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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Antisemitic vandalism in France proves Bibi right, Macron wrong

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upbraided French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, charging that the latter’s move to recognize a Palestinian state fuels antisemitism, drawing a combative response from Paris.

The premier went on to call on Macron to confront antisemitism in France, saying he must “replace weakness with action, appeasement with resolve, and to do so by a clear date: the Jewish New Year, September 23,” known as Rosh Hashanah.

The Elysee Palace slammed the accusation as “abject” and “erroneous.”

France “protects and will always protect its Jewish citizens,” the Elysee said, adding that Netanyahu’s letter “will not go unanswered.”

Oh, they answered the letter all right.

Haredi families from Britain who came to vacation in the village of Chatel, which is located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France and is located in the Shabla region, on the French-Swiss border, discovered that an unknown person had sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti on at least 4 of their vehicles, reading "Free Palestine."

Or as the mayor said:

"It is not uncommon to see people of the Jewish faith spending their holidays here. They are very recognizable by their clothing, and the perpetrators of these acts could not have made a mistake. I hope that the ongoing investigation will reassure them, as they are used to spending their holidays in our resorts in complete peace ."

Jews - not Israelis, not Zionists, but identifiably religious Jews - were targeted with "Free Palestine" graffiti.

I have yet to find a single "pro-Palestinian" activist quoted in news articles distancing themselves from the vandalism.

Because everyone knows the truth: "Anti-Zionism" is nothing but a rebranding of antisemitism.

And anyone who thinks that rewarding the people that cheered October 7 will bring peace, and not embolden Jew-hatred, is a complete idiot.

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Omer Bartov, genocide scholarship, and the betrayal of truth

Remember this headline from the New York Times last month?

It was an op-ed by Omer Bartov - the second since the Gaza war started - declaring that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

But here's what Bartov said at a lecture a few months earlier:

“Genocide is a legal term… I use that term in debates now because I know, I see the immense urge to deny… But for the people in Gaza, do you think it really matters if you call it genocide or war crimes? We need to use that terminology because we are talking to another public… For the people in Gaza… who cares what you call it.”

In other words: he adjusts his use of the word “genocide” based on the rhetorical impact he wants. forget legal precision or academic consistency. He wants impact ..

That’s a serious red flag - especially from someone who titled his article “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”

Bartov has now published two New York Times op-eds arguing that Israel is committing or is on the verge of committing genocide. He uses the same selective quotes from Israeli officials - ripped from context - that we've seen before and ignores the extensive counter-evidence. The second article even got him a featured interview in the same newspaper about the “fallout.” In other words: it made a splash.

And that’s the point.

The New York Times op-ed page is the holy grail for pundits. Bartov didn’t land there twice because he made a nuanced legal argument. He got there because he’s an Israeli Jew willing to say Israel is guilty of the worst crime imaginable, only decades after the Holocaust. That breaks the narrative, flips expectations, and generates buzz.

Had he held the mainstream position shared by most genocide scholars, that Israel's actions don’t meet the legal threshold, he wouldn’t be published in the Times at all. In fact, the only op-ed the NYT published saying that the accusations of genocide were wrong came from their regular columnist Bret Stephens. No Holocaust scholar was approached or approved to write an opposing opinion. (A rare counterexample is this op-ed in the Washington Post by scholars Norman J.W. Goda and Jeffrey Herf.)

This is the media-intellectual feedback loop: and it’s not about truth.

Media outlets chase clicks. Pundits chase prestige. When those goals align, the system rewards hot takes, outrage, and moral drama, especially when it comes from someone “unexpected.” The more a claim subverts group identity or shocks the audience, the better it performs.

The result? Truth becomes a liability.

Nuance doesn’t go viral. Careful legal arguments don’t get op-ed space at the NYT. What rises instead are loud, emotionally loaded, and often distorted takes, especially when they break ideological or tribal norms.

This isn’t an isolated case. It’s a media-wide problem.

Decades ago, journalism was built on trust, reputation, and accuracy. Now it runs on per-article performance metrics. That means buzz, not balance. Reporters and editors are rewarded for virality, not verification. And scholars willing to bend or amplify their message to fit the emotional needs of the moment find themselves with platforms - no matter the cost to their credibility.

Bartov himself once recognized this dynamic. In a 2000 review of Norman Finkelstein’s The Holocaust Industry, he wrote:

“Finkelstein views himself as innocent of any desire to exploit 'The Holocaust' for his own ends… The fact that his sensational 'revelations' and outrageous accusations draw a great deal of public and media attention is no fault of his own... From his Mount Sinai, everything is clear and obvious. It's just that his voice is too faint to be heard in the valley.”

Bartov isn’t as dishonest as Finkelstein - but the echo is unmistakable. He once critiqued the exact performative dynamic he now appears to be enacting. That’s not just ironic. It’s a warning sign of how the pursuit of visibility can erode the very integrity that once anchored public scholarship.

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The UN only counts about 25% of the actual food coming into Gaza

The IDF's COGAT unit wrote in its newsletter:

Since May, according to UN data, only 3,553 trucks entered the Gaza Strip. In reality, Israel facilitated the entry of nearly 9,200 trucks. This represents a gap of almost 6,000 trucks - 2.5 times the volume of aid that the UN claims actually entered. The fact that the UN presents only part of the aid actually transferred misleads the international community and creates a false picture of the situation, directly influencing global media coverage and shaping the positions of international decision-makers regarding the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

The UN publishes its figures through a public dashboard that purports to present a full picture of all humanitarian aid, but in practice it includes only the trucks facilitated by UN agencies and a small number of aid organizations working with them. The dashboard fails to include aid delivered by other actors in the humanitarian system, including various states, additional international organizations, the private sector, airdrops, and the distribution centers of the American company.

The truth is even worse than COGAT says.

Since August 1, according to the UN, 14,778 tons of food entered Gaza. (Total aid was 21,500 tons, but nearly all of the rest were vehicles.)

In that same timeframe, COGAT counts 61,100 tons of food aid.

That means that the UN is only counting 24% of the actual food aid entering Gaza for this month.

For July, the UN counted 19,704 tons. COGAT counted 53,671 tons - 2.4 times the UN figures.

Keep in mind that this is aid entering Gaza, not aid delivered. So far in August the UN only counts 1,609 tons that was not intercepted on its way to the people - only 11% of the aid that entered Gaza counted by the UN. COGAT does not count the food that makes it to the people, but we can assume the vast majority of the difference in aid entering Gaza is through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, from which very little food if any is intercepted (some might be stolen by Hamas as people leave the distribution sites.)

