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Anti-Israel Spillover .. don’t remain silent !! (June 19, 2011) …
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Speak up. Don’t let others say misinformation about Israel. Correct them and follow up with an article. If you read something negative in the press, write a letter to the editor, blog about it, don’t remain silent.
…..item 1)….Aish.com…..Anti-Israel Spillover….Every Jew needs to stand up for Israel.
June 19, 2011 / 17 Sivan 5771
by Yvette Alt Miller
www.aish.com/jw/s/Anti-Israel_Spillover.html?utm_source=m…
I’ll never forget the day I read about public whippings in Israel. I was in England and reading a London newspaper; there was a short article on how people were henceforth going to be whipped in public in Israel for a new offense: smoking.
I didn’t bother to search a correction or retraction in the following days: the damage was done. How many people read that article? A million? Two? I couldn’t go up to each of them and explain that the article was a complete fabrication: there are no public whippings in Israel (nor any whippings at all). That smoking is legal in Israel. That it’s just not that sort of place. (Unlike some other Middle East regimes where public whippings are the norm.)
This sort of defamation of the Jewish state is increasingly common. Like many people around the world, I’ve read repeatedly that Israel is an apartheid state. (For the record, it’s not: both Jews and non-Jews are citizens, have the vote and equal rights, serve in all branches of government, go to college, live, shop and interact with none of the restrictions that characterize an apartheid system.)
I’ve also read that Israel is worse than an apartheid state. (What’s worse?) I’ve read that Israel engages in genocide and ethnic cleansing (I guess that’s worse.) I’ve read that Israel is the greatest menace to world peace. (More than North Korea and Pakistan, who have peddled nuclear bombs to the highest bidder?)
After years of slander against Israel I wasn’t surprised when a British public opinion poll ranked Israel the world’s “ugliest country.”
After years of reading slander after slander against Israel (Including: They shoot little children on the beach!) I wasn’t surprised when a British public opinion poll ranked Israel the world’s “ugliest country.” After all, if a country is so warped – what with the public whippings and ethnic cleansing and apartheid – its scenery must be rotten too. Once you paint a picture of a country as awful and cruel, it becomes progressively easier to believe it is ever more awful and ever more malicious.
Now a study in Ireland finds that the Irish population has such a poor impression of Israel that over 22% would deny Irish citizenship to Israelis, and less than half of all Irish people would be willing to welcome an individual Israeli into their family.
This bias reflects a climate in which it is becoming possible to say almost anything about the Jewish state. In 2009, a Swedish newspaper accused Israelis of killing people in order to harvest their body parts. That set the stage the following year for the accusation that the life-saving Israeli field hospital in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake was actually a facility for harvesting organs. What begins as a fringe position one year becomes slightly more mainstream the next.
The America-Israel Axis
Through the second half of the 20th century, most Jews around the world felt that their Jewish identity was closely tied up with the fate of Israel. Putting coins in the JNF pushka, to enable the planting of trees in Israel, was a popular Hebrew school activity. When Israel won the 1967 Six Day War, it touched off a massive reawakening of the long-dormant Jewish identity and pride for millions of Soviet Jews. And the raid at Entebbe on July 4, 1976, achieved the nearly-impossible feat of stealing the media spotlight from America’s bicentennial celebration.
But today things are different. Polls show that Jewish American youth are largely apathetic about Israel. On college campuses, anti-Israel activities are met with resistance by only a tiny percentage of Jewish students. And one recent poll of American Jews showed that only 50% of respondents under age 35 would “consider it a personal tragedy” if the State of Israel were to be annihilated.
All this is a tragic mistake. Accusations that are originally targeted against Israelis soon migrate to become views of Jews in general.
Thus, in the Irish survey mentioned above, the negative feelings toward Israel seem to spill over: 11.5% would deny Irish citizenship to all Jews. And 40% of Irish people (the younger demographic was even worse) would refuse to welcome a Jew – any Jew – into their family.
