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Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Was the Maccabean revolt and Chanukah story about Greek sexual abuse of Jewish girls?

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Torah.org has an article about last week's Torah portion discussing the episode of Shechem raping Jacob's daughter Dinah in today...

12/06 Links Pt1: Silence Is Violence — but Not When It Comes to Israeli Rape Victims; Harvard’s President Erases Jews; At least 10 hostages were sexually abused in Hamas captivity

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From Ian: Bret Stephens: Silence Is Violence — but Not When It Comes to Israeli Rape Victims Following the testimonies, Yifat Bitton, an I...

Anti-Israel protesters are really, really ignorant, and have no idea what "river" and what "sea."

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From Ron E. Hassner, a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Wall Street Journal: When college s...

Why is it so hard to understand that lying is an integral part of Hamas' strategy?

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Hamas, and its fans, continue to insist that Hamas treated Israeli hostages well, that the hostages were happy and thankful at how they were...

You can scream "Kill the Jews" at Jews at major US universities without fear of punishment. It all depends on "context."

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Last year, Harvard issued Title IX training that warned that students could be dismissed if they use pronouns that offend the person they ar...
Tuesday, December 05, 2023

12/05 Links Pt2: Seth Mandel: The Dream of Peace After the Nightmare; The ridiculous US plan for ‘the day after’; To Be a Jew in America after 10/7

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From Ian: Seth Mandel: The Dream of Peace After the Nightmare Avi Dabush, of Rabbis for Human Rights, said he still believes in his work b...

This week's EoZ cartoons and memes

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Yeah, I've been doing a lot since 10/7. Because sometimes a graphic can say what an essay can't. Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: E...

UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict STILL silent about October 7

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Over the weekend, after mounting pressure,UN Women belatedly issued a condemnation of Hamas sexual assaults of Israeli women on October 7. ...

12/05 Links Pt1: Lahav Harkov: We must bear witness; Victor Davis Hanson: The Unhinged Among Us; Hamas drugged freed Gaza hostages to make them seem calm and happy

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From Ian: Lahav Harkov: We must bear witness Two months after Hamas terrorists massacred, raped and kidnapped Israelis, there are still pe...

Egypt flooded Hamas tunnels (and more) - and the world shrugged

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From Reuters : Israel has assembled a large system of pumps that may be used to flood tunnels used by militant group Hamas under the Gaza st...

Another Moroccan who was attacked for condemning Hamas on October 7

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Last week, I noted a Moroccan intellectual who condemned the Hamas attack on October 7 (in French, not Arabic), and how other Moroccan writ...

Arabs never run out of conspiracy theories

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Egypt's Youm7 has an article about a 20th century Egyptian geographer, Gamal Hamdan.  While he had written a number of books about Egypt...
Monday, December 04, 2023

12/04 Links Pt2: Kissinger’s Final Interview: Forget a Palestinian State, Let Jordan Rule; Israeli Arabs vs. the ‘Pro-Palestinian’ West

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From Ian: Kissinger’s Final Interview: Forget a Palestinian State, Let Jordan Rule The late Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who passed...

Thomas Friedman's blind stupidity

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I usually don't bother reading Thomas Friedman in the New York Times, mostly because he rarely has anything intelligent to say - and he ...

Self-censorship: Palestinian media ignores war's devastating impact on their own economy

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The Palestinian economy is being wrecked by the Gaza war. But good luck finding any articles about it in Palestinian media. Western observer...