We can conservatively estimate that 40,000 tons of the GHF food made it to the people in August so far, which means that Israel via GHF is providing 25 times the amount of food to hungry Gazans that the UN and its partners are directly providing. (Of course, most of the food stolen en route does end up in the mouths of Gazans - after they pay Hamas for the privilege of eating food meant as free aid.)

The problem is not, and never has been the amount of aid into Gaza. The problem has always been distribution and security of the transport. The UN blames Israel for that - but when Israel comes up with a better system, however flawed it might or might not be (I do not believe for a minute the Hamas figures of over a thousand killed by the IDF at GHF sites), the UN is more interested in dismantling the system that works in favor of the system that it uses where the vast majority of the food goes to Hamas and other armed gangs.

The websites are public. Anyone can check my figures. Including the media.

But the media is more interested in promoting Hamas lies, UN misinformation and anti-Israel propaganda than the truth. And this propaganda directly feeds antisemitism which endangers Jews worldwide - but who cares about them?

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The BESA Center report from July gives an excellent summary that describes why the IDF is not only legally allowed but tactically and morally obligated to destroy so many buildings in Gaza cities:

The fighting amounts to a deadly game of hide-and-seek. In order to clear the areas and reduce the ability of the terrorists to hide, IDF tactics now include much more vigorous destruction of buildings than previously.

The terrorists, Hamas and others, are using the buildings as fighting posts. They shoot from a building, move to another, shoot from that one, then move again, while placing remote-controlled bombs and booby-traps inside any building they believe the IDF will enter. ...Many buildings contain weapons caches, allowing individuals to move between them unarmed, enter a building, pick up weapons, use them, then return them before moving on to another location. Many buildings also feature tunnel shafts built into their lowest floors, which allow the terrorists to move between them without exposing themselves on street level and to replenish stocks of weapons, ammunition and explosives in these caches. Even when a building has been entered and cleared by the IDF, terrorists often return after the Israelis have exited to plant bombs or hide inside and shoot out at them. A significant proportion of IDF casualties occur during building clearing operations.

Buildings damaged by the fighting are also hazardous. In at least two instances, damaged but seemingly stable buildings have collapsed on IDF units resting inside them, leading to the death and injury of soldiers. The collapses occurred long after the buildings had been damaged due to the gradual failure of the foundations.

Destruction of tunnels often also damages the buildings above or adjacent to them, especially the foundations, making them unstable even if they seem undamaged above ground. Given the extent of the tunnels in Gaza, huge hazardous zones have been created above them. The underground system consists of 500-700 kilometers of tunnels that crisscross the ground underneath residential areas. For comparison, the London Underground is about 400 kilometers of tunnels and the underground portions of the New York City subway are about 700 kilometers. The urban areas of Gaza, under which Hamas deliberately concentrated its tunnel system, cover less than half the Strip’s territory and are approximately a tenth the size of urban London and an eighth the size of New York City.

Because so many of the buildings are unstable, the safest tactical choice for the IDF is to completely demolish most of them as it advances through the urban areas. It is also safer for returning civilians that these structures be entirely demolished, as damaged buildings pose a serious risk of collapse (particularly when the winter rains begin). Because this takes a lot of time and effort and is not always feasible under fire, offensive operations are very slow.

As to legality, all IDF activity is vetted by the IDF’s legal advisors. There is nothing inherently unlawful here. It is legal to target any civilian site used for combat operations; there is no obligation to check every room of a building for signs of military use, especially once civilians have been evacuated.

As with everything else in this war, things that the IDF is blamed for as being immoral are a necessary moral, lifesaving response to Hamas' actions that endanger lives and use Gaza civilians as their main line of defense.

(h/t Irene)

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08/19 Links Pt2: Soviet twins: Anti-Israelism and anti-Judaism; Subliminal Blood Libels: The Hamas Campaign to Destroy Christian Zionism; ‘The Green Prince’ and the truth about Hamas

From Ian:

Soviet twins: Anti-Israelism and anti-Judaism

Modern anti-Judaism and anti-Israelism are twins. The womb from which they awakened to life was Soviet, which soon denied Jewish and Israeli individuals and groups even the smallest merit and strength of their reasons. Even today, Soviet-inspired political societies do not value an Israeli winner or a traditional Jew with a synagogue, culture, science, business and so forth. They are silenced; when they cannot be, lies are fabricated about everything they do. The focus falls on an alleged standard of living. The flag of privilege and injustice toward others is held aloft. Which others? Everyone.

Unquestionably, each nation-state can choose its elites and philosophies through its internal struggles, as a rule made up of betrayals and not of love for the people. But with such a reddish light, Israel makes no sense and nor do the Jews. There is no other example in history of a people returning home after two millennia, much less when this had long been predicted by their prophets. In that sand, where a few decades ago poor people rode on camels, there is now a scientific power that drinks from the sea, thrives in agriculture and exports food, medicine, security and technology.

Surrounded by enemies since its foundation, trampled by noisy majorities on the stages of supranational political organizations, the permanent target of delegitimization, dehumanization and application of double standards, condemned by celebrities and boycotted in all forms, this small nation without natural resources continues on its way without fearing anything or anyone. Many empires have disappeared before their eyes; Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Romans and all those that history has recorded up to the Nazis and the Soviets.

This is something that does not make sense, according to materialistic philosophies. Perhaps there is a people with an existence that makes sense. Influence, settlements and bellicism cannot explain everything. Israel and the individual and collective Jew should have disappeared if only matter counted. But no. The Jew exists, lives, suffers, dies and rises, sustained in tradition and bringing their dead back to life—in memory, in identity, in strength, in prosperity and courage.

The same is true of Israeli Jews. If the current logic prevailed, the nation would not be as strong as it is—nor would it be able to blow up enemy missiles in midair, monitor in real time the security of the Jewish Diaspora, create the most unbelievable devices or seek out Nazis thousands of miles away to bring them to justice. It does all this, and is still evaluating producing legislation with extraterritorial application to combat global antisemitism, which is practiced freely, and often in the most blatant way by the elites themselves.

