{"id":951,"date":"2021-01-30T20:10:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T20:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/work.icwv.org\/?page_id=951"},"modified":"2023-02-16T13:25:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T13:25:02","slug":"icwv-newsmonitor-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/icwv.org\/index.php\/icwv-newsmonitor-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"ICWV Newsmonitor 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A BDS Christmas Gift from The UK<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Amnesty International activists delivered a \u201cspecial Christmas gift \u201d to the UK Foreign Office earlier this month, to highlight campaigners\u2019 demand for a ban on Israeli settlement produce.<\/p>

The gift was stocked with olive oil, wine, dates, and oranges marked with \u201cDelicious but tainted\u201d stickers.<\/p>

According to Amnesty, \u201cthese items are just some of the thousands of products from illegal Israeli settlements that end up on our shelves in the UK.\u201d<\/p>

In addition to the hamper, Amnesty activists also submitted a petition \u201curging the UK government to ban Israeli settlement goods\u201d, which more than 50,000 members of the public had signed.\u201cFor over 50 years, Palestinians have been forced from their homes, detained and killed \u2013 all to make way for more illegal Israeli settlements\u201d, Amnesty stated. \u201cProducts from those settlements often make their way into UK markets and onto our shop shelves.<\/p>

These products are made on stolen land, with stolen resources, and profit from human rights abuses,\u201d the group added. Amnesty also said that in 2019 there will be a new campaign launched \u201ctargeting some businesses that are profiting from human rights abuses in illegal Israeli settlements,\u201d the petition said.<\/p>

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My year in the Palestinian Authority territorie<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Interview with Els van Diggele: ‘I concluded that there was a century of stagnation, destruction and a power battle which was fought on the back of common Palestinian Arabs.’<\/p>

\u201cMy first book\u00a0appeared in 2000 and discussed\u00a0Israel\u2019s internal conflicts regarding the state\u2019s identity. The Dutch title translates into English as ‘A People that Dwells Alone.’\u00a0I published my next book in 2007 which deals with the divisions between Christians in Israel. The title translates as ‘Holy Quarrels’.\u201d<\/p>

Els van Diggele was born in 1967 in the Dutch village of Warmond. After her history studies at Leiden University she followed a postdoctoral journalism course at Rotterdam\u2019s Erasmus University.<\/p>

\u201cI wanted to complete a trilogy by writing about the Palestinian Arabs. I resided in the Palestinian Authority region, carefully looking for people who would dare to tell the truth.<\/a> Otherwise I would only hear: \u2018Everything is fine. The Israeli occupation is the problem.\u2019<\/p>

\u201cMy first insight occurred when a Palestinian Arab asked me: \u2018Do you write about our occupation? We are occupied by our leaders. The Palestinian occupation starts in our family with our father and uncles. Afterwards we are occupied by our boss and our leaders. The individual does not exist.\u2019 He added: \u2018That is our greatest real problem and explains our society\u2019s stagnation.\u2019<\/p>

\u201cI lived for a year in the Palestinian Authority territories. I did not register as a journalist with the authorities. I was not hindered by the authorities in any way, though there have been people who suspected me of being a spy.<\/p>

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Jordanian Law Permits the Murder of Israelis<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Jordanian soldier Ahmad Musa Dakasma, the notorious murderer of seven Israeli schoolgirls, was recently released from prison after serving 20 years. His name is back in the headlines following a series of posts he wrote recently encouraging the murder of Jews inside Israel. Dakasma claims that such incitement is consistent with Jordanian law, citing an addition to the State Security Law of 2013. Israel should demand that Jordan immediately abolish this addition to the law and stop Dakasma from inciting the murder of Jews.<\/p>

Jordanian soldier Ahmad Mussa Dakasma, the murderer of seven Israeli schoolgirls in Naharayim on March 13, 1997, was released from prison in March 2017 after serving only 20 years for the heinous massacre. Many Israelis well remember the kneeling of King Hussein during his visit to the families of the murdered.<\/p>

If you thought the liberated murderer had repented, or at least come to regret his actions, you are wrong. Dakasma\u2019s name has been in the headlines again in recent days after he wrote a series of posts inciting the murder of Jews and encouraging people to carry out attacks inside Israel.<\/p>

On October 2, he posted this on Facebook:\u00a0\u201cEvery time I\u2019m sad I remember that I murdered a few Zionists [the Israeli girls], and then I feel calm and my conscience is quiet, and sadness leaves me.<\/u>\u201d\u00a0The post was removed following many requests from Israelis. On the same day, he wrote in another post:\u00a0\u201cAnyone who calls for resistance and can enter Israeli territory even as a tourist \u2013 and does not carry out an attack against the Zionists \u2013 is just a talker.\u201d<\/u>\u00a0This post has not been removed, despite complaints. In another post that was removed, the terrorist called for the murder of Israeli children on the grounds that when they grow up they will serve as security guards.<\/p>

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On October 26, 2018, Jihad Watch<\/a> covered the troubling ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that \u201can Austrian woman\u2019s criminal conviction and fine for her statements accusing the Prophet Muhammad of pedophilia did not breach her right to free speech.\u201d<\/em><\/p>

Insulting Muhammad is now forbidden, according to the ECHR, which has conceded to Sharia imperatives. This ruling is important not only for the \u201cAustrian woman\u201d<\/em> who was not even named in the Daily Sabah<\/a> article, but for all who support free speech. The next step for the expansion of Sharia provisions in Europe will be the prohibition of all speech that is considered to be broadly offensive to Muhammad\u2019s established religion \u2014 Islam.<\/p>

Robert Spencer wrote:<\/a><\/p>

This is clearly the case of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, who was fined and given a jail sentence for calling Muhammad a pedophile. He married a six-year-old and consummated the marriage when she was nine, but \u201cthe Austrian courts had held that ES was making value judgments partly based on untrue facts and without regard to the historical context.<\/p>

I had the privilege to meet Elisabeth in Warsaw last month at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe\u2019s Human Dimension Implementation Meetings. The Center for Security Policy<\/a>states:<\/p>

For the last decade, a civil society delegation led by Austrian patriot and freedom fighter Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff has attended ODIHR meetings to express concerns that especially European countries were potentially unwittingly facilitating these Sharia-compliant practices, to their great and increasingly obvious detriment.<\/p>

Elisabeth is a powerful advocate for freedom. The ECHR ruling on her case bears grave implications for everyone worldwide who supports human rights. Elisabeth sent me her statement on the ECHR ruling this morning. We owe her much gratitude and support for her fight for the freedom of speech, the hallmark of democracy:<\/p>

\u201cOn Thursday, 25 October the ECHR ruled that my conviction by an Austrian court for discussing the marriage between Prophet Mohammed and a six year old girl, Aisha, did not infringe my rights of freedom of speech.<\/em><\/p>

I was not extended the courtesy of being told of this ruling. Like many others, I had to read it in the media.<\/em><\/p>

The ECHR found there had been no violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights and that right to expression needed to be balanced with the rights of others to have their religious feelings protected, and served the legitimate aim of preserving religious peace in Austria.<\/em><\/p>

In other words, my right to speak freely is less important than protecting the religious feelings of others.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>

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