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1920 Pogrom: “Mohammad’s religion was born with the sword”, "nashrab dam al-yahud" ("we will drink the blood of the Jews") - Arab mob attacked, murdered, and wounded Jews in the Holy Land. (Nebi Musa)
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Posted on 01/25/2025 7:58:18 PM PST by Freeleesy

That's how it all started.
The "opening shot" of the Jewish-Arab blood battle for this land was heard on Passover 93 years ago, in the forgotten events of the 19th century - the first significant defining event in the national and religious struggle between the two peoples.
Nadav Shragai. Israel Hayom. 24/3/2013.

[...]. The time was approximately 11:30 a.m., April 4, 1920 (15 Nisan 5680), the first day of the Chol HaMoed of Passover holiday in Jerusalem. The death of a threatening crowd was heard from afar. The Arabs in the nearby markets of the old city rushed to close the shutters of their shops and locked them. Jews in holiday clothes who prayed on the Western Wall square, quickly folded their prayer shawls and ran in a panic, short of breath, towards their homes.

In the square at the foot of the Jaffa Gate, a picture of Faisal was hoisted, that is, he had already crowned himself the king of Greater Syria. The speeches spoke in condemnation of Zionism. Aref al-Aref spoke from his horse: "The land of Israel is our land - the Jews are our dogs." Hebron Sheikh ended his speech by exclaiming: "Atbakho al yahud" (slaughter the Jews) and the Arab mob (some of Hebron), who had arrived in Jerusalem straight from the Nabi Musa celebrations, erupted. Arab thugs equipped with sticks, knives and swords ran amok in the alleys of the old city. They beat, wounded and killed Jews, robbed shops and raped women.

A handful of Jewish defenders tried to escape in those hours to help the Jewish settlement in the old city. Among them were Zvi Nadav and Nehemiah Rabin. The two were wearing white robes with Star of David symbols on them, their hearts were beating strongly and their clothes hid guns. Suddenly a horrifying sight unfolds before their eyes: ransacked shops, bloodied Jews and feathers, lots of feathers, flying in the air. This feather dance reminded Nadav, the man of the second aliyah, of images from another place, the disturbances in Russia. There, too, the feathers were a symbol of the pogrom.

The Jews were shocked. The surprise was almost complete.

The riots lasted five days. Six Jews were murdered, 211 were injured. Later, this occurrence was characterized by the events of the 19th century. This is how the first images of the Jewish-Arab conflict, which continues to this day, appeared. The first discovery of a violent Arab reaction on a relatively wide scale against Zionism, within the borders of the Land of Israel," as the historian Yigal Elam put it with scientific precision; "a defining event in the history of the Palestinian national movement as well," noted Orientalist Prof. Yehoshua Porat...

From the train, on April 19, on his way to the San Remo Conference, which discussed the distribution of the territories of the Ottoman Empire among the victorious countries, Chaim Weizman, later the country's first president, wrote to his daughter-in-law (his wife, who lives in London): "My dear, a very terrible, very serious thing has happened to us - A pogrom in Jerusalem, with all the side effects and 'charms' of a pogrom. I blame this on the government The actual pogrom, but there is no doubt that they helped him in their passive position... I am tired, shattered, broken and the whole world was for me... If it weren't for the bayonets of the English that got in the way, we would have overcome the Arabs on the very first day: but the English But the English unloaded our weapons of self-defense, arrested our people, including our Vladimir Yevgenievich (Jabotinsky; N.S.) - everything is like with us (in Russia)... and Ruchka, Girl, don't pay attention to the news in the newspapers, they lie. I have all the facts and evidence, and I will publish them. I was interviewed by The Times. But I don't know if they will print the interview!..."...

The events of the 1920 pogrom began far from Jerusalem, at the Nabi Musa Mosque in the Judean Desert. In the background were the Balfour Declaration given about two and a half years earlier, the Arabs' fears of the growth of the Zionist movement and the identification of many of the country's Westerners with the struggle for the establishment of Greater Syria, and Queen Faisal bin Hussein, who wanted to see in the Land of Israel part of it.

