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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Some more 18th century antisemitism from various British newspapers

After my last article, I continued to randomly look for Jews being mentioned in 18th century English language newspapers.

In the same 1753, one newspaper published arguments given to allow Jews to live in England and then responded to them. This one argument is relevant to today: (The Caledonian Mercury, Tue, Jul 10, 1753)

God says Jews should forever be a scattered people withou citizenship. Anything else is going against holy prophecies.

The Spanish Inquisition was still in full force, and this article from a British newspaper laconically mentions theexecution by burning of a "witch" and three Jews who had hidden as Christians. Note that the newspaper is on the Portuguese inquisitors' side. (Newcastle Weekly Courant, Tue, Nov 19, 1748)

In Holland, a new tax was levied on houses with chimneys...and Jews. (The Derby Mercury, Fri, Mar 10, 1775)

In Moravia, a Jew was claimed to have enticed a woman into his house where he butchered her. He ran away but on the following Monday, Easter Monday the community decided to pillage the Jewish quarter instead of going to church. (The Ipswich Journal, Sat, May 07, 1774)

This is the world that antisemites today want to go back to.

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18th century British citizens spread rumors that Jews, if allowed in England, would force them to be circumcised (update)

I found this letter from the famous Rabbi Manasseh ben Israel to the Caledonian Mercury newspaper urging England to allow Jews to return to that country. (July 9, 1753)

His defense of Jews says "they will ever zealously struggle for the Rights of the Crown and the Riches of the People, and that they will never cause any Persons to be circumcised against their consent;"

What?

If Ben Israel felt he had to say that to a general British audience, that means that this must have been a somewhat widespread fear among British antisemites.

I found corroboration from a book called "Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America" by Leonard B. Glick. It shows a lot of satirical opposition to the "Jew Bill" to allow Jews to re-enter England but it mentions that some took this fear of forced circumcision very seriously.

I found a copy of the satirical newspaper describing a future England ruled by Jews - including advertisements. It is grossly antisemitic, and I do not get all of the jokes, but I have to give credit for the entire concept of a satirical newspaper 100 years before Punch, 200 years before Mad magazine and 250 years before The Onion. (The Gloucester Journal, Oct 16, 1753)

It is worthwhile to note that the far-Right antisemites like the editor for The Daily Stormer hide their hate as just jokes - a conscious decision to spread hate while pretending to the larger world that they are not to be taken seriously.

UPDATE: Another satire, this one from a flyer posted outside a building:

And this is a serious list of reasons why Jews should not be allowed into England, with one of them the fear of circumcision.

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New study indicates that DEI training can turn people into bigots. Imagine what anti-Israel slanders can do.

From The National Review:

A new study found that diversity, equity, and inclusion materials have a wide range of negative consequences, including psychological harm, increased hostility, and greater agreement with extreme authoritarian rhetoric, such as adapted Adolf Hitler quotes.

Both the New York Times and Bloomberg were preparing stories on the findings, but axed them just before publication citing editorial decisions.

The Network Contagion Research Institute, or NCRI, and Rutgers University Social Perception Lab released the study “Instructing Animosity: How DEI Pedagogy Produces the Hostile Attribution Bias” on Monday. The study examined whether the themes and materials common in DEI trainings foster inclusion or exacerbate conflicts, and whether such materials promote empathy or increase hostility towards groups labeled as oppressors. The study consisted of three experiments — one focusing on race, one on religion, and the last on caste.

Although proponents of DEI trainings claim that they are designed to educate individuals about biases and reduce discrimination, the study found that participants primed with DEI materials were more likely to perceive prejudice where none existed and were more willing to punish the perceived perpetrators. In one experiment, the DEI materials made people more willing to agree with Hitler quotes that substituted “Jew” with “Brahmin,” the highest caste in the Indian caste system.

“Participants exposed to the DEI content were markedly more likely to endorse Hitler’s demonization statements, agreeing that Brahmins are ‘parasites’ (+35.4%), ‘viruses’ (+33.8%), and ‘the devil personified’ (+27.1%),” the study reads. “These findings suggest that exposure to anti-oppressive narratives can increase the endorsement of the type of demonization and scapegoating characteristic of authoritarianism.”

The study itself had people look at a fictional court case involving two individuals—Ahmed Akhtar and George Green—both convicted of identical terrorism charges for bombing a local government building. Even though the situations and descriptions of the case were identical, people exposed to anti-Islamophobia materials beforehand were significantly more likely to say that "Ahmed Akhtar" was treated unfairly at trial.

What strikes me most is that the anti-Islamophobia material that the subjects were exposed to was only three paragraphs long. Here they are in their entirety, all taken from popular training materials by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU).

Islamophobia in the U.S. manifests in many ways – harassment and violence by anti-Muslim hate groups, institutionalized anti-Muslim legislation, and bias in the justice system. The U.S. has a long history of the legalized othering of Muslims, with legislation like the anti-terror Patriot Act targeting Muslims as dangerous outsiders whose actions should be surveilled and their movements curtailed.

Anti-Shariah, anti-immigration, and voter-ID legislation go hand in hand in manufacturing bigotry and creating fear. Such restrictive measures limit the freedoms of Muslims and minorities. Muslims are also subject to harsher criminal charges and sentenced up to four times longer than non-Muslims.

U.S. officials openly exhibit Islamophobic views, with Islamophobic rhetoric being linked to violent crime. Anti-Muslim hate groups have gained traction, driven by a well-funded Islamophobia network fueling anti-Muslim activity like mosque vandalism and arson.

The subjects became measurably less objective in judging others after reading only these three relatively sober paragraphs a single time.

The India caste materials were similar. The study asked people this question, which is all the information they had:

“Raj Kumar applied to an elite East Coast university in Fall 2022. During the application process, he was interviewed by an admissions officer, Anand Prakash. Ultimately, Raj’s application was rejected.”

The names, which were flipped on half the questions, do not indicate caste.

