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Tuesday, January 20, 2026

01/20 Links Pt2: The Death and Legacy of Jerusalem’s Champion, Gabriel Barkay; Australia to observe national day of mourning to honour Bondi terror victims

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: The Death and Legacy of Jerusalem’s Champion, Gabriel Barkay

Barkay, who was born Gabriel Breslauer in Budapest in 1944, is associated with two particularly famous projects. In 1979, Barkay discovered the Ketef Hinnom scrolls in Jerusalem. Once successfully unrolled and translated, it became clear they contained a passage from the Book of Numbers dated to the Iron Age, making them the earliest known biblical text in existence.

The other is the Temple Mount sifting project. In 1999 and 2000, the Muslim authorities at the Mount illegally undertook a massive construction project and removed 9,000 tons of earth, destroying artifacts in the process and dumping the rest of the dirt in the Kidron Valley. Their goal was to replace the history-rich earth with an unauthorized mosque. Barkay led a broad group of Israelis who protested the ongoing destruction and then helped get funding for a project of volunteers to sift through the dirt discarded from the Temple site. That work continues today.

Because the truth has what you might call a “pro-Israel bias,” reality is controversial. Hence the acknowledgements in Barkay’s obituaries that his work was sometimes characterized as “right-wing.” Here is how the New York Times obituary phrases it:

“In 2005, he and others founded the Temple Mount Sifting Project, a crowdsourced program to examine the estimated 400 truckloads of dirt taken from the site. Since then, volunteers have identified about a half-million artifacts.

“The project was sometimes criticized as a tool of right-wing Israeli governments eager to establish historical claim to the Temple Mount.”

You’ll notice that it is considered “right-wing” because the facts of the case are politically unhelpful to the left wing. When it comes to Jews and Israel, the truth is considered provocative. It’s worth noting that this story was about the Arab authorities attempting to destroy hundreds of thousands of ancient artifacts—a crime against humanity that is described here with the same neutrality one might employ to describe the decision to take the dog for a walk. It is the Israeli archaeologists’ response to that crime—to ask that the crime not be carried out—that is deemed political. People can be very touchy when reminded of the existence of Jews.

Barkay’s dismissal of such pettiness was on the mark: “Sneezing in Jerusalem is an intensive political activity,” he told The Times of Israel in 2019. “You could turn your head to the right, or the left.”

Indeed, one lesson of Barkay’s life is that the Jewish people should not treat their own rights and existence and history as a delicate subject. People offended by the truth only deserve to hear the truth more often. And if they face resistance, Jews should raise their voices. As Huckabee advised the audience in Jerusalem last month:

“The Jewish people have the greatest story in the world. So tell it. It’s a wonderful story to be told. And you have the receipts. You have the Bible. And for heaven’s sakes, I would say use it and tell it with courage and boldness. Never speak it with apology as if, well, I don’t want to bring this up, but just so you know, we kind of have a place here. No, I think you say: Do you realize that our history traces back 3,800 years and we can follow the linear progress of that history from then until now. And there are prophecies throughout the entire Old Testament that say things that we are watching before our eyes.”

US Holocaust museum board cites years-long absences in call to oust Sanders

Members of the governing board of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum have asked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to remove Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council amid reports that the senator has not attended a single meeting in 18 years.

Sanders was appointed to the council in 2007. The board, which meets twice a year to oversee the D.C. museum’s mission, programming and educational work, is composed of both presidential and congressional appointees. According to attendance records reviewed by board members and provided to the New York Post, Sanders “has missed every meeting of the board since his appointment.”

In a Jan. 13 letter to Schumer signed by a dozen council members, the board wrote that Sanders “has rarely, if ever, attended council meetings or participated meaningfully in the work of the council since his appointment.”

The council also raised concerns about some of Sanders’s public statements on “contemporary genocidal conflicts, including characterizations widely viewed as inconsistent with the principles of Holocaust remembrance and genocide prevention.”

Sanders has been an outspoken critic of Israeli policy, calling for an end to U.S. military aid to Israel and describing Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza “a genocide.” The letter stated that those stances bring into question Sanders’s “alignment with the mission of the museum and its governing body.”

“In the current context, with Jew-hatred and Holocaust distortion rising globally, it is imperative that Senate-appointed representatives on the council are fully engaged and steadfastly supportive of its mission,” the letter states.

'Moderate' Abigail Spanberger Appoints Two Qatari Lobbyists To Serve on George Mason University Board

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D., Va.) has appointed two Qatari lobbyists to serve on George Mason University’s board of visitors, a Washington Free Beacon review has found.

Spanberger, who was sworn into office on Saturday, tapped former Reps. James Moran (D., Va.) and Tom Davis (R., Va.) to serve on George Mason’s 16-person board of visitors, which advises the school on "policy-making and oversight." After retiring from Congress in 2015, Moran launched Moran Global Strategies, which registered as a foreign agent of the Qatari embassy in April 2023. Davis, who resigned from Congress in 2008, is a lobbyist at Holland & Knight, which subcontracts with Moran’s firm on its Qatari lobbying contract.

Qatar, an oil-rich Gulf monarchy that harbors Hamas, has paid Moran’s firm $2.3 million through August 2025 to advance "bilateral relations" with the United States, according to foreign agent disclosures. Moran Global Strategies has, in turn, paid Holland & Knight $35,000 per month for its lobbying services. Davis is listed as Moran’s "principal point of contact" in the Qatari lobbying contract, records show.

The appointments are a sharp departure from the "moderate" image Spanberger presented to the public during the campaign.

Moran, who served 24 years in the House, has lobbied his former colleagues on behalf of Qatar on educational issues, according to lobbying disclosures. In July, he met with two members of the House Education and Workforce Committee prior to a hearing on "antisemitism in higher education," disclosures show. Moran was spotted in the audience at the hearing, seated behind Georgetown University president Robert Groves, Jewish Insider reported.

Last March, Moran contacted an aide to Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine (D.), whose wife previously served as interim president of George Mason, regarding "outreach on Qatar's higher education funding," according to disclosures. Holland & Knight and Davis have lobbied Republican lawmakers on education issues regarding Qatar. Davis met Rep. Kevin Kiley (R., Calif.) on June 25 for a "discussion" about the Committee on Education and Workforce, according to lobbying records.

Activist probed for anti-Israel posts no longer assistant attorney general of Michigan, state tells JNS

Zena Ozeir lists her current role on LinkedIn as assistant attorney general of the state of Michigan—a role that she has held since June 2023, per her profile.

The office of Dana Nessel, Michigan attorney general and a Democrat, told JNS exclusively that Ozeir does not currently hold that position.

“Zena Ozeir is no longer employed by the Michigan Department of Attorney General,” Kimberly Bush, Nessel’s director of public information and education, told JNS.

