrils of spreading “lies” and linked to the Arabic section of the Israeli Health Ministry’s website.

Antisemitic and “anti-Zionist” interpretations of the coronavirus crisis have mushroomed as the situation globally has deteriorated over the last month.

Islamist media outlets in Iran, the Arab world and Europe have accused Israel of developing and spreading the coronavirus.

In a speech last Sunday, the former Soviet refusenik and Jewish Agency chief Natan Sharansky spoke out against this surge of antisemitic propaganda.

He noted there was “nothing new in it,” citing the Black Death of the 14th century as a precedent for today’s woes.

Kasril’s false claim notwithstanding, Israel’s Health Ministry has provided detailed and comprehensive advice on coronavirus for the country’s Arab citizens.

Different sections of its website include guidelines on the effects of the virus on pregnancy and breastfeeding, contact with the elderly, travel restrictions and domestic quarantine protocols.

In addition, a video fronted by Israeli-Arab medical professional Dr. Zahi Said offers a simple overview of the key precautionary measures for the virus.

Israel has gone all out to furnish Arab citizens with exactly the same information as has been prepared for Jewish Israelis. The government has not only disseminated information about the coronavirus, in Arabic, in written materials and on radio and television, but most importantly, has created an Arabic-language website which includes information about how the virus spreads, what precautions to take, including social distancing, repeated hand-washing, limiting contact with the elderly, explains the effects of the virus on those who are pregnant or breastfeeding, and defines those, even if not elderly, whose immune systems have already been compromised and therefore need to be especially wary of contact with others. Travel restrictions and quarantine protocols are also explained Hotlines are available in Arabic to answer questions. Whatever is available in Hebrew is also available in Arabic.

All of this can be discovered by a few minutes of searching the Internet. But apparently Ronnie Kasrils, a Communist and BDSer in South Africa, could not take the time to discover this truth or, rather, he was uninterested in finding out that Israel supplies exactly the same information, and offers the same level of excellent care, to its Arab as to its Jewish citizens. That does not fit the fable that ronnie-kasrils of this world, mired in the miasma of their antisemitic swamp, wish to spread.

Ronnie Kasrils is a bizarre figure. He is Jewish, and for all of his adult life – he is now 81 – he has been denouncing Israel. During Israel’s 2008 incursion into Lebanon to suppress terror attacks from Hezbollah, Kasrils called Israelis “baby killers” and likened the Israelis to Nazis: “we must call baby killers ‘baby killers’ and declare that those using methods reminiscent of the Nazis be told that they are behaving like Nazis.”

Meanwhile, back in the real world, Israeli health officials continue to move heaven and earth to supply all of the country’s citizens with the same information, to provide Jews and Arabs with the same protocols, offer the same diagnostic tests, disseminate the same advice for avoiding the disease, supply the same masks to those requiring them, and provide the same treatments for all those with the coronavirus — Arab or Jew — who need to be admitted to hospitals. None of this matters to the antisemitic Jewish “activist” Ronnie Kasrils. He has been denouncing Israel for many years. He made up his story — or was it supplied to him by Arab propagandists? — about Israel withholding information about the coronavirus from its Arab citizens, and he will keep repeating this charge no matter what mountain of contradictory evidence is presented to him. He’s a fool in his folly, and all sensible people – including you and I – have had enough of him.

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  1. Frank Anderson says

    Mar 25, 2020 at 10:11 am

    As though another example is needed, truth is not only irrelevant to muslims, it is poison.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 25, 2020 at 10:52 am

      … and such rumors are used continuously to poison Muslim minds, so they may fan their hate of those Mohammed called ‘his enemies’, to dehumanize them and to deny their good, admirable, noble, human qualities.

      (Sahih Bukhari 59:572) – “O you who believe! Take not my enemies And your enemies as friends offering them (Your) love.”

      Agree: facts and logic and fair-mindedness destroy the absurdities of Islam. Many Muslims come to their senses every day. The majority live in cognitive dissonance.

    • william carr says

      Mar 26, 2020 at 10:50 am

      Currently I do not buy any S African goods, They boycott Israel so I boycott them until they change their attitude

  2. mortimer says

    Mar 25, 2020 at 10:46 am

    Islamic rumors are very sad and laughable at the same time.

    Their motto appears to be “Any slander will do” when it comes slandering Israel and the Jews in general. Slandering the Jews is necessary in order to underline to the Muslim mind that Jews should be knocked down to abject Dhimmitude, rather than emulated in science, industry, scholarship and products of culture. Islam is an intellectually obscurantist and intrinsically bigoted ideology. Islam’s anti-Semitism is impossible to remove without discrediting Allah and Mohammed … the sources of it all. Islam’s anti-Semitism is eternal.

    Muslim Jew-haters waste no adverse circumstance … illness, crime, clothing styles, athlete’s foot, even the weather, may be blamed on the world’s most convenient scapegoats. Or so they assume. No slander is too absurd. Cause and effect is not part of the Islamic world-view. Allah causes everything by his constant, whimsical decisions and interventions to upset the apple cart of life. Who can guess what the ‘best of deceivers’ will do next? Allah is challenging Muslims to ‘test’ their faith. Will they or will they not conduct jihad? Allah is watching you to see if you are worthy of his eternal Islamic playboy mansion.