The main cause of the Jewish and Israeli question was always spiritual. The very symbolism of the State of Israel reveals the shield of David’s kingship and the candelabra that once stood in the Holy Temple of Jerusalem. The materialist may think well and write better, but his bases are all wrong. He dreams of the boulders in space and attributes no logic or meaning to them. The materialist denies the rationality that surrounds the universe, its meaning and its destiny. Everything is reduced to weak assumptions about energy, history, ego, power and justice. This is the creeping intelligentsia in which we live. This is the moral compass that tries to define reality in its own way. This is the amorphous mass that meditates on national interest in multiple countries. At no time does divinity cease to be a myth, and Jewish success escapes indifference.

The Kabbalistic sap of the Hebrew alphabet leaves bold marks in all civilizations. Emet, the Hebrew word for “truth,” stands upright, since it is written with two-legged Hebrew letters, and it is enough to exist. Sheker, the Hebrew word for “lie,” loses its balance because it is composed of letters with only one leg and requires constant balance and maintenance, obsessive insistence, theatricality, unfolding in the emotion of hatred; and matará, the word “intention,” reveals how and to whom the last fruit will be served.

Other societies come and go, but the Jews remain with Israel as their homeland.

Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas combines Keneally’s and Styron’s elisions – non-Jewish rescuer, non-Jewish victim – to invent a non-Jewish rescuer and victim in the form of one child: Bruno, the son of the commandant of Auschwitz. It is a novel of stunning omission.

Boyne writes about two nine-year-old boys, German Bruno and Jewish Shmuel. At Auschwitz, Bruno meets Shmuel, the most un-Jewish Jewish child in fiction, and a prisoner. They realise they have the same birthday: “We’re like twins,” says Bruno. Shmuel agrees: “A little bit.” Boyne’s conceit is this: their fates might have been reversed. The German child could have been the victim; perhaps the Jew could have been the perpetrator. (When I am cynical, I wonder if this is a cautionary tale about being friends with a Jew. When I am yet more cynical, I wonder if Shmuel planned the whole thing.) In any case, they are the same boy. Bruno climbs under the fence to help Shmuel find his (presumably dead) father, puts on a pair of striped pyjamas, and is gassed to death with Shmuel.

The reader accepts Shmuel’s fate: he is already dead. (Another Jewish inmate mirrors this: when Bruno asks how long he has lived in Auschwitz, he says, “I think I’ve always been here.” He is one of Spielberg’s fated dead.) But we cannot accept Bruno’s death, because Boyne has used his skill to make us love him. You feel grief for him, because his fate is awry: he is not meant to be dead.

Shmuel is alive to nothing. He feels no anger, just placidity, and the reader feels no sadness, or guilt. Speech itself has been removed from Shmuel: his description of living in Auschwitz is: “It’s not very nice.” When Bruno causes him to be beaten, he says, “It’s alright, I don’t feel it anymore, I don’t feel anything anymore.” Bruno thinks the name Shmuel “sounds like the wind blowing”. I gagged at this: dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.

The novel – and the story of popular Shoah culture - can be told in one scene. “I came home one day,” Shmuel says, “and Mama said we couldn’t live in our house anymore.” “That happened to me too!” shouts Bruno.

The more contemporary novels treat Auschwitz as a painted curtain, or Oz. Little Dorothy could always go home, she just didn’t know it. They are mindless.

John Donoghue’s The Death’s Head Chess Club (2015) has a Jewish chess player in Auschwitz play for his life. At the end, he says Kaddish for the SS because – well, they suffered too. Sophie’s Choice, the film The Zone of Interest (2023), and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas all discuss the anguish of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss. It wasn’t easy being in Auschwitz in 1942 – for anyone! Heather Morris’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2018) should have been a musical comedy. “I’m just a number,” the tattooist’s lover tells him. “You should know that. You gave it to me.” It is also, entirely accidentally, funny. At one point someone says: “Where is everybody?” Well, quite. Morris wonders why a Sonderkommando elects to live: “He too has chosen to stay alive for as long as he can, by performing an act of defilement on people of his own faith.” As in – one less life?

Ellie Midwood’s The Girl in the Striped Dress (2021) is “mostly based on a true story”: how the Slovakian Jew Helena Citrónová was beloved by the Waffen-SS soldier, Franz Wunsch, who protected her. In the novel the leading villain is a Jewish Sonderkommando, and Midwood has Helena marry Franz. In reality, Helena refused to speak to him after the war, moved to Israel, and married an IDF soldier.

This is only a small part of it, of course: it is an overwhelming glut, and it mirrors Primo Levi’s dream in Auschwitz, “varied in its detail but uniform in its substance: they [survivors] had returned home and with passion and relief were describing their past sufferings, addressing themselves to a loved person, and were not believed, indeed were not even listened to”.

The dreams were true. The glut exists because it is easy: in the end I think people are just too afraid to hear the truth. But you cannot love Jews if you refuse to understand what happened to them, and why; if you write myths around them and call it art. Still, it is what happened. We are everywhere and nowhere; we are fictional and real.

This is an extract from Shameless: Exploiting the Holocaust, Tanya Gold’s essay for the Jewish Quarterly, out August 22.

Subliminal Blood Libels: The Hamas Campaign to Destroy Christian Zionism

Since Israel’s latest war began, Hamas and the global forces of anti-Semitism have engaged in a three-pronged propaganda campaign to cripple the Jews and Israel: (1) fool gullible leftists into supporting the victims of “genocide”; (2) rally Muslims throughout the West to terrorize Jews while pressuring supine governments; and (3) encourage Christians to withdraw their support for Zionism.

While many secularists have long ago discarded any sympathy for Jews or Israel—partly thanks to disinformation from the KGB in the last century and from the legacy media today—Hamas’s propagandists and their allies at The New York Times are well aware that the last major bastion of Western philo-Semitism is Christian Zionism. Therefore, they have embarked on a campaign to convince Christians that the Jews are the aggressors—even the persecutors of Christians themselves—in the cause of breaking the Christian-Jewish alliance.

In order to accomplish this rupture, Hamas propagandists and their mainstream media messengers have weaponized historical Christian prejudices, iconographic motifs, and sensitivities, some nearly 2,000-years-old. With many Western Christians on high alert against leftist assaults on their faith, especially since 2020, there has never been a more opportune time for Hamas-affiliated anti-Semites to plant seeds of doubt about Christian sympathy for Jews. And the enemies of Jews and Israel have had decades of practice, and success, on which to bank.

Pallywood
Nearly 25 years ago, arguably the most famous child on the planet was Muhammad al-Durah, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy reportedly shot to death by a hail of Israeli bullets in a cross-street gun battle on September 30, 2000. The riveting video, narrated by Charles Enderlin of France2, depicted a firefight near Netzarim Junction in Gaza, culminating in the child’s death, huddled behind his father Jamal. “Here Jamal and his son Muhammad are targets of gunfire from the Israeli position,” narrated Enderlin. “Muhammad is dead, and his father grievously wounded.”

