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Thursday, December 05, 2024

12/05 Links Pt1: Amnesty International and Balaam’s Talking Ass; Cotton introduces bill to ban federal use of the term ‘West Bank’; ICC Reveals Its Moral Bankruptcy

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: Amnesty International and Balaam’s Talking Ass

There’s a reason for that. The report is a joke. It didn’t take long for people to find the part where Amnesty explained that in order to find Israel guilty of genocide, the organization had to literally redefine genocide.

The crime of genocide requires intent, which is difficult to prove. Raphael Lemkin, the father of the term, had in mind “a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves” (emphasis added).

The fact that Israel, for example, moved a million civilians out of Rafah before killing a bunch of Hamasniks with very few civilian casualties is representative of Israel’s approach to this war and cannot under any reasonable circumstances even be mentioned in the same breath as “genocide.” Moving civilians out of harm’s way and allowing in regular caravans of food and medicine and other humanitarian items are actions that are mutually exclusive to genocidal intent. Without proof of genocidal intent, such intent can be determined if the only plausible explanation of the state’s actions is genocide. Obviously Israel’s conduct comes nowhere close to meeting that standard.

So Amnesty just changed the definition, insisting that “Amnesty International considers this an overly cramped interpretation of international jurisprudence and one that would effectively preclude a finding of genocide in the context of an armed conflict.”

So Amnesty International dissents from international law. That’s fine. Just be up-front about it: Amnesty is not accusing Israel of “genocide,” it is accusing Israel of a different crime which Amnesty has named “genocide,” just so it could use that word.

Amnesty International accused Israel of genocide and in the process acquitted Israel of committing genocide. It’s an age-old story—just less fun without the talking donkeys.

Brendan O'Neill: The genocide lie

Here’s the thing: even that would be in keeping with the combatant-civilian death ratio for most modern conflicts. Some studies claim that, from the 1980s onwards, around 75 per cent of deaths in war have been among civilians. Whether the proportion of civilian deaths in Gaza is 60 per cent, as some in Israel claim, or 80 per cent, as Israel’s critics claim, it is normal. Awful, yes. Truly awful. But there is no proof that Israel is carrying out anything other than war. And, what’s more, a war it has every right to fight. It was Israel that was attacked, by an army of Jew-haters, and its decision to crush that army of Jew-haters is understandable and just.

Accusing Israel of genocide is factually wrong and morally repulsive. It is a gross moral inversion. It was Israel that was subjected to a genocidal attack when the death cult of Hamas indiscriminately slaughtered more than a thousand of its people, and yet it is Israel that is called ‘genocidal’. It was Israel that was targeted by the worst act of racist violence of the 21st century so far – and the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust – and yet it is Israel that is hysterically accused of pursuing the racial extermination of the Palestinians. The West’s activist class that seeks to prove its moral worth by noisily accusing Israel of ‘genocide’ ends up proving nothing more than its own unmooring from truth, reason and decency.

‘Genocide’ is a wildly overused term in the 21st century. Various wars are rebranded as genocides. We hear insane talk of a ‘trans genocide’, which is basically when you fail to use a person’s preferred pronouns. Horrendously, even the mistreatment of animals can be called genocidal these days – who can forget when the moral void that is PETA described your meat dinner as ‘the Holocaust on your plate’?

All this depthless relativism has the effect of minimising the importance of the crime of genocide. But the accusation of genocide against the Jewish nation is even worse. For here, the descendants of history’s worst genocide find themselves reimagined as genocidaires, as the very evil that once stalked them. This is a projection of the sins of Europe on to the victims of that sinning. It is a cynical effort by the European elite to morally absolve itself of the crimes of its ancestors by finding the Jews themselves guilty of the same crimes today. And so are they unburdened of historic guilt, even if the price of that unburdening is truth itself.

Howard Jacobson once asked why Israel, of all nations, is so often called genocidal. It’s because, he said, the aim of such hotheaded activism is not to oppose war but to ‘wound Jews’, to ‘punish them with their own grief’. That’s what I saw in that Led By Donkeys stunt: the further wounding of a historically wronged people by Western activists who value their own continued access to polite society more than they do the security of the Jewish State. The accusation against Israel of ‘genocide’ is not only wrong – it is reckless, cruel, self-serving and deserving of the firmest moral pushback we can muster.

Arsen Ostrovsky and John Spencer: How Amnesty International Became a Joke

That there have been civilian casualties in Gaza is tragic, but it is also the inevitable consequence of Hamas using its own people as human shields and embedding its military operations in schools, hospitals, kindergartens, and homes. Notwithstanding the complex challenge of operating in such difficult environment, the IDF has gone to extraordinary lengths, not seen in modern warfare, to abide by the principles of International humanitarian law and avoid harm to civilians in Gaza. This has included implementing historic measures to prevent civilian harm, such as advanced alerts to provide early warning and temporary evacuations, daily pauses of fighting, distributing maps to civilians, using precision weapons, as well are facilitating daily provision of aid.

In fact, to demonstrate just how utterly ludicrous Amnesty's accusation of genocide is, one only needs to see that, according to the CIA World Factbook, the population in Gaza has actually increased 2 percent in the last year. This is the very opposite of seeking to destroy, in whole or in part or in any way, a group of people.

Perhaps knowing it doesn't have a legal leg to stand on, Amnesty has resorted to manufacturing its own definition of genocide. Amnesty claims that the universally established and the sole accepted legal definition as outlined in the Genocide Convention of 1948 which requires the existence of intent is an "overly cramped interpretation of international jurisprudence and one that would effectively preclude a finding of genocide in the context of an armed conflict."

It's not just Israel that finds this redefinition ridiculous. In an absolutely scathing rebuke, even Amnesty's own Israel office has totally rejected Amnesty International's report, saying it was a "predetermined conclusion" based on "biased" and "artificial" analysis of the situation in Gaza and "motivated by a desire to support a popular narrative among Amnesty International's target audience."

If anyone is guilty of genocide here, it is Hamas. Not only does Hamas openly state that the destruction of Israel is its ultimate goal, as evidenced in their Charter, it acted out on those intentions on October 7, when Hamas massacred over 1,200 Israelis in a rampage that included raping, burning, mutilating, executing and abducting women and children. We've stood in the kibbutzim and communities in the south of Israel and saw first-hand the death and destruction. That is where the real attempted genocide occurred.

