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Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Palestinian intolerance and Jew-hatred summed up in one sentence

Every year, the Tomb of the Patriarchs is open exclusively to Jews for ten days and open exclusively to Muslims for ten days. The shrine is split between the two groups all the other days of the year.The schedule is publicized well ahead of time (although the Muslim days may move by a day depending on when the new month is declared.) There are no surprises. The Waqf...

US to rejoin antisemitic UNESCO. Why is the WJC praising this?

I'm in the middle of reading "Betrayal: The Failure of American Jewish Leadership," collection of essays edited by Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser:This book—perhaps the first devoted to this topic—documents the devastating failure of the Jewish establishment, including its leaders and major donors, to defend and protect American Jews as anti-Semitism surges across...

Do Palestinians have love for the "Ibrahimi Mosque" in Hebron, or hate for Jews?

The official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that thousands of Muslims jammed the Tomb of the Patriarchs and the surrounding streets on Friday, the first Friday of Ramadan.It is one of the ten days of the year that Jews are banned from the sacred site, the second holiest site in Judaism. Wafa interviewed one of the worshipers, who explained why she came. "It is...

01/09 Links Pt1: Obama’s Anti-Imperialist Fantasy Bears Bitter Fruit; Israel moves ahead with transfer of PA funds to terror victims; The year Iran lost normalcy

From Ian: Mark Dubowitz: Obama’s Anti-Imperialist Fantasy Bears Bitter Fruit Unsurprisingly, Iran often seemed to exist for Obama not as a threat to U.S. interests but as a historical victim of Western imperialism, which supposedly overthrew a “democratically elected” Iranian prime minister and installed the shah. Iran’s repressive theocratic regime seemed less notable for...

The most important unwritten law in the West: Don't piss off irrational, extremist Muslims

It is important to examine two events in recent days, as they both severely limit the freedom of Westerners - and signal far worse things that could come.The first is the visit by Israeli minister of security Itamar Ben-Gvir to the Temple Mount.The second is the publicizing of the removal of an instructor at Hamline University for including depictions of Mohammed in his art...

Chayyei Sarah -- A Parshah For Zionists (Daled Amos)

By Daled AmosLast week, while reading online articles about the political situation in and surrounding Israel, I wasn't really expecting to come across articles discussing Chumash. Then again, with a title like Abraham The Zionist, and this week being Parshas Chayyei Sarah, Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz's article in JNS should not have been a surprise. The Parsha begins, of course,...

Last night's battle in Nablus proves that Palestinian nationalism is just repackaged antisemitism

Palestinian terror apologists like to say to clueless Westerners, "Don't Palestinians have the right to defend themselves?"On the surface, it sounds like a reasonable question. Only when you know a little about what's going on do you realize that shooting rockets at civilians is in no way "self defense." It is terror.We now have proof positive that Palestinians are not motivated...

Jews dance in Hebron, Muslim and Jewish antisemites freak out

A popular Palestinian blogger, Jihad Helles, wrote on Twitter his reaction to seeing Jews singing and dancing in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron:In a chilling scene, herds of settlers have now stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque, the second most important and oldest Palestinian mosque after Al-Aqsa Mosque, and expelled the worshipers from it, desecrated it and danced in it to...

Palestinians condemn "settlers in obscene clothing" visiting Tomb of the Patriarchs

Palestinian media is reporting:Today, Sunday, September 11, 2022, a group of settlers, accompanied by the Israeli occupation forces, stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron.The director of the Ibrahimi Mosque, Ghassan Al-Rajabi, said that a group of settlers accompanied by the occupation forces stormed the Ishaqiah (Isaac) section and the prayer hall in the Ibrahimi Mosque,...

When an elevator to help the disabled is a “racist Judaization crime"

Today, construction started on an elevator at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.It took years any many court cases. The Jewish community offered to work with the Hebron municipality on the design, only to be refused. The elevator will be available to Jews and Muslims. Up until today, people who are wheelchair bound had to be literally carried up in order to see the holy...

Google Maps calls second holiest Jewish spot by its usurped Muslim name

I looked up the Maarat HaMachpelah, Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs in Google Maps. Here's what it found: Muslims have been usurping Jewish holy sites from the beginnings of Islam. But there is no reason for Google to go along with it. Let's them call it the Ibrahim Mosque in Arabic, but it is an insult to Jews to make that the default name. UPDATE...

More Muslims are visiting Al Aqsa on a typical Friday under Jewish rule than ever visited under Muslim rule in history

It's Friday, which means that tens of thousands of Muslims will be visiting the Temple Mount as they do every Friday. Here is what it looked like one Friday in October, when 50,000 Muslims visited to pray..Muslim media typically reports 40,000-50,000 visiting every Friday. Even during COVID there were tens of thousands visiting every week when it was open.As far as I...

Should Jews stay away from the Cave of the Patriarchs to avoid "conflict"?

Media outlets like Haaretz and the New York Times warn about how dangerous it is for Jews to pray in the holist Jewish site, the Temple Mount, that was claimed as an Islamic holy sites over a millennium later. Their argument is that such prayer is lighting a fuse for a global jihad by Muslims. Jewish religious rights, according to these "experts," are not nearly as important...

Palestinians think Jewish holidays are just an excuse for Jews to make their lives difficult for no reason

There is a phrase that is seen often in Palestinian Arabic media, especially around this time of year: "Under the pretext of Jewish holidays."Ma'an wrote on Monday, "The Israeli occupation forces, on Monday evening, restricted Jerusalemites, especially those residing in and around the Old City, under the pretext of the Jewish holidays and to facilitate the settlers' storming...

Latest Israeli human rights violation: Jewish holidays

Al Jazeera (Arabic) writes about the hardship of Palestinian Arabs who work in Israel who are forced to not work during the upcoming Jewish holidays this month.Israel closes the crossings to the territories during Israeli holidays.Of course, Egypt closes its crossing to Gaza on Egyptian holidays, but no one seems overly concerned about that. ...