New Article: The American Sephardi Federation Proudly Presents White Jewish Supremacy in the Slow and Painful Death of the Arab Jews
David Shasha
The American Sephardi Federation Proudly Presents White Jewish Supremacy in the Slow and Painful Death of the Arab Jews
Our most recent discussion of the Ashkenazi-run ASF was on its participation in the 2018 London LIMMUD event:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/Davidshasha/nW2DNWUl9Dk/5oaSDp1sAwAJ
ASF leader Jason Guberman has been dutifully assisting the Israeli government and its Arab Jewish Refugee initiative with DIARNA, an on-line mapping site which shows Jewish properties in the Arab world:
Along with other White Jewish Supremacist institutions, Guberman has organized a massive conference featuring what is essentially a Lyn Julius dream team:
The full conference program follows this note.
We will first notice that the conference is loaded with Israeli government officials, who will surely reinforce the idea that the whole thing is being used for HASBARAH purposes. This will ultimately benefit White Jewish Supremacy and leave the Arab Jews in their current corpse-like condition.
The event is being co-sponsored by Yeshiva University and Bar-Ilan, replete with their Modern Orthodox racist professors.
It is critical to note that the key speaker at the event is Norman Stillman, one of the most loyal disciples of the late Sephardi-hater and Islamophobe Bernard Lewis:
In 1991, on the pages of Tikkun magazine, the Ashkenazi Orientalist Stillman “debated” the Ashkenazi Orientalist Mark Cohen – another Lewis admirer – on the Arab Jewish Question:
The two men apparently represented the “Left” and “Right” wing iterations of the issue, with Stillman proudly taking the Anti-Convivencia Hard Right position in the usual Lewis “Clash of Civilizations” manner.
The Stillman lecture will surely strike the necessary Right Wing HASBARAH tone for the rest of the conference.
We will notice that there is no session on the integration of the immigrant Arab Jews into Israeli society and the racism they faced – but that would not fit the hardcore Zionist ideology of the event.
What does fit the ideology of the event is the session “The struggle for the rights of Jews from Arab lands,” which is directly connected to the Arab Jewish Refugee issue, replete with “legal” experts who serve to counter Palestinian claims on behalf of the Israeli government.
Rabbi Elie Abadie will represent the World Jewish Congress-founded organization Justice for Jews from Arab Countries:
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/world/americas/04iht-nations.4.8182206.html
I have discussed JJAC many times:
I refer to Rabbi Abadie in the following article on the matter:
We can further see how the duplicitous propaganda process works in my article on JIMENA and its embittered battle with the Jewish Voice for Peace:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/davidshasha/jjac/davidshasha/7jB01Xs8JWM/nh2HKjbnDAAJ
Parenthetically, we will recall the role of the ASF in the firing of former Center for Jewish History head David Myers because of his advisory relationship to the JVP:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/20983
Indeed, there are many intricate strands that are interwoven in the ASF conference.
The socio-historical portion of the event will feature YU Professor Joseph Ringel playing the young Bernard Lewis part, as he discusses “Zionist Activism and Local Politics in Arab Countries.”
Ringel’s article “The Construction and De-construction of the Ashkenazi vs. Sephardic/Mizrahi Dichotomy in Israeli Culture: Rabbi Eliyahou Zini vs. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef” is a perfect example of the New Orientalism and its Right Wing Zionist HASBARAH values:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1NQdm28qvvXeXNEeXRZb0Z2aEU/view?ths=true
I discussed that article in detail in my “The New Sephardic Jewish Binary: Between Meir Kahane and Moshe Feinstein”:
The Center for Jewish History conference is yet another depressing example of White Supremacy in Jewish institutional life, as it hammers yet another nail into the Sephardic coffin.
More than that, it shows us the nefarious ways in which Zionism has sought to exploit our history and culture to promote HASBARAH racism against Arabs; a racism that has effectively shut down Sephardic continuity and turned us into robots who are here only to serve the White Jewish agenda.
David Shasha
The End of Jewish Communal Life in the Arab Lands International
Conference
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th St. New York, NY 10011
December 2, 2019
Presented by the American Sephardi Federation and Yeshiva University Museum
with Bar-Ilan University's Aharon and Rachel Dahan Center for Culture, Society,
& Education in the Sephardic Heritage
Scholars, students, and performers from Israel, the US, and Canada will explore
the history and culture of the Jews from Islamic lands, their displacement, and
their resettlement in Israel and elsewhere.
Jewish Communities In The East And West
Bar-Ilan University DAHAN CENTER
09:30-10:00: Arrival and Registration
10:00-11:00: Opening Session:
Disruptions of Jewish Communal Life in Islamic Lands
Chair: Dr. Shimon Ohayon, Director, the Dahan Center,Bar-
Ilan University
Greetings:
MK Gila Gamliel, Minister of Social Equality, Israel
Mr. Avraham Duvdevani, Chairman of the World Zionist Organization
Mr. Jason Guberman, Executive Director, American Sephardi Federation
Mr. Akiva Tor, Foreign Ministry, Israel Lecture:
Prof. Noam Norman Stillman, University of Oklahoma
Prelude to Exodus: the Jews of Arab lands in the face of the
challenges and transformations of the modern era
11:00-11:15: Coffee break
11:15-12:15: Second session:
Leaving without returning: Immigration from Arab Countries
Chair: Prof. Steven Fine, Yeshiva University
Dr. Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah, Leiden University
The Jews of Iraq and Egypt: the process that led to their
mass expulsion
Ms. Dana Avrish, Multidisciplinary Artist
My exhibition: Leaving, Never to Return
12:15-13:00: Lunch Break
13:00-14:00: Third Session:
The struggle for the rights of Jews from Arab lands
Chair: Prof. Thierry Alcoloumbre, Bar-Ilan University
Prof. David Matas, University of Manitoba
The legal status of Jews who were expelled from Arab
countries from the perspective of international law
Rabbi Elie Abadie, MD, physician, educator and founding spiritual leader of the
Edmond J. Safra Synagogue, President JJAC
Justice for Jews from Arab countries: the case for rights
and redress
14:00-14:15 Coffee break
14:15-15:15 Fourth Session:
Jewish communities in Muslim Lands
Chair: Dr. Drora Arussy, Director, ASF Institute of Jewish
Experience
Dr. Joseph Ringel, Yeshiva University
Zionist activism and local politics in Arab countries
(1940-1956)
Ms. Lerone Edalati, ASF Broome and Allen Fellow
Migration, Exile, and Diaspora: Examining Iranian Jewish
life before and after the 1979 Revolution
15:15-16:00 Student presentations
The story of our family roots: Thoughts of the Next
Generation
16:00-17:00 Musical Program:
Dr. Samuel Torjman Thomas, Adj. Professor of Ethnomusicology and Sephardic Studies; City University of New York
Judeo-Muslim soundscapes in Morocco: a tradition of musical
dialogue
Concluding Remarks:
Prof. Steven Fine, Yeshiva University
Prof. Thierry Alcoloumbre, Bar-Ilan University.