In an interview last year, shortly after the massacre, senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad admitted that the terror group would repeat the October 7 massacre "again and again" until Israel was "annihilated," openly admitting the group's genocidal intentions. But Amnesty has completely disregarded this, instead absolving and whitewashing the heinous actions of Hamas.

The incoming Trump Administration should declare Amnesty a hate-group and adopt blistering sanctions against them, including withdrawing financial support and any cooperation with government agencies.

Regrettably, Amnesty International, once a storied human rights organization, has lost all credibility, becoming nothing more than a propaganda mouthpiece for the murderers and rapists of Hamas.

Zionism's Not Jewish - Most Zionists Aren't Jewish! Which Is Why We Only Attack Jewish Zionists. (PreOccupied Territory)

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Zionism's Not Jewish - Most Zionists Aren't Jewish! Which Is Why We Only Attack Jewish Zionists.

by Zachary Foster

New York, December 5 - We anti-Zionists long ago grew tired of facing the baseless accusation the anti-Jewish sentiment animates our movement. Nothing could be further from the truth! We have nothing against Jews - only against the notion that Jews may establish a nation-state where anyone else might once have lived. We also oppose non-Jews who support that notion, who actually constitute the vast majority of those with that view! It isn't about Jews - so of course when we take action against the proponents of that racist notion, we focus on the Jewish proponents.

Get it out of your head that our opposition to Zionism stems from animus toward Jews. Where would you get such a ridiculous idea? Everyone honest acknowledges that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, even if Zionists try to discredit anti-Zionists by pointing out how many anti-Zionists also happen to be antisemites. As if that matters. It matters about as much as our choosing to attack only Zionists who happen to be Jewish. Ridiculous, as I said.

A central pillar of the anti-Zionist approach that dismisses Jewish nationhood - it's just a religion - also involves pointing out that ninety-nine percent of the world's Zionists are not even Jewish. It's always been overwhelmingly supported by Christians. Almost by definition, that makes it not a Jewish movement. The number of Jews in favor of Zionism - I don't even need to mention all the Jews who oppose Zionism, but I love to mention it, and do so at every opportunity because it gives my position cover - is negligible in the sea of non-Jewish Zionists. It's effectively not about Jews at all! Obviously, to underline this point, our movement only confronts and attacks the vanishingly small minority of Zionists who are Jews.

This approach offers the added benefit if demonstrating to the world, and to Jews, that they do not need a state of their own at all to feel secure. I can think of no better way of showing Jews that they need not worry about placing their trust and well-being in the hands of their host cultures than by attacking them in those host cultures while other people mostly just look on or shrug.

Listen, we have no problem confronting non-Jewish Zionists. We might call them slurs normally reserved for Jews, but so what? If you can provide a list of non-Jewish synagogues we can picket or vandalize, we'll get right to it.

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Amnesty International decided on its own definition of "genocide" in its 296-page blood libel report released today.

I touched upon this, but the language is incredible:

The jurisprudence on genocidal intent on the part of a state is more limited. The ICJ has accepted that, in the absence of direct proof, specific intent may be established indirectly by inference for purposes of state responsibility, and has adopted much of the reasoning of the international tribunals. However, its rulings on inferring intent can be read extremely narrowly, in a manner that would potentially preclude a state from having genocidal intent alongside one or more additional motives or goals in relation to the conduct of its military operations. As outlined below, Amnesty International considers this an overly cramped interpretation of international jurisprudence and one that would effectively preclude a finding of genocide in the context of an armed conflict. The organization considers that the Genocide Convention must be interpreted in a manner that ensures that genocide remains prohibited in both peacetime and in war and that ICJ jurisprudence should not be read to effectively preclude a finding of genocide during war.

Later on, it admits that it is not following the ICJ's own standards on determining genocidal intent:

The ICJ has held that “in order to infer the existence of dolus specialis from a pattern of conduct, it is necessary and sufficient that this is the only inference that could reasonably be drawn from the acts in question”, meaning that “intent to destroy the group, in whole or in part, must be the only reasonable inference which can be drawn from the pattern of conduct.”

CAUTIONARY COMMENTS ON ICJ’S STANDARD ON INTENT In his dissenting opinion in Croatia v. Serbia, Judge Cançado Trindade argued that the ICJ “seems to have imposed too high a threshold for the determination of mens rea of genocide” and that the standard of proof adopted by the majority is “entirely inadequate for the determination of State responsibility”.

So the ICJ is not international law - but the dissenting opinion is.

The way Amnesty tries to fudge this is the constant use of the word "jurisprudence" instead of "international law." Jurisprudence is anything legal scholars say, and they can and do often contradict each other. Amnesty is pretending that there is a baseline of accepted jurisprudence that supports its unique interpretation of international law, but there isn't. They are deciding what the jurisprudence is and presenting it as accepted legal fact.

According to Amnesty, the determination of genocide must be done "holistically." Which means that every other case where Amnesty twists international law specifically against Israel must be considered as part of the whole:

[T]he jurisprudence and commentary above suggest that the evidence for a state’s intent must be approached and considered holistically; it must be assessed based on direct, contextual and circumstantial evidence, alongside the existence of a pattern of conduct. Second, the context in which Israel’s military campaign took place must be part of this holistic examination. This includes its unlawful military occupation of the OPT, including Gaza, and the system of apartheid it imposes on Palestinians

Except that Amnesty made up a new definition of "apartheid" to apply only to Israel.

It also made up its own definition of occupation that contradicts its own previous definition to apply only to Israel.

This is damning. It is a clear pattern of literally making up legal definitions that apply to Israel and Israel only.

The "holistic" view that Amnesty pretends proves "genocide" is a house of cards built on Amnesty's own earlier lies.

(h/t Mark Goldfeder)

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Hezbollah MP says it will cooperate with the Lebanese Army - to attack Israeli forces

L'Orient Today is monitoring statements from Hezbollah officials, noting that they are often contradictory. This indicates that Israel completely disrupted the organization's ability to know what it is doing.