These negative feelings do not derive from personal experience. Out of 4.5 million people in Ireland, there are fewer than 2,000 Jews. Rather, the poisonous atmosphere – in which no allegation against Israel is too outlandish and no accusation too bizarre – is having its logical effect. Hatred toward Israelis is spilling over into hatred against all Jews.
This is born out by studies. One 2009 survey asked Europeans whether their view of Jews was colored by Israel: nearly a quarter said yes. Large majorities (including three quarters of respondents in Spain and two thirds of British respondents) said their views of Jews had become worse because of Israel.
As goes Israel, so goes the Jews.
What can you and I do about it? Here are a few small things, and if we all do it, they add up and make a real difference:
Visit Israel and get your family and friends to visit. Nothing can match seeing Israel firsthand etc…And today with social networks and Twitter, share your trip with the world. Blog about it, capture what you’re experiencing and lets friends experience it vicariously. And once you go home, share what you’ve learned about the amazing people and the land, break down misconceptions and inspire others with the truly amazing story of the Israeli people.
Get informed. Subscribe to websites like Honesterporting.com and Camera, Aish.com and Stand With Us – share articles and videos that convey the real story going on in Israel.
Speak up. Don’t let others say misinformation about Israel. Correct them and follow up with an article. If you read something negative in the press, write a letter to the editor, blog about it, don’t remain silent.
Imagine someone was spreading lies about your children, disparaging your home with a smear campaign. Would you remain silent? Could you remain silent? Israel is our home, her people are our brothers and sisters. By making the effort to connect to Israel and her people, we will care more and be far more active in standing up for our homeland.
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…..item 2)…..Web-site…..HonestReporting…..HonestReporting.com
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…..item 3)….Web-site…..CAMERA…..Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
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BLACK ABBEY – The Most Holy Trinity
Image by Fergal of Claddagh
Set behind glass, this rare statue of the Trinity was found buried in the walls of the Church in the 19th century.
The fact that it was hidden meant that it had some value – most religious art in Ireland perished at the hands of the 17th century Puritans. Thankfully a few artefacts survived, mostly due to being hidden in walls.
`BLACK ABBEY, KILKENNY
FOUNDED under the title of the Blessed Trinity in 1225, by William Marshall, the younger, earl of Pembroke, who was buried there in 1231. His ill-fated brother, Richard, who fell by treachery at the Curragh, was buried there three years later.
In 1244, Geoffrey de Turville became bishop of Ossory and made a grant of a conduit of water to the friars. The original grant is still among the Corporation archives.
1251. A grant is preserved in the Corporation archives, from Hugh, bishop of Ossory, in which he grants the whole fountain of St. Kenny (St. Canice) to the friars preachers. This grant has the bishop’s seal and counterseal attached, and it is given in facsimile in Gilbert’s Facsimiles of National MSS. of Ireland.
1259. Bishop Hugh, a Dominican, who had been a great benefactor to the abbey, died and was buried near the High Altar.
1264. An alabaster figure of the Blessed Trinity, of this date, is preserved in the abbey church. It was found bricked up in a wall seventy or eighty years ago.
1274. Grant from Gilbert de Clare to the friars preachers, enabling them to grind corn at his mill. Kllk. Corp. Archives.
In 1281, 1302, 1306 and 1348, provincial chapters were held here.
In 1348, on the 6th of March, eight Dominicans died in Kilkenny of the Black Plague.
1353. A grant from the Corporation to the Black Abbey of the rent of two houses to provide bread and wine for the celebration of Masses.
1376. Excommunication against Philip Leget for neglecting to supply bread and wine for the celebration of Mass at the Friars Preachers and Minors of Kilkenny, which he was adjudged bound to do in a certain cause testamentary tried before Robert de Tunbrigge, archdeacon of Ossory, commissary to the bishop of that see..
1394. Grant from Thomas Holbeyn and others of a tenement near the cemetery of the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to supply the Friars Preachers with bread and wine for Masses to be celebrated in their church.
