In addition to medical care, Israel publicly admitted to providing limited humanitarian assistance to border villages in Syria starting in Initially, much of the assistance was provided covertly, to ensure that Syrians would not hesitate to receive the aid.
But in , Israel began shipping goods with Hebrew packaging into southern Syria. In and , they significantly increased the quantities and types of aid provided, including fuel, generators, food, clothes, baby formula, medicine, diapers and hygiene products. Views toward Israel among Syrians also changed thanks to its strikes on the Assad regime, Hezbollah and later Iranian targets in Syria.
And while not all anti-Assad Syrians support the strikes, many do, and they are no longer afraid to express those views openly on social media.
While Syrians recognize that Israel is bombing Hezbollah for its own interests and not to advance their revolutionary goals, they are still pleased to see the regime and its allies humiliated and diminished. Israeli strikes are seen as such a morale boost that opposition media activists and journalists have, at times, knowingly spread fake news about them to lift the spirits of the opposition that has suffered one loss after another since the Russian intervention in late The shift in views regarding Israel is coupled with an increasingly negative view of Palestinians among Syrian opposition supporters.
Inside Syria, all but one Palestinian armed group have fought on the side of the regime as auxiliary militias. These Palestinian pro-regime militias are responsible for grave human rights violations, including the siege of the Palestinian Yarmouk camp south of Damascus by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, which resulted in the death by starvation of dozens of people. A picture taken on October 26, shows wounded Syrian men sitting next to their mules after rriving at a meeting point with Israeli soldiers on Mount Hermon in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on the border line between Israel and Syria, before being transferred to an Israeli hospital for medical treatment.
Palestinian political parties and organizations such as Fatah, the PLO and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine have either sided with the regime or remained silent about its crimes.
Hadi al-Abdullah, the most prominent Syrian opposition media activist, published a series of tweets criticizing Hamas. While lauding Israeli strikes on the regime, some Syrians were quick to clarify that this does not mean abandoning the Palestinian issue. As prominent activist from northwestern Syria who fled the country to Turkey due to regime bombings and threats from a jihadist group wrote on Facebook,. Israeli assistance was initially quite controversial, with groups accusing one another of serving as Israeli agents by providing aid.
Jihadist groups are particularly opposed to such cooperation and have previously targeted suspected collaborators with Israel. More than college students were at the banquet, including some members of Christians United for Israel on their campuses. Other speakers included former U. The real test is for the international community.
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Open gallery view. Former U. Credit: J. Miriam Adelson, left, and Sheldon Adelson at the rostrum during the awards dinner. Alois Brunner is also reported to have become instrumental in establishing the Syrian Intelligence Service—the feared Mukhabarat —which has been responsible for mass deaths and murders of Syrians.
However, anti-Semitism is also endemic inside of Syria, and has taken root at every level of society. Religious leaders quote—out of historical and religious context—Quranic scriptures to drive this ideology of hate , while many Syrian intellectuals and the artists adopt the hateful rhetoric of this dictatorship without question.
Syrian popular literature is one area that demonstrates the deep relationship between the Syrian state, state-mandated culture, and anti-Semitism. Tlass was an adamant anti-Semite, confident that all Jews——not just Israelis——are bloodthirsty by nature. Ash-shatat is not the only Syrian or Egyptian television production to spread anti-Semitism, but it is the most influential.
The television series achieved a regional audience, airing in Iran in and in Jordan in Despite these examples of deeply rooted anti-Semitism in Syria, it is possible to reverse such an intensive indoctrination: after all, German public discourse is a living example.
My own visit to the memorial site at Dachau opened my eyes to the horrific extent of cruelty and human suffering experienced by the individuals in this camp. Though absent from Syrian collective consciousness, sites like these unequivocally assert that the Holocaust occurred. Now more than ever, Germany has its own domestic challenges again rising to the surface: the far-right ideology that has resurfaced throughout Europe in apparent response to the refugee crisis has provoked a resurgence of both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia—particularly in Germany.
On the one hand, many fear that if Germany fails to address its current situation, the world could relive one of its darkest moments in history. German-Jews have already been told by Jewish leadership to refrain from wearing Kippahs in public and remove mezuzot from their doors—many have begun to conceal their identity.
The attempted attack on the Halle Synagogue—though prevented from becoming a full-blown massacre by a locked door—still led to a loss of life and demonstrates the repercussions of not actively addressing this issue.
Yet while the German government has vowed to combat anti-Semitism, its threats so far have mainly consisted of unspecified consequences for individuals who attack German Jews. As a Syrian, I know that warnings alone are not enough to counter decades of anti-Semitic messaging.
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