| Fighting racism does not help fight antisemitism - and Durban IV will prove it yet againnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 02 May 04:45 AM A mantra of t | | A mantra of the anti-Israel Left is that the only way to fight antisemitism is to throw Jew-hatred into a pile of other bigotries and fight them at the same time. It is a lie.
The people who style themselves as anti-racist are often antisemites themselves.
We saw it in the British Labour party. Every member of that party would swear that they are anti-racist, anti-bigotry - and yet the private message boards of that same Labour Party were filled with antisemitism that was straight out of Nazi Germany. We saw it with the Black Lives Matter movement, whose original platform accused Israel of "genocide." We saw last year a spate of Black celebrities who started pushing antisemitic messages on social media, with little pushback from the "anti-racists." The anti-Jewish incidents during the "anti-racist" riots last year also were swept under the rug by the activists. Jews are expected to act in solidarity against racism...Read More |
From Ian: Caroline Glick: Iran – where Biden and Israel's legal fraternity converge Consider past efforts. According to a 2012 exposé by Israel's investigative journalism program Uvda ("Fact"), in 2010, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the IDF and Mossad to prepare plans to attack Iran's nuclear installations. Then-Mossad director Meir Dagan and then IDF chief of general staff Gabi Ashkenazy refused to follow the order. They claimed that Netanyahu and Barak lacked the legal authority to give such an order. At the time, current attorney general Avichai Mandelblit served as the IDF's Military Advocate General. In a posthumously broadcast interview, Dagan insisted that Netanyahu's determination to destroy Iran's nuclear program was driven by "political" considerations. In 2016, Uvda broadcast an interview with Leon Panetta. In 2010, as Obama's CIA director, Panetta was Dagan's counterpart. In the interview, Panetta revealed that after refusing Netanyahu's order, Dagan travelled to Washington and informed Panetta about the order – thus alerting the US to Israel's plans. Dagan's move was arguably treacherous, but more to the point, the fact that in 2010 he had faith in the Obama administration's commitment to Israel's security than he had in Netanyahu shows that at a minimum, Dagan had no understanding of international politics...Read More |
From Ian: Inclusivity, Sure. But Not for the Zionists. Two years ago, I wrote about a scandal involving Williams College's student-led Council's decision to vote against recognizing a club because, student comments suggested, it was pro-Israel. Ultimately, the college administration stepped in and approved the club anyway. Now in Southern California, another prestigious small college, Pomona College, may be headed down a similar road. Not content to make the usual symbolic statements against Israel, Pomona's student government, the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) voted unanimously to boycott, as far as its internal spending is concerned, companies said to "support the occupation of Palestine." The resolution not only draws on a blacklist found on the website of the notoriously Israel-obsessed U.N. Human Rights Council but also promises to cooperate with the anti-Israel club, Students for Justice in Palestine, in monitoring compliance. At the same time, ASPC adopted the "end goal" of banning, across the five-college consortium of which Pomona is a member, individual clubs from violating the boycott. Clubs found in violation would be defunded. In other words, ASPC and other student governments in the consortium may recognize a Jewish group; but they won't fund one unless it goes along with the boycott. When the resolution was first discussed without a word...Read More |
CJ Werleman, the obsessively anti-Israel author and journalist, gives a master class in how to lie with facts in this article in Inside Arabia: Israel Has Made a Habit Out of Bombing Gaza During Ramadan Four days after the start of the holy month of Ramadan this April, Israeli warplanes began pounding the encaged and blockaded Palestinian enclave of Gaza, carrying out multiple bombing raids over two consecutive days against what it claimed without evidence to be "terror targets." "We strongly condemn Israel's airstrike on Gaza during the [Muslim] holy month of Ramadan," said Turkey's presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin on April 16, echoing similar calls from leaders throughout the Muslim world. In a world filled with unpredictable and unforeseeable events, Israeli military attacks on the Gaza Strip during Ramadan has reached the level of predictable certainty, Somehow, Werleman fails to mention that those attacks came as a direct response to rocket fire from Gaza on both days. Even Al Jazeera admits that! Werleman would say "you cannot find a single lie in my piece." Maybe. But misleading readers by withholding context is just a more sophisticated lie. And...Read More |
From Ian: 45 crushed to death, over 150 hurt in stampede at mass Lag B'Omer event in Meron At least 45 people were crushed to death and more than 150 people hurt, including many in critical condition, in a stampede after midnight Thursday at a mass gathering to celebrate the Lag B'Omer holiday at Mount Meron, medics said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the incident "a terrible disaster," promised a thorough investigation, and said that Sunday would be declared a day of national mourning. Army Radio reported that children were among the dead and injured. The event is believed to be the worst peacetime tragedy in modern Israeli history, with a death toll higher than the 44 who lost their lives in the 2010 Mount Carmel forest fire. The wounded were taken to the Ziv hospital in Safed, the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, Rambam hospital in Haifa, Poriya hospital in Tiberias, and Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem. By Friday afternoon, 21 people were still in hospitals, several of them in serious condition. Several hospitals opened hotlines for people to search for family and friends who may have been injured; Galilee: 04-9850505, Ziv: 04-6828838 and Poriya: 04-6652211. Police could also be contacted at 110. Efforts to identify all the victims and contact all the families were expected to be protracted, with some living overseas. The...Read More |
In the movies about epidemics, a standard subplot -- from Outbreak to World War Z, -- is the attempt to identify and locate patient zero -- the first documented case of the condition. With that in mind, it may be possible to identify victim zero, one of the earliest victims of the cancel culture that is ostracizing those that do not fall in line with Black Lives Matter on the one hand and the uncovering of white supremacy and racists who support it on the other. The doctor and essayist Theodore Dalrymple wrote about him in 2002 in an essay, The Man Who Predicted the Race Riots, which is included in his 2005 book Our Culture, What's Left of It. The complete essay is also available online. Dalrymple discusses the case of Ray Honeyford, the headmaster of a British middle school, who in 1984 was "branded a near-murderous racist and ultimately drummed out of his job." Given the stories today of the excesses and intimidation of the cancel culture, the issues and accusations Honeyford and Dalrymple describe sound familiar, even though they are from over 35 years ago. The trouble started when Honeyford submitted an article that was originally turned down by the Times Educational Supplement before it was accepted and published by the conservative Salisbury Review. He wrote about what he...Read More |
Yesterday, it became official: The Palestinian Authority has "delayed" the planned legislative elections, as the ruling Fatah party has split into three different lists and Hamas is poised to win the plurality of seats.
Mahmoud Abbas is trying to spin this as a victory for...democracy! "Faced with this difficult situation, we decided to postpone the date of holding legislative elections until the participation of Jerusalem and its people in these elections is guaranteed," Abbas said. "There will be no concession on Jerusalem and no concession on our people in Jerusalem exercising their democratic rights."Sure - stop millions of people from voting because a few thousand might have to travel a few miles to cast their votes!
Even mainstream media sees the Jerusalem issue as a mere pretext, but the official Palestinian Authority news agency is spinning like a top. Abbas, when he made his announcement, added something to ensure that he can avoid elections forever: "We emphasized that holding the elections must include all Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem, including candidates, voting and electoral campaigning." Israel has never allowed Palestinian campaigning in Jerusalem, and the Oslo...Read More |
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