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Sunday, January 05, 2025

01/05 Links: Blinken’s stunning confession; Israeli embassy original target in Taylor Swift terror plot; Kamal Adwan Hospital Was a Hamas Military Base

From Ian:

David Collier: The BBC apology should be absolutely rejected

The reason the apology should be rejected is simple. The BBC apology is a tick box exercise for the BBC – who have no choice but to apologise on this particular issue. Why? Because we caught the BBC red-handed and forced them into a corner.

What did the BBC actually admit to? The discriminatory treatment is being explained away by the BBC as a slight misstep that is easily corrected. As if one person (in this case probably presenter Ben Brown), made a small mistake in focus. In the apology the BBC stated the interview should have been ‘less about politics and a little more about Chanukah’. That is nonsense and does not address the key issues at all. The real question here is WHY the interview with the Rabbi was approached so differently from the interviews of the Imam and Reverend?

It is important to remember just how blatant the discrimination was. The interviews with the Imam and the Reverend were both headed by sympathetic videos. The Rabbi had none. The images that accompanied the first two interviews were respectful and religious – the Rabbi got images of tanks. This is without even referencing the aggressive line of questioning or the 2:1 nature of the whole setup – with two Palestinians being given airtime, against just one Israeli.

Which means this was not just about the presenter or questions raised during the interview. The BBC’s anti-Jewish discrimination was a team effort. Ben Brown (the anchor) wasn’t the producer of the program. He also had nothing to do with the first interview. It would be a big mistake just to point the finger at Ben Brown (and an equally big mistake to whitewash him).

What about those responsible for putting together the photos. Or the planning producer who probably set up a lot of the questions in advance. What about the programme editor? Who decided that there would be no sympathetic video at the start?

There are several people involved here – and not ONE OF THEM saw a problem. In fact, as the problem became amplified as each piece of the bias added to the next (no sympathetic video, hostile photos, aggressive questions) – it seems that every step of the way the BBC’s anti-Jewish mindset played its part.

They say that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. It is also true that it takes a pack of antisemites for the BBC to ambush a Rabbi during a live interview. This was a team effort.

Israeli embassy original target in Taylor Swift terror plot

In a chilling revelation of threats facing Israeli diplomatic missions, a 19-year-old ISIS supporter considered attacking the Israeli embassy in Vienna before planning to target a Taylor Swift concert, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.

The case highlights security concerns for Israeli interests in Europe.

Before settling on the concert venue as his target, Beran Aliji, a dual citizen of Austria and North Macedonia, had carefully evaluated other high-profile locations, including the Israeli embassy, Kurdish diplomats and a Shi’ite mosque, according to police records obtained by the newspaper.

The discovery prompted heightened security measures at Israeli diplomatic facilities across Europe, as investigators uncovered evidence of Aliji’s extensive consumption of terrorist propaganda and his pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State.

By July, amid what he described as a mental-health crisis, the Austrian teenager quit his factory apprenticeship and isolated himself in his apartment, becoming obsessed with thoughts of death, he later told police. Without money or prospects, and lacking close friendships, he immersed himself in violent videos and secret chatrooms devoted to the Islamic State.

“These are bitter, angry people,” Bruce Riedel, a counter-terrorism expert and 30-year veteran of the CIA, said. The case reflects a broader pattern of self-radicalization that concerns Israeli and Western security officials.

The investigation revealed hundreds of text messages and multiple police reports showing how Aliji sought guidance from individuals he believed to be Islamic State members. “My operation is to take place at a big concert,” he wrote in one message, according to Austrian records. “I will try to get a gun and bombs. If that doesn’t work, I will use big knives. Or I will kill a police officer and take his rifle.”

One Israeli on respirator, other has serious injuries after New Orleans attack

Elad Shoshan, the Israeli consul to the southwest United States, told JNS over the weekend that he went to New Orleans after learning that two Israelis had been hurt in the car ramming attack, which the FBI is investigating as a terror attack, in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

He did so “to be with the injured, assist their families, connect with the authorities and local Jewish community, communicating with the medical team and preparing accommodations for the arrival of the parents to New Orleans,” Shoshan told JNS.

“The Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest wishes to extend its heartfelt condolences to the families affected and offer prayers for the swift recovery of those injured,” he added.

Both of the Israelis, whose families requested that their names not be released, are in their mid-20s and are receiving medical care, Shoshan told JNS.

“They were visiting the United States as tourists, looking forward to ringing in the New Year in New Orleans,” he said. “It is tragic that these young men, who came to experience the joy of this vibrant city, have become victims of this shocking act of terror.”

“What should have been a special celebration has turned into an unimaginable tragedy for them and their families,” he added.

One of the young men is on a respirator “due to severe head trauma and internal injuries,” according to Shoshan. “The second Israeli is stable and communicative but is also recovering from serious limb injuries.”

Relatives of both arrived in New Orleans late on Friday night “to be with them during this difficult time,” Shoshan said.

There was a kerfuffle in Syria this weekend, as Politico EU reports:

She came to advocate the rights of women and minorities. She left without a handshake.

The Syrian leader’s refusal to offer a greeting handshake during a visit to Damascus this week was predictable, Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said.

The incident nonetheless prompted a vigorous online debate over global political greeting protocols, as well as the label “handshake scandal” by German daily Bild, as Baerbock’s traveling partner, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, was offered a handshake.

“As I travelled here, it was clear to me that there would obviously be no ordinary handshakes,” Baerbock told broadcasters Friday evening.

“But it was also clear … that not only I but also the French foreign minister did not share this view. And accordingly, the French foreign minister did not extend his hands,” she stressed.

Everyone is getting this story wrong.

I cannot believe I'm the one to defend Ahmad al-Sharaa, but videos of the encounter show that he offered his hand to Barrot. Barrot half heartedly shook only fingertips - he did indeed extend his hand. Sharaa then put his hand over his heart as he smilingly greeted Baerbock .

The only sign of disrespect during the brief encounter was Barrot's half-handshake. He should have either refused the handshake if he really cared about Baerbock's dignity, or he should have shaken the Syrian leader's hand with respect.