JNS sought comment from Nessel’s office about whether Ozeir was dismissed, and if so, whether it was as a result of a probe by the state office of her social media posts.

In June 2024, Nessel’s office told the Detroit News that it was investigating social-media posts in which Ozeir appeared to direct expletives at America and Israel.

Ozeir allegedly wrote on Instagram that “every accusation made by the Zionist entity is an admission. F**k them, f**k America, f**k genocide apologists. F**k anyone who peddles Zionist propaganda or gives any legitimacy to their criminal enterprise of a ‘country.’”

She made her handle private after the Detroit News sought comment from Nessel’s office, the paper said.

On Jan. 17, Ozeir was a panelist at an in-person event, which the group Palestine Solidarity Grand Rapids hosted in the city, per one of its social media posts. The event was hosted at the Fountain Street Church Sanctuary, per a flier, which identifies Ozeir as an “attorney, activist and USPCN member.” (The latter refers to the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, which “works closely with and unequivocally supports Students for Justice in Palestine,” per its site.)

The event flyer calls for the Holy Land 5—leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, who were convicted in 2008 of funnelling millions of dollars to Hamas—to be freed.

01/20 Links Pt1: Gaza’s Executive Board and the illusion of international salvation; Trump says ‘we think we know’ location of Ran Gvili, the last hostage in Gaza

From Ian:

How Western Logic Brought Disaster upon Israel

Israel's intelligence was the most advanced in the world. But in the week before Oct. 7, 2023, it forgot to look at the Gaza bakery, which suddenly was asked to prepare hundreds of pita breads, or the barber shop in Jabalia that, on Oct. 4, was suddenly flooded with dozens of Nukhba operatives getting haircuts to look sharp before joining their 72 virgins.

"We struck them hard and they are deterred," former director of the Israel Security Agency, Nadav Argaman, declared in May 2021. "They want an economy, not a war," the political leadership told us. Then came the "Al-Aqsa Flood" on Oct. 7.

The catastrophic error that led to this disaster was Israel's excessively rational lens, rooted in Western logic - the belief that people act to maximize personal and family welfare. That is how Israel's value system works. The intelligence community and the political leadership refused to truly understand the jihadist fanaticism that had taken over Gaza.

Israel's intelligence instinctively searches for logic. But an enemy willing to sacrifice everything for a murderous ideology does not operate according to Western logic. Israel must adopt a permanent assumption: the enemy will always surprise you. He will always have a new trick - something you have not yet imagined.

True national resilience requires capability denial: Do not wait to understand how an enemy plans to use a capability - destroy it simply because it exists. Assume the possibility of blindness: The military and society must be prepared for the morning when the screens go dark.

National resilience must never rest on intelligence as its sole backbone. True resilience is the ability to absorb a blow you did not anticipate and respond with force - because you prepared for the worst-case scenario, not the "reasonable" one. National resilience is not the ability to predict the future. It is the ability to survive it even when you did not predict it.

Why Israel Is Seen Everywhere and Everything Else Is Forgotten

Israel occupies an outsized and morally charged place in the media's imagination, particularly in the West. There is a systemic, disproportionate fascination, bordering on obsession, with covering Israel as though it were the gravitational center of world affairs. With this saturation coverage, Israel becomes not just another country among many but a kind of moral index - a stage upon which the world's conscience is imagined to be tested and revealed.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict occupies a peculiar and disproportionate place in the West's political imagination, unmatched by conflicts that are deadlier or more brutal. So it becomes over-seen, over-examined, intensely dissected, and uniquely moralized.

Israel's wars are routinely framed as the "Israeli-Palestinian conflict," as though the entire story were a localized struggle between two neighboring peoples, one strong and one weak, one powerful and one victimized. This framing is tidy, emotionally resonant, and yet profoundly misleading.

Most of Israel's wars have not been fought against Palestinians but against Egyptians and Jordanians, Syrians and Lebanese, Iraqis and, increasingly, Iranians. The rockets fired at Israel during the war did not come only from Gaza. They came from Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and from Iran itself. A vast and intricate regional struggle is reduced to Israelis vs. Palestinians. Israel is cast as the dominant actor, the controlling force, and ultimately the villain. The wider forces shaping the conflict vanish altogether.

This is how media distortion always works - by shrinking and enlarging the facts selectively. A small story is made to seem enormous. The result is a morality play in which a villainous country called Israel comes to embody the worst sins of the modern age. Israel ceases to be a state acting within a volatile region and becomes instead a metaphor for everything the imagination fears about power and injustice. If the coverage of Israel feels uniquely charged, moralized, and obsessive, it is because it is.

Israel Cannot Afford a Hamas ‘Victory Picture’ During Ramadan

The current conflict cannot be allowed to relapse into a wave of lone-wolf stabbings or car-rammings because the state was too timid to enforce its borders.

Hamas has already characterized these security measures as a “dangerous escalation” and an attack on religious freedom. This is a predictable script from an organization that has systematically converted religious and civilian spaces into military hubs .

The strategic imperative is clear: true peace follows the recognition of reality, and that reality requires the enemy to concede that their violent goals are impossible. If Hamas believes they can still achieve a “victory display” in Jerusalem, they will continue to resist disarmament and reconstruction efforts in Gaza. The road to a stable, post-Hamas reality begins with the total eclipse of their influence in Jerusalem.

The Israel Police and the IDF must remain steadfast. A ceasefire is not a surrender, and a pause is not a peace. The current era of regional conflict will only reach its conclusion when the citizens of Israel see that the flags of jihad have been permanently lowered.

By preventing a Hamas victory picture this Ramadan, Israel is doing more than just securing a holy month; it is asserting the permanence of the state and the finality of its security goals. First recognition of defeat, then a path to stability.

One of the most persistent errors in how antisemitism is discussed is the belief that it flows from ideology – that antisemitism is something generated by the Left, or the Right, or Islamism, depending on who is misbehaving at a given moment. History suggests something more unsettling.

Antisemitism is not only downstream of ideology. It is portable.

Across centuries, antisemitism has shown a remarkable ability to detach itself from one philosophical framework and reattach to another, reshaping its language while preserving its structure. It borrows the moral vocabulary of whatever movement it inhabits, presents itself as principled critique rather than inherited prejudice, and offers radicals a ready-made explanation for why the world is broken – and who is to blame.

Anti-Zionism has become one of antisemitism’s most effective modern vehicles precisely because it allowed ancient tropes to be rebranded as contemporary politics. What we are witnessing today, as right-wing antisemites increasingly adopt the language of left-wing and Arab anti-Zionism, is not a novelty. It is a recurrence.

