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Monday, April 21, 2025

04/21 Links Pt2: Yom Hashoah: It’s time to change how we look at antisemitism; Eulogizing pope, Jewish groups stress his response to Jew-hatred

From Ian: Yom Hashoah: It’s time to change how we look at antisemitism For years, educators have been warning about the declining state of Holocaust literacy in North America. Surveys, like the one released by the Pew Research Center in 2020, paint a stark picture when it comes to Americans’ knowledge of what occurred under Nazi Germany. Only 69% of the U.S. adults surveyed...

From Ian: Jonathan Sacerdoti: Judaism Commands Us to Pursue Peace, but also to Confront Evil Some 36 out of more than 300 members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews published a letter in the Financial Times on Wednesday rebuking Israel's military response to the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas. The Jewish religion and culture values disagreement. But the letter marks a deeply...

This week's hysterical "Al Aqsa Is In Danger!" comes courtesy of some random guy who made a video showing the Dome of the Rock exploding and being replaced with a Temple.This is all over Arab media including Al Jazeera. So some other random guy on Instagram took the picture of the Temple from that video, and used AI to blow it up instead.No one seems too upset over that. Meanwhile,...

So far, we have emphasized the Jewish sources and inspiration for Western ideas and philosophies that have been instrumental in the US Constitution and the Western legal system. There is one important area where Jewish ethics diverges from Western law: the concept of rights.The idea of "natural law," meaning that there is a rational moral order in the universe that can...

Last week Jordan announced that it had discovered a local plot to manufacture rockets, linked to people in Lebanon, which it blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood. I didn't think the local MB was likely behind it, since their position in Jordan is precarious enough; it seemed for likely to be an Iranian plot using Hezbollah and/or Hamas as proxies.New details have come up which...

Last December we reported about a Call for Papers in the Journal for Architectural Education that celebrated Hamas murder and rape of Jews. This is not an exaggeration. The document labeled the October 7 attacks as part of "a rise of new formations of struggle and power" and forming a "pathology of hope." It also praised the bloodthirsty orgy of...

04/18 Links Pt2: Melanie Phillips: The Jewish community's fifth column; Vermont, Mohsen Mahdawi, and Mountains of Useful Idiots; Harry Truman’s Seder Message

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The Jewish community's fifth column To issue such a public denunciation during a war for Israel’s existence is an act of treachery and betrayal. And in their supreme arrogance, the 36 are inflicting this damage from the relative safety of their homes thousands of miles away. Even though they amount to merely one tenth of the Board’s 300 representatives,...

From Ian: Seth Mandel: Now It Can Be Told: Hamas Is Mortal This follows a familiar pattern: Israeli and American officials say something that is grounded in experience and rationality and thus is likely correct. The world bellows a collective How dare you? and rolls on. Eventually what the Israeli and American officials said is proved true. No one says “sorry.” It has long...

I will be off for the next two days for the end of Passover.Here's a report of something I wrote a few months ago that is appropriate:This is an excerpt from "Moon Of Israel," a 1924 Austrian film that depicted a love story between a Jewish slave and an Egyptian prince. It is perhaps best known for its depiction of the splitting of the sea, which was considered by...

Can ethics exist without a religious framework?This has been a fundamental question ever since the Enlightenment first separated moral reasoning from religious doctrine. Thinkers from Immanuel Kant to John Stuart Mill, and from Marx to Ayn Rand, have proposed frameworks to ground human morality in logic, reason, emotion, or social need. Yet time and again, these secular ethical...

Last week, antisemitic far-Right sites breathlessly posted a video by a Jewish influencer that described the yellow-capped Kosher for Passover Coke, claiming that this is proof that Jews run the world since Coke is making it "just for Jews."These posts received millions of views.The comments add more information that we Jews apparently try to keep secret from the goyim:And...

Ibrahim Ibrash is a professor of political science at Al Azhar University in Cairo and a former culture minister in Egypt. In the Palestinian Sama News, he asks, "Why does Israel refuse to stop the war?"The answer cannot be something simple like "because Hamas hasn't released the hostages." No, that is too simplistic for the esteemed professor. He starts off expanding...