“The decision to go to war is in the hands of the Israeli enemy. If it attacks us, we will resist,” said [Hezbollah MP Hassan] Fadlallah. He added that this “we” refers to a coordinated action between the Lebanese Army and the “resistance.”

However, this position is not in line with the terms of the cease-fire agreement, which stipulates that only the Lebanese Army can retaliate in the event of violation by the adversary.

In response to a journalist’s question, Fadlallah said the “resistance fighters will not abandon their villages in the south where they come from.” However, this answer would not constitute a breach of the agreement, provided that the fighters returning home are unarmed.

However, Hezbollah is adamant: “The shura council decided on a cease-fire and respect for 1701. All party members respect this decision. It is also the wish of the party’s popular base,” a Hezbollah official told L’Orient-Le Jour on condition of anonymity.

They add an intriguing thought, that Iran does not want the ceasefire to unravel - because of Syria:

Iran would have every interest in pushing Hezbollah to respect the agreement, since it does not want a resumption of the escalation, especially at a time when its position in Syria is threatened by the rebels’ surprise offensive.

The newspaper also has a photo essay of Beirut, showing both bombed out Hezbollah areas and fully functioning shops and restaurants.

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UNRWA's latest press release shows that it simply cannot defined itself based on facts, so it is claiming that Israel is engaged in "hate speech."

Using commercial advertisement including billboards in several cities around the world and paid Google ads on multiple websites, the Government of Israel has stepped up its disinformation campaign against UNRWA.

These ads are the latest in a series of a wider campaign against UNRWA by the Government of Israel, which continues to publicly call for dismantling the Agency.

This latest global effort by a UN member state to label a UN agency as a terror organisation may amount to hate speech using corporations that are supposed to promote commercial products.

This campaign is creating immense reputational damage to UNRWA...

Those responsible for the spread of disinformation, including advertisement companies must stop and be held accountable. Regulations must be put in place to control the spread of such damaging and possibly dangerous messages.

So UNRWA is trying to pressure advertising companies to censor ads because they are "disinformation" and "hate speech."

What, exactly, is the disinformation, and how, exactly, is this "hate speech"?

The Israeli government site that details its charges against UNRWA says this:

New intelligence collected by Israel since October 7th shows that over 10% of the 510 employees in UNRWA's education system in the Gaza Strip who hold senior positions (school principals and their deputies, directors and deputy directors of training centers) are members of Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, both of which are designated terror organizations.

It shows details about 10 of the over 50 school principals and directors, showing which schools they headed and their terrorist affiliations.

I can find nothing from UNRWA that disputes these facts.

Moreover, some of these schools that they headed had Hamas tunnels underneath, and many of them employed supplemental materials - under UNRWA's name -that glorifies terror and "martyrdom." (See the IMPACT-SE report.)

Can UNRWA point to a single example of "disinformation" here? Of course not.

A careful look at UNRWA's page disputing the charges against it indicate that it is spinning furiously. For example, it appears that the media misrepresented the Israeli claim above that over 10% of UNRWA senior school officials were associated with terrorism as saying that 10% of all UNRWA staff in Gaza were members of Hamas. UNRWA says that it had not received confirmation of the media claim, but ignores Israel's actual claim. Moreover, UNRWA says that as of January, Israel hadn't shared details of terror linked individuals, while Israel says that they did - in March.

There is not a single thing on the government website pointed to by these ads that UNRWA has shown to be false.

Other evidence of UNRWA ties to Hamas, such as this sporting event sponsored by Hamas and promoted by UNRWA's school principal/Hamas operative as having "our boys" participating, are not mentioned or countered. (There were Hamas tunnels underneath that school, Al-Maghazi Boys Preparatory School B.)

So much for "disinformation." But what about "hate speech"?

Hate speech, by definition, is abusive or threatening speech or writing that expresses prejudice on the basis of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or similar grounds. Criticizing an organization in no way can be considered hate speech. On the contrary, it is free speech in its most classic sense - and UNRWA is evidently against free speech.

If UNRWA is claiming that ads that expose their ties to terror are Islamophobic, that indicates that they believe that Hamas represents Islam.

The good news is that UNRWA is admitting that the campaign is damaging UNRWA's reputation. This is seventy years too late.

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Amnesty's "genocide" report: a blood libel against Israel

Amnesty International has issued a 296 page report that attempts to prove that Israel is engaging in genocide in Gaza.

Throughout the report, the assumption of guilt is a given. Every piece of "evidence" that supports the lie is highlighted as true, and every piece of counter-evidence is dismissed as unimportant.

The report tries to prove that Israel has the intent of destroying the Gaza population. It bases much of this on comments made by officials in the immediate aftermath of October 7, and it pooh-pooh's any counterevidence - even when said at the same time.

So for example, President Herzog said, "We have to understand there’s a state, there’s a state, in a way, that has built a machine of evil right at our doorstep. It’s an entire nation out there that is responsible. It’s not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true. They could have risen up. They could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup d’état murdering their family members who were in Fatah." Amnesty interprets that, falsely, as Herzog calling to punish all Gaza civilians, rather than his simply pointing out that Gazans share responsibility for Hamas and are not victims of Hamas. Nothing that he said challenges their civilian status. Later in that same press conference, when a reporter asked Herzog to clarify, Herzog said explicitly that he was not saying that civilians are legitimate targets, and he later said there are many innocent civilians in Gaza.

Amnesty then says that since the first part of Herzog's statement was widely disseminated and the clarification was not, then he is responsible for how the world misinterpreted his initial, ambiguous statement and not his clear clarification.

That is only one example of Amnesty's blood libels. And it is throughout this report.

The many, many statements by Israeli leaders that they were targeting Hamas only similarly gets downplayed by Amnesty as window dressing and lies.

This paragraph is emblematic of Amnesty's antisemitism in assuming that any statement that agrees with their thesis is the truth and any that contradicts it is a lie:

Amnesty International recognizes that, at the start of the military offensive, Israeli officials defined its objectives as dismantling the military and governing capabilities of Hamas, subsequently adding to them the release of hostages and captives. Following that, Prime Minister Netanyahu, then Minister of Defense Gallant and Israeli army spokespeople publicly clarified on numerous occasions that the offensive was directed at Hamas rather than the Palestinian people. However, they appear to have intensified such clarifications only following mounting pressure from Israel’s Western allies over the scale of deaths and destruction resulting from weeks of relentless bombardment.

