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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Antisemitism is personal—even when it’s only on Facebook (Judean Rose)

Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein. Antisemitism is personal. Like snowflakes—no wokeness intended—no two Jews experience antisemitism the same way. Even the same Jew will experience antisemitism differently when there are multiple incidents or when exposure to antisemitism is ongoing. Social...

Arabs on social media very upset at Jordanian, Egyptian condemnations of Jerusalem attack

The Jordanian Foreign Ministry issued a statement that condemned the attack at the Jerusalem synagogue in the middle of a "both-sides" warning against escalation:Amman, January 28 - Today, Saturday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs stressed the need to take urgent and effective steps to stop the dangerous and condemnable state of escalation, which has...

Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah doesn't even pretend to oppose terrorism against Jews

Back in 2015, the official Fatah Facebook page was taken down for encouraging terror. When the page came back, Fatah tried to be careful. But in recent weeks it has gone full-blown terror support.Today alone it has posted about 10 pro-terror messages, mostly in support for the Al Aqsa Brigades terrorists killed this morning before they could launch a major attack. Plus...

Why does Palestinian media care about Mark Zuckerberg's donation to Jewish charities?

JTA reported last month:Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are contributing $1.3 million to 11 Jewish groups, eJewish Philanthropy reported, citing a spokesperson for the couple. News of Zuckerberg and Chan’s donations comes as the couple has gradually emphasized its Jewish identity in public in recent years. Privately, Zuckerberg and Chan have...

Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers Silenced By Facebook for Fighting Against Antisemitism on Campus (UPDATED) (Judean Rose)

Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers fights hatred and antisemitism on campus in the Bay Area, so I was surprised when I tried to share a recent piece on Facebook, Glorifying Jew Killers at Cal, and got this error message, instead: Your message couldn't be sent because it includes content that other people on Facebook have reported as abusive. There was, of course, nothing abusive...

Fatah celebrates terror. Like they do every day.

The Fatah Facebook page celebrates terror literally every day. Today they show this newly colorized picture of airplane hijacker Leila Khaled and late Fatah terrorist Abu Jihad: The caption says, "We are from January the 1st [1965 - the first Fatah terror attack], oh homeland... one generation salutes the next one." (h/t Ibn Boutros) We have lots...

Pro-Hamas "news" site says all bearded rabbis are legitimate targets

From the Facebook page of the Palestine Information Center, a Hamas mouthpiece: According to this "logic," any rabbi - or indeed any religious Jew - is a legitimate target, because of their "teachings" supposedly to kill Arab children and to want Jews to have access to the Temple Mount. Of course, these rabbis preached no such thing, but the fact that they are Jewish...