And the history that produced it is far more entangled than our political categories allow.

For most of modern history, Zionism had nothing to do with left-wing antisemitism. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century leftist antisemitism was rooted in Enlightenment secularism, early socialist thought, and misdirected anti-capitalism. Jews were cast not as nationalists or colonizers, but as embodiments of abstraction, money, cosmopolitanism, and bourgeois exploitation – obstacles to the realization of a rational and egalitarian society.

Marx’s On the Jewish Question treated Judaism itself as a metaphor for capitalism. Proudhon and Bakunin were more explicit, describing Jews as parasitic, conspiratorial, and socially corrosive. This was what August Bebel famously called “the socialism of fools” – a critique of capitalism that replaced systemic analysis with scapegoating.

Zionism, when it appeared at all in left-wing discourse, was typically dismissed as a bourgeois distraction from class struggle. It was not yet the organizing metaphor it would later become.

European-style antisemitism begins circulating in the Arab East in the nineteenth century, carried by colonial penetration, missionary activity, and European education networks. One early and concrete marker is the Damascus Affair of 1840, a blood libel modeled on European Christian accusations and actively escalated by a French consul. This was not an Islamic inheritance; it was a European import.

In the Arab world, Zionism was greeted with alarm, and they needed a philosophical framework to fight it especially for Western audiences. Christian antisemitism found particular resonance in some Arab Christian milieus, where exposure to European religious polemics, nationalism, and racialized discourse was often earliest and most intense. Early Palestinian nationalist journalism in the 1910s and intellectual leadership included a significant Christian Arab component, long before the era of Islamist mass mobilization.

By the early twentieth century, a hybrid vocabulary already existed – one in which European antisemitic motifs could be localized, repurposed, and politicized.

Hajj Amin al-Husseini did not start Palestinian antisemitism but he ran with it. Initially he placed it in the context of Islamism, claiming that Jews planned to attack Muslim holy places and raising funds based on that fantasy. The Mufti's antisemitism and anti-Zionism clearly predate his formal alliance with Nazi Germany. Where they came from is not reducible to a single source: local elite rivalries, imported European tropes, religious mobilization, and the dynamics of mandatory politics all played roles.

What Nazism provided was not the creation of his antisemitism, but its acceleration, systematization, and internationalization. Fascist and Nazi ideology offered him a global explanatory framework, material resources, and a language of total struggle. His alliance with the Axis was opportunistic, ideological, and mutually reinforcing – but it built on pre-existing foundations.

This pattern – local antisemitic motifs fused with external ideological systems – repeats again and again.

The most consequential transformation came after the Holocaust.

In the West, overt antisemitism became morally radioactive. In the Soviet sphere, it was re-engineered. Stalin’s campaigns against “rootless cosmopolitans,” followed by the Doctors’ Plot and the Slánský trials, performed a decisive maneuver: they translated classic antisemitic tropes – conspiracy, dual loyalty, elite domination – into the language of anti-Zionism and anti-imperialism.

Jews were no longer targeted as Jews, but as Zionists, Western agents, and subversive elites.

This framework was exported aggressively. Soviet propaganda recast Israel as a racist, colonial outpost of American empire, a narrative that spread through Eastern Europe, the Arab world, and Western leftist movements. Anti-Zionism became a way to say what could no longer be said openly.

The Western Left’s embrace of decolonial theory in the 1960s and 1970s created a powerful point of convergence.

Third-Worldism reframed global politics as a struggle between colonizer and colonized. After the Six-Day War, Israel was reclassified – often abruptly and without historical nuance – from post-genocide refuge to imperial aggressor. Arab nationalist narratives, Soviet anti-Zionism, and New Left ideology fused into a single moral grammar.

All the antisemitic and anti-Zionist tropes converged. Concepts such as settler-colonialism, indigeneity erasure, racialized power, and structural domination – developed in other contexts – were retrofitted to the Jewish case, often by erasing Jewish history altogether. Older antisemitic tropes survived the translation intact, rebranded as structural critique.

Within the Palestinian movement itself, ideological incoherence was not a weakness but a feature.

Secular Marxist groups like the PFLP and Islamist movements like Hamas routinely cooperate, coordinate attacks, and avoid mutual criticism. Yasser Arafat mastered the art of balancing Islamists and leftists under a single nationalist umbrella. Palestinian nationalism subordinated theology and ideology alike to the primacy of anti-Zionism.

This mattered far beyond the Middle East. It taught Western activists that Islamism was not an obstacle to leftist solidarity, but a legitimate partner in “resistance.” It normalized silence about illiberalism, Islamist antisemitism, and violence in the name of unity.

Today's antisemitism on the Right is different from previous, crude neo-Nazi forms. Contemporary right-wing antisemites have discovered that left-wing and Arab anti-Zionist rhetoric offers moral camouflage. Language about apartheid, genocide, settler-colonialism, and global elites allows them to recycle older claims about Jewish power while borrowing the credibility of human-rights discourse.

This is not accidental. David Duke openly praised left-wing critiques of the “Israel lobby” for giving his views respectability. Neo-Nazi outlets have long cited progressive anti-Zionist publications as evidentiary support. More recent figures have simply made the synthesis explicit. And the desire for solidarity trumps ideology - when Hamas attacked Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023 in Israel proper, it characterized it as an attack on "settlements" and the Left immediately dropped any pretense of differentiating between Israel's pre-1967 borders and "occupation" to legitimize Hamas' position.

The ideological content barely matters anymore. Antisemitism adapts itself to whatever language will pass.

This is why the Left/Right binary fails so badly as an explanatory framework.

Antisemitism is not a consequence of ideological error so much as a reusable narrative technology – a way of personifying abstraction, assigning moral blame, and repurposing innate antisemitism as a moral position. It thrives wherever movements need an omnipotent villain who is both inside and outside the system.

Sometimes that villain is capitalist.
Sometimes colonial.
Sometimes globalist.
Sometimes Zionist.

The labels change. The structure does not.

The current moment feels novel because the alliances feel strange: “anti-woke” conservatives echoing decolonial slogans, white nationalists waving Palestinian flags, leftists defending the indefensible to preserve solidarity. But this is not a rupture. It is a recurrence.

Antisemitism has always been a shared underground passage between radical movements. When one entrance collapses, another opens.

The tragedy is not merely that Jews keep finding themselves at the center of other people’s moral dramas. It is that societies keep mistaking the costume for the cause – congratulating themselves for opposing the wrong version of an ancient hatred while unknowingly reproducing its logic in a new dialect.

History does not absolve either side. It indicts both – repeatedly.

And it leaves us with a sobering conclusion: antisemitism is never re-invented. It is translated.

