Wednesday, February 11, 2026

02/11 Links Pt2: Couldn’t the Israelophobes give it a rest for one day?; The Jew-Trolling Right’s Empty Pageantry; ‘Zio’ Is the New ‘N-Word’; The Arab Who Taught Us Zionism

From Ian:

Brendan O’Neill: Couldn’t the Israelophobes give it a rest for one day?
It is astonishing, and nauseating, that people howled for more ‘intifada’ as the Israeli president was embracing a woman who lost her husband to the ‘intifada’ at Bondi, to that Jewphobic frenzy carried out by suspected Islamists. And they were calling for intifada not only in the Holy Land but in ‘Gadigal’ too, in Sydney, in the very city that just suffered one of the worst massacres of Jews of modern times. What, 15 dead people aren’t enough for you? You want more?

The events in Sydney shone an unforgiving light on the cult of Palestinianism. The cruelty of this bourgeois mania now stands starkly exposed. Its inhumanity is clear for all to see. These keffiyeh-shrouded agitators pose as anti-war and yet it is apocalyptic violence they dream of. ‘Intifada!’, they wail, knowing well that to president Herzog and the Jews of Australia, that word will conjure memories of the slaughter of Jews in discotheques and pizza parlours by the madmen of Hamas.

It seems there is no ‘pause’ button on Israelophobia. It is wholly unrestrained by morality and basic decency. It is extraordinary that not one organiser in Australia’s ‘pro-Palestine’ lobby thought to say: ‘Let’s give it a rest while they commemorate Bondi. We’ll get back to our Herzog-bashing tomorrow.’ Instead we have been treated to side-by-side footage of Jews weeping at Bondi as leftish hysterics in the city bellowed for more of the very violence that consumed their loved ones. What sickness is this?

Then came the final insult: the mob stole victimhood from the Jews. The New South Wales Police Force cleared protesters off the streets. The protest had been officially banned, so those who gathered were breaking the law. The cops dragged away a group of young Muslim men who were praying to Mecca. And that is literally the only thing Australia’s chattering classes are yapping about today: this supposedly ‘Islamophobic’ assault on pious Muslims.

It’s nonsense, of course. That street-praying was no mere religious act – it was a political provocation carried out as part of the anti-Herzog protests. Being a Muslim does not give one special immunity from the laws of the land. Yet this is where we’ve ended up: with grieving Jews being drowned out and Muslims being held up as the *real* victims. It is brazen narrative theft, with people’s focus being ruthlessly dragged from the racist murder of Jews to the supposedly ‘racist’ dispersal of praying men.

I’m not easily shocked, but the madness that befell Sydney yesterday felt genuinely unnerving. It felt like the salt of Israelophobia rubbed into the wound of Bondi’s anti-Semitism. A shameful day.
Seth Mandel: The Jew-Trolling Right’s Empty Pageantry
“Whether a student says, ‘I believe there are only two genders,’ or ‘I believe Palestinians are undergoing a genocide,’ they should not be silenced or punished for expressing their beliefs.”

This snack-size bite of Burkean wisdom comes from Sameerah Munshi, who appears to have worked with former Miss California Carrie Prejean Boller to hijack the president’s commission on religious liberty, leading to a bizarre hearing yesterday and Boller’s dismissal from the commission today.

Boller seems to have accepted a position on the esteemed committee because of her heartfelt belief in her own need for more social media followers. Enter Munshi, an anti-Israel activist who serves as an adviser to the same religious liberty commission. Munshi, a booster of the rabid anti-Semite Candace Owens, has been—no doubt out of the goodness of her heart—helping to elevate Boller’s own personal Owens-esque cry for attention. On Munshi’s Instagram, for example, one of the few posts is a shared posting of Boller’s claim that “Gaza was a precursor to the release of the Epstein files.”

According to Boller, the goal of the you-know-whos involved in Gaza and Epstein is to “normalize and justify the torture and killing of innocent children.” The post ends with a call to solve the problem with this one neat trick: “Defund Israel.”

Today the religious liberty commission’s director, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, announced that Boller is being removed from the committee. “No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue. This is clearly, without question, what happened Monday in our hearing on antisemitism in America.” No doubt she will start one heck of a podcast now, though.

