http://www.jewpi.com Jewish Press International Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:28:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.jewpi.com/now-is-the-time-to-fight-for-jewish-refugees-1328751243/ http://www.jewpi.com/now-is-the-time-to-fight-for-jewish-refugees-1328751243/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:34:03 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/now-is-the-time-to-fight-for-jewish-refugees-1328751243/ Ma’abara housing Jewish refugees at Bet Lid, Israel, 1951 Even the Israeli government seems to agree that it’s time to fight for the rights of Jewish refugees. 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Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/tunisian-jews-should-take-death-threats-seriously-1328605097/ http://www.jewpi.com/tunisian-jews-should-take-death-threats-seriously-1328605097/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:58:17 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/tunisian-jews-should-take-death-threats-seriously-1328605097/ Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebani greets Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh Mohsin Habib is a Bangladeshi commentator writing for the Stonegate Institute. In this article analysing recent death threats to the Jews of Tunisia, he reaches rather more pessimistic conclusions than the BBC . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/its-not-too-late-to-remember-the-jewish-nakba-1328524330/ http://www.jewpi.com/its-not-too-late-to-remember-the-jewish-nakba-1328524330/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:32:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/its-not-too-late-to-remember-the-jewish-nakba-1328524330/ Iraq-born Zvi Gabay, pictured when he was serving as Israeli ambassador to Dublin The tragedy (or ‘Nakba’) of the Jews from Arab countries has been ignored – but it is not too late to remember it, argues Iraq-born Zvi Gabay in the Israeli daily Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/foreign-office-denies-jewish-right-of-return-report-1328395446/ http://www.jewpi.com/foreign-office-denies-jewish-right-of-return-report-1328395446/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:44:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/foreign-office-denies-jewish-right-of-return-report-1328395446/ Jews are seeking a ‘right of return’ to Arab countries, claims this Israel Hayom article of 2 February. 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Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-landholdings-in-syria-seized-in-1940s-1328189064/ http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-landholdings-in-syria-seized-in-1940s-1328189064/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:24:24 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-landholdings-in-syria-seized-in-1940s-1328189064/ Map shows Jewish-owned land in Syria in green This blog has already drawn attention to the little-known fact that Jews own substantial property in what is now Syria. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/iraqis-may-make-travel-to-israel-illegal-1328175611/ http://www.jewpi.com/iraqis-may-make-travel-to-israel-illegal-1328175611/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:40:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/iraqis-may-make-travel-to-israel-illegal-1328175611/ The Iraqi parliament is planning to pass a new bill banning Iraqis from travelling to Israel , Al Jazeera online reported this week. If passed the bill would be one more nail in the coffin of ‘normalisation ‘ between Israel and Arab countries. Ynet News takes up the story: The bill was proposed following a [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/the-jewish-faith-triumphs-over-the-taliban-1328096412/ http://www.jewpi.com/the-jewish-faith-triumphs-over-the-taliban-1328096412/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:40:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/the-jewish-faith-triumphs-over-the-taliban-1328096412/ Zebulun Simantov – the last Jew in Afghanistan Lyrical piece by Alex Thomson for Channel 4 News about Zebulun Simantov, the last Jew of Afghanistan. Simantov is an enduring symbol of the Jewish faith in Kabul, having survived Communism, death and destruction. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/cleric-jews-have-no-claim-on-the-muslim-world-1328086445/ http://www.jewpi.com/cleric-jews-have-no-claim-on-the-muslim-world-1328086445/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:54:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/cleric-jews-have-no-claim-on-the-muslim-world-1328086445/ Jews have no claim or presence in the Muslim world, and if they do want their property back, the Arabs won it fair and square in military campaigns. That’s the essence of a Friday sermon delivered by Sudanese cleric Sheik Abd Al-Jalil Al-Karouri, which aired on Sudan TV on January 6, 2012 ( via MEMRI) [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jews-reject-calls-to-go-to-israel-says-the-bbc-1328007499/ http://www.jewpi.com/jews-reject-calls-to-go-to-israel-says-the-bbc-1328007499/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:58:19 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jews-reject-calls-to-go-to-israel-says-the-bbc-1328007499/ Jacob Lellouche, owner of the last Kosher restaurant in Tunis What’s the story on the Jews of Tunisia? They are defiantly rejecting Israeli calls to leave, says the BBC. BBC reporter Wyre Davies says there used to be 300,000 Jews in Tunisia ( there were never more than 120,000, but oriental exaggeration is catchy). Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/tunisians-push-to-make-israel-normalisation-a-crime-1327964064/ http://www.jewpi.com/tunisians-push-to-make-israel-normalisation-a-crime-1327964064/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:54:24 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/tunisians-push-to-make-israel-normalisation-a-crime-1327964064/ National Committee for Supporting Arab Resistance and Fighting Normalization and Zionism Instead of transmitting messages of false comfort, the guys at Tunisia Live are doing a great job exposing antisemitism wherever it might be rearing its ugly head. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/different-mufti-same-message-1327865048/ http://www.jewpi.com/different-mufti-same-message-1327865048/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:24:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/different-mufti-same-message-1327865048/ As the world marks Holocaust Memorial Day, Petra Marquart-Bigman in her Jerusalem Post blog can’t help but recognise an eerie similarity in genocidal intent between the Palestinian Mufti and his 1940s predecessor, Haj Amin al-Husseini. . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/indian-jews-on-roots-trip-to-gods-own-country-1327824844/ http://www.jewpi.com/indian-jews-on-roots-trip-to-gods-own-country-1327824844/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:14:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/indian-jews-on-roots-trip-to-gods-own-country-1327824844/ The Paradesi synagogue in Cochin, Kerala Israeli Jews from the Indian province of Kerala have been on a ‘roots’ trip, reports the Indian medium NDTV . (In this article ‘God’s own country’ is India, not Israel. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/you-cant-beat-tbeet-the-iraqi-sabbath-dish-1327686272/ http://www.jewpi.com/you-cant-beat-tbeet-the-iraqi-sabbath-dish-1327686272/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:44:32 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/you-cant-beat-tbeet-the-iraqi-sabbath-dish-1327686272/ There is a saying in my house: ‘you can’t beat Tbeet .’ It’s hard to serve up chicken and rice in a more appetising way. I can almost smell the aroma of cardamon and turmeric rising from the photograph. Excuse me, dear reader, while I hurry off to the kitchen. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/this-tragic-day-43-years-ago-1327656126/ http://www.jewpi.com/this-tragic-day-43-years-ago-1327656126/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:22:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/this-tragic-day-43-years-ago-1327656126/ Memorial to the nine Jews hanged in Baghdad on 27 January 1969 Today, January 27, marks the anniversary of one of the darkest chapters in the annals of Iraqi Jewry. On 27 January 1969, nine Jews were hanged in Baghdad’s central square. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/safeguard-christianity-in-the-middle-east-1327604168/ http://www.jewpi.com/safeguard-christianity-in-the-middle-east-1327604168/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:56:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/safeguard-christianity-in-the-middle-east-1327604168/ A cross on Mount Lebanon I may be mistaken, but I think we are seeing an awakening of western interest in the plight of Middle East minorities. Some people are even beginning to join the dots between the plight of Christians and that of Jews. 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Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/no-room-for-religious-minorities-in-an-islamist-egypt-1327486096/ http://www.jewpi.com/no-room-for-religious-minorities-in-an-islamist-egypt-1327486096/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:08:16 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/no-room-for-religious-minorities-in-an-islamist-egypt-1327486096/ The traditional Hilula to the tomb of Rabbi Abu Hatseira was cancelled this year The news that 75 percent of votes in the Egyptian parliamentary elections went to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood should be setting off alarm bells in the democratic Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/more-about-arab-jews-updated-1327436055/ http://www.jewpi.com/more-about-arab-jews-updated-1327436055/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:14:15 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/more-about-arab-jews-updated-1327436055/ Although this blog has already fleetingly referred to the article: Arab Jews: are they extinct? I was asked by blogger Elder of Ziyon if I would comment further on it. My comment has turned into an EoZ guest post: Naava Mashiah’s article is doing the rounds of the Arab media, gaining prominence in Arab News. [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/is-it-coz-i-is-black-or-white-1327413727/ http://www.jewpi.com/is-it-coz-i-is-black-or-white-1327413727/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:02:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/is-it-coz-i-is-black-or-white-1327413727/ Why it makes sense to be colour-blind when discussing ‘colonialism’ in the Middle East: AKUS, writing in CiFWatch, takes Comment is Free contributor Khalid Diab’s to task for his reflections on Arab and Israeli stereotypes . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/azeris-thwart-terrorist-attack-on-two-rabbis-1327400045/ http://www.jewpi.com/azeris-thwart-terrorist-attack-on-two-rabbis-1327400045/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:14:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/azeris-thwart-terrorist-attack-on-two-rabbis-1327400045/ It’s been hailed as one of the few Jewish communities in a Muslim state to be thriving – and its brand new synagogue is proof enough – but is the honeymoon for the Jews of Azerbaijan over? Haaretz reports: Three men were detained last week after Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/maoz-not-sacked-after-all-for-white-tribe-remarks-1327331903/ http://www.jewpi.com/maoz-not-sacked-after-all-for-white-tribe-remarks-1327331903/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:18:23 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/maoz-not-sacked-after-all-for-white-tribe-remarks-1327331903/ Shlomo Maoz… his sacking is now in doubt Shlomo Maoz was not sacked by investment firm Excellence-Nesuah, but only relieved of some of his duties, an official in the firm told the Knesset Monday. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/bostom-on-understanding-islamic-antisemitism-1327315927/ http://www.jewpi.com/bostom-on-understanding-islamic-antisemitism-1327315927/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:52:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/bostom-on-understanding-islamic-antisemitism-1327315927/ The onward march of the ‘Islamist winter’ (with thanks: Philippa C; Tony C) In this Front Page magazine interview, Dr Andrew Bostom tells how 9/11 sparked his interest in Islamic antisemitism. He has since written several seminal works on the subject. 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Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/arab-journalist-raises-jewish-refugee-issue-1327083501/ http://www.jewpi.com/arab-journalist-raises-jewish-refugee-issue-1327083501/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:18:21 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/arab-journalist-raises-jewish-refugee-issue-1327083501/ Most telling in this interview about what western journalists miss in their MidEast coverage, the Arab-Israeli journalist Khaled Abu Toameh, who writes in the Jerusalem Post , raises the issue of justice for Jewish refugees from Arab countries, Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/mizrahim-in-israel-are-movin-on-up-1327052046/ http://www.jewpi.com/mizrahim-in-israel-are-movin-on-up-1327052046/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:34:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/mizrahim-in-israel-are-movin-on-up-1327052046/ The economist Shlomo Maoz lost his job last week after lambasting the ‘white’ Ashkenazi establishment. But a new study reveals that Mizrahi oriental Jews are doing better than ever – and intermarriage between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim is running at 25 percent – testifying to the astonishing success of the Zionist ‘ingathering of the exiles’. Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/how-a-tunisian-muslim-became-an-orthodox-jew-1326968166/ http://www.jewpi.com/how-a-tunisian-muslim-became-an-orthodox-jew-1326968166/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:16:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/how-a-tunisian-muslim-became-an-orthodox-jew-1326968166/ It’s always moving to read stories of people who convert to Judaism out of conviction and against all odds. But you will find few more extraordinary stories than that of Zipporah (not her real name), who was born a Tunisian Muslim. Zipporah came to Israel from the US with her Honduran husband Oscar, who converted [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/being-an-arab-jew-could-be-good-for-business-1326915125/ http://www.jewpi.com/being-an-arab-jew-could-be-good-for-business-1326915125/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:32:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/being-an-arab-jew-could-be-good-for-business-1326915125/ Na’ava Mashiah has written a gushing article pitching herself as an ‘Arab Jew’. In fact very few Jews would described themselves thus, unless they are far-leftists. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/bahrain-jews-welcome-interfaith-dialogue-1326874693/ http://www.jewpi.com/bahrain-jews-welcome-interfaith-dialogue-1326874693/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:18:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/bahrain-jews-welcome-interfaith-dialogue-1326874693/ King Hamad of Bahrain The Jews of Bahrain have leapt to the King of Bahrain’s defence, by endorsing his intention to host an interfaith conference organised Rabbi Marc Shneier. The rabbi has rubbished reports that this is a cynical effort to rebut accusations of religious intolerance in Bahrain. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/why-i-am-worried-by-a-tunisian-jew-1326794050/ http://www.jewpi.com/why-i-am-worried-by-a-tunisian-jew-1326794050/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:54:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/why-i-am-worried-by-a-tunisian-jew-1326794050/ The Tunisian-born writer and broadcaster Andrew Nahum (pictured), now resident in France, is a worried man. