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Monday, August 07, 2023

A cringy woke apology for complaining about Hezbollah T-shirt at a gay pride event

Two weeks ago, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that anyone who engaged in a homosexual act should be killed.A week later, at the Berlin Whole LGBTQ festival, a person was seen wearing a Hezbollah T-shirt on the stage, which upset a Lebanese citizen at the event, who complained about seeing someone wear a symbol of oppression to gays.He then apologized for complaining!This...

Black diversity director who was fired had created an incredible Jewish Heritage Month for her college

Tabia Lee was the Director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education at De Anza Community College in Cupertino, CA, and was recently fired from that position because she didn't adhere to the standard DEI orthodoxy. She describes her experiences in Compact:What made me persona non grata? On paper, I was a good fit for the job. I am a black woman...

The Left - and Palestinian racism - killed Rachel Corrie

Today is the 20th anniversary of Rachel Corrie's death, accidentally killed by an Israeli bulldozer as she acted as a human shield against a mine clearing operation.Her death came directly because of the Leftist myth that Israelis are racist - and that Palestinians aren't.Corrie was brainwashed by her "progressive" teachers at Evergreen College and her International Solidarity...

AI chatbots are a potential danger for fact-based Israel advocacy

The New York Times reported:Over the past three decades, a handful of products like Netscape’s web browser, Google’s search engine and Apple’s iPhone have truly upended the tech industry and made what came before them look like lumbering dinosaurs.Three weeks ago, an experimental chat bot called ChatGPT made its case to be the industry’s next big disrupter. It can serve up...

12/16 Links P2: Liberals, Progressives, Wokeness and Israel; Smearing Israel from the Ivory Tower; US Congressman Slams FBI Hate Crimes Data As Bipartisan Criticism Grows

From Ian: Liberals, Progressives, Wokeness and Israel Putting all this together, what the JILV survey powerfully documents is a troubling phenomenon that has pervaded the larger American political system today: namely political sorting. In its most basic form, political sorting, which is often confused with polarization, is a fairly new phenomenon and is where ideological...

100 years ago: Mordecai Kaplan arguing for more traditional Judaism - in an interesting venue

I am not at all a fan of "Reconstructionist Judaism" and its founder Mordecai Kaplan. But he was a foe of Reform Judaism as well, and a hundred years ago he railed against it in a lecture in Brooklyn which has a lot of truth in it.From the Brooklyn Daily Times, November 28, 1922:KAPLAN SEES JEWS SEEKING NEW GODS "Let Us Not Become Too Worldly for Our Faith," Professor...

The PLO is run by 16 white men. "Progressives" silent.

Diversity. Equity. Inclusion.These are sacred concepts for progressives. They also happen to be concepts roundly ignored by the Palestinian leadership. And the aforementioned progressives don't really care.Here is a photo from a PLO Executive Committee meeting presided over by Palestinian dictator Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday evening.Not one woman. Not one man whose...

11/06 Links: Melanie Phillips: How Jew-hatred has to fit the narrative; ADL creates 'more antisemitism,' divides Jews, black people -Candace Owens

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: How Jew-hatred has to fit the narrative Last week, a Palestinian Arab terrorist murdered 50-year-old Israeli Ronen Hananya and injured 5 others. But Hananya was murdered in Kiryat Arba in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, and so was considered a “settler”. Since such Israelis are thus blamed for their own murder, Hananya’s killing...

A small example of how academic Jewish studies has been taken over by anti-Zionist politics

Recently, Joshua Karlip wrote in Commentary about how Jewish studies in American academia have been taken over by a wokeism that marginalizes and denigrates Jews:In December 2020, I participated in a Zoom panel at the annual Association for Jewish Studies Conference that discussed the state of the field of Jewish historiography over the past two decades. One participant noted...

The purpose of the yellow star in Nazi Germany was EXACTLY the same as that of BDS today

In 1960, Life magazine published small excerpts of transcripts of tapes from a fellow Nazi interviewing Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in the 1950s.This excerpt explains the similarities between Nazis in the 1930s and the fanatic Israel haters today.We did not devise the yellow star to put pressure on the Jews themselves. On the contrary, its purpose was to control the natural...

Book review: Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy

I've had my share of disagreements with Batya Ungar-Sargon, most notably when she was Opinion Editor of The Forward. But she has been outspoken about the dangers of the current far-Left "woke" movement, and I've had some reasonable private discussions with her, so I bought her brand new book to see what she has to say.Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy is centered...

Racism in the Arab world

19th-century engraving depicting an Arab slave-trading caravan transporting black African slaves across the Sahara. (Wikipedia) In June, Yasmine El Geressi wrote an article in Majalla that is the best I’ve seen in describing Arab racism against Black people, a topic that Western “anti-racists” studiously ignore. Excerpts: Anti-blackness is deeply embedded within Arab...

07/29 Links Pt2: Matti Friedman: Israel Was Ground Zero for the New Woke Religion; Jonathan Tobin: On Tisha B'Av, it's time for Americans to step back from apocalyptic rhetoric

From Ian: Matti Friedman: Israel Was Ground Zero for the New Woke Religion Western ideologies generally include a parable about villainous Jews. Because this is a set of ideas that sees itself as a political critique, the parable doesn’t come, as past versions have, from Scripture (in the case of Christianity), or from economic theory (as it did in Marxism), or pseudo-scientific...