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05/23 Links Pt2: Douglas Murray: Israel can’t afford to leave Hamas in Gaza; Has the Era of Extremism Ended in the Middle East? ;What Qatar wants, Qatar gets

From Ian:

Douglas Murray: Israel can’t afford to leave Hamas in Gaza

Despite mounting international pressure and war costs, Israel cannot afford to end it war “with Hamas in power in any form,” British public intellectual Douglas Murray told JNS last week.

A prominent author, associate editor of the British magazine The Spectator and regular contributor to The Times and The Daily Telegraph, Murray in an interview with JNS justified Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to keep fighting until Hamas’s dismantlement, and downplayed concerns that it would leave Israel isolated.

“Anything short of victory is defeat,” Murray told JNS at a conference organized by the European Jewish Association in Madrid on combating antisemitism.

Israel’s decision this month to intensify the fighting until Hamas is removed from power in Gaza has triggered a coordinated effort within the European Union and beyond to punish the Jewish state for what its critics call war crimes.

On Monday, the leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Canada published a joint statement threatening “concrete actions in response” to the war. The European Commission on Tuesday decided to review its trade agreement with Israel, citing concerns of human rights abuses.

According to some reports, the war is also straining the U.S.-Israeli alliance, though officials from both countries have denied this. Pressure to end the war short of achieving its main goal is mounting, also internally in Israel. Yair Golan, the leader of the far-left The Democrats party, on Tuesday implied that Israel was insane, as “a sane country does not kill babies as a hobby.”

But “the reality is that Israel must see this war through. Anything less invites the next one,” Murray said in Madrid, where the director of the European Jewish Association, Rabbi Menachem Margolin, presented him with an award honoring his fact-finding missions in Israel and his support of the Jewish state.

Murray had covered the war in Ukraine intensively when, on Oct. 7, 2023, war broke out between Israel, Hamas and several other Iranian proxies. The British journalist subsequently spent weeks in Israel, where he documented atrocities committed by Hamas.

On April 10, Murray defended Israel on the podcast of Joe Rogan, where he challenged Rogan, the world’s most listened-to pundit, on perceived unfairness and laziness in discussing Israel’s war. That exchange had more than four million listeners.

Murray does not believe in continuing the war regardless of its cost, but rather that this cost is still manageable, despite attempts to raise it for Israel.

“Not at any cost,” Murray told JNS about the terms for continuing the war. As it appears now, the cost of not dismantling Hamas may end up exceeding that of terminating its reign, he argued. “Keeping Hamas means another war at some point. So anything short of victory is defeat—and we can’t afford a defeat. It’s unaffordable,” Murray said.

Israeli legal experts Shurat HaDin call for global reckoning in fight against Hamas

A pivotal panel during the Jerusalem Post’s 2025 Annual Conference, moderated by diplomatic correspondent Amichai Stein, convened three prominent figures on the legal frontlines of Israel’s ongoing struggle against terrorism and global prejudice: attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, MK Simcha Rothman, and Adv. Yael Yativ.

Darshan-Leitner, president of Shurat HaDin, emphasized the need to fight Hamas not only on the battlefield but also in the courtroom. “For Israel to win the war over Hamas and to bring back the hostages… we have to dismantle the terror organization by going after their financial infrastructure,” she said. “Follow the money, target the money, kill the money.”

Since October 7, Shurat HaDin has intensified legal campaigns against entities aiding terror, including the Palestinian Authority, Qatari charities, and cryptocurrency platforms. Darshan-Leitner vowed to hold international organizations accountable for betrayal and complicity. “We went after the Red Cross that abandoned the hostages… and after UNRWA, which helped Hamas by hiding launchers and missiles,” she stated. “They think they have immunity, but they do not.”

Rothman concentrated on Israel’s internal legal framework, advocating for a significant change in how the justice system handles terrorism. “We’re still prosecuting terrorists like we are on October 6,” he said.

The MK also highlighted a legal discrepancy in prosecuting incitement for genocide, noting that while it’s punishable by death under Israeli law, it is almost never enforced. “If the United States starts prosecuting incitement for genocide, Qatar-funded mosques five kilometers from here will have a lot to answer for,” he said.

Yativ shared the emotional survival story of a soldier treated at Assuta Ashdod Hospital. “We do not cry – we are resilient,” a soldier’s mother told her. The panelists conveyed a strong message: Israel’s legal and moral struggle goes well beyond the battlefield, requiring courage, innovation, and global accountability.”

Seth Frantzman: Has the Era of Extremism Ended in the Middle East?

Today these groups are weakened or close to collapse. For instance, the PKK has said it will dissolve itself, ending 40 years of fighting against Turkey. PKK-linked groups may not follow suit in Iran or Syria, but they will likely morph into something else. The Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria are linked to the PKK, but they have moved far from their roots and are now prepared to integrate with the new government in Damascus. The PKK’s decision could also end a simmering conflict in northern Iraq, where Turkey maintains bases to fight the PKK.

ISIS cells are still active in Syria and Iraq, but the group is much weaker than when it was claiming territory and committing atrocities in 2015-2017. One of the clearest examples of the withering of extremist groups, though, is illustrated by the transition of Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS). The group was linked to al Qaeda but moderated while in control of Idlib in northern Syria. On Dec. 8, 2024, when the Assad regime fell, HTS became the new de-facto rulers in Damascus. Its leader, al Sharaa, became the transitional president. Now it is trying both to govern and to step away from its past extremism. Trump’s decision to meet with Sharaa, and the European Union’s decision on May 20 to end sanctions on Syria, show outside players are embracing the new reformists in Damascus.

Not all the Islamist groups in the region who use terrorism as a policy tool have disappeared. The Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas shows how deadly extremists can still be. However, Hamas has been weakened by Israel’s 19-month war in Gaza. The group’s leadership has been decimated. It still has support from Iran and receives a welcome mat in Turkey and Qatar, but its aging leaders may not be able to inspire the next generation.

Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in Iraq are all part of the Iranian-backed nexus of armed groups in the region, and these groups are also changing. Hezbollah was badly beaten by Israel in 2024. The fall of the Assad regime swept aside Iranian-backed militias in Syria. The PMF continue to be powerful but face some attempts to rein in their power; they could ossify and become less relevant over time. The Houthis pose a threat and have shown they can confront Israel and the U.S. However, it is possible that the Houthis have also reached the peak of their power.

