Wednesday, February 26, 2025



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

We’ve all heard of people spurning God when tragedy strikes. They say things like, “God didn’t help me when I needed help. Therefore he doesn’t exist,” or, “If there were a God, He wouldn’t have made the Holocaust,” or, “If there is a God, He’s not a loving God but a cruel God and I refuse to worship him.”

But the Israeli Jews taken captive on October 7 experienced no such crisis of faith. They turned to, rather than away from God, embracing Jewish law as best they could. The hostages understood that their persecution was due to the fact that they were Jews. So they doubled down. Because the Jews are a stiff-necked people.

It doesn’t matter where you start out as a Jew. When push comes to shove, we know what to do. Many of the hostages were disconnected from religion prior to being kidnapped. Keith Siegel, for example.

Growing up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Siegel attended a Conservative synagogue with his family. But after 40 years on a secular kibbutz, Keith had pretty much forgotten any of the prayers he’d learned as a child. This is not to say that Siegel had turned away from God. He probably just hadn’t thought much about religion or God during those years.

But held captive in a Gaza tunnel, Keith Siegel began saying the Shema, an affirmation of faith: “Hear oh Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.”

Siegel knew that what had happened to him, had happened to him because he was a Jew. It shifted something inside of him, something that called out to him in the haze of the endless starvation and torture, and the constant dread of death. Keith Siegel reached out to the one God he’d almost forgotten, and pledged allegiance. “Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad.”

With plenty of time alone with his thoughts, Siegel reviewed his slim knowledge of Judaism. He knew the blessing for bread. It was really the only blessing he remembered. So he began saying the Hamotzi blessing at meals.  “We had a pita bread for every meal, that was the first thing I would eat after I said the bracha (blessing),” said Keith.

One day, Keith caught a glimpse of an Israeli TV show after his captors happened to switch the set on. The program was about something like good places to eat in Tel Aviv. Siegel heard one participant make the "borei minei mezonot," blessing said over baked goods and pasta before taking a bite. Keith decided that from then on, he too would make this blessing, whenever he ate anything other than pita bread.

Someone else might have thought that wrong. That you cannot say the mezonot blessing over, for example, a grape or a date. But with his mezonot, Keith Siegel was connecting to God with the only resources God gave him. “I thought it was appropriate,” he said. “But it was the only [blessing] I knew.”

It was what Keith Siegel had. These were the tools of his survival: the shema, the hamotzi blessing, and now, the mezonot blessing. These things comforted and strengthened him. They were his pathway to God.

When Keith Siegel was finally freed after 484 days in captivity, his family recognized that something remarkable had happened, that cleaving to God was what had kept him alive. His daughter Shir spoke about it.

 “Dad searched for his Jewish identity while in captivity, and he found it in small prayers. He started saying blessings over food, like ‘Borei Minei Mezonot,’ which he had never said before, and ‘Shema Yisrael,’ which he had never recited in his life.

"He said that amidst all that hell, he wanted to remember that he was Jewish, that there was meaning to his people and to the place from which he came, and that strengthened him greatly.”

Ah, there it is right there, that backbone Jews get when between a rock and a hard place, life and death, the Inquisition and the Holocaust or a tunnel in Gaza. It only stiffens our resolve and our necks, which is why they never succeed in getting rid of us.

“After he returned,” continued Shir. “I asked him what he wanted us to do for our first Shabbat meal together. I imagined he’d want some dish he loves or a good challah. He replied, ‘You know what I want most of all? A kippah and a Kiddush cup.’”

“Who is like Your people, Israel?” (Samuel 7:23)

Keith Siegel is not the only freed hostage who turned to, instead of away from God. There are many such stories. And we will have plenty of time to tell them.

In fact it will be a delight to take our time in telling the stories, knowing that the enemy will have it rubbed in their faces for years to come. This is what happens when you try to kill the Jews.

It isn’t possible. You can’t do it. Because we’re a stiff-necked people, who, in intolerable situations will always seek to reclaim that spark in the soul that the Arab enemy so desperately wants to extinguish.

But never will.

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We must thank two readers for bringing my attention to sources that state that it is acceptable to say the mezonot prayer on everything except water or water and salt, b'dieved (a posteriori).

A reader shares the following, "According to the Chayei Adam (58:3) and implied by the Gemara in several places (Brachos 12a, Brachos 35, somewhere in Nedarim that escapes me for the moment), 'Borei Minei Mezonos' on everything but water and salt is acceptable bdi'eved."

Yehudah Posnick comments that Rabbi Aaron Hamaoui of  of the Sephardic Community of Greater Boston said that bdi'eved, the mezonot blessing covers all foods, except for water, because the word "mezonot," suggests that the item to be ingested is satiating, and water doesn't sate. (See his comment below for the full thread.)

My take: Keith Siegel did his best and his best was the right thing to do. Disclaimer: I am not a rabbi. 



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  • Wednesday, February 26, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon


I am trying out Substack as an adjunct (not a replacement) for this blog. I've been placing some of my longer, original articles on Substack. You can visit the page here.

So far I've been treating Substack as a place for my essays much like I've been treating Instagram as a place for my  cartoons and graphics. 

It appears to be a nice platform. I have not yet taken advantage of its features like notes and podcasts, but I might as I get more comfortable. 

Subscribing to my Substack is free at this time. (I won't object if you want to pay, and some are!) You can then get my essays via email as soon as they are published. 

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Speaking of email, those who were on my email list noticed that the list has been down for several months. I used Madmimi for my mailing lists and it went out of business, and I lost the subscriber list of over 1,500 people. If you want an email digest from the blog, you can use https://blogtrottr.com/ but I have no control or visibility into who does that. I'm not sure if it is worth it to restart the list at this time.






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  • Wednesday, February 26, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon


One of  the responses on X to my post criticizing Lapid's Gaza plan was, "At least he has a plan. Bibi never had a plan."