In Nabi Musa is found, according to Muslim tradition, the tomb of Moses, one of the prophets who, according to Islam, preceded Muhammad. The celebrations at the place were practiced as early as the time of Saladin, always before the Christian Easter. The goal was to create a Muslim presence there and to block any possibility that the Christian crusaders who were defeated in the battle with Saladin would try to harness the arrival of the multitudes of pilgrims arriving in Jerusalem at that time, in favor of another assault on the city.

"The holiday of Nabi Musa is a political holiday and not a religious holiday..." admitted in his diary ("That's who I am, gentlemen") Khalil a-Sahakhini, an intellectual man and writer, one of the fiercest opponents of Zionism, who lived in Jerusalem in those days, "the religious nature of the holiday, it is only intended to attract the masses to participate otherwise they would not have come." Amin al-Husseini, later the Grand Mufti and Hitler's accomplice, also understood this. In April 1920, Husseini was a young man of about 25 years old, the man who inflamed the crowds in Nabi Musa with inciting chants against the Jews and against the plan to establish a national home for them in the Land of Israel. This was the beginning of a "miraculous" career that Husseini built for himself on the backs of the Jews and the Arabs. The immediate result was 5680 riots [1920].

Prof. Yehoshua Porat, one of the leading orientalists in Israel, who studied the growth of the Palestinian national movement, points out that before the events of Nabi Musa (the events of 1920), the Arab national movement in the Land of Israel still tried to differentiate between the old Jewish residents of the land - mainly the old Yishuv and the Sephardim - and the Zionist immigrants "But in the events of April 1920 in Jerusalem, the Arab crowd rioted without distinguishing between old Jews to the Zionists, and harmed the circles of the old Yishuv that lived in the Old City," explains Porat. "Husseini, who after the disturbances fled to Damascus, effectively erased these differences, and through the mosques on the Temple Mount, which he exalted and used for his political purposes, he laid with his own hands the religious foundation for the conflict between the Jews and the Arabs".

From the balcony of the New Grand Hotel, near the Jaffa Gate, a British officer and his wife watched the first results of the porridge cooked by Husseini. The tumult of the crowd that came from Nabi Musa increased from moment to moment, as did the growing calls of incitement from the Muslim clerics. "The first thing we saw was an old Jew of about 70 who had his head chopped off with an Arab sword and when he fell he was stoned," the officer later described what happened, in a letter to Colonel John Henry Patterson, the commander of the two Hebrew battalions. "For a few moments they did the same to a few more Jews. By that time the crowd had already dispersed and burst into the Old City to scorn and murder. A few hours later, he began to lead away wounded Jews."

In his book "Yeme ha-kalaniyot" [One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate], Tom Segev describes another horrifying moment: "Thugs attacked Hana Yaffe's courtyard, not far from the 'Hutta Gate', one of the gates of the Temple Mount in the Muslim Quarter. Three Jewish families lived in the courtyard and were under a kind of siege. Finally, the attackers broke the courtyard doors, broken in... and the tenants were beaten. Moshe Lifshitz was beaten on the head with an iron rod and the children were also beaten. Lifshitz's sisters were raped one by one. One is married, 25 years old. The other is 15 years old..."



The “New York Times” Finds New Ways to Distort the History of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict. Mosaic Magazine. Feb. 28 2024.

...an Arab mob attacked, murdered, and wounded Jews or that the crowd of perpetrators chanted "nashrab dam al-yahud" ("we will drink the blood of the Jews")... “Mohammad’s religion was born with the sword,” according to the eyewitness Khalil al-Sakakini, a Christian Arab educator.

Morris, B. (2011). Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001. United Kingdom: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, p. 95


TOPICS: History; Religion
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1 posted on 01/25/2025 7:58:18 PM PST by Freeleesy
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To: Freeleesy

Arab Ialamic genocide campaign never ceased.

At least they were more openly honest at the time...


2 posted on 01/25/2025 8:21:11 PM PST by Words Matter
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To: Freeleesy

Bookmark


3 posted on 01/25/2025 8:36:25 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: All

Australian Jewish Association - AJA.
October 11, 2020.