Amnesty is lying and it knows it. It says that the Israeli officials called for indiscriminate attacks against civilians, in this footnote:

For example, on 10 October 2023, in a meeting with Israeli soldiers deployed near Gaza, then Minister of Defense Gallant appeared to incite soldiers to indiscriminate attacks: “I released all restraints. Attack everything, take off the gloves, kill everyone who fights us, whether it is one terrorist or a hundred. From the air, from the land, with tanks, with bulldozers... all means. No compromises! Gaza will not return to what it was, and Hamas will not exist. Eliminate everything. It will take time, it won’t take a day, it won’t take a week, it will take weeks and maybe months. We will reach all places.”

Clearly Gallant is referring to Hamas. he says so. But Amnesty wants to interpret this as calling for indiscriminate attacks, because they can read his mind and understand his intent, his actual words being irrelevant.

This is the pattern throughout the document for pretending to prove intent. COGAT, which spends thousands of man hours coordinating aid delivery, but Amnesty frames them as deliberately withholding aid and frustrating NGOs for arbitrary reasons. When COGAT's statistics contradict those of the UN, the UN is assumed to be correct and COGAT is lying, and therefore everything COGAT does to bring in aid is again just a giant misdirection to cover up its genocidal intent.

This is the "pinkwashing" antisemitic mindset: when Israel seems to do something it shouldn't, that is the truth. When Israel does things that it should, that is simply a coverup to its true intent of doing evil. When Israel says that it has killed over 17,000 militants, Amnesty casts doubt on anything the IDF says, while accepting the Gaza Health Ministry numbers without question.

This constant assumption that Jews intend evil is Amnesty's antisemitism in a nutshell. When they drop bombs, it is not because they want to destroy Hamas or that they have intelligence information that they have a legitimate target. It is because they want to kill Gaza civilians.

That's the theme of the report: Jews lie.

Amnesty also plays fast and loose with the level of evidence necessary to prove genocidal intent. it quotes the ICJ:

The ICJ has held that “in order to infer the existence of dolus specialis from a pattern of conduct, it is necessary and sufficient that this is the only inference that could reasonably be drawn from the acts in question”,385 meaning that “intent to destroy the group, in whole or in part, must be the only reasonable inference which can be drawn from the pattern of conduct.”

Obviously, there are plenty of other inferences that would explain Israel's conduct in the war that are not genocidal. But since this undercuts Amnesty's entire legal argument, they highlight a dissenting opinion on the case quoted:

In his dissenting opinion in Croatia v. Serbia, Judge Cançado Trindade argued that the ICJ “seems to have imposed too high a threshold for the determination of mens rea of genocide” and that the standard of proof adopted by the majority is “entirely inadequate for the determination of State responsibility”.

Suddenly, the ICJ is not enough for Amnesty to prove its case. Suddenly a dissenting opinion becomes the basis for Amnesty's determination of international law!

One other critical point must be made: In building its case that Israel is guilty of genocide, Amnesty has to prove not only an intent to wipe out Gaza but also that the IDF is following through on that intent. Of course, it thinks it has plenty of proof, but most of it is examining social media videos of 18 year old soldiers who are saying stupid things about Gazans.

Amnesty has no idea how an army is run.

Soldiers do not have carte blanche on choosing targets or on anything strategic. The IDF took a full month to build its Gaza strategy, and it has been refining it almost weekly as it learns more about how Hamas operates and receives intelligence from captured fighters and computers. The IDF strategy does not come from statements by Ben Gvir, as Amnesty wants its readers to believe. Netanyahu and the war cabinet helps decide the general outlines of the war goals and the IDF puts those into practice.

Claiming that an IDF war goal is to commit genocide is simply insane. The army does not have an unlimited number of bullets or bombs, and what it has is often very expensive. The IDF has policies, manuals, ethics publications, lectures, all on how to follow international law and how to deal with new situations like an enemy that deliberately hides among civilians as strategy. The idea that Israel diverts some of its military budget to murder civilians - which is fundamentally Amnesty's thesis - is pure, unadulterated antisemitism.

IDF soldiers are taught more about actual laws of armed conflict than anyone who wrote this report.

Absence of evidence is evidence of absence:

Amnesty International found a pattern of direct attacks on civilians with no apparent military objective present, indiscriminate attacks and intentional destruction of cultural and religious sites with no apparent imperative military necessity.

If there is no evidence that Hamas was hiding in an area - something that by definition would not be admitted by the people - Amnesty assumes that the IDF is wasting expensive smart bombs to hit mosques or other cultural sites in the middle of a war. Again, this is an assumption of Zionist evil that pervades the entire report.

Every page shows Amnesty's clear bias. Israel is faulted for not opening up more passages into Gaza for aid, but also for not protecting the aid convoys adequately - even though safety is the main reason for not providing unfettered access. Damned if it does, damned if it doesn't. Either way, it is evidence of Israel's mendacity, and when even contradictory evidence is used to prove the same thesis, the problem is with the underlying theory, not the evidence.

Humanitarian workers are quoted extensively and anonymously about their difficulty in receiving medical supplies. They claim that Israeli restrictions are arbitrary and capricious. Yet hundreds of trucks of medical supplies, and tens of thousands of pallets, were imported into Gaza during the time period they cover. Amnesty eagerly quotes these workers - who all live in Gaza and most of whom support Hamas - without verification or checks.

Amnesty quotes a Gazan saying “To get a tent, you have to pay NIS 3,000 [approximately USD 827]" for his family. But it doesn't ask why exactly, tents thar are donated to Gaza are being charged for. Hamas is using aid to enrich itself and Amnesty doesn't say a word about it except to cast doubt on Israel's claims that Hamas steals aid.

Previous lies (like saying Gaza is "occupied" or that Israel is guilty of "apartheid") are building blocks for proving Israel is guilty of genocide. It is all a house of cards that Israel haters have built to come to this point.

Anything said against Israel is assumed to be correct, anything said in defense of Israel is assumed to be false unless verified by people who hate Israel.

I could spend days tearing this report apart, page by page. But this is enough to prove Amnesty is knowingly lying and twisting facts, that it started its "research" not to examine the evidence but to find Israel guilty at the outset and that it only accepts evidence that supports that conclusion.