1437. Henry VI., granted to the abbey "two parts of all the tithes, etc., of the rectory of the church of Mothil, in said county, now in our hands, to have and to hold the said two parts so long as they shall remain with us, paying yearly to our Exchequer of Ireland, eightpence on the feast of St. Michael and at Easter in equal portions." The friars had petitioned for this grant, as they were not able to live on the alms of the town and county of Kilkenny, since the county had been devastated by the English rebels and the Irish enemies.
1487. Oliver Cantwell, a Dominican, became bishop of Ossory. He died at a great age, on the ninth of January, 1526, and was buried in the Black Abbey.
1519. A grant from John Riche to the prior and brethren of the Order of Preachers of twenty-seven acres of land in the way leading to Dunfert.
Jan. 4, 1541. Peter Cantwell was prior at the time of the suppression and in possession of the said priory, containing, within the precincts, a church and belfry, a small castle near the church, a dormitory, and beneath it the chapter house; another room called the King’s Chamber, and adjoining it a small turret, a granary with two cellars underneath, a toft, etc.,
1543, Aug. 25. This abbey as well as the Franciscan abbey was granted to Walter Archer, the sovereign, and to the burgesses and commonalty of Kilkenny forever, at the yearly rent of twelve shillings and four pence.
In the Commissioners’ return of the chattels of the monasteries, sold for the benefit of the king, those of this convent are said to have brought a sum of £7 17s. 5d.
1603. Father Edward Raughter, a Dominican friar, assisted by some in the town, c’ame to the Black Friars, then used as a session house, and breaking the doors pulled down the benches and seats of justice, building an altar in the place of them, and commanded -. one Bishop, dwelling in part of the abbey, to deliver him the keys of his house, who was to take possession of the whole abbey in the name and right of the friars, his brethren. Fynes Moryson. Walter Archer, sovereign of Kilkenny, was thrown into prison by Lord Mountjoy, the deputy, for approving of the seizure of the Black Abbey.
1643. A provincial chapter was held in the Black Abbey, which had been taken possession of and repaired by the Dominicans, when the Confederates occupied Kilkenny. F. Felix O ‘Conor was prior of the Black Abbey some time after this, and on the town falling into Cromwell’s hands in 1650, was excepted from quarter but managed to escape.
In 1678, as we learn from a Relatio presented to Propaganda by Dr. O’Phelan, bishop of Ossory, there were five Dominicans in Kilkenny.
The fathers returned to Kilkenny some years after the General Exile of 1698, for the report of the Sheriff of Kilkenny, made in 1731, speaks of " one reputed friary, (in Irishtown), erected since the first year of the reign of King George the First, being formerly a large stone malt-house. Five reputed Fryars therein." A chalice belonging to this period is still in use in St. John’s parish church. Round the base is inscribed : Fr. Petrus Archer, ‘Ordinis Sancti Dominici, Conventus Kilkennitz, me fieri fecit, 1722.
In 1744, the fathers were dispersed by the magistrates and, although not driven out of the city, were not allowed to live together in community. For a long period, they did parochial work for the secular clergy, first in St. John’s and afterwards in St. Canice’s parish.
1775. Father Meade rented the ruins of the old abbey at £4 a year, from Mr. Laurence Daly, who held by a lease from the Tynte family of County Wicklow, the latter possessing the place in right of a long lease from the corporation of Kilkenny, the original grantees of the Crown. Father Meade pulled down the ancient choir to build a small convent.
1780. The transept was roofed in by Father Shaw of Mullingar, but was not used for divine service for thirty-four years.
1814. Father Gavin opened the transept for divine service, but he and all the other fathers were suspended by the bishop, in consequence. The nave was restored and opened for service in 1866, and in 1894, the present beautiful convent, replaced the small house which had been in use for 120 years.
Batting around Irish
Image by Irish Philadelphia Photo Essays
It looks a little like volleyball, but they’re actually learning to speak Irish.