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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

03/28 Links Pt1: PA publishes new budget; continues to defy US by rewarding terror; Congress threatens to cut UN funding for voting against Israel; 'There's a tendency in Israel to demonize Sweden'

From Ian: PMW: PMW Exclusive: PA publishes new budget; continues to defy US and Europe by rewarding terror - 7.47% of the PA's operational budget is for salaries to terrorist prisoners, released terrorists, and payments to families of "Martyrs" and wounded - The PA has 2 budget categories rewarding terror; together they equal 44% of anticipated foreign aid - New in 2018...

The Passover story is too Zionist for the "progressives" at Mondoweiss

I couldn't find any new anti-Israel Haggadot from Jewish Voice for Peace or J-Street this year, but Mondoweiss attempted to fill the gap. This article called "The Problem with Passover" is by another pseudo-intellectual academic fraud, this one named, Harriet Malinowitz a retired professor of English at Long Island University, part-time teacher at Ithaca College, faculty advisor to Students for Justice in Palestine and on the Academic...

It is worth reminding ourselves how screwed up the campuses have become

I just saw this statement given by the San Francisco State University's Department of Gender and Women's Studies i response to SFSU's president saying that Zionists are welcome on campus: Zionism mobilizes race, gender, and sexuality in specific ways, which continue to be a topic of investigation and contestation in fields such as Women and Gender Studies. The history and contemporary discourse of racialized gender and sexuality for Jewish people...

Mahmoud Abbas' spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeina said the Taylor Force Act is a "declaration of war" against the Palestinian people. The Taylor Force Act. which passed Congress on Thursday, threatens to freeze State Department funds to the Palestinian Authority unless it stops paying terrorists and the families of terrorists. Mahmoud Abbas' official position is that not...

03/27 Links Pt2: Why is the UN defining Judaism as a war crime?; Bibi to Europe: You have to pick America or Iran; Everyone Loves Israel Now

From Ian: Bibi to Europe: You have to pick America or Iran Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told French and German foreign ministers who visited Jerusalem today that he predicts "with high probability" that President Trump is going to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal on May 12th and urged the Europeans to agree to significant changes in the deal, Senior Israeli...

My interview with Rabbi Michael Shudrich originally appeared in the March 23rd print issue of The Jewish Press and on their online edition. It is posted here with permission. Although several weeks have passed, indignation over Poland’s “Holocaust Law” still pervades the Jewish community. The law outlaws blaming Poland for crimes committed during the Holocaust, but it...

Sometimes, in Israel, the conversations you overhear are extraordinary. Sometimes, they break your heart. I was standing in a beautiful overview, looking out on to the northern border of Israel. The hills of Lebanon look the same as the hills of Israel - the Hezbollah flag visible in the village nearest the border the only giveaway that the land there is very different....

From Ian: PMW: Having female terrorist leaders is proof of gender equality in Fatah, says Abbas' Secretary General At a recent ceremony at the El-Bireh High School for Girls, school principal Nida Abd Rabbo announced that promoting terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi as a role model to female students is an "educational responsibility": "It's [the Al-Yasser Cultural Forum's]...

Every once in a while, I get surprised by an article in Arabic media. This is one of those times. Al Arabiya has a profile of Victor "Young" Perez, a Jewish Tunisian boxing champion murdered by the Nazis. YNet in 2015 summarized his story: About 100,000 Tunisian Jews were forced to wear a yellow star during the Second World War, and thousands were sent to labor and concentration...

I tweeted a 2014 image of one Palestinian lighting a Molotov cocktail of another's with the snarky caption The term "Hey! Got a light?" has a completely different meaning to Palestinians. But then it struck me that while reporters usually have lots of shots of "heroic" Palestinian youths throwing stones or using slings, you don't often see photos of them hurling these...

Hamas held military exercises over the weekend, which included some test launches of Qassam rockets into the Mediterranean that caused Israel's Iron Dome defense system to mistakenly deploy. Video and photos of the exercises from Hamas websites shows that Hamas' entire exercise is a series of intended war crimes. The rockets themselves are aimed at civilian population,...

Donate to EoZ and help Israel

(This post is pinned to the top of the website all day.) The EoZ website continues to help influence and drive the conversation about the place of a Jewish state in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people. It was nice that the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs recognized this by inviting me to the Digitell18 conference earlier this month alongside some amazing people...

From Ian: Where BDS goes, antisemitism follows It’s that time of the year when the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement launches its infamous “Apartheid Week” on university campuses. “Apartheid Week” is just the climax of a yearlong activity on campuses where BDS is most active in promoting an anti-Israel and anti-Zionist agenda, which calls for a widespread boycott...

A funny magician from Israel's Got Talent

I happened to catch this act on TV when I was in Israel and I laughed out loud. You don't need to know Hebrew. We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate today to help get the message out and to help defend Israe...

Word has it that a municipality in my area (one with a habit of making official statements on foreign policy matters) will be visited by the boycott brigade next month requesting the city pass some sort of “Israel is guilty of everything” resolution. As usual, this is being presented as a simple, straightforward human-rights question, one that will get turned...