As for the third article, please bear in mind that most people in Japan tend to consider "Haaretz" as the most intellectual, quality-paper published in the Jewish State of Israel. (Lily)
1. Times of Israel（http://www.timesofisrael.com）
Anti-Semitic books displayed at Frankfurt fair, watchdog says, 14 October 2014
by Marissa Newman
Several publishers from Arab countries displayed books featuring anti-Semitic content, Holocaust denial, and terror glorification, at the Frankfurt Book Fair last week, an annual report from the Simon Weisenthal Center said.
The worst offenders were Qatar, a Palestinian publisher, Egypt, and Iran, the report indicated, with examples including children’s books condoning jihad, a text honoring child murderer Sami Kuntar, and an adaptation of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
Turkey, however, “for the 3rd year, remained hate-free,” Dr. Shimon Samuels, director for international relations of the organization’s Paris branch, said in a statement.
The report accused the publishers listed of “violating European Union and German provisions against incitement, and thereby contravene their contractual obligations to the Book Fair.” It called on the book fair to “confiscate offensive texts and blacklist delinquent exhibitors from participation in 2015.”
At the Qatar booth, three books delineating Jewish conspiracy theories were displayed, including a pamphlet on “The Battles of Mohammed.”
“This booklet, now published in English for children, begins with the plots of the Jews against the Prophet, their slaughter at the battle of Khaybar and a survivor’s subsequent attempt to poison him. This distilled hatred necessitates direct intervention to ensure that Qatar takes measures for a hate-free display to participate in the 2015 Fair,” the report said.
The Nablus-based Palestinian Bait Almaqdes Centre featured its texts at a Kuwaiti stand, including the volumes “Jewish Terms: Beware of them!” and “The Zionist Deception Dictionary,” the latter an adaptation of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” The “Jewish Terms: Beware of them!” book, authored by Issa Qaddoumi, recommends the term “Islamic East” in place of “Middle East,” “surrendering” instead of “normalization,” “Jews” instead of “Israelis,” and “The Myth of Nazi Crematory” rather than “Holocaust.”
“These terms could not have been so common had the international Jewish media not played its role so cunningly. This is, virtually, one aspect of the cultural Judaization which is meant to be imposed on the world as a whole,” its preface states.
The Palestinian publisher also displayed the 2011 volume, “The Buraq Wall,” which featured allegations of “Jewish subversion,” asserted that “worshiping at the Wall is a new heresy in the religion of the Jews,” and called for Muslim control over the Western Wall.
“Promotion of Resistance Culture,” an Iranian publisher, presents a series of children’s books on terrorism, including a new edition on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The books are titled: “Children and Soldiers,” “Children and Bravery,” “The Shoes of the Martyrs,” and “We Fight the Enemy.” An Iranian booth also included a title on “The Exchange, Lebanon, 2005-2008,” in which Samir Kuntar, a terrorist convicted of murdering a 4-year-old Israeli girl and her father and released in a 2008 prisoner swap deal, features prominently and positively.
“Such iconization of monsters, for display to Fair visitors, is a whitewash for terrorism,” said Samuels.
The Frankfurt Book Fair is the largest trade convention in the world, drawing thousands of visitors and international publishers every year.
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2.Algemeniner（http://www.algemeiner.com）
Defaming Jews: What Else is New?, 20 October 2014
by Jerold S. Auerbach
Many centuries before Jerusalem was conquered by King David and became the capital of the united kingdom of Judea and Samaria, Hebron was already deeply embedded in Jewish history. There, according to the biblical narrative, Abraham purchased a burial place for Sarah in the first parcel of land owned by the Jewish people in their promised land. The matriarchs and patriarchs of the Jewish people were buried there. Joseph and his brothers brought the body of their father Jacob from Egypt for burial in the cave of Machpelah. At the beginning of the Common Era, King Herod built its massive stone enclosure that remains the oldest intact structure in the Land of Israel. Jews have returned to pray and to live in Hebron ever since.
But in a recent speech Sir Alan Duncan MP, formerly vice chairman of the Conservative Party and minister for international development, demonstrated his appalling ignorance of Jewish history and his no less reprehensible loathing for Israel. Gliding from accusations of “criminal intent” for its announcement of plans to build 2,600 homes in Jerusalem (for Jews and Arabs), he redirected his fury to the community of 800 Hebron Jews who live in a tiny enclave surrounded by 170,000 Palestinians. “One should not use the word ‘apartheid’ lightly,” Duncan raged, “but as a description of Hebron it is both accurate and undeniable.” There, he asserted, “the rule of international law has been shelved.” He proclaimed: “Over the years we have made a firm stand against racism, sexism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism. It is time now that we added ‘settlement endorsement’ to that list of extreme undemocratic attitudes which we are not prepared to tolerate.” With that outburst Sir Alan elevated himself to the top rank of anti-Semitic bigots.
