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Thursday, April 03, 2025

Muslim nations condemn Ben Gvir "storming Al Aqsa Mosque." Their incitement is the real violation of international law.

Turkey's Anadolu Agency reports:Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir forced his way, along with illegal settlers, into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday, marking a new provocation amid the ongoing war on Gaza.Arab News reported:Saudi Arabia condemned the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday...

Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein. Imagine a Jewish sage, Rabbi Meir of Rothenberg, locked in a 13th-century dungeon. The Holy Roman Emperor demands a ransom—a fortune the Jewish community is desperate to pay to redeem their captive sage. Rabbi Meir, meanwhile, will not permit his flock to pay...

04/02 Links Pt2: The Unreformable Palestinian Authority; Why the Abraham Accords still matter; Eli Lake: Orientalism: How one book fueled 50 years of campus unrest

From Ian: The Unreformable Palestinian Authority With Israel poised to start taking and holding territory inside the Gaza Strip, the question of how to administer postwar Gaza has become more pressing. The Biden administration had been pushing for handing it over to a “reformed” or “revitalized” Palestinian Authority (PA). The PA, however, seems fundamentally resistant to...

From Ian: Bret Stephens: Here Is the Real Route to Freeing Palestinians The real route to freeing Palestinians, both in Gaza and the West Bank, must begin with the elimination of Hamas as a military force, something that, for now, only Israel has the power and the will to accomplish. Among other necessaries will be Israeli control of the Philadelphi Corridor separating Gaza...

America has never had the same level of antisemitism as Europe and the Middle East. For the most part, America has really been the "goldeneh medina" for Jews. However, like everywhere else, there has always been an undercurrent of antisemitism. In 1654, New Amsterdam (later New York) governor Peter Stuyvesant wrote to Dutch West India Company that Jews should not be allowed...

By Daled AmosThe right to free speech is both recognized and protected. Since October 7, pro-Hamas protesters have been accusing universities, the police, and even the government of deliberately violating their free speech. However, emphasizing that speech rights are not absolute only illustrates the growing need to more clearly define the boundary between the right...

The New York Times provides us with a textbook case of media bias while technically staying within the bounds of journalistic ethics.The actions taken in recent weeks against these foreign students and academics, many of them highly accomplished in their fields, have raised questions about why federal authorities are singling them out, and what role outside groups like Canary...

YNet reported yesterday:Israeli authorities said Tuesday they thwarted a major terrorist attack being planned against Israeli targets abroad, in what they described as one of the most serious plots in recent years. The IDF and Shin Bet security agency confirmed that the overnight airstrike in Beirut's Dahieh district, a Hezbollah stronghold, targeted and killed Hassan...

04/01 Links Pt2: How U.S. Academics Became Apostles of Folktales and Superstition; Blind Spot - A documentary on campus antisemitism

From Ian: Seth Mandel: How U.S. Academics Became Apostles of Folktales and Superstition The contrast between protests in Gaza and protests ostensibly for Gaza is startling. In Gaza, Palestinians are out in the streets calling for freedom from Hamas rule despite the knowledge that they are risking their lives to do so. Indeed, just this weekend Hamas abducted a protester,...

From Ian: Douglas Murray: In the modern age, 'civilised' people can no longer hate Jews for their religion or race - so they now resort to hating them for having a state and daring to defend it In the final part of the Mail’s exclusive serialisation of On Democracies And Death Cults, renowned author Douglas Murray explains why Israel is seen as the ‘bad guy’ the...

From the Evanston Roundtable:Nearly a year after Northwestern University President Michael Schill appeared on Capitol Hill for a hearing on antisemitism, the university released a report Monday touting an 88% drop in documented incidents of antisemitic discrimination from November 2023 to November 2024.NU, facing an active Trump administration investigation over alleged antisemitism...

One might think that Iran's implacable opposition to Israel's existence is based on Muslim theological beliefs. After all, Iran calls itself the Islamic Republic and its two Supreme Leaders, its two Supreme Leaders, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have styled themselves as religious authorities. Surprisingly, the reasons for Iran's antisemitism...