Showing posts with label Hasby 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hasby 2016. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

The final section of the Hasby Awards.






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Friday, July 15, 2016

In this part, Not Anti-Semitic presents the award for Best Satire to our own PreOccupied Territory.



PreOccupied Territory's David did not get a chance to say everything he wanted to, so he sent me the speech he wanted to give:



Thank you. Wow. Thank you, Elder. 

(Pause, turn)

If that is your real name. 

(Look around).

Nice echo chamber you've got here. Is that Ben Rhodes there in the back?

No, PreOccupied Territory is not my real name. My name is David.

There is a whole list of people to thank for making this award possible, but we'll get to them by and by. We run the risk of running overtime on the acceptance speech and having the network pan the cameras away and turn the microphones off, but that's acceptable collateral damage. First I want to share with you a few of my favorite moments from the last couple of years doing this.

The first one is about two years ago, when a prominent Swedish politician tweeted an article of mine thinking it was serious, and then deleted the tweet. I have to give a shoutout to an Israellycool contributor named Judge Dan for that one, since he suggested the premise of the article: that Israel had issued a travel advisory for Sweden and other countries that had seen some terrorism. Former Prime Minister, and until a few months prior, Foreign Minister, Carl Bildt took it at face value, calling the advisory "a bit of an overreaction." But not as much of an overreaction as hastily deleting an embarrassing tweet that was screen-captured by a bunch of people and soon turned into a Times of Israel news story. That was fun.

Then there's the similar phenomenon of Palestinians and their supporters not getting the irony. I watch the number of Likes the page attracts on Facebook after a particularly successful post, such as the one about UNESCO declaring the World Trade Center an Islamic Heritage Site because thirteen Muslims were martyred on the planes that crashed there on 9/11. I could almost hear the cries of, "Yeah!" "That's right!" "Finally they get it!" as the number of shares spiked and I got a few more followers. They never last, but it's fun to watch how long it takes for the penny to drop, those folks to realize they're being mocked, and the count to go down again.

The last couple of moments happened right here. One was when I introduced myself to someone as the clown behind PreOccupied Territory, and he soon told me his favorite article - which also happens to be a favorite of mine: Two-State Solution Coffin Now Made Entirely Of Nails. I wrote that more than two years ago, and it was so gratifying to have someone else remember it.

The other was not a single moment, but the collective reactions from so many of you here, offering praise, acknowledgement, and various forms of encouragement. It can be a slog. I enjoy the creative process most of the time, and I push myself to come up with ten or eleven separate stories every week. But while I remember every single one of my successes, the duds far outnumber the hits - and it's especially frustrating to have something I pour my heart and soul into be relegated to obscurity. Two retweets. A couple of Facebook Likes. Then oblivion. So to come here and have my work be acknowledged, and appreciated by people who do seem to make a difference does wonders for my morale.

Of course I do what I consider my best work when awful thing are happening, so is that a good development?

But on to the thank-yous. There's a short list of people who deserve mention here, and it's not only them, but they also serve as stand-ins for all the people associated with them, who are also part of the story. I'll cite three of them by name and thus conclude.

Max Blumenthal, Ali Abunimah, and Richard Silverstein, thank you. Without you, what I do would not be nearly as necessary, possible, or as much fun.




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Thursday, July 14, 2016

As we resume our posting of each of the speeches given at the Hasby Awards on July 3....


Radio host Yishai Fleisher speaks about UNESCO as the "legitimate arm of jihad" and introduces NGO Monitor as the winner of Best Watchdog. Shaun Sacks of NGO Monitor speaks about his journey from the IDF to help fight the haters of Israel and he mentions how effective his organization has been recently.





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Sunday, July 10, 2016


World renowned legal expert Eugene Kontorovich starts with a comedy routine about the Hasbys and the Elders' superhero identities, but then talks about how the anti-Israel narrative is meant not to be descriptive but self-fulfilling and how people like Evelyn Gordon effectively fight the propaganda.

Evelyn talks about the importance of restating the obvious, over and over again, and how hasbara also helps even pro-Israel activists.





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Wednesday, July 06, 2016

As we continue to show the great talks that the presenters and awardees gave at the Hasby Awards, here is Hen Mazzig of StandWithUs talking about his experiences speaking to college campuses. He presents the Best Activist Organization Hasby award to Elan Miller of MyTruth, which counters the lies of Breaking the Silence.






