Israel Thrives: "Jews Down Under" Nominated for a Hasby Award!

Sunday, November 17, 2013

"Jews Down Under" Nominated for a Hasby Award!

Michael L.

Each year the Elder of Ziyon hosts the Hasby Awards and this year our sister blog, News and Views From Jews Down Under, is nominated under the category Best Pro-Israel Blog.

Whether or not JDU actually wins the award, Shirlee in Oz needs to be congratulated for creating a space that has become fairly prominent within a very short period of time. It takes considerable intelligence, creativity, networking, and just plain hard work to do what Shirlee has managed to do, so we here at Israel Thrives wish JDU nothing but the very best and I will look forward to engaging there, and publishing there, going forward.

Make sure to vote for JDU!

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Shirl in OzNovember 17, 2013 at 1:58 PM
OMG Mike.

Thanks Mike and thank you, Geoff and Jason too for your support

How on earth did this happen? Crikey. I am flabbergasted.

I truly am humbled. I saw the announcement yesterday and never thought to look through the list
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JayinPhiladelphiaNovember 17, 2013 at 2:05 PM
Congrats Shirlee, keep up the great work!
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Shirl in OzNovember 17, 2013 at 3:09 PM
Thanks Jay

Now I have to get out
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Daphne AnsonNovember 17, 2013 at 11:05 PM
A real feather in your cap, Shirlee! You sure are a one-woman phenomenon.
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geoffffNovember 18, 2013 at 1:25 PM
On ya Shirlee!
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AnonymousNovember 19, 2013 at 6:18 AM
“We [Israel] possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are 22 targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.” I consider it all hopeless at this point. . . Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under.” - Martin van Creveld, Zionist Jew
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Daniel BielakNovember 19, 2013 at 7:53 AM
Congratulations, Shirley.
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Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

How's that for a kick in the head to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

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Sunday, November 17, 2013

"Jews Down Under" Nominated for a Hasby Award!

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