The result was a rabid, international wildfire of anti-Semitism, producing some of the first riots in which “Death to the Jews!” could be heard shouted in the streets of post-war Europe—all with Muhammad al-Durah as their sacrilegious saint. Only 12 days after the incident, two Israeli reservists who had accidentally wandered into Ramallah were brutally lynched and ripped into pieces to chants of “Revenge for the blood of Muhammad al-Durah!” Usamah bin Laden even produced a recruiting video calling Muslims worldwide to jihad on behalf of the boy who “died at the hands of the Jews.” The infamous (staged) image of Muhammad al-Durah. (Talal Abu Rahma / France2 via Al Jazeera)

Only later was it revealed that the video of Muhammad and his father, indeed much of the footage shot that day, was fake. Meticulous analysis of the raw tapes showed instance after instance of men spontaneously falling down “wounded” and then being hurled into waiting ambulances; likely uninjured youths dripping in fake blood; nonchalant bystanders watching the action—even a “dead” man lying in the gutter talking on his cellphone—just yards from where Muhammad was “killed.”

Historian Richard Landes, then a professor of medieval history at Boston University, coined the term “Pallywood” as a result of his groundbreaking investigations. His 2005 short film Muhammad al-Durah: Birth of an Icon makes clear what was again confirmed years later in a French court: that the tape not included in the France2 broadcast was indeed staged and showed a living child pretending to be dead. Landes later called the contrived image “the first blood(less) libel of the 21st century.”

“Israel is losing me”
The al-Durah hoax was probably the most successful single piece of international war-time disinformation in history; but, outside the Muslim world and its immigrant enclaves abroad, especially in Europe, it mostly evoked anti-Jewish hatred from Western socialists keen on erasing generational shame over the Holocaust by replacing the Nazis with the Jews. It did not engender comparable Christian fury, and American Christian Zionism largely held steady throughout the first decade of the new century.

This war, however—the longest in Israel’s history, and with Arab Christian communities constantly in danger from Hamas using them as human shields during Israeli incursions—has proven different. On multiple occasions, Hamas operating in areas of Gaza containing churches has resulted in structural damage and the accidental deaths of Christian bystanders, beckoning medieval blood libel archetypes back into the open.

08/19 Links Pt1: All or nothing: Why Israel should stand firm, avoid phased hostage deals; UN massively undercounts Gaza aid trucks; Netanyahu: Aussie PM is ‘weak,’ has ‘abandoned’ Australian Jews

From Ian:

Jake Wallis Simons: How the West is amplifying Hamas propaganda

As we have seen far too often, such propaganda now holds great influence even within the Jewish community itself, certain segments of which are now competing with the mainstream in their Israelophobia.

It is also exerting a draw on Israeli society, not just on the Left but also in parts of the defence apparatus.

The irony of it all is that the one thing that would save us all from falling victim to such propaganda is proper journalism based on facts, scepticism and resolve.

Our tendency to side with our enemies is all very well when it is limited to denigrating our history or paying reparations, but it is an entirely different matter when it comes to supporting those who will behead us. Or it should be.

In an appearance on Saudi television last week, I was faced with another iteration of this attitude. “I think we can both say it is propaganda from both sides,” the presenter said, “from Hamas and Israel.”

I was left to explain the moral bankruptcy of drawing an equivalence between the jihadis of Hamas and the Middle East’s only democracy.

Afterwards, it really hit home. Such has been the success of the propaganda that huge numbers of people just don’t see why supporting Israel in its war against Islamist terror is the only ethical position to hold.

It is a sobering reminder of the malleability of the human mind. And it doesn’t make Jews feel particularly safe.

Yisrael Medad: Jewish support for Hamas: A new sacrificial idolatry

As Genesis records the incident in its Chapter 22, our forefather Abraham was tested. A test to the extreme. He was instructed to bind his only son, Isaac, and to prepare to sacrifice him when a heavenly voice told him, “Do not stretch out your hand against the boy, or do anything to him. For now, I know that you fear God.”

Abraham proved his allegiance, but it would appear to most, if not all of us, that there was no need for his commitment to serving God to be carried in such a soul-wrenching manner as sacrificing his own child.

Isaac lived to originate the Hebrew people’s genealogy until this day, a people proscribed, as we read in Leviticus 18 and 20, from “giving children to Moloch,” the practice of child sacrifice.

In a contemporary setting, a new generation of Jews seems to have forgotten or is ignoring that lesson by being willing to participate in an activity that would harm fellow Jews.

They appear to be willing to participate in a new form of sacrificial idolatry. Not only do they lend support to those of Israel’s enemies who intend to kill our children and infants in the name of “Free Palestine,” but they further extend their backing to a terror group, Hamas, which does not mind sacrificing its own children, callously furthering that goal to achieve their political goals.

: "Crown Heights Bites Back": How "anti-Zionist" socialism is being used to justify pogroms against Jews in the US

In March, a new group called "Crown Heights Bites Back" started, ostensibly to provide free meals to those in need but with a socialist, political edge. CHBB started as a charity, but from the beginning the rhetoric signaled an enemy.

We are Crown Heights Bites Back!

We are organizing in our neighborhood to re-distribute wealth and resources to the community no matter what stands in the way.

It is a strange name for a community social organization. Who, exactly, are they "biting back" against?

The answer: the Jews.

Several weeks later, Crown Heights Fights Back revealed its real purpose: to use socialism as a means to make antisemitism mainstream:

‼️ COMMUNITY ALERT 🚨
CHABAD LUBAVITCH: ZIONIST NAZIS IN CROWN HEIGHTS

Last night, several CHBB community members were brutalized and attacked by a large crowd assembled at 770 Eastern Parkway to welcome israeli minister of national security and Architect of Genocide itamar ben-gvir. We are outraged and calling on all community members to organize in response to this threat. Please DM with any other footage or witness statements as we prepare to respond. Full statement is on the way.

MAKE ZIONISTS AFRAID AGAIN
FUCK CHABAD
FUCK THE PIGS AND FUCK SHOMRIM
LONG LIVE BLACK AND BROWN CROWN HEIGHTS

This is direct incitement and threats against Jews, specifically Chabad whose headquarters is in Crown Heights.

