New Article: “Dead Arab Jews” Triumphant: The Ashkenazi-run American Sephardi Federation Takes Its HASBARAH Victory Lap
David Shasha
“Dead Arab Jews” Triumphant: The Ashkenazi-run American Sephardi Federation Takes Its HASBARAH Victory Lap
In my article on the Anti-Convivencia movement led by self-haters like Lyn Julius and Hen Mazzig, I made reference to current HASBARAH favorite Adela Cojab Moadeb:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/Davidshasha/QTbtJWS0WC0
The NYU student was proudly featured in the Settler media outlet Arutz Sheva in an article posted in this week’s ASF newsletter:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/272857?mc_cid=67cef9da8c&mc_eid=9f39c396e1
The laudatory article was accompanied by the following Trumpist description:
ASF Broome & Allen Scholarship Recipient, Adela Cojab, was given central stage at the 2019 Israeli American Council National Summit. Cojab lucidly shared her experiences with anti-Semitism at NYU and forcefully took the university to task for failing to do the right thing: “‘My University failed to protect its Jewish community from ongoing harassment… And the University didn’t stand idly [by]. Instead, they gave an anti-Israel hate group the President Service Award - the highest honor you can receive as a group on campus.’”
And here was the caption beneath her picture:
Adela Cojab Moadeb, a member of Mexico’s Syrian Sephardic community, was awarded an ASF Broome & Allen Scholarship, Mexican Night of the 21st NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, Kumble Stage/Leo and Julia Forchheimer Auditorium, Center for Jewish History, 8 March 2018
It is all one big happy Ashkenazi HASBARAH family!
Just to make her connection to Trumpworld official, Ms. Moadeb penned an Op-Ed praising the president in The New York Post:
As is now clear, she will go far in the world of White Jewish Supremacy.
Putting an emphatic signature on the Ashkenazi Zionist HASBARAH activism, were also two items in the ASF newsletter on the recent “Dead Arab Jews” festival that was held at the Center for Jewish History:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/Davidshasha/0zR1MjTw480
The first item was on Trump-appointee Ellie Cohanim:
Ms. Ellie Cohanim made her first public appearance as the US State
Department’s newly appointed Deputy Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating
anti-Semitism by offering a hard-hitting speech at the international
conference “The End of Jewish Communal Life in Arab Lands” co-hosted by
Bar-Ilan University’s Aharon and Rachel Dahan Center for Culture, Society,
& Education in the Sephardic Heritage and the American Sephardi
Federation’s Institute of Jewish Experience.
Ms. Cohanim, a member of the Iranian Jewish community, criticized the
institutionalized anti-Semitism that characterizes educational curricula across
the region, singled out the Iranian regime’s state-sponsored Holocaust denial,
and raised the issue of reparations for Jewish refugees.
The American Sephardi Federation was honored to host Ms. Cohanim, a long-time
friend of the ASF, for her remarkable speech and this auspicious beginning in
her new and important diplomatic mission.
Cohanim is truly a vigorous supporter of HASBARAH activism in Trumpworld.
The second item was an article from Israel Hayom:
That article was accompanied with a picture of Rabbi Elie Abadie of the ASF-associated group Justice for Jews from Arab Countries (JJAC); a group created by Malcolm Hoenlein, Irwin Cotler, and the World Jewish Congress and led by Stanley Urman:
http://www.justiceforjews.com/
The JJAC was the driving force behind the Arab Jewish Refugee issue for many years:
We have seen how that issue has been used as a counterweight to Palestinian claims:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/Davidshasha/jjac/davidshasha/m7d9bJKoSTU/_yECXhKwY14J
Here was the caption under the Abadie picture:
Hakham Rabbi Elie Abadie, MD, “The Exodus of Jews from Arab Lands and the Legal Struggle for Their Rights,” The End of Jewish Communal Life in the Arab Lands, Kumble Stage/Leo and Julia Forchheimer Auditorium, Center for Jewish History, 2 December, 2019
Then we received a more general victory lap by ASF Executive Director Jason Guberman that drives the “Dead Arab Jews” point home:
“The End of Jewish Communal Life in Arab Lands” conference brought together international scholars as well as local students (from Yesivah of Flatbush and Magen David Yeshivah High School) to share stories of the rich life that once was and the events across the region that caused the majority of Jews to leave. The ASF’s Executive Director, Jason Guberman, emphasized this event in the context of the ASF’s overall vision: “[T]his conference is part of our continuous efforts to move beyond hashtags to history and to reject the prevailing narratives (whether idealized or demonized) that reduce thousands of years of vibrant Jewish communal life in the Middle East and North Africa into talking points.”
Guberman duplicitously claims to “reject the prevailing narratives,” when all the evidence points to a firm union with the Anti-Convivencia forces of the Hard Right Zionists from Trump to Netanyahu. The idea is to bring young Sephardic students into the HASBARAH world and assure them that White Jewish Supremacy is a good thing. They should be happy that they are not running their own institutions.
Just leave it to the Ashkenazim.
They know what’s best for the ignorant Sephardi primitives.
The ASF presents a set of radical HASBARAH talking points that have been embraced by media outlets like Arutz Sheva, The New York Post, and Israel Hayom, and which reflect the most extreme form of Islamophobia and contempt for the classical Sephardic heritage designed to aid the radical Zionist cause.
It is all one big Gaslight.
This is what happens when Sephardim give over their institutions to Ashkenazim, Ashkenazim who have no respect for our traditions and values.
David Shasha