The jury is still out on al-Sharaa, but expecting him to violate his own religious principles is also a sign of disrespect. Baerbock knew ahead of time that she wouldn't be shaking his hand; there was no insult intended.

The bigger story is that the former ISIS leader did not request that Baerbock cover her hair. That is what Iran and Saudi Arabia would request, and al-Sharaa's government did not.

Respect is a two way street. It is possible to show respect without violating your own religious principles, as al-Sharaa did. Demanding that a visiting diplomat wear a hijab is infinitely more offensive, as Iran and other Islamist governments do.

We still have no idea what kind of state Syria will become, if it even survives the continuing infighting. So far the new government seems to be mostly doing what it can to assuage Western concerns about his Islamism. The most recent incident was when reports came out of a change in the school curriculum that seemed to support teaching Islamist concepts and this is indeed concerning.

But the story of the visit with the German Foreign Minister and her hair uncovered is evidence of moderation, not extremism.

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Tablet magazine recently published a lengthy but important article about how Barack Obama built a formidable infrastructure to mold people's opinions towards the Democratic Party and his positions.

Key to the initiative was an idea called "permission structures" which was in large part what got him elected to begin with:

[W]hile most political consultants worked to make their guy look good or the other guy look bad by appealing to voters’ existing values, [David] Axelrod’s strategy required convincing voters to act against their own prior beliefs. In fact, it required replacing those beliefs, by appealing to “the type of person” that voters wanted to be in the eyes of others. While the academic social science and psychology literature on permission structures is surprisingly thin, given the real-world significance of Axelrod’s success and everything that has followed, it is most commonly defined as a means of providing “scaffolding for someone to embrace change they might otherwise reject.” This “scaffolding” is said to consist of providing “social proof” (“most people in your situation are now deciding to”) “new information,” “changed circumstances,” “compromise.” As one author put it, “with many applications to politics, one could argue that effective Permission Structures will shift the Overton Window, introducing new conversations into the mainstream that might previously have been considered marginal or fringe.”

As Model Thinkers describes it, "the main point is to find a pathway for the person to change their opinion and/or action in a way that leaves their pride and integrity intact."

It is clear that this was the method they used to turn a large portion of the Democratic Party against Israel.

J-Street, which was heavily promoted by the Obama administration, is entirely a permission structure organization.

It pretends to be Jewish. It pretends to be "pro-Israel." It uses that hook to get Jewish people to become....anti-Israel.

Once you realize that permission structure is a method that could either be described charitably as advertising, or more bluntly as brainwashing, you can see how it has been used extensively by anti-Israel forces over the past decade or so.

Obama used it to push the Iran nuclear deal. But others have been using it as well, most specifically "Jewish Voice for Peace" and "IfNotNow," by using the trappings of Judaism to make it appear like you can be a committed Jew and still be against the Jewish state. Like J-Street, these organizations are giving Jews "permission" to hate Israel and still feel ostensibly Jewish, not feel like the traitors to their own people that they are.

Other examples abound.

Have you noticed the tsunami of open letters that get written by "Jewish" academics or artists, that then get outsized publicity by the media? The entire point is to give permission for Jews, already inundated with anti-Israel messaging, to publicly join the other side and not feel guilty about it.

Even when Zionist groups create their own counter-letters, and even if they get more signatures, they don't have any real effect - because the initial letters aren't meant to show that a majority of Jews support their position, but that it is possible to be Jewish and anti-Zionist. The permission is given by any respected Jews on that list, not the quantity.

"Breaking the Silence" and "Haaretz" act as permission structures to show that Israelis, too, can be anti-Zionist. So does Neturei Karta. This is how they are used and how they view themselves.

So what can be done?

The solution is for proud Jews and proud Zionists to be more proud. And unapologetically so.

Peter Beinart is releasing a book this month titled "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning." The entire point of the book is permission structure to hate Israel as a Jew. Perhaps this permission structure can be seen in a tweet Beinart posted on January 1, "Our children will ask their children will ask their children what we did while Israel obliterated Gaza. From generation to generation to generation, l'dor v'dor."

My answer would be that Israel has tried to make peace with its Arab neighbors and with Palestinians since Zionism started. That the 1929 pogroms, the 1936-39 massacres, the 1947-1948 war, the 1967 war, the 1973 war, were not started by Israeli actions but by those who wanted to destroy Israel. That Israel tried to make peace with Palestinians during Oslo only to have the Palestinians respond with a horrific terror spree aimed at Jewish civilians. That things were getting better in Gaza in the years before 2023 when Hamas seemed to act as if calm was a good policy, but it was all a scam meant to set the stage for the largest massacre of Jews since Auschwitz. That even during the war Israel did more than any army in history to avoid civilian casualties and to bring aid into a war zone, while Hamas did everything possible to maximize civilian casualties and steal the aid. That even though Israel can say screw them all, we should act like they falsely claim we act - we never will. Because Jewish morality is not subject to the whims of popularity or social media or this year's new interpretation of international law, but on concepts that are timeless.

I would tell them that true bravery is to stand up for what is right when the entire world tells you you are wrong.

Moreover, I would tell my children and grandchildren that the Jewish people are a family, a tribe, a people and a nation. The top priority of every family is to defend themselves first, to save their own lives first. Everyone else's lives are important too - but not as important. Anyone who pretends that the lives of their family is no more important than the lives of those trying to kill them and those cheering on the murderers is either a liar or immensely immoral.

And while families stick together, those who choose to betray the family are outcasts. They can claim to remain part of the family but they know, and the family knows, the truth.

However, the family would welcome them back when they come to their senses and recognize that they made a grievous error.

Being zealous in defending your people is admirable, moral, and right. When the Peter Beinarts of the world want to spread the slander that Israel is committing genocide, that shows their immorality, not Israel's. Jews have always had their Korahs, their Dathan and Avirams. Hiding hate behind the veneer of morality and righteous outrage is nothing new.

The mantra of the permission structure crowd is that they are on the "right side of history." Declaring it does not make it so. People whose entire raison d'être is to attack Jews and assume the worst possible explanation for anything a Jew does are nothing but antisemites, and antisemites are never on the right side of history.