But they are using a well-tread socialist playbook: Take antisemitic sentiment that is based on racial hate, or conflicts with Jews based on competing for resources, and recast them as victims an ideological battle between the righteous socialists and the evil Jews.

They did it with Palestinians and Islamists who had nearly zero interest in socialism and made them poster children for justifying their well-known and long-standing antisemitism.

And they are doing it with the Black community in Crown Heights, which has had long-standing animosity against Jews, perceiving them as being protected by the police more or having too much political power.

we can see this from what they wrote in April:

Black and brown Crown Heights is sick and tired of decades of white / Jewish supremacist landlords, pigs, Shomrim, racist ambulance, the killings, the evictions, being treated as an enemy in our own neighborhoods, our elders being assaulted by Chabad, and having to fight day in and day out to live and work in the areas we grew up.

It’s not antisemitic to oppose gentrification and zionist development of our communities which is an active apartheid zone.

END APARTHEID IN CROWN HEIGHTS
RISE UP AGAINST CHABAD
FUCK THE PIGS AND SHOMRIM

All while pretending to be a grassroots, community based organization that only wants to give aid to those in need.

Just like Hamas.

And just like Hamas, they twin their blatant antisemitic rhetoric with the insistence that they are not antisemitic:

Antisemitism isn't a bug - it is a recruiting platform for socialists:

CHBB has now made its desire to foment a race war in Crown Heights explicit, by recasting the deadly 1991 Crown Heights pogrom as a means to achieve "justice" for Gavin Cato, the seven year old who was tragically hit by a car in a motorcade for the Lubavitcher Rebbe:

The only murder in 1992 in Crown Heights was the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum, a rabbinical student killed while City Hall told the police to keep out and let the Jews get attacked.

This is happening tonight.

What groups like Crown Heights Bites Back are building is not an intersectionality of justice but an intersectionality of hate. They don’t recruit on the basis of a positive vision for society. They start with grievances - against landlords, against police, against racism, against pollution - and then wire those angers together into a single circuit. Every complaint becomes a tributary feeding the same current of resentment, with Jews cast as the ultimate oppressor. It is a coalition stitched not by hope or solidarity, but by hostility, where hate against one target is leveraged into hate against all.

The "anti-racists" are trying to start a new race riot against Jews - and to justify murdering them.

They are using socialist language to make killing Jews kosher.

And New York is about to get a socialist mayor who will never condemn this attempt by his allies to set the stage for the next pogrom.

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Today's socialism is no different from the its pro-violence, antisemitic forbears

As Izabella Tabarovsky has shown in her indispensable essays, much of today’s ‘anti-Zionist’ discourse on the Left is not new at all but recycled Soviet propaganda.

I just saw published a 1982 letter from two Jewish Leninist-Marxists, both imprisoned as dissidents under King Hassan II in Morocco. Their letter to Yasir Arafat was intended to show that not all Jews are Zionist and to bind the Palestinian cause into a universal anti-imperialist struggle. It shows a bridge between the traditional Soviet antisemitism and today's "anti-Zionist" rhetoric.

There is nothing in this letter that today's celebrated members of the Democratic Socialists of America would disagree with. The only difference is the evolution of the language.

Marxism-Leninism → Intersectionality / Decolonization

Fascist-Zionist → Apartheid / Genocidal Settler-Colonialism

Proletarian armed struggle → Anticolonial resistance

The letter shows how we got from there to here.

From Abraham Serfaty and Sion Assidon
To Yasser Arafat

Dear brother, dear comrades, warm greetings to you.

At the very moment when the soldiers of Zionist barbarism occupy southern Lebanon, relying on the active support of Western imperialism and on the silence and complicity of Arab reactionary forces...

At the very moment when they are committing the crime of genocide against the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples, we, the undersigned, raise our cry of denunciation. We hope that it will reach you, even inside the lines of siege, to condemn the criminal operations carried out by Begin and his gang.

Once again, history records further proof of the true nature of Zionism: fascist Zionism – a machine for sowing death and destruction. Written now in the flesh and blood of tens of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese – men and women, children and old people – martyred under the bombs.

Once again, history confirms to the entire world the reality of racist Zionism, which seeks to annihilate the Palestinian people entirely, just as Nazism attempted its own “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” through genocide. Thus, the masses of Jews lured into emigrating to Zionist Palestine have become the instruments of a new Nazism.

From Deir Yassin in 1948, to today in southern Lebanon, passing through Kafr Qasim and the occupied territories – and from Guernica in the Basque country, to Oradour-sur-Glane in France under Nazi occupation, to Santiago, Chile in 1973, and My Lai in Vietnam – it is the same logic, the same method, the same fascist-imperialist barbarism.

At the very moment when imperialism and Zionism are trying to extinguish the flame lit by the Palestinian revolution, we reaffirm through you our absolute support for the heroic Palestinian and Lebanese fighters – bearers of the hope of a brighter future for the Arab peoples, and the only hope for a real and just peace for humanity in this region of the world.

At the very moment when the noble aim of the Palestinian revolution seems to recede, like a shining jewel deep in the dark night of barbarism – that is precisely the moment when the clarity and grandeur of this aim shines forth most brilliantly.

Do not the most recent Zionist crimes prove that there can be no coexistence between Zionism and the Arab nation? The historical and civilizational struggle between the Arab nation – with Palestine at its heart – and the Zionist entity, which is nothing but an extension of imperialism in its aggression against the Arab peoples in general and a machine aimed specifically at eliminating the Palestinian people, will inevitably lead to the destruction of the Zionist entity. Then a new stage will open in the history of the Middle East – one of the cradles of human civilization since ancient times.

However long and hard the road, the coexistence of Muslims, Jews, and Christians inside a democratic Palestine – integrated in a unified Palestinian people – will be achieved on the ruins of the Zionist entity.

The Palestinian revolution carries a double hope: it will not only liberate the Arab nation from the Zionist monster, but it will also liberate the Jews of Palestine themselves from this suicidal, murderous illusion.

The Palestinian people has risen and cannot die!
And so – revolution until victory!

June 19, 1982

Source: al-Balagh al-Maghribi, July 29, 1982

Notice the parallels between this letter and current mainstream socialist political rhetoric in the West:

* Zionism is framed as equivalent to Nazism and fascism - not a political movement but a crime against humanity.

* Terrorism and violence - including Hamas' attack on October 7 - are framed as heroic revolutionary struggle.