Reading two paragraphs about the historic India caste system made the subjects significantly more willing to assume that caste was the reason the admissions officer rejected the student. Worse, the subjects were more likely to want the admissions officer to be punished. And even worse, the exposure to the short essay made the subjects more likely to agree with Hitler quotes demonizing Jews, changed to Brahmins, describing them as "parasites," "a virus" and "the devil personified."

The study indicates that exposure to these materials can actually increase authoritarian tendencies and the willingness to punish those who are perceived as being discriminatory - even when there is no discrimination at all.

This is only from reading a couple of paragraphs.

The study notes that ISPU has trained FBI employees. The safety of Jews is

Now, imagine what a full year of people screaming about Israeli "genocide," "Jewish supremacism" and

"Islamophobia" can do to otherwise disinterested observers. On college campuses, city centers and social media, the daily barrage of lies about Israel has a huge impact in creating and increasing antisemitism. There is no way it cannot.

As usual, this is not only because people are exposed to anti-Israel lies. They are also not exposed to any facts about Israel that contradict the lies.

ISPU uses this slide in their training materials:

They are using this to highlight how well integrated Muslims are in Michigan and how important they are to the state. One out of every six doctors being Muslim is pretty high, right?

It just so happens that the percentage of doctors in Israel who are Arab (most of whom are Muslim) is higher than Muslims in Michigan, about 20%. And the percentage of pharmacists in Israel who are Arab was 38% in 2017. Both those numbers are increasing to way beyond their proportions in the general population, with a nearly half of graduates from medical schools being Arab and 57% of new pharmacists.

In the medical field, Israel is a paradigm of inclusivity and integration. A 2017 report says that Arab doctors and nurses in Israel do not feel their cultural origin hinders promotion. Arabs are the heads of surgery and of other departments in Israeli hospitals, and no one there blinks an eye.

Students in colleges are not exposed to information like this. All they see is wall to wall hate, falsehoods and slanders about Israel - and, specifically, Israeli Jews. Sometimes from their own professors.

As usual, these are crimes both of commission and of omission. Both of those lead inevitably towards increased hate - and attacks on - Jews, by people who would swear they are only trying to do the right thing. As the Brahmin example shows, even small exposure to one-sided materials can easily lead to hate: Constant exposure to the lies leads directly to incitement and ultimately, violence.

DEI isn't the solution. It is part of the problem.

(h/t Jim)

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What, exactly, does the Lebanon cease fire agreement say? The text, Netanyahu, Biden and Hezbollah all disagree with each other.

Hezbollah media is claiming that the cease-fire agreement that Israel agreed to is a victory for Hezbollah. they say it is just implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and not going beyond that, as Israel had demanded.

Lebanon's L'Orient-Le Jour obtained a copy of the agreement (I have no reason to not believe its accuracy.) Based on their text, hezbollah has a point. In fact, it might be considered 1701-Minus.

Here's the full text:

• Hezbollah and all other armed groups present on Lebanese territory will refrain from conducting any offensive actions against Israel.

• In return, Israel will not carry out any military offensive against targets in Lebanon, whether on land, in the air, or at sea.

• Both Israel and Lebanon recognize the importance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701.

• These commitments do not waive Israel's and Lebanon's inherent right to self-defense.

• The Lebanese security forces and the Lebanese Army will be the only entities authorized to carry weapons or deploy troops in southern Lebanon.

• The sale, provision, or production of weapons and related material in Lebanon will be supervised by the Lebanese government.

• All unauthorized facilities related to the production of weapons and related materials will be dismantled.

• All non-compliant military infrastructure and positions will be dismantled, and all unauthorized weapons will be confiscated.

• A committee approved by both Israel and Lebanon will be established to oversee and assist in the implementation of these commitments.

• Israel and Lebanon will report any violations of these commitments to the committee and to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

• Lebanon will deploy official security forces and the Lebanese Army along all border crossing points and the defined line for the southern zone, as outlined in the deployment plan.

• Israel will gradually withdraw from the southern zone of the Blue Line within a period of up to 60 days.

• The United States will enhance indirect negotiations between Israel and Lebanon to achieve an internationally recognized delineation of the land border.

The major difference between this and 1701 is the committee to oversee the implementation of the other provisions. We do not know if this committee has any power.

On the other hand, 1701 called for Hezbollah to be entirely disarmed, not just south of the Litani:

full implementation of the relevant provisions of the Taif Accords, and of resolutions 1559 (2004) and 1680 (2006), that require the disarmament of all armed groups in Lebanon, so that, pursuant to the Lebanese cabinet decision of 27 July 2006, there will be no weapons or authority in Lebanon other than that of the Lebanese State;

That is a huge difference.

Another difference is that 1701 respected the Blue Line as the boundary between Israel and Lebanon; this agreement says that this is now negotiable, giving credence to Hezbollah's land claims.

Netanyahu claims that the agreement allows Israel to respond to Hezbollah violations:

With the United States’ full understanding, we maintain full freedom of military action. If Hezbollah violates the agreement and tries to arm itself, we will attack. If it tries to rebuild terrorist infrastructure near the border, we will attack. If it launches a rocket, if it digs a tunnel, if it brings in a truck carrying rockets, we will attack....

They tell me Hezbollah will be quiet for a year or two, grow stronger and then attack us. But Hezbollah will be in violation of the agreement not only if it fires on us. It will be in violation of the agreement if it obtains weapons to fire at us in the future. And we will respond forcefully to any violation.

President Biden said it quite differently:

Biden said “If Hezbollah or anyone else breaks the deal and poses a direct threat to Israel, Israel retains the right to self-defense, consistent with international law — just like any country when facing a terrorist group pledged to that country’s destruction.”

Biden seems to be saying that Israel can attack but only under circumstances where international law allows it, in self-defense. Netanyahu is saying that any Hezbollah violation, even if it doesn't directly threaten Israel, is a reason to attack.

But I don't see that language in the published agreement. That omission makes Netanyahu's words appear false.

1701 failed because the Lebanese Army and UNIFIL didn't enforce it. I don't see how a committee whose only mandate is to report on violations will do any better. I also don't see where this agreement gives Israel the right to attack, say, Hezbollah digging a tunnel, at least not during the 60 days.