This report isn't an "investigation." It is a blood libel.

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12/04 Links Pt2: The Closing of the British Mind; Melanie Phillips: The hug of hypocrisy; Oxford Union ‘apartheid Israel’ debate accused of breaking the law by glorifying violence

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: The Closing of the British Mind

We’ve had Writers Against Books so it’s not unexpected to see the arrival of Artists Against Art.

Jewish sponsorship of the arts in the UK has been deemed vulgar, as the British appear to have swapped culture for kultur. The message, even from artists, is that it would be better to have no art at all than to have a Jewish-sounding name attached to the room that houses it, for example Gertler. Candida and Zak Gertler are generous art patrons in the UK but after pro-Hamas activists occupied a campus exhibition space adorned with the Gertlers’ good name, that name was removed from the space and from the gallery’s board. The Gertlers’ crime? Donating to the Jewish National Fund.

Last year in London, Anita and Chaim Zabludowicz announced they would, over similar complaints, close the Zabludowicz Collection, an institution they founded in 2007 to increase the visibility of avant-garde work by young artists. The “pro-Palestine” left has volunteered for the young artists who depend on such patronage to learn to code, or something. You know, for The Cause.

Let them eat watermelon emojis. After all, Chaim Zabludowicz simply had to be punished for, as Art Forum notes, having cofounded a company that “aims to reject all characterizations of Israel as an apartheid state, as Amnesty International cast it in a 2022 report”—although Zabludowicz “relinquished his role as chairman of the organization in 2013 and departed as director in 2019.”

All of this was back in the news again this week at the presentation of the British art award the Turner Prize. The coveted award went to Jasleen Kaur, a Scottish artist who wowed audiences by draping a car in a large doily. But the art project itself is beside the point; the true art is protesting people with names like Chaim Zabludowicz and Zak Gertler. From the New York Times:

“As the award dinner began, about 100 activists gathered at Tate Britain’s steps and listened to speeches demanding that the Tate group of museums end any association with Israel, including the high-profile donors Anita and Poju Zabludowicz. In a protest letter published online, the activists said the Zabludowiczes have ‘well-documented economic and ideological links’ to Israel’s government through the Tamares Group, the family’s real estate investment business.

“The letter’s signatories included Kaur and two of the other artists nominated for this year’s Turner Prize, Claudette Johnson and Pio Abad.”

The Glasgow-born Sikh accepted the award wearing a Palestinian-themed scarf because, let’s be honest, we’re all Palestinian during award season.

Meanwhile headlining performances by Coldplay and Katy Perry at London’s upcoming major Christmas event have come under fire, as anti-Israel activists have set their pitchforks on the Jingle Bell Ball. (Is nothing sacred?)

The rise of antisemitism in the arts

On December 5 th Rob Rinder will be chairing a discussion about whether Jews are still welcome in the arts in Britain today. There are two striking things about this event. First, that it is taking place at all. As we shall see, it is happening because it is unfortunately very timely and relevant. Second, that the advertisement doesn’t give a location. It just says, “North West London venue.” Presumably, if you sign up you will be e-mailed a location. This may sound a little paranoid but it is unfortunately very realistic.

Recently, there was a very unpleasant anti-Israel demonstration outside JW3, Britain’s largest Jewish cultural centre. Police officers were there to prevent violence, but unfortunately — as so often in London — the police did nothing to stop the aggressive chanting and waving of Palestinian flags to intimidate local Jewish residents. The Jewish Literary Foundation, which hosts Jewish Book Week every Spring, has just been presented with a substantial security bill, which it will struggle to pay. And, finally, the Barnet Literary Festival, which takes place in Barnet Library every year, has had to take place online this year because of the Council’s security concerns.

The larger issue, why Jews are increasingly excluded and discriminated against in British culture, is unfortunately even more pressing. Last year when I went to see Tracy-Ann Oberman starring in The Merchant of Venice 1936 my wife took a plastic bottle of water. The security people at the door asked her to drink from it to prove that it didn’t contain acid, in case she was planning to throw it at the actors.

Last week, the Royal Court Theatre was reported to the Charity Commission for allowing its staff to campaign for the Palestinian cause by wearing “Free Palestine” badges. This was not entirely surprising, since the Royal Court has a history of producing plays by playwrights who are known for being passionate critics of Israel: for example, Perdition by Jim Allen, which was intended to be directed by Ken Loach, and Seven Jewish Children – a Play for Gaza by Caryl Churchill.

Also last week, Nicole Lampert wrote online about the story of Candida Gertler OBE, an Anglo-German art philanthropist and writer, who has donated millions to help struggling young artists. Lampert wrote, “She’s also a Jew and, like most Jews, a Zionist. Of course that meant she was ripe for cancellation. Her name was taken off a donor board at Goldsmiths College and there was an attempt to also have her cancelled from the Tate. Well, they’ve got their way. Another major donor to the arts has decided to walk away rather than be hounded by the bullies who want to see Jews hounded by the bullies who want to see Jews hounded out of public life. Describing why she was quitting all her voluntary positions in the UK arts world, she asked why people were refusing to stand up to these bullies. She has left as a protest, writing: ‘As someone who has dedicated much of my life to supporting contemporary art, championing dialogue, and creating platforms for diverse voices, I can no longer stand silent when institutions, intimidated by violent and aggressive activism that dismisses dialogue or any kind of communication fail to uphold the foundational values f equality and respect. Recent revelations of vile antisemitic sentiments in these spaces have shocked and appalled me. These are not isolated incidents but part of a broader culture that seeks to marginalise and dehumanise Jews.’”

Seth Mandel: Those To Whom Jewish Survival ‘Smells of the Devil’

It’s not about how many Palestinians died but how many Jews lived.

And look at them all there, by the millions. That’s the atrocity. That’s the war crime.

And so in some respects, it’s actually true that the Nakba continues to this day. The attempt to destroy Israel hasn’t stopped and hasn’t succeeded. The Gaza war is indeed a continuation of this phenomenon, of the original intent and meaning of the Nakba.

