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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

05/29 Links Pt2: Caroline Glick talks about growing antisemitism in the realm of fake news; Rabbi from vandalized synagogue: "only way you can link Ben Shapiro to antisemitism is if you decide you hate Ben Shapiro."

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From Ian: Caroline Glick talks about growing antisemitism in the realm of fake news Caroline Glick, author and former Jerusalem Post colum...

HRW's eulogy for Bob Bernstein mentions, and dismisses, his criticism of their anti-Israel bias

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To their credit, Human Rights Watch finally wrote their own eulogy for their founder, Robert L. Bernstein - and they mentioned that he crit...

05/29 Links Pt1: Trump’s peace plan is splitting Arab world; PMW: Palestinian education teaches kids to anticipate the end of Israel; German intel: Iran wants to expand to weapons of mass destruction

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From Ian: The Trump administration is creating momentum for Palestinian-Israeli peace In a recent tweet pointing to the 31 percent Palesti...

Poll of American Jewish political attitudes has more information than was reported (Daled Amos)

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By Daled Amos A new poll just came out last week, indicating Domestic Issues Dominate The Priorities Of The Jewish Electorate On behalf...

Reported antisemitic incidents in NYC in Q1 FAR more than all other hate crimes COMBINED. (22x more than anti-Islam incidents.)

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The NYPD Hate Crimes statistics for the first quarter of 2019 shows that 59% of all reported hate crimes have been against Jews - far more ...

Hamas says it has doubled the number of its rockets that can reach Tel Aviv

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The head of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, Yahya al-Sinwar, said that Hamas and its military wing, the Qassam Brigades, have twice...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

05/28 Links Pt2: Phillips: Jewish conservatism is the key to our survival; NYPD: 83% Rise In Hate Crimes ‘An Anti-Semitism Crisis’; Bob Bernstein, HRW founder who later slammed its anti-Israel bias, dies at 96

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From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Jewish conservatism is the key to our survival The American philanthropic foundation, the Tikvah Fund, has dec...

Cartoon of the Day: What are the odds?

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Continuing my occasional re-captioning of single panel cartoons: We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even ...

Four Arab countries, and Israel, to attend Bahrain economic conference. Even if it is a "failure" that is some accomplishment.

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Saeb Erekat is desperately making calls to some 20 world leaders to urge them to boycott the Bahrain conference that is meant to help hi...

05/28 Links Pt1: PMW: Palestinian stabs Jew in Hamas music video; IDF legal chief: ICC probe of Israel part of PA delegitimization attempt; Jordan and the ‘Deal of the Century’

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From Ian: PMW: Palestinian stabs Jew in Hamas music video The same day that Hamas official Fathi Hammad promised to "slaughter, exter...

Hezbollah's Nasrallah again threatens Israel. What do Palestinians think of him?

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On Saturday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave one of his typical speeches  from his underground bunker where he pretends to care ...

Abbas says any deal that helps his people economically can "go to hell" - while thanking donors to the "Mahmoud Abbas Foundation"

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The hypocrisy of Palestinian leaders continues. Yesterday, PA president Mahmoud Abbas said that any attempts to help the Palestinian econ...
Monday, May 27, 2019

We live in a world where Israel tries to give money to its cash strapped enemies and they refuse it

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Ma'an reported on an Israeli Kan News exclusive:  The Israeli government tried to circumvent the economic collapse of the PA govern...

05/27 Links Pt2: NYTs: The Old Scourge of Anti-Semitism Rises Anew in Europe; History Channel Doctors Israeli Declaration of Independence; In 1929, Miss Palestine was Jewish and spoke Yiddish.

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From Ian: NYTs Editorial: The Old Scourge of Anti-Semitism Rises Anew in Europe What is clear is that these strains of anti-Semitism — fro...

When reporters can't handle basic facts

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Earlier today I made an accurate if somewhat snarky comment to reporter Noga Tarnopolsky  when she wrote this: A real reporter shoul...