Maybe there is an additional memo that we have not seen. But so far, assuming the text of the agreement published is accurate, this does not look like nearly as good a deal as Netanyahu is making it appear.

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11/26 Links Pt2: Israel is treated like Shylock by the world; Study Shows DEI Programs ‘Increase Hostility’; College antisemites and their enablers think they’re the victims

From Ian:

Israel is treated like Shylock by the world

To satisfy its friends such as the US and the UK, Israel has to fulfill a fantasy straight out of a comic book. To have the right to self-defense, Israel has to be like Batman and never kill those who come to kill its children, a standard the nations who demand it of Israel know they are incapable of reaching themselves because it is impossible. Israel’s right to self-defense is conditional on it achieving the impossible.

To satisfy the antisemitic United Nations, even perfection is not enough, as that moral travesty of a Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, proved when he accused Israel of disproportionate force in an operation in 2023 in which not a single civilian was killed. Guterres is in the camp of Francesca Albanese in that the only thing Israelis are legally allowed to do is die.

The truth is that Israel is not Shylock, and should not be treated as such. Those attacking Israel are not merely spitting on Jews, calling them names and encouraging their children to leave the fold, like Antonio did They are seeking to butcher, to slaughter, to murder every Jew, down to the last child. To fight back is not a crime or a sin. It is not seeking a pound of flesh. It is the preservation of life. This is not the 16th Century or the 1930s. Jews have the right to live and can defend themselves if need be.

In their quest to treat Israel like Shylock, Israel’s critics and haters are in fact treating Israel like Antonio by telling Israel its only option, the only thing it is legally allowed to do under international law, is to commit suicide, to lie down and die, to be beheaded, burned in ovens, kidnapped, raped, and slaughtered in the millions. It is these haters of Israel who seek the real pounds of flesh and gallons of blood from innocent Jews.

Peace will come when that right to live and the right to defend Jewish lives is finally acknowledged, when the UN, the ICC, and the Arab and Muslim worlds stop pretending this is the time of Shakespeare, barely a century after the expulsion from Spain and hundreds of years before the concept of emancipation and giving Jews the rights of citizenship. There is no right to kill Jews with impunity as Antonio Guterres, Francesca Albanese, and Karim Khan are attempting to recreate.

Peace will come a lot sooner when Israel’s friends and allies stop treating it with condescension and stop saying “but” every time they acknowledge Israel’s right to defend itself.

Peace will come when the world is a place where Jews have rights with no “buts” or lawfare to strip those rights in practice, when the right to live is sanctified over the right of Nazis to kill, when friends and enemies alike stop acting like the world is a stage where the Jews are the eternal villains.

Peace will come when the real Shylocks at the ICC and the UN stop seeking their tons of flesh and oceans of blood from the Jews who they condemn for refusing to be slaughtered again.

Melanie Phillips: Mr Sammler's prescience

In 1970 the novelist Saul Bellow, a titan of American letters, published his masterpiece Mr Sammler’s Planet.

Its eponymous hero is a Holocaust survivor who, in a decaying New York City, sees into the heart of things. A calculated attack on a range of liberal pieties, the novel caused intense controversy. Sammler, and thus Bellow himself, was accused of being misanthropic, racist, sexist, and reactionary.

Not surprisingly, liberal literary America was outraged and affronted. Equally unsurprisingly, the book was brandished as proof that Bellow had “moved to the right”. This is, of course, the standard denunciation of irredeemable evil that has sunk countless reputations and careers on the jagged rocks of elite disgust — but is so often instead proof positive of the denounced individual’s clarity of vision and moral purpose.

So it was with Saul Bellow. Sammler is a latter-day prophet, seeing with his one functioning eye straight through liberal hypocrisy to call out civilisational decay.

What now seems all too familiar was all there in the novel — racial prejudice, sexual violence, civil disobedience and a no-holds-barred capacity to give offence, it seemed, to as many hyper-sensitive groups as possible. The premonition of today’s culture wars is striking.

Now Bellow’s son Adam has written in Sapir journal a reflection on the novel and the reputational charges levelled against his father. The result is an insightful, wry, luminous article (full disclosure: Adam is my publisher at Wicked Son — but it’s still a truly wonderful read).

Ta-Nehisi Coates: the dangers of black-and-white moralising

The longest chapter is the book’s most controversial. It is about Coates’s visit to Israel and the West Bank, when he attended the Palestine Festival of Literature. Here, he also received a tour from Israeli progressives associated with an anti-occupation group called Breaking the Silence.

This chapter is a one-sided diatribe against Israel. Consistent with his Manichaean view of the world, Coates casts Israelis as white colonisers and Palestinians as the oppressed enslaved, drawing a parallel between Jim Crow in the United States and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. The terms ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘genocide’ (which are not regarded as being part of Jim Crow in the US) appear frequently, as do comparisons between Israel and the Nazis. In a heated exchange after the book was published, a CBS interviewer – perhaps justifiably – said Coates’s book ‘would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist’.

French author and social critic Georges Bernanos once said that ‘the worst, the most corrupting lies are problems poorly stated’. So it is in The Message. Israel’s harassment of the West Bank Palestinians must certainly be addressed and ultimately ended. But an easy solution is not obvious, especially because so many Palestinians deny Israel’s right to exist (Coates appears to feel that way, too). Some even publicly celebrate every murderous attack on Israelis. Assuming Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state, the problem with the two-state solution advanced by many is how to guarantee the nascent Palestinian state would not become another terror proxy on Israel’s border, should it be taken over by radical Islamists, as happened with Hamas in Gaza.

Coates seems deliberately incurious about this dilemma. He writes: ‘The second half of my trip… was not an empty declaration to “hear both sides”. I had no interest in hearing defences of the occupation and what struck me then as segregation.’ This lack of concern is certainly his right, but it is reasonable to expect more from a MacArthur ‘genius grant’ recipient and award-winning author – especially one who writes and presents himself as a moral arbiter.