What does this mean for the Middle East? Extremist groups have hollowed out states and sowed chaos across the region. For instance, Iranian-backed groups weakened Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, all of which became semi-failed states. Hamas took over Gaza in a coup in 2007 and brought ruin to the area with a decade and a half of wars on Israel. ISIS committed genocide in Iraq. The PKK not only tried to ignite a war in Turkey in 2015, but its affiliates and cadres also created chaos in northern Iraq. In Syria and Iran, the role of groups linked to the PKK has been different, but overall the dissolution of the group will likely help bring peace to Kurdish regions in four countries.

For decades, images of terrorism came to define the way people from other parts of the world viewed the Middle East. Historic cities such as Baghdad and Damascus became more well known for war than arts and culture. Gaza, once an important stop on trade routes, has been a scene of unending war. Extremist groups fought ceaselessly to seize power, hollow out states, and use countries as bases to spread conflict. As these groups are weakened and the state system returns to the region, a new future may emerge. This new future is on display as Trump meets Sharaa, the PKK dissolves, and Iran sees its proxies cut off and isolated.

05/23 Links Pt1: The tragic naiveté of liberal Jews; From the BLM riots to the DC shooting in five short years; The Deadly Lie Behind ‘Free Palestine’

From Ian:

Ruthie Blum: The tragic naiveté of liberal Jews

A young couple was executed in cold blood on Wednesday night, outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26—both staffers at the Israeli embassy—were leaving a cultural event promoting interfaith understanding when they were gunned down on the sidewalk.

The shooter, 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, shouted “Free, free Palestine” while being handcuffed by police. He subsequently boasted, “I did it for Gaza.”

Rodriguez, a radical-leftist activist, didn’t know anything about Lischinsky and Milgrim. Before obliterating them, he didn’t check what causes they supported. Nor did he delve into their positions on Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza.

Had he done so, he would have discovered that both were involved in advancing dialogue and building bridges. Lischinsky, a promising diplomat in the embassy’s political division, focused his efforts on outreach—engaging with D.C. think tanks, universities and faith communities—to present a more nuanced, human face of Israel.

Milgrim had spent years volunteering with coexistence initiatives. Her social-media pages were filled with photos from interfaith Passover seders, joint Arab-Jewish youth workshops and campus activities aimed at furthering peace and reconciliation.

But none of that mattered to Rodriguez or his many supporters online. It’s a phenomenon that follows a familiar pattern.

On Oct. 7, 2023, Israelis awoke to a nightmare that under any other circumstances would have shattered any illusions about the possibility of achieving some sort of equilibrium, let alone peace, with the enemies next door. That morning, Hamas terrorists and Gaza civilians stormed the border, gleefully raping, torturing, burning and butchering more than 1,200 men, women and children.

During the rampage, proudly documented by the perpetrators on cellphones and bodycams, the barbarians abducted 250 other innocents, 58 of whom remain in captivity, some alive and some dead.

Among the hardest hit on that fateful Shabbat-Simchat Torah weekend were residents of liberal/left-leaning kibbutzim and rave-goers attending the peace-and-love-themed Nova music festival.

Douglas Murray: DC killings show how Americans are being incited to kill Jews by anti-Israel propaganda

What did such groups and such individuals think about the consequences of their actions?

When they chanted to “globalize the intifada” they meant exactly what Rodriguez did.

They meant — and they mean — that the targeting of Jews by acts of terror should be brought from the Middle East here to America.

For the past year and a half many people — Jewish and non-Jewish — have warned about the escalation in anti-Jewish and anti-Israel activism in this country.

We have warned about the radical leftist groups — and the radical right-wing commentators — who have had a field-day appealing to the most base human bigotries.

When these people were accused of “blood libels” many of them decided to look into the claim and then tell their followers that Jews were in fact busily killing and using the blood of Christian children in the Middle Ages.

When people said that they sounded like they were celebrating a death cult they showed that they were proud of it.

The streets of DC, like the streets of this city, have resounded for 19 months to chants calling for the annihilation of the Jewish State and the killing of Jewish people.

It was allowed to go on despite the fact that no similar incitement would ever be allowed in this country against any other group.

Rodriguez does not appear to be a radical Muslim.

He is someone who has been radicalized in America by radical left groups that believe that killing Jews makes them ethical people.

Now radical groups in this country — often backed by Iran and Qatar — are praising him.

One regime papers in Qatar has already called for “A few more [people] like Rodriguez”

Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim spent their last day on earth trying to fight the lies and the hate.

They loved this country and said so often.

Whether America sides with the victims of this heinous act or with the culprit will tell us a lot about where America, as a society, goes next.

NYPost Editorial: DC antisemitic terror killings channel spirit of the campus protesters

Rodriguez, born and raised in America with no obvious link to the Middle East, is a man of the modern left, following in the footsteps not just of the “pro-Palestine” lunatic who recently firebombed the home of Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) but also of Luigi Mangione, much lionized as the “health care” assassin.

Indeed, posts from what’s thought to be Rodriguez’s X account applaud Mangione and praise political violence; they include thinly veiled death threats to Jews as well as “Death to America.”

He’s a onetime member of the far-left Party for Socialism and Liberation, some of whose recent posters have forthrightly urged “Extreminate Zionists!”

In short, Rodriguez did just what all those college protesters have been demanding: “Globalize the intifada.”

No matter that Lischinsky was a Christian, nor that Milgrim worked on building peaceful collaborations between Palestinians and Israelis: Such details don’t matter to progressive haters.

What do you think? Post a comment.

Old-school right-wing antisemitism is still real and periodically deadly, but it’s astonishing how far the global left has interpenetrated with Islamist antisemitism: Hamas, after all, imposes sharia law in Gaza.

It’s not just the lust for violence that unites them, but a hatred for Western civilization.

The Deadly Lie Behind ‘Free Palestine’

Defeating the Death Cult
We must confront this honestly. The “Free Palestine” movement must be recognized for what it is. It was never a human rights movement. The calls for ceasefire were always disingenuous. We are not witnessing a protest for peace. We are witnessing a crusade to dehumanize and destroy. A "religion" that seeks a futile salvation through sacrificing Israel and the Jews as scapegoats of western sins. It must be treated as such, not only for the sake of Jews, but for the sake of Palestinians and for the soul of Western society.

Because here is the tragic irony: Palestinians will never be free until this death cult is defeated. Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and their Western enablers have done more to entrench Palestinian suffering than any Israeli policy. They need war. They need blood. They need to keep Palestinians trapped in permanent victimhood, because peace would mean they’re no longer needed.