* Israel is considered the obstacle to Arab-Jewish coexistence, and Arab antisemitism simply doesn't exist. Israel's violent destruction is a precondition for "peace."

* The antisemitic implication that "Zionist" Jews are linked as enemies to every progressive/ "anti-imperialist" cause, no matter how distant or tenuous the connection is.

* Anti-Zionist Jews are used as proof that the rabid hatred of the Jewish people, nation and religion are not antisemitic.

* "Palestine"/Gaza are considered universal progressive themes, tied to every other socialist initiative even though most Palestinians and terrorism are based on Islamist ideals, not progressive ideas.

* Arabs who are silent about Israel's fight against terror are considered traitors and cowardly accomplices.

Gaza was a catalyst to apply old Marxist antisemitic memes to today, dressed up as "wokeness" and faux concern over Palestinians as hundreds of thousands of other Arabs and Muslims are dying in sub-Saharan Africa to their silence. But I have never seen any of today's socialists condemn the extreme antisemitism of Stalin nor the support for violent terrorism of the left-wing Palestinians and Marxist Arabs like Serfaty and Assidon.

Until today’s socialists confront their movement’s Soviet inheritance- its antisemitism, its terror apologetics - how can their rhetoric on Israel be taken as anything but an echo of that poisoned past?

On Friday, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem gave a speech where he implicitly threatened civil war in Lebanon if the Lebanese Army attempts to disarm Hezbollah.

He said, “We live in dignity together, and we build its sovereignty together—or Lebanon will have no life if you stand on the other side and try to confront us and eliminate us.”

In the past, Hezbollah's threats were taken very seriously - so much so that it pretty much had free reign over Lebanon as everyone was too frightened of its power.

This time, pretty much the entire Lebanese government condemned Qassem.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned Qassem’s remarks as an “implicit threat of civil war” and called them “totally unacceptable."

Samir Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces Party: strongly labeled Qassem’s speech a “direct threat to the Lebanese government, the parliamentary majority that granted it confidence, and all constitutional institutions, foremost among them the Presidency of the Republic and the Prime Ministership.” He called the remarks “unacceptable on all levels.”

Elie Mahfoud, leader of the Change Movement, criticized Qassem’s “provocative remarks” and urged the Lebanese judiciary to take swift action against both Qassem and Hezbollah, which he described as a military organization operating outside local and international laws.

The Lebanese Army is supposed to submit a plan on how to disarm Hezbollah by the end of August.

A recent JCPA publication says that Israel did a better job than had been reported in defeating Hezbollah:

More than 70 percent of Hizbullah’s missile arsenal and military infrastructure (including weapons depots, military industry, fortified positions, and tunnels) were destroyed. Of the 29 Shiite-majority villages along the border with Israel that served Hizbullah as fortified front-line positions, 22 were razed, displacing more than 100,000 residents who were forced to flee and seek refuge far from the battlefield.

However, Israel’s heaviest blow came with the targeting of Hizbullah’s leadership. Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, his designated successor, most of Hizbullah’s senior commanders, and thousands of fighters were killed. More than 5,000 combatants died, with thousands more injured.

I had not heard the 70% figure before. I thought that Hezbollah still had most of its estimated 200,000 rockets and missiles.

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08/18 Links Pt2: Hostage protests: Fighting each other is what Hamas wants; State Department cancels more than 6K student visas; Sally Rooney’s luxury loathing for Israel

From Ian:

Jpost Editorial: Hostage protests: Fighting each other is what Hamas wants

There is no question that an entire nation wants its children to come home, only the method. But what cannot happen is turning one another into the enemy, is allowing disagreements – deep and essential ones – to delegitimize us in one another’s eyes. That is precisely where the line lies.

Zvika Mor, the father of hostage Eitan Mor, said on Sunday morning, in a plea to his fellow hostage families, “My brothers and sisters, I make this plea from the bottom of my heart. You called to shut down the country... You did not miss the opportunity to ensure that the public is repulsed by us, the hostage families.”

He called for the strike to be canceled. “It cannot be that reservist soldiers who are on their way down to the Gaza Strip – to fight Hamas and bring our hostages home – can’t get to their bases because highways are blocked. This cannot be.”

Mor is a member of the Tikva Forum, a smaller representation of hostage families compared to the larger Hostages and Missing Families Forum. These two represent the true standard to which public dialogue is supposed to be; they disagree, but they respect and hold space for one another.

The act of protesting is one of the most sacred and vital tools in the hands of citizens in a democratic state to express their sentiments, wishes, and opinions. It cannot be stifled or curtailed, especially in an era where many feel and fear that democratic institutions in Israel are under attack.

But it is important to draw a distinction between the cause – freeing all of the hostages and bringing the security situation to a state of calm – and the method. Not everybody agrees with the method, and there is validity to both sides.

The heartfelt nature of a nationwide shutdown cannot be stated enough, especially after nearly two years of war. People dropped everything and followed their hearts and their consciousnesses out to the streets to join in pain and demand action. This has merit, and woe to Israel the day that citizens don’t care for their brethren.

Dialogue, though – healthy, respectful dialogue – cannot get lost in the shuffle.

The Black Book

Leningrad, February 1976. The broad boulevards of the city, founded by Peter the Great as Russia’s “window to Europe,” lay frozen under the deep frost of a typical Soviet winter: gray, unmoving, sealed in silence. We were a Jewish family of four—my father, Gennady; my mother, Mila; my sister, Elena; and me—living in a city then called Leningrad (today Saint Petersburg) at a time when silence was often the only defense. Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist Party, presided over a vast and crumbling empire. The world would later call it “the period of stagnation”—a term far too mild for those living beneath its weight. The economy was paralyzed, the politics rigid, but repression moved with quiet efficiency. Political dissidents, Zionist activists, Prisoners of Zion, and Jews in general were treated as suspect—perpetual outsiders in a state obsessed with control.

We lived under constant watch, not for any action or offense, but simply for being a Jewish family in the Soviet Union. And yet the strength we drew from one another, and the trust of a few close friends, gave us just enough oxygen to endure. Snow-covered streets and frozen canals reflected a city choked in frost—bitterly cold, silent, and subdued. The average temperature hovered around 23 degrees Fahrenheit, but the wind, the damp, and the endless cloud cover made it feel far colder.