There are two problems in this response that are worth calling out.

The first one is fairly obvious: a poor plan is worse than no plan. However, I wouldn't say that Lapid's plan is poor - it would be certainly better than how Gaza was pre-October 7.

The second problem is more subtle, and it is one that was shared by much of the world during the war, including from the US: that Israel should not fight a war without a plan for post-war Gaza.

Once again, this betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the region. 

Any reasonable plan for post-war Gaza would involve other Arab states to cooperate. (The exception is Israel annexing Gaza completely, and that is not a reasonable plan.) 

By definition, if Israel presents a plan that requires something from other Arab nations, they would reject it out of hand, because they would look like they are lackeys of, or collaborating with, Israel.

Once again, the honor/shame dynamic is key to everything in the Middle East. It would be shameful to accept any plan that Israel proposes or to be seen as a partner with Israel against "Palestine."

This doesn't mean Israel cannot present plans privately, or cooperate with Arab partners in coming up with what would be acceptable. But it cannot be done in public, because its very publicity would doom it. 

The UAE has shown strong indications that it is shedding the honor/shame mentality and looking for win/win situations, which is a major reason I believe it is has best chance for partnering for the future of Gaza. 

Does Bibi have a plan? I have no idea. But I'm sure he has ideas and that he has discussed those ideas with the US and others. 

The presentation of a plan is more important than the plan itself when it involves Arab states. It can never, ever appear to be an Israeli plan. 




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  • Wednesday, February 26, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon


Yesterday, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid presented a "day after" plan for Gaza in front of an audience at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington.

His plan is that after the hostages are all released, Egypt would take control of the Gaza Strip through a UN Security Council resolution, including internal security and civilian management. This control would last for a decade or so, until a reformed Palestinian Authority can take over.

With all due respect for Lapid, anyone who follows the region know that Egypt would never want to control Gaza under any circumstances. 

Lapid points to Egyptian control of Gaza from 1948-1967 as if that is something to be emulated today. Yet Egypt's control was not out of a desire to make Gazans' lives better but to keep them out of Egypt. 

In 1948, Egypt created the "All Palestine Government" as a puppet government for Gaza, led by the notorious Nazi collaborator Amin Husseini, the former Mufti of Jerusalem. After a mere three months, they relocated this paper organization to Cairo, yet for several years  Egypt still pretended that the All Palestine Government was in charge of Gaza. In reality, it was a military occupation where the social services of a normal government were given to UNRWA. Egypt provided only the barest minimum of medical, educational and administrative services to the minority of Gazans who were not considered refugees: people who were born in Gaza were jealous of the refugees who received support from UNRWA.

Those nineteen years prove that Egypt wanted nothing to do with Gaza. It did not take responsibility - it abdicated it as much as it possibly could. It treated Gazans with contempt. 

Nothing has changed since then. Egypt's activities during the Gaza war were centered around aid - not because they care about Gazans but because they don't want Gazans to flee to Egypt. Except for the brief time that Egypt was ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt has treated Gaza as a threat, not as a brotherly Arab region.

Lapid pretends that he has a solution: throw money at Egypt. Egypt is suffering from a  foreign external debt of $155 billion, and he says the world will step up to pay this off in exchange for Egyptian control of Gaza. 

This is again a mixture of wishful thinking and naivete. 

Egypt's governance of its own people is rife with corruption and inefficient bureaucracy. It treats minorities like Copts poorly. The absolute best anyone can hope from an Egyptian controlled Gaza is that it would be as good as - Egypt. That is a low bar indeed, and in reality, Egypt would never prioritize Gaza welfare over Egypt's own citizens. 

No one - not the Arab states, not the EU - will throw hundreds of billions of dollars to an Egypt that is only controlling Gaza under protest and with no interest in the welfare of its people. 

Even less likely is the idea that a UN Security Council resolution would ever pass to give an unwilling Egypt control over Gaza. Does Lapid even know anything about the UN? 

Perhaps the most naive part of the Lapid plan is the assumption that the Palestinians can reform and build a peace-loving state. How many times will the world make this same mistake? Every Palestinian leader has been corrupt and supported terror, and every potential leader who is pragmatic has no support from the people. As Hussein Aboubakr Mansour writes, in his argument to dissolve the Palestinian state project, "No meaningful leadership capable of guiding Palestinians toward a humane, tolerant society appears to exist. Indeed, the only consistent leadership visible keeps cycling back to incitement, illusions of conquest, and pride in acts that defy basic human decency."

My own plan to make Gaza an emirate of the UAE is  admittedly a longshot, but it has huge advantages over the Lapid plan, not least being that the UAE could reap huge benefits from having a presence on the Mediterranean and potentially access to natural gas in the region. Israel would be a partner in such a scenario, not a looming military threat. Only the UAE could turn Gaza into an economic and tourist powerhouse that would benefit Gazans as well, because only the UAE could look at Gaza as an investment, not a burden. And most Gazans who are not Hamas members would love to become citizens of the UAE and gain immediate benefits of statehood and access to high paying jobs across the Gulf. 

The goal is a lasting, permanent peace. Too many people like Lapid assume that this means an independent Palestinian state. They simply cannot accept that a Palestinian state and true peace are utterly incompatible. We need to define the problem before we find a solution. A Palestinian state isn't a solution - it would be a further problem.

Egypt did not want to dignify the Lapid plan with an official response, but it put former general General Samir Farag on state-run TV to reject the plan and say, "Egypt's decisions are independent and cannot be linked to any financial accounts or debts, and the Egyptian state has full sovereignty and places the national interest and the Palestinian people at the top of its priorities." 

Indeed, Egypt would look at this plan through the lens of honor/shame. Egyptian rhetoric against accepting Gaza refugees all emphasize the idea of an independent Egypt and how o(somehow) an influx of Palestinians would imperil that. Whether it is true or not, Egypt's pride is tied up in its self-perception of independence. Accepting cash to change its principles is shameful and out of the question.  