If you care about peace, about the Palestinians, we must dismantle the “Free Palestine” movement. If you care about Jews, confront antisemitism with clarity, not euphemism. And if you care about Western civilization - pluralism, democracy, reason, dignity - understand this is your fight. Because what happened in Washington wasn’t an isolated tragedy. It was a warning.

And the question now is: will we hear it? Or will we keep pretending this cancer is a cause?

Thoughts On A Socialist Murderer (Guest Post)

A guest post

The murderer of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky wrote a manifesto before setting out to commit a premeditated cold blooded dual murder. His manifesto sounded strangely familiar. I had heard an old friend of mine say similar things. My old friend is also a Socialist, and a Marxist, and a Harvard graduate, and is now a sitting professor. When we were friends in grade school, he was a peace activist who often quoted Martin Luther King. He strongly believed in non-violent protest. He opposed the Vietnam War. In fact, he opposed all wars. He believed that all conflicts could be solved through UN negotiations and peace treaties. He believed all crimes should be adjudicated in international courts, since he did not trust the US court system. He believed the US was corrupt, while the major Communist dictatorships were utopian. His parents had a poster of Che Guevarra, and a bust of Karl Marx prominently displayed in their home. He had a strange fascination with Carlos The Jackal. I knew there was something odd about his family and the belief system he had grown up with, but I did not place him within the same groups of radical lunatics portrayed in Hollywood movies. After all, he was a straight-A student, and he was very well read in literature, history, philosophy, and the sciences. He was a Renaissance man. He would read the entire Sunday edition of the New York Times every weekend. His teachers all loved him. He was admitted to Harvard on a scholarship, without the help of any family connections. He later became a university professor. I admired his accomplishments, and I thought he must be doing something right.

We lost touch after graduating high school, but we re-united when he moved to a nearby town to accept a new faculty position. It was about a year after the 9/11 attacks and the Second Intifada in Israel. I was upset by the news of the day, since the intifada was an attack against my birthplace, and the 9/11 attacks were against my new adopted home. When we met, the conversation soon turned to the middle east. It was unexpected, since throughout our grade-school friendship we never discussed middle east politics. Looking back, I don't recall ever hearing him supporting the PLO, despite his Communist ideology. He knew I was Israeli, so he probably avoided the subject out of courtesy. But when we re-united, he expressed open support for the Palestinian terrorists who slaughtered over a thousand Israelis during the Second Intifada. The murders were not all concentrated within a single day, as had happened on the Simchat Torah massacre, but the antisemitic carnage was devastating for Israelis around the world. Despite the sensitivity of the topic, he did not hesitate to express solidarity with Hamas "freedom fighters." I was shocked by what he said. This was not the same person I grew up with. This was not a peace activist. I confronted him. I reminded him of his peacenik past. I asked what had changed in his principles. He replied that "sometimes violence is needed in the pursuit of justice." I reminded him that he used to criticize vigilante justice. I reminded him that he once opposed capital punishment. I reminded him that the judicial process does not consist of summary judgement and execution on the spot. I asked him how he could so easily discard all the pacifist principles he once cherished. He had no response. He had lost the concept of morality. How did this happen to such an intelligent person?

I asked him if the recent bombing of the Sbarro pizza parlor in Jerusalem, or the bombing of the cafeteria at Hebrew University did anything to advance justice. He still had no response. I felt outraged, but I maintained my composure. Despite my previous admiration of his education and intellect, I would not let him have the last word about Israel. I knew far more about this subject than he did. I was determined to educate him about Israel, patiently, using lots of facts. I thought a Harvard educated professor would relate to a well-reasoned and thoroughly researched argument. I purchased several copies of The Case For Israel, by Allen Dershowitz, another Harvard alum, and later a Harvard law professor. I gave him a copy, gave several copies to my family members, and kept one for myself. I read Mitch Bards essays about Israel, Michael Oren's Six Days of War, and anything else I could find. I spent the next two months meeting with my friend to discuss my side, the Israeli side of the conflict. We discussed the massive Mizrahi Jewish immigration to Israel, a subject he knew nothing about, despite his supposedly extensive reading about the middle east. We discussed the many UN resolutions about Israel, the foundation of the state, the countless wars, and my personal memories as a child during the '67 war. After a half dozen discussion sessions, each lasting at least two hours, he was still unmoved. I could not get him to change his viewpoints. He even told me that he burned his copy of The Case For Israel in his backyard. I asked if he had bothered to read it. He replied that he did not. So, in a final effort, I explained to my friend that Hamas is an illegal terrorist organization. He replied that it depends on one's perspective. I replied that Hamas is defined as a terrorist organization by both the US Departments of State and Treasury. I reminded him that by US law, aiding or abetting a terrorist organization is illegal. That does not assume any "perspective." I also informed him that I would do my part to enforce US law if I learned of someone aiding Hamas. He got the message. Friendship has its limits.

Circling back to Elias Rodrigues, I have to wonder if my friend would be capable of committing a similar crime. If he expressed support for Hamas in 2001, he is no different than the campus activists organizing the hundreds of marches and encampments supporting "the Gaza resistance" today. If a college professor has no morals, and makes political allegiance with barbarians, than the question is a valid one. My conclusion is that it is a moot point. Even if the professor wouldn't actually pull the trigger, I have no doubt that these professors would do nothing to stop the actual "trigger man." The guilt is shared by the entire ideology that justifies vigilante murder in the name of a deranged interpretation of social justice. I shudder to think how many seemingly normal people are walking around with this latent leftist brainwashing. It reminds me of The Manchurian Candidate. Is this life mimicking art, or was the story a guidebook for a long-term Soviet project?

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How could anyone believe 14,000 babies would die in Gaza within 48 hours—and then repeat it, uncritically, on the floor of Parliament?

Earlier this week, UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher claimed on BBC Radio 4’s Today program that 14,000 babies in Gaza could die within 48 hours without urgent aid entering the sector. This alarming figure was widely reported by global media and cited by UK politicians, including 13 MPs in a House of Commons debate,.

The claim was later debunked as a misinterpretation of a UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, which actually projected 14,100 cases of severe acute malnutrition among children aged six months to five years over a year (April 2025–March 2026), not 48 hours, and not necessarily fatal. (Every one of IPC's previous projections of famine in Gaza have turned out to very inaccurate.)