Boller was booted for turning yesterday’s committee hearing into a circus by raving like a lunatic about Zionism. The recent Catholic convert attempted to do so in the name of Catholicism, but Catholics on the commission patiently explained church doctrine to Boller and corrected her Jew-baiting claims.

It’s worth noting that the Munshi-Boller duo’s first choice to hijack the hearing wasn’t to have Boller be the one to deliver the rant. Via Boller, they tried to feed the commission names of witnesses who would deliver the anti-Zionist lines themselves: Norman Finkelstein topped their list of prospective guests. “All of our suggested witnesses for the hearing on Anti-Semitism were denied,” she complained. “All of our suggested witnesses were also critical of the Israeli government.”
Daniel Finkelstein: how the world’s antisemites turned on me
The thrust of these messages, hundreds this time rather than thousands, is that it is deeply hypocritical of me to believe that there should be a country for Jews (Israel) but not for English people.

I tried rational argument. I pointed out that I did want a country for English people, that we had one and I live in it. I also said that Israel wasn’t exclusively for Jews and that it wouldn’t need to exist in the first place if there weren’t so many people interested in deporting me. But in the end I found these exchanges as unavailing as it would be to argue with someone who called the Holocaust “the Holly”.

What would my parents have thought of all this? They would definitely have agreed it was right to confront it. That’s what my grandfather had done in Germany in the Twenties and Thirties, after all. They would have been realistic. Because Jews are a small minority in almost every country in which they settle, this kind of antisemitism has lasted for hundreds of years and always been dangerous. They would also definitely have found it upsetting. Anyone would. Particularly the fact that it comes from young people in the United States, because the young and Americans were people they believed in.

But one of the most important things about both of them is that they had a sense of proportion. They were never complacent. Yet they weren’t going to live their lives as victims, despite what had happened to them. They wouldn’t want me too either. And I won’t.

In the history of civilisation, I don’t think there’s been a better time to be alive or a better place to live than now and here. I think that’s an objectively defensible statement. But it’s also how I feel.

My parents didn’t just survive. They lived. And I am doing that too.
‘Zio’ Is the New ‘N-Word’
What’s most telling—and disheartening—about the entire Odessa A’Zion saga is her use of the word “Zio” to distance herself from Zionism. Fear is clearly the dominant motivation here even if A’Zion cannot fully recognize it. Fear of career damage and professional decline. Of social media attacks or eventual ostracism. Fear of being maligned and misunderstood—but ultimately fear for her safety.

This is where “Zio” and the “N-word” most odiously converge—both are agents of unbridled hate speech doing double duty as a call to arms. Except one is anathema, and the other flows freely without consequence.

Which is why I was so certain, upon receiving my first accusations of being a “Zio,” it was unlikely to be my last. In both the centrist precincts I currently inhabit and the progressive communities that shaped my past, “N-gger” is a word that is simply never spoken. But in both worlds, “Zio” is screamed louder than ever.

To be sure, some who use the term “Zio” think that they can deploy it to disavow the Israeli government without defaming Israel or its people. Seemingly, that’s what Odessa A’Zion had in mind. This is, of course, an impossibility, as it is Zionism that created the State of Israel and all that it contains. But ultimately, most who chant “Zio” want Israel destroyed, and many want its Jews lynched en masse, just like so many African Americans before them.

The fact is that most Jews, across the political spectrum, are probably too fearful to openly compare “Zio” to the “N-word,” lest they be canceled or condemned. But having been the target of both slurs, I can attest that their ideological contiguity could not be any clearer.

“Gaza, Gaza make us proud, put the Zio in the ground,” shouted Oxford student Samuel Williams in London earlier this year at a demonstration by the aggressively anti-Israel Palestine Coalition.

Kind of reminds me of a Klan rally.


Why are we still talking about Bondi?
Bondi should force a similar response in every country where Jews are targeted: Do we have a real recovery system or just headlines?

In the immediate aftermath of the attack, community support efforts and practical assistance were made available locally, including counseling and other support for those impacted. That matters. It’s important. But it’s not the same as a long-term recovery infrastructure that lasts beyond the initial shock.

Here is what I mean by “infrastructure,” and why it is a security issue and not just a social service:

A standing victim-support plan that activates immediately: Not a list of phone numbers, but a coordinated response that includes case management, trauma-care navigation, family support and follow-up.

