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The New York Times Smears Israel

(JNS) Stephen M. Flatow - On March 6, the new New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Patrick Kingsley wrote about Palestinian disc jockey Sama Abdulhadi, who was recently arrested by the Palestinian Authority. Kingsley wrote that in 1969, "the Israeli authorities expelled her grandmother, Issam Abdulhadi, a leading women's rights activist." Could it be true that Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized the deportation of a Palestinian woman for being a women's rights activist? It took me about five minutes on Google to discover the real reason that Sama's grandmother was deported. An interview with Issam, conducted by the Palestinian Women's Research and Documentation Centre in 2006, describes how in 1965, one year after the founding of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), she was chosen as president of the women's wing - the General Union of Palestinian Women. In 1965 there were no "occupied territories." The PLO was founded to "liberate" all of Israel, including Tel Aviv and Haifa. Issam says in the interview about her arrest in 1969: "The most important charge was providing financial assistance to the armed resistance and harboring fida'een [terrorists]....I managed to deny many of the charges. Unfortunately, however, one of the [PLO] leaders who was related to me in one of the charges against me was the one to confess....Now they had confirmation on this topic, supporting and harboring fighters." The writer, a vice president of the Religious Zionists of America and an attorney, is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.
2021-03-11 00:00:00
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