What seems to be missed in this fiasco is something very simple:

How could the UN's humanitarian chief even think this number was true to begin with? How could so many prominent media outlets and politicians believe it enough to repeat it?

If you follow the war, you know that even Hamas only says less than 60 people have died of malnutrition over 19 months. On a per capita basis, it means that people are one third as likely to die in Gaza of starvation during a war than in the United States at peacetime.

Not only that, but those who did die of malnutrition all seem to have had other medical conditions.

For anyone who follows the war in Gaza, the 14,000 figure is obviously ridiculous. Anyone with even the slightest familiarity with what is going on in Gaza would know instantly that someone misinterpreted something, at best.

But when you are an antisemite, you don't want facts. You want confirmation of your biases.

The 14,000 figure was, in the parlance of journalists, too good to check: "a tale so perfect, or a confirmation of extant prejudices so wonderful, that to actually investigate, to possibly find out that it's not true, would be a shame."

If you already believe that Israel is evil incarnate, there is no reason to disbelieve any story that proves that Israel is evil incarnate.

Tom Fletcher is the freaking head of humanitarian relief in the UN. He's been tweeting and writing and talking about Gaza virtually every day for 19 months. Yet he either misinterpreted, or believed someone else, to say something as ridiculous as "scientists say that everyone with blue eyes will become left-handed tomorrow."

And the same absurdity was automatically repeated by people who are both incredibly ignorant about the topic and that are so biased as to believe the worst things anyone can say about Jews.

And, yes, this is antisemitism. This isn’t just a case of journalistic laziness or bureaucratic incompetence - it’s a symptom of a deeper pathology: a willingness to believe anything, no matter how absurd, if it confirms the narrative of uniquely evil Jews. For any other country - even in the worst famine-struck areas in places like Sudan - no reporter or pundit or politician would say such a statement without checking. Only for Israel are the normal tendencies to use common sense thrown out the window.

Anyone who fell for the ‘14,000 babies’ lie, and repeated it, has forfeited any claim to credibility - on Gaza or any other subject.

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Arab media reactions to Washington shooting converging on "Israel is weaponizing antisemitism"

Last night I made this meme:

Arab media have been emphasizing numbers 3-6 in wake of the shocking murders of two Israel Embassy staff.

Al Jazeera interviewed Dr. Abdullah Al-Shaiji, a professor of political science at Kuwait University, who said that the attack had nothing to do with antisemitism, but rather was a natural consequence of the Gaza war. He said Israel would falsely blame antisemitism for the attack and added that "the 'victimhood' narrative that Israel has presented and promoted for 77 years has collapsed, as it is now known globally as a state that commits genocide and bloody massacres."

Abdel Bari Atwan, a frequent guest on BBC, calls the attack an "operation" mimicking the language used by Palestinians justifying all terror attacks. He cheers the attack as "the first response to the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing that the Israeli occupation army has been waging in the Gaza Strip for 19 months." He uses the same justification that Palestinians use when they attack Jewish civilians, saying, "What do they expect from American youth when they are expelled from their university and prevented from freely expressing their humanitarian feelings towards the victims of the war of extermination among their colleagues in the Gaza Strip, and expressing solidarity with them, under pressure from Zionist lobbies? " He ends by warning and eagerly anticipating more such attacks: "Even if some disagree with the way he expressed his positions and the state of anger within him, his ten bullets may be a warning bell of future attacks, perhaps more dangerous, targeting hundreds of Israeli embassies and interests around the world,"

A "political affairs expert" on Egyptian TV said both that the attack was not antisemitic - because Jews are not Semites - and that Israel is playing the victimhood card, which it has been doing since 1948 with the establishment of Israel being a result of the Holocaust.

Egyptian site Aboutmsr quotes unnamed experts saying the use of the term "antisemitism" after every attack shows that Israel is sing it as a tool to silence critics, "whether by inciting against activists defending Palestinian rights or by pushing for new legislation restricting freedoms in the West" by promoting the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

Palestinian site Shfa News goes full blown antisemite, claiming that Jews are not Semites while Palestinians are descendants of Canaanites, that Jews were not the primary victims of the Holocaust and also the Zionists were responsible for it, and the real holocaust is the one happening to Palestinians.

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I read the manifesto of Elias Rodriguez, and was struck that he had a fairly consistent philosophy. Not being an expert (yet) on philosophy, I asked AI to tell me which philosophical framework he held, and the most consistent one was the Revolutionary Ethics ideas of Frantz Fanon and Che Guevara.

Briefly, this philosophy says that violence is a "moral" response to oppression, especially colonialism. It holds that violence against oppressors (or their agents) is necessary to dismantle unjust systems and restore dignity to the oppressed.

In short, if you are oppressed, you have a license to murder (within limits.)

Rodriguez extended that philosophy to saying that anyone who identifies with the oppressed - like himself - also has the right, and possibly the responsibility, to murder those deemed to be oppressors.

Going even beyond that, prominent Palestinian writer Susan Abulhawa espoused her own philosophy in a tweet justifying murdering Jews:

Natural logic: when governments fail to hold Israel accountable for an actual holocaust being committed before our very eyes, no genocidal Zionist should be safe anywhere in the world. What Mr. Rodriguez did should come as no surprise. In fact, I’m surprised it has not happened sooner. Human beings with a conscience literally cannot bear to witness such evil day and day out being inflicted upon the bodies, minds, and futures of an utterly defenseless people, by such a hateful, racist, colonial state.

For this "human rights activist," not only employees of the Israeli government but indeed all Zionists should be targeted with death.

This is still a philosophy. The idea would not be derided in academia - it would be respected, as Fanon's ethics are. Fanon himself is a kind of superstar in many academic circles.

Having ethics has nothing to do with being a moral person. Ethical systems are internally consistent frameworks for evaluating right and wrong. Too many academics seem to confuse logical coherence - which is what they prize most of all - over whether the philosophy itself is moral. Instead of doing what philosophers are supposed to do, to use their minds to determine how people should act, they are too often dazzled by intellectual edifices that hold up ideas that are utterly immoral. An ethical system can be perfectly consistent - and utterly evil.

In the project I've been working on, I use antisemitism as an easy metric to determine if a philosophy is moral or not - if it accepts or encourages hating Jews, then it is by definition immoral. The fatal flaw with how Fanon is taught is assuming that Israel is a colonialist state, ignoring Jewish indigeneity to the region. If the system allows anyone to define "colonialism" in ways beyond the actual meaning of the word, it can be twisted to attack Jews who support returning to the lands of their ancestors that they yearned for over two millennia, which is as anti-colonialist as can be imagined.