Long-term support, not short-term gestures: Trauma has a long tail; it’s not a one-size-fits-all. Panic attacks, insomnia, hypervigilance, depression and more don’t always appear in the first weeks. They often surface months and even years later, when the mind finally begins to process what happened.

Community-level recovery, not only individual therapy: After a targeted attack, the “victim” is not only the person impacted by what happened. It’s the family that helps grapple with the after-effects. It’s the community that now carries fear together. Recovery requires peer support, group spaces, youth programming and communal resilience-building so people do not retreat into isolation.

A refusal to normalize Jewish fear: This is the part that requires moral clarity. Not just “we condemn.” Rather, “we will not accept Jewish life lived behind barricades as the new normal.” Because when we normalize fear, we hand terrorists and extremists their biggest victory.

Bondi hasn’t faded from the national conversation for a reason. Survivors are still speaking, often for the first time, about what they saw, what they felt and what they carry with them. That isn’t “dwelling.” It’s a society still coming to terms with the magnitude of what happened.

Now we need to do something with that understanding.

If the lessons become only a political argument about failures, then we will miss the most urgent takeaway—that the true measure of a society is what it does after the attack when there are no cameras and no trending hashtags.

Do we leave victims to carry the trauma alone? Or do we build a culture, community and system that says: “Your recovery matters. Your life matters. You are not alone.”

That is how we defeat fear. That is how we defeat terrorism.
The despicable truth about the ‘pro-Palestinian’ protests against Herzog in Australia
Fellow Australians were gunned down on the beach for being Jewish. Now, the president of the nation-state of the Jewish people is visiting to try to bring the devastated Jewish community a little solace and comfort. And the protests are targeting him?

You might have wanted to hope that, if there were to be demonstrations to coincide with Herzog’s visit, they would have been held to demand that the Australian government take more effective measures to protect the Australian Jewish community, that it take more effective measures to tackle the ongoing stream of antisemitic attacks, that it take more effective measures to prevent the dissemination of hate materials online.

In truth, you would not have expected anything of the kind. We all know better than to be so naive. But that’s what should have been happening on Herzog’s visit.

For that matter, those “pro-Palestinian” activists who purport to care for innocent lives, in the Middle East and beyond, should also have been out on the streets demonstrating on behalf of the people of Iran, who have been risking their lives — and losing them in the thousands if not the tens of thousands — to try to bring down their repressive, misogynistic, warmongering Islamic death cult leadership.

These were innocent people ruthlessly massacred by their own oppressive government, to widespread international indifference.

But, of course, in Australia as pretty much everywhere else on the planet, the “pro-Palestinian” activists are not actually “pro” freedom for Palestinians, or Iranians or anybody else, nor “pro” the right to live peaceably, in safety, under humane leadership.

They claim to be opposing ostensible genocide by the Jewish state. In fact, they are seeking to enable the destruction of the Jewish state, and championing the mass murder of Jews — even, if not especially, as it has been unfolding in their own country.
Fiery speech captures precise moment Sydney anti-Israel protesters lost our hearts and minds
Organiser Lees said that the violence could have been avoided if police allowed protesters to march.

Sorry, how about: violence could’ve been avoided if you didn’t behave like petulant brats.

It all comes back to a point made by many: had proper leadership been shown in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre, there would’ve been less room for fringe activists to perpetrate fictions about the Israel/Gaza conflict and less tolerance for antisemitism against the Australian Jewish community.

Minns, to his credit, has been better than most.

And this week, he has again shown himself to be sensible in managing the broader interests of NSW and unwilling to cower to the irrational proclivities of sectional interests.

So, while the right to protest is a fundamental part of our democratic system and social fabric, it’s not an absolute and impenetrable platform for people to abuse the law and spew hatred.

Protestors owe our society a level of decency and civility in exchange for that right.

But this week, we saw yet another display by the perennially spoilt and terminally stupid, enamoured by their own intellectually barren ideas.

And while these zealots have no care for the mutual responsibility that comes with the right to peaceful protest, that creates a dangerous society for the rest of us.


‘Two-tier policing’: Abbott questions AFP’s resistance to prosecuting Islamist preachers
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has called out the Australian Federal Police’s apparent resistance to prosecuting Islamist hate preachers.

AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett warned during Senate Estimates on Tuesday that some religious hate preachers were now seeking legal advice to ensure they could avoid prosecution.

