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Tuesday, March 23, 2021

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I cannot get over this section that Peter Beinart highlighted from an essay of his on Substack:When ordinary Americans grow paranoid, some of them lash out at the targets of their fear. As the historian Russell Jeung recently told the Washington Post, “When America China-bashes, then Chinese get bashed, and so do those who look Chinese.”There’s nothing wrong with American...

03/22 Links Pt2: ‘Who Needs the Daily Stormer When You’ve Got the New York Times?’; How "tamed"Jews deny what's all around them; London police probe assault, attempted suffocation of pregnant Jewish woman

From Ian: ‘Who Needs the Daily Stormer When You’ve Got the New York Times?’: An Excellent Question A Jewish organization worked tirelessly with non-Jewish allies to help win clemency for indigent prisoners, including many non-Jews, who had been sentenced to excessive sentences. Rather than praising it, the New York Times targeted it on the Sunday front page with what the...

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In the weekly cabinet meeting, Palestinian Authority prime minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said something interesting.He said that Israel increased the amount that it reduces the PA's tax revenue payments from 41 million shekels to 52 million shekels per month.Israeli law says that it must reduce the amount paid by the same amount that the PA pays terrorists. Up until now,...

From Ian: Lee Smith: Biden Torpedoes Abraham Accords Summit Plainly, the Obama-Biden team doesn’t care about interfering in Israeli elections or else Barack Obama’s State Department wouldn’t have funneled money to an NGO that campaigned against Netanyahu in 2015. Nor do Arab royals sitting atop petro-kingdoms have much theoretical or practical reason to worry about appearing...

The position of the United States, the UN, the EU and Russia about what a legitimate Palestinian government would look like has been consistent since this statement made in 2006: "It is the view of the Quartet that all members of a future Palestinian Government must be committed to non-violence, recognition of Israel, and acceptance of previous agreements and obligations,...

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Sunday that Jordan recently signed a defense agreement with the United States.The agreement, which allows US forces to enter Jordan freely, was signed on January 31 and approved by the Jordanian government on February 17. Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told the Jordanian parliament that "the defense agreement with...

There is an old joke about two Jews who are about to be executed by firing squad in Czarist Russia. One tells the other that he is going to request a last cigarette, and the other says, "No! Don't make trouble!"That is how the Jews of the UK sound in Tuvia Tenenbom's latest book, The Taming of the Jew.The book repeats his style of his previous books - part Borat, part Columbo,...

Dayenu through a far-Left lens

Just imagining the editing session of a Jewish Voice for Peace/IfNotNow/Jewish Currents Haggadah.... ...

From Ian: Will the Exodus story be the next victim of cancel culture? With Pesach (Holiday of Passover) literally just around the corner, should we be concerned that the story of Exodus may very well be the next victim of “cancel culture”. The story of Exodus tells of the Jewish nation’s departure from Egypt, the revelations at Mount Sinai, and their wanderings in the desert...

From Time, March 29, 1954:At dawn one day last week, a bus pulled out of the stockade at Elath, Israel's southernmost outpost and single Red Sea port. It headed north into the Negeb desert, toward Beersheba and civilization, wheezing and jogging for hours through the cratered wasteland that comprises half of Israel. The 15 passengers chatted and compared souvenirs. Outside,...

I've mentioned before that Palestinians have been protesting UNRWA's decision to a implement a "unified food basket program" where it would give all families the same food benefits and take away free food for families with a steady income.Cash-strapped UNRWA isn't backing down, so the Palestinian protesters have been escalating their activities.Today, the Joint...

Captain Triumph was one of the many mostly forgotten superhero comics of the 1940s. In one episode Triumph confronts a thinly disguised composite of Hitler, Hirohito and Mussolini named "Mussler:"Triumph's friend pretends to be the dictator's guard, and when the Hitler character demands to know what happened to his regular assistant, he is told that his grandfather was...

03/20 Links: The whole of the Middle East will pay the price for Biden’s Iran appeasement policy; Israel climbs to 12th spot in pandemic-focused World Happiness Report

From Ian: The whole of the Middle East will pay the price for Biden’s Iran appeasement policy Since the Biden administration’s decision to reverse the designation of Yemen’s Houthi militia as a foreign terrorist organisation (FTO) on February 12, drones and ballistic missiles have targeted Saudi Arabia 48 times. The latest attack, on Saudi oil facilities in Ras Tanura, in...