People who cheer murdering Jews and Israelis swear that they are moral people. They have an intellectual framework that justifies targeting a young couple outside a Jewish museum. But these people are not moral.

If philosophy treats the ethics of "revolution" as being on par with, say, Christian ethics or Kantian deontology, then it has failed in its main purpose of discerning right and wrong through critical inquiry. Instead of taking a stand against using coherent frameworks to justify violence, too many philosophy majors appear dazzled by the elegance of a well-crafted theory to the detriment of any real analysis of what is moral - and the value of human life.

As we saw on Wednesday night, creating these theories is not merely an academic exercise. It has real world consequences. Elias Rodriguez is an intelligent person who likely has never even been exposed to any serious criticism of the theories he espouses. When revolutionary or reductionist systems gain academic respectability, they trickle into activism, politics, and even state policy - potentially affecting millions of lives.

It is not only a crime of commission, of elevating malign ideas as ethical. It is also a crime of omission, because Jewish ethics - time tested, flexible, robust, and checking all the boxes of a successful moral and philosophical framework - are largely ignored in philosophy departments. Maimonides and Samson Raphael Hirsch and Joseph Soloveitchik, if taught, are relegated to "Jewish studies."

Fanon’s ideas are venerated. Jewish ethics is relegated. Why? Because Fanon is seen as ‘novel,’ and Jewish ethics is ‘old’ - as if wisdom is a flaw and novelty is virtue. Which means the people who lean on their philosophical studies when they make political or editorial decisions will tend to have more respect for Che Guevara's ideas than those of Pirkei Avot.

Philosophy matters. When it fails, people die. When it ignores centuries of lived moral wisdom in favor of the latest theory that justifies hate, it fails not only as scholarship, but as a guide for humanity.

If university philosophy departments are are serious about teaching morality, they need to revisit the proven frameworks that have sustained communities for thousands of years, and stop dignifying every murderous abstraction as a worthy ‘philosophy.’ The world can’t afford more Rodriguez manifestos.

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05/22 Links Pt2: Zionism is not hate, but hope fulfilled; The Rhetoric of Hamas and Abbas on Israel Is Identical; Trump admin revokes Harvard’s student visas

From Ian:

Zionism is not hate, but hope fulfilled

Zionism, we are told by its critics, is a colonial project. But how can a people be colonisers when they have no other homeland? The Jewish connection to the land of Israel is not a product of the 20th century. It is a 3,000-year-old relationship embedded in our scriptures, our liturgy, our language, and our identity.

To suggest otherwise is not simply to misunderstand Jewish history – it is to falsify it. And when that falsehood is circulated by those in positions of influence, it does profound harm. It legitimises the marginalisation of Jews who dare to stand up for their people’s right to exist in dignity and peace. It emboldens those who would like to see the only Jewish state in the world wiped off the map. And, as we have seen once again so tragically this week, it bleeds seamlessly into antisemitism and violence.

The murders in Washington DC were devastating but not surprising. For so long we have seen synagogues defaced, Jewish students harassed, and businesses or organisations with even the most tenuous links to Judaism or Israel vandalised. Not because of anything they have done, but because of what they are presumed to represent. Because of “Zionism”.

The irony, of course, is that Zionism is one of the most remarkable movements for liberation in modern history. In just a few generations, it transformed a traumatised, exiled people into a thriving democracy. It created a home for refugees from over 100 countries and offered sanctuary to Holocaust survivors and victims of persecution from Iraq to Ethiopia, and from Russia to Yemen.

As Israel’s Declaration of Independence makes clear, Zionism has always had peace at the core of its national aspiration. To appropriate the tragedy of a war in order to portray it as a malevolent force – as a synonym for racism or supremacy – is not criticism. It is demonisation. It is a deliberate inversion of truth that seeks to rob Jews of their right to speak and act for themselves.

Zionism is not hate, but hope. It is the hope of a people scattered to the winds and returned to their roots. It is the hope of parents raising their children in a land their ancestors only dreamed of seeing. It is the hope of a refugee stepping off a plane and hearing their own language sung in the streets. It is the hope of a nation that, despite all it has endured, still clings to the belief that one day, peace might yet be possible.

That is Zionism. And it is a story worth telling – not through the distorted lens of its detractors, but through the direct and personal experiences and aspirations of those of us who call it our own.

Most people will not give a second thought to the ease with which a high-profile BBC presenter, with no apparent understanding of Jewish identity, would so readily amplify a video which demonises such a fundamental aspect of it. But it could not be clearer that the consequences of that demonising narrative are truly dangerous.

We must do better. We cannot allow the enemies of Zionism to define it. For to surrender that ground is to surrender not only the truth, but the dignity and safety of a people whose greatest aspiration is that one day, Israel – the indigenous and historic homeland of the Jewish People – can exist securely and freely, in peace with its neighbours and the wider region as an equal member of the family of nations.

Seth Mandel: Walk a Few Miles in An Israeli’s Shoes

The Israeli Foreign Ministry has ordered its diplomats around the world to refrain from participating in public events until further notice, according to a leading Israeli broadcaster. The cautionary note comes after last night’s murder of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington outside the Capital Jewish Museum.

These are, of course, government officials with government-level security. I don’t think most people have the faintest idea of what it’s like for Israelis traveling abroad these days on their own. So here’s a peek at the experience of being an Israeli in the world, via a few stories that demonstrate the point.

Earlier this month, an Israeli tourist attempted to book a hotel stay in the popular Norwegian destination town of Geiranger. The would-be traveler received the following response from the hotel:
“The Norwegian Labor Organization (LO) will soon enforce a boycott that will affect Israeli tourists and Israeli goods due to the catastrophic situation in Gaza. We need to inform you that our staff is organized in LO unions, and they will not break the boycott. I will need to consult with the employers’ organization as I see this as a force majeure situation.”

Force majeure refers to the way unforeseen events can be excluded from normal liability obligations. It seems the hotel could not possibly have expected an Israeli traveler and believes its trade union will be enforcing a boycott against not just Israeli companies and products but people.

Put simply: We don’t serve your kind here.

"Israel Is Only Country that Could Be Attacked on Seven Fronts and Described as the Aggressor"

After Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand last week described Israel's post-Oct. 7 war on Hamas as "aggression," IDF Lt.-Col. Nadav Shoshani said Sunday that Israel works hard to limit civilian deaths, often issuing warnings beforehand so they can get out of harm's way.

