{"id":89514,"date":"2021-09-22T17:05:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T15:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=89514"},"modified":"2021-09-22T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T07:02:01","slug":"01-05-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=89514","title":{"rendered":"TIME Magazine Includes Palestinian Terrorist-Supporting El-Kurd Twins in Top 100 List"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/algem.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"35%\"><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2021\/09\/20\/time-magazine-includes-palestinian-terrorist-supporting-el-kurd-twins-in-top-100-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TIME Magazine Includes Palestinian Terrorist-Supporting El-Kurd Twins in Top 100 List<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> Emanuel Miller<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/time.png\" width=\"100%\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>The cover of TIME magazine\u2019s Nov. 26-Dec. 3, 2018 issue. Photo: Screenshot.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Notorious anti-Israel activists Muna and Mohammed El-Kurd, who each have a record of supporting terrorism, have been included in&nbsp;<em>TIME Magazine<\/em>\u2019s annual list of the&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collection\/100-most-influential-people-2021\/\">100 most-influential people<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mohammed, in particular, has repeatedly disseminated baseless anti-Israel smears and clear-cut antisemitic tropes while inciting violence on social media. Mona, too, has posted undeniably&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.israellycool.com\/2021\/06\/22\/jew-hater-muna-el-kurds-priceless-bds-fail\/\">antisemitic, terror-supporting content<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 including at least one image of Hitler.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">For example, Mohammed earlier this month rejoiced as six Palestinian terrorists broke out of Israel\u2019s maximum-security Gilboa Prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cI am going to bed with a smile on my face and dreaming of the day all prisons are abolished,\u201d he tweeted, calling the incident \u201cexcellent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-3\" class=\"\" style=\"position: static; visibility: visible; width: 526px; height: 298px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-3&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1434754331862044675&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.algemeiner.com%2F2021%2F09%2F20%2Ftime-magazine-includes-palestinian-terrorist-supporting-el-kurd-twins-in-top-100-list%2F&amp;sessionId=d8d261a715c99234c7a55fe33420e9e4ea20798c&amp;siteScreenName=Algemeiner&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"1\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1434754331862044675\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mohammed\u2019s support for Palestinian terrorists dovetails with his long history of shockingly antisemitic remarks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">For instance, in May, he called the Israel Defense Forces \u201csadistic &amp; bloodthirsty,\u201d a slanderous charge reminiscent of medieval blood libels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Similarly, he shared an Instagram post that promoted claims that the Jewish state deliberately kills Palestinians to harvest their organs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">He has furthermore said that Israel \u201ckills,\u201d \u201cblows up,\u201d \u201cburns\u201d and \u201ctortures,\u201d Palestinian children in order to \u201cinstill terror\u201d in them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mohammed, who was recently&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/honestreporting.com\/from-terror-supporter-to-palestine-correspondent-meet-mohammed-el-kurd-the-nations-latest-hire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>hired by&nbsp;<em>The Nation<\/em>&nbsp;as its \u201cPalestine\u201d correspondent<\/strong><\/span>,<\/a>&nbsp;has gone so far as to describe Israel as a \u201cchild killing entity\u201d \u2014 an overt example of Jew-hatred according to the widely adopted IHRA definition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In an equally repulsive Twitter post, Mohammed claimed \u2014 without proof \u2014 that \u201cHolocaust survivors\u201d threw Molotov cocktails at his home. He also accused a Hong Kong-based Jewish author of&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/honestreporting.com\/the-financial-times-next-generation-palestinian-activist-israel-is-a-child-killing-entity\/\">\u201cethnically cleansing\u201d and \u201cKristallnachting\u201d Palestinians<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, the latter being a reference to the Nazi-initiated pogrom in Germany in 1938 that various historians mark as the beginning of the genocide of some six million Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In a similar vein, in June, El-Kurd praised the \u201celoquence\u201d of black nationalist Kwame Ture, who in 1970 called Adolf Hitler a \u201cgenius\u201d and the \u201cgreatest white man\u201d in history. In Ture\u2019s words, \u201cThe only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In July, Mohammed retweeted a video in which Ture accused Zionists of being \u201cfollowers of the Satan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">This is only a small selection of the slanderous content El-Kurd spreads on social media. There is much, much more. His entire online presence is built on maliciously smearing Israel in the name of \u201cPalestinian rights.