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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Saudi newspaper says the world should discriminate against Jews

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Al Bilad is the oldest Saudi newspaper, over 80 years old.  This week it had an op-ed that recommended that the world kick Jews out of any ...

The Edinburgh Fringe antisemitic story is worse than you realize

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You may have read about this last week: Jewish comedians have had their Edinburgh Fringe shows cancelled because of staff “safety concerns”,...

The size and placement of NYT picture of "Gaza starving child" was virtually unprecedented

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This was the (top part of) front page of the New York Times on July 25 featuring what appears to be a starving, emaciated Gaza child. I just...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Sweden decides hanging effigies of Jews is not antisemitic

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Recently, there was an anti-Israel demonstration in the Swedish city of Umeå that featured a display depicting hanged mannequins dressed in ...

07/29 Links Pt2: Leaked email blows apart BBC’s impartiality claims over Gaza; Australia’s Jews have been abandoned; Regina Spektor: ‘You’re just yelling at a Jew’

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From Ian: Jonathan Sacerdoti: The leaked email that blows apart the BBC’s impartiality claims over Gaza Most egregious is the email’s decl...

07/29 Links Pt1: Starmer Wants to Create a New State to Punish an Existing State; One week later NYTs corrects blood libel photo; Hamas's Dream: Turning Palestinians Into a 'Nation of Martyrs'

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From Ian: Seth Mandel: Keir Starmer Wants to Create a New State to Punish an Existing State So Starmer and his merry band of Eurocrats cha...

Resolving the "Rights" vs. "Duties" Philosophical Problem

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For centuries, moral and political philosophy has been entangled in the tension between rights and duties.  On one side stand advocates of r...

When Antisemitism Turns Its Sights on the Druze—And the Media Yawns (Daled Amos)

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By Daled Amos Last week, Elder of Ziyon reported on a disturbing scene that unfolded in Berlin: Islamist Syrian protesters openly called fo...

A Palestinian state would be a human rights disaster. And no one gives a damn.

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More European countries are moving towards or already recognizing "Palestine." The irony is that these countries are pretending th...

Try as you might, but you cannot separate Zionism from Judaism - and medieval poetry proves it

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Professor Aaron Koller was appointed as Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge, the first Jew to hold the position in its 485-ye...