That winter, our family received an official invitation to immigrate to the State of Israel. The invitation had come from my mother’s uncle, Rabbi Ben-Zion Brook, head of the Novardok Yeshiva in Jerusalem. It was a legitimate request for family reunification—one of the very few justifications the Soviet regime would accept for emigration. After all, why else would anyone want to leave the so-called paradise of the Soviet Union, a country that spanned 12 time zones and one-sixth of the planet’s surface? To admit that Jews wanted to leave because of ideology, discrimination, or spiritual longing would be to expose the cracks in the system. “Family reunification” was a narrow but permissible loophole.

Ben-Zion had left the Belarusian town of Rogachev in 1920, when my grandfather (my mother’s father) was five years old. Decades later, they found each other again and began corresponding in Yiddish. My grandfather would read the letters aloud, his voice trembling, while my parents listened with tears in their eyes. But before long, the KGB summoned my grandfather to the infamous “Big House” on Liteiny Street and ordered him to stop all correspondence immediately.

Then, in February 1976, the visa invitation finally arrived. Not through the mail, but in person. The superintendent of our enormous Soviet apartment block—a sprawling concrete maze of modest flats—arrived at our door with the letter in hand. Standing beside him were two young men whose presence said everything: plainclothes agents. My parents, raising two young children, were filled with fear. They had spent years secretly listening to Voice of America and Radio Liberty. They understood what this meant. The silence was about to break.

But along with the fear came a flicker of joy: Three previous invitations had simply disappeared, swallowed by the system. Now, at last, one had arrived. My father rushed to share the news with my grandfather. In a gesture both symbolic and chilling, my grandfather handed him a samizdat copy of The Black Book, compiled by Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman—a rare and dangerous volume from a small, secret library he had maintained. He believed, with quiet defiance, that his children and grandchildren needed to know the truth about the world.

Rubio’s State Department yanks more than 6K student visas due to assault, burglary, support for terrorism

The State Department has yanked more than 6,000 student visas in 2025 for overstays and law violations — including support for terrorism, Fox News Digital has learned.

The Trump administration has launched multiple initiatives aimed at cracking down on immigration and revoking visas of those attending academic institutions in the U.S.

Those who’ve participated in pro-Palestinian protests have faced heightened scrutiny, as one example, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in May that the administration was reviewing the visa status of those students.

The roughly 6,000 visas that were pulled were primarily due to visa overstays or encounters with the law, including assault, DUIs, burglary and support for terrorism, the State Department told Fox News Digital.

"Every single student visa revoked under the Trump Administration has happened because the individual has either broken the law or expressed support for terrorism while in the United States," a senior State Department official said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "About 4,000 visas alone have been revoked because these visitors broke the law while visiting our country, including records of assault and DUIs."

Those who had their student visas yanked due to assault — roughly 800 students — either faced arrest or charges stemming from assault, according to the State Department official.

Those whose visas were pulled due to support for terrorism — between 200 people to 300 people — engaged in behavior such as raising funds for the militant group Hamas, which the U.S. State Department has designated as a terrorist organization, the official said.

08/18 Links Pt1: 10 Questions 'Genocide in Gaza' Accusers Cannot Answer; Trump: Israeli hostages to return only when Hamas is ‘destroyed’; The Palestinian Authority's Human 'Slaughterhouse'

From Ian:

Aizenberg: 10 Questions 'Genocide in Gaza' Accusers Cannot Answer

Only days after October 7, a chorus of so-called “genocide scholars,” NGOs, and activists began hurling the charge of genocide at Israel. In reality, this accusation functions as a deliberate inversion of 10/7 itself. Hamas carried out mass killings with openly genocidal intent, yet the charge has been flipped onto Israel to whitewash those crimes and blame their victim. In the months since, the charge has only accelerated, turning into a kind of groupthink repeated through recycled slogans ("Israel is targeting healthcare"), canned storylines ("intentional starvation"), and misrepresented quote snippets ("remember Amalek"). These claims are delivered with an air of authority, but they collapse under even basic scrutiny. If Israel truly had a national policy to exterminate the Palestinian people, the evidence would be overwhelming and undeniable. The ten questions that follow cut through that haze. They cannot be answered honestly without exposing the genocide accusation as false, which is precisely why the accusers never confront them directly.

1. If extermination of the Palestinian people is Israel's goal, why hasn’t it happened?
If Israel wanted to kill 100,000 or more Gazans in a single day it easily could, for example by carpet bombing the Al-Mawasi humanitarian area. You claim Israel’s leaders are pursuing a policy of extermination, directed from the highest levels of government and the IDF, against Palestinians solely for their identity. Some point to Hamas’s claim of 60,000 deaths as proof, but that only sharpens the question: if extermination of the Palestinian people were truly the goal, why stop at tens of thousands when Israel has the capacity to kill millions in days? Why, after 22 months, has no such attack ever been carried out? Do not evade by pointing out that genocide does not require mass killings; address why a state supposedly bent on extermination of the Palestinian people has not taken the obvious steps to achieve it.

2. Why are millions of Palestinians safe under full Israeli control?
Arab-Israelis, about 2 million people, are ethnically the same people as the Palestinians in Gaza and are often called Palestinian citizens of Israel. They live under full Israeli authority, yet not a single one has been exterminated. History shows that when genocidal regimes have unimpeded access to the very population they seek to destroy, that population is in immediate and mortal danger. Can you cite a single genocide where millions of the supposed victims lived safely under the perpetrator’s rule, even serving in its government and institutions? If Israel is pursuing extermination of the Palestinian people, how do you reconcile this reality?

3. Why are Palestinians in the West Bank untouched?
Three million Palestinians live in the West Bank, the same people as in Gaza. Israel could kill many thousands there in a matter of hours if extermination were truly the policy, but this has not happened in 22 months. Why would a state bent on destroying the Palestinian people leave millions unharmed while supposedly carrying out a genocide next door? If extermination of Palestinians as such were the policy, there would be no reason to differentiate by geography or governance. And do not fall back on the claim that the West Bank is different because the war is against Hamas, since your own accusation insists that the only reasonable inference from Israel’s actions in Gaza is exterminating Palestinians as such.

Khaled Abu Toameh: The Palestinian Authority's Human 'Slaughterhouse'

None of these countries... [France, Canada, Australia, the UK] has demanded that the Palestinian Authority halt its human rights violations against its own people. Ending financial and administrative corruption and excluding Hamas from governance is pointless as long as the PA continues to crack down on its political rivals and impose severe restrictions on freedom of speech.

Last month, Palestinian Authority security officer Ammar Saeed Abu Thahri reportedly died while in PA custody. It remains unclear why Abu Thahri was arrested by PA security forces in the first place.