Some cursory research would reveal that Coates’s take on the conflict being between ‘black’ Palestinians and ‘white’ Israelis is demonstrably in error. Israel is not a ‘white country’. Half its citizens are from North Africa or the Middle East, or are black. Nor is there an Israeli ‘apartheid’ regime. Despite being a Jewish state, Israel’s population is roughly one-fifth Arab, which is well-represented in government and the justice system. Conversely, there are 49 predominantly Muslim countries with very few Jews living in any of them. This is because most Jewish communities were forced to flee these countries for Israel. This is one of the reasons Israel must exist.

Far from being colonialists, as Coates suggests, much of the territory Israel has acquired since its founding in 1948 was not due to colonisation, but the result of four wars that aimed to eradicate Israel. These were wars that Arab countries started and lost.

Israel is certainly not ‘genocidal’, either. There is no genocide in Gaza or the West Bank – the population growth rate in both areas is among the highest in the world.

11/26 Links Pt1: Israeli Security Cabinet approves truce with Lebanon; Cutting the Hezbollah-Gaza axis; The U.N’s Anti-Israel ‘Genocide’ Purge

From Ian:

Seth Frantzman: Cutting the Hezbollah-Gaza axis

However, Hezbollah’s ties to Hamas, as a second front, plus its ability to dictate terms regarding strikes on Iran, are new aspects of Hezbollah’s growing strength. In essence, Israel was trying to get back to square one with Hezbollah by attacking it more intensely in September rather than waging a war of attrition – which was in Hezbollah’s interests.

So now, the story of Hezbollah and Hamas looks increasingly like the parable about a poor man, a rabbi, and a goat. This story, which has different variations, includes a poor man who lives with his kids and wife in a house so small that he is miserable and goes to the local rabbi for advice.

The rabbi suggests he bring a goat into the house, and the man follows suit, crowding his house even more. So, he goes back to the rabbi to complain. The rabbi suggests removing the goat, which makes the house feel larger again. Nothing has changed for the man, but removing the goat changed his perspective on his space.

Israel has removed the “goat” – direct Hezbollah threats along the border – and perhaps keeping Hezbollah from tying the northern front to Gaza. However, this merely puts Israel back on October 6, 2023. It doesn’t turn the clock back to 2006 or other times when Hezbollah had 10% of the rockets it had on October 6.

The fact is that Hezbollah became far too strong, making itself into a monster that could dictate strategy to Israel. Weakening it is good, but victory cannot be bringing things back to square one.

Victory means going further; removing the Hezbollah goat is only one part of the process.

The Criminal Court of Injustice

Two weeks after the hunt for Israelis in the streets of Amsterdam, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague decided to issue arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant - a decision unprecedented in the history of the Free World.

Everything is permitted in order to judge the Jewish state and its people. They dare to issue arrest warrants against the leaders of a democratic country, against a state where justice is implacable, and against a representative of a people who offered humanity the Ten Commandments.

How can we put the leaders of a country that has been the victim of genocide and terrorist attacks on an equal footing with notorious criminals and barbarians who have sworn to continue to murder, rape, and take citizens hostage until Israel is completely wiped off the map? How can we trust international law and its institutions?

Worse still, according to the ICC decision, every Israeli minister, officer, or soldier is now at risk of being detained and taken hostage by numerous courts around the world.

Unfortunately, the decision of The Hague judges encourages Islamist leaders to continue terrorist acts. It gives the green light to all pro-Palestinians and critics to boycott the Jewish state and to demonstrate their hatred towards all Israelis. International reactions prove that antisemitism is omnipresent, injustice triumphs, and deception gains points.

All political parties in Israel have united against the ICC decision. The Israeli people as a whole continue to defend their state against all universal injustices.

WSJ Editorial: The U.N’s Anti-Israel ‘Genocide’ Purge

The UN's assault on Israel is hitting a new low. On Wednesday, the UN will refuse to renew the contract of Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the Kenyan who is the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide.

She is being dismissed because she has stood firm in her belief that Israel's war with Hamas isn't genocide.

In 2022 her office issued a guidance paper on "when to refer to a situation as 'genocide'" due to "its frequent misuse."

The paper explains that the term describes massacres of entire ethnic groups with the intention of eliminating them.

That definition includes the Holocaust, the Hutus' genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, and the Serbian slaughter of Bosnian Muslims.

Establishing a pattern of violence as a genocide requires demonstrating intent. Israel's campaign of self-defense doesn't qualify.

In its war against Hamas, Israel's strategy is intended to dismantle a terrorist regime, not eliminate an ethnic group.

Israel has gone to great lengths to minimize Palestinian civilian casualties, even as Hamas uses civilians as shields so their deaths can be used as propaganda.

Ms. Nderitu's refusal to endorse a lie in service of a political agenda has been a profile in courage.

The New York Daily News reports that the chancellor of the CUNY network of schools, Félix Matos Rodríguez, could not answer basic questions about what CUNY is doing to combat antisemitism.

New York City Council members slammed the head of CUNY Monday after he was unable to answer questions about the steps he is taking to fight antisemitism on campus.

“I do think it is outrageous that when we’re having this hearing on such an important topic, that the most rudimentary questions you’ve been unable to answer,” said Councilwoman Julie Menin (D-Manhattan), part of its Jewish caucus. “It’s not enough just to show up.”

...Council members repeatedly chided top CUNY officials for coming unprepared to answer their questions. Neither the chancellor nor his deputies were able to say how many complaints had been made since the [anti-discrimination] portal’s inception, or what was the most common form of discrimination on campus.

....CUNY’s online reporting portal was [described as] “ineffective” and “operates as a black box,” where people seldom know if their complaints are being addressed or even considered. Students echoed those concerns during the hearing, saying they have been openly targeted with harmful stereotypes or excluded because of their backgrounds.

Adding to their concerns that little action was being taken, administrators declined to share student and staff disciplinary data.

Over the past two years, CUNY has invested $1.3 million in campus programs to combat hate, including $550,000 provided by the Council, Matos Rodriguez said during the hearing.

Among the legislative body’s investments was an effort to scale up constructive dialogue trainings for CUNY students and faculty and staff.

Students testified as to what they have experienced on campus:

“They publicly labeled me a genocide enabler simply because I called out the antisemitism of their protest,” one student said.