Is Lapid really this naive an uninformed about the Egyptian mentality? He claims he understands the Egyptians because of his dealings with them, but he does not seem to grasp that how they speak to him is not necessarily how they think. It is entirely possible that he knows that this plan is dead on arrival, but he wants to make himself look like a leader and the appearance of having a plan is a political move, not a realistic desire. 



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  • Wednesday, February 26, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon
Here is how Egyptian newspaper Al-Melnoujoum described last Saturday's Hamas handover ceremony of Omer Shem Tov.
A video clip, banned by Israeli censorship, of the released Israeli soldier, Omer Shem Tov, kissing the head of the Qassam Brigades fighters during the handover ceremony as part of the seventh batch of the exchange deal, has been circulating on social media platforms. This demonstrates the resistance’s good treatment of Israeli prisoners during their detention in Gaza.

The kiss made Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, lose his mind, so he started to rage and rage, an idiomatic expression meaning that his anger became more intense and his threats and intimidation increased, and he ended up taking a retaliatory measure by suspending the release of Palestinian prisoners, on the condition that Hamas treats the prisoners with dignity.

Did Hamas instruct the Israeli soldier to kiss their heads in gratitude and appreciation for the good treatment, fear for them, and protection of their lives from the bombing of Netanyahu’s planes and drones?

Can any sane person, if Netanyahu is still sane, imagine that kissing heads is an ambush planned by Hamas to trap Israeli prisoners on their way to Tel Aviv? What kind of mind is this that governs the usurping Zionist entity?
Denial is not just a river in Egypt - it is also built into the minds of Egyptian and other Arab media. 

Omer never met the terrorists on stage before that moment. They weren't the ones who held him hostage underground for 15 months. Why would be even consider kissing the foreheads of two strangers wearing masks and holding guns?

While I am finding plenty of Arabic articles crowing over the kiss, I cannot find one that reports what Shem Tov himself said about it: "Those dogs told me to do it, I had no choice." 

It doesn't sound like he is very fond of them.

The video, which is obviously not censored in Israel, shows that a cameraman tell Shem Tov something, he looks at the two masked and armed terrorists next to him, twice. The cameraman tells the terrorists something, and then gets back into position. The first terrorist signals with a slight nod to Omer that he is ready and hen Omer goes through his charade. 


What is striking about the article is that Egyptians, who hate Hamas with a passion as being related to the Muslim Brotherhood, suddenly are certain that Hamas is wonderful and pure.





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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: The Anti-Semitic Takeover of the Health and Education Industries
In order to believe anti-Semitism isn’t at a crisis point, you’d have to believe in coincidences to a degree that would strain credulity.

Two recent controversies provide cases in point.

First, from George Washington University: “A federal civil rights investigation uncovered evidence that the George Washington University faculty retaliated against Jewish students based on ‘shared ancestry-related advocacy’ by placing them in a remediation program after the students lodged an anti-Semitism complaint against an anti-Israel professor,” reports the Washington Free Beacon.

This incident has always been one of the most important anti-Semitism-on-campus sagas because it demonstrates just how far beyond the classroom the bias extends.

The investigation stemmed from a civil-rights complaint filed by Jewish students at George Washington taking a mandatory graduate course by psychology professor Lara Sheehi. (Sheehi has since left to work for a school based in Qatar.) According to the complaint, Sheehi attacked a student’s Israeli background in front of the class. She then invited an infamous blood libelist to give a guest lecture in which, according to the complaint, the speaker “suggested that good deeds done by Jews and Israelis are done to mask sinister activity.” She repeatedly denigrated Israelis and “lionized” a Palestinian who took part in a terrorist attack against a Jewish child in a candy store.

Jewish students raised their concerns with Sheehi at the beginning of the following class. Sheehi responded by denying that the textbook anti-Semitism the students had been subject to was anti-Semitism and that this was a “non-negotiable truth.” Zionism—the belief in equal Jewish rights to self-determination—was arguably the real anti-Semitism, she suggested, thus accusing the Jewish students themselves of being anti-Semites. Sheehi then encouraged the class to see the students’ complaints as evidence of Islamophobia, even though the Jewish students did not mention Muslims. Sheehi further defended her guest lecturer’s advocacy of violence against Jews.

The students spoke with an official in the psychology program who brushed them off, then a dean who refused to let them even exit the class. Sheehi then retaliated against the students by telling the faculty in the graduate program that the Jewish students were racists. She then initiated disciplinary proceedings against the students for objecting to anti-Semitism in a diversity course.

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has since vindicated the Jewish students’ account.

Mandatory diversity courses such as this have been common in recent years. Orwellian disciplinary processes against students are common. The language used repeatedly in this course—“Islamophobia,” “white Israeli racism,” “white fragility,” etc.—are common. Anti-Zionism is common, to put it mildly.

Which is to say: What happened here is common. And it was essentially a derailing, or an attempted derailing, of Jewish students’ professional education and careers because they were Jewish, full stop. All the evidence above suggests that, too, is common.
Seth Mandel: Antisemitism in America a "virus" which mutates - including as DEI
JFeed: To end off: obviously, none of us are prophets, but based on what you know now and assuming trends continue, how do you see the anti-Semitism wave continuing? Is it going to continue to be in recession or do you see an explosion happening?

Seth Mandel: So I tend to be an optimist by nature, but I'm not on this issue. So...I don't come bearing any sort of sunny optimism on this. I think that the reason we always rely on the comparison of antisemitism to a virus is because it mutates. And I don't think that anything in general stays the way it is. It's sort of like an object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. So it's gonna keep going forward and not just tread water.

