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Friday, April 04, 2025

04/04 Links Pt2: How did young people go so wrong they cheer killers and rapists of Hamas?; Antisemitism among Irish Christians at ‘Medieval’ levels; Orange butterfly renamed in honour of Ariel Bibas

From Ian: Seth Mandel: Princeton Honors Official Involved in Altercation with Jewish Student After viewing the parts of the Piegaro incident that were captured on video, it isn’t surprising the court ruled in his favor. Strother and two other men—according to testimony, the men were faculty advisors helping the pro-Palestinian demonstrators—are seen walking up the steps to...

From Ian: John Spencer: Why the US is striking the Houthis in Yemen On Oct. 31, 2023, the Houthis fired a barrage of ballistic missiles and drones at Israel. One of those missiles was intercepted just miles from Eilat, a southern Israeli port city. More disturbingly, U.S. officials confirmed that a Houthi-launched drone that same week passed over the Red Sea and came dangerously...

04/03 Links Pt2: Seth Mandel: Rules for Jews; We see what you’re doing, Sadiq Khan; Six Lessons from the Holocaust According to Menachem Begin

From Ian: Seth Mandel: Rules for Jews Unlike most voters, American Jews apparently do not get to choose which policies or government actions they support based on political principles. There’s a list, you see, of Special Obligations. Jews must do this or that, because as Jews we have a special obligation to everyone except ourselves. This Law of Special Obligations is on...

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The Gazan revolt People in the West refuse to accept the implacable nature of Palestinian Arab rejectionism, and the murderous hatred of Israel and the Jews. This is partly a refusal to face up to the reality of Islamic holy war. Partly, it’s due to widespread ignorance of the Middle East, Jewish history in the land and the spurious nature of...

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...

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...

03/31 Links Pt2: 60 Minutes: Israeli hostages bond through horror of Hamas captivity; Irish academic warns that anti-Zionism has become her country’s new religion

From Ian: Schama accuses celebrated writer of ‘sustained moral profantity’ with essay on Israel and the Shoah Simon Schama has accused the acclaimed author Pankaj Mishra of delivering an “exercise in sustained moral profanity” with an essay on Israel and Gaza that suggested those supporting the actions of the Jewish state had failed to learn the lessons of the Shoah. In...

From Ian: Seth Mandel: Stop Ignoring Hamas’s Anti-Americanism The protests on campus and in major U.S. cities in support of Hamas were explicit about their support for “anticolonialist” actions against the U.S. as well. The people tearing down hostage posters weren’t differentiating between American hostages and others. And these were American institutions being vandalized,...

03/30 Links: Israel: an anti-colonial triumph; Understanding the Arabs' Religious War Against the Jews; BBC refused antisemitism training

From Ian: Israel: an anti-colonial triumph By early 1948, the catastrophe that was about to overtake the Arabs of Palestine was coming into view. Jordan’s prime minister, Tawfik Abu al-Huda, warned Britain’s foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin, in the spring of 1948 that while ‘the Jews had prepared a government which would be able to take power as soon as the mandate was terminated…...