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Friday, January 28, 2022

Some recent memes

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From Ian: Melanie Phillips: How the West’s Appeasement Mentality Brings Not Peace, But War Appeasement blindness is why the Biden administration thinks an agreement with the Iranian regime would be worth more than the piece of paper waved by Chamberlain on his return from Munich. And appeasement blindness is why the West is responsible for the war by the Arab world against...

The New York Times Magazine is publishing a long report on NSO and spyware this weekend. it shows how the FBI had shown interest in the tool and how the CIA paid for NSO to sell the spyware to Djibouti. The major issues with NSO Pegasus is that the spyware can and has been used for human rights abuses. It has also been used by governments to crack terrorism and drug rings. The...

In 2019, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan compared Israeli actions in Gaza to the Holocaust, saying “we view the Holocaust in the same way we view those besieging Gaza and carrying out massacres in it.”Last year, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Erdogan released a video about the dangers of xenophobia and Islamophobia, and didn't say the word "Jews" once. He talked...

From Syria's news agency, SANA:Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi affirmed that the Zionist entity is an enemy of humanity, denouncing its violations in the occupied Palestinian territories.During his meeting today with Azerbaijani Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov in Tehran, Raisi said: "The Zionist entity can never be a friend of the Islamic peoples," adding that "the occupation's...

"14 year old Kuwaiti tennis player refused to play Israeli:" FAKE NEWS! (Correction, update x2)

UPDATE: I was mistaken, there was another tennis tournament in Dubai at the same time, not under ITF. See update below.)On Sunday, I wrote that Arabic media was praising 14-year old Muhammad al-Awadi for withdrawing from a tennis tournament in Dubai because his semi-final match would have been against an Israeli.Times Kuwait wrote called it "Heroic decision by Kuwaiti...

From Ian: Jonathan Tobin: Holocaust Remembrance Day proves everyone loves dead Jews Despite Erdan's triumph, the United Nations has not really undergone any sort of transformation when it comes to antisemitism. As Professor Anne Bayefsky has written in a series of columns published in JNS in the last month, the world body has just embarked on an open-ended inquiry aimed at...

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Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook page. Tel Aviv, January 27 - Senior military officials and officers congratulated one another today on a successful demonstration of an innovative, airborne threat-neutralization...

From Ian: Bret Stephens: Israel Wins the War of Ideas I am often asked, "Why does Israel have such lousy PR?" The problem is that Israel's usual defenders keep trying to win over the wrong kinds of people with the wrong kinds of arguments in the wrong kinds of places. The wrong kinds of people are anti-Zionists who deny Israel's very right to exist as a Jewish state, who...

In 2015, The New Republic published an article about the etymology of the word "Holocaust" as it is currently used.There has long been a rigorous debate among etymologists and historians as to when the lowercased “holocaust,” generically defined as a large-scale calamity usually involving fire, became the proper noun used specifically to name the period of Nazi genocide against...

The "Jew as Nazi" meme is common among antisemites. To Jew-haters, the grotesque analogy is delicious: the Jews are just as bad as their oppressors, the Jews are just as guilty of genocide, killing Jews is as moral as the French Resistance, Jews have no right to defend themselves, Jews haven't learned the "lessons" of the Holocaust - as if the Holocaust was merely a...

The Cairo International Book Fair is starting. And as it has in the past, it is pushing antisemitic themes.One of its featured books on the website is a translation of an 1889 work by Gustave Le Bon, his chapters on Jewish civilization in his "Les premières civilisations." For the most part, Le Bon is not impressed with Jewish civilization, and his first paragraph...

01/26 Links Pt2: It's not complicated. It's antisemitism; CST condemns "appalling" BBC over Chanukah bus reporting statement; Guardian invents new anti-Israel smear 'sportswashing'

From Ian: Majority of Israelis see bleak future for Europe's Jews, poll shows A survey by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem revealed Tuesday that a majority of Israelis (53%) think life for Jews in Europe will get worse in the near future, while 25% say it will stay the same. The survey was conducted among 1,000 Jewish and Arab adults and reveals that France is the European...

Praying for rain in Israel is something that happens all over the world, wherever there is a Jew who prays. When a Jew in Boise, Idaho prays for rain, he is praying for rain in Israel. You can puzzle out the spiritual, philosophical, or practical reasons for this yourself. Suffice it to say that when it rains in Israel, we are very, very happy, and especially the women, who...