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BDS professor teaching course on "Jews and Power" at Oberlin

Here is a description of a course coming up this spring at Oberlin College:

JWST 218 - Jews and Power
Popular conceptions of the relationship between Jews and power tend either to adopt (in the case of sympathetic accounts) a view of Jews as perennial victims or (in the case of hostile/antisemitic accounts) a view of Jews as overly or preternaturally powerful. This course attempts to complicate that bipolar framework by exploring a more diverse range of encounters between Jews and power from antiquity to the present. In addition to historical writing, we will also examine religious, philosophical, and political texts that exemplify different ways that Jews and non-Jews alike have imagined or understood the Jewish relationship to power.

Perhaps this topic is worthy of unbiased study. As we will see, it is difficult to teach in an unbiased way by the way it is framed. And the instructor, Matthew Berkman, is not unbiased.

Canary Mission documents his activities, at least before he joined Oberlin. He was a steering committee member of Jewish Voice for Peace Philly and a member of JVP as of April 2022.

He is a believer in the conspiracy theory that somehow Israeli police teach American police to attack Black people.

And Berkman was one of the organizers of PennBDS, where he showed he is so liberal and open-minded that he banned a reporter from a Jewish newspaper from attending their hosted conference.

His dissertation show a critical obsession with mainstream Jewish institutions being Zionist, blaming their pro-Israel stance after 1967 on local Jewish federations, even though the entire American Jewish community outside of a fringe were pro-Israel before 1967.

The course description itself is on the edge of being antisemitic. Jews are not a monolithic group, if anything it is difficult to find a group that is more heterogenous in their politics outside perhaps people with brown eyes.

The entire theory behind the course assumes that Jews hold the same opinions - and that they use their "power" for their own purposes. Is Bernie Sanders considered a Jew with power for the purposes of this course? If a Jewish senator is not part of this Jewish power system, then it makes no sense; if he is considered a part of the system, then there is no Jewish power system to speak of.

In reality, the majority of Jews outside the Orthodox, and the majority of Jewish politicians, do not vote and act primarily on "Jewish" issues like support for Israel or private school vouchers. Assuming that the disproportionate number of Jews in positions of power have an outsize effect on US positions is an assumption that can easily slide into classic antisemitism; for the topic to be taught by someone who is antipathetic towards the Jewish community altogether is problematic, to say the least.

(h/t D)

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01/04 Links: UNRWA Defenders’ False Choice; Trump administration plans crippling sanctions on ICC; Hamas releases video of hostage Liri Albag

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: UNRWA Defenders’ False Choice

Usually, when people make the case for UNRWA, they speak in generalities. They point to the nearly 200 schools that UNRWA at one point operated in Gaza. The implication is that Gazans are reliant on the agency for education. The truth is that Gazans aren’t getting education; they are getting—as the children at these schools openly admit—a Sovietesque radicalization against Jews. This brainwashing, in turn, produces another generation of war, and then another and another in perpetuity.

The Palestinian child who learns to hate Jews does not benefit from this status quo. The opposite is true. So Hashash isn’t the only UNRWA hostage among Palestinians. There are arguably many thousands of them.

Until about 2014, UNRWA was merely an ally of Hamas. But after that, UNRWA practically merged with Hamas. The agency shared space with Hamas all over the enclave.

In February, the IDF discovered something shocking. UNRWA’s headquarters in Gaza City sat atop a Hamas data center with sleeping quarters for Hamas commanders. The data center was connected to UNRWA’s own wiring in the building. This was done so that Hamas would be protected from an Israeli airstrike. When I say UNRWA merged with Hamas, I mean it: The only reason UNRWA remained nominally a separate entity was so it could safeguard key Hamas figures and facilities and keep Hamas communication lines open during its war with Israel.

We should reject the idea that aid to Palestinians must necessarily come with terrorism and widespread human misery. Keep the dialysis machines, lose the hostage-takers.

Kristallnacht now: Oct. 7 led to the worst demonization of Israel in history

That is why most self-anointed champions of “Palestine” are peaceable Palestinians’ worst enemies by doing Hamas’s bidding. If anti-Israel agitators truly cared about Gazans, they would be up in arms against Hamas, since the terrorist group has inflicted far more harm on them than Israel has ever done by keeping them in penury as permanent refugees, even in their own autonomously run enclave where a mini Dubai could have sprung up in nothing flat since Israel vacated the premises in 2005. And all this in the name of a monomaniacal pipe dream that one day the Jews will be driven into the Mediterranean and “Palestine will be free.”

Then what? With Israel gone, a theocratic state of Palestine under Hamas and its ilk would be no more a bastion of democracy, religious tolerance, free speech, gender equality, and gay rights — which Israel is — than Afghanistan under the Taliban or Iran under the mullahs. It’s unlikely, though, that leftist anti-Israel diehards are thinking that far ahead. These days, having the correct “progressive” opinions relieves you of the burden of having to know much about the Arab-Israeli conflict or anything else.

“Having engaged with numerous protesters [over six months in London], I have noticed a startling disconnect between their strong opinions on the Gaza conflict and their shaky grasp of basic facts about it,” Potkin Azarmehr, an Iranian-British activist, wrote in O’Neill’s own Spiked magazine last summer. “It wasn’t just young people who were uninformed. An older woman with an American accent, seemingly a veteran protester, admitted she knew that Hamas was linked to the Muslim Brotherhood but had no deeper knowledge of its ideology or history.”

There’s more: In a recent survey of American students, only one in two of those “who regularly chant the infamous slogan ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ were able to name the river and the sea it references. Some thought it referred to the Nile and the Euphrates. Others to the Caribbean,” O’Neill observes. “Less than a quarter of the students knew who Yasser Arafat was. More than 10 percent thought he was the first prime minister of Israel.”

Such acute nescience would be comical if its consequences weren’t so dire for Jews everywhere. Across much of the world, particularly in Western Europe, they haven’t had it this bad since the Holocaust, and things are bound to get worse, what with the unrelenting demonization of “Zionists.” This, too, is telling, by the way: No Muslims in Europe need fear being lynched, stabbed, or blown up by said Zionists, but rare is the Jew safe from militant Islamists.