“Some are getting legal advice to push their hate and their radical recruitment drives to the edge of what is lawful,” she said.

Commissioner Barrett said this was the reason the AFP had not been able to “to reach the threshold of charging” in a number of cases.

While the Commissioner warned such individuals their life would still become “very uncomfortable”, Mr Abbott questioned the resolve of Australia’s top law enforcement agency.

Speaking to Sky News, Mr Abbott claimed the AFP had “enormous difficulty” in mentioning and prosecuting Islamist extremism.

“They're happy to throw the book at neo-Nazi antisemites, but so far not one Islamist antisemite has been deported, had a visa denied or (been) subject to prosecution,” Mr Abbott told host Peta Credlin.

Mr Abbott said there was a risk of “two-tier policing” and urged law enforcement to take a stronger approach.

“I do think that there's still a real danger of two-tier policing. There's still a real danger of double standards here,” he said.

“We've just got to realise where the real danger is coming from and it's coming from people who don't share our values. It's coming people who believe in caliphates, who believe Sharia law.”

Commenting on the anti-Israel demonstrations tied to the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Mr Abbott claimed Islamist protesters had been “in charge of our streets” for two years.

The former prime minister said it was “about time” federal and state governments “regained control”, before praising the New South Wales Police and Premier Chris Minns for cracking down on Monday night’s demonstration.

Mr Abbott said he hoped the crackdown was the “beginning of the fight back” against these protests.


Jewish leader unleashes at Grace Tame for ‘glorifying’ violence during inflammatory Sydney rally
In Sydney, former Australian of the Year Grace Tame, a figure who rose to prominence as a voice for victims, led protesters in chanting “globalise the intifada” at Town Hall.

Premier Minns has correctly described the phrase as “violent” and “hateful”.

Historically, ‘intifada’ refers to waves of mass violence targeting Israeli civilians as well as soldiers. Pro-Palestine protesters ‘defied court orders’ in Sydney

In particular, the Second Intifada between 2000 and 2005 in Israel saw over a thousand Israelis murdered.

Calling for it to be “global” is to endorse violence far beyond the Middle East, violence that ultimately targets Jews.

This is not abstract speech.

It is the sort of incitement that effectively leads to events like Bondi.

Around the world, Jewish communities have already experienced rising intimidation in the wake of such rhetoric, including violent attacks, the targeting of Jewish institutions and even murder.

In Australia, Jewish Australians have been made to feel less safe in their own country - their synagogues firebombed, community restaurants attacked, schoolkids targeted for harassment, and a 400 per cent increase in antisemitic incidents.

And if there was any doubt, any remaining sense of security was shattered in Bondi on December 14. ‘Yes, 100 per cent’: Joyce calls for Grace Tame to have Australian of the Year title stripped

If public figures can openly lead chants that glorify and encourage violence against Jews without consequence, it underlines the urgency of legislation to prohibit such incitement.

While laws may not change hearts and minds, they do establish boundaries - and real-world consequences.

This is not about Jewish sensitivity, nor simply the obvious insult of hearing a violent call so soon after the worst act of terror on Australian soil.

Nor is it about shielding Israel from criticism — criticism of Israeli governments or policies, like that directed at any other country, is entirely legitimate.

What it is about is preventing language that normalises violence and places an Australian minority at risk. ‘Respect’: NSW Police praised for their handling of the ‘volatile situation’ in Sydney

If Australian Jews cannot feel safe in their own country, then how can anyone?

Australia functions as a vibrant, multicultural liberal democracy because it is built on law, fairness, and mutual respect, compliance with which is the overriding responsibility of all Australians.

When respect for those principles erodes, society itself begins to fracture, and it is not only Jews who will suffer negative consequences as a result.
‘Heartbreaking’: Grace Tame under fire for use of ‘intifada’ chant
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel details how it is “heartbreaking” that former Australian of the Year Grace Tame is chanting slogans about globalising the intifada.


Grace Tame’s antisemitic chant is ‘unbecoming of an Australian of the Year’
NSW Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane says Grace Tame’s antisemitic chant in which she called to globalise the intifada, is “unbecoming of an Australian of the Year”.




