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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Even Selichot prove you cannot separate Judaism from love of Zion

During the weeks before Yom Kippur, Jews throughout the world add special supplications to prayers called Selichot. The theme of Selichot is repentance and praying for forgiveness. But even within that theme, you cannot separate Judaism from the longing for Zion that comes in all prayers.Here are some of the selections from today's Selichot (Nusach Ashkenaz):The Lord is great...

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica explains how Zionism "is the lineal heir" to the age-old Jewish attachment to Israel

From Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 edition:ZIONISM. One of the most interesting results of the anti. Semitic agitation has been a strong revival of the national spirit among the Jews in a political form. To this movement the name Zionism has been given. In the same way that anti-Semitism differs from the Jew-hatred of the early and middle ages, Zionism differs from previous...

Proud to be a Zionist - 75th Anniversary Edition

Every year for the past 22 years, even before I started this blog, I've written an essay for Yom HaAtzmaut entitled "Proud to Be a Zionist." Here is the latest edition for 5783.____________________There are two Israels. No, I'm not talking about the religious vs. secular, or the right vs. left, or those who hate Bibi and those who love him. I am talking about...

75 years ago: Arab official says they'll defeat the Jews because Arab life is cheap

From famed journalist and historian Jon Kimche, writing for the Palestine Post, January 14, 1948:A leading Arab personality, close to leaders of the [Arab] Higher Executive, who has just returned from a tour of most of the Arab capitals, yesterday gave me a picture of the Palestine situation as top Arab leaders see it.... Conflict in Palestine was unavoidable, he thought ,...

Jews have always been Zionist (posters)

I created these in April but cannot find that I posted them, so here is a series of graphics showing that Zionism is an integral part of Judaism. 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...

Lapid's speech

Here is the text of Yair Lapid's first speech as new Israeli prime minister. It is a good one.I want to start by thanking the 13th Prime Minister of the State of Israel, Naftali Bennett. For your decency, for your friendship and for leading the government this past year to economic and security achievements not seen here for years. A special thank you for allowing the citizens...

Judaism has always been Zionist (posters)

There is a flip side to saying that anti-Zionism is antisemitism.It is that Judaism is inherently Zionist.Some posters I made .... and there are plenty more examples. 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! ...

Who Knew? Putin’s a Zionist! (Judean Rose)

In a bombshell interview with Megyn Kelly, Putin, set to handily win reelection as Russia’s president on March 18, declared that no Russians meddled in the American presidential election. And even if Russians did meddle in the American presidential election, those Russians don’t represent the state. "So what if they're Russians?" said Putin. “There are 146 million...

Israel's deaf-blind theater troupe touches audiences

This is Zionism. The YouTube page has links where you can download performances. (h/t Mik...

Rare footage of Operation Solomon, 1991

You don't need to understand Hebrew to be moved by this footage of Ethiopian Jews being saved anf flown to Israel in 1991's Operation Solomon. Here's a frame showing a family on the plane: Doesn't Zionism look like racism here? (h/t Joe...

Israelis give 1000 hearing aids to Palestinian Arabs

From YNet Hebrew: From Israel with Love: A thousand Palestinians were given hearing aids A thousand Palestinians received, for the first time, hearing aids undera joint project of the Sheba Medical Center, Starkey Foundation and Physicians for Human Rights. A Ynet reporter joined doctors in Tulkarm and watched the smiles that came on the faces of people who, for the first...

This is Zionism: IDF Alpine Unit (video)

I decided to turn one of my "This Is Zionism" posters into a video. Enjoy!...

StandWithUs has the posters here. Also, special thanks to Israel21C from where I found most of these photos and which has far more such storie...

Sidney Lumet's legacy in Zionism, civil rights - and hasbara

Here is a chapter of American Jewish history I was not aware of: Academy Award winning film director Sidney Lumet, who passed away on April 9 at age 86, is remembered for classics such as “Twelve Angry Men,” the courtroom drama that challenged racial prejudice and which Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has cited as a major influence on her career. What is not widely known is that before he became a director, Lumet, as a young actor, was...

Speaking of Pamela Anderson...

Gratuitous photo meant to gain more readers My post that mentioned Pamela Anderson yesterday got lots of attention and probably a couple of thousand hits. Yet there is more to say about her that illuminates the huge inconsistency of how people on the far left treat Israel. Israel is the first (and, as far as I know, only) country in the world to have even seriously considered...