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Wednesday, January 08, 2025

Blind Allegiance: The Dangers of Uncritical Jewish Support for Social Movements (Judean Rose)

Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.Black lives matter. Of course they do. Everyone’s lives matter. But you don’t just go and support a group with an agreeable name without some due diligence. Or do you? My progressive Jewish friends don’t seem to think any due diligence is necessary when it...

The Palestinians signed a convention on equality of women in 2014 - and have not passed any laws to enforce it

In 2014 , the "State of Palestine" acceded to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) without reservation. According to UN documents, it maintains a set of laws that continue to enshrine the second-class status of women, and has not passed any laws to improve their status.Here is a summary of their anti-woman laws are...

Real human rights and fake human rights

The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights just released its report of human rights violations by Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and Gaza in 2022 (it has not yet been released in English.)Its section on violations against Palestinian human rights activists is summarized:Concerning human rights defenders, the independent commission said: Human rights...

Algeria voted to Security Council. Let's spend five minutes looking at this wonderful country.

Mahmoud Abbas congratulated Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Tuesday, on the election of Algeria as a member of the UN Security Council.Let's take a quick look at what life is like in Algeria today.- A law was passed in 1962 that ensured that anyone without a Muslim grandparent couldn't be a citizen. Some 140,000 Jews had to leave, and the laws, while changed, ensure...

Every year, Palestinian leaders pretend to be feminist

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas made an announcement for International Women's Day today:The President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, said that the Palestinian woman has played a pioneering role and continues to play a pioneering role in the struggle and change for the better. About the identity of our people, their existence and their inalienable national rights.In...

Amnesty Sweden put up this pair of billboards in Sweden, this one was seen in a subway station.The text translates to, " Women are always right. The right to choose. The right to protest. The right to study. The right to live without violence."Notice that the girl in the photo has a necklace of "Palestine" that erases all of the Jewish state.The girl is Janna Tamimi,...

The hysteria over the Israeli government is far worse than anything the government is remotely likely to do

From Time, in a two page print story:Israel is no longer a liberal democracy. As Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government took office on 29 December, its illiberalism was evident. No longer a matter for debate or polite embarrassment, the contempt for liberal ideas brings all the disparate factions together: against the media and intellectuals and increasingly against the old Western-inspired...