O’Neill steers clear of these fratricidal matters, but After the Pogrom is a well-argued jeremiad, a heartfelt cri de coeur against the shrill histrionics and wanton double standards of anti-Zionists. Kudos to the author for it. “Israel is the great corrupter of Earth, the spoiler of men’s souls, threatening to ail us all with its disease of inhumanity,” he ventriloquizes the Jewish state’s most slanderous detractors. “They once said that about the Jewish people – now they say it about the Jewish nation.”

This headlong relapse into the oldest hatred greatly harms Jews and Israel, no question. But it harms the West no less because, as O’Neill’s book shows, when hard-won civilizational values erode, lunacy, bigotry, and savagery follow. ■

MEMRI: New Leader Of Hamas's Military Wing Al-Qassam Brigades And Head Of Ceasefire Negotiations Delegation To Qatar Khalil Al-Hayya: 'Go And Besiege Israeli And American Embassies'; 'The Blood Of Martyrs Marks The Path To Victory'; 'Only The Gun Will End The Occupation' – Clips From The MEMRI TV Archive

On December 26, 2024, top Hamas political bureau official Khalil Al-Hayya was appointed leader of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military wing.[1] Al-Hayya also heads the Hamas delegation to Doha, where he met with Qatar's Prime Minister to discuss a ceasefire and hostage deal with Israel.[2]

Senior Hamas Official Khalil Al-Hayya At Haniyeh's Funeral In Tehran: The Zionist Entity Is The Source Of Evil, Injustice, Instability – The World Must Uproot This Cancer – August 2024
Khalil Al-Hayya, a member of Hamas political bureau spoke at the Tehran funeral of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on August 1, 2024. He said that the "Zionist entity" is the source of evil, injustice, and instability and that the world must unite to "uproot this cancer." Al-Hayya vowed to "go after" Israel until it is uprooted from the land of Palestine and from Jerusalem. The funeral was posted on Khameni.ir.

Senior Hamas Official Khalil Al-Hayya Calls On Arabs And Muslims To Besiege Israeli And American Embassies – May 2024
Khalil Al-Hayya of Hamas’s political bureau said on a May 16, 2024 show on Al-Manar TV (Hizbullah-Lebanon) that the Arab and Islamic nations must not become acclimated to the bloodshed. He called on them to besiege Israeli and American embassies in Arab countries, letting them know that the "Arab nations do not accept any injustice against the Palestinians."

Senior Hamas Official Khalil Al-Hayya: Israel Is The Head Of The Serpent; By Fighting It We Weaken Its Bad Global Influence; Qatar And Iran Support Us – March 2023
Hamas Political Bureau member Khalil Al-Hayya, who also serves as the head of Hamas's Arab and Islamic Relations Portfolio, said in a March 19, 2023 interview on Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar) that Hamas's confrontations with Israel are the "greatest gift" to anyone who hates occupation. He said that Israel is the "head of the serpent" and that by fighting it, Hamas weakens its evil influence around the world. Al-Hayya also praised the aid Qatar gives to the Palestinians and particularly to the Gaza Strip. Speaking about the recent rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Al-Haya said that Hamas's relations with Iran are focused on its support of the Palestinian enterprise. He added that Iran supports Hamas and other "resistance forces" by providing them with money and weapons.

Senior Hamas Official Khalil Al-Hayya In Tehran: The Path To Victory Is Marked By The Blood Of Martyrs; We Do Not Fear Death – April 2022
Senior Hamas official Khalil Al-Hayya said in an April 29, 2022 International Quds Day speech in Tehran, Iran that aired on Palestine Today TV (Gaza/Lebanon) that the spirit of Islam and martyrdom is increasing every day in the souls and hearts of the Palestinians, who are determined to achieve victory. He said that death does not scare the Palestinians, that martyrdom brings one closer to Allah, and that the path of victory towards Jerusalem is marked by the blood of the martyrs. In addition, he said that fear of Israel and the U.S. has disappeared and that the Islamic nation, with Iran at its heart, supports the resistance and the Palestinian people. Khalil Al-Hayya's speech was translated live into Farsi.

MEMRI: Celebrating October 7 Attack As It Happens, Eulogizing Slain Designated Terror Leaders, Encouraging Protests In The West: A One-Year Review Of Samidoun On X – October 7, 2023- October 7, 2024

Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, has maintained an account on Twitter, now X, since November 2011 (X.com/Samidounpp). As of this writing, it has posted 58,300 tweets and has over 26,000 followers. In the year following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on southern Israel, it has shared photos, videos, links, and retweets via with a focus on celebrating the attacks, lionizing and eulogizing slain and assassinated terror leaders including Hamas's Yahya Sinwar and Hizbullah's Hassan Nasrallah, promoting and encouraging violent protests, including vandalism and destruction, and expressing support for and solidarity with designated terrorist organizations.

Samidoun maintains a website and social media accounts for all its branches in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and worldwide, in a range of languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Arabic, Farsi, and more. It publishes its own unique content as well as content from other sources.

In October 2024, Samidoun, along with the Samidoun-affiliated Palestinian-Canadian senior PFLP official Khaled Barakat, were sanctioned by both the U.S. and Canada as "key international fundraiser[s] for Foreign Terrorist Organization PFLP."

Joseph Converses With Judah, His Brother, James Tissot c. 1896-1902 thejewishmuseum.org

What, exactly, in Yehudah (Judah's) speech caused Yosef (Joseph) to break down and reveal his identity to his brothers?

Most would say that it is was his offer to have himself imprisoned instead of Binyomin (Benjamin) that convinced Yosef that he had truly reformed and repented from his sin of selling Yosef. But something I only noticed today in his speech seems to me to be more powerful.