Epstein files source who alleged Mossad links is identified as Holocaust denier
An FBI source who claimed Jeffery Epstein was a Mossad agent in a document released last month was a fraudster and Holocaust denier, highlighting how the so-called Epstein files have fed into Israel-related conspiracies based on unreliable information.

The document, dated 2020, based the allegations of Mossad links on the source’s relationship with the prominent pro-Israel lawyer Alan Dershowitz.

The source told the FBI that he witnessed Dershowitz communicate with the Israeli spy agency, and “became convinced that Epstein was a co-opted Mossad agent.”

The source also said that Epstein “trained as a spy” under former prime minister and IDF chief Ehud Barak. He accused the Chabad Hasidic movement of “doing everything they can to co-opt the Trump presidency,” said that “Trump has been compromised by Israel,” claimed Dershowitz himself was a Mossad agent, and called for an investigation into the Kushner family.

The source, like others alleging Mossad links in the Epstein files, was not named and did not provide evidence. The document also framed the allegations as suspicions, indicating a lack of actual evidence.

On Tuesday, Dershowitz said that the informant was Charles Johnson, an online provocateur and fraudster with a history of Holocaust denial.

“The source is Charles Johnson. He is a Holocaust denier. He was sentenced to prison. The FBI concluded that nothing he said should be credited. Yes, he’s a confidential FBI source, but a discredited one,” Dershowitz told The Times of Israel.
Carrie Prejean Boller removed from WH Religious Liberty Commission after antisemitism flare-up
Conservative activist Carrie Prejean Boller was removed from the White House’s Religious Liberty Commission, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the chair of the commission, announced on Wednesday.

The news came two days after the commission held its first public hearing on antisemitism, which turned contentious when Prejean Boller minimized charges of antisemitism leveled against other public figures and pressed Jewish witnesses about whether they would consider her antisemitic for not being a Zionist and for believing Jews killed Jesus.

“No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue,” Patrick wrote in a post on X. “This is clearly, without question, what happened Monday in our hearing on antisemitism in America. This was my decision.”

Prejean Boller, who first entered the political fray in 2009 when she was stripped of her Miss California title following the release of a sex tape and controversial comments in which she said marriage should be between a man and a woman, reemerged as an activist in 2020. She was a member of Trump’s campaign advisory board that year, and gained a social media following for urging people to resist mask mandates and for speaking out against transgender women and girls participating in female sports. She converted to Catholicism last year.


Senior Ed. Dept. advisor Noah Pollak calls for universities to have a ‘backbone’ in disciplining students for antisemitic activity
Noah Pollak, a senior advisor at the Department of Education, offered a series of recommendations, including broader cultural changes and vigorous disciplinary action, on how universities can and should reform to better address antisemitism on campus.

Speaking at an antisemitism conference on Tuesday organized by The George Washington University Program on Extremism, Pollak said that schools need to have “backbone” in enforcing their disciplinary codes, offering as one example Brown University, which he said failed to uphold a new code of conduct rules when an encampment sprung up to protest the war in Gaza in 2024. He attributed schools’ reticence to a “cultural problem” for the universities.

“The schools have got to discipline students and faculty who are troublemakers, who break the rules, and discipline them hard, discipline them fast and discipline them very publicly,” Pollak said. “All it would take is a few examples of swift and severe punishment, expulsions, suspensions, that type of response, and everyone would get the message, and everything would settle down.”

Pollak argued that the ultimate answer to antisemitism on campuses lies in overhauls to university governance to promote political diversity and proper enforcement of civil rights. He called for overhauls of Middle East studies departments and other academic programs he said have lost sight of their original missions. “You have to go upstream,” he said.

Broadly, Pollak also described many campus protests as “anti-intellectual” and “anti-democratic” and often “pretty stupid,” saying that many students are joining in to shout slogans and intimidate people with little idea of the actual issue about which they’re protesting.

“Universities could stop encouraging protesting — they could stop and they could demand that their academic departments actually diversify and expose students to the actual complexity of the world and not the slogan version of the world,” Pollak said.
Yale names first scholar-in-residence for antisemitism program Yale University appointed Magda Teter as its first scholar-in-residence for the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism.
Teter, a historian of antisemitism and professor of history at Fordham University in New York City, will host five events this semester for the university community and the public. The programs will address the history of antisemitism, its recent surge and the challenges facing the field of antisemitism studies.