In 1921, one of the era’s prominent as-a-Jews, Ralph Philip Boas, wrote an article in the Atlantic called “Jew-Baiting in America.” The conceit was one of Boas’s obsessions—that social discrimination is all that’s left of anti-Jewish bigotry in America and therefore not worth complaining about. (Carey McWilliams dismantled this idea in a 1947 essay for COMMENTARY, found here.)

Boas’s essay makes for some amusing reading a century later; he is wrong about everything.

Well, except one thing. He’s at least partially correct when he writes: “At the root of European anti-Semitism undoubtedly lies the shuddering hatred that men always feel for that which they cannot kill. The amazing vitality of the Jew is sufficient reason for believing any tale that is whispered of him; his survival smells of the devil.”

Those who claim a “genocide of the Palestinians” began on October 7, 2023, show that this mindset is found outside of Europe as well. This includes not just the poets who use their award speeches to reveal something foul about their own character, or the protest groups on campus who seek to appropriate October 7 as a day for them to wail publicly and don sackcloth and ashes.

The expounders of the genocide libel are all over the place, everywhere. Do they actually believe it? In many cases, no. What they believe is that the Jew’s survival smells of the devil. And we should freely remind the public that that is what’s actually bothering them.

12/04 Links Pt1: The Mideast Diplomats Trapped in the ’90s; Our friends, the French; Itay Svirsky’s body retrieved from Gaza for burial

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: The Mideast Diplomats Trapped in the ’90s

In his first term as president, Donald Trump’s successful Mideast diplomacy required him to break through the wall of stale conventional wisdom that had been constructed by a tunnel-visioned DC establishment. He may have to do so again.

Watching experienced Mideast diplomats process reality is a great way to see a person unlearning every relevant lesson in real time. The New York Times interviewed outgoing UN Mideast envoy Tor Wennesland, and the article makes for frustrating reading. Here’s how it opens:

“In September last year, the top United Nations envoy for the Middle East peace process left a meeting with Hamas leaders in Gaza thinking that he had helped avert a major escalation.

“The veteran Norwegian diplomat, Tor Wennesland, said he believed that Hamas had agreed to reduce recent tensions along the Israel-Gaza border in exchange for more work permits for Gazan workers.

“But Hamas had bluffed Mr. Wennesland, along with the Israeli leadership and much of the international community. Days later, the group’s fighters attacked Israel, setting off the deadliest year in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

It’s a familiar story. Hamas fooled everybody and plunged the region into bloody chaos. So what’s the lesson that Wennesland learned from this? That focusing on steadily improving the quality of life in Gaza and making peace between Arab states and Israel were big mistakes. “Both approaches, Mr. Wennesland said, ultimately failed to solve the main issue driving the conflict in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank: the lack of a permanent settlement between Israelis and Palestinians.”

Let’s just spell it out. The current conflict is the result, according to Wennesland himself, of negotiators and politicians in Israel and abroad falsely believing that Hamas was interested in political stability, not war. So the decade spent helping Palestinians on the ground and spreading peace and reconciliation throughout the Middle East should have, instead, been spent trying to get Hamas to agree on a political settlement?

This aversion to reality is almost comical. Wennesland thinks the mistake was trusting Hamas and so the fix would be to treat Hamas as an honest broker.

As the interview develops, it just goes further off the rails. The failure to achieve a two-state solution “was also linked to how Western leaders — distracted by the migration crisis in Europe, the coronavirus pandemic and, finally, the war in Ukraine — had stopped convincing Israelis of the need for a two-state solution and Palestinians of the need for a united front, Mr. Wennesland said.”

Jonathan Tobin: Trump voices the moral clarity on hostages the world needed

We don’t know yet what impact President-elect Donald Trump’s bombshell statement about the fate of the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas will be. But in one post on his Truth Social site, he neatly summarized what has been lacking in terms of American leadership when it comes to the fight against Iranian-funded Islamist terrorism for the past four years.

Trump’s post—with its characteristic bombastic tone and use of capital letters for emphasis—was very different from the public statements of the Biden administration foreign-policy team in recent months on the same topic or that of any other world leader. The United States has condemned Hamas, but in the last year has been primarily focused on pressuring Israel to give up its campaign to eliminate the terrorists and agree to a ceasefire with only a partial release of the hostages. That would effectively hand the perpetrators an undeserved victory for the massacre of 1,200 men, women and children in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Instead, Trump put the onus for achieving the release of the hostages—something all decent people should support—on the Palestinians. They were responsible for that rampage of mass murder, torture, rape and kidnapping. But by specifying that the “All HELL TO PAY” would be felt throughout the Middle East, he was also sending a powerful message to Hamas’s foreign backers. Iran, as well as nominal U.S. allies like Qatar and Turkey, who have provided the terrorists with aid and diplomatic cover are also now on notice to secure the hostages’ freedom lest they, too, face Trump’s wrath once he returns to the White House on Jan. 20.

It’s true that the Biden administration has been working on trying to broker a deal that would lead to the release of at least some of the 101 hostages (approximately 60 are believed to be alive) that are still unaccounted for. But there has been no such unambiguous message from Washington about what it expects from the Hamas terrorist organization or its allies in the Muslim and Arab worlds. Instead, and in keeping with its consistent efforts to undermine and topple the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since Israelis elected it in November 2022, Biden has wanted Netanyahu to make concessions that wouldn’t return all the hostages at once and that would hand over Gaza to the weak and corrupt Palestinian Authority, which has, despite its rivalry with Hamas, never condemned the atrocities that took place on Oct. 7. That is a formula to ensure that Hamas would soon return to power there, leaving Israel in as much danger as it was when the Palestinians started this war.

Wanting Israel to ‘finish’ and win
Trump has made no secret of his desire for a clean slate in the Middle East when he takes office, with Israel having completed its wars against both Hamas in the south and Hezbollah to the north. While that puts Netanyahu on notice that the next administration is hoping not to be distracted from its domestic priorities by conflict in the Middle East, Trump was equally clear that he had no compunctions about the severity of Israeli military actions in Gaza or Lebanon. He just wants the Israelis to “finish” and achieve “victory” over Hamas—an idea that the Biden team has consistently opposed. Once that victory is achieved, Trump is obviously hoping to pick up where he left off when he left office four years ago by building on the 2020 Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and four Arab and Muslim-majority nations.

