Talkin’ ‘Bout My Occupation

from isreaellycool.com April 2, 2014 by Varda Epstein

NOTE: Fairly strong point of view from someone living in Israel for the past 34 years. Thoughts?

I have lived in Israel for 34 years and in Judea for the past 24 years. When I first moved out to a hilltop settlement in Judea, I was a political infant. I had no idea I was doing something controversial.

Living on that hilltop there was not much to do but raise my many children, keep my house clean, and read. I read a lot. I read the history of the place where I now lived.

The more I read, the more confused I felt. Why would anyone call me an “occupier?” I could not find any justification for the application of the term. There was no legal, moral, or historic reason for using this term. According to Judeo-Christian tenets, there was also no religiousjustification for the claim that I occupied land not my own. PLEASE KEEP READING

Hamas-Linked Group CAIR Shuts Down Film on University of Michigan Campus; Calls Documentary on Abuse of Muslim Women ‘Islamophobic’ (VIDEO)

April 6, 2014 from the Algemeiner by Joshua Levitt

NOTE: Why would you not want this shown? And CAIR doesn't sound like a very nice group...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR, is a nationally recognized non-profit whose charter calls for it to stand up against anti-Muslim discrimination. But after blocking public college students from screening a documentary featuring Muslim women and doctors speaking about women’s rights in the Muslim world, attention has been drawn to CAIR’s history of suspect allegiences.

In an interview with The Algemeiner, Brooke Goldstein, a New York-based human rights lawyer who heads the Lawfare Project condemned the group.

Goldstein has appeared on Fox News twice in the past week as the network’s producers tried to find answers to questions from viewers who couldn’t understand why a “Muslim rights” group worked so hard to ban the otherwise well-received documentary, ’Honor Diaries,’ from being shown at the University of Michigan’s Dearborn campus.

The movie, which featured Muslim female doctor Qanta Ahmed, focused on the rights of woman, and how those rights are being abrogated in the Muslim World through female genital mutilation, or FGM, forcing girls to become child brides and through the many deaths from honor killings. CLICK TO KEEP READING