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Wednesday, August 02, 2023

08/02 Links Pt2: Jury votes to sentence Tree of Life synagogue killer to death; Don't let the Palestinians erase the Jewish history of Israel

From Ian: Pittsburgh jury votes to sentence Tree of Life synagogue killer to death A federal jury on Wednesday sentenced Robert Bowers to death for killing 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history, the New York Times reported. In June, the jury found Bowers, 50, guilty of dozens of federal hate crimes in...

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...

WJC president Ronald Lauder acts chummy with antisemite Mahmoud Abbas. He has lost the plot.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is in New York to give his annual anti-Israel speech filled with lies to the UN. This comes on the heels of his Fatah party bragging about its terror wing attacking Israel in recent weeks. It has been only a month since Abbas said that Israel has inflicted 50 "holocausts" on Palestinians, only the latest of his many explicitly antisemitic...

Jared Kushner reveals why Trump was turned off by Abbas

CNN Arabic quotes an episode in Jared Kushner's book Breaking History that I couldn't find in any English-language articles. The quotes are obviously translated from English to Arabic and back, so they will not be exact quotes from the book.The President was scheduled to meet with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank. Abbas came to the...

There's been a "Marshall Plan" for Palestinians for decades. It didn't work.

World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder made a splash earlier this month when, in Arab News, he suggested a new "Marshall Plan" for Palestinians to help bring peace.It might seem counterintuitive, given the decades of failed peace efforts, but I believe this is exactly the right time to offer the Palestinians a new initiative — one that they cannot turn down. What I...