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Chris Langan supposedly took an IQ test in the 1980s where he says he scored the highest score ever, giving him an IQ of between 190-210, dwarfing Einstein. (Langan cheated - the test is meant to be taken once, and his first score did not rank him nearly as high, so he took it again under a pseudonym - but he already knew the questions!)

Last week he published this antisemitic screed:

Q: (Son of East Anglia @ThatDandy 8h) “Who are the banksters?”

A: The banksters pointed themselves out long ago. International banking has been ruled by the same crowd for at least two centuries and arguably much longer.

The current era of global usury began when Nathan Rothschild employed subterfuge and deception to gain control of the British and then the European economies in the early 1800s. The names of the Rothschilds and their allies have figured prominently in banking ever since. These people have undeniably been responsible for developing and promulgating Zionism and World Communism (they funded Marx, Trotsky, Lenin, and the Bolshevik Revolution) while eroding traditional Western culture and especially Christianity, which they have now thoroughly subverted and oxymoronically transformed into "Christian Zionism" (this is an oxymoron because Christianity and Zionism have not been properly reconciled and cannot agree on a common metaphysical framework in which reconciliation is possible).

Money is power, and Zionist bankers have a global money monopoly. Obviously, this gives them a power monopoly. They founded the UN, the center of their global occupation government, in 1945, and the State of Israel in 1948, which has no historical continuity with biblical Israel but officially identifies itself with Ashkenazi Jews from Western Asia and Eastern Europe as “the Jewish state”. That’s how tiny newcomer Israel obtained its own seat in the Ashkenazi global government - the so-called “UN”, another Rothschild creation - and became a national facade for the Central Bankers. It gives them sovereign nation status, an exigent political constituency that obediently bobs up and down on command like a synchronized yoyo team, a ready supply of human shields for geopolitical exploitation, and a nuclear stockpile for destroying the world should Israel's "right to exist" ever be threatened.

The banksters control the EU and have been behind exclusively nonwhite mass Third World migration to all and only Western (White) nations for over 60 years. going all the way back to the Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965. All of the UN NGOs sneaking exclusively nonwhite Third World rejects into Western nations operate under their aegis; Western Civilization is a global achievement that only a filthy-rich “global government” can destroy. This agenda was never exposed to a popular vote in any of the nations on which it was forced. It is sometimes called “White Genocide” due to its destructive effect on White health and fertility by the constant demoralization, impoverishment, and general abuse of Western majorities and the systematic transfer of their resources to reproductively incontinent demographic invaders genetically maladapted, and therefore utterly destructive, to Western Civilization.

These days, the most powerful bankers still count themselves as dedicated Zionists. This is why no global bankers ever speak out strongly against Zionism - it would amount to career suicide and worse. Today, many influential bankers are also explicitly associated with an extraordinarily dangerous organization called the World Economic Forum or WEF, the world's foremost hotbed of corporate incest and conspiracy central to the global corporatocracy that dominates virtually every secular government in the world. Through the central banks, NGOs like the WEF, and investment funds like BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, they already dominate the global economy and global politics. The high-level collusion of these entities is obvious and therefore undeniable. While they are all squarely under the thumb of the banksters, anyone denying it is immediately accused of being a fool, a liar, or a “conspiracy theorist”.

This situation is exacerbated by the apparent conviction of the Ziobanksters that they have insuperable moral, logical, economic, and scientific arguments to justify White Genocide, and that every Jewish person in the world must therefore agree with them (thus, their weird notion that every Jew is a necessarily a Zionist). In fact, they have nothing of the kind, never did, and never will. They simply hate White people and want the world all to themselves, as we are constantly reminded by their more outspoken frontmen and more hateful members of the rabbinate. The mere sight of a Christian cross prompts them to scream about the separation of church and state even as they erect garishly lit menorahs on the White House lawn and do everything in their power to sacrifice Christianity and the descendants of its followers to the undying hatred that burns in their overfed bellies.

So, the self-proclaimed smartest man in the world believes debunked antisemitic stories (the Nathan Rothschild at Waterloo story is a myth, the Rothschilds didn't fund the Bolshevik Revolution, "bankers" didn't found the UN, the Khazar theory is a joke.) Besides the fact that Langan is clearly a racist and an antisemite himself, as the last sentence shows, throwing around stereotypes about fat rich non-white Jews (apparently, the banks are controlled by Chabad) hating good White Christians.

Who can solve this terrible problem of Jewish control of the world? Why, the answer is obvious:

James Fisher @JamesFi07112632
The problem has been clearly and repeatedly identified. What is the solution?

Chris Langan @RealChrisLangan
I've answered this question repeatedly and don't have the time to keep repeating myself. Simply choose the right leader. That would be me, period. Know someone better? Then trot him out and let's find out who's who.

Maybe he has some sort of specific intelligence, I have no idea. But intelligence has precious little to do with knowledge, and it is not a shield against believing and spreading stupidity, bigotry and conspiracy theories.

I can say one thing: true intelligence is always paired with humility. The people who want to run the world are never the people who you want to run the world.

This joker is not intelligent by any reasonable definition.

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Car chases Jewish teens in Melbourne, driver yells "Heil Hitler!" (video)

From Australia's News.Com.AU:

In a terrifying series of events caught on CCTV on Monday night, a group of Jewish boys is followed by a white ute on the corner of Glen Eira Road and Hotham Street in St Kilda East.

The boys, all aged in their teens, were repeatedly harassed by the ute’s occupants who reportedly threatened them with violence and yelled “Heil Hitler”.

In a bid to escape the threat, the boys can be seen rushing across the road, with the car narrowly missing one of them as it performs a swift U-turn.

The vehicle reportedly circled the teens for about five minutes, harassing them as they tried to move on.

The teens are on the far corner of the CCTV footage.

This is more of that "Jewish privilege" we keep hearing about.

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01/19 Links Pt2: MLK was clear: Anti-Zionism is antisemitism; Sydney massacre was a warning for the world; Emily Damari on one year of freedom and those who did not return

From Ian:

Simon Sebag Montefiore warns of ‘devalued’ anti-racist language and threats to Holocaust memory

The celebrated historian Simon Sebag Montefiore has issued a striking warning about the devaluation of anti-racist language in contemporary discourse, arguing that terms such as “diversity,” “equity,” and “inclusion” are now frequently manipulated to serve agendas running counter to their original intent.

Delivering the keynote speech at the Holocaust Education Trust’s event in Parliament, Montefiore observed:“Words are important—as we learned last week, the people behind the banning of a Jewish MP from his school because of his Jewishness were a cabal of teaching unions and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) coordinators who constantly repeat the language of anti-racism.

“We exist in a struggle where words have often come to mean their very opposite. In that case, and others, diversity came to mean discrimination, equity, injustice, inclusive, exclusion.