I think that antisemitism behaves that way. And so on campus, we had the Tentifada and I wrote a piece warning that it can get worse than this, even if it's not as public, right? That these things have to change to survive. And the Tentifada, especially once the active war stopped, there was not gonna be the same amount of Jews for the tent protests, right? But there were the seeds planted among especially young activists that you could and should wave a Hamas or a Hezbollah flag or wear a hoodie with the picture of Abu Obeida, the spokesman for Hamas on it, like he was Shea Guvara. There was like this normalizing of explicit violence against Jews. And then we saw investigations and some arrests.

You may not have the numbers, but I think that antisemitism itself has been strengthened in a really important way during this time. And you don't need that many people to do terrible things. I'm not saying they're all terrorists on campus or whatever, or even budding terrorists, but the point is that they get, activists tend to get older. Activism itself tends to get older. And it's certainly true in American politics over the years.

Things don't tend to mellow out, pauses don't mellow out because if they do, they disappear, right? You have to always find a reason to push onward. And if your cause relies on the ability to shock, which antisemitism and the... Tentifada and a lot of the pro-Palestinian movement does, then what shocks people changes over time. It's the Overton window problem of moving the Overton window.

So I think that we've accepted, not we, but we as a sort of society, considering the behavior of a lot of elected leaders and institutional leaders, a certain level of Jew hatred as normal. And that wasn't the case before. They would have denied before October 7th and before all these protests, a campus administrator would have flatly denied that such a thing, that level of Jew hatred existed in those places.

And it's gone in those 16 months to now being: not only does it exist, but it's basically been sort of accepted as normal. And then the question turned to what do we do to make our campus safe for everybody? There's almost no thought given to the fact that they sort of read this vile Jew hatred in students and among professors and people on campus. There's just like, all right, well, what do we do about it? So that Jews stop asking, Jewish students stop asking to take their classes via Zoom. and they're not afraid to come on campus. It's been normalized. It's like, all right, this is the status quo.

The status quo is we've got chapters of SJP and all their followers and people who will behave like this and a very large number of people who hate Jews with every fiber of their being and will cheer violence against them with almost no limit. And that's like, all right, that's where we are. Now what do we do just to make our institution run? Not what do we do to turn back that tide and cleanse our institution of the ideas and the hatred and I would say the enabling agents of it, the things that push people to do that or see them as the incentive structure, I guess you could call them.

So, I don't know what form it's going to take. And like I said, it's not a partisan thing, and there's no way to see the future. But I think that there are warning signs that you just have to expect that whatever it is, this is a thing that mutates. And you have to just try to assess the political climate wherever you are. And think about how that virus might gain a foothold, how it might survive, and how it might evolve. in the changing environment. And that's really kind of the best you can do to try to stay ahead of it.
Trouble in Australian Jewish paradise
Australian Jewish community leaders explain the unnerving spate of anti-Semitic incidents in a country so long seen as a safe refuge.

Last month, two men with covered faces, dressed in black, came to a house in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs. They sprayed the garage with red paint, set the cars parked in the street on fire, and added anti-Semitic graffiti. Their chosen target was the former home of Alex Ryvchin, co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the representative body of the country’s Jewish community. They apparently thought that Ryvchin still lived there.

"My wife and I woke up early that morning, because we received the security camera recordings from our old neighbor who lives opposite," Ryvchin relates. "On the cameras, we saw a car pull up and two men pouring gasoline on the road leading up to the house and setting two cars alight. On one of the cars they wrote ‘Fuck Israel’ on one side and ‘Jews’ on the other side. For us it was a shock, but it’s one more event in a series of very similar attacks."

As Ryvchin says, this was certainly not the first anti-Semitic incident in Australia lately. Just over a month ago, for example, a children’s daycare center next to a synagogue in Sydney was set on fire, and in December a Molotov cocktail was hurled at a synagogue in Melbourne. According to data gathered by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the country jumped to 2,062 in the twelve months to September 2024, from just 495 in the previous year. Community leaders tell of continual reports of harassment, abuse of authority against Jews, and shocking physical attacks. The other week, the premises of a Jewish-owned business in Melbourne were sprayed with the words "Gas the Jews".

As if that were not enough, a couple of weeks ago the world received a particularly viral demonstration of the anti-Semitism in Australia. Israeli content producer Max Veifer happened upon two nurses from a Sydney hospital on TikTok the other week. The two, Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, refugees from Afghanistan, made clear at the beginning of the conversation that they were not exactly fans of Israel, but things rapidly deteriorated. Lebdeh said of Israeli patients, "I won't treat them, I will kill them," and added later, "I want you to remember my face, so you can understand that you will die the most disgusting death," while Nadir chimed in with, ""You have no idea how many Israeli dog (sic) came to this hospital and I send them to Jahannam (hell)."

The Australian authorities reacted quickly to the incident. The nurses were suspended from the hospital and an investigation was opened. But the situation has caused great anxiety among Australia’s Jewish population of almost 120,000. "We are chasing every rabbit down every hole, and that takes time," New South Wales deputy police commissioner David Hudson told "The Wall Street Journal." State and federal police have set up a special hate crime investigation unit. Last year, Australia outlawed Nazi salutes and the public display of Nazi insignia, and the other week the federal parliament passed government-sponsored legislation introducing mandatory prison sentences for hate crimes.

Even so, many in the Jewish community still think that the Labor government, headed by Anthony Albanese, is not doing enough. Whether or not that is a fair assessment, police helicopters currently patrol Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs nightly, and synagogues and Jewish businesses are protected.

How has a country perceived by Israelis as a place of refuge where no-one cares about their ethnicity become a place where they are hated? Local sources say that antis-Semitism began to rear its head in Australia straight after October 7. A few days after the war broke out, a grotesque demonstration took place outside the Sydney Opera House, with participants recorded shouting "Death to the Jews" and "Jews to the gas chambers." The world was horrified, the Australian government condemned the incident, but nothing substantial was done.
Sydney nurse charged for threatening to kill Israelis
A Sydney area nurse was charged for threatening to kill Israeli patients in a viral video that created a massive uproar around the world, the New South Wales Police Force announced on Wednesday.