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/burt-concerned-at-deplorable-gerbi-incident-1326718923/ http://www.jewpi.com/burt-concerned-at-deplorable-gerbi-incident-1326718923/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:02:03 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/burt-concerned-at-deplorable-gerbi-incident-1326718923/ Alistair Burt, minister in the UK Foreign Office Exclusive to Point of No Return The British undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Alistair Burt, will raise the forced departure of David Gerbi from Libya with the Libyan authorities after his attention was drawn to it for the first time by a letter from Robert Halfon MP. Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/historian-challenged-over-muslim-saved-jew-film-1326627605/ http://www.jewpi.com/historian-challenged-over-muslim-saved-jew-film-1326627605/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:40:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/historian-challenged-over-muslim-saved-jew-film-1326627605/ Michael Lonsdale plays the rector of the Paris mosque in the film Les hommes libres The Algerian-born ex-Trotskyist Jewish historian Benjamin Stora has been embroiled in controversy after acting as historical consultant to ‘Free Men’ (‘Les hommes Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-singer-will-perform-turkish-eurovision-entry-1326577326/ http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-singer-will-perform-turkish-eurovision-entry-1326577326/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:42:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-singer-will-perform-turkish-eurovision-entry-1326577326/ Relations may be icy at the political level between Israel and Turkey, but here’s some warming news from the pop world. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/lets-reframe-the-israel-debate-1326445484/ http://www.jewpi.com/lets-reframe-the-israel-debate-1326445484/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:04:44 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/lets-reframe-the-israel-debate-1326445484/ Israel’s legitimacy is under assault in churches (Photo: Alessandro Abbonizio AFP) It seems that every Jew is a foot-soldier in the war against Israel’s delegitimisation. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/pilgrimage-cancellation-disrespects-all-jews-1326376565/ http://www.jewpi.com/pilgrimage-cancellation-disrespects-all-jews-1326376565/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:56:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/pilgrimage-cancellation-disrespects-all-jews-1326376565/ The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which monitors antisemitism worldwide, has vigorously denounced Egypt’s cancellation of the annual pilgrimage to Rabbi Hatzeira’s tomb in the Nile delta near Alexandria as a sign of disrespect for Jews, dead or alive, according to Haaretz. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/economist-sacked-for-slamming-white-elite-1326356301/ http://www.jewpi.com/economist-sacked-for-slamming-white-elite-1326356301/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:18:21 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/economist-sacked-for-slamming-white-elite-1326356301/ The chief economist of the Excellence Nessuah brokerage firm was unceremoniously ousted on Wednesday after launching a blistering attack on “the Ashkenazi establishment” that included calling Bank Leumi “the whites’ bank, Haaretz reports. Interestingly, most of the comments online agree with him. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/tunisian-jews-shaken-after-haniyeh-tour-1326320765/ http://www.jewpi.com/tunisian-jews-shaken-after-haniyeh-tour-1326320765/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:26:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/tunisian-jews-shaken-after-haniyeh-tour-1326320765/ Tunisian Jews are far from convinced by the reassurances of the Ennahda Islamist party leader, Rashid Ghannouchi, condemning the anti-Jewish chants which greeted Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader, on his arrival in Tunisia. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-woman-rescued-from-an-arab-country-1326295457/ http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-woman-rescued-from-an-arab-country-1326295457/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:24:17 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-woman-rescued-from-an-arab-country-1326295457/ An Israel-based organisation which rescues Jewish women in distress managed to spirit a heavily-pregnant woman from an Arab country to safety within 48 hours of being told of her plight, the French website J-Forum reports. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/the-west-neglects-and-misreads-arab-antisemitism-1326275045/ http://www.jewpi.com/the-west-neglects-and-misreads-arab-antisemitism-1326275045/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:44:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/the-west-neglects-and-misreads-arab-antisemitism-1326275045/ Howard Gutman Following the shocking display of wishful thinking by US ambassador to Brussels Howard Gutman, Colin Rubenstein of the Australian Israel/Jewish Affairs Council asks why the West refuses to take seriously Arab and Muslim antisemitism, predating the creation of Israel. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/is-aisha-gaddafi-seeking-asylum-in-israel-1326212652/ http://www.jewpi.com/is-aisha-gaddafi-seeking-asylum-in-israel-1326212652/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:24:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/is-aisha-gaddafi-seeking-asylum-in-israel-1326212652/ Aisha Gaddafi With thanks: Ranbir I’ve been avoiding this story for some days now – but the time might have now come to comment about news reports that Aisha Gaddafi, the late Libyan dictator’s daughter, is seeking asylum in Israel. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/protesters-to-block-zionist-visitors-to-rabbis-tomb-1326183851/ http://www.jewpi.com/protesters-to-block-zionist-visitors-to-rabbis-tomb-1326183851/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:24:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/protesters-to-block-zionist-visitors-to-rabbis-tomb-1326183851/ The tomb of Rabbi Abu Hatseira in the Nile Delta (Photo: A. Hayman) Reports that this year’s annual pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Abu Hatseira in the Nile delta near Alexandria had been cancelled seem to have been exaggerated. But pilgrims will have to run the gamut of several groups of protestors. Read More [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/if-in-a-tight-spot-hold-jewish-muslim-dialogue-1326156735/ http://www.jewpi.com/if-in-a-tight-spot-hold-jewish-muslim-dialogue-1326156735/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:52:15 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/if-in-a-tight-spot-hold-jewish-muslim-dialogue-1326156735/ Rabbi Marc Shneier with King Hamid (photo: WJC) When you’re in a tight spot, make nice with the Jews. Sorry to sound cynical, but his Jew-friendly policy has gained brownie points in the past for King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, who rules the giant US Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/mizrahi-supreme-court-judge-chosen-1326135911/ http://www.jewpi.com/mizrahi-supreme-court-judge-chosen-1326135911/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:05:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/mizrahi-supreme-court-judge-chosen-1326135911/ The Israeli Supreme Court building Call it tokenism or positive discrimination, the newly-appointed Israeli Supreme Court Justice Uri Shoham was specifically selected because he is of ‘Mizrahi’ origin, Haaretz reports. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/tunisian-jews-protest-anti-jewish-death-chants-1326050645/ http://www.jewpi.com/tunisian-jews-protest-anti-jewish-death-chants-1326050645/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:24:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/tunisian-jews-protest-anti-jewish-death-chants-1326050645/ An Ennahda Islamist party spokeman has called the chants of ‘Kill the Jews! It is our duty!” greeting the arrival of the Hamas leader in Tunisia an ‘isolated incident’, following complaints by Peres Trabelsi (pictured), a representative of the country’s 1,500-member Jewish community. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/lost-jewish-assets-cock-up-or-conspiracy-1325988246/ http://www.jewpi.com/lost-jewish-assets-cock-up-or-conspiracy-1325988246/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:04:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/lost-jewish-assets-cock-up-or-conspiracy-1325988246/ With thanks: Michelle; Yoram The film ‘Secrets of the lost assets’ , two years in the making, was finally seen by the Israeli public recently. The villains of the piece should have been the Arab governments who dispossessed their Jews of assets and property. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/tunisians-greeting-gaza-leader-cry-kill-the-jews-1325846770/ http://www.jewpi.com/tunisians-greeting-gaza-leader-cry-kill-the-jews-1325846770/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:46:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/tunisians-greeting-gaza-leader-cry-kill-the-jews-1325846770/ With thanks: Michelle Cries of ‘Out with the Jews!’, ‘Kill the Jews!’ greeted the arrival at Tunis airport of the Hamas chief in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, StandWithUS (France) reports. A few hundred people gathered on 5 January at the Tunis-Carthage airport to welcome Haniyeh. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/house-of-lords-debates-plight-of-mideast-christians-1325787981/ http://www.jewpi.com/house-of-lords-debates-plight-of-mideast-christians-1325787981/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:26:21 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/house-of-lords-debates-plight-of-mideast-christians-1325787981/ Here’s one story I missed earlier: on 9 December 2011, the UK House of Lords agreed a motion noting the situation of Christians in the Middle East. The debate turns up some surprising results: the Archbishop of Canterbury (pictured left) speaks of the historic Jewish communities of the Maghreb and Middle East. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/afghan-scrolls-could-be-most-significant-find-yet-1325768310/ http://www.jewpi.com/afghan-scrolls-could-be-most-significant-find-yet-1325768310/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:58:30 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/afghan-scrolls-could-be-most-significant-find-yet-1325768310/ Screenshot from the Channel 2 report The Jewish scholarly world is abuzz over the discovery of ancient Jewish scrolls in a cave in Afghanistan’s Samangan province, Israel’s Channel 2 reported last week. From the Jerusalem Post , via Elder of Ziyon. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/arabs-fear-israel-will-demand-saudi-compensation/ http://www.jewpi.com/arabs-fear-israel-will-demand-saudi-compensation/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:34:23 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/arabs-fear-israel-will-demand-saudi-compensation/ House at Giza, Egypt, belonging to the Castro family If the Israeli government decides to pursue compensation claims on behalf of Jews who lost property in Arab countries, it is safe to assume that our Arab friends will be somewhat alarmed at the prospect. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/arabmuslim-states-exclude-minorities/ http://www.jewpi.com/arabmuslim-states-exclude-minorities/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:52:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/arabmuslim-states-exclude-minorities/ Coptic Egyptian Prime Minister Boutros Ghali, assassinated in 1910 States based on Islam deny citizenship to religious minorities such as Copts and Jews, while states based on Arabic language and culture leave no room for non-Arabs such as Kurds and Berbers. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/iraqi-jew-awarded-cbe-in-new-year-honours-list/ http://www.jewpi.com/iraqi-jew-awarded-cbe-in-new-year-honours-list/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:44:16 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/iraqi-jew-awarded-cbe-in-new-year-honours-list/ Naim Dangoor was made a consultant professor of Nanjing University in China Besimantob to Dr Naim Dangoor who has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his charitable services. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/david-gerbi-wants-to-right-a-historic-wrong/ http://www.jewpi.com/david-gerbi-wants-to-right-a-historic-wrong/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:46:20 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/david-gerbi-wants-to-right-a-historic-wrong/ When it comes to Jews from Arab lands, says David Gerbi, the Jewish psychiatrist hounded out of Libya, people shrug their shoulders rather than say out loud that there was an historic injustice which needs to be put right. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/the-case-for-intervention-to-save-minorities/ http://www.jewpi.com/the-case-for-intervention-to-save-minorities/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:26:44 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/the-case-for-intervention-to-save-minorities/ To intervene or not to intervene on behalf of beleaguered Middle Eastern minorities? Interventionists run the risk of being labelled ‘neo-cons’, but journalist and social commentator Ed West, blogging in the Telegraph, thinks the point may come when the West has no choice. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/cifwatch-accuses-rachel-shabi-of-moral-inversion/ http://www.jewpi.com/cifwatch-accuses-rachel-shabi-of-moral-inversion/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:18:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/cifwatch-accuses-rachel-shabi-of-moral-inversion/ New York Times headline on 16 May, 1948 The Guardian’s Comment is Free website signed off 2011 with a warning from Rachel Shabi that minority rights are the litmus test of Arab Spring democracy. True – but what about state-sanctioned antisemitism? The monitoring blog CifWatch picked Shabi up for a grave moral inversion. Read More [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jews-want-to-go-back-to-libya-jewish-leader-in-israel/ http://www.jewpi.com/jews-want-to-go-back-to-libya-jewish-leader-in-israel/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:06:18 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jews-want-to-go-back-to-libya-jewish-leader-in-israel/ The leader of the Libyan Jewish Association in Israel, Meir Kahlon, is trying to give the most positive spin possible on regime change in Libya. Jews of Libyan origin in Europe, wants to go back, he says. But not Jews from Israel – they only want to visit. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/peace-project-critique-gets-positive-feedback/ http://www.jewpi.com/peace-project-critique-gets-positive-feedback/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:06:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/peace-project-critique-gets-positive-feedback/ An article calling for a sea-change in the way peace and coexistence projects treat Jewish suffering and rights has provoked an overwhelmingly positive response among Middle East peace activists. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/crunchtime-for-jewish-refugees-issue/ http://www.jewpi.com/crunchtime-for-jewish-refugees-issue/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:36:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/crunchtime-for-jewish-refugees-issue/ The Israeli government has decided to tackle head-on the Arab refugees issue by renewing efforts for compensation for Jewish victims of Arab pogroms. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/israel-relaunches-effort-to-register-jewish-losses/ http://www.jewpi.com/israel-relaunches-effort-to-register-jewish-losses/#comments Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:52:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/israel-relaunches-effort-to-register-jewish-losses/ The Souery family from Basra, Iraq (courtesy: Suzy Vidal) The Israeli government appears to be renewing its efforts to register losses suffered by Jews whose property and assets were seized or abandoned in Arab countries. Read More »]]> 0