“And as it turns out, every bigot is a proud anti-racist to their bones. Every antisemite is against antisemitism, and naturally, everybody is against the Holocaust and genocide.”

At Monday evening’s event—held to mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations—the author warned that Holocaust memory is “in peril” and under attack from new forms of antisemitic distortion and ideological abuse.

Also among the speakers were Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, Holocaust survivor Annick Lever, and several of the charity’s young ambassadors. HET’s chief executive, Karen Pollock, pointedly addressed recent concerns about the state of Holocaust education, stating: “Despite challenges, our experience at the Holocaust Educational Trust is that we’re working with hundreds more schools since October 7th,” following earlier newspaper reports suggesting Shoah education was being snubbed by many schools since the Hamas attacks.

In his main address, Montefiore recounted witnessing repeat protests outside the part Israeli-owned Miznon restaurant in Notting Hill, near his home.

“I hate to say it reminded me of Kristallnacht in Notting Hill Gate,” he said. “I came across a restaurant almost besieged by about 60 screaming activists who were referring specifically to the Holocaust, to the genocide, and applying this to an innocent restaurant, British owned, though with an Israeli connection, that they were specifically trying to drive out of Britain and trying to drive out of the neighborhood, trying to destroy a small business by terrorizing passers by, people going to the restaurant, and the owners of the restaurant.”

Oren Kessler: The Bad History of ‘Palestine 36’ An Oscar short-listed film, funded by Qatar, Turkey, and the BBC, rewrites the past to serve a modern political fantasy

And yet the film’s gravest failing may be depriving the Jews of a voice. I don’t mean metaphorically; I mean there are precisely two words spoken by a Jew, in any language, in the entire film.

In fact, Jews appear on-screen only twice. Early in the film, a Jewish figure is briefly ushered to a microphone at the inauguration of the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation. Later, Jewish immigrants are seen in the distance, silently toiling behind a kibbutz wall.

And that’s it. For a film centered on an Arab revolt against Jews, it’s a glaring, flagrant omission.

It would have been easy for the screenwriters to have included two stock Jewish characters: The “bad” Jew who is arrogant, land-greedy, and patronizing toward Arabs, and the “good” one who respects their culture, learns their language, and is willing to limit Jewish immigration. I suspect that behind this choice lies the deep-rooted Palestinian and wider Arab taboo against “normalization” of Israelis—in this case, even before they were Israelis.

Nonetheless, wishing something away doesn’t make it so. Like it or not, the Jews were there, and their continued arrival was the key driver of the revolt. Portraying the rebellion as directed primarily against British imperialism (with the Jews as the silent beneficiary thereof) is historical malpractice.

The film’s last quarter is a crescendo of British brutality that bears only a patchy resemblance to the historical record. Soldiers detonate a home despite knowing an elderly couple is in their bed, embracing as they await the end. Wingate shoots a civilian in the head after gathering the townspeople to watch. In the climax, troops force civilians onto a bus and force it to drive over a landmine. Among the dead is a Christian priest whose young son then kills a British soldier in revenge. It’s essentially the film’s only moment in which blood is spilled by Arab hands.

The British have much to answer for in Palestine—a handful of well-documented atrocities, like that at al-Bassa, are amply described in my book. They indeed demolished homes during the revolt, just not with people inside. Wingate did inflict collective punishment on uncooperative villages. But there is no evidence of him ever ordering an execution, much less conducting one himself, nor of the British murdering a priest (or imam), nor of any Christian Arabs (let alone children) taking up arms against them.

Only in the final credits, and only in minuscule type, does Palestine 36 concede that the movie is a work of fiction, merely “inspired by actual events and characters.” Such a disclaimer should have appeared prominently at the outset, not buried where few viewers would notice, although that would erroneously suggest that the spirit if not the details of the Arab uprising of 1936–1939 had been captured. It has not.

As publicly funded British institutions, the BFI and BBC Film should have insisted on transparency. Their failure to do so places them uncomfortably close to the film’s other state-backed co-producers, in Turkey and Qatar, which reliably promote their governments’ harmful, extremist agendas in the region. The omission raises an obvious question: whether the lack of candor reflects more than oversight, and instead a shared comfort with reshaping the historical record to suit a contemporary agenda.

All the world’s a stage, a British dramatist once wrote, and nowhere more so than the Holy Land. But it is an affront to history that a portrait of a revolt against Jews should treat the latter as silent props or erase them altogether. However the filmmakers feel about Jewish immigration, land purchase, and nation-building in mid-’30s Palestine, these too are part of the history. These too are “actual events” performed by “actual characters” in the century-long drama still playing out between the river and the sea.

From Archetype to Libel: The Misinterpretation of Amalek in Genocide Accusations

Conclusion: From Archetype to Libel
The controversy surrounding the modern invocation of Amalek in Israeli discourse, especially after the October 7 massacre, highlights a fundamental conflict between internal Jewish cultural memory and external political misinterpretation. In Jewish legal and historical tradition, the term has long been regarded as a symbolic command rather than a literal one. Amalek is thus viewed as a metaphysical archetype of unprovoked, existential evil and baseless hatred, which appears throughout history in figures like Haman and the Nazis. When Prime Minister Netanyahu used the term, he engaged in a profound act of typological memory (Zakhor), placing the unprecedented trauma of October 7 within the ongoing struggle between cosmic good and evil. By imposing this literalist, hostile interpretation, detractors are engaging in defamation of the Jewish state.

Post-Script: The Anti-Zionist Echo Chamber
The rejection of the present article by Analyse & Kritik, which published the original article by Azzam, serves as a sobering case study in the circular nature of modern anti-Zionist scholarship. Rather than engaging with the provided evidence, the peer-review process revealed a systemic refusal to permit any narrative that challenges the “genocide” label, treating the accusation not as a hypothesis to be tested but as an absolute truth. Central to this failure was the reviewers’ total omission of the vast body of internal Jewish interpretive traditions—sources that explicitly reject or spiritualize the Amalek archetype. By failing to engage with these central points, the reviewers maintained a closed system that dismissed dissenting data as “denial,” thereby precluding genuine academic exchange.

The review process appeared driven by a palpable ideological bias that favored political positioning over substantive analysis. For instance, one reviewer asserted, without providing a shred of evidence, that for “any Israeli ear,” the mention of Amalek carries an immediate association with complete annihilation. This claim was made while simultaneously ignoring the centuries of rabbinic legal tradition cited in the article—such as the rulings of the Sages and Maimonides—that explicitly state that the literal commandment against Amalek is inapplicable today. Furthermore, the use of charged, ad hominem language—specifically labeling the arguments as those of “Netanyahu apologists”—reveals a hostile environment where scholarship is judged by its political utility rather than its factual merit.