"Israel is the only country in the world that could be attacked on seven fronts and described as being the aggressor."

Shoshani said he had "a lot of respect for Canada," but said Hamas started the war and could end it by laying down their weapons and releasing the hostages.

"We're doing everything we can to fight a terrorist organization and we're not going to fight it in a non-aggressive way."

"We're differentiating and targeting terrorists who have said they want to kill us, kill my family. We have to act against these terrorists to make sure they can't do that."

05/22 Links Pt1: The pogrom comes to Washington; Blood Libels Lead to Bloodshed; This is what 'globalize the intifada' looks like

From Ian:

Brendan O'Neill: The pogrom comes to Washington

Two Israeli embassy staffers gunned down in the prime of their lives. Young lovers shot to death for the ‘crime’ of taking pride in Jewish heritage. He had bought a ring and was planning to propose to her next week in Jerusalem, the capital of the Jewish people’s homeland. We need to speak frankly about the vile slaying of Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky in Washington, DC last night. It was, in President Trump’s words, ‘obviously based on anti-Semitism’. It was an act of racist savagery that speaks to the anti-civilisational delirium that pumps in the veins of Israelophobia. It was the pogrom come to Washington.

Ms Milgrim and Mr Lischinsky were staff members at the Israeli Embassy in DC. Last night, they were shot dead as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum. It was a cocktail-fuelled reception for ‘young diplomats’ aimed at ‘fostering unity and celebrating Jewish heritage’. The suspect in this sick crime was reportedly wearing a keffiyeh. ‘Free Palestine’, he hollered as he allegedly put bullets into the embassy staffers. ‘Globalise the intifada’, the drones of the Israelophobic mob have been shouting since Hamas’s pogrom of 7 October 2023. Well, here it is, being globalised: Hamas-style savagery in the beating heart of the Western world.

America’s politicians are not mincing their words. This was a ‘deadly act of anti-Semitic violence’, says Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives. It’s hard to see what else it could be. If you lurk with a gun outside an event at a Jewish museum devoted to celebrating Jewish heritage, and callously butcher those who come out, it’s pretty clear what your motives are. That the suspect was allegedly wearing a keffiyeh and yelling about Gaza is not surprising: Jew hate comes gussied up in the Palestine colours these days. The fascist imagination disguises itself in faux-progressive talk about Palestine.

We await more information about the suspect. It remains to be seen if he worked alone or with others. So far as we know, one man bears responsibility for this savage act: the person who pulled the trigger. But it would be wrong, catastrophic in fact, to overlook the context in which this crime against the Jewish people unfolded. We cannot close our ears to the mood music in our societies – the screeching surround sound, in fact – that at the very least makes outrages like this one that bit more likely. We are living through the most ruthless, most relentless demonisation of the Jewish State in the entire 77 years of its existence. And it is hard to see last night’s double slaughter as anything other than the militarisation of that fashionable spite, the armed wing of a loathing for Israel that long ago crossed the line from political critique into neo-medieval hysteria.

Melanie Phillips: Blood on their hands

The United Nations is the world’s principal engine of these falsehoods and distortions. It routinely pumps out Hamas statistics that turn out to have no basis in reality; it both draws upon and feeds in turn the malevolent untruths issued by bodies such as the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, and the big NGOs like Amnesty and Human Rights Watch.

The consequences of this behavior go far beyond harming the State of Israel to put every Jew at risk and to trap the West inside a sinister mindset that undermines civilization itself.

As has often been noted, the reason liberals hate Israel is because they think that Zionism is a colonialist ideology and that Israel oppresses the indigenous people of the land.

Israel, where the indigenous people are, in fact, the Jews, is actually the historic victim and current target of Arab colonialism, and Zionism is the ultimate decolonization movement. Nevertheless, Israel is deemed to be colonialist and white. That’s because it’s thought of as a Western nation and is therefore inescapably mired in the West’s original sins of colonialism, racism and whiteness, even though the majority of Jews have moved there from other Middle Eastern countries that they were forced to leave and are dark-skinned.

It’s an article of progressive faith that the Western nation is the source of division, oppression and war. Its institutions and laws should therefore be trumped by transnational institutions such as the United Nations and international courts that represent the world, and are thus assumed to possess a moral legitimacy that the Western nation lacks.

Given these institutions’ appalling attitudes towards Israel and Zionism, however, this has helped drive the West off its moral compass.

Moreover, since Zionism is the self-determination of the Jewish people in their historic homeland of Israel, and since Judaism fuses the religion with the people and the land, anti-Zionism is unarguably anti-Judaism.

But there’s even worse.

To those who believe that Israel is a colonialist occupier that’s driven out the rightful inhabitants of the land and that it’s committing war crimes in Gaza, it follows that Israel and Zionism are evil. So, too, therefore, are those Jews who support Israel and Zionism.

If something or someone is evil, it’s not only permissible to loathe, detest and try to destroy them. It’s a moral obligation to do so. If Israel, Zionism and the Jews are evil, then it’s a moral obligation to loathe, detest and try to destroy them.

To the Western liberal, for whom Zionism is racism and Israel starves babies to death, antisemitism is therefore not just the shield behind which the Jews sanitize Israel’s crimes. It’s no longer a uniquely murderous and deranged creed that all people of conscience must oppose. Horrifyingly, for the Western liberal, antisemitism has become a moral obligation.

We’ve gone through the looking-glass into a nightmarish landscape where evil is being embraced as virtue. The shocking murders in Washington, D.C., are the result.

From the French revolutionary terror in the 18th century through the mind control of communism to the tyranny of fascism, a desire to bring about the perfection of the world has led instead to tyranny and mass slaughter. Today, Western liberals have become the accomplices of Islamo-Nazism through their own misguided fantasies about the brotherhood of man.

So it has come to pass that the global humanitarian establishment of transnational institutions and human-rights law that was established after the defeat of Nazism to ensure that such a terrible evil should never arise again, has itself become a monstrous force inciting the conditions for a second Holocaust.

Seth Mandel: Extinguish the Gaslight Forever

No one ever shouts “Free Palestine” while holding up a copy of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements Including Its Annexes and Its Agreed Minutes.

The Oslo accords, as they are better known, are not of much interest to the Palestine movement in the West. When activists in this movement hold maps, they do not look like the one Ehud Olmert offered Mahmoud Abbas, a detailed illustration of every demand Abbas made that shows Israel and Palestine living side by side.