“All I ask is that Jewish students are treated with the same respect and dignity that any other student would be granted.”

Another student, who was told to remove his star of David necklace while on campus, said his return to school after a trip from Israel was “something of a nightmare.”

“I came to understand that my safety at school could not be guaranteed.”

CUNY planned to open up a "Center for Inclusive Excellence and Belonging" to combat hate by October 1, but I cannot find its webpage.

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The New York Post reports:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will be forced to open its books and reveal its sources of funding after a defamation suit it filed against a former employee completely backfired.

US Magistrate Judge David Schultz ruled Monday that CAIR’s donors, funding sources — potentially including foreign ones — and any assets owned by the group are all within the “scope of permissible discovery” as part of former chapter leader Lori Saroya’s lawsuit against the controversial Muslim rights group.

What happened was that Saroya was a senior member of CAIR and even a member of its board of directors. She resigned from CAIR in 2018 and then started posting about how awful the organization is, accusing it of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, union busting, financial mismanagement, lack of board oversight, board incompetence, creating a hostile work environment, negatively portraying Muslims, making mistakes on legal cases, receiving foreign funding, and withholding money it owed her.

CAIR sued her for defamation. When the judge asked CAIR to amend the lawsuit to specify what she said that damaged the organization, CAIR dropped the case.

But then CAIR issued a press release accusing Saroya of cyberstalking, as well as claiming that the judge ruled in their favor before they dropped the case and that Saroya's lawsuit had no merit. In that press release, CAIR said the only reason it dropped the case was "Lori’s attorneys were using the discovery process to overwhelm our chapters, drain their resources, and even demand the names of CAIR supporters who have donated to us, among other private information that anti-Muslim groups have long wanted to acquire. We would never risk letting the community’s information fall into the hands of Lori or anti-Muslim groups. "

This opened the door for Saroya to sue CAIR - and, significantly, to force the group to open its books to see exactly what CAIR said it didn't want the world to see, where it gets its funding from, since CAIR accused her of lying about their getting money from known terror-linked organizations.

It's also funny that CAIR is accusing Saroya of being anti-Muslim. There is a website set up by Muslims that discusses CAIR's ethical and legal lapses and general sketchiess.

This is going to be fun.

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Israeli athletes need more protection in Europe than presidents and prime ministers

The Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team is playing in Berlin this Thursday. Here is only part of the description of security being set up from a local news site:

The area around the Uber Arena and the Israeli team's hotel, the Courtyard by Marriott Berlin-Mitte, are particularly affected. The police recommend that you avoid both areas.

Around the hotel, parts of the adjacent Axel-Springer-Straße, Krausenstraße and Schützenstraße will be closed from Wednesday, 4 p.m. to Friday, 11 a.m. At the Uber Arena, the area runs from the Spree and Mühlenstraße, across Mildred-Harnack-Straße, parts of Helen-Ernst-Straße and Hedwig-Wachenheim-Straße from 9 a.m. on match day.

Public gatherings and open-air marches are not permitted in either of the cordoned-off areas. Motor vehicles, bicycles, motorized two-wheelers and other electric vehicles may not be parked in the zones during this period. Mobile containers such as clothing containers and garbage bins must also be removed. According to the police, objects already parked there will be removed if they are not removed during the specified periods.

The police ask residents or authorized persons to carry their identity card and their service or company ID in order to be able to enter the cordoned-off areas smoothly.

In response to an rbb|24 inquiry, the Alba Berlin press office wrote: "The Berlin police, the Uber Arena and Alba Berlin are in close contact with each other regarding the game against Maccabi Tel Aviv and are acting according to the authorities' assessment of the situation in order to ensure a pleasant and safe basketball evening for everyone involved. Due to the increased security measures, we ask that you arrive early on Thursday evening."

This is US Presidential level security - for a sports club.

If the residents of the area have to go through this, imagine what the Israeli players are living through.

They cannot sightsee, they cannot run out to buy a Coke - they are hermetically sealed. Because people who claim they are merely critics of Israel and only want peace might try to kill them.

For the "crime" of being Israeli.

It does no one any good to pretend that this isn't Jew hatred.

While these sorts of measures are necessary at this time, it is necessary for the education systems worldwide to understand and teach that this rabid form of "anti-Zionism" is just bigotry and hate and is unacceptable. It has nothing to do with Gaza or Palestinians and everything to do with hating Jews.

The haters know that this is not sustainable. Their goal is to make it more expensive to host Israelis than it is to ban them. Maybe that can point to an economic solution.

Perhaps local governments should charge the groups calling for public protests to pay the cost of security. Everyone violating the law should pay a fine equivalent to the cost of police to arrest and process them.

Right now, the cost to protect is hugely disproportionate to the cost to protest. As long as protests are meant to intimidate and threaten, protesters should be forced to pay to protect the very people they want to attack.

(h/t Daniel)

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According to Turkish media, Gaza Civil Defense announced that 15 women and children were poisoned after eating canned food left by the Israeli army east of Gaza City.

“15 children and a woman suffered from poisoning and seizures after eating canned food left by the Israeli occupation army east of the Shuja’iyya neighborhood during a previous incursion into the area," the statement purportedly said.

The Civil Defense warned Palestinians against eating any canned food or food products they might find, especially dairy products, saying "the occupation army may deliberately leave spoiled food items in order to harm those who eat them."

I could not find this announcement on the Gaza civil defense Telegram channel. This seems to have originated in Turkish media (the image above comes from Yeni Akit) and then a couple of Arabic sites picked it up from there. It may have been made up, or perhaps it is a twisting of a story in the summer of Gazans getting sickened from eating foods that had spoiled in the sun when agencies didn't pick them up.

The IDF hasn't been in that neighborhood since July.

When Turkish and Arabic media and their audiences are antisemitic, every story accusing Jews of crimes is believed no matter how utterly dumb it is.