“I am looking forward to exploring these complex issues with different audiences, especially now when we see both the resurgence of antisemitism and its politicization,” Teter stated.

Teter’s scholarship focuses on the ways early modern religion and culture shaped the development of antisemitism. Growing up in Poland, she said that “the remnants of the Jewish presence made me interested in Jewish history and culture at a time when these topics were still a taboo.”

At Fordham, she held the Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies and served as co-director of the Center for Jewish Studies. She is president of the American Academy for Jewish Research and previously served as vice president for publications at the Association for Jewish Studies and joint editor-in-chief of AJS Review.

Several Ivy League institutions, including Yale, Harvard and Columbia, experienced pro-Palestinian encampments during the spring 2024 semester. Demonstrators called on the university to divest from weapons manufacturers amid Israel’s war against Hamas, which began after the terrorist group attacked the Jewish state on Oct. 7, 2023.
Professors with ‘activist agendas’ fuel Jew-hatred surge at University of California, report says
The University of California, Santa Cruz’s critical race and ethnic-studies department gave graduates sashes depicting Palestinian flags, keffiyehs, an anti-Israel encampment at the public school campus and the slogan, “Long live the people’s university,” at a graduate ceremony last June.

That is just one of the incidents addressed in a new report that the AMCHA Initiative shared with JNS exclusively.

The episode is part of a broader trend in the ways professors have fueled rising Jew-hatred at the public university system, even after UC reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education in December 2024 to resolve probes of alleged discrimination against Jews, Israelis, Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians.

The issue in the public system is a “failure of governance,” according to Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, co-founder and director of the AMCHA Initiative.

“It’s the failure of universities, of administrators and also faculty senates to actually impose the rules, policies, state laws and federal laws that are already on the books and to hold faculty and departments accountable,” she told JNS. “Faculty are a very powerful bloc within the university.”
UC Santa Cruz Ethnic Studies Department Distributed Stoles With Palestinian Flag and Keffiyeh Designs at Graduation Ceremony, New Photos Show
A University of California, Santa Cruz, department bestowed students with graduation stoles featuring Palestinian flags and keffiyehs—headdresses often worn by Palestinian terrorists—during an official graduation event last June, according to previously unreported photos shared with the Washington Free Beacon.

Pictures from the university's Critical Race and Ethnic Studies graduation show department staff presenting students with the keffiyeh-patterned stoles during the department's "Senior Celebration," while a projection screen behind the graduates showed an image of an anti-Israel encampment from 2024.

The keffiyeh, popularized by the late Palestinian terrorist leader Yasser Arafat, has become a symbol of both anti-Israel protests and anti-Jewish violence since Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attack. The shooter who killed two Israeli embassy staffers at the Capitol Jewish Museum last year, an assailant who attacked two Jewish students walking to a Shabbat dinner at the University of Pittsburgh in 2024, and members of a mob that rampaged at a Los Angeles synagogue that summer all wore keffiyehs.

The AMCHA Initiative, an anti-Semitism watchdog group, published the photos as part of a new report on the University of California system. AMCHA said the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies senior ceremony was transformed into a political spectacle that "blur[red] the line between academic operations and political demonstration, using university authority and official platforms to signal anti-Zionist activism as normative."

The watchdog group stated in its report that even though the problem of campus anti-Semitism and anti-Zionist radicalism is often treated as "primarily student-driven," its investigation led to a "different conclusion."

"The hostile or exclusionary campus conditions documented here reflect a governance breakdown in the academic domain," AMCHA said: "UC has failed to enforce institutional boundaries on how faculty and academic units use instructional authority … creating conditions that can predictably produce hostility, exclusion, and targeting of affected students."


SJP event at City University of New York law school casts Hamas tunnels as ‘decolonial land use’
The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter of the City University of New York’s School of Law is promoting a campus event described as an “anthropologic investigation” that characterizes Hamas’s tunnel network in Gaza as “social organization in resistance to colonization.”

In a social media post shared on Feb. 7, CUNY Law SJP invited students to attend a March 5 discussion with Hadeel Assali, an anthropologist affiliated with Columbia University’s Center for Science and Society, on “decolonial land use in Gaza” and “the history and usage of tunnels in Gaza.”

Assali, whose work “looks at the ongoing colonial legacies of the discipline of geology as well as anti-colonial ways of knowing and relating to the earth in southern Palestine,” has a history of radical activism, particularly against Israel.