Twenty-six-year-old Bankstown Hospital nurse Sarah Abu Lebdeh was arrested on Tuesday and charged with threatening violence to a group, using a carriage service to threaten to kill, and using a carriage service to menace.

The Condell Park woman was granted conditional bail and is set to appear at the Downing Centre Local Court on March 19.

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said in a statement that the antisemitic task force had exhaustively investigated the incident, in which Abu Lebdeh wished a harsh death on Israeli influencer Max Veifer that she wouldn't treat Israeli patients but instead would "kill them."

“Strike Force Pearl detectives must be commended for acting swiftly under enormous pressure and public expectation,” Webb said of the antisemitism task force established in December to address rising antisemitic incidents in New South Wales. "These charges have been laid following a lot of hard work and legal advice, received yesterday from the Commonwealth DPP [Director of Public Prosecutions]."

Webb noted that the detectives had to overcome obstacles and jurisdictional challenges since their commended their investigation on February 12. The NSW police faced controversy when they had contacted Veifer for a full version of the video, but had allegedly not provided him with an email address to submit the content.

The full video showed Abu Lebdeh and a male nurse engaging in conversation with Veifer over a random video chat platform. When the other nurse discovered that Veifer was Israeli, he said that Veifer would eventually be killed and go to hell.
From Ian:

A Sickening Display of Evil
This was not just a crime against innocent people, but a crime against decency and humanity itself.

Unsurprisingly, Hamas and their twisted apologists around the world still blame Israel for their deaths, saying Israeli airstrikes are what killed them. But this is a double lie, a twisted perversion of reality, of which Hamas have become such masters, on two separate levels.

Forensic evidence now shows the two brothers, along with their mother, were murdered by gunman, not in an airstrike.

But even if that were not true, Hamas has been responsible for every death, both Palestinian and Israeli, since October 7 and every day afterwards, no matter the context. If they had not decided to launch a genocidal war on the people of Israel then Shiri Bibas and her children would be alive today. So would every Israeli child and every Palestinian child and every Thai worker and every pensioner and every teenager dancing at a festival celebrating peace.

Everyone.

The ceasefire deal for the release of Israeli hostages held captive by Hamas was not a diplomatic negotiation. It was blackmail and ransom, no different than if someone was to hold a gun to your child’s head and threaten to pull the trigger unless you give in to their demands.

And yet some world leaders, including Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, hail this deal as a step toward some kind of lasting peace, still failing to grasp the magnitude of the enemies Israel faces— their sheer brutality and unwavering, maniacal goal of destroying a country and its people.

Hamas does not seek compromise – it seeks annihilation, and any leader who does not understand this fundamental truth is not just misguided but complicit in enabling further atrocities. Can they truly not see that any group capable of the sadistic events of October 7, is totally incapable of forging any kind of lasting peace?

However, beyond the politics and the diplomacy and the international statements, is a very human story. In Israel tonight, there is a man called Yarden Bibas who was held hostage for 484 days of hell. When he was kidnapped, he had a loving wife and two small children – flaming red hair, smiles that could melt your heart. Today, his family is gone.

And so, our hearts will break, as they should.

Our tears will flow, as they must.

The grief is immeasurable, and the trauma in our community is real and it’s raw.

Throughout our history, we have endured unimaginable tragedies, yet we continue to fight for our existence and our rights, standing tall and proud – even if, at times, it feels like we’re standing alone.

We will mourn Shiri, Kfir, Ariel and every other victim of the October 7 atrocities. As painful as this moment is, it will not weaken our resolve, but strengthen it to keep on fighting our enemies so that such atrocities can never be repeated.
Seth Mandel: What Do the Palestinians Want?
The nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict is that a lot of people claim to speak for the Palestinians. In our current moment, that role has lately fallen to Egypt, which has been putting specific conditions on a postwar plan for Gaza.

Egypt opposes, understandably, forced population transfer. And it insists that any postwar plan puts the two sides on track to achieve a two-state solution.

But Egypt also opposes voluntary population transfer—that is, emigration. It doesn’t want Palestinians. Therefore, it opposes any plan that relocates Gazans while rebuilding the Strip out of fear they will land in Egypt (Jordan shares that fear for itself).

Arab countries simply don’t want Palestinians going anywhere. That is not what Palestinians want, as pollster Khalil Shikaki found by actually asking them: “On the eve of October 7, about a third of Gazans and about a fifth of West Bankers said they were considering emigrating from Palestine… The most preferred destination for immigration is Turkey, followed by Germany, Canada, the United States and Qatar.”

And that was before the war.

The more glaring contradiction between the purported spokespersons for the Palestinians and the Palestinians themselves, however, is on the two-state solution. Today the BBC premiered a documentary in which former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert displays the map of a proposed two-state solution he offered Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in 2008. Abbas rejected the offer.

It is not the first time the basic contours of Israel’s 2008 offer of Palestinian statehood have been described—those details came to light about a decade ago. But it is the first time that Olmert’s map itself has been revealed. And the documentary also gives us the reaction from Abbas’s then-chief of staff Rafiq Husseini.

The map was the result of a series of negotiations held between Abbas and Olmert. The two leaders agreed to hold a joint meeting of the their respective map experts the following day. History was, Olmert sensed, being made.

Yet, as Abbas and Husseini drove away that night, “Of course, we laughed,” Husseini says.

Of course they laughed! Nothing is funnier than stringing Israel along to a final deal and then walking away from the altar.
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour: Why There Should Not Be a Palestine
Watching the gruesome spectacle of Hamas parading dead bodies as cheerful families celebrated the occasion, Hussein Aboubakr Mansour came to the conclusion that “the Palestinian national cause, as conceived and developed over the last half-century, has become irredeemable.” The hope of a deradicalized national movement focused on building a new Arab state rather than destroying the Jewish one, Mansour argues, is in vain.