Later our father said, ‘Go back and procure some food for us.’
We answered, ‘We cannot go down; only if our youngest brother is with us can we go down, for we may not show our faces to the man unless our youngest brother is with us.’
Your servant my father said to us, ‘As you know, my wife bore me two sons. כִּ֥י שְׁנַ֖יִם יָֽלְדָה־לִּ֥י אִשְׁתִּֽי
But one is gone from me, and I said: Alas, he was torn by a beast! And I have not seen him since.
If you take this one from me, too, and he meets with disaster, you will send my white head down to Sheol in sorrow.’

In Yehudah's retelling, he quotes Yaakov (Jacob) as saying that his wife gave him two sons. But Yaakov had twelve sons from his two (four) wives.

The sons of Leah and the two other wives were always sensitive to the favoritism that Yaakov gave to Rochel (Rachel) and her sons. And this is understandable - they didn't want their own mothers to be considered second class. But when Yehuda gave this speech - and keep in mind that there is no record of Yaakov telling him these words - he was saying that he was accepting that Rochel was the wife that his father loved, something that must have been enormously difficult for him to say to the Egyptian leader.

That, I believe, is what convinced Yaakov that Yehudah and the other brothers (who didn't protest) did a true repentance, and that is what caused Yosef to break down and admit who he was before he could finish his plan to fully fulfill his dreams of the brothers and father bowing down to him.

It was Yehudah's humility and willingness to admit this very uncomfortable truth that is what qualified him and his descendants to be the political leaders of Israel.

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01/03 Links Pt2: The ISIS Threat Never Left; When Ireland Became ‘Paddystine’; Documentary about Nova music festival massacre nominated for PGA award

From Ian:

The ISIS Threat Never Left

Terrorist movements wax strong when they believe that history is on their side. And there is no better way to rid the terrorists of that notion than to deny them haven and reduce their leaders to ash.

America forgot this lesson. Our leaders reduced commitments in Iraq and Syria. Federal law enforcement shifted its attention to domestic extremism and white nationalism. Worst of all, President Biden beat a hasty retreat from Afghanistan that left 13 U.S. servicemen killed, U.S. citizens and visa-holders stranded, Afghan allies abandoned, the Afghan people in hock to a jihadist militia that calls itself a government, and Afghanistan's ungoverned spaces in the hands of ISIS.

At the time, Biden pledged continued surveillance of the enemy, "over-the-horizon" military capabilities, and support for Afghan women and girls. None of this was true. Retired general Frank McKenzie, former CENTCOM commander, said last spring that "in Afghanistan, we have almost no ability to see into that country and almost no ability to strike into that country." The Taliban resumed public executions, imposed dress and behavioral codes on women, and deprived girls of schooling. The other day, the Taliban said it would shutter NGOs that employ women.

Consider the contrast between Israel and the United States. Israel possesses the will to strike its enemies, establish facts on the ground favorable to its security, and restore deterrence in a dangerous neighborhood. The United States, meanwhile, has been tossed about by a whirlwind of events that it believes are beyond its control: an open southern border, a passive-aggressive desire to renew the nuclear agreement with Iran, disaster in Afghanistan, war between Russia and Ukraine that is lessening weapons stockpiles, virulent anti-Semitism on campuses and in city streets, and long-running operations against the Houthis that have led nowhere. This aimlessness and passivity create openings for terrorists. It gives them the sense of impending victory.

I am not arguing that we re-invade Afghanistan tomorrow. Nor am I saying that a more assertive U.S. foreign policy would end every threat to the homeland. My argument is that the way to reduce the ISIS threat, foreign and domestic, is to take the fight to the evildoers. Don't pretend jihadists can be left to their own devices. Put them on the defensive. Thin out their ranks, dry up their finances, keep them on the run. Then ISIS's ability to inspire will wane. And justice will be done for the people of New Orleans.

Global rise in antisemitism leaves Jewish community isolated, rabbi says world at 'a tipping point'

The escalation of antisemitism in the wake of the Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror massacre in Israel has paved the way for attacks on Jewish communities around the world. For the duration of the past year, schools, community centers and houses of worship have faced threats, intimidation and physical violence.

Rabbi Moshe Hauer, the executive vice president of the Orthodox Union, told Fox News Digital that throughout 2024, the "level of presumed security" the American Jewish community has lived with has shifted. "That’s difficult, when you have a place that you call home, and suddenly you don’t feel so at home." With the environment of "rolling antisemitism" in the U.S. becoming "an accepted part of daily life," Hauer said the issue "is still looked at as a problem for Jewish people as opposed to a stain on society."

The suddenness of the shift has been striking, Hauer said. "It was like we were a source of darkness," he explained. "All those who we stood shoulder-to-shoulder with to fight for their needs and to fight for their rights suddenly don’t recognize us, so that’s jarring."

The Anti-Defamation League tallied over 10,000 antisemitic incidents between Oct. 7, 2023 and Oct. 6, 2024, up from 3,325 during the prior year and representing the highest annual total the group has counted. They include over 8,000 incidents of harassment, 150 physical assaults and 1,840 acts of vandalism. Combined, more than half of these incidents took place at anti-Israel rallies (over 3,000) or at Jewish institutions (over 2,000).

Some politicians and the United Nations (U.N.) have stoked domestic anti-Israel hate. In January, the Chicago City Council passed a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza without also calling for the disarmament of Hamas, drawing wide condemnation from Jewish community leaders.

Despite multiple U.S. officials and the State Department condemning her spread of antisemitism, U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese visited numerous U.S. campuses in October while presenting her latest report before the U.N. General Assembly. During a stop at Barnard College, Albanese "described Israel’s war in Gaza as a ‘genocide,’ justified the October 7 attack, and questioned Israel’s right to exist," the Times of Israel reported.

Hatred that had been percolating on university campuses took new shape when anti-Israel encampments sprung up at learning institutions countrywide during the spring. During some encampment protests, Jewish students were excluded from their own campus spaces.

Terror flags have been flown on U.S. streets and campuses during anti-Israel protests. School administrators and business leaders who have angered anti-Israel protesters have had their homes and institutions tagged with the inverted red triangle that Hamas uses to denote military targets. In July, protesters replaced the American flag with the Palestinian flag in Washington, D.C., and wrote "Hamas is coming" on a statue of Christopher Columbus.

