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Israeli social media influencer Hananya Naftali discusses with ILTV the current trial of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, who massacred 11 Jews in 2018, and hate crimes against Jews in general in the United States.
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Minister of Settlements and National Missions Orit Strock was visiting a Druze non-profit as controversy swells around a bill saying Zionist values should set public policy.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Minister of Settlements and National Missions Orit Strock praised the Druze sector’s sacrifices for Israel in a visit Tuesday to an umbrella organization that helps strengthen Druze communities throughout the country.
Strock told the leaders of Ophakim La’atid (New Horizons) in Beit Jann that she has great appreciation and respect for the Druze community, which paid a heavy price in blood for the security of the country. The Orthodox-Jewish minister from the Religious Zionism party noted that she had made a point to be the government representative at the Remembrance Day ceremony in the Druze military cemetery in Shfaram in her first year in the Knesset because of her gratitude.
She added that she intends to help the Druze community from her ministry as well.
Strock’s visit was part of a series of tours she is making in the Galilee of mission-driven groups and communities in Israel, as part of the National Missions division in her ministry.
It came as controversy swells around a government decision under consideration to make the “values of Zionism” as expressed in the Nation State basic law into “the leading and decisive values in setting public policy, foreign and domestic policy, legislation and actions of the government and all its units and institutions.”
Opposition leader Yair Lapid called the decision “racist” on Tuesday, saying that it discriminates against the Druze sector.
“According to this bill,” he said, “if a Jew evades the IDF draft, he will receive more than [a demobilized Druze soldier].”
Development of the Negev and Galilee and National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf, who introduced the proposal, blasted the criticism.
“Zionism is not racism,” he said. “Zionism is the realization of the vision of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. It is time Lapid learned this.”
The Otzma Yehudit minister added that under his bill, all soldiers would receive equal benefits upon completing their IDF service, whether they are Jews or non-Jews.
Ophakim La’atid was established in 2009 to lead the Druze in Israel to become a “progressive, excellent and influential society within the state on the road to equality,” as its website says. Its 12 current projects include promoting leadership skills among Druze youth, building young, strong, core communities in weaker villages, and teaching Israeli society about the Druze population.
At-risk youth are a particular target for the association, which encourages striving for higher education and nurturing a spirit of voluntarism, while preserving the community’s unique heritage. Its 800 members include role models for the youth such as the first IDF Druze combat pilot, the first Druze women who became a lecturer at the Haifa University, the first Druze professor and six NGO chairmen.
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“This act of vandalism is more than an ugly attack on an internationally renowned scholar. It is an attack on academic freedom, on the historical record, and on Holocaust remembrance.”
By Adina Katz, World Israel News
Renowned Polish-Canadian historian Jan Grabowski, whose research into Poland’s complicity during the Holocaust has infuriated Polish leaders, was the victim of assault on Tuesday in Warsaw, Yad Vashem said in a press release the following day.
During a lecture by Grabowski, a member of the Polish parliament smashed a microphone on the speaker’s podium and tried to rip out the sound system in order to prevent him from lecturing at the German Historical Institute.
The press release did not mention the lawmaker by name, but a social media post identified him as Grzegorz Braun.
The topic of the lecture. Grabowski said, was “Poland’s (growing) problem with the history of the Holocaust. The lecture, hosted by the German Historical Institute and the Department of History at the University of Warsaw shall be given in Polish.”
You are warmly invited to my lecture about Poland’s (growing) problem with the history of the Holocaust. The lecture, hosted by the German Historical Institute and the Department of History at the University of Warsaw shall be given in Polish.https://t.co/jNs0Eu32jX
— jan grabowski (@jgrabows) May 25, 2023
Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan issued a statement, saying that the “incident represents a new low in attempts to stifle discussion about the complicity of Poles in the persecution and murder of their Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust.
“This act of vandalism is more than an ugly attack on an internationally renowned scholar. It is an attack on academic freedom, on the historical record, and on Holocaust remembrance,” Dayan said.
In 2018, Poland passed a law banning the phrase “Polish death camp,” in an apparent effort to absolve itself of complicity with the Nazis. The notorious Auschwitz death camp, for example, was located in Poland and administered by locals. Even after the end of World War 2, antisemitism was rampant in the country.
Best known among Polish anti-Semitic crimes in the immediate postwar years was the 1946 pogrom in the town of Kielce, during which 42 Jews were murdered.
Holocaust experts say that while Poland is “technically correct” when they say the concentration camps were German, the legislation is being exploited in an attempt to clear Poles of the murder of so many Jews.
Grabowski, a leading historian, has refused to whitewash the facts.
In February 2021, a Polish court ruled against Profs. Grabowski and Barbara Engelking, both leading scholars, saying they must apologize for their research that “violated the honor” of Edward Malinowski, a Polish civilian alleged to have assisted in the capture and killing of Jews hiding in a forest near Malinowo in northeastern Poland. Jewish leaders slammed the ruling.
Grabowski was apparently not the only victim of violence.
Although not mentioned in the Yad Vashem Press release, Aleksander Milchtach Slaw, a senior jounalist at Radio Shalom in Copenhagen, described the outrageous attack in a Facebook post tagging Grabowski, which included photos of the incident.