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Monday, July 04, 2016

Here is Part 1 of last night's Hasby Awards ceremony in Jerusalem at Honest Reporting's rooftop venue. I welcome the crowd and introduce Yisrael Medad, who then hands the Best Article award to Kay Wilson.

Medad speaks about the importance of unifying disparate pro-Israel voices and then comments on Kay's award-winning article, saying that it is appropriate to be enraged at the outrageous and that lesson seems to be lost.

Kay refers to her harrowing experience of almost being killed by terrorists, but ultimately gives an uplifting message to the community.







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Sunday, March 20, 2016

  • Sunday, March 20, 2016
  • Elder of Ziyon
And the winner, in a close race, is...

(drumroll)



Mayim Bialik is one of the stars in the Big Bang Theory and a very proud, religious Jew. She is an unapologetic supporter of Israel although it is not a major part of her Twitter feed. But this was a voters' choice award and she won, edging out Roseanne Barr.

Mazel tov!



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Sunday, March 13, 2016

  • Sunday, March 13, 2016
  • Elder of Ziyon
The Hasby Award for Best Celebrity Tweeter will be decided by popular vote only; I will not pick a winner.

During the week I hope to knock off most of the other categories as well. it is March, after all...


The nominees are:







Here is where you can vote.


...


Who was the best celebrity pro-Israel tweeter in 2015?

Roseanne Barr
Josh Malina
Jenna Jameson
Mayim Bialik
Jon Voight
here


Voting will end on Saturday night.









Monday, February 15, 2016

  • Monday, February 15, 2016
  • Elder of Ziyon
The winner for the  Best Humor/Satire site Hasby award is....

Monday, February 08, 2016

  • Monday, February 08, 2016
  • Elder of Ziyon


The nominees for Hasby Award for Best Satire/Humor 2016 are:





survey service


Voting open until Sunday.



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Sunday, February 07, 2016

  • Sunday, February 07, 2016
  • Elder of Ziyon

For Super Bowl Sunday (please don't sue me NFL), what could be more appropriate than to open the voting for the Best Own Goal Hasy Award, given to the best example of an anti-Israel idiot making an even greater fool of him or herself.

The nominees are:

Roger Waters, Lifetime Achievement 

web survey





Voting will be allowed all week.

(Hopefully more polls will be coming soon, been busy...)




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Sunday, January 31, 2016

  • Sunday, January 31, 2016
  • Elder of Ziyon
The Hasby Award for Best Speech of 2015 goes to....

Monday, January 25, 2016

  • Monday, January 25, 2016
  • Elder of Ziyon


The nominees for Best Speech Hasby award are:


Mayor Giuliani's speech at Iranian American Community of Arizona event 
Marco Rubio Speech on Obama's Assault on Israel 
The Reason I'm an Israeli-Arab Diplomat Not a Palestinian Refugee - George Deek  
Col. (ret.) Richard Kemp "The Amoral Revolution in Western Values, and its impact on Israel" (text)


Vote by Saturday night, January 30.

polls




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Sunday, January 24, 2016

  • Sunday, January 24, 2016
  • Elder of Ziyon
The Hasby Award for best article of 2015 goes to...


Sunday, January 17, 2016

  • Sunday, January 17, 2016
  • Elder of Ziyon


The nominations for the Best Pro-Israel Video Hasby Awards are:


BEST PRO-ISRAEL VIDEO

A special kind of hate (Pat Condell) 

survey solution


The poll will close on Wednesday night.


        

  • Sunday, January 17, 2016
  • Elder of Ziyon


The Hasby Award for Best Pro-Israel Article is being opened up for popular votes.

The nominees for Best Article are:


online polls


(I mistakenly placed a Barry Shaw book on this Articles list, please so not vote for that yet.)

Poll will close on Wednesday evening.




        

  • Sunday, January 17, 2016
  • Elder of Ziyon
For the Best Young Defender of Israel award, I am awarding both the regular Hasby award and a Popular Vote award.

The winner of the Best Young Defender of Israel for 2016 is:

Monday, January 11, 2016

  • Monday, January 11, 2016
  • Elder of Ziyon
For this year's Hasby Awards, celebrating the best examples of pro-Israel advocacy of the year, we will have some categories voted on by EoZ readers.


The first category to be voted on is Best Young Defender of Israel. There are a lot of great nominees here, many of whom I was not previously familiar. Please check out these nominees' work and vote for the best based on their work in 2015, and follow them on their social media accounts.




Voting will close on Sunday, January 17.

(Ryan Bellerose, Tomer Kornfeld and Kasim Hafeez requested to be withdrawn from the voting.)

web surveys






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