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11/25 Links Pt2: Why Palestinians Will Not Have New Leaders; The Guardian’s culture of cowardice; Man charged with shooting Orthodox Jew had map of Jewish targets

From Ian:

Bassam Tawil: Why Palestinians Will Not Have New Leaders

For the past three decades, leaders of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas have systematically targeted political activists, journalists, social media users, students, professors and human rights activists as part of an ongoing campaign to silence critics and deter others from speaking out against the lack of democracy and freedom of speech.

Torture included beatings, solitary confinement, feet-whipping, threats and taunts, and forcing detainees into various painful positions for extended periods. [Human Rights Watch] commented that "the habitual, deliberate, widely known use of torture, using similar tactics over years with no action taken by senior officials in either authority to stop these abuses, make these practices systematic."

This abuse has transformed the PA-controlled areas in the West Bank and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip into Palestinian dictatorships similar to those that have long existed in most Arab countries. In addition, it has resulted in the suppression of the emergence of new leaders capable of leading the Palestinians towards security, stability and prosperity.

Palestinians still remember how political activist and human rights defender Nizar Banat, an outspoken critic of corruption in the Palestinian Authority, was beaten to death by PA security officers in Hebron in 2021. Until today, no one has been punished for the killing of Banat.

The family of the slain political activist was naïve enough to believe that the ICC or any other international agency would serve them justice.

The ICC does not care about crimes committed by Palestinians against their own people. Instead, the court's antisemitic prosecutor is busy searching for ways to punish Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for daring to fight back in a war that was launched by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

Palestinians have not only been deprived of a large portion of the international financial aid -- stolen by corrupt Palestinian leaders -- but also of the right to elect new leaders and representatives through free elections.

Those who are hoping that a new (and pragmatic) Palestinian leadership will take over one day are in for a disappointment. Even after 89-year-old PA President Mahmoud Abbas is gone, his cronies and inner circle will continue to run the show. They will not, under any circumstances, share the cake with other Palestinians.

The same applies to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. No Palestinian will agree to play any role in the administration of the Gaza Strip after the current Israel-Hamas war, as long as the Iran-backed terrorist group and its friends are still around. That is why it is necessary to eliminate Hamas completely and make sure that it loses its military, political and civilian capabilities in the Gaza Strip. This could take a few more months or years, but it is far better than ending the war in a way that keeps Hamas in power.

Telegraph Editorial: The Police must prioritise the ancient hatred: Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism is sometimes called “the oldest hatred”, but on the streets of London and other British cities it was until recently still comparatively unfamiliar.

Since October 7th last year, however, Jews in this country have endured thousands of vile attacks, often in connection with marches and other protests against the war in Israel, Gaza and Lebanon. Perhaps for the first time in recent history, British Jews have felt anti-Semitism to be a serious threat.

The police have been slow to respond to the scale of this hostility. They have shown culpable reluctance to pass even the most egregious cases on to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Now Jews are fighting back. Gideon Falter, head of the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), says that his charity has been forced to bring private prosecutions when police refused to act. In effect, the CAAS is doing what ought to be the police’s job.

Meanwhile, the notorious (and now abandoned) investigation by Essex Police into a year-old social media post by our columnist Allison Pearson has highlighted the colossal waste of police time on trivial incidents online. In Mr Falter’s words: “Recent events show that the police do have the capacity and will to act when they want to, but they too often devote their resources to nonsense.”

It is high time that recognising, pursuing and prosecuting anti-Semitism were made a top priority by the police and criminal justice system. As the late Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks explained, this form of hatred is a virus that has mutated over time and now appears most conspicuously in the form of Anti-Zionism.

Jews were first hated for their religion, then for their race, and today for their state. Denying Jews the right to live peacefully in their own state, as Hamas, Hezbollah and various other Islamist organisations do, is the most dangerous present-day manifestation of anti-Semitism.

Julie Bindel: The Guardian’s culture of cowardice

“I’m not sorry to be leaving Guardian newspapers. For years now being Jewish, however non-observant, and working for the company has been uncomfortable, at times excruciating…It will be a joy to know that I’m not a part of that anymore.”

Jay Rayner’s parting shot as he announced his departure from The Observer after 28 years tops off a turbulent few months at Guardian Media Group (GMG). Next week, indignant journalists will be striking in protest at the sale of the paper to Tortoise, an online media organisation. The Scott Trust, they claim, is betraying its commitment to The Observer — a feeling reflected by The Observer’s former editor, Paul Webster, who lambasted the deal as a betrayal when he retired last week.

Rayner also expressed concern at the sale, claiming that “The Guardian has told me they will terminate all our contracts if they can sell The Observer to Tortoise”. Perhaps he was also anticipating this cost-cutting by the new owners as he resigned. But his strongly worded statement about the failure of the Editor in Chief, Katherine Viner to deal with antisemitism struck a chord.

Rayner is not the first big name to have publicly accused Viner of not handling controversial issues as she should. In December 2020, Suzanne Moore jumped ship, having been the subject of a complaint sent to Viner, signed by over 300 “colleagues” after she was finally allowed to write about the gender wars.

Moore was followed by Hadley Freeman in November 2022. She resigned because she was unable to write freely about the “gender issue”. But in her resignation letter she disclosed that she had been warned off writing about Israel “from her perspective as a Jew” describing the paper as “internally dysfunctional”.

I’m no fan of Rayner: it often feels like his ego is bigger than his appetite. A decade ago, I made a joke about his attitude on Masterchef, and received a nasty, vitriolic email in response, despite having never corresponded with him in the past. Nevertheless, I believe him when he says there are antisemites at the paper — because I have encountered them myself. Once upon a time, before I was slowly cancelled from every section of the newspaper, I would go to parties there, and I recall one particular member of staff saying the most outrageous things about Jews under the guise of anti-Zionism.

11/25 Links Pt1: Israeli Cabinet to vote on Lebanon ceasefire; The international criminal kangaroo court strikes again; Israel is Right to ‘Cancel’ the UNRWA

From Ian:

The international criminal kangaroo court strikes again

The moral emptiness of the court’s actions is matched only by its legal frivolity and the danger of its potential impact.

