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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

BDSers are proud of using violence to stifle free speech

From JTA last week:Pro-Palestinian protesters injured a university employee while demonstrating against a lecture speaker who heads the Brazilian chapter of a pro-Israel advocacy group.Andre Lajst, the director of StandWithUs Brazil, was speaking about ways that Israeli technologies could help develop the Amazon region at the Federal University of Amazonas in Manaus on Thursday...

A Jew was once on US currency (maybe)

I came across this story from JTA in 1930:This would be the Standing Liberty quarter.Doris Doscher had played the biblical Eve in a 1918 silent film, "Birth of a Race."After she died in 1970, there were claims that another actress named Irene MacDowell was the model for the quarter and her role was hidden because her husband disapproved. Doscher's husband, who survived her,...

75 years ago: Eleanor Roosevelt urges the world to allow Jews in Palestine to get arms

From The Palestine Post, February 20, 1948:From JTA, February 19, 1948:New York City’s effort on behalf of the $250,000,000 national United Jewish Appeal campaign was launched today by 2,500 community leaders at the annual Women’s Division rally held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Speakers included Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, former Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Max Lerner, and...

Hundreds of liberal US rabbis embrace a form of BDS

JTA reports: More than 330 American rabbis, including some who occupy prominent roles in major cities, are pledging to block members of the Religious Zionist bloc in Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government from speaking at their synagogues and will lobby to keep them from speaking in their communities.An open letter now circulating says they will not invite members of the...

Which logo resembles a Nazi symbol more?

From JTA:An elementary school in suburban Atlanta made national headlines this week after it unveiled a new logo, which bears a striking resemblance to the Nazi Eagle.The Cobb County School District — Georgia’s second-largest district — said it would halt distribution of the new logo while “reviewing needed changes.” Local Jewish leaders who spoke with district officials said...

Even in 1951, it was obvious that the UN was useless for solving any Middle East problems

This is a fun article from JTA in 1951 describing how useless the UN had been in the Middle East - -and how the Arab enemies of Israel were hijacking it for their purposes even then. Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it h...

Arkansas anti-BDS law is upheld - demanding equal treatment for Israel does not violate free speech

From JTA:A US federal appeals court upheld an Arkansas state law requiring all public contractors to promise they won’t boycott Israel in a Wednesday ruling, overturning an earlier decision that had said the contract violates the First Amendment.The ruling by the St. Louis-based US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit was a major victory for pro-Israel activists who have...

Algerian newspaper praises 1934 Constantine pogrom that killed dozens of Jews as "battle of glory"

Wikipedia describes the 1934 Constantine pogrom:The 1934 Constantine riots was an anti-Jewish riot that erupted in the Algerian city of Constantine.The general consensus is that the initial cause of the conflict was a confrontation between Eliahou Khalifa, a Jewish Zouave, and Muslim worshippers in a mosque next to his home. The Muslims said that Khalifa was drunk, and insulted...