    It suffices to make an un-provable claim about Jews, though … ‘The Jews did such-and-such’ … and, magically, the presumptuous claim becomes accepted as fact and then the rumor is quoted as authoritative.

    Islam is a pre-literate, pre-psychological and pre-rational cultural where trees, stones, clouds and ants have voices and speak, develop legs and walk, and magic donkeys fly beyond the stars that Allah set in niches just above the earth in the nearest heaven. There is no concept in Islam that slandering a KAFIR is wrong … even less a Jewish KAFIR. The honor of Muslims, however, must be protected and it is protected by vigilantism where Muslims are in the majority.

    Once you accept the flat-earth philosophy of Islam, every other absurdity goes down easily, including Islam’s preposterous and unending anti-Semitic rumors.

  3. Templer says

    Mar 25, 2020 at 10:56 am

    If any further prove is needed two prove Islam is a load off do this is a complexly lieing fake death cult

  4. jayell says

    Mar 25, 2020 at 12:14 pm

    Sorry to be completely off-topic, but I’ve just received this notification from an organisation called ‘Britain First’:-

    “Because of the coronavirus pandemic, it has become a matter of national security that every single one of us should stay at home and practice social distancing to slow the transmission of the virus.

    These rules especially apply to religious congregations, which have been found to be ‘super-spreaders’ when it comes to accelerating the transmission of the coronavirus in countries such as Iran, Malaysia and South Korea.

    Despite strict government instructions, almost half of the mosques across the UK have refused to shut their doors or to forbid congregations from praying in acts of collective worship”.

    I don’t know about the US, but all mainstream UK churches have suspended acts of worship. Does Mr. Spencer want to lool into this?

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 25, 2020 at 8:29 pm

      Jayell, you are right. While they have not been ordered closed by the federal government, most Churches, Synagogues, and other places of worship in the US have closed. Some are offering services on-line. Many church run soup kitchens for the poor are still open, but are either offering bag lunches or are delivering to needy parishioners.

      But yes–many Mosques around the world have refused to close, and are spreading the disease. In Iran, pious Muslims have broken into closed shrines to reopen them.

      Muslims have even preached that sick Muslims should try to infect Infidels.

      Here’s one such story:

      “Live From New York, It’s the Coronavirus Jihad”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/03/live-from-new-york-its-the-coronavirus-jihad

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 25, 2020 at 8:32 pm

      And this isn’t off-topic at all.

  5. A Gnostic Agnostic says

    Mar 25, 2020 at 12:15 pm

    The modus operandi of Islam is blame, blame and blame.

    People should take note of the expression ‘the accuser is the accused’ (ie. Mark of Cain) and see how many times it applies if/when the House of Islam tries to accuse others (of what they are themselves guilty of).

    Shahada looks to be the Mark of the Beast: it is not even possible to testify of a dead man, thus is contrary to the ten commandments behind which the potency any possible “Abrahamic” god must reside. It’s like you have to break the ten commandments in order to join Islam in the first place.

    Why wouldn’t the Roman Catholic authorities have picked up on that by now? Or is it because their institution, too, requires a testimony of mercy-upon-mankind Jesus?

    Humanity is in a very fucked up situation due to belief-based nonsense.
    If there is a god, and god is all-knowing,
    knowing all not to believe tends towards the same all-knowing
    thus under what circumstances (if any) would god *require belief*
    if satan *requires belief* to ever have one *believe* evil is good / satan is god?

    God and Satan (equiv. good and evil) can’t both require belief: it must be pinned to one or the other.
    All knowledge negates all belief-based ignorance(s) ad infinitum, god-or-no-god, thus
    any possible all-knowing god would negate satan ad infinitum, thus
    knowing all not to believe is the direction towards any possible all-knower.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 25, 2020 at 8:33 pm

      Whatever your views on faith, the idea that Islam and other religions are equally harmful is absurd.

      • dhans says

        Mar 25, 2020 at 11:02 pm

        Not only harmful, but genocidal. Consider the biggest mass murders in history, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Hitler. All were driven by their own subjective morality, and totally dismissed any objective truth that would push them to act in a more moral manner. Islam has it’s own objective truth, but it’s truth statements are false in practice when compared to Christianity. There are not multiple versions of truth in religion, although various religions can echo those universal truths. Islam does not echo these.

  6. gravenimage says

    Mar 25, 2020 at 8:15 pm

    In South Africa, Israel Falsely Accused of Withholding Coronavirus Information from Israeli Arabs
    ………………

    More vicious calumny against Jews.

  7. ajj says

    Mar 26, 2020 at 3:56 am

    It is hard to fathom the irony – Kasrils himself being a Jew . .

  8. dsinc says

    Mar 26, 2020 at 3:16 pm

    Ronnie Kasrils is a vile piece of human sh1t and the world will be a better place when he is no longer around. I thought he had left our shores but apparently not.

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