The British controllers of the Mandated Land liberated from the Ottomans appointed someone who was later declared a war criminal in the Nuremberg trials..

To control the violence against the Jews, the British appointed Haj Amin al-Husseini, the spiritual-political leader of the Muslims in Mandated Palestine, as the grand mufti of Jerusalem, hoping he would help calm the passions. The British could not have chosen a worse person.

Husseini was a virulent anti-Semite.
He later became a close ally of Adolf Hitler, and actively supported the Final Solution, that is, the mass extermination of Jews.
After WW-II, in Nuremberg trial, Husseini was declared a full-fledged Nazi war criminal for having been actively involved in the Holocaust.
He escaped to Egypt where he was given asylum. There he helped organize many former Nazis/Nazi sympathizers against Israel.
He incited the Arabs with messages like
“Itbah al-Yahud” (kill the Jews) and “Nashrab dam al-Yahud” (we will drink the blood of the Jews), and instigated anti-Jewish riots.
https://www.facebook.com/AustralianJewishAssociation/photos/the-british-controllers-of-the-mandated-land-liberated-from-the-ottomans-appoint/836881593717562/


4 posted on 01/25/2025 8:42:35 PM PST by Words Matter
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To: Words Matter

Arabs = “Slaughter the Jews, kill them all”!!! (1920-2025)

Arabs = God is great kill the Jews!!! (1936-1945) Hitler is our man!

Arabs = Jews, you are committing Geniocide”!!! (2023- )

Jews = WHO committed Genocide????


5 posted on 01/25/2025 10:07:12 PM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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The Pogrom of 1929.

The British Commission of Inquiry and testimonies of the Pogroms of 1929.

Raymond Cafferrata, the English police officer on duty in Hebron, told the British commission of inquiry: “When I heard shouting in a room, I went up a sort of corridor or tunnel, and saw an Arab cutting the head off a child with a sword. He had already hit him and was about to strike again with the sword, but when he noticed my presence, he tried to land the blow on me. But he missed. He was almost at the end of my rifle barrel. I shot him in the groin. Behind me lay a Jewish woman covered in blood next to a man I recognized, despite his civilian clothes, as an Arab police officer from Jaffa, named Issa Shérif. He was bending over the woman, a dagger in his hand. He saw me and rushed into a nearby room, where he tried to lock himself in, shouting in Arabic: “Your honor, I am a policeman” […]. I entered the room and shot him dead23.”

The massacre in Hebron marked the end of the city’s Jewish community. Just two days later, what remained of the six hundred Jewish residents left the town under British escort. On August 29, another massacre stained the historic Jewish community of Safed, claiming the lives of eighteen Jews. Five days prior, on August 24, a preceding massacre had resulted in the deaths of twenty-six Jews, each murder accompanied by heinous acts of atrocity, sexual abuse, and torture. In Safed, Hebron, and Jerusalem, it was predominantly Orthodox Judaism that bore the brunt of the massacres. The overall toll of the riots amounted to one hundred and thirty-three Jews and one hundred and sixteen Arabs killed, the latter mostly at the hands of the British police. Three hundred and thirty-nine Jews and two hundred and thirty-two Arabs were also injured.

All the witnesses – Jewish, English, Western consular staff – seemed stunned by the barbarity of the riot. In Hebron, the brutality reached horrifying levels, with Jewish children subjected to torture before being mercilessly murdered. French senator Justin Godart, who had founded the France- Palestine association three years prior, documented these atrocities in his notebooks. “Among those killed, some had their throats slit by the neck or face, while others suffered unimaginable mutilations,” he wrote. “A rabbi’s testicles were removed, and two women had their left hands burned.” The accounts of the Hebron atrocities are chilling: a paralytic was killed and had his eyes gouged out, his daughter raped, and her breasts mutilated; a baker was bound, had his hands and feet tied, and his head placed on a stove; a lady identified as Mrs. Sokolov sat down and slit the throats of six yeshiva students; a schoolteacher from Tel-Aviv was murdered, his throat brutally slashed; a father-in-law, son of the rabbi, was praying when he was scalped and had his brains removed.