“Free, free Palestine” were the words shouted last night by the anti-Zionist who was arrested for the murder outside the Capital Jewish Museum of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, a young couple who were about to travel to Jerusalem and get engaged to be married. It is the chosen phrase for a great many people, none of whom—not one—envisions a peaceful outcome to this conflict. Yaron and Sarah were the opposite—budding diplomats with a bone-deep desire for peace and coexistence. There is no room for such people in “free, free Palestine.” They worked for the Israeli embassy, where there is always room for such people.

What we owe ourselves, as a community, after this monstrous act is to stop playing along with the gaslighting of those forever trying to wipe us off the face of the earth. May we stop saying or hearing the endlessly insulting formulation that “many Jews interpret” various Hamasnik slogans as threats or incitement or justification for violence against innocents. They are not ambiguous. We don’t interpret these slogans at all. We simply hear them.

“Globalize the intifada” cannot be “interpreted by some Jews as a call for violence.” It simply is. We do not say that when Elias Rodriguez allegedly pointed a loaded gun at Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, his actions were “interpreted by some Jews as a threat.” When he allegedly squeezed the trigger, it was not “interpreted by some Jews” as murder. What he was doing at that moment was globalizing the intifada, just as he’d been told to do for the better part of two years by everyone with a Ph.D.

We Jews can have granular Talmudic discussions on just about anything. The reason we don’t have such debates over “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is because there’s nothing to discuss. Contrary to what you might read in mainstream newspapers, there is no disagreement over what it means. Everyone knows what it means—it is a slogan explicitly (the original phrasing, changed to rhyme in English, is “Palestine is Arab”) calling for genocide. It’s true that some people lie about what it means, or might mean. But that’s not the same thing as there being a genuine debate.

Eitan Fischberger: Blood Libels Lead to Bloodshed

Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were murdered in cold blood this week in Washington, D.C. The young Israeli diplomats — a couple planning to get engaged — were gunned down outside a Jewish museum by a man radicalized by Hamas propaganda.

Their killer, Elias Rodriguez, didn’t flee or hide. He left behind a manifesto — not inspired by ISIS or al-Qaeda, but by Hamas. More specifically, by Hamas propaganda: the kind funneled through its “health ministry,” broadcast by its “information office,” and repeated uncritically by a willing chorus of Western journalists, activists, and NGOs.

Rodriguez cites the now-standard menu of disinformation: 53,000 killed, 10,000 trapped under rubble, an imminent famine, burned corpses of children, and mass death allegedly ignored by the West. Virtually all of these claims originate from Hamas-run institutions, fabricated or grossly exaggerated for shock value. And yet, these lies are repeated endlessly — not just by fringe radicals but by UN officials, Ivy League students, and legacy media outlets.

Just one day before the murders, the a top UN humanitarian official lied that “14,000 babies” were at risk of dying in Gaza within 48 hours — a fabricated statistic that went viral worldwide. The number was baseless, unverified, and retracted under pressure — but not before it had reached billions of people. That’s the information ecosystem we’re living in. Hamas invents it, the UN amplifies it, and the consequences are real.

This isn’t misinformation. It’s incitement.

Israeli Supreme Court Orders Government To Cede Seat On Judge-Selection Committee To Hamas (PreOccupied Teritory)

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Jerusalem, May 25 - Israel's highest judicial body continued its arrogation of powers today by instructing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to replace his administration's representative on the panel that votes in new justices to that judicial body with one from the Islamist group that controls most of the Gaza Strip, because the group needs representation in choosing candidates to serve on the body that now de facto governs both Israel and Gaza.

The Supreme Court ordered the change today in response to a petition from The Movement for Quality Governance, which pointed out that, given that the Palestinians living under the dictatorial Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip do not have functional representation even in their own government, and that, given the paternalistic, racism-of-low-expectations approach of the ideology governing the Court for the last thirty years, it is only fair to put Hamas on the committee that selects judges for the Supreme Court, which, unlike lower courts, rules on cases affecting Israel's conduct of war and its administration of areas under military control.

Analysts also see the move as a swipe at the Netanyahu government, which attempted in 2023 to overhaul the judicial system to limit the purview of the Supreme Court, which, in the view of many conservatives, had gradually arrogated for itself powers that formally belong to the legislature and the executive. Critics of the Netanyahu reform package saw a threat to the independence of the judiciary. Now the government will have once less voice and vote on the selection committee, which the judicial establishment already controls in effect: the majority of its slots are allotted to protégées of the sitting justices in the Israel Bar Association, or to the justices themselves.

Practical hurdles remain: logistical, legal, procedural, and security issues all stand in the way of implementing the ruling. MQG representatives have already asked the Court for clarification on the requirement that a Hamas delegate sit on the committee, considering those hurdles, and proposed that, at least as a temporary measure, the Bar Association or MQG itself provide the missing delegate, lest the government try to maintain its hold on the committee seat until a suitable Hamas member can be brought in.

Other complications include how the Hamas representative will be selected, given the lack of democratic norms under Hamas rule and in Hamas's own ranks. On that point, the MQG proposal leaves it to the Court's discretion, but suggests selecting from among Hamas personnel already in Israeli custody, if only for convenience.

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Elias Rodriguez published a manifesto in his X account before embarking on his murderous rampage.

I see no daylight between his logic and that of the Marxist and other socialist organizations (like Within Our Lifetime, Samidoun, Students for Justice in Palestine) that have dominated the anti-Israel protests.

In other words, all he did was to put their words - like "globalize the intifada" and "by any means necessary" - into action.

An armed action is not necessarily a military action. It usually is not. Usually it is theater and spectacle, a quality it shares with many unarmed actions. ...

A word about the morality of armed demonstration. ...Humanity doesn't exempt one from accountability. The action would have been morally justified taken 11 years ago during Protective Edge, around the time I personally became acutely aware of our brutal conduct in Palestine. But I think to most Americans such an action would have been illegible, would seem insane. I am glad that today at least there are many Americans for which the action will be highly legible and, in some funny way, the only sane thing to do.

There is no daylight between his words and those that are blared out and mindlessly repeated by thousands of people at anti-Israel demonstrations. Most of them don't decide to pick up guns and shoot their ideological enemies, but the constant tsunami of antisemitic incitement had to, inevitably, push some over the edge.