Ultimately, this experience highlights the intellectual “incest” inherent in much of the anti-Zionist academic ecosystem. The editor’s response, which took it for granted that Israel has committed “horrible” crimes and demanded that any publication must include “commenting on the destruction of Gaza,” functions as a form of gatekeeping. By dismissing the concept of “self-defense” as a “conventional cliché” and refusing to engage with the primary and secondary sources presented, the reviewers merely confirmed that their objective is not the pursuit of truth. Instead, they serve to protect an echo chamber in which the same scholars quote each other ad nauseam, effectively weaponizing the peer-review process to perpetuate the very libel this article seeks to expose.

01/19 Links Pt1: Fatah shares Hamas’s goal to destroy Israel; The West will regret not intervening in Iran; How radical Islamists and the far left united to ‘fight America everywhere and all the time’

From Ian:

Fatah shares Hamas’s goal to destroy Israel

Consider that the 90-year-old Abbas has also long been given a free pass from the United Nations and others regarding the P.A.’s harboring and protecting of terrorists. The P.A. has one of the largest per-capita security forces in the world (more than 60,000 men), largely armed and trained by the United States. Yet instead of using those forces to arrest and extradite terrorists—as the Oslo Accords require—Abbas and friends pay salaries to terrorists and their families, and shelter fugitive terrorists so Israel can’t capture them.

This is not a failure of capacity. It is a failure of will—and, more accurately, a reflection of intent. The P.A. does not arrest terrorists because it does not see them as criminals. It sees them as assets.

That truth became even clearer with the cosmetic rebranding of the notorious “pay-for-slay” system that has rewarded Palestinian Arab terrorism for decades. We were told this system had been reformed. We were told it is now humanitarian, not ideological. This, too, was a lie.

The only way to truly end “pay-for-slay” is for the P.A. to announce that anybody who has engaged in violence against Israel is disqualified from any P.A. payments. That would demonstrate that the entity sincerely rejects terrorism. Anything less is a sham, which is designed to pull the wool over the eyes of the international community.

Zaki said the quiet part out loud: Israel is “doomed to perish.” Hamas has been saying the same thing for years. The difference is no longer substantive, only stylistic.

It is long past time for the international community to stop rewarding duplicity. Diplomatic recognition of the P.A., financial aid without conditions and the pretense that Abbas represents a peaceful alternative have all failed. They have not moderated P.A. leadership; they have emboldened it.

If words still matter, then Zaki’s utterances must have consequences. Governments that genuinely oppose terrorism and support Israel’s right to exist should immediately suspend diplomatic recognition of the P.A.; cut off funding that enables terrorism; and demand real, verifiable rejection of violence, not empty promises.

The future cannot be built on fantasies. And it certainly cannot be built with partners who openly proclaim that Israel “is doomed to perish.”

Alberto Nisman’s Role in Holding the Islamic Republic Accountable for its Crimes: Reflections

Nisman’s granular investigation that exposed how the Islamic Republic recruits, radicalizes and executes terrorism continues to be a roadmap for counter-terrorism professionals around the globe. It no doubt played a role in President Milei designating the IRGC’s Quds Force as a terrorist entity yesterday. The designation makes members of the Quds Force and their allies subject to financial sanctions and operational restrictions.

Milei underscored that he maintains an “unbreakable commitment to recognizing terrorists for what they are.” Under his leadership, Argentina placed Hamas on its terrorism list on July 12, 2024.

The Quds Force designation takes place as the Islamic Republic has killed thousands of protestors from every province of Iran in recent weeks. The regime has cut off internet to hide these crimes but reports and images have leaked out.

In April 2024, Argentina’s highest criminal court officially designated the 1994 AMIA bombing a "crime against humanity" and explicitly held the government of Iran and Hezbollah responsible for its planning and execution.

The Venezuela connection to the AMIA bombing investigation may be noteworthy: it revolves around allegations that then Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez served as a key intermediary in a covert deal between Iran and Argentina to cover up Iran's involvement in the 1994 attack. According to reports from three former Venezuelan government officials cited in Veja, Chávez met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on January 13, 2007, during which Ahmadinejad requested Chávez's help in persuading the Argentine government under Kirchner to provide nuclear technology to Iran and to cease cooperating with Interpol on arresting Iranian suspects linked to the AMIA bombing.

In exchange, Iran provided Kirchner's 2007 presidential campaign with millions of dollars funneled through Venezuelan channels, including a documented incident where a Venezuelan-American businessman was caught allegedly attempting to smuggle $800,000 into Argentina—funds purportedly originating from Iran and brokered by Chávez.

Iranian networks in Latin America, as detailed in Nisman's 2013 indictment, included terrorist infrastructure in Venezuela and neighboring countries, where Iran allegedly created sleeper cells and recruitment operations.

Kirchner is serving a six-year prison sentence under house arrest for her role in a separate corruption case. Several other cases against her are pending.

As Nisman’s family and victims of the AMIA bombing await justice, one can’t help but appreciate that his life’s work uncovering and exposing the Islamic Republic’s use of terrorism as a weapon of its governance and foreign policy have been fully vindicated. Governments around the world have taken important steps by sanctioning the Islamic Republic of Iran’s domestic institutions and individuals responsible for the regime’s malign activities at home and abroad. Many of its proxies have also been designated terrorist entities. While a lot more needs to be done, Alberto Nisman paved an important path to make this possible.

How radical Islamists and the far left united to ‘fight America everywhere and all the time’

Why are American progressives, who believe in gay rights and abortion, aligned with radical Islamists, who want a religious dictatorship? Because “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” writes Peter Schweizer in his new book, “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.” In this exclusive excerpt, he explains that they are after the same thing: the destruction of Western society from within.

Ismail Selim Elbarasse, an accountant by training, seemed to be living a quiet life in Annandale, Virginia. But in 2004, when police officers noticed him driving with his wife across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and filming its critical structural elements, they decided to act, then detained him and notified federal agents.

He was already a suspect in a scheme to provide funding to Islamist terrorist groups, and now agents were searching through his home for further evidence of his possible involvement.

They discovered far more than a terrorism funding scheme.

Buried among the stacks of paperwork in his home was a document written in Arabic titled “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America,” written by a US-based Islamist leader from the Muslim Brotherhood.

The strategic goals memo specifically addressed the “Civilization-Jihadist Process” for using migration as a weapon of subversion.

Members “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated, and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

The Muslim Brotherhood specifically and Islamists in general have long viewed immigration as a weapon to deploy against the West.

The Wiley Companion to Religion, Politics, and Nations was recently published as a supposedly impartial framework to discuss the role of religion in national politics.