In 2024, Assali wrote the essay “Notes on the Underground in Gaza,” calling the tunnels “an essential form of resistance in Palestine.” She reframes Hamas’s use of underground tunnels to commit acts of terrorism as a relationship “between indigenous people and the land.”

Columbia Faculty and Staff Supporting Israel criticized Assali’s invitation to speak at CUNY.

“This is the same lecturer named in the Kasowitz lawsuit for canceling her class multiple times to encourage attendance at anti-Israel protests,” the group stated, sharing a section of the 2024 complaint filed against Columbia University and Barnard College alleging they failed to protect Jewish students.


Why Anne Frank Became the “Safe” Face of the Holocaust
Everyone knows Anne Frank: her face, her diary, her voice. But this video asks an uncomfortable question: did she become the world’s Holocaust symbol because her story was easiest to face? A young girl, a hidden attic, a message of hope—offering millions, even nations that failed Europe’s Jews, a way to “remember” without confronting complicity. We trace her real fate and how her diary was shaped, taught, and universalized.

00:00 Intro
00:49 Anne’s Childhood
02:34 When Holland Fell to Hitler
03:29 The Franks Become Targets
04:01 Hiding in the Secret Annex
05:01 Life Inside the Annex
08:16 Betrayal, Arrest, Deportation
09:39 What Happened to Anne and Margot
10:51 Otto Survives
11:52 The Diary Goes Global
14:09 Anne’s Legacy
16:08 The Story People Miss




99% diagnosis in four minutes: The start-up transforming heart care
AccuLine announced the successful completion of a clinical trial in seven medical centers across Israel. The trial aimed to validate the ability of the company’s CORA system to detect significant early-stage blockages in coronary arteries - the main cause of heart attacks - quickly, accurately, and accessibly.

AccuLine’s clinical study was conducted in seven medical centers in Israel: Ichilov Tel Aviv, Poriya Tiberias, Assuta Tel Aviv, Shamir (Asaf HaRofe), Wolfson Holon, Assuta Ashdod, and Hillel Yaffe in Hadera.

According to the study results, conducted on 305 participants and compared to the gold-standard catheterization test, the system demonstrated a sensitivity of 94% in detecting patients and a 99% accuracy in ruling out the disease (NPV). This represents a significant improvement compared to current stress tests commonly used in the community.

“Early and precise diagnosis at initial stages could save the lives of millions who remain undiagnosed in time,” says Moshe Barel, CEO and co-founder of AccuLine. “For the first time, we provide family doctors with a powerful diagnostic tool that allows them to quickly distinguish between patients who require further examination and those who are not at risk, thereby reducing unnecessary tests.”

The CORA system is based on an artificial intelligence algorithm that simultaneously analyzes electrical heart signals, blood oxygen levels, and respiratory rate, combined with the patient’s background data, providing an immediate report on arterial health - without the need for contrast agents or exposure to radiation. Heart attack.

Beyond saving lives, the technology has the potential to reshape the economic equation in cardiology, a field responsible for hundreds of billions of dollars in annual expenses. Using CORA could save healthcare systems and insurance companies enormous costs by preventing expensive tests and complex post-heart-attack rehabilitation treatments.


travelingisrael.com: Jerusalem’s Best Foods (and What to Avoid): The Ultimate Food Guide
If Jerusalem is on your travel list, my tours will help you make the most of your time there. You’ll get clear explanations of the city’s most important sites, my personal map with food and shopping recommendations, and discount codes for hostels I trust in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Eilat. Full details on my website

All the places I mentioned in the video: Gagou De Paris, Kadosh Café Patisserie, Abu Kamel, LIna, Rova coffee house, Austrian Hospice, Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center, Mona, Chakra, Mizrachi - HaShaked st. Morduch, Rachmo, Azura, Dwiny Pita Bar, Arica sabich, Bourekas Ramle, Bourekas Haifa, Arais, Aka, Halati, Nuna mufleta, Joni kubaneh, Mousseline Jerusalem, Machneyuda.


Uri Kurlianchik: The Arab Who Taught Us Zionism
Amos Yarkoni is one of Israel's most celebrated national heroes and the country’s most decorated tracker. He’s a fascinating man with a fascinating life, so let’s dive right it.