Many of Trump’s critics were predictably appalled by his hostage post because of its tone and what they consider to be his bias in favor of Israel and against the Palestinians. Despite starting the war with barbaric atrocities and sticking to their goal of wiping Israel off the map and committing genocide against the Jews, Hamas and its supporters—a category that includes what may well be a majority of Palestinians as well as their cheerleaders in the international media and on American college campuses—expect themselves to be depicted as the sole victims in the conflict.

Biden’s willingness to kowtow to that mindset has undermined his administration’s efforts to end the war.

Bassam Tawil: Arabs No Longer Buying the Lies of Hamas, Hezbollah

"Where is the victory? How much did it cost? What defeat is more terrible than such losses? How can one claim victory in the face of a massacre that has destroyed all the logic of resistance? It's not too late to ask Hezbollah to explain its unilateral and deadly decision to open the confrontation [with Israel] under Iran's cover." — Nabil Bou Monsef, prominent Lebanese journalist, kataeb.org, November 27, 2024.

Over the past 14 months, Hamas and Hezbollah have dragged the Palestinians and Lebanese into wars that have claimed the lives of thousands of people -- all to serve their patrons in Iran. Instead of admitting their defeat, both in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, the terrorists, at the behest of Iran's mullahs, are continuing to sell imaginary victories to the Arabs to encourage them to join the Jihad (holy war) against Israel.

Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.

With the death of American hostage Omer Neutra now confirmed, that leaves at most three American hostages in Gaza left alive. All told, there are seven American hostages still held in Gaza; four of them, including Neutra, are dead, their families denied even the right to bury their dead and process their grief. Does it matter that come January 20^th a new, tough-talking sheriff in the form of President Elect Donald J. Trump is coming to town?

It does and it doesn’t. The fact that someone in Israel’s corner is moving into the Oval Office doesn’t change the fact that the American hostages were betrayed by the most powerful nation on earth: America. It was always a possibility because that’s the way it goes with American Jews. American administrations come and go, some of them more and some of them less pro-Israel. Some of them more and some of them less antisemitic.

Joe Biden, or whoever operates under his guise, doesn’t care about some Jews who left America voluntarily to live in a state that is nothing but a pain in the neck to Joe. A thorn in his side. (Those pesky Jews.)

President Trump will be far better, as was proven on Monday afternoon following the news of IDF confirmation of Neutra’s death on October 7. Taking to Truth Social, President Trump issued a firm threat to Hamas:

Everybody is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire World, in the Middle East - But it’s all talk and no action! Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that if the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity. Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!

This is my President! There must be serious consequences for holding any hostage but America needs to exact severe consequences for kidnapping and murdering AMERICAN hostages. https://t.co/Qh8dq78mUM
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) December 2, 2024

Netanyahu offered Israel’s heartfelt thanks to President Trump for this strong show of support. Trump’s stern warning was exactly what was needed but had been sorely lacking every day for the past 424 days. The Biden administration, however, was focused only on restraining Israel while appeasing Iran. Biden and his handlers just didn’t care about a handful of American Jews who had chosen to leave the Land of Opportunity for a country that everyone hates.

I want to thank President Trump for his strong statement yesterday about the need for Hamas to release the hostages, the responsibility of Hamas, and this adds another force to our continued effort to release all the hostages.

Thank you, President Trump. pic.twitter.com/sm4gvEDnwi
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) December 3, 2024

The betrayal by America of its hostages in Gaza is real, and it should be food for thought for American Jews who have not yet been bit by the Aliyah “bug.” It’s a fact: American Jews cannot count on their government to protect them or help them in their time of need. The Biden Administration proves the point. Some presidents may indeed help American Jews when they are in trouble, but others won’t, and it won’t matter if said American Jews are held in Gaza, slashed in the face on a street in Brooklyn, or harassed and violently abused on an American university campus. Some administrations won’t care enough to come down hard enough on the perpetrators to put the fear of God into them.

Jews with American citizenship are, in the end, still less worthy of protection than other Americans. Witness the Biden administration’s lack of will to do much of anything at all for American citizens being held and brutalized in Gaza because they are Jews. Trump coming into office will change this dynamic for a while, and we can hope it will last a good long time, but for the sake of self-preservation, American Jews would be well advised to accept that America is not a place they can count on. When push comes to shove, American Jews may or may not receive the help they deserve at the time it is needed most.

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New study: Hiring managers discriminate against Jewish and Israeli sounding names

The ADL commissioned a study comparing how hiring managers for an administrative assistant position respond to essentially identical cover letters and resumes whose only differences were indications that the applicants were Israeli or Jewish.

They chose administrative assistant jobs since those positions generally meet the public, so hiring managers would want to ensure that the people like the person in front.

While the qualifications were the same, "Kristen Miller" received more responses than "Rebecca Cohen" and "Lia Avraham." Here were the only differences in their resumes:

The report says:

Across specifications, we see that both the Jewish and the Israeli Treatments experienced a decrease in positive response rates relative to the control. These differences are statistically significant across all three models. ....This means that, to receive the same number of positive responses as the Western European Treatment, the Jewish Treatment must send 24.2% more inquiries, and the Israeli Treatment must send 39.0% more inquiries.

Their city by city analysis had samples sizes too small to be statistically significant - except for one city, Seattle:

The only market in which the difference in response rates is statistically significant at the city level is in Seattle, where the Israeli Treatment is 16.3 percentage points less likely to receive a positive response relative to the control (23.1% vs 6.8%),

This mirrors a survey by Resumebuilders in 2022 that I did further analysis on.

Antisemitism is real and measurable in the United States, and it is getting worse.

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Turkey's Yeni Safak news site .(and others) has a story about how Jews in Europe are complaining about antisemitism, which is of course a lie:

In Europe, protests continue against the massacres carried out by the Israeli genocidal army in Gaza. Jews accuse those protesting Israel's massacres of anti-Semitism, as is classic, and claim that the countries they are in are unsafe.
While Zionist Israel is massacring defenseless civilians in Gaza with its brutal attacks, the conscientious people of the world are filling the squares to protest Israel. The actions in support of Palestine that took place in many cities in Europe have caused panic among the Jews living in the region. Jews who are not ashamed of being citizens of a genocidal regime have accused the countries they are in of anti-Semitism.

