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Thursday, June 22, 2017

Can Israeliness save American Jewry?

David Hazony wrote an excellent and in-depth essay for The Tower called "Israeli Identity and the Future of American Jewry." Please read the whole thing, I would not do it justice in this brief summary. Hazony's thesis is that the best way to counter rampant assimilation of American Jews is to introduce them to Judaism through the prism of Israeliness. Israeliness is now...

Why calling Zionism colonialist is false - and antisemitic

There have been many articles about the student-designed course at UC Berkeley called “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Inquiry.” But as far as I can tell, no one has addressed the main question: can Israel be considered colonialist? It can't. Colonialism is the establishment, maintenance, acquisition, and expansion of colonies in one territory, imposed by people from another...

International law prohibits banning Jewish worship on the Temple Mount

TOI reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday restated a pledge to retain intact the custom of not permitting non-Muslim prayer on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, which has been at the center of a recent spike in unrest. “Israel reaffirms its commitment to upholding unchanged the status quo of the Temple Mount, in word and in practice,” he said in a statement. The...

When you hate Israel, it can do nothing right

When you hate Israel, it can do nothing right Evil Hasbara claim Israel Derangement Response Israel is tolerant towards gays Israel has some homophobes, and therefore really hates gays (Richard Silverstein) Israel is only pretending to be tolerant; it is engaging in “pinkwashing” to distract the world from its crimes (Sarah Schulman) Israel has repeatedly offered peace and been rebuffed Those...

How the Arabs added specifically anti-Israel language to the Rome Statute of the ICC

The list of war crimes enumerated in Rome Statute of the ICC includes a section that is directly aimed at Israel, and no one else. From The International Criminal Court: the making of the Rome Statute : issues, negotiations and results by Roy S. K. Lee Article 8(2)(b)(viii), on deportation and transfer of population, also generated extensive discussions. The provision now reads: The transfer. directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of...

NYT chooses a Gaza child to symbolize all child deaths in war this year (update)

Here is a scan of a page from the New York Times Magazine this past weekend, using a Gaza child named Tala Akram al-Atawi ,who was killed over the summer, to symbolize all children killed in war: From looking at this page, one would get the impression that except for South Sudan, more children were killed in Gaza than in any other conflict this year, and that over 20%...

The entire bogus history of Palestinian Arab nationalism exposed by a stamp

This is a stamp from British Mandate Palestine. It says "Palestine" in Hebrew, Arabic and English, but in Hebrew it adds the initials א.י.(E.Y.), for Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel, which is what Jews have always called the area. In 1925, Arab leaders in Palestine were very upset over those two letters, so they went to court. From the Palestine Bulletin, October...

Fighting the honor/shame culture to save the world

During Yom Kippur I used the machzor (holiday prayer book) written by Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi of Great Britain. It is a very good machzor. Sacks uses it as an opportunity to highlight the contributions of Judaism to the world at large as a supremely moral religion. One of the points he makes is that Judaism was the first guilt culture, as opposed...

Belgium's poet laureate publishes another antisemitic poem

Earlier this year I reported on (and gave samples) of the antisemitic poetry of Belgium's Poet Laureate whose pen-name is Charles Ducal. His poetry includes equating Israeli Jews to Nazis, invoking the idea of "chosen people" as meaning that Jews think of themselves as better than everyone else, and frequent references to the ashes of the crematoria against...

Review of Hamas violations of international law (updated)

1. Hamas‘ rocket attacks directed at Israel‘s civilian population centers deliberately violates the basic principles of distinction. (Additional Protocol I, arts. 48, 51(2), 52(1).) Any doubt about this is resolved by the fact that Hamas itself has boasted of its intention to hit population centres. It is well accepted in customary international law that ―[i]ntentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual...

Muslims terrorize Jewish children on Temple Mount (video)

From Yisrael Medad's JPost blog: Some two dozen or so Jewish children ascended with their fathers to the Temple Mount. Children, not even teenagers. Haredim. They were surrounded by adult Muslim men and women who chanted, screamed, yelled, pushed, threatened and otherwise acted with verbal and even some physical violence. And surely psychological violence. There is a simple reason why the Muslims became so unhinged. Because proud Jewish...

"Zionists trying to hide Canaanite-Palestinian civilization"

You know how Israel is always accused of using archaeology to hide any traces of Muslim presence in the land (a charge that a simple visit to the Israel Museum would dispel)? Well, that's passe. Now Israel is being accused of hiding the flourishing Canaanite-Palestinian civilization. A Jordanian columnist says "The Zionist movement is trying hard to obliterate any trace of the existence of the Canaanite civilization in Palestine." Given that...