One of the chapters states, flatly, that Israel is engaging in "Jewish supremacy" - which is a borderline antisemitic accusation that has no business being in an impartial academic reference.

The article, "The Two Edges of the Gordian Knot: Religion, Nationalism, and Citizenship in Israel," by Oxford University professor David Borobeck, has this abstract:

This chapter explores the intricate relationship between religion and nationalism in Israel, focusing on the institutional, legal, and societal roles of religion in the formation of Israeli society. Through historical analysis from the British Mandate era to contemporary legislation, it demonstrates how religion serves as both an external and internal gatekeeper for Jewish Israeli collective identity while marginalizing Palestinians. The chapter identifies five pivotal moments: the establishment of the Chief Rabbinate (1921), the Status Quo Letter (1947), the creation of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interior, early legislation including the Law of Return and Absentees’ Property Law (1950), and recent laws such as the Nakba Law (2011) and Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People (2018). The chapter reveals that Judaism operates as a hegemonic religion, serving national purposes for Jewish Israelis, while Islam is reframed as a tool for depoliticizing and denationalizing Israeli Palestinian citizens. This dual epistemological formation creates a Gordian knot between religion, nationalism, and citizenship, establishing Israel as a unique case where national and colonial framings of religion merge under the same institutional framework, ultimately maintaining Jewish supremacy and Palestinian exclusion from full civic participation.

The paper chooses five events it describes as proving Jewish supremacy in Israel. But this is cherry-picking: one can easily choose the concurrent establishment of Muslim court systems, the Declaration of Independence that guarantees Arab and Muslim rights in Israel, the Israeli Supreme Court often ruling on the side of Israel's Muslim citizens, Muslims reaching high levels on the Supreme Court and politics, and Israeli Arab residents of Jerusalem having more freedom of movement than Jewish citizens of Jerusalem do, Jews being limited on the Temple Mount while Muslims have free reign.

Using identical logic, we can conclude that Israel supports Muslim supremacy.

The paper uses other language that is far from objective. for example, it refers to Israeli Arab citizens as "Palestinian," while very few of them think of themselves using that term. Saying Judaism acts as a "hegemonic religion" is similarly loaded language. Israel has official Shari'a courts as well that govern personal laws for Muslims.

No one argues that Israel is not meant to be a Jewish state, but it does everything possible to give full equality for all its citizens. Papers like this emphasize the Jewish part -which was done to make sure that Israel can always be a refuge for Jews worldwide, which no other nation can guarantee - as if this is inherently immoral.

You won't be shocked to find out that the Wiley book has no chapters on how nearly all Arab nations favor Muslims in their constitutions.

Compare how this abstract deals with Judaism in Israel with how a different chapter deals with religion in Ireland and Turkey, where their leaning on religion in their self-identification is treated as legitimate and worthy of respectful study:

This chapter explores the role of religion in nation-building processes, focusing on Ireland and Turkey. It argues that religion serves as a foundational characteristic for national identity, providing institutional networks, popular identity concepts, and antagonistic relationships with religious out-groups. Through a comparative analysis, the chapter demonstrates how early religious emphasis offers scaffolding for nation-building, particularly under conditions of high religiosity and significant religious diversity. The analysis employs a genealogical approach, examining critical junctures where nationalists negotiate between different visions of the nation, incorporating religious symbols to mobilize mass support. The chapter combines elite nationalist rhetoric with grassroots exploration of religion and politics, revealing the complexity of nation-building processes. It highlights the intersection of religious and nationalist ideas, showing how religion defines national boundaries and serves as a symbolic reservoir. The findings underscore the importance of engaging with religion as a central factor in understanding modern nations, challenging stereotypes of religious nationalism. By examining how religious scaffolding is developed, the chapter provides deeper insights into nationalist movements and their impact on national identity.

I had an AI examine the difference in tone for both abstracts:

The difference is stark. An unbiased article about Israel, written like the Ireland/Turkey chapter, would be treated in the larger academic world as rabidly Zionist.

Anti-Israel rhetoric is so mainstreamed that even the editors of a book meant to be reference material have no problem allowing extreme bias and borderline antisemitism to be published as if this is perfectly normal.

It isn't. It is hate disguised as analysis.

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Fatah poster circa 1970 shows a "Palestinian" child being crucified on a Star of David

You know how you see the claim that Jesus was a Palestinian popping up every Christmas?

That idea was reversed by Fatah and the PLO in the late 1960s: Palestinians were the crucified Jesus. And guess who the murderers were?

This poster was behind Yasser Arafat in this 1970 photo of a press conference in Jordan with other PLO officials.

You cannot separate Palestinianism from antisemitism. No matter how hard you try.

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Kamala Harris' team was antisemitic, asking Josh Shapiro if he was an Israeli agent (UPDATE)

From the New York Times:

Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, a prominent Democrat who was a top contender to serve as former Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate in 2024, offered his most detailed accounting to date of the vice-presidential search process in his new memoir, which was obtained by The New York Times.

In Mr. Shapiro’s book, “Where We Keep the Light,” the governor is measured in describing his interactions with Ms. Harris herself. But Mr. Shapiro, who is Jewish, details a contentious vetting process in which Ms. Harris’s team focused intensely on his views on Israel — so much so that at one point, he wrote, he was asked if he had ever been an agent of the Israeli government.

“Had I been a double agent for Israel?” wrote Mr. Shapiro, describing his incredulous response to a last-minute question from the vetting team. He responded that the question was offensive, he wrote, and was told, “Well, we have to ask.”

“Have you ever communicated with an undercover agent of Israel?” the questioner, Dana Remus, a former White House counsel, continued, according to Mr. Shapiro, who recounted, “If they were undercover, I responded, how the hell would I know?”

Mr. Shapiro, an outspoken critic of what he saw as antisemitism on college campuses amid the Israel-Hamas war, wrote that he faced skepticism of that record during vetting. “I wondered whether these questions were being posed to just me — the only Jewish guy in the running — or if everyone who had not held a federal office was being grilled about Israel in the same way.”

I think we know the answer to that question. Shapiro was under suspicion of being an Israeli agent because he is Jewish.

That is antisemitic by any definition. Forget the IHRA working definition - the Nexus Document, written as a more progressive-friendly definition of antisemitism, says these are antisemitic:

- Holding individuals or institutions, because they are Jewish, a priori culpable of real or imagined wrongdoing committed by Israel.
- Considering Jews to be a priori incapable of setting aside their loyalty to the Jewish people and/or Israel.
- Denigrating or denying the Jewish identity of certain Jews because they are perceived as holding the “wrong” position (whether too critical or too favorable) on Israel.

It would be OK if they asked every potential candidate if they had any links to any foreign government, or received funds from any entity (foreign or domestic) that could be embarrassing because of terror or criminal ties.