The extreme cruelty displayed in Godart’s narrative may spark fears of it being a propaganda story. At the same time, the French journalist Albert Londres, who had returned to the area, provided feedback of the Hebron massacres that supported the French senator’s version: “Around fifty Jewish men and women had taken refuge outside the ghetto, at the Anglo-Palestinian bank. [The Arabs […] were quick to sniff them out. It was Saturday 24th at nine o’clock in the morning. […] But here it is in two words: they cut off hands, they cut off fingers, they held heads over a stove, they enucleated eyes. […] Men are mutilated. Girls as young as 13, mothers and grandmothers, were jostled in blood and raped in chorus24.”

However, the rioters did not attack the English soldiers who embodied the colonial presence. Historian Nathan Weinstock notes that “what we see here is the crystallization of the age-old hatred for the dhimmi, which takes on fearsome forms as soon as the latter pretends to shake off the yoke that weighs him down…”.25 For Weinstock, this massacre was similar in nature to the one that struck Assyro-Chaldean Christians in Semile, Iraq, four years later. He sees this massacre as a continuation of the large-scale massacres (which caused around two hundred and fifty thousand victims) which, between 1914 and 1919, had decimated the Assyro-Chaldeans exterminated by the Turks and Kurds in the conflicts during the Ottoman Empire.

Although fiercely anti-Zionist, the Palestinian Communist Party, appalled by the violence, ordered its members to join the ranks of the Jewish defense. The atrocity of the crimes prompted several Muslim notables to issue a joint proclamation dissociating themselves from the “actions of the mob26“. Despite the fact that several Arab families came to the aid of Jews in distress, many also noted the “perfect equanimity with which these horrors were greeted by the Muslim population, even when they stayed away from the killings27“.

In Arab society, the account of events does not mention the massacres, but speaks of the “Al-Bouraq revolution”. Thus, “Arab memorialists,” comments historian Henry Laurens […], “consider the acts committed during the violence to be entirely legitimate and overlook the fact that the victims were mainly defenceless civilians – women and children – while they are indignant about the Jewish reprisals28“. The widespread ignorance of the inflicted suffering and, with a few exceptions, the absence of collective introspection, was verified throughout the Arab world. This is evident in fundraising efforts aimed at supporting the families of Arab rioters involved in the massacres.

For Jewish society, the shock was immense. The Haganah had shown itself to be largely incapable of protecting its own people. Jewish leaders were convinced of the need to transform this modest militia into a small army, and no longer rely solely on the British for defense. The trauma was all the more violent as the Yishuv29 was weakened by a a difficult immigration situation and an economic depression from which it had only recently begun to recover. Like others, Haïm Weizmann30, president of the World Zionist Organization, was overcome by pessimism: “The current Arab leaders, murderers and thieves, want only one thing – to throw us into the Mediterranean Sea”, he wrote to Albert Einstein on November 30, 192931.

On August 31, 1929, the Muslim Committee for the Defense of the Holy Sites published its version of events. The Jews, it explained, were trying to take over the Esplanade of the Mosques and were causing disturbances around the Western Wall (Al Buraq), prompting the Muslims, in self-defense, to react. In agreement with the Grand Mufti, the Committee demanded that the British disarm “the Jewish soldiers” (the Haganah). This version of events, explains Laurens, “has remained dominant in Muslim writings to this day32.”

London appointed a commission of inquiry. Headed by Sir Walter Shaw, it arrived in Jerusalem on October 25, 1929, and as the hearings progressed, in a very tense atmosphere (fifty-seven attacks were deplored between the beginning of September and mid-November 1929), the Commission became increasingly disillusioned, fearing that the situation was becoming insoluble. At a hearing on December 2, 1929, the Grand Mufti, after referring at length to the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion33“, compared himself to Jesus, who, he explained, had been confronted in the same place 1,900 years ago by a tribunal at the request of the Jews who had denounced him.

