International Conference on Jerusalem
Biggest anti-Israel conference evah
J.E. DYER, HOT AIR
An International Conference on Jerusalem” is being held 26-27 February in Doha, Qatar. The conference was scheduled by the Arab League during its meeting in Sirte, Libya in 2010. Its purpose is to combat the “Judaization of Jerusalem.” In the words of the Global Muslim Brotherhood Report, which tracks Muslim Brotherhood activities, this month’s conference “represents an unprecedented coalition arrayed against Israel.”
This isn’t hyperbole. The conference is unusually well advertised in English, being referred to in the media regularly as a “conference on Jerusalem,” rather than sparsely as a “conference on al-Quds,” the Arabic (and larger Islamic) term for Jerusalem. Yousef al-Qaradawi, “spiritual leader” of the Muslim Brotherhood, has held a number of conferences on Jerusalem in the last decade, hosting them around the Arab world and flying largely under the radar in terms of his media posture with the West. Researchers on the earlier Qaradawi conferences were more likely to find them under “al-Quds” than under “Jerusalem.” But the February 2012 conference is simply billed – even in a number of Arab-world English-language media – as the “conference on Jerusalem.”
Yet that doesn’t fully convey the conference’s confident tone. The conference is being given a higher profile than usual in English-language outlets, but the English transcriptions (such as the ones at the official conference website) don’t all provide the event’s full name: “International Conference for the Defense of Occupied Jerusalem.” Implied in this posture is a sense of momentum behind, and mainstreaming of, anti-Zionist themes.
US participation
This unabashed posture is certainly bolstered by the attendance of representatives from around the globe. Thirteen of them are from the United States. One, Kenneth R. Insley, Jr., bills himself as a consultant to the US State Department. Mr. Insley’s Zoom Info profile describes him as the Director of Public Diplomacy for the Capital Communications Group, and a board member of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation, Inc. The Foundation’s Links page includes a number of virulently anti-Israel groups such as the Holy Land Trust and the Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem/Society. (Note: the Foundation’s website does not show Insley as a board member, but the last update is marked with a date of March 2008.)
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Jerusalem was Jewish thousands of years before the islamic conquest and even the existence of islam. It is abominable that Jew-hatred and historical revisionism which denies the Jewish people’s right to Jerusalem and endorses the ethnic cleansing of Jews from their homeland, is being offically sanctioned by western governments and some Christian leaders.
Laura, don’t look now but G-d led His people back to their land, the Holy Land and it doesn’t matter what western governments and Christian (including our Catholic church) believes.
They have returned because it is the will of G-d.
This is why they cannot allow Jerusalem to be divided. It is the capital of this sovereign Jewish nation.
The Catholic and Christian churches do not need any control of the religious sites, they are in good hands of the Israelis and they have access to them.
Ted, I am convinced Lois Lane is no other than hyime. The little queer ass.
with the carnage raging in Syria, this is an ideal time to relocate the Arabs out of jerusalem.
additionally. it is about time to start annexing,
Stanley, I heartily agree
Jerusalem has always been the heart of Israel. Why is the world so blind?
Antisemitism masking itself as anti-zionism. A very old trick.
Pardon ME for asking, Lois, but do you disagree with any of the asserted facts in the specific statement you quoted?
Or do you just object to the fact that they were asserted?
My response, if you asked me ,is simply put- San Remo conference..
Would someone please explain- what relevence does San remo have to the matter of jerusalem?
Somertimes a cigar is just a cigar,- Churchill- 1948
Kol Yisrael Aravim Zeh Lazeh – All of Israel is responsible for one another. That’s why Jews don’t need Jesus. We don’t need someone to hold us when we fall short, we don’t need someone to “save” us because we have each other. Jews recognize that our fate is collective: we rise or fall together. This is the basis of the famous Talmudic saying, “kol Yisrael aravim zeh ba-zeh”–”all Israel is responsible for one another.” (B. Shevuot 39a) We gain strength from knowing we can lean on other Jews when in need, and gain responsibility from knowing that others lean on us. Hand-in-hand, with G-d’s help, we help each other reach our collective destiny, a destiny of redemption that rests with G-d, not with a personal savior or any others except other Jews.
Jews are required to rebuke other Jews when they stray. Kol Yisrael Aravim Zeh Lazeh
So that wasn’t Freud?
Stewart- Very well put.
you are perfectly correct. it was otto rank
Fancy that.