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Thursday, May 08, 2025

05/08 Links Pt2: A Pogrom Is Brewing in Canada; Pulitzer’s Ignoble Prize; The Campus Hamasniks Won’t Have It So Easy This Time; Israel warns travelers to Eurovision to not show Jewish, Israeli symbols

From Ian: A Pogrom Is Brewing in Canada What all of this has led to is the suppression of open Jewish life in Canada, the hiding of Jewish symbols, the need to host Jewish events in secret or with even more intense security, and even some people fleeing the country. Students at Toronto Metropolitan University who recently shared that they “can’t be openly Jewish” on campus...

From Ian: Overlooked USAID OIG Investigation Found UNRWA Staff Tied to Hamas — but the UN Obstructed the Probe Instead of cooperating transparently with the U.S. investigation, the United Nations appears to have gone out of its way to obstruct it. The UN’s own Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) did allow USAID OIG to review its internal report into UNRWA staff...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook and Substack pages.Jerusalem, May 8 - Israelis who lived through Nazi persecution number in the low six figures at most, statistics indicate, which places fundraising efforts for various welfare projects in jeopardy, as those organizations must begin pivoting...

The UN has a working definition of Islamophobia:Islamophobia is a fear, prejudice and hatred of Muslims that leads to provocation, hostility and intolerance by means of threatening, harassment, abuse, incitement and intimidation of Muslims and non-Muslims, both in the online and offline world. Motivated by institutional, ideological, political and religious hostility that...

Amnesty Australia publishes a "toolkit" on "responding to the crisis" in Gaza.The site was created within weeks of October 7; I see an archived version from early December 2023.While it includes a pro-forma demand that Hamas release all "civilian hostages", everything else is anti-Israel and its entire toolkit is for anti-Israel advocacy.One telling section:EDUCATING YOURSELF...

Israel Hayom reports:US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee conducted a historic tour of the ancient Shiloh archaeological site Wednesday morning....This marks the first time in history that an American ambassador has held an official meeting in Judea and Samaria with the representative forum of Israeli authorities beyond the Green Line, which demarcates the area captured by...

05/07 Links Pt2: Who Is the Real Mohsen Mahdawi?; How Jew-hate is becoming the norm in the music industry; Columbia’s Pulitzer Disgrace; Israel’s Eurovision star raises her voice from the ruins

From Ian: Who Is the Real Mohsen Mahdawi? Last year on Instagram, Mahdawi described a cousin, Maysara Masharqa, as a “fierce resistance fighter” and “dreamer of liberation” who was killed “after a clash with a traitor Zionist force.” Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a network of Palestinian armed groups, said that Masharqa was one of its “most prominent field commanders” in Jenin....

From Ian: The Gaza Famine Myth To help make sense of all this, I talked to Nicholas Haan, who designed the food-insecurity classification system that became the IPC. Haan serves as a volunteer on the FRC, was one of the authors of the report that rebuked the USAID analysis, and is the lead technical adviser in a UN effort to replicate the IPC in areas such as health, hygiene,...

Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.In 1938, Eva G., a Jewish student at the University of Vienna, slipped her Star of David necklace beneath her collar before walking into a lecture hall. She was met with swastikas scrawled on the walls and whispers of “Juden raus.” Eighty-six years later,...