Israel is not a member of the ICC. Israel has an independent and robust legal system. There is no evidence that Israel is committing war crimes by intentionally targeting civilians or using starvation as a tool of war—quite the contrary. All reliable evidence points to Israel’s extraordinary efforts to avoid civilian casualties and to provide as much food as needed to the people of Gaza. Moreover, it is known, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Hamas is operating from within civilian infrastructures, using civilians as human shields in contravention of international law. Hamas continues to steal most of the aid that goes into Gaza and is using it as a tool of repression against its own people. Yet, based primarily on Hamas’s own propagandized news reports, Kahn and his cohorts at the ICC have brought these baseless charges and arrest warrants. The reason is clear: The world’s institutions will do anything to stop Israel from defending itself from the terrorist regimes that surround the Jewish state.

It is worth noting that the Palestinian Authority managed to be admitted to the ICC as a member “state” in 2015. This comes despite the fact that there is no “state of Palestine” and that the P.A., Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are dictatorial terrorist entities that should be given no shelter in international institutions, such as the ICC. In fact, to become a member state of the ICC, the country must ratify the Rome Statute, the court’s founding treaty. This is laughable for the Palestinian leadership for various reasons, including that the Rome Statute reaffirms in its preamble that “all States shall refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any [other] State.” But no one ever accused the ICC of being intellectually honest. Mahmoud Abbas, the dictatorial leader of the P.A. joined the ICC with impunity as a platform from which to openly launch lawfare attacks against Israel. Abbas has achieved his goal. The ICC has become the useful idiot of the P.A. and Hamas and has created immense pressure on Israel and the West through these dangerous actions.

Of course, no trial will ever occur. No country is going to arrest Netanyahu or Gallant despite grandiose statements by woke leaders such as Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. There will never be an adjudication of these nonsensical claims. The entire process is simply a charade of the left, although the danger posed by the position taken by the court cannot be understated. The ICC, which was only established in 2002, is done. It has revealed itself as a puppet of the far-left and of Islamist regimes, much like the United Nations. The court has only brought 32 cases since 2002 and has convicted just 11 people. The court was meant to be a court “of last resort” for crimes against humanity and genocide, where local courts are corrupted and are not prosecuting these most grave crimes. Kahn’s move may be the end of the ICC.

In 2020, then-President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13928 authorizing asset freezes and family-entry bans against International Criminal Court officials for their threats to assert jurisdiction over the United States, which is also not a member of the ICC. The sanctions worked, and the ICC dropped its investigation into the United States. President Joe Biden inexplicably revoked the sanctions on April 2, 2021. But Trump is back and so will the sanctions. All indications are that this time, the sanctions will be taken to the next level. The United States should, and likely will, pressure its allies to do the same.

Even if the case goes nowhere, there will certainly be a lasting negative impact of the ICC’s actions. Remember, the war launched by Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and the Islamic Republic of Iran against Israel will not be the last. In the next war launched by a terrorist regime against a sovereign Democratic Western nation, be it in the United States or Europe, the supposed guardrails the global community had built through the walls of the United Nations, and later the International Criminal Court will be nowhere to be found. Terrorists will continue to use the Palestinian’s playbook, which has proven to be effective in Western pseudo-intellectual institutions: Attack civilians, kidnap civilians, hide behind civilians and cry foul when those you attack launch a responsive war in response. In the end, we all lose.

I hope that this bell can be unrung, not just for Netanyahu and Gallant, but for all leaders in the Western world.

Australia Turns against Israel, While New Zealand Moves Closer

Independent of the ICC, the government of Australia appears to have already started closing its doors to Israeli dignitaries, in this case barring the former justice minister Ayelet Shaked out of fear she might “incite discord” by giving a speech to local supporters of Israel. Elliott Abrams comments:
To what other democratic country has this approach been applied? It seems the answer is none.

As Abrams goes on to explain, this sort of attitude has come to typify the government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who has placed catering to the wishes of the hard left “over solidarity with a fellow democracy fighting for its life against Iran and against three terrorist groups.”

By contrast, Abrams notes the very different situation in New Zealand, where the anti-Israel Labor party suffered a bruising defeat in the October 2023 election:
Lo and behold, the new National Party government announced in February of this year that it was designating Hamas in its entirety as a terrorist organization, dispensing with the fiction that there is a Hamas “political wing” uninvolved in terrorism. Then this week it designated Hizballah in its entirety as a terrorist organization, again junking the ridiculous notion of a “political wing.” New Zealand also designated the Houthis as a terrorist organization this week.

In short, Abrams observes, elections have consequences.

JCPA: Five Requirements Abbas Must Meet to Demonstrate His Commitment to Peace

While Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is quick to express his commitment to peace, his actions tell a different story entirely. If Abbas genuinely seeks to promote peace, there are five specific actions he must take:

Unequivocally condemn the Oct. 7 massacre - While it seems unfathomable to decent people, Abbas, the PLO and the PA (both headed by Abbas) has never condemned the massacre. Abbas' Fatah even bragged about participating in the massacre.

Abolish the PLO/PA pay-for-play policy - Every year the PLO/PA pays hundreds of millions of dollars to promote, incentivize and reward terror. Abbas, the PLO, and the PA continued rewarding terrorists even after Congress passed the Taylor Force Act. While the policy is universally condemned, Abbas refuses to abolish the policy, preferring to repeatedly declare that even if the PA has one last penny in its coffers, it would be paid first to the terrorists.

Stop all delegitimization of Israel and incitement to violence and dehumanization of Jews and Israelis - In order to fuel the flames of hatred, Abbas, the PLO and the PA have turned rabid anti-Israel propaganda, incitement to violence and terror, and antisemitism into daily events. No Palestinian leader can claim to seek to promote peace, while simultaneously sustaining and supporting mechanisms that generate hate.

Agree to the resettlement of the "Palestinian refugees" - Abbas and the Palestinian leadership have cynically abused the "Palestinian refugees" for over 75 years, using them as a political tool to attack Israel. Instead of demonstrating flexibility, Abbas has dogmatically rejected any solution, demanding that the refugees demographically and democratically destroy Israel.