A Jimmy Carter surprise: He hated Jews, not just Israel Remembrances of former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Dec. 29 at the age of 100, should keep in mind how America’s 39th president profoundly damaged the Jewish state, especially with his deceitful 2006 book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.

But the story of Carter’s attitude towards Israel goes deeper. He was not simply a modern-day anti-Zionist—an ignorant idealogue who wrongly believed that Israeli counter-terrorism policies harmed the “human rights” of the Palestinian people. Carter was, in fact, a traditional, old-fashioned Christian antisemite.

We know this because his many post-presidential activities included teaching Sunday school. In 2007, Simon & Schuster released a 13-disc CD boxed set of recorded sermons that Carter gave at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Ga., called “Sunday Mornings in Plains.”

The sermons contain a slew of chillingly pre-modern antisemitic prejudices. For example, he claimed that Judaism teaches Jews to feel superior to non-Jews, that Jewish religious practices are a sleazy “trick” to enhance personal wealth, and that current Israeli policy towards Palestinians is based upon these “Jewish” values and practices.

In the sermons recorded between 1998 and 2003, Carter attacked Israel by retreading antisemitic tropes dating back to the gospels and patristic writings of the early church. These anti-Judaic beliefs were formulated not in the 1960s or 1970s but between the first and fifth centuries C.E., ensuring well over a millennium of institutional, lethal Christian antisemitism.

Speaking of Jews’ supposed air of “superiority” to non-Jews, the former president said in one lecture, “ … [T]his morning I’m gonna’ be trying to relate the assigned Bible lesson to us in the Uniformed Series with how that affected Israel, and how it affects us through Christ personally. … It’s hard for us to even visualize the prejudice against gentiles when Christ came on earth. If a Jew married a gentile, that person was considered to be dead. … How would you characterize from a Jew’s point of view the uncircumcised? Nonbeliever? And what? Unclean, what? They called them ‘dogs!’ That’s true. …What was Paul’s feeling toward gentiles in his early life [before his conversion] … ? Anybody? Absolute commitment to persecution! To the imprisonment and even the execution of non-Jews who now professed faith in Jesus Christ. … We know the differences in the Middle East. But the differences there are between Jews on the one hand, who comprise the dominating force both militarily and also politically, and the Palestinians, who are both Muslim and Christians.” When Ireland Became ‘Paddystine’

Higgins charged the Mossad for leaking his “fawning letter of congratulations” to Iran’s new president, but it was the Iranians themselves, not the Israelis, who had made his letter public. Informed of this, he did not admit to his mistake, much less apologize to the Israelis for his initial claim. Higgins also makes preposterous claims about Israeli expansionism. When he received the new ambassador of “Palestine,” he claimed that in Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt Israel was aggressively assaulting those countries’ sovereignty, presumably meaning that the Zionists hope to enlarge Israel so that it extends “from the Nile to the Euphrates.” This is an old chestnut among the world’s antisemites.

In reality, the aggression is all coming from Hezbollah, and now many Lebanese, not just the Christians and Sunnis, but even many Shia, are tired of Hezbollah’s continuing war against Israel that has led to so much destruction, not only in southern Lebanon between the Litani River and the Israeli border, but elsewhere as well — especially in southern Beirut, most of which has been leveled by Israeli airstrikes. And Hezbollah has also been responsible for other destruction that did not involve Israel. Think of the “Beirut blast” of August 4, 2020, that resulted from Hezbollah’s faulty storage of ammonium nitrates in a hangar at the Port of Beirut. That huge explosion — the largest non-nuclear explosion in history — caused 218 deaths, 6000 wounded, and $15 billon in damages. Lebanon has only suffered from Hezbollah’s dominance, its killing of so many of its political enemies, including Rafik Hariri, Samir Kassir, George Hawi, Gebran Tueni, Pierre Amine Gemayel, and Walid Edo.

01/03 Links Pt1: The Weight Israel Carries; Hamas’s War on Gaza’s Electric Grid; UNRWA preparing to shutter Gaza, WB operations ahead of Israeli ban

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: The Weight Israel Carries

Israelis aren’t blind to the mental-health challenge posed not just by the war but by what started it: scenes of inhumanity reminiscent of the Nazis. In September, Israel’s health minister, Uriel Buso, warned that Israel was facing “the largest mental health event the state has known since its establishment. A crisis that requires us, as a state and a society, to change perceptions and upgrade the public mental health system.”

The following month, Buso introduced legislation designed to decentralize mental-health treatment. Though it went mostly unnoticed at the time (even in the Israeli press), Buso had hit on something important: Just as is the case with physical ailments, you don’t want the last resort to be the first intervention. The goal of primary-care medicine is to keep you out of hospitals and emergency rooms. That prevention can be even more difficult in the chaos of wartime and regarding mental health, the deterioration of which is not always noticeable to others.

Buso also sought to take advantage of Israel’s close-knit society. He got a boost to his department’s budget, and instead of keeping it all under his nose at the national level, he disbursed it throughout local community healthcare providers. Psychiatric institutions would merge with major hospitals to make treatment easier and, the Health Ministry’s director general seemed to suggest, reduce the stigma of seeking help.

All of which is yet another reminder that Oct. 7, 2023, caused a seismic change in Israel and the Jewish world. In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attacks, Israel’s HMOs “reported record levels of requests by patients for sleeping pills, painkillers, and tranquilizers,” Tablet’s Hillel Kuttler reported. According to the IDF, of the 17 soldier suicides in 2023, seven of them—40 percent—happened in just the final three months of the year after the attacks.

Meanwhile Hamas continues to torment the country over the remaining hostages by refusing to let the parents of these captives even know whether their children are still alive. Missiles from as far away as Yemen continue to fall on Tel Aviv. Homes in the north have spent a year empty, as have communities in the Gaza envelope.

Israel continues to be the only Western country that truly acts like it has a stake in how this now-global conflict ends. A country of barely 10 million has been putting the rest on its shoulders. Yet still, Israelis somehow seem immune to the paralysis that most would inevitably succumb to. The CEO of Israel’s largest mental-health organization told the Times of Israel that she doesn’t want people to merely say “the country is in trauma. That doesn’t help us. It’s vital that we look at what we can do, how we can be proactive.”