"Most of the arrests were related to freedom of expression or participation in demonstrations in solidarity with the Gaza Strip." — Palestinian human rights group Lawyers for Justice, safa.pa, July 30, 2025.

The Palestinian Authority security officers who beat political activist Nizar Banat to death in 2021 have still not been punished. Banat, an outspoken critic of the PA leadership, was beaten to death by PA security officers in Hebron.

"We have documented hundreds of cases of arrest, torture, and ill-treatment of activists and political opponents since Nizar's killing.... Those involved in most of these crimes have not been held accountable." — Lawyers for Justice, June 24, 2025.

If France, Australia, the UK and Canada really cared about the Palestinians, they should be demanding that the PA respect public freedoms and stop its crackdown on political and human rights activists.

The last thing the Middle East needs is another Arab dictatorship run by corrupt leaders whose main goal is to batter their own people while siphoning off still more European and international aid money into their own bank accounts.

Babylon Bee: Problems In Middle East Blamed On The 0.3% Of It That Isn’t An Islamic Dictatorship

As experts and diplomats continue to search for the solution to the generations-long conflict in the region, one surprising study has concluded that problems in the Middle East should definitely be blamed on the 0.3% of it that isn't an Islamic dictatorship.

Though opinions on the conflict have been divided over the decades, a consensus was reached that all of the problems flow from the minute portion of the region that isn't ruled by bloodthirsty, murderous terrorists who want to conquer the entire world.

"It's definitely all Israel's fault," said analyst Ibrahim Hamzi of the Institute for Blaming Jews in Jordan. "We have looked closely at all of the evidence accumulated over the last century and have come to the conclusion that none of the issues that arise in the Middle East can be blamed on the multiple Islamic dictatorships that have caused oppression, rape, murder, and terrorism around the world. Yes, the West lives in fear of Islamic extremists carrying out deadly attacks on heavily populated areas, but that's not the problem. No, it's Israel. Totally Israel."

The scientific study was controversial in some circles but received support from experts in other parts of the world as well. "I concur with the findings," said Professor Mohammed al Muhamad in London. "Even here in the unbiased United Kingdom, we can confidently state that the nation of Israel is solely to blame for the problems in the Middle East. Not the other dozen countries ruled by crazy Muslims."

At publishing time, an impartial coalition of Middle Eastern countries that are Islamic dictatorships presented a solution to solve tensions in the region by wiping Israel off the map.

Globes reported yesterday:

In the early hours of this [Sunday] morning, the Israel Navy attacked energy infrastructure that serves the regime of the Houthi rebels in Yemen, some 2,000 kilometers from Israel’s shores. The strikes were aimed at the Sanaa area, in an attempt to raise the pressure on Iran’s proxies in Yemen to stop launching ballistic missiles and UAVs at Israel.

The strike was carried out by naval vessels stationed in the Red Sea, led by a Sa’ar 6 missile ship, originally intended for protecting the gas production platforms in the Mediterranean. The Sa’ar 6 class ships are equipped with advanced radar and high-quality protection systems. They carry the maritime version of the Iron Dome rocket interception system C-Dome, which forms part of Israel’s layered air defenses.

We hear a lot about the Israeli Air Force and not so much about its navy. But Israel has built up impressive naval capabilities in recent years, which makes it less necessary to use the air force for long distance strikes.

The article describes some of the other components of Israel's Navy:

Israel also has Dolphin AIP (air-independent propulsion) submarines that can reach Yemen underwater. On the surface, their range is double, and they are capable of operating in the area of Iran as well.
Another important layer that began to be operational with the Israel Navy is unmanned maritime vessels (UMV), also known as unmanned surface vessels (USV). The maritime divisions of Israel’s major defense companies have been developing and selling UMVs for a decade.
Rafael produces the Protector, a USV designed to assist and protect forces. It carries a high-pressure water gun, and the Mini-Typhoon stabilized weapon system. It is intended for missions along shorelines and in ports. Another company that has been active in this field for several years is Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), which, in 2014, unveiled the Katana, also meant for routine security operations, for example protection of offshore strategic assets such as drilling rigs and oil pipelines.
IAI is also very active in the field of unmanned submarines. Its outstanding product is the Blue Whale, the result of collaboration with German company Atlas Electronik. Blue Whale gathers intelligence by means of a telescopic mast (like a submarine’s periscope) on which are mounted radar and electro-optic systems for detecting targets at sea and on shore. Information is transmitted in real time via satellite communications antennae to command posts, that can be anywhere, at sea or on land.

Impressive!

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Leftist antisemitism was always there. They just hide it better.

Apollo News (Germany) writes:

A post by the Frankfurt Left Youth group is causing outrage. The Left Party's youth organization's account responded to a report about 52 Jewish youths being kicked off a plane in Valencia. The group wrote: "We regret to disappoint: The expulsion did not take place while the plane was in the air."

The post was deleted after criticism. A statement on X read: "We have received several inquiries and legitimate criticisms regarding the tweets published on our account in recent days. We have deleted the posts by the respective authors."

Right-wing antisemites like to hide behind the idea that their noxious posts are merely "jokes." But the Left pretends to be anti-bigotry, so their own antisemitism is usually not so explicit - they normally re-frame it as anti-Zionism, which they can then use as an excuse to say the most reprehensible things.

Think about it: if the French Jewish campers had been Israelis, then no one would have had a problem with this tweet advocating that they be thrown off a plane at 30,000 feet.

But either way, if the Left was so against antisemitism as they claim, posting this would have been as unthinkable as if the kids were Black.

Recently, an academic paper was published about the extremism found on a Reddit-like decentralized left-wing social media site called Lemmygrad.ml. It noted that within this echo chamber, extremist rhetoric was common and its "anti-Zionism" often bled into classic antisemitism, as in this post from their c/communism board:

1. Jews arent a nation 2. Isael is a fake country.... Everyone identifing as a jew is a zionist and an enemy of the communist and anti imperialist movement.

Usually, leftist antisemites self-censor because they are nominally against antisemitism. But just as in the Soviet Union, everyone who cares can see that their rhetoric about Zionists and rootless cosmopolitans is really all about Jews.

Antisemitism is becoming more and more mainstream, and people are more likely to speak it outright as the faux and performative outrage over Gaza grows.

Notice that when these sorts of incidents happen, there is precious little pushback from within the "progressive" community unequivocally condemning the antisemitism in their ranks. Because not only is the pretense of caring about Gazans performative, but so is their pretense of being against antisemitism.

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