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Sunday, August 27, 2023

Google launches program to actually help Palestinians more than all the NGOs combined

What does it mean to be "pro-Palestinian?"To most people who define themselves that way, it means to be anti-Israel. Even though NGOs spend tens of millions of dollars in their anti-Israel efforts, writing yet another report finding yet another way Israel is supposedly the worst abuser in the world doesn't help Palestinians one bit. Google just announced an initiative...

Some good editorial cartoons (for once)

I was looking through a collection of editorial cartoons, and many of them dealing with Israel are horrific - antisemitic, ignorant or both.But there were a few good ones that hold up.. Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it&nbs...

Imagine if Israel boycotted Palestinian products

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics announced that in March 2023, the Palestinians exported goods worth nearly $150 million.87% of those goods went to Israel. In contrast, "only" 54% of Palestinian imports come from Israel; that used to be much higher.Now, let's imagine if Israel did what the BDS movement wants to see - and shut off all imports and exports to...

Denmark buys Israeli artillery systems, backfilling weapons sent to Ukraine - and upsetting BDSers

ATMOS truck-mounted howitzerDefense News reported in March:Israeli defense company Elbit Systems said it won several deals in Europe this month, including a $119 million sale of ATMOS truck-mounted howitzers and a $133 million contract for PULS artillery rocket systems.The deals, which Elbit said are with a European NATO member country, come as several governments on the continent...

04/27 Links Pt2: Israel Is Antiracist, Anti-Colonialist, Anti-Fascist (and Was from the Start); Why the world has turned against Israel; Caroline Glick: An afternoon among the angels

From Ian: Jeffrey Herf: Israel Is Antiracist, Anti-Colonialist, Anti-Fascist (and Was from the Start) Nor did support for Israel come only from the Soviet bloc. Liberals and leftists in London, Paris, New York, and Washington heard Jamal Husseini, the representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations, reject a Jewish state in Palestine, because, he said, it...

By their own success criteria, BDS has been a massive failure

The website for the BDS Movement has a FAQ section that asks, "What has the BDS movement achieved so far?"The very top achievement is listed as:BDS was a major factor behind the 46% drop in foreign direct investment in Israel in 2014, according to a UN report.How have direct investments in Israel done since then? If BDS is taking credit for the 46% drop in direct...

The haters are now demanding Trader Joe's stop selling matzoh made in Israel

This Mondoweiss article reads like a parody:Trader Joe’s prides itself on delivering great products at fair prices. And we agree that they deliver on that promise. So, when we saw that our favorite food store is now selling Passover Matzo made in Israel we had to act. Trader Joe’s also has a reputation for being responsive to customers, so we started this campaign to...

The more they campaign to boycott Israeli dates, the more dates Israel sells!

Anti-Israel organizations have been organizing boycotts of Israeli dates every Ramadan for years. Here's a campaign from 2008. This year there are anti-Israel date campaigns from CAIR, American Muslims for Palestine, Inminds and many other Muslim organizations. Let's see how effective these campaigns have been.In 2008, when these campaigns began, Israel was...

Jordanian dental association doing its part to uproot the Zionist entity, but Jordanian dentists don't play along

From Jordan's Ammon News:The Council of the Jordanian Dental Association (JDA) announced that it will not participate in the AEEDC / Dubai 2023 conference, due to the confirmation of the participation of a Zionist delegation in the exhibition activities.The JDA Tuesday called on all colleagues not to participate in this event, under penalty of union accountability.The Council...

What happens when they call a boycott and nobody cares?

Friends of Al Aqsa started a campaign to convince Pret a Manger not to open up stores in Israel.It looks like they started their campaign on January 9, asking people to use the hashtag "#PretAPartheid."It isn't exactly trending on Twitter on Facebook.But they are trying to make it sound HUGE. So they have enlisted their fellow propaganda "news" sites, Middle East Monitor and...

12/19 Links Pt2: The light of Hanukkah that has continued to shine for 74 years; General Washington’s Christmastime Hanukah Encounter; Children discover 2,000-year-old lamp in the ground

From Ian: Daniel Greenfield: The light of Hanukkah that has continued to shine for 74 years A candle is a brief flare of light. A wick dipped in oil burns and goes out again. The Hanukkah light appears no different, but it is. Two thousand years after the Jews had come to believe that wars were for other people and miracles meant escaping alive, Jewish armies stood and held...

Of course boycotting the Kiasma museum is antisemitism

From Algemeiner:More than 200 artists have signed a statement pledging to boycott Finland’s leading gallery of contemporary art because of its links with a Finnish-Israeli philanthropist, in a move denounced as “antisemitic” by the Bishop of Helsinki and other public figures.In the statement, the signatories pledged to “refuse to sell our labor and art” to the Kiasma Museum...

12/07 Links Pt2: Every Time You Wish Someone ‘Happy Hanukkah’ You Acknowledge The Historic Jewish Claim On Jerusalem; Israel is 5th safest country in the world for tourists

From Ian: 'Herzl is our George Washington and Thomas Jefferson all wrapped in one' "Today, Theodor Herzl is best known for his beard, not his books," laments Gil Troy, editor of "The Zionist Writings of Theodor Herzl," in his introductory essay to a new edition of Herzl's diaries. Troy, a professor of history at Canada's McGill University now living in Israel, wants to make...

11/06 Links: Melanie Phillips: How Jew-hatred has to fit the narrative; ADL creates 'more antisemitism,' divides Jews, black people -Candace Owens

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: How Jew-hatred has to fit the narrative Last week, a Palestinian Arab terrorist murdered 50-year-old Israeli Ronen Hananya and injured 5 others. But Hananya was murdered in Kiryat Arba in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, and so was considered a “settler”. Since such Israelis are thus blamed for their own murder, Hananya’s killing...

10/19 Links Pt2: Why I think the Golden Age for Jews in America is coming to its end; The UN needs to be reimagined and reformed; Peter Bergson – The Unintended Hero of the Holocaust Era

From Ian: Why I think the Golden Age for Jews in America is coming to its end - opinion The New Antisemitism is becoming violent The decline in the favorability of mainstream American views toward Israel has coincided with a rise in antisemitic violence, particularly in large metropolises, promoted by Islamo-Leftist groups. In New York City, more than half of hate crimes...

10/15 Links: Top Law Firms Fund Anti-Semitic Campus Groups at Berkeley; White House ‘deeply disappointed’ after Abbas tells Putin he doesn’t trust US

From Ian: Nation’s Top Law Firms Fund Anti-Semitic Campus Groups at Berkeley A host of the nation’s premier law firms are financially supporting organizations at Berkeley Law School that are accused of fostering anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel, according to a campus watchdog group. Student groups at the elite law school, led by Law Students for Justice in Palestine, adopted...