Here’s hoping Israelis have less of a burden to carry in 2025, or, at the very least, that they get some help carrying it.

Seth Frantzman: Future of the Middle East: What does 2025 hold for Jordan and Egypt

Jordan and Egypt are both important states in the Middle East, and they have been Israel’s historic peace partners from the 1980s to 1990s.

This means that these two countries share certain qualities that are of great importance to Israel and the wider region.

Egypt, the most populous country in the area, is a historic center of military power and culture.

Jordan, by contrast, is less populated and is a relatively modern country straddling an expanse of desert between Israel, the Gulf, and Syria.

The Kingdom of Jordan enters 2025 with concerns about the outcome of the changes in Syria. Jordan had worked to reconcile with now-toppled president Bashar al-Assad’s regime over the last several years.

The kingdom has hosted hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. Many Syrians who fled southern Syria have clan or tribal ties in northern Jordan, so their appearance in Jordan did not change Jordan’s demographics.

However, this is a burden for Jordan, which is a relatively poor country compared to others in the Gulf. Jordan is a historic monarchy that grew out of the British Mandate era.

The monarchy has to balance the interests of former Bedouin tribes with the townspeople of northern Jordan and the Palestinians who fled to Jordan in 1948.

Amman views itself as having unique rights in Jerusalem, and even though it gave up its claims to the West Bank, it has a keen interest in the Palestinians. It has been concerned about the outcome of the October 7 massacre and how that might propel Hamas to power in the West Bank.

Jordan is also concerned about being used as a conduit for Iranian weapons smuggling via Iraq. The Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah group in Iraq attacked US forces in Jordan in January 2024, killing three Americans. The kingdom is aware that it is sandwiched between Iran’s interests in Iraq, Israel, the Palestinians, the Gulf, and Syria.

Thus, it knows it must balance all these nations that surround it. Jordan is likely concerned that the Syrian shift in power to a new government could lead to troubles at home.

What if Jordanians get the idea that they could have similar changes in Amman?

Seth Mandel: Hamas’s War on Gaza’s Electric Grid

The new Syrian administration run by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the leaders of the successful rebellion and overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, is at least making a pretense of constructing a functioning government. What that government does, of course, is a separate conversation entirely. But simply as a case study of Islamist institution-building, one gets the impression that, unlike Hamas, HTS wants to be seen as giving a whit about the people who depend on them.

To take one example, from Aaron Zelin’s daily diary of the Syrian transition yesterday: “Syrian Minister of Electricity Omar al-Shuqruq: Six months of maintenance are required to fully restore the electricity network. Re-establishing electrical linkage with Jordan is one of the key solutions to securing power supply for Syria.”

Electricity has been one of the main challenges in Gaza, because Hamas refuses to do the one thing that would solve the problem almost overnight: stop its forever war against Israel. Now, it’s possible that HTS is planning to launch semiannual wars against Jordan and sabotage its own power supply, but I consider the possibility unlikely. That is, however, what Hamas does daily.

Here’s how the electricity in Gaza works. Israel provides 50 percent of the enclave’s power—and I do mean “provides.” Technically, Israel is selling electricity to Gaza, and the Palestinian Authority is supposed to pick up the tab. But they very often don’t, and certainly Hamas doesn’t pay, and every so often Israel threatens to cut off electricity for lack of payment—the debt is usually somewhere in the neighborhood of half a billion dollars. But Israel always backs down or accepts low partial payments.

How much does Hamas value that electricity? Well, it is not uncommon for their own rockets to hit the power lines and cut off parts of the grid. Usually, Israel just fixes the lines when Hamas destroys them. (Israel is terrible at doing genocide.) But on Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas knocked down more than half of their own power lines and Israel did not fix them; it had, if you remember, a few other priorities.

From the Justice Department:

A former resident of Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of attempting to support the foreign terrorist organization Hizballah and making false statements involving international terrorism to a department or agency of the United States, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today.

The three-count Indictment names Jack Danaher Molloy, 24, formerly of the Upper St. Clair suburb of Pittsburgh, as the sole defendant. ...

As alleged, Molloy—a dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, who previously served on active-duty status in the U.S. Army—traveled to Lebanon in August 2024 and attempted to join Hizballah. While in Lebanon, Molloy was told by multiple individuals that the time was not right, and that he needed to take other steps before he could join the terrorist organization. Molloy then traveled from Lebanon to Syria in October 2024 in an effort to fight for Hizballah in Syria. After returning to the United States, Molloy resided in Upper St. Clair, where he continued his attempts to join Hizballah, including through communication with individuals online and in Lebanon. During his time in the United States and abroad, Molloy also allegedly expressed his hatred toward, and promoted violence against, Jewish people. Molloy’s alleged animus toward Jews was also evidenced by multiple images and videos on his electronic devices and the usernames he chose for his social media and email accounts, including the username “KIKEKILLER313” on the social media platform X. In one alleged WhatsApp exchange with a family member, Molloy agreed that his “master plan was to join Hezbollah and kill Jews.” And while he was residing in Upper St. Clair, Molloy also allegedly visited a website detailing the possible incarceration location of Robert Bowers, who carried out the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shooting during which he murdered 11 Jewish worshippers.

But I thought Hezbollah was only anti-Zionist, not antisemitic!

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Under Israel's new budget, the Foreign Ministry will receive $150 million - twenty times more than today - for public diplomacy.

Gil Hoffman of Honest Reporting writes an op-ed on how this money should be spent, and much of the advice is excellent.

Here is what I would like to see Israel spending some of this money on:

1. Making information available. Right now if I email a question for the IDF Spokesperson or COGAT or anyone else, it is rare that I get a response. Pro-Israel advocates must dig in to do our own research and take educated guesses as to what the Israeli government is doing instead of getting the proper answers from the right people. I understand that some information must remain classified but that should be the exception, not the rule, and reporting even that the information would compromise security is better than not getting a response at all.

