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Monday, September 04, 2023

Hebrew, Yiddish, antisemitism and the New York Times

The New York Times has an op-ed by Ilan Stavans about the resilience of Yiddish, supposedly by an expert in the field. It includes some antisemitic tropes, oversimplifications, self-contradictions, outright falsehoods and ultimately reflects anti-Zionist politics more than it represents the state of Yiddish today.For a language without a physical address that has come frighteningly...

Antisemites rooting for a Jewish civil war. (Then again, anyone rooting for a civil war is pretty much an antisemite.)

Palestinian news site Amad as well as other sites have an opinion piece by Jordanian Ibrahim Abu Atila that asks Arabs to stop being coy and admit that their enemy is Jews, not "Zionists."Those of us who speak simply and who do not know theorizing and embellishment of speech and those who are not affected by what the media promotes say that those who are hostile to us are...

A @NYTimes essay by @TareqBaconi justifies, and ultimately cheers, murdering Israeli civilians

How many ways can one minimize and then legitimize terror attacks against Jews?Tareq Baconi, former senior analyst for Israel/Palestine at the International Crisis Group and the author of “Hamas Contained” who is now president of the board of al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network, displays a lot of them in New York Times guest essay.Purportedly an analysis of Jenin,...

ISIS op-ed: "Kill the Jews"

I had missed this last month, but MEMRI and the Meir Amit Center both reported that the ISIS newspaper Al Naba had an op-ed whose title was literally "Kill the Jews."I found the original, and it is just as hateful as you would imagine.God Almighty has shown the characteristics of the unbelieving Jews in many verses of His wise book, and described them in detail and accurately,...

Palestinian op-ed: "Jews have nothing in their dictionary besides crime and bloodshed" They aren't even pretending to be "anti-Zionist" anymore

Aziz Mohammed Balousha writes in an Amad.ps op-ed:For those who wreak havoc on the earth in the Holy City, and in its Al-Aqsa Mosque, from desecration and almost daily raids, and to Judaize the landmarks of the Holy City and the first two qiblahs, and in historical Palestine, by killing, demolishing, and terrorizing children, women, and the elderly...Those who make lies and...

AlQuds (UK) calls for a third intifada, led by children, to save face

An op-ed in Al Quds, a UK-based news site for Palestinians, says, "The uprising this time must start from a clear political vision of how to coexist in peace and avoid internal strife, as the region is full of boiling factors, and there is enough misery and suffering because of them. With all that is happening, there is nothing left for the Arabs, except for a little...

Academic freedom? Harvard Crimson op-ed calls to reject Israelis from positions at the university

An op-ed at the Harvard Crimson attempts to turn the Ken Roth episode into an excuse to block Israelis from teaching there.Because of academic freedom, of course.Josh Wilcox, organizer for Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee, writes:It seems a couple points were absent from Dean Elmendorf’s announcement. At no point did he address the elephant in the room:...

Ken Roth doubles down on "Antisemitism is bad, but Jews provoke it" meme

In 2021, Ken Roth - then head of Human Rights Watch - posted a tweet that was widely derided as justifying antisemitism, as it blamed antisemitism on Israeli government actions:Antisemitism is always wrong, and it long preceded the creation of Israel, but the surge in UK antisemitic incidents during the recent Gaza conflict gives the lie to those who pretend that the Israeli...

Haaretz agrees: Zionism is integral to Judaism, anti-Zionism is antisemitism

Haaretz headlines over the past month keep trying to top themselves in derangement. Here's one from today:Yes, Netanyahu is an anti-Zionist!But wait: in 2018, Haaretz had other op-eds on Netanyahu:These articles comes right up to the line of accusing Bibi of antisemitism because he criticizes George Soros. So this is great news:Even Haaretz admits that anti-Zionists are...

80 years ago: The State Department says paying ransom for Jews is a crime

A small item on page 4 of the Los Angeles Times, November 25, 1942:This came in response to a report out of the Netherlands that the Nazis were extorting huge sums for exit permits.There is, unfortunately, a large body of literature on ransoming captives under Jewish law. A summary from Din Online:The Rambam (Matmos Aniim 8:10, based on the Gemara in Bava Basra 8b) states...

Pure hate at Northwestern U

Last week, junior at Northwestern University Lily Cohen wrote an op-ed for the campus newspaper the Daily Northwestern about her pride at being Jewish in the face of antisemitism. It took up a full page in the print edition, with the headline "I am more proud of my Jewish identity than anyone can ever hate me for it."She described how the slogan "From the river to the...

Yes, extremist rhetoric can normalize violence - and that includes "anti-Zionist" rhetoric

Historian Matthew Dallek writes in a New York Times op-ed:The assault on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, last week shocked even those who have become inured to rising violence in the United States. The erosion of norms restraining extreme behavior that began well before the election of Donald Trump in 2016 appears to have accelerated. Society looks as if it is coming...

Nazi-level Jew-hate in Jordanian news site op-ed

Sawaleif is a Jordanian news site. It isn't hugely popular but it has over 30,000 Facebook followers and covers mainstream news, if a bit tabloid-like. And, like many Jordanian news sites, it expresses antisemitism frequently and shamelessly.But this op-ed by Bassam Al Yassin, published Monday, hits Der Stürmer levels.Jordanians hate Jews the mostThe Jew is the epitome...