Any attempt at constructive state-building has been ground into dust by corruption, murderous factionalism, and the unabashed worship of violence. Hence, Palestine must die if the Palestinians are to live. Some might say it is drastic, even cruel, to declare that a people’s aspiration to statehood should be abandoned. But the events we just witnessed . . . are not an isolated atrocity but the peak of a long march of destruction. They reflect a deeper moral and cultural collapse: no meaningful leadership capable of guiding Palestinians toward a humane, tolerant society appears to exist.

To argue that Palestinians should be absorbed into existing states is not to remove their communal identity; it is to acknowledge that the formal structure called “Palestine” has, in practice, become a source of destruction for themselves and for the region. If the dream of a stable, rights-based Palestinian sovereignty were within reach, it would have emerged during at least one of the diplomatic windows over the past decades. Instead, repeated attempts have collapsed into bloodshed.

The idea of Palestine has, tragically, turned into an ideological snare that captures each new generation from birth, seeding them with the promise of “liberation” that only ever seems to produce more suffering. In many Arab countries, Palestinians have lived as second-class refugees for decades, denied meaningful integration or citizenship by the very governments that proclaim solidarity.

Perhaps the most merciful and responsible course is for the Palestinian identity—as a state-bound ambition—to be gently laid to rest while families find refuge in the more concrete structures that already exist around them. The cost of perpetuating a vision that repeatedly descends into cruelty is simply too high. If we truly care about the lives of Palestinians, Israelis, and their neighbors, it may be time to walk away from the fantasy of “Palestine” and offer every real opportunity for inclusion and a dignified future elsewhere.
  • Tuesday, February 25, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon
As I've been reporting, the Gaza civil defense officials have been claiming for a year that there are over 10,000 (or 11,000) bodies buried in the rubble of Gaza. This claim has been repeated by the UN, NGOs and the media without question.

Here are the number of bodies recovered each week since the ceasefire according to the Gaza health ministry:


The total is at about 670. 

So where are the thousands of bodies?

Perhaps, you may argue, there is no heavy earth-moving equipment in Gaza to dig out the bodies. But last week, many such machines did enter Gaza. Gazans even put out a music video showing several Caterpillar bulldozers working.


One would assume that the recovery of bodies would be the top priority of the equipment, or at the very least they would be finding bodies buried under the rubble that they are clearing. One would expect that the number of recovered bodies over the past week would have gone way up.

Instead, the number keeps going down. 

If the total number of bodies under rubble is about 1,000, then the trend we are seeing makes sense. There is no way that it is over 10,000. The Palestinian Civil Defense made those numbers up.

And the world believes them.

Then again, the pro-Palestinian crowd has an answer for this too: If the bodies aren't found, that is proof that they were vaporized.




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  • Tuesday, February 25, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon
A new poll, commissioned by the Institute for Social and Economic Progress after the Gaza ceasefire, finds Gazans do not expect and do not want Hamas to rule the sector in the future.

Only 12% expect Hamas to continue to rule, and only 6% want to see that happen.

A surprising 24% would like to see Gaza ruled by outside Arab forces.

Only 5.3% say that they would vote for Hamas in any (fictional) upcoming election. 29% would vote for Fatah, barely ahead of unnamed "Independents." 

About two thirds of Gazans say that aid being diverted away from them is a real issue. Of those, 93% blamed "gangs," and a predictable 86.5% blame Israel. But 67% of them also blame Hamas for diverting aid.






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  • Tuesday, February 25, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon



It refers to a conference that is unknown to Western sources and a subsequent attack near the Sea of Galilee:
 105 years ago, Sheikh Naji Pasha Al-Azzam called on the leaders of Jordan and Palestine to hold a conference in Qom to confront the Jewish threat to the land of Palestine. If we were to call today to confront it, we would not have come up with stronger decisions than its decisions.

At that conference on resistance and the protection of Palestine, leader Naji Pasha Al-Azzam gave a speech in which he said:

“We must come up with decisions that include a rapid response to the enemies, provided that the response is by attacking the Jewish settlements and the determination of our clans and men. And God is with us.”

The Palestinians were not alone, and they will not be!

The first armed resistance organization and movement against Jewish settlement in Palestine was the East Jordanian Movement led by Sheikh Kayed Al-Mufleh Al-Obeidat, who fought the Battle of Tel Al-Tha'aleb with the Jewish settlers and was martyred with a group of northern knights:

Bilal Salem Al-Hajjat, Saeed Yousef Al-Quraan, Zatam Al-Quraan, Sultan Obeidat, Qaftan Obeidat, Muhammad Al-Azzam, and three mujahideen from Hauran.

They were the first bullets and the first martyrs on the land of Arab Palestine.

I cite the words of His Excellency Abdul Raouf Rawabdeh: “We are Palestine, and Palestine is us." No one has given Palestine and Gaza more than Jordan has given.

The Jordanian government Petra site describes the events in mostly the same way, having Jordan taking credit for attacking the British and the Jews. The History of Jordan page also describes the conference as Jordan supporting the "Palestinian people's revolution."

This is an obvious falsehood. It is anachronistic, since even Transjordan didn't exist at the time. This all occurred was during a short time period when the "Arab Kingdom of Syria" was declared, encompassing today's Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel.  It only lasted a few months from March to July 1920. The "Jordanians" were attacking as Syrians, defending part of Syria. They were not defending Palestine as Jordanian sources now characterize the events; Palestine was considered part of the same Syria as the area of Transjordan was.

The battle they are referring to is the Samakh Raid, summarized by Wikipedia this way:

At the beginning of the Franco-Syrian War, the Upper Galilee was populated by several semi-nomadic Bedouin Arab tribes, the largest residing in Halasa, and four tiny Jewish settlements, including Metula, Kfar Giladi, Tel Hai and Hamra. While the Arab villages and Bedouin allied with the Arab Kingdom of Syria, the Jewish residents chose to remain neutral during the Arab conflict with the French.