2. Similarly, make more material available on websites in all languages. Make it easy to find. Invest in and improve existing projects like the Jewish Virtual Library. Create easy to search databases of important information like terror attacks, aid to Gaza, Palestinian antisemitism, and other important topics. Some of the material is already out there but often it gets moved or is hard to find. Hire a librarian to put this all together.

3. When an influencer (like, I guess, me) uncovers something new or novel that hadn't been publicized before, amplify it. The government cannot possibly reproduce what we bloggers and Tweeters and Tik-Tokers do, but it can make sure that a lot more people are exposed to it.

4. EDUCATION. Most Jewish students entering college are clueless about how to properly answer anti-Israel arguments. Learning about Israel's history is important, but that isn't enough - they have to know what the other side is saying and come equipped to counter them with facts. Invest heavily in Zionist material, and especially defending Israel material, to be available to Jewish schools, Talmud Torah schools, synagogue youth programs, summer camps. Not only that, but I get the impression that our community leaders (for example, Federations) are little more conversant in these topics as well, and they are the ones who get interviewed by the media when antisemitic incidents occur. Train them!

5. I humbly believe that my definition of antisemitism should be added to the IHRA definition to eliminate ambiguity in IHRA. It is an algorithm, a test that can and should be used to determine when criticism of Israel crosses the line into antisemitism, and it also can help stop people over-using labeling things as antisemitic that are not, to avoid watering down the accusation. If Israel would adopt the definition and encourage others like IHRA to do so, it would help refine our messaging.

6. Universities are still the epicenter of doctrinal anti-Zionism with lots of bogus papers written to very poor standards. There need to be more Zionist scholars, Zionist academic papers, Zionist centers in universities that uphold the highest academic standards. Israel could fund chairs, train Israeli academics for stints in Western universities, and organize real debates on campus - the exact activity that the haters don't want to see.

(The image above was generated by AI; the Hebrew is nonsense.)

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Here is 100% proof that the Gaza Ministry of Health lies to the media about Gaza deaths, and the @NYTimes believes their lies

An op-ed in the New York Times by Khaled Elgindy states, as fact, that the Gaza war "has killed more than 17,000 children." The statistic links to a recent article that quotes the Gaza health ministry as saying that "At least 17,492 of those killed were children."

As I have noted previously, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has been publishing two sets of numbers. One comes from a list that they say is of verified deaths (a combination of hospital records and self-reported forms people can fill out) and the other source is not described, although it tracks closely with the statistics issued by the Hamas media office.

The last time the ministry published an infographic breaking down the statistics from the verified list was on October 7 2024, where they said the total number of those killed at the time was 42,010 but the number of verified victims for which they had names and other information was 40,717. For months, the gap between those two figures had been in the range of 10,000 but over time, apparently, the names people added from the online form has gotten the two figures relatively close, a difference of only 3%.

Here's their infographic from October 7 showing the detailed breakdown of women, children and elderly from their database of victims.

But these aren't the numbers that the ministry is telling the media every day. Those numbers can be seen in the Ramallah-based Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. Here are their numbers from October 9 via the Internet Archive:

Comparing the two sets of figures, we see that the PCBS numbers quoting the Ministry of Health show 1,192 more total victims compared to the MoH verified list.

But the difference of the number of children is 3,608; the difference of women killed is 4,271 between the two sets of statistics. In total, the number of deceased women and children is nearly 8,000 higher than those counted on the verified list when the total difference of deaths is less than 1,200.

This is obviously impossible.

The verified list includes names, genders, ages, and ID numbers. While its own methodology is suspect, it at least has some data backing it up. The other statistics with the inflated women and children numbers cannot possibly be reconciled with the verified list.

Since the same Ministry of Health publishes both sets of irreconcilable statistics, we can confidently call them liars.

The New York Times is getting its numbers from the inflated list, not the verified list. In fact, the Ministry of Health has not updated the verified list in the intervening three months while it updates the inflated list regularly, making it sound legitimate since it is seemingly up to date.

As mentioned, the source for the inflated numbers is never discussed. It cannot be from hospitals and it cannot be from the user online forms, since they publish those names, their ages and genders on the verified list.

The real source is that Hamas makes them up, and issues its own statistics nearly every day that have nothing to do with bodies found or names counted. The MoH doesn't want to contradict their bosses, so they repeat Hamas statistics as if they counted the numbers themselves.

The New York Times and other media (and the UN, and NGOs) are not getting their numbers from the Ministry of Health counts of victims but from Hamas propagandists in the Gaza Media Office being laundered through the MoH.

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The most antisemitic incidents of 2024 in Turkey as voted by Turkish Jews

Alvaremoz, a Turkish Jewish newspaper, asked Jews in Turkey to vote for what they considered the most antisemitic incidents of the year 2024 in that country.

Here are the top results:

7. The Yeni Safak newspaper published the blood libel, asking if Jews will be murdering gentile children to drink their blood in America, too.

6. Abdurrahman Uzun, who has 1.2 million followers on social media, also told his audience that Jews "rape, kill and steal the organs of children" and that synagogues in Turkey are a threat.

5. Turkiye Gazete published that 4,000 Turkish Jews are engaged in "genocide" in Gaza, inciting Turkish Muslims against Jews.

4. A BDS group in Turkey, Boykotdedektifi called to boycott a Jewish service organization because it said it would hold a ceremony in memory of the Holocaust.

3. The doors of the Sinyora and Algazi Synagogues in Izmir were defaced with red paint and the number "5.60," on October 7, referring to verse 5:60 in the Quran which says disobedient Jews were turned into apes and pigs.

2. Sweets were distributed in Istanbul encouraging prayers for the Adolf Hitler's soul on the anniversary of his death.

1. A father made a video showing him teaching his young son to murder Jews.

@basyazar Küçücük çocuğa Türkiye'deki Musevileri, Yahudileri öldürmeyi öğreten #firatismailyeleritutuklansın pic.twitter.com/S9y6yiOVvg
— Platoon (@Platoon0011) June 21, 2024

Incidents like these are spreading from Turkey to Muslims in Western countries and then to "progressives." That's been the pattern for some decades now.

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