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">This makes it so puzzling that&nbsp;<em>TIME&nbsp;<\/em>could include him on its \u201cMost Influential People\u201d list. Instead,&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collection\/100-most-influential-people-2021\/6096098\/muna-mohammed-el-kurd\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>the El-Kurds\u2019 entr<\/strong><\/span>y<\/a>&nbsp;simply describes the twins as having \u201cprovided the world with a window into living under occupation in East Jerusalem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">To say that this fundamentally mischaracterizes who they are and what they believe in is a gross understatement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The entry is problematic in other ways. At one point, it recaps the Hamas-initiated outbreak of violence earlier this year thus:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>In May, tensions in Sheikh Jarrah spilled into the nearby Old City, where Israeli forces attacked worshipers at the al-Aqsa mosque; Hamas militants in Gaza responded with rocket fire into Israel. \u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Apart from praising terrorist supporters,&nbsp;<em>TIME<\/em>&nbsp;can\u2019t even get basic facts right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">HonestReporting has thoroughly debunked the narrative that the 11-day conflict in May was a response to Israeli actions. In truth, media reports largely excised a TikTok trend in which Palestinian youths randomly attacked Jewish civilians, as well as the&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/honestreporting.com\/media-miss-real-story-as-palestinians-riot-on-temple-mount\">Palestinian rioting atop the Temple Mount<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;that necessitated a police response to restore the peace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Misrepresenting upholding law and order as Israeli forces attacking worshipers is a&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/honestreporting.com\/5-ways-the-media-is-twisting-coverage-of-israel-hamas-conflict\/\">stunning inversion of reality<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Furthermore, the&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/honestreporting.com\/how-hamas-started-its-latest-global-war-against-the-jewish-nation\">decision by Hamas to fire rockets towards Jerusalem<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;constituted a massive and unwarranted escalation, not to mention a war crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">That the El-Kurd twins\u2019 entry fully omits their role in spreading malicious misinformation online is striking. By way of comparison, the accompanying text for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s entry&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collection\/100-most-influential-people-2021\/6096023\/narendra-modi-leader\/\">condemns<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;his \u201cmishandling\u201d of COVID-19, and calls out his government for \u201ceroding the rights of India\u2019s Muslim minority\u201d and having \u201cimprisoned and intimidated journalists.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Former US president Donald Trump, who was also included on&nbsp;<em>TIME<\/em>\u2019s list, was also&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collection\/100-most-influential-people-2021\/6095988\/donald-trump-leader\/\">roundly criticized<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Clearly, there is room at&nbsp;<em>TIME<\/em>&nbsp;to be critical. So why were the El-Kurd twin terrorist backers treated with kid gloves, and their deeply troubling lies about Israel ignored?<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><strong>Emanuel Miller<\/strong> is a writer-researcher for HonestReporting, a Jerusalem-based media watchdog with a focus on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias \u2014 where a version of this article was&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"https:\/\/honestreporting.com\/anti-israel-el-kurd-twins-make-time-top-100-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">originally published.<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content-alignment\">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIME Magazine Includes Palestinian Terrorist-Supporting El-Kurd Twins in Top 100 List Emanuel Miller The cover of TIME magazine\u2019s Nov. 26-Dec. 3, 2018 issue. Photo: Screenshot. Notorious anti-Israel activists Muna and Mohammed El-Kurd, who each have a record of supporting terrorism, have been included in&nbsp;TIME Magazine\u2019s annual list of the&nbsp;100 most-influential people&nbsp;in the world. 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