Contrary to claims by Sky, AFP and Reuters, Jordan does not have a guardianship role over Jerusalem’s Christian holy sites.
Sky, AFP, Reuters (in Arabic) declare Jordan guardian of Jerusalem’s Christian holy sites
Sky News Arabia falsely claims Jordan has custody over Jerusalem’s Christian shrines
Contrary to claims by Sky News Arabia that the Jordan-Israeli peace agreement grants Jordanian custody over Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, the text of the agreement makes clear that Jordan’s special role only involves Muslim shrines in the city.
Suggestions for Palestinians who want to ‘ease tensions’ in Jerusalem
Though Benjamin Netanyahu, John Kerry and Jordan’s King Abdullah met recently to address the “recent surge of violence in Jerusalem”, the herds of independent minds in the UK media have essentially settled on a […]
Disputed legal territory: Guardian assails Australia’s right to dissent on Jerusalem
h/t to international law expert, Eugene Kontorovich Though Guardian contributors often complain that pro-Israel forces instill a ‘enforced orthodoxy‘ over the debate about Israel in the media and in Western capitals, they suddenly […]
Guardian culture critic characterizes Six Day War as the ‘Israeli invasion of the West Bank’
Nicholas Blincoe is an author, critic, screenwriter and former advisor to Nick Clegg who now devotes much of his time to various forms of anti-Israel activism. Indeed, Blincoe is an enthusiastic supporter of BDS, and has written a book sympathetic […]
Guardian publishes letter by Gilad Atzmon ally Karl Sabbagh
Karl Sabbagh, the British academic and author of Palestine: A Personal History, had a letter published at the Guardian on Jan 9: Harry Goldstein’s assertion (Letters, 7 January) that the Palestinians were “offered […]
Jewish Empire? The Guardian refers to communities in Jerusalem as “colonies”.
Whilst we’re all too used to Guardian reports which demonize Israeli communities on the ‘wrong’ side of the 1949 armistice lines, we occasionally notice that their reporters at times adopt language about […]
Cageprisoners, Rowntree Trust and “Jews did 9/11”.
Cross posted by Mark Gardner at the blog of the Community Security Trust The “Jews did 9/11″ lie says everything about the enduring nature and appeal of antisemitism in our modern world. It is a Big Lie that […]
Guardian refers to ‘Judea and Samaria’ as “right-wing” terms
The Guardian’s Middle East editor Ian Black published a report on July 16 about new EU guidelines on Israeli “settlements” – a so-called “territorial applicability clause” which spells out the rules, beginning in 2014, on […]
Abu Qatada: a lesson for British Jews
Cross posted by Mark Gardner at the CST Finally, Abu Qatada is back in Jordan, facing questioning about terrorism. The extradition has been a lengthy legal saga, summarised by headlines such as “hate preacher” and “send him back”. The […]
Guardian’s former associate foreign editor: I know Abu Qatada – he’s no terrorist.
A Jordanian military prosecutor on Sunday filed charges against the radical Muslim preacher Abu Qatada on suspicions of being a key al-Qaeda operative in Europe. Abu Qatada, who had landed in Amman after being […]
Palestinian ‘refugees’, hypocrisy and unity: just follow the money
Cross posted at ‘This Ongoing War’, a blog edited by Frimet and Arnold Roth The Arab-on-Arab bloodbath just across Israel’s northern border goes on and on, and with it the incredible – […]
If visiting Jordan, take precautions in light of the Kingdom’s dangerous lurch to the right
Those of us who live in the liberal Jewish state have become accustomed to suffering through the steady stream of unhinged, if predictable, stories in the Guardian – as well as in […]
The moral necessity of despair when Arab teachers object to the humanization of Jews
Jewish Chronicle editor Stephen Pollard once commented that, sometimes, the only proper reaction to a particular event is despair. The following represents such an example. According to a recent report, rumors of a UN […]
Look East, Ghada Karmi, not west, for your ‘One-State Solution’
A guest post by AKUS For years British academic and self-styled Palestinian (and ‘Comment is Free’ contributor) Ghada Karmi has been a staunch supporter of the idea of a “unitary” Palestinian state […]
The latest (‘Floptilla’) anti-Israel publicity stunt gets a reality check in Jordan
A guest post by AKUS The 100 or so people who wasted their money flying to Amman, Jordan last week found a few surprises when they arrived there. They may have also […]
Israel to revoke citizenship of 1.6 million Palestinian Arabs! ‘Israel’? I mean Jordan, so Guardian yawns
Strangely missing from the Jordan page of the Guardian is a remarkable story. Per the Jerusalem Post. Jordan has decided to revoke the Jordanian citizenship of Palestinian Authority and PLO officials, sources […]
2 Tweets by Guardian’s Liz Ford which speak volumes about Palestinian “refugee” fraud
On the Guardian’s Global Development page, (supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), was a post, Tweets from the West Bank and Jordan, March 30, by Liz Ford, deputy editor of the Global […]
What the Guardian won’t report: Jordanian actors boycott arts festival because head of production org is a Jew
H/T Pretzelberg Most of the artists (and their unions) invited to perform at the 27th annual Jerash Festival of Culture and Arts, in July 2008, pulled out of the event at the last […]
January 2011- the new Palestinian “Nakba”?
A guest post by AKUS That old axiom of Abba Eban’s – “The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity” – may once again be the best description of the […]
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