Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff dismantled the Palestinian narrative with cold historical facts.
There was never a sovereign Arab state called “Palestine.” The British Mandate of Palestine was simply British administration over the historic Land of Israel after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Jews lived continuously in the land for centuries — including under Ottoman rule, when they formed the majority in Jerusalem. Before 1909, Tel Aviv was empty desert legally purchased by Jews, who built it from nothing. No Arabs were displaced.
After the British handed the mandate to the UN, the Arab world rejected the partition plan and launched a war to destroy the Jewish state. Arab armies and local militias tried to “push the Jews into the sea.” At the same time, Arab countries ethnically cleansed their ancient Jewish communities, forcing nearly a million Jews to flee to Israel.
During the war, Arab leaders ordered local Arabs to evacuate combat zones so their armies could annihilate the Jews. Many of those who left later became permanent “refugees” under Egyptian and Jordanian control.
Israel has never committed genocide — and never will. By defending itself, it prevents another holocaust.
Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic regime of Iran are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.
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Keyvan Shahbazi geeft Rick Nieman een lesje in vijheid van meningsuiting: "We weten dat Lenny Kuhr het leven onmogelijk is gemaakt in Nederland de afgelopen 2 jaar. Ze is gecanceld en ze is enorm geïntimideerd."
"Gisteren heeft Sylvain Ephimenco zijn laatste column ingeleverd bij dagblad Trouw, na 33 jaar. Daarvoor is Theodor Holman hetzelfde overkomen bij Het Parool. Ik heb zelf vergelijkbare ervaringen met de Volkskrant, waardoor ik mijn columns stop heb gezet."
"Ik ben het niet met je eens als je zegt dat alles gezegd kan worden. Mensen wordt geleerd om binnen die onzichtbare grenzen te spreken. Dat is het begin van het verlies van onze vrijheden."
"Dat moralisme is een zwaard wat in Nederland boven elke discussie hangt. En heel veel mensen krijgen het gevoel doordat ze denken dat ze moreel gelijk hebben, dat ze zich van alles en nog wat kunnen permitteren."
Voor degenen die geen nachtmerries krijgen vd vreselijke Hamas wreedheden wijs ik alsnog op het stuk v #LeondeWinter in de Telegraaf. Hij somt daarin de gruwelijke misdaden op die Palestijnse terroristen begingen op 7 oktober. Dit n.a.v. het onderzoeksrapport vd Civil Commission
Bij wijze van hoge uitzondering het NIW-commentaar nu al online, over de bekladding van het Monument op de Dam:
“Schuren, heet het volgens de burgemeester. Maar dat schuren is synoniem geworden voor poeren in een open wond met schuurpapier korrel 40.
En nee, ik kom al jaren niet meer op de Dam. Ik houd liever twee minuten stilte buiten de nabijheid van rodelijnhypocrisie.
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Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff stunned the audience by completely destroying the Palestinian narrative about the conflict. The truth the world refuses to accept:
Palestine never existed as a sovereign Arab state.
The British Mandate of Palestine was a British territory taken from the defeated Ottoman Empire after 1917. Jews lived continuously in the Holy Land for centuries — long before modern Zionism. They were the majority in Jerusalem under Ottoman rule. Jews legally bought desert land (including the area that became Tel Aviv) and turned it into thriving cities and kibbutzim. Not a single Arab was displaced by these purchases.
The Arabs rejected the 1947 UN partition plan and launched war to destroy the newborn Jewish state. They lost. During that war, Arab armies ordered local Arabs to flee so they could “push the Jews into the sea.” Many did exactly that.
Israel has never committed genocide. It has fought for survival against repeated attempts to commit genocide against the Jewish people. Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran’s regime are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.
The historical facts are clear. The propaganda is not.
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I received this heartbreaking message from a Jewish professor at @UAntwerpen, who is leaving both the city and the university after four decades. I can hardly express how deeply this saddens and enrages me—especially in light of last week’s craven and disgraceful charade surrounding the honorary doctorate of @FranceskAlbs.
"After fifty years living in Antwerp and forty years at the University of Antwerp as student, assistant and professor, I’m leaving. I no longer feel at home in the city and feel completely estranged from my university that has become a hotbed of radicalism and has completely lost its sense of academic values of critical thinking, discussion and genuine diversity of viewpoints. I fear that the student generation that – with the support of the university authorities - has now become indoctrinated and brainwashed to a point of no return. My son who was born and raised in Antwerp and who wears a kippa, has been called a child murderer on the street by a Flemish person and was told to “get out of here”. At the university the students are shouting that Jews should get out of Palestine. He and his family are leaving too. It just became a bad place for Jews."
This is on you, rectors. You have made universities into hostile places for Jews (unless they ritually denounce zionism and Israel). They will abandon you and take all their learning, knowledge and wisdom with them.
And don't worry, @UGent, you have scarcely any Jewish professors left to begin with. The great Jewish linguist and classicist Julien Klener has long since retired. When I met him recently, he told me how relieved he is not to have to endure this ideological madness anymore.
“They’re drowning people in blood. I saw hell.”
An Iranian managed to leave the country and tell his story. Khamenei’s regime is slaughtering thousands of civilians in the streets.
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