The fragile trust that had been established here and there in Palestine between Jews and Arabs was shattered. Ties of conviviality and friendship were called into question. Understanding, already precarious, regressed by several decades. The cooperation that sometimes prevailed frayed, if not disappeared altogether, at a time when Jewish demographics were at their worst. For the first time since 1914, fear gripped a large part of Jewish society in Palestine (one hundred and seventy thousand souls). “Are we sitting on a volcano?” read the headline on September 6, 1929, in the Hebrew daily Doar Ha Yom, the mouthpiece of Jabotinsky’s revisionist Zionism34. Many feared that an eruption of violence would lead to the complete annihilation of the Jewish National Homeland. “The idea of a general massacre of the Jews,” declared Ben Gurion in January 1930, “has gained ground35“.

Notes.
23. Nathan Weinstock, op. cit. p. 202.
24. Albert Londres, Le Juif errant est arrivé (1929), éditions 10-18, 1975, p.198.
25. Nathan Weinstock, op. cit. p. 203.
26. Abdul Wahab Kayyali, Histoire de la Palestine, 1896-1940, translated from Arabic, Paris, L’Harmattan, 1985.+
27. Nathan Weinstock, op. cit. p. 204.
28. Henry Laurens, La Question de Palestine, Tome 2, p. 175.
29. The Hebrew term Yishuv referred to the community of Jews living in Palestine before the creation of the State of Israel.+
30. A Russian Jew who became a British citizen, Haïm Weizmann chaired the World Zionist Organization between the wars, and was one of the main architects of the Balfour Declaration in 1917.+
31. Dominique Bourel, Martin Buber, p. 400.
32. Henry Laurens, op. cit. p. 176.
33. See Shoah multimedia encyclopedia [online].
34. Georges Bensoussan, Une Histoire intellectuelle et politique du sionisme, Fayard, 2002, p. 839.+
35. Ibid. p. 839
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Pogroms in Palestine before the creation of the state of Israel (1830-1948).

George Bensoussan. April 2024 l.

https://www.fondapol.org/en/study/pogroms-in-palestine-before-the-creation-of-the-state-of-israel-1830-1948/


6 posted on 01/26/2025 2:22:05 AM PST by Words Matter
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To: Words Matter

October 7 was the second massacre of Jews for Hamas’ oldest hostage.

Lyn Julius, May 29, 2024:

In March, the family of Shlomo Mansour marked his 86th birthday. Since the Hamas massacre of October 7, his children have not received any sign that he is alive or dead. Mansour is the oldest Israeli hostage in Gaza.

Mansour was abducted from Kibbutz Kissufim, one of several Israeli villages and towns attacked by Hamas. He was among hundreds of hostages dragged across the border into Gaza. But what makes Mansour unique is that he is the only person to have survived two massacres – not just the slaughter of October 7, 2023, but also the Iraqi Farhud of 1-2 June 1941.

In order to convey the enormity of the catastrophe that befell Israel on October 7 – the worst pogrom since the Holocaust – journalists, politicians and analysts have cast around for parallels with pogroms suffered by the Jews of Europe. Few have recalled comparable events in the Middle East itself, where the Jews (contrary to the false narrative that Jews are settler colonialists from Europe) were indigenous for more than two millennia, living in the region over 1,000 years before Islam and the Arab conquest.

The Farhud (Arabic for “forced dispossession”) of 1941 – seven years before the creation of Israel – mirrored the slaughter of October 7 in Israel. Mobs screaming Itbah al-Yehud! (“slaughter the Jews”) murdered hundreds of Jews, wounded 1,000, mutilated babies, raped women, looted and destroyed 900 homes and 586 Jewish-owned businesses.

Jews were thrown into the river Tigris. Iraqi doctors and nurses refused to treat the injured or, worse still, poisoned patients. Police joined the rioters...
https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/for-hamas-oldest-hostage-october-7-was-the-second-massacre-of-jews-shxumzbe


7 posted on 01/26/2025 2:55:16 AM PST by Words Matter
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To: Words Matter

“However, the rioters did not attack the English soldiers who embodied the colonial presence.”

If that doesn’t embody a mindset that only respects strength I don’t know what does.


