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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Chanukah Misunderstood: A Call for Intellectual Curiosity Amidst Exploitation (Judean Rose)

Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.Chanukah is kind of lucky because everyone just loves Chanukah, which is why everyone and their dog wants to borrow Chanukah and use it to express themselves however. Take Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. He thinks Chanukah is about people hiding and running...

Chanukah Music Video Night 7: Six13 - Era-lution of Taylor Swift (plus more ShirSoul)

This seems to be the year for Taylor Swift Chanukah parodiesBonus track, another from Shir Soul, "Africapella": Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! &nbs...

Chanukah Music Video night 6: The LeeVees: Tiny Desk Concert (plus bonus from ShirSoul)

I don't think these songs are new, but they are new to me. Plus an acapella short of Mi Yemalel by Shir Soul: Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! &nbs...

Chanukah Music Video Night 5: It's for Hanukah! | Boys Town Jerusalem Choir (plus bonus tune from Yechiel Schron)

Plus an original Al Hanissim that just dropped within the past hour: Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! &nbs...

Chanukah Music Video Night 4:"Epic Chanukah Rap"

Not quite sure what to make of this one.. Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! &nbs...

Chanukah Music Video night 3: Layla Frankel – Hanukkah Honey

A little different from the usual.... Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! &nbs...

Chanukah Music Video Night 2: You Can Light With Me (Y-Studs Version) - A Taylor Swift Hanukkah

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Chanukah Music Video night 1: The Maccabeats - We're Still Here (Am Yisrael Chai) - Hanukkah 2023 - עם ישראל חי

Continuing my tradition of posting new Chanukah videos every year.... Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! &nbs...

Lebanese condemn a book about Chanukah that was distributed in a Christian school. Nah, nothing antisemitic here.

Al Akhbar reports:A picture of a booklet titled “Hanukkah” was circulated on social media, distributed by UNIFIL forces to the students of Our Lady of the Annunciation School in Rmeish, south Lebanon, on the occasion of Christmas. .Indeed, it is stated in the pamphlet that Al-Akhbar reviewed, under the title Facts, that “thousands of years ago the Jewish people lived in a...

Cartoon of the Day: The message of Chanukah

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Bahrainis protest against...Chanukah

"Death to Israel"El Bashayer reports:On Friday, a demonstration took place in the Sitra area of Bahrain, rejecting the holding of Hanukkah activities in the country, and all forms of normalization with the Israeli entity, and in support of the Palestinian cause."Chanukah is a Zionist project and normalization program"Palestine Today reports that the demonstration was repeated...

12/23 Links Pt1: Report by UN Middle East envoy ignores Israeli terror victims; Showing gratitude to the IDF, the modern-day Maccabees; Omnibus Bill Would Let U.S. Rejoin Antisemitic UNESCO

From Ian: Report by UN Middle East envoy ignores Israeli terror victims UN coordinator to the Middle East Tor Wennesland, reported to the Security Council on Thursday that more than 20 Israeli victims have been killed as a result of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the beginning of 2022 – a number lower than Israeli estimations. The Envoy reported 150 Palestinian casualties...

Updated database of antisemitic Arab cartoons that use a menorah motif

For Chanukah, here is a list of Arab cartoons I have found that use a menorah as a motif.It sure looks antisemitic to me.During wildfires in IsraelStylizing the last letter of "Daesh" (ISIS) to look like Israel is behind the groupJew as monkey (1992, Egypt)Now compare with this from Nazi Germany: Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or...

12/20 Links Pt2: To tackle the oldest hatred, it’s not enough to just teach the Holocaust; Caroline Glick: Hanukkah and the new imperialist assault on Judaism; Airbnb launches positive series of articles about Israeli hosts

From Ian: Stephen Pollard: To tackle the oldest hatred, it’s not enough to just teach the Holocaust In much of the West there is an assumption among both Jews and those who sympathize with them that teaching people about the Holocaust somehow inoculates them against anti-Semitism. Stephen Pollard observes that education about the Shoah in Britain is very good, but evidence...

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...

Hamas threatens war resulting from Jews visiting the Temple Mount during Chanukah; Jordan joins the antisemitic, anti-Chanukah jihad

Hamas issued this press release in English:The planned mass incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque, orchestrated by Israeli settler groups under the cover and protection of the hardline right-wing Israeli occupation government to mark the so-called Hanukkah holiday, constitute a dangerous development aimed at provoking the feelings of the Palestinian people and of all Muslims. We...

12/16 Links P2: Liberals, Progressives, Wokeness and Israel; Smearing Israel from the Ivory Tower; US Congressman Slams FBI Hate Crimes Data As Bipartisan Criticism Grows

From Ian: Liberals, Progressives, Wokeness and Israel Putting all this together, what the JILV survey powerfully documents is a troubling phenomenon that has pervaded the larger American political system today: namely political sorting. In its most basic form, political sorting, which is often confused with polarization, is a fairly new phenomenon and is where ideological...