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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Open Hillel is dead. Its successor doesn't know why it exists.

Remember Open Hillel?About ten years ago, a group of students at Harvard became incensed that their Jewish campus Hillel canceled an anti-Israel event when it was revealed that a BDS group was sponsoring it, violating Hillel's guidelines. Of course they could hold their event anywhere, but they decided to start a movement called Open Hillel to get other Hillels to drop...

Old anti-Zionist organizations don't die...they just fade away, slowly

Have you ever heard of the American Council for Judaism?We've discussed it before. It was the IfNotNow of the 1940s and 1950s, holding an anti-Zionist position that it pretended was Jewish. The ACJ pretended to be loyal to "classical Reform Judaism," and insisted that Jews were a religion but not a people and that to be Zionist was to be anti-American. In 1957 the Union for...

Every time anti-Israel activists sing "lo yisa goy" it is a self-own

IfNotNow tweeted on Sunday, "BREAKING: 13 Jewish IfNotNow activists were just attacked by security at the Israel Bonds Conference as they prayed Maariv to protest the visit by genocidal Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who called for a Palestinian town to be wiped out."The video doesn't show them praying Ma'ariv. It shows them singing one of their favorite songs,...

A couple of cartoons for the weekend (Eldertoons)

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...

12/02 Links Pt2: Melanie Phillips: Diaspora Jews keep making the same mistake; Trivializing antisemitism based on politics; Not just Kanye – it’s an online coalition of hate

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Diaspora Jews keep making the same mistake A perverse feature of the Jewish people is that they make one particular mistake over and over again. They are persecuted. They frantically try to assimilate into their host community in the belief that this will avert future persecution. They are persecuted again. They frantically assimilate again. This...

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...

"The Jews are the real antisemites" is not a new argument by antisemites

Modern antisemitic groups like Electronic Intifada, IfNotNow and others like to claim that they aren't antisemitic - the real antisemites are the Jews (they say "Zionists.")It turns out that even that argument was used by the classic antisemites of history.This op-ed in The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, October 03, 1941 shows that this argument was used by the antisemitic...

IfNotNow says Judaism has no intrinsic meaning. Which is pretty much the definition of antisemitism.

Yesterday, IfNotNow published a "havdalah service" for people who were campaigning for Andy Levin in Michigan - "Jews for Andy."Havdalah is meant to separate the Sabbath from the weekday, but for these people, it was done in broad daylight, which is something we have seen anti-Israel groups do before. This was also done in a "Jews for Rashida" "Passover seder" held in...

Leftist Jews say Palestinians aren't antisemitic - but Jews are racist

It is a predictable pattern: any time anything happens in the news, a group of anti-Israel Jews issue a "letter" from "Jewish leaders" that try to gaslight the world and pretend to represent Jews as a whole.The Israel-hating Left is very frightened by the wave of antisemitic attacks that have gotten publicity worldwide - attacks that clearly aren't initiated by the far Right...

Heaven Forbid That Jewish Survival Should Depend On IfNotNow! (Daled Amos)

By Daled Amos Last August, there were protests after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man. The protests turned angry, and the words “Free Palestine” were spray‐painted on the driveway of the Beth Hillel Temple. On August 27, 2020, IfNotNow condemned this as antisemitism: They even followed up that tweet, making it very clear...

When the far-Left conflates fighting antisemitism with progressive causes, Jews lose (plus bonus cartoon)

A bunch of progressive and anti-Zionist Jews wrote a letter to President Biden urging him to appoint an antisemitism envoy that will ignore most forms of antisemitism. Haaretz gave this piece of stupidity oxygen.Let's take it apart:Dear Mr. President and Secretary Blinken:As Jewish leaders, we write to you at a moment of both fear and hope. We are deeply concerned about the...

Ever notice that only Zionist trips to Israel are obligated to be "balanced" but not anti-ZIonist trips?

One of the more disingenuous parts of groups like IfNotNow demnding that Zionist organizations like Birthright include an anti-Zionist point of view is that no one - and I mean no one - ever even considers politely requesting so-called "pro-Palestinian" groups include the Zionist narrative in their discussions. The reason this comes up is a small article in the PLO website....

Is There Anyone From J-Street Who ISN'T A Co-Founder of If Not Now? (Daled Amos)

Just asking. It seems there are various former members of J Street, some who served in leadership positions, who are now involved in If Not Now -- and some of them are apparently founding members. For example: Max Berger o He is identified as a co-founder of If Not Now in his 'bio' on Haaretz o A JTA article notes that before If Not Now, Max...