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Thursday, March 25, 2021

You can even find Jews to support David Miller

A group of over 200 Jews have signed a letter to support Bristol University professor David Miller.This came as the House of Lords debated his antisemitic actions, including his accusing Jewish students of being part of an anti-Islamic, pro-Israel lobby group. Excerpts of the debate:Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con) (responding for the Government)Universities are independent...

In August, 1776, Benjamin Franklin suggested this scene to be on the Great Seal of the United States:Moses standing on the Shore, and extending his Hand over the Sea, thereby causing the same to overwhelm Pharaoh who is sitting in an open Chariot, a Crown on his Head and a Sword in his Hand. Rays from a Pillar of Fire in the Clouds reaching to Moses, to express that he acts...

When “Equality” is not Everything (Vic Rosenthal)

Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal Avraham Burg (b. 1955) today is best described as a post-Zionist, or even an extreme anti-Zionist. But he was not always thus. The son of long-time religious Zionist politician Yosef Burg, he served as an officer in the IDF, became Speaker of the Knesset on behalf of the Labor Party, was Chairman of the Jewish Agency, and even served as...

From Ian: Why “academic freedom” is no defence of the Bristol University professor David Miller The University of Bristol is investigating one of its own professors, David Miller, for comments he made about Jewish students that attracted widespread protest, including from hundreds of other academics and from parliamentarians. Many of Miller’s critics have defended his academic...

Palestine, the Israel-Palestine conflict, Palestinians. All day long, it seems, there is a merciless barrage of agitprop to brainwash us into believing that “Palestine” is an actual Arab country peopled with “Palestinian” nationals. This, despite the fact that there has never been a sovereign state known as “Palestine” and certainly not a sovereign Arab state known as “Palestine.”...

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From Ian: Israeli Elections 2021: With Most Votes Counted, Arab Party Ra’am Poised to Play Key Role as Netanyahu’s Advantage Slips Away With 87% of the vote counted in Israel’s 2021 elections, the political ground appeared to shift on Wednesday, with Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party falling from the position of kingmaker and the Arab party Ra’am emerging as a possible decisive...

For many years, we have been reading that the Palestinians are starving.News Line (socialist), 2006: "Israel’s brutal occupation of the Palestinian people has created refugees, death squads, and now starvation in Gaza, and hunger throughout the occupied territories."The UN, 2007: "The forced starvation diet of Palestinians"Richard Falk, 2007: " Israel ...has brought...

Many in the UK like to celebrate the Kindertransport - the initiative to save some 10,000 Jewish children from Europe after Kristallnacht. The reality is a bit more complicated.The UK refused to spend a penny to help the children and insisted that they all get sponsors to pay significant sums for them. Parents and adult siblings were of course not allowed to come. And...

Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party has been floundering in recent weeks, with the defection of Nasser al Kidwa who wants to run as a separate candidate/party for elections and rumors about Marwan Barghouti being interested in running for president from his Israeli prison cell, while exiled strongman Mohammed Dahlan goes on Gulf TV shows every night to insult Abbas.But according to...

03/23 Links Pt2: How The Equality Act Would Legalize Religious Bigotry; The National Council of Jewish Women's Apologists for Anti-Semites; NY Times Defends Holocaust-Inversion

From Ian: How The Equality Act Would Legalize Religious Bigotry The Founding Fathers recognized freedom of expression and religious liberty as core elements of diversity and tolerance. Now, nearly 250 years later, Congress is acting to stamp them out, ushering in a new era of government-sanctioned anti-religious bigotry. While no one could argue this is motivated by anti-Jewish...

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From the Washington Free Beacon:The Biden administration privately confirmed to Congress last week that the Palestinian Authority has continued to use international aid money to reward terrorists but said the finding won't impact its plans to restart funding.In a non-public State Department report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, the administration said the Palestinians...

From Ian: Josh Hammer: The Peace Process That Never Was In a sane world, partisans of the Palestinian-Arab cause would celebrate the fact that last year, a pro-Israel U.S. president and right-wing Israeli prime minister both agreed to a framework that included the potential for an independent Palestinian state. They, of course, did not. Which brings us back to the present...

There has been a series of protests in Gaza against the Palestinian Authority, which had discontinued paying salaries to families of "martyrs" who were killed during the 2014 Gaza war.While paying terrorist families has been a priority for the PA, they stopped paying many Hamas families a few years ago, apparently when Fatah was trying to pressure Hamas to unify.On Sunday,...