Amos Yarkoni was born in 1921 as Abd el-Majid Hidr of the Mazrib, a powerful Bedouin tribe that has dispatched many attacks against the Jews and the English in the '30s. In 1936, he joined a raid on the Trans-Arabian Pipeline, but got into a fight with his cousins over their vicious plans for the workers and fled to a Jewish town. There he befriended the future legendary Israeli general Moshe Dayan.

He would later remark to his friend, "If you can be a lieutenant general without an eye, I can be a lieutenant colonel without a hand." But we're getting ahead of ourselves.

In 1947, Abd el-Majid was working in a refinery in Haifa when it was attacked by a Muslim lynch mob. Rather than join the attackers, Abd el-Majid helped his Jewish co-workers hide from the murderous mob. Soon after, he joined the newly formed IDF and changed his name to Amos Yarkoni.

During his service, he astounded his fellow soldiers with his tracking and scouting skills. For example, he shocked his CO by observing that the enemy knew they were being followed by pointing out the pattern of the tracks showed they stopped to look around. His tracking skills became so legendary that the Arabs still tell stories about him.

The Bedouin say that if you spit on a rock in the desert, Abd el-Majid would sense it after a hundred years, track you down and say, "O villain, why have you spat in my desert?"

Despite suffering many injuries and even losing a hand, Yarkoni was re-appointed as the commander of the Shaked Battalion in 1961.

In 1964, he suffered a crippling foot injury. After a short stint as the military governor of Sinai, he left military service a celebrated hero.

A celebrated hero
Amos Yarkoni died in 1991.

His coffin was carried by six generals and the funeral was attended by the president as well as Israel's most right-wing politician, Rehavam Ze'evi.


New PBS series examines bittersweet ties that have historically bound US Blacks and Jews
In the opening decades of the 20th century, Black and Jewish journalists began documenting ominous similarities in the ways their communities were targeted by violence. In Eastern Europe, there were pogroms against Jews. In the United States, there were lynchings and race riots against African Americans. A February 11, 1911, headline in The Afro-American Ledger equated “Jew Baiting in Russia” with “Negro Baiting” in the US. Many other American newspapers of the period — Black, Jewish and Yiddish — also made this comparison in their coverage.

Filmmaker Sara Wolitzky described these articles as one of the historical surprises she encountered while working on the new PBS documentary series “Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History.” Directed and executive produced by Wolitzky and fellow filmmaker Phil Bertelsen, the four-part series runs throughout February, which is Black History Month.

Episode one, “Let My People Go,” aired on February 3. Surveying the historical Black-Jewish relationship, which arguably peaked in closeness during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ‘60s, the episode found previous connections between Blacks and Jews in the US, including in early 20th-century newspaper articles.

“Both [communities] were very aware of the plight of the other,” Wolitzky told The Times of Israel over Zoom. “Black newspapers, and Yiddish or Jewish newspapers, were reporting on racial terror in their respective communities — ‘Pogroms going on in Eastern Europe are like what’s happening to us in America,’ and vice versa.”

She added, “Even if Jews had a relative amount of safety at that time in America, there was a commonality [with Blacks] in their persecution, and mutual sympathy.”




Buy EoZ's books  on Amazon!

"He's an Anti-Zionist Too!" cartoon book (December 2024)

PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism (February 2022)

    
 

 



AddToAny

Printfriendly

EoZTV Podcast

Podcast URL

Subscribe in podnovaSubscribe with FeedlyAdd to netvibes
addtomyyahoo4Subscribe with SubToMe

search eoz

comments

Speaking

Speaking

translate

E-Book

For $18 donation








Sample Text

EoZ's Most Popular Posts in recent years

Search2

Hasbys!

Hasbys!

2019 Nobel Peace Prize nominee

Elder of Ziyon - حـكـيـم صـهـيـون



This blog may be a labor of love for me, but it takes a lot of effort, time and money. For 20 years and 40,000 articles I have been providing accurate, original news that would have remained unnoticed. I've written hundreds of scoops and sometimes my reporting ends up making a real difference. I appreciate any donations you can give to keep this blog going.

Donate!

Donate to fight for Israel!

Monthly subscription:
Payment options


One time donation:

Follow EoZ on Twitter!

Interesting Blogs

Show All

Blog Archive

Copyright © Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News | Powered by Blogger
Blogger Templates