Notice the antisemitic trope that all Jews are citizens of Israel.

The story goes on to say say that Jews bring trouble wherever they go and they were the aggressors in Amsterdam but cry as if they are victims.

Not only that but many Jews in Europe are considering moving to Israel,

The lengths Jews go to to appear to be victims!

There is a consistent pattern in the comments of Jew-hatred that didn't even pretend to be merely anti-Zionist:

May it be worse for them. May they never see peace..
May God make them miserable, amen
May God make everything beautiful, and we will see the days when the whole world will be your enemy, God willing. Don't find a hole to hide in
Let them go to the ground

Beyond that, we see comments welcoming the idea of European Jews fleeing to Israel - because that makes genocide easier:

Let them go, that's where they will die en masse.
God is gathering them all in one place. Our job will be easy.

This echoes a speech by Hassan Nasrallah in 2002 where he also said that Allah is putting sll the Jews in one place to make it easier to destroy them.

Their aim has always been extermination of Jews. In Turkey, at least they are being honest.

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BDS scrambling to find reasons to keep boycotting Sabra Hummus after it is bought completely by PepsiCo

The BDS group CJPME, "Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East," has a fact sheet on why they boycott Sabra Hummus - because it is half owned by an Israeli company Strauss which supports the IDF.

At the end, they write:

The boycott of Sabra will end once it is no longer owned by the Strauss Group, and thus is no longer complicit in the oppression, violence and war crimes committed by Israel against Palestinians.

Recently, PepsiCo announced that they were buying out Strauss' half of Sabra. The Strauss Group decided to sell Sabra to its partner after losing market share as fallout from the discovery of salmonella in its hummus manufactured in Virginia in 2021, as retailers decided to diversify their hummus suppliers.

BDS, predictably, is claiming that their campaign worked and they are the reason Strauss is selling Sabra, although that doesn't quite explain why PepsiCo would want to buy it for $244 million.

Nevertheless, this means that Sabra no longer has anything to do with Israel. It is not manufactured there and no Israeli will profit from it when the sale is complete. So the boycott is over, right?

Ha! BDS is not based on little things like facts. They loved boycotting Sabra brand dips, whichhelped them recruit antisemites, and they aren't going to stop now. They just need to dig up new reasons for the boycott.

The BDS Reddit group started off vague about the reasons: "PepsiCo now owns 100% of Sabra. That means every tub of hummus on shelves still funds oppression."

How, exactly?

it took ten days, but yesterday, BDS tweeted their new excuses for continuing the boycott. Sabra is still guilty of "blatant cultural appropriation of Arab foods" and Pepsi owns Sodastream, which BDS falsely claims is stealing Bedouin land.

Of course, if those reasons were valid, then BDS would be calling for the boycott of every hummus brand sold in the world that is not manufactured by Arabs. It would be calling for a general boycott of all Pepsi brands, including Aquafina water, Quaker Oats, Lay's Potato Chips and Cap'n Crunch cereal.

But there is no call by BDS to boycott other brands of hummus nor other Pepsi products (besides Sodastream.)

Right now, BDS cannot find any way that boycotting Sabra will hurt Israel in the least. They cannot find a way that boycotting Sabra will help a single person in Gaza.

Which is as good a proof as any that BDS has nothing to do with human rights or helping Palestinians or "justice." It has always been about inciting people to hate proud Jews and Israel.

Because Sabra is a Hebrew word.

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Survey: The Jews who are the most likely to sympathize with Hamas and swallow the "genocide" lie are the ones who are the most ignorant

In November, Mosaic United (together with Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs) published a poll of Jewish teens in English-speaking countries worldwide about their attitudes towards Israel, Hamas, the Gaza war and Jewishness.

Two results were extraordinarily concerning.

A huge 36% of the teens felt that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, and an astonishing 32% felt sympathy for Hamas.

At first blush, it looks like Jewish teens are continuing the trend of younger people being less sympathetic to Israel. But when you look at the details, the actual takeaway is a bit different.

The majority of those who sympathize with Hamas are 14 or 15 - 60% . By the time they reach 18, the support for Hamas plummets to 9.2%.

In other words, the teens who support Hamas are the ones who know the least. As they go through high school and learn a little more about the world, they completely turn around. You wouldn't trust a 14 or 15 year old's opinion on politics - why would anyone think they know what Hamas is?

A similar but not as dramatic transformation takes place for the "genocide" question: from 49.5% to 25.2% the older they are. To a 14-year old, "genocide" means "acting mean." 18-year olds are more likely to know what the word means and the difference between a war and extermination.

When you look at the strength of their Jewish background (exposure to Jewish education and camps,) you see a similarly dramatic straight line between how little Jewish education they have and how much they agree with Israel haters. Those with little Jewish background were five times more likely to say there was a genocide than those with a strong Jewish background, and ten times more likely to sympathize with Hamas.

Among Jewish teens, it is the ignorant - both Jewishly and generally - who are more likely to sound like BDSers.

The answer, as it has always been, is more and better education. The teens who had visited Israel, the teens with friends and relatives in Israel, the teens who have learned about Israel are the ones who are more pro-Israel.

But it is not only exposure to and education in Zionism. It is also more general exposure to Jewish education and to Jewish rituals.

It is not hard to understand why. Those who believe that they are part of a larger people - who look at their fellow Jews as family - are going to sympathize more with their people.

Ignorant Jewish teens who are thrown into college are generally on their own for the first time, and they gravitate to groups they can identify with. The "Jewish Voice for Peace" type groups give them the pretense of hanging with Jews while they can pretend to be revolutionary and break away from their parents, which is, after all, fun.

Jewish parents who do not immerse their children in Judaism from birth are doing their kids a huge disservice, and they are doing their people a huge disservice. Kids need to feel that they are part of something much bigger than them, part of a people who have contributed more to the world than any other, part of a history that goes back thousands of years, part of a tradition of morality that does not easily change with the times. They cannot get that from being raised as "liberal" or as "conservative" alone - words that have changed their meanings in living memory.

This survey is frightening, to be sure. But it gives us the clearest path forward of any such survey I've ever seen. The Jewish community - and, especially, the American Jewish community - has got to wake up and go back to fundamentals.

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