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Friday, March 19, 2021

03/19 Links Pt2: Caroline Glick: When Cultural Appropriation and Historical Revisionism Are Acts of War; Guardian op-ed promotes the end of the Jewish state; The Quincy Institute vs. John Quincy Adams

From Ian: Caroline Glick: When Cultural Appropriation and Historical Revisionism Are Acts of War Two weeks ago, a bus filled with veteran Israeli generals from the Bithonistim, a grassroots national security organization, slowly made its way up the slopes of Mt. Ebal in Northern Samaria to visit a biblical-era site that was severely damaged by a Palestinian Authority contractor...

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From Ian: Caroline Glick: Abdullah the Irrelevant of Jordan This then brings us back to King Abdullah and his decision to prevent Netanyahu's trip to Abu Dhabi last week. If the raging success of Netanyahu's regional diplomacy causes ideological and political distress to Israel's rabidly political and ideological media, it presents a strategic challenge to Jordan and is a...

In a response to the events at Middlebury College I mentioned earlier, Max Shulman-Litwin, a member of Middlebury's Hillel, wrote an op-ed for the college newspaper explaining why Jews are uncomfortable with Students for Justice in Palestine.Shulman-Litwin falls into a trap that many Jews do when talking about the Middle East - his arguments are wishy-washy and he agrees that...

Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, has a feature in its online network where students can add what are called "go-links", shortcuts that take them to information pages. They are used to give students a quick way to get to important information, like course materials for classes or webpages for student groups.The anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine group abused...

The Seforim Blog has an article on R. Abraham Menahem ben Jacob ha-Kohen Rapa mi-Porto, a true Renaissance man and scholar.He is best known for his work Minchah Belulah, an accessible commentary on the Torah written in response to the 1553 burning of every edition of the Talmud in Italy - an event Rabbi Menachem witnessed first hand.But his work on cryptography is...

03/18 Links Pt2: ‘Israel Apartheid Week’ is a grotesque insult; Israel Tops Resilience Index Among ME Countries; Arab Israeli Life Has Gotten Better

From Ian: ‘Israel Apartheid Week’ is a grotesque insult Look around the Middle East. Syria still trapped in a brutal civil war. Libya in carnage, and Yemen in the grip of a fierce proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. How can anyone look at the Middle East and think the biggest problem is the region’s only democracy? If the only country you campaign against, want to boycott...

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Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Sir, We Cannot Figure Out In Which End Of The Anti-Zionist To Insert The Anal Probe by Lieutenant Zorb-8, Watch Commander, Galaga-X Scout Vessel 22R, Squadron Blue, Intergalactic Fleet Task Force M Intergalactic Standard Date 14.5.99.008, in orbit around Earth - Captain,...

From Ian: 'The National' obtains US official document for Palestinian ‘reset’ The US administration is looking to 'reset' relations with the Palestinians with a plan that includes $15 million in Covid-19 assistance and a rollback of several Trump administration positions that favoured Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank and did not prioritise the two-state solution,...

Last week, the Czech Republic opened its diplomatic mission in Jerusalem, under the lead of its embassy in Tel Aviv. Earlier this week, Kosovo opened its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem, making some history along the way: And now Netanyahu is claiming that there are four more countries that will soon be signing peace deals with Israel. While it...

There is precious little greenery in Jerusalem's Old City. Most of it is on the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest spot where Arab families picnic and play soccer.The Jerusalem municipality wants to change that.Kol Hair reports:Ronen Harari, a Jewish businessman from Canada, recently approached the Jerusalem Municipality with a proposal to finance a large-scale renovation of...

A bunch of progressive and anti-Zionist Jews wrote a letter to President Biden urging him to appoint an antisemitism envoy that will ignore most forms of antisemitism. Haaretz gave this piece of stupidity oxygen.Let's take it apart:Dear Mr. President and Secretary Blinken:As Jewish leaders, we write to you at a moment of both fear and hope. We are deeply concerned about the...

Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal Even before the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem there were colonies of Jews living outside of Eretz Yisrael. It’s true that they were unable to fulfil the mitzvot that were incumbent upon them, because they couldn’t participate in the three festivals that require a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and they couldn’t offer sacrifices for...

03/17 Links Pt2: The Miracle of Osirak; ‘Progressive Except for Palestine’: A new label for an old hatred; The Grammys Proved You Can't Get Canceled for Anti-Semitism

From Ian: Meir Y. Soloveichik: The Miracle of Osirak The year 2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the “Begin Doctrine,” according to which no enemy of Israel will be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, and that Israel will act, on its own if necessary, to ensure this remained the case. Four decades along, it is easy to forget how unexpected the attack was and how outraged...