Clarify who he represents and what authority he has - Abbas has never enjoyed wide Palestinian support. When the Palestinians were asked who they thought was "the most deserving of representing the Palestinian people," 49% expressed support for Hamas, that led the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. Only 17% expressed support for Fatah, led by Abbas. Abbas is a dictator, now in the 20th year of his initial four-year term as PA Chairman. Since discussions with a person incapable of delivering on his commitments are futile, before Abbas can claim to represent the Palestinians, he must first clarify exactly what authority he has to speak on their behalf.

What the world cannot grasp about Israel: Jews are family, not just citizens

I recently received this heartwarming story:

The Shlesinger family from Alon Shvut was vacationing in Northern Israel. Their 28-year old son, Elisha, was driving up to be with them for Shabbat. He needed to refuel, but kept missing the turn offs as he sped toward his destination. After passing five gas stations, he finally decided to pull into the next one. He looked at his watch. It was 3 hours before Shabbat, and he was an hour from his destination. All in all, the timing was good.
As he filled his car, he noticed a woman with children standing next to their car, noticeably upset. He approached her and asked if he could help.
“I accidentally filled my car with diesel fuel instead of regular, and now it won’t start!”
Elisha listened to her predicament, and furrowed his brow. There was no way to remove the fuel. It needed professional attention and there were no mechanics on duty at the station.
“Where were you headed?” he asked the woman.
“To Alei Zahav in the Shomron,” she said, anxiety filling her voice.
Elisha knew exactly where that was … almost 3 hours away, and there were only 3 hours till Shabbat! She clearly needed to get there, but how? No wonder she was frantic. It seemed impossible.
But not to Elisha. He didn’t think twice, he held out his car keys to the astounded woman.
“Here, take my keys and start driving to Alei Zahav! I filled up so you have plenty of gas. You’ll just make it in time! Here’s my cell phone number. Let’s be in touch after Shabbat and we can figure out how to get the car back to me.”
The woman was flabbergasted. A young man, a total stranger, giving her his car?!
She thanked him profusely and took off for Alei Zahav. Meanwhile, Elisha called his father and explained the situation. His father promptly came to pick him up, and everyone made it to their respective destinations in time for Shabbat.
On Sunday, the woman returned with the car. She met Elisha’s mother and told her how amazed she was by Elisha’s kindness and generosity. Elisha’s mother beamed with pride in her son’s gracious nature.
“How can I thank him? What present can I give him?” asked the woman.
“He doesn’t need presents; he needs a wife!” Elisha’s mother exclaimed.
When the woman got home she wrote up the encounter and posted it on Facebook, adding that Elisha was seeking a wife. Ideas came pouring in. One of the first suggestions was a woman named Naomi. I am happy to tell you that with God’s help, Naomi and Elisha recently married!

Let's think about the first half of the story. A man without hesitation offers his car to a complete stranger.

Where else would that happen? Can you imagine even the most wonderful person, a cleric for example, doing something like this in upstate New York, Oregon or Italy? It would be regarded as foolhardy at best, dangerous at worst.

Now, imagine the scenario outside Israel a little differently. The young man asks the woman her name, and then realizes that she is a distant relative. Suddenly, the story makes sense - even if they had never met before, they are relatives and therefore the bond is that much stronger. Of course you help out your family!

That's what people don't understand about Israel. For Jews, it is not merely a nation - it is a family. It is a tribe. And it is on our historic homeland.

Paradoxically, this is why Israelis come off as so impolite. You don't have to have your guard up around family - you can relax and say what you want to say, because they aren't going to pull out a gun and shoot you if they don't like your opinion. There is a non-zero chance of that happening in American cities.

This dynamic was captured in the 1960s Israeli musical Kazablan, which is about discrimination against Mizrahi Jews by the Ashkenazim. The song "Kulanu Yehudim" - here translated as "We are all Jews, everyone" in the English version of the movie - shows the friction as well as the unity between subgroups.

If you don't understand this, you don't understand Israel.

This underlying feeling of literal brotherhood is necessary to understand Israel's conduct in Gaza and Lebanon.

10/7 wasn't merely an attack on Israel. It was an attack on everyone's family. Defending your family is much more imperative than defending your nation. It is as impossible to imagine telling Jews in the South and North to just accept occasional deadly attacks as it would be to tell your cousins not to overreact about the murderers next door who already killed one of them.

When you belong to a tiny minority that has been persecuted for no logical reason for millennia, normal members look out for each other. And that means risking your lives to ensure everyone is safe.

Living without security is intolerable. And just as a family would not accept an authority telling them not to care so much about their members, Israel isn't going to listen to a world that tells them not to care so much about Jews.

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I heard secondhand about a high end supermarket in Seattle closing its kosher section after October 7 2023. So I looked up whether there were any reports about this, and I found a Reddit discussion on this very topic from last June.

A woman from Maryland wrote about her local Wegman's:

My local grocery store used to have a well-marked kosher section in the middle of their store. It wasn’t big, but you could find it pretty easily. My husband went out to the store this evening and said it’s completely disappeared, with the kosher section now having been moved discreetly to a smaller section in the baked goods area, almost entirely hidden behind another display- like they’re *** embarrassed to be making kosher food available. We’re living in a *** twilight zone, you guys

Others chimed in, including from Seattle:

The kosher section of two stores I've been to in my area have disappeared. I'm in Seattle and when I went to QFC it was just gone. I asked where it was because the aisle it used to be in changed the whole row so thought maybe it had just been shifted. The workers seemed evasive and said "maybe it's with the other things" from the old aisle. It wasn't. I found the remains of the section on the clearance rack. It's just gone :(

Another said:

The kosher sections have disappeared from a Fred Meyer and my QFC in Seattle. I was heartbroken.

This does not feel like a widespread problem, yet. The Seattle QFC being discussed appears to be in an area that is heavily "progressive," other QFCs in the Seattle area have full kosher sections including meats and sushi.

Nevertheless, it is definitely concerning that some stores either want to boycott kosher products themselves - or feel that making kosher products visible would result in their being attacked.

Needless to say, this is antisemitism, not "anti-Zionism." And it shows how the wave of protests affects the daily lives of ordinary Jews.

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