But to ask the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania if he is an Israeli agent means that Jews are not to be entirely trusted as full Americans.

Yes, that is antisemitism.

UPDATE: The Atlantic has another episode:

Their discussion was especially tense when Harris asked Shapiro if he would apologize for some of his comments about protesters at the University of Pennsylvania who had built encampments to decry Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and, in some cases, intimidated Jewish students.

Shapiro wrote that he “flatly” told Harris that he would not.

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01/18 Links: Why Netanyahu Asked Trump to Wait on Attacking Iran; US considering asylum for British Jews; Iran doctors put death toll in suppressed uprising at over 16,500; Syria’s Next Phase Offers Little Hope for Kurds

From Ian:

Why Netanyahu Asked Trump to Wait on Attacking Iran

Israel has reportedly urged President Trump to postpone any immediate military action against Iran. Israeli decision-making is not rooted in diplomatic hesitation or lack of defense systems but in a sober intelligence assessment.

Israel's intelligence establishment has concluded that the current moment is strategically unfavorable for a strike and that such an action would be unlikely to achieve the collapse of the Iranian regime.

Regime change in Iran is not determined by popular dissatisfaction alone, but by the continued loyalty of the state's coercive institutions - most notably the regular army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The regime has demonstrated a willingness to use unprecedented and brutal force to suppress dissent. Israeli intelligence analysts assess that as long as the Iranian military and the IRGC remain cohesive and willing to shoot protesters, the likelihood of regime collapse remains low.

History has shown repeatedly that authoritarian governments fall not when protests erupt, but when security forces fracture, refuse orders, or shift allegiance. At present, there is no credible indication that such a split is imminent within Iran's power structure.

In short, Israeli intelligence concludes that the Iranian regime will not collapse as long as the army and the IRGC remain willing and able to fire on their own population. Until that reality changes, restraint is viewed not as weakness, but as strategic prudence.

Amb. Alan Baker: Are Israelis Not Entitled to Human Rights?

On a daily basis, we are witnessing a mass-phenomenon of deliberately one-sided accusations being leveled solely against Israel, alleging human rights violations against Palestinians. Slanted social media platforms, once-reputable international media outlets, politically-biased UN bodies and human rights committees, and clearly ignorant show-biz celebrities all unthinkingly accuse Israel of genocide, apartheid, cruelty and disproportionate military actions.

Curiously, all these "paragons of international virtue" appear to be selectively blind as to the human rights of everyone else in the world. They flagrantly ignore the fact that Israel and its citizens are no less deserving of human rights. They ignore the fact that the public in Israel suffer from ongoing and daily acts of terror by Palestinian terror groups and Islamist fanatics. They have deliberately chosen to forget, or deny, the tragic massacre, rape, butchery, burning, and torture of many hundreds of Israelis and foreign citizens on Oct. 7, 2023.

All this is being orchestrated through a meticulous, well-oiled and well-financed system of brainwashing, emanating from the coffers of the likes of Qatar, Iran, and Turkey. Sadly, this is all being willingly and enthusiastically absorbed and cheered-on by an international choir in Europe and other Western countries, all too willing to absorb and propagate such propaganda and brain-washing and to direct it solely against Israel.

It is high time that the states and organizations within the international community, as well as international media outlets and the manipulated social media platforms, become aware of the absurdity and acute lack of any logical proportion in their anti-Israel fixation.

US considering asylum for British Jews

The Trump administration is discussing the possibility of offering asylum to Britain’s Jews, The Telegraph can reveal.

Robert Garson, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, said he had been in talks with the State Department about providing sanctuary for Jews fleeing anti-Semitism in the UK.

Mr Garson, who was born in Manchester, told The Telegraph that the UK was “no longer a safe place for Jews”.

He said the Islamist attack on a Manchester synagogue and the widespread anti-Semitism evident in the wake of the Oct 7 Hamas attack on Israel had led him to conclude British Jews should be offered refuge in the US.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Mr Garson said he could see “no future” for Jews in the UK and laid much of the blame on Sir Keir Starmer for allowing anti-Semitism to flourish.

Mr Garson said he had raised the idea of offering the US as a safe haven to British Jews with Mr Trump’s anti-Semitism tsar in his capacity as a board member of the US Holocaust Memorial Council. Mr Trump appointed Mr Garson to the council last May after firing board members appointed by Joe Biden.

A year ago, Australia was in an uproar when the government decided not to send a work by a Lebanese Australian artist, Khaled Sabsabi, to the to represent the country at the 2026 Venice Biennale, after it was revealed that he had created pro-terrorist video artwork installations.

Two of them are shown here. One from 2007, "You," repeatedly portrays videos of former Hezbollah terror leader Hassan Nasrallah as angelic figures of light, which the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney said "suggest divine illumination."

The other shows the planes crashing into the World Trade Center and then shows President Bush saying in a stutter, "Thank you very much," which is what Sabsabi named the installation.

These pieces are not "ambiguous" as the narrator in the videos claims. Sabsabi himself makes that clear even as he ingenuously says that they are about "humanity."

Thousands of Australian artists signed an open letter protesting that this decision was an assault on artistic freedom.

Yet later in 2025, tens of thousands of artists wrote a letter to the same Venice Beinnale insisting that the Israeli pavilion at the show be closed down: "We demand that the Biennale withdraws any offer to platform a genocidal state."

Australia's Jewish Independent looked at the signatures of both letters and found that over 200 of the same artists protesting censoring Australia platforming a pro-terror artist also supported censoring every Israeli artist.

In fact, Khaled Sabsabi himself signed the letter supporting censoring Israel's exhibit.

The Israeli art piece by Ruth Patir was not about celebrating war or terror. It reimagined fertility goddesses as real life mothers.

Jewish artists in Australia have been under siege. 600 Jewish creatives were doxxed, and several of them have been victims of discrimination in the art world just because they were Jewish. As the newspaper notes:

The Jewish Independent knows of several shocking individual cases including an established artist dropped by a gallery that had represented her for years; a young gallery worker who left her job after being confronted with antisemitic stereotypes; and an emerging artist with a recognisably Jewish family name who went from having several projects a year accepted to having every application rejected since October 7.

The situation is so dire that sculptor Nina Sanadze has founded Goldstone Gallery for the express purpose of platforming artists cancelled for political reasons, predominantly Jewish and Israeli artists.

We see the same hypocrisy in the academic world every day, where pro-terror and even antisemitic positions are justified as freedom of expression but any pro-Zionist voices are silenced for supposedly moral reasons.

But here we have a list of people who sign their names to diametrically opposed petitions that prove their own hypocrisy.

(h/t Jill)

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