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Monday, August 14, 2023

08/14 Links Pt2: The Jews in Defiance of History; Obama’s Calculated Tolerance of Black Anti-Semitism; Antisemitism Still Haunts the European Left

From Ian: Meir Y. Soloveichik: Not Everything Is Tisha B’Av It is with this in mind that we must approach the reaction of many when the Knesset, three days before Tisha B’Av, approved limitations on the Israeli Supreme Court. The Times of Israel immediately presented us with the remarkable headline: “Judicial overhaul opponents see parallel to Tisha B’Av, saddest day in Hebrew...

12/13 Links Pt1: Jonathan Tobin: The Triumph of Trump’s Amateurs; Ruthie Blum: The making of a Palestinian martyr; Would Iran give a nuclear bomb to al-Qaeda?

From Ian: Jonathan Tobin: The Triumph of Trump’s Amateurs And yet the conflict served an unexpectedly creative purpose. It provided the leverage the United Arab Emirates needed to justify its decision to normalize relations with Israel. In the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, Yousef al-Otaiba, the UAE ambassador to the United Nations, published an op-ed blasting the annexation...

12/01 Links Pt1: UN to mark ‘Nakba Day’ - Israel’s establishment as catastrophe; UNGA call for Israeli-Palestinian peace parley in Moscow; 75 years since UN partition vote: A self-inflicted Palestinian tragedy

From Ian: UN to mark ‘Nakba Day’ - Israel’s establishment as catastrophe The UN General Assembly voted Wednesday afternoon in favor of holding a commemorative event in honor of the 75th “Nakba Day,” the Palestinian name for Israel’s establishment, which translates to “catastrophe.” The vote was 90-30, with 47 abstentions. The United States, Canada, Australia and the United...

IfNotNow fundraising email makes up a lie about the founding of AIPAC

IfNotNow sent an email to its mailing list asking for money - by making up a lie about AIPAC.This is a lie.AIPAC was founded in two stages. The first was in 1951, as a lobbying arm of the American Zionist Council. It was essentially a one-man operation run by Isaiah (Si) Kenen to strengthen the Israel/American relationship. He immediately went to work on getting funding from...

Proof #82761 that when Palestinians say "Zionist" in English they mean "Jews"

Palestine Today has an article about the Congressional race in Pennsylvania that was won by Summer Lee.AIPAC had supported Lee's opponent Mike Doyle with a large infusion of cash in the final days of the race.Palestine Today positioned this as "a crushing loss for the Jews in Pennsylvania"in Arabic (autotranslated):For the Jews?That's a strange way to look at it, since Pennsylvania's...

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Dragons and dragon-slayers in Israel and America Israel is indeed a state for the Jewish nation. However, membership in a nation confers obligations on its people to behave as a nation. After all, the Torah itself tells us that when the tribes of Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh said they wanted to settle east of the Jordan because the pastures...

11/09 Links Pt2: The Jewish Studies Professors Who Traffic in Antisemitism‘; Thomas Friedman: Equal-opportunity Israel-basher; Chilling, newly discovered photos show Nazi Kristallnacht up close

From Ian: The Jewish Studies Professors Who Traffic in Antisemitism What is particularly disturbing is the fact that Jewish studies scholars have no compunction in deploying antisemitic tropes to further their agenda. Myers and Sokatch write: “The apparent return of Benjamin Netanyahu to power in Israel is a gut punch to people concerned about the state of democracy and the...