Just prior to the French occupation of Damascus, the instability in Transjordan threatened to spill over into Palestine.[1] The sedentary clans of Bani Kananah, perhaps encouraged by members of the Istiqlal native to the Hawran, including such radical nationalists as Ahmad Muraywid and Ali Khulqi raided Jewish settlements in Galilee.[1] Early in the war, a Kfar Giladi resident was killed by armed Bedouin, greatly increasing tension in the region. Jewish villages were regularly pillaged by the pro-Syrian Bedouin on the pretext of searching for French spies and soldiers.

In April 1920, the Arab militants engaged British Army at Samakh and suffered a number of casualties as RAF planes strafed them on their way back across the Jordan river.[1] The event took place as some 2,000 armed Bedouins mostly from Transjordan attempted to attack the Samakh train station aiming to prevent the arrival of British reinforcements from Haifa.[3]

This raid appears to have been timed to coincide with the San Remo Conference, perhaps to foil the colonial plans of the British and French. 

The official Jordanian government site that describes the raid says that the intent was to attack the Jewish settlements in Samakh, Beisan, and Tiberias, and it characterizes the Jews as panicking and  fleeing.

While the details of the Samakh attack differ greatly between Arab and Western sources (one seemingly fair analysis in Arabic can be seen here,) we see here that Jordan not only takes credit for "defending Palestine" but for planning and attacking Jewish villages. At the time there was no organized Jewish defense force. 

The official Jordanian government, today, celebrates attacks on unarmed Jewish civilians. 

What normal people call "terrorism."




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  • Tuesday, February 25, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon

My Monday post joking about me applying for the job of "Palestinian Studies" instructor at Hunter College may have been tongue in cheek, but the description of the job itself points to a very uncomfortable fact: The entire field of Palestine Studies should really be called Anti-Zionism, and its obsession with Israel makes it a truly antisemitic field.

Let's review the topics that Hunter wants the candidates to be familiar with:
We seek a historically grounded scholar who takes a critical lens to issues pertaining to Palestine including but not limited to: settler colonialism, genocide, human rights, apartheid, migration, climate and infrastructure devastation, health, race, gender and sexuality.
Notice what is missing. Nothing about Palestinian politics, or culture, or history. Nothing about how Palestinian women or children or gays live outside the prism of "occupation."  Nothing about how Palestinians treat animals or the environment. Nothing about how Palestinian Arabs live outside the territories, and the challenges they face as second-class residents in the Arab world for generations. 

Most glaringly, nothing about Palestinian terror or "resistance," which is a fundamental part of Palestinian psyche. Most Palestinians support murdering Jews, in poll after poll taken after specific terror attacks. Palestinians consider salaries for terrorists to be the most important budget item for their government. They name schools and sports contests after murderers. 

If Palestine Studies was a legitimate, objective field, why is it so centered on slandering Israel?  All of the listed issues, without exception, are mainly about attacking Israel, not studying Arab Palestine. (I have sometimes seen papers on topics like Palestinian women's health or other issues that don't revolve around blaming Israel, but they are the exceptions that prove the rule.) 

This job description shows that there is no room in Palestine Studies for debate on its core tenets. The field postulates that Israel is guilty of apartheid, genocide and settler colonialism. One cannot advance in the field of Palestine Studies without accepting those lies as axioms. 

And yes, they are lies. But even if you do not accept that they are lies, you must admit that there are some excellent arguments on the other side of those issues. Within the bubble of Palestine Studies, however, these are settled issues. Any other opinion is not only unthinkable; anyone in the field who dares contradict the orthodoxy would be canceled and lose their jobs. Palestine Studies is as objective as a Yemeni Studies program where the only valid point of view is that of the Houthis.

Palestine Studies exists as merely an excuse for putting a scholarly facade on old fashioned Israel bashing. It is not an organic yearning to study Arab Palestine but purely a reaction to, and forum for attacking, Israel.

If you think that I am overly generalizing from Hunter College's job description, let's look at how the field is described in the website of Istiqlal University in Jericho. The "Educational Objectives and Outcomes" include:
Finding a Palestinian elite capable of engaging in a sharp, serious, scientific, academic, and cognitive engagement with Israel’s political, intellectual, religious, and historical system and its narratives that target the Palestinian cause.
Strengthening the Palestinian presence in the Arab collective memory, which Israel has begun to target through cultural normalization, and filling this void only through a solid and academic Palestinian presence.

The truth is not a goal. Countering Zionist narratives is. 

 And what kind of job can one expect to get after achieving a masters degree in Palestine Studies? Among others, according to the site, is working on boycott campaigns against Israel!

Or look at how the Centre for Palestine Studies at SOAS University of London chooses to illustrate its program - with a picture of a defensive barrier Israel constructed to limit Palestinian terror attacks against Jews but framing it as prison walls. 


Their description of their fields of study is, again, Israel-centered (and also inaccurate.)
The question of Palestine and the lack of resolution to the so-called conflict with Israel has implicated various countries across the Middle East and North Africa and further afield. Palestinian refugees remain the largest body of refugees in the world, Palestine is the theatre of the longest ongoing illegal occupation recognised as such in international law, Palestinian holders of Israeli citizenship have been permanently engaged in fighting for their rights, and a wide range of social and political movements locally and globally claim to represent the Palestinian voice.

The best known purveyor of Palestine Studies is the Institute for Palestine Studies. They held their third annual Palestine Forum in Doha last month. The forum featured over  hundred presentations over three days. Virtually every paper features or centers an anti-Israel component; even a lecture on Palestinian graffiti is based around the artwork drawn on the separation barrier. 

If the field has nothing to say about Palestinians without referring to Israel, that is a strong indication that Palestine Studies, and indeed Palestinian nationalism as a whole, is a reaction and counter to Zionism that has little to do with "Palestine."  In Palestine Studies, Palestinians themselves become bit players in a grand anti-Israel narrative. They are defined purely in relation to Israel.

