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448. I can't decide whether Jews Down Under is a hate site or not. What do you think?

I checked out the site, and searched for "Palestinians", just for fun. Immediately four pretty problematic articles popped up. They seem to promote revisionist views that Palestinians aren't native to Palestine, that they're not a people, etc. There are also a lot of graphics all over the site promoting the idea that Palestinians hate Jews, as well as links to Regavim, PMV, Gatestone Institute etc. These four article are all written by a nutcase called Sheri Oz, but I've got the feeling that I would find more evidence of revisionist views and the promotion of hatred if I searched more.

But, anyway, do you think Jews Down Under is a hate site, borderline or not at all?

The True Nakba of the New Palestinians
Source: Jews Down Under, by Sheri Oz, 02/10/2015

The Arabs who now call themselves Palestinians consider the Nakba as a pivotal event in their history. Nakba refers to the trauma of the failure of the mighty Arab nation to wipe out this little blotch on the map called Israel. We Jews had the gall to come home and rebuild our ancestral indigenous homeland on a place the colonizing Arabs still wanted for themselves. Prof. Gabriel Motzkin, director of the Van Leer Institute, as sympathetic as he is to the “Palestinian” cause, is quoted as having said:

“. . . the Palestinians didn’t exist before the Nakba, they came into being because of what was a traumatic event for them.”

This flies in the face of the propaganda the so-called “Palestinians” are broadcasting around the globe, arguing that they comprise the indigenous nation in the land, pre-dating the Jews. Some, such as Saeb Erekat, even raise the ridiculous claim that the “Palestinians” are, in fact, the original Canaanites and that his ancestors inhabited the oldest city in the world – Jericho – 9000 years ago. There is no record of Canaanites for the past 3000 years, but historical evidence, or lack thereof, has never prevented the “Palestinians” from periodically weaving ever new fabrics of lies to present as if it is historical fact.

History shows that the Arabs (including the likes of Erekat’s family) originated from the Arabian Peninsula. Strange coincidence, eh? Arabs – Arabia. Go figure!

Read more: http://jewsdownunder.com/2015/10/02/the-true-nakba-of-the-new-palestinians/


Origin of the Palestinians According to a Genetic Study
Source: Jews Down Under, by Sheri Oz 04/11/2015

The Ancient Middle East – Just where do those “Palestinians” come from? The authors of this study think they have uncovered the secret.

After having proven, in an earlier study, that Ashkenazi and non-Ashkenazi Jews share Middle Eastern origins, a group of 7 Spanish researchers exchanged the Israeli scientist in the previous study team for 2 Palestinian Arabs to work on a paper aiming to prove that the “Palestinians” have been living in the Land of Israel at least as long as the Jews. The results were published in 2001.

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While I can see the Arabs who have come to call themselves Palestinians gloating with pleasure as they are given quasi scientific support for their claims of being indigenous to the area, they would have a very bitter pill to swallow were they actually to use this piece of research to bolster they argument. The authors actually claim that the Palestinians are not Arabs!

Read more: http://jewsdownunder.com/2015/11/04/origin-of-the-palestinians-according-to-a-genetic-study/


Promoting the “Palestinian” Fallacy
Source: Jews Down Under, by Sheri Oz, 10/12/2015

When Arab writers and pro-Israeli activists I respect, such as Fred Maroun, cry out that the Palestinians exist and we cannot say they do not, they are falling into the trap of promoting the lie. I deny the existence of a nation called Palestine, something that never existed in human history. I do not, of course, deny the existence of individuals who now refer to themselves as Palestinian. The two are not the same.

Does this mean that I need to agree to call these Arabs, Palestinians? I think not. Maroun would say that I am being pathetic – in fact, he used that very word in a number of responses to comments on his Facebook page and on the blog post itself. And even in the title to the post: It is Pathetic to Deny the Existence of Palestinians.

Just because someone calls himself or herself something does not make it so.

Read more: http://jewsdownunder.com/2015/12/10/promoting-the-palestinian-fallacy/


Palestinian By Any Other Name . . .
Source: Jews Down Under, by Sheri Oz, 09/12/2015

The name “Palestinian” has come to be fallaciously associated with Arabs. This deceit cements the contemptuous rewriting of history of which we Jews are only too familiar (for example Holocaust denial).

I propose that one major obstacle to a peaceful resolution to the conflict in the Holy Land lies in the lie of calling the Arabs “Palestinians”.

History of the Name Palestine
By calling their mandated territory Palestine, Britain made cynical use of the name given to this area by the Roman Empire, who themselves adopted a twisted version of the name, Philistines, sworn enemies of the Jews, in order to separate the land from any association with its Jewish history.

And now, history repeats itself: if “The” Palestinians are supposedly the Arabs, then this facilitates the promotion of the hateful lie that Israel stole this land from its supposedly rightful indigenous population and has no claim to sovereignty.

Read more: http://jewsdownunder.com/2015/12/09/palestinian-by-any-other-name/