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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Justice for Malki Roth: Will Biden Stand Up to Jordan? (Judean Rose)

Malki Roth. This story should be about her, instead of the woman who planned and helped to execute her murder, Ahlam Tamimi. But Malki is dead and Ahlam Tamimi is not only alive and free, but celebrated in Jordan as a national hero. Malki’s parents, Arnold and Frimet, have worked hard to convince US officials to extradite Tamimi from Jordan to stand trial in the States, to no...

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From Ian: Seth Frantzman: Analysis: Israel’s key Middle East concerns in 2021 For Israel, a continuing priority is that Jerusalem views Iran’s threats as existential and Israel will work to prevent that threat. “No security or political leadership will ever accept an existential threat,” says the senior official. In Feb. 2021, Iran threatened to enrich uranium to 60-percent,...

Hamas' Al Qassam website is celebrating the anniversary of a 1992 slashing attack that killed two, including a woman waiting to enter a Purim party.On March 17, 1992, an Arab from Gaza went amok on a Jaffa street with a machete. He murdered Ilanit Ohana, 19, of Bat Yam, who was standing near a business where she had just gotten a job as a clerk. A heroic Arab who owned a nearby...

The Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad is a website for Palestinians who live outside the Middle East who want to influence the Palestinian political process. The group supports terrorism, as it said in a declaration after a 2017 Istanbul conference.The editorial cartoonist they use is the same one that draws in Hamas' Felesteen newspaper, but he seems more willing...

Dr. Zafer Fouad Eliyahu, a beloved doctor who was one of the very last Jews in Iraq, has died of an apparent stroke. He was 61.An orthopedic surgeon, he was one of the last three Jews in Baghdad, along with his sister and her husband. The couple is childless so these are the last Jews of Baghdad, and possibly in all of Iraq. Dr. Eliyahu himself never married, perhaps...

03/16 Links Pt2: A New Zionist Congress Is Born; Anti-Semite-in-Chief; WaPo Uses Bad Social Science to Push Anti-Israel Propaganda; Bible scroll fragments among artifacts found in Dead Sea Cave of Horror

From Ian: A New Zionist Congress Is Born Defiant Jewish undergraduates are forming their own national organization dedicated to combating anti-Semitism and promoting Jewish pride. Join us. In this new world order, nobody is surprised when a majority of students at Tufts University vote to pass a referendum blaming racist police violence in the United States on the State...

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The Daily Beast has an exclusive!They even show the details from a US government site that tracks expenses. Outrageous, right?Only if you don't act like a reporter and ask if this expense was excessive or normal. Which, of course, the Daily Beast didn't do.Kushner's trip was to lead a delegation of Americans and Israelis to Morocco in the wake of the peace accords between...

Usually, when Iran threatens Israel with destruction, it throws in a caveat that it will only do so if it is attacked first.Today, that seems to have changed.Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri says capacities have been developed for a destruction and elimination of the Zionist regime, Tasnim reported.Pointing to the regional and...

From Ian: FDD Podcast: The UN and the Illiberal International Order With the defeat of the Axis Powers in 1945, the United States emerged as the strongest nation on earth. But rather than emulate hegemons of the past, American leaders envisioned a new and different world order. Their goal was to organize an “international community,” establish “universal human rights,” and...

The Washington Post reports:U.S. Capitol Police suspended an officer Monday after a copy of an infamous antisemitic tract was found near a Capitol Hill security post Sunday, alarming a congressional aide who viewed the document in plain sight at the checkpoint. Photographs provided to The Washington Post show a printed copy of the Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned...

Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party is literally falling apart, and Hamas will likely win upcoming planned elections as a result - if Abbas lets them occur.As I reported last week, Yasser Arafat's nephew and Fatah Central Committee member Nasser al-Kidwa decided to run in the planned elections. Fatah expelled him from the party as a result, and now Kidwa is attempting to gain more...

Haaretz interviewed Cornel West, who blamed his not receiving tenure at Harvard on Zionists who didn't like his anti-Israel politics:Never one to shy from controversy, Dr. Cornel West once again finds himself at the center of a firestorm after Harvard University refused to consider him for tenure – a decision he links to his support for Palestinian rights.West, 67, previously...

03/15 Links Pt2: Antisemitism is a Conspiracy Theory Against Meritocracy; The Ramallah Quakers; The Jews' Secret Fleet to Israel After the Holocaust

From Ian: Daniel Greenfield: Antisemitism is a Conspiracy Theory Against Meritocracy Last week, the Gross Family Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Holocaust kindly invited me to address their audience. I spoke to them about Socialist antisemitism and the war on meritocracy, why the enemies of meritocracy are also the enemies of the Jews and why when Jews oppose...