If Israel didn't exist, neither would Palestine Studies. 

Let's compare with Israel Studies. There are lots of people in Israel Studies programs who are anti-Zionist, who are passionate critics of Israel, even professors who would accuse Israel of apartheid or genocide. Being an anti-Zionist does not automatically disqualify someone from the field of Israel Studies. 

Do you think there is a single Zionist instructor in Palestine Studies? The very idea is laughable. 

All of this makes Palestine Studies a dogma, not an academic field. It is as scholarly as a Flat Earth society that debates whether the Earth is shaped like a circle or a square. 

Since Palestine Studies is wholly congruent with anti-Zionism, that makes it effectively antisemitic. As Professor Andrew Pessin comprehensively demonstrates and as Jews worldwide can feel in their bones, anti-Zionism is largely a form of antisemitism. They are both characterized by the irrationality and obsessive hate of their believers. My book gives example after example of how anti-Zionism is modern antisemitism. 

There is one major difference between how antisemitism infiltrated German universities in the 1930s and how modern antisemitism disguised as anti-Zionism has invaded Western academia. That difference is not complimentary towards today's academic antisemites.

The Nazis fired all professors who were Jewish or who didn't accept the racial purity beliefs of the Third Reich. They imposed antisemitism into all academic fields from the top down. 

Today, no government is forcing the antisemitism/anti-Zionism that is rife in academia now. It is the  academics themselves who are embracing a fundamentally hateful, anti-intellectual philosophy and imposing a set of beliefs that are utterly at odds with both the truth and with free inquiry. Palestine Studies may have been designed to make anti-Zionism (and therefore antisemitism) acceptable, but its false ideas have infected the rest of the social sciences and is moving into every conceivable academic field. It is almost comical to see how students and academics try to find new, novel crimes to accuse Israel of. 

The German professors had no choice but to embrace antisemitic philosophy. Today's Western academics are too often the trendsetters for modern antisemitism. 

Any objective review of Palestine Studies leads one to that conclusion. 







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Monday, February 24, 2025

From Ian:

Yisrael Medad: Jewish anti-Zionists weaponize Jewish customs to attack Israel
Jewish anti-Zionists have been gnashing their teeth in uncontrollable grimacing these past years in reaction to the IHRA’s (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) working definition of antisemitism.

The definition includes denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, that Israel’s existence is a racist endeavor, comparing Israeli policy to that of the Nazis, or aiding the harming of Jews in the name of an extremist view of religion.

Those elements negate most of the essentials of Palestinianism, especially the version promoted by Hamas.

Psychotherapist Mark Golden, from Newton, Massachusetts, published a column in The Boston Globe on February 13 positing that criticizing Israel is not being antisemitic. Moreover, as a Jew, Golden asserted he is “offended when legitimate critiques of Israel’s violent campaign in Gaza are branded as antisemitic.”

He fears he may be silenced. All, of course, depends on the criticism’s content.

Jewish anti-Zionists
A decade ago, Richard Landes wrote that “forms of Jewish self-criticism need to be understood” as they can cross over “into pathology” when shared by Jew-haters and deniers of Jewish national identity who “would use it to promote demonizing and scapegoating narratives.”

And that is what has happened.

Golden’s column is in harmony with the recent “Stop the Ethnic Cleansing” advertisement published in The New York Times, which displayed the names of 350 rabbis and a few actors and public figures. According to the Vatican News, the ad was financed by progressive donors affiliated with the In Our Name Campaign.

This collective of Jewish philanthropists seeks to raise $10 million for organizations that support efforts to “build self-determination in Palestine.”

Their signatures were nowhere to be seen on a similar advert in 2005 when more than 8000 Jews, including corpses, were ethnically cleansed from Gaza. Nor will you see their signatures on petitions protesting a planned ethnic cleansing of 725,000 Jews from Judea & Samaria and post-1967 Jerusalem neighborhoods.
Who is calling who a Nazi?
The use of Nazi imagery has become so ubiquitous among Democrats that it almost precludes notice. But Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s parallels between U.S. President Donald Trump’s political agenda and the rise of Nazi Germany during his “State of the State” budget address on Feb. 19 hit a new low.

Veering from his speech, Pritzker, who is Jewish, referred to Nazis no less than six times during his criticism of Trump and his policies. In a glaring warning to Illinois citizens, he compared the rise of the Nazis to the Republican Party leader in the White House.

After castigating the president’s policies, including the deportation of violent illegal criminals, Pritzker said: “It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic.”

Such deceitful criticism of Trump reeks of partisan animosity of the basest kind. The governor’s confusing use of Nazi imagery is targeting the wrong culprit and, in the process, exonerating the real perpetrators.

Pritzker’s comments lend fuel to the anti-Israel and pro-Hamas protestors who have regularly used Nazi euphemisms against the Jews, libeling them as “genocide” perpetrators in Gaza and calling for the “final solution” for Jews all over the world. His comments ignore the reality of a president who was praised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House.”

Indeed, Pritzker’s rebuke of the president came on the same day that the Trump administration stopped all funding for the Palestinian Authority, which continues its “pay for slay” policies, paying terrorists and their families for murdering Jews. It comes two days after Israel received a shipment of heavy MK-84 bombs from the United States, following Trump’s lifting of a block imposed on the export of the munitions by the Biden administration.

Pritzker must not have gotten the memo regarding Trump’s executive order two weeks ago outlining a broad federal crackdown on “the explosion of antisemitism” in the United States, especially on college campuses. The executive order cites “an unprecedented wave of vile anti-Semitic discrimination, vandalism and violence.” It instructs U.S. policy to use “all available and appropriate legal tools to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence.” This includes the canceling of visas for foreign students who are “Hamas sympathizers” and deporting “pro-jihadist” protesters.

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