Palestinian Blackmail: US Is Our Enemy

by Bassam Tawil • January 30, 2018 at 5:00 am

The Palestinians' mock trial and "execution" of Trump and Pence gives the Palestinians a green light to target Americans physically. More interesting still is that members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's ruling Fatah faction participated in the mock trial and "execution" of the US president and the Vice President.
Strikingly, this event took place inside a refugee camp that is run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA). More precisely, the execution took place outside a school run by UNRWA. Trump and Pence were "hanged" with the UNRWA flag flying atop the school in the background.
The US and other Western countries would do well to take the Palestinian campaign of threats and incitement extremely seriously – and severely counter these threats. Submission to the intimidation will simply result in even more intimidation, more violence and more threats.

A Palestinian woman holds an assault rifle to the head of an effigy of US President Donald Trump in Gaza, December 9, 2017. (Image source: Ruptly video screenshot)

Palestinian incitement against the US has reached new heights. While the Palestinians have never been fans of the US, the past few weeks have revealed the extent to which they truly loathe Americans. The US, it is worth noting, funds the Palestinians to the tune of nearly $800 million every year -- $368 million every year to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA); and $400 million every year to the Palestinian Authority (PA), with $363 million from USAID and $36 million every year for security.

This is how the Palestinian incitement machine works: PA leaders and officials set the tone, while ordinary Palestinians take to the streets to express their hatred of the US.

Hardly a day passes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip without a photo or effigy of President Donald Trump and US flags being burned before local and foreign journalists and camera crews.

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Oxford University: Delirious Capital of Political Correctness

by Giulio Meotti • January 30, 2018 at 4:00 am

Oxford University had been criticized for "lack of racial diversity". So, in the name of the multiculturally correct view, Oxford purged "male, pale and stale" with gay, female and black icons. If you think about it honestly, that is racist.
The Oxford Equality and Diversity Unit, which monitors respect for the canons of anti-racism, has ruled that not looking into the eyes of a student belonging to a minority constitutes a "microaggression" that can lead to "mental disorder". Oxford's multicultural political correctness looks as if has come right out of George Orwell's "1984".
For the first time in 800 years, Oxford eliminated the obligatory course on Christianity for theology students.
Oxford Professor Timothy Garton Ash announced that today, at British universities, "Jesus Christ would be banned".

Pictured: A statue of Cecil Rhodes on the outer wall of Oxford University's Oriel College. For almost a year, Oxford University debated whether to remove the statue, because of Rhodes' links to slavery and colonialism. (Photo by Chris Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

"Don't feel guilty about our colonial history", Oxford Professor Nigel Biggar titled a column in The Times. He asked his colleagues and students to have "pride" in many aspects of their imperialist past:

"Pride at the Royal Navy's century-long suppression of the Atlantic slave trade, for example, will not be entirely obscured by shame at the slaughter of innocents at Amritsar in 1919. And while we might well be moved to think with care about how to intervene abroad successfully, we won't simply abandon the world to its own devices".

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