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Friday, August 11, 2023

This 1939 description of antisemitism could have been written today

Rev. Charles Owen RiceThis article from JTA, published in September 1939, sounds like it could have been written today in regard to "anti-Zionists."DISCUSSES ANTI-JEWISH ATTITUDE Priest Assails Those Who Say They Are Not. Opposed to "Good Jews." PITTSBURGH—Those who mask their anti-Semitism with the assertion that they are not opposed to "good Jews" were assailed...

Roger Waters supports free speech, but only that he agrees with

In April, when the city of Frankfurt planned to cancel their Roger Waters concert for antisemitism, he wrote on Instagram:ROGER WATERS FRANKFURT SHOW UPDATEFRANKFURT COUNCIL WERE LEGALLY REQUIREDTO RESPOND TO ROGER WATERS INTERIM INJUNCTIONBY MIDNIGHT APRIL 14DID THEY?NOBODY KNOWS?WE CAN ONLY GUESS ATWHAT’S GOING ON IN FRANKFURT?ARE THEY PLAYING FOR TIME?WHO KNOWS?NOT THAT...

Arabic article describes everyday antisemitism in Tunisian speech

Muslim and Jewish friends in shop in DjerbaRaseef22 is an Arabic language online magazine that centers on issues of human rights. Even a glance at its home page shows that it cares more deeply about real human rights in the Arab world than politicized Western NGOs do.It recently featured an article about how entrenched antisemitism is in how Tunisians speak - a topic that...

"Human rights orgs" give the world permission to hate Jews again

In 2001, Barbara Perry wrote a book called "In the Name of Hate: Understanding Hate Crimes." Chapter 7, "Permission to Hate: Ethnoviolence and the State" says:[H]ate-motivated violence can flourish only in an enabling environment. In the United States, such an environment historically has been conditioned by the activity-and inactivity-of the state. State practices, policy,...

The BBC promotes the new antisemitism

The BBC's latest article on Christians in Jerusalem is a classic example of how antisemitism has been mainstreamed in today's "civilized" world.The title is "Jerusalem Christians say attacks on the rise."Walking in the footsteps of Jesus, huge crowds of Christian pilgrims have this month thronged Jerusalem's ancient streets where the Easter story unfolded."It's very emotional,...

12/05 Links Pt2: A Blood Libel Against Israel on Netflix; The Navel-Gazing Inanities of MESA; The story of Jewish expulsion from Arab countries must be told

From Ian: A Blood Libel Against Israel on Netflix On Dec. 1, Netflix started streaming the Jordanian film "Farha," which depicts fictionalized, heartless Israeli soldiers viciously killing Palestinian men, women and children in cold blood. These events never actually happened and the film admits that it is "dramatized." But that does not mean it will not have an outsized...

12/03 Links: Happy Nakba Day; Bibi Could Upend Biden’s Weak Foreign Policy; More media excuses for Palestinians and terror; US Jews battle ‘mainstreaming’ and normalization of antisemitism

From Ian: Happy Nakba Day The Jewish/Arab conflict in the Middle East is not about the relative merits of Jew or Arab to live on the Land; there is enough land in what was formerly known as “Palestine” for all without Israel giving up any of the area it now possesses. The ongoing war in Israel is the fulcrum of the intellectual/spiritual conflict between the worldviews that...

The truth about BDS

I originally wrote this for publication in a major media site, but they do not publish from pseudonyms, so here it is.____________________________________________On December 4, Time magazine published an article partially entitled "Here’s What You Need to Know About BDS" by Sanya Mansoor. BDS stands for the demand to Boycott, Divest from and Sanction Israel. The Time...