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Showing posts with label woke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woke. Show all posts
Monday, August 07, 2023

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

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Two weeks ago , Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that anyone who engaged in a homosexual act should be killed. A week later, at the Be...
Sunday, April 02, 2023

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

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Tabia Lee was the Director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education at De Anza Community College in Cupertino, ...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

The Left - and Palestinian racism - killed Rachel Corrie

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Today is the 20th anniversary of Rachel Corrie 's death, accidentally killed by an Israeli bulldozer as she acted as a human shield agai...
Friday, December 23, 2022

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

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The New York Times reported : Over the past three decades, a handful of products like Netscape’s web browser, Google’s search engine and Ap...
Friday, December 16, 2022

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

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From Ian: Liberals, Progressives, Wokeness and Israel Putting all this together, what the JILV survey powerfully documents is a troubling ...
Monday, November 28, 2022

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

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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,...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

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

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Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. These are sacred concepts for progressives.  They also happen to be concepts roundly ignored by the Palestinia...
Sunday, November 06, 2022

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

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From Ian: Melanie Phillips: How Jew-hatred has to fit the narrative Last week, a Palestinian Arab terrorist murdered 50-year-old Israeli R...
Sunday, October 23, 2022

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

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Recently, Joshua Karlip wrote in Commentary about how Jewish studies in American academia have been taken over by a wokeism that marginali...
Thursday, June 09, 2022

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

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In 1960, Life magazine published small excerpts of transcripts of tapes from a fellow Nazi interviewing Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in the ...
Sunday, October 31, 2021

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

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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 ou...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Racism in the Arab world

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19th-century engraving depicting an Arab slave-trading caravan transporting black African slaves across the Sahara. (Wikipedia) In June...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

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

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From Ian: Matti Friedman: Israel Was Ground Zero for the New Woke Religion Western ideologies generally include a parable about villainous...