This is not a mentally ill person. This is a sane person who consumed a diet of hate, believed the most absurd anti-Israel accusations (like doubling the death count in Gaza, "tens of thousands now at risk of imminent famine," and that there are 10,000 bodies under the rubble), and acted exactly as the antisemites who promote the propaganda prompted him to act. If all the lies about Israel are true, then acting on them is hardly insane. And in the universe that Rodriguez and thousands of others inhabit, all they can see and believe are the lies.

People who mindlessly repeat the rhyming mantras of "There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!" and "Hey hey, ho ho, Zionists have got to go!" are being taught that killing Zionists/Jews is the moral thing to do. This is how brainwashing works.

And brainwashing works.

This had to happen. And it unfortunately happen again, in no small part due to the performative nature of Rodriguez's act.

While the "progressives" claim to be against murder, they are secretly happy at the prospect of one of their own being given an international forum to spout hate in court.

This was what the leading anti-Israel organizers have been dreaming of. One of their puppets performed their script.

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After Israel withdrew from Southern Lebanon in 2000, behind the UN-approved "Blue Line," Hezbollah needed to create a fiction that it was still needed to "defend Lebanon." So it claimed that the Shebaa Farms area, which Israel captured in 1967 from Syria, was really Lebanese territory and therefore Israel was occupying Lebanese lands even after the withdrawal.

As far as I can tell, the Lebanese never claimed this land before 2000.

Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime tacitly supported Hezbollah's claim although it never officially conceded that the land was Lebanese.

There are other disputed areas on the border between Lebanon and Syria. The new Syrian regime has signaled that it wants good relations with Lebanon, and while this is not a priority, that could include resolving the disputes over the border between the two countries.

The international community is very interested in a resolution to this issue as it would ease Syria's being welcomed back as a legitimate state, which everyone seems to want despite the Islamist background of the new regime.

If the border puts the Shebaa Farms on the Syrian side of the border, that takes away one final piece of Hezbollah's pretense of defending Lebanon from Israeli aggression - which is its entire stated reason for existence.

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PA president Mahmoud Abbas is in Lebanon this week, and most of the coverage has been about his supporting of the Palestinian factions in the camps to disarm.

But Abbas and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun signed a joint statement that covered how Lebanon should treat its Palestinian "guests."

Regarding the status of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon:

1. The two sides affirm their commitment to the right of return of Palestinian refugees to the homes from which they were displaced, in accordance with UN Resolution 194, and their rejection of all settlement and displacement projects.

2. The two sides stress the importance of continuing to support the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and continuing to provide its services to Palestinian refugees, while working to increase its financial resources to enable it to fulfill its obligations.

3. The two sides agree to form a joint Lebanese-Palestinian committee to monitor the situation in Palestinian camps in Lebanon and work to improve the living and humanitarian conditions of refugees, while respecting Lebanese sovereignty and adhering to Lebanese laws.

4. The two sides affirm their commitment to providing the human, social, and economic rights of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, ensuring a dignified life for them without prejudice to their right of return or affecting their national identity.

The reference to Lebanese laws means that Palestinians in Lebanon will continue to be barred from many professions, that they cannot own land, they cannot easily access Lebanese health services, they cannot attend Lebanese public schools and universities, and they are not eligible for citizenship no matter how many generations they have lived in Lebanon.

Once again, Abbas that thrown the Lebanese Palestinians under the bus in the name of maintaining their "right of return" and "maintaining their national identity."

However, one has nothing to do with the other. The Palestinians in Lebanon overwhelmingly want to become full citizens but they also claim to want to maintain their "national identity" and "right to return." There is no contradiction. And one person who has said that was - Mahmoud Abbas himself, in 2005.

DUBAI, 12 July 2005 — Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas told Arab countries hosting Palestinian refugees to give them citizenship, insisting such a move would not compromise their right of return.

“I call upon every Arab government wishing to give citizenship (to Palestinian refugees) to do so. What is wrong with that?” he said in an interview with Dubai Television late Sunday.

But the Palestinian Authority president insisted that obtaining citizenship in a host-country should not compromise the right to return to their homeland of which many Palestinian refugees dream.

“This does not mean resettlement (of refugees). A Palestinian would return to his homeland whenever he is allowed, whether he carried an Arab or non-Arab citizenship,” he said. “A fifth-generation Palestinian living in Chile also wishes to return when allowed ... It is an emotional matter, not related to citizenship,” he added.

The Palestinian leader, who visited Syria and Lebanon last week — both host to hundreds of thousands of refugees, slammed claims that the Arab League had banned naturalization of refugees as “mere excuses”. “There is no decision ... the Arab League only recommended (not to grant citizenship) but this was not a decision,” he said.

He didn't defend that position for long. After condemnations and pressure from Lebanese and Palestinian leaders, by 2008, Abbas said, "We won't accept a settlement that obliges Lebanon to naturalize even one Palestinian."

It didn't take Abbas long to throw his fellow Palestinian Arabs under the bus.

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Last night, two Jewish employees of the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram, were murdered by a far-Left activist at an American Jewish Committee reception.

The man who killed two Israeli embassy staff outside the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, DC on Wednesday night is an active member of a far-left Marxist, pro-Palestine group called the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

30-year-old Chicago native Elias Rodriguez held a red keffiyeh and shouted “Free, free Palestine!” as he was being taken into custody, after shooting Sarah Milgrim and her fiance Yaron Lischinsky.

Rodriguez has been reported in the past as a member of PSL, which just this morning posted an "anti genocide pledge" on its social media.

He holds a BA in English from the University of Illinois, Chicago.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation tried to distance themselves from the murderer.

But, of course, they support his aims.

And they support the idea of glorifying the "intifada" and characterized October 7 as "resistance."

One main talking point by the "progressive" Left to has been that the only physical threat to Jews comes from the Right because only right-wing antisemites tend to shoot Jews.

The events last night prove otherwise.

The "progressive Left" claims that there is no relationship between their slogans like "resistance by any means necessary" and violence.

The events last night prove otherwise.

The progressives claim that the slogan "free, free Palestine" is merely a call for liberation and not for violence.

The events last night prove otherwise.

They can try to distance themselves from the cold blooded murders of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram, but it is their rhetoric and their incitement that directly caused a man to choose to go to a Jewish event and murder Jews in America in the name of Palestine.

Elias Rodriguez was just doing what he has been brainwashed to do by the very Left that now is scrambling to deny any responsibility for murdering Jews.

He globalized the intifada.

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