“Just a few words to let you know that my lecture at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw has been interrupted by Polish radical right-wing MP Grzegorz Braun. Ten minutes into the lecture, Braun stood up, wrestled the microphone away from me, repeatedly crushed it against the podium, and later destroyed the loudspeakers. Several of his supporters shielded him. Police showed up after some time, but they were powerless to remove him because Braun quoted his MP immunity,” Slaw wrote.
“It was mayhem and chaos. Some people exchanged punches. I have never seen anything like it in my long academic career. I was scheduled to talk about the rising wave of fascism in Poland. Now, I don’t have to – a few pictures will do the job. I must say, I am still shaken. It is not every day that you stare fascism straight in the eye. In Poland, we have transitioned to another stage: violence,” Slaw concluded.
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“Judea and Samaria is Israel’s biblical heartland,” says Rep. Mindy McAlindon.
By David Isaac, JNS
A resolution passed by a unanimous vote in the Arkansas House of Representatives, which includes a strong statement in support of Jewish ties to Judea and Samaria, has garnered growing appreciation among Israel supporters.
The resolution passed on April 6 calls on Arkansas to enter into strategic partnerships with Israel and build upon a Memorandum of Understanding then-state Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed with the Israel Innovation Authority in 2022.
“The State of Arkansas, which lies in America’s heartland, has a special kinship with Judea and Samaria, Israel’s biblical heartland,” the resolution reads.
“Cities across Arkansas bear the names of biblical cities throughout Judea and Samaria, such as Bethel, Hebron, Shiloh, Salem, and numerous others,” the resolution continues.
Other U.S. states have also issued resolutions recognizing Israel’s connection to Judea and Samaria, including Florida in 2012, South Carolina in 2018 and Texas in 2023. They speak of historical and biblical Jewish ties but also offer a modern legal background to justify Jewish rights in those areas, referring either to the League of Nations or the United Nations, or both.
Arkansas’s resolution goes a step further. By skipping over references to modern international law, it takes for granted the natural right of Jews to Judea and Samaria, their ancestral heartland.
“The decision of the House of Representatives in Arkansas is unique because, unlike most decisions of [state] houses in the United States regarding relations with Israel, this decision for the first time speaks of the special relationship with the Land of Israel … including Judea and Samaria,” the Samaria Regional Council said in a statement.
Yossi Dagan, Samaria Council chairman, told JNS, “For us, of course, this is something that is quite natural. The right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel is already inscribed in the most famous book in the world, by which I mean the Bible. So we appreciate the Arkansas state House representative who sponsored this.
“We thank the entire state of Arkansas. We hope the whole world will recognize and understand that a nation cannot be an occupier in its own homeland,” Dagan said.
Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS, “ZOA strongly praised this fabulous, almost sacred, Arkansas resolution recognizing that Jews are the indigenous people of Judea and Samaria as clearly stated in the holy Bible; that this land was given to the Jews by God.”
Yoram Ettinger, a diplomat who served as Israel’s consul-general in Texas (1985-1988), and has worked closely with American evangelicals, told JNS the resolution stands out not only for highlighting the “mutually beneficial U.S.-Israel strategic and commercial cooperation and the shared-values between the U.S. and Israel,” but for emphasizing the biblical and historic significance of Judea and Samaria, “the cradle of Jewish history, religion and culture.”
The resolution’s sponsor, Rep. Mindy McAlindon of Arkansas’s District 10, told JNS that she hadn’t seen other resolutions that refer to Judea and Samaria in the same way, “but I think it’s really important that we do recognize that Judea and Samaria is Israel’s biblical heartland. We want to make sure that, as a state, we recognize that Judea and Samaria is Israel’s territory, and that it is not Palestine.
“We also need to recognize the special kinship that Arkansas has with Judea and Samaria,” she added.
McAlindon said “quite a few” constituents have reached out to her to express their excitement that the Arkansas legislature was not only supporting Israel, in general, but Judea and Samaria, in particular. “We tend to look at Israel as a whole and forget that there are crucial areas within Israel that we need to protect and defend. Even if we do so only in words, it is still important.”
McAlindon, who as a Christian feels “a strong affinity for Israel,” said she was motivated to propose the resolution after Hutchinson signed the MoU with Israel. “I just felt like I wanted to do a little bit more, something to continue to reinforce that relationship.”
She hopes to advance the relationship still further—”maybe even a Memorandum of Understanding specifically with Judea and Samaria.”
Noting that Arkansas is home to a Raytheon Technologies Corporation facility that builds the Iron Dome air-defense system, she said she wants to see more such special partnerships, whether in archaeology, history, religion, technology or agriculture. “We’re a very strong agricultural state. It is actually our No. 1 export. So there’s a lot that we can do together to strengthen both the State of Israel and the State of Arkansas.”
McAlindon hinted there was a chance other U.S. states will pass similar resolutions. As a member of a group including legislators from other states, she shared her resolution with them and several expressed interest and asked for copies. “So I hope other states will follow suit.”
She said state resolutions could impact federal policy.
“If you had enough states that pushed the idea that these are areas that we need to recognize, I think you could see some movement on a federal level.” However, she admitted states are “very much secondary” on foreign policy matters.
“At least, we’re very fortunate in Arkansas to have such strong federal congressmen and senators, like Senator Tom Cotton, who are very supportive of Israel,” McAlindon said.
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