Some twenty miles to the north of Hebron, in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, Jews are no less welcome. Until recently 500 Jews lived among 50,000 Palestinians in the neighborhood abutting Ir David, captured by King David three thousand years ago. Long before Muhammad tethered his horse Burack to the Western Wall, according to Muslim legend, Jews lived nearby. As in Hebron, they were expelled but eventually returned to reside in their sacred cities. But the dismaying prospect of yet more Jews in Silwan roiled Palestinian residents, who found a sympathetic forum – not surprisingly – in The New York Times. In yet another Times story (October 15) lamenting the arrival of Jews in Silwan, Isabel Kirshner labeled it a “politically delicate neighborhood” located “in territory that Israel conquered from Jordan” in 1967 and then annexed “in a move that was never internationally recognized.”
Guided by Jerusalem stringer Said Ghazali, she interviewed members of the Karain family and neighbors who expressed dismay at the presence of yet more Jews living nearby. Mahmoud Karain was stunned to encounter “strangers” moving into his uncle’s empty house early one recent morning. It had been leased to a Palestinian man who paid a year’s rent in advance and then vanished. That prompted Kirshner’s disdainful reference to Elad, “a nongovernmental settler association dedicated to preventing any future division of Jerusalem.” It had engaged in “a multimillion-dollar series of complex and shadowy transactions” to purchase Jerusalem property (gasp!) for Jews.
Karain’s Palestinian neighbors “harbor suspicions and trade rumors” about those who “might have cooperated with the Arab brokers who transferred the properties into the settlers’ hands.” His family members wondered if they had been sold with “forged documents,” or by a nephew. A next-door-neighbor recounted the stated intention of the bygone Palestinian purchaser to build an upper floor “for one of his two wives.” But he had disappeared, and although “we went looking for him in 12 cars,” he was nowhere to be found. Another family had sold property to a broker before leaving for Dubai.
And so it went, as the nefarious conspiracy to sell houses to Jews spiraled. A “neighborhood activist” explained: “Settlers’ buying houses seems legitimate, but it’s not. . . . We are not living in Tel Aviv, in a normal situation to decide whether to sell or not.” An East Jerusalem lawyer representing Silwan families was vigorously searching for “flaws, illegalities or violations” that could nullify the sale of property to Jews. “The national and religious control for the area,” Kirshner concluded, “is taking place house by house.” Jews, by strong implication, are the pushy intruders. Conspicuously absent from her interviews were Jewish residents of Silwan, who might have expressed contrary views about Jewish newcomers.
These ancient “sister cities,” as David Ben-Gurion identified Hebron and Jerusalem, are more deeply embedded in Jewish history than any others. “We will make a great and awful mistake,” he declared after the Six-Day War, “if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding.” That is hardly less true for the city whose loss Jews lamented from Babylonian exile in the 6th century BCE: “If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning. . . . Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember you not; if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy” (Psalm 137:5-6). Jerusalem includes Silwan.
・Jerold S. Auerbach is a frequent contributor to The Algemeiner．
3.Algemeiner (http://www.algemeiner.com)
Haaretz More Biased Against Jews Than Arab Media , 21 October 2014
by Elder of Ziyon
While Arab media at least put scare quotes around “attacks” or changes the word to the less inflammatory “provocations,” Haaretz not only kept that phrase but also the absurd accusation that the only Jews who ascend to the Temple Mount are “settlers.” The third outrage, of course, is that Haaretz calls it “Al Aqsa” instead of “Har HaBayit” or “Temple Mount.”
The article itself is just as biased:
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said his administration would take legal action “at the international level” to stop Jewish settlers from attacking the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, which Jews refer to as the Temple Mount.
Al-Aqsa is the real name, the Temple Mount (which predates Islam by quite a few centuries) is only what the Jews call it.
The area — the third-holiest site to Muslims and the holiest site in Judaism – routinely sees fighting between the two sides, with the Israel Police in the middle.
An absolute lie. The Jews who visit never fight anyone, the only aggression – literally 100 percent of the aggression – comes from the Muslims.
Haaretz is thoroughly biased – against Jews.
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