8 posted on 01/26/2025 3:24:37 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Freeleesy
Vicious animals, only fit for the snare of destruction…

”“Among those killed, some had their throats slit by the neck or face, while others suffered unimaginable mutilations,” he wrote. “A rabbi’s testicles were removed, and two women had their left hands burned.” The accounts of the Hebron atrocities are chilling: a paralytic was killed and had his eyes gouged out, his daughter raped, and her breasts mutilated; a baker was bound, had his hands and feet tied, and his head placed on a stove; a lady identified as Mrs. Sokolov sat down and slit the throats of six yeshiva students; a schoolteacher from Tel-Aviv was murdered, his throat brutally slashed; a father-in-law, son of the rabbi, was praying when he was scalped and had his brains removed.”
9 posted on 01/26/2025 4:30:30 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: sauropod

review


10 posted on 01/26/2025 5:00:50 AM PST by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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11 posted on 01/26/2025 6:31:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SJackson

Ping.

5.56mm


12 posted on 01/26/2025 6:45:00 AM PST by M Kehoe (Thank you Jesus. )
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To: Words Matter
Going back another 50 years, we find this…

The Rabbi and President U.S. Grant

13 posted on 01/26/2025 7:15:28 AM PST by Ditto
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To: Ditto

Interesting, 1869...


14 posted on 01/26/2025 7:38:35 AM PST by Words Matter
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Met Police reportedly raid home and seize devices of anti-Zionist journalist Asa Winstanley.
The associate editor of the pro-Palestine website is reportedly being investigated for the ‘encouragement of terrorism’.

Imogen Garfinkel.
October 19, 2024

Counter-terrorism police officers allegedly raided the home and seized several electronic devices belonging to Asa Winstanley, a journalist at Electronic Intifada, a pro-Palestinian website.

According to a post on the website, approximately 10 officers arrived at the north London home of the anti-Zionist journalist on Thursday morning where the officers reportedly served Winstanley with warrants and papers, authorising them to search his home and vehicle for “devices and documents”.

In a letter addressed to Winstanley from the “Counter Terrorism Command” of the Metropolitan Police Service, officers allegedly informed him that he was being investigated under sections 1 and 2 of the Terrorism Act (2006), for the purported offence of “encouragement of terrorism”, according to the Electronic Intifada.

An officer conducting the raid told Winstanley that the investigation was linked to some of his social media posts, according to the report.

Winstanley’s devices were reportedly seized, but he was not arrested or charged with any offence.

In 2022, Winstanley wrote a book downplaying the extent of Labour antisemitism in the Corbyn years and is an outspoken supporter of disgraced former Bristol academic, David Miller.

Last year, following Hamas’ October 7 attack, Winstanley sought to blame Israel for civilians deaths during the massacre, saying that the IDF had killed [sic] its own people.[sic].

The Met Police said: “We can confirm that officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command executed a search warrant at an address in Wembley on 17 October.

“This was carried out as part of an ongoing investigation into suspected terrorism offences contrary to section 12 of the Terrorism Act (TACT), 2000 (support of a proscribed organisation) and sections 1 and 2, TACT 2006 (dissemination of terrorist documents).

“No arrests were made and officers seized various electronic devices from the address under section 50 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act, 2001. Enquiries continue.”
https://www.thejc.com/news/met-police-reportedly-raid-home-and-seize-devices-of-anti-zionist-journalist-asa-winstanley-vxmgen2z


15 posted on 01/26/2025 7:40:17 AM PST by Words Matter
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To: Words Matter

I read it somewhere, but can’t remember where, that the Rabbi asked Grant to intercede with the Ottomans regarding the treatment the Jews received in the Holy Land. While the Ottomans didn’t commit the murders and beatings, they also did little to stop it.


16 posted on 01/26/2025 10:50:57 AM PST by Ditto
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To: Ditto

BTW, Speaking of diplomacy, Montefiore did manage to have the Ottoman Sultan to stop the Damascus blood-Libel pogrom that began in 1840.
https://aish.com/sir-moses-montefiore-a-brief-history/


17 posted on 01/26/2025 11:40:21 AM PST by Words Matter
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To: Words Matter

Very interesting.


18 posted on 01/27/2025 7:18:01 AM PST by Ditto
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